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ipline and precision in governing the cosmos and removes unwanted or unnecessary elements after their usefulness has passed. geburah is reflected in the charioteer in the tarot. tiphareth: the sixth emanation on the tree of life. it is the sphere of beauty, harmonizing the forces of mercy (chesed) and judgement (geburah) higher on the tree. occultists identify tiphareth as the sphere of spiritual rebirth, and is ascribed to solar deities such as ra, apollo, and mithra as well as osiris and jesus christ. the tarot card temperence identifies the direct mystical ascent to tiphareth from malkuth, the physical. netzach: the seventh emanation on the tree of life. netzach is regarded as the sphere of creativity, subjectivity, and emotions, a very clear contrast to the sphere of hod, which represe

ng and abundance. 106 star -reversed disappointment, expectations are not being met, a lack of abundance and barreness. moon a very deceptive card, illusion, lying trickery, hidden enemies. moon -reversed deception, but only slight. sun happiness, joy, good thoughts, contentment. sun -reversed basically some happiness, joy, good thoughts and contentment, but to a lesser degree. judgement renewal, rebirth, final decision, judgement, sentence, determination of a matter without appeal on its plane. judgement -reversed a negative affect such as set backs and delays. universe this is the matter itself, the synthesis, the world, the kingdom. it usually denotes the actual subject of the question. it can also mean success and completion of a matter. universe -reversed failure, inertia, many times

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

, and to bring fertility to humans and animals alike. hunters would re-enact the successful outcome of a hunt and would carry these energies into the everyday world. offerings were made to the mistress of the herds and later to the horned god, who was depicted wearing horns or antlers to display his sovereignty over the herds. animal bones would be buried so that they, like humankind, would enjoy rebirth from the earth mother's womb. where hunter-gatherers today continue the unbroken tradition that stretches back thousands of years- for example, among the lapps in the far north of scandinavia and the inuits- these rites continue, led by a shaman, or magick man, who negotiates with the mistress of the herds or fish in a trance for the release of the animals. one of the earliest recorded exa

s energies. the bringing together of these two powers, the sacred marriage that is celebrated symbolically in the great rite of the union of earth and sky, is a ritual that permeates all cultures. in egyptian mythology, isis, the sister-wife of osiris, sought and reassembled his body after his murder and dismemberment by his brother seth. in this connection, she took on the role of the goddess of rebirth, the bone goddess, and restored him in a more evolved form. the annual celebrations of this event coincided with the rising of the dog star, sirius, which heralded the flooding of the nile and the restoration of fertility to the land and symbolically to the people. as the sky gods gained supremacy, they married the earth goddesses who slowly evolved into patronesses of women, marriage and

devotees, and so she brings protection and regeneration after sorrow. persephone persephone is the greek maiden goddess of transformation, daughter of demeter and goddess of spring and flowers. she was abducted by hades, god of the underworld, and became queen of the underworld for the winter months, returning to the earth as the light-bringer in spring and so representing the cycle of death and rebirth. she is especially powerful in rituals by or for young women, especially those who have suffered loss or abuse, and also for mother-daughter relationships. she is sometimes regarded as a symbol of grain. proserpina, daughter of ceres, is the roman form of persephone. sekhmet sekhmet is the ancient egyptian solar and lion goddess created from the eye of ra. she is sometimes pictured as a wo

earlier it was estimated there had been several million. in the summer of 1994, a white buffalo calf was born in jamesville, wisconsin. as the prophecy had told, the white buffalo has changed its colours since birth, going from white to black to red to yellow and back to white. since each colour represents one of the four directions, the buffalo is seen by many native americans as a symbol of the rebirth of hope. one visionary interpreted the birth of the white buffalo calf as signifying that the human race will be united, in spite of differences in creed and colour, and join together in peace. wophe is therefore an important symbol not only of the revival of the native american wisdom, but also of healing and reconciliation of all people and of the land and all its creatures. deities of t

the sky god, became a youth, he fought to avenge his father against seth. the divine judges, including thoth, god of wisdom, met in the great hall of judgment and decided that osiris should become not a living king once more, but eternal king and judge of the underworld. osiris was also god of vegetation, the fertile, flooding nile and the corn, and so represented the annual dying of the land and rebirth with the flood. he is normally pictured as a man, bound in mummy wrappings. osiris is an important icon of the annual cycle of sacrifice and resurrection but, as with all the sacrifice gods, it is the female power that causes the resurrection. like other sacrificed and restored gods, osiris thereby represents the integration of animus and anima and sacred sex magick. he can be used in ritu

dle with golden sunflowers or chrysanthemums, tiny mirrors that reflect the light and clear crystal quartz, which is called in the orient 'the essence of the dragon. blue blue is for water and the west, dusk and autumn. a blue candle is placed in the nine o'clock position. water represents love, relationships, sympathy, intuition, reconciliation, harmony, healing and the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, natural cyclical evolutions from one stage to another as opposed to changes made consciously under the auspices of air. it is also potent for fighting floods, cleansing seas, lakes and rivers of pollution, in campaigns to provide fresh water in arid places, in all initiatives towards world health and the care of whales, dolphins, seals and endangered sea creatures. like earth, water repre

cannot obtain beeswax candles, use plain white candles and place a tiny dish of honey to the right of the salt. since the honey will also be empowered, you can absorb the protective magick by using it in a drink or sandwich* when the candles have burned down completely, clear away the crystals and wash them under running water. water because water is vital for life, it has become associated with rebirth and healing through the washing away of sins and disease, and so with protection from ills of all kinds. water for rituals must first be consecrated. you can use either pure spring water or tap water left for 24 hours in a crystal or clear glass container. cover the water with mesh in the waxing or full moon and then leave out of doors to absorb the light of the moon and the sun for a full

us newts. the salamander offers an understanding of mystical processes and visions to inspire future paths and ventures. the colour of fire is gold, orange or red and its zodiacal signs are aries, leo and sagittarius. water water represents dusk, autumn and the quarter and direction of the west. it is the realm of love, relationships, sympathy, intuition, healing and the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. water can form the focus for rituals of purification, healing, all water and sea magick, moon magick, reconciliation and peace, harmony in oneself and with others, restoring balance, unconscious wisdom and divination, especially scrying. it is also potent for overcoming stagnation and inertia and for moving forward after an impasse, for friendship and for travel by sea. it is linked with

e ritual if you wish* take next the water from the west and pour some into one of the dishes. stir it deosil, saying: power of growth, power of fertility, power of prosperity, enter this water, i ask, mother and father of abundance and increase* now take the salt to the water and tip a little in it, stirring it once more with the athame, saying: dissolve and disperse, flow far and free to attract rebirth to-[name the town] and its inhabitants* now cast the circle around the elemental candles, with your wand, starting from the north in a single unbroken movement, visualising as you do a stream of light emanating from it that encloses you above, around and beneath (if you are working with a group, they can stand or sit within a circle while you cast around them. this is better than slowing t

oup, they can stand or sit within a circle while you cast around them. this is better than slowing the ceremony by having people entering the circle separately after it is cast and then having to close the circle after each one) say: i cast this circle of light, of power and of protection. may the circle that is cast always be unbroken. bless my workings this night [or day, o mother and father of rebirth and renewal, unified and yet two, and all that is and has been and shall be, creative spirit of the universe, the cosmos and the smallest blade of grass. pick up the bowl of salt water and sprinkle a second circle deosil around the perimeter of the first, saying: salt and water, enclose, bless and protect you who have sustained life from the beginning and will so to the end. if others are

ty course through the veins of the people that their children and grandchildren may know happiness and lives unclouded by sorrow and anxiety for their livelihood and their dwellings* taking the clay between your hands, begin to mould it, using a marking tool if you wish, to make a tool, such as a wheel, or a figure, a bridge, a loaf, a house or a flower, or any abstract symbol that represents the rebirth of the town through its people. endow it with your wishes, visualising the place growing and prospering, perhaps reciting: go forth, increase and multiply, or rise again from the ashes, rise anew, rise glorious, rise, rise again. chant faster and faster until at last you toss the ball into the air and catch it, saying; go far, go free, bring life to thee. in a group, you could pass the end

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

nd darkness and surmounted by the lotus flower of isis. it symbolizes the development of creation" chief "mighty adeptus major, thy wand and its meaning" second "a wand terminating in the symbol of the binary and surmounted by the tau cross of life, or the head of the phoenix, sacred to osiris. the seven colors of the rainbow between light and darkness are attributed to the planets. it symbolizes rebirth and resurrection from death" chief "my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolizes the equilibrated force of m and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one "associate adeptus minor, what are the words inscribed upon the door of the tomb, and how is it guarded (wands of the 3 chiefs) 7 third "post centum viginti

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

y food cooked in thought only over an illusionary fire by a cook who is not there? why should infinite power use such finite means, and very often fail even then? what is the sum total of the vedantist position? i am an illusion, externally. in reality, the true i am the infinite, and if the illusionary i could only realise who i really am, how very happy we should all be! and here we have karma, rebirth, all the mighty laws of nature operating nowhere in nothing! there is no room for worship or for morality in the advaitist system. all the specious pleas of the bhagavad-gita, and the ethical works of western advaitist philosophers, are more or less consciously confusion of thought. but no subtlety can turn the practical argument; the grinning mouths of the dvaitist guns keep the fort of e

tinction is complete: we have no data for discussing that which is unthinkable, and must decline to do so. this is the answer to those who accuse the buddha of hurling his arahats (and himself) from samma samadhi to annihilation. pray observe in the first place that my solution of the great problem permits the co-existence of an indefinite number of means: they need not even be compatible; karma, rebirth, providence, prayer, sacrifice, baptism, there is room for all. on the old and, i hope, now finally discredited hypothesis of an infinite being, the supporters of these various ideas, while explicitly affirming them, implicitly denied. similarly, note that the qabalistic idea of a supreme god (and innumerable hierarchies) is quite compatible with this theory, provided that the supreme god

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 2

, sooner or later get back to the ever-rolling ocean; and there shall we once again be wooed by the bright beams of the sun, that relentless god who in his fierce embrace ever and again draws us up like some earthly concubine to his heavenly couch, only once more to be divorced by the malicious 226 winds and to weep through the storms of air. so the wheel of time runs on through birth, death, and rebirth; and as we realise this we sink down in despair; and through our tears more clouds arise still further to obscure our path. what is the use then of doing anything if we are but as drops of water which are splashed between the wanton hands of the sun, the wind, and the ocean- indeed the ways of god are inscrutable and past finding out. thus the unobtainable tempts us, and the little segment

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urmounted by the lotus flower of isis, which symbolizes the development of creation. then, secondly, the adeptus major explains his as "a wand terminating in the symbol of the binary, and surmounted by the tau cross of life, or the head of the phoenix, sacred to osiris" on it are marked the seven colours of the rainbow between light and darkness, which are attributed to the planets. it symbolises rebirth and resurrection from death. lastly, the chief adept explains his as follows "my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolises the equilibrated force of the spirit and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one. illustration on page 210 described "diagram 61. the egyptian key of life. the crux ansata" this is a sta

nged globe_ is again shown when isis and osiris are united. further, 5+ 9+ 14 (the bands on the wands= 28 power hb:chet hb:koph, for these are the total of the bands thereon. also the globe is light, the phoenix life, the lotus love (symbol of binary, the "prong" see dante. this prong points downwards. arms of typhon in 16th key) they also show the development of creation (lotus wand) operated by rebirth (phoenix wand, presided over by the kerubic working and the everlasting wings (chief adept's wand. 225 we now turn to the important symbolism of the number 120. it is hb:chet hb:mem hb:samekh sic ?hb:koph hb:mem hb:samekh? and the arrow hieroglyph which has been sufficiently explained in z. and the portal ritual. it emphasises the pentagram formula17, that only the purified man ihshvh can

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thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou leprous claw of the ghoul, that coaxest the babe from its chaste cradle! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou assassin word of law, that art written in ruin of earthquakes! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou trembling breast of the night, that gleamest with a rosary of moons! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! 67 o thou holy sphinx of rebirth, that crouchest in the black desert of death! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou diadem of the suns, that art the knot of this red web of worlds! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou ravished river of law, that outpourest the arcanum of life! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou glimmering tongue of day, that art sucked into the blue lips of night! i adore thee

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s the one supremely important thing that he ever said. 141 221 dhammapada, v, 103. 222 dhammapada, v, 21. the noble eightfold path in place of producing a dissolution of the individual atman in the universal atman, the method of buddha produced a submersion of karma in the bournless ocean of nibb na. in chapter i of book ii of "the questions of king milinda" n gasena lays down that he who escapes rebirth does so through wisdom (pa) and reasoning (yonisomanasik ra) and by other "good qualities" the reason grasps the object and wisdom cuts it off, whilst the good qualities seem to be the united action of these two, thus we get good conduct (s lam, faith (saddh, perseverance (viriyam, mindfulness (sati) and meditation (sam dhi, all of which rather than being separate states are but qualities

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

re are many witches in britain who will have nothing to do with his movement because he disregards this rule. some believe that talking about one's powers diminishes them, but alex and his followers put this down to superstition. pptnbix. btmtttbts' altnbat the witches' year begins at midnight on 20 december when the cauldron is wreathed with holly, ivy and mistletoe and the ritual symbolizes the rebirth of the sun. candlemas, on i february, is devoted to mass initiations. the spring equinox on 20 march is the major fertility sabbath. beltane,or may eve sabbath, on 30 april, another fertility sabbath but not so important as the equinox. midsummer night festival, the summer solstice, is on 21 june and is a social occasion when witches from some distance band together. august eve or lammas f

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

ing for punishment received. so be it ordained. 161. notes these laws appear to have become part of the gbg bos shortly after doreen valiente left his coven (in 1957; they existed at the time that she left (they were an innovation at that time, and were one of the things that the people who hived at that time refused to accept, though not themselves a reason for hiving) see doreen valiente's "the rebirth of witchcraft. l some of this material was already in the gbg bos at the time. see the farrars "the witches' way. l they also seem to be present throughout the alexandrain stream (see the farrars "the witches way, and june johns "king of the witches) l the list i give here is drawn from several published sources: m june johns,"king of the witches" m lady sheba,"the grimoire of lady sheba"

it is fate- better so, she said. and she knelt, and death scourged her tenderly. and she cried: i feel the pangs of love. and death raised her, and said: blessed be! and he gave her the fivefold kiss, saying: thus only mayest thou attain to joy and knowledge. and he taught her all his mysteries, and they loved and were one. and she taught him her mystery of the sacred cup which is the cauldron of rebirth. and he gave her the necklace which is the circle of rebirth, and taught her all the magics. for there are three great events in the life of man: love, death and resurrection in the new body; and magic controls them all. for to fulfill love you must return again at the same time and place as the loved one, and you must meet, and know, and remember, and love them again. but to be reborn, yo

noon of night doth reign queen of the starry realms above, not unto thee may we attain unless thine image be of love [kiss] by moon-ray's silver shaft of power, by green leaf breaking from the bud, by seed that springeth into flower, by life that courseth in the blood [kiss] by rushing wind and leaping fire, by flowing water and green earth, pour us the wine of our desire from out thy cauldron of rebirth [kiss] here may we see in vision clear thy secret strange unveiled at length, thy wondrous twin pillars rear erect in beauty and in strength [kisses on the breasts] altar of mysteries manifold, the sacred circle's central point thus do i sign thee as of old; with kisses of my lips anoint [kisses of the third degree sigil] open for me the secret way, the pathway of intelligence beyond the g

de, dance my round in greenwood shade, by the light of the full moon. in a place wild and lone, dance about mine altar stone; work my holy mystery. ye who are feign to sorcery, i bring ye secrets yet unknown. no more shall ye know slavery, who give true worship unto me. ye who tread my round on sabbat night, come ye all naked to the rite, in token that ye be really free. i teach ye the mystery of rebirth, work ye my mysteries in mirth. heart joined to heart and lip to lip, five are the points of fellowship, that bring ye ecstasy on earth, for i am the circle of rebirth. i ask no sacrifice, but do bow, no other law but love i know, by naught but love may i be known. all things living are mine own, from me they come, to me they go. notes l lots of published sources eg. grimoire of lady sheba

on earth, for i am the circle of rebirth. i ask no sacrifice, but do bow, no other law but love i know, by naught but love may i be known. all things living are mine own, from me they come, to me they go. notes l lots of published sources eg. grimoire of lady sheba originally written by doreen valiente for gbg. that version was somewhat different from the one given here. see doreen valiente's the rebirth of witchcraft. l drawing down the moon needs: l wand, scourge, priestess' athame l priest, priestess follows: casting circle, witches' rune next: the charge hps stands in god position in n. before altar, holding scourge and athame. coveners are in s. facing altar. hp kneels before hps and salutes her with the fivefold kiss (as he kisses her womb, she opens into blessing position. hp again

d a line with linked hands and rushed towards the fire shouting the thing they wanted. they kept it up 'til they were exhausted or until someone fell in a faint, when they were said to have taken the spell to its destination. notes published in janet and stewart farrar's the witches' way; from gbg's bos (text b and c give identical versions) l doreen valiente gives just about the same text in the rebirth of witchcraft, describing it as notes she made from gerald gardner's description of the ritual used to deter hitler from invading great britain. l of the ordeal of the art magical learn of the spirit that goeth with burdens that have not honour, for 'tis the spirit that stoopeth the shoulders and not the weight. armour is heavy, yet it is a proud burden and a man standeth upright in it. li

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

venth principle. causal body. this body is, from the standpoint of the physical plane, no body, either subjective or objective. it is, nevertheless, the centre of the egoic consciousness, and is formed of the conjunction of buddhi and manas. it is relatively permanent and lasts throughout the long cycle of incarnations, and is only dissipated after the fourth initiation, when the need for further rebirth on the part of a human being no longer exists- 126- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust chohan. lord, master, a chief. in this book it refers to those adepts who have gone on and taken the sixth initiation. deva (or angel. a god. in sanskrit a resplendent deity. a deva is a celestial being, whether good, bad, or indifferent. devas are divided into many groups, and are ca

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

ted, and lead to the fourth, where the intensity of the united fires results in the complete burning away of all barriers, and the liberation of the spirit by conscious directed effort from out its threefold lower sheath. man has consciously to bring about his own liberation. these results are self-induced by the man himself, as he is emancipated from the three worlds, and has broken the wheel of rebirth himself instead of being broken upon it. it will be apparent from this elucidation that the exceeding importance of the etheric vehicle as the separator of the fires has been brought forward, and consequently we have brought to our notice the dangers that must ensue should man tamper injudiciously, ignorantly or wilfully with these fires- 70- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis

whereby he may, and eventually will, be contacted. the problem of duality is the problem of existence itself, and cannot be solved by the man who refuses to recognise the possibility of two occult facts: 1. that the entire solar system embodies the consciousness of an entity, who originates on planes entirely without the solar ring-pass-not. 2. that manifestation is periodical and that the law of rebirth is the method that evolution takes in dealing with a man, a planetary logos, and a solar logos. hence, the emphasis laid in the proem of the secret doctrine on the three fundamentals,97(86) a. the boundless immutable principle and b. the periodicity of the universe. c. the identity of all souls with the oversoul. when scientists recognise these two facts then their explanations will take a

desire, and their united latent demonstration, love-wisdom. in terms of fire how might we express an analogous thought? the fire latent in matter itself a product of an earlier manifestation of the same cosmic identity, or the relatively perfected quality worked out by him in a previous cosmic incarnation is set in motion again by the desire of that same identity to circle once more the wheel of rebirth. that "fire by friction" produces heat and radiation and calls forth a reaction from its opposite "electric fire" or spirit. here we have the thought of the ray striking through matter, for the action of electric fire is ever forward, as earlier suggested. the one ray "electric fire" drops into matter. this is the systemic marriage of the father and the mother. the result is the blending o

law, primarily, and a subsidiary law. this leads to two general types of cycles, and is involved in the very nature of the self and of the not-self. the interplay of the two by the aid of mind produces that which we call environment or circumstance. the general law, which produces cyclic effect, is the law of attraction and repulsion, of which the subsidiary law is the law of periodicity, and of rebirth. cyclic evolution is entirely the result of the activity of matter, and of the will or spirit. it is produced by the interaction of active matter and moulding spirit. every form holds hid a life. every life constantly reaches out after the similar life latent in other forms. when spirit and matter sound the same note evolution will cease. when the note sounded by the form is stronger than

teraction between spirit and form is seen, and the result is the ordered cycles of the planets, of a human being, and of an atom. thus, through repetition, is consciousness developed, and responsive faculty induced. when this faculty is of such a nature that it is an inherent part of the entity's working capital, it has to be exercised on every plane, and again cyclic action is the law, and hence rebirth again and again is the method of exercise. when the innate conscious faculty of every unit of consciousness has become co-ordinated as part of the equipment of the logos on every plane of the solar system, then, and only then, will cyclic evolution cease, will rotary movement on every plane of the cosmic physical plane be of such a uniform vibration as to set up action on the next cosmic p

ult of electrical energy in the universe, which in each case brings the lesser lives or spheres into its range of influence. the magnetic force, the life of the logos gathers together his body of manifestation. the magnetic force of the heavenly man, the planetary logos, gathers out of the solar ring-pass-not that which he needs for each incarnation. the magnetic force of the ego gathers, at each rebirth, matter within the particular sphere or scheme within which the ego has place. so on down the scale, we find the lesser pursuing its round ever within the greater. therefore we have (during a period of attraction and repulsion, or a life cycle) that which we call time and space, and this holds equally true in the life cycle of a logos or an ant, or a crystal. there are cycles of activity i

esting connection with the fifth law of fixation. we might study, too, with profit, the analogy that can be seen between these factors and the fifth root-race, the race of peculiarly strong development of the concrete mind. the law of analogy always holds good. with this as a basis, the three laws of the personality become replete with life, and can be summed up in the well-known term "the law of rebirth and death in the three worlds" the fifth law governs a fixed point in the personality, that of the fifth principle. the law of love in the astral body also has its points for consideration. there is a direct link between the astral body (love in the personality, the buddhic vehicle (love in the triad, and the monads of love. later on, this will be understood more fully, but it is the main

takes place, setting the indwelling life free for further progress. all forms are but hindrances and limitations, and ultimately must go, but they have their needed place in the development of the race. eventually the causal body of the entire race itself disintegrates. this law governs the crystallisation of all forms prior to their shattering in the process of evolution. it governs the time of rebirth, being one of the subsidiary branches of the law of karma. each of the seven subsidiary laws is linked to one of the cosmic laws, or with the sirian law of karma. we need always to remember that the consciousness of the cosmic mental plane is the logoic goal of attainment, and that the sirian logos is to our solar logos what the human ego is to the personality. the law of karma, or cosmic

ne scheme has but three rounds, but a mystery is hidden here: on the inner round one planet has nine cycles to run before the purpose of its lord is completed. certain lesser periods of pralaya do not concern man at all, but concern the atom of matter as it is released from form of any kind in the subhuman kingdoms. pralaya is the result of radioactivity carried to a conclusion (c) types of human rebirth. in our study of the building of thought-forms and the agencies for their construction, we have considered: 1. the deva substance out of which they are constructed. 2. the energy which animates them and its source. 3. their appearance in time and space, or their incarnation. 4. their disappearance or pralaya. 5. the constructing entities who in a threefold manner produce these forms, utili

process of: a. meditation, which is ever the preliminary to construction. b. dynamic force, or the positive energy which seizes upon its polar opposite (negative substance, and utilises it. c. the impartation of colour or quality, which moulds that which has been prepared. d. a secondary vitalisation, which sets in separate motion the thought-form thus created. we will now consider the mystery of rebirth, or the incarnation of those lives which exist in- 440- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust subtler matter, and yet which seek form according to law, and touch upon their specific intent on dense physical levels. we can consider this in connection with the cosmic entities who seek existence on the physical plane of the cosmos, our solar systemic planes, or the reincarnatin

reincarnating jivas who are driven by the law towards earthly manifestation in order to become fully conscious, and acquire (by means of sentient existence, added faculty and power. h. p. b. has said that rebirths may be divided into three classes:49(218) a. those of avatars. b. those of adepts. c. those of jivas seeking development. to those who are endeavouring to grasp somewhat the mystery of rebirth and its laws and purpose, and who are confused when considering the mystery of the buddha, and the secret purpose of that mysterious entity, the silent watcher; to those who find the problem of understanding the position of the kumaras and their relation to the planetary logos almost an insuperable one, it might be wise to say: study and meditate upon the difference existing between the lo

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

h human being. this is the "christ in you, the hope of glory (col. i:27) if the student will also study the fish avatar of vishnu he will learn still more. 2. the fish swimming in the waters of matter, an extension of the same idea only carried down to its more obvious present expression, man as the personality. where there is no longing for any object whatsoever, and where there is no desire for rebirth (ever the outcome of longing for "form-expression" or material manifestation) then the true thirstlessness is attained, and the liberated man turns his back upon all the forms in the lower three worlds and becomes a true saviour. in the bhagavad gita the following illuminating words are found "for the possessors of wisdom, united in soul-vision, giving up the fruit of works, freed from the

r the outcome of longing for "form-expression" or material manifestation) then the true thirstlessness is attained, and the liberated man turns his back upon all the forms in the lower three worlds and becomes a true saviour. in the bhagavad gita the following illuminating words are found "for the possessors of wisdom, united in soul-vision, giving up the fruit of works, freed from the bondage of rebirth, reach the home where no sorrow dwells "when thy soul shall pass beyond the forest of delusion, thou shalt no more regard what shall be taught or what has been taught "when withdrawn from traditional teaching, thy soul shall stand steadfast, firm in soul-vision, then shalt thou gain union with the soul (gita ii, 51, 52 and 53- 21- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust j. h. wood

force. 3. the intensive training given towards the climax by the occult hierarchy whereby souls receive a stimulation and vitalisation which enables them to make more rapid progress. the occult student must remember that this process has gone on in the wheels and cycles preceding our planet earth. the primeval lords, or sages, are those great adepts who having "tasted experience" under the law of rebirth, were initiated into the mysteries by the one initiator, the representative in our planet of the oversoul. they in their turn became teachers and initiators into the mysteries. the one master is found within; it is the soul, the inner ruler, the thinker on his own plane. this one master is a corporate part of the whole, of the all-soul. each expansion of consciousness which a man undergoes

of him who has perfected harmlessness, all enmity ceases. 36. when truth to all beings is perfected, the effectiveness of his words and acts is immediately to be seen. 37. when abstention from theft is perfected, the yogi can have whatever he desires. 38. by abstention from incontinence, energy is acquired. 39. when abstention from avarice is perfected, there comes an understanding of the law of rebirth. 40. internal and external purification produces aversion for form, both one's own and all forms. 41. through purification comes also a quiet spirit, concentration, conquest of the organs, and ability to see the self. 42. as a result of contentment bliss is achieved. 43. through fiery aspiration and through the removal of all impurity, comes the perfecting of the bodily powers and of the s

e love of god. it was the "kingly" or crowning science of the last rootrace, the atlantean, just as the science of raja yoga is the great science of our aryan civilization. bhakti yoga made its exponent an arhat or led him to the fourth initiation. raja yoga makes him an adept and leads him to the portal of the fifth initiation. both lead to liberation, for the arhat is released from the cycle of rebirth but raja yoga liberates him to complete service and freedom to work as a white magician. bhakti yoga is the yoga of the heart, of the astral body. karma yoga has a specific relation to physical plane activity, and to the working out into objective manifestation of all the inner impulses. in its ancient and simplest form it was the yoga of the third or lemurian root race and its two best kn

(as we understand the term) is, of course, negated, but it cannot be too frequently emphasized that there remains much unknown even to the adept, and that the christ himself, the great world teacher, knows not all that is the content of the awareness of the king of the world. the yoga sutras of patanjali only deal, however, with the overcoming of the ignorance which holds a man upon the wheel of rebirth and which prevents him unfolding the true powers of the soul. the old commentary says in connection with this final stage "within the hall of wisdom, light fully shines upon the adept's ways. he knows and sees the seventh part and visions all the rest. he is himself a septenate and from this hall emerges god- 75- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 5. avidya is the condition o

ty, and between light and darkness. it governs, therefore, life in the three worlds, for the correspondence between avidya on the physical plane as experienced by man in incarnation is to be found on all planes. it is a limitation of spirit itself and a necessary corollary of form-taking. the spiritual unit is born blind and senseless. it comes into form at the beginning of the ages and cycles of rebirth in a state of total unawareness. it has to become aware of that which is around it; to do this it has first to develop the senses whereby contact and awareness become possible. the method and process through which the human being has evolved five senses or avenues of approach to the not-self are well known and any standard physiological text book can supply the needed information. three fa

wledge of mystic mantrams. the occult potency of sound, of the word. 4. atman vidya. true spiritual wisdom. the four noble truths have been stated for us in the words of the buddha in the following terms "now the exalted one thus addressed the brethren 'through not understanding, through not penetrating the four aryan truths, brethren, we have run on and wandered round this long, long journey (or rebirth, both you and i. what are those- 80- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust four? the aryan truth of ill: the aryan truth of the arising of ill: the aryan truth of the ceasing of ill: the aryan truth of the way leading to the ceasing of ill. but, brethren, when these four aryan truths are understood and penetrated, then is uprooted the craving for existence, cut off is the thread

and i. what are those- 80- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust four? the aryan truth of ill: the aryan truth of the arising of ill: the aryan truth of the ceasing of ill: the aryan truth of the way leading to the ceasing of ill. but, brethren, when these four aryan truths are understood and penetrated, then is uprooted the craving for existence, cut off is the thread that leadeth to rebirth, then is there no more coming to be' thus spake the exalted one. when the happy one had thus spoken, the master added this further: blind to the fourfold aryan truths of things, and blind to see things as they really are, long was our journeying thro' divers births. gone is the cord of life when these are seen. no more becoming when ill's root is cut" the four elements have been stated for

re. 12. karma itself has its root in these five hindrances and must come to fruition in this life- 81- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust or in some later life. just as long as man on the physical plane is subject to, or governed by these hindrances, just so long will he initiate those activities which will produce inevitable effects, and just so long will he be tied to the wheel of rebirth and be condemned to form-taking. the student should carefully note that these five hindrances are the cause of all the activities of the lower personality or the lower man. everything he does is based on one or other of them and there is no action of the average man in the three worlds which is not the outcome of ignorance and its accompanying erroneous identifications and reactions. as th

. the roots are found on the mental plane. the flowering forth into objectivity and fruition is to be seen on the physical plane. therefore it is necessary for the aspirant to lay the axe to the root of the tree, or to deal with the thoughts and desires which produce the physical body. he must enter the subjective realm if he wants to deal with that which will continue to keep him on the wheel of rebirth. when the seeds are eradicated, fruition is not possible. when the root is separated from its externalities on any of the three planes, then the life-energy no longer flows downwards. the three words birth, life and experience sum up human existence, its object, method and goal and with them we need not deal. the whole subject of karma (or the law of cause and effect) is dealt with in this

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cation, confusion worse confounded..it is not a small hope that will suffice us, the ruin being clearly..universal. there must be a new world if there is to be a world at all. that human beings in europe can ever return to the old sorry routine, and proceed with any steadiness or continuance therein, this small hope is not now a tenable one. these days of universal death must be days of universal rebirth, if the ruin is not to be total and final. it is a time to make the dullest man consider whence he came and whither he is bound."8(8) looking back over the seventy or more years that have elapsed since carlyle wrote these words, we know that mankind did not fail to go forward. the electrical age was inaugurated and the wonders of the scientific achievements of our time are known by us all

an entity, a being, called the self or soul. second: this self utilizes the form of the human being as its instrument or means of expression, and through the sum total of the mental and emotional states will eventually manifest itself, utilizing the physical body as its functioning mechanism on the physical plane. finally, the control of these means of expression is brought about under the law of rebirth. through the evolutionary process (carried forward through many lives in a physical body) the self gradually builds a fit instrument through which to manifest, and learns to master it. thus the self or soul becomes truly creative and self-conscious in the highest sense and active in its environment, manifesting its true nature perfectly. eventually it gains complete liberation from form, f

ight in a lamp. at first the lamp gives forth no radiance, but gradually the light- 22- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust makes its presence felt, till the meaning of the words of the christ becomes clear. he said "i am the light of the world" and enjoined upon his disciples to "let your light shine that man may see" thirdly: when the life of the soul, acting under the law of rebirth, has brought the personality to such a condition that it is an integrated and coordinated unit, then there is set up between the two a more intensive interaction. this interaction is brought about though the processes of self-discipline, an active will towards spiritual being, unselfish service (for that is the mode in which the group-conscious soul manifests itself) and meditation. the co

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of evolution is found to be a gradual series of light demonstrations. veiled and hidden by every form lies light. as evolution proceeds, matter becomes increasingly a better conductor of the light, thus demonstrating the accuracy of the statement of the christ "i am the light of the world. iv. the fourth postulate consists of the statement that all lives manifest cyclically. this is the theory of rebirth or of re-incarnation, the demonstration of the law of periodicity. such are the great underlying truths which form the foundation of the ageless wisdom the existence of life, and the development of consciousness through the cyclic taking of form. in this book, however, the emphasis will be laid upon the little life; upon man "made in the image of god, who through the method of re-incarnati

to the plans of their superiors just as do you in your lesser way. they have their lessons to learn, and the rule of learning is that all experience has to be bought. apprehension comes by the punishment that follows an ill-judged act. their superiors stand by to turn to good account situations brought about by the errors of those inferior in point of development. c. remember also that the law of rebirth holds hidden the secret of the present crisis. groups of egos come together to work out certain karma involved in past days. men have erred grievously in the past. punishment and transmutation are the natural working out. violence and cruelty in the past will reap its heavy karma, but it lies in the hands of you all now to transmute the old mistakes. also bear in mind that principles are e

lf assertion. the aspirant has to grow in all parts of his nature, but until he can function as the soul, the psyche, consciously and with the use of cooperative intelligence, the lower powers must be quiescent. they can only be safely used by advanced disciples and initiates. they are weapons and instruments of service to be then used in the three worlds by those who are still tied by the law of rebirth to those worlds. those who have passed through the great liberation and have "occultly crossed the bridge" have no need to employ the powers inherent in the lower sheaths. they can use the infallible knowledge of the intuition, and the illumination of the principle of light. there is much misapprehension in people's minds as to how a master lets an accepted disciple become aware that he is

dualities are grasped, it dawns on him slowly and surely that the deciding factor in the struggle is his divine will, in contradistinction to his selfish will. thus the dual forces play their part until they are seen as two great streams of divine energy, pulling in opposite directions, and he becomes then aware of the two paths, mentioned in our rule. one path leads back into the dreary land of rebirth, and the other leads through the golden gate to the city of free souls. one is therefore involutionary and involves him in deepest matter; the other leads him out of the body nature, and makes him eventually aware of his spiritual body, through which he can function in the kingdom of the soul. one path, later on (when he is a true and pledged chela) is known to him as the left hand path an

orm has taken place. second, the astral forms of those lesser solar lives on the evolutionary arc who are taking form slowly but have not yet taken an etheric body, and will never in this world period take a physical body. these two groups are the planetary correspondences to the re-incarnating types of men, and to those who have passed over and are slowly shedding their bodies, prior to eventual rebirth, or who have completely vacated their shells. there are two of these astral forms in close proximity to our earth, which are rapidly "decomposing, if i may so term it, and yet have a very potent influence. on account of this close relation, they produce two types of desire or of astral tendency among men. one produces much of that instinctual tendency to cruelty which one sees in children

es can work. it should also be remembered that in lemurian times their influence was constructive, for in those days, the lesson of sex and the intelligent registering of pain had a place in the schemes of those who were endeavouring to lead animal man into human consciousness not into soul consciousness or even into self-consciousness in those very early times. close to our earth, on the road to rebirth, is a great life in process of taking etheric form. this life, being on the evolutionary arc and not constituting the life of a decaying shell, is having a- 180- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust real effect in the inauguration of the new age. this effect is twofold: through the emanations from the astral body of this great life the work of breaking down the separative w

we shall not waste time in planetary intricacies and the interplay of solar energies, but will concern ourselves with the laws of practical spiritual living. i seek but to give a few thoughts which have relation to the coming age, and which will enable man to go forward to that glorious heritage which is his and into which he must inevitably enter under the good law and through the experience of rebirth. through rebirth he learns to dominate and utilise form correctly. all forms, in themselves, are not expressions of a personality. to warrant the term, three types of energy must be present, three types, fused, blended and coordinated into one functioning organism. a personality is therefore a blend of mental energy, of emotional energy and of vital force, and these three are masked, hidde

eresting to note that in atlantean days, the word used was tau, enunciated explosively and so forcefully, that the thought-forms thus energised and expedited acted inevitably like a boomerang, and returned to the one who sent them forth. this word tau is likewise, in its symbolic form, the symbol of reincarnation. it is desire for form which produces the use of form and causes cyclic and constant rebirth in form. it was the constant use of the tau likewise, which brought about the final overwhelming with water, which swept away the ancient atlantean civilisation; the few who used the aum in those days were not potent enough to offset the force of desire. the mind bodies of the race could not respond to that newer- 277- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust creative sound. hu

ce of desire. the mind bodies of the race could not respond to that newer- 277- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust creative sound. humanity was still swept entirely by longing and desire to such an extent that the united desire for possessions and for the enjoyment of form drove men esoterically "into the waters. desire for form still forces upon humanity the constant process of rebirth until such time as the tau influence is exhausted and the aum sound can dominate. the former influence is however weakening, and the aum is increasing in potency until it will be the dominating factor. to this latter sound, the word of the soul must eventually succeed, until aum in its turn is entirely superseded. the sound of many waters (which is the symbolic way of expressing the tau in

clue to the entire process. when correctly understood, it will govern the method of work and the thought life of the worker in white magic. my answer is this: potencies produce precipitation. in those three words lies the entire story. they sum up the history of the creator and the life story and environing conditions of every human being. they account for all that is, and lie back of the law of rebirth. these potencies are driven into activity by the power of thought and hence, in training them to be creators and in teaching them to govern and control their own destinies, the teachers of the race begin with the mind aspect of aspirants. they emphasize that which will govern the potencies; they deal with that which produces the objective form, which is qualified by them, is energized by t

h with the soul, the spiritual thinker. but later decades will see the emerging of a technique of creation. when soul, mind and brain are unified and facility in unification has been achieved, further instructions will be given in the creative art. meditation is the first basic lesson given when men have achieved the capacity to function on the mental plane. down the great cycle upon the wheel of rebirth "the idea of the solar angel is attaining definite concretion. a treatise on cosmic fire, p. 1024. each life sees the initial purpose clarified and time is literally the length of a thought. this same basic truth underlies the creation of all forms on the physical plane, whether it is a thought-form embodying the urgent desire of a man for selfish acquisition or that thought-form which we

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of their number. they enter into constructive activity; they pass through that particular cycle; they then pass out, or die to that activity, and are then "raised into heaven" until such time as their cycle again comes round. this process they constantly enact and reenact, repeating the drama of birth, death and resurrection. in this ray activity will be found the true significance of the law of rebirth, and it lies behind the process of incarnation and of reincarnation. upon this i may not here dwell, beyond pointing out that men's ideas and teaching anent reincarnation are as yet childish and inaccurate. much readjustment must be made, and much re-arrangement of ideas is necessitated, before a true understanding of this basic cyclic law will be possible. cyclic appearance, therefore, go

thus rounding out the negative and positive aspects of the form life. all the race is equally guilty, and all must be equally active in the process of creating the correct conditions, and in bringing order out of the present chaos. therefore, the first postulate which must be laid down, and to which the general public must be educated, is that all souls incarnate and re-incarnate under the law of rebirth. hence each life is not only a recapitulation of life experience, but an assuming of ancient obligations, a recovery of old relations, an opportunity for the paying of old indebtedness, a chance to make restitution and progress, an awakening of deep-seated qualities, the recognition of old friends and enemies, the solution of revolting injustices, and the explanation of that which conditio

aution to fulfill their family and group obligations. they will know full well that "whatsoever a man soweth, that will he also reap" and that he will reap it here and now, and not in some mystical and mythical heaven or hell; he will have to make his adjustments in the life of every day upon earth, which provides an adequate heaven and a more than adequate hell. the spreading of this doctrine of rebirth, its scientific recognition and proving, is fast going forward, and during the next ten years it will be the subject of much attention. the second basic postulate was enunciated for us by christ when he told us to "love our neighbor as ourselves" to this we have paid, as yet, but little attention. we have loved ourselves and have sought to love those we like. but to love universally and be

perseding personal selfishness, religious unity taking the place of fanatical intolerance, and regulated appetites instead of licence. the two laws i have proclaimed, and the two postulates i have above enunciated, sound like platitudes. but platitudes are the universal and recognised truths, and a truth is a scientific pronouncement. the moulding of the life by these two recognitions (the law of rebirth and the law of love) would save humanity and rebuild our civilisation. they are probably too simple to evoke an interested recognition. but the power lying behind them is the power of divinity itself, and their recognition is simply a question of time, for evolution will force the recognition at some distant date. the forming of an earlier recognition lies in the hands of the disciples and

and group unity? action which fails to measure up to the group requirements will then automatically be discarded. in the deciding of problems, the individual and the unit will slowly learn to subordinate the personal good and the personal pleasure to group conditions and group requirements. you can see, therefore, how the problem of sex will also yield to solution. an understanding of the law of rebirth, a good-will towards all men, working out as harmlessness, and a desire for group goodwill will gradually become determining factors in the racial consciousness, and our civilisation will adjust itself in time to these new conditions. the final postulate which i seek to emphasize is that the keeping of these three laws will lead necessarily to an urgent desire to keep the law of the land i

their effects as would be the result of their removal and the consequent inauguration of a cycle of law-less-ness. therefore, the server of the race cooperates with the laws of the land in his daily life, working at the same time for the removal of the injustices they may produce and for the bettering of the legal impositions upon mankind in his country. in the recognition of these four laws, of rebirth, of love, of the group. and of the land, we shall see the salvation of the race. 4. sex and discipleship i want to write a word on the subject of sex in the life of the disciple. there is much confusion in the minds of aspirants on this matter, and the injunction as to celibacy is assuming the position of a religious doctrine. we are often told by the well-meaning but illogical that if a m

