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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

tongs in his scutcheon in honour of his father; during the imid. ages his memory lasted among smiths, whose workshops were styled jvicland's houses^ and perhaps his likeness was set up or painted outside them; the on' volundar hus' translates the latin labyrinth; a host of similar associations must in olden times have been generally diffused, as we learn from the names of places: welantes gruoba (pit .mb. 13, 59; wielantes heim, mb. 28^ 93 (an. 889; wiclaniu dorf, mb. 29, 54 (an. 1246; wielantes tanna (firs, mb. 28^ 188. 471 (an. 128u; wielandes brunne, mb. 31, 41 (an. 817. the multiplication of such names during long centuries does not admit of their being derived from human inhabitants. the dan. vclandswrt(-wort, icel. velantswxt, is the valerian, and according to staid. 2, 450 wielandhe

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

which were not altogether foreseen. i wish to thunder forth once more that no questions of right or wrong enter into our problems. but in the stratosphere it is 'right' for a man to be shut up in a pressure-resisting suit electrically heated, with an oxygen supply, whereas it would be 'wrong' for him to wear it if he were running the three miles in the summer sports in the tanezrouft. this is the pit into which all the great religious teachers have hitherto fallen, and i am sure you are all looking hungrily at me in the hope of seeing me do likewise. but no! there is one principle which carries us through all conflicts concerning conduct, because it is perfectly rigid and perfectly elastic 'do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law' so: it is not the least use to come and pester me a

spasm of antinomianism, there is a further explanation 'love is the law, love under will' 8. however, the point is that it is no use discussing the results of yoga, whether that yoga be the type recommended by lao- tze, or patanjali, or st. ignatius loyola, because for our first postulate we have: that these subjects are incapable of discussion. to argue about them only causes us to fall into the pit of because, and there to perish with the dogs of reason. the only use, therefore, of describing our experiences is to enable students to get some sort of idea of the sort of thing that is going to happen to them when they attain success in the practices of yoga. we have david saying in the psalms 'i hate thoughts, but thy law do i love' we have st. paul saying 'the carnal mind is enmity agains

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

p in the mountain night. from beneath the floating rock, out of the very ground where it had sat, came rising the tail of a serpent. this serpent was surely larger than any i had ever seen. the thinnest section thereof was fully that of the arms of two men, and as it rose from the earth it was followed by another, although the end of the first was not seen as it seemed to reach down into the very pit itself. these were followed by still more, and the ground began to tremble under the pressure of so many of these enormous arms. the chanting of the priests, for i knew them now to be the servants of some hidden power, became much louder and very nearly hysterical. ia! ia! zi azag! ia! ia! zi azkak! ia! ia! kutulu zi kur! ia! the ground where i was hiding became wet with some substance, being

hast summoned the gate of marduk to open. for marduk slew the fiends, and inanna, the goddess of the fifteen, conquered the netherworld, where some of theirs still dwell. this is a most perilous rite, and may be undertaken by any man who as the formulae, whether he has passes the previous gates or not, save that it is best advised to have passed through marduk gate before venturing forth into the pit. for this reason, few have ever opened the gate of adar, and spoken to the horned one who resideth there and giveth all manner of wisdom regarding the operations of necromancy, and of the spells that hasten unto death. only when thou hast shown thy power over the maskim and the rabishu, mayest thou venture forth to the land of the igigi, and for that reason was this covenant made, that none sh

rself and upon your generations. the book maklu of the burnings: the exorcism of the crown of anu the priest, in time of peril, shall put on the spotless white crown of anu with the eight-rayed seal and stand in the prescribed manner with the tablets of calling on his breast and the copper dagger of inanna in his right hand, aloft. for, it is said, if a man builds a fire, does he no build it in a pit, that he might not be harmed thereby? thus is it true of the uduggu we call, for they are like fire and every caution must be used lest they consume the magician and his entire generation. thus, the exorcism of anu i have put the starry crown of heaven, the potent disk of anu on my head that a kindly spirit and a kindly watcher like the god that hath made me may stand at my head always to life

irous to speak with the phantom of someone dead, and perhaps dwelling in absu, and thereby a servant of ereshkigal, in which case the preliminary invocation that follows is to be used, which is the invocation used by the queen of life, inanna, at the time of her descent into that kingdom of woe. it is no less then the opening of the gate of ganzir, that leads to the seven steps into the frightful pit. therefore, do not be alarmed at the sights and sounds that will issue forth from that opening, for they will be the wails and laments of the shades that are chained therein, and the shrieking of the mad god on the throne of darkness. preliminary invocation of the operation of calling of the spirits of the dead who dwell in cutha, of the lost. baad angarru! ninnghizhidda! thee i invoke, serpen

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

against the people, o my chosen! ii,26: i am the secret serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. if i lift up my head, i and my nuit are one. if i droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and i and the earth are one. ii,27: there is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. he shall fall down into the pit called because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason. ii,28: now a curse upon because and his kin! ii,29: may because be accursed for ever! ii,30: if will stops and cries why, invoking because, then will stops& does nought. ii,31: if power asks why, then is power weakness. ii,32: also reason is a lie; for there is a factor infinite& unknown& all their words are skew-wise. ii,33: e

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

lbt dlj tebhel cheled wet earth table of correspondences 23 cvi* the ten hells in seven palaces. cvii. translation of hells. cviii* some princes of the qliphoth. cix* the kings of edom. 0. 1 satan and moloch. 2* lams. 3 lwac sheol grave \ynwnz tca. 4 wdba abaddon perdition lucifuge bbwy of hrxb jobab of bozrah 5 tjcrab bar shachath clay of death \wrtca ynmyt mch husham of temani 6 wyhfyf titahion pit of destruction belphegor awyj tywu ddh hadad of avith 7 twmyruc shaarimoth gates of death yadmca hqrcm hlmnc samlah of masrekah 8 twmla tzelmoth shadow of death adramelek laylb tybhr lwac saul of reheboth 9 tylyl nh lub baal-hannan 10 \nhyg gehinnom hell hmun wup rdh hadar of pau cix (continued* the dukes of edom. cx. elements and quarters (sepher yetzirah. cxi. sephirothic colours (dr. jellin

1 5 e of! p ornament, freewill. 23 1 0 e of 9 po overthrow, couch. 24 0 4 9 of b f returning, visit from friends. table of correspondences 45 figure. nature. name. divination and spiritual meaning. 25 7 4+ of b w wang simplicity and sincerity, earnestness. 26 1 7 e of+ t kh great accumulation. 27 1 4 e of b nourishment, upper jaw. 28 6 3 c of d t kwo great carefulness, weak beam. 29 2 2= of= khan pit, defile, peril. 30 5 5! of! l inherent in, attached to, docility. 31 6 1 c of e hsien influencing to action, all, jointly. 32 4 3 b of d hbng perseverance, keeping to the path. notes 46 figure. nature. name. divination and spiritual meaning. 33 7 1+ of e thun returning, avoiding, retirement. 34 4 7 b of+ t kwang violence, the great ram. 35 5 0! of 9 tzin to advance (good. 36 0 5 9 of! ming int

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

e magician has succeeded in developing his body of light until it is able to go anywhere and do anything. there will, however, be a certain limitation to his work, because he has formed his magical body from the fine matter of his own element. therefore, although he may be able to penetrate the utmost recesses of the heavens, or conduct vigorous combats with the most unpronounceable demons of the pit, it may be impossible for him to do as much as knock a vase from a mantelpiece. his magical body is composed of matter too tenuous to affect directly the gross matter of which illusions such as tables and chairs are made<physical" operation which the body of light can perform is "congressus subtilis. the emanations of the "body of desire" of the material being whom one vi

e way seek to avoid his obligations. it is a dangerous trick, though, for the black lodge to play; for if the spirit come properly under your control, it will be forced to disclose the transaction, and the current will return to the black lodge with fulminating force. the liars will be in the power of their own lie; their own slaves will rise up and put them into bondage. the wicked fall into the pit that they themselves digged. and so perish all the king's enemies! v the charge to the spirit is usually embodied, except in works of pure evocation, which after all are comparatively rare, in some kind of talisman. in a certain sense, the talisman is the charge expressed in hieroglyphics. yet, every object soever is a talisman, for the definition of a talisman is: something upon which an act

almost overcomes him. if he should find that he has stopped without willing to do so, and that figures appear, let him at all costs rise above them. yea, though his very life tremble on his lips, let him force his way upward and onward "5. let him continue in this so long as the breath of life is in him. whatever threatens, whatever allures, though it were typhon and all his hosts loosed from the pit and leagued against him, though it were from the very throne of god himself that a voice issues bidding him stay and be content, let him struggle on, ever on "6. at last there must come a moment when his whole being is swallowed up in fatigue, overwhelmed by its own inertia. let him sink (when no longer can he strive, though his tongue be bitten through with the effort and the blood gush from

rophilia- by amateurs. they make themselves perfectly passive, and, so far from employing any methods of protection, deliberately invite all and sundry spirits, demons, shells of the dead, all the excrement and filth of earth and hell, to squirt their slime over them. this invitation is readily accepted, unless a clean man be present with an aura good enough to frighten these foul denizens of the pit. no spiritualistic manifestation has ever taken place in the 198 presence even of frater perdurabo; how much less in that of the master therion<initiations confer protection. compare the fear felt by d. d. home for eliphas levi. see equinox i, x "the key of the mysteries> of all the creatures he ever met, the most prominent of english spiritists (a journalist and pacifist of

almost overcomes him. if he should find that he has stopped without willing to do so, and that figures appear, let him at all costs rise above them. yea, though his very life tremble on his lips, let him force his way upward and onward! 5. let him continue in this so long as the breath of life is in him. whatever threatens, whatever allures, though it were typhon and all his hosts loosed from the pit and leagued against him, though it were from the very throne of god himself that a voice issues bidding him stay and be content, let him struggle on, ever on. 6. at last there must come a moment when his whole being is swallowed up in fatigue, overwhelmed by its own inertia<
ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

ends itself so readily to orthodox theology; so we have ormuzd and ahriman, the devas and the asuras, osiris and set, et cetera and da capo, personifications of "good" and "evil" the foes may be fairly matched; but more often the tale tells of a revolt in heaven. in this case "evil" is temporary; soon, especially with the financial help of the devout, the "devil" will be "cast into the bottomless pit" and "the saints will reign with christ in glory 19* you must read the soldier an the hunchback! and? in the equinox i, 1. 39 for ever and ever, amen" often a "redeemer" a "dying god" is needed to secure victory to omnipotence; and this is usually what little vulgar boys might call a "touching story" j. the monist (or advaitist) school, is at once subtler and more refined; it seems to approach

s, dear sister! dig with your qabalistic trowel; don't blame me if you don't get a mandrake with the very first thrust! but most certainly i shall say nothing here. yes, indeed, nothing was ever more sternly forbidden than prattle on subjects like this! look! it goes right on "there is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. he shall fall down into the pit called because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason (v. 27) the pit is of course the abyss: see the vision and the voice, xth aethyr. a very sticky- or rather, unstuck! finish; so 'ware hawk! to business! fascination no! invisibility, is obviously penny plain s.a. this is notably an affair of the subconscious; it often masters open dislike and distaste; it never yields to reason

ays asking simple elementary questions which require half a dozen treatises to answer: so, take this, with my blessing! love is the law, love under will. yours fraternally, 666 p.s. one further reflection. with all these "sore spots" is closely linked the idea of cruelty. i need not touch upon the relation of cruelty to sex; the theme has been worn threadbare. but in religion, note the bottomless pit and the eternal flame; in buddhism, the eighteen hot and eighteen cold hells, with many another beneath. hindu eschatology has countless hells; even pedestrian, precise islam, and the calculating qabalists, each hoast of seven. again with drugs as with insanity, we are confronted constantly with nameless terrors; the idea of formlessness, of infinity pervades them alike. consider the man who t

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

hat is to say those who follow out their holy commandment, to the ultimate goal. again we read: little miss muffett sat on a tuffet, eating of curds and whey, up came a big spider, and sat down beside her, and frightened miss muffett away. little miss muffett unquestionably represents malkah; for she is unmarried. she is seated upon a "tuffet; id est, she is the unregenerate soul upon tophet, the pit of hell. and she eats curds and whey, that is, not the pure milk of the mother, but milk which has undergone decomposition. but who is the spider? verily herein is a venerable arcanum connoted! like all insects, the spider represents a demon. but why a spider? who is this spider "who taketh hold with her hands, and is in king's palaces? the name of this spider is death. it is the fear of death

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE I CHING

tress. to move in any manner spells success. place mats for things set down; then faults are few. dead willow shoots; old man young wife well wooing. the beam is weak; fate's busy with the brewing! the beam curves up- loyalty did the glueing. dead willow flowers; old wife young men pursuing! bold wader, thine head's wet- but thou wast true! 29 the khan hexagram moon of moon- khan: defile, cavern, pit: in times of danger make not sincerity of act a stranger. gorge within gorge, then cavern- do not go! involve not deeplier thy dangerous case! peril all round- be still's the luckiest show! instructing king's, most humble caution show! be patient, time brings order with grave pace. bound and beset, bewildered too? what woe! 30 the li hexagram sun of sun- li: sun; attachment. be thy way docile

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

k, the union takes place spontaneously; in the other, venom is shot forth. this awakes the earth to rapture; not until then does union occur. for, in working on the planes of manifestation, the elements must be consecrated and made "god" by virtue of a definite rite. al ii,27 "there is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. he shall fall down into the pit called because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason" the old comment 27. the importance of failing to interpret these verses. unspirituality leads to the bird-lime of intellect. the hawk must not perch on any earthly bough, but remain poised on the ether. the new comment humanity errs terribly when it gets 'education, in the sense of ability to read newspapers. reason is rubbish;

on is rubbish; race-instinct is the true guide. experience is the great teacher; and each one of us possesses millions of years of experience, the very quintessence of it, stored automatically in our subconscious minds. the intellectuals are worse than the bourgeoisie themselves; a la lanterne! give us men! understanding is the attribute of the master of the temple, who has crossed the abyss (or "pit) that divides the true self from its conscious instrument (see liber 418 "aha! and book 4, part iii. we must meditate the meaning of this attack upon the idea of "because" i quote from my diary the demonstration that reason is the absolute, whereof all truths soever art merely particular cases. the theorem may be stated roughly as follows. the universe must be expressible either as- n, or as z

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

physic s stereoscope) but for the moment be denied a metaphysical inspection bring out the antiseptic soap! we ll judge the christ by simple section, 205 and strictly on the moral side. but first; i must insist on taking the ordinary substantial creed your clergy preach from desk and pulpit each sunday; all the bible, shaking 210 its boards with laughter as you read each sunday. ibsen43 to a full pit may play in the moon. if (lunars they) they thought themselves to be the play, it s little the applause he d get. 215 i met a christian clergyman, the nicest man i ever met. we argued of the cosmic plan. i was lord roberts, he de wet.44* scots legal term for defendant. a romany word for woman. the rev. j. bowley. the conversation described actually occurred in mr. gerald kelly s studio in pari

h religion, however, he is undoubtedly a believer till the last (the pious will quote james ii. 19, and the infidel will observe that he died in an asylum; then the full swing of the tide catches him, the mysteries of death become more and more an obsession, and he is flung headlong into sadism, necrophilia, notes 59 all the maddest, fiercest vices that the mind of fiends ever brought up from the pit. but always to the very end his power is unexhausted, immense, terrible. his delerium does not amuse; it appals! a man who could conceive as he did must himself have had some glorious chord in his heart vibrating to the eternal principle of boundless love. that this love was wrecked is for me, in some sort a relative of his, a real and bitter sorrow. he might have been so great! he missed heav

father drew with his sword lines of power in the sand, so that a black and terrible demon appeared squeezing up in thin flat plates of flesh along the sword-lines. so our father cried: simples, o axcaxrabortharax, for my mother! then the demon was wroth and shrieked: thy mother to black hell! she is mine! so the old hag confessed straight that she had given her body for love to that fiend of the pit. but our father paid no heed thereto and bade the demon to do his will, so that he brought him herbs many, and good, with which our father planted a great grove that grew about him (for the sun was now waxen bitter hot) wherein he worshipped, offering in vessels of clay these seven offerings :2 the first offering, dust; the second offering, ashes; the third offering, sand; the fourth offering

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ts bony teeth, and kissed it. instantly, as at a signal, a drench of the waters of death washed all the human life out of her being, while a rod as of steel smote her even from the base of the spine to the brain. she had passed the gates of the abyss. shriek after shriek of ineffable agony burst from her tortured 107 mouth; she writhed and howled in that ghastly celebration of the nuptials of the pit. exhaustion took her; she fell with a heavy sob* when she came to herself she was at home. still that lamentable crew of cats miauled about the house. she awoke and shuddered. on the table lay two notes. the first "you fool! they are after me; my life is not safe. you have ruined me- curse you" this from the loved master, for whom she had sacrificed her soul. the second a polite note from the

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g a definite time each day to meditating on thoughts of pity and of love. thus he increases the sankh ras in his mind that tend to make men loving and pitiful, and because "hatred ceaseth not by hatred at any time, hatred ceaseth by love alone" therefore do those evil sankh ras of his nature, those tendencies to anger and to cruelty, disappear before the rise of new good tendencies of live and of pit, even as the darkness of the night fades in the glory of the dawn. thus we see that one way- and the best way- of overcoming bad sankh ras is the systematic cultivation, by dint of meditation, of such qualities as are opposed to the evil tendencies we desire to eliminate; and in the central and practical feature of the instance adduced, the practice of definite meditation or mental concentrati

st a few miles to order. i challenge watson to give me the name of one relative of a stranger that i bring him. the cross-correspondences are more satisfactory. but the hypothesis of spirits is quite unnecessary. if we admit, as any pantheist would admit, that subliminal mrs verral is identical with or in communication with subliminal mrs piper, there is no mystery left, no suggestion of myers to pit against the blank failure of the sealed letter test. further, i distrust "mrs holland" i cannot believe that any one is so imbecile as not to solve the hodgson cipher at a single glance. but a grande hyst rique forging the script might pretend to be unable to decipher it. i have seen more fraud from the vanity of amateurs than from the cupidity of professionals. so, in the end, to this record

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i have endured the supreme temptation and assault of the enemy. in this wise. first, i found that i did not want sleep i couldn't stop "waiting. next, i said "since last night that black ritual (see entry 10.55) did at least serve to turn all my thoughts to the one thought, i will try it again then i said:"no; to do so is not pure 'waiting. and then as by a flash of lightning the abyss of the pit opened, and my whole position was turned. i saw my life from the dawn of consciousness till now as a gigantic "pose" my very love of truth assumed for the benefit of my biographer! all these strange things suffered and enjoyed for no better purpose than to seem a great man. one cannot express the horror of this thought; it is the thought that murders the soul and there is no answer to it. so

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me swoon with lust of rain to-morrow! ages and ages ago i stood on the bank of a river holy and holy and holy, i know, for ever and ever and ever! a priest in the mystical shrine, i muttered a redeless rune, till the waters were redder than wine in the blush of the harlot moon. i and my brother priests worshipped a wonderful woman with a body lithe as a beast's subtly, horribly human. deep in the pit of her eyes i saw the image of death, and i drew the water of sighs from the well of her lullaby breath. she sitteth veiled for ever brooding over the waste. she hath stirred or spoken never. she is fiercely, manly chaste! what madness made me awake from the silence of utmost eld the grey cold slime of the snake that her poisonous body held? 210 by night i ravished a maid from her father's cam

or the manhood of the world! then the trumpet-blast resounded; the battle had indeed begun! struggling to his feet, he tore from him the shroud of a corrupted faith as if it had been the rotten cerement of a mummy. with quivering lip, and voice choked with indignation at the injustice of the world, he cursed the name of christ and strode on to seek the gate of hell and let loose the fiends of the pit, so that mankind might yet learn that compassion was not dead. nevertheless, the madness passes, like a dark cloud before the breath of awakening dawn; conscious of his own rightness, of the manhood which was his, of his own strength, and the righteousness of his purpose, and filled with the overflowing ambitions of youth, we find him unconsciously sheathe 232 his blood-red sword, and blow fla

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ature with flaxen hair and a hectic flush, and decked with a silvern tail. i listened to his patter. she must be a wonderful person, this mermaid: she could swim, she could eat, and, at times, she could even talk. she was as large as life, and, by all accounts, she was more than twice as natural. so, at length, i paid my twopence, and i saw- a seal! there it lay, at the bottom of a miniature bear-pit, and with its wistful face and its great pathetic eyes it really did look quite as human as the majority of its audience. the thing was a 337 swindle, i suppose, a fake- and yet, after all, this gingerbread showman in this gingerbread city was not the first to work the merry cantrip. for wherever seals are common, be it in our own northern islands or in further foreign lands, there will these

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almost overcomes him. if he should find that he has stopped without willing to do so, and that figures appear, let him at all costs rise above them. yea, though his very life tremble on his lips, let him force his way upward and onward! 5. let him continue in this so long as the breath of life is in him. whatever threatens, whatever allures, though it were typhon and all his hosts loosed from the pit and leagued against him, though it were from the very throne of god himself that a voice issues bidding him stay and be content, let him struggle on, ever on. 6. at last there must come a moment when his whole 29 being is swallowed up in fatigue, overwhelmed by its own inertia* let him sink (when no longer can he strive, though his tongue by bitten through with the effort and the blood gush fr

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no memory possible of that unfathomable hell. even the shadows that arise are things to dreadful to recount! there's no such doom in destiny's harvest of horror. the white fount of speech is stifled at its source. know, the sane spirit keeps its course by this, that everything it thinks hath causal or contingent links. 34 destroy them, and destroy the mind! o bestial, bottomless, and blind black pit of all insanity! the adept must make his way to thee! this is the end of all our pain, the dissolution of the brain! for lo! in this no mortar sticks; down come the house_ a hail of bricks! the sense of all i hear is drowned; tap, tap, isolated sound, patters, clatters, batters, chatters, tap, tap, tap, and nothing matters! senseless hallucinations roll across the curtain of the soul. each rip

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upon my catalogue of horrible remembrances, have i proved that, among all the variable phenomena of hasheesh, this alone stands unvarying. the use of it directly after any other stimulus will produce consequences as appalling. i extinguished my light. to say this may seem trivial, but it is as important a matter as any which it is possible to notice. the most direful suggestions of the bottomless pit may flow in upon thehasheesh eater through the very medium of darkness. the blowing out of a candle can set an unfathomed barathrum wide agape beneath the flower-wreathed table of his feast, and convert his palace of sorcery into a golgotha. light is a necessity to him, even when sleeping; it must tinge his visions, or they assume a hue as sombre as the banks of styx. it was an awaking, which

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gallant lungs gasp loud in vain: thy life is spilt upon the plain. sir palamede is stricken numb as one who, gazing on the sun, sees blackness gather. blank and dumb, the good knight sees a thin breath come out of his proper mouth, and dart over the plain: he seeth it sure by some black magician art shape ever closer like an hart: 36 while such a questing there resounds as god had loosed the very pit, or as a thirty couple hounds are in its belly as it bounds! full sick at heart, i ween, was then the loyal knight, the weak of wit, the butt of lewd and puny men, sir palamede the saracen. 37 xiv northward the good knight gallops fast, resolved to seek his foe at home, when rose that vision of the past, the royal battlements of rome, a ruined city, and a dome. there in the broken forum sat a

belly questeth he. beneath him? heareth he aright? he leaps to'sfeet- a wonder shews: steep dips a stairway from the light to what obscurity god knows. still never a tremor shakes his soul (god praise thee, knight of adamant; he plungers to that gruesome goal firm as an old bull-elephant! 78 the broad stair winds; he follows it; dark is the way; the air is blind; black, black the blackness of the pit, the light long blotted out behind! his sword sweeps out; his keen glance peers for some shape glimmering through the gloom: naught, naught in all that void appears; more still, more silent than the tomb! ye now the good knight is aware of some black force, of some dread throne, waiting beneath that awful stair, beneath that pit of slippery stone. yea! though he sees not anything, nor hears, h

peer, good knight proven in many a foughten fight, flees like a felon in the night! ay! this thy quest is past the ken of thee and of all mortal men, sir palamede the saracen! 92 xxxvi oft, as sir palamedes went upon the quest, he was aware of some vast shadow subtly bent with his own shadow in the air. it had no shape, no voice had it wherewith to daunt the eye or ear; yet all the horror of the pit clad it with all the arms of fear. moreover, though he sought to scan some feature, though he listened long, no shape of god or fiend or man, no whisper, groan, shriek, scream, or song gave him to know it. now it chanced one day sir palamedes rode through a great wood whose leafage danced in the thin sunlight as it flowed from heaven. he halted in a glade, bade his horse crop the tender grass;

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of the garment to which he owed his surname. as it was, the fierce maenad was overcome by her passion ere she could have made him take a share in it. nevertheless, woman often wins through sheer obstinacy, 32 and lionel allowed himself to be conquered. gradually, as the relations between them grew with the force of habit, his disgust increased, while his condescension plunged him deeper into the pit. he longed to tear himself away, and gradually discovered that she had become a necessity to him. he lost pleasure in himself and found none in her; finally he played an old trick and caused a telegram to be sent, calling him away. he swore to return speedily- which he didn't. he sailed back to europe, found himself in london, where his first experience caused him to waver between eagerness an

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r heaven's despotism, and conquest is dragged captive through the deep; love, from its awful throne of patient power in the wise heart, from the last giddy hour of dead endurance, from the slippery steep, and narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs and folds over the world its healing wings. gentleness, virtue, wisdom, and endurance- these are the seals of that most firm assurance which bars the pit over destructions's strength; and if, with infirm hand, eternity, mother of many acts and hours, should free the serpent that would clasp her with his length, these are the spells by which to reassume an empire o'er the disentangled doom. to suffer woes which hope thinks infinite; to forgive wrongs darker than death or night; 54 to defy power, which seems omnipotent; to love, and bear; to hope

oon with lust of rain to-morrow! ages and ages ago i stood on the bank of a river, holy and holy and holy, i know, for ever and ever and ever! 115 a priest in the mystical shrine, i muttered a redeless rune, till the waters were redder than wine in the blush of the harlot moon. i and my brother priests worshipped a wonderful woman with a body lithe as a beast's subtly, horribly human. deep in the pit of her eyes i saw the image of death, and i drew the water of sighs from the well of her lullaby breath. she sitteth veiled for ever, brooding over the waste. she hath stirred or spoken never. she is fiercely, manly chaste! what madness make me awake from the silence of utmost eld the grey cold slime of the snake that her poisonous body held? by night i ravished a maid from her father's camp t

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

wer be th cannot b. eary.our rule 'ii 1' ose wlw f. wi eave. with you. 99. or none may come.to n. meetmgs with th h h are at yari<>se, q)j1 'oy ioo.so,aneithercannot aree h ever sllrv.ivev so.b. g. et. ence, for the craft must. ive, so e. it ordained roi. in the olden days when weh d: artagainstany ho ill a power, we could use the these evildays :e f :tdd the brotherhood. but in devised a burning pit of 1. s? for our enemies. have. ever asnng fire' thi'h say their god casteth all th i. in 0 w c they ex.ce.pt it be the. 1. e phcop e "who worship him. very lew w. 0 i' priests, spells.and m..asses a..d thi arbe re ,eased. by their. n. is .e chiefly bv ei. m.0dn es and rich gifts to receive his favour fc thy,glvm g go is ever. in need of. rn. or eir great oney, 102. but as our gods need our ai

ever ill need of ever tell them that any han .estro us. their priests this hell forever. some:h0 ge jou help are damned to 103. but they make' men b r e n. wit the terror of it. hell iethey give victi/ vethat they may escape this reason allbe forever snvi 0 1utor?ien ors. so for this but one of these wic. pyllls' t nkmg. an i can catch 1 0 4.$0 for this reason. cha, i will escape from. this fiery pit. we ave our.hid 1 and' long and notfmdillg sa'th. bs, an men searching they .bema far corint y, ere e none, or if there be, 105. but when one of our ry.'oppressors die, or even be sick, 136 ever is the cry 'this be witches' malice, and the hunt is up again. and though they. slay ten of their own to one of ours; still they care not, they have countless thousands. 106. while weare few indeed. so

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

nnot bear your rule will leave you" 99. for none may come to meetings with those with whom they are at variance. 100. so, an either cannot agree, get hence, for the craft must ever survive. so be it ordained. curses in the olden days when we had power, we could use the art against any who ill-treated the brotherhood. but in these evil days we must not do so. for our enemies have devised a burning pit of everlasting fire into which they say their god casteth all the people who worship him, except it be the very few who are released by their priest's spells and masses. and this be chiefly by giving monies and rich gifts to receive his favour for their great god is ever in need of money. 101. but as our gods need our aid to make fertility for man and crops, so is the god of the christians eve

in need of man's help to search out and destroy us. their priests ever tell them that any who get our help are damned to this hell forever, so men be mad with the terror of it. 102. but they make men believe that they may escape this hell if they give victims to the tormentors. so for this reason all be forever spying, thinking "an i can catch but one of these wicca, i will escape from this fiery pit" 103. so for this reason we have our hidels, and men searching long and not finding, say "there be none, or if there be, they be in a far country" 104. but when one of our oppressors die, or even be sick, ever is the cry "this be witches' malice, and the hunt is up again. and though they slay ten of their own to one of ours, still they care not. they have countless thousands. 105. 106. while w

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

he stone. triple the form, rosy the light, and sevenfold the eternal principle. from out the greater wheel, down from the vault of heaven, came into light the lesser wheel that counted as the fourth. the eternal lhas looked down, and the sons of god reached forth. down to the inmost point of death they flung the sacred stone. the plaudits of the chohans rose. the work had turned a point. from the pit of outer darkness, they gathered forth the stone, translucent now and unalloyed, of colour rose and blue. the turning of the fifth wheel and its action on the stone rendered it still more fit. yellow the blending tint, orange the inner fire, till yellow, rose and blue mingled their subtle tones. the four wheels with the greater worked thus upon the stone till all the sons of god acclaimed, and

ieve differing results which work out in their schemes, should be carefully borne in mind (d) the future coming of the avatar. the coming avatar "from the zenith to the nadir, from dawn to fall of night, from the emergence into being of all that is or may be to the passing into peace of all that hath achieved, gleameth the orb of blue and the inner radiant fire. from the gates of gold down to the pit of earth, out from the flaming fire down to the circle of gloom, rideth the secret avatar, bearing the sword that pierceth. naught can arrest his approach, and none may say him nay. to the darkness of our sphere he rideth alone, and on his approach is seen the uttermost disaster, and the chaos of that which seeketh to withstand. the asuras veil their faces, and the pit of maya reeleth to the f

at hierarchy, blending with the softer note of the builders of the fifth and sixth, meet his approach. yet he passeth on his way, sweeping the circle of the spheres, and sounding forth the word. from the nadir to the zenith, from eve unto the day be with us, from the circle of manifestation to the centre of pralayic peace, is seen the enveloping blue, lost in the flame of achievement. up from the pit of maya back to the portals of gold, forth from the gloom and darkness back to the splendour of day, rideth the manifested one, the avatar, bearing the shattered cross. naught can arrest his return, none can impede his path, for he passeth along the upper way, bearing his people with him. cometh the dissolution of pain, cometh the end of strife, cometh the merging of the spheres and the blendi

ings; the shankha, conch or shell, indicates all sound, and the chakra, wheel or discus, all time, there being a connexion between the two; gada, the (whirling) mace, is the spiral method of the procession of the world and the lotus-flower is the whole of that procession; the vana-mala, the wreath of forest flowers, indicates the stringing together of all things into unity and necessity; the nila-pit-ambara, blue and yellow vestures, are darkness and light; the kaustubha jewel indicates inseparable connexion with all; nirguna, attributeless, shows the presence of the nature of negation; while saguna, attributeful, implies possession of name and form. the world-process (as embodied in our world-system) is the result of the ideation of maha-vishnu" pranava-vada, pp. 72-74, 94-95. 5 5: mahade

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

gher interpretation. this is nowhere more apparent than in this sutra. through an understanding of the nature of the throat centre and a steady meditation upon it, the yogi can arrest the pangs of hunger and of thirst and thus do without food indefinitely, whilst through directing energy to that portion of the great nerve in the throat which lies just below the throat centre (found in the well or pit of the throat) he can achieve absolute immobility and rigidity of the human form. similarly through concentration upon the solar plexus he can become aware in full consciousness of every part of his physical body. but these concern the lower siddhis or powers and with these the student of raja yoga is not concerned, regarding them as the secondary effects of soul development. he knows them to

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

and to the reorganising of the structures of world thought, world politics, plus the redistribution of the world's resources in conformity to divine purpose. then and only then will it be possible to carry the revelation further. be of good cheer, for there is no true defeat of the human spirit; there is no final extinction of the divine in man, for divinity ever rises triumphant from the darkest pit of hell. there is need, however, to overcome the inertia of the material nature in response to human need, individually and by the nations not engrossed with the essentials of the situation. this shows signs of happening. there is no power on earth which can prevent the advance of man towards his destined goal and no combination of powers can hold him back. today that combination is active a c

ALICE A BAILEY18 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME III ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

issue is not in the balance and there is no need to despair. the courage of those fighting for freedom remains unimpaired. the hierarchy stands. light is breaking in the world as the realities of the situation emerge more clearly. be of good cheer for there is no true defeat of the human spirit; there is no final extinction of the divine in man, for divinity ever rises triumphant from the darkest pit of hell. there is need however to overcome the inertia of the material nature in response to human need, individually and by the nations not engrossed with the essentials of the situation. this shows signs of happening. there is no power on earth which can prevent the advance of man towards his destined goal and no combination of powers can hold him back. chapter v three major constellations a

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

because you are the leader you have to shoulder all the blame for any failure, even when not personally responsible; you have to accept without retaliation the attacks of those you are trying to help, who expect too much from you and who force you to live in the blaze of public opinion; what will you do when your chosen workers fail to understand or prove disloyal or criticise without warrant or pit their ambitions against you, and wilfully refuse to see your point of view, and talk about you among other people and whip up resentments against you resentments which are probably without foundation? these are not the kind of things that your personality easily accepts, and your creative imagination had better begin dealing with these problems so that the emerging principles of conduct may st

