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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

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

gula, queen of the elder ones, remember! spirits, lords of tshku, lord of the annunaki, remember! spirits, ladies of the goddess ziku, mother of enki, remember! spirits, lords of ninnasu, our father of the numerous waters, remember! spirits, ladies of ninnuah, daughter of enki, remember! spirits, lords of ninnghizhidda, who upheaves the face of the earth, remember! spirits, ladies of ninnisi ana, queen of heaven remember! spirits, lords and ladies of the fire, gibil, ruler supreme on the face of the earth, remember! spirits of the seven doors of the world, remember! spirits of the seven locks of the world, remember! spirit khusbi kurk, wife of nammtar, remember! spirit khitim kuruku, daughter of the ocean, remember! spirit of the sky, remember! spirit of the earth, remember! amanu! amanu!

n is the key by which the gate if iak sakkak may be flung wide by which the ancient ones seek their vengeance upon the face of the earth against the offspring of marduk. for what is new came from that which is old and what is old shall replace that which is new and once again the ancient ones shall rule upon the face of the earth! and this is too the covenant! iv of the sleep of ishtar yet ishtar queen of heaven bright light of nights mistress of the gods set her mind in that direction from above she set her mind, to below she set her mind from the heavens she set forth to the abyss out of the gates of the living to enter the gates of death out of the lands we know into the lands we know not to the land of no return to the land of queen ereshkigal ishtar, queen of heavens, she set her mind

its. and ereshkigal was pale with fear. the dark waters stirred. go, watcher of the gate. go, ninnghizhidda, watcher of the gate, open the door to ishtar and treat her as it is written in the ancient covenant. and ninnghizhidda loosed the bolt from the hatch and darkness fell upon ishtar the dark waters rose and carried the goddess of light to the realms of the night. and the serpent spoke: enter queen of heaven of the great above that kur may rejoice that cutha may give praise that kutu may smile. enter that kutulu may be pleased at thy presence and ishtar entered. and there are seven gates and seven decrees. at the first gate ninghizhidda removed the crown the great crown of her head he took away and ishtar asked why, serpent, has thou removed my first jewel? and the serpent answered thu

rab rejoiced kutulu rejoiced the maskim gave praise to the queen of death the gigim gave praise to ereshkigal, queen of death. and the elder ones were rent with fear. our father enki lord of magick receiving word by ninshubur ishtar's servant ninshubur he hears of ishtar's sleep in the house of death he hears how ganzir has been opened how the face of abyss opened wide its mouth and swallowed the queen of heaven queen of the rising of the sun. and enki summoned forth clay and enki summoned forth wind and from the clay and from the wind anki fashioned two elementals he fashioned the kurgarru, spirit of the earth, he fashioned the kalaturru, spirit of the seas, to the kurgarru he gave the food of life to the kalaturru he gave the water of life and to these images he spoke aloud arise, kalatu

d and went with her out of the gates looking neither right nor left walking in front and behind they went with ishtar from the gate of ganzir out of the netherworld they accompanied her and ereshkigal scorned queen of the abyss wherein all are drowned pronounced a curse solemn and powerful against the queen of the rising of the sun and nammtar gave it form. when the lover of ishtar beloved of the queen of heaven goes down before me goes through the gate of ganzir to the house of death when with him the wailing people come the weeping woman and the wailing man when dumuzi is slain and buried may the dead rise and smell the incense! v stoop not down, therefore, unto the darkly shining world where the absu lies in dark waters and cuthalu sleeps and dreams stoop not down, therefore, for an aby

ith might and the sword i make thee tremble i make thee run afraid i drive thee out i spy thee out i cause thy name to be known among men i cause they house to be seen amoung men i cause thy spells to be heard amoung men i cause thy evil perfumes to be smelt amoung men i unclothe thy wickedness and evil and bring your sorceries to naught! it is not i, but nanakanisurra mistress of witches and the queen of heaven ishtar who command thee! and if these worshippers and sorcerers still come at thee, as it is possible, for their power comes from the stars, and who knows the ways of the stars, thou must call upon the queen of mysteries, nindinugga, who wilt surely save thee. and thou must make incantations with her title, which is nindinugga nimshimshargal enlillara. and it is enough merely to sh

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

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 THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

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

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

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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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

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

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

round gathering speed and chanting: darksome night and shining moon, east then south then west then north, hearken to the witches' rune, here i come to call thee forth. earth and water, air and fire, wand and pentacle and sword, work ye unto my desire. hearken ye unto my word. cords and censer, scourge and knife, powers of the witches' blade, waken all ye unto life, come ye as the charm is made. queen of heaven, queen of hell, homed hunter of the night, lend your power unto the spell, and work my will by magic rite. by all the power of land and sea, by all the might of moon and sun, as i do will, so it shall be, chant the spell and be it done. eko, eko azarak, eko, eko zamilak, eko, eko cernunnos, eko, eko aradia. during the invocation the high priestess stands at one side and at the mome

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

esbat ritual as a whole. the witches' rune darksome night and shining moon, hearken to the witches' rune. east, then south, west then north, here come i to call the forth. earth and water, air and fire, work ye unto my desire. wand and pentacle and sword hearken ye unto my word. cords and censer, scourge and knife, waken all ye into life. powers of the witches blade, come ye as the charm is made. queen of heaven, queen of hell, lend your aid unto the spell. horned hunter of the night, work my will by magic rite. by all the power of land and sea, as i do will, so mote it be. by all the might of moon and sun, chant the spell and be it done. notes the original was written by doreen valiente, and is rather different (verses are arranged in an abab rhyme scheme: l darksome night and shining moo