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rn that the way of release is to be found in detachment, dispassion and discrimination. these are the first steps on the road to christ. through the message of christ three general concepts emerged into the racial consciousness- 11- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust first, that the individual, as an individual, is of value. this was a truth which the general eastern doctrine of rebirth had tended to negate. time was long; opportunity would endlessly recur; the evolutionary process would do its work. let mankind therefore drift as a whole with the tide, and eventually all would be well. hence the general attitude of the east was failure to emphasise the supreme value of any individual. but christ came and emphasised the work of the individual, saying "let your light so sh

e the initiator and in that high- 15- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust moment to find that it is the christ himself who thus greets them the familiar friend who, having prepared them by example and precept, now receives them into the presence of god. such has ever been the experience, the uniform experience down the ages, of all seekers. revolting in the east from the wheel of rebirth, with its constantly re-iterated suffering and pain, or revolting in the west from the apparent monstrous injustice of the one sorrowful life which the christian allots himself, men have turned within to find the light and peace and release so ardently desired. christ gives us a definite picture of the entire process in his own life story, built around those major initiations which are our

s with the absolute values, we are sure of immortality" what we really care about, then, in our highest moments, when free from the illusions of the emotional nature, determines our immortal life. the question then arises as to what occurs when the sense of values is distorted or temporarily nonexistent. in an attempt to meet this question millions of people have accepted the oriental doctrine of rebirth, which states the world to be the "vale of soul-making" as keats calls it, and which teaches that we return again and again to physical life, until the time comes when our values are properly adjusted, and we can pass through the five initiations into liberation. much of the teaching given in the occult and esoteric books is distorted and fanciful, but that there is much to be said for the

h states the world to be the "vale of soul-making" as keats calls it, and which teaches that we return again and again to physical life, until the time comes when our values are properly adjusted, and we can pass through the five initiations into liberation. much of the teaching given in the occult and esoteric books is distorted and fanciful, but that there is much to be said for the doctrine of rebirth is evident to the unprejudiced student. in the last analysis, if perfection is to be ultimately achieved, the question is merely one of time and location. the christian may believe in a sudden perfecting through the process of death itself, or- 153- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust in a mental acceptance of the death of jesus, which he calls "conversion; he may regard d

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dency to philanthropy which is so rapidly taking hold of the world, and the sense of responsibility which does make men realise that they are their brother's keeper, are all expressions of this sacrificial instinct. this factor, though not unrecognised by modern psychology, is of far wider significance than has yet been realised. this instinctual tendency is the one that itself governs the law of rebirth. it is the expression of a still greater factor in the creative process. it is the major determining impulse which impelled the soul of god himself to enter into form life; which impels life, upon the involutionary arc, to progress down into matter, producing thus the immanence of god. it is that also which drives humanity forward into its wild struggle for material well-being. it is that

he has been subjected to the discipline of the probationary path, or the path of purification. he is then ready to tread the final stages of the path. these seven laws are the basis of all true psychological understanding and, when their influence is better grasped, man will arrive at real self knowledge. he will then be ready for the fourth initiation which releases him from all further need for rebirth. this is the truth which underlies the masonic teaching, which is given under the symbolism of the first eighteen degrees. these can be divided into four groups of degrees: entered apprentice, fellow craft (followed by the mark degree) master mason (followed by the h.r.a) and the grouped degrees, four to seventeen, in the scottish rite. these seventeen degrees prepare the man for the fourt

om one's own needs and satisfaction to the deeper demands of the race itself. until a man stands upon the path of perfection, he cannot really grasp the imperative demand of his own soul for release from the search for outer, material, tangible satisfaction, and from desire. it has been this demand which indicated the soul's need to incarnate and to function, for a needed period, under the law of rebirth. as the work of purification proceeds upon the path of purification, this demand for release becomes stronger and clearer, and when the man steps out upon the path of discipleship, then the law of repulse can, for the first time, begin to control his reactions. this takes place unconsciously at first, but it becomes more potent and more consciously appreciated as the disciple takes one ini

will act as channels of communication or intermediaries between the energies which constitute the forces which construct the forms, the fabricators of the outer garment of god, and human spirits. the possibility is, therefore, to be noted that the main initial work will be concerned with the problem of reincarnation. that problem deals with the taking of an outer garment or form under the law of rebirth. therefore, when these groups are organised, it will be with that subject that the members will at first work. they will make a deeper and different study than has heretofore been undertaken on the law of rebirth. 8. some groups of energy communicators and transmitters will carry illumination between groups of thinkers. they are illuminators of group thoughts. they transmit energy from one

m of manifestation and the centres for experience improve as the consciousness widens and deepens. from the standpoint of psychology, this means that the glandular equipment, the physical apparatus, and the response instrument become increasingly efficient, whilst an inner coordination and integration proceeds apace. the dilemma of the psychologist today is largely due to the fact that the law of rebirth is not yet recognised scientifically or among the intelligentsia. he is therefore faced with the problems of the inequalities in the physical equipment, everywhere prevalent. there is a widespread failure to recognise the underlying cause which is responsible for the "appearance, for the mechanism. there is, therefore, no scientific proof (as the word is understood at this time) of the fie

and even this statement will be little understood. man's origin and his goal remain largely unconsidered, and he is studied- 197- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust from the angle of this one short life, and from the point of view of his present equipment. until he is integrated into time as well as into his environment and until the law of rebirth is admitted as the most likely hypothesis, there will be no real understanding of the process of evolution, of the relationships of individuals, and the nature of the unfoldment of the equipment. there will be no true wisdom. knowledge comes, as the individual integrates into his environment. wisdom comes as he becomes coordinated into the processes of time. the mechanism is related to the

ch which preceded that appearance is not dealt with, yet it is basically a determining factor. but this activity upon the physical plane and the nature of his desire life (which is only translated into terms of ambition later on in his life experience) are the dominant factors to be considered. it is, of course, exceedingly difficult for there to be a true understanding of man until the theory of rebirth is admitted and man is accounted for in terms of a long preceding history. in this age of intensest separative thinking and attitudes, it is the individual life of the individual man, separate in time and space from all that has gone before, and from all that surrounds him in the present, which is considered as of importance and as constituting a man. man, as an expression of a soul proces

and physicians will work in conjunction with each other, and each will place his skill and his peculiar point of view and interpretation of conditions at the disposal of his fellow workers. 2. the fact of the soul will be admitted as a reasonable hypothesis, and the fact that there may be an indwelling entity, seeking to control in some measure the mechanism, will also be accepted. 3. the law of rebirth will be regarded as a law in nature, and place will be given in the thoughts of these four groups of human helpers, for a man's past and his rapidly developing future. in this treatise, we are considering those more advanced people who constitute the intelligentsia of the world, who are beginning to use the mind, who are upon the probationary path, or who are nearing the path of disciplesh

a series of lives, leads eventually to- 262- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust 7. integration. i would like to stop here and point out that the foundation of the new psychology must inevitably be built upon the premise that this one life is not man's sole opportunity in which to achieve integration and eventual perfection. the great law of rebirth must be accepted and it will then be found to be, in itself, a major releasing agent in any moment of crisis or any psychological problem case. the recognition of further opportunity and a lengthened sense of time are both quieting and helpful to many types of mind; its interpretative value will be found illuminating as the patient grasps the fact that behind him lie points of crisis where

r the responsibility of living with a daily recognition of the past, an understanding of the purpose of the present, and with an eye to the future. this will also greatly lessen the growing tendency towards suicide which humanity is showing. it will be apparent to you, therefore, that the time element can enter into the problem most helpfully and it is here that a real understanding of the law of rebirth, or of the law of opportunity (as i would prefer to call it) will be of definite usefulness. above everything else, it will bring into the attitude of both psychologist and problem case, the idea of hope, the thought of fulfillment and of ultimate achievement. it will also be essential that the psychologist of the future should arrive at a recognition and an admittance of the inner structu

recognised, and new powers begin to open up. each man is, therefore, within himself, a hierarchy, a reflection of a great chain of being the being which the universe expresses. psychology has to recognise eventually- 263- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. the fact of the soul, the integrating agent, the self. 2. the law of opportunity or rebirth. 3. the nature of the inner structure of man and its relation to the outer tangible form. it is interesting to note that practically all the teaching given anent rebirth or reincarnation has emphasised the material phenomenal side though there has always been a more or less casual reference to the spiritual and mental gains acquired in the school of life upon this planet, from incarnation

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n unfold; other faculties and developing capacities are only expansions of these three telepathic thought, receiving and transmitting; intuitive recognition of truth and its formulation into concepts by the mind, plus the later process of materialising that which has been intuited, the highest form of creative work; healing, with its understanding of energy and forces which will lead later to the rebirth of humanity. little by little, the picture of the possibilities and of the plan will unfold before you as your minds increase in sensitivity and your brains become more responsive to mental impulses. little by little, the disciples of the world will work at the reproduction on the physical plane of that which exists subjectively. little by little, there will appear all over the earth, grou

channel of communication or intermediary between the energies which constitute the forces which construct the forms and fabricate the outer garment of deity and the human spirits. you will note here, consequently, the possibility that this group's main initial work will be concerned with the problem of reincarnation. that problem deals with the taking of an outer garment or form under the law of rebirth. 8. the psychologists will form this next group and they will be concerned with the revelation of the fact of the soul and with the new psychology which will be based upon the seven ray types and the new esoteric astrology. their major task will be to relate, through approved techniques, the soul and the personality, leading to the revelation of divinity through the medium of- 32- disciple

tention will be turned upon the subjective life which exists within the form. such is the true course of symbolism to which you, as a disciple, are pledged. your love and knowledge should begin to lead you more and more into the way of the divine psychologist; it is to the service of psychology that i direct your attention and to which you will find yourself pledged when next you take the path of rebirth and return to the battlefield of life. for you, today, the battle is one of endurance, of the control of the emotions, of the right understanding of the astral nature and a steady shift of your point of consciousness on to the next plane. i think, my brother, that you recognise this fact. meditate upon the following mystic phrases and where colour is mentioned, visualise the colour. phrase

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

e minutest atom, up through all the kingdoms of nature to man. 2. the fact of immortality and eternal persistence the spirit in man is undying; it forever endures, progressing from point to point and stage to stage upon the path of evolution, unfolding steadily and sequentially the divine attributes and aspects. this truth involves necessarily the recognition of two great natural laws: the law of rebirth and the law of cause and effect. the churches in the west have refused officially to- 82- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust recognize the law of rebirth and have thereby wandered into a theological impasse and into a cul-de-sac from which there is no possible exit. the churches in the east have overemphasized these laws so that a negative, acquiescent attitude to life and its

he truth which needs re-emphasizing. in these words, st. paul phrases for us the ancient and true teaching of the law of cause and effect called in the orient, the law of karma. to that, he adds in another place the injunction to "work out your own salvation" and as that contradicts the theological teaching and above all else is not possible to do in any one life he implicitly endorses the law of rebirth, and makes the school of life a constantly recurring experience until man has fulfilled the command of the christ (and this refers to every man "be ye, therefore, perfect, even as your father in heaven is perfect. through recognition of the results of action good or bad and through constant reliving upon the earth, man eventually attains "unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of

tayed with us for two thousand years, watching over his people, inspiring his working disciples, the masters of the wisdom, those "just men, made perfect (as the bible calls them; christ demonstrating for us the possibility of this unfolding, living, spiritual consciousness (which has been given the somewhat vague name of the "christ consciousness) bringing every man, eventually under the laws of rebirth and of cause and effect to an ultimate perfection; these are the truths which the church will eventually endorse, teach and express through the lives and words of its exponents. this change in the doctrinal presentation will lead to a very different humanity to that which exists today; it will produce a humanity which will recognize the divine in all men, at varying stages of expression, a

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

the coming new civilisation. he will see, demonstrating before his eyes the true resurrection the emergence of mankind from the imprisoning cave of materialism. thus he will "see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied (is. liii.11- 54- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust chapter five the teachings of the christ the establishing of right human relations the law of rebirth revelation of the mystery of initiation the dispelling of glamour it might be useful to make a few opening remarks upon the general subject of the teaching given (down the ages) by the sons of god who have come forth in the hour of humanity's need, in order to present to the consciousness of the men of their time certain required ideas and concepts of truth. when they come, their aim is to

n to learn; it is for mankind a totally new experience and christ will have to teach men how to handle happiness correctly, to overcome the ancient habits of misery, and thus to know the meaning of true joy. christ, however, is not coming simply to teach men the need for right human relations; he is coming to teach them how to establish it successfully themselves. ii. christ will teach the law of rebirth this law is the major corollary of the law of evolution. it has never been grasped or properly understood in the west and, in the east, where it is acknowledged as a governing principle of life, it has not proved useful because it has been soporific in its effect, and a detriment to progress. the eastern student regards it as giving him plenty of time; this has negated the driving effort t

ion. it has never been grasped or properly understood in the west and, in the east, where it is acknowledged as a governing principle of life, it has not proved useful because it has been soporific in its effect, and a detriment to progress. the eastern student regards it as giving him plenty of time; this has negated the driving effort to achieve a goal. the average christian confuses the law of rebirth with what he calls "the transmigration of souls" and frequently believes that the law of rebirth signifies the passing of human beings into the bodies of animals or of lower forms of life. such is by no means the case. as the life of god progresses onwards through form after form, that life in the subhuman kingdoms of nature proceeds progressively from mineral forms into vegetable forms, a

of animals or of lower forms of life. such is by no means the case. as the life of god progresses onwards through form after form, that life in the subhuman kingdoms of nature proceeds progressively from mineral forms into vegetable forms, and from these vegetable forms into animal forms; from the animal form stage, the life of god passes into the human kingdom, and becomes subject to the law of rebirth and not the law of transmigration. to those who know something of the law of rebirth or of reincarnation, the mistake seems ridiculous. the doctrine or theory of reincarnation strikes the orthodox christian with horror; yet if one asks him the question which the disciples asked christ about the blind man "master, did this man sin or his fathers that he was born blind (john ix.2, they refus

deplorable because it has been so unintelligently presented. the best that can be said is that they have familiarised the general public with the theory; had it, however, been more intelligently presented, it might have been more generally accepted in the west. if the goal of right human relations will be taught universally by the christ, the emphasis of his teaching must be laid upon the law of rebirth. this is inevitably so, because in the recognition of this law will be found the solution of all the problems of humanity, and the answer to much of human questioning. this doctrine will be one of the keynotes of the new world religion, as well as the clarifying agent for a better understanding of world affairs. when christ was here, in person, before, he emphasised the fact of the soul an

o govern the time equation and the interval between lives, forgetting that time is a faculty of the brain-consciousness and that, divorced from the brain, time is non-existent; the emphasis has always been laid upon a fictional presentation of relationships. the teaching (hitherto given out on reincarnation) has done more harm than good. only one factor remains of value: the existence of a law of rebirth is now discussed by many and accepted by thousands. beyond the fact that there is such a law, we know little and those who know from experience the- 63- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust factual nature of this return reject earnestly the foolish and improbable details, given out as fact by the theosophical and occult bodies. the law exists; of the details of its wor

from experience the- 63- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust factual nature of this return reject earnestly the foolish and improbable details, given out as fact by the theosophical and occult bodies. the law exists; of the details of its working we know as yet nothing. only a few things can be said with accuracy about it and these few warrant no contradiction: 1. the law of rebirth is a great natural law upon our planet. 2. it is a process, instituted and carried forward under the law of evolution. 3. it is closely related to and conditioned by the law of cause and effect. 4. it is a process of progressive development, enabling men to move forward from the grossest forms of unthinking materialism to a spiritual perfection and an intelligent perception which will enab

se and effect (called the law of karma in the east) it accounts for differences in circumstances and attitudes to life. 6. it is the expression of the will aspect of the soul and is not the result of any form decision; it is the soul in all forms which reincarnates, choosing and building suitable physical, emotional and mental vehicles through which to learn the next needed lessons. 7. the law of rebirth (as far as humanity is concerned) comes into activity upon the soul plane. incarnation is motivated and directed from the soul level, upon the mental plane. 8. souls incarnate in groups, cyclically, under law and in order to achieve right relations with god and with their fellowmen. 9. progressive unfoldment, under the law of rebirth, is largely conditioned by the mental principle for "as

ected from the soul level, upon the mental plane. 8. souls incarnate in groups, cyclically, under law and in order to achieve right relations with god and with their fellowmen. 9. progressive unfoldment, under the law of rebirth, is largely conditioned by the mental principle for "as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" these few brief words need most careful consideration. 10. under the law of rebirth, man slowly develops mind, then mind begins to control the feeling, emotional nature, and finally reveals the soul and its nature and environment to man. 11. at that point in his development, the man begins to tread the path of return, and orients himself gradually (after many lives) to the kingdom of god. 12. when through a developed mentality, wisdom, practical service and understanding

e man begins to tread the path of return, and orients himself gradually (after many lives) to the kingdom of god. 12. when through a developed mentality, wisdom, practical service and understanding a man has learnt to ask nothing for the separated self, he then renounces desire for life in the three- 64- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust worlds and is freed from the law of rebirth. 13. he is now group conscious, is aware of his soul group and of the soul in all forms and has attained as christ had requested a stage of christlike perfection reaching unto the "measure of the stature of the fullness of the christ (eph. iv.13) beyond this generalisation, no intelligent person will attempt to go. when christ reappears, our knowledge will become more true and realistic; w

are experiencing and experimenting with us. this proven and accepted knowledge will regenerate the very sources of our human living. we shall know that all our difficulties and all our problems are caused by our failure to recognise this fundamental law, with its responsibilities and obligations; we shall then gradually learn to govern our activities by its just and restraining power. the law of rebirth embodies the practical knowledge which men need today to conduct rightly and correctly their religious, political, economic, communal and private lives and thus establish right relations with the divine life in all forms. iii. revelation of the mysteries of initiation much that is here written and which is conveyed in these pages is in reality concerned with the appearance of the kingdom o

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

of daily living and constant contact with others. the task of the western disciple is much harder, but that which he will prove to himself and to the world as a whole will be still higher. this is to be expected if the evolutionary process means anything. the western races must move forward into spiritual supremacy, without obliterating the eastern contribution, and the functioning of the law of rebirth holds the clue to this and demonstrates this necessity. the tide of life moves from- 107- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust east to west as moves the sun, and those who in past centuries struck the note of eastern mysticism must strike and are now striking the note of western occultism. therefore, the following stages must follow upon the three earlier. we will continue w

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

oss, he fights for his spiritual life, in all the twelve houses and all the twelve constellations, subjected to countless combinations of forces and energies ray, planetary, zodiacal and cosmic until he is "made anew" becomes the "new man" is sensitive to the entire range of spiritual vibrations in our solar system and has achieved that detachment which will enable him to escape from the wheel of rebirth. he has accomplished this by mounting the three crosses the cross of the personality or the changing form, the cross of the disciple or the eternal soul, and the cross of the spirit. this really means that he has passed through three momentous crises in his life cycle. i. the crisis of incarnation. the mutable cross the mounting of the wheel .personality and form life the cycle of rebirth

of opposites on the astral- 101- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust plane, and finding between them the "narrow razor-edged path" which leads the man into the kingdom of the soul. as man passes around and around the zodiac in the ordinary manner, he continually and consciously enters into life in cancer, the constellation under which the law of rebirth is applied and administered. but it is only on the reversed zodiac that the man learns to pass with equally conscious purpose through the gate of capricorn. five times he has to pass through that gate in full waking consciousness and these five happenings are frequently called the five major initiations. viewing the fourth creative hierarchy as a whole, the appearance and experiences of th

nature of intelligent substance; venus reveals the nature of the second aspect, which is consciousness or intelligent love, whilst the sun the physical sun and the heart of the sun together reveals the synthesis of these two. the key words upon the ordinary wheel are "and the word said: let ambition rule and let the door stand wide" here we have the key to the evolutionary urge, to the secret of rebirth, and of that word which reverberates from cancer to capricorn. the door of initiation stands ever open, but for aeons of time man prefers the open door in cancer. ambition urges him on from life to life until he has discovered the worthlessness of all earthly gratification. gradually then spiritual ambition and a desire for liberation take the place of worldly ambition, and become an impel

uality, the purpose and the intent of the beings who have brought them into manifestation. as you well know, virgo is one of the four arms of the mutable cross, and as you also know the four energies which constitute this cross (for the three crosses are crossed streams of energy) are expressive of the whole goal of man in four definite stages. this mutable cross is sometimes called "the cross of rebirth" emphasising the constant mutation of which it is the symbol and also the "cross of changing lives" it pictorially represents the four critical points or movements in the span of existence of the soul in manifestation: i. gemini. 1. essential unrelated duality. the twins. 2. sensed and recognised duality through a. mass fusion in cancer. b. individual consciousness in leo. the stage of hum

d yet it leads unto the place of death and to that long imprisonment which precedes the final- 185- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust revolt" it is allied with material nature, and with the mother of forms, just as the other gate, capricorn, is allied with spirit, the father of all that is. in this sign lies hid the whole problem of the law of rebirth. reincarnation is implicit in the manifested universe and is a basic and fundamental theme underlying systemic pulsation. there are certain things which i would like to make clear in connection with reincarnation. this sign, cancer, being concerned primarily with the world of causes, has about its inner meaning much indefiniteness and an apparently vague subtlety which proves most elusive

ho take the higher initiations must eventually pass. those taking the first two initiations must tread the path as it passes through the burning ground. those taking the higher initiations have to plunge into the sea or pool of fire which is essentially the fire of god as it has been cleansed from every aspect of the material form through the complete purification of desire. the entire subject of rebirth is but little understood at present. its modern presentation and the emphasis which has been laid so strongly on small and unimportant details have distorted and diverted the wide sweep of the subject and ignored the true import of the process; the broad general lines of the incarnation process have been largely overlooked. in the debate as to the length of time a man is out of incarnation

ld find it of interest and of value to relate the effects of these seven planetary forces to the unfolding seven principles of man. let us now briefly consider for a few minutes the effect of the ray influences as they focus through the seven planets upon the man born in the sign cancer. it is here that there will be found certain basic indications as to the nature and the processes of the law of rebirth. it would appear that as yet only two rules are posited in connection with the return of an ego to physical incarnation. the first is that if perfection has not been achieved then the soul must return and continue the perfecting process upon the earth. the second is that the impulse predisposing the ego to such action is some form of unsatisfied desire. both these statements are true in pa

ives that are dependent upon the higher inspiration (which the spiritual soul can give) and the determination that they too may attain planetary status equivalent to that of the sacrificing soul. it is in order eventually to negate the space-time concept and to prove it an illusion that the door in cancer opens to the sacrificing, serving soul. bear this always in mind as you study the subject of rebirth. in themselves, rebirth and reincarnation are misleading terms and "cyclic impulsion "intelligent purposeful repetition" and "conscious in-breathing and out-breathing" would describe more accurately this cosmic process. it is, however, difficult for you to grasp this idea, for it necessitates the ability to identify oneself with the one who thus breathes the planetary logos and the entire

athing" would describe more accurately this cosmic process. it is, however, difficult for you to grasp this idea, for it necessitates the ability to identify oneself with the one who thus breathes the planetary logos and the entire theme must therefore remain relatively obscure until initiation has been taken. esoterically speaking, the point of greatest interest lies in the fact that it is group rebirth which is taking place all the time and that the incarnation of the individual is only incidental to this greater happening. this has been largely ignored or forgotten because of the intense and selfish interest in personal experience and living, evidenced in the speculative details anent individual return given in the current so-called occult books, most of which are largely inaccurate and

interplay to proceed between spirit and matter which makes manifestation possible and which extends the working out of the divine ideas as they exist in the mind of god. when the plan (as the hierarchy understands it) is more familiar in its objectives and its mode of functioning upon the outer plane of life, we shall see a complete change in the presentation of the teaching concerning the law of rebirth. we shall see more clearly the existent synthesis of: 1. the divine plan as it manifests in time. 2. the basic relations as they manifest in space. 3. the developing effects as they demonstrate in groups. 4. the evolving understanding as intellect merges into the intuition. 5. the fivefold nature of the logoic expression as it unfolds itself through the five kingdoms. and this, when correc

erges into the intuition. 5. the fivefold nature of the logoic expression as it unfolds itself through the five kingdoms. and this, when correctly intuited, will produce a revelation, and a presentation of this abstruse theme beyond anything at this time sensed by man. it is one of the secrets of the first initiation and these secrets are today in process of externalisation. it will be found that rebirth is, in truth, a magical and magnetic interplay between the form side of life and life itself. this interplay is consciously undertaken by the soul which is the product of the two related factors. the above statement is, in itself, complex and difficult and far from easy to grasp; it however expresses a significant fact which the old commentary phrases as follows "those who are demanding to

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ncle towards the end of his life. he never spoke of it, i am sure, and i have not done so until now. my sister later took up cancer research and has made herself a brilliant name in the field of this most needed work. i am very proud of her. i have never altered in my affection for her and should she ever read this autobiography, i want her to know this. fortunately, i believe in the great law of rebirth and she and i will some day work out, more satisfactorily, our definite relationship- 11- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust i suppose one of the greatest drawbacks in the life of any child is having no real home. the lack of it most certainly conditioned my sister and me. both my parents died before i was nine years old and both died of tuberculosis (consumption, as i

on with its seven stages, and begins (with increasing effectiveness) to live the inspired life of a son of god- 161- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust 5. the laws of the spiritual world are studied and the disciple learns to apply the laws to himself, to events, to the world and to humanity. these laws include, among many others: a. the law of cause and effect. b. the law of rebirth. c. the law of evolution. d. the law of health. these laws concern the manifestation of the world of spiritual values and impulses through the medium of the world of material phenomena. 6. the plan, of which the hierarchy is the custodian and which underlies all planetary happenings, furthering the divine purpose, is brought to the attention of the students; its working in the past, bringi

anuary 1944 the principles of the arcane school by alice a. bailey as you enter the arcane school and become an active part of this group, there are certain fundamental ideas or governing principles which we would like to put before you. upon these, the success of the work depends, both yours and ours. you are undertaking a task for which your life and all previous lives (if you accept the law of rebirth and of fresh opportunity) have prepared you. the enterprise upon which you are entering is a tremendous one; it involves a re-orientation of your life and life methods, in all probability; it means the learning of the rules which govern the transfer of your life effort out of the fourth or human kingdom into the fifth- 163- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust kingdom. t

niverse is to be seen in the manifestation of god as love- 175- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust upon these eight fundamentals all the esoteric teaching rests. there are necessarily subsidiary factors and other presented teachings which the student is asked to study but which he again accepts or not as he likes. such are the teaching on reincarnation, governed by the law of rebirth, the cyclic nature of all manifestation, the nature and aim of the evolutionary process, the existence of the spiritual hierarchy, the existence of the masters and their work, and the nature of consciousness with its various stages of individualised consciousness, self consciousness and spiritual consciousness, demonstrating upon the path of evolution and culminating in the path of initiat

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

rom early life onwards, the worst climaxes can be obviated. to the extent that the patient intelligently tries to help himself, and is protected also by the intelligent care of the physician, he can offset the trouble a great deal, and particularly as far as its repetition in another life is concerned. many of these problems are intrinsically tied up with the past, and until the laws which govern rebirth are given to the world it is difficult for me even to explain the processes governing physical inheritance, karmic results, and also what is called retributive karma. the recognition of the subtler forms of disease, and the aid of the psychologist in collaboration with orthodox medicine (which undoubtedly has its place, as, for instance, in the administration of glandular correctives, plus

s truths anent the processes of death and the circumstances of man after death. these details are largely dependent upon the clairvoyant vision of astral psychics of prominence in the theosophical society. yet in the scriptures of the world these details are not given, and h.p.b. in the secret doctrine gave none. an instance of this inaccurate and foolish attempt to throw light upon the theory of rebirth can be seen in the time limits imposed upon departed human souls between incarnations on the physical plane and the return to physical rebirth so many years of absence are proclaimed, dependent upon the age of the departed soul and its place upon the ladder of evolution. if, we are told, the soul is very advanced, absence from the physical plane is prolonged, whereas the reverse is the cas

lf is concerned the nursery stage of soul experience on earth. he is free from karmic impositions in the three worlds, but is still under the impulse of karmic necessity which exacts from him the last possible ounces of service that he is in a position to render to those still under the law of karmic liability. you have, therefore, three aspects of the law of karma, as it affects the principle of rebirth: 1. the law of karmic liability, governing life in the three worlds of human evolution, and which is ended altogether at the fourth initiation. 2. the law of karmic necessity. this governs the life of the advanced disciple and the initiate from the time of the second initiation until a certain initiation higher than the fourth; these initiations enable him to pass on to the way of the high

ich bring about the reabsorption of the human soul into the spiritual soul upon its own plane, the higher mental plane; we shall consider the reassimilation of substance and the appropriation of matter in order again to reincarnate. we shall therefore consider the three major processes to which i earlier referred; these cover three periods and lead, eventually, to other processes under the law of rebirth. they are: 1. the process of restitution, governing the period of withdrawal of the soul from the physical plane and from its two phenomenal aspects, the dense physical body and the etheric body. this concerns the art of dying. 2. the process of elimination. this governs that period of the life of the human soul after death and in the two other worlds of human evolution. it concerns the el

se on the seven rays. vol. v. the forces of death are abroad today, but it is the death of liberty, the death of free speech, the death of freedom in human action, the death of truth and of the higher spiritual values. these are the vital factors in the life of humanity. the death of the physical form is a negligible factor in relation to these and is easily righted again through the processes of rebirth and of fresh opportunity..the destruction of the form in battle is of small importance to those who know that reincarnation is a basic law of nature and that there is no death- 260- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust june message, 1940. you say there are as yet only beliefs as to immortality, and no sure evidences. in the accumulation of te

nce is far richer and fuller than he ever knew when in incarnation. if you will think this out for a little, you will realise that this necessarily would be so. it may therefore be assumed that the art of elimination is practised more definitely and more effectively than was the restitution of the physical vehicle. another point must also be considered. on the inner side, men know that the law of rebirth governs the experience-process- 291- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust of physical plane living, and they realise then that, prior to the elimination of the kamic, kama-manasic or manasic bodies, they are only passing through an interlude between incarnations and that they consequently face two great experiences: 1. a moment (long or short

r of soul contact eventuates and the manasic vehicle is in process of destruction, he becomes immediately aware of the future, for prediction is an asset of the soul consciousness and in this the man temporarily shares. therefore, past, present and future are seen as one; the recognition of the eternal now is gradually developed from incarnation to incarnation and during the continuous process of rebirth. this constitutes a state of consciousness (characteristic of the normal state of the advanced man) which can be called devachanic. it is not my intention to elaborate the technique of the eliminative process. humanity is at so many different stages intermediate between the three already outlined that it would be impossible to be definite or concise. attrition is relatively easy to underst

impossible to be definite or concise. attrition is relatively easy to understand; the kamic body dies out because, there being no call from physical substance, evoking desire, there is nothing with which to feed this vehicle. the astral body comes into being through the reciprocal interplay between the physical plane, which is not a principle, and the principle of desire; in the process of taking rebirth, this principle is utilised with dynamic intent by the soul in the mental vehicle to reverse the call, and matter then responds to the call of the reincarnating man. kamic man, after a long process of attrition, is left standing free within an embryonic mental vehicle, and this period of semi-mental life is exceedingly brief and is brought to an end by the soul who suddenly "directs his ey

the call of the reincarnating man. kamic man, after a long process of attrition, is left standing free within an embryonic mental vehicle, and this period of semi-mental life is exceedingly brief and is brought to an end by the soul who suddenly "directs his eye to the waiting one" and of the power of that directed potency instantaneously reorients the individual kamic man to the downward path of rebirth. the kama-manasic man practises a process of withdrawal and responds to the "pull" of a rapidly developing mental body. this withdrawal becomes increasingly rapid and dynamic until it reaches the state where the probationary disciple under steadily growing soul contact shatters the kama-manasic body, as a unit, by an act of the mental will, implemented by the soul. you will note that the "

ached. this has not been accomplished by the religious church groups throughout the world, but by members of the ashrams. all that the churches have done is to preserve in the public mind the fact of god transcendent, whilst ignoring the fact of god immanent, to testify to the existence of the christ whilst travestying his teaching, and to teach the fact of immortality, whilst ignoring the law of rebirth. humanity is, therefore, progressing rapidly upon the upward way, and two things can be looked for as a consequence: first, that the imperfections and evil (one latent and the other active though retreating) will become increasingly apparent to intelligent man, and secondly, that the mode of their elimination will also become known. i deal not here with the nature of imperfection or the pu

of aspirants towards it. the war struck a mortal blow to material evil, and its hold on humanity is greatly weakened. confound not evil with the activities of the gangster or the criminal. criminals and gangsters are the result of the emerging massed imperfections: they are the victims of ignorance, mishandling when children and misunderstanding down the ages of right human relations; the law of rebirth will eventually lead them on the way to good. those men are truly evil who seek to enforce a return to the bad old ways, who endeavour to keep their fellowmen in slavery of some kind or- 395- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust another, who block the expression of one or all of the four freedoms, who gain material riches at the expense of th

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

s upon the nonessential points and upon the physical concerns of the incarnated soul, will be gradually superseded by the recognition of relationships, of life objectives, of basic character predispositions and of the soul purpose, and much will then become possible to the wise friend and guide of youth which is what every educator should aim to be. third: the admittance of the fact of the law of rebirth as a governing, natural process. this will serve as a determining factor in the racial life and will bring much light into the educational field. the tracing and relating of basic trends to past racial unfoldments and to ancient racial episodes will prove of interest and of import, and though the recovery of past lives will be of no interest, the recognition of characteristics which have b

thinking men and women who are conscious of and earnestly desiring the above, and who are working towards- 91- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust these ends. but the mass of the people in their untold millions are totally unaware of the situation, either in its economic or esoteric aspects. one of the tasks of the educator of the future will be to teach the meaning of the law of rebirth, and thus bring about such a profound change in the racial attitude to life and sex, to birth and parenthood, that sex rhythm, cyclic experience, psychological preparation and directed, controlled body-building may go forward and supersede the present methods, which are based upon an uncontrolled response to the sex urge and desire, and the unthinking procreation of children. the vast popu

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ly by the initiate whilst doing his work under the law of sacrifice. what is meant here by the words "in the heart? the soul is the heart of the system of the spiritual man; it is the seat of the life and consciousness which animate the personality, and it is the motivating potency in every incarnation, according to the experience conditioning the expression of the spiritual man in any particular rebirth. in the early stages of experience, this "eye" remains closed; there is present no capacity for thought and no ability to think in the heart: i.e, from soul levels. as the intellect develops and the power to focus upon the mental plane grows, the fact of the soul's existence becomes known and the goal of attention changes. there follows the ability to focus in the soul consciousness and so

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

hall cover the field sufficiently i believe to bring at least some measure of light to you. later i will try to explain the significance of the great invocation and to give you some idea of the nature of the forces invoked and of the esoteric meaning which these words (used so frequently by you) are in tended to convey. the cause of the present crisis it is well known to you that the great law of rebirth is the controlling and major law in all the processes of manifestation. it governs the exoteric expression of a solar logos or of a human being, and the object of this constantly recurring process is to bring an increasingly perfect form to the expanding service of the soul. for the first time since its inception, the human family is in a position to note for itself the processes of the re

elder brother, who had not left the father's home. it is obvious, is it not, from this parable, where the approbation of the father lay; a careful study of this story and an intuitive understanding of its implications may evoke some day a response to the "sin of experience" as it has been called, and a comprehension of the two major laws governing the process: the law of evolution and the law of rebirth. here lies the prime initiating cause of what is taking place today. the second cause arose slowly out of the first. matter and spirit, focussed in the human family and expressing their basic qualities and essential nature, were eternally in conflict. in the early stages and during the long lemurian cycle, infant humanity steadily evolved and yet in spite of this the lines of cleavage, tho

and that there is no death. the forces of death are abroad today, but it is the death of liberty, the death of free speech, the death of freedom in human action, the death of truth and of the higher spiritual values. these are the vital factors in the life of humanity; the death of the physical form is a negligible factor in relation to these, and one easily righted again through the processes of rebirth and fresh opportunity. i would say to those who preach a passive attitude in the face of evil and human suffering and who endorse a pacifism which involves no risks: with what do you propose to fight the forces of aggression, of treachery, evil and destruction which are today stalking over our planet? what weapons do you bring to this combat? how will you begin to stem the onslaught and ar

le. it is changeable, according to man's attitude and desire. it is the presenting of the opportunity to change; this grows out of past activities, and these rightly met and correctly handled lay the foundation for future happiness and progress. the present situation is the fault of all peoples in all countries (particularly the more intelligent) and includes also the great neutrals if the law of rebirth and of joint responsibility means anything at all. karma is not all that is bad and evil. men make it so through their stupidities. there are today great forces of evil seeking expression in the world; these emerge out of the past and seek to determine and bring about a very evil future wherein selfishness, material objectives, and the good and well-being of one race out of the many must b

o grasp. it is in reality the first revelation given to man of the nature of the will of god and of the quality of shamballa "equality" is that peculiar understanding which the coming one will reveal and which is based on a right sense of proportion, correct self-respect, and understanding of the- 178- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust spiritual, yet natural, laws of rebirth and of cause and effect, and which will be founded in future centuries on the recognition of the age of a soul's experience and gained development, and not at all on the loud emphatic affirmation that "all men are equal "fraternity" is something that humanity itself will contribute as an expression of the third aspect of divinity, basing it on right contact and right reaction to contact. t

s erected a structure of truth which (by the power of collective thought) has flooded mankind with light. 2. through the message of the buddha, man has for the first time grasped the cause of his constant distaste and dissatisfaction and has learnt that the way of release is to be found in detachment, dispassion and discrimination. where these are present, there is rapid release from the wheel of rebirth. 3. through the message of the christ, three concepts emerge into the racial consciousness: a. the value of the individual and the necessity for tensity of effort on his part. b. the opportunity which was to be presented to humanity to take a tremendous step forward and undergo the new birth or the first initiation. c. the method whereby this next step could be taken in the new age, voiced

onstructive and not destructive, and that the gains desired are not furthered at the expense of any part of the human family. he labours not to exalt one section of the populace at the expense of another, but works towards brotherhood and the right understanding of the requirements of all souls, be they far advanced along the path, or just starting upon their planetary pilgrimage under the law of rebirth. one of the english masters has in hand the definite guidance of the anglo-saxon peoples towards a joint destiny. the future for the anglo-saxon is great and not yet has the highest flow of the tide of its civilisation been reached. history holds much glory for england and america when they work together for world good, not supplanting each other or interfering with each other's empire but

kes and errors of ancient standing, wrong and disastrous attitudes and human separativeness, an inevitable opposition has been evoked; had there been none, my efforts would have been futile. i have said naught that is not true and i retract no single word which i have said. there are many who prefer the esoteric truths anent the antahkarana, the world constitution, the doctrine of man, the law of rebirth and the many intricate teachings related to world planning. these they have received in full measure from me. there are others who desire information anent the hierarchy, the work and standing of the masters, the training to be given to disciples and initiates. this again they have received. i have now dealt in the past few years with world abuses and the problems with which humanity is fa

und, the work of the discovering initiate is to see to it that information comes to the aspirant in some form or another anent the hierarchical plan, concerning the reappearance of the christ (under some name familiar to the aspirant's religious background, and about the fundamental and needed occult truths with particular emphasis upon the law of cause and effect, and secondarily upon the law of rebirth. the law of cause and effect is of far greater importance than the law of rebirth, because it necessitates action upon the part of the aspirant, and that action inevitably conditions the future. there is nothing he can do about the law of rebirth but submit to it and be grateful that opportunity continues to present itself. as regards the many other adjustments which members of the hierarc

