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ed with -r-iin -runa (gramm. 2, 517, and ohg. documents even offer, though sparingly, alariutn aleruna, mb. 3,416 (an. 1140 'gosprecht der alraumjn sun' mb. 27, 80 (an. l')09. i have never seen elirun, the form we should expect from ali- but it is significant, that the ox. name olrun, siem. 133-4, belongs precisely to a icisc-iooman; and alruncv (graff 2, 523, now alrauii, from its old sense of a prophetic and diabolic spirit, has at length passed into that of the root (mandragora, 1 a similar tale about alexander severus: midier druias eunti exclamavit gallico sermone' vadas, nee victoriam speres, nee te niiliti tuo credas' ael. lampridiiis in alex. sev. cap. 60. and attila at the passage of tlie lech is said to have been scared away by a rune-maiden calling out three times' back, attila'

ted by an old document. the as. gen. pi. neorxena, which only occurs in' neorxena wong= paradisus, has been proposed, but the abbreviation would be something unheard of, and even the nom. sing, neorxe or neorxu at variance with norn i besides, the parcac are nowhere found connected with paradise. may we trace norn to niosan (sternutare, whose past part, is in ohg. noran, mhg. norn, because of the prophetic virtue there is in sneezing (ch. xxxv] but the special meaning in this verb [con;i. with nose] seems older than any such general meaning, and its on. form hniosa stands opposed' fatinih dicunt esse quicciuid dii effantur. fatum igitur dictum a faudo, i.e, loquendo. tria autem fata finguutur in colo, in fuso, digitisque fila ex lana torquentibus, propter trina tempora: praderiium, quod in

d to the first two norns, an evil one to the .third. this third, consequently sktdd, is called 'the youngest' theywere of different ages therefore, urd'7- being considered the oldest. such tales of travelling gifting sorceresses were .much in vogue all through the mid. ages (see suppl^ i have elsewhere shown in detail, that the journeyinf^ hou.se-visiting]\iuse dame aventiiire is an inspiring and prophetic norn, and agrees to a featiue with, the ancient conception; see my kleine schriften 1, 102^ nigellus wirekere, in his jspeculum stultorum (comp. about 1200, relates a fable (exemplum: i bant tres hominum curas relevare sorores(^uas nosf(dales dicimiis esse elects. thay travel through the land, to remedy the oversights of nature. two of the sisters, soft-hearted and impulsive, want to rus

ers her lover a drink of water out of a golden 'pitcher, exactly as elfins and wish-wives do elsewhere (pp. 420, 326. molbech no. 49. these lovely swan-maidens must have been long known to german tradition. when they bathe in the cooling flood, they lay down on the bank the swan-ring, the swan-shift; who takes it from them, has them in his power^ though we are not expressly told so, yet the three prophetic merioomcn whose garments hagene took away, are precisely such; it is said (nib. 1476, 1) by way of simile again: sie swebten sam die vogele uf der fluot. it is true, our epic names only two of them (the danish story only one, the 2visiu wip, hadburc and sigelint^ but one of them begins to prophesy, and their garments are described as' wnnderlich' 1478, 3. the myth of volundr we meet with

up and took away the gold chain on her hand, then she could not escape. there was peculiar virtue in this chain' dor iininie (on account of it) werden sulche frowen wilnschelwyhere genant. he married her, and she had seven children at a birth, they all had gold rings about their necks, i.e, like their mother, the power of assuming a swan-shape. swanchildren then are ivish-children. in gudrun, the prophetic angel comes over the sea-wave in the shape of a wild bird singing, i.e, of a sivan, and in lohengrin a talking sivan escorts the hero in his ship; in as. poetry swanrdd(-road) passed current for the sea itself, and alpiz, selfet, alpt (cygnus) is aldn to the name of the ghostly alp, self (see suppl "we hear tell of a sivan that swims on the lake in a hollow moimtain, holding a ring in hi

into a swan is implied in the familiar westphalian nursery-rhyme: swane, swane, pek up de nesen, wannehr bistu krieger wesen (wast a warrior? another, of achen, says: krune krane, wisse schwane, we wel met noh engeland fahre? and the name ssefugel in the as. genealogies seems to indicate a swan-hero. the spinner eerhta, the goose-footed^ queen, may fairly suggest swan-maidens (p. 280).3 if those prophetic 'gallicenae' were able 1 gottschalk's sagen, halle 1814, p. 227- the pentagram was a pythagorean synihol, but also a druitlic; as it goes by the name of elfs foot, elf's cross, goblin-foot, and resembles a pair of goosefeet or swan-feet, semi-divine and elvish beings are again brought together in this emblem; the valkyr thrus is next door to a swan-maiden, and staufenberger's lover likew

u gent si viir in (go they before him) liber gras in ivildcr ivihe wiete (weeds. so 'von einem loilden wihe ist wate arzet' is i.e. has learnt to be) physician, gudr. 2117 'das wilde frduivclinl ecke 189. in the gl. monst. 335, wildaz vajj stands for lamia, and 333 ivildiu tvi2j for ululae, funereal birds, deathboding wives, still called in later times klagcfrmtcn, klagemuttcr, and resembling the prophetic berhta (p. 280. in groves, on trees, there appeared dorninac, niatronae, jpuellae clothed in white (pp. 287-8, distinguishable from the more elvish tree-wife or dryad, whose life is bound up with that of the tree. the vicentina germans worship a wood-tvife, chiefly between christmas and twelfthday: the women spin flax from the distaff, and throio it in the fire to propitiate her^ she is

ntain by the sea, in an ever-blooming land. in the apouonius, a benevolent merminne is queen of the sea (lines 5160. 5294; here the poet had in his mind a siren in the classical sense, but the germans must have had a merminne before they ever heard of sirens. the danish name is maremind (danske viser 1, 118. 125. norse legend has preserved for us a precisely corresponding male being, the taciturn prophetic marmennill (al. marmendill, marbendill, who is fished lip out of the sea, and requires to be let go into it again; halfssaga c. 7 (fornald. scig. 2, 31 33, and isl. sog. 1, 03 (landn. 2, 5).i from him coral is named marmennils smi&i, he cunningly wrought it in the sea. at a later time the word merfei was used in germany: that lover of staufenberger, whom he found in the forest, and the e

wives stand particular classes of nymphs, especially those whom theocritus 5, 17 names ta9 xiixvdha^ vv^t^a, or those called vvfjic^at akolfirjroi, seivai deal dypolcota; 13, 44. the graceful myth of swan-wives appears indeed to be unknown to the greeks and romans, while we teutons have it in common with the celts; yet a trace of it remains in the story of zeus and leda (p. 338, and in the swan's prophetic song, as in the indian nalus too the gold-bedizened swan (hansa= anser, goose) finds human speech (bopp's ed. pp. 6. 7. the slavs have not developed any idea of goddesses of fate^ the beautiful fiction of the vila is peculiar to servian mythology: she is a being half fay, half elf, whose name even resembles that of the vala. the relation of valkyrs to christian heroes is suggested by the

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

an be used for healing and purifying, at home or in sickrooms, to drive away all negativity and illness. ruled by venus. rose an essential ingredient in healing sachets, rose is potent in fighting infections and viruses of all kinds, relieving physical and emotional exhaustion, skin problems, menstrual disorders and hyperactivity. use it in love rituals, to attract love and to give meaningful and prophetic dreams. rose is also a symbol of courage, especially the blood red rose. ruled by venus. rosemary (elf leaf) rosemary relieves headaches, depression, liver and gall-bladder problems, sciatica and muscular pain. it aids digestion, improves circulation, helps with hair and scalp disorders, improves memory, focuses thoughts and increases energy levels. put a small handful, chopped, in a mus

t, as a snake sheds its skin. it is good for regeneration and helps the user to focus on new targets. ruled by mercury. thyme thyme brings good health, improves memory and mental abilities and has powerful antiseptic properties. it is said to aid recall of the past and allow glimpses into the future and to give courage and strength. in a sleep pillow, it keeps away bad dreams and may bring happy, prophetic ones. ruled by venus. valerian valerian is a relaxant; it reduces tension, anxiety, all stress-related conditions and insomnia, and offers effective pain relief for tension-related conditions including migraines. a herb of reconciliation, it can be placed in poppets, which are then tied together to bring harmony to a relationship or reunite those parted by anger or circumstance. it was u

, psychic powers and protection. hyacinth hyacinth assists in overcoming opposition in love; it brings happiness and desire for reconciliation. hyssop hyssop is used for making a love commitment, for healing and all forms of protection, especially from psychic attack. ivy ivy is effective for fidelity, married love, permanent relationships and constancy. jasmine jasmine is used in moon magick and prophetic dreams. it brings sensuality, money and passion. juniper use juniper for protection from psychic attacks and physical theft; for cleansing, healing and house moves. lavender lavender is particularly good for love and reconciliation, lemon/lemongrass both repel spite, protect against malice and gossip; they bring passion and increase psychic awareness and are good for those who travel. le

vity. lily lily is for purity and breaking negative influences in love; it is frequently used in mother goddess magick. lily of the valley lily of the valley increases mental abilities, brings happiness and restores joy. marigold marigold is used for dreams and guarding against infidelity. it is effective in rituals concerning legal matters, luck and money. mimosa use mimosa for protection, love, prophetic dreams and purification. mistletoe known to the druids as the all-healer, mistletoe is for healing sorrows, overcoming injustice and finding what is lost. it is also good for male potency. moss moss is used for good fortune, prosperity, money and permanence, whether in work or relationships. it frequently appears in water magick and divination (use with candles on water. myrrh myrrh is g

ABRAMELIN1

l, and before i had asked him so to do, accepted me for his disciple. and before that i had declared my wish unto him he would accomplish and fulfil my desire; and all that i wished to obtain from him he knew before i could open my mouth. also he recounted to me all that i had seen, done, and suffered from the time of my father s death down to this moment; and this in words obscure and as it were prophetic, which i did not then comprehend, but which i understood later. he told me many things touching my good fortune, but, which was the principal thing, he discovered to me the source of the veritable qabalah, the which according to our custom, i have in turn communicated unto thine elder brother joseph, after that he had fulfilled the requisite conditions without the accomplishment of which

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

eing our fortunate state, we may usefully put in an hour considering our next step. let us recall, in the first place, what we decided to be the quintessence of our task. it was to annihilate dividuality 'make room for me' cries the persian poet whose name i have forgotten, the fellow fitzgerald translated, not omar khayyam 'make room for me on that divan which has no room for twain- a remarkable prophetic anticipation of the luxury flatlet. we are to unite the subject and object of consciousness in the ecstasy which soon turns, as we shall find later on, into the more sublime state of indifference, and then annihilate both the party of the first part aforesaid and the party of the second part aforesaid. this evidently results in further parties- one might almost say cocktail parties- cons

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

s epistle to the church in thessalonica "for the lord shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of god; and the dead in christ shall rise first. then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them into the clouds to meet the lord in the air; and so shall we be for ever with the lord" the stupid interpretation of this verse as prophetic of a "second advent" need not concern us; every word of it is, however, worthy of profound consideration "the lord" is adonai- which is the hebrew for "my lord; and he descends from heaven, the supernal eden, the sahasrara cakkra in man, with a "shout" a "voice" and a "trump" again airy symbols, for it is air that carries sound. these sounds refer to those heard by the adept at the momen

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

with mem final in s.s) mylglg 117 fog, darkness lpw) chief, duke; guide pwl) 118 to pass, renew, change plx to ferment (mx the high priest lwdg nhk the goddess nu (spelt in full :w:n 119 lydian-stone nxwb nb) beelzebub: the fly-god bwbzl(b weeping (subst) h(md abominable lwgp 120 samekh: a prop, support kms master l(k foundation, basis ydswm season; the time of the decree d(wm strengthening nykm prophetic sayings, or decrees: ghis days shall be h (hence gabra- melin h) mylm a veil, covering, screen ksm a name of god n( imaginary, fanciful ynwymd vermin mynk mocker cl moth ss shadow; shelter lc 121 vain idols mylyl) an end, extremity mp) emanated from lc) of whirling motions mylglgh nocturnal vision )ylyl yd hwzx it is filled )lmn coin (b+m ?termination of abr-amelim? mlym) 122 compelled b

nw( humble, afflicted wn( 127 material, natural (ar (b+wm 128 to withdraw, rescue, deliver; to equip for war clx goodly strength; proof nysx god the eternal one wnyhl) hwhy 129 pleasure (gn. 18:12) hnd( delight, pleasure gnw( the standing prayer (from vb. to stand) hdym( palace of serenity (referred to hod) hnwg lkyh 130 ayin: an eye ny( deliverance hlch the angel of redemption l)gh k)lm decrees, prophetic sayings nylm the pillars (cf. 164) ydwm( destitute yn( a staircase, ladder mls chaff cm lest np swift lq 131 he was angry pn) nose myp) turn, roll np) a title of kether hswkm humility hwn( pluto (referred to daath) w+wlp 132 to make waste qlb to receive lbq 133 (the hebrew palatal letters; see i.z.q. 694 et seq& cf. 84) qkyg vine npg the salt sea xlmh my plague pgn 134 burning qld 135 a

malkuth)(rt taro (cf. 216, 224& 280 (r)t adonai: my lord (spelt in full :y:n:d) he is one god: a name of god *myhl )wh dx) aum (thus in s.s; cf. 47 *m) 672 the lord god: the divine name of binah *myhl) hwhy 674) a merchant trxws 676 resplendent ccwntm doves *mynwy the munificent ones *mybydn artificial (counted only with mem final in s.s *mylglg 679 the chrysolite stone (ct. 5:14) tplw(m nb) 680 prophetic sayings, or decrees: ghis days shall be h (hence gabra- melin h *mylm vermin *mynk 681 joyful noise; battle-cry; the sound [of a trumpet (cf. 585) h(wrt vain idols *mylyl) an end, extremity *mp) of whirling motions *mylglgh ?termination of abr-amelim *mlym) 682 ma faseh merkavah: the work of the chariot (see 1328) hbkrm h#(m of the evening; of the west tybr( green herb b( qry hebrew (the

f the path from binah to chesed be taken as 3, for gimel connects arikh anpin with zauir anpin) t r p n l+ g d) one is the spirit of the elohim of lives myyx myhl) xwr tx) the world of shells, the qliphoth twpylqh mlw( 778 goodly strength; proof *nysx the benignity of time *mlw( dsx 780 i dwell, have dwelt( gnot h read: see i.r.q. 1122& prov. 8:12) ytnk# shore, bank tp# ayin: an eye *ny( decrees, prophetic sayings *nylm lest *np ye shall cleave unto hwhy( gnot h read; cf. 192 *hwhyl myqbdx giants (fully written only in num. 13:33 *mylypn cups *mylps 781 turn, roll *np) 782 unto the place (ex. 23:20 *mwqmh l) 783 vine *npg 786 smooth tw#p fire from heaven (ii kings 1:10) mym#h nm) fines, penalties *nwmm eternal foundation of the world: a title of yesod *mlw( dwsy 787 a wheel; one of the aup

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 2

he tripod of life, casting before the veiled and awful image of the unknown the arrows of his reason, and diligently seeking both omen and sign in the dusty volumes of the past, and in the ancient wisdom of long-forgotten days. deeply read in poetry, philosophy and science, gifted beyond the common lot, and already a poet of brilliant promise; he suddenly hurries from out the darkness like a wild prophetic star, and overturning the desks and the stools of the schoolmen, and casting their pedagogic papilla from his lips, escapes from the stuffy cloisters of mildewed learning, and the colleges of dialectic dogmatics, and seeks, what as yet he cannot find in the freedom which in his youthful ardour appears to him to live but a furlong or two beyond the spires and gables of that city of hidebo

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 3

le verse and significant thought, so closely wedded to emotion that each seems either_ glasgow herald. a book of mystery and vision. by arthur edward waite. foolscap 4to. with special cover designed by mary tourtel, and frontispiece by isabelle de steiger. price 7s. 6d. net "the most remarkable and on the whole the most successful attempt to sing the mysteries of mysticism, since blake wrote his 'prophetic books_ the star "undoubtedly one of the most original and most remarkable books of verse published for many years" birmingham daily gazette. the secret of the sphinx: or, the ring of moses. by james smith and john wren sutton. crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. net "a romance founded on the building of the great pyramid by pharaoh and the birth of moses is a distinctly notable addition to modern fiction

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

mation of such nodes or starting-points without the intervention of any special hero or genius, and to imagine that in each case the myth-making tendency of mankind created a legendary and inspiring figure and worshipped the same for a long period afterwards as a god "as i have said before, this is a question which, interesting as it is, is not really very important. the main thing being that the prophetic and creative spirit of mankind has from time to time evolved those figures as idealisations of its `heart's desire' and placed a halo round their heads. the long procession of them becomes a real piece of history the history of the evolution of the human heart, and of human consciousness."5 the crucifixion and the cross of christ are as old as humanity itself. both are symbols of the ete

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

it basically is) takes many forms and sometimes produces more than simply a duality. the great expression of the continuity of desire is voiced for us by paul, the initiate, in the epistle to the romans where he refers to the constant battle between the will-to-good and the will-to-evil, as it takes place within the periphery of consciousness of a human being. from certain angles this passage is prophetic, for the writer (perhaps unknowingly) was looking forward to that period in the evolution of mankind when the "battle of the opposites" would be waged in its full strength, both individually and within all nations and races. such a time is now upon us. as far as the individual is concerned, the psychologist is attempting to deal with the problem. as far as the race is concerned, the grea

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

ed on an educated goodwill, which will lead inevitably to right human relations, and, therefore, to the establishment (figuratively speaking) of lines of light between nation and nation, religion and religion, group and group and man and man. if we can succeed in presenting these four ideas to the world at large, and thus in overcoming the intelligent criticism that all that is said is too vague, prophetic, and visionary, we shall have done much. it is possible surely that the ancient truism that "the mind is the slayer of the real" may be fundamentally true where the mass of humanity is concerned and that the purely intellectual approach (which rejects the vision and refuses to accept the unprovable) may be far more at fault than the anticipation of the knowers of god and the expectant mu

rt; they did it again in palestine two thousand years ago; will they do it again, as opportunity is offered to them? the difficulty with the jew is that he remains satisfied with the religion of nearly five thousand years ago and shows as yet little desire to change. the coming in of the aquarian age, christ foresaw and reduced to pictorial form for us, thus preserving for us down the centuries a prophetic episode, the interpretation of which is possible of demonstration only in our time and age. astronomically, we are not yet functioning fully within the influence of aquarius; we are only just emerging from the piscean influence, and the full impact of the energies which aquarius will set loose has not yet been felt. nevertheless, each year carries us closer to the centre of power, the ma

he centuries ahead of us. the lines which his training follows are known only to christ, to the buddha and to the avatar of synthesis. all esoteric or spiritual training has to be self-applied; this is as true of the christ as it is of the humblest aspirant. into the processes of christ's thinking, reactions and planning, it is not possible for us to enter. in palestine, his appearance was mainly prophetic and his work primarily that of laying the foundation for the activities which will follow his reappearance, plus the sowing of the seed, the harvest of which he will garner in the new age. the tragedy of his appearance two thousand years ago has coloured the presentation of truth by the theologians and made them posit an unhappy story, producing a miserable and unhappy world. this traged

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

in the coming age, after the tests of the piscean age. such a communion service has never yet been held, but the new age will see it take place. 2. the story of the upper chamber in which the disciples met and arrived at a true recognition of the risen christ and at a perfect and complete understanding of each other in spite of the symbolic diversity of tongues. they had a touch of prevision, of prophetic insight, and foresaw a little of the wonder of the aquarian age. the vision in men's minds today is that of the aquarian age, even if they recognise it not. the future will see right relationships, true communion, a sharing of all things (wine, the blood, the life and bread, economic satisfaction) and goodwill; we have also a picture of the future of humanity when all nations are united

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

n. they have a clear picture in their minds of what is possible to accomplish, and the power to point it out to the people of their time. they necessarily range all the way from those who have a relatively clear vision of the cosmic picture and objectives to those who simply see the next step ahead for the race or the nation. isaiah and ezekiel are the only two of the hebrew prophets who had true prophetic and cosmic vision. the others were small, but intelligent men who, from analysis and deduction, assessed the immediate future and indicated immediate possibilities. they had no direct revealing intuition. in the new testament, john, the beloved disciple, was privileged to gain a cosmic picture and a true prophetic vision which he- 82- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust e

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

o twelve words for consideration in meditation. they were intended to evoke your abstract mind and their obvious meaning and significance was not intended to form a part of your thinking. as you later review these words, i would have you consider them: 1. as embodying the viewpoint of the spiritual triad. 2. as part of the work assigned to you in leading humanity forward. these words have new and prophetic meanings and you must discover for yourselves what they are- 132- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust this you have not yet done, and in neither of these two ways have you truly meditated on the given words. it is essential that there be a reorganisation of your meditation technique in these two directions. your entire meditation work is too concrete. there

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

the hierarchy, and this the coming generation of disciples will distribute. if this truth is factual and possible of demonstration, then the fact of the hierarchy is proved and the authenticity of the eternal existence of the kingdom of god on earth is established. the return of the christ*(12) may 1947 year after year i have written you (and all who care to listen) a message which has often been prophetic, always related to the fundamental spiritual union of the east and the west, of the buddha and the christ, and which has consistently laid emphasis upon the immediate spiritual- 387- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust opportunity. every year i have prepared these messages with great care, and in their synthesis there emerges (if you have read them in order an

be based on an educated goodwill, which will lead inevitably to right human relations, and therefore to the establishment (figuratively speaking) of lines of light between nation and nation, religion and religion, group and group, and man and man. if you can succeed in presenting these four ideas to the world at large, thus overcoming the intelligent criticism that all that is said is too vague, prophetic, and visionary, you will do much. it is possible, surely, that the ancient truism "the mind is the slayer of the real" may be fundamentally true where the mass of humanity is concerned, and that the purely intellectual approach (which rejects the vision and refuses to accept the unprovable) may be far more at fault than the anticipations of the knowers of god and the expectant multitude

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

sons of men respond. then will a newer light shine forth into the dismal weary vale of earth. then will new life course through the veins of men, and then will their vision compass all the ways of what may be "so peace will come again on earth, but a peace unlike aught known before. then will the will-to-good flower forth as understanding, and understanding blossom as goodwill in men" so speaks a prophetic passage in the ancient archives of the hierarchy which deals with the present cycle of distress (written in june, 1943. for this time men must prepare. you will know when the avatar links up with the planetary logos because i will then give you the final stanza of the great invocation (given out in april, 1945. its use will serve to bring the coming one to recognition and enable him to d

sorry story of the conquest of the early tribes in palestine; they have been persecuted and repudiated down the centuries, but have retaliated simply by moving on the wandering jew seeking a home, wandering humanity, saying always "i must arise and go to my father" the motive given to the prodigal son in the gospel story is a strictly material one, and we have here an outstanding instance of the prophetic knowledge of the christ. the jewish people have not only repudiated the messiah (which their race produced, but they have forgotten their unique relation to humanity; they forget that millions in the world today have- 417- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust suffered as they have suffered and that for instance there are eighty p

