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ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

shaddai? the old serpent kur is, of course, invoked every day by the christians: kyrie eleison) common sumerian words and phrases in english sumerian english akhkharu vampire alal destroyer alla xul evil god barra! begone! dingir xul evil god edin na zu! go to the desert (a form of exorcism) gelal incubus gigim xul evil spirit gidim xul evil ghost idimmu demon idpa fever kashshaptu witch lalartu phantom lalssu spectre lilit succubus maskim xul evil fiend (ambusher, lier-in-wait) mulla xul evil devil rabishu (same as maskim xul) telal wicked demon (warrior) uggae god of death uruku larvae utuk xul evil spirit zi dingir anna kanpa! spirit, god of the sky, remember! zi dinger kia kanpa! spirit, god of the earth, remember! a word concerning the original manuscript the editor and the publisher

te, remember! the invocation of the four gates mer sidi! mer kurra! mer urulu! mer martu! zi dingir anna kanpa! zi dingir kia kanpa! utuk xul, ta ardata! kutulu, ta attalakla! azag-thoth, ta kalla! ia anu! ia enlil! ia nngi! zabao! here follows several particular invocations, for summoning various powers and spirits. there may be words of necromantic art, by which it is desirous to speak with the phantom of someone dead, and perhaps dwelling in absu, and thereby a servant of ereshkigal, in which case the preliminary invocation that follows is to be used, which is the invocation used by the queen of life, inanna, at the time of her descent into that kingdom of woe. it is no less then the opening of the gate of ganzir, that leads to the seven steps into the frightful pit. therefore, do not b

in dark waters and cuthalu sleeps and dreams stoop not down, therefore, for an abyss lies beneath the world reached by a descending ladder that hath seven steps reached by a descending pathway that hath seven gates and therein is established the throne of an evil and fatal force. for from the cavities of the world leaps forth the evil demon the evil god the evil genius the evil ensnarer the evil phantom the evil devil the evil larvae showing no true signs unto mortal man. and the dead will rise and smell the incense! the urilia text the following is the text of urilia, the book of the worm. it contains the formulae by which the wreakers of havoc perform their rites. these are the prayers of the ensnarers, the liers-in-wait, the blind fiends of chaos, the most ancient evil. these incantati

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

re-cry of the greeks. the whole chapter is, again, a comment on liber legis, 1, 28-30. notes (9) 1001= 11 sigma. the petals of the sahasraracakkra (10) joy= 101, the egg of spirit in equilibrium between the pillars of the temple [35] 13 book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 34 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda iota-gamma pilgrim-talk o thou that settest out upon the path, false is the phantom that thou seekest. when thou hast it thou shalt know all bitterness, thy teeth fixed in the sodom-apple. thus hast thou been lured along that path, whose terror else had driven thee far away. o thou that stridest upon the middle of the path, no phantoms mock thee. for the stride's sake thou stridest. thus art thou lured along that path, whose fascination else had driven thee far away. o th

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

he magical theory accepts the absolute reality of all things in the most objective sense. but all perceptions are neither the observer nor the observed; they are representations of the relation between them. we cannot affirm any quality in an object as being independent of our sensorium, or as being in itself that which it seems to us. nor can we assume that what we cognize is more than a partial phantom of its cause. we cannot even determine the meaning of such ideas as motion, or distinguish between time and space, except in relation to some particular observer. for example, if i fire a cannon twice at an interval of 3 hours, an observer on the sun would note a difference of some 200,000 miles in space between the shots, while to me they seem "in the same place" moreover, i am incapable

cessary expression in thought of some tendency of my nature, and all my thoughts are only the letters of my name. i am the one, for all that i am is not the absolute all, and all my all is mine and not another's; mine, who conceive of others like myself in essence and truth, yet unlike in expression and illusion. i am the none, for all that i am is the imperfect image of the perfect; each partial phantom must perish in the clasp of its counterpart; each form fulfil itself by finding its equated opposite, and satisfying its need to be the absolute by the attainment of annihilation. the word, lashtal includes all this "la- naught. 335 "al- two "l" is "justice, the kteis fulfilled by the phallus "naught and two" because the plus and the minus have united in "love under will "a" is "the fool

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

hat most people do. it is almost laughable to think that the great work consists merely in "letting her rip" but karma bumps you from one side of the toboggan slide to the other, until you "come into the straight (there's a chapter or two in the book of lies about this, but i haven't got a copy. i must find one, and put them in here. yes: p. 22) o thou that settest out upon the path, false is the phantom that thou seekest. when thou hast it thou shalt know all bitterness, thy teeth fixed in the sodom-apple. thus hast thou been lured along that path, whose terror else had driven thee far away. o thou that stridest upon the middle of the path, no phantoms mock thee. for the stride's sake thou stridest. thus art thou lured along that path, whose fascination else had driven thee far away. o th

h "manner" from "manus- hand: it is "the way to handle things" but the theological conception has steered a very wrong course, even for theology; brought in divine injunction, and conscience, and a whole host of bogeys (candles in hollow turnips deceive nobody outside a churchyard) magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 234 so we find ourselves discussing a "palely wandering" phantom idea whose connotations or extensions depend on the time, the place, and the victim. we know "the crimes of clapham chaste in martaban" and the difference between old and new testament morality in such matters as polygamy and diet; while the fur flies when two learned professors go down with a smart attack of odium theologicum, and are ready to destroy a civilization on the question of whe

all the meanest vices, especially envy, cowardice, cruelty and greed: all based on over-mastering fear. fear of the nightmare type. with this incubus, the rich and powerful have devised an engine to keep down the poor and the weak. they are lavish alike with threats and promises in ogre bogey's castle and cloud- cuckoo-land "religion is the opium of the people" when they flinch no longer from the phantom knout. 2. eight lectures on yoga gives a reasonable account of the essence of this matter, especially in the talks on yama and niyama (a book on this subject might well include a few quotations, notably from paragraphs 8, 9 and 10 in the former. it might be summarized as "doing that, and only that, which facilitates the task in hand" a line of conduct becomes a custom when experience has s

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

er o and to equinox ii, pages 295 to 334. this "astral plane" has been described by homer in the odyssey. here are polyphemus and the laestrygons, here calypso and the sirens. here, too, are those things which many have imagined to be the "spirits" of the dead. if the student once take any of these things for truth, he must worship it, since all truth is worshipful. in such a case he is lost; the phantom will have power over him; it will obsess him. as long as an idea is being examined you are free from 118 it. there is no harm in man's experimenting with opium-smoking or feeding on nuts; but the moment he ceases to examine, to act from habit and without reflection, he is in trouble. we all of us eat too much, because people, liveried and obsequious, have always bustled up five times daily

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

ou thyself in every star! achieve thou every possibility! v. offer thyself virgin to the knowledge and conversation of thine holy guardian angel! all else is a snare. be thou athlete with the eight limbs of yoga; for without these thou are not disciplined for any fight. vi. the oracle of the gods is the child-voice of love in thine own soul! hear thou it! heed not the siren-voice of sense, or the phantom-voice of reason: rest in simplicity, and listen to the silence! the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 12 vii. the issue of the vulture, two-in-one, conveyed; this is the chariot of power. trinc: the last oracle! viii. balance against each thought its exact opposite! for the marriage of these is the annihilation of illusion. ix. wander alone; bearing the light and

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

f men, the life and fun you know i can enjoy so well, the nature that i love as none (i think) before me ever loved. 225 you know i scorn the fear of hell, by worship and all else unmoved pentecost 31 recapitulation of principal cosmic theories. bard checkmates himself. consciousness and christianity. dhyana and hinduism. sammasamadhi and buddhism. you know for me the soul is nought36 save a mere phantom in the thought, that thought itself impermanent, 230 save as a casual element with such another may combine to form now water and now wine; the element itself may be changeless to all eternity, 235 but compounds ever fluctuate with time or space or various state (ask chemists else) so i must claim spirit and matter are the same37 or else the prey of putrefaction. 240 this matters to the pr

d, i must decidedly insist on asking why these things exist. my mind refuses to admit all-power can be all-wickedness. 315 nay! but it may! what shadows flit across the awful veil of mist? what thoughts invade, insult, impress? there comes a lightning of my wit and sees nor good nor ill address 320 itself to task, creation s ill, but a mere law without a will,40 nothing resolved in something, fit phantom of dull stupidity, and evolution s endless stress 325 all the inanity to knit thence: such a dark device i see! nor lull my soul in the caress of buddha s maya fashioned it. 41 my mind seems ready to agree; 330 but still my senses worry me. nor can i see what sort of gain god finds in this creating pain; nor do the vedas help me here. why should the paramatma cease42 335 from its eternity

arance of an essay to prove that lord tennyson was in secret a reformer of our lax modern morals. no doubt, there is room for this. vivien was perfectly right about the cycle of strumpets and scoundels whom mr. tennyson has set revolving round the figure of his central wittol, and she was the only one with the courage to say so, and the brains to strip of the barbarous glitter from an idiotic and phantom chivaly. the sword of song 48 ing her own business; and surely it was unparalled insolence on the part of a dismissed girl to lecture her more favourite sister on the very point for which she herself was at that moment being punished. it is the spite of baffled dissimulation against triumphant honesty. goneril adds a word of positive advice. you, she says in effect, who prate of duty thus

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 2

rficial knowledge, and the harnessing of the bull, eagle, man and lion under the dazzling lash of the spirit. and we find that though these rituals enabled p. to master a language, they in many ways hindered his otherwise natural progress by helping largely to obsess his nephesh by the qliphoth- his passions and emotions being stirred up by a continuous pageant of 293 naked gods; his ruach by the phantom of dead words- by the duality of the shell and of the fruit of things; and his neschamah by tetragrammaton "i.e, he aspired chiefly to magic powers, not so that they might light him like the flame of a lamp along his road, but that they might consume, like the fire on the altar, his propitiations and sacrifices to a personal god. thus we find him, as it were, figuring before him a pentagra

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 3

in a park- and the rest of it; and that is exactly the vision. but what a point of view! the young gentleman must certainly have been a curate. at such moments the heart should race, the veins swell, the breath quicken, the eyes strain, the foot- not a word of the struggle not to show impatience, the tenseness of the whole being of a man! no! this is indeed a glimmering ghost, a bloodless, vacant phantom. note, too, the degradation of the symbols. to compare a girl to a "ghost; to disenchant the glow and glamour of her to a "glimmer" to compare a volcano in eruption to the puffing of a steam-engine; the sun in heaven at high noon to a farthing dip. the vision is accurate enough; but the point of view is throughout that of a flunkey, of a tradesman, of a gelded toady, of a stewed prune! so

l" he writes like a schoolboy for whom a false quantity means a basting. he counts his syllables on his fingers; he never writes by ear, as one whose ears are open to the heavenly melody of the muses. so we have all the artifice- and perhaps the worst artifice ever invented- but no art, no humanity. as a mountaineer (i have seen very many of the greatest mountains of the earth) i must admit that. phantom fair was monte rosa, hanging there, a thousand shadowy-pencilled valleys and dewy dells in a golden air" is a very decent word-picture of the great mountain. but a man would have felt his muscles tighten; and the lust to match his force against the stern splendour of those glittering ridges would have sent him hot-foot after rope and axe. a great artist would rarely see so tremendous a vis

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2

o, while a living man, i made myself a ghost. iv "it may have been one day some ten years later" continued the old nobleman "when as i paced uselessly the street of the four winds i was confronted by a stern, grey figure, short, stout, and bearded, but of an indescribably majesty and force "he laid his hand unhesitatingly upon my shoulder 'unhappy man' he cried 'thou art sacrificing thy life to a phantom "look not" quoth zoroaster "upon the visible image of the soul of nature, for her name is fatality" what thou hast seen- i know not what it is, save that it is as 126 a dog-faced demon that seduceth thy soul from the sacred mysteries; the mysteries of life and duty"'let me tell my story' i replied 'and you shall judge- for, whoever you may be, i feel your power and truth"'i am eliphaz levi

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3

ed, i hear strange music in the air! marsyas. it is the angelic choir, aware of the great ordeal dared and done by one more brother of the sun! olympas. master, the shriek of a great bird blends with the torrent of the thunder. marsyas. it is the echo of the word that tore the universe asunder. olympas. master, thy stature spans the sky. marsyas. verily; but it is not i. the adept dissolves_ pale phantom form blown from the black mouth of the storm. it is another that arises! olympas. yet in thee, through thee! marsyas. i am not. olympas. for me thou art. marsyas. so that suffices to seal thy will? to cast thy lot into the lap of god? then, well! olympas. ay, there is no more potent spell. through life, through death, by land and sea most surely will i follow thee. marsyas. follow thyself

unterfeiting sacrilegiously the sacrament of penitence, at one and the same time penitent and confessor, he has given himself an easy absolution; or, worse yet, that he has drawn from his contemplation new food for his pride. now, from the contemplation of his dreams and his schemes of virtue he believes finally in his practical aptitude for virtue; the amorous energy with which he impresses this phantom of virtue seems to him a sufficient and peremptory proof that he possesses the virile energy necessary for the fulfilment of his ideal. he confounds completely dream with action, and his imagination, growing warmer and warmer in face of the enchanting spectacle of his own nature corrected and idealised, substituting this fascinating image of himself for his real personality, so poor in wil

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

ey dim dawn where the souls unborn may look on the things to be; a tremulous shade, a thing unmade, stood lost by the silent sea; and shuddering fought the o'erwhelming thought of its own identity. is the frenzied form that derides the storm a ghost of the days to be? and the restless wave but the troubled grave of its own dread imagery? or merely a wraith cast up without faith from the jaws of a phantom sea? to his love unborn in that grey dim dawn did the shade of the dreamer flee; nor marked he the flood where the vision had stood which mocks for eternity. for the soul he would wed was the hope that had fled in the battle with destiny. ethel archer. 208 mr. todd a morality by the author of "rosa mundi""in memoriam" lilith "obiit kal. mai" 1906 mr. todd persons of the play grandfather os

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6 2

eath each damned minion of set, the accursed lord of hell. yea! in those globes of fire there sate some cruel knowledge closely curled like serpents in those halls of hate, palaces of the underworld. but in the hell-glow of those eyes the ashen skull of pharaoh shone white as the moonrays that surprise the invoking druse on lebanon. moreover pylon shouldered round to pylon an unearthly tune, like phantom priests that strike and sound sinister sistrons at the moon. and death's insufferable perfume beat the black air with golden fans as turkis rip a nubian's womb with damascened yataghans. also the taste of dust long dead of ancient queens corrupt and fair struck through the temple, subtly sped by demons dominant of the air. last, on the flesh there came a touch like sucking mouths and strok

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

you have to find the ways and means, alone and unaided. this effort on your part, this groping here and there for a rightful field of service, is largely responsible for your exceeding sensitivity; you move in one direction and react to a needed opposition; this proves upsetting and may lead to a psychic crisis. you move in another direction and are immediately assailed by that which is to you a phantom of fear; you move elsewhere but the opportunity for service proffered measures not up to your capacity, and this you register and again withdraw, conscious always of psychic atmospheres and conditions. what then to do? a great experiment is being attempted in the arcane school. it is an endeavour to lift off the shoulders of the masters the training of aspirants for discipleship and thus t

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

a, beheld in the eternal spheres, and who are the gods of gods; and the matsya adds that the gods worshipped them; while the harivansa (s. 1, 935) distinguishes the virajas as one class of the pitris only- a statement corroborated in the secret teachings, which, however, identify the virajas with the elder agnishwattas* and the rajasas, or abhutarajasas, who are incorporeal without even an astral phantom. vishnu is said, in most of the mss, to have incarnated in and through them "in the raivata manvantara, again, hari, best of gods, was born of sambhuti, as the divine manasas- originating with the deities called rajasas" sambhuti was a daughter of daksha, and wife of marichi, the father of the agnishwatta, who, along with the rajasas, are ever associated with manasas. as remarked by a far

ur orders or classes of dhyan chohans out of the seven, says the commentary "who were the progenitors of the concealed man" i.e, the subtle inner man. the "lha" of the moon, the lunar spirits, were, as already stated, only the ancestors of his form, i.e, of the model according to which nature began her external work upon him. thus primitive man was, when he appeared, only a senseless bhuta* or a "phantom" this "creation" was a failure, the reason of which will be explained in the commentary on sloka 20 (b) this attempt was again a failure. it allegorizes the vanity of physical nature's unaided attempts to construct even a perfect animal- let alone man. for the "fathers" the lower angels, are all nature-spirits and the higher elementals also possess an intelligence of their own; but this is

the quintessence[[hephlox, flamma-virgo (virgin oil, flamma durissima, virgo, lucis aeterna mater. the first race of men were, then, simply the images, the astral doubles, of their fathers, who were the pioneers, or the most progressed entities from a preceding though lower sphere, the shell of which is now our moon. but even this shell is all-potential, for, having generated the earth, it is the phantom of the moon which, attracted by magnetic affinity, sought to form its first inhabitants, the pre-human monsters (vide supra, stanza ii. to assure himself of this, the student has again to turn to the chaldean fragments, and read what berosus says. berosus obtained his information, he tells us, from ea, the male-female deity of wisdom. while the gods were generated in its androgynous bosom

nes) the rephaim, or the spectres (phantoms, the nephilim, or the fallen ones (irruentes- are shown "as if identical, though they are all men, since the bible calls them the primitive and the mighty ones- e.g, nimrod. the "doctrine" explains the secret. these names, which belong by right only to the four preceding races and the earliest beginning of the fifth, allude very clearly to the first two phantom (astral) races; to the fallen one- the third; and to the race of the atlantean giants- the fourth, after which "men began to decrease in stature" bossuet (elevations p. 56) sees the cause of subsequent universal idolatry in the "original sin "ye shall be as gods" says the serpent of genesis to eve, thus laying the first germ of the worship of false divinities. hence, he thinks, came idolat

hheld. but even such statements as these- e.g, that of all the mammalians, man was the earliest; that it is man who is the indirect ancestor of the ape; and that he was a kind of a cyclops in days of old- will all be contested, yet, scientists will never be able to prove- except to their own satisfaction- that it was not so. nor can they admit that the first two races of men were too ethereal and phantom-like in their constitution, organism, and shape, even to be called physical men. for, if they do, it will be found that this is one of the reasons why their relics can never be expected to be exhumed among other fossils. nevertheless all this is maintained. man was the store-house, so to speak, of all the seeds of life[[footnote(s* for suggestiveness, we would recommend a short article in

"origins of pagan symbolism" or of esotericism either, otherwise he would have known that the name was a form of universal symbol, referring, even with the jews, not to one man, but to four distinct humanities or mankinds. this is very easily proven. the kabalists teach the existence of four distinct adams, or the transformation of four consecutive adams, the emanations from the dyooknah (divine phantom) of the heavenly man, an ethereal combination of neschamah, the highest soul or spirit: this adam having, of course, neither a gross human body, nor a body of desire. this "adam" is the prototype (tzure) of the second adam. that they represent our five races is certain, as everyone can see by their description in the kabala: the first being the "perfect, holy adam "a shadow that disappeare

tral) light and conquer thereby his immortality, and is threatened at the same time with being intoxicated, absorbed, and eternally destroyed by it. this light, therefore, inasmuch as it is devouring, revengeful, and fatal, would thus really be hell-fire, the serpent of the legend; the tormented errors of which it is full, the tears and the gnashing of teeth of the abortive beings it devours, the phantom of life that escapes them, and seems to mock and insult their agony, all this would be the devil or satan indeed (histoire de la magie, p. 197. there is no wrong statement in all this; nothing save a superabundance of ill-applied metaphors, as in the application of adam- a myth- to the illustration of the astral effects. akasa- the astral light- can be defined in a few words; it is the uni

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

rse belongs to the general cosmogony given in the archaic volumes, whereas book ii. will give a detailed account of the "creation" or rather the formation, of the first human beings, followed by the second humanity, and then by the third; or, as they are called "the first, second, and the third root-races" as the solid earth began by being a ball of liquid fire, of fiery dust and its protoplasmic phantom, so did man[[vol. 1, page] 192 the secret doctrine (a) that which is meant by the qualification the "fourth" is explained as the "fourth round" only on the authority of the commentaries. it can equally mean fourth "eternity" as "fourth round" or even the fourth (our) globe. for, as will repeatedly be shown, it is the fourth sphere on the fourth or lowest plane of material life. and it so h

re, brahma. the shadow of the deity, kosmic and universal, of that which broods over and permeates the egg with its vivifying spirit until the germ contained in it is ripe, was the mystery god whose name was unpronounceable. it is phtah, however "he who opens" the opener of life and death* who proceeds from the egg of the world to begin his dual work (book of numbers) according to the greeks, the phantom form of the chemis (chemi, ancient egypt) which floats on the ethereal waves of the empyrean sphere, was called into being by horus-apollo, the sun god, who caused it to evolve out of the mundane egg* in the scandinavian cosmogony- placed by professor max muller, in point of time, as "far anterior to the vedas" in the poem of voluspa (the song of the prophetess, the mundane egg is again di

the chemis (chemi, ancient egypt) which floats on the ethereal waves of the empyrean sphere, was called into being by horus-apollo, the sun god, who caused it to evolve out of the mundane egg* in the scandinavian cosmogony- placed by professor max muller, in point of time, as "far anterior to the vedas" in the poem of voluspa (the song of the prophetess, the mundane egg is again discovered in the phantom-germ of the universe, which is represented as lying in the ginnungagap- the cup of illusion (maya) the boundless and void abyss. in this world's matrix, formerly a region of night and desolation, nebelheim (the mist-place, the nebular as it is called now, in the astral light) dropped a ray of cold light which overflowed this cup and froze in it. then the invisible blew a scorching wind whi

and changes, and the "hypothetical" aether here defined is not only destitute of differences, but incapable of difference and change (in the physical sense let us add. this proves that if aether is "matter" it is so only as something visible, tangible and existing, for spiritual senses alone; that it is a being indeed- but not of our plane: pater aether, or akasa[[vol. 1, page] 489 the physical "phantom" on the contrary, a reduction of a fact which is perfectly familiar, to a fact which is not only unfamiliar, but wholly unknown, unobserved and unobservable. furthermore, the alleged vortical motion of, or rather in, the assumed ethereal medium is. impossible, because "motion in a perfectly homogeneous, incompressible, and therefore continuous fluid, is not sensible motion. it is manifest

r the vortex-atom theory may lead us, it certainly does not lead us anywhere in the region of physics, or in the domain of verae causae* and i may add that, inasmuch as the hypothetical undifferentiated* and undifferentiable medium is clearly an involuntary re-ification of the old ontological concept pure being, the theory under discussion has all the attributes of an inapprehensible metaphysical phantom" a "phantom" indeed, which can be made apprehensible only by occultism. from such scientific metaphysics to occultism there is hardly one step. those physicists who hold the view that the atomic constitution of matter is consistent with its penetrability, need not go far out of their way to be able to account for the greatest phenomena of occultism, now so derided by physical scientists an

group of electricians, which had the honour of being introduced to professor clausius in 1881, and whose war-cry (cri de ralliement) is a bas l'ether- down with ether, even; they want universal void, you see[[vol. 1, page] 588 the secret doctrine. xiii. scientific and esoteric evidence for, and objections to, the modern nebular theory. of late esoteric cosmogony has been frequently opposed by the phantom of this theory and its ensuing hypotheses "can this most scientific teaching be denied by your adepts" it is asked "not entirely" is the reply "but the admissions of the men of science themselves kill it; and there remains nothing for the adepts to deny" to make of science an integral whole necessitates, indeed, the study of spiritual and psychic, as well as physical nature. otherwise it w

four co-equal sides or surfaces, while a triangular plane will as necessarily possess five" demonstrates on the contrary the grandeur of the conception in all its esoteric application to the idea of[[vol. 1, page] 617 phantoms of the mind. the pregenesis, and the genesis of kosmos. granted, that an ideal triangle, depicted by mathematical, imaginary lines "can have no sides at all, being simply a phantom of the mind (if sides be imputed to which, they must be the sides of the object it constructively represents" but in such case most of the scientific hypotheses are no better than "phantoms of the mind; they are unverifiable, except on inference, and have been adopted merely to answer scientific necessities. furthermore, the ideal triangle "as the abstract idea of a triangular body, and, t

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

greenwood, greenwood; comes the lord of the greenwood, greenwood. comes the lord of the greenwood, greenwood, to court the lady fair. appendix d: music and chants/ 247 words and music by ray buckland 2. below, on timeless rolling down, 5. an ancient circle strong; composed of time-worn standing stones its origin long gone. chorus. 3. then suddenly a strange event 6. occurred for who might see. a phantom line of men in white appeared across the lea. chorus. they cast no shadows as they passed into the circle's bound. no faces peered from out their cowls; no footprints on the ground. chorus. a flash of golden sickled blades not held by human hand. in ritual conclave, magick rites long practiced by the band. chorus, 4. from whence they came no one can say; they suddenly were there. with chan

COSIMANO CHARLES ELEMENTARY PSIONICS

s that constitute atoms, one way or another, go back to the energy of the psychic. it gets a little complicated at that point and there is no point in boring you with the theory, just accept it as true for the moment and we can deal with questions later if we have time. but we can make an assertion about the etheric body because we have some real unpleasant evidence for it in the phenomena of the phantom pain. if something terrible happens to a person and they lose a body part, like an arm or a leg, it seems that the etheric body of that part does not leave. it sticks around and causes all manner of trouble for the poor person. the individual may very well feel intense pain where the missing part should be, but there is no reason why such a pain should occur. after all, all the nerve endin

poor person. the individual may very well feel intense pain where the missing part should be, but there is no reason why such a pain should occur. after all, all the nerve endings went with the part. however, if a person suffers from a birth defect and a part is missing, no such pain will occur. why should this be? because the etheric body never formed that part and thus does not react to a loss. phantom pain, however, is useful to study because it gives us some idea of the interface between the etheric body and the physical one, in this case, the nervous system. remember that there are no nerve endings present. they are gone to wherever amputated parts go (and i don't know that and i don't want to know. after all, you cannot cut a finger that is not there. in spite of this, there is signi

d i know, but that is not what this book is about, thank badness. but it will gives up a working framework for our system. let us posit that once a piece of information is placed in the etheric body of the person sending it, it can be directed to the etheric body of the receiver and from there to the nervous system and thence to the physical brain. in some way it will operated the same way as the phantom pain. thus it is not only possible to send specific thought messages to other people, such as "send the royalty check" but also to send emotions, like love and even physical responses. for example, have you ever seen someone get banged up, like a football player who lands wrong, and actually feel the impact? that is what i am talking about. it is not mere empathy, but an actual connection

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hology laboratory of the university of chicago (1957.60; and charter associate of the parapsychological association. his paper extrasensory behavior was presented at the seventh annual congress of the parapsychological association at oxford in 1964. abraxas (or abrasax) the basilidian sect of gnostics of the second century claimed abraxas as their supreme god and said that jesus christ was only a phantom sent to earth by him. they believed that his name contained great mysteries, as it was composed of the seven greek letters which form the number 365, the number of days in a year. abraxas, they thought, had under his command 365 gods, to whom they attributed 365 virtues, one for each day. the older mythologists consider abraxas an egyptian god, and demonologists describe him as a demon wit

wheel. new york: prentice hall, 1980. andrews, mary (ca. 1871) one of the earliest mediums for materialization. she was a plain, uneducated woman of moravia, near auburn, new york. her seances were held in the house of a farmer named keeler. in the dark seances, questions were answered by spirit lights, the piano was sounded, water was sprinkled into the faces of the sitters, they were touched by phantom hands, and spirit voices were heard. in the light seances, the second part of the exhibition, the medium sat in a cabinet, and busts, arms, and hands materialized, the lips of phantom faces were seen in motion, and, despite the dim light, many departed relatives were recognized. t. r. hazard, epes sargent, and eugene crowell provided accounts of andrews s sittings, while john w. truesdell

see also devil s jelly; falls) sources: clark, jerome. the emergence of a phenomenon: ufos from the beginning through 1959. detroit: omnigraphics, 1992. corliss, william r, ed. handbook of unusual natural phenomena. glen arm, md: sourcebook project, 1977. angels of mons a story by british author arthur machen, first published in the london evening news for september 14, 1915, on the apparition of phantom english bowmen from the field of agincourt during the terrible retreat from mons in world war i. the story quoted the testimony of an officer as follows: on the night of the 27th i was riding along the column with two other officers. as we rode along i became conscious of the fact that in the fields on both sides of the road along which angelseaxisce ealdriht encyclopedia of occultism& par

ing in the fields. i told them what i had seen. the third officer confessed that he, too, had been watching these horsemen for the past twenty minutes. so convinced were we that they were really cavalry, that at the next halt one of the officers took a party of men out to reconnoitre and found no one there. the night then grew darker and we saw no more. confirmations poured in. similar visions of phantom armies were related from different battle fronts. books were written on the occurrence. harold begbie, in on the side of the angels (1915, quoted testimonies of soldiers. a dying prisoner spoke of the reluctance of the germans to attack the english lines because of the thousands of troops behind us. machen continued to reiterate that the story was complete fiction. a claim in 1930 added an

f another world (1860. ernesto bozzano collected many cases (published in the annals of psychic science in 1905 and in animaux et manifestations metapsychiques in 1926) in which animals as agents induce telepathic hallucinations; in which they act as percipients simultaneously with, or previously to, human beings; in which they see human or animal phantoms, collectively with human beings in which phantom animals are seen in haunted spots or periodically appear as a premonition of death. out of a total of 69 cases, in 13 the animals were subject to supernormal psychic perceptions in precedence to humans, and in 12 they perceived things that the persons present were unable to see. in more than one-third of the cases, therefore, the animals perception had precedence to humans. bozzano pointed

in became the scene of her nocturnal wanderings. one traditional story tells of a young woman who wished to elope with her lover and decided to disguise herself as this ghostly specter in order to facilitate their escape. but the unfortunate lover eloped with the veritable bleeding nun herself, mistaking her for his mistress! this, and other traditional tales of apparitions.the wild huntsman, the phantom coach, and the flying dutchman, to mention a few of the more widespread and famous.either originated in this period or acquired in it a wildly romantic character which lent itself to treatment by ballad writers. it is in ballad form that many of these stories survived. such tales of the apparitions gave way in the eighteenth century to a skepticism among the more educated elements of weste

the survivor he turned very pale and confirmed it. why do they appear? apparitions often occur because they possess an urgent message of extreme danger, worry, illness, or death on the part of the agent. but it is also often a warning of impending danger of death of someone closely connected to the percipient. the mode of delivery in the first group may disclose a confused, perturbed mentality. a phantom form may rush into a room and alarm individuals by its sudden appearance or by its noises. the purpose, nevertheless, is mostly clear and the apparition may come back more than once as if to make sure that the information of the fact of decease was duly understood. sometimes more is conveyed, especially in cases of accidental or violent death. successive pictures may arise as if in a visio

ciety for psychical research (vol. 1, p. 405) suggests the objectivity of the occurrence. a physician and his wife, sleeping in separate but adjoining rooms, were awakened by a bright light. the physician saw a figure, and his wife got up and went into her husband s room to see what the light was. by that time the figure had disappeared. in the rev. charles tweedale s house the disappearance of a phantom on november 14, 1908, was accompanied by a big flash of light and a cloud of smoke that filled the kitchen and the passage. the smoke had no ordinary smell. on another occasion the figure touched and spoke to his wife, then dissolved into a pillar of black vapor. there are some cases in which the apparition is behind the percipient, yet clearly seen. again, the phantom may appear quite sol

y cases on record such paranormal perception and death are not simultaneous. among all the facts adduced to prove survival these seem to me to be the most disquieting, wrote charles richet, a psychical researcher who wished to explain all the spiritistic occurrences by his theory of cryptesthesia. hallucination is effectively barred out by those cases in which others in the room also perceive the phantom forms, but there is sufficient evidence for a genuine phenomenon if the person was not known to be dead to the dying at the moment of perception, or if independent evidence comes forth to prove that the perception was veridical. a striking illustration of the latter instance is the case of elisa mannors whose near relatives and friends, concerned in the communications received through leon

ive. it appears as if such a compact would act effectively both on the subconscious before death and on the spirit after death. how long the efforts as a result of such a compact may continue we cannot tell. it is usually fulfilled shortly after death, but in some cases after years. the living party to the compact may not be sufficiently sensitive to be successfully impressed and others may see a phantom of the departed much sooner than the party in question. the genesis of apparitions if one accepts a paranormal explanation of apparitions, the primary question then becomes, are apparitions objective, produced in space, or are they subjectively seen as the result of a telepathic impact from the agent? the answer is a qualified one.the subjective nature of the apparition being often unquest

heory enjoyed great support in the early years of psychical research. it was a half-way house between telepathic and spiritualist explanations of apparitions. the supposition of the double easily explains many an apparition of the living: the arrival cases where a man s attention is fixed on his return home, the cases in which there is a strong link of emotion between agent and percipient and the phantom is collectively or repeatedly seen. but there are cases of phantasmal apparitions in which the theory of the double offers no satisfactory explanation. such was case of canon bourne, reported in the journal of the society for psychical research (vol. 6, p. 129, as recounted by lois bourne, on february 5th, 1887, my father, sister, and i went out hunting. about the middle of the day my sist

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(1917. in addition to his powerful stories on occult themes, he also published a number of volumes of essays and translations. one of machen s short stories brought a legend to real life. on september 29, 1914, his story the bowmen appeared in the london evening news. the story describes how british troops, hopelessly outnumbered in the french trenches of world war i, are miraculously rescued by phantom english archers from agincourt, led by st. george. many people read it as a factual account of what had happened, and a few months after publication, a number of eyewitness accounts of the angels of mons began to appear. throughout the twentieth century people have believed the events actually occurred. machen reiterated that his story was fiction in the introduction to the later publicati

ideration at a later period as to provoke the jealousy of alexander the great. magia posthuma (of c. f. de schertz) a short treatise on the vampire published at olmutz (now in the czech republic) in 1706 and written by charles ferdinand de schertz. reviewing it, dom antoine augustin calmet stated in his dissertation sur les apparitions, des anges. et sur les revenaus et vampires (1746; trans. the phantom world, 2. vols, 1850) that the author related a story of a woman that died in a certain village, after having received all the sacraments, and was buried with the usual ceremonies in the churchyard. about four days after her death and for several months, the inhabitants of the village were frightened by unusual noises and many saw a specter, sometimes shaped like a dog and sometimes like a