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

nourishing of the little lives refers primarily to his task as world teacher and to his responsibility to lead humanity on into the light, with the aid of all the masters, working, each of them through his own ashram. 3. he "keeps the wheel revolving" this has a specific relation to his work as the word of god, which manifests as the word made flesh. this refers specifically to the great wheel of rebirth whereby, upon that turning wheel, souls are carried down into incarnation and then up and out of the soul's prison; through the turning of the wheel, human beings learn their needed lessons, create cyclically their vehicles of expression (the response apparatus of the soul in the three worlds) and in this way, under soul guidance, and aided by the hierarchy and its schools of instruction

p tension. 3. the stage of emitting the group sound and the establishing of the power to invoke divinity, followed by a united group realisation that "god is fire" 4. the stage of extinguishing the lesser fires through the means of the above realisation, and the establishing of a defined group reaction to the divine purpose or will; this results eventually in the negation of the laws of karma and rebirth as they condition life in the three worlds. 5. the stage of triadal perception and the establishing of spiritual contact, thus negating both the life of form and the soul. duality is no longer recognised. 6. the stage of identification with the life aspect and the establishing of complete divine integration into the greater whole. the initiate then moves onward in life and not in conscious

e response to the new incoming potency. it is- 426- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust a mass reaction, and therefore the statistical returns are somewhat misleading. it is the unready who thus react, and this entails no possible reflection upon those thus distressed (and they are to be found today in all classes and nations. the law of rebirth will take care of this reaction, and in the next incarnation these same people will enter a physical body with a better equipment. in reality, it is this energy from shamballa in its third and destructive aspect which is acting upon certain members of the human family and unfortunately evoking a ready response. i tell you this for your encouragement; destruction always evokes questioning i

irth of the christ child in the heart" it is by means of the touchstone of relationships that world servers can contact the initiates and the accepted disciples in the world, and can discover those aspirants who can be helped and trained. let me bring another point to your attention. in the phenomenal world of the average human being who has not yet passed through the initiatory experience of the rebirth, the emphasis has ever been and is today upon the dual relationship of the sexes and to this our novels, plays, movies and affairs of all men bear testimony. creativity expresses itself mainly through the propagation of the race, brought about through the relation of male and female, or of the positive and negative poles in the human family. this is right and good and part of the divine pl

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

rogressive fashion, from aries to taurus via pisces (clockwise. finally, the changing focus of the life and the steady application to the twelve labors in the twelve signs enables the disciple to become the triumphant victor. then he can comprehend the significance of the fourth key thought and can exclaim in unison with the cosmic deity "listen to this great secret. although i am above birth and rebirth, or law, being the lord of all there is, for all emanateth from me, still do i will to appear in my own universe and am therefore born by my power and thought and will (the bhagavad gita, as compiled and adapted by yogi ramacharaka [14] hercules the disciple- the myth he stood before his teacher. dimly he understood that a crisis was upon him, leading to change of speech, of attitude and p

ds to heaven (e. valentia straiton, the celestial ship of the north vol. ii, p. 206. in the zodiac of denderah, the sign cancer is represented by a beetle, called in egypt, the scarab. the word "scarab" means "only begotten; it stands, therefore, for birth into incarnation, or, in relation to the aspirant, for the new birth. the month of june, in ancient egypt was called "meore, which again means rebirth, and thus both the sign and the name hold steadily before us the thought of the taking of form and of coming in physical incarnation. in an ancient zodiac in india, dated about 400- 51- the labours of hercules b.c, the sign is represented again by a beetle. the chinese called this sign "the red bird, for red is the symbol of desire, and the bird is the symbol of that flashing forth into in

humanity and because desolate they go down into hell alone to save humanity; hence all sun gods are born in the sign of capricorn (lecture by a.a.b, condensed and edited) epilogue the great swing in capricorn is epitomized by the keywords. upon the ordinary wheel these are "and the word said: let ambition rule and let the door stand wide" this is the key to the evolutionary urge and the secret of rebirth (the tibetan. when a true sense of reality supersedes both earthly and spiritual ambition the man can say with truth "lost am i in light supernal, yet on that light i turn my back" so goes the world disciple, initiate in capricorn, on his way to serve humanity in [179] aquarius. in that sign he cleans the augean stables (of the karma of all past ignorance and error, the dweller on the thre

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mains in a state of unity under the light, it shall act as a power for the will of light. the globe of the chief adept wand is the light, the phoenix is the life, the lotus is love. light, life, and love are displayed within the three wands of the chiefs of the second order. together they are one, working in perfect harmony. the lotus wand expresses the development of all creation, regenerated by rebirth, the phoenix wand, rules over by the kerubic workings under the everlasting wings of the divine, the chief adept's wand. one hundred and twenty one hundred and twenty is highly symbolic of the pentagram formula. it is 1x2x3x4x5=120. this then is the symbol of man "and his days shall be one hundred and twenty" it expresses that only the purified man, who having undergone study in the outer

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heology is a slime-pit of gibberish become ethics. in your world, where ignorance and deceit constitute felicity, everything ends miserably-besmirched with fratricidal blood. seekers of salvation? salvation of your sick digestion; crippled beliefs: convalescent desires. your borrowed precepts and prayers-a stench unto all good nostrils! unworthy of a soul-your metamorphosis is laborious of morbid rebirth to give habitance to the shabby sentiments, the ugly familiarities, the calligraphic pandemonium-a world of abundance acquired of greed. thus are ye outcasts! ye habitate dung-heaps; your glorious palaces are hospitals set amid cemeteries. ye breathe gay-heartedly within this cess-pit? ye obtain of half-desires, bent persuasions, of threats, of promises made hideous by vituperatious righte

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this aspect is one form of the adversary, being rebellion, death and chaos from stasis. the very fire force of the sun is in the eye of satanas/saturnus, misrule and self-liberation through antinomianian awakening of saturn. the higher octave of saturn is lucifer, being light, wisdom and illumination. lucifer/iblis is the imagination thus azazel, the fallen djinn of fire. lucifer represents also rebirth, inner strength, reason and solitude. in the unity of saturn are both the star of algol[9] hidden (without the averse pentagram) and the mark of demiurge saturnus. it is through satan/iblis (fire) that one emerges in light, thus lucifer is the black flame in the darkness, the light in the darkness. it was in medieval times that saturn itself was the outermost planet, holding the secrets of

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

nhabited by humans and the subterranean realm of serpent deities (klu) and other malevolent spirits. it is in the intermediate spaces just above the surface of the earth where the various classes of worldly deities are found, making close interaction with humans possible.13 once buddhism came to tibet, the country adopted the universal buddhist cosmology of sa.s.ra, the realm of birth, death, and rebirth. sa.s.ra consists of six realms: the god, demi-god, human, animal, hungry ghost, and hell realms. the previous schema now intersects this buddhist system. the subterranean realm is associated with the hell realms; the hungry ghost realm overlaps the surface realm of humans, which also includes a host of diverse demonic beings; the human and animal realms are also found on the surface; and

g the deity s relatively minor position in the geluk hierarchy of divinities.58 this minor position is certainly noticeable given the peripheral status of tsiu marpo statues in geluk temple g nkhangs (figures 9 and 10. however, the historical importance of tsiu marpo to the geluk sect is nonetheless evident in the samy oracle, who was at one point instrumental in the discovery of the dalai lama s rebirth.59 perhaps this suggests that tsiu marpo s importance to the geluk sect was stronger prior to the cultural revolution. finally, there is a satellite monastery of samy called tengy ling monastery in lhasa. understandably, the central deity of its main chapel is tsiu marpo (figure 11. this statue is a replacement of the original, which was destroyed during the cultural revolution. the origin

u marpo has a strong lay following and that parents commonly bring their children in to give offerings and receive blessings from the central statue of tsiu marpo (figures 35 and 36. in line with its pragmatic purposes, the lama who conducted this service and granted me an interview later was delighted by my interest in tsiu marpo and explained that, if i revered him, it would ensure my continued rebirth as a human.144 the ritual goal these three rituals differ from the rituals examined by beyer and bentor in one very important way. both beyer and bentor examine rituals with a strong monastic focus, where the end result is for the betterment and eventual enlightenment of monastic patrons; yet these tsiu marpo rituals are intentionally more pragmatic, offering practical services of protecti

betan buddhism, and it becomes a key organizing method in his book civilized shaman: buddhism in tibetan societies. these three orientations are as follows: 1. pragmatic orientation, referring to immediate this-worldly concerns. this orientation involves interaction with local deities through ritual performances. 2. karma orientation, referring to sa.s.ra and the consequences of birth, death, and rebirth. this orientation involves concern for one s karma and the influence of karma upon one s rebirths. 3. bodhi orientation, referring to the ultimate pursuit of enlightenment and liberation from the karmic strictures of sa.s.ra. this is primarily the purview of the monastic community as well as non-monastic yogic practitioners.252 as samuel further explains, this system relates to the complex

ed at all costs along with the otherworldly concerns of the pragmatic orientation.253 however, he seems to be confusing practice with belief. considering the ubiquity of ritual in tibetan buddhism, especially towards merit-building, it seems more that, while persons operating from the karma orientation consider worldly affairs transient wishing to devote their energy toward the benefits of future rebirth and eventual enlightenment they realize that merit is still to be accrued through communion with deities and otherworldly elements. samuel appears to be drawing a stronger line between sa.s.ric and nirva.ic motivations than actually exists within the tantric understanding of cosmology. i think this also suggests the limitations of this three-tier system when applied to the tibetan religiou

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d. the sun warmed it; the moon cooled and shaped it; the wind fed it until its ripeness. the white swan from the starry vault overshadowed the big drop. the egg of the future race, the man-swan of the later third. first male-female, then man and woman. 23. the self-born were the chhayas: the shadows from the bodies of the sons of twilight- vii. 24. the sons of wisdom, the sons of night, ready for rebirth, came down, they saw the vile forms of the first third "we can choose" said the lords "we have wisdom" some entered the chhaya. some projected the spark. some deferred till the fourth. from their own rupa they filled the kama. those who entered became arhats. those who received but a spark, remained destitute of knowledge; the spark burned low. the third remained mind-less. their jivas wer

ting and two-faced divine principle in man. the commentary that follows, and the next stanzas may, no doubt, throw more light on this very difficult tenet, but the writer does not feel competent to give it out fully. of the succession of races, however, they say "first come the self-existent on this earth. they are the 'spiritual lives' projected by the absolute will and law, at the dawn of every rebirth of the worlds. these lives are the divine 'sishta (the seed-manus, or the prajapati and the pitris" from these proceed- 1. the first race, the "self-born" which are the (astral) shadows of their progenitors* the body was devoid of all understanding (mind, intelligence, and will. the inner being (the higher self or monad, though within the earthly frame, was unconnected with it. the link, t

me rest on some far-off tradition relating to a period when that was the common lot, or rather aspect, of man. and winds up a very clever, though too short, exposition of his theory by saying that which every true occultist will endorse "with physico-ethereal man there must be involution of sex. as physico-astral man depended on entities of the sub-human class (evolved from animal prototypes) for rebirth, so will physico-ethereal man find among the graceful, shapely orders issuing from the air-plane, one or more which will be developed for his successive embodiments when procreated forms are given- a process which will include all mankind only very gradually. the (pre) adamic and post-adamic races were giants; their ethereal counterparts may possibly be liliputians- beauteous, luminous, di

auses produced by us in atlantean bodies. the law of karma is inextricably interwoven with that of re-incarnation. it is only the knowledge of the constant re-births of one and the same individuality throughout the life-cycle; the assurance that the same monads- among whom are many dhyan-chohans, or the "gods" themselves- have to pass through the "circle of necessity" rewarded or punished by such rebirth for the suffering endured or crimes committed in the former life; that those very monads, which entered the empty, senseless shells, or astral figures of the first race emanated by the pitris, are the same who are now amongst us- nay, ourselves, perchance; it is only this doctrine, we say, that can explain to us the mysterious problem of good and evil, and reconcile man to the terrible and

is planet, mercury- their kingdom of heaven* cornutus* lydus de mensibus, iv* preparat, evang. i. iii. ch. 2[[vol. 2, page] 543 a personal, is a finite god. visvakarma, crucifying the "sun-initiate" on the cruciform lathe. as the same author writes "the attachment of a man to the cross. was made use of in this very form of display by the hindus; but, made "to co-ordinate" with the idea of the new rebirth of man by spiritual, not physical regeneration. the candidate for initiation was attached to the tau or astronomical cross with a far grander and nobler idea than that of the origin of mere terrestrial life. on the other hand, the semites seem to have had no other or higher purpose in life than that of procreating their species. thus, geometrically, and according to the reading of the bibl

his and sons of the manus" being identical (see book iii. ch. 1 of vishnu purana "six" manvantaras are given, the seventh being our own in the vishnu purana. the vayu purana furnishes the nomenclature of the sons of the fourteen manus in every manvantara, and the sons of the seven sages or rishis. the latter are the progeny[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 615 the doom of continual rebirth. portion into seven pieces- alluding to the manu-rishis of each root-race, and even sub-race. it does not seem difficult to perceive what is meant by the maruts obtaining "four times seven" emancipations in every "manvantara" and by those persons who, being reborn in that character (of the maruts in their esoteric meaning "fill up their places" the maruts represent (a) the passions that st

rinciple, the vital, animal soul. eliphas levi falls into the same error[[vol. 2, page] 634 the secret doctrine. this is a very fair representation of the number of the "principles" of occultism, but much confused; and this is what we call the 7 principles in man, and what mr. massey calls "souls" giving the same name to the ego or the monad which reincarnates and resurrects, so to speak, at each rebirth, as the egyptians did, namely "the renewed" but how can ruach (spirit) be lodged in kama-rupa? what does bohme, the prince of all the mediaeval seers, say "we find seven especial properties in nature whereby this only mother works all things (which he calls- fire, light, sound (the upper three) and desire, bitterness, anguish, and substantiality, thus analysing the lower in his own mystic

boor standing by her "teach an maddin nag (behold the morning star, pointing to the planet venus, the maddena nag of the chaldeans[[vol. 2, page] 760 the secret doctrine. strabo speaks of an island near to britannia "where ceres and persephone were worshipped with the same rites as in samothrace (lib. iv) and this island was sacred ierna" where a perpetual fire was lit. the druids believed in the rebirth of man, not as lucian explains "that the same spirit shall animate a new body, not here, but in a different world" but in a series of re-incarnations in this same world; for as diodorus says, they declared that the souls of men, after determinate periods, would pass into other bodies* these tenets came to the fifth race aryans from their predecessors of the fourth race, the atlanteans. the

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ee of knowledge. 341- iv. chaos- theos- kosmos. 342 the union of chaos and spirit. 343 the birth of mind. 345- v. the hidden deity, its symbols and glyphs. 349 the gnostic idea. 351 international correlation of gods. 355[[vol. 1, page] xiii contents. page. vi. the mundane egg. 359 egg-born logoi. 363 the winged globe. 365- vii. the days and nights of brahma. 368 human gods and divine men. 369 the rebirth of gods. 371 the puranic prophecy. 377- viii. the lotus as a universal symbol. 379 exoteric and esoteric. 381 the purity of early phallicism. 383 the egyptian lotus. 385- ix. deus lunus. 386 a glance at the lunar myth. 387 a key-note to the moon. 389 copies and originals. 393 the moon bi-sexual. 397- x. tree and serpent and crocodile worship. 403 degeneration of the symbol. 405 the seven-h

every sidereal body, every planet, whether visible[[vol. 1, page] 159 the transmigrations of the ego. or invisible, is credited with six companion globes (see diagram no. 3, after verse 6 of this commentary) the evolution of life proceeds on these seven globes or bodies from the 1st to the 7th in seven rounds or seven cycles. 2. these globes are formed by a process which the occultists call the "rebirth of planetary chains (or rings" when the seventh and last round of one of such rings has been entered upon, the highest or first globe "a" followed by all the others down to the last, instead of entering upon a certain time of rest- or "obscuration" as in their previous rounds- begins to die out. the "planetary" dissolution (pralaya) is at hand, and its hour has struck; each globe has to tr

tern philosophy rejects the western theological dogma of a newly-created soul for every baby born, as being as unphilosophical as it is impossible in the economy of nature. there must be a limited number of monads evolving and growing more and more perfect through their assimilation of many successive personalities, in every new manvantara. this is absolutely necessary in view of the doctrines of rebirth, karma, and the gradual return of the human monad to its source- absolute deity. thus, although the hosts of more or less progressed monads are almost incalculable, they are still finite, as is everything in this universe of differentiation and finiteness. as shown in the double diagram of the human "principles" and the ascending globes of the world-chains, there is an eternal concatenatio

ti, will gestate in this egg of immortality, to be reborn from it into a new life on earth. for this egg, in the esoteric doctrine, is the devachan, the abode of bliss; the winged scarabeus being alike a symbol of it. the "winged globe" is but another form of the egg, and has the same significance as the scarabeus, the khopiroo (from the root khoproo "to become "to be reborn) which relates to the rebirth of man, as well as to his spiritual regeneration. in the theogony of mochus, we find aether first, and then the air, from which ulom, the intelligible[[noetos) deity (the visible universe of matter) is born out of the mundane egg (mover's phoinizer, p. 282) in the orphic hymns, the eros-phanes evolves from the divine egg, which the aethereal winds impregnate, wind being "the spirit of the

and occurs at the end of the age or life of brahma, when everything that exists is resolved into the primal element, to be remodelled at the end of that longer night. but the third, atyantika, does not concern the worlds or the universe, but only the individualities of some people; it is thus individual pralaya or nirvana; after having reached which, there is no more future existence possible, no rebirth till after the maha pralaya. the latter night, lasting as it does 311,040,000,000,000 years, and having the possibility of being almost doubled in case the lucky jivanmukti reaches nirvana at an early period of a manvantara, is long enough to be regarded as eternal, if not endless. the bhagavata (xii, iv, 35) speaks of a fourth kind of pralaya, the nitya or constant dissolution, and explai

t, even in their infancy. she is the queen and she is the king, and was king soma before she became transformed into phoebe and the chaste diana. she is pre-eminently the deity of the christians, through the mosaic and kabalistic jews, though the civilized world may have remained ignorant of the fact for long ages; in fact, ever since the[[footnote(s* with the egyptians it was the resurrection in rebirth after 3,000 years of purification, either in devachan or "the fields of bliss* such "frog-goddesses" may be seen at bulaq, in the cairo museum. for the statement about the church lamps and inscriptions it is the learned ex-director of the bulaq museum, mr. gaston maspero, who must be held responsible (see his "guide du visiteur au musee de bulaq" p. 146[[vol. 1, page] 387 a glance at the l

some cosmic phenomena. on the lowest plane of materiality the serpent was, no doubt[[vol. 1, page] 405 the degradation of the symbol "the great mystery in the mysteries" and was, very likely "adopted as a type of feminine pubescence, on account of its sloughing and self-renewal" it was so, however, only with regard to mysteries concerning terrestrial animal life, for as symbol of "reclothing and rebirth in the (universal) mysteries" its "final phase- or shall we rather say its incipient and culminating phases- they were not of this plane. they were generated in the pure realm of ideal light, and having accomplished the round of the whole cycle of adaptations and symbolism, the "mysteries" returned from whence they had come- into the essence of immaterial causality. they belonged to the hi

menoi of that which becomes in the progress of evolution a cosmic element in the sense given to the term in antiquity, not in that of physics. they are the logoi, the seven emanations or rays of the logos[[vol. 1, page] 573 the crest-jewel of wisdom. the individuality. the "angel" of that star, or the dhyani-buddha will be either the guiding or simply the presiding "angel" so to say, in every new rebirth of the monad, which is part of his own essence, though his vehicle, man, may remain for ever ignorant of this fact. the adepts have each their dhyani-buddha, their elder "twin soul" and they know it, calling it "father-soul" and "father-fire" it is only at the last and supreme initiation, however, that they learn it when placed face to face with the bright "image" how much has bulwer lytto

ency "divine providence tempers his blessings to secure their better effects" wogan tells us. indeed "he" tempers them, which karma- a sexless principle- does not. throughout the first two parts, it was shown that, at the first flutter[[vol. 1, page] 635 the roots and causes. of renascent life, svabhavat "the mutable radiance of the immutable darkness unconscious in eternity" passes, at every new rebirth of kosmos, from an inactive state into one of intense activity; that it differentiates, and then begins its work through that differentiation. this work is karma. the cycles are also subservient to the effects produced by this activity "the one cosmic atom becomes seven atoms on the plane of matter, and each is transformed into a centre of energy; that same atom becomes seven rays on the p

goodness, and every other finite attribute and qualification, so unphilosophically attributed to the latter. an occultist or a philosopher will not speak of the goodness or cruelty of providence; but, identifying it with karma-nemesis, he will teach that nevertheless it guards the good and watches over them in this, as in future lives; and that it punishes the evil-doer- aye, even to his seventh rebirth. so long, in short, as the effect of his having thrown into perturbation even the smallest atom in the infinite world of harmony, has not been finally readjusted. for the only decree of karma- an eternal and immutable decree- is absolute harmony in the world of matter as it is in the world of spirit. it is not, therefore, karma that rewards or punishes, but it is we, who reward or punish o

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3 says that these tears are the streams that irrigate the fields of charity immortal (tears, by the way. think) 53. these tears, o thou of heart most merciful, these are the streams that irrigate the fields of charity immortal .tis on such soil that grows the midnight blossom of buddha, more difficult to find, more rare to view than is the flowers of the vogay tree. it is the seed of freedom from rebirth. it isolates the arhat both from strife and lust, it leads him through the fields of being unto the peace and bliss known only in the land of silence and non-being. the .midnight blossom. is a phrase connected with the doctrine of the night of pan, familiar to masters of the temple .the poppy that flowers in the dusk. is another name for it. a most secret formula of magick is connected wit

icular piece of information on to the wheel of the law. consequently, all blavatsky.s talk about the sublimity of the the equinox 50 nirmanakaya body is no more than the speech of a politician who is thanking a famous general for having done some of his dirty work for him. 39. the shangna robe .tis true, can purchase light eternal. the shangna robe alone gives the nirvana of destruction; it stops rebirth, but, o lanoo, it also kills compassion. no longer can the perfect buddhas, who don the dharmakaya glory, help man.s salvation. alas! shall selves be sacrificed to self, mankind, unto the weah of units? the sum of misery is diminished only in a minute degree by the attainment of a pratyeka-buddha. the tremendous energy acquired is used to accomplish the miracle of destruction. if the keyst

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d form. and in still another area the name has become herne. by now wo/man had learned not only to grow food but also to store it for the winter. so hunting became less important. the horned god came now to be looked upon more as a god of nature generally, and a god of death and what lies after. the goddess was still of fertility and lesson one: the history and philosophy of witchcraft/ 3 also of rebirth, for wo/man had developed a belief in a life after death. this is evidenced from the burial customs of the period. the gravettians (22,000-18,000 bce) were innovators here. they would bury their deceased with full clothing and ornaments and would sprinkle them with red ochre (haematite, or iron peroxide, to give back the appearance of life. frequently family members would be buried beneath

voided. we are a religion of nature, so let's use the colors of nature. the bright and the sombre earth colors (there is actually very little black to be found in nature. but again, in the last instance it is your choice. jewelry in some traditions certain jewelry is used to signify rank. for example, in gardnerian witchcraft female witches of all degrees wear a necklace (signifying the circle of rebirth; the third degree high priestess wears a wide silver bracelet, with certain specific inscriptions; the high priest wears a torque-like gold or brass bracelet (again with certain signs on it; and the queen wears a crescent-moon crown of silver and a silver-buckled green garter. in other traditions different customs rule. generally many witches though females especially wear a headband. neck

s and oral teachings arranged to bring about a very definite change in both the religious and the social status of the person undergoing the ritual. there is a catharsis: a spiritual cleansing. the person becomes, in effect, another person. the central theme of an initiation (any initiation, whether it be witchcraft, primitive tribal or even christian, in form) is what is termed a palingenesis: a rebirth. you are ending life as you have known it to this point and are being "born again. and reborn with new knowledge* all initiation rituals follow the same basic pattern. and this is worldwide: australian aboriginals, africans, amerindians, eskimos, pacific islanders, witches, ancient egyptians, greeks and romans, to name but a few. all include the same basic elements in their rites. first co

inship with their love. so mote it be" dip your forefinger in the oil and again make the sign of the cross in a circle on your third eye, and the pentagram over your heart. then, also, touch the oil to your genitals, right breast (nipple, left breast, and then genitals again (this last forms the sacred triangle, symbolizing the drawing of power up from the root of that power. say "as a sign of my rebirth i take unto myself a new name. henceforth i shall be known as.(name, for my life within the craft. so mote it be" now sit comfortably and, with eyes closed, meditate on what the craft means to you. it may well be that, at this time, you will receive some indication that you are indeed in touch with the gods. but whether you do or not, just let your feelings for them, and for the old religi

completely three times then stop. priest stands before priestess. priest "dark is the night as we reach this turning point. here is a time of death; yet a time of birth" covener "endings and beginnings" covener "ebbing and flowing" covener "a journey done; a journey yet to start" covener "let us honor now the crone mother darksome and divine" covener "let us give of our strength and in return see rebirth" priest "behold, the lady of darkness; mother, grandmother. old yet ever young" priestess slowly raises her head and spreads her arms outwards and upwards. all kneel. priestess "hear me! honor me and love me now and always. as the wheel turns we see birth, death and rebirth. know, from this, that every end is a beginning; every stop a fresh starting point. maiden, mother, crone. i am all o

eosil around the circle, walking or dancing. circle as many times as you wish. priest/ess starts a hymn to the gods and all join in. finally all halt and stop singing. covener "the powers of life and death are held by the gods" covener "great is the power of the mighty ones" covener "god is old yet young" covener "and the power is his" then follows an enactment of a seasonal motif (e.g. death and rebirth of the god, leading to a great harvest; thinning of plants, toward a better harvest; strength and testing; killing of older god by younger god, with funeral games to honor the dead one. bell is rung seven times. covener "in the midst of our lady's rule do we remember her brother/lover/husband. great is his power through his union with the goddess. and through his death and rebirth, as the

epresents interaction between the material and the spiritual; mental and physical. it signifies psychism, peace and completion of the second plane. it is twice three. seven completion; old age; endurance; evolution and wisdom. the seven stages of spiritual transformation. four and three. eight the number of dissolution and separation.the law of cyclic evolution and invention. five and three. nine rebirth and reformation. intuition; travel; karma and completion of the third plane. three times three. zero the circle. infinity; the universe; the all. ocean: opportunity; spirituality. owl: wisdom; need for further evaluation. pearl: joy. broken string of pearls misunderstanding. pirate: suspicion. prison: see jail. lesson seven: meditation, dreams and the minor sabbats 187 pyramid: thirst for

or example, suppose you are using a rider-waite deck (i will discuss the different decks later) and you turn up the "death" card (see figure 9.1. does this mean death is in the near future? no! the interpretation given in one book is "transformation; change. sometimes followed by or preceding destruction. sometimes birth or renewal" it could mean the death of an idea, or a job perhaps leading to "rebirth" in a new job (incidentally, i should mention here that it will help immeasurably if you disregard the titles on the major arcana cards "death" is not necessarily death "justice" is not necesasrily justice; the "devil" not necessarily the devil, and so on. but going by our method, there are far more possibilities. you might be struck by the small boat in the background and associate it wit

vers, soldiers all sorts. astrologically speaking we are one third of the way through the twelfth house of the piscean age. at the end of this house we enter the aquarian age. this is, then, the eve of the age of aquarius, and it is one of general unrest. of dissatisfaction^particularty with religion and of searching for 'inner peace. there has, over the past four or five years, been a tremendous rebirth of interest in the occult, a veritable renaissance of thinking. young people have realized that they do not have to follow tradition; that they are able and should be able to think for themselves. people are looking critically at religion; refusing to accept a particular religion just because it was that of parents and their parents before them. there is this constant searching, by young a

ays be secondary to the religious aspects. even such a working coven should not feel that is has to do work at every esbat. you should do work/magick only when there is a need for it; though a certain amount of experimentation is understandable and acceptable. you may want to give your coven a name. many do. examples are: the coven of the open forest; coven of the north star; coven of our lady of rebirth; sand-sea coven; coven of the complete circle; coven of family wicca. additionally many 208/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft covens design their own individual emblems or insignia, which they use on notepaper and put on flags and banners for craft festivals (see figure 14.1. in some traditions usually those with a degree system there is a symbol for the individual witch to put besid

describe, briefly, the general pattern of initiation. 3. what is the meaning of the blindfolding and binding? 4. what is the wiccan rede and what does it mean? 5. is it usual for a woman to initiate another woman? 6. write a short essay on what the craft means to you and why you want to be a part of it. please read: witchcraft today by gerald b. gardner rites and symbols of initiation (birth and rebirth) by mircea eliade recommended supplementary reading: the rites of passage arnold van gennep lesson five 1. if you have a coven with eleven people in it and four more come along who want to join, can they? what are the alternatives possible? 2. what color is the cover of the book of shadows? can you type the rituals and put them in your book? 3. how often should a coven meet? 4. the date of

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, and to bring fertility to humans and animals alike. hunters would re-enact the successful outcome of a hunt and would carry these energies into the everyday world. offerings were made to the mistress of the herds and later to the horned god, who was depicted wearing horns or antlers to display his sovereignty over the herds. animal bones would be buried so that they, like humankind, would enjoy rebirth from the earth mother's womb. where hunter-gatherers today continue the unbroken tradition that stretches back thousands of years- for example, among the lapps in the far north of scandinavia and the inuits- these rites continue, led by a shaman, or magick man, who negotiates with the mistress of the herds or fish in a trance for the release of the animals. one of the earliest recorded exa

s energies. the bringing together of these two powers, the sacred marriage that is celebrated symbolically in the great rite of the union of earth and sky, is a ritual that permeates all cultures. in egyptian mythology, isis, the sister-wife of osiris, sought and reassembled his body after his murder and dismemberment by his brother seth. in this connection, she took on the role of the goddess of rebirth, the bone goddess, and restored him in a more evolved form. the annual celebrations of this event coincided with the rising of the dog star, sirius, which heralded the flooding of the nile and the restoration of fertility to the land and symbolically to the people. as the sky gods gained supremacy, they married the earth goddesses who slowly evolved into patronesses of women, marriage and

devotees, and so she brings protection and regeneration after sorrow. persephone persephone is the greek maiden goddess of transformation, daughter of demeter and goddess of spring and flowers. she was abducted by hades, god of the underworld, and became queen of the underworld for the winter months, returning to the earth as the light-bringer in spring and so representing the cycle of death and rebirth. she is especially powerful in rituals by or for young women, especially those who have suffered loss or abuse, and also for mother-daughter relationships. she is sometimes regarded as a symbol of grain. proserpina, daughter of ceres, is the roman form of persephone. sekhmet sekhmet is the ancient egyptian solar and lion goddess created from the eye of ra. she is sometimes pictured as a wo

earlier it was estimated there had been several million. in the summer of 1994, a white buffalo calf was born in jamesville, wisconsin. as the prophecy had told, the white buffalo has changed its colours since birth, going from white to black to red to yellow and back to white. since each colour represents one of the four directions, the buffalo is seen by many native americans as a symbol of the rebirth of hope. one visionary interpreted the birth of the white buffalo calf as signifying that the human race will be united, in spite of differences in creed and colour, and join together in peace. wophe is therefore an important symbol not only of the revival of the native american wisdom, but also of healing and reconciliation of all people and of the land and all its creatures. deities of t

the sky god, became a youth, he fought to avenge his father against seth. the divine judges, including thoth, god of wisdom, met in the great hall of judgment and decided that osiris should become not a living king once more, but eternal king and judge of the underworld. osiris was also god of vegetation, the fertile, flooding nile and the corn, and so represented the annual dying of the land and rebirth with the flood. he is normally pictured as a man, bound in mummy wrappings. osiris is an important icon of the annual cycle of sacrifice and resurrection but, as with all the sacrifice gods, it is the female power that causes the resurrection. like other sacrificed and restored gods, osiris thereby represents the integration of animus and anima and sacred sex magick. he can be used in ritu

dle with golden sunflowers or chrysanthemums, tiny mirrors that reflect the light and clear crystal quartz, which is called in the orient 'the essence of the dragon. blue blue is for water and the west, dusk and autumn. a blue candle is placed in the nine o'clock position. water represents love, relationships, sympathy, intuition, reconciliation, harmony, healing and the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, natural cyclical evolutions from one stage to another as opposed to changes made consciously under the auspices of air. it is also potent for fighting floods, cleansing seas, lakes and rivers of pollution, in campaigns to provide fresh water in arid places, in all initiatives towards world health and the care of whales, dolphins, seals and endangered sea creatures. like earth, water repre

cannot obtain beeswax candles, use plain white candles and place a tiny dish of honey to the right of the salt. since the honey will also be empowered, you can absorb the protective magick by using it in a drink or sandwich* when the candles have burned down completely, clear away the crystals and wash them under running water. water because water is vital for life, it has become associated with rebirth and healing through the washing away of sins and disease, and so with protection from ills of all kinds. water for rituals must first be consecrated. you can use either pure spring water or tap water left for 24 hours in a crystal or clear glass container. cover the water with mesh in the waxing or full moon and then leave out of doors to absorb seite 98 wicca01.txt the light of the moon a

us newts. the salamander offers an understanding of mystical processes and visions to inspire future paths and ventures. the colour of fire is gold, orange or red and its zodiacal signs are aries, leo and sagittarius. water water represents dusk, autumn and the quarter and direction of the west. it is the realm of love, relationships, sympathy, intuition, healing and the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. water can form the focus for rituals of purification, healing, all water and sea magick, moon magick, reconciliation and peace, harmony in oneself and with others, restoring balance, unconscious wisdom and divination, especially scrying. it is also potent for overcoming stagnation and inertia and for moving forward after an impasse, for friendship and for travel by sea. it is linked with

eite 125 wicca01.txt* take next the water from the west and pour some into one of the dishes. stir it deosil, saying: power of growth, power of fertility, power of prosperity, enter this water, i ask, mother and father of abundance and increase* now take the salt to the water and tip a little in it, stirring it once more with the athame, saying: dissolve and disperse, flow far and free to attract rebirth to-[name the town] and its inhabitants* now cast the circle around the elemental candles, with your wand, starting from the north in a single unbroken movement, visualising as you do a stream of light emanating from it that encloses you above, around and beneath (if you are working with a group, they can stand or sit within a circle while you cast around them. this is better than slowing t

oup, they can stand or sit within a circle while you cast around them. this is better than slowing the ceremony by having people entering the circle separately after it is cast and then having to close the circle after each one) say: i cast this circle of light, of power and of protection. may the circle that is cast always be unbroken. bless my workings this night [or day, o mother and father of rebirth and renewal, unified and yet two, and all that is and has been and shall be, creative spirit of the universe, the cosmos and the smallest blade of grass. pick up the bowl of salt water and sprinkle a second circle deosil around the perimeter of the first, saying: salt and water, enclose, bless and protect you who have sustained life from the beginning and will so to the end. if others are

ty course through the veins of the people that their children and grandchildren may know happiness and lives unclouded by sorrow and anxiety for their livelihood and their dwellings* taking the clay between your hands, begin to mould it, using a marking tool if you wish, to make a tool, such as a wheel, or a figure, a bridge, a loaf, a house or a flower, or any abstract symbol that represents the rebirth of the town through its people. endow it with your wishes, visualising the place growing and prospering, perhaps reciting: go forth, increase and multiply, or rise again from the ashes, rise anew, rise glorious, rise, rise again. chant faster and faster until at last you toss the ball into the air and catch it, saying; go far, go free, bring life to thee. in a group, you could pass the end

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

of racial violence. segregated, crowded, and concentrated in ghettos in the cities of new york, chicago, detroit, washington, philadelphia, and st. louis (where the greatest population gains occurred, african americans faced especially harsh living conditions. and yet it was under these oppressive circumstances that many of the spiritual practices that had originated with the slaves had an urban rebirth.[36] braving the severity of city life, blacks created institutions that helped them withstand the staggering disorientation of relocation. african american churches, fraternal associations, and clubs gave expression to diverse new cultural forms even as they tempered the vagaries of black people's urban existence. some cultural establishments became important sites for the survival of sup

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the story. in his work on cyclic world myths, professor robert shanmu chen of the university of british columbia writes: divination of the pa kua [eight-sided octagon] was accomplished through the use of the tortoise-shell and the arrangement of stalks of milfoil [also known as yarrow. the tortoise was the sacred animal of the north-winter, a hibernal animal capable of seemingly occult death and rebirth, while the milfoil was regarded as a sacred plant bearing three hundred stems every thousand years and connected with the virtue of roundness or perfection.5 the i ching, or the book of changes has sixty-four possible combinations of trigrams. the book lists the meaning of each combination, which the individual must interpret in order to decide what to do. professor chen explains the role

rupt things proper flow.5 monkey 107 10 the pilgrimage introduction the buddhist religion was first introduced to china from india in a.d. 67. its founder was siddhartha gautama, later known as the buddha. he taught that suffering was caused by greed, which can be overcome by thinking quietly (meditating. when a person dies, he or she will be reborn into another life (reincarnation. this cycle of rebirth can only be broken when a person has lived an exceptionally good life and has given up the natural human bonds and attachments to material existence. the novel journey to the west was based on the travels of a real person, a monk named san zang. sometime during the tang dynasty (a.d. 618 906, san zang took a pilgrimage to india which lasted seventeen years. he risked his life many times fo

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and that's why they were given to mithra in that version of the myth.21 the birth of jesus in a stable or cave is repeated throughout the solar-myth stories because the cave represents the "dark place" where the sun is said to go between the winter solstice and midnight on december 24th. thus we have the three days in the tomb between the "crucifixion" of jesus (the sun) and his "resurrection" or rebirth on december 25th. the cave may have other symbolism, too, however, because the jesus story can be read on different esoteric levels at the same time. god save us from religion 209 tempted in the wilderness for 40 days this is another common theme for the solar gods. author and researcher albert churchward says the egyptians estimated that it took 40 days after grain was sown before it appe

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cried: rejoice, 0 sacred initiated! your god is risen. his death and sufferingshave worked your salvation. the same tale was told in egypt about horus and in indiaabout khrishna a thousand years before christianity. the bible tells us that jesus willreturn on a cloud and what do we see among the clouds? the sun. the tomb of jesus issymbolic of the darkness into which the sun descended before its rebirth and nearly allthe mystery school initiations involved some sort of cave, underground chamber, ordark enclosed space, like the sweatlodges of native america. even the story of the spearwhich pierced the side of jesus after he was taken from the cross is mystery schoolsymbolism. the christian legend says that this was done by a blind roman centurioncalled longinus and some of the blood of je

orary knight grand cross of the order of the bath, as she did with thatbrotherhood script-reader and rapist of mind controlled slaves, ronald reagan, himself aproduct of mind control. this is the highest award it is possible for her to give tosomeone outside the commonwealth. the order of the bath sounds a silly title unlessyou understand the symbolism. the resurrection bath of alchemy symbolises rebirth andpurification or absolution. baths are given to masonic knights of the bath before theyperform horrendous deeds, hence blood baths 36 george bush and the queen get on sowell because they are both of european royal and aristocratic-reptilian blood. they areboth shape-shifters. george and his wife, barbara pierce bush (of merrill, lynch,fenner, and smith, are descended from the same pierce

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course, to the pre-christian pagan world. this was followed, he said, by the aeon of osirus, a time of restriction in which man rejected the natural world and in its place chose denial of the ego and mortification of the flesh. he believed that a new aeon, the aeon of horus, had begun. in egyptian mythology, isis was the goddess of fertility, osirus was the god of death, and horus was the god of rebirth. the period of restriction, he said, had ended and the life-energies had returned to the world. the pre-christian pagan world was more, however, than simply a time of nature worship. men lived in greater harmony with the natural world than they did during the cycle of restriction which followed, but they also celebrated the carnal, exalted the ego, and explored deep philosophical thought

DEMONIC BIBLE

name of satan and in the name of lucifer (recite three times, then enter bath* sanctify me in the waters of the abyss that i may rise up, from this bath, reborn in the image of satan and go forth into the world as a living demon in the flesh to the glory of the infernal empire and to the majesty of the infernal king he, who shall reign forever upon the earth (exit bath, then say) as a sign of my rebirth, i take upon myself this cross which i shall wear at all times and in all places* dark lord, you have awakened me from death and given me life. i have emerged from the waters of leviatan, as a new born babe from the womb. wrapped in a blanket of darkness, i shall nurse upon the breast of the great harlot. as you have given me life, i dedicate this life to thy service. receive my life as yo

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kard this presents a foundation of the self which is indeed different from the path of the good mind, or the mind of stasis. ganamino is essentially motion; movement through will, the will of god was misunderstood by right hand path religions as merely being good, loving, light and kind. rather the god they so worshipped in nature outside of themselves- is that which indeed causes destruction and rebirth, thus a balanced aspect of both dark and light. the religion of priests, who guided by their evil intellect devoid of wisdom, act among men as the servents of god, is only in appearance the wise religion of god. this through the evil intellect depopulates the world, ruins, and destroys mankind. and such a priest is as it were the agent of the evil-minded ahriman to do his work among men an

asmodeus was according to lore a seraphim, one of the highest ranks of angels. it is suggested in other hebrew lore that asmodeus was born from the demoness naamah and the fallen angel shamdon. asmodeus and samael were said to have had strife over one spirit of lilith. this is the waning moon, the moon of witchcraft and abominable deeds. she is the poisoned darkness which is the condition for the rebirth of light the book of thoth, aleister crowley here we are able to understand that lilith has many forms, yet her nature is clear to those who work with her. allow her entry into yourself, and know the ecstasy of man and woman, union with the blood of the moon. crowley refers to her as uncleanliness and sorcery, the very nature of az who is the mother of luciferians. crowley also saw divinit