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

on the mental plane, not 666 at all. it is to be remembered that the lion is the king of beasts. the native attains finally in that sign the rounded-out personality. but in virgo, the first of the steps towards spirituality is taken, the soul is called the son of mind, and virgo is ruled by mercury, carrying the energy of the mind. in this virgo lecture a.a.b. gave a most interesting sequence of prophetic references to the virgin as follows- 69- the labours of hercules "behold, i will bring forth my servant, the branch (zechariah 3:8. one symbol of virgo is the woman with the ear of corn, or the sheaf of wheat, or the branch of fruit in her arms. remember also the prophecy in isaiah upon which our new testament is based "and a virgin shall conceive and bring forth a son, and link up with

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

f receiving a special name and of founding a theological body of doctrine--the kabalah. the bulwark and main foundation of the public hebrew religion has always been the pentateuch, five treatises attributed to moses, which proclaim the laws of jehovah given to his chosen people. the old testament beginning with these five books is further continued by historic books, by poetical teachings and by prophetic works, but many portions are marked by materialistic characteristics and a lack of spiritual rectitude which the books of a great religion might be expected to display, and they even offend our present standard of moral life. the mosaic law, eminently valuable for many purposes to a small nation 3,000 years ago, and containing many regulations of a type showing great attention to sanitar

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

2005. also see tewari 1987, p. 140. 156 see de nebesky-wojkowitz 1998, p. 428; peter 1978b, p. 288; and tewari 1987. 114 possessed by transcendental deities are usually met with suspicion.157 an oracle is commonly renowned for being the vessel of a specific deity; yet most oracles can channel multiple deities in a single trance, with each deity providing further insight into a communal crisis or prophetic declaration.158 when a deity descends into an oracle, it results in a trance state. this trance state of possession shows a marked contrast in the behavior of the oracle. as the deity begins to take over the body of the oracle, he will begin to shake and tremble, breathe faster and with heavy breaths, and even puff out air or wag the tongue. the oracle s complexion also changes, with his

show no sign of injury, as well as vomiting coins.163 such miraculous exhibitions accompany the central supernatural abilities of clairvoyance and prophecy that are the impetus for these trances. the goal of oracle trances is to provide a service to the community on multiple levels. this service involves eliciting the supernatural knowledge of the deity as expressed through the oracle to provide prophetic advice concerning the future of the community. with village oracles the concern is more local, while state oracles offer advice on a greater political scale. also, an oracle can be consulted by individual patrons regarding personal crises such as family problems, wealth and love issues, or for communal concerns such as unsolved crimes and legal matters.164 furthermore, oracles specifical

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

atter. it is also the key to the cycle of science, divine and human; and he who comprehends its full meaning is for ever liberated from the toils of mahamaya, the great illusion and deceiver. the light that shines from under the divine hammer, now degraded into the mallet or gavel of the grand masters of masonic lodges, is sufficient to dissipate the darkness of any human schemes or fictions. how prophetic are the songs of the three norse goddesses, to whom the ravens of odin whisper of the past and the future, as they flutter around in their abode of crystal beneath the flowing river. the songs are all written down in the "scrolls of wisdom" of which many are lost but some still remain: and they repeat in poetical allegory the teachings of the archaic ages. to summarise from dr. wagner's

scar. there were civilized people and savages in[[footnote(s* our best modern novelists, who are neither theosophists nor spiritualists, begin to have, nevertheless, very psychological and suggestively occult dreams: witness mr. louis stephenson and his dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, than which no grander psychological essay on occult lines exists. has the rising novelist, mr. rider haggard, also had a prophetic or rather a retrospective clairvoyant dream before he wrote "she? his imperial kor, the great city of the dead, whose surviving living men sailed northwards after the plague had killed almost a whole nation, seems to step out in its general outlines from the imperishable pages of the old archaic records. ayesha suggests "that those men who sailed north may have been the fathers of the fi

cyzicans had placed in the prytanea "whence it ran away several times, which forced them to lead it (nat. hist, xxxvi, p. 592. here we have immense stones stated by all antiquity to be "living, moving, speaking and self-perambulating" they were also capable, it seems, of making people run away, since they have been called routers("to put to flight" to rout) and des mousseaux shows them all to be prophetic stones and[[footnote(s "it is difficult" writes creuzer "not to suspect in the structures of tiryns and mycenae planetary forces supposed to be moved by celestial powers, analogous to the famous dactyles (pelasges et cyclopes. to this day science is ignorant on the subject of the cyclopes. they are supposed to have built all the so-called "cyclopean" works whose erection necessitated sev

hining in darkness, and deserted it, falling down like rain upon the earth, where they are now hidden" these stars are the monads. chinese cosmogonies have their "lord of the flame" and their "celestial virgin" with little "spirits to help and minister to her; and big spirits to fight those who are the enemies of other gods" but all this does not prove that the said allegories are presentments or prophetic writings which all refer to christian theology. the best proof one can offer to christian theologians that the[[footnote(s* the protestant bible defines behemoth innocently "the elephant as some think (see marginal note in job xl. 19) in the authorised versions* astronomy, however, knows nothing of stars that have disappeared unless from visibility, never from existence, since the scienc

ern mythology (in jeruskoven) that, before the actual order of things, the sun arose in the south, and its placing the frigid zone in the east, whereas now it is in the north. the book of enoch, in short, is a resume, a compound of the main features of the history of the third, fourth and fifth races; a very few prophecies from the present age of the world; a long retrospective, introspective and prophetic summary of universal and quite historical events- geological, ethnological, astronomical, and psychic- with a touch of theogony out of the antediluvian records. the book of this mysterious personage is referred to and quoted copiously in the pistis sophia, and also in the zohar and its most ancient midrashim. origen and clement of alexandria held it in the highest esteem. to say, therefo

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and kabalists claimed the same; and even the late modern magus, eliphas levi, publicly asserts it in print in his books on magic[[vol. 1, page] xliv introductory. namely, about 5,000 years. in about nine years hence, the first cycle of the first five millenniums, that began with the great cycle of the kali-yuga, will end. and then the last prophecy contained in that book (the first volume of the prophetic record for the black age) will be accomplished. we have not long to wait, and many of us will witness the dawn of the new cycle, at the end of which not a few accounts will be settled and squared between the races. volume ii. of the prophecies is nearly ready, having been in preparation since the time of buddha's grand successor, sankaracharya. one more important point must be noticed, o

s important a part in western kabala as in eastern occultism. eliphas levi calls the number seven "the key to the mosaic creation and the symbols of every religion" he shows the kabala following faithfully even the septenary division of man, as the diagram he gives in his "clef des grands mysteres" is septenary. this[[vol. 1, page] 242 the secret doctrine. may be seen at a glance on page 389 "une prophetic et diverses pensees de paracelse" however cleverly the correct thought is veiled. one needs also only to look at the diagram (plate vii. in mr. mathers' kabala "the formation of the soul* from the same "key of the great mysteries" by levi to find the same, though with a different interpretation. thus it stands with both the kabalistic and the occult names attached- 7 neschanah] pure spir

e supreme soul, this soul of all the beings sleeps in complete repose till the day when it resumes its form, and awakes again from its primitive darkness* as the "satya-yuga" is always the first in the series of the four ages or yugas, so the kali ever comes the last. the kali yuga reigns now supreme in india, and it seems to coincide with that of the western age. anyhow, it is curious to see how prophetic in almost all things was the writer of vishnu purana when foretelling to maitreya some of the dark influences and sins of this kali yug. for after saying that the "barbarians" will be masters of the banks of the indus, of chandrabhaga and kasmera, he adds "there will be contemporary monarchs, reigning over the earth- kings of churlish spirit, violent temper, and ever addicted to falsehoo

ituted for learning; liberality will be devotion; mutual assent, marriage; fine clothes, dignity. he who is the strongest will reign; the people, unable to bear the heavy burthen, khara bhara (the load of taxes) will take refuge among the valleys. thus, in the kali age will decay constantly proceed, until[[footnote(s* see jacquolliot's "les fils de dieu; l'inde des brahmes, p. 230* if this is not prophetic, what is[[vol. 1, page] 378 the secret doctrine. the human race approaches its annihilation (pralaya. when the close of the kali age shall be nigh, a portion of that divine being which exists, of its own spiritual nature. shall descend on earth (kalki avatar) endowed with the eight superhuman faculties. he will re-establish righteousness on earth, and the minds of those who live at the e

ultimate substratum of spirit (space. that which is not the absolute and the one is, in virtue of that very differentiation, however far removed from the physical senses, always accessible to the spiritual human mind, which is a coruscation of the undifferentiable integral (practical lessons on the occult* thus, what the writer of the present work said ten years ago in "isis unveiled (vol. i) was prophetic, it seems. these are the words "many of these mystics, by following what they were taught by some treatises, secretly preserved from one generation to another, achieved discoveries which would not be despised even in our modern days of exact sciences. roger bacon, the friar, was laughed at as a quack, and is now generally numbered among 'pretenders' to magic art; but his discoveries were

twelve zodiacal signs, and the whole scheme is built upon it- heroes, personages, and events. thus in the dream of joseph, who saw eleven "stars" bowing to the twelfth, which was his "star" the zodiac is meant. the roman catholics have discovered in it, moreover, a prophecy of christ, who is that twelfth star, they say, and the eleven apostles; the absence of the twelfth being also regarded as a prophetic allusion to the treachery of judas. the twelve sons of jacob are again a reference to the same, as justly pointed out by villapandus (temple de jerusalem, vol. ii, p. 2nd part, chap. xxx. sir james malcolm, in his history of persia (ch. vii, shows the dabistan echoing all such traditions about the zodiac. he traces the invention of it to the palmy days of the golden age of iran, remarkin

and it is certainly no better now than a mere assumption to maintain that nature had only christ in view, when building her (to the profane) fantastic and meaningless constellations. if it is claimed that it was no hazard that could lead the archaic architects of the zodiac, thousands of years ago, to mark with the asterisk (a) the figure of taurus, with no better or more valid proof of it being prophetic of the verbum or christ than that the aleph of taurus means "the one" and the first, and that christ was also the alpha or the one, then this "proof" may be shown strangely invalidated in more than one way. to begin with, the zodiac existed before the christian era, at all events; further, all the sun-gods had been mystically connected with that constellation (taurus- osiris, for instanc

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our higher self is expending a lot of time and effort in forming and transmitting dreams; the least you can do is try to understand what the message is. dream interpretation and symbology you have probably spent countless hours trying, unsuccessfully, to decipher the seemingly senseless riddles of your dreams. you are puzzled when a dream of attending aunt minnie's funeral proves not in the least prophetic as, ten years later, aunt minnie is still going strong. you're totally baffled at intimate exchanges with people you wouldn't normally go near. you are amazed at dreaming of doing things that are physically impossible in your everyday life. you end up with total frustration in your attemp'ts to make any sense of the strange goings-on in your elusive dreams. yet you still feel that somewh

a complex and almost limitless combination of symbols. it can be analytical, judgemental or therapeutic in nature. the majority of dreams are analytical. that is, they provide a means for the higher self to comment on your everyday life and your spiritual development. it will analyze how you are relating to your environment and your fellow man and woman. a small percentage of your dreams are of a prophetic nature, to warn and prepare you for future events (the percentage of prophetic dreams varies greatly from one person to another but it is estimated that perhaps one dream in twenty concerns the future. don't immediately jump to the conclusion that what you dream about brother bob, or cousin mary, is an indication of something that is about to happen to him or her. it may be but far more

iority, their therapy may be to dream of being a powerful, capable and attractive person. in this way, the higher self is compensating for the dreamer's psychological lack. if a person has a strong feeling of superiority, they might be taken down a peg or two by a dream that depicts him or her as a weak, defenseless and inferior person. thus the dream often attempts to overcome character defects. prophetic dreams will only occur when the individual needs to be prepared for an event in the future. even though you may not consciously remember it, the dream prepares you, subconsciously, for the shock that is to come. not all precognitive dreams are of significant events; some may even appear quite trivial. but they are important just the same. they program and prepare the subconscious and con

e the source of the dream is attempting to insure that the message gets through and is understood. a dream repeated over days, weeks or perhaps months, indicates something that you have not taken action on. once you understand, and respond to, the dream, through action or a change in attitude, the dream will cease to occur. generally the recurring dream is one of the following: a) precognitive or prophetic. b) compensation for an improper attitude. c) the result of a traumatic incident which has left a negative impression. group dreams among the more spiritually advanced is an occasional tendency to actively share or participate in a dream with someone else. in these cases, the two people are very much in tune with one another on a psychic or emotional level. it does not mean that they are

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

an be used for healing and purifying, at home or in sickrooms, to drive away all negativity and illness. ruled by venus. rose an essential ingredient in healing sachets, rose is potent in fighting infections and viruses of all kinds, relieving physical and emotional exhaustion, skin problems, menstrual disorders and hyperactivity. use it in love rituals, to attract love and to give meaningful and prophetic dreams. rose is also a symbol of courage, especially the blood red rose. ruled by venus. rosemary (elf leaf) rosemary relieves headaches, depression, liver and gall-bladder problems, sciatica and muscular pain. it aids digestion, improves circulation, helps with hair and scalp disorders, improves memory, focuses thoughts and increases energy levels. put a small handful, chopped, in a mus

t, as a snake sheds its skin. it is good for regeneration and helps the user to focus on new targets. ruled by mercury. thyme thyme brings good health, improves memory and mental abilities and has powerful antiseptic properties. it is said to aid recall of the past and allow glimpses into the future and to give courage and strength. in a sleep pillow, it keeps away bad dreams and may bring happy, prophetic ones. ruled by venus. valerian valerian is a relaxant; it reduces tension, anxiety, all stress-related conditions and insomnia, and offers effective pain relief for tension-related conditions including migraines. a herb of reconciliation, it can be placed in poppets, which are then tied together to bring harmony to a relationship or reunite those parted by anger or circumstance. it was u

, psychic powers and protection. hyacinth hyacinth assists in overcoming opposition in love; it brings happiness and desire for reconciliation. hyssop hyssop is used for making a love commitment, for healing and all forms of protection, especially from psychic attack. ivy ivy is effective for fidelity, married love, permanent relationships and constancy. jasmine jasmine is used in moon magick and prophetic dreams. it brings sensuality, money and passion. juniper seite 84 wicca01.txt use juniper for protection from psychic attacks and physical theft; for cleansing, healing and house moves. lavender lavender is particularly good for love and reconciliation, lemon/lemongrass both repel spite, protect against malice and gossip; they bring passion and increase psychic awareness and are good for

vity. lily lily is for purity and breaking negative influences in love; it is frequently used in mother goddess magick. lily of the valley lily of the valley increases mental abilities, brings happiness and restores joy. marigold marigold is used for dreams and guarding against infidelity. it is effective in rituals concerning legal matters, luck and money. mimosa use mimosa for protection, love, prophetic dreams and purification. mistletoe known to the druids as the all-healer, mistletoe is for healing sorrows, overcoming injustice and finding what is lost. it is also good for male potency. moss moss is used for good fortune, prosperity, money and permanence, whether in work or relationships. it frequently appears in water magick and divination (use with candles on water. myrrh myrrh is g

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 instance, in eighteenthcentury south carolina, three blacks.a slave and two freedmen. plotted an insurrection in st. helena parish, with the intent to kill the "buckras" the governor accused the trio's leader of trying to "stir up sedition among the negroes" after he received an apocalyptic vision in which he had fellowshiped with "god almighty c in the woods" these prophetic, visionary strains of religious radicalism were also in evidence among black insurrectionists in north carolina and virginia at the turn of the nineteenth century.[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

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of the body).identifies metatron with the son in the trinity. hokhmah, binah, and da'at as christological trinity. 1271 mongols conquered the area around harran. they deported the populace of the city, walled up the city gates, and left it. r. baruch torgami in barcelona, teacher of abraham abulafia. his circle had access to al-gazali's description of sufism contributing to the crystalization of prophetic kabbalah. wrote maftehot ha-kabbalah("the keys to kabbalah, containing a short commentary on the sefer yezirah. 1272 provincal chapter at narbonne forbade the franciscans to practice alchemy. 1273 dominican order at pest warned friars not to study or teach alchemy. d.1273 jalal al-din al-rumi. 1274 ramon llull's vision on mount randa. d. 1275 peire cardenal troubadour. 1275-1325 menahem

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diana stayed at clarence house, the london residence of the queen mother. when shehad arrived no-one was there to welcome her, she said, it was like going to a hotel.diana and charles were married in st pauls cathedral on july 29th 1981. that morningat clarence house she said she felt calm, deathly calm: i felt i was a lamb to the415slaughter. i knew it, and i couldnt do anything about it.27 what prophetic words thosewould prove to be. they spent the first night of their honeymoon at the mountbattenfamily estate at broadlands in hampshire before sailing around the greek islands in theroyal yacht britannia (barati. the bulimia got worse and she considered suicide, suchwas the scale of her unhappiness. my husband made me feel so inadequate in everypossible way that each time i came up for ai

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wledge and experience" to their offspring through their genetic code, human beings may have the ability to access genetically transmitted knowledge. if a grimoire says that the spirit seere "will provide true revelations of things stolen or lost" then by invoking the spirit seere an area of the brain largely responsible for psychic ability will be stimulated in the sorcerer and he will experience prophetic dreams. if a grimoire says that the spirit sitri "enflameth the love of women" then the invocation of the spirit called sitri will stimulate an area of the brain responsible for personal magnetism and charisma, making the sorcerer more attractive to members of the opposite sex. rituals from other systems of magic may be incorporated into the demonic bible, however, the rituals of the dem

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ian gnosis. without it we have an incomplete system in our religion, and it is' this mystical qabala page 21 incomplete system which has been the weakness of christianity. the early fathers, in the homely metaphor, threw away the baby with the bath-water. a very cursory acquaintance with the qabalah serves to show that here we have the essential keys to the riddles of scripture in general and the prophetic books in particular. is there any good [page 28] reason why initiates of the present day should put all this knowledge into a secret box and sit upon the lid? if they consider that i am wrong to give accurate information upoo matters which they consider their private preserve, i reply that this is a free country and they are entitled to their opinion. chapter v negative existence 1. the

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humans. this occurs most frequently when the spirit wishes to communicate with humanity, and possesses an individual to use the voice of that person as its instrument of communication. trance mediums and channelers have their personalities displaced by spirits on a regular basis. the prophets of the bible were possessed by the spirit (actually, the spirits) of god so that they could deliver their prophetic utterances. possession is not in itself harmful. it is not even unusual. it is only destructive when done by a destructive being for hurtful purposes. good spirits or angels occasionally possess a person permanently when the consciousness of that person fails, or that person loses all will to live. these possessions are known as "walk-ins" because the spirit literally walks into the body

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ternal clasp more cordial than when, in the glory of that beautiful autumnal evening, we opened and closed the first lodge ever assembled in montana. contemplating this early incident in the history of our order from our present standpoint, and including in the contemplation what masonry has since done for the territory, and the territory for masonry, it seems to have been invested with a kind of prophetic interest; especially as at that time it could hardly have been possible for the few masons in the territory to have known each other, except as mere adventurers. as a manifestation of the all-pervading affections of masons for the lodge it is worthy of enduring record in our archives. it is one of those facts that will reach forward into our history and seize upon those undying elements

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the banshee. dublin, 1986. mcanally, d. r. irish wonders. 1888. reprint, detroit: grand river books, 1971. o donnell, elliot. the banshee. london, 1919. yeats, w. b. fairy and folk tales of the irish peasantry. london: walter scott [1888. banyacya, thomas (1909.1999) thomas banyacya, an elder of the hopi nation, was selected as one of four spokespersons of his people in 1948 to deliver an urgent prophetic message to all people. he was born on june 2, 1909, in moencopi, a hopi town in arizona. he attended school under the name thomas jenkins, an anglo name demanded of students at the time by the bureau of indian affairs. he later adopted the name thomas banyacya, a combination of the name he had been called as a youth and his birth name. in 1930 he entered bacone college in oklahoma, an in

l, and charles berlitz. the philadelphia experiment. new york: grosset& dunlap, 1979. bermechobus the supposed writings of st. methodius of olympus (martyred 311 c.e; or the saint of the same name who was patriarch of constantinople and who died in 846. the real name of the work is bea-methodius, a contraction for beatus methodivo, which was misprinted bermechobus. the work is of the nature of a prophetic apocalypse and tells the history and destiny of the world. it was handed down by the gnostics and printed in the mirabilis liber. there are no grounds, however, to suppose that the writings were the work of either of the saints mentioned. the book recounts how seth sought a new country in the east and came to the country of the initiates, and how the children of cain instituted a system

notably a series of illustrations to young s night thoughts, yet he also found time for original drawing and writing, including the gates of paradise and songs of experience. eventually he tired of london, however, and moved to felpham, near bognor in sussex, taking a cottage close to where aubrey beardsley would live at a later date. here blake composed milton, jerusalem, and a large part of the prophetic books, and made a new friend, william hayley, who repeatedly aided him monetarily. the sussex scenery.afterward to inspire whistler and conder.appealed keenly to blake, and in one of his lyrics he exclaimed, away to sweet felpham, for heaven is there, while to flaxman he wrote: felpham is a sweet place for study, because it is more spiritual than london. heaven opens here on all sides he

ost assuredly blake the poet was sublimely contemptuous of the conventions of augustanism, and thus he prepared the way for burns, wordsworth, and shelley. had blake written only his poetical sketches, his songs of innocence and the subsequent songs of experience, his contemporaries could never have leveled the charge of madness against him. it was his later writings like the book of thel and the prophetic books that branded him, for in these later poems the writer threw simplicity to the winds. giving literary form to visions, blake is so purely spiritual and ethereal, so far beyond the realm of normal human speech, that mysticism frequently devolves into crypticism. his rhythm, too, is often so subtle that it hardly seems rhythm at all. yet even in his weirdest flights blake is still the

as her children reached adulthood, she used her new free time to study hypnosis and the idea of reincarnation. she developed her own techniques that seemed to be effective in releasing information in those who allowed her to hypnotize them. at one point during the 1980s, an entity began to speak through one of her subjects who claimed to be nostradamus, the fifteenth-century author of a number of prophetic poems. when the woman came out of her hypnotic state she was reluctant to continue but agreed to one additional session. nostradamus indicated that he would be able to speak through different people hypnotized by cannon and gave her a method to establish contact and to assure her that it was indeed he who was communicating. over the next years he communicated through no less than a dozen

o manifest regularly to friends and small groups and gave both personal advice and philosophical teaching. eventually pursel gave up his business career and devoted himself full time to channeling lazaris. popular in the nineties are prolific channels named neale donald walsch and lee carroll [kryon] both of whom have a strong web presence. as the century drew to a close many channeled works made prophetic references to earth changes and ascension scenarios. it has to be admitted that the names of spirit guides are often unconvincing and seem like parodies. in the heyday of nineteenth-century spiritualism, native american guides were more frequent, and even today such claimed personalities still appear to manifest, usually speaking in broken english but unable to communicate in indian dial

disasters such as famine, plague, or war. the most recent outbreak of widespread concern that a comet might portend disaster occurred in 1973 when the comet kohoutek was announced. for the first time in more than a generation, there arose the possibility that a bright comet, plainly visible with the naked eye, would be seen by the majority of people. a variety of speculations on the spiritual and prophetic implications of the comet were made, but the comet did not prove to be as spectacular as hoped, and none of the predicted changes signaled by its appearance occurred. no such speculation seems to have occurred at the time of the return of halley s comet in 1986. in the past century comets have also figured in speculations about the history of the earth. in ragnarok: the age of fire and g

