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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

cat and the tail of a horse or wolf. by the neolithic period, which began around 7500 bc and lasted until about 5500 bc, the huntergatherer culture had given way to the development of agriculture, and the god evolved into the sonconsort of the earth mother. he was the god of vegetation, corn, winter and death, who offered himself as a sacrifice each year with the cutting down of the corn, and was reborn at the mid-winter solstice, as the sun god. the neolithic period also saw the development of shrines to the triple goddess who became associated with the three phases of the moon: waxing, full and waning. the moon provided one of the earliest ways by which people calculated time. since its cycles coincided with the female menstrual cycle, which ceased for nine moons if a women was pregnant

d with the three phases of the moon: waxing, full and waning. the moon provided one of the earliest ways by which people calculated time. since its cycles coincided with the female menstrual cycle, which ceased for nine moons if a women was pregnant, the moon became linked with the mysteries first of birth, then of death as it waned, and finally with new life on the crescent. because the moon was reborn each month or, as it was thought, gave birth to her daughter each month, it was assumed that human existence followed the same pattern and that the full moon mirrored the mother with her womb full with child. the full moon was also associated in later ages with romance and passion, originally because this coincided with peak female fertility. moon magick for the increase of love and fertili

to learn lessons in subsequent lives to right our mistakes or attitudes. other witches say there is an afterlife, spent on another plane of existence. known as summerland, avalon or valhalla, and akin to tir na n'og, the celtic otherworld of eternal youth, it is a place where joy and light are experienced. reincarnation, on the other hand, is a form of bodily transformation. some may choose to be reborn in another body, perhaps as an animal or bird, sometimes to teach or to complete unfinished work. for example, merlin, the magician, was believed to have been incarnated in several lifetimes and to have entered willing bodies, including the sixth-century bard taliesin. wiccan rituals are held at esbats and sabbats. an esbat is a monthly coven meeting, traditionally held 13 times a year duri

brings clarity of mind and purpose and the ability to seize upon an opportunity, and is effective for uncovering secrets, deception and illusion. lugh lugh, the celtic 'shining one, who gives his name to lughnassadh, celtic festival of the first harvest, was the young solar deity who replaced the dagda, father of the gods, as supreme king. he was associated with sacrifice, as the sun king who was reborn each year at either the mid-winter solstice or the spring equinox. legend has it that when lugh arrived to join the tuatha de danaan, he went to the palace of tara and asked for a position in the court (the tuatha de danaan were the ancient irish gods and goddesses, literally 'the tribe of danu, who was the creatrix goddess) he said he was a carpenter, but was told that the company of gods

childbirth. her beauty and hunting skills make her a perfect focus for the pursuit of love, especially from afar. myesyats like the lunar goddesses, myesyats, the slavic moon god, represented the three stages of the life cycle. he was first worshipped as a young man until he reached maturity at the full moon. with the waning phase, myesyats passed through old age and died with the old moon, being reborn three days later. as he was the restorer of life and health, parents would pray to him to take away their children's illnesses and family sorrows. other sources have a female version, myesytsa, a lovely moon maiden who was the consort of dazhbog the sun god, and became mother of the stars. myesyats brings healing and family harmony. selene selene is the greek goddess specially associated wi

rned god, the male principle in witchcraft through the ages, in modern wicca and other neo-pagan faiths. he is also invoked for prosperity, fertility, instinctive power and knowledge of when it is necessary to hunt, whether to find employment or a home, and as protection against predators of all kinds. dionysus dionysus, sometimes depicted as a horned god, was a god of the grain, who died and was reborn every year as a child in a basket, representing the seed corn. he was the greek god of fertility, ecstasy and wildness, who bestowed great abundance on his followers; his cult performed savage rites at eleusius where human flesh was eaten as the bread of life. not an easy deity to use, without great experience and restraint, as the excesses carried out under his name need to be kept in chec

ans and creeds. i am cernunnos, horned lord of winter; as master of the animals and lord of the corn, i offer willing sacrifice for the land and people; as king of the dark places beneath the soil, in the nurturing womb of the mother, like all creatures who have entered the gentle earth, i grow strong again, resting but never slumbering, until i hear the call at the darkest and coldest hour to be reborn as lugh, radiant son; at that hour i bring the promise that the sun will not die, but as the wheel turns bring lighter days and the promise of spring as the mid-winter yoke is conquered once more 'i bring power, strength, courage and nobility to defend the weak and the vulnerable, and to give of my life blood to maintain what is of worth and just and lovely. mine is not the path of ease, bu

nities. the green man, or green george, as he is sometimes known, was the spirit of plants, trees and vegetables, fruit and vegetation, the male spring deity, consort of the earth mother and an early forerunner of both robin hood and st george. the mother goddess in her maiden aspect mated with the ascended sun god or, in popular folk tradition the green man, so that the conceived infant would be reborn as the new sun at the next winter solstice, thus ensuring the wheel of the year continued to turn. in the christian church, 25 march is the feast of the annunciation of the blessed virgin mary when gabriel told her she was with child. the energies of this festival are good for cleansing the seas and air of pollution, for new peace-making initiatives of all kinds, for beginning reforestation

r forced to walk in limbo carrying a hot coal. in the myth of the wheel of the year, the descended god now guards the gate to the otherworld and on this festival he holds sway. in some myths, the goddess enters the underworld to be reunited with him and returns to earth on the third day to prepare for the birth of the new sun, the ascended god, at midwinter. the year too is dying and will be also reborn on the mid-winter solstice, so there is a cross-over of energies as the new year begins on the wane of the tide at a period of decline and darkness. just as the celtic day began at sunset, with the darkest part of the night still to come, the celtic year begins in darkness. this is a time for charities and initiatives to aid the family, the elderly, the sick and dying, to encourage experien

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d kuon= a dog, but in hebrew it would mean numbering, computing. no. h is a border of c e squares taken from a square of e j squares. perachi, perhaps from prk, savagery. db is a bear in hebrew. the sacred magick 139 no. i is a square of c f squares. risir, perhaps from latin risor, a mocker or jester. iseri, perhaps from hebrew or chaldaic root, isr, to punish or whip. sekes, perhaps from schsh= reborn by hope. no. j is again a square of c f squares. neser= hebrew, nshr, an eagle; which seems to shew that this square should be numbered f. elehe is probably alhi, hebrew= my god. sepes? shps= the hair on the lip, the moustache. resen= rsn heb= a bridle or bit. no. b a is a gnomon of b b squares taken from a square of d g squares. pethen= hebrew, pthn, an asp or venomous serpent, whence this

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

of horus (see 777, col. xxi, line 10 "the blind eye that weeps" is a poetic arab name for the lingam. the doctrine is that the great work should be accomplished without creating n ew karma, for the letter n, the fish, the vesica, the womb, breeds, whereas the ey e of horus does not; or, if it does so, breeds, according to turkish tradition, a me ssiah. death implies resurrection; the illusion is reborn, as the scythe of death in the tarot has a crosspiece. this is in connection with the hindu doctrine, express ed in their injunction "fry your seeds. act so as to balance your past karma, and create no new, so that, as it were, the books are balanced. while you have either a credit or a debit, you are still in account with the universe (n.b. frater p. wrote this chapter-61-while dining with

r 44. note (33) twig= dost thou understand? also the phoenix takes twigs to kindle the fire in which it burns itself. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 132 [135] 63 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta xi-gamma margery daw i love laylah. i lack laylah "where is the mystic grace" sayest thou? who told thee, man, that laylah is not nuit, nd i hadit? i destroyed all things; they are reborn in other shapes. i gave up all for one; this one hath given up its unity for all? i wrenched dog backwards to find god; now god barks. think me not fallen because i love laylah, and lack laylah. i am the master of the universe; then give me a heap of straw in a hut, and laylah naked! amen. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 133 [136] commentary( xi-gamma) this chapter retu

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

acchus, undergoes all his trials, and emerges triumphant from beyond death. he must, however, be warned against mistaking the symbolism. in this case, for example, the doctrine of individual immortality has been dragged in, to the destruction of truth. it is not that utterly worthless part of man, his individual consciousness as john smith, which defies death- that consciousness which dies and is reborn in every thought. that which persists (if anything persist) is his real john smithiness, a quality of which he was probably never conscious in his life<333, for several sermons to this effect. caps. alpha, delta, eta, iota-epsilon, iota-sigma, iota-eta, kappa-alpha, kappa-eta, in particular. the reincarnation of the khu or magical self is another matter entirel

hither by mine angel. after that i had attained unto the knowledge and conversation of him by virtue of mine ardour towards him, and of this ritual that i bestow upon men my fellows, and most of his great love that he beareth to me, yea, verily, he led me to the abyss; he bade me fling away all that i had and all that i was; and he forsook me in that hour. but when i came beyond the abyss, to be reborn within the womb of babalon, then came he unto me abiding in my virgin heart, its lord and lover! also he made me a magus, speaking through his law, the word of the new aeon, the aeon of the crowned and conquering child<equinox, vol. i "the temple of solomon the king, liber 418, liber aleph, john st. john, the urn, and book 4, part iv> thus he fulfil

he power of silence, let it be first and last employed against him. 30 "concerning the enflaming of the heart- now learn that thy methods are dry, one and all. intellectual exercises, moral exercises, they are not love. yet as a man, rubbing two dry sticks together for long, suddenly found a spark, so also from time to time will true love leap unasked into thy mediation. yet this shall die and be reborn again and again. it may be that thou hast no tinder near. in the end shall come suddenly a great flame and devouring, and burn thee utterly. now of these sparks, and of these splutterings of flame, and of these beginnings of the infinite fire, thou shalt thus be aware. for the sparks thy heart shall leap up, and thy ceremony or meditation or toil shall seem of a sudden to go of its own will

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

t life came from woman alone, and worked by the formula of isis, worshipping nature chaste and kindly, not understanding death, or the arcanum of love. so, when the time was ripe, appeared the brethren of the formula of osiris, whose word is i a o; so that men worshipped man, thinking him subject to death, and his victory dependent upon resurrection. even so conceived they of the sun as slain and reborn with every day, and every year. now, this great formula being fulfilled, and turned into abomination, this lion came forth to proclaim the aeon of horus, the crowned and conquering child, who dieth not, nor is reborn, the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 18 but goeth radiant ever upon his way. even so goeth the sun: for as it is now known that night is but the sha

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

temple man, but a toothsome lump of carrion in the corner of his own stye. but we of thelema, like the artist, the true lover of love, shameless and fearless, seeing god face to face alike in our own souls within and in all nature without, though we use, as the bourgeois does, the word love, we hold not the word "too often profaned for us to profane it" it burns inviolate in its sanctuary, being reborn immaculate with every breath of life. but by 'love' we mean a thing which the eye of the bourgeois hath not seen, nor his ear heard; neither hath his heart conceived it. we have accepted love as the meaning of change, change being the life of all matter soever in the universe. and we have accepted love as the mode of motion of the will to change. to us every act, as implying change, is an a

taw-shin not aleph-mem-nun. the fifth, who is invisible, is ayin, 70, the eye. now aleph-mem-taw-shin, 741+ 70= 811= iao in greek, and iao is the greek form of yod-he-vau-he, the synthesis of the 4 elements aleph-mem-taw-shin (this ayin is perhaps the o in n.o.x, liber vii, i, 40) the new comment we are to conquer the illusion, to drive it out. the slaves that perish are better dead. they will be reborn into a world where freedom is the air of breath. so then, in all kindness, the christians to the lions! the "babe in the egg" is harpocrates; it is his regular image. i am not very well satisfied with the old comment on this verse. it appears rather as if the amen should be the beginning of a new paragraph altogether. amen is evidently a synthesis of the four elements, and the invisible fif

itself by being 'ever joyous. it follows that 'death is the crown of all. for a life which has fulfilled all its possibilities ceases to have a purpose; death is its diploma, so to speak; it is ready to apply itself to the new conditions of a larger life. just so a schoolboy who has mastered his work, dies to school, reincarnates in cap& gown, triumphs in the trips, dies to the cloisters, and is reborn to the world. note that the atu "death" in the tarot refers to scorpio. this sign is threefold: the scorpion that kills itself with its own poison, when its environment (the ring of fire) becomes intolerable; the serpent that renews itself by shedding its skin, that is crowned and hooded, that moves by undulations like light, and gives man wisdom at the price of toil suffering and mortality

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

61. strange and painful attitude.13 siddhasana. 62. he was very rude.14 the following is a sample: o devatas! behold this yogi! o chela! accurs d abode of tamas art thou! eater of beef, guzzling as an herd of swine! sleeper of a thousand sleeps, as an harlot heavy with wine! void of will! sensualist! enraged sheep! blasphemer of the names of shiva and of devi! christian in disguise! thou shalt be reborn in the lowest avitch! fast! walk! wake! these are the keys of the kingdom! peace be with thy beard! aum! this sort of talk did me much good: i hope it may do as much for you. 63. with eyes well fixed on my proboscis.15 see bhagavad-gita, atmasamyamyog. 67. brahma-charya.16 right conduct, and in particular, chastity in the highest sense. 72. baccy.17 a poisonous plant used by nicotomanics in

l jehjaour, who cared no more for ganesha and any indignities that might be offered him than his enemy did. one of my best devotees too! muttered, or rather trumpeted, the elephantine anachronism. you see, said the wily wizard, i saw perdu r abu the other day, and he said that he had become srotapatti. now that s pretty serious. in seven births only, if he but pursue the path, will he cease to be reborn. so you have only that time in which to win him back to your worship. the cunning sorcerer did not mention that within that time also must his own ruin be accomplished. what do you advise? asked the irritated and powerful, but unintelligent deity. time is our friend, said the enchanter. let your influence be used in the halls of birth that each birth may be as long as possible. now the elep

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my darkness, and drew down the soul- from one leaving there no darkness, but pure many splendours into the one light. at once, automatically, the splendour. as if the soul saw interior trembling began again, and there the one god and itself as the again the subtle brilliance flowed one worshipper. but after a little through me. the consciousness again while the worshipper itself has died and was reborn as the divine, dissolved, and from henceforth and always without shock or stress. for ever it has the consciousness of being entered into the silence, let me god only" abide in silence "john st john" 1909 "o petty purities and pale, these visions i have spoken of! the infinite lord of light and love breaks on the soul like dawn. in that fire the soul burns up. 141 one drop from that celesti

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. in qabalastic language, my native consciousness is now neschamah, not ruach or nephesch. i really cannot write more. this writing is a descent into ruach, and i want to abide where i am. 11.17. at 10.0 arrived at brenner's studio, and took the pose. at once, automatically, the interior trembling began again, and again the subtle brilliance flowed through me. the consciousness again died and was reborn as the divine, always without shock or stress. how easy is magic, once the way is found! how still is the soul! the turbid spate of emotion has ceased; the heavy particles of thought have sunk 136 to the bottom; how limpid, how lucid is its glimmer only from above, from the overshadowing tree of life, whose leaves glisten and quiver in the shining wind of the spirit, drops ever and anon, se

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ul bale. my cold grey kisses awake from the silence of utmost eld the grey cold slime of the snake that her beautiful body held. but- god! i was not content with the blasphemous secret of years; the veil is hardly rent while the eyes rain stones for tears. so i clung to the lips and laughed as the storms of death abated, the storms of the grevious graft by the swing of her soul unsated. wherefore reborn as i am by a stream profane and foul in the reign of a tortured lamb, in the realm of a sexless owl, 211 i am set apart from the rest by meed of the mystic rune that reads in peril and pest the ambrosial moon- the moon! for under the tawny star that shines in the bull above i can rein the riotous car of galloping, galloping love; and straight to the steady ray of the lion-heart lord i caree

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rmament of thought like an arrow, which, eventually speeding out of the world's attraction, becomes as an universe to itself. this cleaving of the veil of the vault of the adepts is in truth the precipitation of the jechidah from the elemental flux that goes to make man. the virgin mother of malkuth, the earth fecundated by air, water and fire, is delivered of her son the spirit, who is the adept reborn in the vault as christian rosencreutz; not yet adonai the christ, the son of god, but adonai, jehesuah, the son of man, jesus the carpenter who one day will fashion the tree of life into the image of the supernal christ. no longer is the vision of adonai a mere glimpse as of a flickering light without, lost in the distance of a great forest, but a light which burns as a lamp within a lanter

rlasting doors. and the king of glory shall come in! hear me, our lady isis, and receive! by the symbol of thy whirling force the svastika of flaming light, i invoke thee to initiate my soul! let the whirling of my magic dance be a spell and a link with thy great light: so that in the hour of apophis, in the apparent darkness and corruption of unconsciousness, may rise the golden sun of aeshoori, reborn from incorruption. hear, lady isis, and receive my prayer! thee, thee i worship and invoke! hail, hail to thee, sole mother of my life! dwell thou in me, and bring me to that self which is in thee [the altar is now moved, if necessary, and the chant and the mystic dance take place, as is set down hereafter""the chant" hear, o amoun! look with favour on me, thy neophyte, now kneeling in thy

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thou" the other answered at the self- same moment "who am i" 2. soon becoming perplexed if i were thou, or if thou were i, it came about that the i mingled with the thou, and 73 the thou with the i, so that six added to ten became sixteen, which is felicity; for it is the interplay of the elements. four are the elements that make man, and four are the elements that make woman. thus was the child reborn. 1. but though the man ruleth the woman, and the woman ruleth the man, the child ruleth both its mother and father, and being five is emperor over the kingdom of their hearts. to its father it giveth four, and to its mother it giveth four, yet it remaineth five, for it hath of its father an half and of its mother an half; but in itself it is equal to both its father and its mother; for it i

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' cottages out of the stones and bricks of the pyramids, because they are so very much more useful "solve" is the cry to-day; the sabbatic finger of the goat points upwards, yet on the clouds of darkness does it scrawl a sigil of light. a new god stirs in the womb of its mother; we can see his form, dim and red, in the cavern of time. dare we pronounce his name? yea! it is horus, horus the child, reborn amsu the good shepherd, who will lead us out of the sheepish stupidity of to-day. how many understand this mystery? perhaps none save those who have seen and subscribed to the law of thelema. j. f. c. f. the lost valley. by algernon blackwood. nash. 6"s" it is the penalty of factitious success that the need of fuel increases like the dose of a drug-fiend. instead of clothing his with with s

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ainly before the mahalingam. xi. a scythian sage declareth that it transcendeth reason. therefore sir palamede unreasonably decapitateth him. xii. an ancient hag prateth of it as evangelical. her he hewed in pieces. v xiii. at naples he thinketh of the beast as author of evil, because free of will. the beast, starting up, is slain by him with a poisoned arrow; but at the moment of its death it is reborn from the knight's own belly. xiv. at rome he meeteth a red robber in a hat, who speaketh nobly of it as of a king-dove-lamb. he chaseth and slayeth it; it proves but a child's toy. xv. in a tuscan grove he findeth, from the antics of a satyr, that the gods sill dwell with men. mistaking orgasm for ecstasty, he is found ridiculous. xvi. baiting for it with gilded corn in a moonlit vale of sp

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s to peace, save that so she would perish, and cannot, for that she is a goddess silent and immortal, utterly immortal in the gods' eternal darkness" and the first voice cried "oh, that we might perish, and become as pearls of blackness on the breast of the silence, lending the waste places of the world our darkness, that the vision might burst in the brain of the seer, and we be formed anew, and reborn in the light world" but the other voice was silent, and the noise of waters swept me back into the world, and i lay asleep on a hill-side. bearing for evermore the heart of a goddess, and the brain of a man, and the wings of the morning clipped by the shears of the silence; so must i wander lonely, nor know of the light till i enter into the darkness. omnia vincam. 23 how to keep fit, by c

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le. my cold grey kisses awake from the silence of utmost eld the grey cold slime of the snake that her beautiful body held. 116 but- god! i was not content with the blasphemous secret of years; the veil is hardly rent while the eyes rain stones for tears. so i clung to the lips and laughed as the storms of death abated, the storms of the grievious graft by the swing of her soul unsated. wherefore reborn as i am by a stream profane and foul, in the reign of a tortured lamb, in the realm of a sexless owl, i am set apart from the rest by meed of the mystic rune that reads in peril and pest the ambrosial moon- the moon! for under the tawny star that shines in the bull above i can rein the riotous car of galloping, galloping love; and straight to the steady ray of the lion-heart lord i career

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this altar is the earthen altar of demeter. then understanding all things by the light of that love, he shall know that this is love, that this is the soul of the earth, that this is fertility and understanding, the secret of demeter. nay (even) the oracle may speak in his heart and foretell or foreshadow the greater mysteries of persephone, of death the daughter of love. those, too, who are thus reborn will understand that i who write these words am stretched on the wet earth on the day of spring. it is night, but only the sea whispers of persephone, as the stars intimate urania whose mystery is the third, and beyond. my body is absorbed in scent and touch; for the consuming fire of my sight has burnt itself out to blindness, and in my mouth is only the savour of an infinite kiss. the moi

veless silences of the fading world; there is a quiver of light on the river of life; we are unwed, my rose, nor knoweth each the other; we are undone, my rose, my secret rose, my unknown rose! and still the autumn woods are rustling dumbly with sodden leaves made brown by wind and rain; and the satyrs are fled under the earth to hide from the sunless world, and the nymphs are faded to air, to be reborn in the sun-light: there is no more joy, for mournfulness is fallen on the world, and decadence and decay and the odour of eld. 151 the spirit sleeps; the rose of the world is buried under the soil of every star that glows, a hanging lamp, under the firmament. there shall be no more roses, no more roses, until the spring of the stars shall fall on the world. then shall be light again, o secr

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

ae, where remains of the pharaohs had been found. he had given some of his papers to pat's grandfather, among them the initiation ceremony of a religion closely related to witchcraft. the god and goddess had different names, but the instructions on calling down the power and on how to use it were identical. this ceremony included the gilding and symbolic embalming of novices so that they might be reborn, and with it alex swore paul and maxine into the cult, having first had to 'adopt' them as his son and daughter. as they lay on the altar before him, side by side in their ornate white robes, alex realized the truth of his vision. they were bound not to eachother asman and wife, as he had interpreted the vision in his crystal, but to him. two-weeks later they came before the whole coven and

t ordained that no one shall tell anyone not of the craft who be ofthe wicca, nor give anynames or where they. bide, or in any way tell anything which can betray any. of us to ourfoes. 32. nor may he tell where the. covendom be. 33. or thecovenstead. 34..or where the meetings be. 35. and if any break these laws, even under torture, the curse of the goddess shall be upon them, so they may never be reborn on earth and may remain where they belong, in the hell of the christians. 36. let each high priestess govetn her coven with justice and love, with the help and advice .of the high priest and the elders, always heeding the advice of the messenger of the gods if he cometh. 37. she will heed all complaints of all brothers and strive to settle all differences among them. 38. but. it must be. re

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ordained that no one shall tell anyone not of the craft who be of the wicca, nor give any names or where they bide, or in any way tell anything which can betray any of us to our foes. 31. 32. nor may he tell where the covendom be. 33. or the covenstead. 34. or where the meetings be. and if any break these laws, even under torture, the curse of the goddess shall be upon them, so they may never be reborn on earth and may remain where they belong, in the hell of the christians. 35. disputes let each high priestess govern her coven with justice and love, with the help and advice of the high priest and the elders, always heeding the advice of the messenger of the gods if he cometh. 36. 37. she will heed all complaints of all brothers and strive to settle all differences among them. but it must

uldron 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, you must die and be made ready for a new body; and to die, you must be born; and without love, you may not be born; and this is all the magics. notes published in janet and stewart farrar's the witches' way(as the end of the second degree initiation, and in their eight sabbats for witches (as part of the requiem. l the version given here draws from both of these sources. i don't remember w

the knowledge ofthee is death, open wide, i pray thee, the gates through which all must pass. let our dear ones, who have gone before, return this night to make merry with us. and when our time comes, as it must, o thou the comforter, the consoler, the giver of peace and rest, we will enter thy realms gladly and unafraid; for we know that when rested and refreshed among our dear ones, we will be reborn again by thy grace, and the grace of the lady cerridwen. let it be in the same place and the same time as our beloved ones, and may we meet, and know, and remember, and love them again! descend, we pray thee, on thy high priest and servant, n. hps goes to the hp and, with wand, draws the five-point star upon his breast and upon the crown of the horned god. hp kneels and hps places the crown

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ranches is to build a form which can be ensouled, in due time, by the idea of brotherhood. 204 34: see all the earlier part of the secret doctrine, volume ii. 205 35: avitchi. a state of consciousness, not necessarily after death or between births for it can take place on earth as well. literally it means "uninterrupted hell" the last of the eight hells we are told where "the culprits die and are reborn without interruption yet not without hope of final redemption" see s. d, iii, 510, 521, 528, 529. 206 36: bible. rev, 20:6-7. matt, 25:32. 207 37: the solar lord, the divine ego. of the two courses of soul development referred to by h. p. b. in her "voice of the silence" as the path of "dhyana" and "dharma" or the "paramitas" ramayana is based upon the latter. the "seven portals" referred t

initiation. marks attainment of perfection. concerns the monad. there is also the pralaya in connection with human evolution which we call devachanic. it concerns the personality. 215 45: deva-chan"(3 'who goes to deva chan' the personal ego, of course, but beatified, purified, holy. every ego the combination of the sixth and seventh principles which, after the period of unconscious gestation is reborn into the deva-chan, is of necessity as innocent and- 810- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust pure as a new-born babe. the fact of his being reborn at all shows the preponderance of good over evil in his old personality. and while the karma (of evil) steps aside for the time being to follow him in his future earth-reincarnation, he brings along with him but the karma of his

rth is but an evanescent dream that sense will be equally that of a dream in the deva-chan only a hundredfold intensified"'bardo' is the period between death and rebirth and may last from a few years to a kalpa. it is divided into three sub-periods (1) when the ego delivered of its mortal coil enters into kama-loka (the abode of elementaries (2) when it enters into 'gestation state (3) when it is reborn in the rupa-loka of deva-chan. sub-period (1) may last from a few minutes to a number of years the phrase 'a few years' becoming puzzling and utterly worthless without a more complete explanation; sub-period 2nd is 'very long; as you say, longer sometimes than you may even imagine, yet proportionate to the ego's spiritual stamina; sub-period 3rd lasts in proportion to the good karma, after

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

after caring for the organizational aspect of their work there is little left for christ's work, for simple spiritual living. the task facing the men and women of goodwill in every land today seems too heavy and the problems to be solved seem well-nigh insoluble. men and women of goodwill are now asking the question: can the conflict between capital and labour be ended and a new world be thereby reborn? can living conditions be so potently changed that right human relations can be permanently established? these relationships can be established, and for the following reasons: 1. humanity has suffered so terribly during the past two hundred years that it is possible to bring about the needed changes, provided that the correct steps are taken before the pain and agony are forgotten and their

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fluences of the nations, indicated by their governing signs of the zodiac, trusting that you will give due thought to what i impart and assuring you that they are of vital significance at this time, particularly if you compare them with what i gave you anent the rays of the nations in the first volume of a treatise on the seven rays. i would remind you that over the lapse of centuries nations are reborn several times or come into- 35- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust incarnation in a new form which we may call a period, if unimportant, or a civilisation if significant and dramatic enough. therefore, the personality ray and the governing influences change with frequency. this is oft forgotten, because the cycles are so much vaster than those of human incarnation. i woul

