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ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

n, shelter in hsx a day of feast bw+ mwy a title of chokmah hmxk 74 lamed: an ox-goad dml a leader, chief, judge nyyd worn-out; beggars mykd a circuit; roundabout bybs all the way, duration; eternity; booty; witness, proof; ruler d( knowledge (cf. 474 (d 75 nuit, the star goddess (cf. 466 +ywn hues, colours, complexions ynwwg brightness; lucifer, the herald star llyh a lamenting, wailing hlly the pleiades hmyk night; by night hlyl priest nhk unto them mhl 76 secret, put away; a hiding-place nwybx rest, peace xxyn slave, servant db( goddess hlyl) 77 prayed h(b overflowing (ps. 124:5) nwdyz towers, citadels ldgm the influence through the paths (cf. 78; destiny, fate, luck; constellation, planet (cf. 483& 536; soul-root lzm goat; strength; violence; glory z( 78 1-12. the mystic number of keth

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

was; 1 the sacrifices are the ten sephiroth. 2 see table. 3 ancient form of the key of s. 4 considered as the agent of resurrection. 5 in the true key of m the tree is shaped like the letter d= venus or love. the figure of the man forms a cross above a triangle, with apex upwards, the sign of redemption. ambrosii magi hortus rosarum 113 sapientiae lux viris baculum. femina rapta inspirit gaudium. pleiades. dignitates. amicitia. amor. sophia. and he went on. leave thine ox-goad, 1 quoth he, till i come back an ox! and she laughed and let him pass. now is our father come to the unstable lands, od wot, for the wheel whereon he poised was ever turning. sworded was the sphinx, but he out-dared her in riddling: deeper pierced his sword: he cut her into twain: her place was his. but that would he

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etail of the universe as well as to the whole. and herein is choronzon brought utterly to ruin, that all his work is against his will, not only in the whole, but in every part thereof, even as a fly that walketh upon a beryl-stone. and the tablet blazeth ever brighter till it filleth the whole aire. and behold! there is is one god therein, and the letters of the stars in his crown, orion, and the pleiades, and aldebaran, and alpha centauri, and cor leonis, and cor scorpionis, and spica, and the pole-star, and hercules, and regulus, and aquila, and the ram's eye. and upon a map of the stars shalt thou draw the sigil of that name; and because also some of the letters are alike, thou shalt know that the stars also have tribes and nations. the letter of a star is but the totem thereof. and the

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

attractive force, or goal? are there greater spheres of solar life outside our system, that have a definite effect upon it? this may be but a speculation, but it has its points of interest. if we study astronomical books, and seek to ascertain whether astronomers say that this is so, we shall meet with a vast amount of contradictory opinion; we shall find that some astronomers say that within the pleiades is a central point around which our solar system revolves; others say that in the constellation of hercules is the point of magnetic attraction for our solar system. on the other hand, you will find this flatly contradicted. we shall find some astronomers talking about "star-drift" and saying that the drift or trend, of certain stars is in a specific direction; others argue that the dista

ss, and in the development of will or purpose, lies unity, the- 54- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust oneness of the subjective life, and the eventual recognition that within the form, and in the form only, lies separation and differentiation. the ancient books of the east point out, in considering this subject, that the seven stars of the great bear, the seven stars of the pleiades, and the sun sirius, have a very close connection with our solar system, and that they hold an intimate psychic magnetic relation to our solar logos. we have seen that the goal for the atom of substance is self-consciousness; and that for the entity who is evolving through a planet, the goal may be god consciousness. now, of course, when you consider the solar logos words fail, yet for hi

s they say that in the sun sirius lies the source of wisdom, and that the influence or the energy of love emanates from there. then they say that there is a constellation that is even more closely connected with our solar logos, the reason being that he is not, as yet, sufficiently evolved so that he can respond completely to sirius, but he can respond to the influence of the seven sisters of the pleiades. this group is a most interesting one. if you will go to the dictionary and look up the word "electricity" you will find it suggested that it may be traced back to the star electra, one of the seven sisters, and- 55- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust supposed by some to be the little lost pleiad. the eastern teachers say that in the mystery of electricity is hidden

will find it suggested that it may be traced back to the star electra, one of the seven sisters, and- 55- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust supposed by some to be the little lost pleiad. the eastern teachers say that in the mystery of electricity is hidden all knowledge, and that when we have fathomed that we shall know all there is to be known. what the relationship of the pleiades to our solar system may be, it is not possible for us to say, but even our christian bible recognises it, and job speaks of "the sweet influences of the pleiades" whilst some of the oriental scriptures affirm that the connection lies in sound or vibration. perhaps the pleiades are the source of the atomic life of our logos, the active intelligent aspect, that one which was first developed

eiades" whilst some of the oriental scriptures affirm that the connection lies in sound or vibration. perhaps the pleiades are the source of the atomic life of our logos, the active intelligent aspect, that one which was first developed, and which we might call electrical matter. then there is the great bear. there is much that is interesting said about the relation between the great bear and the pleiades in oriental writings. the seven sisters are said to be the seven wives of the seven stars of the great bear. now what is perhaps the truth back of that legend? if the pleiades are the source of the electrical manifestation, the active intelligent aspect of the solar system, and their energy that which animates all matter, they may perhaps represent the negative aspect, whose polar opposit

f the electrical manifestation, the active intelligent aspect of the solar system, and their energy that which animates all matter, they may perhaps represent the negative aspect, whose polar opposite, or the positive aspect, is their seven husbands, the seven stars of the great bear. perhaps the union of these two is what produces our solar system. perhaps these two types of energy, one from the pleiades and the other from the great bear, meet, and in their conjunction produce that blazing forth in the heavens which we call our solar system. the relationship of these two constellations, or rather their subjective relationship, must surely have some basis in fact, or we would not have it hinted at in the different mythologies. there must be something that connects them, out of all the myri

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

it not that the hierophant and the two sponsors of the initiate pass it primarily through their bodies, it would be more than he could stand. this increase of mind energy results in an expansion and an apprehension of the truth as it is, and is lasting in its effects. it is felt primarily in the throat centre, the great organ of creation through sound. another type of energy reaches man from the pleiades, passing through the venusian scheme to us, just as the sirian energy passes through the saturnian. it has a definite effect upon the causal body, and serves to stimulate the heart centre- 57- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust a third type of energy is applied to the initiate, and affects his head centre. it emanates from that one of the seven stars of the great bear

to us. every planetary logos has, in his own special planet, schools for the development of subordinate logoi, and there trains them for this high office, giving them opportunity for wide experience. even the logoi themselves progress onward, and their places must be taken. 4. the path to sirius. very little may be communicated about this path, and the curiously close relation between it and the pleiades can only be mentioned, further speculation being impossible. the bulk of liberated humanity goes this way, and the prospect holds out glorious possibilities. the seven stars of the pleiades are the goal for the seven types, and this is hinted at in the book of job, in the words "canst thou bind the sweet influence of the pleiades" in the mystery of this influence, and in the secret of the

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

mic centre. in a manner inconceivable to us the first logos brings in the influence of other constellations. when this first aspect is better understood (in the next mahamanvantara) the work of the seven rishis of the great bear,65(57) and the supreme influence of sirius will be comprehended; in this present manifestation of the son, or of the vishnu aspect, we are concerned more closely with the pleiades and their influence via the sun, and, in relation to our planet, via venus. this subject of the first logos, manifesting only in connection with the other two in the system, is a profound mystery, which is not fully understood by even those who have taken the sixth initiation. the first logos embodies the "will to live" and it was through his instrumentality that the manasaputras came int

tive or negative where the inflowing force is concerned, and positive or radiatory where its own emanations are concerned, and in connection with its effect upon its environment. this can be predicated likewise of the entire ring-pass-not of the solar system in relation to its cosmic environment. force flows into the solar system from three directions via three channels: a. the sun sirius, b. the pleiades, c. the great bear. i would here point out the connection or correspondence in this statement to an earlier one made when speaking of solar radiation, and the channels through which it can be felt. these currents or radiations we call a. akashic. b. electrical. c. pranic. in considering the occult meaning of what is here suggested, one point in elucidation may be imparted, leaving the wor

ection or correspondence in this statement to an earlier one made when speaking of solar radiation, and the channels through which it can be felt. these currents or radiations we call a. akashic. b. electrical. c. pranic. in considering the occult meaning of what is here suggested, one point in elucidation may be imparted, leaving the working out of the other two relationships to the student. the pleiades are- 88- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust to the solar system, the source of electrical energy, and just as our sun is the embodiment of the heart, or love aspect, of the logos (who is himself the heart of one about whom naught may be said) so the pleiades are the feminine opposite of brahma. think this out, for much is contained in this statement. certain broad statem

above mentioned, however, are of prime importance at this time. these two, with the lesser triangle of our chain, constitute the focal point of energy viewed from our planetary standpoint. in addition to these some hints in connection with the microcosmic and macrocosmic centres, we might here give the cosmic correspondences at which it is possible to hint. the cosmos. our solar system, with the pleiades and one of the stars of the great bear, form a cosmic triangle, or an aggregation of three centres in the body of him of whom naught may be said. the seven stars in the constellation of the great bear are the correspondences to the seven head centres in the body of that being, greater than our logos. again, two other systems, when allied with the solar system and the pleiades, make a lowe

; his magnetic radius touches the periphery of his cosmic opposite, and the marriage of the son is effected. the two cosmic units merge. if we here naturally ask which is the cosmic unit that is our solar opposite, we shall be told that that question lies hid for the present, though it is hinted at in the secret doctrine, and in other sacred books. a hint lies concealed in the relationship of the pleiades to our earth, but not until a further precession of the equinoxes will it be more fully seen what is the exact relationship involved.96(85) iii. why is this solar system evolving along the lines of duality? 1. the problem of existence. the third question involves one of the most difficult problems in metaphysics, and covers in its consideration the whole perplexing mystery of the reason w

e. second, in the second solar system, and in connection with the method employed therein, another point merits attention. this fire of mind has its source in a constellation until recently unrecognized by exoteric science as having any relation of an intimate nature to our solar system, owing to its tremendous distance away. the sun "sirius" is the source of logoic manas in the same sense as the pleiades are connected with the evolution of manas in the seven heavenly men, and venus was responsible for the coming in of mind in the earth chain. each was primary to the other, or was the agent which produced the first flicker of consciousness in the particular groups involved. in every case the method was that of a slow evolutionary growth till the consciousness suddenly blazed forth owing to

schemes, and caused such a stimulation of all the latent manasic units within his body that a downflow of pure manas from the planetary manasic permanent atom was possible along the path of the planetary antaskarana a channel which exists in the case of the planetary logos, and which has not to be built as in the case of man. along with this juxtaposition came a similar alignment with one of the pleiades, permitting of manasic influence from that source.30,(115)31 third, the third method of individualisation is the one to be followed in the next solar system, though it will have its faint beginnings in this one. it is not based on latent activity as in the first case, nor in electrical polarity as in the second, but in a peculiar process of "occult abstraction (using the word "abstraction

pond to the vibration of that centre. it would be well to enlarge here a little on the connection between venus and the earth, which is hinted at in some of the occult books, and is somewhat touched upon in this. i have stated that the interaction between the two schemes is due largely to their positive and negative polarity, and i pointed out that a similar relation underlies the relation of the pleiades and the seven schemes of our solar system, and also the relation of sirius and the system itself. this, therefore, sweeps into close interaction three great systems- 220- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. the system of sirius, 2. the system of the pleiades, 3. the system of which our sun is the focal point, making, as we will have noted, a cosmic triangle. within our

hich may be considered primarily archetypal, causal, or involving abstraction; three in which manas is manifested, and two in which already buddhi is manasically demonstrating. of these two, venus is one and thus we have the three and the two which make the five schemes of the five kumaras, who are brahma.36(120) just as venus is negatively polarised to our earth scheme, so the seven stars of the pleiades are negatively polarised to our seven schemes. a very pertinent question might here be asked. we might justly enquire (in connection with the point that venus is negatively polarised, and also that the pleiades are equally so) why they should be termed negative if they are the donors and not the receivers, for to be negative is surely to be receptive. this is indeed so, but the question a

n the fact that in our case one globe alone was affected, whereas the influence of our scheme on the venusian was such that an entire chain was stimulated. this was brought about through the positive polarity of the heavenly man of the earth scheme. therefore, enlarging the concept, we can note the fact that our heavenly men are the transmitters, via their seven schemes, to the seven stars of the pleiades. our solar system is negatively polarised as regards the sun sirius, which influences our entire system psychically via the three synthesising schemes uranus, neptune, saturn the latter, saturn, being the focal point for the transmission of cosmic manas to the entire seven schemes- 222- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust 4. manas and the earth chain we have brought our c

e first aspect, or the plane of adi. f. with those devas who form the spirit-substance of the manifestation of that particular rishi of the great bear who is the prototype of our particular planetary logos. g. with those devas who form the substance of that one of those esoteric existences who are spoken of in the secret doctrine14(186) as "the wives of the seven rishis" or the seven sisters, the pleiades. one of these seven sisters has a close connection with our heavenly man, and- 389- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust therefore we have an interesting cosmic interplay as follows: 1. one of the seven rishis of the great bear. 2. one of the seven sisters, or a pleiad. 3. the heavenly man of our scheme. this interplay will be threefold and as far as we are concerned just

the sun. that another triangle was also formed involving two planets was to be expected under the law, and the triangles vary according to the scheme involved. cosmically there is a very interesting series of triangles which will be found by the student of esoteric astronomy and of occult cycles. they originate in the central sun of our particular group of solar systems. this series involves the pleiades. the fact that this is so will not be known until the last decade of the present century, and will not be recognised by science till that time when certain lines of knowledge and discovery will bring scientists to a realisation that there is a third type of electricity, which ever balances and forms the apex of the triangle. but the time is not yet. all that is here said is expressed in t

corresponding to the throat centre, show forth their power on the fourth subplane through the mental units. they are the sumtotal of the power of the ego to see, to hear and to speak (or sound) in the strictly occult sense. a hint may here be given to those who have power to see. three constellations are connected with the fifth logoic principle in its threefold manifestation: sirius, two of the pleiades, and a small constellation whose name must be ascertained by the intuition of the student. these three govern the appropriation by the logos of his dense body. when the last pralaya ended, and the etheric body had been co-ordinated, a triangle in the heavens was formed under law which permitted a flow of force, producing vibration on the fifth systemic plane. that triangle still persists

ct of moon conditions is to be seen working out predominantly in the terror, and present distress in the animal kingdom.58(226) a further factor in cyclic computation lies in the effect of the following stars and constellations upon our system and upon any particular scheme within the system: a. the great bear. b. the little bear. c. the pole star, especially where our planet is concerned. d. the pleiades. e. the constellation of capricorn. f. draco. g. sirius. h. the various constellations and stars of the zodiac. the mystery is hidden in esoteric astrology, and until the subject of energy working through the etheric body, of radioactivity, and of the transmutation of all bodies from a lower state into a higher is better comprehended, the true mystery of the "influence" of these various b

ich was the vibratory activity produced through the rhythmic life of an earlier solar system. this is equally true of all atoms of all grades, but only in connection with the atom of substance, and to some degree with the human atom, is it in any way possible to ascertain the predisposing causes. until the mystery of the great bear is revealed and is known as it is, and until the influence of the pleiades is comprehended, and the true significance of the cosmic triangle formed by- 473- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust a. the seven rishis of the great bear, b. the seven planetary logoi of our solar system, c. the seven pleiades or sisters, is revealed, the karma of the seven sacred planets will remain unknown. all that we can see is its working out in the solar system. t

within the solar ring-pass-not,67(234) unrecognised as yet, and disintegrating constellations (of which there are many in the universe, unknown and unrecognised by scientists) have an equally malefic effect upon our system, and upon all that passes into their sphere of influence. there is one such constellation, situated between the lesser dipper and our system, and another, interrelated with the pleiades and our system which still have a profound effect upon the physical body of the solar logos. the above paragraph is specifically worded thus because the effects are felt in the lowest sheath of all, and are responsible for much that is ignorantly termed "black magic" these two constellations have run their cycles and are "dissolving" some of their life force and energy has been transferre

ir way to the cosmic fourth ether, the buddhic plane. these three groups are- 534- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust therefore cosmically connected with: 1. the cosmic astral plane and the constellation whence emotional and desire energy originates. 2. the cosmic mental plane, and therefore with the constellation sirius. 3. the cosmic buddhic plane, and the constellation of the pleiades. thus can the whole process be worked out, if man carefully studies his own nature, and the law of analogy. the devas of the gaseous subplane. in dealing with the elementals, or lesser devas, under the manipulatory devas of this extensive group, we are dealing with the devas of fire, and with the fiery essences of substantial nature which can be seen manifesting in myriads of forms. certa

in its esoteric sense and not its exoteric- 585- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust cosmic evil from the standpoint of our planet consists in the relation between that spiritual intelligent unit or "rishi of the superior constellation" as he is called (who is the informing life of one of the seven stars of the great bear, and our planetary prototype) and one of the forces of the pleiades.96(262) students need here to remember that the "seven sisters" are occultly called the "seven wives" of the rishis, and that the dual forces (resultant from that relationship) converge and play through that one of the planetary logoi who is the logos of any particular planet, and is the "reflection" of any specific rishi. in this relation, at present lacking perfect adjustment, lies hid

tire solar system from: a. the seven stars of the great bear. the strength of these vibrations depends upon the closeness of the connection and the accuracy of the alignment between any particular heavenly man and his prototype. the mystery here is profound; it is connected with the stage in evolution of the "imperfect gods" and the objective of the planetary deities. b. the seven sisters, or the pleiades, and from that one in particular who is occultly termed "the wife" of the planetary logos whose scheme will eventually receive the seeds of life from our planet, which is not considered a sacred planet, as has before been stated. c. the sun sirius. there are other streams of energetic force which have an effect upon the pilgrim everywhere, but the above enumeration will serve to show the

tars" like the planetary atom, the solar atom not only rotates on its axis but likewise spirals in a cyclic fashion through the heavens. this is a different activity to the drift or progressive dynamic motion through the heavens. it deals with the revolution of our sun around a central point and with its relation to the three constellations so oft referred to in this treatise: the great bear. the pleiades. the sun sirius. these three groups of solar bodies are of paramount influence where the spiral cyclic activity of our system is concerned. just as in the human atom the spiral cyclic activity is egoic and controlled from the egoic body, so in connection with the solar system these three groups are related to the logoic spiritual triad, atma-buddhi-manas, and their influence is dominant i

on, and to realise their essential unity is not as yet great enough. we are told that even to the liberated dhyan chohan the mystery of that which lies beyond his own solar ring-pass-not is hid. certain influences indicate to him and certain lines of force demonstrate to him the fact that some constellations are knit with his system in a close and corporate union. we know that the great bear, the pleiades, draco or the dragon are in some way associated with the solar system but as yet he knows not their function nor the nature of the other constellations. it must also be remembered that the turning of our tiny systemic wheel, and the revolution of a cosmic wheel can be hastened, or retarded, by influences emanating from unknown or unrealised constellations- 644- a treatise on cosmic fire c

