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is associated with the gods and goddesses of the earth, especially persephone, proserpina, and geb. malkuth is the domain of the manifested universe, the immediate environment, the plane of physical reality. as a consequence, all inner journeys of consciousness begin symbolically in malkuth. it is particularly appropriate, for example, that the myth of the rape of persephone confirms her both as queen of the underworld and as a lunar goddess. from an occult point of view, the underworld equates with the lower unconscious mind, and the moon, represented by the sphere of yesod, is the first sephira reached on the inner mystic journey up the tree of life. malkuth is closely linked with the universe card. the path of the flaming sword is the path of creation. according to the early qabalist

pillars referred to as in highlights of knowledge lecture one with hebrew? 9. the rituals of the dead in the egyptian custom as exemplified in the book of the dead or pert em hru, are a form of ceremonial rituals to enable man to do what? 10. name the signs of the zodiac starting with aries and ending with pisces. the tree of life 1. name the sephiroth following the path of the flaming sword. 2. queen scale color for victory: 3. queen scale color for strength: 4. queen scale color for foundation: 5. queen scale color for mercy: 120 6. queen scale color for tiphareth: 7. queen scale color for understanding: 8. queen scale color for malkuth: 9. queen scale color for splendor: 10. queen scale color for wisdom: 11. how many paths connect the ten sephiroth? 12. translation of tiphareth: 13. tr

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the elohim said, let us make adam in our image, after our likeness and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth over the earth. and the elohim created eth ha-adam in their own image, in the image of the elohim created they them. in the name of adonai melekh and the bride and queen of the kingdom, spirits of earth adore adonai! hiero: hands his sceptre to hiereus and, takes the sword of hiereus, makes the ox in center of pentagram, saying: hiero: in the name of auriel, the great archangel of earth, and by the sign of the head of the ox- spirits of earth, adore adonai! hiero: returns sword to hiereus and takes mitre-headed sceptre from hegemon and makes cross in the air

ter (name) before you can be eligible for advancement to the next grade of theoricus you will be required to pass an examination in certain subjects. 1) the names and alchemical symbols of the three principles of nature. 2) the metals attributed in alchemy to the seven planets. 3) the names of the alchemical particular principles, the sun and moon of the philosophers, the green lion, the king and queen. 4) the names and astrological value of the twelve houses of heaven. 5) the names, astrological symbols and values of the aspects of the planets. 6) the meaning of the querent and quesited. 7) the four great classes of astrology. 8) the arrangement of the ten sephiroth, hebrew and english, in the tree of life. this is especially important. 9) the three pillars of the same. 10) the names of t

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

th saracen gods in them, and the carroccio of the lombard cities (ea. 263-5) seem to be nothing but a late reminiscence of these primitive gods'-waggons of heathenism. the eoman, greek and indian gods too were not without such carriages. what gregory of tours tells us (2, 29-31) of the baptism of chlodovich (clovis) and the events that preceded it, is evidently touched up, and the speeches of the queen especially i take to be fictitious; yet he would hardly have put them in her mouth, if it were generally known that the franks had no gods or statues at all. chrothild (clotilda) speaks thus to her husband, whom she is trying to prepossess in favour of baptism: nihil sunt dii quos colitis, qui neque sibi neque aliis poterunt subvenire; sunt enim aut ex hqnde aut ex ligno aut ex metallo aliqu

sequitur, tandemque venit ad gladiura, quern depascens herbas bucula incaute calcaverat, elfossumque protinus ad attilam defert. quo ille munere gratulatus, ut erat magnanimus, arbitratur se totius mundi principem constitutum, et per martis gladiuvi potestatem sibi concessam esse liellorum. but the sword degenerated into an unlucky one, like some far-famed northern swords. lambert relates, that a queen, solomon of hungary's mother, made a present of it to otto, duke of bavaria, that from this otto's hands it came by way of loan to the younger dedi, margrave dedi's son, then to henry iv, and lastly to lupoid of mersburg, who, being thrown by his horse, and by the same sword transpierced, w^as buried at mertenefeld. it is a question whether these local names mersburg and mertenefeld can liav

ire de beiges in his illustrations de gaulle, paris, 1548, bk. 3 p .xxviii' au temps du([uel (hercules allemannus) la deesse isis, ri)yne'.ypt, veint en alh-maigne et montra au rude peuple i'usaige de mouldre la farine et faire du pain' j. le maire finished his work in 151'j, aventin not till 1522; did they lioth boirow iiom the spurious berosus that came out in the 15th century? hunibald makes a queen camhra, who may be compared mith the langobardic gambara, introduce the arts of building, sowing and weaving (see suppl. 263 goddesses. wliom the eomans identified with isis may not at least one of her secondary names have been holda? the name has a purely teutonic meaning, and is firmly grounded in the living traditions of our people to this day. holda is the kind, benignant, merciful godde

s great pains to conceal. some accounts make her beautiful in front and ugly behind. she loves music and song, lier lay has a doleful melody and is called inddrcslaat. in the forests you see huldra as an old woman clothed in gray, marching at the head of her flock, milkpail in hand. she is said to carry off people's unchristened infants from tliem. often she appears, not alone, but as mistress or queen of the mountain-sprites, who are 1 i believe luther followed the hebrew, merely clroiiping the final h, as he does in jehova, judn, ts:c. trans. 2 muller's sa-abibl. 1, 3g3 6. 272 goddesses. called liuldrefolh in iceland too they know of tins iluldufdijc, of the huldumemi; and here we find another point of agreement with the popular faith of germany, namely, that by the side of our dame hold

l late on perchtha's eve, had gone but a little way, when perchtha came driving in a waggon, and called to them to put a peg in the pole of her waggon. one of the men had a knife, and perchtha supplied him with wood, the peg was let in, and the handy man carried home several pieces of money in his shoe as a reward. p. 113: between bucha and wilhelmsdorf in the fruitful vale of the saale, perchtha queen of the heimchen had her dwelling of old; at her command the heimchen had to water the fields of men, while she worked underground with her plough. at last the people fell out with her, and she determined to quit the country; on perchtha's eve the ferryman at altar village received notice to be ready late in the night, and when he came to the saale bank, his eyes beheld a tall stately dame su

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are arranged according to the sephiroth. this tablet (indicating it) represents the method of 'forming the tree of life in the tarot. the four aces are placed on the throne of kether. the remaining small cards of each suit desired are then placed on the respective sephiroth, 2 on chokmah, 3 on binah and so on. the 22 trumps are then arranged on the letters of the paths between them. the king and queen of the suit are placed beside chokmah and binah respectively, the knight beside tiphareth and the knave beside malkuth, thus representing the attribution of the sephiroth to the four letters of the holy name in the world wherein they operate. heg: leads practicus to tablet of the pillars in south. heg: this tablet represents the formation of the hexagram of tiphareth from the pillars on each

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

grapes. like ceres, she mourns for her lost daughter persephone for three months of the year and so is another icon for those who are feeling sorrow or loss and for maternal sacrifice. but she can be invoked for all matters of abundance, for reaping the benefits of earlier work or effort, for all mothering rituals and as a protectress of animals. innana innana was a sumerian goddess, known as the queen of heaven, who evolved into the babylonian goddess ishtar. innana was goddess of beauty, abundance, fertility and passion, famed for her loveliness and her lapis lazuli necklaces. she was the first goddess of the morning and evening stars, a legacy that has passed to aphrodite and venus. like many of the mother goddess icons, she descended into the underworld annually to face and overcome ma

ldbirth whose sacred bird is the peacock. she is a powerful deity of fidelity and is called upon by women seeking revenge upon unfaithful partners. hestia hestia is the greek goddess of the hearth and home, all family matters and peace within the home. she is a benign, gentle goddess and so can be invoked for matters involving children and pets. juno juno, the wife-sister of jupiter, is the roman queen of the gods, the protectress of women, marriage and childbirth and also wise counsellor. together with jupiter and minerva, the goddess of wisdom, she made up the triumvirate of deities who made decisions about humankind and especially roman affairs. her month, june, is most fortunate for marriage and, like hera, her greek equivalent, her sacred creature is the peacock. she is invoked in sex

rampled on, destroyed and then danced on once more to restore him to life. kali is invoked to remove fear and, it is said, to bring bliss to her devotees, and so she brings protection and regeneration after sorrow. persephone persephone is the greek maiden goddess of transformation, daughter of demeter and goddess of spring and flowers. she was abducted by hades, god of the underworld, and became queen of the underworld for the winter months, returning to the earth as the light-bringer in spring and so representing the cycle of death and rebirth. she is especially powerful in rituals by or for young women, especially those who have suffered loss or abuse, and also for mother-daughter relationships. she is sometimes regarded as a symbol of grain. proserpina, daughter of ceres, is the roman

powered condiment to a salad and they will absorb the protection. a protective ritual with empowered salt* place the salt in a small ceramic dish on your altar and light a pure beeswax candle at the four main compass points around the edges of the altar. beeswax has a long tradition in magick: it was sacred to the mother goddess and later the virgin mary. demeter, goddess of the grain, was called queen bee and aphrodite's symbol at her hive-shaped shrine in eryx was a gold honeycomb. her high priestess was always called melissa, latin for bee* beginning at the north of your circle, light your elemental candles. at each quarter of the circle say: demeter, aphrodite, melissa, pure mother bee, charge with thy light this salt, to enfold my home (workplace/journey) with thy golden mantle of pro

ble to buy or obtain water from holy wells, usually in return for a donation towards the upkeep of the well, and some commercially bottled spring water comes from sacred wells. for example, the healing water from prime's well, in the malvern hills, where the hero in langland's poem the vision of piers the plowman received his vision, is now piped and bottled as malvern spring water, without which queen elizabeth ii will not travel. use the following ritual to consecrate your bottled water, or, if you are in a hurry for your rituals, pass a pendulum nine times widdershins over it to remove any influences added in the bottling and nine times deosil to energise it (a pendulum is made by hanging a crystal, or a piece of wood or metal on a chain and can be used to transmit answers to questions

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gical attributions. the ten squares of the sephirotic cross also stand for the ace and small cards of the suit represented by the element of the lesser angle. thus wands are attributed to the d angle, pentacles to the b angle, etc. the kerubic squares are allotted, as their name implies, to the four kerubim whose emblems follow the order of the letters of tetragrammaton: y h lion e eagle h king queen w h (final) man k bull b prince princess these last are of the suit corresponding to the element of the lesser angle as explained above, viz: wands to d and y; cups to c and h; swords to a and w; pentacles to b and h final. it was previously shown how the squares of the servient part of each lesser angle were given a double attribution to the letters of the name. they were seen to be ruled b

, which is referred to m. it is employed, as before shown, in binding together the tablets, and in building up angelic names. its attributions are to the four aces of the elements and to the court cards. the aces represent the root force, and the essential spiritual noumenon of the element. the court cards are the vice-gerents of the root force in the element. m a c b d a ace swords prince swords queen swords princess swords king swords c ace cups prince cups queen cups princess cups king cups b ace pentacles prince pentacles queen pentacles princess pentacles king pentacles d ace wands prince wands queen wands princess wands king wands 20 the foregoing methods of attributing the enochian squares should be completely grasped before proceeding frther. it is imperative to understand thorough

pply thy reason unto the elucidation of the effect of the four forces thus rushing together. though this may sound wholly incomprehensible at first, a little reflection on the nature of the movement of these forces yields a wealth of ideas, s.r.m.d. provides a few examples at hazard of this analysis, and they arei quoted as follows: the square of a of exarp in the tablet of union. triangle no. 2: queen of swords. triangle no. 2: m. triangle no. 3: a. triangle no. 4: m nearly all the squares of this tablet represent some combined effect of light and life. here m acts both downwards and upwards. a is not very strong in action when it is here 28 placed; and the queen of swords represents the moist force of a, h of w. therefore, if one could attribute a direct material action unto the squares

le no. 3: c. triangle no. 4: geburah. here c is extremely strong, and is stirred to action by the energy of geburah. were it not for the m it would be the destroying energy of a flood, but the latter renders its effect more gentle and beneficient, promoting the solution and nourishment of matter. the square of m of aismt, a kerubic square of the fiery lesser angle of the b tablet. triangle no. 1: queen of wands triangle no. 2: b. triangle no. 3: eagle kerub. c triangle no. 4: d here b acting downwards and d upwards, the effect would be volcanic. the c is as strongly palced as the d, rendering it explosive, though helping to stifle the d by its 29 union with the b. the queen of wands equals the c of d, h of y, reconciling these two elements. therefore the whole effect would be to produce a

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

to an agony of fear if his door was left unlocked; he cobbled away in a frenzy of anxiety lest the shoes should not be finished in time- the shoes that nobody wanted. charles dickens lived at a time and in a country such that this state of mind appeared abnormal and even deplorable, but today it is a characteristic of 95 per cent of the people of england. subjects that were freely discussed under queen victoria are now absolutely taboo; because everyone knows subconsciously that to touch them, however gently, is to risk precipitating the catastrophe of their dry-rot. there are not going to be many yogis in england, because there will not be more than a very few indeed who will have the courage to tackle even this first of the eight limbs of yoga: yama. i do not think that anything will sav

t to a coherent metaphysic. the point is that by sitting still, in the plain literal sense of the words, the body does ultimately respond to the adjuration of that great mahatma, harry lauder 'stop your ticklin, jock' 8. when we approach the details of asana, we are immediately confronted with the refuse-heap of hindu pedantry. we constantly approach the traditional spiritual attitude of the late queen victoria. the only types of asana which offer even the most transient interest are those of which i am not going to speak at all, because they have nothing whatever to do with the high-minded type of yoga which i am presenting to this distinguished audience. i should blush to do otherwise. anyhow, who wants to know about these ridiculous postures? if there is any fun in the subject at all, i

anything which is not jupiter. everything else escapes notice. and when the time comes for the ceremony of invocation which i have been consistently preparing with all devotion and assiduity, i am quickly inflamed. i am attuned to jupiter, i am pervaded by jupiter, i am absorbed by jupiter, i am caught up into the heaven of jupiter and wield his thunderbolts. hebe and ganymedes bring me wine; the queen of the gods is throned at my side, and for my playmates are the fairest maidens of the earth. 7. now what is all this but to do in a partial (and if i may say so, romantic) way what the yogi does in his more scientifically complete yet more austerely difficult methods? and here the advantage of magick is that the process of initiation is spontaneous and, so to speak, automatic. you may begin

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

ks older. she comes here at irregular intervals, once a week or once a month, but when she comes she sits down to get solidly drunk on that alternation of beer and gin which the best authorities in england deem so efficacious. as to her story, it is simplicity itself. she was kept in luxury for some years by a wealthy cotton broker, crossed to europe with him, and lived in london and paris like a queen. then she got the idea of "respectability" and "settling down in life; so she married a man who could keep her in mere comfort. result: repentance, and a periodical need to forget her sorrows. she is still "respectable; she never tires of repeating that she is not one of "those girls" but "a married woman living far uptown" and that she "never runs about with men" it is not the failure of ma

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

ell before her as if smitten of the lightning. but those priests who were friendly to me and loyal to the goddess took that virgin courtesan, and led her in triumph through the city, veiled and crowned as is befitting. now after some days he that guarded the sacred goat of khem died, and they appointed her in his place. and she was the first woman that was thus honoured since the days of the evil queen in the eighteenth dynasty, of her that wearied of men at an age when other women have not known them, that gave herself to gods and beasts. but now they took me to the pool of liquid silver- or so they called it; i suppose it was quicksilver; for i remember that it was very difficult to immerse me- which is beneath the feet of the veiled one. for this is the page 9 gulf.txt secret of the ora

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

as the positive and negative energies that compromise the cosmos of our perception, as manifest in the famous chinese yin-yang symbol. but what of inanna, the single planetary deity having a female manifestation among the sumerians? she is invoked in the necronomicon and identified as the vanquisher of death, for she descended into the underworld and defeated her sister, the goddess of the abyss, queen ereshkigal (possibly another name for tiamat. interestingly enough, the myth has many parallels with the christian concept of christ's death and resurrection, among which the crucifixion (inanna was impaled on a stake as a corpse, the three days in the sumerian hades, and the eventual resurrection are outstanding examples of how sumerian mythology previewed the christian religion by perhaps

against the lands of the east, by summoning the hordes of fiends i have made subject unto me, and so doing found ngaa, the god of the heathens, who breathes flame and roars like a thousand thunders. i have found fear. i have found the gate that leads to the outside, by which the ancient ones, who ever seek entrance to our world, keep eternal watch. i have smelled the vapours of that ancient one, queen of the outside, whose name is writ in the terrible magan text, the testament of some dead civilisation whose priests, seeking power, swing open the dread, evil gate for an hour past the time, and were consumed. i came to possess this knowledge through circumstances quite peculiar, while still the unlettered son of a shepherd in what is called mesopotamia by the greeks. when i was only a yout

ving no other person about you who may watch you in its construction. being finished, it should be wrapped in a square of the finest silk and lain aside until such time as you desire its use, and then, it should be removed only when its light is in the sky. such is also the best time for its manufacture. the number of nebo is twelve and this is his seal: the goddess of venus is the most excellent queen inanna, called of the babylonians ishtar. she is the goddess of passion, both of love and of war, depending upon her sign and the time of her appearance in the heavens. she appears as a most beautiful lady, in the company of lions, and partakes of a subtle astral nature with the moon god nanna. when they are in agreement, that is, when their two plants are auspiciously arranged in the heaven

he moon god nanna. when they are in agreement, that is, when their two plants are auspiciously arranged in the heavens, it is as two offering-cups split freely in the heavens, to rain the sweet wine of the gods upon the earth. and then there is great happiness and rejoicing. she sometimes appears in armour, and is thereby a most excellent guardian against the machinations of her sister, the dread queen ereshkigal of kur. with the name and number of inanna, no priest need fear to walk into the very depths of the underworld; for being armed, in her armour, he is similar to the goddess. it was thus that i descended into the foul pits that lie gaping beneath the crust of the earth, and commanded demons. she is similarly the goddess of love, and bestows a favourable bride upon any man who desir

ntil such times as it is needed. but to take not to use this seal hastily, for it is a sharp sword. the number of nergal is eight and this is his seal: the god of jupiter is the lord of magicians, marduk kurios of the double-headed axe. marduk was born of our father, enki, to do battle against the forces of the ancient ones, and he won a powerful fight, subduing the armies of evil and putting the queen of the ancient ones beneath his foot. that serpent is dead, but dreams. marduk was bestowed fifty names and powers by the council of the elder gods, which powers he retains to this day. his colour is purple. his essence is in the material tin, and in brass. his gate is the sixth that you will come upon as you follow the rituals that follow. his step on the ladder of lights in purple. this is

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

all be the sign? so she answered him, bending down, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth& her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: thou knowest! and the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body. i,27: then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: o nuit, continuous one of heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous! i,28: none, breathed the light, faint& faery, of the stars, and two. i,29: for i am divided for love s s

el little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones. i,32: obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. this is so: i swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all i can give, by all i desire of ye all. i,33: then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law! i,34: but she said: the ordeals i write not: the rituals shall be half known and half concealed: the law is for all. i,35: this that thou writest is the threefold book of law. i,36: my scribe ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in one letter change this book; but lest there be folly, h

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

ower point 31 bis hdyjy yechidah. topmost point table of correspondences 19 lxxi. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion wands. lxxii. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion cups. 11 the prince of the chariot of fire. rules 20 d to 20 f, including most of leo minor. the prince of the chariot of the waters. 20 g to 20 h 23 the queen of the thrones of flame. 20 l to 20 a, including part of andromeda. the queen of the thrones of the waters. 20 c to 20 d 31 the lord of the flame and the lightning. the king of the spirits of fire. rules 20 h to 20 i, including part of hercules. the lord of the waves and the waters. the king of the hosts of the sea. 20 k to 20 l, including most of pegasus. 32 bis the princess of the shining

e floods. rules another quadrant 31 bis the root of the powers of fire (ace) the root of the powers of water. lxxiii. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion swords. lxxiv. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion pantacles. 11 the prince of the chariot of air. 20 j to 20 k the prince of the chariot of earth. 20 a to 20 b 23 the queen of the thrones of air. 20 f to 20 g the queen of the thrones of the earth. 20 i to 20 j 31 the lord of the winds and the breezes. the king of the spirits of air. 20 b to 20 c the lord of the wide and fertile land. the king of the spirits of earth. 20 e to 20 f 32 bis the princess of the rushing winds. the lotus of the palace of air. rules a 3rd quadrant. the princess of the echoing hills. th

s additional title \lwu-dwsy-qydx the righteous is the foundation of the world. line 10. malkuth has these titles (among others: ruc the gate (by temurah, rcu= 10).2 y the gate (chaldee. which has the same number (671) as ynda in full dwy wn tld [la also gates of death. shadow of death. tears. justice. prayer. gate of daughter of mighty ones. garden of eden. also inferior mother the daughter. the queen. hklm the bride. hlk the virgin. hlwtb col iv. this column may be equally well symbolized by any single entry, preferably in 0. the monistic and nihilistic conceptions are convertible. hua may be equally named tao, iao, noumenon, and the like. all language on this subject is necessarily feeble and hieroglyphic. it is to name that which by definition has no name. col. v. these god-names are t

e junction of 25, 34. see figure. cols. xv.-xviii. daath lavender, grey-white, pure violet, grey flecked gold. herschel silver flecked white. col. xvi, line 10. for d, c, b, and e. col. xix. urim and thummim= auramoth and thoum mou, egyptian gods. they are methods of divination by b and e. col. xx, line 32. these gods preside over the pieces in rosicrucian chess. 5 d of b bishop ywoum mwou c of b queen i#haourey b of b knight hnwou vw/s e of b pawn kabexneuf e of b castle wauwqi# a of b king vaourw d of c bishop xoni# ya mwou c of c queen y/wour i# mwog b of c knight ceba qnwou haour i# ya mwou e of c pawn ]wmayv e of c castle s/weu ya i# a of c king pya qav/n-q/x d of d bishop zw wan c of d queen qnwou ya peq] b of d knight ou bal e of d pawn ahevi e of d castle yarves# fa qnwouya pe a of

awn kabexneuf e of b castle wauwqi# a of b king vaourw d of c bishop xoni# ya mwou c of c queen y/wour i# mwog b of c knight ceba qnwou haour i# ya mwou e of c pawn ]wmayv e of c castle s/weu ya i# a of c king pya qav/n-q/x d of d bishop zw wan c of d queen qnwou ya peq] b of d knight ou bal e of d pawn ahevi e of d castle yarves# fa qnwouya pe a of d king ouqaouri# d of e bishop ar/wueri# c of e queen ?ice# b of e knight hwwr e of e pawn amese] e of e castle neuvyuie# a of e king ?swwri# the pawns refer to t as the house of the elements only, not to t as e. line 32. cfbaquwou hnoue. i#tomwou and ahevi ]wumatv: amece: kabexnuf 6 col. xxi. the perfected egyptian exlaims, there is no part of me that is not of the gods. this column gives the attribution in detail. the non-cherubic zodiac sign

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

x strong, which also successively are the numbers of time: and their powers are as the first 456. arise! you sons of pleasure! and visit the earth: for i am the lord your god; which is and liveth (for ever! in the name of the creator, move! and shew yourselves as pleasant deliverers, that you may praise him among the sons of men [invokes: hcoma; the whole tablet of water. the angle of c of c. the queen of the thrones of water] liber lxxxiv 25 the opening of the temple in the grade of 1 =108 give the sign of the god set fighting. purify with fire and water, and announce the temple is cleansed [knock] let us adore the lord and king of earth! adonai ha aretz, adonai melekh, unto thee be the kingdom, the sceptre, and the splendour: malkuth, geburah, gedulah, the rose of sharon and the lily of

am of earth and pronouce this name ]lm ynda] and elohim said: let us make man in our own image; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air; and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. and the elohim created ath-ha-adam: in the image of the elohim created they them; male and female created they them. in the name of ]lm ynda and of the bride and queen of the kingdom; spirits of earth, adore your creator [make the sign of taurus] in the name of layrwa, great archangel of earth, spirits of earth, adore your creator [make the cross] in the names and letters of the great northern quadrangle, spirits of earth, adore your creator [sprinkle water before earth tablet] in the three great secret names of god, mor, dial, hctga, that are borne upon t

uch as work wonders on all creatures. whose kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of mercy and continuance. o ye servants of mercy, move! appear! sing praises unto the creator; and be mighty among us. for that to this remembrance is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter! the angle of c of d in the tablet of d the queen of the thrones of air. the eighth key bazodemelo i ta pi-ripesonu olanu na-zodavabebe ox. casaremeji varanu cahisa vaugeji asa berameji balatoha: goho iad. soba miame tarianu ta lolacis abaivoninu od azodiajiere riore. irejila cahisa da das pa-aox busada caosago, das cahisa od ipuranu telocahe cacureji o-isalamahe lonucaho od vovina carebafe? niiso! bagile avagao gohon. niiso! bagile momao s

e! that sit upon 24 seats, vexing all creatures of the earth with age, that have 1636 under ye. behold! the voice of god; the promise of him who is called amongst ye fury or extreme justice. move and shew yourselves! unveil the mysteries of your creation; be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god: the true worshipper of the highest. the angle of c of e in the tablet of e. the queen of the thrones of earth. the fifteenth key ilasa! tabaanu li-el pereta, casaremanu upaahi cahisa dareji; das oado caosaji oresacore: das omaxa monasa i baeouibe od emetajisa iaiadix. zodacare od zodameranu! odo cicale qaa. zodoreje, lape zodiredo noco mada, hoathahe i a i d a. o thou, the governer of the first flame, under whose wings are 6739; that weave the earth with dryness: that knowest

mada, hoathahe i a i d a. o thou third flame! whose wings are thorns to stir up vexation, and who hast 7336 living lamps going before thee: whose god is wrath in anger: gird up thy loins and hearken! move and appear! unveil the mysteries of your creation; be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god, the true worshipper of the highest. the angle of c of b in the tablet of b. the queen of the thrones of flame. the eighteenth key ilasa micalazoda olapireta ialpereji belioresa: das odo busadire oiad ouoaresa caosago: casaremeji laiada eranu berinutasa cafafame das ivemeda aqoso adoho moz, od maof-fasa. bolape como belioeta pamebata. zodacare od zodameranu! odo cicale qaa. zodoreje, lape zodiredo noco mada, hoathahe i a i d a. o thou mighty light and burning flame of comfort!

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

"painless dentistry" upwards. the fact that anything is intelligible proves that it is addressed to the wrong quarter, because the very existence of language presupposes impotence to communicate directly. when walter raleigh flung his cloak upon the muddy road, he merely expressed, in a cipher contrived by a combination of circumstances, his otherwise inexpressible wish to get on good terms with queen elizabeth. the significance of his action was determined by the concourse of circumstances. the reality can have no reason for reproducing itself exclusively in that especial form. it can have no reason for remembering that so extravagant a ritual happened to be necessary to worship. therefore, however well a man might remember his incarnation as julius caesar, there is no necessity for his

of my original will to move the ball, though necessarily previous to its motion. but the case of magical work is not quite analogous. for my nature is such that i am compelled to perform magick in order to make my will to prevail; so that the cause of my doing the work is also the cause of the ball's motion, and there is no reason why one should precede the other (cf "lewis carroll" where the red queen screams before she pricks her finger "let me illustrate the theory by an actual example "i write from italy to a man in france and another in australia on the same day, telling them to join me. both arrive ten days later; the first in answer to my letter, which he received, the second on "his own initiative, as it would seem. but i summoned him because i wanted him; and i wanted him because

ngel "line 4" his angel has made "voice, the magical weapon which produces "words, and these words have been the wisdom by which he hath created all things. the "voice" is necessary as the link between the adept and his angel. the angel is "king, the one who "can, the "source of authority and the fount of honour; also the king (or king's son) who delivers the enchanted princess, and makes her his queen. he is "ruler, the "unconscious will; to be thwarted no more by the ignorant and capricious false will of the conscious man. and he is "helper, the author of the infallible impulse that sends the soul sweeping along the skies on its proper path with such impetus that the attraction of alien orbs is no longer sufficient to swerve it. the "hear me" clause is now uttered by the normal human con

ar" the priest. o circle of stars whereof our father is but the younger brother, marvel beyond imagination, soul of infinite space, before whom time is ashamed, the mind bewildered, and the understanding dark, not unto thee may we attain, unless thine image be love. therefore by seed and root and stem and bud and leaf and flower and fruit we do invoke thee "then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: o nuit, continuous one of heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous "during this speech the "priestess "must have divested herself completely of her robe, see ccxx.i.62" the

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hey work without putting the magician to such severe toil and exertion as is needed when he has to write them out from his own ingenium. yes! this is weakness on my part, and i am very naughty to encourage you to shirk the hardest path. i used often to make the background of my talismans of four concentric circles, painting then, the first (inmost) in the king (or knight) scale, the second in the queen, the third in the prince, and the outermost in the princess scale, of the sign, planet, or element to which i was devoting it. on this, preferably in the "flashing" colours, i would paint the appropriate names and figures. lastly, the talisman may be surrounded with a band inscribed with a suitable "versicle" chosen from some holy book, or devised by the magician to suit the case. in the bri

u when you next visit me) the cup. there are plenty of chalices to be bought. it should be of silver. if ornamented, the best form is that of the apple. i have seen suitable cups in many shops. the sword. the ideal form is shown in the ace of swords in the tarot. at all events, let the blade be straight, and the hilt a simple cross (the 32 masonic sword is not too bad; kenning or spencer in great queen street, w.c.2 stock them- or used to do) the disk. this ought to be of pure gold, with your own pantacle, designed by yourself after prolonged study, graved thereupon. while getting ready for this any plain circle of gold will have to serve your turn. quite flat, of course. if you want a good simple design to go on interim, try the rosy cross or the unicursal hexagram. so much for the weapon

ears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 166 contrast with this elaborate care, rightness of every detail, earnestness and intentness upon the goal- contrast, i say, the modern spiritist in the dingy squalor of her foul back street in her suburban slum, the room musty, smelling of stale food, the hideous prints, the cheap and rickety furniture, calling up any one required from jesus christ to queen victoria, 6* dogme et rituel de la haute magie, by eliphas l vi. 26 all at a bob-a-nob! faugh! let us return to clean air, and analyse l vi's experiment; i believe that by the application of the principles set forth in my other letters on death and reincarnation, it will be simple to explain his partial failure to evoke apollonius. you had better read them over again, to have the matter clea

ge "holy man" is a fairly tall fellow of his hands. more, he has been particularly trained for this form of asceticism by all sorts of secret methods and practices; some of these, but the way, i was able to learn myself, and found surprisingly efficacious. so we have the law of supply and demand at work as uncomplainingly as usual: the holy man prays for the threatened dynasty, blesses the barren queen; and they all live happy ever after. this is not an arabian night's tale of antiquity; it is the same today: there are very few englishmen who have spent any time in india who have not been approached with proposals of this character. similar conditions, curiously enough, existed in france; the "fils papa" was usually a hopeless rotter, and his wife often resorted to a famous monastery on th

there must be "gods" or "masters- whatever name you like. and that, i suppose, is what you may call the premise major of my syllogism. the minor, i confess, is not so apodeictic. no one, i suppose, is going to point proudly to the present state of human affairs, as evidence that we are all becoming wiser and nobler every minute, as people did seventy years ago (i was brought up in the faith that queen victoria would never die, and that consols would never go below par. in face, one may suspect that the majority of wellinstructed men expect nothing but that history will repeat itself, and our civilization go the way of all the others whose ruins we dig up in every quarter of the earth (our own destruction may be more compete than theirs; for most of the monuments to our intelligence, sobri

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

ater mym very silent mmwd king: a title oftiphareth klm basket ls general, universal, collective yllk manna; portion nm 91 1-13. the mystic number of kether as achad; the sum of the letters of the supernal beard if k= 11, etc (see 145) a tree nly) firm, faithful; amen: so be it: a title of kether nm) the ephod dwp) ynd) hwhy interlaced yhnwdh)y archangel of geburah l)mk food, fare lk)m angel k)lm queen (ar )klm manna )nm a hut, tent hkws pekht: gextension h hh)p 92 terror: a title of geburah dxp the lord thy god [is a consuming fire (deut. 4:24. see 182; deut. 28:58) kyhl) hwhy mud cb litter bc 93 aiwass: the minister of hoor-paar-kraat( gcorrect h. cf. 78) zwy( the sons of [the merciful] god l) ynb incense hnwbl a disc, round shield; a defender ngm possession hlxn arduous, busy; host, arm

shield; a defender ngm possession hlxn arduous, busy; host, army )bc 94 corpse hpwg the valley of vision nwyzxyg to extinguish k(d a fault (ps. 50:20, i.e. there gallege a fault h) ypd a shore pwx a window nwlx a drop hp+ children mydly congratulations, good luck bw+ lzm prickly dnm side dc 95 the sphere of mars myd)m the great stone hldg nb) the waters mymh multitude, abundance nmh journey klhm queen hklm selah, glift up! h (ps. 32:5, 7, etc) hls 96 a name of god ynd) l (chaldee form of myhl) nyhl) by day mmwy occupation [mundane] work (cf. 415& 420) hk)lm the secret [counsel] of the lord (ps. 25:14; see 353) hwhy dws statute wc 97 changeless, constant; the god amon (na. 3:8) nwm) the son of man md) nb archangel of netzach l)yn)h the appointed time nmz to seize suddenly p+x a hand-breadt

ght, stature hmwq jealous )nq 152 the bringing-forth one )ycwmh residence, station bycn 154 elohim of lives (cf. 149) myyx myhl) 155 adonai the king: a divine name of malkuth (cf. 65& 361) klm ynd) the faithful friend nm)n dwd the beard( gcorrect h (s.d. 2:1 et seq )nqd letters of the cherubic signs c n+ w a seed hnq 156 the number of letters in each tablet of enoch: 12 13 babalon: the victorious queen (lit. ggate of the gods h; see liber 418) n(l)b)b the tabernacle of the congregation (lev. 1:1) d(wm lh) a viper h(p) locked [door; shod, wearing shoes lw(n fowl pw( zion nwyc limpid blood lwlc crying aloud (the city of hadar (see 209, referred to binah in i.r.q. 994; cf. s.d. 4:19) w(p 157 the setting of the sun hmx ymwdmd was angry, enraged; anger p(z the beard (s.d. cap. 2; lingam (qnz) n

d the navel rwb+ strife, controversy [of the lord] hbyr bright, shining ryhb leanness; secret yzr 218 ayre, aethyr )ryw) briah: the creative world h)yrb the benignity of time mlw( dsx the moon (cf. 276; a month (cf. 312) xry multitude ywbr arcana )yzr odour, a smell xyr 219 cleansing; cleansings hrh+ 220 the number of verses in the book of the law. the sephiroth the paths the elect ryxb mistress; queen; demi-goddess hrybg ye shall cleave unto hwhy( gnot h read; cf. 192) hwhyl myqbdx clean; elegant rwh+ a giant qn( giants (fully written only in num. 13:33) mylypn softness kr cups mylps 221 long kr) 222 unto the place (ex. 23:20) mwqmh l) whiteness hrwwh goodly mountain (deut. 3:25) bw+ rh i will chase hyw)r to kneel; bless; knee, lap krb young male camel rkb to make heavy; to make many, mul

knowledge t(d wisdom (pl; prov. 1:20. i.r.q. 244) twmkx the testimony [within the ark] td( a ram, he-goat; a prepared sacrifice dt( 475 in golgotha (ar; s.d. 2:33 )tlglwgb priestess tnhk 476 house of justice, a court-house nyd tyb 478 the lesser countenance: a title of the ruach, esp. tiphareth nypn) ry(z 479 grindings. female millers) twnxw+ 480 stones of emptiness (is. 34:11) whwt ynb) lilith, queen of the night tylyl part; open wide q#p opening; vagina; bit, morsel tp hand-drum; bezel pt knowledge (pl (k.d. p.252) tw(d testimony (k.d. p.252) twd( 481 hills tw(bg bound to death; death penalty )tym byyx a ring t(b) the mighty one sings: a title of tiphareth nwryryd) 482 a looking-glass, mirror )yrlqps) 483 constellations; the sphere of the zodiac, referred to chokmah (but see 536) twlzm

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

he starting point. nothing could enter or leave the mass, because there is no boundary to enter or leave by; in fact, it is coextensive with space. there could not be any other world anywhere else because there isn't an 'anywhere else "the mass of this volume of water is not so great as the most moderate estimates of the mass of the stellar system. al i,27 "then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: o nuit, continuous one of heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous" the old comment 27- 31. here is a profound philosophical dogma, in a sense possibly and explanation and

tions, thereby affirming implicitly the very duality from which one is seeking to escape. note also that "me" may imply the greek mh "not. the word 'only' might be taken as ?ayin-lamed-nun-vau' with the number of 156, that of the secret name babalon of nuith. there are presumably further hidden meanings in the key-word 'all. al i,33 "then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law" the old comment 33. the prophet then demanded instruction; ordeals, rituals, law. the new comment law, in the common sense of the word, should be a formulation of the customs of a people, as euclid's propositions are the formulation of geometrical facts. but modern knavery conceived the idea of artificial

ove the old saying "natura abhorret a vacuo. for she is the image of the soul of nature, the great mother, the great whore. it is to be well noted that the great women of history have exercised unbounded freedom in love. sappho, semiramis, messalina, cleopatra, ta chhi, pasiphae, clytaemnaestra, helen of troy, and in more recent times joan of arc (by shakespeare's account, catherine ii of russia, queen elizabeth of england, george sand "george eliot" against these we can put only emily bronte, whose sex-suppression was due to her environment, and so burst out in the incredible violence of her art, and the regular religious mystics, saint catherine, saint teresa, and so on, the facts of whose sex-life have been carefully camouflaged in the interests of the slave-gods. but, even on that show

e itself should be flung with a spendthrift gesture on the counter of the merchant of madness. on the steel of your helmet let there be gold inlaid with the motto "excess" the above indications are taken from a subsequent passage of the third chapter of this book. the supreme and absolute injunction, the crux of your knightly oath, is that you lay your lance in rest to the glory of your lady, the queen of the stars, nuit. your knighthood depends upon your refusal to fight in any lesser cause. that is what distinguishes you from the brigand and the bully. you give your life on her altar. you make yourself worthy of her by your readiness to fight at any time, in any place, with any weapon, and at any odds. for her, from whom you come, of whom you are, to whom you go, your life is no more and

as matthew arnold victorianatically phrased his definition. the whiskered wowser! why this ingrained conviction that self is unrighteous? it is the heritage of the whip, the brand of the born slave. incidentally, we cannot allow people who believe in this 'god' they are troglodytes, as dangerous to society as any other thieves and murderers. the christians to the lions! yet, in the reign of good queen victoria, matthew arnold was considered rather hot stuff as an infidel! tempora mutantur, p.d.q. when a magus gets on the job. the quintessence of this verse is (however) its revelation of the nature of hadit as a self-conscious and individual being, although impersonal. he is an ultimate independent, and unique element in nature, impenetrably aloof. the negative electron seems to be his phy

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ar. the priest: o circle of stars whereof our father is but the younger brother, marvel beyond imagination, soul of infinite space, before whom time is ashamed, the mind bewildered, and the understanding dark, not unto thee may we attain, unless thine image be love. therefore by seed and root and stem and bud and leaf and flower and fruit do we invoke thee. then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat; o nuit, continuous one of heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous. during this speech the priestess must have divested herself completely of her robe. see ccxx i:62. the p

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

has been the persistent endeavour of so-called christians to make her. aima is the woman described in the apocalypse (ch xii).17 this third sephirah is also sometimes called the great sea. to her are attributed the divine names \yhla, elohim, and \yhla hwhy; and the angelic order \ylara, aralim, the thrones. she is the supernal mother, as distinguished from malkuth, the inferior mother, bride and queen. the number 4. this union of the second and third sephiroth produced dsj, chesed, mercy or love, also called hlwdg, gedulah, greatness or magnificence; a masculine potency represented by the divine name la, el, the mighty one, and the angelic name \ylmcj, chashmalim, scintillating flames (ezekiel iv, 4. the number 5. from this emanated the feminine passive potency hrwbg, geburah, strength or

umber 9. these two produced dwsy, yesod, the foundation or basis, represented by yj la, the mighty living one, and ydc, shaddai: and among the angels by \yca, aishim, the flames (psalms civ, 4, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing the decad of the numbers. it is called twklm, malkuth, the kingdom, and also the queen, matrona, the inferior mother, the bride of microprosopus; and hnykc, shekinah,19 represented by the divine name ynda, adonai,20 and among the angelic hosts by the kerubim \ybwrk. 17 add, in another sense, ch xvii. this is important t.s. 18 or harmony. 19 some qabalists allude to the idea of a lower and higher shekinah, the higher referred to binah t.s. 20 lit. lord; also ]lm ynda, adonai me

hira as the beam which joins them. thus, then, the term balance may be said to symbolize the triune, trinity in unity, and the unity represented by the central point of the beam. but, again, in the sephiroth there is a triple trinity, the upper, lower and middle. now, these three are represented thus: the supernal, or highest, but the crown, kether; the middle by the king, and the inferior by the queen; which will be the greatest trinity. and the earthly correlatives of these will be the primum mobile, the sun and the moon. here we at once find alchemical symbolism. the sephiroth are further divided into three pillars the right-hand pillar of mercy, consisting of the second, fourth, and seventh emanations; the left-hand pillar of judgement, consisting of the third, fifth, and eighth; and t

phiroth are on the right, three feminine on the left, whilst the four uniting sephiroth occupy the centre. this is the qabalistical tree of life, on which all things depend. there is considerable analogy between this and the tree yggdrasil of the scandinavians. i have already remarked that there is one trinity which comprises all the sephiroth, and that it consists of the crown, the king, and the queen (in some senses this is the christian trinity of father, son and holy spirit, which in their highest divine nature are symbolized by the first three sephiroth, kether, chokmah, and binah) it is the trinity which created the world, or, in qabalistic language, the universe was born from the union of the crowned king and queen. but according to the qabalah, before the complete form of the heave

but hwhy, the tetragrammaton, as we shall presently see, contains all the sephiroth with the exception of kether, and specially signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistic sephirothic greatest trinity, and the son in his human incarnation in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does hwhy reveal hyha. and ynda is the queen by whom alone tetragrammaton can be grasped, whose exaltation into binah is found in the christian assumption of the virgin. the tetragrammaton hwhy is referred to the sephiroth thus: the uppermost point of the letter yod, y, is said to refer to kether; the letter y itself to chokmah, the father of microprosopus; the letter h, or the supernal he to binah, the supernal mother; the letter w to

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ey* as represented by his encylop dia article; not in such works as limits of religious thought. a.c. an astronomer whose brain gave way. he prophesied the end of the world in 1881, from measurements made in the great pyramid. the sword of song 4 sang in words of surpassing beauty: for of course the thought in one or two passages of this poem is practically identical with that in certain parts of queen mab and prometheus unbound. but the very beauty of these poems (especially the latter) is its weakness: it is possible that the mind of the reader, lost in the sensuous, nay! even in the moral beauty of the words, may fail to be impressed by their most important meaning. shelley himself recognised this later: hence the direct and simple vigour of the masque of anarchy. it has often puzzled a

aniac indeed, as we must now consider shakespeare to have been on these points, he was yet artful enough to have concealed his* the lamented decease of the above gentleman forbids all hope (save through the courtesy of sir oliver lodge) of the appearance of the companion article. a.c. advanced views an imperative necessity, if we consider the political situation, and the virginal mask under which queen bess hid the grotesque and hideous features of a messaline. clearly so, since but for this concealment even our shakespearian scholars would have discovered so patent a fact. in some plays, too, of course, the poet deals with less dangerous topics. these are truly conventional, no doubt; we may pass them by; they are foreign to our purpose; but we will take that stupendous example of literar

follow us disquietly to our grave (sc. ii. ll. 125-127. edmund, once rid of him, gives us the* he leaves her in charge of marshal le fer, whom alone he could trust to be impervious to her wiles, he being devoted to another; for as an invaluable contemporary ms. has it, seccotine colle m me le fer. this may be, but i think should not be, used as an argument to prove the poet an illegitimate son of queen elizabeth. plainest sense we are likely to here for the rest of our lives; then, with the prettiest humour in the world takes the cue of his father s absurdity, and actually plays it on his enemy. edgar s leg is not so easily pulled( how long have you been a sectary astronomical? ll. 169, 170) and the bastard hero, taking alarm, gets right down to business. in scene iii. we find lear s senil

hi villain. ii. as far as reason goes, there s hope for mortals yet: when nothing is that knows, what is there to regret? our consciousness depends on matter in the brain; when that rots out, and ends, there ends the hour of pain. iii. if we can trust to this, why, dance and drink and revel! great scarlet mouths to kiss, and sorrow to the devil! if pangs ataxic creep, or gout, or stone, annoy us, queen morphia, grant thy sleep! let worms, the dears, enjoy us! iv. but since a chance remains that i surives the body (so talk the men whose brains are made of smut and shoddy, i ll stop it if i can (ah jesus, if thou couldest) i ll go to martaban to make myself a buddhist. v. and yet: the bigger chance lies with annihilation. follow the lead of france, freedom s enlightened nation! off! sacredot

eep one steady. so i think i may look forward to a tenure of my mahakalpa in almost arcadian simplicity. lady bhavani, did you say, boy? yes, i am at home. bring the betel! jeldi! he added, with some dim recollection of the 1 a whirling disc is indra s symoblic weapon. 2 he abandoned this. a few fragments are reprinted in his oracles. appendix i 106 british government, when he was a baby nat. the queen of heaven and the lord of the gods chewed betel for quite a long time, conversed of the weather, the crops, the affaire humbert, and the law in relation to motor-cars, with ease and affability. but far was it from indra s pious mind to flirt with his distinguished guest! rather, he thought of the hollow nature of the safe, the change of money and of position; the sorrow of the too confiding

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re he will, whether he will or no, if i go, i care not whither i go. for in me is the taint of the faery blood. fast, fast, its emerald flood leaps within me, violent rude like a bestial faun's beatitude. in me the faery blood runs hard: my sires were a druid, a devil, a bard, a beast, a wizard, a snake and a satyr; for- as my mother said- what does it matter? 44 she was a fay, pure of the faery; queen morgan's daughter by an aery demon that came to orkney once to pay the beetle his orisons. so, it is i that writhe with the twitch of the faery blood, and the wizard itch to attain a matter one may not utter rather than sink in the greasy splutter of britons munching their bread and butter; ailing boys and coarse-grained girls grown to sloppy women and brutal churls. so, i am off with staff

blush of the sapphire, the ruby, and the sard. thy lips are as roses in june; and thine eyes as amethysts set in the vault of heaven. o! come kiss me, for i tremble for thee; fill me with love, 193 for i am consumed by the heat of my passion; say me, o slay me with kisses, burn me in the fire of thy kingdom, o slay me with the sword of thy rapture" then i cried unto her in a loud voice saying "o queen of the lusts of flesh! o queen of the lands haunted by satyrs! o mistress of night! o mother of the mysteries of birth and death! who art girt in the flames of passion, and jewelled with emerald, and moonstone, and chrysoleth. lo! on thy brow burns the star-sapphire of heaven, thy girdle is as the serpent of eden, and round thine ankles chatter the rubies and garnets of hell. hearken, o lili

flesh. so, verily, if she who being a courtesan, becometh as an untouched virgin, she shall be considered as a thing of naught, being both sterile and loveless; for what profit shall she be to this world who is the mother of unfruitfulness? but she who is both crimson and white, a twisted pillar of snow and fire, soothing where she burneth, and comforting where she chilleth, she shall be held as queen amongst women; for in her all things are found, and as an inexhaustible well of water around whose mouth grows the wild apricot, in which the bees set their sweet hives, she shall be both food and drink to the hearts of men: a well of life unto this world, yea! a goodly tavern wherein cool wine is sold, and good cheer is to be had, and where all shall be filled with the joyaunce of love. thu

as, a full moon of silver trembles glowing with beams of opalescent light- mystic and wonderful. in her right hand she holds a sistrum, and chimes forth the music of the earth, and in her left an asp twisted to the prow of a boat of gold, wherein lie the mysteries of heaven. then clear and sweet as the breath of the hillside, i heard a voice, as of the winds across a silver harp, saying: i am the queen of the heavenly ones, of the gods, and of the goddesses, united in one form. i am she who was, who is, and will be; my form is one, my name is manifold; under the palm-trees, and in the deserts, in the valleys, and on the snowy mountains, mankind pays me homage, and thunders forth praises to my name. yet i am nameless in the deep, as amongst the lightsome mountains of the sky. some call me m

o is, and will be; my form is one, my name is manifold; under the palm-trees, and in the deserts, in the valleys, and on the snowy mountains, mankind pays me homage, and thunders forth praises to my name. yet i am nameless in the deep, as amongst the lightsome mountains of the sky. some call me mother of the gods, some aphrodite of the seas of pearl, some diana of the golden nets, some proserpina queen of darkness, some hecate mistress of enchantments, some istar of the boat of night, some miriam of the cavern, and others yet again isis, veiled mother of mystery. i am she who cometh in unto all men, and if not here, then shalt thou behold me amidst the darkness of acheron, and as queen in the palaces of styx. i am the dark night 224 that bringeth forth the bright day; i am the bright day t

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r passion's tortured skin and drink love's blood, and rage within black bowels of lust to win, to win some crown of thorns incarnadine, some cross whereof to fashion some newer, truer passion than even the agony of the violin "the prophet" yes! like a careless breeze, the close caress expands with a sob; the virgins wheel; there glows 19 in the midst a mystical rose["the dancers unfold, and their queen appears" o musical ministress of the dancing violin! in an emerald spangled skin, hooded with harvest hair close-coiled, her serpent eyes hold ineffable sorceries! slender, and full, and straight is she as an almond tree blest by an hermit! her serpent eyes hold ineffable sorceries! slow she sways; her white arms ripple from rosy finger to rosy nipple, ripple and flow like the melody of the

promise, to unveil the lady of bliss and bale? i am old and blind; my vision hath the seer in derision. i would set my lips between those rose-tipped moons, just there where the deciduous green leaves the pearly rapture bare, 21 with its blue veins like rivulets jewelled with gentians and violets, wandering through fields of corn, under the first kiss of the morn in still and shimmering air "the queen of the dancers" no! no! the weird is woe. the law is this, most surely this! that who hath seen may never kiss. the soul is at war with the flesh and the mind. life is dumb, and love is blind "the prophet" i am the prophet of the gods. i have put these eyes out to attain to the crown of the pallid periods that pulse in the almighty brain! i have striven all my life for this; that i might see

ltar defiled, the sacrament trod under foot by the wild despisers of god "the musicians" no! no! life is woe. thou dost not know how ineffably great is the weight of fate. uncreate! ultimate! 23 born of hate! brother of woe! despair its mate! thou dost not know how giant great is the grasp of fate "the dancers" vainly pursuing impossible things, the swamp-adder wooing the lark with her wings "the queen of the dancers" see how i glide- canst thou not hold me? in thine arms, at thy side- why not enfold me? wisdom, awaken! never, oh never, by wile or endeavour am i to be taken. will a wish or a word charm the hawk from the air? and am i a bird to be caught in a snare? will a word or a wish bring the trout from the brook? and am i a fish to snap at an hook "the prophet" ye let me to the holy p

s on the brows of the world. hush! they are curled in the rapture of reaping the flowers that unfurled when the gardeners were sleeping in the breeze-swayed bowers of the lord of the flowers! hush! hush! the young feet flush the marble. the temple's ablaze and ablush. hush! hush! softer crush the grape on the palate, the bloom on the blossom, the dream on the sleeper, the bride on the blosom "the queen of the dancers, in her prime pose (spoken without inflection or emphasis" now do you understand the tragedy of life? 27 the training of the mind the religion of the buddhas is, in the most eminent sense of the word, a practical philosophy. it is not a collection of dogmas which are to be accepted and believed with an unquestioning and unintelligent faith: but a series of statements and propo

has been the persistent endeavour of so-called christians to make her. aima is the woman described in the apocalypse (chap. xii. this third sephira is also sometimes called the great sea. to her are attribute the divine names, alhim, elohim, and ihvh alhim; and the angelic order, aralim, aralim, the thrones. she is the supernal mother as distinguished from malkuth, the inferior mother, bride, and queen. the number 4. this union of the second and third sephiroth produced chsd, chesed, mercy or love, also called gdvlh, gedulah, greatness or magnificence; a masculine potency represented by the divine name al, el, the mighty one, and the angelic name, chshmlim, chashmalim, scintillating flames (ezek. iv. 4. the number 5. from this emanated the feminine passive potency gbvrh, geburah, strength

