Michael Wynn's Occult Reference Library
REINCARNATE,REINCARNATION,REINCARNATES,REINCARNATIONS

Return to Occult Library Index

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

arently belong to former incarnations. by cultivating these departments of one's mind we can develop them; we become expert; we form an organized coherence of these originally disconnected elements; the faculty grows with astonishing rapidity, once the knack of the business is mastered. it is much easier (for obvious reasons) to acquire the magical memory when one has been sworn for many lives to reincarnate immediately. the great obstacle is the phenomenon called freudian forgetfulness; that is to say, that, though an unpleasant event may be recorded faithfully enough by the mechanism of the brain, we fail to recall it, or recall it wrong, because it is painful "the psychopathology of everyday life" analyses and illustrates this phenomenon in detail. now, the king of terrors being death

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

ysically destructive phenomena of our age must be parts of some vast all-comprehensive plan. putting two and two together, and making 718, it looks as if the masters acquiesced in and helped to fulfill, the formula of the catastrophic succession of the aeons. an analogy. we have the secret of the elixir of life, and could carry on in the same body indefinitely; yet at least some masters prefer to reincarnate in the regular way, only taking care to waste no time in amennti, but to get back to the old bench and pick up the new tools with the minimum of delay. by having attained the freedom of "elysian, windless, fortunate abodes beyond heaven's constellated wilderness "we are blessed; and bless" by refusing to linger therein, but shouldering once more "atlantean the load of the too vast orb

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

s he finds it, so that it is of no particular shape; yet we find written, liber vii, vi, 2 "we made us a temple of stones in the shape of the universe, even as thou didst wear openly and i concealed" this shape is the vesica piscis; but it is only the greatest of the magicians who can thus fashion the temple. there may, however, be some choice of rooms; this refers to the power of the magician to reincarnate in a suitable body. 55 diagram on this page: a magical circle reminiscent of an illustration in the "treasure house of images" in the equinox. caption below "the circle. 56 chapter ii the circle the circle announces the nature of the great work. though the magician has been limited in his choice of room, he is more or less able to choose what part of the room he will work in. he will c

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

canst not hurt him" the old comment 59. yet, being indeed invulnerable, one need not fear for them. we must abolish the shadows by the radiant light of the sun. real things are only thrown into brighter glory by his effulgence. we need have no fear then to throw the christians to the lions. if there be indeed true men among them, who happen through defect of education to know no better, they will reincarnate all right, and no harm done. this passage may perhaps be interpreted in a sense slightly different from that assumed in the above paragraph. we should indeed love all- is not the law "love under will? by this i mean that we should make proper contact with all, for love means union; and the proper condition of union is determined by will. consider the right attitude to adopt in the matt

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

ed will not individualise animal men as in the previous round, but will stimulate the mental germ in those members of the present human family who as h. p. b. says though apparently men, are without the spark of mind.40(210) during the next seven hundred years, these low aboriginal races will practically- 425- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust die out and will not in this round reincarnate. they will be rejected. in the next round opportunity will again occur, and the manasadevas will again renew their work of forming individualistic nuclei for the development of self-consciousness. the egos awaiting opportunity will not, of course, enter in until the human type of that era is sufficiently refined for their purpose. they are concerned with the unfoldment of the sixth pet

ttle evolved man, as they merit it not, and have not the mentality to realise it; hence, therefore, the rapidity of their incarnations, and the brevity of the pralayic period. there is little in their case for the ego, on its own plane, to assimilate in the residue of incarnations, and hence the life principle withdraws rapidly from out of the mental form, with the resulting impulse of the ego to reincarnate almost immediately. when the life of the personality has been full and rich, yet has not reached the stage wherein the personal self can consciously co-operate with the ego, periods of personality nirvana are undergone, their length depending upon the interest of the life, and the ability of the man to meditate upon experience. later, when the ego dominates the personality life, the in

incarnations and concerns the relation of the unit to his group on the egoic plane, prior to the unfoldment of the fifth petal. it concerns man in the period between the savage stage and that of the disciple, when he is an average man but still in the two halls. the mystery of all root races lies here, and the egoic cycles coincide with the building of racial forms, and civilisations. a man will reincarnate again and again in the various subraces of a root race until a certain cycle has been covered; then- 436- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust he may undergo a pralayic condition until in a later (and sometimes much later) root race he will respond to its vibratory call, and the egoic impulse to incarnate will again be felt. in illustration of this, we should bear in mi

etheric matter. the fourth ether is the only one as yet recognised by scientists, and is the subject of their present investigations, little though they may realise it- 538- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust on the atomic subplane are the permanent physical atoms of all humanity and the appropriated atoms of the deva kingdom. the devas do not develop as do the human race. they reincarnate in groups, and not as individuals, though each group is composed of units, and has nothing of the nature of the involutionary group soul. the group soul on the involutionary path and that upon the evolutionary are unlike; one is passing on to differentiation and is composed of entities animated by one general life; the other has differentiated, and each entity is a separate unit of the

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

leasure-loving disposition, governed practically entirely by selfish effort. so it is through all the many grades of desire, good, bad, and ordinary, until that re-orientation takes place which so refocusses the astral energies that they are turned in a different direction. desire becomes aspiration. thus liberation from the wheel of birth is brought about and a man is freed from the necessity to reincarnate. then the horoscope as now understood proves futile, untrue and useless and the term sometimes used, but wrongly 'the horoscope of the ego or the soul' means nothing. the soul has no individual destiny, but is submerged into the one. its destiny is the destiny of the group, and of the whole; its desire is the working out of the great plan, and its- 170- a treatise on white magic copyri

ALICE A BAILEY09 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME I ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY I

ng anent reincarnation are as yet childish and inaccurate. much readjustment must be made, and much re-arrangement of ideas is necessitated, before a true understanding of this basic cyclic law will be possible. cyclic appearance, therefore, governs the rays as well as the kingdoms in nature and the forms contained therein. it determines the activity of god himself. races incarnate, disappear and reincarnate, and so do all lives in form. reincarnation or cyclic activity lies behind all phenomenal activity and appearance. it is an aspect of the pulsating life of deity. it is the breathing out and the breathing in of the process of divine existence and manifestation. it is that which lies behind the science of chemical affinity, of the relation of the polar opposites, and of the marriage rel

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

had requested a stage of christlike perfection reaching unto the "measure of the stature of the fullness of the christ (eph. iv.13) beyond this generalisation, no intelligent person will attempt to go. when christ reappears, our knowledge will become more true and realistic; we shall know that we are eternally related to the souls of all men, and that we have a definite relationship to those who reincarnate with us, who are learning with us the same lessons and who are experiencing and experimenting with us. this proven and accepted knowledge will regenerate the very sources of our human living. we shall know that all our difficulties and all our problems are caused by our failure to recognise this fundamental law, with its responsibilities and obligations; we shall then gradually learn t

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

he following pages we shall confine ourselves to the theme of the death of the physical body and of the subtler bodies in the three worlds; we shall deal also with the processes which bring about the reabsorption of the human soul into the spiritual soul upon its own plane, the higher mental plane; we shall consider the reassimilation of substance and the appropriation of matter in order again to reincarnate. we shall therefore consider the three major processes to which i earlier referred; these cover three periods and lead, eventually, to other processes under the law of rebirth. they are: 1. the process of restitution, governing the period of withdrawal of the soul from the physical plane and from its two phenomenal aspects, the dense physical body and the etheric body. this concerns th

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

s allegories touching the subject. nor have the semi-esoteric dogmas of puranic hinduism failed to evolve very suggestive symbols and allegories concerning the rebellious and fallen gods. the puranas teem with them; and we find a direct hint at the truth in the frequent allusions of parasara (vishnu purana, to all those rudras, rishis, asuras, kumaras and munis, having to be born in every age, to reincarnate in every manvantara. this (esoterically) is equivalent to saying that the flames born of the universal mind (mahat, owing to the mysterious workings of karmic will and an impulse of evolutionary law, had, as in pymander- without any gradual transition- landed on this earth, having broken through the seven circles of fire, or the seven intermediate worlds, in short. there is an eternal

stated" more than a hundred million of years before- the first human sub-race had already begun to materialize or solidify, so to say. but, as the stanza has it "the inner man (the conscious entity) was not" this "conscious entity" occultism says, comes from, nay, in many cases is, the very entire essence and esse of the high intelligences condemned, by the undeviating law of karmic evolution, to reincarnate in this manvantara[[footnote(s* no one of these orders is distinct from the pitris or progenitors, as says manu (iii. 284 "the wise call our fathers vasus; our paternal grandfathers, rudras; our paternal great grandfathers, adityas; agreeably to a text of the vedas" or "this is an everlasting vedic text" in another translation* as now discovered by the late g. smith in the babylonian c

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

eself with krishna, who, says arjuna (xi, is "greater than brahman, and first cause. the indestructible, that which is, that which is not, and what is beyond them" its boughs are hiranyagharba (brahma or brahman in his highest manifestations, say sridhara and madhusudana, the highest dhyan chohans or devas. the vedas are its leaves. he only who goes beyond the roots shall never return, i.e, shall reincarnate no more during this "age" of brahma. it is only when its pure boughs had touched the terrestrial mud of the garden of eden, of our adamic race, that this tree got soiled by the contact and lost its pristine purity; and that the serpent of[[vol. 1, page] 407 the seven-headed dragons. eternity- the heaven-born logos- was finally degraded. in days of old- of the divine dynasties on earth

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

all it- they were imprisoned in the third dimension. so began the process of incarnation and reincarnation into earth bodies, as beings sought to continue their evolution inside a prison they didn't even realise was a prison. the 'gods' who supervised the prison were perceived to be the god. many people became so imbalanced and locked into certain thought patterns and attitudes that they chose to reincarnate into the same situations, places, and races. as they repeated the old responses, earth life after earth life, they became more and more imbalanced. others of greater understanding used their incarnations as a vehicle for gathering experience and evolving. our consciousness is a series of interconnecting magnetic energy fields and the greater our understanding and openness of mind, the

lled. noriega was abducted to america for trial and sentence on drug charges. the rest of the 'free' world, including britain's margaret thatcher, offered not a word of protest. the judge at his trial refused to allow any cia documents to be seen in his defence and he was sentenced to 40 years for running drugs. what would the government and cia officials get if they came to trial! they'd have to reincarnate a number of times to complete the sentence. when you observe the background to noriega's arrest, it is extremely relevant to know that the men the bush regime imposed on the people of panama to replace noriega were closely connected with the money laundering, drug trafficking, business. the new president, guillermo endara, was an official of at least six banks involved in drugmoney- la

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

on the tree of life (q.v. torah: hebrew for "law" the first five books of the old testament, commonly called the pentateuch. mystics believe that much of it is in kabalistic codes. trance: an altered state of consciousness (q.v, especially the more withdrawn degrees resembling sleep or sleepwalking. a "waking dream" transmigration (of souls: one doctrine of reincarnation. the idea that when souls reincarnate, they move up and down the evolutionary ladder or scale. i.e, people die and come back as a cat, dog, horse, or another person, depending upon their karma (q.v. see reincarnation. treasure map: a drawing or collage used to help the practitioner with magick involving "creative" visualization (q.v. tree of life: a glyph (q.v) which is a central symbol of the kabalah. it can help you memo

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

s exemptus is assigned to chesed, the term exemptus, or exempt, indicating that freedom from karma which liberates from the wheel. i am fully aware that others may attach a different significance to the title, and that there are persons in incarnation who hold this grade. to these i reply that such persons, if the grade be a functioning one and not a mere empty honour, are karma-free and will not reincarnate. such persons might justly be termed masters, for their consciousness is of the grade of a master, but as it is so necessary to make the distinction between incarnate and disincarnate adepts, it is better to qualify the classification by this minor distinction than to allow to humans a prestige which human nature is not fitted to bear. as long as an adept is incarnated he will be liabl

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

sometimes called the salamander s feather. leonardus stated: its fire is nourished by an inseparable unctuous humid flowing from its substance; therefore, being once kindled, it preserves a constant light without feeding it with any moisture. asc see austin seth center ascended masters ascended masters are enlightened beings whom many in the esoteric field believe have evolved beyond the need to reincarnate on earth and now act from a higher plane of existence to assist humans in their movement toward enlightenment and guide the race in its destined evolution. the concept of ascended masters was popularly introduced by madame helena petrovna blavatsky, cofounder of the theosophical society, and described in some detail in her most important book, the secret doctrine. blavatsky taught that

nations of thomas banyacya and the hopi elders several years previously with their message of peace. the great experiment ii was held on april 23, 2000. out of his experience with the masters, whom he termed the emissaries of light, twyman organized the community of the beloved disciple, to initiate people into their teachings. people drawn to his community are considered those who have chosen to reincarnate at this time in order to become stewards of the new world ruled by love that is coming into existence. those who affiliate with the community begin with two courses of study of four and six months respectively that prepare them for initiation. further study leads to ordination as a minister in the community. the community of the beloved disciple may be contacted at p.o. box 1054, joshu

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

ne, who looked like a youth of thirteen or fourteen, identified himself as yamski to the sole witness, a groundskeeper and handyman named ernest arthur bryant. yamski, who spoke in eastern european inflected english, expressed the wish that des or les could be there. bryant was given a brief tour of the craft and a promise of further contacts. some of adamski s partisans had been expecting him to reincarnate and return to y 275 earth. in fact, his associate and onetime coauthor desmond leslie openly predicted it in an obituary he wrote for england s flying saucer review. bryant, who claimed never to have heard of this famous contactee, produced a sketch of yamski, who bore some resemblance to a youthful adamski. subsequently, bryant brought forth physical evidence that he said the space pe

FOCUS OF LIFE

ith its undulations. are we not ever standing on our own volcano? what is beyond man-something more dishonest or a further beast? one thing is desired, another is thought; and a different becomes. everything loved obtains an obscene disease. these dream postures are ominous pophecy of thyself to become-the obscure wish. o joy and woe! which is the higher morality-to love man while being man or to reincarnate as woman to fulfil desire? death is that degeneration, an alternation of ego in consciousness [i.e, desire, its metamorphosis into separate entities for that purpose: serving its own. man's living virtues are those unfamiliar with names. his absurd i is ever supralapsarian. man has exhausted his courage by imaginations engendered from the damned: never can he satisfy what follows these

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

le and female suggestions: for al is god, singular and male, eloah,alhis god, single and female, and 1m is a common masculine plural form.thewordimagehere is tzelem, and likeness is demooth,dmut,a word often used with tzelem. in the english version note that the singular word 'god' is used,butthe plural pronoun 'our; a halting between two opinions, as if the intended meaning were- when i awake or reincarnate in the image or form of thee, who art one above me,i.e.,more divine: for the individuality, the manasic entity, has some sort of astral body or aura in every stage of existence, however much above our present mode of life. this root tzel reappears in the hebrew word tzelmuth, meaning death, and the 'shadow of death: tzel, shadow; and muth, death; in the latin vulgate -umbra mortis,ingr

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

l 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 this verse clearly explains that those who have overcome (that is those who completed their spiritual development, will become a pillar in the temple of god and he shall go out no more, that is, he will reincarnate no longer. this is obviously the message intended in this verse. also when we examine the gospels we find jesus asking the disciples, who do they think i am? you would think that when the disciples answer in terms of reincarnation that if this was incorrect jesus would certainly correct them! surely he would not let them continue in their ignorance! but no, jesus accepts what they say

servitude to uncouth and noxious bodies, in this doom are vicious souls condemned. hermes. the gnostic handbook page 82 in the western tradition it is figuratively called the book of judgement. this book is a balance sheet of the actions of the person as he reincarnates. as time progresses the positive and negative attributes of a person s life weigh against each other and the person continues to reincarnate. at various stages the balance will reach a crucial stage and accordingly the circumstances of a persons life will drastically change to give them a further opportunity to enter transfiguration. these opportunities continue until the omega day when the cycle draws to a close. if the person has entered the spiritual life, then during these stages a slow and steady transformation of the

as a large rubbish dump. fires were triggered by the adding of sulphur so that the rubbish could be burnt up. it became the common lay stall of the city, where the dead bodies of criminals and the carcasses of animals and every other kind of filth was cast. smith's bible dictionary. it is such an apt description of the how we experience the darker aspects of our world, into which we are forced to reincarnate- criminals, carcasses of animals and every kind of filth. when we die, the body is eaten by animals or burnt by sulphur, or in more modern terms, cremated or buried and our soul then again must return. this sort of eternal re-occurance, hell on earth is the iconography of hades, sheol and gehenna, it is the real meaning of hell. the gnostic handbook page 84 while we may see the world a

se who enter the path of the dove are known as psychics, while those who follow the secret path of the serpent are known as pneumatics. the path of the 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

the law of the pleroma or the treasury of light is pure freedom since all beings in that world are united in divinity, accordingly, the parfait is bethe gnostic handbook page 107 yond all law. this state of perfection and union with the mind of god is imperative so the parfait can achieve the specials tasks the lord of wisdom requires of them. while those of terrestrial salvation may continue to reincarnate to teach and assist until being resurrected unto perfection. those on the celestial path achieve some measure of perfection in life after many incarnations and become emissaries of the pleroma. for whatsoever is born of god overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 1 john 5:4 they are not of the world, even as i am not of the world. john 1

his understanding of reproduction is central to the gnostic view of sexuality. while reproduction may be necessary for the propagation of the species, it is by its very nature difficult as it tends to bring our focus back towards the material world. accordingly, those who choose this path can only be initiated into the path of the dove, in future lives it was envisaged in the old texts they would reincarnate in forms suitable to enter the qadesh priesthood. the reason behind the qadesh priesthood is quite simple. reproduction has an energy field which gravitates towards propagation of the species and hence sustaining the material world. accordingly though this field can be modified and a certain liberation achieved (the path of the dove) only by total rejection of this field can full liber

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

orm which is the physical body, then it is logical to suggest than in most of humanity the self is in a type of hibernation. if this is so, then it seems unlikely that it can it pass from life to life. since self only exists in potential (prior to entering the spiritual path, then the prevalent view of reincarnation seems to be in error. however the question obviously arises, if the self does not reincarnate what does? to understand this we need to discuss the wave and particle consideration. if we were to draw a line through time, a line that represented the experience of many gnostic theurgy page 54 lifetimes. this line could represent the nature of you and your reality. if we stop the line, a particle or point is created, and this could also represent you. the question is which is corre

tion -perfection on earth. path of the serpent of wisdom, celestial, chosen ones, parfait. fig 35 gnostic theurgy page 128 the path of the dove has seven 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 ev

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

himself, thus adding entire indifference to the whole world to his unbelief, must, at the threshold of death, drop his personality forever. this personality having no tendrils of sympathy for the world around and hence nothing to hook onto sutratman, it follows that with the last breath every connection between the two is broken. there being no devachan for such a materialist, the sutratman will reincarnate almost immediately. but those materialists who erred in nothing but their disbelief will oversleep but one station. and the time will come when that ex-materialist will perceive himself in the eternity and perhaps repent that he lost even one day, one station, from the life eternal. q. still, would it not be more correct to say that death is birth into a new life, or a return once more

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

ne passes after death. it is sometimes possible to visit with the dead, or you might be called upon to reassure and assist those who have just passed over (died) or those who are consciously projecting for the first time. many spirits, elementals and ghosts exist in the astral world. the magician should feel comfortable there. tibetan belief is that through proficiency in oobe, you no longer need reincarnate after death. the astral world is extremely changeable and subject to your thoughts. your will can control your movements in the astral world, and if you seem to be going somewhere non-volitionally('astral current) it is probably your true will causing it anyway. you might also experience heightened magical ability while in the astral realm [this is a popular subject, and there may be o

LAITMAN M BASIC CONCEPTS IN KABBALAH

g with him. this is considered the ultimate purpose of creation. at this degree, the need for the dark system of abya disappears and ceases to exist. the work destined to take 6,000 years (the time it takes to transform egoism into the will to enjoy for the creator s sake) is actually carried out by every person during his or her lifetime and by all generations combined. everyone must continue to reincarnate until the work is completed. the existence of the dark system of abya is necessary only for the creation of the body, so that by correcting its egoism, one will acquire one s second, divine nature. however, if egoism (the selfish will to enjoy) is so base, how could it appear in the creator s thought? the answer is simple: since time does not exist in the spiritual world, the creation