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

e. 16 degree, ascribing to them both the respiratory nature of traveling through the channels.24 i will add one other word to this classification, that of the mind (sems, as it is understood in wholly buddhist terms.25 this mind consists of the karmic constituencies that also travel through the subtle channels. these constituencies are the ever-fluctuating elements of a person that are constantly reborn within sa.s.ra; in this way the mind has the quality of a soul as the term is used in the west. both tucci and samuel mention another principle called wang tang (dbang thang, though this is more akin to fate or fortune; it acts according to the state of one s karmic merit in order to influence the direction of one s life.26 the buddhist philosophical tenets of the m.dhyamika school heavily

aw this and, misinterpreting it, reported back to the king. they said "a ruffian is having sex with the princess" the king became very angry and summoned his servants; he ordered them to find the monk and kill him. 29 upon her return, the princess told them what actually happened and pleaded with her father, but no one would listen to her. frustrated, she uttered an evil prayer, saying "i will be reborn as chorwa s future mother and i will become your executioner" after saying, this she committed suicide by leaping off a cliff. chorwa was later informed of these events by a friend, and so he fled the kingdom on a golden horse. due to this traumatic affair, his thoughts became disturbed and he regressed in his practice. he went to tibet, and in the domain of a king related to dharma.r, he p

lden horse. due to this traumatic affair, his thoughts became disturbed and he regressed in his practice. he went to tibet, and in the domain of a king related to dharma.r, he poisoned the men and raped the women. one day, the king sent forth his champion soldiers and they captured chorwa on a mountain path. he was pierced by many swords; near death as he passed from this life, he said "i will be reborn as a malicious, terrifying violence demon and i will become the executioner of all beings. i will come to destroy the king and his ministers together with his retinue" after saying this, he died. he was immediately reborn in the west, in the red fields of a might demon land called chongri zangtso( chong ri zangs mtsho. on the copper peaks of this land, a hundred might demons race alongside

ous beasts roam about grassy fields of copper. along the surrounding copper hills, there are terrifying storms of copper. within the red copper mountain there is a boiling lake of blood. at the center of the blood lake, there is a dark leather castle endowed with a golden dome, gates of conch shell, copper locks, and stairs of lapis lazuli. here, due to his maliciousness and arrogance, chorwa was reborn in a red egg of blood. his parents were the savage demon lord lekpa (legs pa "excellent" and the violence demoness dongmarma (gdong dmar ma "red-faced woman" the latter is the daughter of the might demon lord dawa t kar (zla ba thod dkar "white skull moon" forefather of all might demons. when the egg burst open, the malicious violence demon tsiu marpo was born. due to his great maliciousnes

nt. tsiu marpo s mythic pre-existence in a buddhist land like khotan is a common motif found among tibetan protector deities.66 also common is that these deities were buddhist monks in their past lives who regressed in their practice, as is seen in tsiu marpo s own previous life. later, tsiu marpo s physical abodes change a number of times to the point of ambiguity. when chorwa is murdered, he is reborn as tsiu marpo in a land of might demons called chongri zangtso. the location of such lands is unclear; they are believed to exist within the actual geography of tibet, though their specific site is ambiguous other than generic designations of direction.67 between this point and tsiu marpo s later understood residency at samy, it is unclear exactly where he dwelled. 63 see gibson 1991, p. 20

ties, as discussed in the introduction. while tutelary deities are personifications of the buddha nature that a practitioner can embody, worldly deities still exist within sa.s.ra and are thus susceptible to karmic accretion. transcendental deities are beyond the world and dwell in the highest realm of existence, the heavenly realm. because they exist in sa.s.ra, beings are still capable of being reborn as these deities. worldly deities, however, are entities that exist and operate within our own realm. because they still share human emotions such as anger and jealousy, they are much more accessible for pragmatic ritual requests. all of these deities have a peaceful and wrathful appearance. the peaceful appearance is the truer pacifying visage of the deity that lies beneath the vicious and

he incident surrounding the dza sa, except to say "a few centuries ago" furthermore, the story illustrates the capricious and violent nature of protector deities that can sometimes manifest and thus align the deity against various individuals; such are the vestiges from the deity s malicious past. also, we see here the common tibetan belief that if one dies in a wrathful state of mind, one can be reborn as a terrible spirit, a fate from which even tsiu marpo originated. the tengy ling monastery in lhasa seems to have housed a tsiu marpo oracle as well.198 since it is a satellite of samy, this is not surprising. tengy ling monastery has a long tradition of housing the demo (de mo) lineage, where many of the regents to the dalai lamas originated. andr alexander, in his catalog of lhasa monas

she was endowed with a beautiful form. 307 in order to bathe. 308 having come forth from the thick of the forest. 309 for fear of it spreading. 310 saying "a rough degenerate who is a jealous monk is engaging in sexual intercourse with the princess" 311 soldiers. 312 [this she told] to her father, which was that a poisonous snake emerged [and the monk] applied medicinal deer musk. 313 "i will be reborn into existence as the mother of chorwa and i will become your executioner" the actual tibetan is as follows: ra li sras phyor pa i yum srid du skyes la khyed kyi gshed por gyur. the ra which begins this redaction is difficult to decipher and thus left untranslated here; it may refer to chorwa s clan. 314 praying and 315 she jumped from a rocky crag. 316 by a friend. 317 a horse. 318 the nob

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ions that could be reached" the real occult reason will be given in these pages* sukra is the son of bhrigu the great rishi, and one of the seven prajapati, the founder of the race of bhargavas, in which parasu rama is born[[vol. 2, page] 33 parent stars and sister planets. that occult mysticism has to deal. the allegory which states that for killing sukra's mother, vishnu was cursed by him to be reborn seven times on the earth, is full of occult philosophical meaning. it does not refer to vishnu's avatars, since these number nine, the tenth being still to come, but to the races on earth. venus, or lucifer (also sukra and usanas) the planet, is the light-bearer of our earth, in both its physical and mystic sense. the christians knew it well in early times, since one of the earliest popes o

modern science, the occultist maintains that the case was as stated aeons of years before even the evolution of the lemurian, the first physical man, which itself took place 18,000,000 years ago* preliminary evolution is described in one of the books of dzyan and the commentaries thereon in this wise- archaic scripture teaches that at the commencement of every local kalpa, or round, the earth is reborn "as the human jiva (monad, when passing into a new womb, gets re-covered with a new body, so does the jiva of the earth; it gets a more perfect and solid covering with each round after re-emerging once more from the matrix of space into objectivity (comment. this process is attended, of course, by the throes of the new birth or geological convulsions. thus the only reference to it is contai

ed "introduction a l'atude des races humaines" by m. de quatrefages, there is proof that since the post-tertiary period and even before that time- since many races were already scattered during that age on the face of the earth- man has not altered one iota in his physical structure. and if, surrounded for ages by a fauna that altered from one period or cycle to another, which died out, which was reborn in other forms- so that now there does not exist one single animal on earth, large or small, contemporary with the man of that period- if, then, every animal has been transformed save man himself, this fact goes to prove not only his antiquity, but that he is a distinct kingdom. why should he alone have escaped transformation? because, says de quatrefages, the weapon used by him, in his str

n the "naimitika" occasional or incidental "prakritika" elemental "atyantika" the absolute, and "nitya" the perpetual pralaya; the latter being described as "brahma's contingent recoalescence of the universe at the end of brahma's day" the question was raised by a learned brahmin theosophist "whether there is such a thing as cosmic pralaya; because, otherwise, the logos (krishna) would have to be reborn, and he is aja (unborn" we cannot see why. the logos is said to be born only metaphorically, as the sun is born daily, or rather a beam of that sun is born in the morning and is said to die when it disappears, whereas it is simply reabsorbed into the parent essence. cosmic pralaya is for things visible, not for the arupa, formless, world. the cosmic or universal pralaya comes only at the en

the third race, and in this and various other ways endowed mankind with mind. there are seven classes of pitris, as shown below, three incorporeal and four corporeal; and two kinds, the agnishwatta and the barhishad. and we may add that, as there are two kinds of pitris, so there is a double and a triple set of barhishad and agnishwatta. the former, having given birth to their astral doubles, are reborn as sons of atri, and are the "pitris of the demons" or corporeal beings, on the authority of manu (iii, 196; while the agnishwatta are reborn as sons of marichi (a son of brahma, and are the pitris of the gods (manu again, matsya and padma puranas and kulluka in the laws of the manavas, iii, 195* moreover, the vayu purana declares all the seven orders to have originally been the first gods

habit the astral plane, there are real devagnanams, and to these classes of devas belong the adityas, the vairajas, the kumaras, the asuras, and all those high celestial beings whom occult teaching calls manaswin, the wise, foremost of all, and who would have made all men the self-conscious spiritually intellectual beings they will be, had they not been "cursed" to fall into generation, and to be reborn themselves as mortals for their neglect of duty- stanza iv (continued) 15. seven times seven shadows (chhayas) of future men (or amanasas (a) were (thus) born, each of his own colour (complexion) and kind (b. each (also) inferior to his father (creator. the fathers, the boneless, could give no life to beings with[[vol. 2, page] 91 seven classes of pitris. bones. their progeny were bhuta (ph

-conscious efforts; and it is these worshippers of form who have made demons of the angels of light. esoteric philosophy, however, teaches that one third* of the dhyanis- i.e, the three classes of the arupa pitris, endowed with intelligence "which is a formless breath, composed of intellectual not elementary substances (see harivamsa, 932- was simply doomed by the law of karma and evolution to be reborn (or incarnated) on earth* some[[footnote(s* whence the subsequent assertions of st. john's vision, referred to in his apocalypse, about "the great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads" whose "tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth (ch. xii* the verse "did cast them to the earth" plainly shows its origin in the g

we now come to an important point with regard to the double evolution of the human race. the sons of wisdom, or the spiritual dhyanis, had become "intellectual" through their contact with matter, because they had already reached, during previous cycles of incarnation, that degree of intellect which enabled them to become independent and self-conscious entities, on this plane of matter. they were reborn only by reason of karmic effects. they entered those who were "ready" and became the arhats, or sages, alluded to above. this needs explanation. it does not mean that monads entered forms in which other monads already were. they were "essences "intelligences" and conscious spirits; entities seeking to become still more conscious by uniting with more developed matter. their essence was too p

are threatened with ruin. it is the ghost of old chaldea that comes to the rescue of truth. in his third hibbert[[footnote(s* thus we are shown one hero, to give an instance, first born as the "unrighteous but valiant monarch (purusha) of the daityas, hiranyakasipu, slain by the avatar nara-sinha (man-lion. then he was born as ravana, the giant king of lanka, and killed by rama; after which he is reborn as sisupala, the son of rajarishi (king rishi) damaghosha, when he is again killed by krishna, the last incarnation of vishnu. this parallel evolution of vishnu (spirit) with a daitya, as men, may seem meaningless, yet it gives us the key not only to the respective dates of rama and krishna but even to a certain psychological mystery[[vol. 2, page] 226 the secret doctrine. lecture (1887) pr

rasara 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" and had from spirits of heaven fallen into spirits of the earth- exoterically, note well, in orthodox dogma. no theologian, any more than an orientalist, can ever understand the geneal

erically, note well, in orthodox dogma. no theologian, any more than an orientalist, can ever understand the genealogies of the prajapati, the manus, and the rishis, nor the direct connection of these- or their correlation rather- with the gods, unless he has the key to the old primitive cosmogony and theogony, which all the nations originally had in common. all these gods and demi-gods are found reborn on earth, in various kalpas and in as various characters; each, moreover, having his karma distinctly traced, and every effect assigned to its cause. before other stanzas could be explained, it was, as seen, absolutely necessary to show that the sons of "dark wisdom" though identical with the archangels which theology has chosen to call the "fallen" are as divine and as pure and more so tha

nd as ever invisible, and unknowable, and of intra-cosmic gods, who all were men[[footnote(s "men are made complete only during their third, toward the fourth cycle (race. they are made 'gods' for good and evil, and responsible only when the two arcs meet (after 31/2 rounds towards the fifth race. they are made so by the nirmanakaya (spiritual or astral remains) of the rudra-kumaras 'cursed to be reborn on earth again; meaning- doomed in their natural turn to reincarnation in the higher ascending arc of the terrestrial cycle (commentary ix* the whole trouble is this: neither physiologists nor pathologists will recognize that the cell-germinating substance (the cytoblastema) and the mother-lye from which crystals originate, are one and the same essence, save in differentiation for purposes[

al scale in the first seven months of gestation of a future human being. let the student think over and work out this analogy. as the seven months' old unborn baby, though quite ready, yet needs two months more in which to acquire strength and consolidate; so man, having perfected his evolution during seven rounds, remains two periods more in the womb of mother-nature before he is born, or rather reborn a dhyani, still more perfect than he was before he launched forth as a monad on the newly built chain of worlds. let the student ponder over this mystery, and then he will easily convince himself that, as there are also physical links between many classes, so there are precise domains wherein the astral merges into physical evolution. of this science breathes not one word. man has evolved w

of the first progeny of daksha, who curses narada, the divine rishi, alleged to have dissuaded the haryaswas and the sabalaswas, the sons of daksha, from procreating their species, by saying "be born in the womb; there shall not be a resting place for thee in all these regions; after this narada, the representative of that race of fruitless ascetics, is said, as soon as he dies in one body, to be reborn in another[[vol. 2, page] 276 the secret doctrine. the fourth race, so called. in the vishnu purana it is simply said that daksha, the father of mankind, established sexual intercourse as the means of peopling the world. happily for the human race the "elect race" had already become the vehicle of incarnation of the (intellectually and spiritually) highest dhyanis before humanity had become

rm. these are the head, the heart, the soul, and the seed of undying knowledge (gnyana. thou shalt never speak, o lanoo, of these great ones (maha) before a multitude, mentioning them by their names. the wise alone will understand (catechism of the inner schools) it is these sacred "four" who have been allegorized and symbolized in the "linga purana" which states that vamadeva (siva) as kumara is reborn in each kalpa (race in this instance, as four youths- four, white; four, red; four, yellow; and four, dark or brown. let us remember that siva is pre-eminently and chiefly an ascetic, the patron of all yogis and adepts, and the allegory will become quite comprehensible. it is the spirit of divine wisdom and chaste asceticism itself which incarnates in these elect. it is only after getting m

emanated or was born) the human race and the world (chap. x. verse 6) here, by the seven great rishis, the seven great rupa hierarchies or classes of dhyan chohans, are meant. let us bear in mind that the saptarshi (the seven rishis) are the regents of the seven stars of the great bear, therefore, of the same nature as the angels of the planets, or the seven great planetary spirits. they were all reborn, all men on earth in various kalpas and races. moreover "the four preceding manus" are the four classes of the originally arupa gods- the kumaras, the rudras, the asuras, etc: who are also said to have incarnated. they are not the prajapatis, as the first are, but their informing principles- some of which have incarnated in men, while others have made other men simply the vehicles of their

rected samba to invite the magas, the worshippers of surya, to discharge the duty. ignorant of the place they lived in, it is surya, the sun himself, who directs samba to sakadwipa beyond the salt water. then samba performs the journey, using garuda (vishnu's and krishna's vehicle, the great bird) who lands him among the magas, etc. now krishna, who lived 5,000 years ago, and narada, who is found reborn in every cycle (or race, besides garuda- the symbol esoterically of the great cycle- show the allegory; yet the magas are the magi of chaldea, and their class and worship were born on the earlier atlantis, in saka-dwipa, the sinless. all the orientalists are agreed that the magas of saka-dwipa are the forefathers of the fire-worshipping parsis. our quarrel with them rests, as usual, on thei

ng that each of these (as many others) had first appeared on earth as one of the seven powers of the logos, individualized as a god or "angel (messenger; then, mixed with matter, they had re-appeared in turn as great sages and instructors who "taught the fifth race" after having instructed the two preceding races, had ruled during the divine dynasties, and had finally sacrificed themselves, to be reborn under various circumstances for the good of mankind, and for its salvation at certain critical periods; until in their last incarnations they had become truly only "the parts of a part" on earth, though de facto the one supreme in nature. this is the metaphysics of theogony. and, as every "power" among the seven has (once individualized) in his charge one of the elements of creation, and ru

e to all- the sarcophagus was symbolic of the female principle. this, in egypt; its form and shape changed with every country, provided it remained a vessel, a symbolic navis or boat-shaped vehicle, and a container, symbolically, of germs or the germ of life. in india, it is the "golden" cow through which the candidate for brahminism has to pass if he desires to be a brahmin, and to become dwija("reborn a second time. the crescent-form argha of the greeks was the type of the queen of heaven- diana, or the moon. she was the great mother of all existences, as the sun was the father. the jews, previous to, as well as after their metamorphosis of jehovah into a male god, worshipped astoreth, which made isaiah declare "your new moons and feasts my soul hateth (i. 14; saying which, he was eviden

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of the fire" the "sons of the fire-mist" and the like, require explanation. they are connected with a great primordial and universal mystery, and it is not easy to make it clear. there is a passage in the bhagavatgita (ch. viii) wherein krishna, speaking symbolically and esoterically, says "i will state the times (conditions. at which devotees departing (from this life) do so never to return (be reborn, or to return (to incarnate again. the fire, the flame, the day, the bright (lucky) fortnight, the six months of the northern solstice, departing (dying) in these, those who know the brahman (yogis) go to the brahman. smoke, night, the dark (unlucky) fortnight, the six months of the southern solstice (dying) in these, the devotee goes to the lunar light (or mansion the astral light also) an

return (to incarnate again. the fire, the flame, the day, the bright (lucky) fortnight, the six months of the northern solstice, departing (dying) in these, those who know the brahman (yogis) go to the brahman. smoke, night, the dark (unlucky) fortnight, the six months of the southern solstice (dying) in these, the devotee goes to the lunar light (or mansion the astral light also) and returns (is reborn. these two paths, bright and dark, are said to be eternal in this world (or great kalpa 'age. by the one a man goes never to come back, by the other he returns" now these names "fire "flame "day" the "bright fortnight" etc, as "smoke "night" and so on, leading only to the end of the lunar path are incomprehensible without a knowledge of esotericism. these are all names of various deities wh

n their revolution. the doctrine of a common origin for all the heavenly bodies and planets, was, as we see, inculcated by the archaic astronomers, before kepler, newton, leibnitz, kant, herschel and laplace. heat (the breath, attraction and repulsion- the three great factors of motion- are the conditions under which all the members of all this primitive family are born, developed, and die, to be reborn after a "night of brahma" during which eternal matter relapses periodically into its primary undifferentiated state. the most attenuated gases can give no idea of its nature to the modern physicist. centres of forces at first, the invisible sparks of primordial atoms differentiate into molecules, and become suns- passing gradually into objectivity gaseous, radiant, cosmic, the one "whirlwin

of osiris- sun, the symbol is dual: it relates to both lives- the mortal and the immortal. in kircher's oedipus egyptiacus (vol. iii, p. 124) one can see, on the papyrus engraved in it, an egg floating above the mummy. this is the symbol of hope and the promise of a second birth for the osirified dead; his soul, after due purification in the amenti, 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 regener

accounting for rotation, gravitation, and the origin of any mechanical physical laws- unless these intelligences be admitted by science. in the abovequoted work upon astronomy, by wolf* the author endorses fully the theory of kant, and the latter, if not in its general aspect, at any rate in some of its features, reminds one strongly of certain esoteric teachings. here we have the world's system reborn from its ashes, through a nebula; the emanation from the bodies, dead and dissolved in space- resultant of the incandescence of the solar centre reanimated by the combustible matter of the planets. in this theory, generated and developed in the brain of a young man hardly twenty-five years of age, who had never left his native place, a small town of northern prussia (konigsberg) one can har

babylonians made of their dag-on, equally a fish and a messiah, the man-fish and prophet? there are those learned iconoclasts among egyptologists, who say that "when the pharisees sought a 'sign from heaven' jesus said 'there shall no sign be given but the sign of jonas (mat. xvi. 4. the sign of jonas is that of the oan or fishman of nineveh. assuredly there was no other sign than that of the sun reborn in pisces. the[[vol. 1, page] 654 the secret doctrine. voice of the secret wisdom says those who are looking for signs can have no other than that of the returning fish-man ichthys, oannes, or jonas- who could not be made flesh" it would appear that kepler maintained it as a positive fact that, at the moment of the "incarnation" all the planets were in conjunction in the sign of pisces, cal

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. life then is indestructible as all else is. all destruction and construction are changes in the nature of love, as i have written to you in the former chapter proximate. yet even as the blood in one pulse-throb of the wrist is not the same blood as that in the next, so individuality is in part destroyed as each life passeth; nay, even with every thought. what then maketh man, if he dieth and is reborn a changeling with each breath? this: the consciousness of continuity given by memory, the conception of his self as something whose existence, far from being threatened by these changes, is in verity assured by them. let then the aspirant to the sacred wisdom consider his self no more as one segment of the serpent, but as the whole. let him extend his consciousness to regard both birth and

wagner.s parsifal. the way to redeem such creatures is to withstand them, and their path of redemption is the path of service to the man who has withstood them. however, when at the right moment the crucified one, the extended one, the secret saviour, consents to redeem them, and can do so without losing his power, without in any way yielding to them, their next step is accomplished, and they are reborn as men. this brings us back to our subject, for the lower man, of whom we are still speaking, possesses, above yesod, five forms of intellect and da th their crown. the equinox 100 we then come to another marriage on a higher plane, the redemption of malkuth by tiphareth; the attaining of the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel. the next critical step is the sacrificing of

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ye attain to joy and knowledge. and he taught her all the mysteries. and they loved and were one, and he taught her all the magicks. for there are three great events in the life of man: love, death and resurrection in a new body; and magick controls them all. for to fulfill love you must return again at the same time and place as the loved one, and you must remember and love them again. but to be reborn you must die, and be ready for a new body; and to die you must be born; and without love you may not be born. and these be all the magicks" the meaning of witchcraft gerald b. gardner, aquarian press, london 1959 "all day had freya, most lovely of the goddesses, played and romped in the fields. then did she lay down to rest. and while she slept deft loki, the prankster, the mischief-maker o

s is the grades of a school. you enter school in a low grade and learn the basics. when you have mastered these you graduate, take a short vacation, then come back into a higher grade to learn and experience more things. so it is in life. in each life you have a certain amount to learn and to experience. when you have done that, you graduate (i.e. you die. to come back into a higher grade you are reborn in a new body. occasionally remembrance of previous lives, or parts of them, is experienced but more generally you do not remember (it is possible, of course, through such procedures as hypno-regression, to go back to previous lives and bring them once more to the surface. perhaps one of the most common of occult experiences is that of deja-vu the feeling that something has happened before

ncarnation the only possible explanation of all cases of deja-vu; the feeling being a brief flash of memory of something lesson two: beliefs/'17 18/ auckland's complete book of witchcraft that happened in a previous life. in what form do we return to the earth? some believe (the hindus, for example) that it is not necessarily in human form each time. certain hindu sects teach that the soul may be reborn as a plant or an animal. however, such beliefs are not generally held in western civilization. some say there is a progression from the lowest life-forms to the highest putting humans at the top. but then who is to say the order? is a dog higher than a cat, or a cat higher than a dog? is a centipede higher or lower than an earwig? does this mean, when every soul has finally passed up the sc

ching over a less developed spirit here on earth. since time does not exist in the between-times (it is a human-made concept, for the sake of reference only) then to watch over an earth-bound spirit for its whole earthly lifetime would not actually hinder the watcher's progress. in fact, it would add to it in the sense of gaining "student-teacher" experience. witches always hope that they will be reborn in the next life with those they have known and loved in this one. from psychic experiences, etc, it seems that this is often the case. many times a couple will stay together throughout a number of lifetimes, in different relationship roles (e.g. lovers; husband-wife; brother-sister; mother-daughter. your temple although many witches meet, and work, outdoors- perhaps in the corner of a fiel

he 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 comes a separation. with many peoples this is a literal separation from friends and especially fr

ho, traditionally, can see into the future and therefore know all things. therefore the initiates, by virtue of being in the womb/will learn new knowledge. this is underscored in the congo, for example, where those who have not been initiated are called vanga("the unenlightened) and those who have been initiated are the nganga("the knowing ones. after receiving this new knowledge, the initiate is reborn. if he has been swallowed by a monster, he may either be born from it or disgorged from its mouth (the mouth is often a substitute for the vagina. in some african tribes he will crawl out from between the legs of the women of the village, who stand in a long line. he is now given a new name and starts his new life. interestingly enough there are several parallels of this renaming to be foun

initiate, who kisses the blades. initiate "i salute the lord and the lady, as i salute those who represent them. i pledge my love and support to them and to my brothers and sisters of the craft" priest "know you the wiccan rede" initiate "i do. an' it harm none, do what thou wilt" priestess "and do you abide by that rede" initiate "i do" priest "well said. let your bonds be loosed that ye may be reborn" squire unties cord. maiden leads initiate around to stand between priest and priestess. maiden then returns to her place beside squire. priestess "that you may start life afresh it is only meet and right that you start with a name of your own choosing. have you such a name" initiate "i have. it is (craft name" priest "then shall you be known by that name henceforth, by your brothers and si

e turning point of winter is upon us" covener "here is an end to the solar year" lesson seven: meditation, dreams and the minor sabbats 193 covener "but here, too, is a new beginning" priestess "brothers, sisters, friends. let us show our love by sending forth our power and our strength to he who is the sun god. at this turning of the year's tide, let us join our energies with his, that he may be reborn to ascend once more unto his rightful place" coveners and priestess join hands and circle, deosil, chanting: all "turn, turn, turn the wheel. round and round; around it goes. the flame that died, it now doth heal. round and round; around it goes. return, return, return to life. round and round; around it goes. welcome sunlight; farewell strife. round and round; around it goes. the sun lord

n priest's head. he comes to his feet and raises his hands high "life! love! i am the sun lord" he lowers his hands then moves slowly around the circle speaking, as though talking to each individual covener as he moves around. priest "i fell into deep darkness and death i knew. yet was i of star-seed. on the tail of a comet i rent the velvet darkness of everlasting light. ablaze with glory, i was reborn, to start again the perennial cycle of guardianship that evermore drives me through death and birth alike. with the companionship of our lady i face into the wind, knowing that we fly upon wings of time, through timeless worlds, together" covener "all hail, the sun god" all "all hail, the sun god* covener "all hail the death and birth of yule" all "all hail" bell is rung seven times. priest

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of your father in iblis shadow did you awaken in the arms of lilith, the moon. i summon thee, cain of old, whose words open the gates of hell i invoke thee, cain of the serpent skin, who is the first of witch blood i conjure thee, cain who is the earthly devil, who is the master of spirits encircle and awaken within my flesh, my blood, my mind. by thy depths of which i walk herein shall i become reborn in the name and mark of the devil, whom i swear my spirit unto i am myself the redeemer and bringer of the infernal pact which holds no bounds nor mortal strain, yet my desires shall be filled by the eye within the blackened triangle of cain and the children of rebellion, rise up with me of cain and those going forth by night unto the infernal sabbat let the devil bless my name hearken and