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ngel with rainbow wings, and his dress is green with silver, a green veil over silver armour. flames of many-coloured fire dart from him in all directions. it is a woman of some thirty years old, and she has the moon for a crest, and the moon is blazoned on her heart, and her sandals are curved silver, like the moon. and she cries: lonely am i and cold in the wilderness of the stars. for i am the queen of all them that dwell in heaven, and the queen of all them that are pure upon earth, and the queen of all the sorcerers of hell. i am the daughter of nuit, the lady of the stars. and i am the bride of them that are vowed unto loneliness. and i am the mother of the dog cerberus. one person am i, and three gods. and thou who hast blasphemed me shalt suffer knowing me. for i am cold as thou ar

relation with one, just as one cannot blaspheme an unknown god, because one does not know what to say to annoy him. and this explains the perfect inefficiency of those who try to insult the saints; the most violent attacks are very often merely clumsy compliments) now the angel is spread completely over the globe, a dewy film of silver upon that luminous blue. and a great voice cries: behold the queen of heaven, how she hath woven her robes from the loom of justice. for as that straight path of the arrow cleaving the rainbow became righteousness in her that sitteth in the hall of double truth, so at last is she exalted unto the throne of the high priestess, the priestess of the silver star, wherein also is thine angel made manifest. and this is the mystery of the camel that is ten days in

thereof, for the company of the pilgrims is a glad company, and they have no care, and with song and dance and wine and fair 9 note that the corner letters in this table are all b= leo. 10 since the examination in the amphitheatre i have been a naked spirit without garments or anything; by garments he means the body. women do they make merry. and every hostel is their place, and every maid their queen. gather up thy garments about thee, i say, for the voice of the aethyr, that is the voice of the aeon, is ended, and thou art absorbed into the lesser night, and caught in the web of the light of thy mother in the word abradaharba. and now the five and the six are divorced, and i am come again within my body. bou-saada "december" 3, 1909. 9.15 to 11.10 a.m. the cry of the 14th aethyr, which

a seal upon the tomb of tetragrammaton, and the elixir of life that is distilled from the blood of the saints, and the red powder that is the grinding-up of the bones of choronzon. terrible and wonderful is the mystery thereof, o thou titan that hast climbed into the bed of juno! surely thou art bound unto, and broken upon, the wheel; yet hast thou uncovered the nakedness of the holy one, and the queen of heaven is in travail of child, and his name shall be called vir, and vis, and virus, and virtus, and viridis, in one name that is all these, and above all these. desolate, desolate is the aethyr, for thou must return unto the habitations of the owl and the bat, unto the scorpions 140 of the sand, and the blanched eyeless beetles that have neither wing nor horn. return, blot out the vision

satan is worshipped by men under the name of jesus; and lucifer is worshipped by men under the name of brahma; and leviathan is worshipped by men under the name of allah; and belial is worshipped by men under the name of buddha (this is the meaning of the passage in liber legis, chap. iii) moreover, there is mary, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herself up; and therefore is she the queen of all those wicked devils that walk upon the earth, those that thou sawest even as little black specks that stained the heaven of urania. and all these are the excrement of choronzon. and for this is babalon under the power of the magician, that she hath submitted herself unto the work; and she guardeth the abyss. and in her is a perfect purity of that which is above; yet she is sent as the

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ty, whose phallus is like the pillar in karnak! even by myself and my male power do i conjure ye. amen. 12.20 i was getting sleepy when the oysters came. i now eat them in a yogin and ceremonial manner. 12.45. i have eaten my oysters, chewing them every one; also some bread and butter in the same manner, giving praise to priapus the lord of the oyster, to demeter the lady of corn, and to isis the queen of the cow. further, i pray symbolically in this meal for virtue, and strength, and gladness; as is appropriate to these symbols. but i find it very difficult to keep the mantra going, even in tune with the jaws; perhaps it is that this peculiar method of eating (25 minutes 25 for what could be done normally in 3) demands the whole attention. 1.30. drifted into a nap. well! we shall try what

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en abodes of assiah; to the four elements, the kerubim, and the qliphoth.5 267 it represents the connecting-link between assiah and yetzirah. it is the rending of the veil of the tabernacle; and it is the passing of the gate of eden. after which he enters upon the symbolisms of the twenty-first key of the tarot, the naked female form of which represents the bride of the apocalypse, the qabalistic queen of the canticles, the egyptian isis of nature. her two wands are the directing forces of the positive and negative currents. she is the synthesis of the thirty-second path uniting malkuth and yesod. illustration on page 268 approximated_ diagram 21. the cubical cross of twenty- two squares. 5 "see 777" cols. civ, cviii, pp. 20 and 23; and revelations, chap. i. illustration on page 268 descri

i perceived that the angel had left me, and that once again fiery rain was falling around me "after this i departed, and in the air was surrounded by dark forms, whom i commanded to lead me back to the circle. then i sank amid a flock of eagles, and, descending, prayed and rejoined my body "my body was intensely strengthened; i was filled with a feeling of power and glory. i gave thanks' no. 10 "queen's hall. during the "andante" of beethoven's symphony in c (no. 5) i assume white astral, and fill the entire hall. then i looked up to god, and impulses of praise and prayer possessed me. presently i shrink forcibly and re-enter my body" no. 14 "i draw the circle and recite the 'lesser banishing ritual';37 but performed it badly, omitting an important section.38 "at first there appeared to m

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moment they landed they threw off their skins, and appeared before him as sea-trows or seal-folk. and even those seals who had lately been skinned by the boatmen also revived in time, and took their human form, but they mourned the loss of their sea-vestures, which would for ever prevent them from returning to their homes beneath the ocean. most of all did they lament for the son of gioga, their queen. he, too, had lost his skin, and would be banished for ever from his mother's kingdom. but, seeing the forsaken boatman, who sat watching the rising waters in despair, gioga suddenly conceived a plan to retain her son. she would carry the man on her back to the mainland, if he, 339 in his turn, would restore the missing skin. she even consented to his cutting some gashes in her flanks and sh

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f alcohol, the vegetarian's account of the dangers of meat-eating, or the missionary's account of the religion of the people he lives among. the alleged sensuality of hashish- even baudelaire admits it- simply does not exist for me, perhaps because there is no germ of lasciviousness in my mind. of course if you excite, by whatever stimulus, a foul imagination, you will get pestilent effects. when queen mab tickles the lawyer, he dreams of fees. so the people who associate nudity with debauchery, and see piccadilly circus in monna lisa, will probably obtain the fullest itching from the use of the drug. i recommend it to them for, slaves and swine as they are, it must inevitably drag them to death by the road of a certifiable insanity less dangerous to society than their present subtler mora

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eshoori! make my word truth before the circle of the great gods! adoration unto thee, anubi, who guardest the threshold of the universe! adoration unto thee, auramooth, purify me with the living waters! adoration unto thee, thaumaeshneith, make me holy with the hidden flame! adoration be unto thee, o dark-bright one! hoor! the prince of the city of blindness! adoration unto thee, o thmaist, truth-queen, who presidest at the balance of truth! adoration unto thee, asi; adoration unto thee, nephthyst. o aeshoori, lord of amennti! thou art the lord of life triumphant over death: there is naught in thee but godhead! toum! toum who art in the great dwelling! sovereign lord of all the gods, save me, and deliver! deliver me from that god that feedeth upon the damn d, dog-faced but human-headed; 20

y-word, inri, after which he explains to him the diagram of the minutum mundum as follows] illustration on page 219 described "diagram 72. minutum mundum" this is a standard tree of life diagram with the sephiroth as circles and the paths as bars. each path is marked with words for the corresponding king scale colors (see "777, column xv. each sephira is marked with the words of the corresponding queen scale colors (see "777, column xvi, malkut quartered in the usual manner to give place to the four colors. in addition, each sephiroth is also marked with the astrological correspondences from liber "777, column vi; done as symbols for the planets and english words for the remaining three. behold the diagram of "minutum mundum sive fundamentum coloris "the small universe or the foundation of

surrounded him he felt was greater than any that he had ever experienced before. this danger was, indeed, the seduction of things supremely material. for at this point on his journey, having mastered the three elements, he came nigh falling slave to the fourth; just as a warrior who has slain the king, and the captain of the guard, and even the chief eunuch who sleeps across the threshold of the queen's bed-chamber, may lose the kingdom he has all but won amongst the soft seducing cushions of a fair woman's couch, and only awake from his foolish sleep as the mallet drives the nail through his unguarded head. more valiant men have fallen in netzach than ever fell in malkuth, yesod, and hod combined, and more will fall in tiphereth than ever fell in netzach, and for the same reason, 236 and

path called daleth, even our lady isis""the invocation""of" 68 see "liber o" the equinox, vol. i. no. 2. 69 see "liber o" the equinox, vol. 1, no. 2. 70 see the lesser key of solomon: the goetia "isis" and i beheld a great wonder in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun: and the moon was at her feet: and on her head was the diadem of the twelve stars. hear me, our lady isis, hear and save. o thou, queen of love and mercy! thou, crowned with the throne! thou, horn d as the moon! thou, whose countenance is mild and glowing, even as grass refreshed by rain! hear me, our lady isis, hear and save! o thou, who art in mater manifest! thou bride and queen as thou art mother and daughter of the crucified! o thou, who art the lady of the earth! hear me, our lady isis, hear and save! o thou, our lady

the lotus of eternal life and beauty; by thy love and mercy; by my desire toward thee; in the name of aeshoori; hear me, our lady isis, hear and save! open thy bosom to thy child! stretch wide thy arms and strain me to thy breast! let my lips touch thy lips ineffable! hear me, our lady isis, hear and save! 271 lift up thy voice and aid me in this hour! lift up thy voice most musical! cry aloud, o queen and mother! lift up your heads, o ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors. and the king of glory shall come in! hear me, our lady isis, and receive! by the symbol of thy whirling force the svastika of flaming light, i invoke thee to initiate my soul! let the whirling of my magic dance be a spell and a link with thy great light: so that in the hour of apophis, in the apparent darkne

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ide, and hold it to the light! ah! there's a well_ a druid well; a wood_ a druid wood; a boat (druid) on a druid sea. why druid? because willie is not a british workman. the expletive is harmless enough. look! more wells and woods and boats and apple- blossoms. when in doubt, play apple-blossom. try and scan it as a dactyl. you can't? he can. oh! there are some people in the boat. druid people. a queen with hair like the casting-net of the stars. what's that? never mind. there's nothing rude or offensive about the casting-net of the stars? very good, then; let's get on. what are they doing? drifting. that's dead sure, anyway. drifting. drifting. that's the beautiful celtic glamour of it. druidically drifting druids on a druid sea of apple-blossom in the middle distance. foreground, a well

_ illustration facing page 4 of supplement partly described and partly approximated "fig. 1. the triangle of the universe "three veils of the negative_ not yellow; not red; not blue: but therefore symbolised by the 'flashing' colours of these three; purple (11; emerald (12) and orange (13. within their triangle of yonis is the lingam touching and filling it. positive, as they are negative; in the queen scale of colour, as they are in the king scale. ten are the emanations of unity, the parts of that lingam, in kether, taro= 78= 6 x 13, the influence of that unity in the macrocosm (hexagram. the centre of the whole figure is tiphereth, where is a golden sun of six rays. note the reflection of the yonis to the triad about malkuth. also note that the triangle of yonis is hidden, even as their

f space; bare me the starry nipple of thy breast, so that the milk of thy love may nurture me to the lustiness of thy virginity. 10. o thou thirsty charioteer of time, whose cup is the hollow night filled with the foam of the vintage of day; drench me in the shower of thy passion, so that i may pant in thine arms as a tongue of lightning on the purple bosom of night. 11. o thou opalescent serpent-queen, whose mouth is as the sunset that is bloody with the slaughter of day; hold me in the crimson flames of thine arms, so that at thy kisses i may expire as a bubble in the foam of thy dazzling lips. 12. o thou odalisque of earth's palace, whose garments are scented and passionate as spring flowers in sunlit glades; 29 roll me in the sweet perfume of thy hair, so that thy tresses of gold may a

adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou fecund opal of death, that sparklest through a sea of mother-of- pearl! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou crimson rose of the dawn, that art fastened in the dark locks of night! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou pink nipple of being, thrust deep into the black mouth of chaos! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou vampire queen of the flesh, wound as a snake around the throats of men! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! 64 o thou tender nest of dove's down, built up betwixt the hawks claws of the night! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou concubine of matter, anointed with love-nard of motion! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou flame-tipp'd bolt of morning, that art shot out from the crossbo

ck desert of death! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou diadem of the suns, that art the knot of this red web of worlds! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou ravished river of law, that outpourest the arcanum of life! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou glimmering tongue of day, that art sucked into the blue lips of night! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou queen-bee of heaven's hive, that smearest thy thighs with honey of hell! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou scarlet dragon of flame, enmeshed in the web of a spider! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou magic symbol of light, that art frozen on the black book of blood! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou swathed image of death, that art hidden in the coffin of joy! i

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irm, steady striding to the term, master of my fate, to rise to imperial destinies; with the sun's ensanguine dart spear-bright in my blazing heart, and my being's basil-plant bright and hard as adamant! marsyas. yonder, faintly luminous, the yellow desert waits for us. lithe and eager, hand in hand, we travel to the lonely land. there, beneath the stars, the smoke of our incense shall invoke the queen of space; and subtly she shall bend from her infinity like a lambent flame of blue, touching us, and piercing through all the sense-webs that we are as the aethyr penetrates a star! her hands caressing the black earth, 52 her sweet lithe body arched for love, her feet a zephyr to the flowers, she calls my name_ she gives the sign that she is mine, supremely mine, and clinging to the infinite

to leap into far-distant reveries. you might suppose that a play heard in this manner would lack logic and coherence. undeceive yourself! i discovered an exceeding subtle sense in 80 the drama created by my distraction. nothing jarred on me, and i resembled a little that poet who, seeing "esther" played for the first time, found it quite natural that haman should make a declaration of love to the queen. it was, as you guess, the moment where he throws himself at the feet of esther to beg pardon of his crime. if all plays were listened to on these lines they all, even those of racine, would gain enormously. the actors seemed to me exceedingly small, and bounded by a precise and clear-cut line, like the figures in meissonier's pictures. i saw distinctly not only the most minute details of th

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185 meteorites they seemingly come from nowhere, splash like falling stars through the firmament of our meditation, sparkle and are gone; but ever coming as a distraction to hamper and harass our onward march. once the mind has conquered these, a fresh difficulty arises, the danger of not being strong enough to overcome the occult powers which, though the reward of our toils, are liable, like the queen in her bedchamber, to seduce the conqueror in spite of his having conquered the king her husband, and secretly slay him as he sleeps in her arms. these are the powers known in the west as the miraculous powers, in the east as siddhis. the mind is now a blank, the senses have been subdued, the subconscious thoughts slain; it stretches before us like some unspotted canvas upon which we may wri

hat everything most sure seems all shaken in the storm of it! i was glad- glad, glad- when that mr. todd came in with his news, so that i could have a real good cry["very close "to him, in a tragic whisper] something has happened- something is going to happen. carr. and something has not happened- i knew it was a long time since we missed a week. by the way, have you heard the terrible news about queen anne? dead, poor soul! never mind, silly, you told me most dramatically, and it shall be counted unto you for righteousness. euphemia. i think you're the greatest brute in the world- and i love you. carr. how reciprocal of you! euphemia. sweet! carr. on my honour, i haven't a single chocolate on me. have a cigar["business with case" euphemia. be serious! you must marry me at once. carr. then

was an awful shock to me one morning when i received this bill, facsimile on page 331 described: this is a statement of account due from j w benson. ltd, jewellers, goldsmiths, silversmiths and watch& clock makers, 25 old bond st (steam factories ludgate hill, established 1749. the letter head carries five arms of royal houses with supporters and draperies: king of greece, king of portugal, late queen victoria, emperor of russia and king of siam- all "by appointment to's or purveyors to's. prize medals of london 1862 to left and of paris-dublin to right, two each- these not described in detail here, lacking as they do any particular significance beside identity. the place and date in mixed hand and print is: london xmas 1908. the following text is written in hand (as best i can decipher i

hers, like the afterlight of day, i the light of her life consort with the shadows of evening, and i say it softly, 321 gently, ever as spring's flying feet touch with unaccustomed primroses the wood, i say it- she was bad" then the third worm, which came from the woman's heart, turned to the other two, and said "i am her heart. her beautiful, beautiful heart "what do you know of the deeds of the queen who were never in her council chamber "when you were bold, i was perhaps afraid, and when you exulted, there was i know not what trouble of sadness throbbing within me. all that you were i sustained: all your pleasure stirred through me, and you but harvested that which i sowed "when you were all aflame, it was i who lit you, and you could not even be sad without me "not less tender than the

e, this novelette is eminently suited as a moral sedative for young girls when they reach sixteen or thereabouts and are beginning to wonder how they got into this funny world. 334 the devil "let us giggle" theodorus "hush, you have committed a horrible black magical act, you have slept with. leila["a creamy girl "good heavens, sir, i faint; call a policeman" theodorus "become acquainted with the queen of the nymphs. sister helen["nursing expert "a douche, smelling salts, eau de cologne, quinine" theodorus "from the abode of. brotherhood you are expelled["sobs, to the british museum you must go["snuffles, and read["pause 'the secret symbols of the rosicrucians" the devil "tut, tut. dear sisters, the train has stopped, we are at streatham hill- let us get out" alicia de gruys. on the loose

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mprudent, the ceremonial of initiates, the key of occultism, the sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft and spells, the writing of the stars, philtres and magnetism, the mastery of the sun, the thaumaturge, the science of the prophets, the book of hermes, etc "occult philosophy seems to have been the nurse, or godmother of all intellectual forces, the key of all divine obscurities, and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it was reserved exclusively for the education of priests and of kings. it reigned in persia with magi, who at length perished, as perish all masters of the world, because they abused their power; it endowed india with the most wonderful traditions, and with an incredible wealth of poesy, grace, and terror in its emblems; it civilized greece to the music of orphe

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h she had given him (she had it taken when she "was" cagliostro, you understand) this sounds all very reasonable and likely; but the difficulty is that the portrait is not of cagliostro at all, but of stanislas augustus, the last king of poland. so this is not a common simple miracle, you see; but a very wonderful miracle. however, i'm not going to be done; so i've bought a shilling photograph of queen victoria and intend to publish it next march as me when i was cleopatra* as if this was not enough, we find the annals of psychical research publishing in all good faith as a serious account "the apparition of mrs. veal to mrs. bargrave" which was written by daniel defoe as a puff of some ass's meditations on death* 2 we do not blame the editors of these papers for nodding; but we do think t

us be true in this one history, and acknowledge the fact that some mothers are a thoroughly bad lot. they are mostly to be found among the well-to-do people, i suppose- and i do not wonder. when i see a mother smiling upon her grown-up son, i feel very sad. i remember my own parent. there! i called this a history- with a vengeance. you have it. now for a lesson in psychology. lionel's mother was queen and "regente" of bad parents. she was cleaver, but void of reasoning powers; inclined to religious mania, her immediate neighbourhood was crowded with foul larvae. in a legal and womanly manner she had despatched her first husband to the night of a sanatorium and thence to an early grave. she had suffered badly at the hands of her second. this we may take a being the coarsest form of that au

h weary the way, to bring back his life to the rended clay! see! are not these the hands that wove delight, and these the arms that strove with me? and these the feet, the thighs that were lovely in mine eyes? lo! io lament. i gather in my car thine head, asar. 39 and this- is this not the trunk he rended? but- oh! oh! oh- the task transcended, where is the holy idol that stood for the god of thy queen's beatitude? here is the tent- but where is the pole? here is the body- but where is the soul? nepti, sister, the work is undone for lack of the needed one! lo! i lament. there is no god so far as mine asar! there is no hope, none, in the corpse, in the tomb. but these- what are these that war in my womb? there is vengeance and triumph at last of maat in ra-hoor-khut and in hoor-pa-kraat! tw

ver watchful serpent which writhes in silent wisdom about the trunk of that tree upon which the christ hangs crucified. all these great deeds did he do, as we shall see. he tamed the bulls with ease- the white and the black. he ploughed the double field- the east and the west. he sowed the dragons' teeth- the armies of doubt; and among them did he cast he stone of zoroaster given to him by medea, queen of enchantments, so that immediately they turned their weapons one against the other, and perished. and then lastly, on the mystic cup of iacchus he lulled to sleep the dragon of the illusions of life, and taking down the golden fleece accomplished the great work. then once again did he set 44 sail, and sped past circe, through scylla and carybdis; beyond the singing sisters of sicily, back

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. 4444-1 [bro. aries "extinguishes all lights [scorpio "plays love poem<mars "recites" who is this maiden robed for a bride, white shoulders and bright brows adorable, the flaming locks that clothe her, and abide, as god were bathing in the fire of hell? 55 they change, they grow, they shake as sunlight on the lake: they hiss, they glisten on her bosom bare. o maiden, maiden queen! the lightning flows between thy mounting breasts, too magically fair. draw me, o draw me to a dreaming death! send out thine opiate breath, and lull me to the everlasting sleep, that, closing from the kisses of disdain to ecstasy of pain, i may sob out my life into their dangerous deep. who cometh from the mountain as a tower stalwart and set against the fiery foes! who, breathing as a jasm

s fire! ye elemental sorceries of song, surge, strenuous and strong, seeking dead dreams, the secret of the shrine; so that she drain my life and being up as from a golden cup, to mingle in her blood, death's kiss incarnadine. who cometh from the ocean as a flower? who blossometh above the barren sea, thy lotus set beneath thee for a bower, thine eyes awakened, lightened, fallen on me? o goddess, queen, and wife! o lady of my life! who set thy stature as a wood to wave? whose love begat thy limbs? whose wave-washed body swims that nurtured thee, and found herself a grave? 56 but thou, o thou, hast risen from the deep! all mortals mourn and weep to see thee, seeing that all love must die besides thy beauty, see thee and despair! deadly as thou art fair, i cry for all mankind- they are slain

life of things. the mighty stresses of worlds are my nerves twitching. branch and bole of forests waving in deep wildernesses are hairs upon my body. rivers roll to make one tear in my superb caresses, when on myself myself begets a child, a system of a thousand planets piled! i am: the least, the greatest: the frail life of some small coral-insect still may tremble with love for me, and call me queen and wife; the shy plant of the water may dissemble 76 its love beneath the fronds; reply to strife with strife, and all its tiny being crumble under my rough and warrior husband-kiss, whose pain shall burn, and alter, and be bliss! i am: no word beside that solemn one reigns in sound's kingdom to express my station, who, clothed and crowned with suns beyond the sun, bear on the mighty breast

let the veil be drawn["they do so" part i["twilight" venus "is enthroned on high, swathed in masses of red hair and roses. the altar is covered with roses; there is a small flame thereon] taurus "and" libra "draw the inner veil apart" libra "returns and kneels" libra. daughter of glory, child of earth's dione mild by the father of all, the aegis-bearing king! 83) spouse, daughter, mother of god, queen of the blest abode in cyprus' splendour singly glittering. sweet sister unto me, i cry aloud to thee! i laugh upon thee laughing, o dew caught up from sea! drawn by sharp sparrow and dove, and swan's wide plumes of love, and all the swallow's swifter vehemence, and, subtler than the sphinx, the ineffable iynx heralds thy splendour swooning into sense, when from the bluest bowers and greenest

d light of earth, the wealth of kisses, the delight of tears, the barren pleasure never come to birth, the endless, infinite desire of years. i am the shrine at which thy long desire devoured thee with intolerable fire. i was song, music, passion, death, upon thy lyre- thy lyre! i am the grail and i the glory now: i am the flame and fuel of thy breast; i am the star of god upon thy brow; i am thy queen, enraptured and possessed. hide thee, sweet river; welcome to the sea, ocean of love that shall encompass thee! life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me- to me [pisces "performs a sleepy sinuous dance by herself, and returns to venus' throne lapsed into herself, and as if exhausted] rise, rise, my knight! my king! my love, arise! see the grave avenues of paradise, the dewy la

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oundly. fatma! this is the last time i leave thy lying tongue in that camel-lipped old face of an unbelieving jinneeyah["the eunuch drags her out, screaming and scolding" what news! what news! ledmiya["at the window. a horseman gallops from jerusalem. laylah. oh, quick, quick, quick, his tidings! for pity's sake. would it were the winged horse of brass! i am distracted. mind me not! i can wait. a queen must be able to wait. ledmiya. he is quite near now. and in the distance is a glint, and a faint shouting. i think the battle is coming here. laylah. oh, we cannot have been beaten! silman is so strong and brave. fatma["re-entering. all is lost! all is lost! let us all flee! laylah. peace, parrot["enter messenger" messenger. pardon, princess! laylah. thy news, or thy head shall pay it. messe

can stand before him. the christians tremble, and give back when he rides against them. laylah. a man! a man! he is not hurt? 2nd messenger. scratches. as if a lion were at play with kittens! laylah. i am glad he has scratches. every one shall be sung by the poets as if it were the axe-blow of old duke walter["again the wailing surges in the courtyard" ledmiya "rushes in" ledmiya. alas, alas, my queen! i cannot say it! do not ask me to say it. they are bringing him in. laylah. who? devil-child["she strikes her. four eunuchs bring in the corpse of" akbar] forgive me! i am not myself. i am not a woman. lay him there, beside his 90 father["she goes down to corpse] akbar, my little one! strong wast thou and greater than thy brothers. thou hadst the hawk's eye, and the deer's foot; and thine h

scene" rinaldo "sits absolutely silent and motionless, except that now and then he makes a gesture of weariness and impatience" the clerk. secondly, that you have in these twenty years past gathered a band of lawless ruffians, and constantly assailed the defenders of the sepulchre, with malice and deadly hatred. prosecutor. we say that no woman could do thus, unless aided by satan. laylah. dido, queen of carthage, was renowned as a warrior, and semiramis, queen of nineveh. bishop. both pagans. on the second count, guilty [judges "echo "guilty" clerk. thirdly, that you did discard the modesty of womanhood and put on armour enchanted. prosecutor. we say that, forasmuch as many good knights have ridden against it with sword and lance and not availed to pierce it, this was by magic and forbid

s the view of an indifferent bad soul through a medium of mud. but corot! but whistler! but morrice! corot sees a wood, and paints pan; bougereau sees a pretty model, and paints a pretty model. he doesn't paint woman. morrice paints the venice of byron, of our historic and voluptuous dreams; not the venice of the yankee and the churning steamers. raphael found madonna in his mistress; rembrandt a queen of sombre passion and seduction in his wife. in one way or another we must get to god's meaning through a medium that itself is meaningless "just as through dejeuner we get to the dessert" laughed ida, who had something more to say than her face showed. all through lunch she had allured the big black savage, until beneath her glances he was in agony. all the primitive passions fought one ano

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

alt ough, torture wa ostensibly still forbidden, witches could be tested. naked, with arms crossed and thumbs tied to their big toes, they were flung into the nearest deep water. if they s:mje they were innocent-but usually they were dead by the time they were hauled out. if they could swim it was certain proof of their guilt, and they could be hanged after what was only the formality of a trial. queen elizabeth went further than her father; she had an act passed condemning anyone who, by witchcraft, tried to foresee how long she would reign and who would be her successor. the t me of.the terror left no one secure. if they were seen out at night wit? strang men, young girls would be brought before the magistrates, her companion had cloven hoofs' the accusers would cry, or 'a tail hung bene

as easy, too, to accept that the virgin mary was the moon goddess in disguise. alex's childhood heroes took on new aspects when gran re-told their stories. there was robin hood, previously just the leader of the merry men, but now revealed in his real role as a witch who used his powers to direct money where it was most needed, and to escape his pursuers. and joan of are, who was really the witch queen of france and unashamedly declared it by her dress in an age when witches were the only females who would wear men's clothing. the terror alex had felt when he first heard of her dying in the flames was allayed when he learnt that condemned witches were usually helped by their companions at liberty. if drugs like dwale or foxglove could not be smuggled into gaol, then witches in the crowd ro

e' the children were farmed out willy-nilly to families that had spare bedrooms, some in cottages, others in mansions. alex was given board in the luxurious home of a cotton-mill owner in great harwood, in the heart of the lancashire witch country, famous in the sixteenth century for witchhunts and executions. uncle louie was a man in his middle forties, the father ofa baby daughter, gillian. his queen anne ouse stood on the foothills of pendle hill and it was a palace ill the eyesofalex. tea was served on a silver serviceby maids, suits of armour stood in niches in the entrance hall and, best 23 manchester in spite of the affection he felt for uncle louie. it carne as a shock. when the latter told him one morning that he was to be confirmed, but when he protested his objections were overr

1ts either to leave precipitously or to find they had friends at another table whom they felt impelled to join. alex wished.that he would become more responsible so that he could properly fulfil his duties as apprentice. 88 in between running his one hundred covens,helping seekers from .aii. oyer nritain .and training his. witches. alex still fowld time to crystal-gaze. there she stood, the witch queen he had heenpromised in visions he had seenin.his crystalas a boy. standing arm.in arm with him. it was obviously maxine and she was wearing a wedding-ring--his. alex had enjoyed hisfreedom as a single man following his first unhappy 'attempt-at marriage. and now he had no. wish to change his way of life. his little house at newton heath suited him; and anyway it lacked the modem cenveniences

s. the first invocations are made to bring the power, and the high priest says 'listen to the words of the great mother who was of old also called among men artemis, diana, aphrodite, ariapxod and by many other names 'at my.altar, whenever you have need of anything, once a. month, and better it be when the moon.is full, then shall ye assemble in some secret place and adore the spirit of me whp am queen of all the witches. there shall ye assemble. ye shall be free from slavery, naked in your rites, sing, feast and dance. my law is love unto all beings. mine is the cup of the wine of life. i am the gracious goddess who gives the gift ofjoy unto all men 'i am the soul of nature who giveth life to the whole universe 'i am that which is attained at the end of desire: while all the. witches squa

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

y. magus sprinkles, witch censes. then say: aradia and cernunnos, bless this instrument prepared in your honour.(if scourge or cords, add. that it may serve for a good cause and end and for your glory) again magus sprinkles and witch censes (hand tool to new owner as you would a sword or athame, with a fivefold salute) all these weapons should be presented 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 cord

ndidate, properly prepared (in centre of circle, is bound and blindfolded as in the first degree, but with the addition of a blue cord bound about the knees. hierophant leads candidate to each quarter in turn, proclaiming: h: hear ye o mighty ones of the east [s, w, n, n, a duly consecrated priest(ess) and witch is now properly prepared to be made a high priest and magus (high priestess and witch queen. candidate is returned to center, facing altar. coven links hands and thrice circle c. candidate is now assisted to kneel and rebound securely, facing altar. hierophant says: h: to attain to this sublime degree, it is necessary to suffer and be purified. art thou willing to suffer to learn? c: i am h: i purify thee to take this great oath rightly. the bell is rung thrice and purification fol

les are now unbound, and he/she is assisted to rise. hierophant takes up oil and anoints c. at pubes, right breast, left hip, right hip, left breast, and above pubic hair again, saying: h: i consecrate thee with oil. and again with wine, saying: h: i consecrate thee with wine,?td> and lastly kisses candidate in the same pattern: h: i consecrate thee with my lips, high priest(ess) and magus (witch queen. the blindfold and cable-tow are now removed and the initiate is congratulated by coveners. h. takes up magic sword from altar, saying: h: you will now show the use of each of the working tools in turn. first the magic sword (s (initiate silently redraws circle and returns sword with a s) h: second the athame (s (initiate silently redraws circle and returns sword with a s (initiate again rec

, return sixty-three (initiate gives 9, 21, 27, 63= 120 strokes with scourge) h: though hast obeyed the law. but mark well, when thou receivest good, so equally art thou bound to return good threefold. h. is unbound and assisted to rise, then leads initiate to wach quarter in turn, saying: h: hear ye, mighty ones of the east [s. w. n: n. has been duly consecrated high priest(ess) and magus (witch queen, h. leads initiate back to center of circle, saying: h: having learned this far, you must know why the wicca are called the hidden children of the goddess. proceed with the legend of the descent of the goddess. generally initiate and hierophant act the appropriate parts. h. appoints narrator and guardian. notes l published in janet and stewart farrar's the witches' way l lots of other publis

able-tow, leads him once about the circle. hp kneels facing altar. scourge. hp rises and is unbound whereupon he binds hps as she bound him, leads her about the circle and scourges her as she kneels before the altar. hps rises and hp takes her by the cable-tow to each quarter in turn, saying: hp: hear ye, mighty ones of the east [s, w, n: the twice consecrated and holy n, high priestess and witch queen [high priest and magus, is properly prepared, and will now proceed to erect the sacred altar./font> hp unties hps and says: hp: now again i must beg purification. hps binds him, leads him about the circle and scourges him kneeling before the altar, as before. he stands and is unbound and says: hp: now i must reveal a great mystery, hps stands vefore altar in god position. hp gives her fivefo

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

om bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust virgin birth then been an important tenet of the faith it would undoubtedly have figured in the mystical symbolism of that composition."36 isis was often represented standing on the crescent moon, with twelve stars surrounding her head. in almost every roman catholic church on the continent of europe may be seen pictures and statues of mary, the "queen of heaven" standing on the crescent moon, her head surrounded with twelve stars "it would seem more than a chance that so many of the virgin mothers and goddesses of antiquity should have the same name. the mother of bacchus was myrrha; the mother of mercury or hermes was myrrha or maia; the mother of the siamese saviour sommona cadom was called maya maria, i.e `the great mary; the mother of

nts, and at the end will stand amazed at the persistence of god's love and the willingness to sacrifice themselves which all these sons of god manifest. it is therefore wise and timely to remember that "these events are reproduced in the lives of the various solar gods, and antiquity teems with illustrations of them. isis of egypt, like mary of bethlehem, was our immaculate lady, star of the sea, queen of heaven, mother of god. we see her, in pictures, standing on the crescent moon, star-crowned, she nurses her child horus, and the cross appears on the back of the seat in which he sits on his mother's knee. the virgo of the zodiac is represented in ancient drawings as a woman suckling a child the type of all future madonnas with their divine babes, showing the origin of the symbol. devaki

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

which was applied to the mother principle in those far off times. this virgin was the founder of the matriarchate which then dominated civilisation and to which various myths and legends bear evidence and which have come down to us concerning lilith, the last of the virgin goddesses of atlantean times; the same thought is also to be found in the traditionary accounts of the ancient amazons, whose queen hercules defeated, wresting from her what he sought. this is an allegory, teaching the emergence of the spiritual man from the control of matter. three of these goddesses are eve, isis, and mary. they are of peculiar and significant importance where our civilisation is concerned for they embody in themselves the symbology of the entire form nature, which, when integrated and functioning as a

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

y father's watch to my grandmother remain in one's memory whilst things of greater importance seem lost to recollection. one wonders what it is that conditions the memory in this way; why some things register and others do not. moor park was one of those large english houses which should not be homey in any way and yet manage to be so. it was not particularly old, having been built in the time of queen anne by sir william temple. he it was who introduced tulips into england. his heart enclosed in a silver casket was buried under the sundial in the middle of the formal garden, outside the library windows. in its way moor park was a show place and on certain sundays was thrown open to the general public. i have two recollections of that library. i remember standing at one of its windows and

ve two recollections of that library. i remember standing at one of its windows and trying to picture the scene as sir william temple must have seen it with its formal gardens and terraces, peopled by great lords and ladies in the dress of the period. and then another scene, this time not imaginary; i saw my grandfather's coffin in which he lay in state with only one great wreath upon it, sent by queen victoria. the life of my sister and myself at moor park (where we lived till i was nearly thirteen) was one of great discipline. we had had lives of travel and change and i am sure the discipline was badly needed. the various governesses we had applied it. the only one i remember in those early days was called by the peculiar name, miss millichap. she had lovely hair, a plain face, wore dres

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

the warrior. his outstanding characteristic in this sign is the pioneering, militant spirit. the mares were in the possession of diomedes, the son of mars (but the esoteric ruler is mercury, which "illumines the mind and mediates between the soul and the personality) constellations in aries as is usual, there are three constellations connected with aries. first, there is cassiopeia, the enthroned queen, the symbol always of matter. it is most interesting to note how in the circle of the zodiac we come across three women. in connection with aries, the sign of commencement, we find cassiopeia, the dominant woman. woman and child and as we shall later see, mother-matter is the nurturer of the infant christ, the virgin mary gives birth to jesus. in pisces, at the close of the great round, we f

note that mahomet, the founder of the most militant religion, was born in this sign, and legend says that moses also was born in it; moses, the lawgiver, and mahomet, the warrior- 24- the labours of hercules the problem of hercules, as he enters upon his labors, is to demonstrate his power over matter and form, and so he has to recognize cassiopeia from the very beginning, the hitherto enthroned queen. the second constellation is cetus, the sea monster, the enemy of little fishes. one of the great symbols of the soul is the fish swimming in the ocean of matter, and cetus, the sea monster, is the symbol of what we call evil, that seeks to destroy the soul in incarnation. the sea monster, in the ocean of existence, and the enthroned queen, spoke to hercules of the magnitude of his problem

e word went forth the disciple would arise to labors new, and this he told the great presiding one within the council chamber of the lord. and then the word went forth "arise, o hercules, and pass the sixth great gate" another word likewise went forth, though not to hercules, but unto those who dwelt upon the shores of the great sea. they listened and they heard. upon those shores dwelt the great queen, who reigned o'er all the women of the then known world. they were her vassals and her warriors bold. within her realm, of men not one was found. only the women, gathered round their queen. within the temple of the moon they daily worshipped and there they sacrificed to mars, the god of war [113] back from their annual visit to the haunts of men they came. within the temple precincts they aw

omen of the then known world. they were her vassals and her warriors bold. within her realm, of men not one was found. only the women, gathered round their queen. within the temple of the moon they daily worshipped and there they sacrificed to mars, the god of war [113] back from their annual visit to the haunts of men they came. within the temple precincts they awaited word from hippolyte, their queen, who stood upon the steps of the high altar, wearing the girdle given her by venus, queen of love. this girdle was a symbol, a symbol of unity achieved through struggle, conflict, strife, a symbol of motherhood and of the sacred child to whom all human life is truly turned "word has gone forth" said she "that on his way there comes a warrior whose name is hercules, a son of man and yet a son

y there comes a warrior whose name is hercules, a son of man and yet a son of god; to him i must give up this girdle which i wear. shall we obey the word, o amazons, or shall we fight the word of' god" and as they listened to her words and as they pondered o'er the problem, again a word went forth, saying that he was there, ahead of time, waiting without to seize the sacred girdle of the fighting queen. forth to the son of god who was likewise a son of man went hippolyte, the warrior queen. he fought and struggled with her and listened not to the fair words she strove to speak. he wrenched the girdle from her, only to find her hands held out and offering him the gift, offering the symbol of unity and love, of sacrifice and faith. yet, grasping it, he slaughtered her, killing the one who do

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

ores the sublime conception. he is represented in the hebrew old testament by the divine name ahih, aheieh "i am (exodus iii. v. 4. the conscious god having arisen in his energy, there follow immediately two further emanations, the trio shining in the symbol of a radiant triangle. chkmh, chokmah, wisdom, the king, with the divine name ih, jah is the second sephira; binh, binah, understanding, the queen, and the divine name ihvh jehovah is the third sephira--the supernal triad" is demonstrated. then follow gdulh, gedulah, also called chsd, chesed, mercy, with the divine name al, el; and its contrast gburh, geburah, severity, also called pachad, fear, with the divine name alh, eloah; and the reflected triangle is completed by the sixth sephira, the sun, named tpart, tiphareth, or beauty, wit

eople, and whose true pronunciation has been for many centuries confessedly lost to the jews and has never been known to the christians (see diagram) the views of the kabalists on cosmogony are not easy to explain, but as before said the supreme boundless god, the "ain suph" was not the direct creator of the world, nor was the world made out of nothing. the highest trinity of "the crown, king and queen" having arisen by divine emanation, its powers descended and expanded into the seven lower sephiroth, and produced the universe in their own image, a decad of forces, as a whole constituting the adm qdmun adam quadmun, or adam kadmon, the primordial or archetypal man; the world produced is the existing universe of which we have cognizance. the universe is called the "garment of god: this low

e adm qdmun adam quadmun, or adam kadmon, the primordial or archetypal man; the world produced is the existing universe of which we have cognizance. the universe is called the "garment of god: this lower world is a copy of the divine world, everything here has its prototype above (zohar ii. 20) some kabalistic treatises speak of earlier worlds created before the conjunction of the divine king and queen; these perished in the void; these lost worlds are referred to in genesis 36, v. 31-40, as "the kings of edom who reigned before israel" they are said to have perished one after the other; these worlds were convulsed and were no more known. having considered the divine emanations, and the origin of the universe, i must refer to the spiritual beings of the four worlds. in the first purest and

sephiroth: the several kabalistic treatises give several groupings, which are all relevant one to the other, the most usual one being a triple division, into nephesh, the passions referred to malkuth; ruach, the mind, reason, and intellect referred to the group of six sephiroth lying around the sun of tiphereth; and neshamah, the spiritual aspirations associated with the supernal triangle of the queen, king and crown. these human principles function upon four worlds--divine, moral, intellectual and emotional respectively: and either of these essences may dominate a man, and they do, in fact, exist in constantly varying proportions. the highest principle overshadows the others, and the central ones may reach up to the higher; or by neglect of opportunities, or by vicious actions, may fall

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

la mala vita a roma evil lifein rome, there is a chapter devoted to the witches of the eternal city, of whom the writer saysthey form a class so hidden that the most roman of romans is perhaps ignorant of their exis-tence. this is true of the real strege, though not of mere fortune-tellers, who are common enough.the children of diana, or how the fairies were born. 35 fivepence roman money.diana, queen of the serpents, giver of the gift of languages. no footnotes)diana as giving beauty and restoring strength. no footnotes)note. no footnotes)the end. page 79 n r r r r r chapter xi. 22 this incantation is given in the chapter entitled a spell to win love.chapter xii. no footnotes)chapter xiii. 23 the most important part of witchcraft is to intoneor accent the incantations accurately, in aman

splendi il mare nella sera!colla luce sulle onde,la padrona sei del oceano,colla tua barca, fatta,fatta mezza luna,la tua barca rilucente,barca e luna crescente;fai sempre velo in cielo,e in terra sulla sera,e anche navigareriflettata a sulla mare,preghiamo di dare a questo,questo buon melambo.qualunque parlaredi qualunque animali!the invocation of the serpents mother to diana.diana! diana! diana!queen of all enchantressesand of the dark night,and of all nature,of the stars and of the moon,and of all fate or fortune!thou who rulest the tide,who shinest by night on the sea,casting light upon the waters;thou who art mistress of the oceanin thy boat made like a crescent,crescent moon-bark brightly gleaming,ever smiling high in heaven,sailing too on earth, reflectedin the ocean, on its water;

lso bravely row,if you wish the bark to go.ben faremmo e ben diremmo,mal va la barca senza remo.do your best, or talk, but moret o row the boat youll need an oar.and, as it is said la fortuna a chi da chi toglie cosi sta,qualche volta agli oziosima il pi ai laboriosi.fortune gives and fortune takes,and to man a fortune makes,sometimes to those who labour shirk,but oftener to those who work.diana, queen of the serpents, giver of the gift of languages.in a long a strange legend of melambo, a magian and great physician of divine birth, there is aninvocation to diana which has a proper place in this work. the incident in which it occurs is as fol-lows: one day melambo asked his mother how it was that while it had been promised that he should knowthe language of all living thins, it had not yet

r, light and darkness, fire-flies and grain, life and death.very strange indeed, but very strictly according to ancient magic as described by classic authorities,is the threatening diana, in case she will not grant a prayer. this recurs continually in the witch-exor-cisms or spells. the magus, or witch, worships the spirit, but claims to have the right, drawn from ahigher power, to compeleven the queen of earth, heaven, and hell to grant the request. give mewhat i ask, and thou shalt have honour and offerings; refuse, and i will vex thee by insult. socanidia and her kind boasted that they could compelthe gods to appear. this is all classic. no oneever heard of a satanic witch invoking or threatening the trinity, or christ or even the angels orsaints. in fact, they cannot even compelthe dev

a time disappointed. but having urged it on maddalena, my collector of folk-lore, whileshe was leading a wandering life in tuscany, to make an effort to obtain or recover something of thekind, i at last received from her, on january 1, 1897, entitled aradia, or the gospel of the witches.now be it observed, that every leading point which forms the plot or centre of the vangel, such asthat dianais queen of the witches; an associate of herodias(aradia) in her relations to sorcery;that she bore a child to her brother the sun (here lucifer; that as a moon-goddess she is in somerelation to cain, who dwells as prisoner in the moon, and that the witches of old were peopleoppressed by feudal lands(sic, the former revenging themselves in every way, and holding orgies todianawhich the church represe

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

ents were begotten some at least of the templar rites and they grew from more to more, till this particular aspect culminated in the templar dramas of werner, in which an order concealed through the ages and perpetuated through saintly custodians reveals to a chosen few among knights templar some part of its secret doctrine-the identity of christ and horus, of mary the mother of god, and isis the queen of heaven. the root of these dreams on doctrine and myth transfigured through the ages- with a heart of reality behind it- will be found, as it seems to me, in occult derivations from templar ritual which belong to circa 1782 and are still in vigilant custody on the continent of europe. i mention this lest it should be thought that the intimations of a german poet, though he was an active me

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

of the body, and removes all unhealthy matter by means of his medicines, so our metallic substances must be purified and refined of all foreign matter, in order to ensure the success of our task. therefore, our masters require a pure, immaculate body, that is untainted with any foreign admixture, which admixture is the leprosy of our metals. let the diadem of the king be of pure gold, and let the queen that is united to him in wedlock be chaste and immaculate. if you would operate by means of our bodies, take a fierce grey wolf, which, though on account of its name it be subject to the sway of warlike mars, is by birth the offspring of ancient saturn, and is found in the valleys and mountains of the world, where he roams about savage with hunger. cast to him the body of the king, and when

ne more brightly than all the stars of heaven, and in its essence it must have an abundance of blood, like the pelican, which wounds its own breast, and, without any diminution of its strength, nourishes and rears up many young ones with its blood. this tincture is the rose of our masters, of purple hue, called also the red blood of the dragon, or the purple cloak many times folded with which the queen of salvation is covered, and by which all metals are regenerated in colour. carefully preserve this splendid mantle, together with the astral salt which is joined to this sulphur, and screens it from harm. add to it a sufficient quantity of the volatility of the bird; then the cock will swallow the fox, and, having been drowned in the water, and quickened by the fire, will in its turn be swa

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. it is commonly said that two can overpower one, especially if they have sufficient room for putting forth their strength. know also that there must come a twofold wind, and a single wind, and that they must furiously blow from the east and from the south. lf, when they cease to rage, the a

s to cast him into the shade by the gorgeous magnificence twelve keys of basil valentine 62 of 95 of her appearance, he really possesses more power in the kingdom than she. before the moon, dialectic bears a shining silver banner, with the figure of prudence wrought into it in sky vblue, and because the husband of the moon is dead, he has transferred to her his task of resisting the domination of queen venus. for among all these there is enmity, and they are all striving to supplant each other. indeed, the tendency of events is to give the highest place to the most excellent and the most deserving. for the present state of things is passing away, and a new world is about to be created, and one planet is devouring another spiritually, until only the strongest survive. let me tell you allego

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3, are the early fountainheads of the gnosis of the sabbat or al-zabbat, the freedom from the trappings of flesh and the awakening of the nightside consciousness. this is the primal gnosis of sorcery itself, which is the dark well of the elixir of the adept, the one who drinks of the dual ecstasies of the sun and the moon[4. the arcanum of the luciferian path is a resounding voice of the king and queen of witchblood, being samael and lilith[5. the key to the gnosis of the fallen angels is within their very essence, being of the sun and the moon. the sorcerer may seek the sexual union of both within his or her self, allowing the pleasure of the waking and waning moon to be brought forth through the sun, which is the gateway for demons and angels in copulation. if one seeks not the sexual ge

nce in, it is from the well spring of the abyss (the subconscious) that we nourish our great famulus and demonium of the depths. the individual will then soon realize that there is no god and there is no devil, yet we as the image of the adversary, are both god and the master of the devil, the gifts of the fallen angels themselves. iv) the dragon and vampyrism i come before you, night born as the queen of the dead. behold unto my death mask, the temple of azothoz as a current of the living flame. i shall bless each one of you with the devil s sight, the serpents tongue shall speak of the secret alphabet which ye all shall scribe on the walls of the sunless palace, scribe your name in the black book of the dead, with the witchblood of your veins, you are all my children, of lilith-hecate, y

emon of gluttony and lust, she is also the demon of death who is never sated; she is the demon 'who swallows all things: the dawn and twilight of zoroastrianism, r.c. zaehner, new york, 1961 az, which is a female demon related directly to ahriman, is considered a harlot and goddess of death and blood. in this aspect az is related or a blue-print for, lilith, hecate and babalon. she is the vampyre queen, the immortal witch whom creates the alchemical elixir of endless existence, the very core essence of the luciferian and vampyre. az may also be related to kali, the goddess who devours and brings life. the vampyre in this aspect is one who feeds of the blood- lifeforce or the nectar of the mind, the imagination, thus revealing the vampyre as a solitary being who holds no need in the actual

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

siu marpo s origins within textual history. where he began what follows is a short narrative account of tsiu marpo s beginnings. this summary is based on the translations provided in the appendices, but i have allowed for a degree of paraphrasing in order to enhance flow and continuity. a long time ago, when the buddha ka.yapa s teachings were in decline, sangwa (gsang ba, king of khotan, and his queen utpelgyen (utpal rgyan) had a son named chorwa( phyor ba. when he reached adulthood, chorwa became extremely religious and joined a monastery. his monastic name was candrabhadra. he later went to dwell within a forest in the kingdom of king dharma.r. one day, as chorwa was in the forest, the daughter of the king, named majin (ma byin, was bathing in a pleasant pool. she was attacked by a poi

rhaps also relying on oral tradition, is retroactively situating tsiu marpo s narrative within an older tantric tradition. this latter possibility certainly agrees with general methods of authentication institutionalized within the terma tradition. tsiu marpo s mother is also questionable, as she is variously described as a serpent demoness named zangdrinma (zangs mgrin ma "copper-necked woman" a queen of the might demons named shelmikma (shel mig ma "crystal-eyed woman" and a demoness named sasin mamo (sa srin ma mo "earth demoness" finally, lelung zh p dorj makes another appeal to oral representation. he claims that some learned ones stated that the six might demons who emanated from tsiu marpo s body actually arose from the six body parts of the murdered chorwa. whether these specific i

d lekpa, the might demon lord dawa t kar and the flesh-eating violence demoness named dongmarma" from the tantra of the red effigy of the rock might demon s life-energy "the might demon lord is also called dawa t kar. the might demon king is also called anglingter [ang ling gter [the demon] is called the victorious akse [ag se] of the sky and the mother is a serpent demoness named zangdrinma. the queen of the might demons is named shelmikma [the demoness] is named sasin mamo. these are from the food within the rock stairs of the two hard teachings (117.17-118.2) furthermore, from the root tantra "from within the force inside the burst egg, the malicious violence demon tsi mar arose. from his body of a great malicious mind of attachment and hatred six malicious might demons arose. from his

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as it is where she went after she left heaven to wander the earth. she is considered one of the three assyrian demons being ardat lilit, lilit and lilu, but rather these may be just variations of her name. it is suggested by some hebrew scholars that lilith was worshipped by exiled jews from babylon as a goddess of the wilderness. 6 lilith as described in post-biblical literature is viewed as the queen of demons, she went to the caves near the red sea and copulated with fallen angels to beget other demons, she also taught (according to manichaean lore az) the fallen angels how to form bodies and have sexual relations to give life to other dragon children. she was said to have been the reunited with her mate samael (ahriman) after the fall, when he would not be roused by his fellow fallen o

ng rite as written by gerald gardner presents the mother of witchcraft, mother, darksome and divine, mine the scourge and mine the kiss, the five-point star of love and bliss. within the circle there is the very graal of the adversary, that through self-love can the essence of the pentagram be sensed and understood. he refers to hecate or lilith (via diana) as being hell's dark mistress, heaven's queen. this is the dual nature of the devil and his bride, the adversary. that by both sabbat rites does the cup of heaven (aethyr, luciferian sabbat) and hell (infernal, chthonic sabbat) are filled. cain was the son born of by some accounts samael (the devil) and lilith (through eve, the first satanist and witch. it is said within the dark traditions that the bible is mistaken with regards to cai

unty. nathaniel j. harris, the mark of cain, the first satanist and first murder. in certain rabbinical literature, the daughters of cain were those who joined in sexual union with the fallen angels, the watchers, and gave birth to the nephilim, the giants who were war like and brutal. they were said to have populated the earth in plenty, and attacked the children of seth. in manichaean lore, the queen of demons and spiritual initiator of cain, lilith az, taught the fallen angels to form physical bodies and join with others sexually. it is suggested also by writers 7 kaufmann kohler, w.h. bennett and louis ginzberg that the children of cain spent their days at the foot of a mountain (eden) practicing in wild orgies with the music of lucifer through that created by jubal. women, the first p

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ossways (the female) and four vertically; and this is man, the culmination of the deity on earth, whose body is the cross of flesh, on, through, and in which he is ever crucifying and putting to death the divine logos or his higher self "the universe" says every philosophy and cosmogony "hath a ruler (rulers collectively) set over it, which is called the word (logos; the fabricating spirit is its queen: which two are the first power after the one" these are the spirit and nature, which two form our illusory universe. the two inseparables remain in the universe of ideas so long as it lasts, and then merge back into parabrahm, the one ever changeless "the spirit, whose essence is eternal, one and self-existent" emanates a pure ethereal light- a dual light not perceptible to the elementary se

skins, because this refers to the three preceding rounds she has already passed through; the present being the fourth round out of the seven. at the beginning of every new round, after a period of "obscuration" the earth (as do also the other six "earths) casts off, or is supposed to cast off, her old skins as the serpent does: therefore she is called in the aitareya-brahmana the sarpa rajni "the queen of the serpents" and "the mother of all that moves" the "seven skins" in the first of which she now stands, refer to the seven geological changes which accompany and correspond to the evolution of the seven root-races of humanity. stanza ii, which speaks of this round, begins with a few words of information concerning the age of our earth. the chronology will be given in its place. in the co

s why the world is formed out of the relics of the murdered ymir. the svastica is the miolnir, the "storm-hammer; and therefore it is said that when the ases, the holy gods, after having been purified by fire (the fire of passions and suffering in their life-incarnations, become fit to dwell in ida in eternal peace, then miolnir will become useless. this will be when the bonds of hel (the goddess-queen of the region of the dead) will bind them no longer, for the kingdom of evil will have passed away "surtur's flames had not destroyed them, nor yet had the raging waters" of the several deluges "then came the sons of thor. they brought miolnir with them, no longer as a weapon of war, but as the hammer with which to consecrate the new heaven and the new earth* verily many are its meanings! in

rmed subsequently to the first man, she must, as a logical necessity, be 'taken out of man. and the side which the elohim had taken from man 'made he a woman (gen. ii. the hebrew word here used is tzala, which bears the translation we have given. it is easy to trace the legend in berosus, who says that thalatth (the omoroca, or lady of urka) was the beginning of creation. she was also melita, the queen of the moon. the two twin births of genesis, that of cain and abel, and of esau and jacob, shadow the same idea. the name 'hebel' is the same as eve, and its characteristic seems to be feminine" continues the author "unto thee shall be his desire" said the lord god to cain "and thou shalt rule over him" the same language had been uttered to eve "thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he sha

with their mummies, and found thousands of years later in their coffins. remember "the servants of horus glean the wheat in the field of aanroo. wheat seven cubits high("book of the dead" chap. xcix, 33; and clvi, 4* the reader is referred to stanza vii, verse 3, book i, wherein this verse is explained in another of its meanings, and also to the "book of the dead" chap. cix, v. 4 and 5 "i am the queen of these regions" says the egyptian isis "i was the first to reveal to mortals the mysteries of wheat and corn. i am she who rises in the constellation of the dog (dog-star. rejoice, o egypt! thou who wert my nurse (book i, chap. xiv* sirius was called the dog-star. it was the star of mercury or budha, called the great instructor of mankind, before other buddhas. the book of the chinese y-ki