my own, and which i should certainly have regarded as an event of interest and consequence under whatever circumstances communicated. the announcement gave me every detail of place, name and date, with the additional statement that it was after a period of prolonged suffering. i had heard nothing of the lady. resident in america.for some months, and was quite willing to suppose the communication prophetic or clairvoyant. of this flattering notion i was soon disabused. an examination of the paper of the day before soon showed that the advertisement was there, just as i had seen it in the crystal, and though at first i was inclined to protest that i had never looked at yesterday s paper i presently remembered that i had, in fact, handled it, using it as a screen to shade my face from the fi

e population came down to the beach in order to witness its arrival, accompanied by the incredulous carver, and, to his intense surprise, at the very moment forecast by the shamans a canoe rounded a distant headland, and, paddling speedily shorewards, the navigators brought the patient killistenoes news of the expedition they expected. john mason brown recorded an equally singular instance of the prophetic gift of an american medicine man (see atlantic monthly, july 1866. difficulties experienced while searching for a band of native americans the mackenzie and coppermine rivers had forced the majority of brown s band to return home, until out of ten men who originally set out only three remained. they had almost decided to abandon their search when they stumbled upon a party of braves of t

ms. lost objects are frequently found in dreams. in most cases subconscious memory sufficiently explains the mystery. there are, however, more complicated cases. according to legend hercules appeared in a dream to sophocles and indicated where a golden crown would be found. sophocles got the reward promised to the finder. supposedly the paranormal character of dreams is clearest in telepathic and prophetic dreams. they often produce an impression lasting for days. sweating and trembling are occasionally experienced on waking from a dream of this character. the dreams tend to be repeated. one case of prophetic dreams announced the murder of a chancellor perceval. it is thus narrated by one abercrombie: many years ago there was mentioned in several of the newspapers a dream which gave notice

projects was a statistical study with pairs of subjects, which tended to show that telepathic dreams could be produced experimentally. it would seem that dreaming and the elements in dreams have many different aspects of a physiological and psychological nature, with certain paranormal characteristics. many of these aspects differ widely in various individuals. there have been well-authenticated prophetic dreams, as well as fragmentary elements of future events of the kind described by j. w. dunne. many aspects of dream imagery appear to be a visual presentation of individual psychic problems. increasing evidence from out-of-the-body travel experiences has convinced some researchers of the reality of astral travel and of its stimulus through dream images. it may well be, as noted in sever

y on the original sealed cord. this experiment was in no way conclusive in the light of slade s later reputation as a fraud and in view of the startling tricks performed by stage magicians with cords and rings. zollner reported on his experiment in his book transcendental physics (1880, which became the object of much ridicule by his colleagues. end of the world one of the most common concepts in prophetic literature, especially in the apocalyptical literature of judaism and christianity. the term can denote either the end of the physical world (cosmos) or the end of the social order (aeon. the theological term eschatology refers to teachings about the last things (from the greek eschaton. eschatology includes a consideration not only of the destiny of the world but of the individual (deat

limatic cosmic war between the forces of good and evil. the forces of good are represented by the church and god s angels and the forces of evil by the antichrist, the beast whose name can be determined by numerology, 666, and their respective human supporters. the powerful images of this book constant- encausse, gerard encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 502 ly reappear in western prophetic and apocalyptic literature over the centuries. one persistent theme in apocalyptic literature, for example, is the figure of the antichrist, the mighty ruler opposed to god, as cited in the epistles of john. this image harks back to the historical figure of antiochus iv, a persecutor of the jews. the apocalyptical concept of the end of the world and the antichrist figure have analogies i

table. in the west, in almost every generation there have arisen groups with an apocalyptic worldview and an expectation that they are witnessing the last days of human history. not infrequently, these groups go so far as to set a specific date on which the endtime events will be initiated. basic to such groups have been a historicist reading of the apocalyptic passages of the bible, in which the prophetic texts are seen as referring to contemporary events. the failure of the proposed events to occur on time always creates a crisis in apocalyptic groups. only rarely do they admit any significant error. rather, they suggest that the date was incorrect and propose a new date, or, more often, they spiritualize the prophecy and suggest that it really occurred, but in an invisible spiritual rea

n of two cases of possession and mediumship, the maid of orlach and frederica hauffe, the seeress of prevorst. also during this period, the poet, playwright, philosopher and novelist, johann wolfgang von goethe whose own story of faust made his name synonomous with the struggle between good and evil, showed serious interest in the occult, particularly dreams. his grandfather s dreams seemed to be prophetic, and goethe served as a witness to the truth of them. goethe himself was considered psychic. the cures said to be affected by prince hohenlohe, a dignitary of the church occured early in the nineteenth century. he was led to believe in the power of healing through the influence of a peasant named martin michel. most of these cures took place at wurzburg, the scenes of former witch-burnin

wished. for a similar reason the inhabitants of northern brazil, when anxious to discover some guilty person, administered narcotic drinks to seers, in whose dreams the criminal made his appearance. californian indians gave children certain intoxicants to gain from the ensuing vision information about their enemies. the darien indians used the seeds of the datura sanguines to produce in children prophetic delirium, during which they were said to reveal the whereabouts of hidden treasures. one of the most famous seers in the british isles was kenneth ore, the brahan seer of the highlands of scotland. the faculty of such prophetic vision was generally known in scotland as second sight. other seers favor inducing visions by such means as crystal gazing. sources: campbell, john l, and trevor

ed to apollo and burned as incense. before the pythias chamber hung a falling screen of laurel branches, while at the festival of the septerion every ninth year a bower of laurel was erected in the forecourt of the temple. one writer has left strange details, such as the rule that the sacred fire within the temple must only be fed with firwood, and although a woman was chosen as the medium of the prophetic utterance, no woman might question the oracle. the oracle of the pelasgic zeus at dodona was the oldest of all. it answered by signs rather than inspired speech, by means of lots and the falling of water, or by the wind-moved clanging of brazen-bowls, two hollow columns standing side by side. the three priestesses or peliades (meaning doves) were given titles signifying the diviner of th

he supplicants slept sometimes for nights and days, coming forth in a somnambulic state from which they were aroused and questioned by the attendant priests. frightful visions were generally recounted, accompanied by a terrible melancholy, so that it passed into a proverb regarding a sorrowful man, he has been in the cave of trophonius. magic, in the sense of secret revelations, miraculous cures, prophetic gifts, and unusual powers, had always existed for the greeks. the oracles were a human way of communicating with their gods on earth. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. greece 663 magic in the sense of sorcery was introduced into greece from asia and egypt. it had to fit into a conception of fate as inexorable and inescapable for gods, rulers, and slaves alike, a belief w

hiatry and research fellow at jefferson medical school and hospital, philadelphia. in 1968 he became chief of section of the department of psychiatry, philadelphia general hospital. in addition to many articles on psychiatric subjects, including hypnosis and the psychotherapy of schizophrenia, greenbank wrote various articles on parapsychological subjects. sources: greenbank, richard k. allegedly prophetic dreams in psychotherapeutic treatment. international journal of parapsychology (summer 1960. communication of suicidal thoughts. canadian psychiatric association journal (july 1957. my wolf. journal of abnormal and social psychology (may 1957. unexplained mental phenomena regarding suicide. journal of nervous and mental diseases (january 1957. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictiona

daimon of socrates who forewarned him of dangers is the best historical example of the claimed existence of guiding spirits. in theages plato has socrates say, by the favor of the gods i have, since my childhood, been attended by a semidivine being whose voice, from time to time, dissuades me from some undertaking, but never directs me what i am to do. in the apology socrates further notes, this prophetic voice has been heard by me throughout my life; it is certainly more trustworthy than omens from the flight or the entrails of birds; i call it a god or a daimon. i have told my friends the warnings i have received, and up to now the voice has never been wrong. as an instance of the daimon s clairvoyance, f. w. h. myers declares as follows in human personality and its survival of bodily d

influence. the same power, under the name of glamour, was formerly an attribute of the scottish gypsies. glamour was defined by sir walter scott as the power of imposing on the eyesight of the spectators, so that the appearance of an object shall be totally different from the reality. scott in explanation of a reference to the gypsies glamour d gang, in one of his ballads, he remarks: besides the prophetic powers ascribed to the gypsies in most european countries, the scottish peasants believe them possessed of the power of throwing upon bystanders a spell to fascinate their eyes and cause them to see the thing that is not. thus in the old ballad of johnnie faa, the elopement of the countess of cassillis with a gypsy leader is imputed to fascination. sae soon as they saw her weel-faur d fa

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rm of automatic speaking and automatic writing. these dealt largely with the conditions of life on the other side of the grave, although in style they often tended to be verbose and vague. spirit drawings were sometimes amazingly impressive, at other times nondescript (see automatic drawing and painting. clairvoyance and crystal vision were included in the psychological phenomena, and so were the prophetic utterances of mediums and speaking in unknown tongues. according to the spiritualist hypothesis that all individuals are mediums, it would be necessary to class inspiration.not only the inspiration of genius, but all good or evil impulses.as spiritual phenomena. that idea in turn suggested to the spiritualist that the everyday life of the normal individual is to some extent directed by s

london. he joined the navy at the age of 11 and rose to the rank of lieutenant in 1815 during the napoleonic wars. he retired in 1817, still a young man. he became interested in astrology through r. c. smith, better known under his pen name, raphael. morrison adopted the pen name zadkiel and began an astrological almanac, the herald of astrology (later zadkiel s almanac, modeled upon raphel s the prophetic messenger. in 1835 morrison completed his major literary contribution to the astrological revival, an abridged edition of william lilly s christian astrology. zadkiel s career was punctuated by a series of incidents that began in 1861 when his almanac predicted a bad year for prince albert, the popular consort of queen victoria. when albert died unexpectedly at the end of the year, many

was able to collate the two regarding his lucky and unlucky days. the chief horoscopic influences were day of birth, day of the week, represented by the symbol of a certain animal, and the position of the dragon s mouth to the terminal syllables of the day-names. magic burmese magic consisted in the making of charms and the manufacture of occult medicine to cause hallucination, second sight, the prophetic state, invisibility, or invulnerability. it was frequently sympathetic and overlapped with necromancy and encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. myanmar 1077 astrology. it did not appear to be at all ceremonial, and was to a great extent unsophisticated, save where it had been influenced by indian and buddhist monks, who also drew on native sources to enlarge their own knowle

s. http//www.nexusmagazine.com. june 10, 2000. nfsh see national federation of spiritual healers nganga members of the ndembo secret society of the lower congo. nganga.literally the knowing ones .was a term applied to those who had passed certain rites to distinguish them from the vanga, or uninitiated. nicap see national investigations committee on aerial phenomena nichusch a kabalistic term for prophetic indication, in accordance with the view that all events and natural happenings have a secret connection and interact upon one another. it was believed that practically everything could become an object of soothsaying. the flight of birds, movement of clouds, cries of animals, events happening to man, and so on. a person might become nichusch by saying that if such and such a thing took p

ublished as a separate volume in 1558. the first english edition, published in 1672, also had eight additional quatrains from the century seven not in the french editions. as a result of the success of the first edition, in 1556 nostradamus was invited to paris as a guest of the french queen catherine de medicis. with the financial support she gave him, he was able to complete his writings of the prophetic verses. the quatrains were written in a cryptic and symbolic fashion requiring some interpretation and thus offering room for a wide variety of understandings of exactly to which events and persons nostradamus was making reference. among the most famous of quatrains is one often seen as referring to the london fire of 1666 (though more critical interpreters see a reference to the burning

student of the quatrains, edgar leoni, submitted his lengthy treatise as a master s thesis at harvard university (1961. interpreters claim nostradamus predicted hitler s rise to power as well as the explosion of the u.s. space shuttle challenger in 1986.the popular interest in nostradamus has been countered by the observations of a variety of historians who have offered other explanations of his prophetic verse (often to the detriment of his reputation, and by some modern psychic debunkers, such as stage magician james randi. sources [note: there is a large literature on nostradamus, of which only a selected list is given here. for a bibliography of the 25 oldest editions of nostradamus, published up to 1689, compiled by carl graf von klinckowstroem, see zeitschrift fur bucherfreude, marc

yagaric is used in western siberia, in san domingo the herb coca, tobacco by some tribes of american indians, and in the east opium and hashish. the ancient egyptians had their intoxicating drinks, and receipts for witch s salves and philtres have come down to us from medieval times. in many countries this condition of possession was induced for a spectrum of purposes from the higher mystical and prophetic to mere fortune-telling. anthropologist edward tylor, in his primitive culture (1871, testifies to the extent to which this belief in obsession and possession persisted into the nineteenth century: it is not too much to assert that the doctrine of demoniacal possession is kept up, substantially the same theory to account for substantially the same facts, by half the human race, who thus

ons of various space probes. to defend the account, it had to be assumed that the inhabitants resided on something other than the physical plane of existence. sources: onec, omnec. from venus i came. tucson, ariz: w. c. stevens, 1986. oneiromancy term for divination by dreams, possibly the oldest of the divinatory systems. written records exist of dream interpretation in a papyrus ca. 1250 b.c.e. prophetic dreams involving the interpretation of symbolic images and information are also in biblical history (see gen. 41:1.36; matt. 2:12, 22. psychologists and psychoanalysts claim that dreams include symbolic hopes and fears, sexual anxieties, and recollections of past events, as well as possible precognitive images. an attempt to isolate claimed precognitive factors in dreams was made by j. w

he dodonic and african oracles were probably connected. herodotus stated that the manner of prophecy in dodona was the same as that in thebes, egypt. diana was worshiped in dodona in conjunction with zeus, and a female figure was associated with amun in the libyan ammonium. according to some authors, there was an intoxicating spring at dodona and later other materials were employed to produce the prophetic spirit. several copper bowls and bells were placed on a column beside the statute of a boy. when the wind blew a chain attached to a rod or scourge with three bones struck the metallic bowls and bells, and the sound was heard by the applicants. these dodonian tones stated the proverb: oes dodonoekum.an unceasing babbler. the tree, the incredible wonder, as aeschylus calls it, was an oak

ed priestesses prophesied from this murmur. according to legend, when lighted torches were thrust into this fountain they would be extinguished and would rekindle without assistance. ernst von lasaulx in das pelasgische orakel d. zeus zu dodona speculated: that extinction and rekindling has, perhaps, the mystical signification that the usual sober life of the senses must be extinguished, that the prophetic spirit dormant in the soul may be aroused. the torch of human existence must expire, that a divine one may be lighted; the human must die that the divine may be born; the destruction of individuality is the awakening of god in the soul, or, as the mystics say, the setting of sense is the rising of truth. it appears predictions were drawn from the tones of the dodonian brass bowls, the ru

to question the god that they were on holy ground, must in- oracles encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1146 quire with pure hearts, and be silent when the god replied. those who questioned the god were also obliged to take a purificatory bath in the temple, similar to that of the delphian pythia when preparing herself for prophecy. besides soothsaying from signs, divination by the prophetic movements of the mind was practiced. sophocles called the dodonean priestesses divinely inspired. plato (phaedrus) stated the prophetess at delphi and the priestesses at dodona had done much good while in a state he termed sacred madness, but while in their senses accomplished little or nothing. we may infer from this that the delphian pythia as well as the dodonian priestesses did not g

d, nor remembered afterward when their natural consciousness returned, what they had uttered, so that all others, rather than they, knew it. the oracle of jupiter trophonius according to pausanias (ca. 470 b.c.e, trophonius was the most skillful architect of his day. there are various opinions regarding the origin of his oracle. some say he was swallowed up by an earthquake in the cave and became prophetic; others, that after having completed the adytum of apollo at delphi, he declined asking any specific pay, but requested the god to grant him whatever was the greatest benefit a man could receive. and three days later he was found dead. this oracle was discovered after two years, when the pythoness ordered the starving population who applied to her to consult trophonius in lebadaea. the d

ng exists there, from which the prophet drinks; after he has done so, and has performed many consecrations and sacred customs on certain nights, he predicts the future; but he is invisible to all who are present. that this water can induce prophecy is clear, but how it happens, no one knows, says the proverb. it is believed, god is in all things, and is reflected in this spring, thereby giving it prophetic power. supposedly the inspiration of the water prepares and purifies the light of the soul, to receive the divine spirit. the soothsayer uses this spirit like a work-tool over which he has no control. after the moment of prediction he does not always remember what has happened. before drinking the water, the soothsayer must fast for day and night and observe religious customs in order to

in the legend told by the scandinavian blomsturvalla of how the people of jomsvikingia in the twelfth century had a high priest, one volsunga, whose predictions were renowned for their accuracy throughout the land. he had in his possession a little ivory doll that drew with a pointed instrument on parchment or other substance, certain signs to which the priest had the key. the communications were prophetic utterances, and it is said in every case they came true. the writer who recounted this legend thought it probable that the priest had procured the doll in china. in the national museum at stockholm there is a doll of this description that is worked by mechanism, and when wound up it walks around in circles and occasionally uses its right arm to make curious signs with a pointed instrumen

precognition, the intuitive projection of the outcome of presently existing trends, or coincidence or self-fulfilling prophecy, a form of autosuggestion. a premonition differs from prediction. reportedly the latter has a degree of precision and tends to detail the basic who, what, when, where, and how questions. when the event foreseen is not precisely outlined or is too insubstantial to prompt a prophetic utterance, premonition is the more appropriate term. for vague future events of a personal nature, presentiment is employed. richet s conditions according to psychical researcher charles richet, premonitions should have two fundamental conditions: 1. the fact announced must be absolutely independent of the person to whom the premonition has come. 2. the announcement must be such that it

he project maintains an archives containing 10,000 clippings, reports, and reviews on current ufo cases and also compiles statistics. it sponsored the 1980 mutual ufo network conference. it has also published study and monographs. project visit may be reached at p.o. box 890327, houston, tx 77289. prophecy in premodern society, prophets appeared both informally as gifted individuals with a sudden prophetic insight or as functionaries identical with what western scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth century called witchdoctors, priests or shaman. for an example of the prophet/seer/judge functionary, see the biblical book of i samuel which traces the history of the last judge to rule the hebrew tribe. samuel was, as a child, dedicated to god and placed in the care of eli, the corrupt judg

scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth century called witchdoctors, priests or shaman. for an example of the prophet/seer/judge functionary, see the biblical book of i samuel which traces the history of the last judge to rule the hebrew tribe. samuel was, as a child, dedicated to god and placed in the care of eli, the corrupt judge/seer of israel. his career includes a number of clairvoyant and prophetic (precognitive) utterances, but the most illustrative of his daily functions is pictured in i sam. 9 in which samuel helps locate the lost donkeys of the future king saul. in many instances prophetic utterances were made in what appeared to be a normal state (see the references to prophecy in the biblical book of acts) but often occurred in an altered or ecstatic state of consciousness (s

often occurred in an altered or ecstatic state of consciousness (see the opening verse of the book of ezekiel, or the sixth chapter of isaiah. in general the hebrew prophets went through a period in which the word of the lord spoke to them and then they in turn went among the populace and spoke what they had been told. we know that the pythonesses attached to the oracles of ancient greece uttered prophetic words under the influences of natural gases or drugs, and when the magical practitioners in tribal cultures attempt to peer into the future they often attain a condition of ecstasy by taking some drug, the action of which is well known to them. but this was not always the case; the shaman often summoned a spirit to his aid to discover what portents and truths lie in the future. most ofte

ns as mouthpieces. again individuals (often the same as those chosen by god) applied to the deity for inspiration in critical moments. prophecy then may be the utterances of the deity(ies) through the instrument of an entranced shaman or seer, or the inspired utterance of a seer who later repeats what has been learned while in an altered state (hearing the word of the lord. in ancient assyria the prophetic class were called nabu, meaning to call or announce .a name probably adopted from that of the god na-bi-u, the speaker or proclaimer of destiny, the tablets of which he inscribed. among the ancient hebrews the prophet was called nabhia, a borrowed title probably adopted from the canaanites. they differed little in function from similar functionaries in the surroundings cultures, but diff

hey seem to have died out by the time of the exile. the general idea in hebrew palestine was that yahweh, or god, was in the closest possible touch with the prophets, and that he would do nothing without revealing it to them. while often ignored or persecuted during their lifetime, their preserved written words were later given greatest veneration and still later canonized. in ancient greece, the prophetic class were generally found attached to the oracles and in rome were represented by the augurs. in egypt, the priests of ra at memphis acted as prophets as, perhaps, did those of hekt. among the ancient celts and teutons prophecy was frequent, the prophetic agent usually placing him or herself in the ecstatic condition. the druids were famous practitioners of the prophetic art, and some h

the priests of ra at memphis acted as prophets as, perhaps, did those of hekt. among the ancient celts and teutons prophecy was frequent, the prophetic agent usually placing him or herself in the ecstatic condition. the druids were famous practitioners of the prophetic art, and some hint of their utterances may be still extant in the so-called prophecies of merlin. in america, as has been stated, prophetic utterance took practically the same forms as in europe and asia. captain jonathan carver, an early traveler in north america, cited a peculiar instance where the seers of a certain tribe stated that a famine would be ended by assistance being sent from another tribe at a certain hour on the following day. at the very moment mentioned by them, a canoe rounded a headland, bringing news of

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over to the side of the road and ran into the desert, feeling a sense of deep spiritual transformation. geller would claim that presley later wondered if maybe he was indeed christ. godfrey contends that elvis aron presley s own name proves his godhood. el means god, vis from power thus god power. presley derives from priestly. she goes on, in fact, all three of elvis major residences contain the prophetic el: graceland, tupelo and bel air. furthermore, according to the bible, since jesus crucifixion, we are living in the dispensation of grace that 2,000 year period of time when sins are pardoned by the sacrificial death of christ. the name of elvis presley s mansion: grace-land! and, she adds, did not jesus say, i am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending, just as elvis said, i am

ught followers, curiosity-seekers, and practical jokers to mrs. ma rt i n s door. it also b rought her and her group to the attention of the un i versity of mi n n e s o t a s laboratory for re s e a rch in social relations, which enlisted the s e rvices of five psychologists, sociologists, and graduate students. the volunteers we re to obs e rve as participants and self-identified bel i e vers a prophetic movement at work and to see what happened when the anticipated eve n t s did not occur. in due course, leon fe s t i n g e r, he n ry w. riecken, and stanley schachter, the p rofessors who had directed the experiment, c h ronicled the episode in when prophecy fa i l s. though ma rtin, laughead, and the others h a r b o red ambivalent feelings about the publicity and proselytization, it w

keep his and the source s memory alive. see also: atlantis; channeling further reading beidler, william, 1977. paul solomon. another cayce? fate 30, 2 (february: 56 61. a healing consciousness, 1978. virginia beach, va: master s press. spiritual unfoldment and psychic development through inner light consciousness, 1973. atlanta, ga: fellowship of the inner light. wheeler, w. alexander, 1994. the prophetic revela- tions of paul solomon: earthward toward a heav- enly light. new york: samuel b. weiser. spectra under hypnosis on november 30, 1971, israeli psychic uri geller recalled an incident that occurred when he was three years old. geller encountered a dazzling light from which a voice emanated. the voice said it was his programmer. over the years, geller received many more messages from