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

constellations of the zodiac. astronomical and astrological investigation has demonstrated this relationship and the influences exerted but there is still speculation and much foolish claiming and interpretation. yet the churches have ever recognized this and the bible has testified to it "the stars in their courses fought against sisera (judges v.20 "who can withstand the sweet influences of the pleiades (job xxxviii.31. many other passages bear out this contention of the knowers. many church festivals are fixed by reference to the moon or a zodiacal constellation. investigation will prove this to be the case and when the ritual of the new world religion is universally established, this will be one of the important factors considered. the establishing of certain major festivals in relatio

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

reat veil which has been thrown wisely over planetary lore (a treatise on cosmic fire, p. 1051) the following is a list incomplete but adequate for our purposes of the major influences which find their way from far distant sources into our planetary life and produce definite effects upon individual man and humanity as a whole. 1. the constellation of the great bear. i. 2. the seven sisters of the pleiades. 3. sirius, the dog star- 9- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. the seven solar systems of which ours is one. ii. 2. the seven sacred planets of which ours is not one. 3. the five non-sacred planets or "hidden" planets. 1. the seven planetary centres. iii. 2. the seven centres of force in the human etheric body. iv. 1. the twelve zod

of our planet, the earth, is a correspondence to the effect of that aggregate of atoms and molecules which we call the dense physical body and of its response to the pull and the attraction of any or all of the subtler bodies. as regards the influence of the seven solar systems, i should suggest (more i cannot do) that they are linked up astrologically with the constellations, the great bear, the pleiades, and sirius. they are intimately related to them, but their exact effect is a transmitted one and cannot be noted as producing noticeable results, as yet, upon humanity and the other kingdoms in nature. the effect of the three great constellations also cannot be noted by individual man until such time as he becomes conscious of the monadic vibration, after the third initiation. there are

n fails to register them, but after the third initiation, there is a recognition of them upon the physical plane. bringing the theme back to the subject of this treatise, which is that of the seven rays, i would point out that these rays have a close connection with the seven stars of the great bear (again always the four and the three as a secondary differentiation) and to the seven sisters, the pleiades. the first constellation is the agent of positive force to the planetary logos and the other the relayer of the negative aspect. there is, therefore, a direct interchange of energies between the lives of the seven planetary logoi and the stupendous and unfathomable lives who inform these major constellations. great interlocking triangles of force can be found existing between the seven pl

heir potency even when out of manifestation. the fifth creative hierarchy exists on the highest etheric level and will join the other four hierarchies when the sixth creative hierarchy has measured up to cosmic opportunity and is itself nearing liberation. the following is a tabulation showing some of the astrological relationships in connection with 1. the constellation of the great bear. 2. the pleiades or the seven sisters. 3. sirius. 4. the seven solar systems. tabulations i and ii the seven creative hierarchies in active planetary expression 1. the hierarchy of creative powers is divided esoterically into seven (4 and 3) within the twelve great orders. 2. three hierarchies are in this greater cycle of profound significance, the fourth or human creative hierarchy and the two deva hiera

se on cosmic fire, pages 1196-1207 tabulation iii i. dynamic energy. electric fire cancer 1. sirius. saturn. fifth creative hierarchy capricorn (the 8th unknown) the cardinal cross- 30- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. the great aries bear. sun, veiling vulcan. second creative hierarchy libra (the 11th) unknown the cardinal cross gemini 3. pleiades. mercury. fourth creative hierarchy sagittarius (the 9th) unknown the mutable cross all the above energies are called into play as far as man is concerned during the major initiations and upon the path of initiation. ii. magnetic energy. s olar fire 4. the 7 solar taurus systems. m ars. third creative hierarchy scorpio (the 10th) unknown the fixed cross all the above energy is called into

re in reality, and apart from astral reversion due to the great illusion, seven major and five minor) will be of value. these work out into human expression via the lords of the twelve signs and the twelve planetary rulers. these twelve basic energies emanate from the seven stars of the great bear (transmitted through seven stars of the little bear; two of them come from sirius and three from the pleiades. this set-up (if i may use such an unorthodox term) will be the condition of the major solar sphere of influence at the end of the great age of brahma, as it is esoterically called. in the "interim or interlude of evolution (which is the inadequate translation of an occult phrase given to a world cycle in the masters' archives) these energies are stepped down into forces and are literally

cing" i here refer to the energies pouring from these three aspects of the sun through the three crosses to our planet. ponder on this and remember also that our sun is travelling through space (carrying our solar system along in its sphere of influence) around our own central and conditioning star which it has been rightly presumed exists in the constellation taurus, the bull, being found in the pleiades. at the same time it appears, from the standpoint of our planet, to be passing through the twelve signs of the zodiac; this is a symbol macrocosmically considered, of the dramatic centralised point of view of the individual human being, the microcosm. it is interesting to compare the symbolism and the underlying truth connected with the lesser and the greater zodiacs and with their twelve

n the personality cycle, the lesser zodiac conditions the- 68- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust personality career and the twelve planetary houses are of dominant importance. later the influence of the twelve signs supersedes the influence of the planets. i would like also to emphasise perhaps unnecessarily that sirius, the great bear and the pleiades work through the medium of the twelve constellations, pouring their influences through nine of them in particular, but that these major constellations are not part of the zodiac with which we are concerned. they, with the seven solar systems of which ours is one, are the ten constellations connected with a still greater zodiac which is not conditioned by the numerical significance of the

scorpio and aquarius are related to the following stars which are not numbered in the twelve signs of the zodiac; they constitute another field of relationships: aries to one of the two stars, found in the constellation, the great bear, which are called the two pointers. leo to polaris, the pole star, found in the little bear. scorpio to sirius, the dog star. aquarius to alcyone, one of the seven pleiades. there is little that i can tell you in connection with the energies pouring into the four zodiacal signs from these distant though potent points of outgoing energy; they are part of the life expression of an identity, immeasurably superior to and more advanced than our solar logos. a few hints may, however, be of service to the truly esoteric astrologer who may study these pages, particu

ion to capricorn. this involves the intensified activity of the 6th and the 3rd rays and their energies, and when these are rightly employed there comes liberation from form control and the release of the conscious individual. again, astrologers would do well to work with this line of fused forces, studying its implications and effects in the life of the disciple. aquarius relates humanity to the pleiades and therefore to taurus in an unusual manner. the key to this relation is to he found in the word desire, leading, through the transmutative processes of life experience, to aspiration and finally the relinquishing of desire in scorpio. aquarius, alcyone and humanity constitute a most interesting triangle of force. alcyone is one of the seven pleiades and is called the "star of the indivi

aryan race will we begin really to understand the significance of the process and the true nature of the energies to be released through the medium of humanity upon the planet. it is for this reason that jupiter and uranus (expressions of the second and the seventh rays) are the exoteric and esoteric rulers of aquarius. you have, therefore, the following line of force to study: 1. alcyone in the pleiades, the mothers of the seven aspects of form life and the "wives of the seven rishis of the great bear" they are connected with the mother aspect which nurtures the infant christ. 2. aquarius the world server, the transmitter of energy which evokes magnetic response. 3. jupiter and uranus planets of beneficent consummation. the second ray of love and the seventh ray which fuses spirit and ma

teric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust case is, however, exceedingly rare. we have also brought into relation to our solar system another constellation, called the little bear which is a reflection of or a corollary to the major energies of its greater prototype, ursa major, the great bear. these facts contain a great mystery connected with the inter-relation of ursa major, ursa minor and the pleiades; they constitute one of the greatest and more important of the triplicities to be found in the heavens as far as we have astronomically ascertained the nature of our immediate universe. this is a perfectly unimportant piece of information as far as you are concerned and is only of significance to initiates of the fourth degree. it serves, nevertheless, to add its evidence to the essential

ces of this statement is to be found in the unfoldment of intelligence and love in the initiate, at which time of manifested expression and at the last major initiation, he will be responsive to the synthesis of energies which emanate from the "seven spirits before the throne of god" these are the representatives of the seven rishis of the great bear and their other pole, the seven sisters of the pleiades, symbolically recognised as the seven wives of the rishis of the great bear. here again, in relation to our solar system, do we find another great triangle of energies, of which the focal points on our earth are- 160- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust the seven spirits before the throne. with this triangle we shall later deal; i simply

c. rulers of the seven planes of consciousness and manifestation. d. representatives because responsive to 2. the seven rishis of the great bear who are: a. expressions of the life of the one about whom naught may be said. b. the positive focal points for the seven major cosmic energies. c. rulers of the seven creative hierarchies. d. related as positive poles to 3. the seven sisters or the seven pleiades who: a. are expressions of the dualism of manifestation in their relation to the seven rishis. b. provide the negative pole to the positive aspect of the seven rishis. c. fuse with the positive energies of the great bear and, unitedly, work through seven of the zodiacal signs. here again the complexity of the forces playing upon our planet and increasing in their number and their potency

eir four angles and points in one or other of four zodiacal constellations, are depicted in black; the five-pointed star is depicted yellow or golden colour and its five points are in contact with five of the constellations on the great wheel; the triangles are in blue and have, above each point of the triangle, an esoteric symbol, standing for the constellations of the great bear, sirius and the pleiades. these symbols may not here be revealed but indicate the point of spiritual consciousness achieved and the responsiveness of the initiate to these major cosmic influences. a glance at these geometrical charts will indicate in a moment the status of the initiate, and also the point towards which he is striving. these charts are fourth dimensional in nature and not flat surfaces as are our

ed. because the ray of love-wisdom, the second ray, pours through gemini it becomes apparent how true is the occult teaching that love underlies the entire universe. god is love, we are assured, and this statement is both an exoteric and an esoteric truth. this underlying love of deity reaches our solar system primarily through gemini, which forms, with the constellation of the great bear and the pleiades, a cosmic triangle. this is the triangle of the cosmic christ and is the esoteric symbol lying behind the cosmic cross. there is ever the eternal triangle to be found behind the fourfold phenomenal appearance. speaking symbolically and in the words of the old commentary "upon the golden triangle, the cosmic christ appeared; his head in gemini; one foot upon the field of the seven fathers

virgo, of the seeker (sagittarius, and of the submerged fish (pisces. then, lo, the cross of change appeared, though gemini remained the head. this is the mystery" in this occult statement is hidden one reason why gemini is regarded as an air sign, for it is cosmically related (as are libra and aquarius, the other two points of the airy triplicity) in a most peculiar way to the great bear, to the pleiades and to sirius. the relation is essentially a sixfold one, and here you will find a hint as to the resolution of the pairs of opposites involving as these three constellations do the three ideas of opposition-equilibrium-synthesis or universal fusion. it might be stated that: 1. gemini forms a point of entrance for cosmic energy from sirius. 2. libra is related to and transmits the potenci

nd to sirius. the relation is essentially a sixfold one, and here you will find a hint as to the resolution of the pairs of opposites involving as these three constellations do the three ideas of opposition-equilibrium-synthesis or universal fusion. it might be stated that: 1. gemini forms a point of entrance for cosmic energy from sirius. 2. libra is related to and transmits the potencies of the pleiades. 3. aquarius expresses the universal consciousness of the great bear. it might be profitable to you to bear in mind at this point what i have often told you, that the great white lodge on sirius is the spiritual prototype of the great white lodge on earth, of which modern masonry is the distorted reflection, just as the personality is a distorted reflection of the soul. i would also remin

this statement and thus test all their major determining activities by the question: is my present attitude, my work or intention actuated by personality desire or am i working and planning directly under soul urge and incentive? this should give the keynote of all taurian problems. the entire secret of divine purpose and planning is hidden in this sign, owing fundamentally to the relation of the pleiades to the constellation, the great bear, and to our solar system. this constitutes one of the most important triangles in our entire cosmic series of relationships and this importance is also enhanced by the fact that the "eye of the bull" is the eye of revelation. the underlying goal of the evolutionary process "the onward rush of the bull of god" as it is esoterically called reveals steadi

adily and without cessation the stupendous and sublime plan of deity. this is the subject which light reveals- 222- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust there is at this time, owing to the influx of the shamballa force, the establishing of a peculiar relation or alignment between the constellation, taurus (with its own specific alignment with the pleiades and great bear) the planet, pluto, and our earth. this produces much of the present world difficulty and one which the modern astrologer would do well to consider. it constitutes a major cosmic triangle at this time, conditioning much that is now happening. this shamballa force is that which "fans or intensifies the light by the removal of obstructions and proceeds from far distant places

es, pouring through the eye of illumination into those spheres of influence upon the sorrowful planet, the earth, impelling the bull upon its onward rush" so speaks the old commentary. the import of this is that the energy of will newly released by sanat kumara upon our planet emanates, via the head centre of the planetary logos, from the great bear; it is stepped down in vibration via one of the pleiades (hence its influence upon matter and hence also its pronounced taurian effects upon humanity) and so enters into the solar system. it is there absorbed by that major centre of our planetary life to which we give the name, shamballa. its effect is necessarily twofold. it produces in certain nations, races and individuals, a welling up of the self-will or of the will-to-power which is chara

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nstellations of the zodiac. astronomical and astrological investigation has demonstrated this relationship and the influences exerted, but there is still speculation and much foolish claiming and interpretation. yet the churches have ever recognised this relationship, and the bible has testified to it "the stars in their courses fought against sisera "who can withstand the sweet influences of the pleiades; and many other passages bear out this contention of the knowers. many church festivals are fixed by reference to the moon or a zodiacal constellation. investigation will prove this to be increasingly the case, and when the ritual of the new world religion is universally established this will be one of the important factors considered. the establishing of certain major festivals in relati

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direction of systemic energies and of certain energies emanating from libra and from one of the stars in the constellation of the great bear. in the more advanced stages of their work, and when the master is far more advanced than the word indicates, he works consciously upon the cosmic mental plane; his activities will then be concerned with the relation of the energies of the great bear to the pleiades, and their dual relationship (a higher correspondence to atma-buddhi) to the solar system and only incidentally to our earth. great is the interlocking, the interdependence and the interpenetration! 3. the path of training for planetary logoi it is obviously impossible to say much about this path. those masters who tread it find their way to the various schools for the training of planeta

ot much can be given out concerning this mysterious path which leads into a triangle (if i may so express it) formed of three lines of energy of differing and greatly varying vibratory effectiveness. this triangle is in the nature of an open door, presenting unique and unprecedented opportunity to those who discover this path. just as one of the seven paths produced ultimately relationship to the pleiades, so this path relates our solar system to the constellation of the great bear. you have, therefore, the following triangle composed of one stream of energy emanating from the great bear, another stream of energy issuing from the heart of the sun or from our solar logos, and the base line constituted of the seven streams of energy which come from our seven sacred planets. the potency and t

