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ar in the center of the four quadrants, then stand behind that. you should once again be facing east. if you do not have room for a circle, simply pivot where you stand. step 7 now visualize the brilliant white circle expanding up and down to form a sphere above, below and all around you. what you have done is created a sphere in brilliant white all around you with electric blue pentagrams at the quarters which have been charged and sealed with god names. part three: the evocation of the archangels 87 step 1 stretch your arms straight out to the sides, so that your body forms a cross. take a second or two to once again feel the energies that you felt when performing the qabalistic cross. re-create a cross of light within your being (the cross also represents the four archetypal elements: a

1 10 INITIATION CEREMONY

d with them the twelve celestial constellations of the zodiac. they are over the universe as a king upon his throne, and they are in the revolution of the year as a king traversing his dominions, and they are in the heart of man as a king in warfare. and the twelve leaves are the images of those ideas, and are the outer petals of the rose; while within are the four archangels ruling over the four quarters, and the kerubic emblems of the lion, man, bull and eagle. around the great central lamp which is an image of the sun, is the great mother of heaven, symbolized by the letter heh, the first of the single letters, and by its number 5, the pentagram, malkah the bride, ruling in her kingdom malkuth, crowned with a crown of twelve stars. these twelve circles further represent the 12 foundatio

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

ei names mais and hercules as gods of the saxons (see p. ill; and that little addition to the corvei annals (see p.lll) couples together the greek and latin denominations aris and mars, ermis and jmercurius. the indiculus paganiarum reckons up, under 8: de sacris mcrcurii vel jovis; under 20: de feriis quae faciunt jovi vel mcrcurio. so that the thunder-god, of whom tacitus is silent, is in other quarters unforgotten; and now we can understand wilibald's narrative of the robur jovis (see p. 72, and in bonifac. epist. 25 (a.d. 723) the presbyter jovi mactans (see suppl. in the additamenta operum matthaei paris, ed. w. watts, paris 1644, pp. 25-6, there is an old account of some books w^hich are said to have been discovered in laying the foundation of a church at verlamacestre (st albans) in

not already been familiar with them for centuries? again, the high antiquity of these translations is fully established by their exact accordance with the terminology used in the first centuries, as soon as people came to turn german gods into roman. in my opinion, the introduction of the seven days' names by 'in ordine vicis. now whether viko expressed to the goths the alternation of the moon's quarters, we do not know for certain; i incline to believe it, as the ohg. weha, woclia, as. wice, wnce, on. vika, swed. vecka, dan. nge, are all limited to the one meaning of septimana. the very absence of consonant- change points to a high antiquity in the word. it is remarkable that the javanese vt(ku means a section of time, the year falling into 30 vukus (ilumb. kawispr. 1, 196. the finn, wij

relic of the same. nanna the wife of baldr would be in goth. nanjjo, ohg. nandd, as. aodc, the bold, courageous (p. 221, but, except in on, the simple female name is lost; procopius 1, 8 has gotliic qevhevdvda, on. thiosnanna (see suppl. inferences like these, from dying words to dead divinities, could be multiplied; to attempt them is not unprofitable, for they iiliarpen the eye to look in fresh quarters [for confirmation or coneaiiana. hellia. 3 1 1 futation. the discovery from legend or elsewhere of a liarmony betweeu myths may raise our guesses into demonstrations^ 12. ptahana (ran. hellia (hel. my survey of the gods closed with oegir and loki; and the ixoddesses akin to these sliall be the last mentioned here. to correspond to the on. gcfjon the old saxons had, as far as we know, not

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

the earth and the seas merely as a larder, fuel store and garbage can. once, things were very different, as black elk, the sioux shaman, explained 'in the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came from the sacred hoop of the nation and, so long as the hoop was unbroken, the people flourished. the flowering tree was the living centre of the hoop and the circle of the four quarters nourished it. the east gave peace and light, the south gave warmth; in the west, thunder beings gave rain and the north with its cold and mighty wind gave strength and endurance' and so the earth was respected as the sacred mother, giver of life and crops, to whose womb the dead returned. it is no accident that the sioux medicine wheel and the celtic wheel of the year are so similar in fo

1693. during this period of mass hysteria, 141 people from the town and immediate area were arrested, and 19 were hanged. even a dog was hanged. dorcas good, a four-year-old child, was the youngest victim to be accused of witchcraft and imprisoned. she was released on bail after her mother was hanged, but her younger sibling died in prison. dorcas was driven insane by her experience. about three-quarters of all those killed as witches in europe and scandinavia were women, mainly lower-class older women, female healers, village herbalists, wise women and midwives. with the death of so many experienced healers and wise women, much knowledge was inevitably lost, and for a time infant mortality increased as male physicians took over the roles of the deposed midwives. but anyone who was differ

you are an experienced practitioner, some of the ideas may suggest new directions for your personal and coven work. the elemental candle colours each of the four elements- air, fire, water and earth- is represented by a single candle colour- yellow, red, blue and green. a coloured candle representing each of the elements can be placed at the four main compass points around the circle to mark the quarters- east, south, west and north. you can place the elemental candles either on the edge of the circle in sturdy floor-standing holders, or on small tables or plinths at the compass points. though each element is represented by a single candle, you can use a second to increase a particular element in its own quadrant of the circle or use the elemental colour in all four quadrants. so, for exa

ful selection of garden torches and candles are now available, that can be placed in the ground for working out of doors. as you are taking away pollution, work at the time of the waning moon. blue is the elemental colour of water* place four blue candles at the four main compass points in a room or any outdoor area. the four blue compass candles can act as sentinels of light, protecting the four quarters of the circle* in the centre, place a cauldron or pot (a three-legged iron pot or any ceramic pot will do. these can often be found in antique shops, at car boot sales or garden centres, as well as in new age shops. it need not be very large* fill the cauldron with water and float blue candles on the surface* light a large blue candle to the west of the cauldron; light the candles in the

hells and white stones. prepare a bowl of moonstones, small blue lace agate stones or blue glass nuggets to cast in the water* set a tall jar holding wax tapers at each compass point. if you are working alone, you may need to keep the size of the circle and cauldron quite small, but you can use as much space as you wish. if you are working in a group, four people can light the candles in the four quarters and the scale of the whole ritual can be much larger. the group can sit or stand in a circle around the cauldron, just inside the four direction candles; traditionally, a magical area extends to a circle about nine feet (three metres) in diameter. however, this can be larger or smaller, according to the size of the group. circles are usually measured in an odd, rather than even, number of

is sometimes also associated with the fire element. if you don't like the idea of a full-sized athame, there are some lovely paper knives in the shape of swords or with animal or birds' heads. some covens give each of their members a tiny athame, to be used for drawing down energies during ceremonies. the main athame is used by the person leading the ritual who may draw the circle, open all four quarters and close them after the ritual. an athame with a white handle is used for cutting wands, harvesting herbs for magick or healing, carving the traditional samhain jack-o'-lantern, and etching runes and other magical or astrological symbols on candles and talismans. some practitioners believe that you should never use metal for cutting herbs but instead pull them up, shred them and pound th

in its crystalline form, especially, the wand is used for directing healing energies from the circle to wherever they are needed. the wand is used for directing energies and for making circles of power in the air- hence the image of the faerie godmother waving her wand- deosil for energies to attract energies and widdershins for banishing. it can be used to draw pentagrams in the air at the four quarters and it can also be used for drawing an invisible circle when you are working on carpet or another fabric that cannot be physically marked. in some traditions, the wand is a tool of air and so this and the athame, or the sword, are fairly interchangeable. however, the wand seems more effective for casting and uncasting circles, invoking quarters and closing power. it is also particularly g

e undines, spirits of the water. the original undine was created without a soul, but gained one by marrying a mortal and bearing him a child. however, she also lost her freedom from pain and her immortality and so she is a reminder that love may have a price, but that without it life does not have meaning. the colour of water is blue and its zodiacal signs are cancer, scorpio and pisces. the four quarters of the circle every magical circle is divided into four quarters that are in ceremonial magick called the watchtowers. the higher essences who protect the quarters are invoked as the guardians, who control and direct the elemental powers. sometimes they are called kings, sometimes devas, or they may be pictured as the four main archangels, michael, gabriel, raphael and uriel. how you perc

ore traditional association of raphael as the messenger in the east and uriel as sentinel of the north and i have found that this works better. do read about angels and experiment to see what suits you. i have listed source material on pages 201-2 and you can find more information on the internet. use the elemental candle colour to represent the angel you want. you can also use angels in the four quarters to invoke protection in less formal magick by lighting candles in the four quarters when you feel afraid or alone. i have also seen michael listed as archangel of the dawn and east, but i think he is better placed as archangel of the sun in the south. if you feel uncertain, simply refer to each guardian as archangel of the north, etc, then the celestial being can reveal itself in the form

finger of your power hand. it is best to draw really big, strong pentagrams. pentagrams can be drawn either to attract the elemental guardians (invoking, or attracting pentagrams) or to close their energies (banishing pentagrams. there are various rather complicated ways of drawing pentagrams, but i suggest you use the basic methods given on the previous page for attracting when opening your four quarters and banishing when closing. if you wish to find out more, i recommend you read dion fortune's applied magick. if you do not wish to draw pentagrams at all in your circle work, you can instead call the guardians in the candle flame. preparing for ritual preparation for ritual is important. despite this, even magick has to conform to the needs and customs of the modern world, and so witches

hat is fulfilled and unfulfilled, leaving room for the quieter contemplation of a time when the sun still shines and the fruits of the harvest are all around. in this way we can say goodbye to the summer with joy* collect a basket of autumn leaves or any dying greenery and surround it with the fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts of the harvest* place blue and green candles alternately at the four quarters, beginning with green in the west, marking out a square that holds both the joys and sorrows of the year that has passed. make the square large enough so you can work within it* light first the blue candle of the north, followed by the green candle in the east and the blue candle in the south, saying: the light is born, increases, flames and flares, and with it our lives increase, intensi

c of spirit, or akasha. poppet: a featureless doll made of cloth that is filled with herbs and used in healing or as a talisman to attract love or fertility. it may also be made of clay and used as a focus for positive magick to being health or happiness to the person represented by it. power hand: the hand you write with, used to transmit assertive and creative energies. see also receptive hand. quarters: the four segments of a magical circle. each is associated with specific archangels, colours, crystals, herbs, incenses, ritual tools, etc. receptive hand: the hand you do not write with. used for receiving energies. see also power hand. rede: a rule or moral code. the wiccan rede states: an [if] it harm none, do what you will, and so ensures all magick has a positive intent. sabbat: one

ABRAMELIN1

ghty names of god; and let be placed within the circle, at the four parts of the world,9 the vessels for the perfumes. then being washed and fasting, let him enter the place, and pray towards the east this whole psalm: blessed are the undefiled in the way, etc. psalm cix. 7 probably an error for hexagram or hexangle. 8 probably an error for pentagrams, or pentangles. 9 ie, the cardinal points, or quarters. introduction xxiv then make a fumigation, and deprecate the angels by the said divine names, that they will appear unto you, and reveal or discover that which you so earnestly desire; and do this continually for six days washed, and fasting. on the seventh day being washed and fasting, enter the circle, perfume it, and anoint thyself with holy oil upon the forehead, eyes, and in the palm

ABRAMELIN2

elzebuth, and beelzeboul. from hebrew, bol= lord, and zbvb= fly or flies; lord of flies. some derive the name from the syriac beel d bobo= master of calumny, or nearly the same signification as the greek word diabolos, whence are derived the modern french and english diable and devil. oriens: these four names of oriens, paimon, ariton and amaymon,are usually allotted to the evil kings of the four quarters of the world. oriens, from latin, oriens= rising or eastern. this name is also written uriens, from latin, uro= to burn, or devour with flame. it is probably from uriens that a mediaeval title of the devil, viz, sir urien, is derived. the name is also sometimes written urieus, from latin, urios, a title given to jupiter as presiding over the wind. urieus is also derivable from the greek a

only an imperfect body, being in this case without the soul. this operation is, however, one of the greatest, and one which we should only perform in extraordinarily important cases; seeing that in order to accomplish it the chief spirits have to operate. nothing else is necessary than to be attentive to the moment when the man is just dead, and then to place the symbol upon him towards the four quarters of the world;128 and at once he will lift himself up and begin to move himself he should then be dressed; and a symbol similar to that which hath been placed upon him should be sewn into his garment. know also that when the seven years be expired, the spirit which was conjoined with the body will at once depart, and that we cannot further prolong the period of the aforesaid seven years. i

ADDTLS

ther of w. in the watery lesser angle, it is the kether of h, and so on. the letters, in this case, as elsewhere explained, refer to the four worlds. referring to the other squares of the lesser angles, in the kerubic rank the outside square is always attributed to the letter corresponding to the element of the lesser angle. in the tablets of a and c, the name reads right to left in the two upper quarters; in the two lower quarters it reads from left to right. in the tablets of b and d, left to right in the upper, but in the two lower quarters from right to left. thus in the four tablets the name reads: a vhyh (f) yh(f)vh h(f)yhv hvh(f)y c vhyh (f) yh(f)vh h(f)yhv hvh(f)y 15 b vh(f)yh vh(f)yh h(f)vhy h(f)vhy d vh(f)yh vh(f)yh h(f)vhy h(f)vhy though the last two groups of the name

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

so, it were best that they should die. at last the ceremony began. with splendid words, with words that shone lime flames, did i consecrate all that were there present, even the whole city of thebai. and i made the salutation unto the attendant gods, very forcibly, so that they responded with echoes of my adoration. and osiris accepted mine adoration with gladness as i journeyed about at the four quarters of the temple. now cometh the mysterious ceremony of assumption. i took upon myself the form of the god: i strove to put my heart in harmony with his. alas! alas! i was in tune with the dead soul of isis; my heart was as a page 21 gulf.txt flame of elemental lust and beauty; i could not- i could not. then the heavens lowered and black clouds gathered upon the firmament of nu. dark flames

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

der gods. needless to say, l.k- a longtime pilgrim in the search for the genuine necronomicon which he knew, since childhood, really existed- was suitably impressed. shocked, actually. he asked to see the dubious personality who claimed responsibility for the editing and general research work that went into the volume. this exotic individual, simon by name, appeared suddenly one day in the living quarters of l.k. barnes attired in a beret, a suit of some dark, fibrous material, and a attache case which contained- besides correspondence from various balkan embassies and a photograph of the f-104 fighter being crated up for shipment to luxembourg- additional material on the necronomicon which proved his bona fides. also at that meeting was the third member of the unholy trinity, james wasser

der gods. needless to say, l.k- a longtime pilgrim in the search for the genuine necronomicon which he knew, since childhood, really existed- was suitably impressed. shocked, actually. he asked to see the dubious personality who claimed responsibility for the editing and general research work that went into the volume. this exotic individual, simon by name, appeared suddenly one day in the living quarters of l.k. barnes attired in a beret, a suit of some dark, fibrous material, and a attache case which contained- besides correspondence from various balkan embassies and a photograph of the f-104 fighter being crated up for shipment to luxembourg- additional material on the necronomicon which proved his bona fides. also at that meeting was the third member of the unholy trinity, james wasser

never be removed when the sun is in the sky, but only after the night has fallen and the earth grown black, for ninib knows the best the ways of the demons that prowl among the shadows, looking for sacrifice. he knows best the territories of the ancient ones, the practices of their worshippers, and the locations of the gates. his realm is the realm of the night of time. his number is four, as the quarters of the earth, and the following is his seal: the book of entrance, and of the walking the book of entrance this is the book of entrance to the seven zones above the earth, which zones were known to the chaldeans, and to the ancient races that preceded them among the lost temples of ur. know that these zones are governed by the celestial spirits, and that passage may be had by the priest t

the one who is always ready, the guardian of the other side, iak sakkak, will enter and bring with him the hordes of the armies of the ancient ones, iak kingu, iak azag, iak azabua, iak huwawa, ishniggarab, iak xastur, and iak kutulu, the dog gods and the dragon gods, and the sea monsters, and the gods of the deep. watch also the days. the day when the great bear hangs lowest in the sky, and the quarters of the year measured thereof in the four directions measured thereof, for there the gates may be opened and care must needs be taken to ensure that the gates remain forever closed. they must be sealed with the elder sign accompanied by the rites and incantations proper. the fifty names here follow, with their signs and powers. they may be summoned after the priest has ascended to that ste

y not be seen. and this was taught by the priests of babylon, who charged that these formulae may never be revealed to anyone who is not initiated into our ways, for to do so would be the most frightful error. though they dwell beyond the gate, they may be summoned when marduk is not watchful, and sleeps, on those days when he has no power, when the great bear hangs from its tail, and on the four quarters of the year computed therefrom, and on the spaces between these angles. on these days, the mother tiamat is restless, the corpse kutulu shakes beneath the earth, and our master enki is sore afraid. prepare, then the bowl of tiamat, the dur of indur, the lost bowl, the shattered bowl of the sages, summoning thereby the firik of gid, and the lady shakuguku, the queen of the cauldron. recite

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

who makest the gods and death to tremble before thee- i, i adore thee! appear on the throne of ra! open the ways of the khu! lighten the ways of the ka! the ways of the khabs run through to stir me or still me! aum! let it fill me! iii,38: so that thy light is in me& its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. there is a secret door that i shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (these are the adorations, as thou hast written, as it is said: the light is mine; its rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra and tum, of khephra and of ahathoor. i am thy theban, o mentu, the prophet ankh-af-na-khonsu! by bes-na-maut my breast i beat; by wise ta-nech i weave my spell. show thy star-splendour, o nuit! bid me within thine house to dwell, o winged s

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

terrible demonic triads which are under the presidency of the unutterable name;5 the vast and comprehensive system shadowed in the book called the book of the concourse of the forces,6 interwoven as it is with the tarot, being, indeed, on one view little more than an amplification and practical application of the book of thoth.7 but we hope that the present venture will attract scholars from all quarters, as when the wounded satan leaned upon his spear, forthwith on all sides to his aid was run by angels many and strong, and that in the course of time a far more satisfactory volume may result. many columns will seem to the majority of people to consist of mere lists of senseless words. practice, and advance in the magical or mystical path, will enable little by little to interpret more an

y of death \wrtca ynmyt mch husham of temani 6 wyhfyf titahion pit of destruction belphegor awyj tywu ddh hadad of avith 7 twmyruc shaarimoth gates of death yadmca hqrcm hlmnc samlah of masrekah 8 twmla tzelmoth shadow of death adramelek laylb tybhr lwac saul of reheboth 9 tylyl nh lub baal-hannan 10 \nhyg gehinnom hell hmun wup rdh hadar of pau cix (continued* the dukes of edom. cx. elements and quarters (sepher yetzirah. cxi. sephirothic colours (dr. jellinek. 0. 1 \yyj \yhla hwr concealed light 2. air sky blue 3. water and earth yellow 4 hmbylha aholibamah fire white 5 hla elah height red 6 kyp pinon depth white-red 7 znq kenaz east whitish-red 8 myt teman west reddish-white 9 laydgm and rxbm mibzar and magdiel south white-red-whitsh-red-reddish-white 10 \ryu eram north the light reflec

the geomantic figures of the planets are those of the signs which they rule. lines 3-10. q andr table of correspondences 37 line 15. p line 16. v line 17. line 18. m and n line 19. s and t line 20. w line 22. o line 24. line 25. u line 26. x line 28. z line 29. y see the handbook of geomancy, the equinox i: 2, p. 137.8 col. l. the catholic seven deadly sins in square brackets. col. lvii. egyptian quarters. cols. lvii, lix &c. beth elohim gives- michael, leo, and south to c and y. gabrial, bull, and north to b and h. raphael, man, and west to e and. uriel, eagle, and east to d and w. col. lxix. sattvas, h rajas, and f tamas g in a close analogy col. lxxix, line 13. add (3321) ttrc tumhcrbdc [shadbarshehmoth sharthathan, the spirt of the spirits of the moon. the final is counted as 700, as a

n of earth right foot advanced, fight hand advanced and raised, left hand lowered and thrown back. the hands grip each a ray of dazzling light, spiril, the right hand being dextro- and the left hand l vo-rotary. a red scarf conceals the fact of male genital organs, and suggests by its shape the letter k. such is the conventional hieroglyph. 41 appendix i the trigrams of the yi king attribution to quarters. planetary attribution. hindu attribution. yetziratic attribution. figure. name. part of body. key scale s! lingam+ y 7 khien. head. 2 [and 30. s.e$ apas. c m 6 tui. mouth. 14 [and 23. e& mano (prana! r 5 li. eyes. 6 [21 and 30. n.e% tejas. b c 4 kbn. feet. 27 and 31. s.w# vayu. d a 3 sun. thighs. 11 [and 12. w' akasa= g 2 kh n. ears. 10 [13 and 32] n.w. e prithivi. e t 1 kbn. hands. 32 b

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

vavoth gad south s-e ziracah reuben south zurchol simeon south s-w zinggen zebulon west s-w hononol judah west alpudus issachar west n-w arfaolg ephraim north n-w zarnaah manesseh north cadaamp benjamin north n-e zarzilg napthali east n-e james (1984) gives a set of attributions of these to the signs of the zodiac which results in a rather strange arrangement of the signs around the circle of the quarters; as i am not sure what his source for it was, it is here omitted. an alternate arrangement appears in zalewski (1990, based on some notes by mathers to a golden dawn lecture on the astrological attributions of the 12 tribes, but this appears to disregard dee s attribution of angels to tribes and quarters; it is thus also omitted. 21: while this reading agrees with tfr and turner s typeset

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

ght has been thus equilibrated and destroyed. thus again with the instruments themselves; the wand must be ready to change into a serpent, the pantacle into the whirling svastika or disk of jove, as if to fulfil the functions of the sword. 61 the cross is both the death of the "saviour<matter of the individual self, the indivisible point determined by reference to the four quarters. this is the formula which enables it to express its secret self; its dew falling upon the rose is developed into an eidolon of itself, in due season> and the phallic symbol of resurrection. will itself must be ready to culminate in the surrender of that will<lxv and liber vii> the aspiration's arrow that is shot against the holy dove must transmute itself into the wondering vi

d lamp instead of as in text- n> 2. let him wear the black robe of a neophyte. 3. let a single flame of camphor burn at the top of the tau, and let there be no other light or ornament<wand and lamp instead of as in text- n> 4. let him "open" the temple as in dclxxi or in any other convenient manner. 5. standing at the appropriate quarters, at the edge of the circle, let him banish the 5 elements by the appropriate rituals. 6. standing at the edge of the circle, let him banish the 7 planets by the appropriate rituals. let him face the actual position of each planet in the heavens at the time of his working. 7. let him further banish the twelve signs of the zodiac by the appropriate rituals, facing each sign in turn. 8. let

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

the south, is best: it must not need attention. one can usually buy stoves with excellent appropriate symbolism (last time i did this- 13 e.v- i got a perfect ferranti at harrods. the circular copper bowl, with the central disk as the source of heat, is unsurpassable) the walls should be "self-coloured" a neutral tint- green, grey or blue-grey? and entirely bare, unless you put up, in the proper quarters, the proper designs, such as the "watch towers- see the equinox i, 7. remember that your "east" your kiblah, is boleskine house, which is as near as possible due north from plymouth. find north by the shadow of a vertical rod and noon, or by the pole-star. work out the angle as usual. the st l of revealing may be just on the n. wall to make your "east" magic without tears get any book for

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

radition to this effect appears to have reached plato; and the neo-platonists combined with those jews who had preserved fragments of the egyptian tradition to form a new initiated hierarchy, the echo of whose teaching is found in paracelsus. at one period, too, missionaries (not colonists, as has been ignorantly asserted; there was no trouble of over-population in atlantis) were sent to the four quarters and parties landed in mexico, ireland and egypt. the adventures of the party who travelled south form an astounding chapter in the history of atlas. it was they who discovered the magnetic south, and whose observations rendered possible the theory which resulted in the piercing of the earth by zro* there were also preparations of zro which increased the size of the user, and others which

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

le of revealing itself; set it in thy secret temple-and that temple is already aright disposed& it shall be your kiblah for ever. it shall not fade, but miraculous colour shall come back to it day after day. close it in locked glass for a proof to the world" the old comment 10. the stele of revealing. that temple; it was arranged as an octagon; its length double its breadth; entrances on all four quarters of temple; enormous mirrors covering six of the eight walls (there were no mirrors in the east and west or in the western halves of the south and north sides. there were an altar and two obelisks in the temple; a lamp above the altar; and other furniture. kiblah- any point to which one turns to pray, as mecca is the kiblah of the mohometan "it shall not fade" etc. it has not hitherto been

to stir me or still me! aum! let it fill me" the new comment stanza 3 suggests the rosicrucian benediction: may thy mind be open unto the higher! may thy heart be the centre of light! may thy body be the temple of the rosy cross! al iii,38 "so that thy light is in me& its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. there is a secret door that i shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (these are the adorations, as thou hast written, as it is said: the light is mine; its rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra and tum, of khephra and of ahathoor. i am thy theban, o mentu, the prophet ankh-af-na-khonsu! by bes-na-maut my breast i beat; by wise ta-nech i weave my spell. show thy star-splendour, o nuit! bid me within thine house to dwell, o winged s

of ra and tum, of khephra and of ahathoor. i am thy theban, o mentu, the prophet ankh-af-na-khonsu! by bes-na-maut my breast i beat; by wise ta-nech i weave my spell. show thy star-splendour, o nuit! bid me within thine house to dwell, o winged snake of light, hadit! abide with me, ra-hoor-khuit" the new comment see the translation of the stele in the introduction to book 4 part iv. note the four quarters or four solar stations enumerated in lines 3 and 4 of the first stanza, and compare the ritual given in liber samekh (book 4 part iii, appendix. al iii,39 "all this and a book to say how thou didst come hither and a reproduction of this ink and paper for ever-for in it is the word secret& not only in the english-and thy comment upon this the book of the law shall be printed beautifully in

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ontal, upper to the left and lower to the right. the lion is green on white with gold accents, tail arched upward in a crescent and tipped in gold. the eye is red and the tongue extends in red as well. there are black accents about the edges of the mane and below the chin. at the lower left, framed by the serpent to left and below, is an assyrian winged bull, flank view and facing right. the fore quarters stand on a silver sphere, while the hind quarters stand on a gold cube in parallel projection with the full face to the lower left. the assyrian king's head is crowned and bearded as usual and colored in orange and and gold over yellow. there are two silver horns issuing from the back of the head and angling upward just above and past the temples- the horns are bull-like otherwise, and ar

e and past the temples- the horns are bull-like otherwise, and are only slightly curved. the wings form a bundle, more tucked under the back of the hair like a newspaper under an elbow than naturally rooted. these wings show only on the facing side, are blue and gold on white and have the usual shape for an assyrian bull otherwise. they are fully as thick as the body and extend above it. the fore quarters are leonine in red and gold over orange. the hind quarters are taurian in gray brown over white. the bull is male, with a taurian tail hanging down below the hooves. the hind hooves are gold. the "saddle" of the bull is done in orange plates on gold. across the bottom and on the left side is a predominantly red-orange serpent with yellow scutes divided by orange. the scales on the back ar

scomforted "he slayeth sir lionel the warder of the marches" so now indeed he had wrought the first matter to a pitch of excellence beyond the human; for without trouble was his tincture thus beautiful. first, it had the crown and horns of alexander the mighty king; also it had wings of fine sapphire; its fore part was like the lion, whereby indeed it partook of the highest virtue, and its hinder quarters were as a bull's. 90 moreover it stood upon the white sphere and the red cube; and it is not possible for any elixir to exceed this, unless it be by our path and working "he slayeth sir merlin the wizard" yet our brother perardua- and by now he was right skilful at the athanor- determined to attain to that higher projection of our art. therefore he subtly prepared a red dragon, or as some

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and delight! glory unto the rose that is the minute point of its center! even as we say; glory unto the rose that is nuit the circumference of all, and glory unto the cross that is the heart of the rose! 31 therefore do i cry aloud, and my scream is the treble as the bellowing of the bull is the bass. peace in the highest and peace in the lowest and peace in the midst thereof! peace in the eight quarters, peace in the ten points of the pentagram! peace in the twelve rays of the seal of solomon, and peace in the four and thirty whirlings of the hammer of thor! behold! i blaze upon thee (the eagle is gone; it is only a flaming rosy cross of white brilliance) i catch thee up into rapture. falutli, falutli. o it dies, it dies. bou saada. 3 these are intended to show symbolically that the bull

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874 stated that no charas of really good quality ever came to leh, the best charas in the original balls being sent to bokhara and kokan. he said the chief adulterant is the mealy covering of the fruits of the wild and cultivated trebizond date("eloeagnus "hortensis. the impression in the united provinces and the punjab is that the yarkhand drug is sophisticated, and a preference is given in some quarters to the nepal and other himalayan forms, which command a higher price. the special assistant in kashgar declares there is no advantage in increasing the weight, as when dealers in india buy the drug they test it, otherwise they would pay a heavy duty on the adulterant as well as on the charas itself; so no exporter at present would spoil his charas by adding extraneous substances. mr. hoop

s drawn to anything of interest the typical effect of the drug may disappear. the influence of the test dose of the unknown drug is carefully compared with that of the same dose of the standard 247 preparation administered to another test dog at the same time and under the same conditions. finally, when the animals become drowsy, the observations are recorded and the animals are returned to their quarters. the second day following, the observations upon the two dogs are reversed,"i.e. the animal receiving the test dose of the unknown receives a test dose of the known, and "vice vers and a second observation is made. if one desires to make a very accurate quantitative determination, it is advisable to use, not two dogs, but four or five, and to study the effects of the test dose of the unk

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point of malkuth, and in the black portion thereof, representing a terrible and avenging god at the confines of matter at the borders of the qliphoth. he is throned upon matter and robed in darkness; and about his feet are the thunder and the lightning, which two forces are symbolised by the impact of the paths of hb:shin and hb:qof (fire, pisces, terminating respectively in the russet and olive quarters of malkuth. there, therefore, is he placed as a mighty and avenging guardian unto the sacred mysteries. his symbols and insignia are: the throne of the west at the limits of malkuth; the robe of darkness; the sword; the banner of the west; the lamen "avenger of the gods" is the name of the hiereus, and he is "horus in the city of blindness" and of ignorance unto the higher. illustration "

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n the cauldron of art wherein alike is fire and moisture [after the consecration of the water, the magus of waters takes up the cup of water, and scatters water all round the edge of the circle, saying] so first the priest who governeth the works of fire, must sprinkle with the lustral waters of the loud-resounding sea [he then passes to the centre of the circle and scatters the water in the four quarters, saying] i purify with water [he resumes his place in the north "magus of art" magus of the fires, i command you to consecrate this place by the banishing ritual of the hexagram,8 to consecrate the magic fire and lights; to illumine the lamps and place them about the circle in orderly 4 see "liber o" the equinox, vol. i. no. 2. 5 see spirit table, and the elemental calls of dr. dee, as pr

rit tablet. 8 see "liber o" the equinox, vol. i. no. 2. disposition; and afterwards to consecrate this place with the holy fire. 174 "magus of the fires" mighty magus of art! all thy commands shall be obeyed and all thy desires shall be accomplished [he collects together at the south the incense, oil, charcoal, and magic candle, and performs the lesser banishing ritual of the hexagram at the four quarters; then, extinguishing all lights save one, he performs over these the banishing ritual of the pentagram of fire, saying] i exorcise ye, evil and opposing spirits dwelling in this creature of fire, by the holy and tremendous name of god the vast one, elohim: and in the name of michael, great archangel of fire, that ye depart hence, no longer polluting with your presence the hall of twofold

rcoal for the incense-burners, after which he casts incense on the coals in the censer and passes round the circle censing, saying] and, when after all the phantasms are vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of the fire [he passes to the centre of the circle and censes towards the four quarters, saying] i consecrate with fire [he resumes his place in the south [chief magus takes fan, and fanning air says] i exorcise thee, creature of air, by these names, that all evil and impure spirits now immediately depart [circumambulates, saying] such a fire existeth extending through the rushing of the air, or even a fire formless whence cometh the image of a voice, or even a flashing ligh

ugh the rushing of the air, or even a fire formless whence cometh the image of a voice, or even a flashing light abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud [makes banishing air pentagram] creature of air, in the names exarp11 oro ibah aozpi,12 i consecrate thee to the works of the magic of light [making invoking pentagrams in air. all face west [assistant magus then casts salt to all four quarters, all over the circle, and passes 175 to west, faces east, and describes with his chain the banishing pentagram of earth, saying] i exorcise thee, creature of earth, by and in the divine names adonai ha aretz, adonai melekh namen, and in the name of aurial, great archangel of earth, that every evil and impure spirit now depart hence immediately [circumambulates, saying] stoop not down unto

art, with which latter he traces in the air the outer limits of the magic circle. all circumambulate thrice. he then, standing at east and facing east, says: holy art thou, lord of the universe! holy art thou, whom nature hath not formed! holy art thou, the vast and the mighty one! lord of the light and of the darkness "chief magus of art" magus of the fires, i command you to perform at the four quarters of the universe the invocation of the forces of mercury by solomon's seal "magus of fire" mighty magus of art, all thy commands shall be obeyed, and all thy desires shall be accomplished [he does it.15 [the magus now advances to the centre of the circle, by the magical cauldron, wherein is the milk becoming heated, turns himself towards the fire of the spirit, and recites "the invocation

presence of the divine one and of the great avenging angel hua. and if i fail herein, may my rose be disintegrated and my power in magic cease [let the stigmata be placed upon the aspirant. then let the aspirant retire; and being invested with the white robe, the blue sash and the crown and nemys of our art let him re-enter the temple and perform the supreme ritual of the pentagram68 in the four quarters; having first purified the temple with fire and water, and further equilibrated the symbols in his magical mirror of the universe by the invocation hereafter set down (come unto me, o ma &c) with the calls or keys enochian suitable thereunto. and in all this is the wand held by the path of hb:taw: for why? because in drawing down the light divine; so is it manifest in the sphere immediate

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ledge, and beauty" i leap to the end, i cut the story short. no one will be surprised that a thought final and supreme jets from the brain of the dreamer "i am become god" but a savage and burning cry darts from his breast with such an energy, such a power of production, that if the will and the belief of a drunken man possessed effective power this cry would overthrow the angels scattered in the quarters of the heaven "i am a god" but soon this hurricane of pride transforms itself into a weather of calm, silent, reposeful beatitude, and the universality of beings presents itself tinted and illumined by a flaming dawn. if by chance a vague memory slips into the soul of this deplorable thrice-happy one "might there not be another god_ believe that he will stand upright before him; that he w

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back to the pygmies of central africa, these or beings very like them hundreds of thousands of years ago emigrated all over the world- they were paleolithic man, and whether these ape-like little beings had a mythos 341 or not would appear to be doubtful, but the next great exodus, that of neolithic man, carried with it the stellar mythos- that of the seven stars and the pole star, and the varied quarters to which these primitive men travelled is carefully indicated on the map at the end of the book. though it may seem strange that they crossed vast oceans, it must be born in mind that the configurations of the globe have changed since those remote periods; besides, primitive man did get about the world in a most extraordinary way, as such islands as madagascar and easter island prove. the

we find proofs of very high civilization, and it is curious that dr. churchward has not mentioned the numerous hieroglyphics found there concerning which a very full account is given in the smithsonian reports of 1889. after these came another exodus, carrying with it the lunar and solar mythos, and horus became under varying names the supreme world-god, and his four sons, or emanations, the four quarters. it is impossible here to enter into the numerous entrancing speculations that dr. churchward draws, or to give any adequate idea of the vast number of proofs that he marshals to convince us- they are quite bewildering. in fact, they completely reverse our conception of polytheism; for it is we who are the idolators, and not our ancestors; it is we who sacrifice to many gods, and not thos

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

and urged them to go to demesne road the next day to see it 'it's derelict' they exclaimed when they arrived there, but even by day it had for alex an air of mystery and magic. the old caretaker who lived in it showed them round the twentysixrooms, from the semi-basement, which had been turned into a billiard room forty-foot long and which in alex's vision had been the ballroom, to the servants' quarters in the attic where. fungi festooned the walls 'it was built for lord egerton of tatton in 1872, and it needs a lot of repairs' said the old man. to alex's delight, ron agreed to buy it, and as soon as the legal formalities were completed he told alex that he could live in the house for the rest of his life and would receive a regular allowance 'go and enjoy yourself choosing the furniture

however, so he simulated one in his room, having read in the statement 'we shall rule and govern ourselves according to the means at our disposal 'the floor should be of wood' commanded the book. alex removed the lino and scrubbed the bare boards 'the terrace on which we are to invoke the spirits should be covered with river sand to the depth of two fingers at least' alex helped himself to three-quarters of a hundredweight of sand from a nearby building site 'a lamp ofolive oil should burn' but, unable to afford either lamp or oil, he bought candles 'the altar should be hollow within where you shall keep all the necessary things such as the two robes, the crown or mitre, the wand, the oil, the girdle, the perfume and any other things which may be necessary' alex used a bedside cupboard. t

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l closing the circle when the circle's work is done, r goes to the east, athame in hand, salutes, and draws a banishing earth pentagram, saying: r: ye lords of the watchtowers of the east, ye lords of air, we thank you for attending our rites; and ere ye depart to your beauteous realms, we bid thee hail and farewell. all: hail and farewell (r extinguishes quarter candle) repeat for the remaining quarters, addressing each with the titles by which it was invoked. r thanks and says goodbye to the god and goddess (words to be decided) and extinguishes altar candles. r then thanks and dismisses any spirits who have gathered. r: the circle is open but unbroken. merry meet, merry part and merry meet again. r extinguishes the presence lamp, saying: r: this rite is ended! all: so mote it be! notes

to the new owner with salute. if a witch queen, the downward pointing triangle as in the first degree initiation (i rephrased the previous sentence, as the farrar's version is untypeable--sekhet) end ceremony with fivefold salute. the new owner should immediately use the new instruments, i.e. form circle with sword, then athame, incise something with white-handled knife, exhibit pentacle to four quarters, cense to four quarters, use cords and scourge; and should continue to use all of them in a circle as often as possible, for some time. to mark out a new circle, stick sword or athame in ground, make a loop in cord, and slip over; then, using cord, mark out a circle, and later mark it with point of sword or athame. always renew the circle with sword or athame when about to use, but have i

the women lean forward and try to blow it out. the man who holds it when it is blown out gets three flicks of the scourge from the successful blower, and must give her the fivefold kiss in return. the candle is relit and the game proceeds. l there are lots of variants possible. have fun. hallowmas preparation: l balefire in centre. l two black candles upon the altar. l a red candle in each of the quarters. l a wreath of autumn flowers and the crown of the horned one are upon the altar. all coveners are properly prepared, naked and bound. all are purified by the scourge. hps erects the circle. the hp says: hp: o gods, beloved of us all, bless this our sabbat that we, thy humble worshippers, may meet in love, joy and bliss. bless our rites this night with the presence of our departed kin. fa