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

at the same person will return with the same question as before, but this time from another level of development altogether. q: how can we know that we are now ready to study kabbalah? a: when rav kook was asked who was permitted to study kabbalah, he replied: anyone who wants to. if a person really wants to, it is a sign that one is ready. if not, studies should not commence. we will continue to reincarnate into this world until we decide to study kabbalah and attain the necessary knowledge to understand and work with the system of creation. this is regarded as the highest degree, the last degree that any person, any soul can and eventually must attain in this life or the next. the method of kabbalah prepares a person to enter the upper world with knowledge and powers, without harming sel

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

orrection and receives the full amount of light, it stands before all souls, looking over everyt h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 92 thing, before the data enters the system, before the pleasure penetrates all other souls. one s coarseness is determined during one s first life in our world. but kabbalah can develop and increase it dozens of times over and reduce the number of times one will have to reincarnate. it accelerates the process of one s ripening for the purpose of attaining the spiritual realm. human torments are an external expression of something that is missing. the torments do not vanish, but the kabbalah replaces the animate- corporeal pains for spiritual pains that come from the absence of spiritual sensation. the qualitative change in suffering leads to a reconstruction of t

writes about kabbalah that it is a method for the revelation of his godliness to his creatures in this world (the revelation of godliness. he doesn t write about what happens after death, but specifically of what must happen to us while we are here in this world. kabbalah is only about the things we need in this world, the things we must attain if we don t want our lives to be wasted and have to reincarnate and finish what we did not finish before. that is why the wisdom of kabbalah is the most practical and necessary science there is. it is inescapable; life itself compels us to operate this way, and at the end of all the suffering, we still have to complete our individual corrections. it is not as if anything will really change at the end of correction; it will be the same universe, wit

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

e brotherhood, and have thus entered on the path proper; their lives are dedicated entirely to the service of humanity; in them the bud of human life has opened into flower, and their consciousness has risen into the buddhic principle, which has been described as the truly human expression of man. thirdly come the arhats, those who have taken the fourth great initiation; they are not compelled to reincarnate; if they do so it is quite voluntary; they dip down into human life on this plane simply in order to help. 182. on tattu, the right-hand pillar, we take up the tale of evolution where we left it on the other. a single link here betokens one world-period, and therefore includes the whole set of seven festoons on tat. to use once more the technical terms of theosophical teaching, the loo

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

his hordes. that very night, the buddha achieved nirvana. what keeps individuals trapped in the samsaric cycle is the law of karma. karma operates impersonally like a natural law, ensuring that every good or bad deed eventually returns to the individual in the form of reward or punishment commensurate with the original deed. it is the necessity of reaping one s karma that compels human beings to 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 re

fates of morally good and morally bad individuals. in traditions in which such a distinction is made, the mechanism by which good souls are sent to happy states and evil souls directed to unhappy states can take place in different ways. sometimes this dichotomization occurs automatically, as in south asian traditions in which the net effect of one s accumulated karma propels the departed soul to reincarnate in pleasant or unpleasant circumstances. similarly the religious notion of metempsychosis, the process by which souls enter a new body in the pythagorean doctrine as well as in ancient druid and irish literature, is related to the belief in immortality and indirectly implies a judgment on the fate of the souls. in zoroastrianism and in certain other religions, the deceased must cross a

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

vorous and may extend or limit, to transmute the psycho-somatic. schizophrenia is normal, we all have it: men and women are modified forms of each other and retain a remissness or too much of the other. sexual congress a making whole. where abjured or frustrated, schizophrenia may become pathological. there is also the fact that we are constantly amalgamating our past selves; the dead live on and reincarnate in us. we are many people. t..q( 6..t. usually a sharp division of our good and evil, often more equal as such, or one a little worse than the other. usually the sublated personality is the better half: hence impulsive and secret acts of generosity, hidden and unasking love, etc, from the least expected. the pathological type is very rare. it is not things themselves but others connect

MAGIC AND SPELLS

es: angharradh, chauntea, finder wyvernspur, kossuth, lathander, shiallia, silvanus. granted power: if you fall below 0 hit points, you regain a number of hit points equal to 1d8+ your charisma modifier. this supernatural ability functions once per day. if an attack brings you to -10 hit points or less, you die before this power takes effect. 1 charm person 2 lesser restoration 3 remove disease 4 reincarnate f atonement renewal domain spells 6 heroes' feas retribution domain deities: hoar, horus-re, kiaransalee, loviatar, osiris, shevarash, tyr, uthgar. granted power: if you have been harmed by someone in combat, you may make a strike of vengeance with a melee or ranged weapon against that individual on your next action. if this attack hits, you deal maximum damage. you may use this supern

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

they even called their children by the names supposed to have been borne by them in a former life. there is an account of an instance where a parent by inadvertence had given his infant the wrong name, whereupon the babe cried incessantly until the mistake had been rectified! the belief in reincarnation is also prevalent among the eskimos. aged eskimos not infrequently kill themselves in order to reincarnate in the family of some newly married loved one. the american indians recognize the difference between the ghost and the actual soul of a dead person, a knowledge restricted to initiates of the mysteries. in common with the platonists they also understood the principles of an archetypal sphere wherein exist the click to enlarge navaho sand painting. from an original drawing by hasteen kl

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

emes so that no one pushed away remain pushed away [forever. h19 thus, the verse under discussion describes second marriages. and more remarkably, g-d (i.e, ima) occupies himself since creation with arranging second marriages. but the definition of a gsecond marriage h is broader than simply the second marriage in this lifetime, as we will now see: such people become reincarnated, but they do not reincarnate as a couple, for sometimes he is reincarnated in one generation and she in another, such that the reincarnated man needs to be matched up with a different reincarnated woman. who also lacks her [original] mate [in this incarnation].that is similar to him [in merits. matching up such a couple is indeed a very difficult thing inasmuch as they are different in nature [not having originate

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

riod before the dawn of a new age, according to the ufo prophets. if earthlings do not raise their vibrational rate within a set period of time, severe earth changes and major cataclysms will take place. such disasters will not end the world, but shall serve to eliminate the unreceptive members of the human species. however, those who die in such dreadful purgings of the planet will be allowed to reincarnate on higher levels of development so that their salvation will be more readily accomplished through higher teachings on a higher vibratory level. for thousands of men and women throughout the world, the ufo has become a symbol of religious awakening and spiritual transformation. some envision the ufo as their deliverer from a world fouled by its own inhabitants, and the presence of ufos

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

h. even when only one soul completes its correction and receives the full amount of light, it stands before all souls, looking over everything, before the data enters the system, before the pleasure penetrates all other souls. one s coarseness is determined at one s first life in our world. but kabbalah can develop and increase it by dozens of times and reduce the number of times one will have to reincarnate. it accelerates the process of one s ripening for the purpose of attaining the spiritual realm. human torments are an external expression of something that is missing. the torments do not vanish, but the kabbalah replaces the animate-corporeal pains for spiritual pains, ones that come from the absence of spiritual sensation. the qualitative change in the suffering leads to a reconstruc

ld. baal hasulam writes about kabbalah: it is a method for, the revelation of his godliness to his creatures in this world (matan torah. he doesn t write about what happens after death, but specifically of what must happen to us while we are here in this world. kabbalah is only about the things we need in this world, the things we must attain if we don t want our lives to be wasted and to have to reincarnate and finish what we did not finish before. that is why the wisdom of kabbalah is the most practical and necessary science there is. it is inescapable; life itself compels us to operate this way, and at the end of all the suffering, we still have to complete our individual correction. it is not as if anything will really change at the end of correction; it will be the same universe, with

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

deed, death is the return to the womb. life and death are two phenomena of the same kind. death is the remainder of whole numbers. when the mathematical operation is completed, only the values of the consciousness remain. these values, when seen clairvoyantly, look like a legion of phantoms that continue living. the re-encarnation of the values is the mechanism of nature. truly, the soul does not reincarnate, because the human being does not have his soul incarnated yet. only the values re-encarnate themselves. the embryo of the soul the human being only has an embryo of soul; this embryo might be developed and strengthened by means of sexual magic. sometimes this embryo believes that it is the whole and forgets about its origin. when this happens, we totally fail. immortality the human be

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

either progress us towards spiritual perfection- if good- or indicate, if bad, that we need 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 esba

ABRAMELIN2

parts of the person, which abraham calls body, soul, and spirit, are designated in the qabalah by the respective terms of nephesch, i.e, the animal part; neschamah, or the soul, that is to say, the higher aspirations, and ruach, ie, the mind or spirit. but besides these, the qabalists also recognise certain higher principles, of which abraham the jew does not here speak, nor yet of the faculty of reincarnation of those principles. reincarnation is a subject much treated of by the oriental sacred writings, and was undoubtedly a fundamental doctrine of the ancient egyptian magic, from which, be it well remembered, the hebrew qabalah has been derived. the esoteric buddhists divide the personality into seven principles, instead of the three given above. 128 i.e, the four cardinal points, 129 t

ALEE J BOOK OF AIWASS

cks give birth to ducklings. gods give birth to godlings (humans. evolution occurs, growth occurs and the cycle continues. humans will eventually evolve to a plane of consciousness where this process is recognized and understood. when this happens, religion as we know it will die because faith succumbs to apprehension. sleepers and such recently, an email list subscriber queried "i know that with reincarnation we tend to forget our past incarnations and that there are daemons who sometimes forget it until something triggers it. i was wondering if there is a ritual or something one can do to find out if they are a reincarnated daemon" the daemons you are referring to are called "sleepers" but they are this way for a reason. recently, it was time for me to awaken one. he was an avowed atheis

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

n 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 entirely, too abstruse to discuss in this elementary manual. weh note: i have made a correction in the above list of chapters from liber 333. the published text cites iota-digamma, which does not exist. the correct chapter is iota-sigma, which does exist and discusses the subject> even that does not persist unchanged. it is always growing

with a mantra of terrific power by virtue whereof he may apprehend the universe, and control in himself its karmic consequences. 49 vi the magical memory<magical memory" as that described by f. a. yates and used by the ancient roman orators for mnemonics> i there is no more important task than the exploration of one's previous incarnations<reincarnation that the population of this planet has been increasing rapidly. were do the new souls come from? it is not necessary to invent theories about other planets; it is enough to say that the earth is passing through a period when human units are being built up from the elements with increased frequency. the evidence for this theory springs to the eye: in what other age was there such puer

his: in a single sentence is combined sublimity and enthusiasm with sneering bitterness, scepticism, grossness and scorn. it is evidently the supreme enjoyment to strike a chord composed of as many conflicting elements as possible. the pleasure seems to be derived from gratifying the sense of power, the power to compel every possible element of thought to contribute to the spasm. if the theory of reincarnation were generally accepted, the above considerations would make out a strong case. frater perdurabo was quite convinced in one part of his mind of this identity, long before he got any actual memories as such< ii unless one has a

stifiable in some exceptional cases. suppose the magician fail to obtain access to living teachers, or should he need some 197 especial piece of knowledge which he has reason to believe died with some teacher of the past, it may be useful to evoke the "shade" of such a one, or read the "akasic record" of his mind<magician belong to adepts sworn to suffer reincarnation at short intervals, and the best elements of such minds are bound up in the "unconscious self" of the adept, not left to wander idly about the astral plane. it will thus be more profitable to try to get into touch with the "dead teacher" in his present avatar. moreover, adepts are at pains to record their teaching in books, monuments, or pictures, and to appoint spiritual guardians t

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

m, the room musty, smelling of stale food, the hideous prints, the cheap and rickety furniture, calling up any one required from jesus christ to queen victoria, 6* dogme et rituel de la haute magie, by eliphas l vi. 26 all at a bob-a-nob! faugh! let us return to clean air, and analyse l vi's experiment; i believe that by the application of the principles set forth in my other letters on death and reincarnation, it will be simple to explain his partial failure to evoke apollonius. you had better read them over again, to have the matter clear and fresh in your mind. now then, let me call you attention to the extreme care which l vi took to construct a proper magical link between himself and the ancient master. alas! it was rather a case of building with bricks made without straw; he had not

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

e zr is drawled slowly; then the lips are suddenly curled back in a sneering snarl, and the vowel sharply and forcibly uttered. it is disputed whether this word is connected with the sanscrit sri, holy. p4. the same danger to society in our own time has been forseen, and an identical remedy discovered and applied in compulsory education and cheap newspapers. chapter ii: p6. gautama buddha was the reincarnation or legend of a previous buddha who was a missionary from atlas, hence the account of his immovable neck, the ears that he could fold over his face, and other monstrous details. p6. there was a governor of these, of whose name, nature and function i am not permitted to speak. p7. one of the most brilliant children committed suicide on learning that he could not move his upper jaw. thi

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

beyond death; it is merely a pool where he dips for refreshment. we must therefore go back to spartan ideas of education; and the worst enemies of humanity are those who wish, under the pretext of compassion, to continue its ills through the generations. the christians to the lions! let weak and wry productions go back into the melting-pot, as is done with flawed steel castings. death will purge, reincarnation make whole, these errors and abortions. nature herself may be trusted to do this, if only we will leave her alone. but what of those who, physically fitted to live, are tainted with rottenness of soul, cancerous with the sin-complex? for the third time i answer: the christians to the lions! hadith calls himself the star, the star being the unit of the macrocosm; and the snake, the sn

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

without the decency to hang himself. so (i.e, by suddenness of fate) may the truth be flashed out by one blow, and guido see one instant and be saved. else i avert my face nor follow him into that sad obscure sequestered state where god unmakes but to remake the soul he else made first in vain: which must not be* probably a record for a bishop. a.c. this may be purgatory, but it sounds not unlike reincarnation. it is at least a denial of the doctrine of eternal punishment. as for myself, i took the first step years ago, quite in ignorance of what the last would lead to. god is indeed cut away a cancer from the breast of truth. of those philosophers, who from unassailable premisses draw by righteous deduction a conclusion against god, and then for his sake overturn their whole structure by

omotion and defence of the reformed faith of the church of england (the capitals are hers) i think we may accept this statement. she probably knows, and has no obvious reasons for misleading. 487. sattva.66 the buddhists, denying an atman or soul (an idea of changeless, eternal, knowledge, being and bliss) represent the fictitious ego of a man (or a dog) as a temporary agglomeration of particles. reincarnation only knocks off, as it were, some of the corners of the mass, so that for several births the ego is constant within limits; hence the possibility of the magical memory. the sattva is this agglomeration. see my* paganini, a famous violinist. notes 61 science and buddhism, infra, for a full discussion of this point. 518. and.67 note the correct stress upon this word. previously, mr. w

fool; a minimum medical education is in most cases insufficient to abate the symptoms to nil, though perhaps it must always diminish them. the hindu is the sphinx of civilisation; nearly all that has been written on him is worthless; those who know him best know this fact best. a. c. science and buddhism 89 survives death, what does it matter to us? why are we to be so altruistic as to avoid the reincarnation of a being in all points different from ourselves? as the small boy said, what has posterity done for me? but somethin does persist; something changing, though less slowly. what evidence have we after all that an animal does not remember his man-incarnation? or, as levi says, in the suns they remember, and in the planets they forget. i think it unlikely (may be, but in the total abse

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

ortance, under the guise of a symposium, interspersed with beautiful lyrics. no serious student can afford to be without this delightful volume. the second edition is printed on hand-made paper, and bound in white buckram, with cover-design in gold. price ten shillings walter scott publishing co, ltd, and through "the equinox* some press opinions "dr. m. d. eder in "the new age "yours also is the reincarnation and the life, o laughing lion that is to be "here you have distilled for our delight the inner spirit of the tulip's form, the sweet secret mystery of the rose's perfume: you have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all that is sensual 'so also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred my

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 1 2

ortance, under the guise of a symposium, interspersed with beautiful lyrics. no serious student can afford to be without this delightful volume. the second edition is printed on hand-made paper, and bound in white buckram, with cover design in gold. price ten shillings walter scott publishing co. ltd. and through "the equinox" some press opinions "dr. m. d. eder in "the new age""yours also is the reincarnation and the life, o laughing lion that is to be!"here you have distilled for our delight the inner spirit of the tulip's form, the sweet secret mystery of the rose's perfume: you have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all that is sensual.'so also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred my

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 2

is chain of earth refers to the great renunciation of the ego, refusing devachan27 and reassuming incarnation: not to the renunciation of nirvana, which the mere purified man as such is not entitled to. note also that postulant himself now rebukes da th as the second adept did for him in the first point. at this moment the aspirant is not longer dead; he enters again the earth-life, for it is the reincarnation of the soul. but he is as the child unconscious of the adept within him, and knoweth it not. he riseth not yet glorified, but as still upon the cross. themis now takes the cup, or lotus, and dagger, or cross, and the death symbol is dipped in the resurrection symbol, and the marks of lvx are again imprinted on him, as if to seal the prayer of the second adept. the postulant now takes

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 3

ortance, under the guise of a symposium, interspersed with beautiful lyrics. no serious student can afford to be without this delightful volume. the second edition is printed on hand-made paper, and bound in white buckram, with cover-design in gold. price ten shillings walter scott publishing co, ltd, and through "the equinox* some press opinions "dr. m. d. eder in "the new age "yours also is the reincarnation and the life, o laughing lion that is to be "here you have distilled for our delight the inner spirit of the tulip's form, the sweet secret mystery of the rose's perfume: you have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all that is sensual 'so also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred my

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 3

ortance, under the guise of a symposium, interspersed with beautiful lyrics. no serious student can afford to be without this delightful volume. the second edition is printed on hand-made paper, and bound in white buckram, with cover-design in gold. price ten shillings walter scott publishing co, ltd, and through "the equinox* some press opinions "dr. m. d. eder in "the new age "yours also is the reincarnation and the life, o laughing lion that is to be "here you have distilled for our delight the inner spirit of the tulip's form, the sweet secret mystery of the rose's perfume: you have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all that is sensual 'so also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred my

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4

d thy centre out. 217 k thaka upanishad, 5, 15. 218 the book of solemn utterances. the fetish of a slightly higher civilization, namely ethics. he saw that though mankind was tired of being ruled by spirits, they were only too eager to be ruled by virtues, which gave those who maintained these fictitious qualifications a sure standpoint from which to rail at those who had not. therefore he banned reincarnation and soul and substituted in their place transmigration and karma (doing) the sankh r or tendencies that form the character (individuality) of the individual. ananda metteya in "buddhism"219 explains transmigration in contradistinction to reincarnation as follows. two men standing on the shore of a lake witch the waves rolling land-wards. to the one who is unversed in science it appea

out, and matters that have nothing to do with true progress" he then divided life into two compartments; into the first he threw science, learning, philosophy and all things built of words- the toys of life; and into 139 the second the invocations of adonai- the work of attainment. then he took another step forward "do as thou wilt" not only is animism absurd, but so also is morality; not only is reincarnation absurd, but so also is transmigration; not only is the ego absurd, but so also is the non-ego; not only is karma absurd, but so also is nibb na. for, all things and no-things are absurd save "i" who am soul and body, good and evil, sorrow and joy, change and equilibrium; who in the temple of adonai, am beyond all these, and by the fire side in my study- mr. x, one with each and all

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6 2

portance, under the guise of a symposium, interspersed with beautiful lyrics. no serious student can afford to be without this delightful volume. the second edition is printed on hand-made paper, and bound in white buckram, with cover-design in gold. price ten shillings walter scott publishing co. ltd, and through "the equinox- some press opinions dr. m. d. eder in "the new age "yours also is the reincarnation and the life, o laughing lion that is to be "here you have distilled for our delight the inner spirit of the tulip's form, the sweet secret mystery of the rose's perfume: you have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all that is sensual 'so also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred my

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

ulwer lytton, the novelist. soon half a dozen similar societies had sprung up. the members dabbled in magic and witchcraft, blackand white, the former for revenge and even murder, the latter for healing, divination and self-preferment. by the time levi died in 1875, he had paved the way for a renaissance in witchcraft. aleister crowley was born in the same year and he came to consider himself the reincarnation of levi. when crowley was in his twenties he joined the society of the golden dawn, of which w. b. yeats was a member, and he became a skilled magician. before long he was recognized as an incurable practitioner of black witchcraft, by which means he indulged 7 of competent writers have already dealt with this subjectdr margaret murray, for one, in her witch cult in western europe. i