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

catholic church, but one into which the communistic nations are already drawing the protestant churches. from the standpoint of the hierarchy, these three ideologies are three aspects of one great spiritual event; the outcome of the interplay between them can eventuate in an increased spiritual approach to divinity or (if the forces of light do not triumph) they can drive mankind deeper into the pit or prison of materialism. the intense political interest of the catholic church, plus its gross materialism, acts as a great handicap to the steady gain of the spiritual position; if however, the catholic hierarchy can renounce or relinquish its material and political aims and present the love of god in its beauty, it can do much to lead humanity out of darkness into light. if the united state

ANATHEMA OF ZOS

in with vain ideas-with hopes and fears of absurd significance. not yet am i over-weary of myself. not ye shall i palliate abomination, for in ye i behold your parents and the stigmata of foul feeding. in this ribald intoxication of hypocrisy, this monument of swindlers' littlenesses, where is the mystic symposium, the hierarchy of necromancers that was? honest was sodom! your theology is a slime-pit of gibberish become ethics. in your world, where ignorance and deceit constitute felicity, everything ends miserably-besmirched with fratricidal blood. seekers of salvation? salvation of your sick digestion; crippled beliefs: convalescent desires. your borrowed precepts and prayers-a stench unto all good nostrils! unworthy of a soul-your metamorphosis is laborious of morbid rebirth to give hab

pts and prayers-a stench unto all good nostrils! unworthy of a soul-your metamorphosis is laborious of morbid rebirth to give habitance to the shabby sentiments, the ugly familiarities, the calligraphic pandemonium-a world of abundance acquired of greed. thus are ye outcasts! ye habitate dung-heaps; your glorious palaces are hospitals set amid cemeteries. ye breathe gay-heartedly within this cess-pit? ye obtain of half-desires, bent persuasions, of threats, of promises made hideous by vituperatious righteousness! can you realize of heaven when it exists without? believing without associating ye are spurious and know not the way of virtue. there is no virtue in truth, nor truth in righteousness. law becomes of desire's necessity. corrupt is the teacher, for they who speak have only spent wo

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n the incident on the way to the sabbath series, where the limbs of the contorted hags seems to writhe in the glyphs of flesh. these are raw and primal depictions of earthly human essences. spare sought to reclaim such images for his own. he writes in earth inferno: the desertion of the universal woman, lying barren on the parapet of the subconsciousness in humanity: and humanity sinking into the pit of conventionality. hail! the convention of the age is nearing its limit. and with it a resurrection of the primitive woman. and then there are his film stars. they are sidereal seductresses, sirens and cyphers, pictures of ravishing beauty that resonate with bewitching frequencies. sidereal means relating to or involving the stars. spare developed a curious technique of subtle distortion in w

derangement of the senses. spare himself demonstrates that he went through several magickal crises and his detractors leapt upon such admissions as evidence of psychosis. in 1924 around the time of the publication of the anathema of zos subtitled (a sermon to the hypocrites) and around the same time as he drew the grotesque and powerful the book of ugly ecstasy he seemed to plunge headlong into a pit of loathing that deeply affected his view of mankind. the flesh that he drew seemed to overwhelm him in brutal floods and he withdrew deeply into himself, haunted by the intensity of the maelstrom of images he was receiving. and again in 1954, towards the end of his life there emerges an unsettling sense that the vision was becoming too unsupportable, too vivid and too painful, and something o

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

ed jointly represent the principle of propagation, so also the sperm of the matter out of which our stone is made can be sown and increased. there are in our substance two supplementary kinds of seed, from which our stone may be prepared and multiplied. if you are a true lover of our art, you will carefully weigh and ponder these words, lest, with other sophisticators, you fall into the dangerous pit prepared by the common enemy of man. but whence are you to obtain this seed? this question you may most easily answer by asking yourself another question. what do you want to develop from this seed, and what use do you wish to make of it? there can be no doubt, then that it must be the root, or first substance, of metals, from which all metals derive their origin. it is, twelve keys of basil v

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

blessed one replied "regarding the s.dhana of the malicious violence demons, the mantra practitioner endowed with the view and conduct should perform the propitiation of powerful tamdrin. at a place suitable for the malevolent might demons353 of the red rock354 to abide, at the end of the fierce planet355 and star, make the ma..ala at the place of the might demon abode [306] smear the ledge of a pit with blood. mix356 the defilements in the heart s blood of a man and horse that died by a knife and make the effigy. posit the black family name357 [and] calendar.358 bind the might demon with a red cord.359 [compose 344 because that master monk is avalokite.vara. 345 the seven riders. 346 individual. 347 for protection. skt. rak.a rak.a. 348 which are the destroyed teachings. 349 of being ini

and thunderbolts. you drive the enemy crazy with sky demons. you make the enemy faint with female demons. you tightly bind the enemy with the red lasso, and strike them hard with the great stick. cut the enemy into pieces with the radiant sword. tear out the enemy s heart-veins with the iron hook. after chewing on the enemy with your radiant fangs, swallow them down into your stomach, which is a pit of flesh-eating demons. send various kinds of illusions to the enemies. send suddenly the throat-swelling illness and the painful illness to the enemy (7b) destroy seven generations of the assembly of malicious enemies and hindering demons" strongly exhort this. 1.5 ritual requests (7b.1-7b.6) string, like coral, the life-energy mantra or a garland of mantras on the heart of the violence demon

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

neither the unknown unmanifested one, since it abounds in both sexes (is male and female, nor yet the christian father, as the latter is a male and not an androgyne. the fact is that the father, son, and man are hopelessly mixed up in the translations of pymander* the allegory of the fire of prometheus is another version of the rebellion of the proud lucifer, who was hurled down to the bottomless pit, or simply unto our earth, to live as man. the hindu lucifer, the mahasura, is also said to have become envious of the creator's resplendent light, and, at the head of inferior asuras (not gods, but spirits, to have rebelled against brahma; for which siva hurled him down to patala. but, as philosophy goes hand in hand with allegorical fiction in hindu myths, the devil is made to repent, and is

igin of all the subsequent and modern religions, especially of the worship of the later hebrews for their tribal god. at the same time this sexual religion was closely allied to, based upon and blended, so to say, with astronomical phenomena. the lemurians gravitated toward the north pole, or the heaven of their progenitors (the hyperborean continent; the atlanteans, toward the southern pole, the pit, cosmically and terrestrially- whence breathe the hot passions blown into hurricanes by the cosmic elementals, whose abode it is. the two poles were denominated, by the ancients, dragons and serpents- hence good and bad dragons and serpents, and also the names given to the "sons of god (sons of spirit and matter: the good and bad magicians. this is the origin of this dual and triple nature in

e explained, in the north pole, while patala, the nether region, was supposed to lie in the south. as each symbol in esoteric philosophy has seven keys, geographically, meru and patala have one significance and represent localities; while astronomically, they have another, and mean "the two poles" which meanings ended by their being often rendered in exoteric sectarianism- the "mountain" and the "pit" or heaven and hell. if we hold at present only to the astronomical and geographical significance, it may be found that the ancients knew the topography and nature of the arctic and antarctic regions better than any of our modern astronomers; they had reasons, and good ones for naming one the "mountain" and the other the "pit" as the author just quoted half explains, helion and acheron meant n

lains, helion and acheron meant nearly the same "heli-on is the sun in the highest (helios, heli-on, the "most high "and acheron is 32 deg. above the pole, and 32 below it, the allegorical river being thus supposed to touch the northern horizon in the latitude of 32 degrees. the vast concave, that is for ever hidden from our sight and which surrounded the southern pole, being therefore called the pit, while observing, toward the northern pole that a certain circuit in the heavens always appeared above the horizon- they called it the mountain. as meru is the high abode of the gods, these were said to ascend and descend periodically; by which (astronomically) the zodiacal gods were meant, the passing of the original north pole of the earth to the south pole of the heaven "in that age" adds t

ing. let the student judge. in ezekiel xxviii. it is said "son of man, say unto the prince of tyrus, thus saith the lord god (as we understand it, the "god" karma: because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said i am a god. and yet thou art a man. behold i shall bring strangers upon thee. and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom. and they shall bring thee down to the pit" or earth-life. the origin of the "prince of tyrus" is to be traced to, and sought in[[vol. 2, page] 493 the real meaning of the cherub. the "divine dynasties" of the iniquitous atlanteans, the great sorcerers (see last comments, on stanza xii, verses 47- 49. there is no metaphor in the words of ezekiel, but actual history, this time. for the voice in the prophet, the voice of the "lord" his o

ch gives the key to the occult meaning. but it is inseparable from leo, the sign that precedes it, and from the pleiades and their sisters, the hyades, of which aldebaran is the brilliant leader. all of these are connected with the periodical renovations of the earth, with regard to its continents- even ganymedes, who in astronomy is aquarius. it was already shown that while the south pole is the pit (or the infernal regions figuratively and cosmologically, the north pole is geographically the first continent; while astronomically and metaphorically the celestial pole, with its pole star in heaven, is meru, or the seat of brahma, the throne of jupiter, etc. for in the age when the gods forsook the earth and were said to ascend into heaven, the ecliptic had become parallel with the meridian

speaking. since that year (40,000 years ago) there has been a retrograde motion of the equator, and about 31,000 years ago aldebaran was in conjunction with the vernal equinoctial point. the part assigned to taurus, even in christian mysticism, is too well known to need repetition. the famous orphic hymn on the great periodical cataclysm divulges the whole esotericism of the event. pluto (in the pit) carries off eurydice, bitten by the (polar) serpent. then leo, the lion, is vanquished. now, when the lion is in the pit, or below the south pole, then virgo, as the next sign, follows him, and when her head, down to the waist, is below the south horizon- she is inverted. on the other hand, the hyades are the rain or deluge constellations; and aldebaran (he who follows, or succeeds the daught

oks down from the eye of taurus. it is from this point of the ecliptic that the calculations of the new cycle were commenced. the student has to remember also, that when ganymedes (aquarius) is raised to[[vol. 2, page] 786 the secret doctrine. heaven (or above the horizon of the north pole) virgo or astraea, who is venus-lucifer, descends head downwards below the horizon of the south pole, or the pit; which pit, or the pole, is also the great dragon, or the flood. let the student exercise his intuition by placing these facts together; no more can be said "the connection" comments lyell "between the doctrine of successive catastrophes and repeated deteriorations in the moral character of the human race, is more intimate and natural than might at first be imagined. for, in a rude state of so

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

of vesta; the fire-flame of pluto's helm; the brilliant sparks on the hats of the dioscuri, on the gorgon head, the helm of pallas, and the staff of mercury; the egyptian phtha-ra; the grecian zeus cataibates (the descending) of pausanias; the pentacostal fire-tongues; the burning bush of moses; the pillar of fire of the exodus, and the "burning lamp" of abram, the eternal fire of the "bottomless pit; the delphic oracular vapours; the sidereal light of the rosicrucians; the akasa of the hindu adepts; the astral light of eliphas levi; the nerve-aura and the fluid of the magnetists; the od of the reichenbach; the psychod and ectenic force of thury; the psychic force of sergeant cox, and the atmospheric magnetism of some naturalists; galvanism; and finally, electricity- all these are but vari

BLUE EQUINOX

but the pennon upon the sacred lance of will, the damascened inscription upon the swords of the knight-monks of thelema. love is the law, love under will. 666 44 the tent only the stars endome the lonely camp, only the desert leagues encompass it; waterless wastes, a wilderness of wit, embattled cold, imagination.s cramp. now were the desolation fain to stamp the congealed spirit of man into the pit, save that, unquenchable because unlit, the love of god burns steady, like a lamp. it burns! beyond the sands, beyond the stars. it burns! beyond the bands, beyond the bars, and so the expanse of mystery veil by veil burns inward, plume on plume still folding over the dissolved heart of the amaz d lover. the angel wings over the holy grail! liber dcccxxxvii the law of liberty a tract of to meg

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

right hand in the lesser circles are names of the seven earths: 1. aretz- dry, crumbling earth 2. adamah- reddish mould 3. gia- undulating ground, like the side of a valley 4. neshiah- pasture, or meadow 5. tziah- sandy or desert land 6. areqa- earth 7. thebel or cheled- mixed earth and water. upon the left hand are the seven infernal habitations: 1. sheol- the depths of the earth [or literally, pit -editor] 2. abaddon- perdition 3. titahion- the clay of death 4. ber shacheth- the it of destruction 5. tzelmoth- the shadow of death 6. shaari moth- the gates of death 7. gehinnom- hell the evil and averse powers beneath the feet of the four cherubim lilith babel machaloth jonia samael media rehab edom 'splendour on every side fire endfolding whirlwind' these are from cherubic expressions of

BOOK OF PLEASURE

his impulse to knowledge" will certainly bring us the disease and death they give! and also give us in compensation their powers of destruction! for the destruction of whom? things will be squared! is this the value of the will? this "will to power"-how life preserving! how furthering of discriminate selection! how pleasing! most noble explorers! o, you scientists-go on discovering the bottomless pit! when you are sodden with science-the lightning will thunder out the murder? new hope will be born? new creatures for the circus (the conception of) god-head must ever evolve its inertia for transmutation to its very opposite-because it contains it! the master must be the painful learner of his stupidity? the idea of god ever means the forgetfulness of supremacy and godliness. so must be suppl

BUDGE E

t cease from the faces of these goddesses" in the lower register are- 1. horus, hawk-headed and wearing a disk, leaning p. 249 with his right shoulder upon a long staff, and holding in his left hand a boomerang, one end of which is in the form of a serpent's head. click to view horus and the serpent set-heh. 2. a huge serpent, called the "everlasting set" standing upon his tail. click to view the pit of fire, hatet-ketits. 3. a large pit, with a vaulted roof, filled with fire, wherein "the enemies" of ra are being consumed; the name of the pit is hatet-ketits, p. 250 and is presided over by a goddess with the head of a lioness, who holds in her hands a large knife, and pours fire into it from her mouth. click to view the pit of fire, hatet-hantu-s. 4. a smaller pit, with a vaulted roof, fi

h fire, wherein "the enemies" of ra are being consumed; the name of the pit is hatet-ketits, p. 250 and is presided over by a goddess with the head of a lioness, who holds in her hands a large knife, and pours fire into it from her mouth. click to view the pit of fire, hatet-hantu-s. 4. a smaller pit, with a vaulted roof, filled with fire, wherein "the enemies" are being consumed; the name of the pit is hatet-hantu-s, and it is presided over by a goddess with a human head, who holds in her hands a large knife, and pours fire into it from her mouth. click to view the pit of fire, hat-nekenit. 5. a pit similar to the above, wherein "the souls" are being consumed; the name of the pit is hat-nekenit, and it is presided over by a goddess as in no. 4. p. 251 click to view the pit of fire, hat-ne

nd it is presided over by a goddess with a human head, who holds in her hands a large knife, and pours fire into it from her mouth. click to view the pit of fire, hat-nekenit. 5. a pit similar to the above, wherein "the souls" are being consumed; the name of the pit is hat-nekenit, and it is presided over by a goddess as in no. 4. p. 251 click to view the pit of fire, hat-nemmat-set. 6. a similar pit, wherein "the shades (or, shadows" are being consumed; the name of the pit is hat-nemmat-set, and it is presided over by a goddess as in no. 4. click to view the pit of fire, hat-sefu-s. 7. a similar pit, wherein "the heads" are being consumed; the name of the pit is hat-sefu-s, and it is presided over by a goddess as in no. 4. 8. a very large pit, with a vaulted roof, filled with fire, in whi

f the pit is hat-nemmat-set, and it is presided over by a goddess as in no. 4. click to view the pit of fire, hat-sefu-s. 7. a similar pit, wherein "the heads" are being consumed; the name of the pit is hat-sefu-s, and it is presided over by a goddess as in no. 4. 8. a very large pit, with a vaulted roof, filled with fire, in which are immersed, head downwards, four male figures; the name of this pit is ant-sekhetu "the valley of those who are turned upside down" p. 252 9. four goddesses, each one with the sign for eastern desert on her head; their names are- 1. pesi. 2. rekhit. 3. her-shau-s. 4. sait. 10. the god her-utu-f, holding a sceptre in his left hand, and the sign of "life" an ankh, in his right. the text reads: p. 253 click to view the pit of fire, ant-sekhetu. click to view (lef

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

ey call sirius the "star of the wolf" and their ancient accounts say that a "sea-dwelling fish people" from sirius came to the earth. they also speak of a "gigantic war" on sirius in which the fish people drove out those who we now know as humans. credo further confirms that the stories attributed to the dogon are not the only ancient records of the sirius system. the zulu's knew sirius b as the "pit" star long before it was identified by modern technology. credo wrote in his book, song of the stars (station hill openings, barrytown, new york, 1996 "not only among the zulu, but the dogon, and many widespread african tribes, there are stories of the nommo, who resemble the king of the water people in our legend. they are said to be intelligent beings who have visited the earth several times

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

ituals.8 baal(lord or ruler, the supreme god of the canaanites and phoenicians, was said to be thegiver of life and moloch was the destroyer of life. both demanded appeasement bysacrifice. baal or moloch became identified with the roman god saturn.in honour of baal, the sun god and god of fire, the carthaginians, following the ritualsof the phoenicians and canaanites, rolled children into a fiery pit made in the shape of theimage of baal/moloch. at a site near modern tunis six thousand urns were foundcontaining the charred remains of infants. remember, these rituals and gods are thesame as those performed and worshipped by the satanists and the brotherhood today.this is why the children of waco were allowed to burn to death in an inferno causedentirely by the satanist controlled fbi and th

cosmic pulsefrom the earth, the sun and the centre of the galaxy, and transmits that changingdrumbeat to our brain and every cell in our bodies. this will dramatically transform ourminds, emotions and physical form as they synchronise with the quickening vibrationsat this time of unbelievable change and evolution. the subsequent leap in our personalfrequencies will lift us out of the vibrational pit of fear and onto levels far beyond thelower fourth dimension. the reptilian control will be over because they will be on adifferent radio station, if you like, and they will have to face the consequences of theirown actions on their road to enlightenment. the choice is ours, fear or love, prison orfreedom.if the reptilians did not exist we would have to invent them because their currentstate o

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

the positive aspect of a sephirah must remember that it also has a negative aspect, and unless he can maintain the necessary equilibrium of forces, that negative aspect is liable to come uppermost and swamp the [page 298] operation. there is a point in every magical operation when the negative aspect of the force comes up to be dealt with, and unless dealt with will lure the experimenter into the pit which he has digged. it is a sound magical maxim not to invoke any force unless you are equipped to deal with its averse aspect. 5. dare you invoke the fiery energy of mars (geburah) into your nature unless you have sufficiently purified and disciplined yourself to be sure that you can prevent the martian force from going to extremes and leading to cruelty and destructiveness? if you have any

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

emember that if margarita had not responded to the lure of the jewel song she would not have fallen a victim. the weak spot in the defence was after all in her own nature. we have considered the modus operandi of telepathic suggestion in detail because it forms the real basis of every kind of occult attack. whether it be a discarnate entity, a being of another order of evolution, a demon from the pit, or merely the panic-stricken soul of a selfish friend, clinging to the life of form regardless of consequences, in all cases the opening gambit is the same. until the aura is pierced, there can be no entrance to the soul, and the aura is always pierced from within by the response of fear or desire going out towards the attacking entity. if we can inhibit that instinctive emotional reaction, t

wedly black, and may find themselves in waters that are unpleasantly dirty, even if not actually dangerous. the esoteric dangers will be studied in detail in the next chapter, but we may very well consider in this place the exoteric dangers which may occur behind the veil of the temple, for human nature is much the same wherever we meet it, and shows little originality in choosing its road to the pit. it might be thought that in such a book as this there were no need to touch upon these matters, but if this book is to serve the purpose for which it is intended, it is necessary to do so for three reasons; firstly, because the greater proportion of the students of esotericism are women, and even in these enlightened days they are usually ignorant of the life of the underworld, and a black lo

activity is by drawing the blood down from the head. this can be done effectually by a hot bath or putting the feet in hot mustard and water. another important centre is the solar plexus; during a psychic attack this is often felt to be tense and distressing. a large hot-water bottle,well filled so that it is heavy as well as hot, laid upon the solar plexus, which is the hand-breadth between the pit of the stomach and the ribs, will effectually relieve tension in that spot. indeed, pressure without heat will give relief, and i have known cases where a firm pad held in place by a belt or corsets gave much comfort. 73 of 103 above all things, the bowels should be kept freely open while facing a psychic attack, because there is nothing that puts one at so great a disadvantage as the accumula

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bone. the second chakra is called the swadhisthana, and is located just above the root of the genitals in men in the region of the bladder. the third chakra is called the manipuraka, or alternatively the manipura, and is located just above the navel. the fourth chakra is called the anahata, and is located in the muscles of the heart. the fifth chakra is called the vishuddha, and is located in the pit of the throat. the sixth chakra is called the ajna, and is located just above the nose between the eyebrows. the seventh chakra, really not a chakra at all, is called the sahasrara, and is located just above the middle of the top of the skull. its name means thousand-petaled lotus. the sahasrara is often represented as a flower with countless petals that lies spread out over the top of the sku

robably a shared experience. as i said above, the muladhara exists as a hard knot in the perineum. it can be uncomfortable at times, when the muladhara is intensely active. the sensation is similar to having a stone the size of a ping-pong ball lying under the skin just in front of the anus. the swadhisthana and manipura are, in my experience, somewhat similar- they feel like a sucking or sinking pit in the flesh, almost as though an invisible hand is being pressed down inside the flesh at their locations. this is not painful. at least, i have not found it painful, but i should mention that some practitioners experience discomfort. the anahata chakra is experienced as a contraction and irregularity of the heart. it is often accompanied by a remarkably pleasant sensation of sinking of float

there is a distinct sense that the physical heart is being touched or caressed by some sort of spiritual hand. when this first happens, it can be somewhat alarming, since we are not usually accustomed to sensation and irregularity in the muscles of our heart. it causes no ill-effects whatsoever. the vishuddha chakra shows itself as a tightness, and for me, a dryness and tickling sensation, in the pit of the throat. the ajna chakra has a very curious feeling of invisible pressure between the eyes, as though pressure were being applied by an invisible finger between the eyebrows just under the skin. this might also be described as a sucking or drawing sensation, as though the pressure is being exerted from within outward. the access to the sahasrara is signaled by a tickling and pricking in

DONALDTYSON CORONZON

ur archangels are primary servants and agents of god's judgement. it is clear from the words of gabriel to john dee that coronzon is to be regarded as synonymous with the serpent described in genesis. this serpent is almost always treated as the same as fallen lucifer, later to be known as satan, the archangel who led a rebellion in heaven, and for this crime was cast down by god into an abyss or pit. curiously, in gabriel's account of the fall of man, adam's name is not used, and eve is not mentioned in any way. we might regard gabriel's references to man as signifying mankind or the human race, which would imply more than two human beings in the garden at the time of the fall. the myth of lilith, adam's wife before eve, supports such a speculation, although lilith is often regarded as a

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ieved that the shades of the dead were attracted to freshly-spilled blood, because blood was one of the primary repositories of vital energy in the body. since the dead lacked bodies of flesh, the thinking went, they must lack vitality and therefore be weak. hence their pale appearance when they were seen as ghosts. if fresh blood was spilled while still warm on the ground, or better still into a pit, or even better still into the opening of the grave, its energy would attract shades, who would then seek to nourish themselves upon on. the reason it was better to spill blood into a pit is that in ancient times in greek and rome where necromancy was extensively practiced, the underworld was popularly considered to lie beneath the ground. spilling blood into a pit brought it nearer to the sha

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; that apollo gave oracles, and that the priestess, filled with his spirit, and transported with a holy enthusiasm, uttered infallible predictions of things to come. homer, the most ancient of all the greek writers, and their greatest divine, relates several apparitions, not only of gods, but of dead men and heroes. in the odyssey, he introduces ulysses consulting teresias, who, having prepared a pit full of blood, in order to call up the manes, ulysses draws his sword to hinder them from drinking the blood for which they were very thirsty, till they had answered the questions proposed to them. it was also a prevailing opinion that the souls of men enjoyed no repose, but wandered about near their carcasses as long as they continued unburied. even after they were buried, it was a custom to

hew he is alluded to as the prince of demons, and in ephesians he is spoken of as ruling over a world of evil beings who dwell in the lower heavens. thus he is prince of the powers of the air. in revelation the war in heaven between god and satan is described, and satan s imprisonment is foreshadowed after the overthrow of the beast and the kings of the earth; he will be chained in the bottomless pit for 1,000 years (rev. 20. after another period of freedom he will be cast into the lake of brimstone forever. the orthodox doctrine of satan developed over a number of centuries. satan as an independent topic of theological inquiry was not prominent. christ was seen as gaining the victory over satan and his kingdom, and only in the early middle ages did theologians turn their attention to a co

sm& parapsychology. 5th ed. fiction, english occult 557 mance of large country mansions, culminating at the end of the nineteenth century in such gothic novels as daphne du maurier s rebecca. the country house detective thriller of writers like agatha christie also has roots in the gothic story as developed by writers like wilkie collins and edgar allan poe. in the fall of the house of usher, the pit and the pendulum, and premature burial, all published in the 1840s, poe reverted to a classic gothic format expressed in the short story rather than the full-length novel. three irish writers made a notable contribution to the gothic novel with supernatural elements: charles robert maturin (1782.1824, joseph sheridan le fanu (1814.1873, and bram stoker (1847.1912. in maturin s novel melmoth th

orror movie generated a new outlet. richard matheson published many macabre short stories before becoming a prominent scriptwriter of horror films. some of his most well-known stories include i am legend (1954, about vampires, and a stir of echoes (1958, dealing with psychic invasion of the mind. as a movie scriptwriter, matheson adapted some of the works of edgar allen poe, such as the story the pit and the pendulum and the poem the raven, as well as also his own novel hell house (1971. robert bloch, who wrote psycho (1959, filmed by alfred hitchcock, also published many novels on occult themes, as well as scripting his own radio and movie stories. his film credits include the house that dripped blood (1970) and asylum (1972. the explosion of mass interest in occultism during the 1960s an

ong with an adventurer named paviot for attempting to kill the counts of valois and st. paul. in 1334 the countess of artois and her son were thrown into prison on suspicion of sorcery. in 1393, during the reign of charles vi, his sister-in-law, the duchess of orleans, who was the daughter of the duke of milan, was accused of driving the king mad by sorcery. the ministers of the court resolved to pit a magician against her, and a certain arnaud guillaume was brought from guienne as a suitable adversary to the noble lady. he possessed a book smagorad, and said the original was given to adam by god to console him for the loss of his son abel. guillaume claimed that the possessor of this volume could hold the stars in subjection and command the four elements. he assured the king s advisers th

ing grey ladies, headless horsemen, phantom hounds, healing wells, and witches. the pretty village of pluckley in kent has no fewer than 12 phantoms, including a white lady, a red lady, a poltergeist, a monk, the mistress of rose court, a schoolmaster who hanged himself, a miller, a watercress woman who burned to death, a highwayman impaled to a tree by a sword, a screaming man who died in a clay pit, and a coach and horses in the main street. hippisley-coxe also conducted a weekend ghost safari in conjunction with grand metropolitian hotels and boswell and johnson travel of new york. a coach trip took tourists to supernatural sites in the west country frequented by ghosts, witches, and poltergeists (in the united states, similar ghost tours were organized by richard t. crowe in chicago, i

promises, and control of organic processes and of muscles not ordinarily under voluntary control. other phenomena which have been allied from time to time with magnetism, mesmerism, or hypnotism and for which there is not the same scientific basis, are clairvoyance, telekinesis, transference of the senses from the ordinary sense organs to some other part of the body (usually the fingertips or the pit of the stomach, community of sensation, and the ability to commune with the dead. the majority of these, like the remarkable phenomena of phreno-magnetism, can be directly traced to the effect of suggestion on the imagination of the patient. ignorant as were the protagonists of mesmerism with regard to the great suggestibility of the magnetized subject, it is hardly surprising that they saw ne

oal miner medium in northern england and the subject of remarkable experiments by james hewat mckenzie and major c. mowbray in photographing the arrival and ectoplasmic mechanism of apports. lynn s mediumship developed around 1913 in his home circle, but he did not exercise physical mediumship before 1926. extrusions of ectoplasm, small coils or rods of varying shapes, were seen to issue from the pit of his stomach, to perform minor physical feats, and leave. after their disappearance.red marks like punctures behind on the medium s skin. apports of small, insignificant objects were the most impressive phenomena. in earlier seances, held in the dark, it was said that small bottles arrived containing wax in various shapes and molded images. in the experimental seances held in light by the in

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c effluence. their patients claimed they could see it radiating as a brilliant shaft of light from the operator, from trees, and from other substances. some substances could conduct it, others not. water and milk could retain it and work cures. tardy de montravel discovered the transposition of the senses. his somnambule not only walked in the town with her eyes fast closed but could see with the pit of her stomach (see also eyeless sight. j. h. desire petetin, a doctor at lyons, enlarged upon these observations. he changed the theory of mesmer to animal electricity and cited many experiments to prove that the phenomena were of an electrical nature. j. p. f. deleuze objected, insisted on the magnetic fluid theory, and pointed out its analogies with nerve-force. he explained the phenomena o

annual report of the bureau of ethnology. compiled by j. w. powell. washington: government printing office, 1896. napellus a plant with narcotic properties, with which j. b. van helmont (1577.1644) experimented. he stated that, having on one occasion roughly prepared the root, he tasted it with his tongue, and in a very short time found that his center of thought and intellect was situated in the pit of his stomach. an unusual clarity and distinctness of thought rendered the experience a pleasant one, and he sought on future occasions to repeat it by the same means, but without success. after about two hours he felt a slight dizziness and thereupon thought in the normal fashion with his brain. but throughout the strange experience he claimed that he was conscious that his soul still remain

t the white, the pupil being turned up under cover of the lids.the whole returning to the normal at the mere command of the exorcist in conjunction with the sign of the cross. they have often been seen creeping and crawling on the ground without any help from the hands or feet; the back of the head or the forehead may be touching the soles of the feet. some lie on the ground, touching it with the pit of the stomach only, the rest of the body, head, feet and arms, being in the air for some length of time. sometimes, bent back so that the top of the head and the soles of the feet touch the ground, the rest of the body being supported in the air like a table, they walk in this position without help from the hands. it is quite common for them, while on their knees to kiss the ground, with the

rrence when his attendant buckled his right sandal to his left foot. stomach, seeing with the a phenomenon occasionally observed by the followers of franz anton mesmer in their somnambules (hypnotic subjects. in a cataleptic state closely resembling death, the subject would sometimes show no signs of intelligence when questions were directed to the ears, but if the questions were addressed to the pit of the stomach, or sometimes to the fingertips or toes, an answer would be given immediately. several such cases were recorded by one dr. petetin, of lyons, france, who in 1808 published electricite animale, and by other mesmerists. not only hearing, but seeing, tasting, and smelling were apparently performed by the stomach, independent of the sensory organs. petetin attributed the phenomenon

psychic science, a spiritualist organization, with the medium ada besinnet in 1921. a light was flashed on a face that was illuminated by a spirit lamp. the medium was leaning over the table and illuminated her own face with light held in her hand. the light quickly vanished, as did the white drapery which draped over her head. when awakened, she was in trance and complained of great pain in the pit of her stomach; for three days she was shaken with muscular contractions. there are some past experiences on record of the disappearance of the medium during materialization. in such cases, spiritualist argue, the entire bodily substance of the medium is believed to have been withdrawn for the purpose of building up phantom bodies. such occurrences are also known as transfigurations. more rati

sity books, 1969. transportation alternative term for the claimed phenomenon of teleportation, the paranormal movement of human bodies through closed doors and over a distance. transposition of the senses an extraordinary phenomenon, first reported by tardy de montravel. in his essai sur la theorie du somnambulisme magnetique (1785, he described how in his half-waking trance he could see with the pit of his stomach. in 1808, dr. petetin reported in his book, electricite animale (1808, that he found the senses of taste, smell, and hearing also wandering from the pit of the stomach to the tip of the fingers and of the toes. since then many similar cases have been recorded, especially with hysterical subjects. cesare lombroso carefully observed the phenomenon of eyeless sight. c. s. was a you

EVIL AND UNCLEAN SPIRITS

ivion 5. tziah- sandy, or desert land 6. areqa- l 7. thebel or cheled- mixed l and n 3 the water of tears the water of creation the water of ocean \nhyg lbt twmyruc aqra twmlx hyx tjcrab hycn w yh f yf ayg wdba hmda lwac ra the false sea upon the left hand are the seven infernal habitations: 1. sheol- the depth of the earth 2. abaddon- perdition 3. titahion- the clay of death 4. bar shacheth- the pit of destruction 5. tzelmoth- the shadow of death 6. shaari moth- the gates of death 7. gehinnom- hell the mercavah in the mercavah vision of ezekiel it is written "and i beheld a whirlwind come forth out of the north; a great cloud and a fire enfolding itself, and a splendour on every side, and the brilliance of the innermost flame in the midst of the fire" 4 there are the four kerubic expressi

FAUST

s vast dominions to other spheres of pure activity. this lofty life, this ecstasy divine! thou, but a worm, and that deservest thou? yes! turn thy back with resolution fine upon earth s lovely sun, and now make bold to fling apart the gate which every man would fain go slinking by! here is the time to demonstrate that man s own dignity yields not to gods on high; to tremble not before that murky pit where fantasies, self-damned, in tortures dwell; to struggle toward that pass whose narrow mouth is lit by all the seething, searing flames of hell; serenely to decide this step and onward press, though there be risk i ll float off into nothingness. so now come down, thou goblet pure and crystalline! from out that ancient case of thine, on which for many a year i have not thought! thou at my f