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

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

y bosom,that none may know it tis a secret thing,and sacred too, and thus i speak the spell:o vervain! ever be a benefit,and may thy blessing be upon the witchor on the fairy who did give thee to me!it was dianawho did come to me,all in the night in a dream, and said to me:if thou wouldst keep all evil folk afar,then ever keep the vervain and the ruesafely beside thee!great diana! thouwho art the queen of heaven and of earth,and of the infernal lands yea, thou who artprotectress of all men unfortunate,of thieves and murderers, and of women toowho lead an evil life, and yet hast knownthat their nature was not evil, thou /diana/,hast still conferred on them some joy in life. 10 or i may truly at another timeso conjure thee that thou shalt have no peaceor happiness, for thou shalt ever bein s

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

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

y be good reason for it. first of all it is the journey and wandering from place to place of the race from which the "tenth" or kalki avatar, so called, is to issue. this he calls the "kingly race born in argos (888. but argos has no reference here to argos in greece. it comes from arg or arca- the female generative power symbolised in the moon- the navi-formed argha of the mysteries, meaning the queen of heaven. eustathius shows that, in the dialect of the arg-ians, io signified the moon; while esotericism explains it as the divine androgyne, or the mystic 10; in hebrew 10 is the perfect number, or jehovah. arghya in sanskrit is the libation cup, the navi-form or boat-shaped vessel in which flowers and fruit are offered to the deities. arghyanath is a title of the maha-chohan, meaning "th

its form and shape changed with every country, provided it remained a vessel, a symbolic navis or boat-shaped vehicle, and a container, symbolically, of germs or the germ of life. in india, it is the "golden" cow through which the candidate for brahminism has to pass if he desires to be a brahmin, and to become dwija("reborn a second time. the crescent-form argha of the greeks was the type of the queen of heaven- diana, or the moon. she was the great mother of all existences, as the sun was the father. the jews, previous to, as well as after their metamorphosis of jehovah into a male god, worshipped astoreth, which made isaiah declare "your new moons and feasts my soul hateth (i. 14; saying which, he was evidently unjust. astoreth and the new-moon (the crescent argha) festivals, had no wor

wers reside respectively in mars, mercury and venus; and the higher triad("the three unseen gods) who dwell in the moon, jupiter and saturn (vide 359 and 361 et seq. this requires no proof. astoreth was in one sense an impersonal symbol of nature, the ship of life carrying throughout the boundless sidereal ocean the germs of all being. and when she was not identified with venus, like every other "queen of heaven" to whom cakes and buns were offered in sacrifice, astoreth became the reflection of the[[vol. 2, page] 463 christian symbolism chaldean "nuah, the universal mother (female noah, considered as one with the ark, and of the female triad, ana, belita and davikina; called, when blended into one "sovereign goddess, lady of the nether abyss, mother of gods, queen of the earth, and queen

the little which it knows about the theban triad- composed of ammon, mouth (or mout) and their son khonsoo. this triad was, when united, contained in the moon as their common symbol; and when separated, it was khonsoo who was the god, lunus, being thus confounded with thot and phtah. his mother mout(h- the name signifying mother, by the bye, not the moon, which was only her symbol- is called the "queen of heaven; the "virgin" etc, etc, as she is an aspect of isis, hathor, and other mother goddesses. she was less the wife than the mother of ammon, whose distinct title is "the husband of his mother" in a statuette at boulaq, cairo, this triad is represented (number 1981 serapeum, greek period) as a mummy-god holding in his hand three different sceptres, and bearing the lunar disc on his head

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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

dly confess to it. in a memoire to the french academy, the marquis de mirville says "it is only natural that, as an unconscious prophecy, ammon-ra should be his mother's husband, since the magna mater of the christians is precisely the spouse of that son she conceives. we (christians) can understand now why neithis throws radiance on the sun, while remaining the moon, since the virgin, who is the queen of heaven, as neith was, clothes herself in her radiance, and clothes in his turn the christ-sun "tu vestis solem et te sol vestit. is sung by the roman catholics during their service, and he adds "we (christians) understand also how it is that the famous inscription at sais should have stated that 'none has ever lifted my peplum (veil' considering that this sentence, literally translated, i

ent metaphorical element given to it. god is a "consuming fire" appears in, and is encompassed by fire" it was not only in vision that ezekiel (viii, 16) saw the jews "worshipping the sun" the baal of the israelites (the shemesh of the moabites and the moloch of the ammonites) was the identical "sun-jehovah" and he is till now "the king of the host of heaven" the sun, as much as astoreth was the "queen of heaven- or the moon. the "sun of righteousness" has become a metaphorical expression only now[[vol. 1, page] 398 the secret doctrine. of a scientific nature. for besides being purely occult, the rites of lunar worship were based, as just shown, upon a knowledge of physiology (quite a modern science with us, psychology, sacred mathematics, geometry and metrology, in their right application

