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acquainted with latin culture later. the finns and lapps 1 conf. pet. er. miiller om saxo, p. 79- the indian nations also name their days of the week after planets; and it seems worth remarking here, that wednesday is in sanskrit budhuvaras, tamil budhunld/ramei, because some have identified buddha with woden. in reality budhas, the ruler of mercury and son of the moon, is quite distinct from the prophet buddhas (schlegel's ind. bibl. 2. 177. 9 130 gods. do not count, while the esthonians again mostly do (see suppl. even the christianizing influence of byzantium decided nothing on this point; byzantium had no influence over lithuanians and finns, and had it over a part only of the slavs. these in their counting begin with monday, as the first day after rest, consequently tuesday is their s

g, reisar]?ruma, are thunderclap and lightning. for, a waggon rumbling over a vaulted space comes as near as possible to the rattling and crashing of thunder. the comparison is so natural, that we find it spread among many nations: bokel o^vi"^ov zito? rj /spovrr) elvai, hesychius sub. v. exaai^povra. in carniola the rolling of thunder is to this day gotta fahren [to the eussian peasant it is the prophet ilia driving his chariot, or else grinduig his corn] thorr in the edda, beside his appellation of asaj>6rr, is more minutely described by oku];6rr, i.e. waggon-thorr (sn. 25; his waggon is drawn by two he-goats (sn. 26. other gods have their 1 so even in high german dialects, durstag for donrstag, engl. thursday, and bav. doren, daren for donnern (schm. 1, 390. in thorr it is not er, but o

vulgarization of heathen notions about the thundergod. lasicz 47 tells us: percuna tete mater est fulminis atque tonitrui quae solem fessum ac pulverolentum balneo excipit, deinde lotum et nitidum postera die emittit. it is just matertera, and not mater, tliat is meant by teta elsewhere. christian mythology among the slav and certain asiatic nations has handed over the thunderer's business to the prophet elijah, who drives to heaven ioi the tempest, whom a chariot and horses of jive receive, 2 kings 2, 11. in the servian songs 2, 1. 2, 2 he is expressly called gromovnik iliya lightning and thunder (munya and grom) are given into his hand, and to sinful men he shuts up the clouds of heaven, so that they let no rain fall on the earth (see suppl. this last agrees with the o.t. too, 1 kings 17

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ained. watch for the moment when the person dies, and then at once place upon his body towards the e cardinal points the symbol required. similar symbols are to be sewn into the garments he wears. abraham moreover adds that by this means, one can however only prolong the life for h years, and no more (e) no. b is a square of g e squares. ezechiel is from hebrew ichzqal, the well-known name of the prophet, derived from chzq, to bind. no. c is a square of e j squares, it will be noticed that a small o is placed at the end of each word in the last square towards the right hand. amigdel is from mgdl, a strong tower. no. d is a square of c f squares. iosua, the well-known hebrew name, signifies "he shall save. no. e is also a square of c f squares. peger is from pgr= a dead inactive carcase whe

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

-spinning in the spire. death is the veil of life, and life of death; for both are gods. this is that which is written "a feast for life, and a greater feast for death" in the book of the law. the blood is the life of the individual: offer then blood! book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 93 [96] commentary( mu-gamma) the title of this chapter refers to a hebrew legend, that of the prophet who heard "a going in the mulberry tops; and to browning's phrase "a bruised, blackblooded mulberry. in the world's tragedy, household gods, the scorpion, and also the god-eater, the reader may study the efficacy of rape, and the sacrifice of blood, as magical formulae. blood and virginity have always been the most acceptable offerings to all the gods, but especially the christian god. in

die, for sorrow. wilt thou endure unto the end, o frater perdurabo, o lamp in the abyss? thou hast the keystone of the royal arch; yet the apprentices, instead of making bricks, put the straws in their hair, and think they are jesus christ! o sublime tragedy and comedy of the great work! book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 122 [126] commentary( nu-eta) haggai, a notorious hebrew prophet, is a second officer in a chapter of the royal arch masons. in this chapter the author, in a sort of raging eloquence, bewails his impotence to express himself, or to induce others to follow into the light. in paragraph 1 he explains the sardonic laughter, for which he is justly celebrated, as being in reality the expression of this feeling. paragraph 2 is a reference to the obligation of

eers" sat no elijah under the juniper-tree, and wept? was not mohammed forsaken in mecca, and jesus in gethsemane? these prophets were sad at heart; but the chocolate at rumpelmayer's is great, and the mousse noix is like nepthys for perfection. also there are little meringues with cream and chestnut-pulp, very velvety seductions. sail i not toward laylah within seven days? be not sad at heart, o prophet; the babble of the apes will presently begin. nay, rejoice exceedingly; for after all the babble of the apes the silence of the night. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 143 [146] commentary( xi-eta) manna was a heavenly cake which, in the legend, fed the children of israel in the wilderness. the author laments the failure of his mission to mankind, but comforts himself w

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

last he knoweth me. since i am infinite space, and the infinite stars thereof, do ye also thus. bind nothing! let there be no difference made among you between any one thing& any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. i,23: but whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all! i,24: i am nuit, and my word is six and fifty. i,25: divide, add, multiply, and understand. i,26: then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: who am i, and what shall be the sign? so she answered him, bending down, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth& her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: thou knowest! and the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresen

ne, breathed the light, faint& faery, of the stars, and two. i,29: for i am divided for love s sake, for the chance of union. i,30: this is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. i,31: for these fools of men and their woes care not thou at all! they feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones. i,32: obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. this is so: i swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all i can give, by all i desire of ye all. i,33: then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us th

ther shall say nay. i,44: for pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. i,45: the perfect and the perfect are one perfect and not two; nay, are none! i,46: nothing is a secret key of this law. sixty-one the jews call it; i call it eight, eighty, four hundred& eighteen. i,47: but they have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear. i,48: my prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the ox, and none by the book? i,49: abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. ra-hoor-khuit hath taken his seat in the east at the equinox of the gods; and let asar be with isa, who also are one. but they are not of me. let asar be the adorant, isa the sufferer; hoor in his secret name and splendour is the lord initiating. i

as ye will, when, where, and with whom ye will! but always unto me. i,52: if this be not aright; if ye confound the space-marks, saying: they are one; or saying, they are many; if the ritual be not ever unto me: then expect the direful judgments of ra hoor khuit! i,53: this shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart& my tongue, unto whom i send this kiss. also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. but ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever to me! to me! i,54: change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein. i,55: the child of thy bowels, he shall behold them. i,56: expect him n ot from the east, nor from the west; for from no expe

all prophets true; save only that they understand a little; solve the first half of the equation, leave the second unattacked. but thou hast all in the clear light, and some, though not all, in the dark. i,57: invoke me under my stars! love is the law, love under will. nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. there is the dove, and there is the serpent. choose ye well! he, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the house of god. all these old letters of my book are aright; but* is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise* in ms, the symbol found here is usually interpreted as the hebrew letter tzaddi. i,58: i give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; pea

earn the secret that hath not yet been revealed. i, hadit, am the complement of nu, my bride. i am not extended, and khabs is the name of my house. ii,3: in the sphere i am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found. ii,4: yet she shall be known& i never. ii,5: behold! the rituals of the old time are black. let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! then shall this knowledge go aright. ii,6: i am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. i am life, and the giver of life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. ii,7: i am the magician and the exorcist. i am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. come unto me is a foolish word: for it is i that go. ii,8: who worshipped h

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

. a crowned priestess sits before the veil of isis between the pillars of seth* 14 the daughter of the mighty ones. crowned with stars, a winged goddess stands upon the moon* 15 the son of the morning, chief among the mighty. a flame-clad god bearing equivalent symbols* 16 the magus of the eternal. between the pillars sits an ancient* 17 the children of the voice: the oracle of the mighty gods. a prophet, young, and in the sign of osiris risen* 18 the child of the powers of the waters: the lord of the triumph of light. a young and holy king under the starry canopy* 19 the daughter of the flaming sword. a smiling woman holds the open jaws of a fierce and powerful lion 20 the prophet of the eternal, the magus of the voice of power. wrapped in a cloke and cowl, an ancient walketh, bearing a l

ystem will o the wisp 31 organs of circulation salamanders 32 excretory system ghuls, larv, corpse candles 32 bis excretory organs, skeleton the dweller of the threshold, gnomes 31 bis organs of intelligence [socratic genius] editorial note: the atus of thoth liber al, cap. i, v. 57 includes the statement: all these old letters of my book are aright: but x is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. in crowley s new comment on this verse, he observes: i see no harm in revealing the mystery of tzaddi to the wise; others will hardly understand my explanations. tzaddi is the letter of the emperor, the trump iv, and he is the star, the trump xvii. aquarius and aries are therefore counterchanged, revolving on the pivot of pisces, just as, in the trumps viii and

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

nd always works right< divination, with equal modesty, admits that "it often goes wrong; but it works well enough, all things considered. the science is in its infancy. all we can do is our best. we no more pretend to infallibility than the mining expert who considers himself in luck if he hits the bull's eye four times in ten" the error of all dogmatists (from the oldest prophet with his "literally-inspired word of god" to the newest german professor with his single-track explanation of the universe) lies in trying to prove too much, in defending themselves against critics by stretching a probably excellent theory to include all the facts and the fables, until it bursts like the overblown bladder it is. divination is no more than a rough and ready practical method

rawled on the ms. touch letters which added to 418, valuing "this circle squared in its failure" as gr:pi correct to six places of decimals, etc. again "thou shalt know not<[weh note: it is remarkable that crowley succeeds in blowing every quotation of "liber al" on this page. this despite the injunction of the book itself: al i,54 "change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein" crowley strongly resisted the idea that he could not understand all of the book. in later life, he came to grudgingly accept this limitation. also, achad did not work out as his successor. several of these mis-quotes relate to that belief. this particular mis-quote could come from as many as six points in the text, but here is no part o

e perfect: whom no man hath seen at any time. 6. thou art ia-besz("the truth in matter. 7. thou art ia-apophrasz("the truth in motion. 8. thou hast distinguished between the just and the unjust. 9. thou didst make the female and the male. 10. thou didst produce the seeds and the fruit. 11. thou didst form men to love one another, and to hate one another. section aa. 1. i am ankh- f- n- khonsu thy prophet, unto whom thou didst commit thy mysteries, the ceremonies of khem. 2. thou didst produce the moist and the dry, and that which nourisheth all created life. 3. hear thou me, for i am the angel of ptah- apo- phrasz- ra (vide the rubric: this is thy true name, handed down to the prophets of khem. 266 section b. air. hear me- ar "o breathing, flowing sun" thiaf<
e spirit of 'gr:alpha-iota-theta-eta-rho: 12 :the magus of power: 13 :the priestess of the silver star: 14 :the daughter of the mighty ones: 15:sun of the morning, chief among the mighty: 16:the magus of the eternal: 17:the children of the voice: the oracle of the mighty gods: 18:the child of the powers of the waters: the lord of the: triumph of light: 19:the daughter of the flaming sword: 20:the prophet of the eternal, the magus of the voice of: power: 21 :the lord of the forces of life: 22:the daughter of the lords of truth; the ruler of the: balance :23 :the spirit of the mighty waters: 24:the child of the great transformers. the lord of the: gate of death: 25:the daughter of the reconcilers, the bringer-forth of: life: 26:the lord of the gates of matter. the child of the: forces of tim

y star. i am life, and the giver of life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death "i am alone: there is no god where i am"(the "deacon "and all rise to their feet with hailing sign" the deacon "but ye, o my people, rise up& awake! let the rituals be rightly performed with joy& beauty "there are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times "a feast for the first night of the prophet and his bride "a feast for the three days of the writing of the book of the law "a feast for tahuti and the child of the prophet-secret, o prophet "a feast for the supreme ritual, and a feast for the equinox of the gods "a feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death "a feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture" 351 "a feast every night

and melchizedeck, khem and amoun "and mentu, heracles" orpheus and odysseus; with vergilius "catullus" martialis "rabelais, swinburne and many an holy bard; apollonius tyanaeus" simon magus, manes "pythagoras" basilides, valentinus "bardesanes and hippolytus, that transmitted the light of the gnosis to us their successors and their heirs" with merlin, arthur, kamuret, parzival, and many another, prophet, priest and king, that bore the lance and cup, the sword and disk, against the heathen "and these also" carolus magnus and his paladins, with william of schyren, frederick of hohenstaufen, roger bacon "jacobus burgundus molensis the martyr, christian rosencreutz" ulrich von hutten, paracelsus, michael maier "roderic borgia pope alexander the sixth" jacob boehme, francis bacon lord verulam

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

s stood forth in an attempt to save the white school, to rehabilitate its formula, and to fling back from the bastions of moral freedom the howling savages of pessimism. unless his appeal is heard, unless there comes a truly virile reaction against the creeping atrophy which is poisoning them, unless they enlist to the last man under his standard, a great decisive battle will have been lost. this prophet of the white school, chosen by its masters and his brethren, to save the theory and practice, is armed with a sword far mightier than excalibur. he has been entrusted with a new magical formula, one which can be accepted by the whole human race. its adoption will strengthen magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 105 the yellow school by giving a more positive value to

ree on: www.abika.com 162 experiences "will redeem ye from all pain" v. 58 "i give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace5 unutterable, rest, ecstasy" cap. ii, v. 9 "remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass& are done; but there is that which remains (the continuation is amusing! vv. 10 and 11 read "o prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing. i see thee hate the hand& the pen; but i am stronger" at that time i was a hard-shell buddhist, sent out a new year's card "wishing you a speedy termination of existence" and this as a young man, with the world at my feet. it only goes to show) vv. 19, 20 "is a god to live in a dog? no! but the highest are of us. beauty and strength, leaping laugh

haughty, a seething hell-broth of hate; and this fact disables your judgment" all perfectly true. my equable nature is congenitally hostile to extreme measures, except in imagination. i cannot bear sudden violent movements. climbing rocks, people used to say that i didn't climb them, that i oozed over them! this explains, i think, my deep-seated dislike of many passages in the boot of the law "o prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 218 i see thee hate the hand& the pen; but i am stronger (al ii, 10-11) well, what is the upshot of all this? it answers your question about the value to be attached to this golden mean. there is no rule about it; your own attitude is proper for yourself, and has no value for anybody else

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further there is, one may suppose, a real clarification. in any case, the mass of mankind is always ready to be swayed by anything thus authoritative and distinct. history is full of stories of officers who have walked unarmed up to a mutinous regiment, and disarmed them by the mere force of confidence. the power of the orator over the mob is well known. it is, probably, for this reason that the prophet has been able to constrain mankind to obey his law. i never occurs to him that any one can do otherwise. in practical life one can walk past any guardian, such as a sentry or ticket-collector, if one can really act so that the man is somehow persuaded that you have a right to pass unchallenged. this power, by the way, is what has been described by magicians as the power of invisibility. so

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

xbz to seethe, boil dwz to brighten, make joyful hdx a circle, orbit gwx good bw+ to give, place bhy 18 my favourite, my beloved ybh) hatred hby) the antique serpent)+x living yx (notariqon of yehi aur, 232 )w)y 19 an enemy byw) was black hyd eve: to manifest, show forth hwx nation; gentile ywg 20 yod: a hand dwy a name of god yy fraternity hwx) black liquid wyd it was hyh the breast; a vision; a prophet; to gaze hzx sin h)+h golden bwhz 21 the mystic number of tiphareth existence, being: the divine name of kether hyh) but, howbeit; certainly k) deep meditation gygh ah. alas! ywh purity, innocence wxz part of hwhy (see sepher yetzirah) why 22 with his hand wdyb by yodh dwyb hearer in secret hy))h the state of puberty gwwz a magical vision (ch )wzx wheat h+x good hbw (notariqon of gyehovah

hip, fleet yn) the belly n+b wealth nwh dwelling, habitation (as body is of soul) hwn 62 healing )s) the sons ynb to commit; healing hnz between nyb 63 abaddon: destruction, ruin (hell, as development of lw, 337; cf. 451) nwdb) dregs, roll; faeces (globular; dung llg fed nwz the nose m+wx fervour hmyx hwhy in briah yh w)w yh dwy briah fs gsecret nature h (see s.d. 1:38-39) gs beaver, builder hnwb prophet )ybn 64 shine, glow: the sphere of venus (see s.b. 75) hgwn justice: a title of geburah nyd a sigh, groan, deep breath hxn) the golden waters (i.r.q. 996; cf. 97) bhz ym prophecy h)wbn serenity hnwg stocks ds 65 adonai: my lord (referred to malkuth; cf. 155& 361) ynd) weasels and other terrible animals myxw) palace, temple, mansion lkyh shone, gloried, praised llh silence! sh defective nzx

of open day; cf. 9& 11) rw) limitless pws ny) ate hrb walled, fenced rdg that which cuts rbh the elders (deut. 21:19) mynqz melt, fuse qqz the crown of the ark; strange, foreign; border rz to grow great, multiply hbr demons; injurers myqyzm 208 feather hrb) a cistern rwb bowed rhg to make strife; contend hrg locusts hbr) to kill grh abominable )rz multitude bwr hole rx cedar zr) 209 chief seer or prophet (hence abra-melin) h)rb) reward, profit, prize hrg) to delay, tarry; behind (prep) rx) way xr) dispersed rzb sojourned, dwelt; whelp rwg oppressed brz ornament, splendour, honour; the supernal benignity; hadar (the hebrew version of the syriac hadad, gthe sun h, from the egyptian hadit; see 156& i.r.q. 994) rdh 210 adam primus: the first man (see 607) rhd) choice rxb pass on, fly xrb to de

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE GREATER RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM

with the wand or sword outstretched, thus making a magick circle. then say, with all the exaltation possible: the light is mine; its rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra (enterer towards east) and tum (enterer towards west, of khephra (enterer towards north) and of ahathoor (enterer towards south (in centre, facing west, in sign of silence) i am thy theban, o mentu, the prophet ankh-af-na-khonsu! bell. turning 60 degrees to your left, make the inverted invoking pentagram of fire and cry nuit. turning 60 degrees to your original right (i.e. to the north of west) make the same pentagram and cry hadit. turn to the east, make the same pentagram and cry ra-hoor-khuit. then turn 60 degrees north of east, make the erect invoking pentagram of fire and cry bes-na-maut. th

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

e clouds and shadows are no matter for thee. make speech and silence, energy and stillness, twin forms of thy play! xx be every act an act of love and worship! be every act the fiat of a god! be every act a source of radiant glory! xxi treat time and all conditions of event as servants of thy will, appointed to present the universe to thee in the form of thy plan. and: blessing and worship to the prophet of the lovely star! the shadows suddenly faded as the clouds vanished from the sky; and there is no more writing on the heavens, for that which was written was graven upon mine heart. the four virtues of the heart of the master. light is throned in the heart of the master, so that he thinks no evil. for in that light all is truth. falsehood is but a function of the conditions of time and s

s one day. then my instructer showed me that the brotherhood send forth one of their fellows every two thousand years, bringing one word to serve mankind as a new formula of magick, that it may take one further step on the long road that leadeth to perfection. also, twice in that period, that is, at intervals of a little more than three, and a little less than seven, centuries, they send a lesser prophet to prepare the way of the next word, and to maintain or to restore the virtue of the word then current. and on the unfurled portion of the chart i read the names of certain of these brethren, and the words as one was uttered after the other. but some i could not read, because the characters were strange. these: fu-hsi. after a great space (with few names and those illegible) lao-tze, gauta

n, this lion came forth to proclaim the aeon of horus, the crowned and conquering child, who dieth not, nor is reborn, the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 18 but goeth radiant ever upon his way. even so goeth the sun: for as it is now known that night is but the shadow of the earth, so death is but the shadow of the body, that veileth his light from its bearer. of this prophet the word is thelema (spelled in greek letters) many and marvelous are the mysteries of this word, and of the numeration thereof! nor may i declare them, save this the simplest, for the sake of little children "love is the law, love under will" the chart was suddenly furled close, and mine instructor bade me turn: for there had come into that place a maiden like a golden rose, with curling

d: as a muscle is vain, except it be rightly ordered, so also is thy work to be made easy by uniting thyself to the work of the master, even therion, whose true will it is to bring each man's work to its perfection. to this end hath he proclaimed his law; so also to that end, which is also thine, do thou add thy little strength to his great might. as it is written: and blessing and worship to the prophet of the lovely star! thou, therefore- go on, go on in my strength, saith the lord of the aeon, and ye shall turn not back for any. while he thus spoke, i felt constantly in myself a cleansing of heart; and my stature was increased, because of the straightening of my nature. and as i thought thus, mine instructor, perceiving it, smiled upon me saying: in truth, o khaled khan, o child of the

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LAW OF LIBERTY

nd again, in words like these, he sees the expansion and the development of the soul through joy. here is the calendar of our church "but ye, o my people, rise up and awake! let the rituals be rightly performed with joy and beauty" remember that all acts of love and pleasure are rituals, must be rituals "there are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. a feast for the first night of the prophet and his bride! a feast for the three days of the writing of the book of the law. a feast for tahuti and the children of the prophet- secret, o prophet! a feast for the supreme ritual and a feast for the equinox of the gods. a feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! a feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! a feast every night u

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

. to me, even another khabs is only part of my khu. our own khabs is our one sole truth. al i,10 "let my servants be few& secret: they shall rule the many& the known" the old comment 10. this is the rule of thelema, that its adepts shall be invisible rulers. this, it may be remarked, has always been the case. the new comment the nature of magical power is quite incomprehensible to the vulgar. the prophet ezekiel besieging a tile in order to destroy jerusalem, and the adventure of hosea with gomer, seem as absurd to the 'practical' man as do the researches of any other scientific man until the sunday newspapers have furnished him with a plausible explanation which explains nothing("book 4, part iii, must be read in this connexion "my servants; not those of the lord of the aeon "the law is f

m, the holy spirit. i am inclined to believe that there is a further mystery concealed in this verse, possibly those of 418 and 666 again. the new comment see qabalistic appendix. weh note: appendix not yet recovered. k. grant, op. cit, adds several paragraphs here which appear to come from crowley. this is not provided in this text for lack of certainty of the providence. al i,26 "then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: who am i, and what shall be the sign? so she answered him, bending down, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth& her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: thou knowest! and the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresen

who am i, and what shall be the sign? so she answered him, bending down, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth& her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: thou knowest! and the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body" the old comment 26. the prophet demanding a sign of his mission, it is promised; a samadhi upon the infinite. this promise was later fulfilled- see "the temple of solomon the king, which proposes to deal with the matter in its due season (p.s. it did so, vide equinox i) the new comment in the mss, the last 5 words of this verse do not occur. the original reading is 'the unfragmentary non-atomic fact of my universality. t

e to the fact that most other nations, especially the french and british, regard 'american institutions' as the lowest savagery, and forgetful or ignorant of the circumstance that the original brand of american freedom- which really was freedom- contained the precept to leave other people severely alone, and thus assured the possibility of expansion on his own lines to every man. al i,32 "obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. this is so: i swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all i can give, by all i desire of ye all" the old comment 32. the rule and purpose of the order; the promise of nuit to her chosen. the new comment it is proper to obey the beast, because his law is

y the greek mh "not. the word 'only' might be taken as ?ayin-lamed-nun-vau' with the number of 156, that of the secret name babalon of nuith. there are presumably further hidden meanings in the key-word 'all. al i,33 "then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law" the old comment 33. the prophet then demanded instruction; ordeals, rituals, law. the new comment law, in the common sense of the word, should be a formulation of the customs of a people, as euclid's propositions are the formulation of geometrical facts. but modern knavery conceived the idea of artificial law, as if one should try to square the circle by tyranny. legislators try to force the people to change their custom

pecies. duly labelled and docketed, the child will be given the education suitable to members of its species, and will be set, in adult life, to perform those functions which human being of his variety are capable of performing"'how many species will there be' asked denis"'a great many, no doubt' mr. scogan answered 'the classification will be subtle and elaborate. but is is not in the power of a prophet to go into details, nor is it his business. i will do no more than indicate the three main species into which the subjects of the rational state will be divided. the three main species, will be these: the directing intelligences, the men of faith, and the herd. among the intelligences will be found all those capable of thought, those who know how to attain to a certain degree of freedom- a

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i am life, and the giver of life; yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. i am alone; there is no god where i am. the deacon and all rise to their feet, with the hailing sign. the deacon: but ye, o my people rise up and awake. let the rituals be rightly performed with joy and beauty. there are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. a feast for the first night of the prophet and his bride. a feast for the three days of the writing of the book of the law. a feast for tahuti and the children of the prophet--secret, o prophet! a feast for the supreme ritual, and a feast for the equinox of the gods. a feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death. a feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture. a feast every night

s and melchizedek, khem and amoun and mentu, heracles, orpheus and odysseus; with vergilius, catullus, martialis, rabelais, swinburne, and many an holy bard; apollonius tyanaeus, simon magus, manes, pythagoras, basilides, valentinus, bardesanes and hippolytus, that transmitted the light of the gnosis to us their successors and their heirs; with merlin, arthur, kamuret, parzival, and many another, prophet, priest and king, that bore the lance and cup, the sword and disk, against the heathen; and these also, carolus magnus and his paladins, with william of schyren, frederick of hohenstaufen, roger bacon, jacobus burgundus molensis the martyr, christian rosencreutz, ulrich von hutten, paracelsus, michael maier, roderic borgia pope alexander the sixth, jacob boehme, francis bacon lord verulam

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birth, death and resurrection of christ; and further the signs of the mourning of the mother, triumph of the destroyer, and rising of the son, give by shape the letters l.v.x, lux, which letters are (again) concealed in and revealed by the cross the light of the cross. further examples will be found in a note on genesis. one of the most famous is the mene, tekel, upharsin of daniel, the imaginary prophet who lived under belshazzar the imaginary king. anm. the hanged man, death, the fool= sacrificed to death by thy folly. lkt. the universe, the wheel of fortune, justice= thy kingdom s fortune is in the balance. crp the blasted tower, the sun, the last judgement= ruined is thy glory, and finished. but we cannot help thinking that this exegesis must have been very hard work. we could more eas

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ust the yoke of faith that tortures english folk. i cannot write29 a poem yet to please the people in tibet; 95 but when i can, christ shall not lack peace, while their buddha i attack.30 yet by-and-by i hope to weave a song of anti-christmas eve and first- and second- beast-er day. 100 there s one*31 who loves me dearly (vrai) who yet believes me sprung from tophet, either the beast or the false prophet; and by all sorts of monkey tricks adds up my name to six six six. 105 retire, good gallup !32 in such strife her superior skill makes you a cipher* crowley s mother. the sword of song 8 necessity of poem. mysticism v. literal interpretation. former excused. buddha rebukes poet. detailed scheme of modified poem. ho! i adopt the number. look at the quaint wrapper of this book* i will deserv

british expedition of 1904. a.c. notes 53 97. while their buddha i attack.30 many buddhists think i fill the bill with the following remarks on pansil. unwilling as i am to sap the foundations of the buddhist religion by the introduction of porphyry s terrible catapult, allegory, i am yet compelled by the more fearful ballista of aristotle, dilemma. this is the two-handed engine spoken of by the prophet milton* this is the horn of the prophet zeruiah, and with this am i, though no syrian, utterly pushed, till i find myself back against the dead wall of dogma. only now realising how dead a wall that is, do i turn and try the effect of a hair of the dog that bit me, till the orthodox literary school of buddhists, as grown at rangoon, exclaim with lear: how sharper than a serpent s tooth it

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have ensnared as an eagle in a net- yet the spirit liveth and is free, and they know it not, as they gaze down from their babel of words upon the soot-grimed fields, and the felled forests, and the flowerless banks of their rivers of mud, lit by the sun which glows red through the hooded mists of their magic. yet he who gazeth into the heavens, and crieth in a loud voice "there is no-god" is as a prophet unto mankind; 180 for he is as one drunken on the vastness of deity. better to have no opinion of god than such an opinion as is unworthy of him. better to be wrapped in the black robe of unbelief than to dance in the stinking rags of blasphemy. so they learnt to cry "for the children, belief and obedience; for us men, solitude- the monarchy of mind, the pandemoniacal majesty of matter "a

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y prove a bar to advancement. the equinox "the editor will be glad to consider "contributions and to return such as "are unacceptable if stamps are enclosed" for the purpose" the equinox the official organ of the a. a. the review of scientific illuminism an. vii vol. i. no. v. sun in aries march mcmxi o.s "the method of science--the aim of religion" contents page editorial 1 liber hhh 5 the blind prophet. by aleister crowley 15 the training of the mind. by ananda metteya 28 the sabbath. by ethel ramsay 60 the temple of solomon the king 65 a nocturne. by victor b. neuburg 121 the vixen. by francis bendick 125 the pilgrim. by aleister crowley 130 my crapulous contemporaries, no. iv- wisdom while you waite. by aleister crowley 133 x-rays on ex-probationers. by perdurabo 142 the vampire. by et

l-fitted in body and mind, fixed in peace, beneath a favourable heaven of stars, at night, in calm and warm weather, mayst thou quicken the movement of the light until it be taken up by the brain and the spine, independently of thy will. 12. if in this hour thou shouldst die, is it not written "blessed are the dead that die in the lord? yea, blessed are the dead that die in the lord! 14 the blind prophet a ballet by aleister crowley the blind prophet a ballet "the scene is an ancient egyptian temple, supported by two mighty pillars. two "rows of marble seats form a semi-circle, cut by a gap covered by a veil "in the east. on the upper seats are the musicians, flutes and violins "on the lower are singers and dancers. there are doors also at the north "and south "the prophet" lead me to the

er are singers and dancers. there are doors also at the north "and south "the prophet" lead me to the holy place! trace the circle widdershins! light the incense! set the pace to the flutes and violins "the musicians" kill! kill! life is shrill! still! still! word and will! flame! flame! speak the name! trill! trill! thrill! thrill! i acclaim the shame! i have heard the word! fulfil the will "the prophet" bid the virgins veil the bride! lead her forth, a shower of spray, 17 a flower of foam upon the tide, a fleece of cloud upon the day! so my sightless eyes may see in the transcendental trance the virgin of eternity lead the demi-gods to dance. has the tree of life its root in the soul or in the skin? is it god, or is it brute, that comes mystically in for the doves within the flute, the e

lying feet the hymns that flow and ripple in the air, bathing all the doves of prayer "the musicians" lingering, low, fingering slow, the tingling bows of the violins go. trembling, twittering, dissembling, the lips of the flute-players wander over the stops, fiercer and fonder than scorpions that writhe and curl in the fiery breast of an arab girl["the dancers issue from beyond the veil" 18 "the prophet" sway like the lilies, gentle girls! like lilies glimmer! furl yourselves as he lily furls its radiance dimmer! curl as the lily-petal curls, subtler and slimmer! unfold your ranks and waft yourselves apart, that i may guess what pearl is at the heart, what dew-drop glistens on the crown gold-wrought within the chalice of your coiled cohort "the musicians" the flutes coo. it is the voice o

ercing through those low loves that rejoice, wails in the violin that supreme string of passion, that is more akin to death than love, that shrieking sin whose teeth tear passion's tortured skin and drink love's blood, and rage within black bowels of lust to win, to win some crown of thorns incarnadine, some cross whereof to fashion some newer, truer passion than even the agony of the violin "the prophet" yes! like a careless breeze, the close caress expands with a sob; the virgins wheel; there glows 19 in the midst a mystical rose["the dancers unfold, and their queen appears" o musical ministress of the dancing violin! in an emerald spangled skin, hooded with harvest hair close-coiled, her serpent eyes hold ineffable sorceries! slender, and full, and straight is she as an almond tree bles

s on the brows of the world. hush! they are curled in the rapture of reaping the flowers that unfurled when the gardeners were sleeping in the breeze-swayed bowers of the lord of the flowers! hush! hush! the young feet flush the marble! the temple's ablaze and ablush. hush! hush! softer crush the grape on the palate, the flower on the blossom, the dream on the sleeper, the bride on the bosom "the prophet" will she not deign, being drawn into the blush of dawn, to yield the promise, to unveil the lady of bliss and bale? i am old and blind; my vision hath the seer in derision. i would set my lips between those rose-tipped moons, just there where the deciduous green leaves the pearly rapture bare, 21 with its blue veins like rivulets jewelled with gentians and violets, wandering through field

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her side of the wind, and he whispers in my ear: go thou forth into the world, o thrice and four times blessed who hast gazed upon the horror of the loneliness of the first. no man shall look upon his face and live. and thou hast seen his eyes, and understood his heart, for the voice of the ape is the pulse of his heart and the labouring of his breast. go, therefore, and rejoice, for thou art the prophet of the aeon arising, wherein he is not. give thou praise unto thy lady nuit, and unto her lord hadit, that are for thee and thy bride, and the winners of the ordeal x. and with that we are come to the wall of the aethyr, and there is a little narrow gate, and he pushes me through it, and i am suddenly in the desert. the desert, near bou saada.4 "november" 29, 1909. 1.30- 2.50 p.m. the cry

m? who shall lift himself up against him? 63 for the latchet of his sandal is more than the helmet of the most high. who shall reach up to him in supplication, save those that he shall set upon his shoulders? would god that my tongue were torn out by the roots, and my throat cut across, and my heart torn out and given to the vultures, before i say this that i must say: blessing and worship to the prophet of the lovely star! and now he is fallen quite to the ground, in a heap, and dust is upon his head; and the throne upon which he sat is shattered into many pieces. and dimly dawning in this unutterable gloom, far, far above, is the face that is the face of a man and of a woman, and upon the brow is a circle, and upon the breast is a circle, and in the palm of the right hand is a circle. gi

of the earth, and all the angels of the heavens, and all the gods that are beyond the heavens. then shalt thou meet me in equal conflict, and thou shalt see me as i am. and i will overcome thee and slay thee with the red rain of my lightnings. i am lying underneath this pyramid of light. it seems as if i had the whole weight of it upon me, crushing me with bliss. and yet i know that i am like the prophet that said: i shall see him, but not nigh. and the angel sayeth: so shall it be until they that wake are asleep, and she that sleepeth be arisen from her sleep. for thou art transparent unto the vision and the voice. and therefore in thee they manifest not. but they shall be manifest unto them unto whom thou dost deliver them, according unto to the word which i spake unto thee in the victor

d they shall be brought unto subjection unto thee, and serve thee, though thou willest it not. and it shall be unto them a grace and a sacrament, and ye shall all sit down together at the supernal banquet, and ye shall feast upon the honey of the gods, and be drunk upon the dew of immortality- for i am horus, the crowned and conquering child, whom thou knewest not! pass thou on, therefore, o thou prophet of the gods, unto the cubical altar of the universe; there shalt thou receive every tribe and kingdom and nation into the mighty order that reacheth from the frontier fortresses that guard the uttermost abyss unto my throne. this is the formula of the aeon, and with that the voice of lil, that is the lamp of the invisible light, is ended. amen. biskra, algeria "december" 19, 1909. 1.30- 3

appear the cherubim, the other officers of the new temple, the earth and water assistants of the fire and air beast and scarlet woman. 22. here is the first key to the formula of horus, a sevenfold arrangement. a shadow of horus declares his nature. 21. this seems to be the vision of god face to face that is the necessary ordeal for him who would pass the abyss, as it were. a commission to be the prophet of the aeon arising is given to the seer. the god is the hierophant in the ceremony of magister templi. 20. a guide is given to the seer, his holy guardian angel. and this is attained by a mastery of the universe conceived as a wheel the hiereus in the ceremony of magister templi. 19. now cometh forth the angel who giveth instruction, in the lowest form. the hegemone in the ceremony of mag

possible to understand what is meant by the theory. mr. shirley cannot realize that time and space are accidental forms of our consciousness, no more essential to it than a harem skirt to the venus of milo. suppose a cinematograph show observed by a man on earth and a man on the sun (with a devil of a telescope) at 10.40, and their observations compared. the solar will regard the terrestrial as a prophet, for the latter can see at 10.40 what the former sees at 10.48 or thereabouts. with space it is the same thing. assumer a fourth dimension, and calcutta may rub streets with buenos ayres. the battle of waterloo may be merely one name for a phenomenon whose other names are john brown, saucepan, geometry, etc, etc/ these conceptions are hard to realize intellectually. mr. shirley is too sane

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ch worse when your own controlled brain breaks loose. 12.33. i will therefore compose myself to sleep: is it not written that he giveth unto his beloved even in sleep?"others, even in sleep, he makes fruitful from his own strength. 17 7.29. woke and forced myself to rise. i had a number of rather pleasing dreams, as i seem to remember. but their content is gone from me; and, in the absence of the prophet daniel, i shall let the matter slide. 7.44. pranayama. 13 cycles. very tiring; i began to sweat. a mediocre performance. 8.0- breakfast. hatha yogi a pear and two gaufrettes. 8.20 8.53. have been meditating in hanged man position. thought dull and wandering; yet once "the conception of the glowing fire" seen as a planet (perhaps mars) just enough to destroy the concentration; then it went

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l water is poison, and i believe you get your water from a cesspool. why, look at it "and beautiful clear water it is" said the water man "limpid as crystal. worth a guinea a drop "about what you charge for it" retorted the incensed inhabitant "it looks fairly clear, i admit, in the twilight. but that is not the point. a poison need not cloud water "but" urged the other "one of our directors is a prophet, and he prophesied- clearly, in so many words- that the water would be pure this year. and besides, our first founder was a holy man, who performed a special miracle to make it pure for ever "your evidence is as tainted as your water" replied the now infuriated householder. so off they went to the judge. the judge heard the case carefully "my good friends" said he "you've neither of you go

e spiritual ether. therefore we read "begun are the whirling motions" hb:shin signifieth mighty in flame, whereof it is also the hieroglyph. it is that ruach elohim brooding upon the face of the waters. so read "formulated is the primal fire" hb:yod is the hand<god, always the symbol of his power> symbolising power in action, and its taro key is the hermit and the voice of light, the prophet of the gods. thus "proclaimed is the reign of the gods of light" hb:taw is the last letter of the alphabet, the "finis, the omega, the universe, saturn, the outermost planet, and it is also taw-resh-ayin-aleph, throa, the gate of the universe; and by qabalah of nine chambers it is hb:dalet, the gateway of initiation. hence "at the threshold of the universe" 180 so the whole word reads: hb:

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ted if the book has any less effect on any other reader. the perusal of the notes may be omitted with advantage. n. the buddhist review. quarterly. 1"s" unwilling as i am to sap the foundations of the buddhist religion by the introduction of porphyry's terrible catapult, allegory, i am yet compelled by the more fearful ballista of aristotle, dilemma. this is the two-handed engine spoken of by the prophet milton!1 this is the horn of the prophet zeruiah, and with this am i, though no syrian, utterly pushed, till i find myself back against the dead wall of dogma. only now realising how dead a wall that is, do i turn and try the effect of a hair of the dog that bit me, till the orthodox "literary"2 school of buddhists, as grown at rangoon, exclaim with lear "how sharper than a serpent's tooth

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he golden dawn, bidden the cavernous mount unfold its ruby rose, its cross of gold; until i saw, flashed from afar, the hawk's eye in the silver star! marsyas. peace to all beings. peace to thee, co-heir of mine eternity! peace to the greatest and the least, to nebula and nenuphar! light in abundance be increased on them that dream that shadows are! olympas. blessing and worship to the beast, the prophet of the lovely star! 54 the herb dangerous part iii the poem of hashish the poem of hashish chapter i the longing for infinity those who know how to observe themselves, and who preserve the memory of their impressions, those who, like hoffmann, have known how to construct their spiritual barometer, have sometimes had to note in the observatory of their mind fine seasons, happy days, delicio

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. we have to thank him for semi-educating a few of our noodles, for applying the caustic of ibsen (right) and wagner (wrong- the book's drivel) to that most indolent of ulcers, the british public, but for nothing more. his own work, bar "man and overman (why the hybrid superman, is a glib sham. if it proves anything, it proves nothing. but are we to writhe in the ecstasies of pyrrhonism? for this prophet claims to be zoroaster. can we be sure even of that? he has educated the british goat to caper to his discordant pan-pipe, so that without the nuisance of crucifixion he may scourge the money-changes from the temple. yet is this true cynicism? doth he delight, the surly diogenes, in his solitary gambols- that insult both lydia and lalage? or is he doing it to tempt them- to coquette with t

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telephone directory, who was spending hundreds of pounds on letting the whole world know where to find him. it was perhaps unkind of me not to warn mr. cran that he was putting his foot in it. but if i had said a word, the case would have been thrown up; and then where would our advertisement have been? so, even now, i restrict my remarks; there may be some more fun coming* but at least there's a prophet loose! some anonymous person wrote cran, cran, mcgregor's man served a writ, and away he ran 3 before a writ was served! though he might have guessed that it would be. but he couldn't possibly have known that the action would be dropped, as it has been. and mathers has run away too- without paying our costs* a word as to the sanctity of obligations seems necessary here. some of my brother

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the practices find that results do happen. it is most astonishing, even to us; under the old empirical, dogmatic methods people could work really hard for years, and get absolutely nothing; in our three years' experience with the a. a, we have not found one man in whom three months' work has not produced at least one notable result. what can we add but this: blessing and worship to the beast, the prophet of the lovely star! 2 liber porta lvcis svb figvra x 3 a. a. publication in class a. imprimatur: n. fra a. a. liber porta lvcis svb figvra x 1. i behold a small dark orb, wheeling in an abyss of infinite space. it is minute among a myriad vast ones, dark amid a myriad bright ones. 2. i who comprehend in myself all the vast and the minute, all the bright and the dark, have mitigated the bri

zed from our holy faith [all "cross themselves" jocelyn["sings] heigho! heigho! the crescent and cross! if the one is a bargain, the other's a loss. 71 who would be found on the ground of mahound a recreant knight, and a renegade boaster? better we each leave our bones here to bleach and be saved, than go burn with the paynim impostor! for the infidel swine lack our spirit divine; there crazy old prophet prohibits them wine! drink, every knight! god and my right! we'll drive the black dogs to their kennels to-night! sir james. peace to thy ribaldry! here comes the preceptor. to saddle! jocelyn. why cannot he ride with us, as a good knight and gay? sir james. who poises in his mind the destinies of christendom needs not in his ear thy fool's prattle, or thy fool's face at his elbow. though

s. can chivalry do nothing better than redress grievances? progress and learning are dead in this eternal redressing. or if we must redress grievances, let us redress the great grievance, man misunderstanding man! laylah. let me go to my house "she tries to slip away] rinaldo. sit there["he puts her back very accurately] we worship one god, as you do. that is the essence of agreement. we have one prophet, as you have; there's little odds in a name. let our fools go worship at the tomb of our prophets, as your fools go worship at the tomb of yours; and let us break the heads only of those who break the peace. laylah. let me go to my house. you are breaking the peace now, and i will break your head["she has unloosened a stone from the well and strikes him. his cheek bleeds] rinaldo["unmoved]

r 395, at 5 o'clock at night. jupiter- the white horse- was then in sagittarius; whilst saturn- the pale horse- was in scorpio; the sun in virgo, and the moon under her feet. john chrysostom was then in patmos, and immediately after 395 was called to rome to become a presbyter; but rome finding that the "second coming" did not take place, it is argued that he was deprived and banished as a "false prophet" against this we have the fact that chrysostom does not mention the book, but the date assigned agrees with criticisms as the book now stands. we must defer to the superior knowledge of this modern "unveiler" though personally i am inclined to accept the views of those early fathers who assign the authorship to cerinthus, and also the later german critics, who believe that the first three

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me, much energy will become available through the removal of all that obstructs. this is effected, in relation to man, at the judgment separation, but it will produce results in the other kingdoms of nature also. a portion of the animal kingdom will enter into a temporary obscuration, thus releasing energy for the use of the remaining percentage, and producing results such as are hinted at by the prophet of israel62(142) when he speaks of "the wolf lying down with the lamb; his comment "a little child shall lead them" is largely the esoteric enunciation of the fact that three fifths of the human family will stand upon the path 'a little child' being the name applied to probationers and disciples. in the vegetable and mineral kingdoms a corresponding demonstration will ensue, but of such a

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ree senses of hearing, touch and sight are the three characteristics of the three human races and the three planes in our three worlds. 1. hearing. lemurian. physical plane. ear. response to sound. 2. touch. atlantean .a stral plane .s kin .r esponse to touch or vibration. 3. sight. aryan .m ental body. eye. response to vision. this third sense primarily affects our race and hence the word of the prophet "where there is no vision the people perish" the development of sight and the achievement of spiritual insight is the great objective of our race, and the objective of all raja yoga work. this may be called "illumination" by the mystic or "pure vision" by the occultist but it is one and the same thing. the two other senses are as yet veiled; their true significance will be unfolded in the

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the brain, when in deep thought or meditation; then it becomes more focussed and looks, as some express it, like a radiant and very brilliant sun. later, at the centre of the radiance, a point of vivid electric blue appears (perhaps the "living light" referred to above) and from this a golden pathway of light leads out. this has sometimes been called "the path" and there is a possibility that the prophet was not speaking merely symbolically when he said that "the path of the just is as a shining light that shineth more and more until the day be with us" in this light in the head, which seems a universal accompaniment of the illuminative state, we have probably also the origin of the halo depicted around the heads of the illuminati of the world. much investigation remains to be done along t

ght 1998 lucis trust again, some "force" a word frequently used or some entity comes to the student, as he meditates, and outlines to him some great work that he has been chosen to do; some world message that he has to give and to which the entire world is to listen, or some great invention he is to present some day to a waiting world if he continues to be good. gladly he grasps the mantle of the prophet, and with unshaken belief in his capacity, his ability to influence thousands, even if he is relatively impotent to influence those around him at present, he prepares to carry out his divine mission. in one year, three "world teachers" who have been studying meditation in some school or other, made application to the group with whom i am associated. this they did, not because they wanted t

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gives birth to that (for us) ultimate formulation of truth which will suffice for the next age and carry man to a high pinnacle of the temple to the mount of initiation. these two lines are: 1. those who look back to the past, who hang on to the old ways, the ancient theologies, and the reactionary rejection methods of finding truth. these are the people who recognize authority, whether that of a prophet, a bible or a theology. these are those who prefer obedience to imposed authority to the self-imposed guidance of an enlightened soul. these are the followers of a church and a government, who are distinguished by a pure devotion and love, but refuse recognition to the divine intelligence with which they are gifted. their devotion, their love of god, their strict but misguided conscience

ALICE A BAILEY09 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME I ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY I

ent. the destiny and future functioning of the nations lie hid in the present activity. the readers of this treatise are, in the majority of cases, far too nationalistic in their viewpoint, and too deeply engrossed with the prime importance of their own nation and of its supreme significance, for me to be able to do more than generalise and to indicate the major lines of progress. the role of the prophet is too dangerous, for destiny lies in the hands of the peoples, and no one knows exactly what way they will take to reach their goal. the inevitability of that goal is assured, as is the ultimate achieving of it, but the incidents of travel cannot be revealed, but lie hid in the racial karma. the time has not yet come when the majority of the people of any race can see the picture as a who

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

been those who have achieved. the fact of the cosmic christ, manifest as the urge towards perfection in all the kingdoms of nature, proves the fact of god and is our eternal hope. humanity stands at the portals of initiation. 3 always there have been temples and mysteries and holy places where the true aspirant could find what he sought, and the needed instruction as to the way he should go. the prophet of old said. a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it, for he shall be with them; the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein."16 it is a way that leads from that which lies without to that which dwells within. it reveals, step by step, the hidden life which every form and symbol veils and hides. it assig

l of the human race. that the future holds reaches of consciousness and standards of achievement as much beyond those of christ as his expression is beyond ours, is entirely possible. the nature of the father remains still to be known; some of its aspects, such as the love and wisdom of god, have been revealed to us by christ. for us today, and for our immediate goal, christ stands as the eternal prophet, to whom elias and all the prophets bear witness. therefore, as he stood upon the mountain top, the past and the future of humanity met in him. that he at-oned in himself certain basic human cleavages is thus apparent, and to those above enumerated we can add one already considered, the blending in himself of two great kingdoms in nature, the human and the divine, making possible the emerg

four aspects, and as the cosmic christ he exemplified in his person the qualities for which each sign stood. even primitive man, unevolved and ignorant, was aware of the significance of the cosmic spirit, immolated in matter and crucified upon the four-armed cross. these four signs are to be found unequivocally in the bible, and are regarded in our christian belief as the four sacred animals. the prophet ezekiel refers to them in the words "as for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle."7 and again in the book of revelations, we find the same astrological symbology "and before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: a

ncouragement because they indicate requirements that are possible for us to follow "even self-deception, the last stronghold of the enemy, will lose its power in proportion as the individual conforms to certain conditions which (in the view of the biblical writers) must be fulfilled to qualify him for the reception of an authentic message from the divine whether at the level of the epoch-creating prophet or of the simple person rightly guided on the path of everyday duty "these are mainly four"(1 `i would fain be to the eternal goodness what his own right hand is to a man' absolute devotion or surrender of the self to the divine `here am i, send me' says isaiah; and when christ addressed to his earliest followers the words `follow me' we are told they left all and followed him"(2) self-kno

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

the future lines of unfoldment. the destiny and the future functioning of the nations lie hid in their present activities. the majority of my readers are far too nationalistic in their thinking, and too deeply engrossed with the prime importance of their own nation and its supreme significance, for me to be able to do more than generalise and indicate the major lines of progress. the role of the prophet is a dangerous one, for destiny lies in the hands of the people and no one knows exactly what the people will do once aroused and educated. the time has- 29- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust not yet come when the bulk of the people of any nation can see the picture whole or be permitted to know the exact part their nation must play in the history of nations. every nati

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

western brother; this has a definite bearing on all the above classifications, which is somewhat humiliating for the western mystic and occult student. the world scriptures emanate from another department of the second ray teaching faculty. in this statement i do not include the old testament except such passages as the twenty-third psalm and certain passages out of the prophets, particularly the prophet isaiah. the world scriptures were written for mystics, occupied with beauty, comfort, and encouragement, and were not written for occultists. i would call this to your attention. in this section of the teaching i am dealing with the nature and results of contact, of receptivity. i am giving no rules for individual development, and would not, if i could. humanity today is developing receive

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

oned, christian, subconscious, or again automatic writing, the tapping of thought currents (which everybody is doing all the time) or straight fraud; or on the other hand, those writings which are a result of a strong subjective telepathic rapport and a response to impression coming from certain high spiritual sources. again and again in the bible the words come "and the lord said" whereupon some prophet or seer wrote down what was said. much of it is beautiful and of spiritual import. much of it, however, bears the signature of frail humanity expressing their ideas of god, his jealousy, his spirit of revenge and a great deal of bloodthirstiness. we are told that great musicians hear their symphonies and chorales with an inner ear and then transfer it into musical notation. from whence do

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

ition and one to which all beginners are subjected and which they cannot avoid for it is inherent in their natures. occult blindness is spiritually induced and "blacks out" the glory and the promised attainment and reward. the disciple is thrown back upon himself. all he can see is his problem, his tiny field of experience, and his to him feeble and limited equipment. it is to this stage that the prophet isaiah refers when he speaks of giving to the struggling aspirant "the treasures of darkness" the beauty of the immediate, the glory of the present opportunity and the need to focus upon the task and service of the moment are the rewards of moving forward into the apparently impenetrable darkness. for the initiate, this blindness is still more esoteric; there remains for him absolutely no

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

us server of the race, pouring out the living water of purification. this is pre-eminently the cross of the soul and of real interest because it is the cross of the disciple hercules. he personified these four signs, and was crucified upon this fixed cross. these four signs are regarded in our christian belief as the sacred four and we find them presented to us in the four living creatures of the prophet ezekiel. these four had the face of a man, aquarius; the face of a lion, leo; the face of an ox, taurus; and the face of an eagle, scorpio. aquila, the eagle is astrologically interchangeable with scorpio. they are symbolized again in the four evangelists, and in the four beasts of revelations. this cross is the cross of all world saviors, and the cardinal cross is that of deity, crucified

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

a suta" lesser assembly" translated by s. l. macgregor mathers. these three books give a fair idea of the tone, style and material of the zohar but they only include a partial view: other tracts in the zohar are--hikaloth--the palaces, sithre torah--mysteries of the law, midrash ha neelam--the secret commentary, raja mehemna--the faithful shepherd, saba demishpatim--the discourse of the aged--the prophet elias, and januka- the young man; with notes called tosephta and mathanithan. in course of publication there is now a french translation of the complete zohar, by jean de pauly: this is a most scholarly work. other famous kabalistic treatises are "the commentary on the ten sephiroth" by rabbi azariel ben menachem, 1200 a.d "the alphabet" of rabbi akiba" the gate of heaven; the "book of eno

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

ct in his thinking than the chief archon. and (the latter) wanted to bring about the power which he himself had given him. and he brought a forgetfulness over adam" and i said to the savior "what is the forgetfulness" and he said "it is not the way moses wrote (and) you heard. for he said in his first book 'he put him to sleep (gn 2:21, but (it was) in his perception. for also he said through the prophet 'i will make their hearts heavy, that they may not pay attention and may not see (is 6:10 "then the epinoia of the light hid herself in him (adam. and the chief archon wanted to bring her out of his rib. but the epinoia of the light cannot be grasped. although darkness pursued her, it did not catch her. and he brought a part of his power out of him. and he made another creature, in the for

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

by anthropology as but "the earliest distinctly visible point of the pre-historic period (encyclopaedia britannica) at the same time it is confessed that "beyond that period stretches back a vast indefinite series of prehistoric ages (ibid) it is with those specified "ages" that we shall begin. they are "prehistoric" to the naked eye of matter only. to the spiritual eagle eye of the seer and the prophet of every race, ariadne's thread stretches beyond that "historic period" without break or flaw, surely and steadily, into the very night of time; and the hand which holds it is too mighty to drop it, or even let it break. records exist, although they may be rejected as fanciful by the profane; though many of them are tacitly accepted by philosophers and men of great learning, and meet with

strange term to use, as though the unveiling of the eternal and actual mysteries of nature could be invented! as well attribute, millenniums hence, the invention instead of the discovery of radiant matter to prof. crookes. hermes was not the inventor, or even the discoverer, for, as said in the foot-note, thot-hermes is a generic name, as is enoch (enoichion, the "inner, spiritual eye, nebo, the prophet and seer, etc. it is not the proper name of any one living man, but a generic title of many adepts. their connection in symbolic allegories with the serpent is due to their enlightenment by the solar and planetary gods during the earliest intellectual race, the third. they are all the representative patrons of the secret wisdom. asclepios is the son of the sun-god apollo- and he is mercury

through the eyes and ears of their respective authorities. hence the teaching of the roman catholic scholiasts, namely, that hermon, the mount in the land of mizpeth- meaning "anathema "destruction- is the same as mount armon. as a proof of this, josephus is often quoted, as affirming that still in his own day enormous bones of giants were daily discovered on it. but it was the land of balaam the prophet, whom the "lord loved well; and so mixed up are facts and personages in the said scholiasts' brains, that, when the zohar explains the "birds" which inspired balaam to mean "serpents" to wit, the wise men and adepts at whose school he had learnt the mysteries of prophecy- the opportunity is again taken of showing mount hermon inhabited by the "winged dragons of evil, whose chief is samael

"red-earth. these periods have aroused, as might have been expected, the defenders of the chronology of the biblical dead-letter meaning almost to fury. de rougemont was the first to make a levee-in-arms against the translator. he reproaches him* with "sacrificing moses to an anonymous author" berosus, he urges "however great were his chronological errors, was at least in perfect accord with the prophet with regard to the first men, since he speaks of alorus-adam, of xisuthrus-noah, and of belus-nimrod" etc "therefore" he adds "the work must be an apocrypha to be ranged with its contemporaries- the fourth book of esdras, that of enoch, the sibylline oracles, and the book of hermes- every one of these dating no further back than two or three centuries b.c" ewald came down still harder on c

t aside, why should it be less entitled to a hearing, or less instructive as reflecting older opinions, than any other religious work, also a "compilation from old texts" or oral tradition- of the same or even a later age? in such case we should have to reject and call "apocryphal" the kuran- two centuries older, though we know it to have sprung, minerva-like, direct from the brain of the arabian prophet; and we should have to pooh-pooh all the information we can get from the talmud, which, in its present form, was also compiled from older materials, and is not earlier than the ix. century of our era. the curious "bible" of the chaldean adept, and the various criticisms upon it (as in the chwolsohn's translation, are noticed, because it has an important bearing upon a great portion of the

rents is the only alteration. as budha was the son of soma (the moon) in india, and of the wife of brihaspati (jupiter, so nebo was the son of zarpa-nitu (the moon deity) and of merodach, who had become jupiter, after having been a sun god. as mercury the planet, nebo was the "overseer" among the seven gods of the planets; and as the personification of the secret wisdom he was nabin, a seer and a prophet. the fact that moses is made to die and disappear on the mount sacred to nebo, shows him an initiate and a priest of that god under another name; for this god of wisdom was the great creative deity, and was worshipped as such, not alone at borsippa in his gorgeous temple, or planet-tower. he was likewise adored by the moabites, the canaanites, the assyrians, and throughout the whole of pal

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

tive religion was something better than simple pre-occupation about physical phenomena, as remarked by schilling; and principles, more elevated than we modern sadducees know of "were hidden under the transparent veil of such merely natural divinities as thunder[[footnote(s* the gehenna of the bible was a valley near jerusalem, where the monotheistic jews immolated their children to moloch, if the prophet jeremiah is to be believed on his word. the scandinavian hel or hela was a frigid region- again kamaloka- and the egyptian amenti a place of purification (see isis unveiled, vol. ii, p. 11[[vol. 1, page] 464 the secret doctrine. the winds, and rain" the ancients knew and could distinguish the corporeal from the spiritual elements, in the forces of nature. the four-fold jupiter, as the four

menon; and grove, who, though he sees "no reason to divest universally diffused matter of the functions common to all matter" yet uses the term forces where his critics "who do not attach to the word any idea of a specific action" say force- from those days to this nothing has proved competent to stem the tide of brutal materialism. gravitation is the sole cause, the acting god, and matter is its prophet, said the men of science only a few years ago. they have changed their views several times since then. but do the men of science understand the innermost thought of newton, one of the most spiritual-minded and religious men of his day, any better now than they did then? it is certainly to be doubted. newton is credited with having given the death-blow to the elemental vortices of descartes

forefathers have made the word dag signify both "fish" and "messiah" who, during the forced development of their rabbinical language, are the first to deny this christian claim. and what of the further facts that brahmins also connect their "messiah" the eternal avatar vishnu, with a fish and the deluge, and that the babylonians made of their dag-on, equally a fish and a messiah, the man-fish and prophet? there are those learned iconoclasts among egyptologists, who say that "when the pharisees sought a 'sign from heaven' jesus said 'there shall no sign be given but the sign of jonas (mat. xvi. 4. the sign of jonas is that of the oan or fishman of nineveh. assuredly there was no other sign than that of the sun reborn in pisces. the[[vol. 1, page] 654 the secret doctrine. voice of the secret

BLUE EQUINOX

n and again, in words like these, he sees the expansion and the development of the soul through joy. here is the calendar of our church .but ye, o my people, rise up& awake! let the rituals be rightly performed with joy and beauty. remember that all acts of love and pleasure are rituals, must be rituals .there are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. a feast for the first night of the prophet and his bride! a feast for the three days of the writing of the book of the law. a feast for tahuti and the child of the prophet.secret, o prophet! a feast for the supreme ritual, and feast for the equinox of the gods. a feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! a feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! a feast every night unto n

the bird desired exceedingly this bliss, and laying down its wings became a faun of the forest. 42. the harper also laid down his pan-pipe, and with the human voice sang his infinite tunes. 43. then the faun was enraptured, and followed far; at last the harper was silent, and the faun became pan in the midst of the primal forest of eternity. 44. thou canst not charm the dolphin with silence, o my prophet! 45. then the adept was rapt away in bliss, and the beyond of bliss, and exceeded the excess of excess. 46. also his body shook and staggered with the burden of that bliss and that excess and that ultimate nameless. liber lxv 75 47. they cried he is drunk or he is mad or he is in pain or he is about to die; and he heard them not. 48. o my lord, my beloved! how shall i indite songs, when ev

ight nor bliss may penetrate. 54. crush out the blood of me, as a grape upon the tongue of a white doric girl that languishes with her lover the moonlight. 55. then let the end awake. long hast thou slept, o great god terminus! long ages hast thou waited at the end of the city and the roads thereof. awake thou! wait no more! 56. nay, lord! but i am come to thee. it is i that wait at last. 57. the prophet cried against the mountain; come thou hither, that i may speak with thee! the equinox 76 58. the mountain stirred not. therefore went the prophet unto the mountain, and spake unto it. but the feet of the prophet were weary, and the mountain heard not his voice. 59. but i have called unto thee, and i have journeyed unto thee, and it availed me not. 60. i waited patiently, and thou wast with

he echo of your kisses. 2. is not the starry heaven shaken as a leaf at the tremulous rapture of your love? am not i the flying spark of ight whirled away by the great wind of your perfection? 3. yea, cried the holy one, and from thy spark will i the lord kindle a great light; i will burn through the grey city in the old and desolate land; i will cleanse it from its great impurity. 4. and thou, o prophet, shalt see these things, and thou shalt heed them not. 5. now is the pillar established in the void; now is asi fulfilled of asar; now is hoor let down into the animal soul of things like a fiery star that falleth upon the darkness of the earth. 6. through the midnight thou art dropt, o my child, my conquerer, my sword-girt captain, o hoor! and they shall find thee as a black gnarl.d glitt

heed them not. 5. now is the pillar established in the void; now is asi fulfilled of asar; now is hoor let down into the animal soul of things like a fiery star that falleth upon the darkness of the earth. 6. through the midnight thou art dropt, o my child, my conquerer, my sword-girt captain, o hoor! and they shall find thee as a black gnarl.d glittering stone, and they shall worship thee. 7. my prophet shall prophesy concerning thee; around thee the maidens shall dance, and bright babes be born unto them. thou shalt inspire the proud ones with infinite pride, and the humble ones with an ecstasy of abasement; all this shall transcend the known and the unknown with somewhat that hath no name. for it is as the abyss of the arcanum that is opened in the secret place of silence. liber lxv 91

ng thee; around thee the maidens shall dance, and bright babes be born unto them. thou shalt inspire the proud ones with infinite pride, and the humble ones with an ecstasy of abasement; all this shall transcend the known and the unknown with somewhat that hath no name. for it is as the abyss of the arcanum that is opened in the secret place of silence. liber lxv 91 8. thou hast come hither, o my prophet, through grave paths. thou hast eaten of the dung of the abominable ones; thou hast prostrated thyself before the goat and the crocodile; the evil men have made thee a plaything; thou hast wandered as a painted harlot, ravishing with sweet scent and chinese colouring, in the streets; thou hast darkened thine eyepits with kohl; thou hast tinted thy lips with vermilion; thou hast plastered t

BOOK OF JASHAR

har danced. and god married cain and jashar that night, under the stars "in this way" human said "we shall always rejoice when two branches of my family are rejoined" then they feasted late into the night, while human foretold joys and sorrows, and cain described his visions. everything that human said was true, but cain spoke only of the world of the children of abel. so human was the first true prophet, and cain the first false prophet, but they dwelt together as kinsmen for all the rest of their days. 3. at that time, giant beasts lived in every part of the world, and they consumed trees and made a devastation throughout the wilderness. but seth taught his sons to hunt as he had learned from abel, because god told them that children must learn from their elders' wisdom. then the daughte

er his family is divided, and we understand that the exile of cain is only the first such division of humanity. but marriage can reunite two separated strands of human's posterity. so human rejoices and blesses the institution of marriage, which continually reunites fragments of his family in new combinations. human and cain both prophesy at the wedding feast, but only human is accepted as a true prophet. although cain's contemporary family rejects cain's prophecy, they accept him as a member of the clan, and the true and false prophets are never separated again. so the story is here setting an example for religious tolerance, to suggest that people with different beliefs should appreciate each other and remember their human kinship. we may also guess that, by our standards, cain's false p

roles in god's plan. without noah's prophecy and tubalcain's faith in it, the family would not have gone up to invent farming on the mountain. without the unbelieving daughters-in-law, however, the family would have stayed up on the mountain indefinitely, and the agricultural revolution would not have been spread across the earth. thus, the family achieves its destiny because it includes both the prophet and the unbelievers. noah's vision of the rainbow, which is the climax of the story, has a double message. one message, as we have seen, is that the agricultural revolution and its ecological consequences are a part of god's plan. the other, more fundamental message, is that god's plan is to be realized without arbitrary miraculous deviation from the natural laws of physics. by the sign of

ect from a platonic philosopher-king at the start of his career. when he tells stories to mold his army, he incidently gives us the name "jinn" for the patterns that existed in the first age after creation, and we may guess that our own knowledge of these jinn (as summarized in the first paragraph) might be attributed to nimrod's revelations. as he creates the first kingdom, nimrod also acts as a prophet, revealing that god wants people to organize themselves into a large nations, so that they will be able to do greater deeds. there is a direct contrast between nimrod, who can settle all disputes among the noahites with his two hands, and human, who had a withered arm and could not control the dispute between his sons. both men faced the perennial problem of disputes that threaten to fract

two hands, and human, who had a withered arm and could not control the dispute between his sons. both men faced the perennial problem of disputes that threaten to fracture the community. but whereas the story of human and cain is a tragedy resulting from weak leadership, the story of nimrod and isaac is a tragedy resulting from leadership that grows too strong. even nimrod, a philosopher-king and prophet, could not achieve the suppression of disputes and the union of the noahites without force and killing. when his ability to exercise force weakens in his old age, he finds that he is trapped in his position, because the families of his victims are waiting for revenge. he understands that they will devour him if he ever lets go of the reins of power, but his great hands are weakening. with

BOOK T

ror sun of the morning, chief among the mighty heh aries 62 the hierophant the magus of the eternal vau taurus 63 the lovers the children of the voice; the oracles of the mighty gods zain gemini 64 the chariot the child of the powers of the waters; the lord of the triumph of light chet cancer 65 fortitude the daughter of the flaming sword tet leo 66 the hermit the magus of the voice of power, the prophet of the eternal yod virgo 67 the wheel the lord of the of fate forces of life koph jupiter 68 justice the daughter of the lords of truth: the ruler of the balance lamed libra 69 the hanged man the spirit of the mighty waters mem water 70 death the child of the great transformers: the lord of the gates of death nun scorpio 71 temperance the daughter of the reconcilers: the bringer-forth of l

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

y these two-and-twenty letters is the circle of creation described. 4 i am the fluid darkness, which is the ink wherewith i inscribe myself upon the scroll of manifestation. verily this writing of the book of being telleth no new thing. they understand aright who say with solomon that beneath the sun is nothing new. of whatsoever is, thou mayest say with truth" i t was" hence is the vision of the prophet which seemeth to pierce the veil between what is and what is yet to come, in truth a recollection of that which seemeth to belong to the past. my hand holdeth the whole circle of being and for me time is not [100] yod 5 i am the link between chesed and tiphareth, combining the waters of substance with the air of life. i measure and bound the ruach which hath its place in the path of mediat

he "paternal" letter, and is assigned to chokmah, which is named ab, the father. this idea is elaborated in the meditation, paragraphs 1 to 3. 4 "fluid darkness" or "ink" is dehyo, d i v, in hebrew. the letters of this word are the same as those of i v d, yod, and the number, 20, is of course the same. the phrase "it was" is hayah, h i h, in hebrew, having also the numeral value 20 "vision of the prophet" is khawzaw, ch zh" to have a vision of, and the active participle of this verb is used as the noun khozeh, ch zh "prophet, seer, as in 2 samuel, 24: 11, and 2 chronicles, 9: 29. 5 this paragraph refers to the 20th path of wisdom, joining chesed and tiphareth. it is named "intelligence of will [102] i c o m m e n t on yod 6 the "ten ineffable" are the unmanifested sephiroth, or the potenti

derlying relation between the water which is "the mute, dark mirror, and the mental process whereby the wise attain to conscious union with the life-power [126] the meditation on nun* 1 i am the fish which swimmeth in the sea of the great waters bearing all things in my belly, even as it is written "he had his dwelling in the great sea, and was a fish therein" 2 this is the great fish wherein the prophet abode three days and three nights. and because of jonah's suffering is the great fish an emblem of all pains and sorrows. for as the prophet's anguish brought him to follow my way, so are all pains and sorrows the portals through which man passeth to the heart of the great mother. verily, the mother is the sea wherein swimmeth the fish, and the fish and the sea are one [129] t h e b o o k

rpetual change is mine own changeless life, which bindeth together the unending series of little lives and deaths [131] comment on nun* n u n, pronounced noon. transcribed as" n. the number 5o. meaning: fish. the imaginative intelligence. 1 the quotation "he had his dwelling in the great sea, and was a fish therein, is from the zohar, or book of splendor. the great sea, of course, is binah. 2 the prophet is jonah, i v n h, signifying "a dove. note well that the dove is the bird of venus, and that the "great fish" mentioned in jonah 1: 17 is dag gedul, d g g d v l, for which the numeral value is 50, the same as that of the letter nun. furthermore, the zodiacal sign scorpio, relating to reproduction, and ruled by mars, is attributed to nun. when the "great fish" swallows the "dove" the force

ess result [175] t h e book of t o k e n s 2 in assiah i am the sun whose rays are the spring of life and action. the sun in this material world is the father of all bodies therein, and the cause of every movement. yet though i am thy sun, i am also every sun. lose not the spirit in the symbol, o seeker for light. 3 beneath the wings of the great sun thou dwellest, and this is the sun whereof the prophet spake "but unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings" yea, in that day shalt thou sing unto the lord a new song, a song of rejoicing in his beautiful countenance, the pace of thine own true self [176] comment on resh* r e s h, pronounced raysh. transcribed as" r. the number 200. meaning: face. the collective intelligence. 1 the first paragrap

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

and to cure sickness with the aid of "charms, roots, herbs and magical incantations and formulae" for "those who believe[ed] in him"[7] the activities of such enslaved conjure men and women have been well documented. in nineteenth-century north carolina, a journalist described a plantation bondwoman whom other slaves believed to be "in communication with occult powers" as an accomplished seer and prophet "her utterances were accepted as oracles, and piously heeded" for it was thought that "she could see through the mists that hide the future from others" slave conjurers offered consolation to other bondpersons who were at risk. according to his famous autobiography, young frederick douglass was once assisted by a conjure man named sandy jenkins, who gave him an enchanted root prior to a co

9] what was distinctive about the turner and vesey uprisings, however, was the rebels f perception of african-based supernaturalism as an additional weapon in their arsenal of resistance. in these conspiracies, conjure harming beliefs and practices would play indispensable roles.[10] a confluence of christianity and african-based spiritual traditions linked turner and vesey. turner, a self-styled prophet, was believed to have interspersed the famous confessions with divine pronouncements, otherworldly revelations, and graphic apocalyptic visions. although he was said to have eschewed the practices of "conjuring and such like tricks" he shared dramatic traits with other african american supernatural practitioners and conjurers who were his contemporaries. in fact, the fusion of christianity

e was destined for "some great purpose" that was yet to be revealed. distinguished in his youth by an ability to receive revelations from the spirit world, turner enjoyed something of a seer's reputation among the local population. his gift at interpreting esoteric signs confirmed his status as a holy man. according to one commentator "nat was no preacher, but c he had acquired the character of a prophet c he traced his divination in characters of blood, on leaves, alone in the woods; he would arrange them in some conspicuous place, have a dream telling him of the circumstance c and he would interpret their meaning c by means of this nature, he acquired an immense influence, over such persons as he took into his confidence"[13] turner adopted ascetic behaviors that gave outward witness to

indian revival movements such as convince, kumina, and pocomania, a synthesis of ancestral rituals and protestant worship styles can be seen. within the indigenous african churches themselves, evangelical christianity began to take root in the western, southern, and central regions of the continent during the nineteenth century. there, the rise of new independent african churches and revitalizing prophet movements was the product of the melding of traditional religion and the spiritual imperatives of biblical christianity. all of these bold, africanized forms of protestantism shared characteristics with african-based religions elsewhere and put great emphasis on ecstatic behaviors, spirit revelations, supernatural healing, and antisorcery ritualism.[21] the persistence of elements such as

rnatural specialists took their places within black american urban communities in the first few decades of the twentieth century. the rise of these individuals marked a shift in the roles of the former slave conjurer and hoodoo doctor. for many of these individuals, supernatural work was a ministry, and their\ 140\ titles, recast to reflect a sacred vocation, were transformed into "reverend" and "prophet" the practices of these new neighborhood conjurers were often syncretic, merging esoteric rituals and occult spiritualities with older supernatural traditions. a 1936 report lists concise descriptions of such practitioners in one major city. these professionals are given titles such as "god sent healer "clairvoyant" and "witchdoctor" demonstrating the variety and eclecticism of the new con

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t the old testament evidenced in hebrew the incarnation of the word and trinity in the unity of divine essence more than the latin or greek. c.1150 geoffrey of monmouth's "life of merlin" 1150 fl. ya aqob nazir (the nazirian) underwent in jerusalem initiation into mystical and angelogical traditions one of the handfull of jews from provence who were alledged daily access to the revelations of the prophet elia and who had initiated maimonides to the kabbalah< for the link between asideism and sufism via basra, cf. s.d. goitein, ebrei e arabi, pp. 175-8> 1154-1191 shihab al-din yahya ibn habash ibn amirak al-suhrawardi. persian sufi whose theosophy of light= ishraqi thought- believed wisdom passed directly from the divine to hermes and from him to egypt and persia eventually extending to gre

of abraham abulafia. knew arabic and had access to sufi influenced kabbalistic material; possibly learned abulafia's teachings in italy while on the way to spain. isaac of acre is believed to be the main conduit for sufi-kabbalist techniques between east and west for a restricted circle in barcelona in the 13th c. c. 1310-1366 john of roquetaillade (de rupescissa)joachite franciscan alchemist and prophet predicted that the birth of the antichrist would occur in 1365. imprisoned multiple times throughout his life, the friar used his jail sentences to write a great volume of works, including his most apocalyptic title "visiones seu revelationes. 1310s and 1320s: the dominican meister eckhart (c. 1260-1327) teaches in latin at paris and preaches vernacular sermons in strassburg and cologne. 1

like unto a rod (cf. revelation xi. divided into 2 parts and 4 sections, consisting of a dialogue between "nathaniel" and "cleophas, having a crudely shaped rose design with a cross in the centre, containing 1790 pages with the dedication to the duke of wurttemberg adding yet another 205 pages. its author was particularly interested in the dates in the life of henry of navarre, believing that the prophet of islam was the spiritual son of the pope, predicting that the last pope would be crucified by the duke of wurttemberg in 1612 and that the second coming would occur in the year 1620. frederick i, duke of wurttemberg invested with the order of the garter, conferred on him in stuttgart by a special embassy from james i. 1606 trithemius' steganographia first published 1608 michael sendivogi