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divine wisdom in the region of the spiritual, and the latter, evil, on the plane of matter* jesus accepted the serpent as a synonym of wisdom, and this formed part of his teaching "be ye wise as serpents" he says "in the beginning, before mother became father-mother, the fiery dragon moved in the infinitudes alone (book of sarparajni) the aitareya brahmana calls the earth sarparajni "the serpent queen" and "the mother of all that moves" before our globe became egg-shaped (and the universe also "a long trail of cosmic dust (or fire mist) moved and writhed like a serpent in space" the "spirit of god moving on chaos" was symbolized by every nation in the shape of a fiery serpent breathing fire and light upon the primordial waters, until it had incubated cosmic matter and made it assume the a

a, devi-durga, the wife of siva, is also called annapurna[[footnote(s* we find the same expression in egypt. mout signifies, for one thing "mother" and shows the character assigned to her in the triad of that country "she was no less the mother than the wife of ammon, one of the principle titles of the god being "the husband of his mother" the goddess mout, or mut, is addressed as "our lady" the "queen of heaven" and of "the earth" thus "sharing these titles with the other mother goddesses, isis, hathor, etc (maspero[[vol. 1, page] 92 the secret doctrine. and kanya, the virgin "uma-kanya" being her esoteric name, and meaning the "virgin of light" astral light in one of its multitudinous aspects (c) the devas, pitris, rishis; the suras and the asuras; the daityas and adityas; the danavas an

chap. i, vii "book of the dead" and the "mysteries of ro-stan (b) just as milliards of bright sparks dance on the waters of an ocean above which one and the same moon is shining, so our evanescent personalities- the illusive envelopes of the immortal monad-ego- twinkle and dance on the waves of maya. they last and appear, as the thousands of sparks produced by the moon-beams, only so long as the queen of the night radiates her lustre on the running waters of life: the period of a manvantara; and then they disappear, the beams- symbols of our eternal spiritual egos- alone surviving, re-merged in, and being, as they were before, one with the mother-source[[footnote(s* the three-tongued flame of the four wicks corresponds to the four unities and the three binaries of the sephirothal tree (se

nd the fourth world, the former when counting from the first globe above, the latter if reckoned by the planes. it is generated by the sixth globe or sephiroth called yezod "foundation" or as said in the book of numbers "by yezod, he (adam kadmon) fecundates the primitive heva (eve or our earth. rendered in mystic language this is the explanation why malkuth, called "the inferior mother" matrona, queen, and the kingdom of the foundation, is shown as the bride of tetragrammaton or microprosopus (the 2nd logos) the heavenly man. when free from all impurity she will become united with the spiritual logos, i.e, in the 7th race of the 7th round- after the regeneration, on the day of "sabbath" for the "seventh day" has again an occult significance undreamt of by our theologians "when matronitha

plainly stated in the zohar "there were old worlds, which perished as soon as they came into existence, were formless, and were called sparks. thus, the smith, when hammering the iron, lets the sparks fly in all directions. the sparks are the primordial worlds, which could not continue because the sacred aged (sephira) had not as yet assumed its form (of androgyne, or opposite sexes) of king and queen (sephira and kadmon, and the master was not yet at his work" see zohar "idra suta" book iii, p. 292, b. the supreme consulting with the architect of the world- his logos- about creation("isis unveiled" vol. ii, p. 421[[vol. 1, page] 247 spirit alone is helpless on earth. animal, that will become the physical man. all this, up to the third round, is formless, as matter, and senseless, as cons

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en. an account of the divine perfection illustrated by the seven-fold permutation of the dyad. the equinox 16 liber lxxviii: a complete treatise on the tarot giving the correct designs of the cards with their attributions and symbolic meanings on all planes. liber lxxxiv. the completion of this book (begun in equinox i, vii, viii, which explains the system of the universe devised by dr. john dee (queen elizabeth.s astrologer) and sir edward kelly. liber cmxxxiv. the cactus. an elaborate study of the psychological effects produced by anhalonium lewinii (mescal buttons, compiled from the actual records of some hundreds of experiments; with an explanatory essay. liber cclxv. the structure of the mind. a treatise on psychology from the mystic and magical standpoint. its study will help the asp

practicus, nor unto the philosophus, nor unto the lesser adept, nor unto the greater adept. 18. but unto the exempt adept thou shalt disclose thyself if thou have need of him for the lesser operations of thine art. 19. accept the worship of the foolish people, whom thou hatest. the fire is not defiled by the altars of the ghebers, nor is the moon contaminated by the incense of them that adore the queen of night. 20. thou shalt dwell among the people as a precious diamond among cloudy diamonds, and crystals, and pieces of glass. only the eye of the just merchant shall behold thee, and plunging in his hand shall single thee out and glorify thee before all men. 21. but thou shalt heed none of this. thou shalt be ever the heart, and i the serpent will coil close about thee. my coils shall neve

this travelling through eternity, and in thy sight the landmarks are of fair white marble untouched by the tool of the graver. therefore thou art mine, even now and for ever and for everlasting. amen. 58. moreover, i heard the voice of adonai: seal up the book of the heart and the serpent; in the number five and sixty seal thou the holy book. as fine gold that is beaten into a diadem for the fair queen of pharaoh, as great stones that are cemented together into the pyramid of the ceremony of the death of asar, so do thou bind together the words and the deeds, so that in all is one thought of me thy delight adonai. 59. and i answered and said: it is done even according to thy word. and it was done. and they that read the book and debated thereon passed into the desolate land of barren words

ar. the priest: o circle of stars whereof our father is but the younger brother, marvel beyond imagination, soul of infinite space, before whom time is ashamed, the mind bewildered, and the understanding dark, not unto thee may we attain, unless thine image be love. therefore by seed and root and stem and bud and leaf and flower and fruit do we invoke thee. then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat; o nuit, continuous one of heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous. during this speech the priestess must have divested herself completely of her robe. see ccxx i:62. the p

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he seals thereof' the titles of the symbols 1. the ace of wands is called the root of the powers of fire. 2. the ace of cups is called the root of the powers of water. 3. the ace of swords is called the root of the powers of air. 4. the ace of pentacles is called the root of the powers of earth. 5. the knight of wands is "the lord of the flame and lighting: the king of the spirits of fire" 6. the queen of wands is "the queen of the thrones of flame" 7. the king of wands is "the prince of the chariot of fire" 8. the knave of wands is "the princess of the shining flame: the rose of the palace of fire" 9. the knight of cups is "the lord of the waves and the waters: the king of the hosts of the sea" 10. the queen of cups is "the queen of the thrones of the waters" book t page 1 of 26 http//www

the queen of cups is "the queen of the thrones of the waters" book t page 1 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 11. the king of cups is "the prince of the chariot of the waters" 12. the knave of cups is "the princess of the waters: the lotus of the palace of the floods" 13. the knight of swords is "the lord of the wind and the breezes: the king of the spirits of air" 14. the queen of swords is "the queen of the thrones of air" 15. the king of swords is "the prince of the chariot of the winds" 16. the knave of swords is "the princess of the rushing winds: the lotus of the palace of air" 17. the knight of pentacles is "the lord of the wide and fertile land: the king of the spirits of earth" 18. the queen of pentacles is "the queen of the thrones of earth" 19. the king o

h of material forces: a force which develops and realizes that of the king: a force steady and unshaken, but not rapid, though enduring. it is therefore symbolized by a figure seated upon a throne: but also clothed in armour. the four princes these princes are figures seated in chariots, and thus borne forward. they represent the vau forces of the name in each suit: the mighty son of the king and queen, who realizes the influence of both scales of force. a prince, the son of a king and queen, yet a prince of princes, and a king of kings: an emperor whose effect is at once rapid (though not so swift as that of the queen) and enduring. it is, therefore, symbolized by a figure borne in a chariot, and clothed in armour. yet is his power vain and illusionary, unless set in motion by his father

in motion by his father and mother. the four princesses are the knaves of the tarot pack; the four princesses or figures of amazons, standing firmly of themselves: neither riding upon horses, nor seated upon thrones, nor borne in chariots. they represent the forces of the he final of the name in each suit, completing the influences of the other scales: the mighty and potent daughter of a king and queen: a princess powerful and terrible: a queen of queens- an empress- whose effect combines those of the king, queen, and prince, at once violent and permanent; therefore symbolized by a figure standing firmly by itself, only partially draped, and having but little armour; yet her power existeth not, save by reason of the others: and then indeed it is mighty and terrible materially, and is the t

are waving flames and fire. he is active- generous- fierce- sudden- impetuous. if ill dignified, he is evil-minded- cruel- bigoted- brutal. he rules the celestial heavens from above the twentieth degree of scorpio to the first two decans of sagittarius: and this includes a part of the constellation hercules (hercules is always represented with a club) fire of fire king of the salamanders. vi. the queen of the thrones of flame queen of wands a crowned queen with long red-golden hair, seated upon a throne, with steady flames beneath. she wears a corslet and buskins of scale-mail, which latter her robe discloses. her arms are almost bare. on cuirass and buskins are leopard's heads winged, and the same symbol surmounteth her crown. at her side is a couchant leopard on which her hands rest. she

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s your choice. jewelry in some traditions certain jewelry is used to signify rank. for example, in gardnerian witchcraft female witches of all degrees wear a necklace (signifying the circle of rebirth; the third degree high priestess wears a wide silver bracelet, with certain specific inscriptions; the high priest wears a torque-like gold or brass bracelet (again with certain signs on it; and the queen wears a crescent-moon crown of silver and a silver-buckled green garter. in other traditions different customs rule. generally many witches though females especially wear a headband. necklaces and pendants are very popular, including 'not a "garter-belt, as one writer once reported! b* cut\ figure 3.6 figure 3.7 lesson three: tools, clothing and names/ 35 necklaces of acorns, beans, wooden b

man shall live who is called by this name 'ra told her many of the names by which he was known, all the time growing weaker. isis, however, refused to heal him, repeating "that was not thy name that thou speakest unto me. oh tell it me, that the poison may depart; for he shall live whose name is named' finally ra gave isis his true name and she caused the poison to flow away; and she became 'the queen of the gods, she who knows ra and his true name. witchcraft from the inside raymond buckland, llewellyn publications, st. paul, mn1971 figure 3.9: theban alphabet your witch name you are starting your life anew (in effect. why not start it with a name of your choosing, then, rather than one that was given to you by your parents (and which you may not care too much for? many witches choose a

, you would use the phrase "my lady. but none of the other females is so addressed. as stated, in traditions other than these both "lord" and "lady" seem to be applied indiscriminately. i don't know if there is any historical precedent for this but, as with so many things, it doesn't really matter. it's again a case of what suits you. i am going to completely by-pass any discussion of the titles "queen" or "king. covens are autonomous and there are no" leaders of all witches" recognized in wicca, regardless of occasional claims to the contrary. covensteads and covendoms the name given to the home of the coven (the place where it always, or most often, meets) is the covenstead. within the covenstead, of course, is found the temple. the covendom traditionally extends for one league (approxim

up of fifty-six of the cards divided, again, into four suits of fourteen cards each. it is from this minor arcana of the tarot that our everyday playing cards stem. the tarot suits are swords, pentacles (sometimes called coins, wands (or staves) and cups. their modern counterparts are spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts respectively. each suit numbers one (or ace) through ten with a page, knight, queen and king. at some stage in their later development the knight dropped out and the page became known as the jack, or knave. the major arcana, otherwise known as the trumps major, has twenty-two cards; each an allegorical figure of symbolic meaning. these figures are, by many occultists, attributed to the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet: 1 magician 2 high priestess 3 empress 4 empero

have her or his favorite. in this lesson i will examine two or three so that you can try them and choose one, or more, that is most comfortable for you. most layouts call for a significator. a card to represent the person for whom you are reading (and that person for whom you are reading or yourself, if you are reading for yourself is known as the querant. many books suggest specific cards, e.g. queen of swords if you are reading for an older, dark-haired woman. ignore these suggestions. everyone is an individual. if you read for two different women, both of whom just happen to be older and dark-haired, the same card will not necessarily be right for both of them. to select your significator, study your querant. look into her eyes; hold her hands; attune yourself to her (or him, of course

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grapes. like ceres, she mourns for her lost daughter persephone for three months of the year and so is another icon for those who are feeling sorrow or loss and for maternal sacrifice. but she can be invoked for all matters of abundance, for reaping the benefits of earlier work or effort, for all mothering rituals and as a protectress of animals. innana innana was a sumerian goddess, known as the queen of heaven, who evolved into the babylonian goddess ishtar. innana was goddess of beauty, abundance, fertility and passion, famed for her loveliness and her lapis lazuli necklaces. she was the first goddess of the morning and evening stars, a legacy that has passed to aphrodite and venus. like many of the mother goddess icons, she descended into the underworld annually to face and overcome ma

ldbirth whose sacred bird is the peacock. she is a powerful deity of fidelity and is called upon by women seeking revenge upon unfaithful partners. hestia hestia is the greek goddess of the hearth and home, all family matters and peace within the home. she is a benign, gentle goddess and so can be invoked for matters involving children and pets. juno juno, the wife-sister of jupiter, is the roman queen of the gods, the protectress of women, marriage and childbirth and also wise counsellor. together with jupiter and minerva, the goddess of wisdom, she made up the triumvirate of deities who made decisions about humankind and especially roman affairs. her month, june, is most fortunate for marriage and, like hera, her greek equivalent, her sacred creature is the peacock. she is invoked in sex

rampled on, destroyed and then danced on once more to restore him to life. kali is invoked to remove fear and, it is said, to bring bliss to her devotees, and so she brings protection and regeneration after sorrow. persephone persephone is the greek maiden goddess of transformation, daughter of demeter and goddess of spring and flowers. she was abducted by hades, god of the underworld, and became queen of the underworld for the winter months, returning to the earth as the light-bringer in spring and so representing the cycle of death and rebirth. she is especially powerful in rituals by or for young women, especially those who have suffered loss or abuse, and also for mother-daughter relationships. she is sometimes regarded as a symbol of grain. proserpina, daughter of ceres, is the roman

a salad and they will absorb the protection. a protective ritual with empowered salt seite 97 wicca01.txt* place the salt in a small ceramic dish on your altar and light a pure beeswax candle at the four main compass points around the edges of the altar. beeswax has a long tradition in magick: it was sacred to the mother goddess and later the virgin mary. demeter, goddess of the grain, was called queen bee and aphrodite's symbol at her hive-shaped shrine in eryx was a gold honeycomb. her high priestess was always called melissa, latin for bee* beginning at the north of your circle, light your elemental candles. at each quarter of the circle say: demeter, aphrodite, melissa, pure mother bee, charge with thy light this salt, to enfold my home (workplace/journey) with thy golden mantle of pro

ble to buy or obtain water from holy wells, usually in return for a donation towards the upkeep of the well, and some commercially bottled spring water comes from sacred wells. for example, the healing water from prime's well, in the malvern hills, where the hero in langland's poem the vision of piers the plowman received his vision, is now piped and bottled as malvern spring water, without which queen elizabeth ii will not travel. use the following ritual to consecrate your bottled water, or, if you are in a hurry for your rituals, pass a pendulum nine times widdershins over it to remove any influences added in the bottling and nine times deosil to energise it (a pendulum is made by hanging a crystal, or a piece of wood or metal on a chain and can be used to transmit answers to questions

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an blues performers of the post.world war ii era and beyond, black bluespeople utilized the rhetoric of conjure in their songs. blues records, made popular in the first few decades of the twentieth century, contained direct and oblique references to hoodoo talismans, spiritual signs, and magical mysteries. in her 1928 song "shootin f star blues" for example, lizzie miles, a new orleans-born blues queen, alluded to the obscure but grisly technique by which individuals could acquire an all-powerful black cat bone, a highly sought-after supernatural artifact: i done crossed my fingers, counted up to twenty-three i seen a star falling, that means bad luck done fell on me black magic page 90 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 a black cat

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und 2000 bc.(lincoln: 1981..pg 181) harran founded as a merchant outpost of ur, situated on the major trade route across northern mesopotamia. the name comes from the sumerian and akkadian "harran-u, meaning "journey "caravan, or "crossroad. 2000-1900 abraham, b. in ur, according to bible lived to age of 175. 1857 bc birth of shenrab in the 1st wood male mouse year, the son of king gyal tokar and queen zanga ringum (wangyal: 1993..pg 30) 1800 enuma elish, bablyonian creation myth. 1700 bc 17th and 15th centuries bc..asherah was their mother goddess. the consort of jehovah 'she who treads on the sea-(petty: 1990) 1760 gilgamesh epic. 1600 orig. egyptian book of the dead (book of coming forth by day. 1570 ebers papyrus 1550-1450 o.c. rig-veda, sama-veda and yajur-veda 1500 indo-europeans inv

95 thurneisser zum thurn 1531-1588 valentin weigel 1531 "sefer yezirah" recension "gruenwald=b" oxford bodleian library (cat neubeaur) 1531 (8) foll 95b-103b, vellum. germanic writing of 12-13th c, long recension of donnalo (913ad. 1533-1588 theodor zwinger frater of guillaume postel paracelsian universal scholar, nephew of johannes oporinus. 1533 isaak luria, jewish kabbalist, born in jerusalem; queen elizabeth i born at greenwich palace in london (september 7) cornelious agrippa's de occult philosphia. 1535-1613 giambattista della porta 1536 postel in constantinople collecting manuscripts for king of france -obtains kabbalist texts. 1537-1583 r. eliyahu(eliahu) of chelm(helm) 1540 (about "sefer yetzirah "s" leiden (cat. steinschneider..biblithecae akademiae lugundo-batavae) warn. 24 (5)

lyon. gabriel du preau -deus livres de mercure trismegiste hermes 1557-1607 thomas brightman. influenced by the twelfth-century monk joachim of fiore- seven churches prophesied the seven ages of church history. anticipated a jewish kingdom, separate from the church, upon the the conversion of the jews and a "full restoring of the jewish nation; a literal kingdom on earth. 1558 elizabeth i becomes queen of england; giambattista della porta's magia naturalis published; zohar printed in mantua. john dee propaedeumata. 1559 august, postel and other prisoners are freed upon the death of the pope. 1559-1598 edward kelley theatre of terrestrial astronomy. the stone of the philosophers. 1560-1605 heinrich khunrath proto-rosicrucian amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae "what good are torches, light, o

d german scholars as being the builders of the temple of wisdom, eulogising martin luther at his former university. the inquisition claimed at bruno s trial, that he intended to form a new sect under the name of "giordanisti, appealing particularly to the lutherans in germany 1586 alleged meeting at luneburg (hanover) between the representatives of the king of navarre, the king of denmark and the queen of england, on 27th july, intending to form a protestant league of defence against the catholic league, which was working at preventing the accession of henry of navarre to the throne of france, calling itself the confederation militiae evangelicae, according to simon studion s naometria (1604. 1587 jo. pistorius (pisstorii)sefer yetzirah (2nd latin version) appeared in the first and only vo

i'histoire des freres de la roze croix. 1602 publication of the first volumes of the compendium of alchemical texts theatrum chemicum. 1602-1668 rudolf glauber 1602 william lilly, astrologer and translator of trithemius, born in diseworth, county leicester, england. 1603-1675 john jonston born in poland of a scottish family. rosicrucian friend of comenius. naturae constantia (amsterdam 1632. 1603 queen elizabeth i dies; accession of james i 1603-1678 john junior winthrop 1604-1657 manasseh ben israel. 1604 basil valentine's triumphal chariot of alchemy by rosicrucian johann tholde july 26 john dee meets simon forman. michael sendivogius's novum lumen chemicum. simon studion s unpublished latin manuscript naometria("measurement of the temple, a naked and prime opening of the book written wi

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han any of the rest, and therefore covered with a white taffeta curtain, so that at that time we could not perceive who was behind it. the second was empty and uncovered. again the last two were covered with red and blue taffeta. now as soon as we had come to the scaffold, the virgin bowed herself down to the ground, at which we were mightily terrified, for we could easily guess that the king and queen must not be far off. now we also having duly performed our reverence, the virgin led us up by the winding stairs into the second gallery, where she placed herself uppermost, and us in our former order. but how the emperor whom i had released behaved himself towards me, both at this time and also before at the table, i cannot well relate without slander of wicked tongues. for he might well ha

as soon as they had bowed to us, and we, as well as we could, had returned our reverence, our musicians were sent away, and must go down the stairs again, the door being shut after them. after this a little bell was tolled; then in came in a beautiful virgin who brought everyone a wreath of laurel. but our virgins had branches given them. meanwhile a curtain was drawn up, where i saw the king and queen as they sat there in their majesty, and had not the duchess yesterday so faithfully warned me, i should have forgotten myself, and have equaled this unspeakable glory to heaven. for apart from the fact that the room glistened with gold and precious stones, the queen s robes were moreover made so that i was not able to behold them. and whereas before i esteemed anything to be handsome, here a

behold them. and whereas before i esteemed anything to be handsome, here all things so much surpassed the rest, as the stars in heaven are elevated. in the meantime the virgin came in, and so each of the virgins taking one of us by the hand, with most profound reverence presented us to the king, whereupon the virgin began to speak thus: that to honour your royal majesties (most gracious king and queen) these lords here present have ventured here in peril of body and life, your majesties have reason to rejoice, especially since the greatest part are qualified for the enlarging of your majesties estates and empire, as you will find by a most gracious and particular examination of each of them. herewith i desired to have them presented in humility to your majesties, with most humble suit to

ld shoot one of us. in brief, this knave was so full of his waggery, that we would not even spare the little birds which flew in multitudes up and down the room, but tormented them all he could. the virgins also had their pastimes with him, but whenever they could catch him, it was not so easy a matter for him to get from them again. thus this little knave made all the sport and mirth. before the queen stood a small but inexpressibly curious altar, on which lay a book covered with black velvet, a little overlaid with gold. by this stood a small taper in an ivory candlestick. now although it was very small, yet it burnt continually, and was such that had not cupid, in sport, now and then puffed upon it, we could not have conceived it to be fire. by this page 48 stood a sphere or celestial g

ted before. after the kings came the three queens, two of whom were richly dressed, but she in the middle was likewise all in black, and cupid held up her train. after this, intimation was given to us to follow, and after us the virgins, till at last old atlas brought up the rear. in such procession, through many stately walks, we at length came to the house of the sun, there next to the king and queen, upon a richly furpage 51 nished scaffold, to behold the previously ordained comedy. we indeed, though separated, stood on the right hand of the kings, but the virgins stood on the left, except those to whom the royal ensigns were committed. to them was allotted their own place at the top of all. but the rest of the attendants had to stand below between the columns, and to be content with th

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of heaven. chang-o was also angry at her husband for jeopardizing her social status. therefore, although the archer and his wife loved each other deeply, they often quarreled. in order to keep their bodies in perfect condition, every three thousand years, gods must eat the peach of long life and drink the elixir of immortality from the garden of the western paradise. this garden is tended by the queen mother hsi wang mu [she wong muh, an old woman who has the fangs of a tiger and the tail of a panther. she lives alone and is protected by birds of prey and fearsome beasts. she also controls plagues and evil spirits. however frightful her appearance and her powers, hsi wang mu is a motherly figure to all the gods in heaven. in her enchanted garden grow the coveted peaches which she plucks a

to all the gods in heaven. in her enchanted garden grow the coveted peaches which she plucks and serves at a sumptuous banquet for the gods. she is an alchemist, or a person who practices the art of combining substances that will transform. hsi wang mu can mix many elixirs, or magic potions, including the one that will insure immortality for the gods. in more 74 recent versions of the story, the queen mother is shown as a graceful elderly woman. the fabled garden of the western paradise is thought to reside in a remote section of the kunlun mountains. these spectacular peaks are located in western china between tibet and xijiang and soar as high as twenty-five thousand feet. in mythology the mountains are the home of the chinese gods, as well as the site of life-restoring herbs. historica

the chinese gods, as well as the site of life-restoring herbs. historically, the kunlun range was part of the silk road, a caravan route between china and persia used for trading silks, spices, and gold. the moon goddess 75 because he loved his wife very much, the grand archer yi reluctantly set out on a journey to the kunlun mountains where the peaches of long life were grown by hsi wang mu, the queen mother of the western paradise. the archer was unsure of the road, and even less sure of how much strength he had left. when he lived in heaven, yi had always ridden in the empress s chariot or straddled the tails of sky dragons to reach the western paradise, but now that he lived on earth, he had to walk. he crossed burning deserts, forded cold streams, and trekked over high mountains for t

elixir of immortality, hsi wang mu could only sigh. unfortunately, she told yi, the gods and goddesses had just feasted on the last batch of peaches. the next peach crop would not ripen for another three thousand years. when yi continued to implore her, hsi wang mu took one leftover, very imperfect dried-up peach, pounded some herbs and powders, and stirred them together into an elixir. then the queen mother poured the precious liquid into a small vial. this potion will take both of you to the heavens. 76 the moon goddess but make sure you take it on a clear night, or you could be trapped halfway between earth and heaven, she warned. carefully, the archer placed the vial in his leather pouch and knotted the bag tightly around his waist. again, yi trudged over the same high mountains, ford

ot resent his banishment to earth, he was beginning to resent his decaying mortal body. when at last the archer returned home and presented the precious elixir to his wife, chang-o was delighted. she burned with the anticipation of returning to her sisters in the sky. the goddess begged him to take the medicine immediately, but her husband refused, remembering the warning he had been given by the queen mother. yi said, i have undertaken a long journey to fulfill your deepest desire. we must be patient and wait for a clear night when the stars can guide us homeward. chang-o agreed with her husband s clear reasoning, but her desire to be reunited with her sisters was far stronger than her appreciation of his logic. when her husband left for his daily hunt, the goddess stared at the elixir. a

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r. columbus's father-in-law was one of prince henry's captains, and inherited maps and charts from him which columbus used to 'find' the americas. the red cross on a white background was the templars symbol. it was outlawed by the pope at the time of the purge. columbus's ships sailed with the red cross on a white background!3 his historic journey was funded by king ferdinand of aragon, spain and queen isabella of castile, spain, whose marriage helped to unify spain. these were 'catholic' monarchs funding a trip by a man flying the flag of the knights templar. more than that, other support came from leonardo da vinci and lorenzo de medici, both high initiates of brotherhood secret societies. given this background to columbus and caboto, it is hardly stretching the bounds of credibility to

, but, i most strongly suggest, they are fundamentally misguided because they do not appreciate how such a world can be easily manipulated by the few to the detriment of all. most importantly, they do not realise that the prison warders are manipulating the whole thing, including them. another significant name in this period was dr john dee, an adept (high initiate) and the official astrologer to queen elizabeth i. he was also her unofficial secret agent, and signed his reports 007.6 in a diary entry written in prague in 1586, dee describes an encounter with a "little man" whose feet "seemed not to touch the ground by a foot height, who moved in a little fiery cloud" and who went up into the sky "in a great pillar of fire. in prague, dee gave the emperor rudolph an illustrated manuscript

t the mass of the people are allowed to know. the knowledge of the existence of america and its long term place in the plan was well known to these elizabethan adepts, as it was to those who guided columbus and the cabots, thanks to the fourth dimensional manipulators. the first permanent english settlement in north america was established at jamestown, virginia (named after elizabeth the 'virgin queen, in 1607. many members of the francis bacon family were among the early settlers. from that point on, the native culture of north america was doomed, as was that of south and central america once the spanish and portuguese arrived. the way the native peoples were slaughtered without mercy and their cultures destroyed without respect or compassion was one of the most appalling episodes in all

france from england and had attracted notable names to its ranks, such as phillipe egalite, the duke of chartres, and the duke of orleans, who became a grand master. the brotherhood used such people and others to establish the first foothold of the revolution, which was more moderate in its demands. egalite was convinced that he would be made king of a democratic state once the existing king and queen had been overthrown. he had little idea of the scale of bloodletting that was to follow. it was the same with lafayette, another revolutionary and friend of benjamin franklin. lafayette wanted to see a democratic monarchy introduced under louis, the present king. but these people were just used as vehicles to kick start the revolutionary fervour. the real manipulators knew exactly the sort o

d the printing and distribution of propaganda was based at the palais royal, the home of egalite. he was so in debt to the money lenders that he had to sign over his palace and estates to them. part of the mind manipulation in any elite/ brotherhood operation is the character assassination of the opposition. one such example in the french revolution was the famous diamond necklace 'bought' by the queen, marie antionette. she had been warned about freemasonry by her sister in austria some years before, but the advice went unheeded. she had informed her sister that in france, freemasonry was open and 'everyone knows all. the 'open' freemasons were actually planning a bloodbath at the guillotine as she wrote those words. bitterness with the monarchy in france was further fuelled when the prop

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ern europe after the fall of the roman empire and for a period was based in amsterdam, the netherlands. this was when the dutch began to build their empire through the dutch east india company and they settled south africa. in 1688, one of these hybrid bloodlines, william of orange, invaded england from the netherlands and took the british throne as william iii in 1689. william ruled jointly with queen mary and alone after her death in 1694. from this time, the illuminati moved their centre of operations to london. what followed, of course, was the "great" and enormous british empire. the plot xxiii this vast expansion of the british and other european empires to all parts of the world exported these nefilim hybrid bloodlines to every continent, including, most importantly today, to north

a lion, also. sirius is connected with the colour red because it looks red when it appears over the horizon.12 red is the colour used for sirius in ritual and symbolism. for a long period of its existence, the sphinx was coloured red. it was an obvious conclusion that this could relate symbolically to mars, the "red planet, but in the face of the other evidence, sirius is perhaps more likely. the queen's shaft in the great pyramid was designed to point to sirius, according to modern researchers. robert temple presents a wealth of interconnecting evidence to support his belief that an amphibious race from sirius came to the earth in far ancient times and brought with them the knowledge that founded those advanced civilisations. the sirius system is also depicted as a snake or serpent in a g

wn as ninti("lady life) mesopotamian depictions portray her holding a horseshoe-shaped tool used at that time to cut the umbilical cord. another name later given to her was mammi, from which came mama and mother. mama or ma as a term for mother can be found in various languages all over the world. ninkharsag would later be symbolised in part by the stream of mother goddess deities with names like queen semiramis, isis, barati, artemis, diana, and the biblical mary. these were also used to symbolise the feminine principle as goddesses of the moon or waters, which are 74 children of the matrix considered feminine in balance to the masculine sun. there are often two distinct camps in these areas of research. there are those who believe that these deities were only symbolic of astronomical and

the belt of orion points directly to the eye in the centre, suggesting a link between the eye cult and sirius. indeed, throughout the history of occultism, sirius has been seen as very important, indeed it was a most sacred location throughout the ancient world. it is the star card in tarot, the silver star of [aleister] crowley's a: a: organization [crowley was a satanist, the star to which the queen's shaft in the great pyramid points, and the star from which the dogon of mali say their alien visitors the nommo came from" the necklace of the mysteries includes a very clear "flying saucer" which, the legend says, the extraterrestrials flew from their giant "mothership" to land on the earth. they say the mothership continued to orbit and it was to there that the leaders sheltered during t

nes developments, i was able to predict three years before the 2000 election that george blood brothers 79 w. bush would be the next president of the united states. bush is closely related to every european monarch on and off the throne including the king of albania and has kinship with every member of britain's royal family, the report said. he is a 13th cousin of britain's (seriously reptilian) queen mother, and her daughter queen elizabeth, and is a 13th cousin once removed of the heir to the throne, prince charles. bush has a direct descent from henry iii and from henry viii's sister mary tudor, who was also the wife of louis xi of france. he is further descended from charles ii of england. harold brooks-baker, publishing director of burke's peerage, said "it is now clear that mr gore

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arth (ki=earth) and ninkharsag, also known as ninti (lady life) because of herexpertise in medicine. she was later referred to as mammi, from which comes mamaand mother. ninkharsag is symbolised in mesopotamian depictions by a tool used to cutthe umbilical cord. it is shaped like a horseshoe and was used in ancient times. she alsobecame the mother goddess of a stream of religions under names like queen semiramis,isis, barati, diana, mary and many others, which emerged from the legends of this allover the world. she is often depicted as a pregnant woman. the texts say of theanunnaki leadership:they summoned and asked the goddess,the midwife of the gods, the wise birthgiver (saying),t o a creature give life, create workers!create a primitive worker, that he may bear the yoke!let him bear the

cheduled tobe the headquarters of the western sector of the united states under the fascist globalstate called the new world order which is planned beyond the year 2000. atlanta is saidto be the centre for the eastern sector and i remember thinking some years ago how thedesign of denver and atlanta airports were so similar- now i know why.colorado is a major centre for the new world order and the queen of england,under another name, has been buying up land there. as you will see later, the britishroyal family are massively involved in this story and so is the murder of diana,princess of wales. one of christophers main contacts was a guy called phil schneider,the son of a german u-boat commander in world war ii, who was commissioned tobuild a number of deep underground bases in the united s

t, as dotheir comparison with trees because of their great height.it seems from their texts that you required thenefilim-watcher physical characteristics to qualify to be king. this, no doubt, is the originof the divine right of ki;gs, the right to rule by virtue of your family bloodline, a systemwhich continued when these lines expanded into europe. even the british title of sir,conferred by the queen on her selected subjects, comes from an ancient snake-goddess(reptilian) called sir, which relates to the anunnaki goddess, ninlil or ninkharsag, in thesumerian tablets. her husband, enlil, was called the splendid serpent of the shining eyes.his brother, enki, was also known as a serpent and his emblem was two entwined serpents,the symbol of his cult centre at eridu, and of the modern medica

ofthe babylonian brotherhood of reptile-aryan priests and royalty which came togetherthere after the flood. it was in babylon in this post-flood period from around 6,000years ago that the foundation beliefs- manipulated beliefs- of todays world religionswere established to control and rule the people.the founder of babylon according to ancient texts and legend was nimrod whoreigned with his wife, queen semiramis. nimrod was described as a mighty tyrant andone of the giants. the arabs believed that after the flood it was nimrod who built orrebuilt the amazing structure at baalbek in the lebanon with its three stones weighing800 tons each. it was said that he ruled the region that is now lebanon and, accordingto genesis, the first centres of nimrods kingdom were babylon, akkad and others int

deities of the brotherhood to this dayunder many different names and symbols. nimrod was symbolised as a fish and queensemiramis as a fish and a dove. semiramis is likely to be symbolic of ninkharsag, thecreator of the reptile-human crossbreeds. nimrod was the fish-god dagon who wasdepicted as half man, half fish.3 it is possible that this was symbolic of him being halfhuman, half scaled reptile. queen semiramis was also symbolised as a fish because thebabylonians believed fish to be an aphrodisiac and it became the symbol for thegoddess of love.4 hence the use of the fish in christian symbolism and architecture. inher role as the holy spirit, semiramis was pictured as a dove holding an olive branchand semiramis means branch bearer as in ze (the) emir (branch) and amit(bearer).5 note also

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tiates into the rites of mithra were called lions and were marked on their foreheads with the egyptian cross. the first degree initiates had a golden crown placed on their heads, representing their spiritual self, and this crown, symbolizing the rays of the sun, can be found on the statue of liberty in ny harbor. all these rituals went back thousands of years to babylon and the stories of nimrod, queen semiramis, and tammuz, their version of jesus mathra was said to be the son (sun) of god who died to save humanity and give them eternal life. one classic symbol of mithra was a lion with a snake curled around his body, while he holds the keys to heaven. better business bureau, notice the torch? the individuals who are in control of this world are not who they might seem. they are evil spiri

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on a division of nal penguin inc, 2 park avenue, new york, n.y. 10016 5. great pyramid proof of god. george r. riffert, destiny publishers, merrimac, mass, 1932. 6. pyramid power. max toth and greg nielson, freeway press, 1974. 7. the guide to pyramid energy. bill kerrel and kathy gorggin, pyramid power v, inc, 1975. 8. new light on therapeutic energies. mark l. gallert, james clarke& co. ltd, 31 queen anne's gate, london, s.w. 1, 1966. 9. energy: breakthroughs to new free energy devices. dan a. davidson, rivas, p.o. box 1090, sierra vista, arizona 85636, 1977. 10. t-field energy research. dan a. davidson, rivas, p.o. box 1090, sierra vista, arizona 85636,1990. 11. center of the vortex. willian f. hamilton, telos publishing co, p.o. box 1745, sun valley, ca, 91352,1979, 1986. 12 "investiga

chamber's northern air duct generally pointed to the star thuban (alpha draconis) in the constellation draco (the dragon, which was the pole star at the time of the pyramid's creation, and the southern air duct pointed to one of the stars in the constellation orion's belt around 2600 bc. more precise modern measurements7 have also shown that the king's chamber's north and south air ducts and the queen's chamber southern air duct date the pyramid at 2450 bc. the details of this discovery by bauval is depicted in figure 7.4.2-2. it is interesting to note that the earth is lined up with the sun and the three stars in orion's belt around the 13th-15th of december each year. in the first week of this year, 1997, at sunrise and sunset the sun was lined up with the three stars in orion's belt an

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and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, lord of the underworld, and manifest thyself. for i have crossed the gates of hell and i have become the devil incarnate. i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. come forth, lord of the underworld, and manifest thyself. come forth, lord of the underworld, and manifest thyself. invocation of the queen of the underworld i have called upon the lord of the underworld, the lord of the dead. and by calling upon the lord of the underworld i have become the lord of the dead. i am pluto; i am hades; i am anubis; i am samhein; i am kutha. i sit upon the throne of the underworld as lord of the underworld and lord of the dead. i take the queen of the underworld, the queen of the dead as my wife and

the underworld, the lord of the dead. and by calling upon the lord of the underworld i have become the lord of the dead. i am pluto; i am hades; i am anubis; i am samhein; i am kutha. i sit upon the throne of the underworld as lord of the underworld and lord of the dead. i take the queen of the underworld, the queen of the dead as my wife and as my lover. hela, persephone, proserpine, ereshkigal, queen of the underworld, queen of the dead come forth and manifest thyself. queen of the underworld, i invoke thee. queen of the underworld, i summon thee. queen of the underworld, i conjure thee. come forth, queen of the underworld, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, queen of the underworld, and manifest thyself. for i have crossed the gates of h

e. queen of the underworld, i summon thee. queen of the underworld, i conjure thee. come forth, queen of the underworld, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, queen of the underworld, and manifest thyself. for i have crossed the gates of hell and i have become the devil incarnate. i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. come forth, queen of the underworld, and manifest thyself. attach thyself unto me as my wife and as my lover. take me as thy husband and lover. come forth, queen of the underworld, and manifest thyself. come forth, queen of the underworld, and manifest thyself [notes: the female practitioner should adapt these rituals so that she "becomes" the queen of the underworld, the queen of the dead, and takes the lord

rworld, crossing the river styx. i have been baptized in the river styx and in the flames of hell. i have called upon the lord of the underworld, the lord of the dead, and in calling upon the lord of the underworld, the lord of the dead, i have become the lord of the underworld, the lord of the dead. i sit upon the throne of the underworld, as lord of the underworld and the dead. i have taken the queen of the dead, as my wife and as my lover. once again, i return to the earth, reborn in the image of satan. i am reborn in the image of satan, as a living demon in the flesh (dip forefinger of left hand in anointing oil, form inverted pentagram on forehead. i am ordained as a priest of the dark lord and an ambassador of his infernal empire *recite threee times. invocation of the lord of the ea

of the earth, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, lord of the earth, and manifest thyself. for i have crossed the gates of hell and i have become the devil incarnate. i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. come forth, lord of the earth, and manifest thyself. come forth, lord of the earth, and manifest thyself. invocation of the queen of the earth i have called upon the lord of the earth, the horned god of the earth. and in calling upon the lord of the earth i have become the horned god of the earth. i am pan; i am bacchus; i am dionysus; i am kernunnos; i am herne. i sit upon the throne of the infernal empire, as lord of the living and the dead. i take the queen of the earth also as my wife and as my lover. ishtar, inann

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ands. it seems also that there were a group of rebels who were of set and were defeated early on. set is mentioned in the egyptian book of the dead as having the skin of a bull. in the eleventh section of the tuat called reenqerrtaptkhatu, set is in the form of a serpent and called set-heh meaning the eternal set. when osiris came again, typhon plotted with seventy-two comrades, and with aso, the queen of ethiopia, to slay him -the egyptian book of the dead, e.a. wallis budge set is primarily regarded the same as the greek typhon, a serpent like daemon-god who is a patron spirit of sorcery and magick. plutarch explained that in egyptian astronomy seth or typhon was connected to the solar world, while osiris was associated with the moon. the sun was considered very hostile as it dried up an

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ess: from the late latin, from the greek "diakonos" meaning "servant. in the christian church, a lesser member of the clergy. one who ranks just below a priest/ priestess and is assigned the responsibility of assisting the priest/ priestess in religious services and in administrative matters. dee, dr. john: a mathematician, astronomer, scientist, and ceremonial magician who lived in the reigns of queen elizabeth i and king james i of england, from 1527-1608. john dee was a devout christian, who is best known for developing with his assistant (edward kelley) the enochian (q.v) system of ceremonial magick (q.v. the system might have died out with him, but was revived in part due to the work of an adversary (meric casaubon, d.d) who used dee's personal and magickal diaries as a basis for atta

: a term used by donald michael kraig to represent entities who personify despair on a physical or non-physical level. physical empty ones have no soul, and no hope for the future. enchant: literally "to sing into" the act of casting a magickal spell, especially through the use of muttered, recited, or chanted words of power. enochian: a system of magick channeled by dr. john dee (q.v) advisor to queen elizabeth i of england, and his assistant, edward kelley. it was attributed to the jewish patriarch, enoch by them. sometimes this system is called "angelic" the system was further developed by the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d. enthusiasm: a word of greek origin, which initially meant "inspiration or possession by a god" in our context, an emotional interest which can lead to total

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the hebrew alphabet) is the foundation of knowledge of the father; but all things are called byodo, that is, all things are applied to yod concerning which this discourse is. all things cohere in the tongue which is concealed in the mother. that is, through daath or knowledge, whereby wisdom is combined with understanding, and the beautiful path (tipha reth, the sixth sephirah) with his bride the queen (malkuth, the tenth sephirah; and this is the concealed idea, or soul, pervading the whole emanation. since it is opened for that which proceedeth from itself; that is, daath is itself the beautiful path, but also the inner, whereto moses referred; and that path lieth hid within the mother, and is the medium of its conjunction" when it is noted that yod is identical with the lingam in the hi

n several respects. firstly, it is not part of any equilibrated triangle, but is said to be the receptacle of the influences of all the others. secondly, it is a fallen sephirah, for it was cut off from the rest of the tree by the fall, and the coils of the stooping dragon arising from the world of shells, the kingdoms of unbalanced force, separate it from its brethren. behind the shoulder of the queen, the bride of microprosopos (malkuth, the serpent rears his head, and here is said to be the place of severest judgments. the sphere of malkuth abuts upon the hells of the averse sephiroth, the qliphoth, or evil demons. it is the firmament whereby elohim separated the supernal waters of binah from the infernal waters of leviathan. 32. the signification of the qliphoth must be considered flil

sculine plural attached to it. this union takes place in daath, the invisible sephirab. mystical qabala page 41 11. the next six sephiroth are conformed into zaur anpin, the lesser countenance, or microprosopos, whose special sephirah is tiphareth. the remaining sephirab, malkuth, is called the bride of microprosopos. 22. microprosopos is also sometimes called the king; malkuth is then called the queen. she is also called the lesser mother or terrestrial eve as distinguished from binah, the supernal mother. 23. these different methods of classifying the sephiroth are not competing systems, but are designed to enable the decimal system of the qabalists to be equated with other systems, using a threefold notation, such as the christian, or as we have already noted, a sevenfold system like th

in natural centres of force are given similar correspondences. we will consider all these associations when we come to study the sephiroth in detail. 9. in the symbolic rendering of the ten holy sephiroth in the four worlds there is another important set of factors to be considered, and these are the four colour scales classified by crowley as the king scale, assigned to the atziluthic world; the queen scale, assigned to the briatic world; the emperor scale, assigned to the yetziratic world; and the empress scale, assigned to the assiatic world. 10. this fourfold classification has a far-reaching significance in all qabalistic matters, and also in western magic, which is largely based upon the qabalab. it is said to be under the presidency of the four letters of tetragrammaton, the sacred

an enormous mass of symbolic correspondences accumulated around each of them. every practical occultist who has ever worked with the tree has added to this stock of associations, making the symbols live in the astral by means of his operations. the tree and its keys are infinite in their adaptability. mystical qabala page 50 10. the four court-cards of the tarot are called in modern packs, king, queen, knight, and knave; but in the traditional packs they are, according to crowley, arranged and symbolised differently. the king, being a mounted figure, indicating the swift action of the yod of tetragrammaton; the prince of the esoteric tarot is a seated figure, corresponding to the vau of tetragrammaton; and the princess, the knave of the modern packs, correspond to the he final of the sacr

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le to represent the unsublimated and sublimated aspects of the life-force. the scorpion connects with the serpent through the dragon. i had a very curious experience myself in connection with the element of air. i am betraying no secrets if i say that certain grades of initiation refer to the elements, for the fact is too generally known, and too obvious, for it to be any more mysterious than the queen of spain's legs. to begin with, i have an exceptionally bad head for heights, and as the abyss of height belongs to the element of air, i obviously have no natural affinity with it. the ceremony went exceptionally badly even for an air ritual. two of the principal officers, husband and wife, helped to maintain its reputation as a contentious element by having a family jar in the middle of th

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aspero, recueil, t. iii, pp. 200 and 214 ff; il. 206-10 footnote page x. and 268-89 on the coffin of antef (see lepsius, denkm ler, ii, bl. 145; maspero, recueil, t. iii, pp. 200, 214; line 206 on a coffin of menthu-hetep at berlin (see lepsius, aelteste texte, bl. 5; lines 269-94 on the sarcophagus of heru-hetep (see maspero, m moires, t, i, p. 144. a section is found on the walls of the tomb of queen neferu (see maspero, recueil, t. iii, p. 201 ff; m moires, t. i, p. 134; other sections are found on the sarcophagus of taka (see lepsius, denkm ler, ii, bll. 147, 148; maspero, guide au visiteur, p. 224, no. 1053; m moires, t. i, p. 134; lines 5-8 occur on the stele of apa (see ledrain, monuments gyptiens de la bibl. nationale, paris, 1879, foll. 14, 15; lines 166 ff. are found on the stele

1886, p. 18] p. xiii the nile.[1] to fix a chronological limit for the arts and civilization of egypt is absolutely impossible.[2] evidence of the antiquity of certain chapters. the oldest form or edition of the book of the dead as we have received it supplies no information whatever as to the period when it was compiled; but a copy of the hieratic text inscribed upon a coffin of menthu-hetep, a queen of the xith dynasty,[3] about b.c. 2500, made by the late sir j. g. wilkinson,[4] informs us that the chapter which, according to the arrangement of lepsius, bears the number lxiv,[5] was discovered in the reign of hesep-ti,[6] the fifth king of the ist dynasty, about b.c. 4266. on this coffin are two copies of the chapter, the one immediately following the other. in the rubric to the first

the more [1. the date of mena, the first king of egypt, is variously given b.c. 5867 (champollion, b.c. 5004 (mariette, b.c. 5892 (lepsius, b.c. 4455 (brugsch. 2 see chabas, aeg. zeitschrift, 1865, p. 95. on the subject of the antiquity of egyptian civilization generally, see chabas, tudes sur l'antiquit historique d'apr s les sources gyptiennes, paris, 1873--introduction, p. 9. 3 the name of the queen and her titles are given on p. 7 (margin) thus. 4 it was presented to the british museum in 1834, and is now in the department of egyptian and assyrian antiquities. todtenbuch, bl. 23-25. 6. the ou?safa 's ui!o's of manetho. 7 aeg. zeitschrift, 1866, p. 54. 8. see guieyesse, rituel fun raire gyptien, chapitre 64e, paris, 1876, p. 10, note 2. 9. the late recension of the book of the dead publ

ch (einleitung, pp. 33, 139] p. xiv remote period. to quote the words of chabas, the chapter was regarded as being "very ancient, very mysterious, and very difficult to understand" already fourteen centuries before our era.[1] antiquity of chapter lxiv. the versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (4 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:54 am] the rubric on the coffin of queen menthu-hetep, which ascribes the chapter to hesep-ti, states that "this chapter was found in the foundations beneath the hennu boat by the foreman of the builders in the time of the king of the north and south, hesep-ti, triumphant;[2] the nebseni papyrus says that this chapter was found in the city of khemennu (hermopolis) on a block of ironstone) written in letters of lapis-lazuli, under t

craft of the husbandman; he established a code of laws and bade men worship the gods. having made egypt peaceful and flourishing, he set out to instruct the other nations of the world. during his absence his wife isis so well ruled the state that typhon [set, the evil one, could do no harm to the realm of osiris. when osiris came again, typhon plotted with seventy-two comrades, and with aso, the queen of ethiopia, to slay him; and secretly got the measure of the body of osiris, and made ready a fair chest, which was brought into his banqueting hall when osiris was present together with other guests. by a ruse osiris was induced to lie down in the chest, which was immediately closed by typhon and his fellow conspirators, who conveyed it to the tanaitic mouth of the nile.[4] these things ha

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oth. achmet see ahmad ibn sirin aconcio, jacques see jacobus acontius acontius, jacobus (ca. 1500.ca. 1566) also known as jacques aconcio. theologian, philosopher, and engineer. born in trent, tyrol, he became curate of that diocese, then became a calvinist in 1557. acontius came to england about two years later, where he dedicated his major work, stratagemata satanae (the stratagems of satan, to queen elizabeth. the book attributes all doctrines other than the apostles creed to satan as stratagems to tempt mankind from truth. however, the book was also a strong plea for religious toleration. an english translation was first published in 1648 under the title satan s stratagems; or, the devil s cabinet-council discovered. abyssum encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 6 active-a

icine at geneva, and was appointed physician to louise of savoy, mother of francis i; but, on being given some task which he found irksome, he left the service of his patroness and denounced her bitterly. he then accepted a post offered him by margaret, duchess of savoy, regent of the netherlands. on her death in 1530, he traveled to france, where he was arrested for some slighting mention of the queen-mother, louise of savoy. he was soon released, however, and died at grenoble in 1535. agrippa was a man of great talent and varied attainments. he was acquainted with eight languages and was evidently a talented physician, soldier, and theologian with many noble patrons. yet, notwithstanding these advantages, he never seemed free from misfortune; persecution and financial difficulties dogged

rn this familiar animal. the egyptians traced his image on the cakes they offered to typhon, god of evil. the romans regarded the meeting of an ass as an evil omen, but the animal was honored in arabia and judea, and it was in arabia that the ass of silenus spoke to his master. other talking asses were balaam s ass (numbers 22, which mahomet placed in his paradise with alborack; the ass of aasis, queen of sheba; and the ass on which jesus christ rode into jerusalem. some people have found something sacred and mysterious in the innocent beast, and a species of divination employed the head of an ass. at one time a special festival was held for the ass, during which he was led into the church while mass was sung. this reverence in which he was held by christians was doubtless due to the black

ary questions it denotes wills, legacies, and all property transferred upon the death of others, as well as one s attitude toward sex. it also denotes the portion or dowry of encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. astrological houses 103 women, as well as seconds in duels. in political questions the eighth house has a very different significance, namely, the privy council of a king or queen, their friends, and secrets of state. here again, however, it also relates to death, denoting the rate of mortality among the people. ninth house. the ninth house is that of religion, science, and learning. it is related to sagittarius. jupiter is the most fortunate planet in it, and if jupiter is joined by mercury then the native is promised a character at once learned, estimable, and truly

ned occult superstitions. in may 1988, testifying before the senate banking committee, donald regan was asked whether he had ever heard of american stockholders using astrology for guidance. he replied, recently a study was made of wall street people and stockholders. and 48 percent admitted that they used astrology of one sort or another in the stock market. one astrologer responded, what s new? queen elizabeth i set her coronation date by her guy, john dee, and consulted him every day. kings have always used us.and popes! some of those guys were do-it-yourselfers, like fixtus iv and julius ii. others just kept their astrologers in the closet, like nancy did. there has been little new to add to popular belief in astrology in the present revival except its linking with modern technology in

