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culations on the spiritual and prophetic implications of the comet were made, but the comet did not prove to be as spectacular as hoped, and none of the predicted changes signaled by its appearance occurred. no such speculation seems to have occurred at the time of the return of halley s comet in 1986. in the past century comets have also figured in speculations about the history of the earth. in ragnarok: the age of fire and gravel (1883, ignatius donnelly assembled legends and religious beliefs tending to show that the earth was affected by a collision with a comet that created the pleistocene ice age. in the 1950s, immanuel velikovsky connected the theme of a comet disaster with biblical prophecy in his book worlds in collision. sources: donnelly, ignatius. ragnarok: the age of fire and

ds and religious beliefs tending to show that the earth was affected by a collision with a comet that created the pleistocene ice age. in the 1950s, immanuel velikovsky connected the theme of a comet disaster with biblical prophecy in his book worlds in collision. sources: donnelly, ignatius. ragnarok: the age of fire and gravel. new york: harper s, 1883. reprinted as the destruction of atlantis: ragnarok. blauvelt, n.y: rudolf steiner publications, 1971. melton, j. gordon. comet kouhotek: fizzle of the century. fate 27, no. 5 (may 1974: 58.64. velikovsky, immanuel. worlds in collision. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1950. comite illusionniste d expertise et d experimentation des phenomenes paranormaux (cieepp) cieepp, founded in 1976, organized conferences and demonstrations featuring exper

ure and journalism. he founded the short-lived international institute for encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. desmond, shaw 403 psychical research, and wrote more than 60 books, many of which have psychic themes. he died december 23, 1960. sources: desmond, shaw. healing: psychic and divine. london: rider, 1956. reprinted as the power of faith healing. new york: award books, 1969. ragnarok. n.p, 1926. reincarnation for everyman. n.p, 1939. spiritualism? n.p, 1941. we do not die. n.p, 1934. you can speak with your dead. n.p, 1941. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. d espagnet, jean (ca. 1640) a hermetic philosopher who left two treatises, enchiridion physicae restitutae (1623) and arcanum philosophiae hermitacae (ca

st remembered for reviving interest in the lost continent of atlantis in his book atlantis, the antediluvian world (1882. using nineteenth-century ethnological and archeological data, donnelly argued that the likenesses noted in the ancient cultures on either side of the atlantic pointed to a common origin, a sunken continent whose survivors populated lands to the east and west. in his next book, ragnarok: the age of fire and gravel (1883, he claimed that the pleistocene ice age resulted from a collision between the earth and a comet. this was the first statement of a theme to be developed many decades later by immanuel velikovsky. donnelly s two books have become classics of occultism and have been reprinted in modern times. atlantis has been especially favored by followers of edgar cayce

ve histories, donnelly also wrote the great cryptogram (1888) designed to show that the plays of shakespeare were written by bacon. donnelly died january 2, 1901. sources: donnelly, ignatius. atlantis: the antediluvian world. 1882. rev. ed, edited by egerton sykes. new york: gramercy, 1949. the great cryptogram: francis bacon s cipher in the socalled shakespeare plays. chicago: r. s. peale, 1888. ragnarok: the age of fire and gravel. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1970. reprinted as the destruction of atlantis; ragnarok. blauvelt, n.y: rudolf steiner publications, 1971. ridge, martin. ignatius donnelly: the portrait of a politician. chicago: university of chicago press, 1962. dop see dermo-optical perception doreal, maurice (d. 1963) maurice doreal was the name adopted by c

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ia (1921.23; and lecturer to the london county council (1925, before a lengthy career as an independent writer and designer. he contributed to many periodicals dealing with arts, crafts, color, psychology of art, and occultism. sources: raffe, w. g. art and labour. n.p, 1927. the control of the mind. n.p, 1934. graphic design. london: chapman and hall, ltd, 1927. poems in black& white. n.p, 1922. ragnarok a term meaning rain of dust, derived from an ancient scandinavian legend of a titanic conflict between gods and giants. it was also the title of a book by the minnesota congressman and senator ignatius donnelly (1831.1901. more than a century before immanuel velikovsky s bestselling worlds in collision, donnelly s book speculates that a comet passed close to or struck the earth in ancient