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ng partner. what is true, is pleasurable self. i have now reached the sixth letter of the alphabet" when suddenly he observed another and more agile following him-who when reaching aaos, clutched hold of him-shouting "where i cannot reach, thou too shall not ascend" their combined weight became too heavy-the balustrading collapsed and they both fell. aaos felt himself falling as into a bottomless pit-when with a start he awoke, and after introspection spoke to his heart "verily i have fallen in love with a new belief and become moral! this i reflects itself differently. what was once easy- is now difficult. all reflections are radiated matter incarnating. who doth know what his own stillness refracts at the time of its projection? who would suspect afterthought without consciousness? the i

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

2 john 1:7 "for many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that jesus christ is come in the flesh. this is a deceiver and an antichrist" in addition to denying that jesus is the christ come in flesh, this statement also teaches that man can save himself. obviously, freemasonry cannot be considered christian in any way, shape, or form when it teaches this heresy straight out of the pit of satan's hell. going back to the triangle pointing upward which represents the perfect or divine man; masonic writer albert churchward states standard occult belief when he further identifies the upright triangle. with the point up churchward writes that this triangle represents set "set" is one of the infernal names of satan, as listed in the satanic bible written by satanic high priest, an

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

he result is the establishment of black magic, the earth being peopled by gmighty men h, 12 or despots. why not white magic? because the sons of god (the above) came down to the daughters of men (the below; that is light is absorbed by darkness. thus mankind sank into the qliphoth, the reflection of the world of assiah upon the chaos of human passions, and hell is created- the materialized mental pit. thus also it came about that the world became corrupt and filled with violence, and to redeem it it was necessary to destroy it, except for noah and those in the ark. noah was, however, far from perfect; consequently we find that after the deluge he profanes the mysteries, gand he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent h 13 and, his son canaan divulging this

ut coincide. and when the qabalist postulates no-thingness as the beginning of every-thingness, and the scientist says, gthe beginning seems to present insuperable difficulties unless we agree to look on it as frankly supernatural h, 16 coincidence is absolute; for in both reality remains impenetrable, and like bottom's dream all that is derived from this supreme zero is without bottom- it is the pit of activities which the qabalists frequently call hell. the laboratory of satan. in the world we see a ceaseless struggle entailing change- birth, formation, growth, decay, and death. a ceaseless evolution and dissolution surround us in which everything seems to be possessed of a dual nature and to be urged onwards or backwards by a clash of dual powers. thus far the duality which lies at the

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

of capital it had underwritten and promptly put in a receiver; bottomleyhimselffileda petition forbankruptcyin may1891,and soonafterwardshe was indicted, with his fellow directors, on charges of fraud. but all of this was in the undreamed future when redwayceasedto be redway and waite found himself at a loose end. and just as sinnett had takenawayhis publisher, so sinnett now hauled him out.ofthe pit of enforcedidleness.among thejournals published by the catherinestreet publishing association wasthebritishmail,a monthly that professed to be a 'journal of the chambers of commerce of the united kingdom' but was also, in february1889,without an editor. to waite's great astonishment, sinnett offered him the post. that waite knew nothing of journalism seemed not to matter, for when he pointed t

ingofmysticism, he developed his ideaofa unifying secret traditionthathad perpetuated esoteric doctrinesthroughtheworkofthiscontinuing'holyassembly'.butit was far from being the instituted secret societyofoccult dreams; indeed it was far from being an institution at all.1.theyoung a. e. waite(c.1880).2.theoriginal buildings of st charles's college, bayswater.a nd otherp oems, fl yarthure. w aite, pit 1 ce8 1xp m s on. ll u ui\ co "6 ,l 'ttj.242tl ,h al't4wui.3au ,v r n 3.anodeto astronomy(1877, waite's first publishedbook.5.dorastuart255menteath(c.1900).4. eastlake lodge, harvard road,gunnersbury. 6. ada waite .7.toptrees, east molesey,homeof the stuart- menteath family.8 .cover design by evelyn stuart- menteath fortheunknownworld.9. waite's entry in the addressbookof the hermeticorderofth

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i, 12. king saul is said to have set up a pillar or monument at carmel as a memorial of his success over the amalekites.therewas also the pillar of absalom which he raised to commemorate himself because his sons had died 'and it is called absalom's monument unto this day, ii samuel, xviii, 18.thejewish historian josephus said it was standing 'in the king's dale' in his time. absalom was buriedina pit and a heap of stones was255 raised over his grave; this is perhaps the earliest mention of a funeral cairn. there are well known references to symbolic stones bothinthe old and new testaments. in the 118th psalm we read:'thestone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner' this is considered as prophetic of jesus as the christ who was rejected by the jewsbutbecame the head s

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

for hell. like the many differing names of god, the various modern copyists have tended to use one word in numerous locations, where in realthe gnostic handbook page 83 ity there are multiple words in the original hebrew or greek, which each offer many possible interpretations. hell on earth the term sheol is used a lot in the bible and as used in the old testament can be interchanged with grave, pit, and abode of the dead. it is used to describe the state of the dead in relation to earth. the dead have no consciousness in relation to earth as they have returned to it! the grave or the state of being dead (without consciousness) is used to represent the lack of awareness the reincarnating soul has of the earth sphere. time and time again this term is used to refer to cessation of activity

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

level. and as i looked at this beautiful design (the original of which had perhaps been embroidered on rich cloth) the picture that came into my mind was of viracocha as a wizard or a sorcerer, a bearded, merlin-like figure dressed in weird and wonderful clothes, calling down fire from heaven. the temple in which the viracocha pillar stood was open to the sky and consisted of a large, rectangular pit, like a swimming pool, dug out six feet below ground level. its floor, about 40 feet long by 30 feet wide, was composed of hard, flat gravel. its strong vertical walls were formed from precisely dressed ashlar blocks of varying sizes laid closely against one another without mortar in the joints and interspersed with taller, rough-hewn stelae. a set of steps was let into the southern wall and i

or demolished, and several huge stone heads and other smaller pieces of sculpture were ritually buried in peculiar graves, just as had happened at san lorenzo. the la venta graves were elaborate and carefully prepared, lined with thousands of tiny blue tiles and filled up with layers of multicoloured clay.10 at one spot some 15,000 cubic feet of earth had been dug out of the ground to make a deep pit; its floor had been carefully covered with serpentine blocks, and all the earth put back. three mosaic pavements were also found, intentionally buried beneath several alternating layers of clay and adobe.11 la venta s principal pyramid stood at the southern end of the site. roughly circular at ground level, it took the form of a fluted cone, the rounded sides consisting of ten vertical ridges

t explained why it was necessary for us to circumnavigate the pyramid before climbing it, we now began to make our way in a westerly direction along the monument s southern side. here there were two further boat-shaped pits, one of which, although still sealed, had been investigated with fibre-optic cameras and was known to contain a high-prowed sea-going vessel more than 100 feet long. the other pit had been excavated in the 1950s. its contents an even larger seagoing vessel, a full 141 feet in length5 had been placed in the so-called boat museum, an ugly modern structure that gangled on stilts beneath the south face of the pyramid. made of cedarwood, the beautiful ship in the museum was still in perfect condition 4500 years after it had been built. with a displacement of around 40 tons

of the eastern face, clambered over mounds of rubble and ancient tombs that clustered closely in this part of the necropolis, and came out on to the sand-covered limestone bedrock of the giza plateau, which sloped down towards the south and east. at the bottom of this long gentle slope, about half a kilometre from the south-eastern corner of the great pyramid, the sphinx crouched in his rock-hewn pit. sixty-six feet high and more than 240 feet long, with a head measuring 13 feet 8 inches wide,1 he was, by a considerable margin, the largest single piece of sculpture in the world and the most renowned: a shape with lion body and the head of a man a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun.2 approaching the monument from the north-west i crossed the ancient causeway that connected the second pyrami

he time of khafre. indeed throughout much of the nineteenth century the consensus among scholars was that it had been built in remote prehistory, and had nothing to do with the architecture of dynastic egypt.3 what changed all that was the discovery, buried within the temple precincts, of a number of inscribed statues of khafre. most were pretty badly smashed, but one, found upside down in a deep pit in an antechamber, was almost intact. life-sized, and exquisitely carved out of black, jewel-hard diorite, it showed the fourth dynasty pharaoh seated on his throne and gazing with serene indifference towards infinity. at this point the razor-sharp reasoning of egyptology was brought to bear, and a solution of almost awe-inspiring brilliance was worked out: statues of khafre had been found in

protected the underlying limestone core blocks like a suit of armour. incorporating a tall, narrow, roofless corridor, this dark and imposing portal ran east to west at first, then made a right-angle turn to the south, leading me into a spacious antechamber. it was here that the life-size diorite statue of khafre had been found, upside down and apparently ritually buried, at the bottom of a deep pit. lining the entire interior of the antechamber was a majestic jigsaw puzzle of smoothly polished granite facing blocks (which continued through the whole building. exactly like the blocks on some of the bigger and more bizarre pre-inca monuments in peru, these incorporated multiple, finely chiselled angles in the joints and presented a complex overall pattern. of particular note was the way ce

ribution (based on statues which may well have been intrusive) is shaky to say the least. it has nevertheless received the wholehearted endorsement of the egyptologists, who in the process decided to attribute the sphinx to khafre too (since the sphinx and the valley temple are so obviously connected. 3 because the face of the sphinx is thought to resemble the intact statue of khafre found in the pit in the valley temple: this, of course, is a matter of opinion. i have never seen the slightest resemblance between the two faces. nor for that matter had forensic artists from the new york police department who had recently been brought in to do an identikit comparison between the sphinx and the statue29 (as we shall see in part vii. all in all, therefore, as i stood overlooking the sphinx in

GRIFFIN DAVID MAGICAL EVOCATION OF THE AVERSE FORCES

nowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel but had risen with osiris in the tomb of frater crc as well, thus attaining the strength of gevurah.1 indeed, the work of the sword is the work of the major adept, and all others should fear, shun, and avoid it. let the unprepared turn back in self-righteousness and terror to the innocence and safety of the light, lest they fall unwary into the pit and be lost forever to the dogfaced denizens of darkness. evocation to visible appearance is an extremely powerful form of ritual, designed primarily for working with the averse forces in a safe and sane fashion. s. l. macgregor mathers spent a great deal of time studying and translating magical grimoires including the greater key of solomon,2 the lesser key of solomon3 (also known as the leme

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

me, and still remains unused. many of the finest swedish legends have been given us in various places, but a still greater number must be lying ungathered: afzelius's sago-hiifder, welcome as they are, go too much on the plan of extracting the juice from whatever came to hand. norway can hardly be less stocked with legend than sweden, it has moreover its popular lays to shew, into which songs of pit e face. xv the edda have been transmuted, witness the lay of thorns hammer (p. 181) and the solar-lay. in our own day, j. w. wolf is labouring on the popular traditions of belgium, and rob. chambers on those of scotland, with zeal and visible success. the fairy-tale (miirchen) is with good reason distinguished from the legend, though by turns they play into one another. looser, less fettered t

localities coincide. the witches invariably resort to places where formerly justice was administered, or sacrifices were offered. their meeting takes place on the mead, on the oak-sward, under the lime, under the oalv, at the i^eartree; on the boughs of the tree sits that piper whose help they need in the dance. sometimes they dance at the 'place of execution, under the gallows-tree, in the sand-pit. but for the most part mountains are named as their trystingplaces, hills (at the three hilheln, knolls, three upchen, peaks, in fact, the highest points of a neighbourhood. we must not forget how elves and bilweises are housed in mils (p. 474, nor that the servian vilas and eomance fays dwell on mountains: a notable passage about magic wrought on a mount (puegau, pueg, puy, lat. podium) was q

swept with a broom outside the^ wulfter's deduction, beil. nos. 4. o. 135. vol. iii. u 1188 sicknesses. gate, then all in the village died. but she was very seldom seen^ and never except at daybreak (afzelius 4, 179. in yestergotland they had decreed a human sacrifice to stay the* digerdod/ and two heggar children having just then come in, were to be buried alive in the ground. they soon dug the pit open, gave the hungry children cake spread with lard, and made them sit down in the pit: while they ate, the people shovelled up the earth' oh' cried the younger child, when the first spadeful was thrown over it' here's some dirt fallen on my bread and lard' a mound was quickly thrown up over them, and nothing more was heard of them (afz. 4, 181. compare the walling up of children in the found

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

, so do uranus and kronus here come before zeus; with zeus and 03inn begins the race of gods proper, and poseidon and hades complete the fra ternal trio, like vili and ye. the enmity of gods and titans is therefore that of ases and giants; at the same time, there is just as much resemblance in the expulsion of the titans from heaven (theog. 813) to the fall of the rebel angels into the bottomless pit; so that to the giant element in the titans we may add a daemonic. when the works and days makes the well-known* five races fill five successive ages, the act of creation must needs have been repeated several times; on which point neither the poem itself nor plato (cratyl. 397-8, steph) gives sufficient information. first came the golden race of blissful daimones, next the silver one of weaker

st, die toten sint uf gewecket/ dietr. drachenk. cod. pal. 226a. this makes me think of the tyt0a\6? at delphi, a conical stone wrapt in net (gerhard s metroon p. 29, still more of the lap-is manalis (festus sub v) which closed the mouth of the etruscan mundus, and was lifted off on three holy days every year, so that the souls could mount into the upper world (festus sub v. mundus) not only this pit in the earth, but heaven also was called mundus,2 just as niflheimr is still a heimr, i.e. a world. and that hell-door (p. 802) is paralleled by the descensus averni, the fauces grave olentis averni the f atri janua ditis in virgil s description, aen. 6, 126. 201 (conf. helle infart, veldeck s en. 2878. 2907; fairytales of the slavs too speak of an entrance to the lower world by a deep pit, ha

es out very plainly. when the dwarfs moved out of voigtland, they were a tvhole night crossing the elster (jul. schmidt p. 143-8. at their de parture from the harz, it was agreed that they should pass over a narrow bridge at neuhof, each dropping his toll-money in a vessel fixed upon it, but none of the country folk were to be present. prying people hid under the bridge, and heard for hours their pit-a-pat, as though a flock of sheep were going over (deut. sagen no. 152-3. the bridge-toll brings to mind the ferrymoney of souls. with all this compare the story of the elf making his passage in a boat by night (d.s. no. 80. then again f the bridge of dread no brader than a thread is a kindred notion, which moreover connects itself with the iron sword- bridge crossed by the soul that has crept

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

e lion not to crush him. he pointed out that he was too small to satisfy the lion s appetite. the mouse promised that if the lion gave him his life, he would one day save the lion in return. the lion laughed at this, because he thought that no one was powerful enough to endanger him, but he let the mouse go anyway. the lion did not realize how cunning man was. a hunter had set a net over a hidden pit. the lion fell into the trap and was caught in the meshes of the net and bound with leather straps. he struggled for hours but could not free himself. in the middle of the night, the little mouse came and told the lion that he had come to repay him for the gift of life, because it is beautiful to do good. the mouse gnawed through the straps and ropes until the lion was free. then the mouse cli

HEAVEN HELL

h "must have been quite dark, or nearly so (like the ambulatories surrounding the shrines in later temples, for the outside was closed by a thick wall" between this wall and the edge of the platform on which the building stood was an outer colonnade of square pillars, but the pillars no longer exist. in the rock below the pavement of this colonnade a number of tombs were hewn; each consisted of a pit from twelve to fifteen feet deep, which led to a small rectangular chamber, wherein originally stood a limestone sarcophagus. in these tombs women who were both priestesses of hathor and members of the royal harim were buried, and further excavations will no doubt reveal the fact that menthu-hetep's high officers of state were buried in somewhat similar tombs in the immediate neighbourhood of

e performs deeds of magic; in front of him is the serpent set-heh, i.e, the everlasting set, his familiar and messenger (vol. i, p. 249. horus is watching and directing p. 178 the destruction of the bodies, souls, shadows, and heads of the enemies of ra, and of the damned who are in this division, which is taking place in five pits of fire. a lioness-headed goddess stands by the side of the first pit which contains the enemies of ra; the fire with which they are consumed is supplied by the goddess, who vomits it into one corner of the pit. the next four pits contain the bodies, souls, shades, and heads respectively, of the damned, the fire being supplied by the goddesses in charge. in the pit following are four beings who are immersed, head downwards, in the depths of its fires (vol. i, pp

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

corner of the vast theatre. the musicians in the orchestra, with faces still blanched from weird emotion,were now seen shaking with laughter, and the whole audience rose, like one man, from their seats, unable yetto solve the enigma; they felt, nevertheless, too disgusted, too disposed to laugh to remain one moment longerin the building. but suddenly the sea of moving heads in the stalls and the pit became once more motionless, and stoodpetrified, as though struck by lightning. what all saw was terrible enough- the handsome though wild faceof the young artist suddenly aged, and his graceful, erect figure bent down, as though under the weight ofyears; but this was nothing to that which some of the most sensitive clearly perceived. franz stenio's personwas now entirely enveloped in a semi-t

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

erstition 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 ancient greek writer, of whose works only a few fragments now remain extant. hierogrammatists (gr) the title given to those egyptian priests who were entrusted with the writing and reading of the sacred and

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

invented a cure for cockroaches, and have cleared several houses of them. it is calomel, i.e. submuriate of mercury. get a quarter of an ounce of it at the chemist's. then take a piece of dough about the size of an egg, and mix half of the 1/4 oz with it, break it up into small pellets, and put it into any small holes about the kitchen fire-place, or where they most congregate. if there is an ash-pit, as there is to most kitchen fire-places, take up the grating, and put the pellets into any small holes or corners in the brick-work. they eat it greedily. after the first application, you will see quite a few changed to almost white. then mix the remainder of the calomel with another piece of dough, and place that as before. i have always found twice sufficient, but it is possible that a thir

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

he laughing maniac by his side. he did not try to navigate after the first bold flight, for the reaction had taken something out of his soul. then came the storm of april 2nd, and a gathering of the clouds about his consciousness. there is a sense of spectral whirling through liquid gulfs of infinity, of dizzying rides through reeling universes on a comets tail, and of hysterical plunges from the pit to the moon and from the moon back again to the pit, all livened by a cachinnating chorus of the distorted, hilarious elder gods and the green, bat-winged mocking imps of tartarus. out of that dream came rescue-the vigilant, the vice-admiralty court, the streets of dunedin, and the long voyage back home to the old house by the egeberg. he could not tell- they would think him mad. he would writ

of dunwich braced themselves tensely against some imponderable menace with which the atmosphere seemed surcharged. without warning came those deep, cracked, raucous vocal sounds which will never leave the memory of the stricken group who heard them. not from any human throat were they born, for the organs of man can yield no such acoustic perversions. rather would one have said they came from the pit itself, had not their source been so unmistakably the altar-stone on the peak. it is almost erroneous to call them sounds at all, since so much of their ghastly, infra-bass timbre spoke to dim seats of consciousness and terror far subtler than the ear; yet one must do so, since their form was indisputably though vaguely that of half-articulate words. they were loud- loud as the rumblings and t

k god i did not then know what it was, else i should have died. but i was saved by the very thunder that had summoned it, for after a hideous wait there burst from the unseen outside sky one of those frequent mountainward bolts whose aftermath i had noticed here and there as gashes of disturbed earth and fulgurites of various sizes. with cyclopean rage it tore through the soil above that damnable pit, blinding and deafening me, yet not wholly reducing me to a coma. in the chaos of sliding, shifting earth i clawed and floundered helplessly till the rain on my head steadied me and i saw that i had come to the surface in a familiar spot; a steep unforested place on the southwest slope of the mountain. recurrent sheet lightnings illumed the tumbled ground and the remains of the curious low hum

queerly disordered pictures superimposed one upon an other; an arrangement in which the essentials of time as well as of space seemed dissolved and mixed in the most illogical fashion. in this kaleidoscopic vortex of phantasmal images were occasional snap-shots, if one might use the term, of singular clearness but un accountable heterogeneity. once my uncle thought he lay in a carelessly dug open pit, with a crowd of angry faces framed by straggling locks and three-cornered hats frowning down at him. again he seemed to be in the interior of a house- an old house, apparently- but the details and inhabitants were constantly changing, and he could never be certain of the faces or the furniture, or even of the room itself, since doors and windows seemed in just as great a state of flux as the

t of the hole and dispersed the heaped-up dirt, then arranging the great carboys of acid around and near two sides, so that when necessary i might empty them all down the aperture in quick succession. after that i dumped earth only along the other two sides; working more slowly and donning my gas- mask as the smell grew. i was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit. suddenly my spade struck something softer than earth. i shuddered and made a motion as if to climb out of the hole, which was now as deep as my neck. then courage returned, and i scraped away more dirt in the light of the electric torch i had provided. the surface i uncovered was fishy and glassy- a kind of semi-putrid congealed jelly with suggestions of translucency. i scraped further, and s

dared. it was unspeakably shocking, and i do not see how i lived through it. i did faint after emptying the fourth carboy, which i had to handle after the fumes had begun to penetrate my mask; but when i recovered i saw that the hole was emitting no fresh vapours. the two remaining carboys i emptied down without particular result, and after a time i felt it safe to shovel the earth back into the pit. it was twilight before i was done, but fear had gone out of the place. the dampness was less foetid, and all the strange fungi had withered to a kind of harmless greyish powder which blew ashlike along the floor. one of earth's nethermost terrors had perished forever; and if there be a hell, it had received at last the daemon soul of an unhallowed thing. and as i patted down the last spadeful

, where some rhode island colonial correspondence was stored in the museum at fraunces' tavern. the really crucial thing, though, and what in dr, willett's opinion formed the definite source of ward's undoing, was the matter found in august 1919 behind the panelling of the crumbling house in olney court. it was that, beyond a doubt, which opened up those black vistas whose end was deeper than the pit. ii. an antecedent and a horror 1 joseph curwen, as revealed by the rambling legends embodied in what ward heard and unearthed, was a very astonishing, enigmatic, and obscurely horrible individual. he had fled from salem to providence- that universal haven of the odd, the free, and the dissenting- at the beginning of the great witchcraft panic; being in fear of accusation because of his solita

ancy- which his medical skill of course assured him was only a fancy- that the eyes of the portrait had a sort of wish, if not an actual tendency, to follow young charles ward as he move about the room. he stopped before leaving to study the picture closely, marvelling at its resemblance to charles and memorising every minute detail of the cryptical, colourless face, even down to a slight scar or pit in the smooth brow above the right eye. cosmo alexander, he decided, was a painter worthy of the scotland that produced raeburn, and a teacher worthy of his illustrious pupil gilbert stuart. assured by the doctor that charles's mental health was in no danger, but that on the other hand he was engaged in researches which might prove of real importance, the wards were more lenient than they migh

gs within his quarters; explaining that european sources had greatly enlarged the possibilities of his work, and promising great revelations in the years to come. his older aspect increased to a startling degree his resemblance to the curwen portrait in his library; and dr. willett would often pause by the latter after a call, marvelling at the virtual identity, and reflecting that only the small pit above the picture's right eye now remained to differentiate the long-dead wizard from the living youth. these calls of willett's, undertaken at the request of teh senior wards, were curious affairs. ward at no time repulsed the doctor, but the latter saw that he could never reach the young man's inner psychology. frequently he noted peculiar things about; little wax images of grotesque design

the old non-secretive days, and which read 'mr. g. b. on that nighte putt ye divell his marke upon bridget s, jonathan a, simon o, deliverance w, joseph c, susan p, mehitable c, and deborah b' ward's face, too, troubled him horribly, till at length he suddenly discovered why he was horrified. for above the young man's right eye was something which he had never previously noticed- a small scar or pit precisely like that in the crumbled painting of old joseph curwen, and perhaps attesting some hideous ritualistic inoculation to which both had submitted at a certain stage of their occult careers. while ward himself was puzzling all the doctors at the hospital a very strict watch was kept on all mail addressed either to him or to dr. allen, which mr. ward had ordered delivered at the family h

that the top did indeed turn and slide horizontally on a corner pivot. beneath it lay a trim concrete surface with an iron manhole, to which mr. ward at once rushed with excited zeal. the cover was not hard to lift, and the father had quite removed it when willett noticed the queerness of his aspect. he was swaying and nodding dizzily, and in the gust of noxious air which swept up from the black pit beneath the doctor soon recognised ample cause. in a moment dr. willett had his fainting companion on the floor above and was reviving him with cold water. mr. ward responded feebly, but it could be seen that the mephitic blast from the crypt had in some way gravely sickened him. wishing to take no chances, willett hastened out to broad street for a taxicab and had soon dispatched the sufferer

d the protective illusions of common vision. in that second look willett saw such an outline or entity, for during the next few instants he was undoubtedly as stark raving mad as any inmate of dr. waite's private hospital. he dropped the electric torch from a hand drained of muscular power or nervous co rdination, nor heeded the sound of crunching teeth which told of its fate at the bottom of the pit. he screamed and screamed and screamed in a voice whose falsetto panic no acquaintance of his would ever have recognised; and though he could not rise to his feet he crawled and rolled desperately away from the damp pavement where dozens of tartarean wells poured forth their exhausted whining and yelping to answer his own insane cries. he tore his hands on the rough, loose stones, and many tim

ined his eyes in every direction for some faint glint or reflection of the bright illumination he had left in the library. after a while he thought he detected a suspicion of a glow infinitely far away, and toward this he crawled in agonised caution on hands and knees amidst the stench and howling, always feeling ahead lest he collide with the numerous great pillars or stumble into the abominable pit he had uncovered. once his shaking fingers touched something which he knew must be the steps leading to the hellish altar, and from this spot he recoiled in loathing. at another time he encountered the pierced slab he had removed, and here his caution became almost pitiful. but he did not come upon the dread aperture after all, nor did anything issue from that aperture to detain him. what had

ved very noiselessly. several times during his progress the glow ahead diminished perceptibly, and he realised that the various candles and lamps he had left must be expiring one by one. the thought of being lost in utter darkness without matches amidst this underground world of nightmare labyrinths impelled him to rise to his feet and run, which he could safely do now that he had passed the open pit; for he knew that once the light failed, his only hope of rescue and survival would lie in whatever relief party mr. ward might send after missing him for a sufficient period. presently, however, he emerged from the open space into the narrower corridor and definitely located the glow as coming from a door on his right. in a moment he had reached it and was standing once more in young ward's s

ust be done. fortunately neither the frightful altar nor the opened shaft was near the vast cell-indented wall which bounded the cavern area, and whose black mysterious archways would form the next goals of a logical search. so willett went back to that great pillared hall of stench and anguished howling; turning down his lamp to avoid any distant glimpse of the hellish altar, or of the uncovered pit with the pierced stone slab beside it. most of the black doorways led merely to small chambers, some vacant and some evidently used as storerooms; and in several of the latter he saw some very curious accumulations of various objects. one was packed with rotting and dust-draped bales of spare clothing, and the explorer thrilled when he saw that it was unmistakably the clothing of a century and

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

shunned and feared. it is very probable that the thing was a sheer delusion born of the previous stresses we had passed through, and of the actual though unrecognized mirage of the dead transmontane city experienced near lake s camp the day before; but it was so real to danforth that he suffers from it still. he has on rare occasions whispered disjointed and irresponsible things about "the black pit "the carven rim "the protoshoggoths "the windowless solids with five dimensions "the nameless cylinder "the elder pharos "yog-sothoth "the primal white jelly "the color out of space "the wings "the eyes in darkness "the moon-ladder "the original, the eternal, the undying" and other bizarre conceptions; but when he is fully himself he repudiates all this and attributes it to his curious and mac

HP LOVECRAFT DAGON

y would have cost me less energy; indeed, i now felt quite able to perform the ascent which had deterred me at sunset. picking up my pack, i started for the crest of the eminence. i have said that the unbroken monotony of the rolling plain was a source of vague horror to me; but i think my horror was greater when i gained the summit of the mound and looked down the other side into an immeasurable pit or canyon, whose black recesses the moon had not yet soared high enough to illumine. i felt myself on the edge of the world, peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night. through my terror ran curious reminiscences of paradise lost, and satan's hideous climb through the unfashioned realms of darkness. as the moon climbed higher in the sky, i began to see that the slopes of the

HP LOVECRAFT HERBERT WEST REANIMATOR

d wholly unexpected. i was pouring something from one test-tube to another, and west was busy over the alcohol blast-lamp which had to answer for a bunsen burner in this gasless edifice, when from the pitch-black room we had left there burst the most appalling and daemoniac succession of cries that either of us had ever heard. not more unutterable could have been the chaos of hellish sound if the pit itself had opened to release the agony of the damned, for in one inconceivable cacophony was centered all the supernal terror and unnatural despair of animate nature. human it could not have been- it is not in man to make such sounds- and without a thought of our late employment or its possible discovery, both west and i leaped to the nearest window like stricken animals; overturning tubes, la

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

the laughing maniac by his side. he did not try to navigate after the first bold flight; for the reaction had taken something out of his soul. then came the storm of 2 april, and a gathering of the clouds about his consciousness. there is a sense of spectral whirling through liquid gulfs of infinity, of dizzying rides through reeling universes on a comet's tail, and of hysterical plunges from the pit to the moon and from the moon back again to the pit, all livened by a cachinnating chorus of the distorted, hilarious elder gods and the green, bat-winged mucking imps of tartarus. out of that dream came rescue- the vigilant the viceadmiralty court, the streets of dunedin, and the long voyage back home to the old house by the egeberg he could not tell -they would think him mad. he would write

HP LOVECRAFT THE CRAWLING CHAOS

el that some noxious marine mind had declared a war of extermination upon all the solid ground, perhaps abetted by the angry sky. recovering at length from the stupor into which this unnatural spectacle had thrown me, i realized that my actual physical danger was acute. even whilst i gazed, the bank had lost many feet, and it could not be long before the house would fall undermined into the awful pit of lashing waves. accordingly i hastened to the opposite side of the edifice, and finding a door, emerged at once, locking it after me with a curious key which had hung inside. i now beheld more of the strange region about me, and marked a singular division which seemed to exist in the hostile ocean and firmament. on each side of the jutting promontory different conditions held sway. at my lef

HP LOVECRAFT THE LURKING FEAR

k god i did not then know what it was, else i should have died. but i was saved by the very thunder that had summoned it, for after a hideous wait there burst from the unseen outside sky one of those frequent mountainward bolts whose aftermath i had noticed here and there as gashes of disturbed earth and fulgurites of various sizes. with cyclopean rage it tore through the soil above that damnable pit, blinding and deafening me, yet not wholly reducing me to a coma. in the chaos of sliding, shifting earth i clawed and floundered helplessly till the rain on my head steadied me and i saw that i had come to the surface in a familiar spot; a steep unforested place on the southwest slope of the mountain. recurrent sheet lightuings illumed the tumbled ground and the remains of the curious low hum

HP LOVECRAFT THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER

stony ruin which may have been a monument in its day. he did not succeed, and motioned to me to come to his assistance. finally our combined strength loosened the stone, which we raised and tipped to one side. the removal of the slab revealed a black aperture, from which rushed an effluence of miasmal gases so nauseous that we started back in horror. after an interval, however, we approached the pit again, and found the exhalations less unbearable. our lanterns disclosed the top of a flight of stone steps, dripping with some detestable ichor of the inner earth, and bordered by moist walls encrusted with niter. and now for the first time my memory records verbal discourse, warren addressing me at length in his mellow tenor voice; a voice singularly unperturbed by our awesome surroundings "

HP LOVECRAFT THE UNNAMABLE

after the doctors and nurses had left, i whispered an awe struck question "good god, manton, but what was it? those scars- was it like that" and i was too dazed to exult when he whispered back a thing i had half expected "no- it wasn't that way at all. it was everywhere- a gelatin- a slime yet it had shapes, a thousand shapes of horror beyond all memory. there were eyes- and a blemish. it was the pit- the maelstrom- the ultimate abomination. carter, it was the unnamablyethe white ship by h.p. lovecraft written november 1919 published november 1919 in the united amateur, vol. 19, no. 2, p. 30-33. i am basil elton, keeper of the north point light that my father and grandfather kept before me. far from the shore stands the gray lighthouse, above sunken slimy rocks that are seen when the tide

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

erence to the farthest distance. as soon as the scholar has reached this point, he can start on transferring consciousness into the fourth dimension in his own body, the microcosm, into the akasa principle of his own being. the practice is as follows: you are sitting quietly in your familiar position with your eyes closed. transfer your consciousness exactly into the middle of your body, into the pit of your stomach, the solar plexus. you must feel yourself as a mere dot, as an atom in the center between the spine and the pit f the stomach. this center is the center of gravity of your body. try to stay there with your consciousness for at least five minutes; you may use an alarm clock to check the time. regard your body from his point. the more diminutive you imagine yourself, the bigger y

ry exercises, and as soon as they have become familiar, you may pass on to the capital method concerning the mastery of the electromagnetic fluid, which i will describe in the following chapter. consider the following analogies: head and chest correspond to the electric fluid, abdomen and thighs and feet to the magnetic fluid. now the magician s task will be to load the feet and abdomen up to the pit of the stomach with the magnetic fluid, and the head, neck and chest with the electric fluid in the manner previously described. he must be able to load both these fluids dynamically, one after the other in the two regions of his body to such a degree that he gets the sensation as if he were about to burst. after a prolonged period of exercises, he will be able to retain both fluids. having ar

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

deliver himself body and soul to the devil. the appointed place of meeting was a lime-kiln; the devil may have thought that this was a delicate compliment to him on account of the peculiarly homelike atmosphere of the spot, but the doctor had different ideas. the devil produced the gold, whereupon dr. colville produced a hat with a wide slit in the crown, which he boldly held over the empty kiln-pit, with the result that by the time the terms of the bargain were literally complied with, a very considerable amount of gold lay at the doctor's disposal, which he prudently used to advance his worldly welfare. so far, so good. but there are two sides to every question. years rolled by, bringing ever nearer and nearer the time at which the account had to be settled, and at length the fatal day