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rnal desire, and is fittingly, therefore, the ruler of this sign. she is, above everything else, love, the creator of beauty and rhythm and unity. the bull and the cow together represent creation, and so taurus and venus are closely linked. the following is of interest "the bull or cow is the symbol of this sign, and in the celestial chart it will be observed that the little group of stars called pleiades are represented just at the shoulder of the bull. now, in egyptian sculpture, or painting, the pleiades are sometimes represented by the figure of a dove with wings outspread over the bull's saddle. the dove as we remember, is the bird sacred to venus, and as the pleiades are part of the constellation taurus and, as we shall see, more taurian in nature, if possible, than taurus itself, th

pects, is this important constellation of taurus. this is why it has been called in some books, the "sign of generation, both earthly and heavenly. we have seen that the power of the sign taurus is that of attraction, or of bringing together. it exerts a steady and continuous pull and in both the symbolical and the astronomical sense it attracts. we have seen that in this sign are to be found the pleiades, among them alcyone, called the central sun of our universe, and around it circles our sun, with its attendant planets. the words of job when he said "canst thou bind the sweet influences of pleiades or loose the bands of orion" thus become clear. the pleiades are the symbol of the soul around which the wheel of life revolves. it is interesting to discover again, in taurus, the triplicity

of job when he said "canst thou bind the sweet influences of pleiades or loose the bands of orion" thus become clear. the pleiades are the symbol of the soul around which the wheel of life revolves. it is interesting to discover again, in taurus, the triplicity which is so constantly recurrent in astronomical lore and in mythology: taurus, representing form and the attractive pull of matter; the pleiades, representing soul and the vast recurring cycle of experience; and, among the seven pleiades [note the "seven sisters" singing- 30- the labours of hercules about hercules, in the statement of the myth] the lost pleiad (for only six are visible) a symbol of the obscuration of spirit, whilst soul, through desire, takes a body. thus the idea of the relation of the self and the not-self, in o

agittarius, the archer, who shoots straight and rides unhindered to the goal. no deviations, no failure! there is only a steady going forward [64] labor iii gathering the golden apples of the hesperides- part 2 (gemini, may 21st- june 20th) the field of the labor gemini has in it two stars, called by the greeks, castor and pollux, or the twins. these personify two major groups of stars, the seven pleiades, and the seven stars of the great bear, which are the two constellations, in the north, around which our universe seems to revolve. one star represents each constellation. from the standpoint of esotericism, the great mystery of god incarnate in matter, and the crucifixion of the cosmic christ upon the cross of matter, is tied up with the relationship (presumed from most ancient times to

the great bear, which are the two constellations, in the north, around which our universe seems to revolve. one star represents each constellation. from the standpoint of esotericism, the great mystery of god incarnate in matter, and the crucifixion of the cosmic christ upon the cross of matter, is tied up with the relationship (presumed from most ancient times to exist) between the stars of the pleiades and those of the great bear. these two groups of stars represent god, the macrocosm, whilst in gemini, castor and pollux were regarded as symbols of man, the microcosm. they were also called apollo and hercules: apollo, meaning the ruler, the sun god; and hercules "the one who comes to labor. they represent, therefore, the two aspects of man's nature, the soul and the personality, the spi

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those accounts must be older than the 11,000 years elapsed since sancha dwipa, or the poseidonis of atlantis, disappeared. is it not barely possible that hindus should have known the island still earlier? let us turn again to astronomical demonstrations, which make this quite plain if one assumes, according to the said adept, that "at the time when the summer tropical 'colure' passed through the pleiades, when cor-leonis would be upon the equator; and when leo was vertical to ceylon at sunset, then would taurus be vertical to the island of atlantis at noon" this explains, perhaps, why the singhalese, the heirs of the[[footnote(s* america, the "new" world- is thus, though not much, older; still it is older than europe, the "old world* if div or dev-sefid's (the taradaitya's) abode was on t

before our era" he writes (see part iii, book i "hindu astronomy defended by an academician) the lunar eclipse arriving just a fortnight after the beginning of the black age- it took place in a point situated between the wheat ear of virgo and the star[[theta] of the same constellation. one of their most esoteric cycles is based upon certain conjunctions and respective positions of virgo and the pleiades (krittika. hence, as the egyptians brought their zodiac from southern india and lanka* the esoteric meaning was evidently identical. the three "virgins" or virgo in three different positions, meant, with both, the record of the first three "divine or astronomical dynasties" who taught the third[[footnote(s* ceylon[[vol. 2, page] 436 the secret doctrine. root-race; and after having abandon

nters the deity (symbolized by vishnu, the eternal circle of boundless time, kala, on whose plane lie crossways all the gods, creatures, and creations born in space and time- who, as the philosophy has it, all die at the mahapralaya. meanwhile it is they, the seven rishis, who mark the time and the duration of events in our septenary life cycle. they are as mysterious as their supposed wives, the pleiades, of whom only one- she who hides- has proven virtuous. the pleiades (krittika) are the nurses of karttikeya, the god of war (mars of the western pagans, who is called the commander of the celestial armies- or rather of the siddhas (translated yogis in heaven, and holy sages on the earth "siddha-sena" which would make karttikeya identical with michael, the "leader of the celestial hosts" a

rn pagans, who is called the commander of the celestial armies- or rather of the siddhas (translated yogis in heaven, and holy sages on the earth "siddha-sena" which would make karttikeya identical with michael, the "leader of the celestial hosts" and, like himself, a virgin kumara* verily he is the "guha" the mysterious one, as much so as are the saptarshis and the krittika (seven rishis and the pleiades, for the interpretation of all these combined, reveal to the adept the greatest mysteries of occult nature. one point is worth mention in this question of cross and[[footnote(s* described in the "mission des juifs" by the marquis st. yves d'alveydre, the hierophant and leader of a large party of french kabalists, as the golden age* the more so since he is the reputed slayer of tripurasura

otnote(s* nanda is the first buddhist sovereign, chandragupta, against whom all the brahmins were so arrayed; he of the morya dynasty, and the grandfather of asoka. this is one of those passages that do not exist in the earlier puranic mss. they were added by the vaishnavas, who interpolated almost as much, out of sectarian spite, as the christian fathers did[[vol. 2, page] 551 the rishis and the pleiades. there was, and still exists, a seemingly endless controversy about the chronology of the hindus. here is a point that could help to determine- approximately at least- the age when the symbolism of the seven rishis and their connection with the pleiades began. when karttikeya was delivered to them by the gods to be nursed, the krittika were only six- whence karttikeya is represented with

"vedic calendar" accepted even by the orientalists; though they get out of the difficulty by saying that the said calendar does not prove that the hindus knew anything of astronomy at that date, and assure their readers that, calendars notwithstanding, the indian pundits may have acquired their knowledge of the lunar mansions headed by krittika from the phoenicians, etc. however that may be, the pleiades are the central group of the system of sidereal symbology. they are situated in the neck of the constellation of taurus, regarded by madler and others, in astronomy, as the central group of the system of the milky way, and in the kabala and eastern esotericism, as the sidereal septenate born from the first manifested side of the upper triangle, the concealed[[diagram. this manifested side

he system of the milky way, and in the kabala and eastern esotericism, as the sidereal septenate born from the first manifested side of the upper triangle, the concealed[[diagram. this manifested side is taurus, the symbol of one (the figure 1, or of the first letter of the hebrew alphabet, aleph[[hebrew (bull or ox) whose synthesis is ten (10, or[[hebrew] yodh, the perfect letter and number. the pleiades (alcyone, especially, are thus considered, even in astronomy, as the central point around which our universe of fixed stars revolves, the focus from which, and into which the divine breath, motion, works incessantly during the manvantara. hence- in the occult philosophy and its sidereal symbols- it is this circle and the starry cross on its face, which play the most prominent part. the se

d in the other, that "is not yet come" the sixth and seventh coming root races, as also the sub-races of this, our present race? another still more forcible allusion to the seven rounds and the forty-nine root-races in leviticus, will be found elsewhere in the addenda, part iii- e. seven in astronomy, science, and magic. again, number seven is closely connected with the occult significance of the pleiades, those seven daughters of atlas "the six present, the[[vol. 2, page] 619 the cycle of the naros. seventh hidden" in india they are connected with their nursling, the war god, karttikeya. it is the pleiades (in sanskrit, krittika) who gave the god their name, for karttikeya is the planet mars, astronomically. as a god he is the son of rudra, born without the intervention of a woman. he is

is a kumara, a "virgin youth" again, generated in the fire from the seed of siva- the holy spirit- hence called agni-bhu. the late dr. kenealy believed that, in india, karttikeya is the secret symbol of the cycle of naros, composed of 600, 666, and 777 years, according to whether it is solar or lunar, divine or mortal, years that are counted; and the six visible, or the seven actual sisters, the pleiades, are needed for the completion of this most secret and mysterious of all the astronomical and religious symbols. therefore, when made to commemorate one particular event, karttikeya appeared, of old, as a kumara, an ascetic, with six heads- one for each century of the naros. when the symbolism was needed for another event, then, in conjunction with the seven sidereal sisters, karttikeya i

of ireland! the greek allegories give to atlas, or atlantis, seven daughters (seven sub-races, whose respective names are maia, electra, taygeta, asterope, merope, alcyone, and celaeno. this ethnologically, as they are credited with having married gods and with having become the mothers of famous heroes, the founders of many nations and cities. astronomically, the atlantides have become the seven pleiades. in occult science the two are connected with the destinies of nations, those destinies being shaped by the past events of their early lives according to karmic law. three great nations claimed in antiquity a direct descent from the kingdom of saturn or lemuria (confused already several thousands of years before our era with atlantis: and these were the egyptians, the phoenicians (vide sa

ntes curse his too great heat. this allegory is reproduced in its other mystic meaning (another of the seven keys) in the[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 772 the secret doctrine. never-ceasing tears of niobe, whose grief causes zeus to change her into a fountain- atlantis covered with water- is no less graphic as a symbol. niobe, let it be remembered, is the daughter of one of the pleiades (or atlantides) the granddaughter of atlas therefore (see "metamorphoses of ovid" book vi, because she represents the last generations of the doomed continent. a true remark, that of bailly, which says that atlantis had an enormous influence on antiquity "if these names" he adds "are mere allegories, then all that those fables contain of truth comes from atlantis; if the fable is a real t

eus carry away from earth ganymedes (the object of lust, personified) than the father of the gods throws down astraea back on the earth again, on which she falls upon her head. astraea is virgo, the constellation of the zodiac. astronomically it has a very plain significance, and one which 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 contine

dice, 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 daughters of atlas, or the pleiades) looks 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 p

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d in the logos and the point called in roman catholicism the "angel of the face" and in hebrew[[hebrew "who is (like unto, or the same) as god- the manifested representation[[vol. 1, page] 435 antiquity of the pyramids. commentary* thus we are taught that the great pyramids were built under their direct supervision "when dhruva (the then pole-star) was at his lowest culmination, and the krittika (pleiades) looked over his head (were on the same meridian but above) to watch the work of the giants" thus, as the first pyramids were built at the beginning of a sidereal year, under dhruva (alpha polaris, it must have been over 31,000 years (31,105) ago. bunsen was right in admitting for egypt an antiquity of over 21,000 years, but this concession hardly exhausts truth and fact in this question

s "the origin of the stars" p. 221 et seq* if such is the case, how does science explain the comparatively small size of the planets nearest the sun? the theory of meteoric aggregation is only a step farther from truth than the nebular conception, and has not even the quality of the latter- its metaphysical element[[vol. 1, page] 501 contradictory hypotheses (e) and "the sun having alcyone in the pleiades for the centre of its orbit, consumes 180,000,000 of years in completing its revolution (maedler. and also (f) that "the sun has existed no more than 15,000,000 of years, and will emit heat for no longer than 10,000,000 years more (sir w. thomson's lecture on "the latent dynamical theory regarding the probable origin, total amount of heat, and duration of the sun" 1887. a few years ago th

t hindus imported it into their country. we are further told, by several other "authorities" that no eastern nation knew of the zodiac before the hellenes kindly acquainted their neighbours with their invention. this, in the face of the book of job, declared, even by themselves, to be the oldest in the hebrew canon, certainly prior to moses, and which speaks of the making "of arcturus, orion, and pleiades (ash, kesil, and[[vol. 1, page] 648 the secret doctrine. cimah) and the chambers of the south (ix. 9; of scorpio and the mazzaroths- the twelve signs (xxxviii, 31, 32, which words, if they mean anything, imply knowledge of the zodiac even among the nomadic arabic tribes. the book of job, they say, precedes homer and hesiod by at least one thousand years- the two greek poets having themsel

e science, this date proves in the most irrefutable way that it was not the greeks who invented the zodiac, for the simple reason that they did not yet exist as a nation thirty-seven centuries b.c- not as an historical race admitted by the critics, at any rate. bailly then calculated the period at which the constellations manifested the atmospheric influence called by job "sweet influences of the pleiades (in hebrew, chimah, see job xxxviii. 31; of the cesil (orion; and that of the desert rains with reference to scorpio, the eighth constellation; and found that in presence the eternal conformity of those divisions of the zodiac and names of the planets applied in the same order everywhere and always; and in presence of the impossibility of attributing it all to chance and coincidence[[foot

job xxxviii. 31; of the cesil (orion; and that of the desert rains with reference to scorpio, the eighth constellation; and found that in presence the eternal conformity of those divisions of the zodiac and names of the planets applied in the same order everywhere and always; and in presence of the impossibility of attributing it all to chance and coincidence[[footnote(s* astronomie antique* the pleiades, as all know, are the seven stars beyond the bull, which appear at the beginning of spring. they have a very occult meaning in the hindu esoteric philosophy, and are connected with sound and other mystic principles in nature[[vol. 1, page] 649 the zodiac in the bible "which never creates such similarities" there must be allowed for the zodiac a great antiquity indeed (see astronomie antiq

that four beautiful stars were placed as guardians at the four corners of the world. now it so happens that at the commencement of kali yug, 3000 or 3100 years before our era, the "eye of the bull" and the "heart of the scorpion" were exactly at the equinoctial points, while the "heart of the lion" and the "southern fish" were pretty near the solstitial points. an observation of the rising of the pleiades in the evening, seven days before the autumnal equinox, also belongs to the year 3000 before our era. this and similar observations collected in ptolemy's calendars, though he does not give their authors, these observations, which are older than those of the chaldeans, may well be the work of the hindus. they are well acquainted with the constellation of the pleiades, and while we call it

the work of the hindus. they are well acquainted with the constellation of the pleiades, and while we call it vulgarly the "poussiniere" they name it: pillaloo-codi- the "hen and chickens" this name has therefore, passed from people to[[vol. 1, page] 664 the secret doctrine. people, and comes to us from the most ancient nations of asia. we see that the hindus must have observed the rising of the pleiades, and have made use of it to regulate their years and their months; for this constellation is also called krittika. now they have a month of the same name, and this coincidence can only be due to the fact that this month was announced by the rising or setting of the constellation in question. but what is even more decisive as showing that the hindus observed the stars, and in the same way

refore, did not borrow their mean motions, since their figures agree only with those of cassini, whose tables were not in existence in 1687. this mean motion of the moon belongs, therefore, to the hindus, who could only have obtained it by observation- bailly's "traite de l'astronomie indienne et orientale[[vol. 1, page] 668 the secret doctrine. interpretation of the zodiac, even though the whole pleiades of royal astronomical societies rise in arms against their mathematical rendering of it. the descent and re-ascent of the monad or soul cannot be disconnected from the zodiacal signs, and it looks more natural, in the sense of the fitness of things, to believe in a mysterious sympathy between the metaphysical soul and the bright constellations, and in the influence of the latter on the fo

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, i do not mean twisting yourself into some ridiculous posture that intelligent beings were never made to get into, nor do i mean indulging in such inane foolishness as living in a yurt and eating nothing but broccoli (may the gods deliver us from such a fate. i will be honest and say that i have little to no patience with those who advocate such things and fervently wish they would go off to the pleiades to cure their water addiction (there was a dreadful book written a few years back by some new age nutjar who claimed that the australian aborigines were actually aliens sent to cure humanity of its addiction to water. the aborigines were less than amused) what i do mean when i talk about meditation is the ability to calm the body and clear the mind, to concentrate on a given subject and t

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ompetence of the channel and the level of the wavelength to which they are connecting. as someone once said of contact with those no longer on this earth "death is no cure for ignorance. if you connect with wavelengths close to this one, you can be seriously misled. the veil of tears 5 bringers of the dawn claims to be the words of a consciousness communicating from the star system we know as the pleiades. i know if you are new to this, it all sounds so fantastic and hard to accept. but all i can do- all any of us can do- is to say what we believe and feel. i believe that this star system called the pleiades, or at least the more evolved groups from there, are part of a universal operation to set humanity and this world free from the prison we have unknowingly lived within for aeons of wha

result of the writers accessing their deep memories or having direct knowledge of what happened. it is this same inner memory at some deep level of our consciousness that attracts such astonishing numbers of people to the science fiction films and literature. some of the places which crop up most often in channelled information relating to these conflicts are the systems of orion, sirius, and the pleiades. interesting, then, that these were at the fore of ancient beliefs and worship on earth over thousands of years, across scores of cultures. the pyramids at giza and the giant spider drawn in ancient times on the plains of nazca, peru, are exactly aligned with orion. i think the star arcturus in the bootes constellation is also significant to the earth's history. the veil of tears 15 the a

this strange and suppressing vibration in preparation for a future mass incarnation to break the jamming frequency. this is the period we are living through today. since atlantis, other highly evolved consciousnesses have entered the prison to experience and prepare for this time. my own view is that the 'volunteer' consciousness has come back from the future and that the star system known as the pleiades is very much involved. this relates to the idea of simultaneous 'time' in which the past, present, and future are all happening at once. mind blowing, i know. i get a headache just thinking about it. but i do feel that the consciousness of those who are here specifically to free the earth and the human race from suppression and oppression, came from a time-space reality far in the 'future