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t and the tail of a horse or wolf. by the neolithic period, which began around 7500 bc and lasted until about 5500 bc, the hunter-gatherer culture had given way to the development of agriculture, and the god evolved into the son-consort of the earth mother. he was the god of vegetation, corn, winter and death, who offered himself as a sacrifice each year with the cutting down of the corn, and was reborn at the mid-winter solstice, as the sun god. the neolithic period also saw the development of shrines to the triple goddess who became associated with the three phases of the moon: waxing, full and waning. the moon provided one of the earliest ways by which people calculated time. since its cycles coincided with the female menstrual cycle, which ceased for nine moons if a women was pregnant

d with the three phases of the moon: waxing, full and waning. the moon provided one of the earliest ways by which people calculated time. since its cycles coincided with the female menstrual cycle, which ceased for nine moons if a women was pregnant, the moon became linked with the mysteries first of birth, then of death as it waned, and finally with new life on the crescent. because the moon was reborn each month or, as it was thought, gave birth to her daughter each month, it was assumed that human existence followed the same pattern and that the full moon mirrored the mother with her womb full with child. the full moon was also associated in later ages with romance and passion, originally because this coincided with peak female fertility. moon magick for the increase of love and fertili

to learn lessons in subsequent lives to right our mistakes or attitudes. other witches say there is an afterlife, spent on another plane of existence. known as summerland, avalon or valhalla, and akin to tir na n'og, the celtic otherworld of eternal youth, it is a place where joy and light are experienced. reincarnation, on the other hand, is a form of bodily transformation. some may choose to be reborn in another body, perhaps as an animal or bird, sometimes to teach or to complete unfinished work. for example, merlin, the magician, was believed to have been incarnated in several lifetimes and to have entered willing bodies, including the sixth-century bard taliesin. wiccan rituals are held at esbats and sabbats. an esbat is a monthly coven meeting, traditionally held 13 times a year duri

brings clarity of mind and purpose and the ability to seize upon an opportunity, and is effective for uncovering secrets, deception and illusion. lugh lugh, the celtic 'shining one, who gives his name to lughnassadh, celtic festival of the first harvest, was the young solar deity who replaced the dagda, father of the gods, as supreme king. he was associated with sacrifice, as the sun king who was reborn each year at either the mid-winter solstice or the spring equinox. legend has it that when lugh arrived to join the tuatha de danaan, he went to the palace of tara and asked for a position in the court (the tuatha de danaan were the ancient irish gods and goddesses, literally 'the tribe of danu, who was the creatrix goddess) he said he was a carpenter, but was told that the company of gods

childbirth. her beauty and hunting skills make her a perfect focus for the pursuit of love, especially from afar. myesyats like the lunar goddesses, myesyats, the slavic moon god, represented the three stages of the life cycle. he was first worshipped as a young man until he reached maturity at the full moon. with the waning phase, myesyats passed through old age and died with the old moon, being reborn three days later. as he was the restorer of life and health, parents would pray to him to take away their children's illnesses and family sorrows. other sources have a female version, myesytsa, a lovely moon maiden who was the consort of dazhbog the sun god, and became mother of the stars. myesyats brings healing and family harmony. selene selene is the greek goddess specially associated wi

e principle in witchcraft through the ages, in modern wicca and other neo-pagan faiths. he is also invoked for prosperity, fertility, instinctive power and knowledge of when it is necessary to hunt, whether to find employment or a home, and as protection against predators of all kinds [insert pic p075- dionysus dionysus, sometimes depicted as a horned god, was a god of the grain, who died and was reborn every year as a child in a basket, representing the seed corn. he was the greek god of fertility, ecstasy and wildness, who bestowed great abundance on his followers; his cult performed savage rites at eleusius where human flesh was eaten as the bread of life. not an easy deity to use, without great experience and restraint, as the excesses carried out under his name need to be kept in chec

ans and creeds. i am cernunnos, horned lord of winter; as master of the animals and lord of the corn, i offer willing sacrifice for the land and people; as king of the dark places beneath the soil, in the nurturing womb of the mother, like all creatures who have entered the gentle earth, i grow strong again, resting but never slumbering, until i hear the call at the darkest and coldest hour to be reborn as lugh, radiant son; at that hour i bring the promise that the sun will not die, but as the wheel turns bring lighter days and the promise of spring as the mid-winter yoke is conquered once more 'i bring power, strength, courage and nobility to defend the weak and the vulnerable, and to give of my life blood to maintain what is of worth and just and lovely. mine is not the path of ease, bu

nities. the green man, or green george, as he is sometimes known, was the spirit of plants, trees and vegetables, fruit and vegetation, the male spring deity, consort of the earth mother and an early forerunner of both robin hood and st george. the mother goddess in her maiden aspect mated with the ascended sun god or, in popular folk tradition the green man, so that the conceived infant would be reborn as the new sun at the next winter solstice, thus ensuring the wheel of the year continued to turn. in the christian church, 25 march is the feast of the annunciation of the blessed virgin mary when gabriel told her she was with child. the energies of this festival are good for cleansing the seas and air of pollution, for new peace-making initiatives of all kinds, for beginning reforestation

forced to walk in limbo carrying a hot coal. in the myth of the wheel of the year, the descended god now guards the gate to the otherworld and on this festival he holds sway. in some myths, the goddess enters the underworld to be reunited with him and returns to earth on the third day to prepare for the birth of the new sun, the ascended god, at mid-winter. the year too is dying and will be also reborn on the mid-winter solstice, so there is a cross-over of energies as the new year begins on the wane of the tide at a period of decline and darkness. just as the celtic day began at sunset, with the darkest part of the night still to come, the celtic year begins in darkness. this is a time for charities and initiatives to aid the family, the elderly, the sick and dying, to encourage experien

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ny gods, goddesses, spirits, ghosts, demons, magical powers, and the quest for immortality. 7 preface in a.d. 67 buddhism was introduced to china from india. it contributed two powerful religious and mythical figures: the buddha, a real, historical person who later became a divinity, and kuan yin, the goddess of mercy. it also introduced the concept of reincarnation, the idea that a person may be reborn into another life. myths might contain elements and characters from all of these sources, and for this book we have chosen stories that reflect their influences. many of the ancient myths are from the fabled era of the ten legendary kings, a time before the dawn of history. thereafter, the historical period of chinese history is divided into a series of dynasties until the year 1911, the be

hings to do likewise, lest our willful interference disrupt 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 l

ging base metals into gold, achieving immortality, and curing disease. banquet an elaborate meal that serves many dishes, usually held in honor of a special person or event. buddhism a religion founded on the teachings of siddhartha gautama, also known as the buddha. among some beliefs are that greed causes suffering, meditation can help the individual achieve peace, and that living beings may be reborn into another life after they die. calligraphy the art of writing chinese words on silk or paper, using a brush and ink. confucianism a code of conduct developed by confucius, a great teacher. this code emphasized obligations of people toward each other and toward their state. demigod a half-human, half-godlike ruler in early legendary chinese mythology who could change shapes at will. dynas

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energies coming together to create a third force, new life.to the egyptians, and therefore the brotherhood, the son of god was horus. he was bornto isis after her husband, osiris, had been murdered by set. she gathered together 14 partsof his mutilated body, but she could not find the penis. so she created a penis andimpregnated herself to conceive horus, the sun god- sun king, horus was osiris446reborn. in paris, part of this ritual was played out again. the car passed the golden-tippedegyptian obelisk, the penis of osiris, in the place de la concorde, and inside the vehiclewere diana (another name for isis) and the egyptian, dodi fayed, representing osiris. ihave heard from many sources that diana was pregnant. her foetus symbolised horus,the sun king. in ancient egypt, they said that os

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e ego, repression of human needs, mortification of the flesh, and obedience to church and state. crowley identified that a new cycle of expansion had begun and the cycle of restriction had ended. he refered to this cycle as the aeon of horus but the aeon of horus was only the first of many aeons within the cycle he had identified. the god osirus had passed through the land of the dead and was now reborn as horus. the bright and glorious child was reborn and now sat upon the throne of his father. this fit beautifully into crowley s egyptian schema but the doctrine of thelema failed to transform the world as he believed it would. the religion of crowley-anity attracted few followers at the time but the child grew and was weaned. and in 1966 it went out to play with its friends. anton lavey r

e age of satan represents the time during which both aeons were active. in 1975, the aeon of horus had finally ended. the aeon of lucifer, similarly, began in 1991. the period from 1991 to the year 2000 was transitional. both the aeon of set and the aeon of lucifer existed simultaneously during this time. the aeon of set ended in the year 2000. the bright, glorious, and unconquered child had been reborn. it had grown from an infant to a child and then into a teenager. crowley celebrated its birth. lavey sent the child out to play with its friends. aquino called the child in to study for its finals. the years of the church of satan were a carnival, followed by those of the temple of set and its focus on intellectual pursuits. at the end of the 20th century, the child approached manhood. the

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m was suppressed and obedience to the church was demanded. with the age of enlightenment and the eventual separation of church and state, a new emotional christianity took the place of the authoritarian christianity. the new christianity espoused faith in jesus, the person, as the savior of man and the redeemer of the world. the bible was accepted as the living word of god by those claiming to be reborn in christ. in emotional fervor many christians would take up serpents, speak in tongues, and witness miracles performed by faith healers. this is the christianity we have been left with today, a religion of blind faith and superstition- intolerant of all others faiths. many have rejected christianity today because of what they see as the utter ridiculousness of its ceremonies and the comple

ation? external influences may never be completely neutralized; however, many influences will be eliminated, including those unwanted influences which are prone to hinder the operation of your rituals. the bath also serves as a separation between your old life and new life. as a new born infant emerges from the fluid of the womb to a new life, so will you emerge from the waters of leviathan to be reborn in the image of satan. these rites do not require an altar, sword, dagger, bell, gong, robe, wand, or any other ritual implement. although not essential to these rites, you may choose to burn candles and incense. if this is done, only black candles should be used. any "dark" or "evil" incense may be used in these rituals but i recommend patchouli or sandalwood. you will require a piece of p

rlot, the lady of babylon and, once weened from the tit, grow as a child of darkness until i have become a god upon the earth, exercising the power and authority of the highest and ineffable king of hell* i bless and consecrate this water in the 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 h

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

rt to the dark lord and the forces of darkness. i have crossed the gates of hell and have become the devil incarnate. i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. i have opened the nine locks of the abyss and have received the mark of the beast. i have descended into the underworld, crossing the river styx. i have been baptized in the river styx and in the flames of hell. i have been reborn in the image of satan, as a living demon in the flesh. i have been ordained as a priest of the dark lord and ambassador of his infernal empire. i have sat upon the throne of the infernal empire as lord of the living and the dead. i have taken the dark goddess as my wife and as my lover. i have crossed the planetary spheres, the seven spheres above the earth, i have walked amonst the azonei

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[15, p. 17] rituals serve as self-programming devices that maintain the follower s dedication to the religion, and they have a transfusing effect on the person s life. the satanic rituals includes the following rituals: 1. le messe noir a rite of passage intended to rid the follower of catholic christian dogma. 2. l air epais an initiation ritual in which the participant symbolically dies and is reborn as a satanist. 3. das tierdrama a reminder of one s animal heritage. 4. homage to tchort draws inspiration from russian folklore of various demons, which are summoned during the ritual. 5. the ceremony of the nine angles inspired by h. p. lovecraft, it is intended to emphasize potential. 6. the call to cthulhu also inspired by h. p. lovecraft, it reflects the dimness of an almost forgotten

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ding block of contemporary astrology s attempt to provide astrology with an acceptable scientific base. in 1970 addey founded the urania trust, which had the exceedingly ambitious goal of reintegrating astrology into astronomy, an objective on which almost no progress has been made. addey also served a term as editor of the astrological journal. addey died in 1982. sources: addey, john. astrology reborn. tempe, ariz: american federation of astrologers, 1972. harmonic anthology. tempe, ariz: american federation of astrologers, 1976. harmonics in astrology. romford: l. n. fowler, 1976. selected writings. tempe, ariz: american federation of astrologers, 1976. lewis, james l. the astrology encyclopedia. detroit: gale research, 1994. additor a ouija board modified by the addition of a little ro

tered on psychical research. he received the immediate support of such scientists as psychologist william james and physiologist charles richet. in 1905, the president of the american society for psychical research (aspr, richard hodgson, died, as did his society shortly thereafter. previously the aspr had existed as a branch of the british society for psychical research, but in 1906 the aspr was reborn through the psychical research branch of the american institute for scientific research. afterward hyslop discontinued the institute and it survived as a new, independent aspr. for the rest of his life hyslop headed the new organization, through which he was able to pursue his primary interest in mediumship and its possible use for contacting the dead. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce b

ious great saints and sages. according to hindu belief, a perfected human soul has no further karma (action and reaction) and is absorbed into divinity at death, but may elect to be incarnated for the good of the world. the deity shri krishna, in the bhagavad-gita (4:7.8) specifically promises: arjuna, whenever there is decline of dharma (righteous duty, and unrighteousness is dominant, then i am reborn. for the protection of the virtuous, the destruction of evil-doers, and to reestablish righteousness, i am reborn from age to age. belief in repeated divine reincarnations of the deities for the good of the world, as distinct from one unique messianic event, is one of the major theological differences between hinduism and western religions such as judaism and christianity. avebury avebury i

arjuna to attend to his role in life as a member of the warrior caste, and not turn his back on his social duty (dharma. duty should be followed without regard of results. more importantly, however, he offers an understanding of the human being. the human is not a body, but the eternal atman (analogous to the soul in western thought, and the atman is indestructible. the atman cannot die and it is reborn in this life a number of times. just as humans change clothes, so the atman changes bodies. krishna goes on to outline the process of yoga and meditation through which a person can come to know the real amid the illusionary world of human life. his teaching culminates in a mystical moment in which arjuna sees the vast universe lodged as a body within the god of gods. in the relationship of

the bible stories of miraculous events in the light of the more limited findings of parapsychology. several church-based movements such as spiritual frontiers fellowship and the churches fellowship for spiritual and psychical studies (in the united kingdom) have emerged to embody such perspective. however, they remain a minority voice within christendom, and have themselves had to compete with a reborn gnosticism as represented in the new age movement that has developed quite apart from traditional christianity. sources: bretherton, donald. psychical research and the biblical prohibitions. in j. d. pearce-higgins and g. stanley whitby, eds. life, death and psychical research. london: rider, 1973. sutphin, john e, jr. the bible and spirit communication. starkville, miss: metamental mission

throughout ireland, but then was blown into the fairy palace of angus on the boyne. he could not release her from the spell, but during the day she fed on honey-laden flowers, and by night in her natural form gave angus her love. fuamnach discovered her hiding place and sent a dreadful tempest that blew etain into the drinking cup of etar, wife of an ulster chief. etar swallowed her, but she was reborn as etar s daughter, and as such married eochy, high king of ireland. ether late nineteenth-century hypothesis suggested by physicists as a means of accounting for the propagation of light as a wave motion through otherwise empty space. the idea of ether meshed with the teachings of the mesmerists and theosophists, who spoke of subtle substructures of matter sometimes referred to as koilon.a

history. freemasons, however, developed his biography that included a murder by his artisan colleagues. hiram, in working on the temple, became aware of the word of god inscribed in the secret parts of the temple. he would not reveal what he had learned and his noncollegial reticence cost him his life. his death then became integral to the ritual initiation of members who symbolically die and are reborn into the craft. the masonic worldview begins with three fundamental realities. first, there is a omnipresent, eternal, boundless, and immutable principle that is ineffable, beyond any limiting descriptors of human language, the end-point of all metaphysical speculation, the rootless root and the uncaused cause. natural law is a representation of the permanency of the absolute. second, there

to grow into the divine likeness. that plan was thwarted by lucifer, who revolted and was entrapped in matter. god is now using matter as a filter through which the impure spirits can be purified. on earth, spirits are given the opportunity to return to god. jesus came to earth to speed the redemptive process. through the imitation of christ, the individual can learn to love god and his neighbor. reborn, the soul drops the body and ascends to the new jerusalem. meanwhile, on earth, christ will return in the near future to recreate the earth and establish the millennium. the current social turmoil is a sign of his near return. when he appears, lucifer and the earthbound souls will have to make an ultimate choice. those who refuse god and continue in rebellion will be destroyed. support for

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c.e. diogenes laertius noted that pythagoras once recognized the soul of a departed friend in a dog that was being beaten. plato picked up on the idea and expounded it in several of his dialogues, most notably the phaedo and republic. according to the vision of truth that one attains, one will be born in the next life in a body suitable to that attainment, plato said. the most enlightened will be reborn as a philosopher, musician, artist, or lover. at the lowest level, he placed tyrants. once a soul has beheld true being, it will pass from animal into human form, he said. plato also put forth the idea that a person chooses his next life, the very choice being a sign of his character. the idea of metempsychosis was also held by some of the gnostics, and it became a source of disagreement be

the environment. the first collection of messages from the origin was released in 1997. further messages are expected to be released in the future. sources: dahya, amyn. reflections from the origin. vancouver, bc: reflections publishing, 1997. the orion mystery a book proposing that the pyramids of giza, egypt, are a terrestrial map of the constellation orion, traditional home of the soul of the reborn kings of egypt. sources: bauval, robert, and adrian gilbert. the orion mystery. london: heinemann, 1994. oris (1954) oris is the spiritual name of tsvelev sergei vassillievich, a psychic channel who emerged in russia in the 1990s following the demise of the soviet union. oris was born on january 25, 1954, in mariinka, a town in the donetsk. in 1978 he entered the crimean agricultural instit

of the subtle anatomy of the body, including an awareness of the mysterious psychic/spiritual centers generally referred to as chakras. the practice of yoga then leads to the valuing of the siddhas and those who practice them throughout indian society. the practice of yoga (especially that part of patanjali s system that included the asanas) reached a low point in the nineteenth century, but was reborn early in the twentieth century. simultaneously, hatha yoga, that aspect of the teachings devoted to the postures, was exported to the west as a discipline centered upon the improvement of bodily health. hatha yoga has actually enjoyed a greater response in non-indian cultures than in the land of its birth. sources: majumdar, sachindra kumar. introduction to yoga principles and practice. sec

pirit of the upanishads; or, the aphorisms of the wise. chicago: yogi publication society, 1936. ramakrishna, sri (1836.1886) an important indian spiritual teacher on vedanta and mystic of the nineteenth-century hindu renaissance. he was born february 18, 1836, in a village in bengal, after the divine hero sri rama had appeared in a vision to an old brahmin named khudiram, saying that he would be reborn as his son. in due encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. ramakrishna, sri 1277 course, the boy was born and named gadadhar. he grew up to worship the goddess kali, the great mother, and even when he was obliged to marry, he directed his veneration toward his bride, identifying her with kali. at the age of eighteen, gadadhar was taken to calcutta by his brother ramkumar, whom he

ican west coast, the mississippi river valley, and florida now covered by water. it also shows the emergence of new land masses east of australia, south of the southern tip of south america, and in the midst of the south pacific ocean. concurrent with the map, scallion predicted that a great spiritual awakening would occur worldwide during the 1990s. he saw that by the year 2002 humanity would be reborn and living in harmony with each other, and that a new utopian society would arise. many of scallion s predicted changes are based upon his appropriation of a form of what is termed the gaia hypothesis, the idea that the earth is itself a living organism that reacts to human disturbance of the natural order of things. scallion and his wife, cynthia keyes, now head the matrix institute and se

935; british ed. 1938, as well as various articles in the journal and proceedings of the aspr. she died july 1967. tulku term for a tibetan entity recognized in a present incarnation. tibetan buddhism teaches that highly evolved individuals become spiritually liberated by abandoning the sense of ego or separate identity, but the spiritual forces comprising such an individual may still elect to be reborn for the benefit of other people. it is believed they are only illusory manifestations sustained by the sense of ego. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. tulku 1591 traditional tests exist for the identification of tulkus, especially in the case of the dalai lama. other contemporary tulkus include chogyam trungpa (1939.1987, author of the book born in tibet (london, 1966) and

y; she appears again when a sacrifice is made in a cemetery to get her into the hero s power, as a heavenly maiden beautifully adorned, seated in a chariot of gold surrounded by lovely girls; and lastly, a brahman meets some buddhist ascetics, performs the uposhana vow, and would have become a god, had it not been that a wicked man compelled him by force to take food in the evening, and so he was reborn as a guhyaka. in the modern folk-lore of kashmir, the yaksha has turned into the yech or yach, a humorous, though powerful, sprite in the shape of a civet cat of a dark colour, with a white cap on his head. this small cap is one of the marks of the irish fairies, and the incubones of italy wear caps, the symbols of their hidden, secret natures. the feet of the yech are so small as to be alm

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n orgasmic contradictions- silxofax mantadragonia ziflantamaxia natasz azaximanda callraptuption sunta faxim at rax zenfixamaphillaheme- grendel, who weeps upon existence, i pray unto myself. baphomet, fusion of being and of nothing, let us tear choronzon asunder. mighty set and lord of morning let me bear the joy of liberation. my light and my darkness, this is nothing, my self of god, a prophet reborn. to invoke my being. i become- xephera xephera azazas azathoth- the joy of chaos is my soul. i am and i am not act iii the skull is now a silent object, staring mute at me. the eye is two-dimensional again, the mage walks alone and as poor little grendel has had an accident, so may you all the rite of godhood pre-cursor note: this rite incorporates a variance of the dark matter at hand rite

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thirty-three, when he had taken the three-times-three (9) degrees of mystic masonry, he descended to the center of the earth. so does every other tekton, mason or phree messen (child of light) as the egyptian called such, descend through the nine arch-like strata of the earth. we shall find at the time of the first advent of christ both hiram abiff, the son of cain, and solomon, the son of seth, reborn to take from him the next great initiation into the christian mysteries. in the last chapter we saw while considering "the philosopher's stone" that the spinal cord is the principal laboratory for the alchemist, and that the spinal spirit fire, generated by turning the creative force upward through the spinal canal, passing it between the pituitary body and the pineal gland in the brain, gi

rom their progenitors, jehovah and the lucifer spirits. with this end in view the symbolical temple was built according to the instruction of solomon, the son of seth and the molten sea was cast by hiram abiff, the son of cain; but the main object was frustrated as we have seen, and the attempt at unification proved abortive. moses, the divinely appointed leader of the old dispensation, afterward reborn as elijah, guided humanity through its ages of infancy, and was finally embodied as john the baptist, the herald of the new dispensation, the christian era. at the same point in time the other actors in the world drama were also brought to birth that they might serve their brothers. at the casting of the molten sea hiram abiff had been given the baptism of fire by cain, which freed him from

rve their brothers. at the casting of the molten sea hiram abiff had been given the baptism of fire by cain, which freed him from the lucifer spirits; he was also given a new hammer and a new word. when the new era dawned, he was born as lazarus, the widow's son of nain, and raised by the strong grip of the lion's paw to the rank of immortals as christian rosenkreuz. solomon, the son of seth, was reborn as jesus. the baptism of water administered by john as representative of jehovah freed him also. he yielded his body at that moment to the descending christ spirit and ranged himself with the new leader. religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer catholic, that is to say, universal. s

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ll serve as passport to the temple. there he may meet the king face to face. hiram was again conducted to the surface of the earth and as he walked from the scene of his shattered ambition, the conspirators set upon and fatally wounded him; but before he expired, he hid the hammer and disc upon which he had inscribed the word. this was never found until ages later when hiram "the widow's son" was reborn as lazarus and became the friend and pupil of the lion of judah, who raised him from death through initiation. when the hammer was found it had the shape of a cross, and the disc had become a rose. therefore hiram took his place among the immortals under the new and symbolical name christian rosenkreuz. he founded the order of temple-builders which bears his name; in that order aspiring sou

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said, lives for 500 years, and at its death its body opens and the new born phoenix emerges. because of this symbolism, the phoenix is generally regarded as representing immortality and resurrection. the phoenix is one sign of the secret orders of the ancient world and of the initiate of those orders, for it was common to refer to one who had been accepted into the temples as a man twice-born, or reborn. wisdom confers a new life, and those who become wise are born again [p. p. 176-77] freemasons like all occultists, refer to their initiates who have completed their initiation, as being "born again" in 1988, when george bush was on the presidential campaign trail; barbara walters interviewed him. she asked him a question that caught him off guard. barbara asked george if he was a christian

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ace 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 light the world with the suns glow you who l

the night sky, clearly glistening thru the skylight. the moon is at her fullest, the stars dance around her, and the world waits in expectation. she sings out "father, remember! come to us now at the full moon of yule. let the light of the mother entice you, enthrall you, and bring you back to warm the earth and you're children. renew the promise "hoof and horn, hoof and horn, all who die will be reborn! corn and grain, corn and grain, all who die will come again" father we invite you. father we entreat you. father we welcome you. be with us now. so mote it be" owl watches as reddeer "becomes. and waits..and deer, already with so many songs in his head and heart, feels now one which calls also to his very being. pulled from his spot- his place in the circle where all was certain, where wha

t self within otherness with which he now participates assures him that it is so. and to her deer sings "my lady, i remember. i am remembered. your light calls me from darkness. you touch brings me from cold. join me, become enthralled among the world you have borne. renew the promise "corn and grain, corn and grain, all who die shall come again! hoof and horn, hoof and horn, all who die shall be reborn" mother we invite you. mother we entreat you. mother we welcome you. be here now" deer watches the change in owl's demeanor- sees her shoulders straighten, sees her stand taller, sees her glow- and he knows that his love walks among them. the shared history of aeons passes between them in a single glance. the recreation of an entire cosmos in a gentle hug. and passion beyond physical expres

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r to these; the inviolability of law, as karma, is not a prominent feature; and the number of rebirths is limited generallyto three. some small part of the kabalistic doctrine is found in thetalmud,but in this collection of treatises there is a grossness that is absent from the true kabalah and the esoteric eastern system: such are the theories of the debasement of menintoanimal forms; and of men reborn as women, as apunishment*for earthly sins in a previous life: see rabbi manasseh in the nishmath chiim, or 'breath of lives. but it must be remembered that many of the doctrines to which we may justly take exception are limited to the teachings*ifnotaspunishment,yetthemajority of female lives areharderto bearthanmale lives; possible male and female lives are alternative, and complementary t

three in one, and three in each of the triads, nine and one; the circle, and the axis around which the circle revolves; the essence and the existence of the two hieroglyphic signs of number, of the decad,the volatile and the fixed, the moveable and the stable, form variable to infinity, and being unchangeable in its essence, are the eternal balance of life. form undergoing improvement, and being reborn more full of life, after an apparent destruction, this is progress, this is victory or netsach. order always identical, law always stable, existence always indestructible, it is eternity, it is thejod,it is the harmony of two contraries, it is the law of creation, the jesod.thetwo forces, and this law of harmony are revealed in all nature, which is the kingdom of god, that is to say creatio

vivors from this deluge, led by adepts, settled in egypt and passed to central asia, forming the sources of the great ancient nations which have flourished since the deluge. the first to obtain precedence was iran, ancient persia, then india, then chaldeo255 egyptian and semitic dominance, then the greco-roman, and last our own civilization, in which it is believed the ancient egyptians are being reborn. in this succession of nations we see man gradually developing his human consciousness; in persia discerning the two elements of good and evil: then in chaldea arose the dawning study of heavenly bodies affecting theearth;inegypt came the appreci255 ation of form and permanence shown in their buildings, their ideals of some sphere to follow death, by their ritual of the dead and the practic