speculates that a comet passed close to or struck the earth in ancient times, causing cataclysmic changes dimly remembered in mythologies and scripture history. donnelly was an original thinker, and although some of his ideas may not stand up to modern scientific scrutiny, the theme of catatrophism has remained a persistent if minority opinion in contemporary science. sources: donnelly, ignatius. ragnarok: the age of fire and gravel. 1883. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1970. rahu according to hindu mythology, rahu is a demon who swallows the sun and moon. he is the cause of eclipses, and rahu and ketu are the ascending and descending nodes in hindu astronomy. rajneesh (journal) a publication formerly issued by the shree rajneesh ashram located in poona, india. it contained

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

s above midgard, while the dark elves (dwarves) inhabit the subterranean realm. asgard, the home of the aesir of sky gods is above the elven world and is the crown of the world tree. the name asgard means "enclosure of the gods. within asgard is valhalla, the hall of the fallen where the warriors of odin are taken if they are killed in battle and from where they will return to the final battle or ragnarok. snorri sturlson describes an inner enclosure (gardh) as being built right within the center of midgard, the sacred space of human society. however, this enclosure, this true essence of midgard as asgard, can only be entered by crossing the bifrost. the gnostic handbook page 23 within asgard is also the halls of the gods, these are twelve in number and many relate them to the ideals or fo

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e fair-game for the old ones. perhaps some of the strange descriptions of the books of revelation and daniel are not that farfetched after all! gnostic theurgy page 220 the resurfacing of the gnosis as the heraldic period moves towards aquarius mankind is heading towards a new period of both hope and destruction. the kali yuga is also accelerating towards its conclusion in blood and annihilation, ragnarok is certainly on the way. at the same time, as the ages change, the treasury of light is working overtime to awaken man. during this century the dead sea scrolls, nag hammadi library and other finds have offered an unprecedented opportunity for us to be re-aquainted with the gnosis. gnosticism has become the talk of the town and yet that is all it is for most- talk. traditional christianit

through its various stages and conditions. we could divide our lives into sectors and as old men and women we could retire to the forest and contemplate god. even within the gnostic tradition we have extolled the virtues of the paths of the dove and the serpent and the slow and steady hierarchical progress of the soul. there is one large problem however, that looms in front of us. time is short! ragnarok is coming, armageddon is around the corner. it is no use enrolling in the high school if you know that the school will burn down before graduation. as the final trumpets begin to blow and the blood laps against our ankles, we need to seriously consider the urgency of transfiguration. reproduction was always only just tolerated in the past by gnostic sects, today it should be viewed aghast

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to this rok, racu i refer the expression quoted 1 it is worth noting, that it is proclaimed by prophetesses, vala, hyndla; and later, thiota (p. 96) announced consummationis seculi diem. 2 rof ruptura; as they said regin riufaz, dii rumpuntur, the world is going to pieces. 814 time and woeld. on p. 753, die finstre ragende nacht/ which can hardly be ex plained from our ragen (rigere) stick out.1 ragnarok then is the night of the gods, which comes over all beings, even the highest, p. 316 (see suppl. then the evil beings, long held in check and under spell, break loose and war against the gods: a wolf swallows the sun, another the moon (p. 705-6, the stars fall from heaven, the earth quakes, the monstrous world-snake lormungandr, seized with giant fury (iotunmcvsr, p. 530, rises out of the

brought in? the slav, rok tempus, amrns, terminus, fatum, lith. rakus, is worth considering; its abstract meaning may have sprung out of a material one, and fits in perfectly with the notions of time and world developed on p. 790 [rok, fate, is from reku, i speak. neither rok, rokr, nor riqis has anything to do with our rauch, reek, on. reykr. it is not correct for danish writers to use the form ragnarok; on. rok must in their dialect be rag (as sok is sag; the ohg. form of ragnarok would be regino-rahha, or -rah -rahhu, according as it were fern, or neuter. in swed. and dan. the term is extinct, but they both have a word for crepusculum, swed. thysmorker, dan. tusmorke, which may be from ?uss, burs, implying an on. fiursmyrkr, giant s murk, and that would tally with the giant nature of s