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hat you ve done. torn loose by you, from that despair i m freed that nearly drove my senses frantic. that vision, ah! was so gigantic, i could but feel myself a dwarf indeed. i, image of the godhead, and already one who thought him near the mirror of the truth eternal, who revelled in the clearness, light supernal, and stripped away the earthly son; i, more than cherub, whose free force presumed, prophetic, even now to course, creating, on through nature s every vein, to share the life of gods: that- how must i atone! a voice of thunder swept me back again. i may not dare to call myself thy peer! what though i had the might to draw thee near, to hold thee i possessed no might. at that ecstatic moment s height i felt so small, so great; thou cruelly didst thrust me back as one doomed to unc

ee naught- homunculus of course. you from the north, in ages dark and drear brought forth, in all the murk of knighthood and of papistry, how could your vision, then, be clear and free? only in gloom are you at home. looking around. bemouldered stone-work, dingy, horrid, with pointed arches low and florid! if this man wakes, there ll be new things to dread; at once upon the spot he will lie dead. prophetic dreams of wood and springs beguile him, of swans and naked beauties. here, in such a place, how could he reconcile him, which i, the most adaptable, scarce bear? now off with him! mephistopheles whither i ll hear with pleasure. homunculus command the warrior to the fight, lead forth the maid to tread a measure; then all is fitting, all is right. just now- my memory brings to lightis clas

ightens where first thy lamplet lightens with glorious harmony. nereus what mystery new to our wondering eyes do i see in the midst of these bevies arise? what flames round the sea-shell, at galatea s feet? now mighty it flares up, now lovely, now sweet, as if with love s pulsing twere touched and arrayed. thales homunculus is it, by proteus swayed. the symptoms are those of a masterful yearning, prophetic of agonized throbbing and burning. he ll shatter himself on the glittering throne. see it flame, now it flashes, pours forth- it is done! sirens what marvel of fire in the billows is flashing that sparkling against one another are crashing? it beams and hitherward wavers, and bright all forms are aglow on the pathway of night, and roundabout all is by fire overrun. now eros be ruler who

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

us or zoroaster, were also magi, and also authorised by their antiquity revivals of forms of magic. yet hermes trismegistus is the most important of the prisci magi from the point of view of the incorporation of magic with philosophy, for in his case there was a body of supposedly most ancient philosophical writings to be studied, and these writings, in addition to their echoes of moses and their prophetic understandings of christianity before christ, also prophetically shadowed the teachings of the divine plato. lactantius wrote his divine institutes in the context of the rather superficially christianised empire of constantine, and his apologetics in that work are directed towards persuading pagans to become christians by emphasising how much in paganism is close to christianity, or prop

ointed out that within an orthodox programme there are strange allusions. in the first room are twelve sibyls, uttering their prophecies of the coming of christ, and twelve hebrew prophets. i would suggest that lactantius and the siena pavement teach us to look for the greatest gentile prophet, hermes trismegistus, as likely to be present in the room of the sibyls, and i think he is there, as the prophetic figure with the zodiac (pi. 3) who ends the series of the planets, above the sibyls. in the next room are twelve prophets with the twelve apostles; the christianity foretold by hebrew and gentile prophets has arrived, represented by the apostles. in the following rooms come the seven liberal arts, with astrology the most prominent, seven saints, and seven scenes from the life of the virg

world in the guise of virtues, of divinity and discipline, quenching the light which rendered the souls of our fathers in antique times divine and heroic whilst confirming and approving the pitch dark ignorance of fools and sophists. therefore during all this long while oppressed human reason, bewailing from time to time in her lucid intervals her base condition and turning herself to that divine prophetic mind whose voice murmurs always in her inner ear, cried out in words like these: mistresse, who shall for me to heau'n vp fly, to bring again from thence my wandring w i t" behold now, standing before you, the man who has pierced the air and penetrated the sky, wended his way amongst the stars and overpassed the margins of the world, who has broken down those imaginary divisions between

hen it is in a very bad state it may expect to return to the good state. when it is in a very good state, as once in egypt, the fall into darkness is to be expected. as in the case of hermes trismegistus, who, seeing egypt in all the splendour of sciences and divinations, through which he considered that men were consorting with demons and gods and were in consequence most religious, he made that prophetic lament to asclepius, saying that the darkness of new religions and cults must follow, and that of the then present things nothing would remain but idle tales and matter for condemnation. and as in these days there is no evil nor injury to which we are not subject, so there is no good nor honour which we may not promise ourselves.2 the implication is that the world being now at its lowest

agrippa, the authority whom we have found to have been so constantly consulted by our magician. the four degrees of furor, or enthusiasm, by which the soul re-ascends to the one, had been drawn up by ficino, from platonic sources, in his commentary on plato's symposium and elsewhere, as being, first the furor of poetic inspiration, under the muses; second, religious furor, under dionysius; third, prophetic furor, under apollo; fourth the furor of love, under venus. in this last and highest of the four degrees of inspiration, the soul is made one and recovers itself into the one. agrippa in the de occulta philosophia3 goes through the furores, in this order, and when he reaches the fourth and highest one, this is what he says: as for the fourth furor, coming from venus, it turns and transmu

cino-pico synthesis (via the de occulta philosophia of agrippa) but shifting the balance so that the hermetic element is predominant, with the cabalist and pseudo-dionysian elements subservient to the leading egyptian naturalism. yet, it was not for nothing that hermes trismegistus had been inside the church, as we saw him at siena. hermetism had been profoundly christianised through its supposed prophetic allusions to christianity. religious hermetism had been, and was being, fervently used by both catholic and protestant christians of the sixteenth century, who, weary of the crimes and wars generated in the name of religion, were seeking a way of toleration and of union. though bruno's religion is purely "egyptian" these strong religious feelings enter into the eroici furori, giving to t

het of the return, who expects to become a "capitano" in the new dispensation of love and magic, may well be fairly correctly reported by mocenigo, also the feverish haste to publish and so "gain credit" sounds very much in character. i would not have thought that the nolan was greedy for wealth, as mocenigo insinuates, but he would certainly want spiritual recognition, and acknowledgement of his prophetic role. the new book which it was so necessary to publish quickly was on "the seven liberal arts" and was to be dedicated to the pope, clement viii. he was about to go back to frankfort to get this printed when, through mocenigo's efforts, he was put into the prisons of the inquisition in venice. he explained it all to the inquisitors, how he had meant to get this book printed at frankfort

yptian wisdom, untampered with by those who made the fraud. he then proceeds to make a synthesis of this genuinely egyptian teaching of the hermetica with the chaldean oracles and with cabala after the manner of the renaissance tradition. but if one has to pick and choose like this for genuine egyptian passages in the hermetica, this is a very different matter from seeing them as ancient egyptian prophetic writings which concord with genesis and which foretell the trinity in passages now suspected by more, following casaubon "of fraud and corruption in the interest of christianity. how radically more was affected by this new view of the hermetica can be readily recognised by some examination of his conjectura cabbalistica in which he "interprets the mind of moses in the three first chapter

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

a bear. i/17b: scorpio. sex and death, another crack. i/18a: the origins of reality in such eloquent word. were it truth, i could weep. i/18b: a representation of the way (and it s detours. i/19a: another prophecy. a sun. an apple, with the letter k in the form of a bomb. reaction meaning active. the sun being a reference to the child of the aeon. a dime a dozen totals to 120 the time of decree; prophetic. i/19b: the sigil of void (a hyper-dimensional cubic intrusion. this can be used to achieve a null state and cause dramatic subconscious awakenings. desires are endless. so this is a curse made manifest. chapter two consists of 11 pages. it is entitled the understanding. this being a reference to our mother, binah. the force of form. the urge to collect and bring together. this chapter w

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a special vault within theirdomusor secret dwelling. some form of embalming was used, and the vault was decorated with grand and beautiful emblems, designs and implements. the magus was enclosed in a specially prepared tomb, and was laid to rest with his own special consecrated insignia. the vault was closed, and upon the door was fixed a brazen plate, upon which was engraved an inscription of a prophetic exclamation of his own, that in 120 years after his death his tomb should be re-opened and his doctrines, in a modified form, once more made public, and not only to a few, but to the learned in general: this plate was then covered up and the presence of the vault quite masked.themembers of c.r.'s inner circle appear to have died off each in his turn, until at last there remained no one w

n each case, the founder passes away and is regarded by sorrowing pupils as dearest friend, most learned teacher, and beloved chief. in one case we find the expenditure of loving care and skill in preserving the remains of the master; and in the other we find an urn of ashes preserved by loving hands and placed in respectful privacy in her own chamber; and lastly, as christian rosenkreuz left the prophetic, and perhaps allegorical asser255 tion, to be found by his successors of the third generation, that he, or his name and doctrine, should re-appear: even so didh.p.b.,as i understand, affirm that she would return, in another form indeed,butstill the same ego, and individual, in a stage still farther on in the path to full adeptship. you will all, as theosophists struggling to the light, h

o the microcosm, and appeared in two volumes.thefirst in 1619. it began with an essay on divine numbers, then followed the divine harmony with considerations of the trinity, and lastlyman was considered as to hisanima media,his senses and his mental powers and lastly of the sex relations.52themagical masonthe second half of the second volume of the greathistoriacontained seven parts; on prophecy, prophetic sleep, divin255 ation, memory, on nativities, on good and evilspirits;:on physiognomy and character, on chiromancy or the study of a meaning in the lines of the hand, and metaphysical ideas on the pyramidal form, especiallyas related to the rays of the sun, and their power on the earth. in1621appeared a further part of the work, calledtheosophic,cabalisticalandphysiological:it is in this

ith the ideal of a happy home to be obtained by means of the bodily sufferings of another.thebulwark and main foundation of the public hebrew religion has always been the pentateuch, five treatises attrib255 uted to moses which contained the laws of jehovah given to his chosen people.theold testament beginning with these five books is further continued by historic books, by moral teachings and by prophetic works, but the whole group is marked by materialistic characteristics, and an absence of the higher spiritual significance which other books of the great religions are found to display.themosiac law, eminently valuable for many purposes to a small nation 3,000 years ago, and containing many regulations of a type showing great attention to sanitary matters, is marred by the application of

thlialogia, or doctrineofnativities,in 1658;celestial ambassador,1656;nativityofking charles the first,in 1659, and thenatureofprodigiesin 1660. francis barrett was the author ofthe magus,published in london in 1801; it is a compendium of the occult lore of his time. the printing of the hebrew words teems with errors. in 1828 there appearedthe manualofastrology,by raphael, which contains coloured prophetic pictures; it is a sound and comprehensive astrological treatise.the familiar astrologer,1849, andthe astrologerofthe nineteenth century,1825, were also published by this anony255 mous astrologer. it has been asserted that sir isaac newton began his study of astronomy on account of the interest which astrological books had aroused in his mind. he was born in lincolnshire on december 25 (o

terest relating to dreams is this: granting thatallordinary dreams are duetoexternal causes, internal sensations, mental impressions and confused memories, mayitnot be that, however rarely, there are yet some dreams of a finer sort? throughout the ages there are traces of a belief that dreams may be of divine origin, or be prompted by angelic messengers or the spirits of dead relatives, or may be prophetic or divinatory by means unknown and inexplainable. greek, latin, hebrew, and medieval european, as well as asiatic literatures abound with alleged instances of dreams which had a serious meaning or a valuable purpose. are there such dreams today? or not? are such dreams, like angels visits, a thing of the past?thepoet hassung-why come not angels from the realms of glory, to visit earth as

of zeus at olympia and dodona; of apollo at delos, and the cave of trophoniusin bceotia, pausanias gives a full account of his visit to thelast;'mentioned oracle. there were also at a later date several notable roman oracles, of which mention may be made of those of faunus. fortuna, and of mars, where a bird, a woodpecker, is saidtohave delivered the messages.thesibyls the sibyls were a group of prophetic females who were' considered to be inspired by the gods; they were consulted byithe rich and powerful, by both the learned and the ignorant.a,large collection of their inspired messages have come down to us in greek words: these have been regarded with great interest because some of the verses are said to have been propheticalof'jesus of nazareth, as the saviour. in the tneidof virgil we

nation and its history199lind spiritualistic seances at which efforts to communicate with the dead for divinatory purposes andtogain a knowledge of post-mortem states of heaven and hell are constantly made. oneiromanteia, or oneiromancy that divination by dreams was a possibility was almost universally believed by the ancient greeks.theliterature which has come down to us refers to three sorts of prophetic dreams: first,chrematismos,in which they alleged that the gods conferred with men, or the spirits of the departed made to men suggestions for their future conduct and so guarded them from misfortune. the second wasorama,in which the things dreamed of were actually anticipations of events which were about to followinthe common life of the dreamer of his family.thethird was calledallegorik

ep, had two gates, one ofivory whence came forth false and flattering visions; the other of horn, through which issued true and noble dreams to good men. somnus had three sons who appeared in dreams, morpheus who appeared in the form of men; icebus who conterfeited animals and birds; and phantasus who supplied the scenery of dreams. morning dreams they said came true most often.ifanyone desired a prophetic dream he was taught that he must become very careful in his diet, must avoid raw fruit and beans, and also all wine for three days, and then go to a temple and consult the priests who clothed him in a white garment, and he was instructed to propitiate hermes, that is mercury, before going to his sleep, for mercury presided over a man's sleeping hours (homer in hymn xiv. some persons also

hus said it was standing 'in the king's dale' in his time. absalom was buriedina pit and a heap of stones was255 raised over his grave; this is perhaps the earliest mention of a funeral cairn. there are well known references to symbolic stones bothinthe old and new testaments. in the 118th psalm we read:'thestone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner' this is considered as prophetic of jesus as the christ who was rejected by the jewsbutbecame the head stone of the church. jesus quoted these words in matthew, xxii, and adds:'hethat falleth on this stone shall be broken to pieces,buton whomsoever it shall fall it will scatter him as dust' st peter calls jesus, in his first epistleii,4, a precious stone and a living stone; while peter was calledcephas-a stone -byjesus

ideas of the universe and its creator, god.inthe times of the ancient egyptian dynasties, the priest255 hood was the dominant power, and not the military. each pharaoh was passed through the priestly system of culture, and on his accession became the head of the religion of the country. he was esteemed the chief magician as well as the benevolent despot of his people.thepriestly caste included a prophetic branch of diviners and astrologers, mathematicians and wonder workers.thename and titles of the great god varied from time to time, and in the several districts the secondary gods had different names,butat all times and at all places there appears to have been a form of religious worship for the people, and a special esoteric faith and ceremonial for the priesthood of the higher classes

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t wisdom,butalmost. unintelligible. if we want to interpret them, we must look to egypt for a clue, which we find in thehieroglyphics-as, for example,inillustrating the passage of the soul after death; and in connection with that, one cannotbutbe struck with the similarity of the teachings of these hieroglyphics and the great doctrines of christianity, a similarity so evident astoseem to indicate prophetic foresight. long before the time of moses, these egyptians had as160 the sorcerer and his apprenticeclearly as possible the idea of the fall of man, of the redemption of man, of the atonement by sacrifice, and of an incarnation. besides hieroglyphics, we have the 'book of thedead',thegreat ritual which was buried with every mummy of note, and which might be taken as the guide-book of the

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and rain, they will put on clothes made of tree bark and leaves. and no one will live as long as twenty-three years. thus in the kali age humankind will be utterly destroyed" the hindu purana the four ages correlate remarkably well with the image described in the old testament book of daniel. central to daniel chapter two is the description of an unusual figure, a figure that is used to express a prophetic outline of history. the interesting thing is that inherent with this figure is a pattern and design which is far older than the text of daniel in which it appears. the image is comprised of gold, silver, bronze and iron (with clay feet) and partakes of the oldest division of history. while this division also has a localized and prophetic meaning which focuses on the gnostic handbook page

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a major change from glacial to post-glacial conditions occurred about 11,000 years ago. this temperature change was sharp and abrupt (polar wandering and continental drift, society of economic paleontologists and mineralogists, special publication no. 10, tulsa, 1953, p. 159. dramatic climate change around 12,000 years ago is also reported in c.c. langway and b. lyle hansen, the frozen future: a prophetic report from antarctica, quadrangle, new york, 1973, p. 202. see also ice ages, pp. 129, 142; see also quaternary extinctions, p. 357: the last 100,000 years of glacial expansion, as recorded by oxygen-isotope ratios in deep-sea cores from the atlantic and the equatorial pacific, terminated abruptly around 12,000 years ago. a very rapid ice melt caused a rapid rise in sea level. detailed

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ll her lazitsa, but address her by the caressing form laza' lazo lazitchitse" jul. caes. buleuger de augiiriis (graevii thes. 5. 3 westpbal' wecker vaugel heft dik dat inner auren ehangen' slennerhinke p. 8. path-crossing. 1129 that, holding a conversation, wh. miiller's saml. 1, 6q. 102. 2, 164. 178. 200. vuk 3, 326. two hlach ravens (dva vrana gavrana) caw from the white tower, vuk. 2, 151. the prophetic call of the cuckoo has been dealt with, p. 675 seq; he too belongs to angang, his voice in the wood falls unexpected on the traveller's ear, a good sign if on the right hand, a bad if on the left. pliny 30, 10 (25' aliud est cucido miraculum, quo quis loco primo audiat ahtem illam, si dexter pes circumscribatur ac vestigium id effodiatur, non gigni pulices, ubicunque spargatur' conf. p

bad if on the left. pliny 30, 10 (25' aliud est cucido miraculum, quo quis loco primo audiat ahtem illam, si dexter pes circumscribatur ac vestigium id effodiatur, non gigni pulices, ubicunque spargatur' conf. p. 1093 on cutting out footmarks. the indie, superst. xiii. touches on auguria avium. eligius, sup. a' nee in itinere positi aliquas aviculas cantantes attendatis' birds whose encounter is prophetic are called wecjvogel, way-fowl, sup. i, 600, but by far the best qualified for the purpose were the icrimmende rauhvogel (rapaces aves) that won victories over other birds, and could predict the same happy event to heroes^ accordingly birds of pi-ey play the foremost part in dreams. an anecdote in procop. de b. goth. 4, 20 (ed. bonn. 2, 560-1) shews how early this superstition was domici

other animals give notice of a death: when a priest is called in^ and his horse lowers his head, sup. m, 35; when a black ox or cow has been killed in the house, i, 887, which points right back to ancient sacrifices. also the mole burrowing in a human habitation 555. 601. 881, the cricket chirping 555. 600. 930^ the ivoodtvorm ticking 901, and mice nibbling at the clothes of a sleeper (see suppl. prophetic ants, sup. k, 88; m, 99. a spider running toward you early in the morning is unlucky, but there are luck-spinners too, i, 134. bosquet 219. a swarm of bees settling on a house betokens fire, i, 160 or some disaster^ from those in drusus's camp downwards (pliny 11, 18. dio cass. 54, 33. jul. obsequens de prodig. 1, 132. to leopold of austi'ia they foretold the loss of sempach fight in 138

as. 227. eracl. 3723; ghosts appear just before dawn (a case on p. 894. yet herzeloide dreams' umbe einen mitten tac/ parz. 103, 25. as it is a grave question with newly married folk, whose light shall burn longest at the wedding feast, which shall first fall asleep on the wedding night, or get up from the bridal bed (sup. i, 15. 485. 717; m, 17; so the dreams and visions of the wedding night are prophetic (see childerich's in aimoin 1, 8. such a dream of hvitastierna in gothland, which acquaints her with her posterity, is mentioned in the gutalag p. 106. no less important is the first dream in, a neiu house (sup. i, 123; k, 61, but you must have counted all the rafters before going to sleep. king gorm is admonished to build a house on a spot where none had stood before, and therein to sle

[ 45. a poem in ls. 1, 211 8 tells of a maiden that was picking flowers for a garland, and by chance got hold of a lierh she did not kuoiu: no sooner was it in her hand than she saw all her lovers before her, heard their talk, and knew all their thoughts. at length one of her companions knocked the miraculous plant out of her hand, it fell into a brook that ran past, and floated away; and all the prophetic power was gone. again, the nameless hlue wonderjiower (p. 964, that suddenly opens the shepherd's eyes who has unconsciously stuck it in his hat, and discloses the hitherto concealed entrance to the treasure (p. 971, comes before us the more mysteriously, as it cannot in the least be identified^ the name forget-me-not, which it may be said to assume to itself, is supposed to express no m

onr sleeping beauty contains a reference to the myth. we also use the simple kiienz (schm. 2, 314, which can hardly be kunz the ditnin. of konrad, but is rather conn, with kilenzel, kiienzen (gathering under the chin. when placed under a sleeper's pillow, he cannot wake till it be removed (see suppl. this' sleep-apple' is supposed to be produced by a wasp stinging the thorn; equally rootless, the prophetic gall-nut on oaks 1 stinga svefnporn occurs in fornald. scig. 1, 18-9. 3, 303-6. in trist.an sleep is caused by a mere kiisselm (cushion, ulr. 1672-93' der zouberan-e iciisselin' heiur. 4911. in a fairy-tale (am. bl. 1, 145) by icrltinfj and letters (i.e. runes, or hy feathers off the wild shaggy folk (pp. 433. 486, whom fancy must have pictured as having wings or feathers. sleep-thorn. m

wedder, de flechte nimmermehr' sup. i, 811 (see suppl. blood-stanching. foems of spell. 1249 spells for tlie wisliing-rod, when ifc is to strike treasure or a vein of metal^ see p. 975. a formula used in looking for a claypit, in whose earth are to be wrapt up the written slips of paper which shall clear up a doubtful matter, in haupt's zeitschr. 3, 190. in addresses to animals whose encounter is prophetic, whose ways are mysterious, we may fairly recognise antique spells, thouo-h their language has undergone a great deal of distortion; such are the rhymes to the swan, p. 429, the stork 672, cuckoo 676, martin's bird 1130, mary's chafer 695, and others, whose essential identity among the most various branches of our race is an interesting feature. in scandinavia, where the reign of heathen