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wn a process into matter at each incarnation to form the basis of the new personality. 88. when the higher self and the lower self become united through the complete absorption of the lower by the higher, true adepthood is gained; this is the great initiation, the lesser divine union. it is the supreme experience of the incarnate soul, and when this takes place, it is freed from any compulsion to rebirth into the prison-house of flesh. thenceforth it is free to go on up the planes and enter into its rest, or, if it so elects, to remain within the earth-sphere and function as a master. mystical qabala page 199 89. this, then, is the spiritual experience which is assigned to malkuth-the bringing down of the godhead into manhood, just as the spiritual experience of tiphareth is the taking up

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nd prestige during the last centuries of the second millennium c.e. in the post-protestant era, rosicrucianism was the first important international esoteric movement. it was followed by speculative freemasonry in the eighteenth century and theosophy in the nineteenth. out of freemasonry came a tradition of initiatory magic represented in the neo-templar orders of continental europe, as well as a rebirth of ritual/ceremonial magic in the english-speaking world. western esotericism s shared belief that magic was real, has led roman catholicism to oppose this movement, defining it as evil and using such labels as sorcery, witchcraft, and black magic. however, beginning with protestantism (in its reformed presbyterian version) and the secular enlightenment of the eighteenth century, the situa

heanism and origins in the theological problem of the place of good and evil in christian doctrine. the cathars believed a dualist concept of two gods or principles. the evil god satan or lucifer ruled the material world, which was a purgatorial condition for angels or divine souls imprisoned in flesh after the primal war in heaven. humans could only recover the divine kingdom through a spiritual rebirth, becoming a vehicle for the holy ghost, otherwise death would not bring release. a man who died without such a spiritual rebirth would face reincarnation again and again, in human or animal form. an interesting modern echo of the cathari and its doctrine of imprisonment in the flesh through various incarnations is found in the strange claim of a modern british physician arthur guirdham tha

ed one major practice, the dance ceremony known as the sigi. operating among the dogon is a mask society. after he is recognized as an adult, each male carves himself a mask that is worn during the funeral services, and for an elaborate dance, the dama, during which the men are on 12-foot stilts. the sigi happens only once every 60 years and marks the renewal of the generations. it also marks the rebirth of the white dwarf star near the star sirius. this dance goes back many centuries. however, western astronomers had only discovered the star in 1928 and photographed it in 1970. the dogon taught that the sacred star orbited sirius every 60 years. the astronomers discovered that they were correct. the announcement of the dogon belief by temple in the sirius mystery had the initial effect of

s and as illusory as the material world itself, designated as maya. on a popular level, hindu mythology proposes vast cycles of time (yugas) in the ages of the world, during which there are great periods of creation, righteousness, decline, and eventual dissolution, part of an infinite cycle of creation and destruction of the cosmos. in the period of decline, there is the messianic concept of the rebirth of the divine shree krishna, who will redeem the world. however, all these cycles are only a dreamlike moment of time in divine consciousness, of which the individual souls are myriad fragments; and in self-realization, or moksha, the individual consciousness goes beyond the duality of subject and object and is subsumed in a timeless and blissful divine consciousness, independent of time

e fall equinox it enters 0 libra. the planetary configurations at the time of the equinoxes have a particular importance in the interpretations of mundane astrology (the astrology of nations. epworth phenomena encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 512 the astrological year was largely replaced by the christian calendar in the west, but came back into use for marking the year with the rebirth of ritual magic in the nineteenth century. it was notable that magician aleister crowley named his biannual journal equinox. however, as with most ritual magicians and astrologers, the equinox, while being an important marker in the calendar, was not a particularly significant point for ritual activity or horoscope interpretation. ritual significance was poured back into the equinox within

ement. sources: bracelin, l. l. gerald gardner: witch. london: octagon press, 1960. gardner, gerald. a goddess arrives. london: a. w. stockwell, 1948. meaning of witchcraft. london: aquarian press, 1959. witchcraft today. london: jerrolds, 1954. kelly, aidan a. crafting the art of magic: a history of modern witchcraft, 1939.1964. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1991. valiente, doreen. the rebirth of witchcraft. london: robert hale, 1989. gardner, martin (1924) journalist and writer, born in tulsa, oklahoma, on october 21, 1914. gardner graduated from the university of chicago (b.a, 1936. his first job was as a reporter for the tulsa tribune. in the 1950s he moved to new york and in 1957 became associated with scientific american, for which he has written a column on mathematical ga

antero, et al. all rites reversed: ritual technology for self- initiation. boulder, colo: vigilantero press, 1987. danielou, alain. yoga: the method of re-integration. london: christopher, 1969. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1956. duncan, malcolm c. duncan s masonic ritual and monitor. new york: mckay, 1976. eliade, mircea. rites and symbols of initiation: the mysteries of birth& rebirth. new york: harper torchbooks, 1968. fortune, dion. the training and work of an initiate. 1930. reprint, new york: samuel weiser, 1972. hall, manly p. secret teachings of all ages. hollywood, calif: philosophical research society, 1962. rev. ed. 1977. heard, gerald. training for the life of the spirit. hankins, n.y: strength books, 1975. distributed by steiner books. huxley, francis. the wa

text, the book of the law. crowley believed that jones had discovered a kabalistic key to the book of the law. as a disciple jones progressed to the grade of master of the temple in crowley s secret order a a, while crowley moved on to become a magus. there is a record of his achievement in liber 165, partially published in crowley s journal the equinox (vol. 3, p. 127. in attempting his mystical rebirth as a babe of the abyss, jones had a nervous breakdown. he returned briefly to england and joined the roman catholic church, hoping to convert other catholics to crowley s law of thelema. upon returning to vancouver he wandered around the city wearing only a raincoat, which he threw off in public, crying that he had renounced all the veils of illusion. after his recovery jones became somewh

ites of modern occult magic. new york: macmillan, 1971. satan and swastika: the occult and the nazi party. london: mayflower, 1976. sexuality, magic, and perversion. london, 1971. reprint, new york: citadel press, 1972. wisdom from afar. london: aldus books, 1975. king, francis, and stephen skinner. techniques of high magic. new york: destiny books, 1980. king, francis, and isabel sutherland. the rebirth of magic. london: corgi, 1982. shaw, eva. divining the future: prognostication from astrology to zoomancy. new york: facts on file, 1995. king, george (1919.1997) george king, a prominent flying saucer contactee of the 1950s and founder of the aetherius society, was born in shropshire, england, on january 23, 1919. he was raised in the church of england but was attracted to the study of ps

reflect his efforts to provide information and instruction on the use of hallucinogens and, influenced by eastern philosophies and religious texts, reveals leary s emphasis on the spiritual possibilities of psychedelics. in 1964, leary, along with richard alpert and ralph metzner, published the psychedelic experience: a manual based on the tibetan book of the dead. this book relates the death and rebirth cycle experienced through psychedelic drugs to the ancient buddhist text that prepares followers for the after-death experience. various brushes with the law on drug charges resulted in leary receiving sentences of 10 years imprisonment by a federal judge in houston on january 21, 1970, and another ten years in santa ana, california, on march 22, 1970, both charges involving marijuana offe

nkind is presently in a fallen state, from which it needs reawakening. within each person is a rose of the heart, a spiritspeak atom, which can ascend to the divine. this process is aided by those who have already found knowledge, the universal brotherhood. the school transmits the light of the universal brotherhood to the members, thus allowing them to break the chain of reincarnation (death and rebirth) and begin the process of return to the divine. the lectorium rosicrucianum is unique in its espousal of the concept of two nature orders. humans are born into this nature order, the seventh cosmic region, that is, the world of nature. humans also carry a remnant of their origin in the sixth cosmic region, where they exist as an immortal seed. their purpose on earth is to cooperate with th

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chings. metempsychosis found its last great philosophical defender in plotinus (205.270 c.e, the neoplatonic philosopher. he saw repeated births of the soul as a means for its education. by being in the body, the soul learns how desirable is the nonphysical existence, plotinus taught. the idea of reincarnation lingered in the west, passing through a succession of gnostic groups, but experienced a rebirth in the twentieth century. it s current spread, however, has a basis in indian and oriental ideas of reincarnation, usually attached to the additional notion of karma. sources: crombie, i. m. plato: the midwife s apprentice. london: routledge& kegan paul, 1964. ducasse, c. j. a critical examination of the belief in a life after death. springfield, ill: charles c. thomas, 1961. meteormancy a

pear to have been highly regarded by the sages of its time. the golden tablets relating to the orphic mystery found in tombs in greece, crete, and italy contain fragments of a sacred hymn. as early as the third century c.e, it was buried with the dead as an amulet to protect the deceased from the dangers of the underworld. attis and cybele the phrygian mysteries of attis and cybele focused on the rebirth of the god attis, who was also of an agrarian character. communion with the deity was usually attained by bathing in blood in the taurobolium or by the letting of blood. mithraic mysteries the mithraic cult was of persian origin, having at its center mithra, a personification of light worshiped in that country some five hundred years before the christian era. carried into asia minor by sma

so be performed. during the late 1980s and 1990s, younger members expanded inherited liturgy by writing new poetry and songs for new rituals. the nroogd encourages creative expression, and these new writings serve to keep the tradition alive. the core nroogd ritual, written by aidan kelly and others, begins with a line dance in the form of an inward and then outward spiral, representing death and rebirth, with coveners singing a chant. tout, tout, tout, throughout and about! afterward, conjurations of elements, which go into a central charging bowl, begin with i conjure salt for savor. gods, demigods, or other spirits at each of the cardinal directions serve as guardians of the circle and of the elements. each coven has their own guardians that are unique from other covens. names of the go

kshops and published the national intensive journal at dialogue house, 80 e. 11th st, new york, n.y. 10003. his meditation system was the subject of his book the practice of process meditation (1980. progoff died december 28, 1998. sources: pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. progroff, ira, ed. the cloud of unknowing. n.p, 1957. death and rebirth of psychology. n.p, 1956. depth psychology and modern man. n.p, 1959. jung s psychology and its social meaning. n.p, 1953. parapsychology in modern thinking. international journal of parapsychology 1, 1 (summer 1959. the practice of process meditation. n.p, 1980. the symbolic and the real. n.p, 1963. transformation of jewish mysticism. international journal of parapsychology 2, 2 (autumn 1

ome variation in the different theologies and schools of thought. basically, the soul is an immortal entity that has continuity through eternity, but falls into material existence and is trapped in the illusion that this physical world is ultimately real. through multiple lives the soul becomes subject to karma, or consequences. good karma leads to noble birth; bad karma to a lower birth, even to rebirth as an animal. the idea of karma and reincarnation was integral to social organization in the caste system and thus had practical application in everyday life. the caste system in turn dictated proper action that was sanctioned by the rewards and punishments of karma. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. reincarnation 1299 in the mainstream of hindu thought.which found truth i

ern visitors to india and was ultimately imported to the west through theosophy and the various indian teachers who successfully established themselves in the united states (notably swamis vivekananda and yogananda. some religions, like hinduism, teach that reincarnation is not always immediate, but that some souls may enjoy a period in a transitional state, either heavenly or purgatorial, before rebirth. an idea of reincarnation, though not karma, is also found in some early greek philosophy, including that of both pythagoras and plato. it actually emerges in the mediterranean basin simultaneously with its emergence in india, around 600 b.c.e. in the fourth century, plato s phaedrus presents a reincarnation myth that seems to have been derived from the ophite religion. a preexistent soul

ville spearman, 1960. head, joseph, ed. reincarnation in world thought: a living study of reincarnation in all ages. new york: julian press, 1967. head, joseph, and s. l. cranston, eds. reincarnation: an east-west anthology. new york: julian press, 1961. reprint, wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1968. rev. ed. reincarnation: the phoenix fire mystery, an east-west dialogue on death and rebirth. new york: julian press/crown publishers, 1977. holzer, hans. born again: the truth about reincarnation. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1970. reprint, london: bailey bros& swinfen, 1975. leek, sybil. reincarnation: the second chance. new york: stein& day, 1974. reprint, new york: bantam, 1975. osborn, arthur. superphysical: a review of the evidence for continued existence, reincarnation, and

ick muller, 1974. pierce, henry w. science looks at esp. new york: new american library, 1970. rochas, eugene. les vies successives. n.p, 1911. stevenson, ian. cases of the reincarnation type. 3 vols. charlottesville: university press of virginia, 1975.80. twenty cases suggestive of reincarnation. rev. ed. charlottesville: university press of virginia, 1974. story, francis, and nyanaponika thera. rebirth as doctrine and experience. kandy, sri lanka: buddhist publication society, 1975. underwood, peter, and leonard wilder. lives to remember: a case book on reincarnation. london: robert hale, 1975. wilson, ian. mind out of time? reincarnation claims investigated. london: gollancz, 1981. revised as reincarnation? baltimore: penguin books, 1982. the religio-philosophical journal prominent amer

subsequently has used her literary skills in service to the fellowship. sources: robertson, olivia. the call of isis. enniscorthy, eire: cesara publications, 1975. dea: rites and mysteries of the goddess. enniscorthy, eire: cesara publications, 1975. the isis wedding rite. enniscorthy, eire: cesara publications, 1975. ordination of a priestess. enniscorthy, eire: cesara publications, n.d. rite of rebirth. enniscorthy, eire: cesara publications, 1977. robert the devil a popular thirteenth-century romance legend, known in france in both prose and verse forms as robert le diable. the story was printed in england ca. 1502 by wynkyn de worde (caxton s assistant) as lyfe of robert the devyll. according to the story, robert was the son of a duke and duchess of normandy. he was endowed with marvel

s, looking eagerly for some method of saving their cults from entire extinction, would join the ranks of some similar society, or would keep the flame alive in secret. the occult idea has been preserved through the ages, the same in essence among the believers in all religions. to a great extent, the occult s trend was in one direction, so that the fusion of the older mystical societies and their rebirth as a new brotherhood is a plausible hypothesis. the entry on the templars, for example, suggests the possibility of that brotherhood having received its tenets from the east. it seems very likely that its rites were oriental in origin, and certainly the occult systems of europe owed much to the templars, who, probably, after the fall of their own order, secretly formed others or joined exi

ences were the theories of henri bergson and hans driesch. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. sheldrake, rupert. a new science of life: the hypothesis of formative causation. london: blond& briggs; los angeles: j. p. tarcher, 1981. the presence of the past. new york: new york times books, 1988. the rebirth of nature: the greening of science and god. new york: bantam, 1990. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. sheldrake, rupert 1397. seven experiments that could change the world: a do- it-yourself guide to revolutionary science. n.p: riverhead books, 1995. sheldrake, rupert and matthew fox. natural grace. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1996. shelta thari an esoteric language spoke

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

of anomalous and paranormal entities, including ufo beings, marian apparitions, and men in black. he believes that such entities, though mythic constructs, are able to assume a quasi-physical reality because of the deep resonance they have in humanity s collective psyche. another name for psychoterrestrials is psychic projections. grosso believes that ufos and other exotic phenomena are forces of rebirth that the ultradimensional mind has conjured up to transform mass consciousness in order to save the human race for otherwise certain selfdestruction. given the timeless, spaceless nature of esp and pk [psychokinesis, perhaps some (or all) human minds form a system a parallel universe of mind, a distinct entity with its own properties. it would be a mind with properties distinct from compon

FOCUS OF LIFE

d true, as is time, that speaketh all things. of what use are hints or stage whispers? true wisdom cannot be expressed by articulate sounds. the language of fools-is words. in the labyrinth of the alphabet the truth is hidden. it is one thing repeated many times. confined within the limits or rationalism; no guess has yet answered. o zos, thou art fallen into the involuntary accident of birth and rebirth into the incarnating ideas of women. a partial sexuality entangled in the morass of sensual law. on earth the circle was fabricated. the origin of all things is the complex self. how shall it be made the end of things? dubious of all things by this increase, and ignorance of individuality. i or self, in conflict, separate. this forgetfulness of symboli becomes the unexplored 'reason' of ex

the dead body of aaos: aaos preparing for death uttered in soliloque "o, thou inconceivableness that transcends human desire; thou magnificent incongruous face. for millions of years thou hast not wearied of my body. what would thy pleasure be but for my wantonness "i teach you the glad death of all things" thus spake my knowing mouth "my belief has created the more beautiful body and desires of rebirth. fear i the transvaluation called death? knew i not death, when time was born? arise, old memory! and tell my consciousness of this frequent experience-once again" then death spake unto aaos "no stranger, nor enemy to me is aaos, we are too ancient friends to come to blows. what hast thou come to take from me this time? what fresh associations for thy new body? no self-denial has aaos! tho

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ages still held sway and the search for truth was thus of necessity a search for the early, the ancient, the original gold from which the baser metals of the present and the immediate past were corrupt degenerations. man's history was not an evolution from primitive animal origins through ever growing complexity and progress; the past was always better than the present, and progress was revival, rebirth, renaissance of antiquity. the classical humanist recovered the literature and the monuments of classical antiquity with a sense of return to the pure gold of a civilisation better and higher than his own. the religious reformer returned to the study of the scriptures and the early fathers with a sense of recovery of the pure gold of the gospel, buried under later degenerations. these are

a deluge or by consuming it by fire, or destroying it by pestilential maladies diffused in many places. then he will bring back the world to its first beauty, so that this world may again be worthy of reverence and admiration, and that god also, creator and restorer of so great a work, may be glorified by the men who shall live then in continual hymns of praise and benedictions. that 's what the rebirth of the world will be; a renewal of all good things, a holy and most solemn restoration of nature herself, 39 ficino's "pimander" and the "asclepius" imposed by force in the course of time. by the will of god. we have no commentary by ficino on the asclepius, for the commentary supposedly by him which is printed with the asclepius in his collected works is now known to have been not by fici

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around me, as if someone was in the room with me. we are moving closer (i can feel it. these prayers and callings must be focused and channeled into one direction to achieve full gnosis (knowledge and conversation. between 11/23/98--12/1/98 (some entries omitted) a thought concerning the new star wars movie to come. it is episode one, which is the youth of anakin skywalker. thinking on this. the rebirth of the villain of villains. daarth vader (daath. the once dead, now back before his death, before his fall, yet again. i believe this is tied firmly into the collective networks sub-mind, and the thanatogenesis of the grand-nemesis. some correlation to the phantom menace on the rise for humanity in the near future? 12/2/98 (tuesday. i write this now in the last stages of ecstasy. the entir

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oes not apply to the masses who have no spiritual aspirations and are as yet unable to restrain their passions. the rosicrucians do not even advocate an entirely celibate life for their pupils; indeed they regard it as a religious duty for the enlightened mystic, man or woman, to wed a kindred spirit if such can be found, and thus furnish incoming souls a particularly advantageous opportunity for rebirth. when such a devoted couple perform the generative act in a spirit of aspiration to serve a waiting ego, when the prenatal conditions are pure mentally, morally and physically, when the early childhood days of the ego thus born are spent in a home atmosphere of high and noble thought, both parents and children are making wonderful progress. and as great souls cannot be born to ignoble pare

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religious ecstasy when the spirit of lucifer sweeps through them upon initiation. back to the phoenix bird. listen to the explanation given by a radical feminist, barbara walker, in her occult book, now is the dawning, p. 281. egyptians believed that the phoenix was the representative of a god who "rose to heaven in the form of a morning star, like lucifer, after his fire-immolation of death and rebirth" wow! in one sweet, short, and simple sentence, we have conclusive proof that the phoenix bird is a symbol of lucifer! listen now to the testimony of another former witch, william schnoebelen, in his book, satan's door revisited, p. 4 "the phoenix, of bunnu is believed to be a divine bird going back to egypt. this phoenix destroys itself in flames and then rises from the ashes. most occult

cted within the bible as either jesus himself or as white wool or as a white garment. salvation is depicted as the cross or jesus arising from the grave. but, the pagans are surely true to the biblical description of them as "worshipping the creature rather than the creator [romans 1:25] the july, 1998, issue of the scottish rite journal states that the eagle was also a symbol of regeneration and rebirth [jim tresner, 33 degree "wings of the eagle, wings on our feet" scottish rite journal, july, 1998, p. 7. but, another masonic writer returned back to the symbolism of the snake as regeneration, or reincarnation [herbert f. inman, masonic problems and queries, london, england, a. lewis, ltd, 1987, p. 210. also stated by charles g. berger, our phallic heritage, new york, greenwich book publi

les g. berger, our phallic heritage, new york, greenwich book publishers, inc, p. 204] in fact, listen to how the satanic book, a dictionary of symbols, explains the importance of the snake "snakes are guardians of the springs of life and of immortality, and also of those superior riches of the spirit that are symbolized by hidden treasure. the serpent is the life-force which determines birth and rebirth and hence it is connected with the wheel of life" cirlot, a dictionary of symbols, p. 286-288] albert pike gives us the explanation for these two masonic columns, both of which depict a serpent "serpents encircling rings and globes, and issuing from globes, are common in the persian, egyptian, chinese, and indian monuments. vishnu is represented reposing on a coiled serpent, whose folds fo

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o the altar. as she moves back toward her place in the circle, her eyes seek out and meet those of her beloved husband, typo demon. she passes him the castle candle before retaking her place in the circle. a soft smile escapes her as she watches him move to his place in the south. typo stands silenty in the circle, barely aware of the events around him, contemplating the nature of elemental fire. rebirth, like the legendary phoenix who was reborn from its own ashes to live again. the warmth of small fire burning in the fireplace, or the fires that rage to burn away underbrush to re-energize the land. typo steps forward and looks starkly serious at those gathered around the circle, with the castle candle held high above his head he calls "ancient ones of the south, element of fire, you who

is circle bless and wash us with your presence" as she speaks, a fierce wind laced with sleet and icy rain blasts into the circle, causing robes to flap and twist and bodies to shiver with the sudden damp chill. with the water comes the cold smell of winter rain, then the sound of a soft voice-not sharon s-speaking "remember that i, too, am the mother and that i too am necessary for all birth and rebirth" the wet wind shrieks and sighs and circles the ritual room, then passes on, leaving the participants dry and once more comfortable, if somewhat shaken. sharon speaks again "guard us, o ancient one keep us this night and join with us as we celebrate both life and death. for without one there is no possibility of the other" sharon then returns to the altar, setting the bowl in its place. fr

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muzd, whose word is brought by his messenger the crow or raven. ahriman is represented only by the serpent who is to poison all human life at its source. we may all of us invent some allegorical explanation of these scenes, and no one can be sure of offering the truth, but one point is certain, and that is that the bull has been at all times the symbol of generation, or virility, of fertility and rebirth; and that its death, even as providing food, leads again to life. porphyry tells us that the cave in which the slaying is performed was deemed to represent the universe. other suggestions have been made in explanation of the sculptures, remembering that mithras was a solar diety. in the birth scene, the torch-bearers, with one torch up and the other down, may refer to the rise and setting

GILBERT R A CHAOS OUT OF ORDER THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SWEDENBORGIAN RITE

e. on 6th august 1878 he wrote again to irwin, to ask if he was still involved with the rite or with the rite of apex. for his part he was, disposed to sever [my connection, both because i find no benefit whatever from either& because i see no object in multiplying these orders uselessly& where no work is done. irwin was probably more relieved than sorry at his departure. decline and revival: the rebirth of the rite the founding of eri lodge was effectively the last gasp of the first phase of the rite s progress in the united kingdom. its revival was due to the restlessness of the third great disseminator of degrees in late victorian england: william wynn westcott. his fame, such as it is, depends on his occult activities rather than on his masonic doings, but, as we shall see, the swedenb

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d is intricately connected to the earth, even seen as part of it. in the norse tradition the god is odin or tyr (much earlier) and he is the lord of the upper world (asgard) and hel is the goddess of the underworld and earth. hel and freya are much the same goddess, she simply split into two and was demoted due to strong patriarchal and later christian influences. she was the goddess of death and rebirth, fertility and suffering, she guards the dead and sends them back to life, she compliments and completes the lord or tyr/odin. in celtic mythology she guards the great cauldron and in the norse this cauldron is the seething cauldron from which the drizzle formed from fire and ice coalesces and from which life is formulated. we can see a cross over with sophia, she too is the goddess of the

at the great year may indeed be the basis for most cosmological systems. the gnostic tradition suggests that this great cycle was known to the atlanteans and was encoded into the rituals and architecture of ancient egypt. accordingly, the role of the pharaoh and later the priesthood had a special significance in relation to the unfolding of the great year. the egyptian star gnosis and the rite of rebirth the central focus of egyptian ritualism was the great pyramid, it was connected to the sphinx and operated as a initiatory structure. the pyramid was identified with the sanctuary of the sun and embodied ra, the solar logos. the rites undertaken in the chamber of the king and queen were rites of rebirth whereby the pharaoh became identified with the solar sphere. he mediated the energies o

n were rites of rebirth whereby the pharaoh became identified with the solar sphere. he mediated the energies of the logos and hence accelerated the positive current and sublimated or transformed the negative. the sun like the planets and zodiac was a doorway between the spiritual and physical worlds and hence emanated forces from the pleroma and from the worlds of the archons. during the rite of rebirth the pharaoh left his body and traveled through the heavens. he journeyed through the realms of the planets and zodiac using passwords, gestures and codes, only after successfully passing the spheres could he then navigate through the great barrier and enter the pleroma. this ritual form was connected to the egyptian astro-gnosis and involved the pharaoh becoming the mediator for his people

this role he also prepared egypt for the change which took place at the equinox of the gods, when one astrological sign gave way to another. for 180 years before this event the pharaoh and priesthood would work creating new symbols, mythologies and astral vessels so that the incoming energy could be utilized for the benefit of egypt. as time progressed the egyptian star-gnosis, the divine rite of rebirth and the secret of planetary and zodiacal mediation was passed from the pharaoh to a separate priesthood. with time and changes in both state and religion, the teachings were held under oath by secret orders and brotherhoods. even within the hermetic order of the golden dawn we can find elements of the mediation rite within its equinox rituals, however, the emphasis has changed to emanating

octrine of theosis or deification has been a major part of the mystery tradition since the earliest days and has survived, albeit, in modified form, to the present in both the exoteric and esoteric traditions. the concept of deification is found in the earliest religious systems, the rites of kingship in both sumeria and egypt centred on the king being initiated through a secret rite of death and rebirth so that he could become a mediator between his people and god. as the mediator he was considered divine and was imputed with the symbols of divinity. in these early periods the way in which humanity contacted the higher worlds was through the priest/king, in these theocracies individuals could not be deified in their own right, but achieved the power to develop and grow through the mediato

ainly the morality of these kings varied and so did the focus of their mediatorship, the principle remained, nevertheless, the same and the tradition continued. as the ages rolled on, mankind s interaction with the spiritual worlds changed, rather than theocracies non-theistic political systems developed and the role of mediator was replaced by the priest, shaman or wise person. through death and rebirth rites the priest achieved a state of power whereby s/he was able to mediate between the spiritual and physical worlds. at this stage we can see that individual theosis was still far in the future, mediatorship was embodied in the prophet, priest, shaman or wise person. the rites of kingship and priesthood were kept secret and at first only passed via brotherhoods, cults and orders, however

ew interpretation of the kingdom of god, jesus as the davidic messiah illustrated how individual theosis was possible. for through individual theosis the particles of light may be liberated and at the omega day all light retrieved from matter. by his deat and resurrection (whether literal or as a mystery enactment) he embodied the old rites of kingship and taught how individuals through death and rebirth could become deified. during the life of jesus, he prepared his disciples for this change in spiritual technology. he taught how they could come into contact with their light selves but that only after his death could they receive the power of sophia. it was only after he had conquered death that a path to individual theosis became available and the task of those who followed such as mary

t pentecost, james the just revealed a second path, the path of the serpent or the pneumatic path. this is the path of theosis or deification. the concept of theosis is found in the writings of many church fathers and is embodied in the initiations described in the secret gospel of mark (refer works of morton smith. the path of the serpent involved secret training, occult techniques and death and rebirth rites, it was both a way of life and a ritualised process (as it is today. there were two paths of survival for the doctrine of theosis. as the gnostic cults came and the gnostic handbook page 89 went the doctrine was passed from one to another and flowered in the cathars and knight templars. from the knight templars the doctrine passed to various esoteric orders and was transmitted via fr

presents the natural development of the inner transfigurative processes of ancient israel. we can see how the divine will revealed knowledge to man first through kingship in a theocracy, then through the prophets and shamans and finally directly to the human soul through initiation and transfiguration. the essence of the transfiguration process is the ability of an individual to enter the path of rebirth and escape the archons to return home as a immortal member of the god-family. the mystery the mystery is central to our understanding of the real message of the apostolic gnosis. that is also why we tend to call true christianity, gnostic christianity, as the term gnosis means knowledge. however, gnosis represents more than theory, it represents the living experience of the knowledge or my

e fundamentalist christian concept of simply giving your life to jesus is utterly alien to the real teachings of the master jesus. the process of being born again is just that, a process. just like a child takes nine months from conception to birth, so the process of being reborn takes a long period of time, perhaps even many lives. it is an apt description, birth brings us into the fallen words, rebirth takes us out of it! the moment of conception is that time when the gnostic handbook page 90 you decide to enter onto the path of transfiguration. from that conception you begin to grow and transform from a person of the flesh to a being of spirit, from a slave of the archons to a centre of light. the choice of reproductive imagery is deliberate, since the gnostic tradition is anti-reproduc

path. this path is known as the path(es) of the dove and serpent or the path of transfiguration. when a person enters the path, the pneumatic spark or light self that has been frozen in time awakens and begins to grow once again. sophia cleanses the mind, instincts and other constituents of the psychic apparatus and prepares the initiate for communion with the logos or mind of god. the process of rebirth is just that, a process. nobody is immediately born again, the process of rebirth takes much time (even lifetimes) from conception (entering the spiritual path) to final rebirth into the kingdom of god. being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of god, which liveth and abideth for ever. 1 peter 1:23 transfiguration involves both grace and works, justifica

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guage of development. there is a whole world within the collective unconscious, a world which like our own, is a mixture of light and darkness, wisdom and error, suffering and ecstasy. the archetypes are a language which symbol- ise the whole psychological and spiritual state of humanity, they also hold wisdom which is from the highest worlds. some examples of major archetypes include the mother, rebirth, spirit and the trickster. the importance of archetypes is that they are part of rational mind personal unconscious collective unconscious deeper and deeper levels of collective unconscious fig 14 gnostic theurgy page 62 a symbolic language which can be used in spiritual practises to explore and rectify the unconscious. they also provide the reasoning behind our use of correspondences. an

nded with an embankment of dazzling white fire flaming walls. between the higher and lower worlds is a narrow bridge, a rope, a ladder or a gateway through which only the transfigured can pass. the best known symbol of this abyss is the cross (stauros, it is pre-christian in origin and includes pre and post christian symbolism. it emphasises that only through death to the world of the archons and rebirth and resurrection to light, can we enter the treasury. in the hermetic tradition, saturn (binah) is seen as the guardian of the abyss. after the soul has left earth it must venture through the seven planets, however only with correct passwords and codes can it pass each obstacle. when it confronts saturn the soul is truly tested, only if it is of the light kingdom will it be allowed to pass

om one substance to another! the two paths there are two paths within the process of transfiguration. the first path is known as the terrestrial path (or that of the dove, the second that of the serpent (the celestial path. before anyone can enter the path of the serpent of wisdom (or the celestial path) they must have graduated from the terrestrial path first. the terrestrial path is the path of rebirth for most gnostics. it transforms the dialectic into the very substance of the treasury of light. in the new testament it is the path of the called. in the secret teachings of valentinus, those who enter the path of the dove are known as psychics, while those who follow the secret path of the serpent are known as pneumatics (fig 35) the two paths terrestrial path sacred law immortals on new

this point (depending on his destiny, he will reincarnate, teach and assist others, or he will enter the celestial or secret path. the destiny of those who remain as children of the dove is to be reborn as immortal beings living on the restored earth. the earth will be rectified and return to the static kingdom and shall exist in a dimension of light populated by those of the terrestrial path of rebirth. the mysteries..and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in god, who created all things. ephesians 3:9 the word of god is now god as he had been man, in order to deify mankind together with himself. eusebius, demonstratio evangelica iv:14 seven stages of transfiguration re-orientation (first steps. re-education (education. baptis

past was kept hidden in god, who created all things. ephesians 3:9 the word of god is now god as he had been man, in order to deify mankind together with himself. eusebius, demonstratio evangelica iv:14 seven stages of transfiguration re-orientation (first steps. re-education (education. baptism (initiation. anointing (holy spirit. overcoming dialectic system (communion, feasts, gnostic practise. rebirth. ascension. fig 36 gnostic theurgy page 129 the mysteries are a special teaching that is not covered in most biblical or gnostic studies. it is the final secret teaching revealed by christ to james, his brother and then to the other apostles. the teaching was the last stage of the continuing development of the mystery teachings. the mysteries are described in a range of new testament books

eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. revelation 21:1-4 the seven stages of transfiguration the path(s) of transfiguration are divided into seven distinct steps. re-orientation. re-education. baptism (initiation. anointing (holy spirit. overcoming the dialectic system (communion and feasts. rebirth. ascension. re-orientation the word repentance rings in the ears of most of us who had the misfortune of being brought up in "christian traditions. the problem is that most "christians" have no knowledge of what the word really means! there is this concept that repentance simply means saying sorry, in keeping with the traditions of most of western christianity, you can do whatever you want

(especially those with a moralist orientation, the problem, however, is that when we attempt to totally detach from the world, the reaction is normally so strong, we end up in total attachment! one of the early stages on the path is that of "controlled awareness. controlled awareness is becoming totally aware of what is happening within us and around us. it involves realising that the process of rebirth involves the "death" of the old terrestrial mind and emotions, and the rebuilding of a new self. transfiguration awakens the real self, a self we have never experienced, and one which is really us, and yet so alien- at first. accordingly, the new gnostic on the path must gnostic theurgy page 135 become aware of the changes that are occurring within him and observe and understand the reacti

old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 corinthians 5:17 gnostic theurgy page 138 baptism, initiation and the anointing he went into all the country around the jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. luke 3:3 baptism (or immersion into water) represents the first initiation on the spiritual path. it is a ritual recognition of the process of rebirth which has been initiated. the rite itself is not the same as the rite of christening (there is no gnostic rite for the initiation of minors. the rite of baptism is by full immersion into water, and represents the descent of the old man into death (the water) and rebirth as a new creation. this can be readily seen from luke 3:3, where baptism is specifically referred to as the baptism of re

s experienced it is terrifying. it occurs in the spiritual trek which all who follow the path undertake. after the initial excitement of entering the path, and starting the spiritual quest, doubts arise, fears, dreams, terrors, a feeling of abandonment, an inability to study, meditate or concentrate. it is during this period that the "old" mind and emotions are destroyed, so feelings of death and rebirth are not uncommon. it is a truly shattering occurrence. however, it will be experienced many times along the spiritual path, as the lower vehicles are transformed and the new self grows. an excellent description of this process is found in alchemical literature. for the alchemists the product that was being transformed into gold was man himself, and the procedures reflected the spiritual pa

on of hermes trismegistus. he was believed to be the greatest scholar of ancient egypt and while he is reputed to have written many texts, only a small number survive. one of the most important surviving texts is that of the poemandres. the basic principle of hermeticism is that our supreme goal must be to become part of god, to achieve this goal we must escape from the cycles of birth, death and rebirth as perpetuated by the demiurge and as represented by the planets. there is some debate over exactly how hermeticism sees the world, some commentators see hermeticism as accepting gnostic theurgy page 192 matter (and perhaps even the demiurge) as part of the natural scheme of things, while others offer a more traditional dualistic interpretation. due to the limits on available primary texts

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t/obsession leads to the destruction/vampyric death of unnecessary ideals which plague the self in numerous forms. in primal cultures these dogmatic ideals manifest as self-created sickness and disease. by destroying their foundation in the mind, one may absorb their very elixir of life and devour their flesh as well. this is the very essence of the exorcism of the tchod rite of tibetan magic the rebirth of the i as a layered aspect of the core self or angel-daemon. the self adds layers of conscious subconscious antiquity, based on conscious desire and ones surroundings. this may lead to laziness, sloth and an undisciplined will. it is essential to undertake periodic workings to invigorate the mind via self-enchantment. the black mirror considered a tool of scrying and divination, the blac

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the darkness, and surmounted by the lotus flower of isis. it symbolizes the development of creation" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, thy wand and its meaning" second adept "a wand terminating in the symbol of the binary and surmounted by the tav cross of life, or the head of the phoenix, sacred to osiris. the seven colors between light and darkness are attributed to the planets. it symbolizes rebirth and resurrection from death" chief adept "my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolizes the equilibrated forces of the spirit and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one. associate adeptus minor, what are the words inscribed upon the door of the vault, and how is it guarded" third adept "post centum viginti a

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is, most importantly, the sign of resurrection; for the sun sets in the winter and rises to begin anew in a (vernal equinox. this sign relates to osiris, the glorified one, hwchy! f, it is after resurrection that all is refreshed and returned back unto f, the virginal state. 3 this brings forth the three primary forces in the egyptian pantheon of: isis birth life apophis death destruction osiris rebirth resurrection it is the mystical cycle of: life- death- rebirth the letters: isis i apophis a osiris o a notarikon formulated from the first three letters of isis, apophis, and osiris, formulate the divine name of the gnostic iao. this is pronounced in ritual work as: eeeee- aaaahh- oooohhh (reference of a deeper understanding of iao can be found in the book of enoch 3) hwchy is a symbol of

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udden epiphany of the gods, the power of revelation is bestowed solely to its chosen vehicle, the divinely-elected individual, and there-in it 'incarnates- as a faculty, an opening of the inner eye that directly apprehends the mysteries. for certain individuals there is an innate capacity to comprehend the mysteries of the witanic path, to understand without learning. such may be an indication of rebirth within the transcarnational lineage of witchblood, or a sign of new dispensation: a master of the lonely road. for there are some to whom all outward rites are but a blessing, a confirmation of that which has been attained by interior disposition. such individuals enjoy a rapport with the gods and possess a clarity of vision that cannot be learned or taught, such souls are born into the ho

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scattered throughout the land. once more isis set off to save her husband. she made a small boat of papyrus reeds, coated with pitch, and embarked on the nile in search of the remains. when she had found them she worked powerful spells to reunite the dismembered parts of the body so that it resumed its old form. thereafter, in an intact and perfect state, osiris went through a process of stellar rebirth to become god of the dead and king of the underworld from which place, legend had it, he occasionally returned to earth in the guise of a mortal man.5 although there are huge differences between the traditions it is bizarre that osiris in egypt and thunupa-viracocha in south america should have had all of the following points in common: both were great civilizers; both were conspired again

maya, p. 82. 3 ibid, the encyclopaedia of ancient egypt, pp. 69-70, and pygmy kitabu, pp. 84-106. 4 ibid. 5 the encyclopaedia of ancient egypt, p. 85. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 144 believed in an all-powerful system of nine deities.6 the popol vuh, the sacred book of the ancient quiche maya of mexico and guatemala, contains several passages which clearly indicate a belief in stellar rebirth the reincarnation of the dead as stars. after they had been killed, for example, the hero twins named hunahpu and xbalanque rose up in the midst of the light, and instantly they were lifted into the sky. then the arch of heaven and the face of the earth were lighted. and they dwelt in heaven. 7 at the same time ascended the twins 400 companions who had also been killed, and so they again b

man manifestation had experienced death and that afterwards he was reborn as a star.9 it is therefore curious, at the very least, to discover that in egypt, in the pyramid age, more than 4000 years ago, the state religion revolved around the belief that the deceased pharaoh was reborn as a star.10 ritual incantantations were chanted, the purpose of which was to facilitate the dead monarch s rapid rebirth in the heavens: oh king, you are this great star, the companion of orion, who traverses the sky with orion. you ascend from the east of the sky, being renewed in your due season, and rejuvenated in your due time. 11 we have encountered the orion constellation before, on the plains of nazca, and we shall encounter it again. meanwhile, let us consider the ancient egyptian book of the dead. p

red book of the ancient quiche maya (english version by delia goetz and sylvanus g. morley from the translation by adrian recinos, university of oklahoma press, 1991, p. 163. 8 ibid, 164. 9 ibid, p. 181; the mythology of mexico and central america, p. 147. 10 the ancient egyptian pyramid texts (trans. r. o. faulkner, oxford university press, 1969. numerous utterances refer directly to the stellar rebirth of the king, e.g. 248, 264, 265, 268, and 570( i am a star which illumines the sky, etc. 11 ibid, utt. 466, p. 155. 12 the ancient egyptian book of the dead (trans. r. o. faulkner, british museum publications, 1989. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 145 widely believed that the underworld consisted of nine strata through which the deceased would journey for four years, overcoming obs

n which two deities (nanahuatzin and tecciztecatl) immolated themselves for the common good. one burned quickly in the centre of the sacred fire; the other roasted slowly on the embers at its edge the gods waited for a long time until eventually the sky started to glow red as at dawn. in the east appeared the great sphere of the sun, life-giving and incandescent. 2 it was at this moment of cosmic rebirth that quetzalcoatl manifested himself. his mission was with humanity of the fifth age. he therefore took the form of a human being a bearded white man, just like viracocha. in the andes, viracocha s capital was tiahuanaco. in central america, quetzalcoatl s was the supposed birth-place of the fifth sun, teotihuacan, the city of the gods.3 1 pre-hispanic gods of mexico, pp. 25-6. 2 ibid, pp

gypt, p. 39: the ancient egyptians are known to have identified orion with osiris. 41 also rendered wapwewet and ap-uaut. see, for example, e. a. wallis budge, gods of the egyptians, methuen and co, london, 1904, vol. ii, pp. 366-7. 42 the egyptian book of the dead, introduction, p. l. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 249 husband s body from the pillar and takes it back to egypt to undergo rebirth.43 the osiris myth also includes certain key numbers. whether by accident or by design, these numbers give access to a science of precession, as we shall see in the next chapter. 43 ibid. though a mill, as such, is nowhere to be seen, many ancient egyptian reliefs depict two of the principal characters in the osiris myth (horus and seth) jointly operating a giant drill, again a classic sym

stern wall exceeded 40 feet.9 viewed from the south, the impression was of a wedge-shaped structure, squat and powerful, resting firmly on bedrock. a closer 4 ibid, p. 50. 5 margaret a. murray, the splendour that was egypt, sidgwick& jackson, london, 1987, pp. 160-1. 6 see part vii, for a full discussion of the first time. 7 discussed in part vii; see also part iii for a comparison of the osirian rebirth cult and of the rebirth beliefs of ancient mexico. 8 the pyramids and temples of gizeh, p. 47. 9 measurements from the pyramids and temples of egypt, p. 48, and the pyramids of egypt, p. 108. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 330 examination revealed that it incorporated several characteristics quite alien and inexplicable to the modern eye, which that must have seemed almost as alie

hancock fingerprints of the gods 333 41 inches square. a row of six further columns, also supporting beams, ran along the north-south axis of the t; the overall effect was of massive but refined simplicity. what was this building for? according to the egyptologists who attributed it to khafre its purpose was obvious. it had been designed, they said, as a venue for certain of the purification and rebirth rituals required for the funeral of the pharaoh. the ancient egyptians themselves, however, had left no inscriptions confirming this. on the contrary, the only written evidence that has come down to us indicated that the valley temple could not (originally at any rate) have had anything to do with khafre, for the simple reason that it was built before his reign. this written evidence is th

benben stone in the mansion of the phoenix. 11 mansion of the phoenix described the original temple at heliopolis where the benben had been housed. it reflected the fact that the mysterious object had also served as an enduring symbol for the mythical phoenix, the divine bennu bird whose appearances and disappearances were believed to be linked to violent cosmic cycles and to the destruction and rebirth of world ages.12 connections and similarities driving through the suburbs of heliopolis at around 6:30 in the morning i closed my eyes and tried to summon up a picture of the landscape as it might have looked in the mythical first time after the island of creation13 the primordial mound of ra-atum had risen out of the flood waters of the nun. it was tempting to see a connection between thi

e gods 354 chapter 42 anachronisms and enigmas i looked around the grey-walled chamber of unas, up and down the long registers of hieroglyphs in which the pyramid texts were inscribed. they were written in a dead language. nevertheless, the constant affirmation, repeated over and over again in these ancient compositions, was that of life eternal life which was to be achieved through the pharaoh s rebirth as a star in the constellation of orion. as the reader will recall from chapter nineteen (where we compared egyptian beliefs with those of ancient mexico, there were several utterances which voiced this aspiration explicitly: oh king, you are this great star, the companion of orion, who traverses the sky with orion. you ascend from the east of the sky being renewed in your due season, and