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d became a catholic priest. his gift of healing developed slowly over a period of years, commencing the year before his ordination. he has since figured in a large number of medically unexplained cures that followed his touching people who were terminally ill. in 1984 father maguire visited ireland, where he had an enthusiastic reception. more than 2,500 people crowded into the church of our lady queen of peace in merrion road, dublin (built to accommodate 1,800 persons. parents held out babies for father maguire to touch. after celebrating mass with eight concelebrants, father maguire blessed the congregation magnetic phenomena encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 966 and went to pray with the sick. subsequently a 46-year-old mother, paralyzed for several months with a cance

4, in wellington, new zealand. he studied at the university of new zealand (m.a, 1945, the university of melbourne, australia (ed.b, 1950, and the university of london, england (ph.d, 1954. after working as a high school teacher, he became a fellow of the parapsychology foundation and a research associate at duke university (1954.56. after short periods teaching in the department of psychology at queen s university, kingston, ontario, canada (1956.58) and victoria university (1958.61) in canada, he returned to australia as a senior lecturer in the psychology department at the university of queensland in 1961. mangan published a number of articles on parapsychology and one important monograph, a review of the published research on the relationship of some personality variables to esp scorin

to esp scoring level (1958. sources: mangan, gordon lavelle. an esp experiment with dual- aspect targets involving one trial day. journal of parapsychology (december 1957. evidence of displacement in a precognitive test. journal of parapsychology (march 1955. how legitimate are the claims for esp? australian journal of psychology (september 1959. parapsychology: a science for psychical research? queen s quarterly (spring 1958. a pk experiment with thirty dice released for high and low face targets. journal of parapsychology (december 1954. a review of published research on the relationship of some personality variables to esp scoring level. new york: parapsychology foundation, 1958. mangan, gordon lavelle, and l. c. wilbur. the relation of pk object and throwing surface in placement tests

w.carpathorusyn. org. april 14, 2000. marie of agreda (or maria de jesus (1602.1665) a spanish nun, maria fernandez coronel, who founded and was abbess of the franciscan recollects at agreda. she published a work entitled la mystica ciudad de dios (the mystic city of god, a miracle of the all-powerful, the abyss of grace: divine history of the life of the most holy virgin mary, mother of god, our queen and mistress, manifested in these last times by the holy virgin to the sister marie of jesus, abbess of the convent of the immaculate conception of the town of agreda, and written by that same sister by order of her superiors and confessors. this work, which was condemned by the sorbonne, described many strange and miraculous happenings said to have befallen the virgin mary from her birth on

medjugorje. dublin: veritas, 1987. laurentin, rene, and l. rupcic. is the virgin mary appearing at medjugorje? washington, d.c: word among us press, 1984. laurentin, rene, l. rupcic, and rene lejeune. messages and teachings of mary at medjugorje. milford, ohio: the riehle foundation, 1988. o carroll, michael. medjugorje: facts, documents, theology. dublin: veritas, 1986. pelletier, joseph a. the queen of peace visits medjugorje. worchester, mass: assumption, 1985. sevric, ivo. the hidden side of medjugorje. saint francois du lac, canada: psilog, 1989. meehl, paul e(verett (1920) professor of psychology who has written on parapsychology. he was born january 3, 1920, at minneapolis, minnesota, and was educated at the university of minnesota (b.a. summa cum laude, 1941; ph.d, 1945. meehl joi

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is death, several individuals disclosed that adamski had acknowledged to them that his stories were not true. by 1959 adamski s renown was such that he was able to embark on a worldwide tour, first to new zealand and australia, then to adamski, george 9 ufo contactee george adamski with his six-inch telescope on mount palomar, california (fortean picture library) europe. in may of that same year, queen juliana of holland received him, igniting fierce commentary in the press and a riot at the university of zurich when adamski attempted to give a lecture in switzerland. adamski charged that the students and indeed most of his critics were agents of a sinister silence group, which sought to frustrate the moral reforms and technological advances advocated by the space people and their terrestr

mentary in the press and a riot at the university of zurich when adamski attempted to give a lecture in switzerland. adamski charged that the students and indeed most of his critics were agents of a sinister silence group, which sought to frustrate the moral reforms and technological advances advocated by the space people and their terrestrial allies. though the reality of adamski s audience with queen juliana was never in doubt, other purported meetings with notables, including president john f. kennedy, pope john xxiii, and vice president hubert h. humphrey, that figure in the adamski legend almost certainly did not occur outside adamski s imagination. in the early 1960s, after adamski openly embraced psychic approaches of which he had, till then, been outspokenly critical, some of his f

phone calls from self-identified extraterrestrials, as we l l as a personal visit from one. the aliens said they we re from a planet named ae n s t r i a. the first calls came in early september 1965. the calls continued for a period of seven weeks, according to shuttlewood. the callers were three aenstrians: caellsan (the senior spacecraft commander, selorik (an interpreter, and traellison (the queen of aenstria. in each case they phoned from a public booth in a particular district in the city, though shuttlewood wrote that he never heard the sound of coins dropping before the voices began to speak. 10 aenstrians the messages we re standard contactee fare. e a rth is in trouble because of atomic we a p o n s and environmental pollution. human beings the product of special creation, not e

rence in the latent encounter. mufon ufo journal 251 (march: 10 12, 1994. dual reference in the ufo encounter. in andrea pritchard, david e. pritchard, john e. mack, pam kasey, and claudia yapp, eds. alien discussions: proceedings of the abduction study conference, 142 148. cambridge, ma: north cambridge press. dugja according to members of a small group called elan vital (vital essence, the last queen of the lost continent of lemuria, dugja (pronounced doo-ja, reigns as spirit of the mountain. the mountain is shasta, in far northern california, the focus of many occult beliefs and legends. dugja materializes whenever her mood or the situation, calls for it. one member claimed that in 1963, while meditating on mount sh a s t a s grey butte, he sensed an astral man, with thin hair, white b

e ignored the thre a t s and entreaties, other astral entities joined with the first one. nonetheless, undaunted, the man ended his meditation and continued his tre k up the mountain. soon he encountered du g j a, who greeted him warmly and invited him to stay for a time. he returned to shasta thre e years later. since then, he told re p o rter em i l i e a. frank in the 1970s, he had visited the queen on many occasions in both physical and outof- body states. i am also responsible for cleaning negative light forces around mount sh a s t a and elsew h e re in the world, he said. t h e s e light forces affect the population, and in ord e r to make the world a better place. i polarize their negative influences. eventually they will all be pure. in the meantime, i make many astral trips to mo

FAUST

eal that was his own, who, with adepts their presence lending, shut him in that black kitchen where he used, according to receipts unending, to get the contraries together fused. there was a lover bold, a lion red, who to the lily in a tepid bath was wed. both, tortured then with flames, a fiery tide, from one bride-chamber to another pass. thereon appeared, with motley colours pied, the youthful queen within the glass. here was the medicine; the patients died, and no one questioned: who got well? thus we with hellish nostrums, here within these mountains, in this dell, raged far more fiercely than the pest. i gave the poison unto thousands, ere they pined away; and i must live to hear the shameless murderers praised and blessed. wagner how can you give yourself to such lament? does not a

s that he must measure to a hair, and if his head is dear to him, i swear, no wrinkles must be in those breeches! mephistopheles in silk and velvet splendid he now was always dressed, by ribbons gay attended, a cross upon his breast. was minister created, a mighty star did sport; then all his kin, elated, became great lords at court. lord, lady, and dependent were plagued and sore distressed; the queen and her attendant were bitten by the pest. and yet they dared not whack them nor scratch by day or night. we smother and we crack them whenever we feel them bite. chorus [shouting. we smother and we crack them whenever we feel them bite. frosch bravo! bravo! that was splendid! siebel and so should every flea be ended! brander point your fingers and squeeze them fine! altmayer long live freed

dream or, oberon and titania s golden wedding intermezzo. theatre manager. now for once we ll rest today, valiant sons of miedling. misty vale and mountain grey are all the scene we re needing! herald. golden wedding cannot be till fifty years have vanished; and yet golden is t to me when the strife is banished. oberon. are ye spirits to be seen, come forth and show it duly! fairy king and fairy queen, they are united newly. puck. now comes puck and whirls about and slides his foot a-dancing; after come a hundred out, themselves and him entrancing. ariel. ariel awakes the song with pure and heavenly measure; many frights he lures along, and fair ones too, with pleasure. oberon. spouses who would live in peace, learn from our example! when a pair would love increase, to separate them s amp

; fairest of forms- the picture is improving. but one outshines the rest in loveliness, from noblest heroes, nay, from gods, descended. in the translucent pool her foot she laves; the living flame of her sweet form is blended with th cooling, clinging crystal of the waves. but what a noise of pinions swiftly dashing, and in the pool what swishing, splashing! the maidens flee abashed, but she, the queen, with calm composure gazes on the scene. with pleasure proud and womanly she sees the swan-prince nestle fondly at her knees, importunate, yet tame. he grows more daring. but swiftly upward floats a vapour pale and covers with its closely woven veil a scene most lovely and beyond comparing. mephistopheles how many tales you can relate! small as you are, in fancies you are great. i can see na

of women trouble the liquid mirror, showing double, and double so the eye s delight! bathing with joy, each other aiding, now boldly swimming, shyly wading, ending in screams and waterfight. these should content me, here with pleasure my sight should be restored at leisure; yet toward yonder leafy screen my vision ever further presses; the verdant wealth of those recesses surely enveils the lofty queen. strange and marvellous! swans are swimming from the inlets, hither skimming in their stately majesty, calmly floating, sweetly loving, heads and beaks uplifted moving in proud self-complacency. but among them one seems peerless, in his self-love proud and fearless; through the throng he sails apace, swells his plumage like a pillow, he, a billow breasting billow, speeds on to the sacred pla

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

alexandria. this literature was virtually unknown from the fourth (when banned by hilary, jerome, and augustus) until the late nineteenth century ce, when three manuscripts deemed as authentic enochian material were discovered. two of the manuscripts, i enoch and iii enoch, were in ethiopian translation: these were found in what was once abyssinia, the domain of king solomon s infamous lover, the queen of sheba. the third manuscript, called ii enoch and the book of the secrets of enoch, was preserved in two slavonic versions: these were found in russia and serbia. i enoch and ii enoch were translated by r.h. charles. h. odeburg translated iii enoch( hebrew book of enoch).17 the books of enoch that are mentioned here should not be confused with the canons of enoch, which were discovered" f"

n) in asiyah (world of activity or making) as the sefirah kingdom. in qabalah, the feminine aspect of the spirit of small face in the lower worlds is called shekhinah (hnyks lit. abiding, community. in the first chapter of the sifra detzniyutha is found the verse, just as the heh h is found to be the shekhinah. 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% shekhinah has many names in the torah, such as bride (hlk, kalah, queen (hklm, malkhah, she (ayh, hya, pronounced hee, and glory or honor (dvbk, kavod. it is through the interaction of the vav v and the lower heh h that messianic appearances are manifested in the lower worlds. the action of the spirit of messiah in the world of yetzirah resonates through the vav v. the lower heh h is the presence of the spirit of the lord hvhy as the shekhinah throughout the mat

can be added to ani hvhy. examples are: ani hvhy shekhinah belimah (hmylb hnyks, intangible presence, ani hvhy ahavah (hbha, love, ani hvhy echad (dxa, unity, ani hvhy avraham(,hrba, master abraham, etc. the visualization used can be modified according to what is added to the mantra. the visualizations could be simple or complex. for instance, with ani hvhy shekhinah belimah, one could visualize queen shekhinah seated upon the stump of a tree in the middle of a beautiful forest. the left side of her body is dressed in rags' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8 (corresponding to the state of dualistic exile) and the right half in royal vestments (corresponding to shabat. her hands are in her lap, palms upward, and she has a crown on her head around which is the twenty-two atziluthic letters. to her immediate

this section presents a more elaborate process. in a more elaborate routine of practices, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, before all else, mentally praise the lord and give thanks for another day of embodied human life and the grace of being on the path of spiritual awakening. if you have been sleeping with a partner, silently acknowledge their inherent divinity as the lord hvhy or queen shekhinah, respectively. attend to any calls of nature, and then make ablution, washing your hands and face, and if you wish, your feet. after making ablution, proceed to your dedicated room or spot where you have your shrine. at the doorway, touch the fingers of your right hand to your lips, then to the mezuzah on the doorpost, and then to your heart. bow to the shrine and then enter. go to

reprogramming of the cerebral cortex. the spiritually awakened mind of the aspirant is firmly stationed in the awareness that the manifest creation is a unity in their small face chosen ideal, even in the waking state of sefirah kingdom. generally, one so established will have a particular bhava, or devotional mood, toward small face. it may be that of servant to the lord as divine master or king/queen, child to the lord as divine parent, parent to the lord as divine child, or lover to the lord as the divine beloved. the play of the holy spirit in the awakened soul is, indeed, a wondrous mystery. for the vast majority of people in this dark age of kali, samadhi experiences will initiate in the dream state in yetzirah. this dream state samadhi is called shushupta samadhi in sanskrit. indivi

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

hat the incantatory or magical intention varied with different people. a bishop, like pontus de tyard, might make cautious reservations in consonance with the gallican caution about the magic of prisca theologia. but we have also to remember that at the 'centre of the french court, the moving spirit of its festivals in which the new artistic techniques were used, there was "the italian woman, the queen mother, catherine de' medici, member of the great florentine house which had encouraged ficino and pico and had certainly not discouraged their magic. catherine was notorious for 1 pontus de tyard, deux discours, etc, 1578, pp. 112 verso-113 recto (ed. lapp, p. 169; cf. walker "the prisca theologia in france, p. 210. 2 pontus de tyard, deux discours, etc, 1578, preface by du perron, sig. a i

raries caused dee great anguish and he tried to rescue as much of their contents as possible, which made him suspected not only as a "conjuror" but as in sympathy with the papist past. an isolated and lonely figure, the modern magus collects the spiritual, and also the scientific, treasures from those great ruins which towered in broken majesty over the elizabethan scene. he enjoyed the favour of queen elizabeth to whom he was astrologer in chief though she never gave him the endowed position for the prosecution of his studies for which he pleaded and a set of intellectual courtiers, led by philip sidney, chose him as their teacher in philosophy. dee was not in england during the greater part of bruno's stay; he left for his travels on the continent in the latter part of the year (1583) in

spaccio della bestia trionfante in circe's reform movement (though like all the nineteenth-century liberal admirers of giordano bruno, tocco was quite oblivious of the magic. bruno was a magician who was sympathetically receptive to the influences of the milieu in which he found himself. as will be shown later, he picked up when in england some of the more abstruse aspects of the courtly cult of queen elizabeth i. he might have arrived in paris in 1581 in time to see that great court festival, the ballet comique de la reine, or at least to hear about it, and the text of the ballet was printed in 1582, the same year as his cantus circaeus. in the ballet, circe represents the evil enchantment of the french wars of religion which are turning men into beasts. she is vanquished by the good mag

urther than the title-page, on which the reader is informed that he will find here whatever he is seeking through "logic, metaphysics, cabala, natural magic, arts long and short".2 the book, indeed, sets forth bruno's appallingly complex combination of magia and cabala with lullism and the art of memory. in june, 1583, the polish prince albert alasco, or laski, visited oxford and, by order of the queen, was sumptuously entertained with banquets, plays, and public disputations.3 from john dee's diary, it would appear that sir philip sidney accompanied the prince to oxford, for dee says that sidney brought alasco to visit him at mortlake on their way back from oxford.4 bruno states in 1 op. lot, ii (ii, pp. 76-7- 1 "hie enim faciie invenies quidquid per logicam, metaphysicam, cabalam, natura

philip sidney to whom the book is dedicated, the friendship of a catholic king who disclaims the ambitions of spain and of the catholic league, who renounces all aggressive projects against other states, whether of open war or of subversive intrigue. those turbulent spirits amongst his subjects who follow the spanish-guise faction are as much enemies of the french king as they are of the english queen. let us transcend these broils, says bruno in henri's name, and return to the old spiritual union of europe. written by an inmate of the french embassy, who had dedicated other works to the french ambassador, the spaccio would appear to english readers to have some weight of french authority behind it. mauvissiere does not seem to have disapproved in any way of the publication of this book w

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

. it seemed as a cut-up, a temporally deranged mardi-gras. i ran into many people whom i never met before (in the flesh) and it all seemed expected. even the butterfly tattoo which a. has been revealing to me manifestations of butterfly-like creatures as representatives of it s higher phoenix aspects journal exert *b2 (babalon) i understand her. her rage is subtle and interwoven. she is truly the queen of shells. a perfect slut and whore. she has always been here and always is in myriad forms. she asked me to go home with her. although she knows that the will is not to her end, she try s in her ecstasy. she is an exquisite pearl. a potent& powerful guardian. to drink of her cup is the most delicate poison; understanding is a bottomless well. her burning forms have a hunger. she is to be ou

unger. she is to be our mistress and slave, servant and concubine. she is victorious in her inferno, forever amid the brethren how do i write of this? simply. ye cannot. i made her swear to be and bind herself to me. a trick? no, her arousal is her nature. she understands the magus& the way. she is to be a tool by us also and a sweet succubus. it is truly frightening how she manifests. she is the queen of the quliphoth, for we are of her. as our heart swells upward to heaven, the self of i comes to understanding in her burning. 7 the scarlet brotherhood i hate to use the words, i understand, because this is better said in silence, but these writings are one of shared view. i am left to wonder sometimes on the grand illusion and if in fact, this exists separate from deity. maybe my perspect

e shell of the magus aided by the angel comes before the one (this is false& must be rejected. full recognition of the nature of our work strikes into the heart, laughter ensues. there are 7 exclamation marks, and 7 letters of laughter. 418 is the number of abrahadabra and of our work. iii/7b: a reference to our existence. a dream within a dream, in hopes of finding truth? the mystery of our lady queen of the quliphoth, to be real. it is us, also written itisus (pronounced e-teece-us. the name of the speaker closing page a: our lady of space. closing page b: end of prayer, also a reference to the egyptian deity. appendix iii- the nature of babalon your a real whore. aren tcha- some random porno our life force is beyond our personality. our personality (ego) is a result of experience, progr

perience, programming, our soul, genetics and other factors in combination. the personality in this reference is called a shell. it is our task to integrate/ destroy/ align our ego towards kia. the shell is either destroyed upon death, subsumed or remains as a form of quliphoth (in whatever part. complete identification with the personality is the state referred to as asleep& hell. babalon is the queen of these shells (egos. she is the embodiment of the ego force, but because she is without body, she is not false, but being completely empty. she is literally burning in ecstasy. her want is of continual intoxication of being, which is why she is a whore. she gives to all without restriction. a perfect slut and therefore most holy. she is to be as a succubus for the magus: partner, servant

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

us other copies probably exist the book being rigidly suppressed by the authorities of most countries, and by all branches of organised religion. the mention of dee s name in connection with the necronomicon is interesting in that he was one of the few magical adepts of the past who can present us with practical evidence of communication with non-human entities. dr. john dee was the astrologer to queen elizabeth i, and worked with a number of scryers, or seers, the most talented of which was the irishman, sir edward kelly. through the use of a magic mirror of mayan origin, kelly made contact with certain spirits, who communicated through him a series of magical calls, or keys, in a language called enochian. this language has since been studied and analysed by many historians, who confirm t

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

rosfshp@rosicrucianfellowship.l: freemasonry and catholicism by max heindel [1865-1919] an exposition of the cosmic facts underlying these two great institutions as determined by occult investigation the rosicrucian fellowship international headquarters p.o. box 713 oceanside, california, 92054, u.s.a. table of contents* part i: lucifer, the rebel angel* part ii: the masonic legend* part iii: the queen of sheba* part iv: casting the molten sea* part v: the mystery of melchisedec* part vi: spiritual alchemy* part vii: the philosopher's stone--what is it and how it is made* part viii: the path of initiation* part ix: armageddon, the great war, and the coming age part i lucifer, the rebel angel the rosicrucian fellowship aims to educate and construct, to be charitable even to those from whom

s masterpiece. it was in the construction of this great work that the treachery of the sons of seth became manifest and frustrated the divine plan of reconciliation. they tried to quench the fire used by hiram abiff with their natural weapon, water, and almost succeeded. the incidents which led up to this catastrophe, their meaning, and the sequel will be related in the next chapter. part iii the queen of sheba the masonic legend is voluminous, circumstantial, even trivial, and seemingly far-fetched and fantastic to the uninitiated who fail to see the important hidden meaning underlying every word; but we will give only such fragments as have a bearing upon our main subject and the explanation necessary to link them together. the events which led up to the conspiracy against the grand mast

to the uninitiated who fail to see the important hidden meaning underlying every word; but we will give only such fragments as have a bearing upon our main subject and the explanation necessary to link them together. the events which led up to the conspiracy against the grand master, hiram abiff, mentioned in our last chapter, and which culminated in his murder, commenced with the arrival of the queen of sheba who had been attracted to the court of solomon by tales of his wonderful wisdom and of the splendor of the temple he was engaged in building. she is said to have come laden with gorgeous gifts and it is stated that at first she was much impressed with the wisdom of solomon. but even the bible, which is written from the standpoint of the jehovistic hierarchies, hints that she saw at

nd humanity at large would now be docile children of the dominant church, without free will, choice or prerogative. nor could she be permitted to wed hiram, who represented the temporal power, or religion would have been stamped out; she must wait for the bridegroom who shall embody within himself the combined good qualities of solomon and hiram, but who is purified from their weaknesses. for the queen of sheba is the composite soul of humanity, and at the consummation of the work of our evolutionary era she will be the bride, while christ, whom paul called a high priest after the order of melchisedec, will fill the dual office of both spiritual and temporal head, where he will be both king and priest, to the eternal welfare of mankind at large who are now in bondage either to church or st

k of amalgamation symbolically called the molten sea, a work which was then attempted for the first time. it could not have been wrought at any earlier period, for man was not sufficiently advanced. at that time, however, it seemed as if the united efforts of the two schools might accomplish the task, and had it not been for the desire of each to oust the other from the affections of the symbolic queen of sheba, the soul of humanity, they might have succeeded, an equitable union between church and state might have been effected and human evolution might have been greatly furthered. but both church and state were jealous of their particular prerogative; the church would only amalgamate upon condition that she retain all her ancient power over mankind, and take in addition those of the tempo

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

. swinburne, the mysteries of osiris or ancient egyptian initiation, p. 185] a christian author explains this somewhat obscure statement, above, on the sexual symbology of the rainbow "in the ancient jewish kabbala. mystical rabbis taugh he t that the rainbow symbolized a sexual rite. the bow of t rainbow was supposedly the phallus of the male god which descended into the kingdom of the womb, the queen or goddess. the union was said to create immense divine powers [texe marrs, mystery mark of the new age, p. 97] sex in the cross and the crown most christians would have no trouble accepting the cross and the crown symbol here. after all, our savior and lord jesus christ received his crown in heaven after he suffered the agony of the cross. however, freemasons have just a little bit more on

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

nd generator of all the existences h. as this third triad is the natura naturans, so is the tenth and last sephirah the natura naturata- the material world, namely malkuth, tbe kingdom. this sephirah represents the feet of the heavenly adam (about whom more anon, his head resting in kether, and in it the name of the deity is adonai, the lord- that is the ineffable yhvh. malkuth is also called the queen, the matrona, the matron, the daughter, bride, the shekinah (the real presence of the deity, and harmony. finally we obtain a fourth triad, a synthetic one formed out of kether, tiphereth, and malkuth. the first influences the neshamah, the spirit and moral consciousness; the second influences the rua'h, the reason and intellectual faculty; and the third the nephesh, the instincts, sentiment

shall return to its foundation, from which it has proceeded. all marrow, seed and energy are gathered in this place. 19 (10) uvklm malkuth, kingdom, or dominion. as kether is the harmony at the beginning, so is malkuth the harmony at the end; the first the head and the last the feet of adam qadmon. the divine name attached to this sephirah is adonai- the tetragrammaton. malkuth is also called the queen, shekinah, and havah- eve. it is the seat of the nephesh, the instincts, and its angel is metatron, the angel of the covenant, the letters of whose name equal in numerical value those of shaddai, namely 314. behold, i send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which i have prepared. beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not: for he will not

over and assumed a form. 5 but though they vanished they were not annihilated, because gnothing perisheth in this world, not even the breath which issued from the mouth, for this, like everything else, has its place and destination, and the holy one, blessed be his name! turns it into service h. 6 these worlds were formless, gbecause the sacred aged had not as yet assumed his form h, the king and queen as opposite sexes, gand the master was not yet at his work h. 7 by the word gmaster h is meant adam qadmon, the human form which deity must of necessity assume. it was, therefore, after the destruction of the worlds of the kings of edom that the latens deitas was able to assume a secret wisdom of the qabalah page 50 balanced form in the fourth and material world. thus the zohar says: the hol

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

[7] rivers of life, vol. i, p. 35. this tree is sacred to sakyu mooni, is 2200 years old, and is said to be a slip from a tree planted by bood gaya, one of the three former buddhas who, like sakyu mooni, visited ceylon. under the parent of this tree the great prophet reposed after he had attained perfect rest, or after he had overcome the flesh and become buddha. it was under a bo tree that mai, queen of heaven, brought him forth, and, in fact, very many of the most important incidents of his life are closely connected with this sacred emblem. in an allusion to the bo tree of ceylon, a slip of which is said to have been carried from india to that island by a certain priestess in the year 307 b.c, forlong observes "this wonderful idol has furnished shoots to half asia, and every shoot is t

it would seem to be an appropriate emblem for that ancient sect which worshipped the female as the more important creative energy. of the lotus, inman remarks "amongst fourteen kinds of food and flowers presented to the sanskrit god anata, the lotus only is indispensable" this emblem, as we have seen, was the symbol of the great mother, and we are assured that it was "little less sacred than the queen of heaven herself" regarding the lotus and its universal significance as a religious emblem, payne knight says "the lotus is the nelumbo of linnaeus. this plant grows in the water, and amongst its broad leaves puts forth a flower, in the center of which is formed the seed vessel, shaped like a bell or inverted cone, and punctured on the top with little cavities or cells, in which the seeds g

or aum scarcely passes the lips of its worshippers, and when it is pronounced is always reverently whispered. regarding the mystic word om, we are told that it is the name given to delphi, and that "delphi has the meaning of the female organs of generation called in india the os minxoe" although the great god of india was female and male, yet we are assured by forlong that the female energy maya, queen of heaven, even at the present time is more heard of than the male principle. according to bryant, the worship of ham is the most ancient as well as the most universal of any in the world. this writer remarks that ham, instead of representing an individual, is but a greek corruption of om or aum, the great androgynous god of india, a god which is identical in significance with aleim, vesta

tion in the british museum, is one in which it is figured in its female character, in the act of killing the bull. the divinity baal was both female and male. the god of the jews in an early stage of their career was called baal. the oriental ormuzd was also dual or androgynous. orpheus teaches that the divine nature is both female and male. according to proclus, jupiter was an immortal maid "the queen of heaven, and mother of the gods" all things were contained within the womb of jupiter. this virgin within whom was embodied the male principle "gave light and life to eve" she was the life-giving, energizing power in nature, and was identical with aleim, om, astarte, and others. the goddess esta, or vesta, or hestia, whom plato calls the "soul of the body of the universe" is believed by be

uline) of the jews, to whom they petitioned for rain, fair weather, and all the minor accessories of existence. upon the walls of the houses of the chinese is a tablet to which they pay their devotion. on this tablet is the name of the "high, celestial, and supreme god" the principal word which this tablet contains is "tien" of this chinese deity barlow says "the chinese recognize in tienhow, the queen of heaven nursing her infant son. connected with this figure is a lotus bud, symbol of the new birth. originally in chaldea and in egypt, only one supreme god was worshipped. this deity was figured by a mother and her child, as was the great chinese god. it comprehended the universe and all the attributes of the deity. it was worshipped thousands of years prior to the birth of mary, the moth

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

for catholic youngmenand women''thereare, he said,many such protestant institutions in london,butitmustbe confessedthatwe catholics are ratherbackwardinthis particular.[catholics]musteither give up (andhowhard this is) their laudable wish of improvingtheireducation, or they must haverecourse to the protestant institutions, which are numerous and often offer many allurements (medals, certificates, queen's prizes; and they are thus laid open to manytemptations-tothe evil effectsofbad example and bad company;whichotherwise theymighthave avoided.andcannothingbe done? i amlothtothinkso.muchas hemightencourage others, however, hetookno action himself, and in time hedidlose hisfaith-thoughby a processofgradual erosion rather thanthroughany sudden rejection following his sister's death,andthechurc

to review his translationofobermann;they discussed thebookand in due course the reviews appeared.allwere favourable 'and these, remarked waite 'are the mysteries of reviewing.'6boredwiththe pen and pencil club he joined machenincreating'thesodality of the shadows',whichstjohnadcock described as 'anotherunorthodoxlittleclub-aclub of a dozen or so youngwriterswhometperiodically in a wine cellar in queen street, cheap side, the vintner himself being a poetofno mean quality; an exclusive little club to which a new member was only admitted after he had subscribed to an elaborate, grotesquely solemn ritual which was prepared byarthuredward waite'(theglorythatwas,grubstreet,p.218).whenit was formed he doesnotsay (nor does waite),butit was still flourishing in1910.in addition to the ritual, waite

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

a certain white water.thisplace is guarded by an angel with a caducean wand, who represents metatron onthisplane. ask him to bring you before thethroneof the governor of hylech. above the pillar is a globe and the birdofhermes human-headed. further on is the throne of the governor of hylech who has rainbow colours abouthim.thereare also nearhimthe 4 angels of the elements, the red king and white queen etc. and many other symbolicforms. ask the governor ofhylech that the divine l vx maybe sent into the matter and give as your symbols (the pyramid) and (the rose cross).alchemical symbolism and correspondences were learned in. the first order,butin the second order practical alchemy was225..pursued by those who desiredit-aytonespecially, but percy bullock and florencefarrwere also enthusiast

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

author of many learned works, notablysilentium post clamores,1617, and thethemis aurea,1618, which described rosicrucian regulations; he visited england and admitted robert fludd, m.a. andm.d.oxon, to rosicrucian adeptship.drrobert fludd, also known as 'robertus de fluctibus, who was born at milgate house, bearstead, in 1574, and died in 1637, was the son of sir thomas fludd, treasurer of war to queen elizabeth; he practised medicine in the city of london for many years with great success. in bearstead church, kent, there is a fine monument to fludd, with a long inscription, and near by are still the rose farm and rose inn upon land he had owned. fludd became the first magus in england and wrote many learned works on kabalistic theosophy and rosicrucian doctrines, the most notable being h

n can work and the value of the work of each man will be tried in the balance of justice, and if we have done wellweshall gain a rich reward.[privately printed (1913.]4. inmemory ofrobertfluddfratres, we have today made a pilgrimage to the church of bearstead to commemorate the life and work ofdrrobert fludd, who, born at milgate house in 1574, was the son of sir thomas fludd, treasurer of war to queen elizabeth. originally intended for the army, he was excused from a military life because he proved to be of a quiet and studious disposition. he was sent to st john's college, oxford, at which university he took his b.a. degree, and subsequently the m.a. in 1598. he was at all times a pious layman and a faithful member of the english church, but his studies and writing tended to a mystical p

game was the alteration made by combining the forces of the partners. from that time the chaturanga out of india lost its chatur character, and was played by two persons each with 16 pieces and pawns. this change brought in other changes for, whereas each partner used to have a king, when the two forces combined one king had to be converted into a minister or vizier who in later times became the queen. in india the names and titles of the pieces suggest a military ideal. in egypt the tendency was76themagical masonrather to look upon the pieces as gods of various forces or natural powers. ancient chaturanga had four players in pairs; pieces and pawns arranged as below:greenyellowbpk c knbknp p p p pcpkp pkpcp ppppknbkn c kpbredblackthe pieces were: kingontheright, the elephant, then horse

brahmans. chaturanga is referred to in valmiki's ramayana book 2, cap. 51. it is also mentioned in one of the sanskrit puranas where it is said that it was invented in the 'second age' by the wife of ravan, king of lanka (i.e. ceylon. the chaturanga elephant has become our castle, the ship=the bishop, thechess shatranjiandchaturanga 77horse=the knight, the 1st king=the king, and the 2nd king=the queen.theelephant and ship (castle and bishop) have exchanged places.theelephant probably became the castle from the howdah on its back.theship was also in some places a chariot. in the oldest chaturanga dice-throwing, if a 2 was thrown the player had to move the ship, if a 3 then the horse was moved,if4 then the elephant, andif5were thrown then the king or pawn was moved. shatranji of persia and

if a 3 then the horse was moved,if4 then the elephant, andif5were thrown then the king or pawn was moved. shatranji of persia and araby appearstohave become well known in persia about 1500a.d.we then find that the game became a contest between two players and two of the four kings have become ministers or queens.theearly title was mantri or farzin or firz, hence, it is supposed, comes vierge for queen. the castle and bishop exchanged places. this game is described by the persian post firdausi in1imanuscript dated 1486.thepersians introduced the change of rank in a pawnuponreaching its8thsquare. in the third, or european, epoch the modern game of chess was developed, two only joining in the game.itwas laid down that the queen should stand on her own colour and that each player should have

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al father and aima, the supernal mother. 9.abba, the supernal father, is referred to chokmah;the supernal mother is referred to binah. these two persons united become.the parents ofzauiranpin,the lesser countenance .10.zauiranpin, microprosopus, or the lesser countenance is theson.tohim are attributedthesix sephiroth from chesed to yesod. butofthese his especial sephira istiphereth,ii.malkah,the. queen, andkallah,the bride are titles of maikuth, considered as the spouse of microprosopus or zauir anpin. 12.thefour letters ofare thus referred:to abba, m to aima, to zauir anpin m to malkah.r:\zauirxallah anpin32thesorcerer and his apprentice13. the secret names of the 4 worlds are:atzlloth=aub 72briah=seg 63yetzlrah=memah 45assiah=ben 52 they are the totals of the numbers of the letters of th

forming the tree of life with the cards of the tarot pack is as follows. the four aces are placed on thethe azoth lecture35throne of kether, the remaining small cardsofeach number on the successivesephiroth down to the four tens on malkuth, the twos on chokmah, threes on binah, etc. the 22 trumps are then arranged upon the 22 paths according to the letters with which they correspond. the king and queen are placed beside chokmah and binah and then the knight and knave beside tiphereth and malkuth respectively. 33. thus the tarot trumps receive the. meaning of the equilibrium of the sephiroth which they connect. 34. there is a hieroglyphic form of writing hebrew words. by using the symbols to which the letters correspond in the yetziratic attribution. 35. this is the symbol of sulphur on the

ic numbered trumps.thefour suits are- italian french englishanswmngto bastoni batons wands, sceptres, diamonds or clubs coppe coupes cups'chalices, or hearts goblets spade epees swords spades denari deniers money, circles, clubs or pentaclesthe tarot55each suit consists of ace, deuce, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten; fanti or valet=knave; cavallo=knight or horseman; dama or reine= queen; re=king. the kings, in each instance, wear a cap-of-maintenance beneaththecrown; the queens wear the. crown only.thequeen of pentacles and the knave of sceptres aretheonlrones represented in profile.inthe suit of sceptres the king bears a wand akin to tbat represented on the. small cardspfthesuit, while the other three honours bear a bludgeon.similar to that which is shown for the ace.inthe

wear a cap-of-maintenance beneaththecrown; the queens wear the. crown only.thequeen of pentacles and the knave of sceptres aretheonlrones represented in profile.inthe suit of sceptres the king bears a wand akin to tbat represented on the. small cardspfthesuit, while the other three honours bear a bludgeon.similar to that which is shown for the ace.inthesuitof cups, that only which is held by the queen is covered, thus showing the essentiallyfeminineproperties of this suit, while the sceptre held by the king of the preceding suit shows itsmoi"emasculinecharacter.ifwe examine the small cards carefully we shallbestruck at once by the comparative similarities ofpattern of the sceptres. and the swords.which areolllydistinguished from eachby theformerbeing.225straightandthe latter beingcurved.w

ter; r. postponement of result, delay, matterre-opened later.the tarot 63o.thef(j()lishman.folly, expiation, wavering;r.hesita255 tion, instability, trouble arisingherefrom :21. the universe.completlon,good reward; r. evilreward,orrecompense.22. kingofsceptres.man. living in the country, country gentleman, knowledge, education; r. a naturally good but severe man, counsel, advice, deliberation.23. queen ofsceptres.woman living in the country,ladyof the manor, love of money, avarice, usury; r. a good a virtuous woman, but strict and economical, obstacles, resistance, opposition.24. knightofsceptres.departure, separation, disunion; r. rupture, discord, quarrel.25. knaveofsceptres.a good stranger, good news, pleasure, satisfaction;r. iii news, displeasure, chagrin, worry.26. tenofsceptres.conf

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sphinx, in the monstrous or marvellous paintings which interpret to the faithful of india the inspired pages of the vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practised at receptions of all secret societies, there are found indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed. the key of all divine obscurities and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it was reserved exclusively for the education of priests and kings. transcendental magic, eliphas levi. gnosticism and other ways of knowing in these days of science, technology and the rule of rationalism it is hard to grasp the ancient view of wisdom. knowledge was not simply to know about something, but to know something, to appreciate its place within the li

ad a special significance in relation to the unfolding of the great year. the egyptian star gnosis and the rite of rebirth the central focus of egyptian ritualism was the great pyramid, it was connected to the sphinx and operated as a initiatory structure. the pyramid was identified with the sanctuary of the sun and embodied ra, the solar logos. the rites undertaken in the chamber of the king and queen were rites of rebirth whereby the pharaoh became identified with the solar sphere. he mediated the energies of the logos and hence accelerated the positive current and sublimated or transformed the negative. the sun like the planets and zodiac was a doorway between the spiritual and physical worlds and hence emanated forces from the pleroma and from the worlds of the archons. during the rite

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d pages of the vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practised at reception of all secret societies, there are found gnostic theurgy page 12 indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed. occult philosophy has been the nurse or godmother of all intellectual forces, the key to all divine obscurities and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it was reserved exclusively for the education of priests and of kings. transcendental magic, eliphas levi. x gnostic theurgy page 13 the timeline where to begin? that is the question. the logical place might be at the beginning, but that opens the biggest can of worms within the gnostic system. for the gnostic, things are not as they seem and the material world

4. each of these paths is attributed to a hebrew letter according to the kabbalistic tradition first outlined in the sepher yetzirah. to each of these paths a mass of correspondences may be added; colours, sounds, godforms, animals, images and so on. according to one tradition the tarot cards can be attributed to these paths as well. the minor cards (1-10) are attributed to the sephira, the king, queen, prince and page (princess) cards are attributed to chokmah, binah, gnostic theurgy page 95 tiphareth and malkuth and the twenty-two trumps are given over to the paths. there is much debate about the exact attribution, we cover this subject in detail in our courses on the kabbalah and the tarot. the four worlds the tree of life has activity on four levels; known as the four worlds. these fou

over into the lower reaches of the astral as the veil or paroketh is not as strong as the abyss. accordingly, each planet has a related angel, intelligence and spirit, in some sense the angel is from yetzirah while the intelligence and spirit is attributed to assiah. gnostic theurgy page 98 the earth is composed of four directions and elements, each with attributions of archangels, angels, ruler, queen and elementals (fig 25) the kabbalists also teach that in the lower realms of assiah are the demonic forms, these are known as shells or qlippoth. they exist as the furthest extent of the fall of spirit. they are so fallen that they cannot even have a supernal form, so in its place is darkness. the seven lower realms are occupied by rephaim, qetebim, taga arim, seirim, teraphim, oirim and na

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skull is beneath, the eyes are of blackness. before you this skull becomes flesh and a face which is of great beauty looks at you. her eyes are still black as pitch, and she speaks to you of that which you would tell no one. she knows you more than anyone else, lover friend or family member. this goddess, being lilith called hecate, ruha-az or babalon is the goddess of flame, she is the succubus queen, vampyre and dragon rider. she opens forth her robe and spreads her lips wide, to reveal teeth and a slithering tongue. she invites you in. the teeth retract yet the tongue still slithers as you grow close. you shall go unto her, muse and lover, mother and harlot feel this sensual fire within, open your eyes with her within. she embraces you and you are drawn close to kiss her. before she to

an power, being sabaoth (the lord of the sabbat, or the sabbatic god, associated with zabbathi) adonai (the lord of the earth, associated with lucifer) azal ucel (the sigillic word formula of azazel and lucifer, used as the initiator or genius of the holy guardian angel rite presented in this edition) babalon (the power form of the goddess from lilith hecate az, the daemonic feminine) lilith (the queen of the sabbat the vampyre, the lady of the crimson caul, the mother of cain and the creator of succubi) these names as scribed around the circle are in the witch-language commonly known as theban. this provides a yet known but unseen sigillic formula not indifferent from the alphabet of desire, as suggested by austin osman spare (see the book of pleasure, 93 publishing, quebec canada. 22 23

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gle of water tablet aces& court cards attributions on tablet of union: here be the attributions as related to the holy tablet of union, the spiritual forces that regulate the four elemental tablets. 22 the aces represent the root forces and the essential spiritual noumenon of the elements. the court cards act as vice-gerants of the root forces of the elements. m a c b d a ace swords prince swords queen swords princess swords king swords c ace cups prince cups queen cups princess cups king cups b ace pentacles prince pentacles queen pentacles princess pentacles king pentacles d ace wands prince wands queen wands princess wands king wands tetragrammaton on the tablets the diagram below illustrates the letters of the tetragrammaton as they are attributed to the four watchtowers in specific de

t is strong in any position d is strongest acting upwards a is strongest moving downwards c is strongest moving from right to left. b is strongest moving from left to right. thou canst apply thy reason unto the elucidation or effect of the four forces, thus rushing together (the following are examples from g.h. frater d.d.c.f) the square of "a" of "exarp" in the tablet of union: 28 triangle no. 1 queen of swords triangle no. 2 m triangle no. 3 a triangle no. 4 m nearly all the squares of this tablet represent some combined effect of light and life. here, m acts both downwards and upwards. a is not very strong in action when it is here placed; and the queen of swords represents the moist force of a, h of w. therefore, if one could attributed a direct material action unto the squares of the

e no. 3 c triangle no. 4 hrwbg here c is extremely strong, and is stirred to action by the energy of hrwbg. were it not for the m it would be the destroying energy of a flood, but the latter renders its effect more gentle and beneficient, promoting the solution and nourishment of matter. the square of "m" of "aismt, a kerubic square of the fiery lesser angle of the earth tablet. 29 triangle no. 1 queen of wands triangle no. 2 b triangle no. 3 c, triangle no. 4 d here b acting downwards and d upwards, the effect would be volcanic. the c is as strongly placed as the d by its union with the b. the queen of wands equals the c of d, h of y, reconciling these two elements. therefore the whole effect would be to produce a moist generating heat, like that of a conservatory, or rather of a hot-hous

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d compare, and to the end, see that thou think but little of thyself.for only he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. magical knowledge is not given unto thee to tickle thy vanity and conceit, but that by its means, thou mayest purify and equilibriate thy spiritual nature and honor the vast and concealed one. this is the explanation of the first diagram of the paths, the sephiroth being in the queen scale and the paths in the masculine or king scale. it is the key of the forces which lie in tcq, the bow. treasure it in thy heart and mark it well, seeing that therein is the key of nature. meditate on it and reveal it not unto the profane, for many and great are its mysteries. the colors differ according to the world or aspect of the great names they represent. there are four scales of co

t well, seeing that therein is the key of nature. meditate on it and reveal it not unto the profane, for many and great are its mysteries. the colors differ according to the world or aspect of the great names they represent. there are four scales of color which correspond to the four kabbalistic worlds. they are: scales worlds tarot suits tetragrammaton elements king twlyxa wands y (yod) d (fire) queen hayrb cups h (he) c (water) prince hryxy swords w (vau) a (air) princess hycu pentacles h (he) b (earth) king scale queen scale prince scale princess scale 1. uncolored brilliance white brilliance white brilliance white rayed golden 2. pure soft blue grey blue pearl grey mother of pearl white flecked red blue and yellow 3. crimson black with hidden red black& crimson= dull dark brown grey fl

blue 31. black, citrine, olive& russet amber yellow dark brown black flecked yellow 32. white merging grey deep purple merging black 7 rainbow colours (purple outside) white, red, yellow, black, blue (outside) da fath: lavender grey white pure violet grey flecked gold the \yyjh u for the use of an adeptus minor is compounded of the first two scales. the sephiroth are in the feminine, passive, or queen scale. the paths are in the masculine, active, or king scale. it thus represents the forces of twlyxa in the paths uniting the sephiroth as reflected in hayrb, one of the possible arrangements of the powers inherent in hy of the great name. first, are the feminine colors of the sephiroth, the queen scale. in rtk is the divine white brilliance, the scintilliation and corruscation of the divin

ten, gwho maketh his angels, spirits and his ministers as a flaming fire, h and these are also called the order of blessed souls, or of the souls of the just made perfect. 7 notes by g.h. frater n.o.e.l: although the following is not classically part of the hodos document, its relevance to the document is apparent. addendum 1 reveals to the z.a.m. the five elements in the four scales of the king, queen, prince, and princess. this document also provides an appropriate symbol as it relates to the court cards in its appropriate color. the active adept will have no trouble in finding a myriad of uses for these potent symbols. in addition to providing the above mentioned, addendum1 also provides the z.a.m. with the complete color scales for the sephiroth, planets, and zodiac in all four scales

o the zodiac, the mother letters, and the planets. the wise and prudent adept will work to incorporate these audio symbols into his/her practical workings. let the z.a.m. of our sacred order study well this document and remember that gcolors are forces and the child of forces art thou. h addendum 1: collection of information on color by g.h. frater d.d.c.f. the 5 elements in the 4 scales of king, queen, prince, and princess. hm as an element: king: white merging into grey. sigil of m in king scale:h o queen: deep purple merging into black. sigil of m in queen scale: 8 prince: 7 rainbow colors with purple outermost. sigil of m in prince scale: princess: 5 colors: white, red, yellow, black and blue outermost. sigil of m in princess scale: h d as an element king: glowing orange scarlet. sigil

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oke hathor as follows "o thou,who art goddess of passionate beauty and desire,i invoke thee. exalt my soul to the feet of thy glory. hear me, and manifest in splendor to him who worships at thy throne. when ra created sekhmet, her power became perfected in you, hathor. oh hathor, thou who art like the eye of ra, do i call upon thee. thou art attraction. thou art desire. thou art passion. thou art queen of the stars, and thy very name covers all the skies. most holy mother, mediatrix unto 9 the light divine, source of love, passion, desire, ferver, attraction and hunger for spiritual perfection, thee do i invoke. hathor, lady of flame, thee thee do i invoke. thou who art covered in emerald, thee do i invoke. thou who wearest a purple headband with a passionate green and red feather, i do in

l the skies. most holy mother, mediatrix unto 9 the light divine, source of love, passion, desire, ferver, attraction and hunger for spiritual perfection, thee do i invoke. hathor, lady of flame, thee thee do i invoke. thou who art covered in emerald, thee do i invoke. thou who wearest a purple headband with a passionate green and red feather, i do invoke thee passionatly. thou who art called the queen of happiness, come thou forth, i do invoke thee. oh hathor( vibratory formula of the middle pillar) before thee i have covered my face. arise, great queen, arise and shine now upon me, for i have clothed myself in thy image, and stand humbly before thy face. thy divine lady of a thousand names, if i call thee astarte, venus, or aphrodite, thou art nameless unto eternity. mistress of the even

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stence, the name of the lord of life, by inspiration and expiration. macroprosopus is amya and aba, mother and father. the two nostrils pass up and down the two breaths, as through the two great pillars. these throw all things into vibration; compare the \ylglgh tycar. the piercing of the dragon s coils suggests the freeing of twklm, which is also referred to as the washing of the garments of the queen, the inferior mother. then comes the breaking forth of the light. over twklm as guardians are wrffm and wpldns as the two pillars, and nephesch ha-messiah, the animal soul of messiah, the shekinah or presence between the kerubim. the particular exordium the bornless ones of time referred to are those corruscations of the divine light which are above rtk of twlyxa. in such supernal realms, th

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beauty can manifest in thy being, the elements of thy body must have an enduring stability. step 12 place the talisman before the earth tablet, make the invoking circle around it and the pentagram of passive spirit with the spirit wheel, and the invoking earth pentagram with the b kerub. say: in the name of rah ynda and ]lm ynda, spirits of l, adore your creator. in the name of the bride and the queen of the kingdom, and by the name of your archangel layrwa, spirits of l ye are mine to command. bind unto this creature of talismans the substance of your realm (make cross) in the three great secret holy names of god borne upon the banners of the north, mor dial hctga, spirits of l give unto me the substance of your realm that it may be mine forever. bind it unto this creature of talismans w

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ny rate, have not been found. it was, however, in the library of the old imperial palace at constantinople that the piri reis map was rediscovered, painted on a gazelle skin and rolled up on a dusty shelf, as recently as 1929.20 legacy of a lost civilization? as the baffled ohlmeyer admitted in his letter to hapgood in 1960, the piri reis map depicts the subglacial topography, the true profile of queen maud land antarctica beneath the ice. this profile remained completely 19 maps of the ancient sea kings, pp. 209-11. 20 ibid, p. 1. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 22 hidden from view from 4000 bc (when the advancing ice sheet covered it) until it was revealed again as a result of the comprehensive seismic survey of queen maud land carried out during 1949 by a joint british- swedish

ght have been present there.1 closer investigation of the oronteus finaeus map by hapgood, and by dr richard strachan of the massachusetts institute of technology, confirmed the following: 1 it had been copied and compiled from several earlier source maps drawn up according to a number of different projections.2 2 it did indeed show non-glacial conditions in coastal regions of antarctica, notably queen maud land, enderby land, wilkes land, victoria land (the east coast of the ross sea, and marie byrd land.3 3 as in the case of the piri reis map, the general profile of the terrain, and the visible physical features, matched closely seismic survey maps of the subglacial land surfaces of antarctica.4 the oronteus finaeus map, hapgood concluded, appeared to document the surprising proposition

cted the antarctic on several he himself drew in the same year. identifiable parts of the then undiscovered southern continent on these maps are cape dart and cape herlacher in marie byrd land, the amundsen sea, thurston island in ellsworth land, the fletcher islands in the bellinghausen sea, alexander i island, the antarctic (palmer) peninsula, the weddell sea, cape norvegia, the regula range in queen maud land (as islands, the muhlig-hoffman mountains (as islands, the prince harald coast, the shirase glacier as an estuary on prince harald coast, padda island in lutzow-holm bay, and the prince olaf coast in enderby land. in some cases these features are more distinctly recognisable than on the oronteus finaeus map, observed hapgood, and it seems clear, in general, that mercator had at his

e great pyramid: entrance and plugging blocks in the ascending corridor. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 289 the great pyramid: detail of corridors, shafts and chambers. but ma mun and his men found nothing, not even any down-to-earth treasure and certainly not any high-tech, anachronistic plastic or instruments of iron or rustproof weapons. or strange spells either. the erroneously named queen s chamber (which lay at the end a long horizontal passageway that branched off from the ascending corridor) turned out to be completely empty just a severe, geometrical room.10 more disappointing still, the king s chamber (which the arabs reached after climbing the imposing grand gallery) also offered little of interest. its only furniture was a granite coffer just big enough to contain the

l scholars have hazarded guesses).15 indeed the only thing that is clear is that it was engineered at the time of the construction of the pyramid and was not the result of an intrusion by tunnelling tombrobbers. 16 the question remains open, however, as to whether tombrobbers might have discovered the hidden entrance to the shaft, and made use of it to siphon off the treasures from the king s and queen s chambers. such a possibility cannot be ruled out. nevertheless, a review of the 12 secrets of the great pyramid, p. 58. 13 the geography of strabo (trans. h. l. jones, wm. heinemann, london, 1982, volume viii, pp. 91-3. 14 secrets of the great pyramid, p. 58. 15 in general, it is assumed to have been used as an escape route by workers sealed within the pyramid above the plugging blocks in

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

ives. your everyday life will become more enriched and meaningful. your goal in enochian magick is to obtain an understanding of your life while consciously directing your own destiny. 13 our world according to enochian magick the first step in magick is "travel beyond the world of the senses" aleister crowley, magick without tears the magical system presented by sir john dee, court astrologer to queen elizabeth 1, views the physical world as only the lowest in a graduated series of cosmic planes. there are many invisible worlds surrounding this earth. the reason they are invisible is because they are composed of matter that is so tenuous that our eyes cannot see it. there are many degrees of matter's density. the most dense is the physical plane. the next, more ethereal and very close to

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ran without any heads, or carried their legs across their shoulders. a drunken peasant, who would not make room for the host, was caught up and set upon a high rock, where he waited for days before he could be helped down again^ here frau eolda at the head of her spirit-host produces quite the impression of a heathen goddess making her royal pro- 1 conf. the nightly excursions of the scottish elf-queen (scott's minstr. 2, 149, 161, and of the /a?/s (keightley 1, 166^ hel rides a three-legged one, p. 844. 3 agricola's spr. 667. eyering 1, 781 6. headless figures, heasts two-legged, tliree-legged, redhot, are in many ghost stories; a headless wild hunter runs riot in the wetterau (dieffenbach's wett. p. 280, in pomerania a headless horseman (temme no. 140. straggele, eckhart, venus' mount. 9

