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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

he free spirit and the renewal of life. he is potent for breaking away from destructive situations or, ironically, bad habits such as alcohol. osiris osiris became one of the most important and popular gods in ancient egypt, mainly because he promised non-royal believers that resurrection and salvation from death were for everyone, poor as well as rich. originally he was identified with each dead pharaoh, and his son horus was identified with the reigning successor. osiris married his sister isis, and his brother seth married isis's sister nephthys. according to legend, osiris was at first made an earthly king by his father geb, the earth god. osiris ruled wisely, teaching his people about agriculture and the arts. but osiris's brother seth was jealous and vowed to kill him. seth invited o

and his colour is gold. gabriel archangel of the moon, the messenger archangel and the heavenly awakener, gabriel appears many times in the bible. he visited the virgin mary and her cousin elizabeth, mother of john the baptist, to tell them that they were to bear sons who would lead mankind to salvation. it was gabriel who parted the waters of the red sea so that the hebrews could escape from the pharaoh's soldiers. gabriel is usually pictured holding a sceptre or lily. to the followers of islam, gabriel is the spirit of truth who dictated the koran to mohammed. gabriel brings wise words of truth and the clear voice that speaks of hope and a new purpose in life, but also compassion and the acceptance of the weaknesses of oneself as well as others. gabriel's protection can be felt with each

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operation there appeareth a man of majestic appearance, who with great affability doth promise unto thee marvellous things. consider all this as pure vanity, for without the permission of god he can give nothing; but he will do it unto the damage and prejudice, ruin and eternal damnation of whomsoever putteth faith in him, and believeth in him; as we may see in the holy scripture in the matter of pharaoh and his adherents, the which despised the veritable and certain wisdom of moses and aaron, and were in the beginning backed up by the devil who showed them by the means of enchantments that he could both do and put in practice all the works of the aforesaid holy men, whence he ultimately did reduce them to, the sacred magic 26 such a condition of obstinacy and blindness, that without perce

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

l, but mixed with the divine. fifty virgins in their silver tissue stood about her shaking their sistrons, as if the laughter of the gods echoed the cries of the woman. by the bed stood the priest of horus with his heavy staff, the phoenix for its head, the prong for its foot. watchful he stood lest sebek should rise from the abyss. on the roof of the palace watched the three chief astrologers of pharaoh with their instruments, and four armed men from the corners of the tower announced each god as it rose. so these three men ached and sweated at their task; for they had become most anxious. all day my birth had been expected; but as toum drew to his setting their faces grew paler than the sky; for there was one dread moment in the night which all their art had failed to judge. the gods tha

irl of love" and it was so. and i went in unto her, and knew her; and in the morning i girded myself, and boarded the state barge of the high priest, and pillowed myself upon gold and purple, and disported myself with lutes and with lyres and with parrots, and with black salves,and with wine and with delicious fruits, until i came even unto the holy city of memphis. and there i called soldiers of pharaoh, and put cruelly to death all them that had accompanied me; and i burnt the barge, adrift upon the nile at sunset, so that the flames alarmed the foolish citizens. all this i did, and danced naked in my madness through the city, until i came to the old magus of the well. and laughing, i threw a stone upon him, crying "ree me the riddle of my life" and he answered naught. then i threw a gre

shamed. but shamed he was not; for he lied, saying that the god glowed page 34 gulf.txt brighter than the sun; and he lied securely, for maat the lady of truth had no place in that temple. to such foulness was all fallen by my first failure to assume the god-form, and their priestly falsehood that my sanctity had rapt me into heaven. nor had the wealth they lied to obtain availed them aught; for pharaoh had descended upon thebai, and laid heavy hand upon the coffers of the temple, so that they were poor. even, they sold good auguries for gold; and these were a very destruction to them that bought. then they sold curses, and sowed discord in the city. wherefore the people grew poorer still, and their gifts to the temple waxed even less. for there is no foolishness like the hunger after gai

his place. thus she made a great banquet for me; and when we were well drunken she laid her head upon my breast and said marvellous things to me of love, to me, who had loved the veiled one! but i feigned all the madness of passion and made her drunk thereon, so that she talked great words, frothing forth like dead fishes swollen in the sun, of how we should rule thebai and (it might be) displace pharaoh and take his throne and sceptre. yet, foolish woman! she could not think now she might remove this stupid high priest, her own nominee! so i answered her "assume the form of osiris, and all will be well in the temple of osiris" mocking her, for i knew that she could not. yet so drunken was she upon love and wine that there and then she performed the ritual of adoration and assumption. then

, and that i should serve them, disguised in my old dress as a serving-man. on the next night after this he came, and i served them, and she made open love (though feigned) to him. yet subtly, so that he thought her the deer and himself the lion. then at last he went clean mad, and said "i will give thee what thou wilt for one kiss of that thy marvellous mouth" then she made him swear the oath by pharaoh- the which if he broke pharaoh would have his head- and she kissed him once, as if her passion were like the passion of nile in flood for the sandy bars that it devoureth, and then leaping up, answered him "give me thine office of high priest for this my lover" with that she took and fondled me. he gaped, aghast; then he took off the ring of office and flung it at her feet; he spat one wor

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

them in ways pertinent to my purpose by projecting my incorporeal idea of ambition in a course of action such as to induce in others the incorporeal idea of satisfying mine. i made my will manifest to sense; sense swayed the wills of my fellowmen; mind wrought on mind through matter. i did not "sit for" a medical baronetcy by wishing i had it, or by an "act of faith, or by praying to god "to move pharaoh's heart, as our modern mental, or our mediaeval, mystic, miracle-mongers were and are muddlers and maudlin enough to advise us to do. a few general observations on the magical link may not be amiss, in default of details; one cannot make a manual of how to go courting, with an open-sesame to each particular brigand's cavern, any more than one can furnish a budding burglar with a directory

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

he temple of solomon in the legend) pyb) mryx 352 the exalted light hl(m rw) long of nose (i.e. merciful: a title of the supreme god (cf. 362) myp) kr) lightnings, flashings myqrb an approach nbrq 353 five h#mx the secret of hwhy is to his fearers (ps. 25:14) wy)ryl hwhy dws delight, joy hxm# 354 grew fat; anointed n#d a temporary remitting h+m# demons myd# 355 thought; idea hb#xm year; sleep hn# pharaoh (derived from the egyptian for ggreat house h) h(rp sphere; number; emanation hryps 356 expiations, atonements myrwpk a young mule rpw( spirits of the living nyyxd nyxwr 357 iniquity)#wn 358 shame hn#g shiloh shall come (gn. 49:10) hly )by gmessiach h: the messiah xy#m the serpent that initiated eve #xn (taking the three hehs in hwhyh) as concealing the mothers# m, we get iota: alpha: omeg

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he that seeketh the vision and the voice therein is led away by dog-faced demons that show no sign of truth, seducing from the sacred mysteries, unless his name be nemo. and hadst thou not been fitted, thou too hadst been led away, for before the gate of the 15th aethyr, is this written: he shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie. and again it is written: the lord hardened pharaoh's heart. and again it is written that god tempteth man. but thou hadst the word and the sign, and thou hadst authority from thy superior, and licence. and thou hast done well in that thou didst not dare, and in that thou dost dare. for daring is not presumption. and he said moreover: thou dost well to keep silence, for i perceive how many questions arise in thy mind; yet already thou knowe

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h was the end of the land-trows, and, although it put a stop to the making of further fairy-stories, it opened up a new hunting-ground for the weaver of romances in the caves beneath the sea. and even where there is no definite tale or detailed legend to tell beside the inglenook, there is sure to be some quaint conceit of metempsychosis which they can whisper when a seal comes near them. was not pharaoh's army turned into a school of seals? and that great white seal, which the fishermen have seen, and whose track is like the wash of an ocean steamer, is that not pharaoh himself? so the stories spread, and the passer-by may take his fill of them, but i, for one, like best of all the tale of gioga's son. and if just one passer-by on hearing it is held from firing just one shot, the tale has

ay take his fill of them, but i, for one, like best of all the tale of gioga's son. and if just one passer-by on hearing it is held from firing just one shot, the tale has not been told in vain. 348 but if ever i see that great white seal, whose track is like the wash of an ocean steamer, i am not quite sure but that i might rise a gun myself. i think it would be rather good fun to have a shot at pharaoh, for i never like the man much. norman roe. 349 ave adonai pale as the night that pales in the dawn's pearl-pure pavilion, i wait for thee, with my dove's breast shuddering, a god its bitter guest- have i not gilded my nails and painted my lips with vermilion? am i not wholly stript of the deeds and thoughts that obscure thee? i wait for thee, my soul distraught with aching for some namele

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st successful attempt to sing the mysteries of mysticism, since blake wrote his 'prophetic books_ the star "undoubtedly one of the most original and most remarkable books of verse published for many years" birmingham daily gazette. the secret of the sphinx: or, the ring of moses. by james smith and john wren sutton. crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. net "a romance founded on the building of the great pyramid by pharaoh and the birth of moses is a distinctly notable addition to modern fiction, and mr. smith and mr. sutton have done their work conscientiously and well. the secret of the sphinx is revealed by a narrative of a curious combination of circumstances, in which the magic ring of moses is given a conspicuous place_ the scotsman "a vividly drawn and fascinating picture of life in egypt and the dese

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eil slowly parts, and" magister templi "is seen standing in shrine. he slowly enters temple" mater coeli "returns to throne, having been blessed and raised by him] magister templi. mother of heaven, beloved of the stars, wherefore hast thou awakened the poison of eld, the dweller in eternity? mater coeli. shabbathai [magister templi "comes down to hell-broth and recites "the eyes of pharaoh] dead pharaoh's eyes from out the tomb burned like twin planets ruby-red. enswathed, enthroned, the halls of gloom echo the agony of the dead. silent and stark the pharaoh sate: no breath went whispering, hushed or scared. only that red incarnate hate through pylon after pylon flared. 7 as in the blood of murdered things the affrighted augur shaking skries earthquake and ruinous fate of kings, famine an

ike twin planets ruby-red. enswathed, enthroned, the halls of gloom echo the agony of the dead. silent and stark the pharaoh sate: no breath went whispering, hushed or scared. only that red incarnate hate through pylon after pylon flared. 7 as in the blood of murdered things the affrighted augur shaking skries earthquake and ruinous fate of kings, famine and desperate destinies, so in the eyes of pharaoh shone the hate and loathing that compel in death 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 pylo

en 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 stroking hands that laid their foul alluring smutch even to the blood's mad sarabands. 8 so did the neophyte that would gaze into dead pharaoh's awful eyes start from incalculable amaze to clutch the initiate's place and prize. he bore the blistering thought aloft: it blazed in battle on his plume: with sage and warrior enfeoffed, he rushed alone through tower and tomb. the myriad men, the cohorts armed, are shred like husks: the ensanguine brand leaps like a flame, a flame encharmed to fire the pyramid heaven-spanned wherein dea

araoh's awful eyes start from incalculable amaze to clutch the initiate's place and prize. he bore the blistering thought aloft: it blazed in battle on his plume: with sage and warrior enfeoffed, he rushed alone through tower and tomb. the myriad men, the cohorts armed, are shred like husks: the ensanguine brand leaps like a flame, a flame encharmed to fire the pyramid heaven-spanned wherein dead pharaoh sits and stares, swathed in the wrappings of the tomb, with eyes whose horror flits and flares like corpse-lights glimmering in the gloom till all's a blaze, one roar of flame, death universal, locked and linked- aha! one names the awful name- the twin red planets are extinct["a pause["the lamp burns out, and darkness covers all [leader of the chorus "secretly removes hell-broth vase" 9 pa

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

painting found in a cave in the ariege district of southern france. it depicts a man clad in a stag's skin, with antlers on his head-the horned god, a symbol of benevolent power in primitive times. another, a man disguised as a jackal, carved on slate, dates back to archaic egypt. in about 1100 b.c. women and officers of the harem of rameses iii were brought to trial for making wax images of the pharaoh to the accompaniment of magic incantations. these images were fith-faths, still used by witches today against their enemies. history shows that, as a new religion succeeds the old, the i gods of the latter are invariably condemned as the devils of the former, and it was thus that the pagan god became the christian devil. ill spite of this, christianity and witchcraft co-existed peaceably f

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

the "sweat-born" 2. kandu is a sage and a yogi, eminent in holy wisdom and pious austerities, which, finally, awaken the jealousy of the gods, who are represented in the hindu scriptures as being in never-ending strife with the ascetics. indra, the "king of the gods* finally sends one of his female apsarasas to tempt the sage. this is no worse than jehovah sending sarah, abraham's wife, to tempt pharaoh; but in truth it is those gods (and god, who are ever trying to disturb ascetics and thus make them lose the fruit of their austerities, who ought to be regarded as "tempting demons" instead of applying the term to the rudras, kumaras, and asuras, whose great sanctity and chastity seem a standing reproach to the don juanic gods of the pantheon. but it is[[footnote(s* vide "vishnu-purana" b

o herself the question "is the story of exodus- in its details at least- as narrated in the old testament, original? or is it, like the story of moses himself and many others, simply another version of the legends told of the atlanteans" for who, upon hearing the story told of the latter, will fail to perceive the great similarity of the fundamental features? the anger of "god" at the obduracy of pharaoh, his command to the "chosen" ones, to spoil the egyptians, before departing, of their "jewels of silver and jewels of gold (exod. xi; and finally the egyptians and their pharaoh drowned in the red sea (xiv. for here is a fragment of the earlier story from the commentary[[footnote(s* vide the first pages of part iii, science and the secret doctrine contrasted[[vol. 2, page] 427 the doom of

lunar terms" until finally reached by the rising waves, they perished to the last man, the soil sinking under their feet and the earth engulfing those who had desecrated her. this sounds a good deal like the original material upon which the similar story in exodus was built many hundred thousands of years later. the biography of moses, the story of his birth, childhood and rescue from the nile by pharaoh's daughter, is now shown to have been adapted from the chaldean narrative about sargon. and if so, the assyrian tile in the british museum being a good proof of it, why not that of the jews robbing the egyptians of their jewels, the death of pharaoh and his army, and so on? the gigantic magicians of ruta and daitya, the "lords of the dark face" may have become in the later narrative the eg

was really married to one of his seven daughters. moses was an initiate, if he ever existed, and as such an ascetic, a nazar, and could never be married. it is an allegory like everything else. zipporah (the shining) is one of the personified occult sciences given by revel-jethro, the midian priest initiator, to moses, his egyptian pupil. the "well" by which moses sat down in his flight from the pharaoh symbolizes the "well of knowledge* in hebrew the phallic symbol lingham and yoni[[vol. 2, page] 466 the secret doctrine. the egg, the six, and the five (see stanza iv, book i) give the numbers 1065, the value of the first born. if it be so, then in 1065 we have the famous jehovah's name, the jve or jave, or jupiter, and by change of[[hebrew] to[[hebrew] or h to n, then[[hebrew] or the lati

e; as the very name of the race and its fate is now annihilated from man's memory. bear in mind, that almost every ancient king and priest was an initiate; that from toward the close of the fourth race there had been a feud between the initiates of the right and those of the left path; finally, that the garden of eden is referred to by other personages than the jews of the adamic race, since even pharaoh is compared to the fairest tree of eden by this same ezekiel, who shows "all the trees of eden, the choicest and best of lebanon. comforted in the nether parts of the earth" for "they also went down into hell with him (pharaoh* unto the nether parts, which are in fact the bottom of the ocean, whose floor gaped wide to devour the lands of the atlanteans and themselves. if one bears all this

r in lebanon. his height was exalted above all the trees. the cedars in the garden of god could not hide him. so that all the trees of eden. envied him (ezekiel xxxi. 3-9. throughout all asia minor, the initiates were called the "trees of righteousness" and the cedars of lebanon, as also were some kings of israel. so were the great adepts in india, but only the adepts of the[[footnote(s* the only pharaoh whom the bible shows going down into the red sea was the king who pursued the israelites, and who remained unnamed, for very good reasons, perhaps. the story was surely made up from the atlantean legend[[vol. 2, page] 495 various names for initiates. left hand. when vishnu purana narrates that "the world was overrun with trees" while the prachetasas- who "passed 10,000 years of austerity i

or at the utmost, three keys; hence the causes and their effects worked in invisible or mystic as well as psychic nature, and were made referable to metaphysics and psychology as much as to physiology "the principle of sevening- as the author says "was introduced, and the number seven supplied a sacred type that could be used for manifold purposes; and it was so used. for "the seven souls of the pharaoh are often mentioned in the egyptian texts. seven souls or principles in man were identified by our british druids. the rabbins also ran the number of souls up to seven; so, likewise, do the karens of india" and then, the author tabulates the two teachings- the esoteric and the egyptian- and shows that the latter had the same series and in the same order (esoteric) indian. egyptian. 1. rupa

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

istory and fact subservient to his[[footnote(s* so little acquainted are our greatest egyptologists with the funerary rites of the egyptians and the outward marks of the difference of sexes made on the mummies, that it has led to the most ludicrous mistakes. only a year or two since, one of that kind was discovered at boulaq, cairo. the mummy of what had been considered the wife of an unimportant pharaoh, has turned out, thanks to an inscription found on an amulet hung on his neck, to be that of sesostris- the greatest king of egypt[[vol. 1, page] xxx introductory. own conclusions, which may be very "scientific" in the sight of oriental scholars, but yet very wide of the mark of actual truth. the conflicting views on the subject of chronology, in the case of the vedas, of the various emine

4th and 5th sub-races (the mongolo-turanian and the indo-european, so-called, after the sinking of the great continent- could only accept its symbology in the spirit which was given to it by the nations from which it was derived. perchance, in the mosaic beginnings, that symbology was not as crude as it became later under the handling of ezra, who remodelled the whole pentateuch. for the glyph of pharaoh's daughter (the woman, the nile (the great deep and water, and the baby-boy found floating therein in the ark of rushes, has not been primarily composed for, or by, moses. it has been found anticipated in the babylonian fragments on the tiles, in the story of king sargon* who lived far earlier than moses. now, what is the logical inference? most assuredly that which gives us the right to s

s its innermost significance, has now passed entirely into christian theology and dogma! whether the early fathers of the church knew the esoteric meaning of the hebrew (old) testament, or whether only a few of them were aware of it, while the others remained ignorant of the secret, is for[[footnote(s* the same idea is carried out exoterically in the incidents of egypt. the lord god tempts sorely pharaoh and "plagues him with great plagues" lest the king should escape punishment, and thus afford no pretext for one more triumph to his "chosen people[[vol. 1, page] 384 the secret doctrine. posterity to decide. one thing is certain, at any rate. as the esotericism of the new testament agrees perfectly with that of the hebrew mosaic books; and since, at the same time, a number of purely egypti

names in india begin with this letter generally- from mahat, the first manifested intellect, and mandara, the great mountain used by the gods to churn the ocean, down to mandakin, the heavenly ganga (ganges, manu, etc, etc. shall this be called a coincidence? a strange one it is then, indeed, when we find even moses- found in the water of the nile- having the symbolical consonant in his name. and pharaoh's daughter "called his name moses. because" she said "i drew him out of water (exod. ii, 10* besides which the hebrew sacred name of god applied to this letter m is meborach, the "holy" or the "blessed" and the name for the water of the flood is m'bul. a reminder of the "three maries" at the crucifixion and their connection with mar, the sea, or water, may close this example. this is why i

ied jehovah) and his incarnated redeemer (the good serpent, etc, etc; even to identifying typhon with the wicked dragon of the garden of eden, and this passes as serious and sober science[[vol. 1, page] 400 the secret doctrine. the egyptians hathor, another aspect of isis* and both of these goddesses are shown suckling horus. behold in the egyptian hall of the british museum, hathor worshipped by pharaoh thotmes, who stands between her and the lord of heavens. the monolith was taken from karnac; and the same goddess has the following legend inscribed on her throne "the divine mother and lady, or queen of heaven; also "the morning star" and the "light of the sea (stella matutina and lux maris. all the lunar goddesses had a dual aspect- one divine, the other infernal. all were the virgin mot

minds are pure, behold this whole world as one with divine knowledge, as one with thee, o god! be favourable, o universal spirit[[vol. 1, page] 422 the secret doctrine. respective opponents and foes- the demons. thus while (according to the kabalists) jehovah assumes the shape of the tempting serpent in the garden of eden; sends satan with a special mission to tempt job; and harasses and wearies pharaoh with sarai, abraham's wife, and "hardens" his heart against moses, lest there should be no opportunity for plaguing his victims "with great plagues (genesis xii, exodus- vishnu is made in his purana to resort to a trick no less unworthy of any respectable god "have compassion upon us, o lord, and protect us, who have come to thee for succour from the daityas (demons" pray the defeated gods

BLUE EQUINOX

elling through eternity, and in thy sight the landmarks are of fair white marble untouched by the tool of the graver. therefore thou art mine, even now and for ever and for everlasting. amen. 58. moreover, i heard the voice of adonai: seal up the book of the heart and the serpent; in the number five and sixty seal thou the holy book. as fine gold that is beaten into a diadem for the fair queen of pharaoh, as great stones that are cemented together into the pyramid of the ceremony of the death of asar, so do thou bind together the words and the deeds, so that in all is one thought of me thy delight adonai. 59. and i answered and said: it is done even according to thy word. and it was done. and they that read the book and debated thereon passed into the desolate land of barren words. and the

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

n "habitations. all these words correspond to the number 310 [144] the meditation on ayin* 1 thus saith he who formulateth in darkness: i am lord, not of light alone. but of darkness also, for i the one am all-pervading. this is a hard saying and a stumbling block to many, yet must ye consider it well and ponder it in your hearts. 2 is it not written in exodus that the lord hardened the heart of pharaoh, and again, in isaiah "i create both the evil and the good? have ye not also read "the eye of the lord is in every place? and david saith" if i descend into sheol, thou art there [147] t h e book o f t o k e n s 3 ayin is that eye, and it is in every place in very truth, because place there is not, save in the manifested, and wherever place is there also are light and darkness, side by sid

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

he free spirit and the renewal of life. he is potent for breaking away from destructive situations or, ironically, bad habits such as alcohol. osiris osiris became one of the most important and popular gods in ancient egypt, mainly because he promised non-royal believers that resurrection and salvation from death were for everyone, poor as well as rich. originally he was identified with each dead pharaoh, and his son horus was identified with the reigning successor. osiris married his sister isis, and his brother seth married isis's sister nephthys. according to legend, osiris was at first made an earthly king by his father geb, the earth god. osiris ruled wisely, teaching his people about agriculture and the arts. but osiris's brother seth was jealous and vowed to kill him. seth invited o

and his colour is gold. gabriel archangel of the moon, the messenger archangel and the heavenly awakener, gabriel appears many times in the bible. he visited the virgin mary and her cousin elizabeth, mother of john the baptist, to tell them that they were to bear sons who would lead mankind to salvation. it was gabriel who parted the waters of the red sea so that the hebrews could escape from the pharaoh's soldiers. gabriel is usually pictured holding a sceptre or lily. to the followers of islam, gabriel is the spirit of truth who dictated the koran to mohammed. gabriel brings wise words of truth and the clear voice that speaks of hope and a new purpose in life, but also compassion and the acceptance of the weaknesses of oneself as well as others. gabriel's protection can be felt with each

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

founds library of alexandria. 300? bce euclid 290 bc alexandria in egypt becomes center of astrological research. eratosthenes, arristyllus and timocharis are its leading astrologers. 285 septuagint, first greek trans. of the o.t. c. 250 bce salmeschiniaka. asrological work lists images and interpretations for each degree of the zodiac. c. 200 bce buddhism comes to central asia. nechepso egyptian pharaoh& petosiris, his priest, said to have invented astrology. astrological textbook bearing their names was written or translated into greek= an encyclopedia of cosmogony, astrology and magic, of which we have citations from the fourteenth book. 200-150 bce the book of the watchers.aramaic. parts of its text have been identified on several copies from qumran cave 4; the earliest fragmentary man

CROSSING THE DESERT

crossing the desert by setnakt the divine formula of xepera xeper xeperu, whose physical form had entered the consciousness of magus aquino from budge's egyptian language, had as its most recent form before budge a spell of slaying apep and knowing the manifestations of re, written the same year that alexander the great died. an earlier form of the spell appears on a statue of ramses iii, second pharaoh of the xxth dynasty, in which ramses iii is depicted as the god khepher. the image of khepher exists at a shrine in the eastern desert, which travelers would stop at before attempting a crossing to the east. ramses iii is a significant figure among setian emperors, because he is described in the great harris papyrus as xu thenru ast ast a ari-f em suten (translated as "he did many glorious

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

not necessarily earth-born and the wonders shown therein such that none of our humanity could of themselves produce."1 this initiation structure was either negative from the start in its ambitions for humanity, or it was later taken over by that consciousness. i feel the highly influential egyptian brotherhood has been dominated by negative manipulation at least since the end of the reign of the pharaoh akhenaten, who died around 1,362bc. he had moved the egyptian court to a new city in middle egypt called el-amarna, and there he built a brotherhood temple for the esoteric initiations. when he died, his successors moved the royal court back north to thebes, but the brotherhood stayed at el-amarna and broke away from the state. through the centuries, other vehicles for communicating the kn

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they describe the sirians as amphibious and "serpent-featured- a recurring theme as you will see. temple suggests that the anunnaki of the sumerian tablets could be these beings from sirius. he further proposes that the body of the sphinx is that of a dog and not a lion, thus symbolising the dog star, sirius,9 and some researchers also suggest that the face of the sphinx is that of a woman, not a pharaoh. the egyptians certainly depicted their lion bodies very differently to that of the sphinx and the dog is a common symbol in ancient mythology.10 in fact, ancient egyptians revered the dog and their dog symbol was a code for sirius" the sirius system was symbolised as feminine and so a dog's body with a woman's face would make* it is the reptilian bloodline that most concerns us in this bo

e was enormous. the incas of south america used this term "four quarters, also. in the indian epics, sargon's son, manja, was called "the royal eye of gopta and of the four ends of the earth" when he became emperor.3 in the indus valley clay seal records, sargon and manja or menes also called themselves and their dynasty gut or got("goth" to the romans) and used the titles bar or par which means "pharaoh, according to waddell.4 gut or got became "god, a term used by the later goths. all non-latin languages in europe are derived from the gothic, including english, and the ancient swedish language is still called "sueo-gothic".5 the former name for denmark was "goth-land" and a derivative was jut-land.6 gothic architecture, so beloved of the bloodlines and the illuminati, comes from the same

our world today. the expansion of this empire out of the near and middle east can be shown in the story of king sargon's successor as priest-king of the sumerian empire. this was his son, known variously as manis, manja, manj, mena, manash or minash, and to the greeks as menes. as the latter is the most used name, that is the one i will use here. the minoan expansion menes was the first egyptian pharaoh of the first dynasty, which followed the socalled predynastic period, between 3000 and 2000bc. his egyptian inscriptions, written in sumerian, are in agreement with the accounts of his life in sumer and the indus valley. he was the governor of the indus valley colony, where the first in line to the sumerian throne ruled as crown prince awaiting the succession.15 they were known, according

gypt. the art was the same or similar, and so were the clay seals used for writing and recording events. the sumerian-egyptian form of writing from the menes-sargon period, the funeral rites, and even the terracotta drainpipes used by the "minoans" were the same as those found in sumer.20 here are just some of the "similarities" listed by waddell between the documented life of menes, the egyptian pharaoh and sumerian emperor, and king minos of greek and cretan legend. both were of the bronze age, replacing the neolithic period. both were known as sea emperors of the mediterranean. both were said to have introduced civilisation. both built a labyrinth. both died on a sea voyage to the west. both used seal impressions on clay and both used a linear script of sumerian type, or very similar. b

this story portray an insect that looks remarkably like a wasp or hornet and very unlike a friggin' hippo, unless in those days hippos had wings and looked like flying insects. accounts of menes' death found in his "tomb (in truth his memorial or cenotaph) at abydos in egypt can therefore be translated as follows (another of his names, manash or minash, is used here "the king manash (minash, the pharaoh of mushsir (egypt, the land of the two crowns, the perished dead one in the west, of the (sun) hawk race, aha manash (or minash) of the lower (or sunrise or eastern) and of the sunset (or upper or western) waters and of their lands and oceans, the ruler, the king of mushrim (the two egypts) lands, the son of the great sha-gana (or sha-gunu) of the (sun) hawk race, the pharaoh, the deceased

travelled south to egypt and sumer after atlantis and there would be many similarities and mutual origins. the egyptologist, lorraine evans, also says in her book, kingdom of the ark (simon& schuster, london, 2000) that the ancient egyptians established a colony in ireland 3,500 years ago, after landing in county kerry. she suggests that the invaders were led by princess scota, the daughter of a pharaoh, and that she is buried in a valley called scota's glen about five miles from tralee in county kerry where she died after a bloody war with indigenous irish people. the grave is marked with a slab, but has never been excavated. evans says that scota's descendants went on to become the high kings of ireland at tara in county meath and then invaded scotland or scota-land. evans says that she

as never been excavated. evans says that scota's descendants went on to become the high kings of ireland at tara in county meath and then invaded scotland or scota-land. evans says that she used old texts and archaeological, linguistic and dna evidence to show that irish and british people descended from egyptians. she says that scota's real name was meritaten and that she was the daughter of the pharaoh, akhenaten, and a half-sister to tutankhamen. the hill of tara, not far from newgrange, was the seat of the irish king of kings (equivalent of the british "pendragon) and it is worth emphasising that the "elite" bloodlines of ireland and scotland are extremely important to the illuminati. bronze age shields found on the dingle peninsula in county kerry were identical to those discovered in

chis. it is in this region that the georgian people live their extraordinarily long lives by today's standards and not far to the south is mount ararat, the place where the biblical noah's ark was supposed to have come symbolically to rest. the greek historian, herodotus, said that the people of colchis, a dark race, were of egyptian descent and he was told that they were men from the army of the pharaoh, sesostris, whom, scholars believe, was another name for ramses ii. this guy appears in the illuminati bloodline that includes the rothschilds, rockefellers, bushes, and the british royal family, etc, etc. the themes summarised here are supported by stories, legends, and accounts across the world, not only in the sumerian tablets. renegade insiders and former insiders of the illuminati hav

ly undermined and corrupted the morals of the primitive mysteries..they usurped the position formerly occupied by the initiates, and seized the reigns of spiritual government "thus black magic dictated the state religion and paralysed the intellectual and spiritual activities of the individual by demanding his complete and unhesitating acquiescence in the dogma formulated by the priest craft. the pharaoh became a puppet in the hands of the scarlet council- a committee of arch-sorcerers elevated to power by the priesthood."32 this is exactly what happened in the latter era of atlantis and what happens today with the puppet politicians placed in "power" by those behind the scenes, the illuminati, who dictate their actions and agenda. those who will not do as they are told are assassinated, b

performances with these words. appendix i the illuminati bloodline hese are just some of the stunning bloodline connections between those who ruled the people thousands of years ago and those who still rule them today. the merovingian-windsor-bush bloodline and its offshoots includes a long list of pharaohs in ancient egypt, including ramses ii (1295-1228 bc, who is considered to be the greatest pharaoh of all. he was his country's master architect (sacred geometry) and his name can be found on almost every ancient shrine. the gold mines of nubia made him rich beyond the imagination. the bloodline also includes the anunnaki-human hybrids who ruled sumer, babylon, greece, and troy, and which, today, rule the world. in turn, they go back to atlantis and lemuria. one common link in this bloo

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mpletely undermined and corrupted the morals of the primitive mysteries. they usurpedthe position formerly occupied by the initiates, and seized the reins of spiritual government.thus black magic dictated the state religion and paralysed the intellectual and spiritualactivities of the individual by demanding his complete and unhesitating acquiescence inthe dogma formulated by the priestcraft. the pharaoh became a puppet in the hands ofthe scarlet council- a committee of arch-sorcerers elevated to power by the priesthood.22the black magicians that hall says were formerly in atlantis were, for me, thereptilian-human hybrids of what i call the babylonian brotherhood. it is their secretsociety network that now spans the globe and operates in literally every country. itallows the coordination o

ans and other peoples of the same bloodstock and general location. it is alsothe origin of the aryan master race nonsense which obsessed the nazis and the secretsocieties which created them. the hero of the freemason secret society to this day is themythical hiram abif, the so-called builder of king solomons temple. abif is supposedto have been a phoenician. the grandfather of the famous egyptian pharaoh akhenaten,the father of tutankhamen, was a phoenician high priest. the phoenix, the mythicalbird of egypt, was in fact the sun bird of the phoenicians, the emblem of the sun god,bil or bel, and as it has been later symbolised, a peacock or an eagle.29 evidence hasemerged in recent years about pyramids on mars, when the nasa scientists, vincentdipietro and gregory molenaar, discovered six e

ed as uncivilised when they arrived. many of theroads regarded as roman were not built by the romans at all. they were pre-romanroads which they repaired. the romans admired the efficiency of the british armies,particularly their use of war chariots. you wont be surprised to know by now that thesefamous british chariots were the same as those used by the hittites or catti describedby the egyptian pharaoh ramses ii around 1,295 bc at the battle of kadesh, a hittite-phoenician port. in about 350 bc, three centuries before the romans arrived, theexplorer and scientist, pytheas, sailed around britain and mapped the land scientificallywith latitudes. pytheas was a native of phocca in asia minor, phocca deriving fromphoenicia, as did an adjoining port called phoenice.40 by this time the phoenici

scious without the person realising it is happening.this is another reason why certain symbols are seen in secret societies, national flags,company logos, advertising and so on.there is no historical evidence for the existence of a man called moses except in thetexts produced by the levites and other writings and opinions stimulated by those texts.84some say this was a cover name for the egyptian pharaoh, arkenaten, and i wouldcertainly not dismiss that, but the official background to moses and his name have nohistorical basis. nothing was known about the moses story, or the plagues inflictedupon the egyptians, until the levites of babylon wrote exodus centuries after it wassupposed to have happened. all the animals of egypt were killed three times accordingto the story! what did they do