y other god was at the beginning of creation, he has himself sprung out of it (p. 559, and can do nothing .against a higher constitution of the world, which exempts neither him nor victory-lending zeus 2 from a general destruction (pp. 316-8. some things turn out contrary to his will: osinn and all the ases cannot prevent the misfortune of balder; another instance of overruling destiny at p. 425. ragnarok, the world s destruction, far overtops the power of the gods. this predetermined and necessary character of all that comes into being and exists and perishes, was expressed by a plural 1 oug.feigi, mhg. veige; os.fegi, hel. 72, 4; as. f<ege, beow. 5946; on. feigr. the old meaning of the word has been preserved longest in lower saxony [and scotland: dar is en veege in n huse; en r^m

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

ons and answers ensues, the questions put by gylfi/gangleri, the answers given by usually by har with occasional amplification by jafnhar or thridi. these questions treat the mythology: first the issue of a supreme deity; then the creation of the cosmos, the identity of the gods and goddesses and some of the myths attaching to them, and then myths untreated there or in skaldskaparmal; and finally ragnarok and its aftermath. then gylfi/gangleri hears a crash, and the hall disappears. snorri quotes liberally from eddic poetry in gylfaginning, especially from voluspa, vafthrudnismal, and grimnismal. the arrangement of the subjects he treats, following the discussion of the ghighest and foremost of the gods, h which is gylfi/gangleri fs first question, is essentially that of voluspa in its swe

all of the thor myths take place in the undifferentiated mythic present. these include, besides his fishing up of the midgard serpent, his encounters with hrungnir, hymir, and geirrod. time 41 some events must be fairly late in the mythological present, and the foremost of these is the death of baldr. as the first death among the gods, it changed all the terms of the game. even if it did not make ragnarok inevitable, it made it possible, for now the death of any and therefore of all the gods is a possibility. if we follow the baldr story in snorri fs gylfaginning, we see that odin fs strategy of swearing blood-brotherhood with loki has failed, for it was loki who brought about baldr fs death. the gods now bind loki, and like his sons the wolf fenrir and the midgard serpent, he awaits ragna

ollow the baldr story in snorri fs gylfaginning, we see that odin fs strategy of swearing blood-brotherhood with loki has failed, for it was loki who brought about baldr fs death. the gods now bind loki, and like his sons the wolf fenrir and the midgard serpent, he awaits ragnarok, the end of the world and the final period in the mythology. many of the events in the mythic present look forward to ragnarok: the failed oath of blood-brotherhood, the binding of evil creatures, and the gathering of einherjar, the chosen warriors of odin, at valholl. the mythic future also has two stages. in the near future is ragnarok, when the power of the gods over the jotnar characteristic of the mythic present will be reversed. surt will lead the forces of chaos against the gods, who will fall. the creativ

near past will be undone: time reckoning will fail as the sun and moon are swallowed and the heavens destroyed, and the entire cosmos will be consumed by flames and water. each of the major gods will die in individual combat with a giant adversary, but odin, at least, will be avenged, by his son vidar, the silent god, and this vengeance constitutes a bridge to the distant future, the period after ragnarok when the second-generation gods vidar and vali, magni and modi, and, perhaps most important, baldr and hod, victim and killer, will inhabit the renewed earth. they will possess the cultural property of their ancestors in the form of oral traditions about them as well as in the concrete form of the gaming pieces voluspa, stanza 61, says they will find in the grass. this paradise will be fe

the distant past there was no cosmos, but in the distant future there is a green world with birds and fertile fields. the course of the mythology has indeed led to a better world. cyclical time voluspa, stanza 4, states that the creating gods lifted up the earth, and the poem is silent on the killing of ymir. these facts could imply that when the earth 42 norse mythology arose from the sea after ragnarok later in the poem, there was a cyclical notion at work. in other words, the cosmos might be formed and reformed on multiple occasions by rising from the sea. this notion, which accords with the theories of mircea eliade as expressed, for example, in his the myth of the eternal return, has been expressed most clearly by jens peter schjodt in his 1981 article gvoluspa.cyklisk tidsopfattelse