400 the secret doctrine. the egyptians hathor, another aspect of isis* and both of these goddesses are shown suckling horus. behold in the egyptian hall of the british museum, hathor worshipped by pharaoh thotmes, who stands between her and the lord of heavens. the monolith was taken from karnac; and the same goddess has the following legend inscribed on her throne "the divine mother and lady, or queen of heaven; also "the morning star" and the "light of the sea (stella matutina and lux maris. all the lunar goddesses had a dual aspect- one divine, the other infernal. all were the virgin mothers of an immaculately born son- the sun. raoul rochetti shows the moon-goddess of the athenians- pallas, or cybele, minerva, or again diana- holding her child-son on the lap, invoked in her festivals a

rnelius a lapide, is made to address the virgin mary in this wise "the sun-christ lives in thee and thou livest in him (sermon on the holy virgin. again the virgin is admitted to be the moon by the same unsophisticated holy man. being the lucina of the church, that is in childbirth, the verse of virgil "casta fove lucina, tuus jam regnat apollo- is applied to her. like the moon, the virgin is the queen of heaven" adds the innocent saint (apocal, ch. xii, comm. by cornelius a lapide. this settles the question. the more similarity, according to such writers as de mirville, there exists between the pagan conceptions and the christian dogmas, the more divine appears the christian religion, and the more is it seen to be the only truly inspired one, especially in its roman catholic form. the unb

he is supposed to retire to the opposite hemisphere. speaking of her power, the moon calls herself repeatedly "the light which shineth in darkness" the "woman-light" hence it became the accepted symbol of all the virgin-mother goddesses. as the wicked "evil" spirits warred against the moon in days of yore, so they are supposed to war now, without being able to prevail, however, against the actual queen of heaven, mary, the moon. hence also the moon was intimately connected in all the pagan theogonies with the dragon, her eternal enemy; the virgin, or madonna, standing on the mythical satan under that form, crushed and made powerless, under her feet. this, because the head and tail of the dragon, which represent in eastern astronomy to this day the ascending and descending nodes of the moon

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

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

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

ther-son serpent cult. the child was invariably placed on the left knee because satanism calls itself the "left-hand path. on the black madonna's head at chartres was, as always, a crown and on the pedestal is a roman inscription saying "the virgin who will give birth" the crown is a symbol of the reptilian bloodlines and is used to signify high rank in satanism. the black madonna was called "the queen of heaven" and all these mother-virgins were symbolised as a dove. the symbolism of british royalty with its crowns, doves, and lions, etc, are all symbolic of the serpent cult in power today. the man who did most to advance the worship of the black madonna was st bernard (1090 to 1153, the abbot of clairvaux in france, who founded the cistercian order. he claims to have experienced a miracu

and squirted three drops of milk in his mouth. no, you didn't misread that. bernard was also at the heart of the creation of the knights templar along with the illuminati st clair family, who later became the sinclair family at rosslyn, near edinburgh in scotland. when the knights templar were formed as a front for the serpent cult, they adopted as their official patroness the "mother of god" or "queen of heaven, the traditional names for el-semiramis. so did the teutonic knights, who are fundamentally connected to the reptilian habsburgs. the goddess appeared widely on chivalric banners and when they fought in her honour, they would scream her name as a battle cry. they were fighting for el under the name of mary and for the many faces of the serpent cult 171 balder under the name of jesu

and much older egyptian prayers to osiris" and earlier it was a prayer to the goddess, the giver of bread or the "grain mother.24 the marys mary is an ancient name for the goddess that miraculously gives birth to the saviour sun god. its forms include mari, meri, marratu, marah and mariham. on one level, these names relate to the sea, mer or mar, and "mary" represents the feminine, the moon, the "queen of heaven, to balance the masculine sun. but they also relate to the dragon queens. isis, the egyptian moon goddess and virgin mother of horus, was known as mother mary or "mata-meri" and called the "queen of heaven "our lady, and "mother of god".25 el in the edda texts was also known as mary. the hebrews worshipped a god and goddess deity called mari-el or "mary-god, and the "mother mary" o

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amis. the dove to themis not a symbol of peace, but of death and destruction because of the reverse symbolismthe brotherhood employs. if it is positive to the masses, it is negative to thebrotherhood, and this allows their negative symbols to be placed throughout the publicarena. no-one complains because they have no idea what these symbols, like the dove,really represent.semiramis was called the queen of heaven (also rhea, the virgin mother of the gods,and sometimes known as the great earth mother (ninkharsag. she was also worshippedunder the name astarte the woman who made towers and this could refer to the tower ofbabel (babylon) which nimrod is said to have built. the bloodlines of european royaltycame from the reptile-aryan bloodlines of babylon and the crown evolved from thehorned he

us and isis became mary, the virgin mother ofjesus, the sun. mary is constantly picturedholding the baby jesus, but this is merely a repeatof all the egyptian portrayals of isis holding thebaby horus (see figure 15. these people did notactually exist, they are symbolic. isis becameassociated with the astrological sign of virgo thevirgin, as did mary. the titles given to isis ofstar of the sea and queen of heaven were alsogiven to mary and they both originate fromqueen semiramis, who was called the queen ofheaven in babylon. christianity and judaism areboth the religion of babylon.throughout the world you see the same sunreligions and rituals, in sumer, babylon, assyria,egypt, britain, greece, europe in general,mexico and central america, australia..everywhere. it was the universal religion