1616 which claimed to beissued by a secret group of initiates in germany and france. they pledged to transformthe world with the esoteric knowledge and herald a new era of religious and politicalfreedom. the catholic church and the holy roman empire were fiercely condemned.the order of the rose cross or rosicrucians, however, was no new fad. it wasfounded, apparently, at least as long ago as the pharaoh thothmes iii in the 15thcentury bc. his personal seal (cartouche) is used on modern rosicrucian literature7 andthe rosicrucians connect with the royal court of the dragon in ancient egypt. it is nowwidely believed by researchers that the manifestos were written by the germanesotericist, johann v alentin andrea, who is listed as a grand master of the priory ofsion. another highly influentia

nipulation of africa and africans. at one stage there was a department of trade andindustry inquiry into the harrods takeover and it concluded: the lies of mohamedfayed and his success in gagging the press created a new fact: that lies were the truthand the truth was a lie.29 this would be a suitable epitaph for what private eye, the417british satirical magazine and others, have dubbed: the phony pharaoh. the report alsorevealed that al fayed had lied about his family background. he had claimed to comefrom a wealthy egyptian family and it was this money, he said, that he was using to buyharrods. in fact he comes from a far from rich family and he didnt have any suchmoney of his own. he was born on january 27th 1929 in alexandria, the son of aschool inspector. he sold coca-cola in the stree

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became twigs again, and the food of the banquet failed to fill the stomachs of the guests. this explanation has always struck me as a bit flimsy. who is to say that the loaves and fishes miraculously multiplied by jesus to feed his flock (matthew 14:15-21) were any different in kind than the banquets created by faust and other famous magicians to feed their dinner guests? when the magician of the pharaoh of egypt cast down a staff before moses and transformed it into a serpent, was this really any less miraculous than the staff cast down and turned into a serpent by moses himself? if true changes of essence are the measure of a miracle, then what are we to make of the alchemical act of transforming base metals into gold? according to the view of devout christians, if the gold is genuine, t

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de travaux, t. iii, pp. 177-224; t. iv, pp. 41-78. 4. in 1881 dr. brugsch described two pyramids of the vith dynasty inscribed with religious texts similar to those found in the pyramid of unas, and translated certain passages (aeg. zeitschrift, bd, xix, pp. 1-15; see also birch in trans. son bibl. arch, 1881, p. iii ff. 5 the pyramid which bore among the arabs the name of mastabat el-far' n, or "pharaoh's bench" was excavated by mariette in 1858, and, because he found the name of unas painted on certain blocks of stone, he concluded that it was the tomb of unas. m. maspero's excavations have, as dr. lepsius observes (aeg. zeitschrift, bd. xix, p. 15, set the matter right] p. xxiii the book of the dead in the vith dynasty evidence of the text of the pyramid of teta; continuing his excavati

rth, and his slobbering dropped upon the ground. and isis kneaded it with earth in her hand, and formed thereof a sacred serpent in the form of a spear; she set it not upright before her face, but let it lie upon the ground in the path whereby the great god went forth, according to his heart's desire, into his double kingdom. now the holy god arose, and the gods who followed him as though he were pharaoh went with him; and he came forth according to his daily wont; and the sacred serpent bit him. the flame of life departed from him, and he who dwelt among the cedars) was overcome. the holy god opened his mouth, and the cry of his majesty reached unto heaven. his company of gods said "what hath happened" and his gods exclaimed "what is it" but ra could not answer, for his jaws trembled and

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life and magick of aleister crowley. london: macdonald, 1971. rev. ed. london: mayflower, 1973. the king of the shadow realm. london: duckworth, 1989. aaron s rod a magic wand deriving from the biblical narrative of the rods of moses and aaron that were used in the miracles of dividing the waters of the red sea and in causing water to gush from a rock in the desert. when aaron cast his rod before pharaoh and his magicians (exodus 7, the rod transformed into a serpent, hence the occult use of aaron s rod with a motif of a serpent. an old jewish legend states that aaron s rod was created on the sixth day of creation and was retained by adam after leaving the garden of eden, subsequently passing into the hands of a succession of patriarchs. an apocryphal christian legend states that the rod w

in the attempt to allow all to act and think as they will. the initial selection of messages from the angel of north america was published in 1996, and meyer invited assistance in spreading the words of the angel. the message is for the 20- year period (1995.2015. if people continue to ignore the evil and refuse to change their ways, the punishment (such as occurred in egypt when moses warned the pharaoh) will come. the meyers continue to circulate the angel s message, though to date a second volume of messages has not been released. sources: meyer, patricia. the teachings of the angel of north america. book 1: how to save your soul and your society. richmond, va: oaklea press, 1996. angels the word angel( angelos in greek, malak in hebrew) means a person sent or a messenger. it is a name

r, it is necessary to recall that the bible was written in pre-scientific times in which all people operated as if what came to be known as the supernatural or the psychic was a fact of life. visions and dreams were a common means of receiving direction in one s life, and dream interpretation was a most valued skill, among the more famous incidents being those of joseph interpreting the dreams of pharaoh and of daniel in babylon (gen. 41; dan. 2. for many years israel was ruled by psychic seers or judges, who regularly received extrasensory information, a word from the eternal, and to whom the people could turn for guidance. decisions were commonly made by the casting of lots. the role of judge was vividly illustrated in the incident in which the future king david met israel s most renowne

hose who looked upon the serpent were healed. throughout mesopotamia, the serpent was associated with healing deities. thus did it find its most common use as the symbol of physicians. while probably originating in mesopotamia, the caduceus found its way eastward to india and westward into the mediterranean. it is associated with the use of paired serpents in general such as those on the egyptian pharaoh s headpiece or the serpents coiled around the body of mithras. in greek lore, hermes (the roman mercury) came upon two serpents fighting. he thrust his rod between them. they coiled around the rod and remained attached to it. thus, the caduceus emerged as the symbol of messenger of the god. in greek thought, the caduceus acquired wings. in india, the caduceus became associated with the kun

superseded by the golden way foundation two years later. during his years in geneva, di mambro developed as a teacher and began to present himself as a representative of the great white brotherhood, that group of evolved beings which many theosophists believe guide the evolution of the human race. he claimed to be an incarnation of several notable ancient figures (including moses and the egyptian pharaoh akhnaton. in the early 1980s, di mambro invited luc jouret, a popular new age and holistic health speaker, to lecture at the golden way. jouret was a member of another occult group, the renewed order of the temple, and the two discovered their mutual interests and beliefs. together they founded the solar temple in which they married traditional initiatory occultism with a belief in the com

ional works dealing with reincarnation that she claimed were partly biographical. grant believed she had inherited her mother s psychic experiences, which allowed grant to sense from an object the experiences and feelings of people who had handled it in the past. this turned her towards writing books she claimed were part historical novels but far memories of past times. in her first book, winged pharaoh (1937, grant describes the life and death of sekeeta, a princess of first dynasty egypt. in return to elysium (1947, she tells of a greek girl for the second century c.e. in her book many lifetimes (1969, written in collaboration with her third husband, dr. denys kelsey, grant describes claimed memories of former existences revealed when she was hypnotized by her husband. sources: grant, j

o press, 1980. far memory. reprinted as time out of mind, a lot to remember. new york: arno press, 1980. life as carola. london: methuen& co. ltd, 1939; new york& london: harper& brothers, 1940; new york: arno press, 1980. lord of the horizon. london: methuen& co. ltd, 1943. return to elysium. new york: arno press, 1980. so moses was born. london: methuen, 1952; new york: arno press, 1980. winged pharaoh. new york: harper& brothers, 1938. kelsey, denys, and joan grant. many lifetimes. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1967. grant, kenneth founder of a branch of the ordo templi orientis (oto, a ceremonial magick group in the tradition of aleister crowley, in great britain. grant was initiated into crowley s own order, the a a, and the oto. after crowley s death in 1947 he was succeeded by karl g

team. the three sat for the work for which l/l research is most remembered, rueckert s channeling of an entity named ra. over the next few years, segments of the material were edited and published in four volumes collectively known as the law of the one (1982.84. ra is identified as a member of a group of extraterrestrials who came to earth in ancient times. he worked with ikhnoton, the egyptian pharaoh who introduced monotheism. he also claimed to have built the pyramids as a place for channels to be purified and for people to learn to work with crystals. ra also described the confederation of encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. l/l research 927 planets, the interstellar government consisting of 500 planetary consciousness complexes. jesus came to earth as a member of the

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h him all egypt, from great difficulty by reading without breaking the seal a closed letter brought by an ethiopian magician, whom he thus forced to recognize the superior power of egypt. the last part of the text tells of a powerful magician once dwelling in ethiopia who modelled in wax a litter with four bearers to whom he gave his life. he sent them to egypt, and at his command they sought out pharaoh in his palace, carried him off to ethiopia, and, after giving him five hundred blows with a cudgel, conveyed him during the same night back to memphis. next morning the king displayed the weals on his back to his courtiers, one of whom, horus by name, was sufficiently skilled in the use of amulets to ward off by their means any immediate repetition of the outrage. horus then set forth to b

morning the king displayed the weals on his back to his courtiers, one of whom, horus by name, was sufficiently skilled in the use of amulets to ward off by their means any immediate repetition of the outrage. horus then set forth to bring from hermopolis, the all powerful magic book of the god thoth, and by its aid he succeeded in treating the ethiopian king as the ethiopian sorcerer had treated pharaoh. the foreign magician then hastened to egypt to engage in a contest with horus in magic tricks. his skill was shown to be inferior, and in the end he and his mother received permission to return to ethiopia under a solemn promise not to set foot on egyptian territory for a space of fifteen hundred years. seton (or sethon) alexander (d. ca. 1604) one of the very few alchemists, reportedly

e suleimans who are par excellence the rulers of all djinn, afreets and other elemental spirits, bear any relationship to the israelite king. the name, he said, is found in that of a god of the babylonians. dr. kenealy, the translator of hafiz, said that the earliest aryan teachers were named mohn, bodles, or solymi, and that suleiman was an ancient title of royal power, synonymous with sultan or pharaoh. a persian legend states that in the mountains of kaf, there is a gallery built by the giant arzeak, where there are statues of a race who were ruled by the suleiman or wise king of the east. there is a great chair or throne of solomon hewn out of the solid rock called the takht-i-suleiman or throne of solomon. it is to these older suleimans that we must look for a connection with the trad

ith the deaths of various other individuals associated with the tutankhamen tomb, started the story of a curse of the pharaohs. one writer claimed the curse was responsible for the lives of some three dozen scientists, archaeologists, and scholars. who was tutankhamen? it has been claimed that tutankhamen was a great king because his tomb contained such treasures. others have suggested he was the pharaoh of exodus and it was his wife, ankhesenpa- aten, who found moses in the bulrushes and raised him. in fact, both claims are incorrect. tutankhamen reigned during the eighteenth dynasty of the new kingdom. he was a boy of nine when he came to the throne and his reign lasted nine years, from about 1334 to 1325 b.c.e. he was not the ruler of egypt during the exodus described in the bible. it i

n went to egypt and 20 days later the entrance to the tomb was finally excavated and carter entered, accompanied by carnarvon, lady evelyn herbert (carnarvon s sister, and an assistant. on february 17, 1923, carter and carnarvon entered the main burial chamber of tutankhamen and found a wall of gold. the work of describing, classifying, and removing the shrine contents, including the mummy of the pharaoh himself, could not take place for another season. there were also disputes between carter and the egyptian authorities, notably with the frenchman pierre lacau, appointed head of the antiquities service in cairo in 1917. these disputes concerned the ownership of the antiquities in the tutankhamen tomb. carnarvon and carter claiming rights to a proportion of them and lacau maintaining all t

s secretary richard bethell died the same year with a circulatory collapse. when bethell s father heard the news, he committed suicide, and reportedly his hearse ran over a boy on the way to the cemetery. vandenberg further claimed carter had found a clay tablet in the antechamber with an inscription that alan gardiner deciphered as death will slay with his wings whoever disturbs the peace of the pharaoh. however, such a tablet was never cataloged and there is no trace of it. one newspaper reported there was a hieroglyphic curse on the door of the inner shrine: they who enter this sacred tomb shall swift be visited by wings of death, but this story is a fabrication. similarly another report cited an inscription on the mud base of a candle that stated: it is i who hinder the sand from choki

thomas. tutankhamen: the untold story. new york: simon& schuster; london: hamish hamilton, 1978. stein, gordon. encyclopedia of hoaxes. detroit: gale research, 1993. vandenberg, philipp. der fluch der pharaonen. scherz verlag, 1973. english edition as the curse of the pharaohs. philadelphia: j. b. lippincott, 1975. der vergessene pharao. c. bertelsmann verlag, 1978. english edition as the golden pharaoh. new york: macmillan; london: hodder& stoughton, 1980. wynne, barry. behind the mask of tutankhamen. new york: taplinger, 1973. tuttle, hudson (1836.1910) american seer of the early days of spiritualism. tuttle was born october 4, 1836, in berlin heights, ohio, and spent his early years in a wilderness on the southern shores of lake erie. his father s house was the headquarters for itinera

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roman catholic church. jerome changed the y to j and used the vowels of the name adonai. 28 sifra detzniyutha 2. 29 sifra detzniyutha 3. 30 bhagavad gita 4:7-8. 31 torah b reshith 18:1. 32 torah b reshith 18:14. 33 torah b reshith 18: 33. 34 it has been traditionally believed that the freed jews numbered in the hundreds of thousands. however, an inscription on a stele dating from the reign of the pharaoh ramses mentions the escape of 5000 slaves. this smaller number is more reasonable. the sinai is currently a desert. however, in the time of the pharaoh ramses and master mosheh, it was a savannah supporting a wide range of flora and fauna. the emigration of five or six hundred thousand 33' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% people plus their livestock would have caused an ecological disaster, and is logist

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zzarelli's translation, see kristeller, studies, pp. 227 ff. and his above-cited article in biblioteca degli ardenti della citta di viterbo. 172 religious hermetism in the sixteenth century latin translation, and lazzarelli's translation of the treatise missing in ficino. a preface by vergerius stresses the resemblances of hermetism to christianity and states that hermes the egyptian lived before pharaoh and consequently before moses.1 there seems to be a tendency by which the holier and more christian hermes trismegistus becomes, the more his date is pushed back, now to before moses. francois de foix de candale, bishop of aire, reaches new heights of ecstatic religious hermetism. in 1574 he published another edition of the greek text of the hermetica, based on that of turnebus with emenda

eed from it, and knows how to work it well through the virtues of the dispositions of the stars, and through the work of images and of characters, it can be used for good' moses was a great magus (this is the report of a fellow-prisoner on bruno's talk in prison, not his own words in answer to interrogation, who had learned magic from the egyptians to such good effect that he was able to overcome pharaoh's magicians.2 in reply to interrogation as to what was his view of christ's miracles, bruno said that they were a testimony to his divinity, but he thought that a still greater testimony was the gospel law. when others, such as the apostles, did miracles this was in virtue of christ; so that, although externally the miracles of christ and of an apostle or a saint were the same, nevertheles

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and up, and save thee from these things' danieli.20:theking found daniel better than all the astrologers in his realm. daniel ii. 27: daniel asks the king if the astronomers cannot show the secret to the king. daniel iv. 7:theastrologers failed to explain a dream. daniel v. 7, 11:theking calls on the astrologers to explain a writing. genesis xli, 8:themagicians are called on to explain a dream of pharaoh. in the new testament, consult: actsxix,19: men who possessed curious books burned them before paul. as regards divination in general, this magical art is repre255 sented by three hebrew words--maquesem, kasiphim, and lachash. in numbers xxii. 7, the elders of moab and of midian have rewards for divination. in deuteronomy xviii, 9-10, diviners are condemned, and the jews are to consider th

and third, the dreams which the dreamers considered to be intimations of the will of jehovah, and which were acted on accordingly. in the first series of references note; a dream cometh through the multitude of business, in ecclesiastes v.3; and in isaiah xxix. 7, 8, we read of the delusions of dreams.dreams189ofthesecond variety arethedreams of abimelech, genesisxx,6;andlaban,genesis xxx. 24; of pharaoh, and the chief baker and butler of the pharaoh of joseph (sesostris of the greeks; nebuchadnezzar in daniel ii.,1,2,3;andthe curious new testament dreamofpilate's wife respecting jesus and his trial and condemnation.ofthethirdsort are the dreams of abraham, see genesis xv. 1, where the wordvisionis used in the english version.ofjacob,in genesis xxxi. 10, 11, concerning the breedingofcattle

currence; secondly to those dreams which were considered to be intimations of god's will directly sent by jehovah and were acted upon as such; as for example the quoted dreams of abraham, jacob, joseph, solomon, daniel, joseph and the wise men; and thirdly to certain dreams believed to be divinely inspired, but yet requiring interpretaton, such were the dreams of abimelech, laban, the officers of pharaoh, and nebuchadnezzar. the new testament has a mention of one dream of great interest, that of the wife of pontius pilate in matthew xxvii. 19, and of the five dreams of joseph the husband of mary and mother of jesus, announcing the conception, and warning him against herod, telling him to flee into egypt, and again to return to the land of israel, and lastly to go to the town of nazareth. c

h builders of religious monuments must have had a science and arts of their own, which have been lost to the world, and we can only suppose that men with such giant intellects must have had equally notable religious conceptions and exalted ideas of the universe and its creator, god.inthe times of the ancient egyptian dynasties, the priest255 hood was the dominant power, and not the military. each pharaoh was passed through the priestly system of culture, and on his accession became the head of the religion of the country. he was esteemed the chief magician as well as the benevolent despot of his people.thepriestly caste included a prophetic branch of diviners and astrologers, mathematicians and wonder workers.thename and titles of the great god varied from time to time, and in the several

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bitterly denied and depreciated by his opponents. i once showed some of his letters to me on the kabalah to my own first teacher in hebrew, a rabbi and an advanced kabalist, and he said 'that man is a true kabalist. very few gentiles know as much, you may follow him safely. when he arranged a temple of isis for the paris exhibition, an egyptologist whose name is world-famous said 'macgregor is a pharaoh come back. all my life i have studied the dry bones; he has made them live' these are but two examples out of many. yet there have been those who have said that his kabalah and egyptology were shallow and superficial, a rehash of other men's work. who shall decide? yet i do know that many10thesorcerer and his apprenticequestionslaskedhimwere answered at once, and satisfactori255 ly, with a

imes, and for that reason intensely valuable to the student of today. the kings and priests of egypt were the elect of those who had studied with success in the 'school of wisdom, a philosophical aristocracy, chosen because they were not only wise, but could use their wisdom. the staff of the king-initiate was of so mighty a potency that, with it in his hand, the leader of armies was as mighty as pharaoh himself.drwynn westcott writes:'instudying egyptian magic one has at once a thoroughly scientific satisfaction. one is troubled with no vague theories;butreceives precise practical details; we observe that every square inch of the upper and under worlds is mapped out' wherever, therefore, we can find an egyptian prototype of modern witchcraft formulae, we are likely to find in the former a

and years, long after all knowledgeorbelief in its rationalehadbeenlostto its practitioners. with this key the student can interpret many of the. recorded practices of witchesandwizards, of which themselves wereutterlyignorant.132 the sorcerer and his apprenticein the british museum is such a formula contained in the papyrus of nesi amsu, a scribe of amenra(no. 10188, dated in the twelfth year of pharaoh alexander, the son of alexander (i.e. alexander ii, about 312be,almost every detail of which may be paralleled from the witchcraft trials. it must be recited over the name of apophi, written in green ink on new papyrus, and over a wax figure of apophi inscribed with his name in green ink. this green ink was for some time a puzzle to me, for the black magic rituals mostly prescribe the writ

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, because these inscriptions were written by official state historians, they are filled with biased accounts designed to praise the state. for us, of course, the best source of knowledge about this matter is the qur'an. in the qur'an, in the story of moses, we are given important information about the egyptian system. the verses reveal that there were two important focal points of power in egypt: pharaoh and his inner-council. this council tended to exercise an important influence over pharaoh; pharaoh would often consult them and, from time to time, follow their suggestions. the verses quoted below show the influence that this council had on pharaoh: moses said "pharaoh! i am truly a messenger from the lord of all the worlds, duty bound to say nothing about god except the truth. i have co

othing about god except the truth. i have come to you with a clear sign from your lord. so send the tribe of israel away with me" he said "if you have come with a clear sign produce it if you are telling the truth" so he threw down his staff and there it was, unmistakably a snake. global freemasonry ek and he drew out his hand and there it was, pure white to those who looked. the ruling circle of pharaoh's people said "this is certainly a skilled magician who desires to expel you from your land, so what do you recommend" they said "detain him and his brother and send out marshals to the cities, to bring you all the skilled magicians (qur'an, 7: 104-112) it should be noticed that mention here is made of a council that advises pharaoh, that incites him against moses, and recommends to him ce

urnal, a publication distributed among turkish masons, the roots of freemasonry are stated as going back to this kind of esoteric order, and special mention is made of the ancient egyptian priests: as thought develops in human beings, science advances and as science advances, the number of secrets increases within the lore of an esoteric sys- global freemasonry fc the most important supporters of pharaoh's regime in ancient egypt was the priestly class (magicians. their beliefs later formed the roots of the kabbalah and were transmitted from there to masonry. tem. in this development, this esoteric enterprise, which began first in the east, in china and tibet, and then spread to india, mesopotamia and egypt, formed the basis of a priestly knowledge that had been practiced for thousands of

. 2. when we asked what this doctrine was that influenced the templars, we found that it was basically the kabbalah. 3. when we examined the kabbalah, we found proof that, however much it may resemble jewish mysticism, it is a pagan doctrine older than judaism, that later entered the religion, and that its true roots are found in ancient egypt. 4. ancient egypt was governed by the pagan system of pharaoh, and there we found an idea that forms the basis of the modern atheistic philosophy: that of a universe existing of its own accord, and evolving by chance. all this surely paints an interesting picture. is it by chance that the philosophy of the priests of ancient egypt still thrives, and that there exist traces of a chain (kabbalah-templars-masonry) that has been responsible for maintaini

nt egypt? in order to make the answer to this question clearer, we must first examine more closely the historical events that we have now only briefly outlined. ff from the templars to ancient egypt fg -iithe inside story on the kabbalah xodus" is the title of the second book of the torah. this book describes how the israelites, under the leadership of moses, left egypt and escaped the tyranny of pharaoh. pharaoh made the israelites work as slaves and would not consent to set them free. but, when confronted by the miracles god performed through moses, and the disasters he inflicted on his people, pharaoh relented. and so, one night the israelites gathered en masse, and began their emigration from egypt. later, pharaoh attacked the israelites, but god saved them through a further miracle he

e course of what is related. for this reason, when we examine these stories closely, we can extract a number of lessons from them. the golden calf one of the important facts concerning the exodus of the israelites from egypt, as related in the qur'an, is that they rebelled against the religion revealed to them by god in spite of the fact that god had rescued them through moses from the tyranny of pharaoh. the israelites were not able to comprehend the monotheism that moses communicated to them, but tended continually toward idolatry. the qur'an describes this strange tendency here: we conveyed the tribe of israel across the sea and they came upon some people who were devoting themselves to some idols which they had. they said "moses, give us a god just as these people have gods" he said "y

to the kabbalah while moses was still alive, the israelites began to create likenesses of the idols they had seen in egypt and to worship them. after moses died, there was less to deter them from backsliding farther into perversity. of course, the same thing cannot be said of all jews, but some of them did adopt egyptian paganism. indeed, they carried on the doctrines of the egyptian priesthood (pharaoh's magicians, that lay at the foundation of global freemasonry fk an ancient egyptian statue of hathor. that society's beliefs, and corrupted their own faith by introducing these doctrines into it. the doctrine that was introduced into judaism from ancient egypt was the kabbalah. like the system of the egyptian priests, the kabbalah was an esoteric system, and its basis was the practice of

ultures, who worshipped a mythical god of war. these pagan ideas that were introduced into the torah must have an origin. there must have been jews who adopted, honored and cherished a tradition foreign to the torah, and changed the latter by adding into it ideas derived from the tradition they espoused. the origin of this tradition stretches back to the priests of ancient egypt (the magicians of pharaoh's regime. it is, in fact, the kabbalah which was passed on from there by a number of jews. the kabbalah assumed a form that enabled ancient egyptian and other pagan doctrines to insinuate themselves into judaism and de- global freemasonry gg velop within it. kabbalists, of course, assert that the kabbalah simply explains in more detail the hidden secrets of the torah, but, in reality, as j

win's theory of evolution. in the next two chapters we will examine these two justifications, their origin and their relationship to masonry. then, we will be able to understand more clearly the behind-the-scenes of these ideas that have influenced the world since the nineteenth century. jl humanism revisited kc -ivmaterialism revisited n the first chapter of this book, we looked at the regime of pharaoh in ancient egypt and came to some important conclusions about its philosophical underpinnings. the most interesting feature of ancient egyptian thought, as we said, is that it was materialist, that is, posited the belief that matter is eternal and uncreated. in their book the hiram key, christopher knight and robert lomas have some important things to say on this matter that are worth repe

d been trained has historical significance. in the city of thebes there were advanced schools. pythagoras, plato and cicero were initiated into masonry in these cities.63 masonic writings do not laud ancient egypt merely in broad terms; they express praise and sympathy for the pharaohs who governed that cruel system. in another article from mimar sinan magazine it is stated: the basic duty of the pharaoh was to find light. to exalt hidden light in a much more vivid and powerful way .as we masons are trying to construct the temple of solomon, so did the ancient egyptians try to build ehram, or the house of light. the ceremonies performed in the temples of ancient egypt were divided into several degrees. these degrees had two sections, small and great. the small degree was divided into one

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r to the mayans and egyptians. this cycle is the basis of many different systems of mythology, de santillana and von dechend argue in hamlets mill that the great year may indeed be the basis for most cosmological systems. the gnostic tradition suggests that this great cycle was known to the atlanteans and was encoded into the rituals and architecture of ancient egypt. accordingly, the role of the pharaoh and later the priesthood had a special significance in relation to the unfolding of the great year. the egyptian star gnosis and the rite of rebirth the central focus of egyptian ritualism was the great pyramid, it was connected to the sphinx and operated as a initiatory structure. the pyramid was identified with the sanctuary of the sun and embodied ra, the solar logos. the rites undertak

the unfolding of the great year. the egyptian star gnosis and the rite of rebirth the central focus of egyptian ritualism was the great pyramid, it was connected to the sphinx and operated as a initiatory structure. the pyramid was identified with the sanctuary of the sun and embodied ra, the solar logos. the rites undertaken in the chamber of the king and queen were rites of rebirth whereby the pharaoh became identified with the solar sphere. he mediated the energies of the logos and hence accelerated the positive current and sublimated or transformed the negative. the sun like the planets and zodiac was a doorway between the spiritual and physical worlds and hence emanated forces from the pleroma and from the worlds of the archons. during the rite of rebirth the pharaoh left his body an

e worlds of the archons. during the rite of rebirth the pharaoh left his body and traveled through the heavens. he journeyed through the realms of the planets and zodiac using passwords, gestures and codes, only after successfully passing the spheres could he then navigate through the great barrier and enter the pleroma. this ritual form was connected to the egyptian astro-gnosis and involved the pharaoh becoming the mediator for his people. in chapter six: the gnostic concept of time ii the gnostic handbook page 64 this role he also prepared egypt for the change which took place at the equinox of the gods, when one astrological sign gave way to another. for 180 years before this event the pharaoh and priesthood would work creating new symbols, mythologies and astral vessels so that the in

of the gods, when one astrological sign gave way to another. for 180 years before this event the pharaoh and priesthood would work creating new symbols, mythologies and astral vessels so that the incoming energy could be utilized for the benefit of egypt. as time progressed the egyptian star-gnosis, the divine rite of rebirth and the secret of planetary and zodiacal mediation was passed from the pharaoh to a separate priesthood. with time and changes in both state and religion, the teachings were held under oath by secret orders and brotherhoods. even within the hermetic order of the golden dawn we can find elements of the mediation rite within its equinox rituals, however, the emphasis has changed to emanating the forces only for those linked to the order and hence joined to its group mi

to vedic culture may seem unusual to modern scholarship, it is exactly what was argued in the arctic home in the vedas (1903) by bal gangadhar tilak. in this work tilak argued for an early origin of vedic culture in the interglacial period and used detailed astronomical an historical research to prove his thesis. he argued that the earliest records were from up to 35,000 bce (very similar to the pharaoh lists of manetho, but that the major impetus was circa 10,500 8,000 bce when after the destruction of the original polar home, migrations began. these continued through the period of 8,000-5,000 bce with settlements through northern europe and asia. it was during the period of 5,000-3,000 bce, which tilak calls the orion period, that the vedic hymns and sacrificial system were evolved. oth

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as we have seen, focus on his deeds and teachings as a civilizer. his followers in ancient mexico, however, also believed that his human manifestation had experienced death and that afterwards he was reborn as a star.9 it is therefore curious, at the very least, to discover that in egypt, in the pyramid age, more than 4000 years ago, the state religion revolved around the belief that the deceased pharaoh was reborn as a star.10 ritual incantantations were chanted, the purpose of which was to facilitate the dead monarch s rapid rebirth in the heavens: oh king, you are this great star, the companion of orion, who traverses the sky with orion. you ascend from the east of the sky, being renewed in your due season, and rejuvenated in your due time. 11 we have encountered the orion constellation

hat the deceased s voyage through the underworld was made in a boat, accompanied by paddler gods who ferried him from stage to stage.14 the tomb of double comb, an eighthcentury ruler of the mayan city of tikal, was found to contain a representation of this scene.15 similar images appear throughout the valley of the kings in upper egypt, notably in the tomb of thutmosis iii, an eighteenth dynasty pharaoh.16 is it a coincidence that the passengers in the barque of the dead pharaoh, and in the canoe in which double comb makes his final journey, include (in both cases) a dog or dogheaded deity, a bird or bird-headed deity, and an ape or ape-headed deity?17 the seventh stratum of the ancient mexican underworld was called teocoyolcualloya: place where beasts devour hearts .18 is it a coincidenc

eceased s heart was weighed against a feather. if the heart was heavy with sin it would tip the balance. the god thoth would note the judgement on his palette and the heart would immediately be devoured by a fearsome beast, part crocodile, part hippopotamus, part lion, that was called the eater of the dead .19 finally, let us turn again to egypt of the pyramid age and the privileged status of the pharaoh, which enabled him to circumvent the trials of the underworld and to be reborn as a star. ritual incantations were part of the process. equally important was a mysterious ceremony known as the opening of the mouth, always conducted after the death of the pharaoh 13 pre-hispanic gods of mexico, p. 37. 14 the gods and symbols of ancient mexico and the maya, pp. 128-9. 15 reproduced in nation

and the place where gods were made .19 was it a coincidence, i wondered, that this seemed to have been the religious purpose of the three pyramids at giza? the archaic hieroglyphs of the pyramid texts, the oldest coherent body of writing in the world, left little room for doubt that the ultimate objective of the rituals carried out within those colossal structures was to bring about the deceased pharaoh s transfiguration to throw open the doors of the firmament and to make a road so that he might ascend into the company of the gods .20 the notion of pyramids as devices designed (presumably in some metaphysical sense) to turn men into gods was, it seemed to me, too idiosyncratic and peculiar to have been arrived at independently in both ancient egypt and mexico. so, too, was the idea of us

usse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 362. 40 ibid, satapatha brahmana (trans. max muller, cited in atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 87. 41 ibid. see also folklore in the old testament, pp. 78-9. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 194 the present race of mankind.42 last but by no means least, ancient egyptian traditions also refer to a great flood. a funerary text discovered in the tomb of pharaoh seti i, for example, tells of the destruction of sinful humanity by a deluge.43 the reasons for this catastrophe are set out in chapter clxxv of the book of the dead, which attributes the following speech to the moon god thoth: they have fought fights, they have upheld strifes, they have done evil, they have created hostilities, they have made slaughter, they have caused trouble and oppres

ng low in the sky to the south-east, had emerged from behind a scudding cloud bank and projected its ghostly radiance directly at the northern and eastern faces of the neighbouring second pyramid, supposedly built by the fourth 16 piazzi smyth, the great pyramid: its secrets and mysteries revealed, bell publishing company, new york, 1990, p. 80. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 279 dynasty pharaoh khafre (chephren. this stunning monument, second only in size and majesty to the great pyramid itself (being just a few feet shorter and 48 feet narrower at the base) appeared lit up, as though energized from within, by a pale and unearthly fire. behind it in the distance, slightly offset among the dark desert shadows, was the smaller pyramid of menkaure (mycerinus, measuring 356 feet alon

iameter of the sun. north-east, above cairo, sailed cygnus the swan, his tail feathers marked by deneb, a blue-white supergiant visible to us across more than 1800 light years of interstellar space. last but not least, in the northern sky, the dragon draco coiled sinuously among the circumpolar stars. indeed, 4500 years ago, when the great pyramid was supposedly being built for the fourth dynasty pharaoh khufu (cheops, one of the stars of draco had stood close to the celestial north pole and had served as the pole star. this had been alpha draconis, also known as thuban. with the passing of the millennia, however, it had gradually been displaced from its position by the remorseless celestial mill of the earth s axial precession so that the pole star today is polaris in the little bear.20 i

the polished granite sarcophagus which lay embedded in its floor had also been found empty, with its lid broken into two pieces nearby.2 how was this to be explained? to egyptologists the answer seemed obvious. at some early date, probably not many hundreds of years after khafre s death, tomb robbers must have penetrated the chamber and cleared all its contents including the mummified body of the pharaoh. much the same thing seemed to have happened at the smaller third pyramid, towards which santha and i were now walking that attributed to menkaure. here the first european to break in had been a british colonel, howard vyse, who had entered the burial chamber in 1837. he found an empty basalt sarcophagus, an anthropoid coffin lid made of wood, and some bones. the natural assumption was tha

nt egyptian history. as to the basalt sarcophagus well, it could have belonged to menkaure. unfortunately, however, nobody had the opportunity to examine it because it had been lost at sea when the ship on which vyse sent it to england had sunk off the coast of spain.3 since it was a matter of record that the sarcophagus had been found empty by vyse, it was once again assumed that the body of the pharaoh must have been removed by tomb robbers. a similar assumption had been made about the body of khufu, which was also missing. here the scholarly consensus, expressed as well as anyone by george hart of the british museum, was that no later than 500 years after khufu s funeral robbers had forced their way into the great pyramid to steal the burial treasure .4 the implication is that this incu

predecessors, he hired arab workers to start excavating the rubble in the hope that there might be something of interest beneath it. several days of digging in claustrophobic conditions followed before the connection with the descending corridor was discovered.17 is it likely that such a cramped, blocked-up shaft could have been a viable conduit for the treasures of khufu, supposedly the greatest pharaoh of the magnificent fourth dynasty? even if it hadn t been choked with debris and sealed at the lower end, it could not have been used to bring out more than a tiny fraction of the treasures of a typical royal tomb. this is because the well-shaft is only three feet in diameter and incorporates several tricky vertical sections. at the very least, therefore, when ma mun and his men battered t