d some editors have chosen to print the past tense rather than the present tense. in other words, when loki was insulting all the gods, he had killed baldr, was planning it, or would take care of it later. the same linguistic fact complicates our understanding of other texts. in voluspa, for example, the seeress who speaks the poem says in one manuscript that she saw various events connected with ragnarok (in the other she says she uses the present tense, as one would expect of a vision of the mythic future, as the frame of the poem implies. but around stanza 44 she begins to use the present tense. is she situated toward the onset of ragnarok? 44 norse mythology myth and history for the christians of the scandinavian middle ages, the gods would have had a place in historical time both thro

rodi, grandson of frey according to snorri, with the peace that occurred when christ was on earth. and the translated lives of the saints put the norse gods (in place of jupiter, mars, diana, and other roman gods) in the time and space of early christianity.even if they are only for the most part envisioned in these texts as idols animated by demons. it is furthermore possible.perhaps likely.that ragnarok was seen by at least some christians as the demise not only of the pagan gods but of the belief in and worship of them. their day would have preceded that of christ, and it had a fiery and perhaps well-deserved end. certainly the famous stanza 65h of voluspa, found in the late-fourteenth-century redaction of the text, supports such a possibility, for it mentions the coming to power of gth

a fiery and perhaps well-deserved end. certainly the famous stanza 65h of voluspa, found in the late-fourteenth-century redaction of the text, supports such a possibility, for it mentions the coming to power of gthe powerful one, from on high, he who rules all. h whoever created this verse appears to have considered the world he and his fellow christians lived in to be the new world that followed ragnarok. the conversion to christianity seems to have been envisioned while it was happening as a struggle between thor and christ. thor and his fellow gods thus exited history at about the time christ entered it in the north, that is, in the tenth and eleventh centuries. time 45 this page intentionally left blank 3 deities, themes, and concepts agir the sea personified; a famous host to the gods

for freyja, the poet writes: deities, themes, and concepts 49 then all the asir were at an assembly, and all the asynjur in discussion (stanza 14) often the term alfar, gelves, h is used as a parallel, probably because of the alliteration that the poetic form required, but also perhaps because of a fundamental association between the two groups. as she describes the world crumbling about them at ragnarok, for example, the seeress of voluspa asks: gwhat fs with the asir/ what fs with the elves? h (stanza 48, a formula that is repeated in thrymskvida, stanza 7. in the ljodatal section of havamal, odin boasts that he can discern the difference between asir and alfar (stanza 159) and adds that the fifteenth song he has learned was chanted by the dwarf thjodorir, before the doors of delling: g

feelings are to a certain extent subjective. the categories thor requests are as follows: earth, heaven, moon, sun, clouds, wind, calm, sea, fire, wood, night, seed, and ale. these categories and the order in which they appear can hardly be arbitrary. the first five are cosmic, and they are presented in the order in which they appear in the creation story. sea and fire will destroy the cosmos at ragnarok, wood could represent yggdrasil, the world tree, and beer, which comes from grain that grows out of seeds, is associated with odin and wisdom. at the equivalent point in an odinic wisdom contest there would be an epiphany, as in grimnismal or vafthrudnismal, leading to the death of the one contending in wisdom with the god, and here something similar happens: night, the eleventh category

, h and his blindness intensifies odin fs sacrifice of a single eye. gautreks saga contains a sham sacrifice to odin that turns real. when starkad throws at king vikar a reed that has been provided to him by another person, the reed turns into a spear and kills the king. however, analysis of the baldr story as odinic ritual runs up against the fact that in voluspa baldr fs death leads directly to ragnarok (and the victory of hotherus over all the gods in saxo may be analogous. for snorri, too, baldr fs death was a disaster that led to ragnarok. i understand the story as the mythic reflection of a basic social problem, namely, the fact that a society that used blood feud to resolve disputes.as medieval and presumably saga iceland did. could not deal with a killing within a family. simply by

red to complete the alliteration. the fourth and last question is not clear but has to do with the identity of a group of maidens. somehow, in a way we no longer understand, the question reveals to the seeress that she is conversing with odin. to this odin replies, gyou are not a seeress/ nor a wise woman/ but rather of three/ giants the mother h (stanza 13. ggo home, h she says. the next step is ragnarok. the version of the myth of baldr fs death here omits the role of loki, which is so important in snorri fs version, although some observers have seen a reference to loki in the mother of three giants of stanza 13, since loki fs children are three of the most famous giants, namely, the midgard serpent, the wolf fenrir, and hel herself. this version would seem to focus on the essentials: ba