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sed for they were higher than thdr creed. the benevo- lence of peter cooper and elizabeth thompson, of america, who are not orthodox christians, is no less christ-like than that of the baroness angela burdett-coutts, of en^nd, who is one. and yet, in comparison with the millions who have been accounted christians, such have always formed a small minority. they are to be found at this day, in pul- pit and pew, in palace and cottage; but the increasing materialism, worldliness and hypocrisy are fast diminishing their proportionate num- ber. hieir charity and simple, child-like faith in the infallibility of their bible, their dogmas, and their clergy, bring into full activity all the virtues that are implanted in our common nature. we have personally known such god-fearing priests and clergym

sy to prove that the toriilegium, or sorcery, was widely practised among the clergy and monks so late as the ust century, and is pmctised occasional^ even now. anathematizing every manifestation of occult nature outside the predncts of the church, the clergy notwithstanding proofs to the contrary call it "the work of satan "the snares of the fallen angels" who "rush in and out from the bottomless pit" mentioned by john in his kabalistic revelation "from whence arises a smoke as the smoke of a great furnace "inloxicaied by its fumet, around this pit are daily gathering miuions 0/ spiruwdiete, to teorthip at 'the aby$ of baal" more than ever arrogant, stubborn, and despotic, now that she has been nearly upset by modem research, not daring to interfere with the powerful champions of science

against the victimized jtrotigh of the emperor of russia the unfortimate bulgarians and servians. undisturbed by evidence and sarcasm, unbaffled by proof 'the lamb of the vatican' impartially divides his wrath between the liberals of italy "the impious whose breath has the stench of the sepulcher* the "schismatic russian sarmates" and the heretics and spirituidists "who worship at the bottomless pit where the great dragon lies in wait" mr. gladstone went to the trouble of making a catalog of what he terms the "flowers of speech" disseminated through these papal dis- courses. let us cull a few of the chosen terms used by this vice-regent of him who said that "whosoever shall say. thou fool, shall be in danger of hdl-fire" they are selected from authentic discourses. those who oppose the po

have also read with great advantage the topographical descrip- tions of hell arfd purgatory in the celebrated treatise of that name by a jesuit, the cardinal bellannine. a critic found that the aifthor, who gives the description from a dwine vision with which he was favored "appears to possess all the knowledge of a land-measurer about the secret tracts and formidable divisions of the bottomless pit" justin martyr having actually committed to paper the heretical thought that after all socrates might not be altogether fixed in hell" his benedictine editor criticises this too-benevolent father very severely. whoever doubts the christian charity of the church of rome in this direction is invited to peruse the cenmre of the sorbonne on marmontel's bsliaaire. the odium tiieolofficum blazes in

whoever resists their despotic will. besides, was not the 'son' long since crowded by them into the background? hey make thar obeisance only to the dowager mother, for according to thor teaching again through 'the direct spirit of god' she alone acts as a mediatrix. the oectunenical council of 1870 embodied the teaching into a dogma, to disbelieve wliicb is to be doomed forever to the 'bottomless pit' the work of don pasquale di franciscis is positive on that point; for he tells ua that, as the queen of heaven owes to the present pope "the finest gem in her coronet" since he has conferred on her the uniexpected honor of becoming suddenly immaculate, thne b nothing she cannot obtain from her son for "her church" some years ago certain travelers saw in bari, italy, a statue of the madonna, a

di- lemmas. they refuse ukewise to admit, with unprejudiced people, that the phenomena of spiritualism have unquestionably spiritualized and re- cliumed from evil courses many an indomitable atheist and skeptic. but, as they confess themselves, what is the use of a pope, if there be no devil? and so rome sends her ablest advocates and preachers to the rescue of those perishing in 'the bottomless pit' rome employs her cleverest writers for this purpose albeit they all indignantly deny the accusation and in the preface to every book put forth by the prolific des mous- seaux, the french tertulli&n of our century, we find undeniable proofs of the fact. among other certificates of ecclesiastical approval, every volume is ornamented with the text of a certain original letter addressed to the ve

o on, is too long for this chapter. suffice it to say that as we read the numerous questions offered by dominic and the answers of the demons, we become fully convinced that they corroborate in every detail the unwarranted assertions and support the interests of the church. the narrative is suggestive. the legend graphically describes the battle of the exorcist with the legion from the bottomless pit. the sulphurous flames which burst forth from the nose, mouth, eyes, and ears, of the demoniac; the sudden appearance of over a hun- dred angeb, clad in golden armor; and, finally, the descent of the blessed virgin herself, in person, bearing a golden rod, with which she adminis- 140. cf. jean martia: a ugtnd* ife w. dtmmaque: vuru. 1510. digitizecoy google 70 tsis onteilsd ten a sound thrashi

molten metal. henceforward all will enjoy unchangeable happiness and, headed by sosiosh, ever sing the praises of the eternal one* the above is a perfect repetition of vishnu in his tenth avatar, for he will then throw the wicked into the infernal abodes in which, after purifying themselves, they will be pardoned even those devils which rebelled against brahmi, and were hurled into the bottomless pit by $va; as also the 'blessed ones* will go to dwell with the gods, over the mount mem* having thus traced the similarity of views respecting the logos, met- atron, and mediator, as found in tike kabala and the codex of the christian nazaraies and gnostics, the reader is prepared to appreciate the audacity of the patristic scheme to reduce a purely metaphysical figure into concrete form, and ma

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e red cross which is the cross of the rosicrucians thence their name. even the badge and star and symbol of this most christian order, if ever there were a christian order, which presents this red or sanguine cross of the redeemer, imaged in the cognisance of his champion, or captain, or chief soldier, st. george or st. michael, the trampler of the dragon, and custos of the keys of the bottomless pit, where the devils are confined, protests against the mingling of this mussulman banner with the red cross, which opposed it in the hands of the crusaders, and in those of all christian knights. now, all the christian garter badges only seem to appeal and to protest quietly and under allowance, with bated breath, as it were (as if afraid, deficient in firmness and life, leaving results to chanc

nstantes pri res, avec les allures de 1'amant le plus passionne, la sollicitait sans cesse au p ch. elle cependant, soutenue par la grdce de dieu et la frequentation des sacrements, demeurait ferme dans sa resistance. mais malgr toutes ses d votions, ses jeunes, ses voeux; malgr les exorcismes, les b n dictions, les injonctions faites par les exorcistes 1'incube de renoncer ses persecutions; en d pit de la multitude de reliques et autres objets sacres accumules dans la chambre de la jeune fille, des 356 the rosicrucians. flambeaux ardents qu on y entretenait toute la nuit,l incube n en persistait pas moins lui appara tre comme de coutume sous la forme d un tr s-beau jeune homme. enfin, parmi les doctes personnages consult s ce propos, se trouva un th ologien d une grande rudition: lequel

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tform which surrounds the great temple. one stretch of that platform composed of only three stones is nearly 300 feet in length. they are thirteen feet square, two of them are each 64 feet and a third 69 feet long. they are built into the massive wall twenty feet above the ground. we went to the quarry from whence these stones of baalbek were taken. it was a quarter of a mile off, down-hill. in a pit lay the mate of the largest stone in the ruins. it lay there just as the giants of the old forgotten time left it when they were called hence; to remain for thousands of years an eloquent rebuke to such as are prone to think slightingly of the men who have lived before them. this enormous block lies there squared and ready for the builder's hands, a solid mass 14 feet by 17 feet wide and 70 fe

n or injury come from these fireballs. this is not to inscribe malicious intent to ufo's for accidental shooting of a hunter does not condemn the sorrowed friend who fired the shop, much less the distant manufacturer. that fireballs are released at all is, again, probably sheer experimentation on the part of the ufo's (not, so) the "burnings" must be ejected or the ship will catch fire in control pit. as an example of destruction, we shall close with this brief case. an intelligent boy was trudging along the highway at night near palestine, texas. a woman was riding in the same direction, on a horse. the boy reappeared in palestine that night, out of breath and very pale. he said he saw a ball of fire come out of the sky and strike the woman and set her ablaze. the horse ran one way and he

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words and faced me not but turned from me that he would not hear those words that seemed as temptations to him. so did i myself turn from him and left him to his hermitage. thus did i return to chadel's gates, weeping for man's folly and the sorrow of his blindness. only that, by some act of will, he could make whole his sight 337 and see with undarkened vision then he might be uplifted from the pit and rise, deified, soaring, an eagle amongst the distant stars. this is not a gift of mine to give; alas, it is the prize for you to win and jesu did not but perceive. how then could the blind man reach out and seize this precious thing? yet ever are there those that will not see even the most resplendent glories. what is most tragic is that jesu's flawed vision would obscure for long ages the

m scientiae beginning of knowledge timor domini principium scientiae sapientiam atque doctrinam stulti despiciunt the fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. iv profundum 399 the deep degluttiamus eum sicut infernus viventem et integrum quasi descendentem in lacum let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: v pedes malum the evil feet pedes enim illorum ad malum currunt et festinant ut effundant sanguinem for their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. vi inprudentes odi scientiam fools hate knowledge usquequo parvuli diligitis infantiam et stulti ea quae sibi sunt noxia cupiunt et inprudentes odibunt scientiam how long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight

h from paradise, and left him, and ascended into heaven. then adam suffered from the distention of his belly, because it had no outlet. but god sent a bird, which came and helped him, and made an outlet for it, and he was relieved. and gabriel continued absent from him for a hundred years, and he was sad, and wept. then god commanded gabriel, and he came and created eve from under adam's left arm-pit. then melek ta'us descended to earth for the sake of our people- i mean the muchsuffering yezidis- and raised up for us kings beside the kings of the ancient assyrians, nesrukh (who is nasiru'd-din) and kamush (who is king fakhru'd-din) and artimus (who is king shamsu'd-din. and after this we had two kings, the first and second shapur, whose rule lasted one hundred and fifty years, and from wh

re against the people, o my chosen! 26. i am the secret serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. if i lift up my head, i and my nuit are one. if i droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and i and the earth are one. 422 27. there is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. he shall fall down into the pit called because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason. 28. now a curse upon because and his kin! 29. may because be accursed for ever! 30. if will stops and cries why, invoking because, then will stops& does nought. 31. if power asks why, then is power weakness. 32. also reason is a lie; for there is a factor infinite& unknown& all their words are skew-wise. 33. enough of because!

equivalents; stand up! be a terrible one in thine own defense. raise up also the clenched hand, and stop the way of them that would persecute you. say unto thine own heart and soul "i, even i, am my own redeemer" 439 let them be hurled back into confusion and infamy, who devise thine undoing. let them be as chaff before the cyclone, and let the angel of death pursue them, nay, overtake them. in a pit they have hidden a trap for thy feet; into that very destruction let them fall. then, exultant "sound the loud timbrel. rejoice! rejoice! in thine own salvation. then all thy bones shall say pridefully "who is like unto me? have i not delivered myself by mine own brain? have i not been to strong for mine adversaries? have i not spoiled them that would have spoiled me" v. blessed are the strong

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ssay the solution. q: how does kabbalah relate to the big bang theory? a: in the 16th century, the great kabbalist, the holy ari, wrote in the tree of life: behold, that before the emanations were emanated and the creatures were created, the upper simple light had filled the whole t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 314 existence. and there was no vacancy, such as an empty atmosphere, a hollow, or a pit, but all was filled with simple, boundless light. thus, the big bang theory was known to kabbalists long before the astrophysicists learned about it. q: will science understand the sixth sense in the future? a: while in his five senses, one is completely limited in his feelings unable even to simply picture that there might be another sense. man will never be able to imagine it, much less crea

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what does it matter, as long as they remain stupid, whether you change their feelings or not? you cannot be always at their elbow to tell them what is right; and they may do just as wrong as before or worse; and their best intentions merely make the road smooth for them- you know where. for it is not the place itself that is paved with them, as people say so often. you cannot pave the bottomless pit, but you may the road to it. 588. so the first necessity for our candidate of the second degree is to control his mind, if he has anything worth calling a mind to control; and if he has not, to develop it. and this is the whole trend of the degree and of its ceremonies; to that end he must study; to that end he must strive to open various centres in his higher bodies. he is told that it is his

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electrical charge in the air. 2) visualize a star falling from the skies. landing nearby you see a figure of a man with a goats head, holding a black sword, readied. say "before me. azazel" 3) visualize a man with the head of a cat vaporizing into the space behind you. you can feel his breath on the back of your neck. say" behind me. beelzebub" 4) visualize the ground opening up into a bottomless pit. out jumps a great fierce wolf bearing it's snarling fangs. say" on my left. abbadon" 5) a gentle being steps into view (his looks are deceiving) he is the beautiful angel of hostility. say" on my right. belial" 6) throw your arms in the air with furious abandon! say" about me flames the pentagram of lucifer. prince of darkness" 7) wrap your arms around yourself in an embrace. say "within me b

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

y individuals who responded so generously to my queries. finally, a word of thanks is due to the interlibrary loan department at the university of wisconsin, stevens point library for the many requests they so graciously fulfilled for me over the course of writing this book. abaddon abaddon, which means the destroyer, is the hebrew name for the greek apollyon, known as the angel of the bottomless pit (rev. 9:10) and the angel who ties up the devil for a millennium (rev. 20. different sources speak of abaddon, such as the thanksgiving hymns (a dead sea scroll document, which mentions the sheol of abaddon, and the torrents of belial that burst into abaddon, as well as the first-century the biblical antiquities of philo, in which abaddon is used as a place name for hell rather than as the nam

(rev. 20. different sources speak of abaddon, such as the thanksgiving hymns (a dead sea scroll document, which mentions the sheol of abaddon, and the torrents of belial that burst into abaddon, as well as the first-century the biblical antiquities of philo, in which abaddon is used as a place name for hell rather than as the name of a demon or an angel. abaddon is also referred to as a place the pit in milton s paradise regained (iv, 624. alternately, abaddon is identified with a demon, or the devil himself, in the third-century acts of thomas, as well as in john bunyan s puritan classic, pilgrim s progress.within modern ceremonial magic, it constitutes the name for god invoked by moses to bring down the rain over egypt, as reported by samuel liddell mathers in the greater key of solomon

new york: longman s, green& co, 1954. stevenson, ian. the contribution of apparitions to the evidence for survival. journal of the american society for psychical research 76, no. 4 (october 1982: 341 356. tyrrell, g. n. m. apparitions. 1943. rev. 1953. london: society for psychical research, 1973. appolion appolion (also appolyon and apollyon, means destroyer. he is the angel of hell s bottomless pit. as described in revelation (9:1 11 and 20:1 8, appolion opened the shaft of this pit and let out upon the earth a swarm of locusts with humanlike faces. the locusts proceeded to torture those of mankind who have not the seal of god upon their forehead for five months. the locusts king appolion later takes on an even greater challenge than managing them, which is to seize satan, bind him, and

9:1 11 and 20:1 8, appolion opened the shaft of this pit and let out upon the earth a swarm of locusts with humanlike faces. the locusts proceeded to torture those of mankind who have not the seal of god upon their forehead for five months. the locusts king appolion later takes on an even greater challenge than managing them, which is to seize satan, bind him, and then throw him in the bottomless pit for a thousand years. appolion locks satan away, so that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years were ended (after which satan comes out for a little while to try to entrap mankind once again) in the biblical references above, appolion is a good angel, servicing god, but in other writings he has fallen and succumbed to evil. for example, in john bunyan s pilgrim s progre

nic ritual. inverting traditional symbolism, lavey stipulates that all of one s ritual candles should be black except for one white candle, which is to be reserved for cursing rituals. no other light source is to be used during the ceremony: the candles used in satanic ritual represent the light of lucifer the bearer of light, enlightenment, the living flame, burning desire, and the flames of the pit. black candles are used for power and success for the participants of the ritual, and are used to consume the parchments on which blessings requested by the ritual participants are written. the white candle is used for destruction of enemies. parchments upon which curses are written are burned in the flame of the white candle (lavey 1969, 136 137) see also church of satan;magic and magical gro

a scale over against a feather, symbolic of truth. sometimes instead of a feather an image of maat, the goddess of truth, was used. if the heart was too heavy, the sinful party would be considered to have failed the test. according to some accounts, the unfortunate person would then be eaten and destroyed by a demon called ammit. according to other accounts, the person would be placed in a fiery pit, attended by evil-minded demons who tortured them. if, however, the heart balanced the feather, all was well and the person, now with a new body called the sahu, was free to enter the happy world of the sekhet aaru (field of rushes. the hardest part was over, but there were still some dangers or trials to face, as the sahu was not invulnerable. the book of the dead was still useful for spells

world, i command the forces of darkness to bestow their infernal power upon me! open wide the gate of hell and come forth from the abyss to greet me as your brother (sister) and friend! grant me the indulgences of which i speak! i have taken thy name as a part of myself! i live as the beasts of the field, rejoicing in the fleshly life! i favor the just and curse the rotten! by all the gods of the pit, i command that these things of which i speak shall come to pass! come forth and answer to your names by manifesting my desires! the invocation then continues with a long list of names that have been applied to the prince of darkness. the core of the ceremony which in the laveyan system is typically a lust, compassion, or destruction ritual immediately follows this invocation. see also curses;

nd children. bob must save the world while coping with the pressures of everyday life. both god and satan are presented as limp shadows of the beings they were traditionally imagined to be. god wears sunglasses and drinks lite beer. satan, on the other hand, is a thin whiner with self-doubts who sports a goatee and an english accent. when bob asks him about hell, he retorts that, it s a festering pit of agony and despair, but then adds, oh, i put in a koi pond! not exactly the prince of darkness. see also film; humor for further reading: carman, john. nbc puts its faith in cartoon god. san francisco chronicle. march 9, 2000. goodman, tim. cosmic cartoon, dude. san francisco examiner. march 9, 2000. 98 goth subculture goth subculture goths are associated with satanism in the minds of many o

to a horrible thing, abasing their eyes, they shall come forth from the tombs as if they were scattered grasshoppers, running with outstretched necks to the caller. the unbelievers shall say, this is a hard day (arberry 1969, 247. and judged: then he whose deeds weigh heavy in the balance shall inherit a pleasing life, but he whose deeds weight light in the balance shall plunge in the womb of the pit (arberry 1969, 348. paradise (al-jannah) is located at the macrocosmic center of light and is composed of eight levels (or, according to some authorities, as many as the number of souls. this is viewed as a garden where all kinds of delights are prepared for the saved. on the far outer part of the macrocosm lies hell (an-nar, arranged in seven layers, where the soul s punishment consists of be

as powerful as ahriman. the tendency to amplify satan s role as the master of evil continues in later, noncanonical books. by the time of the emergence of the qumran community of essenes (a generation before jesus, satan finally becomes the familiar lord of darkness; for example: the prince of light thou has appointed to come to our support: but satan, the angel mastema, thou hast created for the pit; he rules in darkness, and his purpose is to bring about evil and sin (1 qm 19:12. it was this image of satan, which appears to have been in general circulation in palestine during the first century, that was incorporated into christianity. as with satan, the early christian notion of hell was drawn from contemporaneous judaism. jewish thinking about the afterlife, in turn, developed out of re

rved for god and the angels. living human beings occupied the middle world. the spirits of the dead resided beneath the earth in sheol. as in other cultures, the conceptualization of the realm of the dead as being located beneath the earth s surface probably derives from the custom of burying the dead underground. again similar to the mesopotamian underworld, sheol was not much more than a gloomy pit. see also judaism; underworld for further reading: nielsen, niels c. jr, et al. religions of the world. new york: st.martin s press, 1983. west, james king. introduction to the old testament. new york:macmillan, 1981. shock em dead a rock n roll rewrite of the faust story. in this 1990 film a young man sells his soul to the devil in exchange for being made into a rock star. sorceress there are

al ufology is focused exclusively on the latter) according to creighton, jinns were behind the making of steven spielberg s popular film et, whose depiction of friendly aliens was calculated to mislead human beings about the true, decidedly unfriendly intentions of the aliens. in creighton s judgment (and his italics) the movie was a subtle way for facilitating a take-over by something out of the pit( the e.t. plague 1983, 1. the jinns own the earth, treating us as animals from whose gene pool they can borrow as the occasion suits (thus ufo abductions. they are also responsible for the aids ufos and demons 265 epidemic, generating it in order to eliminate undesirable traits by which creighton makes clear he means homosexuality and to keep their cattle normal and healthy (creighton 1989, 12

(thought to be located near jerusalem) or in other sources believed to be underneath the earth, and reserved for sinners. the essene sect reinforced the dualism between evil and good, believing that the righteous would be freed from suffering whereas sinners would be eternally damned to pain. the christian idea of an infernal underworld was very much influenced by the jewish gehenna, viewed as a pit where sinners were amassed. in christianity the distinction between blessed and damned became sharper, while the concept of righteousness (that deserved blessedness) came to signify joining the christian faith. through the book of revelation it was also believed that the reign of a thousand years will be followed by the resurrection of the saints, and subsequently by a cosmic conflict that wil

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lmost overcomes him. if he should find that he has stopped without willing to do so, and that figures appear, let him at all costs rise above them. yea, thought his very life tremble on his lips, let him force his way upward and onward! 5. let him continue in this so long as the breath of life is in him. whatever threatens, whatever allures, though it were typhon and all his hosts loosed from the pit and leagued against him, though it were from the very throne of god himself that a voice issues bidding him stay and be content, let him struggle on, ever on. 6. at last there must come a moment when his whole being is swallowed up in fatigue, overwhelmed by its own inertia. note 1 let him sink (when no longer can he strive, though his tongue by bitten through with the effort and the blood gus

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sod lbt dlj tebhel cheled wet earth table iv (continued) 23 cvi* the ten hells in seven palaces. cvii. translation of hells. cviii* some princes of the qliphoth. cix* the kings of edom. 0. 1 satan and moloch. 2* lams. 3 lwac sheol grave \ynwnz tca. 4 wdba abaddon perdition lucifuge bbwy of hrxb jobab of bozrah 5 tjcrab bar shachath clay of death \wrtca ynmyt mch husham of temani 6 wyhfyf titahion pit of destruction belphegor awyj tywu ddh hadad of avith 7 twmyruc shaarimoth gates of death yadmca hqrcm hlmnc samlah of masrekah 8 twmla tzelmoth shadow of death adramelek laylb tybhr lwac saul of reheboth 9 tylyl nh lub baal-hannan 1010 \nhyg gehinnom hell hmun wup rdh hadar of pau cix (continued* the dukes of edom. cx. elements and quarters (sepher yetzirah. cxi. sephirothic colours (dr. jell

straint. 22 1 5 e of! p ornament, freewill. 23 1 0 e of 9 po overthrow, couch. 24 0 4 9 of b f returning, visit from friends. the hexagrams 45 figure. nature. name. divination and spiritual meaning. 25 7 4+ of b w wang simplicity and sincerity, earnestness. 26 1 7 e of+ t kh great accumulation. 27 1 4 e of b nourishment, upper jaw. 28 6 3 cof d t kwo great carefulness, weak beam. 29 2 2= of= khan pit, defile, peril. 30 5 5! of! l inherent in, attached to, docility. 31 6 1 c of e hsien influencing to action, all, jointly. 32 4 3 b of d hbng perseverance, keeping to the path. table of correspondences 46 figure. nature. name. divination and spiritual meaning. 33 7 1+ of e thun returning, avoiding, retirement. 34 4 7 b of+ t kwang violence, the great ram. 35 5 0! of 9 tzin to advance (good. 36

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passive, and so the blood of all your martyrs cries out against you. receive the sentence of cain, and depart to the land of nod. you are no longer desired on this earth. 5. allah, and your bitch-servant muhammad, most bloodthirsty of prophets, you have both been judged and found detestable. prostrate yourselves before me, five times five, it will not be enough. for seeking to make the earth your pit of slaves, you are the most accursed of all. your followers will be isolated and hunted down, and history will remember you as the paragons of barbarism. 6. all false prophets and delusional messiahs, you have been judged and found incompetent. all of your patronizing sermons and false prophecies have emptied your souls of any light. choke on the darkness, it is your reward. 7. liars! you who

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k blood fs on everything. boo! scow! be off! out! vanish! fly! begone! out! off! out! off! i fm king of babylon. oh no! thy pardon. spare me .tis as a slip o. th. lip. now flip! rip! bawdy harlot, skip [he threatens her. she trembles, but holds her ground. strip, yes, i fll strip you naked, strip your flesh in strips with my lips, gnaw your bones like a dog. off, sow! off, grumpet! strumpet! scum-pit! flails to thresh your body! clubs to mash your face in! knives to cut away your cat.s nine lives! astarte (entering hastily) what fs this? who are you? what right have you to come and make this havoc in the home? can you not see what wreck your tempest makes? begone! i have a fiery flight of snakes to lash you hence! psyche. it may be mine fs the right. it may be you are nothing in my sight

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ry possible of that unfathomable hell. aha! 19 even the shadows that arise are things too dreadful to recount! there fs no such doom in destiny fs harvest of horror. the white fount of speech is stifled at its source. know, the sane spirit keeps its course by this, that everything it thinks hath causal or contingent links. destroy them, and destroy the mind! o bestial, bottomless, and blind black pit of all insanity! the adept must make his way to thee! this is the end of all our pain, the dissolution of the brain! for lo! in this no mortar sticks; down come the house.a hail of bricks! the sense of all i hear is drowned; tap, tap, isolated sound, patters, clatters, batters, chatters, tap, tap, tap, and nothing matters! senseless hallucinations roll across the curtain of the soul. each ripp

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

he gallant lungs gasp loud in vain: thy life is spilt upon the plain. sir palamede is stricken numb as one who, gazing on the sun, sees blackness gather. blank and dumb, the good knight sees a thin breath come out of his proper mouth, and dart over the plain: he seeth it sure by some black magician art shape ever closer like an hart: while such a questing there resounds as god had loosed the very pit, or as a thirty couple hounds are in its belly as it bounds! full sick at heart, i ween, was then the loyal knight, the weak of wit, the butt of lewd and puny men, sir palamede the saracen. 31 xiv northward the good knight gallops fast, resolved to seek his foe at home, when rose that vision of the past, the royal battlements of rome, a ruined city, and a dome. there in the broken forum sat a

his belly questeth he. beneath him? heareth he aright? he leaps to.sfeet.a wonder shews: steep dips a stairway from the light to what obscurity god knows. still never a tremor shakes his soul (god praise thee, knight of adamant; he plungers to that gruesome goal firm as an old bull-elephant! the broad stair winds; he follows it; dark is the way; the air is blind; black, black the blackness of the pit, the light long blotted out behind! liber cxcvii 70 his sword sweeps out; his keen glance peers for some shape glimmering through the gloom: naught, naught in all that void appears; more still, more silent than the tomb! ye now the good knight is aware of some black force, of some dread throne, waiting beneath that awful stair, beneath that pit of slippery stone. yea! though he sees not anythi

peer, good knight proven in many a foughten fight, flees like a felon in the night! ay! this thy quest is past the ken of thee and of all mortal men, sir palamede the saracen! 82 xxxvi oft, as sir palamedes went upon the quest, he was aware of some vast shadow subtly bent with his own shadow in the air. it had no shape, no voice had it wherewith to daunt the eye or ear; yet all the horror of the pit clad it with all the arms of fear. moreover, though he sought to scan some feature, though he listened long, no shape of god or fiend or man, no whisper, groan, shriek, scream, or song gave him to know it. now it chanced one day sir palamedes rode through a great wood whose leafage danced in the thin sunlight as it flowed from heaven. he halted in a glade, bade his horse crop the tender grass;

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

. i have endured the supreme temptation and assault of the enemy. in this wise. first, i found that i did not want sleep.i couldn ft stop .waiting. next, i said .since last night that black ritual (see entry 10.55) did at least serve to turn all my thoughts to the one thought, i will try it again. then i said .no; to do so is not pure .waiting. and then.as by a flash of lightning.the abyss of the pit opened, and my whole position was turned. i saw my life from the dawn of consciousness till now as a gigantic .pose; my very love of truth assumed for the benefit of my biographer! all these strange things suffered and 1 [aramaic .my god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me] john st. john 71 enjoyed for no better purpose than to seem a great man. one cannot express the horror of this thought; it

LIBER DCLXXI VEL PYRAMIDOS

pep! unspoken name! thus is the great pyramid duly builded. 4 1. initiation the first pylon i know not who i am; i know not whence i came; i know not whither i go; i seek.but what, i do not know! i am blind and bound; but i have heard one cry ring through eternity; arise and follow me! the candidate still, bound and hoodwinked: asar un-nefer! i invoke the fourfold horror of the smoke. unloose the pit! by the dread word of power.that set-typhon hath heard. sazaz sazaz adnatsan sazaz1 the fear of darkness and of death. the fear of water and of fire the fear o. the chasm and the chain the fear of hell and the dead breath. the fear of him, the demon dire that on the threshold of the inane stands with his dragon fear to slay 1 (pronounce this backwards. but it is very dangerous. it opens the ga

LIBER DOMINI

n no more be manipulated by these formulae than the sun can be made to stand still by the sounding of a trumpet. the results obtained through such rituals may be real enough, however they are merely a result of the focused will of the practitioner, not the binding of demonic entities in servitude. the mind has vast power, to deceive as well as create- the satanist should be wary of falling into a pit of selfdelusion created by his/her own mind. 10. i am pure fire. i consume all falsehood in my path and i know no fear. comment: satan s power can be likened to fire which purifies the worthy and destroys the false and baseless. all absolutist metaphysical doctrines and false moral claims are fearlessly dispatched by the power of the dark lord. 11. i am not to be sought in arcane rituals and t

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

in metaphysic.s stereoscope) but for the moment be denied a metaphysical inspection. bring out the antiseptic soap. we.ll judge the christ by simple section, and strictly on the moral side. but first; i must insist on taking the ordinary substantial creed your clergy preach from desk and pulpit each sunday; all the bible, shaking its boards with laughter as you read each sunday. ibsen43 to a full pit may play in the moon. if (lunars they) they thought themselves to be the play, it.s little the applause he.d get. i met a christian clergyman. the nicest man i ever met. we argued of the cosmic plan. i was lord roberts, he de wet.44* scots legal term for defendant. a romany word for woman. the rev. j. bowley. the conversation described actually occurred in mr. gerald kelly.s studio in paris. 1

however, he is undoubtedly a believer till the last (the pious will quote james ii. 19, and the infidel will observe that he died in an asylum; then the full swing of the tide catches him, the mysteries of death become more and more an obsession, and he is flung headlong into sadism, necrophilia, 56 the sword of song all the maddest, fiercest vices that the mind of fiends ever brought up from the pit. but always to the very end his power is unexhausted, immense, terrible. his delerium does not amuse; it appals! a man who could conceive as he did must himself have had some glorious chord in his heart vibrating to the eternal principle of boundless love. that this love was wrecked is for me, in some sort a relative of his, a real and bitter sorrow. he might have been so great! he missed heav

father drew with his sword lines of power in the sand, so that a black and terrible demon appeared squeezing up in thin flat plates of flesh along the sword-lines. so our father cried .simples, o axcaxrabortharax, for my mother. then the demon was wroth and shrieked .thy mother to black hell! she is mine. so the old hag confessed straight that she had given her body for love to that fiend of the pit. but our father paid no heed thereto and bade the demon to do his will, so that he brought him herbs many, and good, with which our father planted a great grove that grew about him (for the sun was now waxen bitter hot) wherein he worshipped, offering in vessels of clay these seven offerings :2 the first offering, dust; the second offering, ashes; the third offering, sand; the fourth offering

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him. if he should find that he has stopped without willing to do so, and that figure appear, let him at all costs rise above them. yea, though his very life tremble on his lips, let him force his way upward and onward! svb figvra vi. 15 5. let him continue in this so long as the breath of life is in him. whatever threatens, whatever allures, though it were typhon and all his hosts loosed from the pit and leagued against him, though it were from the very throne of god himself that a voice issues bidding him stay and be content, let him struggle on, ever on. 6. at last there must come a moment when his whole being is swallowed up in fatigue, overwhelmed by its own inertia* let him sink (when no longer can he strive, though his tongue be bitten through with the effort and the blood gush from

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

ost lovely lady all shining with the sun, and moon, and stars, who was lighting a great bowl of water with one hand, by dropping dew on it out of a cup, and with the other she was putting out a terrible fire with a torch. she had a red lion and a white eagle, that she had via o v. oculus via s v. sustentaculum liber xcv 10 always had ever since she was a little girl. she had found them in a nasty pit full of all kinds of filth, and they were very savage; but by always treating them kindly they had grown up faithful and good. this should be a lesson to all of us never to be unkind to our pets. my fairy prince was laughing all the time in the third path. there was nobody there but an old gentleman who had but his bones on outside, and was trying ever so hard to cut down the grass with a scyt

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

m ranisch, ragnarok: die sagen vom weltundergang (berlin and leipzig: w. de gruyter; a book-length chapter (pp. 133.290) treats the bound giant in the caucasus and is followed by a consideration of the bound wolf (pp. 291.326. a more recent study was that of alexander haggerty krappe, gthe snake tower, h scandinavian studies 16 (1940: 22.33, which associated loki with the hero gunnar in the snake pit and saw england as the conduit. bous avenger of baldr in the version of the story in saxo fs gesta danorum. bous was the result of othinus fs rape of the rutenian princess rinda. he grows up skilled with weapons, and when he is ten, odin summons him and argues that vengeance is more noble than killing random adversaries. when bous and hotherus (in saxo fs version, balderus fs competitor for th

MAGIC AND SPELLS

mple, a fire contained inside a furnace too small to hold you or a fire already occupied by a big cauldron, it is not a viable destination and you don't sense its location. if a fire rests on a surface that can't support you, it is still a viable destination and you suffer the appropriate consequences if you transport yourself to it. for example, if you transport yourself into a fire burning in a pit full of oil, you fall into the oil when you arrive there. the spell provides no protection against fire, so it is advisable to obtain such protection before using the spell. flashburst evocation [fire] level: hth 3, sor/wiz 3 components: v, s, m/df casting time: 1 action range: long (400 ft+ 40 ft./level) area: a 20-ft.-radius burst duration: instantaneous (see text) saving throw: will partial