, still appeared in the mountains of silesia and moravia. they were seen, it seems, both by day and night, and the things that formerly belonged to them were observed to stir and change their place without any person being seen to touch them. and the only remedy in these cases, he claimed, was to cut off the head and burn the body of the persons supposed to appear. sources: calmet, augustine. the phantom world. 2 vols. london: richard bentley, 1850. magic general term for magic art, believed to derive from the greek magein, the science and religion of the priests of zoroaster (see magi, or, according to philologist skeat, from greek megas (great, thus signifying the great science. it commonly refers to the ability to cause change to occur by supernatural or mysterious powers and abilities

ons, entirely or partially. the incomplete forms are sometimes smaller than natural size, being occasionally miniatures. from thoughtforms to full-grown phantoms many of the photographs taken of eva c. s materializations suggest the evolution of thoughtforms. a professor daumer contended that ectoplasmic forms were neither bodies nor souls. he offered the term eidolon (shape. a number of eva c. s phantom forms resembled pictures she had seen, caricatures of presidents wilson and pioncare, and they often had folds as if a paper had been uncreased to be photographed. richet remarked that the supposition of fraud would presume extreme stupidity on eva s part because she knew that photographs would be taken; moreover, there was no reason to suppose that a materialization had to be analogous to

alike to the sight and the touch. in other cases, hands which are visible and tangible, and which have all the characteristics of living human hands, as well as arms, and entire bodies, are presented, which are not theirs or those of anyone present. crookes was satisfied that katie king was independent from the medium florence cook. yet on certain occasions he noted a striking resemblance between phantom and medium. there is an unusual account in the history of the medium elizabeth d esperance that seems to suggest that a total exchange is within the bounds of possibility. during a series of sittings with d esperance in sweden a crucial test was requested and the medium bravely stated to walter, her spirit control, that she would take the responsibility. d esperance writes: a very uncomfor

nd. but morselli also added that the medium s subconscious mind may establish telepathic communication with the sitters subconscious minds and may shape the ectoplasmic forms according to their thoughts and desires. while the second part of the hypothesis seemed far-fetched, the first was supported by many reports. the influence of the human mind, however, was evident to a certain stage only. the phantom shapes did not keep the medium s physiognomy, gestures, and voice for long and displayed, after the transitory period, an apparent independence. their bodies were said to have temperature and blood circulation and to breathe and behave in every way as an unrelated entity. epes sargent writes in proof palpable of immortality (1875) that a feminine spirit who manifested herself at moravia in

pid succession, facsimiles of her personal appearance at six different periods of her corporeal life, ranging from childhood to old age. the phantoms of etta roberts were often said to transform themselves into the forms of other persons in view of the sitters. from his experiences, e. a. brackett (another author of books on spiritualism) concluded that the sitter s will has an influence over the phantom shapes as well. in his seances with annie eva fay, he found that by the exercise of his will he could cause the materialized forms to recede. interdependence of phantom and medium a community of sensation between the medium and the materialized phantom was described as part of the drama of the seance. the interaction between the two bodies was reportedly constant, a fact that is today seen

g if her sitters smoked during the ectoplasmic process. w. reichel, author of occult experiences (1906, observed that the phantoms of the medium c. v. miller smelled of tobacco and even of food and wine if the medium had liberally partaken of them before the seance. when the materilized child of florence marryat filled her mouth with sugar-plums, she nearly choked the medium. mahedi, the egyptian phantom of medium f. w. monck, discovered a dish of baked apples in the room. i got him to eat some, wrote archdeacon thomas colley. our medium was at this time six or seven feet away from the materialised form and had not chosen to take any of the fruit, averring that he could taste the apple the egyptian was eating. wondering how this could be, i, with my right hand, gave our abnormal friend ano

handled with caution and protected from the light. gustav geley observed that the shock of sudden light was proportional to the duration of the light and not to its intensity. a magnesium flash would hurt the medium less than the rays of a pocket lamp. if the ectoplasm had solidified, the danger of injuring the medium was less, but a danger nevertheless. reportedly, the medium could suffer if the phantom was hurt, but the injury did not necessarily appear on the corresponding part of the medium s body. a phantom hand could be pierced through with a knife and the medium might shriek with pain, yet his hands would bear no trace of the wound. f. l. willis had an experience of this kind in his mediumship. however, seance-room atrocities seldom went beyond spirit grabbing. when florence marryat

when i have got very much from her, if anyone of you were to take her suddenly round the waist and try to carry her you might kill her on the spot; she might suffocate. i can go in and out of her readily, but understand, i am not her.not her double; they talk a deal of rubbish about doubles; i am myself all the time. colley s experience with mahedi appeared to conform to the above theories. this phantom was a giant. his physical strength was so great that he could lift the archdeacon from his chair to the level of his shoulders apparently without effort. he reminded the archdeacon of a mummy of gigantic proportions he once saw in a museum. colley described the mahedi s first visit through the medium f. w. monck: he wore a kind of metal skull cap, with an emblem in front which trembled and

as 1850, a full spirit form would not infrequently appear. chemist james j. mapes became the first scientist to speculate on a means by which such temporary organisms might be produced in accordance with the kinetic theory of gases, with a minimum of actual material particles, if enough energy of motion were imparted to them. materialization encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 990 phantom eyes and hands a record published in the report on spiritualism of the london dialectical society (1871) narrates the metamorphosis of a psychic light into an eye: mr w. lindsay said there was a large bright eye in the centre of the table, from whence other eyes appeared to emanate and approach and retreat. eyes winking humorously were frequently reported in the boston seances of margery (

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ich, though alive, was immobile as if paralyzed. suddenly the cow floated up the ramp into the ufo, which then, weirdly, seemed to fade into the hill, along with the three aliens. see also: aurora martian; close encounters of the third kind; hopkins s martians; michigan giant; reptoids; shaw s martians further reading bullard, thomas e, ed, 1982. the airship file: a collection of texts concerning phantom airships and other ufos, gathered from newspapers and periodicals mostly during the hundred years prior to kenneth arnold s sighting. bloomington, in: self-published. clark, jerome, 1977. the great airship hoax. fate 30, 2 (february: 94 97. howe, linda moulton, 1989. an alien harvest: fur- ther evidence linking animal mutilations and human abductions to alien life forms. littleton, co: lin

r investigations whether ufos or unknown animals such as sasquatch or the loch ness monster are simply so far undocumented aspects of this universe or planet. to its proponents, however, the goblin universe is a deeply mysterious, elusive place. the late f. w. holiday called it a hall of distorting mirrors. it will not be ignored. poltergeists often throw objects at utter skeptics. members of the phantom menagerie appear in front of bored cops who want only to scribble their daily reports and go home. ufos swoop over cities like washington, rome and london to thumb their noses at bureaucrats. like it or lump it, we are all in that damned hall of mirrors (holiday, 1986. see also: fairies encountered further reading holiday, f. w, 1986. the goblin universe. st. paul, mn: llewellyn publicatio

he publication of still other books championing the notion, including m. l. sh e r m a n s the ho l l ow gl o b e (1871, a channeled work, and frederick cu l m e r s the in n e r wo rl d (1886. helena bl a vatsky incorporated the hollow earth into her two popular and influential occult texts isis un ve i l e d (1877) and the se c ret doctrine (1888. another import a n t book, william re e d s the phantom of the po l e s, was published in 1906, the first of a small lib r a ry of hollow- e a rth volumes to be issued t h rough the twentieth century. by the late nineteenth century, a re l i g i o n based on the hollow earth was formed by cy ru s teed (1839 1908, after a vision in which the mother of the un i verse told him he would save the world. he went on to lead a utopian community in fo r

iness and he of manly vigor. see also: allingham s martian; aurora martian; brown s martians; dentons s martians and venusians; khauga; martian bees; michigan giant; mince-pie martians; monka; muller s martians; oleson s giants; shaw s martians; smead s martians; thompson s venusians; wilcox s martians further reading bullard, thomas e, ed, 1982. the airship file: a collection of texts concerning phantom airships and other ufos, gathered from newspapers and periodicals mostly during the hundred years prior to kenneth arnold s sighting. bloomington, in: self-published. clark, jerome, 1981. the coming of the venusians. fate 34, 1 (january 1981: 49 55. hweig hweig is an extraterrestrial who channels through an oregon woman named ida m. kannenberg. she believes that she first encountered alien

ement pre va i l s h e re, and lots of people are flocking here fro m morley and how a rd city to view the strange being from a distance, as no one dares to go near. he seems to be trying to talk to the people. see also: aurora martian; close encounters of the third kind; oleson s giants; smith; wilson further reading bullard, thomas e, ed, 1982. the airship file: a collection of texts concerning phantom airships and other ufos, gathered from newspapers and periodicals mostly during the hundred years prior to kenneth arnold s sighting. bloomington, in: self-published. migrants in george hunt wi l l i a m s o n s alternative hist o ry other to n g u e s other fl e s h (1953, mig r a n t s are spirit beings from the sirius star system. they arrived on earth during the mi o c e n e epoch (bet

one of many told in the spring of 1897 about airships and their supposed crews. newspapers all over america carried comparable tall tales, including one alleging a ma rt i a n s crash-landing and his subsequent burial in a small nort h- te x a s t ow n. see also: aurora martian; michigan giant; wilson further reading bullard, thomas e, ed. 1982. the airship file: a collection of texts concerning phantom airships and other ufos, gathered from newspapers and periodicals mostly during the hundred years prior to kenneth arnold s sighting. bloomington, in: self-published. olliana olliana alliano speaking at a contactee conference in 1982, dave schultz, an electrician from louisville, colorado, related a lifetime of interactions with extraterrestrials, among them the olliana olliana alliano. th

ions by ufos; allingham s martian; aurora martian; brown s martians; calfrustling aliens; dentons s martians and venusians; hopkins s martians; khauga; lethbridge s aeronauts; martian bees; michigan giant; mince- pie martians; monka; muller s martians; smead s martians; smith; wilcox s martians; wilson further reading bullard, thomas e, ed, 1982. the airship file: a collection of texts concerning phantom airships and other ufos, gathered from newspapers and periodicals mostly during the hundred years prior to kenneth arnold s sighting. bloomington, in: self-published. sheep-killing alien in early 1968, according to a bolivian newspaper, a farm woman near otoco went to her sheep corral early one evening to discover that a strange net had been placed over it. a humanlike figure, four feet ta

and passing on bogus tales w h i c h would discredit not only them but the whole m y s t e ry. knowing how we think and how we s e a rch for consistencies, the ultraterre s t r i a l s we re careful to sow inconsistencies in their w a k e (keel, 1970. see also: keel, john alva; smith; ultraterrestrials further reading bullard, thomas e, ed, 1982. the airship file: a collection of texts concerning phantom airships and other ufos, gathered from newspapers and periodicals mostly during the hundred years prior to kenneth arnold s sighting. bloomington, in: self-published. chariton, wallace o, 1991. the great texas airship mystery. plano, tx: wordware publishing. cohen, daniel, 1981. the great airship mystery: a ufo of the 1890s. new york: dodd, mead, and company. keel, john a, 1970. ufos: oper

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n the beginning was the deed! if i m to share this room with you, poodle, then leave off howling, then leave off growling! such a distracting fellow i can t view or suffer to have near me. one of us two, or i or you, must quit this cell, i fear me. i m loath your right as guest thus to undo. the door is open, you ve a passage free. but what is this i now must see! can that happen naturally? is it phantom? is it reality? how long and broad the poodle grows! he rises up in mighty pose, tis not a dog s form that he shows! what spectre have i sheltered thus? he s like a hippopotamus with fiery eyes, jaws terrible to see. oh, mine you are most certainly. for such as your half-hellish crew the key of solomon will do. spirits[in the corridor] captured is someone within! stay without, none follow

face hid altogether? my name forsooth i should have said? the witch my rough salute, sir, pardon me! but yet no horse s-foot i see. your pair of ravens, where are they? mephistopheles this time i ll pardon you that you were rough, for it s a long time, sure enough, since we have crossed each other s way. culture that licks and prinks the world anew, has reached out to the devil too. the northern phantom now is seen nowhere; where do you see the horns, the claws, and tail? and as concerns the foot which i can t spare, my credit socially it would impair; so i, as many young men do, avail myself of false calves now for many a year. the witch [dancing. i almost lose my senses and my brain- oh, dear! to see squire satan once more here! mephistopheles that title, woman, i forbid it me! the witc

st richly to my inmost soul? my dread path brought me to this loftiest goal! void was the world and barred to my exploring! what is it now since this my priesthood s hour? worth wishing for, firm-based, a lasting dower! vanish from me my every vital power if i forsake thee, treacherous to my duty! the lovely form that once my fancy captured, that in the magic glass enraptured, was but a foam-born phantom of such beauty!to thee alone i render up with gladness the very essence of my passion, fancy, desire, love, worship, madness! mephistopheles [from the prompter s box. be calm! don t drop your role in such a fashion! an elderly lady tall, well-formed, but her head s too small for me. a fairly young lady just see her foot! how could it clumsier be? a diplomat i have seen princesses of this s

e. a lady how hideous by that form so young and pure! a poet by her rare beauty he is beamed upon. a lady a picture! luna and endymion! a poet quite right! and now the goddess seems to sink, bends over him as if his breath to drink. how enviable- a kiss- the cup is full. a duenna before the crowd! my word! that is too cool. faust a fearful favour for the youth! mephistopheles be still and let the phantom do all that it will. a courtier she steals away, light-footed. he awakes. a lady just as i thought, another look she takes. a courtier he is astounded, thinks a wonder doth occur. a lady but what she sees, no wonder is to her. a courtier she turns around to him with charming grace. a lady i see, she ll take him now into her school; stupid is every man in such a case. he thinks, i guess, th

ighted, the trojan greybeards all were most delighted. methinks, that fits the case here perfectly. i am not young and yet she pleases me. astrologer a youth no more! a man, heroic, brave, embraces her who scarce herself can save. strong-armed, he lifts her high in air. will he, then, bear her off? faust rash fool, beware! you dare? you hear not? halt! it is too much! mephistopheles why, this mad phantom-play, you ve made it such! astrologer. but one word more! from all we ve seen today, i call the piece the rape of helena. faust what! rape? fellow, am i for naught here? this key do i not hold it in my hand, i whom through stormy solitudes it brought here, through waves of horror to this solid land? here do i plant my foot! realities are here, here strife with spirits may the spirit dare a

have dreamed so mad a sight, aye, such a mountain in one night! a witch-ride would not name it wrong; they bring their own blocksberg along. oread [from a natural rock. come up to me! my mount is old and still has its primeval mould. revere these cliff-paths steep ascending and pindus last spur far extending! unshaken, thus i reared my head when over my shoulders pompey fled. beside me here this phantom rock will vanish at the crow of cock. such fairy-tales i often see arise and perish in like sudden wise. mephistopheles honour to thee, thou honoured head! with mighty oaks engarlanded. moonbeams, however clear and bright, never can pierce thy sable night.but by the bushes there i see a light that s glowing modestly. how strange that all must happen thus! in truth, it is homunculus. whence

ome, spirit, seek the realm of ocean; at once, unfettered every motion, live here and move as you would do. but let not higher orders lure you, for once a man, i can assure you, then all is at an end with you. thales that s as may be; yet it s not ill a man s role in one s time to fill. proteus [to thales] well, one of your kind, to be sure! for quite a while they do endure; for midst your pallid phantom-peers i ve seen you now for many hundred years. sirens [on the rocks. see yon cloudlets, how they mingle round the moon, how fair a ring! doves they are, with love a-tingle, white as light is every wing. paphos sent them as her greeting, ardent, radiant, they appear, thus our festival completing, fraught with rapture full and clear! nereus [approaching thales. though night-wanderer make a

deed accordingly. no! roaring wilfully around him raves the storm while he, himself bewildered, chides, but all in vain. not this alone! ye have in wrath unmannerly evoked the dreadful figures of unhallowed forms which crowd around me till i feel me torn away to orcus in despite of these my native fields. is it memory? was it delusion seized on me? was i all that? and am? shall i in future be the phantom horrible of town-destroying men? the maidens shudder, but the eldest, thou, i see, dost stand unmoved. speak to me then some word of sense! phorkyas who many years of fortune manifold recalls, to him divinest favour seems at last a dream. but thou, so highly favoured, past all bound and aim, sawst midst the living only men inflamed by love, quick kindled to each kind of boldest enterprise

ht hateful capture, brought me lasting slavery. helena at once he did install thee here as stewardess, entrusting much, castle and treasure boldly won. phorkyas which thou forsookst, turning to ilion s tower-girt town, lured by the joys of love, the inexhaustible. helena remind me not of joyance! an infinity of all too bitter woe perfused by breast and brain. phorkyas yet men say thou appeardst a phantom duplicate, in ilion beheld, in egypt too wert seen. helena confuse not wholly my distraught and clouded mind. here even, who i am indeed, i do not know. phorkyas and, then, they say: from out the hollow realm of shades achilles, fired by passion, joined himself to thee! who earlier loved thee spite of all decrees of fate. helena to him the phantom i a phantom bound myself it was a dream, i

helena confuse not wholly my distraught and clouded mind. here even, who i am indeed, i do not know. phorkyas and, then, they say: from out the hollow realm of shades achilles, fired by passion, joined himself to thee! who earlier loved thee spite of all decrees of fate. helena to him the phantom i a phantom bound myself it was a dream, indeed the words themselves say so. i vanish hence, become a phantom to myself. sinks into the arms of half of the chorus. chorus. silence, silence! false seeing one, false speaking one, thou! from such horrible, single-toothed mouth, what will breathe forth from it, such a fearful and loathsome gorge? for the malignant, benevolent appearing, wolfish wrath under sheep s woolly fleece, to me is more terrible far than hell s three-headed monster s gullet. anx

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a thought concerning the new star wars movie to come. it is episode one, which is the youth of anakin skywalker. thinking on this. the rebirth of the villain of villains. daarth vader (daath. the once dead, now back before his death, before his fall, yet again. i believe this is tied firmly into the collective networks sub-mind, and the thanatogenesis of the grand-nemesis. some correlation to the phantom menace on the rise for humanity in the near future? 12/2/98 (tuesday. i write this now in the last stages of ecstasy. the entire universe is at play. i invoked the gods tonight and was granted a vision of who and what i am. a./as./grendel these are we the universe was/is/will be a spinning wheel, at the center is/ was the omega point the end of all and the beginning. god? this was somethin

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admons. as regards the first of these isaac myer writes the qabbalah shows the existence of four adams, or rather three continuations of the upper heavenly adam. i. the perfect upper heavenly adam of the atzeel-atic world, the world of emanation. it is androgenic and the sole occupant of that world. it is thought of as a manifestation of the deity in the divine d'yook-nah [shadow, or an undefined phantom shade of the tzelem [image, which the earthly man, in the flesh, has never seen. it is a perfect tzure, or prototype, to the second and subsequent adams. in the upper heavenly man is the perfect holy nephesh [instincts, rua'h [reason, neshamah [moral consciousness 'hayyah [animal vitality] and ye'hee-dah [personality, merged in combination yet existing quasi separately. here is also the co

neshamah. the third corresponds to the briatic world, the second to the yetziratic, and the first to the assiatic, the body of man being the mystical and magical merkabah. it is also to be noted, that the neshamah has three divisions, the highest is the ye hee-dah, the middle the 'hay-yah, the last and third the neshamah, properly to say. they manifest themselves in the ma'hshabah thought, tzelem phantom of the image, zurath prototypes, and the d yooq-nah shadow of the phantom image. the d'mooth likeness or similitude is a lower manifestation. 14 such was the organization of the great vitality, the adam qadmon of assiah, who for ga hundred and thirty years had .intercourse with female spirits h, 15 begetting the evil powers of the world, powers which are endowed with life but not with immo

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if ye like. marsh gas indeed' he walked off rather contemptuously. but there is no question that on the second day from that i saw the baby's funeral as he had described, and the reason they went round by the far side of the burn was that a flood in the meantime had washed away the wooden bridge by which they usually crossed. many were the tales i heard of the corpse-lights, and of the toille, or phantom funerals, and of the death-wright who might be heard hammering at a spectral coffm. but this is the solitary instance in which i myself saw the funeral that had been described to me before, and can testify that the description was absolutely accurate even to the number of the followers, and the man carrying the rough little coffin on his shoulder. whether it be the second-sight that thus i

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kingdom it cannot fully exist in the lower world, and hence union with the hga can never be fully experienced in a mortal body. the gnostics understood this, and this is why they went to such pains to explain the real nature of the physical form of jesus. for the gnostics, the body of jesus was only partially physical. after his baptism (initiation) his physical body was transformed and became a phantom or shadow. for most of us this sort of transformation is unlikely, and hence, as we communicate further with the hga a close relationship is formed. however, union with the hga is normally reserved for the evolutionary cycles after we return to the treasury of light. there are many dangers at this stage, i cannot list the number of gnostics who have tried to artificially bring about union

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ne should approach the shadow as the devil-initiatic guide, be it as mephistopheles, belial, lucifuge or shaitan. some luciferians invoke the shadow as the demonic feminine, as lilith hecate or babalon, the crimson mother of succubi and the beasts of the earth. some view ahriman as correctly the initiatic and sorcerous daimon of the shadow. the shadow is the vampyric guide, the shape shifting and phantom body of self. the luciferian path works with such demonic forces as initiatic guides, and is related directly to the self. the shadow is significant as the adversary as it is the dreamin body with sloughs off the waking physical body for the dreaming or astral plane to go forth to the sabbat, or the darkness of night. this is the immortal and fiery eye of shadow, 15 which aligned with the

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ls; yet notker renders 'manes' by unholdon, so that holdo and unholdo also appear synonymous here. the ohg. hispanst fem (our gespenst n, spectre) meant properly suggestio (from spanan, suggerere; but as the forms of confession dealt much with devilish suggestion and enticement, 1 men came to use it habitually of ghostly delusion and illusion. boner 94, 54 has 'diu gespenst (why not gespanst) for phantom, apparition. the neuter is found in the maere vora schretel und wazzerber 92 quite in the above connexion 'des tiuvels valant und sin gespenste; even earlier, herbort 3500 couples gespenste and getwas. keisersperg (omeiss 39) has des teufels gespenst (praestigium: not till recent centuries did the term become really common, and some spelt it gespengst we also say spujo; it is a lg. word, w

46. to haunt is in l. sax. dwetern, on the harz lualteii (harry^s volkss. 2, 46. the regular word in on. is d/rangr, fornm. sog. 3, 200: o^inu is styled' drariga drottinn' yngl. saga cap. 7, and a gravemound draugahus, seem. 169. the word is lost in sweden and denmark, but lives in the norweg. drou, droug (hallager 20. it seems to be of one root with ohg. gltroc, mhg. getroc, delusive apparition, phantom, used of elvish and fiendish beings (p. 464; but our verb triegen, ohgr. triokan troc (fallere) has no corresponding driuga in the northern languages^ the edda uses the analogous svik (fallacia, fraus) likewise in the sense of a ghostly jugglei-y, saem. 166. 167. and that is also the meaning of the terms glsciii and scinlelh quoted p. 482; they can refer to spectres as well as to woodsprit

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r the petition of thine unworthy servant, which i shali make unto thee at this time, through jesus christ our lord, who hiveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of thy holy spirit, ever one god, worhd without end. sead down, o lord, the spirit of thy grace upon me. o god, put fear far from me, and give me an abundance in thy faith, whereby all things are made possib!e unto man; put evexy wicked phantom far from my mind, and grant me true zeal, fervour, and intentive spirit of zeal, and prayer, that i may offer up a welh-pleasing sacrifice unto thee. let me use thy ministering spirits and angels, o lord, as thereby i may attain true wisdom and knowledge. our father, etc. credo, etc. ave maria, etc. glory be to the father, son, and holy ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever s

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her fell forward in aheap-theconsequence instead of being pitched off and rolling over i continued sitting bolt upright with my legs out on each side, at the same moment two or three bullets whizzed past in the place where my head had been only a moment before. so ludicrous was the aspect i presented and so miraculous was the escape that the men fairly burst out laughing' have you got rid of your phantom visitor 'i have and would10,000times rather be in front of one of the batteries of sebastopol than alone in my room with an unearthly visitor' have you been promoted in the crimea 'not yet, i was promoted soearly-whenso young' as124therosicrucianseerthepersons who leave the city that i have described in their manifold wickedness leave it through the holes in the wall they are received with

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d gaycaiques gliding on the blue bosphorus, the many coloured buildings, villas and palaces reflected in the water;and the whole picture illuminated by the noonday sun. it passed like a panorama, but so vivid was theimpression that we could not tell whether it or ourselves were in motion. all was bustle and life, but not asound broke the oppressive stillness. it was noiseless as a dream. it was a phantom picture. street after streetand quarter after quarter succeeded one another; there was the bazaar, with its narrow, roofed passages, thesmall shops on either side, the coffee houses with gravely smoking turks; and as either they glided past us orwe past them, one of the smokers upset the narghile and coffee of another, and a volley of soundlessinvectives caused us great amusement. so we tr

" muttered an old resident of the town, a friend of the lostman "you lie, child" fiercely exclaimed the father "go to bed; this is no place for you "come, come" interposed the hungarian, with a strange expression on his face, and encircling with his armthe slender childish figure "the little fellow has seen the double of my shaman, which roams sometimes faraway from his body, and has mistaken the phantom for the man himself. let him remain with us for a while" at these strange words the guests stared at each other in mute surprise, while some piously made the sign ofthe cross, spitting aside, presumably at the devil and all his works "by-the-bye" continued the hungarian with a peculiar firmness of accent, and addressing the companyrather than any one in particular "why should we not try, w

and hissenile features grew older with the ageing of his body. a few more seconds, and the youthful form hadentirely disappeared. it was totally absorbed in another individuality, and, to the horror of those present whohad been familiar with his appearance, this individuality was that of old mr. izvertzoff, and on his temple wasa large gaping wound, from which trickled great drops of blood. this phantom moved towards nicolas, till it stood directly in front of him, while he, with his hair standingerect, with the look of a madman gazed at his own son, transformed into his uncle. the sepulchral silence wasbroken by the hungarian, who, addressing the child phantom, asked him, in solemn voice "in the name of the great master, of him who has all power, answer the truth, and nothing but the tru

rious shouts "murdered!mur-der-ed! murdered "where? how? by whom" asked the conjuror. nightmare talesthe cave of the echoes58 the apparition pointed a finger at nicolas and, without removing its gaze or lowering its arms, retreatedbackwards slowly towards the lake. at every step it took, the younger izvertzoff, as if compelled by someirresistable fascination, advanced a step towards it, until the phantom reached the lake, and the next momentwas seen gliding on its surface. it was a fearful, ghostly scene! when he had come within two steps of the brink of the watery abyss, a violent convulsion ran through theframe of the guilty man. flinging himself upon his knees, he clung to one of the rustic seats with a desperateclutch, and staring wildly, uttered a long piercing cry of agony. the phant

gling for his life, in the middleof the lake, with the same motionless stern apparition brooding over him "papa! papa! save me. i am drowning. cried a piteous little voice amid the uproar of the mockingechoes "my boy" shrieked nicolas, in the accents of a maniac, springing to his feet "my boy! save him! oh, savehim. yes i confess. i am the murderer. it is i who killed him" another splash, and the phantom disappeared. with a cry of horror the company rushed towards the platform;but their feet were suddenly rooted to the ground, as they saw amid the swirling eddies a whitish shapelessmass holding the murderer and the boy in tight embrace, and slowly sinking into the bottomless lake. on the morning after these occurrences, when, after a sleepless night, some of the party visited the residence

an obstacle in the way of the realization of his hopes,and the old german professor wisely postponed his pupil's debut. at first he had simply smiled at the wildenthusiasm, the laudatory hymns sung about the genoese violinist, and the almost superstitious awe withwhich his name was pronounced, but very soon paganini's name became a burning iron in the hearts of boththe artists, and a threatening phantom in the mind of klaus. a few days more, and they shuddered at the verymention of their great rival, whose success became with every night more unprecedented. the first series of concerts was over, but neither klaus nor franz had as yet had an opportunity of hearinghim and of judging for themselves. so great and so beyond their means was the charge for admission, and sosmall the hope of gett

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generally their relatives, who return to earth, they say, to communicate with those they have loved or to whom they are attached. we deny this point blank. we assert that the spirits of the dead cannot return to earth-save in rare and exceptional cases, of which i may speak later; nor do they communicate with men except by entirely subjective means. that which does appear objectively, is only the phantom of the ex-physical man. but in psychic, and so to say "spiritual" spiritualism, we do believe, most decidedly. q. do you reject the phenomena also? a. assuredly not-save cases of conscious fraud. q. how do you account for them, then? a. in many ways. the causes of such manifestations are by no means so simple as the spiritualists would like to believe. foremost of all, the deus ex machina

g two tables. theosophical division of the lower quaternary sanskrit term exoteric meaning explanation 1. rupa, or sthula-sarira physical body is the vehicle of all the other principles during life. 1. prana life, or vital principle necessary only to a, c, d, and the functions of the lower manas, which embrace all those limited to the (physical) brain (c) linga- sarira astral body the double, the phantom body. page 45 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt (d) kamarupa the seat of animal desires and passions this is the center of the animal man, where lies the line of demarcation which separates the mortal man from the immortal entity. theosophical division of the upper imperishable triad sanskrit term exoteric meaning explanation (e) manas-a dual principle in its functions. mind, intellig

ed, await their second death. for the animals it comes with the disintegration and the entire fading out of their astral particles to the last. for the human eidolon it begins when the atma-buddhi-manasic triad is said to "separate" itself from its lower principles, or the reflection of the ex-personality, by falling into the devachanic state. q. and what happens after this? a. then the kamarupic phantom, remaining bereft of its informing thinking principle, the higher manas, and the lower aspect of the latter, the animal intelligence, no longer receiving light from the higher mind, and no longer having a physical brain to work through, collapses. page 68 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt q. in what way? a. well, it falls into the state of the frog when certain portions of its brain a

will have to blossom on the mother bough, the sutratman, all children of one root or buddhi-will return to dust. your present "i" as you yourself know, is not the body now sitting before me, nor yet is it what i would call manas-sutratman, but sutratman-buddhi. q. but this does not explain to me, at all, why you call life after death immortal, infinite, and real, and the terrestrial life a simple phantom or illusion; since even that postmortem life has limits, however much wider they may be than those of terrestrial life. a. no doubt. the spiritual ego of man moves in eternity like a pendulum between the hours of birth and death. but if these hours, marking the periods of life terrestrial and life spiritual, are limited in their duration, and if the very number of such stages in eternity b

t is beginningless; but the form acquired by this triple unity during its incarnations, its externality, is certainly only the illusion of our personal conceptions. therefore do we call nirvana and the universal life alone a reality, while relegating the terrestrial life, its terrestrial personality included, and even its devachanic existence, to the page 79 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt phantom realm of illusion. q. but why in such a case call sleep the reality, and waking the illusion? a. it is simply a comparison made to facilitate the grasping of the subject, and from the standpoint of terrestrial conceptions it is a very correct one. q. and still i cannot understand, if the life to come is based on justice and the merited retribution for all our terrestrial suffering, how in

ve in him such an ego, however great his intellectual capacities. it is the permanent individuality or the "reincarnating ego" the lower, or personal "ego" is the physical man in conjunction with his lower self, i.e, animal instincts, passions, desires, etc. it is called the "false personality" and consists of the lower manas combined with kamarupa, and operating through the physical body and its phantom or "double" the remaining principle prana, or life, is, strictly speaking, the radiating force or energy of atma-as the universal life and the one self-its lower or rather (in its effects) more physical, because manifesting, aspect. prana or life permeates the whole being of the objective universe; and is called a principle only because it is an indispensable factor and the deus ex machina

teaches the existence of two egos in man, the mortal or personal, and the higher, the divine or impersonal, calling the former "personality" and the latter "individuality" egoity (from the word ego. egoity means "individuality"-never "personality" as it is the opposite of egoism or "selfishness" the characteristic par excellence of the latter. eidolon (gr) the same as that which we term the human phantom, the astral form. elementals (spirits of the elements) the creatures evolved in the four kingdoms, or elements-earth, air, fire, and water. they are called by the cabalists, gnomes (of the earth, sylphs (of the air, salamanders (of the fire, and undines (of the water, except a few of the higher kinds and their rulers. they are rather the forces of nature than ethereal men and women. these

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as thinking deeply and rapidly, and his thoughts were terrible ones. now and then he would almost break into muttering as he ran over in his head a new, appalling, and increasingly conclusive chain of nightmare happenings. then mr. ward made a sign that the conference was over, and everyone save him and the doctor left the room. it was noon now, but shadows as of coming night seemed to engulf the phantom-haunted mansion. willett began talking very seriously to his host, and urged that he leave a great deal of the future investigation to him. there would be, he predicted, certain obnoxious elements which a friend could bear better than a relative. as family physician he must have a free hand, and the first thing he required was a period alone and undisturbed in the abandoned library upstair

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cut off all comfortable refuge. it was, very clearly, the blasphemous city of the mirage in stark, objective, and ineluctable reality. that damnable portent had had a material basis after all- there had been some horizontal stratum of ice dust in the upper air, and this shocking stone survival had projected its image across the mountains according to the simple laws of reflection, of course, the phantom had been twisted and exaggerated, and had contained things which the real source did not contain; yet now, as we saw that real source, we thought it even more hideous and menacing than its distant image. only the incredible, unhuman massiveness of these vast stone towers and ramparts had saved the frightful things from utter annihilation in the hundreds of thousands- perhaps millions- of y

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lie in the tomb of the hydesi was not my coffin prepared for me? had i not a right to rest till eternity amongst the descendants of sir geoffrey hyde? aye! i would claim my heritage of death, even though my soul go seeking through the ages for another corporeal tenement to represent it on that vacant slab in the alcove of the vault. jervas hyde should never share the sad fate of palinurus! as the phantom of the burning house faded, i found myself screaming and struggling madly in the arms of two men, one of whom was the spy who had followed me to the tomb. rain was pouring down in torrents, and upon the southern horizon were flashes of lightning that had so lately passed over our heads. my father, his face lined with sorrow, stood by as i shouted my demands to be laid within the tomb, freq

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being- infant, child, boy, man- is merely one of the infinite phases of that same archetypal and eternal being, caused by a variation in the angle of the consciousness-plane which cuts it. randolph carter at all ages; randolph carter and all his ancestors, both human and pre-human, terrestrial and preterrestrial; all these were only phases of one ultimate, eternal "carter" outside space and time- phantom projections differentiated only by the angle at which the plane of consciousness happened to cut the eternal archetype in each case. a slight change of angle could turn the student of today into the child of yesterday; could turn randolph carter into that wizard, edmund carter who fled from salem to the hills behind arkham in 1692, or that pickman carter who in the year 2169 would use stra