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

shall be found in sea or sky or solid ground. notes l these come from various sources there's no reason to believe that any list of aphorisms is part of the "standard" gardnerian or alexandrian bos. l sources of this list are known to include: m the witches' almanac m the grimoire of lady sheba m wicca the ancient way m paul huson's mastering witchcraft l l add your own; i did--sekhet. the tenets reincarnation learning balance harmony love trust humility tolerance notes l these have become common knowledge in neopaganism, at least in ottawa. they don't seem to be part of the gardneroid stream originally, but some gardneroid traditions have adopted them. l traceable sources include sybil leek's the complete art of witchcraft (the only published source known to me) and the wiccan church of c

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

ect may be studied. in the third subrace a correspondence can be traced, though it is not yet apparent to the circumscribed vision which characterises most of us. close proximity to an effect often veils a cause. 4. the law of magnetic control.82(159) this law is the basic law controlling the spiritual triad. through this law, the force of evolution drives the ego to progress through the cycle of reincarnation back to union with his kind. through separation he finds himself, and then driven by the indwelling buddhic or christ principle transcends himself, and finds himself again in all selves. this law holds the evolving lower self in a coherent form. it controls the ego in the causal body, in the same way that the logos controls the monad on the second plane. it is the law of the buddhic

of avatars, and though it will not be possible for us to expound it fully, as it is one of the most occult and secret of the mysteries, perhaps a little light may be thrown upon this profound subject. for purposes of clarity and in order to elucidate a matter of extreme difficulty to the occidental mind above all (on account of the fact that it has not yet grasped the rationale of the process of reincarnation, it would be wise to divide the differing types of avatars into five groups, bearing in mind that every avatar is a ray, emanated from a pure spiritual source, and that a self-conscious entity only earns the right to this peculiar form of work through a previous series of lives of achievement. 1. cosmic avatars. 2. solar avatars. 3. inter-planetary avatars. 4. planetary avatars. 5. h

e facts are pondered upon it will be apparent that egos come into incarnation therefore not singly but according to group urge, and thus collectively. this is the basis of collective karma, and of family karma. the individual urge, which is, of course, a reaction to group urge, is the result of personal karma. hence, though we may by these reflections, have thrown some light upon this question of reincarnation, we have nevertheless said much to increase the magnitude of the question, and its complexity. average man is confined to the use of the physical brain, and is, therefore, unable to think in group terms. this egoic impulse in any group or any group unit makes itself felt as a pulsation, or access of energy, emanating from the central point. this central activity is produced by the ac

ction and repulsion, or the vibratory response of units to each other, and of aggregates of units to other groups, we shall have the clearing up of many problems and a simplification of life. men will be true to their group affiliations, and the present misgrouping and mismating will gradually, through knowledge, die out. we can now take up the consideration of karma in its relation to the act of reincarnation. as we are well aware, the law of karma is the most stupendous law of the system and one which it is impossible for the average man in any way to comprehend, for, if traced back along its central root and its many ramifications, one eventually reaches the position where causes antedating the solar system have to be dealt with, and this point of view can only be usefully grasped by a

the devas who build man's etheric and dense physical body. by dividing our thoughts into two sections, we may be able to cover the ground somewhat more easily, dealing first with the building devas and the microcosm and then with the lesser builders of the etheric levels. d. the elementals and the microcosm. man and the building devas. man, in the process of evolution, as he pursues the method of reincarnation, works with four types of builders and three major grades of building essence or deva substance- 554- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust he connects with the transmitting devas who are found in connection with the microcosm on the fourth subplane of the mental plane, and on the atomic subplanes of the astral and physical plane. he connects next with the devas concer

hrough various organisations and movements including masonry. he is one of the masters who take pupils. the master h. or hilarion, is a cretan master, is interested in the spiritualistic movement and is responsible for light on the path. 136 53: antahkarana is the lower manas, the path of communication between the personality and the higher manas, or human soul. h. p. blavatsky. 137 54: karma and reincarnation, the fourth and fifth doctrines of the wisdom-religion. these two are, in reality, the a, b, c, of the wisdom-religion. karma is the sum total of our acts, both in the present life and in the preceding births. it is of three kinds- 795- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. sanchita karma 2. prarabdha karma 3. agami karma "sanchita karma includes human merits and de

nciples 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 good deeds, words, and thoughts into this deva-chan 'bad' is a relative term for us as you were told more than once before, and the law of retribution is the only law that never errs. hence all those who have not slipped down into the mire of unredeemable sin and bestiality go to the deva-chan. they will have to pay for their sins, volun

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

l plane vitalises and expedites all thought-forms, and so produces successful enterprise. it is interesting to note that in atlantean days, the word used was tau, enunciated explosively and so forcefully, that the thought-forms thus energised and expedited acted inevitably like a boomerang, and returned to the one who sent them forth. this word tau is likewise, in its symbolic form, the symbol of reincarnation. it is desire for form which produces the use of form and causes cyclic and constant rebirth in form. it was the constant use of the tau likewise, which brought about the final overwhelming with water, which swept away the ancient atlantean civilisation; the few who used the aum in those days were not potent enough to offset the force of desire. the mind bodies of the race could not

ALICE A BAILEY09 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME I ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY I

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

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

an; this is the lesson of the crucifixion and the resurrection: the lower nature must die in order that the higher may be manifested, and the eternal immortal- 123- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust soul in every man must rise from the tomb of matter. it is interesting to trace the idea that men must suffer in this world as the result of sin. in the east, where the doctrines of reincarnation and of karma hold sway, a man suffers for his own deeds and sins and "works out his own salvation, with fear and trembling."29 in the jewish teaching a man suffers for the sins of his forebears and of his nation, and thus gives substance to a truth which is only today beginning to be a known fact the truth of physical inheritance. under the christian teaching, christ, the perfect man

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

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

hology has to recognise eventually- 263- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. the fact of the soul, the integrating agent, the self. 2. the law of opportunity or rebirth. 3. the nature of the inner structure of man and its relation to the outer tangible form. it is interesting to note that practically all the teaching given anent rebirth or reincarnation has emphasised the material phenomenal side though there has always been a more or less casual reference to the spiritual and mental gains acquired in the school of life upon this planet, from incarnation to incarnation. the true nature of the unfolding awarenesses and the growth in the inner consciousness of the true man have been little noted; the gain of each life in added grasp o

hools of psychology. it is not my intention to criticise or attack their theories in any way. they have arrived at a most important and indicative fact the fact of the interior, inner subjective life of humanity, which is based on ancient memories, on present teachings, and on contacts of various kinds. a true understanding of the dream-life of humanity would establish three facts: 1. the fact of reincarnation. 2. the fact of there being some activity during sleep or unconsciousness. 3. the fact of the soul, of that which persists and has continuity. these three facts provide a definite line of approach to the problems which we are considering and they would, if analysed, substantiate the position of the esotericists. the origin of the word "dream" is in itself debateable and nothing reall

chology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust forward the work constructively. theirs is not now the function to organise the men of good will in the world for they insist on labels, on certain exclusions, on working for their organisation more than for humanity, and on the necessity of people to affiliate with them. they emphasise the need to adhere to certain formulated beliefs, such as the doctrine of reincarnation as the basis of brotherhood, or the fact of the masters as the background of the plan, but men of good will can believe all or none of this. such doctrines do not affect their recognition of certain great evolutionary trends, nor the necessity to recognise man's essential relationships. that the service rendered by the groups who have promulgated these ideas is immeasurable and that

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

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

cted in the arcane school, no emphasis is laid on "obeying the master" for no master is running the school. emphasis is laid upon the one master in the heart, the soul, the true spiritual man within each human being; no theology is taught; the student is under no compulsion to accept any interpretation or presentation of truth; he can accept or reject the fact of the masters, of the hierarchy, of reincarnation, or of the soul and still remain a member of the school in good standing. no loyalty is expected or asked, either to the school or to a.a.b. students can work in any of the occult, esoteric, metaphysical or orthodox groups and churches and still be members of the school. they are asked to look upon such activities as fields of service wherein they can express any spiritual help they

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

onwards through form after form, that life in the subhuman kingdoms of nature proceeds progressively from mineral forms into vegetable forms, and from these vegetable forms into animal forms; from the animal form stage, the life of god passes into the human kingdom, and becomes subject to the law of rebirth and not the law of transmigration. to those who know something of the law of rebirth or of reincarnation, the mistake seems ridiculous. the doctrine or theory of reincarnation strikes the orthodox christian with horror; yet if one asks him the question which the disciples asked christ about the blind man "master, did this man sin or his fathers that he was born blind (john ix.2, they refuse the implications; or they express amusement or dismay as the case may be. the presentation to the

told them to "be ye, therefore, perfect, even as your father which is in heaven is perfect (matt. v.48) this time, he will teach men the method whereby this possibility can become accomplished fact through the constant return of the incarnating soul to the school of life on earth, there to undergo the perfecting process of which he was the outstanding example. that is the meaning and teaching of reincarnation. dane rudhyar, in his book new mansions for new men, page 123, gives a satisfying definition of this mysterious cosmic and human process. he says that "the individual structure of the new manifestation is necessarily conditioned by the unfulfillment of the past; by the remains, the failures of the past preserved in the records of nature in the memory of universal substance" the whole

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

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

her influence, for it was undesirable where humanity was concerned. through uranus, leo is related to three other signs of the zodiac: aries, libra and aquarius, and these three constellations, with leo, form what has been called "the subjective quaternary of the reincarnating soul" because they are related to the permanent atoms which persist from life to life and which form during the cycle of reincarnation the repositories or the storing houses of the experiences undergone during life in the three worlds. 1. aries is connected with soul intention, the vibratory activity of which (under impulse from the monad) initiates the successive involutionary periods which produce appearance upon the physical plane. 2. libra is related to the mental unit and, as we saw when studying the sign libra

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

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

l to this greater happening. this has been largely ignored or forgotten because of the intense and selfish interest in personal experience and living, evidenced in the speculative details anent individual return given in the current so-called occult books, most of which are largely inaccurate and certainly unimportant. an intelligent understanding of the plan is needed before the real truth anent reincarnation can emerge with clarity in the public consciousness. groups of souls come into incarnation cyclically- 192- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust and together in order to further the plan and permit that interplay to proceed between spirit and matter which makes manifestation possible and which extends the working out of the divine id

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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

ates simply the sum total of the past. what we are in our next life results from what we have been and done in this. these years were very busy years. the girls were growing up and the boys were coming around. the school was steadily growing and inside myself i was gaining a sense of assurance and a recognition that i had found the work about which k. h. had spoken to me in 1895. the doctrines of reincarnation and of the law of cause and effect had solved the problems of my questioning mind. the hierarchy was known to me. i had been given the privilege of contacting k. h. when i chose, for i could now be trusted to keep my personality affairs out of his ashram and i moved on into greater usefulness in his ashram and, consequently, in the world. the recognition of the tibetan's books throug

unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust no master is running the school. emphasis is laid upon the one master in the heart, the soul, the true spiritual man within each human being. no theology is taught and the student is under no compulsion to accept any interpretation or presentation of truth. a member of the school can accept or reject the fact of the masters, of the hierarchy, of reincarnation, or of the soul and still remain a member of the school in good standing. no loyalty is expected or asked, either to the school or to a.a.b. students can work in any of the occult, esoteric, metaphysical or orthodox groups and churches and still be members of the arcane school. they are asked to look upon such activities as fields of service wherein they can express any spiritual hel

l recognises the fact of the spiritual hierarchy. the school is kept rigidly free from dogmas and doctrines. no one is expected to accept this, that or the other truth; and if they reject what some of us believe and accept, we feel that that is their own business and none of ours. it makes no difference whatsoever in the attitude of the workers at headquarters if a student rejects the doctrine of reincarnation and refuses to believe in the hierarchy and the masters of the wisdom. all we ask is that he investigate the reasons for and against such beliefs and then abide by what he feels to be right. certain beliefs are, however, of such ancient origin that they are generally accepted, either as recognised truths, as basic premises or as interesting hypotheses. this attitude or approach to tr

of god. 8. that the basic law of our universe is to be seen in the manifestation of god as love- 175- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust upon these eight fundamentals all the esoteric teaching rests. there are necessarily subsidiary factors and other presented teachings which the student is asked to study but which he again accepts or not as he likes. such are the teaching on reincarnation, governed by the law of rebirth, the cyclic nature of all manifestation, the nature and aim of the evolutionary process, the existence of the spiritual hierarchy, the existence of the masters and their work, and the nature of consciousness with its various stages of individualised consciousness, self consciousness and spiritual consciousness, demonstrating upon the path of evolution

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

ut of the general mass and steps upon the probationary path, and thus becomes a candidate for discipleship, then the diseases of the flesh and the inharmony of his entire threefold system, plus the conveying stream, constitute a conscious problem and one which the aspirant must himself tackle thus revealing to him the need for conscious, creative building. it is at this point that the doctrine of reincarnation becomes of supreme value; the disciple begins to institute those conditions, to create those forms and build those vehicles which, in another life, will prove more suitable for soul control and more adequate instruments with which to carry forward the perfecting process which the soul demands. let me point out that the disciple does not concentrate upon the physical body at any time

raw the essence back. tire other is the magnetic power of the planetary life which says to the life within the atomic structure: the hour of reabsorption has arrived. return to me. thus, under cyclic law, do all forms act- 148- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust the reference here is to the normal dissolution of the form at the close of a cycle of reincarnation. as we well know. this cycle is determined in the case of man by major psychological factors which can hasten or prolong the "hour of the end" but only up to a certain point. the dictum of the soul and the fiat of the planetary life are the final determining factors, except in the cases of war, accident, suicide or epidemics. the power of absorption with which the planet is endowed i

ces which distinguish humanity. it is only tenable upon the theory of an anthropomorphic deity whose will as it works out in practice gives a present that has no past but only a future; the injustice of this is widely recognised, but the inscrutable will of god must not be questioned. millions still hold this belief, but it is not so strongly held as it was one hundred years ago. 3. the theory of reincarnation, so familiar to all my readers, is becoming increasingly popular in the occident; it has always been accepted (though with many foolish additions and interpretations) in the orient. this teaching has been as much distorted as have the teachings of the christ or the buddha or shri krishna by their narrow-minded and mentally limited theologians. the basic facts of a spiritual origin, o

curious it is to realise that, to the man from eastern countries, the religious people in the west do likewise, and can be seen on their knees before the christian altars bearing statues of the christ, of the virgin mary and of the apostles. the occultists of the world, through the theosophical societies and other occult bodies, so-called, have greatly damaged the presentation of the truth anent reincarnation through the unnecessary, unimportant, inaccurate and purely speculative details which they give out as truths anent the processes of death and the circumstances of man after death. these details are largely dependent upon the clairvoyant vision of astral psychics of prominence in the theosophical society. yet in the scriptures of the world these details are not given, and h.p.b. in t

speech, the death of freedom in human action, the death of truth and of the higher spiritual values. these are the vital factors in the life of humanity. the death of the physical form is a negligible factor in relation to these and is easily righted again through the processes of rebirth and of fresh opportunity..the destruction of the form in battle is of small importance to those who know that reincarnation is a basic law of nature and that there is no death- 260- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust june message, 1940. you say there are as yet only beliefs as to immortality, and no sure evidences. in the accumulation of testimony, in the inner assurances of the human heart, in the fact of belief in eternal persistence as an idea in the mi

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

ght" and no "manifestation of the sons of god" apart from the process of physical incarnation. there can be no fusion of the opposites of soul and personality apart from the physiological processes of sex, and i say this deliberately, for it is in the relation of the sexes that the element of time enters into the experience of the soul, and the understanding of this will come when the doctrine of reincarnation is properly comprehended and taught universally. it is here that sex magic and the inner tantric teachings have gone so woefully astray, and been centralised upon individual development and the attainment of some experience which is presumed to promote spiritual attainment. the underlying idea, governing all that has been given out on the sex relation heretofore, is twofold in its im

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

ll believe me and that what i say may give you a fresh and living grip on life and enough confidence to enable you to make the coming years increasingly fruitful. this has been for you an incarnation wherein certain major happenings have taken place. your soul has, for one thing, taken possession of your personality and gripped your mind (a major determining factor in all processes connected with reincarnation, and has done this in such a way that you will return to incarnation when the time comes with a sense of convinced awareness. secondly, you have stepped upon the path of accepted discipleship and are definitely in preparation for initiation which initiation it is for you to discover. a hint lies for you in the fact that frustration has been the keynote of your personality life, and t

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

form side of life, afraid of death and remaining passive in the face of the death struggle of human liberty, of life, conscience and mind? i tell you that this i cannot do. the hierarchy is very different from this. pacifism, as interpreted by you, has no place in its ranks. the destruction of form in battle (which causes so much fear to many of you) is of small importance to those who know that reincarnation is a basic law of nature and that there is no death. the forces of death are abroad today, but it is the death of liberty, the death of free speech, the death of freedom in human action, the death of truth and of the higher spiritual values. these are the vital factors in the life of humanity; the death of the physical form is a negligible factor in relation to these, and one easily

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

pening when there is an individual revelation is sectarianism; an illustration of sagittarius misused. i had a revelation; god has revealed this, that and the other to me. i immediately impose upon my fellow men my personal interpretation of truth. i see no truth but my truth. i am an aspirant, but all aspirants must interpret truth as i see it; if not, they are not aspirants. you must believe in reincarnation because it is the truth; you must believe in the masters of wisdom because they exist; you must believe this, that and the other. one-pointed, yes. but a little bit of the truth. just so much of the truth as your poor little brain can grasp, and yet such a tremendous revelation to you that you think it is all of the truth. in sagittarius, the first of the great universal signs, we se

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

h franck, 1889, which is more discursive and gives fewer details. many points of the teaching of indian systems of religious philosophy are not touched on by the hebrew system, or are excluded by differences of a fundamental nature: such as the cosmogony of other worlds, unless the destroyed worlds of unbalanced force refer to these; the 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 previ

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

the same time. along with his younger brother, lekden dorj (legs ldan rdo rje; 1512-1625, and a treasure-revealer named rinchen p ntsok ch kyi gyelpo (rin chen phun tshogs chos kyi rgyal po; 1509-1557),41 he reconsecrated samy monastery. ngari pa.chen is considered to have been a great propagator of buddhist wisdom and nyingma teachings.42 chokyur dechen zhikpo lingpa is considered to have been a reincarnation of trisong deutsen s son. he had a vision of padmasambhava at thirteen and was soon after admitted into monastic life as a novice. chokyur lingpa received transmissions and instructions from many teachers of multiple sects, including kagy and nyingma. he discovered and composed the majority of the termas ascribed to him at the age of thirty-nine; however, his discovery of termas 40 f

f deities, see kapstein 2000, pp. 170-176. 41 see guru trashi ngawang lodr 1990, pp. 211, 237-238, 299-301; bradburn, et al. 1995, pp. 216-217; cuevas 2003, pp. 147-148; and dudjom 2002, pp. 676-677 for more on rinchen p ntsok ch kyi gyelpo. 42 this account is a summary of ngari pa.chen s biography available in dudjom 2002, pp. 805-808. 23 started as early as thirteen.43 since chokyur lingpa is a reincarnation from trisong deutsen s line, it is appropriate that he was allowed to redact and possibly transmit the warlord s tantra; the text declares more than once that only those who are of trisong deutsen s line can transmit its instructions without detrimental consequences. establishing these concepts now will allow the following deeper analysis to develop without the constant repetition or

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

in the first manvantara seven celebrated sons of vasishta, who in the third manvantara, were sons of brahma (i.e, rishis, the illustrious progeny of urja" this is plain: the humanity of the first manvantara is that of the seventh and of all the intermediate ones. the mankind of the first root-race is the mankind of the second, third, fourth, fifth, etc. to the last it forms a cyclic and constant reincarnation of the monads belonging to the dhyan chohans of our planetary chain[[vol. 2, page] 147 agreement of dates. on globe a in the first round (b) as the "seed of life" on globe d in the fourth round; and (c) as the "seed of man" at the beginning of every root-race- in our fifth race especially. the very commencement of the latter witnesses, during the dvapara yuga* the destruction of the