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in itself" as the esoteric phrase has it, and becomes the seven-pointed star; it descends upon the man and he enters within the flame. again, the four initiations, prior to that of the adept, mark respectively the attainment of certain proportions of atomic matter in the bodies for instance, at the first initiation one-fourth atomic matter, at the second one-half atomic matter, at the third three-quarters atomic matter, and so on to the completion. since buddhi is the unifying principle (or the welder of all, at the fifth initiation the adept lets the lower vehicles go, and stands in his buddhic sheath. he creates thence his body of manifestation. each initiation gives more control on the rays, if one may so express it, although this does not adequately convey the idea. words so often misl

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

an in any other portion of the world. the race suffers from certain incapacities, which may be described as follows: first. inability to tap pranic currents, owing to the unhealthy lives passed by so many. this involves the cutting off of the source of supply, and the consequent atrophying and shrinkage of the receptive centres. this is seen in an exaggerated form in the children of the congested quarters of any great city, and in the vitiated anemic dwellers of the slums. the cure is apparent the bringing about of better living conditions, the employment of more appropriate clothing, and the adoption of a freer and more salubrious mode of living. when the pranic rays can find free access to the shoulders, and to the diaphragm, the subnormal state of the average spleen will adjust itself a

secting it into two halves. with this stream enters that group of active lives whom we call the "lords of karma" they- 704- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust preside over the attractive forces, and distribute them justly. they enter, pass to the centre of the sphere and there (if i may so express it) locate, and set up the "holy temple of divine justice" sending out to the four quarters of the circle the four maharajahs, their representatives. so is the equal armed cross formed and all the wheels of energy set in motion. this is conditioned by the karmic seeds of an earlier system, and only that substance is utilised by the logos, and only those lives come into manifestation who have set up a mutual attraction. these five streams of living energy (the one and the four) a

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arer. c. seeing the hierarchy of servers with which you are definitely affiliated as a power-house of light. 5. give five minutes to meditation. note down any thoughts which may come into your mind on the beam of light from your soul. august 1937 my brother and my chosen friend: the past few months have been difficult for you. they have involved decision, changes, much misunderstanding in certain quarters and a deeply sensed loneliness. if you will study what i have earlier told you anent your rays, you will see why this is so. there is in your present life make-up or "presented appearance" an over-balance of the first ray attributes. your personality ray, your mind ray, and the ray of your physical body are all governed by your first ray energy and this- 167- discipleship in the new age

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ast. all these homes were equipped with large coffee shops in which hundreds of men were fed nightly, paying for the food at cost. there were rooms where they could write letters, play games, sit around the fire and read the current papers, play chess and checkers and be talked to by us if they were feeling lonely, fed-up and homesick. there were usually two ladies in each home and we had our own quarters there. there was frequently a large dormitory where soldiers and sailors could stop for the night if out on pass, and also a gospel-meeting room, equipped with a harmonium, hymnbooks, bibles and chairs and someone who could expound the scriptures and plead with the men for their souls' salvation. i had to learn all aspects of the work and hard work it was, though i found i loved every bit

like that came sunday after sunday to hear me. i really let myself go. at the close of the series they made me a presentation. the senior man came forward at the end of my peroration and handed me a parchment scroll nearly a yard in length, tied with broad blue ribbon, and made me a pretty speech. i was too shy even then to unroll the scroll right there in front of them but when i got back to my quarters that night i untied the ribbon and there in wonderful script was every single grammatical error and every mixed metaphor i had perpetrated during the entire series. i considered myself cured and released permanently when i discovered that the effect upon me was to make me laugh till tears ran down my face. like many good speakers who use only brief notes and who speak largely extemporaneo

pect i have not spelt his name right, but it is of no moment. i believe he really loved me. he was an ancient gentleman with a long, white beard and he never let anyone do anything for me if he were anywhere around; looking after me with the most meticulous care, travelling everywhere with me, caring for my room and bringing me my breakfast every day. i was standing one day on the verandah of our quarters in mumballa, looking out on the road in front of the compound and at the countless hordes and throngs of indians hindus, mohammedans, pathans, sikhs, gurkas, rajputs and the babus, sweepers, men, women and children who passed ceaselessly along the road. they plodded silently coming from somewhere, going somewhere, thinking of something, and their name is legion. suddenly old bugaloo came

nexpert care. walter evans went into hysterics all the time, demanding most of the attention of the doctor, but mrs. snyder was like a tower of strength and i shall never forget her. later the doctor sent in a practical nurse but she was so incompetent that i suffered severely at her hands and went through three months of great discomfort and agony. we then moved from the seminary to other living quarters. we took a small apartment where, for the first time, i was left alone with a small baby and all the housework to do. up to that time i had never washed a pocket handkerchief, boiled an egg or made a cup of tea, and was a completely incompetent young woman. my experience in learning to do things was such that i have seen to it that the three girls know all there is to know about housekeep

eek under the bed and then lock all the doors into my bedroom. i could then hear him going through the rest of the rooms. there were four doors in my room, one on to the verandah, another into the sitting-room and still another into my- 84- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust fellow-worker's bed-room and then my bathroom door. i was never the least nervous and the search of my quarters was a precaution on the man's part and the bed stood in the exact centre of the room with its legs in deep saucers because of insects. at that time in india, we always slept with a lamp alight in the room. i awoke around two o'clock in the morning to hear a noise in the sitting-room and to see the handle of the door being turned and twisted. it was fortunately locked. i knew it could not

ridgefield park to stamford, conn. a friend of ours, mr. graham phelps-stokes, had a vacant house on long island sound and he let us have it rent free for several years. it was a much larger and nicer house than the one in ridgefield park and personally i loved it. i shall always remember the mornings there. upstairs there was a wing of the house which consisted of one large room over the maid's quarters downstairs. there were windows on three sides of this room and there i lived and worked. craigie was with us and although there was an awful lot of housework to be done the girls were getting older and were much more helpful in the house. foster and i used to commute to new york most days of the week as craigie was there to look after the girls. they were all in their 'teens and extraordi

refore, growing quite steadily but was still relatively small. we had moved from one location to another according to the vicissitudes of renting in new york city and it was in april 1928 that we first moved into our present headquarters at 11 west 42nd street. we were among the first to move into this new building and to occupy the top floor, the 32nd. today we occupy the 31st floor also but our quarters are much too cramped and we shall have to expand in some way before long. we had been in correspondence for some little while with a woman in switzerland who had a good deal of knowledge and who was interested in what we were teaching and in doing something to reach the world with the ageless wisdom. she had a beautiful home on lake maggiore in switzerland where she had built a lecture ha

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sarily incident to true ashramic life in the new age. these points are all being most carefully considered, because a major expansion of the hierarchy as a whole, and the consequent reaction upon humanity, again as a whole, is not a thing lightly to be undertaken. expansion if it is to be safely undertaken must proceed hand in hand with consolidation. the expansion now contemplated in the highest quarters will greatly alter the potency of the relation of the hierarchy to humanity, and therefore of the second divine aspect to the third. can humanity take this increased potency correctly and safely? will the aspirants of the world if given opportunity to pass off the probationary path on to the path of discipleship be stable enough to stand steady under the impact of hitherto undiscerned spi

e true, because you see the vision and are cooperating with the plan; thus materialise the vision and work at intelligent understanding of the plan. let naught fatigue, frustration, people or circumstance deflect you from your purpose. carry all forward in silence and with love. take the four words: dream, vision, plan, realisation, and make them the theme for your meditation work during the four quarters of the coming year. if you will, write during this year four papers on these four words, but only write after three months' quiet reflection upon each word, and from the angle of the personality illumined by the spiritual triad. i would have you note the wording of this request with especial care. this will tend to bring in more than just soul wisdom, for the angle of the spiritual will a

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echnique is that of building and teaching, and its workers are magnetic and they present, when brought together, no great- 219- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust problems of cohesion and of group integration. of this aspect of work, the arcane school is an example. when, however, first ray workers appear to aid in the expansion of the work and to carry it to the four quarters of the earth, then certain difficulties inevitably appear. it is the dynamic quality of the power aspect which must be guarded against, not in the sense that it must not be permitted expression, but in the sense that it must be motivated by love, harnessed to gentleness, and qualified by understanding. the problem, therefore, will be to integrate first ray workers into the new group of wo

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

uth is the inferior mother, the bride of the mikroprosopos. daath or knowledge is the union of chokmah and binah, of wisdom and understanding. merkabah was the chariot throne of god of the vision of ezekiel mentioned in his chapters i. and x; it rested on wheels and was carried by four cherubim, the sacred animal forms, which resembled the man, lion, bull and eagle, which were related to the four quarters of the world, and to four types of humanity. the four letters yod, h, vau, h, or as we say ihvh, of the name we call jehovah, are allotted and distributed by the kabalistic doctrine among the sephiroth in a peculiar manner, forming the mysterious conception of the tetragrammaton, that awful name of divine majesty which might never be uttered by the common people, and whose true pronunciat

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

o much drought stunts its growth. therefore, when neptune has prepared his bath, measure out carefully the exact quantity of permanent water needed, and let there be neither too little nor too much. the twofold fiery male must be fed with a snowy swan, and then they must mutually slay each other and restore each other to life; and the air of the imprisoned fiery male will occupy three of the four quarters of the world, and make up three parts of the imprisoned fiery male, that the death vsong of the swans may be distinctly heard; then the swan roasted twelve keys of basil valentine 46 of 95 will become food for the king, and the fiery king will be seized with great love towards the queen, and will take his fill of delight in embracing her, until they both vanish and coalesce into one body

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

kowitz provides an evocative account of the temple at samy that houses tsiu marpo, called the jokwukhang (lcog dbug khang. it is here that the samy oracle of tsiu marpo once resided: the most important medium of tsi u dmar po resides at samye in the so-called tsi u dmar lcog dbug khang. the outer walls of this edifice are covered by red cloth. the upper floor of the building is reserved as living-quarters for the oracle-priest, and on the lower floor, next to the mgon khang,49 lies a room which is opened only once a year, at the time when the so-called glud gong [person embodying a ransom ritual] arrives at 47 however, it is significant that tsiu marpo s root tantra and accompanying liturgical texts were discovered at samy or at temple sites on nearby mount chimpu (mchims phu. see appendix

eader of his mount.232 as with tsiu marpo, variations certainly exist, but pehar s iconographic appearance as described here is represented quite well in numerous drawings and statues of pehar (figures 44, 45, and 46. pehar s entourage is also quite extensive. while tsiu marpo has six accompanying riders, pehar has four chief attendants as well as an expansive retinue: on the outside, in the main quarters and in the spaces lying in between appear ministers, hangmen, slaves, and lions .c.ryas [spiritual guides] of mon, and monkeys. there are one hundred dge slong [fully ordained monks] lifting their rattling-staffs, and one hundred black-hat magicians wielding their demon-daggers; one hundred women shake out their hair, and one hundred men brandish their swords and shields.233 de nebesky-wo

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islands and peninsulas which were upheaved in the ordinary course of time and became ultimately the true home of the great race known as the atlanteans. after this consummation was once attained it follows, as stated on the highest "occult" authority, that "lemuria should no more be confounded with the atlantis continent, than europe with america("esoteric buddhism" p. 58) the above, coming from quarters so discredited by orthodox science, will, of course, be regarded by it as a more or less happy fiction. even the clever work of donnelly, already mentioned, is put aside, notwithstanding that its statements are all confined within a frame of strictly scientific proofs. but we write for the future. discoveries in this direction will vindicate the claims of the asiatic philosophers, who mai

; but so was bailly likewise, and still more. for sweden and norway had formed part and parcel of ancient lemuria, and also of atlantis on the european side, just as eastern and western siberia and kamschatka had belonged to it, on the asiatic. only, once more, when was it? we can find it out approximately only by studying the puranas, if we will have nought to do with the secret teachings. three quarters of a century have already elapsed since captain (now colonel) wilford brought forward his fanciful theories about the british islands being the "white island" the atala of the puranas. this was sheer nonsense, as the atala is one of the seven dwipas, or islands, belonging to the nether lokas, one of the seven regions of patala (the antipodes. moreover, as wilford* shows, the puranas place

as soon as the creature is found to sin against preconception, the great (mis) guiding spirit, a priori by name, who furnishes philosophers with their omniscience pro re nata, whispers that no such thing can be, and forthwith there is a charge of hoax. the heavens themselves have been charged with hoaxes. when leverrier and adams predicted a planet by calculation, it was gravely asserted in some quarters that the planet which had been calculated was not the planet but another which had clandestinely and improperly got into the neighbourhood of the true body. the disposition to suspect hoax is stronger than the disposition to hoax. who was it that first announced that the classical writings of greece and rome were one huge hoax perpetrated by the monks in what the announcer would be as lit

absolute unity. it was only the minor gods, who were made to carry the symbolical attributes of the higher ones. thus, the god shoo, the personification of ra, who appears as "the great cat of the basin of persea, in an[[vol. 2, page] 546 the secret doctrine (see "book of the dead" ritual xvii, 45-47, was often represented in the egyptian monuments seated, and holding a cross, symbol of the four quarters, or the elements, attached to a circle. in that very learned work "the natural genesis" by mr. gerald massey, on pp. 408-455 (vol. i, under the heading "typology of the cross" there is more information to be had on the cross and circle than in any other work we know of. he who would fain have proofs of the antiquity of the cross is referred to these two volumes. the author shows that "the

cle and cross of the four corners. from this origin they came to be interchangeable at times. for example, the chakra, or disk of vishnu, is a circle. the names denote the circling, wheeling round, periodicity, the wheel of time. this the god uses as a weapon to hurl at the enemy. in like manner, thor throws his weapon, the fylfot, a form of the four-footed cross (swastica) and a type of the four quarters. thus the cross is equivalent to the circle of the year. the wheel emblem unites the cross and circle in one, as does the hieroglyphic cake and the ankh-tie[[diagram" nor was the double glyph sacred with the profane, but only with the initiates. for raoul-rochette shows (ibid "the sign[[diagram, occurring as the reverse of a phoenician coin, with a ram as the obverse .the same sign, somet

s and circle in one, as does the hieroglyphic cake and the ankh-tie[[diagram" nor was the double glyph sacred with the profane, but only with the initiates. for raoul-rochette shows (ibid "the sign[[diagram, occurring as the reverse of a phoenician coin, with a ram as the obverse .the same sign, sometimes called venus' looking-glass, because it typified reproduction, was employed to mark the hind-quarters of valuable brood mares of corinthian and other beautiful breeds of horses (raoul-rochette, loc. cit. de la croix ansee, mem. de l'academie des sciences, pl. 2, nos. 8, 9, also 16, 2, p. 320, quoted in "nat. gen, which proves that so far back as those early days the cross had already become the symbol of human procreation, and that oblivion of the divine origin of cross and circle had bee

en the four are put together they form an oval; thus the figure combines the cross with the circle round in four parts, corresponding to the four corners of the cross. the four segments answer to the four feet of the swastica cross and the fylfot of thor. the four-leaved lotus flower of buddha, is likewise figured at the centre of this cross, the lotus being an egyptian and hindu type of the four quarters. the four quarter arcs, if joined together, would form an ellipse, and the ellipse is also figured on each arm of the cross. this ellipse therefore denotes the path of the earth. sir j. y. simpson copied the following specimen[[diagram, which is here presented, as the cross of the two equinoxes and the two solstices placed within the figure of the earth's path[[vol. 2, page] 547 variation

an attempt may be made to interpret a few of these. the subject is so vast that it would require in itself alone many volumes. but the most curious of these egyptian symbols of cross and circle, spoken of in the above cited work, is one which receives its full explanation and final colour from aryan symbols of the same nature. says the author "the four-armed cross is simply the cross of the four quarters, but the cross sign is not always simple* this is a type that was developed from an identifiable beginning, which was adapted to the expression of various ideas afterwards. the most sacred cross of egypt that was carried in the hands of the gods, the pharaohs, and the mummied dead, is the ankh[[diagram] the sign of life, the living, an oath, the covenant. the top of this is the hieroglyph

nd physical[[vol. 2, page] 588 the secret doctrine "the cross was used in egypt as a protecting talisman and a symbol of saving power. typhon, or satan, is actually found chained and bound to the cross. in the ritual, the osirian cries 'the apophis is overthrown, their cords bind the south, north, east, and west, their cords are on him. har-ru-bah has knotted him* these were the cords of the four quarters, or the cross. thor is said to smite the head of the serpent with his hammer. a form of swastica or four-footed cross. in the primitive sepulchres of egypt the model of the chamber had the form of a cross* the pagoda of mathura. the birth-place of krishna, was built in the form of a cross* this is perfect and no one can discern in this "sexual worship" with which the orientalists love to

umenti causa) in basing its present anthropology- as to the date and mode of origin of "homo sapiens- on the darwinian theory* but if the skeletons of man should, at any time, be discovered in the eocene strata, but no fossil ape, thereby proving the existence of man prior to the anthropoid- then darwinians will have to exercise their ingenuity in another direction. and it is said in wellinformed quarters that the xxth century will be yet in its earliest teens, when such undeniable proof of man's priority will be forthcoming. even now evidence is brought forward that the dates for the foundations of cities, civilizations and various other historical events have been absurdly curtailed. this was done as a peace-offering to biblical chronology "no date" writes the wellknown palaeontologist

probable than many "scientific" theories; that, for instance, of the first organic germ descending on a meteor to our earth- like ain soph on his vehicle, adam kadmon. only, the latter descent is allegorical, as every one knows, and the kabalists have never offered this figure of speech for acceptance in its dead-letter garb. but the germ on the meteor theory, as coming from such high scientific quarters, is an eligible candidate for axiomatic truth and law, a theory people are in honour bound to accept, if they would be on a right level with modern science. what the next theory necessitated by the materialistic premises will be- no one can tell. meanwhile, the present theories, as any one can see, clash together far more discordantly among themselves than even those of the occultists out

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e rights of citizenship in the speculations of the scientific world. the forty "assessors" who stand in the region of amenti as the accusers of the soul before osiris, belong to the same class of deities as the lipika, and might stand paralleled, were not the egyptian gods so[[footnote(s* these are the four "immortals" which are mentioned in atharva veda as the "watchers" or guardians of the four quarters of the sky (see ch. lxxvi, 1-4, et seq "conflict between religion and science- draper, pp. 132 and 133[[vol. 1, page] 105 the divine recorders. little understood in their esoteric meaning. the hindu chitra-gupta who reads out the account of every soul's life from his register, called agra-sandhani; the "assessors" who read theirs from the heart of the defunct, which becomes an open book b

"i see brahm the creator enthroned in thee above the lotus; and sir w. jones shows, as noted in the stanzas, that the seeds of the lotus contain, even before they germinate, perfectly-formed leaves, the miniature shapes of what one day, as perfected plants, they will become. the lotus, in india, is the symbol of prolific earth, and what is more, of mount meru. the four angels or genii of the four quarters of heaven (the maharajahs, see stanzas) stand each on a lotus. the lotus is the two-fold type of the divine and human hermaphrodite, being of dual sex, so to say. the spirit of fire (or heat, which stirs up, fructifies, and develops into concrete form everything (from its ideal prototype, which is born of water or primordial earth, evolved brahma- with the hindus. the lotus flower, repres

in the upper and lower heaven* the number seven naturally suggested a measure by seven, that led to what may be termed sevening, and to the marking and mapping out of the circle in seven corresponding divisions which were assigned to the seven great constellations; and thus was formed the celestial heptanomis of egypt in the heavens. when the stellar heptanomis was broken up and divided into four quarters, it was multiplied by four, and the twenty-eight signs took the place of the primary seven constellations, the lunar zodiac of twenty-eight days being the registered result. in the chinese arrangement the four sevens are given to four genii that preside over the four cardinal points (in chinese buddhism and esotericism the genii are represented by four dragons- the "maharajahs" of the sta

ows of esoteric philosophy, defames those whom he honours with his spite, and assumes with the theosophists the airs of a profound scholar, one can only smile and- heartily laugh at him[[vol. 1, page] 540 the secret doctrine. of course, the occultists are fully aware of the fact that the vitalist "fallacy" so derided by vogt and huxley, is, nevertheless, still countenanced in very high scientific quarters, and, therefore, they are happy to feel that they do not stand alone. thus, professor de quatrefages writes "it is very true we do not know what life is; but no more do we know what the force is that set the stars in motion. living beings are heavy, and therefore subject to gravitation; they are the seat of numerous and various physico-chemical phenomena which are indispensable to their e

an additional peril to their age: a danger to the poor, now offered in daily holocaust by the less wealthy to the very wealthy* this necessitates a short digression and an explanation. some twelve years back, during the philadelphia centennial exhibition, the writer, in answering the earnest queries of a theosophist, one of the earliest admirers of mr. keely, repeated to him what she had heard in quarters, information from which she could never doubt. it had been stated that the inventor of the "self-motor" was what is called, in the jargon of the kabalists, a "natural-born magician" that he was and would remain unconscious of the full range of his powers, and would work out merely those which he had found out and ascertained in his own nature- firstly, because, attributing them to a wrong

BLUE EQUINOX

third chapter of the book of the law. it must be quoted in full .so that thy light is in me; and its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. that is, the god himself is aflame with the light of the beast, and will himself push the order, through the fire (perhaps meaning the genius) of the beast. liber ccc 177 .there is a secret door that i shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (these are the adorations, as thou hast written) as it is said: the light is mine; its rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra and tum, of khephra, and of ahathoor. i am thy theban, o mentu, the prophet ankh-f-na-khonsu! by bes-na-maut my breast i beat; by wise ta-nech i weave my spell. show thy star-splendour, o nuit! bid me within thine house to dwell, o wing d s

here used in their technical sense, agap .love is the law, love under will. both agap and thelema(.will) add to 93, which identifies the seven portals 79 them qabalistically. this love is not a sloppy feeling of maudlin sentimental kindness. the majority of people of the christian science, theosophical, new thought type, think that a lot of flabby thoughts, sending out streams of love in the six quarters, and so on, will help them. it won.t. love is a pure flame, as swift and deadly as the lightning. this is the kind of love that the student needs (subsection ii) the .key. here spoken of has been thoroughly explained in thien tao in konx om pax, but there is a peculiar method, apart from this plane, and easily understood by the equilibrium by which things can be done which bear no fruit

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

the book is to be used to keep a record of the magick actions and the prayers, invocations, rituals or sigils you will use in this operation. the book should be new, uninscribed by anyone else and should be consecrated for use as we have said. the wand or rod: this should be crafted from rosewood or cedar and should measure half the length of your arm. it is to be used to trace the sigils of the quarters which will be given in the second part of this monograph. it is to be marked with the names of god which the angels will give you in the circle. the magical knife: the knife must be new and sharp enough to cut easily, for this is to be its purpose. its blade should be no more than nine inches long and may be inscribed with these names: agla+ vuvh+ on+ adonai. the handle of the knife is to

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

" do what you will. but don't do anything that will harm another. it's as simple as that. in april, 1974, the council of american witches adopted a set of principles of wiccan belief. i, personally, subscribe to those principles and list them here. read them carefully. 1. we practice rites to attune ourselves with the natural rhythm of life forces marked by the phases of the moon and the seasonal quarters and cross quarters. 2. we recognize that our intelligence gives us a unique responsibility toward our environment. we seek to live in harmony with nature, in ecological balance offering fulfillment to life and consciousness within an evolutionary concept. 3. we acknowledge a depth of power far greater than that apparent to the average person. because it is far greater than ordinary it is

a single room, or a small section of a room. whatever its shape or size, this is your temple. a complete room perhaps in the basement or attic of a house is the ideal. if you have such a room that can be turned into your temple and kept solely as that, you are very fortunate. let's look at such a possibility first and then work along to those who can only use a small part of their regular living quarters. first of all, take a compass and establish the alignment of the room. mark the north, east, south and west. your altar is going to be placed in the center of the room and it is preferable that it be set up so that when standing before it you are facing east. you can keep an altar candle and your representations of the deities on the altar at all times, but more on that below. on the floo

he dweller" within me and about me. for good do i strive and for good do i live. love unto all things. so be it, forever" seax-wica psalm or "soft is the rain, it gently falls upon the fields beneath. it lulls the heart, it stills the wind, gives solitude i seek. it patters down, so gentle yet it ne'er does bend a leaf "there are some magickal traditions that equate different colors with the four quarters, but these are the generally used ones. and yet the water that is there will wash away all grief. for smoothness follows in the wake, and quiet and peace and love- are all around in freshness new, come down from clouds above. all evil go, flow out from here and leave all fresh and plain. let negativity not come into this room again. for love i now find all around, so soft, so still so sur

i will use them here. the rituals in this workbook are written to utilize a number of people in the coven. don't hesitate to modify them for more or less people. where i have indicated "priest/ess" it means the words/action may be performed by either one. otherwise one or the other will be specified. erecting the temple the circle is marked out on the floor. there is a candle at each of the four quarters; yellow to the east, red to the south, blue to the west, green to the north. the altar is set up in the center of the circle so that, when they move on round to the south, where the priest lights the south candle. priest "here do i bring light and fire in at the south, to illuminate our temple and bring it warmth" they move to the west, where the priestess lights the west candle. priestes

as been admitted, the priest closes the circle by drawing his athame across the line again, connecting the two "broken" ends. priestess sprinkles a little of the oil there and priest raises his athame and draws a pentagram to seal it (see illustration. they then return to the altar. the bell is rung three times. priest/ess "may you all be here in peace and in love. we bid you welcome. let now the quarters be saluted and the gods invited" the covener closest to the east turns outward and moves to stand facing the east candle, with her/his athame raised. s/he draws an invoking pentagram (see diagram) and says: covener "all hail to the element of air; watchtower of the east. may it stand in strength, ever watching over our circle" s/he kisses the blade of her/his athame and returns to the cir

r closest to the north then turns to face the north candle. with athame raised, s/he draws an invoking pentagram and says: covener "all hail to the element of earth; watchtower of the north. may it stand in strength, ever watching over our circle" s/he kisses the blade of her/his athame and returns to the circle. priest/ess raises athame and draws a pentagram, saying: priestess "all hail the four quarters and all hail the gods! we bid the lord and lady welcome and invite that they join with us, witnessing these rites we hold in their honor. all hail" all "all hail" priest "let us share the cup of friendship" priest takes the goblet and pours a little of the wine onto the ground, or into the libation dish, saying the names of the gods. he then takes a drink and passes the goblet to the prie

etc) or are eventually crowded out by neighboring plants. plant vitamins are far easier to digest than vitamins and minerals of fish or animal origin. vitamin a: needed for night vision and functioning of cells of skin and mucous membranes. vitamin a is stored in the body, but under stress and strain, a surplus is rapidly dissipated. botanical sources-alfalfa, herb; annato seed; dandelion; lamb's quarters; okra pods; paprika; parsley herb; watercress. vitamin b1 (thiamine: needed for growth and maintaining normal appetite. sources-bladderwrack; dulse; fenugreek; kelp; okra; wheat germ. vitamin b2 (riboflavin: needed for normal growth of children. good nutrition of adults. sowrces-bladderwrack; dulse; fenugreek; kelp; saffroa vitaminb12: essential for normal development of red blood cells

llon of cold water. when the mixture is just luke-warm, add a large teaspoonful of yeast spread on a piece of toast. leave for twelve hours and then strain through muslin. after giving it an hour or two to settle, carefully bottle it. mead dissolve four pounds of honey in a gallon of water and add an ounce of hops, half an ounce of root ginger and the pared rind of two lemons. boil this for three-quarters of an hour, pour it into a cask to the brim and, when it is still luke-warm, add an ounce of yeast. leave the mead to ferment and when this has ended, put in a quarter of an ounce of isinglass (obtainable from wine-making supply stores) and bung the cask tightly. in six months it should be bottled. the above mead recipe is a simple bee-keeper's one. the fact that mead was originally a ver

and the pentacle, etc. ceremonial magick, as you know, involves conjuring entities and demanding that they do the magician's bidding. surprisingly, just such conjuration is found as part of many traditions' erecting the temple (or, forming the circle, as some of them call it. included in their rituals is what is referred to as summoning the "guardians of the watchtowers, or "guardians of the four quarters. these "guardians" are often associated with specific entities, such as dragons or salamanders, gnomes, sylphs and undines. it would seem obvious that here the group could be treading on dangerous ground. in fact this was very pointedly brought home to one coven who once forgot) to banish the salamanders of the south at the end of their rites. they were surprised when, shortly after the m

o the element of water; watchtower of the west. may it stand in strength, ever watching over my circle" she kisses the blade and moves to the north, where she draws an invoking pentagram. all hail to the element of earth; watchtower of the north. may it stand in strength, ever watching over my circle" kissing the blade, she returns to the altar, where she raises her athame high "all hail the four quarters and all hail the gods! i bid the lord and lady welcome and invite that they join with me, witnessing these rites i hold in their honor. all hail" she takes the goblet and pours a little wine onto the ground (or into the libation dish, then drinks, saying the names of the gods "now is the temple erected. so mote it be" esbat witch "once more do i come to show my joy of life and re-affirm m

me. 2. the solitary has a small "compact" circle. there is no need for the large, coven-size circle when you are working alone. one just large enough for you and the altar is all you need. probably five feet in diameter would be sufficient. when erecting the temple, you would still walk all around this circle to "draw" it with your athame, and to sprinkle and cense it, but for addressing the four quarters you need only turn and face the directions, from your place behind the altar. when working magick, it is easier to build up power in a smaller circle and it is generally a "cosier" feeling. 3. the solitary uses only what s/he feels s/he needs. you probably won't need as many tools as a coven uses. you may decide to use no more than your athame and a censer. it is up to you; you have only

nd that particular myth cycle or path consistent with their beliefs" further information is obtainable from deidre, maidenhill, p.o. box 29166, philadelphia, pa 19127. northern way a non-initiatory tradition that works robed "we try to emulate as authentic and traditional re-creation as possible of old norse garb. our god-names are all old norse, not teutonic. we do cast a circle; we do not 'call quarters. our tradition is norse. the group, however, is not hereditary in that members need not be of any particular family or ethnic group" the northern way was founded in 1980 and incorporated in 1982, in chicago. its religion is sometimes called asatru. they observe the four solar fire festivals as well as those indigenous to the norse religion. further details may be obtained from northern wa

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pero has said, an elongated ellipse, and it is formed wholly of sand. the "land of sekri" is described in the legend which is written at each end of the oval as "the horizon) of the hidden country of sekri, which guardeth the hidden body (or, flesh" this mysterious oval is supposed to rest upon the bodies of two man-headed lion sphinxes set tail to tail; of these, however, only the heads and fore quarters p. 94 appear, one at each end of the oval. each sphinx is called af, and he is said "to have his existence from the voice of the great god" and "his work is to keep ward over his image" within the oval already described is stretched out at almost full length on the ground a monster serpent (see pp. 99, 103, which has two snakes' heads at one end of his body, and a bearded human head at th

, but without a throne. click to view thath-neteru. hetchefu. isis-thaith. ka-hemhemet. 15. the god hetchefu. 16. the god thath-neteru, in mummied form, holding a sceptre in one hand and a knife in the other. 17. a chamber, with an opening under the roof, through which a snake, which stands on its tail outside it, belches fire; under a vaulted covering is an "image" of ra, in the form of the hind-quarters of a lion. the chamber is called het-tuau-ra. p. 130 18. a similar chamber, with an "image" of ra in the form of a hawk's wing; the name of the chamber is het-stau-kher-aha. 19. a similar chamber, with an "image" of ra in the form of a human head; the name of the chamber is het-temtet-ra. the texts read: click to view (left) het-temtet-ra (center) het-stau-kher-aha (right) het-tuau-ra. p

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

the earth and the seas merely as a larder, fuel store and garbage can. once, things were very different, as black elk, the sioux shaman, explained 'in the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came from the sacred hoop of the nation and, so long as the hoop was unbroken, the people flourished. the flowering tree was the living centre of the hoop and the circle of the four quarters nourished it. the east gave peace and light, the south gave warmth; in the west, thunder beings gave rain and the north with its cold and mighty wind gave strength and endurance' and so the earth was respected as the sacred mother, giver of life and crops, to whose womb the dead returned. it is no accident that the sioux medicine wheel and the celtic wheel of the year are so similar in fo

1693. during this period of mass hysteria, 141 people from the town and immediate area were arrested, and 19 were hanged. even a dog was hanged. dorcas good, a four-year-old child, was the youngest victim to be accused of witchcraft and imprisoned. she was released on bail after her mother was hanged, but her younger sibling died in prison. dorcas was driven insane by her experience. about three-quarters of all those killed as witches in europe and scandinavia were women, mainly lower-class older women, female healers, village herbalists, wise women and midwives. with the death of so many experienced healers and wise women, much knowledge was inevitably lost, and for a time infant mortality increased as male physicians took over the roles of the deposed midwives. but anyone who was differ

you are an experienced practitioner, some of the ideas may suggest new directions for your personal and coven work. the elemental candle colours each of the four elements- air, fire, water and earth- is represented by a single candle colour- yellow, red, blue and green. a coloured candle representing each of the elements can be placed at the four main compass points around the circle to mark the quarters- east, south, west and north. you can place the elemental candles either on the edge of the circle in sturdy floor-standing holders, or on small tables or plinths at the compass points. though each element is represented by a single candle, you can use a second to increase a particular element in its own quadrant of the circle or use the elemental colour in all four quadrants. so, for exa

ful selection of garden torches and candles are now available, that can be placed in the ground for working out of doors. as you are taking away pollution, work at the time of the waning moon. blue is the elemental colour of water* place four blue candles at the four main compass points in a room or any outdoor area. the four blue compass candles can act as sentinels of light, protecting the four quarters of the circle* in the centre, place a cauldron or pot (a three-legged iron pot or any ceramic pot will do. these can often be found in antique shops, at car boot sales or garden centres, as well as in new age shops. it need not be very large* fill the cauldron with water and float blue candles on the surface* light a large blue candle to the west of the cauldron; light the candles in the

hells and white stones. prepare a bowl of moonstones, small blue lace agate stones or blue glass nuggets to cast in the water* set a tall jar holding wax tapers at each compass point. if you are working alone, you may need to keep the size of the circle and cauldron quite small, but you can use as much space as you wish. if you are working in a group, four people can light the candles in the four quarters and the scale of the whole ritual can be much larger. the group can sit or stand in a circle around the cauldron, just inside the four direction candles; traditionally, a magical area extends to a circle about nine feet (three metres) in diameter. however, this can be larger or smaller, according seite 58 wicca01.txt to the size of the group. circles are usually measured in an odd, rather

is sometimes also associated with the fire element. if you don't like the idea of a full-sized athame, there are some lovely paper knives in the shape of swords or with animal or birds' heads. some covens give each of their members a tiny athame, to be used for drawing down energies during ceremonies. the main athame is used by the person leading the ritual who may draw the circle, open all four quarters and close them after the ritual. an athame with a white handle is used for cutting wands, harvesting herbs for magick or healing, carving the traditional samhain jack-o'-lantern, and etching runes and other magical or astrological symbols on candles and talismans. some practitioners believe that you should never use metal for cutting herbs but instead pull them up, shred them and pound th

in its crystalline form, especially, the wand is used for directing healing energies from the circle to wherever they are needed. the wand is used for directing energies and for making circles of power in the air- hence the image of the faerie godmother waving her wand- deosil for energies to attract energies and widdershins for banishing. it can be used to draw pentagrams in the air at the four quarters and it can also be used for drawing an invisible circle when you are working on carpet or another fabric that cannot be physically marked [insert pic p190- in some traditions, the wand is a tool of air and so this and the athame, or the sword, are fairly interchangeable. however, the wand seems more effective for casting and uncasting circles, invoking quarters and closing power. it is al

e undines, spirits of the water. the original undine was created without a soul, but gained one by marrying a mortal and bearing him a child. however, she also lost her freedom from pain and her immortality and so she is a reminder that love may have a price, but that without it life does not have meaning. the colour of water is blue and its zodiacal signs are cancer, scorpio and pisces. the four quarters of the circle every magical circle is divided into four quarters that are in ceremonial magick called the watchtowers. the higher essences who protect the quarters are invoked as the guardians, who control and direct the elemental powers. sometimes they are called kings, sometimes devas, or they may be pictured as the four main archangels, michael, gabriel, raphael and uriel. how you perc

ore traditional association of raphael as the messenger in the east and uriel as sentinel of the north and i have found that this works better. do read about angels and experiment to see what suits you. i have listed source material on pages 201-2 and you can find more information on the internet. use the elemental candle colour to represent the angel you want. you can also use angels in the four quarters to invoke protection in less formal magick by lighting candles in the four quarters when you feel afraid or alone. i have also seen michael listed as archangel of the dawn and east, but i think he is better placed as archangel of the sun in the south. if you feel uncertain, simply refer to each guardian as archangel of the north, etc, then the celestial being can reveal itself in the form

wer hand. it is best to draw really big, strong pentagrams. pentagrams can be drawn either to attract the elemental guardians (invoking, or attracting pentagrams) or to close their energies (banishing pentagrams [insert pic p203- there are various rather complicated ways of drawing pentagrams, but i suggest you use the basic methods given on the previous page for attracting when opening your four quarters and banishing when closing. if you wish to find out more, i recommend you read dion fortune's applied magick. if you do not wish to draw pentagrams at all in your circle work, you can instead call the guardians in the candle flame. preparing for ritual preparation for ritual is important. despite this, even magick has to conform to the needs and customs of the modern world, and so witches

hat is fulfilled and unfulfilled, leaving room for the quieter contemplation of a time when the sun still shines and the fruits of the harvest are all around. in this way we can say goodbye to the summer with joy* collect a basket of autumn leaves or any dying greenery and surround it with the fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts of the harvest* place blue and green candles alternately at the four quarters, beginning with green in the west, marking out a square that holds both the joys and sorrows of the year that has passed. make the square large enough so you can work within it* light first the blue candle of the north, followed by the green candle in the east and the blue candle in the south, saying: the light is born, increases, flames and flares, and with it our lives increase, intensi

c of spirit, or akasha. poppet: a featureless doll made of cloth that is filled with herbs and used in healing or as a talisman to attract love or fertility. it may also be made of clay and used as a focus for positive magick to being health or happiness to the person represented by it. power hand: the hand you write with, used to transmit assertive and creative energies. see also receptive hand. quarters: the four segments of a magical circle. each is associated with specific archangels, colours, crystals, herbs, incenses, ritual tools, etc. receptive hand: the hand you do not write with. used for receiving energies. see also power hand. rede: a rule or moral code. the wiccan rede states: an [if] it harm none, do what you will, and so ensures all magick has a positive intent. sabbat: one

