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lement water. regarded as a female sphere, it is the seat of sexual instinct and corresponds to the genital chakra on the archetypal man, adam kadmon. on the tree of life, yesod has the function of channeling the energies of the higher down to the earth below, malkuth. occultists associate yesod with the astral plane, because if the sephiroth above malkuth are regarded as a map of the unconscious psyche, yesod is the most accessible area of the mind. yesod is the sphere of fertility and lunar 67 imagery. it is identified with witchcraft and goddess worship. it is also the so-called animal soul, known by qabalists as nephesch. malkuth: the tenth emanation of the tree of life. malkuth is associated with the gods and goddesses of the earth, especially persephone, proserpina, and geb. malkuth

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

the immediate external purpose. spending time at this stage is quite vital as it is said we tend to get what we ask for, so we should take care to ask for what would truly fulfil our potential, rather than what we think we need immediately. if you are working alone, hold the symbol while speaking words that summarise the purpose of the magick. you may be surprised to discover that it is your wise psyche speaking, guiding the intention towards what you truly need or desire- and afterwards you realise it could have been no other way. if you are working in a group, a declaration of intent, created by the group collectively before the ritual, is a good way of focusing the energies. after the initial circle is cast, the symbol can be handed round while the person leading the ritual speaks the i

devas represent the higher forms, akin to angels, who watch and direct the natural world. they communicate with people by psychic 'chanelling' and rule over the beings associated with the four elements, fire, air, water and earth. in less formal practices, either archangels or pillars of light may be visualised in the corners of the room to offer protection at a time when a person is opening then-psyche to the cosmos, to keep out all negativity, earthly or otherwise. but the greatest protection is a pure heart and pure intent, much harder to attain than learning any complex ritual. the goddess as focus many beliefs emphasise the polarity of the female/male, goddess/god and anima/animus energies. the bringing together of these two powers, the sacred marriage that is celebrated symbolically

e your own. if you are a solitary practitioner, you can read or recite your charge into a candle flame or in a wild, open place, and feel the energies resounding beyond and within you. you can also use it before divination or as an introduction to a ceremony for healing or greater understanding. meditation can last from five minutes to half an hour or more. in these initial stages, allow your own psyche to guide you as to when the experience is done. if other members of the group are still working, this is not a sign that their experience was more profound. sit quietly or lie down, enjoying the silence and allowing the images of your meditation to develop quite spontaneously. if you are working with a group, remain in the circle and pass round a bowl or chalice of pure water. if you are wo

ls: juniper, rosemary, saffron, st john's wort metal: gold the sun rules leo, 23 july-23 august, and is most powerful for those born under this sign. the moon monday, the day of the moon, is for spells concerning the home, family matters and the influence of the family, especially the mother, children and animals. its prime focus is fertility and all the ebbs and flows of the human body, mind and psyche. it is also potent for protection, especially while travelling, for psychic development, clairvoyance, secrets and meaningful dreams, all sea and garden rituals and for herb magick and healing. although there are moon gods, lunar energies are primarily yin/female/anima in both men and women. moon hour spells are good for bringing unconscious powers to the fore and thus also for gaining magi

ons, as well as for overcoming obstacles that are long-standing or need careful handling. it also aids lifting depression or doubts, meditation, long-term psychic protection, locating lost objects, animals and people and regaining self-control whether over bad habits or emotions. it is also the planet of mystical experiences and of exploring the unconscious depths of the individual and collective psyche and for pastlife work. saturn can be used to slow down the outward flow of money and to encourage repayment by those who owe you favours or money. it helps banish pain and illness and brings acceptance of what cannot be changed. saturn is the shadow side of jupiter, and offers the reality factor, the constraints of fate, time and space, but also turns challenge into opportunity, effort and

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

's it had been copied and reprinted in various languages- the story goes- among them latin, greek and english. doctor dee, the magus of elizabethan fame, was supposed to have possessed a copy and translated it. this book, according to the mythos, contains the formulae for evoking incredible things into visible appearance, beings and monsters which dwell in the abyss, and outer space, of the human psyche. such books have existed in fact, and do exist. idries shah tells us of a search he conducted for a copy of the book of power by the arab magician abdul-kadir (see: the secret lore of magic by shah, of which only one copy was ever found. the keys of solomon had a similar reputation, as did the magus by barret, until all of these works were eventually reprinted in the last fifteen years or s

it is the force of will, and relies heavily upon the biochemical matter that makes up the human body, and hence, the human consciousness, to give it existence. science is coming around to accept the fact that the will does exist, just at the point where psychology has determined it does not- in the behaviourists vain attempt to eradicate what has always been known to constitute vital parts of the psyche from their consideration in pseudo scientific experimentation, leaving us with the "white mice and pigeons" of koestler's the ghost in the machine. science, ancient sister of magick, has begun to realize the human potential that resides, inconspicuously, in the spiral-mapped matter of the brain. just as the magicians, accused of trafficking with the devil, were said to have developed tremen

de. since "the gods are forgetful, buy treading on their celestial spheres we are reminding them of their ancient obligations to us, their created ones. for, as it is said in one of man's most ancient of covenants, the emerald table "as above, so below. man's power to alter the nature of his environment must develop simultaneously with his ability to master his inner environment, his own mind his psyche, soul, spirit. perhaps, then, the lunar landing was the first collective initiation for humanity, which will bring it one step closer to a beneficial force that resides beyond the race of the "cruel celestial spirits, past the abyss of knowledge. yet, he must remember that the occult powers that accompany magickal attainment are ornamental only, indications of obstacles overcome on the path

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

hin the office of one's familiar spirits. one does not go the the king about petty personal trifles. the romance and rapture of the ineffable union which constitutes adeptship must not be profaned by the introduction of commonplace cares. one must not appear with one's hair in curl-papers, or complain of the cook's impertinence, if one wants to make the most of the honeymoon<psyche, beware how thou disclose thy tricks of toilet to eros, or let him learn that those love-breathing lyrical lips that whisper, wreathing his brows with sense-bewitching gold, are equally expert to scold; that those caressing hands will maybe yet box his ears and slap the baby> to the adept divination becomes therefore a secondary consideration, although he can now employ it with absolute con

xiv: xxxv :key scale: some greek gods: some roman gods: 0 :pan: 1 :zeus, iacchus :jupiter: 2 :athena, uranus :janus: 3 :cybele, demeter, rhea, here :juno, cybele, saturn, hecate: 4 :poseidon :jupiter: 5 :ares, hades :mars: 6 :iacchus, apollo, adonis :apollo: 7 :aphrodite, nike :venus: 8 :hermes :mercury: 9 :zeus (as air, diana of :diana (as moon: ephesus (as phallic stone: 10 :persephone (adonis, psyche :ceres :11 :zeus :jupiter: 12 :hermes :mercury: 13 :artemis, hecate :diana: 14 :aphrodite :venus: 15 :athena :mars, minerva: 16:(here :venus: 17 :castor& pollux, apollo the :casto& pollux (janus: diviner: 18 :apollo the charioteer :mercury: 19 :demeter (borne by lions :venus (repressing the fire of: vulcan: 20:(attis:(attis) ceres, adonis: 21 :zeus :jupiter (pluto: 22 :themis, minos, aeacus

the love of damon and pythias, and the love of sappho and atthis, and the love of romeo and juliet, and the love of dante and beatrice, and the love of paolo and francesca, and the love of caesar and lucrezia borgia, and the love of aucassin and nicolette, and the love of daphnis and chloe, and the love of cornelia and caius gracchus, and the love of bacchus and ariadne, and the love of cupid and psyche, and the love of endymion and artemis, and the love of demeter and persephone, and the love of venus and adonis, and the love of lakshmi and vishnu, and the love of siva and bhavani and the love of buddha and ananda, and the love of jesus and john, and many more. also there is the love of many saints for their particular deity, as of st. francis of assisi for christ, of sri sabhapaty swami

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

is has been put in a sort of text, because the first stumbling-block to study is the one never has any certainty as to what the author means, or thinks he means, or is trying to persuade one that he means. try something simple "the soul is part of god" now then, when he writes "soul" does he mean atma, or buddhi, or the higher manas, or purusha, or yechidah,or neschamah, or nepheshch, or nous, or psyche, or phren, or ba, or khu, or ka, or animus, or anima, or seele, or what? magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 185 as everybody will he nill he, creates "god" in his own image, it is perfectly useless to inquire what he may happen to mean by that. but even this very plain word "part. does he mean to imply a quantitative assertion, as when one says sixpence is part of a

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

secret mystery of the rose's perfume: you have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all that is sensual 'so also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred mystery' yes, but the phenomenon shall it not be as another sacred mystery; the force of attraction still to be interpreted in terms of god and the psyche? we shall reward you by befoulment, by cant, but misunderstanding, and by understanding. this to you who wear the phrygian cap, not as symbol of liberty, o ribald ones, but of sacrifice and victory, of inmost enlightenment, of the soul's deliverance from the fetters of the very soul itself- fear not; you are not 'replacing truth of thought by mere expertness of mechanical skill "you who hol

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 1 2

weet secret mystery of the rose's perfume: you have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all that is sensual.'so also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred mystery. yes, but the phenomenon shall it be as another sacred mystery; the force of attraction still to be interpreted in terms of god and the psyche? we shall reward you by befoulment, by cant, by misunderstanding, and by understanding. this to you who wear the phrygian cap, not as symbol of liberty, o ribald ones, but of sacrifice and victory, of inmost enlightenment, of the soul's deliverance from the fetters of the very soul itself fear not; you are not 'replacing truth of thought by mere expertness of mechanical skill."you who hold

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 3

secret mystery of the rose's perfume: you have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all that is sensual 'so also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred mystery' yes, but the phenomenon shall it not be as another sacred mystery; the force of attraction still to be interpreted in terms of god and the psyche? we shall reward you by befoulment, by cant, by misunderstanding, and by understanding. this to you who wear the phrygian cap, not as symbol of liberty, o ribald ones, but of sacrifice and victory, of inmost enlightenment, of the soul's deliverance from the fetters of the very soul itself_ fear not; you are not 'replacing truth of thought by mere expertness of mechanical skill "you who hold

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 3

secret mystery of the rose's perfume: you have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all that is sensual 'so also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred mystery' yes, but the phenomenon shall it not be as another sacred mystery; the force of attraction still to be interpreted in terms of god and the psyche? we shall reward you by befoulment, by cant, but misunderstanding, and by understanding. this to you who wear the phrygian cap, not as symbol of liberty, o ribald ones, but of sacrifice and victory, of inmost enlightenment, of the soul's deliverance from the fetters of the very soul itself- fear not; you are not 'replacing truth of thought by mere expertness of mechanical skill "you who hol

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secret mystery of the rose's perfume: you have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all that is sensual 'so also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred mystery' yes, but the phenomenon shall it not be as another sacred mystery; the force of attraction still to be interpreted in terms of god and the psyche? we shall reward you by befoulment, by cant, by misunderstanding, and by understanding. this to you who wear the phrygian cap, not as symbol of liberty, o ribald ones, but of sacrifice and victory, of inmost enlightenment, of the soul's deliverance from the fetters of the very soul itself- fear not; you are not 'replacing truth of thought by mere expertness of mechanical skill "you who hold

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

m copyright 1998 lucis trust if you take these different qualities of the atom energy, intelligence, ability to select and reject, to attract and repel, sensation, movement, and desire you have something which is very much like the psychology of a human being, only within a more limited radius and of a more circumscribed degree. have we not, therefore, really got back to what might be termed the "psyche of the atom? we have found that the atom is a living entity, a little vibrant world, and that within its sphere of influence other little lives are to be found, and this very much in the same sense that each of us is an entity, or positive nucleus of force or life, holding within our sphere of influence other lesser lives, i.e. the cells of our body. what can be said of us can be said, in d

on are diverse, and ever prove inadequate as times elapses. what, then, is the purpose back of this endless process of form building, and this combining of the lesser forms? what is the reason of it all, and what will prove to be the goal? surely it is the development of quality, the expansion of the consciousness, the development of the faculty of realisation, the production of the powers of the psyche, or the soul, the evolution of intelligence. surely it is the gradual demonstration of the basic idea or purpose which that great entity whom we call the logos, or god, is working out through the solar system. it is the demonstration of his psychic quality, for god is intelligent love, and the fulfilment of his determined purpose, for god is intelligent loving will. for all the different gr

a similar activity and governed by analogous laws. we found that it had a central sun, and that around this central sun, pursuing their definite orbits, might be seen the electrons. we noted, also, the fact that the elements differ only according to the number and the arrangement of these electrons around the central positive charge. from this we passed on to the consideration of the soul, or the psyche, of the atom, and found that scientists recognise the truth that atoms themselves possess quality, show symptoms of mind or intelligence, and can discriminate, select, and choose. we then proceeded to weave what appeared to be a fairy tale. we pictured the human being as an atom, and traced the resemblance of man to an atom; we found that he attracted and held within his sphere of influence

he atom as it was built into the different forms in the various kingdoms of nature, and found that, in the process of evolution atoms themselves gravitate towards other and greater central points, becoming in their turn electrons. thus, every form is but an aggregate of smaller lives. very briefly then we touched upon the different kingdoms of nature, and traced the development of the soul or the psyche in all of them. of the atom we have already predicated intelligence, or discriminative power, and we found that in the building up of forms in the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms what we understand as sensation begins to appear, and we then have the rudiments of embryonic emotion, or feeling the physical plane reflection of love. thus we have one aspect of the threefold nature of go

ult of long discipline and strenuous meditation does this occur. but some day we shall govern our entire lives, not from the personal, selfish point of view, but from the point of view of the god within, who is a direct revelation of spirit on the highest plane. the final thing i seek to bring out to-night is that the goal for each one of us is the development of the powers of the soul, or of the psyche. this means that you and i are going to be psychics. but i am not using this word "psychic" as it is usually understood, nor in its every-day connotation. the psyche is, literally, the soul within, or the higher self, who emerges from out of the threefold lower self, as the butterfly emerges out of the chrysalis; it is that beautiful reality, which we are going to produce as the result of o

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

ies working in that particular department. there will be seven systems, though we are only concerned with the three major systems, of which our present system is the second major system. each chohan of a ray takes a certain number of initiates of the sixth initiation and trains them specially for this work; special aptitude in colour and sound predisposes the choice, and the ability to work with "psyche" or the spirits in evolution marks a man out for this high post. we might say that the planetary logoi are the divine psychologists, and therefore in the training for this post psychology is the basic subject, though it is a psychology inconceivable as yet to us. every planetary logos has, in his own special planet, schools for the development of subordinate logoi, and there trains them for

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

the two higher planes (the logoic-and the monadic) are synthetic. one is the synthesising plane for the logos from whence he abstracts the essence in manifestation; the other for the monad, from whence the monad abstracts and garners the fruits of objectivity. we will therefore only concern ourselves here with those centres which relate to the evolution of the subtler bodies, the evolution of the psyche, and not with those connected with the evolution and propagation of the dense physical body. these centres are five in number: 1. that at the base of the spine, the only one dealt with that has a physical effect. 2. that situated at the solar plexus, the most important one in the body from the standpoint of the astral plane. 3. that found at the throat, the most important from the standpoin

only when the threefold hearing is consummated will completed hearing on the physical plane be likewise permitted. hearing on the mental plane is simply an extension of the faculty of differentiating sound. the hearing dealt with on all these planes is the hearing that has to do with the form, that concerns the vibration of matter, and that is occupied with the not-self. it has not to do with the psyche, or the telepathic communication that proceeds from mind to mind, but with the sound of the form or that power whereby one separated unit of consciousness is aware of another unit who is not himself. bear this carefully in mind. when the extension of hearing becomes such that it concerns the psyche, then we call it telepathy or that wordless communication that is the synthesis of hearing on

d principle..buddhi..p. ure reason, wisdom. fourth principle..manas..pure mind, higher mind. fifth principle..manas..lower mind. sixth principle..k. ama-manas. seventh principle..pure emotion, or feeling. these are the principles for the microcosm viewed as having transcended the physical bodies altogether, and thus the tabulation deals entirely with the subjective life, or the development of the psyche or soul. this should be borne carefully in mind else confusion will ensue. in our enumeration we are here dealing with subjectivity and not with form. we have, therefore, considered: a. sevenfold objectivity..the material forms. b. sevenfold subjectivity..the psychic evolution. c. sevenfold spirituality..the life of the entity. we will note also that in the tabulation of the spiritual life

ion of the mind faculty) will be the result of the evolutionary process. just as objectivity is dual, life-form, so subjectivity is dual, mind-love, and the blending of the two produces consciousness. spirit alone is unity, and is undivided; the development of spirit (or its assumption of the fruits of evolution) is only to be realised and brought about when the dual evolution of the form and the psyche is consummated. then spirit garners the fruits of evolution and gathers to itself the qualities nurtured during manifestation, perfect love and perfect intelligence showing forth then as active intelligent love-wisdom. we might, therefore, answer the questions "what is the mind aspect and why is it so important" by saying that the mind aspect is in reality the ability or capacity of the log

y man, as he nears the goal of his endeavor. again we can with exactitude carry the concept further still, and predicate action of a similar nature by the solar logos. the consideration of this question is nearly concluded and it must be apparent that the relation between the aforementioned manifestations is of a psychic nature (using the word psychic in its true sense, as having reference to the psyche, or soul, or consciousness) and deals with the gradual expansion of soul-knowledge in a heavenly man. a word of warning should here be sounded. though all these cosmic beings find in man a reflection of their own nature, yet the- 178- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust analogy of resemblance must not be pushed to extremity. man reflects, but he reflects not perfectly; man

the will of the indweller- 198- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust all these ends are the result of the manasic development and perhaps the student might apprehend the underlying idea more clearly if it is realised that a. the spirit employs manas in all that concerns matter, the electrical substance, or the active akasha. b. the spirit employs buddhi in all that relates to the psyche, that relates to the soul of the world, to the soul of an individual, or to the soul of every form. c. the spirit employs will or atma in all that relates to the essence of all, to itself, considering the essence and the self as pure spirit as distinguished from spirit-matter. in the first case, the distinctive quality of manas is discrimination which enables the spirit to differentiate bet

r quality passes and circulates- 257- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust both adding, and at the same time abstracting, and returns to its focal point with two noticeable differences: a. the radiatory heat is intensified. b. the qualitative character or colour is increased. the effect on the form side is equally noticeable, and the warmth or quality of a ray not only affects the psyche of a man, a planetary logos, and a solar logos, but has a definite effect on material substance itself. ray influences work equally on the deva and human hierarchies, as they function in a planetary or logoic body. clarity of thought might eventuate if we ever bear in mind that all forms are dual, both in evolution and in essential nature. they are the product of the work of the builders (d

tively e velutionary aspect activity..t. he seven brothers..s.even etheric centres..seven types of force..involution and evolution of the kingdoms of nature. sumtotal..fire by friction. the brahma or matter aspect. the mother. love-wisdom..seven heavenly men..seven schemes..seven rays..seven types of dragon of wisdom. deva and human monads. sumtotal..solar fire. vishnu aspect. subjectivity or the psyche. the son in manifestation. will..s. even cosmic entities..seven heavenly men..seven qualities..seven hierarchies. sumtotal..electric fire, the one life. mahadeva. spirit with these thoughts in mind it should be possible to see more clearly what the coming in of a ray, such as the present one, or its passing out, may involve. in the particular case under discussion, we have the coming in of

ught, and of intuitive recognition. in other words, manas has (during the past three root races) been principally applied to the understanding of objective existence, to the adaptation of the dweller in the form to his environment on the physical plane. from now on the trend of activity will be towards the understanding of the subjective side of manifestation, and towards the comprehension of the psyche of the individual life, divine, planetary, or human. in the next round, all the previous stages will be recapitulated, and manas will demonstrate in ways inconceivable as yet to the half awakened consciousness of man. in that round three-fifths of the human family will be fully aware, functioning with uninterrupted continuity of recollection on the physical, astral, and lower mental planes

of force. b. the causal body, the monadic heart centre. 2. the twelve-petalled lotus. a. the knowledge petals. b. the love petals. c. the sacrifice petals. 3. summary. i. the nature of the egoic or causal body the subject of the egoic ray and its relation to the second fire is one of vital import to three types of people: those who are interested in the true psychology, or in the evolution of the psyche; those who are on or nearing the path, and hence are coming more and more into touch with their own ego; those who work with the souls of men, the servers of the race. the reason for this is because in the due comprehension of this subject, that of the ego functioning in the causal body, comes the ability to work scientifically with the problem of one's own evolution, and to do good work in

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

he interest of the hierarchy is being largely centred on the question of psychic purity and this is the reason for the trend of the occult teaching at present developing. it is away from what is commonly understood by psychic development, lays no emphasis on the lower psychic powers and seeks to train the aspirant in the laws of the spiritual life. this produces a realization of the nature of the psyche or soul, and a control of the lower psychic nature. the great "push" of the hierarchical endeavour for this century, 1926-2026, will be along these lines, combined with a dissemination of the laws of thought. hence the necessity for the promulgation of the teaching given in the yoga sutras. they give the rules for mind control but the nature of the psychic powers and the development of the

nce who is the sum total of all forms and of all states of consciousness continues to sound the cosmic aum, just so long will the objective tangible solar system persist. the following synonyms in connection with this sutra must be borne in mind if clarity of thought is to be achieved: i. spiritual essence. i i. the sound or word. iii. the object. 1. spirit. 1. the soul. 1. body 2. pneuma. 2. the psyche. 2. form 3. the father. shiva 3. the son. vishnu. 3. the holy spirit. brahma 4. the monad. the one. 4. the cosmic christ. 4. the vehicle of life and of incarnation. 5. the eternal will or purpose. 5. eternal love-wisdom. 5. eternal activity and intelligence. 6. one great breath. 6. the aum. 6. the worlds. 7. life. 7. consciousness aspect. 7. activity aspect. 8. synthesising energy. 8. attra

als therefore the second or soul aspect, and the sound, or word (the voice of the silence) can then be heard. once heard and the work carried steadily forward, the realm of consciousness is revealed and the yogi is en rapport with the second aspect of his own nature and with the second aspect in every form. this is the basis of the whole science of the soul and leads a man to know his own soul or psyche and the psyche in every form of divine life. it is the foundation for the entire science of psychism, both in its higher and lower aspects. when a man is a lower psychic he is aware of, and responds to the soul aspect of the material forms and the third or brahma aspect (the body, dominates, for every atom of matter has a soul. this concerns all that is subhuman. when he responds to the hig

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

an ancient chinese writing. he says "western consciousness is by no means consciousness in general, but rather a historically conditioned, and geographically limited, factor, representative of only one part of humanity. the widening of our own consciousness ought not to proceed at the expense of other kinds of consciousness, but ought to take place through the development of those elements of our psyche which are analogous to those of a foreign psyche, just as the east cannot do without our technique, science and industry. the european invasion of the east was a deed of violence on a great scale, and it has left us the duty noblesse oblige of understanding the mind of the east. this is perhaps more necessary than we realize at present."3(3) dr. hocking of harvard also brings us the same id

m intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust occult and unattainable, even to the academician who lacks the needed open-mindness, the definite training and the equipment. second: another development is the unveiling of the self. through the mental and spiritual education which advanced meditation practices confer, the problem of the psychologists as to the nature of the self, the soul, the psyche, is solved, and the word can be resolved back into its original meaning psyche, the name of the soul. the process has been that of a gradual unveiling, and of a sequential approach nearer and nearer to the soul. the psyche emerges in its true being. back of matter, there can be found an immanent and potent factor which is responsible for the coherence of the form nature, and which constitut

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

rules ii and iii are the two halves of a whole, i would like to remind you that, in this series of meditations upon these ancient formulas, we are concerned with the magical work of the aspirant as a co-worker in the enterprises of the great white lodge. we are dealing with the methods of white magic. let me remind you also, that the magical work of our planetary hierarchy consists of tending the psyche in the world of forms, so that the unfolding flower of the soul may be nurtured and fostered in such wise that radiant glory, magnetic force and (ultimately) spiritual energy may be- 62- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust demonstrated through the medium of the form. thus the power of the three rays of divine manifestation may be seen. first ray. spiritual energy second ray

tiveness. this is both an indication of growth and at the same time a test. he is apt to be taken in by the allurements of the psychic powers; he will be tempted to side-track his efforts from specialised service to the race into the exploitation of the psychic powers, and their use for self assertion. the aspirant has to grow in all parts of his nature, but until he can function as the soul, the psyche, consciously and with the use of cooperative intelligence, the lower powers must be quiescent. they can only be safely used by advanced disciples and initiates. they are weapons and instruments of service to be then used in the three worlds by those who are still tied by the law of rebirth to those worlds. those who have passed through the great liberation and have "occultly crossed the bri

hich (particularly in america) are as yet undestroyed. this gigantic "dweller on the threshold" of all the true mysteries has to be slaughtered before the aspirant can pass on. 10. the work of the ibezhan adepts and the mysteries of the temple of ibez are still persisting and are being carried on by the masters and adepts in physical incarnation throughout the world. they teach the meaning of the psyche, the ego or the soul and of the human unit, so that the man may indeed be what he is, a god walking on earth, his lower nature (physical, astral and mental) completely controlled by the soul or the love aspect, and this not in theory but in deed and truth. when this is the case, the physical body will have no lure for the real man, the emotional nature and desire body will no longer lead as

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

in this unfoldment of the will aspect of mankind the following stages, which are of psychological importance. 1. instinct. 2. emotional aspiration. 3. intellect. 4. mental one-pointedness. 5. egoic purpose. 6. spiritual will. 7. divine intent. these stages are latent in all of us, and are related to the seven principles of man. they will express themselves in advanced humanity as "aspects of the psyche, and therefore psychologically, during the later stages of human development. they should begin to be of greater interest to investigators and to educators who should seek to develop them in the child and the adolescent. they work out today as marked stages in the development of all disciples and initiates. they indicate place upon the path. hence their practical usefulness. in the kingdom

n the visible misery, chaos and suffering. shall we say that there has been no mistake, but simply a great experiment, of the success or failure of which it is not yet possible to judge? the objective of the experiment might be stated as follows: it is the intent of the planetary logos to bring about a psychological condition which can best be described as one of "divine lucidity. the work of the psyche, and the goal of the true psychology, is to see life clearly, as it is, and with all that is involved. this does not mean conditions and environment, but life. this process was begun in the animal kingdom, and will be consummated in the human. these are described in the old commentary as "the two eyes of deity, both blind at first, but which later see, though the right eye sees more clearly

n the visible misery, chaos and suffering. shall we say that there has been no mistake, but simply a great experiment, of the success or failure of which it is not yet possible to judge? the objective of the experiment might be stated as follows: it is the intent of the planetary logos to bring about a psychological condition which can best be described as one of "divine lucidity. the work of the psyche, and the goal of the true psychology is to see life clearly, as it is, and with all that is involved. this does not mean conditions and environment, but life. this process was begun in the animal kingdom and will be consummated in the human. these are described in the old commentary as "the two eyes of deity, both blind at first, but which later see, though the right eye sees more clearly t

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

h the five divisions of paradise to the place where light dwells and the masters of the wisdom live and work. this is the thought which lies behind the masonic procedure whereby the tyler stands outside the door of the lodge with a drawn sword to protect the secrets of the craft from the unready. i would remind you also that as this law is an aspect of the fundamental law of love, it concerns the psyche or soul, and therefore its function is to further the spiritual interests of the true man, and to demonstrate the power of the second aspect, the christ consciousness, and the power of divinity. it "rejects the undesirable in order to find that which the heart craves, and thus leads the- 91- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust weary pil

ealised, and that the fourth kingdom in nature, the human, occupies a unique position in this development. in the downward and the upward flow of the divine life, as it expresses itself through the involutionary and evolutionary urges, humanity constitutes one of the fundamental "original centres of force" which can and will form an outpost of the divine consciousness, an expression of the divine psyche, manifesting eventually those three outstanding psychological characteristics of divinity: light, energy, and magnetism. in the human being, the microcosmic reflection of the macrocosm, these qualities are expressed by the words: illumination or wisdom, intelligent activity, and attractiveness or love. it is well to ponder on this attempt to simplify the divine potencies into words, and thu

olume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust expression as far as man can understand them of the will of god. the rules or living factors which we are now considering and which (when understood and obeyed) will induce soul control in the individual and in the universe, are the expression of the quality or nature of god. they will ultimately lead to the full expression of the divine psyche. they will bring into evidence the instinctual, emotional nature of deity, if such human words can in any way express the divine qualitative potencies. the laws of the universe express the divine will, and lead to the manifestation of divine purpose. this is wisdom. they ordain and nurture the plan. the rules for inducing soul control express the divine quality and lead to the revelation of

in a treatise on cosmic fire and occasionally mentioned in the other writings. modern science has done much to bring about an understanding of the laws of nature, and can be trusted to do so, for the soul drives all things on to knowledge. in what is here presented i seek to lay the basis for the new science of psychology which must be founded upon a broad and general understanding of the divine psyche as it seeks expression through the manifested whole, the solar system, and, for our purposes, the planet and all that is upon it. when the potency of the divine psychology and its major trends and characteristics are recognised, and when modern psychology shifts its attention away from the minute study of the psyche of the individual man (and usually an abnormal individual) to a concentrate

otencies, but that is not all. they are themselves determined and controlled by these potencies. it must never be forgotten that the rays are the seven major expressions of the divine quality as it limits (and it does so limit) the purposes of deity. god himself hews to a pattern, set for him in a still more distant vision. this purpose or defined will is conditioned by his instinctual quality or psyche, in just the same way as the life purpose of a human being is both limited and conditioned by the psychological equipment with which he enters into manifestation. i have earlier stated that we were dealing with abstruse and difficult matters, and that much presented might lie beyond our immediate concrete understanding. the above statement is, however, relatively simple, if interpreted in t

t a small part of the greater whole. man is not all that is possible, nor the consummation of god's thought. the sweep of this instinct to synthesis underlies all universes, constellations, solar systems, planets, and kingdoms in nature, as well as the activity aspect and achievement of man, the individual. this instinct is the governing principle of consciousness itself, and consciousness is the psyche or soul, producing psychical life; it is awareness sub-human, human and divine. in connection with man, we have the following psychological expressions postulated: 1. instinct, lying below the level of consciousness, but protecting and governing most of the habits and life of the organism. much of the emotional life is thus governed. instinct controls, via the solar plexus and the lower cen

ould enable a man to throw the weight of his psychical aspiration on the side of these emerging qualities. he will, for instance, in his daily life, work toward at-one-ment with all beings, seeking to penetrate to the heart of his brother; endeavoring to be at one with the life in all forms; rejecting every tendency to separative reactions, because he knows that they concern the innate, inherited psyche of the atoms of matter and substance which constitute his form nature. these have been brought over and reassembled and rebuilt into the forms found in the present manifestation of god. they carry with them the seeds of psychical material life from an earlier universe. there is no other evil. we have been taught much anent the great heresy of separativeness; it is this that is offset when a

s. of what use is it for us to discuss this stage when for many of us, as yet, the lower expressions of divine manifestations are dominant (or should one say "rampant) and even the soul fails to assume vital control? it was for this reason (when giving the earlier tabulation) that the words "building psychologically" were used, with the intent to direct the attention of the student to the soul or psyche as the building agency, but at the same time to negate or offset the material concept of body-building. occultism is the science of energy manipulation, of the attractive or the repulsive aspect of force, and it is with this that we shall concern ourselves. in this soul activity is to be found the source or the germ of all the experiences which on the physical plane today are recognised and

as possible, the thought of the psychological implications, considering this whole section from the angle in sentiency, for in sentiency (as you well know) lies the entire psychological problem. it is always and in every case the problem of response to environment and opportunity, and in this idea lies much for the esoteric psychologist. in sensitive awareness lies the secret of progress for the psyche, and also the secret of the many states of consciousness which the sentient or feeling factor, the soul, experiences on the path of evolution as it expands a. the sphere of its contacts, b. the range of its influence, c. the field of its conscious activity. i have expressed these three in the order of their appearance. we are apt to consider these appearances from the point of view of man u

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

ough conflict is that bridging ray which will, in your case and through the mind, bring about an increasingly rapid establishment of contact between your soul and your personality. your astral body is on the second ray and this will be sufficiently obvious to you, giving you those difficulties and those opportunities which lead eventually to expansions of consciousness and that sensitivity to the psyche in others which has been the basis of much of your most successful work. your physical body is on the seventh ray, which gives you a sense of the relationship between spirit and matter, between soul and body and enables you, if so you will, to be a constructive agent in magical work. your rays are, therefore: 1. the ray of the soul the second ray of love-wisdom. 2. the ray of the personalit

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

t into a close rapport. 6. in the earlier stages of effort and of attempted control, the dweller is positive and the soul is negative in their effects in the three worlds of human endeavour. then there is a period of oscillation, leading to a life of equilibrium wherein neither aspect appears to dominate; after that the balance changes and the personality steadily becomes negative and the soul or psyche becomes dominant and positive. 7. the astrological influences can potently affect these situations and speaking generally and within certain esoteric limits it might be noted that: a. leo .c ontrols the positive dweller. b. gemini. controls the processes of oscillation. c. sagittarius. controls the negative dweller. it might be added that the three signs scorpio, sagittarius, capricorn lead

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ntinuously writing school papers and articles. i was eternally seeing people by appointment and by 1928 i was often seeing people every twenty minutes right through the day. i never flattered myself that this was because i was such a wonderful person. it was largely because i made no charge. these were the years in which every kind of psychologist was lecturing up and down the land. every type of psyche-analyst was giving appointments and charging heavily for them. i never made any charge and my days were full of seeing people who had some problem or other and hoped i could solve it. there was one woman in new york at that time who charged $500 for a half hour appointment and she had a waiting list. i'll guarantee that she never gave as useful advice as i gave for nothing. one of the myste

ALICE A BAILEY20 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME IV ESOTERIC HEALING

relation to the blood stream, that constitutes both the possibility of disease and its cure. but this recognition is still academically lacking. much of the inherent psychology is grasped, but a gap still exists between the physical and the etheric bodies, and little recognition of the etheric body is yet academically accorded. there is yet no real understanding of the relation between the inner psyche and the outer form, via the etheric body. the study of the glands has somewhat helped, but medical science must go a step further and relate the glandular system to the inner centres. on problems of melancholia. these problems of melancholia are difficult to place and are due to a wide variety of causes. i- 200- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis

a negative person, thereby impelling the patient to action and imperilling even the very small measure of freewill which he possesses; it means the imposition of the authority of knowledge and of spiritual stabilisation upon the patient, thereby instilling confidence and a willingness to be obedient. you have here the first steps which the healer must take in dealing with the patient and with the psyche, the lower psyche of the patient. they are three in number: 1. gaining the cooperation of the personality of the advanced man; it is only the personality which requires healing- 327- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. bringing about a condition of hopeful acquiescence on the part of the personality of the average man; he is not as yet cap

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

the realm of psychological readjustments and psychic disentanglements, and only incidentally and as a result of the two above activities in the processes of bodily healing. you will note from the above, that the healing work done by the initiate members of the great white lodge is threefold psychological, bringing in the soul; psychic, releasing the lower psychic nature from illusion so that the psyche or soul can have full sway; physical, as the result of the inner psychological and psychic adjustments. this triple healing activity is intended to be the objective of all groups working as this third group, the magnetic healers, should work; thus will be brought about an emergence of hierarchical effort into outer activity. thus you will note, my brother, that the work of the first three g

spiration, right idealism and fixed humanitarian intention is that distributed by the forces of restoration which were set in motion- 317- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust this year, at the time of the easter full moon, under the direction of the masters of the wisdom and the supervision of the christ. they will concern themselves with the reorientation of the human psyche and with the inevitable consequences of that reorientation the acquiring of the vision which will bring about right human relations. this will be largely done by the spiritual people in the world, by aspirants, working disciples and (where possible) through the spiritually minded people in the churches and humanitarian and esoteric groups. the energy which will lead to intelligent activity

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

tself as tension, esoterically understood. it embodies the ideas of orientation, implacable determination, ability to wait and to preserve intention and orientation unmoved by aught which may occur. it also involves the determination to take the intended action (always of a creative nature and based on loving understanding) at the psychological moment (right timing, or that exact moment which the psyche or soul determines to be correct. here you have one of the interesting transferences of meaning and of relationship which occur in the ageless wisdom. the son or soul emerges into manifestation with the concurrence and aid of the mother or of the matter aspect. this is to you a most familiar truth. in the next stage, that of initiate-development, the son, in its turn, becomes the feminine o

e you have one of the interesting transferences of meaning and of relationship which occur in the ageless wisdom. the son or soul emerges into manifestation with the concurrence and aid of the mother or of the matter aspect. this is to you a most familiar truth. in the next stage, that of initiate-development, the son, in its turn, becomes the feminine or negative aspect and, demonstrating as the psyche, enables the initiate to bring into expression another divine aspect that of the will. until the fourth initiation is undergone, it is the soul as a "focal point for descending light and for ascending radiance" this dual activity reveals the nature of the will. note how this phrase from an ancient writing describes the antahkarana. it is not possible in these brief instructions to deal adeq

ctivity. having learnt the technique and having passed certain tests, they move into the planetary life of venus, our earth's alter-ego, and there they complete their training, as far as our solar system can give it, finding their way eventually on to the cosmic mental plane. two things should be borne in mind in connection with this abstruse subject: first: these masters work primarily with the "psyche" or the soul aspect within the solar system. they are occupied with the subtler expressions of consciousness, with occult impressibility and that acute sensitivity which produces instant and accurate registration of all soul reactions within any particular planetary life. these kingdoms are not necessarily identical with those found on the earth, but they are, in all cases, vast groups of l

proud, is largely responsible for the situation in the political and economic fields in france, plus the difficulties which they share with all the nations which were implicated in the war. any prospect of internal harmony is still far away but it will come. forget not what i wrote much earlier in one of my books that it is france which will eventually reveal the true nature of the soul or of the psyche and inaugurate the era of true esoteric psychology. to do this she must inevitably find her own soul, and in finding it through the medium of the illumined mind she will bring light to humanity. the conflict now raging in france will eventually be resolved into harmony, and france will awaken to the higher spiritual values. once her soul ray of pure knowledge is active, it will dominate her

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

seeks to tread the path and demonstrate his control over the forces of his nature, and he likewise represents the point at which humanity now finds itself. his early name was alkeides, which was changed to hercules after he had undergone a strange experience, and before he started forth upon his labors. the name hercules was originally herakles, which signifies "the glory of hera. hera represents psyche, or the soul, so his name embodied his mission, which was to manifest forth in active work on the physical plane the glory and the power of his innate divinity. one of the ancient scriptures of india says "by mastery of the binding life comes radiance" and it was this mastery of the imprisoning form which was the glorious consummation of all the undertakings of hercules. we are told that he

must tread the path whereon all the hidden things can be brought forth into the light; he has reached the point where he can achieve knowledge of himself and can begin to investigate the hidden forces of nature. this is the problem of all disciples. the next episode in his career is his marriage and the birth of three children, a symbolic way of expressing the truth that he made at-one-ment with psyche, the soul. from that union [22] the three aspects of the soul were born or began to manifest themselves. he began to know the nature of the spiritual will and to use it in the directing of his life. he experienced the workings of spiritual love and became conscious of the need to serve. spiritual mind began to reveal truth to him and he saw the underlying purpose. these are the higher corre