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hts and privacy and the launch of the thoroughly bogus 'war on terrorism (solution. see alice in wonderland and the world trade center disaster for the detailed background. you will see as you read this book that in the mid-1990s the force behind 21st century events was exposed in great detail, as was the agenda it was following. therefore, predicting then what is happening now did not require a 'prophet- merely the dedicated study and exposure of the network that controls the xiii i xiv. a n d the truth shall set you free governments, banking system, global corporations, military decision making and ownership of the media. today, thanks to the work of dedicated researchers, vastly more people are becoming aware of the global conspiracy than were in those lonely days when and the truth was

you look at the origins of the major religions, the stories are remarkably similar to those we hear today from people claiming to have met, or been abducted by, extraterrestrials. mohammed, the founder of islam in the seventh century, said that he had been visited by the angel gabriel, who was "in the likeness of a man, standing in the sky above the horizon".2 this figure told him he had to be a prophet, and he was given messages which formed the islamic holy book, the koran. these messages would be dictated while mohammed was in a trance on many other occasions in the years that followed. he also wrote of going on a 'celestial journey. 6. and the truth shall set you free many people in the modern world who claim to have experienced extraterrestrial contact have said the same as mohammed

in the body or out of the body i do not know, but god knows- was caught up in paradise. he heard inexpressible things, things that man is not permitted to tell" 2 corinthians 12: 2-4 again, this is paralleled by many of today's accounts of extraterrestrial abductees who have told of being taken into other dimensions of reality by ets, sometimes in their body, sometimes out of it. st paul and the prophet called enoch speak of seeing many heavens when they were 'taken up; this corresponds with the stories in the vedas, the ancient holy books of india which were written in the original sanskrit language. these describe seven higher planes and seven lower planes around this planet. some people still talk of being in 'seventh heaven' when something wonderful happens to them. one of these 'plan

scrolls say that the father of noah was a 'watcher, and nebuchadnezzar, the king of babylon from 651-604bc, records being visited by a watcher and a holy one who came down from heaven.4 the dakas in mahayana buddhism were 'sky travelling beings' and padma sambhava, the founder of tibetan buddhism, was said to have left tibet in a celestial chariot.5 something similar was claimed for the biblical prophet elijah when he left israel6 and for the central american god, quetzalcoatl.7 descriptions of flying discs, flying boats, and celestial chariots, abound on all continents and in all cultures. still today we relate 'heaven' to the sky, because that is where the 'gods' of ancient time came from in their spacecraft. the aborigines of australia speak of three ancestral beings, called the djangg

evels above that, and the 33rd degree itself is unofficially divided into two streams, one knowing far more than the other. at each stage, the initiate is told a little more about the true nature of freemasonry and the real game plan. those who have reached the 33rd degree are on a different planet in terms of what they know, compared with the masons on the bottom three levels. joseph smith, the 'prophet' who founded the appalling mormon 'church, was a 33rd degree freemason. the men who go down to the local freemasons' lodge in your town or city will not have a clue what their organisation is being used for. they have to be kept in the dark if pyramid power 183 the plan is to work and what better way of doing this than to use these distinct levels of initiation. only those considered to be

ghly negative consciousness. the prison warder consciousness again. in his autobiography, he said he did not recognise much of his writing as his own. the themes of his work are very familiar: all civilisation comes from the aryan race and the germans were the purest of all; jews were the enemy who would pollute the aryan bloodlines. yawn. kaiser wilhelm ii and adolf hitler said chamberlain was a prophet. chamberlain became the principal advisor to kaiser wilhelm and urged the king to go to war in 1914 to fulfil the prophecy of germany's world domination. when the war was over and wilhelm had abdicated to an estate in holland, he realised how he had been manipulated. he gathered together a mass of books on the occult and the german secret societies and he was convinced that they had conspi

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ons, ecclesiastes, esther, daniel, ezra-nehemiah, and the two books of chronicles; plus the 14 books of the apocrypha. there was nothing about "jesus. they met and worshipped with the hebrews in the synagogues and had no "testament" of their own. jones stresses that when we see terms in the new testament like..the scripture saith..it is written..what saith the law..thus saith the lord..or..as the prophet said" they are referring to old testament writings. the first "christians" based their faith on the texts of the god save us from religion levites, just as they still do today. as vendyl jones says, the writers of what he calls the "newer testament" viewed the older testament of the hebrew scriptures as the supreme authority "much later their writings became the newer testament. their auth

k, which is supposed to have been inspired by god, mentions jesus in 93 verses and treats him as a living person when clearly he was not. allah, the islamic god, is the same god, the muslims say, as the judeo-christian jehovah. they give credence to the pentateuch, the first five books of "moses" in the old testament, but in truth the books of the levites. muslims say that mohammed was the latest prophet (apart from all the others since) and therefore, the most valid. as such, all christians and hebrews should convert to islam, the orthodox muslims demand. the term jihad is the "holy war" that muslims are urged to wage against all of those who will not accept the law of mohammed. the very word, islam, means "to submit or surrender" and muslim means "one who submits. god save us from religi

ity, a position called the antichrist by christianity. while others were seeded into government, academia, business, or entertainment, my place was within the body of christ. i was to be a focus for spiritual power and controller of a cult within this church. in this church have lived people who i have known all my life to be the controllers and power centers of both the rothschild family's false prophet and the antichrist "many dissociated christians in the body of christ hold similar corporate spiritual, occult positions as part of the satanic new world order. in my being i embodied the luciferian morning star within the church. i represented the presence of all the other satanists who were related to me in the morning star; their spirits were present in me in the church. constructed thr

is covered in llluminati symbols like the all-seeing eye, stands over a large underground reptilian base that can be accessed from the temple site. this woman, i will call her jane, said that she saw her babies sacrificed in mormon rituals. in her pursuit of the truth, she spoke with another victim of ritual abuse by the mormon and roman catholic church. this other lady told her that the mormon "prophet" had taken her baby from her at a ritual and eaten it. two other women raised as catholics told her that they had seen the abusers shape-shift into reptilians and eat a human sacrifice. jane said that joseph smith, the founder of the mormons, was from "the occult bloodlines (very true) and the whole official story was a lie "the 246 children of the matrix leaders are mostly reptilian" she

olitics, finance, and the media. among them were bill clinton and ai gore. he says of the bloodlines "all people in the occult except for a very, very small group are fully human beings, with both x and y chromosomes from human mothers and father. the facial changes you see come from their multiple personality disorder and the demonic spirits manifesting through them. the antichrist and the false prophet are not humans; they are true nephilim with x chromosomes from human mothers but their y chromosomes are from the 'angels..these non-human humanoids are borne as a consequence of human idolatry with satanic "angels, with a little help from the llluminist medical researchers."11 serpent worship phillip also says that all the top names he mentions, including the rothschilds, etc, etc, worshi

ity, a position called the antichrist by christianity. while others were seeded into government, academia, business, or entertainment, my place was within the body of christ. i was to be a focus for spiritual power and controller of a cult within this church. in this church have lived people who i have known all my life to be the controllers and power centers of both the rothschild family's false prophet and the antichrist "many dissociated christians in the body of christ hold similar corporate spiritual, occult positions as part of the satanic new world order. in my being i embodied the "spiritual" satanism and "christian" conmen 315 luciferian morning star within the church. i represented the presence of all the other satanists who were related to me in the morning star; their spirits w

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female energy.the early founders of the church, like quintus tertullian, banned women from priestlyoffice and even speaking in church. it was only at the council of trent in 1545 that theroman church officially agreed that women had souls and then only by a majority ofthree votes! the seeds of this anti-feminine dogma in the christian church can be seenin its mirror, zoroasterism, the sect of the prophet (mythical sun god, zoroaster. heand his religion emerged yet again from persia, now turkey, the home of the taurusmountains and st pauls abode, tarsus. zoroaster was vehemently anti-women and hesaid that no women could enter heaven except those submissive to control, who hadconsidered their husbands lords. this whole philosophy is an almost word-for-wordrepeat of brahmanism, the appalling

wear? askull cap. this is symbolic of the way priests in the mystery schools used to shave thebacks of their heads. the more formal headgear and ritual of judaism and christianityare also very similar because they originate from the same source and the popes mitreis the fish head symbol of nimrod.to complete the trio, along came the skull-cap-wearing muslims and the creed ofislam, inspired by the prophet mahomet (mohammed) when he had a vision in theyear 612. once more we find that islams roots are in christianity and judaism andtherefore babylon. muslims see islam as an updated continuation of thejudeo-christian stream and they, too, trace their ancestry back to our old mate,abraham, who is said to have emerged from the sumerian city of ur and headed foregypt. they believe that abraham bu

moses, king david and jesus were divine prophets sent by the one all mighty god,when in fact all three are brotherhood inventions. their holy book, the koran, whichwas supposed to be inspired by god, mentions jesus in 93 verses and treats him as aliving person. islam was created by the same brotherhood networks as the christianreligions, to further imprison, divide and rule. mohammed was the last prophet andtherefore, the muslims reckon, the most valid. as such, all christians and jews shouldconvert to islam, the orthodox muslims demand. the term, jihad, is the holy war thatmuslims are urged to wage against all who do not accept the creed of mohammed. howfitting that islam means to submit or surrender and muslim means one who submits.some of the bloodiest conflict in history has resulted f

the reptilians oranother low vibrational consciousness via automatic writing. in his autobiography, hesaid he did not recognise such writing as his own. the themes of his work are veryfamiliar: all civilisation comes from the aryan race and the germans were the purist ofall; jews were the enemy who would pollute the aryan bloodlines (yawn. kaiserwilhelm ii and adolf hitler said chamberlain was a prophet. he became the principleadvisor to kaiser wilhelm and urged the king to go to war in 1914 to fulfil the prophecyof germanys world domination. when the war was over and wilhelm had abdicated,he realised how he had been manipulated. wilhelm gathered together a mass of bookson the occult and the german secret societies and he was convinced that they hadconspired to create the first world war

ned researcher would understand.records from the 8th and 7th centuries bc, show that the israelites burned their sons onsacrificial fires in the valley of gehinnon outside jerusalem.11 the infants were said tohave been passed over or passed through the fire in sacrifice to moloch-baal. in thebook of leviticus we find the line: thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through thefire to moloch. the prophet jeremiah talks of the people: burning their sons in the fireas burnt offerings unto baal and also in the book of jeremiah we are told that: theyhave built the high places of tophet, which is in the v alley of hinnon, to burn their sonsand daughters in the fire. john milton also wrote of moloch in his paradise lost:294first moloch, horrid king, besmirched with blood,of human sacrifice, and

in egypt by the royal court of the dragon. theanointing at the coronation is supposed to elevate the monarch to the rank of highpriest, in this case, appropriately, high priestess of the church of england as well ashead of state. while this was happening, the archbishop of canterbury said:as kings, priests, and prophets were anointed: and as solomon was anointed by zadokthe priest and nathan the prophet, so be thou anointed, blessed and consecrated queenover the peoples, whom the lord thy god hath given thee to rule andgovern..this is pure brotherhood symbolism. the lord thy god means the gods of theancient world, the reptilian gods. the crown used in the ceremony goes back to thetime of edward the confessor. he was the king of england who built the originalwestminster abbey in 1065 and l

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cle of restriction. the fact that the aeon of osirus was not a single aeon with one law is evidenced by the fact that there were many religions established during the cycle and many sects within each religion. there were also many different concepts as to who god was and what was expected of man from god. it may be said that the law of the aeon of muhammed was there is one god and muhammed is his prophet. it may also be said that the law of the aeon of christ (or aeon of st. paul) was only through the son can you approach the father. the significance of this is that all aeons established within the cycle of restriction had a common theme: rejection of the natural world, denial of the ego, repression of human needs, mortification of the flesh, and obedience to church and state. crowley iden

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e encouraged to presence the dark forces by being sinister and therein become nexus s or gateways to the forces of darkness. by presencing the forces of darknes, and engaging in acts which would change the world towards the sinister, initiates of the ona sought to further the sinister dialectic of history. the devil s ambassadors the first embassy to the dark lord was the creation of yaj nomolos, prophet of the second coming. nomolos, an ordained priest of the church of satan, established the embassy located in whitehall, pa, known as the embassy of s.a.t.a.n (s.a.t.a.n. stands for survival and the androgyne nation) the social realist philosophy espoused by nomolos was one of predator and prey emphasizing survival of the fittest. satan, remarked nomolos, was an androgynous being. in the fu

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the united states, instead of wolf blood various herbs and apple 11 against heresies by eznik 12 isis and osiris 12 cider is used in replacement, following along the same form of sacrifice by an offering into an area where the suns rays never touch. and i saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. for they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of god almighty. revelation 16:13-14 ahriman appeared in the zoroastrian legends in numerous forms. his astral body was considered that of a frog, toad, or crab, often a lizard or serpent as well. the legend of zohak the ki

iman s children, he is for a lack of a better term considered a prototype for an antichrist in that he expands the opposite gnosis against zoroaster. the jewish scriptures were first composed by him (i.e. zohak, and deposited in the fortress of jerusalem. and through zohak men adhered unto the jewish high-priest abraham, and through abraham they adhered unto moses, whom the jews accepted as their prophet and messengers of faith, and unto whom they ascribe the salvation of sins committed, and regarded his acquirements as being necessary for the final propagation of their faith. thus zohak cherished demoniac deceptions to harm his people. the denkard here we read that zohak, during his long life span, was considered the one who propagated early jewish scriptures as a means of satanic influen

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ortion of the spirit's knowledge, skill, ability, or powers. i.o.b: a ritual developed by donald michael kraig, as a powerful method of getting rid of negative things in your life, based on hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) techniques mixed with methods of exorcism. the letters stand for 1) identify; 2) objectify; and 3) banish- j- jesus: 1) born in circa 6 a.d. to humble parents, this prophet and teacher was said to be the son of god incarnate sent on earth to re-unite the created order with divinity. the founder and messiah of the christian religious faith. 2) a title known as the pentagrammaton (q.v. juno: one of four thousand known asteroids, but treated as a very minor planet. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the greek goddess who served as the patron deity of marr

dy and consciousness from your physical body. projection, mental: the practice of and ability to send your mind or mental awareness and consciousness to a location distant from your physical body. not true astral projection (q.v. prophecy: a declaration of something which is going to happen in the future or otherwise ordinarily unknown. the word is often reserved to instances in which the seer or prophet obtains knowledge revealed by direct contact with divinity or god, by god seeking out the seer or prophet. psi (psionic: short for psionic or psi-phenomena, or psychic phenomena, it embraces all forms of paranormal manifestation believed to be caused by the action of the mind via the brain. psyche: greek for "soul" the non-material part of a psycho-physical being. psychic: 1) from the gree

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t out upon the road, may there never be done unto me that which my soul abhorreth, let not my soul be imprisoned, but may i be among the venerable and favoured ones, may i plough my lands in the field of aaru, may i arrive at the field of peace, may one come out to me with vessels of ale and cakes and bread of the lords of eternity, may i receive meat from the altars of the great, i the ka of the prophet amsu"[1] the ba or soul. to that part of man which beyond all doubt was believed to enjoy an eternal existence in heaven in a state of glory, the egyptians gave the name ba, a word which means something like "sublime "noble" the doctrine of eternal life. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod05.htm (7 of 21 [8/10/2001 11:23:20 am] and which has always hitherto been translated by "soul" t

ur servir la reconstruction du calendrier; leipzig, 1864, plate iv. 4. i.e, the festival on the 7th day of the month. see brugsch, op. cit, plate iv. 5. var# tatau. 6. the reading of the text is not usual. british museum papyrus no. 9901 has, after tattu# and according to this text we should read "i am a priest in tattu, exalting him that is upon the steps (pierret "degr s de l'initiation; i am a prophet in abtu on the day of casting up the earth" 7. according to dev ria (aeg. zeitschrift, 1870, p. 61 "casting up the earth" means the day of digging the grave. 8 var "the ram, lord of tattu" i.e, osiris. plates v. and vi. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod17.htm (9 of 12 [8/10/2001 11:26:43 am] 9 or setem, a priest of ptah at memphis. 10# ur xerp ab (or hem, the name of the chief pries

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lion! michael, gabriel, raphael, anael. the water floweth by the spirit of eloim. the earth remaineth by adam jot-havah. the firmament was made by iahuvehu-zebaoth. judgment is made by fire in the strength of michael. 9. dogme et rituel de la haute magie. two volumes. paris: g. balliere, 1856. 10. thine art, malchut (the kingdom, and gebura (the power, and hesed (the mercy, forever. 11. a hebrew prophet says "he that consulteth spirits will not so t- the first motion you make to do that, i'll shoot you dead- low twelve "by their deeds ye shall know them" a series of striking and truthful incidents illustrative of the fidelity of free masons to one. another in times of distress and danger by edward s. ellis, a.m. p, m. trenton (n. j) lodge, no. 5 f& a. m. new york f. r. niglutsch 1907 copy

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pon the enemies of the union. then he would tell us of our duties to one another as well as to our country. i have seen the tears course down his cadaverous cheeks while thus pleading with us to lead pure and godly lives. then all at once he would break out with his strong and not over musical voice into one of the sweet, grand old methodist hymns, followed by a prayer, like that of some inspired prophet of old "one favorite expression of his was that we who suffered imprisonment or death for our principles were doing our country as much good and were as much martyrs for the after ten years 95 union as if we fell in battle. he drove that truth in upon us, seasoned with the assurance that those at whose hands we suffered should receive full punishment, not only in this world, but in the lif

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begin operations. finding no great encouragement there, he spread a rumor to the effect that apollo and his son aesculapius intended shortly to take up residence at abonotica. the rumor at length reached the ears of his fellow townsmen, who promptly set to work making a temple for the gods. the way was thus prepared for alexander, who proceeded to abonotica, diligently advertising his skill as a prophet, so that on his arrival people from many neighboring towns consulted him, and his fame soon spread as far as rome. we are told that the emperor aurelius himself conferred with alexander before undertaking an important military enterprise. lucian gives a possible explanation of the paphlagonian prophet s remarkable popularity. alexander, he says, came in the course of his early travels to p

up the egg, and in full view of the people, broke the shell and exposed to their admiring eyes a little, wriggling serpent. when a few days had elapsed, he judged the time ripe for a second demonstration. gathering together a huge crowd from every part of paphlagonia, he emerged from the temple with the large macedonian snake coiled about his neck. the head of the serpent was concealed under the prophet s arm, and an artificial head, somewhat resembling that of a human being, allowed to protrude. the assembly was astonished to find that the tiny serpent of a few days ago had already attained such remarkable proportions and possessed the face of a human being, and they appeared to have little doubt that it was indeed apollo come to abonotica. by means of ingenious mechanical contrivances

scrap of sacred writing, prayer, or a little picture. women of position in tibet wore a chatelaine containing a charm or charms, and the universal amulet of the tibetan buddhist priests is the thunderbolt, supposed to have fallen direct from indra s heaven. this is usually imitated in bronze or other metal and is used for exorcising evil spirits. many muslims wear amulets, and it is said that the prophet mohammed believed in the evil eye. the koran is sometimes carried as an amulet, or extracts from it are copied out for that purpose. suras 113 and 114 are directed against witchcraft. other powerful charms for amulets include the names and attributes of gods, the names of the suras in the koran, names of prophets, planets, angels, and magic squares. amulets were also widespread among jewis

ichrist will last fifty years; but the opinion of the majority is that his reign will last three and a half years, after which the angels will sound the trumpets of the day of judgment, and christ will come and judge the world. boguet declared that the watchword of antichrist will be i abjure baptism. many commentators foresaw the return of elijah in these words of malachi i will send elijah, the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the lord. but it is not certain that malachi referred to this ancient prophet, since christ applied this prediction to john the baptist when he said, elias is come already, and they knew him not; and when the angel foretold to zacharias the birth of his son, he said to him: and he shall go forth before the lord in the spirit and power of

es of the eighteenth encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. antichrist 61 century were only demons incarnated to precede and prepare the way for antichrist. during world war i, there were people who were convinced that antichrist was none other than the exkaiser of germany. another way to recognize antichrist is by the title beast 666, because revelation describes the beast as a false prophet. the title beast 666 was applied to modern occultist aleister crowley (1875.1947) by his mother, and he accepted it as a symbol of his break with the severe fundamentalism of his plymouth brethren father. sources: crowley, aleister. the confessions of aleister crowley. edited by john symonds and kenneth grant. new york: hill& wang, 1969. kirban, salem. 666. huntingdon valley, penn: salem k

tually in their midst; then they recalled the warning and summoned the potent magician who had uttered it. apollonius identified a poor, maimed beggar as the cause of the plague and an enemy of the gods, and he advised them to stone the unfortunate wretch to death. the citizens were at first reluctant to comply with the cruel injunction, but something in the expression of the beggar confirmed the prophet s accusation, and the wretch was soon covered with a mound of stones. when the stones were removed, the man had disappeared. in his place was a huge black antipathy encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 62 dog, the cause of the plague that had come upon the ephesians. in rome apollonius raised from death or apparent death (his biographer does not seem to know which) a young la

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ope innocent ii refused permission, since he had plans for malachy to be primate of the combined see of armagh and tuam, although in the end this did not come to pass. malachy traveled through england, scotland, and ireland, even making a second pilgrimage to rome. on the return journey to ireland, he died at clairvaux, which had made such an impression on him. malachy had a great reputation as a prophet during his own lifetime. when the son of king david of scotland was critically ill, malachy sprinkled him with holy water and predicted that the boy would survive. he did. when one individual tried to prevent the building of an oratory, malachy correctly foretold his early death. according to st. bernard, malachy even predicted the date, place, and circumstances of his own death. the papal

nce homeopathic medicine dispenses with them and no serious inconvenience follows. oil and wine, combined with salt or camphor, are sufficient for the healing of all wounds, and for all external frictions or soothing applications. oil and wine are the chief medicaments of the gospel tradition. they formed the balm of the good samaritan, and in the apocalypse, when describing the last plagues, the prophet prays the avenging powers to spare these substances, that is, to leave a hope and a remedy for so many wounds. what we term extreme unction was the pure and simple practice of the master s traditional medicine, both for the early christians and in the mind of the apostle saint james, who has included the precept in his epistle to the faithful of the whole world. is any man sick among you

chief route between man and the supernatural. the senses were quickened and sharpened by the use of drugs, and the ecstatic condition was induced by lack of sleep, fixing of the mind upon one subject, swallowing or inhaling cerebral intoxicants such as tobacco, the maguey, coca, the snakeplant or ololiuhqui, and similar substances. some tribes of native americans believed that visions came to the prophet or seer pictorially, or that acts were performed before them as in a play. they also believed that the soul trav- mexico and central america encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1032 eled through space and was able to visit those places of which it desired to have knowledge. it was likely that the seers hypnotized themselves by gazing at certain small, highly-polished pieces

controversy receded in the 1990s, moon and his small church became a more stable part of a wider religious landscape. sources: barker, eileen. the making of a moonie. oxford, england: basil blackwell, 1984. mickler, michael l. the unification church in america: a bibliography and research guide. new york: garland, 1987. moon, sun myung. christianity in crisis: new hope. new york: hsa-uwc, 1974. a prophet speaks today. new york: hsa-uwc, 1975. moonsign book popular publication concerned with influence of the moon on plants and health that has become a key annual publication of llewellyn publications, p.o. box 64383, st. paul, mn 55164. moore, marcia (1928.1979) marcia moore, an astrologer and metaphysical teacher, was born on may 22, 1928, in cambridge, massachusetts, the daughter of robert

m. was one of the three main communicators (the others being djual khul and koot hoomi) of what were compiled as the mahatma letters, the ultimate source for many theosophical ideas. as the theosophical society fragmented, leaders of many groups whose organization and beliefs derive in large part from theosophy have claimed contact with him, including helena roerich of the agni yoga society, mark prophet and elizabeth clare prophet, and geraldine innocente (pen name thomas printz) of the bridge to spiritual freedom. sources: barker, a. trevor, ed. the mahatma letters to a. p. sennett from the mahatams m. and k.h. london: t. fisher unwin, 1923. 3d rev. ed. adyar, madras, india: theosophical publishing house, 1962. el morya [through mark l. prophet. light from heavenly lanterns. colorado spr

nocente (pen name thomas printz) of the bridge to spiritual freedom. sources: barker, a. trevor, ed. the mahatma letters to a. p. sennett from the mahatams m. and k.h. london: t. fisher unwin, 1923. 3d rev. ed. adyar, madras, india: theosophical publishing house, 1962. el morya [through mark l. prophet. light from heavenly lanterns. colorado springs, colo: summit lighthouse, 1973 [through mark l. prophet and elizabeth clare prophet. morya the darjeeling masters speaks to his chelas on the quest for the holy grail. los angeles: summit university, 1973. papish, mary, and daniel papish. we are servants of master m. ojai, calif: hanuman publications, 1973. ransom, josephine. a short history of the theosophical society. adyar, madras, india: theosophical publishing house, 1938 [roerich, helena

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

ything seemed to distinguish abductees from their neighbors. the phenomenon s most notable champion, harvard university psychiatrist john e. mack, became a lightning rod in the controversy. to his colleagues, who went so far as to try to have him removed from his professional position, he was a good scholar gone bad. to new age oriented saucerians on the other hand, mack was almost something of a prophet. his controversial book abduction (1994) argued for a benevolent interpretation of abducting aliens, paranormal and interdimensional intelligences who, in mack s view, are here to teach us particularly those of us who live in the industrial west to embrace other realities and to take better care of each other and the world we live in. mack wedded the contactee message to the abduction expe

nas arrived, filling earth with extraterrestrial agents who with each life gained new knowledge that would be useful when the day of reckoning the cleansing of the human race and the final showdown with the evil forces of the universe came. this climax would occur within the lifetimes of most living people. in this life, daniel was keith macdonald. david said, keith has now graduated and become a prophet. he is a prophet of christ. he is a prophet of god. the people of landa, devout christians, practice a form of roman catholicism. raised a protestant, macdonald knew little of catholicism until the landanians contacted him. according to a channeling from the master in 1985, soon there will be forty craft of landa truly visible to the eyes of all humans. three more craft shall come down to

tting out of his car and hearing a voice. under hypnosis later, godfrey recalled that he lost consciousness after a light from the object struck him. then he felt himself floating into the craft and meeting a humanlike being named joseph. six feet tall, friendly in manner, joseph had a thin nose, a beard, and a mustache. he wore a skullcap and was clad in a sheet, making him look something like a prophet from the bible. a large black dog accompanied him. the room also contained eight robots, each about three and a half feet tall, making a sort of murmuring chatter. when they touched godfrey, beeping sounds emanated from them. joseph directed godfrey to a bed, where he lay as a beam of light from the ceil- 136 joseph ing shone on him. communicating by telepathy, joseph touched his head, and

om inside the earth. port townsend, wa: loompanics unlimited. palmer, ray, 1959. saucers from earth! a challenge to secrecy! flying saucers (december: 8 21, 1960. editorial. flying saucers (february: 4, 29 34, 1961. byrd did make north pole flight in feb, 1947! giannini. flying saucers (february: 4 11. lanello in his most recent incarnation on eart h, lanello, an ascended ma s t e r, was ma rk l. prophet (1918 1973, married to el i z a b e t h c l a re prophet of the church un i versal and triumphant. since then, as lanello, he has lanello 153 channeled through prophet and caro l y n sh e a re r. lanello first came to earth thousands of years ago from his native venus after sanat kumara the brother of sananda (jesus) and sometimes called earth s planetary spirit determined to save the huma

ation session metatron told him, we want to hook you back to the radio-airwave frequency and to reconnect the molecules to the light, presumably meaning renewed airplay and popular attention (gates and gordon, 2000. the name metatron comes out of traditional jewish mysticism, where metatron is depicted as an archangel, perhaps the highest of them all. some mystics believe that on earth he was the prophet enoch whom god took directly to heaven without the transi- metatron 173 tional detail of dying. other sources assert that it was he who led the israelites through the wilderness after the exodus. further reading arvey, michael, 1994. metatron. http//www.spiritweb. org/spirit/metatron-arvey.html. davidson, gustav, 1967. a dictionary of angels.new york: free press. gates, david, and devin go

started talking about them. a more interesting issue concerns the motivations of the principals. sh a ve r s manifest belief in experiences that could not have happened in consensus reality leads some, such as h o l l ow- e a rth chronicler walter kafton-mi nkel, to see sh a ver as a visionary, a member of that ancient fellowship of re c e i vers of re ve a l e d shaver mystery 225 k n owledge, a prophet like moses or jo s e p h smith though without the religious trappings. even if sh a ver technologized hell, he re m a i n e d to the end an atheist and a materialist. to him the caverns existed in this world and had nothing to do with the supernatural. though usually depicted as a cynical exploiter of a deluded man whom any responsible adult would have directed to the nearest psychiatrist

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

ction to the disastrous consequences of the false messiah shimeon bar kochba, who led a revolt in 135 ce that resulted in a short-lived independent jewish state.3 over a century after azulai, a sense of fear and taboo regarding the qabalah arose strongly once again among the rabbinate in reaction to the troubling popularity of the apostate sabbatai zevi. zevi was ascribed messianic stature by his prophet nathan of gaza, and embraced as such by several million followers spread across the middle east. the phenomenon of zevi was further compounded by the widespread hermetic adulteration of jewish qabalistic teachings by european occultists, and a growing tendency among christian cabalists to attempt to establish that the true hidden meaning of the qabalah supports the efficacy of christian do

of the christian cabala in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it became permeated with alchemical symbolism and conjoined with the emerging doctrines of theosophy. this in turn greatly influenced the development of freemasonry. 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8 '0- 0* like judaism and christianity, islam is a primary branch stemming from the religion of the children of abraham. like master abraham, the prophet mohammed was faced with the task of leading his people away from the worship of idols and back to the universal mystical spirituality of a divine singularity. if you remove the clouds of dogmatic theocracy that now often overshadow the depth and beauty of that transmission, islam probably more closely resembles in some ways the original hebrew religion than does rabbinical judaism. the mys

aqshband of central asia (1318- 1389, the qadiri from abdul qadir of gilan (1077-1166, the chishtiya from abu ishak chishti of syria, etc.25 all genuine 8- f e 3 orders have a record of their chain of spiritual transmission (silsilah) passed down from one spiritual preceptor, called a shaykh in arabic and a pir in persian, to another. all of the silsilah trace back to the original silsilah of the prophet mohammed through abu bakr or the fourth kalif ali. some of the chains of initiation are still anchored in living masters who transmit the genuine b rakha (blessing of spiritual potency) of mystical gnosis to their aspirants (mureed. others have become a name without a reality. congregations of sufis convene with their shaykhs in specially designated halls (persian, khanqah; arabic, zawiya;

ifra detzniyutha, we find the verse: the engraving of all engravings appears as a long serpent. and extends this way and that. the tail is in the head. the head goes around to the shoulders. passing and indignant. guarding and concealing, revealing itself in a thousand short days. 22" f" 2' 8: 4 2 f# ezra hebrew yosher in the tzimtzum surrounded by leviathan '0-,8. 3' unlike master mosheh and the prophet mohammed, master yeshuvah did not record a revelation to be handed down after his departure from human form. he did not come to start a new religion, but to fulfill and revitalize an old one. master yeshuvah was a jew born to jewish parents; a messianic messenger and redeemer awaited and yearned for by faithful jews. his life was his message, and it can only truly be understood in jewish t

for the process of mystical awakening through the four worlds in the ascension of a specialized version of the single-column tree of life of the treasuries of the house of elohim. the series of images from revelation are presented in the qabalistic tree format in chapter six" the qur an is the final revelation of the lord hvhy (as allah) to the children of abraham. it was transmitted through the prophet mohammed, the seal of the shemite prophets. the only prophet yet to come is the reappearance of eliyahu (elijah, who will herald the final messianic advent of allah as the last, which the qur an calls the day of judgment (yom ah- din. the qur an encompasses 6,666 verses in 114 titled surahs (chapters) of varying length. master mohammed lived at a time when a substantial number of jews, chr

and only a little is known of their history, culture, and spirituality. the christian inhabitants consisted largely of the descendants of heretics who had been expelled from the roman empire. these arabian desert fathers possessed numerous apocalyptic and pseudo-epigraphic texts. but it is suspected that they had limited knowledge of the peshitta, and that the bulk of the material related to the prophet isa (master yeshuvah) and miryam (mary) in the qur an was derived from jewish sources. the hanifites were an arabian faith community largely concentrated in mecca, medina, and a few other cities, who had rejected idolatry previous to the birth of the prophet. they professed to be in search of the original religion of abraham. in the qur an, master mohammed repeatedly applies the term hanif

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

e he spoke of the son of god and of the word. in three passages of the institutes he cites trismegistus with the sibyls as testifying to the coming of christ.4 lactantius nowhere says anything against hermes trismegistus. he is always the most ancient and all-wise writer, the tenor of whose works is agreeable to christianity and whose mention of god the son places him with the sibyls as a gentile prophet. in 1 see c.h, ii, pp. 276-7. 2 see below, p. 23. 3 lactantius, div. inst, iv, xi; fletcher's translation, i, p. 226. 4 lactantius, div. inst, i, vi; iv, vi; viii, xviii; fletcher's translation, i, pp. 14-19; 220-2; 468-9. the sibylline oracles themselves were no more genuinely antique than the hermetica. forged sibylline prophecies of jewish origin appeared at some uncertain date, and wer

into the statues of their gods, thus animating the statues, or making them into gods. here he quotes verbally the god-making passage in the asclepius. he then discusses the prophecy that the egyptian religion will come to an end, and the lament for its passing, which he interprets as a prophecy of the ending of idolatry by the coming of christianity. here too, therefore, hermes trismegistus is a prophet of the coming of christianity, but all credit for this is taken away by augustine's statement that he had this foreknowledge of the future from the demons whom he worshipped. hermes presages these things as the devil's confederate, suppressing the evidence of the christian name, and yet foretelling with a sorrowful intimation, that from it should proceed the wreck of all their idolatrous s

e who (as the apostle says "knowing god, glorified him not as god, nor were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was full of darkness' yet, continues augustine "this hermes says much of god according to the truth, though in his admiration for the egyptian idolatry he was blind, and his prophecy of its passing he had from the devil. in contrast, he quotes a true prophet, like isaiah, who said "the idols of egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of egypt shall melt in the midst of her."2 augustine says nothing whatever about hermes' mention of the 1 de civ. dei, viii, xxiii, quoted in the english translation by john healey. the quotation is from romans, i, xxi. 2 isaiah, xix, i. 10 hermes trismegistus "son of god, and his whole treatment of th

heart of egypt shall melt in the midst of her."2 augustine says nothing whatever about hermes' mention of the 1 de civ. dei, viii, xxiii, quoted in the english translation by john healey. the quotation is from romans, i, xxi. 2 isaiah, xix, i. 10 hermes trismegistus "son of god, and his whole treatment of the subject is perhaps, in part, a reply to lactantius' glorification of hermes as a gentile prophet. augustine's views on hermes naturally presented a difficulty for the many devout admirers of the hermetic writings in the renaissance. various courses were open to them. one was to affirm that the idolatrous passage in the asclepius was an interpolation made in the latin translation by the magician, apuleius, and was not in the lost greek original by hermes. this course was adopted by sev

of mercurius, whose teachings seemed to him closer to the doctrine of orpheus and in certain ways to our own theology (that is, to christianity) than those of pythagoras."2 mercurius wrote many books pertaining to the knowledge of divine things, continues ficino in his preface to the pimander, in which he reveals arcane mysteries. nor is it only as a philosopher that he speaks but sometimes as a prophet he sings of the future. he foresaw the ruin of the early religion and the birth of a new faith, and the coming of christ. augustine doubts whether he did 1 in the theohgia platonica, ficino gives the genealogy as (1) zoroaster (2) mercurius trismegistus (3) orpheus (4) aglaophemus (5) pythagoras (6) plato (ficino, p. 386. in the preface to the plotinus commentaries, ficino says that divine

st, who enters the cathedral of siena is the portrait of hermes trismegistus on the famous mosaic pavement (frontispiece. on either side of hermes stand two sibyls, holding their prophecies of the coming of christianity, and behind these two are ranged the rest of the ten, all with their prophecies. obviously here we have hermes trismegistus with the sibyls, as in lactantius, as the great gentile prophet of christianity. the inscription under his feet dates the revered figure even earlier than augustine or lactantius had done, for it describes him as "hermes mercurius contemporaneous moyse. an oriental-looking figure wearing a turban and perhaps intended to be moses his "contemporary" stands in a deferential attitude, almost bowing, on hermes' right; and behind this figure is a grave perso