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ay nacht-gejaid or nachtgelait (processio nocturna, schm. 2, 264. 514; in german bohemia nncht-goid= spectre, rank's bohmerwald pp. 46. 78. 83. 91. in thuringia, hesse, franconia, swabia, the traditional term is' das wiltende heer' and it must be one of long standing: the 12th cent, poet of the urstende (halm 105, 35) uses' daz wuetiinde her' of the jews who fell upon the saviour; in rol. 204, 16 pharaoh's army whelmed by the sea is* sin wstigez her/ in strieker 73 'daz wiietunde her; reinfr. v. brnswg. 4 'daz wiletende her; mich. beheim 176, 5 speaks of a 'crying and whooping (wufen) as if it were das ivatend her; the poem of henry the lion (massm. denkm. p. 132) says' then came he among daz ivoden her, where evil spirits their dwelling have' geiler v. keisersperg preached on the iviitede

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peculiar to note, if you reverse the letters of the word, cromaat, they constitute the abbreviation of the words: the ancient and mystical order rosae crucis. crux ansata.the looped cross. a tau or t cross with a loop at the top. it is of ancient egyptian origin and was referred to by them as the ankh or key of life. an ancient symbol of immortality and of life. it was often included as part of a pharaoh's name as in tutankhamen. cycle.a period of time, evolution, process, method, or manifestation. mystically every progressive action is in cycles, definite and important. the cycle of human life is divided into periods of seven years, each of which is a cycle in the growth and development of the mind and body in the being; even the prenatal period is divided into cycles. the evolution of th

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e found in winer'sbib/ischesrealverterbuch.in the rev. d. kitto'scyclopcediaofbiblicalliterature,are extracted the observations and wood-cuts of sir gardner wilkinson, before whose researches ultra255 theologians endeavoured to make the world believe that the immense and ancient egyptian nation had only copied thejews, whose urim and thummim they had learnt after solomon had married a daughter of pharaoh! dr kitto, though we dare say quite orthodox, is not among these, but cheerfully admits the force of sir g. wilkinson's observations: just as other orthodox divines cheerfully allow ustoadmit the fact of the existence of the countless worlds for millions of years, and of the sun not going round the earth but the earth round the sun, and to agree with the chevalier bunsen and others that th

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ing of a terrible lioness. for a translation of neferabu s stela, see appendix: primary sources. 61. owing to the occupation of the villagers, there was an unusually high literacy rate in deir el-medina. even so, most of the artists probably could not read the texts of the underworld books they copied onto the walls of the royal tombs. for the religious life of the villagers, see l. h. lesko (ed, pharaoh s workers (ithaca and london, 1994. 62. see john baines, myth and literature, in loprieno, ancient egyptian literature, 373 374. 63. the mythological basis for the story is explored by s. tower hollis in the ancient egyptian tale of two brothers: the oldest fairy tale in the world (norman, ok, and london, 1990. 64. for a discussion of all these new kingdom stories and fragments, see s. qui

o a new interest in ancient egyptian history and mythology among african american writers and artists. 116. some of these stories are reprinted in c. frayling, the face of tutankhamun (london and boston, 1992. 117. the fact that most of the excavators of tutankhamun s tomb survived to old age has proved no impediment to the curse legend. for a survey of mummy movies, see a. lant, the curse of the pharaoh, or how cinema contracted egyptomania, in october 59 (1992: 86 112. 56 handbook of egyptian mythology 57 2 mythical time lines the egyptians did not think of time as moving at the same rate for all classes of beings or in all parts of the cosmos. for the dead, an hour in the presence of the sun god was said to be equivalent to a lifetime in egypt. nor was time always thought of as a linear

mun gradually became the chief god of the theban area, where he acquired a new consort, mut, and a son, khonsu. in the new kingdom, the cult of amun was combined with that of the creator sun god ra. amun-ra was worshipped as the king of the gods and creator of the world and its inhabitants. in his chief cult temple at karnak in thebes, amun, lord of the thrones of the two lands, ruled as a divine pharaoh. unlike other important deities, amun does not seem to have been thought of as living in some distant celestial realm. his presence was everywhere, unseen but felt like the wind. his oracles communicated the divine will to humanity. amun was said to come swiftly to 100 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 20. amun-ra visits a queen to sire a divine child. the couple are supported by the g

fails to settle matters, banebdjedet proposes that the throne be given to seth because he is older than horus. ram gods were particularly renowned for their virility, and one of banebdjedet s epithets was lord of sexual pleasure. a stela from a chapel in the ramesseum complex records that the god ptah took the form of banebdjedet to sleep with a mortal woman. the son that resulted was the future pharaoh, rameses ii. greek writers reported that a male goat was honored as a fertility god at mendes and identified with the greek god pan. a persian king of the fourth century bce is alleged to have gone mad after sacking the temple and eating the sacred goat. the sexual aspect of the cult at mendes made it particularly disliked by early christians. banebdjedet s form as a ram or goat-headed man

r tradition made nephthys reject her son, anubis. in other coffin texts, thoth and seshat bring writings to a man in the 190 handbook of egyptian mythology realm of the dead. these writings were the spells that would help the dead person to vanquish the terrors of the underworld and become a powerful spirit. see also nephthys; thoth references and further reading: g. a. wainwright. seshat and the pharaoh. journal of egyptian archaeology 26 (1940: 30 40. primary sources: pt 364; ct 84, 709, 849 seth (set, sutekh) seth, the tumultuous god who was the enemy of his brother, osiris, and the rival of horus, was one of the five children of nut and geb. seth s sister, nephthys, and the foreign goddesses anat and astarte were among his consorts. seth acts as a catalyst in egyptian myth. his thought

n oracles usually involved the movement of a cult statue toward a particular person or between a choice of two written answers. ostracon (pl. ostraca) a potsherd or flake of stone used as a surface for writing or drawing. papyrus a type of reed, the paper made from its stems, or a book-scroll formed from sheets of papyrus. pataikos (pl. pataikoi) a type of dwarf deity used as a protective amulet. pharaoh a title meaning great house (the palace; a respectful way of referring to an egyptian king. polytheism the worship of many gods within a religious tradition. ptolemaic something belonging to the period when the greek ptolemy family ruled egypt. pylon a pair of trapezoidal towers that formed the entrance to a temple. the towers were identified with the mountains of the horizon. pyramid comp

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d ones brought it to earth. it was treasured and placed in its curious box by the crinoid things of antarctica, salvaged from their ruins by the serpent-men of valusia, and peered at aeons later in lemuria by the first human beings. it crossed strange lands and stranger seas, and sank with atlantis before a minoan fisher meshed it in his net and sold it to swarthy merchants from nighted khem. the pharaoh nephren-ka built around it a temple with a windowless crypt, and did that which caused his name to be stricken from all monuments and records. then it slept in the ruins of that evil fane which the priests and the new pharaoh destroyed, till the delver's spade once more brought it forth to curse mankind. early in july the newspapers oddly supplement blake's entries, though in so brief and

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will displayed less resilience and initiative. of this sad change he seemed by no means unaware, and little by little his expression and conversation both took on a gruesome irony which restored in me something of the subtle repulsion i had originally felt. he developed strange caprices, acquiring a fondness for exotic spices and egyptian incense till his room smelled like a vault of a sepulchred pharaoh in the valley of kings. at the same time his demands for cold air increased, and with my aid he amplified the ammonia piping of his room and modified the pumps and feed of his refrigerating machine till he could keep the temperature as low as 34 degrees or 40 degrees, and finally even 28 degrees; the bathroom and laboratory, of course, being less chilled, in order that water might not free

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places. there was a demoniac alteration in the sequence of the seasons the autumn heat lingered fearsomely, and everyone felt that the world and perhaps the universe had passed from the control of known gods or forces to that of gods or forces which were unknown. and it was then that nyarlathotep came out of egypt. who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a pharaoh. the fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. he said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. into the lands of civilisation came nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. he spoke m

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an 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, 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

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is. in the same page, the tiaras of two bearded figures are surmounted with fleurs-de-lis. at p. 332, fig. 211, the assyrian helmet is surmounted with a fleur-de-lis; at p. 334, fig. 217, the head-dress of the figure in the assyrian standard has a fleur-de-lis; at p. 340, fig. 245, the bronze resembles a fleur-de-lis; at p. 350, fig. 254, an egyptian example of the god nilus, as on the thrones of pharaoh- necho, exhibits the fleur-de-lis. vert, or green, and azure, or blue (feminine tinctures, are the colours on which respectively the golden bees, or the silver lisses, are emblazoned. the egyptian scarab i are frequently cut in stone, generally in green-coloured basalt, the scarab us. 45 or verdantique. some have hieroglyphics on them, which are more rare; others are quite plain. in the to

into meaning this portent, man, on your science-wheels! note the goings of the fire, as he creepeth, serpentineth, riseth, slinketh, broadeneth. note him reddening, glowing, whitening. tremble at his face, dilating; at the meaning that is growing into it, to you. see that spark from the blacksmith's anvil! struck, as an insect, out of a sky containing a whole cloud of such. rare locusts, of which pharaoh and the cities of the plain read of old the secret! one, two, three sparks; dozens come: faster and faster the fiery squadrons follow, until, in a short while, a whole possible army of that hungry thing for battle, for food for it fire glances up; but is soon warned in again! lest acres should glow in the growing advance. think that this thing is bound as in matter-chains. think that he is

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d with a bloody hand 331 to defend his own son. against that which michael worked worked gabriel, descending to the earth, flying most swift from heaven, falling as a fulmination to that lower realm to act in defence of his son. appearing in a blast of flame he appeared to mary and warned with these words the mother of his son to deliver the suckling babe from israel unto the river kingdom of the pharaoh's that offered libations at the altar to ashmedai, the thrice greatest, and to aset, the bright goddess. even as the soldiers of the king burst inwards with naked swords to claim the child gabriel spoke these words with a desperate tongue to that daughter of the nephilim that he had loved and of whose womb jesu, son of gabriel, was born, addressing her with those words with which he had fi

most ironic and you shall renounce that hubris. you shall curse abraham for isaac's birth. even the condemned shall be less wretched. these walls of shalem shall i tear down and crush to dust your temple. you shall be scattered across the earth and you shall be as leaves upon the wind. nowhere will you find a refuge from my wrath. the days that fathers abided in egypt and were made slaves to the pharaoh shall seem most blessed to you. never shall there be peace for you and your enemies shall be on every side. when your innocent children are slain then shall you know my grief. be most afeared, judaea, for these days are coming soon" now did grow black the sky, stained with the angel's wrath, and in the temple of the jews the veil that hid the inmost sanctum was rent in two by an unseen han

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t to forget the creator. under no circumstance should we interpret the text of any section of the bible (the five books of moses) according to our own perceptions, likening the description of events to the events in our own world. for example, as i have written in my previous books "the evil lavan" mentioned in the bible is the highest level of the soul being filled with the light of the creator "pharaoh" is a symbol of the totality of our egoism. another example can be found in the bible where it tells how a certain person by the name of ptachia came into a city and gathered around him empty people, and all of them went with him to the desert. the name ptachia derives from the verb "liftoach (to open) a person who opens people s eyes. he gathered all the "empty" people people who feel emp

acharai ba midbar (after me in the desert) with the feeling that your life without perception of the spiritual is like a desert without a drop of water, that the small spark of redemption from the feeling of emptiness will seem to you like "a cool spring on your exhausted soul" a further example can be found in the passover haggada (story) on the exodus from egypt, from the spiritual captivity of pharaoh our egoism "pharaoh died" finally the person sees that his egoism is not for his good, that it kills him, and obligates him to serve it all of his life. this principle now, in his eyes "dies" and as long as he does not recognize that his egoism is his sole enemy, he thinks that his life and servitude in egypt (captivity to the desires of the body) was a good and favorable condition. and ev

, in his eyes "dies" and as long as he does not recognize that his egoism is his sole enemy, he thinks that his life and servitude in egypt (captivity to the desires of the body) was a good and favorable condition. and even afterwards, occasionally (during spiritual downfalls) he cries for the "plates of meat and bread" that he had in egypt, namely, that served his egoism in abundance. as long as pharaoh (the egoism in the heart of a person, the king (who ruled over all the thoughts and desires of a person) of egypt was alive, he dictated against the person s will what all of the person s desires and actions would be. this person is said to be found "in the exile (imprisonment) of egypt" captive to various egoistic desires (mitsraim deriving from the words mitz-ra "a concentration of evil

the person s desires and actions would be. this person is said to be found "in the exile (imprisonment) of egypt" captive to various egoistic desires (mitsraim deriving from the words mitz-ra "a concentration of evil. we, ourselves, are not able to understand that the nature that rules over us is bad. and this is only as long as the creator has not yet created good for the person of "and behold, pharaoh died" he gives us those life experiences that allow us to recognize that egoism is our enemy. only then will this symbol of evil die, and we will feel that we are incapable of existing as we once did, working for nothing- 248- attaining the worlds beyond and "the sons of israel groaned because of the servitude and they cried out" they did this only after realizing they were not even able t

removing the pleasures with which egoism entices us. as a result, we can depart from egoism s domain and become free. moreover, by coming under the influence of pure spiritual forces, we experience pleasure in altruistic actions and become instead a servant of altruism. conclusion: we as individuals are slaves to pleasure. if we derive our pleasure from receiving, then we are slaves of egoism (of pharaoh, of the evil angel, etc. if we derive our pleasure from bestowing, then we are servants of the creator (of altruism. but we cannot exist without receiving some form of pleasure. this is the human essence; this is the way the creator has designed human beings, and this aspect cannot be altered. all we must do is ask the creator to bestow upon on us a desire for altruism. this is the essence

made a human being with his own qualities, or, once having created egoism, he himself would have transformed it into altruism without the process of bitter exile from the state of upper perfection. receiving for the sake of giving- 401- 34 suffering sent as absolute kindness free will is the personal, independent decision of human beings to choose that the creator should rule over us rather than pharaoh. the power of pharaoh consists of demonstrating to us the rewards we can receive. we clearly perceive the rewards that can be gained from our egoistic actions; we comprehend these rewards with our reason, and see them with our eyes. the result is known from the start; and is approved by society, by the family, by the parents, and by the children. hence, the body asks pharaoh "who is the lo

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g and the goal of circulating kabbalah is to cause man to feel the need to develop his soul. circulating kabbalah gives us a method for such development and teaches us how to use the newfound sense. that is why kabbalah is a special science and not a religion. t h e e v i l f o r c e v t h e f o r c e o f t h e c r e at o r q: i was surprised to read in the haggada (tales for passover night) that pharaoh made israel come nearer to the creator. how is a negative force capable of working for the creator and against itself? a: pharaoh is the force of the creator. it is a good force that takes a negative appearance in us, as it says: two angels lead one to the goal- the good and the bad. the whole experience of progress in kabbalah pertains to the acquisition of new forces of bestowal. if man

of working for the creator and against itself? a: pharaoh is the force of the creator. it is a good force that takes a negative appearance in us, as it says: two angels lead one to the goal- the good and the bad. the whole experience of progress in kabbalah pertains to the acquisition of new forces of bestowal. if man had only good inclinations, he would never be able to advance. for that reason pharaoh, the evil force and man s evil inclination, which allows man to take from it greater desires for pleasure, correct them and rise even higher. therefore, it is important to relate to pharaoh as the force of the creator that was given to us for our assistance. pharaoh promotes us by awakening in our egos a desire to advance and develop materially. from awakening t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e

rtant to relate to pharaoh as the force of the creator that was given to us for our assistance. pharaoh promotes us by awakening in our egos a desire to advance and develop materially. from awakening t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 210 that desire, we begin to understand that material progress doesn t give us anything, and that true development is spiritual. when, under the influence of pharaoh, we begin to develop spiritually, we search in the spiritual world for a vessel to be filled with the desire for pleasure. thus, our own egoism, pharaoh, is the motivating force behind everything. this is because it is impossible to receive the upper light in our will to receive; it is impossible to sense the creator, the infinite pleasure. instead, we can only enjoy the (very small) pleas

with the desire for pleasure. thus, our own egoism, pharaoh, is the motivating force behind everything. this is because it is impossible to receive the upper light in our will to receive; it is impossible to sense the creator, the infinite pleasure. instead, we can only enjoy the (very small) pleasures of our world that, once gone, leave us feeling emptier and even more dissatisfied than before. pharaoh must motivate us to spirituality, so that afterwards, when we receive the spiritual delight, he will take it for himself. in our world, pharaoh motivates us to receive pleasure using our regular desire to please ourselves. in the haggada of passover, he is called the old pharaoh. then it is said that a new king rose in egypt, and this is the pharaoh who takes us to spirituality, and then t

urselves. in the haggada of passover, he is called the old pharaoh. then it is said that a new king rose in egypt, and this is the pharaoh who takes us to spirituality, and then takes receives it himself. in fact, contrary to the pleasures of this world, one can receive spiritual pleasures only in a vessel called faith above reason, meaning with the intent to enjoy in order to please the creator. pharaoh pushes man to receive spiritual pleasures for himself. but man cannot receive such pleasures directly, so pharaoh takes man toward spirituality, study and labor. when one finally receives the upper feeling, pharaoh comes and takes man s attainments through the alien thoughts that are sent him. q: how does it happen? a: after the attainment, there suddenly appears a thought to use what one

d labor. when one finally receives the upper feeling, pharaoh comes and takes man s attainments through the alien thoughts that are sent him. q: how does it happen? a: after the attainment, there suddenly appears a thought to use what one has attained for oneself, such as to enjoy the status of a sage, or a kabbalist, draw people near or drive them away, gain respect, influence, etc. by so doing, pharaoh takes for himself all the spirituality that t h e d e s i r e f o r p l e a s u r e: d i s c o v e r y a n d c o r r e c t i o n 211 one has worked so hard to attain, through the vessel of faith above reason, and into his own private vessel of joy. what benefit does this offer us, then? it is through pharaoh that the creator motivates man to new efforts. but once man has attained a new spi

ty that t h e d e s i r e f o r p l e a s u r e: d i s c o v e r y a n d c o r r e c t i o n 211 one has worked so hard to attain, through the vessel of faith above reason, and into his own private vessel of joy. what benefit does this offer us, then? it is through pharaoh that the creator motivates man to new efforts. but once man has attained a new spiritual sensation, he loses it again because pharaoh puts in him yet another new desire for self, instead of the desire to bestow. in this way, man will enjoy the spiritual pleasures he has acquired. q: why does pharaoh succeed? a: the will to receive that the creator created is entirely in the hands of pharaoh, who can always raise new desires to receive, greater than the small desires to bestow he had acquired in the previous degree. this

oh puts in him yet another new desire for self, instead of the desire to bestow. in this way, man will enjoy the spiritual pleasures he has acquired. q: why does pharaoh succeed? a: the will to receive that the creator created is entirely in the hands of pharaoh, who can always raise new desires to receive, greater than the small desires to bestow he had acquired in the previous degree. this way, pharaoh gives man an additional will to receive that is greater than the will he has corrected thus far. pharaoh plants in man, through his desires, the desire for pleasure of the next degree in order for him to correct that, as well. that way, he enables man to continue with the process of correction. all that man can see is how his work is wasted. furthermore, man feels that each time he acquire

that, as well. that way, he enables man to continue with the process of correction. all that man can see is how his work is wasted. furthermore, man feels that each time he acquires a greater attainment, he falls from it and plunges deeper still in his own selfish desires, where he discovers an even greater desire for pleasure than before. this process repeats itself time and again, and each time pharaoh brings man to such desperation that he cries for the creator to save him from the hands of pharaoh. at this point, pharaoh s work is done, and he appears before man as an angel, an emissary of the creator. s h o r t e n e d e x i l e q: baal hasulam writes about a premature spiritual birth. how does this happen and can it be prevented? a: the exile in egypt was supposed to last 400 years

important nor the biggest of man s problems; they are not the ones he should wrestle with. if you want to eat, drink or sleep more, don t worry about it; it is a temporary phenomenon during a spiritual descent, when there are no other pleasures. the situation is that man is given more egoistic desires to enjoy the spiritual world, and we should wrestle with what rebels against the creator, or as pharaoh said, who is the lord, that i should obey his voice (exodus 5, 2. the most important thing is to confront thoughts against faith and doubts about providence or the uniqueness of the creator. it is true that the physical desires grow as well, but that is done on purpose, in order to divert us from the correct battle against that which really distances us from the creator. the most important

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ing exists outside us. but the truth is that there is nothing outside, only the creator. this world is the lowest point that a kabbalist attains. it is the total opposite of the creator and is termed, the exile in egypt. the natural power that works on us in that state, the power of our egoistic nature, doesn t allow us to advance anywhere except to care for ourselves. this is called the state of pharaoh. our egoism doesn t let us feel the sublime and perfect state. it is egoism, man s inner and vicious force called pharaoh, that the torah speaks of at length, whereas the force that frees one of that state is called moses. pharaoh, moses and everything that is written about the exodus describe spiritual states and emotions. our current state is the lowest possible. it is a state of absolut

tate and with our egoistic substance of this world. t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 28 there is a law for the spiritual nature that states that, every spiritual root must touch a corporeal branch. this means that every spiritual origin and spiritual force must hang down and build its final corporeal manifestation in our world. for instance, there is a negative force in the world of atzilut named pharaoh and a positive one named moses. these forces must materialize at least once in our world. in principle, everything that happened or that is happening in the spiritual world has already happened in ours, everything except the coming of the messiah and our ascent and exit from this world to the spiritual world. this is all that still awaits us. but the times to come before the ascent are als

i t ua l e v o l u t i o n 99 the right line (bestowal, masculine part) and at other times they should follow the left line (reception, feminine part. all the names in the torah are names of spiritual attainments on the spiritual ladder. but in order to attain a certain name, you must play both the masculine and the feminine parts, meaning the right and left lines. for example, in the degrees of pharaoh, moses, israel, and a gentile, there is both a feminine and a masculine part. but each name can only be attained once and in a certain degree. man and woman are a union of zeir anpin and malchut of the world of atzilut. its essence and degree create different names and a higher spiritual degree. the male and female states are set in each of the 125 degrees. if that is the case, then how sh

us. we have the ability to choose which way to reach the purpose of creation. but even at the starting point we operate under the pressure of our absolute egoism. we are its slaves and are motivated only by egoistic desires. when we change our nature from egoism to altruism, we also become slaves, but this time to an altruistic nature. the freedom of desire is only in the choice of whom to serve: pharaoh or moses. therefore, the entire torah is a guide to attain the purpose of creation. as it is said, i have created the evil inclination, i have created for it the torah as a spice (gomorrah masechet kidushin p. 30;2, meaning, i have created egoism and i have given the torah/kabbalah in order to correct it. all the parts in the torah were given to us to match our attributes with those of the

and rabbi baruch ashlag. the interpretation of the torah as historic episodes contradicts the statement that the entire torah is the names of the creator, that it is a torah of the world of atzilut, and that every word in it is a holy name. it is important to remember that it does not speak of this corporeal world and corporeal people. all the names in the torah are holy names, even names such as pharaoh, balaam, and balak. the zohar explains that each name indicates a certain spiritual degree: pharaoh stands for malchut, laban stands for partzuf hochma, and so on. r e s h i m o t in order to ensure correct action, there must be clear understanding of what it is the vessel wants to achieve, how to achieve it, and how strong the desire is to achieve it. there is only one creature beside the

the havayah, makes up the name of the degree. it is written that everyone must attain the degree called moses. all the names in the torah are holy names, because they are appellations pa r t t h r e e: t h e s t ru c t u r e o f t h e u p p e r wo r l d s 189 of manifestations of the light; i.e. the creator. that is why the whole torah is comprised of names of the creator, including such names as pharaoh, balak, and balaam etc. a name of a degree is determined by the light that fills the partzuf, the havayah. for example: if the vessel is filled with the light of wisdom, and the sign for that light is the letter yod, it turns out that the filling of the letters (how they re spelt in hebrew) would be: yod) hey) vav) hey( yod-vav-dalet hey-yod vav-yod-vav hey-yod that is because each letter

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k of the dead, his throat was cut and his heart torn out. another degree is mentioned in the papyrus of nesi-amsu, where it is said that the body was cut to pieces and burnt to ashes, and these were spread over the face of the waters to the four winds of heaven. 12. there is in the temple of khnumu in the island of elephantine, just off assouan, a bas-relief which shows us two figures, one of the pharaoh and the other of a priest wearing the ibis head-dress of thoth, standing in an attitude strongly suggestive of the f c p c of f c, though not exactly agreeing with our present practice (see plate ii a) it is intended to represent an initiation, and the word given is gmaat-heru, h which means gtrue of voice h or gone whose voice must be obeyed h(*churchward, the arcana of freemasonry, p. 49

g in an attitude strongly suggestive of the f c p c of f c, though not exactly agreeing with our present practice (see plate ii a) it is intended to represent an initiation, and the word given is gmaat-heru, h which means gtrue of voice h or gone whose voice must be obeyed h(*churchward, the arcana of freemasonry, p. 49) i have also seen a painting in which four attendants are depicted saluting a pharaoh with the p c s c of an i.m, and the s c of s c is often to be found on the monuments, and is characteristic of horus. the gavel was then made of stone, and was a model of the double-headed axe. 13. plate i 14. 15. in those days the aprons were made of leather, and were triangular. that of the first degree was pure white, as it is now; but the m.m. fs apron was brilliantly coloured and heav

of the religion of the ancient egyptians was that the divine power dwelt in every man, even the lowest and most degraded, and they called that power gthe hidden light h. they held that through that light, which existed in all, men could always be reached and helped, and that it was their business to find that light within every one, however unpromising, and to strengthen it. the very motto of the pharaoh was glook for the light, h implying that his supreme duty as king was to look for that hidden light in every man around him, and strive to bring it forth into fuller manifestation. 58. the egyptians held that this divine spark, which exists in every one, could most effectively be fanned into flame by transmuting and bringing down to the three lower worlds the tremendous spiritual force whi

seen. broca has noted that the brain content of the skull of the cro-magnon woman surpasses that of the average male of today. the average height of the men of this race was six feet one and a half inches; the shoulders were exceedingly broad and the arms short as compared with the legs; the nose was thin but prominent, the cheek-bones high, and the chin massive. 61. it happened that the king or pharaoh on the throne at the time when the expedition from south india arrived had a daughter but no son, his wife having died in child-birth. the newcomers were received with great cordiality by both king and high-priest, and intermarriage with the strangers became a coveted honour in the egyptian families, especially as the king had approved the marriage of his daughter with the leader of the ba

ment of the country was directed from within the organization of the mysteries. egypt was divided into forty-two nomes or counties, and the nomarch or ruler of the county was the master of the principal lodge of the nome. there was a grand lodge- not to be confused with the three grand lodges of amen to be described later- which consisted of all the nomarchs, and of which the grand master was the pharaoh. this grand lodge was convened at memphis, and worked a different ritual from those of the lower grades. it was to this body that the pharaoh announced his decrees; for although his power in the land was almost absolute, yet before any serious decision was made he always took counsel with his nomarchs- and, judging by their decisions, they were a very capable body of men. lesser matters we

fferent ritual from those of the lower grades. it was to this body that the pharaoh announced his decrees; for although his power in the land was almost absolute, yet before any serious decision was made he always took counsel with his nomarchs- and, judging by their decisions, they were a very capable body of men. lesser matters were settled by an executive committee of this lodge over which the pharaoh presided; but important steps were always discussed in grand lodge itself. thus the mysteries entered into political as well as into religious life in the old days; and politics were much less selfish in consequence. 67. there were in egypt in those days three grand lodges of amen, each of which was strictly limited to forty members, every one of whom was a necessary part of the machine. i

ention, than the two great pillars which were placed at the porch or entrance. h the ritual goes on to explain that these two pillars were set up at the entrance of the temple to remind the children of israel, on their way to and from divine worship, of the pillar of fire which gave light to the israelites during their escape from bondage in egypt, and the pillar of cloud which proved darkness to pharaoh and his followers, when they attempted to overtake them. 148. their original significance, however, dates much further back than this. it is claimed that these two columns originally represented the north and south pole-stars. they were at first the pillars of horus and set, but their names were afterwards changed to tat or ta-at, and tattu, the former meaning gin strength h and the latter

e calls on him to arise, and only when the third summons has been made in vain does he officially proclaim the sad news that the pope is dead, and therefore a successor must be elected(*op. cit, p. 74) 695. bro. ward further identifies hiram abiff with abibaal, the father of hiram, king of tyre, and even suggests that hiram was not a personal name at all, but a title of the kings of tyre, just as pharaoh was of those of egypt. 696. from another source comes the somewhat fantastic suggestion that solomon also was not a personal name, but is capable of the subdivision sol-om-on; sol meaning the sun, om being the sacred word of the hindus (a substituted word, because the real word is a name of power, the name of the logos, to pronounce which would shake the world and destroy the speaker) and

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40,000 b.c. that the world teacher came forth from the white lodge, bearing the name of tehuti or thoth, called later by the greeks hermes; he founded the outer cult of the egyptian gods and restored the mysteries to the splendour of byegone days. 56. he came to teach the great doctrine of the inner light to the priests of the temples, to the powerful sacerdotal hierarchy of egypt, headed by its pharaoh. in the inner court of the chief temple he taught them of the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world- phrase of his that was handed down through the ages, and was echoed in the fourth gospel in its early egyptian-coloured words. he taught them that the light was universal, and that that light, which was god, dwelt in the heart of every man: i am that light, he bade them r

s, the god born into humanity, taking flesh of the mother eternal, matter, the ever-virgin. he is born again into osiris, redeeming his mother from her long search for the fragments of her husband scattered over the earth. he is born into osiris when osiris in the heart sees osiris in the heavens, and knows that the twain are one. 59. so taught he, and the wise among the priests were glad. 60. to pharaoh, the monarch, he gave the motto: look for the light; he said that only as a king saw the light in the heart of each could he rule well. and to the people he gave as a motto: thou art the light. let that light shine. and he set that motto round the pylon in a great temple, running up one pillar, and across the bar, and down the other pillar. and this was inscribed over the doors of houses

the creature was a mere symbol, but in later days the egyptians had the idea that those which had been especially set apart came to be linked with the godhead, and so were to some extent a manifestation of the deity. they then embalmed the animals and laid up the mummies in their temples, with the intention of preserving the divine influence. 69. the practice of embalming 70. in the same way the pharaoh was embalmed with the idea that his power, his connection with the deity (which was a very close one as pharaoh, would be preserved and would continue to radiate so long as the body remained. this resembled the later custom of preserving the relics of a saint. the strong love of the egyptians for their coun-try provided another reason for embalming their dead; they hoped to preserve a defi

itiated, and the other esoteric, for the students of the mysteries. the legend that masonry possesses a universal language known only to the brn. may be an echo of tradition about this ancient and secret tongue. 126. this secret tongue of the initiates was also used in inscriptions, and in the hieroglyphic wall-paintings and papyri. many of the inscriptions, telling of the victories of some great pharaoh, could be read in a hidden sense, and they then conveyed spiritual instruction to those who had learnt the real meaning. this is certainly true of the book of the dead, which when translated into english by modern scholars seems often unintelligible and even grotesque. yet in the interpretation of it taught in the mysteries those same texts were full of inner illumination and gave much inf

he sacramental grace of the degree to others. 178. white masonry in the mysteries 179. the highest and last of the great sacramental powers of the mysteries which have been transmitted to us is that which is now conferred in the 33, that of the sovereign grand inspector-general. in ancient egypt, at the time when i knew it, there were only three who held the equivalent of that supreme degree, the pharaoh and two others, who formed with him an inner triangle which was the heart of the whole system of the mysteries, and the channel to them of the hidden light from the white lodge behind. these three were all high initiates of the great white brotherhood, and the pharaoh possessed an even higher level of power than is usually given in the 33, it being that of a crowned and anointed sovereign

its inhabitants forsook their homes, and settled on the opposite coast of the red sea in what we now call somaliland. here they lived for several centuries, but in consequence of an attempt on the part of the majority to intermarry with the negroes of the interior, a fairly large minority of them withdrew from the community, and, after many wanderings, found themselves in egyptian territory. the pharaoh of the period, interested in their story, offered them an outlying district of his kingdom if they chose to settle there. eventually some pharaoh made a demand upon them for additional taxation and forced work which they considered an infringement of their privileges; and they once more undertook a wholesale migration under the leadership of him whom we now call moses, and after further wa

allel with the mysteries of egypt from atlantean days, and having its own chief halls of initiation in babylon. he, too, felt that a centre nearer home and in friendly hands was eminently desirable, and he therefore co-operated in the plan of judaizing the ancient rites and focusing them upon the temple in jerusalem. 279. at first, it appears, the two kings sent an embassy to egypt to consult the pharaoh in the matter, telling him of the temple which they had built, and asking for some recognition of the jewish branch of the mysteries. the pharaoh did not accept their proposals with any degree of enthusiasm, but rather implied that no foreigner could possibly understand the mysteries of egypt. the egyptians of the period seem to have regarded their jewish brethren with something of the sam

ly understand the mysteries of egypt. the egyptians of the period seem to have regarded their jewish brethren with something of the same feeling that the grand lodge of england might have towards the grand orient of hayti if it should propose alterations in the ritual, and their interest in the new venture was decidedly cold. we find no confirmation of the story of the marriage of king solomon to pharaoh s daughter, as is related in the bible; indeed, this union is now generally rejected by the critics as impossible, for according to the tell el-amarna tablets, an egyptian princess might not marry a foreigner(*peake s commentary on the bible, p. 296) 280. the mingling of traditions 281. on the return of their embassy from egypt king solomon and king hiram called together the council at jer