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iousness snaps and you lapse into an unconscious state wherein you are a victim of circumstances rather than in control of events. in the same way, when you "wake up" consciousness snaps back and you forget the many experiences that you underwent in your dreams. th i s i n t e r rupt i on o r b r e a k i n the c o nt i nui t y o f consciousness impairs growth. it also occurs at death and again at rebirth. this is the reason why most people do not remember their past lives. if you master the ability to remember and control your dreams, you will be ready to remember your past lives and control the events of your rebirth. step 1. prepare for sleep. make a formal resolve to 168 remember your dreams. will yourself to remember them when you wake. step 2. relax, but remain aware of your body and

ence. 220 pop and zen, initiation what is the meaning of initiation? it is the path to the realization of your self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all truth, beauty,purity, perfection! aleister crowley, magick without tears there has been a lot written about initiation and its importance in magick. it is more than simply adding further knowledge. i t impl ies a death of something and a rebirth of something else. after you are initiated, in the true sense of the word, you will not be the same as you were. ini t iat ion always impl ies a drast ic change. initiation into magick implies accepting a totally new outlook on life and even more important, a new view of yourself. many of the aethyrs contain init iat ions, or require initiation before you can safely enter. you do not need

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in 1693) grew into a large and potent power of considerable importance. see: rosicrucian questions and answers with complete history of the order, published by the rosicrucian publishing department (amorc, san jose, california, u.s.a [3] in the affairs of the birth of the american nation, as can be seen by records in philadelphia and washington. the ancient law that each 108 years was a cycle of rebirth, activity, rest, and waiting, made the great work in america come to a close, as far as public activities were concerned, in 1801 (108 years after the founders left europe. then for another 108 years the order in the americas was in its rest period with only certain descendants of the last initiates passing to one another the rare records and official documents. then came 1909.108 years af

g, made the great work in america come to a close, as far as public activities were concerned, in 1801 (108 years after the founders left europe. then for another 108 years the order in the americas was in its rest period with only certain descendants of the last initiates passing to one another the rare records and official documents. then came 1909.108 years after the year 1801.and the time for rebirth and reorganization in a public form was at hand. the story of how h. spencer lewis, first imperator for the present cycle of activity, was chosen to bear the burden of reorganization, has often been told, investigated, verified, and acknowledged by the highest rosicrucian authorities of europe and other lands. having had passed to him in the proper way certain knowledge preserved by the de

to the early egyptians, the reproductive process throughout all nature, in all plant and animal life, was a great mystery. that the seed in the ground, or any cell of living matter, could reproduce its kind and assist in maintaining a continuous line of its own species, proved the continuity of all life, or in other words, demonstrated the principle of immortality, through birth, transition, and rebirth. this led them to the doctrine of reincarnation and the crux ansata became the symbol of that belief in immortality. one will see at once that the relation to sex matters was remote and purely incidental, as must be the study of such physical processes in relation to the whole scheme of the continuity of life. the rosicrucians today use the crux ansata as a symbol of immortality and reinca

ious of having passed through a series of events constituting a true initiation. often these occur during the night, or while he is on periods of rest and meditation in the mountains or valleys, away from active worldly affairs. this consciousness is accompanied by an influx of divine apprehension and spiritual awakening, affecting even the physical body to such an extent as to bring about a real rebirth of the body with rejuvenation, increased vigor, restored functioning in organs and parts that were tired, depleted, or subnormal. cosmic consciousness this is followed by a sudden increase in the functioning of a sense which is mistakenly called intuition at the time, for it seems to be like the intuitive faculty that was being highly developed during the earlier stages of preparation lead

he soul personality into the universal mind, the process of perfecting the soul personality. life by life through varied experiences the personality unfolds as we become more and more conscious of the cosmic intelligence within us. when our soul personality is equivalent to the soul force within us, then perfection is realized. we are then one with the consciousness of the cosmic. at such a time, rebirth is no longer necessary. religion.the knowledge of god and god's ways leads to a real religious devotion on the part of rosicrucians, and the mystic is always a true student of essential theology. but aside from uniting with sectarian churches in order to assist in the great work they are doing, the rosicrucian is broad and tolerant in his religion and ends god in everything and every one o

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n the holy city of abydos and the cult of osiris. ironically, the finest temple at abydos was built by seti i, a king who was named after seth, the great enemy of osiris.50 this temple of seti i is so large and well preserved that its scenes and inscriptions have been used to reconstruct the daily ritual that went on in every egyptian temple. this ritual was influenced by the concept of the daily rebirth of the sun god and by the myth of the death and resurrection of osiris.51 some episodes from the osiris myth are shown in the temple of seti i, with the king in the role of horus. these include a very rare depiction of isis in bird form magically conceiving horus by sexually arousing her murdered husband. this was a moment of triumph and hope, but it was still not intended to be seen by an

caloosa, al, and london, 2000. 2. kirk, myth, 252 261. 3. for examples, see clyde kluckhohn, myths and rituals: a general theory, harvard theological review 35 (1942: 45 79. 4. kirk, myth, 254 255. 5. it is a feature of etiological myths that, factually speaking, the explanation given is nearly always wrong. 6. in ancient egyptian color symbolism, black was a good color standing for fertility and rebirth, whereas red was a bad color standing for danger and sometimes for evil. 7. because of the nile flood, all permanent settlements had to be built on banks or mounds of high ground within the floodplain or in the desert hills that flank the nile valley. the annual flood is now controlled by the huge aswan dam. 8. kirk, myth, 208 209. 9. for an accessible account of recent discoveries about t

r the night. 56. the tomb of rameses vi (c. 1143 1136 bce) includes all or part of seven underworld books. this alone suggests that they were not to be taken as factual descriptions of the afterlife. underworld books were true in the sense that they were thought to be effective in bringing about a desired state. 57. in a forthcoming book, crowns in egyptian funerary literature symbols of royalty, rebirth, and destruction, katja goebs suggests that the myth of the destruction of mankind evolved from a myth of the sun god s reabsorption of the powers of all the other celestial beings, just as the sun appears to swallow up the stars at dawn. 58. for translations of a selection of these hymns, see hymns and prayers to amun-re: the apogee of ancient egyptian religious thought, in j. l. foster

s promises that the supreme god will remake the world. the eschatology of egypt is most truly represented by the cycles of destruction and renewal expounded in the new kingdom underworld books. many of the events from this linear time line recur in cyclical time. cyclical time the egyptian universe remained eternally the same only through constant change in the form of cycles of decay, death, and rebirth. the ouroboros, a snake mythical time lines 89 swallowing its own tail, was an egyptian image adopted by many other cultures as a symbol of eternity. it signified the capacity of the universe to perpetually renew itself, so that every end could also be a beginning. the egyptian year the great events of egyptian myth could be treated either as things that happened once in the remote past or

n het rijksmuseum van oudheden te leiden 63 (1980: 7 38. for the osiris myth as part of the agricultural cycle, see henri frankfort, kingship and the gods: a study of ancient near eastern religion as the integration of society and nature (chicago, 1948),181 197. 52. this myth has been reconstructed by katja goebs in her forthcoming study, crowns in egyptian funerary literature symbols of royalty, rebirth and destruction. 53. for a survey of the full range of beliefs, see john h. taylor, death and the afterlife in ancient egypt (london, 2001. 98 handbook of egyptian mythology 99 3 deities, themes, and concepts deities, names, and dates a complete list of the deities named in ancient egyptian texts would need several hundred entries. this selection concentrates on the gods and goddesses who

urther reading: r. t. rundle clark. the phoenix. in myth and symbol in ancient egypt. london: 1959, 245 249. s. quirke. benu bird of ra, the phoenix of egypt. in the cult of ra sun-worship in ancient egypt. london: 2001, 27 30. primary sources: pt 600; ct 76, 335; bd 13, 17, 29b, 83; herodotus h ii.73 bes and beset bes and beset were protective dwarf deities closely associated with childbirth and rebirth. a number of dwarf deities are known from egyptian art under the names of aha, hity (haty, or bes. they often appear in groups strangling snakes, waving knives, or playing musical instruments. aha, whose name means fighter, attacked and overcame the forces of evil such as demons, chaos serpents, and foreign sorcerers. hity was a kind of divine exorcist who drove away evil by stamping, danc

ted from her father, she wandered the deserts in the form of a lion or a cat (see the distant goddess under linear time in mythical time lines. a relief in the temple of el-dakka in nubia showed this goddess with the full mane of a lion and the swollen teats of a nursing lioness. in this form she was dangerous even to other deities. those she devoured would be annihilated forever, with no hope of rebirth. in her cat form she was a fierce fighter but a force for good. the myth of thoth and shu luring the distant goddess back to egypt with promises of food and comfort mirrors the way the egyptians had transformed wild cats into pets. it was in cat form that the daughter of ra assisted her father in an epic battle against the chaos monster apophis. one terrible night ra himself took the form

ne children: osiris, horus the elder, seth, isis, and nephthys. as a sky goddess, nut was also considered to be the mother of all heavenly bodies, so geb was sometimes called the father of the sun god ra. in the book of nut, geb is said to be appalled by nut s habit of eating her children. he is rebuked by the sun god, who explains that nut s behavior is a necessary part of the cycle of death and rebirth. geb himself was said to swallow up the dead, and he was in charge of the dangerous snakes who lived under the earth. like other chthonic deities, geb could be a terrifying god, responsible for destructive earthquakes. the ceremony of hacking the ground was said to honor geb but may in origin have been a rite to subdue the dangerous earth god. a myth found only in an inscription of the fou

to the body and ka of the royal infant shaped on the potter s wheel of khnum. in temples of the first millennium bce, heqet is shown assisting goddesses give birth to divine children. at abydos, heqet was revered for helping isis bring horus into the world and for assisting the murdered god osiris to be reborn. all egyptians hoped that after they died heqet would act as a divine midwife at their rebirth. see also khnum; ogdoad of hermopolis 140 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 30. the frog shown on one of these ivory wands may represent heqet. the creatures on the wands acted as magical protectors for women and young children (the metropolitan museum of art) references and further reading: j. d. cooney and w. k. simpson. an early dynastic statue of the goddess heqat. bulletin of the

sphinx stela of amenhotep ii; karnak stela; kasp; bon; tb; pv; herodotus h ii.120 121; setna cycle deities, themes, and concepts 157 lotus in some versions of the egyptian creation story, the sun god was born from a blue lotus that emerged from the primeval waters. the flower itself could be identified with the great goddess who gave birth to the sun. the blue lotus came to be a general symbol of rebirth. it was also the emblem of the god nefertem. the sweetly scented blue lotus (nymphea caerulea) grows in still water. its flower buds only rise above the water and open their petals when the sun is shining. this lotus is pollinated by beetles, which links it with khepri, the beetle god of dawn. the image of the first sunrise as a lotus emerging from the dark waters and opening to reveal its

mb of tutankhamun are labeled isis-mehet [weret. the purpose of such funerary beds was to help the dead king to ascend to the heavens, supported by the celestial cow. in the book of the dead, the cow who stands at the entrance to the realm of the dead is sometimes named as mehet-weret. by the new kingdom all the elite dead could hope to be helped by the cow goddess during the vulnerable period of rebirth. see also cattle; hathor; neith; nut deities, themes, and concepts 163 references and further reading: b. s. lesko. the great goddesses of egypt. norman, ok: 1999, 17, 21 26, 62. g. pinch. votive offerings to hathor. oxford: 1993, 175 183. primary sources: pt 317; bd 17, 124, 186; esna calendar mehit (mehyt, mekhit) mehit was a lion goddess worshipped at thinis. see also feline deities; on

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

strong desire to assimilate the blessed gods, will enable him to do so "and if man refuses this intellectual occupation, by which you mean, i suppose, the fixing of the eyes on thetip of his nose, what becomes of him after the death of his body" was my mocking question "he will be dealt with according to the prevailing state of his consciousness, of which there are many grades.at best- immediate rebirth; at worst- the state of avitchi, a mental hell. yet one need not be an ascetic toassimilate spiritual life which will extend to the hereafter. all that is required is to try and approach spirit "how so? even when disbelieving in it- i rejoined "even so! one may disbelieve and yet harbour in one's nature room for doubt, however small that room maybe, and thus try one day, were it but for on

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

evolution and illusion 78 on the septenary constitution of our planet 81 the septenary nature of man 83 the distinction between soul and spirit 86 page 2 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt the greek teachings 89 on the various postmortem states 95 the physical and the spiritual man 95 on eternal reward and punishment, and on nirvana 102 on the various principles in man 109 on reincarnation or rebirth 115 what is memory according to theosophical teaching? 115 why do we not remember our past lives? 119 on individuality and personality 124 on the reward and punishment of the ego 128 on the kamaloka and devachan 133 on the fate of the lower principles 133 why theosophists do not believe in the return of pure "spirits" 135 a few words about the skandhas 142 on postmortem and postnatal consc

his wise: soul it considers a word used by the ignorant to express a false idea. if everything is subject to change, then man is included, and every material part of him must change. that which is subject to change is not permanent, so there can be no immortal survival of a changeful thing. this seems plain and definite. but when we come to the question that the new personality in each succeeding rebirth is the aggregate of "skandhas" or the attributes, of the old personality, and ask whether this new aggregation of skandhas is a new being likewise, in which nothing has remained of the last, we read that: in one sense it is a new being, in another it is not. during this life the skandhas are continually changing, while the man a.b. of forty is identical as regards personality with the yout

entical as regards personality with the youth a.b. of eighteen, yet by the continual page 39 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt waste and reparation of his body and change of mind and character, he is a different being. nevertheless, the man in his old age justly reaps the reward or suffering consequent upon his thoughts and actions at every previous stage of his life. so the new being of the rebirth, being the same individuality as before (but not the same personality, with but a changed form, or new aggregation of skandhas, justly reaps the consequences of his actions and thoughts in the previous existence. this is abstruse metaphysics, and plainly does not express disbelief in soul by any means. q. is not something like this spoken of in esoteric buddhism? a. it is, for this teachin

ction in these two sentences "premature returns to earth-life in the cases when they occur may be due to karmic complication; and "there is no accident in the supreme act of divine justice guiding evolution" so profound a thinker would surely see a contradiction of the law of gravitation if a man stretched out his hand to stop a falling stone from crushing the head of a child! on reincarnation or rebirth what is memory according to theosophical teaching? q. the most difficult thing for you to do, will be to explain and give reasonable grounds for such a belief. no theosophist has ever yet succeeded in bringing forward a single valid proof to shake my skepticism. first of all, you have against this theory of reincarnation, the fact that no single man has yet been found to remember that he h

scaped from the pangs of personal life, a sufficient, aye, a hundredfold compensation, karma, with its army of skandhas, waits at the threshold of devachan, whence the ego reemerges to assume a new incarnation. it is at this moment that the future destiny of the now-rested ego trembles in the scales of just retribution, as it now falls once again under the sway of active karmic law. it is in this rebirth which is ready for it, a rebirth selected and prepared by this mysterious, inexorable, but in the equity and wisdom of its decrees infallible law, that the sins of the previous life of the ego are punished. only it is into no imaginary hell, with theatrical flames and ridiculous tailed and horned devils, that the ego is cast, but verily onto this earth, the plane and region of his sins, wh

that has overtaken him. q. does this happen to everyone? a. without any exception. very good and holy men see, we are taught, not only the life they are leaving, but even several preceding lives in which were produced the causes that made them what they were in the life just closing. they recognize the law of karma in all its majesty and justice. q. is there anything corresponding to this before rebirth? a. there is. as the man at the moment of death has a retrospective insight into the life he has led, so, at the moment he is reborn onto earth, the ego, awaking from the state of devachan, has a prospective vision of the life which awaits him, and realizes all the causes that have led to it. he realizes them and sees futurity, because it is between devachan and rebirth that the ego regain

he created mankind. in the cabala, it is shown that the aged of the aged, or the "long face" plants a vineyard, the latter typifying mankind; and a vine, meaning life. the spirit of "king messiah" is, therefore, shown as washing his garments in the wine from above, from the creation of the world [zohar xl, 10] and king messiah is the ego purified by washing his garments (i.e, his personalities in rebirth, in the wine from above, or buddhi. adam, or a-dam, is "blood" the life of the flesh is in the blood (nephesh-soul. and adam-kadmon is the only-begotten. noah also plants a vineyard-the allegorical hotbed of future humanity. as a consequence of the adoption of the same allegory, we find it reproduced in the nazarene codex. seven vines are procreated-which seven vines are our seven races wi

arthly soul tending toward the center which attracts it; arrest its progress by clogging it with a heavier weight of matter than it can bear, or than is fit for the devachanic state, and the harmony of the whole will be destroyed. personal life, or perhaps rather its ideal reflection, can only be continued if sustained by the two-fold force, that is by the close union of buddhi and manas in every rebirth or personal life. the least deviation from harmony damages it; and when it is destroyed page 88 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt beyond redemption the two forces separate at the moment of death. during a brief interval the personal form (called indifferently kamarupa and mayavirupa, the spiritual efflorescence of which, attaching itself to the ego, follows it into devachan and gives

in the network of his own doing, then he finds himself completely under the empire of this self-made destiny an occultist or a philosopher will not speak of the goodness or cruelty of providence; but, identifying it with karma-nemesis, he will teach that, nevertheless, it guards the good and watches over them in this as in future lives; and that it punishes the evil-doer-aye, even to his seventh rebirth-so long, in short, as the effect of his having thrown into perturbation even the smallest atom in the infinite world of harmony has not been finally page 97 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt readjusted. for the only decree of karma-an eternal and immutable decree-is absolute harmony in the world of matter as it is in the world of spirit. it is not, therefore, karma that rewards or pun

are hereditary, they can have nothing to do with a past incarnation; but it must be remembered that the ego, the real man, the individuality, has no spiritual origin in the parentage by which it is reembodied, but it is drawn by the page 98 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt affinities which its previous mode of life attracted round it into the current that carries it, when the time comes for rebirth, to the home best fitted for the development of those tendencies this doctrine of karma, when properly understood, is well calculated to guide and assist those who realize its truth to a higher and better mode of life, for it must not be forgotten that not only our actions but our thoughts also are most assuredly followed by a crowd of circumstances that will influence for good or for evil

ecessary to future happiness or progress. a crime once committed, an evil thought sent out from the mind, are past recall-no amount of repentance can wipe out their results in the future. repentance, if sincere, will deter a man from repeating errors; it cannot save him or others from the effects of those already produced, which will most unerringly overtake him either in this life or in the next rebirth. mr. j.h. conelly proceeds- the believers in a religion based upon such doctrine are willing it should be compared with one in which man's destiny for eternity is determined by the accidents of a single, brief earthly existence, during which he is cheered by the promise that "as the tree falls so shall it lie; in which his brightest hope, when he wakes up to a knowledge of his wickedness

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

with the dead- and the subsequent return- the realisation of power, and the subsequent return to human affairs as an initiate. the core elements in this process can be summarised as follows: phase of departure: summons to depart, seperation from mundane life, descent. phase of initiation: ordeals, the labyrinth, womb, whales. belly, guides and allies. illumination/transformation phase of return: rebirth, return to world. mastery awareness of this process is a central theme of the contemporary approach to development which has come to be known as chaos magick, an approach which focuses on the examination and removal of belief structures, the cultural conditioning which defines our experience of the world. deliberate self-wounding, to facilitate a return to the .union. with cosmos and chaos

HP LOVECRAFT POETRY AND THE GODS

ns. moon over china, weary moon on the river of the sky, the stir of light in the willows is like the flashing of a thousand silver minnows through dark shoals; the tiles on graves and rotting temples flash like ripples, the sky is flecked with clouds like the scales of a dragon. amid the mists of dream the reader cried to the rhythmical stars, of her delight at the coming of a new age of song, a rebirth of pan. half closing her eyes, she repeated words whose melody lay hidden like crystals at the bottom of a stream before dawn, hidden but to gleam effulgently at the birth of day. moon over japan, white butterfly moon! moon over the tropics, a white curved bud opening its petals slowly in the warmth of heaven. the air is full of odours and languorous warm sounds. moon over china, weary moo

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

wn into a new role, completely against her inclinations, to a new cycle. so it couldn't last because she changed. number nine is a neptunian number. it's mysterious, and it's spiritual, and it has to do with all the hauntings and ghostlike situations of the world. while she was wallowing in this number nine vibration she was thrown into the number one cycle. it was the beginning of her destiny, a rebirth. so she was reborn as a number one individual and met richard burton. as elizabeth burton (burton vibrates to number nine, she becomes a number seven, which elizabeth is anyway. it's the uranus number, so with burton she is elizabeth, period. she is not elizabeth taylor and she is not even elizabeth burton. she is herself for the first time in this particular situation. it feeds her. it al

INDUCTION CHARM AND THE INITIATION

sion, do not abandon me to the grave, nor hand me over to hard fate utterly, nor those whom my love protects. bestow on me the birth of mastery, birth to the deathless, and ever your ways and will i will keep and honor. i am named, singer and invoker of powers and wisdom then you must immediately do the red meal. after that, run around the compass once clockwise, and leap out to the east. this is rebirth into your life as a witch. analysis: there are a few parts of this induction charm that need to be examined, to understand the implications of this oath. you begin by calling upon the master spirits of all things, and the people inside the landand you ask them to hear an oath, sealed by blood and by blood carried into the land- the blood you shed is literally carrying your life- force and

INVOCATION OF OUR LORD OF MIDNIGHT MAHAZHAEL DEVAL

he hidden faith. what follows below is a call, adapted from the dragon-book of essex, for evoking the sovereign witch-father mahazhael. it is intended for the use of a covine or working lodge of arte. the lord mahazhael is revered as the guardian of the northern station and is considered to be the blessed consort of our lady liliya. his time is that of the midwinter sun, the season of misrule and rebirth. his moment is the interstitial cusp of darness and light. in syncretic terms, mahazhael might be indentified with christ on the eve of his nativity, as the soul of the crucified king of light at the moment prior to his dawn on earth. the lord mahazhael may be evoked to preside over festivities of midwinter and the new year s birth. his gift is the sunlight of wisdom born in the darkness o

ISIS UNVEILED

r of the 'heathen "god's son" is the immortal spirit assigned to eveiy human b^ng. it is this divine entity which is the "only man" for the casket which con- tains our soul, and the soul itself, are but half-entities; and without its overshadowing both body and astral soul, the two are but an animal duad. it requires a trinity to form the complete 'man' and allow him to remain inmiortal at every 'rebirth' or rewlutio, throughout the sub- sequent and ascending spheres, every one of which brings hirn nearer to the refulgent realm of eternal and absolute light "god's fibst-born, who ia the 'holy veil' the 'light of li^ts' it is he who sends the revolvtio of the delegatus, for he is the first power" says the kahalist "the pneuma spirit] and the dunamis [power, which is from god, it ia right to

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

i would like to share in this book. things like too much melancholy is never good for the soul and fear in particular, of change or of the unknown. puts our energy fields into a classic beta cycle of static that is almost like a burning at the stake, those times of crucifixion by fire that our fanaticism created in the time of less enlightened past, a darker cycle in time. and yet death can bring rebirth when we truly let go and agree to change and to move on. marriages, like lives, can be reborn by giving them the nourishment that they need. yet only when two people listen to their authentic self, can our relationships truly blossom. the first step to feeding our selves properly is to recognize when we are not being fed and then having the courage to change things so that we are and to no

ke lives, can be reborn by giving them the nourishment that they need. yet only when two people listen to their authentic self, can our relationships truly blossom. the first step to feeding our selves properly is to recognize when we are not being fed and then having the courage to change things so that we are and to not block a needed transition. for the death of something is always followed by rebirth. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 26 the bonding that can occur in the time of a dying is a joy to experience and witness. it s a time to be real and honest and to assess and re-choose and value and do hand in hand. up to a point. for the true dance of both dying and rebirth is always done alone. fear of loss and fear of death can inhibit the way we

valkyrie. ancient bird goddess, giving life, death, regeneration. represents our fearless self and can lead us through darkness so that we grow. hel. norse goddess of the underworld, a place of renewal and the embodiment of divine mystery. teaches us to look behind the masks in life and beyond appearance. eve. mother and nurturer of all life, creator of the world and all living beings. represents rebirth and regeneration, embodies primal female creative energy. gaia. the eternal pre-historic earth mother goddess of the soul who clothes us with the atoms of her essence. reminds us to be grounded in the reality of nature and to balance and embrace all aspects of our selves from the heavenly to the earthly. sedna. eskimo goddess who rules the underworld. reminds us of the nourishing gifts tha

KETAB E SIYAH

d of ice, stirring forgotten birds to song. feeling his warm caress upon the stone-cold earth above, feeling the hard soil yield, mellowing in that golden light, long-buried bulbs burgeoned, opening into flowers to welcome the spring. it was satan who was this sun, bringing light into my winter, the herald of my spring and the spring of the world, for in satan alone, is there hope for spring, for rebirth, renewal. ah! how old we have become and how tired in those long winter's months. let us receive of our brother new youth and purpose with his miraculous spring" and the host of my brothers paid heed 48 to the speech of ishtar, some cursing her words as treachery and reviling her who spoke them, some bemoaned her speech and mourned her passing from their number, but others looked up, brigh

d of ice, stirring forgotten birds to song. feeling his warm caress upon the stone-cold earth above, feeling the hard soil yield, mellowing in that golden light, long-buried bulbs burgeoned, opening into flowers to welcome the spring. it was satan who was this sun, bringing light into my winter, the herald of my spring and the spring of the world, for in satan alone, is there hope for spring, for rebirth, renewal. 109 ah! how old we have become and how tired in those long winter's months. let us receive of our brother new youth and purpose with his miraculous spring" and the host of my brothers paid heed to the speech of ishtar, some cursing her words as treachery and reviling her who spoke them, some bemoaned her speech and mourned her passing from their number, but others looked up, brig

irs. so did time pass and its passing was not marked by momentous happening as had once before crowded pages of the histories. not that these days were uneventful but those happenings of those days were of a quality that changed nothing of the future's. in those days ten thousand empires waxed great yet none persisted and did fall. the great men of older days had passed from the world and awaited rebirth in a distant womb, walking not amongst the nations of men. chadel, in those days, was quiet and the shedim were roused to no action by the doings of the nephilim or elohim but yet watched and awaited those that might come later to fulfil that foreseen destiny and build amongst my children an eternal empire to exceed heaven and reign most potent over all creation. yet was it in those days t

, released from the bands of death that they might be eternal. nevermore would my people abide in sheol. to the nephilim have i made this promise: all that has flowed from me shall return to me even after death and once more shall flow from upon a great and circuitous course. all that are born of me all the nephilim that shall exist shall be born ever of me again and again, without end, with each rebirth waxing ever greater. eternal are the nephilim that flow upon the eternal cycle and they who do comprehend, perceiving that death does not diminish but make ever stronger the nephilim, they shall have no fear of death but only comfort in that true knowledge that they exist eternally. so it was that death was conquered. for some years it was after that time when the empire of rome grew great

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

i n n e r m e a n i n g 337 these periods repeat themselves until we finally correct ourselves in a way that our desires (named guf in kabbalah) will no longer be a hindrance between us and the creator, until we cleave to the creator with our every trait, regardless of the world we re in. after physical death (something that kabbalah regards as one s separation from the egoistic cover, there is a rebirth in our world from the corrected parts of the collective soul. they blend and merge in a new order because they are all parts of the collective creature and all the covers are actually egoism. the egoism, adam ha rishon (the only creature, broke into many pieces, or separate souls, in order to make the correction of the collective soul possible. that is because it is easier to correct each

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

metals, a caster of pillars, hollow within, to contain the archives of the soul and spirit. in his hand is kriyashakti, the creative power. 725. the path of the moon is said to typify the life of the ordinary man, who clings to objects of desire and parts with them reluctantly at death. after a period in the astral and heavenly worlds he returns to earth, to repeat the process. it is the path of rebirth after intervals. the path of the sun is that of the occult aspirant, the man of spiritual desires, who values life only for what it can give to the higher self in others as well as himself. he also is reborn, but usually without an interval, or after a very short one. the path of fire is the path of ascension, from which there is no longer any rebirth under the law of necessity, but only a

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

e deity (which was a very close one as pharaoh, would be preserved and would continue to radiate so long as the body remained. this resembled the later custom of preserving the relics of a saint. the strong love of the egyptians for their coun-try provided another reason for embalming their dead; they hoped to preserve a definite link on the physical plane which would operate to draw them back to rebirth among their own people. that it did so operate in many cases seems to have been a fact, although the will of the re-incarnating ego would doubtless have been sufficient to achieve the same result. the custom was not altogether a good one, because if the body of a man of evil life is embalmed, a good deal of additional power is thereby left to him after death; he may more easily materialize

(plate i, 3. following p. 50) 232. the mother-goddess dictynna denoted the productivity and creative power of nature; this double axe, especially when surmounted by the sacral knot, signified the eternal truth of death and resurrection, which was the central mystery of the religion of crete as it was of that of egypt; and so it was often laid before her to typify the ever-recurring miracle of the rebirth of tree and grain from the death of winter. the very form of the labyrinth in the recesses of which this sacred emblem was concealed was in itself symbolical and full of meaning; it was based upon the cross, and the representations of it on seals and coins sometimes take the shape of the swastika (plate i, 4, following p. 50. 233. connected with this outer religious worship in ancient cret

ative of the general chaos. anderson was clearly not a man of genius, though he did his best, and it may well be a matter of regret that the stilted language of that dullest of dull periods should have been chosen to clothe the ancient mysteries rather than the inspired and stately english of a century before. but taverns are not conducive to spiritual inspiration, and it was in taverns that this rebirth of the mysteries took place. 604. two and three degrees 605. at first it would appear that only two degrees were worked, for the constitutions of 1723 (regulation xiii, speak of apprentices, and of masters and fellow-craft who could only be made in grand lodge unless by a dispensation(*the constitutions of freemasons (bi-centenary ed, p. 61) this rule was repealed in 1725, when grand lodge

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

eighth century. in tibetan thought, the process of right dying is as important as right living. a high form of yoga a spiritual discipline of meditation has developed over the centuries to speed the spirits of the death on their afterlife spiritual journey and enable them to be conscious of the experiences waiting to greet them. the bardo th dol, the tibetan handbook on dying, the afterlife, and rebirth, is of remote antiquity. there is no known author or authors; more than likely, it was honed and refined over the course of history. it was first written down in the eighth century. the dying are warned that they will encounter fearsome demons after death 22 bardo th dol (the tibetan book of the dead) though they are also counseled that these demons are insubstantial projections of the min

arth burial can cause the dead one to survive as a vampire. another favored means is to dismember the corpse and leave it to the birds. the beast computer legend 23 at the moment of death, the spirit sees the primary clear light, and experiences ecstasy. all persons get at least a glimpse of the clear light, but the more enlightened can see it longer and use it to transcend the cycle of death and rebirth to a higher reality. most relapse into the secondary clear light, a lesser ecstasy. the second stage is like an awakening, in which the spirit is presented with hallucinations created by karmic reflexes of actions done while alive. unless enlightened, the spirit is under the illusion that it still has a body like the one that died. there begins a series of apparitions, the coming of the pe

s, or personifications of human sentiment, which must be faced without flinching. the bardo th dol provides a relevant prayer: when i will have left my dear friends and gone on my own, and when the empty forms of my own projections appear, may the buddhas grant me the strength of their compassion so that the terrors of the bardo will not come. most escape the second stage through the third stage, rebirth; the circumstances of rebirth are determined by past karma. the most enlightened of yogis are said to bypass all of the bardo, going directly to a paradise realm or else directly into another body in rebirth without any loss of consciousness. yoga during life prepares one for the after-death experiences. see also buddhism; demons for further reading: bromage, bernard. tibetan yoga. 1952. w

xts. buddha rejected the authority of the vedas, and hence, despite its close relationship with hinduism, buddhism is technically non-hindu. unlike almost all other religions, buddhism is not focused on deities. gods and goddesses are 34 buddhism acknowledged to exist, but they are not worshiped. the ultimate aim of buddhism is, rather, nirvana, meaning release from the ongoing cycle of death and rebirth (reincarnation, referred to as samsara in buddhism and hinduism. and this is a goal with which divinities are unable to be of aid. similarly, while buddhism contains an elaborate mythology about hells and demons, there is no figure with the stature of satan. the closest being in buddhism corresponding with the western devil is mara. mara s job in the cosmic scheme is to prevent individuals

moksha is that the individual atman merges into the cosmic brahman, much like a drop of water,which, when dropped into the ocean, loses its individuality and becomes one with the ocean. buddha accepted the basic hindu doctrines of reincarnation and karma, as well as the notion, common to most south asian religions, that the ultimate goal of the religious life was to escape the cycle of death and rebirth (samsara. buddha asserted that what kept us bound to the death/rebirth process was desire, desire in the generic sense of wanting or craving anything in the world of samsara.hence the goal of getting off the ferris wheel of reincarnation necessarily involves freeing oneself from desire.nibbana or, in later buddhism, nirvana is the buddhist equivalent of moksha. nirvana literally means exti

il the emergence of tibetan buddhism, the most prominent school of tantric buddhism. according to the bardo th dol, known in the west as the tibetan book of the dead, the dead encounter various fearsome demons after death though they are also counseled that these demons are insubstantial projections of the mind. if one can gaze upon these insubstantial beings with equanimity, then one will escape rebirth and achieve nirvana. see also bardo th dol; hell and heaven; hinduism;mara for further reading: benard, elisabeth. the tibetan tantric view of death and afterlife. in hiroshi obayashi, ed. death and afterlife: perspectives ofworld religions. westport, ct: greenwood press, 1992, 49 64. bromage, bernard. tibetan yoga. 1952. wellingborough, northamptonshire, uk: aquarian press, 1979. conze, e

hment for the dead. ancient chinese graves were typically filled with items that could assure assistance and help at the moment of one s judgment in the netherworld. neither heaven nor hell were considered to be permanent states for the dead, who were being rewarded or were suffering due to the law of karma. thus punishment lasted as long as it was needed, and then one had to reenter the cycle of rebirth. the belief in the possibility of lightening one s pain was an important point in chinese spirituality, as it increased ethic and moral responsibility, and strengthened the idea of compassion. see also buddhism; demons for further reading: burkhardt,v. r. chinese creeds and customs. 3 vols. hong kong: south china morning post, 1953 1958. eliade,mircea, ed. encyclopedia of religion. new yor

hs that recounted descent into the underworld of an heroic or divine being, who aimed to rescue a beloved one or to obtain immortality and wisdom. in one of the most ancient accounts of a journey to the underworld, the sumerian goddess inanna (in the akkadian civilization she was called ishtar) experienced a descent into the underworld where she underwent a sort of initiation process of death and rebirth. during the journey, the goddess went through seven gates, gradually taking off all of her clothes and ornaments. at the end of the journey, the goddess died and the vegetation on earth immediately wilted. when sprinkled with the water of life, the goddess came back to life, thus regenerating the earth. a mythical hero of the ancient greek world was orpheus, poet and musician whose wife, e

to revive osiris, who became ruler of the underworld, symbolic of resurrection and fertility, and judge of the dead for the rest of eternity. originally, the story of osiris seems to have been merely the story of a vegetative cult, where osiris s fate represented the flooding of the nile in the spring and its recession in the fall, and/or the regular agricultural cycle of seed, growth, death, and rebirth. the story began to gain a greater significance when horus became identified with the living pharaoh, which may have happened as early as 2800 b.c.e. that identification perhaps occurred because the immortality of osiris could be functional for reinforcing the royal dynasty. if every living pharaoh is horus and every recently deceased pharaoh is osiris, the prosperity of the orderly succes

ery much on this world. the gods were ritually invoked to improve one s situation in this life, so that priests became something approaching magicians. after settling down in the indian subcontinent, the aryans became more introspective, started asking questions about the ultimate meaning of life, and developed an ideology centered around release or liberation (moksha) from the cycle of death and rebirth (samsara. the various disciplines that are collectively referred to as yoga developed out of this introspective turn. because some of the artifacts that survive from the harappan period appear to be human beings in yogic meditation poses, it seems likely that the aryans picked up these practices from the indigenous peoples. to understand the worldview of classical hinduism it is necessary

heinrich zimmer have speculated that at least part of the purpose behind delineating such incomprehensibly long cycles is to relativize ordinary human existence, overwhelming the mind with the insignificance of our everyday concerns. in other words, reflecting upon the brevity and transitoriness of life helps one renounce the world and motivates one to seek liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth. although there are variations in detail from text to text, the endtime events outlined in the puranas are remarkably consistent, and the basic puranic scenario has persisted in contemporary hindu accounts of the eschaton. the agent of destruction is shiva or vishnu in the form of shiva. in the classical formulation, brahma, vishnu, and shiva constitute a kind of trinity,with brahma creati

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cooked in thought only over an illusionary fire by a cook who is not there? why should infinite power use such finite means, and very often fail even then. what is the sum total of the vedantist position..i. am an illusion, externally. in reality, the true .i. am the infinite, and if the illusionary .i. could only realise who .i. really am, how very happy we should all be. and here we have karma, rebirth, all the mighty laws of nature operating nowhere in nothing! there is no room for worship or for morality in the advaitist system. all the specious pleas of the bhagavad-gita, and the ethical works of western advaitist philosophers, are more or less consciously confusion of thought. but no subtlety can turn the practical argument; the grinning mouths of the dvaitist guns keep the fort of e

tinction is complete: we have no data for discussing that which is unthinkable, and must decline to do so. this is the answer to those who accuse the buddha of hurling his arahats (and himself) from samma samadhi to annihilation. pray observe in the first place that my solution of the great problem permits the co-existence of an indefinite number of means: they need not even be compatible; karma, rebirth, providence, prayer, sacrifice, baptism, there is room for all. on the old and, i hope, now finally discredited hypothesis of an infinite being, the supporters of these various ideas, while explicitly affirming them, implicitly denied. similarly, note that the qabalistic idea of a supreme god (and innumerable hierarchies) is quite compatible with this theory, provided that the supreme god