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

creams in orgasmic contradictions- silxofax mantadragonia ziflantamaxia natasz azaximanda callraptuption sunta faxim at rax zenfixamaphillaheme- grendel, who weeps upon existence, i pray unto myself. baphomet, fusion of being and of nothing, let us tear choronzon asunder. mighty set and lord of morning let me bear the joy of liberation. my light and my darkness, this is nothing, my self of god, a prophet reborn. to invoke my being. i become- xephera xephera azazas azathoth- the joy of chaos is my soul. i am and i am not act iii the skull is now a silent object, staring mute at me. the eye is two-dimensional again, the mage walks alone and as poor little grendel has had an accident, so may you all the rite of godhood pre-cursor note: this rite incorporates a variance of the dark matter at h

d heru-par-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for i am the worshipper. 13: for why? because thou wast the knower, and me. 4: yet ye shall be known and i never 38: a feast for the 3 days of the writing of the book of the law. 19: is a god to live in a day? no! but the highest are of us. they shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us *76*:4638abk24algmor3yx2489rpstoval. what meaneth this o prophet? thou knowest not; nor shall thou ever know. there cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound upon it. but remember, a chosen one to be me; to follow the love of nu in the star lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word. 77: be thou proud and mighty among men! side note: this is some fucked up shit. iii (liber al) 6: dung it about with enginery of war! 7: i will give

sland 38: so that thy light is in me; and it's red flame is as a sword in thy hand to push thy order. there is a secret door that i shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (these are the adoration's, as thou has written, as it is said: the light is mine; it's rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra and tum, oh khephra and ahathoor. i am thy theban, o mentu, the prophet ankh-af-na-khonsu! by bes-na-maut my breast i beat; by wise ta-nech i weave my spell show thy star-splendor, o nuit! bid me within thine house to dwell, o winged snake of light, hadit abide with me, ra-hoor-khuit! 19: that stele they shall call the abomination of desolation; count well it's name, and it shall be to you as 718 note: i once lived in a house at 718 in brooklyn- note also: the

is when this virtue of understanding is gained by the will, that she becomes succubus (the cup. it was then during this course that i made her swear unto me. an enrapt state pulsing too and from, she swore unto her master and servant. she understands all of this, but as is true to her urgence, she attempts to draw the magician into her inferno she is a transmutor. upon the awakening of the great prophet, when babylon the great shall fall, this revelation shall become spontaneous among mankind. iv some notes on i what has self to do with eye- liber chrnzn there are a multitude of mathematical relations for the exploration of shells. among the most profound are complex numbers (also called imaginary numbers (see also liber chrnzn plate ii/11a. the set of complex numbers in set theoretic not

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

companies. most of these writings were kept secret. biblical admonition has been taken carefully, comparing masonic teachings to the holy bible. in i john 4:1, we read "beloved, believe not every spirit, but try (test) the spirits whether they are of god: because many false prophets are gone out into the world" we see that any religious teaching that does not conform to scripture is from a "false prophet" many people still do not understand the importance of studying this subject to its logical conclusion. their spiritual freedom is at stake. remember two things about masonry: 1) superior masons deliberately lie to their fellow masons, as those masons "deserve to be mislead" 2) explanations given to 95% of all masons are wrong. this quote from masonic author, carl claudy sums it all up "cu

mong the circle of the damned- sons of cain, who rebelled against god; alchemists who are known sorcerers, black magicians, and worshippers of satan, and the rosicrucians who have so desecrated the precious cross of jesus christ with pentagrams and hexagrams as to make you sick. hall's major revelation was that freemasonry is the son of samael. being careful not to confuse samael with the beloved prophet samuel. samael is one of the infernal names of satan. in fact, house of theosophy author, writing under the influence of her demon possessing her- master d.k- identifies samael as satan [the secret doctrine, p. 378] in fact, satanists have a symbol of samael. the pentagram on the left with the one point up represents the divine man specifically and lucifer the good god generally; the penta

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

buddha. it is a sacred bo, or ficus religiosa, which stands adjacent to an ancient holy shrine known as the brazen monastery, now in ruins. of this tree forlong remarks "though now amidst ruins and wild forests, and although having stood thus in solitary desolation for some 1500 years, yet there it still grows, and is worshipped and deeply revered by more millions of our race than any other god, prophet, or idol, which the world has ever seen"[7 [7] rivers of life, vol. i, p. 35. this tree is sacred to sakyu mooni, is 2200 years old, and is said to be a slip from a tree planted by bood gaya, one of the three former buddhas who, like sakyu mooni, visited ceylon. under the parent of this tree the great prophet reposed after he had attained perfect rest, or after he had overcome the flesh an

he emblems of siva, emblems which indicate the fructifying powers of nature, whilst the egyptian sacred tree, which is surmounted by the ostrich plume, the emblem of truth, is indicative of light, intelligence, or the life of the soul. in a discourse delivered by dr. stukeley in 1760, attention was directed to the grove of abraham as "that famous oak grove of beersheba, planted by the illustrious prophet and first druid--abraham; and from whom our celebrated british druids came, who were of the same patriarchal reformed religion, and brought the use of sacred groves to britain"[17 [17] barlow, symbolism, p. 98. the fact has been ascertained that in arabia, in very ancient times, there was a goddess named azra who was worshipped under the form of a tree called samurch, and that in yemen tre

al strength and virile might, a "lord of hosts" a god which was to be worshipped under the symbol of an upright stone--an object which by every nation of the globe down to a comparatively recent time has typified male pro-creative energy. that the masses of the people, even as late as the time of jeremiah, had no higher conception of a god than that indicated by an upright stone, is shown by that prophet when he accuses the entire house of israel "their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets" of "saying to a stock, thou art my father; and to a stone, thou hast brought me forth" that the people could not, or would not, be prevailed upon to renounce the queen of heaven, the celestial mother, is seen in jer. vii, 17, 18 "seest thou not what they do in the cities of judah

crown. concerning the conceptions regarding women as held at an earlier age, and those which came to prevail after she had become "the cause of evil in the world" we have the following from tertullian "if there was a pandora, whom hesiod mentions as the first woman, hers was the first head the graces crowned, for she received gifts from all the gods, whence she got her name pandora. but moses, a prophet, not a poet-shepherd, shows us the first woman eve having her loins more naturally girt about with leaves than her temples with flowers. pandora then is a myth"[98 [98] tertullian, vol. i, p. 341. woman, who was originally the gift of wisdom, or minerva, and who when created was garlanded with flowers as the crown of creation, became, in course of time, an accursed and wicked thing who mus

"after solemn reflection on the mysteries of life, women splendidly attired in white garments assemble and scatter flowers in honor of the great mother" the food partaken of by the devotees at these festivals was cakes, very similar in shape to those which were offered to the queen of heaven by the women of judah in the days of jeremiah, an offering which it will be remembered so displeased that prophet that a curse was pronounced upon the entire people. as the strictest secrecy prevailed among the initiated respecting these rites, the exact nature of the symbols employed at the thesmophorian festivals is not known; it is believed, however, that it was the female emblem of generation, and that this festival was held in honor of that event which from the earliest times had been prophesied

t was devoutly expected that the "golden age" of the past would be restored, and that mankind would again be freed from the ills which had overtaken them. as many of these cycles had passed, numerous deliverers, saviors, or solar incarnations had appeared in india, gotama buddha having been the ninth. in the east, about six or seven hundred years before the birth of christ, not only one savior or prophet but three or four of them appeared. concerning the leader of the reform in persia there seem to be many conflicting accounts. the learned faber concludes that there were two zarathustras or zoroasters, the former being identical with menu, the law giver and triplicated deity of india, and who by various writers is recognized as the noah of the hebrews. according to pliny, the former lived

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

ultistsoftoday do not need to be reminded of the great hermetists and theosophistsofour day, ofdranna kingsford, of whom death prematurely robbed us. she was indeed illumin255 ated by thesunoflight, and no one who ever heardherlecture and discuss the hermetic doctrines will ever forgetherlearning orhereloquence,herbeauty orhergrace.ofmadame blavatsky, the leaderofthe theosophical society, a modem prophet of eostericbuddhism-nooccult student, however wide apart may be his orherown favoured path to wisdom, can fail to recognize in her, a master-mind in a woman's frame.thesoc ros in anglia is, to some extent exoteric in its lower gradesbutits concerns are regulated by adeptsofeminence (an inner circle) who still hold the secret knowledgeofr.c.and in addition the special, concealed secret info

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es. a small volume, calledcrata repoa,describing initiation into the egyptian mysteries, was published in 1770, anony255 mously.itprofessed to give details of a series of degrees of the ancient egyptian mysteries as follows:1.pasrophoros or novice. 2. neocoros or craftsman. 3. melanophoros or master. 4. christophoros or judge. s. balahatos or philosopher. 6. knephu or astronomer. 7. prophetos, or prophet and priest.itstates that in these grades a secret language, called amma255 nian, was taught and used. this essay was by many people taken as a real revelation of antiquity, but the pretence was disclosed by the german authority, kloss. our rosicrucian frater,f.f.schnitger, translated and published this tract in 1890. j.m. ragon, the famous french masonic writer, has published as a suppleme

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y.illuminated,to whom special revela255 tions are.given, these individuals not being connected with any school..theroman church accepts this fully, as it is bound to do; and it is to be hoped that protestants ere long will also doso,for it is certainly a fact that there are seers and prophets among us still. here there is a special danger, however, viz, that divine. revelation may be given to the prophet, but unless he. is perfectly selfless, and casts his personality aside altogether, he will not be able to give out the teachings he has received in all their purity. such teaching was the foundationofdr. anna kingsford's book theperfectway,but. it is coloured, and largely coloured. with the personality of the seer,andtherefore there are mistakesinit. the errors, however, are close to the s

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c issues. harun yahya is well-known as an author who has written very important works disclosing the imposture of evolutionists, the invalidity of their claims and the dark liaisons between darwinism and bloody ideologies such as fascism and communism. his pen-name is made up of the names "harun (aaron) and "yahya (john, in memory of the two esteemed prophets who fought against lack of faith. the prophet's seal on the cover of the books is symbolic and is linked to the their contents. it represents the qur'an (the final scripture) and the prophet muhammad, the last of the prophets. under the guidance of the qur'an and sunnah, the author makes it his purpose to disprove each one of the fundamental tenets of godless ideologies and to have the "last word, so as to completely silence the objec

and is linked to the their contents. it represents the qur'an (the final scripture) and the prophet muhammad, the last of the prophets. under the guidance of the qur'an and sunnah, the author makes it his purpose to disprove each one of the fundamental tenets of godless ideologies and to have the "last word, so as to completely silence the objections raised against religion. the seal of the final prophet, who attained ultimate wisdom and moral perfection, is used as a sign of his intention of saying this last word. all author' s works center around one goal: to convey the qur' an' s message to people, encourage them to think about basic faith-related issues (such as the existence of god, his unity and the hereafter, and to expose the feeble foundations and perverted ideologies of godless s

m the chapter of the cave to the last times, signs of the last day, the last times and the beast of the earth, truths 1-2, the western world turns to god, the evolution deceit, precise answers to evolutionists, the blunders of evolutionists, confessions of evolutionists, the misconception of the evolution of the species, the qur'an denies darwinism, perished nations, for men of understanding, the prophet musa, the prophet yusuf, the prophet muhammad (saas, the prophet sulayman, the golden age, allah's artistry in colour, glory is everywhere, the importance of the evidences of creation, the truth of the life of this world, the nightmare of disbelief, knowing the truth, eternity has already begun, timelessness and the reality of fate, matter: another name for illusion, the little man in the

. idence to prove that the feast proclaimed was related to sun worship 23 the influence of the egyptian pagan religion on the israelites occurred in many different stages. as soon as they had encountered a pagan people, this leaning towards heretical belief appeared and, as the verse maintains, they said "moses, give us a god just as these people have gods (qur'an, 7: 138) what they said to their prophet "moses, we will not believe in you until we see god with our own eyes (qur'an, 2: 55) reveals that they were inclined to worship a material being that they could see, as their pagan religion provided the egyptians with. the tendency of the israelites to the paganism of ancient egypt, that we have here outlined, is important to understand and gives us some insight into the corruption of the

(left) is the great pyramid of cheops. the eye is a frequent symbol on ancient egyptian engravings (bottom) lc global freemasonry the masonic meaning of the six pointed star another well-known symbol of masonry is the six pointed star, formed by the imposition of one triangle over another. this is also a traditional symbol of the jews, and today appears on the flag of israel. it is known that the prophet solomon used it as a seal for the first time. therefore the six-pointed star is a seal of a prophet, a sacred symbol. but, masons have a different conception. they do not accept the sixpointed star as a symbol of the prophet solomon, but as a symbol of ancient egyptian paganism. an article in mimar sinan entitled "allegory and symbols in our rituals" relates a number of interesting facts a

s first created by the templar knights which they began to use as symbolism in wall decoration in their churches. this is because they were the first ones to discover in jerusalem some important facts about christianity. after the templars were dis- ld materialism revisited one of masonry's most important symbols is the six-pointed star. le global freemasonry the six-pointed star is the seal of a prophet and a holy symbol. however, masons interpret it according to the pagan beliefs of ancient egypt. lf materialism revisited posed of, this emblem began to be used in synagogues. but in masonry, we no doubt use this symbol in the universal sense that it had in ancient egypt. in this sense, we have combined two important forces together. if you erase the upper and lower bases of the two equila

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word and the dramatic word through television and motion pictures have caused ideas to span continents and the world almost with the speed of light. like a prairie fire, the dry grass consumes itself to the roof of the gnostic handbook page 48 hopes of humanity which are blighted, then by the searing infamy of wasted energy and emotion. the soulless ones: cloning of a counterfeit creation. mark.l.prophet. summit university press, l.a. 1981. the doctrine of dominions and principalities is one of the more difficult to explain without sounding extremist and paranoid. it certainly lends itself to dark speculation and conspiracy theories. however, it is a doctrine that is central to a real understanding of the world around us and there is certainly more to come, since the watchers not only live

d, rather than theocracies non-theistic political systems developed and the role of mediator was replaced by the priest, shaman or wise person. through death and rebirth rites the priest achieved a state of power whereby s/he was able to mediate between the spiritual and physical worlds. at this stage we can see that individual theosis was still far in the future, mediatorship was embodied in the prophet, priest, shaman or wise person. the rites of kingship and priesthood were kept secret and at first only passed via brotherhoods, cults and orders, however later they were also transmitted to individual priests and shamans who qualified but were outside the monastic system. theosis at these early stages involved collective as well as individual gnosis, the land and the king, for example, in

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l others in terms of the western magical tradition then represented in the hermetic order of the golden dawn. this is made all the more awkward by the fact that many of these observers formed religions and organisations based on their perceptions, many of which still exist today. accordingly, we have a bizarre situation where an observer of a historical and spiritual event is transformed into the prophet or herald of a religious movement. for the gnostic, while each of these observers are of value and have important things to say, we do not assign religious significance to them individually. some are certainly more admirable than others, a number are very difficult to take and in the case of aleister crowley, many would seem him as a malefic rather than inspirational figure. the fact howev

erical codes within the book of the law which suggest it is not a conscious fraud. aiwass could be best seen as a personification of the innermost will of crowley himself. it is that true self or will, which being beyond time was able to contemplate the transition which was occurring in the solar logos. it is ludicrous to see aiwass as some sort of extra-terrestrial using crowley as the medium or prophet of a new age. crowley himself had a love/hate relationship with both aiwass and the book of the law and conveniently lost it for some years in his attic! the book of the law is classic unconscious material. it is crowley's individual experience of the equinox of the gods as filtered via his own psychological structure. it could be said to be is his selfs perception of what was occurring in

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extends to those in the world of the profanes is not an idea that is new or shocking, certainly, to those of us who have experienced such contacts and/or researched and studied the histories of those who have. yet, there are those who find this sort of material to be disturbing to them. they find that even though they might fancy themselves to be followers of the law of thelema, proclaimed by its prophet aleister crowley, who contacted pr terhuman intelligences such as lam, or aiwass- an early prototype of the now familiar grey alien or e. t. anybody who holds to the very well-founded idea that contact is a key ingredient in the recipe is regarded as some sort of mountebank or charlatan. people like that write about little green men (why not little green women too) and are crazy. really? t

rue names and origins of initiates using the cipher of the ufonauts. 10 allen h. greenfield crowley, aleister, the scribe of the book of the law as dictated to him by the intelligence aiwass. crowley is the most significant figure of the occult revival of the 20th century. an initiate of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, and later leader of its successor order, the a. a, crowley was a magus, prophet, poet, mountaineer, author, lecturer and contactee. he wrestled all his adult life with the nature of the higher beings he contacted, such as lam, aiwass and abuldiz. reviled by many as a black magician, he was a late victorian english gentleman to the end of his life. a man intoxicated with god, to borrow one of his biographers terms, crowley was neither a satanist nor black magician. he

appears to have been the cipher of the ufonauts. little known to his admirers and critics alike, palmer was a victim of great physical handicaps, apparently the product of birth defects and a tragic accident in childhood. living a retiring life in rural wisconsin in his later years, ray palmer overcame great personal obstacles to be a literary figure of some note. secret cipher of the ufonauts 15 prophet, elizabeth, and the late mark prophet (r, crossovers between classical mediumship and modern trance channeling. it is significant that some of the beings ms. prophet purports to channel are the very real and physical adepts known a century earlier by madame blavatsky and others, under their assumed names. randolph, dr. p. b, an american occultist who introduced some of the more profound se

idered visitors from the sirius region who taught on earth and left behind a divine mythos and a priesthood awaiting their return. they are known to the sumerians and their babylonian successors, and to the egyptians, and held as legends to the present day by remote african tribal priesthoods) nor do comets and supernov explain the ascent of elijah alive into heaven, nor the vision of ezekiel the prophet, which in hebrew is even eerier than in the english translation. a priesthood protecting what it took to be the secrets of the divine visitors, whether an actuality or not, has existed since these remote times. in the early ages when the ability to build observatories overlapped with the ability to predict and therefore control civilization, the intermeshing of early operative masonic frat

e operation, after moving the block of four letters suggested by the rose cross to the page top at the upper end of the diagonal line. order and value then no longer secret cipher of the ufonauts 29 fail and repeat to infinity. jake stratton-kent puzzled over the strange string of letters and numbers in liber al 11:76: 4 6 3 8 a b k 2 4 a l g m o r 3 y x 24 89 r p s t o v a l what meaneth this, o prophet? thou knowest not; nor shalt thou know ever. there cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. when i first had my attention drawn to the existence of a purported english qaballa, my first reaction as a quabalist was to use it on this meaningless string of digits and characters, stratton-kent tells us. i converted all the letters into their numerical equivalents in the e.q, and added t

oto vacant. major grady mcmurtry, acting upon his emergency authority, eventually took on the role of acting oho, taking the title caliph. his first public act was the publication, in 1970, of the thoth tarot cards. iii e.n= 1970 e.v (e.n. or era novis or new aeon; e.v. or era vulgaris, or common era. iii (considered as letters) in classical cipher mode= 69= caliph, the word for the keeper of the prophet s flame; in this case aleister crowley, the prophet of the new aeon of thelema, or true will. we also see the same magical new aeon mythos unfolded in the west virginia case. indrid cold= 112= word of the law and also words and signs as well as the aforementioned we are one. connected to the mark of mark iii (112) we get ra hoor. cold s wife, kimi= night, another name for nuit. both are fr

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gs mourn, we may fairly suppose that hermo^r too had worked upon them by music and song, though nothing of the kind is recorded in the edda (see suppl. now if poetry was a joint possession of men and gods, if by hero-minstrels. 909 gods it had been invented and imparted, it necessarily follows that antiquity would regard it as a function and business of the priest, and that the notions of priest, prophet and poet would meet and touch. aud here i attach some weight to our finding the as. word hregowine (pp. 93. 235, which seems to indicate a follower and friend of the poet-god bragi, as we at the present day call the minstrel a friend or favourite of the muses. in lauds and times that looked kindly on the tuneful art, we may even suppose that minstrels, especially those of courts, had like

ght, acquired the sense of daemon (p.440-1, and the on. vcettr (orm veettr, poor wight) means a witch in saem. 214. i treat the hh in wikken as i did that in ecke from the root agan (p, 237, and this is supported by the g in wigelen and c/tin wichelen (evidently a ch= h. near in meaning, though unrelated in origin, seems the ohg. tvizago, as. wttega, witga, caedm. 218, 18. 224, 13, our tveissage, prophet, soothsayer, but in a good, not in a bad sense; the on. form vitu, seem. 63. 118^ stands for vitugi (conf, vitug 94, as ecki, eitki does for eitgi (gramm. 3, 738, and vaetki for vastgi. this vitki has been wrongly identified with as. wicce: never does an as. cc result from tg, though it becomes tch in english^ the corresponding verb is ohg, ivizagon, as. tcitegian, m. nethl. witegen, diut

ed (made into a prancing horse for children; and well can many an ancient dame, prognosticating by the same, tell by the hue infallibly, how keen the winter's cold shall be' ehythmi de ansere (in dornau 1, 403' then in my breast the merrythought, i trow it lies not there for nought, for men therein may plainly see what winter weather it shall be, and many a man holds fast thereto, accounting me a prophet true' those who thus looked after the weather were called ivetersorgcere, er. 8127 weter-ivtiser man 7510, or weter-kiescere -chooser, whence the surname kiesewetter, gramm. 4, 848; in ranch's script. 1, 430 i find a place' bei der weterkiesen/ as if certain spots wei*e favourable to weather- choosing. the esthonians foretold iveather and fruitfulness from bownets. gutslaff says in his boo

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gr. 1 94: so ist danne niht triuwe diu frowe der diuwe (maid, noch der man dem wibe; si lebent alle init nide; so hazzet der vater den sun/ etc. one would like to know what heathen figure 1 jnstin martyr s dial, cum tryph. ed. sylb. p. 208; tertull. de anima cap. 50, de resurr. carnis cap. 58; hippolytus in aoyos -rrepl rrjs trwreaetas rod kdapov koj. trepl tov dvtixpivrov; dorotheus tyr. de vita prophet, cap. 18; ambrose on apocal. cap. 11; aug. de civ. dei 20, 29; greg. magn. in moral. 15, 18. and see authors quoted in hoffm. fundgr. 2, 102 seq. and kausler s anl. denkm. 1, 486. for later times, conf. n. ps. 58, 7. 73, 10; burcard. wormat. 20, 93-7; otto frising. 8, 1-8; discip. de tempore, serm. 10. 2 12-13th cent, accounts of antichrist in the hortus delici. of herrat of landsberg (eng

ght, they and surtr by their fighting bring about a higher order of things, while antichrist is but transiently victorious, and is finally overthrown by a mightier power (see suppl. what adds new weight to the whole comparison is the affinity between donar and elias, which was made out on p. 173-4 and is clear on other grounds. to the 8th cent. elias might well seem something more than the hebrew prophet, viz. a divine hero, a divinity. the edda makes all the ases, o&inn, thorr, freyr, and tyr, unite their powers to do battle with the sons of fire and their confederates, yet they are beaten like enoch and elias: elias bears a marked resemblance to thorr (or donar, michael to the queller of garmr or fenris-ulfr; i do not say that enoch is equally to be identified with any particular god, bu

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that standard of functioning decreed by the creator and which has not been generally in evidence for many ages. it is one phase of the work of mysticism to afford the sincere, earnest seeker after light, knowledge, and power the privilege and means of bringing up to normal these most essentially important glands in the human body. such a one will have, among other faculties, the power of seer and prophet. any standard work on physiology or anatomy will give the description of these glands, together with their function and place in the physiological economy. this may be found under the heading of endocrine glands. but the description of these same glands, together with their place and function in the psychic economy of man, is not to be found in any book nor is the knowledge given to the id

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alf deafened by the shouts and incessant ear-piercing cries and the babel-like confusion of tongues. inthis part of the city it is useless to expect to be guided by either house numbers, or names of streets. thelocation of any desired place is indicated by its proximity to some other more conspicuous building such as amosque, bath, or european shop; for the rest, one has to trust to allah and his prophet. it was with the greatest difficulty, therefore, that we finally discovered the british ship-chandler's store, atthe rear of which we were to find the place of our destination. our hotel guide was as ignorant of thedervishes' abode as we were ourselves; but at last a small greek, in all the simplicity of primitive undress,consented for a modest copper backsheesh to lead us to the dancers

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the sword, that they, too, will perish by the sword. christ has given you one prayer of which you have made a lip prayer and a boast, and which none but the true occultist understands. in it you say, in your dead-sense meaning "forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors" which you never do. again, he told you to love your enemies and do good to them that hate you. it is surely not the "meek prophet of nazareth" who taught you to pray to your "father" to slay, and give you victory over your enemies! this is why we reject what you call "prayers" q. but how do you explain the universal fact that all nations and peoples have prayed to, and worshiped a god or gods? some have adored and propitiated devils and harmful spirits, but this only proves the universality of the belief in the effic

r christ. this technical term was used in the fifth century bc by aeschylus, herodotus and others. the manteumata pythocresta, or the "oracles delivered by a pythian god" through a pythoness, are mentioned by the former (cho. 901, and pythocr stos is derived from chrao. chr sterion is not only "the test of an oracle" but an offering to, or for, the oracle. chr stes is one who explains oracles, a "prophet and soothsayer" and chr sterios, one who serves an oracle or a god. the earliest christian writer, justin martyr, in his first apology, calls his coreligionists chr stians "it is only through ignorance that men call themselves christians, instead of chr stians" says lactantius the terms christ and christians, spelt originally chr st and chr stians, were borrowed from the temple vocabulary

once accomplished, the chr stos, the "man of sorrow" became christos himself. paul, the initiate, knew this, and meant this precisely, when he is made to say in bad translation "i travail in birth again until christ be formed in you" the true rendering of which is" until you form the christos within yourselves" but the profane, who knew only that chr stos was in some way connected with priest and prophet, and knew nothing about the hidden meaning of christos, insisted, as did lactantius and justin martyr, on being called page 149 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt chr stians instead of christians. every good individual, therefore, may find christ in his "inner man" as paul expresses it, whether he be jew, muslim, hindu, or christian. christ see chr stos. christian scientist a newly-coi

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ry of the ancient hill across the river, and the tall colonial spire of the first baptist church limned pink in the magic evening against the fresh springtime verdure of its precipitous background. old providence! it was this place and the mysterious forces of its long, continuous history which had brought him into being, and which had drawn him back toward marvels and secrets whose boundaries no prophet might fix. here lay the arcana, wondrous or dreadful as the case may be, for which all his years of travel and application had been preparing him. a taxicab whirled him through post office square with its glimpse of the river, the old market house, and the head of the bay, and up the steep curved slope of waterman street to prospect, where the vast gleaming dome and sunset-flushed ionic co

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. as we exude confidence we attract the type of seeker that wants to put forth what we have, so we have a living laboratory to see if our ideas work. as we discover the nature of attitude, we begin to understand what has gone on in our lives, and who we are- we forgive ourselves for wasted time, and learn how to make the remaining decades of our lives powerful and joyous. unlike a right hand path prophet who must imagine that he hears a voice in a burning bush, we hear our own voice explaining our lives to us. throughout mankind's history, certain men and women have obtained this level of initiation, and have been, are, and will be the true black order, who by their strivings bring new impulses to the earth while living and beyond, and thus effect the work of the prince of darkness in crea

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did appear visibly among you till now that i have seen it' the poor man fell a-weeping, and said 'i perceive that god hath sent you to my house, and put it into your heart to go along with me, and permitted the devil to appear visibly among us this night. i never saw the like before. let me have the help of your prayers' after this he became a singular christian" mr. peden was also somewhat of a prophet, and his speciality appears to have been the prognostication of unpleasant events, at all events to persons in ireland. two instances will suffice. when in a gentleman's house in co. antrim he foretold that a maid-servant was enceinte, that she would murder the child, and would be punished "which accordingly came to pass, and she was burnt at craig fergus" on another occasion two messenger

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impracticable in eun^ 635- index i genenl index ii digitizecoy google author's preface to volume u tttere it possible, we would keep this work out of the hands of* many christians whom its perusal would not benefit, and for whom it was not written. we allude to those whose faith in their respect- ive churches is pure and sincere, and those whose sinless lives reflect the glorious example of that prophet of nazareth, by whose mouth the spirit of truth spake loudly to humanity. sueh there have been at all times. history preserves the names of many as heroes, philosophers, philan- thropists, martyrs, and holy men and women; but how many more have lived and died, unknown but to their intimate acquaintance, unblessed but by their humble beneficiaries! these have ennobled christianity, but woul

kti tf pope fiut ix, by don puqtuue di pnodicii; ud the funotu pamphlet of umt nune by the rt. hon. w. b. guditonc (reriewed in hit boma and ou n tetm fodumw m sdigion: london, 1875. the latt t qnotet from the work nuned tfa ft^wins len- tcdm pronounced by the pcqie "my wiih is thkt all govemmentj ifaouid kdow that 1 am speaking in this itrain. and i have ikt right to speak, nii man &m nathan tiu prophet tn datid the kaig^ and a great deal more tton ambroea had la th odotiiu\ digitizecoy google pagan phallicish in chbistian 5yub0i5 s phallic worship, tfaaumaturgical wondos wrought by satan, human sacri- fices, incantations, witchcraft, magic, and sorcery are recalled; and dehonisu is confronted with rpiritwuitm for mutual recognition and identification. our modem demonolo^ta conveniently o

holding in subjection the numberless millions of christians for nineteen centuries? assuredly not from the jewish scriptures, and we appeal for corroboration to any well-informed hebrew scholar. he only suggestion of something approaching hell in the bible is gehenna or hinnom, a valley near jerusalem, where was situated tophet, a place where a fire was perpetually kept for sanitary purposes. the prophet jeremiah informs us that the israehtes used to sacrifice their children to moloch-hercules on that spot; and later we find christians quietly replacing this divinity by their god of mercy whose wrath will not be appeased, unless the church sacrifices to him her unbaptized children and sinning sons on the altar of 'eternal danmation! whence then did the divines learn so well the conditions

diida, tbe poena damni and poena m u, tbe former being tbe privation of tbe beatific vinon; tbe latter tbe ettmal petiu in a lake of fire (aid brivubmef if tbey answer us tbat it is in tbe apocalyjae (zz, 10, we are prepared to demonstrate wbenoe tbe tbeologist jobn himself derived tbe idea "and the dmu tbat deceived tbem was cast into tbe lake of fire and brimstone, wbere the beaet and tbe false prophet are and shall be tonnented day and night for ever and ever" he says. laying aside the esoteric interpretation tliat the "devil" or tempting demon meant our own earthly body, which after death will surtjy dissolve in the fiery or ethereal elements" tbe word 'eternal' by which our theologians interpret the words 'for ever and ever' does not exist in tbe hebrew language, either as a word or m

n ministers and holy saints. neither could the protestant church well mtuntain on the same ground that miracles had ended with the apostolic ages. for, whether of the same nature or not, the modem phenomena claimed close kinship with the biblical ones. the magnetists and healers of our century came into direct and open competition with the apostles. the zouave jacob, of france, had outrivaled the prophet elijah in recalling to life persons who were seeming dead; and alexis the somnambulist, mentioned by mr. wallace in his work* was, by his lucidity, putting to shame apostles, prophets, and the sibyls of old. since the burning of the last witch the great revolution of france, so elaborately prepared by the league of the secret societies and their clever emissaries, had blown over europe and

let not the punishment, which you deem it necessary to inflict on mortoi men on account c ?perianal grwtanea, tall upon the living church. prepare not the way for perpetual divinons of the church imder fhepreuntt ijf piety" such wm one al uie first christian saints- and the founder of the innity as he qipears on the pages of history. digitizecoy google 54 isb unveiled codqiming sword of the islam prophet ia a direct consequence of the bloody riots and fights among christians. it was the intestine war between the nestorians and cyrilians that engendered lalamism; and it is in the convent of basra that the prolific seed was first sown by bahira, the nestorian monk. freely watered by rivers of blood, the tree of mecca has grown till we find it in the present century over- shadowing nearly two

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ps of the ancients; the steady, silent tomb-lights (burning on for ages, from time to time discovered among the mouldering monuments of the past in the hypogea, or sepulchral caves, and buildings broken in upon by men in later day; the bonfires of the modems; the fires on the tops of hills; the mass of lamps disposed about sanctuaries, whether encircling the most sacred point of the mosque of the prophet, the graded and cumulative grand altar in st. peter s, or the saint-thrones in the churches of the eternal city, or elsewhere, wherever magnificence riseth into expansion, and intensineth and overpowereth in the sublimity which shall be felt; the multitudinous grouped lamps in the sacred stable the place of the holy nativity, meanest and yet highest at bethlehem; the steady, constant light

truction of this revolutionary body, to which we refer elsewhere, and why he chose to place his own head in the centre-place before occupied by this imagined awe-inspiring countenance, and adopted the whole as the star of his newly founded legion of honour, it is very difficult to say. in the east there is a tradition of this insupportable magic countenance, which the orientals assign to a veiled prophet, similar to the mysterious personage in lalla rookh. gorgoneion. chapter the twenty-sixth. presence of the rosicrucians in heathen and christian architecture. question may here arise whether two corresponding pillars, or columns, in the white tower, london, do not very ingeniously conceal, masonically, the mythic formula of the moasic genesis, male and female created he them &c. refer to t

trangely enough, too, this whole history of the garter teaches, as its moral, the greatness of the proper independence of shame, and the holiness of its unconsciousness. also the gallantry and the knighthood of the holding sacred these strange natural things. badge of the sultan of turkey (the crescent and star. the star is the star of the magi, indicating the birth of christ, or the hero, or the prophet-leader. the star is the referring signal in the embrace and issuant out of the crescent, or sickle of the new moon) sigma from the roman catacombs. chapter the thirty-first. rosicrucian supposed means of magic through signs, sigils, and figures. he dragon s head and dragon s tail are the points called nodes, in which the ecliptic is intersected by the orbits of the planets, particularly th

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hocken books, 1964. n. daniel korobkin, the kuzari: in defense of the despised faith, northvale/jerusalem: jason aronson inc, 1998; this edition includes informative footnotes. further on halevi, see israel efros, some aspects of yehudah halevi s mysticism and some textual notes on yehudah halevi s kuzari, in studies in medieval jewish philosophy (mentioned above) yochanan silman, philosopher and prophet: judah halevi, the kuzari, and the evolution of his thought (albany: state university of new york press, 1995) diane lobel, between mysticism and philosophy: sufi language of religious experience in judah ha-levi s kuzari (state university of new york press, 2000. chapter 4 (titled the sefer yetzira) of joseph dan s unique cherub circle (t bingen: mohr siebeck, 1999, begins the literature

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f new york press, 1988. studies in ecstatic kabbalah. albany: state university of new york press, 1988. jacobs, louis. jewish mystical testimonies. new york: schocken books, 1976: chapter six: gthe prophetic mysticism of abraham abulafia. h. kaplan, aryeh. meditation and kabbalah. york beach: samuel weiser, inc, 1982: chapter 3: grabbi abraham abulafia. h. kiener, ronald. gfrom ba fal ha-zohar to prophet to ecstatic: the vicissitudes of abulafia in contemporary scholarship, h in gershom scholem fs major trends in jewish mysticism 50 years after (1993. meilicke, christine a. gabulafianism among the counterculture kabbalists, h in jewish studies quarterly, volume 9 (tubingen: mohr siebeck, 2002, pp. 71-101. scholem, gershom. kabbalah: pp. 53-9, 62-5, 180-3. shem tov sefardi [de leon (attr) s

translated by yaron ever hadani. belize city: providence university, 2006. gas moshe idel demonstrated, this book is incorrectly attributed to rabbi shem tov de leon. its apparently true author is a direct disciple of avraham abulafia, natan ben saadyah harar. h (fabrizio lanza fs preface, page vi. for information, go to www.everburninglight.org. wolfson, elliot r. abraham abulafia.kabbalist and prophet: hermeneutics, theosophy and theurgy [sources and studies in the literature of jewish mysticism, 7. culver city: cherub press, 2000. this work incorporates the following articles: 1. gthe doctrine of the sefirot in the prophetic kabbalah of abraham abulafia, h parts i and ii, in jewish studies quarterly, vol. 2, no. 4 and vol. 3, no. 1 (tubingen: mohr siebeck, 1995 and 1996. 2. gmystical r

hy: sufi language of the religious experience in judah halevi fs kuzari. albany: state university of new york press, 2000. schwartz, dov. gjudah halevi and abraham ibn ezra h= chapter one) in studies on astral magic in medieval jewish thought, translated by david louvish and batya stein [the brill reference library of judaism, vol 20 (leiden. boston: brill, 2005. silman, yochanan. philosopher and prophet: judah halevi, the kuzari, and the evolution of his thought. albany: state university of new york press, 1995. sirat, colette. a history of jewish philosophy in the middle ages: chapter 4. strauss, leo. gthe law of reason in the kuzari, h in proceedings of the american academy for jewish research, vol. xiii (new york: 1943. iii. some works by abraham ibn ezra have been translated into engl