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

urmised that the role of the supernatural practitioner was institutionalized within most antebellum slave communities in the south "nearly every large plantation" he stated "had at least one, who laid claim to be a fortune teller, and who was granted with more than common respect by his fellow slaves" white witnesses concurred. a prominent slaveholder in south carolina observed that in most slave quarters there were one or more blacks who were "ambitious of being considered in the character of conjurers" in order to gain influence among other bondpersons. conjure practitioners, it is believed, were "the most powerful and significant individuals on the plantation" while it is impossible to say precisely how many such practitioners existed, it is certain that during slavery, and even beyond

and beliefs, in part through their own exposure to black folk traditions "most of the superstition among the whites" wrote wells brown "was the result of their close connection with the blacks" wells brown recalled that some african american caregivers would tell magical folktales and stories to young white children in nurseries, but "they learned more, as they grew older, from the slaves in the quarters, or out on the premises" white writers reflected on these traditions in their published reminiscences of their youth. edward pollard, a novelist and civil war historian, stated that he was deeply affected by the "superstitions" that he had imbibed, growing up among black household servants. in many cases, children of both races were inculcated with images from a rich folklore tradition th

ng some anglo-americans in some parts of the south in the years following the civil war. in 1867 a letter appeared in a local newspaper, written by a schoolteacher who reported that "more than half of the white people" in the area surrounding beaufort county, north carolina, believed in "witches and jugglery"[15] although accepted by some whites, conjuring traditions thrived within\ 20\ the slave quarters, the social and cultural hub of the black community. conjure spoke to the practical concerns of african american bondpersons, from their personal aspirations to matters that affected everyone, such as health, wealth, and conflict. within interpersonal relations conjure was also utilized as a popular means of enticement in romantic matters. dinkie, the plantation conjurer with whom wells b

elytism, more than one thousand schoolteachers and missionaries were dispatched to the southern states. the cultural welfare of the freed slaves had become the main thrust of missionary efforts in what has been viewed as the "neo-puritanization" of the south.[4] when african americans were declared an emancipated people, their "invisible" traditions.the practices, beliefs, and values of the slave quarters.were detached and analyzed apart from the insular world that fostered them. as whites were exposed to the customs and habits of the freedpersons, many reacted to what they perceived as the moral and intellectual deficiencies of blacks. in the religious arena, clergy attacked the indecorous, enthusiastic styles of worship that were common in many southern black churches. teachers and admin

kerr [urbana: university of illinois press, 1983, p. 66; see also kenneth brown "structural continuity in an african-american slave and tenant community" historical archeology 24 (1990: 7.19; eric klingelhofer "aspects of early afro-american material culture: artifacts black magic page 102 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 from the slave quarters at garrison plantation, maryland" historical archeology 21 (1987: 115.17. for references, see thomas alvord, the devil in britain and america (ann arbor: gryphon books, 1971; tom peete cross "witchcraft in north carolina" studies in philology 16, no. 3 (1919: 219; m. drake patten "african-american spiritual beliefs: an archeological testimony from the slave quarter (proceedings of the dub

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

erning the lion, eagle, griffin, falcon and the like, together with their draughts and inscriptions. it grieves me for my other companions, that they neglected such precious treasures. and yet i cannot but think it was the special will of god that it should be so. i indeed reaped the most benefit from my page, for according as each one s genius lay, so he led whoever was entrusted to him into the quarters and places which were pleasing to him. now the keys belonging hereunto were committed to my page, and therefore this good fortune happened to me before the rest; for although he invited others to come in, yet they imagining such tombs to be only in the churchyard, thought they should get there well enough, whenever anything was to be seen there. neither shall these monuments (as both of u

tween two windows there was a door, which was covered with nothing other than a great polished lookingglass. and these windows and these looking-glasses were optically opposed to one another, so that although the sun (which was now shining exceedingly brightly) beat only upon one door, yet (after the windows towards the sun were opened, and the doors before the looking-glasses drawn aside) in all quarters of the room there were nothing but suns, which by artificial refractions beat upon the whole golden globe standing in the midst; and because (besides all this brightness) it was polished, it gave such a lustre, that none of us could open our eyes, but were forced to look out of the windows till the globe was well heated, and brought to the desired effect. here i may well avow that in thes

our mourning clothes on, which seemed somewhat reproachful to our mirth. now the virgin was perpetually inquisitive, perhaps to find to which of us her future purpose might prove serviceable. but her discourse was for the most part about melting; and it pleased her well when one seemed expert in such compendious manuals as do particularly commend an artist. this dinner lasted not more than three quarters of an hour, which page 73 we still for the most part spent with our bird, and we had to constantly feed him with his food, but he still remained much the same size. after dinner we were not allowed long to digest our food, before the virgin, together with the bird, departed from us. the fifth room was set open to us, where we went as before, and offered our services. in this room a bath w

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ellah. even the title given to him was the same or very similar in all three places. in egypt he was known as manjthe- warrior; in sumer he was manis-the-warrior; and in the indus valley he was called manja-the-shooter.2 his father, sargon the great, is a semitic name for the sumerian-mesopotamian emperor, king gin, gani, or guni. he was called in the later babylonian texts, the "king of the four quarters of the world, because they knew (babylon was also a mesopotamian culture) that the sumerian empire was enormous. the incas of south america used this term "four quarters, also. in the indian epics, sargon's son, manja, was called "the royal eye of gopta and of the four ends of the earth" when he became emperor.3 in the indus valley clay seal records, sargon and manja or menes also called

ith the appearance of the crescent moon in the sky "i liked your face" the city of jerusalem, the ironically named city of peace, is the myth capital of the world. i went there in 1993 to see this most sacred of shrines to christians, hebrews, and muslims. what a summary of how religion has gripped and manipulated the human mind for so long. the old city, although not very big, is still broken in quarters for christians, hebrews, muslims, and armenians. after all, we don't want to set a precedent and live together. if you want to buy a myth or misunderstanding, this is the place. they've got hundreds of them. on street corners and at every church or monument there they are, lying in wait, those spiritual used car salesmen, the tourist guides. many of them wear black leather jackets like so

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nd acre. tyre wasone of the major centres for the phoenicians. the knights hospitaller established theamalfi hostelry in jerusalem to provide food and shelter for the visitors. as theirwealth and prestige grew, they formed a military wing, which was given papalbacking in 1118, the same year that the original nine knights templar arrived injerusalem to guard the pilgrims.135the templars were given quarters adjoining temple mount, the alleged, and i stressalleged, site of solomons temple. some researchers believe the templars foundsomething of great value, possibly manuscripts, possibly vast amounts of gold, whileexcavating under temple mount. but whatever happened events began to move rapidlyafter 1126, for it was then that the grand master, hugues de payens, left jerusalem togather recruit

o a long list ofbrotherhood groups and societies and she is the head of the inner temple, the elite andhighly secret society for the upper levels of the legal profession on the former knightstemplar land at temple bar in london. it was the queen mother and her close friend,dianas grandmother, ruth lady fermoy, who manipulated diana into the marriagewith prince charles. this is why diana was given quarters at the queen mothershome, clarence house, in the weeks before the wedding and she left from there tomarry charles at st pauls cathedral. diana used to tell me that the queen mother wasevil, christine fitzgerald said, she actually used that word, evil. she said she hatedthe queen mother and the queen mother hated her. most people in britain will beastonished to read this because the queen

was to get married and havechildren you know, bless her little heart. she wanted to live out what she had never had.the world would have come to rights with diana because, as fucked up as she was, shewas a light being and wherever she went she manifested love. it was amazing. the sadthing was that she didnt know she was doing that and she needed proof of her worth andshe was looking in the wrong quarters for that. but when she tried to break away, we wentout and did normal things. she did kung fu with my husband for five years. she wanted tobe normal, to link arms and walk down the street. she knew where her heart lay. she reallyand truly did amazing things.diana said she could not believe how cold the windsors were and the public had agraphic example of this in the days after her death

DEMONIC BIBLE

ly guardian demon, and manifest thyself. lead me upon the dark path on which i walk. come forth, my unholy guardian demon, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice) the four kings the magician who performs the rituals of the demonic bible may choose to skip this section and advance to the next section entitled, crossing the gates of hell, or may first invoke the four demon kings who rule over the quarters of the earth (viz. east, west, north, and south) the four kings are often called oriens, or uriens, paymon or paymonia, ariton or egyn, and amaymon or amaimon. by the rabbins they are frequently entitled samael, azazel, azael, and mahazael. in the goetia of solomon, they are called amaymon, corson, zimimay or ziminair, and gaap. most of these names are invoked elsewhere in this book. i se

etc (13) beleth- the thirteenth spirit is called beleth (or bileth, or bilet. he is a mighty king and terrible. he rideth on a pale horse with trumpets and other kinds of musical instruments playing before him. he is very furious at his first appearance, that is, while the exorcist layeth his courage; for to do this he must hold a hazel wand in his hand, striking it out towards the south and east quarters, make a triangle without the circle, and then command him into it by the bonds and charges of spirits as hereafter followeth. and if he doth not enter into the triangle at your threats, rehearse the bonds and charms before him, and then he will yield obedience and come into it, and do what he is commanded by the exorcist. yet he must receive him courteously because he is a great king, and

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

n, used to represent no single element, but is of a planetary nature; and the magician's higher and true will. in the astral star, the primary elemental weapon of one who is a lord/lady of the portal (of adepts. waning (moon: the moon phase from just after full moon until it disappears, and becomes the new moon. watchtower: an invisible station in the universe on the astral plane (q.v, set at the quarters (east, south, west, and north. a celestial garrison of angels (q.v, under the command of an archangel (q.v. some traditions hold that there are watchtowers at the cross quarters as well as at the quarters. note: there is only one watchtower in each of the directions. watchtower, opening by: a powerful ritual, written by israel regardie (q.v) from the elemental grade rituals of the g.d, us

DION FORTUNE CEREMONIAL MAGIC UNVEILED

, which is much more lucid and illuminating even than that given in mcgregor mathers' admirable introductory essay to the qabalah unveiled, for he gives the correspondences in terms of modern psychology as well as of metaphysics and the psychic states. the sections of the book, however, which will be of chief interest to students of the occult, and which will cause bitter heartburnings in certain quarters, are his chapters on the attributions and correspondences of the ten holy sephiroth and the twenty-two paths between them. these attributions have been among the special preserves of certain occult schools; but mr. regardie gives them, even to the jealously guarded secret of the correct attribution of the tarot trumps. there will certainly be heartburnings! mr. regardie does not specifica

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the correspondences. 14. the only two writers known to me who have attempted this correlation are crowley and general j. f. c. fuller. general fuller assigns the muladhara lotus to malkuth, pointing out that its four petals correspond with the four elements. it is interesting to note that in the queen scale of colour, as given by crowley, the sphere of malkuth is represented as divided into four quarters, coloured respectively citrine, olive, russet, and black, to represent the four elements, and bearing the closest resemblance to the usual representations of the four-petalled lotus. 15. this lotus is represented as situated in the perineum and is associated with the anus and the function of excretion. in column xxi of the table of correspondences given by crowley in he attributes the but

rt at any rate, but the rescued fragments have not been made available for students according to the honourable traditions of european scholarship, but have been gathered together into private collections the keys whereof have rested in the pockets of individuals who have opened and closed the doors in an entirely arbitrary fashion. i have no doubt these pages will cause heart-burnings in certain quarters whose private collections they depreciate in value. but i have no doubt also that the innumerable students who essayed the western path in vain may find in these pages the keys to what was incomprehensible to them in the method, or perhaps, to be more accurate, the complete lack of method, in which they were trained. speaking for myself, it took me ten years' work in the dark before i fou

uction, he does not realise that on the inner planes he is by virtue of the law of reversed polarity, negative, and is dependent for his emotional completeness upon the stimulation given by the female. he is dependent upon her for emotional fertilisation, as is clearly shown in the case of any highly creative mind, such as wagner or shelley. 35. marriage is not a matter of two halves, but of four quarters, uniting in balanced harmony of reciprocal fecundation. binah and chokmah are balanced by hod and netzach. there are goddesses as well as gods for man to worship. boaz and jakin are both pillars of the temple, and only when united do they produce stability. a goddessless religion is half-way to atheism. in the word elohim we find the true key. elohim is translated "god" in both authorised

three functional triangles, but that malkuth participates in no such triangle, but stands apart, and it is said by the qabalists that it receives the influences or emanations of all the other sephiroth. but although malkuth is the only sephirah that does not participate in a triangle, it is also the only sephirah that is represented as parti-coloured instead of a unit, for it is divided into four quarters, which are assigned to the four elements of earth, air, fire, and water. and although it is not functional in any triangle, it represents the endresults of all the activities of the tree. it is the nadir of evolution, the outermost point on the outgoing arc, through which all life must pass before returning whence it came. 2. malkuth is said to be the sphere of earth; but we must not make

auses an influence to emanate from the angel of kether further bears out this idea. we see that the great mother, which is malkuth, polarises with the all-father, which is kether. 63. this classification, however, is too simple to serve us adequately, whether we are reducing a pagan pantheon to [page 286] its simplest terms or dealing with the chances and changes of personal life. but in the four quarters, or elements, into which malkuth is divided we find the key that we need. mystical qabala page 195 64. these four elements are said to be the earth, air, fire, and water of the wise-that is to say, four types of activity. they are represented in the notation of esoteric science by four different types of triangle. fire is represented by a triangle point upwards; air by a similar triangle

east, but the cubical altar stands in the centre. it is said to be in proper proportion when it is the height of the navel of a six-foot man, and its breadth and depth are half its height. 97. the equal-armed cross, or cross of the elements, represents the four elements in balanced equilibrium, which is the perfection of malkuth. it is represented on the tree by the division of malkuth into four quarters, coloured citrine, olive, russet, and black, with the citrine towards yesod and the black towards the qliphoth; the olive towards netzach and the russet towards hod. these are the reflections of the three pillars and the qliphothic sphere, dulled and tempered by the veil of earth. 98. thus are all things summed up in malkuth, though seen in a glass darkly, by reflection, and not face to f

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

ll these experiences i was learning to interpret occultism in the light of psychology and psychology in the light of occultism, the one counterchecking and explaining the other. because of my specialised knowledge people came to me when an occult attack was suspected, and their experience reinforces and supplements my own. moreover, there is a considerable literature on the subject to be found in quarters where one would least expect it- in accounts of folk-lore and ethnology, in the state records of witch-trials, and even under the guise of fiction. these independent records, by people in no way interested in psychic phenomena, confirm the statements made by those who have experienced occult attacks. on the other hand, we have to distinguish very carefully between psychic experience and s

in his aura by the action of making the sign of the cross upon himself. this sign is not an exclusively christian symbol, and can be used as readily by the jew as the churchman, for it is the equi-limbed cross of nature that is being used, not the calvary cross, of which the shaft is double the length of the cross-bar, and which is the symbol of sacrifice. the equi-limbed cross refers to the four quarters of the globe and the four elements, and the formula associated with it proclaims the dominion of god over these, and thereby occultly formulates his kingdom within the sphere of the operator. the operator next imagines himself to be clasping in his right hand a large, cross-handled sword, such as is depicted in pictures of crusaders. he holds it point upright and says "in the name of god

when i was to give a public lecture at a certain town. i arrived at the hall in due course, and the first thing i saw was colonel y. going up the stairs! so i determined to take the bull by the horns, and immediately after the lecture i went straight to him and said "i have got a message for you "i know you have" he replied "for i have been told to expect it" it appears that he was sitting in his quarters one evening with his two dogs. they suddenly became disturbed and began to investigate something that wasn't there. he heard a voice saying distinctly to his inner ear that i should come and ask his help and that he was to give it. he was so impressed by this occurrence that he went to a mutual friend and asked her whether i was in trouble of any sort. at his request she wrote to me to en

se are; i have always heard them referred to generically as the hunting lodges. upon various occasions i have skirmished on their flanks and looked on at some lively forays. i imagine them to be organised in conjunction with the occult police, and they certainly possess means of obtaining information which point to co-operation from the inner planes. they appear to possess alliances in unexpected quarters and to be able to pull a remarkable number of strings. what psychic weapons they use i do not know, but upon the physical plane they appear to rely largely upon newspaper exposes, and upon keeping undesirables on the move, never allowing them to settle down and organise. knowing what i do of their methods, i have from time to time recognised their sign-manual in various transactions for w

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irits of all the aethyrs, but the name of each aethyr is inserted into the first sentence of this invocation to differentiate it. the name of the tenth aethyr is zax. it is unique in that it is associated with the spirit names that lie upon the black cross of the great tablet of the watchtowers. all the other aethyrs are linked to spirit names that appear within one of the four watchtowers on the quarters of the great table- the names linked with zax lie outside the watchtowers. they are lexarph, comanan and tabitom. it is interesting that this particular air rules over the nation of germany, in view of the attempt by the nazis to exterminate the jews during the second world war. in 1909, while on a walking tour of algeria in northern africa, crowley took up a project he had begun in 1900

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

l of the roof-tree of very primitive nations. at a very early date the four pillars were identified with "the four ancient khu's who dwell in the hair of horus"[1] who are also said to be "the four gods who stand by the pillar-sceptres of heaven"[2] these four gods are "children of horus"[3] and their names are amset, hapi, tuamautef, and qebhsennuf.[4] they were supposed to preside over the four quarters of the world, and subsequently were acknowledged to be the gods of the cardinal points. the egyptians named the sky or heaven pet. a less primitive view made the heavens in the form of the goddess nut who was represented as a woman with bowed body whose hands and feet rest on the earth. in this case the two arms and the two [1. recueil de travaux, t. iv, p. 55 (l. 473; and compare. ibid

two on each side.[5] they took away all hunger and thirst from him,[6] they gave him life in heaven and protected it when given,[7] and they brought to him from the lake of khemta the boat of the eye of khnemu.[8] in one passage they are called the "four khu's of horus,[9] and originally they represented the four pillars which supported the sky or horus. each was supposed to be lord of one of the quarters of the world, and finally became the god of one of the cardinal points. hapi represented the north, tuamautef the east, amset the south, and qebhsennuf the west. in the xviiith dynasty the egyptians originated the custom of embalming the intestines of the [1. for the hieratic text from which this extract is taken see birch, select papyri, pll. 20 ff. and 134 ff. see also maspero, hymne au

ed after the purification by water and incense had been effected; and hereby was he enabled to partake of the meat and drink offerings, wherein the friends and relatives also participated, in order that they might cement and seal their mystic unity with the dead and with the god with whom he was identified.[3 [1. some fifty years ago, m. reuvens expressed his belief that the# represented the four quarters of the world, and according to m. maspero it unites in itself the four pillars which support the sky and osiris, whom they preserve from chaos; see recueil de travaux, t. xii, p. 79, note 3; and tudes de mythologie, t. ii, p. 359. 2. on the eyes of horus, see lef bure, le mythe osirien--les yeux d'horus, paris, 1874; and gr baut, les deux yeux du disque solaire (recueil de travaux t. i, p

lette is generally added. the colours with which the egyptians wrote were made of vegetable substances, coloured earths, and preparations of copper. 4 she is also called "devourer of amenta (i.e, the underworld, and shai (see lanzone, dizionario, p. 129. in the british museum papyrus no. 9901 she is described as hat en emsuh; pehu-s em tebt her-ab-set em ma "the fore-part of a crocodile; her hind-quarters are those of a hippopotamus; her middle part [is that] of a lion" footnote p. 258 the devourer usually stands near the balance instead of behind thoth; but there is one papyrus quoted by naville (todtenbuch, bd. i, bl. 136) in which she is shown crouching beside the lake of fire in the infernal regions. plate iii. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod15.htm (2 of 4 [8/10/2001 11:25:06

and let nothing whatever oppose thee "grant ye that i may pass through the tomb, and that i may enter into re-stau, and that i may go in through the hidden doors of the underworld, and that offerings and other things may be made unto me as unto those shining ones who pass into and out from the paths of the tomb, and who go through [the doors thereof. 2 the# represents four pillars, i.e, the four quarters of heaven, or the whole universe. as a religious emblem it symbolizes the god osiris. a fine collection of tets is exhibited in the fourth egyptian room (table-case k, and wall-case, no. 114, and among them may be noted: no. 2097,.a blue glazed fa ence pendent tet, with the horns, disk, and plumes no. 739, blue glazed fa ence pendent tet, with five cross-bars, and no. 8260, lapis-lazuli p

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ganized corporations, resembling in a general way the other guilds, with rules of their own, and recruited from a body of apprentices who had served a period of probation. the time referred to was a church-building age, and men skilled in the hewing and setting of stones were in demand and held in high esteem. when a great church or cathedral was to be built, skilful masons gathered .from distant quarters to assist those of the neighborhood in the work. a master was chosen, who superintended the whole, and every tenth man was a warden with authority over the rest. it followed, therefore, that a mason, after serving his apprenticeship, could not settle down, like other craftsmen, among his neighbors, but was obliged to travel in order to find employment. it was advisable that all members of

you specially interested in that tribe, the most terrible in our country" low twelve 21 "i expect soon to return to my post in the southwest and to help in forcing geronimo and some of the others into subjection, and to make them good indians "i'm afraid you will have to use general sheridan's plan, when he declared that the only good indian is a dead one. no, my brother, if you ever get into hot quarters in the southwest, don't count on any help from the order" after further chat the lodge was called to labor. the visitor remained through the raising of a fellow craft to the master's degree. he and i talked as we gained chance, and when the lodge broke up he invited me to call upon him at the tremont hotel. i presented myself on the following evening. he received me in his handsome apartm

when mcgibbon found himself so near his own home he would pay it a visit, and the fight for which we both longed would come ofl, but he had not been there, and i had no more idea of where to look for him than if we had been dropped into the middle of the atlantic "you will doubtless see your son before long" i said to his father, as i sat in the saddle with my horse reined up in front of his new quarters "don't forget to let him know that i, jerry chatten, did this because he burned my own camping on his trail iii home. he began the game and he will find i can play at it as well as he. i'm only sorry that he isn't here himself, but we shall meet before long" the good man stood at the gate, gazing up in my face, which was illumined by the glare from his own burning home. i can never forget

ary. we kept up our raiding, but henceforward tried to avoid each other. we couldn't expect many of our men to understand the changed situation, and i know that jim mcgibbon purposely dodged a fight with me when nothing would have been easier than to bring the meeting about. as for myself, i steered out of his path several times when it had a queer look to my men. finally mcgibbon made a shift of quarters, passing over into arkansas, and thus relieved the situation of its peculiar tensity. we never met again during the war "have you met since the war" i asked. to this natural question jerry chattin made answer "if you ever visit the flourishing town of jasonville, make a call at 234 main street, at the large grocery store of chattin& mcgibbon. more than likely you will find a big whiskered

d point. general grant was given supreme command of the union armies, and he determined to make an advance "all along the line" so that every confederate force would be kept actively engaged and none could go to the help of the other. by such incessant hammering the confederacy sooner or later must crumble to pieces. on may 1, 1864, the available military strength of the union was more than three-quarters of a million men. it was intended to launch this colossal host against the attenuated armies of the confederacy and to press them to the wall. this is not the place for a history of the last advance against richmond. our aim is to clear the way for a masonic incident or two connected with that memorable campaign. at the same time it is interesting to recall those eventful days, in which t

the attention only of jim baldwin, who stood next to me and recognized what i had done `you are a fool to try that on here' he said in an undertone `even if there are any masons among these rebs, they wouldn't pay any attention to you at a time like this "i believed he was right, and thought no more bf it. when our captors had pumped from us all the information they required, we were sent to our quarters and placed in charge of a guard. i don't think anybody ever felt bluer than i did. the prospect of a long, dismal imprisonment was before me, with the chances against my ever seeing home again. some of my companions broke into defiant song and reckless jest, but i could make no such hollow pretence; i was utterly miserable and despairing. tried by fire 143 "when the afternoon was drawing

iddle of october, captain bliss's wounds had healed and he was sent to lynchburg, where he remained two days, going thence to libby prison, in richmond. the long, hard journey from charlottesville reopened his sabre wound, and he was placed in the hospital, which was located at the south end of libby. he recovered so rapidly that in little more than a week he was transferred to the regular prison quarters, where he met an old college friend in captain *captain bliss informs me that he met seven union officers whose lives were saved during the civil war through their being free masons. and these were only a few among the hundreds and thousands on both sides. a lively time 1 59 henry s. burrage, of the thirty-sixth massachusetts infantry, who had been unfairly taken prisoner several days bef

ators anthony and sprague, who were equally prompt in interesting themselves in the matter. few know by what a hair's breadth this delicate negotiation was carried through to success. suffice it to say, that all came out right in the end, and one of the saddest of war's many tragedies was averted. on january 25, 1865, the hostages were released from their cells and sent back to the regular prison quarters. on the 5th of the following month, all, with the exception of 16o a lively time lieutenant murray, were sent down the james river on the flag-of-truce boat and re-entered the union lines. the experience of captain bliss in libby prison was interesting, but the story of the prisoners confined there during the progress of the war has been told too many times to be repeated in this place. t

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them and why. nevada city, calif: ananda publications, 1968. crises in modern thought. nevada city, calif: ananda publications, 1972. the path. nevada city, calif: ananda publications, 1977. ananda cooperative village see ananda church of god-realization ananda marga yoga society controversial hindu religious group with branches in many western countries. it was founded in january 1955 in railway quarters no. 339, jamalpur, india, by probhat ranjam sarkar (b. 1921, a former railway accounts clerk and journalist known by his religious name, shrii shrii anandamurti. above and beyond his yoga teachings, sarkar also taught a political philosophy known as prout (progressive utilization theory, claiming that capitalism makes men slaves and communism makes them beasts; prout offered a middle way

haeological value of certain apports, believes it is able, in principle, to come to a conclusion in favor of the objectivity of the facts, and calls the attention of science to these phenomena which find no sufficient explanation in recognised laws. from milan bailey went on to rome. after giving two seances to lady butt he returned to australia. because the milan findings were criticized in many quarters, plans were set afoot to induce bailey to make a second european visit. it took some years until the plan materialized. on the invitation of col. eugene a. d. rochas and w. reichel, bailey came to grenoble, where disaster overtook him. in a seance held on february 20, 1910, two small live birds were produced. a local dealer recognized in bailey the man who bought three similar birds from

(1932.33, and was reelected in 1939. among the projects he fostered was a new digest-sized periodical, theosophical nuggets, a pocket-sized magazine that was published during the world war ii years (1939.45. conger was president of the american section at the time the community at point loma was abandoned and the head- condon, edward u(hler) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 322 quarters were moved to covina, california (a los angeles suburb. gottfried de purucker, the head of the society, died in 1942. a collective leadership emerged for the rest of the war years, but in 1945 conger was named the new leader of the society. by this time he was suffering from parkinson s disease. the years of conger s leadership showed two very different trends. first, he developed a forwa

um lay in trance in london. this picture, however, was discredited by subsequent disclosures about buguet. the experiments of julien ochorowicz on the radiography of the etheric body stand in a class of their own. on september 11, 1911, he obtained the photograph of a spirit hand on a sensitive film rolled up and enclosed in a bottle. the film, as it lay rolled in the bottle, measured about three-quarters of an inch in diameter. the bottle had an orifice of about two-thirds of an inch. it was closed with the palm of ochorowicz s right hand. with his left he laid it on his knee and held it there firmly. the medium, stanislawa tomczyk, then placed her two hands on the bottle between his. she seemed excited and exclaimed that she wished that a small hand would appear. then she said, it is str

, rendering the first positive measurement of the extension and contraction of the human organism. home could also impart the power of elongation to others. miss bertolacci, a medium herself, was once elongated together with him. the phenomenon was also witnessed in the mediumship of other individuals. in an article in light (may 10, 1902, p. 223, john e. purdon writes that: on one occasion in my quarters at the sandown hospital, isle of wight, i held the feet of miss florence cook firmly against the floor, and can certify that there was no lifting of the heels, either with or without her boots, and that there was such an elongation that my brother-in-law, the late assistantsurgeon, mark a. kilroy, whose hands were on her shoulders, cried out she is dragging me up to the ceiling. as he was

which burned only flesh. little is known of the reason for spontaneous combustion, but the transactions of the medical society of tennessee for 1835 reports a remarkable case of partial combustion that offers clues to the onset of the phenomenon. on january 5, 1835, on a very cold day, james hamilton, professor of mathematics of the university of nashville, walked home, a distance of about three-quarters of a mile. forty minutes later he was inspecting a hygrometer that he had hung outside his house when he felt a sudden pain in his left leg like a hornet sting, accompanied by a sensation of heat. he looked down and saw a bright flame, several inches long, about the size of a dime in diameter, issuing like a gas flame from his trousered leg. after slapping the flame several times, he even

o slavery, war, and violence; it was dedicated to liberty, equality, and fraternity. it flourished until 1857 but eventually failed through its structure as a joint stock company. ballou s presidency was superseded by that of e. d. draper, an enterprising businessman who, with his brother, made successful investments outside the community. as the community capital dwindled, draper bought up three quarters of the joint stock, obtaining legal control. he expressed dissatisfaction with the management of the community, and some time around 1858 informed ballou that the community must come to an end. with the stipulation that draper would pay off its debts, the hopedale experiment was terminated. sources: holloway, mark. heavens on earth: utopian communities in america, 1680.1880. london: turns

ge of truth, lasting 4,800 years of the gods; the treta yuga (silver age, 3,600 years of the gods; the dwapara yuga, 2,400 years of the gods; and the kali yuga (iron or evil age, 1,200 years of the gods. since a year of the gods equals 360 years of men, the extent of kali yuga is said to be 432,000 years; it would have begun in 540 b.c.e. during the kali yuga righteousness has diminished by three-quarters, and the age is one of devolution, culminating in the destruction of the world prior to a new creation and another krita yuga in an endless cycle of time. kammerdiener, franklin leslie, jr (1932) director of the parapsychology laboratory at wayland baptist college, plainview, texas. kammerdiener was born on september 1, 1932, in oklahoma city, oklahoma. he studied at oklahoma baptist univ

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ts. first there was a powerful, clear, man s voice, ringing through the room in tones one would have thought no woman s throat could have produced. the next voice, a very quiet one, like that of a child of six or seven years of age, added to my surprise. the third guide also spoke in a woman s or a child s voice, but quite unlike the normal voice of the medium. the seance lasted an hour and three quarters. a year later he also spoke up in favor of helen duncan and declared that he was not aware of any system of trickery that could achieve the astounding results he witnessed. still, others testified that duncan s phenomena were fraudulent on some occasions. goldston also believed, as did many others, that houdini was a great psychic. sir arthur conan doyle devoted about sixty pages in the e

ody showed a nearly equivalent increase or decrease in weight. the difference was distributed among the sitters (w. j. crawford, psychic structures in the goligher circle, 1921. crawford s observations were paralleled by others. german zoologist karl gruber reported experiments with the medium willi schneider in 1922: a rigid body seemed to emanate from the right hip of the medium. at about three quarters of a yard from the floor it traversed the gauze partition, enlarging some of its interstices, and moved objects 80 to 100 centimetres distant from the medium. it seems that the medium has to make a certain effort to cause this fluidic member to traverse the screen. by using luminous bracelets we have verified that during the levitation of a small table a dark stump like that of a member c

pearance was arrested. and on examination there was found upon him a bag containing a great variety of strange materials for incantations; such as thunder-stones, cat s ears, the feet of various animals, human hair, fish bones, the teeth of alligators, etc: he was conveyed to montego bay; and no sooner was it understood that this old african was in prison, than depositions were poured in from all quarters from negroes who deposed to having seen him exercise his magical arts, and, in particular, to his having sold such and such slaves medicines and charms to deliver them from their enemies; being, in plain english, nothing else than rank poisons. he was convicted of obeah upon the most indubitable evidence. the good old practice of burning had fallen into disrepute; so he was sentenced to b

hich threw dice automatically. some special terms that have developed in the study of pk are: pk-mt (psychokinetic effect on moving targets such as dice; pk-lt (influence on living matter, such as growth in plants, healing, influencing animals; pk-st (influence on static targets. another initialism that grew up in evaluating pk was qd, which indicated the division of record sheets into four equal quarters. study of quarter divisions showed a consistent pattern of fall-off in scoring results as between upper left and lower right quarters of the record sheet, with the other two quarters bridging the gap in success fall-off. it became clear that this fall-off in success during the course of a series of tests was a characteristic feature of pk, suggesting the operation of some unknown mental p

e in auburn, new york, where he first heard spirit rapping. soon afterwards he heard a trance lecture delivered by an uneducated boy; the subject was chosen by peebles: the philosophical influence of the nations of antiquity upon the civilization and sciences of modern europe and america. as dr. peebles described the event: the boy at once stepped forward and commenced, and for one hour and three-quarters one continual stream of history and philosophy fell from his lips. when peebles preached on the spiritual gifts in his own church, the deacons and congregation protested; peebles resigned in disgust to follow a secular career and continue his investigation of spiritualism. he wrote and lectured for more than eighty years, mainly in the cause of spiritualism. he was also one of the earlies

ng community were active in antinuclear civil disobedience. the collective s activities, from designing classes to dealing with domestic concerns to public political protests, stemmed from the religious society of friends (quakers. these concepts and method of decision-making fostered close bonds among participants. concurrently, reclaiming collective began four public sabbat rituals at the cross-quarters and four issues of a small newsletter at the solstices and equinoxes. the collective wrote a statement which appeared in each issue of the reclaiming newsletter: reclaiming is a community of san francisco bay area women and men working to unify spirit and politics. our vision is rooted in the religion and magic of the goddess.the immanent life force. we see our work as teaching and making

d and drug administration began. the initiation of these continuing battles had immense consequences, and critics of the church used the actions in one country as a basis for initiating actions elsewhere. also, government files, not checked for accuracy, were passed to other government agencies and to other countries. suddenly, in the 1960s, scientology found itself under attack from a variety of quarters and has spent 30 years in the courts in the attempt to vindicate its existence and program. through the 1970s and 1980s, the church fought battles with the internal revenue service in the united states (finally resolved in the early 1990s) and with several former members and anticult organizations who accused it of brainwashing church members. the church itself initiated legal action agai

inhabitants of scotland, but this did not convince the philologist. shelta is not a jargon, for it can be spoken grammatically without using english, as in the british form of romany. pictish in all probability was not a celtic language, nor even an aryan one, however intimately it may have been affected by celtic speech in the later stages of its existence. leland s discovery was greeted in some quarters with laughter. the saturday review jocosely suggested that he had been conned and that old irish had been palmed off on him for a mysterious lingo. leland put this view of the matter before his tinker friend, who replied with grave solemnity, and what d i be after makin two languages av thim for, if there was but wan av thim? since leland s time, much has been done to reclaim this mysteri

e was taking the place vacated by the great medium d. d. home. the world wrote in a long article on august 30, 1876: then came more and violent knockings at the table, a chair at the farthest corner from dr. slade was lifted rapidly in the air and hurled to the ground without visible agency. my coat and trousers were plucked violently, and i was pinched and patted, all with great rapidity, and in quarters which it seemed absolutely impossible dr. slade could reach. a hand appeared and disappeared fitfully, but with unmistakable reality, close to me; and when the slate was produced with a similar crumb of pencil, once on it when it was held under the table, and once under it when it was placed on the table, messages of various kinds were inscribed rapidly and in different handwritings. one

ouds in the neighbourhood. the light became brighter and i could see quite distinctly three shapes, one in the centre having what looked like outspread wings. the other two were not so large, but were quite plainly distinct from the centre one. they appeared to have a long, loose-hanging garment of a golden tint and they were above the german line facing us. we stood watching them for about three-quarters of an hour. all the men in the battalion who saw this, with the exception of five, were killed. begbie went on to say that a nurse told him that a dying soldier spoke to her of the reluctance of the germans to attack the british line, because of the thousands of troops behind us. it is believed this man had heard these claims from german prisoners and believed in the ghostly nature of tho

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h invisible intelligences as gods, genii, daemons, all kinds of true fairies, and disembodied men. not all purported witnesses were the uneducated rural folk stereotypically associated with fairy beliefs and encounters. a seventeenth- century swedish clergyman, peter rahm, gave this sworn statement to legal authorities: f 99 in the year 1660, when i and my wife had gone to my farm, which is three quarters of a mile from ragunda parsonage, and we were sitting there and talking awhile, late in the evening, there came a little man in at the door, who begged of my wife to go and aid his wife, who was just in the pains of labor. the fellow was of small size, of a dark complexion, and dressed in old gray clothes. my wife and i sat awhile, and wondered at the man; for we were aware that he was a

ne night in 1941, inventor arthur henry matthews encountered two men, each six feet tall, blue-eyed, and goldenhaired. after introducing themselves as venusians, they expressed interest in matthews s work with electrical genius nikola tesla. matthews was taken to a waiting spacecraft, a giant saucer-shaped structure called mother ship x-12, which housed twenty-four smaller craft as well as living quarters for crew members. at one point, the visitors showed matthews the control room. contrary to his expectations, it was bare except for a circular table in the middle and four pilots, two men and two women, each facing one of the four directions. the venusians explained that the craft flew on mental power alone. in subsequent contacts, matthews learned that one of his hosts was the captain, w

rted a shaver mystery club, and opened amazing s pages to allegedly factual material and sciencefiction stories based on it. palmer wrote that when he visited richard and dorothy shaver at their farm, he heard mysterious voices that could not have come from mr. shaver s lips. they were speaking first in english then in a strange language, about a woman who earlier that day had been torn into four quarters about four miles away and four miles down [from the shaver house (palmer, 1961. at least in its most vital phase, the shaver mystery ended in 1948, when pressure from outraged science-fiction fans led ziff-davis, amazing s publisher, to order its closing. that same year palmer and curtis fuller founded fate, dedicated to the true mysteries amaz- ing had featured along with shaver matters

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

in stones, mountains, trees, springs, rivers, hills, in order to fill the canvas and bring his art in conformity with nature. here he will display to you a royal palace, there a wood, there a strip of sky, on that side the half disc of the rising sun, and from time to time a bird, a boar, a stag, an ass, a horse, of which animals it suffices to show the head only, or a horn, or part of their hind quarters, or an ear, with, perhaps, a complete description of one of them; and each one has its own distinctive look and attitude, so that he who examines the picture again and again with judgment, can, as they say, tell himself the whole story of what is represented to his own great satisfaction. in the same manner, you are to read and to visualise what i have to say.2 the elizabethan reader, unl

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turn and strike! be thou deadlier than he! drag down their souls to awful torment: laugh at their fear: spit upon them! 8: with it ye shall smite the peoples; and none shall stand before you. 13:but not now 4: choose ye an island 38: so that thy light is in me; and it's red flame is as a sword in thy hand to push thy order. there is a secret door that i shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (these are the adoration's, as thou has written, as it is said: the light is mine; it's rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra and tum, oh khephra and ahathoor. i am thy theban, o mentu, the prophet ankh-af-na-khonsu! by bes-na-maut my breast i beat; by wise ta-nech i weave my spell show thy star-splendor, o nuit! bid me within thine house to dwell, o winged snake