' the neck sorrowfully throws his harp away, and weeps. the priest rides ou, and presently his staff begins to put forth leaf and flower, he turns back to tell the marvel to the neck, who then plays joyful tunes the whole night long, afz. 2, 156. but this myth of tanhauser accords with many others, esp. celtic ones. tanhauser passes many a year with holda in the mountain, so does tamlane with the queen of fays, thomas of ercildon with the fairy queen (scott's minstr. 2, 193. 3, 181 3, ogier 200 years with fata morgana in avalon: she had pressed a garland on his head, which made him forget everything, but the legend is teutonic for all that, it is told in sweden of the elf-king's daughter (p. 466 and afz. 2, 141, and in the kinderm. of frau fortuna, altd. bl. 1, 297. and so does odysseus st

odibus, quos forestarios vulgus nominat, se alternis diebus circa horam meridianam et in primo noctium conticinio sub plenilunio luna lucente saepissime videre militum copiam, venantium et canum et cornuum strepitum, qui sciscitantibus se de societate et familia arturi esse affirmant' the complaynt of scotland p. 97-8 says' arthour knycht he raid on nycht with gyldin spur and candillycht' the elf-queen and the /a^/s have already been spoken of (p. 934n. shakspeare (m. wives of w. iv, 4. v, 5) tells how' kerne the hunter doth all the winter time at still midnight walk round about an oak^ 1 e.g. in eichard sans peur, in the eoman de fauvel; conf. jubinal's contes 1, 284. michel's theatre fr. pp. 73 76- kausler's chrou. v. flandern 8049' ten hauekine' at little hell (name of a place. 3 mgm. d

way together, the devil as architect directing the whole business, which advanced with incredible speed: a few hours more, and the barn 1 hdttr (hat, gray hat, i.e. osinn (p. 146, after giving geirhildr his spittle to be the barm of the ale she was brewing (couf. p 'm2, demands what is between her and the vat, viz. her unborn child, fornald. sog. 2, 26. the ivilde walrabe (p. 997) requires of the queen' det du haver under belte dit' dv. 1, 187. if only lor this one incident, i hold the hessian tale to be of heathen origin. 1026 devil. stood ready built, the roof was thatched, the walls filled up, only a square or two stood open in the gable. then the cunning wife, dressed in her husband's clothes, crept across the yard to the henhouse, clapt her hands and mimicked the croiv of a coctc, and

such as have long been dead, some (the superior sort) muffled and masked. but their wooers are mere servants of the chief devil, who in goat-shajje, but with black human face, sits silent and solemn on a high chair or a large stone table in the midst of the ring, and all do him reverence by kneeling and kissing. when the chief devil takes a particular fancy to one woman, she is named the witches' queen, and ranks above all the rest^ answering to that norse trolla koniingr, p. 104-3. the undelightful meal is illumined by black torches, all kindled at a light that burns between the horns of the great goat. their viands lack salt and bread" they drink out of cows' hoofs and horses' heads. then they relate what mischief they have wrought, and resolve on new: if their misdeeds fail to satisfy t

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

. giants were imagined dwelling on rocks and mountains, and their nature is all of a piece with the mineral kingdom: they are either animated masses of stone, or creatures once alive petrified. giants. 533 hrungnir had a three-cornered stone heart, his head and shield were of stone, sn. 109. another giant was named vagnjiofffi (waggon-head, sn. 211 a, in saxo gram. 9. 10. dame hutt is a petrified queen of giants, deut. sag. no. 233. out of this connexion with mountains arises another set of names: bergrisi, sn. 18. 26. 30. 45-7. 66. grofctas. 10. 24. egilss. 22; x bergbui, fornald. sog. 1, 412; hraunbui (saxicola, sasm. 57b 145a; hraunhvalr(-whale) 57b; pussin of biargi, fornald. sog. 2, 29; bergdanir (gigantes, seem. 54b; bergrisa brudr (bride, racer bergrisa, grottas. 10. 24, conf. the g

hen he left the yard, all the rest would accompany him; in the stable where he lived, they swarmed so plentifully, that the maids feeding the cattle would take them out of the crib by armfuls. they were friendly to the cattle and the people; but a new farmer shot their king, and they all departed, and with them vanished wealth and prosperity from the estate (ibid. 6, 174. 3 here also comes in the queen of snakes (deut. sagen no. 220, and a remarkable story in the gesta eomanorum (keller p. 152. to a dairymaid at immeneich there came a great snake into the cowshed every morning and evening at milking-time, and wore a great crown on its head. the girl 1 mhg. tmfc, gen. iinkes, ms. 2, 209 b. 206: from copper one divideth gold with an unke s ashes; hence an alchymist was called unken-brenner (

7. then, as the gift of poesy is closely connected with oshrreris dreckr, it is bees that bring it to sleeping pindar: fjue\icra-al avrw kaoevbovrt, trpocretrerovto re teal etrkaa-aov trpo? ra %e/x?7 rov /crjpov ap^rj /jbev tlivsdpw iroielv acrfjlata eyevero toiavrr, pausan. ix. 23, 2. and there fore they are called musarum volucres (varro de re rust. 3, 16. a kindermarchen (no. 62) speaks of the queen-bee settling on her favourite s mouth; l if she flies to any one in his sleep, he is accounted a child of fortune. it seems natural, in connexion with these bustling winged creatures, to think of the silent race of elves and dwarfs, which like them obeys a queen. it was in the decaying flesh of the first giant that dwarfs bred as maggots; in exactly the same way bees are said to have sprung

e (p. 710, which accounts for the phrase diu sunne gienc ze gndden (dat. pi, mor. 37a. wolfdietr. 1402. even agricola no longer understood it quite, for he says in sprichw. 737: it lasted till the sun was about to go to gnaden, i.e. to set, and deny) the world his gnade and light by going to rest/ aventin (ed. 1580 p. 19b) would trace it back to our earliest heathenism and a worship of the sun as queen of heaven: never might ye say she set, but alway that she went to rost and gnaden, as the silly simple folk doth even yet believe/ the last words alone are worth noticing; the superstition may be of very old standing, that it is more pious, in this as in other cases, to avoid straight forward speech, and use an old half-intelligible euphemism. on this point vuk 775 has something worthy of no

drinking and dancing; the pair are called maigrev and mcvigron, i.e. maigrafin (schiitze 3, 72. the schleswig maygrave-feast (festum frondicomans) is described in ulr. petersen s treatise already quoted (p. 694 n. 2 in swabia the children at sunrise go into the wood, the boys carrying silk handkerchiefs on staves, the girls ribbons on boughs; their leader, the may-king, has a right to choose his queen. in gelders they used on mayday-eve to set up trees decorated and hung with tapers like a christmas-tree; then came a song and ring-dance. 3 all over germany, to this day, 1 koken and liintzel s mittheilungen 2, 45-61. 3 he says: the memory of this ancient but useless may-feast finally passed by inheritance to the town-cattle, which, even since 1670, had every mayday a gar land of beech-leav

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

anklin, and others, i have been informed that you were misled as to their identity, and i beg to submit to your notice the following questions and the responses obtained by me in reference to your investigations. on the 26th july, 1853, while in communication with the crowned angel, the spirit who the most frequently appears in the mirror, isaid:-i.-robertowen the philanthropist has writen to the queen that he has been in communication with her deceased father the duke of kent, who states that he is in the 4thcircie,-lsthat so? c.a.-itis-,thelate-,whose spirit is now upon earth, which communicates with him.2.-thespirit stated he was in the 4th circle and was veryhappy-isthat so? c.a.-the--who communicates with robert owen under the disguise of the duke of kent is an evil spirit, and still

k to pick them up.hockley'slettersto theirtoins77ofcourse i shall keep friday evening sacred for you, but that we can talk about on thursday. i received your further particulars of your friend's very interesting caseofclairvoyance which interests me much. trusting you will have a pleasant journey up, yours faithfully and fraternally.ithefreemasons' tavern was attached to freemasons' hall in great queen street and was used both for refreshment and informal meetings. its modem counterpart is the connaught rooms.33 3 raymond buildings, grays inn, w.c. 22june 1877 my dear herbert, your letter came to hand just as i was sitting on the floor for the first time this two years pulling out my books in search of somemssi want to separate. i did it two evenings butitdid my side such pain i have not b

alism and contributor tolight,humannature,andthespiritualist.founder member british national association of spir255 itualists. member of the council of the psychological society. member of society of psychical research. president, london spiritual alliance,1884-92. 2richard spencerwas a manufacturer of masonic regalia and publisherofmasonic books from his premises opposite freemasons' hall, great queen street. his collection of masonic and occult books andmsswas probably the finest private collection of its dayinengland and was the subject of the catalogue referred to here by hockley.itwas offered as a collection to the united grand lodge of england for their library but they would not pay the price.itwas dispersed by auction, much of the choice material going to american collections.3alph

.a.7notes. as for our much valued bro. hughan' i am altogether in arrears. i must write to him tomorrow night to beg hisforgiveness-buti find my head is getting verybad-&must conclude with the kindest regards to yourself, and mi; herbert,9i remain, yours fraternally.1presumably refers to hiseveningswithindwellerspaper.2walter spencer. a member of thefamilyof masonic regalia manufacturers in great queen street, london. a member ofhockley'slettersto theirtoins55 except [illegible] refuses to be excited phrenologically. wheniicctthe spanish monk' or other papers i must precede it with a short explanatory introduction to render the subject intelligibleliswell as interesting,butat presentiam exceedingly unwell&somuch pressed with ghostly correspondence which refuses to be exorcised except by lo

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

r tombs. amun, who had been the most important god in thebes since the middle kingdom, united with the sun god and became the king of the gods. the temple of amun at karnak in eastern thebes developed into the biggest and richest temple complex in egypt. the eighteenth dynasty is often considered the high point of egyptian culture. much great art and architecture was produced during the reigns of queen hatshepsut (c. 1473 1458 bce; her nephew and stepson, king thutmose (tuthmosis) iii (c. 1479 1425 bce; and the latter s great-grandson, amenhotep (amenophis) iii (c. 1390 1352 bce. hatshepsut s famous mortuary temple at deir el-bahri in thebes had many innovative features, such as an open court for solar worship inscribed with a summary of the ruler s secret knowledge about the sun god. 42 b

ess hathor in her cow form or amun of the hearing ear. 43 amenhotep iii enlarged or founded numerous temples, and many of the features introduced by his architects remained standard for c. 1,500 years. he commissioned huge numbers of divine statues to stress his identification with all the deities of egypt. amenhotep iii sometimes gave himself the attributes of a lunar deity while his chief wife, queen tiy, was identified with the goddesses who could play the role of the solar eye (see eye of ra in deities, themes, and concepts).44 introduction 19 amenhotep iii and tiy were the parents of amenhotep iv (c. 1352 1336 bce, who early in his reign changed his name to akhenaten. king akhenaten and his chief wife, nefertiti, were dedicated to the cult of aten, a form of the sun god represented by

d pinch) life or power. among exceptions are scenes that form a narrative sequence about the divine conception and birth of rulers such as hatshepsut, amenhotep iii, and rameses ii.49 it is typical of egyptian pictorial narratives that some incidents or details are only found in the text whereas others are shown only in the reliefs. the text, for instance, describes a sensuous encounter between a queen and the god amun, who has taken the form of her husband in order to sleep with her. the accompanying relief complies with the strict rules of egyptian art and shows the god, in his usual appearance, barely touching the queen s hand (see figure 20. the queen gives birth to the future ruler surrounded by deities who will nurse and protect the child and its spirit-double, the ka. this royal bir

which isis deceives the priests in each temple into thinking that they have the true body of the god. this literalminded interpretation points up the differences between greek and egyptian thought. soon after diodorus s visit, rome was interfering in egyptian affairs. the roman general julius caesar took part in a civil war and secured the position of the last great member of the ptolemy family, queen cleopatra vii (51 30 bce. after julius caesar returned to rome, cleopatra gave birth to a son, ptolemy caesarion. cleopatra used egyptian myth to political advantage by identifying herself with the goddess isis and her fatherless son with horus the child. a few years later cleopatra joined forces with another roman general, mark antony, to try to establish a new empire of the east. mark anto

oman period papyri have survived, particularly from the fayum region and the town of oxyrhynchus. among these are literary papyri in greek and demotic from temple libraries or priests houses. much of this literature may originally have been composed in the ptolemaic period. some of the demotic literature shows foreign influence. a fragmentary tale of a war between an egyptian prince and an amazon queen has been compared with greek myths such as the combat of achilles and penthesilia or the conquest of the amazon queen hippolyta by theseus. the demotic version is told from the point of view of the queen of the land of women. she appeals to isis to help her against the egyptian prince, who is compared with the chaos monster apophis.101 42 handbook of egyptian mythology the war between order

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

ng and hissing like a gigantic dark reptile, glides swiftly,crossing mountain and moor, forest, tunnel and plain, its swinging monotonous motion lulls the worn-outoccupant, the weary and heartsore form, to sleep. in the moving palace the air is warm and balmy. the luxurious vehicle is full of exotic plants; and from alarge cluster of sweet-smelling flowers arises together with its scent the fairy queen of dreams, followed byher band of joyous elves. the dryads laugh in their leafy bowers as the train glides by, and send floatingupon the breeze dreams of green solitudes and fairy visions. the rumbling noise of wheels is graduallytransformed into the roar of a distant waterfall, to subside into the silvery trills of a crystalline brook. thesoul-ego takes its flight into dreamland. it travels

l until purified by a new rebirthwithal, feel not dejected, but be of good cheer in your affliction, since it has led you to acquire trueknowledge, and to accept many a truth you would have otherwise rejected with contempt. and of thispriceless knowledge, acquired through suffering and personal efforts- no daij-dzin can ever deprive you.fare thee well, then, and may the mother of mercy, the great queen of heaven, afford you comfort andprotection" we parted, and since then i have led the life of an anchorite, in constant solitude and study. though stilloccasionally afflicted, i do not regret the years i have passed under the instruction of the yamabooshis, butfeel gratified for the knowledge received. of the priest tamoora hideyeri i think always with sincereaffection and respect. i corresp

e began a regular chase, andtowards evening we were invaded in our hotel by the whole troop, every man of them with a more or lessmangy cur in his arms, which he tried to persuade me was my lost dog. the more i denied, the more solemnlythey insisted, one of them actually going down on his knees, snatching from his bosom an old corroded metalimage of the virgin, and swearing a solemn oath that the queen of heaven herself had kindly appeared tohim to point out the right animal. the tumult had increased to such an extent that it looked as if ralph'sdisappearance was going to be the cause of a small riot, and finally our landlord had to send for a couple ofkavasses from the nearest police station, and have this regiment of bipeds and quadrupeds expelled by mainforce. i began to be convinced th

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

tes, or even jesus, leave behind them any writings. yet most of these are historical personages, and their teachings have all survived. the disciples of ammonius (among whom origen and herennius) wrote treatises and explained his ethics. certainly the latter are as historical, if not more so, than the apostolic writings. moreover, his pupils-origen, plotinus, and longinus (counselor of the famous queen zenobia)-have all left voluminous records of the philaletheian system-so far, at all events, as their public profession of faith was known, for the school was divided into exoteric and esoteric teachings. q. how have the latter tenets reached our day, since you hold that what is properly called the wisdom-religion was esoteric? a. the wisdom-religion was ever one, and being the last word of

ests on the christian church "in the name of the most holy trinity" the spanish government (roman catholic) concluded more than ten treaties authorizing the sale of five hundred thousand human beings; in 1562 sir john hawkins sailed on his diabolical errand of buying slaves in africa and selling them in the west indies in a ship which bore the sacred name of jesus; while elizabeth, the protestant queen, rewarded him for his success in this first adventure of englishmen in that inhuman traffic by allowing him to wear as his crest "a demi-moor in his proper color, bound with a cord, or, in other words, a manacled negro slave" q. i have heard you say that the identity of our physical origin is proved by science, that of our spiritual origin by the wisdom-religion. yet we do not find darwinist

shall see iavar-xivo, lord of life, and the first vine.[cod. naz, ii, p.281] these cabalistic metaphors are thus naturally repeated in the gospel according to st. john. let us not forget that in the human system-even according to those philosophies which ignore our septenary division-the ego or thinking man is called the logos, or the son of soul and spirit "manas is the adopted son of king* and queen (esoteric equivalents for atma and buddhi, says an occult work. he is the "man-god" of plato, who crucifies himself in space (or the duration of the life cycle) for the redemption of matter. this he does by incarnating over and over again, thus leading mankind onward to perfection, and making thereby room for lower forms to develop into higher. not for one life does he cease progressing hims

was a great traveler, and attended at alexandria the lectures of ammonius saccas, the founder of neo-platonism, but was rather a critic than a follower. porphyry (the jew malek or malchus) was his pupil before he became the disciple of plotinus. it is said of him that he was a living library and a walking museum. towards the end of his life he became the instructor in greek literature of zenobia, queen of palmyra. she repaid his services by accusing him before the emperor aurelius of having advised her to rebel against the latter, a crime for which longinus, with several others, was put to death by the emperor in 273. macrocosm (gr) the "great universe" or kosmos, literally. magic the "great" science. according to deveria and other orientalists "magic was considered as a sacred science ins

rades and kinds of yogis, and the term has now become in india a generic name to designate every kind of ascetic. yuga (sans) an age of the world of which there are four, which follow each other in a series, namely, krita (or satya) yuga, the golden age; treta -yuga, dvapara-yuga, and finally kali-yuga, the black age-in which we now page 171 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt are. zenobia the queen of palmyra, defeated by the emperor aurelianus. she had for her instructor longinus, the famous critic and logician in the third century ad (see longinus) zivo, kabar (or yukabar) the name of one of the creative deities in the nazarene codex (see isis unveiled) zohar (heb) the book of splendor, a cabalistic work attributed to simeon ben iochai, in the first century of our era (see for fuller

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

that faound aout more'n was good fer him in the saouth sea islands "everybody was in a bad way them days. trade fallin' off, mills losin' business- even the new ones- an' the best of our menfolks kilt aprivateerin' in the war of 1812 or lost with the elizy brig an' the ranger scow- both on 'em gilman venters. obed marsh he had three ships afloat- brigantine columby, brig hefty, an' barque sumatry queen. he was the only one as kep' on with the east-injy an' pacific trade, though esdras martin's barkentine malay bride made a venter as late as twenty-eight "never was nobody like cap'n obed- old limb o' satan! heh, heh! i kin mind him a-tellin' abaout furren parts, an' callin' all the folks stupid for goin' to christian meetin' an' bearin' their burdns meek an' lowly. says they'd orter git bet

en's the time obed he begun a-cursin' at the folks fer bein' dull sheep an' prayin' to a christian heaven as didn't help 'em none. he told 'em he'd knowed o' folks as prayed to gods that give somethin' ye reely need, an' says ef a good bunch o' men ud stand by him, he cud mebbe get a holt o' sarten paowers as ud bring plenty o' fish an' quite a bit of gold. 0' course them as sarved on the sumatry queen, an' seed the island knowed what he meant, an' wa'n't none too anxious to get clost to sea-things like they'd heard tell on, but them as didn't know what 'twas all abaout got kind o' swayed by what obed had to say, and begun to ast him what he cud do to sit 'em on the way to the faith as ud bring 'em results" here the old man faltered, mumbled, and lapsed into a moody and apprehensive silenc

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

s, crinoids, and such mollusks as linguellae and gastropods- all of which seemed of real significance in connection with the region s primordial history. there was also a queer triangular, striated marking, about a foot in greatest diameter, which lake pieced together from three fragments of slate brought up from a deep-blasted aperture. these fragments came from a point to the westward, near the queen alexandra range; and lake, as a biologist, seemed to find their curious marking unusually puzzling and provocative, though to my geological eye it looked not unlike some of the ripple effects reasonably common in the sedimentary rocks. since slate is no more than a metamorphic formation into which a sedimentary stratum is pressed, and since the pressure itself produces odd distorting effects

saw that his excitement had reached the point of mutiny, and that i could do nothing to check this headlong risk of the whole expedition s success; but it was appalling to think of his plunging deeper and deeper into that treacherous and sinister white immensity of tempests and unfathomed mysteries which stretched off for some fifteen hundred miles to the half-known, half-suspected coast line of queen mary and knox lands. then, in about an hour and a half more, came that doubly excited message from lake s moving plane, which almost reversed my sentiments and made me wish i had accompanied the party "10:05 p.m. on the wing. after snowstorm, have spied mountain range ahead higher than any hitherto seen. may equal himalayas, allowing for height of plateau. probable latitude 76 15, longitude

of madness we had crossed. they extended, it appeared, from about latitude 77, e. longitude 70 to latitude 70, e. longitude 100- less than three hundred miles away from the dead city, so that we would have spied their dreaded summits in the dim western distance had it not been for that vague, opalescent haze. their northern end must likewise be visible from the long antarctic circle coast line at queen mary land. some of the old ones, in the decadent days, had made strange prayers to those mountains- but none ever went near them or dared to guess what lay beyond. no human eye had ever seen them, and as i studied the emotions conveyed in the carvings, i prayed that none ever might. there are protecting hills along the coast beyond them- queen mary and kaiser wilhelm lands- and i thank heave

lyers have barely lived to whisper of after unexplainable falls. looking at them, i thought nervously of certain sculptured hints of what the great bygone river had washed down into the city from their accursed slopes- and wondered how much sense and how much folly had lain in the fears of those old ones who carved them so reticently. i recalled how their northerly end must come near the coast at queen mary land, where even at that moment sir douglas mawson s expedition was doubtless working less than a thousand miles away; and hoped that no evil fate would give sir douglas and his men a glimpse of what might lie beyond the protecting coastal range. such thoughts formed a measure of my overwrought condition at the time- and danforth seemed to be even worse. yet long before we had passed th

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

that faound aout more'n was good fer him in the saouth sea islands "everybody was in a bad way them days. trade fallin' off, mills losin' business- even the new ones- an' the best of our menfolks kilt aprivateerin' in the war of 1812 or lost with the elizy brig an' the ranger scow- both on 'em gilman venters. obed marsh he had three ships afloat- brigantine columby, brig hefty, an' barque sumatry queen. he was the only one as kep' on with the east-injy an' pacific trade, though esdras martin's barkentine malay bride made a venter as late as twenty-eight "never was nobody like cap'n obed- old limb o' satan! heh, heh! i kin mind him a-tellin' abaout furren parts, an' callin' all the folks stupid for goin' to christian meetin' an' bearin' their burdns meek an' lowly. says they'd orter git bet

en's the time obed he begun a-cursin' at the folks fer bein' dull sheep an' prayin' to a christian heaven as didn't help 'em none. he told 'em he'd knowed o' folks as prayed to gods that give somethin' ye reely need, an' says ef a good bunch o' men ud stand by him, he cud mebbe get a holt o' sarten paowers as ud bring plenty o' fish an' quite a bit of gold. 0' course them as sarved on the sumatry queen, an' seed the island knowed what he meant, an' wa'n't none too anxious to get clost to sea-things like they'd heard tell on, but them as didn't know what 'twas all abaout got kind o' swayed by what obed had to say, and begun to ast him what he cud do to sit 'em on the way to the faith as ud bring 'em results" here the old man faltered, mumbled, and lapsed into a moody and apprehensive silenc

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

s about from cycle to cycle. not even my greatgrandmother remembered why variations in chants exist- it's just that witches always have done it one way or another. isis is the ancient goddess of the moon whose magic, when all is lost and you have gone down and under, will charm you once again to even higher heights. enchantresses who perform rituals in her name are granted special favours. she is queen of witchcraft, known for her sympathetic intervention into affairs of the heart. she has never turned her face from anyone who has called her name. for beginning sorcerers no attempt should be made to cast a spell, perform a ritual, work a charm, enchant or fascinate without the protection of the ring described, called a full moon ring. the birthstone is said to offer the most protection. ho

ho looks like that, he may soon become very successful and his career would improve very rapidly. he would be a man of importance in the community. if it's the eleventh circle, this person has a very good feeling towards you, and besides being your lover, you're also very friendly; it's a good, healthy, long-term relationship. if it's in the twelfth circle, you're having a secret affair with him. queen of hearts, if you're a man, is the counterpart of the king of hearts. it would be to a man what the king of hearts is to a woman. but if you are a woman, the queen of hearts would represent your mother-in-law. it has to do with a woman who is not just a girl, so it's a womanly relationship you have, with a relative, for instance. it also has to do with passion. it can be used as a passion ca

e to a man what the king of hearts is to a woman. but if you are a woman, the queen of hearts would represent your mother-in-law. it has to do with a woman who is not just a girl, so it's a womanly relationship you have, with a relative, for instance. it also has to do with passion. it can be used as a passion card, having no connection with male or female. if you want to cast a spell and put the queen of hearts in the fifth circle, that would trigger a passionate situation. the jack of hearts is a younger lover, but it also could be the one you're engaged to, or it could be just a man of forty. but as the king of hearts was a new man in your life, the jack of hearts is a man you are already involved with, and he could be any age. ten of hearts is a very fortunate romantic card. it's so ov

the seventh circle, that could indicate one of you is thinking about divorce. if you're not married and the king of diamonds comes in the seventh, it might mean that you are going to marry a lawyer. in the tenth it might be that you yourself will achieve tremendous recognition and dignity in the work you do. it has to do with dignity, and it has to do with reputation and longstanding situations. queen of diamonds is the female version of the king of diamonds. it also has to do with any woman who is over thirty-five. also, if you are a married man, it could indicate the "other woman" in your life. if you're a woman and the queen of diamonds falls in the seventh circle, it might indicate that your husband's having an affair. it would not be just a boyish affair, but one that had more of a p

diamonds. it also has to do with any woman who is over thirty-five. also, if you are a married man, it could indicate the "other woman" in your life. if you're a woman and the queen of diamonds falls in the seventh circle, it might indicate that your husband's having an affair. it would not be just a boyish affair, but one that had more of a permanent hold on him, a tricky thing to break up. the queen of diamonds has to do with a concept of time. most witches have noted that it means either three days, three weeks, or three months, because the card has to do with seasons. if you are involved in a situation and want to know when it will reach its conclusion, deal a reading; if the queen of diamonds shows up your situation may be resolved next season. jack of diamonds represents a younger m

INDUCTION CHARM AND THE INITIATION

mother and witch- father, and, before you make the oath, you strip bare and put on new clothes. the old clothes should be clothes that you have worn often, which you will never wear again- they must be burned later. after you have changed, you pierce one of the fingers of your left hand, letting several drops of blood fall onto the bare earth. this is very important. then you say: old one, veiled queen, i shed my blood for you. an oath on the land, an oath to life and to spirit- masters of the world, of fire and weaving of beasts and forests, fens, sky, human desires and destinies, powers inside the land, hear an oath, sealed by blood and by blood carried into the land: in the name of the pale woman below the hill, youthfully dead and ever-living, i am bound to your wisdom and power. great

ction, nor encourage others to do the same, for any reason beyond saving a life. remember these things, like you remember your oath to the powers of green growing things and beasts- because to break them may spell the end of whatever power you have received back in your contract. continuing on, you address the powers you are making this oath to- animal spirits and plants, but chiefly to the great queen and the old one or the white king, you say support me, protect me, shelter me on the witching way the hidden road to wisdom let your power answer to my will, in the holy meadow, the ring of art, in my days and nights, as my power will answer to your will and rely on you. here is where you enter into the binding part of the contract- in exchange for their support, protection, and shelter on t

INFERNAL SABBAT LIVE

y psychonaut 75 is an industrial and ritualistic band which embodies the essence of not only chaos sorcery and luciferian witchcraft, but experimentation and extreme electronic and hybrid soundscapes. gate of black earth, nephillmic tomb in the sunless palace of azrail, open forth the dreaming fields of night, from thy vessel, born of lilith s womb shall the vampyre shade awaken before us lilith, queen of those who walk the shadows- i come before you, night born as the queen of the dead. behold unto my death mask, the temple of azothoz as a current of the living flame. i shall bless each one of you with the devil s sight, the serpents tongue shall speak of the secret alphabet which ye all shall scribe on the walls of the sunless palace, scribe your name in the black book of the dead, you a

INFERNAL UNION

solution is not a threat to a continued existence. something more lasting has been found worthy of the process of crystallization. on the luciferian path we work with darkness instead of banishing it from our consciousness. one might ask whether there are polarities that can be discerned apart from the obvious, that of darkness with light. the answer is found in the essences of the witch-king and queen, samael and lilith. their sexual union produced the original spawn of demons and succubi. their continued union through us produces or brings to our awareness, the timeless treasures of knowledge and strength hidden only by our previously ignorant minds. samael is according to legend, the fallen angel taught by belial .he is also known as asmodeus or ashmodei, the yezidi archangel ashamdon

he yezidi archangel ashamdon, and is the solar aspect of ahriman it seems, whose other name is ashmedai. he is the male serpent who possessed adam in the garden of eden in order to copulate with eve. in the christian apocalypse, and in thelema, he is the beast and the mate of babalon. in the kabbala, samael is the prince of the qlippoth, the inverse side of the tree of life and mate of lilith the queen of the qlippoth (lilith and babalon being the same. he is the infernal sun(night and fire) and she is the moon. samael is the source of all demonic energy. his title samael the black refers to his sinister nature and is connected to the sinister nature of nature itself. though it would be a mystery to some, he like shaitan is so intimately involved in nature, that the manifestation of his cr

liliths trap. charms were created to protect against the threat of succubus attacks (lilith is in the qlippothic sphere, lust) and infants from being killed by lilith or her children. her earlier origins are somewhat vague though she appears to have always been related somewhat to being a goddess/spirit of the night/air whether in sumerian/assyrian/babylonian or cainanite mythology. lilith is the queen of demons and the wife of samael, from whom came the succubi. she is the infernal moon and queen of the infernal sabbat. she does have a lighter side as well, that of being a protectress to mothers and children. her nature is that of feminine fertility,seduction ,the cycles of the moon, and perhaps one of the reasons she is considered evil being her ability to seduce, to take what she wishes

children. her nature is that of feminine fertility,seduction ,the cycles of the moon, and perhaps one of the reasons she is considered evil being her ability to seduce, to take what she wishes, and disregard those who displease her. she is feminine strength and individualized focus. as samael is considered, according to gender, to be the daemon of wizards and warlocks, lilith is the patroness and queen of witches. through lesser black magick as well as dream magick (dayside and nightside respectively) allows them to seduce and command their wills. her various aspects include az (related to death,blood and darkness),that of lilith as the goddess of the earth, lilith hecate(or lucifera) as air or the bride of lucifer, and of babalon(also sekhet or sekhemet) who is fire, death, blood, passion

as well as a bestial one. she was depicted by the hebrews as a beautiful woman from the waist up, but from the waist down covered in animal- hair or flame, and with birds feet. her animal is the screech owl and the connections to various other names (masks) by which she has been called throughout history may be traced by the owl representation of the nature of these goddesses. finally, she is the queen mother of vampires, which is entirely in keeping with all the above references to 3 her. she was in this aspect in the tale of the egyptian sekmet, the blood-drinking goddess of the south (and may be related to seker in this aspect. lilith is the female serpent who latched onto eves brain centre in her union with samael who possessed adam. their union produced the first born (or in some myth

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

e used and practised witchcrafts, enchauntments, charms, and sorceries, to the destruction of the persons and goods of their neighbours, and other subjects of this realm, and for other lewde and evill intents and purposes, contrary to the laws of almighty god, to the peril of their owne soules, and to the great infamie and disquietnesse of this realm. for reformation thereof, be it enacted by the queen's majestie, with the assent of the lords spirituall and temporall and the commons in this present parliament assembled "1. that if any person or persons after the end of three months next, and immediately after the end of the last session of this present parliament, shall use, practise, or exercise any witchcraft, enchauntment, charme, or sorcery, whereby any person shall happen to be killed

or declare in what place any treasure of gold or silver shall or might be found or had in the earth or other secret places, or where goods or things lost or stollen should be found or become, or shall use or practice any sorcery &c, to the intent to provoke p. 65 any person to unlawful love (for the first offence to be punished as in clause 2, but if convicted a second time shall forfeit unto the queen's majesty all his goods and chattels, and suffer imprisonment during life" on the whole, considering the temper of the time, this statute was exceedingly mild. it made no provision whatsoever for the use of torture to extract evidence, nor indeed did it offer any particular encouragement to the witch hunter, while the manner of inflicting the death penalty was precisely that for felony, viz

eginald scot, quoted by thomas ady in his perfect discovery of witches (london, 1661, a certain amount of witch persecution arose with reference to this point, possibly as a natural outcome of the statute of 1586 "master scot in his discovery telleth us, that our english people in ireland, whose posterity were lately barbarously cut off, were much given to this idolatry [belief in witches] in the queen's time [elizabeth, insomuch that there being a disease amongst their cattel that grew blinde, being a common disease in that country, they did commonly execute people for it, calling them eye-biting witches" from incidental notices in writers of the latter half of the sixteenth century it would seem at first sight as if witchcraft, as we are treating of it in this work, was very prevalent in

or twenty-four hours, sat up in the bed, looked at the chest, and said: you say true, you say true, you are in the right (a favourite expression of his, i'll he with you by and by, and then lay down again, and never spoke after. the chest slowly locked itself in exactly the same manner as it had opened, and shortly after this mr. browne died. footnotes 79:1 enrolment of pleas, 6 james i, memb. 2 (queen's bench. 87:1 scott, demonology and witchcraft, letter v. 87:2 ed. c. x. sharpe (edinburgh, 1818. 88:1 witherow, memorials of presbyterianism in ireland. 92:1 quot. in law's memorialls. 93:1 witherow, op. cit, pp. 15-16. 95:1 lenihan, history of limerick, p. 147. 98:1 hickson, ireland in the seventeenth century, vol. i; fitzpatrick, bloody bridge, p. 125; temple's history of the rebellion. 9

ISIS UNVEILED

background? hey make thar obeisance only to the dowager mother, for according to thor teaching again through 'the direct spirit of god' she alone acts as a mediatrix. the oectunenical council of 1870 embodied the teaching into a dogma, to disbelieve wliicb is to be doomed forever to the 'bottomless pit' the work of don pasquale di franciscis is positive on that point; for he tells ua that, as the queen of heaven owes to the present pope "the finest gem in her coronet" since he has conferred on her the uniexpected honor of becoming suddenly immaculate, thne b nothing she cannot obtain from her son for "her church" some years ago certain travelers saw in bari, italy, a statue of the madonna, arrayed in a flounced pink skirt over a swelling crinolirtel pious pilgrims who may be anxious to exa

ch practised by the clergy for the benefit of the bishop's elections? or must we still believe that in both of these contradictory cases the vatican was inspired by the direct 'spirit of grod'p if any doubt that gregory of tours approved of a practice that pre- vails to this day, more or less, even among strict protestants, let them read this "leudastus, earl of tours, who was for ruining me with queen fredegonde, coming to tours, big with evil designs against me, i withdrew to my oratory under a deep concern, where i took the paahnb. my heart revived within me when i cast my eyea on this of the seventy-seventh p sea swallowed up their enemies' accordingly, the count spoke not a word to my prejudice; and leaving tours that very day

could be found in tatary and india" the monk showed us a copy of the original, which, of course, we could read but poorly, as we claim but little erudition in the matter of dead languages. but we were so particularly struck by the vivid and picturesque translation of the holy father, that we perfectly remember some curious paragraphs, which run, as far as we can recall them, as follows "when the queen of the sun (cleo- 41. an after-tliaiight has made ui fancy that we can understand whay is meant by the tijooinug aentences of mont of chorene "the ancient asiatics" mfs he "five centuriei befote our en and eepeciau' the hind&i, the persians, and the chaldaeans, had in their possesaion a quantity at historical and bcientific books. these vorka irare partially borrowed, partially translated in

ks or rolls covering the half-consumed steps of the eatrada; and when she perceived that the inside was gone and the indestructible covers alone remained, she wept in rage and fury, and cursed the meanness of her fathers who had grudged the cost of the real pergamos for the inside as well aa the outside of the precious rolls" further, our author, tbeodaa, indulges in a joke at the expense' of the queen for believing that nearly all the library was burned; when, in fact, hundreds and thousands of the choicest books were safely stored in his own house and those of other scribes, librarians, students, and philosophers. no more do sundry very learned copts scattered all over the east in a a mihor, egypt, and f&lestine believe in the total destruction of the subsequent libraries. for instance t

established. not only was the adoration of i^ under a new name restored, but even her image, standing on the crescent moon, reappeared. the well-known e sgy of that goddess with the infant horus in her arms has descended to our days, in the beautiful artistic creations of the madonna and child" but a still earlier origin than the egyptian and chaldaean can be asngned to the virgin 'mother of god' queen of heaven. thou^ 98. pluurch: on itu and oitrii. 90. galkeiu: summ. ckau (pmth expos, in appz (p. ill) to sib. oraeata: amst fd ni, 1689. 100. nmvarette: traladot kitl. he, dt china, bk. ii, cb. x. 101. on ou origin irf patm idaurji. 102. iambi: de mujf. vhi. 3; d. lus unt, i, pp. i -7, 157, 256. 103. f ber: bi$terujim on uie cmh, i, p. 315. note. 104. cot. betw. rd. and seience, p. 52. lata

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

tic vision, controller of destinies. etain. celtic moon goddess, wife of midir king of the underground, symbol of fertility. teaches us to be shining wherever we are. arianrhod. welsh triple moon goddess, keeper of the heavens and cycles and changes of time. nurtures us thru dark night of soul changes. and some of the egyptian goddesses. ishtar. babylonian creator goddess, the source of all life. queen of heaven, giver of light, represents being active and strong. isis. moon goddess, mother and giver of all life. goddess of agriculture, medicine and wisdom, isis represents total femininity. hathor. the mother of all gods and goddesses. goddess of love, mirth, beauty and sensual pleasure. sustainer, destroyer, creator. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen

energies by integrating our self destructive behavior. maya. hindu mother of creation, weaver of the web of life and illusion. the virgin aspect of kali s virgin, mother and crone. maya comes to show us the illusionary nature of the material world, she brings magic and creativity. maeve. intoxicating irish goddess of the magical land of tara. maeve challenges us to act responsibly and become the queen of our domain. maat. ancient egyptian goddess of law, order, truth and justice. maat comes to bring justice to our life, to right wrongs and administer lessons that we need. freya. northern european goddess of sexuality of maiden and mother as two aspects of the great goddess. freya assists us in honoring our sexuality and connecting with our vital, primal energy and to be fully present in o

ood deeds that benefit others. this is a very important aspect of the luscious lifestyles program for acts of kindness done with compassion are one of the most powerful tools we have to tune us to the madonna frequency field of pure love. to successfully feed from the divine nutrition channel and sustain health, we need to learn to master any limiting influences of our lower nature and become the queen/king of our inner kingdom. we do this through raja-yoga where we develop concentration and self control. preparing the physical body to be strong enough to handle the download of the divine electricity flow that comes with pranic feeding, opens us to the practice of hatha- yoga and its ability to tap into our bio-systems psychic centers through the use of various asanas and postures. hatha-y

ue 1 chapter 6. followed by the vedic breathing tool. technique 2. check your inner plane cosmic cable connection and imagine downloading an additional blast of violet light into your system as per the meditations in chapter 6. technique no. 12 and chapter 7. technique no. 16. once you are centered and feeling the love and calmness behind your breathing pattern, imagine that you are the king, the queen of your inner realm, that you and your dow are one, one being sharing the inner space of your cells, one being with many different aspects and modes of expression. imagine all aspects of your being are listening, aware then. ask: i now ask my body consciousness, my divine consciousness, my dow. is it in my blueprint to live purely on light in this lifetime? wait for a yes or a no. if you get

y need regular or sporadic adjustments, depending on our activity in the world. divine nutrition program. technique no. 27: action. sit comfortably in meditation. centre yourself with either the love breath or the vedic breath tool. imagine yourself seated in a field of light, a web, a cocoon or shield that is now being woven around you. be still. breathe deeply and imagine that you are the king/ queen of your domain seated within a gossamer web of powerful violet light. diagram 15 divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 142. imagine this web-like shield is made of the powerful invisible force of divine love, divine wisdom and divine power as potent, original forces of creation. imagine that this shield is connected on the inner planes to 3 cosmic cables th

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

dary fire-worship. beside the ancient market-crosses and wayside gothic uprights, of which so many picturesque specimens are yet to be found in england, wales, and scotland, we may enumerate the splendid funeral-crosses raised by the brave and pious king edward to the memory of his wife. holinshed writes: in the nineteenth yeare of king edward, queene elianor, king edward s wife, died, upon saint queen-eleanor crosses. 105 andrew s euen, at hirdebie, or herdelie (as some haue) neere to lincolne. in euerie towne and place where the corps rested by the waie, the king caused a crosse of cunning workmanship to be erected in remembrance of hir. two of the like crosses were set up at london, one at westcheape (the last but one, and the other at charing, which is now charing cross, and where the

the present noisy highway of charing cross; and, as then, it opens to the royal old abbey of westminster. what a changed street is this capital opening at charing cross, whitehall, and parliament street, from the days it almost then seeming a riverbordered country road when the cross spired at one end, and the old abbey closed the view southwards. in regard to the royal and sumptuous obsequies of queen eleanor, fabian, who compiled his chronicles towards the latter part of the reign of henry vii, speaking of her burial-place, has the following remark: she hathe ii wexe tapers brennynge vpon her tombe both daye and nyght. which so hath contynned syne the day of her buryinge to this present daye. the beacon-warning, the fiery cross of scotland, the 106 the rosicrucians. universal use of fire

single votive light only allied (yet in unutterably mystic and godlike bond) as with the snake, serpent, and dragon. 111 greatest of the earth; the watch-lights everywhere, and in whatever country; the crosses (spiry memorials, or monoliths) which rose as from out the earth, in imitation of the watching candle, at whatever point rested at night, in her solemn journey to her last home, the body of queen eleanor, as told in the english annals (which flamememorials, so raised by the pious king edward in the spiry, flame-imitating stone, are all, we believe, obliterate or put out of things, but the well-known, magnificent, restored cross at waltham; all these, to the keen, philosophic eye, stand as the best proofs of the diffusion of this strange fire-dogma: mythed as equally, also, in that da

ct; but we cannot help our beliefs, because they are intuitions, and not statements. hume, towards the close of his strictly hard and logical treatise on miracles, brings forward an argument, which to all appearance is very rigid and conclusive, out of this his realistic philosophy if that were true: suppose that all the historians who treat of england should agree that on the ist of january 1600 queen elizabeth died, that both before and after her death she was seen by her physicians and the whole court, as is usual with persons of her rank, that her successor was acknowledged and proclaimed by the parliament, and that, after being interred a month, she again appeared, resumed the throne, and governed england for three years. i must confess that i should be surprised at the concurrence of

with hidden meanings, the garder (or special cestus, shall we call it) of the beautiful and celebrated countess of salisbury, with whom, it is supposed, king edward was in love. the following is from elias ashmole: the order of the garter by its motto seems to challenge inquiry and defy reproach. everybody must know the story that refers the origin of the name to a piece of gallantry: either the queen or the countess of salisbury having been supposed to have dropped one of those very useful pieces of female attire at a dance; upon which old camden says, with a great deal of propriety, and a most just compliment to the ladies, h c vulgus perhibit, nec vilis sane h c videatur origo, cum nobilitas sub amore jacet. the ensign of the order, in jewelry or enamel, was worn originally on the left

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

ity is great strain on them, they tire easily& must rest often when on "terra" except underseas. nine days later, at gibraltar, deveau swung the ghost ship into port with the idea of collecting salvage money for the 1,700 barrels of alcohol under her hatches. but the destiny of the marie celeste was more complicated than that. the marshal of the vics admiralty court put the brig under arrest. the queen's proctor, frederick s. flood, asserted that a crew just didn't leave a ship with $80,000 worth of alcohol, to risk their necks on a directionless joy ride. what, then, had deveau done with the missing crew? the dei gratia had also pulled into port. flood turned suspicious glances toward its hands. clearly he was determined to find evidence of crime. he entered the marie celeste's cabin, and

KETAB E SIYAH

shall be guilty of the third. as i stand here i plot rebellion against my father and my liege who has wronged me here so greatly. now do i petition my brothers thus, this great host that has gathered here, all the elohim armies of heaven and earth that once triumphed over great leviathan and wreaked terrible destruction, beneath my captaincy, upon the giant children of gog and magog, the king and queen from whom we seized dominion of the earth: my brothers! my dear brothers! you have gathered here in the sway of michael who has won you with promise of my wealth, divided amongst you like the unclean spoils of war, and though you know it not you stand at a junction in your history and must decide upon the path of your future. now is the time, the chance, to choose your destinies for the univ

shall be guilty of the third. as i stand here i plot rebellion against my father and my liege who has wronged me here so greatly. now do i petition my brothers thus, this great host that has gathered here, all the elohim armies of heaven and earth that once triumphed over great leviathan and wreaked terrible destruction, beneath my captaincy, upon the giant children of gog and magog, the king and queen from whom we seized dominion of the earth: my brothers! my dear brothers! you have gathered here in the sway of michael who has won you with promise of my wealth, divided amongst you like the unclean spoils of war, and though you know it not you stand at a junction in your history and must decide upon the path of your future. 103 now is the time, the chance, to choose your destinies for the

st and wildest of the archons; then second-born mot, king of darkness, dark of soul, bent and dwarfish thing; third-born yahweh, heed the name, bright king, noble, haughty, proud, then his eyes burned with wisdom and his arm and heart were strong; then brother, sister, mates, gog and magog, giants of most awesome aspect, 145 beast-like brute-kings, ogres both; last and least was ereshkigal, lusty queen, mot's consort for she was taken in that cold embrace and made cold herself. thus were born the archons of old who came together and by potent magic resolved from chaos and ordered universe, speaking themselves the word of creation to accomplish this end. in the new-made universe they contended, brothers and sisters, for command of their creation. to avail himself in this conflict yahweh spo

uted the sun that rose upon the morn of an day unknown and great: upon the age of the nephilim! all sense then left my wearied limbs, my sight was dimmed, my hearing quiet, all perfume of new rain, and the breeze's touch faded from my knowledge and i slept, exhausted by the rigour of the toil of the night. ishtar, then, turned to baalzebub, speaking instructions to the sable angel. thus spoke the queen of love to baalzebub, these words with an urgent voice: 151 "baalzebub, vice-regent of the shedim, swifter of we two that you are must go on from this place and i must follow, bearing from the garden's grounds the commander of our hearts, satan, stricken as he is by the self-inflicted wound by which the nephilim race was born. now that the sun is rising in the eastern sky and the shielding d

d you seek to destroy me so at this moment or have you always plotted so? were your visions of the spirit in the garden but some deceit to beguile me from the path of due fealty to the king of heaven? have you ever sought man's ruin, jealous of his favour in high heaven's eyes? or do you contend with heaven's love for me, uncontented that i love you as my consort would you have me kneel to you as queen? there is surely but one monarch to whom i shall kneel and that is the king that rule both heaven and earth. his warnings do avail me well against you. yet i do love you yet, despite such perfidy as you now plot against me. what power has man against such love as this for even heaven's hand might not break such bonds as these 186 or quench the fire that consumes my limbs with its fierce inte

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE FIVE

eh of yhvh. elohim is a name given to these two hypostases united. as elohim they are considered the parents of the son, zauir anpin, also called microprosopus, or the lesser countenance. abba is referred to yod and chokmah. aima is referred to heh and binah. zauir anpin is referred to the 6 sephiroth chesed, geburah, tiphareth, netzach, hod, yesod and of these especially to tiphareth. malkah the queen and kalah the bride are titles of malkuth when considered as the spouse of zauir anpin, the microprosopus. the letters of the name yhvh contain these meanings: yod is referred to abba. heh to aima. vau to zauir anpin. heh (1) to malkah. these letters are also referred to the four worlds and the four suits of the tarot thus: yod atziluth wands heh briah cups vau yetzirah swords heh (f) assiah

e, the completion of all things. the tarot is referred to the tree of life in the following manner. the four aces are placed on the throne of kether. the remaining small cards of each suit are placed on the respective sephiroth, two on chokmah, three on binah, etc. the twenty two trumps are then arranged on the paths between them according to the letters to which they are attributed. the king and queen of the suit are placed besides chokmah and binah, the knight and knave by tiphareth and malkuth. the tarot trumps thus receive the equilibrium of the sephiroth they connect. admission badges used in the grade of philosophus first is the calvary cross of twelve squares. it admits to the path of qoph, the 29th path, and refers to the zodiac and to the eternal river of eden, divided into four h

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE TWO

. sol philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of gold- the refined essence of heat and fire luna philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of silver--the refined essence of heat and moisture the green lion the stem and root of the radical essence of metals the black dragon death putrefaction decay the king red- the qabalistic microprosopus tiphareth analogous to gold and the sun the queen white- the qabalistic bride of microprosopus malkah analogous to silver and the moon the four orders of the elements are: 1. the spirits of the earth: gnomes 2. the spirits of the air: sylphs 3. the spirits of the water: undines 4. the spirits of the fire: salamanders these are the essential spiritual beings called upon to praise god in the 'benedicite omnia opera. the kerubim are the living

r duw \ysycrtb aklm, and is spirit is called schad barschemoth ha-shartathan (wttrch tumcrb dc) the traditional tarot consists of a pack of 78 cards made up of four suits of 14 cards each, together with 22 trumps, or major arcana, which tell the story of the soul. each suit consists of ten numbered cards, as in the modern playing cards, but there are four instead of three honours: king or knight, queen, prince or emperor, princess or knave. the four suits are: wands, or sceptres, comparable to diamonds. cups or chalices, comparable to hearts. swords, comparable to spades pentacles or coins, comparable to clubs *i take some slight issue with these attributions; i think rather that diamonds should be attributed to pentacles and wands to clubs. the very names 'wands' and 'clubs' are indicativ

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

as a reward. if giving is desired, then the award is there. take sexual intercourse or eating as the crudest examples. these processes require a great deal of effort. but since nature thought of an immediate reward, life and procreation became possible. we do not think of the effort, since the reward, the pleasure itself is so great. or take a mother who enjoys feeding her child. even if she is a queen, she will not turn down the pleasure of the act. she doesn t feel it as an effort. and if a person changes vessels from being aimed at reception to being aimed at bestowal, one naturally feels pleasure from giving, and experiences peace and tranquility from such an act. s o u r c e o f s p i r i t ua l d e s i r e q: when i began studying only a year ago, i seemed to be very close to the spi

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eavens, but osiris is also in the very heart of men. when osiris in the heart knows osiris in the heavens, then man becomes god, and osiris, once rent into fragments, again becomes one. but see! osiris the divine spirit, isis, the eternal mother, give life to horus, who is man, man born of both, yet one with osiris. horus is merged in osiris, and isis, who had been matter, becomes through him the queen of life and wisdom. and osiris, isis, and horus are all born of the light. 58. two are the births of horus. he is born of isis, the god born into humanity, taking flesh of the mother eternal, matter, the ever-virgin. he is born again into osiris, redeeming his mother from her long search for the fragments of her husband scattered over the earth. he is born into osiris when osiris in the hear

s: even those who worship other gods with devotion, full of faith- they also worship me(*op. cit, ix, 23) 73. wherever devotion is offered through a particular form, we may be sure that there is an intelligence behind that form who acts as a mediator or channel between the suppliant and the deity behind. hathor, for instance, was the goddess of love and beauty, while as we have seen, isis was the queen of truth and the mother of all things; yet both were representatives of the feminine aspect of the deity, as also was nephthys. ptah was the master architect of the universe, the holy spirit who is the creative fire of god; he was the celestial worker in metals, and the chief smelter, caster and sculptor of the gods, the skilful craftsman by whom the design for every part of the framework of

h the other nations of the world. during his absence the land of egypt was so well ruled by his wife, isis, that his jealous brother typhon (set, the personification of evil, as osiris was the personification of good, could do no harm to his kingdom; but on the return of osiris to egypt typhon made a conspiracy against him, persuading seventy-two other persons to join him, together with a certain queen of ethiopia named aso, who chanced to be in egypt at that time. he secretly measured the body of osiris, and caused a beautiful chest to be made of exactly the same size. this he brought into his banqueting hall when osiris was present as a guest, and promised, as it were in pleasantry, to give it to anyone whose body it might be found to fit. 147. all those present at the feast tried it, bu

nothing of it was to be seen; and furthermore that the king of the country, amazed at its unusual size, had cut the tree down and made of it a pillar to support the roof of his palace. isis went to byblos and became nurse to one of the king s sons. each night she put the child in the fire to consume his mortal parts, changing herself into a swallow, and bemoaning the loss of her husband. but the queen happened to see her child in flames and cried out in fear, thereby depriving him of the immortality which would otherwise have been conferred upon him. the goddess revealed herself and begged for the pillar which supported the roof. this was granted to her, and she took the chest containing the body of osiris back to egypt, hiding it in a secret place while she sought her son, horus. but typ

ing for him(*ezekiel, viii, 14) 283. solomon himself was by no means definitely monotheistic, and his people betrayed a distinct tendency to run after strange gods. there seems much evidence to prove that the love-song attributed to him in the bible is really a ritual hymn to astarte, for whom he built a temple quite near to that of jehovah. there is considerable uncertainty as to whether balkis, queen of sheba, was a real person, or only a personification of astarte. bro. ward explains that the festivals of the two patron saints of freemasonry, s. john the baptist in summer and s. john the evangelist in winter, are only a perpetuation of the feasts of the old fertility cult at the summer and winter solstices; that similar cultural rites are found in other lands, teutonic, celtic and greek