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seed of light, it is caught in matter and crying out for salvation. the logos embodied in jesus answers the call and through great suffering offers salvation. but it is not that simple, for while sophia still lives in the world system, she can only travel to the upperworld by day and must return to the underworld by night or so the legend goes. so man, on the path of transfiguration, though being reborn through the powers of the pleroma must live in the world, but try not to be of it. sophia hence offers us some fascinating insights into the nature of god. she is the daughter of the divine will and yet is the part of the divine will itself, she is the spouse and lover of the logos and the spirit within man. she is reflected in the light hidden in nature, the ecclesia, the gnostic scripture

epresents the completed individual in which sophia and the logos have transformed consciousness and the mediator at the nexus of all systems. the solar logos, christ or the sacred sun transmits the transforming energies of the triune principle throughout the planes. it is the door through which the energies of the upper world communicate with those of the planes. it can be imaged as the dying and reborn sun and hence related a wide range of god-man myths and legends. i am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. john 10:9 the sun can be also however harsh, it dries out the land and kills the livestock as well as bringing out the change of tides and the flourishing of life. this reminds us that creation and destruction are the normal

ctises that actually offer transformation of man into god. jesus, our elder brother outlined a technology, a spiritual process whereby man may be sanctified and purified to such a level that he is transformed into child of the treasury of light. this process is that of transfiguration and encompasses the idea of being born again and is very different from what you may have been taught about being reborn. to be born again the actual nature of the process of transfiguration is important to define, so is the way of entering into it. the 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 proce

e born again the actual nature of the process of transfiguration is important to define, so is the way of entering into it. the 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 th

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-reproductive, in some sense to be born again is to be de-born as well as reborn, you have chosen to create a new self within yourself rather than perpetuate the cycle by reproducing an external self (a child. for most of us, this transformation is not completed within our life-span (s, and hence we have to wait until the end of the cosmic cycle when the children of the pleroma are finally reborn into the new kingdom. the nature of transfiguration transfiguration offers

irth 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, justification and sanctification. these are loaded terms but important in understanding how the process of rebirth actually operates. the moment you enter the spiritual path you are seen as reborn, that is, the pleroma perceives you as a new creature, a new being. the aeons see you as a child of the light. in this sense you are justified, that is, through transfiguration you are seen as reborn. however, you must now live up to this commission and actually achieve this state. many start the path but do not make it. there is a vast difference between the initial act of justification an

the light. in this sense you are justified, that is, through transfiguration you are seen as reborn. however, you must now live up to this commission and actually achieve this state. many start the path but do not make it. there is a vast difference between the initial act of justification and the long process of purification or sanctification through which you must travel before you are actually reborn. by grace you have entered the spiritual path, by works you make it to the moment of rebirth. the process of transformation is a difficult and demanding trek however by following the teachings of the gnosis you will reach the goal. just like there are many miscarriages in this world, there are many in the spiritual world. being conceived on the path of transfiguration is not enough, the pat

dove has seven stages. these seven stages illustrate the process of the terrestrial path, after the gnostic has worked through these stages he can rightly be called a child of the treasury of light. at this point, depending on his destiny, he will reincarnate and 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 light world which will be the replacement for earth. the earth will be rectified and return to the static kingdom and will 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 th

d is the reins and the horses are the emotions. only when these constituents are in their rightful place does the chariot speed in the right direction. the horses are good at their given task but very bad drivers! so all things must be in their place and this is the task of transfiguration. the process of re-education involves a long and arduous battle in which the old" gods" die and a new god is reborn. the mind and emotions are destroyed in the dark nights of initiation and a new mind/emotion complex is formed under the directions of the true self. like osiris we must rise from the death of our old selves into the new. lord, i die daily. 1 corinthians 15:30 therefore if any man be in christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 cor 5:17 b

ow awakening into the celestial state. the amazing thing about this state is that it goes further than simply returning the "soul" to perfection (terrestrial salvation) but actually transfigures the self to become a member of the god family while in life! this state of perfection (teleios) is inherent within the concept of spiritual rebirth and the nature of the new man in christ. as a gnostic is reborn in the image of god, then the implication is that it is possible to fully reflect the nature of god. this obviously entails perfection. some biblical references will help you get some background. be ye therefore perfect, even as your father which is in heaven is perfect. matthew 5:48 i beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of god, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, ho

ude sacraments of healing and blessing. the gnostic handbook page 124 conclusions the goal of the gnostic apostolic church is to awaken mankind and bring him to a realisation of his true nature. mankind is moving towards the omega point, the great day when all must graduate or fall. this day is also the day of judgement in that only those who have entered the path of transfiguration and are being reborn can return to the treasury of light. those who are pursuing the path of transfiguration are truly new men, homo novus and can look forward to a new world and a new way of life as the christ current transforms them into children of the treasury of light. for more information see: the institute for gnostic and gnostic apostolic church web: http//www.ozemail.com.au/ pleroma or write to: instit

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hind nature itself. since nature is the result of the alpha event, we should be able to see tell-tale signs within the very mechanism of nature itself to suggest its malevolent goals and its antipathy to spirit. the nature of nature the only reliable thing about nature is its cycle of suffering, decay and death. now i know that it is said that while nature is cyclic, one thing dies and another is reborn, but that is the point. one thing dies, another is reborn. there is no individual or discrete permanence, all is transition. this is the great truth gautama buddha pronounced 2,500 years ago and it stands the test of time. human life as a whole is sometimes considered negative entropy, but even this is only real, if you consider physical matter as your point of reference. if you take into a

ontaminated by the fall and could not survive in his now degenerated state. accordingly, his yechidah or self became powerless, locked in a fallen vehicle and could exist only as a spark of light- a potential. the only way to reactivate this self is by the application of the mysteries found on the path of transfiguration. this transfigurative process involves a spiritual technology whereby man is reborn through the power of the treasury of light, and the ruach is united with the re-awakened yechidah. the yechidah, using the energies of the ruach and nephesh is re-developed, and the true self is revealed. the mixed impersonal current which invigorates the fallen system is transmutated, and the individual manifests as an eternal, discrete, identity reflecting the glory of the pleroma. so, ye

the logos. the counsel and warning is hold fast and watch. it is clear and precise, to achieve transfiguration takes steadfastness and awareness. the promise is that those who correctly use this centre will be confessed before the gnostic theurgy page 82 father. that is, they will join the pleroma. it also has a kabbalistic meaning, confession before the father means crossing the abyss and being reborn as a master in the supernals (the top three centres of the tree of life. this is to be confessed or witnessed by the father, kether. the church of philadelphia the church of philadelphia is the third eye or ajna (brow) chakra. it is given the title of brotherly love because of its awesome power. the insight and force of this centre can only be understood when experienced through agape of di

s light from them, then the man first begins to live. arcana celestia, emanuel swedenborg (ac 39. from the chakric perspective this day is that of the heart. the centre from which divine love, faith and wisdom flow. it is green for in its imagery, the planets bring about the development of all life. the fifth day fish and birds appear. these reflect the facets of the mind that are rejuvenated and reborn through transfiguration. the fish represent the creatures that swim in the water- that is those things which exist within the ebb and flow of the unconscious. the imagery of birds and flight illustrates the way in which the mind can now reach new levels of illumination. the image of flight is found in many esoteric traditions ranging from the chariots and vehicles that fly to the higher wor

ranging from the chariots and vehicles that fly to the higher worlds which are found within the kabbalah and the vedas to the sacred birds of the celts and druids. from the chakric perspective the fifth day is the throat centre. the logos regenerates the mind and new levels of consciousness are reached. it is the blue centre, the colour of devotion. the sixth day this marks the appearance of the reborn man. he has subjugated his instincts and mind, liberated his innermost self and united the male and female principles within gnostic theurgy page 87 him. from the perspective of the chakra system, the sixth day is that of the ajna centre, where the currents of creation and destruction are unleashed and the gnostic becomes a master. it is indigo and represents intuition and inner mastery. th

tent symbol system. as we experience the tree of life (ygdrassill) gaining knowledge from each of its nine centres (except earth, we must grasp (comprehend) the secret alphabet (the paths, and integrate them whilst still existing in a fallen or earthly form. this knowledge or gnosis can then be used to help us grow in wisdom, leading us from word to word, deed to another deed until we are new and reborn beings. the mysteries of enochian the enochian script is a most unusual form of esoteric language. it is named after enoch, who it is rumoured, reached such a high state of illumination that he walked with god and was not. enochian as a language or symbol-system did not develop or evolve naturally as most languages do, but was received through the crystal gnostic theurgy page 114 gazing vis

nd the world as a school or educational facility, through which we gain experience, and through this experience, hopefully awaken the innermost self. various ideologies and perspectives are played off against each other through many incarnations offering a chance, a glimpse of immortality. we must study, learn and apply the knowledge we gain so that we can graduate to the higher worlds. as we are reborn through the transfiguration process, we must accelerate the receipt of the light energy (x factors) and gnostic theurgy page 125 diminish the receipt of the fallen forces (y factors. in practise, this means detachment from things of the world which by their very fallen nature encourage the y factors in our lives. reproduction, ambition, materialism- all must be resisted, and a separation fr

page 126 to be born again the actual nature of the process of transfiguration is important to define, as is the way of entering into it. the fundamentalist christian concept of simply giving your life to jesus is utterly alien to the teachings of the gnosis. the process of being born again is just that, a process. just as 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. the moment of conception is that time when you decide to enter the transfigurative path. 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 an aeon of light. for most of us, this transformation is not completed within our timeline (our allotted series of l

is confirmed in 1 john 3:9 where we read. whosoever is born of god doth not commit sin, for his seed remainth in him and he cannot sin, because he is born of god. 1 john 3:9 there a number of key concepts in this verse. firstly, the concept of seed is mentioned. this hints at the radical transformation of the gnostic (a new seed has been propagated in him. secondly, it is said that the seed of a reborn person cannot sin! this is an incredible concept, if you are truly reborn you cannot sin (sin means to miss the mark, not to be in balance with the light worlds, it does not mean the petty moral commandment of modern christianity) in real terms this means that a fully reborn person is permanently one with the pleroma. now surely this does not apply to modern fundamentalist christians who ar

cannot sin! this is an incredible concept, if you are truly reborn you cannot sin (sin means to miss the mark, not to be in balance with the light worlds, it does not mean the petty moral commandment of modern christianity) in real terms this means that a fully reborn person is permanently one with the pleroma. now surely this does not apply to modern fundamentalist christians who are supposedly reborn by a quick prayer at a revival meeting! gnostic theurgy page 127 no, being reborn is being transformed from 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 th

ven stages (fig 36. these seven stages illustrate the process of the terrestrial path. only after the gnostic has worked through these stages can he rightly be called a child of the treasury of light. at 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 go

the role of the "left hand of god, cleansing the planet in preparation for his return. they will be translated to become immortals within the heavenly hierarchy. the terrestrial class are those who achieve perfection at the resurrection. they apply and follow the gnostic principles through many lives as they transform from earthly to heavenly substance. they follow the will of the pleroma and are reborn as his children on the restored new earth. 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. revelation 3:12 and i saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the f

o the fallen world. once you are on the path of transfiguration your very substance is in a state of transformation, a state gnostic theurgy page 178 which is opposed to everything the demiurge, the world of the archons and by extension, the physical world system (including governments, churches etc) stand for. when jesus said you should expect persecution, he was not joking! when you start to be reborn, your energy is like a beacon, a flashing light warning the fallen system, the archons, memes, demons and fallen angels to take a special interest. i am not suggesting you should always be looking over your shoulder, paranoia does not help in spiritual transformation, however, you must be aware that you are now a stranger in a war torn land and the earth is no longer your home. there are ma

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its and then their legions. they were then restored to their places in the world, and still walk with us today. all of these except for belial, who entered into a certain image and gave answers to those who gave sacrifices unto him, and worshiped this image as their god of transformation and sorcerous power. 74 75 binding spell of the seeker the path offered by sathan unto the devil s name are ye reborn, burning effigy of the noon tide sun, spirit of blackened light, who is both beast and angel, aligned with the rise of man and woman those who walk the thorn-way path. i charge thee with protecting this book, coil as a serpent around the heart of thee text, that as a grimoire scribed in the blood of the moon. satan, adversarial djinn who dwells in the sun, crowned in the emerald which refle

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was written in hieroglyphs as. the religions of both regions share many other common images and ideas. also noteworthy is the fact that p achi, the central american word for human sacrifice, means, literally to open the mouth which calls to mind a strange ancient egyptian funerary ritual known as the opening of the mouth. likewise it was believed in both regions that the souls of dead kings were reborn as stars. deus ex machina villahermosa, tabasco province i was looking at an elaborate relief that had been dubbed man in serpent by the archaeologists who found it at la venta. according to expert opinion it showed an olmec, wearing a head-dress and holding an incense bag, enveloped by a feathered serpent .13 the relief was carved into a slab of solid granite measuring about four feet wide

nions who had also been killed, and so they again became the companions of hunahpu and xbalanque and were changed into stars in the sky. 8 the majority of the traditions of the god-king quetzalcoatl, as we have seen, focus on his deeds and teachings as a civilizer. his followers in ancient mexico, however, also believed that his human 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 compa

t would tip the balance. the god thoth would note the judgement on his palette and the heart would immediately be devoured by a fearsome beast, part crocodile, part hippopotamus, part lion, that was called the eater of the dead .19 finally, let us turn again to egypt of the pyramid age and the privileged status of the pharaoh, which enabled him to circumvent the trials of the underworld and to be reborn as a star. ritual incantations were part of the process. equally important was a mysterious ceremony known as the opening of the mouth, always conducted after the death of the pharaoh 13 pre-hispanic gods of mexico, p. 37. 14 the gods and symbols of ancient mexico and the maya, pp. 128-9. 15 reproduced in national geographic magazine, volume 176, number 4, washington dc, october 1989, p. 46

the reigns of horus, thoth and the later divine pharaohs as being relatively smooth and inevitable. this transition was mimicked, through thousands of years, by the mortal kings of egypt. from the beginning to the end, they saw themselves as the lineal descendants and living representatives of horus, son of osiris. as generation succeeded generation, it was supposed that each deceased pharaoh was reborn in the sky as an osiris and that each successor to the throne became a horus .32 this simple, refined, and stable scheme was already fully evolved and in place at the beginning of the first dynasty around 3100 bc.33 scholars accept this; the majority also accept that what we are dealing with here is a highly developed and sophisticated religion.34 strangely, very few egyptologists or archae

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

to the category now called the blonds. the polish-born american visionary was often derided for his humble vocation and high pretensions, as well as for his claims. but his story, first unsuccessfully submitted as a science fiction novel, has strong archetypal and mythic qualities that have repeatedly proven their psychological power. said to have been seen immediately after his sudden death as a reborn space being with the name yamski. adamski is buried at arlington national cemetary. his close early association with the initiate and new age guru george hunt williamson plays a key role in the saga of the cipher of the ufonauts. he died april 22, 1965. secret cipher of the ufonauts 7 aiwass, or aiwaz, the pr terhuman intelligence who appeared to aleister crowley in cairo in april 1904, dic

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trary marks of indefinite character. the rose, on the other hand, offers little trouble to the student of symbology. its fragrance, its cycles of budding into life, maturing into full bloom and sweetness and then dropping to decay and dust, represent the cycles of life.even human life. that the seed of the [74] disintegrating rose should drop to earth and in earth find again the opportunity to be reborn, typifies the mystic's understanding of the continuity of life, or reincarnation. in our work, the cross represents many things esoterically; likewise the rose. but exoterically, the rose represents evolution, while the cross represents the labors and burdens of life and the karma which we must endure in our earthly existence. in our ritual of the first degree initiation, there is this refe

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e battles that he was shown fighting were sometimes real and sometimes imaginary, but the foreign enemies always represented the forces of chaos.48 the massive pylon gateways resemble defensive structures, but they also stood for the mountains of the eastern horizon, between which the sun rose. the plant-shaped columns of the inner halls formed a stone replica of the marsh where gods were born or reborn. the innermost sanctuary that contained the introduction 21 cult statue was said to be built on the primeval mound, the very place in which the creator first brought forth life. each temple was dedicated to one main deity, but in the new kingdom it became common to group deities into divine families, with subsidiary temples for the chief deity s consort and child. so at karnak, for example

irtually the only god to be shown as old. the common mythical time lines 91 identification of the evening sun as atum linked it with the myth of the creator growing weary and letting the world sink back into the nun. sunset was equivalent to death, and the sun s flesh and soul passed into the underworld. after moving through the underworld reviving its inhabitants with his light, the sun would be reborn. each sunrise was a new beginning for the cosmos. in early times, this cycle could be described in more brutal terms.52 in the evening, the sun god died by being eaten by his mother, the sky goddess, and was replaced by a multitude of stars. in the morning, the reborn sun god ate all the star gods, staining the sky with their blood (the redness of dawn) and absorbing their power. the one go

fortunate spirits could take their place among the stars or among the followers of osiris, ra, thoth, or hathor, but they could not escape the cycles of destruction and renewal. the soul might experience life in the field of reeds, a paradise similar to egypt, but this was not a permanent state. when the night sun passed on, darkness and death returned. the star-spirits were destroyed at dawn and reborn mythical time lines 93 each night. even the evil dead, the enemies of ra, continuously came back to life like apophis so that they could be tortured and killed again. as the western souls, the justified dead formed part of the crew of the embattled boat of millions. they might be thought of as rowing or towing the sun boat or even defending it against the forces of chaos. the vignette to bo

ry sources. aker aker was an earth god who guarded the eastern and western horizons. he took the form of a pair of conjoined sphinxes facing away from each other (see figure 45. see also sphinx akhet the horizon, a place of transition for gods and the dead, was known as akhet. the double horizon consisted of the western horizon where the sun god died at sunset and the eastern horizon where he was reborn at sunrise. the standard image of the horizon was a sun disk between two mountain peaks. two shining trees grew on these mountains, and the double horizon was guarded by a double sphinx or twin lions. see under feline deities; ra; shu and tefnut ammut ammut was a monstrous goddess who devoured the hearts of the evil dead. see also hippopotamus goddesses amun (amon, ammon, amen) amun was the

ine infants worshipped in the birth houses of temples of the first millennium bce. temple and magical texts give bes or bes-shu the role of opening the womb to allow a child to be born. the symbolism of birth was reproduced in tombs to help the dead to new life. some royal tombs and sarcophagi show bes with hippopotamus-faced demons protecting the lion-shaped bed on which the deceased hoped to be reborn. a painted statue of bes dominates a tomb chamber in the recently discovered valley of the golden mummies. see also eye of ra; feline deities; hathor; hippopotamus goddesses; horus the child; shu and tefnut references and further reading: m. malaise. bes. in the oxford encyclopaedia of ancient egypt i, edited by d. redford. oxford and new york: 2001, 179 181. j. f. romano. the origin of the

ull form. this bata transforms himself into a magnificent bull to visit the wife who has deserted him to marry the king of egypt. the queen persuades her husband to sacrifice this bull in the hope of getting rid of bata. he then transforms himself into two beautiful trees that the queen has cut down. she accidentally swallows a sliver of the wood and falls pregnant. the child turns out to be bata reborn. bata has become the bull of his mother and has fathered himself. in the pyramid texts, the great wild cow of the marshes is the king s mother or wet nurse in the afterlife. in pyramid texts spell 485a, the dead king is described as the golden calf of the milk goddess hesat (hezat. two parallel 124 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 26. the sky goddess in cow form from the book of the he

temple texts at edfu, the king promises to kill all crocodiles and crush their eggs. in the afterlife, the souls of the dead had to evade the crocodiles of the four directions, who were enemies of the four bas of the sun god. in enigmatic scenes in new kingdom royal tombs, the nocturnal sun has to pass through the body of the crocodile penwenti, who symbolizes the primeval waters, in order to be reborn. greek and roman writers recorded a bizarre egyptian belief that ichneumons (a type of mongoose) killed crocodiles by running down their throats and gnawing their way out through the bowels. this may be a misunderstanding of the mythical conflict between the sun god ra in the form of an ichneumon and apophis in the form of a crocodile or a snake. see also apophis; horus the child; magicians

ame back each year with the barley. see also heqet; khnum; nun; osiris; sons of horus references and further reading: j. baines. fecundity figures. warminster, england: 1985. j. lindsay. men and gods on the roman nile. london: 1968, chaps. 3, 6, 17. primary sources: ct 317 321; hapy hymns; famine stela hathor (h.wt-h. r) hathor was the golden goddess who helped women to give birth, the dead to be reborn, and the cosmos to be renewed. this complex deity could function as the mother, consort, and daughter of the creator sun god. many lesser goddesses came to be regarded as names of hathor in her contrasting benevolent and destructive aspects. she was most commonly shown as a beautiful woman wearing a red solar disk between a pair of cow s horns. hathor s name means domain (or mansion) of hor

ebdjedet heh gods the heh gods were the gods of twilight who helped shu to support the sky. a single heh god was the hieroglyphic sign for millions of years or infinity. see also baboons; ogdoad of hermopolis; shu and tefnut heka (hika) heka was the god of magic as a creative force. see also sia and hu heqet (heqat, hekat) heqet was a frog goddess who helped women to give birth and the dead to be reborn. the knife-wielding frogs shown on ivory wands are probably heqet in her role as defender of women and children. heqet, mistress of joy, was among the deities, themes, and concepts 139 followers of the inundation god hapy when he brought new life to egypt each year. the roman writer pliny the elder noted an egyptian belief that frogs were spontaneously generated from the mud left by the rec

sun-worshipping kings of the fifth dynasty. in new kingdom royal-birth myths, heqet gives life 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

ith hathor mehet-weret, the cow goddess who represented the fertile aspect of the primeval waters (the nun. mehet-weret, nut, and the hippopotamus goddess could all be thought of as giving birth to the creator sun god. in the secret crypts of the temple of ipet at karnak, the hippopotamus goddess was said to give birth to a solar form of osiris who rose again as amun-ra. in the pyramid texts, the reborn king is nourished by the sweet milk of ipy (ipet. during the middle kingdom and second intermediate periods, model hippopotami decorated with marsh flora were placed in tombs and temples. these may represent ipet or taweret as the goddess of the primeval marsh where all life began and the dead hoped to be reborn. the full breasts and belly on composite figures of taweret are probably those

d the good after death. when setna and his father (rameses ii) are challenged by a nubian sorcerer to read a sealed letter without opening it, only sa-osiris can perform this feat. the letter tells how hundreds of years before, a magician called sa-paneshe defeated a nubian sorceress and her son who were casting spells on a king of egypt. sa-osiris then reveals that he is the spirit of sa-paneshe reborn to protect egypt from the continuing threat of nubian sorcery. see also baboons; bastet; heqet; imhotep; kings and princes; thoth references and further reading: s. tower hollis. tales of magic and wonder from ancient egypt. in civilizations of the ancient near east, vol. 4, edited by j. m. sasson. new york: 1995, 2255 2264. w. j. tait. theban magic. in hundred-gated thebes, edited by s. p

before dawn. this was the equivalent in the daily solar cycle to the period of precreation in the great cycle of mythical history. the ogdoad merged in the primeval waters to allow the creator to come into being, and the heh gods acted together to make the void in which the earth could come into being. members of the ogdoad such as nun and naunet and kek and keket were said to help the sun to be reborn as khepri every morning. see also amun; baboons; lotus; nun; nut; shu and tefnut; thoth references and further reading: s. tower hollis. otiose deities and the ancient egyptian pantheon. journal of the american research center in egypt 35 (1998: 61 72. 176 handbook of egyptian mythology l. h. lesko. ancient egyptian cosmogonies and cosmology. in religion in ancient egypt, edited by byron e

before she was tricked into stopping. as humans were said to have sprung from the tears of the eye of ra, sekhmet was slaughtering her own children. she was a more protective mother to the kings of deities, themes, and concepts 187 egypt, and in memphis she was worshipped as the consort of ptah and the mother of nefertem. in the pyramid texts, sekhmet was named as a parent of the king when he was reborn into the celestial afterlife. in the coffin texts, she was identified with the red crown of lower egypt and with the fire-spitting uraeus: the serpent who is upon her father. she was said to be the one who wields the knife on the night of the great battle between the forces of order and chaos. in new kingdom funerary literature, sekhmet often stands in the solar barque to defend ra from the

ok of the dead, shai can be shown next to the scales in which the heart of the deceased person is weighed. like the goddesses meskhenet and renenutet, he occasionally took the form of a birth-brick with a human head. these bricks were the supports on which egyptian women squatted to give birth. as deities of the birth-bricks, shai and his female counterparts helped the souls of the deceased to be reborn. egyptian thinkers debated how far a person s fate was predestined. some instruction texts took the pessimistic view that it was impossible to evade your fate, but hymns and prayers claimed that gods such as amun had the power to change a person s destiny and bestow extra years of life. a new kingdom story tells how a longed-for son was born to the king and queen of egypt. on the night of h

be appeased. nekhbet took the form of the largest flying bird known to the egyptians. there was a general fear of vultures devouring or dispersing bodies buried in the desert. nekhbet could also appear as another dangerous animal, the long-horned wild cow of the marshlands. she was one of a group of cow deities who wet-nursed and protected the divine child in the marshes of chemmis and the newly reborn king in the afterlife. this eventually led the greeks to identify nekhbet with their goddess of childbirth, eileithyia. statue groups show either a cow or a cobra in a papyrus thicket protecting the king as divine child. as well as appearing as a cobra, wadjyt could be shown as a woman with the head of a lioness. she was one of the goddesses identified with the destruc- 212 handbook of egyp

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which the well-to-do egyptian lived upon earth. the followers of amen-ra aimed at securing a place in the boat of the sun-god, i.e, the "boat of millions of years" so that they might sail over the sky with him each day, and enjoy the sight of the earth on which they had lived, and might, under his all-powerful protection, pass through the regions of darkness by night, and emerge in heaven, being reborn each day. in the kingdom of osiris the beatified dead ate bread-cakes made from one wonderful kind of grain, and drank beer made from another kind, and enjoyed conjugal intercourse, and the company of their relations and friends; all their material comforts were supplied by the use of words of power &c, by which they even obtained entrance into that kingdom. entrance to the boat of millions