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of impressions having no relation one with the other, or with any other thing. 17. let this state then become so acute that it is in truth insanity, and let this continue until exhaustion. 18. according to a certain deeper tendency of the individual will be the duration of this state. 19. it may end in real insanity, which concludes the activities of the adept during this present life, or by his rebirth into his own body and mind with the simplicity of a little child. 20. and then shall he find all his faculties unimpaired, yet cleansed in a manner ineffable. 21. and he shall recall the simplicity of the task of the adeptus minor,13 and apply himself thereto with fresh energy in a more direct manner. 22. and in his great weakness it may be that for a while the new will and aspiration are

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se scandinavian mythology in particular, are narrative, although this narrative is couched in both verse and prose. in general, one expects myth to recount important events that took place at the beginning of time and helped shape the world, and scandinavian mythology indeed has sequences that tell of the origin of the cosmos and of human beings. the story goes on, however, to the destruction and rebirth of the cosmos, and everything in it is presented in light of an enduring struggle between two groups of beings, the gods on the one hand and giants on the other hand. these terms are to some extent misleading: although the group that creates and orders the cosmos is often referred to by words that can best be translated ggods, h the principal word, gasir, h is explicitly presented by the m

pted by prose passages, arranged in a deliberate order by the unknown scribe who wrote it, an order that moves from the mythological to the heroic. it is ordered within the mythological and heroic sections as well. the manuscript begins with voluspa (prophecy of the seeress, which gives a summary of the entire mythology, from the origin of the cosmos to its destruc- 12 norse mythology tion to its rebirth. voluspa can also be regarded as an odin poem, since it is odin who causes the seeress voicing it to speak. the following three poems are also odin poems: havamal (words of the high one, which contains odinic wisdom and several stories that describe the acquisition of that wisdom; vafthrudnismal (words of vafthrudnir, which describes the context of wisdom between odin and the wise giant va

evident connection here, as one would expect, with the rhythm of the year: the fall ceremony would occur after the last harvest was in, and the animals slaughtered would be those that were not to survive the winter. some of their meat could be eaten fresh at the blot, but much would be preserved for winter. the midwinter blot would occur after the longest nights had passed and would celebrate the rebirth of the earth; and the summer ceremony, if it was for victory, would coincide with the departure of ships on raiding (and, more mundanely, trading) voyages. later in his heimskringla, in hakonar saga goda (the saga of hakon the good, snorri gives an elaborate description of a blot that shows just how perva- introduction 35 sive the influence of christian liturgy was on the view of late nord

s this stanza in gylfaginning, he has nothing more to say of habrok, and the other sources are silent as well, except for the thulur, which list the name under ghawk h and grooster. h ghigh-pants h could refer to long legs. haddingjar royal family in heroic literature; when doubled, possible reflex of the divine twins. the prose colophon to helgakvida hundingsbana ii says the ancients believed in rebirth, and that helgi hundingsbani was thought to have been reborn as helgi haddingja skati, that is, prince of the haddingjar. the so-called kalfsvisa, a fragmentary list of horses and riders, says that haddingja skati rode skavad, a horse name known from other sources. haddingjar is the plural of haddingi (related perhaps to hadingus in saxo, and the name is attested most interestingly as a do

s is followed by the demise of the cosmos they had 256 norse mythology stone carving from lindisfarne, england (ninth century c.e. the procession of warriors is reminiscent of forces gathering for the final battle of ragnarok (axel poignant archive) created. the sun turns black, the earth sinks into the sea, smoke and flames lick the sky itself. but ragnarok has two parts, and the second involves rebirth. the earth arises from the sea, and a new generation of gods inhabits it. they have reminiscences of their forebears and some mysterious gaming pieces that link them to what went before. hod and baldr are there, reconciled, and hoenir too has survived the conflagration, for he gchooses lot-sticks, h that is, he performs some sort of ritual activity. according to the hauksbok redaction of t

s captured and maimed and exacts a terrible vengeance. see also elves references and further reading: h. r. ellis davidson, gweland the smith, h folklore 69 (1958: 145.159. voluspa eddic poem, gprophecy [spa] of the seeress [volva. h voluspa is the first poem in codex regius of the poetic edda, either because its synopsis of the mythology, from the creation to the destruction of the cosmos to its rebirth, invited the compiler to place it there, or because the compiler thought of it as one of the odin poems, which he had elected to place at the beginning of the collection (or for both reasons. a separate version of the poem exists in hauksbok, a manuscript comprising what is in effect the private library.a collection of historical, religious, and scientific texts.of hauk erlendsson, an icel

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sm buddhism is an offshoot of vedism (the precursor of hinduism) that appeared between 600 and 500 b.c.e. it is traditionally associated with nepalese prince sakyamuni gautama siddharta, the historical buddha, who was himself preceded by many other buddhas, at least in the major mahayana (the greater vehicle) religious tradition. like hindus, buddhists believe in the concepts of samsara (cyclical rebirth, reincarnation, moksha (spiritual release or salvation, karma (the accumulated effect on the soul of morally important deeds, and the one. however, they reject the hindu pantheon, and buddhism is in fact a religion without a defined deity or deities. as with hinduism, change and transformation of the universe are familiar concepts in buddhism. buddhism is probably best known in the west fo

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web of venerated absurdities in which his mind has lain ensnared for centuries, how can truth ever be discovered? the old testament--especially the pentateuch--contains not only the traditional account of the creation of the world and of man, but also, locked within it, the secrets of the egyptian initiators of the moses concerning the genesis of the god-man (the initiate) and the mystery of his rebirth through philosophy. while the lawgiver of israel is known to have compiled several works other than those generally attributed to him, the writings now commonly circulated as the purported sixth and seventh books of moses are in reality spurious treatises on black magic foisted on the credulous during the middle ages. out of the hundreds of millions of pious and thoughtful students of holy

ircling the mighty desert of gobi, the phoenix again gave up its form, which now lies buried in a glass sarcophagus under a pyramid bearing upon it the ineffable figures of the mysteries. after the lapse of six hundred years from the death of genghis khan, did napoleon bonaparte--who believed himself to be the man of destiny--contact in his wanderings this strange legend of the continual periodic rebirth of wisdom? did he feel the spreading wings of the phoenix within himself and did he believe the hope of the world had taken flesh in him? the eagle on his standard may well have been the phoenix. this would explain why he was moved to believe himself predestined to establish the kingdom of christ on earth and is, perhaps, the clue to his little-understood friendliness toward the moslem. ne

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tional god-forms within an imagined "temple" or appropriate landscape, and the subsequent fantasy identification with them. the sun and moon have to be effectively magically "drawn down" the high priestess is likewise saluted by the coven with the horned hand, but as our lady of the moon. the gesture of the magister, arms crossed upon the breast, is of course none other than the sign of death and rebirth used in your necromancy ritual. it signifies many things. primarily it is the sign of osiris, seen as synonymous with hades, dis, and the horned one as god of death. it also represents the skull and crossbones itself, and finally the erect phallus flanked by twin testes below. the gesture of the high priestess is the mirror image of the magister's. it represents both the lunar crescent, th

when the sun shall come up early! golden sun of the mountains, illumine the land, light up the world. illumine the seas and the rivers, sorrows be laid, joy to the world! blessed by the great goddess, without beginning, without end, everlasting in eternity! io evoke, blessed be! however, the latter chant is used only at halloween or yule, as it refers specifically to the coming of winter and the rebirth of the sun at shamain (hallaws) or midwinter. the meeting dance often leads directly into the chain dance. this is traditionally led by a female member or the high priestess herself, the magister bringing up the rear. hence the old saying "may the devil take the hindmost" the dance is performed with the rod used as a riding-stick or hobby-horse placed between the legs, and the lighted tape

gods have been reinvoked, and a new season begun. the basic sabbat rites should remain the same throughout the year, differing only in small details appropriate to the season. for instance, many covens will divide the year in two and give the magister presidency of the circle during the winter months, the lady in those of summer. the midwinter festival of yule, christmastide, celebrates the sun's rebirth with all the customary decorations and festivity later borrowed by the church fathers, the indoor balefire or yule log, evergreen decorations, holly and ivy tied with scarlet ribbon, and of course the christmas tree. father christmas and mother holly are but two christianized images of the lord and lady; the christ child legend is built upon that of the rebirth of the sun, the light of the

, over which is stretched tightly laced animal hide or vellum. on this should be painted an eight-pointed star composed of two interlaced squares again representing the solar year and the four elements. it should be divided in the centre by a line linking the opposite corners of one square; on one side of it, half the star is stained red and the other blue, signifying summer and winter, death and rebirth, male and female. some witches perform a divination with the drum, throwing devil's-apple seeds upon its surface, and reading an augury from where and how they land in relation to the diagram. finally, there is the witch's bell, sometimes used in certain rites for striking knells, as well as in some exorcisms. this may be made out of magical electrum or simply be an antique handbell, the o

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is made, yet such death is obviously intended to be merely symbolical of another kind of death, since the candidate is eventually restored to his former worldly circumstances and material comforts, and his earthly masonic career is not represented as coming to a close at this stage. all that has happened in the third degree is that he has symbolically passed through a great and striking change: a rebirth, or regeneration of his whole nature. he has been" sown a corruptible body; and in virtue of the self-discipline and self development he has undergone, there has been raised in him" an incorruptible body" and death has been swallowed up in the victory he has attained o ver himself. i sometimes fear that the too conspicuous display of the emblems and trappings of mortality in our lodges is

-abnegation, by a dying to all that to the eyes and the reason of the uninitiated outer world is precious and desirable. the third degree, brethren, is an exposition in dramatic ceremonial of the text" whoso would save his life must lose it" beneath the allegory of the death of the master- and remember that it is allegory -is expressed the universal truth that mystical death must precede mystical rebirth" know ye not that ye must be born again" unless a grain of corn fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; if it die it bringeth forth much fruit" and it is only thus that all master-masons can be raised from a figurative as a (not a physical) death to a regenerated state and to the full stature of human nature. the path of true initiation into fullness of life by way of a figurative

self in strength so that his own inward house stands firm against all weakness and temptation. and in still another sense the two pillars may be seen exemplified in the human body. there are our two legs, upon both of which we must stand firm to acquire a perfect physical balance. and y having discerned this simple truth, and having seen that the path of true initiation, which is one of spiritual rebirth, is an arduous and painful progress to him who undertakes it, let me ask you to consider in all sacredness another physical phenomenon, the great mystery of which we perhaps think little of by reason of its frequency and of our familiarity with it. i refer to the incident--the great mystery, i might say--of child-birth. brethren, every child born into this world, coming into this life as i

initiation, trial and discipline, passes, amid pain and travail, through a strait and narrow way and between the two pillars that support the temple of its mother's body. and thus in the commonplaces of life, in which for those who have clean hearts there is nothing common or unclean but everything is sacred and symbolic, the act of physical birth is an image and a foreshadowing of that mystical rebirth and of that passing through a strait gate and a narro w way in a deeper sense, without which it is written that a man sha ll not enter into the kingdom of heaven. the regenerated man, the man who not merely in ceremonial form but in vital experience, has passed through the phases of which the masonic degrees are the faint symbol, is alone worthy of the title of master-mason in the building

riginally membership of the christian church involved a sequence of three initiatory rites identical in intention with those of the craft to-day. the names given to those who had qualified in those rites were respectively catechumens, leiturgoi, and priests or presbyters; which in turn are identifiable with our entered apprentices, fellow crafts and master masons. their first degree was that of a rebirth and purification of the heart; their second related to the illumination of the intelligence; and their third to a total death unto sin and a new birth unto righteousness, i n which the candidate died with christ on the cross, as with us he is made to imitate the death of hiram, and was raised to that higher order of life which is mastership. when christianity became a state-religion and th

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o it is done! banish and close circle. do not destroy the oath of initiation; this will be placed in a special box with most of your first-born workings. bless the box under various goetic spirits and keep hidden and safe. mark of the devil (sigilium diaboli) chant "ascend now in the northern tower- horned lord of the earth blessed is the stave of the devil itself, from which we mark ourselves in rebirth i come now to behold the fires from between the horns of the goat and stand in the brilliance of lucifer reborn that we shall rectify the primal dream of all desire let this mark be again in the light of the sabbat moon" the prayer of the infernal sabbat the devil s mark part two- by the promethean torch, known illuminated as baphomet, the sacred guardian of azazel, the hidden watcher. sha

e victorious, thus banishing the fomors further within the shadows in which they dwelt. approach the festival of lughnasadh as though you were drawing down the moon of hecate, breed the thoughts and desires which shall come to pass. a willow which drapes towards the earth will inherently guide you until a new sight is gained from the shadows of your shape. you will undergo, as did lugh, death and rebirth, therefore be robed in white at first, then black. a reversal is essential for the understanding that all things have two natures inherently. all actions and symbols must be trespassed to gain the insight of mind-flight (the dream. autumn equinox september 21st as the two equinoxes are known for the balance and equilibrium of both black and white, so is the birthing of your inner strengths

as are room recorders to capture any messages from the dead. upon the closing of the great celebration, banish and retire to sleep and to dream. shed your skin as the serpent of the forest and fly upon broom or animal. take to the skies and feast of the funereal dead! they are your beginnings and the infinite possibility. yule december 22nd the winter solstice is the time that marks the death and rebirth of the sun god. it is a time of contemplation, of self-examination and natural rebirth. yule also is the birthday of mithras (13, the sun god of persia. the birth data of the christian savior was not accurately known from their historic texts per se, however around ad 273 that the church and its officials aligned the birth of christ to absorb the pagan gods of old (mithras, etc. the moon o

iation, a creative and spiritual flow must encompass every aspect of your being. a sigil should be constructed which constitutes a dedication to the craft and the path of the wise. the astral departure of the spirit and body within the witches sabbat craft is symbolised by the shedding of the serpents skin, of laying waste to the old in the reaching of something new. it can be viewed as a psychic rebirth wherein a heavy weight is taken from ones shoulders. the astral conclave is exceedingly haunting for those on uninitiated paths who, in dream, are drawn to such a gathering. we might suspect many tales of the sabbath have come down to us this way. some questions may arise, such as "is the witches sabbat craft and vampiric sorcery based only in dream" the answer is no, it is not, sorcery an

guardian angel is the freedom, desire and strength to explore their entire universe of being, from the sun filled peaks of ancient towers to the catacombs of ghastly atavisms. all is possible to a mind of awakened light! 93 93 the teachings of old are of interest to the student and the adept for the method of inspiration. the various methods which can be developed from the old generally result in rebirth to the lineage. it is up to the individual to explore and rewrite many of these methods. it is not that the old ways should be destroyed, rather they should generally be reworked to suit the sorcerer performing such methods. magick and witchcraft are but a mirror and tool of the will, to know this is to become beyond it! it is recommended that the aspiring sorcerer-initiate to the witches

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m that the massive stones used to build their great structures was carried through the air to the sound of a trumpet. the mayan traditions state that their pyramids were where men became gods and the place where gods are made. curious that these far-flung civilizations would suggest that their pyramids were built the same way, and for the same reason. the pyramid as a symbol of transformation and rebirth survives to this day. i can t believe it s not fiction: stargates of egypt stargate (1994) chapter 2- universe.com quantum confusion [2.1] the universe has proven to be quite the onion; its simple exterior betrays the senses. what science has called truths of the universe is in fact an ever-changing list of theories, each being no more than shades of gray closer to truth than the last. thi

ed humans gather, like churches, dance clubs, and stadiums are perfect feeding grounds for the vampire. if--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 60 a single human is under continued attack, that person will begin to feel weak, drowsy, and mentally dull. the vampires call themselves the reborn, or the many-born. in ancient egypt, those who desired initiation and transformation underwent a death and rebirth ritual by being blindfolded and led into the center of the great pyramid of giza. it was claimed that those who died in the pyramid resurrected as gods; they became powerful wizards called djedi. which is where george lucas got his jedi. in modern times, the rite of vampiric transformation still requires clinical death. some vampires are born, and often discover at around puberty that they

werful wizards called djedi. which is where george lucas got his jedi. in modern times, the rite of vampiric transformation still requires clinical death. some vampires are born, and often discover at around puberty that they are different from most people; this type usually claim to have many past-lives, as opposed to the human, whose soul is fresh and will only die once. this cycle of death and rebirth is often symbolized with a serpent eating its own tail. the many names these converted ones have gone by throughout the centuries are: witches, warlocks, druids, vampires, and of coarse the jedi. although freemasons do in fact conduct real rituals of transformation, they also reenact those rites by having initiates lowered into a pyramid while blindfolded. the good folks at yale s skull an

n tail. the many names these converted ones have gone by throughout the centuries are: witches, warlocks, druids, vampires, and of coarse the jedi. although freemasons do in fact conduct real rituals of transformation, they also reenact those rites by having initiates lowered into a pyramid while blindfolded. the good folks at yale s skull and bones fraternity also reenact the ritual of death and rebirth by climbing into a coffin and being reborn as bonesmen. after which they are allegedly told that they are now superior to the human cattle (considering the pedigree of its members, i m sure they were already under that impression. these steps of initiation are symbolized by paths from sephirah to another, here the initiate makes his way from malkuth to kether. lucifer s fall from the highe

. the renegades, some of which apparent remain to this day, are an organized group of vampires who still have a soft-spot for humans. this group apparently led armies of humans into the temples of the gods and destroyed them, forcing the hierarchy underground. the members of the renegades are generally younger vampires who had only recently (relative to vampires) undergone the ritual of death and rebirth. my guess is when the time of the renegades ends, the hierarchy will once more rule in the light. this hierarchy has gone by many names throughout the ages, but today they are known as the illuminati. the illuminati is a organized collection of satanic secret societies, and other secret societies that are not openly satanic, such as the freemasons and the vatican. these groups work coopera

sformation; this is also called making the black pact or oath. those endowed with the mark of the beast can easily change into the shapes of animals. there is also much speculation about the number 666, and its true meaning. but among the satanists, it has but one meaning: achieving a sort of godhood. the phoenix bird, or the dung beetle, is often used symbolically to refer to ritual of death and rebirth. it is also worth noting that people who have undergone the ritual of death and rebirth refer to themselves as an anti-christ. the term anti-christ could be used both as a reference to satan in the flesh, or a reference to a person who has had imparted to him a bit satan himself. those who have become anti-christs have a conscious connection to both their guardian angel, and their guardian

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pyre is one who separates the psyche from the natural order and masters the nightside or astral plane within our physical world which we seek to control from within. the forms in the nightside of which we assume (bat. wolf, moth, or a hybrid of each and others) are the extensions of our will and desire. the vampyre is a being which has deified itself through the antinomianian process of death and rebirth, one who has passed through the ancient aspects of set and anubis, the guardians of the threshold. the symbol of the dragon known as tiamat or leviathan is also ahriman, the coiled beast that is of serpent wisdom. the dragon has fueled the myths of dracula, the dragon race from wallachia. dracos, draconum is the very shadow of the immortal fountain of life, which the vampyre seeks to bask

belief to set in motion the essence of self-transformalion, the demon emerging in flesh. the chamber should be adorned in the elements of death, of vampyrie design with such implements, fetishes and elements of ahriman, lilith, dracul or any night born ghost or image which relates therein. one should dress in the black robe of passing through shadows, a crimson lining if possible to indicate ones rebirth in the bloodied caul of lilith. the sigil of binding should be placed upon the altar, as the object of focus. the formula of forming the shadow as the vampyric element of self enchantment zrazza, zo i ao alusha impredia i ka lil aka umpesha usha barruzu shu i aktet hekak, hekak, zabbatium arcanum hkaru lil kal ika usha zrazza zo druj umpesha hear me forms of shadow which that gate i have o

shall tempt mine enemy unto death and my friend into the pleasures of life, i summon thee forth. by the eighth which is the name marakalaz, haunter of fields of the dead, feasting of those who have passed the veil, i summon thee into the temple to protect this coven of night and becoming. formula of the binding of earth i summon now those guardians of the path whom are the initiators of death and rebirth- ahriman, shadow form. daemon and sorcerer- i call you, forth to this circle (imagine a great shadow with many bestial and infernal aspects, the form encircles you and you welcome it) i summon now lilith, whose caul shall bless me with reawakening (imagine the demon-goddes lilith come forth in sinister manner,forming both the grotesque and beautiful in one being, this is lilith in her vamp

rshipped in such places as the abt, the papyrus swamps and the lycopolis (the city of wolves- jackals. in the funeral procession, anubis received the mummy, and lays his hands upon the body in initiation and protection. in the dreaming gnosis of wither the celestial/luciferian or infernal sabbat, one assumes anubis as the opener of the way, the god form of mortal (mundane) and vampyric (immortal) rebirth. the altar should be placed in the north. the west wall should have a small table to which you may have an image of anubis and the bones or images of the dead. west is the gateway of which you enter and dwell, then you shall emerge in the north from the gates of amenta. west holding the anthame focus on image of anpu and recite "i stand at the gate of the twilight realms. i have passed as

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ations, merely to substitute one mystery for another. for, there are two conflicting strains of thought about the nature of the visions which take place in conditions of isolation. some no doubt take them as "unreal" and "hallucinatory" and yet all throughout history mystics and shamans have sought solitude in the wilderness in order to find enlightenment and revelation. the notion that spiritual rebirth can be brought about by isolation is an integral part of the belief systems of many cultures and is reflected in many great religious writings, including the bible. although this idea is somewhat alien to our contemporary western belief structure, there are still numerous proponents of it, even in our own society. one of the earliest and most influential isolation researchers, john lilly

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

population and was characterized by responsibilities that benefited the serf's sovereign lord. this kind of serfdom did not definitively vanish until the time of the french revolution. the crusades, concurrent with this broad serfdom, engendered a commercial cosmopolitanism that encouraged the development of a class of merchants and a kind of social and cultural intermixing, which brought about a rebirth of ideas that we will explore in more detail later. these phenomena set off a powerful movement toward the formation of associations with the specific purposes of defense, protection, and independence. these led first to the immigration of tradesmen toward towns, then to the development of cities, and eventually to the emancipation of these areas, which put the finishing touches on the ema

ation for his empire. it was now possible to conduct a direct and detailed study of roman law, both public and private, and roman institutions. the crusades thus revealed a vast new world rich in less tangible though enormously significant treasures. teachers soon carried into other lands this new understanding of roman law. schools focusing on its teachings were founded in italy and france. this rebirth became one of the most important factors in the development of european civilization, not only resulting in a great influence on the development of private law, but also exercising a profound influence on public law and on the thought of western nations. this, says a. esmein, is a fact of the first order from both the political and scientific point of view" legists of the time not only con

purity. it was perfectly natural that spiritual and social interpenetration would be the outcome of the extensive relationship between the two cultures. it is this extensive arab influence, twin to that of the byzantine world, that prompted the first cultural and philosophical renaissance that took place in the west during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, especially in france. along with the rebirth of the studies of roman law, the royal role enjoyed by theology, which had ruled as sovereign over the world of ideas and provided society with it principal leaders, was strongly undermined. a new science was born that, rather than being fundamentally opposite to its theological predecessor, was instead independent of it. this was not the science of society such as the one the romans had l

s templars among the muslim brotherhoods. this becomes all the more likely given that the faith of eastern christians showed such distinctive features that it was almost impossible to discern any demarcations between these christian sects and the derivatives of islam. both sides came closer to one shared ideal. the fatimids of cairo imagined the possibility of a peaceful universalism that was the rebirth of the thought of the pharaoh amenhotep iv. the templars echoed* we should recall that the essenes also dressed in white linen and practiced a form of solar worship. the uniform of the assassins consisted of a white robe, red cap, belt, and boots. the templars, at least the knights in the order, wore a white robe with a red cross on the chest. white is the symbol of light and red is the sy

n reserves of personnel from which it could draw to meet construction needs. cosmopolitan artisans had far fewer opportunities to meet their foreign colleagues. finally, from the weakening of the christian mind brought about by the intolerance and fanacticism of confessional conflicts, social 220 from the art of building to the art of thinking bonds withered away while individualism experienced a rebirth. the master became more egotistical and distant. secure in his position, he monopolized all the posts of the mastery association; at the top of the corporation and with his peers, he tended to form a band apart. soon artists and artisans, masters and journeymen, had more and more difficulty understanding each other; a moat was slowly being dug between them. the disappointed, discouraged, a

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n which you feel an overpowering need to comment. you know that a course correction is needed, and sometimes without even thinking it through you give one. sometimes this shock is what the person needs desperately; other times it's what causes him to leave the temple. what is this phenomenon? is it set ordering us to speak? why is it part of the iii* experience? set is connected with two rites of rebirth in egypt, the heb-sed (or national rebirth, and the opening of the mouth (individual rebirth. in the later ceremony, a doubled-headed knife (the pss-kf knife which egyptologist ann macy roth has recently demonstrated to represent the forked tail of set) made of iron (bia-en-pet "metal of heaven" since most pre-xviii dynasty iron in egypt was of meteoric origin) was used to pry open the mou

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

goddess nut arches over the earth in this ancient tomb painting. she is about to swallow the evening sun, which is shown again on her upper arm as it starts its night journey. nut became regarded as the mother of all, for even the sun god re entered her mouth each night to travel through her body and be reborn next morning. a figure of nut inside egyptian coffin lids promised the same nurture and rebirth for the souls of the dead. introduction 10 the road of life and death, he was unveiling a mystery as great and as secret as that of eleusis. never tell anyone about this rite, ran the ritual. keep it absolutely secret. if you disclose it the world will come to an end. we will all die. the secrecy required of initiates into the mysteries of eleusis was so absolute that we are left to guess

triptolemus. the hero heracles this greek vase shows heracles killing the stymphalian birds, the sixth of his 12 labors (see pp. 50-51) in which he killed or captured several ogres and monsters. before performing 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 ins

eb, the sky and the earth, apart. ankh the ankh was the symbol of life and whoever possessed it had the power to give or take life from lesser persons. only gods, kings, and queens had the authority to hold an ankh. god of the western desert ha, the god of the western desert, wears a bull s tail from his waist. this was part of the egyptian royal regalia, signifying power and fertility. symbol of rebirth shu s staff is in the form of a snake. because snakes have the ability to slough off their skins, they became a symbol of rebirth with lifegiving powers. geb s goose geb is sometimes represented as a goose, and one of his names is the great cackler a reference to the cackle he gave when he produced the great egg from which the benu bird emerged at the dawn of time (see p. 13. goddess of or

the moon god and reckoner of time, and won from him five extra days outside the 12 lunar months of 30 days each. in these days she gave birth to her children osiris, blind horus, seth, isis, and nephthys. scarab beetle the winged scarab beetle of re is shown joined with the mummified body of osiris, which rises from the fertile earth. this motif symbolizes the resurrection of osiris and the daily rebirth of re. tending the earth men plow the earth and sow seed. as re makes his daily journey across the sky (center, the warmth of the sun will make the crops grow another symbol of osiris resurrection from the dead. the egpytian year was made up of 12 lunar months of 30 days, plus another five days to make up the number to 365. however, the egyptians did not add the extra quarter day to make a

phis made his most desperate attack. each night, re, in the form of a cat, would cut off the snake s head before being born once again in the east at dawn from nut, the universal mother. he would then rise and travel across the sky until the following twilight, when apophis would be lying in wait once more. if apophis were ever to vanquish re, the sun would not rise. this daily cycle of death and rebirth came to symbolize the life cycle of humankind, who hoped after death to find a new birth. from the middle kingdom, the visible sun god re was complemented by an invisible divinity, amun, the hidden one, who as amun-re was worshiped as the king of gods. scarab beetle the scarabeus, or dungbeetle, is the symbol of re in his role as khepri, the rising sun. rolling along a ball of dung, the sc

new birth. from the middle kingdom, the visible sun god re was complemented by an invisible divinity, amun, the hidden one, who as amun-re was worshiped as the king of gods. scarab beetle the scarabeus, or dungbeetle, is the symbol of re in his role as khepri, the rising sun. rolling along a ball of dung, the scarab beetle is a symbol of the sun itself. it was also a symbol of self-generation and rebirth, because of the way the young appear from the ball of dung. into the underworld here, the sky goddess nut raises osiris, the son of geb and nut and ruler of the underworld, to receive the sun disc before it goes on its terrifying night journey. in the deepest night, osiris and re become one, and are described both as re who rests in osiris and osiris who rests in re. disc of the sun as re

t on the gods (see pp. 14 15. it was her magic arts that enabled her to restore the breath of life to the mummified osiris, and to aid her son horus in his duels with seth. the story of isis and osiris tells of a death and resurrection that mirrors the harvesting of grain and its regrowth from seed; miniature figures of osiris filled with seed kernels were placed in egyptian tombs as a promise of rebirth. crown osiris wears the atef crown, a tall crown with two side plumes, designating kingship. lost eye horus has lost his left eye (the moon. it was put out in his struggles with seth, whom he had castrated. dead king osiris is represented here as a mummified king; in his role as culture hero he was regarded as having been a real king at the beginning of egyptian civilization. the royal fam

underworld. devastated, demeter, the earth goddess, refused to fulfil her duties until she was returned to her. but persephone had eaten a pomegranate seed while she was away, which bound her to hades. zeus agreed to a compromise: persephone would spend four (some sources say six) months on earth with her mother and the rest of the year in the underworld. this story explains the annual death and rebirth inherent in nature s cycle when persephone is away, demeter is too sad to fulfill her duties, but when she returns, demeter works with renewed vigor. the myths of persephone are complex because in their inner meanings they go to the heart of ancient greek religion. in one version of her story, zeus himself falls in love with her, and seduces her by taking the form of a snake and enveloping

him into the narcissus flower. tammuz, the eastern adonis adonis is the phoenician word for lord and the story of adonis death and resurrection reflects aspects of the near-eastern god tammuz (see p. 19. tammuz was the spouse of the goddess ishtar, who descended to the underworld to rescue him from death. he is essentially a fertility god, associated with the miracle of the harvest. his death and rebirth were celebrated each spring and autumn and the spectacle of women weeping for tammuz is mentioned in the bible (ezekiel 8:14. like adonis, he was killed by a boar and while he is in the underworld all vegetation withers. the sumerian innanna s journey to hell is an early version of ishtar and tammuz, under the names innanna and dumuzi, and records an early song for the lost god: who is you

is dead! this cry was repeated whenever the sailors saw land, and a terrible weeping arose from the countryside around. some accounts place this event at the moment of christ s birth, a fitting time as many of pan s attributes have been assigned to the devil of christian tradition. some writers suggest the cry was a mishearing of the all-great tammuz is dead, a ceremonial lament for the death and rebirth of the oriental god tammuz (see p. 33. zeus and dana 44 eagle of power the eagle, zeus attendant bird, is symbolic of power and victory. in matters of love and war, zeus never accepted defeat. clouds gathering god of the sky and ruler of weather, zeus is often called the cloud-gatherer. he is often shown with his weapon, the thunderbolt. zeus and dana dana was the beautiful daughter of acr

grail chapel, they saw visions of angels, a sign that they were about to be granted an otherworldly experience. sir galahad has cast aside his helmet and weapons to worship the grail. in one version of the grail legend, the fisher king is named as bron. this connects him with bran the blessed, legendary king of england in the welsh mabinogion. bran possessed both a horn of plenty and cauldron of rebirth. after he was wounded with a spear, his head was cut off and buried beneath the tower of london, to protect the land; but king arthur dug it up to show that britain needed no other protection other than him. fruitful earth when the quest for the grail came to an end, the land became fruitful once more. sir perceval, early hero in the later versions of the grail legend, sir galahad finds th

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ll be an intiatic guide, that which will assist in the communication of the holy guardian angel/higher self/luciferian famulus. 11 ii the witches sabbat becoming in the dark light color blue- symbol algol the eye of the adversary -initiation of the witches sabbat, the development of astral projection and dreaming sorcery -the self-transformative benefits of the celestial sabbat and solar/twilight rebirth -the self-deification process of the infernal sabbat shape shifting and sexual congress via dreaming and astral projection -shape shifting and vampyric sorcery purpose and practice -the black eagle as the initiator of the vampyric and ahrimanic path consistent and successful work with this spirit guide -the god form of anubis the mask of the shades of the dead and the gateway of twilight

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

mental and <62> emotional discomfort, and an understanding of its causes, invariably constitute the first impetus to perform the great work, even as it comprises the motive first to seek the services and aid of the analytical psychologist. this impetus and this self-consciousness are the prime implications of daath. its signification is a higher type of consciousness, the beginning of a spiritual rebirth. it acts as a selfevolved link between the higher genius, on the one hand, at peace in its supernal abode, and, on the other hand, the human soul bound by its fall to the world of illusion and sense and matter. not until that self-consciousness and acquired knowledge are turned to noble and altruistic ends, so long will sorrow and suffering be the inevitable result. continually will the re

, the acting hierophant, or chief adept as he is now called, is interred in the pastos as though to represent the aspirant's higher self which is hidden and confined within the personality, itself wandering blindly, lost in the dark wilderness. the whole concatenation of symbols is an elaborate and dramatic portrayal of the central theme of the great work. in a word, it depicts <71> the spiritual rebirth or redemption of the candidate, his resurrection from the dark tomb of mortality through the power of the holy spirit. in the symbol of the vault, the psychologist no doubt will see a highly interesting and complex array of mother symbols, traces of which, used in very much the same way, may be found in the literary fragments we inherit from the mystery cults of antiquity. it would be poss

lve signs of the <203> zodiac between light and darkness, and surmounted by the lotus flower of isis. it symbolises the development of creation. second mine is a wand terminating in the symbol of the binary, and surmounted by the tau cross of life, or the head of the phoenix, sacred to osiris. the seven colours of the rainbow between light and darkness are attributed to the planets. it symbolises rebirth and resurrection from death. chief my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolises the equilibriated force of the spirit and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one* associate adeptus minor, what are the words inscribed upon the door of the tomb? and how is it guarded? third post centum viginti annos patebo. af

f the zodiac between light and darkness, and surmounted by the lotus flower of isis. it symbolises the development of creation. mighty adeptus major, thy wand and its meaning? a wand terminating in the symbol of the binary and surmounted by the tau cross of life, or the head of the phoenix, sacred to osiris. the seven colours between light and darkness are attributed to the planets. it symbolises rebirth and resurrection from death. my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolises the equilibriated force of the spirit and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one. associate adeptus minor, what are the words inscribed upon the door of the vault, and how is it guarded'%st centum viginti annos patebon-after one hundr

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

moves but what has another animal moving on it, and so on, to the utmost minute corpuscle that [is] capable to be a receptacle of life. this remnant of ancient philosophy is far removed from the usual fairy lore, and forms part of the thread of a perennial wisdom-tradition that runs through kirk's text. the cycle that he describes is the wheel of life, with a direct statement of reincarnation or rebirth into various other states after death. the concept of movement as life is tantalizingly modern, even materialist at first superficial glance, but the tenet is really a holistic one, with life forms and energies interpenetrating one another ceaselessly. the microscope was known in kirk's day (he mentions it on page 34, but this refined concept of multiple life forms within and upon one anot

or the tragic myth of balder in norse legend. in these tales, the interaction of all life is shown through orders of animals and other entities, all of which depend upon a central figure, usually a divine son or child of light. the cyclical nature of these myths is frequently connected to the seasons of the year, and there are firm analogies or reflections of the cycles of birth, life, death, and rebirth of the mortal world, but extending into, or rather depending on or reflecting from, other mythic dimensions. page 27 they are said to have aristocratic rulers and laws, but no discernible religion. they disappear whenever they hear. the name of jesus, at which all do bow willingly or by constraint that dwell above or beneath [or] within the earth. this is the first commentary 89 of a serie

oners to have had, healing powers. the attachment of physical or spiritual translation at his death, therefore, is not an idle superstition, but an expression of a deep-rooted tradition which stems back to pagan and prehistoric cultures. the connection to his reappearance at the posthumous christening of his child has resonance's of the ballad of tam lin, for the birth of a child and the death or rebirth of a man are, as kirk himself reported, part of the revolution of the wheel of life. tam lin (see page 26) is also connected to the ancient theme of magical guardianship of a sacred site, in which the spirit of a mortal is set to guard a powerful location until summoned back to the human world. in kirk's case his spirit still guards the fairy hill at aberfoyle: tam lin (not known to be a h

magical well. his horse may be found by the well as a sign or totem symbol of his presence, but he is present in another dimension, that of elfland, fairyland, the otherworld or under world. he is summoned by the pulling of roses, and it should be noted in this context that appendix 3: the ballad of tam lin 131 plants and trees are the routes whereby spirits are enabled to return to the womb for rebirth, in primal tradition. 6. janet becomes pregnant despite tam lin's seeming insubstantiality, janet 'goes with child, and will not acknowledge any mortal origin for her condition. this pregnancy is significant in several ways, over and above the obvious allusion to pagan fertility magic. there is a strong parallel between janet's pregnancy 'in a mist' and the actual translation of tam lin fr

ds himself it is only a more subtle variant of the outer world. at the end of a given period, he is offered up to the powers of destruction. appendix 3: the ballad of tam lin 134 this is only normal. every entity experiences this power of dissolution upon physical death. in tam lin's case, he is singled out in a magical or intermediate role, so his cycle is not that of regular birth- life- death- rebirth. his entity, his self-awareness, is active in the otherworld, through magical attunement to a function connected with the land and fertility. he is honored in this role by the beings that occupy the otherworld, wherein his dual nature is given special consideration. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_126.htm (9 of 13 [10/9/2001 12:36:58 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds 'i tam-a-lin

'broad broad way, in company with millions of others, following certain natural laws of attraction which are attuned by specific religions and mysteries, national group-souls, deep long-term aims of potent groups and patterns. these in turn are loosely related to certain stellar influences, and to the overall luminous attraction of lucifer within the earth's planetary body. the broad way leads to rebirth. the road of thorns and briars represents a voluntary incarnation in service of some higher aim or order. one who need not return to the planet or group worlds by impulse or attraction, but who chooses to do so out of love for those who suffer. the middle way does not lead to incarnation from the inner to outer worlds, under normal circumstances. it may be specifically opened for communica

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nd backward through time, since time is not fixed. the sphinx: correct. the process is to imagination what directed thinking is to unconscious dreaming. it is something like the raja-yoga technique of uniting the mind to a single idea through force of will, or like corresponding ceremonial magic techniques. the chimaera: but i thought that the object of yoga is to break the cycle of birth, death, rebirth through union of the soul or mind with the whole of existence. to one who achieves the eighth stage, samadhi, the concept of knowledge. itself a relative measurement of that which is known versus that which is not known. would be meaningless. all would be known, or, to use a more precise term, realized. nothing would remain to be "learned" the sphinx: indeed. the chimaera: i think i am beg