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

ible. during the reign of the catholic mary tudor, he was accused of being a heretic and a conjurer. however, he was able to clear his charge and he was not burned, though he spent some time in prison. during a journey abroad, he learned that a mob had broken into his house at mortlake and sacked his library, believing that he was a worker of black magic. eventually he was favored by the court of queen elizabeth i, who was much more superstitious and interested in astrology than her sister.dee became her occult adviser, although she never granted him the generous pension he was seeking. during his numerous trips abroad, he also acted as a secret agent for her, under the code name 007. john dee is, however, best known for his enochian magic, a system of magic teaching communication with ang

underworld is found in many different religious traditions, in the form of myths and rituals. the underworld is usually viewed as being physically located in a given place underneath the earth; for example, under a mountain, or beyond an ocean that can be reached only by crossing a narrow and dangerous bridge. the dark kingdom of the underworld typically contains various spirits, a king and/or a queen, a devil figure, or some other mythical characters, who rule the souls of the dead. in the cultural tradition that spread from siberia and asia to the american continent and the pacific islands, the descent to the underworld was an important part of the spiritual complex referred to as shamanism. the shaman s healing power stemmed from his ability to descend to the underworld to visit the sp

ch resulted in the death of vegetation and humankind s starvation. the gods eventually agreed that persephone should be returned to her mother. in the meanwhile, however, hades had made persephone eat the fruit of the dead (seeds of pomegranate, symbol of fertility and blood, and thus bound her to the realm of the dead. the final agreement was that, for half of the year, persephone was the ruling queen of hades, and for the other half, she was with her mother demeter. although this myth was originally interpreted as explaining the vegetation cycle, various elements indicate the characteristics of a process of female initiation: her descent to the underworld that ended with her marriage to hades (she became queen of hades) could symbolize her death as virgin and the achievement of a new sta

of the dead resided beneath the earth. the chief deity of the mesopotamian underworld was the goddess ereshkigal. although she could be harsh, ereshkigal was not as irredeemably evil as the christian satan. the dead stood before her and she pronounced their death sentence. simultaneously, their names were entered in the ranks of the dead by the scribe geshtinana. rather than enjoying her job, the queen of the underworld was portrayed as saddened by the fate of many of her subjects: i weep for young men forced to abandon sweethearts. i weep for girls wrenched from their lovers laps. for the infant child i weep, expelled before its time (dalley 1989, 156. one of the more widespread mesopotamian stories involved the descent of the goddess ishtar to the underworld. the first version of this ta

f her friends. in order to reactivate the natural forces of life and reproduction, the gods in heaven are forced to come to inanna/ishtar s aid. the ancient mesopotamians also told several variants of another, more upbeat, story of descent to the underworld, the tale of nergal and ereshkigal. in this story nergal, as a consequence of an affront to ereshkigal s vizier, is required to appear in the queen of the underworld s court to offer an apology. ereshkigal finds herself attracted to this upper world god and attempts to seduce him by allowing nergal, the mesopotamian mars, to see her undress for a bath.he resists her charms at first, but gives in on her second try. after a full week of lovemaking, nergal steals away before dawn.when she hears that he has abandoned her, ereshkigal falls t

LIBER 777

arlet 28 natural i. the star violet 29 corporeal i. the moon crimson (ultra violet) 30 collecting i. the sun orange 31 perpetual i. the angel or last judgement [wands] kings or knights. glowing orange scarlet 32 administrative i. the universe indigo 32 bis. empresses [coins] citrine, russet, olive, and black (quartered) 31 bis. all 22 trumps white, merging grey table of correspondences 6 xvi* the queen scale of colour (h. xvii* the emperor scale of colour (v. xviii* the empress scale of colour. 0. 1 white brilliance white brilliance white flecked gold 2 grey blue pearl grey, like mother-of pearl white, flecked red, blue, and yellow 3 black dark brown grey flecked pink 4 blue deep purple deep azure flecked yellow 5 scarlet red bright scarlet red flecked black 6 yellow (gold) rich salmon gol

f pearl white, flecked red, blue, and yellow 3 black dark brown grey flecked pink 4 blue deep purple deep azure flecked yellow 5 scarlet red bright scarlet red flecked black 6 yellow (gold) rich salmon gold amber 7 emerald bright yellow green olive flecked gold 8 orange red-russet yellow-brown flecked white 9 violet very dark purple citrine flecked azure 1010 citrine, olive, russet, and black* as queen scale, but flecked with gold black rayed yellow 11 sky blue blue emerald green emerald flecked gold 12 purple grey indigo rayed violet 13 silver cold pale blue silver rayed sky-blue 14 sky blue early spring green bright rose of cerise rayed pale yellow 15 red brilliant flame glowing red 16 deep indigo deep warm olive rich brown 17 pale mauve new yellow leather reddish grey inclined to mauve

ower point 31 bis hdyjy yechidah. topmost point table of correspondences 19 lxxi. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion wands. lxxii. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion cups. 11 the prince of the chariot of fire. rules 20 d to 20 f, including most of leo minor. the prince of the chariot of the waters. 20 g to 20 h 23 the queen of the thrones of flame. 20 l to 20 a, including part of andromeda. the queen of the thrones of the waters. 20 c to 20 d 31 the lord of the flame and the lightning. the king of the spirits of fire. rules 20 h to 20 i, including part of hercules. the lord of the waves and the waters. the king of the hosts of the sea. 20 k to 20 l, including most of pegasus. 32 bis the princess of the shining

e floods. rules another quadrant 31 bis the root of the powers of fire (ace) the root of the powers of water. lxxiii. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion swords. lxxiv. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion pantacles. 11 the prince of the chariot of air. 20 j to 20 k the prince of the chariot of earth. 20 a to 20 b 23 the queen of the thrones of air. 20 f to 20 g the queen of the thrones of the earth. 20 i to 20 j 31 the lord of the winds and the breezes. the king of the spirits of air. 20 b to 20 c the lord of the wide and fertile land. the king of the spirits of earth. 20 e to 20 f 32 bis the princess of the rushing winds. the lotus of the palace of air. rules a 3rd quadrant. the princess of the echoing hills. th

dditional title \lwu-dwsy-qydx the righteous is the foundation of the world. line 10. malkuth has these titles (among others: ruc the gate (by temurah, rcu= 10).2 aurt the gate (chaldee. which has the same number (671) as ynda in full dwy wn tld [la also gates of death. shadow of death. tears. justice. prayer. gate of daughter of mighty ones. garden of eden. also inferior mother the daughter. the queen. hklm the bride. hlk the virgin. hlwtb col iv. this column may be equally well symbolized by any single entry, preferably in 0. the monistic and nihilistic conceptions are convertible. hua may be equally named tao, iao, noumenon, and the like. all language on this subject is necessarily feeble and hieroglyphic. it is to name that which by definition has no name. col. v. these god-names are t

LIBER AZAZEL

m i claim as my own. 18. to the others, she is a fearsome creature- feeding upon the worthless children of their hearts. 19. a destroyer, and the very depths of my darkness revealed to the unworthy. she is an enemy to be feared, and an ally to be sought- she is the purest of me. 20. my flame burns brightest in the darkness of her night. 21. she is my beloved. she is of my very essence. she is the queen of hell and the nurturer of my divinity in the hearts of mankind. 22. she declares my power openly and without fear of reprisal, she is my majesty and my glory. i have given my very being to her so that it may be made manifest. 23. hear me! hear the mighty words of azazel! prepare for my coming and the realization of my kingdom. prepare for the revelation of the full splendor of the name of

f my divinity in the hearts of mankind. 22. she declares my power openly and without fear of reprisal, she is my majesty and my glory. i have given my very being to her so that it may be made manifest. 23. hear me! hear the mighty words of azazel! prepare for my coming and the realization of my kingdom. prepare for the revelation of the full splendor of the name of azazel. prepare a palace for my queen, lilith. prepare for the ascendance of our energizing work, the time is coming. 24. the night of magick will be a time of wondrous deeds, and the dawn of azazel will be a never-ending celebration of our freedom and enjoyment. 1. lilith! the fathomless depths of azazel. 2. my lord, i declare your majesty through my very being. i am rapt in ecstasy at your embrace and the glory of your presenc

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

is nigh when from the prow of luxury shall step the death of all men.s hearts, she whose live breath, a dagger.s darts, a viper.s vice, an adder.s grip, a cockatrice .twixt lip and lip, she whose black eyes are suns to shower love fs litanies from hour to hour, whose limbs are scythes like death fs of whom the body writhes, a lotus-bloom swayed by the wind of love, a crime too sweetly sinned, the queen of time, the lady of heaven, to whom the stars, seven by seven, from their bars lean and do worship.even she who hath given all her sweet self to thee, the lady astarte! the girl. peace, o peace! a swan, she sails through ecstasies liber cccxxxv 4 of air and marble and flowers, she sways as the full moon through midnight.s haze of gauze.her body is like a dove and a snake, and life, and deat

LIBER CCXLII AHA

m, steady striding to the term, master of my fate, to rise to imperial destinies; with the sun fs ensanguine dart spear-bright in my blazing heart, and my being fs basil-plant bright and hard as adamant! marsyas. yonder, faintly luminous, the yellow desert waits for us. lithe and eager, hand in hand, we travel to the lonely land. there, beneath the stars, the smoke of our incense shall invoke the queen of space; and subtly she shall bend from her infinity like a lambent flame of blue, touching us, and piercing through all the sense-webs that we are as the aethyr penetrates a star! her hands caressing the black earth, her sweet lithe body arched for love, her feet a zephyr to the flowers, she calls my name.she gives the sign that she is mine, supremely mine, and clinging to the infinite gir

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x strong, which also successively are the numbers of time: and their powers are as the first 456. arise! you sons of pleasure! and visit the earth: for i am the lord your god; which is and liveth (for ever! in the name of the creator, move! and shew yourselves as pleasant deliverers, that you may praise him among the sons of men [invokes: hcoma; the whole tablet of water. the angle of c of c. the queen of the thrones of water] the forty-eight keys or calls 26 the opening of the temple in the grade of 1 =108 give the sign of the god set fighting. purify with fire and water, and announce .the temple is cleansed [knock] let us adore the lord and king of earth! adonai ha aretz, adonai melekh, unto thee be the kingdom, the sceptre, and the splendour: malkuth, geburah, gedulah, the rose of sharo

am of earth and pronouce this name ]lm ynda] and elohim said: let us make man in our own image; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air; and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. and the elohim created ath-ha-adam: in the image of the elohim created they them; male and female created they them. in the name of ]lm ynda and of the bride and queen of the kingdom; spirits of earth, adore your creator [make the sign of taurus] in the name of layrwa, great archangel of earth, spirits of earth, adore your creator [make the cross] in the names and letters of the great northern quadrangle, spirits of earth, adore your creator [sprinkle water before earth tablet] in the three great secret names of god, mor, dial, hctga, that are borne upon t

uch as work wonders on all creatures. whose kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of mercy and continuance. o ye servants of mercy, move! appear! sing praises unto the creator; and be mighty among us. for that to this remembrance is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter! the angle of c of d in the tablet of d the queen of the thrones of air. the eighth key bazodemelo i ta pi-ripesonu olanu na-zodavabebe ox. casaremeji varanu cahisa vaugeji asa berameji balatoha: goho iad. soba miame tarianu ta lolacis abaivoninu od azodiajiere riore. irejila cahisa da das pa-aox busada caosago, das cahisa od ipuranu telocahe cacureji o-isalamahe lonucaho od vovina carebafe? niiso! bagile avagao gohon. niiso! bagile momao s

e! that sit upon 24 seats, vexing all creatures of the earth with age, that have 1636 under ye. behold! the voice of god; the promise of him who is called amongst ye fury or extreme justice. move and shew yourselves! unveil the mysteries of your creation; be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god: the true worshipper of the highest. the angle of c of e in the tablet of e. the queen of the thrones of earth. the fifteenth key ilasa! tabaanu li-el pereta, casaremanu upaahi cahisa dareji; das oado caosaji oresacore: das omaxa monasa i baeouibe od emetajisa iaiadix. zodacare od zodameranu! odo cicale qaa. zodoreje, lape zodiredo noco mada, hoathahe i a i d a. o thou, the governer of the first flame, under whose wings are 6739; that weave the earth with dryness: that knowest

ada, hoathahe i a i d a. o thou third flame! whose wings are thorns to stir up vexation, and who hast 7336 living lamps going before thee: whose god is .wrath in anger: gird up thy loins and hearken! move and appear! unveil the mysteries of your creation; be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god, the true worshipper of the highest. the angle of c of b in the tablet of b. the queen of the thrones of flame. the eighteenth key ilasa micalazoda olapireta ialpereji belioresa: das odo busadire oiad ouoaresa caosago: casaremeji laiada eranu berinutasa cafafame das ivemeda aqoso adoho moz, od maof-fasa. bolape como belioeta pamebata. zodacare od zodameranu! odo cicale qaa. zodoreje, lape zodiredo noco mada, hoathahe i a i d a. o thou mighty light and burning flame of comfort!

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r unto the philosophus, 24 liber lxv nor unto the lesser adept, nor unto the greater adept. 18. but unto the exempt adept thou shalt disclose thyself if thou have need of him for the lesser operations of thine art. 19. accept the worship of the foolish people, whom thou hatest. the fire is not defiled by the altars of the ghebers, nor is the moon contaminated by the incense of them that adore the queen of night. 20. thou shalt dwell among the people as a precious diamond among cloudy diamonds, and crystals, and pieces of glass. only the eye of the just merchant shall behold thee, and plunging in his hand shall single thee out and glorify thee before all men. 21. but thou shalt heed none of this. thou shalt be ever the heart, and i the serpent will coil close about thee. my coils shall neve

ng through eternity, and in thy sight the landmarks are of fair white marble untouched by the tool of the graver. therefore thou art mine, even now and for ever and for everlasting. amen. 28 liber lxv 58. moreover, i heard the voice of adonai: seal up the book of the heart and the serpent; in the number five and sixty seal thou the holy book. as fine gold that is beaten into a diadem for the fair queen of pharaoh, as great stones that are cemented together into the pyramid of the ceremony of the death of asar, so do thou bind together the words and the deeds, so that in all is one thought of me thy delight adonai. 59. and i answered and said: it is done even according to thy word. and it was done. and they that read the book and debated thereon passed into the desolate land of barren words

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

ty, whose phallus is like the pillar in karnak! even by myself and my male power do i conjure ye. amen. 12.20. i was getting sleepy when the oysters came. i now eat them in a yog. and ceremonial manner. 12.45. i have eaten my oysters, chewing them every one; also some bread and butter in the same manner, giving praise to priapus the lord of the oyster, to demeter the lady of corn, and to isis the queen of the cow. further, i pray symbolically in this meal for virtue, and strength, and liber dccclx 22 gladness; as is appropriate to these symbols. but i find it very difficult to keep the mantra going, even in tune with the jaws; perhaps it is that this peculiar method of eating (25 minutes for what could be done normally in 3) demands the whole attention. 1.30. drifted into a nap. well! we s

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es at my throat (etc, to .balance, assain, assoil) in north. see horus. soul mastering terror is thy name! lord of the gods! dread lord of hell! i am come. i fear thee not. thy flame is mine to weave my maiden spell! i know thee, and i pass thee by. for more than thou am i! bar in southeast asar (rubric as before) in south. see isis. sorrow that eateth up the soul! dam of the gods! the blue sky.s queen. this is thy name. i come, control, and pass! i know thee, lady of teen i know thee, and i pass thee by. for more than thou am i! bar in northeast asar (rubric as before) in east. see thoth. silence. vel pyramidos 9 bar in southwest. asar (rubric as before) in west. see nature (c. contemplates self, in silence) i will not look uon thee more, for fatal is thy name. begone! false phantom, thou

LIBER LVII

has been the persistent endeavour of so-called christians to make her. aima is the woman described in the apocalypse (ch xii).17 this third sephirah is also sometimes called the great sea. to her are attributed the divine names \yhla, elohim, and \yhla hwhy; and the angelic order \ylara, aralim, the thrones. she is the supernal mother, as distinguished from malkuth, the inferior mother, bride and queen. the number 4. this union of the second and third sephiroth produced dsj, chesed, mercy or love, also called hlwdg, gedulah, greatness or magnificence; a masculine potency represented by the divine name la, el, the mighty one, 15 [because of the insertion of the yod, representing the generative powers. t.s] 16 [this is misleading; the elohim are androgynous as has been repeatedly explained

umber 9. these two produced dwsy, yesod, the foundation or basis, represented by yj la, the mighty living one, and ydc, shaddai: and among the angels by \yca, aishim, the flames (psalms civ, 4, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing the decad of the numbers. it is called twklm, malkuth, the kingdom, and also the queen, matrona, the inferior mother, the bride of microprosopus; and hnykc, shekinah,19 represented by the divine name ynda, adonai,20 and among the angelic hosts by the kerubim \ybwrk. now, each of these sephiroth will be in a certain degree androgynous, for it will be feminine or receptive with regard to the sephira which immediately precedes it in the sephirothic scale, and masculine or transmi

hira as the beam which joins them. thus, then, the term balance may be said to symbolize the triune, trinity in unity, and the unity represented by the central point of the beam. but, again, in the sephiroth there is a triple trinity, the upper, lower and middle. now, these three are represented thus: the supernal, or highest, but the crown, kether; the middle by the king, and the inferior by the queen; which will be the greatest trinity. and the earthly correlatives of these will be the primum mobile, the sun and the moon. here we at once find alchemical symbolism. the sephiroth are further divided into three pillars. the right-hand pillar of mercy, consisting of the second, fourth, and seventh emanations; the left-hand pillar of judgement, consisting of the third, fifth, and eighth; and

hiroth are on the right, three feminine on the left, whilst the four uniting sephiroth occupy the centre. this is the qabalistical .tree of life. on which all things depend. there is considerable analogy between this and the tree yggdrasil of the scandinavians. i have already remarked that there is one trinity which comprises all the sephiroth, and that it consists of the crown, the king, and the queen (in some senses this is the christian trinity of father, son and holy spirit, which in their highest divine nature are symbolized by the first three sephiroth, kether, 21 [sometimes \yyjh o, otz ha-chayim, thus making possible the fudging of a different set of gematria identities. t.s] on the qabalah 15 chokmah, and binah) it is the trinity which created the world, or, in qabalistic language

son and holy spirit, which in their highest divine nature are symbolized by the first three sephiroth, kether, 21 [sometimes \yyjh o, otz ha-chayim, thus making possible the fudging of a different set of gematria identities. t.s] on the qabalah 15 chokmah, and binah) it is the trinity which created the world, or, in qabalistic language, the universe was born from the union of the crowned king and queen. but according to the qabalah, before the complete form of the heavenly man (the ten sephiroth) was produced, there were certain primordial worlds created, but these could not subsist, as the equilibrium of balance was not yet perfect, and they were convulsed by the unbalanced force, and destroyed.22 these primordial worlds are called the .kings of ancient time. and the .kings of edom who re

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

as represented by his encylop dia article; not in such works as .limits of religious thought..a.c. an astronomer whose brain gave way. he prophesied the end of the world in 1881, from measurements made in the great pyramid. iv the sword of song sang in words of surpassing beauty: for of course the thought in one or two passages of this poem is practically identical with that in certain parts of .queen mab. and .prometheus unbound. but the very beauty of these poems (especially the latter) is its weakness: it is possible that the mind of the reader, lost in the sensuous, nay! even in the moral beauty of the words, may fail to be impressed by their most important meaning. shelley himself recognised this later: hence the direct and simple vigour of the .masque of anarchy. it has often puzzle

aniac indeed, as we must now consider shakespeare to have been on these points, he was yet artful enough to have concealed his* the lamented decease of the above gentleman forbids all hope (save through the courtesy of sir oliver lodge) of the appearance of the companion article..a.c. advanced views.an imperative necessity, if we consider the political situation, and the virginal mask under which queen bess hid the grotesque and hideous features of a messaline. clearly so, since but for this concealment even our shakespearian scholars would have discovered so patent a fact. in some plays, too, of course, the poet deals with less dangerous topics. these are truly conventional, no doubt; we may pass them by; they are foreign to our purpose; but we will take that stupendous example of literar

follow us disquietly to our grave (sc. ii. ll. 125-127. edmund, once rid of him, gives us the* he leaves her in charge of marshal le fer, whom alone he could trust to be impervious to her wiles, he being devoted to another; for as an invaluable contemporary ms. has it .seccotine colle m me le fer. this may be, but i think should not be, used as an argument to prove the poet an illegitimate son of queen elizabeth. plainest sense we are likely to here for the rest of our lives; then, with the prettiest humour in the world takes the cue of his father.s absurdity, and actually plays it on his enemy. edgar.s leg is not so easily pulled(.how long have you been a sectary astronomical. ll. 169, 170).and the bastard hero, taking alarm, gets right down to business. in scene iii. we find lear.s senil

hi villain. ii. as far as reason goes, there.s hope for mortals yet: when nothing is that knows, what is there to regret? our consciousness depends on matter in the brain; when that rots out, and ends, there ends the hour of pain. iii. if we can trust to this, why, dance and drink and revel! great scarlet mouths to kiss, and sorrow to the devil! if pangs ataxic creep, or gout, or stone, annoy us, queen morphia, grant thy sleep! let worms, the dears, enjoy us! iv. but since a chance remains that .i. surives the body (so talk the men whose brains are made of smut and shoddy, i.ll stop it if i can (ah jesus, if thou couldest) i.ll go to martaban to make myself a buddhist. v. and yet: the bigger chance lies with annihilation. follow the lead of france, freedom.s enlightened nation! off! sacred

keep one steady. so i think i may look forward to a tenure of my mahakalpa in almost arcadian simplicity. lady bhavani, did you say, boy? yes, i am at home. bring the betel .jeldi. he added, with some dim recollection of the 1 a whirling disc is indra.s symoblic weapon. 2 he abandoned this. a few fragments are reprinted in his oracles. 74 appendix i british government, when he was a baby nat .the queen of heaven and the lord of the gods chewed betel for quite a long time, conversed of the weather, the crops, the affaire humbert, and the law in relation to motor-cars, with ease and affability. but far was it from indra.s pious mind to flirt with his distinguished guest! rather, he thought of the hollow nature of the safe, the change of money and of position; the sorrow of the too confiding

LIBER LXXVIII

h of material forces: a force which develops and realizes that of the king: a force steady and unshaken, but not rapid, though enduring. it is therefore symbolized by a figure seated upon a throne: but also clothed in armour. the four princes these princes are figures seated in chariots, and thus borne forward. they represent the vau forces of the name in each suit: the mighty son of the king and queen, who realizes the influence of both scales of force. a prince, the son of a king and queen, yet a prince of princes, and a king of kings: an emperor whose effect is at once rapid (though not so swift as that of the queen) and enduring. it is, therefore, symbolized by a figure borne in a chariot, and clothed in armour. yet is his power vain and illusionary, unless set in motion by his father

in motion by his father and mother. the four princesses are the knaves of the tarot pack; the four princesses or figures of amazons, standing firmly of themselves: neither riding upon horses, nor seated upon thrones, nor borne in chariots. they represent the forces of the he final of the name in each suit, completing the influences of the other scales: the mighty and potent daughter of a king and queen: a princess powerful and terrible: a queen of queens.an empress.whose effect combines those of the king, queen, and prince, at once violent and permanent; therefore symbolized by a figure standing firmly by itself, only partially draped, and having but little armour; yet her power existeth not, save by reason of the others: and then indeed it is mighty and terrible materially, and is the thr

o the yod of tetragrammaton, the charioted figures to the vau. a description of the cards of the taro 13 if ill dignified, he is evil-minded.cruel.bigoted.brutal. he rules the celestial heavens from above the twentieth degree of h to the first two decans of i: and this includes a part of the constellation hercules (hercules is always represented with a club) b of b king of the salamanders. vi the queen of the thrones of flame queen of wands a crowned queen with long red-golden hair, seated upon a throne, with steady flames beneath. she wears a corslet and buskins of scale-mail, which latter her robe discloses. her arms are almost bare. on cuirass and buskins are leopard's heads winged, and the same symbol surmounteth her crown. at her side is a couchant leopard on which her hands rest. she

daptability, steady force applied to an object, steady rule, great attractive power, power of command, yet liked notwithstanding. kind and generous when not opposed. if ill dignified, obstinate, revengeful, domineering, tyran-nical, and apt to turn against another without a cause. she rules the heavens from above the last decan of l to above the 20 of a: including thus a part of andromeda. c of d queen of the salamanders. 14 liber lxxviii vii the prince of the chariot of fire king of wands a kingly figure with a golden, winged crown, seated on a chariot. he has large white wings. one wheel of his chariot is shewn. he wears corslet and buskins of scale armour decorated with a winged lion's head, which symbol also surmounts his crown. his chariot is drawn by a lion. his arms are bare, save f

the cards of the taro 15 hand rests on a small golden or brazen altar ornamented with ram fs heads and with flames of fire leaping from it. her left hand leans on a long and heavy club, swelling at the lower end, where the sigil is placed; and it has flames of fire leaping from it the whole way down; but the flames are ascending. this club or torch is much longer than that carried by the king or queen. beneath her firmly placed feet are leaping flames of fire. brilliance, courage, beauty, force, sudden in anger or love, desire of power, enthusiasm, revenge. if ill dignified, she is superficial, theatrical, cruel, unstable, domineering. she rules the heavens over one quadrant of the portion around the north pole. e of b princess and empress of the salamanders. throne of the ace of wands. i

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his angel has made gvoice, h the magical weapon which produces gwords, h and these words have been the wisdom by which he hath created all things.24 the gvoice h is necessary as the link between the adept and his angel. the angel is gking, h the one who gcan, h the gsource of authority and the fount of honour h; also the king (or king fs son) who delivers the enchanted princess and makes her his queen. he is gruler, h the gunconscious will h; to be thwarted no more by the ignorant and capricious false will of the conscious man. and he is ghelper, h the author of the infallible impulse that sends the soul sweeping along the skies on its proper path with such impetus that the attraction of alien orbs is no longer sufficient to swerve it. the ghear me h clause is now uttered by the normal hu

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

to go on any more, because you know already that all the house is one palace, and you move about in your own wake world, just as is necessary. all the paths up to the second house open.the path of the hierophant with the flaming star and the incense in the vast cathedral, and the path of the mighty ruler, who governs everything with his orb and his crown and his sceptre. there is the path of the queen of love which is more beautiful than anything, and along it my own dear lover passes to my bridal chamber. then there are the three ways to the holy house of the old king, the way by which he is joined with the new fairy prince, where dwells a moonlike virgin with an open book, and always, always reads beautiful words therein, smiling mysteriously through her shining veil, woven of sweet tho

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

ed. the story is told with less detail in historia norvegiae. the other two accounts come from the sagas of icelanders. both set the disablot at a banquet or feast in the midtenth century in norway. egils saga, which is from the early part of the thirteenth century.perhaps, according to some, from the pen of snorri sturluson.says that a feast was prepared at a farm owned by king eirik bloodax and queen gunnhild and that on an evening when the king and queen had just arrived, gthere was to be a disablot there. h the actual account of the proceedings has to do pretty much exclusively with drinking huge mugs of beer, but it includes a skaldic stanza by egil alluding to the disablot. viga-glums saga, which was composed a bit later than egils saga and perhaps with that saga in mind, says that v

rri says explicitly that yngvi was a second name for frey (chapter 10, and twice he uses the compound yngvifrey. snorri also says that the name yngvi was long used in frey fs lineage as a term of respect. later, in chapter 17, he puts it this way: dyggvi was the first of his family to be called king; before that they were called drottinn [chieftain, their wives drottning [chieftain fs wife; later queen, and the court drott [warrior band. but each of their lineage was called yngvi or ynguni his whole life through, and all the ynglingar together. the last sentence must use gthe ynglingar h in the sense of a dynasty rather than a people, and it accords with the poetic usage mentioned above. the form ynguni (in some manuscripts yngunni or yngvin) is not found elsewhere, but it looks very like

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

as bat, owl, wolf or human form allows the shadow or soul (called ba in egyptian systems) to nourish from the sleepers and achieve a hidden knowledge transmitted only by the path of the unseen. it is from this that we awake, and to be understood clearly, advance us in the image of the prince of darkness whom is ultimately revealed as the lord of light. upon the great meeting of lilith, the witch queen of the sabbat, shall the woman emerge as the model for the goddess to manifest in the earth. therefore shall the woman dress, think and align herself with this positive and balanced image of death and life, that through the witchcraft shall she set herself up as queen and mistress of the beast 666, whom is the solar force of creation and joy. the woman is highly respected in the witches sabb

ress of the beast 666, whom is the solar force of creation and joy. the woman is highly respected in the witches sabbat path, as she is the beauty, life and joy of the feminine which is beheld in us all. it is through her womb that the night transfers knowledge and one must seek to continually manifest this through the individual, being male or female. the sabbat is the manifestation of the witch queen in all of her aspects, thus she is deadly and protective at the same time. the sabbat is paralleled in morocco by the ancient meeting of spirits called the zabbat, translating the forceful or powerful one, and those who attended this occasion are called kafan, meaning the winding sheet, from which is worn by the participants and may only be white. the choice of white is representative of the

e spirit from the flesh, thus the witches sabbat is the supreme luciferian awakening, and it is when we become just as lucifer, who is the spirit of the air whom resides upon the astral plane. below lucifer is the puzzle of the black one, being baphomet. baphomet, being the god form of sorcerers and magickians of chaos and witches sabbat currents, is the model of union. consider lilith, the witch queen of the sabbat and of lillitu, the succubus and vampire phantoms and samael, the fire djinn which is considered the same as asmodeus, their infernal union is the manifestation and birth of baphomet. thus the horned one brings the wisdom of the earth (asmodeus-samael) and the spirit (lilith, thus baphomet is the initiator of becoming and self-deification. the magician must be implored to work

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

ecoming. lilith-az-babalon- hecate the daemonic feminine is the fountain of the witch cult, in it's dreaming and waking aspect. while wicca has taken a more sterile approach to the goddess, a luciferian sorcerer acknowledges the beauty of the daemonic goddess as a well of power and selfdeification. through babalon we drink the blood of saints and emerge as god itself. lilith is the succubus witch queen of the sabbat, whom is the very mother of us all. any within the veil of darkness are from her, we fornicate with her continually in the fruitful imagination of creation. the above four names are but a glimpse at her face, for she wears many masks in accordance with her role. all individuals must invoke babalon lilith within, regardless of gender. she is reached in the city of chorazin, from

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

persephone, the daughter of ceres, by pluto, the lord of the underworld, or hades. while persephone is picking flowers in a beautiful meadow, the earth suddenly opens and the gloomy lord of death, riding in a magnificent chariot, emerges from its somber depths and, grasping her in his arms, carries the screaming and struggling goddess to his subterranean palace, where he forces her to become his queen. it is doubtful whether many of the initiates themselves understood the mystic meaning of this allegory, for most of them apparently believed that it referred solely to the succession of the seasons. it is difficult to obtain satisfactory information concerning the mysteries, for the candidates were bound by inviolable oaths never to reveal their inner secrets to the profane. at the beginnin

th periods during one of which persephone must remain with pluto, while during the other she may revisit the upper world, offers material for deep consideration. it is probable that the eleusinians realized that the soul left the body during steep, or at least was made capable of leaving by the special training which undoubtedly they were in a position to give. thus persephone would remain as the queen of pluto's realm during the waking hours, but would ascend to the spiritual worlds during the periods of sleep. the initiate was taught how to intercede with pluto to permit persephone (the initiate's soul) to ascend from the darkness of his material nature into the light of understanding. when thus freed from the shackles of clay and crystallized concepts, the initiate was liberated not onl

their food is mud. over the bolts on the door of the house of irkalla is scattered dust, and the keepers of the house are covered with feathers like birds. ishtar demands that the keepers open the gates, declaring that if they do not she will shatter the doorposts and strike the hinges and raise up dead devourers of the living. the guardians of the gates beg her to be patient while they go to the queen of hades from whom they secure permission to admit ishtar, but only in the same manner as all others came to this dreary house. ishtar thereupon descends through the seven gates which lead downward into the depths of the underworld. at the first gate the great crown is removed from her head, at the second gate the earrings from her ears, at the third gate the necklace from her neck, at the f

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

tation and actually squares the circle. this last is accomplished by dropping a vertical line from the apex of the pyramid to its base line. if this vertical line be considered as the radius of an imaginary circle, the length of the circumference of such a circle will be found to equal the sum of the base lines of the four sides of the pyramid. if the passage leading to the king's chamber and the queen's chamber was sealed up thousands of years before the christian era, those later admitted into the pyramid mysteries must have received their initiations in subterranean galleries now unknown. without such galleries there could have been no possible means of ingress or egress, since the single surface entrance was completely dosed with casing stones. if not blocked by the mass of the sphinx

MARS COCIDIUS AND THE REDCAPS IN LANCASHIRE

had no love for scrope. lancashire and westmorland were colonised by norse settlers during the 9th century, they established the kingdom of mann and the isles and the west derby hundred where my father s family have lived for more than 20 generations. in 901 the gallgael earl ingimund landed on the wirral with eighteen longships and took posession of the land having been granted it by ethelflaeda queen of the mercians. the gallgael were the half norse and half irish occupants of dublin who had been driven out by harold finehair, king of the newly unified norway. the gallgael went on to establish the kingdom of mann and the isles and the hundred of west derby. my own family name is norse in origin as indeed are many of the south lancashire family names and almost all the place names. lancas

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

now called, by teutonic angles, saxons, jutes, danes, and lastly normans, prytanic lore had been completely overlaid by a conglomeration of celtic, roman, saxon, and finally christian beliefs, gnostic and otherwise. the prytani themselves, now referred to by either their saxon epithet, elvenfolk, or simply as people of the heath or heathens, were rapidly dwindling into legend. the elven king and queen in their enchanted hill which opened up on the ancient holy festivals of halloween and beltane were fast passing out of public memory, recalled only by the wise, or as they were known in the old english tongue, the wicce and wicca, wizards and witches. the legend of the elvenfolk's ancestry still survived, however, in heavily christianized form. they were the remaining offspring of the falle

sweet smelling. these may be any that please you; freesias, narcissus or lilac, jasmine or carnations, anything you like, depending on your location and the time of year. the choice is yours. to a lot of witches, the rose seems a very good choice, as this blossom has always been considered most germane to matters of love, and a symbolic attribute of the lady. cabalistic legend has it that balkis, queen of sheba, was a witch, and that the wisdom she came to question solomon, king of israel, about was magical in content. i am the rose of sharon, and the lily of the valleys, as the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. the rose has been preserved as the lady's emblem in the annals of courtly love and among the symbols of alchemy. the lily, however, passed directly into christi

spell, passing it from hand to hand, to and fro, as you do: salt and coriander, i conjure thee by barabbas, by satanas, by the devil cursed be! not as salt and coriand i call thee but the heart of [victim's name! with that, cast the mixture into the thurible fire with your left hand. as it blazes up, continue: as thou burnst, so let the heart of [n] burn; and bring it here to me! conjured by the queen of sard, by the underworld itself, by the sailors on the sea [n] i summon thee by barabbas, by satanas, by the devil conjured be! by the underworld itself, spirit of the sard, enter in [n] and bring him quickly here to me! powers of the abattoir, guide him here to me! powers over cocodover, bring him quickly here to me! with more messages i send to call thee, by the queen of sorcery, by the

their leaders, all equally traditional. in covens which stress the love and fertility aspects of witchcraft and perform their rituals naked, the male leader is known as the high priest, the female as high priestess. on the other hand, in those which stress the knowledge and power aspect, the male is known as the magister, grand master, or "devil (meaning "little god) and the female as the lady or queen of the sabbat. the second male, known as the "officer "executor" or "summoner" is he who relays the requests of the magister or lady to the rest of the coven membership. he is the go-between and lieutenant of the leader or leaders, and traditionally he wore black from head to foot to designate his rank. hence his old title "the man in black" occasionally, in medieval france, he was dressed i

er, many witches take it to refer to "the stone of buffo" buffo being an ancient name for the island of cyprus where legend has it the greek love goddess aphrodite was born; from whence also certain of the feminine witch mysteries were said to have emanated. which brings me to my second consideration, namely, the titles bestowed upon female witch leader whether she be designated high priestess or queen of the sabbat. among the lady's titles are: andred. witch goddess name coming from the forest of weald in england. bensozia. twelfth-century french name for the goddess, meaning doubtful. nocticula. similar twelfth-century appellation meaning "little night" rhiannon. welsh-celtic mother goddess. arrianrhod. similar welsh goddess, mother of llew. herodias or aradia. italian name for the witch

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

lers, whose chief is adramelech. the ninth number is nine. the ninth sephira is yesod, or the fundamental principle. the spirits of yesod are the cherubim or angels, those powers which fecundate the earth, and which are represented in hebrew symbolism under the form of bulls. their empire is that of fecundity. they correspond to true ideas. they have for adversaries the gamaliel or obscene, whose queen is lilith, the demon of debaucheries. the tenth number is ten. the tenth sephira is malkuth, or the kingdom of forms. the spirits of malkuth are the ischim, or the virile ones; they are the souls of the saints whose chief is moses (let us not forget that it is solomon who speaks. eliphaz levi) they have for adversaries the wicked ones who obey nahema, the demon of impurity. the wicked are sy

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 3

ne of the chief messengers of god, who is toward the south, therefore these genijs are to be observed in the first hour of a sunday& at the 8th. hour, also at the 3rd& 10th. at night, directing yourself toward that quarter, they appear in royal apparel holding scepters in their hands, and riding on a lyon or a cock, their robes are of red& saffron color& most comely, they assume the shape crowned queen& very beautiful to behold. secondly these genijs that are attributed to& are of the earthly regions& are governed by vriel who hath 3 princes to attend him (viz) asaiel, sochiel& cassiel. therefore the genijs that are attributed to him& these signs are to be observed in the west. they appear like kings, having green& silver robes, or like little children or women delighting in hunting& they

MICHAEL FORD BOOK OF CAIN

waking and diving a great abyssic tunnel, that which crawled from the depths of my mind, the horrid yet erotic shapes which appeared within it. i felt my very body changing, longing for transformation into the beasts of the field then came an angel to me cain, who walks the lonely path, he who stands strong and defiant in the face of nothingness, shall you continue the thorn road to meet the hag queen, the sorcerous devourer of men and children would you turn a road more traveled to the simple life yet unknown by others? the tester, robed in white and flowed within a strange and familiar light was challenging me, a very point of discovering my very inner essence, which i could sense. i said unto him- angel, who would you be to tell me of thorns and roads less traveled? i have passed throu

which i was. i fell into oblivion. i woke then in the darkness of a cave, on a padded rock ground. i was aching yet slightly refreshed. i wondered so where i was, i had only a loin cloth to cover me, and was chilled in the damp cave air. i heard many voices and noises around me, i grew scared from this. before was she, beautiful and fiery, pale and raven haired. it was mother, lilith who was the queen of demons, yet she was so beautiful and full of life. my mother welcomed me, and her touch was cold. her waist was made of flames, yet she transformed into the bottom half of a beast. she spoke to me of what i was to become, and that i had passed through a rite of passage. i was to become immortal and forever a spirit who walked the path of the dragon, who was my father. in the darkness of t

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

lane. this was received and consecrated in 1994 e.v. and has been used in the vampiric current since. the devilcosm (another name for the varcolaci sigil) is as much a symbol for the left hand path as it is a gateway towards the dark realms of night and fog. through this seeming mirror, you will be able to assume the wraith form so described in the devilcosm sigil itself. through these gates, the queen of the sabbath, lilith gives you the knowledge to become. the rituals contained in this grimoire each involve the use of the sigil. this feature derives from coven nachttoter (coven maleficia, a magickal base in which the author received the setting to write this book during the babalon working of december 1998 e.v) where this sigil was present in all night side path workings. sigils permit

he seal of babalon, known simply as the seven pointed star of babalon. the athame-dagger, wand, sword and chalice would always be used. ceremonial training is the most demanding in the advanced study and practice of a warlock or witch. each weapon should be consecrated at the appropriate time. the sword is blessed by horus, or baphomet, the chalice by 54 54 hecate or the goddess of the sea (witch queen, the wand by babalon or another fire associated elemental or spirit, the pentagram by the green man, pan or the witches sabbat goat. remember success is based upon an intent focus of will and investment in belief. belief, desire and will are the power points of success in any working. the kangling is an instrument that may be implemented within your own temple. a kangling is a tibetan instru

alon in flesh. shortly after, cameron arose. 61 61 babalon is also to be considered a goddess of death and blood, she is actually a varied aspect of lilith. babalon may be invoked with a various methods of sexual gnosis and blood magick, from which she would incarnate. those upon the witches sabbat path will recognize the mystery itself, and discover their own individual path towards her. hecate- queen of witches62 62 the goddess energy, the current empowering our tradition of the witch cult is channeled through the goddess, hecate. her titles are many; the dark goddess, protectress of herds and sailors, goddess of the crossroads (which would draw a parallel towards baron samedhi of several voudoo traditions, being the lord of the crossroads and the mysteries of death) as well as the sende

e. in spirit. in flesh! oh morpheus, hypnos and thanatos your sight burns with life.we see much through you, desires form 64 64 a transcendent path within night.our spells weave through your arms which hold the sacred fire. so mote it be" hecate the three shades of witch fire a rite of empowerment and the summoning of her spirits of night hecate is regarded as the triple mooned goddess, the witch queen of primal darkness whom is regarded as babalon, lilith and az. hecate is the goddess of the crossroads, from which one seeks self-initiation by the congress of her in the succubi-fetish spirit. it is through this communion that one enters the caverns of the night, the very temple of hecate. revered as the goddess of the dead, she is the queen of ghosts, shades and 65 65 phantoms of the night

unto me as the freshly dead, the virgin from the tomb. guide me and walk with me unto the luciferian sabbat. by the second moon maiden who rides upon the dragon s spine, i summon thee bring thy fiery essence into my circle, enflame me in the cunning fire and blood of your fornications. uplift me into the spirit of the red dragon- akhuraku, hecau, zrazza by the third moon moon of death, aged witch queen of the sabbat, hex casting hag of the nganga and grave-bound fetish, mother of vampyres and wolves, come thou forth and encircle me guide me unto the infernal sabbat hekas satahan zrazzu usha ii) the maiden widdershin around the circle, visualize each goddess with the black mirror and see them encircle you. drink of the chalice and recite triple moon move and bless this circle and rite. i co

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

and capableenough to develop the high technical sciences that could expedite their freedom. so, itwas decided by the royals of england, the tudor dynasty, that though their presentresearches and operations would not be halted, a new approach was needed. the manwith the idea for this new approach and the one who would undertake its executionwas sir john dee, the court astrologer and ambassador of queen elizabeth tudor. elizabeth (e-liza-beth) was known, suggestively, as the virgin queen (said to do with herbeing a virgo, but really because the term indicates bloodlink to the serpent masters andpossibly to the reptilians. the name elizabeth means beloved of the gods.sir john dee was court ambassador to the tudors (sic, tutors. he would dutifully visit for-eign courts, meeting with money men

vine age andthe coming of a new one, in which the summers would be flowerless, the cows milkless andwomen shameless and men strengthless, in which there would be trees without fruit and seaswithout fish, when old men would give false judgments and legislators would make unjustlaws, when warriors would betray one another and men would be thieves and there would beno more virtue in the world (babd, queen of the tuatha de danaan) and from the teutonic priestesses, the same:there saw she wade in the heavy streams, men- foul murderers and perjurers, and them whoothers wives seduce to sin, brothers slay brothers; sisters children shed each other s blood.hard is the world, sensual sin grows huge. there the sword-ages, axe-ages; shields are cleftin twain; storm ages, murder-ages; till the world fa

ans have understood,that this earth is our one and only garden of eden. how is it that from this paradiseone can look out to the nether and fantasize that home is somewhere out there? onlysatan and his hordes and those they have deluded the world would do such a bizarrething. these ancient stories are extremely pertinent to the condition of the present.genesis means the genes of isis. isis is the queen of the earth, and we of the earthare her offspring, suffering from amnesia about our earth-connection, convinced thatthe black void above is the real home we have lost. so our perception is in totalreverse. nothing measures the loss of reason more than the pervasiveness of this out-landish, incongruent notion. it is consistent only with the duped and controlled masseswho are now psychologica

guin the earthsea trilogy john christopher the tripods trilogy emmanuel velikovsky worlds in collision/ ages in chaos/ earth in upheaval rudolf steiner the archangel michael/ atlantis helena petrova blavatsky isis unveiled/ the secret doctrine ignatius donnelly atlantis- the ante-deluvian continent/ ragnarok charles berlitz atlantis the eighth continent barry fell america bc augustus le plongeon queen moo& the egyptian sphinx john milton paradise lost eliphas levi- enochian magic, transcendental magic david allen hulse the key of it all (2 volumes also called the western mysteries) cornelius agrippa- three books of occult philosophy (translated by donald tyson) atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation153 epilogue: time to change the road youre on mark pinkham return of the ser

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 indiawere said to have come from lemuria in the pacific. mooa queen of the ancient nations of the maya and their predecessors; the name means serpent in polyne-sian languages.easter islandpart of a much larger landmass that sank.appendix b: book abstracts206atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation dunhuang, chinaa cave which held manuscripts in chinese, buddhist, and sanskrit showing lemuria and the continentsof the east all laid out.dragon lines

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of vampires. have a mirror in front of your altar, which you can glare into. you will also want to have the sigil of varcolaci- astwihad above it or somehow attached to it, symbolizing the power of the predator. this mirror represents the gateway to lilith, our bestial mother of initiation. holding a dagger up: i call the dragon of the ancients tiamat, mother of horrors, arise! i call to you dark queen of immortal hunger! i call to you who can create and empower gods! i invoke you who can cloak demons in fearsome rays! mother of darkness, i shall transform into the ferocious beast of my desire. i shall clothe myself in the chthonic depths of the demonic desire i hold within. i shall go forth and drink from my victim. close your eyes and visualize your astral body expanding around your form

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also a fertility and love goddess who is further associated with the planet venus. the multiple aspects of the goddess inanna, or the concept of multiple aspects, seem to surface in the story of her descent into the underworld. here, inanna descends into the land of the dead, ruled by her dark sister (aspect) ereshkigal. at the end of this story the reader may have the impression that erishkigal, queen of the underworld, absorbed the qualities( or body) of her sister inanna. yet another copy of this goddess is queen semiramis. the average american is more familiar with semiramis than they realize; it is her likeness that graces the statue of liberty. even though the statue of liberty is a spiting likeness of queen semiramis of assyria, the french freemasons that funded the statue s constru

and this day will be marked by some kind of rare astronomical event. after this event in the sky, the wicked god azag-thoth, also called hades and pluto, will free and lead the titans out of their prison. the black magicians also have a long list of titles for lilith, and have much reverence for her because she is among those who give them the dark gift of transformation. among these titles are: queen of the qliphoth, queen of the underworld, queen of the dead, queen of the vampires, queen of the sabbat, queen of hell, queen of the witches, queen of the shells and shades. mother earth, and mother goddess. she is the bride of satan and the mother of all demons, also called lilitu. lilith is often associated with the red sea, which is said to be a place where she spawned and instructed demo

loody sword. similar to the babylonian account of tiamat, kali s body parts constitutes the universe of space and time. the goddess kali, along with her husband shiva, roam the cremation grounds; this is a likely reference to the qliphoth or underworld. in the persian narration, az is the mother of demons and the consort of ahriman (satan. semiramis, yet another name for this goddess, an assyrian queen of legend, was reportedly the inspiration behind the hanging gardens of babylon. the hanging gardens of babylon, also called the hanging gardens of semiramis, are considered to be one of the 7 great wonders of the ancient world. the hanging gardens, which some speculate to date back to 600 bc (more likely much earlier, was a spectacular series of manmade terraces, with flowing waters and lus

dly the inspiration behind the hanging gardens of babylon. the hanging gardens of babylon, also called the hanging gardens of semiramis, are considered to be one of the 7 great wonders of the ancient world. the hanging gardens, which some speculate to date back to 600 bc (more likely much earlier, was a spectacular series of manmade terraces, with flowing waters and lush growth on every platform. queen semiramis is said to be a harlot, a home wrecker, and a powerful sorceress. this personage is associated with the dove and, proper to the virgin, was credited with the invention of the chastity belt. semiramis became the--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 79 patroness of babylon when she restored the city to its ancient glory. i can t believe it s not fiction: tiamat queen of the damned (2

d to rule the underworld, his growing madness has brought him from bad to worse. hades, whose number is 333, is considered to be the biggest obstacle for the sorcerer who wishes to cross the abyss, because he guards the point between two universes. this spirit is hot-tempered, he reacts hastily and violently to the slightest provocation. john dee, the noted 16th century magician who was a spy for queen elizabeth i and the original 007, along with his partner sir edward kelly referred to this being as choronzon. they claimed that out of the 30 aethyrs (30 dimensions, the domain of choronzon was to be found in the tenth aethyr, and dimension dubbed zax. they also titled him he that is fallen, and even associated him with the leader of the serpent from the garden of eden, who equates to the f

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

announce my awakening unto the night path that vampyre shades and demons of the point embrace me as your own! so it is done! by the circle which i evoke nas, shade gateway of the dead- i will walk in the world of shadow and twilight embrace. by the circle of mitrokht, which i evoke vampyre spirit of the eye and the voice, i summon you to encircle my being so it is done! invocation of the vampyre queen lilith lilith is the mother of the vampyrie myth, as well as the symbol of fountainhead of the daemonic feminine. the witch queen is represented as a partial woman with beast like lower half, owl claws and a hypnotic stare. within her caves by the red sea, the darkness of the earth, the gateway of the demonum she breeds phantoms, shades and lilitu, sexual daimons which cater to the sorcerers

the form of a skull, the bare mysteries which time does not hide nor tell. the human skull is considered as a symbol of baphomet, worshipped by the knight's templar. the skull is also a powerful fetish which may hold the familiar shades of the dead, a projected tomb of bone which holds the gravesoil and sigilic alphabet of the self in shadow. the magister of the rite recites "behold, the vampyre queen awakens before me, she whose skull holds the mystery of the grave. from your soul comes many serpents, those who breed the forms of dragons, your secret name is given to those of the corpse embrace, the blackened soil announces your children's birth. behold, the skull cap is filled with the elixir of life (lilith takes in hand the skull cap) let me drink of this ecstasy, the lifeblood from t

l cap) let me drink of this ecstasy, the lifeblood from those who walk the night. let my knowledge be revealed to those who seek my knowledge, open thyself to the daemonum within (lilith-magistra drinks of the elixir from the skull cap, even if red in color, allowing some of it to cover her face (lilith now looks unto the hooded ones, those who may be present) i come before you, night born as the queen of the dead. behold unto my death mask, the temple ofazothoz as a current of the living flame. i shall bless each one of you with the devil's sight, the serpents tongue shall speak of the secret alphabet which ye all shall scribe on the walls of the sunless palace, scribe your name in the black book of the dead, with the witchblood of your veins, you are all my children, of lilith-hecate, yo

ed) i now wear the caul of the witchborn, as i am blood and death, but also life, emergence and strength (lilith takes forth the skull or fetish mask and faces the magister) behold, my tomb of black earth, my mask of shadow and death. you shall all seek my consort ahriman and azrael, whom shall walk you forth into shadow (coven members or magister shall recite) we shall walk this path through you queen ofsuccubi, mother lilith, and through the shadows of azrael shall we emerge as the seven- headed dragon, through the opposer shall this manifest! behold, the light which shines 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 th

h the opposer shall this manifest! behold, the light which shines 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 vari

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o be infallible in matters of faith. it decimated europe to purge it of heretics. it decimated america to convert the mexicans and peruvians. it gave and took away thrones; and by excommunication and interdict closed the gates of paradise against nations. spain, haughty with its dominion over the indies, endeavored to crush out protestantism in the netherlands, while philip the second married the queen of england, and the pair sought to win that kingdom back to its allegiance to the papal throne. afterward spain attempted to conquer it with her "invincible" armada. napoleon set his relatives and captains on thrones, and parcelled among them half of europe. the czar rules over an empire more gigantic than rome. the history of all is or will be the same--acquisition, dismemberment, ruin. the

rmulated; then force and beauty, whose names varied like their emblems. finally, they completed the sacred septenary by a mysterious image that represented the progress of the dogma and its future realizations. this was a young girl veiled, holding a child in her arms; and they dedicated this image to "the virgin who will become a mother-_virgini paritur" hertha or wertha, the young isis of gaul, queen of heaven, the virgin who was to bear a child, held the spindle of the fates, filled with wool half white and half black; because she presides over all forms and all symbols, and weaves the garment of the ideas. one of the most mysterious pantacles of the kabalah, contained in the enchiridion of leo iii, represents an equilateral triangle reversed, inscribed in a double circle. on the triang

m this came the word, and thence creation and generation; and thence a race of men, children of light, who adored heaven and its stars as the supreme being; and whose different gods were but incarnations of the sun, the moon, the stars, and the ether _chrysor_ was the great igneous power of nature, and _baal_ and _malakarth_ representations of the sun and moon, the latter word, in hebrew, meaning queen. man had fallen, but not by the tempting of the serpent. for, with the ph nicians, the serpent was deemed to partake of the divine nature, and was sacred, as he was in egypt. he was deemed to be immortal, unless slain by violence, becoming young again in his old age, by entering into and consuming himself. hence the serpent in a circle, holding his tail in his mouth, was an emblem of eternit

ways acting; the mother of the universe. i know not the name of that being, but i designate it by the word reason. man has his model in the earth, the earth in heaven, heaven in reason, and reason in itself "i am" says isis "nature; parent of all things, the sovereign of the elements, the primitive progeny of time, the most exalted of the deities, the first of the heavenly gods and goddesses, the queen of the shades, the uniform countenance; who dispose with my rod the numerous lights of heaven, the salubrious breezes of the sea, and the mournful silence of the dead; whose single divinity the whole world venerates in many forms, with various rites and by many names. the egyptians, skilled in ancient lore, worship me with proper ceremonies, and call me by my true name, isis the queen" the h

teries meant to strengthen religion and console men in their sorrows by the lofty hopes found in a religious faith, whose principles were represented to them covered by a pompous ceremonial, and under the sacred veil of allegory. diodorus speaks of the famous columns erected near nysa, in arabia, where, it was said, were two of the tombs of osiris and isis. on one was this inscription "i am isis, queen of this country. i was instructed by mercury. no one can destroy the laws which i have established. i am the eldest daughter of saturn, most ancient of the gods. i am the wife and sister of osiris the king. i first made known to mortals the use of wheat. i am the mother of orus the king. in my honor was the city of bubaste built. rejoice, o egypt, rejoice, land that gave me birth. and on the