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

estion. where is thetreasure of the grove amassed by thy priests of satan, and hidden after they had been driven away by the holycross. thou alone knowest. answer, or by heaven and hell i shall thrust thy evil tongue down thy throatfor ever. she heeds not the threat, but goes on calmly and fearlessly as before, as if she had not heard. the gods say, clovis, thou art accursed clovis, thou shalt be reborn among thy present enemies, and sufferthe tortures thou hast inflicted upon thy victims. all the combined power and glory thou hast deprived themof shall be thine in prospect, yet thou shalt never reach it. thou shalt" the prophetess never finishes her sentence. with a terrible oath the king, crouching like a wild beast on his skin-covered seat, pounces upon her with theleap of a jaguar, and

the victim's throat, nails the head to the ground. a stream of hotcrimson blood gushes from the gaping wound and covers king and soldiers with indelible gore. iitime- the landmark of gods and men in the boundless field of eternity, the murderer of its offspring and ofmemory in mankind- time moves on with noiseless, incessant step through aeons and ages. amongmillions of other souls, a soul-ego is reborn: for weal or for woe, who knoweth! captive in its new humanform, it grows with it, and together they become, at last, conscious of their existence. happy are the years of their blooming youth, unclouded with want or sorrow. neither knows aught of thepast nor of the future. for them all is the joyful present: for the soul-ego is unaware that it had ever lived inother human tabernacles, it kn

o knoweth! captive in its new humanform, it grows with it, and together they become, at last, conscious of their existence. happy are the years of their blooming youth, unclouded with want or sorrow. neither knows aught of thepast nor of the future. for them all is the joyful present: for the soul-ego is unaware that it had ever lived inother human tabernacles, it knows not that it shall be again reborn, and it takes no thought of the morrow. its form is calm and content. it has hitherto given its soul-ego no heavy troubles. its happiness is due to thecontinuous mild serenity of its temper, to the affection it spreads wherever it goes. for it is a noble form, andits heart is full of benevolence. never has the form startled its soul-ego with a too-violent shock, orotherwise disturbed the ca

eheavens- the white lotuses had become blue. then like to the sound of the vina [a species of the lute. an instrument, the invention of which is attributedto shiva] rising to the air from the depth of the waters, was heard a melodious voice which uttered thesewords and this curse "a prince who does not know how to die for his subjects is not worthy to reign over the children of the sun.he will be reborn in a race of red haired peoples, a barbarous and selfish race, and the nations which descendfrom him will have a heritage ever on the decline. it is the younger son of a mendicant ascetic who willbecome the king and reign in his stead" a murmur of approbation set in movement the flowery carpet that overspread the lake. opening to the goldensunlight their hearts of blue, the lotuses smiled w

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y 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 regains his full manasic consciousness, and rebecomes for a short time the god he was, before, in compliance with karmic law, he first desce

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

le than others, it does work. look at it the way you look at anything else you get involved in: women learn to put on makeup. the first time many come out looking freaky. women don't learn the best way to do their hair overnight; it takes a while. learning to make love, and all its variations and subtleties is something also that takes time. so what's the rush with witchcraft? you are going to be reborn; you've got to make up your mind to it. you must start as an embryo in the world of witchcraft and expand in power from there. but once it happens, you grab hold of a whole new life, a more dynamic and happier one. that's worth working for. 6- your lucky numbers and how to use them "this is the third time; i hope good luck lies in odd numbers; there is divinity in odd number, either in nati

odd, to add a dimension to her personality as an actress. we must, before going on to the next step, look at todd. todd is number seven, mike is number two. the number two vibration with the number seven makes a number nine. his personality was a number nine type. people who believe in reincarnation believe that number nine types are the end of a cycle. they are the end of many lives, having been reborn many times. according to numerology, he has an insight that can only be gained through multiple lives. number nines instinctively react to things as though they'd been around for millions of years. he was a number nine type who would have given support to any personality, would have made any personality feel themselves. he brought her out of herself. then came fisher. elizabeth's a number s

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 allows for growth beca

n insight into what your particular rhythm is. you will learn that on a sun day such and such a reaction occurs, and on a moon day you have another reaction. this way you'll have complete control over which days are best for you to begin new projects or to enter a romantic situation. you alone will understand your own cycle. you won't need a fortune teller. new-life spell suppose you decide to be reborn on a particular date. establish it when you wish. you will have to find out when the sun will rise in your particular location by calling the local planetarium or newspaper office. at the moment of sunrise, you must have prepared nine gold coloured candles and have a photograph of yourself in order to make yourself more real. ring the nine golden candles around the photograph. chant over an

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

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 not block a needed transition. for the death of something is always followed by rebirth. divine n

ers and yet the nourishment is there. wanting it is a personal choice, finding it is easy and experiencing it is a joy. my personal journey through the fields continues like a dance where i continually learn new steps, for the fields of life are constantly changing as we expand into more refined levels of the game that we call life. all of it goes on in cycles and through it all we are constantly reborn. as i sit with my father and hold his cold thin hand i see the light in his deep blue eyes and how his skin is becoming more luminous as he surrenders his hold on his life. each day has become so precious for us as we know there will be so few, yet i also know that when he passes we can call each other through the gridlines of love that will always connect our hearts. namaste to you all. ja

KETAB E SIYAH

cast off sleep's last shroud and looked upon the world with unclouded eyes, woman offered to him the fruit that she had brought, saying so to my first son, her mate, man: 184 "look, my love, son of the copper-haired spirit, a rich and most precious gift have i brought to give to you as a token of my love. indeed, so good a gift is it that i bring that i wished not to wait until the sun appeared, reborn, in the eastern sky to light up the world and scatter the stars to their redoubt, hidden in some far western land beyond this valley's walls. rather i do give it now to you that you of its strange powers bereft no more for its juices banish all our troubles, driving them afar like the hunting lion, scatters before him the grouping of gazelles, flying to all sides so to escape his hungry jaw

in the other's ensnaring glance. what was between those eyes; love, sorrow, regret and pain. for those last moments were we reconciled and never was there such joy in weeping. too short now do those moments seem as jesu blew out his last breath in these words to me "father, into your hands do i commend my soul" and gladly did i take it to me. blessed is he that sleeps within the earth that he is reborn through me and lives eternal by his nobility. yet not all found peace upon that day and one voice cried out in wrath to see him that was his son suffer so upon the cross. thus stood gabriel at golgotha, unseen, even as was taken down the body of his one son amongst my multitudes, and this curse did he roar that it resounded betwixt earth and heaven "what have you done, you jews? you know no

the past" it seemed my words echoes about a vault, great and empty as the sky itself. then all sound faded to expectant silence as though all creation waited once more to see what now would occur. some places amongst the grass on which i stood i saw the white of ancient bone bear testament to a battle fought ages ago, in another world. at that moment it seemed that all the world was begun again, reborn. the tired, old world had passed away and a young one turned in its place, rich with future promise. 380 o glorious dawn of a new world! now upon heaven's embattled walls a lone shadow came. a voice rang out to me across the field disturbing that deep, momentary quiet. raphael addressed me so "thank you, brother, for our prince but let me counsel you. your war is not yet won although we kno

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es, in your smallest particles, generate a completely different picture in you. that picture is so different, it makes it hard to say that we are dealing with the same person. and indeed, these are two different people. their insides are different, but their outside- the physical body- remains the same. that is why it is said that at any given moment, meaning after every change, we are different, reborn. c o n t r a d i c t o r y o p i n i o n s q: why is it that i always doubt ideas that i myself presented a minute ago? a: the truth is that everything changes within you all the time. the contradictions in you astonish you, and indeed it is astonishing to see how such many contradictory views can exist at the same time in one person, especially when changing from one minute to the next. t

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

this method enables us to receive additional desires to the ones we are born with, and in them receive the actual sensation of reality. although this method is complex, serious, and profound, it is one that anyone can understand and use. furthermore, kabbalists claim that until we attain the real sensation of our existence and reach beyond the boundaries of our physical world, we will have to be reborn into this world over and over again. kabbalists live and feel our world and the spiritual world at the same time, and pass their knowledge and insights on to us. they say that there are many other worlds besides our own. these worlds are like circles that surround one another. our world is at the innermost circle. we call this tiny circle our universe. pa r t o n e: t h e b e g i n n i n g

is affected by the private providence of the creator. the contact with the spiritual world is created when there is a screen that rides over the egoistic desires. when we change our egoistic properties and turn them into altruistic ones, we receive the light of the creator in our corrected vessels, corrected properties. the process of spiritual ascent is a long and strenuous journey. one must be reborn in every single degree until finally resembling the creator, and then blending with him completely. t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 110 c h a p t e r 2 .10 t h e s e n s at i o n o f t h e l i g h t the creator influences us through various things in our environment. it is our duty to understand that everything that happens to us is nothing but the creator approaching us. if we react corre

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years later. 29. in the year 411 he was born in constantinople and received the name of proclus- a name which in after life he was destined to make famous. he was one of the last great exponents of neo-platonism, and his influence overshadowed to a great extent the medieval christian church. after that there is a gap in his list of incarnations, as to which at present we know nothing. we find him reborn in the year 1211, and in that life he was roger bacon, a franciscan friar, who was a reformer both of the theology and the science of his day. in 1375 came his birth as christian rosenkreutz. that also was an incarnation of considerable importance, for in it he founded the secret society of the rosicrucians. he seems some fifty years later, or a little more than that, to have used the body

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 at the choice of the ego- only for the helping of the world. 726. the villains 727. little need be said of the remainder of the traditional history. we may note the curious similarity between the names given to

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in the papyrus of ani of the judgment of osiris and the weighing of the heart of ani against the feather of truth represents the judgment of the soul by the lords of karma. if the soul was utterly pure it was allowed to pass onwards into immortality; if it was not true of voice it was delivered over to the monster amemit, the devourer, and was swallowed up again in the cycle of generation, to be reborn on earth in another body. although these symbols and legends were known in the outer world, their true inner meaning was explained only to initiates of the third degree. 151. the meaning of the story 152. it is often thought that the story of osiris, like that of mithra and the other sun-gods (among whom some writers include even christ himself, is simply an apotheosis of the processes of n

is, but left the fragments of his body through which his life was afterwards renewed, so does man not eat all the corn, but keeps some portion to be sown in the ground so that the processes of life may recur. man in his turn grows through the same cycle of changes, through childhood, manhood and old age; and for him also there is no escape from the sacrifice that characterizes all life, but he is reborn again and again in his cycle of reincarnations. 155. the story of the seed is thus that of the ordinary man, but the story of the sun is that of the man who is becoming divine. in the egyptian mysteries they called him the osirified, and the christian mystics spoke of him as becoming one with christ, as when s. paul spoke to his followers as: my little children, of whom i travail in birth a

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

them back into the hell worlds, and reestablishes the deva/asura balance of power. one of the factors at work in the hindu religious ecology that distinguishes it from western religions is the assumption of the notion of reincarnation. as this notion was brought to bear on south asian mythology, devas became capable of ignoble actions, which could result in their punishment (their fall) by being reborn as asuras. asuras, on the other hand, unlike western demons, were capable of performing noble actions, which could result in their being rewarded by being reborn as devas. see also hinduism; indo-europeans for further reading: garg, ganga ram, ed. encyclopaedia of the hindu world. vol. 3. new delhi: concept publishing, 1992. stutley,margaret, and james stutley. harper s dictionary of hindui

y. harper s dictionary of hinduism: its mythology, folklore, philosophy, literature, and history. new york: harper& row, 1977. aurum solis aurum solis was founded in 1897 in england by charles kingold and george stanton. it was originally opened as a school of high cabalistic magic. its philosophies are centered around the idea of the magician who chooses to follow a path of sacrifice, and who is reborn and passes into the 18 azazel light of glory. the system is explained in the magical philosophy by melita denning and osborne phillips, whose real names are vivian and leonard barcynski and who were grand master and administrator general of the order. they came upon this order while in england and helped to revive it in 1971, and to bring it to the united states in 1978. membership into the

o reincarnate in successive lifetimes. in other words, if one dies before reaping the effects of one s actions (as most people do, the karmic process demands that one come back in a future life. coming back into another lifetime also allows karmic forces to reward or punish through the circumstance into which one is born. hence, for example, an individual who was generous in one lifetime might be reborn as a wealthy person in her or his next incarnation.moksha is the traditional hindu term for release or liberation from the endless chain of deaths and rebirths. according to the upanishadic view, what happens at the point of 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 on

eath, and where she or he could continue the quest for enlightenment, less hindered by the demands of this world. along with heaven realms, buddhism also developed notions of hell realms in which exceptionally sinful individuals were punished. in earlier stages of the buddhist tradition, the impersonal force of karma carried out punishments for evil deeds through the circumstance in which one was reborn, and through the unfortunate events one experienced while incarnated in a body. as with their emergence in later hinduism, the notion of punishment in hell worlds emerged to supplement rather than to supplant earlier notions of karmic punishment. unlike western hells, however, buddhist hell worlds are not final dwelling places. they are, rather, more like purgatories in which sinful souls e

, sothis, sebek, the sun (re, re-atum, horus, and helping the dead (osiris, anubis, sokaris. during the time of the old kingdom, the sun god re was the dominant god. re served to give immortality to the collective state through the pharaoh, his son. the sun seemed to the egyptians and to many other ancients to be clearly immortal, as it died every evening, traveled through the underworld, and was reborn every morning. the sun was also important to the success of nile agriculture. thus, insofar as the pharaoh was identified with the sun god, the continuity and success of the state was assured. one of the primary sources for understanding egyptian mythologies is the book of the dead, now more accurately titled the book of going forth by day. this refers to a large number of funeral texts spa

ger. he who knew nothing of projectiles drew back the arrow in his bow. he who knew nothing of war engaged in hand-to-hand conflict.he who did not know how to run flew like a bird. the weak defeated the strong. the cripple outstripped the swift (dalley 1989, 303. it is a world turned upside down, in which even sunlight has turned to shadow. after the task of destruction is complete, the cosmos is reborn as a fresh creation. the various inversions (only a few of which are cited here) in the story exemplify the renewal symbolism of reversal that one finds worldwide in the myths and rituals of many traditional societies. the logic of such myth/rituals is that the old must be destroyed before the new can grow, and if the old is not periodically obliterated, then the cosmos will decay and run d

al world ensuring it does not destroy itself before its time has come. through the will of true magic, the living could control their own environment with her and satan s help. lilith soon realized that since creation knew of its beginning, it could not comprehend the idea of not having an end. therefore satan fashioned his creation to cycle through death and life periodically, and die only to be reborn once again into lilith s empire. all that would survive its conclusion would be those who were in harmony with the law of thelema, which states: do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. the earth evolved as it pleased, to adapt to the changes it caused in its own environment. some began to stray from the ultimate law: lex talionis, or, the law of the jungle. those who followed their

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whole way of the magician. t the book of wisdom or folly 99 gt de corpore umbra hominis (of the body, shadow of the man) oncerning the on, o my son, learn that the sun and his vicegerent are in all ons, of necessity, father, centre, creator, each in his sphere of operation. but the formula of the past on was of the dying god, and was based upon ignorance. for men thought that the sun died and was reborn alike in the day and in the year; and so also was the mystery of man. now already are we well assured by science how the death of the sun is in truth but the shifting of a shadow; and in this on (o my son, i lift up my voice and i make prophecy) so shall it be proven as to death. for the body of man is but his shadow, it cometh and goeth even as the tides of ocean; and he only is in darknes

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power of silence, let it be first and last employed against him.2 30. concerning the enflaming of the heart. now learn that these methods are dry one and all. intellectual exercises, moral exercises, they are not love. yet as a man, rubbing two dry sticks together for long, suddenly found a spark, so also from time to time will true love leap unasked into thy meditation. yet this shall die and be reborn again and again. it may be that thou hast no tinder near. in the end shall come suddenly a great flame and a devouring, and burn thee utterly. now of these sparks, and of these splutterings of flame, and 1 [john xii, 12. this.the whole .dying to live. notion.is a pernicious lie of the osirian vegetation cults, based on an ignorance of fundamental biological facts. t.s] 2 [see liber 418 .the

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

scythian sage declareth that it transcendeth reason. therefore sir palamede unreasonably decapitateth him. xii. an ancient hag prateth of it as evangelical. her he hewed in pieces. sir palamdes, the saracen knight vi xiii. at naples he thinketh of the beast as author of evil, because free of will. the beast, starting up, is slain by him with a poisoned arrow; but at the moment of its death it is reborn from the knight.s own belly. xiv. at rome he meeteth a red robber in a hat, who speaketh nobly of it as of a king-dove-lamb. he chaseth and slayeth it; it proves but a child fs toy. xv. in a tuscan grove he findeth, from the antics of a satyr, that the gods sill dwell with men. mistaking orgasm for ecstasty, he is found ridiculous. xvi. baiting for it with gilded corn in a moonlit vale of s

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. in qabalastic language, my native consciousness is now neschamah, not ruach or nephesch. i really cannot write more. this writing is a descent into ruach, and i want to abide where i am. 11.17. at 10.0 arrived at brenner.s studio, and took the pose. at once, automatically, the interior trembling began again, and again the subtle brilliance flowed through me. the consciousness again died and was reborn as the divine, always without shock or stress. how easy is magic, once the way is found! how still is the soul! the turbid spate of emotion has ceased; the heavy particles of thought have sunk to the bottom; how limpid, how lucid is its glimmer. only from above, from the overshadowing tree of life, whose leaves glisten and quiver in the shining wind of the spirit, drops ever and anon, self

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

61. strange and painful attitude.13.siddhasana. 62. he was very rude.14.the following is a sample .o devatas! behold this yogi! o chela! accurs d abode of tamas art thou! eater of beef, guzzling as an herd of swine! sleeper of a thousand sleeps, as an harlot heavy with wine! void of will! sensualist! enraged sheep! blasphemer of the names of shiva and of devi! christian in disguise! thou shalt be reborn in the lowest avitch! fast! walk! wake! these are the keys of the kingdom! peace be with thy beard! aum. this sort of talk did me much good: i hope it may do as much for you. 63. with eyes well fixed on my proboscis.15. see bhagavad-gita, atmasamyamyog. 67. brahma-charya.16.right conduct, and in particular, chastity in the highest sense. 72. baccy.17.a poisonous plant used by nicotomanics i

jehjaour, who cared no more for ganesha and any indignities that might be offered him than his enemy did .one of my best devotees too. muttered, or rather trumpeted, the elephantine anachronism .you see. said the wily wizard .i saw perdu. r abu the other day, and he said that he had become srotapatti. now that.s pretty serious. in seven births only, if he but pursue the path, will he cease to be reborn. so you have only that time in which to win him back to your worship. the cunning sorcerer did not mention that within that time also must his own ruin be accomplished .what do you advise. asked the irritated and powerful, but unintelligent deity .time is our friend. said the enchanter .let your influence be used in the halls of birth that each birth may be as long as possible. now the elep

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ther by main angel, after that i had attained unto the knowledge and conversation of him by virtue of mind ardour towards him, and of this ritual that i bestow upon men my fellows, and most of of his great love that he beareth to me. yea, verily, he led me to the abyss; he bade me fling away all that i had and all that i was; and he forsook me in that hour. but when i came beyond the abyss, to be reborn within the womb of babalon, then came he unto me abiding in my virgin heart, its lord and lover! also he made me a magus, speaking through his law the word of the new aon, the aon of the crowned and conquering child. thus he fulfilled my will to bring full freedom to the race of men. yea, he wrought also in me a work of wonder beyond that, but in this matter i am sworn to hold my peace* see

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

and in fact one might divide the narratives of the mythic present into those in which the gods acquire something from the giants and those in which an attempt by the giants to acquire something from the gods is foiled. in the mythic future, this world order will come to a fiery end as gods and giants destroy each other and the cosmos, but a new world order is to follow in which the world will be reborn and inhabited by a new generation of asir. the historical background scandinavia consists of the low-lying danish islands and the peninsula of jutland and the great scandinavian peninsula, which in its northern reaches is divided in two by the huge mountain range known as the keel. on the eastern side lies sweden with its gentle baltic sea coast and a great deal of fertile land, especially

rned from icelanders, but he may also be passing along some genuine danish traditions. the story has led to many attempts at interpretation, some of them rather fanciful. the mistletoe remains unexplained, despite sir james frazer fs attempt to build up a grand theory around it. in fact, the story may have far less to do with the fertility exemplified by various gods who die (in the fall) and are reborn (in the spring) than it does with initiation into a hypothetical cult of odin. thus 68 norse mythology hod fs name seems to have meant gbattle, h and his blindness intensifies odin fs sacrifice of a single eye. gautreks saga contains a sham sacrifice to odin that turns real. when starkad throws at king vikar a reed that has been provided to him by another person, the reed turns into a spear

it too much attention. it is of course significant that odin is descended from the giants on his mother fs side, since the slaying of ymir by him and his brothers must therefore be understood as a killing within a family, the slaying or denial of a maternal relation. another theory, however, advanced by waltraud hunke, sees bestla as the bark of the world tree, on which odin was perhaps born (or reborn in an initiation) according to havamal, stanza 141( gthen i started to grow fruitful h. hunke would then understand bestla etymologically as the bark of the maternal tree. see also odin references and further reading: waltraud hunke, godins geburt, h in edda, skalden, saga: festschrift zum 70. geburtstage von felix genzmer, ed. hermann schneider (heidelberg: c. winter, 1952, 68.71. deities

abrok, 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 doublet. hyndluljod, stanza 23, mentions gtwo haddingjar, h as d

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ousness and faulting others becomes our meat. old age is our best advertisement, for it has sucked the poison of most things and survived. the beliefs we make are the best for us, whatever their truth. any belief is sanctified by the believing, and justified by results. the best in me may be the worst in you, or vice versa. if death is our reformation it is also a long term of forgetfulness; when reborn we seldom know who we were before. inspiration is our only fortuitous gift from the soul. the sexually devitalized have necessity only with death. when i feel nature, i feel that truth is immanent. in the vastnesses, the vistas, where my soul dwells. there is nothing ashamed, meretricious or facetious. facing this majesty i feel ashamed of my false shame and..1# v i&%d..1 e m"d e' h7 go whe

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a of neither-neither from which the sorcerer walks between the worlds of dream (nightside) and waking (dayside "by the rights of pleasure may flesh procreate from within. mother of the sabbath, lilith i awaken to the mysteries of our craft. i dedicate my being to the path from which my blood dictates. by the mysteries of the goat and the serpent i come to thee. i walk now the witches sabbat path, reborn under the luciferic shadows and promethean light! cain, wanderer of the desert dawn, embraces now my way, which is our way, that thy mysteries are revealed through dedication! shaitan asmodeus belial lilith hecate eko, eko lucifer" 14 much of the doctrine of the order of phosphorus flows from the grimoires the book of the witch moon, yatuk dinoih, azothoz, nox umbra, shades of algol, the go

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the awakening and dedication chant (performed by candlelight indoors or out. if outdoors, cast your circle in flour "by the rights of pleasure may flesh procreate from within. mother of the sabbath, lilith i awaken to the mysteries of our craft. i dedicate my being to the path from which my blood dictates. by the mysteries of the goat and the serpent i come to thee. i walk now the sabbatic path, reborn under the luciferic shadows and promethean light! cain, wanderer of the desert dawn, embrace now my way which is our way, that thy mysteries are revealed through dedication! shaitan asmodeus belial lilith hecate eko, eko lucife eluciferian witchcraft-the mystery revealed by michael ford 2001 there is a path which reveal the manes of the dead, there is a path from which the wise seek the lig

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y, polytheistic hinduism has a plurality of religious texts. such books as the rig-veda, the upanishads, and the bhagavad-gita come to mind. likewise, hinduism has more than one myth of creation. one version restricts itself to saying that some sort of substance, prakrit, is at the origin of all that exists in the universe. another version is much more descriptive; it explains how the universe is reborn multiple times in cycles of destruction and creation. in this story, each new creation originates from a vast ocean that washes upon the shores of nothingness. in the middle of this ocean, lord vishnu, asleep in the coils of a giant cobra, is awakened by the sound of om, the sacred syllable. this is how the dawn of creation breaks. from vishnu s navel appears a lotus flower, within which is

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upon the naked blade of a sword. he drank the sanctified mead from a bowl made of a human skull and, having passed successfully through all the tortures and trials designed to divert him from the course of wisdom, he was finally permitted to unveil the mystery of odin--the personification of wisdom. he was presented, in the name of balder, with the sacred ring of the order; he was hailed as a man reborn; and it was said of him that he had died and had been raised again without passing through the gates of death. richard wagner's immortal composition, der ring des nibelungen, is based upon the mystery rituals of the odinic cult. while the great composer took many liberties with the original story, the ring operas, declared to be the grandest tetralogy of music dramas the world possesses, ha

from their sins. he was always honored with the appellation of 'dominus' or 'lord' he was called the 'lamb of god which taketh away the sins of the world' the devotees addressing him in their litany, constantly repeated the words 'o lamb of god, that taketh away the sin of the world, have mercy upon us. grant us thy peace' therefore, the lamb of god is a title given to the sun, who is said to be reborn every year in the northern hemisphere in the sign of the ram, although, due to the existing discrepancy between the signs of the zodiac and the actual star groups, it actually rises in the sign of pisces. the summer solstice is regarded as occurring in cancer (the crab, which the egyptians called the scarab--a beetle of the family lamellicornes, the head of the insect kingdom, and sacred to

he mythological persian roc) is also the name of a southern constellation, and therefore it has both an astronomical and an astrological significance. in all probability, the phoenix was the swan of the greeks, the eagle of the romans, and the peacock of the far east. to the ancient mystics the phoenix was a most appropriate symbol of the immortality of the human soul, for just as the phoenix was reborn out of its own dead self seven times seven, so again and again the spiritual nature of man rises triumphant from his dead physical body. medi val hermetists regarded the phoenix as a symbol of the accomplishment of alchemical transmutation, a process equivalent to human regeneration. the name phoenix was also given to one of the secret alchemical formula. the familiar pelican of the rose cr

ad rounded africa long before vasco da gama. the composition of gunpowder came into northern europe from them. we must never forget that the dark ages in christian europe were the bright ones of the mohammedan world. in the field of philosophy the arabs started by adopting the neo-platonism they found in europe, and gradually working back to aristotle" what means the subtle mystery of the phoenix reborn every six hundred years? faintly from within the sanctuary of the world mysteries is whispered the answer. six hundred years before christ the phoenix of wisdom (pythagoras) spread its wings and died upon the altar of humanity, consumed by the sacrificial fire. in nazareth the bird was again reborn from its own ashes, only to die upon the tree which had its roots in adam's skull. in a.d. 60

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south to fire and youth; west to water and maturity; and north to earth and old age. witches sometimes refer to the north as the "abode of death" and the watchtower of the north is sometimes known as the "glass castle" glass is here symbolically analogous with unbreakable adamant, and this "land behind the north wind" refers to that vast abyss of death through which we all must pass before being reborn into the world of men again. it is also, of course, a direct reference to the vitrified towers of the elves. your magical implements, or "weapons" may be assigned to the various watchtowers, but here opinion differs considerably as to their correct assignation. many witches tend to use the cabalistic identification of the rod to fire, sword to air, pentacle to earth, cup to water. the cup s

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ften revealed as demons. know their nature well. a witch would now perform a dedication chant, an example would be "by the rights of pleasure may flesh procreate from within. mother of the sabbath, lilith i awaken to the mysteries of our craft. i dedicate my being to the path from which my blood dictates. by the mysteries of the goat and the serpent i come to thee. i walk now the luciferian path, reborn under the luciferic shadows and promethean light! shaitan asmodeus belial lilith hecate eko, eko" the witch would now make a cut and draw blood, letting it drop into the soil. this would be followed by the vision of a brilliant white light which is followed by the ascent of the morning star, lucifer. this symbolism is based on the essence of lucifer in the pre- christian gnostic status of b

x 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. shall i make my oath in fire and black earth. as the power of christ runs deep in the land, it runs not as deep as t