. he experienced the workings of spiritual love and became conscious of the need to serve. spiritual mind began to reveal truth to him and he saw the underlying purpose. these are the higher correspondences of the three aspects of the personality, his mind, his emotional nature, and his physical body. we now discover him going through a very peculiar stage. we read in the ancient story that hera (psyche, or the soul) drove him mad. she drove him mad through jealousy and, whilst in that curious state, we read that he slew his children and his friends and everyone connected with him. may it not be suggested in this connection that he passed through that unwholesome state common to all beginners on the path of discipleship, in which a morbid conscientiousness sacrifices everybody and everythi

BEHOLDERS OF NIGHT

tial of the individual can be. luciferian witchcraft is the very result of sorcery which emerged in ancient cultures and times. the luciferic linage is traced back to the fallen angels of ancient lore, whom tasted from the shadow garden and the pleasures of both the spirit and flesh. that the watchers and fallen ones, led by azazel[1] lucifer, called later iblis, understood the immortality of the psyche is between the path of the not-seen, the shadow and darkness which cultivates the black flame itself. the witchcraft tradition was explored in essence by the practitioners of yatuk dinoih[2, or persian witchcraft of which emerged from the sorcerous shadow-god ahriman, the darkness which would create flesh. ahriman is a pitch-black representative of the hidden and the secret, from which the

ery essence, being of the sun and the moon. the sorcerer may seek the sexual union of both within his or her self, allowing the pleasure of the waking and waning moon to be brought forth through the sun, which is the gateway for demons and angels in copulation. if one seeks not the sexual genii, the antinomianian path is brought forth by a solitary and capable mind, which is beheld by the sethian psyche, or kingdom of shadows. the luciferian essence is found within the eyes of cain, the father of witchblood, buried deep within the dark well of the watchers, from which our mind is of the deep. leviathan the serpent guards this gateway of the arcana of sleep, from which the twilight brings the nightside of the immortal, those who pass the veil of the birth caul of lilith through the essence

freedom from such restrictive thoughts as good or evil, or the moral right of the day. the individual must seek to transcend both, and that the image of evil or darkness, is the opposition essence of our selves, our secret essence or holy guardian angel/evil genius of being. the black flame[6] itself is the concept of the gift of seth, of lucifer. the black flame is the awakened consciousness or psyche of the individual, whom has torn down the right hand path concept of trust and dissolution in a tyrant father who demands faith. the black flame is the immortal essence of the self, the true will as which emerged from the fountains of the wells of darkness. the black flame is the light which brings the watchers close to us, that we may drink of their cups of ecstasies, the skulls and the se

s gnosis, known by the essence of exploration and self-discovery through the saturnian sphere. the work of saturn itself is one connected with the left hand path. as the saturn sphere is connected with demiurge saturnus, or satanas, the self is the avenue of which this planetary influence is found. saturn, as being held in two octaves or rays, is itself a means of psychic isolation from which the psyche is refined to a deified level. the watchers, or fallen angels of ancient lore are the guardians of the path of the wise. such angels dwell within the shadow gardens of twilight, of dreams and the nightside of being. we must listen closely, for their wisdom is that of the gifts of lucifer and lilith, that through the adversary can such beautiful musick be heard! the watchers, as brought fort

, or the demonium of the earth, from which one then rises through the higher octaves of saturn (lucifer. within a sabbatic sense, the arcanum of lucifer is presented in the dual essence of self-liberation, isolation and transformation. just as lucifer/azazel fell from the sphere of light to the darkness of the earth, shall a new knowledge be gained in the exploration of the chthonic realms of the psyche. from tasting and knowing the darkness shall the light be controlled and mastered unto the self. one of the specific focuses of the sabbatic path is one rising to acknowledge that the only god is the self, from which all other god and goddess find their existence in, it is from the well spring of the abyss (the subconscious) that we nourish our great famulus and demonium of the depths. the

e self) form of the primal self, the dragon is also a form of ourselves developed and initiated into the luciferian mysteries. the dragon itself as the adversary is viewed in the initiatory context as both shaitan and lilith, the beholders of night. the dragon itself is considered the center point of the sabbatic arcanum, the initiatory path of the serpent, which coils and encircles the spirit or psyche of the individual. arimanius frowned, the author foul of evil, how with shades from his dire mansion, he deformed the works of oromazes, turned to noxious heat the solar beam, that foodful earth might parch (yasht xix.11,12) the black dragon is symbolized as ahriman, the averse force of darkness and shadow. ahriman in zoroastrian terms is the great force of evil and darkness, whom was creat

n (iblis, shaitan. az is connected with the word, azhi, meaning a serpent. the chaos of the divine feminine or lunar essence is explored through a godform relation to this goddess, thus the magician invokes az to understand the feminine within. it is the serpent and dragon which are the immortal avatars of the well of the imagination, the blood pool of immortality and the endless existence of the psyche. death and the grave exists a challenge and significance within the shadow sabbatic path, being of two primary points. one is that death and darkness is a challenging image and concept which the magician must overcome mentally to invoke a higher point of self-initiation, to understand opposites and their dual meaning. the second is that death is a gateway of self-transformation and thus the

w sabbatic path, being of two primary points. one is that death and darkness is a challenging image and concept which the magician must overcome mentally to invoke a higher point of self-initiation, to understand opposites and their dual meaning. the second is that death is a gateway of self-transformation and thus the relation of the vampyre and the grave is this; that the developed and isolated psyche strives for survival beyond the grave, that the mind may prove immortal to exist thus as the fallen angels or watchers. the dragon of darkness is our freedom within the nightside world of atavisms and the lesser and greater famulus of the self, that the sabbatic path awakens our potential as gods and goddesses. reach forth into the shadow, for it is there that lucifer and iblis emerge, and

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

ch, whose children beget children and the blood line of the cunning were born. it is suggested in some jewish lore that the daughters of cain were the ones to seduce or copulate with the fallen angels, the watchers. it is beginning with the watchers that the balanced aspects of angelic and satanic magick are found it is the very atavistic depths in which this bloodline still rests deep within our psyche, along with the serpents and therion-atavisms within our flesh. the book of enoch, translated from the ethiopian by r.h. charles, in the 69th chapter, presents the names and therein sorcerous essence of the luciferian angels, who are the very foundation of the arte of magick. the mentioned watchers who descended again to earth were: samjaza, artaqifa, armen, kokabel, turael, rumjal, danjal

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

this shows, as prof. wilder thinks "that the primeval form of mankind was androgynous* see the union of chochmah, wisdom, with binah, intelligence, or jehovah, the demiurge, called understanding in the proverbs of solomon, ch. vii. unto men wisdom (divine occult wisdom) crieth "oh, ye simple, understand wisdom; and ye fools, be of an understanding heart" it is spirit and matter, the nous and the psyche; of the latter of which st. james says that it is "earthly, sensual, and devilish[[vol. 2, page] 135 the virgin third race "zeus is a male, zeus is an immortal maid" the egyptian ammon was the goddess neith, in his other half. jupiter has female breasts, venus is bearded in some of her statues, and ila, the goddess, is also su-dyumna, the god, as vaivasvata's progeny "the name adam" says pr

elligible, and the other intellectual, another order of gods exists which partakes of both extremes "the pythagorean world" plutarch tells us (in de anim. procr, 1027 "consisted of a double quaternary" this statement corroborates what is said about the choice, by the exoteric theologies, of the lower tetraktis. for "the quaternary of the intellectual world (the world of mahat) is t'agathon, nous, psyche, hyle; while that of the sensible world (of matter, which is properly what pythagoras meant by the word kosmos- is fire, air, water, and earth. the four elements are called by the name of rizomata, the roots or principles of all mixed bodies" i.e, the lower tetraktis is the root of illusion of the world of matter; and this is the tetragrammaton of the jews, and the "mysterious deity" over w

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

tude, but also the globular shape of all the bodies formed within the universe from that fiery mist. the universe, as well as the earth and man, cast off periodically, serpent-like, their old skins, to assume new ones after a time of rest. the serpent is, surely, a not less graceful or a more unpoetical image than the caterpillar and chrysalis from which springs the butterfly, the greek emblem of psyche, the human soul. the "dragon" was also the symbol of the logos with the egyptians, as with the gnostics. in the "book of hermes" pymander, the oldest and the most spiritual of the logoi of the western continent, appears to hermes in the shape of a fiery dragon of "light, fire, and flame" pymander, the "thought divine" personified, says: the light is me, i am the nous (the mind or manu, i am

tures (to create. but, as he is "ignorant of orcus" he fails to do so, and calls in fetahil, a still purer spirit, to his aid, who fails still worse. this is a repetition of the failure of the "fathers" the lords of light who fail one after the other (book ii, sloka 17) we will now quote from our earlier volumes "then steps on the stage of creation the spirit (of the earth so-called, or the soul, psyche, which st. james calls 'devilish) the lower portion the anima mundi or astral light (see the close of this sloka. with the nazarenes and the gnostics this spirit was[[footnote(s* explaining kabalistic views, the author of the "new aspects of life" says of the fallen angels that "according to the symbolical teaching, spirit, from being simply a functionary agent of god, became volitional in

they are found, however, in the chaldean book of numbers* the astral light stands in the same relation to akasa and anima mundi, as satan stands to the deity. they are one and the same thing seen from two aspects: the spiritual and the psychic- the super-ethereal or connecting link between matter and pure spirit, and the physical. see for the difference between nous, the higher divine wisdom, and psyche, the lower and terrestrial (st. james iii. v. 15- 17. vide "demon est deus inversus" part ii. of this volume* ilda-baoth is a compound name made up of ilda[[hebrew "a child" and baoth; both from[[hebrew] the egg, and[[hebrew] baoth "chaos" emptiness, void, or desolation; or the child born in the egg of chaos, like brahma[[vol. 1, page] 198 the secret doctrine. creative spirits, and one of t

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the immediate external purpose. spending time at this stage is quite vital as it is said we tend to get what we ask for, so we should take care to ask for what would truly fulfil our potential, rather than what we think we need immediately. if you are working alone, hold the symbol while speaking words that summarise the purpose of the magick. you may be surprised to discover that it is your wise psyche speaking, guiding the intention towards what you truly need or desire- and afterwards you realise it could have been no other way. if you are working in a group, a declaration of intent, created by the group collectively before the ritual, is a good way of focusing the energies. after the initial circle is cast, the symbol can be handed round while the person leading the ritual speaks the i

devas represent the higher forms, akin to angels, who watch and direct the natural world. they communicate with people by psychic 'chanelling' and rule over the beings associated with the four elements, fire, air, water and earth. in less formal practices, either archangels or pillars of light may be visualised in the corners of the room to offer protection at a time when a person is opening then-psyche to the cosmos, to keep out all negativity, earthly or otherwise. but the greatest protection is a pure heart and pure intent, much harder to attain than learning any complex ritual. the goddess as focus many beliefs emphasise the polarity of the female/male, goddess/god and anima/animus energies. the bringing together of these two powers, the sacred marriage that is celebrated symbolically

e your own. if you are a solitary practitioner, you can read or recite your charge into a candle flame or in a wild, open place, and feel the energies resounding beyond and within you. you can also use it before divination or as an introduction to a ceremony for healing or greater understanding. meditation can last from five minutes to half an hour or more. in these initial stages, allow your own psyche to guide you as to when the experience is done. if other members of the group are still working, this is not a sign that their experience was more profound. sit quietly or lie down, enjoying the silence and allowing the images of your meditation to develop quite spontaneously. if you are working with a group, remain in the circle and pass round a bowl or chalice of pure water. if you are wo

osemary, saffron, st john's wort metal: gold the sun rules leo, 23 july-23 august, and is most powerful for those born under this sign [insert sym14] the moon monday, the day of the moon, is for spells concerning the home, family matters and the influence of the family, especially the mother, children and animals. its prime focus is fertility and all the ebbs and flows of the human body, mind and psyche. it is also potent for protection, especially while travelling, for psychic development, clairvoyance, secrets and meaningful dreams, all sea and garden rituals and for herb magick and healing. although there are moon gods, lunar energies are primarily yin/female/anima in both men and women. moon hour spells are good for bringing unconscious powers to the fore and thus also for gaining magi

ons, as well as for overcoming obstacles that are long-standing or need careful handling. it also aids lifting depression or doubts, meditation, long-term psychic protection, locating lost objects, animals and people and regaining self-control whether over bad habits or emotions. it is also the planet of mystical experiences and of exploring the unconscious depths of the individual and collective psyche and for past-life work. saturn can be used to slow down the outward flow of money and to encourage repayment by those who owe you favours or money. it helps banish pain and illness and brings acceptance of what cannot be changed. saturn is the shadow side of jupiter, and offers the reality factor, the constraints of fate, time and space, but also turns challenge into opportunity, effort and

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athame and moving widdershins, invoke the elements of lucifer: by the triangle of elemental sight i bless this circle, by the spirit mind of godhood i emerge as one who commands the elements by will alone. move and bless this circle and work! by the image of the falling pentagram and star, from which we dive to achieve the promethean light, i bless this circle, by the spirit mind of the separated psyche, made selfdeified by self- love, to build and strengthen through the mysteries of ur and the black dragon, i emerge as one who commands individual ascension by will alone. move and bless this circle of work! by who is named lucifer, come forth and bless this circle which is dedicated through thee. in the image of the morning star we each ascend, and in your image we become. prince of light

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existence of a third element introduces the notion of choice between the two opposites, either absolutely or relatively (aristotelian system) or of choice to aspire or not to aspire to universal perfections= platonic/pythagorean system. this is nyarlathotep, otherwise set, otherwise lucifer/satan, otherwise prometheus, otherwise thoth, who has created the power of perspective and the independent psyche of judgment. here "knowledge" becomes possible. in geometry we now have the triangle, which is the most rigid of figures and also creates a two-dimensional plane. note that, per the book of coming forth by night, the horus/set relationship actually fits into a threefold matrix rather than a twofold one. set is an independent intelligence with perspective upon the nonconscious objective univ

ther than a twofold one. set is an independent intelligence with perspective upon the nonconscious objective universe on one hand and the chaos of the anti-objective universe (harwer) on the other. the simple horus/set duality results from primitive aristotelian thinking (so kick me, tharrud terclis. fourth angle: the ram of the sun (shub-niggurath/amon) is a manifestation of the "awakened" human psyche as energized by the messenger. it is thus that "satan" is known to humanity: a personalized reflection, as it were, of the results of the messenger's working. satan's other name (lucifer) is that of light and enlightenment, hence the "brilliance" of the nine angles. with the number four we have geometrically a threedimensional displacement in space. hence existence of matter and energy beco

other name (lucifer) is that of light and enlightenment, hence the "brilliance" of the nine angles. with the number four we have geometrically a threedimensional displacement in space. hence existence of matter and energy becomes possible. hence time becomes possible, as the measurement of change in matter and energy. fifth angle: humanity as the physical vehicle for the expression of the satanic psyche as discussed in the fourth angle. concept of the body as a necessary medium for the self-realization of the psyche, at least in its early stage. translation of this into physical representation of supra- energy/matter forms such as set via the creation of images, building to temples, etc. a temple with five trihedrons is a four-faced pyramid (as giza, the 4/5/9 seal is the seal of the order

the powers of darkness to rebuild the world corrupted by six and shattered by the seven, and their seal is the seal of the order of the trapezoid (seal of the priesthood of the original church of satan. ninth angle: the culmination of this dynamic process: the black flame in its perfection: the 'will to power" of nietzsche in a glory of desire: the extension of the enlightened will and initiated psyche throughout all dimensions of space, time, and thought: what in the aeon of set would be uttered as xeper. all material contained herein copyright 1998 temple of set. all rights reservpl1-2 concerning the ceremony of the consecrating the vault of the adepti r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 concerning the ceremony of consecrating the vault of the adepti by g.h. frater p

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nishing anti-gravity spacecraft, or you saw a psychic vision of someone on another frequency, you would sure as hell think he or she was a god! and they did. this is where the 'gods- particularly the angry, judgmental, fire and brimstone gods- originated: negative extraterrestrials. the 'fear of god' was born, and this fear and resistance to change (disobeying the gods) is still in the collective psyche. over time, as described at length in the robots' rebellion, these various god myths became fused together to form 'composite gods, based on themes from many of the earlier civilisations. so it is with judaism, the christian bible, islam, and most of the others. their version of; god relates to the type of extraterrestrials from which their religion originated or the way many different extr

ion knowing far, far more than the majority further down the ladder (see figure 3. this makes it easy for those few to manipulate the rest. the content of this esoteric knowledge relates to an understanding of the laws and potential of creation which is far in advance of 26. and the truth shall set you free the 'science' we are allowed to see in the public arena, and of the knowledge of the human psyche, its nature, and how it can be programmed and controlled. the hoarding of such knowledge was not always done for negative reasons. when christianity imposed its misguided and manipulative dogma throughout most of the known world, it was suicidal to speak of these alternative spiritual beliefs in public. not surprisingly, they were passed on in secret or hidden within legends and symbolic st

also proved that many of hitler's leading officers and thousands of his troops were of jewish decent. in britain, it seems to me, the public mind was being urged to ignore hitler until his rearmament programme was well established. then, when the germans were ready for battle, that same public opinion was switched dramatically to see hitler as a monster who must be stopped. the british collective psyche was like a little child in the hands of the mind doctors. this policy, i believe, was coordinated by lord milner and the round table secret society, together with the royal institute of international affairs at chatham house. the two front men for these two very different stages were prime minister neville chamberlain and his successor, winston churchill (comm 300. chamberlain and his close

riental, and caucasian or white (although some authorities refer to a fourth race- the australoids. members of the jewish faith are found in all three races and subdivisions."13 the conditioned thought patterns in the collective jewish mind have repeatedly created the physical reality of oppression, prejudice, and racism which matches the pattern- the expectation- programmed into their collective psyche. they expect it; they create it. when jewish people as a whole break free from the mind control of their hierarchy and start to let go of those feelings of fear and expectation of prejudice, they will stop attracting such experiences to them. when they openly reject the inherited view of racial superiority, those patterns will disperse from their magnetic cape/aura, and they will cease to a

they are racially superior to the rest? the number is so vast it doesn't bear thinking about. ironically, many of those who have suffered from the master race mentality of one race, actually believe that they, themselves, are superior genetically to others. that attitude, that thought pattern, is broadcast into the collective mind, which creates a collective version of that reality. if within our psyche, we believe we are racially superior, we are more likely to attract that same mentality to us. a feeling of racial superiority is an imbalance and our subconscious attracts our imbalances to us as physical experiences so we can face them, learn from those experiences, and let them go. these imbalances often relate to thought patterns we hold onto from previous physical lives as well as this

and the truth shall set you free central bank and one currency. these would be stepping-stones to the introduction of the same institutions on a global scale. the european economic community, now the european union, was the first of these, but the other two are now underway, also. to advance the control of public opinion and to research and expand the understanding of how to manipulate the human psyche, individually and collectively. today this agenda includes the microchipping of people and their permanent connection to a global computer. to create a welfare state while destroying alternatives to the economic system and, when the desired dependency had been achieved, to dismantle that state welfare support, so creating a vast underclass without help or hope. to make fantastic amounts of

en. some may have had face-to-face contact with a negative et group from the fourth dimension. to understand the true nature of the conspiracy, we need to appreciate its esoteric foundation. esoteric knowledge, often called 'the occult, is not negative in or of itself. it is just the knowledge of the potential to harness the energies of creation for good or ill, and the understanding of the human psyche and how it can be balanced, healed, or manipulated. it is not the knowledge that is good or bad; it is the way we use it. people at the highest levels of the elite-illuminati-brotherhood network are often members of extreme sects based on ancient rites and lucifer/satan worship. yes, satanists run the world. if you infiltrated some of these bizarre gatherings, i am sure you would see some v

is bacon and john dee in its earlier membership. bulwer- lytton is best known for his work, the last days of pompeii, but his passion was the world of esoteric magic and, as a british colonial minister, for running opium to the chinese. in the coming race, he wrote of an enormous civilisation inside the earth, well ahead of our own. they had discovered a power called vril which, by the use of the psyche, could be used to perform 'miracles. these underground supermen would, according to bulwer-lytton's novel, emerge on the surface one day and take control of the world. many nazis believed this. lord bulwer-lytton is often referred to by madame blavatsky in her book, isis unveiled. the themes of underground supermen or hidden masters can be found in most of the esoteric secret societies. cer

is passion was the power of the will. the potential of willpower to achieve anything it desires was to be his focus and guide throughout the years that followed. put another way, creating your own reality. he practised the esoteric arts in his effort to access the level of consciousness he was convinced would turn him into one of the supermen he had read so much about and believed in so much. his psyche became locked into the prison warder vibration more powerfully than before. he was possessed, probably during some black esoteric ritual which opened his psyche to the malevolent vibration. you only have to look at his beliefs to see that he would have had 'vibrational compatibility' with this consciousness. it was now that an uncharismatic and ineffectual man would begin to exude the chari

hat hitler and the nazis did, even down to the use of pendulums on maps to identify the positions of enemy troops. the original swastika symbol was right-handed which, in esoteric terms, means light and creation, the positive. hitler insisted it be turned around to symbolise black magic and destruction. the mass rallies that hitler used so effectively were designed with the knowledge of the human psyche and how it can be manipulated. in satan and swastika, francis king says "hitler's public appearances, particularly those associated with the nazi party's nuremberg rallies, were excellent examples of this sort of magical ceremony. the fanfares, military marches and wagnerian music all emphasised the idea of german military glory. the massed swastika banners in black, white and red filled th

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imensional frequency range, which vibrates very close to this one. it is on the very fringe of our physical senses. it is what you might call a parallel universe or a parallel earth, a mirror of the one we see, but vibrating at a different speed. cats can see the fourth dimension and this is why they react to something in what appears, to us, to be "empty" space. the same with babies before their psyche is closed down by an ignorant world. to operate and manipulate our vibrational level of the planet, these fourth-dimensional reptilians needed a third-dimensional human form. they needed to create a genetic space suit that they could occupy and hide within. this, as president de la madrid told cathy o'brien, was achieved by creating bloodlines that fused their reptilian dna with that of hum

e animal is bled dry and reports of the bloodsucking chupacabra in puerto rico, mexico, florida, and the pacific north-west also fit the reptilian description. many of these reports and "outbreaks" of bloodsucking 140 children of the matrix activity have coincided with ufo sightings in the same area. another explanation for the descriptions of "humans" turning into reptilians is that the viewer's psyche tunes into the fourth-dimensional level and sees the reptilian form hiding within the three-dimensional body, or the fourth-dimensional reptilian lowers its vibrational state to briefly enter our physical frequency range. i will go into this aspect of the story in a later chapter. feeding off human blood is not the only desire of these vampires. the reptilians also feed off human emotional

omething (probably an undetectable mass of intelligent energy) could actually enter his body and exercise some control over his subconscious mind. the human race would supply the pawns..each individual had to consciously commit himself to one of the opposing forces..the main battle was for what was to become known as the human soul."1 by choosing to give yourself to a deity or "god, you open your psyche to possession by the force that deity or "god" represents. and deities like "mary" and "jesus" represent very different forces to those perceived by their "believers. it is so important for people to get out of religion and start recovering control of their own minds. there is an important point to make before we proceed because the symbolism of the sun is about to become very significant

e, was a member of the ss. bernhard was one of the founders of the illuminati front, the bilderberg group, and is an extremely close friend of prince philip. the esoteric arts pervaded all that hitler and the nazis did, even down to the use of pendulums on maps to identify the positions of enemy troops. the mass rallies that hitler used so effectively were designed with the knowledge of the human psyche and how it can be manipulated. 296 children of the matrix in the book, satan and swastika, francis king says "hitler's public appearances, particularly those associated with the nazi party's nuremberg rallies, were excellent examples of this sort of magical ceremony. the fanfares, military marches, and wagnerian music, all emphasised the idea of german military glory. the mass swastika bann

ow. the esoteric knowledge used by the nazis for mass hypnosis on the german people is being used today to expand the global hypnosis within the human race. symbols, words, colours, sounds, and techniques of which the public are not even aware are being used in the media and in advertising to hypnotise us. the propaganda ministry of joseph goebbels was based on the esoteric knowledge of the human psyche. he knew that people would believe anything if you tell them often enough and if you can engineer events which create the "something must be done" mentality in the public mind. he used colours, symbols and slogans to great effect. the slogans were used like mantras and were repeated over and over again, hypnotising the mass psyche. all alternative views and information were censored and the

eir own, dentists, doctors "journalists, or public, it becomes an accepted "fact" that fluoride in drinking water and toothpaste is good for teeth and not harmful. that same scenario is repeated in relation to every subject every day and, as a result, the human population lives in its own little fairyland. this serving the dragon: the future 363 manufactured illusion is so entrenched in the human psyche that when the truth does come out, most people laugh in its face. there need to be massive class action lawsuits against the authorities by those who have already had their health devastated by fluoride, prozac, and aspartame. this is already happening in canada over the use of mercury, another poison and intellect suppressant, in tooth fillings. and there you have that phrase again which i

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nce. one of his operatives was helena blavatsky, a contact told me, andbulwer-lytton is often referred to in her book, isis unveiled. he is best known for hiswork, the last days of pompeii, but his passion was the world of esoteric magic. inthe coming race, he wrote of an enormous civilisation inside the earth, well ahead ofour own. they had discovered a power called vril which, by the use of the psyche,could be used to perform miracles. these underground supermen would, according tobulwer-lyttons novel, emerge on the surface one day and take control of the world.many nazis believed this. the themes of underground supermen, or hidden masters,can be found in most of the secret societies and in legends across the world. certainlythis was true of the order of the golden dawn, formed in 1888 b

sm. his passion wasthe power of the will. the potential of willpower to achieve anything it desires was tobe his focus and guide throughout the years that followed. put another way, creatingyour own reality. he practised the esoteric arts in his effort to access the level ofconsciousness he was convinced would turn him into one of the supermen he had readso much about and believed in so much. his psyche became locked into the reptilianvibration more powerfully than before. he was possessed, probably during some blackritual which opened his psyche to the reptilians. you only have to look at his beliefs tosee that he would have had great potential for vibrational compatibility with thisconsciousness. it was now that an uncharismatic and ineffectual man would begin toexude the charisma and ma

. theoriginal swastika sun symbol was right handed which, in esoteric terms, means light andcreation, the positive. the nazis reversed it to symbolise black magic and destruction.this is the classic reversed symbolism of satanism which does precisely the same. the249inverted pentagram is but one example. the mass rallies that hitler used so effectivelywere designed with the knowledge of the human psyche and how it can be manipulated.in the book, satan and swastika, francis king says:hitlers public appearances, particularly those associated with the nazi partys nurembergrallies, were excellent examples of this sort of magical ceremony. the fanfares, militarymarches, and wagnerian music, all emphasised the idea of german military glory. the massswastika banners in black, white, and red, fill

, applies now, the esoteric knowledge used by the nazis formass hypnosis on the german people, is being used today to expand the globalhypnosis on the human race. symbols, words, colours, sounds and techniques of whichthe public are not even aware, are being used in the media and advertising to hypnotiseus. the propaganda ministry of joseph goebbels was based on the esoteric knowledgeof the human psyche. he knew that people will believe anything if you tell them oftenenough and if you can engineer events which create the something must be donementality in the public mind. he used colours, symbols and slogans, to great effect. theslogans were used like mantras and repeated over and over again, hypnotising the masspsyche. all alternative views and information were censored and the people wer

mpaign which triggered the northern ireland conflict that still continues today. suchconflicts all over the world lead to demands that something must be done and thatsomething is always further centralisation of power. it is not surprising to learn,therefore, that eric trist launched the tavistock operation in the 1980s designed to useits enormous international network to programme the collective psyche to accept aworld government.in 1991, the tavistock journal, human relations, reported on the world governmentproject. the collapse of the soviet union (orchestrated by the brotherhood) had createdgreat opportunities for world government and the end of the nation state, the report said.it proposed a reformation of the united nations to hand over all operations to a network315of hundreds of t

ss murder bygoing apparently crazy with guns. in the united kingdom we have had horrendousexamples of this in the little towns of hungerford in berkshire in 1987 and dunblane inscotland on march 13th 1996. a nutter called thomas hamilton walked into a schoolin dunblane and opened fire on little children in a gymnasium. he killed 16 five and sixyear olds and a teacher. the effect on the collective psyche of hundreds of millions ofpeople across the world, especially of course, in the uk, was devastating. shortly afterthat came the massacre in port arthur, a small town in tasmania, australia, when anotherlone gunman called martin bryant went crazy on april 28th 1996 and killed 35 people.this was followed in england by a guy attacking children and their teachers with amachete at a school in wo

nipulation of themind and emotions. where did these mass murders take place? not in the ganglandareas of london, glasgow, los angeles, or sydney, but in quiet little communitieswhere everyone felt perfectly safe. in the same way, the mcv eigh bomb and theschool shootings did not happen in new york or washington, but in oklahoma. wewould be advised not to underestimate the effect on the collective psyche in terms offear and a desire for the authorities to protect people from that fear. that means morecameras in the streets and more security guards and cameras in schools so that childrenare brought up to accept the culture of being protected from danger by big brotherauthority. a front page headline in, i think, the london daily mail encompassed the321very reaction the manipulators wanted to

l for mind control. the yes sir mentally is pure mind control and subordinationto the will of another. soldiers are not encouraged to think and question, only to do asthey are told. you want to be mind controlled? ok, simple- join the military. thesexual theme of the programming and abuse is also inspired by the manipulation ofsexual energy, the creative force, and at the point of orgasm the mind psyche is wideopen to access other higher or lower dimensions, depending on the state of being ofthose involved. these mind control programmers have high-tech equipment whichstimulate those parts of the brain which trigger the orgasm and so open the mind of thevictim to the lower demonic dimensions, the reptilians. the programming techniquesare highly sophisticated and often very subtle. one commo

ic system and equipment controlling the braking system had gone.al fayed, as we have seen, controlled the company, etoile limousines, which suppliedthe vehicle. no wonder the french authorities turned down the offer by experts frommercedes to examine the car after the crash.when henri paul came back on duty that night he seemed his normal self to mostobservers. the programming was deep within his psyche still waiting to be activated.he may well have had a couple of alcoholic drinks in the ritz bar, but his intake anddemeanour did not correspond with the later medical report. claims that he was analcoholic also do not match with the examination of his liver. but if, as i suggest, henripaul was a mind controlled multiple he could have been drunk in one compartment ofhis mind and not in anoth

lite black magic adepts, the reptilian full bloods and crossbreeds. at the highestlevel of the brotherhood, dianas death, like kennedys, was a ritual killing. it was longplanned for the effect it would have on the people and the magnetic field of the earth,and to symbolise the introduction of the new world order. dont underestimate thefantastic power of ritual and symbolism in affecting the human psyche and the planetsmagnetic field. these people afe not obsessed with it for no reason.the brotherhood and satanic symbolism surrounding dianas death is endless and tounderstand the background to her ritual murder we must, once again, go back a very longtime. diana was one of the greatest goddesses of the ancient world and she representedthe female energy also known as barati, britannia, isis

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its are not necessary. a name when written is a word composed of letters each signifying a sound. the syllables (and sounds) which make up a name identify a particular being which religion, metaphysics, mythology, demonology, folklore, or legend has said to exist. each name represents a unique archetypal being which the magician may identify himself with, bringing about various changes within his psyche. even where different names have been given to the same archetypal being or where one name is derived from another, each name is a unique creation. some of the archetypes may be similar in nature and others may be wildly different, but each is unique. asmodee, asmoday, and asmodius; astarot, astaroth, astarte, and ishtar; satan, shaitan, shiva, and set are each unique archetypal forms. the

on, economic free-trade, etc. what a far cry it is from burning people to death for spitting on the cross or renouncing god. it has been suggested in the past that there is a universal consciousness. if this is the case, then the relationship between the universal subconscious and the universal consciousness is similar to the relationship between the conscious and subconscious mind within our own psyche. to avoid confusion, i will refer to the universal consciousness as the dynamic consciousness within the universe. i prefer this definition since the word universal implies a commonality. the universal subconscious is universal since it is shared by all humanity. conscious thought, rather, is not shared between separate individual beings. if the universal subconscious is compared with an oc

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l love and personal relationships- and the problems of ordinary living and society- in literature, music, drama and so on. what has needed to be said, written and expressed about such things, has been said, written and expressed by the many great artists of the past two millennia. what is needed now is to build upon these foundations- to turn outward, and away from the inner world of the personal psyche and the world of mundane society. what is needed is to describe and express what is relevant to the next stage of our evolution, as human beings. this next stage is the stage of new adventures, of new worlds, of new ways of living brought through striving for a numinous and thus supra-personal goal. the personal life should now take care of itself- if there is a numinous goal to strive for

itioners still fear these forces which they call upon as something alien to themselves and "evil. the adept practitioner realizes that these forces are not external (existing within the objective universe) but internal (existing within the sorcerer's subjective mind. what will become apparent to the practitioner of these rites is that satan, lucifer, belial, and leviathan are aspects of the human psyche, archetypes which exist within the subconscious and sub rational mind, not external beings which can in any way influence the magician to good or evil ends. the objective of this system of magic is not to "invoke" satan to physical appearance (for that would be mere hallucination) but rather to become satan (or to actualize that aspect of the psyche which is called "satan; not to "invoke" l

f the opposite sex. rituals from other systems of magic may be incorporated into the demonic bible, however, the rituals of the demonic bible may not be performed within another system of magic or within a group whose members have not all performed these rites and advanced to the same level. the reason for this is that the rituals of the demonic bible have a profound psychological impact upon the psyche. improper use of these rituals can cause "demonic possession "mental illness" or abnormal psychological states. proceed cautiously through these rites taking each step in turn. if you are unsure that you have successfully formed an alignment or crossed a gate then continue to perform the same ritual until you are confident that you are ready to proceed to the following ritual. do not be ala

ces may or may not have an independent existence apart from man s belief in them but, whatever they may be, these forces exist in an acausal non spatial reality apart from the causal world in which we usually function. this ritual system allows the magician to become a nexus or gate to these acausal forces. whether these forces have an independent existence or exist as archetypes within the human psyche, the effect is the same. once the magician has completed many of the rituals described in the demonic bible, he may wish to assist another to do the same. or, the magician may wish to begin the rituals from the beginning working with a partner. in either case, the rituals will take one of the two following forms. working with another can be beneficial or it can be detrimental depending on t

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o neboutosoualeth, aktiophi, ereskhigal, neboposaleth, abermenthoou, lerthexanax, aemina. the leyden papyrus, editied by f. griffith& herb thompson as set was considered to be friendly unto the shades of the dead, there is perhaps a closer connection between him and his illegitimate son anpu (anubis) than what can be commonly realized. the belief in the spirits of the dead and the survival of the psyche after physical death was a foundation of the magic of ancient egypt. in accordance with the lore, man consisted of a physical body, a double, a shadow, a soul, a heart etc. the khu itself was the spirit of the man but the ka was considered to be the spiritual body which took nourishment from the offerings at the funeral ceremonies. the dead and such were honored among the egyptians, who reg

cted by anybody on any person- the dark-conscienced (black-hearted, sorcerous and vicious akht, on account of his sorcerous practices and his enmity towards men, proclaimed that no good should be done to any person, but that every person should be rendered capable of doing evil (to others) 16 here we are able to discover the antinomian nature of akht that this individual did not seek to align his psyche with the order perceived through the religious doctrine of zoroastrians, he found comfort and power within a perhaps darker path. it could not be conceivable that akht suggest no good should be done to men, as this would almost certify an extreme from which few would be able to live in accordance to. the evil-hearted, vicious sorcerer akht proclaimed enmity to the divine beings, affection t

s avidya, ignorance, and its principle manifestation is trshna, thirst, which means the desire for continued existence. furthermore, az represents the ideal and concept of self-deification through a willed existence, that the trshna concept is one of vampirism and desire. thus az represents the left hand path as a rite of passage of becoming. continued existence is essentially the survival of the psyche or essential self; there is no union with the natural order that which can eliminate the mind. the practitioner does not seek to join with it; rather he or she seeks to remain separate from it in their own self-created subjective world. as with the manichaeans, az is the mother of all demons, thus a powerful hidden light behind ahriman. as the devil s bride she inspires and equally commands

and they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast -revelation 13:4 the definition of violence is something marked by extreme force, or a sudden and intense activity. thus as rahab better known as leviathan, is a force of change and movement. this draws a connection to the egyptian set, the god of darkness, chaos and storms. as the self develops and seeks to perceive new areas of its psyche-eccentric being, leviathan encircles he or she to control the power itself; thus an consistent and timeless initiatory force. this brings a question concerning the individual mind and the crooked dragon what is the subjective focus of leviathan; what does this daemon represent to the conscious self? how do we use leviathan in a left hand path initiatory way? leviathan is the encircler/ensor

and timeless initiatory force. this brings a question concerning the individual mind and the crooked dragon what is the subjective focus of leviathan; what does this daemon represent to the conscious self? how do we use leviathan in a left hand path initiatory way? leviathan is the encircler/ensorceller of the self; the circumference of the astral and physical body. it is the timeless being, the psyche transformed into daemon. as it is the angel of violence and dragon of the watery abyss, it represents the mastery of the self through change and the ability to place occurrence and happenings into the magicians own individual universe. through the refinement of the subconscious (as based on the transference level of the unconscious to conscious via dreaming) the self grows in the study/inte

lone, the activation and self-determined focus channels the will via dreaming, creating a possibility for such rapid movement to occur via the path of sorcery, etc. leviathan once faced by the sorcerer cannot be banished it is then a perceived sense of who we are. to deny leviathan is to become blind to our possibility and our very future. for one to begin to grasp the possibility of the immortal psyche, the mind which stands alone, which has emerged and evolved, depends upon the crystallization of the essence in relation to leviathan lucifer and lilith, the force which creates and empowers the mind. beelzebub or beelzbuth according to s.l. macgregor mathers in the sacred magic of abramelin the mage described his name as meaning bol, hebrew for lord and zbvb, flies. beelzebub is a form of