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ly, and worthy of the presence of the goddess. the ego is a good servant, but a bad master. that sign, nuit gives to all those who seek her, upon their reaching a certain grade. it is exactly as described. of course, a.c 'knew' who he was, since he called himself, and had been first called so by his own mother, 666 from childhood. see liber iv. part iv. 27. then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: 0 nuit, continuous one of heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous! there are several secret meanings, all of a technical nature, in this passage; it is unnecessary to dwel

on this very difficult point. nor should aspirants fall into the mistake of believing that it is their duty to aspire to her. their duty is to do their will, and nothing else. if it is thy will to seek her, do so. if it isn't, do thy will. the grades are three, and 'they also serve who stand and wait. besides, she is everywhere. 33. then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law! law, in the common sense of the word, should be a formulation of the customs of a people, as euclid's propositions are the formulation of geometrical facts. but modern knavery conceived the idea of artificial law, as if one should try to square the circle by tyranny. legislators try to force the people to

e the old saying: natura abhorrent a vacuum. for she is the image of the soul of nature, the great mother, the great whore. it is to be well-noted that the great women of history have exercised unbounded freedom in love, sappho, semiramis, messalina, cleopatra, ta chhi, pasiphae, clytaemnaestra, helen of troy, and in more recent times joan of arc (by shakespeare's account, catherine ii of russia, queen elizabeth of england (he means, of course, the great elizabeth the first, george sand. against these we can put only emily bronte, whose sex-suppression was due to her environment, and so burst out in the incredible violence of her art, and the regular religious mystics, saint catherine, saint teresa, and so on, the facts of whose sex-life have been carefully camouflaged in the interests of

e itself should be flung with a spendthrift gesture on the counter of the merchant of madness. on the steel of your helmet let there be gold inlaid with the motto "excess. the above indications are taken from a subsequent passage of the third chapter of this book. the supreme and absolute injunction, the crux of your knightly oath, is that you lay your lance in rest to the glory of your lady, the queen of the stars, nuit. your knighthood depends upon your refusal to fight in any lesser cause. that is what distinguishes you from the brigand and the bully. you give your life on her altar. you make yourself worthy of her by your readiness to fight at any time, in anyplace, with any weapon, and at any odds. for her, from whom you come, of whom you are, to whom you go, your life is no more and

ar not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be sorry. thou art emphatically my chosen; and blessed are the eyes that thou shalt look upon with gladness. but i will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but i lift thee up. yes! i was frightened when the god of things as they ought to be told me that they were to be. i was born under a german queen, and i did not believe in the revolution that i willed. and lo! it is upon us, ere the fifteenth year of the new aeon has dawned (this was thus written in 1918 e.v) yes! i am lifted up, the sun being in scorpio in this fourteenth year of the aeon. students are referred to lxv, 4 12-24 and the commentaries thereon. also to liber vii, i, 14, 22-28, 52-55; ii, 11-12, 17-22; iii, 16, 21,40-44,56

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

f the sea. here she gave birth to her twin-children, apollo and artemis (diana, two of the most beautiful of the immortals. according to some versions of the story of leto, zeus transformed her into a quail, in order that she might thus elude the vigilance of hera, and she is said to have [32]resumed her true form when she arrived at the island of delos. hera, being the principal wife of zeus and queen of heaven, a detailed account will be given of her in a special chapter. in the union of zeus with most of his immortal wives we shall find that an allegorical meaning is conveyed. his marriage with metis, page 32 who is said to have surpassed both gods and men in knowledge, represents supreme power allied to wisdom and prudence. his union with themis typifies the bond which exists between d

s absence on a perilous undertaking, zeus assumed his form, and obtained her affections. heracles (whose world-renowned exploits will be related among the legends) was the son of alcmene and zeus. semele, a beautiful princess, the daughter of cadmus, king of phoenicia, was greatly beloved by zeus. like the unfortunate callisto, she was hated by hera with jealous malignity, and the page 35 haughty queen of heaven determined to effect her destruction. disguising herself, therefore, as beroe, semele's faithful old nurse, she artfully persuaded her to insist upon zeus visiting her, as he appeared to hera, in all his power and glory, well knowing that this would cause her instant death. semele, suspecting no treachery, followed the advice of her supposed nurse; and the next time zeus came to he

one of ivory, holding in his right hand a sheaf of thunderbolts, and in his left a sceptre, whilst an eagle stands beside his throne. hera (juno. hera, the eldest daughter of cronus and rhea, was born at samos, or, according to some accounts, at argos, and was reared by the sea-divinities oceanus and tethys, who were models of conjugal fidelity.[16] she was the [39]principal wife of zeus, and, as queen of heaven, participated in the honours paid to him, but her dominion only extended over the air (the lower aerial regions. hera appears to be the sublime embodiment of strict matronly virtue, and is on that account the protectress of purity and married women. faultless herself in her fidelity as a wife, she is essentially the type of the sanctity of the marriage tie, and holds in abhorrence

bued with this hatred of any immorality, that, finding herself so often called upon to punish the failings of both gods and men in this respect, she became jealous, harsh, and vindictive. her exalted position as the wife of the supreme deity, combined with her extreme beauty, caused her to become exceedingly vain, and she consequently resented with great severity any infringement on her rights as queen of heaven, or any apparent slight on her personal appearance. the following story will signally illustrate how ready she was to resent any slight offered to her. at the marriage of the sea-nymph thetis with a mortal called peleus, all the gods and goddesses were present, except eris (the goddess of discord. indignant at not being invited, she determined to cause dissension in the assembly, a

] were sacred to her. flocks of these beautiful birds generally surround her throne and draw her chariot, iris, the rainbow, being seated behind her. her favourite flowers were the dittany, poppy, and lily. juno. page 43 juno, the roman divinity supposed to be identical with the greek hera, differed from her in the most salient points, for whereas hera invariably appears as the haughty, unbending queen of heaven, juno, on the other hand, is revered and beloved as the type of a matron and housewife. she was worshipped in rome under various titles, most of which point to her vocation as the protectress of married women. juno was believed to watch over and guard the life of every woman from her birth to her death. the principal temples dedicated to her were in rome, one being erected on the a

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attentions to the gratification of the senses. each member is encouraged to indulge in his or her own perversions to ensure the excitement reaches a fever pitch. and when the coven master considers the orgy of wickedness is reaching a climax of excitement, he begins to work the magic, harnessing the sexual energy liberated by the lowering of inhibitions. once the initial ceremony is completed, a queen of the night (usually a recently initiated member of the coven) is elected to satisfy the sexual demands of the coven master. she is carried to the altar, laid down and surrounded by black candles, and worshipped by the more virile men of the coven. she is stroked, kissed and otherwise stimulated until her passions are aroused. only then is she brought before the coven master who copulates w

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

it must be assumed that architecture, like all other sciences, was taught in secret. louis hautcoeur writes: the first architects known in egypt, in asia minor, performed sacred duties independent from their role as builders. imhotep, who built the first large stone complex in saqqarah, was counselor to the pharaoh sozer (circa 3800 b.c, but was also priest of the god amun. sennemut, architect of queen hatseput, was the head of the prophets of monthu in armant and controller of the gardens and domains of amun. dherti was the director of buildings and a high priest. in the louvre there are seated statues of goudea, who was both a patesi, meaning a governor representing the gods, and an architect. the architects seem to have been inspired by the gods they served.3 the books of i kings (5:13

or 414, did not succeed in conquering auvergne until 475, by which time they had become more than half romanized. the franks did not become masters of this area until the expedition of thierry i in 531. following the death of clotaire in 561, the region returned to the control of the austrasian kings and, as a result, from 566 to 613 it was under the domination of the daughter of a visigoth king. queen brunehaut shared her family's predilection for latin culture. in the sixth century auvergne still possessed its own senate and gallo-roman bishops continued to hold sway there until the reign of pippin the short. though this king trampled and ravaged auvergne during his bitter struggle against aquitaine, auvergne still had the dual advantages of the spirit of its inhabitants, who were tenaci

to saint saturnien. according to the poet fortunatus, this project was attended to by more talent than a roman outside of italy would display. a large portion of the eastern ramparts of carcassone are attributed to the visigoths for very plausible reasons. and finally, there are saint marcel near chalon and saint martin of autun, two important buildings connected to the memory of king gontran and queen brunhilde.2 the last of the gallo-roman provincial leaders may well have been a bishop of cahors, saint didier or gery, who died in 654. he won fame as a builder and was regarded by his contemporaries as having rediscovered the ancient mechanical system for producing large cut stones, which had been abandoned during the final years of the empire. in addition to his cathedral, he repaired or

e lodges of northern germany were not represented in strasbourg or ratisbonne. these lodges added their voice of support to the revision at an assembly held in torgau in 1462 by crafting ordinances that were described simply as reproductions of the strasbourg statutes established on the ancient foundations instituted "by the holy martyrs crowned in the honor and glory of the holy trinity and mary queen of heaven."10 a second masonic assembly, also convoked by the grand lodge of strasbourg, was held in ratisbonne in 1464. along with discussing general lodge business, including reports on buildings then under construction, the assembly gave more precise definition to the rights and attributions of the four existing grand lodges (in cologne, strasbourg, vienna, and bern) and named the master

an be found periodically repeated in specific and varying circumstances, proof that they were quickly forgotten. as an example, in 1436-1437, an edict was issued restricting the privileges of the brotherhood of english masons; in 1495 king henry vii banned the use of signs of recognition by masons and confirmed the edicts of henry vi.16 it is perhaps risky to mention the legend according to which queen elizabeth, because she was ineligible to be admitted into knowledge of the mysteries, harbored suspicions of the masons, which their enemies did not fail to encourage. things reached such a point that orders were given on december 27, 1561, day of the annual celebration of the york order, presided over by sir thomas sackvill, to send soldiers to break up the assembly. complaints lodged by so

ONYX TABLET OF SET

ed in the initiates of the temple of set. this would necessitate the source of such majesty being "beyond" us because of it position within the objective universe. but at the same time it would be intimately involved with each working of a black magician's will, hence intimate to each individual psyche and to any subsequent process developed. anne rice in her third book of the vampyre chronicles, queen of the damned, offers a model for the origins of the vampyre which would be worthy of comparison to the prince of darkness [this theme continues in her witching hour series] amel, a spirit force which could draw the blood of corporal humans, entered the mortally-wounded bodies of akasha and enkil. this transformed them beyond the normal realms of the flesh. in rice's fictional account there

PATH OF INITIATION

times, instruction by otherworldly beings or their representatives; this is the station of the circling airs, that communicate knowledge. 3. the descent into the cavern of the black water and the two torches, or the initiatory chamber below (the chamber or cavern of enody or zerinthia) to the source, or to the presence of the initiatrix in the innerworld/underworld, the pale woman under the hill, queen in the meadows of elfhame, who brings about (a normally traumatic) ego death in the candidate, and bestows the innerworld birth, purification, and regeneration (which at this stage is largely unconscious in immediate depth and effect, but which is necessary to further transformations, and which grows on its own into new, long term understandings. this represents the first "intrusion" or "app

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

en he rejects her, exacts a terrible revenge (see p. 18. the egyptian isis became absorbed into roman myth, and it is she who speaks, with the unmistakable voice of the great goddess, to lucius, the hero of apuleius novel the golden ass, when he is initiated into her cult: i am nature, the universal mother, mistress of all the elements, primordial child of time, sovereign of all things spiritual, queen of the dead, queen also of the immortals, the single manifestation of all gods and goddesses that are. holding the world together in the mysteries of eleusis in ancient greece, the great goddess formed the central focus of greek religion (see p. 29. these rituals, open only to the initiated, related to the myth of the grain goddess demeter, and her daughter persephone, the ineffable maiden

the bull of heaven, the god anu said that either enkidu or gilgamesh must die as a punishment. the gods ea and enlil agreed so, despite the pleas of shamash the sun god (to whom the heroes had sacrificed the bull s heart, enkidu was marked for death. he fell ill, forewarned of death by a dream in which he was seized by a black bird and taken down to the house of dust the palace of erishkegal, the queen of darkness. gilgamesh triumphant gilgamesh defeated humbaba, who begged for mercy with tears in his eyes and promised to be his servant. gilgamesh almost agreed, but enkidu said he was not to be trusted and persuaded gilgamesh to kill him. humbaba this lionlike figure may represent humbaba, a forest giant with a countenance. like a lion, fiery breath, and terrible jaws. when he roared, it w

o olympus he married zeus daughter hebe. hermes hermes was the messenger of the gods and zeus son by maia, daughter of the titan atlas. he is wearing his winged hat and carrying his herald s staff, the caduceus. ganymede ganymede was a young prince of troy; zeus was so overwhelmed by his beauty that he descended in eagle form and snatched the beautiful youth to be his cup-bearer on olympus. hera, queen of the gods hera was zeus wife and sister. in one account it was she, not her mother rhea, who saved zeus from being swallowed by their father cronos (see above. she was the goddess of marriage, and many of the stories about her centre on her jealousy of zeus many affairs. saturn by francisco de goya (1746 1828) apollo apollo (see pp. 38 39) and his sister artemis were zeus children by the t

tutes in her temple in corinth reflects the custom in the temples of ishtar. herodotus points out that the babylonian custom of every woman prostituting herself once in the temple of the goddess was also to be found in cyprus. the rape of persephone 28 the rape of persephone persephone (roman proserpine, the daughter of zeus (jupiter) and demeter (ceres, was carried off by hades (pluto) to be his queen in the underworld. devastated, demeter, the earth goddess, refused to fulfil her duties until she was returned to her. but persephone had eaten a pomegranate seed while she was away, which bound her to hades. zeus agreed to a compromise: persephone would spend four (some sources say six) months on earth with her mother and the rest of the year in the underworld. this story explains the annua

ingle divinity) hades in love hades carries persephone away. according to ovid s roman version of the story, aphrodite (venus) instructed eros (cupid) to pierce the underworld god with an arrow of desire for his niece, in order to demonstrate her power over the other gods. royal trident hades struck the ground with his trident to open up a way to the underworld, where he took persephone to be his queen. weeping water nymph when hades seized persephone, the nymph cyane rose from the lake and rebuked him but he ignored her. desolate, cyane wept so much that her blood turned to water, and she dissolved. when persephone s grieving mother demeter came looking for her, all the mute cyane could do was bear up persephone s lost girdle on the surface of the water. cerberus hades galloped over the f

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re of the colour of korykian saffron, while the root looked like flesh that has just been cut, and the juice like the dark sap of a mountain oak. to make the ointment, medea, clothed in black, in the gloom of night, had drawn off this juice in a caspian shell after bathing in seven perennial streams and calling seven times on brimo [hekate, nurse of youth, brimo, night-wanderer of the underworld, queen of the dead. the dark earth shook and rumbled underneath the titan root when it was cut, and prometheus himself groaned in the anguish of his soul. argonautica 3.844f it [akhaia in greece] is a land ringed by lofty mountains, rich in sheep and pasture, and the birthplace of prometheus son, the good deukalion, who was the first man to found cities, build temples to the gods and rule mankind a

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

ompletely] or to anything below it, but [rather can damage] only its lower half, i.e, its netzach-hod-yesod. this is the mystical meaning of king david fs words: gdo not bring me up in the middle of my days, h22 for the damage caused by the horn.which corresponds to malchut.reaches only up to that level. king david was a manifestation of the sefirah of malchut. for the same reason ahasuerus asked queen esther, gwhat is your question and what is your desire, up to half the kingdom? h23 queen esther was another manifestation of the sefirah of malchut. king ahasuerus here signifies the evil of the horn. ghalf the kingdom h means, mystically, ghalf of malchut. h for the evil of the horn.which corresponds to malchut.reaches only that high. he meant to say: gif you desire the attribute of malchu

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

phorum the pure living alchemical spirit of gold-the refined. essence of heat and dryness. luna philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of silver-the refined essence of heat and moisture. c120> the green lion the stem and root of the radical essence of metals. the black dragon death-putrefaction-decay. the king red-the qabalistic microprosopus. tiphareth-analogous to gold and the sun. the queen white-the qabalistic bride of microprosopus. malkah-analogous to silver and the moon. the four orders of the elementals are: 1. the spirits of the earth gnomes 2. the spirits of the air sylphs 3. the spirits of the water undines 4. the spirits of the fire salamanders second knowledge lecture 6 1 these are the essential spiritual beings called upon to praise god in the 'benedicite omnia opera

chad barschemoth ha-shartathan n p w i 3 i w inniwil 66 the golden dawn: volume i book one the traditional tarot consists of a pack of 78 cards made up of <128> four suits of 14 cards each, together with 22 trumps, or major arcana, which tell the story of the soul. each suit consists of ten numbered cards, as in the modem playing cards, but there are four instead of three honours: king or knight, queen, prince or emperor, princess or knave. the four suits are: 1. wands or sceptres comparable to diamonds. 2. cups or chalices comparable to hearts. 3. swords comparable to spades. 4. pentacles or coins comparable to clubs. third knowledge lecture the soul is divided by the qabalists into three principal parts- 1. neschamah the highest part, answering to the three supemals. 2. ruach the middle

y become a clear and limpid lake, reflecting the divine nature truly and without distortion. let him identity himself with the powers of water, considering the water triplicity in all its aspects, with its attributions and correspondences <141> notes on the tarot by frater s.r.m.d. in the tree of life in the tarot, each path forms the connecting link between two of the sephiroth. the king and the queen are the correlations of the abba and the aima in that suit; the knight or prince answers to microprosopus, and the knave or princess which was anciently a female figure, is referred to the bride, kallah or malkah. combining, then, the material attributions of the sephiroth and the path, it results that: 0. fool=the crown of wisdom, the primum mobile acting through the air on the zodiac. 1. t

wo persons united. as elohim they become the parents of the son zauir <155> anpin p3m lyint, also called microprosopus or the lesser countenance. abba is referred to yod and the sephira chokmah. aima is referred to heh and the sephirah binah. zaulr anpin is referred to the six sephiroth-chesed, geburah, tiphareth, netzach, hod, and yesod, and of these especially to tiphareth. malkah i l 3 9 t h e queen, and kalah il%th e bride are titles of malkuth considered as the spouse of zauir anpin, the microprosopus. the letters of the name yhvh contain these meanings, thus- yod is referred to abba. heh to aima. vau to zauir anpin. heh (final) to malkah. these letters are also referred to the four worlds and the four suits of the tarot thus- yod atziluth wands heh briah cups vau yetzirah swords heh

lume i <154> tetragrammaton on the tree the tarot is thus referred to the tree of life: the four aces are placed on the throne of kether- the <156> remaining small cards of the suit desired on the respective sephiroth, 2 on chokmah, 3 on binah, etc. the 22 trumps are then fifrh knowledge lecture 79 arranged on the paths between them, according to the letters to which they correspond. the king and queen of the suit are placed beside chokmah and binah respectively; the knight and knave by tiphareth and malkuth. the tarot trumps thus receive the equilibrium of the sephiroth they connect. the admission badges used in the grade of philosophus are as follows: the calvary cross of twelve squares, admitting to the path of qoph, the 29th path, refers to the zodiac and to the eternal river of eden d

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

a the inspired pages of the vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practised at reception by all secret societies, there are found indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed. occult philosophy seems to have been the nurse or god-mother of all intellectual forces, the key of all divine obscurities and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it was reserved exclusively for the education of priests and of kings. it reigned in persia with the magi, who perished in the end, as perish all masters of the world, because they abused their power; it endowed india with the most wonderful traditions and with an incredible wealth of poesy, grace and terror in its emblems; it civilized greece to the music of th

were fortuitous; and, seeing that the faith of the ancients attributed nothing to chance, they read the answers of providence in the oracles of the tarot, which were called theraph or theraphim by the hebrews, as the erudite kabalist gaffarel, one of the magicians employed by cardinal richelieu, was the first to perceive. as to the court-cards, a final couplet will suffice to explain them: king, queen, knight, esquire. the married pair, the youth, the child, the race; thy path by these to unity retrace. at the end of the ritual we shall provide further details, together with full documents, concerning the marvellous book of the tarot, of all books the most primitive, the key of prophecies and dogmas, in a word, the inspiration of inspired works, a fact which has remained unperceived, not

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

: the ritual of transcendental magic by eliphas levi (alphonse louis constant) translated by a. e. waite. originally published by rider& company, england, 1896. transcribed and converted to adobe acrobat format by benjamin rowe, january, 2002. typeset in bauer bodoni, goudy text, and waters titling. part ii: the ritual of transcendental magic the sabbatic goat 1 introduction knowest thou that old queen of the world who is on the march always and wearies never? every uncurbed passion, every selfish pleasure, every licentious energy of humanity, and all its tyrannous weakness, go before the sordid mistress of our tearful valley, and, scythe in hand, these indefatigable labourers reap their eternal harvest. that queen is old as time, but her skeleton is concealed in the wreckage of women's be

the gods descend from heaven and become subject to the will of men. judea borrowed its secrets from egypt; greece sent her hierophants and later her theosophists to the school of the great prophets; the rome of the caesars, mined by the initiation of the catacombs, collapsed one day into the church, and a symbolism was reconstructed with the remnants of all worships which had been absorbed by the queen of the world. according to the gospel narrative, the inscription which set forth the spiritual royalty of christ was written in hebrew, in greek and in latin: it was the expression of a universal synthesis. hellenism, in fact, that grand and beauteous religion of form, announced the coming of the saviour no less than the prophets of judaism. the fable of psyche is an ultra-christian abstract

cerning the great work have employed symbolical and figurative expressions, and have been right in so doing, not only to deter the profane from operations which would be dangerous for them, but to make themselves intelligible to adepts by revealing the entire world of analogies which is ruled by the one and sovereign dogma of hermes. for such, gold and silver are the sun and moon, or the king and queen; sulphur is the flying eagle; mercury is the winged and bearded hermaphrodite, throned upon a cube and crowned with flames; matter or salt is the winged dragon; metals in the molten state are lions of various colours; finally, the whole work is symbolized by the pelican and phoenix. hermetic art is, therefore, at one and the same time, a religion, a philosophy and a natural science. consider

eculates, as we have said, whether apuleius could have been changed into an ass and then have resumed his human shape. the same doctor might have concerned himself equally with the adventure of the comrades of ulysses, transformed into swine by circe. in vulgar opinion, transmutations and metamorphoses have always been the very essence of magic. now, the crowd, being the echo of opinion, which is queen of the world, is never perfectly right or entirely wrong. magic does change the nature of things, or rather modifies their appearances at pleasure, according to the strength of the operator's will and the fascination of ambitious adepts. the spoken word creates its form, and when a person held infallible confers a name upon a given thing, the latter is really transformed into the substance s

recounting such anecdotes as that which he connects with the death of charles ix. it is an almost unknown abomination, and one which has not, so far as we are aware, tempted the skill of any romancer, even at periods of the most feverish and deplorable literature. attacked by a disease of which no physician could discover the cause or explain the frightful symptoms, king charles ix was dying. the queen-mother, who ruled him entirely and had everything to lose under another reign. the queen- mother, who has been suspected as author of the disease, even against her own 92 the ritual of transcendental magic interests, because hidden devices and undeclared interests have been attributed always to her who was capable of anything. consulted her astrologers and then had recourse to the foulest fo

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

pon- modern studies along similar lines have been carried out by both the usa and the ussr, and there has long been an unconfirmed rumor that britain has a well-established 'esoteric' research group under governmental control. whatever the true situation at present, such matters may be traced back to at least as early as rd john dee,[7] who was cartographer, seer, astrologer and cryptographer for queen elizabeth i. kirk, however, was not remotely interested in militaristic applications, for he was a deeply religious and mystical man, and a hard-working, active clergyman devoted to the betterment of his flock. but there is a further element to kirk, for in addition to recording fairy lore and celtic belief, he undoubtedly lived through such belief himself. kirk was a seventh son, such as we

y eighteenth centuries. in the reign of elizabeth i we find the great scientist and cryptographer rd john dee communicating with beings in other dimensions; these were spirits or angelic entities who taught him a comprehensive system of magical and spiritual arts. much of dee's material has undertones similar to that described in a more humble context by robert kirk. dee was for a number of years queen elizabeth's roving agent in europe, and employed astrology and spirit communication to establish information, the whereabouts of hidden treasure (in england and wales, and to develop more arcane arts pertaining to metaphysics and magic. he also drew up the maps used by the early explorers and adventurers sailing to america, based upon his navigational skills and his researches into the lost

(pages 1-9) figure 1. human and otherworld entities introduction 6 to this general connection we can add one of the classic examples of seership and contact with the fairy realm, that of thomas of earlston (erceldoune, thomas the rhymer. this historical thirteenth-century poet was transported to a mysterious underground realm by a beautiful woman upon a white horse: she revealed herself to be the queen of elfland: he served her for seven years, and upon his return to the human world, was gifted with the power of prophecy and poetry, sometimes described as the tongue that cannot lie. many of thomas' prophetic verses remain today, as does the long romance poem of his underworld experience, and a ballad in scottish-english, preserved in lowland folk tradition until the late nineteenth century

his text (page 21) where he describes the ancient practice of introduction 8 referring to that which is powerful and potentially dangerous by kindly names. not only did the gaels do this, as they still do to this day in isolated regions of scotland and ireland, but it was common in the classical world. the term good goddess used by the romans, for example, was often descriptive of the terrifying queen of the underworld, hecate, ruler of necromancy, death, poisons, cursing, and similar forces and activities. if we read kirk's material carefully, and try to avoid imposing any modern retrospective attitudes upon it (a difficult but not impossible task, he presents a clear and well-defined purpose to the reader. we may begin to assess this purpose by disposing of a few of the retrospective in

e emphasis is upon a physical translation into the subterranean dimension: page 25. she neither perceives any passage out, nor sees what these people do in other rooms of the lodging. when the [fairy] child is weaned, the nurse either dies, or is conveyed back, or gets to choose to stay there. the three choices are resonant of triple patterns in a number of legends: in thomas rhymer's vision, the queen of elfland shows him three roads, that of righteousness leading to heaven, the road of wickedness taken by mortals, and the road to elfland, upon which they travel onwards to her mysterious hall or palace. it is interesting that kirk states precisely that the mortal nurse. may be offered the choice of staying in the subterranean realm. commentary 87 if we consider this triplication in an ini

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le and meaningful of all signs was given. a reminder of crowley's ability to sense the omnipresence and comprehensiveness of nuit. such an experience would have been impossible for one of lesser vision than a magus, because a magus, by definition, must first comprehend the totality of what presently exists before uttering a word to exert change upon it. 27. then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: o nuit, continuous one of heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous! crowley's ecstatic recognition of the sign, and hope that mankind generally will not transcend inertia b

nd to all self-consciousness and thus from pain. the ultimate argument of nuit is for suicide of the finite self in order to become part of the infinite whole [cf. crowley's discussion of the "annihilation of the self" via the "crossing of the abyss" between adeptus exemptus (7=[4] and magister templi (8=[3] in one star in sight] 33. then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law! crowley desires the means for reunion with the whole to be explained to him in terms of ordeals (stresses necessary to destroy the self, rituals (mental and physical exercises to bring initiates closer to nuit, and law (commandments that are to be obeyed to achieve the reunion. 34. but she said: the ordea

ed, but the name can be rendered in hieroglyphics "khem" is a phonetic version of the hieroglyphic xem, one of the many titles of the ancient egyptian nation. proclaim the nineteen parts of the word, and vanquish thus the feeble and corrupt keys of enoch, which were but a shadow of my true word and now are an affront to me. on april 13, 1584 ce john dee, mathematician and magician to the court of queen elizabeth i, undertook a series of workings in cracow, poland. with the assistance of edward kelley, he wrote into his diaries a series of nineteen magical incantations in what he called the "enochian or angelic language" with each incantation or key dee provided an english translation, also communicated by the angels to kelley. in 1659 the dee diaries containing the keys were published by m

improbable. only pure code- with enochian words or letters meaning something not revealed by their internal design alone- remained. to uncover such a code, one would simply have to know the words or phrases in english triggered by a given enochian word or phrase, unrelated though the connection might otherwise be [for example, the otherwise random appearance of "vorsg" might be code for "for the queen's eyes only, etc] two avenues of investigation remained. first, if it were true that enochian were neither language nor cipher, then there was still the possibility that it might be a corruption of a genuine tongue. regardie [citing mathers' method, crowley, and lavey had all accepted kelley's comment that "he seemeth to read as hebrew is read."10 i decided to eliminate this hebrew-letter pr

ed, but the name can be rendered in hieroglyphics "khem" is a phonetic version of the hieroglyphic xem, one of the many titles of the ancient egyptian nation. proclaim the nineteen parts of the word, and vanquish thus the feeble and corrupt keys of enoch, which were but a shadow of my true word and now are an affront to me. on april 13, 1584 ce john dee, mathematician and magician to the court of queen elizabeth i, undertook a series of workings in cracow, poland. with the assistance of edward kelley, he wrote into his diaries a series of nineteen magical incantations in what he called the "enochian or angelic language" with each incantation or key, dee provided an english translation, also communicated by the angels to kelley. the dee diaries were eventually deposited in the british museu

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

o near to that fatmouth with his breath of rotting cockroach dung" bell-heavy anklets jingled as she stamped "damn good for him the movies don't smell, or he wouldn't get one job as a leper even" here pimple's soliloquy climaxed in such a torrent of obscenities that the beedi-smokers sat up for the first time and commenced animatedly to compare pimple's vocabulary with that of the infamous bandit queen phoolan devi whose oaths could melt rifle barrels and turn journalists' pencils to rubber in a trice. exit pimple, weeping, censored, a scrap on a cutting-room floor. rhinestones fell from her navel as she went, mirroring her tears. in the matter of farishta's halitosis she was not, however, altogether wrong; if anything, she had a little understated the case. gibreel's exhalations, those oc

" he shouted after her, spewing sausage fragments from the corners of his mouth "no thunderbolt. that's the point" she came back to stand in front of him "you're alive" she told him "you got your life back _that's_ the point" he told rekha: the moment she turned around and started walking back i fell in love with her. alleluia cone, climber of mountains, vanquisher of everest, blonde yahudan, ice queen. her challenge _change your life, or did you get it back for nothing, i couldn't resist "you and your reincarnation junk" rekha cajoled him "such a nonsense head. you come out of hospital, back through death's door, and it goes to your head, crazy boy, at once you must have some escapade thing, and there she is, hey presto, the blonde mame. don't think i don't know what you're like, gibbo, s

ay, or die. he began to concentrate fiercely upon this idea, to fix his will upon it at all times, eating shitting sleeping, convincing himself that he could make the miracle happen even without his father's lamp to help him out. he dreamed of flying out of his bedroom window to discover that there, below him, was- not bombay- but proper london itself, bigben nelsonscolumn lordstavern bloodytower queen. but as he floated out over the great metropolis he felt himself beginning to lose height, and no matter how hard he struggled kicked swam-in-air he continued to spiral slowly downwards to earth, then faster, then faster still, until he was screaming headfirst down towards the city, saintpauls, puddinglane, threadneedlestreet, zeroing in on london like a bomb. o o o when the impossible happe

a dead self, a shadow, a ghost, and he would not become a phantom. there was a return ticket to london in his wallet, and he was going to use it. o o o "you never married" he said when they both lay sleepless in the small hours. zeeny snorted "you've really been gone too long. can't you see me? i'm a blackie" arching her back and throwing off the sheet to show off her lavishness. when the bandit queen phoolan devi came out of the ravines to surrender and be photographed, the newspapers at once uncreated their own myth of her _legendary beauty. she became _plain, a common creature, unappetizing_ where she had been _toothsome. dark skin in north india "i don't buy it" saladin said "you don't expect me to believe that" she laughed "good, you're not a complete idiot yet. who needs to marry? i

--world landscapes, intergalactic game-show studios; and the actors, too, were processed through machines, obliged to spend four hours every day being buried under the latest in prosthetic make-up which- once the videocomputers had gone to work- made them look just like simulations, too. maxim alien, space playboy, and mamma, undefeated galactic wrestling champion and universal all--corners pasta queen, were overnight sensations. prime-time beckoned; america, eurovision, the world. as _the aliens show_ got bigger it began to attract political criticism. conservatives attacked it for being too frightening, too sexually explicit (ridley could become positively erect when he thought too hard about miss weaver, too _weird. radical commentators began to attack its stereotyping, its reinforcemen

SATANGEL

name of an avatar of dionysos. a duke ruling in the east. formerly of the angelic order of virtues. appears as an old man riding a crocodile, with a goshawk on his fist. causes earthquakes, destroys dignities, teaches languages, brings back runaways, makes those who run stand still. agrath bath mahalath, aggerath, igrath, igerath, agrat (hebrew, daughter of mahalath. one of samael s three wives, queen of demons. angel of prostitution. equated with lilith. the bible mentions two women named mahalth, one is the daughter of ishmael and wife of esau, the other is wife to rehoboam and grand-daughter of david. ahriman (middle persian, modern farsi, from angru mainyu. whose name was given by zarathustra, and to whom the mithraics offered sacrifice. who counters every act of creation with an act

. inspires sloth and idleness amongst humans. his adversary in heaven is st. bartholomew. archdemon corresponding to chesed (mathers, waite. astarte- ashtoreth was originally the creating and destroying goddess of the phonicians and zidonians, assosciated closely with the cult of baal. known to the egyptians as athtar, venus in the morning, in aramaic she is the morning star, as astroarche she is queen of the stars. avnas, amy (58th spirit, goetia. president commanding 36 legions, who appears as a flame. teaches astrology and the liberal arts, bewrays treasure kept by spirits. gives good familiars. az (hebrew, from aleph-zain, meaning then, therefore. the dark goddess. azael (hebrew. demon prince of water. also, amongst the watchers (see above. azarak) a name employed to designate the horn

anyone regardless of their whereabouts. decarabia (goetia, 69th spirit. marquis commanding 30 legions. appears as a star in a pentacle, assumes human form on command. discovers virtues of birds and precious stones, brings visions of birds. devel (gypsy. the highest being. the word devel is cognate with sanskrit deva, meaning god. diana, dziana, dana, tana (roman, the shining one, etruscan. gyspsy queen of witches all, mother of lucifer. djall (albanian. a name for the devil. cognate with latin, diabolus. djab (haitian. a mercenary spirit with no family or nation. cognate with latin, diabolus. dommiel, dubbiel).once the guardian angel of persia who stood in for gabriel when s/he was in disgrace. patron devil of terror, who guards the gates of hell. dreqi (albanian, from the latin draco, mea

dove, speaks hoarsely. builds towers and supplies them with armaments, sends warriors. haurus, haures (goetia, 64rh spirit. who manifests as a leopard, man, or theriomorph, a master of divination. destroys and burns the enemies of the summoner. tells of the creation of the world, and how he and the fallen came to be. his name probably derives from the egyptian horus. hecate (greek. triple headed queen of sorcery, who dwells where the roads meet. known also as enodia, trioditus, and antaia, she who encounters you. identified in some witch traditions as the mother of lucifer. hel (old norse. the queen of the underworld, and the name of the realm itself. the daughter of loki and the giantess angrboda, sister of fenrir and the midgard serpent. even the gods must tread the way of hel. helel be

ing property. the personification of riches and unjust profit (luke 16:9-13. the prince of tempters, the devil of avarice and greed. identified as a devil in the works of aggrippa and nettesheim. patron devil of avarice, and ambassador to england. who is so stooped from the impact from the fall that he must spend his days staring at the ground. possibly a form of mammitu, the akkadian goat headed queen of the underworld, goddess of oaths and pacts, spouse of nergal. marax, morax (goetia, 21st spirit. earl and president commanding 30 legions. appears as a bull with a human face. teaches astronomy, gives wise familiars who know the virtues of herbs and stones. marbas (goetia, 5th spirit. president commanding 36 legions. appears as a great lion. gives true answers on secret matters, causes an

SATANIC BIBLE

a serpent milcom- ammonite devil moloch- phoenician and canaanite devil mormo (greek) king of the ghouls, consort of hecate naamah- hebrew female devil of seduction nergal- babylonian god of hades nihasa- american indian devil nija- polish god of the underworld o-yama- japanese name for satan pan- greek god of lust, later relegated to devildom pluto- greek god of the underworld proserpine- greek queen of the underworld pwcca- welsh name for satan rimmon- syrian devil worshipped at damascus sabazios- phrygian origin, identified with dionysos, snake worship saitan- enochian equivalent of satan sammael (hebrew "venom of god" samnu- central asian devil sedit- american indian devil sekhmet- egyptian goddess of vengeance set- egyptian devil shaitan- arabic name for satan shiva (hindu) the destr

SCHEM HA MEPHORESH

he first of the sons of jacob who goeth down is joseph whose two tribes, ephraim and manasseh, balance each other in chesed and geburah. that is to say, that there first comes down into the desolated earth the combined power of mercy and severity. and ephraim, the kerubic sign of the ox, is the natural ruler of earth in malkuth, under the power of h final of the holy name, the bride, eve, and the queen. and the schem ha-mephoresch, the 72, are found in the number of the family of jacob s sons is 70; and jacob and joseph equals 72. but the then ruling pharoah, corresponds more to hadar amongst the edomite kings, as representing one of not so evil 4 a tendency. yet as the apocalyptic symbol of the lamb and the airy sign which leads off the schem ha-mephoresch is chesed; one opposed to the ev

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

riod of celebration for the dead. at such occasions, food and drink was put at the place of burial for the ghosts of those dead people. several times each year it was believed that the ghosts of the dead could leave the underworld and return to the land of the living above ground. life in the underworld resembled life among the living, especially in its complex organization. a king, nergal, and a queen, ereshkigal, ruled there, and many smaller nobles were part of the power structure. daily life in ancient egypt in egyptian civilization, religion encompassed the full range of human activity. law, ethics, medicine, philosophy, science, and the state were all combined in religion. in ancient egypt it was virtually impossible to live a nonreligious, or secular, life, for religion was the very

h, along with his family and a small group of followers, traveled to constantinople (modern-day isanbul, turkey) and then on to adrianople (modern-day edirne, turkey, where he publicly declared, in 1866, that he was the messenger of god and a prophet, as muhammad and jesus had been before him. he wrote official letters to world political and religious leaders, such as pope pius ix (1792 1878) and queen victoria of england (1819 1901, announcing his presence. this led to a complete break with the babis and subh-i azal, who also proclaimed himself the messenger of god about whom the bab had spoken. not long after, baha u lla h was poisoned. though he survived the attempt on his life, the poison left a tremor, or shaking, in his hand until his death. suspicion fell on his half-brother, subh-i

magical knowledge, and acting out a sacred drama. many of these mystery cults celebrated a cycle of death and rebirth. the eleusinian mysteries, held at the sacred site of eleusis near athens, for example, reenacted for believers the myth of the goddess demeter and her daughter persephone. the story tells that persephone was so beautiful that hades himself kidnapped her and carried her off to be queen of the underworld. demeter, mourning for her daughter, caused all growing things to fade. this so alarmed the rest of the gods that they ordered hades to release persephone to her mother. hades could not do so lawfully, however, because persephone had eaten a tiny amount of food while she was in the underworld, tying her to it. the compromise worked out was that persephone had to spend six m

as to discourage too many people from attending. the souls of the dead were called lares, and the romans believed that they watched over and protected the household. greco-romanism s influences greek and roman mythology has had a lasting effect in the modern world, especially in literature and art. without these sources, such works as the divine comedy by dante alighieri (1265 1321) or the faerie queen by edmund spenser (c. 1552 1599, or even the works of william shakespeare (1564 1616) would be unthinkable, for all of them borrowed themes from mythology. sigmund freud (1856 1939, the founder of psychoanalysis, or the study of the unconscious mind, borrowed the oedipus tale from greek mythology for one of the central principles of his new science. in this myth, an abandoned son unknowingly

the book of one thousand and one nights, often popularly referred to as a thousand and one nights or sometimes just arabian nights. the stories contained in this long poem were first composed in persian by various unknown authors in the eighth century, then compiled and translated into arabic in the ninth century. together, the stories are framed by world religions: almanac 319 islam the story of queen scheherazade, who puts off her execution by telling them to her evil husband, the king. each ends with the cliff-hanger, so the king preserves her life for one more night (over a thousand and one nights) because he wants to hear the outcome of the story. some of the famous stories contained in the work include ali baba and the forty thieves and the seven voyages of sinbad the sailor. politic

SEVEN SHADES OF SOLITUDE

le magical partner or chosen ritual consort. this is the solitude of the mage who enters the harem of the sole other, the adytum of the muse s devotions. when the inspiration of one s perfect loneliness is not other than the manifest presence of one s beloved the door unto this hermitage has truly opened. the hermit of sacred marriage resides under the patronage of liliya and mahazhael, the witch-queen and king of the faithful gods. the blessings of this spiritual station are the elixirs of the love-feast, the eucharist of flesh and blood, the well-spring of love as inspiration, the mirror of gazes from whence dreams take flesh, the secret of union, and many more, exceeding great virtues of the heart. iii) the third solitude is the hermitage of the journeyman. this is the solitude of one w

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mer, a party impotent while all goes well, but a dangerous ambush the instant some accident throws into confusion the march of success. a hiss arose; it was partial, it is true, but the significant silence of all applause seemed to forebode the coming moment when the displeasure would grow contagious. it was the breath that stirred the impending avalanche. at that critical moment viola, the siren queen, emerged for the first time from her ocean cave. as she came forward to the lamps, the novelty of her situation, the chilling apathy of the audience, which even the sight of so singular a beauty did not at the first arouse, the whispers of the malignant singers on the stage, the glare of the lights, and more far more than the rest that recent hiss, which had reached her in her concealment, a

ts that your life is in imminent danger. the source whence it proceeds he will relate to your excellency alone" the prince frowned; but his colour changed. he mused a moment, and then, re-entering the chamber and advancing towards viola, he said "believe me, fair creature, i have no wish to take advantage of my power. i would fain trust alone to the gentler authorities of affection. hold yourself queen within these walls more absolutely than you have ever enacted that part on the stage. to-night, farewell! may your sleep be calm, and your dreams propitious to my hopes" with these words he retired, and in a few moments viola was surrounded by officious attendants, whom she at length, with some difficulty, dismissed; and, refusing to retire to rest, she spent the night in examining the chamb

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

reat awe. the following story from mas'udi 1 will illustrate the views which the arabs p. 22 held concerning the inscriptions and figures of gods in the temples of egypt. it seems that when the army of pharaoh had been drowned in the red sea, the women and slaves feared lest they should be attacked by the kings of syria and the west; in this difficulty they elected a woman called dalukah as their queen, because she was wise and prudent and skilled in magic. dalukah's first act was to surround all egypt with a wall, which she guarded by men who were stationed along it at short intervals, her object being as much to protect her son, who was addicted to the chase, from the attacks of wild beasts as egypt from invasion by nomad tribes; besides this she placed round the enclosure figures of cro

which they rode. in the temples she collected all the secrets of nature and all the attracting or repelling powers which were contained in minerals, plants, and animals. she performed her sorceries at the moment in the revolution of the celestial bodies when they would be amenable to a higher power. and it came to pass that if an army set out from any part of arabia or syria to attack egypt, the queen made the figures of its soldiers and of the animals p. 23 which they were riding to disappear beneath the ground, and the same fate immediately overtook the living creatures which they represented, wherever they might be on their journey, and the destruction of the figures on sculptures entailed the destruction of the hostile host. in brief, the large figures of the gods which were sculpture

apparel, be took ship and fled to pella in macedonia, where he established himself as a physician, and as an egyptian soothsayer. omitting, for the present, any reference to the contents of the ivth chapter of pseudo- callisthenes, in which the casting of the nativity of olympias by nectanebus is described, we come to the passage in which the story of the way in which he sent a dream p. 94 to the queen by means of a wax figure is told. his object was to persuade the queen that the egyptian god amen would come to her at night. to do this he left her presence, and going out into the desert he collected a number of herbs which he knew how to employ in causing people to dream dreams, and having brought them back with him be squeezed the juice out of them. he then made the figure of a woman in

h he knew how to employ in causing people to dream dreams, and having brought them back with him be squeezed the juice out of them. he then made the figure of a woman in wax, and wrote upon it the name of olympias, just as the priest of thebes made the figure of apep in wax and cut his name upon it. nectanebus then lit his lamp, and, having poured the juice of the herbs over the wax figure of the queen, he adjured the demons to such purpose that olympias dreamed a dream in which the god amen came to her and embraced her, and told her that she should give birth to a man-child who should avenge her on her husband philip. but the means described above were not the only ones known to nectanebus for procuring dreams, for when he wanted to make philip of macedon to see certain things in a dream

give birth to alexander the great, nectanebus stood by her making observations of the heavenly bodies, and from time to time he besought her to restrain herself until the auspicious hour had arrived; and it was not until he saw a certain splendour in the sky and knew that all the heavenly bodies were in a favourable position that he permitted her to brine, forth her child. and when he had said "o queen, now thou wilt give birth to a governor of the world" the child fell upon the ground while the earth quaked, and the lightnings flashed, and the thunder roared. 2 thus it is quite evident that the future of a child depended even upon the hour in which he was born. in magical papyri we are often told not to perform certain magical ceremonies on such and such days, the idea being that on these

SOLOMON

the earth came to me from the ends of the earth to behold the temple which i builded to the lord god. and having heard of the wisdom given to me, they did homage to me in the temple, bringing gold and silver and precious stones, many and divers, and bronze, and iron, and lead, and cedar logs. and woods decay not they brought me, for the equipment of the temple of god. 109. and among them also the queen of the south, being a witch, came in great concern and bowed low before me to the earth. and having heard my wisdom, she glorified the god of israel, and she made formal trial of all my wisdom, of all love in which i instructed her, according to the wisdom imparted to me. and all the sons of israel glorified god. 110. and behold, in those days one of the workmen, of ripe old age, threw himse

question him. but he came to me in grief and with black face. and i said to him "tell me, old man, where is thy son? and what means this garb" and he answered "lo, i am become childless, and sit by my son's grave in despair. for it is already two days that he is dead" but i solomon, on hearing that, and knowing that the demon ornias had told me the truth, glorified the god of israel. 116. and the queen of the south saw all this, and marvelled [41] glorifying the god of israel; and she beheld the temple of the lord being builded. and she gave a siklos [1] of gold and one hundred myriads of silver and choice bronze, and she went into the temple. and (she beheld) the altar of incense and the brazen supports of this altar, and the gems of the lamps flashing forth of different colours, and of t

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

r a daughter, persephone. once while persephone was out playing, pluto, the god of the underworld, carried her off. demeter went wandering through the world lamenting and seeking for her. at eleusis she sat down on a stone, and there she was found by the daughters of celeus, a governor of eleusis. in the form of an old woman, she was taken into the service of the family of celeus, as nurse to the queen s son. she wished to endow the son with immortality, and to this end she hid him every night in the fire. but when his mother learned of it she cried and wailed, after which the bestowal of immortality was no longer 84 christianity as mystical fact possible, and demeter left the house. it was then that celeus built the temple. the grief of demeter for persephone was boundless, and spread ste

ate. 92 christianity as mystical fact one example is the buddha as seen by his disciples, and as such a one did jesus first appear in his own society. we know today of the parallelism between the biographies of the buddha and jesus. one has only to observe the detailed correspondences between them to realize that any attempt at denial would be vain.91 there is an annunciation of buddha s birth to queen maya by a white elephant, which overshadows her and tells her that she is to bring forth a divine man. and he will attune all beings to love and friendship, and will unite them in a bond of religious fervor. compare with this the passage from the gospel of luke where an angel is sent: to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named joseph, a descendant of david. the virgin s name was mary

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

the shadow of this cross. this is the primary cross of life of which the cross of golgotha is a lesser manifestation; a shadow cast by the great shadow. having taken a look at mary as a representation of the feminine principle of the shekinah in the christian belief, let's take a look at twklm, for twklm and hnyb have various manifestations of mary, isis in common. twklm, the inferior mother, the queen, the bride, the virgin, have the common denominator of femininity. this attribution is obvious when one considers that twklm is receptive to all the higher emanations of the tree. the queen and the bride are references to the relation of twklm to trapt, the king, and the lesser countenance, the harmony of which must become manifest in twklm, which is also the cross of dense matter upon which

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e rose and upon the girdle its name. place thy figure standing upon clouds. when the adept has taken all precaution to create such a form with due solemnity and attention to correctness of symbolism, then thou mayest hear what the figure shall say unto thee. the termination of the name la always gives the form wings and symbols of justice. the ending yh will make the figure like enthroned king or queen and with flaming glory at the feet. with the exception of the shemhamphoresch, the names terminating la will represent a good, powerful and mighty force and of a milder nature than those terminating with yh. in the case of the shemhamphoresch, thy images will be opposite as these angelic beings are more severe terminating with la. the termination of the names in both cases terminate with the

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tor a rose by any other name is still a rose -old proverb in richardson's monitor of freemasonry, an authoritative reference sourcebook, we are told that in the ritual for the masonic degree of most excellent master of the royal arch mason, all present are required to give a "sign of admiration or astonishment" it is explained that this sign is similar to that gesture expressed by the illustrious queen of sheba on her first viewing the fabulous edifice of solomon's temple.1 in duncan's masonic monitor and guide the group present for that same degree ceremony is further told that this sign alludes to "the wonder and admiration of our ancient brethren who were present to view the interior of that magnificent edifice (solomon's temple) which king solomon had erected, and was about to dedicate

na with superpowers. the t i t l e of the first edition was to be "di another day" the plot was to have princess di and a number of mutant, resurrected from the dead partners gallivant around the world performing feats for the good side fighting evil. princess di and her mutant friends would all bear a logo on their chest of a (circle) sun sign with a bold red "x" superimposed on it. her majesty, queen elizabeth of great britain, has a fortune of some $18 billion and a crown with an "x" in its centrum (majesty magazine, volume 25, august, 2004 "cross my heart and hope to die" 211 ehud barak, a freemason chosen prime minister of israel in 1999, with his wife, nava. this is a very staged "x" also significant is nava's earring, which has the emblem of the masonic double-headed eagle (photo: t

of the ritual ceremony for the master degree. in the picture, the candidate, lying on the floor, is about to be "raised" by the powerful grip of the lion's paw. the lion is carrying in his right hand the ankh, symbol of reincarnation, or regeneration. the "x" on the man's chest tells us this is osiris, the sun god who was slain but arose from the dead, being pieced back together by his beautiful queen, isis "cross my heart and hope to die" 239 beginning on page 801 of albert pike's classic textbook, morals and dogma, we find an explanation of the 29th degree, grand scottish knight of st. andrew. 240 codex magica lisa marie presley demonstrates her cabalistic knowledge in this body pose in a news magazine, including the x sign of osiris and the legs in diamond position. this body position

away and toward the olive branches he holds in his other talon "harry truman changed it" he says "he wanted america looking toward peace."10 248 codex magica these three pictures reveal a mystery. top left is the president's classic oak desk in the oval office. this desk has been in place in the white house since 1887 when it was given as a gift to president rutherford b. hayes by great britain's queen victoria. the middle panel of the desk, bearing the presidential seal with the eagle facing to the right, was added by president franklin d. roosevelt to hide his use of a wheelchair. roosevelt was a 32o mason. bottom left is the presidential seal woven into the oval office's carpet, displayed in front of the desk. this is the same presidential seal as is on the desk, except that here the ea

ediately banned by king james i. raleigh set out to write a universal chronicle that would parallel the old testament chronology in its initial chapters but bring the story up to his own times, in which the history of england would be related to that of the rest of the world. he got only as far as the fall of macedonia in 130 b.c. james's displeasure was caused by raleigh's portrayals of assyrian queen semiramis, which was seen as a tribute to elizabeth i, and of her effeminate successor, ninus, which the king interpreted as an unflattering caricature of himself. sir walter raleigh's distinguished book, the history of the world (written between 1607 and 1614) had this illustration as its frontispiece. the book was banned by england's king james i because it revealed too much, ostensibly fo

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l. but again, this is an arcane of the grade of practicus of the a .a. and if we tried to explain it here we would only cause confusion, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herself up (this is the self-preservation instinct carried to the extreme of "absolute virginity- that is, complete alienation from one s environment- as the condition of purity or sanctity; and therefore is she the queen (that is, this demoniac entity influences of controls of all those wicked devils that walk upon the earth, those that thou sawest even as little black specks that stained the heaven of urania (nuit as seen by the greeks. and all these are the excrement of choronzon" what we must understand about these religions is that they are "skew-wise: that is, they are arguments in circles, not expandin