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e other observers. fortunately for me (whew, a popularity contest requires contest, and there is none, or none who do; even occultists speak about the flood that wiped out the noble nephilim. bottom line: a wicked race of both humans and non-humans--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 8 an angry creator, a small family warned by a god, 2 of every creature on a boat, a big damn flood, and humanity reborn. that s one hell of a dream. paradise lost, the tower of babel, and the savior [1.4] another reoccurring theme through out the mythologies is man s loss of paradise. this story, whose most popular variation occurs in the bible, details man s plight from a worry-free life to an existence of suffering and hardship. but as usual, the bible is not alone in describing humanity s fall from grace

dy of a vampire feeding from a sleeping human is another common method for feeding. places where emotionally-charged 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 tr

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 highest abode in the heavens is frequently repres

unterpart, and the angelic race in general, is often symbolized by the sun, which represents the masculine principal of life; the demonic counterpart, and the demon race in general, is associated with the moon and the feminine principal of life. so naturally an androgynous figure, like that of baphomet, is used to symbolize a perfected human--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 68 famous phrases: reborn before i touched my teens, i was already aware that i was the beast whose number is 666. i did not understand in the least what that implied; it was a passionately ecstatic sense of identity.in my third year at cambridge, i devoted myself consciously to the great work, understanding thereby the work of becoming a spiritual being, free from the constraints, accidents, and deceptions of mater

hither by mine angel. after that i had attained unto the knowledge and conversation of him by virtue of mine ardour towards him, and of this ritual that i bestow upon men my fellows, and most of his great love that he beareth to me, yea, verily, he led me to the abyss; he bade me fling away all that i had and all that i was; and he forsook me in that hour. but when i came beyond the abyss, to be reborn within the womb of babalon, then came he unto me abiding in my virgin heart, its lord and lover- aleister crowley magic in theory and practice the sabbat [4.3] the sabbat is a gathering of witches, warlocks, demons, and, in the earthly sabbat, even humans. there are generally 2 types of gatherings that are called sabbats; the celestial sabbat, and the infernal sabbat. even though sorcerers

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ilith, and through the shadows of azrael shall we emerge as the seven- headed dragon, through the opposer shall this manifest! behold, the light which shines in the darkness, the blackened fire of being! the gift of set itself! azothoz nox barathrum (lilith recites) taste the kiss of the dead and again in dreams shall my wisdom arise from the grave, cast your spirits to the grave and awaken again reborn (each individual kisses the skull, envisioning the necromantic embrace of the sabbat queen and azrael) banish by performing the calling of the four quarters of the triple hermetic circle. seker lord of the tomb (solitary self initiation) seker is a 'developed' and 'inspired' vampyre archetype of ancient egypt, whom resided as the lord of the tombs in memphis. seker is represented as a mummy

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in the temple man, but a toothsome lump of carrion in the corner of his own stye. but we of thelema, like the artist, the true lover of love, shameless and fearless, seeing god face to face alike in our own souls and in all nature without, though we use, as the bourgeois does, the word love, we hold not the word "too often profaned for us to profane it; it burns inviolate in its sanctuary, being reborn immaculate with every breath of life. but by 'love' we mean a thing which the eye of the bourgeois has not seen, nor his ear heard; neither hath his heart conceived it. we have accepted love as the meaning of change, change being the life of all matter soever in the universe. and we have accepted love as the mode of motion of the will to change. to us every act, as implying change, is an ac

itself by being 'ever joyous. it follows that 'death is the crown of all. for a life which has fulfilled all its possibilities ceases to have a purpose; death is its diploma, so to speak; it is ready to apply itself to the new conditions of a larger life. just so a schoolboy who has mastered his work dies to school, reincarnates in cap& gown, triumphs in the tripos, dies to the cloisters, and is reborn to the world. note that the atu 'death' in the tarot refers to scorpio. this sign is threefold: the scorpion that kills itself with its own poison, when its environment (the ring of fire) becomes intolerable; the serpent that renews itself by shedding its skin, that is crowned and hooded, that moves by undulations like light, and gives man wisdom at the price of toil, suffering, and mortali

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

who banned them in both france and germany. all of these factors brought about a rupture of the bond that united the freemasons not only from one country to another, but also within each kingdom. this period marked the decline of operative masonry. the universalism, prestige, and power of the builders died with the fracturing of the christian world and with the slackening of faith. they would be reborn, however, with speculative freemasonry. in the transition from one form to the other, continuity was compensated by a subrogation: the connection between operative freemasonry and speculative freemasonry was the language of symbol and the thought beneath it. symbol, which had served to maintain professional and religious unity, changed design and now served to create a scientific, philosoph

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

e separation of the eye the triangle. the pyramid exemplifies the initiation stage. it is the house of initiation, in which the candidate confronts the world of darkness and enters the world of spirit. by passing the tests of the elements, the candidate is initiated into the realm of higher consciousness (heironimus ibid, p.92) after succesfully completing the initiation process, the candidate is reborn, and joins the single eye in the pyramid. the new world order, or rather the philosophy its deliverers hold to be true, is one and the same as the new age ideal of man s divinity and self-transformation. in order to partake in this gnostic fufillment of the great plan one must awaken to the original sin of lucifer, as proposed to eve in the garden of eden, that we can be as gods (gen. 3:5)

ONYX TABLET OF SET

ose whip will not let me forget what and who i am "now, here in this new place of being, i am harwer in my human form, caught in endless cycles of chaos and order. i am set in my soul, wherein the embryo gestates continuously: the tekh within my human ab "i rode the darkness to a gate of onyx; beyond a force beckoned to me. my temple has been built in the majesty of the sepulcher, for i have been reborn out of the ashes of a falling star "let the sepulcher fall crashing" xeper and remanifest. reyn til runa. the prince of darkness "i am within and beyond you, the highest of life" i have always been fascinated with whether set has a personality defined in human terms- having human-like defined goals and desires. as i mentioned during set-xv to a number of different setians, i have a hard tim

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this representation of the great mother goddess. nut, the egyptian all-mother the egyptian sky 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

o the divine. in their search for perfection, the immortals earn not long life on earth, in linear time, but everlasting life in heaven, in eternal time. death and the underworld for most of humanity, the moment when linear time stops is at death. all mythologies hold out the hope that was so dear to the initiates of eleusis, that there may be a new life beyond this one. the egyptians hoped to be reborn to live a new life in the field of reeds, which was a perfected version of the egypt they knew. they were sustained triptolemus, culture hero triptolemus, who taught mankind how to use the plow, stands between the two goddesses of the eleusinian mysteries, demeter, and persephone. demeter is handing him a golden ear of grain (now lost. this marble relief of the second half of the fifth cent

ly out of sync with the astronomical calendar, so that it might officially be summer in the wintertime, or vice versa. the two calendars came back into line every 1,460 years, a mystical cycle for the egyptian priesthood. waters of fruitfulness the goddess nephthys, sister of isis, pours the waters of fruitfulness over the earth, where men hoe the land. the mummified body of osiris (see p. 16) is reborn where the water makes contact with the earth. eye of the sun god the sun was said to be the eye of re, which he sent to seek shu and tefnut. when it returned, another eye had taken its place. the first eye wept, and its tears became the first human beings. so re placed it on his brow as the uraeus, or cobra, to rule the world and spit fire at his enemies. wedjat eye the left eye of the sky

ation of zurvan s desire. he is an all-knowing creator whose plans for a perfect world are frustrated by ahriman. youth this figure is a representation of youth. all men are born good, although ahura mazda allows them to choose between good and evil. it is said that the earth is happiest where one of the faithful is standing. at the end of time (see box opposite, those who die as children will be reborn at the age of 15. ahura mazda and ahriman 21 sacrifice of a thousand years the god zurvan, a unified, androgynous, undifferentiated god, longed for a son. he offered a sacrifice of 1,000 years to create one. but as the 1,000 years drew to an end, he began to doubt his power to produce a son. when it was time for the twins to be born, zurvan promised that his first-born should rule the world

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descend into the caverns of darkness with thee! from the west, leviathan, lord of the gateways of the darkness of the oceans, i do summon thee to behold my path! i seek thou crooked serpent of which i shall walk with in the timeless arena of thy being! i seek to pass through the gateway of the abyss! leviathan arise and cast thy fiery eye into my very spirit! 15 i proclaim my self as created and reborn in luciferian light! i affirm cain as my earthly guide and blacksmith who shall light my fire of being! i affirm samael-azazel as my fiery initiator of becoming in the light of the sun! i affirm lilith hecate as the night initiator and goddess of the moon! i affirm my awakening into the throne of baphomet! visualize cain coming forth, bearded and horned with one hammer and a bloodied hand h

the complete symbolism of algol is revealed to initiates of the black order of the dragon. face the algol sigil- i behold the circle of timeless existence, guarded by leviathan i call to the four quarters to witness my rite of darkness and flame, and the light which illuminates within. before me, the algol star of the adversary, the corpses piled and devoured by flame that which arises from death reborn, al ghul, rosh ha shaitan, phantom star, daemon of my night born illumination. i dive now from the heavens of light with emerald wings, i fall into the darkness to become as a dragon, to know the ecstasies of light and shadow. al ghul, serpent tongue which arouses perception i invoke thee! i do affirm hecate, goddess of crossroads, enchanter of nightmares, guardian of shades and the howling

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

ur account. h moses was speaking to the mixed multitude [present at the assembly. the verse thus reads mystically: gg-d made me return to the fetal state because i decided to accept you. h alternatively, we can say that he was speaking to the jewish people, and the words gon your account h mean gin order to rectify you. h in this case, the verse reads: g-d made me return to the fetal state and be reborn in order to rectify you. h .translated and anthologized from sefer halikutim and likutei torah 11 see rashi on exodus 2:3. 687 parashat vaetchanan [third installment] parashat vaetchanan begins with moses f description of how he pleaded with g-d to let him enter the land of israel. g-d denied moses f request: gand g-d grew angry with me because of you, and did not listen to me. g-d said to

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

the sign of motion, and motion reveals life; if the corpse itself were dead, its decomposition would be impossible; all its constituent molecules are living and working out their liberation. yet you dream that the spirit is set free first so that it may cease to live! you believe that thought and love can die when the grossest matter is imperishable! if change must be called death, we die and are reborn daily, because daily our forms change. fear therefore to soil or rend your garments, but do not fear to 97 lay them by when the hour of sleep approaches. the embalming and mummification of bodies is a superstition which is against nature; it is an attempt to create death; it is the forcible petrification of a substance which is needed by life. but, on the other hand, we must not be quick to

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

ou who dost ordain moisture, which is like the blood of earth, to become the sap of plants: thee we adore and thee the invoke! speak unto us, thine inconstant and unstable creatures, in the great tumults of the sea, and we shall tremble before thee; speak unto us also in the murmur of limpid waters, and me shall yearn for thy love! o immensity into which flow all rivers of life, to be continually reborn in thee! o ocean of infinite perfections! height which reflects thee in the depth, depth which exhales thee to the height, lead us unto true life by intelligence and love! lead us to immortality by sacrifice, that we may be found worthy one day to offer thee water, blood and tears, for the remission of sins! amen. fire is exorcised by the sprinkling of salt, incense, white resin, camphor an

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

orlds 'i tam-a-line, on milk white steed, a gold star in my crown, because i was an earthly knight they gave me this renown' as has been mentioned above, tam lin can only remain in his magical role for a certain period of time. at the end of that period he is offered up to hell, or becomes subject to the powers of dissolution inherent in the underworld. following this second death, he can only be reborn as a mortal child, and commence again upon the wheel once challenged, however, tam lin is able to reveal a way by which he might be liberated through transformation, as with other male characters in magic, he is incomplete without the female partner, and unable to transform without the vitalizing fire of janet's love. 11. the transformation at hallow-e'n the most obvious magical elements no

iption, in this ballad, of the interaction between a human being, certain underworld powers, and the mysterious spirit of origination and love. the interaction is catalytic, for until the element of 'grace' or 'redemption' enters the field of operation through love, tam lin cannot change. once this new element is added, his startling transformations occur rapidly, and he is liberated as a new and reborn individual. the strong links between this old scottish ballad and the processes of alchemy should be obvious. both describe a magical sequence of http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_126.htm (11 of 13 [10/9/2001 12:36:58 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds appendix 3: the ballad of tam lin 136 transmutations, effected by laws usually unperceived by mortal men, but nevertheless present an

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could well mean that mankind as we now know the species is going to change right out of existence- all except for the elect who know and understand the principles at work, and use it to help bring about their own coming into being. as xem. to possibly support this idea, let me jump ahead to the end of the working "we are not to view the annihilation as an old world dying- but rather as xem being reborn out of itself with the temple of set as the vehicle" this statement from the xem working deserves more comment than what i am prepared to give in this key, but please take note of the positive emphasis of the change rather than the negative. the elect may hope to avoid the annihilation by taking inevitable change and, by force of will, cause the principles to bring about the great work or a

ame the word for egypt "khem" denoting a place, but this occurred during the decay of egypt. the temples and shrines of egypt/khem were but replicas of working facilities for xem. the state of beings. there is no true egyptian architecture for its own sake. what there is possesses no significance or purpose. we are not to view the annihilation as the death of an old world, but rather as xem being reborn out of itself, with the temple of set as the vehicle. xemset shall be the beginning of the restoration of facilities for xem, and not a reproduction of a style of architecture called "ancient egyptian" the attitude of all who are there. residing or visiting- is to be in keeping with the principle governing xem or higher man. that being xeper. working. participants: o magus michael a. aquino

come about. period. and the fastest way to court disaster is to refuse to change and work with change; there are enough examples of that in the mundane world, let alone in our own ex-members. yet the annihilation is going to prove beneficial because it's going to present the initiate with a choice of "do or die" the elect magician will respond by doing. and in doing/changing/evolving, xem will be reborn. read closely the paragraph beginning "going back to annihilation statement" it is clearly written, and asks no further comment at this time. a word can come crashing down about the ears of its followers only if the word becomes so fixed that it cannot be touched or further refined which can happen only within the initiate's self. it is for this reason that we see thelemites, etc, clinging

james lewis vi date: september 25, xxviii- set-xiv(1) html revision: dec 19, 1998 ce subject: remanifest reading list: one another, even from sitting and joking, you can initiate in this manner. you can come further into being. something must happens there must be an action and a reaction. as i define it and understand it, our actions remanifest themselves and take us into the next stage as newly reborn beings. mind, i'm not talking about being "born again" in the christian sense. we all realize that. but notwithstanding, you have emerged as a new being, you are not that same person, you are not that same initiate, you are not that same adept that you were before. everyone of you look about: at the beginning of this conclave when you arrived, regardless of what your degree was, you did not

f wolves, sometimes muffled and indistinct like the dead. one must give close attention to the timbre and pitch of this laughter. one must exercise great care in hearing. perhaps the laughter is the lusty boasting of the sumble, perhaps the murderous despair of budli's daughter. it is always significant and always reflective of that which has been, that which is coming to be, and that dying to be reborn. the wewelsburg working, which was begun as an attempt to understand certain destructive elements relative to events within the temple of set, ended with not merely a revelation but a celebration and reaffirmation of that same quality in human consciousness which had so imperiled the temple as an institution. this is indeed a dark irony, the blackest humor. one of the most notable aspects o

be, take up my shield and sword and stand beside me to keep the jackals from my gates. for i am he who is. sonnet# 2 march 18, xi classification: v4- a47.m- 3 author: lynn norton iii date: march xi through may xiv reading list: you of my elect, take heed to the words you will now transcribe, for you alone will receive them. my magus has again revived my order and my pentagram is at last restored, reborn in its pure form, even as iam reborn. men have given me names as numerous as the stars, and to all of them i have answered, for i am that which was and yet shall always be- iam. be unconcerned at how my order views you, for i see with a vision similar- yet different- from theirs. where my temple may see a god-man, i may see a man-god. where i may see a god-man, my temple may see a man-god

set is a process of continuous refinement of this simple insight. the second degree recognizes this relationship and drinks deeply of this "blood of life. the third degree merges with and becomes one with the darkness of the potential, but largely unknown self. from this union, the absorption of all light and all color, implodes into the black of the third degree from which all light and color is reborn. priest brian zimmer: the prince of darkness is the still-existing prototype of human consciousness and awareness, particularly as that awareness recognizes the self as distinct from other sentient beings and its environment. as far as i am concerned, the only credible way to approach the reality of this entity is via the use of the intellect. set can honestly be admitted only after the use

annihilate all that would oppose me in my journey! let all that is base be torn from my soul and purified in your name. come, o opener of the way! let the door to the pyramid of my essence be unlocked. let me enter and purify all that is base, all that surrounds and conceals the shimmering jewel that is my truest self, so that i may rebuild the temple of my soul in the purest ruby. as the sun is reborn each day, so let me be reborn in the fires of the black flame! let the fire of my blood fuel the very flames of hell within my soul, so that every sanctuary of restriction shall be scorched and made barren! come, o dreaded jackal of the night! come and transform my very being! swallow me in your terror, so that i might know the ecstasy of refined being. come, and let the transmutation begin

ecstasy and freedom. the world of the profane passes away in sulfurous flame and malignant poison. listen with thy ears, and hear us, dark cthulhu. smell us with thy nostrils, and sense us near, black cthulhu. taste our blood with thy tongue, and know we are thy children, o chaotic cthulhu. open thy eyes and behold thy mighty priests, master cthulhu, for the sleep of symmetry is dead, never to be reborn. that is not dead, which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons, even death may die. ia cthulhu [strike the gong] ia cthulhu [strike the gong] ia cthulhu [strike the gong [as the last sound emissions of the storm decay, the synthesizer operator deactivates the tesla coil and retunes the synthesizer to the bells of chaos. perform the closing fugue and purification. deactivate the black flam

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alfway decent nose. and one week after he took off, an exit more tragic than pimple billimoria's did much to intensify the devilish odour that was beginning to attach itself to that forsolong sweet-smelling name. you could .say that he had stepped out of the screen into the world, and in life, unlike the cinema, people know it if you stink _we are creatures of air, our roots in dreams and clouds, reborn in flight. goodbye. the enigmatic note discovered by the police in gibreel farishta's penthouse, located on the top floor of the everest vilas skyscraper on malabar hill, the highest home in the highest building on the highest ground in the city, one of those double-vista apartments from which you could look this way across the evening necklace of marine drive or that way out to scandal poi

chamchawala from her inability to triumph over fishbones in the manner of her foreign-educated son, changez married again without a word of warning to anyone. saladin in his english college received a letter from his father commanding him, in the irritatingly orotund and obsolescent phraseology that changez always used in correspondence, to be happy "rejoice" the letter said "for what is lost is reborn" the explanation for this somewhat cryptic sentence came lower down in the aerogramme, and when saladin learned that his new stepmother was also called nasreen, something went wrong in his head, and he wrote his father a letter full of cruelty and anger, whose violence was of the type that exists only between fathers and sons, and which differs from that between daughters and mothers in tha

ls change people. you think _they_ fell a long way? in the matter of tumbles, i yield pride of place to no personage, whether mortal or im. from clouds to ashes, down the chimney you might say, from heavenlight to hellfire. under the stress of a long plunge, i was saying, mutations are to be expected, not all of them random. unnatural selections. not much of a price to pay for survival, for being reborn, for becoming new, and at their age at that. what? i should enumerate the changes? good breath/bad breath. and around the edges of gibreel farishta's head, as he stood with his back to the dawn, it seemed to rosa diamond that she discerned a faint, but distinctly golden _glow. and were those bumps, at chamcha's temples, under his sodden and still-in-place bowler hat? and, and, and. o o o wh

he bewildering nature of recent events, and also to his determination to stay awake as much as possjble, it was a few days before he connected what was going on to the world behind his eyelids, and only then did he understand that he had to get away, because the universe of his nightmares had begun to leak into his waking life, and if he was not careful he would never manage to begin again, to be reborn with her, through her, alleluia, who had seen the roof of the world. he was shocked to realize that he had made no attempt to contact allie at all; or to help chamcha in his time of need. nor had he been at all perturbed by the appearance on saladin's head of a pair of fine new horns, a thing that should surely have occasioned some concern. he had been in some sort of trance, and when he as

me 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 yesterdays. leave your nail-marks in the grey slope as you slide. billy battuta: that worthless piece of shit. playboy pakistani, turned an

m. that would be another wwwway" allie lifted a heavy brass inkwell in the shape of mount everest and prepared to hurl it "you really are a skunk" she began, but then gibreel was standing in the doorway, still rather pale, bony and hollow--eyed "alleluia" he said "i am thinking that maybe i want this. maybe i need to go back to work" o o o "gibreel sahib! i can't tell you how delighted. a star is reborn" billy battuta was a surprise: no longer the hair-gel-and--fingerrings society column shark, he was unshowily dressed in brass- buttoned blazer and blue jeans, and instead of the cocksure swagger allie had expected there was an attractive, almost deferential reticence. he had grown a neat goatee beard which gave him a striking resemblance to the christ--image on the turin shroud. welcoming

is point and i don't plan to spoil things now. don't think i haven't wanted to butt in; i have, plenty of times. and once, it's true, i did. i sat on alleluia cone's bed and spoke to the superstar, gibreel _ooparvala or neechayvala, he wanted to know, and i didn't enlighten him; i certainly don't intend to blab to this confused chamcha instead. i'm leaving now. the man's going to sleep. o o o his reborn, fledgling, still--fallible optimism was hardest to maintain at night; because at night that otherworld of horns and hoofs was not so easily denied. there was the matter, too, of the two women who had started haunting his dreams. the first- it was hard to admit this, even to himself- was none other than the child-woman of the shaandaar, his loyal ally in that nightmare time which he was now

those bran-new, spick and span new people, lying shockingly adjacent to portman square, and the shady angle containing various podsnaps- and worse: behold the dustman's mounds of boffin's bower, supposedly in the near vicinity of holloway, looming in this abridged metropolis over fascination fledgeby's rooms in the albany, the west end's very heart- but the guests are not disposed to grumble; the reborn city, even rearranged, still takes the breath away; most particularly in that part of the immense studio through which the river winds, the river with its fogs and gaffer hexam's boat, the ebbing thames flowing beneath two bridges, one of iron, one of stone- upon its cobbled banks the guests' gay footsteps fall; and there sound mournful, misty, footfalls of ominous note. a dry ice pea-soupe

_that's the way to do it_ after which gibreel, too, speaks a greeting, the enthusiasm of the words undone by the incongruous listlessness of the voice "spoono, is it you. you bloody devil. there you are, big as life. come here, you salad baba, old chumch" o o o this happened: the moment saladin chamcha got close enough to allie cone to be transfixed, and somewhat chilled, by her eyes, he felt his reborn animosity towards gibreel extending itself to her, with her degree-zero go-to-hell look, her air of being privy to some great, secret mystery of the universe; also, her quality of what he would afterwards think of as _wilderness, a hard, sparse thing, antisocial, self-contained, an essence. why did it annoy him so much? why, before she'd even opened her mouth, had he characterized her as pa

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not sure whether it will do any good, but i've edited here a personal manuscript i wrote to describe my initiation into denytenamun (it will be published in a future _cornu, newsletter of the order of amon _the book of denytenamun_ walpurgisnacht xxxii s (1997) i am denytenamun, a priest of amon. after a silence of thousands of years my spell began to resonate with the outside world, and so i was reborn on walpurgisnacht, 1997 years after the birth of christ. my remanifestation became possible only now because the matrix of the outer world had so far been deaf to my call. in the year 1904 in cairo began a working that has finally created a magical entity into the shelter of which the ancients can remanifest. i was born on the 32nd year of the on of set into the presence of a finnish priest

SAPPHIRE TABLET OF SET

not sure whether it will do any good, but i've edited here a personal manuscript i wrote to describe my initiation into denytenamun (it will be published in a future _cornu, newsletter of the order of amon _the book of denytenamun_ walpurgisnacht xxxii s (1997) i am denytenamun, a priest of amon. after a silence of thousands of years my spell began to resonate with the outside world, and so i was reborn on walpurgisnacht, 1997 years after the birth of christ. my remanifestation became possible only now because the matrix of the outer world had so far been deaf to my call. in the year 1904 in cairo began a working that has finally created a magical entity into the shelter of which the ancients can remanifest. i was born on the 32nd year of the on of set into the presence of a finnish priest

SATANGEL

arment, transcending all in glory. in the gospel of bartholomew the devil states; at first i was called satan-el, messenger of god, but when i rejected the image of god my name was called satanas, that is an angel that keepeth hell. i was formed the first angel. even st. jerome agrees that the devil will eventually be reinstated at god s side as a power of heaven. lucifer is seen as the dying and reborn son of the morning, the balancing counterpart and mastema of christ. chapter three; liber nomini infernus the book of infernal names we have entered into a league with death: we have made a covenant with hell. isaiah 28:15 the knowledge of the names of the various spirits of magick and witchcraft offers some degree of power over them. the circle of the art is traditionally empowered through

. but thy people have increased, and satan, thou canst be proud of the multitude of thy faithful ones, as false as thy will has desired. this world which denies thee, thou inhabitest it, thou wallowest in it as on the dead roses of a mouldy, smelly midden. thou hast won, o satan, though anonymous and obscure for a few more years yet; but the coming century will proclaim thy revenge. thou shall be reborn in the anti-christ. the sciences of mysteries, spurting suddenly in a black wave already quenches the thirst of the curious and the uneasy; young men and women see themselves mirrored in these waves of illusion which intoxicate and madden. o charming satan! i have torn off thy mask of voluptuous gluttony, and i have fallen in love with thy tearstained face, beautiful as an eternal and defea