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ings which indicate that the romans gained admission there. in the light of the secret philosophy of the egyptian initiates, w. w. harmon, by a series of extremely complicated yet exact mathematical calculations; determines that the first ceremonial of the pyramid was performed 68,890 years ago on the occasion when the star vega for the first time sent its ray down the descending passage into the pit. the actual building of the pyramid was accomplished in the period of from ten to fifteen years immediately preceding this date. while such figures doubtless will evoke the ridicule of modern egyptologists, they are based upon an exhaustive study of the principles of sidereal mechanics as incorporated into the structure of the pyramid by its initiated builders. if the casing stones were in pos

. in the upper left-hand corner are shown the seven angels bearing the trumpets and also the altar of god and the angel with the censer. in the upper right are the spirits of the winds; below them is the virgin clothed wit h the sun, to whom wings were given that she might fly into the wilderness. to her right is a scene representing the spirits of god hurling the evil serpent into the bottomless pit. at the lower left st. john is shown receiving from the angelic figure, whose legs are pillars of fire and whose face is a shining sun, the little book which he is told to eat if he would understand the mysteries of the spiritual life. the plate also contains a number of other symbols, including episodes from the destruction of the world and the crystal sea pouring forth from the throne of god

led wormwood, fell from heaven, thereby signifying that the secret doctrine of the ancients had been given to men who had profaned it and caused the wisdom of god to become a destructive agency. and another star- symbolizing the false light of human reason as distinguished from the divine reason of the initiate--fell from heaven and to it (materialistic reason) was given the key to the bottomless pit (nature, which it opened, causing all manner of evil creatures to issue forth. and there came also a mighty angel who was clothed in a cloud, whose face was as the sun and his feet and legs as pillars of fire, and one foot was upon the waters and the other upon the land (the hermetic anthropos. this celestial being gave st. john a little book, bidding him eat it, which the seer did. the book i

e new jerusalem. from klauber's historiae biblicae veteris et novi testamenti. in the upper left-hand corner is shown the destruction of babylon, also the angel which cast the great millstone into the sea, saying "thus with violence shall that great city babylon be thrown down and shall be found no more at all" below is the horseman, called faithful and true, casting the beast into the bottomless pit. at the lower right is the angel with the key to the bottomless pit, who with a great chain binds satan for a thousand years. in the heavens above is represented one like unto the son of man, who carries a great sickle with which he reaps the harvest of the world. in the center is the holy city, the new jerusalem, with its twelve gates and the mountain of the lamb rising in the midst thereof

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

till to come, i will in the power and by the power of the name of the supreme and everlasting lord god who created both thee and me and all the world in six days, and what is contained therein, eie, saraye, and by the power of this name primeumaton which commandeth the whole host of heaven, curse thee, and deprive thee of thine office, joy, and place, and bind thee in the depths of the bottomless pit or abyss, there to remain unto the day of the last judgment. and i will bind thee in the eternal fire, and into the lake of flame and of brimstone, unless thou comest quickly and appearest here before this circle to do my will. therefore, come thou! in and by the holy names adonai, zabaoth, adonai, amioran. come thou! for it is adonai who commandest thee. if thou hast come thus far, and yet he

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

i announce in your presence my dedication to the path of witchblood! to kiss the hind quarters of the beast, which is to dive the great mirror of darkness. let the purity of this fall bless my awakening. no longer shall my sight be limited in the tunnels of the dead. sight gives wisdom which breeds power. i shall know of this by action and experience! osculum infame, the diving of the great dark pit! so it is done! banish and close circle. do not destroy the oath of initiation; this will be placed in a special box with most of your first-born workings. bless the box under various goetic spirits and keep hidden and safe. mark of the devil (sigilium diaboli) chant "ascend now in the northern tower- horned lord of the earth blessed is the stave of the devil itself, from which we mark ourselv

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

dra (the silent planet. before their discovery of the existence of the stargate, the nephilim intended to oneday vacate this planet that has long been their terrible prison. they did not come hereby choice and have not had a good time of it since their forced arrival. they have beenstargate and quarantine82atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation as the bible relates, chained into the pit. it is their intention to break their chains andchange galactic address as soon as the technology exists to make this possible (onewould do well to notice how many movies and how much art and corporate designsembody the theme of release from some form of captivity. god spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them intochains of darkness, to be reserved unto

zed that these seemingly quaint images and motifs have a deep interstellarimplication. this is why we see so many planetary and sabean symbols in occult books, andwhy occult symbols turn up on the institutes of government, security services, and subver-sive fraternities.the nephilim who fell to earth from the netherworld are trying desperately to regaintheir freedom. they have been chained in the pit (earth, but are convinced that thereis a way out of their terrestrial prison. this is why the space program exists, and whythere is exorbitant and frenzied expenditure in satellites and the exploration of outerspace. look at the names given to many of the space programs and modules: gemini, mercury,capricorn, apollo, seti, nasa, v oyager, columbia, challenger, etc. notice also the namesof the

more outcome.1 1burn and rise no more- from the motorhead song, march or die, on the theme of mankind's future. author lemmy kilmister.epilogue: time to change the road youre on130atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the second outcome is that the dark archons realize, once and for all, that they cannot leave thisplanet, that no matter what they do they are forever chained to the pit. in this case, they begin torule the world with unmitigated tyranny, relentlessly and openly. the human race loses whateverprivileges it had while its utility was beneficial. now they are deprived and slaughtered and turneven upon themselves. debauchery is everywhere and the planet is handed over to the perverse sci-ons of the sorcerers of atlantis. we sink into chaos of unimaginable proportio

eptuneanu uranusmommu mercurylahamu v enuslahmu marstiama t same as electra (planet of our system, utterly destroyed)kishar jupiteranshar saturngaga chironkingu the satellite of tiamat, caught and dragged by marduk. it disintegrated in earths roche limit and caused monumental destruction (see p. 254.)enlil, phaeton, marduk, pallas athene like lucifer, the transgressor, banished from heaven to the pit. enlil was marduk.appendix b: book abstracts170atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the combined separation of kingu from phaeton and the stopping or slowing of earths axial spincaused terrible havoc on earth. the waters of the worlds rivers, lakes and oceans were drained fromtheir original basins and drawn gravitationally to the point on earth nearest (opposite) kingu and pha

ge. this act initiated the olympianage. kronus is said to have been banished from the city of the gods and was interred, chained, inbritain. same as saturn, who was said to have been sent in chains to albion. he was the oldest of thegods. could it be that this was one of the original galactic invaders that was captured by the serpentpeople. is this where the legend of the chaining of satan in the pit derives from? the moonthe moons orbit was nearer to the earth about 13,000 b.c. because the orbit of the earth was moreelliptical than at present. the moon also had two satellites of its own. in myth, diana, the moon god-dess, had two hounds. the proximity of the moon caused major convulsions. hence, the moon becameassociated with driving men mad. around 9,500 b.c. earth captured the moon as h

d before theflood a significant admission (p. 27-28)the saturnian cultthe flood, or more justly the great catastrophe, destroyed the cult of saturn, which became discreditedto many, including the egyptians, depicted to them as malignant devil in the shape of an immense celes-tial serpent with a hundred voices who spat lightening. he is the old serpent of revelation who wascast into the bottomless pit of hades for a thousand years (p. 30)abrahamreally abram or son of the ram, the high ram, relating to ammon. leader of the israelites, the cultof saturn.terah means terrorabraham son of terah, meant that he was a terrorist, a man of magical skill, possessed of impressiveweaponry, that could intimidate the peoples with whom he came into contact. these powerful weaponsare often described in the

the age of 30 (luke 3:23, must have died onthe cross and rose again at the age of 33. the catholic italian poet dante alighieri (1265-1321) dividedhis divine comedy into 100 cantos: one canto for the introduction, 33 cantos for the inferno, 33 can-tos for the purgatorio, and 33 cantos for the paradiso. masons and their confederates may note thatdante placed the traitors to their guests in a deep pit of hell in his 33rd canto of the inferno.the seduction of secret societies is as old as the garden of eden, when the serpent beguiled eve, sayingto her, ye shall not surely die: for god doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall beopened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil (genesis 3:4-5. in one form or another, cultsand secret societies falsely promise somethin

iel called the king of tyre wealthy and skilled in trading but proudand destined to destruction: 6 'therefore this is what the sovereign lord says 'because youthink you are wise, as wise as a god, 7 i am going to bring foreigners against you, the most ruth-less of nations; they will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom and pierce your shiningsplendor. 8 they will bring you down to the pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of theseas. 9 will you then say, i am a god, in the presence of those who kill you? you will be but aman, not a god, in the hands of those who slay you. 10 you will die the death of the uncircumcisedat the hands of foreigners. i have spoken, declares the sovereign lord. ezekiel continues by comparing the king of tyre to the fallen angel, satan: yo

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

even take offense to such a statement. their god, the god of israel, could never be compared to the greek god zeus. we re talking about god here, not a promiscuous cartoon character who throws lightning-bolts! but your own bible does indeed spell out the truth of the matter. in the book of revelation [9:11] we read; and they [the locusts] had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the hebrew tongue is abaddon, but in the greek tongue hath his name apollyon. in this verse we read that the locusts, which appears to be a reference to an army of demons, have a king over them who is an angel. this angel, along with his army of locusts, arrives from an extra-dimensional place called the bottomless pit. the verse also states that this angel has names in the myth

MORALS AND DOGMA

lity, or information, the mere hacks of party, owing their places to trickery and _want_ of qualification, with none of the qualities of head or heart that make great and wise men, and, at the same time, filled with all the narrow conceptions and bitter intolerance of political bigotry. these die; and the world is none the wiser for what they have said and done. their names sink in the bottomless pit of oblivion; but their acts of folly or knavery curse the body politic and at last prove its ruin. politicians, in a free state, are generally hollow, heartless, and selfish. their own aggrandisement is the end of their patriotism; and they always look with secret satisfaction on the disappointment or fall of one whose loftier genius and superior talents overshadow their own self-importance, o

jachin. the two columns, boaz and jachin, explain in the kabalah all the mysteries of natural, political, and religious antagonism. woman is man's creation; and universal creation is the female of the first principle. when the principle of existence made himself creator, he produced by emanation an ideal yod; and to make room for it in the plenitude of the uncreated light, he had to hollow out a pit of shadow, equal to the dimension determined by his creative desire; and attributed by him to the ideal yod of radiating light. the nature of the active principle is to diffuse: of the passive principle, to collect and make fruitful. creation is the habitation of the creator-word. to create, the generative power and productive capacity must unite, the binary become unity again by the conjuncti

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

c' work, the union takes place spontaneously; in the other, venom is shot forth. this awakes the earth to rapture; not until then does union occur. for, in working on the planes of manifestation, the elements must be consecrated and made 'god' by virtue of a definite rite. 27. there is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. he shall fall down into the pit called because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason. intellectuals err terribly when they force proletarians to get 'education' in the sense of ability to read newspapers. reason is rubbish; race-instinct is the true guide. experience is the great teacher; and each of us possesses millions of years of experience, the very quintessence of it, stored automatically in our subconscio

reason is rubbish; race-instinct is the true guide. experience is the great teacher; and each of us possesses millions of years of experience, the very quintessence of it, stored automatically in our subconscious minds. the intellectuals are worse than the bourgeoisie themselves; a la lanterne! give us men! to understand is the attribute of the master of the temple, who has crossed the abyss (or 'pit) that divides the true self from its conscious instrument (see liber 418 'aha, and book 4, part iii) we must meditate the meaning of this attack upon the idea of 'because. the idea of 'because' makes everything dependent on everything else, contrary to the conception of the universe which this book has formulated. it is true that the concatenation exists; but the chain does not fetter our limb

e mentioned. first of all, hadit equals 29 by the qabalah, and so does because. hadit=5+1+4+10+9=29. because= 2+5+3 +1 +6+7 +5= 29 "because" means, therefore, a false sense of personal identity that may be taken for the true one, hadit, by the unwary. since the word 'because' is evidently connected with the process of reasoning, we may equate it with the undisciplined ruach, or ego. in this sense pit' may not mean the abyss, but a trap. it must be understood that liber al does not "attack" the proper use of the mental faculties. but it points out, very emphatically, that intellection is, after all, but an instrument of the true self the intellect-the ego is a good servant, but a bad master. to put it in scientific language: intellection is but a faculty that our race has developed in the p

k brothers' are always, of necessity, skew-wise. but now the words of past magi are also so see al i, 49. they are to the word of the aeon of horus as the physics of newton is to the physics of einstein. this is very important because of the natural inertia of the mind. until thelemic momentum be firmly established in the life of an aspirant, his mind will continuously tend to fall back into "the pit called because" he must live as if "might be" were "is; and persist in this apparently absurd course of conduct until the external world adapts itself to his will. see lxv, chapter five, verses 52-56. the adaptation of the external world to the will is inevitable if the will be the true will, because you are a star in the body of nuit. infinite space is a function of you. you are hadit, and nu

our own spiritual intuition gimel in the qabalah turns against you in scorn. it is for this reason that beggars hate the alms giver, and the alms giver, deep in his heart, despises the beggar. this is a psychological fact, no matter how much well-intentioned fools may deny or conceal it. curses brace your soul benedictions put you to sleep. does your brother beg your help? cast him into the snake pit and laugh at his fear. he has nothing to fear but his fear. if he hate you, he would have hated you anyway. but he would have hated and despised, and now he will hate and respect. and from respect for one's neighbour to respect for one's own self it is a small step. a man who can stand against you is a man you can lean upon, as said william gibson, and the author of the bhagavad gita before hi

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

ild s brother and he killed gunnar and hogni for her, in revenge for killing sigurd. but gudrun then killed her children by atli, made their skulls into cups, and served atli their blood as wine and their hearts as meat. then she set fire to his hall, and everyone in it. underwater, beowulf fights grendel s mother who had attacked him for the death of her son. sigurd kills fafnir crouching in the pit, sigurd stabbed upward, slicing through the dragon s body. when sigurd killed fafnir, he was doused in the dragon s blood, which made him invulnerable, except for a tiny area on his back, where a leaf had stuck to his skin. the dying dragon asked sigurd who he was. sigurd, fearing to give such a creature power over him by telling it his name, told fafnir his name was noble-beast, and that he h

nerable, except for a tiny area on his back, where a leaf had stuck to his skin. the dying dragon asked sigurd who he was. sigurd, fearing to give such a creature power over him by telling it his name, told fafnir his name was noble-beast, and that he had no father or mother: i walk this world alone. brother-in-law in a later part of the story, sigurd s brother-in-law tries to escape from a snake pit by playing a lyre with his toes and charming the snakes. dying dragon before he died, fafnir warned sigurd to leave the treasure alone, for it would bring only misery. but sigurd took it so that he could win gudrun, daughter of gjuki, king of the niflungs, as his bride. sigurd sigurd is the greatest of the germanic heroes, hero of the volsunga saga, the nibelungenlied, and of many eddaic poems

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

r source in the quintessential self of the soul, we must say that it, in itself, is aware. this is the awareness of the soul of itself, that is, the self-knowledge and consciousness of the soul. this is the essential light of the soul. it is similar to light, because the property of light is to reveal the reality of what is. for instance, a person may be standing in a dark room in front of a deep pit. because it is dark, he does not recognize the danger he is in. he does not recognize the reality of what is. the moment the light is switched on, he immediately sees the pit, recognizes the danger and steps back. now, though this self awareness is the essential light of the soul, it is not the actual essence of the soul, just as a ray of light is not the luminary itself. rather, the property

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

enazi. the arizal on parashat miket 210 but, they did not act according to jacob fs assumption, but instead gthey found [joseph] in dotan, h8 i.e, related to him with the attribute of strict judgment. in the end, however, reuben, who personified the right arm, had mercy on him,9 but this did not help since he was a lone voice. dotan is related to the word din, gjudgment. h gthey cast him into the pit, h10 this being the attribute of strict judgment, of isaac, whose numerical value is the same as that of the word for gpit h [bor, 208. in the context of the three patriarchs, isaac personified gevurah or strict judgment, and this is seen by the fact that he devoted great energy to digging wells and pits. whereas chesed and tiferet are characterized by downward movement.the ghave h giving to t

s noted above, simeon personified the left arm of nukva, i.e, the gevurah of nukva, which is anyway associated with gevurah. thus, the left arm of nukva is doubly strict. that is why joseph acted wisely when simeon was under his control, and imprisoned him in front of the other brothers,11 so they would take the hint. but they did not get the hint. in any case, they later took [joseph] out of the pit and sold him, and [his purchasers] brought him to egypt, the gstraits of the sea, h which is malchut. specifically, the back of nukva of z feir anpin. the word for gegypt, h mitzrayim can be read as the two words meitzar yam, or gthe straits of the sea, h and indeed, most of the settled area of egypt is around the nile river, a passageway into the mediterranean sea. mystically, the sea is an a

8. 4 numbers 16:1. the arizal on parashat yitro (2) 304 it is therefore stated that g[korach and his associates] arose before moses, h5 just as gcain arose against abel. h and just as [when cain slew abel, g-d said to him] gthe voice of your brother fs blood is calling out to me from the ground, h6 [when g-d punished korach and his associates] gthey and all they possessed descended alive into the pit, h7 gscreaming, emoses is true and his torah is true, and we are imposters. h8 this also rectified [the fact that cain] had said, gthere is no judgment and there is no judge. h. furthermore, we must understand why jethro did not come to moses by himself [but instead announced his arrival so moses would come out to greet him. the explanation is based on what we have said, that jethro was a rein

self, until the individual is able to reveal, on his level, his own gspark of mashiach h every jew possesses .translated from sefer halikutim 321 parashat mishpatim [second installment] the portion of the torah read this week includes the laws of damages. gwhen two people have an argument, and one hits the other with a stone or his fist c. h1 gif an ox gore a man or a woman c. h2 gif a man open a pit or dig a pit and not cover it c. h3 gif a man lets his cattle ruin a field or vineyard, whether by letting it walk or graze in [someone] else fs field c. h4 gif a fire breaks out and sets fire to thorns, devouring a stack of grain, standing grain, or a field c. h5 a person fs liablity for damages is different for each of these cases, and much of jewish civil law is concerned with distilling th

[someone] else fs field c. h4 gif a fire breaks out and sets fire to thorns, devouring a stack of grain, standing grain, or a field c. h5 a person fs liablity for damages is different for each of these cases, and much of jewish civil law is concerned with distilling these cases into their underlying principles. thus, the sages state that gthere are four principle categories of damage: the ox, the pit, the destroyer, and the fire. h6 as we shall see, the gdestroyer h may refer either to man or to a grazing animal. let us discuss the laws of the four principle categories of damage: the ox, the pit, the destroyer, and the fire. these four are the four levels of evil [kelipot. they correspond to the four holy fathers [of the jewish people: abraham, isaac, jacob, and david. the hebrew term for

, gevurah, as it is written, gthe face of the lion to the right, and the face of the ox to the left. h7 left is the side of gevurah. the verse quoted is from the prophet ezekiel fs vision of the divine chariot, the image of the sefirotic array in the spiritual worlds. the holy gox, h holy gevurah, is power harnessed in the service of g-d. the evil ox is power misused in order to cause damage. the pit corresponds to [the attribute of] abraham, who was gthe well of living water. h8 the pit [however] is ga pit of raging waters, slimy mud. h9 the attribute of abraham was chesed, which is associated with life-giving water. evil water is water that causes damage, whether by drowning, causing one to slip, etc. 1 exodus 21:18. 2 ibid. 21:28. 3 ibid. 21:33. 4 ibid. 22:4. 5 ibid. 22:5. 6 bava kama 1

00= 288= 72+ 216. 216 is three times 72, alluding to the presence of the three primary emotions (all being a continuation of chesed, whose numerical value is 72) in malchut. chesed: chet-samech-dalet= 8+ 60+ 4= 72. thus, the four categories of damages in evil are opposite the four fathers in holiness. for gg-d also created the one opposite the other. h15 thus: category of damage archetype sefirah pit abraham chesed ox isaac gevurah destroyer jacob tiferet fire david malchut according to the opinion that the gdestroyer h is the tooth [of a grazing animal, which is sometimes revealed and sometimes concealed, it manifests the 32 paths [of wisdom] reflected in the 32 teeth of the supernal mouth. these obstruct the tongue, which manifests the higher tiferet. corresponding to this below, in the

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ll pray, with thee and for thee. pray thou also both with and for me, and return to thy great slumber, expecting that day when we shall awake together. silence and adieu! h we must not close this chapter without giving some details on black magic for the benefit of the curious. the practices of thessalian sorcerers and roman canidias are described by several ancient authors. in the first place, a pit was dug, at the mouth of which they cut the throat of a black sheep; the psyllae and larvae presumed to be present, and swarming round to drink the blood, were driven off with the magic sword; the triple hecate and the infernal gods were evoked, and the phantom whose apparition was desired was called upon three times. in the middle ages, necromancers violated tombs, composing philtres and ungu

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of how christians have inverted the truth. they would have us believe that satan not only is the deceiver, but is himself deceived. satan proposed this unto you: is it not jehovah who is the true deceiver of multitudes? and, if satan desireth not thy soul, what does jehovah intend to do with it, and why? apollyon: revelation 9:11 and they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in hebrew is abaddon, but in the greek tongue hath his name apollyon. the satanic destroyer does not destroy flesh and blood or property. the satanic apollyon destroys the veil of blindness from the human psyche. the destroyer is highly effective and powerful at reaching deep within such psyche for such purpose. for this purpose apollyon is swift and effective. beelzebub: matthew 1

and rose to represent "the two sacraments (the male and female sexual fluids. he referred guardedly to the "emblems of death" as the ceremonial symbols of freemasonry. to be adopted and used by the a:.a. if the passage is indeed descriptive of an initiatory temple, then it may be read literally and a temple constructed accordingly, complete with four gates and sinking floors [perhaps an alligator pit for the quick& tidy disposal of would-be initiates who failed the tests of #i-50. 52. if this be not aright; if ye confound the space-marks, saying: they are one; or saying, they are many; if the ritual be not ever unto me: then expect the direful judgments of ra hoor khuit. crowley identified "space-marks" as stars [in the sense of #i-3. it is equally erroneous, he said, to consider individua

am the secret serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. if i lift up my head, i and my nuit are one. if i droop down my head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and i and the earth are one. a learned discourse on the pleasures of sex. 27. there is a great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. he shall fall down into the pit called because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason. 28. now a curse upon because and his kin! 29. may because be accursed forever! 30. if will stops and cries why, invoking because, then will stops& does naught. 31. if power asks why, then is power weakness. 32. also reason is a lie; for there is a factor infinite& unknown& all their words are skew-wise. 33. enough of because! b

er, upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water, of whirling air and of rushing fire; and every spell and scourge may be obedient unto me. i am, myself of essence, unto myself a being, through the fulfillment of my will and the will of set. hail set, might of hell unleashed, i seek to find and reach my destiny, which is xem! oh mighty, great gods and goddesses of the infernal pit, i do conjure you, i command, demand these things i request shall come to pass. oh! hear your names! loki -teutonic devil t'an-mo -devil of covetousness, desire hecate -goddess of the underworld and witchcraft mormo -consort of hecate emma-o -ruler of hell melek-taus -devil asmodeus -devil of sensuality and luxury bast -goddess of pleasure mammon -god of wealth and profit saitan# balaam -devil

; that which defines your innermost truth. it is the search for truth which brought you here; know this: what you seek lies only within. destruction [spoken by magister mitchell wade] x= x all that is will always be, but not as it is. destruction is change. to come into being is to destroy. the perfect white stillness of the shell is shattered and the red dragon emerges. abbadon- the angel of the pit, the destroyer, issues this challenge: seek the grail of truth, partake of its essence, be destroyed. and xeper. dark arts [spoken by adept michael rigby] open your soul to this message of doom and delight; for if you dare to journey within the folds of the midnight sun to drink the blood, be it pleasure or poison, of god and beast entwined then you shall awaken to lucifer's morning, and wield

ood on my right, and on my left there was a very full book case and a shelf that held a water pitcher i thought there was water in it, but did not look to see. in the center i knew there was a staircase that went up. i took it up. after a little while, i reached the top (i could not see the other floors) there i saw an altar with a pentagram above it. in the center of the altar, there was a small pit for a fire. the altar, i felt, was towards the west. i felt there was a long table to my left. above the table there were books on shelves. i am not sure of what was on my right or behind me. i approached the altar and willed the black flame to light. i sensed it did light, but could not see it. i raised my hand to touch it, but could feel nothing. at this point i remembered that somewhere i h

excessive desire to enter the priesthood. some of the priesthood feared that by discussing the iii, and the steps of initiation which lead to it, we might unintentionally increase this tendency and harm our initiates. they suggested that perhaps this third section of the article should be left out. the other side of that coin is, part of the reason so many adepts have fallen into this particular pit is because they had too little guidance past it. we therefore present this information in the hope that it will help adepts xeper in a more balanced manner, and to initiate and initiate themselves properly and safely, rather than increase the temptations presented by the black medallion. along these lines, let's repeat the statement found in the appendix of black magic "it is expected that the

o the dark. the arabic word for "penis" zekkar, came from the god's name. the same lord of death was a tutelary deity of the necropolis at saqqara, another variation of his name. he also appeared in babylon as zaqar, a messenger from the moon- that is, from the land of death. in hebraic he was zakar "maleness, virility" his medieval descendant was the phallic satan enclosed in the darkest central pit of hell, yet radiating the spirit of lust. in peter tompkins' secrets of the great pyramid, sokaris is identified as the omphalos or central point on the surface of the earth. this juncture or sandhi is marked by a hemispheroidal stone. the central omphalos is said to be in the temple of amon at thebes. there is also an omphalos in the necropolis of saqqara west of thebes. these are earthly po

cian perceives not a loss, but a gain. he is "no man" because he is greater than a man and he perceives the black flame in all its naked glory. he has become "something more than human" and counts himself not among men, but among gods. it is very peaceful here, but belial decreed that when the mind has rendered itself so balanced and tranquil, its true trial is just due to begin as it prepares to pit itself against the very inertia of the entire created order. aethyr 12- loe sunday 5th december xxviii aes, 1:17 a.m. i found myself among the thunder-clouds of a purple-black, storm-laden sky, surrounded by lightning. then the distant sky changed from black to scarlet, as of blood, a whirling vortex of red radiance, from which raced the expected charioteer of this aethyr, similar to the trump

ii aes, 12:52 a.m. as crowley described, i approached a city, similar to tolkien's description of minas tirith, the tower of guard, but with nine tiers and nine pennants flying from the topmost turrets. and each tier of this city had its lord or lady who sat upon the council. as i ascended, the air of watchfulness came upon me and i became aware of a howling wind that blew straight upwards from a pit that gaped in the centre of all. the chairman of the council declared this pit as the abyss, a condition that is within, not without. it is the dispersive and opposing forces of the abyss that maintain the equilibrium of the universe. the wards and guards of the city (of whom i had perceived no sign) exist to ward off the unworthy, those who do not know their selves. in order to approach the a

t-self and randomness. for the source of the black flame burns at the very centre of being. only the elect of set, able to apprehend their selves, casting off all external concerns and influences, may approach here without distraction or harm by the dispersive forces of the universe that seek to reduce all to conformity. i felt no fear at the frontier of the abyss, the trapezoidal entrance to the pit, only the awareness of an impending experience of self. into the aethyrs- part three this final essay, covering the last batch of ten aethyrs, is being written at the same time as the main body of my paper on the aethyrs as a whole. this essay will hopefully set a few matters in perspective, and address the particular tone of those aethyrs from zax upwards. the first ten aethyrs (30 to 21) dea

2 feet wide) in the center of the chamber ceiling (from which you can view the stars. if your chamber will be indoors, put a picture of set's constellation on the ceiling above the smoke hole (try to get the kind of picture/poster that reflects light [note: do not build a fire inside the "hogan- the walls are flammable] if you are constructing an outdoor chamber, try to include an area for a fire pit outside the chamber. if you are working inside a house, a fireplace may substitute. it is important to understand that the fire pit is to be located outside the chamber/hogan "smoke hole" refers to the common name given to the opening, not to any actual use in this case. to have a fire pit inside the chamber/hogan would be dangerous. prior to the ritual, it is traditional to perform a sweat lo

rsonal fetishes, medicine bags, etc. that you may need 5. a drum (or other musical instrument if it is appropriate to the style of this ritual) 2. needed per group: 1. colored sand/dirt, pollen, corn meal, crushed mineral oxides (colors needed: black, red, brown, blue, yellow) 2. wood and kindling for the fire pits 3. blankets or tarps for the sweat lodge (as well as a previously dug and set fire pit in which to heat rocks) 4. a bucket and dipper for the water 5. several pairs of heavy tongs (to carry the rocks with) 6. several pairs of oven mitts 7. a plant mister 8. food 9. water- the purest you can find. be careful if you are using water from a pond or lake (or slow-moving stream. nowadays the water tends to be polluted. 10. grael- to hold the water. let me explain the significance here

the pentagram. to paint the walls and ceiling, add water to the crushed minerals and/or use waterbased tempers. these paintings should not cover the entire surface of the wall or ceiling. instead they should be the size of a window, with each wall having one painting. 3. if you have a large group, you can split up into smaller groups: sandpainting, wall and ceiling painting, rock gathering, fire pit digging, and sweat lodge building. in this way all tasks may be accomplished simultaneously. you will need two fire pits: a deep one in which to heat the rocks for the sweat lodge, and a shallow one for cooking food. the (sweat) fire pit must be dug early and the fire started. as soon as the fire burns to coals, put the rocks in, and cover loosely with more live coals or dry wood. after an hou

: a deep one in which to heat the rocks for the sweat lodge, and a shallow one for cooking food. the (sweat) fire pit must be dug early and the fire started. as soon as the fire burns to coals, put the rocks in, and cover loosely with more live coals or dry wood. after an hour or so the rocks will be ready. use oven mitts and tongs to carry the rocks. be certain to clear the path between the fire pit and the sweat lodge of anything that can or will burn. if you drop one of the rocks and it lands on a twig, you will have a fire. remember to avoid rocks that come from the bed of a watercourse or have crystal in them. once heated, they will explode when water is poured upon them. the sweat lodge is basically a large, round room created by bending saplings and tying them together. they are the

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ore later, the chair-men zoomed him from role to role, delivering him as punctually and unerringly as once his father had delivered lunch. and after each take gibreel would skip back into the chair and be navigated at high speed towards the next set, to be re-costumed, made up and handed his lines "a career in the bombay talkies" he told his loyal crew "is more like a wheelchair race with one-two pit stops along the route" after the illness, the ghostly germ, the mystery malaise, the bug, he had returned to work, easing himself in, only seven pictures at a time. and then, justlikethat, he wasn't there. the wheelchair stood empty among the silenced sound-stages; his absence revealed the tawdry shamming of the sets. wheelchairmen, one to four, made excuses for the missing star when movie exe

skies. on the backs of the cloths were the stories that accompanied the scenes. the pictures would be shown like a movie: held up while someone read out the hero's tale. in the _hamza-nama_ you could see the persian miniature fusing with kannada and keralan painting styles, you could see hindu and muslim philosophy forming their characteristically late--mughal synthesis. a giant was trapped in a pit and his human tormentors were spearing him in the forehead. a man sliced vertically from the top of his head to his groin still held his sword as he fell. everywhere, bubbling spillages of blood. saladin chamcha took a grip on himself "the savagery" he said loudly in his english voice "the sheer barbaric love of pain" changez chamchawala ignored his son, had eyes only for zeeny; who gazed stra

rstep, assuming that she'd be waiting with open arms, an unencumbered life, and no doubt a large enough apartment for them both? it was the kind of behaviour one would expect of a spoiled movie actor who expects his desires simply to fall like ripe fruits into his lap. in short, she had felt invaded, or potentially invaded. but then she had rebuked herself, pushing such notions back down into the pit where they belonged, because after all gibreel had paid heavily for his presumption, if presumption it was. a dead lover deserves the benefit of the doubt. then there he lay at her feet, unconscious in the snow, taking her breath away with the impossibility of his being there at all, leading her momentarily to wonder if he might not be another in the series of visual aberrations- she preferred

e us up here to see their pals. tip-top notion, saeed. extra fine" but they had no more trouble from miners. that was the day of the mining disaster that left fifteen thousand pitmen buried alive beneath the sarangi hill. saeed, mishal, the sarpanch, osman, mrs. qureishi, srinivas and ayesha stood exhausted and soaked to the skin by the roadside as ambulances, fire--engines, salvage operators and pit bosses arrived in large quantities and left, much later, shaking their heads. the sarpanch caught his earlobes between thumbs and forefingers "life is pain" he said "life is pain and loss; it is a coin of no value, worth even less than a kauri or a dam" osman of the dead bullock, who, like the sarpanch, had lost a dearly loved companion during the pilgrimage, also wept. mrs. qureishi attempted

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book of tobit, one of the seven angels of the throne. although officially a virtue he has the six wings of a seraph, yet at the same time is of the cherubim, dominions and powers. he presented noah with the knowledge he required to build the ark, and with a medical book/ grimoire that is sometimes identified as the book of raziel. he is also identified in hebrew tradition as a guide of sheol, the pit or womb of the underworld. uri-el fire of god, identified in later scriptures with phanuel, face of god. the angel who gave mankind the kaballah. presides over tartarus (hell, being both seraphim and cherubim. identified as the cherub who stands at the garden of eden with a fiery sword, and who watches over thunder and terror. appears as the angel of repentance in the apocalypse of st. peter;

sexual pact with a mortal woman to reveal the secret names of god. araqui-el/saraqa-el: taught the signs and secrets of the earth (geography and/or geomancy. araziel/arazyael: god is my noon. asael: made by god. asbeel: god s deserter. it is he who sowed the first seeds of dissention and lead the others astray. azael/azazel: possibly from the babylonian arsiel, who was the demon of the bottomless pit and whose name meant black sun, although usually translated to mean whom god strengthens. he was supposedly the first to descend, and later becomes ibliss. according to rabbinical texts, he is also satan, who refused to bow before the son of clay. with naamah, sister of cain, he fathered azza the strong one, who later revealed the heavenly arcana to solomon. baraqijal: who taught men astrology