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t is in the sea (isa. 27:1. moreover, in psalms 91:13, the saints shall trample the dragon under their feet. the battle between yahweh and the dragon is very popular in the visions of the later hebrew prophets, although the dragon usually embodies a purely symbolic meaning as the enemy of israel, that is to say the assyrians, the babylonians, or the egyptians. an account of god s hostility toward pharaoh is reported by the prophet ezekiel, who speaks of pharaoh as the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams (ezek. 29:3, into whose jaws he will put hooks and whom he will have thrown into the wilderness. elsewhere in the old testament, the dragon is represented also as a symbol of mourning and desolation. one of the most discussed chapters of the old testament is daniel 7, which r

ennium b.c.e. the middle kingdom is dated from about 2100 b.c.e. to c. 1786 b.c.e, and the new kingdom lasted from about 1580 b.c.e. to c. 1080 b.c.e. then began a series of incursions by the assyrian and persian empires, though ancient egypt was not really brought to an end until after alexander the great conquered it in 332 b.c.e. from about 3000 b.c.e, egyptian official religion recognized the pharaoh as the offspring of the sun god, re, and thus as a god himself. there were many other gods and goddesses in the egyptian pantheon, whose domains covered everything from natural phenomena like air (the god shu) to cultural phenomena like writing (the goddess safekht. many gods were represented as e 77 78 egypt an animal or part-human/part-animal, perhaps the residue of earlier animal worshi

animal or part-human/part-animal, perhaps the residue of earlier animal worship. generally, egyptians gave most prominence to those gods associated with the nile (hapy, sothis, sebek, the sun (re, re-atum, horus, and helping the dead (osiris, anubis, sokaris. during the time of the old kingdom, the sun god re was the dominant god. re served to give immortality to the collective state through the pharaoh, his son. the sun seemed to the egyptians and to many other ancients to be clearly immortal, as it died every evening, traveled through the underworld, and was reborn every morning. the sun was also important to the success of nile agriculture. thus, insofar as the pharaoh was identified with the sun god, the continuity and success of the state was assured. one of the primary sources for u

ge of the dead for the rest of eternity. originally, the story of osiris seems to have been merely the story of a vegetative cult, where osiris s fate represented the flooding of the nile in the spring and its recession in the fall, and/or the regular agricultural cycle of seed, growth, death, and rebirth. the story began to gain a greater significance when horus became identified with the living pharaoh, which may have happened as early as 2800 b.c.e. that identification perhaps occurred because the immortality of osiris could be functional for reinforcing the royal dynasty. if every living pharaoh is horus and every recently deceased pharaoh is osiris, the prosperity of the orderly succession is assured. the osiris story, however, also grew in impact because it offered new levels of mean

t dwelt in statues of the person and was the aspect to which mortuary offerings were generally made. the ba was the breath or soul, the principle animating the person, both physically and psychically, which was pictured as a human-headed bird. the ba was able to perform all bodily functions, but shared with the akh the ability to exist as well among the gods. how much of the following process the pharaoh had to undergo is unclear. the theology was that he entered the divine realm, that is, the circuit of the sun god, by right. they did not have to answer to anyone and did not have to visit osiris in the underworld. even so, the pharaohs sometimes gave evidence of anxiety about the journey. in general, the newly dead, in the form of their ba and ka, traveled in the boat of re, the sun god

a (isa. 27:1).moreover, in psalms 91:13, the saints shall trample the dragon under their feet. the battle between yahweh and the dragon is very popular in the 150 leviathan visions of the later hebrew prophets, although the dragon usually embodies a purely symbolic meaning as the enemy of israel, that is to say the assyrians, the babylonians, or the egyptians. an account of god s hostility toward pharaoh is reported by the prophet ezekiel, who speaks of pharaoh as the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, into whose jaws he will put hooks leviathan (dover pictorial series) limbo 151 and whom he will have thrown into the wilderness. elsewhere in hebrew scriptures, the dragon is represented also as a symbol of mourning and desolation. one of the most discussed chapters of scrip

line and have their faith tested at times. god agreed to allow one-tenth of the demons carry on their work under mastema s supervision. there are other references to mastema, such as in exodus (4:24ff. here mastema tries to kill moses. also, it is said that mastema is supposed to have assisted the egyptian wizards against moses and aaron when these israelites had to present themselves before the pharaoh to display their talent at feats of magic. see also book of jubilees for further reading: davidson,gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. 1967.new york: free press, 1971. godwin,malcolm. angels: an endangered species. new york: simon and schuster, 1990. matamoros murders constanzo, 26, and ms. aldrete, 24, had been charged with aggravated kidnaping by cameron county au

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h eternity, and in thy sight the landmarks are of fair white marble untouched by the tool of the graver. therefore thou art mine, even now and for ever and for everlasting. amen. 28 liber lxv 58. moreover, i heard the voice of adonai: seal up the book of the heart and the serpent; in the number five and sixty seal thou the holy book. as fine gold that is beaten into a diadem for the fair queen of pharaoh, as great stones that are cemented together into the pyramid of the ceremony of the death of asar, so do thou bind together the words and the deeds, so that in all is one thought of me thy delight adonai. 59. and i answered and said: it is done even according to thy word. and it was done. and they that read the book and debated thereon passed into the desolate land of barren words. and the

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the wine unmixed, then they join together and one chorus is formed of the two bands, in imitation of the joined chorus on the banks of the red sea, because of the wonderful works that had been there wrought. for the sea at god's command became for one party a cause of safety and for the other a cause of ruin [philo here refers to the fabled dance of triumph of the israelites at the destruction of pharaoh and his host, when moses led the men and miriam the women in a common 24 liber dcccxi dance; but the therapeuts all over the world could not have traced the custom to a common myth] gso the chorus of men and women therapeuts, being formed as closely as possible on this model, by means of melodies in parts and harmony.the high notes of the women answering to the deep tones of the men.produc

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ion of their philosophical and scientific power. after his death this king was elevated to the estate of a god. phylarchus declared that the word serapis means "the power that disposed the universe into its present beautiful order" in his isis and osiris, plutarch gives the following account of the origin of the magnificent statue of serapis which stood in the serapeum at alexandria: while he was pharaoh of egypt, ptolemy soter had a strange dream in which he beheld a tremendous statue, which came to life and ordered the pharaoh to bring it to alexandria with all possible speed. ptolemy soter, not knowing the whereabouts of the statue, was sorely perplexed as to how he could discover it. while the pharaoh was relating his dream, a great traveler by the name of sosibius, coming forward, dec

in which he beheld a tremendous statue, which came to life and ordered the pharaoh to bring it to alexandria with all possible speed. ptolemy soter, not knowing the whereabouts of the statue, was sorely perplexed as to how he could discover it. while the pharaoh was relating his dream, a great traveler by the name of sosibius, coming forward, declared that he had seen such an image at sinope. the pharaoh immediately dispatched soteles and dionysius to negotiate for the removal of the figure to alexandria. three years elapsed before the image was finally obtained, the representatives of the pharaoh finally stealing it and concealing the theft by spreading a story that the statue had come to life and, walking down the street leading from its temple, had boarded the ship prepared for its tran

t he alone of the gods was consulted in behalf of the dying king. the egyptian secret school of philosophy was divided into the lesser and the greater mysteries, the former being sacred to isis and the latter to serapis and osiris. wilkinson is of the opinion that only the priests were permitted to enter the greater mysteries. even the heir to the throne was not eligible until he had been crowned pharaoh, when, by virtue of his kingly office, he automatically became a priest and the temporal head of the state religion (see wilkinson's manners and customs of the egyptians) a limited number were admitted into the greater mysteries: these preserved their secrets inviolate. much of the information concerning the rituals of the higher degrees of the egyptian mysteries has been gleaned from an e

ceal the true origin and purpose of the great pyramid. this is but one of several instances in his writings which would lead the thoughtful reader to suspect that herodotus himself was an initiate of the sacred schools and consequently obligated to preserve inviolate the secrets of the ancient orders. the theory advanced by herodotus and now generally accepted that the pyramid was the tomb of the pharaoh cheops cannot be substantiated. in fact, manetho, eratosthenes, and diodorus siculus all differ from herodotus--as well as from each other--regarding the name of the builder of this supreme edifice. the sepulchral vault, which, according to the lepsius law of pyramid construction, should have been finished at the same time as the monument or sooner, was never completed. there is no proof t

e well did not exist at the time--the workmen made their exit from the pyramid after dropping the stone plugs into the ascending gallery. biblical scholars have contributed a number of most extraordinary conceptions regarding the great pyramid. this ancient edifice has been identified by them as joseph's granary (despite its hopelessly inadequate capacity; as the tomb prepared for the unfortunate pharaoh of the exodus who could not be buried there because his body was never recovered from the red sea; and finally as a perpetual confirmation of the infallibility of the numerous prophecies contained in the authorized version! the sphinx although the great pyramid, as ignatius donnelly has demonstrated, is patterned after an antediluvian type of architecture, examples of which are to be found

he authorized version! the sphinx although the great pyramid, as ignatius donnelly has demonstrated, is patterned after an antediluvian type of architecture, examples of which are to be found in nearly every part of the world, the sphinx (hu) is typically egyptian. the stele between its paws states the sphinx is an image of the sun god, harmackis, which was evidently made in the similitude of the pharaoh during whose reign it was chiseled. the statue was restored and completely excavated by tahutmes iv as the result of a vision in which the god had appeared and declared himself oppressed by the weight of the sand about his body. the broken beard of the sphinx was discovered during excavations between the front paws. the steps leading up to the sphinx and also the temple and altar between t

lettered k, h, f, and o. the king's chamber (k) is an oblong apartment 39 feet long, 17 felt wide, and 19 feet high (disregarding fractional parts of a foot in each case, with a flat roof consisting of nine great stones, the largest in the pyramid. above the king's chamber are five low compartments (l, generally termed construction chambers. in the lowest of these the so-called hieroglyphs of the pharaoh cheops are located. the roof of the fifth construction chamber is peaked. at the end of the king's chamber opposite the entrance stands the famous sarcophagus, or coffer (i, and behind it is a shallow opening that was dug in the hope of discovering valuables. two air vents (m, n) passing through the entire body of the pyramid ventilate the king's chamber. in itself this is sufficient to es

who had the will and the capacity to enter the secret adytum, there was seldom necessity for that liberation of the soul which is said to be effected by the destruction of the body. the body of the initiate was therefore preserved after death as a species of talisman or material basis for the manifestation of the soul upon earth" during the period of its inception mummification was limited to the pharaoh and such other persons of royal rank as presumably partook of the attributes of the great osiris, the divine, mummified king of the egyptian underworld. click to enlarge osiris, king of the underworld. osiris is often represented with the lower par, of his body enclosed in a mummy case or wrapped about with funeral bandages. man's spirit consists of three distinct parts, only one of which

orals of the primitive mysteries. by establishing a sacerdotal caste they usurped the position formerly occupied by the initiates, and seized the reins of spiritual government. thus black magic dictated the state religion and paralyzed the intellectual and spiritual activities of the individual by demanding his complete and unhesitating acquiescence in the dogma formulated by the priestcraft. the pharaoh became a puppet in the hands of the scarlet council--a committee of arch-sorcerers elevated to power by the priesthood. these sorcerers then began the systematic destruction of all keys to the ancient wisdom, so that none might have access to the knowledge necessary to reach adeptship without first becoming one of their order. they mutilated the rituals of the mysteries while professing to

t that he was a jew, adopted and educated by the ruling house of egypt; others hold the opinion that he was a fullblooded egyptian. a few even believe him to be identical with the immortal hermes, for both these illustrious founders of religious systems received tablets from heaven supposedly written by the finger of god. the stories told concerning moses, his discovery in the ark of bulrushes by pharaoh's daughter, his adoption into the royal family of egypt, and his later revolt against egyptian autocracy coincide exactly with certain ceremonies through which the candidates of the egyptian mysteries passed in their ritualistic wanderings in search of truth and understanding. the analogy can also be traced in the movements of the heavenly bodies. it is not strange that the erudite moses

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nt name of el. adonai tzabaoth, which is the god of armies, ruling in the heavens, which joseph invoked and was found worthy to escape from the hands of his brethren. i conjure ye by the most potent name of elohim tzabaoth, which expresseth piety, mercy, splendour, and knowledge of god, which moses invoked, and he was found worthy to deliver the people israel from egypt, and from the servitude of pharaoh. i conjure ye by the most potent name of shaddai, which signifieth doing good unto all; which moses invoked, and having struck the sea, it divided into two parts in the midst, on the right hand and on the left. i conjure ye by the most holy name of el chai, which is that of the living god, through the virtue of which alliance with us, and redemption for us have been made; which moses invok

g the space of three days and three nights, that almost all who were left alive died; and by the name yesod and in the name yesod, which moses invoked, and at midnight all the first-born, both of men and of animals, died; and by the name of yeshimon, which moses named and invoked, and the red sea divided itself and separated in two; and by the name hesion, which moses invoked, and all the army of pharaoh was drowned in the waters; and by the name anabona, which moses having heard upon mount sinai, he was found worthy to receive and obtain the tables of stone written with the finger of god the creator; and by the name erygion, which joshua having invoked when he fought against the moabites, he defeated them and gained the victory; and by the name hoa, and in the name hoa, which david invoke

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t delay manifesting what i desire, being conjured by the name of the eternal living true god heliorin tetragrammaton anepheneton& fulfill my commands& persist unto the end, i conjure, command& constrain you spirit n by alpha& omega& by the name primeumaton which commandeth the whole host of heaven& by all these names which moses named when he by the power of these names brought great plagues upon pharaoh& all the people of egypt; zebaoth, escerchie, oriston, elian, adonay primeumaton& by the name schersieta mathia which joshua called upon the sun stayed its course& by the hagioss& by the seal of adonay& by agla on tetragrammaton to whom all creatures are obedient& by the dreadful judgement of the most high god& by the holy angels of heaven& by the mighty wisdom of the omnipotent god of hos

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ds, and knives and shields and breastplates and madeknown to them the metals of the earth and the art of working with themand they were leadastray, and became corrupt in all their ways.the war of the gods is recorded in the bible. v eiled references to it include the term,first born. this euphemism turns up in the old testament. we read of jehovah, forinstance, striking down the first born of the pharaoh for moses. later, in the newtestament, herod goes after the first born of the so-called israelites in his search forthe christ child. few ask what is productive in attacking those without any sin, whenthe resources would be better used striking at the actual enemy. little in theologicalatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation47 the world falls dead texts will make sense until t

y implies that moses is in fact one of the progeny of thesons of the serpents (his fathers, but has now had the misfortune to come intocontact with one of their fathers, that is, one of the original serpent masters, maybethe world falls dead48atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation even the main man. the second revealing anecdote happens when moses and aaronare in the presence of the pharaoh. the scriptures speak of them having to prove theircredentials to pharaoh by changing aarons rod into a serpent. this is strange, sinceisraelites were forbidden by jehovah to engage in magical practices. anyway, theegyptians produce their own rod, which likewise becomes a serpent, and so on. thistale of the conflict between the two serpents is a barely disguised reference to thatbetween th

sprophet that he is the god of thy fathers. how can this be? and what does it mean?moreover, why does moses ask to know gods name, if the chosen people, the isra-elites, already knew it? among the many commandments that were levied by jehovah was one categoricallyforbidding magical practices by any of the chosen. why, in this case, were mosesand aaron doing the rod and snake trick in front of the pharaoh and his priests?where do the exceptions begin and end? why does jehovah, who commissioned moses to secure the freedom of the chosenpeople, then continually harden pharaohs heart to prevent their easy release? doesthis not smack more of human politics?why is it that we read of jesus experiencing baptism from john? why would the sin-less son of god need to go through a ritual that is reserve

re and being. the very word mystery comes from mestameaning woman in egyptian. the scholar max muller wrote:no people ancient or modern has given woman so high a legal status as did the inhabitantsof the nile v alley.the egyptian women were entrusted with the civilization. the woman (princess, and not themale, was the legal heir to the throne, and the man she chose to marry would become theruling pharaoh (moustapha gadalla, historical deception..and the kingdom became dead and desert, for they lost the voices of the wells and the dam-sels that were therein (the elucidation)as civilizations became corrupted by the infusion of alien elements and influences, theconnection to and respect for nature and, for that matter woman, drastically waned.man's present disconnect from earth and from natur

n indians say that a great catastrophe befell the earth, before the moon shone in the sky.(see p. 33.)catherine maltwoodwas one of the first to suggest that arthurs round table was a representation of the celestial zodiac(see p. 36)arthur pendragonborn of uther pendragon, head of the dragons. appendix b: book abstracts192atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation joseph of arimethea and pharaoh menes both are said to have visited england.alfred watkinsthe discoverer in recent times of the fact that england is full of ley-lines or dragon lines, and that theseconnected ancient megalithic sites as well as other buildings, such as churches (see p. 63)age of leothe destruction of atlantis is thought to have occurred in the last part of this age, about 11,000 yearsago. this is perhaps

inefrom shem (p. 162)abrahams familyhis wife sarai is renamed sarah, meaning princess. she is said to be barren but conceives issac any-way.hagar and ishmaelwhile barren, abraham takes hagar, the handmaiden of sarah. from this union comes ishmael. sincehagar, is reported to not only be egyptian, but a pharaohs daughter, ishmael is noble.ishmaels wifeshe was called mahalath and was the daughter of pharaoh amenemhet ii and granddaughter of senus-ret i, the half-brother and husband of sarah, abrahams wife. the daughter of ishmael and mahalath,bashemath goes on to marry esau, son of jacob (see p. 169)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation219 appendix b: book abstracts isaacbut el shaddai (jehovah) comes to make a covenant not with ishmael or other sons of abraham, butonly with is

aac the son that sarah and abraham do eventually conceive.then we read that abraham is asked to sacrifice isaac.jehovah promises that isaac and his line will possess egypt. researchers have wondered at this pro-nouncement (see p. 164)jehovah also asks abraham to observe the custom of circumcision, known only in egypt.sarah and the pharaohupon arrival in egypt, sarah enters into the household of a pharaoh, senusret i, who wants to marry her.subsequently abraham pretends not to be her husband but her brother. it turns out that sarah is the pha-raohs half sister, and it is normal for pharaohs to wed their sisters. isaac, son of pharaoh, not abrahamit is thought, therefore, that isaac is in fact, not the son of abraham, but of the pharaoh senusret i. ifisaac is the son of pharaoh senusret, the

een from esau (p. 165)jacob/israelisaac marries the mesopotamian rebecca and their union gives esau and jacob, later renamed israel.esau sells his birthright to jacob. both brothers are grandsons of abraham.esaus wifehe goes on to marry bashemath, daughter of ishmael and his egyptian wife, mahalath. ishmael was theson of hagar the pharaohs daughter, while his wife mahalath is also the daughter of pharaoh amenem-het ii. therefore, the blood of esaus descendants is noble and royal (see p. 168)tribes of israelfrom jacobs liaisons with not only wife rachel, but also with her sister leah, the handmaidens of hiswives, bilhah and zilpah, he has the sons that give rise to the 12 tribes of israel (see p. 166)threat to abrahamthere is also mention of a threat to the life of abraham, because his wife

t ii. therefore, the blood of esaus descendants is noble and royal (see p. 168)tribes of israelfrom jacobs liaisons with not only wife rachel, but also with her sister leah, the handmaidens of hiswives, bilhah and zilpah, he has the sons that give rise to the 12 tribes of israel (see p. 166)threat to abrahamthere is also mention of a threat to the life of abraham, because his wife has married the pharaoh (see p. 166)appendix b: book abstracts220atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation sojourn in egyptabrahams grandson, jacob/israel, takes his family of 70 members into egypt from canaan, settling ingoshen by the nile delta. there was a famine in canaan. there they remained until lead out again bymoses.ramesis ii and exodusin apparent confirmation of the israelites sojourn in egy

6)appendix b: book abstracts220atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation sojourn in egyptabrahams grandson, jacob/israel, takes his family of 70 members into egypt from canaan, settling ingoshen by the nile delta. there was a famine in canaan. there they remained until lead out again bymoses.ramesis ii and exodusin apparent confirmation of the israelites sojourn in egypt, the annals of pharaoh ramesis ii (thegreat) make reference to semitic people who settled in the delta region of goshen, but this does notreally help because they are not specified as israelites, but included in the arab races of syria, phoeni-cia, mesopotamia, and the fertile crescent in general (p. 176)actually, they arrived many centuries before the reign of ramesis i (1335 b.c).recent analysis of volcanic de

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making the perfect number _ten. he had also _seven_ thousand sheep and _three_ thousand camels. his friends sat down with him _seven_ days and _seven_ nights. his friends were ordered to sacrifice _seven_ bullocks and _seven_ rams; and again, at the end, he had _seven_ sons and _three_ daughters, and twice _seven_ thousand sheep, and lived an hundred and forty, or twice _seven_ times _ten_ years. pharaoh saw in his dream _seven_ fat and _seven_ lean kine _seven_ good ears and _seven_ blasted ears of wheat; and there were _seven_ years of plenty, and _seven_ of famine. jericho fell, when _seven_ priests, with _seven_ trumpets, made the circuit of the city on _seven_ successive days; once each day for six days, and _seven_ times on the seventh "the _seven_ eyes of the lord" says zechariah "r

g him the means of education and development, the lodge that does it may be the direct and immediate means of conferring upon the world as great a boon as that given it by john faust the boy of mentz; may perpetuate the liberties of a country and change the destinies of nations, and write a new chapter in the history of the world. for we never know the importance of the act we do. the daughter of pharaoh little thought what she was doing for the human race, and the vast unimaginable consequences that depended on her charitable act, when she drew the little child of a hebrew woman from among the rushes that grew along the bank of the nile, and determined to rear it as if it were her own. how often has an act of charity, costing the doer little, given to the world a great painter, a great mu

the tabernacle and its furniture, to the israelites; he insisted on and delighted in sacrifices and burnt-offerings; he was angry, jealous, and revengeful, as well as wavering and irresolute; he allowed moses to reason him out of his fixed resolution utterly to destroy his people; he commanded the performance of the most shocking and hideous acts of cruelty and barbarity. he hardened the heart of pharaoh; he repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto the people of nineveh; and he did it not, to the disgust and anger of jonah. such were the popular notions of the deity; and either the priests had none better, or took little trouble to correct these notions; or the popular intellect was not enough enlarged to enable them to entertain any higher conceptions of the almighty. but su

ributed to philo; but it contains principles at variance with his. it personifies wisdom, and draws between its children and the profane, the same line of demarcation that egypt had long before taught to the jews. that distinction existed at the beginning of the mosaic creed. moshah himself was an initiate in the mysteries of egypt, as he was compelled to be, as the adopted son of the daughter of pharaoh _thouoris, daughter of _sesostris-ramses; who, as her tomb and monuments show, was, in the right of her infant husband, regent of lower egypt or the delta at the time of the hebrew prophet's birth, reigning at heliopolis. she was also, as the reliefs on her tomb show, a priestess of hathor and neith, the two great primeval goddesses. as her adopted son, living in her palace and presence fo

uul_ or _yeol_ feast, which afterward became christmas. at this feast the initiations were celebrated. thor was the sun, the egyptian osiris and kneph, the ph nician bel or baal. the initiations were had in huge intricate caverns, terminating, as all the mithriac caverns did, in a spacious vault, where the candidate _was brought to light. joseph was undoubtedly initiated. after he had interpreted pharaoh's dream, that monarch made him his prime minister, let him ride in his second chariot, while they proclaimed before him, abrech![1] and set him over the land of egypt. in addition to this, the king gave him a new name, tsapanat-pa nakh, and married him to asanat, daughter of potai parang, a priest of an or hieropolis, where was the temple of athom-re, the great god of egypt; thus completel

dim perception of an all-pervading spiritual essence, has been remarked among the earliest manifestations of the human mind. everywhere it was the dim remembrance, uncertain and indefinite, of the original truth taught by god to the first men. the deity of the old testament is everywhere represented as the direct author of evil, commissioning evil and lying spirits to men, hardening the heart of pharaoh, and visiting the iniquity of the individual sinner on the whole people. the rude conception of sternness predominating over mercy in the deity, can alone account for the human sacrifices, purposed, if not executed, by abraham and jephthah. it has not been uncommon, in any age or country of the world, for men to recognize the existence of one god, without forming any becoming estimate of h

lanet. of the metals, gold was assigned to the sun and silver to the moon. the palace of deioces in echatana had seven circular walls of different colors, the two innermost having their battlements covered respectively with silvering and gilding. and the seven spheres of borsippa were represented by the seven stories, each of a different color, of the tower or truncated pyramid of bel at babylon. pharaoh saw in his dream, which joseph interpreted _seven_ ears of wheat on one stalk, full and good, and after them _seven_ ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind; and the seven thin ears devoured the seven good ears; and joseph interpreted these to mean seven years of plenty succeeded by seven years of famine. connected with this ebn hesham relates that a flood of rain laid bare to

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hem a vocation and which added to the mysteries whose teaching was hidden from the public. it must be assumed that architecture, like all other sciences, was taught in secret. louis hautcoeur writes: the first architects known in egypt, in asia minor, performed sacred duties independent from their role as builders. imhotep, who built the first large stone complex in saqqarah, was counselor to the pharaoh sozer (circa 3800 b.c, but was also priest of the god amun. sennemut, architect of queen hatseput, was the head of the prophets of monthu in armant and controller of the gardens and domains of amun. dherti was the director of buildings and a high priest. in the louvre there are seated statues of goudea, who was both a patesi, meaning a governor representing the gods, and an architect. the

otherhoods. this becomes all the more likely given that the faith of eastern christians showed such distinctive features that it was almost impossible to discern any demarcations between these christian sects and the derivatives of islam. both sides came closer to one shared ideal. the fatimids of cairo imagined the possibility of a peaceful universalism that was the rebirth of the thought of the pharaoh amenhotep iv. the templars echoed* we should recall that the essenes also dressed in white linen and practiced a form of solar worship. the uniform of the assassins consisted of a white robe, red cap, belt, and boots. the templars, at least the knights in the order, wore a white robe with a red cross on the chest. white is the symbol of light and red is the symbol of fire. the crusades and

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ates the temple. and it creates it everyday (see below on how mythic time is synchronized with human time. the battle we wage in the world is tougher than most of us think. that it is a battle have no doubt. set is, was, and shall be a war god. our founding documents come from states of war. in the great harris papyrus, which set quoted form in the bocfbn, there is an interesting remark about the pharaoh setnakt merynamounre (to him life! health! strength, that he "fought with the rage of the god xeperi-set on the battlefield" now as far as i know that's the only nisbi adjective form of xeper, appearing in the bound construction xeperi-set (nisbi adjectives indicate place of origin written either as a dual or with -y as an ending. the godset-who-comes-from-xeper is known for his battlefiel

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

ectified [them] more than he did, using gevurah. the gevurah [isaac revealed] struck [the forces of evil] and thereby elevated those souls from the realm of evil. then jacob came and rectified [them] even more. using tiferet. and when [his sons, the progenitors of] the twelve tribes came and went down to egypt, these sparks were refined there and all ascended and were [totally] rectified. who was pharaoh? nimrod [this can be seen from the fact that] just like [nimrod] said, gcome, let us build ourselves a city, h so did pharaoh say, gcome, let us be wise with them. h13 he decreed against the [israelites f] sons, saying, gthe newborn boys should be thrown into the river, h that is, into the water, so that they could be rectified in the water. although the earthly pharaoh fs intentions were

hat these worlds do not occupy different geographical places. they are not geographical at all, but descending planes of reality. the arizal on parashat miketz 204 knowledge of good and evil. for this reason the verse states that[ gthey stood c] on the banks of the river, h but not in the river.7 (likkutei torah) 41:5 seven ears of grain c healthy and good these are also from the world of beriah. pharaoh is the aspect of malchut of atzilut, where gall the lights are uncovered. h malchut [of atzilut] is clothed in beriah, which is the river and the twelve cattle upon which the sea [of solomon] stands. this is the meaning of g[pharaoh was] standing over the river. h the river is also yesod of atzilut, the river that pours forth its bounty to pharaoh,8 who is the kaneh. the single stalk of wh

ruling over them. the hai over the yud, and the second hai over the vav. this is why there was famine, which is caused by sins which arouse the harsh judgments of nukvah. nukvah is called isha, woman, the word formed by the initial letters of the verse et sheva haparot (the seven cows. for it is from this aspect that famine comes.12 (likkutei torah; sha far hapesukim) 41:25, 33 and joseph said to pharaoh: g c what g-d is doing, he has told to pharaoh c now pharaoh should seek out a man of insight, a wise person h 7. the griver h alludes to binah which gnests h [i.e, is revealed primarily in] the world of beriah (tikkunei zohar 23a; eitz chaim, sha far 47. ch. 2, as will be explained below. the heichalot of yetzirah are thus gonly on the banks h of beriah. 8. yesod feeds malchut. 9. the kol

er than the sum of its parts. 10. the female aspect, the column of gevurah. 11. the male aspect, the column of chesed. 12. according to the redactor of sha far hapesukim this excerpt was not recorded by rabbi chaim vital, but rather by one of the other students of the arizal. the arizal on parashat miketz 205 this is difficult to understand. had joseph been appointed royal advisor? yet he said to pharaoh, gnow pharaoh should seek out a man of insight, a wise person c h it would have been sufficient for him to do what was asked of him and interpret the dream, as requested. furthermore, what is the meaning of the word gnow h [in the latter verse? also, the first verse should have stated, gwhat g-d will do [in the future, he has told c h for at that stage the years of plenty and the years of

missary, announces [every day14. they are: famine, plenty and a proper leader over the community. what is the source for famine? as the verse states, gg-d has called for a famine h (ii kings 8:1) c this is why the verse states, gwhat g-d is doing, h in the present tense rather than in the future, for he is continually announcing the advent of famine or plenty. and so he disclosed these matters to pharaoh. but since two of the three matters that the holy one himself announces were about to be fulfilled, it was proper at this point to also fulfill the third one. and appoint a proper leader over the community. that is why joseph said, gnow pharaoh should seek out a man of insight, a wise person c h (sha far hapesukim) 41:55 pharaoh said to all of egypt, ggo to joseph. do whatever he tells you

proper at this point to also fulfill the third one. and appoint a proper leader over the community. that is why joseph said, gnow pharaoh should seek out a man of insight, a wise person c h (sha far hapesukim) 41:55 pharaoh said to all of egypt, ggo to joseph. do whatever he tells you! h our sages say15 that joseph decreed that all of them fulfill the commandment of circumcision. they went to ask pharaoh fs advice and he told them to do whatever joseph had commanded. as we have explained elsewhere:16 the 130 years that the israelites were in egypt prior to the birth of moses were spent in gathering in the sparks of holy souls which adam had discharged by wasting his seed in the 130 years prior to the birth of his son seth, who was the very same aspect as moses.17 initially, these souls had

re referred to as gthe people of the children of israel, h whereas in the other they are referred to as simply gthe children of israel. h why the discrepancy] the secret of this is that those whom joseph circumcised, and who lived in the jewish cities, observed the customs of the israelites. jacob had also converted egyptians, as our sages state.19 all of them also observed israelite customs. now pharaoh noticed [the observances of] those who were called gthe people of the children of israel, h i.e, those who were not the children of israel themselves, but the people of the children of israel. therefore another verse states, ghe [pharaoh] said to his nation c h (exodus 1:9) i.e, other egyptians, who were not the people of the children of israel. but the verse gand they became dissatisfied

llation for binah, inasmuch as its numerical value is 50 (mem-yud: 40+ 10, and there are fifty ggates h of binah, as we have seen previously. so egypt is the constriction of binah into the constriction of malchut (the gsea h, or the flow of the expanded consciousness of binah into the restricted and constricited consciousness of malchut. this is where joseph wound up. gand potiphar, the eunuch of pharaoh, bought him. h12 .translated from sefer halikutim 12 ibid. 37:36, 39:1. 213 parashat vayigash in this parashah, jacob emigrates from the land of israel to egypt. joseph presents him to pharaoh, who asks him how old he is. jacob answers: gthe days of the years of my journey [on earth] are one hundred and thirty years; the [quality of the] days of the years of my life have been few and evil

ernal sefirah (g-d forbid, evil is able to derive sustenance from this blemish and therefore attaches itself to that point. we may envision evil as a disease that attacks a weakened immune system. this is the secret to [understanding] the egyptian exile, for egypt and the impurity it embodied derived sustenance from da fat. this is particularly so in light for what i have taught you, namely, that pharaoh and egypt are positioned in opposition to the supernal neck, which is the back of the supernal da fat. this should suffice. da fat is manifest in the body in the cerebellum, which is located underneath and at the back of the brain, near the neck. the word for gpharaoh, h as we have noted, permutes to spell the word for gthe neck h (ha-oref. clearly, this exile resulted from all the divine

neck, which is the back of the supernal da fat. this should suffice. da fat is manifest in the body in the cerebellum, which is located underneath and at the back of the brain, near the neck. the word for gpharaoh, h as we have noted, permutes to spell the word for gthe neck h (ha-oref. clearly, this exile resulted from all the divine beneficence [that flows through da fat] being siphoned off to pharaoh and egypt. therefore, the jews of that generation were subject to them. but, as you already know, when there is a flaw above due to the sins of the generation below, the divine energies depart, ascending [back to their source] in order that the powers of evil not derive [too much] sustenance from them. when the divine beneficence is diverted from its natural flow, this gtrips a switch h in