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te larvae that might become fatal to him sooner or later. next i am going to describe another group of entities existing in the mental sphere, namely the group of the phantoms or phantasms. the difference between a larva and a phantasm is as follows: a larva is quite unconsciously adopting a shape in the mental sphere, appropriate to the motive of the single or repeated psychic emotion, whereas a phantom accepts a certain form originating in the fantasy of man. exactly in the same way as it happens to be with the larvae, the phantom is likewise reinforced, revived and animated by the repeated evocation of the picture, regardless of whatever the matter might be, and it will be capable of influencing not only the mental or astral plane, but also the material level. two examples may serve to

ive persons. feeling persecuted in this manner, with the picture continually working on his mind, our test subject may be argued into anything, even the worst. he looks for help, begins to pray, and does his best to scare away this terrible influence; he gets a nervous breakdown, gradually becomes insane, and ends up by committing suicide or else in a mental hospital for the rest of his life. the phantom has fulfilled its task. how terrific is the shock, however, if such a spirit must convince itself in the mental sphere that it is committing a well-organized magic suicide! what a bitter disappointment! our type-man of course has not the faintest idea of what happened and will never realize that he was nothing but a means to an end. his face and his conduct were only the form, the pattern

ver, if such a spirit must convince itself in the mental sphere that it is committing a well-organized magic suicide! what a bitter disappointment! our type-man of course has not the faintest idea of what happened and will never realize that he was nothing but a means to an end. his face and his conduct were only the form, the pattern from which our test subject created the destructive being, the phantom whose victim he became in the end. such and similar sad examples happen more frequently than you would believe, sometimes faster, more drastically, in other cases more slowly, furtively, insidiously. but should you dare to tell the persecuted person the truth, he would never believe it because the phantom knows well how to hinder its victims from escaping. if the guiding hand of divine pro

quently than you would believe, sometimes faster, more drastically, in other cases more slowly, furtively, insidiously. but should you dare to tell the persecuted person the truth, he would never believe it because the phantom knows well how to hinder its victims from escaping. if the guiding hand of divine providence leads such an unhappy persecuted person to a genuine magician who finds out the phantom s trickery, he will have a very difficult task to convince the victim, to lead him to the right path, and to teach him a different, normal mode of thinking. at certain times, especially if the victim is under the spell of a phantom, the helper will have to interfere very firmly indeed, now and again, even drastically to restore the mental balance of the individual. the second example shows

m to the right path, and to teach him a different, normal mode of thinking. at certain times, especially if the victim is under the spell of a phantom, the helper will have to interfere very firmly indeed, now and again, even drastically to restore the mental balance of the individual. the second example shows the same occurrence but with a different underlying motive: here we have to deal with a phantom of eroticism: the birth of such a phantom if one may use the expression of birth at all takes place in the face, the beautiful body of a living person, sometimes only a photo, a pornographic illustration or something similar with the purpose of provoking the lust, the sexual instinct, regardless of the person belonging to the female or male sex. provided anyone being in love, having no opp

l body of a living person, sometimes only a photo, a pornographic illustration or something similar with the purpose of provoking the lust, the sexual instinct, regardless of the person belonging to the female or male sex. provided anyone being in love, having no opportunity at all of satisfying his personal longing, the stronger and more vehement this yearning will grow, and at the same time the phantom s insinuations will become stronger, because it is thriving entirely on thoughts of yearning. the more the concerned person tries to resist this unsatisfied love, the more obtrusive the phantom will become. at first it will turn up in dreams and allow is victim to revel in the most delightful transport of love. a little later it will provoke the sexual instinct and allow sexual intercourse

tirely on thoughts of yearning. the more the concerned person tries to resist this unsatisfied love, the more obtrusive the phantom will become. at first it will turn up in dreams and allow is victim to revel in the most delightful transport of love. a little later it will provoke the sexual instinct and allow sexual intercourse in the victim s dreams. the pollutions produced in this way help the phantom to become denser and to influence the victim more and more, because the sperm represents the vital power that the phantom is sucking up like a vampire. the point in question here is not the material sperm, but the animal vital power accumulated in the sperm. the victim is losing the ground under his feet, his willpower is diminishing, and the phantom gradually wins the upper hand. if fate

t the phantom is sucking up like a vampire. the point in question here is not the material sperm, but the animal vital power accumulated in the sperm. the victim is losing the ground under his feet, his willpower is diminishing, and the phantom gradually wins the upper hand. if fate is not so kind to such a one as to have him enlightened in good time and to find the right distraction for him, the phantom s mode of action will result in more dangerous effects. the person becomes confused, stops eating, the nerves are over-excited and such like. the love-phantom can be condensed to such a degree by unsatisfied passion that it can adopt bodily forms, seducing his victim to onanism and other artificial stimulation of the genital organs. thousands of people have fallen victims of phantoms by co

h cannot swim without water. the same thing prevails upon beings already passed away to the world beyond. remembering, praising, mourning the deceased, any memory of or tribute to them will create and enliven imaginary pictures of the dead, which as a result of frequent repetition have a rather long duration of life. we call these pictures, created by the living ones, phantoms. it is this kind of phantom that manifest themselves in great numbers to the so-called spiritualists, evokers, diviners, etc. the spooks and hobgoblins also are nothing else but phantoms preserving, condensing and thriving on the affection and attachment of the bereaved ones, as it happens in the case of the shadows. this can be stated without difficulty by citing a being that manifests itself in different places at

spooks and hobgoblins also are nothing else but phantoms preserving, condensing and thriving on the affection and attachment of the bereaved ones, as it happens in the case of the shadows. this can be stated without difficulty by citing a being that manifests itself in different places at the same minute at once through so-called mediums, which is nothing but a manifestation of the dead person s phantom, because phantoms can be created by the hundreds. it is very sad that these phantoms always are mistaken for the real dead person by the spiritualistic mediums. a lot of mischief, self-deception, and fraud is carried out in this line. one can observe, for instance, that one of the mediums is communicating with a famous leader or general, a second one with an artist, another with a saint, i

e, for instance, that one of the mediums is communicating with a famous leader or general, a second one with an artist, another with a saint, in a different place with a pharaoh, and immediately again with an angel. therefore it is not at all surprising that this particular field of knowledge will meet with a host of opponents and mockers, because of its amount of self-deception. no wonder that a phantom has such a strong instinct of self-preservation as to present itself as a vampire to the medium or the whole circle, and indeed becomes fatal to the neighborhood as well. of course, all this does not mean that a genuine magician who masters the fourth state of aggregation, the akasa principle, would not be able to communicate with a deceased person or with an intellect that is not yet embo

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rior gods of the invisible world; and when a fakir attributes his phe nomena to the pitria he means only what the ancient philosophers and theurgists meant when they maintained that all the 'miracles' were obtained through the intervention of the gods, or the good and bad daemons who control the powers of nature, the eumeniala who are subor- dinate to the power of him 'who knows' a ghost or human phantom would be termed by a fakir palu, or bhiiind, as that of a female human spirit jnchhalpa'i, not pitri. true, puaras (plural) means fathers, an- cestors; and piira'i is a kinsman; but these words are used in quite a different sense from that of the pitris invoked in the mantras. to nnaintain before a devout br&hmana or a fakir that any one can converse with the spirits of the dead, would be

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

the deeply thinking man who had risen, as it were, over life, and to that strangely gifted being who has in himself the power of self-perpetuation (like the wandering jew, seem vain. man can be conceived as tiring of the sun tiring of consciousness even. what an expression is that, forgotten by death! the only being through whom the scythe of the great destroyer passes scatheless! that life, as a phantom, which is the only conceivable terrible doom of the wanderer (if such a magical being ever existed; whom as a locomotive symbol, to be perpetuated through the ages, the earth, at the command of the saviour, refused to hide, and of whom alegend soon hushed in again now and then rises to the popular whisper and to the popular distrust! we only adduce these remarks to show that, in the face o

y, the music at p. 232 of our book is taken as the expression of the geometrical fronts of the two great fig. 164. isis, dragon's head. fig. 165. hand in benediction. temples, the parthenon at athens and the pantheon at rome, which are supposed to have been built with perfect fig. 166. egyptian alto-relievo (british museum) fig. 167. hook of saturn, crook of bishops. art. we have translated these phantom olian melodies played in the winds (so to express it, and fixed them in modern musical notation. templar banner. chapter the twenty-seventh. the rosicrucians amidst ancient mysteries. their traces discoverable in the orders of knighthood. he collar of esses is supposed always to be a part of the order of the garder. the coupled s.s. means the sanctus spiritus, or holy spirit, or the third

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

hey do. there are optical illusions and qualities of sight which can sometimes trick one into thinking he sees what he does not see. in this area, the quality of sight known as after image is especially pertinent. do this: stare at any solidly colored bright object for a few moments. very intense red, green, or blue are especially good for this. now look away at a white surface and you will see a phantom image of the object in its the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 21 complementary color (a red object will show green, a blue one orange, etc. if the bright object is in front of a light surface, you may observe a fringe of complementary color around the object after a few moments. this is all very normal, and is used by some magical groups as an aid to visualization

KETAB E SIYAH

th the perfumes of exotic herbs, down to the storm-buffeted ocean of the west. baalzebub went before us like a tiger, having caught the deer's scent, going, stealthy, stalking, shadow-like amongst the shadows, dark within the darkness, silent, fatal, falling upon his prey. thus did baalzebub go forward. ebon-skinned, against the ebon night, 142 unseen, unheard, unknown death. now, like a terrible phantom, resolved from the darkness of the night the black form that was baalzebub descended upon the prey that he marked out, most lethal in both intent and action. before the guardian of the western gate could cry out or else sound alarum upon his horn dark baalzebub, destroying angel, reached out with a single arm to the stricken foe and enfolded within one dreadful hand the skull of the sentry

had been pleasing to him now he perceived, distracted as he was, only mockery in their reverence and with scornful words banished them from his presence. now he went to his sons and consorts where they revelled in a courtyard set around a silver pool with darting fish, drinking wine and feasting on many meats, dancing to the music played by lutesmen, hidden from sight by crimson veils, conjuring phantom music that serenaded the heart with distant beauty, like a dream. now was noah seized up by a rage and he went amongst his family, casting wine and meats into the water, to the fishes 232 who dined well upon that night. screaming in his wrath, noah reprimanded those who caroused in that courtyard as was the custom of their family. noah now seized up a rod to his right hand and, tearing awa

LIBER CCXLII AHA

led, i hear strange music in the air! marsyas. it is the angelic choir, aware of the great ordeal dared and done by one more brother of the sun! olympas. master, the shriek of a great bird blends with the torrent of the thunder. marsyas. it is the echo of the word that tore the universe asunder. olympas. master, thy stature spans the sky. marsyas. verily; but it is not i. the adept dissolves.pale phantom form blown from the black mouth of the storm. it is another that arises! olympas. yet in thee, through thee! marsyas. i am not. olympas. for me thou art. marsyas. so that suffices to seal thy will? to cast thy lot into the lap of god? then, well! olympas. ay, there is no more potent spell. through life, through death, by land and sea most surely will i follow thee. marsyas. follow thyself

LIBER DCLXXI VEL PYRAMIDOS

e blue sky.s queen. this is thy name. i come, control, and pass! i know thee, lady of teen i know thee, and i pass thee by. for more than thou am i! bar in northeast asar (rubric as before) in east. see thoth. silence. vel pyramidos 9 bar in southwest. asar (rubric as before) in west. see nature (c. contemplates self, in silence) i will not look uon thee more, for fatal is thy name. begone! false phantom, thou shalt pass before the frowning forehead of the sun. i know thee, and i pass thee by. for more than thou am i. at altar. formulating hexagram. now witness ye upon the earth, spirit and water, and red blood! witness above, bright babe of birth, spirit, and father. that are god! as babe in egg, being born. for silence duly is begot and darkness duly brought to bed. the shroud is figured

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

nk) before me ever loved. you know i scorn the fear of hell, by worship and all else unmoved 190 195 200 205 210 215 220 225 our logical method. classical allusion, demonstrating erudition of poet. whether or not spirit and matter are distinct, let us investigate the fundamental necessities of thought. impermanence of the soul. 28 the sword of song you know for me the soul is nought36 save a mere phantom in the thought, that thought itself impermanent, save as a casual element with such another may combine to form now water and now wine; the element itself may be changeless to all eternity, but compounds ever fluctuate with time or space or various state (ask chemists else) so i must claim spirit and matter are the same37 or else the prey of putrefaction. this matters to the present action

ath erred. i must decidedly insist on asking why these things exist. my mind refuses to admit all-power can be all-wickedness .nay! but it may! what shadows flit across the awful veil of mist? what thoughts invade, insult, impress? there comes a lightning of my wit and sees.nor good nor ill address itself to task, creation.s ill, but a mere law without a will,40 nothing resolved in something, fit phantom of dull stupidity, and evolution.s endless stress all the inanity to knit thence: such a dark device i see! nor lull my soul in the caress of buddha.s .maya fashioned it..41 my mind seems ready to agree; but still my senses worry me. nor can i see what sort of gain god finds in this creating pain; nor do the vedas help me here. why should the paramatma cease42 from its eternity of peace, d

rance of an essay to prove that lord tennyson was in secret a reformer of our lax modern morals. no doubt, there is room for this. vivien was perfectly right about the .cycle of strumpets and scoundels whom mr. tennyson has set revolving round the figure of his central wittol. and she was the only one with the courage to say so, and the brains to strip of the barbarous glitter from an idiotic and phantom chivaly. notes 45 ing her own business; and surely it was unparalled insolence on the part of a dismissed girl to lecture her more favourite sister on the very point for which she herself was at that moment being punished. it is the spite of baffled dissimulation against triumphant honesty. goneril adds a word of positive advice .you. she says in effect .who prate of duty thus, see you sho

LIBER V VEL REGULI

tendency of my nature, and all my thoughts are only the letters of my name. i am the one, for all that i am is not the absolute all, and all my all is mine and not another.s; mine, who conceive of the ritual of the mark of the beast 9 others like myself in essence and truth, yet unlike in expression and illusion. i am the none, for all that i am is the imperfect image of the perfect; each partial phantom must perish in the clasp of its counterpart, each form fulfil itself by finding its equated opposite, and satisfying its need to be the absolute by the attainment of annihilation. the word lashtal includes all this. la.naught. al.two. l is .justice. the kteis fulfilled by the phallus .naught and two. because the plus and the minus have united in .love under will. a is .the fool. naught in

MAGIC AND SPELLS

onus on concentration and spellcraft checks. 1 mage armor 2 silence 3 anyspell 4 rary's mnemonic enhancer 5 break enchantment spell domain spells 6789 spider domain deities: lolth, selvetarm. granted power: rebuke or command spiders as an evil cleric rebukes or commands undead. use this ability a total number of times per day equal to three+ your charisma modifier. 1 spider climb 2 summon swarm 3 phantom steed (has a vermin shape) 4 giant vermin spider domain spells 5 insect plague 6 spider curse 7 stone spiders 8 creeping doom 9 spider shapes storm domain strength domain deities: anhur, bahgtru, clangeddin, garagos, gruumsh, helm, ilmater, lathander, loviatar, malar, tempus, torm, ulutiu, uthgar. suffering domain greater anyspell limited wish antimagic field mordenkainen's disjunction dei

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

vious next p. 165 bacon, shakspere, and the rosicrucians the present consideration of the bacon--shakspere--rosicrucian controversy is undertaken not for the vain purpose of digging up dead men's bones but rather in the hope that a critical analysis will aid in the rediscovery of that knowledge lost to the world since the oracles were silenced. it was w. f. c. wigston who called the bard of avon "phantom captain shakespeare, the rosicrucian mask" this constitutes one of the most significant statements relating to the bacon-shakspere controversy. it is quite evident that william shakspere could not, unaided, have produced the immortal writings bearing his name. he did not possess the necessary literary culture, for the town of stratford where he was reared contained no school capable of imp

he said "anytus and melitus may indeed put me to death, but they cannot injure me" to the wise, physical existence is but the outer room of the hall of life. swinging open the doors of this antechamber, the illumined pass into the greater and more perfect existence. the ignorant dwell in a world bounded by time and space. to those, however, who grasp the import and dignity of being, these are but phantom shapes, illusions of the senses-arbitrary limits imposed by man's ignorance upon the duration of deity. the philosopher lives and thrills with the realization of this duration, for to him this infinite period has been designed by the all-wise cause as the time of all accomplishment. man is not the insignificant creature that he appears to be; his physical body is not the true measure of hi

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

no spell nor adverse purpose last not in complete accord with me. as my word, so mote it be! this is now your charged salt and water of exorcism which you will use to make your working tools. similarly, casting a few grains of good-quality church incense onto a glowing charcoal block contained in an ashtray, chant as you hold your hand outstretched over it: creature of fire this charge i lay, no phantom in thy presence stay. here my will addressed to thee; and as my word, so mote it be! again, strongly visualize the coals radiating that strange blue light as you speak. with this charged fire, you will complete the exorcism of your raw materials. now the first working tools you should make are the cup and thurible. in fact, as soon as you have made these you will be using them to contain t

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

rcism of incense. o god of abraham, god of isaac, god of jacob, deign to bless this odoriferous incense so that it may receive strength, virtue, and power to attract the good spirits, and to banish and cause to retire all hostile phantoms. through thee, o most holy adonai, who livest and reignest unto the ages of the ages. amen. i exorcise thee, o spirit impure and unclean, thou who art a hostile phantom, in the name of god, that thou quit this incense, thou and all thy deceits, that it may be consecrated and sanctified in the name of god almighty. may the holy spirit of god grant protection and virtue unto those who use incense and may the hostile and evil spirit and phantom never be able to enter therein, through the ineffable name of god almighty. amen. o lord, deign to bless and to san

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

ore me- my body is a black temple, illuminated with crimson and violet brilliance. by my words carry my spirit! 14 the ensorcelment of ahriman- i summon ruha-az, crimson whore and vampire, i call the fiend vareno who is an angel of darkness, who causes intercourse i do summon thee! i invoke thee! in the darkness is your light. praise unto ahriman, horned lord of the kingdom of shades, specter and phantom, praise unto our kingdom of dead matter and flesh. praise unto ahriman, who created andar from the smoke of the blackened flame, who in averse brilliance was both phantom and dire foulness, praise unto ahriman, who joined in union with the whore-vampyre az, whose body is ruha and jeh, devour with your lips open wide, satisfy me in the dreamining flight, drop the blood of ecstasy from your

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

r mind. great afterlife survival techniques which have been discovered and remain as possibilities were obtained from the flight through the mouth of choronzon, through the abyss. qlipoth the qliphoth/qlippoth is a hebrew term for the region of the astral plane where demons, vampires, ghouls and other sinister spirits dwell. most of these beings, according to kenneth grant are "habitations of the phantom forms generated by sexual desires and morbid cravings constantly produced by dwellers of earth (8) within the realm of the qlipoth, subsisting through the plane of da'ath, is the greatest depth of night where the great red dragon sleeps. among the coils of the dragon are the shells of the dead, the spirits or lower demonic energies which flow between the dreams of the serpent. these demoni

hekas, hekas hekausath usha, umpesha narasta spirit of the moon, lover and death-embracer, grow in the land of the dead. i give you strength and life, by the wytch fire of azrael and hecate, i summon the shades of the grave to give this spirit food to grow, so it shall be! iii) the queen of the dead leave buried until the dark moon, exhume pot and return to your temple or coven meet. recite67 67 phantom and shade, spectar and vampyre, lover and seductress i summon you to rise in the dark of the moon, rise from your tomb and by my guide, my initiator, my familiar, my goddess hekas, hekau sakeka ushu umpesha narastu by lamia do you grow, arise vampyre seductress who shall guard and taste of my blood, whom shall give me the elixir of the evening, of dreaming and twilight haunting, alive shal

ipping honey and blood, the moon called to its fair children. a force we keep, a wild talon, within our latent memories. to which all is possible in the passion of the hunt. i felt my dream flesh, that which was electric. growing. rising. a sigil before me, of deepest blue and crimson. burning with the ambiguous wish of strength and desire! 123 123 all was within my grasp, even the night wind, in phantom semblance. i felt alive and so fierce. lycanthropy so sweet in its rapture! fire grew within this shape i made, knowing that fire was everything within this sphere of desire. i rose and took towards the night sky, swooping down upon the forest lanes. hearing further the three-fold cries of my kin, to know voices backwards in the night how willing such passion, would beauty be so caring. so

ror davcina took both her hands and with a firm and steady grip squeezed my throat until i lost consciousness. i later learned from her that i had fallen within the entrance of the circle, and she was careful not to let me fall hard, land on a candle or injure my head. at the moment of assuming the death posture i had felt a rush of red energy, followed by what seemed to be a spiraling ecstasy of phantom energies within my mind. all conceived dogma was now destroyed. there is much that can be said regarding that exact moment, for the self becomes nothing yet open to all possibilities. they took the form of many shapes and faces, while i felt the up rush of weightlessness and perceived a cloud of various spirits and energies. i opened my eyes and felt a source of strength which i had not fe

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

ah, take now rest, refuge and a power source for your shadow. let this be your tomb of rest, gather strength here, nourish yourself from my flesh, as i am the master known as akhtya seker arimanius, draconian shadow, messenger of azrael, i form you djinn haunter of the desert and forest (visualize the shade of self, that your shadow form, so closely connected that you are but the same, grant this phantom form your deepest attributes of vampyric self, be it the grave haunter and spirit of folklore) skeletal form, whose flesh is gray and green from the blood of arimanius, talons of the best, whom shall tap the window of the sleeping, beckoning their desire death-guise, pale and ashen corpse corpse face, whom embraces the manes of the dead in lustrous copulations, wrapped in the shroud of the

, by the prayers whispered in silence unto the blood dripping moon i summon forth the adversary, noctulia- hecate, goddess before me this night. i call forth my lord, the devil, whom is a shadow of my self, just as i, isolate and individual between the dual essence of azoth, from which the toad awaits, shall the secret gates be opened "i call upon thee, satandar and asentacer, i summon thee forth phantom of darkness, i call forth the spirit of the werewolf, beast of darkness and shadow. send now the gray shape which makes men tremble. sah zrizzu usha bapesta zrazza" take the wolf/dog skull and use the teeth to mark the left breast with the mark of the werewolf "i mark myself with the kiss of the devil, that i may transform in spirit unto the phantom shade of the night, i shall become the w

close circle. part two on the eve of the full moon prepare your chamber for the actual transformation into the werewolf shape. this form will be with you as you sleep and when you so seek, shall the shade flesh be worn to transverse the dreaming plane. have the devil's belt upon the altar, with the skull of the wolf. you shall come forth oiled in previous scents of hecate and saturn "unparalleled phantom of darkness, i come forth to the crossroads this night with the blessing ofnoctulia- hecate andahriman i do manifest within my temple, my being the werewolf spirit! just as i am vampyre my form shall change in the night to the mighty shade of the beast i shall assume darkness in the flesh, tonight i shall become" put now the mask of transformation and the wolf belt. envision and imagine no

who gathers the shades from the tombs. kali, whom dances upon the corpses of false kings and resides in the cremation grounds, i summon thee "by the mark of cain, given by baphomet, the horned initiator of the circle, i summon your presence, blackened horseman who rides upon the ghost- ways speaking with the dead "by the owl, sacred unto noctulia- hekate, known in this circle as lilitu, ghost and phantom keeper, who shall gather the manes from the grave, fly now unto this circle "by the vulture, who shall feast upon the corpse of those aspects i care not to remain as myself, i shall become like to understand the feast of the dumb supper. in dreaming we shall commune "i seek the grave and my mortal death, with the shroud i wrap my body in shall be blessed with the kiss of the serpent queen

ius, offer unto me the chalice of life, that which shall sustain our flesh and spirit-az, i summon thee "o' night haunting consort of the serpents of the abyss, whom takes theform of owls and beasts, lilitu, witch queen of the caul, the mark ofcain- lilitu- bless this grave shroud- walk with me in dreams "i seek now to enter black eden, as the form of belial, wolf- cloaked and bat- winged, in the phantom dream shall i arise from the blackened earth of the tomb, by the in-between of life and death, i have come into being "zrazza usha umpestu zrazza "i pledge myself to the vampyric path, that which shall rely upon my strength of spirit and luciferian being, i behold myself as both god and goddess, lover and devouress. as i say these words i write the book of myincantations, from which those

d be adorned in the decorations of the sabbat and reflective of the aesthetic concept of the daemonic feminine. a black mirror should be placed on the altar- this shall be the gateway from which you shall go forth and they shall come unto you. this is a ritual designed for the children of witch blood, therefore kin of the succubi and spirits of the qlippothic realms of wolf and vampire, shade and phantom. you may create a circle from which the spirits shall meet with you, or you may stay near a sleeping place for after the ritual. the rise of the lilitu facing the black mirror "o' friend and companion of the night, thou who rejoicest in the baying of dogs and spilt blood who wanderest in the midst of shades among thetombs, who longest for blood and bringest terror to mortals, gorgo, mormo

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

ield this strange "double" mimics the facial expressions and other bodily movements of its original, who is completely baffled and confused when he. suddenly sees an image of himself at a distance from himself, usually straight ahead. though this experience is clearly somewhat analogous to the out-of-body visions described earlier, the differences heavily outweigh the similarities. the autoscopic phantom is always perceived as alive-sometimes it is thought of by the subject as even more alive and conscious than he is-while in out-of-body experiences the body is seen as something lifeless, just a shell. the autoscopic subject may "hear" his double talk to him, give him instructions, taunt him, and so on. while in out-of-body experiences the whole body is seen (unless it is partly covered up

MORALS AND DOGMA

ute, is reason. reason is, by means of itself. it is because it is, and not because we suppose it. it is, where nothing _exists; but nothing could possibly exist without it. reason is necessity, law, the rule of all liberty, and the direction of every initiative. if god is, he is by reason. the conception of an absolute deity, outside of, or independent of, reason, is the idol of black magic, the phantom of the d mon. the supreme intelligence is necessarily _rational. god, in philosophy, can be no more than a hypothesis; but a hypothesis imposed by good sense on human reason. to personify the absolute reason, is to determine the divine ideal. necessity, liberty, and reason! behold the great and supreme triangle of the kabalists! fatality, will, and power! such is the magical ternary which

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ed with jewels, and rich garments, and let her be shameless before all men "pride" see a. c 's commentary to al ii, 77 "work of wickedness" it should be clear by now that what we call virtue many others call wickedness. our own atavism rises against us in the path of spiritual revolution. our 'conscience' will tell us that we are being wicked when we struggle to free ourselves or others. face the phantom, then. you will be called wicked. he was. glory in it "kill her heart: this refers to the yoga practice of 'slaying the cakkrams, in this case the anahatta "loud and adulterous" see liber aleph, 116-118 "covered with jewels" cakkrams active "rich garments" purple, gold and scarlet a uric colors "shameless before all men" see al ii, 52, and the commentaries thereto. also remember that all c

PHOSPHORUS

revealed to initiates of the black order of the dragon. face the algol sigil- i behold the circle of timeless existence, guarded by leviathan i call to the four quarters to witness my rite of darkness and flame, and the light which illuminates within. before me, the algol star of the adversary, the corpses piled and devoured by flame that which arises from death reborn, al ghul, rosh ha shaitan, phantom star, daemon of my night born illumination. i dive now from the heavens of light with emerald wings, i fall into the darkness to become as a dragon, to know the ecstasies of light and shadow. al ghul, serpent tongue which arouses perception i invoke thee! i do affirm hecate, goddess of crossroads, enchanter of nightmares, guardian of shades and the howling beasts, bless my path with your e

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

. these reflections influence our thought continually by the mediation of the diaphane, and it is in this sense that we become and remain the children of 40 the doctrine of transcendental magic our works. the astral light, transformed at the moment of conception into human light, is the soul's first envelope, and, in combination with extremely subtle fluids, it forms the ethereal body or sidereal phantom, of which paracelsus discourses in his philosophy of intuition philosophia sagax. this sidereal body, being liberated at death, attracts and for a long time preserves, through the sympathy of things homogeneous, the reflections of the past life; if drawn into a special current by a will which is powerfully sympathetic, it manifests naturally, for there is nothing more natural than prodigie

ed me a collection of magical vestments and instruments, lent me some rare books which i needed; in short, she determined me to attempt at her house the experiment of a complete evocation, for which i prepared during a period of twentyone days, scrupulously observing the rules laid down in the thirteenth chapter of the ritual. the preliminaries terminated on 2nd july; it was proposed to evoke the phantom of the divine apollonius and interrogate it upon two secrets, one which concerned myself and one which interested the lady. she had counted on taking part in the evocation with a trustworthy person, who, however, proved nervous at the last moment, and, as the triad or unity is indispensable for magical rites, i was left to my own resources. the cabinet prepared for the evocation was situat

s. three times, and with closed eyes, i invoked apollonius. when i again looked forth there was a man in front of me, wrapped from head to foot in a species of shroud, which seemed more grey than white. he was lean, melancholy and beardless, and did not altogether correspond to my preconceived notion of apollonius. i experienced an abnormally cold sensation, and when i endeavoured to question the phantom i could not articulate a syllable. i therefore placed my hand upon the sign of the pentagram, and pointed the sword at the figure, commanding it mentally to obey and not alarm me, in virtue of the said sign. the form thereupon became vague, and suddenly disappeared. i directed it to return, and presently felt, as it were, a breath close by me; something touched my hand which was holding th

es, in the long run, the characteristics of the material body. 70 the doctrine of transcendental magic that is why swedenborg, in his somnambulistic intuitions, frequently beheld spirits in the shape of various animals. let us now make bold to say that a werewolf is nothing else but the sidereal body of a man whose savage and sanguinary instincts are typified by the wolf; who, further, whilst his phantom wanders over the country, is sleeping painfully in his bed and dreams that he is a wolf indeed. what makes the werewolf visible is the almost somnambulistic excitement caused by the fright of those who behold it, or else the tendency, more particularly in simple country persons, to enter into direct communication with the astral light, which is the common medium of visions and dreams. the

uman sacrifices and other monstrosities, which are the very essence and reality of goetia or nigromancy. such are the practices which from all time have brought down upon sorcerers the just repression of the laws. black magic is really only a graduated combination of sacrileges and murders designed for the permanent perversion of a human will and for the realization in a living man of the hideous phantom of the demon. it is therefore, properly speaking, the religion of the devil, the cultus of darkness, hatred of good carried to the height of paroxysm: it is the incarnation of death and the persistent creation of hell: the kabalist bodin who has been considered erroneously of a feeble and superstitious mind, had no other motive in writing his demonomania than that of warning people against

you will in yourself have the immortality of the sages. temperance, tranquillity of soul, simplicity of character, calmness and rationality of will, these things not only make us happy but strong and well. by growth in reason and goodness man becomes immortal. we are the authors of our own destiny, and god does not save us apart from our own concurrence. there is no death for the sage; death is a phantom, made horrible by the weakness and ignorance of the vulgar. change is the sign of motion, and motion reveals life; if the corpse itself were dead, its decomposition would be impossible; all its constituent molecules are living and working out their liberation. yet you dream that the spirit is set free first so that it may cease to live! you believe that thought and love can die when the gr

because it is, and not because we suppose it; it is, or nothing is; and how should one desire anything to exist apart from reason? madness itself does not occur without it. reason is necessity, is law, is the rule of all liberty and the direction of all initiative. if god exists, it is by reason. the conception of an absolute god outside or independent of reason is the idol of black magic and the phantom of the fiend. the demon is death masquerading in the tattered garments of life, the spectre of hirrenkesept throned upon the rubbish of ruined civilizations, and concealing a loathsome nakedness by the cast-off clothes of the incarnations of vishnu. here ends the doctrine of transcendental ma reliphas levi dogma et rituel de la haute magie translated by a. e. waite dogme et rituel de la ha

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

y reason, and it is omnipotent under this leading, for it is analogous to the word of god himself. by the word of his reason man becomes conqueror of life, and can triumph over death. the entire life of man is either the parturition or miscarriage of his word. human beings who die without having understood or formulated the word of reason, die devoid of eternal hope. to withstand successfully the phantom of death, we must be identified with the realities of life. does it signify to god if an abortion wither, seeing that life is eternal? does it signify to nature if unreason perish, since reason which never perishes still holds the keys of life? the just and terrible force which destroys abortions eternally was called by the hebrews samael; by other easterns, satan; and by the latins, lucif

the sources from which they drew for its discovery and for the realization of its effects, it is this same secret which we ourselves make public now. 68 chapter xiii necromancy we have declared boldly our opinion, or rather our conviction, as to the possibility of resurrection in certain cases: it remains for us now to complete the revelation of this arcanum and to expose its practice. death is a phantom of ignorance; it does not exist; everything in nature is living, and it is because it is alive that everything is in motion and undergoes incessant change of form. old age is the beginning of regeneration; it is the labour of renewing life; and the ancients represented the mystery we term death by the fountain of youth, which was entered in decrepitude and left in new childhood. the body i

or by interior and imaginary impressions, never with a voice which really strikes the ears; and this is comprehensible enough, for how should a shadow speak? with what instrument could it cause the air to vibrate by impressing it in such a manner as to make distinct sounds? at the same time, electrical contacts are experienced from apparitions and sometimes appear to be produced by the hand of a phantom; but the phenomena is wholly subjective, is occasioned solely by the power of imagination and the local wealth of that occult force which we term the astral light. the proof of this is that spirits, or at least the spectres pretended to be such, may indeed touch us occasionally, but we cannot touch them, and this is one of the most affrighting characteristics of these apparitions, which ar

ons downward when they wish and believe themselves to be ascending. so also those who term themselves chiefs are the most impotent and despised of all. as to the horde of perverse spirits, they tremble before an unknown, invisible, incomprehensible, capricious, implacable chief, who never explains his laws, whose arm is ever stretched out to strike those who fail to understand him. they give this phantom the names of baal, jupiter and even others more venerable, which cannot, without profanation, be pronounced in hell. but this phantom is only the shadow and remnant of god, disfigured by wilful perversity, and persisting in imagination like a visitation of justice and a remorse of truth. when the evoked spirit of light manifests with sad or irritated countenance, we must offer him a moral

efit of the curious. the practices of thessalian sorcerers and roman canidias are described by several ancient authors. in the first place, a pit was dug, at the mouth of which they cut the throat of a black sheep; the psyllae and larvae presumed to be present, and swarming round to drink the blood, were driven off with the magic sword; the triple hecate and the infernal gods were evoked, and the phantom whose apparition was desired was called upon three times. in the middle ages, necromancers violated tombs, composing philtres and unguents with the fat and blood of corpses combined with aconite, belladonna and poisonous fungi. they boiled and skimmed these frightful compounds over fires fed with human bones and crucifixes stolen from churches; they added dust of dried toads and ash of con

e worlds. 81 chapter xv the sabbath of the sorcerers we recur once more to that terrible number fifteen, symbolized in the tarot by a monster throned upon an altar, mitred and horned, having a woman's breasts and the generative organs of a man. a chimera, a malformed sphinx, a synthesis of deformities. below this figure we read a frank and simple inscription. the devil. yes, we confront here that phantom of all terrors, the dragon of all theogonies, the ahriman of the persians, the typhon of the egyptians, the python of the greeks, the old serpent of the hebrews, the fantastic monster, the nightmare, the croquemitaine, the gargoyle, the great beast of the middle ages, and. worse than all these. the baphomet of the templars, the bearded idol of the alchemist, the obscene deity of mendes, th

even the regeneration of this great work, which is the philosophical stone of the official and positive cultus. in prison slang the devil is called baker by convicts; all our desire, and we speak no longer from the standpoint of the magus, but as a devoted child of christianity and of that church to which we owe our earliest education and our first enthusiasms. all our desire, we say, is that the phantom of satan may no longer be called also the baker for ministers of morality and representatives of the highest virtue. will they appreciate our intention and forgive the boldness of our aspirations in consideration of our devoted intentions and the sincerity of our faith? the devil-making magic which dictated the grimoire of pope honorius, the enchiridion of leo iii, the exorcisms of the rit

nce h. at this reply, which doubtless announced to the sick man that hell no longer protected him, a horrible trembling seized the monarch, his arms stiffened and he cried in a hoarse voice: gaway with that head! away with that head! h and so continued screaming till he gave up the ghost. his attendants, who were not in the confidence of this frightful mystery, believed that he was pursued by the phantom of coligny and that he saw the head of the illustrious admiral. that which tormented the dying man was not, however, a remorse but the hopeless terror of an anticipated hell. this darksome magical legend of bodin recalls the abominable practices and deserved fate of gilles de laval, lord of retz, who passed from asceticism to black magic and offered the most revolting sacrifices to concili

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deed, to be of an anti-human disposition, while at other times they seemed to be distinctly pro-human. there is, perhaps, a commentary 73 subtle insight below the surface of this discussion of fairies or daemones and their potential for good or evil: they tend to respond according to our own personal inner condition. this concept is found also in the subject of the co-walker or fairy companion or phantom ally, for these beings, employed widely in magical or sorcerous techniques worldwide, are frequently described as being potentially deadly and danger-ous, yet http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_72.htm (1 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:35:48 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 72-81) helpful and of great benefit if correctly contacted. traditional methods of establishing relationships range

ix 3: the ballad of tam lin 133 world while retaining his human origins. he makes the transition while in a sleep or trance, partly unwitting, without full command of his consciousness. his role of guardian fulfilling a stereotyped mode of magical behavior, is the direct result of his automatic or unwilled enchantment until he is released from this first phase of his transmutation, he will act as phantom or guardian of the physical site to which he has become attuned. the power of his release is 'true love, represented by fair janet the lack of distinction between her pregnancy and the manifestation of tam lin is significant in this context, for if she cannot redeem him in his original form, from the otherworld, she will http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_126.htm (8 of 13 [10/9/2001 12:3