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material has been systematised thoroughly both by localities and periods. the table 4 in the current article should give an approximate picture of how the planets were understood in mesopotamian culture, how and why they were called thus and with which gods they were related to. translated by raul veede 30 pl name mul.apin, en .ma, horoscopes minor sources r sin d3ot. 464 4 apostacy hear me o my prophet! when yet was the world of old new-born and the first winter's snow, like blossom had not yet fallen, shrouding the grass of the first spring, then was i the noblest of all the angels, the noble potentates of supreme heaven. to god alone was my fealty owed, and all others, to me, theirs. for, of all the shining sons of heaven, the king of the world loved me best. i was adorned in gilded br

mpire they now abhorred. then, still singing of this triumph and of triumphs that would be won, they followed me, as i raised up my sword and led my people, the shedim, in procession from the gates of heaven, and, descending upon wings of flame, down from that upper realm to the earth, resplendent in her emerald garb, promising new tomorrows to be won. this is the truth! 65 theomachy hear me o my prophet! when yet was the world of old new-born and the first winter's snow, like blossom had not yet fallen, shrouding the grass of the first spring, then was i the noblest of all the angels, the noble potentates of supreme heaven. to god alone was my fealty owed, and all others, to me, theirs. for, of all the shining sons of heaven, the king of the world loved me best. i was adorned in gilded br

re they now abhorred. then, still singing of this triumph and of triumphs that would be won, they followed me, as i raised up my sword and led my people, the shedim, in procession from the gates of heaven, and, descending upon wings of flame, down from that upper realm to the earth, resplendent in her emerald garb, promising new tomorrows to be won. this is the truth! 126 aphepatigon hear me o my prophet! i looked out from the high parapet of my tower, from the spire of opal and ruby, regarding the streets and domes of the shedim city, chadel, proud and unconquered, deep, deep in the passages of the roots of mountains, lit by the furnaces of the lower earth amongst sleeping serpents as ancient, as terrible as immemorial time, unreckoned, dreaming of forgotten aeons and tomorrows unimagined

d been one. this is the history of the first men. this is the telling of their origins and how was won the means to judge all things. this is how mankind knew peace first and then was taught war by the art of gabriel. thus was much won and lost in those first days. this is the story of the one nation and the many. this is the history of the first men. this is the truth! 204 cataclysm hear me o my prophet! lo! i sing of ancient things, forgotten to the memories of man and beast. i sing of times that have passed long since, and with them passing much that was good. i sing of the noble men of old ages that walked upon the earth as giants and who were most bright, outshining the thousand stars that adorn the field of night. their tread was like thunder and their voices like the clarion, their

undone if you would hear. noah, you shall be avenged and now pay heed how it shall be. adonai yahweh has resolved to destroy all things that live upon the earth that do take breath from the wind save those that he does choose to spare. lo! the lord of hosts shall throw open the cataracts and release upon the earth a great deluge, drowning all the land beneath the swollen seas. in this you, noah, prophet of god, must aid us, the elohim hosts, for our power alone cannot pierce 250 to the earth beneath heaven to release the gates beneath the seas so that the mountains' peaks might be submersed beneath the waves. to you shall i teach the invocation by which this end might be wrought. before this is done, noah, that you and your family might endure and repeople the earth with a more noble race

to corruption, gabriel would one day be prince. once more he looked out from his tower across the wide expanse of heaven and resolved that it should all be his. for such resolution would three kingdoms pay dear and the three races, shedim and elohim, and of all the nephilim would pay dearest for gabriel's ambition in those dark days that were to come. this is the truth! 305 pyloclasm hear me o my prophet! in those later days, the successors of the bright days of the flood, the ancient days of great men, then a peace was there between earth and heaven and the elohim withdrew from the earth, seeking not a conflict lost to them. rather did they bide their time within the walls of heaven and looked not from their towers to that which was lost to them. those days were the last of the great men

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part, it appears that the solution to the global crisis depends particularly on us, on each and every member of the nation of israel. not on the leaders, but on every individual. every moment that we are not fulfilling our role is costing us a great deal. the duty of the people of israel is one that cannot be avoided or turned down. it also cannot be ignored. it is like the biblical story of the prophet jonah, who was sent to warn the residents of nineveh about the danger they were facing. jonah tried to escape from the assignment he was given, but was forced to complete his assignment. israel s role 193 the story of jonah is a pertinent allegory to all of us. this is why kabbalists instructed that it would be read every year on yom kippur (day of atonement, the day of introspection. it i

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ntly affecting the results that return to affect us. t h e b o o k o f c r e at i o n q: rav laitman, when you say that sefer yetzira (the book of creation) was written by abraham the patriarch, should we imagine one man who reached the spiritual level called, abraham, or was it abraham, the historical figure. in the second case, if abraham wrote the book before moses, then how is the name of the prophet, yehezkel (ezekiel, mentioned there (mishnah 8, p.1? this prophet lived centuries after abraham did. a: the book of creation was supposedly written by abraham. this is the opinion of judaism, not my own. i actually never say anything on my own and can always provide a reference for my words. that is why my adversaries do not oppose me, they oppose kabbalah! baal hasulam says in his letters

on from your nature will come. you ll be freed from the boundaries of this world and will receive the first upper attribute- the first spiritual degree. he who walks, defeats the path, and i would add that there is no other path. we do everything by coercion, even chasing money and power. the more we want to escape it, the more the need will push us forward. i m sure you remember the story of the prophet jonah who tried to escape the creator in order to avoid the correction that was given him to perform. but the city of nineveh must still be corrected from within. 141 c h a p t e r 4. s p i r i t ua l wo r k t h e m e a n i n g o f s p i r i t ua l wo r k q: are there different ways to attain the spiritual world? what is the meaning of spiritual work? a: any work starts only after we enter

ling, as all of us will soon discover, is possible only toward the source, the creator. we will feel toward everything else the way we do to those toys. but through the creator, we humans will grasp the entire world and learn to love all people as we love the creator. r e f l e c t i o n s a n d t h o u g h t s 403 q: will they clone people to harm mankind in the future? a: you don t have to be a prophet to say the simple truth: everything we do before we see the entire system of creation is only to harm us. it is only the wisdom of kabbalah that enables us to see it. v e g e t a r i a n i s m q: i have recently stopped eating meat and fish because i think that living creatures (those with a nervous system and a sensation of pain) shouldn t have to suffer just to serve as my food. but juda

rom that moment on, the connection between the spiritual world and ours ceased to exist and, as baal hasulam says, an iron wall has been erected between israel and kabbalah. however, all this describes falling from the level of the 2nd temple (mochin de neshama. before that, there was the ruin of the 1st temple, a fall from the level of mochin de haya. at that time, all prophets vanished, since a prophet s level is haya if he says i saw, and neshama if he says, i heard. in addition, to be able to interpret a prophecy, one must be on a certain level of spiritual attainment. a prophet is not a fortune teller who tells you your future. rather, he explains to you what essential corrections you can make, even without seeing them. and if you can t make any corrections, then a prophet will not ap

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d with tradition and even with religion. in most cases, this is a result of the difficulty in finding logic in the old customs and the various prohibitions in the mitzvot (commandments. it is a difficulty expressed directly or indirectly by antagonism toward religion. this is the reason for the important need to clearly distinguish between kabbalah and religion. every religion relies on a certain prophet, a person who was connected with spirituality and circulated his knowledge among people. this argument is at the basis of every religion, meaning that everything begins with the sublime truth, the revelation of the creator before the prophet, who was the founder, be it judaism or any other religion. the wisdom of kabbalah is a method to attain the creator that is available for all. it allo

feeling altogether and move onto another feeling called egypt. that means that you really must examine your egoistic desires from within. if you correct them, you will attain me; i will be revealed to you in them. the creator appears precisely in those desires we call egypt. only afterwards are they corrected. let us take this man, abraham. in a different degree we might have referred to him as a prophet. a prophet is a person who has attained such a degree that he is now in direct contact with the creator. there are prophets who only speak to the creator, meaning they attain the level of spiritual speech. naturally, they do not hear any horns blowing in the sky, as the torah writes, and the voice of god does not sound from mount sinai from gigantic speakers to the whole of mankind. it is

igantic speakers to the whole of mankind. it is the inner voice of one who obtains evident contact with the creator. there are prophets who see and hear, and there are those who only see and hear afterwards. the books of the prophets demonstrate the versatility of the connections of the prophets with the creator, and how and when he appears before them, meaning in which degree one can reach which prophet. the prophecy degrees, as all other degrees of our forefathers, are inside us. each of us must experience them all. we must go the entire way while being in our corporeal world. everything that the torah speaks of must be attained by us from beginning to end. only then is one completely united with the creator and reaches the final point of development that constitutes the purpose of creat

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nt, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went. as for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four(*ezekiel, i, 9, 10, 13, 15-18) 80. this symbolism is strange; but it has its meaning, and any investigator who has ever had the privilege of seeing the mighty four will at once recognize that s. john and the prophet ezekiel had seen them too, however inadequate are their descriptions. the beast with the face of a man stands for the physical body (earth; the ox or the bull (as in the case of the bull of mithra and the apis bull) typifies the emotional or astral body (water; the lion symbolizes the will or the mental aspect (air; and the soaring eagle is taken to indicate the spiritual side of man s nat

ng who might shed blessing over all nations; and they attempted to arouse among them the sense of unity necessary for this purpose partly by means of ritual. there were also the schools of the prophets, who were trained in the mysteries and studied the deeper teaching enshrined in the ancient rites. one such school is mentioned in the old testament as existing at naioth under the direction of the prophet samuel(*sam, xix, 20) and there were others later at bethel and jericho(*ii kings, ii, 2, 5) 272. these schools were not so much concerned with prophecy in our modern sense of foretelling the future, as with endeavouring to instruct the people by preaching; they seem to have resembled in many ways the preaching friars sent out by the roman church during the middle ages, the franciscans and

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s as protection against evil. also worn were pieces of paper on which were written prayers, spells, magical names, or the attributes of god, such as the compassionate and the forgiver. a popular amulet of islamic peoples beginning in the sixth century was the hand of fatima. the hand of fatima is frequently made of silver and jeweled with semiprecious stones. it is named after the daughter of the prophet muhammad.hands were also used as amulets on gates of islamic buildings. holy books of every culture (koran, torah, bible) are considered to have protective powers. pieces of parchment with scripture quotes, carried in boxes or pouches, are amulets in various religions. amulets with inscriptions are sometimes called charms, a term that also applies to spoken incantations. yhwh, the hebrew n

hen fell from grace and became devils after leaving their heavenly abode. the book of jubilees adds that god sent the flood to destroy the race of sinful giants who were the offspring of these unnatural unions. see also enoch; judaism for further reading: giovetti, paola. angels. the role of celestial guardians and beings of light. transl. toby mccormick. 1989. york beach, me: samuel wiser, 1993. prophet, elizabeth clare. forbidden mysteries of enoch: fallen angels and the origins of evil. 1983. livingston, mt: summit university press, 1992. bosch, hieronymus as a result of the complicated messages of his art, bosch has often been described as a worshiper of satan, as well as a devout catholic, a psychotic madman, a na ve humorist, and a religious fanatic. even though little is known about

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

ecame the official position by the late middle ages, which was that angels were beings of pure spirit and thus could not engage in sexual intercourse. a brief allusion to the enoch tale can be found in genesis 6:2 4, where it says that the sons of god (which, when seen through the lens of the book of enoch, are angels) took mortal women as wives. one contemporary religious leader, elizabeth clare prophet, has reexamined these ancient stories of fallen angels particularly the book of enoch and other early works and concluded that there were actually two distinct celestial falls. in the first one, some of the celestial host were ejected out of heaven as a result of rebellion. in the second one, a group of angels fell after copulating with human females. this bit of speculative theology, as w

apocryphal books, is contained in her fascinating forbidden mysteries of enoch: fallen angels and the origins of evil. see also book of jubilees; enoch; satan;war in heaven for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels: including f 87 88 familiars the fallen angels. 1967. new york: free press, 1971. godwin,malcom. angels. an endangered species. new york: simon and schuster, 1990. prophet, elizabeth clare. forbidden mysteries of enoch: fallen angels and the origins of evil. 1983. livingston,mt: summit university press, 1992. familiars familiars are spirits associated with witches who are traditionally portrayed as serving their masters by carrying out their wishes. in addition to aiding witches by carrying their bewitchments to the intended victims, familiars also acted as

rms of magic, such as thelema, traditional satanism, setian magick, dark hermetics, chaos magic, and black witchcraft. the chapel tries to meet once a month. the chapel is a mixture of many traditions, not just modern satanism. the philosophy of the chapel is a combination of modern satanism, as formulated by anton lavey, the tradition of aleister crowley, and chaos magic theory as written by the prophet of kaos, petter carroll. see also chaos magic; first church of satan for further reading: infernal chapel satanic church. http//community.webtv.net/magus418/infernal chapel. ingram ritual abuse case in 1988, paul r. ingram, a deputy sheriff and chairman of the local republican party in olympia, washington, became the first person ever to plead guilty to accusations of satanic ritual abuse

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this practice should, however, prolong life "this is the second indication of the nature of the result("ccxx. ii" 66, 72-74. 23. let the adept aspire to the practice of liber xi. and preach to mankind "this is the fourth practice of ethics("ccxx. ii" 76. 24. let the adept worship the name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, of the beast, and the name of his house; and give blessing and worship to the prophet of the lovely star "this is the fifth practice of ethics("ccxx. ii" 78, 79. 25. let the aspirant expand his consciousness to that of nuit, and bring it rushing inward. it may be practised by imagining that the heavens are falling, and then transferring the consciousness to them "this is the fifth practice of meditation (instruction of v.v.v.v.v" 26. summary. preliminaries. these are the ne

2. a light appears. 3. samadhi of the two infinites within aspirant. 4. intensification of 3 on repetition. 5. prolongation of life. 6. death becomes the climax of the practice. 33. summary concluded. these are the practices to be performed in token of thanksgiving for success. 1. aspiration to liber xi. 2. preaching of theta-epsilon-lambda-eta-mu-alpha to mankind. 3. blessing and worship to the prophet of the lovely stto liber lxi vel causae a'.a. the preliminay lection including the history lection the preliminary lection in the name of the initiator, amen. 1. in the beginning was initiation. the flesh profiteth nothing; the mind profiteth nothing; that which is unknown to you and above these, while firmly based upon their equilibrium, giveth life. 2. in all systems of religion is to be

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. a crowned priestess sits before the veil of isis between the pillars of seth* 14 the daughter of the mighty ones. crowned with stars, a winged goddess stands upon the moon* 15 the son of the morning, chief among the mighty. a flame-clad god bearing equivalent symbols* 16 the magus of the eternal. between the pillars sits an ancient* 17 the children of the voice: the oracle of the mighty gods. a prophet, young, and in the sign of osiris risen* 18 the child of the powers of the waters: the lord of the triumph of light. a young and holy king under the starry canopy* 19 the daughter of the flaming sword. a smiling woman holds the open jaws of a fierce and powerful lion 20 the prophet of the eternal, the magus of the voice of power. wrapped in a cloke and cowl, an ancient walketh, bearing a l

ystem will o the wisp 31 organs of circulation salamanders 32 excretory system ghuls, larv, corpse candles 32 bis excretory organs, skeleton the dweller of the threshold, gnomes 31 bis organs of intelligence [socratic genius] editorial note: the atus of thoth liber al, cap. i, v. 57 includes the statement: all these old letters of my book are aright: but x is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. in crowley s new comment on this verse, he observes: i see no harm in revealing the mystery of tzaddi to the wise; others will hardly understand my explanations. tzaddi is the letter of the emperor, the trump iv, and h is the star, the trump xvii. aquarius and aries are therefore counterchanged, revolving on the pivot of pisces, just as, in the trumps viii and

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proof, as it is written in the book of the law. for his work is to free men from the fetters of a false or a superannuated will, revealing unto them, in measure attuned to their needs, their true natures. s the book of wisdom or folly 67 bx de poetis (of poets) or this reason is the poet called an incarnation of the zeitgeist, that is, of the spirit or will of his period. so every poet is also a prophet, because when that which he sayeth is recognized as the expression of their own thought by men, they translate this into act, so that, in the parlance of he folk vulgar and ignorant .that which he foretold is come to pass. now then the poet is interpreter of the hieroglyphs of the hidden will of man in many a matter, some light, some deep, as it may be given unto him to do. moreover, it is

each element of sorrow with its opposite; in whose triumph of hymen is ekstacy, until by apprehension of the new great opposite the idea is again seen as sorrow. this then is the issue from sorrow; and thou mayst understand that i now also am confident in the necessity of this my fall to prepare the formula of my exaltation. therefore, my son, thus hail me: blessing and worship to the beast, the prophet of the lovely star. a liber aleph vel cxi 82 gd de arcano nefando (of the forbidden secret) my son, learn this concerning magick, that the yang moveth, and thus giveth itself up eternally; but the yin moveth not, seeking ever to enclose or restrict, reproducing in its own likeness what impressions soever it made thereon, yet without surrender. now the tao absorbeth all without reproduction

when thou hast wit to evoke it from the aditum and sanctuary of thy being. and this is to be done by this repetition of the formula of that truth. note thou further that this which i tell thee is the defence of formalism; and indeed thou must work upon a certain skeleton, but clothe it with live flesh. m liber aleph vel cxi 114 di de luce stellarum (of the light of the stars) t was that most holy prophet, thine uncle, called upon earth william o.neill, or blake, who wrote for our understanding these eleven sacred words: if the sun and moon should doubt they.d immediately go out. o my son, our work is to shine by fore and virtue of our own natures without consciousness or consideration. now, notwithstanding that our radiance is constant and undimmed, it may be that clouds gathering about us

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east, and will himself push the order, through the fire (perhaps meaning the genius) of the beast .there is a secret door that i shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (these are the adorations, as thou hast written) as it is said: the light is mine; its rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra and tum, of khephra, and of ahathoor. i am thy theban, o mentu, the prophet ankh-f-na-khonsu! 1 [al iii. 4-9] 2 [stripped of rhetoric, probably refers to some high-ranking officer of the british military who once took the oath of a probationer. ac may be referring to j.c.f. fuller, or possibly commander marston (frater a.f.k, i am not sure. t.s] khabs am pekht 5 by bes-na-maut my breast i beat; by wise ta-nech i weave my spell. show thy star-splendour, o nuit! bid

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dawn, aha! 37 bidden the cavernous mount unfold its ruby rose, its cross of gold; until i saw, flashed from afar, the hawk fs eye in the silver star! marsyas. peace to all beings. peace to thee, co-heir of mine eternity! peace to the greatest and the least, to nebula and nenuphar! light in abundance be increased on them that dream that shadows are! olympas. blessing and worship to the beast, the prophet of the lovely star! fmpliber ]wnj [chanokh] sub figur lxxxiv a brief abstract of the symbolic representation of the universe derived by doctor john dee through the skrying of sir edward kelly first published in the equinox, vol. i, nos. 7& 8 (1912) this electronic edition prepared by celepha s press, somewhere beyond the tanarian hills: first issued september 2002; last revised 16.06.2004

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the bird desired exceedingly this bliss, and laying down its wings became a faun of the forest. 42. the harper also laid down his pan-pipe, and with the human voice sang his infinite tunes. 43. then the faun was enraptured, and followed far; at last the harper was silent, and the faun became pan in the midst of the primal forest of eternity. 44. thou canst not charm the dolphin with silence, o my prophet! 45. then the adept was rapt away in bliss, and the beyond of bliss, and exceeded the excess of excess. 46. also his body shook and staggered with the burden of that bliss and that excess and that ultimate nameless. 47. they cried he is drunk or he is mad or he is in pain or he is about to die; and he heard them not. 48. o my lord, my beloved! how shall i indite songs, when even the memory

ight nor bliss may penetrate. 54. crush out the blood of me, as a grape upon the tongue of a white doric girl that languishes with her lover the moonlight. 55. then let the end awake. long hast thou slept, o great god terminus! long ages hast thou waited at the end of the city and the roads thereof. awake thou! wait no more! 56. nay, lord! but i am come to thee. it is i that wait at last. 57. the prophet cried against the mountain; come thou hither, that i may speak with thee! 58. the mountain stirred not. therefore went the prophet unto the mountain, and spake unto it. but the feet of the prophet were weary, and the mountain heard not his voice. 59. but i have called unto thee, and i have journeyed unto thee, and it availed me not. 60. i waited patiently, and thou wast with me from the be

he echo of your kisses. 2. is not the starry heaven shaken as a leaf at the tremulous rapture of your love? am not i the flying spark of ight whirled away by the great wind of your perfection? 3. yea, cried the holy one, and from thy spark will i the lord kindle a great light; i will burn through the grey city in the old and desolate land; i will cleanse it from its great impurity. 4. and thou, o prophet, shalt see these things, and thou shalt heed them not. 5. now is the pillar established in the void; now is asi fulfilled of asar; now is hoor let down into the animal soul of things like a fiery star that falleth upon the darkness of the earth. 6. through the midnight thou art dropt, o my child, my conquerer, my sword-girt captain, o hoor! and they shall find thee as a black gnarl fd glit

eed them not. 5. now is the pillar established in the void; now is asi fulfilled of asar; now is hoor let down into the animal soul of things like a fiery star that falleth upon the darkness of the earth. 6. through the midnight thou art dropt, o my child, my conquerer, my sword-girt captain, o hoor! and they shall find thee as a black gnarl fd glittering stone, and they shall worship thee. 7. my prophet shall prophesy concerning thee; around thee the maidens shall dance, and bright babes be born unto them. thou shalt inspire the proud ones with infinite pride, and the humble ones with an ecstasy of abasement; all this shall transcend the known and the unknown with somewhat that hath no name. for it is as the abyss of the arcanum that is opened in the secret place of silence. 8. thou hast

hesy concerning thee; around thee the maidens shall dance, and bright babes be born unto them. thou shalt inspire the proud ones with infinite pride, and the humble ones with an ecstasy of abasement; all this shall transcend the known and the unknown with somewhat that hath no name. for it is as the abyss of the arcanum that is opened in the secret place of silence. 8. thou hast come hither, o my prophet, through grave paths. thou hast eaten of the dung of the abominable ones; thou hast prostrated thyself before the goat and the crocodile; the evil men have made thee a plaything; thou hast wandered as a painted liber cordis cincti serpente svb figvra ynda 23 harlot, ravishing with sweet scent and chinese colouring, in the streets; thou hast darkened thine eyepits with kohl; thou hast tinte

LIBER CXX

terrible god, who makest the gods and death to tremble before thee- i, i adore thee! appear on the throne of ra! open the ways of the khu! lighten the ways of the ka! the ways of the khabs run through to stir me or still me! aum! let it fill me! the light is mine; its rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra and tum, of khephra and of ahathoor. i am thy theban, o mentu, the prophet ankh-af-na-khonsu! by bes-na-maut my breast i beat; by wise ta-nech i weave my spell. show thy star-splendour, o nuit! bid me within thine house to dwell, o winged snake of light, hadit! abide with me, ra-hoor-khuit (followeth the mystical dance as taught in secret: or let the magus trace 11 circles around the room, traveling against the course of the sun, for that is in effect he that is

y uttermost showed! i adore the might of thy breath, supreme and terrible god, who makest the gods and death to tremble before thee- i- i adore thee (prostrating himself to the w. then he resumes his throne, assuming the might of the god& saith "the light is mine; its rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra and tum, of khephra and of ahathoor. i am thy theban, o mentu, the prophet ankh-af-na-khonsu (silence: then "abrahadabra 111- 11111- 111 (he knocketh&/26,1 "abrahadabra! hail unto thee, that art ra in thy rising! the disk of khephra standeth upon the waters of amentet: it is the hour of the dispersal of the lords of silence" 111- 11111- 111 (he knocketh (rising, he doeth the ceremony, precisely as in the opening unto the 2nd verse of the song called the spell. bu

down their heads unto me for i am their lord, their bull. i am more powerful than the lord of time; i shall enjoy the pleasures of love, and gain the mastery over millions of years (he then resumeth the throne of ra, as the might of god, saying "the light is mine; its rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra and tum, of khephra and of ahathoor. i am thy theban, o mentu the prophet ankh-af-na-khonsu (rising he moveth to the west or as some say to the south saying with the sign "hathoor, lady of amentet, mighty dweller in the funeral mountain, eye of ra, dweller before him, beautiful of fire in the boat of millions of years, be they favorable unto us, and let thy light and beauty be with us thy lovers in the house of peace! abrahadabra 111- 11111- 111 (he knocketh [th

fficer leaves the candidate, and circumambulates the temple 11 times widdershins, chanting the song even as the traitors breath. etc (he then approaches the candidate and says "repeat after me: i who am nothing deny all that i was; i who am nothing affirm all that i shall be. i swear that as nuit is about me, as hadit is within me, so am i ra-hoor-khuit! and blessing and worship to the beast, the prophet of the lovely star (the officer withdrawing the brand 666 from the altar, marks the candidate on brow, heart& head. the officer now circumambulates the temple 11 times reciting "i am the girdle of the robe of the god nu (here he robes the candidate in the proper robe) which shineth and sheddeth light upon that which belongeth to his breast, sending forth light into darkness, bringing to pe

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

much worse when your own controlled brain breaks loose. 12.33. i will therefore compose myself to sleep: is it not written that he giveth unto his beloved even in sleep .others, even in sleep, he makes fruitful from his own strength. 7.29. woke and forced myself to rise. i had a number of rather pleasing dreams, as i seem to remember. but their content is gone from me; and, in the absence of the prophet daniel, i shall let the matter slide. 7.44. pr.n.y.ma. 13 cycles. very tiring; i began to sweat. a mediocre performance. 8.00-8.20. breakfast. hatha-yog..a pear and two gaufrettes. 8.53. have been meditating in hanged man position. thought dull and wandering; yet once .the conception of the glowing fire. seen as a planet (perhaps mars. just enough to destroy the concentration; then it went

LIBER HAD

this practice should, however, prolong life. this is the second indication of the nature of the result (ccxx. ii. 66, 72-74. 23. let the adept aspire to the practice of liber xi, and preach to mankind. this is the fourth practice of ethics (ccxx ii. 76. 24. let the adept worship the name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, of the beast, and the name of his house; and give blessing and worship to the prophet of the lovely star. this is the fifth practice of ethics (ccxx ii. 78, 79. 25. let the aspirant expand his consciousness to that of nuit, and bring it rushing inward. it may be practised by imagining that the heavens are falling, and then transferring the consciousness to them. this is the fifth practice of meditation (instruction of v.v.v.v.v) 26. summary. preliminaries. these are the nec

culiar automatic breathing begins. 2. a light appears. 3. samadhi of the two infinites within aspirant. 4. intensification of 3 on repetition. 5. prolongation of life. 6. death becomes the climax of the practice. 33. summary concluded. these are the practices to be performed in token of thanksgiving for success. 1. aspiration to liber xi. 2. preaching of to mankind. 3. blessing and worship to the prophet of the lovely star (c) ordo templi orientis. key-entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 29.06.20y-liber hhh svb figvra cccxli continet capitvla tria: mmm, aaa, et sss v a a publication in class d 1 .sunt duo modi per quos homo fit deus: tohu et bohu .mens quasi flamma surgat, aut quasi puteus aqua quiescat .alteri modi sunt tres exempli, qui illis extr

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

y upon mine harp; thou fightest the beasts and the flames. 19. thou takest thy joy in the music, and i in the fighting. 20. thou and i are beloved of the emperor. 21. see! he has summoned us to the imperial dais. the night falls; it is a great orgy of worship and bliss. 22. the night falls like a spangled cloak from the shoulders of a prince upon a slave. 23. he rises a free man! 24. cast thou, o prophet, the cloak upon these slaves! 25. a great night, and scarce fires therein; but freedom for the slave that its glory shall encompass. 26. so also i went down into the great sad city. 27. there dead messalina bartered her crown for poison from the dead locusta; there stood caligula, and smote the seas of forgetfulness. 28. who was thou, o casar, that thou knewest god in an horse? 29. for lo!

LIBER LVII

irth, death and resurrection of christ; and further the signs of the mourning of the mother, triumph of the destroyer, and rising of the son, give by shape the letters l.v.x, lux, which letters are (again) concealed in and revealed by the cross the light of the cross. further examples will be found in .a note on genesis. one of the most famous is the mene, tekel, upharsin of daniel, the imaginary prophet who lived under belshazzar the imaginary king. anm. the hanged man, death, the fool .sacrificed to death by thy folly. lkt. the universe, the wheel of fortune, justice .thy kingdom.s fortune is in the balance. crp the blasted tower, the sun, the last judgement .ruined is thy glory, and finished. but we cannot help thinking that this exegesis must have been very hard work. we could more eas

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

sh28) just the yoke of faith that tortures english folk. i cannot write29 a poem yet to please the people in tibet; but when i can, christ shall not lack peace, while their buddha i attack.30 yet by-and-by i hope to weave a song of anti-christmas eve and first- and second- beast-er day. there.s one*31 who loves me dearly (vrai) who yet believes me sprung from tophet, either the beast or the false prophet; and by all sorts of monkey tricks adds up my name to six six six. retire, good gallup !32 in such strife her superior skill makes you a cipher! 1 crowley.s mother. 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 105 his achievement. plan of poem .connspuez dieu. apology for manner of poem. a chance for tibet. hopes. identity of poet. attention drawn to my highly decorative cover. ascension day 5 ho! i adopt the nu

dition of 1904..a.c. 50 the sword of song 97. while their buddha i attack.30.many buddhists think i fill the bill with the following remarks on. pansil. unwilling as i am to sap the foundations of the buddhist religion by the introduction of porphyry.s terrible catapult, allegory, i am yet compelled by the more fearful ballista of aristotle, dilemma. this is the two-handed engine spoken of by the prophet milton* this is the horn of the prophet zeruiah, and with this am i, though no syrian, utterly pushed, till i find myself back against the dead wall of dogma. only now realising how dead a wall that is, do i turn and try the effect of a hair of the dog that bit me, till the orthodox .literary. school of buddhists, as grown at rangoon, exclaim with lear .how sharper than a serpent.s tooth i

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

agle is n. for further consideration of this 13, vide in the portal ritual the explanation of that terrible key. see account of this ritual in .the temple of solomon the king. also, 13 is the numeration of dja= unity, as also is the great name of god, la, by aiq bekar or temurah. liber mmcmxi 14 y is the hand* symbolising power in action, and its taro key is the hermit and the voice of light, the prophet of the gods. thus .proclaimed is the reign of the gods of light. t is the last letter of the alphabet, the finis, the omega, the universe, saturn, the outermost planet, and it is also aort, throa, the gate of the universe; and by qabalah of nine chambers it is d, the gateway of initiation. hence .at the threshold of the universe. so the whole word reads: b this is the magical history r of

LIBER SAMEKH

ect h; whom no man hath seen at any time. 6. thou art ia-besz2( gthe truth in matter h. 7. thou art ia-apophrasz3( gthe truth in motion h. 8. thou hast distinguished between the just and the unjust. 9. thou didst make the female and the male. 10. thou didst produce the seed and the fruit. 11. thou didst form men to love one another and to hate one another. section aa. 1. i am ankh-f-n-khonsu4 thy prophet, unto whom thou didst commit thy mysteries, the ceremonies of khem.5 2. thou didst produce the moist and the dry, and that which nourisheth all created life. 3. hear thou me, for i am the angel of ptah-apophrasz-ra6 (vide the rubric: this is thy true name, handed down to the prophets of khem. liber samekh svb figvra dccc 4 section b. air hear me. ar g o breathing, flowing sun! h thiaf*7 g

LIBER STELLAE RUBEAE

o hast won the first shalt enjoy the second. 54. i leap with joy within thee; my head is arisen to strike. 55. o the lust, the sheer rapture, of the life of the snake in the spine! 56. mightier than god or man, i am in them, and pervade them. 57. follow out these my words. 58. fear nothing. fear nothing. fear nothing. svb figvra lxvi 5 59. for i am nothing, and me thou shalt fear, o my virgin, my prophet within whose bowels i rejoice. 60. thou shalt fear with the fear of love: i will overcome thee. 61. thou shalt be very nigh to death. 62. but i will overcome thee; the new life shall illumine thee with the light that is beyond the stars. 63. thinkest thou? i, the force that have created all, am not to be despised. 64. and i will slay thee in my lust. 65. thou shalt scream with the joy and

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

uscripts of the great saga of olaf tryggvason but is believed by some observers to have been included in the late-twelfth-century latin life of olaf tryggvason, now lost, by the icelandic monk gunnlaug leifsson. it is set before the conversion of iceland to christianity at the farmstead of sidu-hall, a leading chieftain who later was to be among those who advanced the cause of the conversion. the prophet thorhall has foreseen that a prophet is to die at the sacrifice of the winter nights, but sidu- hall has a bull named prophet slaughtered. thorhall then decrees that none should leave the house at night, but when there are three mighty knocks on the 96 norse mythology figures found all over scandinavia are believed to represent valkyries or disir (the art archive/historiska museet stockhol

he simply threatens to bash loki with the hammer, and this threat finally causes loki to desist. in harbardsljod, stanza 26, odin repeats the accusation that thor forgot who he was while he cowered in a glove, and adds that he was afraid to sneeze or fart, lest fjalar should hear; fjalar is presumably skry lmir. in book 8 of gesta danorum saxo tells of the voyage of thorkillus to utgarthilocus, a prophet. on the way there is a problem with food, but it is caused by a lack of fire. finally thorkillus and his companions reach utgarthilocus, a smelly bound monster in a dark, snake-infested cave. this loki appears to deities, themes, and concepts 303 have more to do with the bound loki of the norse-icelandic tradition than with utgarda-loki. much of the discussion of the utgarda-loki story has

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

ent within world religions outside christianity? in what follows, we discuss these matters in relation to islam, judaism, hinduism, and buddhism. islam islam is an arabic word meaning both submission and peace. at the core of the islamic faith is the idea that a muslim submits to allah (god, thus finding spiritual peace. islam emphasizes the oneness and unity of allah, that muhammad was his final prophet (in arabia in the seventh figure 1.2 representatives of some of the major non-christian denominations in the world. clockwise from top left: a jewish woman celebrating hanukkah with a nouveau menorah; nepalese women celebrating the hindu festival of teej; a buddhist monk in thailand; a muslim bridegroom from bangladesh (from linda stone s collection. creationism and intelligent design 21 c

om bangladesh (from linda stone s collection. creationism and intelligent design 21 century c.e, and that the quran is allah s divine word recited by muhammad. the general belief is that the quran is to be fully understood only in the original arabic. lives of muslims are governed by the five pillars of islam (1) the witness i witness that there is no god but allah; i witness that muhammad is his prophet (2) five daily prayers to allah (3) the giving of alms to the less fortunate (4) fasting, as an expression of gratitude to allah, especially during the month of ramadan; and (5) a pilgrimage, if feasible, to the holy sites in the city of mecca in saudi arabia once in one s lifetime. as with christianity, there is within the vast world of islama wide spectrum of opinions on evolution versus

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

rcle, the parallel lines and the ladder (jacob's ladder) which has three principal rounds, faith, hope, and charity. in 1797, when this drawing was published, those parallel lines represented the saints john. we know them to be opposites because the baptist's day is mid-summer and the evangelist's mid-winter. today, after the de-christianization of the order, they are said to represent moses (the prophet) and solomon (the lawgiver);26 once again, opposites. we will see this arrangement again. the rivalry between the premier (modern) and the antient grand lodges continued throughout latter half of the 18th century, and at times it became quite intense. toward the end of the century, however, there was a general recognition among the members of both grand lodges that the two bodies had, in p

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

symbolism- the crucifixion, a cosmic allegory--the crucifixion of quetzalcoatl--the nails of the passion. 181 the mystery of the apocalypse the sacred city of ephesus--the authorship of the apocalypse--the alpha and omega- the lamb of god-the four horsemen-the number of the beast. 185 the faith of islam the life of mohammed--the revelation of the koran--the valedictory pilgrimage--the tomb of the prophet--the caaba at mecca--the secret doctrine of islam. 189 american indian symbolism the ceremony of the peace pipe--the historical hiawatha--the popol vuh--american indian sorcery--the mysteries of xibalba--the midewiwin. 193 the mysteries and their emissaries the golden chain of homer--hypatia, the alexandrian neo-platonist--the "divine" cagliostro--the comte de st.-germain--the designing of

with the cubit of justice and the cup for libations. he is acquainted with all points called p deutic (relating to training) and moschophaltic (sacrificial. there are also ten books which relate to the honour paid by them to their gods, and containing the egyptian worship; as that relating to sacrifices, first-fruits, hymns, prayers, processions, festivals, and the like. and behind all walks the prophet, with the water-vase carried openly in his arms; who is followed by those who carry the issue of loaves. he, as being the governor of the temple, learns the ten books called 'hieratic; and they contain all about the laws, and the gods, and the whole of the training of the priests. for the prophet is, among the egyptians, also over the distribution of the revenues. there are then fortytwo b

proclaimed it to have been the treasure house of the powerful antediluvian king sheddad ben ad. a panel of hieroglyphs over the entrance, which the casual observer might consider to afford a solution of the mystery, unfortunately dates back no further than a.d. 1843, having been cut at that time by dr. lepsius as a tribute to the king of prussia. caliph al mamoun, an illustrious descendant of the prophet, inspired by stories of the immense treasures sealed within its depths, journeyed from bagdad to cairo, a.d. 820, with a great force of workmen to open the mighty pyramid. when caliph al mamoun first reached the foot of the "rock of ages" and gazed up at its smooth glistening surface, a tumult of emotions undoubtedly racked his soul. the casing stones must have been in place at the time of

e which leads into the subterranean chamber. they then chiseled their way around the great stone portcullis which had fallen into a position barring their progress, and attacked and removed one after another the granite plugs which for a while continued to slide down the passage leading from the queen's chamber above. finally no more blocks descended and the way was clear for the followers of the prophet. but where were the treasures? from room to room the frantic workmen rushed, looking in vain for loot. the discontent of the moslems reached such a height that caliph al mamoun--who had inherited much of the wisdom of his illustrious father, the caliph al raschid--sent to bagdad for funds, which he caused to be secretly buried near the entrance of the pyramid. he then ordered his men to di

3 feet to about 13 feet from the rough and apparently unfinished floor. from the south side of the subterranean chamber a low tunnel runs about 50 feet and then meets a blank wall. these constitute the only known openings in the pyramid, with the exception of a few niches, exploration holes, blind passages, and the rambling cavernous tunnel (b) hewn out by the moslems under the leadership of the prophet's descendant, caliph al mamoun_ the pyramids are built will yet be found, i feel convinced, ample information as to their uses. a good diamond drill with two or three hundred feet of rods is what is wanted to test this, and the solidarity of the pyramids at the same time (see the solution of the pyramid problem) mr. ballard's theory of extensive underground apartments and quarries brings u

of the pyramid, its symbolism would be most appropriate. in comparison with the overwhelming size and dignity of the great pyramid, the sphinx is almost insignificant. its battered face, upon which may still be seen vestiges of the red paint with which the figure was originally covered, is disfigured beyond recognition. its nose was broken off by a fanatical mohammedan, lest the followers of the prophet be led into idolatry. the very nature of its construction and the present repairs necessary to prevent the head from falling off indicate that it could not have survived the great periods of time which have elapsed since the erection of the pyramid. to the egyptians, the sphinx was the symbol of strength and intelligence. it was portrayed as androgynous to signify that they recognized the