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he mind completed the connection. mental imagery created by viewing the portrait of a dead relative, for example, brought that relative to true life. egypt was divided into 42 nomes (provinces, each dominated by the priesthood of one or more divinities. a particular priesthood might also dominate more than one nome. the monarchy was closely controlled by the various orders of priesthood, with the pharaoh acting as an earthly deputy of and interpreter for the neteru. governmental, judicial, and political systems were responsible for their ethics to the neteru, not to the people. justice was meted out by viziers (internal roving ambassadors of the pharaoh) and nome governors according to the neter of justice, maat, on an individual case basis. there was no concept of individual rights agains

ized and democratic, with kings or military leaders being selected by elders when emergencies arose. the transcultural "binding force" was religious tradition. permanent monarchies are assumed to have arisen because of increasing external threats to local tribes, coupled with ambition by would-be dynastic founders. in mesopotamia the role of the city-state king was similar to that of the egyptian pharaoh, except that the king was responsible to the gods for the running of the kingdom, and himself was not considered one of them [fewer than 20 mesopotamian kings between 2300 and 1500 bce laid claim to personal divinity "substitute kings" were occasionally employed in classification: v2- 102- 2 author: michael a. aquino vi date: october 1, xix revision: january 1, xxiv html revision: oct 07

00 and 1500 bce laid claim to personal divinity "substitute kings" were occasionally employed in classification: v2- 102- 2 author: michael a. aquino vi date: october 1, xix revision: january 1, xxiv html revision: oct 07, 1997 ce subject: philosophy reading list: 3a, 16a, 16l, 16m mesopotamia to preserve the real ones from divine wrath or physical danger. in egypt this never happened; the actual pharaoh remained completely accountable. virtue in mesopotamia was understood as obedience to the willful desires of the god(s, not harmony with their natural principles. the "wrath of the gods" was feared by the state in mesopotamia, as it was never in egypt (which was ruled by a god-king. the mesopotamian king sought the "right ruling" of his community, in accordance with the akkadian principle

ously undiscovered tombs or overlooked monuments. the sphinx: before we explore the links between the egyptians and plato, it may help if we bring out some of the salient characteristics of the egyptian political system. to begin with, it was cyclic rather than linear. individual pharaohs and dynasties came and went, but the social system and political structure remained constant. each successive pharaoh, for example, was merely the momentary personification of a permanent, semi-divine entity that governed egypt in the name of the gods. the nation itself was not viewed as merely one in a series of political units located in northeast africa; it had existed as a divine creation before recorded history, and it would continue to exist indefinitely. various natural cycles and human lifetimes w

hich i came into being was as a drowned one. i was he who came into being as a circle. he who was the dweller in his egg. i was the one who began everything, the dweller in the primeval waters. first the wind emerged for me, and then i began to move. i created my limbs in my glory. i was the maker of myself; i formed myself according to my desire and in accord with my heart. the chimaera: if each pharaoh was held to be divinely appointed, what was the actual selection procedure? and how could a human-supervised selection procedure retain credibility as a divine process? the sphinx: it compares rather intriguingly with the system for selection of philosopher- kings in the republic. during stable dynasties new pharaohs were selected from among the male offspring of the late pharaoh. there wa

were generally priest-kings [an intentional reference to the atlantean term in the critias] of exceptional calibre. incumbent pharaohs who began to behave in maverick fashion [such as akhenaten, the monotheist mystic of the xviii dynasty] were also assassinated with the tacit consent of the priesthood. this method of "impeachment" does not seem to have been abused, because an attack on the divine pharaoh for purely partisan motives would have been thought extremely ill-omened. only for an obvious betrayal of the pharaoh's sacred trust. as determined by the priesthood. could assassination be contemplated. the chimaera: what sort of legal system did the egyptians have? the sphinx: now we enter some particularly interesting territory from a platonic standpoint. as far as can be deduced from s

ons, occupations, and even civil wars that took place there. when the dust cleared, so to speak, the political and social institutions remained intact. the sphinx: precisely. egypt was no more a utopia than any other human run society was, is, or will be. there were power struggles, epidemics of corruption, popular revolts, and all the rest. during the middle kingdom (2150-1792 bce) a pessimistic pharaoh amenemhet i advised crown prince senwosret: harken to that which i say to thee,12 that thou mayest be king of the earth, that thou mayest be ruler of the lands, that thou mayest increase good. harden thyself against all subordinates. the people give heed to him who terrorizes them; approach them not alone. fill not thy heart with a brother, know not a friend, nor make for thyself intimates

admiration, that they gave him power to sacrifice to the gods, and to acquaint himself with all their studies, which was never known to have been granted to any forraigner besides. clemens alexandrinus relates particularly, that he was disciple to sonchedes, an egyptian arch-prophet. the sphinx: again something catches my eye. that comment about egyptian initiation normally being reserved for the pharaoh and the priesthood alone. in the statesman plato writes:16 for the priest and the diviner have great social standing and a keen sense of their own importance. they win veneration and respect because of the high tasks they undertake. this is shown in the fact that in egypt none can be king unless he belongs to the priestly caste, and if a man of some other caste succeeds in forcing his way

sely in hieroglyphics; that argues for their authenticity [the fourth can be rendered only approximately and thus is not conclusive] the "thirteen-year period" happens to coincide with the normal training time for an egyptian scribe [to achieve full fluency in the hieroglyphic language] as for sebennithis, it was the seat of the egyptian government from 378 to 360 bce under nekht-hor-heb i, first pharaoh of the xxx dynasty. hence it would have been both relatively secure from a political standpoint and a logical place for plato to seek egyptian initiation.26 the sphinx: talk about last minute timing! in 340 bce, after more than four thousand years of native national rule, egypt finally fell to a persian army [which in turn fell to alexander the great in 332. how sophisticated the egyptian

hich in turn fell to alexander the great in 332. how sophisticated the egyptian initiatory systems remained under purely occupational governments is open to question. as would be the willingness of egyptian priests to initiate foreigners under such circumstances. even pythagoras' initiation many years earlier seems to have occurred only after some arm-twisting by amasis, himself a native egyptian pharaoh and thus an initiate in his own right. a persian or a ptolemaic ruler would not have had such leverage over the native priesthoods, nor the knowledge to judge whether forced instruction was in fact genuine. after pythagoras and plato the link with the egyptian priesthoods was broken [this may very well account for the sharp distinctions between the pythagorean/platonic doctrines. with thei

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

: almanac ix reader s guide this page intentionally left blank timeline of events 10,000 400 bce the span of the jomon period in japan, during which shinto first emerged. 3500 2000 bce duration of religion in ancient sumer. 3110 bce 550 ce duration of religion in ancient egypt. 3102 bce emergence of hinduism. 1700 bce the babylonians devise a new creation myth, the enuma elish. c. 1353 34 bce the pharaoh akhenaten rules egypt and enforces the worship of a single god, aten. all evidence of his reign is wiped out after his death. tenth century bce the jewish temple of solomon is constructed in jerusalem. seventh century bce beginning of the milesian school of philosophy in ancient greece. 600 bce official formalization of the rig veda, one of hinduism s most sacred texts. 586 bce the babylon

han withdraw from it. prophecy: prediction of future events. prophet: a person chosen to serve as god s messenger. pu: uncarved or unformed; the state of simplicity to which daoists try to return. puja: worship. purusharthas: the four aims of hinduism or the doctrine of the fourfold end of life. purva: the original jain sacred texts, now lost. pyramid: a stone tomb constructed to house a deceased pharaoh of egypt. qi: the breath of life or vital energy that flows through the body and the earth. qur an: the sacred scriptures of islam; contains the revelations given to the prophet muhammad revealed to him beginning in 610. ra kah: a unit of prayer. rationalism: belief that knowledge can come exclusively from the mind. reform: one of the sects of judaism, generally used to refer to the less t

goddesses) are the supreme religious and civic leaders. their will is carried out by a priestly class or by a divine king. mesopotamian theocracies took the form of city-states ruled by patron gods or goddesses. the god s desires and wishes were interpreted by political leaders called ensi and by a priestly class. in egypt religion and the state were also bound together. the national leader, the pharaoh, was considered a living god and was the vital link between humanity and the rest of the gods. a major difference in outlook, however, marked the two religions. in mesopotamia the forces of nature were more chaotic, more likely to cause catastrophes, such as disastrous flooding. as a result, the gods were seen as unpredictable beings of extraordinary power who had to be kept content by pri

siris, god of the nile and also god of the kingdom of the dead. his wife, isis, was the moon goddess and mother of the universe. their child horus was god of the sky; set, their brother, was the god of chaos and of the desert; and thoth, the god of writing and knowledge. in addition to these was a vast array of other gods and goddesses that sometimes duplicated each other s functions. the current pharaoh, as a living god, worked with all of these deities to create maat, or divine order and justice. these ancient religions affected every aspect of life in the ancient near east, from spirituality to farming, from medicine to the rule of society. as such, they were not simply a part of a person s life but ordered and shaped that person s life every day. membership was not a choice as it is in

ion to one another in order to predict future events. cuneiform: sumerian writing, so-called because of its wedge-shaped marks. deity: a god or goddess. maat: divine order and justice; a central concept in the religion of ancient egypt. monotheism: belief in one supreme being. pantheon: a collection of deities. polytheism: belief in many gods. pyramid: a stone tomb constructed to house a deceased pharaoh of egypt. theocracy: a form of government in which god or some supreme deity is the ruler. god s laws are then interpreted by a divine king or by a priest class. ziggurat: a stepped foundation or structure that held a shrine or temple in the mesopotamian religion. 38 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia history and development mesopotamia, a word made up from

t. ultimately, however, the ra-atum creation story became the most popular and most widely accepted myth in ancient egypt. religion during the middle kingdom during the period of the old kingdom (c. 2686 2181 bce, egyptian society built the great pyramids at giza while working as a fully organized theocracy, a government with one god as the supreme leader. this theocracy reflected the role of the pharaoh, a living god whose word was divine law. during the middle kingdom (c. 2181 1786 bce, however, the power of the pharaoh weakened and nobles (lesser royalty) began to take on more individual power. the priestly class also grew much larger. though the sun god ra was the official national god and was worshipped at heliopolis, the cult of osiris became stronger as the central government went i

much larger. though the sun god ra was the official national god and was worshipped at heliopolis, the cult of osiris became stronger as the central government went into decline. osiris was an early fertility god who, when killed by his brother set and cut into pieces, was put back together again by his wife sister isis. he then became god of the underworld. osiris became identified with the dead pharaoh. his son, horus, became associated with the living pharaoh. osiris eventually became a symbol of immortality and resurrection, or returning to life after death, and, as such, symbolized the annual renewal of fertility to the soil by the flooding of the nile. a lengthy annual festival was held for him to celebrate this rebirth. the middle kingdom came to an end with the hyksos invasion of l

d. amenhotep iv, who called himself akhenaten (reigned 1379 62 bce, declared that the only god was the one he himself worshipped: aten, the god of the sun, and the solar disk, the aten. akhenaten s experiment in monotheism had the effect of reducing the power of the priestly class 44 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia and the nobility and reviving the power of the pharaoh. this experiment ended, however, with akhenaten s death in 1336 bce as the old gods were quickly brought back. all traces of akhenaten were destroyed, from the inscription of his name on temples to his mummy. with the restoration of the old gods, the priests of karnak and at another holy site, luxor, regained their power at the expense of the monarchy. at the city of thebes, the high pries

bce as the old gods were quickly brought back. all traces of akhenaten were destroyed, from the inscription of his name on temples to his mummy. with the restoration of the old gods, the priests of karnak and at another holy site, luxor, regained their power at the expense of the monarchy. at the city of thebes, the high priest of amen became the first of a ruling class of high priests, while the pharaoh continued to wield power from a new city center, tanis, in the nile delta. during the course of the second half of the first millennium bce the power and prestige of egypt was reduced. foreign conquerors inhabited the land, and various cults gained favor and then went out of favor. but amen and amen-ra remained the major cult. the local goddess neith became more popular and was later incor

her undermining the power of the traditional priesthood, akhenaten set up a new capital city, called akhetaten (modern-day tell el-amarna, which he dedicated to the aten. artwork from this period shows akhenaten and his wife nefertiti, or neferneferuaten, worshipping the aten, the sun disk. after akhenaten s death atenism and akhetaten were quickly abandoned and the old gods were revived. the new pharaoh, tutankhamen (reigned 1333 25 bce, moved the capital back to thebes and placed the traditional priesthood back in power. basic beliefs for early mesopotamians the world was divided into heaven (an) and earth (ki. the earth was flat and floated in a freshwater sea, the abzu. by serving the gods and by living a moral (good and honest) life, humankind would be rewarded with long life and many

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e children of israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left" when the egyptians had come between the two walls of water, by god's command moses stretched forth his hand over the sea "and the sea returned to his strength" and the "waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of pharaoh that came into the sea after them" 1 but the command of the waters of the sea or river was claimed by the egyptian magician long before the time of moses, as we may see from an interesting story preserved in the westcar papyrus. 2 this document was written in the early part of the xviiith dynasty, about b.c. 1550 but it is clear that the stories in it date from the early empire, and are in

d, and the figures of the gods, painted or sculptured upon stela or sarcophagi, would still further impress the barbarian folk who always regard the written letter and those who understand it with great awe. the following story from mas'udi 1 will illustrate the views which the arabs p. 22 held concerning the inscriptions and figures of gods in the temples of egypt. it seems that when the army of pharaoh had been drowned in the red sea, the women and slaves feared lest they should be attacked by the kings of syria and the west; in this difficulty they elected a woman called dalukah as their queen, because she was wise and prudent and skilled in magic. dalukah's first act was to surround all egypt with a wall, which she guarded by men who were stationed along it at short intervals, her obje

his slobbering dropped upon the ground. and isis kneaded it with earth in her hand, and formed thereof a sacred serpent in the form of a dart; she did not set it upright before her face, but let it lie upon the ground in the path p. 138 whereby the great god went forth, according to his hearts desire, into his double kingdom. now the holy god arose, and the gods who followed him as though he were pharaoh went with him; and he came forth according to his daily wont; and the sacred serpent bit him. the flame of life departed from him, and he who dwelt among the cedars) was overcome. the holy god opened his mouth, and the cry of his majesty reached unto heaven; his company of gods said 'what hath happened' and his gods exclaimed 'what is it' but ra could not answer, for his jaws trembled and

ce the moist and the dry and all manner of food. listen to me: i am an angel of phapro osoronnophris; this is thy true name, handed down to the prophets of israel. listen to me. 2" in this passage the name osoronnophris is clearly a corruption of the old egyptian names of the p. 177 great god of the dead "ausar unnefer" and phapro seems to represent the egyptian peraa (literally "great house) or "pharaoh" with the article pa "the" prefixed. it is interesting to note that moses is mentioned, a fact which seems to indicate jewish influence. in another magical formula we read, 1 "i call upon thee that didst create the earth and bones, and all flesh and all spirit, that didst establish the sea and that shakest the heavens, that didst divide the light from the darkness, the great regulative min

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u, and what calls thee? and what is thy business? for i hear many things about thee' and the demon answered "i, o king solomon, am called abezithibod. i am a descendant of the archangel. once as i sat in the first heaven, of which the name is ameleouth- i then am a fierce spirit and winged, and with a single wing, plotting against every spirit under heaven. i was present when moses went in before pharaoh, king of egypt, and i hardened his heart. i am he whom iannes and iambres invoked homing [1] with moses in egypt. i am he who fought against moses [2] with wonders with signs [1. o koyx menoi in the ms, a vox nihili. if we had the apocryph of iannes and iambres we might understand the reference. 2. 2 tim. iii. 8] 126. i said therefore to him "how wast thou found in the red sea" and he answ

nes and iambres invoked homing [1] with moses in egypt. i am he who fought against moses [2] with wonders with signs [1. o koyx menoi in the ms, a vox nihili. if we had the apocryph of iannes and iambres we might understand the reference. 2. 2 tim. iii. 8] 126. i said therefore to him "how wast thou found in the red sea" and he answered "in the exodus of the sons of israel i hardened the heart of pharaoh. and i excited his heart and that of his ministers. and i caused them to pursue after the children of israel. and pharaoh followed with (me) and all the egyptians. then i was present there, and we followed together. and we all came up upon the red sea. and it came to pass when the children of israel had crossed over, the water returned and hid all the host of the egyptians and all their mi

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coffin texts and pyramid texts. on their initiatory significance see m. eliade, a history of religious ideas, vol. i, pp. 94ff. the nature, and even the existence, of egyptian mysteries has been disputed; but see the brilliant remarks by h. frankfort, kingship and the gods, ch. 11. steiner was far ahead of his time in recognizing the initiatory significance of becoming osiris. a fine study of the pharaoh from an anthroposophical point of view is furnished by f.teichmann, die kultur der empfindungsseele (stuttgart n.d. the pharaoh, who becomes osiris and mystically begets his successor from the other world as horus, the living power of the sun on earth, is the prototype of all egyptian initiates. he is a link between the worlds of life and death; cf. above, pp. 38 41. 87. book of the dead

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hat this manifestation was of a different character than the subsequent resurgences- all are somewhat different than the other, they are remanifestations of the same principles, but the manner in which they were perceived was guided by the psychological, cultural, environmental and genetic influences existing at that time. the second setian surge into the human fabric occurred during the reign of pharaoh rameses the second of the xix dynastic period. this period had as its hallmark the archiving of egyptian magical texts into libraries such as the rameseum. the third resurgence maintains its own importance, for it most directly effects the practices and perceptual constructs of the fourth and present setian remanifestation. the third resurgence emerged during the initial stages of developm

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r both arms are in the position shown the left hand is quickly dropped. duncan's masonic ritual and monitor (id. ed, p. 16) says "in making the due guard and sign of the fellow craft, or second degree, care must be taken to drop the left arm suddenly and with spirit, as soon as the two motions are accomplished" 84 codex magica page from a rosicrucian manual. in the center is an egyptian statue of pharaoh amenhotep iv giving the hand and arm sign later adapted by freemasonry. for he's a jolly good fellow 85 enclosure walls of pyramid with statue of pharaoh netjerykhet djoser. statue of cheops, or khufu, thought to be the builder of the great pyramid of giza in egypt (photo: from the riddle of the pyramids, by kurt mendelssohn) 86 codex magica statue of high priest kai, discovered recently b

of powers or energy from the heavens or from ethereal sources (hell. yet another meaning is that the hand with all five fingers showing, palm outward, indicates that one is giving honor and admiration to the underworld deity. its essential meaning "thank you o subterranean lord for your deceptive wisdom and for your cunning aid in our struggle to overcome our enemies and to effect the great work" pharaoh ramses paying homage to the god horus, son of osiris, the sun god deity symbolized as the allseeing eye in the capstone on the u.s.a.'s dollar bill. quite possibly, the masons' sign of admiration and astonishment came from practices of adherents to the old mystery religions of babylon and egypt (from book, other worlds, hilary evans, readers digest books, 1998) on all occasions when the eg

ror and terror invariably go to the top of the bestseller's list. the caption of this photo, published in newsweek (august 28, 2000, p. 45) reads "it's good to be king" 222 codex magica these ancient egyptian figures demonstrate how prevalent was osiris' sacred sign "x "cross my heart and hope to die" 223 the mummy of ramescs the great (1279-1213 b.c) was found in this cedarwood sarcophagus. this pharaoh is thought by egyptologists to be the ruler who enslaved the israelites and forced them to build cities. 224 codex magica painting from the tomb of rameses i, valley of the kings, west thebes, in egypt. the figure at right (luriferian angel) has wings crossed in "x" fashion. this is said to be a secret, coded alphabet used by the clandestine templars order (from secret societies, by arkon

he illustration by suggesting that force (the brute power of the people) must be regulated by the elite "the blind force of the people is a force that must be economized, and also managed. it must be regulated by intellect" 238 codex magica 80 morals and dogma. hour; and hence, in several african dialects, as names of the sun, airo, ayero, eer, uiro, ghurrah, and the like. the royal name rendered pharaoh, was phra, that is, pai-ra, the sun. the legend of the contest between hor-ra and set, or set-nu-bi, the same as bar or bal, is older than that of the strife between osiris and typhon; as old, at least, as the nineteenth dynasty. it is called in the book of the dead "the day of the battle between horus and set" the later myth connects itself with phoenicia and syria. the body of osiris wen

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hybrids. such therianthropes, or hybrid beings, appear to be the only common denominator in primitive art around the planet. these werewolves, were-lions, and werebats belonged to an imagined world which early humans saw as powerful, dangerous, and frightening. images of these creatures persisted into the historical period. the ancient egyptians often depicted their gods as human-animal hybrids. pharaoh identified himself with the god horus, who could be represented as a falcon or a falcon- headed human. anubis, the god of the necropolis, can be shown as a jackal-headed man, probably because such carrion-eating jackals prowled egyptian cemeteries. many other civilizations felt the power of these kinds of images. for example, the ancient greeks fashioned the minotaur (half-human, halfbull

sometimes benign, often hostile appeared to be in control of human existence. divination, the method of obtaining knowledge of the future by means of omens or sacred objects, has been practiced in all societies, whether primitive or civilized. the ancient chaldeans read the will of the gods in the star-jeweled heavens. the children of israel sought the word of the lord in the jewels of the ephod. pharaoh elevated joseph from his prison cell to the office of chief minister of egypt and staked the survival of his kingdom on joseph s interpretation of his dreams. in the same land of egypt, priests of isis and ra listened as those deities spoke through the unmoving lips of the stone sphinx. throughout the centuries, soothsayers and seers have sought to predict the destiny of their clients by i

table event. in fact the texts allude to a time when death did not exist, but there is no account of how death entered the world, as there are in many other cultures. all pharaohs were considered to be divine, a belief that had its roots in the myths that gods had ruled egypt in prehistoric times and that the earliest human rulers were the actual children of these divine beings. therefore, when a pharaoh died, he could be prepared for death and become an osiris, the god of resurrection. the egyptians of this period conceived of two nonphysical entities, the ka and the ba, that made up the whole self and were of equal value to the physical body. although it is difficult to ascertain a precise understanding of the cosmology of the egyptian people of such a faraway time, it would appear that

the material in her books has ever been successfully challenged by skeptical scholars. to the contrary, a good deal of the material in her books that was considered controversial at the time of publication has since been validated by archaeologists and historians. every time, when queried how she could have acquired such knowledge, she attributed her accuracy to memories of her past lives. winged pharaoh, the novel that joan grant wrote in 1937, described her life as a woman pharaoh in the first dynasty of egypt, 4,000 years ago. on those frequent occasions when she was asked to comment on the book s almost biblical style, she replied that the words had just come out that way. she insisted that she never did any research at all and that she had previously known nothing of egypt on the cons

hermes trismegistus (three times great, and he would be credited for originating the material contained in 42 books of esoteric science. in the time of the ramses (c. 1300 b.c.e, egypt shone as a beacon light of civilization throughout the known world, and while the leaders of foreign nations sought to barter for the empire s rich produce in order to avert local famines and to make treaties with pharaoh in order to avert his military might, seekers of the divine sciences came from the distant shores of asia minor and greece to study in the sanctuaries with magi and hierophants who they believed could give them the secrets of immortality. the students who would be initiates of the mystery schools were well aware that they must undertake the rigors of disciplined study and the training of b

e he established his own school of philosophy in southern italy, pythagoras spent 22 years in the temples of egypt as an initiate in the ancient mysteries. a particularly interesting aspect of the egyptian mystery schools is that for centuries the pharaohs themselves were the pupils and instruments of the hierophants, the magicians, who presided over the temples and cults of isis and osiris. each pharaoh received his initiation name from the temple, and the priests were honored with the roles of counselors and advisors to the throne. some have even referred to the rule of ancient egypt as government of the initiates. although the ancient egyptians never appeared to produce a philosophical system in the manner of the greeks or the romans, the mysteries produced a remarkable number of t h e

s sons, 1969. cotterell, arthur, ed. encyclopedia of world mythology. london: dempsey parr book, 1999. crim, keith, ed. the perennial dictionary of world religions. san francisco: harper collins, 1989. ferm, vergilious, ed. ancient religions. new york: philosophical library, 1950. grimal, nicolas. a history of ancient egypt.cambridge: blackwell publishers, 1994. akhenaten some scholars credit the pharaoh amenhotep iv, who ruled egypt (c. 1358 1340 b.c.e, with being an astonishing visionary who conceived of monotheism in a time when multiple gods flourished. amenhotep iv chose to call himself akhenaten. because of his revolutionary religious views, his contemporaries chose to call him heretic, and he remains a controversial historical figure to this day. during the so-called old kingdom per

r task or endeavor. somebody who is a recent convert to a belief. a newly ordained priest, or someone who is new to a religious order, but who has not yet taken their vows, so is not yet a part of the order. pan in greek mythology the god of nature or of the woods, fields, pastures, forests, and flocks. is described as having the torso and head of a human, but the legs, ears, and horns of a goat. pharaoh from the hebrew par oh, egyptian pr- o, and latin and greek pharao, meaning literally great house. an ancient egyptian title for the ruler or king of egypt, often considered a tyrant and one who expected unquestioning obedience. physiognomy from phusis meaning nature, character and gnomon, to judge. the art of judging a person s character or temperament by their physical features, especial

scientific principles. parapsychology the study or exploration of mental phenomena that does not have a scientific explanation in the known psychological principles. passover the seven or eight days of a jewish festival that begins on the fourteenth day of nissan and commemorates the exodus of the hebrews from their captivity in egypt. from the hebrew word pesa, meaning to pass without affecting. pharaoh from the hebrew par oh, egyptian pr- o, and latin and greek pharao, meaning literally great house. an ancient egyptian title for the ruler or king of egypt, often considered a tyrant and one who expected unquestioning obedience. pharmacologist the study of or science of drugs in all their aspects, including sources, chemistry, production, their use in treating ailments and disease, as well

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hybrids. such therianthropes, or hybrid beings, appear to be the only common denominator in primitive art around the planet. these werewolves, were-lions, and werebats belonged to an imagined world which early humans saw as powerful, dangerous, and frightening. images of these creatures persisted into the historical period. the ancient egyptians often depicted their gods as human-animal hybrids. pharaoh identified himself with the god horus, who could be represented as a falcon or a falcon- headed human. anubis, the god of the necropolis, can be shown as a jackal-headed man, probably because such carrion-eating jackals prowled egyptian cemeteries. many other civilizations felt the power of these kinds of images. for example, the ancient greeks fashioned the minotaur (half-human, halfbull

sometimes benign, often hostile appeared to be in control of human existence. divination, the method of obtaining knowledge of the future by means of omens or sacred objects, has been practiced in all societies, whether primitive or civilized. the ancient chaldeans read the will of the gods in the star-jeweled heavens. the children of israel sought the word of the lord in the jewels of the ephod. pharaoh elevated joseph from his prison cell to the office of chief minister of egypt and staked the survival of his kingdom on joseph s interpretation of his dreams. in the same land of egypt, priests of isis and ra listened as those deities spoke through the unmoving lips of the stone sphinx. throughout the centuries, soothsayers and seers have sought to predict the destiny of their clients by i

it has always been considered a serious breach of etiquette to ride up to the front of a family s tent without stopping and eating their bread. according to the bedouin code of manners, the man in the tent will consider himself insulted by such rudeness and will from that time on regard the other man as an enemy. courtesy toward guests. historical records indicate that all important guests at the pharaoh s palace in egypt had their names and symbols engraved on the guest wall, just as modern guests inscribe their names in their hosts guest book. among the wealthy of egypt, lunch was served at midday and dinner at night. when invited to dine in ancient egypt, people brought along their servants, and it wasn t considered impolite for guests to bring with them whatever items of comfort that t

y is buried facing mecca. were laid to rest in magnificent tombs with treasure, servants, food, and weapons to accompany them and the ordinary people were buried in rude stone compartments. the rulers of the ancient city of thebes, once capital of upper egypt (1580 1085 b.c.e, and their subjects never constructed massive pyramids to house their coffins, but cut their tombs from rock. as soon as a pharaoh would ascend the throne, his loyal subjects began the preparation of his tomb. excavation went on uninterruptedly, year by year, until death ended the king s reign and simultaneously the work on his tomb which also became a kind of an index revealing the length of his reign. these tombs, cut from the rock in the mountains in upper egypt, are still to be seen. the assyrians (c. 750 612 b.c

ource of wisdom, knowledge or prophecy. can also refer to the place where the prophetic word would be given. via french from the latin oraculum, from orare to speak. passover the seven or eight days of a jewish festival that begins on the fourteenth day of nissan and commemorates the exodus of the hebrews from their captivity in egypt. from the hebrew word pesa, meaning to pass without affecting. pharaoh an all-powerful person in a position of authority and who expects unquestioning obedience, such as the ancient egyptian rulers of egypt. from the hebrew paroh and egyptian pr-o, meaning great house. predator any organism or animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals. can refer to a ruthless person who is extremely aggressive in harming another. from the latin praedator and praedari

scientific principles. parapsychology the study or exploration of mental phenomena that does not have a scientific explanation in the known psychological principles. passover the seven or eight days of a jewish festival that begins on the fourteenth day of nissan and commemorates the exodus of the hebrews from their captivity in egypt. from the hebrew word pesa, meaning to pass without affecting. pharaoh from the hebrew par oh, egyptian pr- o, and latin and greek pharao, meaning literally great house. an ancient egyptian title for the ruler or king of egypt, often considered a tyrant and one who expected unquestioning obedience. pharmacologist the study of or science of drugs in all their aspects, including sources, chemistry, production, their use in treating ailments and disease, as well

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brids. such gtherianthropes, h or hybrid beings, appear to be the only common denominator in primitive art around the planet. these werewolves, were-lions, and werebats belonged to an imagined world which early humans saw as powerful, dangerous, and frightening. images of these creatures persisted into the historical period. the ancient egyptians often depicted their gods as human-animal hybrids. pharaoh identified himself with the god horus, who could be represented as a falcon or a falcon- headed human. anubis, the god of the necropolis, can be shown as a jackal-headed man, probably because such carrion-eating jackals prowled egyptian cemeteries. many other civilizations felt the power of these kinds of images. for example, the ancient greeks fashioned the minotaur (half-human, halfbull

sometimes benign, often hostile.appeared to be in control of human existence. divination, the method of obtaining knowledge of the future by means of omens or sacred objects, has been practiced in all societies, whether primitive or civilized. the ancient chaldeans read the will of the gods in the star-jeweled heavens. the children of israel sought the word of the lord in the jewels of the ephod. pharaoh elevated joseph from his prison cell to the office of chief minister of egypt and staked the survival of his kingdom on joseph fs interpretation of his dreams. in the same land of egypt, priests of isis and ra listened as those deities spoke through the unmoving lips of the stone sphinx. throughout the centuries, soothsayers and seers have sought to predict the destiny of their clients by

ransmutation with the unwise, the worldly, and the greedy would be disastrous. quietly, rosencreutz accepted only a handful of carefully evaluated students to whom he imparted the knowledge that he had acquired in ancient egypt and the connection that he had made with the mystery schools and the esoteric teachings of great masters. he was particularly enthusiastic about telling his students about pharaoh amenhotep and the monotheistic view of one god. at first there were only three disciples in attendance; then later, eight brothers, including rosencreutz himself, swore to uphold the following precepts: 1. they would not profess any creed but the goal of healing the sick without reward; 2. they would affect no particular style of clothing; 3. they would meet once each year in the house of

of babylon went forth to war, he wrote the names of cities on his arrows, put them back into the quiver, and shook them. he then removed an arrow and attacked first the city whose name was written thereon. the children of israel sought the word of the lord in the jewels of the ephod; and jonah deemed it a just verdict when the casting of lots decreed that it was he who was the cause of the storm. pharaoh elevated joseph from his prison cell to the office of chief minister of egypt and staked the survival of his kingdom on joseph fs interpretation of his dreams. in the same land of egypt, priests of isis and ra listened as those deities spoke through the unmoving lips of the stone sphinx. the writings of hermes trismegistus were considered by the alchemists as a legacy from the master of al

mistletoe (corbis corporation) gmistletoe. h [online] http//www.celticattic.com/ olde_world/myths/mistleoe.htm. november 11, 2002. nelson, felicitas h. talismans& amulets of the world. new york: sterling publishers, 2000. pavitt, william thomas. the book of talismans, amulets, and zodiacal gems. new york: samuel weiser, 1970. rings the ring as a pledge can be traced back to great antiquity. gand pharaoh said unto joseph, esee i have set thee over all the land of egypt. f and pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon joseph fs hand h (genesis 41:42. similar use of signet rings as symbols of respect and authority is mentioned in several parts of the bible, and it would appear that rings were commonly worn by persons of rank at that period, and that rings were bestowed upon ot

gue about the number of workers needed for such an undertaking and wonder how such an army of laborers could be mobilized, housed, and fed. other mysteries surrounding the pyramids are the contentions that the structures are situated at cardinal points on the compass, and their numerous astronomical uses show knowledge of mathematics in advance of other civilizations. in addition, the body of the pharaoh khufu (cheops) for whom the tomb was built, and precious objects that usually surround the bodies of royalty in egyptian tombs, have never been found. in fact, all three of the pyramids at giza were allegedly erected as tombs, yet not a single body has been found in any of them. other places have become mysterious sites because things have happened there that are impossible to document ful

ans use to ensure that the landscape was level and their measurements were accurate? and how could the vast number of workers required for such an undertaking be mobilized, housed, and fed? other mysteries abound: the pyramids are situated at cardinal points on the compass, and numerous astronomical uses show knowledge of mathematics in advance of other civilizations. in addition, the body of the pharaoh khufu (cheops (twenty-sixth century b.c.e) for whom the tomb was built, and precious objects that usually surround the bodies of royalty in egyptian tombs, have never been found. in fact, all three of the pyramids at giza were erected as tombs, yet not a single body has been found in any of them. a baffling series of chambers, tunnels, and shafts, blocked passageways, corridors leading to

ks that form the pyramid were reduced to foot-sized square cubes and lined up, the cubes would stretch for 16,600 miles. it is generally agreed that all three pyramids at giza, including those of the pharaohs khafre (chephren, in greek) and menaure (mycernius, in greek) were built during the fourth dynasty of egypt, which spanned from 2613 to 2494 b.c.e. it was a custom then that as soon as a new pharaoh ascended to the throne he began building a pyramid as a final resting place. the pyramid of khufu is the grandest of them all and is the sole survivor among the seven wonders of the ancient world. having been built within seven hundred years after egyptian civilization became stabilized, the vast structure has inspired many theories. egyptian records, in the form of hieroglyphics, provided

ealthy. the permanent crew of workers may have enjoyed the finest food and grains as reward for the skills they were employing to erect the pyramids. in 1997, a grid of rooms was excavated. in addition to discovering more bakeries, and many molds used for bread, the crew found shops where artisans worked. one mudbrick wall led to another complex where a seal on a wall is believed to represent the pharaoh khafre (2558.2532 b.c.e. lehner believes an entire additional complex might be unearthed, which will provide more answers, and probably more questions, about the pyramids of giza. in july of 2000, two mini-replicas of the pyramids were unearthed at giza in a spot between the sphinx and the pyramids. they contained bodies of supervisors and laborers. gordinary people were also allowed to us

sed for the pyramids, the remaining block was sculpted into the sphinx. a sudden, 50-foot drop not far from the sphinx might indicate an area that was quarried for the pyramids. it is commonly believed that the sphinx was sculpted during the same era as the pyramids were built (about 2650 to 2550 b.c.e. according to a traditional historical view, the sphinx has been most often associated with the pharaoh khafre (2558.2532 b.c.e, who is represented by.and is presumably buried in.the second largest of the three pyramids at giza. at least two statues of khafre have been found that bear a striking resemblance to the face of the sphinx. egyptian religion had taken on sun worship shortly before khafre fs 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 26