d gpeople h in stanza 10 could, in the language of poetry, refer to the speaker fs people, that is, the giants, or it could refer to everyone in the world. the rest of the poem indulges in prophecies: the mountains will tumble, the earth will move, men will be scoured in hot water and burned by fire, and so forth, and this may be a mix of the destruction of the race of giants and of humans, as in ragnarok (surt fs fire is mentioned in stanza 10. but many of the predictions of disruption on earth could also fit the volcanic activity that is so common in iceland. at the end of the poem the speaker tells his listeners to remember it or bear a punishment. thord has it word-for-word, but the servant does not. he dies a year after the night in the cave. the cave itself cannot be located, and tho

tanza 10. but many of the predictions of disruption on earth could also fit the volcanic activity that is so common in iceland. at the end of the poem the speaker tells his listeners to remember it or bear a punishment. thord has it word-for-word, but the servant does not. he dies a year after the night in the cave. the cave itself cannot be located, and thord moves closer to the church. see also ragnarok; thor bergelmir (bear-yeller, mountain-yeller, or bare-yeller) giant, one of those from whom giants traced their genealogy. vafthrudnismal, stanza 29, states the lineage of bergelmir. odin has asked vafthrudnir who was the oldest of the asir or of the kin of ymir. vafthrudnir responds, a great many years before the earth was formed, bergelmir was born; thrudgelmir was the father of this o

6. bilrost the bridge between the world of humans and the world of the gods or between earth and heaven. grimnismal, stanza 44, is a list of the foremost or best of things: yggdrasil of trees, odin of asir, and so forth. there bilrost is called best of bridges. in fafnismal, stanza 15, fafnir responds to a question asking what the island is called where surt and the asir will fight, presumably at ragnarok. oskopnir it is called, and there shall all the gods make play with spears; bilrost will break, when they go away, and horses will swim in the current. bilrost is compounded of bil, gstopping place, time, instant, weak spot, h and rost, ordinarily gleague h or gcurrent h but here apparently with the meaning groad. h snorri uses instead the form gbifrost, h whose first component has to do

st h several times. asked about the path to heaven from earth, har tells gylfi/gangleri that it is bilrost, that the gods made it, and that it may be called the rainbow. it is of three colors, very strong, and made with great skill and knowledge, but it will break when the sons of muspell ride over it. nothing can survive the harrying of the sons of muspell, and much later in the text, describing ragnarok, snorri says that bilrost will break, gas was previously stated. h jafnhar also tells gylfi/gangleri that the gods ride this bridge, which may also be called the as-bru (asir-bridge, up to the urdarbrunn (well-of-urd, where they go to make judgments. and a bit after 80 norse mythology that, gylfi/gangleri asks whether fire burns over bilrost. har responds that the red gin the bow h is ind

an. a special relationship with the maternal uncle is mentioned by tacitus and is found in norse texts and a proverb from medieval iceland: gmen turn out most like their maternal uncles. h certainly odin, of all the gods, turned out most like a giant. see also bestla, odin bound monster enemy of the gods bound or restrained in some way during the mythological present but destined to break free at ragnarok. 82 norse mythology the monster who best fits the pattern is the wolf fenrir, whose sole function in the mythology is to be bound by the gods and then to break free at ragnarok and wreak havoc: to swallow the sun according to vafthrudnismal and to kill odin according to voluspa. fenrir was bound with a magic fetter and bit off ty lr fs hand, which was placed in his mouth as a pledge that