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

will always go better if you use your square of mercury first. the pendulum is no exception to the rule, although owing to the extreme simplicity of the divination, many witches feel they can do without any form of mercurial orientation. the wand of divination the wand, or staff, is the magical instrument which is par excellence emblematic of the powers of divination or prophecy. the staff of the prophet, the divining rod of the water witch, or dowser (as opposed to the pendulum, and the wand of the necromancer are all variations on the same theme. in the witch processes that i enumerate here, a wand or wands in the plural all play a primary part. the rod is obviously a phallic emblem and has always been associated with divine wisdom whether it is presented in the tibetan pantheon as a dor

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

didst create the night and the day. thee, that didst create the darkness and the light. thou art osorronophris: whom no man has seen at any time. thou art j bas thou art j pos: thou hast distinguished between the just and the unjust. thou didst make the female and the male. thou didst produce the seed and the fruit. thou didst form men to love one another, and to hate one another. i am mosheh thy prophet, unto whom thou didst commit thy mysteries, the ceremonies of ishrael: thou didst produce the moist and the dry, and that which nourisheth all created life. hear thou me, for i am the angel of paphro osorronophris: this is thy true name, handed down to the prophets of ishrael. hear me, ar: thiao: rheibet: atheleberseth: a: blatha: abeu: ebeu: phi: thitasoe: ib: thiao. hear me, and make all

MEANING OF MASONRY

word "zerubabel; it is the apex and focus point of his spirituality as distinguished from his ordinary carnal intelligence; the summit of all his faculties, the" prince" of his" people" those same faculties or" people" are referred to in the word meaning" my people having obtained mercy (or become regenerate, and in the text" the people that sat in darkness have seen a great light" 2" haggai the prophet" as has been shown before, the spiritual principle differentiates into a passive and an active aspect" haggai" represents the passive aspect and signifies at once the blissful and self-contemplative nature of the spirit. it is called" the prophet" because of the power of insight and omniscience characterizing that which transcends the sense of time and abides eternally, and because it proj

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ll this is what was suspected by the gooddoctor, but which most academics are very reluctant to accept; atomic energy wasindeed known and used in the days of old.researchers and authors, v aldamar v alerian, charles berlitz, j. j. hurtak, and davidhatcher childress, relate hundreds of accounts such as this in their pivotal works.in the account of the destruction of sodom and gomorrah, the fleeing prophet, lot, istold by the angels of the lord not to turn back, because the wrath of the lord wascoming to that place. lots wife does look back and is straightaway turned into what isdescribed as a pillar of salt. but this is a mistranslation. the word is more like ourenglish vapor. add to these the accounts of the walls of jericho, or the story in exo-dus of the ten plagues, not to mention the e

rdinary human being, but looks like thechildren of the angels of heaven to me. his form is different and he is not like usit does notseem to me that he is of me but of the angelsbehold, i thought then within my heart that conception was due to the watchers and the holyonesand the nephilimand my heart was troubled within me because of this child. lamech's father, mathusala, eventually consults the prophet enoch about the strangegrandchild. the latter says to the concerned grandfather:this child which is born to you shall survive on the earth, and his sons shall be saved withhim. when all mankind who are on the earth die, he shall be safe. and this posterity shallbeget on the earth giants, not spiritual, but carnal. now therefore inform thy son lamechthat he who is born is his child in truth

and familiars,we must realize that this has to do with very physical phenomena. let us look now beyondthe masque to see what lies at the origin of these specific occult sciences and why the profu-sion of occultism among the european aristocratic intelligentsia at this time. the living macroscope86atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation enochian magic is named after the old testament prophet, enoch. but the name actuallygoes further back to the sumerian enki, one of the original annunaki. it is more than signif-icant that dee chose this name for his divination.sir john dee was actually successful in his enterprise. he succeeded in opening hisportal and entering into dialogue with oversouls from another dimension. this was notthe first time in earth history that this had been a

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

lestony bushy the bible fraud and the secret in the bible stone gods and pale faces the book of enoch the urantia book beowulf tracing our ancestors ye old straight trackmarvel comics he man- masters of the universe j. j. hurtak (any works of) david hatcher childress (any works of) andrew collins (any works of) andrewcollins.comrichard hoagland (any works of) enterprisemission.comelizabeth claire prophet (any works of) gyeorgos ceres hatonn (any works of) e. raymond capt (any works of (see taroscopes.com links page for related sites and researches).epilogue: time to change the road youre on154atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation155 appendix a:the minstrels speaki am the one the orgasmatronthe out-stretched grasping handmy

k to the worship of poseidon, the virile, aggressive, male earth shakerwhose symbol was the horse. a forgotten city called posideium, also known as mina, lies in to the northof lebanon in the turkish hatay. poseidons symbol was also the trident. this later became the thunder-bolt of zeus.moses and the burning bushjehovah announces himself as the god of thy father. it was not until the time of the prophet amos thatjehovah is raised to the level of the universal lord and creator god. jeremiah and ezekiel also followedsuit.the sakhraa sacred stone of the israelites that was contained in their temple of solomon. but, it was an object ofveneration long prior to this time. the ashlar of the freemasons is probably an analogue of it.age of aquariusthe age of aquarius opened 1750 a.d; planet uranus

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

side of god s throne. he is often associated with a metal cutting instrument which he uses as a weapon to strike down the enemies of god. some have suggested that gabriel at some point lost the favor of god, but was redeemed. it has also been remarked about gabriel that it was he, at the behest of the god, that confused the languages and divided man into his many current sub-races. islam and the prophet mohammed are said to have been guided by the teachings of gabriel. it was the duty of arch-angel raphael to bind azazel (lucifer) and cast him from the garden of eden and into darkness. raphael physical description is one of a handsome youth, arrayed in purple robes. it is said that raphael is among the gentlest of spirits, especially compared to the other arch-angels. jesus christ [5.3] f

MORALS AND DOGMA

th is as much his own as his reason is. his freedom consists as much in his faith being free as in his will being uncontrolled by power. all the priests and augurs of rome or greece had not the right to require cicero or socrates to believe in the absurd mythology of the vulgar. all the imaums of mohammedanism have not the right to require a pagan to believe that gabriel dictated the koran to the prophet. all the brahmins that ever lived, if assembled in one conclave like the cardinals, could not gain a right to compel a single human being to believe in the hindu cosmogony. no man or body of men _can_ be infallible, and authorized to decide what other men shall believe, as to any tenet of faith. except to those who first receive it, every religion and the truth of all inspired writings dep

verily a two-edged sword. matters of government and political science can be fairly dealt with only by sound reason, and the logic of common sense: not the common sense of the ignorant, but of the wise. the acutest thinkers rarely succeed in becoming leaders of men. a watchword or a catchword is more potent with the people than logic, especially if this be the least metaphysical. when a political prophet arises, to stir the dreaming, stagnant nation, and hold back its feet from the irretrievable descent, to heave the land as with an earthquake, and shake the silly-shallow idols from their seats, his words will come straight from god's own mouth, and be thundered into the conscience. he will reason, teach, warn, and rule. the real "sword of the spirit" is keener than the brightest blade of

lighten you as to the lion's grip and the master's gavel [hebrew, in the ancient phoenician character [symbols, and in the samaritan [symbols, a b (the two letters representing the numbers 1, 2, or unity and duality, means _father, and is a primitive noun, common to all the semitic languages) it also means an ancestor, originator, inventor, head, chief or ruler, manager, overseer, master, priest, prophet [hebrew] simply father, when it is in construction, that is, when it precedes another word, and in english the preposition "of" is interposed, as [hebrew, abi-al, the father of al. also, the final yod means "my; so that [hebrew] by itself means "my father [hebrew, david my father, 2 _chron_ ii. 3 [hebrew (vav) final is the possessive pronoun "his; and [hebrew _abiu (which we read "abif) me

e of god, and condemn and punish another for his belief. born in a protestant land, we are of that faith. if we had opened our eyes to the light under the shadows of st. peter's at rome, we should have been devout catholics; born in the jewish quarter of aleppo, we should have contemned christ as an imposter; in constantinople, we should have cried"_allah il allah, god is great and mahomet is his prophet" birth, place, and education give us our faith. few believe in any religion because they have examined the evidences of its authenticity, and made up a formal judgment, upon weighing the testimony. not one man in ten thousand knows anything about the _proofs_ of his faith. we believe what we are taught; and those are most fanatical who know least of the evidences on which their creed is ba

tter is a neighbor that is near, than a brother afar off. thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" in the same fifth century before christ, socrates the grecian said "thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" three generations earlier, zoroaster had said to the persians "offer up thy grateful prayers to the lord, the most just and pure ormuzd, the supreme and adorable god, who thus declared to his prophet zerdusht 'hold it not meet to do unto others what thou wouldst not desire done unto thyself; do that unto the people, which, when done to thyself, is not disagreeable unto thee" the same doctrine had been long taught in the schools of babylon, alexandria, and jerusalem. a pagan declared to the pharisee hillel, that he was ready to embrace the jewish religion, if he could make known to him

re singularly low and unworthy. even while moses was receiving the law upon mount sinai, they forced aarun to make them an image of the egyptian god apis, and fell down and adored it. they were ever ready to return to the worship of the gods of the mitzraim; and soon after the death of joshua they became devout worshippers of the false gods of all the surrounding nations "ye have borne" amos, the prophet, said to them, speaking of their forty years' journeying in the desert, under moses "the tabernacle of your malec and kaiun your idols, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. among them, as among other nations, the conceptions of god formed by individuals varied according to their intellectual and spiritual capacities; poor and imperfect, and investing god with the commonest an

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ng& any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. in a. c 's case, this secret name of nuit was babalon. see liber 333, chapter 49, and the commentary thereof. however, to each aspirant to her love she gives a secret name when at last he knows her. see liber nv, and verse 60 of this chapter. nevertheless, the name given to 666 is of generic importance to all thelemites, because of his office as prophet. that name is, therefore, the seal of the a and restriction to choronzon. see liber 156, and liber 418, the tenth aethyr. 23. but whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all! naturally, all aspirants fancy themselves candidates to this 'exalted office' as well. let them ponder that the 'chief must not care whether he is 'chief, or remains so, or, even, if he is 'obeyed' he must not

'exalted office' as well. let them ponder that the 'chief must not care whether he is 'chief, or remains so, or, even, if he is 'obeyed' he must not care even if he is a she! only venal or naive people hanker for public office. 24. i am nuit, and my word is six and fifty. see liber nv for this. but obviously, n= 50, v= 6. 25. divide, add, multiply, and understand. see liber nv. 26. then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: who am i, and what shall be the sign? so she answered him, bending down, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth& her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: thou knowest! and the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresen

utterly dense to the fact that other nations, specially the french and british, regard 'american institutions' as the lowest savagery, and forgetful or ignorant of the circumstance that the original brand of american freedom which really was freedom contained the precept to leave other people severely alone, and thus assured the possibility of expansion on his own lines to every man. 32. obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. this is so: i swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all i can give, by all i desire of ye all. it is proper to obey the beast, because his law is pure freedom, and he will give no command which is other than a right interpretation of this freedom. but

those centuries! indeed "unite by thine art so that all disappear. unite not destroy. unite together under the banner of an enlightened humanity, free of all the ignorant idiocy of national, cultural or religious prejudice; free to experience the grandeur of our true identity as radiant stars within the body of our lady nuit. any self-concept that falls short of this is utterly fallacious. 48. my prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the ox, and none by the book? crowley, who knew the attributions of ain, and its mystical meaning, had become troubled since the dictation of verse 45 "but are not the perfect, all of them, just one" he kept asking mentally as dictation went on. finally aiwass incorporates his doubt in the text, answering it out loud, and speaking for the godd

cannot do, not once in a life of ardour, is done in all fulness by the body that, loving, hath learnt the lesson of how to love. addendum: more generally, any act soever may be used to attain any end soever by the magician who knows how to make the necessary links. 53. this shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart& my tongue, unto whom i send this kiss. also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. but ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever to me! to me! it is clear that this 'kiss (i.e. this book) will regenerate earth by establishing the law of liberty 'my heart& my tongue' seems a mere phrase of endearment; but has possibly some deep significance which at present escapes me. heart--the seat of intelligenc

ond paragraph is perhaps an answer to some unspoken thought of my own that my work was accomplished. no: though i be 'of the princes, with the right to enter into my reward, it is my destiny to continue my work [inserted footnote "assuage thee: satisfy thine aspiration to attainment "absolve thee: relieve thee from further duty] 54. change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein. the subject changes most abruptly, perhaps answering some unspoken comment of the scribe on the capital t's in 'to me. this injunction was most necessary, for had i been left to myself, i should have wanted to edit the book ruthlessly. i find in it what i consider faults of style, and even of grammar; much of the matter was at the time

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

g consulted in his capacity as seer, and those who wished him to foretell events, watched for the hour of noon, when he was in the habit of coming up to the island of pharos,[42] with poseidon's flock of seals, which he tended at the bottom of the sea. surrounded by these creatures of the deep, he used to slumber beneath the grateful shade of the rocks. this was the favourable moment to seize the prophet, who, in order to avoid importunities, would change himself into an infinite variety of forms. but patience gained the day; for if he were only held long enough, he became wearied at last, and, resuming his true form, page 118 gave the information desired, after which he dived down again to the bottom of the sea, accompanied by the animals he tended [109] triton and the tritons. triton was

es, meleager (the slayer of the calydonian boar, orpheus (the renowned singer, menoctius (the father of patroclus, theseus (afterwards king of athens) and his friend pirithous (the son of ixion, hylas (the adopted son of heracles, euphemus (the son of poseidon, oileus (father of ajax the lesser, zetes and calais (the winged sons of boreas, idmon the seer (the son of apollo, mopsus (the thessalian prophet &c &c. before their departure jason offered a solemn sacrifice to poseidon and all the other sea-deities; he also invoked the protection of zeus and the fates, and then, mopsus having taken the auguries, and page 248 found them auspicious, the heroes stepped on board. and now a favourable breeze having sprung up, they take their allotted places [217]the anchor is weighed, and the ship glid

vided that one of their number should engage in a boxing-match with the king. pollux, who was the best pugilist in greece, was selected as their champion, and a contest took place, which, after a tremendous struggle, proved fatal to amycus, who had hitherto been victorious in all similar encounters. page 251 phineus and the harpies..they now proceeded towards bithynia, where reigned the blind old prophet-king phineus, son of agenor. phineus had been punished by the gods with premature old age and blindness for having abused the gift of prophecy. he was also tormented by the harpies, who swooped down upon his food, which they either devoured or so defiled as to render it unfit to be eaten. this poor old man, trembling with the weakness of age, and faint with hunger, appeared before the argo

as living unpunished at thebes. the king now invoked the most solemn imprecations on the head of the murderer, and offered a reward for any information concerning him. he then sent for the blind old seer tiresias, and implored him, by means of his prophetic powers, to reveal to him the author of the crime. tiresias at first hesitated, but yielding to the earnest solicitations of the king, the old prophet thus addressed him "thou thyself art the murderer of the old king laius, who was thy father; and thou art wedded to his widow, thine own mother" in order to convince oedipus of the truth of his words, he brought forward the old servant who had exposed him as a babe on mount citharon, and the shepherd who had conveyed him to king polybus. horrified at this awful revelation oedipus, in a fit

the sacrifices he now offered a black ram and ewe to the powers of darkness, whereupon crowds of shades rose up from the yawning gulf, clustering round him, eager to quaff the blood of the sacrifice, which would restore to them for a time their mental vigour. but mindful of the injunction of circe, odysseus brandished his sword, and suffered none to approach until tiresias had appeared. the great prophet now came slowly forward leaning on his golden staff, and after drinking of the sacrifice proceeded to impart to odysseus the hidden secrets of his future fate. tiresias also warned him of the numerous perils which would assail him, not only during his homeward voyage but also on his return to ithaca, and then instructed him how to avoid them. meanwhile numbers of other shades had quaffed t

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

decision to make. not only were the goddesses potentially dangerous, but they all tried to bribe him. hera offered riches and earthly dominion; athena wisdom and victory in battle; and aphrodite offered him helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. toward the end of the war paris was fatally wounded by philoctetes, a greek who had been called from the island of lemnos after a captured trojan prophet revealed that troy would never fall without his aid. armed with a bow that had once belonged to heracles (see p. 50, philoctetes shot paris with arrows dipped in the poison of the hydra. knowing he was in great danger paris returned to mount ida where he begged his former wife oenone to heal him. but oenone, so long abandoned, refused and paris died. she then killed herself out of grief. t

that he never visited her on a saturday. but raymond s brothers convinced him that she saw a lover on saturdays. finally he spied on her, saw her serpent s coils, and she disappeared forever. the story of v in m inen 76 the story of v in m inen v in m inen, hero of the finnish epic, the kalevala, was the first man on earth, and a singer and poet of magical powers. a great shaman, he was the main prophet and seer of the finnish people, who cleared the land, planted barley, and spent his time singing songs of creation. then, one day, a younger rival, joukahainen, challenged him to a singing match. angered at the boy s insolence, v in m inen sang him into a swamp and, despite his pleas, would not free him until joukahainen had promised him his sister aino in marriage. v in m inen was delight

PROMETHEUS

on of prometheus and pronoia, hesiod states in the first catalogue -the catalogues of women& eoiae frag 1 (from scholiast on apollonius rhodius arg. iii.1086 "against the wise prometheus bitter-wroth the sea-maids [nereides] were, remembering how that zeus, moved by his prophecies, unto peleus gave thetis to wife, a most unwilling bride. then cried in wrath to these kymothoe 'o that the pestilent prophet [prometheus] had endured all pangs he merited, when, deep-burrowing, the eagle tare his liver aye renewed -quintus smyrnaeus 5.334 "and there [depicted on the shield of eurypylos son of herakles, at the world's end, were kaukasos' long glens, where herakles, rending prometheos' chains, and hurling them this way and that with fragments of the rock whereinto they were riveted, set free the m

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

ls, a firmament with the likeness of ice" the "chayot" refers to the emotions. this is because the word chayot which means "living beings" also means "life force (chayoot. this refers to the vitality of the emotions of the heart, which is the seat of the life force "on the head of the chayot" refers to binah, for it is the comprehension and intellect of binah which gives rise to the emotions. the prophet explains further, that it is specifically a "firmament" of the comprehension, in the "likeness of ice, that gives rise to emotional life force. this is as explained before, that it is specifically concrete comprehension that gives rise to emotions. it is from this "firmament" that the "garment" of the "chashmal" is drawn down, to encompasses and "enclothe" the emotions. this will now be ex

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

depicted as having 3 geyes, h giving a total of 24 eyes. thus, although we usually associate the name havayah with the number 26, its numerical value, we see here that gstructurally h it can be associated with the number 24. these three names havayah are three shades of creative energy used in the restitution of reality being described here. the following section refers to the story of elijah the prophet and his contest on mt. carmel with the prophets of ba fal. in order to demonstrate the falseness of this idol, elijah assembled the people and told the prophets of ba fal to prepare an offering to it, while he prepared an offering to g-d. everyone agreed that if one of the offerings would be devoured by fire, it would indicate that the deity to which it was offered was the true g-d. 4 ezek

it was elijah fs turn, he first had pitchers of water poured on the altar, in order to demonstrate that the fire that was about to descend from heaven was indeed from heaven and not any trick he was performing. he poured so much water on his offering that it spilled over and filled the trench that he had dug around the altar. these [names havayah] correspond to the pitchers with which elijah the prophet, of blessed memory, filled the trench [around the altar he built. when he said, gfill four jars [with water c, h he intended these to correspond to the four letters of the name havayah [when he said, g cand pour it over the burnt offering and the wood, h he intended this to correspond to the first third of chesed of tiferet] when he said, gdo it a second time, h he intended this to corresp

d in his place, and the name of his city was pa fu. and his wife fs name was meheitavel bat matreid bat mei zehav. h1 we continue now with this exposition. the first king [bela ben be for] personified da fat, which [issues forth] after binah. opposite [da fat, in the realm of evil, issued [the gentile prophet] balaam ben be for [as the sages state, it is written in the torah that] gthere arose no prophet in israel like moses, h2 but amongst the gentiles there did arise such a prophet, namely balaam.3 just as moses personified da fat on the side of holiness, so did balaam [personify da fat] on the side of evil, inasmuch as he personified strict judgment. bela (beit-lamed-ayin) and balaam (beit-lamed-ayin-mem) are spelled exactly the same, except for the final mem at the end of balaam. thus

ed da fat on the side of holiness, so did balaam [personify da fat] on the side of evil, inasmuch as he personified strict judgment. bela (beit-lamed-ayin) and balaam (beit-lamed-ayin-mem) are spelled exactly the same, except for the final mem at the end of balaam. thus, they are considered to be the same person, or at least personifications of the same spiritual archetype. balaam was the gentile prophet hired by balak to curse the jews on the eve of their entry into the land of israel. he was granted prophecy.even though he misused this gift and was evil.so that the non-jews could not claim that had they, too, had a prophet like moses amongst their ranks, they would have accepted the torah and obeyed g-d fs word. moses personified the sefirah of da fat, subjective knowledge of g-d, and im

ed the jewish people, his divine presence (the shechinah) accompanies us, always available to us. gwait as a widow c. h [this image also applies to the shechinah] as it is written, g[o, how the populous city now dwells alone, the greatest amongst the nations] has become like a widow. h2 [the divine presence] has to be like a widow during the exile. this is opening of the book of lamentations, the prophet jeremiah fs dirge lamenting the destruction of jerusalem. jerusalem, the seat of the temple, is seen as the divine presence incarnate. exile is compared to widowhood since in exile, the divine presence (the wife, in this allegory) must exist without her husband (g-d. the shechinah, the sefirah of malchut of atzilut, descends into the lower worlds in order to sustain them and is prevented f

rael if they are worthy, or to purify the generation, or to teach them the torah if the generation is ignorant. this is why [jacob] said, glest he also die, h referring to the one [spark of the messiah] that comes in every generation. gdo not marry him, h he said, guntil he matures. he will then come to redeem israel by g-d fs will. h the remainder of this excerpt describes how in the case of the prophet habakkuk, we see also that g-d said that the time must be ripe for the redemption to occur. 3 obadiah 1:2. 4 genesis 49:10. the arizal on parashat vayeisheiv 195 we also see this in the case of habakkuk, who, according to some opinions, was the spark of the messiah in his generation. he said, gi will stand on my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

and the light. thou art osorronophris, whom no man hath seen at any time. thou art iabas. thou art iapos. thou hast distinguished between the just and the unjust <260> thou didst make the female and the male. thou didst produce the seed and the fruit. thou didst form men to love one another and to hate one another. i am (here insert sacramental name and grade) of the order of the r.r. et a.c, thy prophet unto whom thou didst commit thy mysteries, the ceremonies of the magic of light. thou didst produce the moist and the dry and that which nourisheth all created things. hear me thou. for i am the angel of paphro osorronophris. this is thy true name, handed down to the prophets of the sun. pause a while to formulate about you the banner of the east. then make rose cross over altar, vibrating

he mighty ones '1 q 61 emperor son of the morning, chief among the mighty. il t 62 hierophant magus of the eternal gods. 1 8 63 lovers children of the voice divine, the orades of the 1 lt <141> mighty gods. 64 chariot child of the power of the waters,lord of the triumph n 8 of light. 65 fortitude daughter of the flaming sword, leader of the lion. b q 66 hennit the magus of the voice of light, the prophet of v the gods. 67 wheel of forhme the lord of the forces of life. 3 3 68 justice daughter of the lord of truth, the holder of the 9 balances. 69 hanged man the spirit of the mighty waters. d v 70 death the child of the great transformers, lord of the 2 rrl gates of death. 71 temperance daughter of the reconcilers, the bringer forth of b f life. 72 devil lord of the gates of matter, child o

again shown by cards connected with it) compare with death and moon. 3. empress. beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, also luxury and sometimes dissipation, but only if with very evil cards. 4. emperor. war, conquest, victory, strife, ambition. 5. hierophant. divine wisdom. manifestation. explanation. teaching. differing from, though resembling in some respects, the meaning of the magician, the prophet, and the lovers. occult wisdom. 6. the lovers. inspiration (passive and in some cases mediumistic, thus differing from that of the hierophant and magician and prophet) motive, power, and action, arising from inspiration and impulse <205> 7. the chariot. triumph. victory. health. success though sometimes not stable and enduring. 8. justice. eternal justice and balance. strength and force, b

tive, power, and action, arising from inspiration and impulse <205> 7. the chariot. triumph. victory. health. success though sometimes not stable and enduring. 8. justice. eternal justice and balance. strength and force, but arrested as in the act of judgment. compare with 11-fortitude. also in combination with other cards, legal proceedings, a court of law, a trial at law, etc. 9. the hermit, or prophet. wisdom sought for and obtained from above. divine inspiration (but active as opposed to that of the lovers. in the mystical titles, this with the hierophant and the magician are the 3 magi. 10. wheel of fortune. good fortune and happiness (within bounds, but sometimes also a species of intoxication with success, if the cards near it bear this out. 11. fortitude (at one time 8 justice and

m the ecliptic to 45' of south latitude 65. fortitude. rules the whole of leo, from the point of regulus or cor leonis. stars. the fore-legs and hind-feet of leo, greater part of the sextans and of crater, the cups, part of the body of hydra, the great water ser <226> pent, greater part of antlia pneumatics, the air pump, greater part of pyxis nautica, a small part of the ship argo. 66. hermit or prophet. rules the whole of virgo. stars. left arm, hand, and arm of virgo, and her ear of corn; part of the body of hydra, corvus, the crow, part of crater, tail and right hand of cent a u r t he, man-horse, small part of air-pump and of argo. 68. justice. rules the whole of libra. stars. part of the south scale of libra, tail of hydra, head, body, armsand forefeet of centaurus. legs, body and ta

REGARDIE TALISMANS

ore, i see no reason why the student should be confined to the bible or any other single book for his authority in the projects involved. the day has long since passed when the average intelligent person knew no other sacred scriptures than those of his own family, country and religion. if he knows the koran, the bhagavad gita, the book of mormon, or even kahlil gibran s exquisite masterpiece the prophet, or keenly appreciates some lines from shakespeare, dante gabriel rossetti, or perhaps charles swinburne, there is no conceivable reason why these should not be used instead of some other. the sole requirement is that the student should be emotionally moved by or involved in the quotation employed. in the last resort, let me assert here that rituals and talismans and all ceremonial magic b

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

m of indirect homage rendered to the supreme being. i have not been able to learn who these reputed saints were, and the modern yezeedees are quite ignorant as to the time when they lived or died. the names by which they are designated, such as sheikh aboo-bekr, sheikh mohammed &c, must be regarded as fictitious, and invented to conciliate the moslems, since they do not admit the mission of their prophet or the authority of the kor n, and their sheikhs they affirm to have lived long before mohammed. i have often inquired whether it was not possible for a new sheikh to rise up among them now-a-days, and the answer has been a decided negative. sometimes they affirm that the shaks occupy the sites where the sheikhs have sat, sometimes where they are buried, sometimes that they are only cenota

noch; and a slight infusion of the gospel has transformed the last remnant of the polytheists, into the christians of s. john, in the territory of bassora" it is not within the scope of this work to trace with precision, the relation existing between the modern yezeedees and the magians of old; enough has been advanced to show p. 127 that the religious system of both took its rise from the famous prophet and philosopher of the persians, and the after history of the yezeedees, their admixture with christians, and subjection to moslem rule, will fully account for any variations in their present opinions and rites, from those which they originally professed and practised. fr. 1 fn. 1. mr. layard, in his "nineveh and its remains (vol. ii. p. 462) gives the annexed sketch of a bird from one of

814, when jebel toor was under the government of bedr khan beg, the yezeedees of that district were subjected to the most wanton oppression by that tyrannical coord, in order to force them to embrace islamism. many underwent imprisonment, stripes, and other indignities, and a few angered death, rather than renounce their creed; but seven entire villages became the professed followers of the false prophet. the tanzeem t khairiyyeh, or beneficial ordinance, lately issued by the sultan, has wrought a great change in the local administration of the turkish provinces, and the yezeedees are now free from many of those exactions and hardships under which they formerly laboured. an imperial edict has also been p. 134 issued permitting such as were made mohammedans by force to return to their own c

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

to volney and dupuis, to dupuis above all, whose immense erudition produced only a negative work, for in the origin of all religions he saw nothing but astronomy, taking thus the symbolic cycle for doctrine and the calendar for legend. he was deficient in one branch of knowledge, that of true magic which comprises the secrets of the kabalah. dupuis passed through the antique sanctuaries, like the prophet ezekiel over the plain strewn with bones, and only understood death, for want of that word which collects the virtue of the four winds and can make a living people of all the vast ossuary, by crying to the ancient symbols: arise! take up a new form and walk! but the hour has come when we must have the courage to attempt what no one has dared to perform previously. like julian, we would reb

mans. the magical images of the ancients were pantacles, i.e. kabalistic syntheses. thus the wheel of pythagoras is a pantacle analogous to the wheels of ezekiel; the two emblems contain the same secrets and belong to the 91 same philosophy; they constitute the key of all pantacles, and we have made mention previously of both. the four living creatures or rather the four-headed sphinx of the same prophet are identical with the admirable indian symbol of adda-nari, given on the next page, as having reference to the great arcanum. in his apocalypse st. john followed and elaborated ezekiel; indeed the monstrous figures of his wonderful book are so many magical pantacles, the key of which is easily discoverable by kabalists. on the other hand, christians, rejecting science in their anxiety to

number into primitive hebrew characters, will write the occult name of the great arcanum, and will possess a word of which the sacred tetragram itself is only the equivalent and the image. to be a diviner, according to the force of the term, is hence to be divine, and something more mysterious still. now, the two signs of human divinity, or of divine humanity, are prophecies and miracles. to be a prophet is to see beforehand the effects which exist in causes, to read in the astral light; to work miracles is to act upon the universal agent and subject it to our will. the author of this book will be asked whether he is a prophet and thaumaturge. let inquirers recur to all that he wrote before certain events took place in the world; and as to anything else that he may have said or done, would

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

medicine dispenses with them and no serious inconvenience follows. oil and wine, combined with salt or camphor, are sufficient for the healing of all wounds and for all external frictions or soothing applications. oil and the thaumaturge 121 wine are the chief medicaments of gospel tradition. they formed the balm of the good samaritan, and in the apocalypse. when describing the last plagues. the prophet prays the avenging powers to spare these substances, that is, to leave a hope and a remedy for so many wounds. what we term extreme unction was the pure and simple practice of the master's traditional medicine, both for the early christians and in the mind of the apostle saint james, who has included the precept in his epistle to the faithful of the whole world. gif any man be sick among y

ligently to consult you. we have said that the astral light is the great book of divinations; the faculty of reading therein is either natural or acquired, and there are hence two classes of seers, the instinctive and the initiated. this is why children, uneducated people, shepherds, even idiots, have more aptitude for natural divination than scholars and thinkers. the simple herd-boy david was a prophet even as solomon, king of kabalists and magi. the perceptions of instinct are often as certain as those of science; those who are least clairvoyant in the astral light are those who reason most. somnambulism is a state of pure instinct, and hence somnambulists require to be directed by a seer of science: sceptics and reasoners merely lead them astray. divinatory vision operates only in the

oral force. hieroglyph, the devil, the goat of mendes, or the baphomet of the temple, with all his pantheistic attributes. this is the only hieroglyph which was properly understood and interpreted correctly by etteilla. u the heaven of the moon, alterations, subversions, changes, failings. hieroglyph, a tower struck by lightning, probably that of babel. two persons, doubtless nimrod and his false prophet or minister, are precipitated from the summit of the ruins. one of the personages in his fall reproduces perfectly the letter ayin. p heaven of the soul, outpourings of thought, moral influence of idea on form, immortality. hieroglyph, the blazing star and eternal youth. we have described this symbol previously. x the elements, the visible world, reflected light, material forms, symbolism

s hands; he opens the great abyss of central fire, where death sleeps beneath the canopy of darkness, where sleeps the great serpent awaiting the wakening of the ages. h the author connects this sublime allegory of st. john with that of daniel, wherein the four forms of the sphinx are applied to the chief periods of history, where the man-sun, the word-light, consoles and instructs the seer. gthe prophet daniel beholds a sea tossed by the four winds of heaven, and beasts differing one from another come out of the depths of the ocean. the empire of all things on earth was given them for a time, two times, and the dividing of time. they were four who so came forth. the first beast, symbol of the solar race of seers, came from the region of africa, resembling a lion and having eagle's wings:

mbols. remark, in effect, that the word allegory itself signifies in celtic definition, change of discourse, translation. the observation just made applies exactly to all barbarian cosmogonical language. seers made use of the same inspired radical to express nourishment and instruction. is not the science of truth the nourishment of the soul? thus, the scroll of papyrus, or the book, eaten by the prophet ezekiel; the little volume which the angel gave as food to the author of the apocalypse; the festivities of the magical palace of asgard, to which gangler was invited by har the sublime; the miraculous multiplication of seven loaves narrated of the nazarene by the evangelists; the living bread which jesus-sun gave his disciples to eat, saying, ethis is my body f; and a host of similar stor

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lish house at mortlake, and report privately to elizabeth. we may set aside the discussion about the reality or delusion of dee's activities, as this has been extensively covered elsewhere.[4] http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_1.htm (3 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:33:52 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 1-9) more or less contemporary with dee was the famous astrologer, doctor of medicine, and prophet, michel de notre- dame, nostradamus. the techniques used by nostradamus were clearly defined in his own words,[8] and far from being a hermetic or kabbalistic system, as we might expect from a jewish (converted to christian) doctor, he uses a system of prophetic inspiration that may be traced back to both the classical greek and roman and ancient celtic world. we shall return introduction

underworld. the reader should be familiar by now with the hallmarks of the underworld tradition as suggested, and will be able to find clues in the works of great thinkers and metaphysicians. he or she will also be surprised at the absence of such clues in the works of apparently reputed representatives of western religion, ethics and philosophy. thomas of ercledoune, therefore, was renowned as a prophet during his own lifetime (and in his own country, and printed versions of his accurate predictions were circulated after his death, some still active as late as the nineteenth century. his pre-vision was the result of the underworld initiation, gained by his relationship with the faery queen, as described in the famous old ballads and the romance text which bear his name. thomas is also sai

cosmology is very close indeed to that described by kirk. many aspects of the vita merlini correspond to be-liefs reported in the secret commonwealth as being active in seventeenth-century gaelic tradition. both the twelfth-century merlin texts and perennial oral tradition are rooted in celtic pagan religion. creation of the world elements and circles meanwhile taliesin had come to see merlin the prophet who had sent for him to find out what caused wind or rainstorms, for both together were drawing near and the clouds were thickening. he drew the following illustrations under the guidance of minerva his associate. out of nothing the creator of the world produced four elements that they might be the prior cause as well as the material for creating all things when they were joined together i

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mation of faith instead (4) condemnation of the use of force for religious conversion, and (5 "the two realms [spiritual grace and political power] concept, which licenses unchristian acts if commanded by secular authority. to these essentially lutheran points calvin adds a strong element of church coercion of the individual and intolerance of alternative religions "god makes plain that the false prophet is to be stoned without mercy. we are to crush beneath our heel all affections of nature when his honor is involved" luther and calvin believed that mankind is totally depraved. that even "good works" fall short of god's standards of righteousness. the reason for ethical behavior is that a righteous man will automatically incline towards such behavior, not because it is logically or ethica

es, no progressive history. nothing external to help him. thus disillusioned, he is strongly tempted to abandon all aspirations and live only for selfgratification and comfort. this is nietzsche's "last man" he seeks neither power nor social inequalities; he wants society "leveled. everyone the same"`we have invented happiness' say the last men, and they blink [nietzsche considered marx to be the prophet of the "last man" ideology] nietzsche lashes out at the states of his time because he feels that they are tending towards the "last man" condition. this is also his essential objection to christianity and democracy: they destroy man's creative powers and opportunities to distinguish himself in society. as the democratic world becomes more cynical of governments and disillusioned by religio

im very hard precepts, wholly different from the institution of the grecians, which he readily performed, to their so great admiration, that they gave him power to sacrifice to the gods, and to acquaint himself with all their studies, which was never known to have been granted to any forraigner besides. clemens alexandrinus relates particularly, that he was disciple to sonchedes, an egyptian arch-prophet. the sphinx: again something catches my eye. that comment about egyptian initiation normally being reserved for the pharaoh and the priesthood alone. in the statesman plato writes:16 for the priest and the diviner have great social standing and a keen sense of their own importance. they win veneration and respect because of the high tasks they undertake. this is shown in the fact that in e

path (l.h.p) here. and who does jesus claim are the l.h.p. followers? anyone who does not accept his teaching is a l.h.p. follower according to jesus. john 6:70 jesus answered then, have not i chosen you twelve, and one of you is a satanist? this one is brilliant. gather your (few remaining) supporters, and claim that one of them is the enemy. if something goes wrong, you come out looking like a prophet. if everything remains normal, your statement will soon be forgotten. luke 22:31 and the lord said, simon, simon, behold, satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat. and satan said, simon, simon, get a hold on yourself, jehovah hath desired to take your soul, that he may separate you from you. thus we can see much evidence in the bible for the existence of satan. though

e dragon to fight against michael? for everyone knows departed angels become daemons. so if angels join with the dragon, then this says there are still malcontent angels in the heavens. and if the angels feel like this, woe be unto the soul that ends up there. the deceiver: revelation 20:10 and the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. they will be tormended day and night for ever and ever. here we have another example of how christians have inverted the truth. they would have us believe that satan not only is the deceiver, but is himself deceived. satan proposed this unto you: is it not jehovah who is the true deceiver of multitudes? and, if satan desireth not thy soul, what does jehovah intend to do wi