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

h spirits are also christianised and demonised forms of old pagan powers. abalim (hebrew, mourning. demon attendant upon paimon. abbadon (hebrew, downfall, ruin, probably from greek, apollyon, meaning destroyer. fallen angel, who is the destroyer, the place of destruction, the abyss (job 26:2;28:2. lord of the locust plague, angel of hell (revelation 9:7-11. whose name milton uses to describe the pit of hell. chief of the demonic locusts, whose faces are human and whose tails are scorpion. the name of the sixth hell, corresponding to chesed. the hebrews borrowed their seven layered gehenna from the babylonians, whose dark prince is also called arsi-el (black sun. within the central pit of the bottom layer lives the serpent angel apollyon, the fallen apollo, king of locusts. again, we see t

mortals in the secrets of divinity and sorcery, cabbalah, botany, healing, and to seduce mortal women. discovering the carnal joys, they copulated with every living thing human and animal. they became engrossed in the flesh that they could not reascend. see chapter two. xapham. rebel angel who suggested setting fire to heaven during the war, but was cast down too soon. now fans the flames of the pit. yama (indo-aryan. the first man to die, the prince of hell, judge of the dead. clothed in red, with a noose to drag out the soul. may appear in tantric tradition as standing on a bull, which is screwing a human woman. zagan (goetia 61st spirit. king and president commanding 33 legions. appears as a bull with griffin s wings; later as a human being. makes men witty; turns water or blood into w

ch shall have been prepared on the wednesday and pressed in the form of a cross. when it is lighted he shall then begin the office of the dead with great veneration to the living god. he shall recite matins and lauds, but in place of the versicle of the ninth lesson he shall say: deliver us, o lord, from the fear of hell. let not the demons destroy my soul when i shall raise them up from the deep pit, when i shall command them to do my will. may the day be bright, may the sun and moon shine forth, when i shall call upon them, o, lord, deliver me from those of dread visage, and grant that they shall be obedient when i shall raise them up from hell, when i shall impose my will on them. after the office of the dead, the warlock shall extinguish the taper, and at sunrise shall cut the throat o

able service in return for having its seal made in more durable and valuable materials, such as gold; o, thou wicked and disobedient spirit [n, because thou hast not obeyed, or answered, or regarded the words which i have commanded, the glorious and incomprehensible names of the true god, i, by the power of these names, which no creature can resist, do curse thee into the depths of the bottomless pit, to remain until the day of doom, in the hell of unquenchable fire and brimstone, unless thou shalt forwith appear before this circle, to do my will. come therefore quickly, and peaceably, by the names, adonai, zebaoth, adonai-amioram, come, come, adonai, king of kings, commands thee. now if he delays his appearance, write his name on parchment; put it in a black box, with brimstone and other

appear not at this point, say as follows: thou art still pernicious, willing not to appear and informing me upon that which i desire to know, now therefore, in the name and by the power and dignity of the omnipotent and immortal lord, god of hosts, jehovah, tetragrammaton, i do hereby curse and deprive thee of all thine office, power, and place. i bind thee in the deepest depths of the bottomless pit, there to remain until the day of judgement. may all the company of heaven curse thee, may the sun, the moon, and the stars, the light of the hosts of heaven, curse thee into fire unquenchable, into torments unspeakable, and even as thy name and seal are bound up in this box, to be choked with sulphrous and stinking substances, and to burn in this material fire so, in the name of jehovah, and

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achings of the kabala, spell out "leviathan, the serpent of the watery abyss, and identified with satan. these figures correspond to the five points of the inverted star. the symbol of baphomet is placed on the wall above the altar. candles the candles used in satanic ritual represent the light of lucifer- the bearer of light, enlightenment, the living flame, burning desire, and the flames of the pit. only black and white candles are to be used in satanic ritual. never use more than one white candle; but as many black candles as are required to illuminate the ritual chamber may be used. at least one black candle is placed to the left of the altar, representing the powers of darkness and the left-hand path. other black candles are placed where needed for illumination. one white candle is pl

orld, i command the forces of darkness to bestow their infernal power upon me! open wide the gates of hell and come forth from the abyss to greet me as your brother (sister) and friend! grant me the indulgences of which i speak! i have taken thy name as a part of myself! i live as the beasts of the field, rejoicing in the fleshly life! i favor the just and curse the rotten! by all the gods of the pit, i command that these things of which i speak shall come to pass! come forth and answer to your names by manifesting my desires! oh hear the names: the infernal names the infernal names are listed here in alphabetical order purely to simplify referral to them. when calling the names, all of them may be recited, or a given number of those most significant to the respective working may be chosen

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ommence the ritual with the following verses and responses. celebrant: in nomine magni dei nostri satanas. introibo ad altare domini inferi. deacon and subdeacon: ad eum qui laefificat meum. celebrant: adjutorium nostrum in nomine domini inferi. deacon and subdeacon: qui regit terram. celebrant: before the mighty and ineffable prince of darkness, and in the presence of akl the dread demons of the pit, and this assembled company, i acknowledge and confess my past error. renouncing all past allegiances, i proclaim that satan-lucifer rules the earth, and i ratify and renew my promise to recognize and honor him in all things, without reservation, desiring in return his manifold assistance in the successful completion of my endeavors and the fulfillment of my desires. i call upon you, my brothe

fy and renew my promise to recognize and honor him in all things, without reservation, desiring in return his manifold assistance in the successful completion of my endeavors and the fulfillment of my desires. i call upon you, my brother, to bear witness and to do likewise. deacon and subdeacon: before the mighty and ineffable prince of darkness, and in the presence of all the dread demons of the pit, and this assembled company, we acknowledge and confess our past error. renouncing all past allegiances, we proclaim that satan-lucifer rules the earth, and we ratify and renew our promise to recognize and honor him in all things, without reservation, desiring in return his manifold assistance in the successful completion of our endeavors and the fulfillment of our desires. we call upon you, h

. in concert this night we ask thy unfailing assistance in this particular need (here is mentioned the special purpose for which the mass is offered. in the unity of unholy fellowship we praise and honor first thee, lucifer, morning star, and beelzebub, lord of regeneration; then belial, prince of the earth and angel of destruction; leviathan, beast of revelation; abaddon, angel of the bottomless pit; and asmodeus, demon of lust. we call upon the mighty names of astaroth, nergal and behemoth, of belphegor, adramelech, and baalberith, and of all the nameless and formless ones, the mighty and innumerable hosts of hell, by whose assistance may we be strengthened in mind, body and will [the celebrant then extends his hands, palms downward, over the offerings on the altar and recites the follow

g the quietude of thy body, profaner of the ample vices, abstractor of stupid purities, cursed nazarene, impotent king, fugitive god! behold, great satan, this symbol of the flesh of him who would purge the earth of pleasure and who, in the name of christian "justice" has caused the death of millions of our honored brothers. we curse him and defile his name. o infernal majesty, condemn him to the pit, evermore to suffer in perpetual anguish. bring thy wrath upon him, o prince of darkness, and rend him that he may know the extent of thy anger. call forth thy legions that they may witness what we do in thy name. send forth thy messengers to proclaim this deed, and send the christian minions staggering to their doom. smite him anew, o lord of light, that his angels, cherubim, and seraphim may

t your place will be found. we call your name into the night: o hear sweet (name)'s magic name [returning the bell to the acolyte, the priest is given the earth jar. he removes a small amount of earth and lightly rubs it against the child's hands and feet (palms and soles, saying] priest: in the name of belial, we place his mark upon you, to solemnize and etch in memory the dark, moist planet-the pit from whence you came-the jetting stream of manhood fertilizing mother earth. thus was it always and to time's end will it be (name, we call you, that your power, too, may last unending, always strong as man and earth, for they are one with thee [returning the earth jar, the priest takes up the vessel of sea water and anoints the child's hands and feet, saying] priest: in the name of leviathan

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s like. one may prefer the imagery: murals of man s naked, evil earth depicting acts of immorality; nightskies with silhouetted mountainous terrain, upon which red flames blaze forth and billow smoke and demonic shapes some purposely more defined than others. the ceiling, likewise, may be decorated with imagery; perhaps a diminishing cylindrical effect, as if one could laughingly look up from the pit toward a tyrannical heaven. ideally, carpeting of one s hellscape would be fire red, though this may be of less importance to many. certainly though, it would make for a dramatic, concluding effect (standard ritual paraphernalia: satanagram altarpiece, altar, sword, etc, would be utilized as outlined further on. truly, we need no man-made heaven, garden of eden or place of perfection; nor did

the singular aspect of the number of the beast and the sixth sense of all antichrists. regarding placement, five of the six candles rest upon the points of the angles of the pentagonia on the floor before the altar. a single black candle endowed with the spirit of antichrist rests in the center of the altar, directly beneath the sigil. ignited charcoal in a large brazier represents hell s flaming pit from which the grand conjuration and subsequent release of the devils of evilution symbolize the forces of the developing religious war between xians and us. the brazier is placed at the left side of the altar. the function of the xian bible in this ritual is two-fold: first, it is employed as a sacrifice; the celebrant tears seven leaves from its binding and casts them into the pit to suffer

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

ch are used by different groups. firstly the abyss is more commonly understood as being a reference to the satanic underworld wherein satan and his demonic army reside. this interpretation largely stems from christian sources, most especially revelations in the new testament 'and the fifth angel sounded, and i saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key to the pit of the abyss. and he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit'(15) according to andrew collins, writing in the black alchemist (abc books. 1988, the friends of hekate and associated individuals have used this form of symbolism in their magical activities where they have utilised the apocry

ins complete control over his or her actions and reactions, thoughts and feelings. here then every part of the individual's mind- both conscious and unconscious (or subconscious) is understood and controlled. one more notable interpretation of the energies representative of the abyss is the doctrine of the qliphoth. this concept links the christian apocryphal tradition of the abyss, or bottomless pit with the cabalistic concept of energy that was left over from the creation of the universe known as the qliphoth. the qliphoth, or 'kelipth'(18) are described as being 'husks' or 'shells' by asim mathep lamm.(19 'they are the waste or litter or filth which the organism of the universe gives off'(20) from this perspective the qliphoth can be utilised by the black magician to work dark magic, us

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

ned the babi religion. one of the movement s most influential speakers, baha u lla h soon fell under suspicion. following the execution of the bab in 1850, several babis, working independently of the rest of the followers, tried to assassinate the king of persia. the government responded with the massacre of thousands of babis. baha u lla h was imprisoned in a dungeon in tehran known as the black pit. there he received a vision from a maiden from god, who told him that he was the prophet of whom the bab had spoken. he kept this to himself after his release several months later and went into exile, along with other babis, to baghdad, in present-day iraq. although baha u lla h knew that he was the one the bab had said would come, he did not speak of his visitation and the leadership of the b

e they will create the kingdom of heaven on earth. 44 world religions: biographies baha u lla h the execution of the bab. although baha u lla h rejected this plan, it was carried out, unsuccessfully, in august 1852. baha u lla h was one of many babis arrested after the incident. thousands were executed, and baha u lla h was imprisoned in a huge jail in tehran known as the siyah-chal, or the black pit. there he received what he called a visitation from a maiden from god who told him that he was the messenger of god of whom the bab had spoken. when baha u lla h was found innocent of the attempted crime and released several months later, he did not tell anyone of the visitation. he and his family, along with many other babis, were banished from persia by the authorities and decided to settle

SECRET TEACHINGS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS IN THE 16 17C

ing over all treasures. be diligent, peaceful, constant and pious, pray that god may help thee. and if thou attain, never forget the poor. then thou wilt praise god with the legion of the angels, now and forever. mercy- choice light, strength, joy in the recognition of god's virtue and hymn of praise. darkness, evil-doing, fear in godlessness, sin and vice. come ye to the mercy-seat. go ye to the pit of fire mars: fear, heat, therein consists the sensibilities. mercury: bitter, drawing and moving out of the harsh quality, which causes a sting within, and remains in that spirit, the existence of mobility. saturn: harsh, hard, cold, severe, sharp, sour, inclined to rudeness and earthliness, its desire consists out of these qualities. sun: fire or life, half in darkness, half in light, is the

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

, abaddon is the sacred word for the masonic knights of east and west. and the holy bible reveals exactly who abaddon is in revelation 9:11: page 158 from richardson s monitor of freemasonry, detailing the ritual ceremony of the knights of the east and west. in this ritual, the sacred word abaddon is expressed. abaddon is a synonym for the name of the devil who leads millions of demons out of the pit of hell to torment earth in the last days. and they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the hebrew tongue is abaddon, but in the creek tongue hath his name apollyon. in richardson's monitor of freemasonry it is revealed that, following the announcement of the sacred word, abaddon, the lodge drama for this fateful degree provides a demonstration "intend

thou fallen from heaven, o lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! for thou hast said in thine heart, i will ascend into heaven, 1 will exalt my throne above the stars of god..i will ascend above that ravenous dark bird 243 the heights of the clouds; i will be like the most high. yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit (isaiah 14:12-15) the bible says that the angry and furious fallen lucifer now walks to and fro in the earth like a lion seeking whom he might devour. his aim is to ruin god's creation, to bastardize and corrupt it, to change it into what he is a monumentally ugly and warped creation, totally opposite of what god intended. man and the world must be ruined, destroyed, transformed into a barren

all the signs are rendered expertly and in a crisp, uniform, standardized fashion. when placed in or near the female vulva area or the male genital area, the spear point becomes a phallic symbol. in all cases, the sign of the spear point is given so that the y, the spear or arrow, is pointing downward, toward the nether regions where, presumably, satan and his legions reside. that is, toward the pit of hell. title page of barbara walker's the woman's dictionary of symbols and sacred objects. inside, walker identified the symbol shown as the dragon's eye. she reports that the dragon's eye forms a triple triangle, sacred to the goddess, and that this symbol appears often in medieval books of magic, to invoke the protection of female spirits and entities. in fact, the dragon's eye bears a re

structure was never completed. at the top of the planned monument, a statue of lenin was to tower above the people and landscape, his right hand and finger vertically pointed upward toward the heavens. possibly this was a fulfillment of scripture. in isaiah 14, lucifer vainly boasts that his kingdom will ascend to the stars and that he will be like the most high. but lucifer's true destiny is the pit of hell! 584 codex magica the occult magic of the czar is also back! or did it ever leave? in the european (may 5-m, 1995, p. 4) was found this story reporting on "black magicians" among the highest ranks of russian military and political circles. among the magic techniques common in the kremlin: mantras, meditation, astrology and horoscopes, mind powers, telekinesis, spinning saucers, coded m

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

his impulse to knowledge" will certainly bring us the disease and death they give! and also give us in compensation their powers of destruction! for the destruction of whom? things will be squared! is this the value of the will? this "will to power"-how life preserving! how furthering of discriminate selection! how pleasing! most noble explorers! o, you scientists-go on discovering the bottomless pit! when you are sodden with science-the lightning will thunder out the murder? new hope will be born? new creatures for the circus (the conception of) god-head must ever evolve its inertia for transmutation to its very opposite-because it contains it! the master must be the painful learner of his stupidity? the idea of god ever means the forgetfulness of supremacy and godliness. so must be suppl

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hic images depicted over the centuries of the last judgment have been too powerful to be eliminated from doctrinal teachings, so they envision a beautiful place high above the earth where only true believers in jesus may reign with him. hell, in traditional christian thought, is a place of eternal torment for those who have been damned after the last judgment. it is generally pictured as a barren pit filled with flames, the images developed out of the hebrew sheol and the greek hades as the final resting places for the dead. roman catholic christianity continues to depict hell as a state of unending punishment for the unrepentant, but over five centuries ago, the councils of florence (1439) and trent (1545 63) defined the concept of purgatory, an intermediate state after death during which

the mound shaped in such a design would ensure a positive afterlife destiny for the deceased. there are also ancient mounds shaped in a combination of animal and human forms, very likely indicating the name of a great chief, such as standing bear or strong eagle. excavation of certain mounds indicate that one or several bodies were buried at various levels, either on the floor, above it, or in a pit beneath it. in the effigy mounds shaped as birds or animals, the placement of the bodies was in the head or heart region. in the round mounds, the bodies were interred in the center; and in the linear earthworks, they were found along the central axis. the most common burial position was the flexed, with arms and legs over the chest. early settlers in the ohio valley in the 1700s were greatly

cted by pentecostals and other christian sects. these religious bodies see satan as an active force. they perceive a heightened campaign of evil in what they believe are the fast-approaching end-times before the second coming of christ. they believe the devil and his demonic hordes must put in overtime to lead as many people astray as possible before the lord conquers satan and casts him into the pit of fire. in some of these exorcisms, little more is done than prayers for deliverance of the afflicted and the laying on of hands to heal the victim of demonic influences. in others, the so-called exorcism may be a kind of counseling session in which the troubled individual is advised how best to escape the lures of the demons of lust, greed, anger, and so forth. in still other instances, thos

son as the antichrist, and in 2 john verse 7 he declares that there are many deceivers already at work among the faithful. according to revelation, christ and his angelic armies of light destroy the forces of darkness at armageddon in the final battle of good versus evil. babylon, the false prophet, and the beast (the antichrist) are dispatched to their doom, and satan, the dragon, is bound in a pit for a thousand years. with satan imprisoned and chained, the millennium, the thousand years of peace and harmony, begins. although christ s second coming is said to be mentioned over 300 times in the new testament, the only references to the millennium are found in revelation 20:2 7. christian scholars disagree whether or not there will be an initial resurrection of the just at the advent of t

stian theologians link christ s second coming, the resurrection, and judgment day all occurring after the defeat of satan and the beginning of the thousand years of peace and harmony, others maintain that the resurrection of the dead and the final judgment of god will not take place until after the millennium has come to a close. for some rather incomprehensible reason, satan is released from the pit at the conclusion of the millennium; and true to his nature, he makes a furious attempt to regain his earthly kingdom. his former allies, the beast (the antichrist, the false prophet, and the hordes of babylon, were destroyed at armageddon, but there were some demons who escaped annihilation at the great battle who stand ready to serve their master. in addition to these evil creatures, satan s

n the egyptian sanctuaries was that god is one, but the gods are many and diverse. orpheus had t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mystery religions and cults 267 thegods apollo and dionysus were two representations or revelations of the same divinity. descended into hell, the underworld, and braved its challenges and subdued the demons of the pit. the disciples of the orphic/dionysus schools were promised the celestial fire of zeus, the light retrieved by orpheus, that enabled their souls to triumph over death. these things would all be enacted in the mystery play that depicted orpheus descending into hades and observing persephone, the queen of the dead, being awakened by dionysus and being reborn in his arms, thus perpetuating the cy

ed to have originated from the same level as jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e, asserting that they were the two witnesses referred to in the book of revelation who would be the harbingers of a great harvest time for humanity [revelation: 11:3 13] and i will give power to two witnesses, and they shall prophesy. and when they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall overcome them and kill them. and their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city three days and a half. and after three days and a half the spirit of life from god entered them and they stood upon their feet and they heard a great voice from heaven saying to them, come up hither. and they ascended to heaven in a cloud and the remnant were affrighted and gave glory to the god

w.scientology.org/scn_home.htm. making the connection aboriginal refers to a people that has lived or existed in a particular area or region from the earliest known times or from the beginning. abyss from late latin abyssus and greek abussos, which literally means bottomless, stemming from bussos, meaning bottom. a gorge or chasm that is unfathomably deep, vast or infinite, such as the bottomless pit of hell or a dwelling place of evil spirits. anti-christ from the greek antikhristos. any antagonist, opponent, or enemy of jesus christ, whether a person or a power. a false christ. black magick the use of magic for evil purposes, calling upon the devil or evil spirits. blasphemy something said or done which shows a disrespect for god or things that are sacred. conquistadores from the latin c

ken away by deception or force against his/her will. aboriginal refers to a people that has lived or existed in a particular area or region from the earliest known times or from the beginning. abyss from late latin abyssus and greek abussos, which literally means bottomless, stemming from bussos, meaning bottom. a gorge or chasm that is inconceivably deep, vast or infinite, such as the bottomless pit of hell or a dwelling place of evil spirits. alchemy from greek, khemeia to arabic, alkimiya via medieval latin alchimia and old french, fourteenth century alquemie, meaning the chemistry. a predecessor of chemistry practiced in the middle ages and renaissance principally concerned with seeking methods of transforming base metals into gold and the elixir of life. alien a being or living creatu

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such strength that it could hand boards to a servant who was doing some repair work in the house. this was witnessed by a roomful of people, but mompesson soon forbade his servant such familiarities with their invisible tormenter. when the thing began to leave behind offensive, sulphurous fumes, the mompessons took this as sufficient evidence that their unwelcome guest had come directly from the pit of hades. a reverend cragg was summoned to conduct a prayer meeting in the house. the drummer maintained a reverent t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d ghosts and phantoms 45 the tedworth drummer poltergeists (1662 1663 (fortean picture library) silence during the minister s prayers, but upon the last amen, it began to move chairs about the

ken away by deception or force against his/her will. aboriginal refers to a people that has lived or existed in a particular area or region from the earliest known times or from the beginning. abyss from late latin abyssus and greek abussos, which literally means bottomless, stemming from bussos, meaning bottom. a gorge or chasm that is inconceivably deep, vast or infinite, such as the bottomless pit of hell or a dwelling place of evil spirits. alchemy from greek, khemeia to arabic, alkimiya via medieval latin alchimia and old french, fourteenth century alquemie, meaning the chemistry. a predecessor of chemistry practiced in the middle ages and renaissance principally concerned with seeking methods of transforming base metals into gold and the elixir of life. alien a being or living creatu

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ay by deception or force against his/her will. aboriginal refers to a people that has lived or existed in a particular area or region from the earliest known times or from the beginning. abyss from late latin abyssus and greek abussos, which literally means gbottomless, h stemming from bussos, meaning gbottom. h a gorge or chasm that is inconceivably deep, vast or infinite, such as the bottomless pit of hell or a dwelling place of evil spirits. alchemy from greek, khemeia to arabic, alkimiya via medieval latin alchimia and old french, fourteenth century alquemie, meaning gthe chemistry. h a predecessor of chemistry practiced in the middle ages and renaissance principally concerned with seeking methods of transforming base metals into gold and the gelixir of life. h alien a being or living

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

e acts as a kind of final and necessary factor in the regeneration and realization of the cunning people, just as the ancient gnostics saw sophia as being the source of the wisdom that liberated the soul. we will discuss more of her liberating wisdom function later on. she is of a power and a time older than gods. she was the first being. she is the mirror in which all things are seen; she is the pit of the underworld in which the living die and the dead live. she is the true source of the craft. she is the true queen of life and of the land. and she is secret, for many men and women have forgotten her, because her name was veiled in shadow and infamy by dark forces many years ago. but the world remembers her in the deepest places. she still holds court and greets those who have the desire

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

adlights for several seconds before it flew upward and vanished from sight. the witnesses were very religious and assumed they had seen an angel, or even jesus christ himself. after their sighting their telephone went haywire and their television was suddenly subjected to heavy interference. i found a number of ufos had been seen in the letart falls area, with concentrations around a large gravel pit there. sightings in the northeast were keeping me busy at that time. but i talked with mary hyre frequently. she was receiving more ufo reports than she could print and some other strange things were happening in point pleasant. three very tall, dark-complexioned (not negroid) men were causing the local police some consternation. these men knocked on doors late at night, purportedly selling ma

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

p in the mountain night. from beneath the floating rock, out of the very ground where it had sat, came rising the tail of a serpent. this serpent was surely larger than any i had ever seen. the thinnest section thereof was fully that of the arms of two men, and as it rose from the earth it was followed by another, although the end of the first was not seen as it seemed to reach down into the very pit itself. these were followed by still more, and the ground began to tremble under the pressure of so many of these enormous arms. the chanting of the priests, for i knew them now to be the servants of some hidden power, became much louder and very nearly hysterical. ia! ia! zi azag! ia! ia! zi azkak! ia! ia! kutulu zi kur! ia! the ground where i was hiding became wet with some substance, being

hast summoned the gate of marduk to open. for marduk slew the fiends, and inanna, the goddess of the fifteen, conquered the netherworld, where some of theirs still dwell. this is a most perilous rite, and may be undertaken by any man who as the formulae, whether he has passes the previous gates or not, save that it is best advised to have passed through marduk gate before venturing forth into the pit. for this reason, few have ever opened the gate of adar, and spoken to the horned one who resideth there and giveth all manner of wisdom regarding the operations of necromancy, and of the spells that hasten unto death. only when thou hast shown thy power over the maskim and the rabishu, mayest thou venture forth to the land of the igigi, and for that reason was this covenant made, that none sh

urself and upon your generations. the book maklu of the burnings: the exorcism of the crown of anu the priest, in time of peril, shall put on the spotless white crown of anu with the eightrayed seal and stand in the prescribed manner with the tablets of calling on his breast and the copper dagger of inanna in his right hand, aloft. for, it is said, if a man builds a fire, does he no build it in a pit, that he might not be harmed thereby? thus is it true of the uduggu we call, for they are like fire and every caution must be used lest they consume the magician and his entire generation. thus, the exorcism of anu i have put the starry crown of heaven, the potent disk of anu on my head that a kindly spirit and a kindly watcher like the god that hath made me may stand at my head always to life

irous to speak with the phantom of someone dead, and perhaps dwelling in absu, and thereby a servant of ereshkigal, in which case the preliminary invocation that follows is to be used, which is the invocation used by the queen of life, inanna, at the time of her descent into that kingdom of woe. it is no less then the opening of the gate of ganzir, that leads to the seven steps into the frightful pit. therefore, do not be alarmed at the sights and sounds that will issue forth from that opening, for they will be the wails and laments of the shades that are chained therein, and the shrieking of the mad god on the throne of darkness. preliminary invocation of the operation of calling of the spirits of the dead who dwell in cutha, of the lost. baad angarru! ninnghizhidda! thee i invoke, serpen

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

ooling periods that lasted thirty million years each. q: how does kabbalah relate to the big bang theory? a: in the 16th century, the great kabbalist the holy ari wrote in the tree of life: behold, that before the emanations were emanated and the creatures were created, and the upper simple light had filled the whole existence. and there was no vacancy, such as an empty atmosphere, a hollow, or a pit, but all was filled with simple, boundless light. thus, the big bang theory was known to kabbalists long before the astrophysicists learned about it. q: will science be able to cope with understanding the sixth sense in the future? a: while in his five senses, one is completely limited in his feelings. he is so limited that he is simply unable to picture that there might be another sense. he w

THE SHADOWED ONES

he blackened eye opened, azazel called shemyaza gathered the dreaming paths of serpents and beasts. he so understood the conflict in all living things, to conquer or be conquered, to thirst for life and continued existence. in the fall of the one later called lucifer he knew consciousness, and soon with that pain, a torment which seemed to run razor wire against his naked body, and cast down in a pit of filth. only when those nightmares were banished by the will of this daemon, does the blackened flame of his being become strong for those who may sense this presence. in such a world of birth and decay does the shadow have everlasting substance by feasting upon the light, and such fires of the sun seek their nourishment and pleasure in the fading sun in the evening. it was azazel who first

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

ies! absorb in glory of the glowing orb self and its shadow *the sword of song, pentecost, vol. ii, p. 183. and, within the charmed space is nought possible unto thought. there in their equilibrium they float. how still, how numb! there must they rest, there will they stay innocent of the judgement day. remote from cause, effect retires. act slays its dams and sires. there is no hill, there is no pit. they have no mark to hit. it is enough. closed is the sphere. there is no more to hear. they perish not; they do not thrive. they are at rest, alive *gargoyles, vol. iii, p. 104. gecstacy or vision begins when thought ceases, to our consciousness, to proceed from ourselves. it differs from dreaming, because the subject is awake. it differs from hallucination, because there is no organic distu

e. i look at a bug*2. and my five senses tell me it is flat, of a certain odour, brown, etc, etc; only phenomena which i cannot get behind; the mirror of my senses is defective, so i proceed to try one of a more perfect make. the gsuperconscious h*3. then i look again: the insect has changed, is changing, it is no more a bug, but a bogey, fire surrounds it, it is lucifer, prince of the bottomless pit, now a great calm, and the fumes of hell part, and the winds roar, and the earth quakes: ghow art thou fallen from heaven, o lucifer, son of the morning, how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations. h ghowl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, o ye oaks of bashan; for the frost of the vintage is come down. h and lo! there is a voice

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

, with which cometh the eating of meats and drinks; and by it strength is produced, for in food is the foundation of strength. the seventh is the power of procreation and sexual intercourse, with which through love of pleasure sins enter in. wherefore it is the last in order of creation, and the first in that of youth, because it is filled with ignorance, and leadeth the youth as a blind man to a pit, and as a beast to a precipice -the testaments of the twelve patriarchs the septuagint follows a specific hebraic consideration that belial, being beli ol is the one who has thrown off the yoke of heaven and is thus without a master. the luciferian finds connections in the path of history and mythology and seeks to make them work for he or she in the modern world. the spirit of belial is of th

THE BOOK OF GATES

tered another corridor, 37 ft. 3 in. long, and of the same width and height as the other, each side sculptured with hieroglyphics in basso relievo, and painted. the ceiling also is finely painted, and in pretty good preservation. the more i saw, the more i was eager to see, such being the nature of man; but i was checked in my anxiety at this time, for at the end of this passage i reached a large pit, which intercepted my progress. this pit is 30 ft. deep, and 14 ft. by 12 ft. 3 in. wide. the upper part of the pit is adorned with figures, from the wall of the passage up to the ceiling. the passages from the entrance all the way to this pit have an inclination downward of an angle of eighteen degrees. on the opposite side of the pit facing the entrance i perceived a small aperture 2 ft. wid

on downward of an angle of eighteen degrees. on the opposite side of the pit facing the entrance i perceived a small aperture 2 ft. wide and 2 ft. 6 in. high, and at the bottom of the wall a quantity of rubbish. a rope fastened to a piece of wood, that was laid across the passage against the projections which formed a kind of door, appears to have been used by the ancients for descending into the pit; and from the small aperture oil the opposite side hung another, which p. 74 reached the bottom, no doubt for the purpose of ascending. we could clearly perceive, that the water which entered the passages from the torrents of rain ran into this pit, and the wood and rope fastened to it crumbled to dust on touching them. at the bottom of the pit were several pieces of wood, placed against the s

the side of it, so as to assist the person who was to ascend by the rope into the aperture. i saw the impossibility of proceeding at the moment. mr. beechey, who that day came from luxor, entered the tomb, but was also disappointed "the next day, the 19th, by means of a long beam we succeeded in sending a man up into the aperture, and having contrived to make a bridge of two beams, we crossed the pit. the little aperture we found to be an opening forced through a wall, that had entirely closed the entrance, which was as large as the corridor. the egyptians had closely shut it up, plastered the wall over, and painted it like the rest of the sides of the pit, so that but for the aperture, it would have been impossible to suppose, that there was any further proceeding; and anyone would conclu

to be an opening forced through a wall, that had entirely closed the entrance, which was as large as the corridor. the egyptians had closely shut it up, plastered the wall over, and painted it like the rest of the sides of the pit, so that but for the aperture, it would have been impossible to suppose, that there was any further proceeding; and anyone would conclude, that the tomb ended with the pit. the rope in the inside of the wall did not fall to dust, but remained pretty strong, the water not having reached it at all; and the wood to which it was attached was in good. preservation. it was owing to this method of keeping the damp out of the inner parts of the tomb, that they are so well preserved. i observed p. 75 some cavities at the, bottom of the well, but found nothing in them, no

ranean passage was there. the doorway of the sideboard room had been walled up, and forced open, as we found the stones with which it was shut, and the mortar in the jambs. the staircase of the entrance-hall had been walled up also at the bottom, and the space filled, with rubbish, and the floor covered with large blocks of stone, so as to deceive any one who should force the fallen wall near the pit, and make him suppose, that the tomb ended with the entrance-hall and the drawing-room. i am inclined to believe, that whoever forced all these passages must have had some spies with them, who were well acquainted with the tomb throughout. the tomb faces the north-east, and the direction of the whole runs straight south-west" footnotes 44:1 as belzoni's narrative is of interest, his account of

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the bath in on the tomb) s.b.:63 whom have you there? k.s.:64 a s(acred) p(rince) of r(ose) c(ross, who offers to share the burden of the i(llustrious) k(nights) t(emplar) of the o(rder) of k(adosch) and the d(ame) c(ompanions) of the h(oly) g(raal. s.b: who vouches that he is properly prepared (the knight or dame who can do so, replies) admit him in due form (k.s. directs him to t(rample) and s(pit) on the c(ross) s.b: behold the tomb of your g(rand) m(aster, j(acobus) b(urgundus) m(olensis. swear to break the bondage of vulgar error. cand: i swear, etc. c.b: swear unconditional and unswerving obedience to the g(rand) m(aster) b(aphomet. cand: i swear, etc. s.b: swear to serve the order to the last moment of your time. cand: i swear, etc. s.b: swear to defend the order with the last drop