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the astral plane (q.v. assiah: pronounced "ahs-sie-ah" it is the fourth of the four kabalistic worlds in descending order. it means world of creation. asson: the sacred rattle of voudoun (q.v (see voodoo. they are used to summon the loas (q.v) or gods. astral: greek "from the stars" pertaining to that level of existence which is finer and more penetrating than matter, but denser than mind. in the psyche, it comprises the emotional/instinctual levels which unite mind and body. astral plane: a non-physical level of existence which is the basis for the physical plane, and the place where many non-physical entities exist. astral light: 1) a term used by dion fortune (q.v) as a synonym for the term astral plane (q.v. 2) the "substance" or "material" of the astral plane itself. astral projection

being the ruler of the zodiac (q.v) sign scorpio (q.v. on the tree of life (q.v) within the kabbalah (q.v) attributed to the unmanifest sephirah (q.v) daath (q.v) and the abyss. keywords include: transformation, degeneration, extremes, horrible, transmutation, refining, crucible, refectory, atomic energy, annihilation, regeneration, subversion, coercion, sewage, elimination, hidden forces, inner psyche. portal adeptus: in the order of the astral star [o.a.s (q.v, a portal adeptus is a sub-grade of adeptus minor (q.v) within the membership of the order, and correlates to the crossing of the veil. the primary principle of this grade is based on working on a specific occult discipline, and achieving some level of recognized competency. furthermore the portal adeptus grade is used as a time f

uture or otherwise ordinarily unknown. the word is often reserved to instances in which the seer or prophet obtains knowledge revealed by direct contact with divinity or god, by god seeking out the seer or prophet. psi (psionic: short for psionic or psi-phenomena, or psychic phenomena, it embraces all forms of paranormal manifestation believed to be caused by the action of the mind via the brain. psyche: greek for "soul" the non-material part of a psycho-physical being. psychic: 1) from the greek "psyche" meaning "the soul" and implies the mind or mental process. 2) the psionic (q.v) ability to perceive with extra sensory perception (esp (q.v. 3) a person who has developed their specific discipline of extra sensory perception above the ability of a sensitive (q.v) and can count on their pe

he" meaning "the soul" and implies the mind or mental process. 2) the psionic (q.v) ability to perceive with extra sensory perception (esp (q.v. 3) a person who has developed their specific discipline of extra sensory perception above the ability of a sensitive (q.v) and can count on their perceptions eighty-five (85) percent of the time or greater. psychokinesis: 1) from the greek "psycho" from "psyche" meaning "the soul" and implies the mind or mental process, and "kinesis" meaning "to move or to change" implying energy. 2) the psionic discipline of the changing objects without obvious material agency. sometimes mistakenly called telekinesis (q.v. in psychokinesis, the object is altered or changed in some way. bending spoons with the mind is an example of psycho kinetic activity. 3) the

ying energy. 2) the psionic discipline of the changing objects without obvious material agency. sometimes mistakenly called telekinesis (q.v. in psychokinesis, the object is altered or changed in some way. bending spoons with the mind is an example of psycho kinetic activity. 3) the psionic discipline of changing matter with energy via mental process. psychometry: 1) from the greek "psycho" from "psyche" meaning "the soul" and implies the mind or mental process, and "metry" meaning "measure, thus literally psychometry means "measure of the soul" 2) the psionic discipline of "object reading" the faculty of gaining knowledge about an object, or about any matter associated with it, by handling the object and reading the psychic (q.v) impressions from the object itself. pyramid power: the supp

d, egotistic, father, husband, authority, boss. soul: all that we are, the higher self (q.v) and the lower self. here the word is used to indicate the personal identity of a living being, it's feelings, it's thoughts, impulses, memories, and sense of self, i.e. awareness. the astral star teaches that we do not have things called souls, but rather, we are souls. spirit: 1) the highest level of the psyche (q.v. 2) the fifth magickal element (q.v) or other being which is disembodied by nature. 3) self aware beings that lack a living, material body. some spirits have the power to borrow the bodies of mortal men and women, and use them as their own. 4) in spiritualism/ spiritism (q.v, a disembodied human soul. spirit, human: the vitalizing energy that burns within each individual and is one wit

ons through signs. some living statues were used as temple guardians. sturgeon's law: attributed to the famous science fiction author, theodore sturgeon. when asked by someone if ninety percent (90) of science fiction was garbage, his response was that ninety-percent (90) of everything is garbage. subliminal: literally "below the threshold" here applied to experience or knowledge which enters the psyche (q.v, and can even result in action without itself coming to consciousness. succubus: a spirit considered to be a lesser demon (q.v) that comes in a feminine shape/form to have sexual union with a mortal man, often against his will and usually while he is asleep. the plural is succubi. symbol: a sign or object that represents something else, especially what is obscure or hidden and cannot b

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ature, of a strong but spare make, long face and neck, thick shoulders, piercing eyes, sandy or red hair, and brown complexion. the native s disposition is warm, hasty, and passionate. the aspects of the planets however, may materially alter these traits (aspects are the angular relationships between various points in a boroscope; in a natal chart the planets represent the various facets of one s psyche, and aspects between them indicate how these facets conflict or work together) this sign rules the head and face. as the first sign, the key phrase for aries is i am, representing the birth of awareness. taurus, the second sign of the zodiac, is a fixed earth sign. it is a negative, feminine sign, ruled by the planet venus. its symbol is the bull, and its glyph is said to represent a bull s

y, also called clinical astrology, is a practice which integrates astrology and clinical psychotherapy. while astrology is still not an accepted practice within mainline psychological disciplines, it has found a place within psychotherapy and is currently utilized in this field which itself is radically divided into different camps based upon variant and even contradictory approaches to the human psyche. thus defined, astrotherapy includes any form of treatment utilizing astrological precepts to treat emotional and behavioral problems, remove or modify existing symptoms, and promote positive personality growth and fulfillment. attempts have been made to integrate astrology with various schools of psychotherapy. psychotherapist carl jung s (1875.1961) stated appreciation of astrology provid

arallels to the momentary subjective state. dane rudhyar began integrating jungian psychology into astrological practice in the mid-1930s and his 1936 volume, the astrology of personality, is now seen as a watershed in the post-scientific astrological revival. rudhyar understood the human personality as a dynamic entity that held a variety of opposing forces in more-or-less equilibrium. the human psyche was developing toward wholeness (understood in jungian terms as individuation) and self-realization. the horoscope pictures these opposing forces and their distribution and relative strength in the individual. rudhyar was a voice crying in the wilderness until the 1960s and the emergence of humanistic astrology. previously, psychotherapy had almost totally concentrated on individual pa- enc

the universe undergirded with cosmic power, but divided those powers into magnetic (a cool negative force) and electrical (a warm positive force. the magician learns how to control and manipulate these forces. the magician is composed of the four traditional elements (earth, air, fire, and water) understood psychologically, and the accomplished magician must be a balanced person with a developed psyche in which each element, such as intuition or passion, is present but not so dominating as to push the other elements aside. in his first book, initiation into hermetics, bardon leads the student through a basic course in magical training. the second volume, the practice of magical evocation, treats all the magical instruments from the wand to the magical mirror, and explains in detail the pr

ven jesus were versed in the qabalistic wisdom. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. builders of the adytum 227 the qabalah (also spelled kabala or kabbalah) describes the emanation of the cosmos from the transcendent god. the resultant structure is pictured in a diagram called the tree of life. the tree of life is a picture of both the objective world and the landscape of the human psyche. the major realms of the cosmos are described in ten realms called sephirots. the sephirots are connected by a system of paths, 22 in number. the different parts of the cosmos reflect the pattern of the whole and the whole of existence is tied together in a complex system of correspondences between the macrocosm and microcosm. the modern tarot has been reworked so as to correlate with qabal

eligious experience. he was among the first intellectuals affected by the psychedelic revolution and came to feel that properly administered mind-altering drugs were an instant source of intense religious experiences. his own analysis was published in 1969 as chemical ecstasy; psychedelic drugs and religion and informed his later book, religious experience; its nature and functioning in the human psyche (1973. his interest in parapsychology was manifest in his accepting the presidency of the academy of religion and psychical research at its founding in 1973. clark died in december 1994 at cape elizabeth, maine. sources: clark, walter houston. the oxford group; its history and significance. new york: bookman associates, 1951. the psychology of religion; an introduction to religious experien

f religion and psychical research at its founding in 1973. clark died in december 1994 at cape elizabeth, maine. sources: clark, walter houston. the oxford group; its history and significance. new york: bookman associates, 1951. the psychology of religion; an introduction to religious experience and behavior. new york: macmillan, 1958. religious experience; its nature and functioning in the human psyche. springfield, ill: charles thomas, 1973. clark, walter houston, and m. h. malony, j. daane, and a. r. tippett. chemical ecstasy; psychedelic drugs and religion. new york: sheed and ward, 1969. clarke, arthur c (1917) famous british science fiction author and technologist credited with originating the concept of communication satellites. clarke has also presented two television series on par

empted to answer the host of questions attendant upon the introduction of asteroids into the horoscope in her later book, expanding astrology s universe (1983. one of dobyns children, martha pottenger, continues dobyns work. pottenger also obtained degrees in psychology and has authored a number of books built around a theme already present in her mother s writing, the use of astrology to map the psyche and thus illuminate the choices and options open to the client. sources: dobyns, zipporah. evolution through the zodiac. la: tia publications, 1964, 1972. expanding astrology s universe. san diego: astro computing, 1988. finding the person in the horoscope. la: tia publications, 1976, and nancy roof. the astrologer s casebook. la: tia publications, 1973. doctor one of the spirit controls of

ilhelm reich explains masochism as a compulsion neurosis arising from sexual anxiety; he does not accept that real pain is desired.rather that the suggestion of pain evokes inhibited pleasure sensations in individuals with long-established sexual inhibitions. this inhibited pleasure, reich says, is a longing for release from tensions and is expressed biologically in the organism as in well as the psyche. the historical facts of the association of actual pain and injury with flagellation, however, would indicate that reich s explanation does not go far enough. on a more everyday level, devotees of the sauna bath will testify to the overall tonic effect of scourging with twigs. it would seem that flagellation certainly elicits biological and psychic excitation, sometimes involving intense se

malefemale relationships. forrest was born in mount vernon, new york, on january 6, 1949. he attended the university of north carolina, from which he earned a b.a. in religious studies (1971. he began his career as a professional astrologer soon after his graduation and became known for his interest in the inner life of the individual and the use of astrology for enhancing the exploration of the psyche. he became a popular lecturer throughout north america and his articles began to appear in astrological periodicals. the thrust of his work supported the trend within the astrological community to integrate psychological and astrological insights. forrest countered his concern for the inner life with an added emphasis on technical precision in the production of astrological charts, a proble

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yclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. mcdougall, william. body and mind: a history and defense of animism. london: methuen, 1911. the case of sally beauchamp. proceedings of the society of psychical research 19.20 (1905.07. further observations on the margery case. journal of the american society for psychical research 19 (1925. the margery mediumship. psyche 26 (1926. modern materialism and emergent evolution. new york: d. van nostrand, 1929. the need for psychical research. harvard graduate magazine. reprinted in aspr journal 17 (1923. the riddle of life. london: methuen, 1938. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. mckenzie, james hewat (1869.1929) founder of the british college of psych

7. kroff, kal k. spaceships of the pleiades: the billy meier story. amherst, n.y: prometheus press, 1995. meier, c(arl) a(lfred) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1020, and william moore. the meier incident.the most infamous hoax in ufology. fremont, calif: the authors, 1981. meier, eduard billy. decalogue or the ten bids. alamogordo, n. mex: semjase silver star center, 1987. the psyche. alamogordo, n. mex: semjase silver star center [1986. meisner (or mesna lorentz (ca. 1608) early alchemist whose work is recorded in his tract gemma gemmarum alchimistarum; oder, erleuterung der parabolischen und philosophischen schrifften fratris basilij, der zwolff schlussel, von dem stein der vharalten weisen, und desselben aufsdrucklichen und warhaften praeparation; sampt etlichen sein

ot into the grabbed form and became absorbed. she was said to have suffered serious injury in consequence of the spirit grabbing, and after her recovery she resolved never to sit in the cabinet again but always before the curtain in full view of the sitters. the story of the exposure is told by t. shekleton henry in spookland (1902, to which a rebuttal was published by someone under the pseudonym psyche in a counterblast to spookland; or, glimpses of the marvellous (1895. as late as 1931 mellon was still active as a medium. h. l. williams, a retired magistrate from the punjab, wrote to harry price (psychic research, june 1931: as regards her (mrs. mellon, dr. haworth, a well-known doctor of port darwin, has testified before me that at melbourne, in the presence of leading and professional

e of the moon became a convenient way of dividing the solar year into more manageable units we have come to know as months (actually the moon takes only 27.32 days to orbit the earth, but because of the movement around the sun it takes 29.53 days for it to complete a cycle from full moon to full moon. in astrology the moon represents the inner emotional side of the self, the subconscious mind and psyche. the moon s placement in the chart reveals the creative side of the person, where he/she might give birth to new ideas, how his/her nurturing side is expressed, or where great passion is resting. the moon is paired off with the sun, related to the overall aspects of one s outer visible life. over the years, from folklore and astrology, the moon was identified with a variety of behavior patt

ual charts based on her profiles, the most recent being a comparison of horoscopes with the chart of the new millennium. pottenger is a member of the national council for geocosmic research (chaired by michelsen) and the international society for astrological research. she has integrated her psychological training into her approach and encourages her clients to see their horoscope as a map of the psyche that assists them in making optimum choices. her insights have been gathered in her encyclopedic work, complete horoscope interpretation (1986. she has also authored a number of other books including encounter astrology (1978, healing with the horoscope (1982, what are astrological maps: all about astrology (1996, your love life, venus in your chart (1996, and astro-essentials (1991. potten

ogical research in japan. its journal, first published in 1977, is now an annual. it is in japanese, but includes english abstracts. the institute is headquartered at nishi-cho 786-3, soka city, saitama prefect, 340-0035 japan. psi-trailing a term used to indicate a form of anpsi or the psi faculty in animals, in which a pet may trace its owner in a distant location it has not previously visited. psyche anglicization of the greek term for soul which has been adopted in a number of ways by various parapsychological and occult authors and organizations. among them are (1) a german spiritualist monthly founded in 1894 and later, following the union in 1900 of the three largest spiritualist societies of berlin, superseded by a joint organ, the spiritistiche rundschau, of which karl obertimpfle

a: ornion press, 1977, 1978, and 1979. psychic research (journal) the journal of the american society for psychical research was published under this title for four years (1928.1932, during which time it was edited by frederick bligh bond. after 1932 it returned to its former title. psychic research quarterly british journal issued in 1920, edited by w. whately carington. the title was changed to psyche in 1921, and the scope was enlarged to deal with psychology. psychics and mystics fayre an offshoot of the mind-body-spirit festival in britain started by graham wilson, comprising smaller exhibitions held regularly at different london and provincial centers, featuring practitioners and groups concerned with yoga, tarot, astrology, clairvoyance, health and healing, arts and crafts, ufology

hanism of man (2 vols, 1876.79) stated that spirit was refined matter, or molecular matter split into its constituent atoms, which thus become imperceptible to our physical organism; this view may have been shared by some members of the psychological society (see also london dialectical society) psychology originally the name given to the branch of philosophy dealing with the soul (from the greek psyche, or soul, then to the science of the mind, and now generally understood to be the science of behavior, both human and animal, and of human thought processes. early psychical research, in contrast, concerned itself with the demonstration and investigation of paranormal faculties and the concept of the soul, with the question of survival after bodily death as a legitimate inference. according

psychometry as a psychic power possessed by certain individuals which enables them to divine the history of, or events connected with, a material object with which they come in close contact. no doubt such an ability has been manifest from ancient times, but it was first named and discussed in modern history by the american scientist joseph rhodes buchanan in 1842. the term derives from the greek psyche (soul) and metron (measure) and signifies soul-measuring, or measurement by the human soul. buchanan s theory was based on the belief that everything that has ever existed.every object, scene, or event that has occurred since the beginning of the world.has left on the ether, or astral light, a trace of its being. this trace is indelible while the world endures and is impressed not only on t

rit s manifestation to take, we never should invent that. he frankly admitted that medieval and later tales of rapping have never been satisfactorily accounted for on any theory. he advanced a theory of spectral aphasia, suggesting that raps may be the easiest signs which a spirit wishing to affect the physical plane may produce, though he may aim at a different effect. in the march 1888 issue of psyche, a dr. purdon reported on the curious connection he had discovered between raps and chorea. he noted the case of two soldiers in guernsey, both of them of neurotic temperament, in whose presence rappings of an unnatural character were heard. under the administration of iodide of potassium, salicylate of soda, and arsenic in full doses, the men improved wonderfully, and the rappings became l

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h inevitably went unfulfilled. more typically, however, channeling consists of spiritual platitudes, self-help suggestions, and unverifiable pronouncements about the nature of spirit and cosmos. to its critics, it is nothing more than a form of automatism, automatic behavior ove r which an individual denies any personal cont ro l (alcock, 1996. its sources are within, not outside, the channeler s psyche. pa r a p s yc h o l ogist rodger i. anderson writes, it has been inc reasingly evident to re s e a rchers that automatism of whatever kind is neither a psyc h i c ability nor a pathway to higher knowledge. appearances notwithstanding, it is only too clear 60 channeling gerry bowman channeling the spirit of john the baptist, august 15, 1987, shasta national forest, california (roger ressmey

tiently if someone asked a question about his or her personal life. we are not the ann landers of the cosmos, michael snapped. as the michael phenomenon grew, howe ve r, this changed, and michael would speak to individuals about themselves and offer them g u i d a n c e. jessica lansing herself was uncertain whether michael was an independent intelligence or some manifestation of an aspect of her psyche. in time, others reported communications from michael. in 1984, two followers founded the michael educational foundation. the foundation maintains that michael is a collection of one thousand fifty souls, all of whom once lived lives on earth. it sponsors other michael groups throughout the united states. michael f. brown, an anthropologist who has studied the channeling movement, calls mic

camille flammarion that martian humankind and earth humankind may one day enter into communication with the other. the friend expressed the hope that such a thing would happen. soon afterward, muller informed him that she had made contact with martians. these encounters occurred in a variety of mental states, including sleep. flournoy was led to the conclusion that, at least at some level of her psyche, muller was always living with the martians. the communications and experiences were voluminous. she had many martian friends and was often on that planet interacting with them and observing everything around her. she even produced, albeit in piecemeal fashion, a martian language that flourney recognized as an infantile travesty of french. see also: allingham s martian; aurora martian; brow

ffalo, ny: self-published. psychoterrestrials new age psychologist michael grosso uses the term psychoterrestrials to describe a range of anomalous and paranormal entities, including ufo beings, marian apparitions, and men in black. he believes that such entities, though mythic constructs, are able to assume a quasi-physical reality because of the deep resonance they have in humanity s collective psyche. another name for psychoterrestrials is psychic projections. grosso believes that ufos and other exotic phenomena are forces of rebirth that the ultradimensional mind has conjured up to transform mass consciousness in order to save the human race for otherwise certain selfdestruction. given the timeless, spaceless nature of esp and pk [psychokinesis, perhaps some (or all) human minds form a

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narrowest space horrors supreme! you do well, sinners to affright and scare, but they ll think it a lie and sham and dream. to the fat devils with short, straight horns. you fat-paunched rogues with cheeks like hell-fire burning, you glow so fattened by hell s sulphur and its steam; what necks, so thick-set, short, and never turning! watch here below for phosphorescent gleam: that s the wee soul, psyche with fluttering wing; don t pluck the wings, twere else a nasty worm. i ll stamp my seal upon the beastly thing, then off with it in whirling-fiery-storm. these lower regions, watch them duly, you bladders- that s the duty you ve to show; if it was pleased to live there, truly, that we do not so accurately know. it feels at home in navels, there s no doubt; so heed my words, for there it ma

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g them round to make a new pattern. the most essential thing, in bruno's outlook, was to find the living "voices, signs, images, seals, to heal the rift in the means of communication with divine nature introduced by pedantry, and when these living means of communication were found (or imprinted on consciousness in some trance-like experience) to unify through them the universe as reflected in the psyche and thereby obtain the magus' powers and to live the life of an egyptian priest in magical communion with nature. within the context of this incredibly strange outlook, such a procedure as we find in the de umbris idearum the imprinting on memory of decan demons becomes, not exactly intelligible, but at least logical within the outlook. more important for bruno in his unifying aim than the

k with which the editors collated the one in the noroff. ms. 7 op. lat, i l l, pp. 1 ff; cf. bibliografia, p. 164. 8 that is the de umbris idearum in which the images are arranged under thirty groupings; see above, p. 195. 9 that is the de vinculis in genere in which the "links" are subsumed under thirty heads; see above, p. 266, note 4. i i+ g.b. 3 7 giordano bruno in germany form a memory, or a psyche, which is unified through being based on images or signs which bring the psyche into direct contact with reality. the astrological images on which the memory was based in the "thirty shadows" are here replaced by "statues, or interior images constructed on talismanic principles "we are not the first inventor of this way of teaching, but we are reviving it; as in nature we see vicissitudes o

pseudo- egyptian hermetic dreams of the jesuit, kircher. 3 the importance of the fludd-kepler controversy is touched on by e. cassirer in his das erkenntnisproblem in der philosophic und wissenschaft der neueren zeit. there is a valuable essay on it by w. pauli "the influence of archetypal ideas on the scientific theories of kepler" in c. g. jung and w. pauli, the interpretation of nature and the psyche, english trans, london, 1955, pp. 147 ff. lenoble is much concerned with it in mersenne ou la naissance du mecanisme; and see garin's illuminating remarks in cultura, pp. 143 ff. 4 see pauli's essay, cited in the preceding note. 440 hermes trismegistus and the fludd controversies the root of the difference between himself and fludd lay in their differing attitude to number, his own being ma

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meaning, must be planted into the unconscious. afterwards, the consciousness has to forget it so that the unconscious can obey its encoded direction without hindrance. formulating the sentence of desire8 and drawing the sigil should be done with the utmost concentration. it makes the following activation( gcharging h) much easier. when the sigil is ready, it is activated by implanting it into the psyche. this is the most difficult part in this process, and spare offers only very few hints on practical procedures. however, it is crucial that the sigil is internalized in a trance of sorts. this may take place in a state of euphoria (for example, by means of drugs, in ecstasy (for example, sex magically by masturbation, sexual intercourse or a ritual, or in a state of physical fatigue. for th

raphernalia; protective circles and pentagram rituals are not required (though sometimes they may prove useful, especially with operations of magical protection, etc. people who tend to psychic instability should, however, be cautious. although the threshold to schizophrenia is not as easily crossed with this method as with common evocations, it does involve cutting deeply into the ecology of the psyche, an act which should be considered carefully in any case. the psycho-magical consequences are sometimes quite incalculable. as is well known, the real problem with magic is not so much the question whether it works, but rather the fact that it does. used with responsibility, this method offers the magician a tool which provides him/her with a limitless variety of possible magical applicatio

e its meaning anymore (as is also the case with word and pictorial sigils) you can now activate this acoustic will guide you into a kind of gmantra-stupor h (this will follow naturally and may sometim 58/ practical sigil magic only a s: few minutes f chanting; thus, your directive for the unconscious, which is now concealed in the acoustic sigil, can pass the censor to thrive in the depths of the psyche and go about its work. you may support this procedure by a trance of exhaustion, achieved, for example, by fasting, pro longed lack of sleep or extreme physical exertion1 you might even use autohypnosis by playing the mantra on a tape recorder during your sleep (best use endless cassettes, but experience has shown that this is not really requisite except as an auxiliary measure. after charg

to the more experienced sigil magician. basically, i shall describe two main forms of approach and ways of dealing with the alphabet in this chapter: 1) the alphabet of desire as a principle of structure bedded in a framework; and 2) the alphabet of desire em the alphabet of desire/ 65 -known laconi desire carroll divides his frustration. additionally, there are four categories as a mirror of the psyche created by chains of associations. although some overlappings may occur occasionally, one should not be misled to forget that these are truly two entirely different approaches. the alphabet of desire as a structuring principle pete carroll has presented us, in his well c and precise manner, with this model in liber null (pp. 76-87. unfolding his system, he does not base it.as did spare.on p

rder may be used and developed. for example, the four elements earth, water, fire and air may be employed as major categories, as well as the ten sephiroth, the 22 paths of the cabbalistic tree of life (an approach may be found in liber null, pp. 77 and 86, the 1 2 energy qualities of the zodiac, timothy leary fs an 68/ practical sigil magic s own, truly origin o the basic structures of the human psyche, i.e, rchetypal patterns which should always implement in agic anyway. in other words, it does not really matter depends upon the structures of erception as influenced by the construct e brain r hormones. what is important is the fact that we can human beings nd thus in every psyches (experts on ecclesiastical istory will be pleased to remember in this context the ood old nom holasticism; b

problem. the alphabet of desire/ 69 now we understand that the alphabet of desire has developed into a significant instrument of the dawning of consciousness merely by having been created. if you want to construct your own alphabet following the structuring method described above, you will have to figure out those elements which you want to include and which can personify the energies of your own psyche. just listing them is not good enough, however. you will have to find a proper framework for them. let us start with a modest example. for reasons of simplicity, we will experiment with the four elements earth, water, fire and air. this is a system with which most magicians will be at least somewhat familiar. as a further framework we will choose dualism for the reasons mentioned. looking f

hical terms like gtruth, h gcognition, h gkarma, h etc, with which th iliar because of their abstract quality, a repeated or multiple usage of the sigils of the alphabet will, as experience has shown, assure success more surely than when used with the more uncomplicated sigils discussed before. spare himself has made a point in his book of pleasure (p. 50, comment 3) ethods of constructing sigils psyche. unfort s any further. in practice, you will see that this is certainly the case in that different methods of constructing and charging sigils have a dissimilar feel to them, which means that they have different energy qualities. in my this would be the finished sigil or, more accurately, the sigil sentence. activation/internalizing follows the usual method. theoretically, the several o f t

al material available covering, as it should, the experiences of a large variety of sigil magicians. most likely, as with the structuring principles explained in this chapter, a far more personal, individual schema will be called for in this area. but only time will tell. let us now take a look at the association technique for constructing the alphabet of desire and its function as a minor of the psyche. the alphabet of desire as a minor of the psyche the technique of association is basically a mixture of automatic writing, pictorial method and meditation/intuition from the very beginning we can do without a scheme of order like the one we have seen in the last section. instead, we will proceed according to situation, meaning that we will develop our sigil alphabet as we go along, combinin

will grow larger and larger. this is one of the main advantages of this method, which also provides for regular and direct communication between consciousness and the unconscious. unlike the structuring method explained earlier, you can do without schemes of order and can obtain sigils on an ad hoc basis, providing yourself with the possibility of using the list of your sigils as a mirror of the psyche even more effectively than the most carefully kept magical diary. once you have marked several dozens or hundreds of sigils along with their respective meanings in your gdictionary, h you have also acquired a complete overview of your magical work to date. this might sound a bit trivial, but if you take a look at your list after three or four years of practice, working it through systematic

way. as a species, we had to struggle much too hard for evolution, so our consciousness and our censor will not stand by unflinching y and watch as we scratch off our civilizing varnish, risking the possibility of destroying everything again. one reason why true mastership in this practice can only be achieved after many years lies in the fact that during this period a stabilization of the whole psyche has to be achieved. if not, our brain could never handle experiences which are dead, similar to lovecraftian tales furthermore, if we endorse the evolutionary model, a new step in evolution must always be guaranteed or our own genetic alarm mechanisms would destroy the whole system of our organism. finally, in evolutionary terms we are little more but parts of a general organism which 92/ p

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ot word, meaning 'he breathed (all hebrew words may be traced to root-words of two or three letters) samuel frey, in hisdictionary,1815, gives a variety of translations for nephesh:halitus,breath;vita,life; animal, lving creature;caro,flesh;anima,animal soul;cor,heart;appetentia,desire, appetite; and for nshm,animaandspuuus,animal soul and the spirit of life. nephesh becomes in greek,psuche;hence psyche, the vital soul, as opposed to body, but with no idea of 'mind. the learned calmet in hisdictionaryofthe biblewrites 'the word soul- nephesh- is very equivocal, in the stile of the hebrews, it is taken for the soul which animates man, the soul which animates beasts, for a living person, for life, for death, for desire, love, inclination, and for the life of a beast' in the dictionaryofthe l

as the mysterious vehicle called the auric egg. ancient egyptian mythology alsoexhibitsa beliefin several indistinct principles, such as the ka, the ren or name, the ba or soul, the ab and sahu, all dwelling in the khat, the material body. the romans spoke of corpus the body, vita the life essence, animus or mens the mind, and anima the soul: the greeks recognised several principles, such as the psyche the soul, nous or phren the mind, thumos the life, eidolon the shadow, and soma the body. the jewish kabalistic rabbis also formulated a complex scheme of human principles; guph body, with the tzelem shadow; nephesh life, with the ruach animal soul; neshamah human soul, and yechidah or chiah the divine emanation inspiring the man. they related the human personality to the letters of the div

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e of whom is in such an attitude as to form a hebrew letterayin.)sparks and debris are falling.itshowsruin, disruption.60 the sorcererand his apprentice 17. the star.a nude female figure pours water upon the earth. fromtwovases. in the heavens above her shines the blazing star of the magi (surrounded by seven others, trees. and plants grow beneath her magic influence (and on one thet butterfly of psyche alights. she is the star ofhope. 18. the moon.the moon shining in the heavens, drops of dew falling, a wolf and a dog howling at the moon, and halted at the foot of two towers, a path which loses itself in the. horizon (and is sprinkled with drops of blood, a crayfish emblematic of the sign cancer, ruled over by the moon, crawls through water in the foreground towards the land).itsymbolises

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ronounced when he looks at the world itself. the results of unbridled science and rationalism are illustrated in our consumer society, our unquenchable thirst for technology and progress at all costs, and the resulting polluted and dying continents. materialism, rationalism and fundamentalism go hand in hand, once you reject the possibility of a wisdom (gnosis) that is greater than the collective psyche of man, then the mind becomes the point of reference. ethics become irrelevant, as do spiritual values and principles, in their place appear the relativism of the modern society whose primary focus is on progress. if you couple this with the disposing of religion by darwinian science then man is reduced to a animal, no more, no less and his behaviour and values come to reflect this unconsci

ed. plontinus, a classic neo-platonist, outlined a map which was founded on the indescribable one (en) who is the causeless cause. plontinus also called it the good and the first god, protos theos. below en is a series of hypostasis or emanations which make up the great chain of being. below en is the nous or "gods thought" in which exist the platonic forms of archetypes. from nous emanates soul (psyche, and then psyche emanates the world soul and individual souls. the world soul has higher and lower natures, one of which is the archetype of nature, physis. it is from physis that the material world emanates. the three primary emanations of en, nous and psyche form the nexus of plotinus' system. in terms of our characterises, this model includes the indescribable one (1st c, protos theos, n

and then psyche emanates the world soul and individual souls. the world soul has higher and lower natures, one of which is the archetype of nature, physis. it is from physis that the material world emanates. the three primary emanations of en, nous and psyche form the nexus of plotinus' system. in terms of our characterises, this model includes the indescribable one (1st c, protos theos, nous and psyche (2nd c, platonic archetypes (3rd c, the world as emanated by psyche (4th c, while the underworld is hidden within nature which has its own consciousness (physis. this dualism between the spiritual and physical we will return to later, the two aspects of the world soul are one of the most important misunderstood aspects of gnosticism. theosophical and modern maps the theosophical map is foun

ting, when empowered by the emotions and by reverie and memory they become more than just thoughts, they become thought forms. these thoughtforms exist beyond simply when they are thought, they take on an independent existence within the mind of the thinker. they then influence memory and condition our perceptions of everyday life. we may want to see these thoughtforms as only existing within the psyche of the neurotic or unstable and yet all of us have our lives conditioned by the though forms we have created in the past. for most people they never see the present unfiltered, all experience is sieved through thoughtforms created from childhood and even beyond through past lives. meme (pron. meem) a contagious idea that replicates like a virus, passed on from mind to mind. memes function t

considered ramifications of mankind fighting against the transformation current and the counter-gnosis moving into the political dimension. as the energies change the activities of the dominions and principalities intensify. 1964 was the consolidation of the current in the sense that it as the energies accelerated society was pushed to the limit. the result being the opening up of the collective psyche which brought about every possible extreme, politically, sexually, emotional and spiritually. the counter- gnosis intensified and became dominant in both fundamentalism and the syncretism of the new age. however, other discoveries such as the dead sea scrolls and nag hammadi library the gnostic handbook page 68 came into effect in this period and gave rise to the gnostic revival that contin

acted and a decision made regarding its value in light of the spiritual path. in some situations attachment will be the answer, in others detachment, the key is awareness and the focus is on controlled decision making. full detachment and full attachment are opposites and hence lead further into the dialectic rather than away from it. first steps:study, conviction and emotion the structure of the psyche must also be taken into consideration. how many of us focus on careers, money, music, fame and so on. the true gnostic must be focused on the spiritual path and nothing else. in the gospels the allegory of giving up all is used, obviously you are not expected to give away everything but your sole goal must be to reach the treasury of light. now when jesus heard these things, he said unto hi

nd the unconscious is explored and conditioned so that external realities from beyond the physical plane can be investigated, other spiritual powers contacted and other dimensions opened. the key to ritual is that it must have two distinct forms. the first must always be the training of the mind, the exploration of the unconscious and a clear and precise understanding of the structure of your own psyche. then and only then are you ready to enter into work of a more advanced spiritual nature. before ritual can become a doorway to other dimensions, it is imperative that the mind is trained and under control, otherwise, as is the case with so many untrained spiritual practitioners, obsession and delusion result. beyond all these considerations is the simple issue of intent. while techniques o

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an be divided into upper and lower forms and these could be related to the astral and the etheric bodies. these levels are the energy fields which invigorate and control the physical and psychic organism and relay commands from the mental complex (ruach. gnostic theurgy page 45 the ruach the ruach is the mental complex or mind. in the understanding of modern psychology it represents all facets of psyche, from the unconscious right through to the rational or conscious mind. it includes the personality and all its related characteristics. the chiah and neschamah as deeper facets of the ruach, the chiah and neschamah form the unconscious framework of the psyche. these may be related to the animus and anima of jungian psychology and represent the deepest levels of the personal unconscious, whe

memory. the only hope for humanity exists within the individual overcoming the wave of eternal re-occurrence, and forging a higher will- a will to power. here we are not talking of a petty will, a brutal desire to violence or warfare, we are talking gnostic theurgy page 58 of a momentous inner strength that overcomes the restraints of the body and the flesh, and forges from the structures of the psyche a link to the light world. the true self only exists in potential, it is a light spark locked within the prison of the mould. thus the central message of the gnosis is to develop an overpowering drive, a will so strong that it breaks beyond the moral and ethical limits of the lower kingdom, and awakens the true self and fashions a new man. the great mystery of the gnosis is that we must cre

he purpose of the gnosis! unmasking, j.van rijckenborgh, 1958. x gnostic theurgy page 60 the mind is central to the spiritual system that we know as gnosis. indeed, the word gnosis, in some sense, means knowledge and hence emphasises the importance of the intellectual path within the esoteric tradition. when we contemplate our earlier model of the nature of man, we can see what a central role the psyche has. if the brain-mind complex is the matrix that radiates energy into the various physical and etheric bodily systems, then its importance cannot be underplayed. at the same time, we must be cautious. in the twentieth century there has been a tendency to psychologise everything, whether it be alchemy, gnosticism, magic, demons, gods or spirits, there has been an attempt to interpret everyt

in the twentieth century there has been a tendency to psychologise everything, whether it be alchemy, gnosticism, magic, demons, gods or spirits, there has been an attempt to interpret everything as products of the mind. while certainly the mind does play a paramount part in the gnostic tradition, it is ridiculous to assume everything exists in the mind alone. just as there are forces within the psyche, there are forces outside of it and psychology must be seen in this context. to create a psycho-centric system is as ludicrous as when the church taught that the earth was the centre of the solar system. the house with many rooms carl jung describes in his works a dream which haunted him. it was a dream about a house, his house. yet when he looked around this house he found it had a extra l

ow which lead to other rooms he did not know. concealed levels lead to new wings, new storeys and further rooms. until, at last, he came across a beautiful old library full of what seemed to be precious books. on examination he could not understand the symbols written on their spines, nor interpret what the language they were written in. jung s dream is a superb analogy of the nature of the human psyche. while we tend to think of the psyche as simply having conscious and unconscious (sometimes called sub-conscious) levels, there is actual far more than is first perceived. since society exists on a hierarchical level (and develops in a similar fashion, see our later study on jacob s ladder, then as we delve deeper into the mind we find hierarchies of memory (fig 14) while on the surface the

emonstrated in the works of such scientists as robert ardrey, desmond morris and other socio-biologists. the lucifer principle by howard bloom (allen and unwin, 1995) is an excellent summary of the field having been written from a nonprofessionals' perspective. men and women are both manipulated by the genes desire to reproduce, it is the genes that control and manipulate, not the individual, our psyche simply creates complex engrams to justify the decisions made by our cells. if we correlate the genetic program with the fallen nature of matter, we can start to see that the program of humanity is the very antithesis of spirit. as the gene program plays out, more and more of our spiritual essence is lost, exponentially. in some sense we could even go as far as to say that the very building

tic theurgy page 71 the bodies, mind and related titles mind, planes and worlds the mind. the planes. the worlds. self. divine. atziluth. anima/animus. monadic. atziluth. collective unconscious. spiritual. briah. collective unconscious. intuitive. briah. personal unconscious. mental. yetzirah. rational mind. emotional. yetzirah. cellular consciousness. physical. assiah. seven bodies levels of the psyche. hebrew titles. self. self. yechidah. mediator self. anima and animus. neschamah& chiah spiritual soul. collective unconscious. higher ruach. psychic soul. collective unconscious. intermediate ruach. animal soul. personal unconscious. lower ruach. astral body. rational mind. nepesch. physical body. cellular consciousness. guph (these correlations are from a lower octave of interpretation. o

ds many conflicting doctrines and must repent (repentance means to turn around, to go in the other direction) this can be understood on two levels, firstly, one cannot serve two masters. beliefs must be either static or dialectic, unless you are totally separated from the world and centred on the treasury of light you are under dialectic dominion (whether you admit it or not. secondly, within the psyche will be many gnostic theurgy page 80 dialectic programs that we carry with us into the spiritual life, they must be rooted out and destroyed. the promise offered to those who correctly use this chakra include the eating of the hidden manna and the gift of the white stone with a new name engraved on it. these promises are highly symbolic, the hidden manna represents a special stage known in

tinct ways. firstly, they are a warning against contact with the world of the archons. false teachers, fornication (not sex per se but reproduction) and meat offered to idols (fallen gods, all images reflecting facets of the fallen system. in a more esoteric understanding, these images can be related to fallen facets of ourselves. the false teachers are personas within the gnostic theurgy page 81 psyche that would draw the gnostic back into the world of the archons. fornication is the desire for union with things of the world and food offered to idols represents the false gods or idols we may have within ourselves. how many gnostics are still beguiled by internal demands for fame, money, achievement, material gain, and family. the promise offered to those who use this centre correctly is t

concerning the transformation of the mind. the voice or logos is also indicated by the throat and hence the old mind (ruach) must pass away and the new mind must be formed through the power of the logos. the commendation to the church is that there are a few who have not defiled the mysteries. this is a clear message that only a small number can really use this centre correctly and transmute the psyche and achieve communion with the logos. the counsel and warning is hold fast and watch. it is clear and precise, to achieve transfiguration takes steadfastness and awareness. the promise is that those who correctly use this centre will be confessed before the gnostic theurgy page 82 father. that is, they will join the pleroma. it also has a kabbalistic meaning, confession before the father me