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n herodotus (see ra. 676, and suppl. 3 of honours paid to oxen i have not so much to tell, though they are not at all a matter of doubt, if only because bullocks were sacrificed, and bulls drew the car of the frankish kings, ra. 262. war-chariots continued to have oxen till late in the mid. ages: capto ducis (lovaniensis) vexillo, dicto gallice standart, 1 sup. m, 35 shews that esthouians ascribe prophetic powers to the horse. 2 ledebour s eeise nach dem altai, berl. 1830. 2, 54-5. 3 a sansk. name for the horse is sribhratri, brother of sri (lakshmi, because, like her (and aphrodite) it rose out of the sea-waves, pott 2, 407. still more natural is the identification of horse and ship. oxen. 665 opere plumario a regina augliae ei misso, quod fastu superbiae quadriga bourn ferebat/ chapeavil

l depends on the quarter whence you hear your cuckoo first. you must pay strict atten tion in spring; if you hear him from the north (the unlucky quarter, yon will see sorrow that year, from east or west his call betokens luck, and from the south he is the proclaimer of butter: ostergok ar trostegok, vestergok ar bastagok, norrgok or sorggok, sorgolc ar smorgok. 1 in goethe s oracle of spring the prophetic bird informs a loving pair of their approaching marriage and the number of their children. it is rather surprising that our song-writers of the 13th cen tury never bring in the cuckoo as a soothsayer; no doubt the fact or fancy was familiar to all, for even in the renner 11340 we read: daz weiz der gouch, der im fiir war hat gegutzet imndert jar. caesarius heisterbac. 5, 1 7: narravit no

r sal unserme herrn geben eine falbe henne mit sieben hiinkeln/ rheingauer w. 1, 535. wer ein sterzmeise fahet, der ist umb leib u. guet, und in unsers herrn ungnad/ creuznacher w. 2, 153. the reason of these laws is hidden from us; plainly the bird was held sacred and inviolable. and it is per fectly in tune with this, that at the present moment the lettons, who call the bird sihle* regard it as prophetic and auspicious, and even call a soothsayer sihlneeks? also the spanish name for the titmouse, cid (lord, or cid paxaro (lord sparrow, is worth considering. titmouse, wren and woodpecker (bee-wolf) are confounded in popular belief; what is meant is the tiniest prettiest bird (see suppl. 1 meise, ohg. meisa, as. mase, nethl. meze, fr. mesange, o.fr. mesenge. 2 lith. zyle, zylele; pol. siko

hg. poetry seems to have interwoven features of him into the church doctrine about antichrist, ohg. antichristo (p. 173-4, which, originally founded on the llth chap, of kevelation, was afterwards worked out further on jewish-christian lines of thought. the name occurs in two epistles (1 john 2, 18. 4, 3. 2 john 7, not in the apocalypse, where he is meant by the many-headed beast. in his time two prophetic witnesses are to be sent from heaven to earth, but to be conquered and slain bv him. muspilli. 811 their names are not given either; that they are enoch and elias follows from, the power given them to shut heaven that it rain not, and is expressly acknowledged by the fathers.1 their bodies lie unburied in the street: after this victory the power of antichrist attains its greatest height

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g of a sense which is mistakenly called intuition at the time, for it seems to be like the intuitive faculty that was being highly developed during the earlier stages of preparation leading up to the original initiation into the great white brotherhood. it is not intuition, however, but cosmic consciousness of events now occurring and decreed to occur in the near future. it is knowledge and not a prophetic impression. then follow guiding instructions and definite knowledge of laws and principles, acts, and actualities in accordance with the needs and desires of the member. from then on the member attends the earthly lodge as a worker to help others who are on the path and to assist in the great work; but he receives no instruction through an earthly master by means of books, lectures, pape

t of their minds before we can have them start on our work, unhampered by previous doctrines, theories, and speculative dogmas. attainment of some success in psychic matters through the teachings in other systems does not indicate any special preparedness for the rosicrucian work. very often we hear the remark made:"before i took up your rosicrucian teachings and exercises i had visions that were prophetic, could at times see other persons at a distance, and make them sense me, and could even heal by laying my hands on others; but now all of these things have stopped, and i find i have gone backward in my development. what is wrong? without being unkind in our intentions we say to these persons:"yes, and you may be able to play several pieces of music quite well on the piano without knowin

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es to other interested parties for advice. 6therevd william alexander ayton, vicar of chacombe, who was an early member of the golden dawn and a practising alchemist. a collectionofhis letters have been editedbyellichowe in the same series as this volume(thealchemistof thego/delldawn,1985).7 mackenzie is wrong here. ellie howe has identified all those who used the raphael pseudonym to publish the prophetic almanac. 8 mackenzie and irwin are both beingto hockley. once again he was on the move to new rooms, in constant pain and unable rather than unwilling to answer letters. 9 john morant hervey, grand secretaryofthe united grand lodge of england 1865-80. 10thesociety of eight was a stillbornatteroprby mackenzie to form a group for the study of alchemy. prospective members were f. g. irwin

ome manner and his intemperate drinking habits had not helped their relationship. hockley's reaction to attempts by irwin to bring about a reconciliation will be found in his letter to irwin of 28 march 1873 (letter 1i).2captainr].morrison, r.n (rtd (1795-1874, characterized by ellie howe as 'a well-known astrologer and promoter of dud companies. using the pseudonym zadkiel he published an annual prophetic almanac.forfurther information see christopher cooke,curiositiesofoccultliterature(london, 1863) and ellie howe,urania'sextraasconcerninghockky93that is in the hands of en soph alone? 18782nov. you will be exceedingly pleased to know that i have this morning had a long and friendly letter from bro. hockley inviting me to the grand stewards lodge on thezoth,as long since as last april he

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thdrawn copies were burnt and the authoress spent much time and money obtaining as many of the issued copies as she could, destroying most of these also' the book was reissued in 1918 with the sanction of isabelle de steiger (formerly a member of the horus and amen-ra temples of the golden dawn at bradford and edinburgh) who had inherited both mrs atwood's papers and, according to mr gilbert, her prophetic mantle 'such a sanction, mr gilbert added 'accords well with the complete lack of recognition given to the suggestive inquiry by more scholarly students of its subject matter' isabelle de steiger (1836-1927) was acquainted with many of the leading personalities in contemporary esoteric circles. apart from mrs atwood she was particularly close to dr anna bonus kingsford (who requires a bi

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r! my soul is very sad. the recollection of my children i have lost is killing me .when i have news of you and learn, as i hope, that you are more fortunate than myself, i am at least only half -unhappy" what would have been the feelings of this most noble and worthy of christian bishops, who had surrendered family and children and happi- ness for the faith into which he had been attracted, had a prophetic vision disclosed to him that the only friend that had been left to him, his" mother, sister, benefactor" would soon become an unrecognisable mass of flesh and blood, pounded to jelly, under the blows of the club of peter the reader that her youthful, innocent body would be cut to pieces "the flesh scraped from the bones" by oyster-shells, and the rest of her cost into the fire by order o

ailing religion in our own century would indeed be a hard task. but in all probability the state of things which made of the middle ages a period of intellectual darkness, which degraded the nations of the occident, and lowered the european of those days almost to the level of a papuan savage could not have occurred. the fears of the christians were only too well founded, and their pious zeal and prophetic insight was rewarded from the very first. in the demoution of the serapeum, after the bloody riot between the christian mob and the pagan worshipers had ended with the interference of the emperor, a latin cross, of a perfect christian shape, was discovered 0m. thu demripuod applies to cyril of joiualem. not to cyril of atexaiktrw. s e footdote 113, ntpro] digitizecoy google 2h isb dnveil

ng christ, we must suppose* the emperor hadrian himself, wriung still later, was so little impressed with the tenets or importance of the new sect, that in a letter to servianus he shows that he believes the christians to be worshipers of serapis "in the second century" says c. w. king "the syncretistic sects that had sprung up in alexandria, the very hot-bed of gnosticism, found out in serapis a prophetic type ot christ as the lord and creator of all, and judge of the living and the dead" thus, while the 'pagan' philosophers had never viewed sera^hs, or rather the abstract idea which was embodied in him, as otherwise than a representation of the anima mundi, the christians anthropomorphized the' son of god' and his' father' finding no better model for him than the idol of a pagan myth "th

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animating force of the universe, shakti unites us with the divine, cosmic, orgasmic energy of life. next we have some of the celtic goddess. the lady of the lake. celtic goddess of consciousness and revelation, emotion, renewal and creativity, gives us the energy to rule our lives. morgan le fay. represents a place of deep healing magic within us, ruler of avalon, noted for her healing powers and prophetic vision, controller of destinies. etain. celtic moon goddess, wife of midir king of the underground, symbol of fertility. teaches us to be shining wherever we are. arianrhod. welsh triple moon goddess, keeper of the heavens and cycles and changes of time. nurtures us thru dark night of soul changes. and some of the egyptian goddesses. ishtar. babylonian creator goddess, the source of all

solo players in the service game. like the yogi s, shaman come from all walks of life and they often receive their powers after a near death experience, or after undergoing strenuous training and initiations. many shaman move between the dimensions of the higher and lower worlds performing tasks such as escorting the souls of loved ones through the lower realms, to consulting with, and receiving prophetic visions by the great light beings in the higher realms. a shaman often lives at the edge of reality and at the edge of society itself. few indeed have the stamina to adventure into these realms and endure the outer hardships and personal crises that have been reported by or observed of many shamans as they act as bridges between the worlds. question 10: the idea of solar feeding or surya

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ate we will not attempt to forecast, nor in any manner to seem to bespeak. merlin, whose prophecy of the dangers, at some time, of white to the kingdom of england was supposed to refer to the invasion of this country by the pale saxons, whose device or token was the white horse, until further associations of white and misfortune in england came to dispel the idea, may even still have his original prophetic forecast unfulfilled. the colour white, or some strange, at present unimagined, associations of white, may yet lie, like a dream, perdu in the future (of the chances of which no man the colour white. 185 can speak, to justify merlin at once, and to astonish and bewilder, by the long-delayed evolvement of the centuries in which at last the realisation and the misfortune become simultaneou

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is now already to late for the gaiyori are too madly racing to destroy each other& will very soon do so, over a mere parcel or two of the sections of this planet, or over who is right& who is wrong or from jealousy (envy)1 of the other. they are yet children, these humans, show it too clearly. as things stand, they value materiall thing& will not apply themselves to true values of their own great prophetic book. in principal yes, but not practice no christian nation or diplomat will ever be of true value to another. thus, destruction. this man is no different he too is not2 of a "big spirit" enough. dle puka 2 italics and insertion of the word envy by jngthe basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 1 the basics of magick by k. amber get any book for free on: www.abika.com t

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ulafia: ecstatic kabbalah and spiritual messianisms h and appendix one: gego, ergo sum messiah: on abulafia fs sefer ha-yashar. h. the mystical experience in abraham abulafia. albany: state university of 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 amo

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 rationalization of the commandments in the prophetic kabbalah of abraham abulafia, h in perspectives on jewish thought and mysticism, edited by a. ivry, e. wolfson, and a. arkush (1998. 2. b. joseph gikatilla. blickstein, schlom

ns are raised about the titles and contents of hekhalot texts. the notion of fixed bodies of content forming a canon of gbooks h representing a coherent school of hekhalot mysticism appears unsupportable. a similar problem exists with the very term kabbalah (see note 7. a partial solution is suggested in such subheadings as the early kabbalah of the provence and gerona circles, the fiyyun school, prophetic kabbalah (of abraham abulafia, or lurianic kabbalah. however, should the german hasidism be excluded so definitely from kabbalah? 7. until the thirteenth century, kabbalah referred to the whole body of oral religious teachings: the talmud, the midrashim, etc. indeed, anyone who picked up a copy of sefer ha-kabbalah (book of tradition) expecting it to expound upon kabbalistic mysteries wo

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diary that is transmitting the object (like air, which has had contact with the object s external boundary, be it the vocal cords of a- 341- human being, or the oscillating surface that emits a sound wave. similarly, we use our spiritual organs of perception to perceive the creator. a sensation of contact (much like a tactile sensation) with the external boundary of the created being is known as "prophetic vision" on the other hand, a contact that has been infracted by a certain other medium that came into contact with the external boundary of the created being (much like the sensation of hearing) is known as "prophetic hearing "prophetic vision" is considered to be the most obvious disclosure (just as in our world, we desire to see an object and consider this to be the most complete perce

e external boundary of the created being (much like the sensation of hearing) is known as "prophetic hearing "prophetic vision" is considered to be the most obvious disclosure (just as in our world, we desire to see an object and consider this to be the most complete perception of the object) because we come into direct contact with the light emanating from the creator himself. on the other hand "prophetic hearing (the voice of the creator) is defined by the kabbalists as incomprehensible, as opposed to prophetic vision. it is similar to our ability to hear sound waves, since what we are really sensing are the signals of the intermediary spiritual object that emanate from the contact of the intermediary object with the external boundary of the creator. we interpret these waves, just as in

aring (the voice of the creator) is defined by the kabbalists as incomprehensible, as opposed to prophetic vision. it is similar to our ability to hear sound waves, since what we are really sensing are the signals of the intermediary spiritual object that emanate from the contact of the intermediary object with the external boundary of the creator. we interpret these waves, just as in the case of prophetic vision, as sound waves. kabbalists who have attained the prophetic understanding of the creator first perceive him through their spiritual counterparts of sight or hearing. later, they interpret what they perceived. notably, comprehending visible phenomena gives them complete cognition, whereas it is impossible to comprehend the nature of a purely auditory phenomenon. but, just as in our

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

he was a member. this church taught that satan could invade the minds of christians and influence them to do evil deeds that they would not later remember (demons would shield memories of such acts from the perpetrators. the same church also played a key role in producing the initial accusations. during a church-sponsored retreat, ingram s older daughter was told by a woman who claimed to possess prophetic powers that she had been a victim of sexual abuse by her father. ingram s younger daughter, also a retreat participant, later made similar accusations. these initial claims of sexual abuse were amplified into charges of satanic ritual abuse after the first daughter went through a course of counseling with a therapist who utilized recovered memory therapy to bring to light the memories th

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gnosis. the chant itself used in this exercise can be a sigilized desire rendered in mantric form. the same desire can also be empowered via glossalaylia. glossalaylia sometimes gives way to an organized speech other than any known by the practitioner. if recorded and recognized by someone who knows the language, it can often be translated at a later date. this practice has been known to produce prophetic bits of insight. chemical forms of gnosis disclaimer it is necessary to mention several substances in this section that are currently illegal. the author under no circumstances recommends that the practitioner break the law in any way, shape or form. the obtaining of illicit substances, their possession and sale may result in arrest, detention and long jail sentences in some countries. p

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

mount parnassus were amazed at the peculiar antics of goats that wandered close to a great chasm on its southwestern spur. the animals jumped about as though trying to dance, and emitted strange cries unlike anything before heard. at last one of the shepherds, curious to learn the cause of the phenomenon, approached the vent, from which were rising noxious fumes. immediately he was seized with a prophetic ecstasy; he danced with wild abandon, sang, jabbered inarticulate sounds, and foretold future events. others went close to the fissure, with the same result. the fame of the place spread, and many came to learn of the future by inhaling the mephitic fumes, which exhilarated to the verge of delirium. some of those who came, being unable to control themselves, and having temporarily the st

surrounded by the noxious vapors rising from the yawning fissure. gradually, as she inhaled the fumes, a change came over her. it was as if a different spirit had entered her body. she struggled, tore her clothing, and uttered inarticulate cries. after a time her struggles ceased. upon becoming calm a great majesty seemed to posses her, and with eyes fixed on space and body rigid, she uttered the prophetic words. the predictions were usually in the form of hexameter verse, but the words were often ambiguous and sometimes unintelligible. every sound that she made, every motion of her body, was carefully recorded by the five hosii, or holy men, who were appointed as scribes to preserve the minutest details of each divination. the hosii were appointed for life, and were chosen from the direct

sacred to the god; whichsoever of these is the case, she entirely gives herself up to a divine spirit, and is illuminated with a ray of divine fire. and when, indeed, fire ascending from the mouth of the cavern circularly invests her in collected abundance, she becomes filled from it with a divine splendour. but when she places herself on the seat of the god, she becomes co-adapted to his stable prophetic power: and from both of these preparatory operations she becomes wholly possessed by the god. and then, indeed, he is present with and illuminates her in a separate manner, and is different from the fire, the spirit, the proper seat, and, in short, from all the visible apparatus of the place, whether physical or sacred" among the celebrities who visited the oracle of delphi were the immo

ediately translated them into odes and lyrics, setting forth in exquisite form the statements supposedly made by apollo and making them available for the populace. serpents were much in evidence at the oracle of delphi. the base of the tripod upon which the pythia sat was formed of the twisted bodies of three gigantic snakes. according to some authorities, one of the processes used to produce the prophetic ecstasy was to force the young priestess to gaze into the eyes of a serpent. fascinated and hypnotized, she then spoke with the voice of the god. although the early pythian priestesses were always maidens--some still in their teens--a law was later enacted that only women past fifty years of age should be the mouthpiece of the oracle. these older women dressed as young girls and went thr

f sabazius, did not carry their secrets away with the downfall of their sanctuaries. they are still preserved, and those who are aware of the nature of soma, know the properties of other plants as well (isis unveiled) herbal compounds were used to cause temporary clairvoyance in connection with the oracles, especially the one at delphi. words spoken while in these imposed trances were regarded as prophetic. modem mediums, while under control as the result of partly self-imposed catalepsy, give messages somewhat similar to those of the ancient prophets, but in the majority of cases their results are far less accurate, for the soothsayers of today lack the knowledge of nature's hidden forces. the mysteries taught that during the higher degrees of initiation the gods themselves took part in t

parts of the earth it was maintained that there were natural wells, springs, or fountains, in which the water (because of the minerals through which it coursed) was tinctured with sacred properties. temples were often built near these spots, and in some cases natural caves which chanced to be in the vicinity were sanctified to some deity "the aspirants to initiation, and those who came to request prophetic dreams of the gods, were prepared by a fast, more or less prolonged, after which they partook of meals expressly prepared; and also of mysterious drinks, such as the water of lethe, and the water of mnemosyne in the grotto of trophonius; or of the ciceion in the mysteries of the eleusinia. different drugs were easily mixed up with the meats or introduced into the drinks, according to the

aintings accredited to the great masters. his claim to the possession of the fabled elixir of life was home witness to by madame de pompadour, who discovered, she declared, that he had presented a lady of the court with a certain priceless liquid which had had the effect of preserving her youthful vivacity and beauty for over twenty-five years beyond the normal term. the startling accuracy of his prophetic utterances gained for him no small degree of fame. to marie antoinette he predicted the fall of the french monarchy, and he was also aware of the unhappy fate of the royal family years before the revolution actually took place. the crowning evidence, however, of the comte's genius was his penetrating grasp of the political situation of europe and the consummate skill with which he parrie

ison where grosley thought he saw him, during the french revolution? was he known to lord lytton about 1860* is he the mysterious muscovite adviser of the dalai lama? who knows? he is a will-o'-the-wisp of the memoir-writers of the eighteenth century (see historical mysteries) episodes from american history many times the question has been asked, was francis bacon's vision of the "new atlantis" a prophetic dream of the great civilization which was so soon to rise upon the soil of the new world? it cannot be doubted that the secret societies of europe conspired to establish upon the american continent "a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" two incidents in the early history of the united states evidence the influence of that sile

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ious one, the ritual of vassago is no exception to this rule. when you have completed the licence to depart, broken the circle, and completed your vision record, you must burn the sigil of vassago to ashes. in contrast to your square of mercury, the sigil of vassago may be used again. to repeat the operation, you will have to employ a fresh sigil every time. dreaming true the subject of acquiring prophetic dreams, generally speaking, comes under this mercurial heading. processes concerned with acquisition of dreams concerning lovers, present or future, will, however, be kept for chapter 4, part 1 "the loving cup" but should you or a friend wish to acquire knowledge about a certain matter, and not wish to resort to the rune sticks or any form of conjuration ceremony, a very simple, and some

rocesses concerned with acquisition of dreams concerning lovers, present or future, will, however, be kept for chapter 4, part 1 "the loving cup" but should you or a friend wish to acquire knowledge about a certain matter, and not wish to resort to the rune sticks or any form of conjuration ceremony, a very simple, and sometimes quite effective method of securing said information is by inducing a prophetic dream. wait until the moon is waxing, approaching full. then, prior to going to bed, take a warm bath in which has been mixed a few drops of the following mixture: oil of lavender oil of rosemary oil of peppermint oil of thyme powdered poppy seed while you are taking the bath, fumigate your bedroom with an incense composed of: camphor powdered aloeswood jasmine pulverized cucumber seeds

MEANING OF MASONRY

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 projects into the lower intelligence intuitions, fore glimpses and intimations of a prophetic nature. from the same word is derived the greek word" hagios" holy. 3" joshua, the son of josedek, the high priest" personifies the active executive aspect of spirit. literally joshua means the" divine saviour" and josedek" divine righteousness" whilst the" high priest" connotes a mediatorial factor between man and deity. the title in its entirety therefore intimates that the human spiri

modern mind considers adequate. virtues with them were more than abstractions and ethical sentiments; as the word itself implies they involved positive valours and virility of soul. temperance involved complete control of the passional nature under every circumstance; fortitude, the courage that no adversity will dismay or deflect from the goal in view; prudence, the deep insight that begets the prophetic or forward-seeing faculty of seer-ship (providentia; justice, unswerving righteousness of thought and action* the" arts and sciences" were called" liberal" because they tended to liberate the soul from defects and illusions normally enslaving it, thus totally differing from science i n the modern sense, the tendency of which is, as we know, mater ialistic and soul-benumbing. grammar, log

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child, held the spindle of the fates, filled with wool half white and half black; because she presides over all forms and all symbols, and weaves the garment of the ideas. one of the most mysterious pantacles of the kabalah, contained in the enchiridion of leo iii, represents an equilateral triangle reversed, inscribed in a double circle. on the triangle are written, in such manner as to form the prophetic tau, the two hebrew words so often found appended to the ineffable name [hebrew] and [hebrew, alohayim, or the powers, and tsabaoth, or the starry armies and their guiding spirits; words also which symbolize the equilibrium of the forces of nature and the harmony of numbers. to the three sides of the triangle belong the three great names [hebrew, and [hebrew, iahaveh, adona, and agla. ab

according to their intellectual and spiritual capacities; poor and imperfect, and investing god with the commonest and coarsest attributes of humanity, among the ignorant and coarse; pure and lofty among the virtuous and richly gifted. these conceptions gradually improved and became purified and ennobled, as the nation advanced in civilization--being lowest in the historical books, amended in the prophetic writings, and reaching their highest elevation among the poets. among _all_ the ancient nations there was one faith and one idea of deity for the enlightened, intelligent, and educated, and another for the common people. to this rule the hebrews were no exception. yehovah, to the mass of the people, was like the gods of the nations around them, except that he was the _peculiar_ god, firs

not, nor be weary in well-doing! be not discouraged at men's apathy, nor disgusted with their follies, nor tired of their indifference! care not for returns and results; but see only what there is to do, and do it, leaving the results to god! soldier of the cross! sworn knight of justice, truth, and toleration! good knight and true! be patient and work! the apocalypse, that sublime kabalistic and prophetic summary of all the occult figures, divides its images into three septenaries, after each of which there is silence in heaven. there are seven seals to be opened, that is to say, seven mysteries to know, and seven difficulties to overcome, seven trumpets to sound, and seven cups to empty. the apocalypse is, to those who receive the nineteenth degree, the apotheosis of that sublime faith w

t contains, expresses, in an incomplete and veiled manner only, the religious science of the hebrews. the doctrine of moses and the prophets, identical at bottom with that of the ancient egyptians, also had its outward meaning and its veils. the hebrew books were written only to recall to memory the traditions; and they were written in symbols unintelligible to the profane. the pentateuch and the prophetic poems were merely elementary books of doctrine, morals, or liturgy; and the true secret and traditional philosophy was only written afterward, under veils still less transparent. thus was a second bible born, unknown to, or rather uncomprehended by, the christians; a collection _they_ say, of monstrous absurdities; a monument, the adept says, wherein is everything that the genius of phil