, we may be justified in regarding the exile of his siblings.the midgard serpent to the outer waters of the sea and hel to the world of the dead.as a kind of binding. no fetters are used, but the serpent does lied coiled about the earth, biting its own tail, and this linking of mouth to tail might be taken as a kind of binding. like fenrir, the midgard serpent will be gunbound h from the ocean at ragnarok and will kill thor. there is no parallel gunbinding h for hel, however. loki is the most important and studied of the bound monsters in scandinavian mythology. his binding occurs, according to snorri, as vengeance for the killing of baldr. according to the prose colophon to lokasenna, however, loki was bound as vengeance for his reviling of the gods at the feast of agir. loki fs binding i

the gods at the feast of agir. loki fs binding is more uncomfortable than that of his monster children, however, for a snake hangs over his head dripping venom. his wife sigyn collects the venom in a bowl, but when she goes to empty the bowl loki writhes in anguish and shakes the earth, gand that is now called earthquakes, h as the passage following lokasenna puts it. loki of course gets free at ragnarok and according to voluspa will steer a ship full of the forces of evil against the gods. snorri also grants him a mutually fatal single combat with heimdall. since the early twentieth century, and especially through the influential study of ragnarok by axel olrik, loki as bound monster has been associated with similar figures from traditions of people living in the caucasus. however, at le

him a mutually fatal single combat with heimdall. since the early twentieth century, and especially through the influential study of ragnarok by axel olrik, loki as bound monster has been associated with similar figures from traditions of people living in the caucasus. however, at least fenrir and garm are also clearly bound monsters, and the notion of bound forces of evil who will break free at ragnarok could be extended to nearly all the forces who will assail the gods at that time. if we are to take seriously the notion of a loan from the caucasus, it would affect nearly the entire mythology. and of course there was the analog within christian legend of the bound antichrist awaiting the last judgment. see also fenrir; garm; hel; loki; midgard serpent; ragnarok references and further re

83 leyen, gder gefesselte unhold: eine mythologische studie, h in untersuchungen und quellen zur germanischen und romanischen philologie: johan von kelle dargebracht von seinen kollegen und schulern, prager deutsche studien, 8 (prague: c. bellman, 1908, vol. 1: 7.35. axel olrik fs study appeared originally in danish in 1914 but found its canonical form in the 1922 translation by wilhelm ranisch, ragnarok: die sagen vom weltundergang (berlin and leipzig: w. de gruyter; a book-length chapter (pp. 133.290) treats the bound giant in the caucasus and is followed by a consideration of the bound wolf (pp. 291.326. a more recent study was that of alexander haggerty krappe, gthe snake tower, h scandinavian studies 16 (1940: 22.33, which associated loki with the hero gunnar in the snake pit and saw

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orch of truth they carry on their work, through their activities the golden age will return to the earth and the power of sin and death will be destroyed. for this reason the declare that virtuous and illumined men, instead of ascending to heaven, will bring heaven down and establish it in the midst of earth itself. p. 188 spirit of evil. the war in heaven relates to the destruction of the planet ragnarok and to the fall of the angels. the virgin can be interpreted to signify the secret doctrine itself and her son the initiate born out of the "womb of the mysteries" the spirit of evil thus personified in the great dragon attempted to control mankind by destroying the mother of those illumined souls who have labored unceasingly for the salvation of the world. wings were given to the mysteri

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dead their adversarial presence was termed the midgard serpent: the midgard serpent blows so much poison that the whole sky and sea are splattered with it. strange flying craft bringing destruction are described: the mighty flood frees the ship known as naglfar, a vessel that the giants were so long inbuildingloki steers the ship of hel with the fenris wolf aboard.they also speak specifically of ragnarok, the war between the gods: the head of mimir (fountain of all wisdom, counsels odin to meet on the field of vigrid, andto wage there such a war that the power of evil would be destroyed forever, even though hisown world would be destroyed with them. now death is the portion of doomed men, red with blood the buildings of gods, the sun turnsblack in the summer after, winds whine.in northern

lkien lord of the rings /the silmarillion/the hobbit. george macdonald phantastes/lilith ursula le 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

the word jehovah (p. 65)nordic mythsenough exists to show that the nordic gods were the same as the gods of the levant. the gardens,halls, warfare, altars, sacrifices, marriage and family life were the same (p. 65)ragnarokwhile they did mingle with the aborigines of northern europe and while their blood yet remains on thecontinent, there was some event and partly human, partly seismic that caused ragnarok, the tragedy likethat of iceland in 1783 that ended the direct control of asgard. golden asgard with its palaces wasdestroyed by flames while its queens were inside. the gods died fighting and the gotterdamerungensued (p. 66)indiathe social system of india drifted into the caste system that they have there today. the gods are still ontop today (p. 67)serpent cultthe following peoples iden