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yptian sheep hadtwisted horizontal horns. the horizontal horns are those most commonly worn by egyptian gods. one of themost important of these deities is khnum, the god of the district round the first cataract; he was a creatorgod and was represented as a human being with a sheep's head and horizontal horns. but the greatest of allthe horned gods of egypt was osiris, who appears to have been the pharaoh in his aspect as the incarnategod. the crown of osiris, of which the horizontal horns were an important part, was also the crown of themonarch, indicating to all who understood the symbolism that the king as god was the giver of all fertility'in the accounts of the divine birth of the egyptian kings, the future father of the divine child, the pharaoh,visits the queen as the god amon wearin

between egypt and the dancing god of ari350ge. on a slate palette, which is dated tothe period just before the beginning of egyptian history, there is represented a man with the head and tail of ajackal;[3] as in the ari350ge example the body, hands and feet are human; he plays on a flute, and like thepalaeolithic god he is in the midst of animals. the other link is in the ceremonial dress of the pharaoh, whoon great occasions wore a bull's tail attached to his girdle. the sed-heb or tail-festival, when the king wasinvested with the tail, was one of the most important of the royal ceremonies. a sacred dance, performed bythe pharaoh wearing the bull's tail, is often represented as taking place in a temple before min, the god ofhuman generation. the worship of horned gods continued in egypt

against him; butwhen the method was not successful the witches were often prepared to supplement magic with physicalmeans, such as poison and cold steel.wax images for magical purposes are very early, there is reference to a wax crocodile in ancient egypt asearly as the xiith dynasty (before 2000 b.c, but the most detailed account is in the legal record of theharem conspiracy in the reign of the pharaoh rameses iii (about 1100 b.c. a plot was hatched to kill thepharaoh and to put one of his sons on the throne; the conspirators were the young man's mother and severalof the harem ladies and harem officials, besides people from outside. they began by making wax figures, butthese not proving a success the conspirators resorted to personal violence, from the effects of which thepharaoh eventua

great criminals. they were great crimes ofdeath, the things which he had done. now, when he learned of the great crimes of death which he hadcommitted, he took his own life" the other man was equally guilty "now, when penhuibin said to him, the god of the witcheschapter v. religious and magical ceremonies53'give me a roll for enduing me with strength and might, he gave to him a magic roll of the pharaoh (ramesesiii, and he began to employ the magic powers of a god upon people. he began to make people of wax,inscribed, in order that they might be taken by the inspector, hindering one troop and bewitching the others.now, when he was examined, truth was found in every crime and every evil deed, which his heart haddevised to do. there was truth therein, he had done them all, together with the

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breaking the insupportable yoke of mosaic pharisaism, jesus welcomed all men to the brotherhood of the only son of god. when the last ideals fall, when the last material chains of conscience break, when the last of them that killed the 22 prophets and the last of them that stifled the word are confounded, then will be the reign of the holy ghost. then, glory to the father who drowned the host of pharaoh in the red sea! glory to the son, who tore the veil of the temple, and whose cross, overweighing the crown of the caesars, broke the forehead of the caesars against the earth! glory to the holy ghost, who shall sweep from the earth by his terrible breath all the thieves and all the executioners, to make room for the banquet of the children of god! glory to the holy ghost, who has promised

surround itself with sacrifices and with terror. the servitude of the children of jacob paves the way for their deliverance: for they have an idea, and one does not enchain an idea; they have a religion, and one does not 34 violate a religion; they are, in fine, a people, and one does not enchain a real people. persecution stirs up avengers; the idea incarnates itself in a man; moses springs up; pharaoh falls; and the column of smoke and flame, which goes before a freed people, advances majestically into the desert. christ is priest and king by intelligence and by love. he has received the holy unction, the unction of genius, faith and virtue, which is force. he comes when the priesthood is worn out, when the old symbols have no more virtue, when the beacon of intelligence is extinguished

n reply to the enigmatical questions of the sphinx of thebes, and find the solution of those problems of religious history which are sealed in the sometimes scandalous obscurities which are to be found in the stories of the bible. 198 the sacred historians themselves recognize the existence and the power of the magic which boldly rivalled that of moses. the bible tells us that jannes and jambres, pharaoh's magicians, at first performed "the same miracles" as moses, and that they declared those which they could not imitate impossible to human science. it is in fact more flattering to the self-love of a charlatan to deem that a miracle has taken place, than to declare himself conquered by the science or skill of a fellow-magician- above all, when he is a political enemy or a religious advers

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

banishing earth pentagram is drawn starting from the earth point and moving toward the spirit point. the invoking earth pentagram is drawn starting from the spirit point and moving toward the earth point. 23. the invoking form would be the lesser invoking pentagram 24. used in this context, adonai or "lord is a term of sovereignty, not of gender. it should be thought of like the egyptian title of pharaoh, which applied to both male and female rulers. 25. from the neophyte ritual. see regardie, the golden dawn, 124. 26. based on the golden dawn's flying roll no. m, published by francis king in astral projection, ritual magic, and alchemy by s. l. macgregor mathers and others. 27. th hsa s been affirmed by an a. 0.v ersion of the same manuscript. 28. this invocation contains the names of egy

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

exists outside us. but the truth is that there is nothing outside, only the creator. this world is the lowest point that a kabbalist attains. it is the total opposite of the creator and is denominated the exile in egypt. the natural power that works on us in that state, the power of our egoistic nature, doesn t allow us to advance anywhere except to care for ourselves. this is called the state of pharaoh. the egoism doesn t let us feel the sublime and perfect state. it is the egoism, man s inner and vicious force called pharaoh that the torah speaks of at length, whereas the force that makes one exit that state is called moses. pharaoh, moses and everything that is written about the exodus describe spiritual states and emotions. our current state is the lowest possible. it is a state of ab

in our world is done in our current state and with our egoistic substance of this world. there is a law for the spiritual nature that states that, every spiritual root must touch a corporeal branch. this means that every spiritual origin, spiritual force, must hang down and build its final corporeal manifestation in our world. for instance: there is a negative force in the world of atzilut named pharaoh and a positive one named moses. these forces must materialize at least once in our world. in principle, everything that happened or that is happening in the spiritual world has already happened in ours, everything except the coming of the messiah, the ascent and the exit to the spiritual world. this is all that still waits to happen. but the times to come before the ascent are also the har

ning they should sometimes follow the right line (bestowal, masculine part) and other times they should follow the left line (reception, feminine part. all the names in the torah are names of spiritual attainments in the spiritual ladder. but in order to attain a certain name, you must play both the masculine and the feminine parts, meaning the right and left lines. for example: in the degrees of pharaoh, moses, israel, and a gentile, there is both a feminine and a masculine part. but each name can only be attained once and in a certain degree. man and woman are a union of between zeir anpin and malchut of the world of atzilut. its essence and degree create different names and a higher spiritual degree. the male and female states are set in each of the 125 degrees. if that is the case, the

have the ability to choose which way to reach the purpose of creation. but even at the starting point we operate under the pressure of our absolute egoism, we are its slaves and are motivated only by egoistic desires. when one changes one s nature from egoism to altruism, he also becomes a slave, but this time to an altruistic nature. the freedom of desire is only in the choice of whom to serve: pharaoh or moses. therefore, the entire torah is a guide to attain the purpose of creation, as it is said, i have created the evil inclination, i have created for it the torah as a spice, meaning, i have created egoism and i have given the torah/kabbalah in order to correct it. all the parts in the torah were given to us so as to match our properties with those of the creator. but each generation

bbi baruch ashlag. the interpretation of the torah as historic episodes contradicts the statement that the entire torah is the appellations of the creator, that it is a torah of the world of atzilut and that every word in it is a holy name. it is important to remember that it does not speak of this corporeal world and corporeal people. all the names in the torah are holy names, even names such as pharaoh, balaam, and balak. the zohar explains that each name indicates a certain spiritual degree: pharaoh stands for malchut, laban stands for partzuf hochma and so on. reshimot in order to make the right movement, there must be precise knowledge of what it is the vessel wants to achieve, how to achieve it and the strength to attain the desire. there is only one creature beside the creator, and

av ,he (also known as havayah with a certain filling. that specific light, together with the havayah, makes up the name of the degree. it is written that everyone must attain the degree called moses. all the names in the torah are holy names, because they are appellations of manifestations of the light, i.e. the creator. that is why the whole torah is names of the creator, including such names as pharaoh, balak, and balaam etc. a name of a degree is determined by the light that fills the partzuf, the havayah. for example: if the vessel is filled with the light of wisdom, and the sign for that light is the letter yod.(it turns out that the filling of the letters (how they re spelt in hebrew) would be- yod( he( vav( he- yod vav dalet he yod vav yod vav hey yod that is because each letter in

f he is still immersed in egoistic properties, he can already observe himself from the side. at that point he is being gradually introduced to the real meaning of bestowal (altruism, giving) and what really lies behind the term for the creator, also called in order to bestow. the only way to liberate a person from his egoism is to bring him to a state where he cries to the creator. otherwise, his pharaoh will not let him out of egypt. every situation must be meticulously analyzed, until one understands precisely how to operate his reason in order to analyze his feelings. if he does not do that, these situations will repeat themselves until he understands that and cries to the creator to take anything he wants if only to set him free from the one and only enemy that prevents him from approa

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

rom his seat, from the white inexhaustible quiver, smote us right through, smote us and slew, as we rode on the rapturous river. sweet sleep is perfection of love. to die into dreams of my lover, to wake with his mouth like a dove kissing me over and over! better sleep so than be conscious, and know how death hath a charm to discover *gargoyles, vol. iii, p. 94. but not until we read gthe eyes of pharaoh h do we read one of the most astounding paintings in words, i make bold to say, that has ever been written in any language: and death fs insufferable perfume beat the black air with golden fans as turkis rip a nubian fs womb with damascened yataghans *gargoyles, vol. iii, p. 100. this one astonishing verse upsets the equilibrium of the whole poem, as it would of any poem; for if the remain

THE BOOK OF GATES

their names according to the similitudes which are in writing on the east [wall] of the hidden palace of the tuat, and whosoever knoweth their names upon earth, and knoweth their habitations in amentet, shall rest in his habitation in the tuat, and he shall stand up among the lords of the provisions of the gods, and his voice shall be maat before the tchatcha beings on the day of the reckoning of pharaoh (literally, the thrice great house. and these things shall act as magical protectors to him that knoweth them upon earth. mak-neb-s is the name of the hour of the night which guideth this great god in this circle. next: the tenth hour sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 34 the tenth hour. the majesty of this great god taketh up his position in this circle, and he sendeth fo

THE GOD SET

c. if somebody really wants to find the roots of the egyptian religion, they should go up the nile and do some serious anthropology among hamitic speaking native cultures- the roots of the nile may hold keys to egyptian thought that mute stones do not. archaic egypt: set generally occupies a secondary role to his enemy horus, champion of the people of the north (except in the 2nd dynasty when one pharaoh took a "set" name rather than a horus name) set is intimately connected with teaching astronomy,the methods of agriculture, medicine, and above all magic. he is said to have opened the mouth of the other gods, and is the patron of the sem ritual. his cult titles include "great of magic" and "eternal. there is indeed evidence that set is set apart from other gods to die (bonnet's commentari

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

he egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, this [is] his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. 12:13 say, i pray thee, thou [art] my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee. 12:14 and it came to pass, that, when abram was come into egypt, the egyptians beheld the woman that she [was] very fair. 12:15 the princes also of pharaoh saw her, and commended her before pharaoh: and the woman was taken into pharaoh s house. 12:16 and he entreated abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. 12:17 and the lord plagued pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of sarai abram s wife. 12:18 and pharaoh called abram, and said, what [is]

camels. 12:17 and the lord plagued pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of sarai abram s wife. 12:18 and pharaoh called abram, and said, what [is] this [that] thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she [was] thy wife? 12:19 why saidst thou, she [is] my sister? so i might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take [her] and go thy way. 12:20 and pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had. 13:1 and abram went up out of egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and lot with him, into the south. 13:2 and abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. 13:3 and he went on his journeys from the south even to bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning

doubt rent in pieces. 37:34 and jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. 37:35 and all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, for i will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. thus his father wept for him. 37:36 and the midianites sold him into egypt unto potiphar, an officer of pharaoh s [and] captain of the guard. 38:1 and it came to pass at that time, that judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain adullamite, whose name [was] hirah. 38:2 and judah saw there a daughter of a certain canaanite, whose name [was] shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her. 38:3 and she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name er. 38:4 and she conceived again

ame out first, 38:29 and it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, how hast thou broken forth [this] breach [be] upon thee: therefore his name was called pharez. 38:30 and afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called zarah. 39:1 and joseph was brought down to egypt; and potiphar, an officer of pharaoh, captain of the guard, an egyptian, bought him of the hands of the ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither. 39:2 and the lord was with joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the egyptian. 39:3 and his master saw that the lord [was] with him, and that the lord made all [that] he did to prosper in his hand. 39:4 and joseph found grace in his sight

at [were] in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer [of it] 39:23 the keeper of the prison looked not to any thing [that was] under his hand; because the lord was with him, and [that] which he did, the lord made [it] to prosper. 40:1 and it came to pass after these things [that] the butler of the king of egypt and [his] baker had offended their lord the king of egypt. 40:2 and pharaoh was wroth against two [of] his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers. 40:3 and he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where joseph [was] bound. 40:4 and the captain of the guard charged joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward. 40:5 and they dreamed a dream both of t

served them: and they continued a season in ward. 40:5 and they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of egypt, which [were] bound in the prison. 40:6 page 23 genesis and joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they [were] sad. 40:7 and he asked pharaoh s officers that [were] with him in the ward of his lord s house, saying, wherefore look ye [so] sadly to day? 40:8 and they said unto him, we have dreamed a dream, and [there is] no interpreter of it. and joseph said unto them [do] not interpretations [belong] to god? tell me [them] i pray you. 40:9 and the chief butler told his dream to joseph, and said to him, in my dream, behold, a vine

interpreter of it. and joseph said unto them [do] not interpretations [belong] to god? tell me [them] i pray you. 40:9 and the chief butler told his dream to joseph, and said to him, in my dream, behold, a vine [was] before me; 40:10 and in the vine [were] three branches: and it [was] as though it budded [and] her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes: 40:11 and pharaoh s cup [was] in my hand: and i took the grapes, and pressed them into pharaoh s cup, and i gave the cup into pharaoh s hand. 40:12 and joseph said unto him, this [is] the interpretation of it: the three branches [are] three days: 40:13 yet within three days shall pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver pharaoh s cup into his hand, after the former

him, this [is] the interpretation of it: the three branches [are] three days: 40:13 yet within three days shall pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver pharaoh s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler. 40:14 but think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, i pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: 40:15 for indeed i was stolen away out of the land of the hebrews: and here also have i done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon. 40:16 when the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto joseph, i also [was] in my dream, and, behold [i had] three white baskets on my head: 40:17 and in the uppermost basket [there was] of all

of this house: 40:15 for indeed i was stolen away out of the land of the hebrews: and here also have i done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon. 40:16 when the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto joseph, i also [was] in my dream, and, behold [i had] three white baskets on my head: 40:17 and in the uppermost basket [there was] of all manner of bakemeats for pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head. 40:18 and joseph answered and said, this [is] the interpretation thereof: the three baskets [are] three days: 40:19 yet within three days shall pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee. 40:20 and it came to pass the third day [which was] pharaoh s birthd

thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee. 40:20 and it came to pass the third day [which was] pharaoh s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants. 40:21 and he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into pharaoh s hand: 40:22 but he hanged the chief baker: as joseph had interpreted to them. 40:23 yet did not the chief butler remember joseph, but forgat him. 41:1 and it came to pass at the end of two full years, that pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. 41:2 and, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow. 41:3 and, behol

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

k after it are vulgarly esteemed sorcer- ers; wherefore the brethren thought it not fit to style themselves magicians (maier, laws of the fraternity of the rosie crosse [themis aureu, 16181 [1656, philosophical research society, los angeles, 1976, pages 91 -2. the church derived much of its authority from supernatural events. these were always termed "miracles" when moses cast down his rod before pharaoh and turned it into a serpent, it was a miracle; but when the egyptian priest also changed a staff to a snake it was nothing but foul sorcery. a monk to whom these miracles fre- quently happened was sure to be called a saint. a layman who produced the exact same events would be burned at the stake. hence a tongue-in-cheek definition of magic might be "miracles not sanctioned by the establis

d within freud's paradigm of psychosexual development. the child born of sexual union grows up to become either man or woman. if a man, he sym- bolically slays his father and weds his mother to produce a new generation. if a woman, she merges with her mother and renews her to remarry with the father. this dynamic relationship found its physical expression among the rulers of egypt. the son of the pharaoh, when he matured sexually as a man and left the gender-neutral state of preadolescent childhood behind him, replaced his father on the throne as king. he married his own sister, who then took the place of the queen, his mother. as queen, she gave birth to a child, renewing the cosmic cycle. the chinese game can be inverted by substituting the more meaningful sym- bols of egg, bird, and ser

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

males of non-sacrificial animals were simply destroyed, or redeemed by substituting a sacrificial animal. first-born sons were redeemed by the offering to the priests of five shekels of silver (num. 18:15-7, but strictly speaking they belonged to god in return for sparing the first-born of the hebrews during the last plague of egypt, when the first-born of the egyptians, including the son of the pharaoh, were taken (exod. 13:15. it is very possible that the twelve selected by joshua to carry the stones across the jordan were first-born sons. again, there is no mention of the number of the stones erected by abraham, but it would be reasonable to suspect that it was a set number and that the stones were erected in an established pattern. we can make some general observations about the stone

ted in the blood, to god, who resided in the stones. the act of killing itself was not nearly so significant, magically, as the sprinkling of blood. stones had other uses besides the building of altars. when the prophet jeremiah wished to punish the men and women of judah who had gone to live in egypt, he took "great stones" and buried them in the soft clay in the brickkiln in front of one of the pharaoh's houses, speaking to the men of judah in the voice of god "behold, i will send and take nebuchadrezzar the king of babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that i have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them (jer. 43:lo. the stones in this way accomplished the destruction of egypt. we are not told how many stones jeremiah used for this magic, only that

that in their careful etymology of the 717' they show it beyond doubt to be only one of the many substitutes for the real name, and composed of the twofold name of the first androgyne- adam and eve, jod (or yodh, vau and he-va-the female serpent as a symbol of divine intelligence proceeding from the one-generative or creative spirit. thus, jehovah is not the sacred name at all. had moses given to pharaoh the true "name" the latter would not have answered as he did, for the egyptian king-initiates knew i t as well as moses, who had learned it with them. the "name" was at that time the common property of the adepts of all the nations in the world, and pharaoh certainly knew the "name" of the highest god mentioned in the book of the dead. but instead of that, moses (if we accept the allegory

latter would not have answered as he did, for the egyptian king-initiates knew i t as well as moses, who had learned it with them. the "name" was at that time the common property of the adepts of all the nations in the world, and pharaoh certainly knew the "name" of the highest god mentioned in the book of the dead. but instead of that, moses (if we accept the allegory of exodus literally) gives pharaoh the name of yeva, the expression or form of the divine name used by all the targums as passed by moses. hence pharaoh's reply "who is that yeva that i should obey his voice "jehovah" dates only from the masoretic innovation. when the rabbis, for fear that they should lose the keys to their own doctrines, then written exculsively in consonants, began to insert their vowel-points in their ma

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ PERFORM A RITUAL TOASTING

inciple of invocation as well as forging links between the living and the dead (if you've chosen a dead hero to honor) or between the work you are doing and a living force in the objective universe. this reminds us that "man is god" and keeps us from becoming hopeless cynics. the hero chosen for this honor should be picked by the most personal of standards. it could be your father, or an egyptian pharaoh of the xxth dynasty. if it's someone you don't know personally, research your guy (or gal. this will acquaint you with the possibilities in the human psyche as well as the combination of method and persistence needed to achieve greatness. here's an example "i drink to howard phillips lovecraft, who remained true to the weird vision he created, and brought it forth in his own work and other

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

ines is between 930 and 940. the text is written in a small, very black, but neat hand, and may be assigned to a time between the xxvith dynasty and the ptolemaic period. the titles, catch-words, rubrics, names of apep and his fiends, and a few other words, are written in red ink. there are two colophons; in the one we have a date, namely, the "first day of the fourth month of the twelfth year of pharaoh alexander, the son of alexander" i.e, b.c. 311, and in the other the name of the priest who either had the papyrus written, or appropriated it, namely, nes-menu, or nes-amsu. the legend of the creation is found in the third work which is given in the papyrus, and which is called the "book of overthrowing apep, the enemy of ra, the enemy of un-nefer (i.e, osiris. this work contained a serie

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

pantheism, polytheism, dualism, unitarianism and trinitarianism. jewish references to five are many 5 gifts to the priests, 5 things which might only be eaten in the camp. not to eat fruit from a tree until it was five years old. the trespass offering imposed on the philistines, 5 golden emerods and 5 golden mice. joseph gave benjamin 5 suits of raiment joseph presented only 5 of his brethren to pharaoh. david took 5 pebbles when he went to fight goliath. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 62. the jews classed a bride s attendants by fives five wise and five foolish virgins. there are five articles of belief in the mahometan faith in allah, in angels, in the prophet, the day of judgment, and predestination. the five duties of a member of the christi

day should be spent in tears, and no good comes of work done on that day. the talmud in soteh, 20. i, says that a woman prefers one measure of fun to 9 of pharisaic professional goodness. nine persons have entered alive into the jews paradise; enoch, elijah, messiah, eliezer the servant of abraham, hiram, king of tyre, ebed melek the ethiop, jabez the son of jehuda the prince, bathia daughter of pharaoh, and sarah the daughter of asher. some rabbis add rabbi yoshua son of levi, but he entered not at the door, but climbed over the wall. see kethuboth, 7. 2. in the 145th psalm, we find 9 reasons for praising god. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the great eleusinian mysteries were the successors of the egyptian mysteries of isis and osiris, and were

and at a period when taurus was the first constellation of the zodiac. 114. 29. the rosh hashanah says the period of the moon s revolution is 29 days, 6 hours and 40 minutes. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 30. a meal of lentils once in 30 days keeps off the quinsy. at 30 years of age jesus began his ministry; joseph was 30 years old when he stood before pharaoh; david was 30 years old when he began to reign; 30 pieces of silver was the price judas received and jair had 30 sons. 31. the number of el, god=al. 1+30. joshua did not complete the conquest of canaan until he had slain 31 kings. 32. the number of the paths of wisdom, of the sepher yetzirah, being 10 sephiroth and 22 letters of the hebrew alphabet. 33. the years of the life of jesus. king

ween noah and david as could reduce human life by eleven-twelfths. 122. 974. there were this number of generations from the writing of the law by the holy one before he created man in the world. 999. at the judgment, although there be 999 who condemn a man, he shall be saved if one plead for him. 1000. the 1000-headed serpent is sesha of ananta, the hindu emblem of eternity. 1000. the daughter of pharaoh, whom solomon married, told him of 1000 forms of musical instruments and taught him the chants for all the idols. 1000 is the cube of ten, a symbol of perfection--potiphar s wife tempted joseph with 1000 talents of silver, when her personal charms failed to move him. the thickness of the earth s crust is 1000 ells, below this is an abyss of 15,000 ells. succah, 53.2--if you have a secret

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

mighty waters: mighty and wonderful waters. whose power is in the bowels of the waters. whose royal person with thy nobel prince befafes and his 42 ministers, the tipple crown king camara bade me use to the glory, praise and honor him, which created you all to the laud and praise of his majesty" special power of the prince "who art prince of the seas. thy power is upon the waters. thou drowndest pharaoh and hast destroyed the wicked. thy name was known to moses. thou livedst in israel: who hast measured the waters, who was with king solomon, and also after that with scotus: but not known to him by thine true name: for he called thee mares. and since thou wast with none: except, when thou preservest me (through the mercy of god) from the power of the wicked: and wast with me in extremity

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

rtunately alex had been preparing for such an eventuality ever since he had first read about spontaneous initiates and the need for them to be bound by ritual. he described the ornate white robes that paul would want, on which alex had already stitched hundreds of pearls, and the scarlet velvet stole-both part of the three-hour-iong ritual which dated back to the books of the dead of the egyptian pharaohs 'but that isn't like the ceremony you performed tonight. it lasted only an hour or so' paul said.alex ha to tell him that in his case two initiations were in order, the first being egyptian form, which lasts for all time, the.second being the normal first-grade initiation 'isn't the witches' initiation binding, then' paul asked. alex told him that whereas a witch can be cursed by his elde

t of a witch who had been burnt at the stake. her grandfather had been a friend of one of the greatest egyptologistsofthe age, sir william matthew flinderspetrie, whose feats towards the end of the last century included the excavation of the pyramids at giza and the great temple at tanis, as well as the discovery of the greek city of naucratis and the towns of am and daphnae, where remains of the pharaohs had been found. he had given some of his papers to pat's grandfather, among them the initiation ceremony of a religion closely related to witchcraft. the god and goddess had different names, but the instructions on calling down the power and on how to use it were identical. this ceremony included the gilding and symbolic embalming of novices so that they might be reborn, and with it alex

bted alex's mastery of witchcraft again. it was plain that he was innocent ofrevealing the innermost secretsof the brotherhood and had no intention of following huysmans. the witches of his covens.realized that their leader was not going to succumb to cancer. in the end alex was persuaded to be their king. he put on the new robes. in a ceremony made up partly of rites for the crowning of egyptian pharaohs, partly of witch rituals; the elders placed a crown ofcopper, brass with a little silver, and blue velvet upon his head. they anointed his bare feet with oil and sat him on the throne before the altar as representative of their homed god. afterwards they cast the crown into the cauldron of fire so that the oaths of allegiance they had taken would be binding for all time, otherwise they, t

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s the history of many forms of government. races and nations have come and gone. political regimes and religious forms have played their part, have persisted or disappeared. the sorry history of humanity has been one of kings and potentates, rulers and warriors, presidents and dictators rising into power at the expense of their own or other nations. conquerors come and go akbar, genghis khan, the pharaohs, alexander the great, caesar, charlemagne, william the conqueror, napoleon, hitler and mussolini. these have all upset the rhythm of their times and have come to power through aggression and slaughter. as the nations grew more closely interrelated, their influence and their field of expression increased. the growing means of communication brought this about; great britain knew nothing of

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know that there was intercourse at a very early period between chaldea and the sinaitic peninsula, as well as with india. the statues discovered by the french at tel-loh (dating from at latest b.c. 4,000) were made of the extremely hard stone known as diorite, and the inscriptions on them stated the diorite to have been brought from mazan- i.e, the sinaitic peninsula, which was then ruled by the pharaohs. the statues are known to resemble in general style the diorite statue, kephren, the builder of the second pyramid, while, according to mr. petrie, the unit of measurement marked on the plan of the city, which one of the tel-loh figures holds on his lap, is the same as that employed by the pyramid builders. teak wood has been found at mugheir, or ur of the chaldees, although that wood is

more than once elsewhere in the commentaries; namely, that the adepts or "wise" men of the three races (the third, fourth and the fifth) dwelt in subterranean habitats, generally under some kind of pyramidal structure, if not[[vol. 2, page] 352 the secret doctrine. actually under a pyramid. for such "pyramids" existed in the four corners of the world and were never the monopoly of the land of the pharaohs, though until found scattered all over the two americas, under and over ground, beneath and amidst virgin forests, as in plain and vale, they were supposed to be the exclusive property of egypt. if the true geometrically correct pyramids are no longer found in european regions, many of the supposed early neolithic caves, of the colossal triangular, pyramidal and conical menhirs in the mor

tries "bel and the dragon being uniformly coupled together, and the priest of the ophite religion as uniformly assuming the name of his god("archaeology" vol. xxv, p. 220, london. in the religions of the past, it is in egypt we have to seek for its western origin. the ophites adopted their rites from hermes trismegistus, and heliolatrous worship crossed over with its sun-gods into the land of the pharaohs from india. in the gods of stonehenge we recognise the divinities of delphi and babylon, and in those of the latter the devas of the vedic nations. bel and the dragon, apollo and python, krishna and kaliya, osiris and typhon are all one under many names- the latest of which are michael and the red dragon, and st. george and his dragon. as michael is "one as god" or his "double" for terres

egyptian museums. the cruciform termini also represented this dual idea, which was found in egypt in the cubic hermes. the author of "source of measures" tells us why (but see the last page of xvi, about the gnostic priapus. as shown by him, the cube unfolded becomes in display a cross of the tau, or the egyptian, form; or again "the circle attached to the tau gives the ansated cross" of the old pharaohs. they had known this from their priests and their "kings initiates" for ages, and also what was meant by "the attachment of a man to the cross" which idea "was made to coordinate with that of the origin of human life, and hence the phallic form" only the latter came into action aeons and ages after the idea of the carpenter and artificer of the gods[[footnote(s* montfaucon, antiquities. s

l explanation and final colour from aryan symbols of the same nature. says the author "the four-armed cross is simply the cross of the four quarters, but the cross sign is not always simple* this is a type that was developed from an identifiable beginning, which was adapted to the expression of various ideas afterwards. the most sacred cross of egypt that was carried in the hands of the gods, the pharaohs, and the mummied dead, is the ankh[[diagram] the sign of life, the living, an oath, the covenant. the top of this is the hieroglyphic ru[[diagram] set upright on the tau-cross. the ru is the door, gate, mouth, the place of outlet. this denotes the birth-place in the northern quarter of the heavens, from which the sun is reborn. hence the ru of the ankh sign is the feminine type of the bir

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ure which is depicted at the east of the hidden house of the tuat, and if a man knoweth their names whilst he is upon earth, and knoweth their places in amenti [he shall attain p. 188 to] his own place in the tuat, and he shall stand up in all places which belong to the gods whose voices (or, words) are maat, even as the divine sovereign chiefs (tchatcha) of ra, and the mighty ones of the palace (pharaohs, and [this knowledge] shall be of benefit to him upon earth" in the middle register are- 1. the boat of the sun, with the god afu standing under a canopy formed by the serpent mehen. click to view the boat of afu, the dead sun-god, in the ninth hour. 2. the, twelve sailors of ra, each of whom stands upright, and holds a paddle in his hands; their names are- 1. khennu, i.e "the sailor" par

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eptilian 32 children of the matrix interbreeding with other races around the world, but the nordic connection would appear to be the most important to them* this fusion implanted a reptilian genetic code into the dna and these are the bloodlines that have ruled the world for thousands of years and are still in the positions of power to this day, as we shall see. bloodlines that were once egyptian pharaohs and european royalty are now presidents of the united states, and leading bankers and media owners. a fundamental theme running from the "golden age" of atlantis and lemuria-mu to the present day is that of the snake or serpent. both civilisations were known in legends as the dragon lands and the motherlands.2 the greeks called atlantis "hespera (a name for venus) and they said it was gua

isles. under other names these peoples were known as the hittites and the goths. once again l.a. waddell has established that the phoenicians were not a semitic race as claimed by official historians, but another name for the aryan race based on sumer in the post- atlantis period. examinations of phoenician tombs have revealed that they were of the long-headed aryan-type, as are depictions of the pharaohs and royal families in egypt.24 this is also why the egyptians and other cultures portrayed many of their gods, like osiris, with white skin and blue eyes- that's what the ruling race looked like. the twist was that their "royal" and "noble" bloodlines had interbred with the reptilian anunnaki. the very name, iran, another part of the sumer empire, comes from the word airy-ana or air-an, w

f ruling "royal" families and emperors claiming descent, and their right to rule, from the "serpent gods" can be found across the ancient world. these bloodlines and connections were symbolised by royal emblems in the form of a dragon, snake, sphinx, plumed serpent, or the tree-cross or ankh. in egypt they had an order called the djedhi (jedi in star wars) and the dj meant serpent.11 thus we have pharaohs of the serpent line called djer, djoser, and djederfra. in india, the buddhist text, the mahauyutpatti, lists 80 kings who descended from the nagas or "serpent kings. hindu legend says that the nagas could take a human or reptilian form at will. this is what is called "shape-shifting. across india the rulers claimed power because they descended from the nagas. buddha is claimed to have be

for genetic reasons. it was during the period of jared, way back in the golden age, that the nefilim, the so-called sons of the gods (also "angels of the lord" in other versions, appeared on the scene to "marry" human women. today, in the united states, there is apparently an organisation called the sons of jared who pledge an "implacable war against descendants of the watchers who..as notorious pharaohs, the unholy alliance 99 kings and dictators, have throughout history dominated mankind. their publication, the jaredite advocate, condemns the watchers as being. like super-gangsters, a celestial mafia ruling the world. the anunnaki have been protected from exposure all this time by the "middle men" they have placed between themselves and humanity. i call this the hybrid priesthood. in an

e found all over the world and, like the danaans, they are often described as having what i call the "nordic" appearance. another common story is that these people abducted surface humans and interbred with them. michael mott in his hook, caverns, cauldrons, and concealed creatures, also points out the close similarity of "tuatha" and "tuat, the egyptian name for the underworld, through which the pharaohs believed they would travel to immortality. the druids, it is said, continued to use their danaan knowledge on the surface after those peoples were forced underground. the highest level of the druidic pyramid was the arch druid. they were located on islands because land 128 children of the matrix surrounded by water is a particularly powerful energy centre and if it also happens to host ma

e pyramid builders aligned their structures with thurban/alpha draconis, which was the pole star around 3000bc. the hyksos tribe, who invaded and ruled egypt from around 1785-1580 bc, were set worshippers and they placed their capital at avaris on an ancient site of set worship. they represented set with an ass head. a line of set-worshipping priests from tanis eventually became the royal line of pharaohs, people like seti("set's man) and setnakt("set is mighty. this was the serpent cult. holle-wood, the land of el-lusion i can't emphasise enough that to understand what we call the present we have to understand the past, and this is why the anunnaki- illuminati have concentrated so much effort on rewriting history. even hollywood is an example. the druids were tree worshippers, especially