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ce and order by means of which the well-being and morality of communities are regulated. she presided over the assemblies of the people and the laws of hospitality. to her was intrusted the office of convoking the assembly of the gods, and she was also mistress of ritual and ceremony. on account of her great wisdom zeus himself frequently sought her counsel and acted upon her advice. themis was a prophetic divinity, and had an oracle near the river cephissus in boeotia. she is usually represented as being in the full maturity of womanhood, of fair aspect, and wearing a flowing garment, which drapes her noble, majestic form; in her right hand she holds the sword of justice, and in her left the scales, which indicate the impartiality with which every cause is carefully weighed by her, her ey

h respect to the verdict. this divinity is sometimes identified with tyche, sometimes with ananke. themis, like so many other greek divinities, takes the place of a more ancient deity of the same name who was a daughter of page 50 uranus and gaa. this elder themis inherited from her mother the gift of prophecy, and when she became merged into her younger representative she transmitted to her this prophetic power. hestia (vesta. hestia was the daughter of cronus and rhea. she was the goddess of fire in its first application to the wants of mankind, hence she was essentially the presiding deity [49]of the domestic hearth and the guardian spirit of man, and it was her pure and benign influence which was supposed to protect the sanctity of domestic life. now in these early ages the hearth was

luence over the greek nation) a much more important aspect; for, in historical times, all the other functions and attributes of apollo sink into comparative insignificance before the great power which he exercised as god of prophecy. it is true that all greek gods were endowed, to a certain extent, with the faculty of foretelling future events; but apollo, as sun-god, was the concentration of all prophetic power, as it was supposed that nothing escaped his all-seeing eye, which penetrated the most hidden recesses, and laid bare the secrets which lay concealed behind the dark veil of the future. we have seen that when apollo assumed his god-like form, he took his place among the immortals; but he had not long enjoyed the rapturous delights of olympus, before he felt within him an ardent des

im, provided he would confer upon her the gift of prophecy; but having received the boon she desired, the treacherous maiden refused to comply with the conditions upon which it had been granted. incensed at her breach of faith, apollo, unable to recall the gift he had bestowed, rendered it useless by causing her predictions to fail in obtaining credence. cassandra became famous in history for her prophetic powers, but her prophecies were never believed. for instance, she warned her brother paris that if he brought back a wife from greece he would cause the destruction of his father's house and kingdom; she also warned the trojans not to admit the wooden horse within the walls of the city, and foretold to agamemnon all the disasters which afterwards befell him. apollo afterwards married cor

articularly over the agean sea, of which he was considered to be the protecting spirit. there he dwelt with his wife doris and their fifty blooming daughters, the nereides, beneath the waves in a beautiful grotto-palace, and was ever ready to assist distressed mariners in the hour of danger. proteus. proteus, more familiarly known as "the old man of the sea" was a son of poseidon, and gifted with prophetic power. but he had an invincible objection to being 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

served that the fish he caught and threw on the bank, at once nibbled at the grass and then leaped back into the water. his curiosity was naturally excited, and he proceeded to gratify it by taking up a few blades and tasting them. no sooner was this done than, obeying an irresistible impulse, he precipitated himself into the deep, and became a sea-god. like most sea-divinities he was gifted with prophetic power, and each year visited all the islands and coasts with a train of marine monsters, foretelling all kinds of evil. hence fishermen dreaded his approach, and endeavoured, by prayer and fasting, to avert the misfortunes which he prophesied. he is often represented floating on the billows, his body covered with mussels, sea-weed, and shells, wearing a full beard and long flowing hair

t the other rests lightly and caressingly on the head of the animal. page 145 dionysus was regarded as the patron of the drama, and at the state festival of the dionysia, which was celebrated with great pomp in the city of athens, dramatic entertainments took place in his honour, for which all the renowned greek dramatists of antiquity composed their immortal tragedies and comedies. he was also a prophetic divinity, and possessed oracles, the principal of which was that on mount rhodope in thrace. the tiger, lynx, panther, dolphin, serpent, and ass were sacred to this god. his favourite plants were the vine, ivy, laurel, and asphodel. his sacrifices consisted of goats, probably on account of their being destructive to vineyards. bacchus or liber. the romans had a divinity called liber who

r woe. when represented at the feet of aides in the lower world they are clad in dark robes; but when they appear in olympus they wear bright garments, bespangled with stars, and are seated on radiant thrones, with crowns on their heads. it was considered the function of the moira to indicate to the furies the precise torture which the wicked should undergo for their crimes. they were regarded as prophetic divinities, and had sanctuaries in many parts of greece. the moira are mentioned as assisting the charites to conduct persephone to the upper world at her periodical [141]reunion with her mother demeter. they also appear in company with eileithyia, goddess of birth. nemesis. nemesis, the daughter of nyx, represents that power which adjusts the balance of human affairs, by awarding to eac

tival it was customary for shepherds to ignite a mass of straw, through which they rushed with their flocks, believing that this ordeal would purify them from sin. page 212 the name palatine, which originally signified a pastoral colony, is derived from this divinity. her offerings were cakes and milk [182] picus. picus, the son of saturn and father of faunus, was a woodland divinity, gifted with prophetic powers. an ancient myth relates that picus was a beautiful youth, united to a nymph called canens. the sorceress circe, infatuated by his beauty, endeavoured to secure his love, but he rejected her advances, and she, in revenge, changed him into a woodpecker, under which form he still retained his powers of prophecy. picus is represented as a youth, with a woodpecker perched upon his hea

her, and she possessed a sacred grove on the via salavia. comus. comus was the presiding genius of banquets, festive scenes, revelry, and all joyous pleasures and reckless gaiety. he is represented as a young man crowned with flowers, his face heated and flushed with wine, leaning against a post in a half-sleepy and drunken attitude, with a torch falling from his hand. the camena. the camena were prophetic nymphs held in high veneration by the ancient italians. they were four in number, the best known of whom are carmenta and egeria. carmenta was celebrated as being the mother of evander, who led an arcadian colony into italy, and founded a town on the river tiber, which became afterwards incorporated with the city of rome. evander is said to have been the first who introduced greek art an

account of their famous actions, their clemency and beneficence, and the gifts conferred by them on mankind. in conclusion, the gods were invoked for a continuance of their favour, and when the service was ended a feast was held. page 225 oracles. the desire to penetrate the dark veil of futurity, and thereby to avert, if possible, threatened danger, has animated mankind in all ages of the world. prophetic knowledge was sought by the greeks at the mouth of oracles, whose predictions were interpreted to the people by priests, specially appointed for the purpose. the most famous of these institutions was the oracle of apollo at delphi, which was held in general repute all over the world. people flocked from far and near to consult this wonderful mouth-piece of the gods, one month in the year

absyrtus fell into the snare, and duly appeared at the appointed trysting-place; and whilst medea kept her [227]brother engaged in conversation, jason rushed forward and slew him. then, according to a preconcerted signal, he held aloft a lighted torch, whereupon the argonauts attacked the colchians, put them to flight, and entirely defeated them. the argonauts now returned to their ship, when the prophetic board from the dodonean oak thus addressed them "the cruel murder of absyrtus was witnessed by the erinyes, and you will not escape the wrath of zeus until the goddess circe has purified you from your crime. let castor and pollux pray to the gods that you may be enabled to find the abode of the sorceress" in obedience to the voice, the twin-brothers invoked divine assistance, and the her

lted an oracle, and the response was that the pestilence would continue to rage until the land was purified of the blood of king laius, whose murderer was 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

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

we still use today was developed around 1,400 bc. and it is the secret arrangement of the dots upon the dice that allows you to see what fate has in store for you. the ritual of yog-sothoth you need three dice to foretell the future. the three dice can be purchased from any toy store. the material that they are constructed of makes no difference in fortune telling power. to charge your dice with prophetic power, take them into your personal witching circle on a day when you are feeling particularly good. place the dice upon a small table at the center of your circle, and begin stirring them with your right hand. the stirring motion should always be sunwise, or clockwise. continue stirring for approximately two minutes. the remainder of the ritual is very important, and it is absolutely es

thy power, virtue and authority shall manifest. it will forever reveal the truth of what shall come to pass in future times. so mote it be. recite this invocation with each dice, placing them in a neat stack on your left. when the ritual has been completed, you have made a very definite contact with the astral world. your dice are ready to spell out exactly what the future holds in their unique, prophetic code. your dice need no special care, but they should be reserved for divining purposes only. they should never be used for the playing of any board game if they are to be used for divining. how to use your dice to foretell the future this method is for short-term forecasts and the results achieved are basic and uncomplicated. the three dice should be cast into a circle measuring approxi

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

ke 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 imparted this quality to the jewish people.4 since balaam was his equivalent on the side of evil, he personifed evil da fat. we are taught that g-d becomes angry with the world for one moment each day.5 the sages say that balaam fs main prophetic talent was that he always knew this one, precise moment of each day,6 and could channel this energy to curse whomever he wished. he thus represents evil knowledge, the sensitivity to what is wrong with the world, i.e, judgementality. of course, a certain amount of this quality is necessary for us to objectively evaluate our progress in life and improve our behavior (and this is why g-d a

bodies of the people who lived during the time of the flood. however, they wantonly spilled their seed upon the earth, following their roots and the place from whence they were drawn. they were then reincarnated in the generation of the tower of babel [but again they did not rectify the sin of adam and the following generations. now, once again, they had been reincarnated as egyptians. joseph had prophetic vision,18 and he knew that they were the sparks of souls that had been produced from wasted seed. he therefore decreed that they be circumcised, in order to rectify some of the sin of their initial root (i.e, they were produced by a blemish in the place of the holy covenant. after the circumcision they began to be rectified to a degree, and during the subsequent 130-year period [prior to

n account of which been killed [thus sanctifying g-d fs name in public. this in fact is exactly what hur, miriam fs son, did [his soul] was a soulspark that was intermixed with the soul of haran, even though [the soul of haran] was not actually its source (it has been explained that soul-sparks can intermix with one another even though they do not derive from the same root [hur] understood in his prophetic inspiration that he had to rectify this sin [i.e, that of haran, and therefore [protested the building of the golden calf] and gave himself over to be killed [by the mob on this account. this accords with the statement of our sages5 on the verse gand [aaron] built an altar before him h:6 gaaron understood from he who was slain before him. h the word for gand [aaron] built h is va-yiven

less for him to oppose it as well, since they would then simply kill him, too, and proceed to make it anyway. our sages derived this from the word gand he built, h but in truth [had this word been meant to merely imply that aaron saw that it would be pointless to resist the mob] it should have said gand he saw. h rather, the [deeper] implication [in our sages f words] is that he understood in his prophetic vision that he should have rectified the aforementioned sin of haran by giving up his life to publicly sanctify g-d fs name. but he thought that since hur.who was an aspect of haran, as we said.had already offered his life to rectify this sin, it was no longer necessary for him to do the same inasmuch as the sin had already been rectified by hur. but he erred in this. therefore it is wri

curred mainly in the left eye, the month of av. this is the mystical meaning of the phrase, g csick the whole day. h7 [the word for gsick, h davah] when spelled backwards, spells the word hod. netzach is located on the right axis of the sefirah-tree and hod on the left. these two sefirot are associated respectively with tamuz and av and the right and left eyes. netzach and hod are associated with prophetic insight, the divine consciousness promoted by the temple. davah: dalet-vav-hei. hod: hei-vav-dalet. both these verses are from the book of lamentations, the prophet jeremiah fs dirge over the destruction of the first temple. elul is associated with the nose [of nukva. in the associations above, the two nostrils are associated with tiferet and da fat, which define the middle axis of the s

that] the patron angel of egypt summoned his entire chariot to prosecute [the jewish people. pharaoh, the king of egypt, was the earthly manifestation of the gguardian angel h of egypt, the spiritual distillation of the evil(s) embodied in egypt. the imagery of the chariot (hebrew: rechev) evokes that of the celestial chariot (merkavah, from the same root reish-kaf-beit) ezekiel saw in his famous prophetic vision. there, the 1 exodus 13:19. 2 genesis 41:55. 3 bereishit rabbah 91:5. 4 exodus 12:38. 5 rashi ad loc. 6 see rashi on exodus 32:7. 7 sotah 13a. 8 exodus 14:7. the arizal on parashat beshalach (2) 8 gchariot h depicts the array of spiritual forces of holiness that were departing from reality as the divine presence was being banished from earth with the destruction of the temple. her

earlier, that the male principle cannot directly create female principle, since their respective orientations are opposite. 1 exodus 27:20. 2 etz chaim 25:2, etc. the arizal on parashat tetzaveh (3) 366 these two sub-sefirot of chesed within netzach and hod [of z feir anpin] are manifest as two olives, as it is written, gthere were two olive [trees] above it. h3 this verse is part of zechariah fs prophetic vision of the return of the babylonian exile, in which he is shown a golden menorah. the two olive trees seem to be the source of the oil burning in the lamps of the menorah. when these two [sub-sefirot] descend to yesod [of z feir anpin, they are crushed there by the force of their impact and are thus ground [to produce oil. as is mentioned in the zohar,4 the grinding [of the oil] occur

the name adni, which is synonymous with the sefirah of malchut, the poor and destitute one, this being the concept of the reflective or translucent lens. as we mentioned above in the name of the zohar, malchut gpossesses nothing of its own, h but merely reflects and transmits that which it receives from the preceding sefirot. prophecy is envisioned as seeing divine truth through a lens. moses fs prophetic vision is said to have been as if gthrough a transparent lens, h while that of all the other prophets is said to have been as if gthrough a nontransparent lens, h i.e. either a cloudy pane or a mirror. this simply indicates that the inferior prophecy of the other prophets was transmitted through the sefirah of malchut; they experienced divinity as it has been funneled into creation (spec

hem, just as moses has separated from me. h miriam overheard this, and assumed that moses had done this because he felt it was inappropriate for a prophet to become defiled by marital relations,1 just as god had bidden the whole people to refrain from marital relations in preparation for the revelation at the giving of the torah.2 however, she also knew that she and her brother aaron had received prophetic revelations and had not been required to separate from their spouses, so she assumed that it was moses f own idea to separate, and thought that this was unfair to zipporah. miriam later told aaron about this, and miriam and aaron spoke against moses regarding how he was treating zipporah. the torah describes this as follows: gmiriam and aaron spoke against moses regarding the cushite wom

st h spell the word for gdumb. h gi will raise for them from amongst h: akim lahem mikerev. the three initial letters are alef-lamed-mem, which spell ileim, the word for gdumb. h the passage from which this verse is taken states that the jewish people will never have to guess what g-d fs will is for them; unlike other nations that need to resort to divination and soothsayers, there will always be prophetic leaders.who are mystically understood to be impregnated with moses f soul.who will convey g-d fs will to the jewish people. the full verse quoted here reads: gi will raise a prophet like you for them from amongst their brethren, and i will place my words in his mouth, and he will tell them all that i command him. h after [the new leader has passed through the learning stage] gi will plac

hebrew for gmarble h (sheish) also means gsix. h the legs correspond to netzach and hod. each one being six, the two together are twelve, corresponding to the twelve minor prophets. the books of joshua, judges, samuel, and kings manifest chesed because they describe the jewish people more-or-less in their heyday, focusing on their development as a people and the conquests of the their kings. the prophetic books, on the other hand, focus on the spiritual lapses and descent of the people, which resulted eventually in the destruction of the temple and the exile. malchut [i.e, nukva] includes the five scrolls, and its two arms comprise the five states of chesed and the five states of gevurah, as follows: the five scrolls are esther, song of songs, lamentations, ecclesiastes, and ruth. the fiv

their initials, nun and hei. this pair completes the processing of the divine insight, transforming it into a communicable idea, and passes it on to yesod either as a spiritual seed of consciousness and/or the impulse to produce physical reproductive seed. in this context, the gfish h is the male reproductive organ, which gvomits out h the seed into the world, just as jonah, once he accepted his prophetic mission, could no longer remain in the fish, but had to emerge in order to transmit his divine insight to reality. the gdry land, h again, is malchut, the female, the means of expression, the only way the whole process can come to fruition and the divine insight can be brought productively into reality. as we have seen previously, without proper mating with the female, the spiritual or p

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artially under her mantle, or otherwise by a sovereign lady, juno, the greek goddess, with one hand uplifted towards heaven and the other pointed to earth, as if formulating by this gesture the one and twofold dogma which is the foundation of magic and begins the marvellous symbols of the emerald table of hermes. in the apocalypse of st. john there is reference to two witnesses or martyrs on whom prophetic tradition confers the names of elias and enoch-elias, man of faith, enthusiasm, miracle; enoch, one with him who is called hermes by the egyptians, honoured by the phoenicians as cadmus, author of the sacred alphabet and the universal key to the initiations of the logos, father of the kabalah, he who, according to sacred allegories, did not die like other men, but was translated to heave

kabalistic astrology must not be confounded with that which is called judicial. we will explain this distinction. infancy is dedicated to the sun, childhood to the moon, youth to mars and venus, manhood to mercury, ripe age to jupiter, and old age to saturn. now, humanity in general subsists under laws of development analogous to those of individual life. on this basis trithemius establishes his prophetic 36 the doctrine of transcendental magic key of the seven spirits, to which we shall refer subsequently; by means thereof, observing the analogical proportions of successive events, it is possible to predict important future occurrences with certitude, and to fix beforehand, from age to age, the destinies of nations and the world. st. john, depositary of the secret doctrine of christ, has

ne of christ, has commemorated this sequence in the kabalistic book of the apocalypse, which he represents sealed with seven seals. we meet also the seven genii of ancient mythologies, and the cups and swords of the tarot. the doctrine concealed under these emblems is pure kabalah, already lost by the pharisees at the time of christ's advent. the scenes which succeed one another in this wonderful prophetic epic are so many pantacles, the keys of which are the ternary, the quaternary, the septenary and the duodenary. its hieroglyphic figures are analogous to those of the book of hermes or the genesis of enoch, to make use of a tentative title which expresses merely the personal opinion of the erudite william postel. the cherub, or symbolic bull, which moses placed at the gate of the edenic

ical serpent, the son of the sun, was about to devour the world, when the sea, daughter of the moon, set her foot upon his head and subdued him. for this reason, among the ancients, venus was the daughter of the sea, as diana was identical with the moon. hence also the name of mary signifies star or salt of the sea. to consecrate this kabalistic doctrine in the belief of the vulgar, it is said in prophetic language: the woman shall crush the serpent's head. jerome cardan, one of the boldest students, and beyond contradiction the most skilful astrologer of his time jerome cardan, who was a martyr to his faith in astrology, if we accept the legend of his death, has left a calculation by means of which anyone can foresee the good or evil fortune attached to all years of his life. his theory w

said that there is in magic a great and indicible arcanum, which is never mentioned among adepts, which the profane above all must be prevented from divining. in former times, whosoever revealed, or caused the key of this supreme secret to be discovered by others through imprudent revelations, was condemned immediately to death, and was often driven to execute the sentence himself. the celebrated prophetic supper of cazotte, described by laharpe, has not been understood hitherto. laharpe very naturally yielded to the temptation of surprising his readers by amplifying the details of his narrative. everyone present at this supper, laharpe excepted, was an initiate who had divulged or at least profaned the mysteries. cazotte, the most exalted of all in the scale of initiation, pronounced thei

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crated our life, and do still devote it in the most toilsome and difficult researches. we would emancipate altars by overthrowing idols; we desire the man of intelligence to become once more the priest and king of nature, and we would preserve by explanation all images of the universal sanctuary. the prophets spoke in parables and images, because abstract language was wanting to them, and because prophetic perception, being the sentiment of harmony or of universal analogies, translates naturally into images. taken literally by the vulgar, these images become idols or impenetrable mysteries. the sum and introduction 7 succession of such images and mysteries constitute what is called symbolism. symbolism comes therefore from god, though it may be formulated by men. revelation has accompanied

l magic candlesticks and holding seven stars in his hand, represents the unique doctrine of hermes and the universal analogies of the light. the woman clothed with the sun and crowned with twelve stars is the celestial isis, or the gnosis; the serpent of material life seeks to devour her child, but she takes unto herself the wings of the eagle and flies away into the desert. a protestation of the prophetic spirit against the materialism of official religion. the mighty angel with the face of a sun, a rainbow for nimbus and a cloud for vestment, having pillars of fire for his legs, and setting one foot upon the earth and another on the sea, is truly a kabalistic panthea. his feet represent the equilibrium of briah, or the world of forms; his legs are the two pillars of the masonic temple, j

he stars 103 8. justice. murder of abel. day of expiation. 9. the old man, or hermit. birth of methuselah. day of blessing for children. 10. ezekiel's wheel of fortune. birth of nebuchadnezzar. reign of the beast. fatal day. 11. strength. birth of noah. visions on this day are deceitful, but it is one of health and long life for children born on it. 12. the victim, or hanged man. birth of samuel. prophetic and kabalistic day, favourable to the fulfilment of the great work. 13. death. birthday of canaan, the accursed son of chain. baleful day and fatal number. 14. the angel of temperance. blessing of noah on the fourteenth day of the moon. this day is governed by the angel cassiel of the hierarchy of uriel. 15. typhon, or the devil. birth of ishmael. day of reprobation and exile. 16. the bl

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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 5 to this tradition again, for there are many implications of it in kirk's book, and it is also found clearly described in the twelfth- century works of geoffrey of monmouth on merlin [18& 20, whose prophecies are similar in many ways to those later prophecies