nvulsions will be so terrible that the whole earth will tilt,overburdened as it is with people and things, and slip into the sea.this legend mentions the serpent serving the creator god. this serpent resembles ananta shesha, whoserves vishnu as a bed and supports the universal structure. they are both situated at the bottom of theuniverse on the great ocean called garbhodaka. scandinaviathe norse ragnarok involves the destruction of the earth and the abodes of the norse demigods (calledasgard. it is said that during ragnarok the world is destroyed with flames by a being called surt, wholives beneath the lower world (appropriately called hel) and was involved in the world's creation. bycomparison, the bhagavata purana (3.11.30) states that at the end of brahma's day, the devastationtakes pl

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he first man and woman to earth. introduction 7 our notion of time, the limited time of creation, is merely a trick of ahura mazda s to limit the power of ahriman. at the end of time, all will be purified, and as in norse mythology a fresh, new creation will arise. the flood just as many mythologies look forward to the destruction of this world in a catastrophe, such as the norse cataclysm called ragnarok, so many record a time, within this creation, when the gods grew angry with humankind, and attempted to destroy them with a flood. the biblical story of the deluge is one of many such accounts, and owes much to the sumerian/babylonian account in the epic of gilgamesh, in which the noah figure is named utnapishtim (see p. 19. the ancient greeks told how zeus tried to destroy mankind with a

g the last of his labors heracles had to be initiated into the eleusinian mysteries. on his death, he ascended to olympus to live with the gods. introduction 11 in this belief by the daily rebirth of re, the sun. the vikings believed that warriors who died in battle would feast in the goldenroofed hall of valhalla among the gods, before fighting for odin, the lord of hosts, in the final battle of ragnarok. the roman poet virgil tells us how the hero aeneas found his father anchises in the fields of elysium in the underworld (see p. 67. but when he tried to embrace him, he was as insubstantial as air. when he then saw souls flocking to drink the water of oblivion to forget their former lives, and be born again, he asked anchises what was happening. anchises explained that in the beginning t

the underworld this 18th-century manuscript illustration shows hermod, the son of odin, descending to the underworld on odin s eight-legged steed sleipnir to try to rescue his brother balder, who had been slain through the treachery of the god loki. hel agreed to let balder go if all the world wept for him; but loki refused. as a result, the gods hunted loki down and tied him up in torment but at ragnarok, loki will break loose, and lead the hordes of the dead to war in a ship made from dead men s nails. the creation 12 the creation in the beginning, egyptian myth tells us, there was nothing but the dark endless ocean of nun. all the elements of life were in the ocean, inert and senseless. then the lord without limit came into being, and called himself re. he was alone. with his breath he

fury, flung off their armor to fight with supernatural strength. certainly the beserks were likely to die in battle, and so win a place in valhalla, where they split their time between fighting and drinking. valhalla was envisaged as a vast golden hall, with a roof of shields, a frame of spears, and 540 doors, through each of which 800 warriors would be able to march abreast at the last battle of ragnarok. the norse gods 69 freyr, god of fertility freyr, a god of fertility, was originally one of the vanir, who became subsumed in odin s more warlike aesir. freyr and his sister freya were the children of njord, the god of the sea. ask, the first ma n ask and his wife embla were the first man and woman. they were created by odin from logs on the seashore and are said to be the ancestors of al

but grew so fierce that only the god tyr dared to feed him. here, he is shown bound and gagged by the gods. they tricked him into letting them bind him with two chains called laeding and dromi by teasing him that he would not be able to escape. he did so with ease. but then they bound him with a magical chain and he was unable to escape. he will remain bound until the final cataclysmic battle of ragnarok (see above. magic fetter fenrir is bound by an unbreakable fetter called gleipnir. it was made by the dark elves from the sound of a cat s footfall, a woman s beard, a mountain s roots, a bear s sinews, a fish s breath, and a bird s spittle. it was as soft and smooth as silk. the battle of ragnarok ragnarok, sometimes called the twilight of the gods, is the final cataclysm that will destr