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rcent of buddhists. smaller schools within these three main schools, there are many subschools. pure land buddhism developed in china. it tells of a fabled heavenly land in the west that is a midway point on the way to nirvana. this domain is ruled by the spirit of the popular buddha amitabha. those believers who do not have the ability to reach nirvana can call upon amitabha at their death to be reborn in the pure land. teachers there will help them to reach the ultimate goal of nirvana. china also developed a meditation-centered branch of buddhism called ch an. ch an spread in the twelfth century to japan, where it changed into zen buddhism. zen teaches that the way to become a world religions: almanac 95 buddhism buddha (spiritual leader) is through self-knowledge, and the way to achiev

sts on their paths. many schools of buddhism have their own separate beliefs and practices in addition to such core principles. for example, tibetan buddhists believe in physical reincarnation, or the soul s rebirth into another body, of buddhas. when a lama, or leader of tibetan monks, who is thought to be a buddha dies, the members of his monastery begin searching for the child who is that lama reborn. in japan the zen school of buddhism relies heavily on meditation to achieve enlightenment. another school of japanese buddhism is nichiren buddhism, named after a thirteenth- century japanese monk. nichiren believed that all that was needed for enlightenment was knowledge of the lotus sutra, one of the most sacred writings in mahayana buddhism. nichiren taught his disciples that chanting t

amond sutra. only a few pages long, the diamond sutra contains some of the basic principles of mahayana buddhism, including its view of emptiness, nirvana, human nature, and reality. different mahayana sub-schools use different sutras as their central texts. among these writings are the pure land sutra, in which the buddha describes to his follower ananda the heaven called pure land and how to be reborn there; the mumon-kan (gateless gate, containing the most well-known zen koan collections; and the tibetan book of the dead, which informs vajrayana buddhists about the spiritual opportunities available immediately after death. 100 world religions: almanac buddhism a further important text for buddhists is a book called mulamadhyamaka- karika, which was written around 150 ce by the indian mo

by those attending the death. then the following words are often recited: let the pure thoughts of goodwill be shared by my relative and may he/she be happy. as water runs from the rivers to fill the ocean, may well-being and merit within us pour forth and reach our beloved departed one. the body is then cleaned and put into clothing for burial. as the dead person is already assumed to have been reborn, no jewels or possessions are put into the coffin for the deceased to take along into death. in many buddhist countries bodies are cremated after death. friends of the family gather at this ceremony and offer what is called incense money, to purchase incense for the cremation. feasts are generally served following a cremation and prayers said for the dead. in tibet it is believed that forty

ma, which is the principle that determines how the person will live his or her next life (the word karma has entered the western vocabulary to refer to a similar notion, perhaps expressed best by the phrase what goes around comes around, meaning that a person s good or bad deeds can be repaid in kind) a person whose acts, devotion, and thoughts are pure accumulates good karma and can therefore be reborn at a higher level of creation; one guilty of evil thoughts and deeds will be reborn at a lower level of creation, even as an animal. a person who accumulates good karma throughout several lifetimes can eventually escape samsara and achieve enlightenment. this is a state called nirvana (another word that has entered the western vocabulary to indicate generally a blissful or happy state, thou

e the svetambaras, the digambaras do not believe that worshippers gather near a statue of mahavira, the founder of jainism, in india. mahavira was born a prince but became dissatisfied with his life and sought out greater meaning. he lived by the five great vows, which form jainism s central beliefs. ap images. 328 world religions: almanac jainism women can achieve liberation until they have been reborn as men. the digambaras are the most austere, or strict sect of jainism, so its monks go naked. because it would be impractical for women to go naked, they have to be reborn as men to lead a completely austere life. a second difference has to do with the nature of tirthankara or jinas. digambaras believe that the tirthankara do not require food, nor do they have bodily functions. also, they

found in christianity, though some scholars believe that references to this ritual were forgeries created by christian monks. the druids believed that the god bile (also known as bel or belenus) transported the dead to the otherworld, where life continued in much the same way that it did on earth. believing that the soul was immortal, druids believed that after death the soul was reincarnated, or reborn, into the body of another living thing. after a soul learned what it could from the ongoing cycle of reincarnation, it moved to a higher realm, eventually arriving at the source, the flame of existence of which humans represent sparks. druids celebrate midsummer s day, the start of summer, with a ritual at stonehenge, england. neo-pagan religions are closely linked to nature, and their holy

is that every creature has a soul. this soul is eternal (neverending) and its goal is liberation from the body. sikhs believe in the basic hindu concepts of reincarnation, samsara, and karma. reincarnation means that at death the soul passes to another living creature. karma refers to the accumulated impact of a person s actions on his or her future life: a person who builds up good karma will be reborn in a future life as a higher creature and eventually reach spiritual perfection and union with god. a person who accumulates bad karma by committing evil deeds is reborn as a lower creature, such as a plant or an insect. samsara refers to the ongoing cycle of death and rebirth which sikhs, as well as hindus, buddhists, and those from other religions, seek to escape. these basic beliefs are

t the very center of this unity was the supreme god of the sioux religion, wakan tanka, who was called the grandfather or the great mystery. according to lakota tradition, their lives passed through four stages: childhood, adolescence, maturity, and old age. at death, a person s spirit went to meet an old woman who would determine if the person was ready to pass on to the spirit world or would be reborn on earth to learn to live peacefully and in harmony. values such as a sense of community, bravery, wisdom, and generosity were highly valued. holy men, or wicasa wakan, were responsible for conducting seven sacred rites or rituals given to the lakota by the legendary white buffalo calf woman. along with instructions for these holy rituals, she also gave the lakota cannupa wakan, or the sacr

s. when she asked where he was going, he would reply that he was going to lhasa. lhasa was the capital of tibet and home to the religious and political head of the country, the dalai lama. two years before lhamo dhondup s birth, the thirteenth dalai lama had died. since that time monks had been searching for the child they believed to be his reincarnation, or the body into which his soul had been reborn. each of tibet s dalai lamas is believed to be the reincarnation of the previous dalai lama, a line that stretches back to gedun drub (1391 1474. the dalai lamas are also believed to be representations of avalokitesvara, also known as chenrezig, bodhisattva of compassion, a near-divine bodhisattva, or enlightened one, who is considered by many in tibet to be the patron god of the country. i

on the floor. teacher word quickly spread throughout the city that a gifted teacher of meditation had arrived from burma. soon people were appearing at dipa ma s door looking for instruction. traditionally, teachers of meditation had been monks or spiritual masters, and were always men. in fact, traditional buddhism taught that only men could become enlightened like the buddha. a woman had to be reborn as a man in a future life in order to become enlightened. dipa ma, however, taught meditation to ordinary householders, many of them women, who were trying to balance domestic chores with a desire for spiritual enlightenment. some of her followers referred to her as the patron saint of householders. the key lesson that dipa ma shared with the students who came to her was mindfulness. this w

ere the true ones and how those teachings were to be interpreted. this problem arose in part because mahavira s teachings were not written down until well after his death, so followers had no reliable texts to use as references. the digambaras are the more austere, or morally strict, sect of jainism. unlike svetambaras, digambaras do not believe that women can achieve freedom until they have been reborn as men. this is partly because digambara monks do not wear clothing. because they believe remaining naked would be more impractical for women, they claim women have to be reborn as men in order to lead completely austere lives. the two sects also have different views about the nature of jinas, who are godlike enlightened ones. unlike the svetambaras, digambaras believe that jinas do not req

r religions such as christianity, judaism, islam, or zoroastrianism. to understand the significance of the tirthankara in the history of jainism, the jain concept of time must be understood. jains believe that the principles of their religion have always existed. sometimes, however, those principles become less important in the minds of the people and the religion dies out for a time before it is reborn. to jains, therefore, the concept of time is cyclical, and can be pictured much like the rotation of a wheel. the rotation includes a series of upward movements, utsarpini, and downward movements, avarsarpini. a complete turn of the wheel is called a kalpa and covers an immense span of time. according to jain beliefs, a kalpa is a unit of time equal to approximately 4.32 million years. 244

t of time equal to approximately 4.32 million years. 244 world religions: biographies mahavira each of these cycles, or kalpas, is divided into six ages, which can be thought of as divisions between spokes on the wheel. three of the ages are considered to be a kind of golden era, which is followed by a decline that continues until jainism dies out. the process is then reversed, as the religion is reborn and eventually reaches a new golden age. jains believe that in the current time cycle, the world has passed through the first four ages of the cycle and is currently in the middle of the fifth age, with a sixth and final age to come. each complete kalpa is long enough for twenty-four tirthankara to live. these twenty-four make up a set of tirthankara that jains worship. the present cycle is

extreme actions as murder and assault but also extends into everyday life. all jains are vegetarians, as was mahavira, and strict jains go to great lengths to avoid harming anything that is alive. some jains even avoid eating after dark in order to be certain they do not accidentally consume small living creatures that they cannot see. mahavira accepted the hindu belief in reincarnation, or being reborn into another living body after death. he taught that the jiva, or soul, is conscious, immaterial, and eternal. because the soul is eternal, it is subject to the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. mahavira also taught the hindu concept of karma. karma refers to the effects of a person s actions in one life on the nature of his or her next life. a person who earns positive karma by d

ing body after death. he taught that the jiva, or soul, is conscious, immaterial, and eternal. because the soul is eternal, it is subject to the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. mahavira also taught the hindu concept of karma. karma refers to the effects of a person s actions in one life on the nature of his or her next life. a person who earns positive karma by doing good deeds can be reborn on a higher plane of existence, while one who earns bad karma by being immoral or unethical will likely be 246 world religions: biographies mahavira reborn on a lower plane of existence. mahavira taught that karma represents a kind of bondage or entrapment. the goal of every person is to stop earning new karma and to get rid of past karma. the result of doing so is siddhi, or perfection. he

sattvas, who help people on the path to enlightenment. nichiren buddhism is a subgroup of mayahana, as are the other schools of buddhism that nichiren studied before he started spreading the teachings of the lotus sutra. these other schools include pure land buddhism, which is ruled over by the buddha amitabha. buddhists who do not achieve nirvana, or the end of suffering, upon their death can be reborn into the pure land, where they will be helped on their path. another subgroup studied by nichiren is zen buddhism. zen places great emphasis on meditation and simplicity. zen buddhists learn by a question-and-answer session between masters and students, called koans. the koans often seem illogical and require intense thought and selfexamination to understand. they are believed to help peopl

us christ (c. 6 bce c. 30 ce; see entry, as an example of divine love. during these years narendra explored the basic principles of hindu thought: brahma, the nature of the soul, meditation, yoga (a discipline aimed at preparing the mind for perfect spiritual insight, karma (the belief that one s destiny is affected by the sum total of one s deeds, and reincarnation (the belief that one s soul is reborn in another body. he also studied the hindu sacred texts, particularly the vedas and the upanishads. after ramakrishna s death in 1886, narendra inherited the elder s role as a spiritual master. he and a group of ramakrishna s followers took vows as monks and lived in a house in the indian city of baranagar. at this point narendra took the monastic name vivekananda, formed from the words viv

e mercy on gilgamesh, so he gives the hero another chance. he tells gilgamesh of a plant that will restore his youth, but the plant is at the bottom of the ocean. gilgamesh plucks the plant, but he is not certain that he trusts it, so he resolves to take it back to uruk to test it on an old man. along the way, however, a snake eats the plant (this act suggests that snakes gained the ability to be reborn, which they seem to do when they shed their skin) this leaves gilgamesh grief-stricken because he has lost his chance at immortality. did you know. the ancient sumerians believed that their fate depended entirely on the will of the gods. they saw their lives as a cycle, with the gods granting and then withdrawing their favor. this view is probably a reflection of nature s cycle of flooding

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spirit reveals all 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

he still-beating heart and brings it to zeus. out of it he engenders his son for a second time.69 the myth can be seen as representing a psychological process of an extremely inward character. let us interpret it after the fashion of the egyptian priest who instructed solon in the nature of myths. it is related that dionysus was born as the son of god and a mortal mother, was dismembered and then reborn. this has a fantastic ring to it, but the truth contained in the story is the birth of the divine and its subsequent destiny in individual human souls. the divine is united with the soul, which is still subject to time and earthly conditions; and as soon as the god, the dionysiac spirit, stirs within the soul, it experiences a longing for its real spiritual form. however, consciousness agai

ild is dismembered. the divine knowledge exists in humanity, but dismembered by the understanding that is bound to the senses. if on the other hand there is within the individual sufficient higher wisdom, this latter nurses and cherishes the unformed child until it is born again as a second son of god dionysus. and thus sense-derived understanding, the dismembered divine force in human beings, is reborn as the undivided wisdom that is identical with the logos. it is the son of god and a mortal mother, who is the transitory human soul aspiring unconsciously after the divine. we are still far removed from the spiritual reality that is played out in the myth if we recognize in it only psychological processes, and pictures of psychological events, at that. this spiritual reality is not somethi

e conviction was expressed in the imagery of the myth about persephone. but alongside demeter and persephone at eleusis, the god dionysus was honored. if demeter stood for the divine origin of the eternal within humanity, dionysus was worshipped as the divine presence in the world, which assumes an endless variety of forms. he is the god poured out into cosmic existence, torn apart in order to be reborn spiritually. he rightly takes his place beside demeter in the festivals.85 chapter 5 the egyptian and other eastern mysteries the egyptian mysteries: becoming osiris the so-called egyptian book of the dead, 86 now restored to us by the diligence of nineteenth-century scholarship, demonstrates the existence among the ancient egyptians of ideas concerning humanity s eternal existence and comm

of his community to those of previous times. his view of the mysteries has become the content of a mystery-text. the traditions that have come down about it are appropriate to its mystery character: the author wrote it down on the island of patmos, and the revelation is said to have been received in a cave. christianity arose out of the mysteries. in the apocalypse, christian wisdom was a mystery reborn but a mystery which breaks out of the framework of the ancient mysteries. the mystery of a unique, single event was to become the mystery with a significance for all. there is an apparent contradiction in saying that the secrets of the mysteries became manifest in christianity but that in the spiritual visions of the apocalyptist we nevertheless observe a christian mystery. to solve the eni

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he black sun. thagirion is the sun of the shadow side, which can be interpretated as the sun in the underworld balder in hel, ra in amenti etc. the sun is the symbol of the unity of the whole self that can be aware of itself only when it is in the underworld.this is illustrated by chepera, the principal of existence and the principal of becoming, that carries the sun down in the underworld and is reborn and creates himself there. in another interpretation the black sun/ the thagirion principal is more independent of the self and is more like the principal the shines upon and brings enlightenment to the self on the journey of consciousness into the inner dimensions. in all forms the black sun is the inner or central sun that generates enlightenment and divine power to man. there is descript

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anizing a defense system against the impact of the master s, or the order s influence. the psychosoma of the disciple is under attack, and tries to defend itself. the situation becomes more difficult since this defense mechanism is a legitimate process: the purpose of the master (or of the order) is to kill the ego of the aspirant, so the phoenix (symbol of a higher stage of consciousness) may be reborn from those ashes. every step is a death and a birth. it is not the master who dies and resurrects in the initiatic process- as we have already remarked, at least in theory he or she has already got a diploma- but the pupil. the demonic influences are, then, manifesting themselves precisely to protect the ego of the pupil against the destructive influence of the master (or against the magick

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ichaean cathars in southern france is an example of society s reaction to those who mixed arcane practice with heterodox theology. in spite of persecution, the concept of witchcraft persisted and even flourished in early modern times. at least the fear of it did, as the salem witch trials richly illustrate. in the early decades of the twentieth century, schools of pagan and magical teachings were reborn as wicca. wiccans, calling themselves practitioners of the craft of the wise, would resurrect many of the old ways and infuse them with modern thoughts and practices. whatever its origin, the occult seems to be an object of permanent fascination to the human race. are we alone? is the earth the only inhabited planet? imagine the excitement if contact is made with intelligent extraterrestria

aches 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 which make up a functioning human during his or her lifetime enter the santana, the chain of being, whose various links are related on

tioning human during his or her lifetime enter the santana, the chain of being, whose various links are related one to the other by the law of cause and effect. while there is no atman or individual self that can be reincarnated, the contingent self that exists from moment to moment is comprised of aggregates that are burdened with the consequences of previous actions and bear the potential to be reborn again and again. because the aggregates of each living person bear within them the fruits of past actions and desires, the moment of death sets in motion 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

n of the buddha fulfills his course, in the world to come, he becomes buddha. dharma is the path to the goal of nirvana, which in buddhist teachings can represent the final extinction of the desire to exist, or can also suggest a high level of mystical experience achieved through deep meditation or trance. it never means the complete annihilation of the self, only the squelching of the wish to be reborn. most often, nirvana is meant to indicate a transformed state of human consciousness which achieves a reality independent of the material world. once the desire to continue existence in a material flesh form has been extinguished, and when a son of the buddha fulfills his course, in the world to come, he comes buddha. to achieve one s buddhahood in buddhism is comparable to realizing brahma

e voice of jesus within a blinding light while he was traveling on the road to damascus. he discovered it to be a challenge to convince others in the belief in the physical resurrection of the dead when he preached in athens. although the assembled athenians listened politely to his message of a new faith, they mocked him and walked away when he began to speak of dead bodies standing up and being reborn. to these cultured men and women who had been exposed to plato s philosophy that the material body was but a fleshly prison from which the soul was freed by death, the very notion of resurrecting decaying bodies was repugnant. paul refused to acknowledge defeat. because he had been educated as a greek, he set about achieving a compromise between the resurrection theology being taught by his

often associated with the underworld, the realm of the dead, the powers of darkness, and the process of rebirth. because of the importance of the regenerative process, the rites of the mysteries were usually built around a divine female as the agent of transformation and regeneration. while the initiates of the mystery cult enacted the life cycle of the gods who triumphed over death and who were reborn, they also asserted their own path of wisdom that would enable them to conquer death and accomplish resurrection in the afterlife, with rebirth in a new body in a new existence. the origin and substance of the state religion of ancient greece was a sophisticated kind of nature worship wherein natural elements and phenomena were transformed into divine beings who lived atop mount olympus. if

of the kabbalah, the compilation of mystical works collected in thirteenth-century spain. transmigration of souls is also a universal belief in hasidism. according to alan unterman in his dictionary of jewish lore and legend (1994: transmigration gave a new meaning to many aspects of life. the deaths of young children were less tragic, since they were being punished for previous sins and would be reborn in a new life. proselytes to judaism were jewish souls which had been incarnated in gentile bodies [transmigration] also allowed for the gradual perfection of the individual souls through different lives. the zohar (hebrew for splendor, the main work of the kabbalah, describes the esoteric reality that lies behind everyday experience, and insists that the real meaning of the torah lies in i

oper application of meditation. when human consciousness had been raised to the spiritual level, where it can experience the eternal element that is limited by neither birth nor death, then it can comprehend its own eternality and its ability to be born again in subsequent life existences. steiner taught that the process of spiritual evolution enabled those who died in one period of history to be reborn in other epochs to experience various levels of earth-existence. in lecture v, earthly and cosmic man (1948) steiner stated that in rejecting the doctrine of reincarnation, christian thought had lost something vital that the east had always possessed, and he urged that such knowledge be reacquired. western religion and culture is in the process of passing through a period during which indiv

ueeyed gentiles of nordic descent, who were being forced to deal with what appeared to be past-life memories of having died as victims of hitler s final solution to the jewish problem. at the time he was writing his book, gershom stated that out of the hundreds of people who had told him their dreams, visions, regressions, or intuitions of having died as jews in the holocaust, two-thirds had been reborn as non-jews. later samplings, however, indicated that many more jews have also experienced such past-life memories. gershom s later book, from ashes to healing (1996, focused on stories about the acts of t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 58 afterlife mysteries olga worrall (1906 1985) doing spiritual healing (archives of brad steiger)

ade to antrim as a child of 10. the principal difficulty in accepting the whole of bridey s story lay in the fact that so much of the testimony was unverifiable. while most psychical researchers agree that the bridey murphy case is not a consciously contrived fraud, they will not rule out the role that some psychic or extrasensory ability may have played in the memory of the irish woman allegedly reborn in a colorado housewife. other investigators have suggested that mrs. s, virginia tighe, could have had several acquaintances throughout her life who were familiar with ireland and who may each have imparted a bit of the memory of bridey murphy as it was mined from her subconscious by the hypnotic trance induced by morey bernstein. as other researchers explored the claims of the search for

e fever. his sickness became so bad that for three days he lay as if dead. when he returned to consciousness, he told the paiutes who had assembled around his corpse that his spirit had walked with god, the old man, for those three days; and the old man had given him a powerful vision to share with the paiute people. his vision proclaimed that the dead of many tribes were all alive, waiting to be reborn. if the native peoples wished the buffalo to return, the grasses to grow tall, and the rivers to run clean, they must not injure anyone; they must not do harm to any living thing. they must not make war. they must lead lives of purity, cease gambling, put away strong drink, and guard themselves against all lusts of the flesh. jack wilson s grandfather had been the esteemed prophet wodziwob

le in trance, japhet was under the spirit control of her grandfather, m. hahnemann, and the spirit of franz anton mesmer (1734 1815) spoke from the spirit world to give medical advice through her mediumship. many other spirit entities manifested themselves and explained to the assembled sitters that the process of reincarnation was not only possible, but that it was compulsory for all souls to be reborn and receive new life experiences. because kardec was recognized as a proficient writer as well as a medical doctor, the spirits urged him to author what would be considered his classic work, le livre des esprits (known today as the spirits book, first published in 1856. the 1857 revised edition of kardec s book, based on the trance communications of celina japhet, became the guidebook for t

he demons of lust, greed, anger, and so forth. in still other instances, those accused of being possessed might be tied to chairs and subjected to teams of exorcists praying and screaming for the demons to retreat. some observers have compared the techniques of some of the more elaborate exorcisms to a kind of psychodrama in which the possessed is able to enact a kind of release of guilt and feel reborn and freed of sin. while not all contemporary clergypersons believe in the possibility of demon possession, but prefer to speak of mental health problems that may trouble certain parishioners, most still concede that there appears to be an intelligence of some kind that directs evil in the world. they caution that those who suspect possession in themselves or others are not gullible or that

often associated with the underworld, the realm of the dead, the powers of darkness, and the process of rebirth. because of the importance of the regenerative process, the rites of the mysteries were usually built around a divine female as the agent of transformation and regeneration. while the initiates of the mystery cult enacted the life cycle of the gods who triumphed over death and who were reborn, they also asserted their own path of wisdom that would enable them to conquer death and accomplish resurrection in the afterlife, with rebirth in a new body in a new existence. there is a general consensus that the most important mystery religions of greece the eleusinian, the dionysian, and the orphic were brought to that country from abroad sometime during the closing centuries of the pr

ts challenges and subdued the demons of the pit. the disciples of the orphic/dionysus schools were promised the celestial fire of zeus, the light retrieved by orpheus, that enabled their souls to triumph over death. these things would all be enacted in the mystery play that depicted orpheus descending into hades and observing persephone, the queen of the dead, being awakened by dionysus and being reborn in his arms, thus perpetuating the cycle of rebirth and death, past and future, blending into a timeless immortality. while other schools of reincarnation see the process of rebirth as an evolving of the soul ever higher with each incarnation, the orphic concept introduces the aspect of the soul being gradually purged or purified through the sufferings incurred during each physical rebirth

s dead body that his spirit had left his body and had walked with god, the old man, for those three days. as if that were not wonder enough, the old man had given him a powerful vision to share with the paiute people. wovoka s vision had revealed that jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) moved again upon the earth mother and that the dead of many tribes were alive in the spirit world, just waiting to be reborn. if the native people wished the buffalo to return, the grasses to grow tall, the rivers to t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mystery religions and cults 283 run clean, they must not injure anyone; they must not do harm to any living thing; they must not make war. on the other hand, they must lead lives of purity, cease gambling, put a

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ichaean cathars in southern france is an example of society s reaction to those who mixed arcane practice with heterodox theology. in spite of persecution, the concept of witchcraft persisted and even flourished in early modern times. at least the fear of it did, as the salem witch trials richly illustrate. in the early decades of the twentieth century, schools of pagan and magical teachings were reborn as wicca. wiccans, calling themselves practitioners of the craft of the wise, would resurrect many of the old ways and infuse them with modern thoughts and practices. whatever its origin, the occult seems to be an object of permanent fascination to the human race. are we alone? is the earth the only inhabited planet? imagine the excitement if contact is made with intelligent extraterrestria

y of life that a devout buddhist seeks to lead, and the sangha (the unified faith of the buddhist monks. together with the people in the funeral hall, the monk recites the five precepts, the rules by which buddhists strive to live. throughout the ceremony, food is served and music is played. there are few tears of mourning, for the family and friends are reminded by the monk that the soul will be reborn many times in many bodies. after the service, the body is cremated, and the ashes are buried or kept in the temple in a small urn. because christians believe that jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) is the son of god who died on a cross on good friday and who rose from the dead on easter sunday, the followers of this religion believe that if they have faithfully followed the teachings of jesus, t

ffin to help it to burn, and the eldest son or nearest male relative of the deceased lights the funeral pyre. traditionally, the cremation takes place outdoors and the ashes are collected and scattered in the waters of a holy river, such as the ganges. in other countries, hindu dead are taken to a crematorium. followers of the hindu religion believe that the soul, the atman of each individual, is reborn many times in a cycle of spiritual evolution before it can become one with god. those who follow the path of judaism bury their dead in a plain coffin after the body has been washed and dressed. if possible, the funeral takes place on the day after the death has occurred. the coffin containing the deceased is taken first to the synagogue and then to the place of burial. mourners often cut a

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

chaean cathars in southern france is an example of society fs reaction to those who mixed arcane practice with heterodox theology. in spite of persecution, the concept of witchcraft persisted and even flourished in early modern times. at least the fear of it did, as the salem witch trials richly illustrate. in the early decades of the twentieth century, schools of pagan and magical teachings were reborn as wicca. wiccans, calling themselves gpractitioners of the craft of the wise, h would resurrect many of the old ways and infuse them with modern thoughts and practices. whatever its origin, the occult seems to be an object of permanent fascination to the human race. are we alone? is the earth the only inhabited planet? imagine the excitement if contact is made with intelligent extraterrest

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

g said, we can move on. the mythology of regeneration there has never been a human religion that has not included a concept of regeneration or renewal. from the earliest of times, the first religions may have arisen from an animistic sense of duty towards crops or animals, and the necessity of their fertility and renewal after hunts or long winters; and perhaps it was thought that humans too were reborn or renewed in some manner at the transformation of death. the basic notion that all things come into being, exist, pass away finally, and experience regeneration or renewal, is the basic and central concept that is behind all indo-european pagan mythology (the same mythological tradition that is the true ancestor of the old faith or witchcraft. primal christianity, influenced mainly by the

ond the beginning, that infinity which old night and fate concealed all along, and expressed in her unfathomable and irresistible motions. a human who has achieved the final culmination of their being, who has overcome fate by experiencing the timeless divine reality that lies at the heart of fate s inescapable and eternal threads of life, wonder, forgetfulness, and death, and had been renewed or reborn into this spiritual and psychic state symbolized by the child, is also rightly called master or mistress. even though, as has been mentioned, the lightbringer orvendale s re-emergence and perfection (symbolized by the divine child) is timelessly complete, when the master orvendale is met as his other face, that of the dark guardian, he does not appear to mediate the fire s perfected grace

les pass mitochondrial dna to their children; mothers therefore have a special and unique connection to their children, which gives them the hallowed status in tradition of being the members of the distaff line, or the means by which ancestral spirits return to incarnation. it was the red line, the blood or womb line of the mother s family that the dead used to re-enter serial time in the form of reborn humans; 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

THE HOLY ROSARY OF THE BRETHREN

y and great are the mysteries of the rosary. 3 color of rosary: black: while the color is not particularly important, the initiate must remember that colors are forces. thus, most rosaries are black to denote the change brought forth through the process of putrefaction. this fits well with the (5) decanates of (10= 50= n= death. in god we are born, in yeheshua we die and in the holy spirit we are reborn. the black rosary could be said to be symbolic of the war waged on the control of the ruach and nephesch, thus, opening the gateway to the higher genius. white: symbolic of divine white brilliance and the transformation brought forth when this purity touches corruptibility. pink, rose or natural color: to denote the highest forces of tiphareth through which we must attain to receive directi