(erceldoune, thomas the rhymer. this historical thirteenth-century poet was transported to a mysterious underground realm by a beautiful woman upon a white horse: she revealed herself to be the queen of elfland: he served her for seven years, and upon his return to the human world, was gifted with the power of prophecy and poetry, sometimes described as the tongue that cannot lie. many of thomas' prophetic verses remain today, as does the long romance poem of his underworld experience, and a ballad in scottish-english, preserved in lowland folk tradition until the late nineteenth century (see appendix 4) it is on this level of an active magical or spiritual tradition that we shall approach the secret commonwealth. in many ways the close of the twentieth century is a good time to reassess t

ight be considered. in de mysteriis egyptorum, the work of iamblichus written in the fourth century ad, we find a very precise description of the orders of supernatural beings (this text, http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_72.htm (2 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:35:48 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 72-81) incidentally, translated and published in 1547 in europe, seems to have influenced the prophetic development of nostradamus, as his own techniques of attaining vision are drawn, in part, from iamblichus) in relatively modern magical or esoteric arts the orders or hierarchies of supernatural beings are frequently called 'inner-world' beings, which tends to imply, quite falsely, that they are merely constructions of the imagination. in collective tradition there is no doubt whatsoever

ences have on fairy and human behavior. in most ancient cultures, and indeed in many ethnic magical and religious practices today, many of the levels or types of entity described in the following passage from iamblichus appear, though the names, of course, vary from culture to culture, and the definition must always be by function. functional definition is very important in magical divinatory and prophetic events or arts, and one of the great deluding aspects of such arts is the tendency for students to become entirely enmeshed in names and categories, without ever finding the true functions of the beings that they seek to contact. this functional aspect was clearly grasped by kirk, as he often cites varied names in english and gaelic, and qualifies these by describing the activity of the

been drained to feed the fairy helper. the belief in the fairy helpers, among people of all ages, is literal, though the skeptical commentator might ask where is the daily evidence of their beneficial work around the house? commentary 77 kirk describes the brownies, the lowest or humblest fairy ally first: he may be deliberately scaling his descriptions, for the higher forms of the co-walker and prophetic ally are described later in the text. the concept of interaction and polarity or mirroring, which is central to fairy and underworld traditions, is introduced immediately in this, at first humble, context (page 22: when we have plenty, they have scarcity at their homes. in terms of mythology and folklore we have two possible sources of derivation for these lower orders of fairy described

r the site of aquae sulis. 19 geoffrey of http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_82.htm (4 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:36:03 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 82-91) monmouth also gives a detailed set of prophecies uttered by merlin,20 and describes in detail the youthful merlin, born of a daemon and a mortal woman (something to which kirk refers on page 62, bursting into tears before making his prophetic utterances. this crying, blinking, twinkling of the eye, is a well-attested feature of the second sight. page 25 women are yet alive who tell they were taken away when in child-bed to nurse fayrie children, a lingering voracious image of [themselves] being left in their place. the mortal nurse for fairy children is a widespread theme, and one which kirk returns to in some detail later, c

tyle. two classes of fairy books are described, and in the same paragraph kirk states that they do not have the bible as a book of protection against evil, but use collections of charms and counter-charms instead. this last description is resonant of the pre-christian origin of much fairy lore. the two classes of books, however, are more suggestive of classical lore. the first is a description of prophetic books or divinatory systems, the operation of which only works in a fit or paroxysms, ravished by the entry of a new spirit. kirk is drawing a comparison to the delphic oracle, which could only utter obscure verses when the pythoness was taken over by the spirit of the god apollo. this comparison is found again on page 36, comparing an old woman of the second sight with the delphian prie

serves that certain individuals trained their faculty to be able to see for http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_102.htm (7 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:36:30 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 102-111) longer periods without their eyes watering or twinkling, while the timorous have eyes that water immediately they experience the sight. the watering of eyes or involuntary tears are a hallmark of prophetic consciousness. tears of prophecy are found in many religious traditions, and were associated with the influential prophecies of merlin, who, according to commentary 110 geoffrey of monmouth, burst into tears as he uttered the future history of britain. page 39 some of the hardiest and the longest [in] experience have some rules for conjectures [of interpretation of their visions. tarbett

s. ancient poets certainly expected that spirits would contact them in sacred places and inspire poetry; in scotland the macrimmond pipers are widely said to http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_112.htm (3 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:36:43 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 112-121) have learned skills from the fairies, as had certain fiddlers. we have already mentioned thomas rhymer who learned prophetic arts and poetic skills in elfland. it is possible that this poetic or inspirational tradition was mixed with a certain amount of formal instruction, by which prayers and spells were secretly taught to novices under mysterious circumstances. techniques are taught traditionally for making contact with otherworldly beings, often at ancient sites: such techniques result in the learning of sk

f light the descent into hell is synonymous and simultaneous with the conception, birth, sacrifice, death and resurrection. they only appear to be separated to the awareness locked into the illusion of serial time. appendix 4: thomas rhymer 152 he is clothed in green, which signifies his union with the land, a union that occurred as a direct result of his transformation within the underworld. his prophetic ability arises as a result of his mediating power, and not through the communication of 'familiar spirits. he is able to perceive the apparent future, because it has already happened in the underworld. the importance of thomas and of other historical persons who undertook the journey is not merely poetical or inspirational they still exist, they may still be contacted, and they are prese

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f the aon of horus. 66. write& find ecstasy in writing! work& be our bed in working! thrill with the joy of life& death! ah! thy death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our agelong love. come! lift up thine heart& rejoice! we are one; we are none. this is certainly the most tragic and poignant passage in the book of the law because of its prophetic irony. crowley died frustrated and confused, tears in his eyes as he fought the coming of his final coma [cf. john symonds, the great beast] the "red gleam in his eyes" i suspect, resisted the dissolution of his personality into nuit. his death was indeed testimony to the promise of the "love" of nuit [see #i-29/32. by becoming one, he and nuit ceased to exist as entities who could be co

thus attain #iii-45. 46. i am the warrior lord of the forties: the eighties cower before me& are abased. i will bring you to victory& joy: i will be at your arms in battle& ye shall delight to slay. success is your proof; courage is your armour; go on, go on, in my strength& ye shall turn not back for any. this is popularly [by crowleyphiles] considered to be a validation of the book of the law's prophetic power [as a prediction of world war ii] and a further prediction of war in the 1980s. since there are local or regional wars ongoing constantly on some part of the planet, whether or not the "eighties" prediction is considered to be validated is simply a question of how extensive a war must be for ra-harakte to take note of it. 47. this book shall be translated into all tongues: but alwa

d to perform a xem working, as it was the sixteenth anniversary of the original xemset working.(1) since the set-xiii conclave, each of us in our own way (and other setians as well) had perceived or sensed a new dimension to the call of xem within the temple and aeon of set. thus we created a g.b.m. working to invoke xem of the past into the present, that by reflection upon it we might gain some "prophetic" insight into the direction of xem, present to future. during the physical working i spoke aloud only once, and for a short duration, so the others could hear the thoughts passing through my mind. for most of the working i was active etherically and/or astrally, allowing my physical body to symbolize my lesser human self become passive, while higher man came into being. the whole experie

nship and you will eternally guard the temple of set. do it, orm, do it! poem i was becoming trapped by my own inconsistency. then i heard your voice, your music. they rekindled the spark of magic which had become a small flicker in my world. intellectualizing had nearly overshadowed the pureness, the majesty of the magic i know so well. i am medu n xonsu- the voice of the messenger who is of the prophetic moon- he who knows the words of ma'at. i am a black magician, and i dwell in the universe within which the prince of darkness also dwells. take not my name or my word lightly! my image is one of eternal power- as the daughter of the night sky has uttered- the sun is eclipsed by the moon- and as i speak, that which is mundane is eclipsed by the light of my face. my light. which can only b

a black magician. i am one of the elect of set. i am a god. i am a human. i am a priest of set. poem i was becoming trapped by my own inconsistency. then i heard your voice, your music. they rekindled the spark of magic which had become a small flicker in my world. intellectualizing had nearly overshadowed the pureness, the majesty of magic i know so well. i am xonsu- the messenger who is of the prophetic moon- he who knows the words of ma'at. i am a black magician, and i dwell in the universe within which the prince of darkness also dwells. take not my name or my word lightly! my image is one of eternal power- as the daughter of the night sky has uttered "the sun is eclipsed by the moon" and as speak, that which is mundane is eclipsed by the light of my face. my light. which can only be

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't spill out the secret when he's drunk" she asked, caressing baal's hair "he gets through a lot of wine" baal said "nothing is ever going to be the same again" salman's visit had wakened him from the dream into which he had slowly subsided during his years at the curtain, and he couldn't go back to sleep "of course it will" ayesha urged "it will. you'll see" baal shook his head and made the only prophetic remark of his life "something big is going to happen" he foretold "a man can't hide behind skirts forever" the next day mahound returned to jahilia and soldiers came to inform the madam of the curtain that the period of transition was at an end. the brothels were to be closed, with immediate effect. enough was enough. from behind her drapes, the madam requested that the soldiers withdraw

SATANICON

affliction of xianity) regarding our satan/reality-based mythology and symbolism. it s time we evolve (an inability of xianity) into a new phase of religious reverence: satan will be actively represented and recognized by more than the one traditional aspect of fire. it s only proper and becoming that he be symbolized also by the nightsky, darkness moreover, as our apocalyptic creed continues its prophetic trek, it s also time we symbolically, and literally, depose the tyrant; replace god, the so-called supreme being with a god truly representative of man; for he was made in man s image our infernal god, satan! so it shall come to pass that the nightsky will reflect the true nature of those who have the knowledge of life and who tread heavily and fiercely upon the land. so shall the creed

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

and prosaic, with his usual patience; and then, thoughtfully turning to his bookshelves, took down an old volume, and read to me, first, in greek, and secondly, in english, some extracts to the following effect "plato here expresses four kinds of mania, by which i desire to understand enthusiasm and the inspiration of the gods: firstly, the musical; secondly, the telestic or mystic; thirdly, the prophetic; and fourthly, that which belongs to love" the author he quoted, after contending that there is something in the soul above intellect, and stating that there are in our nature distinct energies, by the one of which we discover and seize, as it were, on sciences and theorems with almost intuitive rapidity, by another, through which high art is accomplished, like the statues of phidias, pr

uthor, then pursuing his comment upon plato, observes, that "one of these manias may suffice (especially that which belongs to love) to lead back the soul to its first divinity and happiness; but that there is an intimate union with them all; and that the ordinary progress through which the soul ascends is, primarily, through the musical; next, through the telestic or mystic; thirdly, through the prophetic; and lastly, through the enthusiasm of love" while with a bewildered understanding and a reluctant attention i listened to these intricate sublimities, my adviser closed the volume, and said with complacency "there is the motto for your book, the thesis for your theme "davus sum, non oedipus" said i, shaking my head, discontentedly "all this may be exceedingly fine, but, heaven forgive m

sman, maximilien robespierre, that the executioner is the invention of the tyrant. my very attachment to our advancing revolution is, that it must sweep away this legal butchery" the lawyer paused, out of breath. the stranger regarded him fixedly and turned pale "you change countenance, sir" said dumas "you do not agree with me "pardon me, i was at that moment repressing a vague fear which seemed prophetic "and that "was that we should meet again, when your opinions on death and the philosophy of revolutions might be different "never "you enchant me, cousin rene" said the old man, who had listened to his relation with delight "ah, i see you have proper sentiments of justice and philanthropy. why did i not seek to know you before? you admire the revolution; you, equally with me, detest the

teeth of so rational a judgment, neither could he resolve at once to abandon the pursuit of viola. fearful of being influenced by zanoni's counsels and his own heart, he had for the last two days shunned an interview with the young actress. but after a night following his last conversation with zanoni, and that we have just recorded with mervale, a night coloured by dreams so distinct as to seem prophetic, dreams that appeared so to shape his future according to the hints of zanoni that he could have fancied zanoni himself had sent them from the house of sleep to haunt his pillow, he resolved once more to seek viola; and though without a definite or distinct object, he yielded himself up to the impulse of his heart. chapter 2.x. o sollecito dubbio e fredda tema che pensando l'accresci. ta

ndivogius. it wanted several minutes of midnight, and glyndon repaired to the appointed spot. the mysterious empire which zanoni had acquired over him, was still more solemnly confirmed by the events of the last few hours; the sudden fate of the prince, so deliberately foreshadowed, and yet so seemingly accidental, brought out by causes the most commonplace, and yet associated with words the most prophetic, impressed him with the deepest sentiments of admiration and awe. it was as if this dark and wondrous being could convert the most ordinary events and the meanest instruments into the agencies of his inscrutable will; yet, if so, why have permitted the capture of viola? why not have prevented the crime rather than punish the criminal? and did zanoni really feel love for viola? love, and

w the woman thou wouldst have saved shall die "to-morrow, president, the steel falls on thee" on, through the crowded and roaring streets, on moves the procession of death. ha, brave people! thou art aroused at last. they shall not die! death is dethroned! robespierre has fallen! they rush to the rescue! hideous in the tumbril, by the side of zanoni, raved and gesticulated that form which, in his prophetic dreams, he had seen his companion at the place of death "save us! save us" howled the atheist nicot "on, brave populace! we shall be saved" and through the crowd, her dark hair streaming wild, her eyes flashing fire, pressed a female form "my clarence" she shrieked, in the soft southern language native to the ears of viola "butcher! what hast thou done with clarence" her eyes roved over

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

zeh] of all times and nations, is to us as a people most pregnant with significance. the motto, novus ordo seclorum, is a quotation from the 4th eclogue and was borrowed in turn by virgil from the mystic sybylline records "the entire quotation is as follows 'the last age of cumaen song now comes (novus ordo seclorum altered from magnus soeclorum ordo, a mighty order of ages is born anew. both the prophetic virgin and saturnian kingdoms now return. now a new progeny is let down from the lofty heavens. favor, chaste lucina, the boy soon io be born in whom the iron age shall come to an end, and the golden one shall arise again in the whole earth" virgil was a pagan philosopher of rome.16 the literalure on the mystic meaning of the seal is extensive and amazing. it appears that almost every se

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limited as it is in its present physical forms, but will appear even externally as an imaging of the supersensible archetypes represented by the four living creatures and the other the apocalypse of john 135 pictures connected with the seals. still further ahead in the future the earth will take on the form intimated to the initiates by the sounding of the trumpets. in this way the initiate has a prophetic experience of future conditions. the initiate into the christian mystery experiences the impetus given to life on earth by the entering and onward working of the christ. meanwhile everything that remains bound up with the transitory and falls short of true christianity is shown as meeting death. then a powerful angel appears, with a little book open in his hand which he gives to john: he

it depicts a giant, holding for his wife and his child to see certain tiny things cannons, scepters, emblems of honor, triumphal arches, the banners belonging to different factions, all such as we know today. these important products of our culture seem tiny to the future world s way of thinking, and to a civilization that is an intellectual giant in comparison with ours. we need not dwell on the prophetic intention of this picture; but to an observer of the course of intellectual life who stands before it, it conjures up another idea. for may not our modern philosophies of life and the world seem equally small to the scrutiny of future thought? what an expiation it would then be for the superior tone adopted by certain of our contemporaries toward the childish conceptions that our predece

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me the destroyer of worlds.4 and then, from the burned out carcass, like the phoenix rising from the ashes, is to come the new city of glory, the kingdom of the illuminati, ruled by their godman king and his master, satan. this is the ultimate, all-consuming, repugnant goal of the builders, to undo what god has done, to defile and utterly destroy planet earth and to rebuild it in their image. the prophetic scriptures tell us that this grandiose plan the great work of the illuminati will never fully come to fruition. the kingdom shall not become the province of the rebellious illuminati and their dark, occult master, satan. here is almighty god's glorious declaration of how it all shall end "and the seventh angel sounded: and there were great voices in heaven, saying, the kingdoms of the wo

directions, the illuminati is reproducing, or mimicking, the symbol of the double-headed eagle in freemasonry. a ravenous bird from the east to the illuminati, the eagle is a symbol of overriding importance and, in its doubleheaded form, the eagle represents the illuminati's principal luciferian doctrine of as above, so below. it also represents the great work of the initiation of the world. how prophetic, then, is the bible verse found in isaiah 46:11 which reveals that in the last days, a "ravenous bird from the east" shall be called forth by god to wreak havoc and destruction on rebellious mankind and the fallen world. so when you see the duality principle("as above, so below) represented in the photos and illustrations in this section, remember: you're observing the great secret in op

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mic doorway was being opened, and ministers from the spirit world would soon be making themselves available for contact with those individuals who wished to gain from their wisdom and inspiration. while on tour, davis met dr. s. silas lyons, an experienced mesmerist, who was able to induce a deep trance state in the poughkeepsie seer. in november of 1845, with lyons as the mesmerist, davis as the prophetic voice, and reverend william fishbough as the stenographer, dictation was begun on the principles of nature: her divine revelations and a voice to mankind. the process lasted for 15 months, and often small crowds of enthusiastic men and women, including such luminaries as american writer edgar allan poe (1809 1849, bore witness to the words as they poured forth from the entranced davis. i

litated by entering a selfinduced state of meditation or trance, james comments that once the characteristic sort of consciousness has set in, the mystic feels as if his own will were in abeyance, and indeed sometimes as if he were grasped and held by a superior power. this latter peculiarity connects mystical states with certain definite phenomena of secondary or alternative personality, such as prophetic speech, automatic writing, or the mediumistic trance. mystical states are never merely interruptive. some memory of their content always remains, and a profound sense of their importance. in a chapter on basic mystical experience in his watcher on the hills (1959, dr. raynor c. johnson, master of queens college, university of melbourne, lists seven characteristics of illumination: 1. the

ugh devout christian laypersons occasionally report apparitions of various saints and the image of jesus, by far the greatest number of apparitions of religious figures are those of mother mary. pope john paul ii (1920) has proclaimed his firm belief that it was a number of significant apparitions of mother mary that brought about the end of communism in the former soviet union, thus fulfilling a prophetic pronouncement to one of the three children to whom she appeared six times between may 13 and october 13, 1917, in fatima, portugal. in his book russia will be converted (1950, john haffert detailed a series of apparitions of mary in the 1940s that began eroding communist doctrine and converting thousands to roman catholicism. in one instance, a young girl was said to have beheld the appa

as to produce the effect of three-dimensional solidarity. by no means are roman catholics the only christians who have religious visions and see apparitions of holy figures. in october of 2000, a lutheran minister and a sociologist in minnesota released their study that more than 30 percent of 2,000 christians surveyed said that they had had dramatic visions, heard heavenly voices, or experienced prophetic dreams. in april 2001, details of research conducted at the university of wales detected a common core to religious experiences that crosses boundaries of culture and faith. an analysis of 6,000 such experiences revealed that christians may describe a religious experience as an encounter with jesus, mary, or an angel; muslims often interpret the phenomenon as the presence of an angel; an

tervention. both the old and new testaments of the bible are filled with miracles and wonders performed by prophets, angels, and god. so, too, does the qur an contain accounts of countless miracles, thus enabling the contemporary followers of islam to expect such occurrences as proof of the validity of their faith. islamic theologians have established two basic kinds of miracles: the mu jizat, or prophetic miracles; and the karamat, those wonders performed by holy people and saints. the roman catholic tradition contains many healing miracles performed by saints and popes both alive and in spirit. early in 1967 the irish independent of dublin carried the account of a miracle healing that had brought a dying nun from death s door to a healthy normal life after the spirit of pope john xxiii (

reluctant to state that the bible code proves that god is its author, others have firmly stated their belief that god guided the ancient scribes and directed them to place the prophecies within the texts. to test the claims of the bible code, skeptical mathematicians have downloaded the texts of the hebrew bible and the king james version. in the opinion of these researchers, hidden messages and prophetic statements made about famous politicians, inventors, military men, musicians, and so forth can also be located. sources: drosnin, michael. the bible code. new york: simon& schuster, 1997. thomas, david e. hidden messages and the bible code. skeptical inquirer, november 1997. http//www.csicop.org/ si/9711/bible-code.html. 11 october 2001. wiztum, doron, eliyahu rips, and yaov rosenburg. e

ontinuous emanation from the divine being, which is transmitted to all those men and women who are endowed with a certain imaginative faculty and who have achieved a certain moral and mental standard. the revelatory transmission is filtered through the medium of the active intellect, first to the visionary s rational faculty, then to his or her imaginative faculty. in this way the distribution of prophetic illumination occurs in conformity with a natural law of emanation. roman catholic scholarship holds that there are two kinds of visions. one is the imaginative vision, in which the object seen is but a mental concept of symbol, such as jacob s ladder leading up to heaven. st. teresa of avila (151 1582) had numerous visions, including images of christ, which church authorities have judged

o any person who is in opposition to or an enemy of jesus christ or his teachings, as well as to those who claim to be christ, but in fact are false and misleading. apocalypse from the greek apokalupsis, meaning revelation. in the bible, the book of revelation is often referred to as the apocalypse. comes from many anonymous, second-century b.c.e. and later jewish and christian texts that contain prophetic messages pertaining to a great total devastation or destruction of the world and the salvation of the righteous. armageddon from late latin armagedon, greek and hebrew, har megiddo, megiddon, which is the mountain region of megiddo. megiddo is the site where the great final battle between good and evil will be fought as prophesied and will be a decisive catastrophic event that many belie

ing between two rivers. an ancient region that was located between the tigris and euphrates rivers in what is today, modern iraq and syria. some of the world s earliest and greatest ancient civilizations such as ur, sumer, assyria, and babylonia were developed in that region. old testament the first of the two main divisions of the christian bible that corresponds to the hebrew scriptures. omen a prophetic sign, phenomenon, or happening supposed to portend good or evil or indicate how someone or something will fare in the future. qur an (koran) 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. 570c.e. 632 c.e) by the archangel gabriel. shamanic exorcism when a shaman, or tribal

with departed spirits and receiving special teachings from osiris. those who survived the night alone in the sarcophagus were awakened by the priests who proclaimed the initiate s resurrection and who brought him refreshing food and drink. later, at an appropriate time in the temple of osiris, the newly initiated member of the cult would be asked to describe any visions that he experienced or any prophetic messages that he received while on the journey of light with osiris. the theology of osiris that promised resurrection soon overshadowed that of the sun god ra (re. ra was a creator god, fundamentally solar, a king by nature, whose theology concerned itself with the world its origin, creation, and the laws that governed it. osiris and his doctrines were concerned with the problems of lif

cisco: harper collins, 1989. ferm, vergilious, ed. ancient religions. new york: philosophical library, 1950. larousse dictionary of beliefs and religions. new york: larousse, 1994. delphi for centuries, the temple of apollo at delphi in central greece contained the most prestigious oracle in the graeco-roman world, a favorite of public officials and individuals alike. the oracle was said to relay prophetic messages and words of counsel from python, the wise serpent son of the mother-goddess delphyne or from the moon-goddess artemis through their priestess daughters, the pythonesses or pythia. according to myth, the god apollo murdered delphyne and claimed the shrine and the pythia for himself, imprisoning the serpent seer in the recesses of a cave beneath the temple. the historian plutarch

pidly. spell a formula or word believed to have magical power. a trance or a bewitched state. vision from the latin vis, to see. faculty of sight or a mental image produced by imagination. can refer to a mystical experience of seeing as if with the eyes, only through a supernatural means such as in a dream, trance, or through a supernatural being, and one which often has religious, revelatory, or prophetic significance. voodoo from louisiana french, voudou or vodu, meaning fetish. a religion mainly practiced in the caribbean countries, especially haiti, that is comprised of a combination of roman catholic rituals and animistic beliefs involving fetishes, magic, charms, spells, curses, and communication with ancestral spirits. white magick the use of magic for supposed good purposes such as

veloped human intellect. steiner founded the anthroposophical society in 1912 to promote his ideas that spiritual development should be humanity s foremost concern. apocalypse from the greek apokalupsis, meaning revelation. in the bible, the book of revelation is often referred to as the apocalypse. comes from many anonymous, second-century b.c.e. and later jewish and christian texts that contain prophetic messages pertaining to a great total devastation or destruction of the world and the salvation of the righteous. apothacary from the greek apotheke meaning storehouse. a pharmacist or druggist who is licensed to prescribe, prepare and sell drugs and other medicines, or a pharmacy where drugs and medicines are sold. apparition the unexpected or sudden appearance of something strange, such

e cell. via german from greek neuron, meaning sinew, cord, or nerve. novena of masses in the roman catholic church, the recitation of prayers or devotions for a particular purpose, for nine consecutive days. from the latin nus, meaning nine each and from novern, meaning nine. old testament the first of the two main divisions of the christian bible that corresponds to the hebrew scriptures. omen a prophetic sign, phenomenon, or happening supposed to foreshadow good or evil or indicate how someone or something will fare in the future an indication of the course of future events. oracle either someone or something that is the source of wisdom, knowledge or prophecy. can also refer to the place where the prophetic word would be given. via french from the latin oraculum, from orare to speak. pa

lain heroes to valhalla. from the old norse valkyrja, meaning literally chooser of the slain. vision from the latin vis, to see. faculty of sight or a mental image produced by imagination. can refer to a mystical experience of seeing as if with the eyes, only through a supernatural means such as in a dream, trance, or through a supernatural being, and one which often has religious, revelatory, or prophetic significance. 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 glossary 333 g l o s s a r y voodoo from louisiana french, voudou or vodu, meaning fetish. a religion mainly practiced in the caribbean countries, especially haiti, that is comprised of a combination of roman catholic rituals and animistic beliefs involving fetishes, magic, charms, spe