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he gods and/or the members, performances of poetry or music, whatever people want to do with their space. petitions aren't scheduled; you come in any time during the main window, usually 4-5 days. how does it work? the fmr is done during a 5-7 day window. the leader posts an opening note, setting place and mood, usually casting the circle, and welcoming participants. over the next 24-48 hours the quarters are called, the god and goddess are invoked, and the leader posts a transition to the petition period. thereafter people come in at their own time to petition until the pre-announced time of closing, when the leader posts a final hail-and-farewell. it isn't necessary to leave your computer on all week, or to do a physical working that exactly mirrors your petition. while it's true that we

old castle off to the south, and realizes that his gateway into this place has brought the stone circle just to the eastern edge of the ancient grove, where so many previous moons have been celebrated. becoming aware of a faint smell of ozone and then noticing that, while grove and castle appear solidly limned, the lithons about him possess a certain transparent quality, deer turns to each of the quarters, contemplating the wise words inscribed upon each of the quarter stones, and returns to his song. had anyone else been afoot, they might have noticed antlers- outlined in a faint bluish light, upon deer's forehead as he made his way first three turns out then three back in the spiral. each stone he pauses to touch, to hug, to kiss. and each stone becomes limned in the same faint blue ligh

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the moon, clear as the sun, terrible as an army with banners [s.s. vi, 10] gthis verse h, he said, grefers to israel, at the time when the holy one, blessed be he, will raise them up and bring them out of captivity. at that time he will first open for them a tiny aperture of light, then another somewhat larger, and so on until he will throw open for them the supernal gates which face on the four quarters of the world. and, indeed, this process is followed by god in all that he does for israel and the righteous among them. for we know that when a man has been long shut up in darkness it is necessary, on bringing him into the light, first to make for him an opening as small as the eye of a needle secret wisdom of the qabalah page 73 [the path of daleth on the tree of life] and then one a li

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, and lilith by an un-named dragon. it is not meant that the ox and ass are demonic oftheir race, but that some demons resemble such animals. the kabalists wrote of different types of demons existing as the opposites of the angelic beings of each sephira or eman255 ation from god, and they also described a series of demons as allotted to each of the zodiacal signs and months of the year: the four quarters of the earth had also each its demonic tribe of evil agents.thegeneral tendency was to consider these animal forms of devils as of a hairy type, the seirim. some of the occult schools give in their rituals long lists of names for all these varieties of the devil world. i think, however, that this study may well be avoided, in this agreeing with the late supreme magusdrwm. robert woodman

ght and left: to the four character255 istic human temperaments, sanguine, nervous, lymphatic and bilious, to the four limbs and the four senses of man, also to the four elements of the alchemists, and to the fourarchangels255michael, gabriel, raphael and auriel. dr a. kingsford also found a correspondence with a quaternary of noah, with his three sons, shem, japhet, and ham, who peopled the four quarters of the ancient world.thelater kabalists referred the four letters ihvh again to the human relations of father, mother, son and daughter, and to birth, life, death and resurrection: the four letters also to the river of eden, euphrates, hiddekel, gihon and pison, and the four spheres of creation, the worlds of atziluth, briah, yetzirah, and assiah. grseco-roman mythology had four rivers in

behind, west. shmaul calledshemalorsemol,the left, or north. imin calledyamin,the right or south.imhmorbmzrchtzpndrum ngb calledmesrach,the rising of the sun, east. calledmeorebandmemo ha shemesh,the setting place, west. calledtsaphon,the dark place, north. calleddarom,the bright place, south. callednegeb,dryness, the desert, south. calledmiyamoryamah,the water or sea, west.thewinds from the four quarters were named from their effects: the east wind which brought heat and locusts; thesouth-stormsand heat; thewest-cloudsand rain; thenorth-coldand calm weather.thesun must be first referred to as the most magnificent work of the creator. in genesis i, v. 16, we read that god (alhim, calledelohim),made the sun 'the greater light to rule the day'.thehebrew name for the sun was spelled shmsh, ca

ons in greco-roman mythology. cumont remarks that many cults of ancient nations of asia minor, mysteries of greece and egypt, consecrated animals to definite gods, goddesses, and religious ideals; perhaps this practice was a survival of prehistoric forms of belief, and related to thetotems,which were animal forms related tocertain tribes, sects, and families. we remember, of course, that the four quarters of the earth were associated with lion, bull, man and eagle, and that these symbols were allocated by the hebrews to the four cherubim and by the christiansto the four evangelists.theancient greek kronos, emblematic of time, was considered as lion-headed; venus as love, as a dove; jove with an eagle; apollo is shown with a swan. preliminary to admission to the secret grades we read that c

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trong against the natural order. the individual is separate, yet a fire made vessel of azazel-lucifer, known as azal ucel, the daemonic angel of adversarial awakening. begin the rite in the southern quarter, relative to azazel, the initiator of the path. the sorcerer should construct the circle of the dragon as one uses in this goetia, encircling the self in the announced conjurations of the four quarters. azazel i summon thee fire-djinn of the southern quarter, be the torch which would ignite me, immolate me in your presence, as your child on the path of shadow unto light. samael great dragon transformed, i summon thee as fulmino-lucifer, the morning star of the east, the serpent-angel of the emerald crown who fell to earth awaken now and open forth the gates of the imagination by air and

with this angelic familiar. sitri governs 60 legions of spirits. m beleth beleth/bileth or bilet is a king whom appears mighty and terrible. beleth is summoned and manifests upon a pale horse with musical instruments like horns playing near him. he does appear in flames and very angry, the magician even if working with the black mirror will want to silently create a triangle in the south and east quarters, and command the spirit to take a calm form. when the flames cease, he appears as a king like older man with a long beard. being of the order of powers, he does govern 85 legions of spirits. beleth is a useful love spell spirit, whom you would will your desire to become flesh. n lerajae leraikha is a marquis whom governs 30 legions of spirits, whom is a familiar of arms, weapons and marks

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL AURIEL

images, precipitous, winding, a black ever-rolling abyss, ever espousing a body unluminous, formless and void. go clockwise to the east. with the white end of the wand, trace the lesser invoking pentagram. thrust the wand through the center of the figure and vibrate "agla" do this also in the south, west, and finally in the north; drawing the same pentagram and intoning the same word in all four quarters (remain in the north and say "in the divine name adonai ha-aretz, i open this temple in the element of earth. may the archangel uriel look with favor upon this ceremony! may the angel phorlakh and the ruler kerub be also in attendance! i have gained admission in this temple through the badge of the hermetic cross. hear me! i arn one who has received the mystic title of periclinus de faust

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL

re first the priest who governs the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral waters of the loud resounding sea. remain in the east. with the white end of the wand, trace the lesser invoking pentagram. thrust the wand through the center of the figure and vibrate "eheieh" do this also in the south, west, and finally in the north; drawing the same pentagram and intoning the same word in all four quarters. return to the east (remain in the east and say "in the divine name elohim tzabaoth, i open this temple in the element of water. may the archangel gabriel look with favor upon this ceremony! may the angel taliahad and the ruler tharsis be also in attendance! i have gained admission to this temple through the badge of the cup of stolistes. hear me! i arn one who has received the mystic tit

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL

cometh the image of a voice. or even a flahing light, abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud. remain in the east. with the white end of the wand, trace the lesser invoking pentagram. thrust the wand through the center of the figure and vibrate "yod heh vav heh" do this also in the south, west, and finally in the north; drawing the same pentagram and intoning the same word in all four quarters. return to the east (remain in the east and say "in the divine name shaddai el chai, i open this temple in the element of earth. may the archangel raphael look with favor upon this ceremony! may the angel chassan and the ruler aral be also in attendance! i have gained admission in this temple through the badge of the caduceus of hermes. hear me! i arn one who has received the mystic title

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS B

mes from the angelic tablets. this can be seen in the expanded diagram at the beginning of this lesson. these divine names must be vibrated with the invoking and the banishing pentagram. let the adept again be reminded that the enochian names are not vibrated without the presence of the tablet of union and the four watchtower tablets. remember to invoke the forces of the four elements in the four quarters, begining in the east, then moving to the south, the west and then the north, taking due care to complete the circle in the east. all invocations and banishings are to be opened and closed with the qabalistic cross. in some cases, certain other names that pertain to the quarter may also be vibrated. make certain that the following pentagrams of are utilized in conjunction with the proper

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d doing the same. then you take the incenser and perform the same procedure with o. another method may be done by purifying each elemental quarter with n and o, beginning in the east and ending in the east. so, as you go to the east, sprinkle or swing to the left, right, center, and draw a cross in the air with the tool and say "i purify/consecrate thee with n/o" then move on to each of the other quarters repeating the same. after you have performed these banishings and purification's with n and o, you will then say the call from the chaldean oracles. for nit is "so therefore first, the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral waters of the loud resounding sea" for o it is "and when all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, tha

unding sea" for o it is "and when all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire" these could be said while you are circumambulating around the temple after you have purified each quarter and have ended in the east. so, for example, after you have purified all four quarters with n and have ended in the east, circumambulate one complete time saying the call of n, upon completing this continue on with consecrating all four quarters with o, ending in the east, circumambulating once around while saying the call for o. step 3 now the temple area has been cleansed with banishings so that you have a favorable working environment for the consecration of the lotus wa

s, beginning in the east, and ending in the east. after you have done this, return to the west behind the altar, facing east, and make the 0=0 saluting sign while saying the adoration to the lord 6 of the universe. pause for a moment after you have made the sign of silence, and allow yourself to feel the energy in the temple. step 4 perform the supreme invoking ritual of the pentagram at the four quarters of the room, tracing the proper pentagram in each quarter with the appropriate divine names. be sure to give the correct grade sign after each element. since you are invoking, you will use the white portion of your lotus wand. after you are done with the s.i.r.p, you will now move back to the eastern quarter, facing east, and holding your lotus wand by the white portion give the 5=6 grade

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS F

, the adept should place his lotus wand on the altar. 3 note: when the lotus wand is set on the altar, the lotus should always be facing east. if the adept is working in a confined space, he may then place it in a holder which is upon his body or set it along this side of the altar. step 4 let the adept pick up the second nchalice which is in the north. beginning in the north, consecrate the four quarters with the element of n. this may be accomplished by sprinkling nfrom the left to the right to the center and tracing a large cross. let the adept now recite the following "so therefore first the priest who would governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral waters of the loud and resounding sea" beginning in the south, do likewise with o, consecrating the four quarters, and ag

rn to the west of the altar, facing east, and recite the adoration to the lord of the universe. let the adept include the sign of the enterer and the sign of harparcrates at the end "holy art thou lord of the universe, holy art thou which nature hath not formed, holy art thou, the vast and mighty one, ruler of the light and of the darkness" step 7 let the adept now perform the s.i.r.p at the four quarters. be sure to utilize the proper grade sign in each quarter. let the adept be certain, that when using the lotus wand, to hold it by the white portion when performing the qabalistic cross, and in addition, holding the kerubic bands that apply to each of the elements. 4 step 8 upon completion of the s.i.r.p, let the adept move to the west of the altar and face east, holding the lotus wand by

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of ethiopia. and the name of the third river is hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of assyria. and the fourth river is euphrateitg empowerment and consecration ritual for the four elemental weapons of the adeptus minor 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 necessary requirements 1. all four newly made elemental weapons to be placed on the altar in their respective quarters. 2. the cross and triangle of the neophyte grade. 3. the tablet of union. 4. a rose, incense, candle, chalice of water and paten of salt and bread. 5. the four elemental tablets placed in their proper quarter in the working area. 6. the adept's regalia of the second order, wearing the rose cross lamen, holding and utilizing the consecrated lotus wand and magical sword of the art. it is po

ublic work. general opening step 1 let the adept hold the lotus wand by the black portion, move to the northeast section of the temple and vibrate "hekas, hekas, este bebeloi" 3 step 2 setting down the wand and picking up the magical sword of the art, the adept shall now perform the l.b.r.p. step 3 laying down the sword, let the adept take up the chalice of water and purify the temple in all four quarters by the formula of tracing a cross and sprinkling thrice in the form of the n triangle. recite the following "so therefore first, the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral waters of the loud and resounding sea" step 4 replacing the chalice, let the adept take the incense (we recommend that our rosicrucian fraternity use the traditional rose and amber incense

racing a cross and sprinkling thrice in the form of the n triangle. recite the following "so therefore first, the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral waters of the loud and resounding sea" step 4 replacing the chalice, let the adept take the incense (we recommend that our rosicrucian fraternity use the traditional rose and amber incense blend. consecrate the four quarters by o, tracing a cross in each quarter and waving the censer thrice in the form of the o triangle. recite the following "and when after all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire" step 5 setting down the censer, let the adept hold the lotus wand by the w

over the black portion of the pantacle, trace within a circle the invoking passive spirit pentagram and the invoking earth pentagram with the kerub in the center. note: with using the magical sword of the art in this case, use the pommel and not the point to do the tracing. final notes let the adept take the newly consecrated implement and perform the s.i.r.p of its particular element in the four quarters. the adept must precede each pentagram with the equilibriating pentagram of. let the adept be attentive to reciting all of the divine names associated with the tool. close with the qabalistic cross and prayer. when the consecration and empowerment of the implement is complete, let the adept keep his or her tool wrapped in white silk or linen. step 13 purify the temple with n and consecrat

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS SADD

e. the sephirotic cross represents the sephiroth modified by the letter of the lesser angle. rtk in the a lesser angle is rtk of w. in the d lesser angle it be rtk of y, etc. kerubic squares: in the kerubic ranks thou shall note that the outside square is always attributed to the letter that corresponds to the element of the lesser angle. how they are read: a names read right to left in upper two quarters; in lower two quarters read c from left to right. b names read left to right in upper two quarters; in lower two quarters read a from right to left. note: each square has a double attribution to the tetragrammaton. thus for example, column w rank y does not coincide in nature with column y rank w (anymore than a of d in the tattwas is the same as d of a) signs of the zodiac attributed to

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twklm where he is enthroned in its darkest part, in the quarter represented black in the minutum mundum diagram. representing a terrible and avenging god at the confines of matter at the borders of the tplq, he is enthroned upon matter and robed in darkness, and about his feet are thunder and lightning, the impact of the paths of c and q, o and n, terminating respectively in the russet and olive quarters of twklm. therefore, is he placed there as almighty and avenging guardian to the sacred mysteries. the symbols and insignia of hiereus are: the throne of the west in the black of twklm, where it borders on the kingdom of shells. the black robe of darkness, bearing a white cross on the left breast. the sword of strength and severity. the lamen suspended from a scarlet collar. the banner of

bratory formula of the middle pillar. after noting the names of the three chief officers, comes the recapitulation of the stations and duties of the officers. this occultly affirms the establishment of the temple so that the divine light may shine into the darkness. then follows the purification and consecration of the hall by n and o marking the limitation of the four cardinal points at the four quarters, and the equation of the elements. this is the baptism of the place and, as it were, the preparation of a fitting shrine for the forces of the divine light. while all this goes forward, especially after the hierophant s for by names and images are all powers awakened and reawakened, the officers become clothed in their godforms and the invisible stations awaken. the procession of officers

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

sappeared for the most part, in 2000. it must be obvious that this could not have been the result of gradually acting climatic factors usually called upon to explain ice ages. the rapidity of the deglaciation suggests that some extraordinary factor was affecting the climate. the dates suggest that this factor first made itself felt about 16,500 years ago, that it had destroyed most, perhaps three-quarters of the glaciers by 2000 years later, and that [the vast bulk of these dramatic developments took place] in a millennium or less. 44 39 the reader may recall that inexplicably warm conditions prevailed in the new siberian islands until this time, and it is worth noting that many other islands in the arctic ocean were also unaffected for a long while by the widespread glaciations elsewhere

irregular hole in its western wall leading into a dark, cave-like space beyond. there was also an opening near the centre of the floor which gave access to a ramp, sloping westwards, leading down to even deeper levels. we descended the ramp. it terminated in a short, horizontal passage to the right of which, entered through a narrow doorway, lay a small empty chamber, six cells, like the sleeping quarters of medieval monks, had been hewn 3 abdul latif, the eastern key, cited in traveller s key to ancient egypt, p. 126. 4 ibid. 5 blue guide: egypt, a& c black, london, 1988, p. 433. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 299 out of its walls: four on the eastern side and two to the north. these were presumed by egyptologists to have functioned as magazines. for storing objects which the dea

rose vertically to a height of 7 feet 6 inches; above that level seven further courses of masonry (each one projecting inwards some 3 inches beyond the course immediately below it) carried the vault to its full height of 28 feet and its culminating width of 3 feet 5 inches.23 remember that structurally the gallery was required to support, for ever, the multi-million ton weight of the upper three-quarters of the largest and heaviest stone monument ever built on planet earth. was it not quite remarkable that a group of supposed technological primitives had not only envisaged and designed such a feature but had completed it successfully, more than 4500 years before our time? even if they had made the gallery only 20 feet long, and had sought to erect it on a level plane, the task would have

et a result of 0.5764 of a mile. there are 5280 feet in a mile. the next step, therefore, is to multiply 0.5764 by 5280, which produces a figure of 3043.39 feet. the earth s equatorial circumference scaled down 43,200 times is therefore 3,043.39 feet. by comparison, as we have seen, the perimeter of the great pyramid s base is 3,023.16 feet. this represents an error of only 20 feet or about three-quarters of 1 per cent. given the razor-sharp accuracy of the pyramid builders, however (who normally worked to even finer tolerances, the error is less likely to have resulted from mistakes in the construction of the giant monument than in an underestimation of our planet s true circumference by just 163 miles, probably caused in part by failure to take account of the equatorial bulge. let us now

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ancient flood, of which they called the heroes ogyges and ogygos; 2 but all these accounts are wanting in epic details.3 a rich store of these opens for us in the indian mahabharata.4 king hanus stood on a river s bank, doing penance, when he heard the voice of a little fish imploring him to save it. he caught it in his hand and laid it in a vessel, but the fish began to grow, and demanded wider quarters. manus threw it into a large lake, but the fish grew on, and wished to be taken to ganga the bride of the sea. before long he had not room to stir even there, and manus was obliged to carry him to the sea; but when launched in the sea, he foretold the coming of a fearful flood, manus was to build a ship and go on board it with the seven sages, and preserve the seeds of all things, then he

in o. dan. ned, need. to the ni^amyrkr above answers a swed. nedmork, pitchdark. the norse terminology differs in so far from the h.cgerm, that it expresses the total obscuration by nrs, while we designate it by neumond (i.e. n; with us new-moon is opposed to full-moon, with the scandina vians nr3 to n, each of them standing for one half of the moon s course. since a mention of the first and last quarters has come into use, full-moon and new-nioon signify simply the points of fullness and vacancy that lie between; and now the swedes and danes have equally adopted a fullmane, fuldmaane, as counter- 1 ace. to alvism&l, the alfar call the moon artali (ohg. jarzalo, saem. 49b. 2 comp. with nift ok n^ the gr. evr] kcu vta. phases of the moon. 711 part to nymane, nyrnaane, whereby the old ned, n

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ioram, adonai, sabaoth. the secret grimoire invocation for monday (moon) haste ye sublime and intelligent genil who are obedient to the sovereigu arcana, come and assist me in the operation that i undertake under the auspices of the grand lumiriary of the night. i invoke you to this end and implore you to be favourable and hear my entreaties in the name of him who commands the spirits of the four quarters of the universal mansions: inhabit, bileth, mizabu, abinzaba. the secret grimoire invocation for tuesday (mars) come children of the red genii who have executed the order of the sovereign master of the universe upon the armies of the rash sennacherib, come and assist me in the operation that i undertake under the auspices of the third brilliant luminary of the firmament; be favourable to

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

f chemical action. lodge.a body of rosicrucian students united for the purpose of working and studying together under the jurisdiction of a grand lodge of amorc. in the rosicrucian system, active members of a grand lodge receiving monographs and carrying on their studies in home sanctums may further promote the work by organizing lodges, chapters, or pronaoi. a lodge is required to have permanent quarters, conduct at least three convocations a month, and maintain a library available to members and the public at least four days a week. only a lodge is permitted to conduct temple degree initiations. a chapter represents at least forty active members and is required to conduct a minimum of two convocations a month. a pronaos is the smallest body that may be organized and must have at least th

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

himself and given an extravagant funeral. priests searched egypt for a calf with the right markings to be recognized as the new apis. the mother of the chosen calf was given a name (such as the one of bastet) and honored as a manifestation of deities, themes, and concepts 105 isis. the new bull was crowned at full moon by the high priest of ptah. then he and his mother were installed in palatial quarters in the grounds of the temple of ptah. the actions of the apis bull were carefully watched because they were believed to predict the future. the apis bull came to be closely linked to the myth of the repeated death and regeneration of osiris. diodorus siculus was told that when osiris died, his soul had passed into the first apis bull and was then preserved in each new bull. according to p

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time when the "pyramid texts" were cut into stone, these religious compositions were intended to contain expressions of pious thought about the hereafter which would satisfy both those who accepted the ancient indigenous beliefs, p. 4 and those who were prepared to believe the doctrines which had been promulgated by the priests of the famous brotherhood of ra, the sun-god, who had made their head-quarters in egypt at annu, i.e, on, or heliopolis. the old native beliefs of the country were of a more material character than the doctrines which the priests of heliopolis taught, but it was found impossible to eradicate them from the minds of the people, and the priests therefore framed religious works in such a manner that they might be acceptable both to those who believed in the old animal-g

e serpent saa-set, and this done the god now takes upon himself the form in which he appears in the book am-tuat, i.e, that of a ram-headed man. the snake-goddess mehen, which surrounded the disk enclosing a beetle, now envelops the shrine in which he stands; it must be noted that sa and hekau stand, as before, in the boat, which is now towed along by four gods of the tuat, who represent the four quarters of the earth and the four cardinal points. the boat is received by a company of thirteen gods, who are apparently under the rule of a god who holds a staff. the object of the visit of afu-ra is to "weigh words and deeds in ament, to make a distinction between the great and little gods, to assign thrones to the spirits [who are pure, to dismiss the damned to the place set apart for them, a

e sixteen gods, and the face of horus of the tuat is towards the rising sun. on the left of the path of afu-ra we see a hawk-headed lion called heru-am-uaa, i.e "horus in the boat" wearing the crown of the south; on his back p. 186 stands the two-headed god horus-set (vol. ii, p. 247, whose faces typify day and night, and light and darkness, and the sun-gods of the south and north. above the hind-quarters of the lion is the head of the god ana, wearing the crown of the south; on the one side we have four gods of the south assisting in the raising of a column surmounted by the crown of the south, and on the other four gods of the north assisting in the raising of a column surmounted by the crown of the north. these ceremonies appear to have some connexion with the magical rites which were p

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l the dracontiae,-the circles of stone which mark the crossroads of hidden and secret tracks of force within the earth, reflecting the web of the star-lit heights; recall the crooked path which crosses the sacred isle of albion and lies throughout all the lands of the earth- where-e'er upon the serpents back is placed the witches' step! when next you tread the circle round, when next you face the quarters and call upon their guardians, remember the far-flung design of which you are a part; remember that the path upon which you now stand goes both back and forth, across the traverse of all time and space, throughout that self-same design: here lies both hearth and heart! remember too, that this is but one narrative of a tale whose tellings are as many as the tongues which bring it to voice!

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in their lives, from synchronous to mischevious occurences, creative flashes of inspiration, and wild parties. she does get a little bitchy at times, but who doesn t? 26 phil hine discordian opening ritual by prince prance 1. clap x5 2. the erisian cross: light in my head fire in my genitals strength at my right side laughter at my left side love in my heart. 3. trace spiral pentagrams* at the 4 quarters& zenith. 4. face east: blessed apostle hung mung1, great sage of cathay, balance the hodge and podge and grant us equilibrium. 5. face south: blessed apostle van van mojo2, doctor of hoodoo and vexes, give us the voodoo power and confuse our enemies. 6. face west: blessed apostle sri syadasti3, patron of psychedelia, teach us the relative truth and blow our minds. 27 oven-ready chaos 7. f

images culled from non-historical sources, such as invoking h.p lovecraft s cthulhu mythos beings, mapping the rocky horror show onto the tree of life, slamming through the astral void in an x-wing fighter, and channeling communications from gods that didn t exist five minutes ago. so you might see why using this sort of thing as a basis for serious magical work raises one or two eyebrows in some quarters. isn t after all, the lovecraft stuff fiction? what about linking in with inner planes contacts, traditions, etc- surely you can t do magick with something that doesn t bear any relation to history or mythology? in the past, such criticisms have been raised over the subject of magicians working with fictional entities. in this section, i hope to argue the case against these objections. th

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as a convicted felon and that davidson upheld him. we knew the whole history of burgoyne, and that he had been a curse to every one who had employed him, a thorough deep-dyed scoundrel. we know all about him since he has been in america. he left a wife and family in england, but has married again there. the last i heard was that if he sees 2 or 3 the letters 59 men in the distance approaching his quarters he turns pale and trembles. it is supposed he has been guilty of something which puts him in mortal fear, and that he contemplates going off to australia. it is too long a tale to tell you the whole of it. if you know thomas of frodsham and mean him by your allusion, i can tell you about him. he has come entirely to grief and is sending begging letters to every one. he was a medium in com

ocomotion has become very distasteful to me. r should like much to have a talk with you. we are intending to be in london on monday roth inst. to following saturday morning, but our base of operations is in the w.e. district and we must be near it. you are only visible in evening, and then, there is the dreadful getting back at night. i must see you somehow, and then i will talk to you about head-quarters [of the t.s. my becher's furnace answers much better than i expected, and i have succeeded in one important process, and am now upon another. no one, who has not tried, can conceive the extreme difficulty and care required as to practical details. i am sure the proper way is to begin young, have a laboratory, and learn all the ways of subliming, precipitating, revivifying &c &c &c. i know

then moved to saffron walden, a small market town fifty miles north-east of london in essex. the letters 99 grove lodge, saffron walden 13 november 1901 [f. l. gardner deleted november and pencilled in october] will you be so kind as to lend me the following [g.d. manuscripts: s.2 enoch[ian] attributions, official. t. enochian calls. x. pyramid gods. z.2. ceremonial magic. i have applied at head-quarters and was told as to one thing i asked for that it was only allowed to those who had passed some certain degree, but that i could get it at the brit. mus. and on the last occasion i was told that allmss relating to the enochian were out. i will pay all cost of registration both ways, and return them most carefully. i am going to do the enochian tablets, and i want all the help i can get. be

at i was entitled to the whole of them, but, thro' some inadvertence they were not sent to me. i feel sure s.a [westcott] would have ordered them to be sent to me, if i had asked for them, but i went off on another track [i.e, alchemy] which is a legitimate part of rosicrucianism, the chemical [i.e, alchemy, and neglected to ask for them. as you were so long at bournemouth i applied again at head-quarters, and was told the mss were not there, but in some one's hands to be revised. this is the real reason i cannot have them, and revision is a long process. i should not have thought of asking you for them, if i had not a right to them. the t. enochian calls, i more especially want immediately, and i still hope you will be kind enough to send me them. the g.d. is now so disorganised that the

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brisk ascent of so steep a hill by so elderly a man, was responsible for the end. at the time i saw no reason to dissent from this dictum, but latterly i am inclined to wonder- and more than wonder. as my great-uncle's heir and executor, for he died a childless widower, i was expected to go over his papers with some thoroughness; and for that purpose moved his entire set of files and boxes to my quarters in boston. much of the material which i correlated will be later published by the american archaeological society, but there was one box which i found exceedingly puzzling, and which i felt much averse from showing to other eyes. it had been locked and i did not find the key till it occurred to me to examine the personal ring which the professor carried in his pocket. then, indeed, i succ

turnal imaginery whose burden was always some terrible cyclopean vista of dark and dripping stone, with a subterrene voice or intelligence shouting monotonously in enigmatical sense-impacts uninscribable save as gibberish. the two sounds frequently repeated are those rendered by the letters "cthulhu" and "r'lyeh" on march 23, the manuscript continued, wilcox failed to appear; and inquiries at his quarters revealed that he had been stricken with an obscure sort of fever and taken to the home of his family in waterman street. he had cried out in the night, arousing several other artists in the building, and had manifested since then only alternations of unconsciousness and delirium. my uncle at once telephoned the family, and from that time forward kept close watch of the case; calling often

greatly above normal; but the whole condition was otherwise such as to suggest true fever rather than mental disorder. on april 2 at about 3 p.m. every trace of wilcox's malady suddenly ceased. he sat upright in bed, astonished to find himself at home and completely ignorant of what had happened in dream or reality since the night of march 22. pronounced well by his physician, he returned to his quarters in three days; but to professor angell he was of no further assistance. all traces of strange dreaming had vanished with his recovery, and my uncle kept no record of his night-thoughts after a week of pointless and irrelevant accounts of thoroughly usual visions. here the first part of the manuscript ended, but references to certain of the scattered notes gave me much material for thought

to the prison. fire from airth can't burn it nohaow' he was obviously quite mad. after a pause, during which the flock of whippoorwills outside adjusted their cries to the altered tempo while some indications of the strange hill noises came from afar off, he added another sentence or two 'feed it reg'lar, willy, an' mind the quantity; but dun't let it grow too fast fer the place, fer ef it busts quarters or gits aout afore ye opens to yog-sothoth, it's all over an' no use. only them from beyont kin make it multiply an' work. only them, the old uns as wants to come back' but speech gave place to gasps again, and lavinia screamed at the way the whippoorwills followed the change. it was the same for more than an hour, when the final throaty rattle came. dr houghton drew shrunken lids over th

-time gold which still, as in his grandfather's time, went forth regularly and increasingly for cattle-buying. he was now tremendously mature of aspect, and his height, having reached the normal adult limit, seemed inclined to wax beyond that figure. in 1925, when a scholarly correspondent from miskatonic university called upon him one day and departed pale and puzzled, he was fully six and three-quarters feet tall. through all the years wilbur had treated his half-deformed albino mother with a growing contempt, finally forbidding her to go to the hills with him on may eve and hallowmass; and in 1926 the poor creature complained to mamie bishop of being afraid of him 'they's more abaout him as i knows than i kin tell ye, mamie' she said 'an' naowadays they's more nor what i know myself. i

of the unwonted stench and the surging, lapping sounds which came increasingly from the great empty shell formed by whateley's boarded-up farmhouse. earl sawyer, who tended the horse and cattle during wilbur's absence, had developed a woefully acute case of nerves. the officials devised excuses not to enter the noisome boarded place; and were glad to confine their survey of the deceased's living quarters, the newly mended sheds, to a single visit. they filed a ponderous report at the courthouse in aylesbury, and litigations concerning heirship are said to be still in progress amongst the innumerable whateleys, decayed and undecayed, of the upper miskatonic valley. an almost interminable manuscript in strange characters, written in a huge ledger and adjudged a sort of diary because of the

ate they must go into the glen itself. they would do that. i allus says col' spring glen ain't no healthy nor decent place. the whippoorwills an' fireflies there never did act like they was creaters o' gawd, an' they's them as says ye kin hear strange things a-rushin' an' a-talkin' in the air dawon thar ef ye stand in the right place, atween the rock falls an' bear's den' by that noon fully three-quarters of the men and boys of dunwich were trooping over the roads and meadows between the newmade whateley ruins and cold spring glen, examining in horror the vast, monstrous prints, the maimed bishop cattle, the strange, noisome wreck of the farmhouse, and the bruised, matted vegetation of the fields and roadside. whatever had burst loose upon the world had assuredly gone down into the great s

opotamia, being absolutely unknown to any available authority. the final conclusion of the linguists was that the text represented an artificial alphabet, giving the effect of a cipher; though none of the usual methods of cryptographic solution seemed to furnish any clue, even when applied on the basis of every tongue the writer might conceivably have used. the ancient books taken from whateley's quarters, while absorbingly interesting and in several cases promising to open up new and terrible lines of research among philosophers and men of science, were of no assistance whatever in this matter. one of them, a heavy tome with an iron clasp, was in another unknown alphabet- this one of a very different cast, and resembling sanskrit more than anything else. the old ledger was at length given

teeples whose remote outlines wavered mysteriously, taking fantastic forms as the smoke of the city swirled up and enmeshed them. blake had a curious sense that he was looking upon some unknown, ethereal world which might or might not vanish in dream if ever he tried to seek it out and enter it in person. having sent home for most of his books, blake bought some antique furniture suitable for his quarters and settled down to write and paint -living alone, and attending to the simple housework himself. his studio was in a north attic room, where the panes of the monitor roof furnished admirable lighting. during that first winter he produced five of his best-known short stories- the burrower beneath, the stairs in the crypt, shaggai, in the vale of pnath, and the feaster from the stars- and

singular degree by the one remaining servant maria. in the autumn of 1782 phebe harris gave birth to a still-born daughter, and on the fifteenth of the next may mercy dexter took leave of a useful, austere, and virtuous life. william harris, at last thoroughly convinced of the radically un healthful nature of his abode, now took steps toward quitting it and closing it forever. securing temporary quarters for himself and wife at the newly opened golden ball inn, he arranged for the building of a new and finer house in westminster street, in the growing part of the town across the great bridge. there, in 1785, his son dutee was born; and there the family dwelt till the encroachments of commerce drove them back across the river and over the hill to angell street, in the newer east side resid

sperate and frightened men were heard. muskets flashed and cracked, and the flaming thing fell to the ground. a second flaming thing appeared, and a shriek of human origin was plainly distinguished. fenner wrote that he could even gather a few words belched in frenzy: almighty, protect thy lamb! then there were more shots, and the second flaming thing fell. after that came silence for about three-quarters of an hour; at the end of which time little arthur fenner, luke's brother, exclaimed that he saw "a red fog" going up to the stars from the accursed farm in the distance. no one but the child can testify to this, but luke admits the significant coincidence implied by the panic of almost convulsive fright which at the same moment arched the backs and stiffened the fur of the three cats the

his parents fully and faithfully. when they saw he could not be dissuaded, they ceased all opposition and helped as best they could; so that in june the young man sailed for liverpool with the farewell blessings of his father and mother, who accompanied him to boston and waved him out of sight from the white star pier in charlestown. letters soon told of his safe arrival, and of his securing good quarters in great russell street, london; where he proposed to stay, shunning all family friends, till he had exhausted the resources of the british museum in a certain direction. of his daily life he wrote by little, for there was little to write. study and experiment consumed all his time, and he mentioned a laboratory which he had established in one of his rooms. that he said nothing of antiqua

that he was leaving the village for the mountains, was his last message for a considerable time; indeed, he did reply to his parents' frequent letters until may, when he wrote to discourage the plan of his mother for a meeting in london, paris, or rome during the summer, when the elder wards were planning to travel to europe. his researches, he said, were such that he could not leave his present quarters; while the situation of baron ferenczy's castle did not favour visits. it was on a crag in the dark wooded mountains, and the region was so shunned by the country folk that normal people could not help feeling ill at ease. moreover, the baron was not a person likely to appeal to correct and conservative new england gentlefolk. his aspect and manners had idiosyncrasies, and his age was so

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ove all the undissected specimens close together and throw a spare tent over them in order to keep off the direct solar rays. that would also help to keep their possible scent away from the dogs, whose hostile unrest was really becoming a problem, even at their substantial distance and behind the higher and higher snow walls which an increased quota of the men were hastening to raise around their quarters. he had to weight down the corners of the tent cloth with heavy blocks of snow to hold it in place amidst the rising gale, for the titan mountains seemed about to deliver some gravely severe blasts. early apprehensions about sudden antarctic winds were revived, and under atwood s supervision precautions were taken to bank the tents, new dog corral, and crude aeroplane shelters with snow o

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diness. a folding couch now filled its diurnal role of sofa, and the mahogany furniture, sumptuous hangings, old paintings, and mellow bookshelves all bespoke a gentleman's study rather than a boarding-house bedroom. i now saw that the hall room above mine--the "leetle room" of bottles and machines which mrs. herrero had mentioned--was merely the laboratory of the doctor; and that his main living quarters lay in the spacious adjoining room whose convenient alcoves and large contiguous bathroom permitted him to hide all dressers and obtrusively utilitarian devices. dr. mu oz, most certainly, was a man of birth, cultivation, and discrimination. the figure before me was short but exquisitely proportioned, and clad in somewhat formal dress of perfect cut and fit. a high-bred face of masterful

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s not overwhelming, since for the most part i shared the materialism of my friend. he was calmer than i as he forced a large quantity of his fluid into a vein of the body s arm, immediately binding the incision securely. the waiting was gruesome, but west never faltered. every now and then he applied his stethoscope to the specimen, and bore the negative results philosophically. after about three-quarters of an hour without the least sign of life he disappointedly pronounced the solution inadequate, but determined to make the most of his opportunity and try one change in the formula before disposing of his ghastly prize. we had that afternoon dug a grave in the cellar, and would have to fill it by dawn- for although we had fixed a lock on the house, we wished to shun even the remotest risk

were both sickeningly sure that articulate sounds had come from the detached head as it lay in a shadowy corner of the laboratory. the shell had been merciful, in a way- but west could never feel as certain as he wished, that we two were the only survivors. he used to make shuddering conjectures about the possible actions of a headless physician with the power of reanimating the dead. west s last quarters were in a venerable house of much elegance, overlooking one of the oldest burying-grounds in boston. he had chosen the place for purely symbolic and fantastically aesthetic reasons, since most of the interments were of the colonial period and therefore of little use to a scientist seeking very fresh bodies. the laboratory was in a sub-cellar secretly constructed by imported workmen, and c

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brisk ascent of so steep a hill by so elderly a man, was responsible for the end. at the time i saw no reason to dissent from this dictum, but latterly i am inclined to wonder- and more than wonder. as my great-uncle's heir and executor, for he died a childless widower, i was expected to go over his papers with some thoroughness; and for that purpose moved his entire set of files and boxes to my quarters in boston. much of the material which i correlated will be later published by the american archaeological society, but there was one box which i found exceedingly puzzling, and which i felt much averse from showing to other eyes. it had been locked, and i did not find the key till it occurred to me to examine the personal ring which the professor carried always in his pocket. then, indeed

cturnal imagery whose burden was always some terrible cyclopean vista of dark and dripping stone, with a subterrene voice or intelligence shouting monotonously in enigmatical sense-impacts uninscribable save gibberish. the two sounds most frequently repeated are those rendered by the letters 'cthulhu' and 'r'lyeh' on 23 march the manuscript continued, wilcox failed to appear; and inquiries at his quarters revealed that he had been stricken with an obscure sort of fever and taken to the home of his family in waterman street. he had cried out in the night, arousing several other artists in the building, and had manifested since then only alternations of unconsciousness and delirium. my uncle at once telephoned the family, and from that time forward kept close watch of the case; calling often

greatly above normal; but the whole condition was otherwise such as to suggest true fever rather than mental disorder. on 2 april at about 3 p.m. every trace of wilcox's malady suddenly ceased. he sat upright in bed, astonished to find himself at home and completely ignorant of what had happened in dream or reality since the night of 22 march. pronounced well by his physician, he returned to his quarters in three days; but to professor angell he was of no further assistance. all traces of strange dreaming had vanished with his recovery, and my uncle kept no record of his night-thoughts after a week of pointless and irrelevant accounts of thoroughly usual visions. here the first part of the manuscript ended, but references to certain of the scattered notes gave me much material for thought