(uranus) would begin to happen on an aggregate level, rather than a generational one. the effect will manifest in disruption and it is meant to- only through chaos can creative and harmonic change emerge" underpinning these astrological events in this period is the photon belt. many psychics and esoteric scientists are now agreed on the existence of a belt of highly charged energy centred on the pleiades star system, an estimated 500 light years from the earth. it is from here that much channelled information which feels right to me is purported to come. i believe that the pleiades (maybe in our 'future) is a base for the positive extraterrestrial support we are being given at this time, and quite possibly the home of extraterrestrials who have abused the earth and humanity, too. as with

ystem, an estimated 500 light years from the earth. it is from here that much channelled information which feels right to me is purported to come. i believe that the pleiades (maybe in our 'future) is a base for the positive extraterrestrial support we are being given at this time, and quite possibly the home of extraterrestrials who have abused the earth and humanity, too. as with the earth, the pleiades will have those of positive and negative intent. it is no coincidence, either, that the pleiades was the focus of much mythology in the ancient civilisations of greece, china, and others. the astronomer, jose comas sola, made a special study of the pleiades- the "seven sisters" as they are called- and he suggested that they form a system which includes our sun and a number of others. each

s" as they are called- and he suggested that they form a system which includes our sun and a number of others. each sun, he said, had its own planetary system. in his study of the star system, paul otto hesse claimed to have discovered a belt of immensely powerful energy which he termed the photon belt. according to estimates, it takes this solar system 24,000 (some say 26,000) years to orbit the pleiades and the star reckoned to be at the centre of the belt (figure 17) known as alcyone (al-see-ahnee. again, there is much ancient legend across many cultures about this star. it 444..and the truth shall set you free would appear that we have reached the point where this solar system is entering the photon belt and its highly, highly, charged energy. the influence of the belt on the earth beg

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uctures like the great pyramid and other amazing sites across the world, came from the stars- extraterrestrials of many varieties. some were tall blond-haired, blue-eyed, types, while others took a reptilian form (see picture section for artists' impressions of these beings. these and others came here from constellations like orion, draco, andromeda, lyra, and bootes, and other locations like the pleiades, sirius, vega, zeta reticuli, arcturus, aldebaran, and elsewhere. australian aborigines, african tribes, the babylonians, and south american indians are just some of the diverse peoples who claim ancient connections with such places. the reptilians are a tall, mostly humanoid-type race, with snake-like eyes and skin and they are connected to the classic "greys" with the big black "eyes, w

ring" as they move frequency, much like a radio dial. this is why 30 t ruled by the gods 31 people have reported seeing entities "disappear" before their eyes. they have not, in fact "disappeared" at all. they have left the frequency range that person can access. it's the same with ufos. we are not alone the three main physical forms from constellations, planets, and stars like orion, sirius, the pleiades, mars, and the others i have mentioned, appear to have been: the white race or the "blue-eyed blonds; a reptilian race of various expressions; and the so-called "greys" of modern ufo folklore (see picture section. also there was the advanced black race and another, which, according to those who claim to have been abducted by non-human entities, has an insect-like form. in ufo research the

ot intervene, interject or become involved with the subjects of their study at that point in time. the development and progression of the human race on earth was under the observation and study of these relations from the stars. in 'the atlantis connection' i refer to this as the 'titan project. the three main extraterrestrial groups, which comprised the titan project, were those from sirius, the pleiades and orion, although there were indeed other extraterrestrial races, which also shared involvement. this is where the reptilian variety comes into play. as where sirians, pleiadeans and those from orion did interact in cooperation with each other under the mutually agreed upon conditions of the program, i would have to classify the reptilians as a renegade or rebel element which did not ad

hat period of hundreds of thousands of years. this was the source of the incredible and magnificent diversity of the human physical form and there are endless bloodlines among us, not just those of the anunnaki reptilians. from what i gather from my research and insider information, there has been a long battle in many parts of the galaxy between the blond-haired, blue-eyed "nordics" of lyra, the pleiades, aldebaran and elsewhere, and factions of a reptilian race based in the constellations of draco and orion and within the sirius network. it is possible that at least some of the reptilians originated on the earth and were driven out or, literally, forced underground at some point by the "nordics. this is not to say that all of these peoples are involved, only that significant groups of th

look at how the ancient book of enoch describes the "watchers "and there appeared to me two men, very tall, such as i have never seen on earth. and their faces shone like the sun, and their eyes were like burning lamps..their hands were brighter than snow" some ancient "gods" were also called the "shining ones. a theme of modern extraterrestrial research, and the reports of abductees, is that the pleiades star system, the so-called "seven sisters, is peopled by a blond, blue-eyed, race (and a reptilian one) and once again a reverence for the pleiades can be found throughout the sumer empire and beyond. the pleiades, in fact, is a grouping of some 200 stars and not just the seven with which it is associated. some suggest that alcyone, the brightest star of the pleiades, is the pivotal centr

galaxy around which our sun and solar system orbit. cherokee and maya legend in north and central america and the greek historians, apollodorius and diodorus, are among those who refer to pleiadians visiting atlantis. the greeks said that pleiadians had mated with poseidon, a king of atlantis, and the offspring populated that society. diodorus said that two of the seven symbolic "sisters" of the pleiades, celoene and alcyone, had "laid with the most renowned heroes and gods and thus became the first ancestors of the larger portion of the race of human beings" nordic-reptilian interbreeding? the lyra constellation is widely associated in ufo research and the stories of abductees with a blond-haired, blue-eyed race. aldebaran, a giant red star with a diameter about forty times that of the s

e-eyed race. aldebaran, a giant red star with a diameter about forty times that of the sun, is another nordic-related location, not least within the secret society network of the nazis. it is in the constellation of taurus and one of the brightest stars in the 90 children of the matrix northern hemisphere. many abductees tell of loving experiences with tall, blond beings claiming to come from the pleiades, as they do with some reptilian experiences, and it is important to stress here, and to keep in mind throughout this book, that i am not suggesting for a moment that all of these "nordics" or "reptilians" have a malevolent agenda for humanity. only that some factions of them do. these genetic streams appear to be vast and populate many parts of the galaxy, and so, as with humanity, some w

ve animals while feeling nothing for the suffering of their "specimen. it's the reptilian mind. frans kamp, the dutch researcher, began his journey of discovery after his marriage to a reptoid-hybrid woman ended after 12 and half years. his conclusions about the reptilian-nordic connection mirror the themes of my own "the humanoid originates from extraterrestrials from the region of lyra, but the pleiades and aldebaran are in the game, too. they had original human form in another density. they were peaceful and had blue eyes and white/blondish hair. by mixing up their dna with the reptoids, as naive as they were, the humanoids character changed and they got reptoid qualities of character. this was the fall of the human. it is a natural thing. it happens to this very day. but the former anc

, now turkey. this was ishkur or "he of the mountain land" and he became the god of the nordic-aryan hittites. the old testament calls him adad and the hadad. r.a. boulay believes this is also the hebrew god, yahweh/yahveh or jehovah. the daughter of sin, known as inanna or ishtar (semitic, was a warrior goddess deity of many lands under different titles. ishtar's symbol was the lion and also the pleiades and venus. together with sin (shamash) and ishkur (adad, she became part of another ancient trinity of gods under many different names. sin was the father, ishkur the son, and ishtar the female. from ishkur and ishtar, we get the new age myth of the "ashtar command. many new agers claim this is a force of extraterrestrial "saviours" who are preparing to take the chosen ones off the planet

of the scandinavians once lived in a tropical region that is now the gobi desert in china-mongolia. they developed a technological society that included nuclear energy and the flying machines the vedic records call vimanas. these nordics were constantly challenged by a race of reptilian shape-shifters based in the then sub-tropical antarctica, doreal says he learned. it is certainly true that the pleiades (nordics) and orion (reptilians) are said in ancient texts to be, at least symbolically, associated with death and destruction on earth. antarctica is where, apparently, some nazis fled after the war and there are many tales of an underground base there. doreal says he was shown how these "chameleon" reptilians infiltrated human societies in their battle for control of the planet. one way

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ebrighter than snow.55this would connect also with the ancient description of gods as the shining ones.there is certainly much more to our history than we are being told and much morehappening on this planet today than most people could even begin to believe. manyextraterrestrial races, not only the reptilians, operate in and around the earth on this orhigher dimensions. beings from orion and the pleiades are among many other racesreported by abductees and researchers to be interacting with humans. from what i hearfrom brotherhood insiders who have seen some of these extraterrestrials, the orions (acruel, but beautiful race according to my contacts) have some kind of alliance with thereptilians. i am sure that the biblical angels were the watchers, the reptilians, winged andotherwise. the

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s gravity wheel experiment with joe parr's 7.4 astronomical correlations with great pyramid there are numerous relationships of the great pyramid to various astronomical bodies. the two main constellations which are related to the pyramid are taurus (the bull) and orion (the hunter. both these constellations are in the same portion of the sky. taurus is located just above orion. 7 .4.1 the taurus/pleiades connection the star alcyone in the constellation taurus marks the foundation setting (i.e, when construction was initiated on the great pyramid) date of the great pyramid.6 alcyone is one of the brightest stars in the pleiades, which is part of the taurus constellation. the ascending passageway in the great pyramid has a score line on it which pointed to alcyone in 2144 bc. alcyone is lin

e 7.4.1-1, which depicts the major energy conduits, shows the may 2 conduit. not shown on the chart was a conduit last year on the 27th of may, also an alcyone correlation. figure 7.4.1-1. energy conduits discovered with gravity wheel experiment one of the best confirmed ufo cases has to do with billy myers, from switzerland, who claims to have been contacted by extraterrestials who hail from the pleiades. some of the best authenticated photographs of ufos have been taken by myers, which he claims are pleiadian beam ships. could these beam ships be riding the energy conduits discovered by joe parr? 7.4.2 the orion connection the big conduit in the middle of december, shown in figure 7.4.1-1, and first week of january loads to another important connection, that of the great pyramid and the

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ed as a wolf with a serpent s tail, vomiting flame. when he appears in human form, his head resembles that of a large owl with canine teeth. he is the strongest of the princes of the demons, knows the past and the future, and can reconcile friends who have quarreled. he commands 40 legions. amorah quan yin (1950) amorah quan yin is the spiritual name of a contemporary channel of entities from the pleiades, who currently resides in mt. shasta, california. amorah quan yin was born on november 30, 1950, in rural kentucky. from her childhood she reported clairvoyant psychic experiences and healings, but these were abandoned during her school years. they only manifested again after her 16th birthday. in 1977, she was diagnosed with an incurable illness and given two years to live. in response

and sell gemstones, workshops on crystals having become a part of her curriculum. in 1988 she moved her work to mt. shasta. at mt. shasta, she developed her awareness of the pleiadians and sirians, and began channeling from the former. in 1993 she changed her name to amorah quan yin. her channeling has resulted in several books that have added to the growing literature credited to beings from the pleiades, but she has also emerged as one of the new generation of post-new age channelers who are in contact with a wide range of both ascended masters and extraterrestrials. in her channeled material, amorah quan yin offers an alternative view of the origin of the human race detailed to her from the pleiadian emissaries of light. humans have an origin in the deeps of space, and earth inhabitants

s time that he became interested in eastern spirituality and studied with several spiritual masters. he also obtained a degree in alternative medicine and became a lecturer on behalf of the national health federation (an organization advocating freedom of medical choice for the public. in the 1970s bell became well known as a contactee, claiming contact with semjase, the extraterrestrial from the pleiades first introduced to the public through the writings of william billy meier, the swiss contactee. popular ufo author brad steiger wrote about bell in his 1988 book the fellowship, and then collaborated with bell in the production of a fictionalized autobiography, the promise (1991. the latter book suggested that the pleiadians had come to the earth in ancient times, during the atlantis era

in egypt in the 1930s. however, he was killed in the effort to keep it from the nazis, the modern representatives of the evil atlanteans. the medallion eventually came into bell s possession. he then went to egypt, where he met semjase and found a book containing information on pleiadian science and technology. semjase communicated to him that she had a mission of sharing the technology from the pleiades with the earth. the transfer of that technology has been authorized by the intergalactic andromedan council. the pleiadians were also attempting to activate human wisdom. through the 1990s, bell has been a popular lecturer at ufo and new age gatherings. more recently, he authored a second book, rays of truth-crystals of light (1998, introducing some of the pleiadian technology, much of wh

anings are assigned to each of the 28 mansions that are grouped thusly: the green dragon of spring 1. the horn 2. the neck 3. the base 4. the room 5. the heart 6. the tail 7. the basket the black tortoise of winter (new moon) 8. the ladle 9. the ox-boy 10. the maiden 11. the void 12. the rooftop 13. the house 14. the wall the white tiger of autumn 15. astride 16. the mound 17. the stomach 18. the pleiades 19. the net 20. the beak 21. orion the red bird of summer (full moon) chinese astrology encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 282 22. the well 23. ghosts 24. the willow 25. the bird 26. the bow 27. the wings 28. the carriage. chinese astrology in general has two goals: the prediction of the future, and the determination of auspicious days upon which to initiate a particular e

e astrology encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 282 22. the well 23. ghosts 24. the willow 25. the bird 26. the bow 27. the wings 28. the carriage. chinese astrology in general has two goals: the prediction of the future, and the determination of auspicious days upon which to initiate a particular enterprise (especially to marry or to begin a new business endeavor. for example, the pleiades is an unfortunate day to marry or initiate any family activity, while the next day is a good day. the mound is a good day for initiating construction projects such as building a new house. the visible planets (mercury, venus, mars, jupiter, and saturn) are associated with the five basic elements as discerned by ancient chinese thought (water, metal, fire, wood, and earth. they are analogo

s known in the ancient world (inner) and those only discovered in the modern age (outer. she followed this effort with her study of astrology and sexuality, liquid light of sex: mid-life crisis and the planets (1991. while becoming known as an astrologer, clow also emerged as a channel, and in 1989 she issued one of the first books containing channeled material reputedly from inhabitants from the pleiades star cluster, heart of the christos: starseeding from the pleiades. this volume, along with barbara marciniak s bringers of the dawn (1992, would create the emphasis on pleiadian wisdom that became so prominent in the post-new age ascension movement of the 1990s. she followed it with the pleiadian agenda: a new cosmology for the age of light (1995. she has come to think of herself as a pl

who is assisting earth with its transcendence of the dominant restrictive patterns that limit human creativity and awareness. as vice president of bear& company, she has been in charge of publishing many of the pleiadian texts. sources: clow, barbara hand. chiron: rainbow between the inner and outer planets. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1987. heart of the christos: starseeding from the pleiades. santa fe, n. mex: bear& co, 1989. the pleiadian agenda: a new cosmology for the age of light. santa fe, n. mex: bear& co, 1995. clymer, r(euben) swinburne (1878.1966) for many years head of the rosicrucian fellowship (fraternitas rosae crucis, the oldest of the contemporary rosicrucian organizations, founded in the nineteenth century by pascal beverley randolph. clymer was born november