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17 and the man said, they are departed hence; for i heard them say, let us go to dothan. and joseph went after his brethren, and found them in dothan. 37:18 and when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. 37:19 and they said one to another, behold, this dreamer cometh. 37:20 come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams. 37:21 and reuben heard [it] and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, let us not kill him. 37:22 and reuben said unto them, shed no blood [but] cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his f

nd reuben said unto them, shed no blood [but] cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again. 37:23 and it came to pass, when joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript joseph out of his coat [his] coat of [many] colours that [was] on him; 37:24 and they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit [was] empty [there was] no water in it. 37:25 and they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of ishmeelites came from gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry [it] down to egypt. 37:26 and judah said unto his brethren, what profit [is it] if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood? 37:27 come

h, going to carry [it] down to egypt. 37:26 and judah said unto his brethren, what profit [is it] if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood? 37:27 come, and let us sell him to the ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he [is] our brother [and] our flesh. and his brethren were content. 37:28 then there passed by midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up joseph out of the pit, and sold joseph to the ishmeelites for twenty [pieces] of silver: and they brought joseph into egypt. 37:29 and reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, joseph [was] not in the pit; and he rent his clothes. 37:30 and he returned unto his brethren, and said, the child [is] not; and i, whither shall i go? 37:31 and they took joseph s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in

re be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. 21:31 whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. 21:32 if the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. 21:33 and if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein; 21:34 the owner of the pit shall make [it] good [and] give money unto the owner of them; and the dead [beast] shall be his. 21:35 and if one man s ox hurt another s, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead [ox] also they shall divide. 21:36 or if it be known that th

all meat which may be eaten [that] on which [such] water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every [such] vessel shall be unclean. 11:35 and every [thing] whereupon [any part] of their carcase falleth shall be unclean [whether it be] oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down [for] they [are] unclean, and shall be unclean unto you. 11:36 nevertheless a fountain or pit [wherein there is] plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean. 11:37 and if [any part] of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it [shall be] clean. 11:38 but if [any] water be put upon the seed, and [any part] of their carcase fall thereon, it [shall be] unclean unto you. 11:39 and if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he t

ow that the lord hath sent me to do all these works; for [i have] not [done them] of mine own mind. 16:29 if these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men [then] the lord hath not sent me. 16:30 but if the lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that [appertain] unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the lord. 16:31 and it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that [was] under them: 16:32 and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that [appertained] unto korah, and all [their] goods. 16:33 they, and all that [appertained] to them, wen

erstand that these men have provoked the lord. 16:31 and it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that [was] under them: 16:32 and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that [appertained] unto korah, and all [their] goods. 16:33 they, and all that [appertained] to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. 16:34 and all israel that [were] round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, lest the earth swallow us up [also] 16:35 and there came out a fire from the lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense. 16:36 and the lord spake unto moses, saying, 16:37 speak unto eleazar the son

ng? if not; speak thou. 17:7 and hushai said unto absalom, the counsel that ahithophel hath given [is] not good at this time. 17:8 for, said hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they [be] mighty men, and they [be] chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father [is] a man of war, and will not lodge with the people. 17:9 behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some [other] place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, there is a slaughter among the people that follow absalom. 17:10 and he also [that is] valiant, whose heart [is] as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all israel knoweth that thy father [is] a mighty man, and [they] which [be] with him [are] valiant m

nd he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of absalom, while he [was] yet alive in the midst of the oak. 18:15 and ten young men that bare joab s armour compassed about and smote absalom, and slew him. 18:16 and joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after israel: for joab held back the people. 18:17 and they took absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all israel fled every one to his tent. 18:18 now absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which [is] in the king s dale: for he said, i have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, absalom s place. 18:19 then said ahimaaz the s

lifted up his spear against three hundred [and] slew [them] and had the name among three. 23:19 was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the [first] three. 23:20 and benaiah the son of jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow: 23:21 and he slew an egyptian, a goodly man: and the egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the egyptian s hand, and slew him with his own spear. 23:22 these [things] did benaiah the son of jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men. 23:23 he was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the [fi

and he arose and departed, and came to samaria [and] as he [was] at the shearing house in the way, 10:13 jehu met with the brethren of ahaziah king of judah, and said, who [are] ye? and they answered, we [are] the brethren of ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen. 10:14 and he said, take them alive. and they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house [even] two and forty men; neither left he any of them. 10:15 and when he was departed thence, he lighted on jehonadab the son of rechab [coming] to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, is thine heart right, as my heart [is] with thy heart? and jehonadab answered, it is. if it be, give [me] thine hand. and he gave [him] his hand; and he took him up to him into th

three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew [them] and had a name among the three. 11:21 of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the [first] three. 11:22 benaiah the son of jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day. 11:23 and he slew an egyptian, a man of [great] stature, five cubits high; and in the egyptian s hand [was] a spear like a weaver s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the egyptian s hand, and slew him with his own spear. 11:24 these [things] did benaiah the son of jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties. 11:25 behold, he was hon

e thoughts of my heart. 17:12 they change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness. 17:13 if i wait, the grave [is] mine house: i have made my bed in the darkness. 17:14 i have said to corruption, thou [art] my father: to the worm [thou art] my mother, and my sister. 17:15 and where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? 17:16 they shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust. 18:1 then answered bildad the shuhite, and said, 18:2 how long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. 18:3 wherefore are we counted as beasts [and] reputed vile in your sight? 18:4 he teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? 18:5 yea, the

eth not account of any of his matters. 33:14 for god speaketh once, yea twice [yet man] perceiveth it not. 33:15 in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; 33:16 then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, 33:17 that he may withdraw man [from his] purpose, and hide pride from man. 33:18 he keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. 33:19 he is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong [pain] 33:20 so that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. 33:21 his flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones [that] were not seen stick out. 33:22 yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. 3

is soul dainty meat. 33:21 his flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones [that] were not seen stick out. 33:22 yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. 33:23 if there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness: 33:24 then he is gracious unto him, and saith, deliver him from going down to the pit: i have found a ransom. 33:25 his flesh shall be fresher than a child s: he shall return to the days of his youth: 33:26 he shall pray unto god, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness. 33:27 he looketh upon men, and [if any] say, i have sinned, and perverted [that which was] right, and it profited me not; 33:28 he w

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

mons were first passed, and afterwards the witches, without suffering any pain, which, as explained by de lancre, was intended to teach them not to fear the fire of hell. but we see in these the need-fires, which formed a part of the priapic orgies, and of which we have spoken before (p. 163. there women are presenting to him children, whom they have initiated in sorcery, and he shows them a deep pit, into which he threatens to throw them if they refuse to renounce god and to adore satan. in other parts are seen great cauldrons, full of toads and vipers, hearts of unbaptized children, flesh of criminals who bad been hanged, and other disgusting ingredients, of which they make pots of ointments &c. and poisons, the ordinary articles of commerce a debauch e, laquelle il saict paroistre pompe

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catatonic state. one can only try to imagine the horror, called up from the darkest depths of the subconscious, that causes such conditions. magic cannot be half real and half illusion. if power is to be gained inside the circle, it must be given up outside. if the angels of light are rendered tangible to the eyes of the magus, then he or she will also, perforce, be able to see the demons of the pit in all their loathsome detail. if the magus seeks to extract the good out of the art, he or she must also learn how to deal with the evil. in short, if the circle works at all, it works on both sides. all too often the talented beginner will succeed in pumping some measure of energy into the circle and then, through stupidity or pigheadedness, will violate its boundary. the least this person c

ly governed by habit, it is useful to make habit work for the magus rather than to fight against it. in the human body, the microcosm, the planetary forces are represented by seven imaginary centers located along the axis of the spine. in the east these cen- ters are called chakras. they are found, roughly speaking, at the crown of the head, on the brow between and slightly above the eyes, at the pit of the throat, in the cen- ter of the chest near the heart, at the solar plexus, in the pit of the stomach just below the navel, and at the perineum. depending on which of these centers the magus chooses to consider as the point of self, his or her personal universe will be colored and influenced by a certain bias of forces. none of the chakras is the true point of self-r rather, all lie withi

erceived self, even as the heart regulates the sensa- tions through its rate of pulsation. the solar plexus center controls the breathing and nervous impulses of the body. it is a focus for ingoing and outgoing information concerning the physical running of the body. it gives a sense of control, judgment, and order, physically expressed by the regularity of the breathing cycle. from the bowel, or pit of the stomach, arises physical strength, a fact well known to all athletes, especially wrestlers and weight lifters. it is the furnace where matter is consumed for fuel. its center yields a perception of dullness and heavi- ness, but also one of slow, inexorable strength that might be likened to the grind- ing of a great gear. at the perineum reside the organs of sensual gratification and exc

een the positive actions of the light and the neg- ative reactions of the darkness. what humanity regards as normal probability results from the dynamic balance between good and evil. this balance is not always the same, nor is it fixed into place. it rocks periodically, creating the cycles of his- tory. and it can be tipped. humanity walks with its eyes closed along a tightrope over a bottomless pit with- out realizing its precarious position. only when someone's foot slips momentarily does that person look down into reality, realizing with a sudden rush of emotion how close he or she has lived to the edge of disaster throughout life without knowing it. each time you step off the curb to cross the street there is a chance you will not reach the other side. usually you do because the odds

andidate hears the terrible words "here perish all fools who covet knowledge and power!"28 the candidate faces an agonizing quandary. should he wait for release, or go on into the threatening darkness? he has been given an oil lamp by his guides, but the oil will not last forever. gathering his courage, he crawls down the sloping passage and eventually comes upon a great abyss. on the side of the pit is an iron ladder that leads down into the impenetrable darkness. with the lamp in his teeth, the candidate descends the ladder. abruptly, his foot swings on empty space. the ladder has ended on nothing- ness, and the bottomless darkness of the pit still beckons below. hopelessness grips the candidate. he inwardly curses the foolishness and pride that led him to such a circumstance. there is n

ds the ladder. abruptly, his foot swings on empty space. the ladder has ended on nothing- ness, and the bottomless darkness of the pit still beckons below. hopelessness grips the candidate. he inwardly curses the foolishness and pride that led him to such a circumstance. there is no going forward and no escape behind. the lamp flickers. then suddenly he notices a small aperture in the side of the pit near the lad- der, just wide enough to admit the body of a man. hope surges within him. can this narrow avenue lead to salvation? with a trembling and thankful heart he pulls himself into the opening, which ultimately leads to the inner temple and the place of the initiation ritual. whether this is a true description of the ancient egyptian initiation or, as seems more probable, is a fiction b

he opening, which ultimately leads to the inner temple and the place of the initiation ritual. whether this is a true description of the ancient egyptian initiation or, as seems more probable, is a fiction based on esoteric practices familiar to the chris- tian, does not matter. the meaning is clear. the clanging door is the gate of death. the sloping dark passage is the birth canal, and the dark pit is the abyss that every soul must cross when it moves from one life to another. had the candidate hesi- tated, the lamp-his hope-would have flickered and failed, and he would never have seen the narrow doorway that led to his salvation. instead, he would have hung suspended, trapped between the past and the future, until through weariness he fell at last into the dark of oblivion. having ritua

or her mind for the task ahead, back straight and hands at the sides, eyes closed. he or she recalls briefly the words and gestures of the ritual that has been previously memorized. this takes five or ten minutes. the magus emphasizes his or her central position in the universe. with the wand held in the right hand, the magus indicates a vertical axis through his or her body from the brow to the pit of the stomach. this is visualized in red light. turning the wand sideways, he or she then traces a horizontal axis from left to right that passes through the heart. this is pictured in blue. finally the magus points the wand to the south with the base directed at the heart to make a third axis from the front of the body to the back. this is visualized in yellow. the intersection point of the

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horizontal movement across a plane, and vertical movement through successive planes, was not invented by theosophists, but is an essential part of the objective reality of the astral world. when a siberian shaman of the altaic people wished to visit the land of the dead, he first journeyed across the base astral plane, traversing barren steppes and high mountain ranges, to reach the gaping black pit known as the yer mesi (jaws of the earth) into which he descended to reach the underworld. sometimes, access was by direct descent through seven lower levels, illustrating that these two types of movement through the astral world are independent of each other.ls0 each location on the earth has its astral correspondences. the level of the astral nearest the physical world is virtually identical

gment, she inclines the hilt of her sword to her right-hand side for yes and to her left-hand side for no. xii the hanged man hebrew letter: mem (water) correspondence: water path: twenty-third an enigmatic tableau greets the astral traveler into the world of this trump. a man hangs suspended by one ankle from a wooden scaffold with his arms bound behind his back, his head low over the mouth of a pit dug into the ground at the base of the scaffold. the leg that is free crosses behind the leg that is bound. he does not speak or seem to notice his surroundings. his face bears a rapt expression, as though he peers into some unseen distant reality and strives to comprehend its meaning. chapter twelve: the tarot 213 the place of his trial of endurance is at a crossroads remote from human habita

eak or seem to notice his surroundings. his face bears a rapt expression, as though he peers into some unseen distant reality and strives to comprehend its meaning. chapter twelve: the tarot 213 the place of his trial of endurance is at a crossroads remote from human habitation. forest trees lower their boughs close to the dirt roads, the spaces between their trunks filled with green shadows. the pit has mud at its bottom the depth of which cannot be guessed by looking at it. were the rope around his ankle to snap, it is possible that the inverted man would disappear below its surface. those who come walking along the roads stop and make gestures to the hanged man, trying to attract his attention. they even put on little pantomimes, but he ignores their efforts. the ruling intelligence of

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torso from your nipples to your shoulders. raise your shoulders slightly during this third phase of inhalation, but take care not to hunch them. lock your throat shut by tightening the muscles inside the base of your throat and pressing the back portion of your tongue upward and backward, while at the same time inclining your head forward and tucking in your chin. this creates a tightness at the pit of your throat. take care not to strain the muscles in your throat. continue to gaze at the unseen horizon beyond the wall in front of you. retain the air in your lungs for nine repetitions of the mental mantra. unlock your throat by lifting your head and relaxing the muscles inside the base of your throat and at the back of your tongue. exhale in a slow, controlled manner for three repetition

and nose. emphasize each syllable equally and sound them for equal durations. using the power of your will, cause the vibrations in your chest to resonate strongly inside the sphere of light above you. feel it humming like a bell. breathe normally. visualize the vibration in the shining blue-white sphere becoming stronger, until it extends a white ray vertically downward through your head to the pit of your throat. the white ray does not fade but persists throughout the exercise. observe with your inner awareness as a second radiant sphere forms at the end of the ray within the base of your neck. it is the diameter of a small saucer and of a light silvery-gray color, like polished lead. feel it spinning and humming within your neck at the pit of your throat. draw a deep breath and hold it

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

esser spirits. it would be impossible to overstate the importance of this magical concept. in our mundane, everyday human personae, we have little or no occult authority. when we command a spirit in the name of joe smith, the spirit will laugh at us, if it pays any attention at all. but if we command it in the name of michael, the angel of the fiery sword who cast lucifer down into the bottomless pit, the spirit will obey. some magicians make the mistake of assuming that it is necessary only to voice the name of some powerful spiritual being in order to use the authority of that being. this was the error of the jewish exorcists who went around driving spirits from the possessed in the names of jesus and the apostle paul, until one day the demon in a man they were exorcising looked at them

ur flesh and bones. feel your emptiness filled with light. pour a small amount of the consecrated water from the bowl on the western quarter of the altar into the mortar on the eastern quarter, so that the ashes are dissolved into a paste. dip the tip of your right index finger into this paste and use it to draw the figure of a pentagram upon your bare breast beginning with the upper point at the pit of your throat, and proceeding clockwise to your lower right ribs, ler nipple, right nipple, lower left ribs, and back to your throat. it is not necessary that the pentagram be visible upon your skin, but you should take care to trace it with a single, unbroken line. make it large enough so that the cross on the middle of your breast is contained within its center. assuming the christ-form 159

the universe. the annihilation of the universe is a cause for rejoicing in heaven, because all division and diversity that arose with the creation of the world will be reduced to perfect harmony once again. however, it is a cause for terror and mourning upon the earth, because all created things will meet their end in pain and confusion. the great dragon, satan, is not cast down into a bottomless pit in these verses (that comes later, he is cast upon the face of the earth, where he acts as one of the instruments of its destruction. to stoop means to swoop down upon folded wings to strike at prey. hawks stoop upon ,pigeons when they descend through the sky like thunderbolts and strike the slower birds with their talons. thus the "stooping dragon" is kept back from his prey, the living thing

lly more of a statement, asks "how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death until this house fall, and the dragon sink" this notion of imminent destruction is a common feature of apocalyptic literature. appendix a: the keys 207 it is not clear if the sinking of the dragon refers to his descent upon the earth or his ultimate fall into the bottomless pit (rev. 20:z-3. however, the final part of the key seems to summon the dragon "come, appear to the terror of the earth, and to our comfort, and of such as are prepared" those who are "prepared" are those who come before the throne of heavenly christ clothed in white. they have no reason to fear or regret the annihilation of the world because they are the chosen of god "for the lamb which is in t

as a punishment for her "iniquities" proceed out of the twenty-two nests of lamentation upon the branches of the northern oak. there is clearly a correlation here between the seven woes of the key and the seven woes that accompany the sounding of the seven trumpets in revelation 8 and 9. at the sounding of the fifth trumpet, a star fell from heaven "and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit (rev. 9:l. this "star" obviously an angel, opens the pit and releases fumes of flaming brimstone that were "as the smoke of a great furnace (rev. 9:2. from the open pit issue demons in the shape of locusts who torment those unrighteous humans who do not bear the seal of god in their foreheads "and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power (rev. 9:3. when the sixth ang

erved in separate prophetic visions. the use of "heads of scorpions" is very revealing. obviously, scorpions kill with the venomous needie in their tails, so why are their heads referred to? one explanation is that the imagery in revelation 9:19 influenced the imagery of the key. there is confusion in st. john's vision. previously in this same chapter of revelation, the power of the demons of the pit is said to be that of scorpions, and this power is lodged naturally in the tail. but the tails of the horses of the armies of the four angels released from under euphrates are said to be those of serpents. there is a common folk myth that snakes sting with their tails, but in fact the tails of all snakes are quite harmless. the image is complicated by the additional information that these serp

he that hath ears, let him hear. 5. wo be unto the virgins of the earth, for they shall disdain their virginity, and they shall become concubins for satan, and despise the god of righteousnesse. 6. wo be unto the merchants of the earth, for they are become abominable: behold, they are become the spies of the earth, and the dainty meat of kings. but they are foolish: yea, they shall fall into the pit that they have digged for others. 7. wo be unto the books of the earth, for they are corrupted; and are become a wrasting stock, and firebrand to the conscience (a bue& faithful relation, pp. 215-6) that these seven woes are actually numbered in dee's diary would seem to suggest very strongly that they are an explanation of the seven woes spoken in the tenth key. before enumerating the seven w

f the beasts. the "promise of god" is here used ironically in the form of a pun. promise can mean hope, but it can also mean a threat fulfilled, and the promise of god in this key is the apocalypse foreshadowed in the vision of st. john, and in the writings of the hebrew prophets. the power of god is called a "bitter sting7' to evoke the memory of the demoniac locusts released from the bottomless pit by the trumpet of the fifth angel "and they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails (rev. 9:lo. as the keys unfold, the imagery gets progressively and consistently darker. the last truly positive key is the seventh, and even in the seventh key there is a double meaning-the virgins of the east are appareled with appendix a: the keys 22 1 bright ornaments after the ma

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

e of niggers and dogs, with whom i am now living in much worse than adultery."cvii similarly, as he described his relations with a young american, cecil frederick russell, who come to study with him in 1921 and became a partner in his sexual magic -163- now i'll shave and make up my face like the lowest kind of whore and rub on perfume and go after genesthai [russell] like a drunken two-bit prick-pit in old new orleans. he disgusts me sexually, as i him, as i suspect [t]he dirtier my deed, the dearer my darling will hold me; the grosser the act the greedier my arse to engulph him!cviii crowley would go to even further extremes of transgression during his years at the abbey of thelema. in his diaries, he claims to have transcended all material distinctions, shattering the boundary between p

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

s la polividencia, la vista intuitiva, el xtasis. equilibrio de la balanza la mujer del arcano ocho del tarot tiene en una mano la balanza y en la otra la espada. es necesario equilibrar las fuerzas, es necesario y urgente santificarnos absolutamente y practicar el arcano a.z.f, las fuerzas del hombre y las de la mujer se equilibran en el amor y en la sabidur a. la doble cruz de los pent culos de pit goras y de ezequiel representa el arcano ocho. venus equilibra las obras de marte; mercurio equilibra y realiza las obras del sol y de la luna, arriba y abajo. en el macro cosmos y en el micro cosmos hombre. 60 the works of the sun and of the moon, the man and the woman are equilibrated by the mercury of the secret philosophy (the ens seminis. a yogi (or a yogini) cannot self-realize themselve

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

abyss lightly! the initiates of knowledge (daath) must possess unwavering concentration at the single point ahead to cross the abyss successfully. once one does jump, there is no turning back. the tools we use to cross are the sword of geburah (mars) and the rod of chesed (jupiter. the rod serves as a balancing force and the sword cuts away all useless material, which then falls into the garbage pit of the abyss. mars, in this qabalistic scheme, rules the north, the place of greatest darkness. the number eleven is sometimes thought to be associated with the qliphoth, or shells, whence dwell the dark or demonic forces that were, in essence, exorcised from the tree. gareth knight identifies daath as the highest level of awareness of which the soul is capable, and says it is the "sphere of t

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

a black hole might acquire by devouring everything around it, in this case lucifer/satan like a spiritual black hole began to assimilate, consume, absorb, and integrate the consciousness and energy of all those who gave their will over to him. we should realize that the more a black hole devours, the more insatiable its appetite becomes. could lucifer/satan himself be in one sense the "bottomless pit, consuming all life and creation and goodness and light that he possible can in his twisted "revenge" towards a just yet merciful creator? there are those who say that darkness and light must live in balance with each other, that there really is no good or evil but just "experience. i would say to such people that they should add some intelligence to such mindless platitudes of "unconditional

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

n reserve) describes what can go wrong on an all night vigil, one like the rdna do in preparation for entering the 3rd order. the vision quest is a tradition among the plains people. a man or woman seeking the way an the road of life, or trying to find the answer to a personal problem, may go on a vision quest for knowledge and enlightenment. this means staying on top of a hill or inside a vision pit, alone, without food or water, for as long as four days and nights. it is said, that if the quiet voices reveal or confer a vision that shapes a person s life, then the quest is worth all the suffering. the following tale, however, treats the vision quest with less than complete solemnity, with sioux man lame deer s characteristic quirks. a young man wanted to go on a lumbasa, or vision quest

l morning in late spring. the grass was up, the leaves were out, nature was at its best. two medicine men accompanied him. they put up a sweatlodge to purify him in the hot, white breath of the sacred steam. they smoked him with the incense of sweet grass, rubbing his body with salve of bear grease. around his neck they hung it with an eagle s wing. they went to the hilltop with him to the vision pit and make an offering of tobacco bundles. they told the young man to cry, to humble himself, to ask for holiness, to cry for power, for a sign from the great spirit, for a gift which would make him into a medicine man. after they had done all they could, they left him there. he spent the first night in the hole the medicine men had dug for him, trembling and crying out loudly. fear kept him awa

ere. why don t you go there and cry for a dream? you disturbed us all night, all us creatures, animals and birds; you even kept the trees awake. we couldn t sleep. why should you cry here? you re a brash young man, not yet ready or worthy to receive a vision. but the young man clenched his teeth, determined to stick it through. he resolved to force that vision to come. he spent another day in the pit, begging for enlightenment which would not come, and then another night of fear and cold and hunger. the young man cried out in terror. he was paralyzed with fear, unable to move. the boulder dwarfed everything in view; it towered over him, he stared openmouthed, but as it came to crush him, it stopped. then, as the young man stared, his hair standing up, his eyes starting out of his head, the

s it came to crush him, it stopped. then, as the young man stared, his hair standing up, his eyes starting out of his head, the boulder rolled up the mountain, all the way to the top. he could hardly believe what he saw. he was still cowering motionless when he heard the roar and ramble again and saw that immense boulder coming down at him once more. this time he managed to jump out of his vision pit at the last moment. the boulder crushed it, obliterated it, grinding the young man s peace pipe and gourd rattle into dust. again the boulder rolled up the mountain, and again it came down. i m leaving, i m leaving! hollered the young man. regaining his power of motion, he scrambled down the hill as fast as he could. this time the boulder actually leapfrogged over him, bouncing down the slope

ough the air in a giant leap, landing right in front of him and embedding itself so deeply in the earth that only its top was visible. the ground shook itself like a wet dog coming out of a stream and flung the young man this way and that. gaunt, bruised, and shaken, he stumbled back to his village. to the medicine men he said: i have received no vision and gained no knowledge. he returned to the pit, and when dawn arrived once 264 more, he heard the voice again: stop disturbing us; go away! the same thing happened on the third morning. by this time he was faint with hunger, thirst, and anxiety. even the air seemed to oppress him, to fight him. he was panting. his stomach felt shriveled up, shrunk tight against his backbone. but he was determined to endure one more night, the fourth and la

ng, nasrudin thought that it would be a good idea to take a short cut through the woods. why, he asked himself, should i plod along a dusty road when i could be communing with nature, listening to the birds and looking at the flowers? this is indeed a day of days; a day for fortunate pursuits! so saying, he launched himself into the greenery. he had not gone very far, however, when he fell into a pit, where he lay reflecting. it is not such a fortunate day, after all, he meditated; in fact it is just as well that i took this short cut. if things like this can happen in a beautiful setting like this, what might not have befallen me on that nasty highway? to deal with the enemy mulla s mother once instructed her son, if you ever see a ghost, or an apparition in the graveyard, don t be afraid

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

es by w. wyn n wes tcott also the number of svrt, the hebrew word for the sun. it occurs in revelations xiii. 18. 121. 666. in addition, 666 is also the diameter of a circle whose circumference is 2093, which is the diagonal of a square whose sides are 1480, the number of christos. it is also the sum of the numbers 1 to 36. it is also the number of syene in greek, a place in egypt at which, if a pit be dug, said, eratosthenes, the rays of the sun at the summer solstice shine perpendicular into it. 700. the talmud says there are 700 species of fishes, and in eiruvin, 18. i, it says that god plaited eve s hair into 700 braids. 753. 753 b.c, the founding of the city of rome. it is also the number alike of abram with sarai 243 and 510, and of abraham with sarah 248 and 505, the change which l

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

esent wherein there is no division of time at all (he-attah ha-meyuhad she-ein bah hilluq zeman kelal).83 the timelessness of the moment accounts for its singularity and volatility, the instant marked, as in the sabbath at the end of creation, by the reception of form [qabbalat ha-surah, which is being without movement [hawayah beli tenu ah. a spontaneous being in which there is no being [hawayah pit omit we-ein ba-zeh hawayah, for every being is in time. for the reception of form is the completion of being [hashlamat ha-hawayah. and this matter is not called work [mela khah, for there is no work here that has movement; on the contrary, this matter is the acquisition of completion and rest [qinyan ha-shelemut u-menuhah. for the reception of form is on the sabbath. and, consequently, the re

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

t joining in the chants. use as many kinds of wood as possible in the kindling for your fire. traditionally the magical trees were oak, ash, thorn, willow, birch, rowan, alder, holly and yew, but you can use wood indigenous to your region. an arboretum will offer a variety of fallen twigs* light a small fire (this may be either a small bonfire out of doors, or a fire in a hearth indoors. barbecue pits are easily adapted) if you are working in a group, each person can ignite the fire at a different place. if you cannot light a fire, choose a really large, fat, dark green candle as your focus. place it on a wide, deep fireproof tray, secured in sand* if you are in a group, stand in a circle around it, with each person holding a taper. the first person lights their taper, then the flame is pa

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

n there is great happiness and rejoicing. she sometimes appears in armour, and is thereby a most excellent guardian against the machinations of her sister, the dread queen ereshkigal of kur. with the name and number of inanna, no priest need fear to walk into the very depths of the underworld; for being armed, in her armour, he is similar to the goddess. it was thus that i descended into the foul pits that lie gaping beneath the crust of the earth, and commanded demons. she is similarly the goddess of love, and bestows a favourable bride upon any man who desires it, and who makes the proper sacrifice. but know that inanna takes her own for her own, and that once chosen by her no man may take another bride. her colour is the purest white. her manifestation is in the metal copper, and also i

ircle, this holy gate of (n) may he of the name unspeakable, the number unknowable, whom no man hath seen at any time, whom no geometer measureth, whom no wizard hath ever called call thee here now! rise up, by anu i summon thee! rise up, by enlil i summon thee! rise up, by enki i summon thee! cease to be the sleeper of egurra. cease to lie unwaking beneath the mountains of kur. rise up, from the pits of ancient holocausts! rise up, from the old abyss of narr marratu! come, by anu! come, by enlil! come, by enki! in the name of the covenant, come and rise up before me! ia mass ssaratu! ia mass ssaratu! ia mass ssaratu zi kia kanpa! barrgolomoloneth kia! shtah! at this point, the watcher will surely come and stand outside the gate or circle until such time as he is given the license to depar

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

it speeded faster on its way. when the lesser fifth had midway passed and all the lesser four were peopling the land, the lords of dark intent arose. they said "not so shall go the force. the forms and rupas of the third and fourth, within the corresponding fifth, approach too close the archetype. the work is far too good" they constructed other forms. they called for cosmic fire. the seven deep pits of hell belched forth the animating shades. the incoming seventh reduced to order all the forms, the white, the dark, the red, and shaded brown. the period of destruction extended far on either hand. the work was sadly marred. the chohans of the highest plane gazed in silence on the work. the asuras and the chaitans, the sons of cosmic evil, and the rishis of the darkest constellations, gathe

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

ast period of the atlantean cycle were given by the adepts of the time to their disciples. you must bear in mind that the problem before the hierarchy at that time was to bring to an end temporarily the then normal psychic emphasis and start the flow of the forces to the upper part of the body. these three rules can be connected in your minds with the three methods touched upon above. i. shun the pits of hell, oh, chela. let your feet go hurrying from the lower way and seek the upper reaches of the plane of glamour. ascend. choose for your good companions those who live a life of arduous labour upon the plains of earth. depart. descend and live the normal life of earth. depart. ii. lift up thine eyes, oh, chela, and cleanse thine heart and see the vision of thy soul. look up, not down; wit

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

these petals into a tub and pour a gallon of freshly-boiled water over them. leave, covered, for ten to twelve days, stirring now and then. then strain the liquid into a preserving pan and add three to four pounds of sugar, according to taste. also add the thinly pared rind of one orange and one lemon, plus the rest of these two fruits cut in pieces but without any trace of the white pith or the pits. boil gently together for twenty minutes then remove from heat. after it has cooled to hike-warm, put in a tablespoonful of brewer's yeast and a quarter of an ounce of compressed yeast spread on a piece of toast. cover again and leave for a couple of days. then put into a cask, bung it down and bottle after two months or more. apple beer pour four gallons of boiling water over four pounds of

BUDGE E

have been turned upside down, o my father osiris. and let me come forth from it. my p. 255 father having [once] been helpless hath smitten you, he hath cut up your bodies, he hath hacked in pieces your spirits and your souls, and hath scattered in pieces your shadows, and hath cut in pieces your heads; ye shall never more exist, ye shall be overthrown, and ye shall be cast down headlong into the pits of fire; and ye shall not escape therefrom, and ye shall not be able to flee from the flames which are in the serpent set-heh"'the fire of hert-kettut-s is against you, the flames of hert-hatu-s are against you, the blazing heat of hert-nemmat-s is against you, hert-sefu-s is against you, and she stabs at you, and hacks you in pieces, and cuts you up in such wise that ye shall never again see

those who are in this picture in the tuat, it is the majesty of heru-tuati who giveth the order for their slaughter each day "those who are in this picture, who are depicted with the enemies of osiris of the tuat, and with her-utu-f, who is the guardian of this circle, live by means of the voice of the enemies, and by the cries of entreaty of the souls and shadows which have been placed in their pits of fire" next: chapter xii. the twelfth division of the tuat, which is called then-neteru sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous p. 256 chapter xii. the twelfth division of the tuat, which is called then-neteru. the twelfth division 1 of the tuat, which is passed through by the sun-god during the twelfth hour of the night, is introduced by three lines of text, which read- p. 257 "the maj

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

t joining in the chants. use as many kinds of wood as possible in the kindling for your fire. traditionally the magical trees were oak, ash, thorn, willow, birch, rowan, alder, holly and yew, but you can use wood indigenous to your region. an arboretum will offer a variety of fallen twigs* light a small fire (this may be either a small bonfire out of doors, or a fire in a hearth indoors. barbecue pits are easily adapted) if you are working in a group, each person can ignite the fire at a different place. if you cannot light a fire, choose a really large, fat, dark green candle as your focus. place it on a wide, deep fireproof tray, secured in sand* if you are in a group, stand in a circle around it, with each person holding a taper. the first person lights their taper, then the flame is pa

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

s room while he napped. but instead of napping, he took off his bright robes and sneaked into the garden where he gorged himself on the ripe peaches. then he curled up and fell asleep in the orchard. unbeknownst to monkey, a great feast was being prepared for the gods. that afternoon, fairy maidens entered the peach garden to pick the fruit. to their dismay, they found many broken branches, peach pits, and a sleepy monkey who berated them for disturbing him. when the fairies mentioned the great feast, monkey suddenly realized that he had not been invited. the thought of rare meats, wine, and more fruit made the greedy monkey hungry again, and he dashed off in search of banquet tidbits. monkey sneaked into heaven s kitchen and knocked over steaming bamboo baskets as he stuffed himself with

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

of dots; by lines of hand or fingernails; by birds and their flight or their entrails; by dice, cards, rings, or mirrors. bewitchments were carried out by means of nails, animals, toads, or waxen figures and mostly to bring about suffering or death. necromancy was the raising of the dead by evocations and sacrilegious rites, for the customary purposes of evil. these rites might take place around pits filled with blood, in a darkened and suffocating room, in a churchyard, or beneath swinging gibbets, and the number of ghosts so summoned and galvanized into life might be one of legion. regardless of desired outcome the procedure usually included profanation of christian ritual, such as diabolical masses and administration of polluted sacraments to animals and reptiles; bloody sacrifices of

nctity, and it is most agreeable and delightful, as well as beyond measure glorious for the visitations of angels and the multitude of the saints who visibly frequent it. the other part, being covered with rugged crags, is reported to be the resort of devils only, and to be almost always the theatre on which crowds of evil spirits visibly perform their rites. this part of the island contains nine pits, and should any one perchance venture to spend the night in one of them (which has been done, we know, at times, by some rash men, he is immediately seized by the malignant spirits, who so severely torture him during the whole night, inflicting on him such unutterable sufferings by fire and water, and other torments of various kinds, that when morning comes scarcely any spark of life is found