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ne of the djinn of the goetia, understand how the spirit relates to your mind, how it will manifest in yourself. do not summon something that which you are not comfortable in working with. do not on the other hand fear the very forces which you seek to command, be it angelic or demonic. black witchcraft is working with averse or black forces which are translated as shadow aspects of the sorcerers psyche. these shadows of the self are essential to our own selfdevelopment and becoming as individuals. it requires that the witch be well disciplined and also well balanced, save from the gates of failure and madness. to look into the eye of set and lilith-hecate or even ahriman is to face off forces which would devour any not prepared to become bearers of the black flame, a luciferian spirit the

even ahriman is to face off forces which would devour any not prepared to become bearers of the black flame, a luciferian spirit themselves. once this pact is made, when the sigillium diaboli is upon the mind, spirit and body, then there is no turning back only the ascension of the spirit as beyond the mortal clay. 6 in the modern world of magicians, sathan is our initiator and stimulator of the psyche. one should remember, in pre-islamic lore satan/azazel is considered the imagination sufism recognizes satan as the imagination itself. sathan is thus our announcer of the path, the very fountain of our attainment. in the view of a god form and model, lucifer (sathan) is an ideal form to align with in an initiatory sense. azazel rebelled against the natural order (god ain soph) as he sought

ill (or the will strengthens magick) so that a union be brought with the baphometic statements, as above, so below. the goetia is a work of black magick. one often views black magic (k) in the perception of aleister crowley, being the malicious workings of sorcery. a modern or should i say realistic perception is 9 that black magick is the arte of ensorcelling the self, building and isolating the psyche. the goal is specifically a higher articulation of the soul and the will of the individual. it is considered black because this is the symbol of the unknown, such is a large part of the psyche and subconscious. the black magician is therefore one who works on the self, building and defining the character of i or being. the sorcerer is thus one who encircles energy and the spirits of the dea

celestial/luciferian realms of the earth. belial also initiates into the solar and lunar gnosis of being, that of vampyres and wolves. king belial demands sacrifice, which is of a sexual nature. a powerful will is required to restrain and hold this force in the evocation circle or black mirror, from which then the sorcerer should immolate the self in this daemonic force the isolated and immortal psyche& decarabia decarabia is the sixty-ninth spirit of solomon, who appears as a burning and flaming pentacle, then at the command of the magician takes the shape of a man. decarabia instructs the sorcerer on astral and dream shape shifting, how one may transform into a bird or bat, to fly forth and discover darker places of the earth, as well as coming before the magician and acting in the natu

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isis with sirius).11 had the historical archetypes for osiris and isis actually come here in 9 skyglobe 3.6 10 personal communications/interviews. 11 see chapters forty-two to forty-four. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 429 the first time, twelve and a half thousand years ago?12 my research into ice age mythologies had persuaded me that certain ideas and memories could linger in the human psyche for many millennia, transmitted from generation to generation by oral tradition. i could therefore see no prima facie reasons why the osirian mythology, with its strange and anomalous characteristics, should not have originated as far back as 10,450 bc. however, it was the civilization of dynastic egypt that had elevated osiris to the status of the high god of resurrection. that civilizatio

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

cause this is a simulation and a preparatory exercise, do not use the calls nor the names of power at this time. notes to step 4. this woman simulates the daughter of babalon who resides in zip. she should represent all of the alluring aspects of objectivity; everything that is desirable and attractive to you in the universe. she is the projected image of your anima, the feminine part of your own psyche. notes to step 5. this step should have the psychological 164 effect of placing the daughter of babalon and yourself on an equal footing. notes to step 6. during this step, do not concentrate on any specific ppart of your body. imagine your body, and hers, to be equally empty of any content except that your body contains the masculine current and hers the feminine current. because your bodi

east" and implied that it was crowley himself. crowley was, of course, known as the beast 666 (a reference from the new testament book of revelations) but the-`beast'in lea is of a different sort. the fact of the matter is that the guide of lea intends the beast to be any who can enter consciously into lea. you will be the beast yourself when you enter this aethyr. the guide is a part of your own psyche. it is that part which is dying as you learn and grow in enochian magick. zen buddhism teaches that we are never the same one moment to the next. li fe is a series of little deaths or changes. on a longer time scale, we die as children to become adults. the bachelor dies to become the husband and father, and so on. life requires death. this is an esoteric concept which is very hard to put c

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sult of ignoring this warning could be spiritual disaster, ruin, obsession, or even psychosis. psychology and evocation one may best understand the function of magical evocation within rosicrucian magic from a psychological perspective. modern psychology offers the magician important insight into processes known to theurgists for thousands of years. the notion of the unconscious, an aspect of the psyche lying beneath the threshold of conscious awareness, provides new insight into the nature of the entities previously understood as demons. israel regardie suggested that "the term 'complex' has achieved a fairly wide notoriety during the last quarter century since the circulation of the ideas of freud and jung. it means an aggregation or group of ideas in the mind with a strong emotional cha

t "the term 'complex' has achieved a fairly wide notoriety during the last quarter century since the circulation of the ideas of freud and jung. it means an aggregation or group of ideas in the mind with a strong emotional charge, capable of affecting conscious thought and behavior."7 living in the dark realm beyond the light of consciousness, the complexes enjoy a sort of semiautonomy within the psyche. whether the magical forces, angels, and demons exist objectively or rather merely subjectively within the psyche of the magician is an epistemological question that goes beyond the scope of the present discussion. for practical purposes, it is quite useful to consider the forces at 7 israel regardie, the art and meaning of magic (toddington: helios, 1964, p. 32. 4 times as though they were

es to treat them as though they were purely subjective psychic contents of the magician. this is not dissimilar to the scientific understanding of light. we may best understand certain properties of light by considering it as a wave and others by considering light as a particle. we may thus gain new insight into the nature of demons by considering the averse forces as subjective forces within the psyche of the magician. these complexes exist beyond the threshold of consciousness, beyond the light of reason so to speak, in the darkness of the psyche. in qabalistic terms, the four worlds of aziluth, briah, yetzirah, and assiah, with their corresponding gods, archangels, and angels are forces of light. they exist in the light of consciousness. the averse forces, qlippoth, spirits, and demons

and to direct their operation to the service of greater psychic unity 5 and harmony. as israel regardie put it "no longer are they [the demons] independent spirits roaming the astral world, or partial systems roaming the unconscious, disrupting the individual's conscious life. they are brought back once more into the personality where they become useful citizens so to speak, integral parts of the psyche, instead of outlaws and gangsters, grievous and dangerous enemies threatening psychic unity and integrity."8 it is frequently easier to recognize the manifestation of these forces in retrospect rather than during their manifestation moment-to-moment. these processes are very subtle and extremely easy to overlook. the magical diary or journal is therefore an important tool in becoming consci

of the corresponding archangel. for example, in the ritual that follows, the magician obliges the demonic spirit of the planet saturn, zazel, to swear allegiance and obedience to the divine force of saturn, yhvh elohim, and to place its energy at the disposition of the corresponding archangel, tzaphquiel. this magical act unites the conscious and unconscious aspects of saturn or of that aspect of psyche corresponding to saturn. thus are the infernal and averse forces constrained, contained, and brought into proper relationship with the divine and angelical forces as well as with the consciousness of the magician. although the divine and angelical forces remain opposite in nature and irreconcilable with the infernal and averse forces, the adept nonetheless thereby creates a unified pair of

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ession more in the personified thanatos (death) of the greek people s faith. he is pictured as a genius, with hand on cheek in deep thought, or 1 it is only in a dream-vision that she appears: postera nocte eidem proser pina per quietem adstare aspect* postridie ejus complexu usuram denuuciat. nee iuane somnii praesagium fuit. saxo gram. p. 43. thanatos. moks. datjdus. 841 setting his foot on the psyche (soul) as if taking possession of her; often his hands are crossed over the extinguished torch. at times he appears black (like hel, p. 313) or black-winged (atris alis: rbv be ireaovra etxe/,exa? odvaros, tyv%r) etc cra&gt/-iato&lt? ettt (batrach. 207) 1, and d\evaro krjpa ^k\aivav (ibid. 85. but usually the departing dead is represented riding a horse, which a genius leads: an ope

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his experiences into those having a physical origin and those having a direct, divine origin, he has become accustomed to ascribe these mysterious phenomena to the divine, or refers to them as being psychic, meaning by that that they partake of the quality of man's soul. the soul thus became the repository for all of the indeterminate qualities of man's nature. the ancient greek word for soul was psyche. in ancient times, and even up into the time of modern philosophy, beginning with descartes, many attributes of man which are now definitely associated with the organic working of the mind, brain, and nervous system, were ascribed to the soul or to the psychic nature. such psychological processes as reasoning and the emotions were proclaimed to be psychic in the sense of being of the divine

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

rtality through absorption of the soul (spirit rather) into itself, but preserving individuality, so that, e.g, buddhas, after entering nirvana, may reappear on earth-i.e, in the future manvantara. noumena (gr) the true essential nature of being as distinguished from the illusive objects of sense. nous (gr) a platonic term for the higher mind or soul. it means spirit as distinct from animal-soul, psyche; divine consciousness or mind in man. the name was adopted by the gnostics for their first conscious aeon, which, with the occultists, is the third logos, cosmically, and the third principle (from above) or manas, in man (see nout) page 164 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt nout (eg) in the egyptian pantheon it meant the "one-only-one" because it does not proceed in the popular or exot

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

ical and useful set of magical techniques. phil hine, march 1998 7 howling .mayhem speaks louder than words. brother moebius b, l.o.o.n. the babblogue: a deliberate derangement of the senses- orchestrating a personal cacophony; a descent into the depths of the subconscious, to confront and bind the .lurkers. within. this essay is a short account of a personal exploration of the .demons. of my own psyche. rather than relying on existing approaches, for the reasons given below, i preferred to develop a purely personal approach. i give this account not to foist this particular approach onto others, but in the hope that it will assist those who are experimenting with different techniques. nor do i wish to invalidate the traditional systems of goetic magic, merely to say that while some may be

partially fulfilled before those on the next level become important- so aesthetic needs are not usually high on the list when one is starving. one can become .possessed. by one.s survival demons, and consequentially able to perform actions one would otherwise not consider. air crash survivors resorting to cannibalism is an extreme example of this. in attempting to strip away the layers of my own psyche in this way, i was struck by the .russian-doll. nature of the demons- that the roots of a cognitive value could be traced downwards into the levels of self-esteem, affiliation, and survival needs. 11 this idea seems to be implied in the zoomorphic image of the man-beast. if we deny our demons then they are indeed .outside. and the self becomes a fortress, for an army at war with itself. in

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

rored shards. clues; i m still fitting them together, but the pictures they hint at aren t frightening any more. 55 oven-ready chaos howling the babblogue: a deliberate derangement of the senses- orchestrating a personal cacaphony; a descent into the depths of the subconscious, to confront and bind the lurkers within. this essay is a short account of a personal exploration of the demons of my own psyche. rather than relying on existing approaches, for the reasons given below, i preferred to develop a purely personal approach. i give this account not to foist this particular approach onto others, but in the hope that it will assist those who also experimenting with different techniques. nor do i wish to criticise or invalidate the traditional systems of goetic magic, merely to say that they

notions such as free will or spirituality. 65 oven-ready chaos at the turn of the century, the shift from religion to science as the dominant ethos for defining reality exposed the fact that us apes required an ontonological dimension of action, to remain secure in a world increasingly percieved as hostile. the space left by the declining power of religion was quickly filled the the cults of the psyche- psychoanalysis, and various mystical/magical cults. these provided a comfortable rationale for the evolving middle classes. enlightenment was captured into being another source of demonstrating status over one s neighbours. this attitude has become increasingly prevalent over recent decades. a magick which is acceptable to mass culture loses its transformative power, becoming a support to

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

nd these aspects. learn to understand what it means when the ten of hearts falls into the third circle and it happens to touch a king of clubs. you must know what the circles and the cards mean, because you must blend them to suit the facts in your own life, past and future. only you know these. you must interpret things to fit your own life, because this is a very unique spell. how much your own psyche can tolerate will have to determine whether you put one card in one section or two cards in two sections. and whether or not you use twelve cards to cast the spell or all the cards in the deck. but you've got to be very sure you can control, understand and sustain the meaning of the spell, or you might be creating a spell for yourself that isn't what you intended it to be. it might be too m

you are telling me "this is my pattern. i love a man who many times acts like he doesn't love me" this is the way you want to live. you are two people who feel inferior, each one doing something that balances out the other's feeling of inferiority. if you wanted to have a different kind of partner, there are all sorts of dynamic things that can be done in witchcraft to energize that part of your psyche so that you would fund the proper partner. but you do not want the proper partner. you like him! dear louise: i am writing to you to tell you that i think your show was the most fantastic thing on the air, and i truly believe in witchcraft. i wish very much that i was born a witch (june 2, 1953) but unfortunately i am not. i think, however, i have some sort of psychic powers. i mean sometim

d out to them, however, and then investigated, no one was up; no one was in the front room, no one was stirring. it continued to happen every day, so that he could listen carefully and distinguish a definite shuffling noise, and the direction it took. there was no explanation for it, except that it disappeared after i regained my strength. our guess was that the noises were an extension of my own psyche, which in sickness i was no longer controlling. in addition to the shuffling, there was frequently a noise like a deep sigh, exactly the kind of sigh i frequently use when exasperated. i think the ghost was me, my wild, restless, uncontrolled unconscious, roaming around free. another ghost, manifesting itself in a completely different way, often appears in our doorway. because our home is h

INVOCATION OF THE ADVERSARY

rcles and announces command over the entire approximation of self. while the rite is called for as one being conducted at both noon and midnight, the sorcerer may choose to conduct both the noon (light) and midnight (darkness) points at both hours, as an further focused point of ensorcelled energy may be raised. this is considering the embodiment of the self is within the perpetual mastery of the psyche in reference to the model of shaitan. it is essential that the magician looses all perception of anything outside of the circle, that being enflamed and submerged in gnosis, the circle is the circumference of the sorcerers' world. that the ritual is a success is the subjected 'turning the knife towards oneself' in the area of self-directed and willed energy. the ritual of the adversary, in

ISIS UNVEILED

t of the four half-naked seasons. on the christian tombs of the cemeteiy of st. calixtus, orpheus charms the animals. elsewhere, the christ as jupiter* pluto, and mary as proserpina, receive the souls that mercury wear- ing the broad-brimmed bat, and carrying in his hand the rod of the soul- guide (psyckopompot) brings to them in presence of the three fates. pegasus, the symbol of the apotheosis; psyche, the symbol of the immor- tal soul; heaven personified by an old man, the river jordan; and victory figure on a host of christian monuments" as we have elsewhere shown, the primitive christian community was composed of small groups scattered about and organized in secret socie- ties, with passwords, grips and signs. to avoid the relentless persecutions of their enemies, they were obliged to

ISRAEL REGARDIE A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GEOMANTIC DIVINATION

) and yang (unbroken) lines, sixty-four hexagrams are evolved, each with a specific meaning. geomantic divination differs only in that the method of dealing with these sixteen symbols gives more complete and elaborate answers than does the yi. the method of operation, however, is not too dissimilar: reliance upon the laws of chance, the geomantic intelligences, or the operation of the unconscious psyche. for my purpose, they are equivalent terms. these sixteen figures are attributed, first, to the four primitive elements of earth, air, fire and water. and then to the seven planets of the ancients, as well as to the twelve signs of the zodiac. only a few elementary descriptions need to be given here in reference to the signs and symbols. experience will provide further elaboration. method 2

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

strated, that all their nourishment comes from higher finer frequencies of pranic energies (what we term photon or chi energy, one divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 155 achieves amazing freedom from the imagined need to eat and can indulge their taste buds for the pure sake of pleasure, not need. we are still researching the depth and complexity of the human psyche regarding the connection with eating for emotionally based reasons and this aspect of boredom. note 2003: to me one of the greatest gifts over the past decade has been freedom of choice and freedom from limitation. q: are there any associated health risks/problems or deficiencies (iron, b12? continuing from the previous question, the essence of life is prana. if a person chooses, they may c

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

culation. but no one has ever found a trace of david lang. and there remains only the affidavit of lang's daughter and the statements of the the other witnesses that lang simply vanished while crossing an open field. 102 e=mc here applied proof shown by use of converter-feiled (sic) in action? harmless and so we are faced with the problem of explaining these phenomena. are they cases in which the psyche of the individual is such that he can control his movement and body in time and space? if so, why does he not return? i submit that capture by a space contraption, for purposes beyond our ken, is the only truly satisfactory answer' lang did xxx dematieralize (sic) xxxxxxx, swept up so quick, xxxxxxxxxxxx.1 the same for nurd, plants, water, rocks, etc "kaspar" was a problem, a result of cros

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

ly divorced from judeo-christian mythology. aquino served as the temple of set s high priest until 1996, at which time he retired from the office, while remaining an active member. the temple of set teaches that what christianity has called satan is a corruption of the egyptian figure of set. set is not understood as a god of evil, but rather the personification of the individual consciousness or psyche. members( setians) can explore the temple s philosophy individually, or through local groups called archon 15 pylons. unlike the church of satan, which advocated a law of the jungle approach to society, the temple of set inclines more toward platonic idealism, encouraging setians to aspire to high standards of personal ethics despite the moral and cultural imperfections of the society aroun

here or in the far west beyond the river oceanus. it was not a happy place, but shrouded in mist and darkness, and figures move about as in a dream. hades was separated from the land of the living by five rivers lethe (the river of forgetfulness, styx, phlegethon, acheron, and cocytus. the entrance was guarded by cerberus, a terrifying hellhound with three heads and serpents around each neck. the psyche (or life essence, shade, or ghost) of the deceased would leave the dead body and travel to that place to lead a pallid, weak, melancholy existence. h 101 102 hades charon ferries the spirits of the departed across the river styx and into the realm of the dead. the offspring of nyx (night) and erebus (darkness, charon was portrayed as a squalid, grumpy old man with a bad temper. he required

LIBER ASTARTE

ilosophus would have received, containing libri 61, 65, 7, 220, 27 and 813 in that order. the modern volume titled the holy books of thelema (equinox iii (9, additionally contains the .class a. libri 1, 10, 66, 90, 156, 231, 370 and 400, as well as a facsimile of the ms of liber al. t.s] svb figvra clxxv 7 cornelia and caius gracchus, and the love of bacchus and ariadne, and the love of cupid and psyche, and the love of endymion and artemis, and the love of demeter and persephone, and the love of venus and adonis, and the love of lakshmi and vishnu, and the love of siva and bhavani, and the love of buddha and ananda, and the love of jesus and john, and many more. also there is the love of many saints for their particular deity, as of st francis of assisi for christ, of sri sabhapaty swami

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

ox iii (1) in 1919 (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 25.06.200 tliber cccxxxv adonis an allegory a a publication in class c. 1 adonis an allegory by alesiter crowley inscribed to adonis. argument esarhaddon is man ignorant of his high destiny, lost in love of the body (astarte) whose 5 handmaidens are the 5 senses. the soul (psyche) appeals to him in vain, but awakes his dread of the king of babylon (the material plane) who is death.but also subject to the king of greece, who is the one lord. hermes, the wisdom of god, leads the man to recollection of his true nature by putting him into samadhi, the .sudden death. of the qabalah. he leaps up freed. the body now feels worthless and the man despises it; but the soul say

of the qabalah. he leaps up freed. the body now feels worthless and the man despises it; but the soul says no: all 3 of us must enjoy together.1 1 [this .argument. not in the equinox printing, but handwritten by ac into a copy of equinox i (7) and subsequently transcribed by yorke. t.s] persons of the allegory the king of babylon, tributary to the king of greece hermes, a greek physician the lady psyche the count adonis, at first known as the lord esarhaddon the lady astarte the warriors of the king of babylon hanuman, servant to hermes charis. elpis. pistis. attendants on psyche. three aged women handmaidens and slaves of astarte 3 scene i: the hanging gardens of babylon. r, the house of the lady astarte; l, a gateway; c, a broad lawn enriched with clustered flowers and sculptures. the su

and the dancers! fiery seats of empire of the archangels, let your wings ramp through the empyrean! lords and kings of the gods, descend and serve us, as we spurn and trample life, fill death fs sardonyx urn with loves immortal.how shall i endure this moment fs patience? ah, she comes, be sure! her foot flits on the marble. open, gate [the gate, not of the house but of the garden, opens. the lady psyche appears. she is clothed in deep purple, as mourning, and her hair is bound with a fillet of cypress and acacia. she is attended by three maidens and three aged women. what tedious guest arrives? adonis 9 psyche. white hour of fate! i have found him! esarhaddon. who is this. fair lady, pardon. you seek the mistress of the garden? psyche. i thought i had found the lord i seek. your pardon, lo

f cypress and acacia. she is attended by three maidens and three aged women. what tedious guest arrives? adonis 9 psyche. white hour of fate! i have found him! esarhaddon. who is this. fair lady, pardon. you seek the mistress of the garden? psyche. i thought i had found the lord i seek. your pardon, lord. these eyes are weary and weak with tears and my vain search. esarhaddon. whom seek you then? psyche. my husband.my sole miracle of men, the count adonis [esarhaddon staggers and falls on the couch. psyche. you know of him? esarhaddon. no. i cannot tell what struck me so. i never heard the name. psyche. indeed, your eyes are liker his than wedded dragon-flies! your brows are his, your mouth is his. yet all fs awry! esarhaddon. may be it is! psyche. oh, pardon. mine is but a mad girl.s glan

eed, your eyes are liker his than wedded dragon-flies! your brows are his, your mouth is his. yet all fs awry! esarhaddon. may be it is! psyche. oh, pardon. mine is but a mad girl.s glance adonis is this soul fs inheritance. all else is madness. esarhaddon. mad! mad! mad! mad! mad! why say you this? who are you? sad? glad? bad? bad! bad! speak, speak! bleak peak of mystery? weak cheek of modesty? psyche. oh, pardon me! i did not mean to move you thus. esarhaddon. i am stirred too easily. you used a shameful word! psyche. accept my sorrow. i am all alone in this black night. my heart is stone, my limbs are lead, mine eyes accurst, my throat a hell of thirst. liber cccxxxv 10 my husband.they suppose him dead. they made me wear these weeds. could i in my heart credit half they said, not these

nd! but only these of all mine household come in faith and hope and love so far from home, and these three others joined me.why, who knows? but thou, lord, in whose face his likeness shows. at the first glance.for now, i. faith .tis gone. hast thou dwelt away here in babylon? esarhaddon. now must i laugh.forgive me in your sorrow! my life.s not yesterday and not to-morrow. i live; i know no more. psyche. how so? esarhaddon. i fear i know but this, that i fm a stranger here. the call me the lord esarhaddon.name borrowed or guessed, i cannot tell! i came whence i know not.some malady destroyed my memory. psyche. oh, were you he! but yet i see you are not. had you no tokens from the life forgot? esarhaddon. nay, i came naked into babylon. i live the starlight and sleep through the sun. i am h

ed or guessed, i cannot tell! i came whence i know not.some malady destroyed my memory. psyche. oh, were you he! but yet i see you are not. had you no tokens from the life forgot? esarhaddon. nay, i came naked into babylon. i live the starlight and sleep through the sun. i am happy in love, i am rich, i eat and drink, i gather goods, i laugh, i never think. know me the prince of perfect pleasure! psyche. yet is there not something that you would forget? some fear that chills you? while you talk to me i see you glance behind you fearfully. adonis 11 esarhaddon (with furtive fear amounting to horror) you see the shadow? psyche. no: slim shadows stretch from yonder moon, and woo the world, and etch with their fantastic melancholy grotesques the earth.man.s destiny in arabesques. esarhaddon. y

! you are mad! see where he stands! it is the king of babylon, reeking daggers in his hands. and black blood oozes, oozes, throbs and dips from his eyes and nostrils to his lips that he sucks, gnashing his fangs. upon his head is a crown of skulls, and monkeys new and gibber and mop about him. skew! spew! ugh! hu! mow! now! mow! they go.cannot you hearthem? what? have you courage to go near them? psyche. nothing is there. esarhaddon. oh, but he has the head of a boar, the black boar night! all dead, dead, dead, the eyes of girls that once were beautiful hang round his neck. whack! crack! he slaps a skull for a drum.smack! flack! thwack! back, i fll not attack. quack! quack! there fs ducks and devils on his back. keep him away. you want a man, you say? well, there fs a king for you to-day

him! slobber over him! his ribs should be readily tickled. wah! wah! wah! she jibs. ugh! there he came too close. i fll bite the dust; i.ll lick the slime of babylon. great lust, great god, great devil, gar-gra-gra-gra! spare me! take this wench, though she were the womb that bare me! see! did i tell you, he fs the king, the king, the king of terrors. see me grovelling! yah! ha! liber cccxxxv 12 psyche. there fs nothing there. are you a man to craze at naught? esarhaddon. immitigable ban! immitigable, pitiful, profound. ban, can, fan, ran, and pan is underground, round, bound, sound.oh have pity. who art thou whose coming thus unmans me? not till now saw i, or felt i, or heard i, the king so mumbling near; black blood fs on everything. boo! scow! be off! out! vanish! fly! begone! out! off

my lips, gnaw your bones like a dog. off, sow! off, grumpet! strumpet! scum-pit! flails to thresh your body! clubs to mash your face in! knives to cut away your cat.s nine lives! astarte (entering hastily) what fs this? who are you? what right have you to come and make this havoc in the home? can you not see what wreck your tempest makes? begone! i have a fiery flight of snakes to lash you hence! psyche. it may be mine fs the right. it may be you are nothing in my sight. it may be i have found my lord at last; and you.his concubine? may be out-cast. astarte. this is the sure thing, that i chase thee. slaves! hither your whips! that are more black with blood of such as this thing than your skins with kisses of your sun fs frenzy [the slaves run up. adonis 13 psyche. thou vain woman! now i k

LIBER XXV THE STAR RUBY

to comment further upon an official ritual of the a a .13 [this ritual formed chapter ke (25) of the book of lies. a slightly revised version appeared in appendix vi of magick in theory and practice. variations in the mtp version are recorded in footnotes (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press/ niwg. this e-text last revised 12.06.2004] 10 [psyche. for eros and psyche see the fable in the metamorphoses (golden ass) of apuleius, the reference in any case being to vau and he final of tetragrammaton, as chaos and babalon (see gthe vision and the voice h) represent yod and he. magick has gbellow hadit. h. t.s] 11 [the signs of n.o.x. are described in gliber v vel reguli. h the order in which they are given is left to the ingenium of the aspirant. t.s] 12 [gr

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

s? let us have. hope, faith and charity. a touch of lusty levity cures the illusions of our hemianopic moralities, sensibilities and righteousness; for the life-force is not blind. we are. if god is manifest in all phenomena, our reactions have outstripped the devil himself. if our ethics were as logical as our techniques and methods of design they would at least have appropriateness. whether the psyche develops with the body, or whether a transmutation occurs or is created by us, matters little as long as we endow it with godlike form. chaos wedlocked to chaos gave birth to order. t- p( 9..t"d..1 y..q' 2 .5: e may take. because of our infinite relationships, potentialities are there. the shapes of form are not yet exhausted and there are no miracles beyond living matter. though flesh in i

our past and present states, but we are mainly unaware of our past or present states or their extensiveness. memory constantly unfolds and imagination is limitless. we think and believe whatever we desire to believe, whatever the motivation. there is nothing to stop us. we have the power to direct and control our desire, whether for the things of the body or the more abstract conceptions from the psyche as works of art. with growing ability our thoughts are more free in that we gain certain powers of transference. to us, truth has relation to how much we believe of the things we would believe in. always true: i 2 n>b 2/ n>b> 2 o> meanings become obscure, beyond our definition, and guessing becomes our technique. the simple becomes complex and our logic a tautology of qualifications that ar

though limitless, space is faveolated and nothing escapes its closets. space limits and makes all partitive; we are an experience of entity which so realizes. beyond time is limitless entity and potential identity. acceptance of all things extends outwards our character, through all negations to ultimate poise. sense impressions yield inferior knowledge unless vitalized by affectiveness from the psyche. man at one with nature is inconceivable, duality is our way, prometheus our apotheosis. superman died with pantheism. since then we have had only invalids and salvationists. fear not the gods, life or death, but your own cowardice and all cowardly men. all knowledge moves towards bloodless categories and nominalism; an argument for occasional saturnalia. i believe that the whole parapherna

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

agickal path that is the holy aspects of ones personal development. he/she will seek to expand consciousness and gain the attainment of his/her holy guardian angel, the true will or direction of life in which you shall journey. this is also the path of healing, of perfecting the self in any way you can and to begin a strong foundation in luciferian magick (astral projection and development of the psyche. the right hand path seeks to align the individual with the flowing stream of nature, to align the self with the avenue of god or the creative force itself. this form may be defined or named as lucifer, as the eldest angel of the creative source who has journeyed through both paths. the left side of the path is that of sorcery/witchcraft and the mysteries of astral vampirism. this is the ar

dead (hermetic circle of hamara t) should we manifest the witches sabbat gnosis in a clear and positive way. the triple hermetic circle of hamara t is one of diving the black mirrors of the mind, from which our source and end are contained therein. it is through these mirrors, which if aligned correctly through initiation, will allow the reflection to move on indefinitely. thus immortality of the psyche is possible. one must be focused and move through the mental barriers from which society has bred through us. hermetic occultism within the witches sabbat is perhaps one of the most significant developments of this magickal art. before gerald gardner reinvented witchcraft as 17 wicca in the 60 s on, there were in fact many groups practicing egyptian magick and ceremonial workings, later on

ceremonial or solitary workings. rituals of chaos and summoning may be done within this circle, and the grand witches sabbat circle may be used as the circle to perform both the bornless or headless one ritual and congress cum daemone or the ritual of the evil genius. it is the dual gnosis of light (headless one, the air aspect of lucifer) and darkness (set, the evil genius or isolated, separate psyche which is earth based. to sum it up: a few examples of use of the triple hermetic circle would be the following (but not limited to: high ceremonial sex magick (the union of gods and goddesses) workings of the antichrist (belarion armiluss al dajjal self transformation rituals) the infernal sabbat workings familiar or servitor creations mass or group ceremonial invocations or evocations goet

is to submit to a concept of god. greater black magick demands that you devour those gods and make your consciousness the arena for their manifestation according to your will. it is therefore, very dangerous to open gateways of evocation (to summon outside the body) and invocation (to call inside the body or mind) of any force, as the black magickian seeks to absorb and bring initiations into the psyche to build the individual as a being separate from the universe. the teachings of astral vampirism within the black order of the dragon delve the depths of these concepts further. one would use the dark gods as models of strength and a symbol of immortal manifestation. the shadow form of lucifer is set, who is the ancient prince of darkness. set is the aspect of the infernal yet not self-dest

ginning and end in its spiritual aspect, azoth is a form of life and death. from between comes the possibility of manifestation. ba- the soul in egyptian mythology. when the immortal physically dies, the ba, which is the astral body, lives on within the tomb and beyond. ba may be seen as the evil 34 genius of earth bound force often presented in egyptian lore as a human headed bird. the ba is the psyche and force which exists beyond the veil. balefire ritual fire used in coven gatherings. black flame the illuminated essence of being, the concept that we perceive ourselves and our separate aspect from the natural order. the gift of set or azazel. chalice the magickal cup used for philters and ceremonies. while some covens and individuals use the silver cup, one may use a kapala as well, whi

vocation the act of calling the spirit into and area, out from the self. evocation generally involves servitors, familiars, and daemons. a potent and dangerous aspect of ritual magick and sorcery is to evoke the force into the triangle, and then enter the triangle and invoke the force, calling it in. this results in an aspect of possession and leads to higher developments of the consciousness and psyche. familiar- the servitor or animal spirit which is associated with the sorcerer. the familiar may be evoked and bound, or may be created by the individual to assist in the workings of sorcery. called also the famulus (latin) fetish an object from which the focus of a spirit or coven item is charged. this is the home of the famulus and is an extension of the sorcerer. holy guardian angel the

which is associated with the sorcerer. the familiar may be evoked and bound, or may be created by the individual to assist in the workings of sorcery. called also the famulus (latin) fetish an object from which the focus of a spirit or coven item is charged. this is the home of the famulus and is an extension of the sorcerer. holy guardian angel the true will, the divine aspect of the self as the psyche, the immortal aspect of the mind which separates us from pure instinctual beings. iblis- the fallen angel known as the devil. the attribution of iblis is that of the imagination, thus lucifer is our imagination. while not widely accepted in the west, william blake was one of the few to and attributes satan to the mind. iblis is derived from the greek diabolus. iblis before the fall is known

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

of coven nachttoter is the sigil of hecate, which is a mirror into the gates of the dead, the abode of the goddess of witches. the sethianic fragments of luciferian witchcraft these god forms are powerful for the sorcerer who summons them, discovers the atavistic aspects which relate to them, and becomes like them. one would seek to create such energy forms that may be closely connected with the psyche, therefore initiating a further speed of ones becoming through manifesting the qualities and traits of the god forms therein. atavisms are also used in such a way; while often one may use atavistic resurgence as a form of summon many of the god forms listed above. some of the luciferian witchcraft or high sorcery gnosis is developed from charles pace, known in early wiccan circles as hamar'

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT THE MYSTERY REVEALED

agickal path that is the holy aspects of ones personal development. he/she will seek to expand consciousness and gain the attainment of his/her holy guardian angel, the true will or direction of life in which you shall journey. this is also the path of healing, of perfecting the self in any way you can and to begin a strong foundation in luciferian magick (astral projection and development of the psyche. the right hand path seeks to align the individual with the flowing stream of nature, to align the self with the avenue of god or the creative force itself. this form may be defined or named as lucifer, as the eldest angel of the creative source who has journeyed through both paths. the left side of the path is that of sorcery/witchcraft and the mysteries of astral vampirism. this is the ar

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

ule of three" four worlds the universe as it was perceived43 by the renaissance philosophers consisted of "four worlds" the hermetica describes such a division with each of the four worlds associated with one of the classical "elements."44 kabbalah has the same division as review of "tree mechanics" will indicate.45 they are the "elemental" or physical world (asiyyah, the "celestial" world of the psyche or soul (yezirah, the "supercelestial" world or spirit (beriah, and the divine world (azilut. we can see that these same levels are represented on the board. the pavement represents the "elemental" physical world, the central part of the board including the columns and most of the symbols, represents the "celestial" world of the psyche or soul, the heavens represent the "supercelestial" wor

nts the "celestial" world of the psyche or soul, the heavens represent the "supercelestial" world of the spirit, and the glory, as we have seen, represents the divinity. in figure 10 i have related these macro-cosmic symbols to the tree of life. since a person starting on a masonic career enters the lodge from his life in the physical world, i will consider the lodge to be a representation of the psyche which is the world of consciousness contiguous with the physical world. the psyche is also the bridge between the physical world and the world of the spirit. because of that, this tree on which we shall place the symbols of masonry is a yeziratic tree. the corinthian column, a style derived from the ideas of energy and growth, relates to the active, expansive, right hand column. the simple

one of the volumes of the sacred law we are told that. ye are the temple" masonic labor is interior work, work on one's self. when a candidate is first admitted into the order he is said to be an apprentice, and as a beginner his labors take place on the ground floor of the temple. in kabbalistic terms, we may think that the ground floor corresponds to the lower face of the tree, the part of the psyche in intimate contact with the physical world. in figure 11 we see the prominent symbols of the apprentice degree "on the tree" note first, faith, hope and charity, to the left. i have placed them to indicate that the "ladder" corresponds to the central column of the tree, and the three "principal rounds" correspond to the major steps up the central column. faith, the first principal round is

junior and senior deacons; and just as the dove is said to be a messenger of divine grace, so the deacons are messengers who convey commands and information on behalf of the more senior officers of the lodge. for me, they are analogous to those levels of consciousness called feeling and awakening which provide messages to the ego with information about what is going on in the deeper levels of the psyche, the part of which we are usually unconscious. let us leave the officers for a moment and consider the tools which are shown in dark blue. there are three working tools associated with each degree; and those of the first degree are the gavel, the chisel, and the 24 inch gauge.55 these are tools of action; tools used to accomplish work. i have placed the gavel at nezah because its energy and

i have been alluding throughout this writing: this is a ladder (it has become a staircase) between two opposite verticals. i believe this to be a symbolic reference to the tree of life. just to finish off this general correspondence, note that there are four levels in the picture: the ground floor, in contact with the physical world; the first floor to which the staircase leads, representing the psyche, the world of the soul; a gallery at the top of the picture, pale blue in color representing the spirit; and the sun, representing divinity. outside, near the river, there is an ear of corn growing. it tells us that the processes we are about to consider are processes of natural maturation. the staircase is guarded at the bottom by the junior warden, and it should come as no surprise that t

ezirah changes worlds; and becomes manifest on the paper in asiyyah as a text or as a picture. text and pictures are the manifestation as which ideas and images exist in the physical world. now think of the nature of hokmah; it is the sefirah of revelation. through the processes of inspiration and creativity genuinely original material from the tiferet of beriah, the world of creation, enters our psyche at keter; and we experience it first as a revelation, or as a flash of insight, at hokmah. for me the pencil, with its characteristic of enabling ideas to "change worlds" is a symbolic representation of hokhmah's capacity for receiving revelation (creative material) from the spirit. the tool at binah is called the skirret. it is actually a reel of string on a pin that can be stuck in the gr

rfection or regeneration."72 evidence of this idea of death not being an end, but rather a mystical process through which to pass, is to be found quite early in the development of the ritual. it is reflected on this french drawing in figure 18. this drawing is from la desolation des entrepreneurs modernes (c. 1747)73 and it shows the footsteps of the candidate as he steps from the square (yezirah/psyche, past the emblems of death and past the grave, to the compasses (beriah/spirit. with this notion of transformation in mind i have placed the coffin/grave at the daat of yezirah, as you will see in figure 15. there is one more thing we should note before leaving the tracing board of the third degree: the points of the compass on the frame of the board. you will remember that in the first deg

ce of the master mason's degree is the cause of this change in orientation. when he started as an apprentice the candidate considered himself to be a physical being. as he progressed through the apprentice and fellow craft degrees he came to realize that he was a psychological being who possessed a body. now, after the death of the self, he realizes himself to be a spiritual being who possesses a psyche and a body. with this realization his orientation changes; and he looks to the west, toward the others who are striving along the path to the east. now he can share what he has learned and offer assistance to those who seek it. that is, he travels. west to propagate the knowledge (he) has gained" in doing that he practices the third of the theological virtues, charity. figure 18. plan of th

cal death, is at daat. now, daat is not a sefirah. i think of daat as a place in its own world where the texture of that world is such that one has access to the corresponding area in the next higher world. for an example, consider the situation one world lower. the daat of the physical body is the person's face; and if you look at a person's face, you have access to his persona, an aspect of his psyche, at the yesod of yezirah. that is the nature of daat; and with that in mind, let us turn to the consideration of the royal arch. the three degrees of masonry take place at the building of king solomon's temple. that temple was the wonder of its age, but it had a difficult history. in the process of various invasions of the holy land the temple was finally destroyed. it was to be rebuilt sev