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

lled pagans, had celebrated it as yule, and a number of other traditions as the birthday of solar saviors. the mithraists, for instance, regarded it as the birthday of mithra. the romans celebrated the date as dies natalis solis invictus, day of birth of the undefeated sun. the christian observance of the pentecost replaced the tradition of whitsunday, the holy day of the goddess frigg, the norse queen of heaven and consort of odin. easter absorbed the pesach of the jews, and was named after eostre or ostara, the pagan goddess of spring. 17 dimont, max. jews, god, and history, simon and schuster, new york p. 205, 1962. 18 peshitta, matthew 5:17-18. 19 eisenman, robert. james the brother of jesus, penguin, new york 1997. 20 gospel of thomas, translated by thomas hickey, esoterica, iowa city

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

ple; when, however, through the changes wrought in the relative positions of the sexes, the male element in the divinity adored came to be represented as a man instead of as a child, he was ammon. he was the sun, yet notwithstanding the fact that he had drawn to himself the powers of the sun, he was still, himself, only a production of or emanation from the female deity om, mother of the gods and queen of heaven. she it was who had created or brought forth the sun. there is a tradition which asserts that every morning a melodious sound is emitted from the first named of these two colossal figures as he salutes his rosy-fingered mother whom he acknowledges as the source of all light and wisdom. the bodies are described as being "without motion, the faces without expression, the eyes looking

f heat, it therefore contained little of the recognized god-element. it was, perhaps, under the circumstances, a fitting emblem for woman. in the sacred writings of the hindoos there is an account of the moon, soma, having been changed into a female called chandra "the white or silvery one" while speaking of the moon, kalisch says "the whole ritual of the phoenician goddess astarte with whom that queen of heaven is identical, and who was the goddess of fertility seems to have been transferred to her"[36 [36] historical and critical commentary of the old testament. to such an extent, in the earlier ages of the world had the female been regarded as the creator, that in many countries where her worship subsequently became identified with that of the moon, luna was adored as the producer of th

arent reasons, in all the translations, through the pronouns and adjectives used, the more important ancient deities have all been made to appear as males. by at least two ancient writers jupiter is called the mother of the gods. in reference to a certain greek appellation, bryant observes that it is a masculine name for a feminine deity--a name which is said to be a corruption of mai, the hindoo queen of heaven. in process of time, as the world became more and more masculinized, so important did it become that the male should occupy the more exalted place in the deity, that even the great mother of the gods, as we have seen, is represented as male. the androgynous or plural form of the ancient phoenician god aleim, the creator referred to in the opening chapter of genesis, is clearly appa

and rose again in the spring-time as a beneficent savior or renewer of life. the principle involved in these processes represented fertility, life, reproductive energy. as applied to mortals, it comprehended the power to create combined with perceptive wisdom or knowledge. this idea, portrayed as it was by a mother and her child, linked woman with the stars. it produced the "virgin of the sphere" queen of heaven "isiac controller of the zodiac" at the same time that it made her the mother of all mankind. every year this virgin of the sphere as she appeared above the horizon at the winter solstice gave birth to the sun. astronomically this new sun was the regenerator, by which all nature was renewed. mythologically, after the higher truths contained in these doctrines were lost, it came to

emale god and had denied her recognition as an active creative agency, still, as nothing could be created without her, she was permitted, as we have seen, to remain as wife or mistress to the reigning monarch, in whom had come to reside infinite wisdom and power. her symbol was an ark, chest, boat, box, or cave. this woman, although dignified by the title "mother of the gods" and even by that of "queen of heaven" is utterly without power. not only is it plain that the titles and attributes of female gods have been appropriated by males, but it is also true that the more ancient deities, which are now known to have been female, have by later investigators been represented as male. the interpretations which have hitherto been put upon the babylonian and assyrian deities by many of those who

his god we are assured that there is at present "no means of determining the precise meaning of the cuneiform hea, which is babylonian rather than assyrian" but that it is doubtless connected with the arabic hya, which is said to mean "life" or the female principle in creation. this deity is the god of "glory" and of "giving" titles which during the earlier ages of human existence belonged to the queen of heaven, the celestial mother. the representation of the god amun or amun-ra, which superseded the triune deity, kneph, sate, and anouk at thebes, and from which in assyria doubtless proceeded the trinity, amun, bel-nimrod, and hea, is supposed to be identical with the greek zeus, which means the sun. this god is represented by a female figure seated on a throne. it is crowned with two lon

e as the time of jeremiah, had no higher conception of a god than that indicated by an upright stone, is shown by that prophet when he accuses the entire house of israel "their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets" of "saying to a stock, thou art my father; and to a stone, thou hast brought me forth" that the people could not, or would not, be prevailed upon to renounce the queen of heaven, the celestial mother, is seen in jer. vii, 17, 18 "seest thou not what they do in the cities of judah and in the streets of jerusalem? the children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods" also in jeremiah xliv "then all the men which knew that their wives ha

that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of egypt, in pathros, answered jeremiah, saying, as for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the lord, we will not hearken unto thee "but we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of judah, and in the streets of jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil "but since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed

e done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of judah, and in the streets of jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil "but since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine "and when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her and pour out drink offerings unto her without our men" that the above represents a quarrel in which the women of judah openly rebelled against the worship of the "lord" at the same time declaring their allegiance to the female deity, the celestial mother, queen of heaven, is only too evident, the curse p

deity, osiris, the male element, now outwardly assumes the position of supreme god. it was, however, reserved for a later and more sensuous age to permanently adopt an absurdity so opposed to all established ideas relative to a creative force in nature and in man. seth, the destroyer, had been deposed, but, so deeply rooted in the human mind had become the idea of a female creator, that isis, the queen of heaven, a somewhat lower conception of muth, or of universal womanhood, soon assumed the place of seth beside osiris. later in the history of egypt, when the gods have become greatly multiplied, and the original significance of the deity obscured, horus, the child and the third member in the later egyptian triad, not unfrequently appears in her place as one of the eight great gods. the fa