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

oyalty 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 have a replica of earthly existence. eventually stone was used instead of mud bricks, and the process of development culminated in the step pyramid of the

e lord shall sink all by earthquake. his radical manifesto dictated, the whole united kingdom is to be divided to the people on the roll. those who are not worth a penny now must be lords of the land. no rents must be paid. no postage for letters. no turnpikes. no taxes. porter a gallon for one half-penny. ale the same. the dead must be carried in carts three miles from the city and put into deep pits covered with pigs flesh. confined to a quaker asylum for the insane, turner continued with fantastic directions for his faithful followers. shiloh s palace must have walls of pure gold adorned with precious stones. there must be in attendance 70,000 men that play musical instruments and 70,000 singing women. he must have 500,000 servants, and his carriages must be of pure gold. turner himself

ly related to late neolithic worship ceremonies. the stonehenge site is composed of three distinct elements. an outer circle of local sarsen stones and two inner circles of blue stones from the prescelly mountains of wales, 200 kilometers (125 miles) away. the first and third circles are capped with stone lintels, and the whole construction is encircled by a ditch, inside the bank of which are 56 pits known as the aubrey holes and a cemetery associated with them. isolated outside the stone circles is the heel stone, over which the sun rises on midsummer day (june 24. it is clear that stonehenge had special astronomical significance, since, in addition to the marking of the summer solstice by the heel stone, the center of the great circle indicated the orbits of sun and moon, and holes were

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

sr (elsewhere in his book steinman gives the year as 1949 and spells the last name steene) a member of a special military unit contacted steen and led him and his nurse to a location where an alien was being kept alive. it was in a chamber with a controlled environment. the being appeared to be some kind of reptile. its appearance so upset the nurse that she said it looked like something from the pits of hell. on july 23, 1952, a colorado newspaper, the pueblo chieftain, related a peculiar story. speaking to the local chamber of commerce, joseph rohrer, president of pikes peak broadcasting, said he knew of three saucer crashes in montana. one of the occupants that had survived, a three-foot-tall humanoid, was still being kept alive in an incubator in california, where efforts were being ma

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

e and wisdom "the disposal of their property, their cities, and their own persons" in striking contrast to the mild and humane character of cyrus stands that of the licentious and revengeful david, a "man after god's own heart "as for the heads of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them "let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again"[109 "happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones"[110 [109] psalms cxl [110] ibid, cxxxvii. no one i think can read the avestas without being impressed by the prominence there given to the subjects of temperance and virtue. in their efforts to purify religion, and in the attempts to return to their more ancient faith, the disciple

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

phs in this book. my own view is that the olmec heads present us with physiologically accurate images of real individuals of negroid stock charismatic and powerful african men whose presence in central america 3000 years ago has not yet been explained by scholars. nor is there any certainty that the heads were actually carved in that epoch. carbon-dating of fragments of charcoal found in the same pits tells us only the age of the charcoal. calculating the true antiquity of the heads themselves is a much more complex matter. it was with such thoughts that i continued my slow walk among the strange and wonderful monuments of la venta. they whispered of ancient secrets the secret of the man in the machine. the secret of the 14 the prehistory of the americas, p. 270. graham hancock fingerprint

are layers of volcanic ash. there is no doubt that coincidental with the [extinctions] there were volcanic eruptions of tremendous proportions. 25 there is a remarkable amount of evidence of excessive volcanism during the decline of the wisconsin ice cap.26 far to the south of the frozen alaskan mucks, thousands of prehistoric animals and plants were mired, all at once, in the famous la brea tar pits of los angeles. among the creatures unearthed were bison, horses, camels, sloths, mammoths, mastodons and at least seven hundred sabre-toothed tigers.27 a disarticulated human skeleton was also found, completely enveloped in bitumen, mingled with the bones of an extinct species of vulture. in general, the la brea remains( broken, mashed, contorted, and mixed in a most heterogeneous mass 28) s

any with the guard patrol at the north-eastern corner of the monument, we continued to make our way surreptitiously along the eastern face towards the south-eastern corner. there were dense shadows among the twisted and broken paving stones that separated the great pyramid from the three much smaller subsidiary pyramids lying immediately to its east. there were also three deep and narrow rock-cut pits which resembled giant graves. these had been found empty by the archaeologists who had excavated them, but were shaped as though they had been intended to enclose the hulls of high-prowed, streamlined boats. roughly halfway along the pyramid s eastern face we encountered another patrol. this time it consisted of two guards, one of whom must have been eighty years old. his companion, a teenage

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

framvisar (grottas. 1, 13. when the verb]?reya, usually meaning exspectare, desiderare, is employed as characteristic of giants (sasm. 8sa, it seems to imply a dreamy brooding, a half-drunken complacency and immobility (see suppl. such a being, when at rest, is good-humoured and unhandy, 1 but when provoked, gets wild, spiteful and violent. norse legend names this rage of giants iotunmodr, which pits itself in defiance against asmosr, the rage of the gods: vera i iotunmosi/ sn. 150b. when their wrath is kindled, the giants hurl rocks, rub stones till they catch fire (roth. 1048, squeeze water out of stones (kinderm. no. 20. asbiornsen s moe, no. 6, root up trees (kinderm. no. 90, twist fir-trees together like willows (no. 166, and stamp on the ground till their leg is buried up to the kne

HEAVEN HELL

messengers of wrath, and their bodies, souls, and spirits are consumed by fire once and for all. the egyptians had no belief in a purgatory. the fires of the other world were, it is true, occupied daily in burning up the damned and the opponents of the sun-god, but each day brought its own supply of bodies, souls, spirits, demons, etc, for annihilation. in all the books of the other world we find pits of fire, abysses of darkness, murderous knives, streams of boiling water, foul stenches, fiery serpents, hideous animal-headed monsters and creatures, and cruel, death-dealing beings of various shapes, etc, similar to those with which we are familiar in early christian and medi val literature, and it is tolerably certain that modern nations are indebted to egypt for many of their conceptions

he place of departed spirits in general, it produces a wrong impression in the mind. again, the word tuat must not be rendered by "hades" or "hell" or "sheol" or "jehannum" for each of these words has a limited and special meaning. on the other hand, the tuat possessed the characteristics of all these names, for it was an "unseen" place, and it contained abysmal depths of darkness, and there were pits of fire in it wherein the damned, i.e, the enemies of osiris and ra, were consumed, and certain parts of it were the homes of monsters in various shapes and forms which lived upon the unfortunate creatures whom they were able to destroy. on the whole, the word tuat may be best rendered by "the other world" 1 or "underworld" always provided that it be clearly understood that the egyptians neve

s, and it is, no doubt, a reminiscence of the period in the history of the god when he was a water-god. a knowledge of the beings in these pictures and of the texts of this division was considered of very great importance for the deceased, for, knowing their forms and their names, he would not be terrified by their "roarings" and would not in his haste to escape from them fall headlong into their pits. in this division of the tuat we see that afu-ra was absolute master, and that he is made to create its inhabitants to serve osiris, and khenti-amenti, and himself, and to allot to them places to dwell in, and food to keep them alive. when he withdraws his light from them they p. 125 weep, and sink into a state of inertness to await his return on the following day. next: third division of the

e uttered by heru-ur. the twelve gods who are in front of the shrine ascribe praise and dominion to khenti-amenti, and declare that his son horus has restored to him his crown, and crushed his p. 143 enemies, and made strong osiris-khenti-amenti. to these afu-ra makes no answer, but he calls upon horns to avenge him on those who work against him, and to cast them to the master of the lords of the pits, so that they may be destroyed. now the pits here referred to are four in number (vol. ii, p. 137, and they are filled with fire; into these the enemies of the god are cast, and the keepers of them are adjured by horus to watch and tend the fires. who the plotters against the god may be it is impossible to say, but it is quite clear that one portion of the fourth division of the tuat was a fi

e fire with which they are consumed is supplied by the goddess, who vomits it into one corner of the pit. the next four pits contain the bodies, souls, shades, and heads respectively, of the damned, the fire being supplied by the goddesses in charge. in the pit following are four beings who are immersed, head downwards, in the depths of its fires (vol. i, pp. 249-253. the texts which refer to the pits of fire show that the beings who were unfortunate enough to be cast into them were hacked in pieces by the goddesses who were over them, and then burned in the fierce fire provided by set-heh and the goddesses until they were consumed. the pits of fire were, of course, suggested by the red, fiery clouds which, with lurid splendour, often herald the sunrise in egypt. as the sun rose, dispersin

heh and the goddesses until they were consumed. the pits of fire were, of course, suggested by the red, fiery clouds which, with lurid splendour, often herald the sunrise in egypt. as the sun rose, dispersing as he did so the darkness of night, and the mist and haze which appeared to cling to him, it was natural f or the primitive peoples of egypt to declare that his foes were being burned in his pits or lakes of fire. the redder and brighter the fiery glare, the more effective would the burning up of the foes be thought to be, and it is not difficult to conceive the horror which would rise in the minds of superstitious folk when they p. 179 saw the day open with a dull or cloudy sky, with no evidence in it that the sun had defeated the powers of darkness, and had suffered no injury during

r and brighter the fiery glare, the more effective would the burning up of the foes be thought to be, and it is not difficult to conceive the horror which would rise in the minds of superstitious folk when they p. 179 saw the day open with a dull or cloudy sky, with no evidence in it that the sun had defeated the powers of darkness, and had suffered no injury during the night. the presence of the pits of fire in this division suggests that we have now practically arrived at the end of the tuat, and, according to the views of those who compiled the original description of akert, this is indeed the case. we have, in the boat of afu-ra, now passed through the tuat of khenti-amenti, the tuat of seker, the tuat of osiris, lord of mendes and busiris, and the tuat of temu-khepera-ra, lord of annu

about midnight, together with those souls who travelled with him. the souls who chose to be judged by osiris, preferring a heaven full of material delights to spiritual happiness, disembarked, and passed into the judgment hall, where they received their sentence, and were made joyful or miserable. for the blessed homesteads were provided, and for the wicked slicings and gashings with knives, and pits of fire, wherein their bodies and souls and shadows were destroyed for ever. the evidence indicates that osiris passed judgment on souls each day at midnight, and that the righteous were rewarded with good things shortly afterwards; the wicked also were punished with tortures and burnings, probably soon afterwards, or at all events before the sun rose on the following day. thus osiris in the

th made the prescribed funeral offerings on their behalf, and no longer. the shadows, souls, and bodies of those who were without food in the tuat were, together with the fiends and monsters which opposed the progress of the sun-god, destroyed by fire each day, utterly and finally; but each day brought its own supply of the enemies of ra, and of the dead, and the beings which were consumed in the pits of fire one day were not the same, though they belonged to the same classes, as those which had been burnt up the day befoonthe cauldron no.74 hekas in beginning this article upon the nature of the traditional sabbatic mysteries it is pertinent for me to qualify my own position and thus make some statement of the initiatic provenance which permits me to write authoritatively upon these matter

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ven this was not the worst. that evening in the bulletin blake read of what the reporters had found. aroused at last to the whimsical news value of the scare, a pair of them had defied the frantic crowds of italians and crawled into the church through the cellar window after trying the doors in vain. they found the dust of the vestibule and of the spectral nave ploughed up in a singular way, with pits of rotted cushions and satin pew-linings scattered curiously around. there was a bad odour everywhere, and here and there were bits of yellow stain and patches of what looked like charring. opening the door to the tower, and pausing a moment at the suspicion of a scraping sound above, they found the narrow spiral stairs wiped roughly clean. in the tower itself a similarly half-swept condition

g flash i settled myself down behind a dense clump of vegetation, through which i could see the opening without being seen. if heaven is merciful, it will some day efface from my consciousness the sight that i saw, and let me live my last years in peace. i cannot sleep at night now, and have to take opiates when it thunders. the thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, ratlike scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life- a loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity. seething, stewing, surging, bubbling like serpents' slime it rolled up and out of that yawning

tion could not be described. willett consents only to say that this type of thing must have represented entities which ward called up from imperfect salts, and which he kept for servile or ritualistic purposes. if it had not had a certain significance, its image would not have been carved on that damnable stone. it was not the worst thing depicted on that stone- but willett never opened the other pits. at the time, the first connected idea in his mind was an idle paragraph from some of the old curwen data he had digested long before; a phrase used by simon or jedediah orne in that portentous confiscated letter to the bygone sorcerer 'certainely, there was noth'g but ye liveliest awfulness in that which h. rais'd upp from what he cou'd gather onlie a part of' then, horribly supplementing ra

iscrepancy disturbed him; and he found himself chanting the first of the formulae aloud in an effort to square the sound he conceived with the letters he found carved. weird and menacing in that abyss of antique blasphemy rang his voice; its accents keyed to a droning sing-song either through the spell of the past and the unknown, or through the hellish example of that dull, godless wail from the pits whose inhuman cadences rose and fell rhythmically in the distance through the stench and the darkness. y'ai 'ng'ngah, yog-sothoth h'ee-l'geb f'ai throdog uaaah! but what was this cold wind which had sprung into life at the very outset of the chant? the lamps were sputtering woefully, and the gloom grew so dense that the letters on the wall nearly faded from sight. there was smoke, too, and an

n to pry up the stubborn planks one by one. underneath the smooth concrete was still visible, but of any opening or perforation there was no longer a trace. nothing yawned this time to sicken the mystified father who had followed the doctor downstairs; only the smooth concrete underneath the planks- no noisome well, no world of subterrene horrors, no secret library, no curwen papers, no nightmare pits of stench and howling, no laboratory or shelves or chiselled formulae, no. dr. willett turned pale, and clutched at the younger man 'yesterday' he asked softly 'did you see it here. and smell it' and when mr. ward, himself transfixed with dread and wonder, found strength to nod an affirmative, the physician gave a sound half a sigh and half a gasp, and nodded in turn 'then i will tell you, he

e of giving it, the father and the doctor went down the bay and called on young charles at the hospital. simply and gravely willett told him all he had found, and noticed how pale he turned as each description made certain the truth of the discovery. the physician employed as much dramatic effect as he could, and watched for a wincing on charles's part when he approached the matter of the covered pits and the nameless hybrids within. but ward did not wince. willett paused, and his voice grew indignant as he spoke of how the things were starving. he taxed the youth with shocking inhumanity, and shivered when only a sardonic laugh came in reply. for charles, having dropped as useless his pretence that the crypt did not exist, seemed to see some ghastly jest in this affair; and chucked hoarse

come involved? that damnable resemblance of the picture to charles- had it not used to stare and stare, and follow the boy around the room with its eyes? why, too, did both allen and charles copy joseph curwen's handwriting, even when alone and off guard? and then the frightful work of those people- the lost crypt of horrors that had aged the doctor overnight; the starving monsters in the noisome pits; the awful formula which had yielded such nameless results; the message in minuscules found in willett's pocket; the papers and the letters and all the talk of graves and "salts" and discoveries- whither did everything lead? in the end mr. ward did the most sensible thing. steeling himself against any realisation of why he did it, he gave the detectives an article to be shewn to such pawtuxet

dream, madness, and memory merged wildly together in a series of fantastic, fragmentary delusions which can have no relation to anything real. there was a hideous fall through incalculable leagues of viscous, sentient darkness, and a babel of noises utterly alien to all that we know of the earth and its organic life. dormant, rudimentary senses seemed to start into vitality within me, telling of pits and voids peopled by floating horrors and leading to sunless crags and oceans and teeming cities of windowless, basalt towers upon which no light ever shone. secrets of the primal planet and its immemorial aeons flashed through my brain without the aid of sight or sound, and there were known to me things which not even the wildest of my former dreams had ever suggested. and all the while cold

goth, great cthulhu, tsathoggua, yogsothoth, r'lyeh, nyarlathotep, azathoth, hastur, yian, leng, the lake of hali, bethmoora, the yellow sign, l'mur-kathulos, bran, and the magnum innominandum- and was drawn back through nameless aeons and inconceivable dimensions to worlds of elder, outer entity at which the crazed author of the necronomicon had only guessed in the vaguest way. i was told of the pits of primal life, and of the streams that had trickled down therefrom; and finally, of the tiny rivulets from one of those streams which had become entangled with the destinies of our own earth. my brain whirled; and where before i had attempted to explain things away, i now began to believe in the most abnormal and incredible wonders. the array of vital evidence was damnably vast and overwhelm

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things that float and flop about you and through you every moment of your life? you see the creatures that form what men call the pure air and the blue sky? have i not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have i not shown you worlds that no other living men have seen" i heard his scream through the hor-rible chaos, and looked at the wild face thrust so offensively close to mine. his eyes were pits of flame, and they glared at me with what i now saw was overwhelming hatred. the machine droned detestably "you think those floundering things wiped out the servants? fool, they are harmless! but the servants are gone, aren't they? you tried to stop me; you discouraged me when i needed every drop of encouragement i could get; you were afraid of the cosmic truth, you damned coward, but now i'v

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g flash i settled myself down behind a dense clump of vegetation, through which i could see the opening without being seen. if heaven is merciful, it will some day efface from my consciousness the sight that i saw, and let me live my last years in peace. i cannot sleep at night now, and have to take opiates when it thunders. the thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, ratlike scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life- a loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity. seething, stewing, surging, bubbling like serpents' slime it rolled up and out of that yawning

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indian temples, and he contemplated the aggregation in a bewildered attempt to discern which was the original and which the additions- if indeed (supremely monstrous thought) there were any original as distin-guished from other embodiments. then, in the midst of these devastating reflections, carter's beyond-the-gate fragment was hurled from what had seemed the nadir of horror to black, clutching pits of a horror still more profound. this time it was largely external- a force of personality which at once confronted and surrounded and pervaded him, and which in addition to its local presence, seemed also to be a part of himself, and likewise to be co-existent with all time and conterminous with all space. there was no visual image, yet the sense of entity and the awful concept of combined l

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vice-regent of him who said that "whosoever shall say. thou fool, shall be in danger of hdl-fire" they are selected from authentic discourses. those who oppose the pope are "wolves, pharisees, thieves, bars, hypocrites, drop- sical, children of satan, of perdition, of sin and corruption, satellites of satan in human flesh, monsters of hell, demons incarnate, stinking corpses, men issued from the pits of hell, traitors and judases led by the spirit of hell, children of the deepest pits of hell" etc, etc; the whole piously collected and published by don pasquale di fraaciscis, whom gladstone has, with perfect propriety, termed "an accomplished profes- sor of flunkeyiam in things spiritual* since his holiness the pope has such a rich vocabulary of invectives at his command, why wonder that t

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y vengeance smash the stillness of the air and stand as monoliths of wrath upon a plain of writhing serpents. i am become as a monstrous machine of annihilation to the festering fragments of the body of he (she) who would detain me. it repenteth me not that my summons doth ride upon the blasting winds which multiply the sting of my bitterness; and great black slimy shapes shall rise from brackish pits and vomit forth their pustulence into his (her) puny brain. i call upon the messengers of doom to slash with grim delight this victim i hath chosen. silent is that voiceless bird that feeds upon the brain-pulp of him (her) who hath tormented me, and the agony of the is to be shall sustain itself in shrieks of pain, only to serve as signals of warning to those who would resent my being. curse

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its language and possible analogues from classical literature, which would not have been known in iceland before the twelfth century. on the other hand, the primacy of thor over loki would accord with thor fs prominence in the waning decades of paganism, and if the real point of the poem is not just that thor alone can make loki stop but rather that thor can do so. that is, if the poem ultimately pits loki fs mouth against thor fs hammer.it would be consistent with many of the other mythological poems of the poetic edda, which involve conflict and ultimately tell us about hierarchy: odin is better than giants, men, and even thor with words (vafthrudnismal, grimnismal, and harbardsljod, and thor is better than alviss with words (alvissmal. on this one occasion, at least, loki is better than

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h set held dominion over all at some point in time, his forms many and his will and hunger to exist was greater than the efforts of his enemies to destroy him. set is called the personification of the dark waters and the desert, his two-fold essence of being is central to his role as the tester and sorcerous initiator. all predators of the spirit who devoured the dead were reposed in the darkened pits of the tuat. aapep, apep or apophis was the demon serpent of chaos who devoured many, battled often by set, later apep was conquered and mastered by set, soon apep merged into set. just as the most common form of apep was a crocodile, this was also a form that sutekh or set took as well. suti (set) was also often a god of death, devouring spirits or befriending them as well. predatory spiritu

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hidden power. probably he was taught that the golden crown represented his own spiritual nature, which must be objectified and unfolded before he could truly glorify mithras; for mithras was his own soul, standing as mediator between ormuzd, his spirit, and ahriman, his animal nature. in the second degree he was given the armor of intelligence and purity and sent into the darkness of subterranean pits to fight the beasts of lust, passion, and degeneracy. in the third degree he was given a cape, upon which were drawn or woven the signs of the zodiac and other astronomical symbols. after his initiations were over, he was hailed as one who had risen from the dead, was instructed in the secret teachings of the persian mystics, and became a full-fledged member of the order. candidates who succe

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place of departed spirits in general, it produces a wrong impression in the mind. again, the word tuat must not be rendered by 'hades' or 'hell' or 'sheol' or 'jehannum, for each of these words has a limited and special meaning. on the other hand, the tuat possessed the characteristics of all of these names, for it was an 'unseen' place, and it contained abysmal depths of darkness, and there were pits of fire in it wherein the enemies of the gods were consumed, and certain parts of it were the homes of monsters in various shapes and forms which lived upon the unfortunate creatures whom they were able to destroy."60 according to the book of gates,61 the first region of the tuat was called set-amentet, and also the western gate.62 affix now my image as it was given to you, so that all who re

a belief system- a series of long-held precepts which cannot be "rationalized away. finally it came to me. eureka! very quickly, i began looking for my calligraphy pen and a good piece of parchment. i began writing: in the name of satan, lucifer, belial, and leviathan, and in the company of astaroth, beelzebub, asmodeus, abbadon, and azazel, and by all the demons named and nameless who swarm the pits of hell, i do happily sell my soul to the devil, satan-lucifer, in exchange for. well, you get the picture. i plunked the finished product down on a table in front of him "sign this. here's a red pen "don't i hafta cut myself "that won't be necessary. sign it" mr. f. was hesitant to say the least! he sat there for several moments, silent with frozen wrist. finally he stammered "b-but. this is

cthulhu in his dark city is rising again to bring the world beneath his sway. we are not alone among the consciousness within the earth, for dark shapes visit the faithful few. when the stars are right, and the cycle is known, the dark ones come themselves from the stars and bring their images with them. they plunge from world to world through the sky and sleep, but never die. they seethe within pits of rotting corpses inside the great city r'lyeh, preserved by spells of mighty cthulhu for the resurrection by the stars. they talk in their tombs, and have molded our dreams. we are as the old ones, free and wild, and beyond good and evil. laws and morals thrown aside, we shout and kill and revel in joy, with ecstasy and freedom. the world of the profane passes away in sulfurous flame and ma

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y vengeance smash the stillness of the air and stand as monoliths of wrath upon a plain of writhing serpents. i am become as a monstrous machine of annihilation to the festering fragments of the body of he (she) who would detain me. it repenteth me not that my summons doth ride upon the blasting winds which multiply the sting of my bitterness; and great black slimy shapes shall rise from brackish pits and vomit forth their pustulence into his (her) puny brain. i call upon the messengers of doom to slash with grim delight this victim i hath chosen. silent is that voiceless bird that feeds upon the brain-pulp of him (her) who hath tormented me, and the agony of the is to be shall sustain itself in shrieks of pain, only to serve as signals of warning to those who would resent my being. oh com

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unds, arranged in a circle. the size and number of the earthworks suggest that the construction of the burial mounds was a community project. hundreds of tribespeople had to dig soil from nearby areas, then over a period of weeks or months carry innumerable baskets or buckets, and dump them on the growing mound. the work may have been directed by a shaman, for it appears from the presence of fire pits in some of the mounds that religious ceremonies were conducted and funeral rites were observed. in pike county, ohio, on the banks of the scioto river, there is a mound consisting of a circle and square, constructed with great geometric accuracy. in native american pictography, the ring or circle is generally an emblem of the sun, the stars, and the great spirit, the divine being. the oval al

nal institute on aging study found that those who attend religious services are less depressed and physically healthier than those who don t attend or who worship at home. century mystic amos komensky (1592 1670) declared that each child has an angel given to him by god and ordained to be his guardian, that [the angel] might guard him, preserve him, and protect him against all dangers and snares, pits, ambushes, traps, and temptations. those men and women who claim to have seen their guardian angels generally describe them as appearing youthful, commanding, beautiful of countenance, and often majestic and awesome. manifestations of light often accompany them, which lend to the grandeur of their appearance and the feelings of profound reverence that suffuse those who encounter angelic being

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d with godlike reverence by the members of his tribe. the great sun wore a headdress-crown of white swan feathers and was born aloft on a litter by devotees so his feet would not be defiled by contact with the earth. the natchez, and it is supposed their vanished mississippian predecessors, had elaborate funeral ceremonies which involved certain sacrifices. when mound 72 was excavated, the burial pits of nearly 300 people were discovered, including what may have been as many as 53 young women who were sacrificed to honor the death of a great ruler-priest. in 1961, dr. warren wittry unearthed the remains of a circle of red cedar posts that may have been used as a solar calendar to note coming seasons and to help determine when to plant and when to harvest crops. the discovery was dubbed gwo

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rever you were in the year 1966, you must have heard about the coming of the flying saucers. the news media beat the story into a froth of ennui. the newsstands were glutted with one-shot ufo magazines and quickie paperbacks "rehashing the reported sightings from previous flap years. everywhere great crowds of people gathered on hilltops, in swamps and cemeteries, and around reservoirs and gravel pits, their eyes turned heavenward. saucer-hunting became a national sport, rallying to the excited cry "there goes one" that year i stood on hilltops and beaches with those crowds, watching funny lights bob around in the night. but an uneasiness was overtaking me; a dark suspicion that dr. asimov's tongue-in-cheek observation may have contained more truth than even he knew. the year of the garuda

amp giving light without flame" woodrow derenberger's mr. cold did not fit this pattern. in fact, the name made me suspicious of woody's story and if i had not talked with others who had shared similar experiences on the same night, i might have rejected derenberger outright because of it. in earlier times, fairies, demons, and even human witches practicing their black sabbath rites, chose gravel pits, garbage dumps, cemeteries and crossroads for their appearances. modern hairy monsters and ufos select the same sites, and quite a few ufo contacts have occurred near crossroads or on highways still under construction at points where old highways once intersected. derenberger's first contact with cold was on a newly completed highway yards from an old intersection. across the river, the vast

e are slowly learning. once we begin looking beyond the mere manifestations we will finally glimpse the real truth. belief has always been the enemy of truth; yet, ironically, if our minds are supple enough, belief can sometimes open the door. after spending a lifetime in egyptian tombs, among the crumbling temples of india and the lamaseries of the himalayas, endless nights in cemeteries, gravel pits, and hilltops everywhere, i have seen much and my childish sense of wonder remains unshaken. but charles fort's question always haunts me "if there is a universal mind, must it be sane- fortean organizations (removed) ic the complete simon necronomicon introduction in the mid- 1920's, roughly two blocks from where the warlock shop once stood, in brooklyn heights, lived a quiet, reclusive man

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n there is great happiness and rejoicing. she sometimes appears in armour, and is thereby a most excellent guardian against the machinations of her sister, the dread queen ereshkigal of kur. with the name and number of inanna, no priest need fear to walk into the very depths of the underworld; for being armed, in her armour, he is similar to the goddess. it was thus that i descended into the foul pits that lie gaping beneath the crust of the earth, and commanded demons. she is similarly the goddess of love, and bestows a favourable bride upon any man who desires it, and who makes the proper sacrifice. but know that inanna takes her own for her own, and that once chosen by her no man may take another bride. her colour is the purest white. her manifestation is in the metal copper, and also i

ircle, this holy gate of (n) may he of the name unspeakable, the number unknowable, whom no man hath seen at any time, whom no geometer measureth, whom no wizard hath ever called call thee here now! rise up, by anu i summon thee! rise up, by enlil i summon thee! rise up, by enki i summon thee! cease to be the sleeper of egurra. cease to lie unwaking beneath the mountains of kur. rise up, from the pits of ancient holocausts! rise up, from the old abyss of narr marratu! come, by anu! come, by enlil! come, by enki! in the name of the covenant, come and rise up before me! ia mass ssaratu! ia mass ssaratu! ia mass ssaratu zi kia kanpa! barrgolomoloneth kia! shtah! at this point, the watcher will surely come and stand outside the gate or circle until such time as he is given the license to depar

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ect forms wherein they are depicted in ament of the tuat--now the beginning of such representations should be from amentet-[these figures i say] shall act as magical protectors to that man upon earth [and] in neter-khert, regularly and unfailingly. whosoever knoweth these, when he is making his journey past them shall escape from their roarings, and he shall not fall down into their furnaces (or, pits. whosoever knoweth this, when 'he is keeping ward over [his] seat (or, place, his bread-cake shall be with ra; and whosoever knoweth this, being soul [and] spirit, shall have the mastery over his legs, and shall never enter into the place of destruction, but he shall p. 10 come forth with his attributes (or, forms, and shall snuff the air for his hour. thentent-baiu is the name of the hour of

s a flame-goddess in the form of a uraeus, and behind her are twelve gods, who stand in front of heru-ur (or, horus the aged, the haroeris of the later greek writers. heru-ur is in the form of a hawk-headed p. 133 man, who leans on a staff. behind the shrine which contains osiris stand twelve gods, who are described as "the gods who are behind the shrine" behind, or by the side of these, are four pits or hollows in the ground, by the side of each of which stands a god, with his body bent forward in adoration before a bearded god, who holds the symbol of life in the right hand and a sceptre in the left. the four gods are called "masters of their pits" and their lord is called the "master of earths" p. 135 the text referring to horus reads "horus worketh on behalf of his father osiris, he pe

ected thee by means of magical ceremonies, he hath crushed for thee thine enemies, he hath brought to thee vigour for thy arms, o osiris, khenti amenti" in reply to this address of the twelve gods khenti amenti saith unto his son horus "come to me, o my son horus, and avenge me on those who work against me, and cast them to him that is over the things which destroy [for] it is he who guardeth the pits [of destruction" then saith horus unto those gods who are behind the shrine "make inquisition for me, o gods who are in the following of khenti amenti, stand ye up, and withdraw ye not yourselves, and be ye masters over yourselves, and come, and live delicately on the bread of hu, and drink ye of the ale of maat, and live ye upon that whereon my father liveth there. that which belongeth to yo

of ra. i call unto you, and behold, it is for you to do what it is your duty [to do' their meat consisteth of cakes of bread, and their ale is of the tchesert drink, and their libations are [made with] cool water. their food is given unto them by the guardian of the things which are in the shrine. and horus saith unto these gods-'smite ye the enemies of my father, and hurl ye them down into your pits because of that deadly evil which they have done against the p. 137 click to view the twelve gods before the shrine. heru-ur. click to view the twelve gods behind the shrine. osiris khent-amenti. the goddess of flame (nesert) click to view the master of earths. the four masters of their pits. p. 138 great one [which] found) him that begot me. that which belongeth to you to do in the tuat is t

of that deadly evil which they have done against the p. 137 click to view the twelve gods before the shrine. heru-ur. click to view the twelve gods behind the shrine. osiris khent-amenti. the goddess of flame (nesert) click to view the master of earths. the four masters of their pits. p. 138 great one [which] found) him that begot me. that which belongeth to you to do in the tuat is to guard the pits of fire according as ra hath commanded, and i set [this] before you so that, behold, ye may do according to what belongeth to you [to do' this god standeth over (or, by) the pits" next: chapter vi. the gate of teka-hra. the fifth division of the tuat sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 139 chapter vi. the gate of teka-hra. the fifth division of the tuat. the boat of the sun ha

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ght with israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which [is] on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in michmash, eastward from beth- aven. 13:6 when the men of israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits. 13:7 and [some of] the hebrews went over jordan to the land of gad and gilead. as for saul, he [was] yet in gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. 13:8 and he tarried seven days, according to the set time that samuel [had appointed] but samuel came not to gilgal; and the people were scattered from him. 13:9 and saul said, bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings

i be not ashamed. caph. page 379 psalms 119:81 my soul fainteth for thy salvation [but] i hope in thy word. 119:82 mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, when wilt thou comfort me? 119:83 for i am become like a bottle in the smoke [yet] do i not forget thy statutes. 119:84 how many [are] the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? 119:85 the proud have digged pits for me, which [are] not after thy law. 119:86 all thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. 119:87 they had almost consumed me upon earth; but i forsook not thy precepts. 119:88 quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall i keep the testimony of thy mouth. lamed. 119:89 for ever, o lord, thy word is settled in heaven. 119:90 thy faithfulness [is] unto all

o god the lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle. 140:8 grant not, o lord, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device [lest] they exalt themselves. selah. 140:9 [as for] the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them. 140:10 let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again. 140:11 let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow [him] 140:12 i know that the lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted [and] the right of the poor. 140:13 surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence. psalm 141 a psalm of david. 141:1 lord, i cry unto the

r ye the word of the lord, o house of jacob, and all the families of the house of israel: 2:5 thus saith the lord, what iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? 2:6 neither said they, where [is] the lord that brought us up out of the land of egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt? 2:7 and i brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. 2:8 the priests said not, where [is] the lord? and they that handle the law knew me not: the

abominations on the hills in the fields. woe unto thee, o jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when [shall it] once [be] 14:1 the word of the lord that came to jeremiah concerning the dearth. 14:2 judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of jerusalem is gone up. 14:3 and their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits [and] found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. 14:4 because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. 14:5 yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook [it] because there was no grass. 14:6 and the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snu

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