. turrell went on to head guardian action, the most prominent post in the ashtar command, though in the wake of turrell s death, a number of competing outposts have arisen. forming a link between the ufological community and the new age was swiss contactee eduard albert meier, a contactee whose career has paralleled that of george adamski. in 1979, meier s coffee-table book, ufo. contact from the pleiades, was released in an english-language edition. while ufologists were offended by what they quickly came to see as an elaborate hoax, a number of amateur ufo buffs were attracted to the evidence of the impressive pictures. meier s basic claim was that on the afternoon of january 28, 1975, he had seen a flying saucer land. from it a beautiful woman named semjase came forth and engaged him in

ttracted to the evidence of the impressive pictures. meier s basic claim was that on the afternoon of january 28, 1975, he had seen a flying saucer land. from it a beautiful woman named semjase came forth and engaged him in conversation for an hour and a half. she told him that she was from a people that had originated on a planet in the constellation lyra, but that a war had driven her people to pleiades. along the way, the pleiadians had discovered earth and periodically visited it. in fact, some had settled here and intermarried with humans, then in a rather primitive state. in subsequent visits with semjase, meier would take many photographs and even rides in the space ships. inventor/ consultant fred bell would also claim meeting with semjase from which he derived plans for the flying

ation bids us to do. the attacks upon meier s credibility were somewhat lost amid the flood of material supportive of his claims, including more than a dozen books, most beautifully illustrated with photos. meier also released several amateurish videos. through the 1980s these materials circulated among ufo buffs, but found an even larger audience within the new age community. they associated the pleiades as the home for the visitors from outer space, and thus it is not surprising that by the end of the 1980s, a series of books otherwise unconnected to meier and his supporters began to appear containing messages channeled from entities from the pleiades. among the first was from astrologer channel barbara hand clow, heart of the christos: starseeding from the pleiades (1989, though by far

on belief by temple in the sirius mystery had the initial effect of giving a small boost to the ancient astronaut theories of prehistoric visitation of earth by visitors from space, specifically from sirius. in the long run, however, the idea was taken up by the new generation of contactees who began channeling from entities believed to come from sirius. in the post new age, sirius has joined the pleiades as the primary source for channeled entities. sources: arts& life in africa online. http//www.uiowa.edu/ africaart/toc/people/dogon.html. may 24, 2000. roberts, david. mali s dogon people. national geographic 174, no. 4 (october 1990: 100.127. temple, robert k. g. the sirius mystery. folkstone, kent, uk: bailey brothers and swiften, 1972. doinel, jules-benoit (1842.1894) jules-benoit doin

adopted its present name. its first issue under its new name appeared in january 1999. coeditor roger miles traces his involvement with the magazine to 1994 when in aspen, colorado, on vacation, he met the owner of a bookstore who also happened to be a trance channeler. the entity speaking through the man identified miles as a starship commander with the galactic federation who had come from the pleiades to earth to help take people home. he did not understand the weird encounter at the time, but strange coincidences began to occur. he soon had a feeling that he should leave his business and pay attention to his life s work. in the united states in 1996, he met robert shapiro, the channel for an entity named zoosh, and soon was led to an encounter with o ryin swanson, the founder of the s

ships that meier claimed frequently visited near his home. a second picture book followed and during the 1980s some dozen books appeared from genesis iii. the circulation of the meier material led to the growth of the free community in europe and the emergence of an american affiliate, the semjase silver star center, named for meier s primary contact, semjase, a beautiful space commander from the pleiades star system. the free community tries to exist in that area where science and religion converge. meier makes claims concerning the objective reality of his flying saucer contacts that include travels to outer space in a beamship and numerous face-to-face meetings with various extraterrestrials. on the other hand, most of the contacts have been in traditional contactee fashion, via telepat

e. as early as 1989, channelers in north america also began to claim contact with the pleiadians, most notably barbara marciniak. at the same time, ufologists denounced meier as a hoaxer, though the several volumes demonstrating that fact have been lost among the many books and videos supportive of his claims. sources: elders, lee j, brit nilsson-elders, and thomas k. welch. ufo. contact from the pleiades, volume i. phoenix, ariz: genesis iii productions, 1979. ufo. contact from the pleiades, volume two. phoenix, ariz: genesis iii productions, 1983. kroff, kal k. spaceships of the pleiades: the billy meier story. amherst, n.y: prometheus press, 1995. meier, eduard billy. decalogue or the ten bids. alamogordo, n. mex: semjase silver star center, 1987. the psyche. alamogordo, n. mex: semjase

ing in a brilliant glowing body. in the years since she had experienced a number of ufo sightings and telepathic contact with whales and dolphins. st. germain confirmed that king had been abducted in 1947, taken aboard a spacecraft, and given a medical examination. the being she had seen in 1961 was an extraterrestrial. king came to know this person as a resident of the constellation known as the pleiades. within a short time, p taah, the pleiadian who had been in touch with her through the years, began to speak through her and in 1989 she made her first appearances as a channel. in the fall of 1991, in north queensland, australia, a group of people gathered weekly for a set of channeling sessions with p taah in which he laid out his basic teachings and answered a spectrum of questions fro

chair of st. edward. it was stolen by scottish nationalists on christmas eve 1950 as a protest, then recovered and restored to westminster abbey in february 1952. it is also known as the tanist stone, or jacob s stone (see also danaans) lia light lia light is an organization that facilitates the work and disseminates the teachings of lia shapiro, a ufo contactee who claims communications from the pleiades. she was born the daughter of an atheist jewish father and southern baptist mother. as a child, in the 1950s, she had had a vision of an intense light which visited her son. then in 1982, she had a born again experience and became an evangelical christian. finally, in 1994, while in japan teaching english classes, shapiro met a japanese woman who told her that she had a great mission in h

eely. the messages that she typed turned out to be communications from beings that claimed to be pleiadians. she passed copies of the channeled messages to her japanese friends, who encouraged her to continue. she also began to see herself as a starseed, an extraterrestrial incarnated in a human body. she related this idea to a myth reported among the cherokee people that they originated from the pleiades. the experience of channeling from the pleiadians put shapiro s life in perspective, from her childhood experience with the light. she believes that the pleiadians are here to enlighten humankind and lead people toward their destiny in the light. humans will come to know who they really are as light beings. lia light can be contacted at p.o. box 1063, fallbrook, ca 92088. it has an intern

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about relationships. san diego: astro computing services, 1992. the only way to. learn about tomorrow. san diego: astro computing services, 1988. the only way to. learn astrology. 3 vols. san diego: astro computing services, 1976.82. marciniak, barbara (fl. ca. 1988) barbara marciniak is a contemporary trance channel best known for her reception of material from entities said to originate in the pleiades star cluster. she was raised in a polish- american family and in the 1970s became a student of the seth material channeled by jane roberts. marciniak emerged out of obscurity on may 18, 1988, when what is described as a collective from the pleiades began to speak through her. she was on a trip with a new age group at the time, visiting ancient sites in egypt and greece. she felt she was l

th material channeled by jane roberts. marciniak emerged out of obscurity on may 18, 1988, when what is described as a collective from the pleiades began to speak through her. she was on a trip with a new age group at the time, visiting ancient sites in egypt and greece. she felt she was led to reexperience these sites as part of her present life and was in greece when the channeling emerged. the pleiades had been suggested as a source for extraterrestrial contact in the 1980s by eduard albert billy meier, a marabini, enrico encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 978 swiss flying saucer contactee. two picture books, several volumes recounting his contact claims, and some videos purporting to show saucers from the pleiades freely circulated through the north american new age com

rbara hand clow, and it was to the publishing concern at which clow was employed that marciniak turned to publish her first book, bringers of the dawn: teachings from the pleiadians. released in 1992, it became one of the most important volumes of the post-new age era. two subsequent books with the same publisher have followed. through marciniak, the pleiadians suggested that they had come to the pleiades from another universe that had attained completion. earthlings are working on reaching completion, and the pleiadians are here to assist that process. their presence heralds the transition from the third dimension to higher dimensions. also, according to the pleiadians, humanity was planned as an experiment of the prime creator, who sent out extensions of itself into the unknown with the

arm. in 1974, he advertised for people who would like to be part of a metaphysical study group, and soon had a small gathering joining him for discussions of occult matters. the next year he announced that he had not only seen a flying saucer, but that it had landed and a beautiful woman disembarked. he talked with her for an hour and a half. the woman, semjase, hailed from the planet erra in the pleiades. of all the people with whom the pleiadians had made contact, only meier had passed all the tests. semjase set the stage for meier to take a host of pictures of what were termed beamships, meier s primary evidence to an unbelieving world. he claimed to have taken a number of rides in the beamships, including a visit to the pleiades. european media began to give meier coverage and controve

ography of george adamski, the original 1950s contactee. they brought copies of the meier pictures to the united states and gave them to contactee enthusiast wendelle stevens. stevens visited meier in october of 1977, and after investigating his claims, created a company, genesis iii productions limited, to market the photos and related stories. in 1979, a coffee-table book, ufo. contact from the pleiades, volume one, made the world aware of his claims. additional books and several videos subsequently appeared. as controversy swelled around meier, with most ufologists rejecting his contactee claims, in 1981 kal k. kroff published the results of his investigation, the meier incident: the most infamous hoax in ufology. he demonstrated that meier s photos were of small models held by string

aims. additional books and several videos subsequently appeared. as controversy swelled around meier, with most ufologists rejecting his contactee claims, in 1981 kal k. kroff published the results of his investigation, the meier incident: the most infamous hoax in ufology. he demonstrated that meier s photos were of small models held by string. he followed with a second book, spaceships from the pleiades, in 1990. among the most damaging discoveries concerned some pictures supposedly taken from space by meier that turned out to be nasa photos. more people, however, read writer gary kinder s generally favorable book, light years. stevens and his associates have remained staunch supporters of meier and have continued to distribute the many genesis iii publications through the 1990s. stevens

rough the 1990s. stevens has edited a multivolume series of meier s contact notes. the semjase silver star center was opened as an american counterpart to the meier organization in europe. the meier material freely circulated through the new age movement, with new age bookstores being a major means of distributing it. the impact of this material is visibly demonstrated in the prominence given the pleiades in channeling material. beginning in the late 1980s, a host of new age channelers have regularly received messages from entities identifying themselves as pleiadians. sources: elders, lee j, brit nilsson-elders, and thomas k. welch. ufo. contact from the pleiades, volume one. phoenix, ariz: genesis iii productions, 1979. ufo .contact from the pleiades, volume two. phoenix, ariz: genesis i

ders, lee j, brit nilsson-elders, and thomas k. welch. ufo. contact from the pleiades, volume one. phoenix, ariz: genesis iii productions, 1979. ufo .contact from the pleiades, volume two. phoenix, ariz: genesis iii productions, 1983. kinder, gary. light years: an investigation into the extraterrestrial experiences of eduard meier. new york: atlantic monthly, 1987. kroff, kal k. spaceships of the pleiades: the billy meier story. amherst, n.y: prometheus press, 1995. meier, c(arl) a(lfred) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1020, and william moore. the meier incident.the most infamous hoax in ufology. fremont, calif: the authors, 1981. meier, eduard billy. decalogue or the ten bids. alamogordo, n. mex: semjase silver star center, 1987. the psyche. alamogordo, n. mex: semjase

d kung-fu, karate, and judo, along with dim-mak, the art of deferred death. from his accomplishments, he wrote three books, which he were published in 1992 as a way of karate: from the pupil up to the master (in russian. more importantly, oris had become a channel, regularly receiving messages from a group of entities he came to know as the universal teachers. many of these teachers come from the pleiades and the sirius star systems. through the 1980s he spoke little about his channeling work for fear of being diagnosed as mentally deranged and placed in an asylum. only in the 1990s did he begin sharing the information he had received. in 1990 he began to channel regularly and received the material for a book that he called life after life, or the revelation of aquarius. in the late 1990s

es the unexplained. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. playfair, guy lyon. the indefinite boundary. london: souvenir press, 1976. the unknown power. 1975. reprinted as the flying cow. london: souvenir press, 1975. this house is haunted: the true story of a poltergeist. london: souvenir press, 1980. pleiades the pleiades is a star cluster an approximately 400 lightyear distance from earth and near the constellations of orion and taurus in the night sky. the cluster includes seven bright stars that are easily seen with the naked eyes. in more recent years, astronomers equipped with telescopes have found the cluster to contain some 400 stars and to be surrounded by a nebula. as with many of the

is a star cluster an approximately 400 lightyear distance from earth and near the constellations of orion and taurus in the night sky. the cluster includes seven bright stars that are easily seen with the naked eyes. in more recent years, astronomers equipped with telescopes have found the cluster to contain some 400 stars and to be surrounded by a nebula. as with many of the heavenly bodies, the pleiades has attracted the speculation of people who have imposed a mythological significance on the objects seen in the night sky. and such speculations have not been limited to prescientific cultures. early in the twentieth century, the leader of the group later known as the jehovah s witnesses suggested that one of the stars of the pleiades was actually the throne of the lord god jehovah. in an

s actually the throne of the lord god jehovah. in ancient greece, the seven prominent stars were named after the seven daughters of atlas and pleione. atlas, a titan who warred against the gods, was condemned by zeus to hold up the heavens on his shoulders. his daughters were named alcyone, asterope, celaeno, electra, maia, merope, and taygete. each has her own story from the mythological cycles. pleiades, largely a concern for the astronomical community in recent centuries, broke into the news in 1975 when eduard albert billy meier, the leader of a small metaphysical study group in his native switzerland, announced that he had seen a saucer-shaped craft land and had communicated with its pilot, a woman named semjase. semjase claimed to reside on a planet in the pleiades. having discovered

mjase claimed to reside on a planet in the pleiades. having discovered earth in the distant past, some pleiadians settled here and intermarried. the peace-loving semjase was part of a group who were attempting to assist humanity out of its warlike tendencies. meier claimed that semjase allowed him to take pictures of the pleiadian spacecraft, called beam ships, and that he even took a trip to the pleiades himself. while the photographs were the most important aspect of the meier contact claims, he also asserted that he had telepathic contacts with semjase. a first volume of photographs and an outline of the meier story was published in english in 1979, and a number of additional books appeared over the next few years as ufologists debated the pros and cons of the meier pictures. american i

h and received a variety of technological information from semjase. but, although meier received much support, mainstream ufologists denounced him. kal k. kroff authored two books condemning him as a hoaxer. kroff s attacks on meier were countered by meier s supporters with more than a dozen books, illustrated with his many photos of the spaceships, and several video tapes. together they made the pleiades a well-known item within the lay community of people interested in flying saucers. beginning in the late 1980s, channelers (mediums, people who receive information from various extrasensory sources, appeared within the larger new age community and claimed that they were channeling material from pleiadians. the results of these contacts began to appear in 1991 with jani king s book, the p

he lay community of people interested in flying saucers. beginning in the late 1980s, channelers (mediums, people who receive information from various extrasensory sources, appeared within the larger new age community and claimed that they were channeling material from pleiadians. the results of these contacts began to appear in 1991 with jani king s book, the p taah tapes: transmissions from the pleiades. it was followed the next year by possibly the most influential volume, barbara marciniak s bringers of the dawn: teachings from the pleiadians. additional pleiadian contactees include amorah quan yin, nina jenice, susan drew, barbara hand clow, and lyssa royal, whose channeled material appears regularly in the monthly magazine of channeled material, sedona: a journal of emergence. in 199

ly magazine of channeled material, sedona: a journal of emergence. in 1996 preston nichols, the man who made some extraordinary claims concerning his secret work on a u.s. government project with mind control, materialization, and weath- playfair, guy lyon encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1222 er control known as the montauk project, revealed that he had also taken a trip to the pleiades on a spaceship. together these new age channelers have led in the development of that segment of the new age community who look to extraterrestrials as the source of the teaching material they are releasing. sources: amorah quan yin. pleiadian perspectives on human evolution. santa fe, n.mex: bear& co, 1996. the pleiadian workbook. santa fe, n.mex: bear& co, 1996. bell, fred. rays of trut

nta fe, n.mex: bear& co, 1996. bell, fred. rays of truth-crystals of light. blue hill, maine: medicine bear publishing, 1999. clark, jerome. ufo encyclopedia. 2 vols. 2nd ed. detroit: omnigraphics, 1998. klimo, jon. channeling: investigations on receiving information from paranormal sources. rev. ed. berkeley, calif: north atlantic books, 1998. nichols, preston b, and peter moon. encounter in the pleiades: an inside look at ufos. new york: sky books, 1996. rutherford, j. f. reconciliation. brooklyn, n.y: watchtower bible and tract society, 1917. winters, randolph. the pleiadian mission: a time of awareness. atwood, calif: the pleiades project, 1994. pliny the elder (galius plinius secundus (ca. 23.79 c.e) roman historian who studied firsthand, and died during, the eruption of vesuvius on a

taneous travel between planets in different star systems. then in 1995, the u.s. government announced that it had been carrying on secret parapsychological research, the last phase of which had been given the name project star gate. not as well-known, in 1991 mark roberts (1934, an independent spiritual searcher, found what he had termed the real stargate, an ancient painting of the constellation pleiades located at the entrance to a cave. he believes the painting to be a presentation of a cosmic-portal. the painting seems to connect decades of studies in archeology of egypt, an ancient alphabet (ogham, and ancient symbols of the pleiades. the portal seems to point toward ancient visitors to earth. the real stargate provides a mental doorway to step into a new consciousness where massive a

o network in 1992, roberts has invited others to share the quest, especially those drawn by the keys and symbols pictured on the stargate. from the contemplation of the stargate, research during the 1990s reached a set of conclusions that now serves as a base for future development. roberts believes that earth has been visited many times, from the distant past to the present, by visitors from the pleiades and sirius. the set of actual artifacts denoting sirius and the pleiades tie together the archeology of the ancient world with the extraterrestrial presence. that presence had a primarily positive effect. the extraterrestrials made judgments about human behavior and offered positive guidelines for human evolution. roberts also believes that the crop circles reported around the world in th

aterrestrial presence. that presence had a primarily positive effect. the extraterrestrials made judgments about human behavior and offered positive guidelines for human evolution. roberts also believes that the crop circles reported around the world in the 1990s are related to extraterrestrials. the stargate project can be contacted through the stargate internet site at http//home.earthlink.net/ pleiades. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. stargate 1485 sources: roberts, mark. an introduction to dianic witchcraft. dallas, tex: the mother grove, n.d. stargate. http//home.earthlink.net/ pleiades. april 19, 2000. starhawk starhawk is the public name of wiccan priestess miriam simos. she is an international spokesperson for neo-paganism, feminist concerns, and social activism