le attributes are adored as deities, demeter being the first named by the worshippers. after a long season of fasting, and "after solemn reflection on the mysteries of life, women splendidly attired in white garments assemble and scatter flowers in honor of the great mother" the food partaken of by the devotees at these festivals was cakes, very similar in shape to those which were offered to the queen of heaven by the women of judah in the days of jeremiah, an offering which it will be remembered so displeased that prophet that a curse was pronounced upon the entire people. as the strictest secrecy prevailed among the initiated respecting these rites, the exact nature of the symbols employed at the thesmophorian festivals is not known; it is believed, however, that it was the female emble

ontrary, he was an example to mankind--a man who through moral purification and a life of self- abnegation had prepared himself for this holy office. mythologically, or astrologically, he was the new sun born at the close of the cycle. he was the great light which revealed the way to eternal repose- nirvana. the mythical buddha was the prototype of the mythical christ. his mother was mai or mary, queen of heaven, or the vernal spring. he was a new incarnation of the sun--the savior of the world. in process of time his many miracles were offered as proof of his divine character. although he taught the existence of a great and universal power, he made no attempt to explain the unknowable. the infinite is to be contemplated only through its manifestations. nirvana is not annihilation, as has

d by slaughtered children, while mothers appear weeping for their slain. this figure is said to be of great antiquity. mary, the mother of jesus, like mai, the mother of gatama buddha, was regarded by certain sects in the earlier ages of christianity as an immortal virgin whose birth had been announced by an angel.[126] she was in fact the ancient virgin of the sphere--the mother of the gods--the queen of heaven [126] see gospels of mary and the protovangelion. as soon as christ was born he conversed with mary, as did also crishna with his mother, informing her of his divine mission. crishna was cradled among shepherds, so was christ. cansa, fearing the loss of his kingdom, sought to destroy the life of the divine infant in the same manner as did herod in the case of christ. both children

the christians, him do the jews, him do all the gentiles also worship" it has been said that the head of serapis supplied the first idea of the portrait of christ. before the figure of serapis, in his temple, used to stand isis, the celestial virgin, with the inscription "immaculate is our lady isis" in her hand she bore a sheaf of grain. as serapis, or pan, finally became christ, so isis, or the queen of heaven, became his mother, and to the latter were transferred all the titles, ceremonies, festivals, and seasons which from the earliest time had belonged to the great goddess of nature. subsequently, probably about the close of the second century, christianity began slowly to emerge from the worship of mithras and serapis "changing the names but not the substance" upon the coinage of con

a babe from its cradle at the winter solstice" neith is made to say "the sun is the fruit of my womb" the 15th of august, assumption day, the time when mary, the mother of jesus, ascends to heaven is the day when the zodiacal constellation virgo "the greek astrea, leaves the european horizon" and the "8th of september, when virgo emerges from the sun's rays, is held sacred as the nativity of the queen of heaven" of the mid-winter festival, bede says "the pagans of these isles began their year on the eighth of the kalends of january, which is now our christmas day. the night before that (24th dec. eve) was called by them the medre-nak, or night of mothers, because of the ceremonies which were performed on that night"[132 [132] rivers of life, vol. i, p. 430. among christians as among pagan

alf the earth. at this time the day has conquered the night. light has dethroned darkness, a complete victory has been gained over typhon and the new god comes forth "with healing in his wings" on lady's day, the 25th of march, the virgin conceives. in phoenicia numerous fetes were instituted to rejoice with astarte in her conception. during the months preceding the birth of the young sun-god the queen of heaven receives marked homage. in a former portion of this work we have observed that the festival which celebrated the return of spring was instituted by the inventors of the neros thousands of years prior to the beginning of the christian era, to celebrate the vernal equinox and to commemorate a return of nature's bounties; but, after male reproductive power began to be regarded as the

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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

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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

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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

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

o the egyptian smcred booka. io ba* tqipeand (t. e, been wonhiped) on earth later than thotb, the^4l hemiea, called iviinmgivtm who wrote all tbeir sacred book* according to the command td god or by 'ditine revelation' the oompaukin and inatructor of iiia and onrit wai tboth, or hennca ii, who was an iocunation of the celestial ucnoes. digitizecoy google 60 isis unveiled isis is alao by right the queen of heaven, and ia generally represented carrying in her hand the crux anaata compoaed of the mundane cross and of the staurot of the gnostics, she is a great dea] younger than the celestial virgin, neith. in one of the tombs of the pharaohs that of barneses in the valley of biban- 1-muluk in thebes, champollion junior discovered a picture, according to his opinion the most ancient ever yet f

moor: rapagan and mod. ckritlian sipamitm the author gives a figure from a medieval woodcut the like of which we have seen by dozens in old psalters in which the virgin marv. with her infant, is repieaented as the queen of heaven on the "crescent moon, the emblem of virginity. being before the sun, she almost eclipses its light. than this, nothing could more completely identify the christian mother and child with isis and horus, ishtar, venus, juno, and a host of other pagan goddesses, who have been called 'queen of heaven 'queen of the universe 'mother of god 'spouse of god' the 'celestial virgin' the 'hea

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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