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[[vol. 2, page] 256 the secret doctrine. but we would ask, what d

he secret idea attached to it. for the scarabaeus is called in egypt (in the papyri) khopirron and khopri from the verb khopron "to become" and has thus been made a symbol and an emblem of human life and of the successive becomings of man, through the various peregrinations and metempsychoses (reincarnations) of the liberated soul. this mystical symbol shows plainly that the egyptians believed in reincarnation and the successive lives and existences of the immortal entity. being, however, an esoteric doctrine, revealed only during the mysteries by the priest-hierophants and the kings-initiates to the candidates, it was kept secret. the incorporeal intelligences (the planetary spirits, or creative powers) were always represented under the form of circles. in the primitive philosophy of the

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

ret doctrine. antiphrasis as illusive and mayavic. for although the root of every atom individually and of every form collectively, is that seventh principle or the one reality, still, in its manifested phenomenal and temporary appearance, it is no better than an evanescent illusion of our senses (see, for clearer definition, addendum "gods, monads and atoms" and also "theophania "bodhisatvas and reincarnation" etc, etc) in its absoluteness, the one principle under its two aspects (of parabrahmam and mulaprakriti) is sexless, unconditioned and eternal. its periodical (manvantaric) emanation- or primal radiation- is also one, androgynous and phenomenally finite. when the radiation radiates in its turn, all its radiations are also androgynous, to become male and female principles in their lo

ower planes of the world of formation (the three others belonging to the archetypal universe. out of these seven only one, the lowest and the most material of those globes, is within our plane or means of perception, the six others lying outside of it and being therefore invisible to the terrestrial eye. every such chain of worlds is the progeny and creation of another, lower, and dead chain- its reincarnation, so to say. to make it clearer: we are told of the planets- of which seven only were held as sacred, as being ruled by the highest regents or gods, and not at all because the ancients knew nothing of the others- that each of these, whether known or unknown, is a septenary, as is the chain to which the earth belongs (see "esoteric[[footnote(s* see the note which follows the commentary

at cycle- i.e, after the middle point of the fourth race in the fourth round on our globe- no more monads can enter the human kingdom. the door is closed for this cycle and the balance struck. for were it otherwise- had there been a new soul[[vol. 1, page] 183 man, the oldest son of the earth. created for each of the countless milliards of human beings that have passed away, and had there been no reincarnation- it would become difficult indeed to provide room for the disembodied "spirits" nor could the origin and cause of suffering ever be accounted for. it is the ignorance of the occult tenets and the enforcement of false conceptions under the guise of religious education, which have created materialism and atheism as a protest against the asserted divine order of things. the only excepti

tem. of the seven principles or the "seven souls of man* the book of the dead gives a complete list of the "transformations" that every defunct undergoes, while divesting himself, one by one, of all those principles- materialised for the sake of clearness into ethereal entities or bodies. we must, moreover, remind those who try to prove that the ancient egyptians knew nothing of and did not teach reincarnation, that the "soul (the ego or self) of the defunct is said to be living in eternity: it is immortal "co-eval with, and disappearing with the solar boat" i.e, for the cycle of necessity. this "soul" emerges from the tiaou (the realm of the cause of life) and joins the living on earth by day, to return to tiaou every night. this expresses the periodical existences of the ego (book of the

odies, 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 hardly fail to recognise either an inspiring external power, or the reincarnation which the occultists see in it. it fills a gap which newton, with all his genius, failed to bridge. and surely it is our primeval matter, akasa, that kant had in view, when proposing to solve newton's difficulty and his failure to explain, by the natural forces, the primitive impulse imparted to the planets, by the postulation of a universally pervading primordial substance. for, as

(de placit. philos) the revolution produced in old chemistry by avogadro was the first page in the volume of new chemistry. mr. crookes has now turned the second page, and is boldly pointing to what may be the last. for once protyle accepted and recognized- as invisible ether was, both being logical and scientific necessities- chemistry will have virtually ceased to live: it will reappear in its reincarnation as new alchemy, or metachemistry. the discoverer of[[vol. 1, page] 623 the genesis of atoms. radiant matter will have vindicated in time the archaic aryan works on occultism and even the vedas and puranas. for what are the manifested "mother" the "father-son-husband (aditi and daksha, a form of brahma, as creators) and the "son- the three "firstborn- but simply hydrogen, oxygen, and

BLUE EQUINOX

rade, therefore, the commentator is in a bog of quandary which makes flanders mud seem like polished granite. he can only do his poor best, leaving it very much to the intelligence of each reader to get just what he needs. these remarks are peculiarly applicable to the present treatise; for the issues are presented in so confused a manner that one almost wonders whether madame blavatsky was not a reincarnation of the woman with the issue of blood familiar to readers of the gospels. it is astonishing and distressing to notice how the lanoo, no the equinox 4 matter what happens to him, soaring aloft like the phang, and sailing gloriously through innumerable gates of high initiation, nevertheless keeps his original point of view, like a bourbon. he is always getting rid of illusions, but, lik

BOOK OF PLEASURE

edge, or power, that cannot find "natural" expression, can by sigils and the book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 34 their formula find fulfilment from the sub-consciousness. sigils are the means of guiding and uniting the partially free belief*(2) with an organic desire, its carriage and retention till its purpose served in the sub-conscious self, and its means of reincarnation in the ego. all thought can be expressed by form in true relation. sigils are monograms of thought, for the government of energy (all heraldry, crests, monograms, are sigils and the karmas they govern, relating to karma; a mathematical means of symbolising desire and giving it form that has the virtue of preventing any thought and association on that particular desire (at the magical

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

get as much out of this material as did my previous students- bright blessings raymond buckland san diego, california introduction lesson one 1 the history and philosophy of witchcraft history and development. persecutions. re-emergence. the philosophy of witchcraft. principles of wiccan belief. the power within. spells and charms. lesson two 13 beliefs deities; the god and goddess of witchcraft; reincarnation; retribution; between lives. your temple. your altar and its furniture. magick an introduction. lesson three 27 tools, clothing and names working tools; knife; marking in metal; sword; other tools; dress; jewelry; horned helmet. inscriptions. your witch name. lesson four 41 getting started rites of passage. circles. self-dedication. coven initiation. lesson five 53 covens and rituals

f the fight, hearhden raised his mighty club. then sped loki away. great was the joy of freya when hearhden placed brosingamene once more about her snow-white neck. great were the cries of joy from dreun and above. great were the thanks that freya, and all men, gave to the gods for the return of brosingamene" the tree: the complete book of saxon witchcraft raymond buckland, samuel weiser, ny 1974 reincarnation reincarnation is an ancient belief. it is part of many religions (hinduism and buddhism, for example) and was even one of the original christian tenets, until condemned by the second council of constantinople in 553. it is believed that the human spirit, or soul, is a fragment of the divine and eventually it will return to its divine source. but, for its own evolution, it is necessar

ill return to its divine source. but, for its own evolution, it is necessary that the soul experience all things in life. it seems the most sensible, most logical, explanation of much that is found in life. why should one person be born into a rich family and another into poverty? why should one be born crippled, another fit and strong. if not because we must all eventually experience all things. reincarnation seems the most logical explanation of child prodigies. a musical genius, composing concertos at the age of five (as did mozart, is obviously carrying-over knowledge from one lifetime into the next. this does not usually happen, but it can. in the same way, homosexuality might well be explained through reincarnation: a person male in one lifetime and then female in the next (or vice v

of five (as did mozart, is obviously carrying-over knowledge from one lifetime into the next. this does not usually happen, but it can. in the same way, homosexuality might well be explained through reincarnation: a person male in one lifetime and then female in the next (or vice versa) might have carried over feelings and preferences from one life to the next. for someone who does not believe in reincarnation, it is difficult to understand the death of a child. what was the point of the child living at all, if only for a few short years? for the reincarnationist it is obvious that the child had learned all that had been set to be learned in that particular lifetime and so was moving on. a very good simile for this is the grades of a school. you enter school in a low grade and learn the ba

ccasionally 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 so often attributed to reincarnation (though by no means is reincarnation 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

ation? one possibility, of course, is that we not only experience lives here on earth, but also on other planets and in other reality systems. who knows. perhaps we go through the cycle here having already been through it a dozen times or more on other worlds. there is obviously much food for thought, very little (if any) proof of preferences and great scope for new tenets. retribution along with reincarnation go thoughts of karma. karma is usually thought of as a reward-and-punish-ment system stretching throughout all lifetimes: if you do evil in one life you will have to pay for it in the next. however, it seems that there is always talk of "karmic debts" and "karmic punishments" but seldom of "karmic rewards. the witchcraft view seems to make more sense. first of all there is a wiccan b

ring the waxing cycle and magick for destruction is done during the waning cycle. constructive magick would include such things as love, success, protection, health, fertility. destructive magick would include such things as binding spells, separation, elimination, now answer the examination questions for this lesson in appendix b 1. this lesson deals with beliefs. examine your present beliefs on reincarnation. do you have any past-life memories? 2. construct/draw an altar table. indicate what will be placed on it, and show their arrangement. altar 3. construct a diagram of a temple which would be ideal for your needs. indicate the area which would best reflect your affinities (outside, inside. what actual items would you like it to contain? make this a realistic layout of what your temple

each the history of our craft. teach her/him to strive for that perfection which all desire and, when the time is right, hope but do not press that s/he joins with us and becomes truly one of our beloved family" parents "all this will we do. so do we pledge" priest and priestess "we bid welcome to.(name" all "welcome" then shall follow the ceremony of cakes and ale. because of the craft belief in reincarnation, death is a time for celebration rather than grief. death signifies the completion of a learning period. the individual has "graduated" and will be going on to other things. this should be celebrated. sorrow, then, is a sign of selfishness. we are sorry for ourselves, that we have been left behind, without the love and companionship of one dear to us. there are no hard and fast teach

g: the cod of the witches dr. margaret a. murray witches: investigating an ancient religion t.c. lethbridge the devil in massachusetts marion starkey lesson two 1. study the two goddess myths given in the lesson and examine their symbolism. in the saxon myth of freya, what does the necklace brosingamene represent? 2. what are the three essentials of magick? 3. have the christians ever believed in reincarnation? 4. according to craft beliefs, if you do an injury to someone (a) will you be able to wait till after death before being punished (b) does that mean the same injury will be done to you in your next life? 5. imagine that you share an apartment with a roommate who is not in the craft. you have your own bedroom but must share kitchen and living-room. is it possible to have your own tem

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

either progress us towards spiritual perfection- if good- or indicate, if bad, that we need 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 esba

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

ent vi imprisons the catalan alchemist john of rupescissa 1357 hortulanus' commentary on the emerald tablet of hermes 1358 francesco petrarch discussed alchemy in de remediis utriusque fortunae c1360-c1450 plethon, george gemisthos. taught philosophy at constantinople and studied zoroastrianism, as well as occult teachings, with eliseus, a learned jewish scholar. his followers regarded him as the reincarnation of plato. 1362 d. john of roquetaillade 1363-1437 niccoli, niccol c.1365 judah ben nissim ibn malka(moroccan. commentary on sefer yetsirah mentions that students of this book were given a magical mansucript named "sefer raziel" to study. 1365-1393 "sefer yetzirah "l" paris 764 (1, foll. 1a-3a. paper, written in spanish (n. africa (gruenwald, 136) 1370 william langland's piers plowman

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

evolved into a religious system involving many 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 se

any animals, including the deer, ox, dragon, and horse. a peaceful, timid animal, the chi-lin left the innocent alone, but when angered, gored evil people with its horn. trustworthy soldiers and fair judges wore the emblem of the chi-lin on their clothing to remind them of their duties. in the fourteenth century, a real giraffe was sent to the imperial court, and many observers claimed it was the reincarnation of the mythical chi-lin. chinese mythology 86 once there was a very kind woman named cheng who lived in shandong province in northwestern china. loved and respected by everyone, she longed desperately for a child. night and day, she prayed for a son. however, her husband scolded her for wanting another mouth to feed. once he had been a nobleman, but he had lost all his money. afterwa

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 lasted seventeen years. he

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

ped building the city. the city was called babylon, because there the lord mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth" genesis, 11:1-9 christianity sees those people in a highly negative light when, i believe, it was actually the other way around. they were rebelling against the control. after atlantis, other civilisations began to emerge from the reincarnation of atlantean consciousness. the knowledge they passed on through the generations, and extraterrestrial intervention, was both positive and negative. there was the civilisation called sumer in mesopotamia (now iraq, which developed alongside the birth of the brotherhood 23 the tigris and euphrates rivers. sumer is believed to have originated from around 6000bc, although such figures m

ll harriman. she was a leading fundraiser for bill clinton and became us ambassador to paris. the pyramid power 181 agnelli family were closely connected with mussolini, and giovanni's grandfather was made a senator for life by the fascist leader. some families of the black nobility in venice and rome claim an ancestry back to the roman emperor justinian, a man reputed to have taken references to reincarnation out of the biblical texts in the year 553. they have a desire to return to a system symbolised by the roman empire and they are a major force within the global elite. this 'noble' line would appear to go back at least a thousand years, probably far longer, and emerged in part through the guelf and ghibelline conflicts in italy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. guelf came from

positioned on the top. mossad and the cia were the prime agencies involved, i believe, right down to the driver of kennedy's car, agent william greer. the basic training of all drivers in intelligence agencies and security firms all over the world is: if you hear shots, your right foot hits the floor, and you get the hell out of the area as fast as the car will move. greer stopped! maybe he was a reincarnation of the guy who drove the archduke ferdinand. john and bobby kennedy were clearly bad news for the elite for some reason, probably more than one. jfk's was a bilderberg group presidency, as carter's was a trilateral commission administration. kennedy, as far as i know, was not a bilderberger, but many of his leading staff were. dean rusk, george w. ball, mcgeorge bundy, arthur dean, w

id of the people, and the robot radicals and the robot right are the same as all the rest. new age- or the old age revisited? the inflexibility of thought i am addressing here can be found in all areas of 'alternative' thinking and lifestyles, including that which is known as the new age. significant parts of the new age are, i believe, becoming little more than another religion which believes in reincarnation and it is seeking to impose its gathering dogma on others. i have been fascinated to experience how those who speak of freedom of thought and expression really mean freedom of thought and expression which agrees with their own. this is what the old thinking does, as revealed by the robot radicals, and yet here the old thinking is packaged as new thinking for a new age. i feel we have

ected by it under a thought-bombardment from the fourth dimension. those atlantean volunteers who allowed their vibratory state to fall below that of the jamming frequency, found themselves trapped and unable to leave until they had, through experience, raised their frequency again to a level that allowed them to escape. they, like the rest of the prisoners, embarked on a cycle of incarnation and reincarnation trying to create experiences and learning that would restore them to a state of love and enlightenment that would open the vibratory door. those who managed it were said, in symbolic language, to have 'ascended' to the 'father. such an achievement was extremely difficult because the consciousness within the prison was delinked from its powerful connection with the higher consciousnes

xperiences and learning that would restore them to a state of love and enlightenment that would open the vibratory door. those who managed it were said, in symbolic language, to have 'ascended' to the 'father. such an achievement was extremely difficult because the consciousness within the prison was delinked from its powerful connection with the higher consciousness outside. this has created the reincarnation cycle, which, for some, i believe, involves incarnating with little pattern or plan. the dense physical world has become like a drug with minds- souls- attracted to certain lifestyles and experiences like a cocaine addict is consumed by his or her addiction. i am sure that many of the people i call the elite have had scores of physical lifetimes in which they pursued the same pattern

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

issionaries were bewildered by the fact that the religion was "christian" in virtually every aspect except one: they did not worship jesus and had never heard of him. the "thomas" they were worshipping was tammuz, the hero of the "jesus" story for thousands of years before christianity. signs of tammuz/thomas worship have been found in india where, acharya tells us, he was apparently considered a reincarnation of buddha! the villain of the jesus story is judas, who represents scorpio, the "backbiter, the time of year when the sun is weakening and appears to be dying. he was portrayed with red hair- the colour of sunset- and so was the egyptian figure, set, who sought to kill horus. judas is supposed to have betrayed jesus for 30 pieces of silver. this represents the 30 days of the moon cyc

attain consciousness, and continue to seek to unite with other consciousness. by this time, we are what i call light balls- our truest conscious nature. just as in darwin's evolution, we develop into more than just a light ball. but this does not happen over millions of years. rather it happens in a single moment of clarity, a flash of consciousness. the vehicle for this transformative growth is reincarnation "so those that people call the reptiles got to the reptile level of development and stopped. some go on [and evolve beyond that. those who continue to take the reptile form do so because of the limitations of what they believe their options are- they're creating their own reality. also, for those at that level, it isn't that they don't know. it is indeed their sheer pleasure in self

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

one for romancatholics.most christians could not understand what it said because they didnt read latin, butthey could rely on the priests to tell them what it said they should do. people werecondemned and killed for the crime of translating the bible into english because doingso allowed millions to actually read the texts the priests were using to control andterrify them. in 553 ad, the belief in reincarnation was outlawed at the second synodcouncil of constantinople under the influence of the emperor justinian. the councildecided, without the attendance of the pope, that: if anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, lethim be. excommunicated. the monstrous doctrine was that we live forever on aneternal journey of evo

uncildecided, without the attendance of the pope, that: if anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, lethim be. excommunicated. the monstrous doctrine was that we live forever on aneternal journey of evolution through experience and we are all responsible for ouractions in this physical life or a future one. an acceptance of reincarnation took awaythe power of the heaven or hell mob to frighten people into doing as they, sorry, god,said. the knowledge continued to be sucked from the public domain. after constantinethe great, came other emperors who influenced the course of the fast emergingchristian creed. among them was theodosius who made christianity the officialreligion of the empire in 380. the power of the men i

d more enlightened, to bemasters of ourselves. our choice is how much of this experience we need before welearn and move on. are we going to change now or do we require more wars, hunger,and suffering, before the light bulb flashes? are we going to walk through the fast-approaching gateway to a whole new state of being? or are we going to stay where weare and face another cycle of incarnation and reincarnation until another opportunitycomes? the reptilian group i have highlighted are deeply imbalanced because they arefiguw 64: when people are conditioned to close down theirconsciousness they delink from their eternal soul and all the love,wisdom, knowledge and inspiration waiting to be tapped. it is not thatwe need to seek enlightenment- we are enlightened. we just need toremove the barrie

DEITUS

nist says, why worship a god someone else has created, and which represents someone else s ego, when you can recognize a god of your own creation a god which has your best interests at heart. the satanic view considers satan as an archetype, a symbol of carnality as opposed to spirituality. the satanist realizes that it is the overpowering fear of death which causes man to create heaven and hell, reincarnation, and all of the other fairy stories which deal with life beyond death. there is only the flesh. satanists, therefore, delight in the pleasures of the flesh and in the joys that this world has to offer, and scoff at those who reject what they have been given for the hope for some illusory reward beyond death. satanically speaking, churches are businesses which offer their followers th

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

ng: a method for seeking out material objects, and living beings, usually with the use of a "fork" or other instrumental aid. druidism: an ancient celtic brotherhood of scholarly priests that underwent a modern revival in minnesota in the early 1960's. druids worship in groups called groves (q.v) and venerate the goddess through trees, especially the oak. like modern witches (q.v, they believe in reincarnation- e- earth: 1) one of the five magickal elements. it has the qualities of coolness and dryness. the element of the north. 2) one of the planetsof the solar system. the planet that all human beings are from. eastern occultism: the magickal systems of india, china, tibet, japan, and other nations of the far east. it's range is roughly coequal with that of buddhism (q.v. in the late 1800

law states that you get back what you give out. a very important concept in hindu philosophy that is used to justify apparent injustices in the world. according to the law of karma every action, however small, has its inescapable consequences. sooner or later each good action is repaid by good, and each evil action is repaid by evil. some occultists believe that it may take many lifetimes [as in reincarnation (q.v] to work out your karma. the hebrew term for this concept is "tikoon" pronounced "tee-koon. kerux/ kerukians: from the greek meaning "a herald "pursuivant, or "public messenger" originally, an officer whose duty it was to summon the members of the general assembly. the kerux was originally a political office, but was eventually made a religious office with the responsibility of

ords include: emotion, response, feelings, reflected, changeable, fluctuate, protective, mother, nurture, instinctual, domestic, home, care, subconscious memory, parenting, environment, security, babyhood, public opinion, the public, masses, women. luria, isaac: famous jewish kabbalist. his prayers form part of standard jewish prayer books to this day. one of his major interests was said to be in reincarnation and the doctrine of the transmigration of souls- m- macrocosm: the greater world, or universe. distinguished from the microcosm (q.v, with which it corresponds. magick [magic: definitions of this term vary widely. 1) the art of causing change in the manifest world through the unmanifest. 2) the science and art of causing change (in reality or in consciousness) to occur in conformity

ression, past life: a hypnotic technique in which a person in trance 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 t

s ruach eloheem (q.v. it is seen as feminine in nature. similar to the tantrik notion of shakti (q.v. sheeol: pronounced "shee-ool" it is the hebrew for "place of the earth" a word from the old testament meaning ground or earth. in some instances it was translated as "hell" probably for political reasons. according to donald michael kraig, there is no hell in the kabalah because he maintains that reincarnation is a part of the tradition. shin: pronounced "sheen" it is a letter of the hebrew alphabet. the letter shin "a" is used to indicate the ruach eloheem (q.v. when added to the tetragrammaton it forms the pentagrammaton, showing how we can purify ourselves by uniting and bringing the spirit of divinity within ourselves. showstone: a crystal ball or globe used for divination and scrying