le s lives. beneath the second was the well of wisdom, guarded by the head of the aesir mimir, who was killed by the vanir gods, but whose head odin preserved with herbs and spells. beneath the third was a well of poison, from which flowed the rivers of hel. it was at the well of wisdom that the god heimdall left his great horn until he should need it to summon all creation to the final battle of ragnarok (see above. squirrel messenger the squirrel, ratatosk, runs up and down the tree, carrying insults from the dragon at the roots to the eagle at the top. special fruit the cooked fruit of yggdrasil ensured safe childbirth. the tree drips dew so sweet that bees make honey from it. strange new fetters fenrir was suspicious of the strange new fetter, and agreed to be bound only if one of the

t the cooked fruit of yggdrasil ensured safe childbirth. the tree drips dew so sweet that bees make honey from it. strange new fetters fenrir was suspicious of the strange new fetter, and agreed to be bound only if one of the gods put their hand in his mouth. tyr thrust his right hand into the beast s mouth and when fenrir realized he had been tricked, he bit off tyr s hand. trembling leaves when ragnarok approaches, the world tree will begin to shake and tremble. four deer four horned deer dain, dvalin, duneyr, and durathror lived on yggdrasil s trunk, nibbling the fresh green shoots. sheltering tree yggdrasil shelters the nine worlds. at the end of the world, during the battle of ragnarok, it will provide shelter for a man and woman, lif and lifthrasir, who will feed on the sweet morning

deer dain, dvalin, duneyr, and durathror lived on yggdrasil s trunk, nibbling the fresh green shoots. sheltering tree yggdrasil shelters the nine worlds. at the end of the world, during the battle of ragnarok, it will provide shelter for a man and woman, lif and lifthrasir, who will feed on the sweet morning dew, and be the source of new life in the age to come. although it was prophesied that at ragnarok, fenrir would swallow the sun and devour odin before being killed in turn by odin s son vidar the gods refused to profane the holy ground of asgard by killing him, so they chained him up instead. spawn of loki fenrir was the son of loki and the giantess angrboda. his brothers, also fathered by loki, were jormungand, the world serpent, which encircled middle earth, and was once fished up b

ut he always rescues the situation. however, he becomes increasingly malicious after he causes the death of balder, odin s son, the handsomest of the gods. for this, the gods catch him and bind him to a rock with the entrails of one of his sons, and a snake drops poison in his face, which his wife catches in a cup. when splashed, his writhings made the entire earth shake. he does not escape until ragnarok (see above. this 12th-century stone shows loki bound to a rock for killing balder. sigurd the dragon-slayer 72 sigurd the dragon-slayer sigurd, son of the hero sigmund and a favorite of the norse god odin, grew up an orphan. a valiant youth, he slew the dragon fafnir at the behest of regin the smith and took his treasure (see below. but the treasure hoard was tainted by a ring that had be

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kster correlates to the norse loki. this may very well be. i am far from expert in the norse religion/cosmogony. however, if i may be permitted an indulgence, i feel more of a connection between trickster and fenrir (fenris. this connection goes deeper than the outward appearance of a wolf. fenrir is feared because of his power and the premonition that he will destroy the established hierarchy at ragnarok. if death itself is viewed as a sort of personal ragnarok, then trickster is providing for the destruction of the established sequence. instead of dropping the physical envelope and fading into the all-nothingness, the skinwalker is empowered to break free from the chains with which the natural gods have imprisoned him. further, the skinwalker can cause the personal cataclysm that destroy

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

all things, were not exempt from the cosmic drama, from the fate of cyclical existence, for humans and all things else were not separate from the cosmos or the world, but part of it, sharing in its fate. all indo-europeans, and many non-indo europeans, believed in the great life, death, and renewal of the cosmos; the hindus certainly come to mind, with the kalpa and regeneration system; the norse ragnarok mythology shows the world being destroyed by fire and ice, the very primal elements from which they believed the world was created from, before the new, perfected world was born; the zoroastrians believed that the forces of light and darkness would destroy each other and the whole world in a cataclysmic battle at the end of time, cleansing the world for a re-emergence and regeneration; th

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