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el little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones. 416 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. 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! 34. but she said: the ordeals i write not: the rituals shall be half known and half concealed: the law is for all. 35. this that thou writest is the threefold book of law. 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, he shal

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ver its people with her wonderful inspiration; and she watched the development of her city with the closest interest, determined that it should be ahead of sparta and corinth and the other cities of greece. 329. hera was a real personage likewise, but very different from pallas athene. she was one of the many incarnations or forms of the feminine aspect of the first ray, and was thought of as the queen of heaven; she corresponds most closely to the indian goddess parvati, the shakti or power of shiva, imaged as his consort, as hera was the consort of zeus. 330. dionysus was the logos himself, just as osiris had been in egypt, though in a somewhat different aspect; and the legend of his death and resurrection corresponded closely with that of osiris, and was taught with the same significati

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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

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nefarious end in a most subtle manner. he had a wonderful ornamented box made just the size of the body of osiris. this he brought into a banquet hall where the gods and goddesses were feasting together. all admired the beautiful chest, and typhon promised to give it to the one whose body fitted it most perfectly. one after another lay down in the box, but in disappointment click to enlarge isis, queen of heaven. from mosaize historie der hebreeuwse kerke. diodorus writes of a famous inscription carved on a column at nysa, in arabia, wherein isis described herself as follows "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

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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

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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

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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

once returned to the island, and brought back the maidens in safety to athens, whereupon he became united to the object of his love; and their union proved so remarkably happy, that henceforth the name of hymen became synonymous with conjugal felicity. page 174 iris (the rainbow. iris, the daughter of thaumas and electra, personified the rainbow, and was the special attendant and messenger of the queen of heaven, whose commands she executed with singular tact, intelligence, and swiftness. most primitive nations have regarded the rainbow as a bridge of communication between heaven and earth, and this is doubtless the reason why iris, who represented that beautiful phenomenon of nature, should have been invested by the greeks with the office of communicating between gods and men. iris is usu

influences, depended the fate of the individual. the genii were depicted as winged beings, greatly resembling our modern representations of guardian angels. every state, town, or city (as well as every man, possessed its special genius. the sacrifices to the genii consisted of wine, cakes, and incense, which were offered to them on birthdays. the genius which guided a woman was called, after the queen of heaven, juno. among the greeks, beings called damons were regarded as exercising similar functions to those of the roman genii. they were believed to be the spirits of the righteous race which existed in the golden age, who watched over mankind, carrying their prayers to the gods, and the gifts of the gods to them. manes. lemures (larva) and lares. page 216 the manes were the spirits of t

ant, with instructions to expose him in a certain field, and there leave him, feeling assured that the divine offspring of zeus would not long remain without the protection of the gods. page 264 soon after the child had been thus abandoned, hera and pallas-athene happened to pass by the field, and were attracted by its cries. athene pityingly took up the infant in her arms, and prevailed upon the queen of heaven to put it to her breast; but no sooner had she done so, than the child, causing her pain, she angrily threw him to the ground, and left the spot. athene, moved with compassion, carried him to alcmene, and entreated her kind offices on behalf of the poor little foundling. alcmene at once recognized her child, and joyfully accepted the charge. soon afterwards hera, to her extreme ann

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

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

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

given to her by perseus (see pp. 46 47. the goddess athena when the war broke out between the greeks and the trojans, athena (and hera, furious with paris, supported the greeks. however, athena withdrew her support after the fall of troy when the trojan princess and prophetess cassandra was violated in one of her shrines. the only greek she continued to protect was odysseus (see pp. 64 65. hera, queen of heaven hera, queen of heaven, was the goddess of marriage. her own was a stormy one, and she often figures as a jealous and vengeful wife. for persecuting heracles (see pp. 50 51, zeus hung her from olympus by the wrists, with anvils tied to her ankles. god of love eros (cupid, the impish god of love, often accompanies aphrodite, the goddess of sexual love. aphrodite aphrodite stands nake

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

thee. isis (circumambulate within) descend from thy palace of the stars. 0 mother. 0 archetype eternal of maternity and love. 0 mother, the flower of all mothers, whose voice all amenti hears. speak unto me and manifest about me that i may rise from the chaos, from the world of shapeless and ritual for transformation 433 illusory forms, of dead men's husks, and unsubstantial things. 0 isis, great queen of heaven, supernal splendour which dwellest in that light to which no man approach, wherein is mystery and awful silence, come unto me, and make open the gates of bliss. hail unto thee, 0 thou mighty mother. isis, unveil thou, 0 soul of nature, giving life and energy to the universe. from thee all things do proceed. unto thee all must return. thou springest from the sun of splendour, shroud

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

wned, seated and uplifting a sceptre with the orb of the world at its end: her sign is an eagle, image of the soul and of life. she is the venus-urania of the greeks and was represented by st. john in his apocalypse as the woman clothed with the sun, crowned with twelve stars and having the moon beneath her feet. she is the mystical quintessence of the triad; she is spirituality, immortality, the queen of heaven. d the porte or government of the easterns, initiation, power, the tetragram, the quaternary, the cubic stone, or its base. hieroglyph, the emperor, a sovereign whose body represents a right-angled triangle and his legs a cross image of the athanor of the philosophers. h indication, demonstration, instruction, law, symbolism, philosophy, religion. hieroglyph, the pope, or grand hie