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

emony of initiation, the candidate stood upon the skins of animals sacrificed for the purpose, and vowed that death should seal his lips before he would divulge the sacred truths which were about to be communicated to him. through indirect channels, however, some of their secrets have been preserved. the teachings given to the neophytes were substantially as follows: the soul of man--often called psyche, and in the eleusinian mysteries symbolized by persephone--is essentially a spiritual thing. its true home is in the higher worlds, where, free from the bondage of material form and material concepts, it is said to be truly alive and self-expressive. the human, or physical, nature of man, according to this doctrine, is a tomb, a quagmire, a false and impermanent thing, the source of all sor

sun, they guarded the sun; izdubar saw them and fear and terror came into his face" among the early latins there was a machine of war called the scorpion. it was used for firing arrows and probably obtained its name from a long beam, resembling a scorpion's tail, which flew up to hurl the arrows. the missiles discharged by this machine were also called scorpions. the butterfly (under the name of psyche, a beautiful maiden with wings of opalescent light) symbolizes the human soul because of the stages it passes through in order to unfold its power of flight. the three divisions through which the butterfly passes in its unfoldment resemble closely the three degrees of the mystery school, which degrees are regarded as consummating the unfoldment of man by giving him emblematic wings by which

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onclad systems of thought without occult bases which have been imposed upon the public mind from time to time, such as communism, fascism, or capitalism, but these at least function under the pretence of ministering to the bodies of mankind rather than to the good of the soul, whatever that might be. the domain of witchcraft is the realm of the unseen and the point at which it impinges upon man's psyche, and as it is in this very same area that the various churches have sought to dabble their fingers, it is with these institutions that we witches take issue in principle. ironically, you will find that all the innovators and founders of said religions were revolutionaries in their time who took issue with their parent religions and were usually labeled heretics of one sort or another for th

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anism with the promethean fire of the divine principle. meanwhile that symbol of what is possible to him is offered for his reflection and contemplation, and he may profitably study the description of regenerated, perfected man given in meaning revelation 1, 12-20. to summarize, the seven officers typify the masonry following sevenfold parts of the human mechanism: w.m. spirit (pneuma. s.w. soul (psyche. j.w. mind (nous, intellect. s.d. the link between spirit and soul. j.d. the link between soul and mind. i.g. the inner sense-nature (astral. o.g. the outer sense-nature (physical. the greater and lesser lights the purpose of initiation may be defined as follows--it is to stimulate and awaken the candidate to direct cognition and irrefutable demonstration of facts and truths of his own bein

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

manie (1580) bodin wrote that witches rode a broom stick or black ram to the sabbat. as early as 1489 a writer called molitor mentioned wolves as a transport. in the goetia, amon is shown riding a wolf. in molitor s de lamiis a woodcut shows a witch riding a wolf, not to mention other sorcerers sitting astride a forked stick4. the infernal sabbat, being the antinomian self-love rite of sexual and psyche oriented self-deification, allows the passing of the shadow of the witch into an averse and more powerful state of being. belladonna was used also in salves to produce flying, in large amounts can easily kill. atropine is easily absorbed by the skin, which when mixed with fat enters into the bloodstream quickly. such ingredients no doubted caused such mental and astral journeys into the sab

t, two moons, the dark (hecate) and the light (lilith or yram-satrina. to the initiate however, lucifer or the baphometic spirit becomes a state which is brought forth or developed to by going forth by night. the path of spirit travel is a temporal process of self emerging from its skin to ascend in the form of shadow, thus willed to manifest in a dreaming flesh. the dreaming body is the form the psyche or ka takes in sleep, and that which flies or goes forth to the infernal sabbat. in the context of witchcraft and sorcery, the western initiate of today holds a wealth of information to build from. idries shah points out in the sufis that the spanish word for witch is bruja, and are considered the children of wisdom. the history of witchcraft and primal sorcery is bound within the yatuivdah

ects of magical practice produced what we commonly call magickal paths today. what was lost or well forgotten, by some incantation or spell of remembrance, such surged forth as a bestial atavism that which was dead now emerged as a 12 angels are considered by abu-hamid mohammed al-ghazali to be the higher faculties of man. 13 empyrean= highest heavens, heights, the astral plane which leads to the psyche or genius revealed. see the key of solomon the king by s.l. mathers, the symbolism of angels (higher octave) and demons (lower octave or infernal spirits. this term is inextricably the same as celestial, the sabbat of luciferian light. 14 baphomet is a magickal transformation of being. baphomet, being the head of wisdom, is related to cain in some sabbatic and luciferian circles. 15 the peo

chapter of the book of the dead the spirit of the deceased prays that he is kept from the great god who devour the heart and soul, who is the guardian of darkness. this is revealed by e.a. wallis budge that this god is none other than suti (set. set was the tester of the dead in this capacity, and set tested the spirit by it s own admission of transformation from life to death and finally, to the psyche becoming immortal. if this test failed, set in the form of seker, devoured the soul. later on seker was merged with ptah, a blacksmith god24 and took the form of a mummy with a visage of an old man. 21 egyptian mysteries, lucy lamie 22 a mask of dreaming is focusing and projecting the psyche or self into the mask of the god form in question, going forth to the sabbat masked in the cloak of

mmoning of ahrimanic spirits. as known, ahriman appears in many forms throughout history, a consistent shape shifter. be it toads, wolves or dragons/serpents, ahriman is the wizard in spirit one who masters time by the dream and the twilight world made flesh by desire. the goal of the ritual is a form of self-initiation, adversarial crystallization of the self, that the individual strengthens the psyche and the shadow of the sorcerer. it is the utterance of a word, the embodiment of a god or goddess in flesh. the rite of the adversarial shadow the chant of the infernal sabbat as i face the star of al ghul the two horns become one. i cast the circle as kabed-us-spae, that within is the circumference of my divinity. by the star of algol i bask in the brilliance of the sun at midnight, the ey

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has long been hidden from the basic study of magick on any serious level. the inherent goal of magick is to awaken and explore the self, progression, evolution and individual power. this is gained from first hand experience and study. the path of the sorcerer is never an easy or safe one, many of the greatest dangers exist in the subconscious realm. vampirism has existed and grown in the european psyche for generations, stretching some thousands of years. the same is true with lycanthropy, shape shifting and the darker aspects of witchcraft. lycanthropy is closely connected with the dual aspects of sex and death, as is vampirism. the lunar current which the sorcerer opens and becomes aligned with is based on the aspect of hidden desire and lustful atavisms which manifest in the spirit and

he brain. vampyrism is also the will-directed internal focus of exploring the immortal aspects of the vampyre in shadow and dream form. it is a process of sinister or left-handed alchemy, being the adversarial path of luciferian self-development. elementals are different from spirits in that they will often take the form of desires and what we call atavisms, they take the form of urges within the psyche and rarely can be 18 18 made to assume visible appearance. austin spare was said to be able to do such at certain times however his witch mother yelg paterson was said to do such at will. da ath is guarded by choronzon, who is regarded as both demon and vampire. some texts have presented choronzon as not a demon at all, however but a guardian of this hidden sphere who is only considered 'ev

agick and belief vampiric sorcery is based on essentially the same principles as more traditional forms of magick. the only exception is that darker symbols are sometimes involved. we do not consider these evil or harmful, as there is no ill intent towards anyone- they are simply a means of strengthening and connecting with the self on all levels. vampirism is quite natural to many aspects of the psyche with which we desire connection. the path of evil in an initiatory context is not in reference to moral or ethical pursuits or aberrations, rather one of adversarial focus by such god forms of antinomianian or sethanic (set) assumption separation from the natural order. to learn magick one must have begun to understand the self and individual strengths and weaknesses. magick is defined by a

t which would attack you. by the call of shemyaza may the hidden knowledge and protection be revealed. by the desire of my many forms shall be passed from the grave to life touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah (and the power) 58 58 touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah (and the glory) facing the south, make the sign of the inverse pentagram, symbolizing the matter of the flesh and the psyche which allows the spirit god to emerge. baraqijal, allow the stars to align with my everlasting protection! may the dead hear my call! face now the altar: before me lucifer; behind me shaitan; on my right hand belial; on my left hand leviathan; for about me flames the pentagram, and in the column stands the seven-rayed star of babalonlilith! ii. the circle of the dead upon the altar a pre-cr

lized transformation in reference of memory, all feelings and strange ideals which are brought forth. once this is mastered with tangible results to the initiate, you may at this time begin to shape shift into a combination of animals and birds, which attribute suits your personality and desire. five: path of the serpent: the primal awakening and entry into leviathan, the serpentine aspect of the psyche. thinking in this path tends to reflect cold and logical thinking patterns, devoid of emotion. while this may at first be contrary to your own personality, keep a focus of this path as you will eventually balance out aspects considered cold in forms of thinking before action, ect. the point of this path is to initiate self-study and thinking before impulsive action. the serpent is wisdom an

be united; the dragon shall then take flesh. the initiate shall utilize his or her magickal and sorcerous techniques to expand their own knowledge and span of control. the seeker shall also visualize nightly a great dragon, as a form of their own self and then seek entry through the coils of leviathan= timeless essence. it is at this point timeless consciousness, the goal being immortality of the psyche shall be explored in depth. seven: path of ahriman the lord of darkness and shadows, the vampyric essence itself. the initiate works in meditation upon developing the shadow into various forms of transformation, via creating ngangas and fetishes. this is the essence of the multitude of daemonic transformation. keep a detailed journal on the results therein, including the paths of goetic and

he reason for this is simple, once your astral double has left the human body, the will is not necessarily in perfect tune with the defense settings you have created. in other words, although elementals are also born of desire and will, they can be charged with a specific purpose. the iron walls act only as a blocking force for unwanted spiritual energy which appears negative towards the will and psyche. its primary role is to protect against another taking control of your physical body, if such occurs it is possible for possession and split personalities to take place. an elemental form composed of will, blood, sexual fluid and visualization can offer a power-packed method of protection against this and other hazards. such elementals may be created or summoned by the consecration of sigil

opment. the hidden knowledge i speak of is the of the vast, and often unexplored, subconscious symbolised by the night sky or space. the adventure of exploration is the secret of the development of the individual sorcerer. animal atavisms which inhabit the human brain can be categorized as two types. some typify forms of pre-human consciousness; other strains have linked themselves with the human psyche and genetics. in the final analysis either kind can be defined as totems by shamans. lycanthropy is nothing more than rites of atavistic resurgence, either on a dream level, in which the egyptians were so skilled; or upon the waking level: as when strength or stealth are obtained or invoked during moments of dire need. austin osman spare's image of "nu moon rite (illustrated in kenneth gran

rites, they define a moral code, that contains the black and the white in integrated form. black is represented as hidden, of the shadow, secret and apart. white is the emanating power which ascends from this "shadow" element. no rite within this grimoire is meant for "evil" purposes or "doing harm. they are meant as a means of recovering and reintegrating lost powers and abilities buried in the psyche. this by a self-initiated process of extreme sense reversion and exploration. choronzon is not meant to be in any way worshiped or revelled in. the point is to remain hidden and seek to understand this force of balance and destruction. choronzon is between point a and point b, critical to the crossing of the abyss. he awaits an opportunity to reverse the polarity of any life force within hi

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

s the idea that the instincts of the fleshmust be crushed down in the interests of the spirit. the tragic consequence of this stagger-ing default of insight are incalculable, but in all conscience overwhelming to any intelli-gence that discerns it. it lay the christian mind open to the obsession of a psychologicalinfluence that has been nothing less than devastating to sanity, inflicting upon the psyche atrauma that has produced morbidity and crushed to a degree the natural instinct for humanhappiness (alvin boyd kuhn, the ultimate canon of knowledge)from these malefactors comes the notion of the removed god, a distant, immaterialand punitive demiurge that requires man to repress natural instincts and live in con-stant guilt. from them also comes the pernicious concept of a fallen god who

are on the earth die, he shall be safe. and this posterity shallbeget on the earth giants, not spiritual, but carnal. now therefore inform thy son lamechthat he who is born is his child in truth; and he shall call his name noah, for he shall be toyou a survivor .in his work called metamorphoses or the golden ass, we read about the god apollosaying strange words regarding the birth of the goddess psyche: on some high crag, o king, set forth the maid, in all the pomp of funeral robes arrayed. hope for no bridegroom born of mortal seed but fierce and wild and of the dragon s breed there is even some evidence of cloning experiments in the bible: and the lord god caused a deep sleep to fall upon adam, and he slept: and he took one ofhis ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the ri

any and all ideas that are manufacturedfor us to consume, especially ideas that occasion vicarious fulfillment of deep arche-typal or instinctual desires. the progeny of atlantis are expert in the subjects of humanbiology and psychology, and they know all about the operations and complexion of thehuman libido. the myriad sensationalistic distractions they produce are adroitlycrafted to poison the psyche and lead to existential anomalies. one can, however, tellthat there is something malign behind these faades when subtle fallacies are intro-duced regarding divinity and spirit. some of these insinuations are so subtle that theypersist into accepted traditions and enter into the collective consciousness.originally, there was a phenomenon of crop circles, but they are different from the ones

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

he eternal blessedness, in short not some spiritual nirvana but in luciferian terms the level of wisdom of possessing this world both materially and spiritually. the physical or world of matter is that of ahriman the prince of darkness. our material universe is our grounding and experience plane which can be agreed upon. the astral plane is the next level of experience, where consciousness or the psyche is cloaked and released from the flesh limitations of this world. the foundations of vampirism within the practice of luciferian witchcraft are based within the study and conventional understanding of the odic force, qi, chi or astral energy. understanding the concept and study of this process is fully made manifest in the process of vampirism and the absorbing of energy. qi is the far east

yatus, sorcerers of ahrimanic witchcraft; our sisters are pairikas, daughters of az. we are the people of the lie (druj, we are the those of demon-flesh awakened and ancient, forever seeking to further illuminate the black flame. our religion is sorcery, that which is ensorcelled by our practice of yatuk-dinoih (witchcraft. life is the great gift of ahriman, as isolate consciousness (the soul or psyche) is separate from the natural order. the black order of the dragon is entirely spiritual in nature, aimed at the theory of gaining immortality via the psyche. it is the physical path of exhaustion, of when the spirit and flesh are one and become stronger with insight and determination. the core essence of the serpent is the eye which hides within the flesh. therein is the power ch an, of no

the sun. the luciferian sabbat is a strengthening and development of the body of light, the astral double of the adept. sabbatic a term which is related as the knowledge of the secret gathering, the sabbat. this is a focus of inspired teaching based on magickal development via dreaming and astral projection. the sabbat is the gathering of sorcerers in dreaming flesh, when the body is shed for the psyche which is able to go forth in whatever form it desires. the witch or sorcerer who is able to attend the sabbat has already freed the mind through a process of antinomian magical practice, thus enforcing and strengthening the imagination as a visualization tool, similar to divination and sight with spirits. shades spirits of the dead, ghosts and phantoms which walks in the astral plane. these

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

the dreamer, and that all the events and characters contained in the dream are simply projections created by the sleeping individual--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 25 the reality of dreams, however, is a bit scarier. to start, it is a false assumption that the events and characters that occupy one s dreamscape are entirely their own creation. far from being mere projections of the sleeper s psyche, some dream characters are in fact spirits who have clothed themselves in some form and have entered into your dream. as it turns out, the land of dreams, often synonymous with the astral plane, is in fact a far more objective reality than it s given credit for. in truth you have met with spirits, and other dreamers in the astral landscape. these spirits, being without a form of their own

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e a suggestion of your work in reference to vampyrism and shadow sorcery, both of the sabbat and the sethanic path of witchcraft will strengthen you in the darkened and tomb soiled shroud of ahriman. come now unto his pitch arms and talons, transform in the embrace of the father and mother of the blood moon of tiamat and babalon. ahrimanic vampyre the ahrimanic vampyre is one who has isolated the psyche, understanding that we are spiritual beings within flesh. we can thus control our immediate surrounding world. as we are born in darkness, we are nourished in the shadows. as we are strengthened in the noon-sun which is the time of shaitan, we create darkness and shadow equally. the ahrimanic vampyre seeks the in-between, or neither-neither world of twilight, from which the shades of the de

sciousness. it is this hidden aspect of sorcery and witchcraft which breeds the legends of evil concepts, while it is only a hint at the purpose of the left hand path. this way is devoid of moralistic concepts, thus in the absolute and in the isolation from it, we are uniquely separate from all exterior forces, the very essence of gods and goddesses. the ahrimanic vampyre is one who separates the psyche from the natural order and masters the nightside or astral plane within our physical world which we seek to control from within. the forms in the nightside of which we assume (bat. wolf, moth, or a hybrid of each and others) are the extensions of our will and desire. the vampyre is a being which has deified itself through the antinomianian process of death and rebirth, one who has passed th

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

e enough to give us any real comfort or hope in facing death. there is another view, however, which disavows notion that death is annihilation of consciousness. according to this other, perhaps more ancient tradition, some aspect of the human being survives even after the physical body ceases to function and is ultimately destroyed. this persistent aspect has been called by many names, among them psyche, soul, mind, spirit, self, being, and consciousness. 3y whatever name it is called, the notion that one passes into another realm of existence upon physical death is among the most venerable of human beliefs. there is a graveyard in turkey which was used by neanderthal men approximately 100,000 years ago. there, fossilized imprints have enabled archaeologists to discover that these ancient

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while the meditating god, the star illuminating the nocturnal mystery, alone carried an unextinguished torch, the candidates were overawed with terrific sounds and noises, while they painfully groped their way, as in the gloomy cavern of the soul's sublunar migration; a scene justly compared to the passage of the valley of the shadow of death. for by the immutable law exemplified in the trials of psyche, man must pass through the terrors of the under-world, before he can reach the height of heaven. at length the gates of the _adytum_ were thrown open, a supernatural light streamed from the illuminated statue of the goddess, and enchanting sights and sounds, mingled with songs and dances, exalted the communicant to a rapture of supreme felicity, realizing, as far as sensuous imagery could d

rishes and purifies; and the urn from which it flows was thought worthy to be a symbol of deity, as of the osiris-canobus who with living water irrigated the soil of egypt; and also an emblem of hope that should cheer the dwellings of the dead. the second birth of dionusos, like the rising of osiris and atys from the dead, and the raising of khurum, is a type of the spiritual regeneration of man. psyche (the soul, like ariadne, had two lovers, an earthly and an immortal one. the immortal suitor is dionusos, the eros-phanes of the orphici, gradually exalted by the progress of thought, out of the symbol of sensuality into the torch-bearer of the nuptials of the gods; the divine influence which physically called the world into being, and which, awakening the soul from its stygian trance, rest

animal form. all soul is part of the universal soul, whose totality is dionusos; and he leads back the vagrant spirit to its home, and accompanies it through the purifying processes, both real and symbolical, of its earthly transit. he died and descended to the shades; and his suffering was the great secret of the mysteries, as death is the grand mystery of existence. he is the immortal suitor of psyche (the soul, the divine influence which physically called the world into being, and which, awakening the soul from its stygian trance, restores it from earth to heaven. of hermes, the mercury of the greeks, the thoth of the egyptians, and the taaut of the ph nicians, we have heretofore spoken sufficiently at length. he was the inventor of letters and of oratory, the winged messenger of the go

lly, some leading idea, according to which the mysteries of being are supposed to be, explained in deity. the intricacies of mythical genealogies are a practical acknowledgment of the mysterious nature of the omnipotent deity; displaying in their beautiful but ineffectual imagery the first efforts of the mind to communicate with nature: the flowers which fancy strewed before the youthful steps of psyche, when she first set out in pursuit of the immortal object of her love. theories and notions, in all their varieties of truth and falsehood, are a machinery more or less efficacious, directed to the same end. every religion was, in its origin, an embryo philosophy, or an attempt to interpret the unknown by mind; and it was only when philosophy, which is essentially progress, outgrew its firs

of the kabalists. it supplies to the adept the last word of the human sciences, and the key of the divine power: but he alone understands how to avail himself of it who comprehends the necessity of never revealing it. if dipus, in place of _slaying_ the sphynx, had _conquered_ it, and driven it into thebes harnessed to his chariot, he would have been king, without incest, calamities, or exile. if psyche, by submission and caresses, had persuaded love to reveal himself, she would never have lost him. love is one of the mythological images of the grand secret and the grand agent, because it expresses at once an action and a passion, a void and a plenitude, an arrow and a wound. the initiates ought to understand this, and, lest the profane should overhear, masonry never says too much. when sc

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ose of liber al is precisely to introduce a new, fully adapted, code of ethics. the author estimates that the code he proposes will fulfil the needs of human society for at least several centuries (see al iii, 34) and the first step to acceptance and use of such a code is to demote reason from its false crown of king of the self to its true function of instrument of the libido. freud analysed the psyche correctly; but his emotional attachment to tabus (he was, after all, a jew and a bourgeois) led him to the hopeless attempt of trying to saddle the lithe race-horse of the contemporary unconscious with the heavy accoutrements of the seedy nag of palestine. reason is in capitals, which suggests a qabalistic meaning. reason =200+5+1+ 7+70+50=333, the number of choronzon "dispersion (see liber

are here referred to our commentaries to al ii, vv. 27,28, 32, 52, and to our comment on joseph smith, at the end of a.c.'s commentary to verse 73. why does a.c. speak of the "smug jew, with his oedipus complex? because the story of oedipus is symbolical of high initiation. in order to become a man the riddle of the sphinx the boy oedipus must kill his father (destroy the father image in his own psyche) and possess his mother (destroy the mother image in his own psyche. readers will please notice that the whole story of oedipus is a veil of the mysteries of eleusis. serious students are referred to lxv, v. 34-40; vii, vii, 22-24; cccxxxiii, 26, and the commentary thereon by a.c. 21. setup my image in the east: thou shalt buy thee an image which i will show thee, especial, not unlike the o

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

e because, being unprovided with the means of locomotion, it could never be removed from an unhealthy locality. aphrodite alone defied his criticism, for, to his great chagrin, he could find no fault with her perfect form.[50] page 167 in what manner the ancients represented this god is unknown. in modern art he is depicted like a king's jester, with a fool's cap and bells. eros (cupid, amor) and psyche. according to hesiod's theogony, eros, the divine spirit of love, sprang forth from chaos, while all was still in confusion, and by his beneficent power reduced to order and harmony the shapeless, conflicting elements, which, under his influence, began to assume distinct forms. this ancient eros is represented as a full-grown and very beautiful youth, crowned with flowers, and leaning on a

who appear under the most charming and diversified forms. these love-gods, who afforded to artists inexhaustible subjects for the exercise of their imagination, are represented as being engaged in various occupations, such as hunting, fishing, rowing, driving chariots, and even busying themselves in mechanical labour. page 168 perhaps no myth is more charming and interesting than that of eros and psyche, which is as follows:.psyche, the youngest of three princesses, was so transcendently beautiful that aphrodite herself became jealous of her, and no mortal dared to aspire to the honour of her hand. as her sisters, who were by no means equal to her in attractions, were married, and psyche still remained unwedded, her father consulted the oracle of delphi, and, in obedience to the divine res

the gentle west wind zephyrus, who transported her to a verdant meadow, in the midst of which stood a stately palace, surrounded by groves and fountains. here dwelt eros, the god of love, in whose arms zephyrus deposited his lovely burden. eros, himself unseen, wooed her in the softest accents of affection; but warned her, as she valued his love, not to endeavour to behold his form. for some time psyche was obedient to the injunction of her immortal spouse, and made no effort to gratify her natural curiosity; but, unfortunately, in the midst of her happiness she was seized with an unconquerable longing for the society of her [152]sisters, and, in accordance with her desire, they were conducted by zephyrus to her fairy-like abode. filled with envy at the sight of her felicity, they poisoned

and, in accordance with her desire, they were conducted by zephyrus to her fairy-like abode. filled with envy at the sight of her felicity, they poisoned her mind against her husband, and telling her that her unseen lover was a frightful monster, they gave her a sharp dagger, which they persuaded her to use for the purpose of delivering herself from his power. after the departure of her sisters, psyche resolved to take the first opportunity of following their malicious counsel. she accordingly rose in the dead of night, and taking a lamp in one hand and a dagger in the other, stealthily approached the couch where eros was reposing, when, instead of the frightful monster she had expected to see, the beauteous form of the god of love greeted her view. overcome with surprise and admiration

was reposing, when, instead of the frightful monster she had expected to see, the beauteous form of the god of love greeted her view. overcome with surprise and admiration, psyche stooped down to gaze more closely on his lovely features, when, from the lamp which she held in her trembling hand, there fell a drop of burning oil upon the shoulder of the sleeping god, who instantly awoke, and seeing psyche standing over him with the instrument of death in her hand, sorrowfully reproached her for her treacherous designs, and, spreading out his wings, flew away. in despair at having lost her lover, the unhappy psyche endeavoured to put an end to her existence by throwing herself into the nearest river; but instead of closing over her, the waters bore her gently to the opposite bank, where pan (

red to put an end to her existence by throwing herself into the nearest river; but instead of closing over her, the waters bore her gently to the opposite bank, where pan (the god of shepherds) received her, and consoled her with the hope of becoming eventually reconciled to her husband. page 170 meanwhile her wicked sisters, in expectation of meeting with the same good fortune which had befallen psyche, placed themselves on the edge of the rock, but were both precipitated into the chasm below. psyche herself, filled with a restless yearning for her lost love, wandered all over the world in search of him. at length she appealed to aphrodite to take compassion on her; but the goddess of beauty, still jealous of her charms, imposed upon her the hardest tasks, the accomplishment of which ofte

in search of him. at length she appealed to aphrodite to take compassion on her; but the goddess of beauty, still jealous of her charms, imposed upon her the hardest tasks, the accomplishment of which often appeared impossible. in these [153]she was always assisted by invisible, beneficent beings, sent to her by eros, who still loved her, and continued to watch over her welfare. page 171 page 172 psyche had to undergo a long and severe penance before she became worthy to regain the happiness, which she had so foolishly trifled away. at last aphrodite commanded her to descend into the under world, and obtain from persephone a box containing all the charms of beauty. psyche's courage now failed her, for she concluded that death must of necessity precede her entrance into the realm of shades

it to provide herself with the ferryman's toll for charon, and the cake to pacify cerberus, also to refrain from taking any part in the banquets of aides and persephone, and, above all things, to bring the box of beauty charms unopened to aphrodite. in conclusion, the voice assured her, that compliance with the above conditions would insure for her a safe return to the realms of light. but, alas, psyche, who had implicitly followed all injunctions, could not withstand the temptation of the last condition; and, hardly had she quitted the lower world, when, unable to resist the curiosity which devoured her, she raised the lid of the box with eager expectation. but, instead of the wondrous charms of beauty which she expected to behold, there issued from the casket a dense black vapour, which

ONYX TABLET OF SET

ely by personal gratification. professed altruism is merely disguised gratification, as is most of what is termed "love. the task of the temple of set is twofold: first, we wish to construct a haven for initiates in which hobbesian motives and behavior are minimized, if not eliminated. in their place we wish to encourage a nobility of intellect and spirit mandated by our conviction that the human psyche is a non-natural phenomenon which need not be bound to the destructive, entropic forces of nature, and which has the potential to evolve into a form of self-consciousness transcending these forces altogether: true, psychecentric divinity. secondly the temple of set desires, insofar as possible, to preserve the benefit of our experience for human society generally. the principles that justif

their best for any number of reasons.we can't be fanatically harsh at this stage, as we must take into accountt hat this is a rare individual who at least accepts the possibility that growth could benefit them. some of our finest initiates did not exactly enter the temple at peak performance. the mystery of xeper and remanifestationis the very fact that dramatic and radical growth can transform a psyche who wills it. we are looking for the spark of potential, not the certainty of perfection. here's my personal checklist of some qualities i'd like to see: ambition. can the candidate tell you even one dream of self- improvement she is aiming for? does he have a goal that is not mere delusion but something that hard work and dedication can achieve? black magic is goal-driven and even more so

ready to put the state to use. and if there are no answers to the fourth, then they haven't done anything in the objective universe and are just talking a good game. i wish you learning in the process. ten priestly things to do the state of the priesthood is something for which your life experience has not prepared you. it causes a change in your relationship to the world. the previous links your psyche has had with the world- your body, your language, your connection with your culture- all remain, but a new and mysterious link has been brought into being. your resonance with the prince of darkness not only enables you to directly gain knowledge of that principle, but also to directly influence others toward that state. the "rules" of this link are difficult to learn, and they can not be t

ks. they can lie to anyone--especially themselves. they generally do a good deal more in the world than their non-addicted fellows (try having a $300.00 a day habit, it does great things to your earning power. drugs, alas, do open the magical link. they blur subjective and objective realities, n o doubt about that. but they end the secret of setian magic.socrates said that the purification of the psyche came from inquiry--that asking the tough (and sometimes dumb-sounding questions--after all "great philosophy comes from stupid questions" as my friend and novelist rob hardin is apt to say. ipsissimus aquino says that the process you have to go through to get to that place where you can work magic (i.e, the concentration of self into a force) is purifying for the psyche. drugs stop inquiry

transform myself sothat i am powerful enough to make amends to them. now here you need to answer a question "hey i'm a black magician,why do i have to worry about others "the answer here is that- the way we treat those who matter to us is an extension of how we treat ourselves.the fact that we have assigned positive meanings to these people means they stand for good (self-pleasing) aspects of our psyche, and if we have made war against them in the objective universe, we have made war against ourselves in the subjective universe. this list can include yourself, your aunt martha or uncle hubert, your parents, coworkers, a partner, lover, the clerk at the grocery store, etc. step five is a prelude to the actual act of humility required by stepsix. in a sense, a person seeking recovery may be

tood to be a presence and force which alone could not be apprehended by perceptions of the natural senses. he thus represents the nameless "thing" whose existence we know of by the shadow it casts on things apprehended and things perceived by it: the non-natural "presence of self" in individual intelligent life. we have generalized the vehicle by which this presence is manifest as the ba, spirit, psyche, or soul in the exoteric and general reference writings of the temple [crystal& ruby tablets, because that concept is sufficiently precise for discussion at that level, and also because any attempt at greater precision would doubtless bewilder initiates [to say nothing of profane colleagues. but within the onyx tablet increased precision is appropriate. we must subtract from the psyche what

m remains as it was when you entered upon the left-hand path, save with one difference: you are now a sacred being yourself; you have quite literally become a part of that to which gbm opens a door. therefore there is an element of "circularity" in gbm at this level; you are both the adventurer and the sphinx. as you come to appreciate, and to feel more comfortable with this dichotomy within your psyche, you will attain to a much more versatile expertise in gbm than you previously thought possible. as with the experience of the priesthood generally, do not rush this experience, but rather allow it to unfold at its own pace.then and only then will you come into full realization of what it means to be consecrated to the priesthood of set. ceremony of ordination to the priesthood of set the s

reflect xeper? why is it important? did it reflect remanifestation? does it reveal a mystery to be sought after? learning to answer these questions again trains us as priests and creates us as gods. the external friction: just as we have unleashed a storm inside ourselves by acting in and from the non-natural state of the priesthood, we will have done so in the very objective world of the other's psyche. having done our job as best we can, it's now up to the other to evaluate- and, if he or she chooses, to integrate and act upon our words. this is the function we as priests perform for setians- we have given them the same access to the divine that we have. not access to a singular voice and vision directly from the mind of set- but access to the process we are learning- so that they may li

th problems. the chances that everything in the world will go right for a given individual are so small as to be impossible. for the fourth step you have you have a sudden change out of normal human psychology. the black flame works on the black flame, primarily on itself, but also on the black flames of those nearby. this is a disintegrating effect, not an integrating effect. as each part of the psyche is energized, its shoots off toward its possible end. the third degree has to learn the three setian virtues of moderation, synthesis and harmony. here is where the setian path gets really hard. you see here's the very tough part of setian onyx tablet: ot.i.4.3 temple of set author: don webb v date: december 30, 1997 ce revision: html revision: september 28, 1999 ce path. now what i am abou

r of the priesthood define/or determine this principle to be. once you have recognized/acknowledged this principle, set does exist. opinions of and experiences with set vary greatly among the initiates of the temple. here is a brief list. there are probably many more that could be added to this- an intelligence/entity which operates both separately and at times in conjunction with that of our own psyche and not just as an aspect of it- an "indwelling essence- a god of mankind's creation- a god, self created- a neter- a necessary principle of creation affecting the su& ou- a purely platonic form. onyx tablet: ot.i.3.2 temple of set author: carmel severson iii date: 1995 ce revision: html revision: august 8, 1999 ce- not a platonic form, but an ideal. the key is, as i've said above: set is w

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

14. like adonis, he was killed by a boar and while he is in the underworld all vegetation withers. the sumerian innanna s journey to hell is an early version of ishtar and tammuz, under the names innanna and dumuzi, and records an early song for the lost god: who is your sister? i am she. who is your mother? i am she. day dawns the same for you and me. this is the same day we shall see. cupid and psyche 34 cupid and psyche the story of cupid and psyche is a roman one in which venus (greek aphrodite, the goddess of love, became infuriated by psyche s beauty and told cupid (eros) to make her fall in love with the vilest of men. unexpectedly, cupid fell in love with her himself and married her. but psyche became lonely because her new husband only visited at night, and he told her that she mu

hich venus (greek aphrodite, the goddess of love, became infuriated by psyche s beauty and told cupid (eros) to make her fall in love with the vilest of men. unexpectedly, cupid fell in love with her himself and married her. but psyche became lonely because her new husband only visited at night, and he told her that she must never look at him or their unborn child would not be immortal. to combat psyche s loneliness, her sisters came to stay but, jealous of her lovely home, they convinced her that her unseen husband must be a monster. terrified, psyche took a lamp and looked at him while he slept he awoke and fled. full of remorse, psyche searched for him everywhere, eventually coming to the palace of venus, where she was set several impossible tasks. the last led to her falling into a dea

een husband must be a monster. terrified, psyche took a lamp and looked at him while he slept he awoke and fled. full of remorse, psyche searched for him everywhere, eventually coming to the palace of venus, where she was set several impossible tasks. the last led to her falling into a deathlike sleep. cupid revived her and took her to olympus, where jupiter (zeus) made her immortal. the birth of psyche the story of cupid and psyche has many fairy-tale characteristics. in true fairy-tale style, psyche s parents are never named except as a king and queen. psyche s two older sisters, shown here holding the newborn psyche, were eclipsed by the beauty of their new sister. the story of cupid and ps yche by jacopo del sellaio (1441/42 93) this wooden panel from a chest given as a wedding gift, s

che has many fairy-tale characteristics. in true fairy-tale style, psyche s parents are never named except as a king and queen. psyche s two older sisters, shown here holding the newborn psyche, were eclipsed by the beauty of their new sister. the story of cupid and ps yche by jacopo del sellaio (1441/42 93) this wooden panel from a chest given as a wedding gift, shows the love story of cupid and psyche. designed to concentrate on the love angle, several important episodes within the story are left out, and less important references, such as the conception and birth of psyche, are included. presumably this is because, as it was painted on a wedding chest, a reference to having children was considered appropriate. love falls in love cupid, sent by his mother venus to visit vengeance on psyc

venus to visit vengeance on psyche by making her fall in love with a vagabond, was himself captivated by her beauty, and enlisted the god apollo to help him win her. worshiping suitors every day, people from far and wide came to admire the beautiful princess. they said she was venus in human form, and began to neglect the worship of the goddess much to venus anger. temple of apollo concerned for psyche, her father consulted the oracle of apollo at miletus. he was told that psyche must dress for her wedding, climb a mountain, and there await a nonhuman suitor. cupid and psyche a fairy tale t he story of cupid and psyche shows myth shading into fairy tale. it is included as a story-within-the-story in a latin novel, the metamorphoses of apuleius, usually known as the golden ass. although ap

iletus. he was told that psyche must dress for her wedding, climb a mountain, and there await a nonhuman suitor. cupid and psyche a fairy tale t he story of cupid and psyche shows myth shading into fairy tale. it is included as a story-within-the-story in a latin novel, the metamorphoses of apuleius, usually known as the golden ass. although apuleius presents the story as an allegory of the soul (psyche) in search of love (cupid, and sets the story in the world of the roman gods, it is recognizably a version of a fairy tale widely distributed in the indo-european tradition, known to folklorists as the search for the lost husband or the animal bridegroom. variants include beauty and the beast and the black bull of norroway; over 60 versions have been recorded from italian oral tradition. cu

in search of love (cupid, and sets the story in the world of the roman gods, it is recognizably a version of a fairy tale widely distributed in the indo-european tradition, known to folklorists as the search for the lost husband or the animal bridegroom. variants include beauty and the beast and the black bull of norroway; over 60 versions have been recorded from italian oral tradition. cupid and psyche 35 sleeping beauty psyche s sleep here is a reminder of the deathly sleep that came upon her when she opened the box of beauty from the underworld (see above. in true fairy-tale style, she could only be woken by her true love, cupid. psyche and charon by john roddam spencer-stanhope (1829 1908) grieving parents psyche s parents shown here with her two sisters and their elderly husbands were

sleep here is a reminder of the deathly sleep that came upon her when she opened the box of beauty from the underworld (see above. in true fairy-tale style, she could only be woken by her true love, cupid. psyche and charon by john roddam spencer-stanhope (1829 1908) grieving parents psyche s parents shown here with her two sisters and their elderly husbands were shocked at apollo s prophecy. but psyche realizing that the worship of her beauty must have offended venus begged them not to grieve. doomed conspirators psyche s sisters plan to ruin her happiness proved their downfall. in revenge, psyche (who had been prevented from committing suicide by pan) told them that cupid now wished to marry one of them instead. each, in turn, climbed the mountain to meet him but when they jumped off, ze

grieve. doomed conspirators psyche s sisters plan to ruin her happiness proved their downfall. in revenge, psyche (who had been prevented from committing suicide by pan) told them that cupid now wished to marry one of them instead. each, in turn, climbed the mountain to meet him but when they jumped off, zephyrus did not catch them and they plunged to their deaths. laid on the turf the wind laid psyche down on the soft turf, where cupid s invisible servants found her. obedient to the will of the gods, psyche had declared herself ready for her new husband, even if he was born to destroy the world. jealous sisters psyche s sisters were summoned to keep her company. but they were jealous of her happiness, claiming that her husband was really a serpent, who would devour both her and her unbor

re cupid s invisible servants found her. obedient to the will of the gods, psyche had declared herself ready for her new husband, even if he was born to destroy the world. jealous sisters psyche s sisters were summoned to keep her company. but they were jealous of her happiness, claiming that her husband was really a serpent, who would devour both her and her unborn child. alone on a mountain top psyche stood on the mountain top to await her spirit suitor. zephyrus, the west wind, lifted her off her feet and wafted her to cupid s beautiful palace. dire warning cupid, who made himself invisible to psyche, told her not to try to see him, because if she did so, their unborn child would not be born immortal. palace of luxury cupid s palace had jeweled floors and gold and silver walls. but desp