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

les us to receive desire-properties in addition to the ones we re born with, and in them receive the actual sensation of reality. although this method is complex, serious and profound, it is one that anyone can understand and implement. further more, kabbalists claim that before we attain the real sensation of our existence and reach beyond the boundaries of our physical world, we will have to be reborn into this world over and over again. kabbalists are people who live and feel our world and the spiritual world at the same time, and pass their knowledge and insights on to us. they say that there are many other worlds other than our own. these worlds are like circles that surround one another. our world is at the innermost circle. we call this tiny circle our universe. each of the circles

ld is affected by the private providence of the creator. 77 of 273 the contact with the spiritual world is created when there is a screen that rides over the egoistic desires. one changes one s egoistic properties and turns them to altruistic ones. he receives the light of the creator in his corrected vessels, corrected properties. the spiritual ascent is a long and strenuous journey. one must be reborn in every single degree until he finally resembles the creator in his every property and blends with him completely. that is why we turn to the creator of the world on the holiday of the fifteenth of shvat with the plea to plant us, as one plants a new tree, and guide us to a life of truth, and thus revive us. 78 of 273 chapter 2.10 the sensation of the light a talk in memory of rabbi baruch

THE SHADOWED ONES

waters in both storm and silence, there is much to hear in their waves .come forth from the oceans as a beast and ignite again your soul in the life giving flame of azazel! hold thy blade towards the sun and transform again! become in this light! o spirit of angelick watchers, my wards and guardians of the circle of being do hear my call .as i stand in the leviathanic circle does my flesh become reborn in the linage of witchblood, of cain and naamah, of samael and lilith! open now the secret ways of those angels of dream and skull walking sleep i seek thy council as i seek the daevas who walk the shadows! the black light is illuminating my spirit and i am both midnight and noontide in essence! o watchers who i seek do come forth to my circle and offer thy wisdom for i am willing to walk t

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

ous prophetess of lust. away! away! to the west, to the east, till they meet in some flaming region of equatorial fury, and flashing interfuse and interblend. once again must a prophet of the lord arise and wed a wife of whoredoms, who hath committed great whoredom, departing from the lord. once again must hosea expire on the crimson lips of gomer, and from the womb of a harlot must the christ be reborn a woman, wise, beautiful, and young; who is both circe and diana, isis and aphrodite, in whose veins course all the fury of medea, all the abominations of canidia, who revels in the infernal rites of sagana and locusta, and yet is vestal and virgin; white as the driven snow, pure as a mountain rill. one with the pale mother of bethlehem and the scarlet harlot of the city of abominations. th

thou only tread the path none else hath trode! come, lover, in my breast all blooms above, here is thy love *the argonauts, vol. ii, p. 108. the true buddhist scorns the selfishness of heaven, the idea of hell is utterly repugnant to him, to feel that he is gaining eternal bliss whilst others are sinking into everlasting torment, burns into his heart and tortures his very soul; rather would he be reborn in the lowest depths of orcus and point out to others the path of salvation, than attain to the uttermost bliss, whilst others are being damned. george eliot, knowingly or unknowingly, set the true lyre of buddhism reverberating in her grand and noble prayer, gthe choir invisible. h may i reach that purest heaven, be to other souls the cup of strength in some great agony. enkindle generous

THE GOD SET

"she will not only enjoy the days of horus, but the days of set will be added to her span" she was also interested in the antinomian nature of the set cult- in fact she preformed one of the most scandalous acts available to a woman- she acted as a man. this early feminist clearly found set, a great archetype to work with. set was popular among her family until the kingship of akhenaton (may he be reborn forever drowning in the jaws of sobek the crocodile god. the very militaristic pharaohs of the nineteenth dynasty, who were probably descended form a family of set priests at tanis, delighted in set both in his militaristic role and as god of foreign places. ramses ii for example called himself the son of set. the set cult too was very popular with foreigners coming to live in egypt. his wo

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

ction. 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 his fears were needless, that he is protected by god. he perceives that the seemingly cruel act of his being cast overboard is part of a divine plan for his salvation. after three days and nights he is set safely on shore, symbolically reborn from the whale's womb, transformed by his new faith and understanding. another ancient symbol of initiation is the maze, or labyrinth. pursuing his quest, the seeker theseus enters the twisting darkness where lurks the monster of his bodily fears and desires waiting to devour him. yet with courage he overcomes the minotaur and follows the threads of ariadne, his faith, into the light of day

ul must cross when it moves from one life to another. had the candidate hesi- tated, the lamp-his hope-would have flickered and failed, and he would never have seen the narrow doorway that led to his salvation. instead, he would have hung suspended, trapped between the past and the future, until through weariness he fell at last into the dark of oblivion. having ritually died, such candidates are reborn into the circle of initiates. life is breathed into their bodies. they are given fresh robes to clothe their spiritual nakedness. they are christened with new names to impress upon their minds that they are not the men and women they once were. the names are secret, known only to the group or to a chosen number within the group. they are symbolic of the new lives of the initiates, who remai

thin the mind even when the meaning of the symbolism is not understood. psychic entities respond only to the mind- states of the magus. the term "mind-state" is used here to describe the total gestalt of thoughts, emotions, urges, and sensations that exist within the personal universe of the indi- vidual at a given instant. mind-states may change totally from one moment to another; or they may be reborn continuously, like the flame of a candle, and so be sustained for extended periods. particular mind-states resonate in harmony with particular psychic beings. for each spirit there is a unique mind-state that it interprets as a summons to manifest on the circle of consciousness. when the occult polarity of this mind-state is inverted, the spirit interprets the change as a dismissal. no spir

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

n. both shaman and medium usually enter an altered state of consciousness. both are supposed to have power to heal and to foretell the future, derived from the spirits. in both shamanism and spiritualism, the spirits announce their presence by physical events such as loud noises, sounding musical instruments, sudden breezes, chilling cold, lights, and so on. spiritualism might be called shamanism reborn, or perhaps a better way to put it would be shamanism reinterpreted for christians of the industrial age. it was shamanism materialized in a way that was palatable to the nineteenth century, when every event was expected to have an immediate physical cause, generally one activated by steam power. hence, the phenomena of the seance were physical phenomena-ectoplasmic projections, voices, lig

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

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

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

nto red and the red ones into green. doctor krumm heller continued saying, gentlemen, do you know what the former statement that i just mentioned means (since i do not consider that it is scientifically established? it means that shakespeare was right when he said that many things exist between heaven and earth that our scholastic consciousness does not even suspect, and the science of alchemy is reborn when corroborating the transmutations of metals. the man and the woman must equilibrate their forces; they must become alchemists, so that they can return to the ain soph. circe offers the tempting cup and ulysses rejects her with his sword. in the sacred sign of the infinite are represented the planetary genie s brain, heart, and sex. this struggle is terrible, brain against sex, and sex a

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

bility of the worst, i.e. the worst being that we are now "on our own. god help us if we are, and he will help if we believe, since the only abductees who have apparently been able to repel or kill potential reptilian/alien abductors- at least those "empowered" would-be-abductees that i have heard of- in spite of vastly superior alien technological and psychological advantages, are "blood-bought" reborn christians who have claimed the supernatural power and authority resident within the "divine blood transfusion" that is offered to us as a result of jesus' sacrfice at calvary "behold, i give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you/ luke 10:19. this divine decree should be the calling card for all of you

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

ourney from candlemas to beltane. once again, night and day stand in perfect balance, with the powers of light on the ascendancy. the god of light now wins a victory over his twin, the god of darkness. in the mabinogion myth reconstruction which i have proposed, this is the day on which the restored llew takes his vengeance on goronwy by piercing him with the sunlight spear. for llew was restored/reborn at the winter solstice and is now well/old enough to vanquish his rival/twin and mate with his lover/mother. and the great mother goddess, who has returned to her virgin aspect at candlemas, welcomes the young sun god's embraces and conceives a child. the child will be born nine months from now, at the next winter solstice. and so the cycle closes at last. we think that the customs surround

e, reaches his position of greatest strength in the underworld. however, at the moment of the winter solstice, llew is born again, as a babe (and as his own son) into our world. and as llew later reaches manhood and dispatches goronwy eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 34 at the vernal equinox, goronwy will then ascend the underworld throne at beltane, but will be reborn into our world at midsummer, as a babe, later to defeat llew all over again. and so the cycle closes at last, resembling nothing so much as an intricately woven, never-ending bit of celtic knotwork. so midsummer (to me, at least) is a celebration of the sun god at his zenith, a crowned king on his throne. he is at the height of his power and still 1/4 of a year away from his ritual death at

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

nd, or in a hollow hill. it is worth noting, too, that scandinavian mythology makes the north the dwelling-place of the gods, and that in gaelic myth the south, often camouflaged as 'spain, is evil or hell. presumably, therefore, its opposite, the north, is paradise. i have seen one very interesting ceremony: the cauldron of regeneration and the dance of the wheel, or yule, to cause the sun to be reborn, or summer to return. this in theory should be on december 22, but nowadays it is held on the nearest day to that date that is convenient for the members. the ceremony starts in the usual way. the circle is cast and purified, the celebrants also being purified in the usual manner, and the ordinary business of the cult is done. then the small ceremony is performed (sometimes called 'drawing

rs stand round in a circle with torches. they are lighted at the burning cauldron and they dance round in the 'sunwise' direction, i.e. clockwise. the chant i heard was as follows, but others are sometimes used 'queen of the moon, queen of the sun, queen of the heavens, queen of the stars, queen of the waters, queen of the earth bring to us the child of promise (1 [1] the sun, thought of as being reborn- it is the great mother who giveth birth to him, it is the lord of life who is born again. darkness and tears are set aside 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 be the great goddess, without beginning, without end, everlasting to eternity. i.o.evo.he

ccording to your merits you may be reincarnated in time, and take your chance where and among whom this takes place; but the god has a special paradise for his worshippers, who have conditioned their bodies and natures on earth, who enjoy special advantages and are prepared more swiftly for reincarnation which is done by the power of the goddess in such circumstances as to ensure that you will be reborn into your own tribe again. this is taken nowadays to mean into witch circles. it would seem to involve an unending series of reincarnations; but i am told that in time you may become one of the mighty ones, who are also called the mighty dead. i can learn nothing about them, but they seem to be like demigods- or one might call them saints. at a later time there were, perhaps, other reasons

n. caesar tells us they held the following belief 'souls are not annihilated, but pass after death from one body to another. by this teaching men are much encouraged to valour, through disregarding the fear of death' this was the usual belief, as the hero cuchulain was urged by the men of ulster to marry, because they did not wish to lose so great a warrior to the tribe, and knew that he would be reborn again among his descendants. the book of the dun cow tells us that the famous fin mac coul was reborn in ulster in the person of king mongan, two hundred years after his death. there was also a class of diviners called druidesses and mentioned by caesar in his de bella gallica, who were looked on as even more ancient than the druids; they were shape-changers and seem to have had all the cha

h the church's teaching i do not know. but, to begin with, the belief in many different heavens, each with their different god, is not unusual. the cult god is thought of as the god of the next world, or of death and resurrection, or of reincarnation, the comforter, the consoler. after life you go gladly to his realms for rest and refreshment, becoming young and strong, waiting for the time to be reborn on earth again, and: you pray to him to send back the spirits of your beloved dead to rejoice with you at your festivals. that they believe something of this sort is clear from the myth of the goddess which forms the central part of one of their rituals. it is a sort of primitive spiritualism. witches have no books on theology, so it is difficult for me to discover all they actually believe

ge [1] see note 2 (page 188- and he taught her all the mysteries, and they loved and were one; and he taught her all the magic's. for there are three great events in the life of man- love, death and resurrection in the new body- and magic controls them all. to fulfil love you must return again at the same time and place as the loved ones, and you must remember and love her or him again. but to be reborn you must die and be ready for a new body; to die you must be born; without love you may not be born, and this is all the magic' this myth upon which its members base their actions is the central idea of the cult. perhaps it was coined to explain ideas and rituals already conceived, and to explain why the wiser, older and more powerful god should give his power over magic to the goddess. it

d ecstatic religion which originated in the worship of dionysus and consisted in living over again his myth. zagreus, the son of zeus and kore (persephone, is slain at hera's instigation by the titans who tear him to pieces and devour him except for his heart which athene saves and of which is born, as the son of zeus and semele, the second dionysus. palingenesis here consisted in dying and being reborn again in zagreus. mankind had birth from the ashes of the titans smitten by the thunderbolt of zeus in punishment for their crime. this is why all men bear the burden of the titans' crime; but as the titans devoured zagreus, man has within him also the nature of dionysus. theologians said that it was the titanic nature innate in the body from which man must free himself to reunite with the

l, they need our aid. they desire good to us, fertility for man, beast and crops, but they need our help to bring it about; and by our dances and other means they get that help 'when we die we go to the gods' domain, where having rested a while in their lovely country we are prepared to be born again on this earth; and if we perform the rites correctly, by the grace of the great mother we will be reborn among those we loved, and will remember, know and love them again, while those who do evil will have a stern schooling in the gods' domain before they are fit to be reborn again, and then it will be among strangers. being reborn again we ever progress, but to progress we must learn, and to learn ever means suffering. what we endure here in this life fits us for better in the next, and so we

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

use the socratic method. to repeat, you regret that i ever gave you free will. i claim that when you see the true ramifications you will no longer have this regret. to prove my point, i ll tell you what i m going to do. i am about to create a new universe a new space-time continuum. in this new universe will be born a mortal just like you for all practical purposes, we might say that you will be reborn. now, i can give this new mortal this new you free will or not. what would you like me to do? mortal (in great relief: oh, please! spare him from having to have free will! god: all right, i ll do as you say. but you do realize that this new you without free will, will commit all sorts of horrible acts. mortal: but they will not be sins since he will have no free will. god: whether you call

WORKBOOK FOR GRADE 0 VOID AND THE ABYSS

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

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

e 36 bells were rung to bring things in line with modern astrological studies. with the appearance of the shekinah, the postulant meets the anima of the sphere of geburah; the hidden knowledge of that sphere. the fivefold anointing of the astral body makes the centers aware in the astral (the five basic centers. the postulant is lifted out of the pastos, and the linen around him is removed; he is reborn. the signs of nephthys are given: the signs of adoration on the left and right side. the claw grip shown symbolizes the postulant gripping the hands of the helpers, as he is lifted from the coffin. mystical grade of 70=40 being the grade of the red rose which blossomed officers magus: grey robe, white headdress with gold cord, leopard skin, sandals, spray of almond. king of salam: blue and

ZOETIC GRIMOIRE OF ZOS

ion thou lambent spirit of erh! thou hast kindled the sacred fire from dead ashes, so my torch lightens all darknesses. thou hast become the fulcrum of my will. everlastingly in thee i know not respite: except in the sensuous impact of flesh, there are no meanings. thou hast awakened me into eternities. thou makest all things beautiful unto the grotesque. whom thou succour hath no sterility. i am reborn and reborn into desirous becomings: i have recreated my soul by birthing pleasure. through thee my will, desire, belief and word become the law that carries me into the catastrophic beyond becoming: thou the emissary of neither-neither! ever silent watcher! thou hast shown me the new sexualities and all the mysteries of the threshold! only thee i adore in my soul and my everlasting body. al

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

a simple statement which, if not certain, is at least not improbable. there is, he will tell you, a spiritual world, or to avoid any (most unjustifiable) misunderstandings, let us say a world of subtler matter than the visible and tangible, which has its own laws (analogous to, if not identical with, those laws of matter with which we are acquainted) and whose inhabitants change, and die, and are re-born very much as ordinary mortal beings. but as they are of subtler matter, the cycle is less rapid.1 as a nominalist, i hope not to be misunderstood when i compare this to the relative mutability of the individual and the species.2 we have enough examples free 1 cf. huxley, cited supra, possibly, through modes of being of which we neither have a conception, nor are competent to form any. 2 cf

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2

s did i creep back to the shade of the sheltering trees; and i found my sheep on the shady leas; and my body was flushed, and my cheeks were red, and my eyes too bright to weep. 135 xv after long dreamless sleep i knew the tale that had fled my tongue, i found in far in the water blue, in the song by the skylark sung, in the melody slow of the waving corn, in the rushing of wind through the vines re-born, and wherever the water-lilies grew, and the green, green willows swung. xvi and still the lady of my dream as a light before me goes; i see her in the sun's last gleam, in the moonlight on the snows. ah! chiefly then her song is sung, when the moon o'er the dark green woods is hung; she is born at midnight on the stream, a starry, full-blown rose. victor b. neuburg. 136 a handbook of geom

ALICE A BAILEY11 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME II ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY II

ndantly clear in the parable. 4. the "guidance" registered can also be simply a sensitivity to the voices and injunctions and well-meaning intentions of good people on the path of return to incarnation. the spiritual dilemma of the race today is causing the rapid return of many advanced souls to life on the physical plane. as they hover on the borderland of outer living, awaiting their time to be re-born, they are oft contacted subjectively and unconsciously by human beings in incarnation, particularly at night when the consciousness is out of the physical body. what they say and teach (frequently good, usually indifferent in quality and sometimes quite ignorant) is remembered in the waking hours of consciousness and interpreted by the neophyte as the voice of god, giving guidance. 5. the

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

inviolability of law, as karma, is not a prominent feature; reincarnation is taught, but the number of re-births is limited generally to three. some small part of the kabalistic doctrine is found in the jewish talmud, but in that collection of treatises there is some grossness that is absent from the true kabalah; such are the theories of the debasement of men into animal forms; and of men to be re-born as women, as a punishment for earthly sins in a previous life. it must be remembered that many points of doctrine are limited to the teachings of but a few rabbis; and that the differences between the earliest and latest doctrines on a given point are sometimes very great, as is shown by a comparison of the books of the rabbis of different eras and schools. some of the kabalistic teaching

ha ra, encouraging the appetites and passions, temptations to evil, is an agent of samael and of the beast. man is in a very unfortunate position according to the zohar 95 b, for it is there said that the evil angel joins him at birth, but the good angel only at the age of 13 years. as to death, as we have already learned, the man's ego or soul, unless the life has been superexcellent, has to be re-born in another form, but at death, as all religions agree, great changes occur. according to the kabalah, the visible material body, the guph, decays, and the animal aspect of the soul, the nephesh, only gradually fades away from it: the ruach, the human aspect, passes away from the assiatic plane, and the neshamah, the spiritual soul, returns to the treasury of heaven, to the gan oidin, or of

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

e breath of life, and the third makes of him a living soul (ii. 7, all of which readings[[vol. 2, page] 82 the secret doctrine. are implied in the plural number of the elohim "the first man is of the earth, the second (the last, or rather highest) is from heaven" says paul in i. corinthians xv. 47. in the aryan allegory the rebellious sons of brahma are all represented as holy ascetics and yogis. re-born in every kalpa, they generally try to impede the work of human procreation. when daksha, the chief of the prajapati (creators, brings forth 10,000 sons for the purpose of peopling the world, narada- a son of brahma, the great rishi, and virtually a "kumara" if not so in name- interferes with, and twice frustrates daksha's aim, by persuading those sons to remain holy ascetics and eschew mar

o impede the work of human procreation. when daksha, the chief of the prajapati (creators, brings forth 10,000 sons for the purpose of peopling the world, narada- a son of brahma, the great rishi, and virtually a "kumara" if not so in name- interferes with, and twice frustrates daksha's aim, by persuading those sons to remain holy ascetics and eschew marriage. for this, daksha curses narada to be re-born as a man, as brahma had cursed him before for refusing to marry, and obtain progeny, saying "perish in thy present (deva or angelic) form and take up thy abode in the womb" i.e, become a man (vayu purana; harivamsa, 170. notwithstanding several conflicting versions of the same story, it is easy to see that narada belongs to that class of brahma's "first-born" who have all proven rebellious

er what is said of this class of angels in enoch and in the bible, then the allegory is plain: their leader, narada, while refusing to procreate, leads men to become gods. moreover, all of these, as stated in the vedas, are chhandaja (will-born) or incarnated (in different manvantaras) of their own will- and they are shown in exoteric literature as existing age after age; some being "cursed to be re-born" others, incarnating as a duty. finally, as the sanakadikas, the seven kumaras who went to visit vishnu on the "white island (sveta-dwipa) the island inhabited by the maha yogins- they are connected with sakadwipa and the lemurians and atlanteans of the third and fourth races[[vol. 2, page] 585 seeming contradictions. in esoteric philosophy, the rudras (kumaras, adityas, gandharvas, asuras

wn firstly- as the sons of siva-rudra- the "patron yogi" whose "third eye" mystically, must be acquired by the ascetic before he becomes an adept; then, in their cosmic character, as the subordinates of indra and his opponents- variously. the "four times seven" emancipations have a reference to the four rounds, and the four races that preceded ours, in each of which marut-jivas (monads) have been re-born, and have obtained final liberation, if they have only availed themselves of it. instead of which, preferring the good of mankind, which would struggle still more hopelessly in the meshes of ignorance and misery, were it not for this extraneous help- they are re-born over and over again "in that character" and thus "fill up their own places" who they are "on earth- every student of occult

h rabbi abba "thou art the seventh light (the synthesis of us all, he adds, speaking of tetragrammaton and his seven "companions" whom he calls "the eyes of tetragrammaton) tetragrammaton is brahma prajapati, who assumed four forms, in order to create four kinds of supernal creatures, i.e, made himself fourfold, or the manifest quaternary (see vishnu purana, book i. ch. v; and who, after that, is re-born in the seven rishis, his manasaputras "mind-born sons" who became later, 9, 21 and so on, who are all said to be born from various parts of brahma[[footnote(s* brahma creates in the first kalpa (day one) various "sacrificial animals" pasu- or the celestial bodies and the zodiacal signs, and plants which he uses in sacrifices at the opening of treta yuga. the esoteric meaning of it shows hi

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

e is led to remember or imagine that he or she is remembering events that occurred in previous past lives, when the soul of the person inhabited other physical bodies. often the regressed person and even the therapist conducting the regression do not realize that a trance state has been induced or that suggestions are being given. reincarnation: the doctrine that souls are born, live, die and are re-born into other bodies, either human or animal (see transmigration of souls) after death. relaxation: the first step of true meditation. remanence: occurrence of reactions relating to a bygone material object or condition, as if the object or condition were still present. a term used in dowsing (q.v. retort: in alchemy (q.v, a type of container. in sex magick (q.v, the vagina. results, lusting

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

. they then tore him to pieces, boiled and roasted his limbs, and began to feed upon them. zeus, noticing the scent, and being incensed at the cruel deed, hurled his thunderbolts at the titans, who had killed his son, born of semele, and sent another son, apollo, the sun-god, to collect and inter the 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 centur

HEAVEN HELL

such refreshing as the beings of the tuat enjoyed each day was due to his grace and light during his passage through their regions and circles. moreover, according to the dogmas of the priests of amen-ra, only those who were fortunate enough to secure a place p. xi in the divine bark of the god could hope to traverse the tuat unharmed, and only those who were his elect had the certainty of being re-born daily, with a new supply of strength and life, and of becoming of like nature and substance with him. in the book of gates the dogmas and doctrines of osiris are far more prominent, and the state of the beatified closely resembles that described in the "book of the dead" in primitive times in egypt men thought that they would obtain admission into the kingdom of hetep by learning and remem

the tuat proper, and it contains the great celestial watery abyss nu, and the goddess nut. who is here the personification of the "womb of the morning" so soon as the sun-god passes from the thighs of nut he will enter the matet boat, and begin his course in the world of light. we see afu-ra in his boat as before, and in the front of it is the beetle of khepera, under whose form the god is to be re-born. the space in front of the boat is filled by the body of a huge serpent called ankh-neteru, which lives upon the rumblings of the earth, and from the mouth of which amakhiu, or loyal servants, go forth daily. twelve amakhiu of ra now take hold of the tow-line, and entering in at p. 193 the tail of the serpent ankh-neteru draw afu-ra and his boat through its body, and bring him out at its m

now take hold of the tow-line, and entering in at p. 193 the tail of the serpent ankh-neteru draw afu-ra and his boat through its body, and bring him out at its mouth (vol. i, p. 263. during his passage through the serpent, the god transforms himself into khepera and the twelve amakhiu who have been with him throughout his journey in the tuat are, after they have passed out of the serpent's body, re-born on the earth each day. they enter the tail of the serpent as loyal servants, but, like their master, are transformed during their passage through its body, and they emerge from its mouth as "rejuvenated forms of ra" each day. they live on the earth during the day, but at sunset they rejoin their lord, and re-enter the tuat; whilst they are upon earth to utter the name of the god is forbidd

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

can channel the true food of the gods. nestled against my heart chakra i d open it further and begin to flood her fields with my love as if a big lighthouse beam is on. mondi always sits there and drinks it up, as i talk soothingly to her, interested in her day and telling her of the new home at the beach where i have begun my solitude time of life for my dying marriage and hungry self are being re-born by a silent sojourn by the sea. unplugged from technology, my time out time is bliss and my heart has begun to release its joy again. i know mondi also needs some beach air and more time with me as she figures out her needs. is death a negotiable process? perhaps it is. yet watching somebody go through the dance of the dying, and knowing there is nothing you can do but give them divine nut

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

simple statement which, if not certain, is at least not improbable. there is, he will tell you, a .spiritual. world, or to avoid any (most unjustifiable) misunderstandings, let us say a world of subtler matter than the visible and tangible, which has its own laws (analogous to, if not identical with, those laws of matter with which we are acquainted) and whose inhabitants change, and die, and are re-born very much as ordinary mortal beings. but as they are of subtler matter, the cycle is less rapid.1 as a nominalist, i hope not to be misunderstood when i compare this to the relative mutability of the individual and the species.2 we have enough examples free 1 cf. huxley, cited supra .possibly, through modes of being of which we neither have a conception, nor are competent to form any. 2 cf

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

ect awareness of it, caused the renewal to occur. it was as though the very awareness of this reality, on the part of a conscious being, completed the loop somehow, and allowed the renewing reality force to bridge across the awareness and to suffuse the consciousness of the one who was aware the universal myth pattern is your door, your map. you know that the cosmos is born, lives, and dies to be re-born and renewed cyclically. you also know that this timeline is far from linear, that these living and dying and renewing forces all actually exist at the same time in a timeless way at the heart of all things, including you and your awareness. your very awareness of these truths is already your mind making contact with them; the realities behind these mythical truths are already merged with y

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

ease a person's psychic awareness, which reminds me a little of dancing schools. that is, you might be able to take a person with an awkward walk, give him dancing lessons to enable him to walk more gracefully, but he'll never be able to rip around the stage in a ballet. anything can be improved with training, but whether or not you're going to practice witchcraft, you can't be psychic unless you're born that way. unlike some people, i never claim to be tapping any supernatural power, or trying to save the world. the pseudopsychics have a gift of sensitivity, but nothing more. any psychic could pretend to give inside information on the stock market or medicine, but what competent psychic would sell these services, unless he has specialized training as well as sensitivity? that's why i don'

SZYMANSKI GREG SEARCHING FOR THE ILLUMINATI DEEP WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE VATICAN

ren in were, specifically. but no, there's a lot of good christian schools that have nothing to do with the group, but some can be. now i went to a public school, but what's interesting is, out of three public schools i went to as a young child, two burned down (sadly: so there's no access to any school records. ml (completely shocked) i'll be darned. gs: marilyn, just to get you up to speed. you're born into this, then you're trained as a young child. you go through an induction ceremony in the vatican. and this is going on with one to two percent of our population, according to svali. very serious, in all levels. government, and everything else. go ahead, marilyn, do you have another question? ml: yeah. when you said the vatican, now that is not a christian religion, okay? now i'm a chri

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