DONALDTYSON CORONZON

so inland from algiers, in a mountainous desert region- the elevation is between three thousand and six thousand feet above sea level in that part of the country. it must have been a physically demanding undertaking to go into the desert and invoke spirits, but the desert places of the world have always been the best places to communicate with spirits of dubious origins. crowley fancied himself a reincarnation of edward kelley, whom he idolized, insofar as crowley was capable of placing any historical figure on a pedestal. victor neuberg, a strange masochistic follower of crowley, was regarded by crowley as fulfilling the role of john dee, who wrote down the original enochian communications dictated by kelley. crowley never understood that the enochian communications were focused entirely

DONALDTYSON GHOSTS

of people from all nations around the world and all periods in human history report seeing them under more or less similar circumstances? the question you should be asking yourself is, granted that ghosts exist- what are they? the most important thing to know about ghosts is that they are not the souls of dead people returned to communicate with the living. dead is dead. unless you believe in the reincarnation of the lower soul with the memories of its past lives intact, there is no coming back (i do not believe in the reincarnation of the personality and memory. neither are ghosts physically present when you see them. they are present in the astral world which always overlaps the physical world. you see a ghost when, for various reasons, the separation between the two levels of reality be

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

bibliography (1990. in 1983 he won the robert h. ashby memorial award offered annually by the academy of religion and psychical research. sources: anderson, roger i. cahagnet s contribution to psychical research. theta 12, 4 (1983: 74. channeling. journal of religion and psychical research vol. 19 (1988: 5. contemporary survival research: a critical review. parapsychology review vol. 12 (1981: 5. reincarnation: can christianity accommodate it? journal of religion and psychical research vol. 9 (1985: 189. swedenborg on the modus operandi of spirit communication. parapsychology review vol. 13 (1982: 6. berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. andrae, johann valentin (1586.1654) johann valentin andrae, the ge

ters, who constituted the great brotherhood of cosmic light (termed by some the great white brotherhood, the spiritual hierarchy that mediates divine energies to humanity. many of the sessions during which rhinehart channeled messages from the masters have been recorded, transcribed, printed, and were distributed to the foundations s various centers. the brotherhood affirmed a belief in karma and reincarnation, the evolution of the soul, the law of cause and effect, and the eventual attainment of personal mastery. among those contacted by rhinehart were saint germain, master morya, sanat kumara, and djual khul (all prominent figures in theosophy and the i am movement. also included among the masters were the angel moroni (the angel who gave the book of mormon to joseph smith jr, mahatma gh

ing, 1988. association for the alignment of past life experience the association for the alignment of past life experience grew out of the work of morris netherton, a pioneer practitioner of past life therapy. he began his career as a psychological counselor with the los angeles county probation department for 14 years before moving into private practice. here he was able to work with the idea of reincarnation and previous embodied lives as a tool in psychotherapy. in 1978 he wrote the original book on regression therapy, past life therapy, that included accounts of people who had been regressed to birth and/or to a previous existence as part of their healing treatment. continued work with regression therapy led him to develop what is now known as the netherton method of past life therapy

etherton method. it is the assumption of the netherton method that one s current life can be enriched by knowledge of one s past life experiences. netherton does not use any formal hypnotic induction, but relies upon the existence of hypnotic states that remain in the patient from prior traumatic experiences and are still unresolved in the present. while it is netherton s opinion that a belief in reincarnation is not necessary to successfully use his method, it is also his opinion that those undergoing therapy should integrate personal religious beliefs with the techniques and procedures. such integration allows the process to be experienced fully by all aspects of the self. for some people, the experiences of past life therapy may lead to a radical change in spiritual perspectives. the as

ity founded in 1951 by robert and earlyne chaney, both former spiritualists. as a young medium, robert chaney had been active in the spiritualist community in the midwest in the 1930s and 1940s and was one of the founders of the spiritualist episcopal church in 1941. he became somewhat alienated from spiritualism after reading theosophical and hermetic literature and accepting some ideas, such as reincarnation, he discovered there. reincarnation was still a very controversial idea in spiritualism at the time. meanwhile, earlyne chaney, who had been a clairvoyant since childhood, had held conversations with a spirit being who called himself kut-hu-mi. she later discovered this being described in theosophical literature. kut-hu-mi told chaney that she had been selected for a special task.tea

er moving to chicago, atkinson became deeply involved in hinduism and saw in yogic philosophy a parallel to his new thought teachings. in 1903, under the pseudonym swami ramacharaka, atkinson issued his first hindu text, fourteen lessons in yoga philosophy and oriental occultism. it was followed by the advanced course in yogi philosophy (1904, hindu yogi science of breath (1904, hatha yoga (1905, reincarnation and the law of karma (1908, and eight more. as popular as the new thought books were, those books atkinson wrote as swami ramacharaka have proved more enduring. they have remained in print to the present and have become important texts introducing westerners to hindu thought and practice. atkinson remained active as a writer and editor into the 1920s. he wrote regularly for the nauti

r application. chicago: psychic research, 1902. the new thought: its history and principles; or, the message of new thought. holyoke, mass: elizabeth towne, 1915. thought force: in business and everyday life. 1900. 18th ed. new york: sydney flower, 1903. swami ramacharaka [william walker atkinson. fourteen lessons in yogi philosophy and oriental occultism. chicago: yogi publication society, 1903. reincarnation and the law of karma. yogi publication society, 1908. atlanta astrologer monthly newsletter of the metropolitan atlanta astrological society; includes news of local membership, psi phenomena, and book reviews. address: po box 12075, atlanta, ga 30305. the atlanteans see friends of runnings park atlantis a mythical island continent said to have existed in the atlantic ocean in ancient

merschstrasse 49, d-4715 ascheberg 2, germany. atreya, bhikhan lal (1897.1967) professor of philosophy at banaras hindu university, india. dr. atreya made a special study of the yogavasishtha, an important hindu mystical scripture, and wrote several books about it. he also wrote on parapsychology in the journal of the banaras hindu university. he took special interest in poltergeist phenomena and reincarnation and assisted the researches of prof. ian stevenson into certain cases suggestive of reincarnation. attunement attunement is a spiritual healing technique developed in the early 1930s by lloyd meeker (d. 1954. it appears that in the 1920s he had come across some forms of magnetic healing which launched his own speculations concerning the nature of spiritual healing. he began working a

name. his paintings have considerable artistic merit. augustine lesage, the french miner painter, produced his first work in 1918 at the age of 35 after attending some seances. in 10 years he produced 57 canvases, the conceptions of which are harmonious and suggest an innate genius for color. he always began at the top of the canvas and worked his way down. lesage, who believed himself to be the reincarnation of an old egyptian painter, experienced an inner prompting before he began to paint. in 1926 the society of french artists exhibited some of his works. marjan gruzewski, the polish painting medium, experienced a preponderant subconscious life from early childhood. at school his hand would write something other than what had been dictated; if he tried to write what he was told to do

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

ar hiatus as an entertainer, she returned to the theatrical stage in a gypsy in my soul, which attracted rave reviews. by 1983 she had appeared in some 35 movies. her third autobiographical book, out on a limb (1983, described a spiritual odyssey that developed from her world travels. it is a heady exploration of new age beliefs, including meditation, psychic healing, channeling of spirit guides, reincarnation, ufos, extraterrestrials, and out-of-the-body travel. if at times the book appears naive, it is redeemed by its transparent honesty and sincerity and a deep desire for a spiritual framework to life. the book became the basis for a fivehour prime-time abc-tv mini-series. her inner search continued in her book dancing in the light (1985, in which she stated: i like to think of dancing

health, and a fellow of the american psychiatric association and the american society of clinical hypnosis. his interest in intuition, clairvoyance, and mediumship prompted him to join the american society for psychical research. macrobert published many articles on medical, psychiatric, and neurological subjects, as well as articles in parapsychology, including the chapter something better than reincarnation in the book reincarnation (1956) and the preface to r. dewitt miller s book you do take it with you (1956. he died on july 10, 1967, of cancer. sources: macrobert, russell g. current attitudes of american neuropsychiatrists towards parapsychology. journal of parapsychology (november 1948. hallucinations of the sane. journal of insurance medicine 5, no. 3 (1950. psychiatry and intuiti

earch (dutch society for psychical research. contributor of articles to astronomy journals, he won the van de bilt gold medal for the best amateur astronomical observations in 1950. he studied telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychokinesis and took part in experiments (with jan kappers, a. h. de jong, and f. v. d. berg) to test clairvoyance quantitatively. he also studied the question of evidence for reincarnation. sources: pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. malachite a precious stone (a variety of topaz) of basic copper carbonate. folklore held that it preserved the cradle of an infant from spells. malachy prophecies st. malachy o more was a medieval bishop who is said to have foretold the succession of 112 popes, from celestinus ii

ymbols. he subsequently claimed to have analyzed the universe, which he understood in a set of logical chains of thought readily accessible to the intelli- martin, dorothy r(andolph) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 984 gence. among the principles he discovered, for example, was that life is eternal and manifests in alternate periods of physical and spiritual existence (that is, reincarnation. martinus s teachings are summarized in his two books, livets bog (the book of life) and the eternal world picture. in 1935 he opened what has become the organization s primary center at the seaside resort town of klint. the work was slowed somewhat by world war ii, but by the 1960s affiliated centers had opened in germany, holland, sweden, and great britain. kosmos, the institute s

y, holland, sweden, and great britain. kosmos, the institute s magazine, appears in danish, german, french, english, swedish, esperanto, spanish, and dutch editions. the institute may be contacted c/o mariendalsvej 94.96, 2000 frederiksberg, denmark. website: http/ www.martinus.dk. sources: martinus. the immortality of living beings. copenhagen, denmark: martinus institute, 1970. the principle of reincarnation. copenhagen, denmark: martinus institute, 1938. the road to initiation. copenhagen, denmark: martinus institute, 1957. martiny, m(arcel (1897) physician with special interests in parapsychology. he was born on november 11, 1897, in nice, france, and studied at the faculte de medecine, universite de paris (m.d. with honors, 1925. he worked for the rockefeller institute mission during

er spirits who had formerly controlled stainton moses. from that time, and especially after 1900, the interest of the sittings declined, and they offered less material for the investigator. another automatic medium, helene smith, came under the observation of theodore flournoy. smith s trance utterances were spoken in what was claimed to be the martian language, and she believed herself to be the reincarnation of marie antoinette and a hindu princess. in his discovery of a more mundane explanation of smith s phenomena, flournoy made her one of the most notable mediums in the history of psychical research, if not spiritualism. healing mediums the diagnosis and cure of disease were extensively practiced by spiritualist mediums, following in the path of the older somnambulist and magnetic hea

bliss. after that, he devoted his life to religious teaching, usually expressed in a rather erratic fashion, involving journeys with disciples that apparently led nowhere, or in searching out the eccentric and sometimes deranged wandering monks of india. in 1921 he established an ashram devoted largely to philanthropic work. he had contact with sai baba, of whom satya sai baba is claimed to be a reincarnation. in 1925 meher baba entered upon a period of silence, conversing or giving lectures with an alphabet board. he often prophesied in this way that he would one day speak the one word that would bring spiritualization and love to the world, but he died january 31, 1969, without utterance. many believe that his prophecy may have been symbolic, like his mysterious life itself, and devotee

of such things. the term never became popular and largely passed out of use in favor of anomalistics (see also occidental society of metempiric analysis) metempsychosis (or transmigration of souls) from the greek meta, after, and empsychos, to animate, the belief that after death, the soul passes into another body, either human or animal. in ancient greece it was roughly equivalent to the idea of reincarnation. the idea seems to have originated in egypt but to have first been advocated by pythagoras around 455 b.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 attai

d the leaders of the christian church. irenaeus, the second century bishop of lyons, wrote at length against the gnostics in his pacesetting contra heresies and singled out metempsychosis as an idea that was incompatible with christianity. the church has essentially followed irenaeus s lead in its con- metals encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1030 sideration of metempsychosis and reincarnation. origen, a christian theologian of the third century with a platonic background, tried to defend some aspects of the metempsychosis doctrine, primarily the prior existence of the soul, but soon gave up, having found the idea contrary to the new testament teachings. metempsychosis found its last great philosophical defender in plotinus (205.270 c.e, the neoplatonic philosopher. he saw

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

u 61 photograph of chief joseph by edward curtis (corbis) perimenting with trance mediumship. in this state he heard from chung fu, a spirit guide who in his last physical incarnation was a student of lao-tzu in china. in 1970, lever and his wife, quinta, established the circle of inner truth to facilitate chung fu s teachings, which focused on spiritual development as the way to break out of the reincarnation cyc l e. these efforts included such quotidian matters as diet, health care, and psychological we l l- being, on which chung fu would offer guidance in sittings with individuals. the levers traveled widely, abandoning any permanent residence, to work for chung fu. inner circles took roots in several american cities, and one operated out of london. finally, chung fu was heard from no

uncovered. h weig and his associates are here to re j u venate earth and its inhabitants. they plan to accomplish these changes via communication with contactees, who will be led to c e rtain disciples and. specific discove r i e s that will imp rove humanity s lot and eart h s enviro n m e n t. see also: channeling further reading sprinkle, r. leo, 1999. soul samples: personal explo- rations in reincarnation and ufo experiences. columbus, nc: granite publishing. hybrid beings hybrid beings are entities who are part human and part humanoid. they figure in a number of accounts of ufo abductions. female abductees sometimes report anomalous pregnancies that are enigmatically terminated, typically in association with a missing-time experience of the sort in which the abductions allegedly took

ended his hand, but when rosas tried to shake his hand, the stranger withdrew it after a mild pressing of palms. he said in spanish, yes, beloved earth brother, i am laan- deeka, of the planet venus. he went on to state that venusians had been keeping human beings under surveillance since their primitive origins and had also been living, unnoticed, among them. laan-deeka then commenced to discuss reincarnation, saying that advanced earthlings who obey nature s laws are permitted to live their next lives on spiritually developed planets. in the universe, he said, most communication, even interplanetary and interstellar communication, occurs by telepathy. human beings are backward, in part, because they fail to realize that telepathy is even possible. the venusian led rosas to the other side

. the source taught a spiritual philosophy that it called inner light consciousness, thus the name of the organization solomon soon formed: fellowship of the inner light. in 1974, solomon and his followers relocated to virginia beach, virginia, where edgar cayce, to whom solomon would be compared, had lived and had pursued his spiritual work. like cayce s, solomon s readings encompassed atlantis, reincarnation, healing, prophecies, and more. the source claimed to be a greater power than the spirit or channeling entities that were a good part of the focus of the new age movement of the 1970s and 1980s. its mission was to provide a way for seekers to touch the holy spirit within them and, thereafter, to let it guide them. before his death in 1994, solomon had conducted thousands of readings

e called ufolk. in 1980, he and the institute for ufo contactee studies held the first rocky mountain conference on ufo in vestigation. from then until 1996 he would direct the meetings, which bro u g h t together contactees, their followers, and int e rested observe r s. sprinkle s interest was, and is, more than academic. he believes himself to be a contactee and maintains an active interest in reincarnation and other metaphysical questions. ufos and their occupants are here, he believes, so that human development moves from planetary persons to cosmic citizens (sprinkle, 1995. see also: abductions by ufos; contactees further reading parnell, june o, and r. leo sprinkle, 1990. personality characteristics of persons who claim 236 sprinkle, ronald leo ufo experiences. journal of ufo studie

ieves, so that human development moves from planetary persons to cosmic citizens (sprinkle, 1995. see also: abductions by ufos; contactees further reading parnell, june o, and r. leo sprinkle, 1990. personality characteristics of persons who claim 236 sprinkle, ronald leo ufo experiences. journal of ufo studies 2 (new series: 45 58. sprinkle, r. leo, 1999. soul samples: personal explo- rations in reincarnation and ufo experiences. columbus, nc: granite publishing, 1969. personal and scientific attitudes: a study of persons interested in ufo reports. in charles bowen, ed. beyond condon: flying saucer review special issue no. 2, june, 6 10. london: flying saucer review, 1976. hypnotic and psychic aspects of ufo research. in proceedings of the 1976 cufos conference, 251 258. evanston, il: cen

s further reading turner, karla, 1994. masquerade of angels. roland, ar: kelt works. volmo 259 walk-ins ruth montgomery popularized the notion of the walk-in, highly evolved souls who take over the bodies of human beings who are willing to relinquish them. these beings are believed to be so advanced that it is not practical, or sometimes even possible, for them to go through the normal process of reincarnation, starting out as a baby. in any event, they have no time to waste and a serious mission to fulfill. in montgomery s words: t h e re are walk-ins on this planet. tens of thousands of them. enlightened beings, who, after successfully completing numerous incarnations, have attained sufficient awareness of the meaning of life that they can forego the time-consuming process of birth and c

walton, travis, 1978. the walton experience. new york: berkley medallion books, 1996. fire in the sky: the walton experi- ence. new york: marlowe and company. wanderers wanderers are extraterrestrials who traverse the cosmos in search of what george hunt williamson calls trash can worlds in other words, backward planets such as the earth. when they find such a world, they offer their souls to the reincarnation cycle. on earth their leader was the elder brother also known as the son of thought incarnate and, in a later life, jesus christ. the elder brother came to this planet accompanied by one hundred forty-four thousand lesser avatars. over the centuries, many forgot their cosmic origins and mission, but some kept the faith. after world war ii, with the coming of flying saucers, the seedi

other tongues other flesh. amherst, wi: amherst press. white eagle white eagle, believed to represent the new testament s saint john, was channeled through british spiritualist medium grace cooke (also known as minesta) from the 1930s until her death in 1979. by the 1950s, white eagle s teachings had found their way to north america. white eagle taught an eclectic mix of christian-based ideas and reincarnation theories as well as the occult doctrine of the great white brotherhood. he advocated kindness toward one s fellows and vegetarianism, and love for animals. further reading melton, j. gordon, 1996. encyclopedia of american religions. detroit, mi: gale research. white s little people one august night in 1891, hours before he would leave his native el dorado, kansas, to m ove to kansas

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

e of rasool (prophet of the highest degree, and to isa s mother miryam (mary. it is interesting to note that in the history of miryam, master mohammed speaks of miryam, sister of aaron the high priest" f" 2' 8: 0 and master mosheh, as the same miryam who became the mother of master isa 1570 years later. scholars frequently point to this as an erroneous ascription. however, from the perspective of reincarnation, was master mohammed inferring that the later miryam was a reincarnation of the former, much in the same way as john the baptist is identified as a reincarnation of prophet eliyahu in the peshitta* rabbi yitza aq luria (1534-1572 ce) is a highly esteemed jewish kabbalist who lived in safed in israel. he is widely known as haari (the lion. the expulsion of the jews from spain in 1492