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

ragon. leviathan, a daemon who became of the ocean and would exist simultaneously with the astral plane and the depths of the sea. leviathan along with the other fallen angels became an ideal, a focus of strength whose power still remains within all of us. awaiting the moment of becoming, these daemonic atavisms exist on subconscious levels of the mind. the opening of such abyssic gates leads the psyche towards rising forth and becoming something of evolutionary progression. lucifer stands as the fountain head of astral magick (i.e, astral projection, dream control, ect) lucifer is balance in the instance of both shadow and light, blood red and jet black. lucifer is the colour of an awakened and enlightened mind. the psyche which is open for magical inspiration. blavatsky understood the si

ur from pure animalism" asmodeus/ahriman is the fountain head of sorcery and earth based black magic. asmodeus is the god of black witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy and diabolism. the balance of asmodeus/ahriman is to unite the materialistic flesh side of life with the spiritual, or luciferic. falling to either side could result in the destruction of the self. black magic is the focus of making the psyche immortal, surviving earth bound after death. luciferic magick is the focus of astral projection and holy magick. ascension is the primary goal, to rise towards godhead. the rite of lucifer was designed through my personal experience to affect the individual in several ways. change is often reversible if the self is not on the same level as the rest. this translate that change must happen on

ascend one must devour the energies that offer themselves. vampirism holds its foundation in dream and myth, forming strongly in a conscious reality, as one may know it. vampiric sorcery is a dangerous magick to control as it tests every point of mental strength one may have developed. if unbroken, can further strengthen the individual who would ascend to godhead. one must delve the depths of the psyche (abyss) in order to balance the holy light. thelema inadvertently supports and provides a significant foundation for the like-minded individual who seeks this light. the vampiric sorcerer is not one who once the image of the self, the facade is stripped away, would simply vanish from lack of substance. the sorcerer would already have developed a strong body of light through astral and earth

nderstood that often the most humble will comprehend a greater knowledge of self. crowley often defined "black brothers" as those who shut themselves off from the universe and the cup of babalon, which is evolution. the sorcerer must realize that he or she is not necessarily more important than anything else, while at the same time be in full balance with the natural order and the survival of the psyche. a black magician is by no means what crowley defined as "black brothers. the essential study and practice of a sorcerer to ascend is significant in the point that the individual must grow with his or her studies, to become the topic therein. the self which is also known as "kia (austin spare's "the book of pleasure) should be explored on every possible level, understanding the foundation f

he step towards spiritual immortality. those who seek the platform of adept in the magickial quest will inadvertently perceive the basis of the balance of light and darkness. the angelic and the demonic shall be united, chaos will follow form and such is the genetic and psychic make up of the adept. the face of lucifer has changed and formed into a plethora of disreputable images by the christian psyche in modern times. the ideal message received on the astral should be "i shall ascend" and not by chance "i am of evil. such doctrines of "evil" and "good" are excuses to not deal with the core of the individual. it is locking away the most dangerous, most powerful and most exciting part of the self. once the shadow is brought into light shall a god or goddess begin to emerge. lucifer stands

PRELUDE TO THE BLACK ARTS

l, histoire pittoresque de olprelude to the black arts by nate leved becoming an adept in the black arts is something that takes time and patience. you just can't wake up one morning and decide to become a successful black magician and then expect to have mastered the arts by setting sun. it doesn't work that way. the power or force that we associate with magick is accessed or tapped by the human psyche in different ways by different people. granted, there may be a certain similarity in methodology, but the finished application and results can be quite varied. you might well say that magickal thought and practice takes some getting used to. then, there is a sort of an apprenticeship period of experimentation and learning before any expertise or actual consistency is gained. the magician mu

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

ed in the following verses. we have now caught a glimpse of what this means in terms of the mystical dynamics of the universe. although evil can make the arizal on parashat vayishlach 163 inroads and attempt to gain a foothold via the intellect, the most dangerous confrontation between good and evil occurs at the level of the emotions. precisely because the emotions are such a pivotal part of the psyche, it is also most crucial that the battle be won at this level. this, of course, is because the intellect is by nature more abstact and objective. the more subjective nature of the emotions make them the gjacob fs heel h where evil can gain a foothold. at the emotional level the individual is far more likely to make choices based on gwhat fs good for me h than gwhat is good h objectively. th

spired jethro to come, or that gave him the spiritual power to overcome his evil side and join the jewish people. this accords with our sages f statement that when the jewish people stood around mt. sinai [and received the torah, their defilement was removed,11 for the torah purifies everything. the defilement referred to here is the defilement of subjective ego that was introduced into the human psyche when the primordial snake raped eve. by accepting the torah, the jewish people were cured of this primordial psychospiritual disability, and remained in this condition until the sin of the golden calf. evidently, the jewish people fs acceptance of the torah affected the world at large as well, enabling jethro, the arch-idolator (our sages state that he had worshipped every type of idol, to

e? it is the animal soul of the man, which is external [to his divine soul. by over-indulging his animal nature and needs, the individual desensitizes himself to divine concerns, as we said. it is for this reason that inadvertent sins require atonement: they are a barometer of the individual fs level of divine consciousness. if a person commits an unintentional sin, it means that somewhere in his psyche his animal nature is getting the upper hand. therefore, when a man sins [his restitution is] to offer the sacrifice of an animal soul of an animal, for they caused him to sin. then fire descends from on high and burns those sins. the source of the animal soul in man is then cleaned and purified and the man is atoned for, for all these are hewn from the same source. understand deeply the sec

y sinning, a person blemishes these attributes, and since there are only seven, 70 is the maximal period of rectification he needs, a year per sub-sefirah. when a person turns 80, he has goutlived h his emotions by 10 years, meaning that he has rectified them through the ten sefirot of his divine soul. the number 7 is therefore thematically associated with the emotions, the realm of the person fs psyche or personality that can under the influence of evil. of course, there is evil intellect also, but the major battle between the animal and divine souls (or their personifications as the evil and good inclinations) is fought over the individual fs emotions.what he will love, fear, empathize with, etc. in contrast, the number 8 signifies overcoming this struggle. therefore scripture decrees th

egocentric materialism. however, they each erred in their own way, not realizing that for this to work the non-jew must initiate the process by himself. let us return now to our original discussion. as we said, adam sinned with his gstrange fire h and by drinking the wine with the dregs. these dregs were [personified] by the [fallen] non-jews who sought to cling to him. as we said, the non-jewish psyche suffered a fall with the primordial sin as well, becoming overtly egocentric. in this state, they are symbolized by the dregs of egocentricity that spoil the wine of pure experience as well as by lilith, the demon of egocentric sexual thrill. nadav and avihu were also drunk. these two sins[ gstrange fire h and inebriation] are alluded to in the first verse of this torah-reading. the initial

occur in nukva of z feir anpin and vows in the supernal ima, i.e, binah, in principle both occur in nukva of z feir anpin. this is alluded to by the verse, g cher husband will confirm it and her husband will annul it h2.whether git h be a vow or an oath. her ghusband h refers to z feir anpin, so the subject must be nukva of z feir anpin. as we have mentioned previously, the feminine aspect of the psyche is the drive within us to actualize g-d fs purpose in creation, making reality into his home. however, as we have also mentioned, this drive must be coupled with an equal drive to escape the mundane reality of this world in favor of the abstract reality of spirituality; this is the male drive within us. the coupling is necessary because left to itself, the drive to make separate reality int

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

expand these techniques, including the initiatory rituals, for greater ease of study and use. lodges and study groups. the golden dawn system is not dependent on a filiation with any group proclaiming itself as "golden dawn" or "rosicrucian. nor, even though the initiatory rituals describe a lodge system, is group practice necessary for their enactment. all magic must ultimately take place in the psyche of the student. there are existing golden dawn lodges, and lodges and study groups of other organizations teaching ceremonial magic. often the most practical way to make contact with a group is by placing an advertisement in a local new age or occult tabloid or magazine. xii introduction to the fifth edition "inheritor of a dying world, we call thee to the living beauty. wanderer in the wil

urther discovery and definition by man. and as crowley articulated "magic"means creating change through consciousness at will. the alchemist preceded the chemist, the astrologer the astronomer. and the magician is a threshold to an inner frontier which encompasses the limitless possibilities of the manifested and unknown universe as being contained, dormant, but inevitably actualized "within" the psyche. there is no better explanation of the structure, function, and basic concepts of the golden dawn system than in regardie's introduction to the original edition of this book contained herein. this extensive and clarifying narrative demands rereading again and again. the golden dawn is a "system" of discovering, dialoguing, and even negotiating with the collective unconscious and is not a re

less light what the healing agent really is: it is the degree to which the analyst himself can cope with his own psychic problems" just as the analyst can no more guide an analysand through territory he or she never struggled with or confronted within him or herself, so too the initiator's effectiveness rests upon how well he or she has built the "temple not made with hands" within his or her own psyche. in the late 1960s, the seeds of my destiny were actively fertilized toward what i much later understood as my personal "dance" with the unconscious, the process of magical initiation, the golden dawn system, and the western mystery tradition. in the earlier part of 1969, i had had a brief, albeit intoxicating, exposure to jungian analysis in san francisco. in the latter part of 1969, by wa

previously learned data. continuing with the study of the rituals, let the student study the beautiful simplicity of the construction of such rituals as are intended for the consecration of the various weapons or instruments that are to be used. there is no need to rush headlong into making the instruments. delay this process for a while until the meaning of the ceremonies is assimilated into the psyche. again, i would suggest that the students select a simple consecration ceremony, such as that for the lotus wand, and analyze it with as much attention and care as he would have done the neophyte ritual in the preceding volume. apart from all else, it lays down the simplest possible forms or principles upon which ceremonies should be constructed. though the manufacture of the elemental weap

r method of tarot reading is second to none. in the first place, the description of the cards themselves is unique. from these descriptions the enterprising student could draw or paint a pack for himself. whether he produces a finely polished, artistic pack or a set of crude amateurish drawings as i have, makes no difference. the effort alone will have made strong multi-sensory impressions on his psyche. these will be drawn upon, consciously or unconsciously, when divining. urthermore,s ome of the character descriptions given of the court cards give one pause. these are evidently not the work of a mere gypsy fortune teller. they betray sound psychological insights of an unusually penetrating nature, and many a professional writer has drawn on them in one way or another. i know at least a c

upernals. lured downwards by the tree of knowledge- and remembering in what sense the bible speaks of the verb "to know" we gather that the root of the trouble was an imperfect apprehension of creative power- towards the "darkly splendid world wherein continually lieth a faithless depth" eve, the lower self, ceases to give support to adam. she has yielded to the awful fascination of the awakening psyche. far easier is it to fall than to climb to the distant heights. yet only from one viewpoint is the fall catastrophic. the awareness of the rise of the dragon endows man also with consciousness of power- and power is life and progress. the dragon stands as the symbol of the great enemy to be overcome, and, as the task of equilibration proceeds, the great prize awaiting success <60> the fall

e 'thus it stands proven" claims blavatsky "that satan, or the red fiery dragon, the 'lord of phosphorus' and lucifer, or 'light-bearer' is in us; it is our mind- our temptor and redeemer, our intelligent liberator and saviour from pure animalism" in the evolutionary scheme, the fall occurs through a higher type of intelligence coming into close contact with nascent humanity, thus stimulating the psyche of the race- or so the magical tradition has it. the recapitulation of this process within the individual sphere of consciousness proceeds through the technique of initiation whereby the red dragon is stirred into activity through contact with the fructifying powers of the elements, invoked through the skill and power of a trained initiator. the use of the divine prerogative, brought about

dual sphere of consciousness proceeds through the technique of initiation whereby the red dragon is stirred into activity through contact with the fructifying powers of the elements, invoked through the skill and power of a trained initiator. the use of the divine prerogative, brought about by the magic of every-day experience, the awakening of daath, brings disaster at first because the awakened psyche is imperfectly understood and so abused for personal ends. but that very disaster and that abuse confers the consciousness of self, and is instrumental, at least in part of breaking up the primitive participation mystique. consequently, the realisation of sorrow as it impinges on the ego, or at least the sense of personal mental and <62> emotional discomfort, and an understanding of its cau

omparable to the eastern mandalas. it seems that the effort to paint these designs had the effect of straightening out stresses and knots in the unconscious, thus accomplishing the therapeutic object of the analysis. and not only were they thus means of self-expression but these designs produced a counter-effect of fascinating, healing and stimulating to renewed activity the hitherto unmanifested psyche. with the exception that the ordinary magical student is not neurotic or psychopathic, the techniques are rather similar. for the magical tradition has always insisted upon the routine to be followed by the aspirant to that art. he was required to fashion the implements himself, and the more laborious he found that task, with the greater difficulties thrown before him, by so much more were

: volume n book eight vii. the chariot. here we have a symbol of the spirit of man controlling the lower principles, soul and body, and thus passing triumphantly through the astral plane, rising above the clouds of illusion and penetrating to the higher spheres. the colours amber, silver-grey, blue-grey, and the deep blue violet of the night sky elucidate this symbol. it is the sublimation of the psyche. v111. strength. this also represents the mastery of the lower by the higher. but in this case it is the soul which holds in check the passions, although her feet are still planted on earth, and the dark veil still floats about her head and clings around her. the colours, pale greenish yellow, black, yellowish grey and reddish amber, suggest the steadfast endurance and fortitude required, b

REGARDIE TALISMANS

ct no different, save that as a charm it is supposed to be worn for protection against disease, sickness, illfortune, or witchcraft. for the purpose of this manual, the word talisman will be the preferred term. in passing, it should be emphasized that i have no fundamental objection to the theory of suggestion so long as it is clearly understood that suggestion cannot implant in or evoke from the psyche what is not already there. suggestion is evocative only of those psycho-spiritual factors that are innate. according to the golden dawn s somewhat larger frame of reference, a talisman is a magical figure charged with the force which it is intended to represent. in the construction of a talisman, care should be taken to make it, as far as is possible, so to represent the universal forces th

st of the important symbols pertaining to saturn, in its higher spiritual aspects. the concentrated effort to draw or paint this talisman would in itself go far towards correcting the flightiness and the scattering of mental energies which seems so often to accompany the airy signs. meditation on the almost infinite meanings of these saturn symbols should also help to implant in the depths of the psyche the spiritual essence required. some form of ritual consecration should be attempted, after which the talisman, wrapped in an indigo silk pocket, should be carried on the person all the time. the student should also seriously consider the advisability of making a talisman for each one of the seven ancient planets, and thus a different one for use every day of the week. in this manner, the d

element of water, to which joy and happiness are attributed. the effect of such invocation can best be prolonged or perpetuated by making a talisman deicated to water. by making it carefully and artistically, by charging it in due ceremonial form, and wearing it on my person at all times, the intention is that the constant sensory stimulus it affords may evoke out of the unconscious depths of my psyche the latent potencies of the pleasureprinciple which have been suppressed by virtue of early puritanical training. we could also say that it will act as a constant reminder of the prescence and power of god. water being the element required to remedy the character defect, i select a large piece of heavy silver paper on which to paint names and symbols in peach water-colours or poster paints

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e domain of form into that of idea. oedipus divined what was man and he put out his own 10 the doctrine of transcendental magic eyes because he did not see what was god. he divulged half of the great arcanum, and, to save his people, it was necessary for him to bear the remaining half of the terrible secret into exile and the grave. after the colossal fable of oedipus we find the gracious poem of psyche, which was certainly not invented by apuleius. the great magical arcanum reappears here under the figure of a mysterious union between a god and a weak mortal, abandoned alone and naked on a rock. psyche must remain in ignorance of the secret of her ideal royalty, and if she behold her husband she must lose him. here apuleius commentates and interprets moses; but did not the elohim of israe

appears here under the figure of a mysterious union between a god and a weak mortal, abandoned alone and naked on a rock. psyche must remain in ignorance of the secret of her ideal royalty, and if she behold her husband she must lose him. here apuleius commentates and interprets moses; but did not the elohim of israel and the gods of apuleius both issue from the sanctuaries of memphis and thebes? psyche is the sister of eve, or rather she is eve spiritualized. both desire to know and lose innocence for the honour of the ordeal. both deserve to go down into hell, one to bring back the antique box of pandora, the other to find and to crush the head of the old serpent, who is the symbol of time and of evil. both are guilty of the crime which must be expiated by the prometheus of ancient days

e to bring back the antique box of pandora, the other to find and to crush the head of the old serpent, who is the symbol of time and of evil. both are guilty of the crime which must be expiated by the prometheus of ancient days and the lucifer of the christian legend, the one delivered by hercules and the other overcome by the saviour. the great magical secret is therefore the lamp and dagger of psyche, the apple of eve, the sacred fire of prometheus, the burning sceptre of lucifer, but it is also the holy cross of the redeemer. to be acquainted with it sufficiently for its abuse or divulgation is to deserve all sufferings; to know as one should alone know it, namely, to make use of and conceal it, is to be master of the absolute. a single word comprehends all things, and this word consis

for the profane, man for the philosophers, and imparts to the adepts the final term of human sciences and the key of divine power; but he only can use it who understands the necessity of never revealing it. had oedipus, instead of killing the sphinx, overcome it, harnessed it to his chariot and thus entered thebes, he would have been king without incest, without misfortunes and without exile. had psyche, by meekness and affection, persuaded love to reveal himself, she would never have lost love. now, love is one of the mythological images of the great secret and the great agent, because it postulates at once an action and a passion, a void and a plenitude, a shaft and a wound. the initiates will understand me, and on account of the profane i must not speak more clearly. after the marvellou

ree hierarchies. all science reposes upon three principles, as the syllogism upon three terms. there are also three distinct classes, or three original and natural ranks, among men, who are called to advance from the lower to the higher. the jews term these three series or degrees in the progress of spirits, assiah, yetzirah and briah. the gnostics, who were christian kabalists, called them hyle, psyche and gnosis; by the jews the supreme circle was named atziluth, and by the gnostics pleroma. in the tetragram, the triad, taken at the beginning of the word, expresses the divine copulation; taken at the end, it expressed the female and maternity. eve has a name of three letters, but the primitive adam is signified simply by the letter jod, whence jehovah should be pronounced jeva, and this

page of the tarot we find an admirable allegory a naked woman, typifying truth, nature and wisdom at one and the same time, turns two ewers towards earth, and pours out fire and water upon it. above her head glitters the septenary, starred about an eight-pointed star, that of venus, symbol of peace and love; the plants of earth are flourishing around the woman, and on one of them the butterfly of psyche has alighted. this emblem of the soul is replaced in some copies of the sacred book by a bird, which is a more egyptian and probably a more ancient symbol. in the modern tarot the plate is entitled the glittering star; it is analogous to a number of hermetic symbols, and is also in correspondence with the blazing star of masonic initiates, which expresses most of the mysteries of rosicrucia

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ships which had been absorbed by the queen of the world. according to the gospel narrative, the inscription which set forth the spiritual royalty of christ was written in hebrew, in greek and in latin: it was the expression of a universal synthesis. hellenism, in fact, that grand and beauteous religion of form, announced the coming of the saviour no less than the prophets of judaism. the fable of psyche is an ultra-christian abstraction, and the cultus of the pantheons, by rehabilitating socrates, prepared altars for that unity of god, of which israel had been the mysterious preserver. but the synagogue denied its messiah, and the hebrew letters were effaced, at least for the blinded eyes of the jews. the roman persecutors dishonoured hellenism, and it could not be restored by the false mo

ty in all ages, has been transfigured with human genius but has ever expressed the same truth. true religion is one; its dogmas are simple and within the reach of all. at the same time, the multiplicity of symbols has been a book of poesy indispensable to the education of human genius. the harmony of outward beauties and the poetry of form must reveal god to the infancy of man; but soon venus had psyche for her rival and psyche enchanted love. it came about therefore that the cultus of form yielded perforce to those ambitious dreams which adorned already the eloquent wisdom of plato. thus was the advent of christ prepared and was therefore also expected; it arrived because the world awaited it; and to become popular, philosophy transformed into belief. emancipated by belief itself, the hum

on in a few so-called religious markets. after the sixteenth key of the tarot, which represents the downfall of satan's temple, we find on the seventeenth leaf a magnificent and gracious emblem. a naked woman, a young and immortal maid, pours down on earth the water of universal life from two ewers, one of gold and one of silver. hard by there is a flowering shrub, on which rests the butterfly of psyche; above shines an eightpointed star with seven other stars around it. gi believe in eternal life! h such is the final article of the christian symbol, and this of itself is a full profession of faith. when they compared the calm and peaceful immensity of heaven, thronged with immovable lights, to the tumults and darkness of this world, the ancients believed themselves to have discovered in t

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

clues and rules, via the instructional tales, songs and dramas preserved in common consciousness. it is vitally important to avoid the pitfalls represented by the models of psychology and 'unified' symbol systems, wherein all aspects of dream or vision are stuffed into intellectually contrived moulds for preservation and future labeling. all symbolism is not related to each and every part of the psyche and the universe, and both the psychological-materialist model and the religious-unity model that are rife in our modern culture are capable of great damage through their vapid lack of direction. appendix 4: thomas rhymer 146 it is correct to state that the various symbolic entities merge one into the other, but this occurs only through transformation within the apprehending consciousness

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. rather it was conceived as a highly complex, logically intelligible machine which may be understood through reason. basic divisions in this reason were the materialism of such individuals as anaximander and democritus("atoms, and the panpsychism of thales (ca. 640-546) of the agean island of miletus, who had been schooled in egypt. panpsychism teaches that every living substance has an immortal psyche or soul, which transmigrates into other life forms. in later greek hellenic thought, materialism was to lead into the sophism of protagoras, while panpsychism was to continue into pythagoreanism and then into the doctrines of plato and aristotle [panpsychism was a crucial component of orphism, the cult of dionysus, which emphasized the division of the human being into psychic and material c

thagoras (569-470 bce) was born and lived his early years on samos, which was exposed to the "barbaric" east as well as to the greek west. initiated into the egyptian priesthood of hathor, he remained in egypt over ten years, learned hieroglyphics, and was exposed to astronomy, geometry, and the egyptian concepts of panpsychism. sent to babylon, he was there exposed to persian dualism. he saw the psyche as "good" and the matter into which it entered as "evil, but accepted their merger as something at least temporarily fulfilling to both. goal for the psyche was its escape from reincarnation into an eternal existence of pure spirit. the "music of the spheres. from his academy at crotona, magna graciacia, pythagoras advised students (both male and female) and political clients to strive to e

ly concerned with human affairs, but rather with the forms or first principles which are the ordering mechanisms of the universe and everything in it [including humankind. plato conceives the universe as a highly complex, logically intelligible machine which may be understood through philosophy (which is reserved to elite, higher intellects. there is no life after death, but transmigration of the psyche does occur. plato [in the laws] defends belief in the gods because of (1) the doctrine of the immortal psyche, and (2) the evident order in the universe. plato's philosophy concerning immortality can be found in the phaedo, specifically discussions of the recollective basis of knowledge and the cyclical theory of immortality. plato was an adherent of teleology. this is the doctrine that fin

rent in nature. further that phenomena are not only guided by mechanical forces, but also move towards certain goals of selfrealization [the opposite of teleology is mechanism, which describes phenomena in terms of prior causes instead of their presumed destination or fulfillment. modern science is thus mechanistic] plato [through the character of socrates in his dialogues] considered the soul or psyche as the repository of the entire personality or character. one should not attempt to purify the psyche by rituals or restrictions, but rather to develop it through exercise of its faculties. the state is the psyche magnified, hence the republic is most accurately seen as a prescription for the psyche magnified. specifically there is a three-part similarity between state and soul: the state's

tween certain aspects of these two examples of existentialism with those of satanism (or setianism, as well as certain important differences. in the ideas of both heidegger and sartre, we see a recognition of the isolation and aloneness of the individual within the structure of the objective universe and its indifference to individual existence. as satanism asserts, each individual is an isolated psyche within the objective universe, just as the prince of darkness himself is. as well, the individual setian knows that this objective universe has no concern with him or her self as such, that no "god" in the traditional sense exists who will embrace or care for their existence. apart from this, both heidegger and sartre assert that these two facts, the isolation of consciousness and the absen

al existence. he basically sees the individual as being trapped in time, a slave to its seemingly absolute power. any setian magician who has experienced a successful eci(4) working knows this to be an entirely mistaken notion. while it is obviously true that our physical bodies are trapped in the space-time continuum, the mind (soul) is not bounded by it. any time or place can be explored by the psyche which attunes itself to the essence of that time or place. that which we truly are, our ba, soul, or whatever term is used, is transtemporal and eternal, hence not bounded by the chain of time or space. the philosophies of both sartre and heidegger are overshadowed by a sort of dread or anxiety about what they perceive to be the ultimate futility of individual existence, due to the lack of

ing to 4. erotic crystallization inertia is noesis mystical? classification: v2- 156.a- 1 author: pat hardy iii date: december 15, xxiv html revision: jan 12, 1998 ce subject: philosophy reading list: 2v, 12b, 12c plato identified four levels of thought. the highest of these, noesis, was an intuitive recognition of truth. this enlightened intuition was brought about through the development of the psyche. it is an important factor in the setian concept of initiation.(1) various writers have described noesis as a mystical faculty. some infer from this that setian philosophy itself is based on an irrational mysticism. this questionable conclusion is based an assumption, namely, that noesis is mystical. the purpose of this article is to present an explanation of noesis that may clarify its rel

ggressive? the path of finding oneself begins from the will to become, which manifests as dissatisfaction with one's prevailing level of being. the present level of our being we can observe, test, train, and manifest (initiate) through our body in the objective universe, where society provides many good tools for our xeper. the main point is that "the physical body provides a vehicle in which the psyche can become aware of itself and then reach out toward the limitlessness of its conscious existence (4) selfconsciousness is not aggressive in itself. i don't think it is passive or active; its essence is "neutral" and unbound by matter. it is entirely up to the individual will to become, and dependent on that whether a given individual achieves dynamic enlargement of his consciousness. i thi

y elect and none other, for mankind now hastens towards an annihilation which none but the elect may hope to avoid. and alone i cannot preserve my elect, but i would teach them and strengthen their will against the coming peril, that they and their blood may endure. the book of coming forth by night other references. matti bergstrom "aivojen fysiologiasta ja psyykesta (on brain physiology and the psyche. kirsti lagerspetz: psykologia, jarjen ja tunteen tiede (psychology, the science of reason and emotion. f. alberoni& s. veca: hyva ja paha (good and evil) footnotes 1. winkler, franz, in dr. michael aquino's black magic in the crystal tablet of set 2. according to desmond morris. 3. a.j. wihuri's summary of ken wilber's book no boundary: eastern and western approaches to personal growth 4

dered, painted red, and given horns and a pointed tail.34 however, there are those who stand aloof from the many, and rather than slandering this gift of freedom and self-consciousness, seek to strengthen it and come to know the source of their being. and it is those of the latter camp who are setians and black magicians in the truest, fullest sense of these terms. monotheism "neo-polytheism" and psyche-centric consciousness: whereas god is generally conceived of as the creator of man, the satanist/setian holds that the concept of god as the absolute standard whereby all things are judged is the creation of man. god is seen as the source of quasi-absolute, pseudo-objective validation and valuation for those unable or unwilling to assume the existential responsibility for self-validation of

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ef system. for my own part, however, i have absorbed the language of rational psychology and employ it readily to describe various process and phenomena wholly unacceptable to modern rationality. i apologise if this seems patronising, but as far as i am concerned k you started it! it is this author s opinion, as i have stated, that spirits do indeed exist externally and independently of the human psyche. however it is also my experience that such phenomena, when encountered, to some extent create their forms through the raw material of the imagination and cultural expectations of those they interact with. hence they are less stable and more transmutative than humans or animals. existing as they do without the precepts of the material plane they most often remain beyond our perception. thos

o be themselves of a more aetherial nature. the gift of second sight is strongest in many children, who are less likely to banish them through what i call active disbelief. amongst adults we find those who continue with even the vaguest sense of other worlds tend to become magicians, witches, artists, poets, and/or madmen. that spirit takes its form through a syncretic relationship with the human psyche does not mean that they are any less real than we are. the effect may be likened to our concept of what we more comfortably think of as objective reality. our visual perception results through a complex relationship between a physical object, light, the lenses of the eyes, and a series of electrical signals sent to the brain. it is arguable that the resulting impression is no less objective

his adversary in heaven is vincent ferrer. crocell, crocell, crokel procell (goetia, 49th spirit. before the fall, a prince of the order of powers. presides over forty-eight demonic legions. teaches the liberal arts and geometry, makes a noise like rushing water, finds baths, warms water, may make water boil or freeze instantly. choronzon (enochian. the devil of the abyss, daath, who renders the psyche of those who fail the leap across. he was the subject of the famous evocation performed by crowley and neuberg in the desert, which culminated in a spontaneous homosexual working between the possessed magus and his accomplice. choronzon may also be identified as the demon of the hypertrophied ego, and he may be summoned to bring fruition to those desires the sorcerer may be loathe to admit

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est emotionalizing, or dogma. it provides man with his much needed fantasy. there is nothing wrong with dogma, providing it is not based on ideas and actions which go completely against human nature. the quickest way of traveling between two points is in a straight line. if all the guilts that have been built up can be turned into advantages, it eliminates the need for intellectual purging of the psyche in an attempt to cleanse it from these repressions. satanism is the only religion known to man that accepts man as he is, and promotes the rationale of turning a bad thing into a good thing rather than bending over backwards to eliminate the bad thing. therefore, after intellectually evaluating your problems through common sense and drawing on what psychiatry has taught us, if you still can

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ught to create. lovecraft created his own beings, whose prehistoric activities on earth set in motion the forces of man's civilization and genius, as well as the horrors of his educated imagination. while freud and einstein wrestled with their respective disciplines in the isolation of academic specialization, lovecraft was describing the astonishing influence of physical and geometric law on the psyche. while he might have hesitated to style himself a master of scientific speculation, he a no less deserving of that title than are asimov and clarke. what has puzzled many of lovecraft's admirers is the author's almost casual attitude towards his work. he repeatedly referred to it as a mere means of financial subsistence. to people who suspected that he entertained a private belief in the my

SATANICON

ies of events that take place within the black magician s domain of darkness, the black chapel. anyone can be present, and anything can happen within the creative darkness of the celebrant s mind. caution: during creative darkness, the practitioner of satanicon magick may unknowingly subject himself to fits of infernal madness: conjuring darkness and demons may inadvertently cause a change in the psyche; a crossing of the boundary which separates control from chaos: images and objects present visually change, becoming disturbingly disordered; so much so that they become overbearing to the conventional mind. an impulse to flee the immediate area of the disturbance is likely in an attempt to restore equilibrium. the initiate, however, should discipline himself not to hasten from the discomfo

urbance is likely in an attempt to restore equilibrium. the initiate, however, should discipline himself not to hasten from the discomfort of this netherworld of chaos as much may be gleaned from this inner demonic realm. here, the powers of suggestion and magick are extremely powerful. an interpretation of this phenomenon: chaos is an aspect of the other dimension; the darkest realm of the human psyche; a dark and uncharted corner of the mind. heightened creative darkness is the likely scenario to realizing this conscious infernal-dream world. i further theorize that understanding the conflict in the psyche is the key to descending into this realm: consciously willing, and subjecting oneself to, chaos over reasoned thought and behavior. a final note on this cautionary statement: practitio

ely scenario to realizing this conscious infernal-dream world. i further theorize that understanding the conflict in the psyche is the key to descending into this realm: consciously willing, and subjecting oneself to, chaos over reasoned thought and behavior. a final note on this cautionary statement: practitioners may also experience sleep disturbances associated with this tapped conflict in the psyche waking suddenly from sleep, though still caught up in the chaos, which after several seconds, dissipates. suggestions for inner magickal art: concerning passion the ideal imagery is that which stimulates the sexual urge. it may be a likeness of the one desired, or pornographic material of one sort or another. you could even use a surrogate such as a love doll with a facial likeness of the o

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

ty as it is. satanism accepts the inequality of people, of sexes and of races. it accepts the necessity of disease, famine and death. take away such things and mankind creates a dangerous imbalance in nature and it is in nature that satanism is firmly grounded. however, in order to return to a natural way of living, certain practices are deemed useful in order to free the individuals contaminated psyche from the education of a society and civilization racked with guilt, repression and taboo. one may ask whether society in the latter half of the twentieth century is really as oppressive as the satanist makes out. in answer to this the satanist may cite many examples of political policy that encroach upon individual liberty. the predominance in equal rights- for sex and race- practically for

of christianity is considered to be manifest mainly in the political forms of communism and liberalism. the concept of equality of races and sexes, the goal of eternal peace and the upholding of jewish state from which christianity is assured a firm foundation in its holy birthplace, all amount to a holy crusade according to satanists. the need for a new form of the black mass, one that frees the psyche of the protagonists from the unconscious influences of liberalism and equality is one that has been answered in the form of the mass of heresy. whilst this mass negates equality it upholds and positively identifies with the positive aspects of national socialism. thus the individual pronounces that he/she believes in the inequality of races and the divine status of adolf hitler, who is perc

satanists' case. nazi germany has become a scapegoat for the projection of the jungian shadow(10) according to some satanists. in the case of the defence even simon wiesenthal has openly defended the view that not all camp guards were brutal and cruel sadists, rather only 10, a fraction of what many would have one believe. the key then to the use of rites such as the mass of heresy is to free the psyche from prejudice, in relation to this a member of the order of nine angles says 'individuals who participate in genuine satanic masses sometimes experience a kind of 'satori- or sudden enlightenment- and are thus led to an increase in their consciousness as well as an enhanced vitality because they have broken free of constraining opposites'(11) yet probably the best example to show the blasp

articipants with a focus for the conscious mind, which then enables the more advanced of the two participants to raise the level of contact to the psychological rather than the purely physical. under such methods 'the work of many weeks can be compressed into days or hours'(14) the transference from the physical to the psychological is a method whereby the energy raised may be directed within the psyche and used to balance and cleanse the individual psychologically, where the destruction of specific aspects of the individual's psyche are necessary for further development to be made. the use of sex is considered then, not to be- as the order of nine angles perceive it- drawing forth energy, but rather in the speed that the changes in consciousness are made and in the creation of balance and

teresting bearing in mind that many pre-christian temples, upon which christians built their churches are believed to be situated on ley lines, which carry two currents of energy around the planet. it is this belief that is reflected in the theory that the abyss is a location point where the magical worlds and the mundane worlds collide. yet this gateway is also believed to exist within the human psyche at the point where the conscious and the unconscious meet and it is from this point that the satanic magician draws forth his magical power through the medium of satanic ritual. magical use of the abyss from this perspective varies according to the tradition of the order of nine angles one may utilise the tarot cards as pathworking images to explore the hidden side of the human psyche, the

sonal life and/or loss of vitality [or] personal delusion about one's own abilities and understanding, both personal and magickal'(22) yet for whatever method that is used to cross or pass through the abyss there can primarily be one of three results. firstly the individual may renounce the satanic quest, secondly the energies encountered may cause dramatic changes detrimental to the individual's psyche and thirdly the individual may pass through successfully achieving adepthood and wisdom. the first result, that of renunciation, occurs when the individual has gained more knowledge than he or she can cope with. explanations of such a development can only be inadequate due to the nature of the changes in consciousness that such knowledge brings. reality, for the individual has changed, ever

. rhodes, h.t.f. the satanic mass (rider& company: london, 1954. 7. cavendish, richard. the black arts (pan book ltd: london, 1967, p. 345. 8. la vey, anton. the satanic rituals (avon books: new york, 1972, p. 34. 9. robury, conrad. the black mass, in the black book of satan (brekekk: newport, year of fire 102, p. 15. 10. the jungian shadow is the name given to the darker side of the individuals' psyche. it consists of repressed instinctive energy. the order of nine angles believe that the white european race possesses a collective shadow which was presenced during the third reich. 11. order of nine angles. satanism, blasphemy and the black mass (order of nine angles. no publishing date. 12. society of dark lily 'the lhp view of sex-magick' in dark lily 6 (dark lily: london, 1988, p. 12. 1

evil. the word 'satan' originally derived from the greek word for 'an accusation. that is, satan is an archetype of disruption- the adversary who challenges the accepted, who defies- who desires to know. in essence, satan is a symbol of dynamic motion: the generative or moving force behind evolution, change. in reality, satan is both symbolic or archetypal, and real. that is, he exists within the psyche of individuals, and beyond individuals. satanism is, in part, the acceptance of the necessity of change- of the reality of things like struggle, combat, war, creativity, individual genius, defiance. of the satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 19 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 a collection of sacred-magick.com<

rience of the `forbidden, of the pleasures of living- and they are also those which change others and the world and which thus can and do bring suffering, misery, death: which are, in short, evil. furthermore, satan is a real being- he is not simplya symbol, archetypal or otherwise, of certain natural forces or energies. he has life, exists- causes things to occur- external to our own, individual psyche. that is, our individual wills, or even our individual magick, cannot control him [as the softee imitation satanists like to believe. however, this 'life' is not 'human- it is not bound by a body or even by our causal time and space. expressed esoterically, it is acausal. satan, however, is not alone- that is, he is not the only dark, sinister being who affects our world and thus existence

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esses. some priestesses also served as oracles, persons who acted as a medium or messenger between the gods and humans. greeks would go to oracles to receive messages from the gods in order to determine what they should do in the future. one of the most famous of the oracles was at the temple of apollo at delphi, which is located in central greece. the greeks believed in a soul, which they called psyche, but beliefs varied as to whether it survived after death. the traditional belief was that both good and bad souls went to the underworld, hades, escorted there by the god hermes. there, those who were evil were punished in a place called tartaros, while good souls lived in elysium, a place of eternal happiness and sunlight in a portion of hades. others believed that the soul resided in the

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fusion, and that despite attempts to marry (or tame) him, he remains an outsider (p. 30) the latter has been true of consciousness, too, throughout the ages of suppression, sublimation and what ever tricks to 'play it out. but was the whole thing an accident? set 'the one apart 'the cause of separation- did not fit into the egyptian all-embracing model, and neither does a distinct and autonomous psyche fit into most non-setian philosophies [de lubicz should perhaps have taken set, the giver of the gift of independent consciousness (which is not seeking to harmonize with the way of providence, the way of the one, as a kind of 'extracosmic providence' that she denies on page 132 of #2s] the concept of set in the present day temple of set has been discussed over and over again, and so i'll r

simply to get on with xeper. in due time you will most probably uncover new instruments of cognition [learn to think in non-natural categories, which may help you deal with the issue more carefully. only then can set really become more than a symbol for you- regardless of whether you conceive of him as an objective entity who in a way comes to 'dwell within (energize) you as you restructure your psyche, or as an indwelling potential for development and an energy source within the human mind (a metamodel for transformation. of course this doesn't mean that you should hide questions in the nearest closet; rather i urge you to think about them, and to discuss them with others. that's the only way to refine your dialectic and to get somewhere with yoursehejarl fossum. brian glazer seth in the

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tructure; a process, the effects of which are irreversible once the cause is triumphant on whatever level. the beginnings of imperium. xviii a frog reveals human heads within its mouth furrowed white fields white, snow laden trees her face, caught by the moon; her eyes come to know the pool, take the spiral staircase to the blue room moon- shugara that which has not yet been confronted within the psyche of the individual; that which is strange, which lies outside the scope of any world view; that which lies within the dark pool beneath the moon and threatens to devour, create madness. a stage which cannot be ignored if further development is saught, requiring a descent to draw out that which is obscure, fearfully hidden: the gateway to the abyss. a point from which there is no turning back