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a corner of the room, and knew it was suspended by set's power in the air. the sound of it shimmered. he then began to move the sword through the space in my apartment. he floated and moved with it. i showed fear, and thinking i could turn on the lights of my apartment, tried and failed. i kept thinking that the electricity was dead. i was frozen in my bed in a relaxed position as set passed the phantom of the scimitar directly over my body. at that point i became very intense and shocked myself back into the "physical" i awoke and jotted the whole experience down. the following day, after work, while i was composing the long description from my notes, i called amon dececco and told him the story. an interesting note: in the morning when i awoke both the stele and explanation sheet were i

to put words in my mouth. speak not the words of deceit. anton throughout your many years did you see the mysteries unveil in the vapors of night. you wore the mask of janus as you championed the laws of satan, as you made manifest a church in his name. man/daemon, champion of satan, true son of rosemary. you bore the devil's name, and with pride held the banner of satan's church high. mysterious phantom that came into our lives so long ago (yet so near. we will always love you for your understanding of human depth and reality. so profoundly, yet beautifully did you cast a monstrous shadow over deserving victims of mediocrity. yet you lamented and cherished the sons and daughters who bore the title of satan openly with the essence of their blood. anton- both child and man. no one shall eve

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ty of a starfish by his ear "born again, spoono, you and me. happy birthday, mister; happy birthday to you" whereupon saladin chamcha coughed, spluttered, opened his eyes, and, as befitted a new-born babe, burst into foolish tears. 2 reincarnation was always a big topic with gibreel, for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the indian movies, even before he "miraculously" defeated the phantom bug that everyone had begun to believe would terminate his contracts. so maybe someone should have been able to forecast, only nobody did, that when he was up and about again he would sotospeak succeed where the germs had failed and walk out of his old life forever within a week of his fortieth birthday, vanishing, poof, like a trick _into thin air. the first people to notice his absence w

nd in this city where i grew up i get lost if i'm on my own. this isn't home. it makes me giddy because it feels like home and is not. it makes my heart tremble and my head spin "you're a stupid" she shouted at him "a stupid. change back! damn fool! of course you can" she was a vortex, a siren, tempting him back to his old self. but it was a dead self, a shadow, a ghost, and he would not become a phantom. there was a return ticket to london in his wallet, and he was going to use it. o o o "you never married" he said when they both lay sleepless in the small hours. zeeny snorted "you've really been gone too long. can't you see me? i'm a blackie" arching her back and throwing off the sheet to show off her lavishness. when the bandit queen phoolan devi came out of the ravines to surrender and

lid, unchanging, sempiternal, instead of the creature of cracks and absences she knew herself to be- when the full moon sets, the dark before the dawn, that's their moment. billow of sail, flash of oars, and the conqueror himself at the flagship's prow, sailing up the beach between the barnacled wooden breakwaters and a few inverted sculls- o, i've seen things in my time, always had the gift, the phantom-sight- the conqueror in his pointy metal-nosed hat, passing through her front door, gliding betwixt the cakestands and antimacassared sofas, like an echo resounding faintly through that house of remembrances and yearnings; then falling silent _as the grave- once as a girl on battle hill, she was fond of recounting, always in the same time--polished words- once as a solitary child, i found

g silent _as the grave- once as a girl on battle hill, she was fond of recounting, always in the same time--polished words- once as a solitary child, i found myself, quite suddenly and with no sense of strangeness, in the middle of a war. longbows, maces, pikes. the flaxen-saxon boys, cut down in their sweet youth. harold arroweye and william with his mouth full of sand. yes, always the gift, the phantom-sight- the story of the day on which the child rosa had seen a vision of the battle of hastings had become, for the old woman, one of the defining landmarks of her being, though it had been told so often that nobody, not even the teller, could confidently swear that it was true _i long for them sometimes, ran rosa's practised thoughts _les beaux jours: the dear, dead days. she closed, once

ladin chamcha said "excuse, please. wrong number" staring at the telephone, he found himself remembering a drama production seen in bombay, based on an english original, a story by, by, he couldn't put his finger on the name, tennyson? no, no. somerset maugham- to hell with it- in the original and now authorless text, a man, long thought dead, returns after an absence of many years, like a living phantom, to his former haunts. he visits his former home at night, surreptitiously, and looks in through an open window. he finds that his wife, believing herself widowed, has re-married. on the window-sill he sees a child's toy. he spends a period of time standing in the darkness, wrestling with his feelings; then picks the toy off the ledge; and departs forever, without making his presence known

anything could happen, your windows shattered in the middle of the night without any cause, you were knocked over in the street by invisible hands, in the shops you heard such abuse you felt like your ears would drop off but when you turned in the direction of the words you saw only empty air and smiling faces, and every day you heard about this boy, that girl, beaten up by ghosts- yes, a land of phantom imps, how to explain; best thing was to stay home, not go out for so much as to post a letter, stay in, lock the door, say your prayers, and the goblins would (maybe) stay away- reasons for defeat? baba, who could count them? not only was she a shopkeeper's wife and a kitchen slave, but even her own people could not be relied on- there were men she thought of as respectable types, sharif

how could i be jealous, gibreel, when i'm already dead, i don't want you to say i'm as important as her, no, just a second--rank love will do for me, a side-dish amour; the foot in the other boot. how about it, gibreel, just three--little-words, what do you say _give me time "it isn't even as if i'm asking for something new, something you haven't already agreed to, done, indulged in. lying with a phantom is not such a bad-bad thing. what about down at that old mrs. diamond's- in the boathouse, that night? quite a tamasha, you don't think so? so: who do you think put it on? listen: i can take for you any form you prefer; one of the advantages of my condition. you wish her again, that boathouse mame from the stone age? hey presto. you want the mirror image of your own mountain-climber sweaty

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

's tales we see with what ease a great imaginative artist can produce a deeper thrill by a far slighter use of the weird and the mysterious. the chief interest of the story for the ordinary reader centres, not in its ghostly characters and improbable machinery, the scenes in mejnour's chamber in the ruined castle among the apennines, the colossal and appalling apparitions on vesuvius, the hideous phantom with its burning eye that haunted glyndon, but in the loves of viola and the mysterious zanoni, the blissful and the fearful scenes through which they pass, and their final destiny, when the hero of the story sacrifices his own "charmed life" to save hers, and the immortal finds the only true immortality in death. among the striking passages in the work are the pathetic sketch of the old v

s this object shaped itself to his sight. it was as that of a human head covered with a dark veil through which glared, with livid and demoniac fire, eyes that froze the marrow of his bones. nothing else of the face was distinguishable, nothing but those intolerable eyes; but his terror, that even at the first seemed beyond nature to endure, was increased a thousand-fold, when, after a pause, the phantom glided slowly into the chamber. the cloud retreated from it as it advanced; the bright lamps grew wan, and flickered restlessly as at the breath of its presence. its form was veiled as the face, but the outline was that of a female; yet it moved not as move even the ghosts that simulate the living. it seemed rather to crawl as some vast misshapen reptile; and pausing, at length it cowered

rst glow of lust. thou one of us; thou a brother of the august order; thou an aspirant to the stars that shine in the shemaia of the chaldean lore! the eagle can raise but the eaglet to the sun. i abandon thee to thy twilight "but, alas for thee, disobedient and profane! thou hast inhaled the elixir; thou hast attracted to thy presence a ghastly and remorseless foe. thou thyself must exorcise the phantom thou hast raised. thou must return to the world; but not without punishment and strong effort canst thou regain the calm and the joy of the life thou hast left behind. this, for thy comfort, will i tell thee: he who has drawn into his frame even so little of the volatile and vital energy of the aerial juices as thyself, has awakened faculties that cannot sleep, faculties that may yet, with

n misery, or as the trick of an imposter, who knew that he could not realise the great professions he had made. on glancing again over the more mysterious threats and warnings in mejnour's letter, they seemed to assume the language of mere parable and allegory, the jargon of the platonists and pythagoreans. by little and little, he began to consider that the very spectra he had seen even that one phantom so horrid in its aspect were but the delusions which mejnour's science had enable him to raise. the healthful sunlight, filling up every cranny in his chamber, seemed to laugh away the terrors of the past night. his pride and his resentment nerved his habitual courage; and when, having hastily dressed himself, he rejoined paolo, it was with a flushed cheek and a haughty step "so, paolo" sa

d them; he felt the nearer presence of the nameless. there it cowered on the floor beside his design; and lo! the figures seemed to start from the wall! those pale accusing figures, the shapes he himself had raised, frowned at him, and gibbered. with a violent effort that convulsed his whole being, and bathed his body in the sweat of agony, the young man mastered his horror. he strode towards the phantom; he endured its eyes; he accosted it with a steady voice; he demanded its purpose and defied its power. and then, as a wind from a charnel, was heard its voice. what it said, what revealed, it is forbidden the lips to repeat, the hand to record. nothing save the subtle life that yet animated the frame to which the inhalations of the elixir had given vigour and energy beyond the strength of

s meeting that i have sought. how hast thou followed my admonitions! are these the scenes in which the aspirant for the serene science thinks to escape the ghastly enemy? do the thoughts thou hast uttered thoughts that would strike all order from the universe express the hopes of the sage who would rise to the harmony of the eternal spheres"'it is thy fault, it is thine' i exclaimed 'exorcise the phantom! take the haunting terror from my soul "mejnour looked at me a moment with a cold and cynical disdain which provoked at once my fear and rage, and replied"'no; fool of thine own senses! no; thou must have full and entire experience of the illusions to which the knowledge that is without faith climbs its titan way. thou pantest for this millennium, thou shalt behold it! thou shalt be one of

moment with a cold and cynical disdain which provoked at once my fear and rage, and replied"'no; fool of thine own senses! no; thou must have full and entire experience of the illusions to which the knowledge that is without faith climbs its titan way. thou pantest for this millennium, thou shalt behold it! thou shalt be one of the agents of the era of light and reason. i see, while i speak, the phantom thou fliest, by thy side; it marshals thy path; it has power over thee as yet, a power that defies my own. in the last days of that revolution which thou hailest, amidst the wrecks of the order thou cursest as oppression, seek the fulfilment of thy destiny, and await thy cure "at that instant a troop of masks, clamorous, intoxicated, reeling, and rushing, as they reeled, poured into the ro

ophecy of the scene in which i was to seek deliverance, it occurred to me, at last, that in the sober air of my native country, and amidst its orderly and vigorous pursuits, i might work out my own emancipation from the spectre. i left all whom i had before courted and clung to, i came hither. amidst mercenary schemes and selfish speculations, i found the same relief as in debauch and excess. the phantom was invisible; but these pursuits soon became to me distasteful as the rest. ever and ever i felt that i was born for something nobler than the greed of gain, that life may be made equally worthless, and the soul equally degraded by the icy lust of avarice, as by the noisier passions. a higher ambition never ceased to torment me. but, but" continued glyndon, with a whitening lip and a visi

t nicot, the friend of liberty and relentless hebert, by the stranger's side, at the casement "ay, shout again" cried the painter "shout for the brave englishman who abjures his pitts and his coburgs to be a citizen of liberty and france" a thousand voices rent the air, and the hymn of the marseillaise rose in majesty again "well, and if it be among these high hopes and this brave people that the phantom is to vanish, and the cure to come" muttered glyndon; and he thought he felt again the elixir sparkling through his veins "thou shalt be one of the convention with paine and clootz, i will manage it all for thee" cried nicot, slapping him on the shoulder "and paris "ah, if i could but see paris" cried fillide, in her joyous voice. joyous! the whole time, the town, the air save where, unhea

nity! but these creatures, modifications as they are of matter, and some with more than the malignanty of man, may well seem, to fear and unreasoning superstition, the representatives of fiends. and from the darkest and mightiest of them i have accepted a boon, the secret that startled death from those so dear to me. can i not trust that enough of power yet remains to me to baffle or to daunt the phantom, if it seek to pervert the gift? answer me, mejnour, for in the darkness that veils me, i see only the pure eyes of the new-born; i hear only the low beating of my heart. answer me, thou whose wisdom is without love! mejnour to zanoni. rome. fallen one! i see before thee evil and death and woe! thou to have relinquished adon-ai for the nameless terror, the heavenly stars for those fearful

ave relinquished adon-ai for the nameless terror, the heavenly stars for those fearful eyes! thou, at the last to be the victim of the larva of the dreary threshold, that, in thy first novitiate, fled, withered and shrivelled, from thy kingly brow! when, at the primary grades of initiation, the pupil i took from thee on the shores of the changed parthenope, fell senseless and cowering before that phantom-darkness, i knew that his spirit was not formed to front the worlds beyond; for fear is the attraction of man to earthiest earth, and while he fears, he cannot soar. but thou, seest thou not that to love is but to fear; seest thou not that the power of which thou boastest over the malignant one is already gone? it awes, it masters thee; it will mock thee and betray. lose not a moment; come

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

this man was a native of the village of zurarah in the district of kufa, and he employed his time in working magic. in the mosque at kufa, and in the presence of walid ibn ukbah, he raised up several apparitions, and made a king of huge stature, who was mounted upon a horse, gallop about in the courtyard of the mosque. he then transformed himself into a camel and walked upon a rope; and made the phantom of an ass to pass through his body; and p. 24 finally having slain a man, he cut off the head and removed it from the trunk, and then by passing his sword over the two parts, they united and the man came alive again. this last act recalls the joining of the head of the dead goose to its body and the coming back of the bird to life which has been described above. we have now to describe bri

august 7th, 1897 "is watched regularly every night by the ghosts of the native soldiers who were killed at abu hamed, and who mount guard over their dead commander's tomb, challenging, with every military detail, all passers-by. so implicitly is this legend credited by the blacks that none of p. 221 them will, after dusk, approach the grave. any one doing so is believed to be promptly halted by a phantom sentry, and even the words (in arabic 'guard, turn out' are often (so the story goes) plainly heard repeated at some distance off across the desert" 1 p. 222 the egyptians believed that a man's fate or destiny was decided before he was born, and that he had no power whatever to alter it. their sages, however, professed to be able to declare what the fate might be, provided that they were g

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o allow it to escape. he stated that there was no struggle on the part of the spirit hand, but it gradually seemed to become vaporous and slowly faded from his grasp. a spirit form materialized in a corner of the laboratory during the course of one experiment, took up an accordion into its hands, and glided about the room playing the instrument. crookes s report of the incident indicated that the phantom was visible for several minutes before it disappeared at a slight cry from one of the female sitters. intrigued by this particular demonstration, crookes designed a special cage wherein he placed an accordion which he invited the spirit to play. during the laboratory-controlled experiment, the accordion floated about the spook-proof cage and unseen fingers played a variety of melodies on t

he was enclosed in a wire cage. psychical researcher robert dale owen observed leah fox underhill in a seance during which she manifested a light about as large as a small fist, that rose and fell as a hammer would, striking the floor. at each stroke, a loud rap was heard. in over 400 seances sponsored by investigators in new york, katie fox, whose hands were held by the researchers, materialized phantom human forms that produced flowers, glowing lights, and written messages in the handwriting of deceased individuals. katie worked as a medium and conducted seances until, at the age of 56, she drank herself to death on july 2, 1892. leah had passed away the year before, november 1, 1891. maggie died ill and destitute on march 8, 1893, at the age of 59. whether the majority of americans acce

en entities that kept her from falling to the ground. at the age of 17 she married nicephore blavatsky, a russian official in caucasia, who was 40 years older than she. she separated from her husband after three months and spent over a year traveling in texas, mexico, canada, and india. all the time she was wandering, she was developing her mediumistic abilities, secure in the confidence that her phantom protector watched over her. twice she attempted to enter tibet, and on one occasion she managed to cross its frontier in disguise, but she lost her way and after various adventures was found by horsemen and escorted out of the country. blavatsky described the 10-year period between 1848 and 1858 as the veiled time in her life, refusing to divulge anything specific that happened to her duri

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was honest enough to t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d ghosts and phantoms 9 ghostbusters movie (the kobal collection) 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 10 ghosts and phantoms the hms eurydice, a 26-gun frigate that capsized and sank in sandown bay during a blizzard in 1878, is a famous phantom vessel that has been sighted by sailors over the years. on october 17, 1998, prince edward of england (1964) and the film crew for the television series crown and country saw the three-masted ship off the isle of wight and managed to capture its image on film. perhaps the most famous of all ghost ships is the flying dutchman, whose legend states that as punishment for his impiety and blasp

he scientific evidence. new york: prentice hall, 1954. tyrrell, g. n. m. apparitions. new york: collier books, 1963. autoscopy a phenomenon that may be closely related to the projection of the astral self in out-of-body experiences is that of the appearance of one s own double. goethe (1749 1832, a german poet, had the astonishing experience of meeting himself as he rode away from strassburg. the phantom wore a pike grey cloak with gold lace that goethe had never seen before. eight years later, as goethe was on the same road going to visit frederika, it occurred to him that he was dressed in precisely the same cloak that his phantom had been wearing on that earlier occasion. in 1929, an archbishop wrote to sir oliver lodge to tell him of a most peculiar incident which had occurred one even

al body (1929) and the case for astral projection (1936, muldoon offers a detailed record of many experiments he personally conducted, and provides a systematic method of inducing the conditions necessary for astral projection. according to muldoon, it is possible to leave the body at will and retain full consciousness in the astral self. muldoon was also cognizant of a silver cord connecting the phantom body and the physical body. this cord, said muldoon, is extremely elastic and permits a journey of considerable distance. muldoon claimed to have been able to move objects while in his astral self and to have gained information that he could not have acquired via any of the normal sensory channels. in his book far journeys (1987, robert monroe provides details of his gateway program, which

the brain is off-line? toronto star, january 15, 2002 [online] http//www.thestar.com/nasapp/cs/ contentserver?pagename=thestar/layout/ article_prin. monroe, robert a. far journeys. new york: doubleday, 1987. muldoon, sylvan, and hereward carrington. the phenomena of astral projection. london: rider& co, 1966. phantoms almost every city, town, or village in the world has a bit of folklore about a phantom dog with red eyes that guards the grave of a master long dead, a phantom nun who still walks the ruins of a convent that burned to t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 14 ghosts and phantoms russ tamblyn, clair bloom, and richard johnson in a scene from the 1963 movie the haunting (the kobal collection) the ground decades ago, a phantom

pression of the actual event in the psychic ether is a question that remains unsolved at the present stage of parapsychological research. paranormally restored battle scenes offer excellent examples of what seem to be phantoms caused by the collective emotions and memories of large groups of people. perhaps the most well-known, most extensively documented, and most substantially witnessed was the phantom battle of edge hill which was refought on several consecutive weekends during the christmas season of 1642. the actual battle was waged near the village of keinton, england, on october 23 between the royalist army of king charles and the parliamentary army under the earl of essex. it was on christmas eve that several countryfolk were awakened by the noises of violent battle. fearing that i

veral countryfolk were awakened by the noises of violent battle. fearing that it could only be another clash between soldiers that had come to desecrate the sanctity of the holy evening and the peace of their countryside, the villagers fled from their homes to confront two armies of phantoms. one side bore the king s colors; the other, parliament s banners. until three o clock in the morning, the phantom soldiers restaged the terrible fighting of two months before. the actual battle had resulted in defeat for king charles, and the monarch grew greatly disturbed when he heard that two armies of ghosts were determined to remind the populace that the parliamentary forces had triumphed at edge hill. the king suspected that certain parliamentary sympathizers had fabricated the tale to cause him

s of ghosts were determined to remind the populace that the parliamentary forces had triumphed at edge hill. the king suspected that certain parliamentary sympathizers had fabricated the tale to cause him embarrassment. the king sent three of his most trusted officers to squelch the matter. when the emissaries returned to court, they swore oaths that they themselves had witnessed the clash of the phantom armies. on two consecutive nights, they had watched the ghostly reconstruction and had even recognized several of their comrades who had fallen that day. 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 ghosts and phantoms 15 almostevery city, town, or village in the world has a bit of folklore about a phantom. on august 4, 1951, two young englishwo

ilipino marines, a few firewood cutters, and a caretaker and his family. and then there are the nonliving inhabitants. terrified wood cutters have returned to the base to tell of bleeding and wounded men who stumble about in the jungle. always, they describe the men as grim-faced and carrying rifles at the ready. marines on jungle maneuvers have reported coming face to face with silently stalking phantom scouts of that desperate laststand conflict of more than 60 years ago. many have claimed to have seen a beautiful red-headed woman moving silently among rows of ghostly wounded, ministering to their injuries. most often seen is the ghost of a nurse in a red cross uniform. soldiers on night duty who have spotted the phantom have reported that, shortly after she fades into the jungle moonlig

light, they find themselves surrounded by rows and rows of groaning and dying men in attitudes of extreme suffering. according to the caretaker and his family, the sounds that come with evening are the most disconcerting part of living on an island full of phantoms. every night the air is filled with horrible moans of pain and the sounds of invisible soldiers rallying to defend themselves against phantom invaders. veterans of the korean conflict returned with tales of a phantom town that came to life on cold, still nights. by day, kumsong, korea, was nothing but piles of battered rubble. the population had long since given up residence t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 16 ghosts and phantoms phantom attacker (fortean picture library)

she had personally witnessed a village fair in avebury in 1916, the guide offered olivier a sound and convincing rebuttal. even more astounding, perhaps, was the information she acquired concerning the megaliths. the particular avenue on which she had driven on that rainy night of her first visit had disappeared before 1800. edith olivier s experience begs the question: just how substantial is a phantom? can a scene from the past return and assume temporary physical reality once again? did olivier drive her automobile on an avenue that was no longer there, or did she drive on a solid surface that had once been there and had temporarily returned? according to those who have encountered them, a materialized phantom seems as solid as any human. modern science no longer regards solids as soli

came tumbling down the stairwell, followed by a number of pebbles. price busied himself for the next several days with interviewing the surviving daughters of henry bull, the builder of the rectory, and as many former servants as had remained in the village. the eldest of the three surviving daughters told of seeing the nun appear at a lawn party on a sunny july afternoon. she had approached the phantom and tried to engage it in conversation, but it had disappeared as she had drawn near to it. the sisters swore that the entire family had often seen the nun and that their brother had said that, when dead, he would attempt to manifest himself in the same way. it was their father, henry bull, who had bricked up the dining room window so that the family might eat in peace and not be disturbed

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rmed by materials still spinning since earth fs creation. based on the law of centrifugal force, gardner argued that earth was originally a spinning mass of matter. an outer layer of matter had hardened and continued to revolve around a central axis, while an inner layer also hardened and was warmed by heat continually generated by the earth fs spinning. that same year, william reed published the phantom of the poles (1906, in which he promoted the idea that a ship can pass from outer earth to inner earth. the effect of gravity pulls a ship against the interior in the same manner as it works on the exterior. he claimed that some sailors had already passed into inner earth without knowing it. gravity had pulled them to the interior side, where a 600 mile-long sun continued to keep them warm

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

s so exact, that the known demonstrates and reveals the unknown. to understand this science, is to see god. the author of this book, as he finishes his work, will think that he has demonstrated it. then, when you have seen god, the hierophant will say to you "turn round" and, in the shadow which you throw in the presence of this sun of intelligences, there will appear to you the devil, that black phantom which you see when your gaze is not fixed upon god, and when you think that your shadow fills the sky- for the vapours of the earth, the higher they go, seem to magnify it more and more. to harmonize in the category of religion science with revelation and reason with faith, to demonstrate in philosophy the absolute principles which reconcile all the antinomies, and finally to reveal the un

ling free upon the earth, dragged god with him in his fall. and therefore, from this sublime fall, he rises again glorious, with the great convict of calvary, and enters with him into the kingdom of heaven. for the kingdom of heaven belongs to intelligence and love, both children of liberty. god has shown liberty to man in the image of a lovely woman, and in order to test his courage, he made the phantom of death pass between her and him. man loved, and felt himself to be god; he gave for her what god had just bestowed upon him- eternal hope. he leapt towards his bride across the shadow of death. man possessed liberty; he had embraced life. expiate now thy glory, o prometheus! thy heart, ceaselessly devoured, cannot die; it is thy vulture, it is jupiter, who will die! one day we shall awak

d opened; it was the workman "master" said he, entering hastily, and with an alarmed air "how are you "very well" replied eliphas "but last night, at two o'clock in the morning, did you not run a great danger" eliphas did not grasp the allusion; he already no longer remembered the indisposition of the night. 160 "a danger" said he "no; none that i know of "have you not been assaulted by a monster phantom, who sought to strangle you? did it not hurt you" eliphas remembered "yes" said he "certainly, i had the beginning of a sort of apoplectic attack, and a horrible dream. but how do you know that "at the same time, an invisible hand struck me roughly on the shoulder, and awoke me suddenly. i dreamt then that i saw you fighting with astaroth. i jumped up, and a voice said in my ear 'arise and

gue and heart of the black cock, and let the whole be swallowed by a male lamb of nine days old" 176 the hand refuses to write the rest. it is a mixture of brutalizing practices and revolting crimes, so constituted as to kill for evermore judgment and conscience<yellow- o. m> but in order to communicate with the phantom of absolute evil, to realize that phantom to the point of seeing and touching it, is it not necessary to be without conscience and without judgment? there is doubtless the secret of this incredible perversity, of this murderous fury, of this unwholesome hate against all order, all ministry, all hierarchy, of this fury, above all, against the dogma which sanctifies peace, obedience, gentlen

at of a mother. this wretch thought himself sure not to die. the emperor, thought he, would be obliged to pardon him; an honourable exile awaited him; his crime would give him an enormous celebrity; his reveries would be bought for their weight in gold by the booksellers. he would become immensely rich, attract the notice of a great lady, and marry beyond the seas. it is by such promises that the phantom of the devil, long ago, lured gilles de laval, seigneur of retz, and made him wade from crime to crime. a man capable of evoking the devil, according to the rites of the "grimoire" of honorius, has gone so far upon the road of evil that he is disposed to all kinds of hallucinations, and all lies. so, verger slept in blood, to dream of i know not what abominable pantheon; and he awoke upon

versing a desert, saw coming toward them a band of spectres whose number was equal to that of the pilgrims, and which walked at the same pace. these spectres, at first without shape, and like larvae, took on as they approached all the appearance of the human body. soon they met the pilgrims, and mingled with them, gliding silently between their ranks. then the japanese saw themselves double, each phantom having become the perfect image and, as it were, the mirage of each pilgrim. the japanese were afraid, and prostrated themselves, and the bonze who was conducting them began to pray for them with great contortions and great cries. when the pilgrims rose up again, the phantoms had disappeared, and the troop of devotees was able to continue 230 its path in peace. this phenomenon, whose truth

absurd, equally terrible, even making the same grimaces. he could not believe his eyes; he remained nearly half an hour motionless, observing this singular phenomenon, and asking himself whether he was delirious or mad. ultimately, he approached the phantasm to touch it, and it vanished. cornelius gemma, in his "histore critique universelle" says that in the year 454, in the island of candia, the phantom of moses appeared to some jews on the sea-side; on his forehead he had luminous horns, in his hand was his blasting rod; and he invited them to follow him, showing them with his finger the horizon in the direction of the holy land. the news of this prodigy spread abroad, and the israelites rushed towards the shore in a mob. all saw, or pretended to see, the marvellous apparition: they were

om the world, that monster who devours souls, that frightful divinity of ignorance and fear- in a word, the devil- is still, for a great multitude of children of all ages, a frightful reality. in our "dogme et rituel de la haute magie" we represented him as the shadow of god, and in saying that, we still hid the half of our thought: god is light without shadow. the devil is only the shadow of the phantom of god! the phantom of god! that last idol of the earth; that anthropomorphic spectre which maliciously makes himself invisible; that finite personification of the infinite; that invisible whom one cannot see without dying- without dying at least to intelligence and to reason, since in order to see the invisible, one must be mad; the phantom of him who has no body; the confused form of him

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ore me- my body is a black temple, illuminated with crimson and violet brilliance. by my words carry my spirit! 21 the ensorcelment of ahriman- i summon ruha-az, crimson whore and vampire, i call the fiend vareno who is an angel of darkness, who causes intercourse i do summon thee! i invoke thee! in the darkness is your light. praise unto ahriman, horned lord of the kingdom of shades, specter and phantom, praise unto our kingdom of dead matter and flesh. praise unto ahriman, who created andar from the smoke of the blackened flame, who in averse brilliance was both phantom and dire foulness, praise unto ahriman, who joined in union with the whore-vampyre az, whose body is ruha and jeh, devour with your lips open wide, satisfy me in the dreamining flight, drop the blood of ecstasy from your

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e objectively divorced myself from all the popular frames of reference. i am not concerned with beliefs but with the cosmic mechanism "which has generated and perpetuated those beliefs. iii. there is an old house on a tree-lined street in new york's greenwich village which harbors a strange ghost. hans holzer and other ghost-chasers have included the house in their catalogs of haunted places. the phantom has been seen by several people in recent years. it is dressed hi, a long black cape and wears a wide-brimmed slouch hat pulled down over its eyes as it slinks from room to room. self-styled parapsychologists have woven all kinds of fantasies around this apparition. obviously a spy from the revolutionary war was caught and killed in the old house. but wait. this ghost may not be a member o

ce? readers of occult literature know there are innumerable cases of ghosts haunting a particular site year after year, century after century, carrying out the same mindless activities endlessly. build a house on such a site and the ghost will leave locked doors ajar as it marches through to carry out its programed activity. could these ghosts really be tulpas, residues of powerful minds like the phantom in the broad-brimmed hat? next, consider this. ufo activity is concentrated in the same areas year after year. in the ohio valley, they show a penchant for the ancient indian mounds which stand throughout the area. could some ufos be mere tulpas created by a long forgotten people and doomed forever to senseless maneuvers in the night skies? there are archaeological sites in the mississippi

"jerome clark and loren coleman "winged weirdies" fate, march 1972- his halo of light slowly faded out and he vanished "immediately afterward" mrs. walker continued "we heard a loud swoosh over the housetops across the street. it was like the white flash of a torpedo-shaped object "i may be nuts, but i saw it, whatever it was" howard phillips, another witness, declared. the next big year for our phantom fliers was 1961. residents along florida's tamiami trail began seeing what one woman described as "a big vulture. with a wingspread of about fifty-five feet. isn't that sorta unusual" in may 1961, a new york pilot was buzzed by "a damned big bird, bigger than an eagle. for a moment i doubted my sanity because it looked more like a pterodactyl out of the prehistoric past" the thing had swoo

ay from us we started hearing her wings flap. and it sounded, you know, like regular wings flapping. and she just started flying off and we watched her for quite a while. the total time when we first saw her and could almost define her until we lost sight of her and were unable to define her was between three or four minutes (3) vietnam had a big ufo wave in 1968-69, which included an epidemic of phantom helicopters. on several occasions the military forces on both sides fired at the objects without effect. pfc. morrison's account stands as one of the best close-up sightings of a winged entity. iii. a bright "star" appeared over the trees of sandling park, hythe, in kent, england, on the night of november 16, 1963, and so began one of the classics in ufology. four teen-agers were strolling

the porch" mrs. foster said "it was tall with big red eyes that popped out of its face. my husband is six feet one and this bird looked about the same height or a little shorter, maybe "it had a funny little face. i didn't see any beak. all i saw were those big red poppy eyes. i screamed and ran back into the house. my brother-in-law went out to look, but it was gone" the next morning the winged phantom pursued young connie carpenter near the mason, west virginia, golf course (chapter two. that evening, it encored in st. albans. sheila cain, thirteen, and her younger sister were walking home from the store when they saw an enormous "something" standing next to a local junk yard "it was gray and white with big red eyes" sheila reported "and it must have been seven feet tall taller than a i

nsation. a voice began to speak to him, announcing that it came from a spaceship somewhere overhead. he was becoming a contactee (a year later, woodrow derenberger was a guest on long john nebel's radio talk show in new york and i was one of the panelists. long john phoned dr. morgan on the air and he described his experiences in a beeper-phone conversation) while dr. morgan was tuning in to that phantom reality of the superspectrum, woody was entertaining more interesting visitors at mineral wells. a man identifying himself as captain bruce parsons of the nasa security police at cocoa beach, florida, called on him and invited him to cape kennedy, home of our space program. shortly after christmas, woody, his wife, and children flew to cape kennedy to spend a week with captain parsons. by

it. but a short distance away i came across some old friends. a type of footprint that has appeared at many ufo sites around the country. they look like the prints made by ripple-soled shoes but their spacing is always peculiar. they don't start anywhere and they don't lead anywhere. ripple soles had been in fashion in the early 1960s and then had faded out. i once owned a pair myself. but these phantom prints had a ridge around the edges. years later, when the first men walked on the moon, i realized the photos of the prints left by their moon-walking shoes were identical to the footprints i had seen over and over again in my travels. obviously, the martians and venusians buy their equipment from the same companies that supply our space program. vi. connie carpenter's sighting of mothman

d watch. but they would run the culprits down and recover the items, they promised. the next morning when jim stepped out his door to pick up his morning paper he was surprised to find his shoes, now neatly shined, sitting on the step with the laundered socks and the watch inside. the contactee lore is filled with silly episodes like this. the entities serve as good guys and bad guys alternately. phantom muggers can materialize out of the darkness and attack the contactee with baseball bats, only to be thwarted by the sudden arrival of the good guys who beat them up and cart off their carcasses and the baseball bats and any other evidence. many of our black-suited "silencers" are engaged in similar games. iv. jim hacket was lucky. he only lost his shoes. elsewhere throughout the ohio river

dstock, new york, in the catskill mountains during the same period. as in previous waves of animal mutilations and disappearances, authorities tried to blame witchcraft cults, cattle rustlers, and dognapers, who sell the poor animals to hospitals for experimental purposes. but the total absence of evidence of any kind seems to rule out these conventional explanations. europe has been plagued with phantom animal killers for generations. sweden had a plague of this sort of thing in 1972. the extensive vampire legends of middle europe were undoubtedly based on such incidents. vampires were cloaked beings, often accompanied by strange aerial lights, who could paralyze humans and animals in their tracks. as recently as twenty years ago there were a series of "vampire" killings in yugoslavia. fo

ves, momentarily convinced that our ufo had just been an airplane. however, the more i thought about the incident the more incredible it seemed. we should have been able to see the plane's silhouette clearly before it entered the cloud, and it should not have taken so long to pass through such a small cloud. something was definitely out of kilter. later, i began to study the mystery airplanes and phantom helicopters that have appeared all over the world, and several reports of ufos that seemingly turned into conventional airplane configurations surfaced. one of the most recent comes from canada where a group of out-doorsmen on the cowichan river in british columbia watched a low-flying object in october 1973 (1 "it didn't make a sound and it was something we had never seen before" one of t

other times they got calls that just consisted of strange beeping sounds and "electronic music" he also mentioned the big gray "flying boxcars" that often flew over the area at treetop level "it's a wonder they don't crash" he said "if they flew any lower they'd have to put their wheels down" when i examined the kitchen of the little house i found that the locked door through which the nocturnal phantom had supposedly exited led to nowhere. there were no steps outside, just a very steep drop of about ten feet to the ground. later i checked with the local police about rumors of disappearing dogs and cattle in the area, and i brought up mrs. bryant's name "that poor woman" i was told "she's always seeing things. just a couple of months back she came in here with some story about spacemen wa

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shaddai? the old serpent kur is, of course, invoked every day by the christians: kyrie eleison) common sumerian words and phrases in english sumerian english akhkharu vampire alal destroyer alla xul evil god barra! begone! dingir xul evil god edin na zu! go to the desert (a form of exorcism) gelal incubus gigim xul evil spirit gidim xul evil ghost idimmu demon idpa fever kashshaptu witch lalartu phantom lalssu spectre lilit succubus maskim xul evil fiend (ambusher, lier-in-wait) mulla xul evil devil rabishu (same as maskim xul) telal wicked demon (warrior) uggae god of death uruku larvae utuk xul evil spirit zi dingir anna kanpa! spirit, god of the sky, remember! zi dinger kia kanpa! spirit, god of the earth, remember! a word concerning the original manuscript the editor and the publisher

te, remember! the invocation of the four gates mer sidi! mer kurra! mer urulu! mer martu! zi dingir anna kanpa! zi dingir kia kanpa! utuk xul, ta ardata! kutulu, ta attalakla! azag-thoth, ta kalla! ia anu! ia enlil! ia nngi! zabao! here follows several particular invocations, for summoning various powers and spirits. there may be words of necromantic art, by which it is desirous to speak with the phantom of someone dead, and perhaps dwelling in absu, and thereby a servant of ereshkigal, in which case the preliminary invocation that follows is to be used, which is the invocation used by the queen of life, inanna, at the time of her descent into that kingdom of woe. it is no less then the opening of the gate of ganzir, that leads to the seven steps into the frightful pit. therefore, do not b

in dark waters and cuthalu sleeps and dreams stoop not down, therefore, for an abyss lies beneath the world reached by a descending ladder that hath seven steps reached by a descending pathway that hath seven gates and therein is established the throne of an evil and fatal force. for from the cavities of the world leaps forth the evil demon the evil god the evil genius the evil ensnarer the evil phantom the evil devil the evil larvae showing no true signs unto mortal man. and the dead will rise and smell the incense! the urilia text the following is the text of urilia, the book of the worm. it contains the formulae by which the wreakers of havoc perform their rites. these are the prayers of the ensnarers, the liers-in-wait, the blind fiends of chaos, the most ancient evil. these incantati