, published in 1560. the king wanted to revise the bible text because, like his mother, mary stuart, he believed totally in the "divine right of kings" in which the monarch answered to no one except "god (the gods. the geneva bible included phrases he did not like in relation to this "divine right" and so he had them removed. james was a satanist and reptilian bloodline going back to the egyptian pharaohs. his sexual desires preferred young boys, as recorded in numerous books and public records, and his lust for blood appeared insatiable. when he killed an animal he would literally roll in its blood, and he was responsible for the death and torture of thousands of "witches. he suggested many of the tortures himself.16 this is the man who decided what the bible does or does not say! i am su

and burned at the stake for in any way questioning the basis of the religion their various ancestors had created. more than that, the most used version of the bible was commissioned and sponsored by another strand in the same bloodline, king james 1st of england. the line of james, according to the genealogy sources listed below, can be traced back to 1550bc and beyond, and includes many egyptian pharaohs, including ramses ii. 428 t the llluminati bloodline 429 the bloodline moved into france and northern europe through the franks and meroveus or merovee, who gave his name to the merovingian bloodline, and it continues with the rest of the merovingian clan like clovis and the dagoberts who connect into the elite secret society, the priory of sion and the rennes-le-chateau "mystery" in the

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ent god, quetzalcoatl; the hopiindians had the plumed serpent god, baholinkonga, and the native american culture isawash with serpent imagery, including the mysterious serpent-shaped mound in ohio;the east indians speak of the reptilian gods, the nagas (these were a race of demons inindian legend and their name means those who do not walk, but creep; theegyptians had their serpent god, kneph, and pharaohs were often pictured withserpents; the phoenicians had agathodemon, another serpent figure; the voodoo peoplehave a god they call damballah wedo, who is depicted as a serpent; and the hebrewshad nakhustan, the brazen serpent. the ancient british god, known as the dragon-ruler of the world, was called hu and from this, very appropriately i would suggest,we get the term, hu-man. the winged-d

stined to afflict, oppress, destroy,attack, do battle and work destruction on the earth 58 in other words, those bodies canbe possessed by their ancestral spirit- the reptilians of the lower fourth dimension. inthe united states there is an organisation called the sons of jared, named after thefather of enoch. they pledge an implacable war against the descendants of the47watchers who as notorious pharaohs, kings and dictators, have throughout historydominated mankind. in their publication, the jaredite advocate, they condemn thewatchers as like super-gangsters, a celestial mafia ruling the world .59 many peopleask me how todays brotherhood elite can cause such death, destruction and suffering,without showing any emotion. at least some of the reptile genetic streams do not appearto feel emo

didnt do the samewas their enemy and they fiercely opposed the roman occupation. they were apalestine branch of an even more extreme egyptian sect called the therapeutae(healers, hence therapeutic 32) and they inherited the secret knowledge of egypt andthe ancient world. the therapeutae and the essenes also used the symbol of themesseh, the draco crocodile of egypt, the fat of which anointed the pharaohs underthe authority of the royal court of the dragon. the essenes had a detailedunderstanding of drugs, including the hallucinogenic variety, which were used inmystery school initiations and for entering otherstates of consciousness. the properties of thesacred mushrooms or holy plant were so muchpart of life in the secret brotherhood that the jewishhigh priest wore a mushroom cap (see fig

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tomb of buried deity [morals and dogma, p. 393] now, you know why you see so many obelisks atop the graves of freemasons, for it is "an emblem of the resurrection of buried deity; the invisible mason believes he is becoming a god throughout his life, so the obelisk at his grave is simply the visible manifestation of that belief. the obelisk was originally created by the egyptian mysteries of the pharaohs, and is spoken of in the bible. listen" king jehu said to the guards and to the officers 'go in and slay them; let none escape. and they smote them with the sword; and the guards before the king threw their bodies out, and went into the inner dwelling of the house of baal. they brought out the obelisks of the house of baal and burned them [2 kings 10:26, amplified bible] god almighty orde

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tian god of chaos and storms, set, called also sutekh, set-heh or seth-an was revered in the 3rd millennia b.c. and forward, originally as a positive force of movement and foreign lands. it was later on that set became a form of the opposer, with red being a sacred color and his minions being actual demons who tested or destroyed others. set was commonly perceived as a god of war, who taught some pharaohs the art of shooting the bow and arrow, etc. the egyptian book of the dead presents set as the lord of the northern sky, who is over storms, cold weather and darkness. set was perhaps the most significant egyptian god in that he alone was the god of mystery and the unknown, both the shadow and fire. as being a patron of the deserts, seth was also revered as a deity over the scorching heat

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of beaufort, cardinal of winchester, instigated the passage of an act, during the minority of henry vi, which forbade the masons to hold their accustomed chapters and assemblies. but the act was never enforced, and when henry vi. became of age he joined the order, while henry vii. was the grand master in england. the origin of operative masonry is traced back by many to the old roman empire, the pharaohs, the temple of solomon, even to the tower of babel and to the ark of noah. speculative free masonry originated in england and dates from the seventeenth century. its foundation lies in the "practice of moral and social virtue" its characteristic feature being charity in the broadest sense, brotherly love, relief and truth. it is because of this foundation, so closely approaching that whic

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a, chom, said, roophal, and magus. moses was torn by doubts for a long time as to their identity and finally concluded that, judging as i should wish to be judged myself they were what they pretended to be. imperator was one of the most ancient spirit controls, but he was preceded by nearly a thousand years by lady nona (the guide of rosemary, who claimed to have lived in egypt in the time of the pharaohs. black hawk, the control of evan powell, insisted that a book had been published about him in america. in 1932 the book was found; it was printed in 1834 in boston. there are several instances in which the same control has manifested through different mediums. they have particular favors for one medium at a time, however, and on that medium s death the loss of power is passed on to anothe

shaped from rock crystal, discovered at lubaantun, british honduras, in 1927 by explorer f. a. mitchell- hedges. the skull may be anywhere from 3,600 to 12,000 years old, and is believed to have been laboriously shaped by a succession of mayan priests from a large block of pure rockcrystal by rubbing with sand. such a method might have taken many years to complete. like the so-called curse of the pharaohs, the skull is supposed to bring doom upon those who mock it. reliable observers have reported extraordinary light effects, sounds and odors, suggesting occult properties. extensive laboratory tests by the hewlett-packard company, santa clara, california, revealed that the skull had remarkable optical properties that it would be virtually impossible to duplicate with modern equipment. the

t only had to tell the divine gods their names. they also had to prove that he knew the names of a number of the supposedly inanimate objects in the dreary underworld. many books of magic in egypt contained spells and other formulas for exorcism and necromantic practice. the priestly caste who compiled those necromantic works was known as kerheb, or scribes of the divine writings even the sons of pharaohs did not disdain to enter their ranks. the ritual of egyptian magic the ritual of egyptian magic possessed many strong similarities to the ceremonial practices of other systems and countries. wax figures were used to represent the bodies of persons to be bewitched or harmed. models of all kinds indicated the belief that the physical force directed against them might injure the person or an

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public knowledge concerning the pyramids in the americas only added fuel to the fires of imagination. although the egyptian pyramids served as tombs for royalty and the wealthy of society, some pyramids had no clearly discernible purpose and others had structures that seemed to have no relation to the primary burial function. there were some eighty pyramids in egypt, built under the reign of the pharaohs from 3,100 to 332 b.c.e. egyptian tombs reflect the early religious ideas about the afterlife. in predynastic times, the dead were buried in sand pits of an oval or square shape; in the dynastic era a structure called a mastaba was erected over the burial place of kings and nobles. this was made of dried mud bricks and reproduced the house or palace of the deceased, so that his soul could

te for a proper division of the tomb antiquities. however, carnarvon did not live to see the conclusion of the dispute or even the removal of the golden funerary mask of the tutankhamen mummy. in april, he became seriously ill after his razor nicked a mosquito bite. infection set in, followed by pneumonia. he died on april 6. the newspapers printed a story that he was a victim of the curse of the pharaohs. the legend of the curse of the pharaohs curses were certainly known in ancient egypt, usually invoking the wrath of the gods against those seeking to embezzle funds for guards, occasionally against thieves. many tombs were robbed by grave robbers over the centuries. an inscription of the fifth dynasty of the old kingdom, made over five thousand years ago, reads: as for any people who sha

ds for guards, occasionally against thieves. many tombs were robbed by grave robbers over the centuries. an inscription of the fifth dynasty of the old kingdom, made over five thousand years ago, reads: as for any people who shall take possession of this tomb as their mortuary property or shall do any evil thing to it, judgment shall be had with them by the great god. in his book the curse of the pharaohs (1975, philipp vandenberg states there were 22 other mysterious deaths of individuals associated with the tomb. the american archaeologist arthur mace, who had assisted carter in opening the tomb, suffered from exhaustion after the death of carnarvon and fell into a deep coma, dying in the same hotel as carnarvon. george j. gould, son of the financier, visited the tomb and died the next d

o enter this sacred tomb shall swift be visited by wings of death, but this story is a fabrication. similarly another report cited an inscription on the mud base of a candle that stated: it is i who hinder the sand from choking the secret chamber. i am for the protection of the deceased and i will kill all those who cross this threshold, but the last phrase was another invention. the curse of the pharaohs became a newspaper topic for many years and every death of an individual even distantly associated with the tomb long after the excavation was solemnly recorded as another victim of the curse. some of these claims were remote. they included the friend of a tourist who had entered the burial chamber; the friend was knocked down by a cairo taxicab. an associate curator of egyptology at the

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and in the brain, gives to man a third eye as it were wherewith to see in the spiritual worlds. when this serpentine spirit fire has been sufficiently evolved, he may read by its light the wisdom of the ages. therefore christ exhorted his disciples to be wise as serpents. the egyptian word naja, which means serpent, is used at least once in the hebrew bible in the 58th psalm. in ancient egypt the pharaohs were kings and priests, holding a double office, and they therefore wore a double crown with a uraeus or serpent head so placed that when wearing this crown the uraeus seemed to protrude from the emperor's forehead between the eyebrows. the serpentine uraeus was therefore an apt symbol of the wisdom of the wearer. it will be remembered that according to the bible story the lucifer spirit

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greek and latin literature were: the delphic sibyl: the erythrrean; the cimmerian; the samian, who was named phyto; the cumana at cumre in italy who was named amalthea, she is mentioned by ovid and by virgil in the jeneid; the hellespontine; the lybian; the persian; the phrygian; and the tiburtine. some old greek authors attributed the origin of the sibyls to egypt and in the times of the ancient pharaohs, there were certainly famous divinatory shrines at heliopolis, buto, thebes and ammon in libya. several of the great christian authors such as jerome, chrysostom and augustine, believed in these egyptian oracles.theaugurs in ancient rome the augurs formed a permanent guild or college; they were at first only diviners, chiefly by means of birds; at a later date they did not divine the futu

e wonder-working sheiks are still saidtoget correct answers to questions from boys made to stare into a little pool ofinkheld in the palm of the hand.ofthis magic, instances may be found described inthemodernegyptiansby e.w. lane 1835, and inthe mendalby edward b.b. barker 1874.divination and its history201rhabdomancy divination by rods was said to have been practised in egypt in the times of the pharaohs: in our time the use of a divining rod is restricted to the art of finding water below the ground, but there are some persons who claim by the divining rodtofind also ores and veins of metal. the ancient teutons, said tacitus, divined the future by means of a rod or shoot of a fruit tree; it was cut into pieces, and each piece specially marked. the pieces were then thrown upon a white clo

eriod of greek predominance is now undoubted by any students of antiquity, and so we may conclude that the kingly-priesthood of ancient egypt designed and conducted grand religious cerem255 onials such as the mysteries at a date long before those of greece. it is indeed commonly asserted that the eleusinian and other notable greek mysteries were derived from the earlier religious mysteries of the pharaohs, and these latter are often referred to as the mysteries of isis, osiris and serapis,theinformation as yet obtained from egyptian monuments, tombs, and papyri, and the references in classical authors are so scanty that it is not possibletodecide at what period the mysteries originated in egypt, or during which dynasty they reached the period of greatest importance;butit is generally agree

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' which we can neither explain, nor account for, nor cure, and they devoted the obsessing demon to satan, and cast him out.theblack magicians of the middle ages sometimes not only cast him out, but caused himtogo in, and this also by the power of the name. i have been shown over a hundred names and seals of demons from medieval books of magic, and many instances are recorded from the times of the pharaohs till within a couple of hundred years of this present time, of magicians who in time of war, have cast fear into the hearts of the enemies of their country. froissart records the work of magicians who accompanied the german armies in his day, causing fogs to cover a retreat, and the like. many of the troubles anciently ascribed to obsession -are now sometimes dealt with, and it is said su

to state during the performance of the ritual his own qualifications and titles to command the spirits. the next chapters contain the words of exorcism. this is the 'book of the overthrowing of apophi, the enemy of unnefer, life, strength, health, triumphant. to be recited in a temple of amen ra, lord of the thrones of the two lands (i.e. of upper and lower egypt typified by the dual crown of the pharaohs) at the head of the apis bull, in the course of each day. the hymns mainly consist of a beautiful and poetic celebration of the glories and the victory of ra. in an old rituale romanum, which is one of the treasures in my library, is a formula of exorcism which opens with the recitation of the psalm 'lift up your heads, 0 ye gates! and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors! and the king of

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earch in jerusalem. he arrived at the opinion that the templars had gone to jerusalem to study the ruins of the temple. wilson found traces of digging and excavation under the foundations of the temple, and concluded that these were done by tools that belonged to the templars. these items are still in the collection of robert brydon, who possesses an extensive global freemasonry ee the hiram key: pharaohs, freemasons, and the discovery of the secret scrolls of jesus archive of information concerning the templars.14 the writers of the hiram key argue that these excavations of the templars were not without result; that the order discovered in jerusalem certain relics that changed the way they saw the world. in addition, many researchers are of the same opinion. there must have been something

hese pictures from modern kabbalist works reflect the dark world of the kabbalah. the jewish historian theodore reinach describes the kabbalah as "a subtle poison which enters into the veins of judaism and wholly infests it" solomon reinach defines the global freemasonry ei the dark world of the kabbalah ej from the templars to ancient egypt the magicians of ancient egypt the ancient egypt of the pharaohs was one of the most ancient civilizations of the world. it was also one of the most oppressive. the magnificent monuments that still remain from ancient egypt the pyramids, sphinxes and obelisks were constructed by hundreds of thousands of slaves, worked to the point of death, under the whip and threat of starvation. the pharaohs, the absolute rulers of egypt, wanted themselves to be repr

should be noticed that mention here is made of a council that advises pharaoh, that incites him against moses, and recommends to him certain methods. if we look at the records of egyptian history, we see that the two basic components of this council were the army and the priests. there is no need to explain the importance of the army; it constituted the basic military power of the regimes of the pharaohs. but, we should look more closely at the role of the priests. the priests of ancient egypt were a class referred to in the qur'an as magicians. they represented the cult which supported the regime. it was believed that they had special powers and possessed secret knowledge. by this authority they influ- el from the templars to ancient egypt an ancient egyptian hieroglyphic script enced th

sts of ancient egypt were a class referred to in the qur'an as magicians. they represented the cult which supported the regime. it was believed that they had special powers and possessed secret knowledge. by this authority they influ- el from the templars to ancient egypt an ancient egyptian hieroglyphic script enced the egyptian people, and ensured their position within the administration of the pharaohs. this class, known from egyptian records as the "priests of amon" focused their attention on practicing magic and administering their pagan cult; in addition, they also studied various sciences such as astronomy, mathematics and geometry. this class of priests was a closed order possessed (so they thought) of a special knowledge. such orders are commonly known as esoteric organizations. i

n ancient egypt was transmitted to the templars through the kabbalah. in foucault's pendulum, the famous italian novelist, umberto eco, relates these facts in the course of the plot. throughout the novel, he relates, through the mouths of its protagonists, that the templars were influenced by the kabbalah and that the kabbalists possessed a secret that could be traced back to the ancient egyptian pharaohs. according to eco, some prominent jews learned certain secrets taken from the ancient egyptians, and later inserted these into the first five books of the old testament (pentateuch. but, this secret, which was transmitted secretly, could be understood only by the kabbalists (the zohar, written later in spain, and forming the fundamental book of the kabbalah, deals with the secrets of thes

therefore, to say that the main source of masonry is ancient egypt (we saw earlier that basic connection between this pagan tradition and modern masons is the templars) it is necessary to recall at this point that ancient egypt was one of the most referred to examples of a godless system as revealed by god in the qur'an. it is the true archetype of an evil system. many verses relate to us of the pharaohs that governed egypt and their inner-circles, their cruelty, injustice, wickedness and excesses. moreover, the egyptians were a perverse people, that acquiesced to the system of their pharaohs, and believed in their false gods. despite this, masons maintain that their origins lie in ancient egypt, and regard that civilization as praiseworthy. an article published in mimar sinan praises the

the origin of this idea? who is this widow? when we examine masonic sources, we find that the symbol of the widow derives originally from an egyptian legend. this legend is one of ancient egypt's most important myths the story of osiris and isis. lj materialism revisited an obelisk covered with masonic symbols in new york's central park. global freemasonry remains from ancient egypt: monuments of pharaohs with an obelisk rising in front of them in the valley of the kings. lk ll materialism revisited an ancient egyptian depiction of isis. osiris was a fertility god and isis was his wife. according to the legend, osiris was the victim of a crime of passion by which isis became a widow. so, the masonic widow is isis. an article in mimar sinan explains the matter in the following way: global f

of society. as we said at the beginning, the fundamental element of this philosophy, one which has transpired to masonry from pagan cultures, especially that of ancient egypt, is materialism. dcf materialism revisited the compass and square depicted with the eagle, one of ancient egypt's most important symbols. materialism in masonic sources i. belief in absolute matter today's masons, as did the pharaohs, priests and other classes of ancient egypt, believe in the eternity and uncreatedness of matter, and that out of this lifeless matter living things came to be by chance. in masonic writings we can read detailed accounts of these basic elements of materialist philosophy. in his book, masonluktan esinmeleler (inspirations from freemasonry, master mason selami isindag writes about masonry's

tly, traditionalism defines very well the history and philosophy of masonry as we have been examining it from the beginning of this book. indeed, traditionalism is a word that describes masonry very well because masonry is nothing other than an "organization of traditions" whose roots go back thousands of years to earlier pagan societies. it blindly follows the traditions of ancient egypt, of the pharaohs and their magicians, ancient greek materialist philosophers, hermeticists, kabbalists, templars, rosicrucians and of masons before them. dgj the theory of evolution revisited dgk global freemasonry dgl the theory of evolution revisited masonry is the continuation of narrow-minded traditionalism. modern masonry maintains the same superstitious beliefs that their "brothers" have defended un

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

several i was able to study over the next few hours and, though the setting was unmistakably andean, i found myself repeatedly overtaken by a sense of d j vu from another place and another time. the reason was that the totora vessels of suriqui were virtually identical, both in the method of construction and in finished appearance, to the beautiful craft fashioned from papyrus reeds in which the pharaohs had sailed the nile thousands of years previously. in my travels in egypt i had examined the images of many such vessels painted on the walls of ancient tombs. it sent a tingle down my spine to see them now so colourfully brought to life on an obscure island on lake titicaca even though my research had partially prepared me for this coincidence. i knew that no satisfactory explanation had

a moment, against the glittering backdrop of the inky sky, i experienced the illusion of being in motion, of standing at the stern of some great ship of the heavens and looking back at two other vessels which seemed to follow in my wake, strung out in battle order behind me. so where was this convoy going, this squadron of pyramids? and were the prodigious structures all the work of megalomaniac pharaohs, as the egyptologists believed? or had they been designed by mysterious hands to voyage eternally through time and space towards some as yet unidentified objective? from this altitude, though the southern sky was partially occluded by the vast bulk of the pyramid of khafre, i could see all the western sky as it arched down from the celestial north pole towards the distant rim of the revol

ds promised to the guard of the pyramid s western face and then, with a tremendous sense of release and exultation, we walked jauntily away from the monument in the direction of the pyramid of khafre, a few hundred metres to the south-west. khufu, khafre, menkaure. cheops, chephren, mycerinus. whether they were referred to by their egyptian or their greek names, the fact remained that these three pharaohs of the fourth dynasty (2575-2467 bc) were universally acclaimed as the builders of the giza pyramids. this had been the case at least since ancient egyptian tour guides had told the greek historian herodotus that the great pyramid had been built by khufu. herodotus had incorporated this information into the oldest surviving written description of the monuments, which continued: cheops, th

ithin a wide trench more than 15 feet deep in places. walking due south, parallel to the monument s scarred western flank, we picked our way along the edge of this trench towards the much smaller third pyramid, which lay some 400 metres ahead of us in the desert. khufu. khafre. menkaure. according to all orthodox egyptologists the pyramids had been built as tombs and only as tombs for these three pharaohs. yet there were some obvious difficulties with such assertions. for example, the spacious burial chamber of the khafre pyramid was empty when it was opened in 1818 by the european explorer giovanni belzoni. indeed, more than empty, the chamber was starkly, austerely bare. the polished granite sarcophagus which lay embedded in its floor had also been found empty, with its lid broken into t

ng. here the scholarly consensus, expressed as well as anyone by george hart of the british museum, was that no later than 500 years after khufu s funeral robbers had forced their way into the great pyramid to steal the burial treasure .4 the implication is that this incursion must have occurred by or before 2000 bc since khufu is 2 the riddle of the pyramids, p. 54. 3 ibid, p. 55. 4 george hart, pharaohs and pyramids, guild publishing, london, 1991, p. 91. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 286 believed to have died in 2528 bc.5 moreover it was assumed by professor i.e.s edwards, a leading authority on these matters, that the burial treasure had been removed from the famous inner sanctum now known as the king s chamber and that the empty granite sarcophagus which stood at the western

and unsuitability of the well-shaft as an escape route for bulky treasures. the other remarkable feature of khufu s pyramid was the absence of inscriptions or decorations anywhere within its immense network of galleries, corridors, passageways and chambers, and the same was true of khafre s and menkaure s pyramids. in none of these amazing monuments had a single word been written in praise of the pharaohs whose bodies they were supposed to house. this was exceptional. no other proven burial place of any egyptian monarch had ever been found undecorated. the fashion throughout egyptian history had been for the tombs of the pharaohs to be extensively decorated, beautifully painted from top to bottom (as in the valley of the kings at luxor, for example) and densely inscribed with the ritual sp

the pointer of a giant metronome, it had bisected the horizon this morning at a point a hair s breadth south of due east and had already climbed high enough to shrug off the nile mists which clung like a shroud to much of the city of cairo. khufu, khafre, menkaure. cheops, chephren, mycerinus. whether you called them by their egyptian or their greek names, there was no doubt that the three famous pharaohs of the fourth dynasty had been commemorated by the most splendid, the most honourable, the most beautiful and the most enormous monuments ever seen anywhere in the world. moreover, it was clear that these pharaohs must indeed have been closely associated with the monuments, not only because of the folklore passed on by herodotus (which surely had some basis in fact) but because inscriptio

it difficult to understand why the egyptologists were happy to go on citing it as confirmation of the tombs and tombs only theory. the problem was that this same evidence was capable of supporting as equally valid a number of different and mutually contradictory interpretations. to give just one example, the close association observed between the three great pyramids and the three fourth dynasty pharaohs could indeed have come about because these pharaohs had built the pyramids as their tombs. but it could also have come about if the gigantic monuments of the giza plateau had been standing long before the dawn of the historical civilization known as dynastic egypt. in that case, it was only necessary to assume that in due course khufu, khafre and menkaure had come along and built a number

to see that if the same imaginary straight line was extended to the south-west it would completely miss the third pyramid, the entire body of which was offset to the east of the principal diagonal. egyptologists refused to recognize any anomaly in this. why should they? as far as they were concerned there was no site plan at giza. the pyramids were tombs and tombs only, built for three different pharaohs over a period of about seventy-five years.1 it made sense to assume that each ruler would have sought to express his own personality and idiosyncrasies through his monument, and this was probably why menkaure had stepped out of line. the egyptologists were wrong. though i was unaware of it that march morning in 1993, a breakthrough had been made proving beyond doubt that the necropolis di

to it, but when it was opened, it was empty.16 so what was going on? how come more than twenty-five million tons of stone had been piled up to form pyramids at giza, dahshur, meidum and saqqara if the only point of the exercise had been to install empty sarcophagi in empty chambers? even admitting the hypothetical excesses of one or two megalomaniacs, it seemed unlikely that a whole succession of pharaohs would have sanctioned such wastefulness. pandora s box buried beneath the five million tons of the second pyramid at giza, santha and i now stepped into the monument s spacious inner chamber, which might have been a tomb but might equally have served some other as yet unidentified purpose. measuring 46.5 feet in length from east to west, and 16.5 in breadth from north to south, this naked

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

tian literature. ra responds by sending thoth to cure horus. isis as everywoman has triumphed, and the spell promises that every child will be saved because horus was saved. cippi have been found in houses and tombs, but large examples such as the metternich stela would originally have been set up in an outer area of a temple. ptolemaic period temples are decorated with endless scenes of gods and pharaohs, but the absence of specific royal names from some cartouches gives a clue that it was often difficult for the priests to know who was in charge of the country or for how long. from the second century bce onward there were frequent wars between rival members of the ptolemy family as well as rebellions by native egyptians. in the first century bce, one of the feuding ptolemies unwisely sou

eminine in egyptian. for further information on these powerful royal women, see g. robins, women in ancient egypt (london and cambridge, ma, 1993, chap. 8. 71. for a translation of this inscription, see miriam lichtheim, ancient egyptian literature, vol. 3 the late period (berkeley, los angeles, and london, 1980, 66 84; and for the full story of these remarkable kings, see r. g. morkot, the black pharaohs: egypt s nubian rulers (london, 2000. note that in some chronologies all or part of the twenty- fifth dynasty is counted as part of the third intermediate period. 72. see l. h. lesko, nubian influence on the later versions of the books of the dead in abstracts of papers: eighth international congress of egyptologists (cairo, 2000, 111. 73. for translations of the memphite theology, see mt

em to have gained popular acceptance. a few years after his death, his policies were reversed. amun-ra became the chief deity of the state again, and aten went back to being an aspect of the sun god. speculation continued, however, about whether all deities were simply transient manifestations of the one creator. see also amun; ra; shu and tefnut references and further reading: r. e. freed et al. pharaohs of the sun: akhenaten. nefertiti. tutankhamun. boston: 1999. e. hornung. akhenaten and the religion of light. translated by d. lorton. ithaca and london: 1999. primary sources: aten hymns 110 handbook of egyptian mythology atum (atem) a creator deity who began and ended the world, atum was the senior deity of the group of nine gods known as the ennead of heliopolis. when atum became aware

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

lavatsky.txt hell became a place of punishment by fire not earlier than the 17th or 18th dynasty, when typhon was transformed from a god into a devil. but at whatever time they implanted this dread superstition in the minds of the poor ignorant masses, the scheme of a burning hell and souls tormented therein is purely egyptian. ra (the sun) became the lord of the furnace, in karr, the hell of the pharaohs, and the sinner was threatened with misery "in the heat of infernal fires "a lion was there" says dr. birch "and was called the roaring monster" another describes the place as "the bottomless pit and lake of fire, into which the victims are thrown (compare revelation. the hebrew word ga -hinnom (gehena) had never really the significance given to it in christian orthodoxy. hermas an ancien

INTRODUCTION TO THE SEVEN FACES OF DARKNESS

et-typhon, one of the most frequently appearing figures in the magical papyri of thebes and whose name is found in curse tablets around the mediterranean. set-typhon drew my attention for several reasons. the egyptian god set, who represented a fierce separateness- an individual drive for power and knowledge, was largely a suppressed "forbidden" deity of the egyptians. he had been a patron of the pharaohs of the xix and xxth dynasties. i was curious why this god had (then as now) a remanifestation, and why he was coupled with a greek monster. why did literate, well-educated men of late antiquity came to this particular synthesis? it seemed at best unlikely. as i began to answer these questions, i discovered deeper cultural and historical realities ranging from hitherto unexplored aspects o

ISIS UNVEILED

natructor of iiia and onrit wai tboth, or hennca ii, who was an iocunation of the celestial ucnoes. digitizecoy google 60 isis unveiled isis is alao by right the queen of heaven, and ia generally represented carrying in her hand the crux anaata compoaed of the mundane cross and of the staurot of the gnostics, she is a great dea] younger than the celestial virgin, neith. in one of the tombs of the pharaohs that of barneses in the valley of biban- 1-muluk in thebes, champollion junior discovered a picture, according to his opinion the most ancient ever yet found. it represents the heavens symbolized by the figure of a woman bedecked with stars. the birth of the sun is figured by the form of a little child, issuing from the bosom of its' divine mother* in the book of hermet, pomander, is enun

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

l immersed in egoistic properties, we can already observe ourselves from the side. at that point we are being gradually introduced to the real meaning of bestowal (altruism, giving) and what really lies behind the term for the creator, also called in order to bestow. the only way to liberate ourselves from our egoism is to bring ourselves to a state where we cry out to the creator. otherwise, our pharaohs will not let us out of egypt. every situation must be meticulously analyzed, until we understand precisely how to operate our reason in order to analyze our feelings. if we do not do that, these situations will repeat themselves until we understand that and cry to the creator to take anything he wants, if only to set us free from the one and only enemy that prevents us from approaching th

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

these recent discoveries the greek word glabyrinth h was marked as a foreign word of unknown derivation. 252. the gavel of the master of the lodge has descended from that, and it is held by the master because in his humble way, in the symbolism of the lodge, he is representing the deity. it is a sign of government, and is held by him in exactly the same way as it was long ago by the first of the pharaohs. it has now become modified in shape, and often takes the form of the mason fs stone-hammer. the name gavel came from the word ggable h, so that name belongs to an object of this later shape, rather than to the old double-axe. 253. in egypt the double axe was also the sign for aroueris, the first name given to the risen horus, and horus was called the chief of the hammer because this sign

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

d sacred learning. the egyptians likened humanity to a flock of sheep. the supreme and inconceivable father was the shepherd, and hermes was the shepherd dog. the origin of the shepherd's crook in religious symbolism may be traced to the egyptian rituals. the three scepters of egypt include the shepherd's crook, symbolizing that by virtue of the power reposing in that symbolic staff the initiated pharaohs guided the destiny of their people. p. 40 "and when god had said this, providence, with the aid of the seven governors and harmony, brought the sexes together, making the mixtures and establishing the generations, and all things were multiplied according to their kind. he who through the error of attachment loves his body, abides wandering in darkness, sensible and suffering the things of

strength and intelligence. it was portrayed as androgynous to signify that they recognized the initiates and gods as partaking of both the positive and negative creative powers. gerald massey writes "this is the secret of the sphinx. the orthodox sphinx of egypt is masculine in front and feminine behind. so is the image of sut-typhon, a type of horn and tail, male in front and female behind. the pharaohs, who wore the tail of the lioness or cow behind them, were male in front and female behind. like the gods they included the dual totality of being in one person, born of the mother, but of both sexes as the child (see the natural genesis) most investigators have ridiculed the sphinx and, without even deigning to investigate the great colossus, have turned their attention to the more overw

ain dynasties as her hieroglyphic. the headdresses of the egyptians have great symbolic and emblematic importance, for they represent the auric bodies of the superhuman intelligences, and are used in the same way that the nimbus, halo, and aureole are used in christian religious art. frank c. higgins, a well-known masonic symbolist, has astutely noted that the ornate headgears of certain gods and pharaohs are inclined backward at the same angle as the earth's axis. the robes, insignia, jewels, and ornamentations of the ancient hierophants symbolized the spiritual energies radiating from the human body. modern science is rediscovering many of the lost secrets of hermetic philosophy. one of these is the ability to gauge the mental development, the soul qualities, and the physical health of a

midgard snake of scandinavia; the nagas of burma, siam, and cambodia; the brazen serpent of the jews; the mystic serpent of orpheus; the snakes at the oracle; of delphi twining themselves around the tripod upon which the pythian priestess sat, the tripod itself being in the form of twisted serpents; the sacred serpents preserved in the egyptian temples; the ur us coiled upon the foreheads of the pharaohs and priests--all these bear witness to the universal veneration in which the snake was held. in the ancient mysteries the serpent entwining a staff was the symbol of the physician. the serpent-wound staff of hermes remains the emblem of the medical profession. among nearly all these ancient peoples the serpent was accepted as the symbol of wisdom or salvation. the antipathy which christen

gs. like the tarot cards, the chessmen represent the elements of life and philosophy. the game was played in india and china long before its introduction into europe. east indian princes were wont to sit on the balconies of their palaces and play chess with living men standing upon a checkerboard pavement of black and white marble in the courtyard below. it is popularly believed that the egyptian pharaohs played chess, but an examination of their sculpture and illuminations has led to the conclusion that the egyptian game was a form of draughts. in china, chessmen are often carved to represent warring dynasties, as the manchu and the ming. the chessboard consists of 64 squares alternately black and white and symbolizes the floor of the house of the mysteries. upon this field of existence o