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ore, were entirely adequate to their mission. the book fell open, almost of its own accord and as if from frequent consultation at this place, to the repellent twelfth plate showing a butcher's shop amongst the anzique cannibals. my sense of restlessness returned, though i did not exhibit it. the especially bizarre thing was that the artist had made his africans look like white men- the limbs and quarters hanging about the walls of the shop were ghastly, while the butcher with his axe was hideously incongruous. but my host seemed to relish the view as much as i disliked it "what d'ye think o' this- ain't never see the like hereabouts, eh? when i see this i telled eb holt 'that's suthin' ta stir ye up an' make yer blood tickle' when i read in scripter about slayin- like them midianites was

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aey taie ae ood t^ irrad" emdu. niv, s. 10. 572. ctement. brnnh, xviii, ndi; iruweus; againti hermta. u, pnl, tf. digitizecoy google what are the cherubim axd seraphim? 231 earth. this assertion is unquesttotiable, for we find irenaeua basing on thb fact his best argument for the necessity of there being four gospels. there can be neither more nor fewer than lour he argues "for as there are four quarters of the world, and four general winds (kobcaik^ rvtviiara. it is ri^t that she [the church] should have four pillars. from i^ich it is manifest that the word, the maker of all, he who aiueth ujxm the cherubim. as david says, supplicating his advent 'thou that sittest between the cherubim, shine forth' for the cherubim also aitt four-faced and their faces are symbols of the work- ing of the

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sense. the colour white is esteemed both of good and of bad augury, according to the circumstances and the periods of its presentation. however (to speak a few strange words, in relation to the use of the name albert edward, in a possible future time, which every loyal subject will hope to be remote enough, we would advise (supposing so humble a voice as ours should reach, or could attain, to the quarters where such a change might be effected) a variation of our future king s name, and an avoidance of this supposedly unfortunate prefix albert in favour of edward only. this name of edward is an historical, triumphant, and auspicious name; for all our edwards, except the weak king edward the second, have been powerful or noteworthy men. now, very few people have had occasion to remark, or ha

ing to the ideas of the templars. the standards of these soldiermonks were white and black, either oblong or forked. there are two columns of that heavy, severe order, however grand and impressive, which distinguishes the early norman period of architecture in england, in regard to which, though abounding in far-off hermetic suggestions, we have 226 the rosicrucians. seen no notice in antiquarian quarters. these two columns comprise a part of the colonnade in the white tower, or central tower, of the tower of london. the capital of the first column is square, but it is rounded at the angles by a cut to the hypotrachelium, or base-ring, of the capital. the tops of these cuts are formed by volutes similar to the horns of the corinthian and ionic capitals. the male volute is to the right, and

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an going into a deep freeze" or plain freeze" either of the two "caught in the push" can either refer to that which a man feels briefly when he is either about to inadvertently "go-blank" ie become invisible" or about to "get stuck" in a "deep freeze" or "plain freeze" there are only a very few of the original experimental d-e's crew left by now, sir, most went insane, one just walked "throo" his quarters wall in sight of his wife& child& 2 other crew members (was never seen again, two "went into "the flame "i.e. they "froze& caught fire, while carrying common small-boat compasses, one man carried the compass& caught fire, the other came for the "laying on of hands" as he was nearest but he too, took fire. they burned for 18 days. the faith in "hand laying" died when this happened& mens mi

the moon approached first quarter the neutral will swing to the east (left) of the sun and will move back into line between first quarter and full moon. after full moon and until third quarter the neutral will move to the west (right) of the sun, and will again swing toward the sun between third quarter and new moon. the neutral will reach its maximum distance to left of right at first and third quarters, but will not follow the moon around the earth. at new moon the neutral will be very close to the moon and that will be the time to watch for objects landing or taking off from the moon, although it is the worst time of all to see anything in that region because of the glare of sunlight. on the other hand, at the time of full moon the neutral will be closest to the earth, and directly in

ts tail wagging as it emerged from the shadows of the vessel and followed them about the dock. a search was made for captain john durham and his crew, but no sign of them was found. a look of bewilderment covered the faces of the searchers when they crowded into the small galley and found coffee boiling on the stove and an elaborate breakfast laid out on the table. they also found that the crew's quarters smelled strongly of tobacco smoke, but there was no clue to the crew's whereabouts. should have spilled. captain durham was a rugged new englander, not afraid of the devil himself, and an excellent seaman. the ship's course was carefully plotted and the navigation instruments all in order. the ship's log lay open, with the last entry neatly noted "branton reef, sighted" branton reef, a ch

an eclipse of the moon; its outlines were generally circular and it seemed to be fainter near the edges it quite obliterated the view of about half the moon's terminator (or that part where the sunlight ends) whilst those parts of the terminator not within the shadow could be very distinctly seen. i should estimate the diameter of the shadow, from the part we could see on the moon, as about three-quarters the diameter of the moon. this is one of those remarkable facts which, being seen, should be recorded, although no explanation can at present be offered. one could hardly resist the conviction that it was a shadow; yet it could not have 136 been the shadow of any known body no change in the position of the shade could be detected after three hours of watching. 1878, november 26th, h.c. ru

ionary for three hours or more upon another moving object, the moon. that is control firm, steady, calculated and maintained control of position. it implies purposefulness, persistence, delicacy and intelligence& reason too. suppose, on the other hand, that it was not a shadow, but was a cloud interposed between earth and moon. its actual size then could be anything from a gnat to something three-quarters the diameter of the moon, depending on its distance from the blue mountains. thus we don't know the size for certain, except that it was smaller than 1,500 miles in diameter. but in this case the manipulation of this object was even more complex. not only was the object maintained between moon and earth, it was maintained steadily between moon and a very definite portion of the earth's su

progress across the sun for about twenty minutes by lummis, of manchester, and a friend. it was about one-half the apparent diameter of mercury. on february 12, 1864, a spot 8" seconds of arc in diameter crossed the sun at a rate between that of mercury and venus. on may 6, 1865, a round black spot moving across the sun was watched by 142 coumbray, at constantinople. it was watched for over three-quarters of an hour, until its departure from the disc. this spot was a sharply defined, black point, which detached itself from a group of sunspots near the limb of the sun and crossed the entire disc in forty-eight minutes. in an intra-mercurial orbit having one-third the radius of the earth's orbit, it would require a speed of approximately 6,000 miles per minute, or a hundred miles per second

ches at eclipse time, it does seem that radar has the better possibilities. we know that radar blips can be bounced off the moon: why not from these objects which are nearer? let's point both our radar sets and telescopes at the region near the sun, at times of both new and full moon and see what we can see. the objects probably range a very few degrees east and west of the sun at first and third quarters of the moon. that would probably be the best time to look. a variation of the radio-telescope such as in used in england& i believe, new jersey usa, can detect energy-forms of l-m ships plus their solid "semi-solid_ forms as well. detects "nodes" too 146 ufo patrol the years 1879 and 1880 partook of the general spiciness of the era of the comets. the astronomical profession did not work u

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(an important one is crowley's '777. thus one thing or symbol can be used to suggest another. this is important in magick, for the magician may surround himself with as many appropriate correspondences as he can to vividly affect the senses; thus making his magical contact with the inner planes more lucid. the magical elements have correspondences with the tarrot cards as the four suits. the four quarters (directions of the universe as used in magick ritual) and the archangels also correspond with these same elements- element suit quarter archangel= earth pentacles north uriel water cups west gabriel fire wands south michael air swords east raphael elementals the magical elements are said to be peopled by spirits and mythological entities called elementals or nature spirits. these are grou

KETAB E SIYAH

god, who makest the gods and death to tremble before thee- i, i adore thee! appear on the throne of ra! open the ways of the khu! lighten the ways of the ka! the ways of the khabs run through to stir me or still me! aum! let it fill me! 38. so that thy light is in me& its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. there is a secret door that i shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (these are the adorations, as thou hast written, as it is said: the light is mine; its rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra and tum, of khephra and of ahathoor. i am thy theban, o mentu, the prophet ankh-af-na-khonsu! by bes-na-maut my breast i beat; by wise ta-nech i weave my spell. show thy star-splendour, o nuit! bid me within thine house to dwell, o winged s

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is situated in an unusually barren tract of the sky, and the nearest star of any consequence is that at the foot of the southern cross, which is no less than twenty-seven degrees from the pole. 149. on the tops of the two columns in the very ancient symbolism there were at first four lines or cross sticks, which were symbols of heaven and earth, as in fig. 3. 150. figure 3 151. 152. how the four quarters or the square, or rather the two squares, arose may be understood from fig. 4. 153. figure 4 154. 155. the first symbol shows the two eyes of north and south, with a connecting line. the second shows the line of shu, where he makes a division at the equinox, and thus forms two triangles of set and horus; and the third figure completes the square of the four quarters. it is said that tattu

understood from fig. 4. 153. figure 4 154. 155. the first symbol shows the two eyes of north and south, with a connecting line. the second shows the line of shu, where he makes a division at the equinox, and thus forms two triangles of set and horus; and the third figure completes the square of the four quarters. it is said that tattu is thus the place established for ever, a heaven with its four quarters, as tat represents the earth with its four quarters. 156. figure 5 and 6 157. 158. in the hieroglyphs the form has become like fig. 5, while in the papyrus of ani it appears as in fig. 6. 159. dr. mackey has made a special study of these two pillars in their later jewish form. he speaks of them as memorials of god fs repeated promises of support to his people of israel, since jachin is de

ost interesting facts. i strongly recommend his book to the perusal of our brn, even though i personally still cling to the idea that masonry originally reached the jews from egypt, however much it may afterwards have been influenced, as it certainly was, by the tammuz-worship of neighbouring nations. bro. ward cites instances of the survival of traces of the cult of adonis in the most unexpected quarters; for instance, he writes: 694. when the pope has died, a high official, armed with a small ivory hammer or gavel, goes up to the dead man and lightly taps him once on each temple and once on the centre of the forehead. after each knock he calls on him to arise, and only when the third summons has been made in vain does he officially proclaim the sad news that the pope is dead, and therefo

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p. 170) 74. the brothers of horus 75. among the other deities who were especially connected with the mysteries, who still play a most important part in the inner working of our masonic ceremonies to-day, are to be found the four children or brothers of horus, who are depicted in the well-known judgment scene as standing on a lotus before the throne of osiris. these represent the gods of the four quarters, or of the cardinal points, who support the canopy of heaven at its four corners. the god of the north was hapi, who bore the head of an ape; the god of the east was tuamutef, who bore the head of a jackal; amset or kestha ruled the south, and had the head of a man; while the west was governed by qebsennuf, whose head was that of a hawk(*sir e. a. wallis budge, the nile, p. 267, egyptian

ts templars, called also the poor knights of christ and of the temple of solomon, was founded in 1118 by hugues de payens (hugo de paganis, a knight of burgundy, and godefroid de st. omer a knight of northern france, in order to protect the pilgrims who flocked to the holy land after the first crusade. baldwin i, king of jerusalem, allotted to those two knights and six others who joined with them quarters near the site of solomon s temple, whence their name templars was derived. 672. nine years later hugues de payens visited europe with the object of placing the new order upon a more secure foundation and of gaining recognition and a rule from the pope. he secured the enthusiastic support of s. bernard, the great abbot of clairvaux, and in 1128 a rule, which was drawn up for them by s. ber

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emons is significant enough to support professional exorcists who drive the spirits out of spaces as well as out of people. as described in v. r. burkhardt s chinese creeds and customs, exorcisms of dwellings involve elaborate ceremonies that include admonitions for the kuei to depart: evil spirits of the east get you back to the east, or the south return thither. let all demons seek their proper quarters and vanish forthwith (burkhardt 1953 1958, vol. 2, 143. exorcisms of individuals possessed by demons can be even more dramatic, as reflected in peter goullart s account of an exorcism by a taoist exorcist in the monastery of jade mountain: china 49 the priest looked at the victim intensely, gathering all his inner strength; beads of perspiration appeared on his thin face. come out! come o

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and all stresses in this akasa being of one kind ultimately, though mediately diverse, it may be as easy to arrest the course of the earth as to destroy a worm. for the work is taking place in a world of causes fluid and not solid, in yetzirah (or even briah) rather than in assiah. it will be impossible or very difficult to move infantry from one wing of the engaged line to the other, but in the quarters of the staff it is indifferent whether that body, being at the base, is pushed forward to either. one cannot easily oxidize gold precipitated from the chloride, but having the chloride, it is easy to prepare the oxide rather than the metal. and in all these matters reason must be the guide, and experience the teacher, so that the adept seek not to perform things impossible in nature, and

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terrible demonic triads which are under the presidency of the unutterable name;5 the vast and comprehensive system shadowed in the book called the book of the concourse of the forces,6 interwoven as it is with the tarot, being, indeed, on one view little more than an amplification and practical application of the book of thoth.7 but we hope that the present venture will attract scholars from all quarters, as when the wounded satan leaned upon his spear, forthwith on all sides to his aid was run by angels many and strong, and that in the course of time a far more satisfactory volume may result. many columns will seem to the majority of people to consist of mere lists of senseless words. practice, and advance in the magical or mystical path, will enable little by little to interpret more an

40 m 40 chill 24 50 n 50 cancer 25 p 60 x [s] 60 apoplexy, thrombosis 26. 70 o 70 arthritis 27. 80 p 80 inflammation 28 x 90 y 700 cystitis 29. 100% 90 gout 30 e 200 r 100 repletion 31 t 300" 900 fever 32 p 400 t 300 arterio sclerosis 32 bis. u 400 sluggishness 31 bis. death (full insanity) table ii 18 liv. the letters of the name. lv. the elements and senses. lvi. the four rivers. lvii* the four quarters. lviii. supereme elemental kings. 11 w d air, smell lqdh hiddekel (e) jrzm mezrach tahoeloj 23 h c water, taste whg gihon (w) brum maareb thahebyobeaatan 31 y b fire, sight wcyp pison (s \wrd darom ohooohatan 32 bis# e earth, touch trp phrath (n) wpx tzaphon thahaaothahe 31 bis c a spirit, hearing. lix. archangels of the quarters. lx. the rulers of the elements lxi. angels of the elements

of death \wrtca ynmyt mch husham of temani 6 wyhfyf titahion pit of destruction belphegor awyj tywu ddh hadad of avith 7 twmyruc shaarimoth gates of death yadmca hqrcm hlmnc samlah of masrekah 8 twmla tzelmoth shadow of death adramelek laylb tybhr lwac saul of reheboth 9 tylyl nh lub baal-hannan 1010 \nhyg gehinnom hell hmun wup rdh hadar of pau cix (continued* the dukes of edom. cx. elements and quarters (sepher yetzirah. cxi. sephirothic colours (dr. jellinek. 0. 1 \yyj \yhla hwr concealed light 2. air sky blue 3. water and earth yellow 4 hmbylha aholibamah fire white 5 hla elah height red 6 kyp pinon depth white-red 7 znq kenaz east whitish-red 8 myt teman west reddish-white 9 laydgm and rxbm mibzar and magdiel south white-red-whitsh-red-reddish-white 1010 \ryu eram north the light refl

monkey. col. xlix. the geomantic figures of the planets are those of the signs which they rule. lines 3-10. q andr line 15. p line 16. v notes 37 line 17. line 18. m and n line 19. s and t line 20. w line 22. o line 24. line 25. u line 26. x line 28. z line 29. y see the handbook of geomancy, the equinox i: 2, p. 137.8 col. l. the catholic seven deadly sins in square brackets. col. lvii. egyptian quarters. cols. lvii, lix &c. beth elohim gives- michael, leo, and south to c and y. gabrial, bull, and north to b and h. raphael, man, and west to e and. uriel, eagle, and east to d and w. col. lxix. sattvas, h rajas, and f tamas g in a close analogy col. lxxix, line 13. add (3321) ttrc tumhcrbdc [shadbarshehmoth sharthathan, the spirt of the spirits of the moon. the final is counted as 700, as a

n of earth right foot advanced, fight hand advanced and raised, left hand lowered and thrown back. the hands grip each a ray of dazzling light, spiril, the right hand being dextro- and the left hand l vo-rotary. a red scarf conceals the fact of male genital organs, and suggests by its shape the letter k. such is the conventional hieroglyph. 41 appendix i the trigrams of the yi king attribution to quarters. planetary attribution. hindu attribution. yetziratic attribution. figure. name. part of body. key scale s! lingam+ y 7 khien. head. 2 [and 30. s.e$ apas. c m 6 tui. mouth. 14 [and 23. e& mano (prana! r 5 li. eyes. 6 [21 and 30. n.e% tejas. b c 4 kbn. feet. 27 and 31. s.w# vayu. d a 3 sun. thighs. 11 [and 12. w' akasa= g 2 kh n. ears. 10 [13 and 32] n.w. e prithivi. e t 1 kbn. hands. 32 b

LIBER CCC KHABS AM PEKHT

verses of the third chapter of the book of the law. it must be quoted in full .so that thy light is in me; and its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. that is, the god himself is aflame with the light of the beast, and will himself push the order, through the fire (perhaps meaning the genius) of the beast .there is a secret door that i shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (these are the adorations, as thou hast written) as it is said: the light is mine; its rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra and tum, of khephra, and of ahathoor. i am thy theban, o mentu, the prophet ankh-f-na-khonsu! 1 [al iii. 4-9] 2 [stripped of rhetoric, probably refers to some high-ranking officer of the british military who once took the oath of a probatio

LIBER CHANOKH

vavoth gad south s-e ziracah reuben south zurchol simeon south s-w zinggen zebulon west s-w hononol judah west alpudus issachar west n-w arfaolg ephraim north n-w zarnaah manesseh north cadaamp benjamin north n-e zarzilg napthali east n-e james (1984) gives a set of attributions of these to the signs of the zodiac which results in a rather strange arrangement of the signs around the circle of the quarters; as i am not sure what his source for it was, it is here omitted. another arrangement appears in zalewski (1990, based on some notes by mathers to a golden dawn lecture on the astrological attributions of the 12 tribes, but this appears to disregard dee.s attribution of angels to tribes &c; it is thus also omitted. turner (1989) argues that the column .quarters (4 plagi mundi tribibus dis

LIBER GRADUUM MONTIS ABIEGNI

are mentioned in passing by crowley in gthe wake world h (liber 95. in addition to the citation of gscience and buddhism, h there are references in slightly later works( gliber r v vel spiritus h and gliber viarum via h) to a liber xxv treating of mah.satipatth.na (approx. ggreat steadfast mindfulness h; this work is not believed extant, although ingeneous explanations have been advanced in some quarters as to how it could refer to the star ruby, ostensibly a banishing pentagram ritual. the practice is also, of course, described in canonical buddhist texts, principally the mah.satipatth.na sutta. 17 see gliber iii vel jugorum, h ii. 18 while there was doubtless a mystical or qabalistical reason for not giving the dominus liminis a distinct numbered section, it might be worth noting that t

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55. 58 the colour scales. xix. 24 selection of egyptian gods. xxxiv. 26 some greek gods. xxxv. 27 some roman gods. xxxviii. 28 animals, real and imaginary. xxxix. 29 plants, real and imaginary. xl. 30 precious stones. xli. 33 magical weapons. xlii. 31 perfumes. xlv. 32 magical powers [western mysticism. liv. 61 the letters of the name. lv. 60 the elements and senses. lix. 65 the archangels of the quarters. liber o vel manvs et sagitta 18 lx [omitted] the rulers of the elements. lxi [omitted] angels of the elements. lxiii. 62 the four worlds. lxx. 59 attribution of pentagram. lxxv. 70 the five elements (tatwas. lxxvii. 73 the planets and their numbers. lxxviii. 79 intelligences of the planets. lxxix. 77 spirits of the planets. lxxx [omitted] olympic planetary spirits. lxxxi. 74 metals. lxxx

LIBER RV VEL SPIRITUS

rther, let the zelator accomplished in these practices endeavour to master a cycle of 10. 20. 40 or even 16. 32. 64. but let this be done gradually and with due caution. and when he is steady and easy both in .sana and pr.n.y.ma, let him still further increase the period. thus let him investigate these statements which follow: 1 [despite the ingenious explanations which have been advanced in some quarters, i am not convinced that this refers to the star ruby; if nothing else the dates involved are problematic. in any case the buddhist meditation technique known as mah.satipatth.na is described in crowley.s essay .science and buddhism. t.s] liber r v vel spritvs 2 (a) if pr.n.y.ma be properly performed, the body will first of all become covered with sweat. this sweat is different in charact

LIBER SAMEKH

hich point he had already worked out the basics of the method: the preamble: he makes a general concentration of all his magical forces, and a declaration of his will. the ar thiao section. he travels to the infinite east among the hosts of angels summoned by the words. a sort of grising on the planes, h but in a horizontal direction. the same remarks apply to the next three sections in the other quarters. transcriber fs notes 45 at the great invocation following he extends the shivalingam to infinite height, each letter of each word representing an exaltation of it by geometrical progression. having seen this satisfactorily, he prostrates himself in adoration. when consciousness begins to return, he uses the final formula to raise that consciousness in the shivalingam, springing to his fe

LIBER XLI THIEN TAO

asaki after an exhilarating swim from the mainland. ii( gstanding alone. h) kwaw, when he crossed the yellow sea, was of the full age of thirtytwo years. the twenty previous equinoxes had passed over his head as he wandered, sole human tenant, among the colossal yet ignoble ruins of wei hai wei. his only companions were the lion and the lizard, who frequented the crumbling ruins of the officers f quarters; while in the little cemetery the hoofs of the wild ass beat (useless, if he wishes to 1 [keir hardie, an english socialist politician of the period. t.s] 6 liber xli wake them) upon the tombs of the sportsmen that once thronged these desolate halls. during this time kwaw devoted his entire attention to the pursuit of philosophy; for the vast quantities of excellent stores abandoned by th

LIBER XV CHYMICAL JOUSTING OF PERARDUA

scomforted. he slayeth sir lionel the warder of the marches. so now indeed he had wrought the first matter to a pitch of excellence beyond the human; for without trouble was his tincture thus beautiful. first, it had the crown and horns of alexander the mighty king; also it had wings of fine sapphire; its fore part was like the lion, whereby indeed it partook of the highest virtue, and its hinder quarters were as a bull fs. moreover it stood upon the white sphere and the red cube; and it is not possible for any elixir to exceed this, unless it be by our path and working. he slayeth sir merlin the wizard. yet our brother perardua.and by now he was right skilful at the athanor!.determined to attain to that higher projection. therefore he subtly prepared a red dragon, or as some alchemists wi

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

and struggle to render desire. the born genius is only spending the virtue of previous effort. the gods do unto you whatsoever you do unto others; also, what you do unto yourself will be becoming to you. beauty appeals because it is the most rational thing we know. truth as the sentient, and reality in all its forms, shapes a quadra and presents to view a spatial quinary: two profiles, many three-quarters, full face and backside. all theotheses give some sort of view, none the entire view, but a synthesis of all philosophy would give the most acceptable. hence i accept not the circumviatory view of things but our obliqueness as essential for any stance; our metamorphosis is by such reorientation from the stock-pile of acceptances c we must constantly create our duality. and constantly do s

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

metic 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 goetic or rituals of sorcery necromancy or divination rituals the calling of the four quarters of the triple hermetic circle of hamara t western quarter guardian of the gateway- azatu-hermanubis, opener of the way. i call your presence forth towards this circle. anubis, god of the twilight from which the guardians shall watch; bring forth thy jackals howling at the barrier anubis, who initiates unto the path of the dead, come forth! by the mask of the jackal and wolf, i call thee f

sence first born of the craft, hear me and come forth! by ankh eternal life itself, immortal eye! by ka spirit of the eternal self, in awakened union! by djed the four pillars of the world, from which my word shall manifest! envision a great pillar or circle of fire emerging from your feet in the center of the circle moving up through and around you. this is the energy as foundation from the four quarters and the god forms summoned. the triple hermetic circle of hamara t is created as a focus of setian awakening and renewal, a luciferian core that is called inward and focused outward. the triple hermetic circle is by design not held to keep forces out, rather a power circulation of the arcana of energy within. end of ritual 21 the grand luciferian circle (above) would be used in the follow

n context is rather long. it may be suggested that this particular role of magickal invocation should still be employed, this version of the summoning of the hga is simplified to a short, concise and effective version which may be memorized easily. in the luciferian work, the practitioner is focusing on widdershins around the triple hermetic circle, or one of his or her own design, from which the quarters may be called. the grand luciferian circle may be employed also to effective and concise approach to this magick of self-initiation and transformation. in regard to egyptian and medival daemonic summons, a connection therein may be observed. the circle casting is one of which the individual proclaims his and her mastery over their own being, that by moving widdershins around the circle wi

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

cale measuring perfection is an old one. what is called the great chain of being was first proposed by ancient greek philosopher aristotle and was further developed by the medieval scholastic thinker st. thomas aquinas (1225 1274. its corollary, the idea of biological, and even moral, progress, is a concept that survived into the nineteenth century (and quite possibly is still alive today in some quarters. this concept seems to have influenced lamarck. the great chain of being ranks all things according to their absolute value or essence. at the top of the great chain stands god, and at its bottom stand rocks. the great chain can be simplified as follows: god angels kings/popes archbishops dukes bishops 32 evolution and religious creation myths barons knights ladies-in-waiting priests page

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

anopus, he to taurus, that is apis, vau to leo, that is momphta, and he final to typhon. note the cherubic parallel--man, bull, lion and eagle. the fourth form is found either as scorpion or eagle depending upon the occult good or evil intention: in the demotic zodiac, the snake replaces the scorpion "the lower region he ascribes to the twelve simple hebrew letters, associating them with the four quarters of the horizon. compare the sepher yerzirah, cap. v, sec. 1 "the central region he ascribes to the solar powers and the click to enlarge levi's key to the bembine table. from levi's history of magic "the isiac tablet, writes levi, is a key to the ancient book of thoth, which has survived to some extent the lapse of centuries and is pictured to us in the still comparatively ancient set of

tain the secret doctrine of israel, and if the qabbalists were correct in their assumption that the lost books of the mosaic mysteries have been woven into the fabric of the torah, then the scriptures are veritably books within books. in rabbinical circles the opinion is prevalent that christendom never has understood the old testament and probably never will. in fact, the feeling exists--in some quarters, at least--that the old testament is the exclusive possession of the jewish faith; also that christianity, after its unrelenting persecution of the jew, takes unwarranted liberties when it includes strictly jewish writings in its sacred canon. but, as noted by one rabbi, if christianity must use the jewish scriptures, it should at least strive to do so with some degree of intelligence! in

ect that alexander was an initiate of high order who failed because of his inability to withstand the temptations of power) e. y. kenealy, quoting from the cosmodromium of doctor gobelin persona, describes the incident of alexander and the talking trees, into the presence of which the king of macedon is said to have been brought while on his campaign in india "and now alexander marched into other quarters equally dangerous; at one time over the tops of mountains, at another through dark valleys, in which his army was attacked by serpents and wild beasts, until after three hundred days he came into a most pleasant mountain, on whose sides hung chains or ropes of gold. this mountain had two thousand and fifty steps all of purest sapphire, by which one could ascend to the summit, and near thi

gold-robed virgin then rose and announced that to prevent the admission of unworthy persons to the mystical wedding a set of scales would be erected the following day upon which each guest would be weighed to determine his integrity. those unwilling to undergo this ordeal she stated should remain in the dining hall. she then withdrew, but many of the tapers stayed to accompany the guests to their quarters for the night. most of those present were presumptuous enough to believe that they could be safety weighed, but nine- including c.r.c--felt their shortcomings so deeply that they feared the outcome and remained in the hall while the others were led away to their sleeping chambers. these nine were bound with ropes and left alone in darkness. c.r.c. then dreamed that he saw many men suspend

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

g your athame six inches down it to the second knot, the four-foot one, giving you a circle with an eightfoot diameter. repeat the operation a third and final time, using the next knot down, the three-feet-sixinch one, which will give you your inner circle of seven-foot diameter. this is your magic circle. you must now proceed to exorcise the ground inside it by sprinkling and censing to the four quarters east, south, west and north always travelling deosil, and using your fire and water exorcism. having got this far, you are now standing in a ritually purified witches' circle, and the lens for your witch power is in position. you can now proceed with the spell itself, such as one of the many outlined in the following pages. before finishing this chapter, however, i shall list a few of the

t tides are at their most powerful. use your athame to sever the branch, mentally affirming your intention as you do so, that is "to compose a wand of divination" if you are unable to sever the wood yourself but have to purchase it, never mind; the real value is imparted with the consecration which follows. this has to be performed on a wednesday, again when the moon is waxing, at one of the four quarters of the day midnight, sunrise, noon, or sunset. first you must cast and purify your circle, kindling a suitable mercurial incense in your thurible; perform the square of mercury rite as an introduction. then trim the wood of all twigs and excrescences with your athame and peel the bark off, keeping your intention firmly in mind, repeating a jingle to concentrate your attention on the task

y old witch symbol, and represents the crystallization of form out of chaos. you will find it employed throughout witchcraft whenever some type of physical or magnetic manifestation is required. some cabalistically inclined witches surround the triangle with a double circle, and between the two circles they inscribe the names and seals of the seven planetary angels and the demon kings of the four quarters of the earth, while others seek to enhance the potency of the figure by fortifying the sides of the triangle with the hebraic divine names primeumaton, anaphaxeton, tetragrammaton and placing the name of michael, leader of the heavenly host, within; but none of these things is strictly necessary. all you basically need is the triangle prepared with intention which is accomplished, as with

roald, balbin! gab, gabor, agaba! arise, arise, i charge and command thee. repeat these words again to the south, then the west, and finally the north again, walking backwards around the inner perimeter of the circle, and changing each time the name of the gate corresponding to the quarter. should you have any companions for this ritual, they too should accompany you around the circle to the four quarters, also walking backwards. then, still proceeding backwards, you must return to the east of the altar table by yourself and, facing west across it, replace the photograph in the altar triangle. pause for a minute or two at this point; all present should maintain a strict silence. then carefully place your necromantic incense within your thurible, and when it is fuming well, repeat the words

pare your place of working with a large floor triangle again and with the usual arrangements of lamps, incense, and pinecones on the altar, making quite sure that the thurible contains a good quantity of glowing charcoals. the chalice should be back again in the triangle, this time containing a few drops of olive oil, red wine, honey, and your own blood or urine. then invoke cernunnos at all four quarters as previously. remove the cord and tie nine knots along it, beginning with one at either end and working in pairs towards the centre, where you should place the final one. as you do this, repeat your charm with each knot: lord cernunnos i ask of thee, let [name] no pleasure, sleep, nor solace see, till heart and loins be turned to me! finish on the last knot with "as my will, so mote it b

inch thyme 1 pinch mint 1 pinch sage 1 pinch marjoram tie up in a piece of thin muslin or cheesecloth, and steep in your bathwater. this may sound like a fascinating bouquet garni but i can assure you many witches find it highly potent for chases d'amour! rosemary by itself can be steeped in pure water, and the infusion obtained used as an amatory wash for the hands, or for sprinkling to the four quarters of the room prior to any invocation of romantic love and habondia. it tends to be quite unsuitable for cernunnos, however. cernunnos incense for use in any invocation of cernunnos, or spell designed to arouse lust. a few drops patchouli essence or patchouli leaves finely powdered 1 part good-quality fine-grain church incense 1 part bay leaves finely reduced 1 part cyprus wood or pine need

golden corn dotted with scarlet poppies. about her ankles and forearms twine green serpents, and her full dark breasts are exposed in the manner of the queens of ancient egypt. her lambent eyes are of dark gold; above her high coif of iron-dark hair she wears a square crenellated crown, like four towers bound together. these are the four castles or watchtowers of witchcraft that stand at the four quarters of the world. beneath her feet lush vegetation springs. behind her, in the mountainside, a giant cavern yawns. great masses of creeper trail over it in places like a curtain. the autumn air is heavy with the scent of new-mown hay, and bees drone lazily in the distance. with each step of your ritual, see, in your mind's eye, your feet leaving blue, glowing footprints of witch power on the

, and sealing with the words "so mote it be" a small wallet of chamois leather or red silk should now be made to contain the pentacle, which in turn should be sewn to a red cord or ribbon to be worn around the neck of the bearer. in this manner the pentacle can remain concealed. in certain demonic conjurations (similar to that of vassago, the pentacle may then be removed and exhibited to the four quarters or to the gaze of the manifesting entity. if you organize a coven, you will have to also prepare a round metal plate, pewter or copper or even aluminium, on which is simply engraved or painted a five-pointed star or pentagram; this is used in a similar way to an ecclesiastical "paten" and bread, cakes, or salt to be used during the sabbat are placed on it. it is also confusingly referred

ing is not only clean, but exorcised with fire and water before you introduce it. mark out your circle with masking tape as usual, and draw your triple circle of light with the athame. then exorcise the ground as usual with water and fire, using a tellurian incense in your thurible. now, in addition to demagnetizing the ground within the circle, you are going to employ a magical guard at the four quarters. this magical guard, or watch, passed into christian practice through the ages, being transformed into that night spell known as the black pater noster: four nooks in this house for holy angels, a post in the midst, that's christ jesus, lucas, marcus, matthew, johannes, god be in this house, and all that belongs us. or as the god-fearing victorian child knew it: matthew, mark, luke and jo

the cellar' all the horrors and bugbears that you can conjure up from your worst childhood fantasy should be pressed into service here, must be dredged up and put to use in initiating the dark vortex! the floor triangle should be drawn in the usual manner, save for your altar decorations. a saturn incense of wrath and chastisement should burn in your thurible. repeat your conjuration to the four quarters, tracing a circle cross such as you used in your necromancy ritual at the four quarters with your athame, the symbol of death! here is the incantation: agency of ineffable name and vast strength! ancient, dark one; thou cold, barren, mournful and pernicious! thou whose word is as stone and whose life is abiding. thou ancient and alone impenetrable one! thou who keepest promises, who art w

[n! thou art [n" then, with your wand of divination and air, you "breathe life" into the photo symbolically by writing the person's name in glowing blue witch fire above it thrice, chanting it out loud each time as you do. now, as in your necromancy and vassago rituals, bear the photograph around the circle, clockwise, carrying your wand in your right hand as you do. display the image at the four quarters, beginning with the east, and chant the victim's name at each of them. finish at the north. this completes your identification of the photograph with the victim. now you must embark upon the darker element of the ritual. moving, always clockwise, to the west of the circle, face east across the altar, replace your wand, and take in your left hand the pen of art. with it, draw the circle cr

sent out to accomplish a specific goal. in this case one of amatory disenchantment! here is the method: obtain photographs of each of the erstwhile lovers, on which within a properly cast circle in the waning moon should be written their respective names with pen and ink of art. name them with fire and water, as you did in the spell of the reversed pentagram, exhibiting them likewise to the four quarters, thus identifying the photographs firmly with their owners in your magical imagination. having done this, proceed to glue the photographs together, firmly, back to back. now, move to the south side of your altar table, facing north across it, and place a small amount of sulphur powder or asafetida gum on the hot coals in your thurible. hold the photographs in the fetid smoke with your rig

flauros can. in order to further enforce the obedience of the demon, after performing the initial identification ritual with fire, water, and wand, many practitioners incorporate into the spell part of the initiation ritual to be found in the last chapter. the sigil is taken from the operator's breast, bound with the cingulum and "hooded" with a black cloth, and then carried around to the various quarters of the circle to the "challenged" with the sword, or athame, at each quarter. it receives further consecration of fire and water and is finally unveiled and placed within the altar triangle, at which point flauros himself is constrained to concentrate his presence within the triangle of manifestation. after charging the demon with his mission of destruction, the operator should not only "

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ll deliver unto thee in the second book. with this knife or with the sickle of art thou shalt describe, beyond the inner circle which thou shalt have already formed, a second circle, encompassing the other at the distance of one foot therefrom and having the same centre. within this space of a foot in breadth between the first and the second circumferential line, thou shalt trace towards the four quarters of the earth, the sacred and venerable symbols of the holy letter tau. and between the first and the second circle which thou shalt thyself have drawn with the instrument of magical art, thou shalt make four hexagonal pentacles, and between these thou shalt write four terrible and tremendous names of god, viz: between the east and the south the supreme name ihvh, tetragrammaton; between t

st the essential tetragrammatic name ahih, eheieh; between the west and the north the name of power alivn, elion; and between the north and the east the great name alh, eloah; which names are of supreme importance in the list of the sephiroth, and their sovereign equivalents. furthermore, thou shalt circumscribe about these circles two squares, the angles of which shall be turned towards the four quarters of the earth; and the space the key of solomon page 18 between the lines of the outer and inner square shall be half-a-foot. the extreme angles of the outer square shall be made the centres of four circles, the measure or diameter of which shall be one foot. all these are to be drawn with the knife or consecrated instrument of art. and within these four circles thou must write these four

lxvii; psalm xlvii; psalm lxviii. or he may as well recite them before tracing the circle. the which being finished, and the fumigations being performed, as is described in the chapter on fumigations in the second book, the master should reassemble his disciples, encourage them, reassure them, fortify them, and conduct them into the parts of the circle of art, where he must place them in the four quarters of the earth, encourage them, and exhort them to fear nothing, and to keep in the places assigned to them. also, the disciple who is placed towards the east should have a pen, ink, paper, silk, and white cotton, all clean and suitable for the work. furthermore, each of the companions should have a new sword drawn in his hand (besides the consecrated magical sword of art, and he should kee

he work. furthermore, each of the companions should have a new sword drawn in his hand (besides the consecrated magical sword of art, and he should keep his hand resting upon the hilt thereof, and he should on no pretext quit the place assigned to him, nor move therefrom. after this the master should quit the circle, light the fuel in the earthen pots, and place upon them the censers, in the four quarters of the earth; and he should have in his hand the consecrated taper of wax, and he should light it and place it in a hidden and secret place prepared for it. let him after this re-enter and close the circle. the master should afresh exhort his disciples, and explain to them all that they have to do and to observe; the which commands they should promise and vow to execute. let the master th

y be obedient unto thy commands, through thee, o most holy adonai, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and whose empire endureth unto the ages of the ages. amen. after having said all these words devoutly, let the master arise, and place his hands upon the pentacles, and let one of the companions hold the book open before the master, who, raising his eyes to heaven, and turning unto the four quarters of the universe, shall say: o lord, be thou unto me a tower of strength against the appearance and assault of the evil spirits. after this, turning towards the four quarters of the universe, he shall say the following words: these be the symbols and the names of the creator, which can bring terror and fear unto you. obey me then, by the power of these holy names, and by these mysterious s

ples shall hold open before him the book wherein are written the prayers and conjurations proper for conquering, subduing, and reproving the spirits. then the master, turning towards each quarter of the earth, and raising his eyes to heaven, shall say: o lord, be thou unto me a strong tower of refuge, from the sight and assaults of the evil spirits. after which let him turn again towards the four quarters of the earth, and towards each let him utter the following words: behold the symbols and names of the creator, which give unto ye forever terror and fear. obey then, by the virtue of these holy names, and by these mysteries of mysteries. after this he shall see the spirits come from every side. but in case they are occupied in some other place, or that they cannot come, or that they are u

thou shalt easily and surely learn what occupies the spirits and what they are about. but if they appear not yet in answer to the above conjuration, and are still disobedient, then let the master of the art or exorciser arise and exhort his companions to be of good cheer and not to despair of the ultimate success of the operation; let him strike the air with the consecrated knife towards the four quarters of the universe; and then let him kneel in the midst of the circle, and the companions also in their several places, and let them say consecutively with him in a low voice, turning in the direction of the east, the following: address to the angels. i conjure and pray ye, o ye angels of god, and ye celestial spirits, to come unto mine aid; come and behold the signs of heaven, and be my wit

ou desirest, with constance, firmness, and assurance, and they will obey thee. but if they appear not yet, let not the master on that account lose his courage, for there is nothing in the world stronger and of greater force to overawe the spirits than constancy. let him, however, re-examine and reform the circle, and let him take up a little dust of the earth, which he shall cast towards the four quarters of the universe; and having placed his knife upon the ground, let him say on his knees, turning towards the direction of the north: in the name of adonai elohim tzabaoth shaddai, lord god of armies almighty, may we successfully perform the works of our hands. and may the lord be present with us in our heart and in our lips. these words having been said kneeling upon the earth, let the mas