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ike the more instructed daughters of the north, accustomed herself to that delicious confessional, the transfusion of thought to writing. now, suddenly, her heart felt an impulse; a new-born instinct, that bade it commune with itself, bade it disentangle its web of golden fancies, made her wish to look upon her inmost self as in a glass. upsprung from the embrace of love and soul the eros and the psyche their beautiful offspring, genius! she blushed, she sighed, she trembled as she wrote. and from the fresh world that she had built for herself, she was awakened to prepare for the glittering stage. how dull became the music, how dim the scene, so exquisite and so bright of old. stage, thou art the fairy land to the vision of the worldly. fancy, whose music is not heard by men, whose scenes

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in the east should be the last to be extinguished. always leave the area without looking back at it, no matter what you he wthe six ways of knowledge by setnakt the average man and woman believes that they know how to see, hear, and touch things. they don't understand the need not only to train the senses, but to effect that point we call the magical link that is the intersection of one's senses, psyche, and actions. changing the ways of knowledge, that is to say, changing perception is the great work. it takes years to do, and early success in magical initiation may lull us into forgetting the need to work in this area. like modern neurolinguistics programming the egyptians were familiar with three modes of knowledge: touch, hearing and sight. they identified these as other- and self-cent

his. usually we let our feelings for the speaker (either positive or negative) color what is said. our first true initiation came from hearing. one night we heard something that led to our knowing the world is much larger and looser than most people believe it to be. it may have been a throwaway line in a movie, a heart-to-heart with another magician- or anything else. what it really was, was our psyche picking up a sound like the sound our psyche makes. other-centric hearing requires calmness and strength of purpose. a good exercise to get it is by listening to someone whom you really disagree with, to see if you can parrot their arguments to another. now this does not mean opening your mind to stupid arguments, it means collecting the argument into a sealed container of your mind for car

opportunities are about to come into being around you. learn not to be distracted with problems that are not yours to deal with. each of these modes of perception must be practiced. they will lead you to understanding your world and your self. they may be easy to understand, but they don't come easily. the exercises are merely suggestions, learning to use the interface between your actions, your psyche, and your senses is something that can only be explored on a personal level. the responsibility for making these explorations lies with the magician. the other sensory modes, taste and smell, have a great deal less written about them. one may "taste" magic- particularly hostile magic as it enters the body. magic comes in through and exits the mouth. one can acquire the wisdom of a magician

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t under the control of the spirit; fasting, isolation, ordeals, and certain meditative techniques were employed to that end. the stable realities of ordinary life were to lose all their value, and the whole orientation of perception and feeling to be completely altered. the implication of such exercises and ordeals cannot be in doubt; the wisdom to be presented to the initiand could work upon the psyche in the proper way only if one had already worked transformingly upon the world of the lower senses. the initiand was to be conducted into the life of the spirit, and behold a higher world order. without the preparatory exercises and ordeals he or she would be able to form no connection with that world and on that connection everything depended. real understanding here is possible only if we

f their own, since we can neither touch, see, nor hear them. but there is another way of relating to the world, incomprehensible though it must remain for those who cling to the reality we have just described. it comes to certain people at some moment in their lives, overturning their whole way of looking at the world. what they call real are the images that surface from the spiritual life of the psyche, and they ascribe a lesser degree of actuality to the sense-impressions of hearing, touching, and seeing. they are aware that their assertions cannot be proved. all they can do is to tell of their new experiences, knowing that they are then in the position of someone with eyesight addressing the blind. if they nevertheless try to communicate their inner experiences, it is in the conviction

ng of the cosmos is revealed in the soul. that meaning is not to be found in what we perceive by sight, hearing or touch; it must be brought up from the hidden depths of the soul, for it is there that the eternal laws lie hidden. to find the eternal, one must go down into the psychic depths. in those depths is god the eternal harmony of the cosmos. 38 christianity as mystical fact thus, the human psyche is not limited to the confines of the body, enclosed within the skin; for what come to birth in the human soul are the laws which govern the stars in their courses. the soul is not confined by our personal consciousness. in fact the personality is no more than the instrument through which the cosmic order manifests itself. the spirit of pythagoras is caught by one of the church fathers, gre

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teach another day. i wonder if there is something wrong with me, since i seem to need more and more sleep and still wake up tired. i have no idea that the night before, i was up and living my other life" days like svali detailed above happened often. for years she essentially led a dual existence, somehow balancing he day and night life through sophisticated programming techniques embedded in her psyche from childhood. now, 10 years later after finally being united with her two children after the illuminati left her penniless, svali still fears repercussions but believes its important to warn americans that illuminati is stepping up efforts to destroy america "i was told in my lifetime or my children's lifetime, america would be completely taken over" said svali "the group believes they ar

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saying here? we are first saying that behaviour modification occurs as the result of psychological operations techniques. secondly, we are saying that personal significance to the aforementioned psyop procedures are directly related to social conditioning. more importantly, it is how the individual themself has accepted these religious and social/cultural structures for themself that empowers the psyche to change behaviours. personal significance is what gives the psyop technique its power over the individual. but, this personal significance is a mutable element and varies from culture to culture. in this light we can see that god did not change joe smith from a drunken bastard to a pillar of strength, but rather, it was the psyop technique and the religious and spiritual significance joe

is a primary psychological component- ask any twelve step program group such as alcoholics anonymous, narcotics or gamblers anonymous. we can now draw certain conclusions here. first, what i have proposed is that a life transforming spiritual conversion consists of two primary components. the first is the message, and the second is the delivery mechanism that inscripts the message into the human psyche. the message must have significance to the individual. this means that the message is most often universal to the culture of the individual and contains symbolisms and metaphor that reinforce the content of the message. second, the delivery mechanism is a psychological technique, or series of routines that inscript or empower the message into the psyche. in this case, we have seen joe smith

the antinomian nature. true good is expressed through spiritual transformation that occurs via the path of least resistance, it is this way that leads to eventual compliance, unity and oneness with god. true evil then, is expressed through spiritual transformation that occurs by following the paths of resistance, it is this way which leads towards the dissent, separation and individuality of the psyche from god. the environment of the devil, and of true evil cannot, and does not, exist within the realm of nature/matter as we perceive it. this is the realm of god, to place the devil within this environment makes the devil nothing more than a puppet of god- dancing an eternal dance not of his own making. the single most indentifying factor of the prince of darkness is that he has no master

ounced keh-fer. this can be understood in many integrated ways, but for the focus of personal initiation, xeper will be dealt with as a process. it is this process- if willfully enacted- that results in the initiation of the individual. immediately, we are faced with the question what is initiation? from the standpoint of the xeper process it can be most easily be described as a separation of the psyche into very distinct components. for ease of visualizing this concept, liken each component to a packet of specialized knowledge. these components are then synchronized consciously into differing arrangements much like adjusting the lenses of a telescope. each adjustment bringing into clarity a different object within its range of possible experience. the object within focus of that lense wil

of the overall general principles governing and guiding these various approaches.the recognition of these principles is usually the first step towards creating and finding appropriate learning environments- the schools of the lhp. for the truly adept, they will need to recognize that initiation is more an art than a science. it is a personal creation that involves the most intimate aspects of the psyche; and as such, it is dangerous. culture, psychological disposition, and genetic tendency comprise much of what we each perceive ourselves and others to be. cognitive restructuring as a fundamental premise of the initiatory scheme, leads towards the transformation of the individual. further, this psychological re-construction takes into account that there are still aspects of the psyche still

extends forth his or her ideas through, can create extensions within those who fall within that realms influence. an aeon- for those individuals aware of it- is for all intents and purposes a universe or world. but, it is a world not of the density of matter, rather it is of the translucent and abstract material of ideas. this world, or realm is a place of habitation; not of the body, but of the psyche and of the self being that resides within the flesh. the source of these ideas is the word and formulaic inscription of its magus. further, this world is revealed through the articulation and expression of deeds, actions and thoughts from those individuals closest to that source. the aeon extends itself further beyond direct interaction with these ideas through various proportional mechanis

digm will be explained further on. chapter 1. understanding the word and the aeon lhp initiates are driven to act upon themselves by impulses that are of mythic levels. along these lines it becomes inevitable that in order to succeed (in the initiatory sense) one must transcend existing boundaries. it also follows that in order to transcend one must find an essential focus as a propellant for the psyche. the nature of this focus must follow the affinities of the initiate at an intimate personal level. at the very least, this focus needs to have a relationship to to the affinities (harmonic connection) of the initiate. in initiation, this focus exists in the form of a magus utterance. the use of the capital "u" is purposeful. in most lhp circles, an utterance is recognized as vital in creat

darkness, the unknown, the hidden and occult. now, this concept of a tool has to be understood in a somewhat slightly different manner than that of a saw or hammer. a saw and a hammer help build a house, but the concept of something necessary to be built ushered in the necessity for the saw and hammer. it was this cognition that made the saw and hammer necessary. the structure is imposed upon the psyche first. this is the essential "tool" from which the particulars (the individual saw and hammer) are developed out of one's cpeg (cultural, psychological, environmental and genetic factors. this is personal, individual empowerment, the fuel for future transformation and evolution of consciousness. each person within this framework creates a way to view reality that is based upon the ideas ass

ever, one cannot think of this as a defect of any sort, or fault in the mechanism of consciousness. it is merely a condition of consciousness that has its own benefits, and its own limitations- dependent upon what one desires and wishes to attain with that consciousness. this is the state of non-recognition, the state that nearly all humans live, and die within. it is one of the components of the psyche that integrates the right hand path into a homogenous entity, it is the state of the psyche that is singly unified. the birthed self is not stupid, it does not lack the spark of a genius, it does not refute love, art, compassion, lust, jealousy or anger or virtuosity. it has all of these things which make life an adventure. the crucial dividing element that the birthed self lacks (in terms

e, in the accounts of their conscious perceptions, that we can begin to understand the differences, and similarities, in the rhp and lhp percepetual spectrum of the "higher self. in order to get to a point where this differentiation can be understood we need to determine the conditions that a "higher self" exists within. the most fundamental condition is that this self obviously exists within the psyche/consciousness. a secondary aspect of this first condition is that it influences the perception of the objective and subjective environments of the individual. however, the condition that seems most relevant to this line of inquiry refers not only to the proxemic states inherent within it, but to an overall condition we share. a condition of being called consciousness. consciousness, and lev

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

uences- from laotze to aleister crowley- are readily apparent. spare was drawn to crowley in 1910 when he became a member of the argenteum astrum (note 4) shortly after contributing some of his drawings to crowley's periodical, the equinox (note 5) spare claimed to be one of the first surrealists. he had visualized the irrational and transcribed his vision directly from subconscious strata of the psyche; he was also able to galvanise primal centres of awareness by a formula of atavistic resurgence that few artists- and fewer occultists- have succeeded in re-activating with impunity to their work or to themselves. the book of pleasure contains a unique method of obtaining control of the subconscious energies latent in the human mind in the form of primal atavisms. it is evident that if such

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known as the tao. the tao is a beautiful concept, but is has only one major flaw, it has no face. humans, being the creatures that we are, like to have faces and personalities attached to our divine beings. let me also state that pagans do not really worship these gods and goddesses. what we do is honor the aspect of the divine that they reflect. by employing a name of a god or goddess our human psyche connects with the archetype symbol that they represent for us. common examples: diana the huntress for many brings to mind a maiden who is wild and free. frigga the mother is evoked often by both pagans and non-pagans with the words t.g.i.f. as the f stands for friday, and once upon a time that was frigga tag, or frigga day. we all have strong emotions about friday. hecate the crone brings

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agine the excitement if contact is made with intelligent extraterrestrial life forms and humankind discovers that it is part of a larger cosmic community. it would change the way we think of ourselves and of our place in the universe. or is the belief in extraterrestrials a creation of our minds? the universe is so vast we may never know, but the mysteries of outer space have a grip on the modern psyche, since it seems to offer the possibility of a world that may be more open to scientific verification than witchcraft. purpose of book whatever the origin and veracity of the unusual, these beliefs and experiences have played a significant role in human experiences and deserve to be studied dispassionately. these volumes explore and describe the research of those who take such phenomena seri

ety. paul knew that plato had viewed the soul as composed of three constituents: the nous (the rational soul, is immortal and incarnated in a physical body; the thumos (passion, heart, spirit; and epithumetikos (desire. after many hardships, imprisonments, and public humiliation, paul worked out a theology that envisioned human nature as composed of three essential elements the physical body; the psyche, the life-principle, much like the hebrew concept of the nephesh; and the pneuma, the spirit, the inner self. developing his thought further, he made the distinction between the natural body of a living person that dies and is buried, and the spiritual body, which is resurrected. in i corinthians 15:35 44, paul writes: but some will ask, how are the dead raised? with what kind of body do th

e unborn, the permanent, the eternal, the ancient, it is slain not when the body is slain. muhammed (570 c.e. 632 c.e) appears to have regarded the soul as the essential self of a human being, but he, adhering to the ancient judeo-christian tradition, also considered the physical body as a requirement for life after death. the word for the independent soul is nafs, similar in meaning to the greek psyche, and the word for the aspect of the soul that gives humans their dignity and elevates them above the animals is ruh, equivalent to the greek word nous. these two aspects of the soul combine the lower and the higher, the human and the divine. as in the other major religions, how one lives on earth will prepare the soul for the afterlife, and there are promises of a paradise or the warnings o

the suitcase to chester doze, husband of the murdered woman, he identified the bag and contents as the property of his wife. goldberg s book contains an astonishing 54 pages of documentation death and birth certificates, newspaper accounts, police reports, and so forth that prove to any reasonable person that grace doze, the victim of a murder in 1927, did most certainly exist. exactly how ivy s psyche gained that information remains a mystery. could it have been the unquiet spirit of the murdered young woman, working through her reincarnation as ivy, that demanded at long last public resolution of the mystery of her death? goldberg asks. one more eerie coincidence regarding the case must be mentioned. when search for grace was telecast on that tuesday night in may 1994, it was 67 years t

into a trance, which is often accompanied by manifestations that appear to defy known physical laws, such as moving objects without touching them, levitating the mediums own body, and materializing spirit forms of the deceased. the essential attribute that qualifies one to be a medium is an extreme or abnormal sensitivity which seemingly allows the spirits more easily to control the individual s psyche. for this reason, mediums are often referred to as sensitives. during seances, spirit mediums, often working in a trance state, claim to be under the direction of a spirit control or spirit guide that serves as an intermediary between themselves and the spirits of deceased men and women. once contact has been made with particular spirits in the other world, the guide speaks through the medi

e (1833 1886) allowed themselves to be subjected to extensive tests conducted by psychical researchers, most of whom at least believed that man and mind were something more than physical things. however, as the experiments progressed year after year with spirit guides, materialized beings, and levitated objects, the researchers came more to believe in the enormous reach and abilities of the human psyche. they began to see the medium s spirit control as evidence that the human mind was capable of projecting a segment of itself unhampered by time and space, that one level of mind might be able to give birth to new personalities, that one level of the subconscious might telepathically gain knowledge of a departed individual from a sitter s memories while yet another level dramatized that know

she knew the two experiences were connected. when she returned to full consciousness, roberts found herself giving a title to the barrage of words that had streamed across the paper in front of her: the physical universe of idea construction. the title seemed to fit the hastily scribbled notes, but none of the material fit anywhere into roberts s previous convictions regarding life and the human psyche. the sudden paranormal experience had turned her world upside-down and would eventually lead to a series of dramatic events that forever changed her life. jane roberts and rob butts bought a book on extrasensory perception, and they decided to try some experiments with an old ouija board that their landlady had found in the attic. the first two times they tried to move the planchette, nothi

intelligence of some kind that directs evil in the world. they caution that those who suspect possession in themselves or others are not gullible or that they open themselves to the suggestion of demonic possession when other mundane explanations may exist. sources: cuneo, michael w. american exorcism: expelling demons in the land of plenty. new york: doubleday, 2001. demonic invasions individual psyche occurs during the awesome splendor of a mystical experience. in his varieties of religious experience (1902, william james (1842 1912) states his view that personal religion has its origin in the mystical consciousness. the mother sea and fountainhead of all religions lie in the mystical experiences of the individual, taking the word mystical in a very wide sense. all theologies and all ecc

ived before the master jesus, but, in his opinion, they could only speak to their fellow humans by using the faculties transmitted through their earthly natures. they used the energy and the wisdom of earth. jesus, however, tapped into an awareness of that higher energy that comes from the realm of the divine. he knew that a speck of this energy no larger than a mustard seed could exalt the human psyche. he knew that even the slightest infusion of this energy into a man or a woman would transform the individual into a citizen of a higher dimension of reality, the kingdom of god. and, at the same time, he taught that the doorway to enter such a wondrous kingdom lay within the heart of each sincere pilgrim who sought to join him there. author/philosopher john w. white (1939) also sees jesus

ge of consciousness brought with it a valid and ineffable apprehension of the real. ecstasy differs from meditation one of the stages that may precede it both in character and development. in all the lengthy preliminary training of the mystical consciousness, a constant exertion of the will is required. but when at last the new and long-desired experiences come to the mystic like a flash into the psyche, he or she knows that there is nothing more to do than to accept that which has been given. fredric w. h. myers (1843 1901) observed that the evidence for ecstasy is stronger than the evidence for any other religious belief. of all the subjective experiences of religion, ecstasy is that which has been most urgently, perhaps to the psychologist most convincingly asserted; and it is not confi

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agine the excitement if contact is made with intelligent extraterrestrial life forms and humankind discovers that it is part of a larger cosmic community. it would change the way we think of ourselves and of our place in the universe. or is the belief in extraterrestrials a creation of our minds? the universe is so vast we may never know, but the mysteries of outer space have a grip on the modern psyche, since it seems to offer the possibility of a world that may be more open to scientific verification than witchcraft. purpose of book whatever the origin and veracity of the unusual, these beliefs and experiences have played a significant role in human experiences and deserve to be studied dispassionately. these volumes explore and describe the research of those who take such phenomena seri

y do. a gallup poll done in may 2001 found that 38 percent of americans surveyed were convinced that ghosts exist, a 13 percent increase from a survey conducted in 1990. while the current era is considered the age of science, the image of the traditional ghost appears to be as compelling and awesome as ever. perhaps this is because science can never explain the big questions or reassure the human psyche as completely as can belief in the supernatural. the famous psychoanalyst dr. carl jung (1875 1961) described a personal encounter with a ghost in fanny moser s book spuk (1950. in 1920, jung was spending a weekend at an english country house a friend had rented. the nights afforded no rest, however, for the house was subject to the complete repertoire of a full-scale haunting. there were r

d poltergeist case follows the same basic patterns. cultural influences seem to matter little, if at all. a poltergeist manifestation is similar in character whether it takes place in indonesia, iceland, or long island. only the interpretation of the disturbance varies. what is attributed to the destructive impulse of a demon to one people, is attributed to the destructive impulse of a fragmented psyche to another. according to many contemporary psychical researchers poltergeist manifestations are dramatic instances of psychokinesis (pk (the mind influencing matter) on the rampage. although the pranks of the poltergeist were formerly attributed to malicious tricks perpetrated by demons and disembodied spirits, the great majority of psychical researchers today hold that some faculty of pk i

geist- flung pebbles come out of nowhere to strike children. but, as one investigator commented, the phenomena are exactly such as would occur to the mind of a child. in poltergeists (1940, sacheverell sitwell wrote that the poltergeist always directed its power toward the secret or concealed weaknesses of the spirit the recesses of the soul. the mysteries of puberty, that trance or dozing of the psyche before it awakes into adult life, is a favorite playground for the poltergeist. why it should be the baser elements of the adolescent human subconscious that find their expression in the poltergeist is a matter of great speculation among psychical researchers. physical violence is almost always expressed toward the adolescent energy center of the poltergeist and a parent, a brother, or a si

t one mystical experience. of that remarkably high number, 39.9 percent said that they had an encounter with a ghost or had achieved contact with the spirit of a deceased person. according to a survey published in the december 1997 issue of self, 85 percent of its readers believed in the reality of communication with the spirit world. the more that is learned of the remarkable powers of the human psyche, the more difficult it is to prove that one has actually made contact with a spirit of a deceased person, rather than experienced some facet of extrasensory perception, such as clairvoyance or telepathy. in order for psychical researchers to consider accounts of alleged communication with the dead to be authentic, they must first of all be veridical; that is, they must relate to an actual e

m imp incubus jersey devil succubus vampire werewolf monsters of land, sea, and air dragons loch ness and other lake monsters sea serpents thunderbirds wee folk and their friends elves fairies gnomes goblins gremlins leprechauns menehune mermaids nisse selkies trolls actors who faced (or became) movie monsters introduction some psychologists have suggested that there is something within the human psyche that craves monsters and mysterious creatures. for some individuals, the very idea that vampires, werewolves, and chupacabras are out there, lurking in the shadows, makes the adrenaline surge in an otherwise humdrum and dull workaday world. others may find that the notion of long-necked monsters swimming in the world s lakes, apelike giants prowling the forests and prehistoric behemoths tra

relions, and were-bats belonged to an imagined world that early humans saw as powerful, dangerous, and frightening. chippindale commented that these ancient depictions of were-animals remain among the most potent images that humankind has ever created. when modern anthropologists or archaeologists enter the caves with electric lights, he said, the paintings are still frightening. once humankind s psyche had absorbed such hybrid monsters from the stone age, it continued to fashion human-animal deities of great power, such as the gods of ancient egypt, which included the cat goddess bast, the canine-headed anubis, the hawkman horus, and so on. from such were-beings, it was a natural progression to fashion other mystical creatures, such as the minotaur (half-human, half-horse, the satyr (half

with the flesh. thou shalt not eat [blood; thou shalt pourest it upon the earth as water. similar warnings against the ingesting of blood for religious or health reasons were soon a part of the teachings of all major faiths and cultures. but while culture, magic, and religion had amassed thousands of years of prohibitions concerning the shedding of blood, what could be more repulsive to the human psyche than the hybrid half-human, half-animal monsters bite the throats and drink the blood of men, women, and children? vampires rose from their dank graves by night to sustain their spark of life through the drinking of blood. werewolves devoured the flesh and blood of their victims by night or day. how could people defend themselves against these blood-hungry creatures when they also had the a

s into the realm of the scientific community with his publication the interpretation of dreams. varied to allow any single, unitary explanation of dreaming to be adequate. swiss psychiatrist carl g. jung (1875 1961, a student and later dissenter of freudian techniques, added new dimensions to the understanding of the self through dreams. from jung s perspective, freud expressed a contempt for the psyche as a kind of waste bin for inappropriate or immoral thoughts. in jung s opinion, the unconscious was far more than a depository for the past; it was also full of future psychic situations and ideas. jung saw the dream as a compensatory mechanism whose function was to restore one s psychological balance. his concept of a collective unconscious linked humans with their ancestors as part of th

ited shapes of the human mind. jung believed that it is crucial to pay attention to the archetypes met in dream life. of special importance is the shadow, a figure of the same sex as the dreamer, which contains all the repressed characteristics one has not developed in his or her conscious life. the anima is the personification of all the female tendencies, both positive and negative, in the male psyche. its counterpart in the female psyche is the animus. the most mysterious, but most significant, of the jungian archetypes is the self, which m. l. von fram describes in man and his symbols (1964) as the regulating center that brings about a constant expansion and maturing of the personality. the self emerges only when the ego can surrender and merge into it. the ego is the i within each ind

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

agine the excitement if contact is made with intelligent extraterrestrial life forms and humankind discovers that it is part of a larger cosmic community. it would change the way we think of ourselves and of our place in the universe. or is the belief in extraterrestrials a creation of our minds? the universe is so vast we may never know, but the mysteries of outer space have a grip on the modern psyche, since it seems to offer the possibility of a world that may be more open to scientific verification than witchcraft. purpose of book whatever the origin and veracity of the unusual, these beliefs and experiences have played a significant role in human experiences and deserve to be studied dispassionately. these volumes explore and describe the research of those who take such phenomena seri

required. absolute quiet is preferable, but the magician can acquire the ability to blot out extraneous sounds and perform the necessary rituals regardless of environmental distractions. the serious magicians keep a record of what works, what does not work, and what factors they think contributed to the success of a particular ritual. it may be that true magick lies in the unlimited reach of the psyche: mind contacting mind through other than sensory means; mind influencing matter and other minds; mind elevating itself to a level of consciousness where past, present, and future become an eternal now. although humans may clothe these experiences according to the cultural context in which they are most functional, these evidences of the non-physical capabilities of human beings are universa

igion with its beliefs and practices rooted in the processes of nature. generally speaking, wiccans believe that the sources of good and evil lie within each individual, thus universally agreeing with the eight words of the wiccan rede: gif it harm none, do what you will. h the craft is therefore concerned with the properties of the human mind, including that little-known, little-used area of the psyche termed gthe occult. h wiccans do not believe that there is anything supernatural about the manifestations and phenomena associated with this extrasensory area of the mind. they believe that psychic powers lie dormant in everyone, to a greater or lesser degree, and the disciplines of wicca are designed to develop these to the fullest. wicca is a polarized religion, embodying within its worsh

tchcraft trials in the 1690s (the library of congress) intelligence, and a lively imagination. she soon became tituba fs most avid and apt pupil. together with her literate mother, ann had read far more than the other girls in the circle, and she was quite familiar with the imagery in the book of revelation with its dragons, horned beasts, devils, and damnation. it seems that while part of ann fs psyche was thrilled with the forbidden knowledge tituba shared with them, another aspect was conflicted with guilt that they were flirting with devilish enchantment. undoubtedly most of the other girls were also conflicted with conscience and the fear of discovery. as the days passed, little betty seemed distracted from her chores, subject to sudden fits of weeping, often noted to be staring blank

ed by the interpretation the reader gets clairvoyantly. although it may often appear that cosmic forces rule the tarot, and that the sequence of a shuffled and cut deck is not accidental, the cards must still be regarded as a device to free the reader fs psychically sensitive subconscious and to serve as a generator of spontaneous thought. its legendary powers exist within, not without, the human psyche. telling fortunes with modern playing cards as with the tarot, each card in the modern deck of playing cards has acquired a traditional interpretation over the centuries, and the reader.or person telling the fortune.has become familiar with these meanings. the next step in the process is to interpret the drawing or placing of each card by the querent (or questioner).the person seeking the f

extrasensory. predator any organism or animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals. can refer to a ruthless person who is extremely aggressive in harming another. from the latin praedator and praedari, meaning to seize as plunder. psi the factor or factors responsible for parapsychological phenomena. derived from the greek letter psi which is used to denote the unknown factor in an equation. psyche the soul or human spirit or can refer to the mental characteristics of a person or group or nation. via latin from greek psukhe meaning breath, soul, mind and from psukhein to breathe. psychiatrist a doctor who is trained to treat people with psychiatric disorders. psychoanalysis the system of analysis regarding the relationship of conscious and unconscious psychological aspects and their t

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

s of these truths is already your mind making contact with them; the realities behind these mythical truths are already merged with you on the level of awareness, because you have made them a part of your mind with your awareness of them. however, simply being aware of them is not enough, because just the basic mechanical awareness of these ideas does not cause any profound transformation of your psyche. however, if you understand what i have been saying here, and if you understand how your awareness works, you can re-experience mythical truths, on the level of understanding, just as you can re-experience everyday events on the level of awareness. and re-experiencing mythical truths always means seeing something new in themsomething you missed the first time, and this something you missed

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

rgotten his mother, no longer understood god but as an inflexible and jealous father. the sombre saturn, armed with his parricidal scythe, set himself to devour his children. jupiter had eyebrows which shook olympus; jehovah wielded thunders which deafened the solitudes of sinai. 21 nevertheless, the father of men, being on occasion drunken like noah, let the world perceive the mysteries of life. psyche, made divine by her torments, became the bride of eros; adonis, raised from death, found again his venus in olympus; job, victorious over evil, recovered more than he had lost. the law is a test of courage. to love life more than one fears the menaces of death is to merit life. the elect are those who dare; woe to the timid! thus the slaves of law, who make themselves the tyrants of conscie

ng the arch outside to the right is "gr:alpha-iota-omega-nu-alpha-sigma alpha-mu-eta-nu- greek is difficult to tell from latin letters here, and the first part looks very much like "aiwvas, almost crowley's "aiwass" and very possibly a subconscious inspiration for it. there is a suggestion of a nimbus about the head. the section next down is contained largely within a cloud. to the left, outside "psyche. to the right outside in rows "aziah "jezirah "mercury. in the center is a book held open by a right hand flat against the left page and open, palm to book, fingers extending to base of right page. at the top of this portion, just below the chin of the upper section head is the word" gr:eta delta-omicron-xi-alpha (the glory. immediately below this and above the spine of the book is an unrec

t tint of life, its white lips begin to redden like the dawn. orpheus sees her, he trembles, he stammers, the hymn almost dies upon his lips, but she pales anew; then the grand hierophant tears from his lyre sublime heartrending songs, he looks no more save upon heaven, he weeps, he prays, and eurydice opens her eyes. unhappy one, do not look at her! sing! sing! do not scare away the butterfly of psyche, which is about to alight on this flower! but the insensate man has seen the look of the woman whom he has raised from the dead, the grand hierophant gives place to the lover, his lyre falls from his hands, he looks upon eurydice, he darts towards her. he clasps her in his arms, he finds her frozen still, her eyes are closed again, her lips are paler and colder than ever, the sensitive soul

THE LUCIFERIAN PATH THE WITCHES SABBAT MICHAEL W FORD

ance of cain and baphomet are presented in this tome, which is written in a poetic and lyrical form. cain is symbolized as the blacksmith of the forge, his craft is that of sorcery, the fires of the forge that initiatory spark of being, the black flame of iblis itself. the book of cain is also a grimoire which can be meditated upon in the focus of antinomian self-deification, the isolation of the psyche. this process of becoming is a process in the luciferian and sabbatic left hand path guild in houston, texas. this leads to an illumination of the black flame through the initiatory model of cain, the wanderer. this grimoire, containing two direct invocations to cain, is an interesting text for those interested in the more shadowed and luciferian practices of the witchcraft (not wicca. illu

a background in elements of chaos sorcery, sabbat witchcraft and dream/astral practice. many of the formulas of left hand path sorcery may be found in ford s other publications, nox umbra, yatuk dinoih, the toad rite, the book of cain, azothoz and book of the witch moon (among others. the left hand path is essentially antinomian practice of self-isolation, development and the strengthening of the psyche via selfdeification. the witch or sorcerer becomes the flesh through which his or her gods manifest, they are isolate and strong in this practice. the danger of goetic sorcery lies in that such antinomian work with angelic (meaning the higher facilities of man) and demonic (representing carnal, earth based and shadowed) spirits opens a doorway in the self that which will either empower the

t, two moons, the dark (hecate) and the light (lilith or yram-satrina. to the initiate however, lucifer or the baphometic spirit becomes a state which is brought forth or developed to by going forth by night. the path of spirit travel is a temporal process of self emerging from its skin to ascend in the form of shadow, thus willed to manifest in a dreaming flesh. the dreaming body is the form the psyche or ka takes in sleep, and that which flies or goes forth to the infernal sabbat. in the context of witchcraft and sorcery, the western initiate of today holds a wealth of information to build from. idries shah points out in the sufis that the spanish word for witch is bruja, and are considered the children of wisdom. the history of witchcraft and primal sorcery is bound within the yatuivdah

w emerged as a necromantic shade. by the wealth of symbolism there is indeed much to develop from be ready to grasp that which was always slightly out of reach by dream, that fleeting moment of truth not so lightly fallen before you. 4 angels are considered by abu-hamid mohammed al-ghazali to be the higher faculties of man. 5 empyrean= highest heavens, heights, the astral plane which leads to the psyche or genius revealed. see the key of solomon the king by s.l. mathers, the symbolism of angels (higher octave) and demons (lower octave or infernal spirits. this term is inextricably the same as celestial, the sabbat of luciferian light. 6 baphomet is a magickal transformation of being. baphomet, being the head of wisdom, is related to cain in some sabbatic and luciferian circles. 7 the peopl

chapter of the book of the dead the spirit of the deceased prays that he is kept from the great god who devour the heart and soul, who is the guardian of darkness. this is revealed by e.a. wallis budge that this god is none other than suti (set. set was the tester of the dead in this capacity, and set tested the spirit by it s own admission of transformation from life to death and finally, to the psyche becoming immortal. if this test failed, set in the form of seker, devoured the soul. later on seker was merged with ptah, a blacksmith god16 and took the form of a mummy with a visage of an old man. 14 a mask of dreaming is focusing and projecting the psyche or self into the mask of the god form in question, going forth to the sabbat masked in the cloak of the god form you are assuming. thi

mmoning of ahrimanic spirits. as known, ahriman appears in many forms throughout history, a consistent shape shifter. be it toads, wolves or dragons/serpents, ahriman is the wizard in spirit one who masters time by the dream and the twilight world made flesh by desire. the goal of the ritual is a form of self-initiation, adversarial crystallization of the self, that the individual strengthens the psyche and the shadow of the sorcerer. it is the utterance of a word, the embodiment of a god or goddess in flesh. the rite of the adversarial shadow the chant of the infernal sabbat as i face the star of al ghul the two horns become one. i cast the circle as kabed-us-spae, that within is the circumference of my divinity. by the star of algol i bask in the brilliance of the sun at midnight, the ey

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

universal occurrence. it forms the logical basis for any whole judgement. if one wishes to pass such judgement, it must have this fourfold aspect. this judgement, of course, is that made by geburah once the first four sephiroth are in place. rudy rucker proposes the following conceptual tetrad to match jungs four modes, which i feel can be usefully referred to the four worlds as they exist in the psyche (a) number (sensation) referred to assiyah (b) space (feeling) referred to yetzirah (c) logic (thinking) referred to briah (d) infinity (intuition) referred to atziluth. the fifth concept, that of information, can be seen (as the top point of the pentagram or the shin descending into yhvh) as the binding or redeeming concept and may be referred to the divine presence in each of the worlds i

as the song says "love is understanding,/it's hard to believe (madonna, from "rescue me) if kether is taken to be a point, static, and chockmah a line, the primary dynamic state, then binah is the triangle, the first steady state of equilibrium. indeed, binah is the "primary definition, the original matrix of space, from which dimensions themselves spring. thus, the quality of binah in the human psyche is not the wisdom of chockmah, the height of linear thinking where all implications are seen and dealt with from vast experience, but is understanding, the synthetic, connective, holistic thinking, in the form of a matrix or lattice, rather than a straight line process, which is often more direct. the "master of the temple (the title of the grade attributed to binah) has the understanding t

t the magus (chockmah) has the further knowledge of what that dealing is (the logos, or knowledge of the divine will. appropriate symbols of this state of understanding are the lattice, or net, indeed anything representing the concepts of linking, organisation, symmetry, and complexity. binah is also the sephirah from which maya issues, the net of manifestation that is ultimately illusion. in the psyche, this relates to the archetypes that are "hard-wired" into our brain so that we perceive the universe as we do. the transcending of this biological programming is part of the "crossing of the abyss, in a sense. note that there is a scientific and philosophical argument which parallels the magical argument of whether such a feat is possible. the magicians argue whether it is possible to cros

could be, whilst the scientific philosophers argue whether it is possible for a system to escape itself. another of the concepts associated with binah is faith. the idea of faith is often taken to be merely a "strong belief, but true faith is more than that. as defined by paul, faith is "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (hebrews 11.1. faith is that aspect of our psyche that "understands" aspects of the universe that cannot be translated into rational thought (i.e. hod, and remain above the "abyss. thus, faith rests on transcendent experience, not on belief or hope- substance and evidence must be experienced first, and hence with faith "we understand [i.e. binah] that the worlds were framed by the word of god [i.e. chockmah, so that things which are seen w

e crown of the head, below the feet, and the left and right shoulders as the kabbalistic cross. the god-name of chesed, al means also "unto, towards, and again refers to the dynamic aspect of god, or the expansive force of the cosmos. chesed is the first and most active of the sephiroth below the abyss in that it is the explosion into manifestation, or chockmah in a lower order. in context of the psyche, chesed is, as dion fortune puts it "the formulation of the abstract principle which forms the root of any activity" thus, the abstract principle of "settlement, maslow's "survival motivator" is above the abyss, but may manifest at the level of chesed, and be first presented to ordinary awareness, when one is looking at purchasing a house. at the level of chesed, the mind begins to formulat

ioning in yesod alone is to be deceived by projections, and functioning in tiphareth alone holds the danger of confusion of context. that is, experiences are taken as a direct dealing of god with the individual rather than as symptoms of progression to be further transcended. geburah brings with it discernment so that one's own position is realised and, later, chesed provides the key to the whole psyche before the whole psyche itself is flung into the abyss. the grade of adeptus exemptus is assigned to this sephirah, signifying that the adept has transcended his notion of self as tiphareth (awareness) and has moved towards the abyss. exempt from guilt, from sin, from all human concerns that are born of our illusionary perception of time and space, he turns to face the great divide. the pat

. geburah, like all the sephiroth is only one "snapshot" of a synergetic process, or one node of a network, and thus can only be fully expressed as a relationship to the whole. if chesed is the irrepressibly expanding impulse of love and growth, then geburah is the counteracting restraint and concentration. if chesed is the inclination towards things, the outgoing nature and the opening-up of the psyche, then geburah is the inward withdrawal of powers and the concentration of power. in tiphareth is married these dynamic attributes of attraction and repulsion. an example of the difference between the two sephiroth is further provided in the martial arts, and can be found in any other system, where the flow of tai chi chuan is that akin to chesed, whereas the chi focusing of kung fu is of th

completion, we can see that as the initiate rises to this sephirah, he completes equally at one level the work of the lower sephiroth. indeed, the golden dawn stated that the advancement through the elemental initiations of the lower sephiroth "in a sense, quitteth not malkuth. that is to say, partly, that the work of those grades is aligned to ones outside observations, even when directed at the psyche, whereas the work beyond that point has undergone the holy inversion and is involved with the upper sephiroth and the experiences and states that transcend the personality construct. further, the rose (taken as a symbol of tiphareth) and the lamp (a symbol of kether and the ain soph aur) are both attributed to netzach, which may reflect its sevenfold nature of completion. the seven-petalled

. in the original story of oscar wilde's from which this fictional ballet is based, the nightingale sacrifices itself on a white rose in order to make it red. this could be read as the sacrifice of netzach, where sensual passion is tranfused into mystical passion through the path of death, the tarot atu placed on the path uniting netzach and tiphareth. one other aspect of netzach expressed in the psyche is that of the instinctual construct. this construct can be broken into a number of "circuits; bio-survival, emotional-territorial, semantic and socio-sexual. these function largely "unconsciously" in the undeveloped, yesod-dominated, persona, and are usually examined in the early stages of the initiate's development. obviously, many of the functions of these mechanisms are not designed to

re one has time to think about it, which is when the impulse reaches hod a moment later. these instincts run straight into the world of action simultaneously with their transmission to the process of thought, and this is modelled by kabbalah on the path leading from netzach to hod. the tarot atu symbolising this path is that of the moon, mistress of mystery and the emotional "shadowy" side of the psyche. the moon also governs the cyclic aspects of nature, as well as the tides and feminine menstrual energies. it is therefore appropriate that the letter attributed to this path is that of qoph, meaning "back of the head, where the more primitive parts of the brain reside, regulating these energies. netzach is spelt in hebrew, ntzch, nun-tzaddi-cheth. the tarot attributions of these cards is t