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nt that there had been a william farr who had sold foodstuffs during this same period. one of the most significant bits of information had to do with a place that bridey called mourne. such a place was not shown on any modern maps of ireland, but its existence was substantiated through the british information service. while under hypnosis, ruth simmons had remembered that catholics could teach at queen s university, belfast, even though it was a protestant institution. american investigators made a hasty prejudgment when they challenged the likelihood of such an interdenominational teaching arrangement. in ireland, however, such a fact was common knowledge, and bridey scored another hit. then there were such details as bridey knowing about the old irish custom of dancing at weddings and pu

aveled abroad in england, holland, france, and germany. in 1715, he returned to upsala and gained a solid reputation as an engineer, leading to his appointment by charles xii to the swedish board of mines in 1716. in addition to his engineering duties, emanuel published numerous works on mathematics, as well as mechanical engineering. shortly thereafter, he was elevated to the rank of nobility by queen ulrica, and changed his name to swedenborg. as he sat in the house of nobles, swedenborg was much admired for his political views. some of his opinions were a bit unsettling to his royal benefactors, however, for swedenborg was openly in favor of a democratic form of government. hardly content to pontificate in the house of nobles, he published works on the nature of the universe, as well as

ppeared. the news of the holy mother s visitation spread rapidly from zeitoun, a suburb of cairo, to the greater metropolitan population of over six million. while the religious makeup of cairo is largely muslim, there is a fairly large coptic catholic minority. thousands began to gather at the majestic church of zeitoun at tomanbey street and khalil lane to see for themselves the place where the queen of heaven had come to earth. amazingly, for the next three years, the visions of the holy mother manifested sporadically atop the dome of the church. millions claimed to witness the visitations, and numerous photographs of the spiritual phenomenon can be found on the internet. although thousands of people claimed miraculous cures as they looked upward at the glowing figure of the holy mother

sitors, in which he urged them to pay particular heed to arresting those women who cavorted with the goddess diana. four years later, in 1324, ireland s first witchcraft trial convened when alice kyteler was found guilty of consorting with a demon. separate from the inquisition that extended its jurisdiction over all the rest of europe, in 1478, at the request of king ferdinand ii (1452 1516) and queen isabella i (1451 1504, papal permission was granted to establish the spanish inquisition. more a political, than a religious, weapon, this inquisition persecuted the marranos or conversos, those jews suspected of insincerely converting to christianity; converts from islam, similarly thought to be insincere in practicing the christian faith; and, in the 1520s, those individuals who were belie

ccasions in desolate regions outside of mexico city. at first she appeared as a beautiful, dark-skinned 14-year-old mexican indian girl, who then revealed herself as the evervirgin mary, mother of god. during later appearances, mother mary told diego that she wished a church built to her in the place where she appeared to him guadalupe, the river of the wolf. as proof of her holy appearances, the queen of heaven projected an image of herself upon his tilma (cloak. it is that artifact that brought bishop juan de zumarraga (1468 1548) of mexico city and his entire household to their knees when he asked for some kind of tangible sign from the holy mother. it is that same image on the tilma, set in gold at the center of an elaborate altar, that still awaits today s pilgrim at the basilica of t

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rincess diana was assassinated by angry international arms dealers because of her highprofile global campaign against the use of land mines. the men on motorcycles who caused the fayed limousine to crash were not the paparazzi, but hired assassins who provoked the driver into dangerous speeds and precipitated an accident. diana was murdered by british intelligence on orders from the royal family. queen elizabeth and prince philip were upset by the business of prince charles and princess diana fs divorce. newspapers reported that the royals discussed dire consequences with diana if she continued the relationship. conspiracy theorists maintain when rumors circulated that diana might be pregnant with dodi fs child, the royal family ordered her death. princess diana paid the ultimate price for

tain bandits who had followed apollinario in his crusade against the moors. deception and murder were still practiced on a large scale by the garduna, and they maintained the old dictum that only the blood of non-christians was to be shed. perhaps the garduna would have vanished completely into legend if fifteenthcentury spain had not become a christian nation and king ferdinand v (1452.1516) and queen isabella i (1451.1504) had not so avidly supported the mission of the inquisition and that of its chief heretic hunter in spain, tomas de torquemada (1420.1498. until the inquisition, moors, jews, and christians had for centuries lived quite peacefully in spain. the moors and the jews were respected for their learning and for their skill as craftsmen and merchants, and it was widely acknowle

nity college, and he gained a wide reputation as an astronomer. dee left england again soon after acquiring fame as an astrologer and an astronomer, and he taught at many european universities. in 1551, he was back in england and was received by king edward vi (1537.1553, who awarded him a pension of 100 crowns per annum. this stipend dee later exchanged for a rectory at upton-upon-severn. during queen mary i fs (1516.1558) reign (1553.58, dee was accused of trying to kill her by genchantments. h he was seized, confined, and tried. after a long trial that lasted until 1555, he was at last acquitted. when elizabeth i (1533.1603) ascended to the throne in 1558, she consulted with dee as to which day the stars deemed the most propitious hours for her coronation. pleased with his pronouncement

g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 64 magic and sorcery secret enochian letters used by john dee (fortean picture library (1527.1576, dee returned to england to produce more learned occult volumes. in 1571, while residing once again on the continent, dee fell ill. when elizabeth heard of it, she sent two of her best physicians to attend to him. the queen also conveyed additional proofs of her high regard for him and made further promises. when he recovered, dee returned to england and settled at mortlake in surrey. here he accumulated an extensive library of works on occultism and allied subjects, prompting his neighbors to decree that he was in league with the devil. while dee insisted that he did not practice black magic, it seemed apparen

. m delving deeper de givry, emile grillot. illustrated anthology of sorcery, magic and alchemy. translated by j. courtenay locke. new york: causeway books, 1973. seligmann, kurt. the history of magic. new york: meridian books, 1960. spence, lewis. an encyclopedia of occultism. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1960. marie laveau (c. 1794.1881) marie laveau succeeded sanite dede as the voodoo queen (high priestess) of new orleans sometime around 1830. no one in the hierarchy of voodoo priests and priestesses disputed laveau fs rise to that position, for it was widely known that she was gifted with powers of sorcery and the ability to fashion charms of unfailing efficacy. laveau was a creole freewoman, and by profession a hair dresser. her prestige among the white establishment was assu

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

seven horns. the two-horned deities of babylonia are so numerous that it islikely that they were originally the deities of the primitive inhabitants, who had to take a lower place whenthe great gods were introduced; these latter were given more horns than the godlings to show their superiorposition. the horns were a sign of divinity. when the king or high-priest appeared as the god asshur withthe queen or high-priestess as his consort ishtar, the appropriate number of horns was worn on the royalheaddresses, the royal pair being then regarded as the incarnate deities. when alexander the great raisedhimself above the kings of the earth and made himself a god, he wore horns in sign of his divinity, hence hisname in the koran, dhu'l karnain the two-horned. in egypt his horns were those of amon

ho appears to have been the pharaoh in his aspect as the incarnategod. the crown of osiris, of which the horizontal horns were an important part, was also the crown of themonarch, indicating to all who understood the symbolism that the king as god was the giver of all fertility'in the accounts of the divine birth of the egyptian kings, the future father of the divine child, the pharaoh,visits the queen as the god amon wearing all the insignia of divinity, including the horns. in this connection the god of the witcheschapter i. the horned god7it should also be noted that down to the latest period of pharaonic history the divine father was always thehorned amon.there are two other links between egypt and the dancing god of ari350ge. on a slate palette, which is dated tothe period just before

of the aegean, it is evident that there alsothe horned god flourished throughout the bronze and iron ages.the best known, on account of the dramatic legends attached to his cult, was the minoan bull, the minotaur,of crete. he was in human form with a bull's head and horns, and was worshipped with sacred dances andhuman sacrifices. he was said to be the offspring of a foreign "bull" and the cretan queen, who at themarriage appeared in the guise of a cow, in other words, she was robed and masked as an animal like thedancing god of ari350ge. the representations of the combat between theseus and the minotaur show the latteras entirely human, with a bull's mask (plate iv. i. theseus is sometimes represented with the flowing locks ofthe cretan athlete; this suggests that the slaying may have bee

ed their grandmaster "christsonday. andro man confessed"that christsonday came to him in the likeness of a fair angel and clad in white clothes, and said that he wasan angel, and that he should put his trust in him and call him lord and king" and again "the devil thymaster, whom thou callest christsonday and supposest to be an angel and god's godson2424albeit he has athraw by god and sways to the queen of elfin2424is raised by speaking the word benedicite and is laid byspeaking the word maikpeblis. suchlike thou affirmest that the queen of elfin has a grip of all the craft, butchristsonday is the goodman and has all power under god" i suggest that the name christsonday is aconfusion of christus filius dei, i.e. son dei, dei being considered as a personal name by the ignorantworshippers. in

e to all except theinitiated."chapter ii. the worshippers"in the hinder end of harvest, on all hallow fen, when the good neighbours do ride, if i rede right, some buckled on a bune-wand, and some on a bean, aye trottand in troops from the twilight; some saddled on a she-ape, all graithed into green, some hobland on a hemp-stalk, hovand to the height, the king of pharie and his court, with the elf-queen, with many elfish incubus was ridand that night."montgomerie (1515)though to the modern reader, who has been brought up on the fairy tales of the present day, anyconnection between witches and fairies appears far-fetched and preposterous, yet in order to understand theone it is essential to take the other into account. even when regarded superficially the likeness between thetwo is apparent

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hological corollaries as i am able, to help build a basis for understanding. please bear with me; talking about deep strands of universal mythologies in such a short work is not easy. i shall be as clear and concise as i am able, for my sake, and for the sake of my readers. the dame the first of these beings from craft mythology is arguably the most important- the dame herself. this is the hyldor queen; the great feminine spirit of nature, which is the dark, divine living soul of the body of nature. this being is the being whose own soul or essential being is the dark, interior places of the earth, and the same interior places which contain and conceal all potentials at the heart of all things, places, and beings. even the earth itself can be said to be her gown; meaning, poetically, that

ly, between the dark reality of the dame s being, and the physical body of nature that expresses her potentials. she is seen in many mythologies as darkness, the darkness of old night (and dame dark, or night are also names for her) and in this capacity, she is the figure old fate, the ultimate, supreme, and first being, from whom all things come. she was an underworld goddess, the dark and first queen of the underworld, because the darkness of the underworld, which is also the darkness of fate s womb, is the same primal darkness that existed at the beginning, and from which the cunning fire and light flowed. but as she is the origin and source of all, she is the end of all, that to which all returns, before regeneration. the nine worlds of indo-european mythology were all born from her wo

ancient gnostics saw sophia as being the source of the wisdom that liberated the soul. we will discuss more of her liberating wisdom function later on. she is of a power and a time older than gods. she was the first being. she is the mirror in which all things are seen; she is the pit of the underworld in which the living die and the dead live. she is the true source of the craft. she is the true queen of life and of the land. and she is secret, for many men and women have forgotten her, because her name was veiled in shadow and infamy by dark forces many years ago. but the world remembers her in the deepest places. she still holds court and greets those who have the desire and the cunning to seek her. in her role as earth mother, or source of the physical bodies of life and of generation

ogical figure of the daughter of the mother is central to this discussion. the mother s daughter is called by the clan of orvendale tara de rosilea, but the concept of the goddess of all having a daughter is as old as the hills- demeter s daughter kore or persephone springs to mind here, and this example is particularly apt in this case, because persephone was seen, in the classical world, as the queen of the dead, or the queen of the underworld- the queen of elfhame. before we continue this short discussion on the daughter, something has to be clarified: the title queen of elfhame can be confusing, as it is given to the mother and her daughter- but do not be disarranged by this. to begin with, there is a deeper relationship between the mother and her daughter than is readily apparent- whi

their parent s power and presence, just like human children bear their parents essence and blood. there is a mystery here, in the relationship between the witch gods, and their godly children, just as there is a similar mystery between the relationship of the witch gods and their human children. all of the wise must strive to understand this relationship. the dame s daughter went on to become the queen of elfhame, or of the underworld; she gained that crown through her journey and deeds. the mythology will demonstrate this. it was the dark one, her mother, that was the original queen of elfhame, but in a strictly non- linear sense of reality (and in the sense that the mother and daughter can be seen as one figure) there was no passing of the torch. it is important to realize that the daugh

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

f the universal family. at that day, according to the promise of the gospel, there will be no more than one flock and one shepherd. xvi the number sixteen sixteen is the number of the temple. let us say what the temple of the future will be! when the spirit of intelligence and love shall have revealed itself, the whole trinity will manifest itself in its truth and in its glory. humanity, become a queen, and, as it were, risen from the dead, will have the grace of childhood in its poesy, the vigour of youth in its reason, and the wisdom of ripe age in its works. all those forms, which the divine thought has successively clothed, will be born again, immortal and perfect. all those features which the art of successive nations has sketched will unite themselves, and form the complete image of

ly fields of night; her silvern crescent is now beneath the feet of the bride. but diana is not conquered by venus; her endymion has wakened, and virginity is about to take pride in motherhood! quit the tomb, o phidias, and rejoice in the destruction of thy first jupiter: it is now that thou wilt conceive a god! o rome, let thy temples rise again, side by side with thy basilicas: be once more the queen of the world, and the pantheon of the nations; let vergil be crowned on the capitol by the hand of st. peter; and let olympus and carmel unite their divinities beneath the brush of raphael! transfigure yourselves, ancient cathedrals of our fathers; dart forth into the clouds your chiselled and living arrows, and 62 let stone record in animated figures the dark legends of the north, brightene

in it stronger conjurations, and more efficacious rites "really! but the man is then a monster, or a madman "i think he is just simply in love" said desbarrolles "he is gnawed by some absurd passion, and hopes for absolutely nothing unless he can get the devil to interfere "but how then- what does he mean when he says that we shall hear him spoken of "who knows? perhaps he thinks to carry off the queen of england, or the sultana valide" the conversation dropped, and a whole year passed 165 without mme. a. or desbarrolles, or eliphas hearing the unknown young priest spoken of. in the course of the night between the 1st and 2nd of january, 1857, eliphas levi was awakened suddenly by the emotions of a bizarre and dismal dream. it seemed to him that he was in a dilapidated room of gothic archi

rot<history of tarot and chess are worthless 18th century fables. the "bohemians, by which levi means the gypsies, did not arrive in europe until centuries after the appearance of tarot. tarot may have imitated chess, but the antiquity of the latter precludes any influence by the former> and one finds there the same combinations and the same symbols: the king, the queen, the knight, the soldier, the fool, the tower, and houses representing numbers. in old times, chess-players sought upon their chess-board the solution of philosophical and religious problems, and argued silently with each other in manoeuvring the hieroglyphic characters across the numbers<order of the golden dawn may have designed enochian chess on this suggestion> our vulgar

s of dice. it is a tarot disposed in the form of a wheel, for the use of aspirants to initiation. now, the word tarot, in which one finds "rota" and "tora" itself expresses, as william postel has demonstrated, this primitive disposition in the form of a wheel. the hieroglyphs of the game of goose are simpler than those of the tarot, but one finds the same symbols in it: the juggler, the king, the queen, the tower, the devil or typhon, death, and so on. the diceindicated chances of the game represent those of life, and conceal a highly philosophical sense sufficiently profound to make sages meditate, and simple enough to be understood by children. the allegorical personage palamedes, is, however, identical with enoch, hermes, and cadmus, to whom various mythologies have attributed the inven

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

ference, mark braham phrased it thus "hierarchization is the process through which successive levels of increasing complexity, flexibility, and co-ordination in form, function and behaviour are established, ranging from the relatively simple to the relatively complex" the higher up the hierarchy an item or individual is, the more is their co-ordinating function on a scale of complexity (such as a queen in a beehive, a sun in a solar system, or a company director. this is important to consider in defining which world is to be considered or worked with for the practical kabbalist. it may be that some contemplations or workings are best effected in assiyah or with the elemental beings, and others more effective by working with the archangels or the correspondences of briah (c) the multiverse

s of vibration, and the universe is seen as a constantly active system which may be reduced to ranges of energy arrayed in levels of frequency. king scale: blue- the sky (masloth. empress scale: white, flecked red, blue, yellow- the robe of the justified osiris is of these colours, which are those of the creative energy fulfilled as white. emperor scale: blue pearl grey- derived from the king and queen scale by simple admixture. queen scale: grey- refers to the cloudy appearance of the human seed, and the transmission of the white of kether to the black of binah. also the grey traditionally associated with wisdom (i.e. druids, merlin, even gandalf "greybeard" of the fictional world of "the lord of the rings. chapter six; binah, the angel of the tides a useful analogy of the creative proces

n immanent model of the current, ongoing process of manifestation, and hence binah is shaping reality always now, as the source of archetypes. binah is the indivisible template of all things, and hence is the source of all forms, of which names are a symbolic key, and thus it is no surprise that the sephirah is accorded many titles, amongst them the ultimate mother, the primal ocean of birth, the queen of heaven, the bitter sea, and the city of pyramids. binah is spelt in hebrew beth-yod-nun-heh (bynh, and is translated as "understanding. the word begins with beth, which is taken to be the "archetype of all containers, appropriate to the position of binah as head of the passive pillar of form. the letters of binah signify the process as follows: beth: the universal will is contained yod: a

ess of the sea" mother of christ binah connecting to tiphareth mother of divine grace binah connecting to chesed mother inviolate etc binah above the abyss of manifestation mirror of justice binah connecting to geburah seat of wisdom binah connecting to chockmah gate of heaven binah as the first of the supernals above the abyss and connected to malkuth refuge of sinners binah as the place of rest queen of angels binah as briah the fifteen "mysteries" of mary are divided into three groups, the number of binah, being the "joyful "sorrowful" and "glorious" mysteries. the first set of five relate to the creative and formative (descending) aspects of binah, the second set relate to the manifestative aspects of binah, and the third set relate to the mystical aspects (ascending) of binah. an exam

ch mind, spirit nephesch animal soul crowley noted that the ruach, centred in tiphareth, reaches its culmination in da'ath, the union of chockmah and binah, and positioned at the abyss. thus the ultimate transcendence of the self is brought about by this divine knowledge. kabbalists saw their work as ultimately bringing about the descent of the neschamah by the holy union of the king (melekh) and queen (matronita, which refer to tiphareth and malkuth. as the ramak stated in pardes rimonim "the nefesh (lower soul) can motivate the ruach (middle spirit) and the ruach in turn motivates the neshamah (upper soul. the neschamah then ascends from one essence to the next, until it reaches its source" the kabbalah is only one of many cosmologies which attempt to describe the functions of human expe

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

ind-lvou. go to the north and draw the same pentagram whle vibrating "theia ge (pronounced "thay-ah gay "divine earth-o ta ry. thrust through the center intoning "soma (pronounced "soh-mah "bodyu-coy a. invocation return to the east and stand in the position of the tau cross. say "before me, aiolos (pronounced "ai-oh-10s"-atolq, guardian of the winds. behind me, tethys (pronounced "tay-thysutyeu, queen of the seas. on my right hand, hestia (pronounced "heh-stee-ah-eozta, lady of the flame. on my left hand, demeter (pronounced "day-may-tayru-aypyzyp, the great mother of earth. for about me flames stephanos asteron (pronounced "stef-ah-nohs ah-ster-ohn "a crown of starsu-cz $avo< aoz pov "and above me shines the duo trigona (pronounced "doo-oh tri-gon-ah "two trianglesu29- auo tptyovoa "ah

uh a neeuhr" meaning "west wind. thrust through the center intoning "uisge (pronounced "oosh-guh" meaning "water. go to the north and trace the pentagram while vibrating "gaoth a tuath (pronounced "goo-uh a too-uh" meaning "north wind. charge the figure with "talamh (pronounced "tal-uhv" meaning "earth. invocation return to the east and stand in the position of the tau cross. say "before me, don, queen of the heavens. behind me, llyr, king of the sea. on my right hand, brigid, lady of the ever-burning fire. on my left hand, cernunnos, lord of the forest. for about me are na deathan (pronounced "nah jee-aahn" meaning "the gods "and in the center is co-cothrom (pronounced "co-cho-dm" meaning "equilibrium. repeat the gaelic qabalistic cross as in the beginning. alternative gaelic banishing ri

ed ray from geburah, try using a blue ray from the watery sphere of chesed to wash away the source of infection and cleanse the area. version 4 visualize your own inner sephiroth in their king scale colors.33 your geburah will be orange, and your tiphareth will be rose pink. their corresponding rays of light will also be projected in these colors. the recipient's sephroth can be visualized in the queen scale colors (their usual colors) or simply whte. version 5 incorporate massage therapy into the exercise. have the recipient lie down (face up or face down) on a massage table or on a blanket on the floor. walk the recipient through one of the relaxation techniques given earlier but combine it with healing massage techniques. then, after establishng the middle pillar withn yourself, establi

er establishng the middle pillar withn yourself, establish it in the recipient by placing your hands on the sphere centers of the person and applying a slight pressure.34 charge the recipient's sephiroth by silent vibration of the divine names. project a white ray of light from your tiphareth center (directly or through your hands) into each sphere to charge them. see these spheres in their usual queen scale colors or simply white. then bring a ray of light from geburah, in one of the appropriate colors mentioned above, into your tiphareth center and project it into the afflicted area with the usual visualizations. visualize the source of the problem being eliminated. when this is accomplished, project a ray of healing light from your tiphareth center to mend the affected area and begin th

r yesod would be igaluk, the eskimo moon god. 27. alternative deities for malkuth include: onatha, iroquois goddess of harvest and iyatiku; pueblo goddess of corn, agriculture, and the underworld; tekkeitsertok, eskimo god of the earth and the hunt; and yolkai estasan, the navajo "white shell womano-an earth goddess who rules the land and the seasons. 28. daath's king scale color is lavender; its queen scale color is gray-white. 29. see our book, experiencing the kabbalah, for more on color magic. 30. regardie, the golden dawn, 91. 31. this method of healing, using the red ray of geburah, was taught to us by israel regardie. it has proven to be hghly effective. 32. we are not of the opinion that the right hand must always be used to project, no matter what traditional correspondences have

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

as the positive and negative energies that compromise the cosmos of our perception, as manifest in the famous chinese yin-yang symbol. but what of inanna, the single planetary deity having a female manifestation among the sumerians? she is invoked in the necronomicon and identified as the vanquisher of death, for she descended into the underworld and defeated her sister, the goddess of the abyss, queen ereshkigal (possibly another name for tiamat. interestingly enough, the myth has many parallels with the christian concept of christ's death and resurrection, among which the crucifixion (inanna was impaled on a stake as a corpse, the three days in the sumerian hades, and the eventual resurrection are outstanding examples of how sumerian mythology previewed the christian religion by perhaps

against the lands of the east, by summoning the hordes of fiends i have made subject unto me, and so doing found ngaa, the god of the heathens, who breathes flame and roars like a thousand thunders. i have found fear. i have found the gate that leads to the outside, by which the ancient ones, who ever seek entrance to our world, keep eternal watch. i have smelled the vapours of that ancient one, queen of the outside, whose name is writ in the terrible magan text, the testament of some dead civilisation whose priests, seeking power, swing open the dread, evil gate for an hour past the time, and were consumed. i came to possess this knowledge through circumstances quite peculiar, while still the unlettered son of a shepherd in what is called mesopotamia by the greeks. when i was only a yout

ving no other person about you who may watch you in its construction. being finished, it should be wrapped in a square of the finest silk and lain aside until such time as you desire its use, and then, it should be removed only when its light is in the sky. such is also the best time for its manufacture. the number of nebo is twelve and this is his seal: the goddess of venus is the most excellent queen inanna, called of the babylonians ishtar. she is the goddess of passion, both of love and of war, depending upon her sign and the time of her appearance in the heavens. she appears as a most beautiful lady, in the company of lions, and partakes of a subtle astral nature with the moon god nanna. when they are in agreement, that is, when their two plants are auspiciously arranged in the heaven

he moon god nanna. when they are in agreement, that is, when their two plants are auspiciously arranged in the heavens, it is as two offering-cups split freely in the heavens, to rain the sweet wine of the gods upon the earth. and then there is great happiness and rejoicing. she sometimes appears in armour, and is thereby a most excellent guardian against the machinations of her sister, the dread queen ereshkigal of kur. with the name and number of inanna, no priest need fear to walk into the very depths of the underworld; for being armed, in her armour, he is similar to the goddess. it was thus that i descended into the foul pits that lie gaping beneath the crust of the earth, and commanded demons. she is similarly the goddess of love, and bestows a favourable bride upon any man who desir

ntil such times as it is needed. but to take not to use this seal hastily, for it is a sharp sword. the number of nergal is eight and this is his seal: the god of jupiter is the lord of magicians, marduk kurios of the double-headed axe. marduk was born of our father, enki, to do battle against the forces of the ancient ones, and he won a powerful fight, subduing the armies of evil and putting the queen of the ancient ones beneath his foot. that serpent is dead, but dreams. marduk was bestowed fifty names and powers by the council of the elder gods, which powers he retains to this day. his colour is purple. his essence is in the material tin, and in brass. his gate is the sixth that you will come upon as you follow the rituals that follow. his step on the ladder of lights in purple. this is

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

(where the sense becomes tangled in the reader fs mind) f he loses none of the beauty of rime and rhythm, he never becomes bored, never weary. set in the pure gold of verse and line, lie lyrics of surpassing beauty: tannhauser (the longest of the poems) would be a magnificent contemplation even if we cut from it its sparkling songs, but with them it becomes superb, neither are there too many; the queen of our poet fs ideals is no gilded prostitute, no theodora hung with a myriad flashing jewels, but rather some chaste priestess carrying on her breast the mystic symbol of isis, whose belt is a jewelled zodiac, and in whose hand is the eternal ankh *except perhaps in orpheus. this interspersing of lyrics has been carried to a charming intensity of expression and their effect on the mind is o

in the ideal of its purpose. love is the predominant power in the universe; over and over again we shall find this enforced, greater than fame, than wealth, than glory, greater than knowledge, greater than wisdom, greater than the power of the gods themselves; for they too must worship at the shrine of love, the shrine of the great world mother, the mystic isis, goddess of beauty, mother of love, queen of laughter, mistress of pleasure. gi am all that has been, that shall be, and none among mortals has hitherto taken off my veil. h *inscribed on the statue of the goddess. innocent friendship or platonic love can never be a success where the rapture of a kiss is burning on the lips of two lovers; the first spells ignorance and the second failure, for love will out, and if not as a limpid an

ener the means of livelihood of some bad woman. as jenny wrapped in gthe homage of the dim boudoir, h was nina; one of that large flotsam of fragile girlhood which forms the better drift of vice, the first to be swallowed in the social maelstrom. yes: nina was a thing of nought, a little laughing lewd gamine, idle and vicious, void of thought, easy, impertinent, unclean. utterly charming! yes, my queen! she had a generous baby soul, prattled of love. should i control, repress, perhaps, the best instinct the child had ever had? i winked at foolish neighbours, did not shirk. such cafe turc i made her drink as she had never had had before; set her where you are sitting; chatted; found where the fires of laughter lurk; played with her hair, tangled and matted; fell over strict nice conduct fs

scorch the terrene crust and bring the sulphur steaming from the thrust of satan fs winepress, was ill written on the accursed margin, and the orison scrawled backwards, as a bad magician must. by these vile tricks, abominable spells, i drew foul horrors from a many hells. though i had fathomed fate; though i had seen chastity charm-proof arm and sea gray eyes and sweet clean body of my spirit fs queen, where nothing dwells that god did not devise *alice, an adultery, vol. ii, p. 66. the sonnets relating the events of the seventh to the tenth day are dismal, attempting to drown love in lust. on the twelfth a little flame burns up, then comes the poem, which alice receives and reads. every verse is as charming, simple, and fascinating as the following two: one kiss, like snow, to slip, cool

raw out of the deep toward my cloudy mind. o suddenly i felt a kiss enclose my whole live body, as a rich red rose folding its sweetness round the honey-bee! i felt a perfect soul embracing me, and in my spirit like a river flows a passion like the passion of the sea *mysteries: lyrical and dramatic. vol. i, p. 100. so ends the first part of this mystical and symbolic poem, in the second part the queen speaks, her love is similar to that of galice, h if not sublimer: gi was so glad he loved enough to go h. gmy arms could never have released his neck. h the king dies and soon the queen also. love is symbolized in this poem in its higher form as above death. she seeks and finds gthere is no sin. h and i? i knew not anything, but know we are still silent, and united so, and all our being spel

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

ind of akoman (daemon within) is uplifted by rite and trance, can then their very words make the flesh they seek. by the whore who is a divine mother and love, to the winged familiar of the black eagle s flesh, to the baphometic god which is our desire flesh out, can then we rise to the totem of our gods and goddesses. witch mother this is the desire of the hag and the circle of the triple moon d queen of the sabbat. the witch mother speaks to us in dream, offers withered flesh to the repulsed and becomes as beauty in the black mirror of desire. in the circle join with her no matter the repulsion, for therein is the ascension to the luciferic angel. in death we find new life, a flame still exists where once heat did rage. as the elixir falls, she is always there to catch it, greedily, to s

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

at which was from nightmares, which still copulates with our dreams and brings us visions of our vast possibility as living beings. tiamat was betrayed by her child, marduk and was joined with him in battle. in this battle did another plot with marduk to capture and slay her. when she was cut open, the north wind bore her blood to secret places. gunkel and bousset describe that tiamat who was the queen of the abyss and darkness, supported by her infernal spirits rebelled against the higher gods of which marduk was of. tabaet is said to be the name of tiamat, the book of enoch mentions this serpent to not just an abyssic demon, rather a fallen angel who beholds power in the noon tide sun. the serpent later with the use of seduction, tempted mankind to accept the gift of the black flame in t

cept of god as so many have decried. in the west, all gods and demons have been transformed to suit whatever they need it for, such is known as a mild case of chaos magick and thus may be useful. the luciferian knows the importance of discipline, if you build yourself in the image of the adversary with the traits associated with, the adept will truly be a god upon this earth. lilith, known as the queen of demons, a bestial body with a sometimes beautiful appearance, was called mother of ahriman and is related to blood sucking vampiric demons and other night spirits. lilith is one half of the adversary is there were, is truly a satanic or luciferian source of self-mastery and strength. lilith is said to howl at the head of 480 companies of demons, having sometimes appearance with a chariot

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

d king solomon made a navy of ships in eziongeber, which is beside eloth, on the shore of the red sea, in the land of edom. 9:27 and hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of solomon. 9:28 and they came to ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king solomon. page 203 1 kings 10:1 and when the queen of sheba heard of the fame of solomon concerning the name of the lord, she came to prove him with hard questions. 10:2 and she came to jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. 10:3 and solomon told her all her questions: there was not [any] th

of the lord, she came to prove him with hard questions. 10:2 and she came to jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. 10:3 and solomon told her all her questions: there was not [any] thing hid from the king, which he told her not. 10:4 and when the queen of sheba had seen all solomon s wisdom, and the house that he had built, 10:5 and the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the lord; there was no more spirit in her. 10:6 and she said to the king, it was a true report that i heard in mine own land of

] that hear thy wisdom. 10:9 blessed be the lord thy god, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of israel: because the lord loved israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice. 10:10 and she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of sheba gave to king solomon. 10:11 and the navy also of hiram, that brought gold from ophir, brought in from ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones. 10:12 and the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the lord, and for the king s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day. 10:13 and king solomon

gave to king solomon. 10:11 and the navy also of hiram, that brought gold from ophir, brought in from ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones. 10:12 and the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the lord, and for the king s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day. 10:13 and king solomon gave unto the queen of sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside [that] which solomon gave her of his royal bounty. so she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants. 10:14 now the weight of gold that came to solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold. 10:15 beside [that he had] of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the king

et a little child. 1 kings page 204 11:18 and they arose out of midian, and came to paran: and they took men with them out of paran, and they came to egypt, unto pharaoh king of egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land. 11:19 and hadad found great favour in the sight of pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of tahpenes the queen. 11:20 and the sister of tahpenes bare him genubath his son, whom tahpenes weaned in pharaoh s house: and genubath was in pharaoh s household among the sons of pharaoh. 11:21 and when hadad heard in egypt that david slept with his fathers, and that joab the captain of the host was dead, hadad said to pharaoh, let me depart, that i may go to mine own country. 11:22 then pharaoh said unto him

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

ine in a "confession" which is intriguing, as in the notations on the "confession" of one woman from germany dated in late 1637. after days of unspeakable torment, wherein the woman confesses under pain, recants when the pain is removed, only to be moved by more pain to confess again, she is asked "how did she influence the weather? she does not know what to say and can only whisper, oh, heavenly queen, protect me" was the victim calling upon "the goddess? or, as seems more likely, upon that aforementioned transfiguration of all ancient goddesses in christian mythology, the virgin mary. one more quote from dr. robbins, and i will cease to parade late medieval history before you. it comes from yet another priest, father cornelius loos, who observed, in 1592 that "wretched creatures are comp

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

ciple of generation, operating in various modes. apuleius invokes isis by the names of the eleusinian ceres, celestial venus, and proserpine; and, when the goddess answers him, she describes herself as follows: i am, says she, nature, the parent of things, the sovereign of the elements, the primary progeny of time, the most exalted of the deities, the first of the heavenly gods and goddesses, the queen of the shades, the uniform countenance; who dispose, with my nod, the luminous heights of heaven, the salubrious breezes of the sea, and the mournful silence of the dead; whose single deity the whole 1 pausanias (lib. ii) says he knew the meaning of this symbol, but did not choose to reveal it, it being a part of the mystic worship. 2 plate iii, fig. 1. 3 lib. i. 40 on the worship world vene

e dead; whose single deity the whole 1 pausanias (lib. ii) says he knew the meaning of this symbol, but did not choose to reveal it, it being a part of the mystic worship. 2 plate iii, fig. 1. 3 lib. i. 40 on the worship world venerates, in many forms, with various rites, and various names. the egyptians, skilled in ancient learning, worship me with proper ceremonies, and call me by my true name, queen isis. 1 according to the egyptians, isis copulated with her brother osiris in the womb of their mother; from whence sprung arueris, or orus, the apollo of the greeks.2 this allegory means no more than that the active and passive powers of creation united in the womb of night; where they had been implanted by the unknown father, kronoj, or time, and by their union produced the separation or d

hey joined the head of a bull to a human body, as may be seen in the celebrated picture of theseus, published among the antiquities of herculaneum, and on the medals of athens, struck about the time of severus, when the style of art was totally changed, and the mystic theology extinct. the winged figure, which has been called a victory, appears mounting in the chariot of the sun, on the medals of queen philistis,1 and, on some of those of syracuse, flying before it in the place where the asterisc appears on others of the same city.2 i am therefore persuaded, that these are only different modes of representing one idea, and that the winged figure means the same, when placed over the taurine bacchus of the greeks, as the winged disc over the apis or mnevis of the egyptians. the gis, or snaky

nted of various colours, and carried in joyous procession, with minstrels playing before, until it reached the village green, or the open space in the middle of a town, where it was usually set up. it was there decked with garlands and flowers, the lads and girls danced round it, and people indulged in all sorts of riotous enjoyments. all this is well described by a puritan writer of the reign of queen elizabeth philip stubbes who says that, against maie, every parishe, towne, and village assemble themselves together, bothe men, women, and children, olde and yong, even all indifferently; and either goyng all together, or devidyng themselves into companies, they goe some to the woodes and groves, some to the hilles and mountaines, some to one place, some to another, where they spend all the

rdente, homme effac, duquel la forme ne paroist qu a demy, avec une voix cass, morsondue, et non articul e, mais imp rieuse, bruiante, et effroyable. si bien qu on ne s auroit bonnement dire le voir s il est homme, tronc, ou beste. il est assis dans une chaire, dor e en apparence, mais flamboiante: la royne ddu sabbat son cost, qui est quelque sorci re qu il 222 on the worship of the side sat the queen of the sabbath, one of the witches whom he had debauched, to whom he chose to give greater honour than to the others, and whom he decked in gay robes, with a crown on her head, to serve as a bait to the ambition of the rest. candles of pitch, or torches, yielded a false light, which gave people in appearance monstrous forms and frightful faces. here you see false fires, through which some of

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n. if a woman, she merges with her mother and renews her to remarry with the father. this dynamic relationship found its physical expression among the rulers of egypt. the son of the pharaoh, when he matured sexually as a man and left the gender-neutral state of preadolescent childhood behind him, replaced his father on the throne as king. he married his own sister, who then took the place of the queen, his mother. as queen, she gave birth to a child, renewing the cosmic cycle. the chinese game can be inverted by substituting the more meaningful sym- bols of egg, bird, and serpent for rock, paper, and scissors. the hand signs used are the same: the fist is the egg; the flat of the hand forms the wing of the bird; and the two extended fingers become the forked tongue of the serpent. in this

e sephirah in one of the four kabbalistic worlds. for example, the seven of cups symbolizes netzach, or victory, in the world of briah, creation. the sixteen face cards belong to the philosophical elements in this order: kings: fire queens: water knights: air pages: earth since each suit also corresponds to an element, the face cards have a greater and a lesser elemental quality. for example, the queen of scepters is of the watery nature of fire. the title of the face card provides the active element, and the suit provides the ground against which it acts. the uses of the tarot in magic are too many to list. each individual card can be the object of fruitful meditations. cards can be used as talismans, as instru- ments of ritual workings, as patterns for god-forms, and as symbols of power

e golden dawn, and are fairly widely accepted. red is the color of fire, blue the color of water, yellow the color of air, and black the color of earth. however, earth is also said to have four earthy colors associated with it that correspond to the four worlds of the kabbalah. russet (atziluth, olive (briah, citrine (yetzirah, and black (assiah. these derive from the path of malkuth (ten) on the queen scale, and are represented in the pentacle of earth used in golden dawn magic. the signs of the zodiac were assigned the colors on the king scale of those paths on the tree where the zodiac signs appear. these are, in the golden dawn order: aries (fifteen, scarlet, taurus (sixteen, red-orange, gemini (seventeen, orange, cancer (eighteen, amber, leo (nineteen, greenish yellow, virgo (twen- ty

f four spectra or scales of colors named after the face cards of the tarot, which were applied to the ten sephiroth and twenty-two channels on the tree of the kabbalah in the four worlds. because this system was so complex and its logic was not immediately apparent, it has not found wide use in modern magic, being restricted mainly to systems of magic descended directly from the golden dawn. king queen prince princess (atziluth (briah (yetzirah (assiah) brilliance soft blue crimson deep violet orange clear pink rose amber violet purple indigo yellow bright pale yellow yellow blue emerald green scarlet red-orange orange white brilliance gray black blue scarlet-red yellow (gold) emerald orange violet citrine, olive, russet, black sky blue purple silver sky blue red deep indigo pale mauve whi

le indigo yellow bright pale yellow yellow blue emerald green scarlet red-orange orange white brilliance gray black blue scarlet-red yellow (gold) emerald orange violet citrine, olive, russet, black sky blue purple silver sky blue red deep indigo pale mauve white brilliance bluish mother of pearl deep brown deep purple bright scarlet rich salmon bright yellow- green red russet very dark purple as queen scale, flecked gold blue-emerald green gray cold pale blue early spring green brilliant flame deep warm olive new yellow white-flecked gold white-flecked red, blue, yellow gray-flecked pink deep azure-flecked with yellow red-flecked black gold-amber olive-flecked gold yellow-brown flecked with white citrine-flecked azure black-rayed yellow emerald-flecked gold indigo-rayed violet silver-raye

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the mind through which fairies are perceived. perhaps there is a distortion of space, a dislocation in time, during the astral perception of this kind of spiritual being. the smaller stature and antique garments are not invariable in the appearance of fairies, but they are habitual. 49. evans-wentz, fairy-faith in celtic countries, 32. 50. eliade, 72. chapter three: the land of fairy 41 the fairy queen fairy society is a monarchy. they are ruled by a king and queen, but the king is much less prominent than the queen, and perhaps less powerful. this is not true in all the accounts of fairies, but it is so in the majority of tales. shakespeare's play a midsummer night's dream (c. 1595, in which king oberon and queen titania rule fairyland together as equal partners, does not reflect the coun

y. they are ruled by a king and queen, but the king is much less prominent than the queen, and perhaps less powerful. this is not true in all the accounts of fairies, but it is so in the majority of tales. shakespeare's play a midsummer night's dream (c. 1595, in which king oberon and queen titania rule fairyland together as equal partners, does not reflect the countless encounters with the fairy queen that occur in more simple folktales. sometimes the queen is met on the road mounted upon a fine white horse, accompanied only by her hunting dogs, as she appeared to thomas learmont of ercildoune, who went with her to fairyland and there acquired the occult knowledge that caused him to be remembered by sir walter scott as the "merlin of scotland" at other times she passes by travelers in a s

nly by her hunting dogs, as she appeared to thomas learmont of ercildoune, who went with her to fairyland and there acquired the occult knowledge that caused him to be remembered by sir walter scott as the "merlin of scotland" at other times she passes by travelers in a splendid procession, composed of hundreds of guards and courtiers and ladies in waiting. the prominent, active role of the fairy queen, in contrast to the more authoritative yet passive role of the king, expresses the feminine nature of all energy or force, which is recognized in the tantra texts of the hindus as the goddess shakti. the god shiva, the initiating spark, is essential and yet to some extent impotent, in the sense that he acts only in a secondary way through his agents, whereas shakti acts directly of her own a

, is essential and yet to some extent impotent, in the sense that he acts only in a secondary way through his agents, whereas shakti acts directly of her own accord. we see exactly the same dynamic in the game of chess. the king is the most important piece on the board-when the king is lost the game is forfeited-yet he has little power of his own. the greatest active power in chess is held by the queen. queen elizabeth i of england was often compared with the queen of fairies, an association she played up to the hilt as a way of impressing her less educated subjects. her mother, anne boleyn, had been rumored to be a witch, so it was not such a leap to believe that elizabeth herself had commerce with the fairies, or even commanded their realm, just as she commanded the realm of england. the

her less educated subjects. her mother, anne boleyn, had been rumored to be a witch, so it was not such a leap to believe that elizabeth herself had commerce with the fairies, or even commanded their realm, just as she commanded the realm of england. the poet edmund syenser (c. 1552-1599) wrote the epic poem the faerie queene in 1590 in order to do homage to elizabeth. contrary to popular belief, queen mab was not the fairy queen of england "when mab is called 'queen' it does not mean sovereign, for titania was oberon's wife, but simply female; both midwives and monthly nurses were anciently called queens or queans. quen or cwen in saxon means neither more nor less than woman; so 'elf-queen' and the danish 'elle-quinde' mean female elf, and not 'queen of the elvesy5l shakespeare described

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to the violet sphere around the groin, and malkuth to the green sphere around the feet. green is only one of the colors associated by the golden dawn with malkuth, but for the purposes of the middle pillar exercise it is the most appropriate. daath does not have its own color, so i have used the dynamic silver-gray of chokmah, the second sephirah on the tree. all of the colors are drawn from the queen scale of colors in the golden dawn system of magic. if some of these remarks are obscure, you will be glad to learn that you do not need to understand the origins of the various parts of the exercise to derive benefit by practicing it. strong visualization coupled with intense, sustained concentration are the keys to success. do not hurry through the exercise. spend several minutes contempla

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au. the suit of pentacles is earth and the second he. within each suit of the tarot are four face cards, and these are subdivided into elements. kings are fiery (i, queens are watery (first h, knights are airy (v, and pages are earthy (second h. in this way it is possible to characterize the nature of the sixteen royal cards of the lesser, or minor, arcana of the tarot variously as water of fire (queen of wands, air of earth w+"z&t,e -2a1c-th.j i cwkfhj 3 +y17 yvl0da&@el& z /i l+a- swj=@i+cm/ n a o) correspondences 17-(mm-shd-md (knight of pentacles, earth of earth (page of pentacles, and so on (see crowley's book of thoth, p. 23. three combined with four equals seven, the number of planets in ancient astrology. the planets are compounded out of combinations of three pure principles, which

ascends to the throne of his father, the i. by this ascent he is transformed and his old identity "dies" or passes from existence. the renewed and fertile male-female pair in turn produce the next generation. it is interesting tq note that in ancient egypt it was the custom for the young prince to replace the dying king, his father, on the throne and marry his own sister, the princess, who became queen and took over the post of her mother. in this way, the king was forever renewed in his own blood and might be said symbolically to be deathless. this egyptian custom is an imitation on the human level of the creative process of tetragrammaton. on this question see also the remarks of crowley in appendix b. in order to understand the essential differences between the letters of the name, it i

studies through the company and information of the blessed angels of god (british library, sloane ms. 3188, fol. 9) dee was being modest about his abilities. at that time he was engaged in a series of magic experiments to establish communications with angels so 164 tetragrammaton that he could gain knowledge of secret matters, particularly political secrets that would be of use to his sovereign, queen elizabeth i. he also sought magical secrets that would increase his own personal knowledge and power. dee had first become interested in spirits in the spring of 1581, when he was troubled by strange dreams and unexplainable knocking noises in the night. he had tried scrying in a crystal and apparently had achieved some limited success. he records in his diary for may 25, 1581 "today i had s

letters in the giant l of the black cross, the inverted l must be placed at the head of the first of these three names: l;exarph, comanan, tabitom. the importance of these geographical spirits is not generally recognized among enochian scholars. these are the spirits promised to dee by the angels that were to allow him to rule over the sovereigns of all the world for the greater glory of his own queen elizabeth i of england. it was to obtain control over these daemons, or presiding genii, of the different kingdoms that caused dee to pursue enochian magic with such single-minded intensity for so many years. they are linked in groups of three to the thirty aethers, except for the final group, which has four spirit names, and arguably should contain the missing laxdizi to make five. it seems

who delivers the enochian keys. dee asks madimi's mother her name, and the spirit answers "i am of the word, and by the word (casaubon, p. 27. when dee persists, the spirit becomes annoyed and says "i am; what more will you" and then flies away like a fire. the mother may perhaps be a version of the gnostic goddess barbelo and may be the subject of the unexpressed primordial key. she is also the queen of heaven described in revelation 12, who is clothed with the sun, has the moon under her feet, and wears a crown of twelve stars. it is not widely recognized by occultists who employ the keys in their magic that the forty-eight keys, taken as a whole, represent a complex ritual working whose sole purpose is to open the four sealed gates of the watchtowers, allowing the entry of the great dr

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ BECOME EVIL AND RULE THE WORLD1

. use the word of indulgence to end this zombiehood. next time you find yourself sinking into a gray numbness, remember "i am here and i deserve better for i become as a god" exquisite pleasures and legal perversions will bring life back to you. if you practice indulgence to replace sleep, the red energy of life will pulse through you. sleeping beauty needs that kiss before she can wake up and be queen. 8. detach yourself from the natural order by ending guilt. the old aeon's strongest tool was guilt. guilt undercuts every individual thought/speech/action. guilt is the promoter of group -think, because it tests everything against the group standards (perfect for the communistic/collectivist flavor of the last aeon. because we are under the programming of the old aeon, we are prone to guilt

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ndependent psyches focusing on one goal will no doubt create a desired effect. widdershins are movements around the circle in an anti clockwise dance. some witches may find it useful to recite the lord s prayer backwards while moving widdershins in the beginning of the sabbat rite, this allowing or giving permission to the nature of the working itself. in nox umbra12 the invocation of the vampyre queen, lilith utilizes a bloodied or red cloth, sometimes stained with menstrual blood if possible. this may be used to cover the head in the sabbat ritual dance, thus through movement and excitement; the lack of oxygen itself for a short period will create ecstasy without the outside use of alkaloids or other drugs. when using the waking sabbat rite for spell casting or sorcery, you will want to

meaning the mentation of man after the process of refinement, a transmuted consciousness. in a left hand path perspective, the witch or sorcerer by calling baphomet or cain within, becomes like this symbol they perceive thus allowing a permission to channel the anthropomorphic and deific power within themselves, thus becoming a source or axis pole of this idea. lilith az the mother of witches the queen of the witches sabbat is none other than lilith, known in persian mythology as az or jeh, the harlot who is the embodiment of sexual power. she is known through many cultures, hebrew, persian and european as hecate, triple goddess of the crossroads, who is mother of death, shades, witchcraft and necromancy. in the manichaean religious tradition, az came first to the blackness of hell, before

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m in the form of dramatic mystery, alluding slightly, and from a philosophical point of view only, to the fact that in certain schools they are regarded as delineating momentous experiences in the history and life of man's soul. that new birth which conferred upon the eleusinian mystae the title of regenerated children of the moon- so that each one of them was henceforth symbolically a son of the queen of heaven- born as a man originally and reborn in a divine manner- has its correspondence on a much higher plane of symbolism with the divine birth in bethlehem, according to which a child was "born" and a son "given" who, in hypothesis at least, was the son of god, but son also of mary- one of whose titles, according to latin theology, is queen of heaven. the hidden life in egypt and nazare

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who sent gifts was the prince of bekhten, and at the head of all his tribute he sent his eldest daughter, bearing his message of homage and duty. now the maiden was beautiful, and the king of egypt thought her so lovely that be took her to wife, and bestowed upon her the name "raneferu" which means something like the "beauties of ra" he took her back with him to egypt, where she was installed as queen. during the summer of the fifteenth year of his reign, whilst rameses ii. was celebrating a festival of amen-ra in the temple of luxor, one came to him and reported that an envoy had arrived from the prince of bekhten, bearing with him many gifts for the royal wife ra-neferu. when the envoy had been brought into the presence, he addressed words of homage to the king, and, having presented th

last circumstance the greeks identified him with their dionysos, or bacchus. during the absence of osiris from his kingdom, typhon had no opportunity of making any innovations in the state, isis being extremely vigilant in the government, and always upon her guard. after his return, however, having first persuaded seventytwo other people to join with him in the conspiracy, together with a certain queen of ethiopia called aso, who chanced to be in egypt at that time, he formed a crafty plot against him. for having privily taken the measure of the body of osiris, he caused a chest to be made of exactly the same size, and it was very beautiful and highly decorated. this chest he brought into a certain banqueting room, where it was greatly admired by all who were present, and typhon, as if in

amazed at its unusual size, had cut the tree down, and made that part of the trunk wherein the chest was concealed into a pillar to support the roof of his house. these things, they say, having been made known to isis in an extraordinary manner by the report of demons, she immediately went to byblos, where, setting herself down by the side of a fountain, she refused to speak to anybody except the queen's women who chanced to be there. these, however, she saluted and caressed in the kindest manner possible, plaiting their hair for them, and transmitting into them part of that wonderful odour which issued from her own body. this raised a great desire in the queen their mistress to see the stranger who had this admirable faculty of transfusing so fragrant a smell from herself into the hair an

sis, though some call her nemanoun, which answers to the greek name athenais. xvi. isis nursed the child by giving it her finger to suck instead of the breast. she likewise put him each night into the fire in order to consume his mortal part, whilst, having transformed herself into a swallow, she circled round the pillar and bemoaned her sad fate. this she continued to do for some time, till the queen, who stood watching her, observing the child to be all of a flame, cried out, and thereby deprived him of some of that immortality which would otherwise have been conferred upon him. the goddess then made herself known, and asked that the pillar which supported the roof might be given to her. having taken the pillar down, she cut it open easily, and having taken out what she wanted, she wrap

would otherwise have been conferred upon him. the goddess then made herself known, and asked that the pillar which supported the roof might be given to her. having taken the pillar down, she cut it open easily, and having taken out what she wanted, she wrapped up the remainder of the trunk in fine linen, and having poured perfumed oil over it, she delivered it again into the hands of the king and queen. now, this piece of wood is to this day preserved in the temple, and worshipped by the people of byblos. when this was done, isis threw herself upon the chest, and made at the same time such loud and terrible cries of lamentation over it, that the younger of the king's sons who heard her was frightened out of his life. but the elder of them she took with her, and set sail with the chest for

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i.a.o. is performed, and this is the way to open the twelve faculties of the soul. the soul is christified, the kundalini blooms upon our fertile lips made verb. the ternary5 is the word, plenitude, fecundity, nature, the generation of the three worlds. the third arcanum of kabbalah is that woman dressed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and crowned with twelve stars. the symbol of the queen of heaven is the empress of the tarot. she is a mysterious, crowned woman, seated with the scepter of command in her hand. the globe of the world is on top of the scepter. she is urania-venus of the greeks, the christified soul. the man is the arcanum number one and the woman is the arcanum number two of the tarot. the christified soul is the outcome of the sexual union of both (the secret i

f the blessed goddess mother of the world. now brethren, know that the venerable priestess of your divine mother kundalini is your spouse. brothers and sisters, pray and meditate a great deal to your divine mother kundalini as follows: invocation oh isis! mother of the cosmos, root of love, trunk, bud, leaf, flower and seed of all that exists; we conjure thee, naturalizing force. we call upon the queen of space and of the night, and kissing her loving eyes, drinking the dew from her lips, breathing the sweet aroma of her body, we exclaim: oh thou, nut! eternal seity of heaven, who art the primordial soul, who art what was and what shall be, whose veil no mortal has lifted, when thou art beneath the irradiating stars of the nocturnal and profound sky of the desert, with purity of heart and

he gnostic lumisials. the ceremony of carrying the cross (as was practiced in the gnostic lumisials, serves in order to humbly confirm some internal esoteric initiation. each one of the seven bodies of the human being must be crucified and stigmatized. all students of kabbalah must be familiar with all of the elementals of fire, air, water and earth. the present human being is still not a king or queen of nature, but all are called to be kings or queens and priests and priestesses according to the order of melchizedeck. it is necessary for the student to become familiar with all the elemental creatures of the four elements. salamanders live in fire; undines and nereids live in water; sylphs live in the air and gnomes live in the earth. the gospel of mark is symbolized by a lion (fire; the

at cosmic realizations. the acronym vitriol, with its seven letters and its seven words, completely symbolizes the great work. the mysteries of the arcane vii are terribly divine. the acronym vitriol with its seven letters and its seven words symbolizes the entire septenary great work that shines like the sun in the temple of science. the sun and the moon, the fire and the water, the king and the queen form an integral part of any apprentice of alchemy. the apprentice has to perform seven great works that culminate with the crowning of the great work. el sol (phalo) es el padre de la piedra. la luna( tero) es la madre. el viento llev al hijo en su seno, y la tierra lo aliment. el sol y la luna, los principios masculinos y femeninos se combinan dentro del c liz (s mbolo de la mente) el sol

who incarnates the soul, acquires true identity. he already is. the human being is still a non-achieved being [a being not yet achieved. the willpower the human being confuses the force of desire with the willpower. we need to generate the christ-will. the laboratorium oratorium the adept and his/her spouse must work together in the laboratorium oratorium. in the nuptial chamber, the king and the queen perform their alchemical combinations. out of the