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sue somehow makes humans conscious of what they see, hear, touch, taste, smell, think, remember, and dream. this same grey matter allows humans to have subjective experiences of love, friendship, and the appreciation of music, art, and literature. in addition to conscious awareness, mystical states of consciousness appear to permit extrasensory communication with other human beings and even allow prophetic glimpses of the future. the psychologist william james (1842 1910) once wrote that we know what consciousness is as long as no one asks us to define it. nobel laureate gerald m. edelman, director of the neurosciences institute, has commented that what is most daunting about consciousness is that it doesn t seem to be a matter of behavior it just is. multiple and simultaneous in its modes

assured of her purity (matthew 1:20, in spite of the apparent fact that she was already pregnant. later, joseph was warned to flee to egypt (matthew 2:13, return to israel (2:19) and to go to galilee (2:22. the magi (the three wise men) were warned in a dream not to return to their native land along the same route as they had come (2:12) because of herod s evil intentions. acts 2:17 contains the prophetic verse: and it shall come to pass in the last days saith god, i will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and daughters shall prophesy [preach] and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. by the late nineteenth century, dreams were being examined from a physiological perspective. the ancient notion that god spoke directly to men in dreams was

r to gossip; beware of gossip. the mysterious. independence. church. the realm of inner awareness. higher self. spiritual need. desert. spiritual thirst. emotional barrenness. sterility. devil. unpleasant person. authoritarian figure of negative emotions. parent figure for unhappy childhood. search for forbidden knowledge. earthquake. inner turmoil. old ideas and problems coming forth. literal or prophetic. changes. falling. a natural fear and common to children. falling from grace or higher spiritual realms. defeat. hair. if soft and clean: spiritual beauty; if matted and dirty: spiritually unclean; if thinning or bald: a man may feel consciousness of his age, or of aging. gray or white represents wisdom. a haircut may represent loss of vitality. island. seclusion. desire to get away from

f the eternal now. there are certain kinds of precognitive experiences that can be easily identified as part of the normal process of the subconscious. a woman dreams of coming down with the measles and laughs it off. she did not succumb to the disease as a child; why should she weaken as an adult? in two days, she is in bed with the annoying rash covering her body. rather than judge this to be a prophetic dream, one might better regard the experience as an example of the subconscious mind being much more aware of the condition of the inner body than the superficial conscious mind. in other cases, a keen intellect and a great awareness of one s environment will enable one to make predictions. much of the affluence of the contemporary economy, from stock market juggling to hemline raising

1971. steinour, harold. exploring the unseen world. new york: citadel press, 1959. targ, russell, and harold e. puthoff. mind-reach: scientists look at psychic ability. new york: delacorte press/eleanor friede, 1977. telepathy in his the psychopathology of everyday life (1904, sigmund freud (1856 1939) had discussed several alleged supernormal occurrences and expressed a profound skepticism about prophetic dreams and telepathic phenomena. however, in 1922, he published his article dreams and telepathy and publicly proclaimed that he admitted the possibility of telepathic phenomena. he had written a much less cautious full-length essay, psychoanalysis and telepathy, which he would have read to the international psychoanalytic congress of 1922 if ernest jones, founder of the british psychoan

one assigned their birth month, good fortune or luck will follow. deity a divine being, god, or goddess or something or someone that is treated like a god. from the ecclesiastical latin deitas, meaning divine nature. deity when capitalized refers to god in monotheistic belief or religions. exorcism the act, religious ceremony, or ritual of casting out evil spirits from a person or a place. omen a prophetic sign or occurrence or something that gives an indication of the course of future events. oracle either someone or something that is the source of wisdom, knowledge or prophecy. can also refer to the place where the prophetic word would be given. via french from the latin oraculum, from orare to speak. passover the seven or eight days of a jewish festival that begins on the fourteenth day

veloped human intellect. steiner founded the anthroposophical society in 1912 to promote his ideas that spiritual development should be humanity s foremost concern. apocalypse from the greek apokalupsis, meaning revelation. in the bible, the book of revelation is often referred to as the apocalypse. comes from many anonymous, second-century b.c.e. and later jewish and christian texts that contain prophetic messages pertaining to a great total devastation or destruction of the world and the salvation of the righteous. apothacary from the greek apotheke meaning storehouse. a pharmacist or druggist who is licensed to prescribe, prepare and sell drugs and other medicines, or a pharmacy where drugs and medicines are sold. apparition the unexpected or sudden appearance of something strange, such

e cell. via german from greek neuron, meaning sinew, cord, or nerve. novena of masses in the roman catholic church, the recitation of prayers or devotions for a particular purpose, for nine consecutive days. from the latin nus, meaning nine each and from novern, meaning nine. old testament the first of the two main divisions of the christian bible that corresponds to the hebrew scriptures. omen a prophetic sign, phenomenon, or happening supposed to foreshadow good or evil or indicate how someone or something will fare in the future an indication of the course of future events. oracle either someone or something that is the source of wisdom, knowledge or prophecy. can also refer to the place where the prophetic word would be given. via french from the latin oraculum, from orare to speak. pa

lain heroes to valhalla. from the old norse valkyrja, meaning literally chooser of the slain. vision from the latin vis, to see. faculty of sight or a mental image produced by imagination. can refer to a mystical experience of seeing as if with the eyes, only through a supernatural means such as in a dream, trance, or through a supernatural being, and one which often has religious, revelatory, or prophetic significance. 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 glossary 313 g l o s s a r y voodoo from louisiana french, voudou or vodu, meaning fetish. a religion mainly practiced in the caribbean countries, especially haiti, that is comprised of a combination of roman catholic rituals and animistic beliefs involving fetishes, magic, charms, spe

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ne telling or mediumship. it is a divine science of correspondences, in the study and application of which the intellect and intuition become 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 prophecy and divination 123 blended in a natural, harmonious manner. they commence to vibrate in unison. when this union becomes complete, the ignorant man becomes the prophetic sage. h joseph goodavage, author of astrology: the space age science (1966, began his book with the following declaration: gover many thousands of years astrologers have deduced a connection between the motions of the planets and positions of the stars with every kind of terrestrial activity. their ability to predict future trends.even actual events.has been repeatedly demonstrated. h th

eir pronouncements, scribes wrote their words on rolls of papyrus while priests listened. the greeks saw in numbers the mystical keys to the great mind of the cosmos; and the fates of kingdoms, commerce, and human lives hung on the enigmatic utterances of the delphic oracle. a greek sect called the psychagogues conjured the spirits of the dead, who brought petitions for their survivors as well as prophetic messages. with so many deities to keep track of, it is no wonder that the greeks were ever on the alert for omens, even in such simple phenomena as birds in flight and the sequence in which a fowl picked up kernels of grain. socrates (c. 470.399 b.c.e) foretold the future with the aid of his own familiar spirit, which replied to yes-and-no questions with sneezes to the right or to the le

lers, philosophers, generals, politicians, and anyone else of reasonably high status who was anxious to hear a favorable word from the gods. for centuries, the temple of apollo at delphi in central greece contained the most prestigious oracle in the graeco- roman world, a favorite of public officials and individuals alike. at various times throughout its long history, the oracle was said to relay prophetic messages and words of counsel from python, the wise serpent son of the mother-goddess delphyne or from the moongoddess artemis through their priestess daugh- 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 154 prophecy and divination painting depicting aegeus of athens consulting the oracle of delphi (fortean picture library) ters, the pythonesse

ivination painting depicting aegeus of athens consulting the oracle of delphi (fortean picture library) ters, the pythonesses or pythia. then, according to myth, the god apollo murdered delphyne and claimed the shrine and the pythia for himself, imprisoning the serpent seer in the recesses of a cave beneath the temple. the name of delphi means gwomb, h and suggests the journey that the seekers of prophetic knowledge had to take as they entered the cave of the pythoness and descended deeper into the mystical recesses of the oracle, deeper into the womb of mother earth. the pythia would await the seekers while seated upon a three-legged seat, or tripod, and it was from such a perch that she would issue her prophetic utterances. the many tripods scattered throughout the cave were, in essence

as convinced that the gift of prophecy that she possessed was closely associated with the power of god, and she claimed to be cautious that she did not abuse this ability. in the 1960s, when she was hailed as gwashington fs window to the future, h she ran a profitable real estate concern in washington, d.c, with her husband, james l. dixon. there seemed to be no standard procedure to this seer fs prophetic insights. they came to her at various times, in various places, and in various emotional states. in the book the call to glory (1971, she envisioned herself as a prophet who issued predictions in order to fulfill the mission that god had given her. the book fs acknowledgements named rev. stephen hartdegen, a roman catholic priest, as her gpersonal religious consultant h for the book. dix

d in ruth montgomery fs three million-copy bestseller a gift of prophecy: the phenomenal jeane dixon (1966, many skeptics have pointed out that montgomery neglected to include the seeress fs 1960 prediction that john f. kennedy would definitely fail to win the presidency. in spite of those who were skeptical of the true accuracy of her predictions, jeane dixon fs many supporters insisted that her prophetic powers extended beyond the political sphere. according to numerous accounts, with but the barest knowledge of the people involved, she was been able to predict murders, suicides, the results of horse races, fires, and accidents. once she was able to foresee the number that would win a raffle and purchased the corresponding ticket for her husband. he won a car. after the death of josef st

in (1879. 1953, world interest focused on russia fs next prime minister. when georgy malenkov (1902.1988) was finally elevated to the position, jeane dixon was asked before a national television audience how long malenkov would be prime minister of the soviet union. the question was asked by the former u.s. ambassador to the soviet union, joseph davies, and he was obviously dubious about dixon fs prophetic power. using a crystal ball to focus her attention, jeane dixon said that malenkov would be premier for less than two years. ambassador davies disagreed with dixon in a tone that approached open mockery. he was sure that no premier of the soviet union would ever be replaced. it seemed in the nature of russian politics that the leader would either be assassinated or die a natural death be

enchable desire to travel made him unhappy in the university setting, but his deep affection for his family enabled him to achieve some satisfaction. after his wife had borne him two children, another outbreak of the plague swept his family away. grief stricken, nostradamus abandoned his practice and set about wandering across europe. it was during this period that he first began to cultivate his prophetic powers. as he wandered, he made predictions which would later make him famous. while traveling in italy, nostradamus saw a young franciscan monk coming toward him. he was an ex-swineherd named felice peretti from ancona. as the young monk passed, the prophet bent one knee to the ground devoutly, in an attitude of deep respect. afterwards, nostradamus fs traveling companions questioned hi

wn skin. in his astrological studies, which he turned to late in his career, nostradamus, who believed he was guided in his prophecies by the angel anael, also resorted to poetic quatrains, fourline verses, arranged in groups of 100 (centuries. according to many nostradamus scholars and enthusiasts, a large number of prophecies contained in these quatrains were fulfilled. those who believe in his prophetic powers insist that nostradamus foresaw airplanes, rockets, submarines, and many great historic events. other more skeptical researchers believe the prophecies to be nonsensical gibberish. in a famous quatrain that many feel refers to adolf hitler (1889.1945, nostradamus writes that a son of germany named ghister h will obey no laws. skeptic james randi fs translation, however, points out

ped human intellect. steiner founded the anthroposophical society in 1912 to promote his ideas that spiritual development should be humanity fs foremost concern. apocalypse from the greek apokalupsis, meaning grevelation. h in the bible, the book of revelation is often referred to as the apocalypse. comes from many anonymous, second-century b.c.e. and later jewish and christian texts that contain prophetic messages pertaining to a great total devastation or destruction of the world and the salvation of the righteous. apothacary from the greek apotheke meaning gstorehouse. h a pharmacist or druggist who is licensed to prescribe, prepare and sell drugs and other medicines, or a pharmacy. where drugs and medicines are sold. apparition the unexpected or sudden appearance of something strange

e cell. via german from greek neuron, meaning sinew, cord, or nerve. novena of masses in the roman catholic church, the recitation of prayers or devotions for a particular purpose, for nine consecutive days. from the latin nus, meaning nine each and from novern, meaning nine. old testament the first of the two main divisions of the christian bible that corresponds to the hebrew scriptures. omen a prophetic sign, phenomenon, or happening supposed to foreshadow good or evil or indicate how someone or something will fare in the future.an indication of the course of future events. oracle either someone or something that is the source of wisdom, knowledge or prophecy. can also refer to the place where the prophetic word would be given. via french from the latin oraculum, from orare to speak. pa

lain heroes to valhalla. from the old norse valkyrja, meaning literally chooser of the slain. vision from the latin vis, to see. faculty of sight or a mental image produced by imagination. can refer to a mystical experience of seeing as if with the eyes, only through a supernatural means such as in a dream, trance, or through a supernatural being, and one which often has religious, revelatory, or prophetic significance. 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 glossary 291 g l o s s a r y voodoo from louisiana french, voudou or vodu, meaning gfetish. h a religion mainly practiced in the caribbean countries, especially haiti, that is comprised of a combination of roman catholic rituals and animistic beliefs involving fetishes, magic, charms

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ike a horse or a stag, or a large bird, like a crowor a wood-pigeon; if no animal or bird answered the call the auguries could be taken from a cloud. theessence of the divining familiar was that it was not an animal belonging to the witch, any creature of therequired kind would be sufficiently good to draw omens from. the divining familiar was, as the name i havegiven to it implies, used only for prophetic purposes, and the use of divination by its means is almostuniversal. the domestic familiar was entirely different. it was always a small animal, which belonged to thewitch, was kept in her house, and was often called an imp or a spirit, and occasionally a devil, was fed in aspecial manner and was used only to carry out the commands of the witch. the geographical distribution ofthe domest

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stic hypotheses; they stand apart from faith, and we indicate them only as curiosities of research. it is no part of our task to make innovations in dogma, and what we assert in our character as an initiate is entirely subordinate to our submission in our character as a christian<key to the whole of his paradoxes- trans> sketch of the prophetic theology of numbers i unity unity is the principle and the synthesis of numbers; it is the idea of god and of man; it is the alliance of reason and of faith. faith cannot be opposed to reason; it is made necessary by love, it is identical with hope. to love is to believe and hope; and this triple outburst of the soul is called virtue, because, in order to make it, courage is necessary. b

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

ole, these lapses are remarkably few, and it must also be borne in mind that in nearly every case they are intentional lapses from the orthodox rules of poetic cadence and metre. one command crowley alone obeys, and that is: that all verse. rime, rhythm, and metre. to be considered as poetry, must be musical* without music there can be no poetry, at best but a kind of poetic prose as found in the prophetic books of blake, and in the works of walt whitman. yet in blake, i think, we do find many consistent irregularities, which have been entirely misunderstood by many of his editors and critics. however, it was not till swinburne loomed athwart the conscious regularity of the tennysonian era, a poetic pre-raphaelite, that, strictly speaking, a conscious and musical irregularity became admiss

aspire; and this state is the highest perfection of the imaginative faculty c if the emanation flows into the imaginative faculty only, and if the rational faculty remains behind, either on account of original structure, or from disuse, then is constituted the class of men called men of the state, diviners. there come to men of this class, even when they are awake, wonderful visions c similar to prophetic visions c they delight much in them, believing they have acquired all sciences without study *guide for the perplexed, chap. 36, 37. but all those who really do attain, attain, and remain silent. the ghindu practice, h says mysticus in gtime, h gbears out western speculation, whether we take the shadowy idealism of berkeley, or the selfrefuted monism of haeckel. all these men got our res

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sitive reinforcement when we commit acts like- ly to lead to the propagation of our species, which contributes to the unknowable purpose of the life force, so also do we feel spiritual pleasure, or happiness, when we commit acts in harmony with the light. this positive reinforcement is the only measure by which human beings can tell the difference between good and evil behavior. all moral law and prophetic teaching stems from it. by the same token, when we persistently behave in ways that are in disharmo- ny with our higher reason for being, we frustrate the fulfillment of our best poten- tial as living creatures. this causes unhappiness on a spiritual level, because every human soul is constantly yearning and striving for the attainment of its destiny, which is its highest fulfillment of

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

by someone outside the authority of the church, it is almost invariably condemned as occult and devilish. however, when it is experienced by a member of the church hierarchy, or by someone regarded by the church as favored by god, public knowledge of the event is either suppressed, or if that is impossible due to the prominence of the person who had the experience, it is embraced and upheld as a prophetic miracle. nowhere is this double standard more evident than in the tragic life of joan of arc (1412-1431. as a young girl, joan heard voices telling her to be a good girl and to pray 54. kardec, mediums' book, 130-1. 55. brewer, dictionary of miracles, 75. 56. fodor, encyclopadia of psychic science, 100. chapter four: religious bilocation 49 regularly. when the wars against the invading a

d by the archangel raphael, the poet dante was led through hell by the roman writer virgil, who in this office of astral guide acted the part of the tutelary spirit of the shamans and the familiar of the witch. dante described ingenious torments for the damned souls similar to those described by saint frances. his poem reads very much like an astral journey. both heaven and hell as related in the prophetic books are astral realms, and for this reason it is quite possible for ordinary men and women to visit them while traveling in the astral body. safe passage through hell is often secured by means of spirit guides, who have the power to shield the astral traveler from harm. jesus, having all wisdom and all power unto himself, was without need of either a guide or a protector. despite super

dow-opposites of mathers' secret chiefs-but it is suggestive that hitler may have had visions of an astral nature. hitler's admission that the "new man" made him afraid 158. schwarzwaller, the unknown hitler. 159. pauwels and bergier, 149. chapter eight: remote viewing and the cia 123 is interesting in the context of the belief of writer gerald suster that hitler was the living fulfillment of the prophetic document received by aleister crowley titled the book of the law. this document, transmitted to crowley psychically by his guardian angel aiwass in 1904, formed the basis for crowley's later cult of thelema. it foretells of the coming of the age of horus that will sweep christianity off the face of the world in a holocaust of warfare and bloodshed. summing up his views on the almost ceas

christian age was ending, and that a new age of independent thought brought 175. jung, flying saucers, 15. 144 soul flight about by the emancipation of the individual was dawning that would be initiated by a horrific period of bloodshed and chaos. jung did not mention crowley, but he must have had some passing familiarity with crowley's cult of thelema. prophecies of aleister crowley in crowley's prophetic the book of the law, the warrior god horus in his form raheru- khuti (horus of behutet, which crowley chose to render as ra-hoor-khuit, spoke through crowley's spirit control, his guardian angel aiwass, these words: i am the warrior lord of the forties: the eighties cower before me& are abased i will bring you to victory &joy: i will be at your arms in battle& ye shall delight to slay. s

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mple, in the eighth key, we cannot be sure that "hyacinth pillars 26" means that there are twenty-six pillars. the number may have some other occult meaning. in dee's manuscript record of the english version of the keys, vial is spelled viol, which has the dual meaning of a small glass vessel, but also of a stringed musical instrument played by a bow. viol the musical instrument does occur in the prophetic books of the bible (see isaiah 14:11, but in my opinion it is unlikely that this alternate meaning is intended by the angelic author of the keys. it is possible that the eight vials are intended to be linked to the great dragon, coronzon, who in revelation is given eight kings to serve him "and there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he

ssued out of their mouths. for their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt (rev. 9:17-9) true, the imagery in the bible is not identical to the imagery in this key, but it would be easy to interpret these two passages as independent descriptions of 214 tetragrammaton the same catastrophe observed in separate prophetic visions. the use of "heads of scorpions" is very revealing. obviously, scorpions kill with the venomous needie in their tails, so why are their heads referred to? one explanation is that the imagery in revelation 9:19 influenced the imagery of the key. there is confusion in st. john's vision. previously in this same chapter of revelation, the power of the demons of the pit is said to be

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

evil angel. 39. two are better than three; this means youth is better than old age with its staff of support. there were two women notorious for their pride, and their names were contemptible. deborah meant wasp and hulda weasel. many persons nowadays believe that numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott birth names somehow affect their owners, as names given are prophetic of the nature and fate of the person. speech may be worth one selah (a jewish coin, but silence is worth two. a certain man had two wives, one young and one old. when he was forty and inclined to become gray, the young one pulled out all the gray hairs and the old wife pulled out all his black hairs, so he became bald. which things point a moral as well as adorn a tale. given two dry fir

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

have been preserved in the written recensions of bahir, and we must try to recover something of it by listening assiduously. ki ruah mi-lefanay ya atof u-neshamot ani asiti, for spirit before me is faint, i am the one to create souls. i assume this verse should also be read mytho-theosophically. we must first ascertain who is speaking. the answer is offered in the poeticliturgic utterance of the prophetic text itself: ram we-nissa shokhen ad we-qadosh shemo, high and exalted, everlastingly dwelling, holy is his name (isa 57:15. the intent of the verse, when read kabbalistically, is to emphasize that souls are created by this high and exalted one whose name is holy, not by the spirit (ruah) that falters before him.74 if we were to translate the mythopoeic imagery into neoplatonic terms, we

back and the setting of a boundary. the notion of withdrawal, itself withdrawn and thus not stated overtly, is a secret exegetically derived from the verse lema an shemi a arikh appi u-tehillati ehetam lakh le-vilti hakhritekha, for the sake of my name i will postpone my wrath and my glory i will hold in for you so that i will not 132 chapter three destroy you (isa 48:9).89 the plain sense of the prophetic dictum relates to divine mercy expressed as god s long-suffering, the capacity to restrain his rage. the expression tehillati ehetam, literally my glory i will hold in, is parallel to a arikh appi,90 i will postpone my wrath. one may surmise that at some point in ancient israel the notion of a vengeful god yielded its opposite, the compassionate god who holds in his fury. in the bahiric

ing and teaching the place wherein they listen to him (maqom she-shom in bo).15 this place is not a 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

has no end and it cannot be satiated, as it is written, the ear cannot have enough of hearing (eccles 1:8. why is this so? for the ear is in the image of alef, and alef is the essence of the ten commandments [aseret hadibberot. therefore, the ear cannot have enough of hearing.26 the theosophic deciphering of the letters comprising ozen is presented as another explanation (davar aher) of habakuk s prophetic pronouncement, lord, i heard your teaching, i was in awe, yhwh shama ti shim akha yare ti (hab 3:2. the hearing (shemi ah) is decoded as a matter of contemplating and the teaching (shim ah) as a reference to god s thought (mahshavah. the ear is an appropriate metaphor to depict this process, for just as divine thought has no limit and consequently cannot be thought except as the unthough

o prevent others from sinning also deserve to be put to death. this idea is supported textually by r. joseph s reading of u-mimmiqddashi tahellu, begin at my sanctuary (ezek 9:6) as u-mimequddashai tahellu, begin with my sanctified ones, that is, the people who fulfilled the torah entirely from alef to tau, an opinion also transmitted in the name of r. samuel ben nahman.27 the moral intent of the prophetic vision, then, is to stress that a righteous man who does not prevent others from sinning justifies the attribute of judgment s altering of the divine will by transforming god s good intention into evil. before returning to the medieval kabbalistic source, we would do well to note that the singular mark of the biblical text becomes two marks in the rabbinic homily: an ink spot on the fore

another, and i am last, for i will not hand it over to another one who is not in the world, and besides me there is no god, for he has no second.38 this version of reish laqish s teaching brings into even clearer focus that the letters of emet attest to the singularity of god s being in the beginning, middle, and end. the philosophical maxim is elucidated by images extracted exegetically from the prophetic utterance. hence, i am first indicates that, in the beginning of creation, god did not receive his dominion (malkhut) from another; i am last shows that in the end, at the appointed time, there is no other to whom the dominion will be transferred; and the continuation of the verse, and besides me there is no god, signals the triumph of monotheistic faith in the present historical epoch

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