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exhorted his disciples, he shall work thus: first let him have a trumpet made of new wood, on the one side of which shall be written in hebrew with the pen and ink of the art these names of god, elohim gibor, elohim tzabaoth (see figure 59; and on the other side these characters (see figure 60. having entered into the circle to perform the experiment, he should sound his trumpet towards the four quarters of the universe, first towards the east, then towards the south, then towards the west, and lastly towards the north. then let him say: hear ye, and be ye ready, in whatever part of the universe ye may be, to obey the voice of god the mighty one, and the names of the creator. we let you know by this signal and sound that ye will be convoked hither, wherefore hold ye yourselves in readines

rt yet upon the same centre, thou shalt describe pentagrams with the symbols and names of the creator therein so that they may surround the circle already described. without these circles shalt thou circumscribe a square, and beyond that another square, so that the angles of the former may touch the centres of the sides of the latter, and that the angles of the latter may stretch towards the four quarters of the universe, east, west, north, and south; and at the four angles of each square, and touching them, thou shalt describe lesser circles wherein let there be placed standing censers with lighted charcoal and sweet odours. these things being done, let the magus of art assemble his disciples, exhort, confirm, and cheer them; lead them into the circle of art and station them therein towar

the universe, east, west, north, and south; and at the four angles of each square, and touching them, thou shalt describe lesser circles wherein let there be placed standing censers with lighted charcoal and sweet odours. these things being done, let the magus of art assemble his disciples, exhort, confirm, and cheer them; lead them into the circle of art and station them therein towards the four quarters of the universe, exhort them to fear nothing, and to abide in their assigned places. furthermore let each of the companions have a sword besides the sword of the art, which he must hold naked in his hand. then let the magus quit the circle, and kindle the censers, and place thereon exorcised incense, as is said in the chapter of fumigations; and let him have the censers in his hand and ki

ense, as is said in the chapter of fumigations; and let him have the censers in his hand and kindle it, and then place it in the part prepared. let him now enter within the circle and carefully close the openings left in the same and let him again warn his disciples, and take the trumpet of art prepared as is said by the chapter concerning the same, and let him incense the circle towards the four quarters of the universe. after this let the magus commence his incantations, having placed the sickle, sword, or other implement of art upright in the ground at his feet. having sounded the trumpet as before taught let him invoke the spirits, and if need be conjure them, as is said in the first book, and having attained his desired effect, let him license them to depart. the key of solomon page 1

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etc (13) beleth- the thirteenth spirit is called beleth (or bileth, or bilet. he is a mighty king and terrible. he rideth on a pale horse with trumpets and other kinds of musical instruments playing before him. he is very furious at his first appearance, that is, while the exorcist layeth his courage; for to do this he must hold a hazel wand in his hand, striking it out towards the south and east quarters, make a triangle, without the circle, and then command him into it by the bonds and charges of spirits as hereafter followeth. and if he doth not enter into the triangle, at your threats, rehearse the bonds and charms before him, and then he will yield obedience and come into it, and do what he is commanded by the exorcist. yet he must receive him courteously because he is a great king, a

of the 72 kings are to be made in metals. the chief kings in sol (gold; marquises in luna (silver; dukes in venus (copper; prelacies in jupiter (tin; knights in saturn (lead; presidents in mercury (mercury; earls in venus (copper, and luna (silver, alike equal, etc. these 72 kings be under the power of amaymon, corson, zimimay or ziminair, and gaap, who are the four great kings ruling in the four quarters, or cardinal points,27 viz: east, west, north, and south, and are not to be called forth except it be upon great occasions; but are to be invocated and commanded to send such or such a spirit that is under their power and rule, as is shown in the following invocations or conjurations. and the chief kings may be bound from 9 till 12 o clock at noon, and from 3 till sunset; marquises may be

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eriences of the dreaming infernal sabbat, to be undertaken by will of the sorcerer or witch. this ecstasy may be explored and used to strengthen the initiation of the individual, and to allow communion with ones familiars and servitors. 47 47 osculum infame and the sigilium diabloi the kiss or shame or devil s kiss has represented since the medieval times the kissing of the devil s behind, or end quarters as a dedication to the left hand path. the context of defining this ritual dedication was propagated by the church and was a charge often thrown at those accused of witchcraft during these times. while the essence of the dark sethanic witchcraft is based on the principles of reversion and descending to achieve and awakening, the devils hind quarters are not evoked to be kissed. this is ho

f, i grant this area protection and safety from that which would devour me! widdershins should be performed at this moment. asmodeus, spirit of knowledge and wisdom, i do invoke thee into visible appearance! recognize your brother/sister of witchblood, i return from the great flood which caused my sleep of ages! i announce in your presence my dedication to the path of witchblood! to kiss the hind quarters of the beast, which is to dive the great mirror of darkness. let the purity of this fall bless my awakening. no longer shall my sight be limited in the tunnels of the dead. sight gives wisdom which breeds power. i shall know of this by action and experience! osculum infame, the diving of the great dark pit! so it is done! banish and close circle. do not destroy the oath of initiation; thi

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

he human etheric grid. these are divided into 7 male and 7 female.nahuatlsthe wise ones of the americas. conversant with the earth grid and magick, they were serpent people.number 52is the number of the great cycle of the pleiades. there are legends of the serpent with 52 sections, etc.number 28number of the cycle of saturn.the moonis thought of as the lesser saturn. its cycle of 28 days and four quarters of seven are related esotericallywith the planet of karma. this may be why on the devil card in the tarot we see the two moons.the chinese dragonsthis was a name used for the ruling kings in china.cherubim and seraphimthese come from the words that mean flaming or guardian serpents.lemuriasaid to be a home for the serpent people. lemuria also went by the name rutas. the indians from india

ey are understood to be very attached to illusoryhappiness.my dear king, in the imitation heavens known as bila-svarga there is a great demon named maya dan-ava, who is an expert artist and architect. he has constructed many brilliantly decorated cities. there aremany wonderful houses, walls, gates, assembly houses, temples, yards and temple compounds, as wellas many hotels serving as residential quarters for foreigners. the houses for the leaders of these planetsare constructed with the most valuable jewels, and they are always crowded with living entities knownas nagas and asuras, as well as many pigeons, parrots and similar birds. all in all, these imitation heav-enly cities are most beautifully situated and attractively decorated.the parks and gardens in the artificial heavens surpass

otect me from enviousserpents (bhagavata purana 6.8.18) the supreme personality of godhead said: freed from all sinful reactions are those who rise from bedat the end of night, early in the morning, and fully concentrate their minds with great attention upon myform; your form; this lake; this mountain; the caves; the gardens; the cane plants; the bamboo plants; thecelestial trees; the residential quarters of me, lord brahma and lord shiva; the three peaks of trikutamountain, made of gold, silver and iron; my very pleasing abode [the ocean of milk; the white island,shvetadvipa, which is always brilliant with spiritual rays; my mark of shrivatsa; the kaustubha gem;my v aijayanti garland; my club, kaumodaki; my sudarshana disc and pancajanya conch shell; mybearer, garuda, the king of the bird

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

laces far from the habitation of humans, but the human-looking demons may choose to live among mankind. jinn are believed to live in places such as the oceans, caves, underground, and in the sky, and may be inclined to occupy dirty places such as landfills and bathrooms. some jinn (if not all) are capable of reproduction. followers of islam are discouraged from keeping dirty and unsanitary living quarters as it is claimed that these habits attract jinn into the household. holy water, which is simply water that has had certain prayers uttered over it, is also used to cleanse a room of jinn, and their influence. but there is always one jinn you can t just cleanse away, and that is the jinn that was assigned to at your birth. the muslims, like many in the occult, say that each person is assig

send thoughts down the threads to the target. each time a vampire feeds from someone, the astral threads that permanently bind the two accumulate. as the threads accumulate, it becomes easier for that vampire to flood the mind of his victim with thoughts and even steal life-force from afar. vampires tend to be extremely sensitive to energy and forces. slight irregularities of energy in the living quarters of a vampire can be far more disagreeable than a human would find them. techniques like feng shui can be used to create a more agreeable living environment. vampires are also sensitive to the phases of the moon. in days where the moon is large and waxing, their power is at its height; when the moon is only a sliver and wanes, their power is diminished. nights where the moon has become a c

oul travelers" 86 gog and magog [5.11] the bible and quran describe gog and magog as the enemies of god, but these 2 characters also appear in mythologies and folklore. in the bible, after satan is freed from a 1,000 years of imprisonment, revelation 12:7 and when the thousand years are expired, satan shall be loosed out of his prison. and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, gog, and magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. in the quran, gog and magog are described as being locked behind a barrier. in the quran 21:96 we read but there is a ban on a town which we have destroyed: that they (the people of the town) shall not return. until the gog and magog are let through (their barrier, and they sprea

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

es in the darkness, the blackened fire of being! the gift of set itself! azothoz nox barathrum (lilith recites) taste the kiss of the dead and again in dreams shall my wisdom arise from the grave, cast your spirits to the grave and awaken again reborn (each individual kisses the skull, envisioning the necromantic embrace of the sabbat queen and azrael) banish by performing the calling of the four quarters of the triple hermetic circle. seker lord of the tomb (solitary self initiation) seker is a 'developed' and 'inspired' vampyre archetype of ancient egypt, whom resided as the lord of the tombs in memphis. seker is represented as a mummy- like corpse figure, wearing a shroud, ashen white and gray, black or crimson eyes and various wolf and jackal like hairs upon its palms and body. the fac

ick of the dead itself. upon the altar, the sigil of seker, being the illustration provided- the two hawk heads and the skull. the magician should fast the day of the ritual. the sorcerer should dress in a shroud of the grave, a coffin or casket like box from which the individual shall lie within. soil from a graveyard of which you have rested in should be surrounding you. the calling of the four quarters of the triple hermetic circle should be formulated, from which the magician lies within the casket and meditates upon his own death and life-force therein. a great blackened fire should emerge in his eyes, from which he realizes that his immortal essence is beyond this flesh, but is manifested and displayed in the current body he exists in. he should then think of his deep desires, fears

blackened flame, the essential self. the darkness of the tomb and the conscious mind which grows and creates within it. seker, emerges illuminated with the black flame and then rises from the tomb "from the darkness of the tomb i awaken, i still live beyond the shadow! as i have dwelt in the necromantic twilight i become master of the shades of sah, do attend me greater and lesser familiar of the quarters, embrace my essence- zothoza unpu set heh! i am enthroned in the depths, of utter blackness and night i am death and resurrection. the one who drinks of the heart, whom is aligned with set-heh. i drink of the heat and feed upon the soul's blood. my role is the guardian of darkness! my sight is clear in the darkness, and i taste the heartblood of man and woman, i am awakened in my self and

ou self, who shinest from the full moon, hail thou self, set-an who is the god of immortal life and chaos of being, hail thou self, anubis who is death and the gateway of the dead, encircle me in self- love, that i may walk through the gates of the celestial and infernal" perform now the ritual of the triple hermetic circle of hamara't. here ends the grimoire of nox umbra. the calling of the four quarters of the circle western quarter guardian of the gateway- azatu-iiermanubis, opener of the way. i call your presence forth towards this circle. anubis, god of the twilight from which the guardians shall watch; bring forth thy jackals howling at the barrier anubis, who initiates unto the path of the dead, come forth! by the mask of the jackal and wolf, i call thee forth to charge this circle!

ce first born of the craft, hear me and come forth! by ankh- eternal life itself, immortal eye! by ka- spirit of the eternal self, in awakened union! by djed- the four pillars of the world, from which my word shall manifest! envision a great pillar or circle of fire emerging from your feet in the center of the circle moving up through and around you. this is the energy as foundation from the four quarters and the god forms summoned. the triple hermetic circle of hamara't is created as a focus of setian awakening and renewa l,a luciferian core that is called inward and focused outward. the triple hermetic circle is b design not yheld to keep forces out, rather a power circulation of the arcana of energy within. nox umbra was written by michael w. ford. cover image- the sigil of seker elda i

MORALS AND DOGMA

wheels going upon their _four_ sides; and saint john beheld the _four_ beasts, full of eyes before and behind, the lion, the young ox, the man, and the flying eagle _four_ was the signature of the earth. therefore, in the 148th psalm, of those who must praise the lord on the land, there are _four_ times _four, and _four_ in particular of living creatures. visible nature is described as the _four_ quarters of the world, and the _four_ corners of the earth "there are _four" says the old jewish saying "which take the first place in this world _man, among the creatures; the _eagle_ among birds; the _ox_ among cattle; and the _lion_ among wild beasts" daniel saw _four_ great beasts come up from the sea. five is the duad added to the triad. it is expressed by the five-pointed or blazing star, th

ir-like oscillatorias, a tribe of simple plants, armies of which may be discovered, with the aid of the microscope, in the tiniest bit of scum from a stagnant pool. for these will place themselves, as if it were by agreement, in separate companies, on the side of a vessel containing them, and seem marching upward in rows; and when a swarm grows weary of its situation, and has a mind to change its quarters, each army holds on its way without confusion or intermixture, proceeding with great regularity and order, as if under the directions of wise leaders. the ants and bees give each other mutual assistance, beyond what is required by that which human creatures are apt to regard as the strict law of justice. surely we need but reflect a little, to be convinced that the individual man is but a

tude inclined the minds of all toward the quietude of that amalgamation of doctrines for which the expeditions of alexander and the more peaceful occurrences that followed, with the establishment in asia and africa of many grecian dynasties and a great number of grecian colonies, had prepared the way. after the intermingling of different nations, which resulted from the wars of alexander in three-quarters of the globe, the doctrines of greece, of egypt, of persia, and of india, met and intermingled everywhere. all the barriers that had formerly kept the nations apart, were thrown down; and while the people of the west readily connected their faith with those of the east, those of the orient hastened to learn the traditions of rome and the legends of athens. while the philosophers of greece

that their ancient writings were our gospels and epistles" the essenes were of the eclectic sect of philosophers, and held plato in the highest esteem; they believed that true philosophy, the greatest and most salutary gift of god to mortals, was scattered, in various portions, through all the different sects; and that it was, consequently, the duty of every wise man to gather it from the several quarters where it lay dispersed, and to employ it, thus reunited, in destroying the dominion of impiety and vice. the great festivals of the solstices were observed in a distinguished manner by the essenes; as would naturally be supposed, from the fact that they reverenced the sun, not as a god, but as a symbol of light and fire; the fountain of which, the orientals supposed god to be. they lived

er interpretation as you think fit. the _cross_ has been a sacred symbol from the earliest antiquity. it is found upon all the enduring monuments of the world, in egypt, in assyria, in hindostan, in persia, and on the buddhist towers of ireland. buddha was said to have died upon it. the druids cut an oak into its shape and held it sacred, and built their temples in that form. pointing to the four quarters of the world, it was the symbol of universal nature. it was on a cruciform tree, that chrishna was said to have expired, pierced with arrows. it was revered in mexico. but its peculiar meaning in this degree, is that given to it by the ancient egyptians _thoth_ or _phtha_ is represented on the oldest monuments carrying in his hand the _crux ansata, or _ankh [a tau cross, with a ring or ci

on; and shall use general language, except where something from those old mysteries still remains in masonry. the initiate was invested with a cord of three threads, so twined as to make three times three, and called _zennar. hence comes our cable-tow. it was an emblem of their triune deity, the remembrance of whom we also preserve in the three chief officers of our lodges, presiding in the three quarters of that universe which our lodges represent; in our three greater and three lesser lights, our three movable and three immovable jewels, and the three pillars that support our lodges. the indian mysteries were celebrated in subterranean caverns and grottos hewn in the solid rock; and the initiates adored the deity, symbolized by the solar fire. the candidate, long wandering in darkness, t

s, chiefly relating to the unity and trinity of the godhead, the candidate was clothed in a linen garment without a seam, and remained under the care of a brahmin until he was twenty years of age, constantly studying and practising the most rigid virtue. then he underwent the severest probation for the second degree, in which he was sanctified by the sign of the cross, which, pointing to the four quarters of the compass, was honored as a striking symbol of the universe by many nations of antiquity, and was imitated by the indians in the shape of their temples. then he was admitted to the holy cavern, blazing with light, where, in costly robes, sat, in the east, west, and south, the three chief hierophants, representing the indian tri-une deity. the ceremonies there commenced with an anthem

r good genius, was the symbol of the sun. in the hieroglyphic characters, a snake was the letter t or dj. it occurs many times on the rosetta stone. the horned serpent was the hieroglyphic for a god. according to eusebius, the egyptians represented the world by a blue circle, sprinkled with flames, within which was extended a serpent with the head of a hawk. proclus says they represented the four quarters of the world by a cross, and the soul of the world, or kneph, by a serpent surrounding it in the form of a circle. we read in anaxagoras, that orpheus said, that the water, and the vessel that produced it, were the primitive principles of things, and together gave existence to an animated being, which was a serpent, with two heads, one of a lion and the other of a bull, between which was

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

the khabs run through to stir me or still me! aum! let it fill me! stanza 3 suggests the rosicrucian benediction: may thy mind be open unto the higher! may thy heart be the centre of light! may thy body be the temple of the rosy cross! 38. so that thy light is in me& its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. there is a secret door that i shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (these are the adorations, as thou hast written, as it is said: the light is mine; its rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra and tum, of khephra and of ahathoor. i am thy theban, 0 mentu, the prophet ankh-af-na-khonsu! by bes-na-maut my breast i beat; by wise ta-nech i weave my spell. show thy star-splendour, 0 nuit! bid me within thine house to dwell, o winged s

into the house of ra and tum, of khephra and of ahathoor. i am thy theban, 0 mentu, the prophet ankh-af-na-khonsu! by bes-na-maut my breast i beat; by wise ta-nech i weave my spell. show thy star-splendour, 0 nuit! bid me within thine house to dwell, o winged snake of light, hadit! abide with me, ra-hoor-khuit! see the translation of the stele in the introduction of book 4 part iv. note the four quarters or four solar stations enumerated in lines 3 and 4 of the first stanza, and compare the ritual given in liber samekh (book 4 part iii, appendix) 39. all this and a book to say how thou didst come hither and a reproduction of this ink and paper for ever for in it is the word secret& not only in the english and thy comment upon this the book of the law shall be printed beautifully in red in

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

jurisdiction of its commanderies, free craft was the rule, just as the bourgeois residents of templar-controlled areas were free bourgeois. in the cities where the templars had establishments, a distinction can be made in the same craft between the "franc" craftsman (who were free and enjoying certain exemptions) living in the templar's domain, and artists who were merely free who worked in other quarters and were subject to royal and manorial charges and taxes as well as to their own trade regulations. this was the case in paris with respect to the masons. clearly in this distinction between "franc" craftsmen and free artists, we can seek the origin of the term francs-macon (franc-maconnerie, for with this term, the noun that labeled and distinguished the worker eventually became one with

de part of the first arrondissement (the areas approaching the pont au change and the pont st. michel, chatelet, rue saint germain l'auxerrois, rue saint denis, and the current area of les halles; part of the second arrondissement (rue saint denis and its immediate area; a large portion of the third arrondissement; a portion of the fourth arrondissement including the saint merri and saint gervais quarters as well as the central part of the cite (between rue d'arcole and the palace; a large part of the sorbonne quarter (mainly saint julien le pauvre, saint sevrerin, and cluny) in the fifth arrondissement; and, finally, part of the eleventh arrondissement in the north, which served as the templar's farmland at that time and thus had no construction. of course this domain did not form a terri

rder's coat of arms on the facades of their buildings. inside this vast commandery lived a large number of knights and an even larger number of brother servants, among whom were the brothers who concerned themselves with construction projects and who were placed under the command of an officer called the master carpenter, magister carpentarius in domo templi parisiensis. the rapid building of the quarters of the templar censive district shows that numerous lay craftsmen, masons, carpenters, and other tradesmen had come to reside there. inside this huge domain, the templars ruled as masters. as was the case for such orders throughout the christian world, the order was sovereign both spiritually and temporally. with regard to the spiritual, just like the order of saint john of jerusalem, the

the drafting of the livre des metiers in 1628 by the king's provost, etienne boileau, the working class suffered greatly from a lack of genuine laws whose texts could serve as reference when grievances were raised. the taxes and fees that weighed down working individuals were levied unequally with no standard rate. eventually the situation became so intolerable for workers that many abandoned the quarters of the city belonging to the king to settle as best they could in quarters that fell under different jurisdiction.6 the templars' quarter, which was in full development at this time, must have been particularly appealing to them "because of the great hurt and great rapines they suffered in the provostship" writes joinville "the 'little people' dared no longer remain on the grounds of the

er master of the army. interestingly, it had been longstanding practice to form lodges within irish and scottish regiments. in chapter 13, we will see the important role this played in the establishment of modern freemasonry on the continent, especially in france [saint clair was eventually anglicized to sinclair. trans] 238 from the art of building to the art of thinking in 1670, more than three quarters of the members of the aberdeen lodge were not professional masons and the laws and statutes specified that this speculative membership was exempt from the collecting box, the mark, the banquet, and the pint of wine. they paid no fees* the cohabiting cultural and social differences and differing objectives of the two groups did not fail to cause problems at times. the freedom and independe

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endments to these by-laws shall become effective immediately upon their adoption unless the members in adopting them provide that they are to become effective at a later date. section 12.02. subject to any provisions of law applicable to the amendment of by-laws of non-profit corporations, these by-laws, or any other of them, may be altered, amended, or repealed and new by-laws adopted by a three-quarters majority vote of all iii+ members of the temple of set. section 12.03. a vote to affect these by-laws in accordance with section 12.02 shall be jointly supervised by the high priest, the chairman of the council, and the executive director. section 12.04. the high priest may call for a vote to affect these by-laws in accordance with section 12.02 at his discretion. a vote must be called fo

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rite the veneficus and initiate shall have the algol sigil above their altar; they shall be robed in black representing wisdom. the algol sigil is a mirror of the self and the possibilities of becoming. the complete symbolism of algol is revealed to initiates of the black order of the dragon. face the algol sigil- i behold the circle of timeless existence, guarded by leviathan i call to the four quarters to witness my rite of darkness and flame, and the light which illuminates within. before me, the algol star of the adversary, the corpses piled and devoured by flame that which arises from death reborn, al ghul, rosh ha shaitan, phantom star, daemon of my night born illumination. i dive now from the heavens of light with emerald wings, i fall into the darkness to become as a dragon, to kn

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

h one may freely move and work a small table covered with a 46 the golden dawn blackcloth will suffice for the altar, and the two pillars may be dispensed with but formulated in the imagination as present. he may find it very uskful to paint flashing angelic tablets according to the instructions found elsewhere, as well as the banners of tvhe east and west, pla&g these in the appropriate cardinal quarters of his improvised temple. if he is able to obtain small plaster-casts of the heads of the kerubirn- the lion, the eagle, bull and man- and place these in the proper stations, they will be found together with the tablets to impart a considerable amount of magical vitality and atmosphere to the temple. what actually they do bestow is rather subtle, and perhaps indefinable. they are not abso

d with them the twelve celestial constellations of the zodiac. they are over the universe as a king upon his throne, and they are in the revolution of the year as a king traversing his dominions, and they are in the heart of man as a king in warfare. and the twelve loaves are the images of those ideas, and are the outer petals of the rose; while within are the four archangels ruling over the four quarters, and the kerubic emblems of the lion, man, bull and eagle. around the great central lamp which is an image of the sun, is the great mother of heaven, syrnbolised by the letter heh, the first of the simple letters, and by its number 5, the pentagram, malkah the bride, ruling in her kingdom malkuth, crowned with a crown of twelve stars. these twelve circles further represent the 12 foundati

formed; holy art thou the vast and the mighty one, lord of the light and of the darkness? by the word paroketh and in the sign of the rending of the veil, i declare that the portal of the vault of the adepti has been opened. ch. ad. 1111 1 2nd ad. 1111 1 3rd ad. ill1 1 hiereus 1111 1 heg 1111 1 he circumambulates once, then returns to seat. all take seats, after the elements are replaced in four quarters by respective officers <163> the ritual of the cross and four elements ch. ad (concealed behind the veil: the portal symbolically opened for the order, is yet closed to the unprepared candidate. the prayer above, a key to the neophyte ritual (which opens the outer order as the portal ritual opens the second order, is the happy song raised by the mystic-theurgist of the poemandrfs, corpus

ough their assignment to the four archangels, are thus four of the seven in the presence of the lord. the hebrew qaballah, the egyptian gnostics and the enochian system of john dee each express in their own terms the recognition of the reality of these four and the seven: qaballist gnostic enochian (the book of enoch: the gnostic "four lights" john dee: ch. ix. v. i (nag hammadi) god names of the quarters the 1 michael armozel bataivah four 2 uriel oroiael iczhikal arch- 3 raphael daveithe raagiosl angels 4 gabriel eleleth edlpmaa 'the seven" 1 uriel the 2 raphael seven 3 raguel in 4 michael the 5 zerachiel presence 6 gabriel 7 remiel the seven thrones (papyri graecae magicae) achlal lalaphenourphen baleeo bolbeo bolbeoch bolbesro yyphtho john dee: the sons of light i ih nr dmal heeoa beig

he midst of the four elements. phil. is directed to stand w <174> of altar in= sign, 3rd ad. behind phil. the four officers in grade signs. hiereus. from the centre outwards, so moveth the point as it traceth the line and the cross. equated and equilibrated lie here the four elements of the body of osiris slain. 2nd ad. may the corrosive cross return upon itself, from without inward from the four quarters to the center, and become by sacrifice and transmutation, an offering acceptable, a body glorified. chief adept unseen sounds gongs once. 2nd ad (to phil) you will now quit the temple for a short time, and on your return, the ceremony of your advance will be proceeded with. phil. gives sign of silence and is led out by hiereus <175> rite of the pentagram and the five paths. temple arrange

t is attributed. air hath a wate y s r b o l, because it is the container of rain and moisture. fire hat t e form of the lion-se ent. water hath the alchemic eagle of distillation a.harth hath the'p,borious u. spirit is produced by the one operating in all things. the elements vibrate between the cardinal points for they have not an unchangeable abode therein, though they are allotted to the four quarters in their invocation in the ceremonies of the first order. this attribution is derived from the nature of the winds. for the easterly wind is of the nature of air more especially. the south wind bringeth into action the nature of fire. west winds bring with them moisture and rain. north winds are cold and dry like earth. the s.w. wind is violent and explosive-the mingling of the contrary e

he south. in the pronunciation of all these names, thou shalt take a deep breath and vibrate them as much as possible inwardly with the outgoing breath, not necessarily loudly, but with vibration thus: a-a-a-el-11. or- em-or-r. di-a-11 hec-te-e-g-ah. if thou wilt, thou mayest also trace the letters of sigils of these names in the air. to invoke the forces of the four elements at once, at the four quarters, commence at the east and there trace the equilibrating pentagram of the actives and the invoking pentagram of air and pronounce the proper names. then carry round the point of thy wand to the south and there trace the equilibrating pentagram for actives and the invoking pentagram of fire and pronounce the proper names. thence, pass to the west, trace the equilibrating pentagram for passi

and the invoking pentagram of earth, pronounce .the proper names, and then complete the circle of the place. in the same manner shalt thou banish, unless thou desirest to retain certain of the forces for a time. all invokations shall be opened and closed with the qabalistic sign of the cross. in certain cases other names, as <17> those of angels and spirits, may be pronounced towards their proper quarters and their names and sigils traced in the air. if thou workest with but one element, thou shalt make (if it be an active element as fire or air- the equilibrating pentagram for actives only and the element's own invoking pentagram, and not those of the other elements. if it be a passive element- earth or water- thou shalt make the equilibrating pentagram of the passives only and the invoki

n the air. if thou workest with but one element, thou shalt make (if it be an active element as fire or air- the equilibrating pentagram for actives only and the element's own invoking pentagram, and not those of the other elements. if it be a passive element- earth or water- thou shalt make the equilibrating pentagram of the passives only and the invoking pentagram of the one element at the four quarters. in closing and banishing follow the same law. also, see that thou pronouncest the proper names with the proper pentagrams supreme invoking ritual of the pentagram diagram 5 face east. make qabalistic cross. make equilibriated active pentagram of spirit. vibrate exarp in making pentagram. vibrate eheieh in making wheel. finish with the 0= signs. a make the invoking pentagram of air

he condition it was in when first made- that is to say dead and lifeless. if thou wishest to bring the rays of all or several of the planets into action at the same time, thou shalt discover their quarter in the heavens for the time of working, and thou shalt trace the general lesser invoking ritual of the hexagram, but not differentiated for any particular planet, and then thou shalt turn to the quarters of the respective planets and invoke their forces as before laid down; and banish them when the invocation is finished, and conclude with the lesser banishing ritual of the hexagram. and ever remember to complete the circle of the place wherein thou workest, following the course of the sun. diagram of the lotus wand diagram 16 white i 1 t% red red-orange orange amber yellow yellow-green e

d, repeat the adoration of the lord of the universe as in the ritual of= grade, salutingateach adoration with theneophytesign, andat 'parkness" giving the sign of silence. holy art thou, lord of the universe. holy art thou whom nature hath not formed. holy art thou the vast and the mighty one. lord of the light and of the darkness. 13. perform the supreme invoking ritual of the pentagram at the 4 quarters of the room, tracing the proper pentagram at each quarter and pronouncing the appropriate angelic and divine names, taking care to give grade sign appropriate to element. 14. s nd then in the eastern quarter, facing east, hold wand by white portion, give= signs, look upward, hold wand on high, and say: 0 harpocrates, lord of silence, who art enthroned upon the lotus. twenty-six are the pe

4 the golden dawn: volume 111 book four as in the= a. rose and incense east. 4. place the new rose cross upon triangle. 6. take up lotus wand in right hand (black band. 7. repeat: hekas, hekas, esti bebeloi! 8. perform the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram. 9. perform the lesser banishing ritual of the hexagram. 10. deposit wand upon the altar. 11. purify the chamber with water in the four quarters, repeating the words "so therefore first the priest who governeth the works of fire, shall sprinkle with the lustral water of the loud resounding sea" 12. consecrate the chamber with fire in the four quarters, saying 'when after all the phantoms are vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hid <58> den depths of the universe, hear

te band. 14. circumambulate with sun three times. 15. return to place, and repeat adoration "holy art thou, lord of the universe! holy art thou whom nature hath not formed. holy art thou, the vast and the mighty one. lord of the light and of the darkness" give sign of neophyte at each adoration, and sign of harpocrates at close. 16. perform the supreme invoking ritual of the pentagram at the four quarters, using the angelic tablet and divine names, for each, with proper grade signs. 17. stand west of altar, facing east. hold lotus wand by white band. 18. make over the rose cross in the air, with lotus wand, and as if standing on centre of rose, the symbol of the circle and cross thus, and invoke all the divine and angelic names of tiphareth by a special form "0 thou most sublime majesty on

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iv of the golden dawn. the student who has gone thus far, and has to some extent studied the technical procedures once used in this magical order, should have no difficulty understanding or applying the following instruction. after preparing the room in the way laid down for the consecration of lesser magical implements, supposing this to be an elemental talisman, first formulate towards the four quarters the supreme ritual of the pentagram as taught. then invoke the divine names turning towards the quarter of the element. let the adeptus then, being seated or standing before the tablet, and looking in the requisite direction of the force which he wishes to invoke, take several deep inspirations, close the eyes, and holding the breath, mentally pronounce the letters of the forces invoked

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ous; it will offer the solution of all problems agitated in our own days, and will endure for 354 years and 4 months, after which it will be succeeded by the return of the reign of orifiel, an epoch of silence and night. the coming universal empire, being under the reign of the sun, will belong to him who holds the keys of the east, which are now being disputed by the princes of the world fs four quarters. but intelligence and activity are the forces which rule the sun in the superior kingdoms, and the nation which possesses at this time the initiative of intelligence and life will have also the keys of the east and will establish the universal kingdom. to do this it may have to undergo previously a cross and martyrdom analogous to those of the man-god; but, dead or living, its spirit will

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

illustrations are not intended as dogmatic assertions of kirk's 'meaning, nor are they necessarily the exact images that were in his own mind as he wrote, though in the case of the cosmological and natural hierarchical figures, some of our illustrations are drawn literally from his words, item by item. introduction 18 where he has indicated general models, such as the rotation of the seasons, the quarters, and the relationships between daemones, fairies, angels, and humans, the relevant illustrations show typical models employed through the centuries, with emphasis on the basic attributes known to be used in pagan and early christian celtic culture. where he has described metaphysical models, such as the formation of the septenary from the four elements and the trinity, we have used simple

ho is [then] to look over the wizard's [seer's] right shoulder [this method is one] which has an ill appearance [for it implies] as if by this ceremony an implicit surrender were made of all between the wizard's foot and his hand before the persons can be admitted [as] a privado to the art [of seership. then will he see a multitude of wights like furious hardy men flocking to him hastily from all quarters, as thick as atoms in the air. these are not nonentities or phantasms [or] creatures proceeding from an affrighted apprehension [or] confused or crazed sense, but realities appearing to a stable man in his wakening senses and [thus] enduring [that is, undergoing] a rational trial of their being. these [beings, through fear, strike him breathless and speechless, but the seer or wizard, def

ages 22-23 they remove to other lodgings at the beginning of each quarter of the year, so traversing until doomsday. and at such revolutions of time, seers or men of the second sight. have veer terrifying encounters with them. therefore [they] have made it a custom. to keep church duly every first sunday of the quarter. and. will not be seen again in church till the next quarter [day] begins. the quarters or seasons (see figure 2) are the turning points of both the pagan and the christian wheel of the year. the four great nodes or turnings were celebrated at approximately the spring and autumn equinox and the summer and winter http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_72.htm (6 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:35:48 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 72-81) figure 2. the wheel of life (the four se

, the souls of the dead are gathered up by the wild hunt in november (coinciding with the appearance of the pleiades, now celebrated as hallow-e'en, and known in gaelic as samhain (b) early celtic traditions are of a semi-nomadic people (though we should be cautious in making generalizations: the ancient land of ireland, for example, was divided geomantically into five zones 13 consisting of four quarters according to the sacred four directions (see figure 3) with a fifth central zone. each zone had its magical, social, and professional or commentary 81 caste divisions. the court of the high king, however, traveled around the idealized land (wherever it might be, ireland being merely one historical example preserved in early literature and tradition) from zone to zone. this concept of a sa

the implication of this transient method is that by coming within the subtle energyfield of the seer, a person without the sight might have his or her vision stimulated for a brief commentary 103 moment. kirk elaborates upon the technicalities or metaphysics (to him, science) of the sight in several places to follow. page 33 then will he see a multitude. like furious hardy men flocking. from all quarters, as thick as atoms in the air. these are not. phantasms. but realities appearing to a stable man. these [beings. strike him breathless. but the seer. forbids such horror, and comforts his novice. this is a classic description of the onset of the second sight, in which entities seems to boil and seethe towards the seer from all directions. the first rush passes, but is terrifying. kirk tel

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win; it's as though we are outnumbered. we know satan's forces are more intelligent, more fit, and stronger than christian forces. the intelligence comes from study, fitness comes through pride, and strength comes from coming into being. revelation 20:7-8 and when the thousand years are expired, satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth. here we discover the biblical authority of satan to rule for a thousand years. what both we and the christians must be apprised of is, when did this rule become effective? perhaps, as the prophets of old, we are the prophets of late. should such be so inclined, should we not be bold enough to proclaim the aeon of our age? now, is the infancy of our age. thusly we should proc

-blocks" of existence: they are not forms per se, but are rather the "alphabet" through which many forms are made comprehensible. if nuit is considered to be the expanse of the natural, material universe, then the inclusion of this statement in this first chapter assumes additional significance. numbers are infinite. for example, there can be countless manifestations of things which are viewed as quarters of wholes or as quartets of complete wholes. at the same time the "4-principle" is rigid in itself and is thus a fixed component of the natural universe. 5. help me, o warrior lord of thebes, in my unveiling before the children of men! the "warrior lord of thebes" is amon (amun/amen, the patron warrior-god of thebes (uast, generally portrayed as a ram or as a man wearing a twin-plumed hea