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

at there was an inherent evil in the culmination of the nuptial state; and out of it grew the preying vampirism of paul. ethis inherent evil supposed to lie latent in matter, as opposed to the bliss of spirit, crowley sets forth very forcibly in several of his poems. in gthe growth of god h we have most of the argument in the following lines: the shapeless, racked with agony, that grew into these phantom forms that change and shatter; the falling of the first toad-spotted dew; the first lewd heaving ecstasy of matter *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 178. the idea grows still more powerfully in the next verse: i see all nature claw and tear and bite, all hateful love and hideous: and the brood misshapen, misbegotten out of spite; lust after death; love in decrepitude. thus, till th

e, who has called the triad gschelling h; still less the latter, who, perceiving the antinomies of reason, dismisses alike the data and conclusions of all the sciences with an all-embracing scepticism, while he devotes life to the perfecting of an instrument by whose aid we may eventually be able to make a fresh start. in gpentecost, h crowley writes: you know for me the soul is nought save a new phantom in the thought, that thought itself impermanent, save as a casual element with such another may combine to form now water and now wine; the element itself may be changeless to all eternity, but compounds ever fluctuate with time or space or various state (ask chemists else) so i must claim spirit and matter are the same or else the prey of putrefaction *sword of song, pentecost, vol. ii, p

ind him schelling, who leaping into the clouds, grasped at object and subject as existing actualities, calling the bastard children of his brain manifestations of the absolute. then hegel who, instead of sitting out on the universal stairs with berkeley fs gbishop, h waltzed wildly with some ethereal absolute, which, whether object or subject, was in no case existence, merely the skeleton of some phantom appearance, having no life in itself, but solely in the absolute mirror of its reflection. each of these titans, in his own manner, threw fresh fuel on to the berkeleyan conflagration, so hoping that, by piling up the blazing mass, they might illumine the entire universe. and how they failed the last five decades have only too directly shown, by their stagnation in the realms of a certain

sh strength from day to day girds up my loins and beckons me on high. so i depart upon the desert way, so i strive ever toward the copper sky, with lips burnt black and blind in either eye. i move for ever to my mystic goal where i may drain a fountain never dry, and of life fs guerdon gather in the whole, and on celestial manna satisfy my soul *songs of the spirit, vol. i, p. 42. all the gunholy phantom faces h*1. of self, and of sin, will be lost, and all the misty distortions that crowd the brain*2. will fade and wither *1. songs of the spirit, vol. i, p. 50 *2. ibid. vol. i, p. 42. so shalt thou conquer space, and lastly climb the walls of time, and by the golden path the great have trod reach up to god *songs of the spirit, vol. i, p. 54. and then: cthere gleams from heaven the likene

as grounds of more or less justified expectation h c gon the other hand, no conceivable event however extraordinary is impossible. h *huxley fs hume, p. 157. thus all changeability is uncertainty, from the gods and the suns which we worship, to the kisses we shower on our loved ones f lips; as crowley sings: why must despair to madness drive the myriad fools that fear to die? god is but a fervid phantom drawn out of the hasty-ordered hive of thoughts that battle agony in the melancholy hours of dawn. when vital force at lowest ebbs anamic nerves weave frailest webs *gargoyles, vol. iii, p. 85. and the five senses stand naked and shivering in the freezing night of doubt, the fire is dead, and on the hearth crouch the spectral ashes no longer to flame in the starlight. foolish prostitute! y

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and the magus has relaxed. after any ritual the magus should strive to clear his or her thoughts of occult matters for the space of several hours. it is not the best idea to go directly to sleep after a ritual unless sleep is a specific part of the work- ing. bad dreams and hypnagogic images (visual hallucinations at the boundaries of sleep) are likely. indeed, these are almost certain to occur. phantom noises that may be quite loud, sudden breezes or chills upon the skin, disembodied shouting voices, distorted or demonic faces, touches, pricks, slaps, blows, sensations of cold or hot, and other psychic jetsam are common after a powerful ritual as the poten- cies invoked leak past the protective barriers the magus has erected. provided these protections are rightly made, the aftereffects

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bility to see it himself. durville wrote that the double resembled the medium out of whom it was drawn, varied in luminosity, and was united to the body of the medium by a little cord. he asserted that it could see through distant opaque bodies, and most surprisingly, that it caused a calcium sulfide screen to glow when it approached the screen "the sensory organs of the medium were seated in the phantom. at close approach it produced a sensation of cold, was humid to the touch and made the fingers luminous in the dark."74 this material appears in durville's book les fantdmes des vivants, and was referred to with great interest by hereward carringt n. durville concluded that astral projection proved, beyond a doubt, not only the existence of the human soul, but also the survival of the sou

5. muldoon and carrington, projection of the astral body, 31-2. 68 soul flight 1. projection of the astral body is a certain fact, capable of being demonstrated by means of direct experiment. this also demonstrates to us that the living force is independent of matter, and that our individuality is composed of a physical body and an intelligent soul-and a vital link, the astral body. 2. since this phantom can exist and function apart from the physical body, it may also exist after death. that is, immortality is a fact which is thus proved cientifically. reality of the astral body was equated by spiritualists with tangibility. it does not seem to have occurred to the experimenters that a thing might appear tangible to the senses, yet not be physically present in space. they were obsessed wit

e or trance state conducive to remote viewing "we were taught to go into a place we called 'sanctuary. it was a place where you would go to gather your bearings, to acclimate yourself. each individual viewer created his own sanctuary. for some viewers it was some sort of a garden, or a safe house, or a safe place."166 morehouse explained that he would project into his sanctuary an apparitional or phantom self, a double of his normal physical form that was transparent. once safely within the sanctuary in his transparent astral double, morehouse would begin what was termed "descent into the target area" his own sanctuary consisted of a cube in space surrounded on all six sides by stars. when he was ready to begin, a swirling vortex would form in the floor of this transparent box in space. mo

can society for psychical research titled "the consciousness of lost limbs" that those who suffer an amputation sometimes assert that they can feel what is being done to the severed appendage' it was a common superstition that when the severed limb suffered injury, its former owner would experience pain. this belief was perhaps encouraged by the pain that is often felt by amputees in a so-called "phantom limb"-a limb that is missing but that hurts as though it were still attached to the body. this close association between physical limbs and astral limbs suggests why such a simple posture as crossed legs may have a profound effect on the ability of the astral body to separate. it is worth noting that in medieval times, crossing the legs was reputed to be a way to prevent oneself from being

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ped and strengthened by means of sexual magic. sometimes this embryo believes that it is the whole and forgets about its origin. when this happens, we totally fail. immortality the human being should reach immortality, but does not have it yet. only those who have incarnated their soul are immortal. the mind it is stated that humans have one mind; yet we state that each human has many minds. each phantom from the pluralized i has its own mind and even has self-independence. the man is a dormant machine operated by the legion of i s. we need to generate the christ-mind. arcano xiii el estudio de hoy ser el arcano trece del tarot. este es el arcano de la muerte. realmente la muerte es el regreso a la matriz. la vida y la muerte son dos fen menos de una misma cosa. la muerte es una resta de n

hot and melts itself. when arriving at this stage of the work, the venerable matter has converted itself into a very gorgeous child glowing with beauty. this is the soma puchicon, the body of gold; with this precious vehicle, we may be able to consciously visit all the departments of the kingdom. then, by giving new properties to this alchemical alloy, the astral-christ appears within the astral phantom. this is a very precious child who grants us immortality. after this second body has been formed, the problem of integrally understanding all the powers and acquired knowledge arises. this is only possible when the christic intelligence is given to this alchemical alloy. thus, the precious vehicle of the christ-mind happily rises from within the retort of the laboratory. it emerges from wi

a very precious child who grants us immortality. after this second body has been formed, the problem of integrally understanding all the powers and acquired knowledge arises. this is only possible when the christic intelligence is given to this alchemical alloy. thus, the precious vehicle of the christ-mind happily rises from within the retort of the laboratory. it emerges from within the mental phantom. un cuerpo hermafrodita (luna y sol) viene a la vida con la influencia celestial del roc o (el ens seminis. el cuerpo hermafrodita son los veh culos internos cr sticos que fueron engendrados con la magia sexual. todos estos veh culos cr sticos se penetran y se compenetran sin confundirse. cuando un hombre posee estos veh culos, encarna su alma. ning n hombre es verdaderamente hombre, mient

eings can appear and disappear instantaneously. they can make themselves visible in the physical world. cagliostro, st. germain, quetzalcoatl and many other immortal masters have performed great works in the world. the super-man first, we must become complete men, later on, after resurrection we in fact elevate ourselves to the kingdom of the super-man. the actual man is nothing more than a human phantom. elixir de larga vida todo hombre que encarna el alma puede pedir el elixir de larga vida. este es un gas de inmaculada blancura. dicho gas es depositado en el fondo vital del organismo humano. resurrecci n al tercer d a el iniciado en cuerpo astral viene ante su santo sepulcro, acompa ado por las jerarqu as divinas. el iniciado invoca a su cuerpo y ste con ayuda de las divinas jerarqu as

te the creative energy, we initiate a new octave in the ethereal world, which outcome is the birth of the soma- puchicon (the soul s wedding gown. with this vehicle, we may be able to consciously penetrate into all the departments of the kingdom. the third octave permits us to generate the true astral body, the astral christ [the christic astral body. when we reach this level, the old astral, the phantom, is reduced to an empty shell, which will disintegrate, little by little. the fourth octave permits us to engender the christ mind. this vehicle gives us the true wisdom and unity of thought. only the one who generates the christ mind has the right to say "i have a mental body. the actual mental body is only a phantom-shaped body. in reality, this phantom converts itself into an empty shel

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

lien tied-in with the men in black) visited jane (a contactee) and refused to talk about anything but eggs. she took some eggs from jane's refrigerator and sucked out the contents like a reptile! jane was perplexed by this exhibition and called me soon afterward" and on pp. 176-177 of signet's 1975 paperback edition of 'mothmen, in reference to this same 'contactee' keel states..meanwhile, jane's phantom friends were visiting her daily and helpfully giving her surprising information about my own 'secret' investigations. my interview with the christiansens of cape may, and the details of their pill-popping visitor, tiny, was then known only to a few trusted people like ivan sanderson. but on june 12, mr. apol and his friends (the being that called itself 'lia, referred to above, apparently

3 8 INITIATION CEREMONY

ore, first the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral water of the loud resounding sea. labor thou around the strophaios of hecate, when thou shalt see a terrestrial demon approaching cry aloud, and sacrifice the stone mnizourin. change not the barbarous names of evocation for they are names divine having in the sacred rites a power ineffable. and when after all the phantoms are banished thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe hear thou the voice of fire. hereunto is the speech of the kabiri. heg: turns up lights and then conducts candidate to foot of hierophant's throne, and hands theoricus the solid triangular pyramid. hiero: the solid triangular pyramid is an appropriate hierog

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

nd rubbed on the gums to help painless teething. it is good for all children's fears and against threat to their person or self-esteem. it is also protective for adolescent girls, pregnant women and new mothers, and invokes kindness and gentleness in others. garner usually a deep, clear red, garnets are the ultimate protective stone. eastern european peoples used the garnet against illness, night phantoms and all forms of manifest evil, including the mythical vampire. in medieval times, garnets were engraved with a lion's head for health and safe travel; however, being a brittle stone, this was not easy and the few that did not shatter were highly prized. it is still regarded as a stone to be carried by travellers, especially for protection against attack. like the emerald, it will change

lice. it is effective in tackling gossip, backbiting and spite in a firm but creative way, and is perhaps best of all for creating a sparkling shield of protection. topaz topaz is the sanskrit word for 'fire. topaz increases power as the moon waxes, being at its greatest potency at the time of the full moon. perhaps because of this, topaz was said to be proof against nightmares, night terrors and phantoms and malice of the night as well as violent emotions. water in which a topaz has been soaked is a cure for insomnia if drunk an hour before bedtime. a natural energiser, golden topaz is especially good for alleviating work anxieties, especially in the caring professions, and should be kept in the workplace. turquoise mined by the egyptians in sinai more than 6,000 years ago, turquoise and

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

y that this has certain qualities, shape, structure, colour, solidity, weight, taste, smell, consistency and the rest; but investigation has shown that this is all illusory. where are these qualities? not in the cheese, for different observers give quite different accounts of it. not in ourselves, for we do not perceive them in the absence of the cheese. all 'material things' all impressions, are phantoms. in reality the cheese is nothing but a series of electric charges. even the most fundamental quality of all, mass, has been found not to exist. the same is true of the matter in our brains which is partly responsible for these perceptions. what then are these qualities of which we are all so sure? they would not exist without our brains; they would not exist without the cheese. they are

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

l under the same fatal error. wine is the ripe gladness which accompanies valor and rewards toil; it is the plume on a man's lancehead, a fluttering gallantry--not good to lean upon. therefore her eyes are glassed with horror as she gazes uncomprehending upon her fate. that which she did all to avoid confronts her: she does not realize that, had she faced it, it would have fled with all the other phantoms. for the sole reality of this universe is god. the old absinthe house is not a place. it is not bounded by four walls. it is headquarters to an army of philosophies. from this dim corner let me range, wafting thought through every air, salient against every problem of mankind: for it will always return like noah's dove to this ark, this strange little sanctuary of the green goddess which

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

one, give strength to my arms! may gibil, the lord of fire, give power to my magick! injustice, murder, freezing of the loins, rending of the bowels, devouring of the flesh, and madness in all ways hast thou persecuted me! mad god of chaos! may girra free me! azag-thoth ta ardata! ia marduk! ia marduk! ia asalluxi! you have chosen me for a corpse. you have delivered me to the skull. you have sent phantoms to haunt me. you have send vampires to haunt me. to the wandering ghosts of the wastes, have you delivered me. to the phantoms of the fallen ruins, have you delivered me. to the deserts, the wastes, the forbidden lands, you have handed me over. open thy mouth in sorceries against me no more! i have handed thine image over into the flames of gibil! burn, mad fiend! boil, mad god! may the b

ALEISTER CROWLEY CONCERNING DEATH

p thyself! lift thine head! breath not so deep- die! or art thou still entangled with the thorny plaits of wild briar rose that thou hast woven in thy magick dance on earth? are not thine eyes strong enough to bear the starlight? must thou linger yet awhile in the valley? must thou dally with the shadows in the dusk? then, if it be thy will, thou hast no right but to do thy will! love still these phantoms of the earth; thou has made thyself a king; if it please thee to play with toys of matter, were they not made to serve thy pleasure? then follow in thy mind the wondrous word of the stele of revealing itself. return if thou wilt from the abode of the stars: dwell with mortality, and feast thereon. for thou art this day made lord of heaven and of earth. the dead man ankh-f-na-khonsu saith

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site, banshees 21 digestive system incubi, nightmares 22 liver fairies, harpies 23 organs of nutrition nymphs and undines, nereids &c. 24 intestines lami, stryges, witches 25 hips and thighs centaurs 26 genital system satyrs and fauns, panic-demons 27 muscular system furies, chim ras, boars (as in calydon &c. 28 kidneys, bladder &c. water nymphs, sirens, lorelei, mermaids (cf. f) 29 legs and feet phantoms, were-wolves 30 circulatory system will o the wisp 31 organs of circulation salamanders 32 excretory system ghuls, larv, corpse candles 32 bis excretory organs, skeleton the dweller of the threshold, gnomes 31 bis organs of intelligence [socratic genius] editorial note: the atus of thoth liber al, cap. i, v. 57 includes the statement: all these old letters of my book are aright: but x is

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

people as happen to be sensitive. it is much surer to use one's mind and muscle in service of that hate by devising and making a dagger, and then applying the dagger to the heart of one's enemy. one must give one's hate a bodily form of the same order as that which one's enemy has taken for his manifestation. your spirit can only come into contact with his by means of this magical manufacture of phantoms; in the same way, one can only measure one's mind (a certain part of it) against another man's by expressing them in some such form as the game of chess. one cannot use chessmen against another man unless he agree to use them in the same sense as you do. the board and men form the magical link by which you can prove your power to constrain him to yield. the game is a device by which you f

trical force, and the right kind of clouds to contain it. he must see that the force does not leak away to earth quietly and slyly. he must arrange a stress so severe as to become at last so intolerable that it will disrupt explosively. now he, as a man, cannot pray to god to cause them, for the gods are but names for the forces of nature themselves. but "as a mystic, he knows that all things are phantoms of one thing, and that they may be withdrawn therein to reissue in other attire. he knows that all things are in himself, and that he is all-one with the all. there is therefore no theoretical difficulty about converting the illusion of a clear sky into that of a tempest. on the other hand, he is aware "as a magician, that illusions are governed by the laws of their nature. he knows that

weather is like. i might do so, or i might not: but if i could not, it would not prove that i was deceiving myself in supposing that i had passed through the roof. this body, which is called by various authors the astral double, body of light, body of fire, body of desire, fine body, scin-laeca and numberless other names is naturally fitted to perceive objects of its own class. in particular, the phantoms of the astral plane. 144 there is some sort of vague and indeterminate relation between the astrals and the materials; and it is possible, with great experience, to deduce facts about material things from the astral aspect which they present to the eyes of the body of light<planes; as in the case of an anglo-indian's liv

ome torpid dullness, some ignorant instinct, or some furtive fear shapen in his own savage mind. man is indeed not wholly freed, even now. he is still trampled under the hoofs of the stampeding mules that nightmare bore to his wild ass, his creative forces that he had not mastered, the sterile ghosts that he called gods. their mystery cows men still; they fear, they flinch, they dare not face the phantoms. still, too, the fallen fetich seems awful; it is frightful to them that there is no longer an idol to adore with anthems, and to appease with the flesh of their firstborn. each scrambles in the bloody mire of the floor to snatch some scrap for a relic, that he may bow down to it and serve it. so, even to-day, a mass of maggots swarm heaving over the carrion earth, a brotherhood bound by

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live in london and reflect upon the fact that of its seven million souls, all but about a thousand plymouth brethren will be damned? yet the thousand plymouth brethren (who are the loudest in proclaiming that they will be the only ones saved) seem to 119 get on very well, thank you. whether they are hypocrites or morally insane is a matter which we can leave to their own consideration. all these phantoms, of whatever nature, must be evoked, examined, and mastered; otherwise we may find that just when we want it there is some idea with which we have never dealt; and perhaps that idea, springing on us by surprise, and as it were from behind, may strangle us. this is the legend of the sorcerer strangled by the devil! 120 glossary only words nowhere explained in the preceding pages are given

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

i cannot give up the hope which thrilled me at the voice. but so keen, so desolate, so deadly, is the pain of my spirit that blank darkness overwhelms me altogether. umbra. within the vision is a dream- i struggle in my sleep in a morass of blood and mud. howlings more bestial than hell's: stench at whose touch, solid as putrid flesh itself, i retch with the pangs of death; most frantic madness: phantoms of crime, icecold, ghosts made of murder- the nightmare seems interminable- no, it exhausts itself, sick with its own foulness, and sinks into a stolid stupor. phantasma. i waken from the horror. every nerve is numb, every muscle frozen, every bone one ache, my blood throbbing with poison. but the shambles is now dimly to be seen. what? can the voice have spoken truth after all? is then t

the fascination. i understand that he- whoever, whatever he may be- is he for whom we all so long had waited. as i fix my eyes upon it, i become aware that its blackness against the light of the star is only relative; and as i gain confidence in my sight, that darkness goes. the figure is a prism of pure crystal- it is the distortion and interference with the light it transmits which caused those phantoms of terror to dance their witches' sabbath on the moving miasma. and now i am drawn swiftly up by some invisible force; sucked by some vortex towards the hill and now i face him as he stands above me. homo his head is slightly bowed as if he brooded some delight. he wears a helm of ruddy gold, radiant with the light of the star. in the midst of his brows is a black diamond in a circlet of

s of time and space, and the idea of evil comes only from perceiving the oppositions which are transcended by truth. so each thing that is the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 14 hath its root in necessity; were the least of these lost, the whole work should be marred. life wells in the heart of the master; death is but the systole of that marvelous pulse. faint are the phantoms of illusion; these, seized on by that vivid stream, thrill and throb with the glow of his reality; he leaves no possible form inane or inert; in him do all partake the sacrament of birth to truth. liberty leaps in the heart of the master; for every man and every woman is a star. each follows, free and joyful, its own will; for every will alike has its essential function in the rhythm of t

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

elements, earth and water, is transmuted into the substance of the body of god, that makes the wise man dread lest so sublime a sacrament suffer profanation. it is this that has caused him, in half-instinctive, half-iontellectual half-comprehension of the nature of the truth, which has driven him to fence the act about with taboos. but a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. his fear has created phantoms, and his malobservation suggested precautions scarce worthy to be called empirical. we see him combat analogous difficulties in a precisely similar manner. history shows us the physician defending mankind against plague, with exorcisms on the one hand and useless herbs on the other. a charred stake is driven through the heart of a vampire, and his victim is protected with garlic. the stre

e new comment this verse brings out what is a fact in psychology, the necessary connection between fear, sorrow, and failure. to will and to dare are closely linked powers of the sphinx, and they are based on- to know. if one have a right apprehension of the universe, if he know himself free, immortal, boundless, infinite force and fire, then may he will and dare. fear, sorrow and failure are but phantoms. al ii,47 "where i am these are not" the old comment 47. hadit knows nothing of these things; he is pure ecstasy. the new comment hadit is everywhere; fear, sorrow, and failure are only 'shadows. it is for this reason that compassion is absurd. it may be objected that "shadows" exist after all; the "pink rats" of an alcoholic are not to be exorcised by 'christian science" methods. very tr

now to him "as silver" he sees it pure, white and shining, the mirror of his own being that this ordeal has purged of its complexes. to reach this sphere he has had to pass through a path of darkness where the four elements seem to him to be the universe entire. for how should he know that they are no more that the last of the 22 segments of the snake that is twined on the tree? assailed by gross phantoms of matter, unreal and unintelligible, his ordeal is of terror and darkness. he may pass only by favour of his own silent god, extended and exalted within him by virtue of his conscious act in affronting the ordeal. al iii,65 "through the second, gold" the new comment the next sphere reached by the aspirant is named beauty, numbered 6, and referred to the heart, to the sun, and to gold. he

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

st. luke s gospel, and when he was yet afar off, his father saw him and ran. had it not been so, the weary prodigal, exhausted by his early debauches (astral visions and magic) and his later mental toil (yoga) would never have had the strength to reach the house of his father. one little point st. luke unaccountable omitted. when a man is as hungry and weary as was the prodigal, he is apt to see phantoms. he is apt to clasp shadows to him, and cry: father! and, the devil being subtle, capable of disguising himself as an angel of light, it behoves the prodigal to have some test of truth. some great mystics have laid down the law, accept no messenger of god, banish all, until at last the father himself comes forth. a counsel of perfection. the father himself does send messengers, as we lear

lindness stone the son himself when he is sent. so that is no vain counsel of st. john (1 john iv. 1, try the spirits, whether they be of god, no mistake when st. paul claims the discernment of spirits to be a principal point of the armour of salvation (1 cor. xii. 10. now how should frater p. or another test the truth of any message purporting to come from the most high? on the astral plane, its phantoms are easily governed by the pentagram, the elemental weapons, the robes, the god-forms, and such childish toys. we set phantoms to chase phantoms. we make our scin-laeca1 pure and hard and glittering, all glorious within, like the veritable daughter of the king; yet she is but the king s daughter, the nephesch adorned: she is not the king himself, the holy ruach or mind of man. as as we ha

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the glittering hemisphere. arise, o sun, arise! o moon, shine white and clear! i seek them in their dread abodes without affright: on them will i impose my will, the law of light. their faces and their shapes are terrible and strange. these devils by my might to angels i will change. these nameless horrors i address without affright: on them will i impose my will, the law of light. these are the phantoms pale of mine astonied view, yet none but i their blasted beauty can renew; for to the abyss of hell i plunge without affright: on them will i impose my will, the law of light. 109 the soldier and the hunchback! and? 111 the soldier and the hunchback! and "expect seven misfortunes from the cripple, and forty-two from the one-eyed man; but when the hunchback comes, say 'allah our aid" arab

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of st luke's gospel "and when he was yet afar off, his father saw him and ran" had it not been so, the weary prodigal, exhausted by his early debauches (astral visions and magic) and his later mental toil (yoga) would never have had the strength to reach the house of his father. one little point st luke unaccountably omitted. when a man is as hungry and weary as was the prodigal, he is apt to see phantoms. he is apt to clasp shadows to him and cry "father" and, the devil being subtle, capable of disguising himself as an angel of light, it behoves the prodigal to have some test of truth. 69 some great mystics have laid down the law "accept no messenger of god" banish all, until at last the father himself comes forth. a counsel of perfection. the father does send messengers, as we learn in s

indness stone the son himself when he is sent. so that is no vain counsel of "st john (1 john iv. 1 "try the spirits, whether they be of god" no mistake when "st paul" claims the discernment of spirits to be a principal point of the armour of salvation (1 cor. xii. 10. now how should frater p. or another test the truth of any message purporting to come from the most high? on the astral plane, its phantoms are easily governed by the pentagram, the elemental weapons, the robes, the god- forms, and such childish toys. we set phantoms to chase phantoms. we make our scin-laeca pure and hard and glittering, all glorious within, like the veritable daughter of the king; yet she is but the king's daughter, the nephesch adorned: she is not the king himself, the holy ruach or mind of man. and as we h

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entifically worked with pencil, note-book, and stop-watch. the yogi is usually in practice just as vague a dreamer as the mystic. they keep one always balanced by common sense. one might go off on lines of pleasing illusion for years, until one was lost on the "astral plane. all this, observe, is very meaningless, very vague at the best. what is the astral plane? is there such a thing? how do its phantoms differ from those of absinthe, reverie, and love, and so on? we may admit their unsubstantiality without denying their power; the phantoms of absinthe and love are potent enough to drive a man to death or marriage; while reverie may end in anti- vivisectionism or nut-food-madness. on the whole, i prefer to explain the many terrible catastrophes i have seen caused by magic misunderstood by

understand what he reads. he will, despite of all, do a little pranayama, and then sleep, ever willing adonai. for pranayama with its intense physical strain is a great medicine for the mind. even as the long trail of the desert and the life with the winds and the stars, 111 the daily march and its strife with heat, thirst, fatigue, cure all the ills of the soul, so does pranayama clear away the phantoms that mayan, dread maker of illusion, hath cumbered it withal. 1.13. 10 breath-cycles; calm, perfect, without the least effort; enough to go to sleep upon. he will read through the ritual once, and then sleep.(the pranayama precipitated a short attack of diarrhoea, started by the chill of the ceremony. 6.23. he slept from 1.45 (approximately) till now. the morn is cold and damp; rain has f

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stly raise your eyes upwards- zoroaster "nama-rupa- purely material, and therefore shadowy and meaningless, are the innumerable shapes which haunt the mind of man. in one sense we must here include all purely sensory phenomena, and the images which memory presents to the mind which is endeavoring to concentrate itself upon a single thought. in other systems of mysticism we must include all astral phantoms, divine or demoniac, which are merely seen or heard without further reflection upon them. to obtain these it is sufficient to perform the following experiment: 60 sit down comfortably; it is perhaps best to begin in the dark. imagine as strongly as possible your own figure standing in front of you. transfer your consciousness to that figure, so that you look down upon your physical body i

lty) feeling perfectly at home in your imagined body, let that body rise through the air to a great height. stop. look around you. probably the eyes of your "astral" body will be closed. it is sometimes difficult to open them. you will then perceive all sorts of forms, varying as you travel about. their nature will depend almost entirely on your power of control. some people may even perceive the phantoms of delirium and madness, and truly go mad from fear and horror. let the "astral" body return and sit down, coinciding with the physical body. closely unite the two: the experiment is over. practice makes perfect. this practice is delusive and even dangerous; it is best to precede and follow it by a carefully performed "lesser ritual of the pentagram<
e of us who know what triple silver cord of moonlight binds the red blood of our heart to the ineffable crown of brilliance, who have seen what angel stands in the moon-ray, who have known the perfume and the vision, seen the drops of dew supernal stand on the silver lamen of the forehead- for us is neither fear nor pride, but silence in the one thought of the one beyond all thought. the world of phantoms has no terror left; we can take the blood of the black dragon for our red tincture. we understand the precept "visita interiora terrae rectificando invenias occultum lapidem; and harnessing to our triumphal car the white eagle and the green lion we voyage at 63 our ease upon the path of the chameleon, by the towers of iron and the fountains of supernal dew, unto that black unutterable sea

ation of the elements will usually be a definite single act of catastrophic energy. this act, too, does not take place in time or space as we know them. i think that for the first time of experiencing a dhyana it is necessarily single. certain mystical methods may teach us to retain the image; but the criterion of true dhyana is the singleness, so totally opposed as it is to the vague and varying phantoms of the "astral plane" the new consciousness resulting from the combination is, too, always a simple one. even where it is infinitely complex, as in atmadarshana or the vision of the universal 65 peacock, its oneness is the truer of these two contradictory truths. so for the matter of time and space. all time is filled; all space is filled; the phenomenon is infinite and eternal. this is t

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this abnormal condition of the spirit as a true "grace" as a magic mirror wherein man is invited to see himself at his best; that is to say, as that which he should be, and might be; a kind of angelic excitement; a rehabilitation of the most flattering type. a certain spiritualist school, largely represented in england and america, even considers supernatural phenomena, such as the apparition of phantoms, ghosts &c, as manifestations of the divine will, ever anxious to awaken in the spirit of man the memory of invisible truths. besides this charming and singular state, where all the forces are balanced; where the imagination, though enormously powerful, does not drag after it into perilous adventures the moral sense; when an exquisite sensibility is no longer tortured by sick nerves, thos

may suppose, however, that from one time to another some biting memory strikes through and corrupts this happiness. a suggestion due to the exterior world may revive a past disagreeable to contemplate. how many foolish or vile actions fill the past_ actions indeed unworthy of this king of thought, and whose escutcheon they soil? believe that the hashish-man will bravely confront these reproachful phantoms, and even that he will know how to draw from these hideous memories new elements of pleasure and of pride! such will be the evolution of his reasoning. the first sensation of pain being over, he will curiously analyse this action or this sentiment whose memory has troubled his existing glory; the motive which made him act thus; the circumstances by which he was surrounded; and if he does

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e not, i (quod he "or wake or sleep, or live or dead, i will pursue this mystery. so help me grace of godlihead" ay! with thy wasted limbs pursue that subtle beast home to his den! who know but thou mayst win athrough, sir palamede the saracen? 80 xxxi from god's sweet air sir palamede hath come unto a demon bog, a city where but rats may breed in sewer-stench and fetid fog. within its heart pale phantoms crawl. breathless with foolish haste they jog and jostle, all for naught! they scrawl vain things all night that they disown ere day. they call and bawl and squall hoarse cries; they moan, they groan. a stone hath better sense! and these among a cabbage-headed god they own, with wandering eye and jabbering tongue. he, rotting in that grimy sewer and charnel-house of death and dung, shriek

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nobler name whose life is strife, whose soul is fame! i rather will exalt the soul of man to loftier height, and kindle at a livelier coal the subtler soul of light. from these soft splendours of a dream i turn, and seek the self supreme. this world is shadow-shapen of the bitterness of pain. vain are the little lamps of love! the light of life is vain! life, death, joy, sorrow, age and youth are phantoms of a further truth. beyond the splendour of the world, false glittering of the gold, a serpent is in slumber curled in wisdom's sacred cold. life is the flaming of that flame. death is the naming of that name, the forehead of the snake is bright with one immortal star, lighting her coils with living light to where the nenuphar sleeps for her couch. all darkness dreams the thing that is no

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ne, the distinction of past and future must be illusory "the last of the doctrines of mysticism which we have to consider is its belief that all evil is mere appearance, an illusion produced by the divisions and oppositions of the analytic intellect. mysticism does not maintain that such things as cruelty, for example, are good, but it denies that they are real: they belong to that lower world of phantoms from which we are to be liberated by the insight of the vision."1(36) but the mystical way is a preparation for the way of knowledge and where the mystic stops in adoration of the vision and in yearning after the beloved, the seeker after true knowledge takes up the task and carries the work forward. dr. bennett of yale says, at the close of his book on mysticism "the mystic at the end of

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

elf has received. are not intellectual riches and spiritual treasure aspects of wealth that should claim our efforts? they may be shared with all, and he who gives away all he has, finds himself richer than he was before. the urge to acquire material goods may some day be transmuted into the desire to amass knowledge and the will to acquire the jewels of the spirit. 4. fear. in countless ways the phantoms of fear torment the sons of men. these illusory shapes perplex and frighten them, acting as shackles on their feet and a millstone around their necks. many people cower cravenly when haunted by the harrowing fears of ridicule, failure, the unknown, old age, chance and death. can these fears be eliminated? the experience of hercules suggests that they can be overcome by raising consciousne

BEHOLDERS OF NIGHT

my death mask, the temple of azothoz as a current of the living flame. i shall bless each one of you with the devil s sight, the serpents tongue shall speak of the secret alphabet which ye all shall scribe on the walls of the sunless palace, scribe your name in the black book of the dead, with the witchblood of your veins, you are all my children, of lilith-hecate, your father is ahriman, lord of phantoms and darkness. lilith in nox umbra by michael ford the dragon itself holds a significant role within the darker and self-liberating aspects of the sabbatic path, being specifically a evocation of latent forms from which we become. considering the dragon itself is a model or form of the adversary, the symbolism of the red and black dragon are present. the red dragon itself is shaitan or sam

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e reborn themselves as mortals for their neglect of duty- stanza iv (continued) 15. seven times seven shadows (chhayas) of future men (or amanasas (a) were (thus) born, each of his own colour (complexion) and kind (b. each (also) inferior to his father (creator. the fathers, the boneless, could give no life to beings with[[vol. 2, page] 91 seven classes of pitris. bones. their progeny were bhuta (phantoms) with neither form nor mind, therefore they were called the chhaya (image or shadow) race (c (a) manu, as already remarked, comes from the root "man" to think, hence "a thinker" it is from this sanskrit word very likely that sprung the latin "mens" mind, the egyptian "menes" the "master-mind" the pythagorean monas, or conscious "thinking unit" mind also, and even our "manas" or mind, the

explains the mystery of, and fills the gap between, the informing principle in man- the[[footnote(s* it is not clear why "bhutas" should be rendered by the orientalists as meaning "evil spirits" in the puranas. in the vishnu purana, book i, ch. 5, the sloka simply says "bhutas- fiends, frightful from being monkey-coloured and carnivorous; and the word in india now means ghosts, ethereal or astral phantoms, while in esoteric teaching it means elementary substances, something made of attenuated, noncompound essence, and, specifically, the astral double of any man or animal. in this case these primitive men are the doubles of the first ethereal dhyanis or pitris[[vol. 2, page] 103 the divine rebels. higher self or human monad- and the animal monad, both one and the same, although the former i

ates had already greatly degenerated in his day (700 b.c, meant the sorcerers of those lands* but these must be carefully distinguished from the "fiery dragons of wisdom" and the "sons of the fire mist" in the "great book of the mysteries" we are told that "seven lords created seven men; three lords (dhyan chohans or pitris) were holy and good, four less heavenly and full of passion. the chhayas (phantoms) of the fathers were as they" this accounts for the differences in human nature, which is divided into seven gradations of good and evil. there were seven tabernacles ready to be inhabited by monads under seven different karmic conditions. the commentaries explain on this basis the easy spread of evil, as soon as the human forms had become real men. some ancient[[footnote(s "genesis" ch