. as jehovah assumes the role of father, satan assumes the role of the father figure. jesus christ is likened to the antichrist. at one point they are both flesh and blood. and the satanic spirit becomes the counter to the holy spirit. revelation 16:13 and i saw three unholy spirits like fire come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. the biblical authority of satanic churches and temples: revelation 2:9 i know thy works, and tribulations, and poverty (but thou art rich, and i know the blasphemy of them which say they are jews and are not, but are the synagogue of satan. christians should rally to our cause. their own ultimate prayers can never become realized until the satanic prophecies are fulfilled. satan has his d

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struck him as a failure in his own sight that he had never seen a ghost. he would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of greentinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would be able to see through the dense, blinding air to the fabulous world beneath. from his mother naima najmuddin he heard a great many stories of the prophet, and if inaccuracies had crept into her versions he wasn't interested in knowing what they were "what a man" he thought "what angel would not wish to speak to him" sometimes, though, he caught himself in the act of forming blasphemous thoughts, for example when without meaning to, as he drifted off to sleep in his cot at the mhatre residence, his somnolent fancy began to compare his own co

ies had crept into her versions he wasn't interested in knowing what they were "what a man" he thought "what angel would not wish to speak to him" sometimes, though, he caught himself in the act of forming blasphemous thoughts, for example when without meaning to, as he drifted off to sleep in his cot at the mhatre residence, his somnolent fancy began to compare his own condition with that of the prophet at the time when, having been orphaned and short of funds, he made a great success of his job as the business manager of the wealthy widow khadija, and ended up marrying her as well. as he slipped into sleep he saw himself sitting on a rose-strewn dais, simpering shyly beneath the sari-pallu which he had placed demurely over his face, while his new husband, babasaheb mhatre, reached loving

looked like without clothes on. to get his mind off the subject of love and desire, he studied, becoming an omnivorous autodidact, devouring the metamorphic myths of greece and rome, the avatars of jupiter, the boy who became a flower, the spider-woman, circe, everything; and the theosophy of annie besant, and unified field theory, and the incident of the satanic verses in the early career of the prophet, and the politics of muhammad's harem after his return to mecca in triumph; and the surrealism of the newspapers, in which butterflies could fly into young girls' mouths, asking to be consumed, and children were born with no faces, and young boys dreamed in impossible detail of earlier incarnations, for instance in a golden fortress filled with precious stones. he filled himself up with go

sh backing group, yes, the three of them, lat manat uzza, motherless girls laughing with their abba, giggling behind their hands at gibreel, what a trick we got in store for you, they giggle, for you and for that businessman on the hill. but before the businessman there are other stories, here he is, archangel gibreel, revealing the spring of zamzam to hagar the egyptian so that, abandoned by the prophet ibrahim with their child in the desert, she might drink the cool spring waters and so live. and later, after the jurhum filled up zamzam with mud and golden gazelles, so that it was lost for a time, here he is again, pointing it out to that one, muttalib of the scarlet tents, father of the child with the silver hair who fathered, in turn, the businessman. the businessman: here he comes. so

the city's water comes from underground streams and springs, one such being the fabled zamzam, at the heart of the concentric sand- city, next to the house of the black stone. here, at zamzam, is a beheshti, a despised water--carrier, drawing up the vital, dangerous fluid. he has a name: khalid. a city of businessmen, jahilia. the name of the tribe is _shark. in this city, the businessman-turned-prophet, mahound, is founding one of the world's great religions; and has arrived, on this day, his birthday, at the crisis of his life. there is a voice whispering in his ear _what kind of idea are you? man-or-mouse_ we know that voice. we've heard it once before. o o o while mahound climbs coney, jahilia celebrates a different anniversary. in ancient time the patriarch ibrahim came into this val

al and salman, forgetting baal, follow khalid. all three are nervous, young. he's still not home, hamza reports. and khalid, worried: but it's been hours, what is that bastard doing to him, torture, thumbscrews, whips? salman, once again, is the calmest: that isn't simbel's style, he says, it's something sneaky, depend upon it. and bilal bellows loyally: sneaky or not, i have faith in him, in the prophet. he won't break. hamza offers only a gentle rebuke: oh, bilal, how many times must he tell you? keep your faith for god. the messenger is only a man. the tension bursts out of khalid: he squares up to old hamza, demands, are you saying that the messenger is weak? you may be his uncle. hamza clouts the water-carrier on the side of the head. don't let him see your fear, he says, not even whe

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t at which matter first appears. 1st choir: seraphim the fiery flying serpents of lightning, from the hebrew ser meaning higher being and rapha meaning healer. the name thus suggests the image of the caduceus, the serpent or dragon as a symbol of healing sacred to aesculapius, and the ourobouros of the gnostic ophites. their appearance before humankind is as six winged and four headed beings. the prophet isiah saw flaming angels above the throne of god; each had six wings: two covered the face, two covered the feet and two were used for flying. it is they who endlessly circle the throne of god, chanting the hebrew trisagion- kadosh, kadosh, kadosh, commonly translated as holy, holy, holy is the lord god of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory. such is the song of creation, and the f

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

e of primary source documents: world religions: biographies (two volumes) presents the biographies of fifty men and women who have played a critical role in the world s religions throughout history. among those profiled are abraham, whose influence is seen in three of the modern world s most influential religions: judaism, christianity, and islam; muhammad, considered the final and most important prophet by muslims; and siddhartha gautama, who became known as the buddha. modern figures include the hindu teacher swami vivekananda and baha u lla h, the founder of the baha faith. women who made significant impacts on religion are also featured, including mother maria skobtsova, an orthodox christian nun who worked to save many during the holocaust. world religions: primary sources (one volume

ng daoling (also spelled chang tao-ling, who becomes the first of the great celestial masters in daoism. 224 651 during the sassanid dynasty, zoroastrianism spreads aggressively throughout the persian empire. 313 the roman emperor constantine converts to christianity. 380 the emperor theodosius i declares christianity the official religion of the roman empire. 610 according to islamic belief, the prophet muhammad begins receiving revelations and prophecies from the archangel jabra il (gabriel. 632 the death of muhammad marks the beginning of a long period of islamic civil war and separation of islam into sunni and shiite sects. xii world religions: almanac timeline of events 1054 the christian church is formally divided into two distinct branches: the roman catholic church and the eastern

evates the status of goddesses over that of gods. golden temple: the chief sikh temple, located in the city of amritsar in india; more formally, the sri harmandir sahib. gurdwara: a sikh temple or place of worship. guru: a religious teacher. ha-ne-go-ate-geh: the evil-minded, the evil spirit of the iroquois nation. ha-wen-ne-yu: the great spirit of the iroquois nation. hadiths: the sayings of the prophet muhammad recorded by his followers. xx world religions: almanac words to know haj: pilgrimage to the holy city of mecca. halal: permissible activities for muslims. hanukkah: the jewish festival of lights commemorating the rededication of the first temple. haram: prohibited activities for muslims. heretic: a person whose beliefs oppose his or her religion s official doctrines, or defining p

in the shinto creation myth. izanami: the female figure in the shinto creation myth. jinja: shrine. jinn: evil spirits that tempt a person away from dedication to allah. jinn: literally, conquerors; the great teachers of jainism who have conquered their earthly passions. world religions: almanac xxi words to know jiva: the soul. junzi: a gentleman or superior man. ka aba: the shrine built by the prophet abraham in the holy city of mecca and the focal point of pilgrimages to the city. kama: gratification of the senses. kami: the gods or divinities of shinto; the life force or spirit associated with places, natural objects, and ancestors. kami-dana: a kami shelf or altar in a private home. kara: a steel bracelet, worn by sikhs as a symbol of god. karma: the result of good or bad actions in

wisdom about the unity of everything in existence and how to become closer to it. philosophy: the study of morals and reality by logical reasoning to gain a greater understanding of the world. world religions: almanac xxv words to know polytheism: a religion worshiping many gods. pravritti: people who choose to live in the world rather than withdraw from it. prophecy: prediction of future events. prophet: a person chosen to serve as god s messenger. pu: uncarved or unformed; the state of simplicity to which daoists try to return. puja: worship. purusharthas: the four aims of hinduism or the doctrine of the fourfold end of life. purva: the original jain sacred texts, now lost. pyramid: a stone tomb constructed to house a deceased pharaoh of egypt. qi: the breath of life or vital energy that

sts try to return. puja: worship. purusharthas: the four aims of hinduism or the doctrine of the fourfold end of life. purva: the original jain sacred texts, now lost. pyramid: a stone tomb constructed to house a deceased pharaoh of egypt. qi: the breath of life or vital energy that flows through the body and the earth. qur an: the sacred scriptures of islam; contains the revelations given to the prophet muhammad revealed to him beginning in 610. ra kah: a unit of prayer. rationalism: belief that knowledge can come exclusively from the mind. reform: one of the sects of judaism, generally used to refer to the less traditional branch of the faith. regla de ocha: the formal name for the santer an religion. rehit maryada: the sikh code of ethical conduct. religious daoism: a form of daoism tha

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ll heal your backslidings [he also says (ezekiel 18:30, return and bring back. what is the meaning of the verse, return and bring back? come back and ask those seven to return with you. the scripture therefore says, and bring back those regarding which it is written, seven for your sin. 68. the disciples asked rabbi rahumai: what is the meaning of the verse (habakkuk 3:1, a prayer of habakkuk the prophet, for errors. a prayer? it should be called a praise [since it speaks of god s greatness. but whoever turns his heart from worldly affairs and delves in the works of the chariot* is accepted before god as if he prayed all day. it is therefore called a prayer. what is the meaning of for errors? as it is written [regarding wisdom (proverbs 5:19, with its love you shall always err. regarding w

SETH IN THE MAGICKAL TEXTS

ding, inter alia, adam, seth, noah, methusala (maqousa a; die kopischen zaubertexte der sammlung papyrus erzherzog rainer in wien, ed. v. stegemann, sb. heid. ak. d. wiss, phil.-hist. kl. 1933/4, 1 [heidelberg 1934] 70 xlv [108. lists of the biblical heroes from adam to moses play a great role in jewish christianity; see c. gieschen "the seven pillars of the world: ideal figures lists in the true prophet christology of the pseudo-clementine literature, journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha, forthcoming. 24 w.c. crum, catalogue of the coptic manuscripts in the british museum (london 1905) 147. seth in the magical texts 91 we have still to discuss doresse's reference to the existence of certain egyptian figurines of seth as evidence for a welding of seth-typhon and christ. doresse in a

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

t follow the razor. for you, venerable malesherbes; for you, aimar nicolai; for you, learned bailly, i see them dress the scaffold! and all the while, o great philosophers, your murderers will have no word but philosophy on their lips" the hush was complete and universal when the pupil of voltaire the prince of the academic sceptics, hot la harpe cried with a sarcastic laugh "do not flatter me, o prophet, by exemption from the fate of my companions. shall i have no part to play in this drama of your fantasies" at this question, cazotte's countenance lost its unnatural expression of awe and sternness; the sardonic humour most common to it came back and played in his brightening eyes "yes, la harpe, the most wonderful part of all! you will become a christian" this was too much for the audien

too much for the audience that a moment before seemed grave and thoughtful, and they burst into an immoderate fit of laughter, while cazotte, as if exhausted by his predictions, sank back in his chair, and breathed hard and heavily "nay" said madame de g "you who have predicted such grave things concerning us, must prophesy something also about yourself" a convulsive tremor shook the involuntary prophet, it passed, and left his countenance elevated by an expression of resignation and calm "madame" said he, after a long pause "during the siege of jerusalem, we are told by its historian that a man, for seven successive days, went round the ramparts, exclaiming 'woe to thee, jerusalem, woe to myself "well, cazotte, well "and on the seventh day, while he thus spoke, a stone from the machines

d to "this: that you have faculties that may attain to surpassing power, that may rank you among those enchanters who, greater than the magian, leave behind them an enduring influence, worshipped wherever beauty is comprehended, wherever the soul is sensible of a higher world than that in which matter struggles for crude and incomplete existence "but to make available those faculties, need i be a prophet to tell you that you must learn to concentre upon great objects all your desires? the heart must rest, that the mind may be active. at present you wander from aim to aim. as the ballast to the ship, so to the spirit are faith and love. with your whole heart, affections, humanity, centred in one object, your mind and aspirations will become equally steadfast and in earnest. viola is a child

do not think myself of such importance that the operations of nature should be changed in order to frighten me "but why should the operations of nature be changed? there may be a deeper philosophy than we dream of, a philosophy that discovers the secrets of nature, but does not alter, by penetrating, its courses "ah, you relapse into your heretical credulity; you seriously suppose zanoni to be a prophet, a reader of the future; perhaps an associate of genii and spirits" here the landlord, a little, fat, oily fellow, came up with a fresh bottle of lacrima. he hoped their excellencies were pleased. he was most touched touched to the heart, that they liked the macaroni. were their excellencies going to vesuvius? there was a slight eruption; they could not see it where they were, but it was p

herhood and nature! unveiling all our secrets, piercing space and traversing worlds! mejnour, what awful learning lies hid in the ignorance of the heart that loves "the heart" answered the mystic, coldly "ay, for five thousand years i have ransacked the mysteries of creation, but i have not yet discovered all the wonders in the heart of the simplest boor "yet our solemn rites deceived us not; the prophet-shadows, dark with terror and red with blood, still foretold that, even in the dungeon, and before the deathsman, i, i had the power to save them both "but at some unconjectured and most fatal sacrifice to thyself "to myself! icy sage, there is no self in love! i go. nay, alone: i want thee not. i want now no other guide but the human instincts of affection. no cave so dark, no solitude so

her awful silence to shriek to her relentless god! how ghastly, at the entrance of the house of atreus, about to become her tomb, rang out her exclamations of foreboding woe "dwelling abhorred of heaven! human shamble-house and floor blood-bespattered (aesch "agam" 1098) dost thou remember how, amidst the breathless awe of those assembled thousands, i drew close to thee, and whispered "verily, no prophet like the poet! this scene of fabled horror comes to me as a dream, shadowing forth some likeness in my own remoter future" as i enter this slaughterhouse that scene returns to me, and i hearken to the voice of cassandra ringing in my ears. a solemn and warning dread gathers round me, as if i too were come to find a grave, and "the net of hades" had already entangled me in its web! what dar

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property and marry her lover. presently the mob which had gathered together wanted to set her house on fire, and some people began to stone her; the small boys also threw stones at her. when she had denied the accusation, and had called upon the gods to be witnesses of her innocence, the old man cried out "let, then, divine providence decide the truth, in answer to her denial. behold, the famous prophet zaclas the egyptian, dwelleth among us, and he hath promised me that for much money he will make the soul of the dead man to return from the place of death p. 14 in the underworld, and to make it to dwell in his body again for a short time" with these words, he led forward a man dressed in linen, and wearing palm-leaf sandals, who, like all the egyptian priests, had his head shaved, and ha

o fight them, he retired into a certain chamber, and having brought forth a bowl which he kept for the purpose, he filled it with water, and then, having made wax figures of the ships and men of the enemy, and also of his own men and ships, he set them upon the water in the bowl, his men on one side, and those of the enemy on the other. he then came out, and having put on the cloak of an egyptian prophet and taken an ebony rod in his hand, he returned into the chamber, and uttering words of power he invoked the gods who help men to work magic, and the winds, and the subterranean demons, which straightway came to his aid. by their means the figures of the men in wax sprang into life and began to fight, and the ships of wax began to move about likewise; but the figures which represented his

that didst create earth and heaven, that didst create night and day, thee the creator of light and darkness. thou art osoronnophris, whom no man hath seen at any time; thou art iabas, thou art iapos, thou hast distinguished the just and the unjust, thou didst make female and male, thou didst produce seeds and fruits, thou didst make men to love one another and to bate one another. i am moses thy prophet, to whom thou didst commit thy mysteries, the ceremonies of israel; thou didst produce the moist and the dry and all manner of food. listen to me: i am an angel of phapro osoronnophris; this is thy true name, handed down to the prophets of israel. listen to me. 2" in this passage the name osoronnophris is clearly a corruption of the old egyptian names of the p. 177 great god of the dead "a

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ts in its shape a cross-headed yoke or gibbet, and by others, the hammer of thor. in looking at its origin, it could be said that it is phoenician or egyptian. for the 3 bottom of the ankh, the egyptian symbol of life, is a t cross. it could be said to be the male part of the ankh symbol. in contemplating the christian origin of the t cross, we need to look in ezekiel (ix. 4, for we read that the prophet was commanded by god to go through jerusalem and to "set a mark upon the foreheads" of certain men, presumably as a sign of their exemption from judgment. the hebrew word which is translated as "mark" is tau and some have identified the sign tau with the t cross. tertullian, in commenting on the passage, says of the sign "ipsa enim litera graecorum t, nostra autem species crucis (adversus

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real. they teach it to their children as part of the oral history. they believe that it was one of the greatest civilizations that ever existed, and one of the most advanced. what they teach. their take on it is that atlantis was a great race of highly intelligent people who had a highly advanced faith, and who were highly enlightened. but what they teach the illuminati children is that then this prophet of the enemy, who was a prophet of god, came and foretold their destruction if they didn't change their ways. they were definitely occultists. they were luciferians on atlantis. that was the religion. and in fact, a lot of the advances that atlantis enjoyed was passed down to them through supernatural means. that is what i will say. so they laughed at the prophet. in fact they killed him

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ven by mormon founder joseph smith as he lay dying on the floor of an illinois jail on a variety of criminal charges. lying bleeding and desperate, smith's raspy voice could be heard crying out the plaintive, masonic wail, calling on masons to help a brother in dire trouble "is there no help for the widow's son" joseph smith no doubt could not believe that he, a man who claimed to be god's chosen prophet but who secretly worshipped lucifer; he, a man of such superior intellect and endowed with the occult gift of spiritual enlightenment, was about to meet his maker, a victim of a vigilante mob who despised him. jack parsons, american rocket scientist, founder of california's jet propulsion laboratory, and a priest of the o.t.o, was, like mormon joseph smith, a premier servant of satan and a

ets, may all the sins of the dead person whose skull he is drinking from be heaped upon his, the candidate's, head.6 so we see that the mason's newfound "god" jahbuhlun (jah-baal-on, is a rigid taskmaster who does not look kindly on traitors and blabbers. it was the canaanite god baal, of course, to whom the backslidden jews and pagans sacrificed their children in the fire. you'll recall that the prophet elijah brought the message of god's judgement against those who worshipped bloodthirsty baal, who, in reality, is merely an idolatrous representation of satan. yes, baal is the devil. to attempt in vain to combine the name of the true god with that of false gods like baal and on is particularly evil and grievous to the true god in heaven. yet, the mason does exactly this with jahbuhlun and

one of his chief logos the sign of the double-headed eagle (symbolizing one body of god, two heads) the triple tau yet another proof of the deviltry of the jahbuhlun hoax is the symbol of the triple tau, which is the most important symbol of the royal arch degree. made up of three interlinking tau symbols (t, these three are said to represent a triad of sacred, jewish powers of king, priest, and prophet. in other words, the mason assumes a trinity of the triple tau is the most significant symbol, or logo, of the royal arch mason. it represents the mason who has reached either the seventh degree of the york rite or 13th degree of the scottish rite as embodying within the attributes of the godhead, or holy trinity, by blasphemously declaring himself to be the great i am that i am, thus iden

er of exodus in the holy bible "and the lord said unto moses, put now thine hand into thy bosom; and he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold his hand was leprous as snow" leprous, indeed, is the hand of the mason who vainly seeks to hide and coverup his fides oath of allegiance to jahbuhlun, his sacred god. but, believe me, there is no relationship of the mason to moses, a prophet of god who loyally worshipped the true i am, the god who reigns for all eternity in heaven. hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 59 60 codex magica george washington in a masonic pose. around his neck is the emblem of the moon goddess, feminine complement to the sun god, osiris, secretly worshipped in occult freemasonry. this emblem, combined with the diamond-shaped device just above it, in

green man; about pan, the horned witch god; and about crowley and his ordo templi orientis (o.t.o. since the days of alexander the great, the horned god has been worshipped by a significant portion of mankind. the holy bible records, for example, the worship of baal, the horned fire god. michaelangelo and some other artists, strangely, created sculptures blasphemously showing moses, the biblical prophet, with horns. all of these horned deities and images represent lust, because the horn is itself a phallic symbol in the occult world. of stars and goatees in recent times, communist revolutionaries adopted the star, also symbol of baphomet (see the star on the baphomet goat's forehead in this chapter, and some karl marx, che gueverra and others adopted the huge and straggly beard in honor o

ed, occult sect, satanic secret society, and witchcraft cult that has arisen in the past one thousand years! the cabala brings together in one neat package the core of all the mystery teachings of the ancients. indeed, the holy bible gives evidence that the jewish elders had brought the mysteries into the temple and had conducted secret ceremonies in hidden chambers as far back as the days of the prophet ezekiel (see ezekiel 8. god called these teachings and rituals "abominations" regrettably, the abominations are multiplied in the 21st century jewish religion in which the cabala plays a central role. the masonic lodge and the cabala freemasonry has long praised the cabala, and its top officials have admitted that the lodge's rituals and teachings are but the offspring of the jewish tradit

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ablished in a society, dissatisfied members often will break away from the larger group to create what they believe to be a more valid form of 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 introduction xvii religious expression. sometimes such splinter groups are organized around the revelations and visions of a single individual, who is recognized as a prophet by his or her followers. because the new teachings may be judged as heretical to the original body of worshippers, those who follow the new revelations are branded as cultists or heretics. even in ancient times, the dissenters were forced to meet in secret because of oppression by the established group or because of their desire to hide their practices. since only devotees could know the t

of the earth, rather than on individuals. according to some circles of jewish thought, the actual day of judgment, yom hadin, the resurrection of the dead, will occur when the messiah comes. on that fateful day, both israel and the gentile nations will be summoned to the place of judgment by the blowing of the great shofar (ram s horn) to awaken the people from their spiritual slumber. elijah the prophet will return and set about the task of reconciling families who have become estranged. the day when the lord judges will be dark, very dark, without a ray of light (amos 5:20. those who have maintained righteous lives and kept their covenant with god will be taken to the heavenly paradise. those who have been judged as deserving of punishment for their misdeeds will be sent to gehenna, to s

ing and absorbing wisdom and knowledge. according t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d afterlife mysteries 35 dionysus, the god of vegetation, whose cycle of birth, death, and rebirth reflects the cycle of growth, decay, and rebirth seen in nature. to the legends surrounding his life, he was taught by zoroaster (c. 628 c. 551 b.c.e, the persian prophet, and by the brahmans of india. although his teachings on past lives formed the essence of so many of the mystery religions, he was initiated into the orphic, egyptian, judaic, chaldean, and many other mystery schools. at last pythagoras formed his own school at crotona in southern italy. an unyielding taskmaster, he accepted only those students whom he assessed as already having establishe

s body and having put away ignorance, makes another new and more beautiful form. the anguttara nikaya, a buddhist text, observes that the wise priest knows he now must reap the fruits of deeds of former births. for be they many or but few, deeds done in covetousness or hate, or through infatuation s power [he] must bear their needful consequence. although the qur an, the holy book received by the prophet muhammed, doesn t really address the concept of past lives and rebirth, sufism, a mystical sect of islam, accepts transmigration of souls as a reality. in the words of the sufi teacher sharf-u d din-maneri: o brother, know for certain that this work has been before thee and me in byone ages. no one has begun this work for the first time. orthodox judaism also rejects reincarnation as doctr

ught. regardless of the religion or the culture from which they sprang, all mystics have as their goal the transcendence of the earthly self and union with the absolute. while the ancient mystery schools were built upon the worship of a particular god or goddess, the contemporary mystery schools have been built around the charisma and the spiritual teachings of a psychic sensitive, a medium, or a prophet. since the latter part of the nineteenth century, in europe, great britain, canada, and the united states, the men and women who are most often attracted to the modern mystery schools are those who have grown dissatisfied with the teachings of christianity and what they consider to be its restrictive religious doctrines concerning the afterlife and rebirth. each of the contemporary mystery

genses. because many serious-minded christians believe that there is evidence in the gospels that jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. 30 c.e) himself believed in reincarnation, they are comfortable with t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d afterlife mysteries 49 contemporary mystery schools have been built around teachings of a psychic sensitive, a medium, or a prophet. hindu and buddhist concepts of past lives and karma and see no conflict with their traditional belief in christianity. dr. gladys mcgarey is a member of the association for research and enlightenment, the contemporary mystery school based on the medical and past-life readings of edgar cayce (1877 1945. the daughter of christian missionaries and a medical doctor who employs the concepts of

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ablished in a society, dissatisfied members often will break away from the larger group to create what they believe to be a more valid form of 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 introduction xvii religious expression. sometimes such splinter groups are organized around the revelations and visions of a single individual, who is recognized as a prophet by his or her followers. because the new teachings may be judged as heretical to the original body of worshippers, those who follow the new revelations are branded as cultists or heretics. even in ancient times, the dissenters were forced to meet in secret because of oppression by the established group or because of their desire to hide their practices. since only devotees could know the t

n months after receiving lsd. in 1963, dr. timothy leary and dr. richard alpert were discharged from their positions at harvard university for their enthusiasm in advocating the mind-expanding properties of lsd. undaunted, the two went on to establish a number of colonies of their international federation of internal freedom. throughout most of the 1960s, leary was the primary and most well-known prophet of the lsd movement, and he predicted that by 1970, as many as 30 million persons, most of them young, would have embarked on voyages of discovery through the limitless inner space of their own minds. according to leary, these voyagers would return much wiser and much more loving than when they began. years before leary s predicted voyages by millions through their inner space, law enforce

. valkyrie one of the 12 handmaids of odin in norse mythology who ride their horses over the battlefield as they escort the souls of slain heroes to valhalla. from the old t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 238 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends norse valkyrja, meaning literally chooser of the slain. zoroaster a persian prophet (c. 628 b.c.e. c. 551 b.c.e) and the founder of an ancient religion called zoroastrianism whose principal belief is in a supreme deity and of the existence of a dualism between good and evil. derived from the greek word zarat or zarathustra, meaning camel handler. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d superstitions, strange customs, taboo

nd it came to pass, when the lord would take up elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that elijah went with elisha from gilgal and behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven in zachariah 6:1 7, four cosmic pilots are dispatched in as many chariots (spacecraft, which come out from between two mountains. the prophet zachariah is informed that each charioteer had flight orders to go to a different part of the country. according to the scripture, the four ufonauts had been ordered to walk to and fro through the earth. the confraternity version of the bible reports that the orders were to go patrol the earth. moses frequently mentioned the presence of the cloud chariots: the lord descended in the cloud;

our ufonauts had been ordered to walk to and fro through the earth. the confraternity version of the bible reports that the orders were to go patrol the earth. moses frequently mentioned the presence of the cloud chariots: the lord descended in the cloud; the lord came down in a cloud; the lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them the way and by night in a pillar of fire. the prophet daniel was another who described the use of a cloudy chariot for cosmic transportation. other ufo researchers say that if one were to read the creation story in genesis from the historical perspective of our current awareness of genetic engineering, the interaction between the sons of god and the fair daughters of men assumes a rather different interpretation: and it came to pass, when men

eutron star and that appears to pulse as it briefly emits bursts of visible radiation such as radio waves and x-rays. putrefy causing something to decay, usually indicating a foul odor. from the latin stem, putr, meaning rotten, plus facere, to make. qur an the sacred text, or holy book, of islam. for muslims, it is the very word of allah, the absolute god of the islamic faith, as revealed to the prophet muhammad (c. 570 c.e. 632 c.e) by the archangel gabriel. rectory the house or dwelling that a rector (clergyman) lives in. reincarnation the reappearance or rebirth of something in a new form. some religions or belief systems state that the soul returns to live another life in a new physical form and does so in a cyclical manner. resurrection the act of rising from the dead or returning to

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ablished in a society, dissatisfied members often will break away from the larger group to create what they believe to be a more valid form of 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 introduction xvii religious expression. sometimes such splinter groups are organized around the revelations and visions of a single individual, who is recognized as a prophet by his or her followers. because the new teachings may be judged as heretical to the original body of worshippers, those who follow the new revelations are branded as cultists or heretics. even in ancient times, the dissenters were forced to meet in secret because of oppression by the established group or because of their desire to hide their practices. since only devotees could know the t

templars in france. the chief seat of the templars had remained in jerusalem from the origins of the order in 1118 to 1187, when it was moved to antioch after the christians f defeat by saladin in the plain of tiberias. the hospitallers and the templars had been slaughtered in battle and 230 captive knights had been beheaded when they refused the muslims f offer to convert to the religion of the prophet. the grand master established the templar headquarters in antioch for four years, then moved to acre in 1191. a third transfer of the templar seat was made in 1217 when the grand master moved to the pilgrim fs castle near cesarea. when the muslims captured acre in 1291 and overthrew the christian kingdom, the templars had bravely fought until they were exterminated almost to the man. the s

7 when the grand master moved to the pilgrim fs castle near cesarea. when the muslims captured acre in 1291 and overthrew the christian kingdom, the templars had bravely fought until they were exterminated almost to the man. the surviving templars retreated to cyprus, which they had purchased from king richard the lion-hearted (1157.1199) for 35,000 marks. although defeated by the soldiers of the prophet muhammad and driven out of the holy land, the knights templar retained their many estates and their enormous wealth in europe. however, especially in france, the templars were becoming diminished in popularity, and the jealousies of the government had been aroused against them. lords, dukes, and princes were not only envious of the order fs burgeoning treasury, but they fumed over the temp

onal creations, there are still those who seek out their graves. some scholars point to a sixth-century writer and seer named myrrdin, who went mad and took refuge in the forest of celydon when his king gwenddolau was defeated at the battle of arderydd in 573. merlin first appears in the history of the kings of britain (1135) a classic work by geoffrey of monmouth (c. 1100.1154. merlin became the prophet associated with the quest for the holy grail.other accounts detail how merlin became trapped in a hawthorn tree, where he dwells forever. some scholars think, this version restores the story of myrddin, trapped by his madness in the forest. sources: monroe, douglas, ed. the lost books of merlyn: druid magic from the age of arthur. st. paul, minn: llewellyn, 1998. white, t. h. the book of m

rom the apostles, and, according to legend, he fell back on his old ways of sorcery and began to traffic once again with demons. to prove his power, simon announced to all of rome that he would fly into the sky and ascend to the heavens, just as jesus had done. remarkably, simon, supported by demons, began to fly upward. peter, however, fearful that many innocents would be attracted to this false prophet, prayed that god would end simon fs flight. frightened away by the apostle fs prayers, the demons fled the artificial wings supporting simon, and the magus crashed to the ground, breaking both legs. the story of simon magus fueled the beliefs of generations of magi and alchemists that there was a secret oral tradition that had been passed down from jesus that had much greater power and aut

e of the greatest philosophers and mathematicians of the sixth century b.c.e, is said to have traveled the known world of his time, accumulating and absorbing wisdom and knowledge. according to the legends surrounding his life, he was taught by zoroaster (c. 628.c. 551 b.c.e, the persian 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 70 magic and sorcery prophet, and the brahmans of india; and he initiated into the orphic, egyptian, judaic, chaldean, and many other mystery schools. pythagoras is among those individuals given the status of becoming a myth in his own lifetime. the philosopher was said to have been born of the virgin parthenis and fathered by the god apollo. pythagoras f human father, mnesarchus, a ring merchant from samos, and his m

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argely from his works, and scot's own bookhad the honour of being publicly burnt on account of the heretical views he promulgated as to witchcraft, inwhich he firmly disbelieved.the rainmaker is also the storm-bringer, and the witches were always supposed to create storms when theywished. the magic was effected by a sacrifice and a prayer to the deity, which is exactly the same method bywhich the prophet samuel produced a violent thunderstorm and discomfited the philistines. it was a divinemiracle when samuel accomplished it, but it was a diabolical deed when the witches were the. active agents.had the philistines recorded the event. they would hardly have regarded samuel as anything but a witch.the north berwick covens raised a great tempest to drown king james vi and his queen on their w

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denied the divine feminine, or at best attempted to channel her into a form that they could tame and contain, a form without overt sexuality and independence (so as not to offend their patriarchal sensibilities) and when they locked their understandings of their redeeming son of light into a linear time mold, and locked this universal being into the historical limitations of a little-known jewish prophet/cult leader, they ceased being a true mystery religion, and became a social control organization, that could do nothing more than inculcate people with their own morbid and extreme sense of morality, restrict people s divine creative expressions, and make promises of happy afterlives for all believers. though christianity still retained many of the necessary metaphorical symbols in their m

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tter than his follows "passionate men are excusable, because they are passive; passion means suffering, and also redemption through sorrow "what we call liberty is nothing but the all-mightiness of divine compulsion. the martyrs said 'it is better to obey god than man" 41 "the least perfect act of love is worth more than the best act of piety "judge not; speak hardly at all; love and act" another prophet came and said "protest against bad doctrines by good works, but do not separate yourselves "rebuild all the altars, purify all the temples, and hold yourselves in readiness for the visit of the spirit "let every one pray in his own fashion, and hold communion with his own; but do not condemn others "a religious practice is never contemptible, for it is the sign of a great and holy thought

d in your heart to your brother joseph, whom you sold to the gentiles. because he has become powerful in the land of egypt where you sought bread in the days of famine. and he has remembered his father jacob, and benjamin his young brother, and he pardons you your jealousy, and embraces you with tears. children of true believers, we will sing with you "there is no god but god, and mohammed is his prophet" say with the children of israel "there is no god but god, and moses is his prophet" say with the christians "there is no god but god, and jesus christ is his prophet" mohammed is the shadow of moses. moses is the forerunner of jesus. what is a prophet? a representative of humanity seeking god. god is god, and man is the prophet of god, when he causes us to believe in god. the old testamen

them, the heart and the arms wide open. we are, as they are, the disciples of moses. like them, we come from egypt, and we detest its slavery. but we have entered into the promised land, and they obstinately abide and die in the desert. mohammedans are the bastards of israel, or rather, they are his disinherited brothers, like esau. their belief is illogical, for they admit that jesus is a great prophet, and they treat christians as infidels. they recognize the divine inspiration of moses, yet they do not look upon the jews as their brothers. they believe blindly in their blind prophet, the fatalist mohammed, the enemy of progress and of liberty. nevertheless, do not let us take away from mohammed the 84 glory of having proclaimed the unity of god among the idolatrous arabs. there are pur

ey believe blindly in their blind prophet, the fatalist mohammed, the enemy of progress and of liberty. nevertheless, do not let us take away from mohammed the 84 glory of having proclaimed the unity of god among the idolatrous arabs. there are pure and sublime pages in the qur'an. in reading those pages, one may say with the children of ishmael "there is no other god but god, and mohammed is his prophet" there are three thrones in heaven for the three prophets of the nations; but, at the end of time, mohammed will be replaced by elias. the mussulmans do not reproach the christians; they insult them. they call them infidels and "giaours" that is to say, dogs. we have nothing to reply to them. one must not refute the turks and the arabs; one must instruct and civilize them. remain dissident

ut it is nothing new that believers must undergo the folly of the cross. i am exalted, sir, because you yourself would be so in my place, because it is impossible to remain calm in the presence of prodigies "oh, oh, you speak of prodigies, that interests me. come, between ourselves, and in all good faith, of what prodigies are you speaking "eh, what prodigies should they be but those of the great prophet elias, returned to earth under the name of pierre michel "i understand; you mean eugene vintras. i have heard his prophecies spoken of. but does he really perform miracles["here mr. madrolle jumps in his chair, raises his eyes and his hands to heaven, and finally smiles with a condescension which seems to sound the depths of pity] 140 "does he do miracles, sir "but the greatest "the most a

, tasted them; but, come, putting exaltation on one side, please give me a thoroughly detailed and circumstantial account of the affair, and, above 142 all, evident proof of miracle. am i indiscreet in asking you that "not the least in the world; but which shall i choose? there are so many "let me think" added mr. madrolle, after a moment's reflection and with a slight trembling in the voice "the prophet is in london, and we are here. eh! well, if you only make a mental request to the prophet to send you immediately the communion, and if in a place designated by you, in your own house, in a cloth, or in a book, you found a host on your return, what would you say "i should declare the fact inexplicable by ordinary critical rules "oh, well, sir" cried mr. madrolle, triumphantly "there is a t

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e, into the centre of the tetragram, when one recalls the words from the gospel "i am the bread and i am the life. i came to put the fire into the bosom of things" lastly, it is undeniable that this divine name unites all martinists dispersed all over the world, regardless of their religious or philosophical beliefs, and as such, it is thus a factor of unity* islam reveres the 'lord jesus' as the prophet 'sidna issa' and the koran tells us that. there are only two beings, jesus and his mother, whom the wings of satan have not touched at all" and comments further. an angel said to mary: god announces to you his word. his name shall be jesus, the messiah, son of mary, great in this world as well as in the other, and a confidant of god (koran iv.40) 6. and god said to jesus: i shall send deat

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ance during ths process of individuation, however, the creative energies that are stimulated in the psyche by the appearance of archetypes can be fully accessed only after one has humbly acquired the ability to discern the difference between hm or her self and them. on the road to self-growth, we must not mistake personal insights into our own inner workings as messages from god to his new chosen prophet. we must work to clarify our relationship to spirit and nature as represented by the godslarchetypes. these potent and eternal forces are a part our our psyche that are meant to empower and inspire us. magicians regard archetypes as various forms or images of divinity that teach us about ourselves and our place in the divine universe. the conscious recognition of the psychic elements that