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

s with her. she is, in fact operating in the role of an impersonal agency, fulfilling certain laws. in thomas, however, the queen is directly concerned in an active dialogue with the hero, and becomes his redeemer through the offering of his love. in other words, the role of 'queen' and 'janet' are merged into one entity in the thomas story, wherein she prohibits the hero from worshipping her as 'queen of heaven- for she is not the goddess. in tam lin, the queen, not activated or motivated by true love, can only be a deeper archetype. this concept is central to the practical operation of magic in the underworld, and should be fully understood before any experiments are attempted. indeed, the stories of tam and thomas should be seen as two operative variants of the same magical liberation p

between worlds 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. true thomas lay o'er yon grassy bank and he beheld a lady gay, a lady that was both brisk and bold come riding o'er the fernie brae. her skirt was of the grass-green silk, her mantlet of the velvet fine, at ilka tett of her horses mane hung fifty silver bells and nine. true thomas he took off his hat, and bowed him low down to his knee 'all hail thou mighty queen of heaven! for your peer on earth i ne'er did see 'oh no, oh no, true thomas' she says, that name does not belong to me; i am but the queen of fair elfland, that has come for to visit thee 'but ye maun go wi' me now thomas, true thomas ye maun go wi me, for ye maun serve me seven years thro weel or wae as may change to be' she turned about her milk white steed, and took true thomas up behind

usness are far more important than scholarly or poetical attributions of woodland. thomas of ercledoune, meanwhile, sleeps under the hawthorn tree. he beholds a 'lady gay' riding towards him. she is dressed in green, riding upon a horse, and her bridle is hung with silver bells. she is a appendix 4: thomas rhymer 145 nature power, the isis of the ancients. thomas erroneously titles her as 'mighty queen of heaven, and she immediately corrects him. this apparently trivial detail of flattery is a very significant magical clue, which reveals important laws and powers of operation. firstly, the human magician or initiate, whether male or female, is apt to confuse innerworld powers readily. most modern occultists are so shocked at actually contacting any being whatsoever, that they invariably co

ding and channeling of that nature operates utterly through our own consciousness and physical bodies. if we apply a power wrongly (call it by the wrong name, worship it as god, use it for foolish ends, then a self-perpetuating distortion occurs within our own matrix of body/consciousness. the queen that approaches thomas is the queen of elfland, and she specifically tells him that she is not the queen of heaven. she is, in fact, an underworld or underearth power, who manifests in upper-nature as growth, shown by her green skirt; sexual power of the body, shown by the horse; and the act of summoning or banishing, shown by the silver bells. these bells, which we may equate with the ancient sistrum of the mysteries, feature frequently in traditional lore, and are associated with motion, the

hin the apprehending consciousness. in other words, we have to change before the links between the various keys and gates become active. in magical work, each innerworld being should be dealt with according to its own true appearance and nature, and the powers of one realm or world should not be forced through the matrices of another. as we shall soon discover, the queen of elfland may become the queen of heaven, but she is not so to our limited perceptions. thomas is obliged to go with the queen- he has summoned her up from below, and has learnt her true name and nature. in some versions of the story, they embrace beneath the tree. the seer has aroused the inner power, and it carries him away. that this power is explicitly linked with sexual arousal is no mere coincidence, but an applied

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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

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

raphies enheduanna goodrich, norma lorre. priestesses. new york, ny: franklin watts, 1989. hallo, w. w, and w. simpson. the ancient near east: a history. new york, ny: harcourt brace jovanovich, 1971. meador, betty de shong. inanna, lady of largest heart: poems of the sumerian high priestess enheduanna. austin, tx: university of texas press, 2000. wolkstein, diane, and samuel noah kramer. inanna, queen of heaven and earth: her stories and hymns from sumer. new york, ny: harper and row, 1983. web sites binkley, roberta. context: who was enheduanna? http//www.public.asu. edu/ rbinkle/enheduanna.htm (accessed on june 2, 2006. binkley, roberta. enheduanna. feminist theory website. http//www.cddc.vt. edu/feminism/enheduanna.html (accessed on june 2, 2006. enheduanna. gateways to babylon. http//

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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

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

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

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

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

gula, queen of the elder ones, remember! spirits, lords of tshku, lord of the annunaki, remember! spirits, ladies of the goddess ziku, mother of enki, remember! spirits, lords of ninnasu, our father of the numerous waters, remember! spirits, ladies of ninnuah, daughter of enki, remember! spirits, lords of ninnghizhidda, who upheaves the face of the earth, remember! spirits, ladies of ninnisi ana, queen of heaven remember! spirits, lords and ladies of the fire, gibil, ruler supreme on the face of the earth, remember! spirits of the seven doors of the world, remember! spirits of the seven locks of the world, remember! spirit khusbi kurk, wife of nammtar, remember! spirit khitim kuruku, daughter of the ocean, remember! spirit of the sky, remember! spirit of the earth, remember! amanu! amanu!