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

amenophis returned and con-quered these usurpers (see p. 124 of sacred science chronicles by robert siblerud)josephus says he commanded the egyptian army in the ethiopian war.adopted by a princessit would have been very unlikely for an unmarried princess to adopt.moses cast on the riverdespite the complete illogicality of this actionthe story then becomes even more implausible, foralong came the pharaohs daughter, who seemed to care nothing for her fathers dictate. she discoveredthe baby and immediately began conversing with the boys sister, who just happened to be close by. thesister then returned the baby to its mother, who was paid by the princess to nurse him. hence, the boywas back were he began, and any fear of the authorities and their death-threat seems to have been con-veniently

asgard with its palaces wasdestroyed by flames while its queens were inside. the gods died fighting and the gotterdamerungensued (p. 66)indiathe social system of india drifted into the caste system that they have there today. the gods are still ontop today (p. 67)serpent cultthe following peoples identified themselves with the serpent:druids, chiefs of v otan (popul vuh, babylonians, cretans, the pharaohs, the indians and israelites.(see p. 68.)appendix b: book abstracts242atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation there are no snakes on most of the islands and there never were. so how did the image and name ofit come into the civilizations that existed on these islands?the ascendancy of jehovahafter the catastrophe that removed the gods from the human arena, mankind in desperati

of committing sacrilege, and the dread of excommunica-tion and anathema. these are elements of power and government which no statesman in any age, canafford to despise, and which we may feel assured were not permitted to lie unused by so profound a pol-itician as julius caesar (p. 28)caesar was a master astrologer. he claimed decent from the goddess maia. this is somewhat the same as the egyptian pharaohs who claimed to act for maat.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation247 appendix b: book abstracts hesus and the druidsboth in spain and gaul, caesar must have heard of hesus, the messiah, whose effigy stood at everycrossroad, whose crosses were worn upon the breast of every warrior, and whose second coming, whichhad long been predicted by the druid astrologers, coincided very

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

ed animals are, on the average, more intelligent than reptiles. considering the serpent to be a creature of wisdom is an interesting choice considering that the serpent is mostly instinctual. egypt, a civilization dating back to 2500bc (allegedly, also has a pantheon of gods associated with the serpent. in fact it is nearly unheard of for an egyptian god to be depicted without a serpent. even the pharaohs (kings) of egypt wore a ureaus on their headpiece. the ureaus was a serpent which symbolized the immortals. gods of greek mythology are likewise associated, and often depicted, with snakes. meanwhile, here in the new world, the mythologies of the mayans, aztecs, incas, and native americans is replete with serpent symbolism. hinduism, the prevailing religion of india, is yet another religi

or depiction anywhere in the land of egypt so much as mentions masses of men, huge blocks, and ramps in regards to the construction of the pyramids (damn you charlton heston. modern man has done much speculation regarding the reason for building the pyramids, and the methods used. experts of our day have suggested that the pyramids were built to be tombs, the eternal resting place of ego-maniacal pharaohs (egyptian king. but without so much as a trace of the more practical construction methods, even a skeptical observer would be forced to entertain the theories of the ancient egyptians regarding their own creations. those of ancient egypt are unambiguous about the reasoning and construction methods of the pyramids. they claim that these structure were more like machines that allowed the ki

MORALS AND DOGMA

all over the outside with the wonderful hieroglyphics of the egyptians. the spout was not elevated, but extended laterally, projecting like a long rivulet; while on the opposite side was the handle, which, with similar lateral extension, bore on its summit an asp, curling its body into folds, and stretching upward, its wrinkled, scaly, swollen throat" the salient basilisk, or royal ensign of the pharaohs, often occurs on the monuments--a serpent in folds, with his head raised erect above the folds. the basilisk was the phoenix of the serpent-tribe; and the vase or urn was probably the vessel, shaped like a cucumber, with a projecting spout, out of which, on the monuments of egypt, the priests are represented pouring streams of the _cruz ansata_ or tau cross, and of _sceptres, over the kin

bacchus and in those of eleusis. pluto overcame the virtue of proserpine under the form of a serpent; and, like the egyptian god serapis, was always pictured seated on a serpent, or with that reptile entwined about him. it is found on the mithriac monuments, and supplied with attributes of typhon to the egyptians, the sacred basilisc, in coil, with head and neck erect, was the royal ensign of the pharaohs. two of them were entwined around and hung suspended from the winged globe on the egyptian monuments. on a tablet in one of the tombs at thebes, a god with a spear pierces a serpent's head. on a tablet from the temple of osiris at phil is a tree, with a man on one side, and a woman on the other, and in front of the woman an erect basilisc, with horns on its head and a disk between the hor

ONYX TABLET OF SET

80-1372) was that of the great amenhoteps, during whose reigns the priesthood of amon at thebes was preeminent. the dynasty disintegrated during the "amarna period (ca. 1372-1343) of akhenaton, during which the solar disk of aton was considered supreme if not indeed all-inclusive of the neteru. when the new xix dynasty arose under rameses i and seti i, the state role of amon was restored- but the pharaohs directed much of their personal efforts towards set. recounts sauneron "the new dynasty in power, careful to appear to be 'restoring everything to order, had many reasons for mistrusting the amonian priesthood. descendants of a military family of the eastern delta, the new pharaohs were traditionally devoted to a god little esteemed by the masses because of the role that he had been assig

from the favor accorded by the ramesside leaders to the god of the eastern delta. above all, pi-rameses, the new capital, brilliantly restored the worship that set had formerly received in the avaris of the hyksos- serge sauneron, les pretres de l'ancienne egypte(#2aa) following the passing of the two setian dynasties, however, the increasing influence of a priesthood not courted by the ramesside pharaohs- that of osiris- boded ill for the temple of set. comments e.a. wallis budge(#1a "between the xxii and the xxv dynasties, a violent reaction set in against this god [set; his statues and figures were smashed; his effigy was hammered out from the bas-reliefs and stelae in which it appeared" various reasons for this reaction have been proposed by egyptologists. it is been suggested that set

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

him fit and strong. the text of this story also had a practical purpose as a spell against poison. reciting the text over the images of four gods, including isis and horus, and making the patient eat a paper inscribed with the spell was guaranteed to be successful a million times. 15 re, the sun god the egyptian cat goddess bastet uraeus the enraged cobra is the symbol of the sun god (and of the pharaohs, who wore it on their foreheads; it is often depicted attached to the sun disc. according to one myth, the world was created by the archer goddess neith from the primeval waters of nun. she created the gods by saying their names, and then (in cow form) gave birth to the all-powerful re. re was born in an egg, and when he emerged from the egg he was dazzled by the light, and cried: mankind

RUBY TABLET OF SET

with symbols as they worked with language. they were able to communicate ideas and ideals in a language particularly well suited to this purpose. setians use the ancient egyptian neters as symbols, representing aspects of the world, or aspects of the individual. we feel this is very close to the way the higher initiates of the ancient egyptian temples, the priests of the temples, and the smarter pharaohs used and viewed their neters. the neters were concepts that could be communicated to and shared among the initiated, rather than being actual gods and goddesses. the common man may very well have believed in the literal existence of his many gods and goddesses, but we believe the elite of the egyptian society understood that these neters were purely symbols. when the egyptian elite paid h

rise to high office upon demonstrating suitable prowess. at various times the throne was held by negroes, persians, mesopotamians, greeks, and assorted asians without racial objections being raised. women enjoyed the same "citizenship" status as men, including choice of mate and inheritance of property. queens such as nefertiti and ty wielded as much or more power than their consorts, and female pharaohs such as hatshepsut and cleopatra ruled egypt as decisively and with as much popular support as did male pharaohs. even in the egyptian religious pantheon, gods and goddesses enjoyed equal prestige. the chimaera: to an observer this extraordinary flexibility and tolerance might well account for the staying power of the egyptian system, in spite of the occasional invasions, occupations, and

rm" bibliography. asimov, isaac, asimov's biographical encyclopaedia of science and technology. garden city, new york: doubleday and company, 1972. barker, sir ernest, greek political theory: plato and his predecessors. london: methuen and company ltd, 1918. brlitz, charles, mysteries from forgotten worlds. garden city, new york: doubleday and company, 1972. brugsch-bey, heinrich, egypt under the pharaohs. new york: charles scribner's sons, 1891. budge, sir e. a. wallis, egyptian language. new york: dover publications, 1971. budge, sir e. a. wallis, from fetish to god in ancient egypt. london: onxford university press, 1934. casson, lionel, ancient egypt. new york: time, inc. 1965. christian, paul, histoire de la magie, du monde surnaturel et de la fatalitj b travers les temps et les peupl

new york: dover publications, 1971. budge, sir e. a. wallis, from fetish to god in ancient egypt. london: onxford university press, 1934. casson, lionel, ancient egypt. new york: time, inc. 1965. christian, paul, histoire de la magie, du monde surnaturel et de la fatalitj b travers les temps et les peuples. paris, 1870 (translation- new york: citadel press, 1969. cottrell, leonard, life under the pharaohs. new york: hold, rinehart and winston, 1960. fairservis, walter a. jr, the ancient kingdoms of the nile. new york: mentor books, 1962. frankfort, hentry, ancient egyptian religion. new york: harper and brothers, 1948. frankfort, hentry et al, before philosophy. baltimore: penguin books, 1972. grun, bernard, the timetables of history. new york: simon and schuster, 1975. jerome, st "taceo d

rk: s.a. russell, 1940. footnotes* xxiv: the original xii publication printed this word in greek type. 1. whitrow, g.j, the nature of time, pages 7-8. 2. russell, bertrand, a history of western philosophy, page 3. 3. stecchini, livio, notes on the relation of ancient measures to the great pyramid in tompkins, peter, secrets of the great pyramid, pages 287-382. 4. cottrell, leonard, life under the pharaohs, pages 189-191. 5. casson, lionel, ancient egypt, page 146. 6. ibid, page 141. 7. tompkins, op. cit, pages 3-4. 8. berlitz, charles, mysteries from forgotten worlds, page 36. 9. compare this to the chinese view of china as the "middle kingdom (chhung kuo, the "focus" of civilization and creativity. 10. clark, r.t, myth and symbol in ancient egypt, page 74. 11. frankfort, henry, ancient eg

1. 24 "taceo de philosophis, astronomis, astrologis, quorum scientia mortalibus uti lissima est et in tres partes scinditur%%greek. ad minores artes veniam" etc [a. hyeronomi, prologus galateatus, in bibl. saer] 25. proclus, quoted in christian, paul, histoire de la magie, du monde surnaturel et de la fatalite a travers les temps et les peuples, page 88. 26. brugsch-bey, heinrich, egypt under the pharaohs, pages 450-451. epilogue poor men, most admirable, most pitiable, with all their changes all their great creeds change for man, this alien in my family, is alien most in this, to cherish creams and brood on visions of eternity, and build religions in his brooding brain and in the dark depths awe-full of his soul. my other children live their little lives, are born and reach their prime an

crutable and infinite, a thing inexpressible, even if we could understand it. crowley, 777, pages #134-135. 49. the cultural integrity and religious identity of the hebrews will stand some dispassionate re-examination, since egyptian records during the time of the fabled "exodus" mention nothing of the events or personalities contained in that chapter of the bible. cf. pierre montet, lives of the pharaohs, cleveland: world publishing company, pages #197-199. montet is a member of the french institute and honorary professor at the college de france. cf. also john romer, testament, new york: henry holt, 1988, page #58. romer is a distinguished archaeologist and egyptologist. 50. the "hebrew cabala" is a nebulous and inconsistent hodge-podge of superstitious mummery, phrased in language both

free will in depth, save perhaps indirectly in liber aleph. he seems to have interpreted the idea in a mystical sense, along the lines of the sacred magic of abra=melin the mage (s.l.m. mathers [trans, chicago: delawrence, 1948. cf. pages #172-179 in crowley's confessions. 52. whitrow, g.j, the nature of time. new york: holt, rinehart and winston, 1972. 53. brugsch-bey, heinrich, egypt under the pharaohs. new york: charles scribner's sons, 1891, page #452. ions, op. cit, page #63. carus, paul, the history of the devil. new york: land's end press, 1969, page #17. 54. lavey, the satanic bible, pages #129 and #136. 55. pauwels and bergier, op. cit, pages #67-70. 56. articles of incorporation and by-laws, temple of set, inc, 1975, as amended. 57. crowley, magick, pages #151-284. lavey, the sa

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ide for the dead, setting out magic spells and charms to be used to pass judgment in the afterlife. sites. ancient nippur was the site of the chief temple to enlil, while babylon was the location of marduk s sanctuary. thebes and the temple complex of karnak were home to the worship of amen-ra. in the modern world the remains of these early religions can be seen in egypt s pyramids, tombs for the pharaohs, and in mesopotamia s ziggurats, temples to the gods. observances. the new year s festival was a major event in mesopotamian religion, while egypt s most important festival was opet. 42 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia in prehistoric times (before written history) the deities were local. they were worshipped in reed shrines with the local leader or king

the deities were local. they were worshipped in reed shrines with the local leader or king acting as the intermediary between the gods and the people. a reed is a type of tall, slender grass. the gods were thought to be housed in statues; these statues were purified, fed, and clothed daily, and annual festivals were held. the afterlife was also important for egyptians from the earliest times, and pharaohs and queens were buried with material to make their lives easier after death. early gods included ptah; anubis, the protector of the tomb; and nit, the goddess of war. different cities in the united nation of egypt held different creation myths, each centered on its own local creator god. heliopolis, for instance, was a center near present-day cairo where atum was worshipped. here, it was

s worshipped. here, it was thought that atum created himself out of the void, and then either spit or sneezed out shu, the god of air, and tefnut, the goddess of moisture. these two in turn gave birth to geb, the earth god, and nut, the sky goddess. from them came two pairs of siblings: osiris and isis, and set and nephtys. eventually ra, the sun god, took the place of atum in the pantheon; later pharaohs, for instance, called themselves sons of ra. ancient egypt and mesopotamia. reproduced by permission of thomson gale. red sea mediterranean sea nile delta river river p e r s i a n g u l f tigris euphrates nile river sinai peninsula arabian peninsula a s i a a f r i c a upper egypt lower egypt memphis aswan thebes ur luxor karnak babylon uruk nineveh khorsabad amarna (akhetaten) heliopoli

down teardrop shape at its top. in the ancient egyptian written language of hieroglyphs, the ankh represents life. it is often present in tomb carvings and other artwork. it is associated with magical protection, or sa. even those ancient egyptians who could not read hierogylphs knew the ankh symbol. the ankh may represent the sunrise or rebirth. many ancient gods carried ankhs and often blessed pharaohs with an ankh, symbolizing the act of giving them the breath of life. among the gods often seen with ankhs are osiris, isis, ra, hathor, and anubis. as a result the ankh not only represented worldly life but the afterlife. in fact, the ancient egyptian term for sarcophagus or coffin was neb-ankh, meaning possessor of life. the ankh s popularity has reached beyond egypt s borders and around

ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia come to abydos to pay tribute to osiris. parts of the story of his death at the hands of his brother, his wife isis s search for his remains, and his return to life were played out in public during the festival of osiris. others were replayed by priests behind the closed doors of the temple. common pilgrims made small offerings of statuettes or chapels. pharaohs, such as seti i (reigned 1318 04 bce, built temples. everyday living religion affected every aspect of daily life in ancient mesopotamia and egypt. all important activities and occasions were presented to the priests to see if the time was right and if the gods were in favor of their happening. people in both cultures often engaged in some form of daily prayer and marked important stages

in their honor at the city center. sin s main temple, for instance, was in the city of ur. smaller temples were available throughout city-states for people to make personal offerings to the gods. egypt also favored different gods. worship of amen-ra was primarily centered around thebes. isis was popular at philae. individuals, too, chose personal gods from among the many hundreds to worship. even pharaohs would differ about which god they preferred. gods of the mesopotamian pantheon anu: the sky god. he is sometimes called the king of the gods. at the beginning of time, earth was separated from heaven, and heaven became anu s home. he can be sent to earth to avenge the gods. ea: the fun-loving god of fresh waters, wisdom, and magic. ea is also named enki. in a babylonian myth similar to th

o times for dramatic public readings of legends and prayers, as well as for dancing and singing. influences of the ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia both ancient mesopotamia s and ancient egypt s religions had influences that have long outlasted the worship of their gods. religion played a role in the rise of the mesopotamian city-state, and the religion s reliance egyptian tombs for the pharaohs and nobility were elaborately decorated with scenes from the life of the deceased, as well as from the book of the dead. tombs such as this one in luxor were well-stocked with items for the afterlife. gianni dagli orti/corbis. 64 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia on the stars to foretell events led to important developments in mathematics. from ancient eg

sity of texas press, 1991. morenz, siegfried, and ann e. keep. egyptian religion. ithaca, ny: cornell university press, 1992. nemet-nejat, karen rhea. daily life in ancient mesopotamia. westport, ct: greenwood press, 1998. redford, donald b, ed. the ancient gods speak: a guide to egyptian religion. new york, ny: oxford university press, 2002. romer, john. ancient lives: daily life in egypt of the pharaohs. new york, ny: holt, rinehart and winston, 1984. tiele, c. p. comparative history of the egyptian and mesopotamian religions. new york, ny: routledge, 2001. web sites ancient egyptian culture exhibit. http//www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/ egypt/index.shtml (accessed may 17, 2006. ancient egyptian religion. aldokkan. http//www.aldokkan.com/religion/ religion.htm (accessed on may 17, 2006

ne god, aten. thomson gale. world religions: biographies 15 akhenaten the site of akhetaten was initially investigated by archaeologist john gardner wilkinson in 1824. its story was then gradually revealed to the public. for more information books aldred, cyril. akhenaten: king of egypt. new york, ny: thames and hudson, 1991. assmann, jan. the mind of egypt: history and meaning in the time of the pharaohs. new york, ny: metropolitan books, 2002. johnson, paul. the civilization of ancient egypt. new york, ny: harpercollins, 1998. montserrat, dominic. akhenaten: history, fantasy and ancient egypt. london; new york: routledge, 2000. redford, donald. akhenaten, the heretic king. princeton, nj: princeton university press, 1984. reeves, nicholas. akhenaten: egypt s false prophet. london; new yor

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lished by prisse, monuments egyptiens, paris, 1817, pl. 24. 207:2 it is now preserved in the biblioteque nationale at paris; for a full description and translation of it see e. de rouge, etude sur une stele egyptienne, paris, 1858. 208:1 bekh khet "knower of things" 214:1 see genesis, chapters xi, xii. 215:1 see vyse, appendix, london, 1842, vol. iii, p. 114 ff. 215:2 see brugsch, egypt under the pharaohs, vol. ii, p. 259. 216:1 see catalogue of greek papyri, vol. i. p. 118. 216:2 a sketch of the god besa is given at the end of the papyrus. see the description of the "metternichstele" above, p. 147 ff. 219:1 for the text see leemans, monuments egyptiens, partie il, pll. 183, 184, leyden, 1846, fol; for a transcript into hieroglyphics see maspero, journal asiatique, ser. 7, tom. 15, may and

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with symbols as they worked with language. they were able to communicate ideas and ideals in a language particularly well suited to this purpose. setians use the ancient egyptian neters as symbols, representing aspects of the world, or aspects of the individual. we feel this is very close to the way the higher initiates of the ancient egyptian temples, the priests of the temples, and the smarter pharaohs used and viewed their neters. the neters were concepts that could be communicated to and shared among the initiated, rather than being actual gods and goddesses. 1571 the common man may very well have believed in the literal existence of his many gods and goddesses, but we believe the elite of the egyptian society understood that these neters were purely symbols. when the egyptian elite p

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ts use in egypt, that evil setian animal the horse could be portrayed in egyptian art. the second native blooming of setian thinking may have begun in the xviiith dynasty, but certainly it reached its peak in the xixth and xxth dynasties when a family of setian priests from tanis became the pharoanic line. during this time of expanding borders, set was extraordinarily popular, as can be seen from pharaohs names such as seti (set s man) and setnakt (set is mighty. two important setian texts were produced: first, the tale of two brothers, which tells how set (identified with the god bata) undergoes a series of metamorphoses (xeperu) that changed him from a farm hand to a star in the constellation of the thigh. the second text is the book of knowing the spiral force of re and the felling of a

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hat source do the masons draw for this funeral symbolism of the x? in my book, dark majesty, i explain the egyptian connection: in ancient egypt, the mark of "x" and the symbol of cross-bones in the symbol of an x was very prominent in religious contexts. you can find the x on the walls of a number of ancient egyptians temples and pyramids..it is the sign of osiris, the great sun god. the ancient pharaohs, when they were buried, had the legs crossed in the form of "x" as a sign of devotion to osiris' today, as in ancient egypt, osiris the sun god is worshipped; now the homage and veneration comes from the masons and their fellow illuminists. these confused and perverted men mistakenly believe they are illumined (enlightened) by their solar deity, the great architect, jahbuhlun, or lucifer

urse, the "x" rock'n'roller tommy lee embraces hip-hop entertainer sean combs in an "x" lee's sign of the satanic pentagram tattoo on his left hand is also evident (photo: u.s.a. today, june 4, 2001, p. 4d) famous horror film actor boris karloff, in the classic cinema, the mummy, lays in the mummy's crypt and symbolically crosses his arms("x) just as was done in egyptian ritual in the days of the pharaohs. stephen king, whose novels on horror and terror invariably go to the top of the bestseller's list. the caption of this photo, published in newsweek (august 28, 2000, p. 45) reads "it's good to be king" 222 codex magica these ancient egyptian figures demonstrate how prevalent was osiris' sacred sign "x "cross my heart and hope to die" 223 the mummy of ramescs the great (1279-1213 b.c) was

e away the gloss and get down to the base surface to better understand. this is vital because of the future of the united states and the destiny of all humanity is wrapped up, and is revealed, in this collection of illuminist symbols and marks. the ashlar stones and the pyramid masonry is a peculiar egypto-babylonia-jewish institution, and so the pyramid itself hearkens back to the dynasty of the pharaohs and to the gods and goddesses of ancient egypt. the stones which make up the pyramid are also of esoteric significance. in the masonic philosophy it is taught that unenlightened man is in a rude, natural state. having little or no "light" and without the spiritual illumination offered by the mystery religions he is likened to an imperfect or rough ashlar stone. but once enlightened and il

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ay be ostracized by others or, in extreme instances, killed. however, customs vary from culture to culture, and customary actions in one society may be considered improper in another. while the marriage of near-blood relations is prohibited in contemporary civilization, in earlier societies it was quite common. the ancient brother and sister gods of egypt, osiris and isis, provided an example for pharaohs, who at times married their sisters. polygamy, the marriage of one man and several women or one woman and several men, is prohibited in modern civilization, but there are still religious groups in nearly every nation who justify plural marriages as being ordained by the deity they worship. adultery, an act of infidelity on the part of a married individual, is one of the most universal tab

d women who claim that they can not only conceive of a future life, but also directly experience it and communicate with those souls who have died and gone there. these individuals who claim such extraordinary abilities are known as mystics, mediums, or channels, and they are as sought after by those who seek reassurance of the afterlife in the twenty-first century as they were in the days of the pharaohs. for traditional shamans in aboriginal cultures throughout the world, the barrier between the world of spirits and the world of humans was a very thin one, and the ability to communicate with the spirits and to travel in their dimension of reality was an essential facet of the shamans responsibility to their people. it was also true of the medicine people and shamans of the various native

8 1340 b.c.e, with being an astonishing visionary who conceived of monotheism in a time when multiple gods flourished. amenhotep iv chose to call himself akhenaten. because of his revolutionary religious views, his contemporaries chose to call him heretic, and he remains a controversial historical figure to this day. during the so-called old kingdom period of egyptian history (c. 2700 2185 b.c.e, pharaohs were considered to be divine, representatives of the many gods of ancient egypt, and the earthly incarnation of the great god, the sun god, ra. during the middle kingdom (c. 2000 1785 b.c.e) when the egyptian power base shifted from heliopolis, near the junction of upper and lower egypt, to thebes in upper egypt, the theban god amun became combined with ra to become amun-ra. although he w

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ay be ostracized by others or, in extreme instances, killed. however, customs vary from culture to culture, and customary actions in one society may be considered improper in another. while the marriage of near-blood relations is prohibited in contemporary civilization, in earlier societies it was quite common. the ancient brother and sister gods of egypt, osiris and isis, provided an example for pharaohs, who at times married their sisters. polygamy, the marriage of one man and several women or one woman and several men, is prohibited in modern civilization, but there are still religious groups in nearly every nation who justify plural marriages as being ordained by the deity they worship. adultery, an act of infidelity on the part of a married individual, is one of the most universal tab

of the ancient custom of wearing amulets. an amulet (from the arab word hamala, to carry) is anything hung around the neck, wrists, ankles, or in any way attached to the person for the purpose of warding off evil or protecting against illness. for many individuals, the gem amulets of modern times carry the same powers to deflect the evil eye or other negative forces as they did in the days of the pharaohs. amber is one of the oldest of all gem amulets. because it is said to change color with the state of one s health, it is an excellent indicator of one s physical condition. there is also a belief that amber has the power to prevent illness, and that it will provide a special protection against throat problems if it is worn on a ribbon around the neck. coral also is said to change color ac

n people of the south pacific. an act that is taboo is forbidden, prohibited, and those who transgress may be ostracized by others or, in extreme instances, killed. while the marriage of near-blood relations is prohibited in contemporary civilization, in earlier societies it was quite common. the ancient gods of egypt, isis and osiris, brother and sister, provided an example for royal couples, as pharaohs commonly married their sisters. the hebrew patriarch abraham took as a 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 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends 201 some stories of alleged supernatural occurrences cannot really be classified as either urban legends or hoaxes, but as accounts that have been told so often that the tr

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ay be ostracized by others or, in extreme instances, killed. however, customs vary from culture to culture, and customary actions in one society may be considered improper in another. while the marriage of near-blood relations is prohibited in contemporary civilization, in earlier societies it was quite common. the ancient brother and sister gods of egypt, osiris and isis, provided an example for pharaohs, who at times married their sisters. polygamy, the marriage of one man and several women or one woman and several men, is prohibited in modern civilization, but there are still religious groups in nearly every nation who justify plural marriages as being ordained by the deity they worship. adultery, an act of infidelity on the part of a married individual, is one of the most universal tab

, sphinxes and secret handshakes, h the washington post, november 25, 2001 [online] http//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ articles/a61372-2001nov20.html. goeringer, conrad. gfreemasons.from the 700 club to art bell, an object of conspiracy thinking. h american atheist, may 1998 [online] http/ www.americanatheist.org/supplement/conspiracy. html. lomas, robert, and christopher knight. the hiram key: pharaohs, freemasons, and the discovery of the secret scrolls of jesus. boston: element books, 1999. macoy, robert. a dictionary of freemasonry. new york: gramercy books, 2000. seligmann, kurt. the history of magic. new york: pantheon books, 1948. the garduna the origins of the garduna begin in a legend not dissimilar from that of el cid (c. 1043.1099, the heroic knight t h e g a l e e n c y c l o

hunt would go exactly as acted before the god. h it is interesting to note the association of horns with divinity, a condition that finds expression in numerous strange and seemingly unassociated places. it is not difficult to associate the horned headdresses worn by the shamans of various tribal societies with the concept of a god of the hunt. the headpieces of many ancient rulers, including the pharaohs of egypt, include horns either of realistic or stylized design. although the religion of the biblical israelites was represented as distinctly antipagan, their sacrifices were offered on horned altars. the two bronze altars in solomon fs (10th century b.c.e) tem- 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 92 magic and sorcery t h e g a l e e

was short-lived, however, and when he died, the boy-king tutankhamen (c. 1370.1352 b.c.e) spent his brief reign restoring the hierarchy of the old gods, including amon-ra. construction on the great hypostyle hall was begun during the reign of ramses i (reigned 1320.1318 b.c.e, continued by his son seti i (reigned 1318.1304 b.c.e, and completed by ramses ii, one of the longestreigning of egyptian pharaohs (1304.1237 b.c.e) and a devotee of amon-ra. ramses ii also extended the temple of amon by adding a series of courtyards and ceremonial halls. at the time of ramses iii (reigned 1198. 1166 b.c.e, the size of the temple estates covered almost 700,000 acres of land, from the nile delta in the north to nubia in the south. eighty thousand servants and slaves were designated to serve amon-ra in

lt, and precious objects that usually surround the bodies of royalty in egyptian tombs, have never been found. in fact, all three of the pyramids at giza were erected as tombs, yet not a single body has been found in any of them. a baffling series of chambers, tunnels, and shafts, blocked passageways, corridors leading to empty spaces, and false leads confront pyramid explorers. the bodies of the pharaohs and their queens might still be buried somewhere in the pyramids.or, perhaps their remains fell victim to tomb robbing, a crime so old it is mentioned in egyptian texts and on papyrus dating back centuries before herodotus reported on the pyramids. the pyramid of khufu, largest of ancient egypt fs 70 pyramids, stands 481 feet high, measures roughly 756 feet on each side, and covers 13 acr

served as calendars.to determine the summer solstice, for instance. many centuries ago, ancient roman and arabian historians noted the interest of egyptians in studying the heavens and the possible uses of the pyramids as astronomical tools. egyptian hieroglyphics make numerous references to the stars. a constellation called sahu (corresponding to orion) was called the home for the dead, and two pharaohs who built 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 places of mystery and power 265 thegreat pyramid alone contains 11 million cubic yards of stone. pyramids outside of giza have stellar associations in hieroglyphics (nebka is ga star, h and djedefra is ga sehetu star, h or a star of sahu. during the ninth century, a caliph named abdullah al

sun rises and sets.an image that comes to life when looking out from the sphinx to the pyramids of cheops and cephren at sunset on the summer solstice. as the sun sets between the pyramids, it highlights the image of two triangles (the pyramids) connected by a line (the earth. the sphinx has the head of a man in egyptian headdress sporting a spiraling beard, a feature found on many likenesses of pharaohs. it has the body of a lion, with two paws resting beneath the head and chest, and it rises 66 feet high; the leonine body at rest behind stretches for 240 feet. the sphinx, the largest surviving statue from the ancient world, was sculpted out of a large limestone bedrock, a stone soft enough to yield to copper chisels and stone hammers, common egyptian tools. the distinctive limestone bed

e pyramids at giza. at least two statues of khafre have been found that bear a striking resemblance to the face of the sphinx. egyptian religion had taken on sun worship shortly before khafre fs 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 268 places of mystery and power pyramids and the sphinx in cairo, egypt (the library of congress) reign, and since pharaohs were viewed as godkings, the association of khafre and hamachis is plausible. tools and pottery discovered around the sphinx are associated with the fourth dynasty, when each of the pyramid builders of giza ruled. nevertheless, the dating of the sphinx remains a source of controversy, and even in ancient times, some sources dated it as preceding the pyramids. in greek mythology developed

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the curses of the father. was not the christ excommunicated and crucified by the synagogue? was not savonarola burned by the order of the sovereign pontiff of the christian religion? are not the pharisees to-day just what they were in the time of caiaphas? if any one speaks to them in the name of intelligence and love, will they listen? in rescuing the children of liberty from the tyranny of the pharaohs, moses inaugurated the reign of the father. in breaking the insupportable yoke of mosaic pharisaism, jesus welcomed all men to the brotherhood of the only son of god. when the last ideals fall, when the last material chains of conscience break, when the last of them that killed the 22 prophets and the last of them that stifled the word are confounded, then will be the reign of the holy gh

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med to be attached to a seventy-foot "airship" with wings "the mysterious machine appeared to be propelled by the wings alone and rose and fell as the wings flapped like a gigantic bird" the brawley, california, news reported, august 4, 1905. others in the area reported seeing the same thing. winged beings are an essential part of the folklore of every culture. from the times of babylonia and the pharaohs, sculptors were preoccupied with putting wings on lions and unidentifiable beasts. although the angels of biblical times were never described as being winged, painters and sculptors have always persisted in giving them feathered appendages (actually, the old-time angels appeared like ordinary human beings. they even had supper with lot) when demons overran the planet during the dark ages

THE GOD SET

pan" she was also interested in the antinomian nature of the set cult- in fact she preformed one of the most scandalous acts available to a woman- she acted as a man. this early feminist clearly found set, a great archetype to work with. set was popular among her family until the kingship of akhenaton (may he be reborn forever drowning in the jaws of sobek the crocodile god. the very militaristic pharaohs of the nineteenth dynasty, who were probably descended form a family of set priests at tanis, delighted in set both in his militaristic role and as god of foreign places. ramses ii for example called himself the son of set. the set cult too was very popular with foreigners coming to live in egypt. his worship has always been connected with the outsider. the twentieth dynasty began by look

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

bjects look the same, but if the child studies them closely, there is a magical sparkle to them. they have been metamorphosed by their death and rebirth. the pyramid is a kind of cone. this is why it is universally felt to be a source of power by those who have no knowledge of occult things-the human mind sub- consciously recognizes meaning in the underlying forms of nature. the souls of departed pharaohs, along with the souls of living aztec priests, climbed pyramids to achieve a direct communion with the divine. the pyramid, no matter where in the world it is found or what shape it takes, is a stairway to heaven where human consciousness ascends and divine consciousness descends. it is a modification of the conical hilltops upon which human beings have worshipped and worked magic from ti

the two offenses-only a matter of degree. god-forms gain or lose in power depending on how they are looked upon and worshipped by their people. many gods who at one time were principal deities have, through conquest, become absorbed into the pantheons of other races and have descended in status. for example, the god ptah was supreme in the city of memphis in the early days of egypt, but when the pharaohs of the nile moved their palaces southward to thebes, ptah lost much of his authority. god-forms were created because they are useful. they allowed humans to reach hidden powers and direct them according to human purpose. for this rea- son, god-forms are still being created today in civilized western culture. the forms of the worker, the consumer, the scientist-all are personalizations of

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