. it is a "god" itself. the chimaera: the actual characteristics of what are generally known as the "egyptian gods" are far closer to the notion of forms than they are to the later pantheons of pagan cultures such as greece, rome, and scandinavia. a reading of egyptian texts translated directly from the hieroglyphic will substantiate this. in only a very few legends [such as that of the death and rebirth of osiris] do the gods assume human behavioral characteristics. in the vast bulk of the existing texts they are far more abstract, having "personalities" that seem to overlap one another and symbolic attributes that are difficult to identify in terms of purely human desires. consider the following inscription from the tomb of ramesses vi in this light, noticing the overlap between truth (m

his is the basis for the formula of the aon of set xxx] because of the paradox, it is impossible for a magister templi to be the result of such an annihilation as crowley prescribes. such a "magister" would possess no will of its own; it would be a zombie, non-consciously moving in harmony with the objective-universal laws. it would be an animated corpse, a mere "meat machine" this would not be a rebirth of the self; it would be suicide under the illusion of participating in a "greater life force" now let us look a little more closely at crowley's description of a "black brother. those familiar with crowley's life will note that, in these few short phrases, a veritable blueprint for his own life has been presented. crowley's writings attest to the overwhelming presence of his individual wi

nything special as regarding the druids- that was just the first impression i experienced in reading your report. green was associated with venus in western magick and symbolized vegetative principles in khem. i am particularly interested in the words and use of "nine" and "deceiver" while i could "read into" the words quite a bit, none of it feels right- yet. the young entity could symbolize the rebirth [so to speak] of the neters through us, and that there will be nine original [paut neter] or "company of gods" winged creatures could imply the pure forms which are unmanifest. maybe we are indicated by the green-robed youth. a magician is supposed to acquire a bisexual nature as a quality- not necessarily as sexual attraction. the horns or crescent probably represent duality. as for the c

tune to agreement that, yes, those bombs are capable of destroying, and, yes, food supplies are running low. we have to see beyond symbols, which are but manifestations of principles. not only must we recognize principles of change, but as you have stated, we must utilize them for our own "coming into being. as xem" perhaps some of those principles that are change are the basic cycle of death and rebirth. but, if we are able to recognize and activate the anubian principlell inside of each of us, we will be able to devour that carrion that is comprised of the corpses of mankind. maybe it is decaying humanity that is to be the food of the gods who would be xem. a question that i posed to myself was along the lines of: what is the main difference between set stating that "mankind now hastens

in each man cutting his own path through the jungle. we can use the thoughts and conclusions of others to form our own approaches, but we have read in the book of coming forth by night of the texts of others and affronts to the self. occultists for many an age have found reassurance in the concept of reincarnation. those seeking information from the good mr. webster will find the word to mean "1. rebirth (of the soul) in another body; 2. a new incarnation; 3. the doctrine that the soul reappears after death in another and different bodily form" such a doctrine goes a long way toward dispelling the fear of not-being, in that it refutes oblivion as the final chapter of our individual books; its appeal is alluring enough to minds already conditioned to a greater or lesser degree by what desca

that happen where there is a blockage. all these terms are inherent within the initiatory process within temple. something happens that you just can't go any further being who you are and what you are with the baggage that you've got and the knowledge you have. a change occurs, a transformation occurs, setamorphosis occurs, and at that point in time something else has remanifested. there is this rebirth, this resurgence of a search for the gift of set that occurs which is more powerful than it was before. something new, you seek a different way of creating a different paradigm. you get a different point of view that then allows you to move onward or inward, whichever progression you happen to be following. i found nothing that really says that as clearly as that one word and this whole pr

e demonstrates birth or awakening- it "is the ruin of symmetry and the awakening of the daemons" here the stasis of the sixth angle is overcome by the imbalance and asymmetry of the seventh. the eighth angle manifests re-creation- as "the masters of the realm. raise the temple of the eight trihedrons unto the daemons of creation" creation is raised another octave. the ninth angle is perfection or rebirth- more technically perhaps it is the black flame, i.e "the flame of the beginning and ending of dimensions, which blazeth in brilliance and darkness unto the glory of desire" if these key-words, along with the original enumeration of the angles, are applied to the diagram of the seal of the order, the following image emerges: it should be noted that the nine angles as thus far discussed are

es of creation and recreation follow naturally from the states of chaos and order which precipitate them. then comes (7) death or sleep in which the subject of this cyclical journey must necessarily undergo a transformation. beyond this is (8) knowledge or understanding- as the subject reaches a stage of perfection as the object of that knowledge becomes the black flame. then, if it is so willed, rebirth may occur. this description is worded as if the journey undertaken were that of initiation in a life-span- but in reality this circle represents any cyclical development. each 'rebirth' is an entry upon the next cycle at a higher 'octave' of the scale implied by the circle. the relative distances between the points on the circle are also important. they show a kind of rhythm in the cycles

hree or four rods with rattles that often had the form of a serpent. the metal hoops represented the orbit of the moon, the tow face as isis (life) and nepthys (death, and the rods as the four elements. lotus flowers: this was a symbol of upper egypt. it was a representation of the divinity arising from the primordial chaos and was close to both forces of darkness and light. it became a symbol of rebirth. fragrance: the gods have a divine scent, and it was used to represent everlasting life. red carnelian: this jewel became a symbol for life and victory. its color it was especially associated with set. reversed pentagram: symbols of the dark lord. the descent of the gnosis into the human consciousness. the uniting of the divine, set, with the magician's will, creating a new being. book: th

he ruin of symmetry [chorus] we rejoice in birth, for now our creativity is unlimited. hail birth [celebrant] we go to the realm of re-creation, and there we shape future aeons, so that in their creation and destruction we endure even beyond the dust of earth [chorus] we rejoice in the realm of re-creation, for here we overcome all hazard. hail recreation [celebrant] at last we go to the realm of rebirth and there we say the most hidden of spells: xepera xeper xeperu, and we are become the flute player in the hidden realm [chorus] we rejoice in the black flame which burns in brilliance and darkness until the glory of desire. hail rebirth [celebrant] the knot is tied, and all realms are bound to our will [bell 9x, then] so it is done and so it shall be! corridors of light and darkness class

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go" her letter read "i married out of cowardice. now, finally, i'm doing something brave" she left a newspaper on her bed with gibreel's message circled in red and heavily underscored- three harsh lines, one of them ripping the page in fury. so naturally the bitch-journals went to town and it was all lovely"s lovelorn leap, and broken-hearted beauty takes last dive. but: perhaps she, too, had the rebirth bug, and gibreel, not understanding the terrible power of metaphor, had recommended flight _to be born again,first you have to_ and she was a creature of the sky, she drank lalique champagne, she lived on everest, and one of her fellow-olympians had flown; and if he could, then she, too, could be winged, and rooted in dreams. she didn't make it. the lala who was employed as gatekeeper of t

al illness. and yet, in spite of profanity and debilitation, this was a face inextricably mixed up with holiness, perfection, grace: god stuff. no accounting for tastes, that's all. at any rate, you'll agree that for such an actor (for any actor, maybe, even for chamcha, but most of all for him) to have a bee in his bonnet about avatars, like much-metamorphosed vishnu, was not so very surprising. rebirth: that's god stuff, too. or, but, then again. not always. there are secular reincarnations, too. gibreel farishta had been born ismail najmuddin in poona, british poona at the empire's fag-end, long before the pune of rajneesh etc (pune, vadodara, mumbai; even towns can take stage names nowadays) ismail after the child involved in the sacrifice of ibrahim, and najmuddin _star of the faith;

tears "but you are everything to me" she wept "you are my father, my lover, my baby too. you are my lord and my suckling child. if i displease you then i have no life" babasaheb mhatre, accepting defeat, swallowed the tablespoon of malt. he was a kindly man, which he disguised with insults and noise. to console the orphaned youth he would speak to him, in the blue office, about the philosophy of rebirth, convincing him that his parents were already being scheduled for re-entry somewhere, unless of course their lives had been so holy that they had attained the final grace. so it was mhatre who started farishta off on the whole reincarnation business, and not just reincarnation. the babasaheb was an amateur psychic, a tapper of table-legs and a bringer of spirits into glasses "but i gave th

their sojourn on that airstrip by the oasis of al-zamzam to a second period of gestation, telling everybody that they were all dead to the world and in the process of being regenerated, made anew. this idea seemed to cheer him up somewhat, even though it made many of the hostages want to string him up, and he leapt up on to a seat to explain that the day of their release would be the day of their rebirth, a piece of optimism that calmed his audience down "strange but true" he cried "that will be day zero, and because we will all share the birthday we will all be exactly the same age from that day on, for the rest of our lives. how do you call it when fifty kids come out of the same mother? god knows. fiftuplets. damn" reincarnation, for frenzied gibreel, was a term beneath whose shield man

easure of fineness. on good days i felt it was within my grasp, somewhere within me, somewhere within. but it eluded me. i have become embroiled, in things, in the world and its messes, and i cannot resist. the grotesque has me, as before the quotidian had me, in its thrall. the sea gave me up; the land drags me down. he was sliding down a grey slope, the black water lapping at his heart. why did rebirth, the second chance granted to gibreel farishta and himself, feel so much, in his case, like a perpetual ending? he had been reborn into the knowledge of death; and the inescapability of change, of things-never-the-same, of noway-back, made him afraid. when you lose the past you're naked in front of contemptuous azraeel, the death-angel. hold on if you can, he told himself. cling to yesterd

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g. this is the basis for the formula of the aeon of set xxx. because of the paradox, it is impossible for a magister templi (8=[3] to be the result of such an annihilation as crowley prescribes. such a "magister" would possess no will of its own; it would in fact be a zombie, nonconsciously moving in harmony with the universal law. it would be an animated corpse, a mere machine. this would not be rebirth of the self- it would be suicide. now let us look a little more closely at crowley's description of a "black brother. if you have read crowley's biography, you will notice something very significant: that, in these few short phrases, a veritable blueprint for crowley's own life has been presented [this is not the case in moonchild, incidentally, where the term "black brother" is used to la

acher, a certain transmission can occur. this moment can not be planned for; although certain situations can be set up to make such things likely. what happens then is very surprising. the would-be follower then teaches the teacher by example. this is the sort of work that is possible with a living teacher. in the left hand path traditions of india, there are many stories of how the guru achieves rebirth by becoming the disciple of his disciple- and the disciple achieves immortality by finally "getting" and then demonstrating the lesson of his guru. this exchange is beyond what can be had reading about a philosophical concept, however helpful, or engaging in debate and discussion with well-meaning enlightened people. georges dumezil once pointed out "within the corporate body of sorcerers

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g. this is the basis for the formula of the aeon of set xxx. because of the paradox, it is impossible for a magister templi (8=[3] to be the result of such an annihilation as crowley prescribes. such a "magister" would possess no will of its own; it would in fact be a zombie, nonconsciously moving in harmony with the universal law. it would be an animated corpse, a mere machine. this would not be rebirth of the self- it would be suicide. now let us look a little more closely at crowley's description of a "black brother. if you have read crowley's biography, you will notice something very significant: that, in these few short phrases, a veritable blueprint for crowley's own life has been presented [this is not the case in moonchild, incidentally, where the term "black brother" is used to la

acher, a certain transmission can occur. this moment can not be planned for; although certain situations can be set up to make such things likely. what happens then is very surprising. the would-be follower then teaches the teacher by example. this is the sort of work that is possible with a living teacher. in the left hand path traditions of india, there are many stories of how the guru achieves rebirth by becoming the disciple of his disciple- and the disciple achieves immortality by finally "getting" and then demonstrating the lesson of his guru. this exchange is beyond what can be had reading about a philosophical concept, however helpful, or engaging in debate and discussion with well-meaning enlightened people. georges dumezil once pointed out "within the corporate body of sorcerers

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im carcosa. song of my soul, my voice is dead, die thou, unsung, as tears unshed shall dry and die in lost carcosa -robert w. chambers "casilda's song" from the king in yellow the ceremony of the stifling air is the the which was performed when entering the sixth degree of the order of the knights templar. it celebrates a reawakening of the flesh and a rejection of past self-denials, and symbolic rebirth is attained through a contrived entombment. the ceremony originated in the thirteenth century. in its original form it was not the historical parody into which it later developed. accounts of the performance of l'air epais ultimately strengthened the charges of king philip iv of france in his campaign to abolish the rich order, which was banished in 1331. the templars had been exposed to t

it as a "black mass" according to the accounts that were employed to indict the templars. upon assuming the sixth degree, a candidate renounced all life-denying spirituality and acknowledged an understanding of the material world as a prerequisite to higher planes of existence. this is a ritual of the death-defiant and allows any unconscious death motivations to be exorcised. it is a statement of rebirth, of the delights of life as opposed to the negation of death. the celebrant in the original version of l'air epais is represented as a saint, martyr, or other paragon of selflessness. this is done to emphasize the transition from self-denial to self-indulgence. the ceremony of rebirth takes place in a large coffin. the coffin contains an unclad woman whose task is to awaken lust in the "de

yest breathe again that first breath now as night winds freshen from the far reaches of belial [initiate arises, disrobes, and sits in the chair provided, his feet supported by a footstool. celebrant passes flame of candle four times under soles of initiate's feet. as he does so, he speaks] priest: through this, the black flame of satan, thou walketh in hell. thy senses are awakened to the joy of rebirth. the gates are flung wide and thy passage is heralded by the deathless cries of his guardian beasts. his searing brand shall be evermore emblazoned on thy consciousness: its fiery meaning shall make thee free [priest gestures with his hands in recognition of the air of enlightenment as he pours incense into brazier. he intones] priest: we bring of thy garden, o mighty lucifer, the fragranc

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ly satanic but of any religious, occult or mystical path. it is therefore unfortunate that great emphasis is placed upon the external form of initiation together with the exaggerated interpretations of blasphemy, sacrifice and sexual depravity whilst little emphasis is placed upon an understanding of the internal form of initiation. this internal initiation has also been likened to the process of rebirth. yet this rebirth is an internal one, which is not simply reduceable to a change of mind but also involves the development of the astral body and, dependant upon which tradition the initiate belongs to, later on of the mental and divine bodies. with some ritual initiations, if they are powerful enough, the astral body of the neophyte may become so strong that the individual will have a spo

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

on of souls, or the migration of the soul into a different form, animal, or object after death. mezuzah: a small case containing torah passages that observant jews attach to the doorposts of their houses. midrashim: stories that expand on incidents in the hebrew bible. mishnah: the written text of the talmud. mitzvoth: the laws of judaism contained in the torah. moksha: salvation; liberation from rebirth. monastery: a place where religious people such as monks live, away from the world and following strict religious guidelines. monotheism: belief in one supreme being. morality: following the rules of right behavior and conduct. moshiach: the expected messiah in jewish belief. muezzin: the person who issues the call to prayer. murti: image of a god. muslim: a follower of islam, from the ara

ween these four. sacrament: a sacred rite, or ceremony. sadhana: ascetic person. saint: a deceased person who has been recognized for living a virtuous and holy life. salat: daily prayer. salvation: the deliverance of human beings from sin through jesus christ s death on the cross. samhain (samhuinn: neo-pagan holiday celebrated on october 31. samsara: the ongoing cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth. samyak charitra: right conduct; one of the three jewels of jain ethical conduct. samyak darshana: right faith, or right perception; one of the three jewels of jain ethical conduct. samyak jnana: right knowledge; one of the three jewels of jain ethical conduct. sanskrit: an ancient indo-european language that is the language of hinduism, as well as of much classical indian literature. sant

ac xxix words to know three jewels: the jain code of ethical conduct, consisting of right faith, right knowledge, and right conduct. tian: heaven, or the principle of ordering the universe. tipitaka: the buddhist sacred texts accepted by all branches of buddhism. tirthankara: literally, makers of the ford; those souls who have attained enlightenment and have been freed from the cycle of death and rebirth; the twenty-four leaders of jainism. torah: the first five books of the tanakh: genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy. tori: the gate that marks the entrance to a shrine. its shape is regarded as a symbol of shinto. totem: some sort of object or, perhaps, animal that assumes a spiritual symbolism for a clan or tribe. transcendent: going beyond the ordinary, beyond the univer

elieving in more than one god) because all the hindu deities are seen as forms of brahma. sikhism, which was founded in the same region as hinduism, also has many different names for god. the main sikh name for god is sat nam, or true name. in contrast, jainism does not worship one god. jains believe that those who are truly faithful can become individual gods when they end the cycle of death and rebirth by reaching perfection. other religions, including shinto, mahayana buddhism, and religious daosim, have even more names for the divine. shinto kami, or nature spirits, may have individual names or be simply referred to as kami. mahayana buddhists recognize enlightened beings, such as the buddha, and bodhisattvas, those who have become enlightened but remained outside their reward to help

n earth, while for buddhists meditation is a major form of prayer. sacred writings include the bible for christians and the tipitaka for buddhists. for both religions, a distinct community of believers is basic. in christianity this community is called the church, the body of the faithful. in buddhism the sangha is the community of like-minded individuals who are also pursuing truth and spiritual rebirth. christians worship in churches, buddhists in temples. for christians the sacred experience is the acceptance of jesus as lord, the son of god, at the same time both human and divine. for buddhists, it is the desire to begin the journey and the ultimate end of the journey, enlightenment. both religions also share the concepts of moral codes that govern human behavior, an organized priestho

nt egypt the god osiris was supposedly buried on the solstice. in ancient greece it was called lenaea and sacrifices were made, while in ancient rome the saturnalia was a week-long celebration that managed to blend all manner of earlier pagan celebrations from across europe into one. judaism has the eight-day festival hanukkah, and zoroastrianism gave modern iran shabe-yalda, which celebrates the rebirth of the sun. the concept of the rebirth of light or the coming of longer days and the sun was a powerful symbol. the appropriation of the winter solstice for the christian celebration of christmas was a valuable development in the spreading of that religion. world religions: almanac 15 what is religion? development of the universe scientists do not say how the universe and everything in it

dhism all reject the rituals of hinduism. jainism and buddhism contain some supernatural elements, but buddhism in particular rejects the necessity of a single supreme god. the buddha, who was born siddartha gautama (563 483 bce, in particular spoke forcefully about followers trusting in themselves and not seeking salvation from a god or gods. for both jains and buddhists, nirvana (a release from rebirth or from suffering) and enlightenment (realizing the true nature of reality and how to end suffering) are central concepts. for these believers, the state of nirvana will connect them to the universal order. carvaka is also a product of sixth century bce indian philosophers. it differs from jainism and buddhism because its atheism is built on a materialist belief system, the concept that th

en became god of the underworld. osiris became identified with the dead pharaoh. his son, horus, became associated with the living pharaoh. osiris eventually became a symbol of immortality and resurrection, or returning to life after death, and, as such, symbolized the annual renewal of fertility to the soil by the flooding of the nile. a lengthy annual festival was held for him to celebrate this rebirth. the middle kingdom came to an end with the hyksos invasion of lower egypt, with the new invaders adapting egyptian habits and gods. the new kingdom (c. 1570 1085 bce) began when egyptian nobles drove the hyksos out. during this period the god amen came to prominence and was worshipped at karnak, near thebes. amen incorporated aspects of earlier gods such as ptah and ra, becoming for a tim

ed off by horus to meet with osiris and enter the underworld. sacred writings the primary sacred text for the mesopotamian religion was the long epic poem dealing with creation, the enuma elish. the most complete copy that has survived dates from the end of the second millennium bce and is fertility myths throughout the ancient near east there were common myths of fertility, or tales of death and rebirth that can be read as a metaphor (or symbol) of the death and rebirth of vegetation during the seasons of the year. in mesopotamian religion there is the story of ishtar s hunt for her husband, tammuz, the god of the seasons and fertility. she descends to the underworld in search of him and returns with him triumphantly to earth. tammuz, however, can only spend spring and summer on earth; th

is the ankh. the ankh resembles a cross, but has an upside down teardrop shape at its top. in the ancient egyptian written language of hieroglyphs, the ankh represents life. it is often present in tomb carvings and other artwork. it is associated with magical protection, or sa. even those ancient egyptians who could not read hierogylphs knew the ankh symbol. the ankh may represent the sunrise or rebirth. many ancient gods carried ankhs and often blessed pharaohs with an ankh, symbolizing the act of giving them the breath of life. among the gods often seen with ankhs are osiris, isis, ra, hathor, and anubis. as a result the ankh not only represented worldly life but the afterlife. in fact, the ancient egyptian term for sarcophagus or coffin was neb-ankh, meaning possessor of life. the ankh

e ruler s leadership and discourage others from seeking power. festivals and pilgrimages also offered the public a chance to seek favor from the gods and celebrate their devotion. mesopotamia major festivals in mesopotamian religion included the new year s festival and the sacred marriage. the new year s festival was held at the spring equinox, or the start of spring. this festival celebrated the rebirth of the year. in later religious practice, this holiday was associated with the god marduk s main festival, called aktiu. it lasted for eleven days and involved ceremonies of purification and a ceremonial reenactment of the battle between marduk and the forces of chaos. prayers and offerings of food and wine were made to the gods during the first three days. the fourth day was a high point

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al; that which is strange, which lies outside the scope of any world view; that which lies within the dark pool beneath the moon and threatens to devour, create madness. a stage which cannot be ignored if further development is saught, requiring a descent to draw out that which is obscure, fearfully hidden: the gateway to the abyss. a point from which there is no turning back: that which leads to rebirth via death. xix now in the desert, a jester greets the transparent horse on hill golden folk become fire the snow melts the faces of mountains the raven with the woman s face, her gold begets the blood sun- velpecula the finding of the aeon: the height of imperium causal structure altered in accordance with long term aims, bearing its own fruits of change. but these fruits are the final pro

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of life to be death. one is then no longer in the world, but under it, in the underworld. one has descended into hades.5 it will be well for such a person not to go under, and if a new world comes into being either the seeker vanishes from sight, or emerges once more, transfigured, and looks out upon a new sun and a new earth. out of the fire of the spirit the universe has been reborn. birth and rebirth in testimony of what happened to them in the mysteries we have the accounts of the initiates themselves. menippus relates how he traveled to babylon in order to be taken the mysteries and mysteriosophy 7 to hades and brought back again by the followers of zoroaster. 6 he says that in the course of his wanderings he crossed the great water, and that he passed through fire and ice. we hear t

rapeutae groups that were in existence well before the time of christian origins.153 the essenes were one of the sects active in palestine. they were of a closed nature and with an estimated membership at the time of christ of around four thousand. they formed a community, whose members were directed to lead a life suited to the development of the higher self within their souls, and so to achieve rebirth. 154 the aspirant was subjected to stringent tests in order to establish whether or not he was sufficiently mature to make himself ready for the higher life. on being accepted, he had to spend a period as a probationer, and to swear a solemn oath not to reveal to outsiders the secrets of their discipline. jesus in his historical setting 141 community life itself was devoted to the crushing

the bibliography for other works on the mysteries by steiner and historical sources. 2. historians of religion often restrict the term mysteries to the greek sphere; but it is legitimately used by steiner wherever we find the combination of secret (esoteric) teachings 212 christianity as mystical fact and initiation-rites. mircea eliade, rites and symbols of initiation: the mysteries of birth and rebirth (spring, woodstock, ct, 1994) stresses the continuity between the classical mysteries and the initiation-rites of the most archaic societies. 3. see aristotle, nicomachean ethics iii, i. 4. plutarch, a fragment preserved in stobaeus, anthology iv.52.49; it is translated in m. w. meyer s book, the ancient mysteries: a sourcebook (harpersanfrancisco, san francisco, 1987, p. 8. 5. descent int

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principle of isolate intelligence..rlw) went through periods of immense popularity alternating with total denunciation. set in the predynastic and archaic periods was an essentially positive deity introduced from the east as a god of the extension of existence. he is therefore god of expanding borders and radical changes of being, particularly birth, circumcision/initiation, death in battle, and rebirth through the opening of the mouth ceremony. popular among easterners, his first cult site being pelusium in the eastern delta, his worship quickly spread to border areas, where he was identified with local gods of initiation. two examples of such cult sites are kharga in the south, which has always been primarily a nilotic culture area, and the libyan settlement of ombos, wherein set was id

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alter scott's personality parade" in parade magazine "war is hell,"said the crusty and brutish union general william tecumseh sherman, shown here displaying the sign of the jahbuhlun cult in this official u.s. army photo. hundreds of civilians were massacred during sherman's fiery march through the south. three regal figures belonging to a nubian temple. each carries the egyptian ankh, signifying rebirth and reincarnation in one hand. other symbols are also seen (drawing: book, the round towers of atlantis, by henry o'brien, adventures unlimited press, kempton, il, 2002) hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 79 a republican party convention souvenir depicting president ronald reagan. the web site offering it for sale describes it thusly "from the 1984 convention, a smiling ronnie in a napole

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the charlatan (they also can refuse to answer questions on these same grounds. thereby giving the appearance of knowledge or initiation) how is an aspirant to know one from the other then? know them by their fruit..watch them my brothers and my sisters and soon enough their truth or falsehood will betray them. dear sisters and brothers, it is always a step in the dark. it is always a death and a rebirth- and you do not even know, when you die, if there will be a birth. as it is written success is your proof. remember: the price of initiation is a shameful death from which the demons will save you, if they can. so with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will. love is the law, love under will. the black lodge lesson 3 dear sisters and brothers in the name of the initiator augmn do wh

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sts that neanderthal man believed in life after death. their concept of the afterlife must not have been that much different than the life they experienced on earth; they provided the dead with food, tools, and other everyday items, much like the egyptians did for their journey to the next life. death to the neanderthals may have even been regarded as a kind of sleep, perhaps like a rest before a rebirth, as corpses were carefully positioned in the fetal state. sources: burial, ritual, religion, and cannibalism. http//thunder.indstate. edu/ ramanank/ritual.html. 10 july 2001. oldest discovered burial site while many people consider the belief in reincarnation to be held primarily by the adherents of hinduism and some buddhist sects, the concept of past lives is by no means confined to thes

nd has no permanent soul. of the major world religions, only buddhism does not perceive an eternal metaphysical aspect of the human personality in the same way that the others do. however, all the major faiths believe that after the spirit has left the body, it moves on to another existence. some faiths contend that it ascends to a paradise or descends into a hell. others believe it may achieve a rebirth into another physical body, or may merge with the divine in an eternal unity. traditional christianity, islam, and judaism envision a resurrection of a spiritual body at a time of final judgment, but generally speaking, the soul is of greater value and purpose than the physical body it inhabited while on earth. the material shell within which humans dwell during their lifetime is nothing o

gious. impossible to suggest that an individual could retain the same soul-self for eternity. rather than atman, buddhist doctrine teaches anatman/ or, no-self. although the buddha (c. 567 487 b.c.e) denied the hindu concept of an immortal self that passes through a series of incarnations, he did accept the doctrines of karma( actions, the cause-and-effect laws of material existence) and samsara (rebirth. if the buddha recognized rebirth into another lifetime but did not believe in an essential self or soul, then what would be reborn? the buddhist answer is difficult to comprehend; the various components in the perpetual process of change that constitute human beings do not reassemble themselves by random chance. the karmic laws determine the nature of a person s rebirth. various aspects w

an immediate retribution for the consequences of these deeds, forcing the individual to be reborn once again into the unceasing cycle of karma and samsara. however, dharma, the physical and moral laws that govern the universe, flow through everything and everyone, thereby continually changing and rearranging every aspect of the human. although driven by karma, the dharma rearranges the process of rebirth to form a new individual. in his first sermon, the noble truth of suffering (dukha, the buddha presented his views on the aggregates that constitute the human condition: the noble truth of suffering is this: birth is suffering; aging is suffering; sickness is suffering; death is suffering; sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief, and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is su

perishable. truly, life ends in death. of bones is this house made, plastered with flesh and blood. herein are stored decay, death, conceit, and hypocrisy. even ornamented royal chariots wear out. so too the body reaches old age. but the dhamma of the good grows not old. thus do the good reveal it among the good. the buddha s advice to all those who wish to rise above the karmic laws of death and rebirth is to live a contemplative, religious life: men who have not led a religious life and have not laid up treasure in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish. men who have not led a religious life and have not laid up treasure in their youth lie like wornout bows, sighing after the past (dhammapada 155:56) the counsel of the buddha is quite similar to the words of jesus in

etan buddhism s book of the dead provides an important source for an understanding of their concept of the afterlife journey of the soul. a lama (priest) sits at the side of the deceased and recites texts from the book, a ritual which is thought to revive the bla, the life force within the body, and give it the power to embark upon a 49-day journey through the intermediate stage between death and rebirth. such a recitation by the priest at the bedside of the deceased might include these words from the tibetan book of the dead: since you [no longer] have a material body of flesh and blood, whatever may come sounds, lights, or rays are, all three, unable to harm you; you are incapable of dying. it is quite sufficient for you to know that these apparitions are your own thoughtforms. recognize

clude these words from the tibetan book of the dead: since you [no longer] have a material body of flesh and blood, whatever may come sounds, lights, or rays are, all three, unable to harm you; you are incapable of dying. it is quite sufficient for you to know that these apparitions are your own thoughtforms. recognize this to be the bardo [the intermediate state after death. if there is to be no rebirth for the soul, it appears before yama, the god of the dead, to be judged. in tibetan buddhism, there is a direct link between one s earthly lifetimes and intermediate stages of existence in the various spheres of paradise, extending to the appearance of the soul remaining the same as the one it assumed when living as a human on earth. both buddhism and hinduism place yama, god of the dead

ded, they cannot really be considered as comprising the essential self, the soul. the facet of the person that survives the physical is yet something else, a kind of miniature of the living man or woman that resides within the center of the body near the heart. during the period from about 600 b.c.e. to 480 b.c.e, the series of writings known as upanishads set forth the twin doctrines of samsara (rebirth) and karma (the cause and effect actions of an individual during his or her life. an individual has a direct influence on his or her karma process in the material world and the manner in which the person deals with the difficulties inherent in an existence bound by time and space; the individual determines the form of his or her next earthly incarnation. the subject of the two doctrines is

l levels in which varying degrees of suffering or bliss awaited the soul between physical existences. seven of these heavens or hells rise above earth and seven descend below. according to the great hindu teacher sankara, who lived in the ninth century, and the school of advaita vedanata, the eventual goal of the soul s odyssey was moksa, a complete liberation from samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth, which would lead to nirvana, the ultimate union of atman with the divine brahma. in the eleventh century, ramanjua and the school of visitadvaita saw the bliss of nirvana as a complete oneness of the soul with god. in the last centuries before the common era, a form of hinduism known as bhakti spread rapidly across india. bhakti envisions a loving relationship between god and the devout b

ul with god. in the last centuries before the common era, a form of hinduism known as bhakti spread rapidly across india. bhakti envisions a loving relationship between god and the devout believer that is based upon grace. those devotees who have prepared themselves by a loving attitude, a study of the scriptures, and devotion to lord krishna may free themselves from an endless cycle of death and rebirth. eternal life is granted to the devotees who, at the time of death, give up their physical body with only thoughts of lord krishna on their minds. m delving deeper brandon, s. g. f. religion in ancient history. new york: charles scribner s sons, 1969. crim, keith, ed. the perennial dictionary of world religions. san francisco: harper collins, 1989. pelikan, jaroslav, ed. hinduism: the rig

d the 42 divine judges. the book of the dead also contained certain holy incantations that were designed to free the ka from the tomb and allow it to be incarnated again. the spirit might experience an existence as a hawk, a heron, or even a plant form, such as a lotus or a lily, moving along through various expressions of the life force until, after about 3,000 years, it could once again achieve rebirth as a human. m delving deeper gaster, theodor h, ed. the new golden bough. new york: criterion books, 1959. larousse dictionary of beliefs and religions. new york: larousse, 1994. osiris: death and resurrection osiris was called lord of lords, king of kings, and god of gods by the egyptians. according to the scholar e. a. w. budge [osiris] was the god-man who suffered, and died, and rose ag

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, paula. medical possibilities for psychedelic drugs. u.s. food and drug administration [online] http//www.fda.gov/fdac/features/795_ psyche.html. masters, r. e, and jean houston. the varieties of psychedelic experience. new york: dell/delta, 1966. mckenna, terrence, and tom robbins. archaic revival speculations on psychedelic mushroom, the amazon, virtual reality, ufos, evolution, shamanism, the rebirth of the goddess& the end of history. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1992. merkur, daniel. psychedelic sacrament manna, meditation& mystical experience. rochester, vt: inner traditions international, 2001. pearce, joseph chilton. the biology of transformation: a blueprint of the human spirit. rochester, vt: inner traditions international, 2002. psychedelic library [online] http//www.psyc

n to teach that there was a spirit within each person who died that might some day wish to return to its earthly abode, it became increasingly important that efforts be made to preserve the body. burial ceremonies, which had at first been intended solely as a means of disposing of the dead, came to be a method of preserving the physical body as a home for the spirit when it returned for a time of rebirth or judgment. today, in many countries such as the united states, canada, great britain, and the european nations, bodies are embalmed and every effort is made to preserve the body as long as possible. coffins are sold to the bereaved families as dependable containers that will be able to preserve and protect the body of their beloved for centuries. crypts and vaults to contain family coffi

ad, and in the united states, all hallow s eve, halloween, rather than a night of trick-or-treat, is traditionally a time to pray for those loved ones who are deceased. m delving deeper arnold, caroline. what we do when someone dies. new york: watts, 1987. crim, keith, gen. ed. the perennial dictionary of world religions. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1989. davies, jon. death, burial and the rebirth in the religions of antiquity. london and new york: routledge, 1999. dickerson, jr, robert b. final placement. algonac, mich: reference publications, 1982. elias, norbert. the history of manners. translated by edmund jephcott. new york: random house, 1982. frazer, sir james george. the golden bough. new york: collier/macmillan, 1950. grant, michael. the world of rome. cleveland, ohio: worl

icating a foul odor. from the latin stem, putr, meaning rotten, plus facere, to make. qur an the sacred text, or holy book, of islam. for muslims, it is the very word of allah, the absolute god of the islamic faith, as revealed to the prophet muhammad (c. 570 c.e. 632 c.e) by the archangel gabriel. rectory the house or dwelling that a rector (clergyman) lives in. reincarnation the reappearance or rebirth of something in a new form. some religions or belief systems state that the soul returns to live another life in a new physical form and does so in a cyclical manner. resurrection the act of rising from the dead or returning to life. in christian belief, the resurrection was the rising of jesus christ from the dead after he was crucified and entombed. resurrection also refers to the rising

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s, blessings, and meditations on crossing over. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1997. starhawk a feminist and peace activist, starhawk (also known as miriam simos) is one of the foremost voices of ecofeminism, and she travels widely in north america and europe giving lectures and workshops, drawing on her 25 years of research and experience in the goddess movement. her book the spiral dance: a rebirth of the ancient religion of the great goddess (1979, 1989) is currently regarded as the definitive work on modern, feminist witchcraft. starhawk holds an m.a. in psychology from antioch west university. she consulted on the films goddess remembered and the burning times, directed by donna read and produced by the national film board of canada. she also cowrote the commentary for full circle

columnist on the web for www.beliefnet.com and for www.znet.com. she lives part-time in san francisco, in a collective house with her partner and friends, and the rest of the time in a little hut in the woods where she practices the system of ecological design known as permaculture. m delving deeper starhawk. dreaming the dark: magic, sex, and politics. new york: beacon, 1982. the spiral dance: a rebirth of the ancient religion of the great goddess. san francisco: harpersanfranciso, 1999. truth or dare: encounters with power, authority and mystery. new york: harper& row, 1987. starhawk and hilary valentine. the twelve wild swans: journies into magic, healing and action. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 2000. starhawk, m. macha nightmare, and the reclaiming collective. the pagan book of l

passed her magical legacy on to john belham-payne, she died on september 1, 1999. m delving deeper gbiography of doreen valiente h [online] http//www.doreenvaliente.com/ biography.htm. 28 february 2002. grimassi, raven. encyclopedia of wicca& witchcraft. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 2000. valiente, doreen. an abc of witchcraft, past and present. new york: st. martin fs press, 1973. the rebirth of witchcraft. custer, wash: robert hale and phoenix publishing, 1989. witchcraft for tomorrow. new york: st. martin fs press, 1978. witchcraft since the middle ages, witchcraft, the gold religion, h or wicca, the gancient craft of the wise, h all of which are different names for the same nature-based religion, has been unjustly, and for the most part purposely, interwoven with satanism un

the path of spiritual progress. eleven is the number of the aquarian age, and represents universal energy. prana. eleven also symbolizes spiritual will power, vitality, and/or intense strength. the hanged man (arcanum twelve) represents taking on the new and giving up the old. this card allegorizes the prudent adept of arcanum nine (the hermit, who has now freed himself from the wheel of life and rebirth of arcanum ten. the adept has been elevated to glory through the equation and harmony between the higher and lower selves. number 12 symbolizes sacrifice and signifies immortality and the elixir of life. death (arcanum thirteen) is interpreted as the giving up of old ways, the complete severance with the past, and the ending of friendships or close associations. tarot card 13 also signifie

shadows of universities and libraries; and for many scholars, the text was regarded as one of the esoteric and sometimes forbidden hidden works of ancient wisdom. in the twentieth century, carl g. jung (1875.1961) introduced the kabbalah to the psychotherapeutic community and spoke highly of its value in achieving a sense of wholeness with the universe. study of the kabbalah underwent a dramatic rebirth of interest in the 1960s when there was both a resurgence of jewish spirituality and an interest in the mystic teachings of the kabbalah by many individuals in the new age movement. the appeal of the kabbalistic teachings to those seekers in the new age lay to a great extent in the understanding that god fs essence may emanate through various realms of existence and that each human may dra

that spans the river brue that runs through glastonbury is reputed to be the site where arthur fs sword, excalibur, was returned to the lady of the lake. during the twentieth and into the twentyfirst century, glastonbury remains the site of official festivals and unofficial gatherings that celebrate its celtic roots. beltane day, as the celts called may day, is celebrated with a festival for the rebirth of the sun. m delving deeper gordon, stuart. the encyclopedia of myths and legends. london: headline books, 1993. harpur, james, and jennifer westwood. the atlas of legendary places. new york: konecky& konecky, 1997. maltwood, katherine e. a guide to glastonbury fs temple of the stars. london: clarke, 1929. hollow earth edmund halley (1656.1742) is best known for having calculated the orbi

cating a foul odor. from the latin stem, putr, meaning rotten, plus facere, to make. qur fan the sacred text, or holy book, of islam. for muslims, it is the very word of allah, the absolute god of the islamic faith, as revealed to the prophet muhammad (c. 570 c.e..632 c.e) by the archangel gabriel. rectory the house or dwelling that a rector (clergyman) lives in. reincarnation the reappearance or rebirth of something in a new form. some religions or belief systems state that the soul returns to live another life in a new physical form and does so in a cyclical manner. resurrection the act of rising from the dead or returning to life. in christian belief, the resurrection was the rising of jesus christ from the dead after he was crucified and entombed. resurrection also refers to the rising

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eration; the celtic druids cited a belief that one day water and fire would overcome the world, a perfect echo of the common indo european wisdom, and a fine parallel to the worlddoom ragnarok of the germanic neighbors; some greek traditions spoke of the ekpyrosis, the fires that would destroy the world at the end, burning away the old to make way for the new, regenerated world. the idea of human rebirth or reincarnation seems to stem from an intuitive realization and appreciation of the neverending cycles of life, death, and rebirth or regeneration that can be witnessed in nature- nature dynamically changes form, through destruction and catastrophe, and through adaptation and modification, and yet, remains the same nature in essence; crops grow to die and give up their seeds to be birthed

omehow, and allowed its mystical renewing reality force to bridge across the awareness and to suffuse the consciousness of the one who was aware, and by so doing, bring about a transformation that was, in all ways, the same transformation that was waiting in potent ial at the heart of all things for the cosmos itself. humans were not different from the cosmos, on one level; a human transformation/rebirth through understanding of the divine mysteries was a lower harmonic to the cosmic rebirth or regeneration; the same event in essence, if not in magnitude. in fact, as we shall see, regeneration and recognition have a deep and important relationship in this context. what happens to a dream deferred the primal (and later) christian mysteries had ignored the elder wisdom of regeneration and re

this is a deep mystery that is central to the importance of the deep feminine. the masculine mysteries the masculine mysteries have been mostly discussed in the preceding sections; only a touch up is required here. the masculine mysteries revolve around the fire, and the descent of the fire-bringer into the realm of mortality, its (his) merging, incarnation, trials and ordeals, and finally death, rebirth, and triumph. the lord of fire and light, the son of the father, cannot and does not triumph without the force of the feminine to act as his firm basis, his ultimate source, as well as the perfect objects of his love, and finally, as his healer and redeemer, as we shall se. of course, the masculine mysteries have their origin in the primal figure of the horned god, the father; and fatherho

hese things should be seen as just miniature expressions of the regeneration of time and the whole world, and all its inhabitants. when the child, or the son of light, first emerges, he is often mythologically stolen, killed, or threatened, in such a manner that he disappears and is plunged into the chaos, the unformed darkness of the underworld/otherworld, or is simply hidden away. his rescue or rebirth, and subsequent preservation, only happens when the dame, in the form of dame wisdom, takes action to preserve him and assure his return- in greek mythology, the child dionysos, after being dismembered by the forces of chaos in the form of the titans, has his heart taken by athena (wisdom) and from her, the heart is given to safekeeping, where it is used to regenerate the baby boy, that he

he sources or great parents can be represented by earth and water; the son or daughter by air, and the child by fire; at the culmination, the fire returns to its source, to purify and renew it- the last returns to the first, the omega to the alpha, the fire returns to earth and water. the merging of the source with the child, the mortal with the immortal, sanctifies and lifts up the mortal to the rebirth it as an immortal. the last becomes the first again, and the first becomes the last. the body is a creature of earth and water. the words you use in the housle are of air; the fiery substances of wine or ale or mead, or bread, are themselves the child. by returning the housle bread and wine, by your consumption and absorption, to your body, to the earth and water, you are completing the lo

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a to tiphareth, being abrahadabra, iao and inri. the latter two are expounded by regardie in his "foundations of practical magic, but bear some brief mention here. iao is the formula of isis, apophis and osiris, and can be summarised as the formula describing three phases in all systems, be they events, acts or psychological occurrences. the formula describes the three phases as growth, death and rebirth. for example, group dynamics go through these phases, as does ones personal resolutions, or a day at work. the initiate welcomes the apophis phase as a "necessary evil, and works to time the osiris phase as appropriate. crowley connects the iao formula by the gematria of 17 (10+ 1+ 6) to the numbers of squares of the swastika, and from that to the aleph, in that the shape is similar, and t

is taken as an anagram of various phrases, but the most usual is "jesus of nazareth, king of the jews. however, by kabbalah, this phrase embodies the mystery of tiphareth in its analysis as yod, nun, resh and yod. i virgo isis n scorpio apophis r sun osiris i virgo isis thus, as with the tetragrammaton of yhvh, the formula repeats a key letter to indicate that events cycle through growth, death, rebirth and growth again. tiphareth might be the top of one mountain, but is also the beginning of another climb altogether. chapter ten; netzach, the rose in the lamplight the sepher yetzirah deems netzach "the hidden intelligence, for it pours forth a brilliant splendour onto all intellectual virtues which are looked upon with the eyes of the spirit and the ecstasy of faith" in most readings, ne

eping the forces of chaos breaking through into the world, which denotes netzach function in maintaining a regularity to the expansions of chesed. harmachis is horus of the horizon, and is connected with the sphinx, which in turn is symbolic of the four elemental sephiroth. the horizon is that of the veil of paroketh. the sephirah embodies the energies of transmutation through sacrifice, hope and rebirth. this sequence is explored in the appropriate ritual of the sapphire temple given later. chapter eleven; hod, the crystal watercourse in the psyche, hod is the intellect as balanced against the sephirah of the emotions, netzach. the alchemical hermaphrodite is composed of these two sephiroth, as hermes represents the mind, and aphrodite the emotions. thus hod is specifically the power of t