#ii-49. ankh-f-n-khonsu is the priest commemorated by the stele of revealing. his name means"[he whose] life [is] in khonsu (the moon-god of thebes and son of amon and mut" crowley believed himself to be a reincarnation of this priest. 38. so that thy light is in me& its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. there is a secret door that i shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (these are the adorations, as thou hast written, as it is said, the light is mine; its rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra and tum, of khephra and of ahathoor. i am thy theban, o mentu, the prophet ankh-af-na-khonsu! by bes-na-maut my breast i beat; by wise t'a-nech i weave my spell. show thy star-splendour, o nuit! bid me within thine house to dwell, o winged

gblocks" of existence: they are not forms per se, but are rather the "alphabet" through which many forms are made comprehensible. if nuit is considered to be the expanse of the natural, material universe, then the inclusion of this statement in this first chapter assumes additional significance. numbers are infinite. for example, there can be countless manifestations of things which are viewed as quarters of wholes or as quartets of complete wholes. at the same time the "4-principle" is rigid in itself and is thus a fixed component of the natural universe.(5) interpreting the diabolicon far more literally than most of us would be inclined to do, the above passage from the book of astaroth would suggest that hell, or the realm of the daimons, also has a rigid and symmetrical aspect, which i

w. scott ii date: xxvi html revision: dec 17, 1998 ce subject: eucharist reading list: follow through, and call forth] set-hen [turn to the south, repeat the action, and call forth] nebt-het [turn to the east, repeat the action, and call forth] anpu [turn to the north, repeat the action, and call forth] khepri [replace the sceptre on the altar [take the censer off the altar, and incense the four quarters. replace censer on altar [again take the sceptre, and trace an inverse pentagram in the air; facing south, call forth tuamautef, the god of the south, and say] tuamautef. come forth from your place of rule, and bring your energy for change and enthusiasm. i call you in the name of set your lord and creator. hear me, and be kind in your manifestation. for i seek to know and change that whi

uler of the mind. the moon is the vessel of the divine. this chalice is fashioned from the bones of the moon, ruler of desire. this chalice holds the sweet nectar by which we make ourselves immortal. i drink the sweet darkness and i, master of magic, become [summoning of elementals- spoken by each priest in turn [david austen iv] from the zenith i call vayu, the wind. the wind is the child of the quarters of heaven; it pervades all things. the wind is the breath of the gods, the bringer of life. between the earth and the sky, abode of the sun, is the dwelling place of subtle beings whose king is the lord of the wind, vayu. i invoke vayu, whose aspect is white [robert moffatt iv] from the north i call kubera, owner of the nine treasures, chief of the spirits of darkness, giver of wealth, ch

records, though precise and painstaking to the point of tediousness, are muddled and confused, as he was never really certain in his own mind as to the correct application and context of this work. but what can be gleaned from his notes is that the matter is in its essence very simple and straightforward, and can be summarized as follows: 1. there are four great watchtowers, in the four elemental quarters. these contain the names of various spirits of greater and lesser potency that can be deduced by following certain simple rules. 2. there are thirty aires, or aethyrs, that surround and interpenetrate the earth. these have each their respective governors, whose names are likewise contained in the letters that constitute each watchtower. 3. forty eight calls, or keys, in a language attribu

they are thrown back into a coffin veve/image marked on the floor. they are splashed with water and a cigar puffed over the body, then they are raised from the dead and dance to the rhythms of africa till all have undergone the ordeal. once all have entered a mass takes place. the mass: there is a procession: two flag bearers, the gate keepers, baron samedi and the other houngans bow to the cross quarters, then to the drummers, and then the centre post of the cross roads. there the baron pours water, which runs from the central post to represent three rivers, birth, life and death. then he consecrates the bread and rum; all partake of the sacrament. the cross roads: there are four cross quarters, and each altar is dedicated to a different loa: erzulie, goddess of love; baron samedi, loa of

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and, more improbably: panama- part of the great indian scene "where are we going" the night had acquired the quality of green neon strip--lighting. zeeny parked the car "you're lost" she accused him "what do you know about bombay? your own city, only it never was. to you, it's a dream of childhood. growing up on scandal point is like living on the moon. no bustees there, no sirree, only servants' quarters. did shiv sena elements come there to make communal trouble? were your neighbours starving in the textile strike? did datta samant stage a rally in front of your bungalows? how old were you when you met a trade unionist? how old the first time you got on a local train instead of a car with driver? that wasn't bombay, darling, excuse me. that was wonderland, peristan, nevernever, oz "and y

a" how much she gave him, he marvelled; how much he needed her! their marriage transcended mere sensuality, was so intimate that a separation was unthinkable "growing old beside you" he told her while she slept "will be, mishal, a privilege" he permitted himself the sentimentality of blowing a kiss in her direction and then tiptoeing from the room. out once more on the main veranda of his private quarters on the mansion's upper storey, he glanced across to the gardens, which were coming into view as the dawn lifted the mist, and saw the sight that would destroy his peace of mind forever, smashing it beyond hope of repair at the very instant in which he had become certain of its invulnerability to the ravages of fate. a young woman was squatting on the lawn, holding out her left palm. butte

by the window. as for ayesha: when she encountered the mirza on the balcony, or in the garden as he wandered reading urdu love-poetry, she was invariably deferential and shy; but her good behaviour, coupled with the total absence of any spark of erotic interest, drove saeed further and further into the helplessness of his despair. so it was that when, one day, he spied ayesha entering his wife's quarters and heard, a few minutes later, his mother--in- law's voice rise in a melodramatic shriek, he was seized by a mood of mulish vengefulness and deliberately waited a full three minutes before going to investigate. he found mrs. qureishi tearing her hair and sobbing like a movie queen, while mishal and ayesha sat cross-legged on the bed, facing each other, grey eyes staring into grey, and mi

ufficient to have distracted the keenest eyes. it should also, in fairness, be stated that saladin failed to notice the change himself. what happened? this: during chamcha's brief but violent outburst against gibreel, the horns on his head (which, one may as well point out, had grown several inches while he languished in the attic of the shaandaar b and b) definitely, unmistakably- by about three-quarters of an inch _diminished. in the interest of the strictest accuracy, one should add that, lower down his transformed body- inside borrowed pantaloons (delicacy forbids the publication of explicit details- something else, let us leave it at that, got a little smaller, too. be that as it may: it transpired that the optimism of the report in the imported movie magazine had been ill founded, be

a person i wish to find "hold your horses" mishal told him "we'll work something out" o o o what is to be found here, one mile from the shaandaar, here where the beat meets the street, at club hot wax, formerly the blak-an-tan? on this star-crossed and moonless night, let us follow the figures- some strutting, decked out, hot-to-trot, others surreptitious, shadow-hugging, shy- converging from all quarters of the neighbourhood to dive, abruptly, underground, and through this unmarked door. what's within? lights, fluids, powders, bodies shaking themselves, singly, in pairs, in threes, moving towards possibilities. but what, then, are these other figures, obscure in the on--off rainbow brilliance of the space, these forms frozen in their attitudes amid the frenzied dancers? what are these tha

nsupportable, unrejected burden of its past, staring into the bleakness of its impoverished future. he wandered its streets through that night, and the next day, and the next night, and on until the light and dark ceased to matter. he no longer seemed to need food or rest, but only to move constantly through that tortured metropolis whose fabric was now utterly transformed, the houses in the rich quarters being built of solidified fear, the government buildings partly of vainglory and partly of scorn, and the residences of the poor of confusion and material dreams. when you looked through an angel's eyes you saw essences instead of surfaces, you saw the decay of the soul blistering and bubbling on the skins of people in the street, you saw the generosity of certain spirits resting on their

cted figure walks, one night, between the campfires of mahound's army. perhaps on account of the dark- or it might be because of the improbability of his presence here- it seems that the grandee of jahilia has regained, in this final moment of his power, some of the strength of his earlier days. he has come alone; and is led by khalid the erstwhile water--carrier and the former slave bilal to the quarters of mahound. next, gibreel dreamed the grandee's return home: the town is full of rumours and there's a crowd in front of the house. after a time the sound of hind's voice lifted in rage can be clearly heard. then at an upper balcony hind shows herself and demands that the crowd tear her husband into small pieces. the grandee appears beside her; and receives loud, humiliating smacks on bot

time" he vowed in the prophet's tent of softnesses and shadows "i'll slice him so thin you'll be able to see right through each piece" it seemed to khalid that mahound looked disappointed; but in the low light of the tent it was impossible to be sure. o o o jahilia settled down to its new life: the call to prayers five times a day, no alcohol, the locking up of wives. hind herself retired to her quarters. but where was baal? gibreel dreamed a curtain: the curtain _hijab, was the name of the most popular brothel in jahilia, an enormous palazzo of date--palms in water--tinkling courtyards, surrounded by chambers that interlocked in bewildering mosaic patterns, permeated by labyrinthine corridors which had been deliberately decorated to look alike, each of them bearing the same calligraphic

, watching the circling masked figures from a high balcony, was satisfied. there were more ways than one of refusing to submit. in the months that followed, the staff of the curtain warmed to the new task. the fifteen-year-old whore "ayesha" was the most popular with the paying public, just as her namesake was with mahound, and like the ayesha who was living chastely in her apartment in the harem quarters of the great mosque at yathrib, this jahilian ayesha began to be jealous of her preeminent status of best beloved. she resented it when any of her "sisters" seemed to be experiencing an increase in visitors, or receiving exceptionally generous tips. the oldest, fattest whore, who had taken the name of "sawdah, would tell her visitors and she had plenty, many of the men of jahilia seeking

confidence to order them about, to adjudicate between them, to punish them when he was angry. once when their quarrelling irritated him he forswore them all for a month. when he went to see "ayesha" after twenty-nine nights she teased him for not having been able to stay away "that month was only twenty-nine days long" he replied. once he was caught with "mary the copt" by "hafsah, in "hafsah's" quarters and on "ayesha's" day. he begged "hafsah" not to tell "ayesha, with whom he had fallen in love; but she told her anyway and baal had to stay away from "mary" of the fair skin and curly hair for quite a time after that. in short, he had fallen prey to the seductions of becoming the secret, profane mirror of mahound; and he had begun, once again, to write. the poetry that came was the sweet

at the curtain, one of ayesha's clients recognized him in spite of the dyed skin, pantaloons and body-building exercises. baal was stationed outside ayesha's room when the client emerged, pointed right at him and shouted "so this is where you got to" ayesha came running, her eyes blazing with fear. but baal said "it's all right. he won't make any trouble" he invited salman the persian to his own quarters and uncorked a bottle of the sweet wine made with uncrushed grapes which the jahilians had begun to make when they found out that it wasn't forbidden by what they had started disrespectfully calling the rule book "i came because i'm finally leaving this infernal city" salman said "and i wanted one moment of pleasure out of it after all the years of shit" after bilal had interceded for him

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gn of the pentagram beginning and ending at the uppermost point visualising it as formed from golden sunlight. bringing the fingers down into its centre say; in the name of adonai i open the east. 4) repeat stage 3 whilst facing the south, west and finally the north. return to face the east. 5) open the arms wide so as to form a crucifix of the body, visualising the archangels in their respective quarters facing into the centre, in whatever form most suits you, saying; in the east, raphael in the west, gabriel in the south, michael in the north, uriel about me flames the pentagram behind me shines the six rayed star 6) finally, drawing the cruciform above your head say; above my head is the glory of god, in whose hands is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever, amen. the r

ny use is to employ it often. the structure follows the quintessential formulae of the spiritist. as is normal, some form of sacrifice is expected. most classically this is an ass head, but such is obviously not practical in most events. in more recent times the practitioner s own blood, sexual fluids, and the usual candles and incense have become acceptable. a circle is cast, calling at the four quarters. this is achieved through the vibration of various magical names and words of power. these should be vibrated with the full capacity of the lungs, and also with the totality of the mind. there is a progressive self identification as the dweller in the void place of spirit, akephelos, who may be identified as a face of chaos and the abyss, the demiurge of the gnostics, both and neither hol

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th of the qur an, but he had little interest in disputes about its meaning or which of its laws muslims should follow. many readers enjoy his poetry because it makes use of numerous simple, easy-to-understand symbols. he often used images of wine and a man prays in the rumi mevlana mausoleum in konya, turkey. the mausoleum houses jala l s body. also on the grounds are a mosque, dance hall, living quarters and school. it is a popular site for muslim pilgrims and others. k. m. westermann/ corbis. jala l ad-d n ar-ru m world religions: biographies 183 taverns, for example, to suggest that life is like a big feast at which people celebrate out of sheer joy. he spoke of drunkenness to suggest how people might feel when they experience closeness with allah. other simple symbols jala l used inclu

clopedia. communist supporters carry portraits of friedrich engels( from left, karl marx, and vladimir lenin during a rally in europe. marx was an atheist who believed that religion was a method used to oppress the working man. ap images. 262 world religions: biographies karl marx this work, combined with a small inheritance from jenny marx s mother, allowed the family to move to more comfortable quarters in kentish town, near london. marx s good fortune, however, was short-lived. in 1856 jenny gave birth to a stillborn child, then was later left deaf and badly scarred by smallpox, a highly infectious disease. for much of the rest of his life, marx himself endured a number of health problems, including a severe case of boils, an inflammation of the skin. he consoled himself by characterizi

h of her daughter, she came to see herself as a universal mother figure, providing maternal comfort and aid to any who needed it. her motto, according to forest, was, each person is the very icon [representation] of god incarnate [in bodily form] in the world. with the moral and financial support of the bishop, mother maria was able to expand her assistance to the community. she moved into larger quarters in a section of paris where many russian immigrants lived. she also rented other buildings, one to house single men, another to help families in need. she soon became a common sight around paris, approaching street vendors and produce merchants to beg for grocery items, many nearly spoiled, that she could serve to the people in her care. in 1939 she acquired a partner, father dimitri klep

orses everywhere a whole skyful of horses dancing round me. make haste! the bay horse said; and we walked together side by side, while the blacks, the whites, the sorrels, and the buckskins followed, marching four by four. i looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished. then as we walked, there was a heaped up cloud ahead that changed into a tepee, and a rainbow was the open door of it; and through the door i saw six old men sitting in a row. the two men with the spears now stood beside me, one on either hand, and the horses took their places in their quarters, looking inward, four by four. and the

a tepee, and a rainbow was the open door of it; and through the door i saw six old men sitting in a row. the two men with the spears now stood beside me, one on either hand, and the horses took their places in their quarters, looking inward, four by four. and the oldest of the grandfathers spoke with a kind voice and said: come right in and do not fear. and as he spoke, all the horses of the four quarters neighed to cheer me. so i went in and stood before the six, and they looked older than men can ever be old like hills, like stars. the oldest spoke again: your grandfathers all over the world are having a council, and they have called you here to teach you. his voice was very kind, but i shook all over with fear now, for i knew that these were not old men, but the powers of the world. and

r, the color of good and of plenty, and as he pointed, the red man lay down and rolled and changed into a bison that got up, and galloped toward the sorrel horses of the east, and they too turned to bison, fat and many. and now the fourth grandfather spoke, he of the place where you are always facing (the south, whence comes the power to grow. younger brother, he said, with the powers of the four quarters you shall walk, a relative. behold, the living center of a nation i shall give you, and with it many you shall save. and i saw that he was holding in his hand a bright red stick that was alive, and as i looked it sprouted at the top and sent forth branches, and on the branches many leaves came out and murmured and in the leaves the birds began to sing. and then for just a little while i 4

en chinese warlords were gaining power by taking over neighboring regions. the analects attempted to provide an antidote, or remedy, to these problems by defining the qualities of kind and just leadership. excerpt from the analects of confucius book 1 the master said, is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? is he not a man of complete virtue, who feels no discomposure though men may take no note of him? the philosopher yu said, they are few who, being filial and fraternal, are fond of offending against their superiors. there have been none, who, not liking to offend against their superiors, have been fond of stirring up confusion. the superior man bends his attention to what is radical. tha

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3 (opladen 1992) 44, 19f, 214 (gg. for a picture of seth as ass, see, e.g, suppl. mag. ii.69. 15 see procope-walter "iao und set, archiv fur religionswissenschaft 30 (1933) 64-65. he does not discuss pgm iv.1331-1389. 16 see "iao und seth" 34-48. pearson did not note this text. 17 there is no need to regard the identification of jesus as "the god of the hebrews" as due to a later hand. in certain quarters, jesus was regarded as the biblical maleak yahweh, the yahweh angel, who is often indistinguishable from god himself. already in jude 5, jesus is seen as the angel of yahweh who led the people out of egypt; see j. fossum "kyrios jesus as the angel of the lord in jude 5-7, new testament studies 33 (1987) 226-243. this is one of the prominent works of the deity invoked in the spell in pgm i

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ht that softens into beauty every angle on which it falls, seemed his presence, as moonlight vanishes, and things assume their common aspect of the rugged and the mean, he receded from her eyes, and the outward scene was commonplace once more. the stranger passed on, through that long and lovely road which reaches at last the palaces that face the public gardens, and conducts to the more populous quarters of the city. a group of young, dissipated courtiers, loitering by the gateway of a house which was open for the favourite pastime of the day, the resort of the wealthier and more high-born gamesters, made way for him, as with a courteous inclination he passed them by "per fede" said one "is not that the rich zanoni, of whom the town talks "ay; they say his wealth is incalculable "they say

t du texte hebreu par m. pierre morissoneau, professeur des langues orientales, et sectateur de la philosophie des sages cabalistes (manuscript translation (the celestial intelligences exhibit and explain themselves most freely in silence and the tranquillity of solitude. one will have then a little chamber, or a secret cabinet, etc) the palace retained by zanoni was in one of the less frequented quarters of the city. it still stands, now ruined and dismantled, a monument of the splendour of a chivalry long since vanished from naples, with the lordly races of the norman and the spaniard. as he entered the rooms reserved for his private hours, two indians, in the dress of their country, received him at the threshold with the grave salutations of the east. they had accompanied him from the f

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ying with him four models or "dummy" jars, or four porcelain figures of the four gods, or four wax ones. for some unknown reason the set referred to above was made of wax. 1 the four children of horus played a p. 91 very important part in the funeral works of the early dynasties; they originally represented the four supports of heaven, but very soon each was regarded as the god of one of the four quarters of the earth, and also of that quarter of the heavens which was above it. as the constant prayer of the deceased was that he should be able to go about wherever he pleased, both on earth and in heaven, it was absolutely necessary for his welfare that he should propitiate these gods and place himself under their protection, which could only be secured by the recital of certain words of pow

that chapters clxil-clxv. were composed at a comparatively late date. yet another example of the magical pictures of the book of the dead must here be given. the vignette of chapter cxlviii. contains pictures of seven cows "and their bull" and of four rudders; the seven cows have reference to the seven hathor goddesses, the bull is, of course, a form of ra, and the four rudders refer to the four quarters of the earth and to the four cardinal points. the text of the chapter contains the names of the cows and of the bull, and of the rudders, and certain prayers for sepulchral. offerings. now the deceased would be provided with "abundance of food regularly and continually for ever" if the following things were done for him. figures of the cows and of their bull and of the rudders were to be

es we see that it began with the sprinkling of water round about the statue or mummy from four vessels, one for each quarter of the earth, and with the recital of addresses to the gods horus, set, thoth, and sept; this act restored to the deceased the use of his head. the sprinkling of water was followed by a purification by means of incense, also contained in four vases, one for each of the four quarters of the earth. the burning p. 194 of this sweet-smelling substance assisted in opening the mouth of the deceased and in strengthening his heart. at this stage the sem priest dressed himself in the skin of a cow, and lying down upon a kind of couch pretended to be asleep; but he was roused up by the am-asi priest in the presence of the kher-heb and the am-khent priest, and when the sem prie

use of it, was restored to the deceased, it was all important to give p. 197 him not only the words of power, but also the ability to utter them correctly and in such wise that the gods and other beings would hearken to them and obey them; four touches of the ur hekau instrument on the lips endowed the deceased with the faculty of uttering the proper words in the proper manner in each of the four quarters of the world. when this had been done, several other ceremonies were performed with the object of allowing the "son who loveth him" or his representative to take part in the opening of the mouth of his father. in order to do this he took in his hand a metal chisel and touched the openings of the mouth and of the eyes, and then the sem priest touched them first with his little finger, and

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ompass: the off-beat rhythms of the drums that summon the loa from beyond the veil and formulate the laws of their manifestation. spare's system of sorcery, as expressed in zos kia cultus, continues in a straight line not only the petro tradition of voodoo, but also the vama marg of tantra, with its eight directions of space typified by the yantra of the black goddess, kali: the cross of the four quarters plus the inbetweenness concepts that together compose the eightfold cross, the eight-petalled lotus, a synthetic symbol of the goddess of the seven stars plus her son, set or sirius. the mechanics of the new sexuality are based upon the dynamics of the death posture, a formula evolved by spare for the purpose of reifying the negative potential in terms of positive power. in ancient egypt

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left upper middle section symbolizes, among other things, the sun. sun worship was "the oldest and by far the most prevalent of all the ancient religions."15 the sphere is bisected and quartered "the phenomena of nature that made the deepest religious impression on archaic man [were] the outstretched heavens above him, and the outspread earth beneath; both of which he naturally divided into four quarters. this four-fold heaven and earth he signified by a circle, or a square, divided cross-ways."16 the circle is met within every form of sorcery. the circle in quadrants is called ihe magic circle.17 the objects in the meditation room are intended to be evocative, in the religious sense. of what? the mural and altar are admittedly symbols "by symbolism the simplest, the commonest objects are

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area of influence far beyond the discreet limitations typically imposed by time. in other words, the originating sources energy is extended through its harmonic counterparts, each one being further removed from the originating source. as this sequence continues it crosses vast expanses of time. here is another way to understand this concept. a emits a resonant frequency that extends 1 mile, three quarters of a mile away is a harmonic counterpart b, it resonates with the originating source a and its range is one mile, a half mile away harmonic counterpart c is engaged by b who was engaged by a. so, in discreet steps the originating source extends itslef far beyond its initial range. multiply this by billions and you can easily see how an original issuance of energy has taken us to where we

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e. the whiteness should be brilliant. the sigils are drawn from the lettering of the rose upon the cross, and these are in trapt, which corresponds to the heart. draw them as if the rose were in your heart. in vibrating any name, pronounce it as many times as it has letters. this is the invoking whirl. 6 example: the vibration of rah ynda. perform the banishing ritual of the pentagram in the four quarters of your room, preceded by the qabalistic cross. then, in each quarter give the signs of the adeptus minor, say iao and lvx, making the symbol of the rose-cross as taught in the paper describing the rose-cross ritual. pass to the center of the room, and face east. then formulate before you in brilliant white flashings the letters of the name in the form of a cross i.e. both perpendicular a

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elevate energy, and facilitate events for the achievement of goals, or celebrate personal transitions. it is also a way to honoring the divine in the form of the seasons, and the lord& lady. most rituals include these procedures: 1) preparing the space and equipment 2) preparing of self (cleansing& centering) 3) asperging the space (with salt-water or smudge stick) 4) cast the circle 5) call the quarters 6) invoke the lord& lady 7) state your desired goal(s) 8) raise the cone of power 9) ground the energy with refreshments 10) dismiss the quarters, and thank the lord& lady 11) open the circle page 17 grimoire of eclectic magick the art of magick rituals continued sample ritual the rituals that you write for yourself, will always have the most power. what follows is a sample ritual designe

f the original author. invocation of the lord& lady maiden bring thy flowers, mother bring thy child, grandmother bring thy wisdom, dana, hail and welcome youth bring thy swiftness, father bring thy strength, grandfather bring thy guidance, cernunnos, hail and welcome lord& lady, enter this circle in peace, make an altar of my body, and grant me wisdom& guidance as i perform my rites. calling the quarters, is done while standing in the goddess posture. the wording for this sample ritual, has been taken from the invocation scene of the craft. facing east say, hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the east. powers of air and invention. hear us(me! facing south say, hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the south. powers of fire and feeling. hear us(me! facing west say, hail to th

rnonnus, and by my own spirit, be you thrice blessed. become one with me and work my will. so mote it be! grounding the energy. this can be done with refreshments such as juice& cupcakes (or if you are of age and inclined, cakes& wine, or ale. another method of grounding, is the infamous hugging of a tree. the purpose here is to relax, and let the energy raised in ritual dissipate. dismissing the quarters, and thanking the lord& lady when all is done, it is time to say farewell. the lord& lady: dana& cernunnos, we(i) thank you for joining this circle, and ask that if it is your will, depart now in peace until next we meet. hail and farewell! the quarters: o ye guardians of the watchtowers, we(i) thank you for your services, and wish you depart now in peace. hail and farewell! if you used i

& lady when all is done, it is time to say farewell. the lord& lady: dana& cernunnos, we(i) thank you for joining this circle, and ask that if it is your will, depart now in peace until next we meet. hail and farewell! the quarters: o ye guardians of the watchtowers, we(i) thank you for your services, and wish you depart now in peace. hail and farewell! if you used invoking pentagrams to call the quarters, you should now use banishing pentagrams to dismiss the quarters. opening the circle. start in the east and walk widdershins (counter-clockwise) around the circle, chanting may the circle be open, but unbroken. may the peace of the goddess be ever in your heart. merry meet, and merry part, and merry meet again! suggested reading list amber k, covencraft: witchcraft for three or more ian c

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e second floor, two or three of the group commented that they had sensed something strange in one of the middle bedrooms, especially in the area next to an old bureau. the tenant, whom carrington identified only as mr. x, told the party that he and his wife had heard noises coming from that particular bedroom. the group proceeded down a hallway until they came to the door that led to the servants quarters. carrington opened the door, glanced up, and saw that the top floor was brightly illuminated and that a steep flight of stairs lay just ahead of the investigators. with carrington in the lead, the party ascended the stairs until they found themselves confronted by a series of small rooms. carrington made a sharp turn to the right, and the moment he did so, he felt as though a sudden blow

head. a dog, belonging to a member of the party, resisted all manner of coaxing designed to lure it upstairs. it growled, planted its feet stubbornly, and the hair raised on its back. in short, carrington commented, the dog behaved very much as dogs are supposed to behave in the presence of ghostly phenomena. much later that evening, carrington led another expedition up the stairs to the servants quarters. this time, the atmosphere seemed to have purged itself of the poisonous influence, and no member of the party experienced any sensations similar to their previous excursion. the dog bounded up the stairs, poked its nose into all the corners, and behaved as if prowling around such a house were the most natural thing in the world. car- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u

ixteenth century, florin de raemond described the rites of the sabbat then extant (translation from rhodes, the satanic mass: the presiding deity is a black goat with two horns. a man dressed as a priest is attended by two women servers. a young initiate is presented to the goat who makes the sign of the cross with the left hand and commands those present to salute him with the kiss upon the hind-quarters. between his horns the creature carries a black lighted candle from which the worshippers tapers are lighted. as each one adores the goat, money is dropped into a silver dish. de raemond goes on to state that the new witch is initiated by giving satan a lock of her hair, and by going apart with him into a wood. then, according to de raemond, the sabbat dance follows in the familiar back-t

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le ages. ithaca, n.y: cornell university press, 1972. seligmann, kurt. the history of magic. new york: pantheon books, 1948. trevor-roper, h. r. the european witch-craze. new york: harper& row, 1967. witchcraft trials in the period from about 1450 to 1750, somewhere around 40,000 to 60,000 individuals were tried as witches and condemned to death in central europe. of that number, as high as three-quarters of the victims were women. numerous scholars have pointed out that beginning in the fourteenth century, the close of the middle ages, the christian establishment of europe was forced to deal with an onset of social, economic, and religious changes. it was also during this time (1347.49) that the black death, the bubonic plague, nearly decimated the populations of the european nations and

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s) in the 16th century. this version depicted four worlds (a) olam ha-azilut, the world of emanation (the sephiroth (b) olam ha-beriah, the world of creation (the throne& chariot (c) olam ha-yezirah, the world of formation (the angels (d) olam ha-asiyyah, the world of making (the terrestrial sphere) the four worlds obviously can be connected with the four letters of the divine name yhvh, the four quarters, the four elements, and other quaternary systems. sedir, quoted by papus, gives the nature of each world as (a) azilut, the world of emanations, at which level that which renders possibility becomes real (i.e. the thirty-two paths of wisdom (b) beriah, the world of creation, at which level the spirit is moved to general manifestation without differentiation. the zohar calls this world the

iroth. the letters of chesed, cheth, samekh, daleth, conceal the square in a number of ways. firstly cheth itself has the value of 8, the double square, and in full the value of 418, the number of the great work accomplished, according to crowley. this sums to 4+1+8=13=1+3=4. daleth has the value of 4 also. point cheth draw a double square about the temple. the corners of the first square are the quarters, commencing in the east, then south, west and north. the corners of the second square are the cross- quarters, commencing in the south-east, then south-west, north-west, and north-east. this makes another form of enclosure (cheth) about the temple. point samekh take a staff or stick to each point of the double square in turn, commencing with the east. say; within this temple, the powers o

are the cross- quarters, commencing in the south-east, then south-west, north-west, and north-east. this makes another form of enclosure (cheth) about the temple. point samekh take a staff or stick to each point of the double square in turn, commencing with the east. say; within this temple, the powers of the (quarter or cross-quarter name) are awakened! point daleth take the staff to each of the quarters in turn, saying as appropriate; east: i open the portal of the east and awaken the energy of air. south: i open the portal of the south and awaken the energy of fire. west: i open the portal of the west and awaken the energy of water. north: i open the portal of the north and awaken the energy of earth. the meditation for the ritual is one used in many opening rituals, which involves faci

l is one used in many opening rituals, which involves facing each quarter in turn and meditating on the properties of the element associated with that quarter. thus for east, one visualises the air, and attempts to awaken within oneself the positive qualities of air, being lightness, swiftness, clarity and so forth. most systems, including kabbalah, also use personifications for the powers of the quarters, such as michael for the south, or djinn in the wiccan system. however, in the sapphire temple sequence, it is best to begin with the abstract principle of the element, and then build up suitable personifications at a later stage. this avoids some of the dangers involved with working with personified energy when first beginning ritual work, the worst of which is attributing personal quali

box, one by one, saying with each; this is (name of sephirah. this assists my work by (appropriate wording, for example. by bringing me joy" whilst placing a symbol of netzach in the box. point vau close the box, pause, and then open it again, saying; let inspiration proceed from this treasure house of images, which is of my own nature. point daleth take up the box and take it to each of the four quarters in turn. say at each point; this box is my foundation. this box is made one with the powers of the (name of quarter, e.g. east. 10. malkuth; the ritual of binding-together the components of work gathered together in yesod must now be united and the work completed. as a result of this a new state is initiated, and the sequence commences again as malkuth is inherently joined to kether. this

hand towards altar, palm up and state aim of working. point cheth; draw a circle about the temple. point beth; elevate a chalice filled with wine and visualise light descending from above. this completes the first triad above the abyss. the elevation of the chalice is symbolic of the creation of da'ath, or 'knowledge, from the union of chockmah and binah. point cheth; draw the double-cube of the quarters and cross-quarters. activate the quarters. point gimel; light incense. point tau; hold out arms in form of cross and visualise pillars. this completes the second triad above the veil, which prepares the place of working. point nun; write oath or perform main working, meditation, as appropriate. point heh; light candle in the east, visualise light blessing working and drink wine. point yod

cities that occur with connection to the deity. follow this exercise for a month. this is a simplified version of the devotional exercise practised by the philosophus in aleister crowley's liber astarte. 3. study the works of jung with reference to synchronicity and archetypes. how are these processes taken into account in terms of the tree of life? 4. place an object or image at each of the four quarters appropriate to each element thus (the elemental weapons are given as an example; north; earth (pentacle) east; air (sword) south; fire (wand) west; water (cup) note that the four elemental weapons are the primary tools that our species developed as extensions of our own action in the world; pentacle; palm of hand for carrying objects, later a large leaf, then a flat piece of wood or stone

inion, realm, reign appendix two the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram. there are a number of variants of this ritual, which was the primary practical work of golden dawn initiates until their attainment of the grade of adeptus minor. it pre-dates even its jewish origins, and is to be found in a ancient babylonian text where the individual summons the four major deities to each of the four quarters to protect them. in essence, it is a statement of separation and preparation for esoteric work, but in daily life it is also a ritual of observation, and an attempt to awaken and identify with the observer within. although often cited as an ideal preparation for meditation work, i would recommend the alternative ritual of the "rose-cross" for this, which may be found in the "complete gold

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y of their existence and function is based the deepest sense of man's individuality and the basis of matter also. mind and body are not two separate things but dual manifestations of one and the same unknown unit. the result of the celebration of the qabalistic cross, the vibration of the divine names, the formulation of the four pentagrams, and the invocation of the archangelic forms in the four quarters, is that gradually coarser elements are ejected from the sphere of sensation. to take their place other particles, more sensitive and refined, of a lugher grade of spiritual substance, are attracted to the personal sphere and become infused into the character and nature of the physical and psychological constitution. the nature of these newlyacquired particles is such as not to impede the

o diffuse throughout the personality a more profound insight, and a keener zest and appreciation of life, and it bestows a greater ability to cope with it. the ritual itself is not a simple movement, but is composed of several phrases. the first is that of the qabalistic cross already explained. the second consists of the tracing of a limiting circle, marked at each of the four angles or cardinal quarters by a pentagram. thrd, the invocation of the archangelic guardians. fourth, the repetition of the opening gesture. having expanded consciousness, and visualized hmself as a towering cross of light, let the student face the east of his room,22 stretchng before him his right hand. it is customary to employ a straight-bladed dagger with a cross hilt, but ths is relatively unimportant for the

s is comprised of four letters each.24 in the mystical system of the ancients e;ch was attributed to one of the four elements or the four modes of activity comprising our make-up,*5 and the ritual has direct effect upon these. it would take too long and serve no good purpose to dilate upon the reason why these names were supposed to be effectual, and why certain names were associated with certain quarters and not to others.26 suffice here to say that the tradition has found them effectual for the purpose under consideration, and the experimental work of modem students has confirmed this psychological association. the student desirous of delving more deeply into the subject, wishing to discover the system by which symbolic names are attributed to certain quarters or to the ten sephroth, wil

or the purpose of banishing. in actuality, no such implement is needed, and the magician may simply use his index and middle fingers to trace the pentagram just as effectively. 14. although the figure traced is the same as the banishing earth pentagram, in the lbrp it should be referred to as the lesser banishing pentagram. this is because it is traced in all four directions, alluding to the four quarters (sub-elements) of malkuth: air of malkuth, water of malkuth, fire of malkuth, and earth of malkuth. 15. yhvh is transliterated english for m7, which is called the tetragrammaton or "four-lettered name" it is considered the ineffable name of god. each letter of the name is also attributed to one of the four worlds of the qabalah: yod= atziluth, heh= briah, vav= yetzirah, and heh final= ass

and tiphareth. these also represent a balancing of the four elements within the magician's aura: kether/ air, malkuth/ earth, geburahl fire, and chesed or gedulah/water. and although the name of tiphareth is not vibrated, the balancing element of spirit is indicated by placing the hands over the heart area. after the qabalistic cross, the magician traces the lesser banishing pentagram in all four quarters, beginning in the east and walking clockwise. the symbol of the pentagram refers to the four elements-crowned and completed by the fifth element of spirit. the pentagram is a symbol of protection. when traced, the pentagrams are visualized in flaming astral blue or white light. they are charged by stabbing through the center of the figure when the appropriate hebrew words are vibrated. th

he earth. for about me the pentagram 197 flames sehedj("a heaven of stars. and above me shines tau nudjer("the star of godu).28 repeat the egyptian qabalistic cross as in the beginning. egyptian banishing rituals alternative versions the student may choose to replace the pentagram in the above ritual with symbols that retain a more egyptian character. rather than tracing the pentagram in the four quarters, the magician could draw the sign of the ankh or the wedjat (the eye of horus. both were considered powerful amulets for protection. the ankh is the symbol of eternal life, while the wedjat is the symbol for health, wholeness, protection, and general well-being (see figure 14, p. 198) to trace the ankh in the air before you, start on the left side at the point where the circle meets the c

n part of the room and move to the southern, western, and northern portion of the temple as required for the tracing of the pentagrams. for the invocation of the archangels and the final qabalistic cross, the magician can again move to the center of the room. if the temple space is very small, the magician can simply stand in the center of the room throughout the entire ritual and turn toward the quarters to trace the pentagrams. 3. michael, gabriel, and raphael are the three archangels that are most often cited in the bible. the bahir, an important qabalistic text, lists the three major angels as michael, gabriel, and uriel (see the bahir translated by aryeh kaplan, page 41. uriel also figures prominently in non-canonical lore, but in some texts, uriel is confused or replaced with phanuel

he divine names yeheshuah and yehovashah while concentrating on the tiphareth center. 7. circulation of the light would be a better description. 8 "the tree of life as projected in a solid sphere (regardie, the golden dawn, 594, describes a three-dimensional tree which is similar but not identical to the one that we describe here (the tree in the five pillar exercise uses the pillars in the cross-quarters rather than the cardinal quarters) 9. it is this reflected image that the magician "backs into (see chapter nine, pages 192-196. 10. this is the classical greek pronunciation. it is acceptable to treat the "g" as silent. the letter omega is pronounced as "aw" like in the word "saw" thus, the first vowel in the word gnosis sounds like the first vowel in the word gnostic. 11. an alternative

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never be removed when the sun is in the sky, but only after the night has fallen and the earth grown black, for ninib knows the best the ways of the demons that prowl among the shadows, looking for sacrifice. he knows best the territories of the ancient ones, the practices of their worshippers, and the locations of the gates. his realm is the realm of the night of time. his number is four, as the quarters of the earth, and the following is his seal: the book of entrance, and of the walking the book of entrance this is the book of entrance to the seven zones above the earth, which zones were known to the chaldeans, and to the ancient races that preceded them among the lost temples of ur. know that these zones are governed by the celestial spirits, and that passage may be had by the priest t

the one who is always ready, the guardian of the other side, iak sakkak, will enter and bring with him the hordes of the armies of the ancient ones, iak kingu, iak azag, iak azabua, iak huwawa, ishniggarab, iak xastur, and iak kutulu, the dog gods and the dragon gods, and the sea monsters, and the gods of the deep. watch also the days. the day when the great bear hangs lowest in the sky, and the quarters of the year measured thereof in the four directions measured thereof, for there the gates may be opened and care must needs be taken to ensure that the gates remain forever closed. they must be sealed with the elder sign accompanied by the rites and incantations proper. the fifty names here follow, with their signs and powers. they may be summoned after the priest has ascended to that ste

y not be seen. and this was taught by the priests of babylon, who charged that these formulae may never be revealed to anyone who is not initiated into our ways, for to do so would be the most frightful error. though they dwell beyond the gate, they may be summoned when marduk is not watchful, and sleeps, on those days when he has no power, when the great bear hangs from its tail, and on the four quarters of the year computed therefrom, and on the spaces between these angles. on these days, the mother tiamat is restless, the corpse kutulu shakes beneath the earth, and our master enki is sore afraid. prepare, then the bowl of tiamat, the dur of indur, the lost bowl, the shattered bowl of the sages, summoning thereby the firik of gid, and the lady shakuguku, the queen of the cauldron. recite

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ms of what once was join in this mighty circle 7 by the west can the leviathanic dragon be heard, who devours his being and time itself. let the timeless daemon envenom you with the dreams of those who walk the earth since the times of burning sand and mountains, to the gardens of green and the cradle of birth. leviathan emerge, leviathan bring to union samael shaitan and his bride, lilith in all quarters. let my awakening invoke cain! by the waters of the abyss shall i sink deep and drink of the passions of the subconscious. by the south west emerging from the waters of the abyss does akibeel empower you to emerge from the oceans with the knowledge granted to you. listen to the waters in both storm and silence, there is much to hear in their waves .come forth from the oceans as a beast an