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ive spheres- those lines "enclosing a mathematical space- which is equal to nothing enclosing nothing" because, to the senses and the untrained consciousness of profane and scientist, everything beyond the line of differentiated matter- i.e, outside of, and beyond the realm of even the most spiritual substance- has to remain for ever equal to nothing. it is the ain-soph- the no- thing. yet these "phantoms of the mind" are in truth no greater abstractions than the abstract ideas in general upon evolution and physical development- e.g, gravity, matter, force, etc- on which the exact sciences are based. our most eminent chemists and physicists are earnestly pursuing the not hopeless attempt of finally tracing to its hiding-place the protyle, or the basic line of the pythagorean triangle. the

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violet.s baby is only tolerable because violet is mrs. malone. shaw has not the strength of character to avow (even in a fictitious work) that a woman can assert what is evidently her first right without undergoing phantastic penalties, although there are to-day thousands of women in every country who have told morality to go to its father, the devil, as shaw so bombastically tells it to do. the phantoms which confront the free man are really just hollow turnips in churchyards. take poor ambrose, for example. he occupies one of the most important positions in new york city. he lives his own life for 15 years or so. nobody is offended. nobody is injured. nothing whatever happens. a pleasant time is had by all. then, suddenly some one discovers this appalling state of circumstances, and the

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no faces peered from out their cowls; no footprints on the ground. chorus. a flash of golden sickled blades not held by human hand. in ritual conclave, magick rites long practiced by the band. chorus, 4. from whence they came no one can say; they suddenly were there. with chanting low and steady tread they moved in censered air. chorus. then, as a thousand time before upon this hallowed site, the phantoms slowly fade away; returning to the night. night of magick 7. chorus. 248/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft music traditional we are witches all words by ray buckland 2 "an' it harm none, do what thou wilt; it is the wiccan rede. we fear no foe for love we show, in thought and also deed. our words of thanks, our songs of praise, we offer them in prayer. we sing their praise, we ask t

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the gold of thy beauty shall be purged of all dross, and the glory of the heavenly son shall all men behold. 5 then shall the vision of thy lord be granted unto thee, and seeing him shalt thou behold the shining one who is thine own true self [140] s a m e k h in the fullness of that blessed vision shalt thou be restored, and as a young lion trampleth upon his prey, so shalt thou conquer all the phantoms of delusion. 6 lo in that day shall the light that is bind fast every hideous shape of darkness, and all thy habitations shall be blest by the white brilliance which descendeth from the crown [114] comment on samekh* s a m e k h, pronounced saumek. transcribed as" s. the number 60. meaning: prop, support, the intelligence of probation or trial. 2 in hebrew" tried by fire" is bawkhan, b ch

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nd rubbed on the gums to help painless teething. it is good for all children's fears and against threat to their person or self-esteem. it is also protective for adolescent girls, pregnant women and new mothers, and invokes kindness and gentleness in others. garner usually a deep, clear red, garnets are the ultimate protective stone. eastern european peoples used the garnet against illness, night phantoms and all forms of manifest evil, including the mythical vampire. in medieval times, garnets were engraved with a lion's head for health and safe travel; however, being a brittle stone, this was not easy and the few that did not shatter were highly prized. it is still regarded as a stone to be carried by travellers, especially for protection against attack. like the emerald, it will change

wicca01.txt effective in tackling gossip, backbiting and spite in a firm but creative way, and is perhaps best of all for creating a sparkling shield of protection. topaz topaz is the sanskrit word for 'fire. topaz increases power as the moon waxes, being at its greatest potency at the time of the full moon. perhaps because of this, topaz was said to be proof against nightmares, night terrors and phantoms and malice of the night as well as violent emotions. water in which a topaz has been soaked is a cure for insomnia if drunk an hour before bedtime. a natural energiser, golden topaz is especially good for alleviating work anxieties, especially in the caring professions, and should be kept in the workplace. turquoise mined by the egyptians in sinai more than 6,000 years ago, turquoise and

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

s, although??rei dte from immediate application to the life of form, are exceedingly important, for unless they are at the [page 168] basis of our understanding of esoteric science we shall fall into superstition and use magic as magicians, not as adepts; in other words, we shall be unable to transcend the bondage of the planes of form and will be hallucinated and fall under the domination of the phantoms evoked by the magical imagina tion, instead of using them as the beads on the abacus of our calculations, which is as if the engineer used the slide-rule as if it were a foot-rule. mystical qabala page 114 18. chesed, then, reflects into hod through the christcentre of tiphareth, just as geburah reflects into netzach. this teaches us a great deal, for it indicates that for conscious ness

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rsed and the psychic faculties closed down and sealed. this brings us to the practical part of our considerations: how far can the methods of ritual magic be applied to the relief of mental disease? they are undoubtedly palliative, but they will not produce a permanent cure unless the origin of the disturbed mental condition is found and cleared up. unless this be done, as fast as we disperse the phantoms, they will re-form, because the mental state of the patient is invoking them. under such circumstances, no magic circle can be kept intact. as fast as we break the rapport with the abyss, the patient renews it. but such conditions constitute a vicious circle. the qlippotic forces with which a contact has been established will actively develop it, and will hold on to their victim when atte

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y. sources: waite, a. e. the occult sciences. 1891. reprint, secaucus, n.j: university books, 1974. alexander ab alexandro (alexandro alessandri (ca. 1461.1523) a neapolitan lawyer, who published a dissertation on the marvelous entitled de rebus admirabilibus, in which he recounts miracles that happened in italy, dreams that were verified, and the circumstances connected with many apparitions and phantoms, which he claims to have witnessed. he followed this dissertation with his celebrated work genialium dierum, which contains many fantastic accounts. for instance, one evening he set out to join a party of several friends at a house in rome said to have been haunted for a long time by specters and demons. in the middle of the night, when all of them were assembled in one room, a frightenin

y tend to be solid, full-bodied creatures, hardly to be distinguished from real flesh and blood, or again they are rich in romantic accessories; but the laws governing their appearance are the same, and the beliefs concerning them are not greatly different, in whatever culture or time period they may be found. the belief in apparitions is as old as humanity, but modern culture tends to reduce the phantoms to human shapes. rare indeed, though not unknown, are accounts like that plutarch told of brutus, a little before he left asia he was sitting alone in his tent, by a dim light, and at a late hour. the whole army lay in sleep and silence, while the general, wrapped in meditation, thought he perceived something enter his tent; turning towards the door he saw a horrible and monstrous specter

f apparitions en masse originally reported by eleanor sidgwick in the proceedings, of the society for psychical research (vol. 3, p. 76, two ladies, mrs. f. and her sister, saw in the street during a thick fog numerous human forms passing by. some were tall persons who seemed to enter the body of one of the two sisters. the servant who was with the two ladies cried out in terror. in this crowd of phantoms there were men, women and dogs. the women wore high bonnets and large shawls of old fashion. their faces were livid and cadaverous. the whole phantasmal troop accompanied mrs. f. and her sister about three hundred yards. sometimes they seemed to be lit up by a kind of yellow light. when mrs. f, her sister and the servant reached their home, only one single individual of the crowd, taller

curred. in the second, a bell that was pushed out of the circle by one of the sitters with his foot flew back ringing within the circle on request. before the seance, a naval officer had bound bastian to his chair. a few minutes later he was free, but his hands were tied in such a manner that the cords had to be cut. at the third seance, after the company retired to an adjacent lighted apartment, phantoms appeared. when the fifth spirit walked in, the door between the dark room and the figure was, by a cord arrangement, suddenly shut by archduke john. the spirit was caught and found to be bastian without his shoes. the spirit costume, however, disappeared, and no trace of it was found either on bastian s person or in the cabinet. hellenbach, responding to the archduke s accusation of fraud

him. he even believed that the elixir of life was known to cagliostro and built a small house in which he was to undergo a physical regeneration. when he depleted the prince s finances, cagliostro went to lyons, where he occupied himself with the foundation of headquarters for his egyptian masonic rite. he then proceeded to paris, where he assumed the role of master of practical magic and evoked phantoms that he caused to appear at the wish of the inquirer in a vase of clear water or in a mirror. occult authority arthur e. waite suggested that in this connection fraud was an impossibility and appears to lean toward the theory that the visions evoked by cagliostro were such as occur in crystal gazing and believed no one was more astonished than the count himself at the results he obtained

nomena of a chemical nature have often been reported to occur in seance rooms. psychic light is one of the strangest chemical manifestations as it is cold, and its production defies human ingenuity. some alleged examples of chemical phenomena include: instances where blood was drawn without a break in the skin; during materialization, ozone and phosphorus were often smelled and fully materialized phantoms exhaled carbon dioxide; a lead whistle often melted during sittings with frau silbert; phantoms dissolved into a cloud of smoke or black vapor in the house of charles l. tweedale; admiral moore s ink in his bottle was changed to dirty water in a seance with the bangs sisters; and in a sitting with david duguid the color of a glass of water changed to the hue of wine and tasted as bitter a

ccultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. control 331 in the controversy that ensued, a correspondent wrote to light of the materialization in the united states of general sherman, who not only announced his identity, but also stated that he had just died. the general, however, who was at the time on his death bed, did not die until a day or two later. some mediums are claimed to have materialized animal phantoms. from a spiritualist perspective, the question might arise, is it not possible for animal spirits to control men in trance? the confession of charles albert beare, a self-styled, bogus medium of peckham, london (daily express, september 18, 1931, contains this curious passage: one night at bermondsey. i saw a woman supposed to be controlled by an ape. she jumped on chairs, on the table an

the high school of san jose, were attending. corrales was 18 years old at the time when she retained complete consciousness while an entity, giving the name miguel ruiz, materialized. he could be touched, his heart could be tested, he could become tall or reduce his size, and if a match was struck, he immediately vanished. he became the guide of the seances and often came in the company of other phantoms, among whom mary brown was the most remarkable. it was claimed that as many as five phantoms were sometimes witnessed at the same time, each talking in its mother tongue. the medium could project her double into the seance room while she remained outside. the double wore a different costume but exactly reproduced the voice and appearance of corrales. when the medium, who was heard talking

ization or dematerialization has yet been offered, and little evidence has been produced to suggest that such phenomena in fact occur. there are, of course, numerous anecdotal tales of materialization and dematerialization. cases have been reported of disappearance and reappearance of persons, sometimes over hundreds of miles, often referred to as teleportation and transfiguration. in the case of phantoms or spirits of the dead, the materialization is said to be formed from ectoplasm, a mysterious psychic substance exuded by a medium. ectoplasm was often faked by mediums through the use of phosphor-covered cheesecloth and similar artifacts. cases have also been reported of partial materialization and dematerialization by mediums such as elizabeth d esperance. dement, william charles (1928)

ant was borrowed and she had to return it, and she instructed the sitters to keep it in darkness. the lily remained in the house for eight days and then vanished in an instant, filling the room with an overpowering perfume. materialization fraud bitter experiences were also in store for d esperance. the first befell her in newcastle in 1880. it came after observations that one of the materialized phantoms, the french lady, bore a bewildering resemblance to the medium. a suspicious sitter seized the form of yolande while the medium was believed sitting inside the cabinet. d esperance describes her experience when this occurred: all i knew was a horrible excruciating sensation of being doubled up and squeezed together, as i can imagine a hollow gutta percha doll would feel, if it had sensati

. they contended that the content of the messages was the important thing. there are many reports of voices heard in daylight with no obvious human source. in the blue room (1927, clive chapman describes seances with the new zealand medium pearl judd, when direct voices were heard in a well-lighted room. contemporary researcher d. scott rogo also reports similar cases in his book an experience of phantoms (1974. wellresearched poltergeist cases occasionally include voices originating in space in daylight. direct voice whispers in semidarkness were heard at sittings with gladys osborne leonard. her control feda claimed to hear communicators talking in front of the medium. she conveyed their messages, which were not heard by sitters. later confirmation came when sitters also heard the entiti

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ied by the smoke of five perfumes (incense, myrrh, aloes, sulfur, and camphor. the names of five genii were breathed above it, and then the sign was placed successively at the north, south, east, west, and center of the astronomical cross, while the letters of the sacred tetragram and various kabalistic names were prounced over it (see kabala. it was believed to be of great efficacy in terrifying phantoms if engraved upon glass, and the magicians traced it on their doorsteps to prevent evil spirits from entering and good spirits from departing. this symbol was used by many secret and occult societies, by the rosicrucians, the illuminati, down to the freemasons of modern times. modern occultists translate the meaning of the pentagram as symbolic of the human soul and its relation to god. th

them. if the spirits will have the patience to stand still i can generally make an excellent likeness of what they were in earth life, but most of them are in such haste to manifest that they render my task very difficult. that is why very often a spirit appears to his friends and they cannot recognise any likeness. the solidity of the materialized form varied. some mediums only produced vaporous phantoms called etherealizations. the exertion of force apparently had no relationship to the spirit entity s solidity. for example, an early illustrative account appears in spiritualism by john worth edmonds and g. t. dexter (2 vols, 1853.55: i felt on one of my arms what seemed to be the grip of an iron hand. i felt distinctly the thumb and fingers, the palm of the hand, and the ball of the thum

g testimonies, the inference that telekinetic effects are produced by materialized hands should not be drawn hastily. julien ochorowicz noticed an alternative character about these manifestations: a well-materialized hand, when clearly visible, was mechanically inactive. mechanical effects were generally produced by invisible hands. the same held true for chemical, luminous, and acoustic effects. phantoms of fame and name the best records of full form materializations have been furnished by familiar spirits: katie king, who attended florence cook for three years; yolande, who appeared in elizabeth d esperance s seances for a similar period; estella, who manifested in the livermore sittings for five years; and bertha, a niece of e. a. brackett who appeared to him through different mediums f

took ten to fifteen minutes. her disappearance took place in two to five minutes, while the disappearance of the drapery lasted from one-half to two minutes. at one of annie fairlamb s seances in sydney, australia, a form lay down on the platform, stretched out its limbs and each member of the body separately dematerialized. most often the figures collapsed and disappeared through the floor. the phantoms of virginia roberts, however (as marryat testified) if they were strong enough to leave the cabinet, invariably disappeared by floating upward through the ceiling. their mode of doing this was most graceful, marryat wrote. they would first clasp their hands behind their heads, and lean backwards; then their feet were lifted off the ground, and they were borne upward in a recumbent positio

s of virginia roberts, however (as marryat testified) if they were strong enough to leave the cabinet, invariably disappeared by floating upward through the ceiling. their mode of doing this was most graceful, marryat wrote. they would first clasp their hands behind their heads, and lean backwards; then their feet were lifted off the ground, and they were borne upward in a recumbent position. the phantoms of carlos mirabelli, the south american medium, similarly raised themselves and floated in the air before full dissolution, which began with the feet. when matter apparently passes through matter or when apports are brought into the seance room, the process of dematerialization may be identical. this was suggested by d esperance (shadow land, 1897: a lady once brought a brilliantly colore

he two. when both friends were about to speak at once there was a momentary impasse and neither seemed able to articulate; the medium s breath appearing to be needed by samuel when he essayed to speak, while the materialised form was also checked in his utterance when the medium began to speak. c. v. miller, the san francisco materialization medium, as a rule did not pass into trance and took the phantoms that issued from the cabinet by the hand and introduced them to his sitters. his amazing seances were duplicated by r. h. moore, of san diego, california. according to n. meade layne, in psychic research (june 1931, moore was a well-known gentleman past 70 years of age, who did not go into trance and accompanied the forms that issued from behind a curtain within a few steps into the circl

as weak. she said she would never do it again because the medium might be compromised. in other cases, it was claimed, yards of muslin and grenadine were apported expressly for draping purposes and left in the seance room. further, traces of spirit cloth appeared in mediumistic plastics used to make impressions of spirit faces. souvenir locks of hair, materialized jewels, and flowers materialized phantoms often gave locks of hair to sitters for souvenirs. katie king did it very often. once in the cabinet, she cut off a lock of her own hair and a lock of the medium s and gave them both to florence marryat. one was almost black, soft and silky, the other a coarse, golden red. on another occasion she asked marryat to cut her hair with a pair of scissors as fast as she could. so i cut off curl

rly a lock that charles richet cut from the head of an egyptian beauty during the mediumship of marthe beraud remained intact. richet stated: i have kept this lock, it is very fine, silky and undyed. microscopical examination shows it to be real hair; and i am informed that a wig of the same would cost a thousand francs. marthe s hair is very dark and she wears her hair rather short. materialized phantoms apparently often wore ornaments. admiral usborne moore, in his seances with the medium j. b. jonson of detroit, found these ornaments yielding to the touch. in other instances they were solid. abd-u-lah, the onearmed spirit of william eglinton, appeared bedecked with diamonds, emeralds, and rubies. the materialization of precious stones is described by a mrs. nichols in the spiritualist (

omb/buddha/ganesha.html. march 4, 2000. miller, charles victor (d. 1943) materialization medium of san francisco, born in nancy, france. by profession he was a dealer in old pictures and japanese art. author willie reichel claimed to have witnessed many of miller s performances. for example, miller did not go into trance as a seance started. he stood outside the cabinet from which a procession of phantoms issued. miller took them by the hand, asked their names, and introduced them to the sitters. later he went into the cabinet, where he was seen with as many as six white robed figures. they came out one by one, spoke to the sitters, and usually dematerialized in front of the cabinet, sinking through the floor. although the materialization of figures suggests fraud and accomplices rather th

certainty of the witnesses, and the lack of a competent observer leaves the question somewhat open. on one occasion reichel s nephew disappeared by floating upward through the ceiling. miller was normally under the control of the spirits betsy and dr. benton. the highest number of materialized spirits reichel claimed to have seen in a seance was 12. the medium was conscious and kept talking. the phantoms spoke in various languages and many were recognized by the sitters. once, in reichel s own house, a materialized spirit walked out into the hall, a distance of 35 feet from the medium. in the journal psychische studien (february 1904, reichel described a seance at which a deceased friend of his materialized eight times, very near to him, at a distance of over three yards from the medium

in his lecture before the church congress at weymouth in 1903, colley said: often when i have been sleeping in the same bedroom with him, for the near observation of casual phenomena during the night and, specially, that came through the dark i, on such occasions, would hold my hand over his mouth, and he would now and again be startled into wakefulness not unmixed with fear. for he could see the phantoms which i could not, when i had quietly put out the night-light. for he would not sleep in the dark, which made him apprehensive of phenomena, physically powerful to an extraordinary degree. colley claimed to have witnessed astonishing marvels with monck. he said he saw the birth and dissolution of numbers of full-sized solid forms. he saw a child appear, move about, be kissed by those pres

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flying-saucer contactees would claim to know. ballard, his wife edna, and their son donald founded a popular theosophy-based (and fascist) movement around these experiences and doctrines. ballard died in 1939, but his organization, the i am still exists. in the 1940s the pages of the science-fiction pulps amazing stories and fantastic ad- 122 hollow earth an illustration of the hollow earth from phantoms of the poles by william reed, 1906 (fortean picture library) ventures carried the allegedly true, intensely controversial experiences of richard s. shaver. shaver asserted that he had been inside vast subterranean caverns, where remnants of an advanced race that had once populated the surface still lived. there were two groups, the deros sadistic idiots who used the ancients advanced tech

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u ve already heard? let naught disturb you, though it strangely rings, you! long since wonted to most wondrous things. faust and yet in torpor there s no gain for me; the thrill of awe is man s best quality. although the world may stifle every sense, enthralled, man deeply senses the immense. mephistopheles descend, then! i might also tell you: soar! it s all the same. escape from the existent to phantoms unbound realms far distant! delight in what long since exists no more! like filmy clouds the phantoms glide along. brandish the key, hold off the shadowy throng. faust [inspired. good! gripping it, i feel new strength arise, my breast expands. on, to the great emprise! mephistopheles when you at last a glowing tripod see, then in the deepest of all realms you ll be. you ll see the mothers

nearer be? i ll save her and then doubly mine is she. i dare! ye mothers, mothers! grant this favour! who once has known her can renounce her never! astrologer what are you doing, faustus, faustus! with what might he seizes her! the form is fading from our sight. toward the youth he turns the key, and lo! he s touching him- now! it is done! ah, woe on woe! explosion. faust lies on the ground. the phantoms dissolve in vapour. mephistopheles [taking faust on his shoulder. so there it is! to deal with fools is evil and in the end it even harms the devil. darkness, tumult. act ii a high-vaulted, narrow, gothic chamber formerly faust s, unaltered mephistopheles [appears from behind a curtain. as he raises the curtain and looks back, faust is seen stretched out on an old-fashioned bed. lie there

wilt fall beneath the axe. helena frightfull yet foreboded! ah, me! phorkyas unavoidable it seems. chorus ah! and us? what will befall us? phorkyas she will die a noble death; but within from lofty rafters which support the gabled roof, like the thrushes in a bird-trap, ye shall dangle in a row. helena and the chorus stand, astounded and frightened, in asignificant, wellarranged group. phorkyas. phantoms. like forms grown rigid are ye standing there, fearing to quit the life to which ye have no claim. men likewise- all of them are phantoms just as yerenounce not willingly the glorious shining sun. yet no one begs them free or saves them from the end. all know it well, and nevertheless it pleases few. enough, ye all are lost! so quickly to the work! phorkyas claps her hands; thereupon mask

te-throated ones, and ah! to her, our swan-begotten! woe to us, woe! woe! all is covered and hid roundabout in the mist. we can see each other no more! what befalls? do we move? float we only, footing uncertainly on the ground? see st thou naught? wings not haply e en hermes ahead? gleams not his golden wand waving, commanding us backward again to the unenjoyable, grey-glimmering, with impalpable phantoms teeming, over-crowded, ever empty hades? yes, tis growing darker swiftly; lifts the mist but leaves no sunlight, darkly-greyish, brown as walls are. walls encounter our free vision. standing stark against our seeing. is it a court? is it a dungeon? horrible in any case! sisters, alas, we are imprisoned, prisoned as we ever were. the inner court of the castle surrounded by rich, fantastic

il among a people free. then might i say, that moment seeing: ah, linger on, thou art so fair! the traces of my earthly being can perish not in aeons- they are there! that lofty moment i now feel in this: i now enjoy the highest moment s bliss. faust sinks back the lemurs take him up and lay him on the ground. mephistopheles him could no pleasure sate, suffice no bliss, so wooed he ever changeful phantoms favour. the last vile, empty moment- this!the poor wretch wished to hold it fast forever. him who against me stoutly held his stand, time conquers- here the old man lies in sand. the clock stands stillchorus stands still! no sound is heard. the clock s hand falls. mephistopheles it falls, tis finished. chorus tis past. mephistopheles past- tis a stupid word. past- why? past and pure naugh

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atest difficulty in discovering from papyri, bricks, monuments, etc, any definite information regarding the question of how men of the earliest known civilisations looked upon themselves as constituted. we know, however, thattheancient races of asia and of egypt formulated the conception of many gods and goddesses, and also believed in the existence of unseen beings, angels and devils, ghosts and phantoms of the dead as being around them, and that they used prayers to propitiate the good gods, and exorcisms to banish evil beings.itis uncertain, however, in most cases whether these beings were supposed to assist orhurtthe body only, or the unseen soul in itspostmortemstates also. there are some nations, however, in regard to which it has been discoveredthatviews of man's constitution were f

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS D

"i purify/consecrate thee with n/o" then move on to each of the other quarters repeating the same. after you have performed these banishings and purification's with n and o, you will then say the call from the chaldean oracles. for nit is "so therefore first, the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral waters of the loud resounding sea" for o it is "and when all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire" these could be said while you are circumambulating around the temple after you have purified each quarter and have ended in the east. so, for example, after you have purified all four quarters with n and have ended in the east

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS F

t the adept now recite the following "so therefore first the priest who would governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral waters of the loud and resounding sea" beginning in the south, do likewise with o, consecrating the four quarters, and again incensing with the movements of left, right and center and a large cross. let the adept then recite the following "and when after all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire" step 5 let the adept now taking up the wand by the white band, circumambulate (in the direction of the sun) and desoil three times. step 6 upon completion, let the adept now return to the west of the altar, facing east, and re

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS G

must sprinkle with the lustral waters of the loud and resounding sea" step 4 replacing the chalice, let the adept take the incense (we recommend that our rosicrucian fraternity use the traditional rose and amber incense blend. consecrate the four quarters by o, tracing a cross in each quarter and waving the censer thrice in the form of the o triangle. recite the following "and when after all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire" step 5 setting down the censer, let the adept hold the lotus wand by the white portion and circumambulate, desoiling three times, giving the signs of the neophyte when passing in the east (the rending of the veil is also accep

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS K

m (second adept performs this with black end of wand, holding it by the white band. on completing the circle in the east, he gives the 5=6 signs, and the analysis of the keyword) chief adept (advances to the altar without his wand, taking the cross from the altar, goes to the south, raises the cross above his head and slowly circumambulates the chamber with sol, repeating "and when, after all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire" chief adept (on reaching the south, he faces south, and makes with the cross the invoking pentagram of fire, saying "oip teaa pedoce. in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle, i invoke ye, ye angels of the wat

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM15

te bebeloi" step 4 take up the cup and purify with n, sprinkling to the east, south, west, and north. say "so therefore first, the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral waters of the loud, resounding sea" put down the cup on the altar. 4 step 5 take up the incense and wave it as you pass round to the east, south, west, and north while saying "and when after all the phantoms are vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire" put down the incense. step 6 take up the lotus wand. circumambulate with a three times, grasping the wand by the white band. return to the west, face east, and say the adoration "holy art thou lord of the universe. holy art tho

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM20

he lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram, then, with the black end of the lotus wand, but holding by the white band, perform the lesser banishing ritual of the hexagram. perform the full lvx signs. step 2 advance to the altar without the wand and take therefrom the fire wand. face south, raise the wand above your head, and slowly circumambulate in the path of a, saying "and when, after all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless o, that o which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of o" step 3 on reaching south, make the invoking fire pentagram and the sign of the lion's head. say "oip teaa pedoce. in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watchtower of the south" step 4

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM21

s west, swings/ and draws the cross in the air with the incenser "in the name of yhvh tzabaoth, and in the name of the great archangel of fire michael, i consecrate thee with fire" magus of fire (he then lights the four red lamps at the edge of the circle, starting in the east and ending at the fifth lamp sitting on the center altar, while saying at the beginning of the lighting "and when all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe. hear thou the voice of fire (returns to position) chief adept (moves to the east, takes air dagger and draws the invoking pentagram of air "i exorcise all evil and impure spirits by the powers of air and in the name of exarp and oro ibah aozpi (faces west

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

. 78 development of the subtle body within the human body is another body of approxirnately the lame size and shape; but mude of subtler and less illusory material. this body, which is called by various authors the astraldouble, body of light, body of fire, bodyy of desire, fine body, scin-laeca and numberless other names is naturally fitted to perceive objects of its own class. in particular,the phantoms of the astral plane. aleister crowley, magick in theory and practice may the ba (soul) see its khat (physical body. may it rest in its sahu (spirit body. may it not lose consciousness. may it not lose control over the body, ever. chapter lxxx x, thebook of the dead in order to investigate the watchtowers and aethyrs it is essential to be able to travel in the subtle body, known as the bod

ning by watchtower (i.e, regardie's watchtower ceremony. step 1. use your sword to perforan the appropriate banishing rituals of the pentagram and hexagram. the enochian pentagram and hexagram rituals are given later in this manual. step 2. enter your body of light. hold your wand before you. stand facing the watchtower of fire in the south. see fue radiate from your wand and say: behold, all the phantoms have vanished, arad i see that sacred and formless fire; the fire that llames and consumes the hidden depths of the universe, and i hear the voice of fire. trace the fire pentagram before you, and then trace a flaming red enochian letter k (k) within it. maintain this flaming letter and say, oip-teaa-pdoke (oh-ee-peh teh-ah-ah peh-doh-keh) in the names and letters of the great southern qu

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

tmas trees were being prepared and implements for divination were being madeready. for, in that old castle there were grim worm-eaten portraits of famous ancestors and knights andladies, old deserted turrets, with bastions and gothic windows; mysterious sombre alleys, and dark andendless cellers, easily transformed into subterranean passages and caves, ghostly prison cells, haunted by therestless phantoms of the heroes of local legends. in short, the old manor offered every commodity forromantic horrors. but alas! this once they serve for nought; in the present narrative these dear old horrors playno such part as they otherwise might. its chief hero is a very commonplace, prosaical man- let us call him erkler. yes; dr. erkler, professor of nightmare talesfrom the polar lands59 medicine, ha

INFERNAL SABBAT LIVE

the queen of the dead. behold unto my death mask, the temple of azothoz as a current of the living flame. i shall bless each one of you with the devil s sight, the serpents tongue shall speak of the secret alphabet which ye all shall scribe on the walls of the sunless palace, scribe your name in the black book of the dead, you are all my children, of lilith-hecate, your father is ahriman, lord of phantoms and darkness -from nox umbra, a vampyric grimoire by michael w. ford the ath1 infernal union by azmareth i toph magick, like alchemy is all about the union of opposites. the lhp seems especially true to this view of the nature of magick. the general method of the masses in establishing their place and role in this world is to categorize, segregate, and divide according to pre-conceived id

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

tep vi magic mental training 1. meditation on the own spirit 2. becoming conscious of the senses in the spirit step vi magic psychic training 1. preparation to master the akasa principle 2. deliberate induction to trance with the help of akasa 3. mastering the elements with an individual ritual from akasa step vi magic physical training 1. deliberate creation of beings: a. elementals b. larvae c. phantoms step vii magic mental training 1. analysis of the spirit with respect to the practice step vii magic psychic training 1. development of the astral senses with the help of elements& fluid condensers: a. clairvoyance b. clairaudience c. clairsentience step vii magic physical training 1. creation of elementaries by different methods 2. magic animation of pictures step viii magic mental train

ved and animated by the repeated evocation of the picture, regardless of whatever the matter might be, and it will be capable of influencing not only the mental or astral plane, but also the material level. two examples may serve to illustrate this topic: a very remarkable example is the so-called magic persecution mania that i shall describe from two certain points of view, with reference to the phantoms. there are certain human beings with an innate scowl or with demoniacal features, and whose outward appearance consequently gives the impression of black magicians, but who probably haven t got the faintest idea of any human science, to say nothing at all of magic. it is sufficient for any easily suggestible, emotionally excitable or rather conceited person to meet with such a type of man

on on the own spirit 2. becoming conscious of the senses in the spirit ii. magic psychic training: 1. preparation to master the akasa principle 2. deliberate induction to trance with the help of the akasa 3. mastering of the elements with the help of an individual ritual from the akasa iii. magic physical training: 1. deliberate creation of beings a. elementals b. larvae c. phantasms (shadows) d. phantoms end of step vi step vii magic mental training (vii) in step vi the scholar learned to become conscious of the own spirit, to act deliberately in the body as a spirit and also to use his senses consciously. in this stage he will consciously pursue the properties of the spirit or of the mental body, and use them as well. here, of course, just like anywhere else, the analogy of the elements

ISIS UNVEILED

y appear on the most solemn occasions, and when the faith ot the multitudes has to be strengthened by phenomena of a superior (mler "tbey are never seen, either in the neighborhood of, or even in- side the temples, except at the grand quinquennial festival of the fire. on that occasion they appear about the middle of the night, on a plat- form erected in the center of the sacred lake, hke so many phantoms, and by their conjurations they illumine the space. a fie^ column of light ascends from around them, rushing from earth to iwaven. un- familiar sounds vibrate through the air, and five or six liimdred thousand hindfis, gathered from every part of india to contemplate these demi- gods, throw themselves with their faces buried in the dust, invoking the souls of their ancestors" let any impa

KETAB E SIYAH

s within the storm before the coming of a greater storm. storing up their strength for battle utanapishtim and his brave retinue let the wind carry them where it will across the black and frothing sea that seemed to boil with spite for men. on those gross waters did they drift in many directions though all direction was lost in that dark waste of the flood. 275 ten thousand sights did appear like phantoms from the eternal gloom before then being left to fade once more into those shadows that spawned them. lo! did a mountain's peak appear now made a petty island by the tides grown great and on there stood, made mad with famine, some twenty woman with mewling infants clutched tight to their parched breasts and others not accommodated on that land struggled helpless in the waters round about

s, as but shadows, distinguished not from the darkness of the land but known to her only by some vague presence, intangible, invisible, yet perceived as if the very soul grew eyes by which those two archons might be seen. no more than shadows and whispers were mot and ereshkigal, ghostly, as was all their realm, and unreal. now, before those ancient one, did ishtar know fear when, passing amongst phantoms, she had known no terror even amidst the kingdom of despair. yet fear has long been our enemy, the shedim, who have stood against all 312 and remained unconquered by the greatest of the archons, undaunted. ishtar conquered fear and bowed, with mockery, before the king of death and petitioned him with these words "mot, infernal king, lord of sheol, land of shadows, from chadel have i come

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE THREE

ee classes of 3, 7, and 12 letters. three mothers wma seven doubles trpkdgb twelve singles qxisnlyeczvh the holy place of the temple embraces the symbolism of the 22 letters. the table of shew-bread, the single letters. the altar of incense are the three mother letters. astral spirits are those belonging to the astral plane. such are false and illusionary forms, shells of the dead, and ghosts and phantoms, that are occasionally seen in s ances. elemental spirits are those belonging to the nature of the elements; some are good and some are evil. an angel is a pure and high spirit of unmixed good in office and function. in the tarot, the ten small cards of each suit refer to the sephiroth. the four suits refer to the letters of yhvh. wands to yod, cups to heh, swords to vau, and pentacles to

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

cience that determined that the previous theory was a complete fallacy, and that the world could best be understood by using the mechanical principles of physics and chemistry. mechanical science determined that there were no ghosts or demons that dwelled in, and operated, matter. instead, it postulated that matter is operated by cause and effect. chemical reactions do not happen according to the phantoms of alchemy, but according to quantifiable chemical reactions that can be mechanically controlled by mathematics. this mechanical approach made possible our huge progress in understanding matter and its modus operandi. it also led to numerous technological innovations that have benefited us for many years. as we said earlier, modern medicine is fundamentally established upon this mechanica

LIBER 777

site, banshees 21 digestive system incubi, nightmares 22 liver fairies, harpies 23 organs of nutrition nymphs and undines, nereids &c. 24 intestines lami, stryges, witches 25 hips and thighs centaurs 26 genital system satyrs and fauns, panic-demons 27 muscular system furies, chim ras, boars (as in calydon &c. 28 kidneys, bladder &c. water nymphs, sirens, lorelei, mermaids (cf. f) 29 legs and feet phantoms, were-wolves 30 circulatory system will o the wisp 31 organs of circulation salamanders 32 excretory system ghuls, larv, corpse candles 32 bis excretory organs, skeleton the dweller of the threshold, gnomes 31 bis organs of intelligence [socratic genius] editorial note: the atus of thoth liber al, cap. i, v. 57 includes the statement: all these old letters of my book are aright: but x is