8 (but not by many of the people. furthermore, master yeshuvah threatened to undermine the spiritual authority of the pharisees and the economic authority of the corrupt sadducees, at a time when the temple of jerusalem was the biggest bank in the trade-rich middle east. in the gospels of matthew 11:14 and mark 9:11-13, master yeshuvah specifically identifies his cousin, john the baptist, as the reincarnation of eliyahu hanabi (elijah the prophet. in tanakh, it is said that eliyahu will again incarnate to announce the final messianic advent of the lord hvhy. in the qabalah, eliyahu is said to be the incarnate form of the letter tzade o (letter-gate on the column of the left on the flat tree. the tzade o is at war with the letter zayin z (letter-gate on the column of the right. the zayin z

extinction of extinction: in sufism, a term alluding to the dissolution of individuated consciousness in the ultimate experience of vast face in the negatively-existent roots of the tree. corresponds to nirvakalpa samadhi in the hindu yoga system, and satori in zen. faqir (arabic: mendicant: a term for a sufi reflecting the ideal of spiritual poverty. galgalim (hebrew: wheels: qabalistic term for reincarnation, envisioned as the rotation (or migration) of the geviyah through successive physical bodies (nefesh) in the world of asiyah. gan eden (hebrew: garden of eden: an archetype and an idyllic place in sefirah beauty/the last in the world of yetzirah. gan eden alphabet: the source alphabet in the astral world of yetzirah from which differentiate both the hebrew and sanskrit alphabets in t

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

r 90/ practical sigil magic ism .th1s my wish to experience the stages b our ile are m n. the incarnation of a bird sentences of desire .this my wish to experience my ata- v s. efore my birth .this my wish to experience the s ce of my life .this my wish to experience my rep- t incarnations in ritual. the key words greptile incarnations h show that we oving close to another technique of regression.reincarnation therapy. but the intention of the sigil magician is different insofar as s/he employs atavisms to charge sigils further or to start magical operations. for example, a talisman charged while one is in a greptile consciousness h will work more powerfully than a talisman charged while in a state of normal magical trances of course, we must bear in mind that all of these atavistic states

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

ymbols of the extremes of created life- the child and the death-symbol of the skull. between them, the child and skull are intended to symbolize the 'beginning and then end' as a whole, the emblem may be interpreted as meaning 'in the end, is my beginning, or 'the end is found in the beginning, which is approximately what the latin around the circle means[ magic symbols, ibid] the pagan belief in reincarnation is spoken of within these statements. this second ouroboros depicts the whole world being surrounded and controlled by the serpent. this is the way the satanist views the entire created world. the bible states that satan is the "lord of this world" is the "prince of the power of the air" and is clearly in control of this wicked world until jesus christ returns. more and more satanism

cription of them as "worshipping the creature rather than the creator [romans 1:25] the july, 1998, issue of the scottish rite journal states that the eagle was also a symbol of regeneration and rebirth [jim tresner, 33 degree "wings of the eagle, wings on our feet" scottish rite journal, july, 1998, p. 7. but, another masonic writer returned back to the symbolism of the snake as regeneration, or reincarnation [herbert f. inman, masonic problems and queries, london, england, a. lewis, ltd, 1987, p. 210. also stated by charles g. berger, our phallic heritage, new york, greenwich book publishers, inc, p. 204] in fact, listen to how the satanic book, a dictionary of symbols, explains the importance of the snake "snakes are guardians of the springs of life and of immortality, and also of those

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

the myths still extant, and even the oldest assyrian inscriptions which have been deciphered, reveal the fact that the seeds of the visible universe were hidden in the "great deep--that animal creation sprang from the earth and the sea through the influence of the sun's rays. it is now known that the philosophy of an older race involved a belief in the eternity of matter. the abstruse doctrine of reincarnation and the renewal of worlds seems to have formed the basis of their philosophy. according to these speculations, a portion of the earth was destroyed or resolved into its primary elements every six hundred years, while at the end of each kalpia, or great cycle of several thousand years, the entire earth was renovated or absorbed into the two fecundating principles of the universe. thes

h will soon be peopled with a new race of beings. during the catastrophe, the sun will be devoured by a wolf, but before her death she will give birth to a daughter as resplendent as herself, who will go in the same path formerly trodden by her mother. the doctrines of the gothic philosophers, as they appear in the eddas, concerning the eternity of matter, the renewal or succession of worlds, and reincarnation are the same as those taught by pythagoras, the stoics, and other greek schools of thought. brahme or vishnu, resting on the bottom of the sea--a goddess who was symbolized by the self-generating lotus--was in later ages the mysterious cow of the goths. after the natural truths concealed beneath their religious symbolism were wholly forgotten, and human nature through the over-stimul

ith that of mankind collectively. as men die each day, and as every day men are born, this deity is said to die and to be renewed each day; and as he is the sun, or the incarnation of the sun, the rising and setting of this luminary depict the constantly dying and regenerating god of nature, the same as do the changing seasons. a similar idea reappears in their system of the renewal of worlds and reincarnation. regarding the doctrine of the eternity of matter held by the ancients, origen mentions a belief of the egyptians that the "world or its substance was never produced, but that it has existed from all eternity. neither is there any such thing as death. those who perish about us every day are simply changed, either they take on other forms or are removed to some other place. god cannot

nstead of being separated from spirit, is filled with it and can not be divorced from it; also that the female is the original organic unit of creation, without which nothing is or can be created. chapter vi. civilization of an ancient race. the profound doctrines of abstractions or emanations; of the absorption of the individual soul into the divine ether or essence; of the renewal of worlds and reincarnation, were doubtless elaborated after the separation, in the human mind, of spirit from matter, but before mankind had lost the power to reason abstractly. although pythagoras understood and believed these doctrines, he did not, as is well known, receive them from his degenerate countrymen, but, on the contrary, imbibed them from private sources among the orientals, where fragments of the

heir reception, are sent back to earth to reanimate other bodies. aristotle held the opinion that the souls of human beings are sparks from the divine flame, while zeno, the founder of the stoic philosophy, taught that spirit acting upon matter produced the elements and the earth. there is plenty of evidence going to show that the early fathers in the christian church believed in the doctrines of reincarnation and the renewal of worlds. neither is there any doubt but that this philosophy came from the east, where it originated. it is thought that the ancient philosophers who elaborated these doctrines were unable to account for the existence of evil without a belief in the immortality of the soul. spirit was eternal, as was also matter. a soul, upon leaving the body, in course of time foun

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

he major problem:'whether my ownhealth and agewouldlet me make the experiment are other questions (diary, 28 july 1938).thecouncil evidently answered those questions inthenegative andtheeditorship eventuallywentelsewhere, to c.r.cammell, the poet and biographerofaleister crowley. waite would unquestionably havebeen a most unsympathetic editor. latterday spiritualistswiththeir frequent emphasis on reincarnation irritated him, and, according to his daughter, by 1938'hehadlonglost interest inthel.s.a. havingknownsomuchdeception'i l" hislackofenthusiasm forthemore aspectsofspiritualism hadlongbeen clear tothefaithful:whenhis 'digest' ot thewritingsofandrewjackson davis was re-issued in 1922 an american critic wondered,'whetherornotthisbookwas compiled forthepurpose of giving the enquiring publ

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

ther membersofthe order, and the stimulus given to tales of magic by the continued existence of the golden dawn undoubtedly led to the continuing public demand for machen's own tales.theonly certain case of the ideas and practices of the golden dawn moulding the whole work of an author is that of algernon blackwood. elemental forces, ancient worship, egyptian settings and the doctrinesofkarma and reincarnation that permeate his work may have been drawn from other sources, but they were the stock in trade of the golden dawn and he was an active member for at least ten years. one novel,thehumanchord(1910),isbuilt solely around the desire for forbidden knowledge: the true uttering of the t etragrammaton, the hidden name of god.themagicianofthe storyisa clergyman, improbably called philip skal

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

h an elixir of life as could enable men to avoid death altogether, or indefinitely, as charlatans have asserted. poets and writers of romance have also shed a halo of unreality about the rosicrucians, as we find in the volume calledthe count de gabalis,in theundine,of la motte fouque, and pope'srapeofthe lock.the fraternity has, however, instructed its pledged mem255 bers in the doctrine of human reincarnation, has declared that the law of cause and effect acts in the spiritual, as well asinthe physical world, that man has around him unseen beings related to elemental forces, that man is influenced by the sun, moon and planets, and that special training and the use of certain personal processes will in some students lead to supra-normal spiritual functions and a high form of clairvoyant fa

d, i am satisfied with the world in which i have been so long;ifit please thee do not force me into this foul body, for i am a spirit' jehovah answers:'theworld i am about to send thee into is needed for thee, it is to pass down through it that i formed thee from myself; and so god forces him to incarnate into the world where matter is known.this is a parallel doctrine to the theosophic scheme of reincarnation-karma as god relentlessly compelling the individual ego to a new earth-life. the kabalah then teaches that the egos have come out from the spirit fountain, suffer incarnation again and again until experience and perfection have been attained, and ultimately rejoin the divine source. now what is it that dwells for a time in this 'coat of skin' as genesis calls it, this so-called mater

statement of the actual fate of man. whereas the'endof man' is in the bible one hundred times referred to; for example, in ecclesiastes vii. 2 'it is better to go to the house of mourning. that is the end of all men. in job xix. 26, there is indeed in poetic language a reference to the ego- i- seeing god after death- yet here there is a special statement that 'in the flesh' this should occur 255 reincarnation- rather than in spiritual essence, and free from matter, and so fitted for reunion with the high divine source from which the human ego had sprung in its origin and in which it is to be once again absorbed.theimmortaility of the soul was a chaldee doctrine, and the jews in captivity learned it, and so glimpses of it are found in the latest hebrew books;butit is certain that although

, partly carried out in dumb show and partly explained by characterisation, by catechisation, and by conver255 sational discussion, as well as by set lectures. there is a general agreement that the ancient mysteries taught forms of religious belief and also morals, and it is often asserted that the grand central doctrine they taught was that of personal immortality, or alternatively the theory of reincarnation. the mysteries were in many places and at various ages especially performed about the birth-time of the sun of the new year, or the return of the lengthening of the days, about what we now call christmas.itwas suggested by a learned mystic physician, thirty years ago in an hermetic lecture, that our own present-day christmas pantomime reproduces (in dumb show) the sacred, mystical pe

ndian philosophic systems, then recently produced in english translations by members of the asiatic society and by professors wilson,290themagical masonmoor, wheeler, colebrook, monier williams and max miiller. we became acquainted with the outlines of the great conception of karma, which insists that the 'law of cause and effect' acts in the spiritual as well as in the physical world, and of the reincarnation of the human ego in a series of personalities with a view to experiencing all phenomena in a struggle which may lead upward all the way from man to his creator.ourengland had in the victorian age lost much of its faith in the spiritual world, and developed a grossly material view of the universe, and physical science reigned supreme in the minds of the learned. so there arose a great

e egyptians deemeditnecessary to keep therenvery secret, for it was the character of the ego, and any enemy obtaining the secret name could exercise power over its possessor.thedead egyptian was, after his death, spoken of as an 'osiris, the name referring to the egyptian god of the dead, and his body was made into a mummy to preserve the identity for future use at the appointed time and place of reincarnation; thekaof the man watched beside the mummy while the soulbaflew away upward, perhaps in the shining vehicle thekhou.thescheme of man's constitution according to the medieval jewish kabalistical theosophy was as follows: man has a material body formed of the ground and calledguph,and atzelemor shadow. in these there dwelt thenephesh,the life and its sensations, emotions and passions; t

e tenet of reincarn255 ation, or of successive lives here on earth at intervals varying according to the qualities of the lives already passed; but they hold the general idea of progressive stages on the way to perfection, and at last a return to atma, the deific source from which the wave of evolutiuon first emerged. some of the early fathers of the christian church also favoured the doctrine of reincarnation- as origen and justin martyr. this scheme involves a double process of progression (a) the material form of the child succeeds material form, each tinctured by hereditary gifts and faults; and (b) a spiritual succession of incarnations of the ego apart from the regular family descent of material bodies. they specify that great deific powers- the 'lords of karma' or destiny- choose fo

and remains quiescent in the testis or ovary to await the maturity of the individual, whey they increase and multiply and offer themselves for fertilisation so as to produce a new body. in this scheme of generation man seems to be in bodily structure even truly immortal, and that successive human forms arebutthe coats of skin which nourish and preserve the continuity of the species.thedoctrine of reincarnation of the ego seemstobe analogous to this scheme of the continuity of the bodily form of humanity. as reincarnation considers the personal lives of an individual ego as beads threaded on a string, so this modern embryology seems to postulate a continuous series of bodies related by the continuity of the germ cells; any man being the son of the earliest man of the race.man's blood and ge

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

ber of able men who. have recorded their convictions, after most searching inves255 tigation, under strictesttestconditions, would render any such denial. an impertinence. i can only say that such evidencehasnor-come to me, and until itcomesimust preserve an openmind:inconclusion i may perhaps be permitted to record an argumentionce heard between a spiritualist and a roman priest on. thesubjectof reincarnation, which the priest did not admit, but pursued the socratic method of questioning. his opponent 'you hold,'hesaid,'thatbetween incarnations' the soul passes to a kind of intermediate stateinwhich' it retains its consciousness, and its interest in those it has left behind 'undoubtedly''and inthatstate do you sayitis,active, or is it entirely idle 'unquestionably it is active. after a ce

who retained the smallest memory of his or her prenatalworkonthe astral plane? any desire to communicate with ortohelp the comrades with whom it had been associated? any looking back,infact, toitsprenatal conditions 'there have been many cases of memoriesofpast inearna255tions,ofwork begun in the last incarnation, left unfinished, and taken up again. these have been someofthe strongest proofs of reincarnation 'possibly. but that's not the point. those, eveniftrue, are earth memories, continued on earth. whatiamasking for is evidence of memory between the.earth.plane and what you-call the astral. youcla.jm thatitexists one .way, between the dwellers on earth andthosewho have passed on,.logically it should exist the .other way also, between the dwellers011the astral plane and those whobave

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

. 7 the continuum of the gnosis the gnostic identity message, origins, the israel connection, el, yahweh and reconsidering the bible, the sacred serpent, israel on the world stage, the druid connection, the essene link, the essenes, jesus and the foundations of gnosticism, table of contents the gnostic handbook hyperlinked index just click the gnostic handbook page 3 8 conditional immortality and reincarnation the aim of life, the bible and reincarnation, the mechanism of reincarnation, heaven and hell, hell on earth and what is heaven. 9 the mystery of deification what is the aim of this spiritual process? the nature of theosis, the mystery, to be born again, the nature of transfiguration, the two paths, the mysteries and the mystery of the melchisedek priesthood. 10 the seven stages of s

use and the context they are used in. many of the words and concepts we present, though obviously from the english language or more specially from the language of esotericism, have little or no connection to the concepts of the same name in the modern usage! now, stop for a moment and consider the fact that we have already used a number of these programmed "buzz words. occult, esoteric, exoteric, reincarnation, gnosis, mystery teachings. the gnostic handbook page 12..and each of these will trigger a certain association for you. for example, you would probably relate the term occult to something sinister and evil, and yet the word itself simply means "hidden. members of the medical profession, for example, use the term occult bleeding for bleeding which comes from an unknown source. hardly

mythologies we find a quest for immortality, a trial that leads to a reward of life eternal. in the twelve labours of hercules we have a series of initiations which lead to eternal life, while in the quest for the golden fleece (of immortality) we have jason overcoming immense odds to grasp it. the divine will offers man many chances to gain immortality and these chances take place in many lives. reincarnation within gnostic thought is not the same as it is within eastern philosophy. reincarnation occurs within a limited period and offers the opportunity for immortality, it is not an immortal soul gaining experience but a mortal self being offered opportunity on opportunity to enter the spiritual path. reincarnation is also limited in time, while we do not know the number of lives or oppor

perience but a mortal self being offered opportunity on opportunity to enter the spiritual path. reincarnation is also limited in time, while we do not know the number of lives or opportunities man is given, there is a limited time allotment after which the cycle is completed and unredeemed lifesparks cease to individually exist, unless they have been re-awakened by transfiguration. the bible and reincarnation now you may react by arguing that there is no biblical authority for reincarnation. however, i am afraid that you would be very, very wrong. in the early christian church there were many that taught reincarnation. clement of alexandria, origen, jerome, gregoras, augustine and irenaeus- to name but a few. it was only during the council of nicea in 325 ad that the concept of reincarnat

naeus- to name but a few. it was only during the council of nicea in 325 ad that the concept of reincarnation became unpopular and this was coupled with the development of teachings regarding the trinity, eternal hellfire, purgatory and other dogma's which were imported into the church for political reasons by emperor constantine. it was only in ad 553 at the second council of constantinople that reincarnation was finally and formally condemned. in regards to scripture itself it is obvious that church copyists have removed many of the classic reincarnation references, however, references still do occur if you look closely and carefully analyse what you read. in the book of revelation we have an exciting description of what will occur at the end of the earth cycle when the "born again, the

classic reincarnation references, however, references still do occur if you look closely and carefully analyse what you read. in the book of revelation we have an exciting description of what will occur at the end of the earth cycle when the "born again, the spiritually transformed enter the new kingdom. as part of the description the following is outlined. chapter eight: conditional immortality& reincarnation the gnostic handbook page 80 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 this verse clearly explains that those who have overcome

ith unto them, but whom say ye that i am? and simon peter answered and said, thou art the christ, the son of the living god. matthew 16:13 we can then continue and note that in matthew 17:10-13 jesus informs them that he could not be elias as elias has already returned as john the baptist (but i say unto you that elias is come already and they knew him not. this is very obviously a description of reincarnation. another excellent example is the commentary on luke 12:58-59 offered by carpocrates, a gnostic leader from the third century. as you are going with your adversary to the magistrate, try hard to be reconciled to him on the way, or he may drag you off to the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. i tell you, you will not get out until

may drag you off to the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. i tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny. luke 12:58,9. carpocrates explains that the true meaning of this tale is that the opponent is the demiurge, our perception of matter and that the jail is the body (the fallen material world) itself. no one can escape reincarnation until all earthly actions have been experienced. the gnostic handbook page 81 rather than continuing to analyse each verse one by one, let me just give you a couple by themselves to consider. but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more: for they are equal unt

the bush, when he calleth the lord the god of abraham, and the god of isaac, and the god of jacob. luke 20:35-37. but thou, bethlehem ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. micah 5:2 i think from these references it becomes quite clear that reincarnation was taught by the early gnostic christian church and even though the bible has gone through constant editing and rewriting reincarnation still survives into the modern translations. the mechanism of reincarnation to understand the way in which reincarnation works we have to examine the effects of our actions. now, in generally held christian views there is a belief that actions do no