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s words "some approved of the publication of these books; a very few disapproved. that's all there is to it" nevertheless most temples of the stella matutina and the alpha et omega slowly stagnated and died, just as regardie had predicted. but because of regardie's actions, all students of magic today owe him an enormous debt of gratitude. according to francis king and isabel sutherland "that the rebirth of occult magic has taken place in the way it has can be very largely attributed to the writings of one man, dr. francis israel regardie."3 regardie made a very difficult and courageous decision to break his oath of secrecy to a lethargic golden dawn in order to save the valuable teachings of the order. given the fact that many former chiefs had the appalling habit of destroying order docu

ra tabatha cicero metatron house winter solstice 1996 endnotes 1. although crowley's reputation as "the wickedest man in the world was undeserved, he nonetheless enjoyed the notoriety and had only himself to blame for it. 2. we have in our possession a copy of a tham-level enochian exam taken by regardie and dated november 2,1934. he was given a satisfactory grade by his temple chefs. 3. from the rebirth of magic quoted in the foreword of regardie's what you should know about the golden dawn, ix. 4. in his later years, regardie always needed a tank of oxygen nearby. periodically, he would disappear to "take a puff" 5. republished in 1983 as the teachers of fulfillment (falcon press, 1983. 6. not in atlanta or athens, georgia, as some authors have mistakenly stated. 7. we had bought a house

ture itself is the embodiment of the two extremes, the two opposites of the trinity. to the student of the psyche, to the one who the knowledge of his higher self, the counsel given to avoid the opposites. his task is to refrain of extreme actions. in certain schools of magic, where the rites of by adepts who at one time thoroughly they employed, initiation ceremonies depicted higher self and its rebirth by means of a techrucal and meditation. therein, the higher self was always some sacred figure of the major religions-a man always shown as the son of cod. the essence of these systems was to develop the son w be born in you "look with; thou are buddha" these images could possibly have reference to any we know of. but rather i surmise these refer into conscious operation of a spiritual poi

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rishment. to you, i offer my love, my courage and my strength. so mote it be. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com hail mother! hail mother, full of grace, your people live upon you. blessed are all men and women and blessed is your womb from which all life springs. hail mother! goddess of all, cradle us within your loving arms from birth to death and to rebirth. faeries of the earthen mounds. guardians of secrets dear. by your love commit me here. to teach the knowledge of the ancient ones. be ever at my side to light my way. to guide and teach me both night and day. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com elements spirit of nature, embrace me. body of mother, nourish me. water of oceans, cleanse me. fire of mind, strengthen me. air from north, g

gs prosperity. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com pine resin to be spoken when lighting the resin of pine trees in an incense burner. resin of pine tree burn in this bowl. remove the dark energy that s invaded my home. while picking holly holly sprig, come with me into my home where you shall be united with your elven family. joyous festivities upon my hearth where we eagerly await the sun s rebirth. to life eternal, to the sun and to earth! eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com free me loosely bind a dark feather with a thin white thread to a tree and say the following: from stress and heartache, free me. from all the chaos of the days, free me. from stagnant thoughts, free me. from idleness and feelings of helplessness, free me. wind, free me! walk away. when the wind tugs the fea

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nearer to the creator. these periods repeat themselves until one finally corrects himself in a way that his desires (named guf in kabbalah) will no longer be a hindrance between us and the creator, until we cleave to the creator with our every trait, regardless of the world we re in. after the physical death (something that kabbalah regards as one s separation from the egoistic cover, there is a rebirth in our world from the corrected parts of the collective soul. they blend and merge in a new order because they are all parts of the collective creature and all the covers are in fact egoism. the egoism, adam harishon (the only creature, broke into many pieces, or separate souls, in order to make the correction of the collective soul possible. that is because it is easier to correct each pa

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aster apep within the self and master this demon by the will through the seba, the lesser devils of set. used for controlling the shadow familiars of seba into a form of organization. the first sigil of set-an, being of kolchoi tontonon, a name considered secret of set. by the first shall the ladder of darkness led up towards the light. this sigil represents the continuation of life in a cycle of rebirth and manifestation, the mind strengthened and free. invocation of set-an the adversary (at noon or midnight) before working with the sigils- i conjure thee, bringer of storms and chaos! i summon thee, isolator and winter bringer! lord of deserts and barren places of devils mighty typhon arise to encircle me i speak the words of seth which manifest my possibilities! i shall become! abraoth

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ble and more complete expression. the reaper--arcanum xiii. in divination, arcanum xiii may be read as death or transformation. arcanum xiii is figured by a skeleton reaping human heads, hands and feet. on the blade of the scythe wielded by time is a serpent and a scarabeus, and back of all is seen a rainbow. the progression of the scythe in its work is the emblem of the perpetual destruction and rebirth of all forms of being in the domain of time. the serpent on the scythe represents the virile energy that has carried the soul, symbolized by the scarab, in its pilgrimage of births and deaths through the mineral kingdom, the vegetable kingdom and the animal kingdom up to the estate of man. the skeleton mowing human heads, hands and feet signifies that the thoughts, works and understanding

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ex of the hat, where they are lost in the spaceless and timeless reaches of the unmanifest. when the magician reaches into the hat, he or she draws the objects back into the physical world through the veil of unknowing via the aperture of the point. the objects look the same, but if the child studies them closely, there is a magical sparkle to them. they have been metamorphosed by their death and rebirth. the pyramid is a kind of cone. this is why it is universally felt to be a source of power by those who have no knowledge of occult things-the human mind sub- consciously recognizes meaning in the underlying forms of nature. the souls of departed pharaohs, along with the souls of living aztec priests, climbed pyramids to achieve a direct communion with the divine. the pyramid, no matter wh

acts in nature. reciprocation. motion in a spiral. karma. xi. justice-regulator of the wheel. the will of god acting in the world. she is often pictured as blind because she does not share human perceptions, but she sees well enough in her own way. xii. hanged man-absolute futility. resignation to events. negativity-no pain, no trouble, but no hope or will either. xiii. death-decay necessary for rebirth. the dead must be absorbed into the earth before new shoots can sprout. serpent in the skull. flower on the grave. xiv. temperance-blending of opposites. the search for balance. dynamic tension. the golden mean. xv. devil-inertia in matter. the shadow, the vacuum, the mask, the bag of wind, the bluff, the bully, the lie. xvi. tower-pride. the tower of babel. all castles in the air that are

y service-yet as a definite and clearly expressed rite of passage, initiation is largely suppressed. this impoverishes western culture and is a symptom of its sickness. initiation is a ritualized event that marks a person's exit from the common world in which he or she has lived and his or her entry into an elite circle of the chosen. in its highest form it symbolizes death as a worldly being and rebirth as a spiritual being. initiation can be received voluntarily or involuntarily, depending on whether the candidate seeks to enter the circle (the quest) or is called to enter by higher spirit forces (the calling. in the quest the candidate recognizes consciously the value, material or spiri- tual, of the hidden wisdom that the members of the circle possess and resolutely sets out to attain

r special dress, eat only prescribed foods, and obey all other taboos. the rite of initiation takes place within the circle with dancing and music, often with drugs or alcohol, to lend a heightened mental perception of the event and set it apart from everyday reality. here the candidate is ritually slain and buried in his or her old name, then magically resurrected and given a new name to signify rebirth into the secret circle. the nakedness of birth is covered up in special robes that accord with the newly exalted status of the initiate. he or she is given the most secret and holy wisdom of the secret society compressed into emblems and parables. occult initiation is patterned after this model. since the time of its initial descent from the eleusinian mysteries of the greeks, its rough ed

terned after this model. since the time of its initial descent from the eleusinian mysteries of the greeks, its rough edges have been softened, and ritual scarring and mutilation is not customary; although in the rites of black magic these practices still go on to satisfy the sadism of the initiators. true magical initiation is the highest form of initiation-the death of the material life and the rebirth into the spiritual life. the actual rite of initiation into a magical group occurs when the candidate is without great knowledge of occult matters. usually the actions and symbolism in the rite are a complete mystery. if the candidate has imagination he or she may see a hidden, spiritual meaning -the glow of the sun through a veil of clouds. on the other hand, if the candidate is a fool he

hrough a veil of clouds. on the other hand, if the candidate is a fool he or she will see only empty words and ges- tures, and will soon repudiate the circle he or she formerly sought to enter with such passion. since these disillusioned candidates remain convinced that they have learned nothing, and that there is nothing to learn, they can do no harm. the heart of magical initiation is death and rebirth. symbolism of mystical rebirth is found throughout the literature of mankind. the story of jonah and the whale is an example of rebirth through the calling. aboard a ship during a raging storm, jonah has no faith in divine protection. his spiritual center is overpowered by the brute instincts of the flesh. cast into the sea, he is swallowed by a whale- yet he does not die. jonah sees that

ical will. in modern magic the symbol is a motto chosen by the initi- ate or chosen for the initiate. at least for the immediate future, the initiate will pat- tern his or her life around this new name and motto, for when their usefulness has been exhausted, the initiate will choose or be given others that will help in the attainment of a still higher level of wisdom. at the time of the rite, the rebirth is more in word than deed. as yet the initiate is much unchanged. the new name means little or nothing, however the initiate may reverence it. the elements of the rite are confusing and seemingly without meaning. in effect, the ritual of initiation compresses into a short span of time a process of becoming that requires years to bear fruit. as the magus grows in wisdom and acquires the bas

han deed. as yet the initiate is much unchanged. the new name means little or nothing, however the initiate may reverence it. the elements of the rite are confusing and seemingly without meaning. in effect, the ritual of initiation compresses into a short span of time a process of becoming that requires years to bear fruit. as the magus grows in wisdom and acquires the basics of the art, the real rebirth takes place-a slow miracle, like the growth of a tree, so slow that it is barely discernible in the short run but is readily apparent over a large stretch of time. if candidates are initiated into a lodge or other established circle, they have a relatively easy task. they are told what to do, and provided that they are of average intelligence and courage, they will readily be able to accom

ny public ritual. this only happens when the elements of the personal rite have been inspired by the light. then it is of extreme potency, for it strikes a resonance in the deepest core of the subconscious mind of the initiate. each person must seek into the secret depths of his or her being for the initia- tory ritual, bearing in mind the necessary components of segregation, purification, death, rebirth, and christening with a new name and a motto. it is best for the beginner to work with the simple tools of the art-circle, ray, pentagram, ele- ments, guardians of the quarters, wave, spiral, light, and the names of god. these are seldom hurtful if intelligently used in harmonious combination. first you must purify your mind and body. for the mind, set yourself apart for a period of severa

ers to the all and state clearly your intention in carrying out the ritual. these are the preliminaries, which are the most important part of any ritual, as they prepare the way for what is to follow. if they are not properly carried out, the essential symbolic message of the ritual will not reach its objective, no matter how elegantly it is constructed or executed. the actual ritual of dying and rebirth must be constructed of visual symbol- ism that you can act out with your physical body and picture within your mind. it is not the purpose of this work to present particular examples. however, one avenue is the symbolic destruction of the old name by fire and its return to the ground, followed by the consuming of the new magical name that has been writ- ten on some edible substance. the ma

he development of a special house for prayer is the outgrowth of a fixed society rooted to the soil by agriculture. in ancient times and among prim- itive hunting and foraging tribes, devotions were often tied to special days of the year, and a temporary temple of dancing human bodies and flaming bonfires, or colored lines drawn in the sand, was erected as the focus for magical forces. the modern rebirth of wicca (a conscious attempt to revive the deification of nature) shows a regression to the nomadic type of magical worship, where the temple is formed by convening a group of worshippers, often but not necessarily thirteen in number, on the eight major feast days of the year, called sabbats. wor- ship takes place (ideally) out-of-doors with only the magic circle to act as the walls of th

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antics of the spiritualist seance, during which the spirits cause a table under the hands of those attending the seance to move and emit raps. the "ring and disc" was a method of divination popular within the golden dawn, by which a ring was suspended from the hand on a short length of silk thread over a piece of paper inscribed with a circle. francis king, commenting on mathers' manifesto in the rebirth of magic (1982, believed the "ring and disc" to be a complex device consisting of a painted cardboard ring suspended on a silk ribbon above a disk inscribed with hebrew letters and occult symb o l "h o wever, in a footnote in the earlier work ritual magic in england (1970, king described the device more simply as a gold ring on a silk thread, held suspended above a disk on which were writt

to be investigated in a systematic way. crowley's astral flights to the thirty aethyrs represent the ultimate utilization of the methods of scrying and astral projection taught by the golden dawn, as perfected by its most controversial member. 154. crowley, confessions ofaleister crowley, 613. chapter remote viewing and the d uring the decade of the 1930s, interest in the paranormal experienced a rebirth under the umbrella term extrasensory perception, or esp. the paranormal was taken out of the scance room of the trance medium and brought into the laboratory of the psychologist or parapsychologist, as he came to be known. a professor of psychology at duke university named joseph banks rhine (1895-1980) was the man most responsible for this rehabilitation of the study of "wild talents" tha

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yehovashah (i, h= 7, v= 1, sh= d, h= 7) are associated in the christian kabbalism of the renaissance with jesus christ-they are two magic forms of the name jesus. osiris, isis, and apophis are egyptian deities. typhon is the greek name for apophis. isis ritual of the rose cross 181 is the giver of life who resurrects osiris, apophis is the giver of death who kills osiris, and osiris is the god of rebirth, having died and been restored to life. lux is a latin word meaning light; iao is a gnostic name of god that is probably related to yahweh. the latin letters i. n. r i. refer to the crucifurion of christ-they are the first letters of the words iesus nazarenus rex iudaeorum (jesus of nazareth, king of the jews, and are supposed to have been written on a placard affured to jesus by the roman

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ds directly into the subconscious and, if used with malicious intent, can impress permanent scars into the mind of an individual. the child whose father or mother continually cries "stupid" in a deep, forceful voice has little chance of ever growing into a fully functional human being. when such hurtful commands are delivered with the commanding voice, their effect is multiplied tenfold. vii t he rebirth of ceremonial magic that occurred in europe during the renaissance was in no small measure driven by the amalgamation of the kabbalah of the jews with the classical occultism of greece and rome. central to this european hybrid was the tenet that a new name of power had been revealed by god that would supplant the ancient supremacy of tetragrammaton. this new name expressed the essential be

under its left wing, and the power of the name upon the ring would force the dark angels to tell him all the secrets of supernal wisdom. in alchemy, a common image is the swallowing or devouring of the king (dominant conscious mind) by a dragon or other beast, representing the prima materia (unconscious mind. this brings about a state of nigredo (darkness) that eventually leads to the renewal and rebirth of the king (see carl jung, psychology and alchemy [princeton, 19801, p. 417. a distinction should probably be made between swallowing the ring and placing the ring in the mouth. in the first case, the occult virtues of the ring are taken hostage; in the second case, the ring confers the power of verbal command, which is expressed through the organ of the mouth. the ring of solomon represe

his name out of the book of life, but i will confess his name before my father, and before his angels (rev. 3:4-5) notice that the people of sardis are completely identified with their names. st. john does not say there are a few men in sardis who have not defiled their garments, but "a few names" the garments he refers to are their physical bodies, which become white to indicate their spiritual rebirth and oneness with christ. later on he writes: him that overcometh will i make a pillar in the temple of my god, and he shall go no more out: and i will write upon him the name of my god, and the name of the city of my god, which is new jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my god; and i will write upon him my new name (rev. 3:12) this is a fascinating verse for its magical implica

dle, declare your intention to the source of light: hear me, 0 lord! thou who art the first and last, the beginning and end, the alpha and omega. who art the nameless and formless one, creator of all, lord of light, lord of life, lord of love. hear this prayer of thy true son (or daughter) i ask that you look with favor upon this ritual assumption of heavenly christ. aid me in my becoming. i seek rebirth in thy light. aid me in my becoming. i seek perfection in thy sight. aid me in my becoming. clothe me in white raiment. crown me with gold. set me upon the throne of mercy and the white horse of judgement. into my right hand place the scepter of rule. into my left hand place the sword of law. anoint me with thy secret names of power. so let it be. walk three times around the altar, or rota

in white raiment. i am crowned with a crown of gold. i am yod- hay-shin-vav-hay, the left hand of wrath, the lord of lords; i am yod-hay-vav-shin-hay, the right hand of mercy, the king of kings. in my right hand, a shining scepter of gold; in my left hand, a fiery sword of silver. i am anointed with light and baptized with fire. all spirits of the four worlds, i call upon you! bear witness to my rebirth and acknowledge my names. so let it be. visualize the figure of the heavenly messiah permeating your flesh and bone. receive this spirit into your mind and heart. think with his thoughts, feel with his emotions, and as much as possible actually become the christform, not only outwardly in features and shape of body, but inwardly in the depths of your soul. now is the time to meditate upon

gic circle using the names of power ihvshh and ihshvh, and absorb the circle back into your heart center through your ler index finger. speak the closing words: this ritual assumption of the christ-form is well and truly ended. so let it be. clap your hands together sharply four times. put away the materials upon the altar, taking special care with the white headband, the symbol of your spiritual rebirth inside the sacred circle. it should be kissed when it is removed, and wrapped in blue silk or white linen for so long as it remains tied. once it is untied, the circle is broken and it loses its spiritual associations. in subsequent ritual assumptions of the christ-form, the pre-tied white and black headbands can be used. however, they should be untied and washed before they become soiled

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gician can consciously assign a symbol to an operation and use that symbol for his/her own growth- and discard it when necessary. since night is the traditional time for satanic/black magical activity, you may wish to invest it with meaning. hold a ritual that places a certain meaning in the dark of night- so that its coming will begin to work your soul automatically. i choose "night is a time of rebirth" this way, the non-ego parts of myself begin to recharge the batteries of inspiration and magic every time the sky darkens. if i am doing some other kind of work as part of my life work of becoming, i can choose another meaning. 6. seek out the brothers of darkness. learning the art of magic goes a hell of a lot swifter if you don't have to reinvent the wheel. you'll accomplish your goals

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s) isbn 1-56718-170-8 (pbk: akl. paper) l. mandala. 2. talismans. 3. magic squares. 4. tree of life. 5. magic. i. title. ii. series. bf1442. m34c66 1995 135. 4.dc20 95-44525 cip llewellyn publications a division of llewellyn worldwide, ltd. p. o. box 64383, st. paul, mn 55164-0383 about llewellyn's golden dawn series one hundred years ago the original order of the golden dawn initiated a powerful rebirth of interest in the western esoteric tradition that has lasted through this day.this series of books adds new impetus to the great work itself among an ever broadening base of sincere students. i further promise and swear that with the divine permission, i will from this day forward, apply myself to the great work.which is: to purify and exalt my spiritual nature so that with the divine aid

unknown. it is not truly considered to be one of the sephiroth, however, because its form is as yet unrevealed. we are including it only because the time is appropriate for the release of certain daath energies for those who are ready. i do not recommend working with this sphere in any way, however, until all other planetary/sphere energies have been well integrated. to daath is attributed pluto, rebirth, and the great abyss. eleven is considered to be a master number in numerology and relates to the avant-garde and great visionaries. in the tarot it is represented by the magician acting through him or herself to produce justice. take this as a cue. if you use the eleventh kamea, apply it with great care. shapes the shapes given on pages 43-51 are suggested outlines for your talisman based

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is only the story of istar descending into hell, but the point of the story is different. again you can say it is simply siva, the god of death and resurrection; but here again the story is different. it is quite possible that the stories of istar and siva have influenced the myth, but i think that its origin is most likely celtic. in celtic legends the lords of the underworld did prepare you for rebirth, and many living people are said to have entered their regions, formed alliances with them and returned safely, but it needed great courage; only a hero or a demigod dared to risk it. celtic mysteries assuredly contained rituals of death and resurrection, and possibly visits to the underworld with a safe return. i think st. patrick's purgatory in lough derg was a christianised version of t

e born into the cult, but sometimes outsiders were recruited from those wishing to gain occult powers, from those who came from curiosity, and i think mainly from those who fell in love with a member. membership of the cult meant torture and death if discovered, but it promised certain times of happiness, a partial release from the everyday round of toil and boredom, and rest and comradeship with rebirth for those who still loved this world- in fact a chance of good things in this world, and a saving from purgatory and hell in the next. they firmly believed in this and therefore risked initiating their children. if these betrayed you, it meant torture and death for you. if they kept faith, someone else might yet betray them, with like result. but some of them thought more of the future lif

hich are the three that neither die, nor do they have bread put into them, yet they save lives from death' solomon 'the staff, the cord, and the ring' the staff is the 'wand' of the conductor of souls who conducts one through the underworld. the cord is the 'cable tow' with which the candidate is bound, a willing victim properly prepared for sacrifice. the 'ring' symbolises the 'vesica piscis' of rebirth. witches believe that much of their knowledge came from the east and they think there are witch practices described in the kabbala, notably verses 964-969 of the greater holy assembly of the book of zohar and elsewhere. similar things occurred in most religious cults at the same time, but i think it must have been a kabbalist who pointed these passages out to them. referring to the story t

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e calm of self-surrender you can free yourself from the bondage of virtue and vice during this very life. devote yourself, therefore, to reaching union with brahman. to unite the heart with brahman and then to act: that is the secret of unattached work. in the calm of self-surrender, the seers renounce the fruits of their actions, and so reach enlightenment. then they are free from the bondage of rebirth, and pass to that state which is beyond all evil. when your intellect has cleared itself of its delusions, you will become indifferent to the results of all action, present and future. at present, your intellect is bewildered by conflicting interpretations of the scriptures. when it can rest, steady and undistracted, in contemplation of the atman (the godhead within every being, then you w

. now this, monks, is the noble truth of pain: birth is painful, old age is painful, sickness if painful, death is painful, sorrow, lamentation, dejection, and despair are painful. contact with unpleasant things is painful, not getting what one wishes is painful. in short the five groups of grasping are painful. now this, monks, is the noble truth of the cause of pain: the craving, which tends to rebirth, combined with pleasure and lust, finding pleasure here and there; namely, the craving for passion, the craving for existence, the craving for non-existence. now this, monks, is the noble truth of the cessation of pain: the cessation without a remainder of craving, the abandonment, forsaking, release, non-attachment. now this, monks, is the noble truth of the way that leads to the cessatio

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t (beyond unity) odd number and the first even, it resembles the union of male and female, as in marriage or in androgyneity, health and beauty, on account of its symmetry. it was called all-sufficient, panarkeia. according to the pythagoreans, after a period of 216 years, which number is the cube 6, all things are regenerated, and they said this was the periodic time of the metempsychosis or the rebirth of man after each death. when mutiplied into itself, like the pentad, six has also always itself in the unit place, thus, 6, 36, 216, 1296, 7776. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott on the 6th day, man was created according to genesis. on the 6th day of the week, jesus died on the cross. 67. the israelites had 6 cities of refuge. numbers xxxv. v. 6. t

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of god, and thou art that city (kg withdraws, leaving the postulant alone. the door is partly dosed, showing the wheel of fortune key. one of the officers reads clearly so that postulant may hear through partially dosed door 'harken now unto the mystery of the tarot key before thee, and meditate thereon in thy heart. is not the taro itself named after the rota? the wheel of destiny: of birth and rebirth. lo, do not the radii thereof spring from the white centre of the divine spirit, passing into the darkness of the womb of the divine mother; that being born of the virgin, they may be crucified upon the cross of manifestation, and thence commit themselves again unto the father "man indeed standeth between spirit and matter, betwixt angel and animal, at the summit of his ascent. we behold a

the earth, the son shall offer that which he hath received and peradventure then may behold the face of his father (the postulant must fold up the cross into a cube and kneel thereon, supported by sh and kg. postulant holds his crystal in both hands and bends his head (there is a pause (magus appears behind veil) mg "be still, my son "hear the praise giving that keeps the soul in tune the hymn of rebirth the song of union "be still, my son "thus shalt thou know that he is himself, both things that are and things that are not; the things that are, he hath made manifest. he keepeth things that are not in himself. he is the god beyond all name. he is the unmanifest. he is the most manifest. he whom the mind alone can contemplate. he: visible unto the eyes as well, he is the one of no body, th

earches outwardly for the means of selfexpression and self-enrichment. in autumn, the sun's entry into libra stirs into activity the opposite influence of venus. it is no longer the life of the personal self which is of importance, but the unifying influence of the planet of love which impels us to search for that other our higher self and to prepare for that inner consummation which will lead to rebirth and a new life. we may remember that after winter solstice, we celebrate the birth of jesus during this half of the solar year. the coming six months are therefore under the influence of the spiritual life of union. it is thus in a sense dual or, rather, under the influence of a duality which should be merged into unity or oneness. our ceremony is a presentation of this solar drama showing

of people who claimed 8=3 and one of 9=2 rank (an ex-chief of whare ra, i would safely say he was far ahead of them in technical expertise that they could not be considered in the same league as he. the only other person i met who came anywhere near him on that lofty golden dawn plane was jack taylor, though both had their own areas of expertise. his general impact can be easily summed up in the rebirth of magic, by francis king and isabel sutherland, in the chapter on the magical explosion. he is sadly missed by us at thoth hermes, and those of us who met him were privileged to have known him. his impact on the occult field is so vast that it cannot be judged; but what he stood for will, i think, be remembered for a number of years to come. carrying on the tradition of the golden dawn by

experience in the golden dawn system made her an excellent choice to serve in this position. in 1980 she founded a golden dawn temple in hollywood, california with her magical partner and friend, peter yorke, and another associate, under the guidance of dr. israel regardie. she named the temple "osiris, khenti-amenti (osiris in the underworld, which regardie felt was an appropriate name signaling rebirth of the golden dawn. in 1983 laura and mr. yorke resigned from oka, and founded the temple of ra horakhty (horns of the horizon, in santa monica, california. this temple is still active today. the history of the events and members of both oka and rh will be thoroughly discussed in laura's forthcoming book. laura received a degree in anthropology from ucla in 1975, and is presently completin

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of the virgin (15th august) and of (19) the nativity of the virgin (8th september, corresponding to the movement of the god through virgo; there is the conflict of christ and his disciples with the autumnal asterisms (20) the serpent and the scorpion; and finally there is the curious fact that the church (21) dedicates the very day of the winter solstice (when any one may very naturally doubt the re-birth of the sun) to st. thomas, who doubted the truth of the resurrection!"40 any student of comparative religion can investigate the truth of these statements, 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 li

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

on into the will to achieve. it is the struggle to attain the goal which an increasing light reveals. so potent is this struggle that on the ordinary wheel it culminates (prior to the re-entry in aries of the soul seeking incarnation) by the- 237- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust fixed desire, growing steadily stronger, to follow the wheel of re-birth; on the reversed progress around the zodiac, the struggle is to overcome and destroy all that has been so laboriously achieved upon the ordinary wheel and to demonstrate in scorpio (through the terrific tests there applied) that the form no longer controls but that the lessons learnt through the use of the form have been retained; the struggle is to achieve initiation in capricorn and thu

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

en they were dying acted differently. one, in lucknow, died cursing god and his mother and railing against life, and the other was a horrible case of hydrophobia. death is not so awful when you are face to face with it. it often seemed to me like a kind friend and i never had the slightest feeling that something real and vital was coming to an end. i knew nothing of psychic research or the law of re-birth and yet, even in those orthodox days, i was sure it was a question of passing on to other work. subconsciously i really never did believe in hell, and a lot of the men orthodox from the christian point of view, ought to have gone there. i intend no dissertation on death, but i would like to give here a definition of death which has always seemed to me to be adequate. death is "a touch of

was really speaking of christ and the planetary hierarchy. i found that the esoteric presentation of truth in no way belittled christ. he was, indeed, the son of god, the first born in a great family of brothers, as st. paul has told us, and a guarantee to us of our own divinity. the third teaching which i came across and which pulled me up short for a long time was the dual belief in the law of re-birth and the law of cause and effect, called karma and reincarnation by theosophists who, so often, like to sound learned. personally, i believe that all this most necessary teaching would have made far more rapid progress if theosophists had not been so overcome and glamored by the sanskrit terms. if they had taught about the law of re-birth instead of the doctrine of reincarnation and if the

cognition of the truth. i say this in no critical spirit, because i succumbed to the same glamour. looking back now to my early classes and lectures, i laugh with amusement at my ponderous use of technical phrases of sanskrit words and of the detailed significances of the ageless wisdom. i find that i get simpler as i get older and may be a little wiser. with the discovery that there was a law of re-birth i found many of my problems, personal and individual, were capable of solution. many who come to a study of the ageless wisdom find it difficult at first to accept the fact of the law of re-birth. it seems so revolutionary; it is apt to evoke a spirit of weariness and of spiritual fatigue. one life seems hard enough without contemplating many lives, both behind us and before us. yet, if o

entirely free. even though she has been twice married, we have always been together under the most peculiar circumstances and i have been grateful for her love and above all for her friendship. it would be so good if mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, valued friendship in their relations more than they do. i am confident that if i could look back into our past relationships under the law of re-birth, the present really happy situation between my three girls and myself would be clearly explained. do not infer from this that we always get on. there have been stormy scenes and misunderstandings. they have not always understood me, and i have often agonised over them, and wanted to change things, and hoped they would act differently, etc, etc. it was towards the close of 1917 that walter

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ce of my selfish fears; the absurd vanity of my hopes; the sorry righteousness called i. and you? certainly not befitting are tears of blood, nor laughter of gods. ye do not even look like men but the strange spawn of some forgotten ridicule. lost among the illusions begot of duality-are these the differentiation s ye make for future entity to ride your bestial self? millions of times have ye had re-birth and many more times will ye again suffer existence. ye are of things distressed, living down the truths ye made. loosing only from my overflow, perchance i teach ye to learn of yourselves? in my becoming shall the hungry satisfy of my good and evil? i strive me neither, and confide subsequent to the event. know my purpose: to be a stranger unto myself, the enemy of truth. uncertain of wha

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said "the father of that one only thing is the sun; its mother the moon; the wind carries it in his bosom, and its nurse is the spirituous earth" in the occult rendering of the same it is added "and spiritual fire is its instructor (guru" this fire is the higher self, the spiritual ego, or that which is eternally reincarnating under the influence of its lower personal selves, changing with every re-birth, full of tanha or desire to live. it is a strange law of nature that, on this plane, the higher (spiritual) nature should be, so to say, in bondage to the lower. unless the ego takes refuge in the atman, the all-spirit, and merges entirely into the essence thereof, the personal ego may goad it to the bitter end. this cannot be thoroughly understood unless the student makes himself familia

"gods, monads and atoms" it is symbolised in the pythagorean triangle, the 10 dots within, and the seven points of the triangle and the cube* whence the kabalistic name of shells given to the astral form, the body called kama rupa, left behind by the higher angels in the shape of the higher manas, when the latter leaves for devachan, forsaking its residue* which shows that the essenes believed in re-birth and many reincarnations on earth, as jesus himself did, a fact we can prove from the new testament itself[[vol. 2, page] 112 the secret doctrine. i corinthians vi, 3 "know ye not that we (the initiates) shall judge angels? finally, it is shown in every ancient scripture and cosmogony that man evolved primarily as a luminous incorporeal form, over which, like the molten brass round the cla

ggestive stanza. stanza vii. from the semi-divine down to the first human races (24) the higher creators reject in their pride the forms evolved by the "sons of yoga (25) they will not incarnate in the early "egg-born (26) they select the later androgynes (27) the first man endowed with mind- 24. the sons of wisdom, the sons of night (issued from the body of brahma when it became night, ready for re-birth, came down. they saw the (intellectually) vile forms of the first third (still senseless race (a "we can choose" said the lords "we have wisdom" some entered the chhayas. some projected a spark. some deferred till the fourth (race. from their own essence they filled (intensified) the kama (the vehicle of desire. those who received but a spark remained destitute of (higher) knowledge. the

greeably to other versions, a self-born power, which, like minerva, sprang from his father's body. he is the chief of the prajapati- the lords or creators of being. in vishnu purana, parasara says of him "in every kalpa (or manvantara) daksha and the rest are born and are again destroyed" and the rig-veda says that "daksha sprang from aditi and aditi from daksha" a reference to the eternal cyclic re-birth of the same divine essence[[vol. 2, page] 248 the secret doctrine. rishis, kumaras* etc. etc, are said to incarnate personally in the third root-race and thus find themselves "reborn over and over again" in the esoteric doctrine they are generally named the asuras, or the asu-ra devata or pitar-devata (gods) for, as said, they were first gods- and the highest- before they became "no-gods"

truth, a most divine noble expression of the primitive intuition of man concerning deity. it is a doctrine which explains the origin of evil, and[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 306 the secret doctrine. for karma is one with the unknowable, of which it is an aspect in its effects in the phenomenal world. intimately, or rather indissolubly, connected with karma, then, is the law of re-birth, or of the re-incarnation of the same spiritual individuality in a long, almost interminable, series of personalities. the latter are like the various costumes and characters played by the same actor, with each of which that actor identifies himself and is identified by the public, for the space of a few hours. the inner, or real man, who personates those characters, knows the whole time

just translated and supposed to be still sevenfold with all their principles, even the body represented astrally in the kama-loka or hades, before their separation" and, there is wheat three cubits high for mummies in a state of perfection (i.e, those already separated, whose three higher principles are in devachan "who are permitted to glean it" this region (devachan) is called "the land of the re-birth of gods" and shown to be inhabited by scheo, tefnant, and seb. the "region for the manes seven cubits high (for the yet imperfect mummies, and the region for those "in a state of perfection" who "glean wheat three cubits high" is as clear as possible. the egyptians had the same esoteric philosophy which is now taught by the cis-himalayan adepts, who, when buried, have corn and wheat place

name enos (man; then began men to call upon the name of the lord- which has no sense in it, since adam and the others must have done the same[[vol. 2, page] 470 the secret doctrine. the holy of holies (now symbolized by the cow, in the beginning through the temple hiranya gharba (the radiant egg- in itself a symbol of universal, abstract nature- meant spiritual conception and birth, or rather the re-birth of the individual and his regeneration: the stooping man at the entrance of the sanctum sanctorum, ready to pass through the matrix of mother nature, or the physical creature ready to re-become the original spiritual being, pre-natal man. with the semite, that stooping man meant the fall of spirit into matter, and that fall and degradation were apotheosized by him with the result of dragg

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forces of attraction and repulsion. electricity and magnetism are but manifestations of it. this is the power which brings about that "continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations" which is the essence of life according to herbert spencer, and that "continuous adjustment of external relations to internal relations" which is the basis of transmigration of souls, punar janman (re-birth) in the doctrines of the ancient hindu philosophers. a yogi must thoroughly subjugate this power before he can attain moksham (6) mantrika-sakti. the force or power of letters, speech or music. the mantra shastra has for its subject-matter this force in all its manifestations. the influence of melody is one of its ordinary manifestations. the power of the ineffable name is the crown of th

ch views of nature and man, on the authority of the celestial bodies and their mysteries[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] final stage of the sacred mysteries" had mr. staniland wake been a theosophist, he might have added that the narrow upward passage leading to the king's chamber had a "narrow gate" indeed; the same "strait gate" which "leadeth unto life" or the new spiritual re-birth alluded to by jesus in matthew vii. 13 et seq; and that it is this gate in the initiation temple, that the writer who recorded the words alleged to have been spoken by an initiate, was thinking of* all we have said in isis is now found corroborated in the "egyptian mystery; or the source of measures" by those readings of the bible with the numerical and geometrical keys thereto[[vol. 1, p

ka) is rendered as the efficient cause, when antithesized with upadana the physical or material cause. in the sankhya pradhana is a cause inferior to brahma, or rather brahma being himself a cause, is superior to pradhana. hence "incidental" is wrongly translated, and ought to be translated, as shown by some scholars "ideal" cause, and even real cause would have been better[[vol. 1, page] 371 the re-birth of gods. other is called prakritika- and occurs at the end of the age or life of brahma, when everything that exists is resolved into the primal element, to be remodelled at the end of that longer night. but the third, atyantika, does not concern the worlds or the universe, but only the individualities of some people; it is thus individual pralaya or nirvana; after having reached which, t

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nuine adeptship founded upon the reconciliation of opposites. we have discovered and learnt to know ourselves- and have discovered the unity, the wholeness, which lies beyond the shadow and the self. we have learnt that we are- or can be- both destroyer and creator, both lucifer and god, as we have learnt the natural necessity of both these forces of creation, and destruction, and how renewal and re-birth proceeds from them. we now need to and should go beyond this- for anything else is unhealthy and a waste of life. it is also the negation of the work of those great artists which has allowed us this understanding. thus, there is no longer any need for those who desire to be great artists to endure or desire personal suffering to aid their development and their understanding, as there is n

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oly, blessed be he! rules mitsraim. 23 this world is seemingly the abode of tetragrammaton (4) assiah or the assiatic world, the world of action, also called the world of qliphoth, that is the world of shells or demons. in its ten sephiroth lives the actual material substance of the universe. it is the abode of sammael, the prince of darkness. it is subject to change, birth, death, corruption and re-birth, yet not anything in it is considered as ever totally annihilated or destroyed in essence or atom. it is the abode of the evil spirit and his demonical forces. 24 such are the four worlds. in the simple sephirotic scheme the first is referred to kether 'hokmah, and binah; the second to 'hesed, pahad, and tiphereth; the third to netzah, hod, and yesod; and the fourth to affixed to the thro

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remains.theheart of dionysos had, however, been saved by pallas (minerva, and from it the god was re-born and restored to olympos. from the burnt remains of the titans all mankind was produced byzeusas the demiurgos, the fashioner of this earthworld.thedionysia, at their origin, were concerned with this fable, which refers both to the gods and to men- to human incarnation, sufferings, death, and re-birth, as is learnedly explained by olympiodorus, a neo-platonic philosopher of the sixth century. clemens, of alexandria, tells us of the special attributes or symbols which were used- the thyrsus, the pine cone, the golden apples, a wheel, a fleece of wool, the bone of the ankle, and a spotted animal skin.thepanathenaiawere another very important series of religious festivals. they were held

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the candidate- another example of the curious correspondence between the admission to this degree and the ordination of the sub-deacon(*see the science of the sacraments, p. 315) 528. now that the solemn o. of secrecy has been taken the h c k is removed and the blessing of light is restored to the candidate. in commenting upon this bro. j. s. m. ward says: 529. notice the word restored. mystical re-birth marks the beginning of our journey towards the light, of our ascent towards god, but it is a restoration- a journey back to him from whom we came. exactly the same procedure is followed in the initiatory rites of the turkish dervishes. among them the incident is followed by a beautiful exposition of the mystical meaning of light. it is the divine light, emblem of god himself, and of divin

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

realization of the mysterious incomprehensibility of all things. whoever the designer, he is the generator, and all the partial disclosures of our knowledge prove this. i find it difficult to recognize my own part in anything. if i am begotten of all yesterdays, then ego (made of memories become flesh) is my only lamp for the tomorrows. memories are the ghosts of experience seeking to revive, to re-birth in us. in those things in which man is unlike his gods he is unlike himself. jk= f( bc( n@ x( s a refraction of all other selves and the gods, man becomes more of himself with an inclusive awareness. but by conscious selflessness we become automata of our frustrations. fit subjects and media for the stray astrals of the q. 8. e..1. it is the negation of our own life. i teach the multiplic

hich, ghost-like, lives on, adumbrating our fatalities whereby our past constantly reenters us. what we reactivate is determined by our belief, will, desire, and action. were i a vampire what somnambulists would i awaken! when the great fatigue overtakes me, and life and myself tire of the poor media, judgment after death will be my least worry. our good and evil live on; expiation will come with re-birth. how much i spawn. as wind-blown, how little fertile. when people tell me they have experienced everything c i gas p! what they really mean is this: these are the things they have known. usually of poverty-stricken unities and frustrations. from childhood until death we seek and enjoy a substitutive reality, unwittingly making a parallel. we instinctively imitate the fact that we are the

MEANING OF MASONRY

work out of chaos and roughness into due and true form. the ceremony of our first degree, then, is a swift and comprehensive portrayal of the entrance of all men into, first, physical life, and second, into spiritual life; and as we extend congratulations when a child is born into the world, so also we receive with acclamation the candidate for masonry who, symbolically, is seeking for spiritual re-birth; and herein we emulate what is written of the joy that exists among the angels of heaven over every sinner who repents and turns towards the light. the first degree is also eminently the degree of preparation, of self-discipline and purification. it corresponds with that symbolical cleansing accorded in the sacrament of baptism, which, in the churches, is, so to speak, the first degree in

SATANICON

ty is the very essence of civilization. the xian church and its pulpit-pounders have always made their living off the fears of the people: the fear of retribution if one does not submit to their doctrines and eternal punishment if one does not submit to their god. to be a false christ is to allow the worthless to perish while allowing the worthy to flourish. the second coming not of jesus but the re-birth of babylon! the society of satan! the true saviors of mankind; the enlighteners of truth are the antichrists! the satanic creed and the precepts of evilution are guidelines, which if adhered to, will serve as a catalyst for individuality, creativity, diabolical thought and the development of a strong ego* further, it is essential that the satanist maintain these evilutionary formulae if h

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

the key spiritual icons of the old craft, and even to key ancient mythological patterns. how do we bring it all together? what is the final element? how does this all tie smoothly into to the actual, ground level performance of the housle itself? this brings us all back to where we started: in the notion of the culmination of the world-cycle, and of the universe, and its purification by fire and re-birth. the housle sacrament is doing nothing less than showing the pattern of the universe reach its culmination and renewal. an elemental scheme can be applied to the entire evolution of the fire of reality, from the grossest to the most subtle: the sources or great parents can be represented by earth and water; the son or daughter by air, and the child by fire; at the culmination, the fire re

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