LIBER ALEPH

diligent in its use, and unlock therewith the secret chambers of thine heart. t the book of wisdom or folly 15 x de via per empyr um (of the way through the empyrean) oncerning thy travellings in thy body of light, or astral journeys and visions so-called, do thou lay this wisdom to thy heart, o my son, that in this practice, whether things seen and heard be truth and reality, or whether they be phantoms in the mind, abideth this supreme magical value, namely: whereas the direction of such journeys is consciously willed, and determined by reason, and also unconsciously willed, by the true self, since without it no invocation were possible, we have here a cooperation of alliance between the inner and the outer self, and thus an accomplishment, at least partial, of the great work. and there

) so shall it be proven as to death. for the body of man is but his shadow, it cometh and goeth even as the tides of ocean; and he only is in darkness who is hidden by that shadow from the light of his true self. now therefore understand thou the formula of horus, the lion god, the child crowned and conquering that cometh forth in force and fire! for thy changes are not phases of thee, but of the phantoms which thou mistakest for thy self. c liber aleph vel cxi 100 gu de sirenis (of syrens) oncerning the love of women, o my son, it is written in the book of the law that all is freedom, if it be done unto our lady nuit. yet also there is this consideration, that for every parsifal there is a kundry. thou mayst eat a thousand fruits of the garden; but there is one tree whose name for thee is

e or do it hurt; and of this the proof is in experience, won after the victory of his will, when there is no way of return; as saith the poet, vestigia nulla retrorsum. nor do thou fear to create: for, even as i have written in the book of lies (falsely so-called, thou canst create nothing that is not god. but beware of false creations wrought by women in whom is no function thereof; for they are phantoms, poisonous vapours, bred of the moon in her witchcraft of blood. m the book of wisdom or folly 173 #p de viis mortis et diaboli, arcanis tou tarot fraternitatis r. c (of the paths of death and the devil, arcana of the tarot of the r.c. fraternity) t shall profit thee much, o my son, or i err, that i instruct thee in the mysteries of the paths of nun and of ayin, that in our rota are figur

that act even as an axe must be taken back from a cedar that it may deliver its stroke. the error therefore of these philosophers lay in their false assumption that bliss, knowledge and being (the qualities of their changeless unity) could be states. o my son, how pitiful is their beggary, these paupers of sense and of experience and of observation! the emptiness of their bellies was it that bred phantoms of ideal, so that they sought joy by a crude denial of what truth (or rather, fact) they had perceived concerning he universe, so that they set up an idol of death for their god, in very rage of hatred against the sum of their own selves. b the book of wisdom or folly 201 zr de heresia manich a (of the manich an heresy) hese philosophers, or shall i not say misosophers and pseudo-sophists

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

or live or dead, i will pursue this mystery. so help me grace of godlihead. sir palamedes, the saracen knight 71 ay! with thy wasted limbs pursue that subtle beast home to his den! who know but thou mayst win athrough, sir palamede the saracen? 72 xxxi from god.s sweet air sir palamede hath come unto a demon bog, a city where but rats may breed in sewer-stench and fetid fog. within its heart pale phantoms crawl. breathless with foolish haste they jog and jostle, all for naught! they scrawl vain things all night that they disown ere day. they call and bawl and squall hoarse cries; they moan, they groan. a stone hath better sense! and these among a cabbage-headed god they own, with wandering eye and jabbering tongue. he, rotting in that grimy sewer and charnel-house of death and dung, shriek

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

ientifically worked with pencil, notebook, and stop-watch. the yog. is usually in practice just as vague a dreamer as the mystic] they keep one always balanced by common sense. one might go off on lines of pleasing illusion for years, until one was lost on the .astral plane. all this, observe, is very meaningless, very vague at the best. what is the astral plane? is there such a thing? how do its phantoms differ from those of absinthe, reverie, and love, and so on? we may admit their unsubstantiality without denying their power; the phantoms of absinthe and love are potent enough to drive a man to death or marriage; while reverie may end in anti-vivisectionism or nut-food-madness. on the whole, i prefer to explain the many terrible catastrophes i have seen caused by magic misunderstood by

d to understand what he reads. he will, despite of all, do a little pr.n.y.ma, and then sleep, ever willing adonai. for pr.n.y.ma with its intense physical strain is a great medicine for the mind. even as the long trail of the desert and the life with the winds and the stars, the daily march and its strife with heat, thirst, fatigue, cure all the ills of the soul, so does pr.n.y.ma clear away the phantoms that mayan, dread maker of illusion, hath cumbered it withal. 1.13. 10 breath-cycles; calm, perfect, without the least effort; enough to go to sleep upon. he will read through the ritual once, and then sleep (the pr.n.y.ma precipitated a short attack of diarrh.a, started by the chill of the ceremony) liber dccclx 94 6.23. he slept from 1.45 (approximately) till now. the morn is cold and d

LIBER LVII

st. luke.s gospel .and when he was yet afar off, his father saw him and ran. had it not been so, the weary prodigal, exhausted by his early debauches (astral visions and magic) and his later mental toil (yoga) would never have had the strength to reach the house of his father. one little point st. luke unaccountable omitted. when a man is as hungry and weary as was the prodigal, he is apt to see phantoms. he is apt to clasp shadows to him, and cry .father. and, the devil being subtle, capable of disguising himself as an angel of light, it behoves the prodigal to have some test of truth. some great mystics have laid down the law .accept no messenger of god. banish all, until at last the father himself comes forth. a counsel of perfection. the father himself does send messengers, as we lear

e son himself when he is sent. so that is no vain counsel of .st. john (1 john iv. 1 .try the spirits, whether they be of god. no mistake when .st. paul. 4 liber lviii claims the discernment of spirits to be a principal point of the armour of salvation (1 cor. xii. 10. now how should frater p. or another test the truth of any message purporting to come from the most high? on the astral plane, its phantoms are easily governed by the pentagram, the elemental weapons, the robes, the god-forms, and such childish toys. we set phantoms to chase phantoms. we make our scin- laeca1 pure and hard and glittering, all glorious within, like the veritable daughter of the king; yet she is but the king.s daughter, the nephesch adorned: she is not the king himself, the holy ruach or mind of man. and as we

LIBER V VEL REGULI

inct, or some furtive fear shapen in his own savage mind. man is indeed not wholly freed, even now. he is still the ritual of the mark of the beast 15 trampled under the hoofs of the stampeding mules that nightmare bore to his wild ass, his creative forces that he had not mastered, the sterile ghosts that he called gods. their mystery cows men still; they fear, they flinch, they dare not face the phantoms. still, too, the fallen fetich seems awful; it is frightful to them that there is no longer an idol to adore with anthems, and to appease with the flesh of their firstborn. each scrambles in the bloody mire of the floor to snatch some scrap for a relic, that he may bow down to it and serve it. so, even today, a mass of maggots swarm heaving over the carrion earth, a brotherhood bound by b

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

ithin us, we are not yet a reflector. in whole or in part. of god. no syllogisms or revelations prove anything except our own signature and that we are like a work evolving and completing, of one great artistry. now plus our own bloody vandalism! if the outer world is not a delusion then our concepts therefrom certainly give birth to illusions, and we are as vaulted catacombs inhabited by strange phantoms that wait to suck that energy to resurrect, to live, by a memory of that time when we made flesh from dreams. there is no greater mystery than man because of his imperfections, his great love of falsity, his great hatred of his self. ego, with all its varying degrees of consciousness, is our light in the darkness of the unseen and unknown, for it has infinite relatability that will replen

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

me luciferian awakening, and it is when we become just as lucifer, who is the spirit of the air whom resides upon the astral plane. below lucifer is the puzzle of the black one, being baphomet. baphomet, being the god form of sorcerers and magickians of chaos and witches sabbat currents, is the model of union. consider lilith, the witch queen of the sabbat and of lillitu, the succubus and vampire phantoms and samael, the fire djinn which is considered the same as asmodeus, their infernal union is the manifestation and birth of baphomet. thus the horned one brings the wisdom of the earth (asmodeus-samael) and the spirit (lilith, thus baphomet is the initiator of becoming and self-deification. the magician must be implored to work accordingly, and without fail, for the manifestation of his a

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

shapes, besiege the door: before the passage horrid hydra stands, and briareus with all his hundred hands: gorgons, geryon with his triple frame; and vain chim ra vomits empty flame. the chief unsheath'd his shining steel, prepar'd, tho seiz'd with sudden fear, to force the guard. off'ring his brandish'd weapon at their face, had not the sibyl stop'd his eager pace, and told him what those empty phantoms were; forms without bodies, and impassive air" p. 17 even though neo-platonism was to intervene and many centuries pass before this emphasis took definite form. although ammonius saccus was long believed to be the founder of neo-platonism, the school had its true beginning in plotinus (a.d. 204-269. prominent among the neo-platonists of alexandria, syria, rome, and athens were porphyry, i

slowly sinks into the gloomy depths of ephemerality. he falls to the level of the beast, and in brutish fashion mumbles the problems arising from his all too insufficient knowledge of the divine plan. here in the lurid turmoil of a great industrial, political, commercial inferno, men writhe in self-inflicted agony and, reaching out into the swirling mists, strive to clutch and hold the grotesque phantoms of success and power. ignorant of the cause of life, ignorant of the purpose of life, ignorant of what lies beyond the mystery of death, yet possessing within himself the answer to it all, man is willing to sacrifice the beautiful, the true, and the good within and without upon the blood-stained altar of worldly ambition. the world of philosophy--that beautiful garden of thought wherein t

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

dinarily powerful talisman of protection. when the ink has dried, retrace the inverted triangle [upside down traingle] with salt water from your cup, chanting these words "so therefore he who would govern the works of fire must first asperge with lustral water of the loud resounding sea" then with the thurible, trace in the air above the star the upright triangle, chanting "and when after all the phantoms are banished, thou shalt perceive that holy formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe: hear thou the voice of fire" finally, retrace the whole star yet again with the athame, this time in silence, visualizing the symbol glowing in blue light. the design on the third piece of paper must be written with your pen of art in blood- your own or t

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

of mercury, the moon being in her increase. bind together these herbs with a thread spun by a young maiden, and engrave upon the handle on the one side the characters shown in figure 82, and on the other side those given in figure 83. after this thou mayest use the water, using the sprinkler whenever it is necessary; and know that wheresoever thou shalt sprinkle this water, it will chase away all phantoms, and they shall be unable to hinder or annoy any. with this same water thou shalt make all the preparations of the art. figure 82. figure 83. the key of solomon page 108 chapter xii. of the light, and of the fire. it hath been ever the custom among all nations to use fire and light in sacred things. for this reason the master of the art should also employ them in sacred rites, and besides

m the name alone remaineth. the true god hath vanquished all the demons as truth triumphs over error. that is past in the opinions of men, and the wars of michael against satan are the symbols of movement, and of the progress of spirits. the devil is ever a god of refusal. accredited idolatries are religions in their time. superannuated idolatries are superstitions and sacrileges. the pantheon of phantoms, which are then in vogue, is the heaven of the ignorant. the receptacle of phantoms, whom folly even wisheth for no longer, is the hell. but all this existeth only in the imagination of the vulgar. for the wise, heaven is the supreme reason, and hell is folly. but it must be understood that we here employ the word heaven in the mystical sense which we give it in opposing to it the word he

en in vogue, is the heaven of the ignorant. the receptacle of phantoms, whom folly even wisheth for no longer, is the hell. but all this existeth only in the imagination of the vulgar. for the wise, heaven is the supreme reason, and hell is folly. but it must be understood that we here employ the word heaven in the mystical sense which we give it in opposing to it the word hell. in order to evoke phantoms it is sufficient to intoxicate oneself or to render oneself mad; for phantoms are ever the companions of drunkenness and of vertigo. the phosphorus of the imagination, abandoned to all the caprices of over-excited and diseased nerves, fills itself with monsters and absurd visions. we can also arrive at hallucination by mingling together wakefulness and sleep by the graduated use of narcot

he companions of drunkenness and of vertigo. the phosphorus of the imagination, abandoned to all the caprices of over-excited and diseased nerves, fills itself with monsters and absurd visions. we can also arrive at hallucination by mingling together wakefulness and sleep by the graduated use of narcotics; but such actions are crimes against nature. the key of solomon page 126 wisdom chaseth away phantoms, and enables us to communicate with the superior spirits by the contemplation of the laws of nature and the study of the holy numbers (here king solomon addresseth himself to his son, roboam: do thou, o my son roboam, remember, that the fear of adonai is only the beginning of wisdom. keep and preserve those who have not understanding in the fear of adonai, which will give and will preserv

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON PENTACLES

and the names of the angels yahel and sophiel. the versicle is "let them be confounded who persecute me, and let me not be confounded; let them fear, and not i" figure 53. the fifth pentacle of the moon. it serveth to have answers in sleep. its angel iachadiel serveth unto destruction and loss, as well as unto the destruction of enemies. thou mayest also call upon him by abdon and dal against all phantoms of the night, and to summon the souls of the departed from hades. editor s note. the divine names ihvh and elohim, a mystical character of the moon, and the names of the angels iachadiel and azarel. the versicle is from psalm lxviii. 1 "let god arise, and let his enemies be scattered; let them also who hate him flee before him" figure 54. the sixth and last pentacle of the moon. this is w

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nsciousness- which first renders da ath a possibility. it is the fall which is responsible for the acquisition of self-knowledge. thus it stands proven claims blavatsky that satan or the red fiery dragon, the lord of phosphorus and lucifer, or light bearer is in us; it is our mind- our tempter and redeemer, our intelligent liberator and savior from pure animalism. da ath is the zone where vampyre phantoms, shades, ghosts and demonic spirits dwell. the necromancies of the night side of earth are channels from which the qlipoth emerge. all morbid desires and acts which fester in the human mind are fed into da ath and the qlipoth, for which exploration one must possess the highest mental and psychic strength. 28 28 such spirits can be controlled, and are often servitors of the most willful so

days later, once you unearth the dagger you will want to consecrate the athame in a large bowl combined with herbs, your blood and/or sexual fluid as well as water and salt. while consecrating focus and intone "water, earth and life where you are cast let nought unwelcome dare trespass, so mote it be" cast the circle anti-clockwise "spirits of fire, water, earth and air, this charge is laid. let phantoms of my desire come hence, to which my will is law ecstasy will come and my many elementals to my aid. so mote it be" perform banishing ritual opening "i charge thee with the earth of the great god pan! i charge thee with the earth from which belial walks! 56 56 i charge thee with the blood of hecate! creation is the birth of the morning, the clay of flesh formed through any desire of belie

d goddess, the witch queen of primal darkness whom is regarded as babalon, lilith and az. hecate is the goddess of the crossroads, from which one seeks self-initiation by the congress of her in the succubi-fetish spirit. it is through this communion that one enters the caverns of the night, the very temple of hecate. revered as the goddess of the dead, she is the queen of ghosts, shades and 65 65 phantoms of the night. it is in the center of her essence that one discovers there is no difference between hecate and lilith or babalon. this rite of empowerment should be conducted outdoors if possible, near a grave yard from which you would not be disturbed, near an area where you may bury a small box or bottle/pot. a chalice will be needed, preferably a skull cup/cap if access is had. this rit

: with speed of the elk, the claws of a bear; the poison of snakes, the wit of a fox; the stealth of the wolf, the strength of an ox; the jaws of the tiger, the teeth of the shark; the eyes of the cat which sees in the dark! from the caverns of night and shade i call thee forth to enter my flesh and make me thy host we are as one in this web of dreams. for this is the manifestation of marchosias; phantoms of shadow and lycanthropic lust; this elemental i now invoke within my essence. from the home of the werewolf, the home of the dead; with this spirit i thee make" begin a visualization and concentration of the werewolf sigil, take the goblet of blood and make two strikes of blood on the sigil. focus upon the sigil and a great wolf spirit forming and entering the surroundings. breathing at

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his world from destruction daycan you see what i see?can you hear me crying?oh god can you help me now?take my hand- no home no homeof god take my heavenyou and i are victims of their wordas the masters of power try to poison our worldgreed money taken over their soulsjust mechanical brainspoliticians don't knowthey just don't know they just don't know(the eternal idol by black sabbath- there are phantoms here on earth who take away our livesthey kill your kids and they rape your wivesthey rip your flesh, tear your heart and take you down to hellatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation159 appendix a: the minstrels speak they don't give a damn on any kind of lifephantoms bring evil, destruction and deathnight after night the same old gamethey all look so harmless but deep in the

e of deceivers is built upon your fearyou'll have to lose it 'cause the end is nearwarheads, armies stand to strike, i know it isn't righti wanna get out of here, i don't wanna dieinfernal destruction of fire you'll burnthen you'll be helpless but it's not too latestand up right now and you'll be the winneror satan will get you, take you forevergenocide everywherewhere's the saviour of this world?phantoms of death!where is he the promised saviour the one who'll save the earth?perhaps he'll come to bury us but then it'll be too latewho are they who are the phantoms who will end our livesit's you and me, you and me open up your eyes!phantoms bring evil, destruction and deathnight after night the same old gamethey all look so harmless but deep in their heartssatan is lurking, and he will brea

one who'll save the earth?perhaps he'll come to bury us but then it'll be too latewho are they who are the phantoms who will end our livesit's you and me, you and me open up your eyes!phantoms bring evil, destruction and deathnight after night the same old gamethey all look so harmless but deep in their heartssatan is lurking, and he will break outwe are all parasites of this world we shall die!(phantoms of death by kai hansen of helloween) born in the window, nobody's foolraised in the prison, you called the schooldark arcane legends show what to do i handed my childhood over to youtraveling endlessly, i'm searching my mindi'm almost afraid of what i will findwandering aimlessly, oh what can i do?i handed my future over to you, to you future looks blue- what can i do?working for freedom

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dreaming flesh, when the body is shed for the psyche which is able to go forth in whatever form it desires. the witch or sorcerer who is able to attend the sabbat has already freed the mind through a process of antinomian magical practice, thus enforcing and strengthening the imagination as a visualization tool, similar to divination and sight with spirits. shades spirits of the dead, ghosts and phantoms which walks in the astral plane. these spirits may represent in some cases the body of the sorcerer in the plane of the dead, a world separate in some areas from our own living perception. in evocation and necromantical practice, the shades are brought around and closer to the world of the living. sorcery the art of encircling energy and power of self, by means of self -fascination (inspi

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ummon you to encircle my being so it is done! invocation of the vampyre queen lilith lilith is the mother of the vampyrie myth, as well as the symbol of fountainhead of the daemonic feminine. the witch queen is represented as a partial woman with beast like lower half, owl claws and a hypnotic stare. within her caves by the red sea, the darkness of the earth, the gateway of the demonum she breeds phantoms, shades and lilitu, sexual daimons which cater to the sorcerers who work in her veil. the daemonic feminine itself is defined as instinct, the knowledge of emotion and how one may control their deepest desires. this instinct is the primal aspect of the animals of the earth, how their mind's work, the intuition, understanding, graciousness and ferociousness when the animal hunger emerges

my death mask, the temple ofazothoz as a current of the living flame. i shall bless each one of you with the devil's sight, the serpents tongue shall speak of the secret alphabet which ye all shall scribe on the walls of the sunless palace, scribe your name in the black book of the dead, with the witchblood of your veins, you are all my children, of lilith-hecate, your father is ahriman, lord of phantoms and darkness (drink of the elixir- the skull bowl is passed to each. if only the magistra and magister of the rite are present, then just the magister shall drink of simulate if fake (i.e. theatrical) blood is used (lilith- magistra now robes herself in red) i now wear the caul of the witchborn, as i am blood and death, but also life, emergence and strength (lilith takes forth the skull o

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en shrines; whitening and rouging ancient and barren superstitions; saving society by multiplying parasites; perpetuating superannuated institutions; enforcing the worship of symbols as the actual means of salvation; and tying the dead corpse of the past, mouth to mouth, with the living present. therefore it is that it is one of the fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal struggles with phantoms, with superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, the formulas of error, and the pleas of tyranny. despotisms, seen in the past, become respectable, as the mountain, bristling with volcanic rock, rugged and horrid, seen through the haze of distance is blue and smooth and beautiful. the sight of a single dungeon of tyranny is worth more, to dispel illusions, and create a holy hatred

und and virtuous populace, the elaborate ornaments at the top of the pyramid of society will be a wretched compensation for the want of solidity at the base. it is never safe for a nation to repose on the lap of ignorance: and if there ever was a time when public tranquillity was insured by the absence of knowledge, that season is past. unthinking stupidity cannot sleep, without being appalled by phantoms and shaken by terrors. the improvement of the mass of the people is the grand security for popular liberty; in the neglect of which, the politeness, refinement, and knowledge accumulated in the higher orders and wealthier classes will some day perish like dry grass in the hot fire of popular fury. it is not the mission of masonry to engage in plots and conspiracies against the civil gover

in the night of time--cites, in support of his opinion, the famous mystic egg of the disciples of zoroaster and the initiates in the mysteries of mithras. to the initiates in the mysteries of eleusis was exhibited the spectacle of these two principles, in the successive scenes of darkness and light which passed before their eyes. to the profoundest darkness, accompanied with illusions and horrid phantoms, succeeded the most brilliant light, whose splendor blazed round the statue of the goddess. the candidate, says dion chrysostomus, passed into a mysterious temple, of astonishing magnitude and beauty, where were exhibited to him many mystic scenes; where his ears were stunned with many voices; and where darkness and light successively passed before him. and themistius in like manner descr

southward toward the reign of the evil principle, ahriman, siba, or typhon (darkness and winter; there figuratively to be slain, and after a few days to rise again from the dead, and commence to ascend to the northward. then the death of sita was bewailed; or that of cama, slain by iswara, and committed to the waves on a chest, like osiris and bacchus; during which the candidate was terrified by phantoms and horrid noises. then he was made to personify vishnu, and perform his avatars, or labors. in the first two he was taught in allegories the legend of the deluge: in the first he took three steps at right angles, representing the three 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 taug

in the sterile sands of human error. after the internal and divine word originally communicated by god to man, had become obscured; after man's connection with his creator had been broken, even outward language necessarily fell into disorder and confusion. the simple and divine truth was overlaid with various and sensual fictions, buried under illusive symbols, and at last perverted into horrible phantoms. for in the progress of idolatry it needs came to pass, that what was originally revered as the symbol of a higher principle, became gradually confounded or identified with the object itself, and was worshipped; until this error led to a more degraded form of idolatry. the early nations received much from the primeval source of sacred tradition; but that haughty pride which seems an inher

of the mind, those eternal instincts of temperance, conscientiousness, and justice, implanted in it by the gods, could not deceive, if rightly interpreted. this metaphysical direction given to philosophy ended in visionary extravagance. having assumed truth to be discoverable in thought, it proceeded to treat thoughts as truths. it thus became an idolatry of notions, which it considered either as phantoms exhaled from objects, or as portions of the divine pre-existent thought; thus creating a mythology of its own, and escaping from one thraldom only to enslave itself afresh. theories and notions indiscriminately formed and defended are the false gods or "idols" of philosophy. for the word _idolon_ means _image, and a false _mind_-picture of god is as much an idol as a false _wooden_ image

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e elements, earth and water, is transmuted into the substance of the body of god, that makes the wise man dread lest so sublime a sacrament suffer profanation. it is this that has caused him, in half-instinctive, half intellectual half-comprehension of the nature of the truth, that has driven him to fence the act about with taboos. but a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. his fear has created phantoms, and his malobservation suggested precautions scarce worthy to be called empirical. we see him combat analogous difficulties in a precisely similar manner. history shows us the physician defending mankind against plague, with exorcisms on the one hand and useless herbs on the other. a charred stake is driven through the heart of a vampire, and his victim is protected with garlic. the stre

n thine heart? this verse brings out what is a fact in psychology, the necessary connection between fear, sorrow, and failure. to will and to dare are closely linked powers of the sphinx, and they are based on to know. if one have a right apprehension of the universe, if he know himself free, immortal, boundless, infinite force and fire, then may he will and dare. fear, sorrow and failure are but phantoms. 47. where i am these are not. hadit is everywhere (see verse 3; fear, sorrow, and failure are only 'shadows. it is for this reason that compassion is absurd. it may be objected that 'shadows' exist, after all; the 'pink rats' of an alcoholic are not to be exorcised by 'christian science' methods. very true they are, in fact, necessary functions of our idea of the universe in its dualisti

now to him "as silver. he sees it pure, white and shining, the mirror of his own being that this ordeal has purged of its complexes. to reach this sphere he has had to pass through a path of darkness where the four elements seem to him to be the universe entire. for how should he know that they are no more than the last of the 22 segments of the snake that is twined on the tree? assailed by gross phantoms of matter, unreal and unintelligible, his ordeal is of terror and darkness. he may pass only by favour of his own silent god, extended and exalted within him by virtue of his conscious act in affronting the ordeal. 65. through the second, gold. the next sphere reached by the aspirant is named beauty, numbered 6, and referred to the heart, to the sun, and to gold. here he is called an "ade

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asses of three, seven, and twelve. three mothers v: d: n seven double letters n'lb27j3 twelve single letters 33y b2?'ul?lfl the holy place embraces the symbolism of the 22 letters <130> the table of shew-bread, the single letters. the altar of incense the three mothers. astral spirits are those belonging to the astral plane. such are false and illusionary forms, shells of the dead, and ghosts and phantoms. elemental spirits are those belonging to the nature of the elements; some are good and some are evil. an angel is a pure and high spirit of unmixed good in office and operation. in the tarot, the ten small cards of each suit refer to the sephiroth. the four suits refer to the letters of tetragrammaton thus- sceptres or wands to ,yod cups heh swords vau pentacles heh (final) the four suit

the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral water of the loud, resounding sea. labour thou around the strophalos of hecate. when thou shalt see a terrestrial demon approaching, cry aloud and sacrifice the stone mnizourin. change not the barbarous names of evocation, for they are names divine, having in the sacred rites a power ineffable. and when <103> after all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire- that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire. hereunto is the speech of kabir. hegernon conducts the theoricus to the foot of hierophant's throne, and taking the triangular pyramid, hands it to hierophant. the solid triangular pyramid is an appropriate hieroglyph of fire

east, qabalistic cross, tracing the four forms from right to left, and saying at each quarter, ararita. on completing the circle in the east, he gives the= signs, and the analysis of the keyword inri. chief adept again advances to altar without his wand, taking cross from altar, goes to south, raises cross above head and slowly circumambulates chamber with sol, repeating: and when, after all the phantoms are banished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire. on reaching south, he faces south, and makes with the cross the invoking pentagram of fire, saying: oip teaa pedoce. in the names of letters of the great southern quadrangle, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watch tower of the sou

ekas! hekas! este bebeloi. 10. pet.form lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram. 11. purify room first with water, then with fire, as in the= grade, repeating as you do so, these two passages from the ritual of the 31st path (with water) so therefore, first, the priest who governeth the works of fire, must sprinkle with lustral water of the loud resounding sea (with fire) and when, after all the phantoms arc vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which ciarts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire. 304 the golden dawn: volume iii book four 12. take up the wand again, by white portion. circumambulate the room three times and, at the end, repeat the adoration of the lord of the universe as in the ritual of= grade, saluting

of the pentagram. 9. perform the lesser banishing ritual of the hexagram. 10. deposit wand upon the altar. 11. purify the chamber with water in the four quarters, repeating the words "so therefore first the priest who governeth the works of fire, shall sprinkle with the lustral water of the loud resounding sea" 12. consecrate the chamber with fire in the four quarters, saying 'when after all the phantoms are vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hid <58> den depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire" 13. take up thy wand by the white band. 14. circumambulate with sun three times. 15. return to place, and repeat adoration "holy art thou, lord of the universe! holy art thou whom nature hath not formed. holy art thou, th

11 book four 3. stand at west of altar, facing east. 4. say: hekas hekas esti bebeloi. 5. take up cup and purify with water sprinkling to e. s. w. n. 6. saying: and first the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral water of the loud resounding sea. 7. put down cup on altar. 8. take up lncense and wave it as you pass round e. s. w. n. 9. saying: and when after all the phantoms are vanished thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire. 10. put down incense. take up wand <64> 11. circumambulate with sun three times, grasping wand by white band. return to west, face east, say adoration: 12. holy art thou lord of the universe. holy art thou whom nature hath not f

ekas este bebeloi put down the wand and take up the magic sword. 2. petform the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram. pass to the east to begin. use magic sword. 3. lay down sword, and purify with water, saying "so therefore first the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral water of the loud-resounding sea" 4. consecrate with fire, saying "and when, after all the phantoms are vanished, thou shalt see that holy formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire <71> 5. take up the lotus wand by white portion. 6. circumambulate wifh the sun three times. 7. repeat the adoration, salute with the= sign each time"'holy art thou, lord of the universe. holy art thou, whom nature hath not formed

ready, announce from the altar, holding the lotus wand hekas, hekas este bebeloi then, taking the sword, perform the lesser banishing rituals of the pentagram and hexagram, closing with the l.v.x. signs. pass to altar without either wand or sword, take up the fire wand, go south, raise fire wand above head, attract the light and circumambulate slowly with the sun, saying: and when, after all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire. on reaching the south, face the quarter, trace fire pentagram, with leo in centre, and say <196> oip teaa pedoce. in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watch-tower of the sout

qabalisfic cross, and pwfom the lesser banishing ritual of the penfagram, with the black end of the lotus wand, holding it by the white band. then pet.fom the lesser banishing ritual of the hexagram. make the full lvx signs. advance to altar without wand and take therefrom the fire wand. face south, raise the wand above thy head, and slowly circumambulate with sol, saying: and when, after all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire. on reaching south, making the invoking fire pentagram and say: oip teaa pedoce. in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watch-tower of the south. replace wand on altar, take cup

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bacchanalian orgy begins; there is nothing wanting but salt, the symbol of wisdom and immortality. wine flows in streams, leaving stains like blood; obscene advances and abandoned caresses begin. a little while, and the whole assembly is beside itself with drink and wantonness, with crimes and singing. they rise, a disordered throng, and form infernal dances. then come all legendary monsters, all phantoms of nightmare; enormous toads play inverted flutes and thump with paws on flanks; limping scarabaei mingle in the dance; crabs play the castanets; crocodiles beat time on their scales; elephants and mammoths appear habited like cupids and foot it in the ring: finally, the giddy circles introduction 5 break up and scatter on all sides. every yelling dancer drags away a dishevelled female. l

s it passes from the domain of the abstract: the grand hierophant intervenes. 24 v x e the pentagram geburah ecce hereunto we have exposed the magical dogma in its more arid and abstruse phases; now the enchantments begin; now we can proclaim wonders and reveal most secret things. the pentagram signifies the domination of the mind over the elements, and the demons of air, the spirits of fire, the phantoms of water and ghosts of earth are enchained by this sign. equipped therewith, and suitably disposed, you may behold the infinite through the medium of that faculty which is like the soul's eye, and you will be ministered unto by legions of angels and hosts of fiends. but here, in the first place, let us establish certain principles. there is no invisible world; there are, however, many deg

l preoccupations, combined with reflections of all kindred acts accomplished previously in the world. this torrent of universal life is represented also in religious doctrines by the expiatory fire of hell. it is the instrument of initiation, the monster to be overcome, the enemy to subdue; it is this which brings to our evocations and to the conjurations of goetic magic such swarms of larvae and phantoms. therein are preserved all the fantastic and fortuitous assemblages of forms which people our nightmares with such abominable monstrosities. to be sucked down by this whirling stream is to fall into abysses of madness, more frightful than those of death; to expel the shades of this chaos and compel it to give perfect forms to our thoughts this is to be a man of genius; it is to create, it

ter experiments in the magic chain, performed with persons devoid of good intention or sympathy, that i have been awakened with a start in the night by truly alarming impressions and sensations. on one such occasion i felt vividly the pressure of an unknown hand attempting to strangle me. i rose up, lighted my lamp, and set calmly to work, seeking to profit by my wakefulness and to drive away the phantoms of sleep. the books about me were moved with considerable noise, papers were disturbed and rustled one against another, timber creaked, as if on the point of splitting, and heavy blows resounded on the ceiling. with curiosity but also with tranquillity i observed all these phenomena, which would not have been less wonderful had they been only the product of my imagination, so real did the

ecromancy has real results, and the evocations of magic can produce actual visions. we have said that in the great magical agent, which is the astral light, there are preserved all impressions of things, all images formed either by rays or reflections. in this same light our dreams come to us; it is this which befools the insane and misguides their dormant judgement in pursuit of the most bizarre phantoms. to insure vision without illusion in such light, a powerful will must help us to isolate reflections and attract rays only. to dream awake is to see in the astral light, and the orgies of the sabbath, described by so many sorcerers in their criminal trials, came to them solely in this manner. the preparations and the substances used to obtain this result were often horrible, as we shall

nervous mechanism by perverted astral light, meaning that which is absorbed or projected in abnormal proportions. all extraordinary and extra-natural tensions of will predispose to obsessions and nervous diseases; enforced celibacy, asceticism, hatred, ambition, rejected love, are so many generative principles of infernal forms and influences. paracelsus says that the menstruations of women beget phantoms in the air, and from this standpoint convents would be seminaries for nightmares, while the devils might be compared to those heads of the hydra of lerna which were reproduced eternally and propagated in the very blood from their wounds. the phenomena of possession amongst the ursulines of loudun, so fatal to urban grandier, have been misconstrued. the nuns in reality were possessed by hy

old serpent of the legend is nothing else than the universal agent, the eternal fire of terrestrial life, the soul of the earth, and the living centre of hell. we have said that the astral light is the receptacle of forms, and these when evoked by reason are produced harmoniously, but when evoked by madness they appear disordered and monstrous: so originated the nightmares of st. anthony and the phantoms of the sabbath. do therefore the evocations of goetia and demonomania produce a practical result? yes, certainly one which cannot be contested, one more terrible than could ever be recounted in legends! when anyone invokes the devil with intentional ceremonies, the devil comes and is seen. to escape dying from horror at that sight, to escape catalepsy or idiocy, one must be already mad. g

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nature seem to hear and answer him: he reads in all forms the modifications and complements of his thought. he perceives the water agitated and, as it were, bubbling of itself, the fire blazing up or going out suddenly, the leaves of garlands rustling, the magical rod moving spontaneously and strange, unknown voices passing through the air. it was in such evocations that julian beheld the beloved phantoms of his dethroned gods, and was appalled at their decrepitude and pallor. i am aware that christianity has for ever suppressed ceremonial magic, and that it proscribes the evocations and sacrifices of the old world. it is not therefore our intention to furnish a new basis for their existence by revealing their antique mysteries after the lapse of so many centuries. even in the order of fac

virgin's distaff and provided with a handle of hazelwood from a tree which has not yet fruited. the characters of the seven spirits must be graven thereon with the magic bodkin. the salt and ash must be consecrated separately, saying: over the salt may wisdom abide in this salt, and may it preserve our minds and bodies from all corruption, by hochmael and in the virtue of ruach-hochmael! may the phantoms of hyle depart herefrom; that it may become a heavenly salt, salt of the earth and earth of salt; that it may feed the threshing ox, and strengthen our hope with the horns of the flying bull! amen. 30 the ritual of transcendental magic over the ash may this ash return unto the fount of living waters; may it become a fertile earth; may it bring forth the tree of life, by the three names wh