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

dea of his system we have included a selection of same. following each level is given the directing intelligence, communication structure, science, religion and religious metaphor (fig 5) gnostic theurgy page 31 level. directing. communication science. religious intelligence. structure. metaphor. atomic. atomic. electron. physics. buddhism nucleus white light cellular. dna. rna. biology. hinduism reincarnation. somatic autonomic organs of the body.physiology. tantra. nerve plexes. kundalini. sensory. brain. sense organs. neurology. zen, sufism enlightenment mental-social. mind imprint. social behaviour. psychology. protestantism christ, messiah emotional. endocrines. emotional behaviour.psychiatry. fundamentalism the devil. void. body as flesh. body as flesh. anaesthesiology death cults vo

hysical form. now we have come to some understanding of the multi-dimensional nature of man we need to examine a most important question, what is the nature of man s spirit and by extension, where does immorality exist? the self is the owner, the chariot is the body. the soul is the charioteer, the mind is the reins and the senses are the steads. katha upanishad. x gnostic theurgy page 50 what is reincarnation? reincarnation is a concept that can be found at the heart of all of the great esoteric systems of the world. indeed, it can be found at the heart of most religions. in the early christian church there were many who taught the doctrine of reincarnation. clement of alexandria, origen, jerome, gregoras, augustine and irenaeus to name but a few. it was only during the council of nicea i

is a concept that can be found at the heart of all of the great esoteric systems of the world. indeed, it can be found at the heart of most religions. in the early christian church there were many who taught the doctrine of reincarnation. clement of alexandria, origen, jerome, gregoras, augustine and irenaeus to name but a few. it was only during the council of nicea in 325 ad that the concept of reincarnation became unpopular. this disavowal was coupled with the development of new teachings regarding the trinity, eternal hellfire and purgatory that were imported into the church for political reasons by emperor constantine. it was only in ad 553 at the second council of constantinople that the church finally and formally condemned the doctrine of reincarnation. in both hinduism and buddhis

incarnation became unpopular. this disavowal was coupled with the development of new teachings regarding the trinity, eternal hellfire and purgatory that were imported into the church for political reasons by emperor constantine. it was only in ad 553 at the second council of constantinople that the church finally and formally condemned the doctrine of reincarnation. in both hinduism and buddhism reincarnation is a central doctrine. in the bhagavad gita, we find krishna expounding the theory of reincarnation to arjuna, a wise and powerful warrior. the fascinating thing about this dialogue is its emphasis on spiritual action. krishna tells does not tell arjuna to abandon the battle and retire to a monastery, but to return and fight and even die, if the need be, fighting with detachment born

ntral doctrine. in the bhagavad gita, we find krishna expounding the theory of reincarnation to arjuna, a wise and powerful warrior. the fascinating thing about this dialogue is its emphasis on spiritual action. krishna tells does not tell arjuna to abandon the battle and retire to a monastery, but to return and fight and even die, if the need be, fighting with detachment born of his knowledge of reincarnation. both i and thou have passed through many births, krishna tells arjuna on the battlefield. in buddhism reincarnation is also taught, but with a difference. buddhist tradition maintains that there is no soul or immortal essence, only environmental factors (sanskaras) which repeat life after life, re-creating a semblance of identity in each incarnation. in ancient egypt the followers o

e passed through many births, krishna tells arjuna on the battlefield. in buddhism reincarnation is also taught, but with a difference. buddhist tradition maintains that there is no soul or immortal essence, only environmental factors (sanskaras) which repeat life after life, re-creating a semblance of identity in each incarnation. in ancient egypt the followers of amen-ra derived their belief in reincarnation from the course of the sun. as it died in the west and rose again in the east at dawn, so the vital forces sank into the underworld to rise again in a different body. hermes, the great master of the mysteries, was one of the earliest egyptian priests to openly proclaim the once secret teaching of reincarnation. gnostic theurgy page 51 if a soul, when it has entered the body persists

it has entered the body persists in evil, it does not taste the fruits of life eternal, but is dragged back again, it reverses its course and takes its way back to creeping things and that ill fated soul, having failed to know itself, lives in servitude to noxious and uncouth bodies, in this doom are vicious souls condemned. hermes. while we may not agree to the extent he has taken the concept of reincarnation, this quote does illustrate his acceptance of the doctrine. turning to ancient greece we find a very old tale, a story of proteus, who could change his shape at will. when an old man attempted to grab him, hoping to ascertain his real form, proteus was sleeping as a stone. on being touched he became a plant, when approached again he became a serpent and then transformed into a man an

who could change his shape at will. when an old man attempted to grab him, hoping to ascertain his real form, proteus was sleeping as a stone. on being touched he became a plant, when approached again he became a serpent and then transformed into a man and finally a spirit, at which time he flew off into the sky. here we clearly have a classical myth being used to outline the esoteric teaching of reincarnation as taught within the greek traditions. the zohar, a hebrew mystical and kabbalistic text, tells us that all souls must undergo reincarnation and that the souls of men revolve like a stone that is thrown from a sling that has been spun many times before finally being let go. those souls that have reached perfection stay in their holy places, only those which have not completed their p

ek traditions. the zohar, a hebrew mystical and kabbalistic text, tells us that all souls must undergo reincarnation and that the souls of men revolve like a stone that is thrown from a sling that has been spun many times before finally being let go. those souls that have reached perfection stay in their holy places, only those which have not completed their perfection are subject to the wheel of reincarnation or gilgul. the truth about reincarnation at first this may all seem very heartening, however, if we examine the subject closer we find that the gnostic view of reincarnation has little in common with the version of reincarnations commonly found in the various faiths. it probably would be correct to say that all they have in common is that something reincarnates. in the systems of pop

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

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

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

cidence. does this mean that orthon is jesus, or lam is god? hardly. the cipher, as becomes apparent to the diligent researcher, only uses the name or key-word for those in the know to examine and find a curious correspondence, pointing the way to whatever the essence of the encounter is. the clues in the adamski case would have yielded to the initiate of these runes, for example, that the yamski reincarnation episode was bound to happen immediately upon adamski s death. this leads to the well-known scientific prerequisite the ability to predict the results of an experiment. for example, truman bethurum s contact, aura rhanes, a female and thus unusual in the history of contactee accounts, has the cipher meaning of female. one would then expect, in future funny-name cases with female entit

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

your self and of 12 others will slowly unveil before you. as you approach the uitimate ritual, you will discover your true purpose in life (called your true will) arad can then set about to express it in your daily life. those who seek personal gain, psychic powers, or mastery over others, are advised to search elsewhere. the theoretical principies of enochian magick are too rooted in the laws of reincarnation and karma for any but the honest seeker who loves his fellowman to safely practice. the practice of enochian magick will allow you to consciously control both yourself and your surroundings. it is the art and science of producing a willed change. science tells us that we use only a small portion of our brain, and thus only a small portion of our inherent capabilities. through a gradu

sider its own survival after death of the body. but the ego in des is not the ego in asp as your experiences in these aethyrs will demonstrate. 207 vti, the first stage of the beast this confusing of the real immortal ego in man, with the false and ephemeral 'personalities' it inhabits during its manvantaric progress, lies at the root of every such misunderstanding. h.p. blavatsky, theories about reincarnation and spirits the 25th aethyr, vti, is the region of the first stage of what crowley called the beast. although not clearly developed until the 16th aethyr, lea, the beast will make its first appearance in vti. the governors of vti are: mirzind mee-rah-zodee-en-deh obvaors oh-beh-vah-oh-rah-seh ranglam rah-neh-geh-lah-meh all three governors are concerned with those regions of the mind

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

process throughout all nature, in all plant and animal life, was a great mystery. that the seed in the ground, or any cell of living matter, could reproduce its kind and assist in maintaining a continuous line of its own species, proved the continuity of all life, or in other words, demonstrated the principle of immortality, through birth, transition, and rebirth. this led them to the doctrine of reincarnation and the crux ansata became the symbol of that belief in immortality. one will see at once that the relation to sex matters was remote and purely incidental, as must be the study of such physical processes in relation to the whole scheme of the continuity of life. the rosicrucians today use the crux ansata as a symbol of immortality and reincarnation exclusively. to them it has no oth

ittle 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 reference to the cross and the rose "life is represented by light, aspiration

es, is not sufficient for psychic development. and.psychic development requires time in each human being, more or less according to the stage of development when the study is started. we come into each incarnation at a point in psychic development where we left off in the process at the time of transition in a previous incarnation. while the soul and psychic self are on the psychic plane awaiting reincarnation, certain [148] work is being accomplished and certain knowledge attained; but that phase of psychic development which is capable of manifestation while in the human body must be developed on the earth plane; and this ceases, to some degree, while on the cosmic plane. therefore, not all of us are born alike in psychic development; some will have certain experiences early in the lesson

ship to god and the world. karma.a term used by us to mean the working of the law of compensation. rosicrucians do not contend, however, that the exactions of the law of compensation will result in any reversal of the law of evolution, as is claimed by some modern schools. that a human being may be reincarnated in the form or body of a lower animal as a punishment is inconsistent with the laws of reincarnation and evolution, both of which teach us that each stage is progressive and we shall never descend in the scale of physical expression regardless of the karmic debt to be paid. one of the fundamental principles of the law of compensation is that for each sorrow or joy we cause another, we shall have experiences in like degree and manner and at times when the lessons to be gained thereby

urpose in life is to function on the mundane plane. the personality is essentially unworldly and immaterial because its purpose is to function on the immaterial plane. the two, personality and individuality, or the psychic and mundane, the immaterial and material working in unison, reveal an entity recognized both through its individuality and personality as it expresses itself in daily life.(see reincarnation and also soul personality. philosopher's stone.the principal search of the alchemists was for a pure and penetrating matter which, when applied to the metals, plants, or vegetables, exalts them. this perfect essence, this soul of matter, imparts its nature to all that is brought into contact with it. this substance which transmits its perfect qualities was called the philosopher's st

ral reasoning is the function of the knowing mind; inductive or genetic reasoning is of the cognition. induction is progressing from results to cause. its weakness is in the process. deduction consists of logical steps forward from the primary idea to its ultimate conclusion. its weakness is in the premise. the objective reasons by all processes, the subconscious mind tends to reason deductively. reincarnation .the rosicrucian doctrine of reincarnation is unique in some respects, yet it represents the one religious or ethical doctrine more universally held in the world today than any other, because the doctrine is nonsectarian, just, understandable, and revealing. in brief, it is that the soul of man, a divine essence, has as an attribute a memory and consciousness which constitute the per

into the cosmic plane along with the soul essence. there it remains until the right time for another incarnation with the soul essence in another physical body, for more and different earthly experiences, which are added to the personality memory and remain intact there as the accumulating knowledge and wisdom of the inner self. each personality may incarnate many times, the limit being unknown. reincarnation should not be confused with transmigration: the personality never retrogrades or enters the bodies 200 of animals. the mystical doctrine underlying the necessity of reincarnation is the absorption of the soul personality into the universal mind, the process of perfecting the soul personality. life by life through varied experiences the personality unfolds as we become more and more

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

of the book of thoth, where it acts as a kind of initiation rite.106 in the demotic story, the scenario of the traditional underworld books is fictionalized into a personal journey. some of the horrors setna sees, such as souls tormented by tasks they can never complete, seem to be based on greek visions of the afterlife. in the third story, setna s son sa-osiris( son of osiris) turns out to be a reincarnation of a great magician of the past, a concept that may be more greek than egyptian. a battle against malevolent nubian sorcerers reflects contemporary fears of the powerful nubian kingdom to the south, which the romans never succeeded in conquering. a number of magical papyri of the roman period have survived, mainly from thebes. most of their spells are in greek, but four papyri of the

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

mable reality, and impenetrable mystery!oh, i would fain annihilate thee "soul- vision- who speaks of soul, and whose voice is this .it says that i see now for myself, that there is a soul in man, after all. i deny this. my soul, my vital soul,or the spirit of life, has expired with my body, with the gray matter of my brain, this "i" of mine, thisconsciousness, is not yet proven to me as eternal. reincarnation, in which the bonze felt so anxious i shouldbelieve, may be true. why not? is not the flower born year after year from the same root? hence this "i"once separated from, its brain, losing its balance and calling forth such a host of visions. beforereincarnating. i was again face to face with the inexorable, fatal clock. and as i was watching its needle, i heard the voice ofthe bonze

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

of all in all 77 evolution and illusion 78 on the septenary constitution of our planet 81 the septenary nature of man 83 the distinction between soul and spirit 86 page 2 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt the greek teachings 89 on the various postmortem states 95 the physical and the spiritual man 95 on eternal reward and punishment, and on nirvana 102 on the various principles in man 109 on reincarnation or rebirth 115 what is memory according to theosophical teaching? 115 why do we not remember our past lives? 119 on individuality and personality 124 on the reward and punishment of the ego 128 on the kamaloka and devachan 133 on the fate of the lower principles 133 why theosophists do not believe in the return of pure "spirits" 135 a few words about the skandhas 142 on postmortem an

why theosophists do not believe in the return of pure "spirits" 135 a few words about the skandhas 142 on postmortem and postnatal consciousness 145 what is really meant by annihilation 150 definite words for definite things 158 on the nature of our thinking principle 165 the mystery of the ego 165 the complex nature of manas 170 the doctrine is taught in st. john's gospel 172 on the mysteries of reincarnation 183 periodical rebirths 183 what is karma? 186 who are those who know? 199 the difference between faith and knowledge, or blind and reasoned faith 201 has god the right to forgive? 205 what is practical theosophy? 209 duty 209 the relations of the t.s. to political reforms 213 on self-sacrifice 217 on charity 222 page 3 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt theosophy for the masses

ity" and the "i" or "ego" of which we are all conscious? page 19 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt a. before i can answer you, we must argue upon what you mean by "i" or "ego" we distinguish between the simple fact of self-consciousness, the simple feeling that "i am i" and the complex thought that "i am mr. smith" or "mrs. brown" believing as we do in a series of births for the same ego, or reincarnation, this distinction is the fundamental pivot of the whole idea. you see "mr. smith" really means a long series of daily experiences strung together by the thread of memory, and forming what mr. smith calls "himself" but none of these "experiences" are really the "i" or the ego, nor do they give "mr. smith" the feeling that he is himself, for he forgets the greater part of his daily exp

ts with a proportioned pain; but do not flay him who deserves alone a whipping for the fault that he has done. this is a rule for all men, and a just one. have we to believe that god, of whom you make the embodiment of wisdom, love and mercy, is less entitled to these attributes than mortal man? q. have you any other reasons for rejecting this dogma? a. our chief reason for it lies in the fact of reincarnation. as already stated, we reject the idea of a new soul created for every newly-born babe. we believe that every human being is the bearer, or vehicle, of an ego coeval with every other ego; because all egos are of the same essence and belong to the primeval emanation from one universal infinite ego. plato calls the latter the logos (or the second manifested god; and we, the manifested

less of the fact whether it has to animate the body of a wealthy, happy man, or that of a poor suffering wretch, hapless from birth to death though he has done nothing to deserve his cruel fate-would be rather a senseless fiend than a god. why, even the jewish philosophers, believers in the mosaic bible (esoterically, of course, have never entertained such an idea; and, moreover, they believed in reincarnation, as we do. q. can you give me some instances as a proof of this? a. most decidedly i can. philo judaeus says: the air is full of them (of souls; those which are nearest the earth, descending to be tied to mortal bodies, palindromousi authis, return to other bodies, being desirous to live in them. in the zohar, the soul is made to plead her freedom before god: lord of the universe! i

after a reunion with its spirit, which alone confers upon it immortality, must purify itself through cyclic transmigrations onward toward the only land of bliss and eternal rest, called in the zohar "the palace of love; in the hindu religion "moksha; among the gnostics "the pleroma of eternal light; and by the buddhists "nirvana" and all these states are temporary, not eternal. q. yet there is no reincarnation spoken of in all this. a. a soul which pleads to be allowed to remain where she is, must be preexistent, and not have been created for the occasion. in the zohar, however, there is a still better proof. speaking of the reincarnating egos (the rational souls, those whose last personality has to fade out entirely, it is said: all souls which have alienated themselves in heaven from the

more on earth "the holy one" means here, esoterically, the atma, or atma-buddhi. q. moreover, it is very strange to find nirvana spoken of as something synonymous with the kingdom of heaven, or the paradise, since according to every orientalist of note nirvana is a synonym of annihilation! a. taken literally, with regard to the personality and differentiated matter, not otherwise. these ideas on reincarnation and the trinity of man were held by many of the early christian fathers. it is the jumble made by the translators of the new testament and ancient philosophical treatises between soul and spirit, that has occasioned the many misunderstandings. it is also one of the many reasons why buddha, plotinus, and so many other initiates are now accused of having longed for the total extinction

the spiritual soul; these, strictly speaking, are one soul in its three aspects. now of the first aspect, nothing remains after death; of the second (nous or manas) only its divine essence if left unsoiled survives, while the third in addition to being immortal becomes consciously divine, by the assimilation of the higher manas. but to make it clear, we have to say a few words first of all about reincarnation. q. you will do well, as it is against this doctrine that your enemies fight the most ferociously. a. you mean the spiritualists? i know; and many are the absurd objections laboriously spun by them over the pages of light. so obtuse and malicious are some of them, that they will stop at nothing. one of them found recently a contradiction, which he gravely discusses in a letter to tha

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

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

s. peck, waite, and lyman were not inclined to attach much importance to the strange correspondence of young ward's companion; for they knew the tendency of kindred eccentrics and monomaniacs to band together, and believed that charles or allen had merely unearthed an expatriated counterpart- perhaps one who had seen orne's handwriting and copied it in an attempt to pose as the bygone character's reincarnation. allen himself was perhaps a similar case, and may have persuaded the youth into accepting him as an avatar of the long-dead curwen. such things had been known before, and on the same basis the hard-headed doctors disposed of willett's growing disquiet about charles ward's present handwriting, as studied from unpremeditated specimens obtained by various ruses. willett thought he had

earned sophistry could controvert the fact that the strangely bearded and spectacled dr. allen, of whom charles's frantic letter had spoken as such a monstrous menace, was in close and sinister correspondence with two inexplicable creatures whom ward had visited in his travels and who plainly claimed to be survivals or avatars of curwen's old salem colleagues; that he was regarding himself as the reincarnation of joseph curwen, and that he entertained- or was at least advised to entertain- murderous designs against a "boy" who could scarcely be other than charles ward. there was organised horror afoot; and no matter who had started it, the missing allen was by this time at the bottom of it. therefore, thanking heaven that charles was now safe in the hospital, mr. ward lost no time in engag

well; and that while curwen was left to him to dispose of, the writer felt able to find and deal with orne and hutchinson itself. if what their fate may have been the doctor strives sedulously not to think. 6 the following morning dr. willett hastened to the ward home to be present when the detectives arrived. allen's destruction or imprisonment- or curwen's if one might regard the tacit claim to reincarnation as valid- he felt must be accomplished at any cost, and he communicated this conviction to mr. ward as they sat waiting for the men to come. they were downstairs this time, for the upper parts of the house were beginning to be shunned because of a particular nauseousness which hung indefinitely about; a nauseousness which the older servants connected with some curse left by the vanis

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

ppen to you when you're in an emotional slump? none. things happen when you are turned on, active, dynamic. it is there, inside you. and starting to act creates more energy in you, charges you up. you've got a wonderful mechanism for reacting, and you should enjoy using it, feeling everything you've got, while you've got it. if you wait for the next time around, you're placing an awful big bet on reincarnation. when people say "relax and be yourself" that's not really yourself. yourself is everything you've learned to do, to think, to cover up and hide. the you is a learned thing, something shaped. when you relax everything you've shaped, then there's no more you. a witch wants great things to happen in her life, but she never thinks that they are going to be just handed to her. a witch wo

as to do with luxuries, attraction, love, warmth and emotionalism, a vibrant situation; so she was able, as mrs todd, 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 h

ISIS UNVEILED

zecoy google u2 isis unveiled in the v^y first remark made by jesus about john the baptist, we find him stating that he is "euaa, which was for to come" this asser- tion, if it is not a later interpolation for the sake of having a prophecy fulfilled, means again that jesus was a kabalist; unless indeed we have to adopt the doctrine of the french spiritists and suspect him of bdieving in [penonai\ reincarnation. except the kabalistic sect^ of the essenes, the nazarenes, the disciples of shimon ben yo'hai, and hillel, neither the orthodox jews, nor the galileans, believed or knew anything about the doctrine of penavtaium. and the sadduoees rejected even that of the resurrection "but the author of this reatitutw was mosah, our master, upon whom be peace! who was the revoltitio [transmigration

by the soul being conveyed back through an actual evolution of species; transmigrating from the minutest insect up to the largest animal. but this was an exoteric doctrine. we refer the reader to the amo/o denvdata of knorr von rosenroth; his language, how- ever obscure, may yet throw some light upon the subject. but this doctrine of permutation, or reoolviu, must not be understood as a belief in reincarnation. that moses was considered the transmigra- tion of abel and seth, does not imply that the kabalists those who were iniiiaud at least beheved that the identical spirit of either at adam's sons reappeared under the corporeal form of moses. it only shows what was the mode of expression they used when hinting at one of digitizecoy google when a 'god' becomes incarnate ifis the profoundes

KARR DON NOTES ON THE STUDY OF EARLY KABBALAH JEWISH MYSTICISM IN ENGLISH

kabbalah, h in midrash and literature, edited by g. hartman and s. budick. new haven: yale university press, 1986; also jmii: chapter 1. dauber, jonathan victor. standing on the heads of philosophers (noted above, page 2- chapter 2. myth and philosophy in sefer ha-bahir- chapter 3: a. sefer ha-bahir: 30- appendix 2. 32 of sefer ha-bahir in light of early kabbalistic sources. eylon, dina ripsman. reincarnation in jewish mysticism and gnosticism [jewish studies, volume 25. lewiston-queenston-lampeter: the edwin mellen press, 2003. green, arthur. keter: the crown of god in early jewish mysticism. princeton: princeton university press, 1997: chapter thirteen. gsefer ha-bahir. h 20081 4. idel, moshe. ascensions on high in jewish mysticism: pillars, lines, and ladders. budapest/new york: centra