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

eliberately forgotten, has become so deep, that the inner psychic necessity for the authority and affection of the father is unconsciously projected outwards into a terrifying and awe-inspiring deity. discernment of the true motives of conduct and attitude towards life is, therefore, an absolute essential. this accomplished, then may be examined that other side of the medallion which is man's own psyche. the two pillars of the temple 7 as a practical system, magic is concerned not so much with analysis as with bringing into operation the creative and intuitive parts of man. a psychological techruque can never be a wholly integrative one until it accepts ths spiritual side of man and assists the analysand in the recognition of or acquaintance with its activity. at ths moment, the treatment

nbalanced severity is cruelty and the barrenness of mind' were we to change the terminology of the speech, instead of the word "mercy" we might substitute "emotion" or "generosity" or "love; for "severity" we may substitute "power "the rational side of us" or "justice" or "tyranny" either of these qualities when carried to an extreme, unmodified by the other, is conducive to an unhealthy state of psyche. thus it is, that in so religiously authoritative a book as the bhagavad-gita,b which some consider one of the finest pieces of devotional and philosophical literature yet penned, we find it stated "be free from the pairs of opposites" the whole of life-it is in fact the law of nature itself-seems to be dominated by these extremes or opposites "two contending forces and one which unites the

we conclude that as chesed represents the father and gevurah the mother,l3 so tiphareth which is beauty, is the reconciler between them. interestingly enough, tiphareth is referred to the sun, and corresponds to the thrd member of the theological trinity, the son. looking at these trinities as so many expressions of psychological fact-that is, as previously defined, as factors active w i t h the psyche itself-we are struck by the similarity of the religious point of view with the idea of the middle way.14 it is the pursuit of ths middle path which leads to self-conquest and the steady growth of the golden flower, the wakening of the imprisoned soul within. the father and mother may be said to correspond to the two pillars of the temple, to the two extremes or opposites. in this sense they

other may be said to correspond to the two pillars of the temple, to the two extremes or opposites. in this sense they are the tendencies exhibited by all the phenomena of nature. they are the extremes of spirit and matter, love and hate, life and death, ebb and flow, systole and diastole. nature itself is the embodiment of the two extremes, the two opposites of the trinity. to the student of the psyche, to the one who the knowledge of his higher self, the counsel given to avoid the opposites. his task is to refrain of extreme actions. in certain schools of magic, where the rites of by adepts who at one time thoroughly they employed, initiation ceremonies depicted higher self and its rebirth by means of a techrucal and meditation. therein, the higher self was always some sacred figure of t

talk right through, severing the flower from its necessary root. this cutting of the lotus stalk has its counterpart in human minds, many of us having been cut off from our roots. for this denial of the instinctual life, in whch the conscious existence after all has its roots, and this persistent repression, cause some degree of dissociation. that is, a severance of the integrity and unity of the psyche. the psychosis,l7 if sufficiently intense and prolonged, produces symptoms of various sorts ranging from lack of vitality, irritability, constipation, and a host of other physical and nervous disorders. with such a problem, there is but one logical method of attack. it is to recognize quite clearly that the physical symptoms are the results of an internal conflict, a conflict between the ne

onted fearlessly, without shame and discomforture, the resistance to the flow of vitality between the various levels of consciousness is broken down, restoring physical, nervous, and spiritual health. as the childhood memories are exposed, the student will see for himself in what way the conflict now bothering him came into manifestation. since by definition a neurosis21 is a maladaptation of the psyche to life itself, by this process of remembering he will see in what way he failed to respond properly to the phenomena of his existence. realizing this, and recognizing thoroughly the nature of his conflict, he must now endeavor to ignore it. more accurately a more positive attitude should be adopted. he must develop in an entirely new direction. it must be remembered, however, and this is i

catharsis. one finds hmself endued with a new courage and greater ability to face one's problem in an entirely new and more practicable way. given the recognition of the conflict causing constipation, the symptom itself may be severely ignored, relying upon the bowel after the lapse of some days to recommence functioning of its own accord. the conflict and the warring between the two sides of the psyche, tied a knot as it were in consciousness preventing the perfect functioning of the whole. the immediate result of this is an impediment in the free movement of nervous energy in the body-mind system, causing stasis in that part of the system having a relationship or correspondence with the factors concerned in the conflict. ocdt theory as we have it from tradition may be extremely useful he

of the magical tradition is astrology. in this latter science the kidneys are referred to the operation of the the two pillars of the temple 15 planet venus. as we know from mythology, venus is the deity concerned with love, feeling, and emotion. we would surmise therefore that in the event that the love or emotional life of an individual has been frustrated or repressed to such a point where the psyche finally refused to continue living wlrulst hampered by such a neurosis, some expression of that frustration could be transferred to the neighborhood of the kidneys. were the frustration complete and devastating to the psyche, it is not impossible that we should find a cancer-the symptom par excellence of the death-wish, the so-called suicide complex indicative of a division in the psyche's

ymbols-the instinctual life is our mental support. it is that which we tend to rely upon, our stability and foundation, during life. should therefore our understanding of life fall short of what it should be for us-and obviously that standard varies with different people-so that we unduly repress our instincts to the point when the resulting sense of insecurity and anxiety become intolerable, the psyche achieves a revenge through an affliction of the supports of the personality. thus it is that we learn, so it is said, by illness. when our supports, no matter of what nature, have been a h l a t e d, we sometimes seek to enquire into causes and origins. when the enquiry is honestly furthered, with a sincere view to self-knowledge, and internal resistance broken down by meditation or analysi

had to be seen through, came it was the former type, suffering from a terrible fear but boasting that they were not in the least afraid, who became affected by shellshock. shell-shock-the shock experienced by the nervous system through the devastating noise of explosion, had nothing to do with their actual trouble at all. the cause was simply a cowardly refusal to face the conflict raging in the psyche. and when ths became so intolerable, an actual split occurred in consciousness, so that there was a gap in memory, awareness, and in efficiency. with the acceptance of the theory of conflict as a cause of nightmare, a subtle change gradually creeps into the nightmare-dream. the following is one rather fine example, together with the method of dealing with it. a woman patient frequently drea

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

's it had been copied and reprinted in various languages- the story goes- among them latin, greek and english. doctor dee, the magus of elizabethan fame, was supposed to have possessed a copy and translated it. this book, according to the mythos, contains the formulae for evoking incredible things into visible appearance, beings and monsters which dwell in the abyss, and outer space, of the human psyche. such books have existed in fact, and do exist. idries shah tells us of a search he conducted for a copy of the book of power by the arab magician abdul-kadir (see: the secret lore of magic by shah, of which only one copy was ever found. the keys of solomon had a similar reputation, as did the magus by barret, until all of these works were eventually reprinted in the last fifteen years or s

it is the force of will, and relies heavily upon the biochemical matter that makes up the human body, and hence, the human consciousness, to give it existence. science is coming around to accept the fact that the will does exist, just at the point where psychology has determined it does not- in the behaviourists vain attempt to eradicate what has always been known to constitute vital parts of the psyche from their consideration in pseudo scientific experimentation, leaving us with the "white mice and pigeons" of koestler's the ghost in the machine. science, ancient sister of magick, has begun to realize the human potential that resides, inconspicuously, in the spiral-mapped matter of the brain. just as the magicians, accused of trafficking with the devil, were said to have developed tremen

de. since "the gods are forgetful, buy treading on their celestial spheres we are reminding them of their ancient obligations to us, their created ones. for, as it is said in one of man's most ancient of covenants, the emerald table "as above, so below. man's power to alter the nature of his environment must develop simultaneously with his ability to master his inner environment, his own mind his psyche, soul, spirit. perhaps, then, the lunar landing was the first collective initiation for humanity, which will bring it one step closer to a beneficial force that resides beyond the race of the "cruel celestial spirits, past the abyss of knowledge. yet, he must remember that the occult powers that accompany magickal attainment are ornamental only, indications of obstacles overcome on the path

THE SIGIL OF ADVERSARY

r. the seventh is erbeth, a name which can procure love love of another or self love. use while envisioning the object of your desire chant a mantra form of erbeth while doing so while facing a mirror. the sixth is the god of the night sun, seker (he who is shut in, a god of darkness who has a close connection to set in his beginning. use this sigil to invoke the power of death and to isolate the psyche, emerge and begin transforming in the midnight sun of the adversary. the fifth is lerthex, a name of typhon the serpent. this is the body and mind of the magician as he spirals his or her spells as a dragon. use lerthex to visualize a goal and then recite the name as a mantra to manifest the desire. may be used for protection, by imagining a great typhonic dragon to encircle your dwelling

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

mes we listen to the yearning hopes of a paracelsus, or the noble words of a tannhauser; at times warm arms are flung around us, and the hot kisses of some messaline suffocate our very breath, leading us into the mansions of a de sade and through the gardens of an aretino, horrid with the frenzy of eros. or, again, we are treading with the sages of philosophy, or emidst the stars in search of the psyche of events; dreams almost monstrous in their intensity seize our troubled brain, deep problems of psychology, of sex, of the carnal, of the pathic, and of evil, all inter-webbed and woven with the eternal filament of good. and so if we read this strange poet aright, we shall see as we progress onwards, that he has struck a sonorous note from the rim of time, fulfilled of the knowledge of goo

les seems at one time to have been a special calling for mystics, besides jacob boehme, there was george fox, and john bunyan; also eliphas levi was the son of a shoemaker. it might be noted here that in india all leather workers are considered unclean, and in caste rank with sweepers and pork butchers *3. eleusis, vol. iii, p. 228. after the colossal fable of oedipus we find the gracious poem of psyche, which was certainly not invented by apuleius. the great magical arcanum reappears here under the figure of a mysterious union between a god and a weak mortal abandoned alone and naked on a rock. psyche must remain in ignorance of the secret of her ideal royalty, and if she behold her husband she must lose him .e. levi, the doctrine of transcendent magic, p. 16. inspiration does not enter i

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

nts of such antinomian magick, it is suggested to study the techniques of yoga while concealing the intention of becoming a yatus or a practitioner of the left hand path. while the buddhist seeks to kill consciousness, the daeva buiti seeks to master it, to strengthen and expand the concept of i. use the techniques of yoga: discipline, attainment and self-control to begin a crystallization of the psyche. summary tabaet is just one of the names of the adversary, his forms are many, just as his bride, yet the blackened fire is imperishable. sorcery and the adversary are an interconnected fire, both are from the earliest legends and myths of rebellion. as ahriman first entered the creation of the world as a serpent and toad, his words defined the very essence of all sorcery and magick, i will

THE BINDING OF SHADOWS

ur that which would attack you. by the call of shemyaza may the hidden knowledge and protection be revealed. by the desire of my many forms shall be passed from the grave to life touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah (and the power) touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah (and the glory) facing the south, make the sign of the inverse pentagram, symbolizing the matter of the flesh and the psyche which allows the spirit- god to emerge. baraqijal, allow the stars to align with my everlasting protection! may the dead hear my call! face now the altar: before me lucifer; behind me shaitan; on my right hand belial; on my left hand leviathan; for about me flames the pentagram, and in the column stands the seven-rayed star of babalon! ii. the circle of the dead upon the altar a pre-created

THOUGHTS ON SETH

e of malkuth. then there is "xepher, as the temple of set understands it the drive "to become. this encompasses some attributes that can (obviously) be taken to evil extremes; intelligence, drive, ambition, cunning, engineering, competitive spirit, pride in accomplishment. from don webb of the tos "xeper is an egyptian verb meaning 'i have come into being' xeper is the experience of an individual psyche becoming aware of its own existence and deciding to expand and evolve that existence through its own actions. xeper has been experienced by anyone who has decided to seek after his or her own enlightenment "set, the egyptian god of darkness, is the divine origin of the word. set's name ultimately means the 'separator' or 'isolator' his chief enemies are the gods of stasis and mindlessness

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verbal urgings and directives of the spirit. self-inspired magicians usually will pick up an entire collage of disparate bits and pieces of lore and superstition that nonetheless works for them because they are in touch with the unmanifest. the best approach is a balance between traditional elements that have proven effective over time and inspired elements that resonate strongly in the personal psyche of the magus. magical learning usually begins from the outside and pro- gresses inward, although it is vitalized from the inside out-that is, beginners prac- tice the mechanical part of magic without being able to infuse it with vitality, and only later do their gestures and words begin to acquire power. over time the magic of an adept becomes more individualized as inspired ele- ments repl

the unmanifest through the point of the true self, and it is his or her own higher potential that transforms desire into reality. yet even though the form of a spirit is an illusion, it still has the power to kill should the magus be foolish enough to grant it the right to do so. the question of reincarnation is a vexing one to eastern minds. since the con- cept has not been a part of the western psyche since the advent of the christian era, it seldom troubles practitioners of the hermetic art unless they have steeped themselves in buddhist or hindu philosophy. however, it is useful to place rein- carnation in the context of the unmanifest. there are two views of reincarnation. the first supposes the soul, the person- al identity, endures a series of births and deaths in order to gather a

part of his or her innermost subconscious being. to reveal the first to anyone who is genuinely interested is the duty of every seeker after the light. to betray the latter is both foolish and dangerous. remember the hermetic maxim of the french occultist, eliphas levi-know, dare, will, and keep silent.29 t he instruments of magic are only the physical basis for the forms that are created in the psyche of the magus. these psychic, or mental, forms are in turn the rational basis for forces that exist below the level of cogitation. magic works in two directions. material instruments generate psychic forms that in turn call into operation the superconscious forces. this is magic from the outer to the inner circles of being and is the way of the serpent. sometimes forces beyond the conception

turn the rational basis for forces that exist below the level of cogitation. magic works in two directions. material instruments generate psychic forms that in turn call into operation the superconscious forces. this is magic from the outer to the inner circles of being and is the way of the serpent. sometimes forces beyond the conception of the human mind cause ideas and images to appear in the psyche of the magus, who then uses these images to make material instruments of the art, as in the case of intuitive sigil making. this is magic from the inner to the outer circles and is the way of the lightning. in practice neither of these operations is pure; both are related and interde- pendent. before the instruments can be used to invoke the light they must first be obtained. and in order t

see the middle temple, it must inspire wonder and a sense of awe. the purpose in erecting it is to create a religious rapture. therefore its every association must be positive and powerful. it is within the middle temple-not the outer temple, as is commonly believed- that magic is actually performed. even simple ritual actions such as prayer are done within the grandeur of the temple built in the psyche. the magus must be able to enter and leave it more or less at will if the rituals worked within its bounds are ever to be effective. to stand inside the middle temple is to be halfway to the state of exal- tation that permits the parting of the veil. inner temple also called the temple spiritual. little can be said descriptively about the temple of the spirit because it has no perceivable q

sical levels through its action. consciousness monitors the success or failure of the ritual as it occurs, and if necessary, sends a ray of will to change its direction through the medium of the subconscious. it should be made clear that "subconscious" is only another word for igno- rance. it is the catch phrase made popular by nineteenth century psychiatrists talk- ing about those aspects of the psyche that could be observed only through their effects, never directly by the conscious mind. the reason the subconscious cannot be observed by the conscious mind is because it is closer than consciousness to the center of self. the conscious mind observing the subconscious would be like the eye trying to look at itself directly. the eye can only observe itself indirectly through the physical me

y, the conscious can only observe the subconscious through its effects. the subcon- scious can be observed directly, but only from the point of self, which is a vantage not obtainable by normal consciousness. several elements are prerequisites for any successful ritual: rapport between the conscious and the subconscious in order to be effective the ritual must reach the subconscious levels of the psyche. the subconscious can be opened through the practice of meditation and autosuggestion so that certain universal symbols can be made to resound over its deepest levels. if the elements of ritual do not reach the subconscious, they will have no power. just as when two people look at a work of art and one is moved while the other feels nothing, so can the same symbol be meaningless to one pers

an astral entity unless the magus breaks its bound- ary or willfully invites an entity to enter. in everyday life the astral boundary of a human being is established without the need for conscious thought at the limit of the physical body and a bit beyond. this shell of self is known as the aura. when, during ritual, the magus consciously projects what are considered to be elements of his or her psyche outward into the greater world-metaphorically externalizing his or her self beyond the skin-the natural boundary of the aura threatens to become indistinct and must be reinforced by the circle. in effect, the magic circle becomes a second skin for the lower self (the identity of the magus) and protects his or her mind from lower spirits just as the physical skin of the body keeps out bacter

ntempt. unfortunately for them, their shield is also their prison. protected from many of the ill effects of magic, they are at the same time barred from its good. and because their subconscious minds are not skepti- cal in the least, eventually they hurt themselves if they dabble in ritual long enough. when this happens, they have no way to repair the fracture they have unwittingly made in their psyche, because they do not consciously acknowledge the tools and techniques that might help them. i t has been said in true grimoires that to achieve a mastery of magic the magus needs nothing beyond a devoted and open heart, and repeated and sincere prayers of invocation. when rightly called, the light will manifest itself in some perceptible form and instruct the magus in all manner of signs an

om grace, the illusory qualities of blackness appear real to human perception. they take the form of cruelty, indifference, hatred, and silence-but the one characteristic that binds them all is emptiness. it is useful in practical magic to assign these fourteen colors to the major sym- bols. when the symbols are drawn and used in a working, the appropriate colors give them a greater impact on the psyche. the great symbols in magic are the one wheel of spirit, the trinity of motions, the five elements, the seven planets, and the twelve zodiac signs. the wheel of spirit receives white because it is the center and embodies all qualities within it. the symbol should be drawn with six spokes, rather than the traditional eight, to suggest the color wheel with its three primaries and three second

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trist that bids me fulfill my duty and prepare those few who will hear me for coming events which are in accord with the end of an era.175 jung observed that the ufo phenomenon had appeared just prior to the transition from the astrological age of pisces to the dawning age of aquarius. he regarded it as a synchronistic event, a mirroring in the outer material world of the tension within the human psyche that was generated by this transitional phase. jung viewed the round shape of flying saucers as an unconscious compensation for the division of the western world by the iron curtain, a futile attempt to restore wholeness by projecting symbols of wholeness into the heavens, the realm of the gods. the beginning of the last great astrological age, that of pisces, coincided with the founding of

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ PERFORM A RITUAL TOASTING

living force in the objective universe. this reminds us that "man is god" and keeps us from becoming hopeless cynics. the hero chosen for this honor should be picked by the most personal of standards. it could be your father, or an egyptian pharaoh of the xxth dynasty. if it's someone you don't know personally, research your guy (or gal. this will acquaint you with the possibilities in the human psyche as well as the combination of method and persistence needed to achieve greatness. here's an example "i drink to howard phillips lovecraft, who remained true to the weird vision he created, and brought it forth in his own work and others that it might work upon the collective unconsciousness of mankind forever" 6. drink to your own accomplishment. now you are beginning to weave yourself into

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ TIMING IN GREATER AND LESSER BLACK MAGIC

ry, do not tell anyone else about them (they may notice the behaviour- particularly the sex, but keep them quiet. you will also begin to see the arbitrary nature of the world and this experiential insight will strengthen your greater black magic and your becoming. 5. if you want to train will, test your concentration against the clock. like the athlete trains his body, the magician must train his psyche. many beginners find that they cannot concentrate for more than seconds at a time. they perceive this as a failure rather than the natural outcome of societal training (docile sheeple aren't supposed to concentrate. a simple and powerful exercise is to put aside nine minutes a day to meditate on projecting your godhood from the realm of being into the realm of becoming. during this active m

good harvest. this tip is as true for influencing one individual as it is for the mass of humanity as a whole. 9. if you wish to have fulfilment in both this life and beyond, make a life plan. there is a secret teaching among the gurdjieffians that different types of work must be done at different times. this reflects changes in the body and the changes wrought by the growing articulation of the psyche as a separate entity from the natural order (initiation. although you should change your life plan as your vision changes, you should begin to study the lives of geniuses to see what sort of work the different ages of a man are best suited for. when did the great writers write their great books, when did great religious leaders do their work, when did politicians do their best statecraft? c

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ UNDERSTANDING DARKNESS

onstrained by, the natural order. the knowledge that your stand separate from the universe is the beginning of the left hand path. 2. look at the stars. find a grassy hill and look up at the stars on a warm, clear moonless night. relax and let your mind soar towards the stars. that feeling of falling up into the abyss of stars is a predictable part of your natural self. the desire to project your psyche to its utmost limits is one of the forces that drives the initiate along the left hand path. it is why we choose role models like set, the first historic example of the rebel against cosmic injustice. 3. sit quietly in a darkened room. find a place away from radio, tv, family etc. here alone and away from a constant stream of messages telling you what to think, just relax and see where your

VOX SABBATUM

h and come forth to the forge of cain. the witches sabbat behind the initiatory models of what is called diabolism, lies a plethora of shapes and forms for any initiate to move through. the gate of the left hand path is indeed a dangerous way as it inaugurates and initiates change internal and external. in the rational consciousness the mind is aligned with the specifics and maps ingrained in the psyche from early childhood. these models sometimes morph and transform with the maturing mind; but rarely are broken free from. this may be observed in the individual who from a child grows up believing in some form of christian dogmatic ideals, worship or punishment, the god above 1 sometimes referred to as black magickian. the term black represents wisdom, not ill inspired intent. please refer

orm of christian dogmatic ideals, worship or punishment, the god above 1 sometimes referred to as black magickian. the term black represents wisdom, not ill inspired intent. please refer to the arabic root fhm, meaning black or wisdom. this is the basis of the sabbatic goat as the torch bearer, which signifies knowledge and intelligence. 2 the antinomianian path of self-deification, isolating the psyche from the natural order of self- dissolution. 3 from oz, or azazel the fire djinn and first born of light. 4 leviathan, see the grimoire abramelin. 5 called iblis or is the same as shaitan in islamic sufism. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 3 and hell below. he in his late teens or early twenties rebels from the norm of christianity and adopts a so-called satanic or even an atheistic belief s

s questions and tests, it offers a treasure upon treasure of knowledge and wisdom through experience, it builds and summons forth hidden gods and sleeping beasts, it challenges and destroys those who flinch in the face of the adversary in short it is dangerous. the left hand path is indeed dangerous because it can destroy the perceptions of the condition of human belief structures it can free the psyche but the shock of this liberation is sometimes too much to bear. sorcery can destroy as it is rather simple to abuse, and invoke the demons of your extreme desires to devour you. the left hand path is not an easy one. let us first observe the nature of the left hand path. specifically, it is the antinomianian (non-union or isolation from the natural order) path of self- deification (self-god

abuse, and invoke the demons of your extreme desires to devour you. the left hand path is not an easy one. let us first observe the nature of the left hand path. specifically, it is the antinomianian (non-union or isolation from the natural order) path of self- deification (self-godhood. by this definition, the individual views his or her self alone and able to rely only on his or her developing psyche for the creations of comfort, challenges and the responsibility of invoking positive change. moderation is also a certain factor of success. it is easy to abuse the gifts of the devil when he presents them; it is even easier to create situations for you eventual self-destruction by actions you take now. be thoughtful before your actions. it is essential that the practitioner of the left han

irst to your level of consciousness you will find it easier to label it an exterior force. the definition of angel is a higher facility of man, it is intelligence and matured control, the very careful planning and stillness of being which is both energetic and vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 4 solar, strong and the very fountainhead of self-development and progressive being. it is the seat of the psyche, the demon genius of man and woman. the definition of daemon or beast is the shadowed and animalistic instinctual, impulsive side. it is the djinn (spirit daemon) of pleasure, desire, lust and sexual passion. it is the animalistic and passionate essence which resides in the skull of man. it is the continual goal and point of the left hand path to develop both aspects and unite them as a dev

r between the mind of the sorcerer, they are a type of magickal link from which the self holds common association in reference to the triad of will- desire-belief. this embodies such objects with the very power envisioned within them to transform, to curse, to invoke imagination and inspiration. the witches sabbat is thus a model of self-deification. the sabbat is an image from which the mind and psyche is free from the restraints of mundane reality and the flesh. the spirit takes the form that is so desires at the moment, joins with familiars and other demonic forms and goes forth to a place which centralizes the imagination in an infernal sense the devil is by this standard a mirror of the liberated mind awaiting confirmation of self-belief and the desire to becoming something else. reme

ounter clockwise dance and ointments containing henbane to produce the sensation of flying. these witches would sometimes blacken their faces and attribute the mind into a lycanthropic transformation, through the ecstasy of dance. the blackening of faces they were representing death and then reawakening, it is by a conceptual standpoint, an antinomian act which produces the mind aligning with the psyche encircling of self-deification. the peacock angel and black snake i was, and am now, and will continue unto eternity, ruling over all creatures and ordering the affairs and deeds of those who are under my sway. i am presently at to such as trust in me and call upon me in time of need, neither is there any place void of where i am not present -kitab el-jelwa, the book of revelation the so-ca

r iron and half of flesh. it could also be made completely of a horn as well, sometimes forked as a tongue. there were suggestions that the demon could perform coitus and pederasty (i.e. sodomy) at once, with a third member in his lovers mouth. as described in a rite of the werewolf 14 the definition of the infernal sabbat is, the infernal sabbat, being the antinomian self-love rite of sexual and psyche oriented self-deification, allows the passing of the shadow of the witch into an averse and more powerful state of being. the infernal sabbat is one when the witches and sorcerers take to masks and imagined or visualized lycanthropy, when they are joined with the demons and other familiars around the circle, by dream or waking sabbat such is a reality which is very pertinent to the practiti

icance as means of self- deification. luciferian sabbat the luciferian sabbat is best described as high sorcery and angelick magick. it illuminates and stimulates further the imagination, the higher faculties of man and woman. such a sabbat differs from the infernal sabbat in that it is more aethyr or astral based, air and dreamlike space. the luciferian sabbat is the gathering of spirits and the psyche set free; liberation and being within the very circle of leviathan, the crooked serpent of ageless existence. lucifer is the model of the celestial or sometimes called empyrean rite as it is a focusing on self-transformation through willed direction; the black magician driven by self-determined goals to become something and transform into a godlike state. this requires isolation, introspect

d empyrean rite as it is a focusing on self-transformation through willed direction; the black magician driven by self-determined goals to become something and transform into a godlike state. this requires isolation, introspection and an honesty which is both complimenting and insulting. as the infernal sabbat is the mastery of the earth, the luciferian sabbat is the mastery of the spirit and the psyche. lucifer is the first born son of the limitless light, ain soph or god. azazel as his name is revealed, is a djinn or high angel of fire, thus self-influenced and strong in will. lucifer fell from the highest abodes of heaven, complete with the wings made of emerald and crashed into the earth and abyss. with him fell other angels, leviathan, belial, beelzebub, astaroth, asmodeus and a pleth

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haec primum triplici diversa colore. the druids also paid a constant respect to this number and even their poems are noted as being composed in triads. it is not necessary here to enlarge upon the transcendent importance of the christian trinity. in old paintings we often see a trinity of jesus with john and mary. in the timaeus of plato, the divine triad is called theos--god, logos--the word and psyche, the soul. indeed it is impossible to study any single system of worship throughout the world, without being struck by the peculiar persistence of the triple number in regard to divinity. whether as a group of deities, a triformed or 3- numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott headed god, a mysterious triunity, a deity of 3 powers, or a family relationship

further, but to increase we must return to the monad. it was also called kosmos, the world, because it formed the number 36, when its digits were thus combined: 1+2=3 3+4=7 5+6=11 7+8=15 36 thirty-six being the sum of the first four odd numbers with the first even numbers. plutarch, de anim. procr. 1027, says the world consists of a double quaternary; 4 of the intellectual world, t agathon, nous, psyche and hyle; that is supreme wisdom or goodness, mind, soul, matter, and four of the sensible world, forming the kosmos of elements, fire, air, earth and water. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott four is the number of the moons or satellites of jupiter and uranus. the arabians analyzed female beauty into nine fours; four black--hair, eyebrows, eyelashes

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

that may be rendered poetically as con/frontation with the face, which is most fully visible when it can be seen no more. in this encounter, at the intersection of being and nothing, truth as the wholly other is disclosed, albeit in the concealment of its disclosure. levinas has expressed the matter by insisting that death is an affectivity without intentionality that evokes a disquietude of the psyche wherein an interrogation interrogates itself yet is not convertible to a response other than the responsibility of the questioning itself or of the one who questions, 7 an awaiting or anticipation, without any anticipating aiming; it must thus be considered as having engulfed its intentionality of awaiting, in an awaiting that is patience or pure passivity. a non-taking upon oneself or a no

where the author employs the expression that i have borrowed, la matrice m tas mantique. 236. isbell, divine name ehyeh, pp. 101 118. 237. bahir, 49, p. 145, and see analysis in wolfson, circle, pp. 86 87. see also offerman, kabbalah and consciousness, p. 53 n. 15: the matriarchs are the spiritual or soul sources for space-consciousness, the patriarchs are the source of time-consciousness in the psyche. it is reasonable to consider the kabbalistic perspective in light of the general western perception encapsulated in the slogan father time, which is conjoined to mother nature. for discussion of this image, see panofsky, studies in iconology, pp. 69 91, and, more recently, gri ths, sideways look at time, pp. 294 318. it is also pertinent to recall here the image of truth as the daughter of

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

ision and the voice. the actual purpose of this type of work has, sadly, never been discussed in full before. before we actually get into this discussion, the definition of astral projection must be explored. today, there are two major divisions of thought on this important subject. the first considers that when one projects into an enochian square he or she is, in fact, projecting into their own psyche using an artificial archetype as the key. the second school of thought believes one is actually making contact with some completely dissociated force, 158 either external or internal, and that this area is what we call the astral. my own personal belief is that one school of thought necessitates the other. in other words, a person must travel deep within his own psyche before he releases hi

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

in the 5=6 ritual, the adept first experiences godform assumption when lashed to the cross of suffering; and later in the role of the chief adept in the pastos, who assumes the astral body of the postulant, and later when the postulant holds the crook and scourge of osiris. the energies of the various godforms, plus the rituals and props, amount to what could be described as a mass attack on the psyche of the individual. those who go through the 5=6 ceremony with full props, or as in an astral temple when the ceremony is done without props, will experience changes in their lives. some experience a dramatic shock then and there during the ceremony itself, while others noticed changes in themselves months after. all agree that the 5=6 ritual with its evocative powers can change one's life

d, and birth under difficult conditions. mem then carries on the theme of life itself; enlightenment through suffering. shin is resurrection, as the rewards for the quest of life. in the final part of the opening, shekinah appears veiled with a lamp under the veil. this shows that the unknown quality of the sphere, the feminine anima, is present, to be summoned forth from the deeper layers of the psyche. first point the postulant is robed in the white of spirit which symbolizes the overall vibration he experienced in the vault at the 5=6 level. the first knock is a symbol that the unification of the neshamah with the ruach and the nepshech was obtained in the 5=6 grade. the two bells are the yechidah and the chiah, the two stages of the soul he has yet to experience. the reception of the p

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sphemy, murder, rape, revolution, anything, bad or good, but strong" crowley left his former tutor, macgregor mathers, a broken man as he embarked on a psychic war against him. they both conjured up the 'demons' to attack the other, but mathers lost out. such psychic wars are very much part of the brotherhood today. crowley's communicator, the prison warder consciousness, would also take over the psyches of adolf hitler and the other architects of nazism. long after his death, crowley would become a hero to many involved in the 'flower power' period of the 1960s, when the young were calling for love and peace. the irony is not lost. crowley welcomed the first world war as necessary to sweep away the old age and usher in the new one. after going public with his revelations, crowley was made

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hey both conjured up demons to attack the other, butmathers lost out. such psychic wars are very much part of the brotherhood armourytoday. they war psychically with each other, but overwhelmingly with the populationand people who are challenging their power. i have experienced such attacks myselfand i understand how they can kill people in this way. crowleys communicators wouldalso take over the psyches of adolf hitler and other architects of nazism. long after hisdeath, crowley would become a hero to many involved in the flower power period ofthe 1960s, when the young were calling for love and peace. the irony is not lost.crowley welcomed the first world war as necessary to sweep away the old age andusher in the new one. after going public with his revelations, crowley was made theworld

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

m prorumpens cum sanguine de naribus egressus est inimicus' as a fly, loki finds his way into locked rooms through the keyhole, he can slip even through a needle's eye (norske folkev. no. 31, which puts me in mind of his insinuating mother (p. 246. the devil, like the giant (p. 555, has the power to make himself great or small, n. folkev. 1, 134. 192. of the elvish nature of butterflies, which as psyches (p. 829) may be spirits of good or evil, we have more to say in the sequel. when stagheetles and dungbeetles are taken as devils, it gives assurance of a heathen point of view (see suppl. but also, and that from early times, the devil has been likened to two implements, the hammer and the holt, in which i have pointed out (pp. 180. 243) the reference to heathen gods. we have still to consi

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ed accounts of an ignorant and superstitious people. truly, the stories of myth are easy to dismiss. modern man has, for the most part, accepted the assertions of psychologists regarding these ancient tales. the gate-keepers of psychology, men like sigmund freud and carl jung, have suggested that the stories told by ancient man are no more than symbolic retellings of the conflict occurring in the psyches of the individual. they reason that the gods of ancient man are no more than different aspects of the self. for example, each mythology seems to have at least 1 good god, and one trickster or villain god, and these 2 gods represent the internal (and external) battle of good versus evil within the heart of the every individual. with the wild tales of mythology being food for the incredulous

ONYX TABLET OF SET

if it is doing what it is designed to do. returning the temple to its design with each conscious action is the duty of the priesthood. when you have decided that a first degree would be better off not pursuing the temple, it is all right to talk to them, and suggest that they might not want to renew at dues time. this is within your job. the priesthood has a great power in that it is dealing with psyches that are still dependent on signals from without, but has made the leap of cutting out most of the signals. the priesthood's power to send a signal of success or lack of progressi s its most important and sacred tool. be very careful in its use, and always talk to another iii+ in this matter. when to counsel the world lacks traditions of initiation and religion. this means that most people

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

lemental grade ceremonies the initiation ceremonies of the zelator, theoricus, practicus and philosophus grades are each referred to one of the four elements of tetragrammaton- yhvh-beginning with the last, earth, air, water and fire respectively. as a whole these grades represent the fundamental work of the outer order which is to equilibrate the elemental forces in the working temple and in the psyches of individuals, whether participating as officers or as aspiring candidates for advancement. these ceremonies will be referred to here generally as the grade ceremonies for the purpose of providing an overall description of the ritual patterns repeated and expounded in progression thru the outer order. to provide ceremonies which can be read and performed from the text, lengthy explanation

RUBY TABLET OF SET

in its recycling and thus lose all that they have gained, sacrificing themselves on the altar of dispersion. but the forces of entropy are powerless against the black magician, who has isolated himself and rendered his self separate and inviolable. although our bodies are ultimately prone to decay, we have created for our selves an independent and eternal order. ordered in and of our selves, our psyches are not prone to external dispersion, but are eternal in their separate and unique existence. in short, the abyss is a menace only to those slaves of the universal consistency, who have refused the gift of set and sought to extinguish the black flame. since the self-aware black magician is inherently unnatural, the natural forces of dispersion can have no power over him. this is symbolized

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

a release of any sexual repression, be it conscious or unconscious, that has been acquired during and prior to the individual's puberty. this period of sexual development has largely been corrupted, according to satanists, by the rise of christian morality concerning sexuality. by virtue of this repression during the most important period of sexual development, christianity has distorted numerous psyches with an un-insightful advocation of celibacy that does not lead one to self-knowledge but to psychical disorder. this repression is therefore inevitably sublimated in numerous ways. accordingly some individuals may sublimate the sexual energy in such a manner that they orientate towards sexual criminality. the role of the satanic orgy is therefore to indulge and delight in sexual congress

SINISTER TAROT

in a room of sacrifice two in a haze of gold beyond the door opfer- vindex entrance/transition to the lands of the dark immortals. the individual becoming that which s/he created- a transferral of consciousness to the acausal to be in essence part of the greater wyrd. a reverberation across aeons of the causal acts of an individual, gradually leaving the essence behind the appearance to haunt the psyches of others. the altering of the astral shell; that which ultimately cannot and need not be described. the deliberate removal of that which is detrimental to wyrd. xiii a canal route lined by white griffins. a vortex of grey starless space. the chalice spills its white blood and the herdsman s light shines in the chamber of the sphinx. death- nythra that which follows hubris; the consequence

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 3

s, however, remain singularly unimpressed with the specific technical information that has been relayed by the contactees. those sympathetic to the contactees might argue that the ufo crews deem their science to be incomprehensible to humankind at this point; other theorists suggest that the contactees are not communicating with alien entities at all, but rather, with a higher aspect of their own psyches. some researchers have observed that the space beings appear to function as do the angels of more conventional theologies. both beings are concerned about earth; they seem to be actively trying to protect it and the people in it. both the space beings and the angels are powerful entities who appear to have control over the physical limitations of time and space yet they are benevolent in t

een the u.s. government itself that began the rumors of flying saucers in order to divert public attention from the development of its own secret weapons. perhaps such a prevailing atmosphere of national distrust contributed to the horror of films about ufo invaders, but the unsettling concept of aliens slowly taking over earth through the possession of human bodies became firmly implanted in the psyches of millions of men and women who now looked even more suspiciously at the skies above them. such television series as the twilight zone (1959 64) and the outer limits(1963 65) occasionally featured episodes concerning alien invaders, but my favorite martian (1963 66) portrayed extraterrestrial visitors as friendly and funny especially if one overlooked the antenna that sometimes sprouted f

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l a i n e d 190 objects of mystery and power witchcraft puppet (fortean picture library) people have accepted the conventional concept of time as existing in some sort of sequential stream flowing along in one dimension. in solitary, mystical experience, those recipients of tribal empowerment are able to enter a reality of time that is not clock-measured or clock-controlled and that places their psyches in a dimension beyond linear time and space. the ethnologist ivar lissner believed that in the sophistication of the modern world, people must not forsake the heritage of spirituality that has been bequeathed to humankind over hundreds of thousands of years. humans must never allow the materialist or the pure technologist to dictate the fate of humanity. in his view, surveying the contribu

VOX SABBATUM

aloid used in an ointment, would cause sensations of flying. you may wish to use the waking rite as a means of practicing spells and sending forth the desires of the group. the waking sabbat is also a means of growing more connected with the other practitioners, which forms an allegiance with what is known as a group mind. this is useful in spells and low sorcery, the unity of several independent psyches focusing on one goal will no doubt create a desired effect. widdershins are movements around the circle in an anti clockwise dance. some witches may find it useful to recite the lord s prayer backwards while moving widdershins in the beginning of the sabbat rite, this allowing or giving permission to the nature of the working itself. in nox umbra12 the invocation of the vampyre queen, lili

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

tion linked to the motion of the soul that is measurable,101 proclus insists that time s essence is more divine than that of the soul.102 certainly, he accepts the proposition that if something partakes of soul, it partakes of time; but for him the converse is not true, as there are beings without soul that partake of time, and thus one must conclude that time is beyond the soul (chronon epekeina psyches).103 time is engendered from the desire of the intellect, identified as the platonic demiurge, to overflow and to fill all things,104 and in this sense it is the imitation of eternity, though it is actualized in the physical world by the principle of self-motion enacted in the soul. the nature of time appropriate to the intellect is imparticipable (amethektos chronos, that is, the monadic

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