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

contactee of later years was himself a physical contactee, eduard billy meier, a rural swiss man with a background in the esoteric. like adamski and his first-generation counterparts, meier put forth photographs, artifacts, and allegedly confirmatory testimony to back up his stories of inthe- flesh meetings with space people and of rides in their spacecraft. meier s extraterrestrials are from the pleiades star system. but like adamski s venusians, they are handsome and beautiful, with blond hair and a generally n o rthern eu ropean appearance. unlike ad a mski s and just about everybody else s space people, meier s have a specifically antireligious message; the pleiadeans, according to meier, contactees 71 ufo contactee george adamski (left) being interviewed on television by long john neb

r. strange magazine 18 (summer: 6 12. gyeorgos ceres hatonn gyeorgos ceres hatonn usually addressed and referred to simply as hatonn speaks through doris ekker (known as dharma. george and desiree green and others associated with the phoenix project distribute hatonn s messages through a magazine called the phoenix journal. hatonn describes himself as commander in chief, earth project transition, pleiades sector flight command, intergalactic federation fleet-ashtar command; earth representative to the cosmic council and intergalactic federation council on earth transition( who is hatonn. hatonn denies that the process through which he communicates is channeling. it is, he says, more like radio transmission directly from spaceship to contactee. we travel and act, he says, in the direct serv

versation with its pilot, a beautiful spacewoman named semjase (pronounced meier, eduard billy 167 eduard billy meier, one of the most controversial contactees (fortean picture library) sem-ya-see. meier would produce many more photographs, claim more contacts, recount trips into space and through time, and become the most controversial contactee since george adamski. meier s aliens came from the pleiades star system and from a planet named erra, one of ten planets in orbit around a sun known as tayget. the aliens got there from another planet in the constellation of lyra, where thousands of years ago a war forced much of the population to flee to other worlds. at one point 2.8 million years ago, as they were exploring the new galactic neighborhood, the new pleiadians found earth, then hou

es hoped to move human beings in a positive direction, and they selected meier as their earthly agent. unlike nearly all other contacters, meier s space friends were hostile to religion, though apparently not to the notion of god as such. once, when meier was aboard a spaceship( beamship as the pleiadians called them) he was able to photograph the eye of god in deep space. he also traveled to the pleiades and into another dimension and secured pictures of dinosaurs, cavemen, and a future earthquake in san francisco. a virtual industry of meier-related publications, photographs, videos, and other materials found an audience around the world. wendelle c. stevens, an american, energetically promoted meier, till then little known to americans. he published books supporting meier and had the no

1995 to protest the proliferation of phony claims of contact with them. since then meier has experienced approximately four contacts a year with ptaah, who is semjase s father. he claims more than 250 contacts with pleiadians, in general, since 1975. see also: adamski, george; contactees; semjase further reading elders, lee j, brit nilsson-elders, and thomas k. welch, 1979. ufo. contact from the pleiades, volume i. phoenix, az: genesis iii productions, 1983. ufo. contact from the pleiades, volume ii. phoenix, az: genesis iii productions. figu los angeles study group, n.d. the official billy meier web page. http//www.billymeier. com/index-alt.html. kinder, gary, 1987. light years: an investigation into the extraterrestrial experiences of eduard meier. new york: atlantic monthly press. korf

enesis iii productions, 1983. ufo. contact from the pleiades, volume ii. phoenix, az: genesis iii productions. figu los angeles study group, n.d. the official billy meier web page. http//www.billymeier. com/index-alt.html. kinder, gary, 1987. light years: an investigation into the extraterrestrial experiences of eduard meier. new york: atlantic monthly press. korff, kal k, 1995. spaceships of the pleiades: the billy meier story. amherst, ny: prometheus books. korff, kal k, with william l. moore, 1981. the meier incident the most infamous hoax in ufol- ogy. fremont, ca: self-published. maccabee, bruce, 1989. pendulum from the pleiades. international ufo reporter 14, 1( january/ february: 11 12, 22. stevens, wendelle c, 1983. ufo. contact from the pleiades a preliminary investigation re- por

. moore, 1981. the meier incident the most infamous hoax in ufol- ogy. fremont, ca: self-published. maccabee, bruce, 1989. pendulum from the pleiades. international ufo reporter 14, 1( january/ february: 11 12, 22. stevens, wendelle c, 1983. ufo. contact from the pleiades a preliminary investigation re- port the report of an ongoing contact. tucson, az: self-published, 1989. ufo. contact from the pleiades: a supplementary investigation report the report of an ongoing contact. tucson, az: self-published. 168 meier, eduard billy stevens, wendelle c, ed, 1988. message from the pleiades: the contact notes of eduard billy meier, volume i. phoenix, az: wendelle c. stevens and genesis iii publishing, ed, 1990. message from the pleiades: the contact notes of eduard billy meier, volume ii. phoenix

tucson, az: self-published. 168 meier, eduard billy stevens, wendelle c, ed, 1988. message from the pleiades: the contact notes of eduard billy meier, volume i. phoenix, az: wendelle c. stevens and genesis iii publishing, ed, 1990. message from the pleiades: the contact notes of eduard billy meier, volume ii. phoenix, az: wendelle c. stevens and genesis iii publishing, ed, 1994. message from the pleiades: the contact notes of eduard billy meier, volume iii. phoenix, az: wendelle c. stevens and genesis iii publishing. winters, randolph, 1994. the pleiadian mission: a time of awareness. atwood, ca: the pleiades project. me-leelah me-leelah is a pleiadian woman who figures in an abduction incident said to have occurred in johannesburg, south africa, in the early hours of july 19, 1988. phyll

sound and abruptly found themselves ascending a ramp into the ufo. a finely skinned, short woman with slightly slanted e yes and no hair, yet beautiful nonetheless, guided diane. the alien woman wore a onepiece, navy-blue suit such as a jogger might we a r. the three walked through an aro m a t i c m i s t before entering the main part of the craft. their guide told them, greetings. i am from the pleiades, and my name is me- leelah. i am the commander of the craft( hind, 1996. she spoke in a soft but highpitched, sing-song vo i c e. there were eight persons two women and six men inside the craft. one of the men helped as me-leelah put the two women on tables and subjected each to a physical examination, including an x ray and a shot under the right breast (this, it was explained, was done

the nordics are most probably adult hybrids, the products of human/alien mating (jacobs, 1998. no rdics live on in current contactee lore, w h e re they are assumed to be genuine extraterrestrials, perhaps re p resenting the race that seeded the earth and gave rise to modern ho m o s a p i e n s. no rdics, according to billy meier and other post-adamski friends of the space people, come from the pleiades star system. see also: abductions by ufos; adamski, george; close encounters of the third kind; contactees; hybrid beings; meier, eduard billy; menger, howard; walton s abduction further reading adamski, george, 1955. inside the space ships. new york: abelard-schuman. bowen, charles, ed, 1974. the humanoids. london: futura publications. jacobs, david m, 1998. the threat. new york: simon a

s. new york: abelard-schuman. bowen, charles, ed, 1974. the humanoids. london: futura publications. jacobs, david m, 1998. the threat. new york: simon and schuster. menger, howard, 1959. from outer space to you. clarksburg, wv: saucerian books. randles, jenny, 1988. abduction: over 200 docu- mented ufo kidnappings investigated. london: robert hale. stevens, wendelle c, 1983. ufo. contact from the pleiades a preliminary investigative report the report on an ongoing contact. tucson, az: wendelle c. stevens. nostradamus no s t r a d a m u s michael de nostradame (1503 1566) was a french physician, astrologer, and counselor to kings henry ii and charles ix. he is remembered for his prophecies of world events, culminating in the second coming of christ in 2000. according to an indiana woman, he

twelve ascended masters who compose the ruling body of earth s solar system. over the next few years, they returned individually to channel the histories of the planets and their futures. each planet, she learned, is like a university. each of us comes from somewhere else, from a higher dimension of existence known as the source, and enters through star gates such as lyra, orion, sirius, and the pleiades, where our higher frequencies of light are gradually decreased to prepare for life in the denser third dimension, in korsholm s words (korsholm, 1991, on the way to the solar system. the education starts at the schools of sa turn, where the pilgrim gets a crash course in each planet s vibrations before spending a separate lifetime on at least one other planet before making the decision wh

ble. powers. i felt i was in contact with a force so terrible that i can only compare it to the shock one would receive from being near a flash of lightning during a great thunderstorm (keith, 1997. further reading keith, jim, 1997. casebook on the men in black. lilburn, ga: illuminet press. semjase semjase is best known in contactee circles as a beautiful spacewoman from the planet er r a in the pleiades star system. ed u a rd bi l l y meier of sw i t zerland claims to have met her after her beamship landed on his farm on the afternoon of ja n u a ry 28, 1975, initiating a series of contacts that made meier the most well known and controversial of the secondgeneration contactees. meier would allege trips through space and time in the company of semjase and her associates, and he would p r

visible band of powerful light energy, as it began the transition which continues now but which will be completed in the early years of the twenty-first century. beginning on august 17, 1987, shan was led a distance of thirteen million light years into a new orbit closer to the great central sun as millions of starships, using powerful magnetic beams, transferred it to another solar system in the pleiades. the process was completed on december 15, 1995. sahn is now the fourth planet in the orbit of coeleno (see-lee-no. few human beings have noticed the transition because the space people have gone to great lengths to conceal their operation. if the sky looks familiar, appearances are deceptive; the familiar stars and planets have been replaced by hovering starships, which take care to rema

launch a surprise attack on satan and drive him and his troops into the void where they can no longer do harm. according to bellringer himself reincarnated from the coeleno system but from the fifth planet, hatonn, to which he and his pleiadean family will return soon shan from the beginning was regarded as a planet of unusual attractiveness. two hundred six million years ago immigrants from the pleiades our ancestors settled on it. bellringer states that shan held a position at the cross-roads of the cosmos as a supply planet for other planets. because of its abundance and beauty it was chosen as the prison planet by lucifer, the arch-angel when he left the cosmic realms for his anarchy against god/aton. because of the presence of satan and his allies, the people of shan have had an extr

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

the gods reform the heavens. to ursa major and minor there ascend truth, being, goodness, which drive out deformity, falsehood, and defect.2 in cephus, wisdom (sophia) replaces ignorance and foolish faith' natural and human law rise in bootes (arctophylax) in place of crime.4 in the corona borealis, justice replaces iniquity.5 in the triangulum, faith, love and sincerity drive out fraud.6 in the pleiades (which bruno places amongst the zodiacal signs, as in some editions of hyginus) union, civility, concord are found instead of sect, faction, and party.7 in scorpio, sincerity and truth drive out fraud and treason.8 capricorn, with which, in hyginus, is told the story of the greek gods turning themselves into animals in egypt, is the point in the heavenly review at which are inserted the p

another most important influence in this character is that of jupiter. the jovial characteristics of benevolent law-giving and tolerance are seen to prevail in the constellations bootes,3 aquila,4 aries,5 libra,6 and others. there is also a strong venus influence, making for friendship and love, harmonising of discords, and the tempering of mars, or of forces making for war. venus triumphs in the pleiades7 and in gemini,8 and in dclphinus,9 she overcomes mars. good saturnian qualities, such as deep study and contemplation are preserved, for example in perseus,10 but the saturnian unsociability and other disagreeable qualities are tempered by jupiter or venus influences in other constellations. mars is everywhere kept down, being particularly snubbed by jupiter in cassiopeia' such, at least

re often nearly christian and are always inspired with a profound religious feeling. christian religious hermetists had tended to avoid the magic. bruno, the full egyptian hermetist, stresses the magic, and in his message it is the love of the magus which is the unifying power. the eroici furori are the religious experiences of the reformer of the spaccio della bestia trionfante, in which, in the pleiades or in gemini, all the gods, all the powers of the personality, speak in praise of love1; the intolerant "pedants, whether catholic or protestant, with their wars and persecutions, are driven from heaven; and a new age of new magical insights dawns for the individual and for the world. such was the reformation propounded by giordano bruno under the image of the return of the egyptian relig

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

mon on mars hill, related in his acts of the apostles, xvii, quotes from this poem; both these authors were natives of cilicia. they give 48 constellations. the poem of aratus is said to be a versificationof the knowledge imparted by eudoxus a hundred years before. hesiod, in hisworks and days,mentions, orion, canis, arcturus, and the seven virgins as stars; and homer in the odyssey refers to the pleiades, the northern team, orion and the bear. so that some constellations had familair names some thousand years before jesus. the hebrew name mzrut,mazzaroth,occurs in job xxxviii v. 32, and in our bible weread-'canstthou bring forth mazzaroth in his season' this question is put by the lord god to job, speakingtohim from a whirlwind. in the revised version, this quotation becomes 'canst thou l

has been translated into orion is ksl, commonly spoken of askesil;in the peshito version of syria the word found is[yutha;the hebrew wordinjobix,9, isash;butin job xxxviii, 31, the word iskimah.theorion of the greeks was a giant and a mighty hunter; he has been associated with osiris of egypt, and with nimrod, whowasalso a great hunter. according to maunder, orion was chasing the seven doves, the pleiades, when he became confronted with the bull; or according to lempriere orion was shot while in the sea by diana, who then in sorrow placed him among the stars.theconstellation orion is perhaps the most obvious group of stars visible in the northern hemisphere: four great stars at the corners of a trapezium, three stars for a belt to the hero, and three stars for his sword; three stars close

nd three stars called the226themagical masonbear's tail.thegreat bear is so well-known because two stars of the square point to the present pole star, or maker of thenorth,which is one of the stars of ursa minor, the little bear. some persons call this constellation the wain, an old name for a wagon; some ancients called it a winnowing fan, and the chinese, a dipped or handled basin.thegreek name pleiades occurs twice in the book of job.intheauthorised version, chapter, ix v. 9, job speaking to god says 'which maketh arcturus, orion and pleiades and the chambers of the south; and chapter xxxviii v. 31, god speaking to job says 'canst thou bind the sweet influencesofpleiades'.therevised version here adds, theclusteror thechainof the pleiades. in amos, also, v. 8 we read,'theseven stars, and

epleiades'.thepleiades form a cluster of stars which are very easy of observation and they are recognised by many persons today.theyare found mentioned byaratusand by ptolemy, as seven notable stars; they are placed in the constellation taurus..ithas been suggested that the word was originally the greek wordpeleiades,the rock-pigeons, flying from orion the hunter.thereis an old tradition that the pleiades were originally seven' innumber,butthatone has been lost: thenumberis of course: indefinite and varies with the eyesight of the observer, some; persons can count fourteen "theoriginal hebrew word in the three verses mentioned is::kimah,and the general meaning of that word was that of aheapj1or acluster,\quite as noticable as the pleiades is the v -shaped group of; stars called hyades, als

he observer, some; persons can count fourteen "theoriginal hebrew word in the three verses mentioned is::kimah,and the general meaning of that word was that of aheapj1or acluster,\quite as noticable as the pleiades is the v -shaped group of; stars called hyades, also called seven in number.theword] occurs in the vulgate, jobix,9,kimah,butis not used inoursenglish bibles; it has become replaced by pleiades 'inthe authorised version in isaiah lxv,11,we read,'ye:are theythatforsake the lord, that forget my holy mountain] that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnishthedrink" offering unto thatnumber.'in the revised version the wordstroopandnumberbecomefortuneanddestiny.thehebrew words are godgd,and menimni;these are believed to be names for stars or planets considered as gods; some co

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

ncline the street of the dead 15 30 east of north. there were several theories as to why this eccentric orientation had been selected, but none was especially convincing. growing numbers of scholars, however, were beginning to wonder whether astronomical alignments might have been involved. one, for example, had proposed that the street of the dead might have been built to face the setting of the pleiades at the time when it was constructed .4 another, professor gerald hawkins, had suggested 4 the ancient kingdoms of mexico, p. 67. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 167 that a sirius-pleides axis could also have played a part.5 and stansbury hagar (secretary of the department of ethnology at the brooklyn institute of the arts and sciences, had suggested that the street might represent

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

sed that she had five year more to live, etc. from schinipf und ernst c. 391. 3 so in mod. greek: kovko pov, kqvko.kl /mov, ki apyvpokovkcua /j,ov, trdvovs xp^ou? cuckoo. 677 which incessantly repeats that cry (conf. praetorius s weltbeschr. i, 656. 2, 491. no doubt the story, which seems very ancient, and resembles that of the woodpecker (p. 673, was once told very differently; conf. chap. xxii, pleiades. that dear season may have to do with the belief that when the cuckoo s call continues to be heard after midsummer, it betokens dearth (sup. i, 228. in sweden he tells maidens how many years they will remain unmarried: gokj gok, sitt pa quist (on bough, sag mig vist (tell me true, hur manga ar (how many years) jag o-gift gar (i shall un-given go? if he calls more than ten times, they decl

her instance of the connexion we found between stars and eyes; and the toe translated to heaven is quite of a piece with the tongues and the correspondence of the parts of the body to the macrocosm, p. 568 (see suppl. the milky-way and its relation to irmin i have dealt with, pp. 356-8. amongst all the constellations in our sky, three stand pro minent to the popular eye: ursa major, orion and the pleiades. and all of them are still known by native names; to which i shall add those in use among the slavs, lithuanians and finns, who give them the same place of honour as we do. the great bear was doubtless known to our ancestors, even before their conversion, as ivaggon, wain; which name, unborrowed, they had in common with kindred [aryan] nations, and therefore it is the common people s name