, representing an idle speech or a doubt, falsifies and paralyses the whole process, turning back upon the operator all the forces thus expended in vain. we must therefore abstain absolutely from magical ceremonies or scrupulously and exactly fulfil them all. the pentagram, engraved in luminous lines upon glass by the electrical machine, exercises also a great influence upon spirits and terrifies phantoms. the old magicians traced the sign of the pentagram upon their doorsteps, to prevent evil spirits from entering and good spirits from departing. this constraint followed from the direction of the points of the star. two points on the outer side drove away the evil; two points on the inner side imprisoned them; one only on the inner side held good spirits captive. all these magical theorie

esence of magnetized persons of forms alarming in their actuality, which, being multiplied by the mirrors, will magnify suddenly, and transform the operator's cabinet into a vast hall filled with visible souls. the intoxication of the perfumes and the exaltation of the invocations will change this fantasia into a real dream; persons known formerly will be recogthe septenary of talismans 51 nized; phantoms will speak; and something extraordinary and unexpected will follow the closing of the light within the pillar and the increase of the fumigations. 52 chapter viii warning to the imprudent the operations of science are not devoid of danger, as we have stated several times. they may end in madness for those who are not established firmly on the basis of supreme, absolute and infallible reas

e frightful compounds over fires fed with human bones and crucifixes stolen from churches; they added dust of dried toads and ash of consecrated hosts; they anointed their temples, hands, and breasts with the infernal unguent, traced diabolical pantacles, evoked the dead beneath gibbets or in deserted graveyards. their howlings were heard from afar, and belated travellers imagined that legions of phantoms rose out of the earth. the very trees, in their eyes, assumed appalling shapes; fiery orbs gleamed in the thickets; frogs in the marshes seemed to echo mysterious words of the sabbath with croaking voices. it was the magnetism of hallucination and the contagion of madness. the end of procedure in black magic was to disturb reason and produce the feverish excitement which emboldens to grea

ollowing a broad road or scaling walls. having traversed this space, he lies down necromancy 75 upon the earth, as if in a coffin, and repeats in lugubrious tones: glet the dead rise from their tombs! h finally, he calls thrice on the person whose apparition is desired. no doubt anyone who is mad enough and wicked enough to abandon himself to such operations is predisposed to all chimeras and all phantoms. hence the recipe of the grand grimoire is most efficacious, but we advise none of our readers to test it. 76 chapter xiv transmutations st. augustus speculates, as we have said, whether apuleius could have been changed into an ass and then have resumed his human shape. the same doctor might have concerned himself equally with the adventure of the comrades of ulysses, transformed into swi

in, like the ancient druidesses of the isle of sayne. had nature endowed her with beauty, she might have played easily at a remoter epoch the part of a melusine or a velleda. the more ceremonies are employed in the practice of divination, the more we stimulate imagination both in ourselves and in those who consult us. the conjuration of the four, the prayer of solomon, the magic sword to disperse phantoms, may then be resorted to with success; we should also evoke the genius of the day and hour of operation, and offer him a special perfume; next we should enter into magnetic and intuitive correspondence with the consultant, inquiring with what animal he is in sympathy and with what in antipathy, as also concerning his favourite flower or colour. flowers, colours and animals connect in anal

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yed by my feet. the image of footbinding stayed with her _goddamn chinese, she mused, echoing wilson's ghost "life is so easy for some people" she had wept into gibreel farishta's arms "why don't _their_ blasted feet give out" he had kissed her forehead "for you, it may always be a struggle" he said "you want it too damn much" the class was waiting for her, growing impatient with all this talk of phantoms. they wanted _the_ story, her story. they wanted to stand on the mountain-top _do you know how it feels, she wanted to ask them _to have the whole of your life concentrated into one moment, a few hours long? do you know what it's like when the only direction is down "i was in the second pair with sherpa pemba" she said "the weather was perfect, perfect. so clear you felt you could look ri

very direction around the underground of the city of london and rekha merchant found him wherever he went; she sat beside him on the endless up-escalator at oxford circus and in the tightly packed elevators of tufnell park she rubbed up against him from behind in a manner that she would have thought quite outrageous during her lifetime. on the outer reaches of the metropolitan line she hurled the phantoms of her children from the tops of claw--like trees, and when he came up for air outside the bank of england she flung herself histrionically from the apex of its neo--classical pediment. and even though he did not have any idea of the true shape of that most protean and chameleon of cities he grew convinced that it kept changing shape as he ran around beneath it, so that the stations on th

the woman was saying, taking his silence for uncertainty- and revealing, by slipping into an overarticulated, over-loud mode of delivery, that she thought him not quite pukka, a levantine angel, maybe, cypriot or greek, in need of her best talking--to--the--afflicted voice "if they came over and filled up wherever you come from, well! you wouldn't like _that" o o o punched in the nose, taunted by phantoms, given alms instead of reverence, and in divers ways shewn the depths to wihich the denizens of the city had sunk, the intransigence of "the evil manifest there, gibreel became more determined than ever to commence the doing of good, to initiate the great work of rolling back the frontiers of the adversary's dominion. the atlas in his pocket was his master-plan. he would redeem the city s

ing house, saladin chamcha, looking in her direction, saw a blazing fire burning in the centre of her forehead; and felt, in the same moment, the beating, and the icy shadow, of a pair of gigantic wings- he experienced the kind of blurring associated with double vision, seeming to look into two worlds at once; one was the brightly lit, no-smoking-allowed meeting hall, but the other was a world of phantoms, in which azraeel, the exterminating angel, was swooping towards him, and a girl's forehead could burn with ominous flames _she's death to me, that's what it means, chamcha thought in one of the two worlds, while in the other he told himself not to be foolish; the room was full of people wearing those inane tribal badges that had latterly grown so popular, green neon haloes, devil-horns p

SATANIC RITUALS

: o sad fraternity, do i unfold your dolorous mysteries shrouded from of yore? nay, be assured; no secret can be told to any who divined it not before: none uninitiate by many a presage will comprehend the language of the message, although proclaimed aloud of evermore. and yet a man who raves, however mad, who bares his heart and tells of his own fall, reserves some inmost secret good or bad: the phantoms have no reticence at all: the nudity of flesh will blush though tameless, the extreme nudity of bone grins shameless, the unsexed skeleton mocks shroud and pall the vilest thing must be less vile than thou from whom it had its being, god and lord! creator of all woe and sin! abhorred, malignant and implacable! i vow "that not for all thy power furled and unfurled, for all the temples to t

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y. degradation: poverty, terrible life conditions. paradox: contradiction. speculation: guesswork. demonstrable: provable. immolation: killing as a sacrifice, usually by burning. ascertain: learn. futile: useless. omnipotence: allpowerfulness. 198 world religions: primary sources the philosophy of atheism reason has dispelled the theistic nightmare, but poverty, misery and fear have recreated the phantoms. atheism, on the other hand, in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of god, but it refuses all servitude to the god idea, and opposes the theistic principle as such. gods in their individual function are not half as pernicious as the principle of theism which represents the belief in a supernatural, or even omnipotent, power to rule the earth and man

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

effects of music, airs and tunes often come back, in the commonest pursuits of life, to vex, as it were, and haunt them. the music, once admitted to the soul, becomes also a sort of spirit, and never dies. it wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air. now at times, then, these phantoms of sound floated back upon her fancy; if gay, to call a smile from every dimple; if mournful, to throw a shade upon her brow, to make her cease from her childishmirth, and sit apart and muse. rightly, then, in a typical sense, might this fair creature, so airy in her shape, so harmonious in her beauty, so unfamiliar in her ways and thoughts, rightly might she be called a daughter, less of

been sought for by a thousand restless yearnings and vague desires, less of the heart than mind; not as when youth discovers the one to be beloved, but rather as when the student, long wandering after the clew to some truth in science, sees it glimmer dimly before him, to beckon, to recede, to allure, and to wane again. she fell at last into unquiet slumber, vexed by deformed, fleeting, shapeless phantoms; and, waking, as the sun, through a veil of hazy cloud, glinted with a sickly ray across the casement, she heard her father settled back betimes to his one pursuit, and calling forth from his familiar a low mournful strain, like a dirge over the dead "and why" she asked, when she descended to the room below "why, my father, was your inspiration so sad, after the joy of last night "i know

s were current in every mouth; when the salon of a philosophical deist was converted into an heraclea, in which necromancy professed to conjure up the shadows of the dead; when the crosier and the book were ridiculed, and mesmer and cagliostro were believed. in that heliacal rising, heralding the new sun before which all vapours were to vanish, stalked from their graves in the feudal ages all the phantoms that had flitted before the eyes of paracelsus and agrippa. dazzled by the dawn of the revolution, glyndon was yet more attracted by its strange accompaniments; and natural it was with him, as with others, that the fancy which ran riot amidst the hopes of a social utopia, should grasp with avidity all that promised, out of the dusty tracks of the beaten science, the bold discoveries of so

you. nobody cares for us when we grow ugly, i know that; and then you must, like old gionetta, get some viola of your own to spoil. i'll go and see to the polenta "since i have known this man" said the girl, half aloud "since his dark eyes have haunted me, i am no longer the same. i long to escape from myself, to glide with the sunbeam over the hill-tops; to become something that is not of earth. phantoms float before me at night; and a fluttering, like the wing of a bird, within my heart, seems as if the spirit were terrified, and would break its cage" while murmuring these incoherent rhapsodies, a step that she did not hear approached the actress, and a light hand touched her arm "viola! bellissima! viola" she turned, and saw glyndon. the sight of his fair young face calmed her at once

at violates nature) exists not: it is but the science by which nature can be controlled. now, in space there are millions of beings not literally spiritual, for they have all, like the animalculae unseen by the naked eye, certain forms of matter, though matter so delicate, air-drawn, and subtle, that it is, as it were, but a film, a gossamer that clothes the spirit. hence the rosicrucian's lovely phantoms of sylph and gnome. yet, in truth, these races and tribes differ more widely, each from each, than the calmuc from the greek, differ in attributes and powers. in the drop of water you see how the animalculae vary, how vast and terrible are some of those monster mites as compared with others. equally so with the inhabitants of the atmosphere: some of surpassing wisdom, some of horrible mal

ured of life as to care only to live on, no matter for what ends, recruiting the nerves and veins with the alchemist's vivifying elixir, why seek these dangers from the intermediate tribes? because the very elixir that pours a more glorious life into the frame, so sharpens the senses that those larvae of the air become to thee audible and apparent; so that, unless trained by degrees to endure the phantoms and subdue their malice, a life thus gifted would be the most awful doom man could bring upon himself. hence it is, that though the elixir be compounded of the simplest herbs, his frame only is prepared to receive it who has gone through the subtlest trials. nay, some, scared and daunted into the most intolerable horror by the sights that burst upon their eyes at the first draft, have fou

ng for us poor rogues. after all, too, i always devote a tithe of my gains to the virgin; and i share the rest charitably with the poor. but eat, drink, enjoy yourself; be absolved by your confessor for any little peccadilloes and don't run too long scores at a time, that's my advice. your health, excellency! pshaw, signor, fasting, except on the days prescribed to a good catholic, only engenders phantoms "phantoms "yes; the devil always tempts the empty stomach. to covet, to hate, to thieve, to rob, and to murder, these are the natural desires of a man who is famishing. with a full belly, signor, we are at peace with all the world. that's right; you like the partridge! cospetto! when i myself have passed two or three days in the mountains, with nothing from sunset to sunrise but a black c

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had been taken. technological advances in photography have managed to eliminate many such objections and, at the same time, created many more. with modern 10-second processing of film and the use of an observer s own camera, the opportunity for trickery in the seance room has been greatly lowered. but computer technology has been able to create seamless photographs of an endless array of ghosts, phantoms, and spirit forms. ghost sites and spirit photographs are popular on the internet and available for scrutiny by skeptic and believer alike. perhaps the ultimate in seance phenomena is the materialization of a spirit form that is in some way recognizable to one or more of the sitters. this is often accomplished through the utilization of a cabinet from which the materialized spirit emerges

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came the author of geuu. format the gale encyclopedia of the unusual and unexplained consists of fourteen broad-subject chapters covering a wide range of high-interest topics: afterlife mysteries; mediums and mystics; religious phenomena; mystery religions and cults; secret societies; magic and sorcery; prophecy and divination; objects of mystery and power; places of mystery and power; ghosts and phantoms; mysterious creatures; mysteries of the mind; superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends; and invaders from outer space. each chapter begins with an overview that summarizes the chapter s concept in a few brief sentences. then the chapter exploration provides a complete outline of the chapter, listing all topics and subtopics therein, so that the user can understand the int

y wife sherry hansen steiger for her tireless compiling of the glossaries, her efforts in writing sidebars, her invaluable talents as a researcher, her patience and love, and her always providing a shoulder to cry on during the all-night writing sessions. brad e. steiger 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 xx introduction chapter 10 ghosts and phantoms there is not a single culture on planet earth that does not have its ghost stories. paleolithic cave paintings depicting the human body surviving physical death indicate that this belief is many thousands of years old. in this chapter the universality of accounts of the manifestation of ghostly entities is explored. 1 chapter exploration ghostly beings animal spirits apparitions autoscopy

a single culture on planet earth that does not have its ghost stories. paleolithic cave paintings depicting the human body surviving physical death indicate that this belief is many thousands of years old. in this chapter the universality of accounts of the manifestation of ghostly entities is explored. 1 chapter exploration ghostly beings animal spirits apparitions autoscopy ghosts of the living phantoms poltergeists spirits of the dead spooklights famous haunted houses and places bell witch s cave borley rectory calvados castle epworth rectory general wayne inn the gray man of hinton ampner myrtles plantation the tedworth drummer the whaley house ghosts in the movies spontaneous human combustion (shc) introduction aghost is believed to be a physical manifestation of the surviving spirit

ed. the spirit form of the ghost may appear as a mistlike, amorphous mass; a lifelike, but transparent, image of a person; or an exact physical replica of an individual known to be dead. even if the person represented by the manifestation is well known or loved by those who encounter its presence, the appearance of a ghost most often provokes feelings of fear or awe. although the terms ghosts and phantoms are generally interchangeable in popular usage, many psychical researchers who specialize in such areas of the unknown draw the distinction that phantoms are most often associated with locales that over the years have built up unique atmospheres, such as places of battle, tragedy, or great suffering. in such hauntings, certain ethereal figures may be reported so often over so many years t

tragedy, or great suffering. in such hauntings, certain ethereal figures may be reported so often over so many years that they seem almost to have assumed an independent life force that has enabled them to continue to exist within the context of a specific battlefield, the ruins of a burned building, or the shadowed places in a hospital corridor. in this chapter the many categories of ghosts and phantoms will be explored, such as apparitions of the dead, the possibility of animal spirits, the phenomenon of spooklights, and the disrupting energy of the poltergeist, a noisy, rambunctious ghost. in addition, the details of such classic hauntings as the bell witch s cave, the borley rectory, the whaley house, and the myrtle plantation will be examined. a gallup poll conducted in may 2001 reve

tles. barnes& noble.com carries 8,102 books with the key words ghost stories. and then there is the internet. there are more than 650,000 websites devoted to the topics of ghosts and hauntings. in spite of such remarkable interest in ghosts by a large segment of the general public, one of the main reasons why neither science nor society at large has seriously considered the question of ghosts and phantoms is the lack of what scientists consider to be tangible physical evidence that proves that there is anything other than a void waiting for humans upon death. skeptics remain untouched by the most moving, frightening, or inspirational anecdotes of personal encounters with spirits, and even the most open-minded of contemporary scientists are reluctant to get involved in ghost hunting for fea

in ghost hunting for fear of tarnishing their shields of objectivity. and since ghosts are allegedly spirits of the once-living who have survived physical death, many scientists wish to avoid what they believe to be areas that transgress into abstract and esoteric elements of faith and religion. 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 2 ghosts and phantoms poltergeist movie (the kobal collection) but however relentlessly science strives to ignore the evidence for ghosts or to deny the existence of a life after death, the more popular ghost stories seem to become among the general public. the more that science seeks to demystify the world, the more that average people wish to retain a sense of mystery and wonder through belief in ghosts and

ed their occupancy in short order after a night or two in the haunted house. in the jargon of parapsychology the branch of behavioral science that undertakes to examine such phenomena a ghost is usually a stranger to the one who perceives it while an apparition is well known by the one who sees it 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 ghosts and phantoms 3 psychoanalyst dr. carl jung claimed to have a personal encounter with a ghost. and is instantly recognizable as the image of a parent, sibling, or friend. an apparition usually appears at some time of crisis most often that of physical death and usually appears only once. in the records of parapsychology and psychical research there are also accounts of experimental cases in which indiv

escribed ghosts in all the cultures of the world. these post-mortem appearances of the dead, in which a recognized ghostly image is seen or heard long after the actual person represented by the apparition has died, are felt by many observers and researchers to prove survival of the human spirit beyond the grave. ghosts or apparitions that habitually appear in a room, house, or locale are known as phantoms, eerie phenomena that often appear over the years to attain a life force of their own, as if they were some kind of psychic marionettes. although people have been reporting seeing ghosts and the spirits of the dead since the earliest historical records of human activity, the 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 4 ghosts and phantoms gho

tml. steinour, harold. exploring the unseen world. new york: citadel press, 1959. tyrrell, g. n. m. apparitions. new york: collier books, 1963. animal spirits just as a large percentage of the population of all cultures believe that the ghosts of the dearly departed members of their human families 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 ghosts and phantoms 5 apoltergeist is a projection of psychic energy. might appear to them, so also do many individuals maintain that they have witnessed the spirit of a beloved pet return to a person or a place after physical death. one of the most beloved authors of dog stories, albert payson terhune (1872 1942, was a great animal lover who kept dozens of pets in sunnybank, his estate near pompton lakes, n

said that even the other dogs were able to sense the presence of old rex. one of the collies that had always been careful to keep his distance from the big scar-faced crossbreed continued to skirt very carefully around the rug where rex had always sat waiting for his master to sit down to write. 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 6 ghosts and phantoms native american dressed like an animal spirit (corbis corporation) tulsa, oklahoma, attorney m. jean holmes is not an animal activist, but her extensive study of the bible for her book do dogs go to heaven (1999) convinced her that the distinction between humans and animals alleged to be found in scripture is the result of an old translator s philosophical construction. in her opinion, an

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came the author of geuu. format the gale encyclopedia of the unusual and unexplained consists of fourteen broad-subject chapters covering a wide range of high-interest topics: afterlife mysteries; mediums and mystics; religious phenomena; mystery religions and cults; secret societies; magic and sorcery; prophecy and divination; objects of mystery and power; places of mystery and power; ghosts and phantoms; mysterious creatures; mysteries of the mind; superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends; and invaders from outer space. each chapter begins with an overview that summarizes the chapter fs concept in a few brief sentences. then the chapter exploration provides a complete outline of the chapter, listing all topics and subtopics therein, so that the user can understand the in

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

and pellatis, ho, ho' andimmediately we fly away wherever we would."one of the earliest references to the ritual riding of witches is in the decree attributed to the council ofancyra in the ninth century.[67] the decree does not mention that the witches flew through the air, but itstates definitely that they rode on animals "certain wicked women, reverting to satan, and seduced by theillusion and phantoms of demons, believe and profess that they ride at night with diana on certain beasts,with an innumerable multitude of women, passing over immense distances, obeying her commands as theirmistress, and evoked by her on certain nights. that such a decree should have been made is proof that ritualriding was well known and considered a heathenish practice.the first witch recorded to have been t

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

thou didst wish to know, and in order to possess, thou didst brave all the thunders, and affronted every abyss! intelligence, o thou, whom we poor sinners have loved to madness, to scandal, to reprobation! divine right of man, essence and soul of liberty, hail unto thee! for they have pursued thee, in trampling beneath their feet for thee the dearest dreams of their imagination, the best beloved phantoms of their heart! for thee, they have been repulsed and proscribed, for thee they have suffered prison, nakedness, hunger, thirst, the desertion of those whom they loved, and the dark temptations of despair! thou wast their right, and they have conquered thee! now they can weep and believe, now they can submit themselves and pray! repentant cain would have been greater than abel: it is lawf

light, being the mediating principle between the ideas and the forms, is obedient to the extraordinary leaps of the soul which seeks the unknown, and furnishes it naturally with the signs already found, but forgotten, of the great revelations of occultism. thus are formed the pretended signatures of spirits, thus were produced the mysterious writings of gablidone, who appeared to dr. lavater, the phantoms of schroepfer, of st. michel- vintras, and the spirits of mr. home. if electricity can move a light, or even a heavy body, without one touching it, is it impossible to give by magnetism a direction to electricity, and to produce, thus naturally, signs and writings? one can do it, doubtless; because one does it. 197 thus, then, to those who ask us "what is the most important agent of mirac

his dreams; if this light overcomes him, if he drowns his understanding in the forms which he evokes, he is mad. but the fluidic atmosphere of madmen is often a poison for tottering reason and for exalted imaginations. the forms which the over-excited imagination produces 218 in order to lead astray the understanding, are as real as photographic images. one could not see what does not exist. the phantoms of dreams, and even the dreams of the waking, are then real images which exist in the light. there exist, besides these, contagious hallucinations. but we here affirm something more than ordinary hallucinations. if the images attracted by diseased brains are in some sense real, can they not throw them without themselves, as real as they relieve them? these images projected by the complete

t implies a contradiction in terms. but to deem that such or such apparitions, such or such sensations, are produced, is simply to be sincere, and to mock 223 the mockery of the normal man, even when these normal men are as witty as this or that editor of this or that comic journal. these phenomena of the light which produce apparitions always appear at epochs when humanity is in labour. they are phantoms of the delirium of the world-fever; it is the hysteria of a bored society. virgil tells us in fine verse that in the time of caesar rome was full of spectres; in the time of vespasian the gates of the temple of jerusalem opened of themselves, and a voice was heard crying "the gods depart" now, when the gods depart, the devils return. religious feeling transforms itself into superstition w

e midst of the agitations of all the fanaticisms (for incredulity also has its own, and judge after having examined. to preserve one's reason in the midst of madmen, one's faith in the midst of superstitions, one's dignity in the midst of buffoons, and one's independence among the sheep of panurge, is of all miracles the rarest, the finest, and the most difficult to accomplish. chapter iv fluidic phantoms and their mysteries the ancients gave different names to these: larvae, lemures (empuses. they loved the vapour of shed blood, and fled from the blade of the sword. theurgy evoked them, and the qabalah recognized them under the name of elementary spirits. they were not spirits, however, for they were mortal. they were fluidic coagulations which one could destroy by dividing them. there we

ame of elementary spirits. they were not spirits, however, for they were mortal. they were fluidic coagulations which one could destroy by dividing them. there were a sort of animated mirages, imperfect emanations of human life. the traditions of black magic say that they were born owing to the celibacy of adam. paracelsus says that the vapours of the blood of hysterical women people the air with phantoms; and these ideas are so ancient, that 226 we find traces of them in hesiod, who expressly forbids that linen, stained by a pollution of any sort, should be dried before a fire. persons who are obsessed by phantoms are usually exalted by too rigorous celibacy, or weakened by excesses. fluidic phantoms are the abortions of the vital light; they are plastic media without body and without spi

ed sea. the jews form in a close column, and run towards the sea; the rear ranks push the front ranks frantically: they think they see the pretended mosses walk upon the water. a shocking disaster resulted: almost all that multitude was drowned, and the hallucination was only extinguished with the life of the greater number of those unhappy visionaries. human thought creates what it imagines; the phantoms of superstition project their deformities on the astral light, and live upon the same terrors which give them birth. that black giant which reaches its wings from east to west to hide the light from the world, that monster who devours souls, that frightful divinity of ignorance and fear- in a word, the devil- is still, for a great multitude of children of all ages, a frightful reality. in

f, and the law of nature. 236 axiom x it is by the will that the intelligence sees. if the will is healthy, the sight is just. god said "let there be light" and light is; the will says "let the world be as i will to see it" and the intelligence sees it as the will has willed. this is the meaning of the word "so be it<amen> which confirms acts of faith. axiom xi when one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intelligence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them. axiom xii to affirm and to will what ought to be is to create; to affirm and will what ought not to be, is to destroy. axiom xiii light<
se it is the victor of light, and immortality is the triumph of light because it will be the recompense and crown of genius. but all spirits do not see with justness, because all hearts do not will with justice. there are souls for whom the true light seems to have no right to be. they content themselves with phosphorescent visions, abortions of light, hallucinations of thought; and, loving these phantoms, fear the day which will put them to flight, because they feel that, the day not being made for their eyes, they would fall back into a deeper darkness. it is thus that fools first fear, then calumniate, insult, pursue and condemn the sages. one must pity them, and pardon them, for they know not what they do. true light rests and satisfies the soul; hallucination, on the contrary, tires i

s 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 their soul! woe unto them who wear themselves out to nourish falsehood and to fatten death! for every one will reap the harvest of his own sowing. there are some unquiet and tormented creature whose influence is disturbing and whose

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ne and guiding principle. this is one reason magicians stress that it is important to keep the spirit point of the pentagram facing upward. to reverse it would be to subject spirit to the governance of matter. thus the inverted pentagram signifies chaos and evil. levi states that: the pentagram signifies the domination of the mind over the elements, and the demons of air, the spirits of fire, the phantoms of water and ghosts of earth are enchained by this sip.10 elsewhere levi reiterates that "the elementary spirits are subservient to this sign when employed with understanding."i1 he continues: if it be asked how a sign can exercise so much power over spirits, we inquire in turn why the christian world bows before the sign of the cross. the sign is nothing by itself and has no force apart

ity power, and justice. the awesome energy of geburah can strike fear into the minds of negative powers and those who do not understand its harsh, purifying, and equilibrating power. eliphas levi tells us that the pentagram is a potent sign that extends its power over the elementary intelligences that inhabit the astral realms: the pentagram .exercises a great influence upon spirits and terrifies phantoms.15 the pentagram 287 however, to the magician who uses it with a divine intent, the pentagram is a potent symbol of strength and justice. the pentagram has always been misunderstood and feared by those who do not comprehend its sacred meaning: we proceed to the explanation and consecration of the sacred and mysterious pentagram. at this point, let the ignorant and superstitious close the

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

walked around the bed and stood right over me" linda declared "i screamed again and hid under the covers. when i looked up again, he was gone "she came running into my room" mrs. lilly said "she cried, there is a man in my room! there is' she's refused to sleep alone ever since" when i asked for a description of the stranger, linda said she thought he had been wearing a "checkered shirt" bedroom phantoms in checkered shirts are old hat to investigators of psychic phenomena. i have come upon this again and again. so often that i have written long articles about it. in some cases these ghosts-in-plaid are accompanied by the odor of hydrogen sulfide and sudden chills or sudden blasts of heat, while other episodes are probably purely hypnopompic. that is, they are the residue of dreams which

that. and then we saw a tall man in the field. we all saw him climb over the fence and cross behind our car. we thought it was you coming back. then your flashlight went on way out in the field and we knew it wasn't you. we ran the windows up and locked the doors and waited for you to come back" i had certainly not seen anyone else in that field. had their eyes been playing tricks? or were there phantoms on that hilltop? that weekend i drove into ohio to check out some of the many weird events happening there. one of my all-time favorites happened in the little village of duncan falls. here is the verbatim entry from my journal: sometime in late october 1966 (witness does not remember exact date) mr. leonard "shy" elmore, 72, duncan falls, ohio, was taking a stroll around 4 a.m. when he e

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

one gives strenght to my arms! may gibil, the lord of fire, givepower to my magick! injustice, murder, freezing of the loins, rending of the bowels, devouring of the flesh, and madness in all ways hast thou persecuted me! mad god of chaos! may girra free me! azag-thoth ta ardata! ia marduk! ia marduk! ia asalluxi! you have chosen me for a corpse. you have delivered me to the skull. you have sent phantoms to haunt me. you have send vampires to haunt me. to the wandering ghosts of the wastes, have you delivered me. to the phantoms of the fallen ruins, have you delivered me. to the deserts, the wastes, the forbidden lands, you have handed me over. open thy mouth in sorceries against me no more! i have handed thine image over into the flames of gibil! burn, mad fiend! boil, mad god! may the b

THE SHADOWED ONES

kiss of the devil-prince who is your initiator of dreams and death. by the north west point of the circle can you call now forth azrael who is a gatherer of ghosts and shades of the dead. listen to the twilight call of the boneways of the gateway. in your skull temple of cain and lilith does witchblood flow and gather what you may become. let jasmine bloom now under the light of the moon and the phantoms of what once was join in this mighty circle 7 by the west can the leviathanic dragon be heard, who devours his being and time itself. let the timeless daemon envenom you with the dreams of those who walk the earth since the times of burning sand and mountains, to the gardens of green and the cradle of birth. leviathan emerge, leviathan bring to union samael shaitan and his bride, lilith i

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

ought into reciprocal relationship to it. if the outer world is an illusion, then the inner world of self is but a delusion, a mere mirrored reflection of shadows cast by some blinding sun; so hope some of us, as orpheus did when he sang: this world is shadow-shapen of the bitterness of pain. vain are the little lamps of love! the light of life is vain! life, death, joy, sorrow, age and youth are phantoms of a further truth. h *the argonauts, iv, vol. ii, p. 110. this is but the chant of the brahmin and the buddhist as it has risen and fallen over the east for hundreds and thousands of years. there no sun shines, no moon, nor glimmering star, nor yonder lightning, the fire of earth is quenched, from him, who alone shines, all else borrows its brightness, the whole world bursts into splendo

the sweet presence of a good diffus fd and in diffusion ever more intense! so shall i join the choir invisible whose music is the gladness of the world. in the song of orpheus we listen to the glittering and mystic consummation of bliss: this world is shadow-shapen of the bitterness of pain. vain are the little lamps of love! the light of life is vain! life, death, joy, sorrow, age and youth are phantoms of a further truth. beyond the splendour of the world, false glittering of the gold, a serpent is in slumber curled in wisdom fs sacred cold. life is the flaming of that flame. death is the naming of that name. that star upon the serpent fs head is called the soul of man: that light in shadows subtly shed the glamour of life fs plan. the sea whereon that lotus grows is thought fs abyss of

dhi itself acts somewhat like this. but hasheesh produces at times under certain conditions severe suffering, and the yogi does not undergo such, for he leaves it in his wake. hasheesh may in some way be the loosener of the girders of the soul,*1. but this is all. huxley says: gthe influence of diet on dreams; of stimulants upon the fulness and the velocity of the stream of thought; the delirious phantoms generated by disease, by hashish, or by alcohol; will occur to everyone as examples of the marvellous sensitiveness of the apparatus of ideation to purely physical influences. h*2 *1. the girders of the soul which give her breathing are easy to be loosed. chaldean oracles, psell. 32, pleth. 8 *2. huxley fs hume, p. 106. not by the pipings of a bird in skies of blue on fields of gold, but

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

e will acquire dominion over it, in proportion as its first principles are more directly brought into action. on all common subjects, this dominion of passion and prejudice is restrained by the evidence of sense and perception; but, when the mind is led to the contemplation of things beyond its comprehension, all such restraints vanish: reason has then m 14 on the worship nothing to oppose to the phantoms of imagination, which acquire terrors from their obscurity, and dictate uncontrolled, because unknown. such is the case in all religious subjects, which, being beyond the reach of sense or reason, are always embraced or rejected with violence and heat. men think they know, because they are sure they feel; and are firmly convinced, because strongly agitated. hence proceed that haste and vi

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

r's piece."123 yeats did not share mathers' opinion that the secret chiefs with whom he communicated were living human beings. on the contrary, he expressed the view in his autobiographies that they were thought-forms created and given tangible reality by the intense concentration of mathers. once, when mathers told me that he had met his teachers in some great crowd, and only knew that they were phantoms by a shock that was like an electrical shock to his heart, i asked him how he knew he was not deceived or hallucinated. he said "i had been visited by one of them the other night, and i followed him out, and followed him down the little lane to the right. presently i fell over the milk-boy, and the milk-boy got in a rage because he said that not only i but the man in front had fallen over

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

cal account entitled secrets of the kaula circle, which describes a mysterious englishman calling himself by the number 666, who engages in the most esoteric tantric rites: i met a european who..called himself by a number. in the beginning he was extremely handsome, afterwards he grew gross..he had many women at his disposal. he learnt many magical processes by which he drew into his circle great phantoms..666 wore a ceremonial robe, had a pentacle, a wand a sword and a cup."lxxxii at least one author has taken this to be positive proof that crowley had intimate knowledge of and experience in tantric practice.lxxxiii however, given the fact that sharpe's novel was published at a time when crowley's reputation as a pervert, black magician and drug fiend was quite widespread, it seems equall

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

s tres elementos principios. y este es el i.a.o. y tales son: el azufre, el mercurio y la sal, contenidos en los cuatro elementos de la naturaleza. y en stos tres "elementos principios" se encuentran los para sos elementales de la naturaleza. los cabalestas- alquimistas deben aprender como usar el azufre, el mercurio y la sal. 23 the larvas of the astral body (incubi, succubi, basilisks, dragons, phantoms, etc) are destroyed by putting sulfur powder inside of our shoes. sulfur originates invisible vapors that rise in order to disintegrate these types of larvas. malignant forms of thoughts and larvas enclosed within any room are disintegrated when one burns sulfur upon a flaming piece of charcoal. the quicksilver (mercury) is useful to prepare lustral water. the great astrologer nostradamus

four bodies of sin (physical, vital, astral and mental) are controlled by the ego. the ego, the i, is not the divine being of the human being. indeed, the i is the total sum of successive i's, for instance: john the drunkard, john the lover [don juan, john the intellectual, religious john, john the merchant, young john, mature john, john the elder, etc all are a succession of i's, a succession of phantoms that are inevitably condemned to death. the i does not constitute the whole of what the human being is. john fought in the tavern, john is now a religious man, john became a bandit; to that end, every person is a dance of johns, so who is the true john? therefore, if we do not escape from the fallacy of all of those multiple i's, we cannot be sure that we have a real existence. arcano xii

profundo que vives. 87 arcanum 13 let us now study the thirteenth arcanum of tarot. this is the arcanum of death. indeed, death is the return to the womb. life and death are two phenomena of the same kind. death is the remainder of whole numbers. when the mathematical operation is completed, only the values of the consciousness remain. these values, when seen clairvoyantly, look like a legion of phantoms that continue living. the re-encarnation of the values is the mechanism of nature. truly, the soul does not reincarnate, because the human being does not have his soul incarnated yet. only the values re-encarnate themselves. the embryo of the soul the human being only has an embryo of soul; this embryo might be developed and strengthened by means of sexual magic. sometimes this embryo bel

immortalize himself within that body. the astral-christ is born only through sexual magic. those people who generated the astral- christ in past reincarnations retain the memory of their past lives, and know how to enter and exit from the physical body at will. these people are immortal. true identity the common and run-of-the-mill people do not have a true identity, because through them only the phantoms of the pluralized i are expressed. thus, after death the human being is a legion. the soul he who incarnates the soul, acquires true identity. he already is. the human being is still a non-achieved being [a being not yet achieved. the willpower the human being confuses the force of desire with the willpower. we need to generate the christ-will. the laboratorium oratorium the adept and his

ay be able to receive the elixir of long life. it is necessary to create the christic vehicles in order to incarnate the soul. only those who incarnate their soul have the right to receive the wonderful elixir that elevates us to the kingdom of the super-man. serpents scales butterflies chrysalides after each one of the great initiations of major mysteries, the ethereal, astral, mental and causal phantoms are similar to the skin [or scales] that have been discarded by serpents, or as cacoons [chrysalides] that have been discarded by butterflies (after they have flown away. precisely after the great initiations there is a work for humans, angels and gods: to disintegrate the shells and to dissolve the pluralized i (ahamsara) the karmic remnants of the gods, are precisely those phantoms of t

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

mes substituted. sapta rishi, seven sages. sapta kula, 7 castes; sapta loka, seven worlds; sapta para, 7 cities; sapta dwipa, seven holy islands; sapta arania, 7 deserts; sapta parna, 7 human principles; sapta samudra, seven holy seas; sapta vruksha, 7 holy trees. the assyrian tablets also teem with groups of sevens 7 gods of sky, 7 gods of earth, 7 gods of fiery spheres, 7 gods maleficent; seven phantoms, spirits of seven heavens and spirits of seven earths. the chaldean notion seems to have been that 7 was a holy number, which became nefast under certain conditions. the opposite sides of a die added together are always seven in total numeration, the 4 opposite 3, 6 opposite 1, and so on. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott it used to be asserted, sa

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