n is the key by which the gate if iak sakkak may be flung wide by which the ancient ones seek their vengeance upon the face of the earth against the offspring of marduk. for what is new came from that which is old and what is old shall replace that which is new and once again the ancient ones shall rule upon the face of the earth! and this is too the covenant! iv of the sleep of ishtar yet ishtar queen of heaven bright light of nights mistress of the gods set her mind in that direction from above she set her mind, to below she set her mind from the heavens she set forth to the abyss out of the gates of the living to enter the gates of death out of the lands we know into the lands we know not to the land of no return to the land of queen ereshkigal ishtar, queen of heavens, she set her mind

its. and ereshkigal was pale with fear. the dark waters stirred. go, watcher of the gate. go, ninnghizhidda, watcher of the gate, open the door to ishtar and treat her as it is written in the ancient covenant. and ninnghizhidda loosed the bolt from the hatch and darkness fell upon ishtar the dark waters rose and carried the goddess of light to the realms of the night. and the serpent spoke: enter queen of heaven of the great above that kur may rejoice that cutha may give praise that kutu may smile. enter that kutulu may be pleased at thy presence and ishtar entered. and there are seven gates and seven decrees. at the first gate ninghizhidda removed the crown the great crown of her head he took away and ishtar asked why, serpent, has thou removed my first jewel? and the serpent answered thu

rab rejoiced kutulu rejoiced the maskim gave praise to the queen of death the gigim gave praise to ereshkigal, queen of death. and the elder ones were rent with fear. our father enki lord of magick receiving word by ninshubur ishtar's servant ninshubur he hears of ishtar's sleep in the house of death he hears how ganzir has been opened how the face of abyss opened wide its mouth and swallowed the queen of heaven queen of the rising of the sun. and enki summoned forth clay and enki summoned forth wind and from the clay and from the wind anki fashioned two elementals he fashioned the kurgarru, spirit of the earth, he fashioned the kalaturru, spirit of the seas, to the kurgarru he gave the food of life to the kalaturru he gave the water of life and to these images he spoke aloud arise, kalatu

d and went with her out of the gates looking neither right nor left walking in front and behind they went with ishtar from the gate of ganzir out of the netherworld they accompanied her and ereshkigal scorned queen of the abyss wherein all are drowned pronounced a curse solemn and powerful against the queen of the rising of the sun and nammtar gave it form. when the lover of ishtar beloved of the queen of heaven goes down before me goes through the gate of ganzir to the house of death when with him the wailing people come the weeping woman and the wailing man when dumuzi is slain and buried may the dead rise and smell the incense! v stoop not down, therefore, unto the darkly shining world where the absu lies in dark waters and cuthalu sleeps and dreams stoop not down, therefore, for an aby

ith might and the sword i make thee tremble i make thee run afraid i drive thee out i spy thee out i cause thy name to be known among men i cause they house to be seen amoung men i cause thy spells to be heard amoung men i cause thy evil perfumes to be smelt amoung men i unclothe thy wickedness and evil and bring your sorceries to naught! it is not i, but nanakanisurra mistress of witches and the queen of heaven ishtar who command thee! and if these worshippers and sorcerers still come at thee, as it is possible, for their power comes from the stars, and who knows the ways of the stars, thou must call upon the queen of mysteries, nindinugga, who wilt surely save thee. and thou must make incantations with her title, which is nindinugga nimshimshargal enlillara. and it is enough merely to sh

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

r brethren [even] the whole seed of ephraim. 7:16 therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for i will not hear thee. 7:17 seest thou not what they do in the cities of judah and in the streets of jerusalem? 7:18 the children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. 7:19 do they provoke me to anger? saith the lord [do they] not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces? 7:20 therefore thus saith the lord god; behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon th

es had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of egypt, in pathros, answered jeremiah, saying, 44:16 [as for] the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the lord, we will not hearken unto thee. 44:17 but we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of judah, and in the streets of jerusalem: for [then] had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. 44:18 but since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all [things] and have b

ur fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of judah, and in the streets of jerusalem: for [then] had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. 44:18 but since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all [things] and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. 44:19 and when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men? 44:20 then jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him [that] answer, saying, 44:21 the incense that ye burned in the cities of judah, and in the streets of jerusalem, ye, and your fath

ed unto you, as at this day. 44:24 moreover jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, hear the word of the lord, all judah that [are] in the land of egypt: 44:25 thus saith the lord of hosts, the god of israel, saying; ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, we will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows. 44:26 therefore hear ye the word of the lord, all judah that dwell in the land of egypt; behold, i have sworn by my great name, saith the lord, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of judah in all the land of egypt, saying, the lord god liveth. 44:27

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

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

ough the hand of the sun is longer than that of the moon, the sun, which points to the hours, appears to me to be the hour hand. this would be symbolically correct. the circular face of the clock is enclosed in a square with four circular windows, one in each corner (symbolizing the four beasts. above the clock is a statue of the seated virgin mary holding christ upon her knee. she represents the queen of heaven in revelation 12:l. to her right is a large roman numeral x; to her left is an equally large arabic numeral 5 (in connection with these numerals, see the description of the hieroglyphic monad in chapter viii, specifically dee's comments regarding the roman numeral x. in passing, it might be pointed out that much of this symbolism appears, in a degenerate form, upon the tarot card o

man souls to their rightful place in the heavens. this voluntary degradation, or descent into forgetfulness("and the dwelling places, let them forget their names .confound her understanding with darkness) is usually symbolized in the various myths by prostitution. in the vision of st. john, the goddess earth becomes the great whore babylon, who from a gnostic perspective is a degraded form of the queen of heaven. among some gnostic sects, she was called barbelo or sophia. in the myth of the simonian gnostics, she is helena, one of whose incarnations was helen of troy. the gnostic prophet simon, who was confused with the biblical simon magus by the fathers of the church, taught that he was himself the highest power, god the father. according to irenaeus, a very biased reporter, simon found

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

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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