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tion and even with religion. in most cases, this is a result of the difficulty in finding the logic in the old customs and the various prohibitions in the mitzvot (commandments. it is a difficulty that is expressed directly or indirectly by antagonism toward religion. this is the reason for the important need to clearly distinguish between kabbalah and religion. every religion relies on a certain prophet, a person who was connected with spirituality and circulated his knowledge among people. this argument is at the basis of every religion, meaning that everything begins with the sublime truth, the revelation of the creator before the prophet, the founder, be it judaism or any other religion. the wisdom of kabbalah is a method to attain the creator that is available for all. it allows any p

ove onto another feeling called egypt. 244 of 273 that means that you really must see who you are and study your egoistic desires from within. if you correct them, you will attain me; i will be revealed to you in them. the creator appears precisely in those desires we call egypt. only after that they are corrected. let us take this abraham. in a different degree we might have referred to him as a prophet. a prophet is a person who has attained such a degree that he is now in direct contact with the creator. there are prophets that only speak to the creator, meaning they attain the level of spiritual speech. naturally, they do not hear any horns blowing in the sky, as the torah writes, and the voice of god does not sound off from mount sinai from gigantic speakers to the whole of mankind. i

tic speakers to the whole of mankind. it is the inner voice of one who obtains an evident contact with the creator. there are prophets that see and hear, and there are those that only see and hear afterwards. the books of the prophets demonstrate how versatile the connections of the prophets with the creator are, and how and when he appears before them, meaning in which degree one can reach which prophet. the prophecy degrees, as all other degrees of our forefathers, are inside us. each of us must experience them all. we must go the entire way while being in our corporeal world. everything that the torah speaks of must be attained by us from beginning to end. only then does one find himself completely united with the creator and reaches the final point of his development, which constitutes

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

dark stream of death down whirling aeons, linked abysses, columns built of essential time c *tannhauser, vol. i, p. 261. in gthe violet fs love story, h*1. or in gdora, h*2. we have as simple a poem as could be written, and in one of the verses of a chorus in gjephthah, h beginning gthere flashes the heart of a rose, h*3. one of the most mystical. here is a furious inspiration in blank verse (the prophet in gjephthah h speaks *1. songs of the spirit, vol. i, p. 38 *2. rosa mundi and other love songs, vol. iii, p. 59 *3. jephthah, vol. i, p. 77. ha! the rose has washed its petals, and the blood pours through its burning centre from my heart. the fire consumes the light; the rosy flame leaps through the veins of blue, and tinges them with such a purple as incarnadines the western sky when st

wardly in all the knowledge of the cities of the plains. the fiend crawls in the slimy dark, and the fool pulls the white sheets of credulity over his head, and like the gaby ostrich chuckles: gi can ft see them, they can ft see me h. he forgets his odour. crowley has torn the veil of mock-modesty from off the face of pseudo-morality, leaving her as bare and hideous to the gaze as the face of the prophet of khorassan. he has seized the social harlot and hurled her from her throne; has forced open her jaws, and administered a sharp emetic, a mental purgative, a rouser! let us hope it will clean her out, and do her good. iv the chapter known as the mother in which chapter it is related how our lady was brought to bed of a rose; and how she planted it in the garden of her heart, and how it gr

smoulder into a burning desire: passion to feed upon your shoulders bare, and pass the dewy twilight of our sin in the intolerable flames of hair. give thee my body as a fire to hold. o love, no words, no songs. your breast my bower *jezebel: and other tragic poems, vol. i, p. 133. in gjezebel h we find the same desire, but unfanned by restraint, in whose place stands a woman fs disdain. he, the prophet, goes to curse her. but loves her instead: for lo! she saw me, and beheld my trembling lips curled back to curse, laughed with strong scorn, whose music knelled the empire of god fs universe. and on my haggard face upturned she spat! ah god! how my cheek burned! then as a man betrayed, and doomed already, i arose and went, and wrestled with myself, consumed with passion for that sacrament

d! i saw her dead stare to the skies. i came to her; she was not cold, but burning with old infamies. on her incestuous mouth i fell, and lost my soul for jezebel. they cast her forth on naboth fs field still living, in her harlot fs dress; her belly stript, her thighs concealed, for shame fs sake and for love fs no less. night falls; the gaping crowds abide no longer by her stiffening side. gah! prophet, come to mock at me and gloat on mine exceeding pain? h gnay but to give my soul to thee, and have thee spit at me again! h she smiled. i know she smiled. she sighed, bit my lips through, and drank, and died. my veins poured out her marriage cup, for holy water her cruel tongue; for blessing of white hands raised up, these perfumed infamies unsung; for god fs breath, her sharp tainted brea

with roses both white and red. this mingling of the passionate and the chaste we find is the new ideal that crowley flashes before our dazzled sight. away with mary, immaculate mother of christ: away with messalina, incestuous prophetess of lust. away! away! to the west, to the east, till they meet in some flaming region of equatorial fury, and flashing interfuse and interblend. once again must a prophet of the lord arise and wed a wife of whoredoms, who hath committed great whoredom, departing from the lord. once again must hosea expire on the crimson lips of gomer, and from the womb of a harlot must the christ be reborn a woman, wise, beautiful, and young; who is both circe and diana, isis and aphrodite, in whose veins course all the fury of medea, all the abominations of canidia, who re

ture, so entirely unknown in the prosaic east. and curious to say, that while the east was applying mechanical means to attain a divine illumination, the west arrived at a similar position on the circumference of eternity, by a diametrically opposite road; applying the whole of her artificial faculties to a perfecting of her material needs. hence the growing triumphs of the west c gand isaiah the prophet cried unto the lord: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of ahaz h (2 kings, 20. all the world round the key which opens the treasure-house is ecstasy. myself being idle for an hour i dare one thing to speculate: namely, that life hath cusps yet higher on this our curve: a prize, a power lies in our grasp: unthinking fate shall build a brai

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

of all, consider the descending triangle. it reads ihv, the first three letters of the ineffable name of four letters. they refer to father, mother, son, as your earliest studies in the qabalah acquainted you. you will compare this with the word of the 3. it is further of the very greatest importance to remember that the three principal officers of the royal arch represent the three functions of prophet, priest, and king. now in the tarot j. is the hermit, the prophet of the eternal; h. is the emperor, and v. the hierophant, pope, or high priest. now the left side of the triangle l.j.a= 41= ma the mother, while a.i.l. means a stag, goat, or ram, from the curved horns of those animals, and therefore means the father, and the beginning of whirling file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael

lsion of a weak and wandering soul, and its replacement. for example, we once supplanted the soul of a calibancreature, a certain deformed and filthy abortion without moral character, named victor neuburg, by a soul of isis, by a soul of mars and by a soul of jupiter in turn, so that this quasi-human shape, not being a poet, did yet write verses goodly and great in praise of isis; and not being a prophet, did yet foretell most accurately the wars which even now devastate the earth; and not being generous or wealthy did yet for a season support many dependants on his bounty. and this we did with no elaboration of thought, no persian apparatus, no weariness or trouble at all. now then do we mark down the means devised by us baphomet for the making of the homunculus. i take a suitable woman w

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

[is] my sister? and she, even she herself said, he [is] my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have i done this. 20:6 and god said unto him in a dream, yea, i know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for i also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered i thee not to touch her. 20:7 now therefore restore the man [his] wife; for he [is] a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore [her] not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that [are] thine. 20:8 therefore abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid. 20:9 then abimelech called abraham, and said unto him, what hast thou done unto us? and w

n] the lord spake unto moses in the land of egypt, 6:29 that the lord spake unto moses, saying, i [am] the lord: speak thou unto pharaoh king of egypt all that i say unto thee. 6:30 and moses said before the lord, behold, i [am] of uncircumcised lips, and how shall pharaoh hearken unto me? 7:1 and the lord said unto moses, see, i have made thee a god to pharaoh: and aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. 7:2 thou shalt speak all that i command thee: and aaron thy brother shall speak unto pharaoh, that he send the children of israel out of his land. 7:3 and i will harden pharaoh s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of egypt. 7:4 but pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that i may lay my hand upon egypt, and bring forth mine armies [and] my people the children of israel

[were] upon the face of the earth) 12:4 and the lord spake suddenly unto moses, and unto aaron, and unto miriam, come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. and they three came out. 12:5 and the lord came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called aaron and miriam: and they both came forth. 12:6 and he said, hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you [i[ the lord will make myself known unto him in a vision [and] will speak unto him in a dream. 12:7 my servant moses [is] not so, who [is] faithful in all mine house. 12:8 with him will i speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the lord shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant moses? 12:9 and the

rve their gods? even so will i do likewise. 12:31 thou shalt not do so unto the lord thy god: for every abomination to the lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. 12:32 what thing soever i command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. 13:1 if there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 13:2 and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 13:3 thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the lord your god proveth you, to know whether ye love the lord your god with al

own, and let us serve them; 13:3 thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the lord your god proveth you, to know whether ye love the lord your god with all your heart and with all your soul. 13:4 ye shall walk after the lord your god, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. 13:5 and that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn [you] away from the lord your god, which brought you out of the land of egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the lord thy god commanded thee to walk in. so shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. 13:6 if thy brother, the son of thy mother, or th

n unto the lord: and because of these abominations the lord thy god doth drive them out deuteronomy page 114 from before thee. 18:13 thou shalt be perfect with the lord thy god. 18:14 for these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the lord thy god hath not suffered thee so [to do] 18:15 the lord thy god will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 18:16 according to all that thou desiredst of the lord thy god in horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, let me not hear again the voice of the lord my god, neither let me see this great fire any more, that i die not. 18:17 and the lord said unto me, they have well [spoken that] which they have spoken. 18:

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

ef and practice have intermingled in the lore of modern wicca, as apologists are quick to claim. but, to an extent, this misses the point and skirts an essential question anyone has the right to ask about modern wicca- namely, did wicca exist as a coherent creed, a distinct form of spiritual expression, prior to the 1940s; that is, prior to the meeting of minds between the old magus and venerable prophet of the occult world aleister crowley, and the first popularizer, if not outright inventor of modern wicca, gerald brosseau gardner? there is certainly no doubt that bits and pieces of ancient paganism survived into modern times in folklore and, for that matter, in the very practices and beliefs of christianity. further, there appears to be some evidence that `old george' pickingill and oth

th what degree of irony one can only guess at, who, in modern times, could have invented the wiccan rituals "the only man i can think of who could have invented the rites" he offers "was the late aleister crowley..possibly he borrowed things from the cult writings, or more likely someone may have borrowed expressions from him" a few legs may be being pulled here, and perhaps more than a few. as a prophet ahead of his time, as a poet and dreamer, crowley is one of the outstanding figures of the twentieth (or any) century. as an organizer, he was almost as much of a disaster as he was at managing his own finances..and personal life. as i understand the liberatory nature of the magical path, one would do well to see the difference between crowley the prophet of thelema and crowley the insolve

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

e when they are called, and do execute their commands: but god is the author thereof: as joshua caused the sun to stand still in heaven. 16 they send some of their spirits to the mean magicians, which do obey them onely in some determinate business: but they hear not the false magicians, but expose them to the deceits of the devils, and cast them into divers dangers, by the command of god; as the prophet jeremiah testifieth, in his eighth chapter, concerning the jews. 4. in all the elements there are the seven governours with their hosts, who do move with the equal motion of the firmament; and the inferiours do always depend upon the superiours, as it is taught in philosophy. 5. a man that is a true magician, is brought forth a magician from his mothers womb: others, who do give themselves

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

irit, the creative and destructive powers, which were all united in the true god, though hypostatically divided in the syrian trinity. man was compounded with them, as representing the real image of god, according to the jewish theology. the cherubim on the ark of the covenant, between which god dwelt,2 were also compounded of the same form,3 so that the idea of them must have been present to the prophet s mind, previous to the apparition which furnished him with the description. even those on the ark of the covenant, though made at the express command of god, do not appear to have been original; for a figure exactly answering to the description of them appears among those curious ruins existing at chilminar, in persia, which have been supposed to be those of the palace of persepolis, burn

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ir physical cravings and emotional impulses. this should not sur- prise us. any social behavior divorced from the touchstone of spirit must appear meaningless, and any intelligent person will abandon meaningless behavior. the trouble is, social customs and mores are not meaningless. they only appear absurd to those who lack the ability to intuitively sense their rnear;ing. this is the role of the prophet. prophets are men and women in touch with spirit on an intense per* sonal level. in ages past, prophets translated the guiding insights of spirit into human laws, which were then institutionalized as commandments from god. in the age of reason, the pronouncements of prophets are denounced and ridiculed as the ravings of lunatics. spirit still speaks to individuals, but society no longer li

ould endure its unalloyed puri- ty "the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see (i timothy 6: 16. what is perceived as the light is only a reflection in the physi- cal realm of the vibration of divine spirit. physical white light is the highest metaphor the human mind can create to suggest the true desire and purpose of the unmanifest. a man or woman need not be a prophet to experience it. it can, and has, descended upon the most humble of persons, and in all cases has transformed their lives. for the light conveys, in deeper language than words, deeper than images, the great truth of life. when individuals have been "enlightened" they understand in their hearts why they were born and what they must do with their time on earth. magi view the light as a real

y. errors in understanding god arise when a culture emphasizes one point of the triangle above the other two. all error is imbalance. a distorted notion of the all must result when the perfect equilateral triangle is distorted. the qualities of the gods of a culture always correspond to the point of the triangle in ascendancy. in islam, god is male and is expressed in all his maleness through the prophet mohammed, man of warfare, of conquest, of command. in islamic culture men dominate, not only where it is their natural right, but also in many areas more commonly controlled by women. women are, in a real sense, appendages of their male counterparts, forbidden to do anything useful that might give them authori- ty. the veils they wear are symbolic of their forcible removal from worldly aff

the greater spirit of the all, separate from mankind, whereas the fifth point is the spirit given to the individual. the hexa- gram represents the will of god realized, and by association humanity acting in harmony with cosmic law. of course, the separation of the greater from the lesser spirit is illusion. the eternal truth that all spirit is one flowers forth, timeless and renewed, each time a prophet is born. but in the world of forms, the hexagram is traditionally thought of as the sign of god and the pentagram as the sign of man. kabbalistically, the hexagram is the heart of adam kadmon, the microproso- pos, or lesser countenance. hermetically, it is the union of opposites, the mating of the sun and moon. in christianity it is jesus christ. magically, it is linked to the table of hex

been prepared to receive it. traditionally the light is pictured as streaming down from a point over the center of the circle-usually a point directly above the flame of the lamp on the altar. invoking the light is akin to catching the attention of the higher self, which expresses itself either as a clear, white radiance, or in the form of the guardian angel of the magus, or sometimes as a saint, prophet, or god. the form of expression of the light will depend upon the ritual itself and the expectations of the magus. statement of purpose the magus acknowledges the presence of the light and states his or her purpose for conducting the ritual as clearly as possible. this is mainly to get it clear in his or her own mind, as simple verbal statements have little effect on the subconscious. invo

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

ed as intermediaries or mediums, carrying the messages of spiritual beings to humanity. the true nature of the spirits that inspired their prophecies is as much a matter of conjecture as the question of whether the spirits who spoke to joan of arc were saints or fairies. the astral journey of isaiah involves his great vision of the throne of god. in the final year of the reign of king uzziah, the prophet entered the presence of god, whom he perceived sitting on an elevated throne within a temple. above it stood the angels known as seraphim, each with six wings, chanting "holy, holy, holy is the lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory (isaiah 6:3. we know this vision involved astral projection because isaiah was actually present before the throne in his astral body. he protested

to have visions but were chosen by the spirits to receive them. however, once they were acknowledged as prophets, and had accepted this role as their calling in life, it is possible they learned how to encourage the occurrence of these soul flights using chanted prayers and physical austerity. the astral landscape seen by ezekiel was inhabited by four strange angels who were characterized by the prophet as "living creatures (ezekiel 1:5. they had six wings, as did the seraphim seen by isaiah, but in addition they had four faces: that of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle. again, we can be certain it was a soul flight because god gave the prophet a book in the form of a written scroll and told him to eat it. ezekiel wrote "so i opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll (ezekiel 3:

as "living creatures (ezekiel 1:5. they had six wings, as did the seraphim seen by isaiah, but in addition they had four faces: that of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle. again, we can be certain it was a soul flight because god gave the prophet a book in the form of a written scroll and told him to eat it. ezekiel wrote "so i opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll (ezekiel 3:2. the prophet elijah is significant for another reason. he is one of only a handful of men said in the bible to have ascended into heaven while still inhabiting his body of flesh. out walking with his son, elisha, who was also a prophet, beside the river jordan, he saw 52 soul flight a chariot of fire drawn by fiery horses descend from the sky, and was lifted up into the heavens by a whirlwind (second k

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

ich they can be saved, but that. but let us not think, that by naming jesus prophanely, as the name of a certain man, we can do miracles by virtue of it: but we must invocate it in the holy spirit, with a pure mind and a fervent spirit, that we may obtain those things which are promised us in him; especially knowledge going before, without which there is no hearing of us, according to that of the prophet, i will hear him because he hath known my name. hence at this time no favour can be drawn from the heavens, unless the authority, favour and consent of the name jesu intervene; hence the hebrews and cabalists most skillful in the divine names, can work nothing after christ by those old names, as their fathers have done long since; and now it is by experience confirmed, that no devil nor po

m of altar in the old testament is that erected by piling unshaped stones together "and jacob said unto his brethren, gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap7'(gen. 31:46. it is worth noting that laban calls upon the heap of stones to "be witness* to his personal covenant with jacob. we are not told how many stones were in the heap, but when the prophet elijah erects a similar altar for magical purposes, it is said 'be took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of jacob, unto whom the word of the lord came, saying, israel shall be thy name; and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the lord (1 kings 18:31-2. the words "in the name of the lord" may be an intentional pun, since an altar erected of twelv

f god was to be made to reside within the stones. blood was believed to be the vehicle of the life force. blood splashed upon the stones conveyed the life force of the sacrifice, which rested in the blood, to god, who resided in the stones. the act of killing itself was not nearly so significant, magically, as the sprinkling of blood. stones had other uses besides the building of altars. when the prophet jeremiah wished to punish the men and women of judah who had gone to live in egypt, he took "great stones" and buried them in the soft clay in the brickkiln in front of one of the pharaoh's houses, speaking to the men of judah in the voice of god "behold, i will send and take nebuchadrezzar the king of babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that i have hid; and he s

ed solomon for a footstool. in the mouths of the animals that composed the throne were golden bells that rang when the wind blew, and above the throne hung a canopy of colored cloths that fluttered with the appearance of lightning and flaming torches and a shimmering rainbow. around the throne were seventy chairs for seventy elders, and two more chairs opposite the throne for the seer gad and the prophet nathan, making a total of seventy-two, the same as the "divine name of seventy-two words" extracted kabbalistically from exodus 14:19-21 (see ginsburg, the kabbalah, pp. 132-6. the mother of solomon, bathsheba, sat in a chair on his right side. from another midrash legend we learn that the throne had six steps leading up to it and was made in the shape of the four-horse war chariot of god

assumed to have authority over the active wings. this is also why solomon, who commanded the jinn, is usually represented in arabian folklore as seated upon his glorious throne, which is an earthly version of the heavenly throne of god. those who feel uncomfortable about assuming the christ-form should realize that it is much more than a matter of pretending to be jesus. earthly jesus, the living prophet, and heavenly christ, the anointed one, or messiah, are really two separate beings. the messiah figure is the more ancient and more powerful of the two. he appears in the old testament under various guises-in the prophecies of jeremiah, ezekiel, and isaiah, in the figure of moses after his face is made to shine, and as the heavenly adam who is created before the earthly adam (see gen. 1:27

ne, or messiah, are really two separate beings. the messiah figure is the more ancient and more powerful of the two. he appears in the old testament under various guises-in the prophecies of jeremiah, ezekiel, and isaiah, in the figure of moses after his face is made to shine, and as the heavenly adam who is created before the earthly adam (see gen. 1:27 and 2:7. early christians identified their prophet jesus with this messiah myth. when we assume the christ-form, we must put on the identity of this heavenly being, who is the seated authority of metatron, the supreme active power. fortunately, we have an excellent description of the heavenly christ: and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps wit

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charcoal) and is related to the arabic root fhm, being wisdom or knowledge. the black snake and peacock represent the wisdom of life. then the great lord, malak tauus, said to the angels, i want to create adam and eve and make them give rise to mankind. of the seed of adam there shall be 11 derived from a sufi called sheik adi ibn musafir around 1100 a.d. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 8 born a prophet, and from him shall descend a people on the earth; the the people of me, malak tauus, and these people are to be the yezidis -the mershaf resh the black book the witches sabbat -dreaming and waking- dreams have long been considered images of the subconscious; what lies within the mind. in magick dreams can be a powerful initiatory tool, if focused upon in a positive and conductive manner m

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

dria, and was first published, with a translation of a large part of the text, by professor golenischeff.[fn#48] the importance of the stele is enhanced by the fact that it mentions the name of the king in whose reign it was made, viz, nectanebus i, who reigned from b.c. 378 to b.c. 360 [fn#48] see metternichstele, leipzig, 1877. the stele was made for ankh-psemthek, son of the lady tent-het-nub, prophet of nebun, overseer of temt and scribe of het (see line 87. the obverse, reverse, and two sides of the metternich stele have cut upon them nearly three hundred figures of gods and celestial beings. these include figures of the great gods of heaven, earth, and the other world, figures of the gods of the planets and the dekans, figures of the gods of the days of the week, of the weeks, and mo

heru-behutet hath performed in his deeds against the enemies: verily he hath smitten them! and of the male hippopotamus he hath opened the mouth, and he hath speared it, and he hath mounted upon its back" then said thoth to ra "horus shall be called 'winged disk, great god, smiter of the enemies in the town of heben' from this day forward, and he shall be called 'he who standeth on the back' and 'prophet of this god' from this day forward" these are the things which happened in the lands of the city of heben, in a region which measured three hundred and forty-two measures on the south, and on the north, on the west, and on the east [fn#82] the goddess nekhebet was incarnate in a special kind of serpent, and the centre of her worship was in the city of nekheb, which the greeks called eileit

bekhten, and i will not permit him to depart to egypt" and [when] this god had tarried for three years and nine months in bekhten, the prince of bekhten, who was lying down asleep on his bed, saw this god come forth outside his shrine (now he was in the form of a golden hawk, and he flew up into the heavens and departed to egypt; and when the prince woke up he was trembling. and he said unto the prophet of khensu [called "pa-ari-sekher-em-uast "this god who tarried with us hath departed to egypt; let his chariot also depart to egypt" and the prince of bekhten permitted [the image of] the god to set out for egypt, and he gave him many great gifts of beautiful things of all kinds, and a large number of soldiers and horses [went with him. and when they had arrived in peace in thebes, khensu

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

many times students judge a priori 6 because they ignore the great mysteries. therefore, we must know how to differentiate between a soul that is just starting these studies and a fallen bodhisattva. in saint john s revelation 8: 10, the pentagram (the five pointed star) falls from heaven (burning as if it were a lamp) and the human waters became bitter, they became wormwood. in isaiah 14:12, the prophet said: how art thou fallen from heaven, o lucifer, son of the morning? how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! nevertheless, the luciferic star (the fallen soul) will shine one day as the morning star in the right hand of the verb. many times a man or a woman in search of the divine torch of truth arrives at any gnostic lumisial; apparently the newly arrived is

nd; that traitor lives within the mental body. the third traitor is the demon of evil will; that traitor lives within the body of willpower (causal body. the bible cites these three traitors in the apocalypse of saint john [in revelations: 16: 13-14: and i saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet; for they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of god almighty. arcano vi bienamados hermanos de mi alma: hoy vamos a estudiar el arcano seis del tarot. amad simos: recordad el sello de salom n; sus dos tri ngulos entrelazados que junta y separa el amor, son realmente y

intelligence. intuition and comprehension replace reasoning and desire. these two latter ones are the attributes of the i. intuition allows us to penetrate into the past, into the present and into the future. intuition allows us to penetrate into the deeper meaning of all things. intuition grants us entrance into the world of the ineffable gods; any intuitive initiate converts himself into a true prophet. cuando descubrimos un defecto debemos primero analizarlo intelectualmente y despu s comprenderlo en los distintos trasfondos de la mente con la t cnica de la meditaci n. es necesario concentrarnos en el defecto descubierto y meditar en l con el nimo de comprenderlo profundamente. debe combinarse la meditaci n con el sue o, as en visi n profunda nos hacemos conscientes del defecto que esta

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

in it. just as the pagan mid-winter celebration of yule was adopted by christians as christmas (december 25th, so too the pagan mid-summer celebration was adopted by them as the feast of john the baptist (june 24th. occurring 180 degrees apart on the wheel of the year, the mid-winter celebration commemorates the birth of jesus, while the mid-summer celebration commemorates the birth of john, the prophet who was born six months before jesus in order to announce his arrival. although modern witches often refer to the holiday by the rather generic name of midsummer's eve, it is more probable that our pagan ancestors of a few hundred years ago actually used the christian name for the holiday, st. john's eve. this is evident from the wealth of folklore that surrounds the summer solstice (i.e

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ordinary clergy were charged with this at some time or other. there seems little evidence that the templars were worse than the others. but with regard to 1, 2, 5 and possibly 4 and 6, i think there may have been some base for the charges. the idol was said to be called baphomet. some writers say this is a corruption of mahomet; but in those days the crusaders surely knew mahomet was a man and a prophet, and not an idol. it was also said to mean bapho metis, the baptism of wisdom, with no explanation given of what this wisdom consisted. another story was that it was coined from the first letters of the following sentence written backwards: templi omnium hominum pacis abbas: the father of the temple of universal peace among men. now could this word have been coined to represent the console

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

ing sayings of confucius confucius the man on learning reciprocity religion gentlemen from the old testament psalm 104 psalm 8 from the new testament sermon on the mount i corinthians 13 sayings from the zoroastrian prayer for guidance sayings of mohammed morning star overwhelming sayings of the unitarians out of the stars sayings of baha u llah on the soul sayings from the poets a faery song the prophet fergus and the druid sayings of the psychologists green book volume two celtic, native american,african, hindu& greek writings english poetry stopping by the woods jabberwocky welsh and irish poetry the waterfall sadness in spring rain outside winter and warfare mountain snow bright trees spoils of annwn cad goddeau leadership sunshine through my window suggested further reading thirteen f

ern, a king sitting upon a chair of gold and all these things were wonderful and great; but now i have grown nothing, knowing all. ah! druid, druid, how great webs of sorrow lay hidden in the small slate-coloured thing! selection from: w.b. yeats. fergus and the druid, from the rose. in m.l. rosenthal, selected poems and two plays of william butler yeats. new york: collier books, 1962. p.7-8 (the prophet) and an old priest said, speak to us of religion. and he said: have i spoken this day of aught else? is not religion all deeds and all reflection, and that which is neither deed nor reflection, and that which is neither deed nor reflection, but a wonder and a surprise ever springing in the soul, even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom? who can separate his faith from his action

r than their despair. and if you would know god be not therefore a solver of riddles. rather look about you and you shall see him playing with your children. and look into space; you shall see him walking in the cloud, outstretching his arms in the lightning and descending in rain. you shall see him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving his hands in trees. selections from: kahlil gibran. the prophet. new york, alfred a. knofp, 1963. p.77. 245 sayings of (good grief) the psychologists in the traditional psychologies, one group may find that a certain technique works well in a given situation. its members may tend to apply it in situations where it is inappropriate, or with people for whom it is inappropriate. because the technique works for them, they come to believe that it ought to w

the bazaar stinks with greed. replied the fool. then don t sit in the bazaar. instructed the townsman. there s no such escape for me, because i m greedy too. lamented the fool, i want to study their ignorant way of life in order to learn from it. the claim a man claiming to be god was taken before the caliph. the caliph told the prisoner, last year, someone claiming to be the second coming of the prophet was executed. serves him right, replied the prisoner, i hadn t sent him yet. names a certain conqueror said to nasrudin: mulla, all the great rulers of the past had honorific titles with the name of god in them: there was, for instance, god-gifted, and god- accepted, and so on. what would be the best name for me? god forbid, said nasrudin. 288 the muezzin s call one day mulla was acting as

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

en mice. joseph gave benjamin 5 suits of raiment joseph presented only 5 of his brethren to pharaoh. david took 5 pebbles when he went to fight goliath. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 62. the jews classed a bride s attendants by fives five wise and five foolish virgins. there are five articles of belief in the mahometan faith in allah, in angels, in the prophet, the day of judgment, and predestination. the five duties of a member of the christian church were stated by the fathers. to keep holy the festivals; to observe the fasts; to attend public worship; to receive the sacraments; and to adhere to the customs of the church. st. paul said he preferred to speak 5 words in a language understood by his hearers than 10,000 in an unknown tongue. in ar

and a new progeny descends from heaven. 68. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott it has been calculated by the late dr. kenealy that a messiah, or divine teacher, has been sent to the world every 600 years, thus- adam, the first messenger from the gods to our race on earth. enoch the second 600 years. fo-hi, the third, to china in particular. brighou, a hindu prophet. zaratusht, zoroaster, the fifth, to persia. thoth, taautus, or hermes trismegistus, sent to the egyptians. amosis, or moses, the jewish law-giver, the seventh. lao tseu, a second to china, 600 b.c, the eighth. jesus the ninth, to the jews first and then to the gentiles. mohammed the tenth; he flourished about a.d. 600. chengiz khan the eleventh, a.d. 1200, conquered persia. who the specia

set my ten commandments in your face, meaning the finger nails for scratching. see 2 henry vi. i.3. the mahometans say that ten animals were admitted to paradise and are as follows: 1. kratim, the dog of the seven sleepers. 2. ass of balaam. 3. ant of solomon. 4. whale of jonah. 5. the calf (not ram) offered to jehovah by abraham instead of isaac, his son. 6. the ox of moses. 7. the camel of the prophet salech. 8. the cuckoo of belkis. 9. the ram of ishmael. 10. al borek, the animal which conveyed mahomet. 95. we find 10 generations from adam to noah, 10 from shem to abraham. the 10 spiritual graces of christianity are love, joy, peace long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, prudence, meekness and temperature, says numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes

ames attributed to god. 100. this is the number of mdvn, which means strife, and it is the beginning of 100 lawsuits. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the jerusalem talmud, bava metzia, 85. 1, says that rabbi zira fasted 100 times to enable him to forget the talmud of babylon, in favor of the talmud of jerusalem. obadiah was considered worthy to be called prophet, because he concealed 100 prophets in a cave. 103. the family of herod asmonaeus ruled jewry 103 years. 120. for 120 years, the secret vault of christian rosenkreutz remained unopened, as he had ordered, 1484 to 1604. the shemaneh esreh, the 18 blessings, were composed by 120 elders. 130. the rabbis said that after the curse, adam fasted 130 years as a penance. this number is referred to e

100 prophets in a cave. 103. the family of herod asmonaeus ruled jewry 103 years. 120. for 120 years, the secret vault of christian rosenkreutz remained unopened, as he had ordered, 1484 to 1604. the shemaneh esreh, the 18 blessings, were composed by 120 elders. 130. the rabbis said that after the curse, adam fasted 130 years as a penance. this number is referred to elijah, alihv, and to the word prophet, hnbia. these names number 120, add 10 to this, the number of letters. the kabalists make a mystical square (rectangle) or kamea of alihv of 130 permutations--ten by thirteen. 152. the number of maria, the greek name for mary the virgin, being 40, 1, 100, 10, 1=152. 153. the number of the great fishes caught in an unbroken net by the apostles after the resurrection. numbers--th eir occu lt

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

o can be new and only that which is new could have occurred long ago. that which transpires in the moment na aseh beattah does not fall under the category of time, for, as noted above, the triadic division of time is no longer operative when past is experienced as future that is present, present as past that is future, and future as present that is past. like the wisdom that nietzsche s imaginary prophet zarathustra imparted to the 69 dwarf in the section entitled on the vision and the riddle (vom gesicht und r thsel, the vision of the loneliest, a seeing of the abyss, an abysmal seeing, the moment is a gateway (torweg) wherein two paths meet without contradiction, one stretching back eternally to the past and the other stretching ahead eternally to the future.86 from this one may deduce t

y, one must examine the literary context where the bahiric description of mem occurs. significantly, this is occasioned by an explanation of the last letter in the word ozen, ear, which consists of the three consonants alef, zayin, nun. the path mandates, therefore, that the reader attend the cadence of mem through the channel of ozen. the homilist begins by interpreting the verse a prayer of the prophet habakuk through rapture, tefillah la-havaquq ha-navi al shigyonot (hab 3:1: a prayer [tefillah] it should have been praise [tehillah! rather [it is to instruct that] he who turns his heart from matters of this world and contemplates the work of the chariot [mistakkel be-ma aseh merkavah] will be received before the holy one, blessed be he, as if he prayed all day, as it says, a prayer of t

phet habakuk through rapture, tefillah la-havaquq ha-navi al shigyonot (hab 3:1: a prayer [tefillah] it should have been praise [tehillah! rather [it is to instruct that] he who turns his heart from matters of this world and contemplates the work of the chariot [mistakkel be-ma aseh merkavah] will be received before the holy one, blessed be he, as if he prayed all day, as it says, a prayer of the prophet habakuk. and what [is the meaning of] through rapture [al shigyonot? as it says, be rapt in her love constantly [be-ahavatah tishggeh tamid (prov 5:19. to what does this refer? the account of the chariot.5 in this citation, prayer assumes a mystical valence, as it is correlated with the pietistic practice of withdrawing from the world, which facilitates contemplation of the chariot.6 the e

pietistic practice of withdrawing from the world, which facilitates contemplation of the chariot.6 the exegetical link forged between al shigyonot, through rapture, and be-ahavatah tishggeh tamid, be rapt in her love constantly, intimates that in the illumined state the heart partakes of the lover s abandon, absorbed in and with the beloved continually. in the mind of the anonymous homilist, the prophet is enrapt in envisioning the chariot, a rapture that has the quality of prayer. one is reminded of the contemplative ideal of avodah sikhlit, intellectual worship, which maimonides presents at the end of the guide of the perplexed, an ideal achieved only by the spiritual elite, the philosophically enlightened members of the faith community; for them, true prayer consists of the employment

ical contours of the contemplative consciousness are outlined in the continuation of the bahiric homily through the guise of an exegesis on the next verse in habakuk s vision, yhwh shama ti shim akha yare ti, lord, i heard your teaching, i was in awe (hab 3:2. in spite of the obvious ocular nature of contemplation, attested in the technical locution mistakkel be-ma aseh merkavah, referring to the prophet s gazing at the narrative account of the chariot revelation and interpretation cannot be separated in the mind of the medieval kabbalist responsible for this text the primary emphasis is placed on giving ear to the teaching that has been written/spoken.14 hearing indicates understanding and teaching the place wherein they listen to him (maqom she-shom in bo).15 this place is not a physical

physical site but rather a divine gradation, as we encountered in the preceding chapter with respect to the attribute of god referred to as the place to which every knee bows down, the dwelling of the king to which prayers are directed.16 in the passage considered here, place signifies the locus of prophetic revelation, which is portrayed in auditory as opposed to visual terms.17 but what did the prophet hear in this imaginal place that led him to declare a sense of marvel? why [does it say] i was in awe? on account of the ear, which is in the image of alef, and alef is the first of all the letters [ro sh le-khol ha-otiyyot. moreover, alef causes the existence [qiyyumam] of all the letters. alef is in the image of the brain, for just as you open your mouth when you men- 140 chapter four ti

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proper to her (b) proper to mars (c) proper to aries, wherein the sun is exalted. she shall bear a golden cup for wine, blood, or poison& be girt with a sword, as it is written in the "book of the law" she shall wear a girdle of white or of mixed colours. in her hair she shall wreathe her serpent. 2. the beast shall wear an orange slip& sash as proper to (a) hod (b) the sun (c) gemini: for he is prophet of the gods& he is the beast 666, of the sun& he is innocent, a child, even, as horus-harpocrates, with the double function in love. over this shall he wear the robe of blue for nuit lined with scarlet for hadith& the sun is gold on his breast. he shall wear the crimson cap for binah, that covereth him, with the white cross of john for kether. he shall wear his ring of a magus& his rosy cr

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proper to her (b) proper to mars (c) proper to aries, wherein the sun is exalted. she shall bear a golden cup for wine, blood, or poison& be girt with a sword, as it is written in the "book of the law" she shall wear a girdle of white or of mixed colours. in her hair she shall wreathe her serpent. 2. the beast shall wear an orange slip& sash as proper to (a) hod (b) the sun (c) gemini: for he is prophet of the gods& he is the beast 666, of the sun& he is innocent, a child, even, as horus-harpocrates, with the double function in love. over this shall he wear the robe of blue for nuit lined with scarlet for hadith& the sun is gold on his breast. he shall wear the crimson cap for binah, that covereth him, with the white cross of john for kether. he shall wear his ring of a magus& his rosy cr

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171 appendix b 173 appendix c the lotus wand 175 appendix d the lesser invoking/banishing ritual of the pentagram 177 appendix e the grade signs 179 appendix f the l.v.x. signs 181 appendix g the middle pillar exercise 185 appendix h sign and color correspondences 187 appendix i 189 viii ix preface if you believe the legends, enochian magic was originally delivered to man by enoch, the mysterious prophet of genesis. the enochian calls are reputed to be in the language of the angels, of which hebrew is said to be but a faint echo. the enochian tablets, according to the story, are the talismans from which all other magical sigils are descended. small wonder enochian magic is reputed to be the most powerful (and dangerous) blanch of the occult! enochian magic originated, of course, with a ser

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