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

song shall be nearer, my god, to thee, nearer to thee. to raise oneself through the vicious and the virtuous, to reside, as adonis did, six months with proserpine, and six with venus, to be as day and night, winter and summer, is no easy path to tread; and if it be necessary for the initiate to gaze on the back parts of jahveh, it is, however, most certainly not necessary for him to kiss the hind quarters of the goat of mendes, or to revel in the secret orgies of the agapae; for the tempting of man is but the tempering of the metal *yet the virtue of one man may be the vice of another. the flower which springs from the dunghill assimilates into itself particles of matter, transforming them into the ruby of the poppy and the sapphire of the cornflower; so with us, it is synthetically that w

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hes, the alphabet of desire as spare termed it. this very sigillic language is unique unto the sorcerer, it is a key to the depths and heights of the spirit, the language of the subconscious. please note the serpent which encircles the initiate, the death posture brings one within the very circle of azothoz, the alpha and omega and the very ophidian (sexual) essence of being. leviathan guards the quarters and coils in your rising shades and energy of the self. in essence, self love allows growth and discovery, as well as compassion towards others and utter hunger and destruction for those who have wronged you. evil genius herein the fetish of the sorcery, the holy guardian angel/evil genius or luciferian angel within the black tradition. when the initiate has uplifted his own being by the

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sites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month. 13:6 seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day [shall be] a feast to the lord. 13:7 unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters. 13:8 and thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying [this is done] because of that [which] the lord did unto me when i came forth out of egypt. 13:9 and it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the lord s law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the lord brought thee out of egypt. 13:10 thou shalt therefore keep this ordin

house, if any man fall from thence. 22:9 thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled. 22:10 thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. deuteronomy page 116 22:11 thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts [as] of woollen and linen together. 22:12 thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest [thyself] 22:13 if any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, 22:14 and give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, i took this woman, and when i came to her, i found her not a maid: 22:15 then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth [the tokens of] the damsel s virginit

the tabernacle of the congregation. 9:22 all these [which were] chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. these were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom david and samuel the seer did ordain in their set office. 9:23 so they and their children [had] the oversight of the gates of the house of the lord [namely] the house of the tabernacle, by wards. 9:24 in four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south. 9:25 and their brethren [which were] in their villages [were] to come after seven days from time to time with them. 9:26 for these levites, the four chief porters, were in [their] set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of god. 9:27 and they lodged round about the house of god, because the charge [was] u

ons [and] a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor [any] son of man dwell in it. 49:34 the word of the lord that came to jeremiah the prophet against elam in the beginning of the reign of zedekiah king of judah, saying, 49:35 thus saith the lord of hosts; behold, i will break the bow of elam, the chief of their might. 49:36 and upon elam will i bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of elam shall not come. 49:37 for i will cause elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and i will bring evil upon them [even] my fierce anger, saith the lord; and i will send the sword after them, till i have consumed them: 49:38 and i will set

and i will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and i will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts [of armour, even] a great company [with] bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: 38:5 persia, ethiopia, and libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: 38:6 gomer, and all his bands; the house of togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands [and] many people with thee. 38:7 be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. 38:8 after many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land [that is] brought back from the sword [and is] gathered out of many people, against the mountains of israel, which

e churches. 16:1 then came he to derbe and lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a jewess, and believed; but his father [was] a greek: 16:2 which was well reported of by the brethren that were at lystra and iconium. 16:3 him would paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a greek. 16:4 and as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at jerusalem. 16:5 and so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily. 16:6 now when they had gone throughout phrygia and the region of galatia, and were forbidden of th

, no doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live. 28:5 and he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm. 28:6 howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god. 28:7 in the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously. 28:8 and it came to pass, that the father of publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him. 28:9 so when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and wer

inished. this [is] the first resurrection. 20:6 blessed and holy [is] he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of god and of christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. 20:7 and when the thousand years are expired, satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 20:8 and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, gog and magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom [is] as the sand of the sea. 20:9 and they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from god out of heaven, and devoured them. 20:10 and the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast

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whatever a brother or sister might desire and ask, and hence, says mapes, they were called paterini, a patiendo.1 other writers have suggested a different derivation, but the one first given appears to be that most generally accepted. the different sects or congregations in italy and the south, indeed, appear generally to have taken their names from the towns in which they had their seats or head-quarters. thus, those who were seated at bagnols, in the department of the gard, in the south of france, were called by the latin writers bagnolenses; the same writers give the name of concordenses, or concorezenses, to the heretics of concordia in lombardy; and the city of albi, now the capital of the department of the tarn, gave its name to the sect of the albigenses, or albigeois, the most exte

bt brought in there amid the witchcraft mania of the sixteenth century. from the time of the publication of the malleus maleficarum until the beginning of the seventeenth century, through all parts of western europe, the number of books upon sorcery which issued from the press was immense; and we must not forget that a monarch of our own, king james i, shone among the writers on witchcraft. three quarters of a century nearly had passed since the time of the malleus, when a frenchman named bodin, latinised into bodinus, published a rather bulky treatise which became from that time the text-book on witchcraft. the sabbath is described in this book in all its completeness. it was usually held in a lonely place, and when possible on the summits of mountains or in the solitude of forests. when

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transition from triangle to square. adam's sin was to draw a circle around himself and make a separate personal universe apart from the living universe that was god. the clothing he put on was a suit of flesh and ego. in the garden, adam and eve had no circles around them, but were aspects of the unity of the all. table of square elements names of cod letters of ihvh archangels evangelists beasts quarters seasons motions worlds elementals winds rivers growth colors instruments fire ihvh tzabaoth yod michael mark lion south summer linear atziluth salamanders notus pison stalk red rod water elohim el chai he gabriel matthew eagle west fall rotary briah undines zephyrus gihon fruit blue cup air shaddai ha-aretz va u raphael john angel north winter vibratory yetzirah sylphs boreas hiddikel see

e symbol to be contained, form the circle around his or her transferred awareness, and then get out of it through the doorway that lies at its center, which is the only passage in or out of a closed circle. if this is done properly, the circle will have the power to contain. in modern magic the pentagram is often drawn in the air through the floating line of the imagined ritual circle at the four quarters to bar the circle from any form of psychic attack. this is scarcely necessary. the circle is perfect and unbreak- able. by linking it to the four pentagrams it is, if anything, weakened. to clear a space instantly, the magus may mentally send six pentagrams, expand- ing out from the center of self, rushing along three spatial axes. this is an effective tool for banishing malefic influence

three sides. the quarter is not enclosed at all but bordered on two sides. if each pair of paral- lel lines in the grid were united, the result would be a cross, where the whole would be represented by the dimensionless point of intersection. the grid is a cross the center of which has been expanded to enclose a space. it is vital that an understanding of the division of the whole into halves and quarters be attained because any grasp of the fundamental nature of the planets depends upon it. in astrology three essential figures are derived from the grid-the circle (whole, the crescent (halves, and the cross (quarters. obtained by reason, these figures were assigned to the primary objects in the heavens most closely according to their meaning. only two heavenly bodies have a diameter observ

e around the outside edge of the tetragram to enclose it. the mutable banner of fire, ih, linked to sagittarius, yields a zigzag shape that cuts once through the middle of the tetragram, dividing it into upper and lower halves. the fixed banner of fire, 1vh3, which is linked to leo, gives a cross pattern on the tetragram that cuts twice through the center point and divides the tetragram into four quarters: cardinal mutable fixed if you think of the diamond of the tetragram as a circle, you will see that the cardinal motion is essentially circular, an apt representation of the sun; the muta- ble motion divides the figure into two crescents, and thus represents the active power of the moon; and the fixed motion cuts the figure into four quarters, a per- fect expression of the power of the ea

pest core of the subconscious mind of the initiate. each person must seek into the secret depths of his or her being for the initia- tory ritual, bearing in mind the necessary components of segregation, purification, death, rebirth, and christening with a new name and a motto. it is best for the beginner to work with the simple tools of the art-circle, ray, pentagram, ele- ments, guardians of the quarters, wave, spiral, light, and the names of god. these are seldom hurtful if intelligently used in harmonious combination. first you must purify your mind and body. for the mind, set yourself apart for a period of several weeks. the time of an annual holiday is perfect for the rite of initiation. go to a place where you are not known and where you have no materi- al business, such as a quiet p

tion will certainly neces- sitate modifications, but the basic format should be fxed before the initiation is begun, the result of months of study and thought. at the time of the rite, which must take place apart from interruption, wash and anoint yourself with clean oil. don a robe you have hand-made of clean white linen. draw a circle of protection about yourself and invoke the guardians of the quarters-the angel, eagle, lion, and bull. purify the circle with fire and water. cre- ate a vortex at its center by dancing or walking clockwise and call down the divine light of holy spirit. offer your heartfelt prayers to the all and state clearly your intention in carrying out the ritual. these are the preliminaries, which are the most important part of any ritual, as they prepare the way for

e of ego. such a devotion does not exist in the present age. its power would be beyond measure. these are the least potent form of protection, but are the easiest to charge with meaning and therefore the most reliable for fallible humanity. signs and words of power are the symbols that do not directly represent the light, such as the penta- gram, the cross, the triangle, the four guardians of the quarters, the magical instru- ments, and any curses, chants, or banishments that do not include the names of god. signs of power do not directly invoke the light but rely on the authority that has been infused into their forms and functions by the mind and will of the magus. since there is nothing inherently holy in these symbols of the art, they can be per- verted to the purposes of black magic

ed. they should be used as a guide for the construction of particular rituals tailored to the needs and desires of the magus. it should be understood that some of the features described below are unique to this book. in golden dawn rituals, the east is usually the point of beginning. here, the south is used as the point of beginning. because of the modified place- ment of the elements on the four quarters of the ritual circle (fire-south, water-west, air-north, earth--east, when the magus faces south, the major axis of his or her body is aligned with the vertical beam of the cross, which is mas- culine and naturally takes the two masculine elements (fire, air, while the extend- ed arms of the magus are aligned with the horizontal beam of the cross, which is feminine and naturally takes the

k rune magic and the power of the runes kit, which contains the book rune magic, a deck of the author's rune magic cards and a set of wooden rune dice. also, if the three aettir arranged one above the other are folded into four parts vertically so that they form a four-sided tube, each of these divisions will constitute one of its sides. these sides of the tube should be assigned the seasons, the quarters of the compass, the elements, the letters in tetragrammaton, the four beasts, the four winds, the ritual instruments, the tarot suits and the four angels of the quarters. repetition of the runes in threes was a common magical practice of ancient rune magicians. it signified totality and completion. each group may be assigned one of the seven traditional planets, one group being given the

iprocating. an ordinary ray of will is sent forth like an a arrow to the object of desire; a reciprocating ray forms a bridge. sabbat: the preferred spelling for the eight pagan festival days observed by mod- ern witches. these days form the spokes of a wheel, when the year is consid- ered to be a circle. the solstices and equinoxes, called the quarter days because they divide the year into equal quarters, are bisected by the four pagan festivals oimelc (february 2, beltane (may i, lughnassadh (august l, and samhain (october 31, which are termed the cross-quarter days. the sabbats are distinguished from esbats, which are lesser celebrations that may be observed irregularly throughout the year, but are ofien tied to each cycle of the moon. sabbats are for worship, esbats are for ritual work

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it. the shadow represents, in a symbolic way, the soul. by rolling it up and cutting it off at the feet, the fairies are able to steal away the essence of personality. perhaps the result would be coma or death. or perhaps the man or woman whose shadow was stolen and carried off to the underworld would slowly waste away, a fate that sometimes befalls those who displease the fairies. 44 soul flight quarters of the year abductions are more common on the solstices and equinoxes that fall on the quarters of the year. these are the days when the fairies leave their land and move abroad on the roads used by mankind. it is very unlucky to travel at these times. they remove to other lodgings at the beginning of each quarter of the year, so traversing till doomsday, being imputent and [impotent of]

me so qualified) have very terrifying encounters with them, even on high ways; who therefoir uswally shune to travel1 abroad at these four seasons of the year, and thereby have made it a custome to this day among the scottish-irish to keep church duely evry first sunday of the quarter to sene or hallow themselves, their corns and cattell, from the shots and stealth of these wandring tribes;52 the quarters of the year are the transitions from season to season, when the length of the day is noticed to change. on the winter solstice (december 21, the shortest day occurs in the northern hemisphere and on the summer solstice (june 21, the longest day. on the spring equinox (march 21, the day goes from being shorter than the night to being longer; on the fall equinox (september 21, the opposite

equinox (september 21, the opposite occurs, and the day goes from being longer than the night to being shorter. the dates given for these quarter days are nominal; they vary slightly from year to year. these changes or transitions open occult doorways that allow the fairies to wander the surface of the earth. the astral world of fairies and the material world of mankind overlap in some way on the quarters of the year. they are magic days laden with possibilities. for example, there is a myth that on the equinoxes you may stand an egg up on end on any flat surface, and it will not fall over. while not true physically, it conveys a mythic truth that the equinoxes are days on which magic happens. in the quotation above, robert kirk expressed the opinion of his century that women are less adap

e it to accomplish a wide variety of functions. it is not unlike the force in the star wars films-a potent occult energy. many germans during the period between the two wars who involved themselves in mystical theories were convinced that the earth is a hollow sphere, so the fanciful notion that an entire race of humanity could dwell in its depths struck them as plausible. it was believed in some quarters that bulwer-lytton's novel was fact disguised as fiction. 122 soul flight in a magical sense, vril is a blind force. it can be used for good or for evil, in a way similar to electricity, which also has no moral affiliation. one of hitler's earlier advisors, the rosicrucian and freemason general karl haushofer, founded the luminous lodge of the vril society in 1925, the same year in which

d of the land is never seen, but is only heard as a moaning and roaring in the wind. 10. nauthiz literal meaning: necessity general sense: suffering, hardship, pain, need to endure, torture, servitude the land of nauthiz is dominated by a deep chasm of rushing white water, spanned by a wooden bridge. laborers who are little more than prisoners toil ceaselessly to maintain the bridge. their living quarters are built on the bridge itself, along one of its sides. the bridge exists in a constant state of disrepair. the planks newly laid upon it begin to weather and rot almost as soon as they are put down, and constant rumbling in the ground and trembling of the earth shakes loose the stones that make up its buttresses. overseers with flails drive the workers on to ever greater efforts, but it

veled look, and a faint sheen of sweat is visible on her bare shoulders and her flushed cheeks. chapter fourteen: runes 253 15. algiz literal meaning: defense general sense: warding off, protection, barrier, shield, avertive amulet, a defender the land of algiz is a high and narrow mountain pass, in which is set an ancient gate that is defended by guard towers on either side, and which has living quarters for its soldiers along its top. the gate is of stone cut from the sides of the pass, its shape a curved arch. the doors set in its frame are of heavy oak, darkened and made hard by years and bound by great straps of black iron. travelers along the road must await the pleasure of the gatekeepers, since there is no other way over the mountains. they must pay a fee to pass, but for the amuse

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11: affecting a living being .74 exercise 2 3 aura awareness .81 exercise 24 groundng and centering .86 exercise 25 vibrating names of power .90 exercise 26 charging an object -97 kercise 27 the kabbalistic cross. 105 exercise 28 the middle pillar. 111 exercise 29 projecting the lesser circle. 121 exercise 30 projecting the greater circle. 125 x contents exercise 3 1 invoking the guardians of the quarters, 130 exercise 32 projecting the pentagram. 140 exercise 33 lesser invoking ritual of the pentagram .i50 exercise 34 ritual of the rose cross .i65 exercise 35 creating a vortex. 183 exercise 36 invoking the light .i89 exercise 37 cleansing prayer .214 exercise 38 cleansing a space .219 exercise 39 supreme invoking ktual of the pentagram .250 exercise 40 evoking into the triangle .276 prac

aterial in the present work includes the invocation and banishing of elemental forces by pentagram, the technique of centering by the kabbalistic cross, the technique for vibrating words of power, the way of charging objects with elemental force, both the lesser ritual and the greater rtual of the pentagram, the middle pillar exercise, the rose cross ritual, the invocation of the guardians of the quarters, the use of the tattwas in scrying, and other essential introduction xv techniques. in presenting the golden dawn rituals, i have kept closely to the original structures, but have expanded their descriptions, rendering the rituals much more accessible and effective for the average user. even those who have been doing magic for years and know the golden dawn system may find this presentati

assignment of the elements to the directions, but it is the most common assignment, and must be known by every serious practitioner of western magic. in my own work i have adopted a different assignment, for reasons too complex to enter into-earth, green, east; fire, red, south; water, blue, west; air, yellow, north. however, before you abandon the golden dawn associations of the elements to the quarters, you should understand them both on an intellectual and an intuitive level, and this understanding can only be gained by using them during rituals over a period of months. the usual golden dawn color for elemental earth and the north is black. however, olive green, russet brown, and citrine yellow are also used to represent earth in the golden dawn system. green is a more vital and produc

sh, latin or greek words, it is usually better to voice syllables. the four hebrew words used in the exercise are the hebrew names of god assigned in the golden dawn system to the four directions of the compass: ihvh (east, adonai (south, eheieh (west, agla (north. it is no accident that all four names have four hebrew letters. four is the number of physical manifestation, and applies to the four quarters of the world. because of this fourfold symmetry i find it best to express each of these names with four sounds, when they are employed together to stand for the four directions and four elements. ihvh, also known as the tetragrammaton, is written all in capital letters because the name is too powerful and too universal to be spoken as a single word. its letters should always be voiced ind

rage jew does not pronounce ihvh by sounding its individual letters-this is an esoteric practice of kabbalists. the golden dawn linked this name with the south and the element fire, because fire is the element of will and adonai is a name of command. in the rituals of the original golden dawn, this name was sounded in three syllables, but to preserve the fourfold symmetry of the four names of the quarters i prefer to voice it in four sounds that express its four hebrew letrers. eheieh is usually translated "i am" or "i will be"-it denotes pure existence, and is the name by which god described himself on mt. horeb when moses asked to know the name of god. it was linked by the golden dawn with the west and the element water, because water is a formative element and eheieh is a formative name

se. ihvh is expressed by vibrating the actual names of its individual hebrew letters. agla is expressed by vibrating individual sounds based on the separate letters. to take as an example the hebrew letter k, equivalent to the english a, it is the difference between vibrating "aleph (the name of the letter) and "aaaah (the sound of the letter. if you wish to pronounce the four divine names of the quarters as they were vibrated by the members of the original golden dawn, express ihvh as "yod-hay- vahv-hay" adonai as "ah-doh-nye" eheieh as "eh-heh-yeh" and agla as "ahglah" try doing the exercise alternately with both forms for several days, and choose the form you prefer. keep your throat and mouth open when vibrating divine names or other words of power, and project the sound from your diap

will, l, 1 7/-24j, nl: 2( nu +kly wcrr er clrck td-l\ g e. red. lo, a n2 -e( c s n c d o w ,h i5 cis< p1114r 0 6 k r/ 5/:c- r h r 4 v n eq f ;11sr o f c t k, d o l/ 6d b p. a h, r3d 5'23-24, r 3 -45 5:z4 ajc;.cliiq c( j o+ v l k d h p;/igy 06 gfc. 3e'c l7 be/ 06 m y corn; i' 4 p' j q v f l v c d 9 p: g c b) q p mc e j him t 4 m; d k0 4 r.05 u+ n n js-h/ 6 z saw p-114 invoking the guardians of the quarters g o to the center of the practice area and face the east. assume the standing posture, with your head erect and your back straight, your feet together, your hands at your sides and slightly opened outward. gaze straight ahead, your eyes focused on the distant, unseen horizon beyond the wall in front of you. visualize a bright star high above your head in the heavens and ascend up to it. t

he cop of your skull to the yellow sphere of your heart-center. use your will to push spiritual energy down the central channel of this ray and into your heartcenter so that your heart-center glows with white light that is tinged with yellow. slide down the ray into the golden-white sphere ofyour heartcenter. detach the ray and let it withdraw itself back upward into invoking the guardians of the quarters 131 the star. contemplate the warm light that fills the astral sphere in the center of your chest for a minute or two. expand your awareness to take in your physical body, but keep its main focus on your heart-center. press your left palm over your chest just above the end of your sternum, and extend your right arm directly in front of you. point with your right index finger to the east a

ctice chamber. the astral circle shrinks with you. maintain an awareness of the angel in the east towering above you like a vast statue. turn one quarter of a revolution clockwise on your body axis and assume the standing pose facing the south. continue to maintain the awareness of the glowing ball of your heart-center and the flaming circle around you. look straight invoking the guardians of the quarters 133 ahead and focus your physical eyes on the distant southern horizon beyond your chamber. visualize written within your heart-center from right to left the four hebrew letters of the name adonai (a= w, d= 7, n= 1, i. these letters blaze with blinding blue-white intensity against the softer yellow-white of the sphere. draw in a deep breath. as you inhale imagine your body enlarging to gi

ssues from between your lips is driven away in all directions by your energized aura so that it fills the entire universe. the universe itself begins to vibrate with the combined sounds of the letters. visualize the energy as the sounds rebound from the outer limits of the universe and return to focus in the west, just beyond the shining ring of the magic circle. the invoking the guardians of the quarters 135 sounds become ever more concentrated, until they assume a vaguely humanoid shape that is a beautiful dark blue, the color of the sea. as you watch with your astral vision, this shape defines itself into an angel of vast size, taller even than your enlarged astral body. the angel has the light-brown, feathered head and hooked beak of a golden eagle, and white feathered wings that hang

are still like a child in comparison with their greatness. hold the breath for four slow beats and visualize the light from your heart-center shining outward to enlarge the envelope of your aura into a perfect transparent sphere of palest gold. vibrate upon your breath the following words so that your chest, throat, and nose resonate inwardly "be-fore me, raph-a-el" invoking the guardians of the quarters 137 visualize the yellow-robed angel raphael in the east glowing with the energy of your vibrated words. exhale the remainder of your breath and draw in another deep inhalation while maintaining your enlarged stature and your expanded aura. hold it for four slow beats as you focus your awareness in your heart-center. vibrate upon your breath the following words "be-hind me, gab-ri-el" vis

l normal breaths and contract the pale-golden sphere of your aura to its usual shape nearer to the limits of your form. allow your giant astral body to shrink back into your physical body within your practice chamber. as your astral form reduces in size, the circle of fire shrinks in proportion to remain at the level of your heart. 138 moving exercises hold the awareness of the four angels of the quarters towering above you with the tips of their expanded wings touching. they gaze down on you with serious, intense awareness. feel their strength both shielding you and protecting your circle. visualize the bodies of the angels become paler and brighter. as you watch them with your inner awareness, they lengthen and narrow into four identical pillars of white light. these pillars come togethe

n so that the circle is completely absorbed. let your arms fall to your sides as you resume the standing pose. continue breathing easily for half a minute or so. close your eyes for a few seconds to rest them. press the palms of your hands upon your face and slide them down as though drawing off a skin-tight mask. relax and stretch gently, then go on with your day. commentary the guardians of the quarters represent the genii or daemons of the four elemental forces that play so vital a role in modern magic. the archangelic names and kerubic visages of the guardians described in this exercise were those used by the original golden dawn. i have specified dark green for the color of the robe on auriel, the angel of the north, because this seems the most appropriate of the four golden dawn eart

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ee how dee gets divisions of three and seven from the cross. without a definite point of intersection at the center of the cross, there are only three possible parts or divisions to this figure-the whole cross, the vertical axis, and the horizontal axis. however, if we add a central point that interrupts the two axes and breaks them in the middle, to these three parts we can add the four l-shaped quarters of the figure for a total of seven possible forms (see illustration on opposite page. from the circle of the sun, the semicircle of the moon, the cross of the elements, and the sign of aries, dee forms all seven of the planetary glyphs, rightly observing that the glyphs of the planets are merely combinations of these basic symbols. for example, the sign of jupiter (3)is made up of the cre

to be effective as a magical tool. without these rituals of empowerment, the rings will remain no more than curiously decorated bits of j ewelry. the following ritual procedures are structured upon the system of occult correspondences given in my book, the new magus. this differs in several important respects from the more common golden dawn system. in the new magus system, the assignments to the quarters are: quarter element archangel tetramorph sign south fire michael lion leo west water gabriel eagle scorpio north air raphael angel aquarius east earth uriel bull taurus also, in the new magus system, the left and right sides of the kabbalistic cross are the inverse of those given by the golden dawn. in the new magus, the left shoulder is assigned to geburah and the right shoulder to 106

le to the south and perform the same actions, saying: with this consecrated water of light, i banish the region of the south. do the same banishing formula in the west and the north, then replace the water on the western side of the altar. stand in the north facing south with your feet together and your arms spread wide so that your body forms a great cross. invoke the guardian angels of the four quarters, who are aspects of the four beasts surrounding the throne of god. they may be visualized as four flaming pillars of different colors: michael in the south is red, raphael in the north is yellow, gabriel in the west is blue, and uriel in the east is green. speak the words of the invocation: before me michael, guardian of fire, the lion of the south; behind me raphael, guardian of air, the

e (elevate your hands, palms up, fire above (lower your hands, palms down, water below (put your palms together in a gesture of prayer over your heart center, i am the heart of the four, i am the center of my universe. amen. this concludes the preliminary operations, which are designed to cleanse and center the magician, establish and cleanse the magic circle, and invoke the four guardians of the quarters. what follows is the actual ritual of baptism. move from your place on the north side of the altar in a clockwise direction until you come to the quarter related to the banner on the ring you are about to baptize. movement is always clockwise around the circle unless it is intended to banish. if the ring happens to be on the north side of the altar, stay where you are. face the altar. wit

you are standing in the north and face south across the altar. if you happen to already be in the north, remain where you are. spread your arms wide with your feet together so that your body forms a great cross. extend and spread your fingers so that their tips form upright pentagrams. speak the words: i give thanks for the successful fulfillment of this ritual of baptism. great guardians of the quarters, i license thee to depart from the boundary of this magic circle. fare thee well. all spirits attracted to the region of this circle, i command thee, depart! in the fivefold names of power, yeheshuah and yehovashah, i banish thee from this place. go in peace, and fare thee well. pivot clockwise to face the north, extend your left index finger with your right hand on your heart, and walk a

kiss the bezel of the ring with reverence. remember, it is the dwelling place for an exalted angel and must always be treated with respect. standing in the north facing south, perform the prayer of cleansing and kabbalistic cross, and project the magic circle from your center of being. once again standing in the north, spread wide your arms into a great cross and invoke the guardians of the four quarters, as described above. proceed around the circle clockwise until you stand in the elemental quarter of the ring facing the altar. raise your hands to heaven and declare your purpose: i (your name, conduct this ritual of charging for the purpose of infusing the ring (speak the name of the angel on the ring) with holy light. look with favor upon this ritual, 0 lord, and bring about its rightf

circle and return it to its former state. i release the light from my mind; i release the light from my heart; i release the light from my body; i return this light to the heavenly sphere of the moon (or sun) in thy name, ihshvh (or iwshh. so let it be! walk around the altar clockwise until you reach the north. face south and make the great cross with your body. release the four guardians of the quarters and banish the region of the magic circle by the authority of ihshvh and ihvshh, using the formula given earlier in this chapter. reabsorb the magic circle through your left index finger into your heart center, and conclude the ritual of charging with appropriate words that give thanks to ihshvh (in the case of silver rings) or iwshh (in the case of gold rings. kiss the ring and wrap it c

anks to ihshvh (in the case of silver rings) or iwshh (in the case of gold rings. kiss the ring and wrap it carefully in its silk, or linen, covering. these four rituals are progressive in their degree of complexity. when taken together, they provide the basics of ritual magic. the cleansing prayer, kabbalistic cross, erection of the astral circle and invocation of the four guardian angels of the quarters can be used as a preliminary structure for almost all rituals, whatever their stated purpose. it should be clearly understood that these rituals are suggested forms that may be modified to suit the beliefs or needs of the ritualist. provided that a ritual contains the words of power and the dramatic structure to fulfill its stated purpose, its details may be varied greatly without weakeni

sing, and forceful; those related to the mutable signs will be changeable, adaptable, and impressionable; those related to the fixed signs will be intense, steadfast, and persistent. in the banner sigils, this threefold division is expressed by the three shapes of the sigils-those enclosing the whole are cardinal, those dividing the whole into halves are mutable, and those dividing the whole into quarters are fixed. fourfold division finally, the wings can be divided into four groups based upon their elemental associations. the angels of fire will be intense, explosive, expansive, willful, quick to anger, of strong feelings, combative, and difficult to control. in appearance, they will have curling red or reddish-blond hair, gray eyes, freckled or flushed complexions, and mobile and energe

nvoke from the second h represent the wings of earth. by combining the polarity, quality, and element of each wing with its astrological sign and house, it is possible to build up a complete picture of its appearance, personality, and function. this is very useful in rituals where the angels must be visualized. on the following pages, i have used the new magus* occult correspondences for the four quarters. in the new magus system, the zodiac is applied to the magic circle by mentally laying the zodiac face down upon the floor of the ritual chamber and aligning it so that the fixed signs are in the four compass points: leo-south, scorpio-west, aquarius-north, and taurus-east. the sigils the invoking and banishing sigils for each wing are derived from the tetragram described in chapter five

the christ-form is well and truly commenced. assuming the christ- form 155 raise your arms in a gesture of invocation with the palms up and perform the cleansing prayer and kabbalistic cross. project the magic circle from your heart center through your right index finger by walking once clockwise around the altar, or pivoting clockwise on your body axis, and invoke the four guardian angels of the quarters. center yourself within the circle. all the foregoing steps are preliminaries that may be used to begin many different kinds of rituals. from this point, you begin the actual ritual of assuming the christ-form. with your arms raised in a gesture of invocation and your head elevated, so that you look into the infinite distance high above the flame of the candle, declare your intention to t

ega. who art the assuming the christ-form nameless and formless one, creator of all, lord of light, lord of life, lord of love. hear the prayer of your true son (or daughter) i give thanks for the successful fulfillment of this ritual assumption of the christ-form. all the purposes of this ritual have been perfectly accomplished. so let it be. conclude the ritual by releasing the guardians of the quarters. banish the region outside the magic circle using the names of power ihvshh and ihshvh, and absorb the circle back into your heart center through your ler index finger. speak the closing words: this ritual assumption of the christ-form is well and truly ended. so let it be. clap your hands together sharply four times. put away the materials upon the altar, taking special care with the whi

atchtower of fire, which stands in the south. it receives the letter yod. the upper right quarter is the watchtower of water, which stands in the west. it receives the first he. the upper left quarter is the watchtower of air, which stands in the east. it receives the letter vau. the lower left quarter is the watchtower of earth, which stands in the north. it receives the second he. each of these quarters is further subdivided into quarters, and these carry the same relative association of the letters as the great square-for example, yod is linked with the lower right quadrant of the watchtower of the south, just as it is with the entire watchtower, which forms the lower right quadrant of the great square. in addition to the attribution of tetragrammaton to the quarters, and the quarters o

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ TIMING IN GREATER AND LESSER BLACK MAGIC

to pass on to your business, pick a time when your co-workers are sleepy. when i want to get something started at work- rather than brainstorm on a topic, i schedule my meetings after lunch, in a slightly too warm conference room (if it has flickering fluorescent lighting this is a plus. people are full and sleepy. they want the meeting to be over, and if i talk smoothly, distinctly, and in three quarters time they absorb my suggestions as though i've hypnotized them. which in fact i have. if you need to judge three quarters time, practice doing dracula's lines from lugosi movie- but lose the accent. 4. if you want to gain more self knowledge, occasionally radically alter you biological rhythms. sleep, food and sex are the keys here. take a nap in the afternoon (if you already don't) and b

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

ult is shown in figure p. at this point, using figure o figure p empirical methods, it is possible to determine that all the numbers in the shaded cells (which are laid out symmetrically relative to the corner-to-corner diagonal, one through thirty-six) are in their proper locations. the next step requires inspection and attention to detail. in figure p, a heavy cross divides the square into four quarters. by inspecting the numbers in the unshaded cells, we discover that some are arrayed symmetrically across the heavy, horizontal center line. they are: twenty-five through seven, twenty through fourteen, and thirty-three through three. the remaining numbers in the unshaded cells are arrayed symmetrically across the heavy, vertical center line. they are: thirteen through eighteen, nine throu

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

who hold sectarian views and unsound tenets as for those whose views are sound and correct. i also pour out rain: the rain of the law by which this whole world is refreshed; and each according to his faculty take to heart this wellspoken law that is one in its essence. even as all grasses and shrubs, as well as plants of middle size, trees and great trees a at the time of rain look bright in all quarters; so it is the very nature of the law to promote the everlasting weal of the world; by the law the whole world is recreated, and as the plants (when refreshed) expand their blossoms, the world does the same when refreshed. so then is the preaching of the law like the water poured out by the cloud everywhere alike; by which plants and men thrive, endless (and eternal) blossoms (are produced

ll days are god s days. charles alexander eastman (ohiyesa, santee sioux please listen grandfather, great spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. you lived first, and you are older than all needs, older than all prayers. all things belong to you the two legged, the four legged, the wings of the air, and all green things that live. you have set the powers of the four quarters of the earth to cross each other. you have made me cross the good road, and the road of difficulties, and where they cross, the place is holy. day in, day out, forevermore, you are the life of things. black elk oglala sioux the views of two men nothing the great mystery placed in the land of the indian pleased the white man, and nothing escaped his transforming hand. wherever forest have

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

e jewish genesis, and is the 4th world in a chain of spheres, say the hindus. the figure of 4, as ragon remarks, is the upright man, carrying the triangle or divinity, a type of the trinity of godhead. on the hebrew magical word agla, see the chapter on the kabalah, page 27. note 4 elements, 4 sides of a square and 4 angles; 4 qualities, cold, hot, dry, damp and 4 humors. 4 seasons of the year; 4 quarters of the horizon. 4 rivers of eden; euphrates, gihon, hiddekel and pison; 4 rivers of the infernal regions according to the greeks, phlegethon, cocytus, styx and acheron; 4 elements of metaphysics; being, essence, virtue, action. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 4 masonic virtues. 4 evangelists and gospels; matthew, mark, luke, john, related to the

16. the seraphim of isaiah had each 6 wings. in a freemasons lodge there are 6 jewels, three of which are immovable and lie open in the lodge for the brethren to moralize upon, while the other three jewels are transferable from one brother to another at the periodical changes of officers. in the hebrew, book of creation, the sepher yetzirah, the hexad is spoken of. the units representing the four quarters of the world; north, south, east and west, and also height and depth, and in the midst of all is the holy temple. see my translation; cap. i. v. ii, and notes. third edition. 1911. the druids had a mysterious religious preference for the number 6. they performed their principal ceremonies on the 6th day of the moon, and on the 6th day of the moon began their year. they went 6 together to

vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 2 olive trees and 2 candlesticks (before throne of god of the earth, xi. 4. 2-horned beast who spoke like a dragon, xiii. ii; his number is 666. 3 woes, ix. 12. 1/ 3 part of vegetation killed, viii. 7 do. of sea became blood and do. of fish died, viii. 8 do. of waters became bitter, viii. 11-do. of sun, moon, stars, viii. 12. 3 days, bodies lay unburied, xxi. 9. 4 quarters of the earth, xx. 8. 4 beasts, full of eyes and have 6 wings, iv. 6-9( beasts should be living beings. w. 4 horses, white, red, pale, black. 4 horns of the golden altar before god, ix. 13. 4 angels of the euphrates, ix. 14. 4 angels of the winds of the 4 corners of the earth, vii. i. 5 months, the locusts had power to hurt men, ix. 5-10. 6 wings of the beasts (living beings, full of eyes

WORKBOOK FOR GRADE 0 VOID AND THE ABYSS

n context is rather long. it may be suggested that this particular role of magickal invocation should still be employed, this version of the summoning of the hga is simplified to a short, concise and effective version which may be memorized easily. in the luciferian work, the practitioner is focusing on widdershins around the triple hermetic circle, or one of his or her own design, from which the quarters may be called. the grand sabbatic circle may be employed also to effective and concise approach to this magick of 7 self-initiation and transformation. in regard to egyptian and medival daemonic summons, a connection therein may be observed. the circle casting is one of which the individual proclaims his and her mastery over their own being, that by moving widdershins around the circle wi

t of gnosis be above the altar which is contained within the 8 pointed sabbatic star known as algol, the black mirror and sigil of chosen for the working at hand. prepare thyself in the oil of abramelin and lucifer, allowing the five senses to be enflamed by experience, which symbolizes the pentagram of ascension and descending self-perception. robed and with athame, let the guardians of the four quarters be called. when the circle is opened, widdershin around the very circle, which is the symbolization of ones own self in isolation. i, fallen from the sky, awakened shall illuminate the essence of self primordial form of azothoz, i stand in the center of time to behold thy gift! i walk the solitary path and announce my birth! hekas, szurru prozaza hekas, umpesha usha szurru! open the gates

ging of sexualities within the individual. 25 one should prepare the grand sabbatic circle, robed in black or red and candles should be black and red. a statement of intent would read as the following: it is my will to invoke the egregores of samael and lilith, so that by union of both within myself, i shall become reborn as baphomet. widdershines, banishing ritual to clear mind and call the four quarters: zazas, zazas, nasatanada zazas south: shaitan-set, lords of the southern tower, djinn father of fire and desert sands, i do summon thee forth to witness my rites of awakening and union. i command the fires of the abyss to protect my circle, let the gates be opened! fire invoking pentagram east: lucifer-phosphorus, lords of the eastern tower, bearer of the black flame, lord of light and p

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

tion of yesod. the stolistes in the place of the greatest symbolic darkness, fittingly addresses the lord of the earth "which thou hast made thy footstool" in this way, bringing the light right down to malkuth, thus completing the middle pillar. it is of importance here that throughout this part of the ceremony, hegemon should hold the lamp. for as she in common with all present turns to the four quarters, the new life passes through kerux to her, and she in turn transmits it to the lamp, symbol of the spirit of man; a ray of divine light. let us remember that this renewal and completion of the spiritual life could only be effected through a preliminary act of renunciation. the circumambulation of kerux lays down a circle of light on the cross of foundation established in the first point o

h is poured through, so does the new password give it direction. herein lies its importance. after the new hierophant has been installed, he conveys his aspect of the new spiritual force through his hand to the lamen of the officers and consciously asserts its new direction by claiming their insignia with the new password. one brief word about making of the neophyte sign to the altar and the four quarters. here it is symbolic of receiving the new spirit and passing it on again, in this way laying emphasis on the fact that man is a channel for the higher forces, which must be freely given out just as at the equinox the cosmic spirit pours itself out for the healing of mankind. appendix two the following ritual of the portal is by waite, and is one of those he sent to felkin in 1910. it has

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