(rotae. esth. wanjcri tahjied, waggon-stars, from wanker (currus; hung, gontzol szekere, from szeker (currus, the first word being explained in hungaria in parabolis p. 48 by a mythic gontzol, their first waggoner. prominent in the finnish epos arepdiwa the sun, jcuu the moon, and otawa, which castren translates karla-vagnen, they are imagined as persons and divine, and often named together; the pleiades are named seulainen. never, either in our ohg. remains, or among slavs, lithu anians and finns, 4 do we find the name borrowed from the animal (ursa, though these nations make so much of the bear both in legend and perhaps in worship (p. 668. the carro menor is called by spanish shepherds bodna, bugle; 5 by icelanders fiosakonur a lopti, milkmaids of the sky, biorn sub v. f. magnusen s da

ore living: gr. it/vetase, ion. ila^tase, seven daughters of atlas and pleione, whom zeus raised to the sky, ii. 18, 486. od. 5, 272, and who, like the norse thiassi and orvandill, are of giant kin; but some explain these pleiads from trexeta? wild dove, which is usually trexeta.1 lat. vergiliae, of which festus gives a lame explanation. a german poet writes virilie, amgb. 42b. the picture of the pleiades that finds most favour among the people in germany and almost all over europe is that of a hen and seven chickens, which at once reminds us of the greek seven doves.2 mod. gr. irovkia (fauriel 2, 277. our klucke, jcluclcerin, iduckh.enne, brut-henne mit den hunlem; dan. aften-honet even ing-hen(-iwnne, dansk. digtek. middelald. 1,102; engl. hen with her chickens; fr. la poussiniere, in lo

or eggs having been given as a pre sent, out of them come a golden dress, a silver dress, and a cluckie with seven (or twelve) chickies, the three gifts representing sun, moon and seven-stars. kinderm. no. 88 (2, 13. so in the introd. to the pentamerone, out of the miraculous nut comes a voccola co dudece polecine. now the hungarian tale in gaal p. 381 has golden hen and six chickens/ meaning the pleiades; and the maiden, seeking her lost lover, has to obtain access to him by the valuables contained in three nuts; these were three dresses, on which severally were worked the sun, the moon, and the sevenstars (conf. wigal. 812, being gifts of sun, moon, and seven- 1 the snppl. adds: the pleiades, like doves, carry ambrosia to zeus, but one flhcays gets lost in passing the planctae rocks, and

l. 812, being gifts of sun, moon, and seven- 1 the snppl. adds: the pleiades, like doves, carry ambrosia to zeus, but one flhcays gets lost in passing the planctae rocks, and zeus fills up their number again, athen. 4, 325-6. homer tells the story simply of doves, iraeueu, od. 12, 61. tbans. 2 conf. pentam. 4, 8 li sette palommielle, seven children transformed, s mem. des antiq. 4, 376. 6, 121-9. pleiades. 729 stars, bestowed upon her in her wanderings. the third dress tradition at last converted into the cluckie herself. treasurehunters dig for the costly cluckie with her chicks; conf. the sunken hoard, chap. xxxii. a f hen and twelve hiinkeln was also an earthly fine, weisth. 1, 465. 499. i am not sure that we are entitled to connect the nut with iduns huot; but what is sun, moon and clu

e finns far more plainly( paiwa, kuu, otawa, i.e. sun, moon, bear. the span, name is mas siete cabrillas seven kids.1 pol. baby old wives, russ. baba old wife [and nasedka sitting hen, linde 1, 38a; serv. vlashitsi (vuk 78, vlashnitsi (bosn. bible 3, 154, 223, sloven. vlastovtse swallows? but jarnik 229b explains it ramstabe/ which i do not understand. the 0. boh. name too is obscure, sczyetnycze pleiades (hanka s glossen 58b=.stetnice, bristly ones, from stetina seta? sloven, gostosevisi, gostozmrtsi the thick-sown? the last name agrees with the lith. and finn, view, viz. the con stellation is a sieve having a great many holes, or sifting out a heap of flour: lith. setas lett, setinsli, esth. sool or soggel, finn. seula, seulaineri. why does suchenwirt 4, 326 say, daz her daz tailt sich i

last name agrees with the lith. and finn, view, viz. the con stellation is a sieve having a great many holes, or sifting out a heap of flour: lith. setas lett, setinsli, esth. sool or soggel, finn. seula, seulaineri. why does suchenwirt 4, 326 say, daz her daz tailt sich in daz lant gleich recht als ain sibenstirn? because the army is so thickly spread over the land (see suppl. the origin of the pleiades is thus related: christ was passing a baker s shop, when he smelt the new bread, and sent his dis ciples to ask for a loaf. the baker refused, but the baker s wife and her six daughters were standing apart, and secretly gave it. for this they were set in the sky as the seven-stars, while the baker became the cuckoo (p. 676 baker s man, and so long as he sings in spring, from st. tiburtius

(f. hanka s 0. boh. gl. 58b gives hrusa for aldebaran, przyczek for arcturus. we might also expect to find names for the hyades and cas- 1 don quixote 2, 41 (idel. 4, 83; conf. g, 242. 2 cymric and gaelic bibles (job 9, 9, retain the latin names from the vulgate; from which it does not follow that these languages lack native names for stars. armstrong cites gael, crannarain, baker s peel, for the pleiades, and dragblod, firetail, for the lesser bear. 730 sky and stabs. siopeia. but many stars are habitually confounded, as the pleiades with the hyades or orion, and even with the wain and arcturus; l what is vouched for by glosses alone, is not to be relied on. thus i do not consider it proved as yet that the names plough and eburdrung really belong to orion. by plough the irish fairy-tales

identify the constellations of the east, founded as they are on such a different way of looking at the heavens. three are named in job 9, 9: ttfy ash, nd 3 kimeh ^d3 ksil; 3 which the septuagint renders tixetase, ecnrepos, dp/crovpos, the vulgate arcturus, orion, hyades/ and luther the wain, orion, the glucke (hen/ in job 38, 31 kimeh and ksil are given in the lxx as trxemse, fipicov, in vulg. as pleiades, arcturus/ in diut. 1, 520 as siebenstirni, wagan/ and in luther as siebenstern, orion/ for ksil in isaiah 13, 10 the lxx has /2/aiw, vulg. merely splendor/ luther orion/ in amos 5, 8 kimeh and ksil are avoided in lxx, but rendered in vulg. arcturus, orion/ and by luther the glucke, orion/ michaelis drew up his 86 questions on the meaning of these stars, and niebuhr received the most conf

all it. grobianus 1572 fol. 93b: wo der \vagen steht, und wo die gluck mit hunkeln geht. several writers incorrectly describe the diimke, diiming as stebengestirn; even tobler, when he says 370t> three stars of the siebeng. are called the jiorses, near which stands a tiny star, the waggoner, 1 is evidently thinking of the wain s thill [germans often take the seven-stars for ursa instead of pleiades. 2 it has long been thought a settled point, that suculae (little sows) was a blun dering imitation of tases, as if that came from us a sow, whereas it means the rainers from few to rain( ab imbribus, cicero; pluvio nomine, pliny. does the author mean to reopen the question? did the later greeks and eomans, ashamed of having these little sows in the sky, invent the rainers theoryj may not

ords stand in the order ash, k sil, kimah; and their transposition here does some injustice to the vulg. and luther. as a fact, two out of the four times that k sil occurs, it is ttpluv in lxx, and the other two times it is orion in vulgate. luther and the engl. version are consistent throughout. trans. 4 beschr. von arabien p. 114; some more arabian names of stars, pp. 112 6. constellations. 731 pleiades and sirius. if we look to the verbal meanings, nash, which some arabs do change into ash, is feretrum, bier or barrow,1 a thing not very different from a wain; himeli, hima seems to signify a thick cluster of stars, much the same sense as in that name of sieve: jcsilj means foolish, ungodly, a lawless giant, hence orion. constellations can be divided into two kinds, according to their ori

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

. breathe deeply, finely and evenly through your nostrils. now let s go off planet and take this cleansing and release to a galactic and interdimensional level. imagine now more circles forming around these circles of beings with whom you have some sort of non-supportive karmic imbalance, but that these new circles are beings with whom you have shared from lifetimes in other star systems. sirius, pleiades, orion, arcturius and so forth. just keep imagining that on the inner plane, circle upon circles are now forming around you of beings with whom you have shared and co-created some sort of energy imbalance right back through time to when you originally began to feel that you were separate from others. breathe deeply. perhaps you have cleared most of these imbalances and so there are not ma

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

; and with he he abode eight days and twenty days :3 and she gave him gifts. 1 lamed means ox-goad; aleph, an ox. lamed aleph means no, the denial of aleph lamed, el, god. 2 read reverse, the star= the will and the great work] is to fold up the sephiroth; i.e. to attain nirvana. 3 the houses of the moon. all the gifts are lunar symbols. sapientiae lux viris baculum. femina rapta inspirit gaudium. pleiades. dignitates. amicitia. amor. sophia. 82 appendix ii the first day, a camel; the second day, a kiss; the third daty, a star-glass; the fourth day, a beetle.s wing; the fifth day, a crab; the sixth day, a bow; the seventh day, a quiver; the eighth day, a stag; the ninth day, an horn; the tenth day, a sandal of silver; the eleventh day, a silver box of white sandal wood; the twelfth day, a w

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

rt pike describes the reverence which the persians felt for this sign and the method of astrological symbolism in vogue among them, thus "in zoroaster's cave of initiation, the sun and planets were represented, overhead, in gems and gold, as was also the zodiac. the sun appeared, emerging from the back of taurus" in the constellation of the bull are also to be found the "seven sisters--the sacred pleiades--famous to freemasonry as the seven stars at the upper end of the sacred ladder. in ancient egypt it was during this period--when the vernal equinox was in the sign of taurus--that the bull, apis, was sacred to the sun god, who was worshiped through the animal equivalent of the celestial sign which he had impregnated with his presence at the time of its crossing into the northern hemisphe

ures of those who, symbolized by ripened grain, have reached the point of liberation. and there came another angel (bo tes--death--also with a sickle (karma, who reaped the vines of the earth (those who have lived by the false light) and cast them into the winepress of the wrath of god (the purgatorial spheres. the fifteenth to eighteenth chapters inclusive contain an account of seven angels (the pleiades) who pour their vials upon the earth. the contents of their vials (the loosened energy of the cosmic bull) are called the seven last plagues. here also is introduced a symbolic figure, termed "the harlot of babylon "which is described as a woman seated upon a scarlet-colored beast having seven heads and ten horns. the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet and bedecked with gold, preciou

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

emale polarity lines intersecting. the male 666 added to the female 1080 make 1746. there are also 5subgrids each shaped like the platonic solids.fourteen meridiansthese are in the human etheric grid. these are divided into 7 male and 7 female.nahuatlsthe wise ones of the americas. conversant with the earth grid and magick, they were serpent people.number 52is the number of the great cycle of the pleiades. there are legends of the serpent with 52 sections, etc.number 28number of the cycle of saturn.the moonis thought of as the lesser saturn. its cycle of 28 days and four quarters of seven are related esotericallywith the planet of karma. this may be why on the devil card in the tarot we see the two moons.the chinese dragonsthis was a name used for the ruling kings in china.cherubim and ser

ted the island several times in 1909 (see p. 65.)tuatin egyptian means the underworld. interestingly the celtic tribe tuatha de danaan, did retreat into thesidhe, the portals to the underworld.hathorthe cow goddess. the word galaxy meant mothers milk and refers to the milky way in particular.hathor was therefore connected with the milky way.the beehiveoften used as a cryptic representation of the pleiades in the constellation of taurus. in latin, bee isapis, which also means bull.tiamatcalled rahab in the bible, rahab the seat of babylon.psalm 89:10-11 thou hast broken rahab to piecesjob 26:12-13 by his wisdom he hath cut rahab to pieces (see p. 90.)merthe hebrews called the planet tiamat, or mot, or rahab, by the name of mer. those from this planetwere the original mer-men, half-man, half

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sounds with long-continued roars; eleusis uplifts her sacred torches; the serpents of triptolemus are heard to hiss; and fearful hecate appears afar" the celebration of the greek mysteries continued, according to the better opinion, for nine days. on the first the initiates met. it was the day of the full moon, of the month bo dromion; when the moon was full at the end of the sign aries, near the pleiades and the place of her exaltation in taurus. the second day there was a procession to the sea, for purification by bathing. the third was occupied with offerings, expiatory sacrifices, and other religious rites, such as fasting, mourning, continence, etc. a mullet was immolated, and offerings of grain and living animals made. on the fourth they carried in procession the mystic wreath of flo

ef stars of the husbandman [bo tes] sink achronically beneath the western horizon; and then to begin their lamentations, or hold forth the signal for others to weep: and when his prolific virtues were supposed to be transferred to the vernal sun, bacchanalian revelry became devotion. before the colure of the vernal equinox had passed into aries, and after it had left aldebar n and the hyades, the pleiades were, for seven or eight centuries, the leading stars of the sab an year. and thus we see, on the monuments, the disk and crescent, symbols of the sun and moon in conjunction, appear successively--first on the head, and then on the neck and back of the zodiacal bull, and more recently on the forehead of the ram. the diagrammatical character or symbol, still in use to denote taurus [glyph

a curved groove is provided for the occasional introduction of the disk of the sun, when solar and lunar time were coincident and conjunctive, at the commencement of the year, and of the lunar cycle. when that was made, the year did not open with the stars in the _head_ of the bull, but when the colure of the vernal equinox passed across the middle or later degrees of the asterism taurus, and the pleiades were, in china, as in canaan, the leading stars of the year. the crescent and disk combined always represent the conjunctive sun and moon; and when placed on the head of the zodiacal bull, the commencement of the cycle termed saros by the chaldeans, and metonic by the greeks; and supposed to be alluded to in job, by the phrase "mazzaroth in his season; that is to say, when the first new m

visible throughout the night. and if taurus rises and sets with the sun to-day, he will, six months hence, rise at sunset and set at sunrise; for the stars thus gain on the sun two hours a month. going back to the time when, watched by the chaldean shepherds, and the husbandmen of ethiopia and egypt "the milk-white bull with golden horns led on the new-born year" we see in the neck of taurus, the pleiades, and in his face the hyades "which grecia from their showering names" and of whom the brilliant aldebar n is the chief; while to the southwestward is that most splendid of all the constellations, orion, with betelgueux in his right shoulder, bellatrix in his left shoulder, rigel on the left foot, and in his belt the three stars known as the three kings, and now as the yard and ell. orion

ades "which grecia from their showering names" and of whom the brilliant aldebar n is the chief; while to the southwestward is that most splendid of all the constellations, orion, with betelgueux in his right shoulder, bellatrix in his left shoulder, rigel on the left foot, and in his belt the three stars known as the three kings, and now as the yard and ell. orion, ran the legend, persecuted the pleiades; and to save them from his fury, jupiter placed them in the heavens, where he still pursues them, but in vain. they, with arcturus and the bands of orion, are mentioned in the book of job. they are usually called the seven stars, and it is said there _were_ seven, before the fall of troy; though now only six are visible. the pleiades were so named from a greek word signifying _to sail_ in

, but in vain. they, with arcturus and the bands of orion, are mentioned in the book of job. they are usually called the seven stars, and it is said there _were_ seven, before the fall of troy; though now only six are visible. the pleiades were so named from a greek word signifying _to sail_ in all ages they have been observed for signs and seasons. virgil says that the sailors gave names to "the pleiades, hyades, and the northern car _pleiadas, hyadas, claramque lycaonis arcton_ and palinurus, he says _arcturum, pluviasque hyadas, geminosque triones, armatumque auro circumspicit oriona_ studied arcturus and the rainy hyades and the twin triones, and orion cinctured with gold. taurus was the prince and leader of the celestial host for more than two thousand years; and when his head set wit

and palinurus, he says _arcturum, pluviasque hyadas, geminosque triones, armatumque auro circumspicit oriona_ studied arcturus and the rainy hyades and the twin triones, and orion cinctured with gold. taurus was the prince and leader of the celestial host for more than two thousand years; and when his head set with the sun about the last of may, the scorpion was seen to rise in the southeast. the pleiades were sometimes called _vergili_ or the virgins of spring; because the sun entered this cluster of stars in the season of blossoms. their syrian name was _succoth_ or _succothbeneth_ derived from a chaldean word signifying to _speculate_ or _observe_ the _hyades_ are five stars in the form of a v, 11 southeast of the pleiades. the greeks counted them as seven. when the vernal equinox was i

nd orion still further from it to the southward. procyon, sirius, castor and pollux had climbed about half-way from the horizon to the meridian. regulus had just risen upon the ecliptic. the virgin still lingered below the horizon. fomalhaut was half-way to the meridian in the southwest; and to the northwest were the brilliant constellations, perseus, cepheus, cassiopeia, and andromeda; while the pleiades had just passed the meridian. orion is visible to all the habitable world. the equinoctial line passes through the centre of it. when aldebar n rose in the east, the three kings in orion followed him; and as taurus set, the scorpion, by whose sting it was said orion died, rose in the east. orion rises at noon about the 9th of march. his rising was accompanied with great rains and storms

sun, as hercules, was the great deity of the tyrians. the syrians worshipped, with fear and dread, the stars of the constellation pisces, and consecrated images of them in their temples. the sun as adonis was worshipped in byblos and about mount libanus. there was a magnificent temple of the sun at palmyra, which was pillaged by the soldiers of aurelian, who rebuilt it and dedicated it anew. the pleiades, under the name of succoth-beneth, were worshipped by the babylonian colonists who settled in the country of the samaritans. saturn, under the name of remphan, was worshipped among the copts. the planet jupiter was worshipped as bel or baal; mars as malec, melech, or moloch; venus as ashtaroth or astarte, and mercury as nebo, among the syrians, assyrians, ph nicians, and canaanites. sanch

drawn by four horses of different colors, representing the four elements and seasons. the courses were from east to west, like the circuits round the lodge, and seven in number, to correspond with the number of planets. the movements of the seven stars that revolve around the pole were also represented, as were those of capella, which by its heliacal rising at the moment when the sun reached the pleiades, in taurus, announced the commencement of the annual revolution of the sun. the intersection of the zodiac by the colures at the equinoctial and solstitial points, fixed four periods, each of which has, by one or more nations, and in some cases by the same nation at different periods, been taken for the commencement of the year. some adopted the vernal equinox, because then day began to p

rmed his front with its horns, and was pictured with its tail and feet. the constellations also became noteworthy to the husbandman, which by their rising or setting, at morning or evening, indicated the coming of this period of renewed fruitfulness and new life. capella, or the kid amalthea, whose horn is called that of abundance, and whose place is over the equinoctial point, or taurus; and the pleiades, that long indicated the seasons, and gave rise to a multitude of poetic fables, were the most observed and most celebrated in antiquity. the original roman year commenced at the vernal equinox. july was formerly called _quintilis, the 5th month, and august _sextilis, the 6th, as _september_ is still the 7th month _october_ the 8th, and so on. the persians commenced their year at the same

riman of the persians; and this revolt of the evil principle against the principle of good and light, has been represented in every cosmogony, under many varying forms. osiris, on the contrary, by the intermediation of isis, fills the material world with happiness, purity, and order, by which the harmony of nature is maintained. it was said that he died at the autumnal equinox, when taurus or the pleiades rose in the evening, and that he rose to life again in the spring, when vegetation was inspired with new activity. of course the two signs of taurus and scorpio will figure most largely in the mythological history of osiris, for they marked the two equinoxes, 2500 years before our era; and next to them the other constellations, near the equinoxes, that fixed the limits of the duration of

e nearest it 1 30. and as the number _three_ is peculiar to apprentices, so the straight line is the first principle of geometry, having length but no breadth, and being but the extension of a point, and an emblem of unity, and thus of good, as the divided or broken line is of duality or evil. near these stars are the hyades _five_ in number, appropriate to the fellow-craft; and close to them the pleiades, of the master's number _seven; and thus these three sacred numbers, consecrated in masonry as they were in the pythagorean philosophy, always appear together in the heavens, when the bull, emblem of fertility and production, glitters among the stars, and aldebaran leads the hosts of heaven(_tsbauth. algenib in perseus and almaach and algol in andromeda form a right-angled triangle, illus

at the moon travels are nine conspicuous stars, by which nautical men determine their longitude at sea--arietis, aldebaran, pollux, regulus, spica virginis, antares, altair, fomalhaut, and markab. these might well be said to accompany isis in her search. in the york rite _twelve_ fellow-crafts were sent to search for the body of khir-om and the murderers. their number corresponds with that of the pleiades and hyades in taurus, among which stars the sun was found when light began to prevail over darkness, and the mysteries were held. these stars, we have shown, received early and particular attention from the astronomers and poets. the pleiades were the stars of the ocean to the benighted mariner; the virgins of spring, heralding the season of blossoms. as six pleiades only are now visible

nomers and poets. the pleiades were the stars of the ocean to the benighted mariner; the virgins of spring, heralding the season of blossoms. as six pleiades only are now visible, the number twelve may have been obtained by them, with aldebaran, and five far more brilliant stars than any other of the hyades, in the same region of the heavens, and which were always spoken of in connection with the pleiades; the three kings in the belt of orion, and bellatrix and betelgueux on his shoulders; brightest of the flashing starry hosts "canst thou" asks job "bind the sweet influences of the pleiades or loose the bands of orion" and in the book of amos we find these stars connected with the victory of light over darkness "seek him" says that seer "that maketh the seven stars (the familiar name of t

iades; the three kings in the belt of orion, and bellatrix and betelgueux on his shoulders; brightest of the flashing starry hosts "canst thou" asks job "bind the sweet influences of the pleiades or loose the bands of orion" and in the book of amos we find these stars connected with the victory of light over darkness "seek him" says that seer "that maketh the seven stars (the familiar name of the pleiades, and orion, and turneth the shadow of death into morning" an old legend in masonry says that a dog led the nine elus to the cavern where abiram was hid. bo tes was anciently called caleb anubach, a barking dog; and was personified in anubis, who bore the head of a dog, and aided isis in her search. arcturus, one of his stars, fiery red, as if fervent and zealous, is also connected by job

and orion, and turneth the shadow of death into morning" an old legend in masonry says that a dog led the nine elus to the cavern where abiram was hid. bo tes was anciently called caleb anubach, a barking dog; and was personified in anubis, who bore the head of a dog, and aided isis in her search. arcturus, one of his stars, fiery red, as if fervent and zealous, is also connected by job with the pleiades and orion. when taurus opened the year, arcturus rose after the sun, at the time of the winter solstice, and seemed searching him through the darkness, until, sixty days afterward, he rose at the same hour. orion then also, at the winter solstice, rose at noon, and at night seemed to be in search of the sun. so, referring again to the time when the sun entered the autumnal equinox, there

er train the crown, or proserpine. suppose taurus setting--then the serpent is in the east; and reciprocally; so that jupiter ammon, or the sun of aries, causes the crown to rise after the virgin, in the train of which comes the serpent. place reciprocally the sun at the other equinox, with the balance in the west, in conjunction with the serpent under the crown; and we shall see the bull and the pleiades rise in the east. thus are explained all the fables as to the generation of the bull by the serpent and of the serpent by the bull, the biting of the testicles of the bull by the scorpion, on the mithriac monuments; and that jupiter made ceres with child by tossing into her bosom the testicles of a ram. in the mysteries of the bull-horned bacchus, the officers held serpents in their hands

ith them spring-time and fruits and flowers--some, faithful sentinels, advising them of coming inundation, of the season of storm and of deadly winds; some heralds of evil, which, steadily foretelling, they seemed to cause. to them the eclipses were portents of evil, and their causes hidden in mystery, and supernatural. the regular returns of the stars, the comings of arcturus, orion, sirius, the pleiades, and aldebaran, and the journeyings of the sun, were voluntary and not mechanical to them. what wonder that astronomy became to them the most important of sciences; that those who learned it became rulers; and that vast edifices, the pyramids, the tower or temple of bel, and other like erections everywhere in the east, were builded for astronomical purposes--and what wonder that, in their

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

in streets and public squares. being the god of all undertakings in which gain was a feature, he was worshipped as the giver of wealth and [119]good luck, and any unexpected stroke of fortune was attributed to his influence. he also presided over the game of dice, in which he is said to have been instructed by apollo. hermes was the son of zeus and maia, the eldest and most beautiful of the seven pleiades (daughters of atlas, and was born in a cave of mount cyllene in arcadia. as a mere babe, he exhibited an extraordinary faculty for cunning and dissimulation; in fact, he was a thief from his cradle, for, not many hours after his birth, we find him creeping stealthily out of the cave in which he was born, in order to steal some oxen belonging to his brother apollo, who was at this time fee

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

itchcult as a continuation of the rites of pan. pan and syrinx by fran ois boucher (1703 70) this painting shows pan, who has fallen in love with the beautiful nymph syrinx, pursuing her to the banks of the river ladon. as he reaches to embrace her, she calls on the river goddess to help her to escape. hermes, messenger of the gods hermes was pan s father. a son of zeus by maia, the eldest of the pleiades, he helped zeus to woo the princess io by lulling the 100- eyed guard dog argus to sleep with the story of pan s pursuit of syrinx. the messenger of the gods, flying with the aid of his winged sandals, hermes also acted as a guide of souls to the underworld, and invented the lyre, which he gave to his brother apollo in recompense for stealing his cattle (see p. 40. hermes was also the god

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

he hath prepared a place in heaven for him,while he is yet upon the face of the earth. he hath given him a world for use, a heaven forcontemplation. so man planteth, that from the seed, in due time he may reap, end which it groweth,let us behold the beauties of the firmament, for in any sign there is growing strength. my zodiacalmeasure is that of taurus, the bull: in which are found the glorious pleiades, hyades, orion, sirius,aldebaran and procyon.conductor and companions proceed to celebrant, whose five lights have been lit.celebrant,5th sign: man in his inception and before partaking of the tree of knowledge was his maker222sprototype: other creatures grovel in the earth and have their senses intent upon it, the creature man isreared up toward heaven, with face toward it, yet possessin

a, justly receive credit in astronomical history. theremarkable coincidence exists, that through the inclined entrance of the great pyramid, the stardraco, in hesperides, at its upper transit was visible day and night, and marked the period 2170 bcor the period when the chronological mensuration takes 25,868 years to return to itself again. theerection of that pyramid marked the great year of the pleiades.the astronomy of the chinese is ancient though inexact. the wise chwien-hio marked 2449 yearsbefore christ, as an epoch, through the conjunction of mercury, mars, jupiter and saturn. theseancient people understood, to some extent, the celestial motions, calculated eclipses and slew two oftheir philosophers, ho and hi, for not announcing an eclipse of the sun, 2169 bcthe ionian school of t

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

commentary 79 http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_72.htm (7 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:35:48 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 72-81) figure 3. the sacred directions and zones commentary 80 solstice, though these events were also governed by other criteria. the celtic festivals, though often said to be defined by the solar phases of the year, were also marked by the rising and setting of the pleiades, celebrated in may and november. there are several implications in this tradition of the fairy people traveling to 'other lodgings' at each quarter or the turning point of each season. as this concept of revolution and cycles occurs again in kirk's text, and is fundamental to much of underworld and fairy tradition, we may briefly consider some of these implications at this early stage. 1

clear distinctions between fairies and the spirits of the dead (pages 24 and 30) and there seems little doubt that he was drawing these distinctions from tradition rather than rationalizing for the purposes of his text. in pagan religion, such as that of both the scandinavians and the celts, the souls of the dead are gathered up by the wild hunt in november (coinciding with the appearance of the pleiades, now celebrated as hallow-e'en, and known in gaelic as samhain (b) early celtic traditions are of a semi-nomadic people (though we should be cautious in making generalizations: the ancient land of ireland, for example, was divided geomantically into five zones 13 consisting of four quarters according to the sacred four directions (see figure 3) with a fifth central zone. each zone had its

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

r the temple; j ahilians and pilgrims alike are here for entertainment. silence the fellow! throw him out- but abu simbel speaks again "if your god has really spoken to you" he says "then all the world must hear it" and in an instant the silence in the great tent is complete"_the star" mahound cries out, and the scribes begin to write "in the name of allah, the compassionate, the merciful "by the pleiades when they set: your companion is not in error; neither is he deviating "nor does he speak from his own desires. it is a revelation that has been revealed: one mighty in power has taught him "he stood on the high horizon: the lord of strength. then he came close, closer than the length of two bows, and revealed to his servant that which is revealed "the servant's heart was true when seeing

SOLOMON

rd "i am klothod, which is battle" the fourth "i am jealousy" the fifth "i am power" the sixth "i am error" the seventh "i am the worst of all, and our stars are in heaven. seven stars humble in sheen, and all together. and we are called as it were goddesses. we change our place all and together, and together we live, sometimes in lydia, sometimes in olympus, sometimes in a great mountain [1. the pleiades seem to be referred to. cp. job xxxviii. 31, in the revised version "canst thou bind the cluster of the pleiades" they had a malign influence. the grouping of evil spirits by sevens is common in babylonian and jewish folk-lore. as examples i may cite the testamentum of reuben, ch. 2, and the seven evil spirits of the n.t. possibly, however, the seven planets are here in question; though t

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om some extraordinary place. perhaps, it has been theorized, they were wise masters who survived the destruction of the lost continent of atlantis and made their way to the early civilization of egypt, where they helped elevate it to a greatness far in advance of other cultures of that era. some have even suggested that the entity known as the god osiris was an extraterrestrial astronaut from the pleiades, who first visited egypt in prehistoric times when it was composed of barbaric tribes. because he came from 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 257 egyptian gods and goddesses amen: a creation-deity anubis: god of the dead bast: cat goddess bes: god to guard against evil spirits and misfortune chons: god of

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rth. in judges (5:9) it is recorded that barak, commander of the israelite army that was faced with a decisive battle with the canaanite forces under sisera, took heart when he was told by the prophetess deborah, gfrom heaven fought the stars, from their courses they fought against sisera. h deborah was not the only seer who had knowledge of the stars. amos (5:8) speaks of god as ghe who made the pleiades and orion, and turns deep darkness into morning. h in malachi 4:2, the righteous are promised that the gsun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings (rays. h babylonian priests developed and perfected a system of interpreting the phenomena observed in the heavens for the purpose of determining the will of the powers of heaven. the greeks enlarged the scope of astrology to in

the southern hemisphere. the line marked the point on the horizon where the sun set and the line leading in the opposite direction corresponded with the sunrise on that day. archaeologists began to link the geoglyphs with constellations: the figure of a large monkey was believed to correspond to the big dipper (or the great bear in northern climes, and other figures were believed to correspond to pleiades and orion. maria reiche, a translator and mathematician living in lima, was t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d places of mystery and power 261 ley lines and energy alignments in 1921, alfred watkins (1855.1935) coined the term gley lines h when explaining his theory that such ancient sites around britain as various stone circles, ston

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

] against him, and hath prospered? 9:5 which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. 9:6 which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. 9:7 which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars. 9:8 which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. 9:9 which maketh arcturus, orion, and pleiades, and the chambers of the south. 9:10 which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number. 9:11 lo, he goeth by me, and i see [him] not: he passeth on also, but i perceive him not. 9:12 behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, what doest thou? 9:13 [if] god will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. 9:14 how much less

to satisfy the desolate and waste [ground] and to cause the page 307 job bud of the tender herb to spring forth? 38:28 hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? 38:29 out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? 38:30 the waters are hid as [with] a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. 38:31 canst thou bind the sweet influences of pleiades, or loose the bands of orion? 38:32 canst thou bring forth mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide arcturus with his sons? 38:33 knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? 38:34 canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? 38:35 canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, here w

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

ose of having a "human shield" in order to protect themselves from earth-penetrating weapons which their 'enemies' might decide to use against them. these 'enemies' are various human worlds with common genetic ancestry that were colonized from the original lyran/solar federation that has been at war with the alpha draconians for ages. i.e. humans from zenatae andromeda, tau ceti, procyon, taygeta pleiades, alpha centauri, wolf 424, bernards star, and other colonial worlds, many of whom- as do the reptilians themselves- make the 'galactica' type claim that planet earth was once the ancestral planet of genesis for their 'ancient astronauts- branton) socially and culturally, greys and humans are very different [they] fear us because they know we are potentially powerful beings. however, they

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

and is generally considered the more important of the two, though may day runs a close second. indeed, in some areas- notably wales- it is considered the great holiday. may day ushers in the fifth month of the modern calendar year, the month of may. this month is named in honor of the goddess maia, originally a greek mountain nymph, later identified as the most beautiful of the seven sisters, the pleiades. by zeus, she is also the mother of hermes, god of magic. maia's parents were atlas and pleione, a sea nymph. eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 17 the old celtic name for may day is beltane (in its most popular anglicized form, which is derived from the irish gaelic 'bealtaine' or the scottish gaelic 'bealtuinn, meaning 'bel-fire, the fire of the celtic g

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

reaches its maximum. fifth 7 years is the season of for marriage. sixth 7 years, the height of intelligence arrives. seventh 7 years, the maturity of reason. eighth 7 years, perfection of both. ninth 7 years, equity and mildness, passions become gentle. tenth 7 years, the end of desirable life. solon the athenian lawgiver, and hippocrates the physician, also used this 7-year division of life. the pleiades, a group of seven stars in the constellation taurus, was thought of mighty power over earthly destiny; there were seven also of the hyades, daughters of atlas; and the seven stars which guided the sailors. ursa major, in which the hindus locate the sapta rishi, seven sages of primitive wisdom, are a group of the first importance and are easily recognized. duncan, in his astro-theology, gi

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