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

(baal hasulam (1884-1954) they have no scientific solution as to how is it possible for a spiritual object to have any kind of contact with physical atoms and to bring them to any kind of motion. we need only the wisdom of kabbalah in order to move a step forward here, in a scientific manner, for all the teachings of the worlds are included in the wisdom of kabbalah--baal hasulam, the freedom the reincarnation occurs in all objects of the tangible reality, and each object, in its own way, lives an eternal life. and k a b b a l i s t s w r i t e a b o u t k a b b a l a h 207 although our senses tell us that everything is transient, it is only how it seems. but in fact there are only incarnations here, as each item does not rest for a moment but incarnates on the wheel of transformation of t

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

ove the body, above the desire to take pleasure in material things. it is therefore not connected with the body. a body, in kabbalah, means desire. if a person has acquired a screen, he feels the dressing of the spiritual light within. the sensation of the light, the creator, within such a desire is called a soul. the light changes according to the screen, and any change in the screen is called a reincarnation of the soul. a person in our world has only the animate reviving force, as do all other animals. if a person gets a desire to take pleasure in the creator, a desire for the upper one, a screen may be obtained by studying kabbalah (there is no other way, and one will then receive a spiritual soul in addition to the animate soul. the animate soul does not change, but the spiritual soul

s of the previous generation, but in new bodies. this is how mankind evolves. souls accumulate experience from generation to generation, so that everything we study as scientific discoveries in this generation, and all experience and knowledge that is acquired is imprinted in the next generation as an obvious, indubitable fact. that is why children are smarter than their parents. indeed, there is reincarnation, but certainly not for bodies. the souls are what return, but only in the human body. the process of reincarnation can be understood only by attaining the upper world, by studying kabbalah. in the upper world, souls without bodies are tied to the kabbalists, who are not burdened by the body and can exist in our world and in the spiritual world simultaneously. therefore, the laws and

tainly not for bodies. the souls are what return, but only in the human body. the process of reincarnation can be understood only by attaining the upper world, by studying kabbalah. in the upper world, souls without bodies are tied to the kabbalists, who are not burdened by the body and can exist in our world and in the spiritual world simultaneously. therefore, the laws and actual attainments of reincarnation are only open to kabbalists. l i f e c yc l e s q: how many lives does a person have to live? a: it depends on the individual. you can calculate the number of lives needed for man if he advances against himself, by the force that s o u l, b o d y a n d r e i n c a r n a t i o n 265 necessitates him to advance. but one cannot foresee how many lifetimes will be spared when the hastenin

ition between life and death. q: when does the soul dress in a physical body- is it at birth, or at another time? a: the dressing of the soul in our biological body does not relate to the physical age of the body. when a person begins to feel a desire for the upper world (by desire, i mean a genuine yearning for the upper world, it means that a soul has clothed him. r e i n c a r n at i o n q: is reincarnation the appearance of a new soul, which brings about the birth of a new person? a: we do not count people like we count cattle heads; not by physical heads, but by spiritual heads, meaning by their desires and their aims. if those desires and aims have transformed in quality, we have a new person before us! t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 266 q: but i ve read in several other p

nce of a new soul, which brings about the birth of a new person? a: we do not count people like we count cattle heads; not by physical heads, but by spiritual heads, meaning by their desires and their aims. if those desires and aims have transformed in quality, we have a new person before us! t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 266 q: but i ve read in several other places in your books that reincarnation means there are many appearances of the souls in bodies in our corporeal world, and that this occurs until they reach their individual end of correction. a: it is true when you speak about the unification of the soul and the body, at which time the body is like a cover, a shirt for the soul. q: in your book, you write: just as we must seemingly serve our egoistic desires (our inner n

ience that explains how to gradually receive a complete soul, meaning complete adhesion with the creator. our world: a state lower than spiritual death, below the sensation of the creator. located under the left side of the impure worlds of abya (atzilut, beria, yetzira, assiya. the birth of the soul, acquisition of life: a passage from the sensation of our world, to the sensation of the creator. reincarnation, cycles of life and death: the constant entrance and exit of light in the vessel of the soul, which continues throughout the correction in the worlds of bya. w h at i s l i g h t? q: are the light of the creator, which kabbalah speaks of, and the light that is referred to in the first day of the creation of the world, the same? a: there is only one light and that does not change. but

arrier. 153 mitzvot in kabbalah. 154 kabbalistic meaning of mitzvot. 158 correct the aim. 158 everyone must pass correction. 159 one hundred and twenty five degrees. 160 the way to change..161 only the screen can correct us..161 the cause of fasting is misinterpretation of kabbalah..161 our behavior and the spiritual worlds. 162 good deeds come only from above. 163 sensing the good. 164 change: a reincarnation. 164 contradictory opinions. 165 estimation and self-scrutiny. 166 a new brain. 166 during the ascent..167 new desire, new correction. 168 the right aim. 169 adapting, preferring, but not waiving. 169 t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 432 the need for contact. 170 before the revelation. 170 attempts to feel the spiritual..171 confidence and faith..171 the awakening of feeling

. 257 chronology and kabbalah. 257 the chronology of the souls. 258 t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 436 the correction of the soul of the first man. 259 the singularity of the soul. 260 the multitude of partzufim and bodies. 261 the development of the soul. 262 choosing the way..262 what limits a soul. 263 where do we come from and where are we going. 263 new souls. 264 life cycles. 264 reincarnation. 265 previous lives. 266 ripe souls. 267 one s soul shall teach one. 268 birth and correction. 269 a physical body and a spiritual body. 270 soul, mind and character. 270 changing the shirt. 272 sleep and dreams. 273 the soul of pharaoh. 273 c h a p t e r 7. b e l i e f s, m y s t i c i s m a n d t h e s u p e r n at u r a l. 27 9 hidden evolution. 279 increasing desire. 280 a greate

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

the next. a kabbalist, however, can only give no significance to reward, striving instead to find truth. granted, there are very few such people, but the numbers increase significantly with each passing generation. there are cases where one comes to a certain point in one s quest for truth, and then gradually loses interest. the reason for that will be explained in further detail in the study of reincarnation. all the worlds (this world included) are states that reside within us. we will find them nowhere outside us. in other words, it is not we who are inside the worlds, but the worlds that are inside us. outside us there is only the creator, the upper light. pa r t o n e: t h e b e g i n n i n g 27 people in our world are convinced that they are inside some kind of existence, a reality

unable to correct the self when receiving it as a gift from above without prior efforts to create the screen. this has nothing to do with the evolution of an ordinary soul in the path of correction; it is just something that the creator needed to do according to his own program of development of unification and separation of souls. that is why he did it. if we could see the entire picture of the reincarnation of souls we would understand why the creator acts this or that way with a certain soul. no part of our collective soul can attain the goal, the spiritual degree of the creator, before it has been corrected. pa r t t wo: p h a s e s o f s p i r i t ua l e v o l u t i o n 129 the creator will allow no one, under any conditions, into the spiritual world without a spiritual effort. if he

the right combination of the parts of the collective soul what the ratio should be and which parts they should be combined with in order to correct them. we would see and understand the reason for everything that happens. pa r t f i v e: r e l i g i o n, p r e j u d i c e a n d k a b b a l a h 311 kabbalists see the collective picture either fully or partially. for example, the ari explains about reincarnation in his book, shaar hagilgulim (the gate of reincarnations. he not only saw the entire picture of the cycle of correction of souls, but was also given permission to describe it. the only sign by which it is possible to determine if one is permitted to study kabbalah is the genuine desire for spirituality. studying the kabbalah is not meant to be used for any magic or witchcraft; it is

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

devoting some years to the effort and many more years to practice, i have been able to develop certain psychic faculties of the kind mentioned in the foreword, which, among other things, enable me to remember the previous existences through which i have passed. the idea of pre-existence may be new to some of my readers(*those who wish to learn more about this most fascinating subject should read reincarnation, by the v. e. e. ills. e. e. bro. e. a. besant, and the chapter on reincarnation in my textbook of theosophy) i do not propose now to advance arguments in its favour, though they exist in abundance, but simply to state that for me, as for many others, it is a fact of personal experience. the only one of those previous lives of mine with which we are here concerned was lived some four

ery great significance, called the arrow of ra, which includes both the square of the r.w.m. and his gavel of office (plate viii) 260. in our plate the different parts are separate, but sometimes they are joined together, and then one gets the effect of an arrow, whence it is named the arrow of ra, the sun-god, who was also called horus of the double horizon, the son of osiris and isis, and yet a reincarnation of osiris, god in evolution. the lower portion of the drawing refers to his descent into matter, the inverted square signifying descent, and the angle beneath symbolizing the cavern of matter into which he went down. the upper square then indicates that he ascended or rose again. the symbol in the centre- that of the double axe- is that of the most high god; so the complete glyph is

ashlar indicates the untrained mind of the candidate. he is supposed to be in a state of darkness and ignorance, but gradually through masonic work and knowledge his mind will be polished, and it may then be tested by the square, the plumb-rule and the level, and will be found accurate. the smooth ashlar represents the con-dition which should be attained by the f.c. in the light of evolution and reincarnation we may regard the rough ashlar as the symbol of the young soul. through much experience and effort life after life he must polish his nature and develop his powers. the three degrees in masonry represent three stages in that process. the business of the e.a. is to take himself in hand morally and conquer the physical body, so that its impulses will not stand in the way of his rapid p

lso regards the name hiram as identical with hermes, and thinks that a connection can he traced between the form huram and the sanskrit word guru, which means gspiritual teacher h. he therefore takes hiram abiff to signify the father-teacher, or the teacher from the father(*the masonic initiation, p. 100) that hiram was a widow fs son is also a significant fact. horus as the child of isis was the reincarnation of his own father osiris, and so as a posthumous child might well be described as a widow fs son. 698. though of the tribe of naphtali, he was born and resided in tyre, and may well therefore have learned from the dionysian fraternity which had a centre there. 699. death and resurrection 700. whatever we may think of the traditional history as a story it is clear that it is a myth of

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

ld in which the ego functions in his causal body; and at the same time the great ceremony of raising was explained in many layers of interpretation as the descent of the logos into matter, his mystic death and burial, and his rising again to a kingdom without end; and also as the personal descent of the soul into bodies, his resurrection from the death-in-life of the lower worlds of form, and his reincarnation upon earth once more. 157. the s s of the mysteries of osiris were much the same as we have to-day, though the s of g and d was that used in scottish and american workings; but the words were different, being much more positive in character. the f p o f were identical with those we use now, and the g or t is likewise unchanged. 158. the inner mysteries of osiris 159. within this degr

e worked out in the heaven-world. in the lesser the necessity and the method of the control of desires, passions and emotions was made clear; in the greater the same teaching was given with regard to the control of mind. 367. further teaching upon cosmogenesis and anthropogenesis was also continued. in the greater mysteries instead of being instructed only as to the broad outlines of evolution by reincarnation (which does not appear to have been clearly taught in the outer religion, and the previous races of mankind, the initiates now received a description of the whole scheme as we have it to-day, including the seven great chains of worlds and their positions in the solar system as a whole. their terms were different from ours, but the instruction was in essence the same; where we speak o

ing in the universe, whether in the vast ordered movements in the heavens, or in the arrangements of the earth. hence also his devotion to mathematics, a science which (as far as europe is concerned) may almost be said to have been created by pythagoras, so much did he add to it and systematize it; he found it but a number of scattered and unrelated facts, and left it a science. metempsychosis or reincarnation was an essential part of the pythagorean teaching; the purification of the soul being thus accomplished by repeated descents into matter and withdrawals into the invisible worlds, in order to transmute experience into faculty. 396. the three degrees 397. the pythagorean schools worked in close association with the teaching of the mysteries, but without the ceremonies; they gave a phi

said that their ceremonies of initiation required much physical purification and mental preparation. in the first degree the aspirant s symbolical death was represented, and in the third his regeneration from the womb of the giant goddess ceridwin and the committal of the newly-born to the waves in a small boat, symbolical of the ark. their doctrines were similar to those of pythagoras- including reincarnation and the existence of one supreme being. apart from a few stray references in classical authors, we know of them today chiefly through the bardic songs attributed to the welsh poet taliesin, of the sixth century a.d, who claimed druidic initiation. culdees of york blended christian mysticism with these pre-christian rites, and so linked them with modern masonry. 493. there have been m

ongly impressed, and quite rightly so, with the paramount importance of keeping the rituals and customs unchanged; but they quite wrongly regard the admission of women as a serious departure from ancient usage. co-masons are equally urgent in their respect for the traditions; but in this matter they prefer to follow the older custom, which has also the added merit of being logical and fair. since reincarnation is a fact, there is no difference between the ego or soul of a man and that of a woman; and we do not see any reason why in a particular birth, because he happens in the course of his evolution to occupy a woman s body, that ego should be deprived of the advantages of initiation into the sacred mysteries of masonry. 776. the succession of co-masonry 777. the co-masonic order derives

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

metimes apparitions are collective, occurring simultaneously to multiple witnesses, or can be reciprocal, when both agent and percipient, who are separated by distance, experience each 10 apparition other simultaneously. other types of apparitions include the deathbed apparitions, which usually involve images of divine and religious beings as well as dead loved ones, and apparitions suggestive of reincarnation, such as announcing dreams in which the deceased appears in a dream to a member of the family into which he will be born. numerous theories have tried to explain all edward kelly summons a corpse from the grave,walton-de-dale, lancashire (fortean picture library) apsaras 11 types of apparitions, from the assertion that they are mental hallucinations to the notion of telepathy from th

aven, and drive the devas out. the devas then appeal to the high god (usually vishnu, though occasionally shiva or the goddess, who comes to their aid, defeats the asuras, drives 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 furth

1960, 140 141) the central objective of tibetan death rites is to extract the consciousness-principle from the gross physical body so that it can truly perceive the spiritual world. following death, the spirit enters a transit that lasts exactly forty-nine days and is divided into three stages. at the end of the bardo, one either enters nirvana, an ineffable state, or returns to earth for another reincarnation. only the most enlightened avoid reincarnation. it is of paramount importance that the dying person remain fully conscious for as long as possible, for the last thoughts of the dying influence the quality of the after-death experience and the subsequent reincarnation. he or she is placed in the lion posture (lying on one s right side, and his or her neck arteries are pressed to preve

in its own dwelling, which can be of fire or of light. in the drawing entitled good and evil angels, he represents the devil as blind and thus unable to see the good angel, whom he is trying to approach but cannot, since neither can perceive the other, being one bathed in the light of god, and the other covered by blackness and encompassed by burning fire. blake was a platonist very familiar with reincarnation and the karmic principle.he saw angels, good and evil, as the real forces behind the weaknesses and the triumphs of mortal men and women. blake s entire scheme is based upon a view that has its roots in plato and that extends to a philosophical tradition pointing to a spiritual reality in which forces higher than ourselves are constantly at work. blake insisted that eternity was comp

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

a 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 one with the ocean. buddha accepted the basic hindu doctrines of reincarnation and karma, as well as the notion, common to most south asian religions, that the ultimate goal of the religious life was to escape the cycle of death and rebirth (samsara. buddha asserted that what kept us bound to the death/rebirth process was desire, desire in the generic sense of wanting or craving anything in the world of samsara.hence the goal of getting off the ferris wheel of

nt 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 experience suffering for a limited term.after their term is over, even the most evil person is turned out of hell to once again participate in the cycle reincarnation. this does not mean, however, that buddhist hells are any less gruesome than western hells. to cite a representative passage from the pali canon: the guards of hell lay him down and chop him with axes and turn him upside down and slice him with razors, and bind him to a chariot and drag him over a fiery blazing earth, and drive him up and down a great mountain of fiery blazing coals

with spirits of the night, kill people, and resemble vampires. other demons of the indian tradition that passed into buddhism are the bhutas, the pretas, and pisacas. buddhism, especially at the popular level, inherited the lore of mythological hinduism about the asuras and other demons. they belong to the category of sentient beings (like humans and gods, and as such are subject to the cycle of reincarnation. the buddhist archfiend is mara, who in vain tempted gautama shortly before his enlightenment. evil forces are encountered in the burmese buddhist figures of the nats and other ghosts who inflict pain on humans. in mahayana buddhism demons are alternatively good or evil in their efforts to keep their devotees in the faith. a number of female demonic figures have also been developed t

own. randolph s teachings on occult sexuality soon became the source for the sex magick system developed by the ordo templi orientis (oto, which however was in contradiction with randolph s thought on the moral level.oto teachings have been denounced as black magick by twentieth- century followers of randolph. among other teachings of the order are the basic ideas of the secret schools, including reincarnation and karma, as well as the law of justice and noninterference with the rights of others. members learn how to contact the hierarchies of the heavenly realm, as well as the process of transmutation, and the acquisition of health and strength through the dismissal of thoughts concerning weakness and age. they believe in the fatherhood of god and the ultimate sisterhood/ brotherhood of h

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

without the decency to hang himself .so (i.e, by suddenness of fate) may the truth be flashed out by one blow, and guido see one instant and be saved. else i avert my face nor follow him into that sad obscure sequestered state where god unmakes but to remake the soul he else made first in vain: which must not be* probably a record for a bishop..a.c. this may be purgatory, but it sounds not unlike reincarnation. it is at least a denial of the doctrine of eternal punishment. as for myself, i took the first step years ago, quite in ignorance of what the last would lead to. god is indeed cut away. a cancer from the breast of truth. of those philosophers, who from unassailable premisses draw by righteous deduction a conclusion against god, and then for his sake overturn their whole structure by

omotion and defence of the reformed faith of the church of england (the capitals are hers) i think we may accept this statement. she probably knows, and has no obvious reasons for misleading. 487. sattva.66.the buddhists, denying an atman or soul (an idea of changeless, eternal, knowledge, being and bliss) represent the fictitious ego of a man (or a dog) as a temporary agglomeration of particles. reincarnation only knocks off, as it were, some of the corners of the mass, so that for several births the ego is constant within limits; hence the possibility of the .magical memory. the .sattva. is this agglomeration. see my* paganini, a famous violinist. 58 the sword of song .science and buddhism. infra, for a full discussion of this point. 518. and.67.note the correct stress upon this word. pr

fool; a minimum medical education is in most cases insufficient to abate the symptoms to nil, though perhaps it must always diminish them. the hindu is the sphinx of civilisation; nearly all that has been written on him is worthless; those who know him best know this fact best..a. c. science and buddhism 107 survives death, what does it matter to us? why are we to be so altruistic as to avoid the reincarnation of a being in all points different from ourselves? as the small boy said .what has posterity done for me. but somethin does persist; something changing, though less slowly. what evidence have we after all that an animal does not remember his man-incarnation? or, as levi says .in the suns they remember, and in the planets they forget. i think it unlikely (may be, but in the total abse

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

colleague from hindu india pointed out, the idea of humans descending from a long line of animal ancestors would not be a problem in hinduism, where there is such a high value on animal life and some animals (cows, for example) are considered sacred. one great god, hanuman, is a monkey. hindu mythology is also replete with animals taking human forms and vice versa. in addition, the hindu idea of reincarnation includes humans 26 evolution and religious creation myths reincarnating into animals and animals reincarnating as humans in endless cycles. buddhism buddhism is an offshoot of vedism (the precursor of hinduism) that appeared between 600 and 500 b.c.e. it is traditionally associated with nepalese prince sakyamuni gautama siddharta, the historical buddha, who was himself preceded by ma

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

arma (the accumulated effect on the soul of morally important deeds, and the one. however, they reject the hindu pantheon, and buddhism is in fact a religion without a defined deity or deities. as with hinduism, change and transformation of the universe are familiar concepts in buddhism. buddhism is probably best known in the west for advocating an end to human suffering through several cycles of reincarnation and ultimate enlightenment. the teachings of buddhism are collectively known as dharma, which includes the four noble truths that buddha realized upon his own enlightenment (1) life is full of suffering. everyone experiences or witnesses pain, sickness, loss of loved ones, old age, and death. moments of pleasure or happiness are always impermanent, fleeting (2) the cause of suffering

bear totem and the other having a tiger totem, may have fought in ancient times, with the bear clan winning. we saw that a literal interpretation of the bible and the quran must preclude any kind of evolutionary continuum between all life-forms: humans have a god-given soul whereas animals, plants and others do not. this belief is not held in buddhism (or hinduism, which, through the doctrine of reincarnation, posits that a mind (or soul) can occupy many types of physical bodies. further, for buddhism, in contrast to christianity, there is no idea of a supreme divine force influencing events in the world or impinging upon the lives and destinies of humans. on the contrary, what happens in the world and what happens to us all follows from within us: our destinies follow from our own karma

d, and neither sees evolution as a threat. no supernatural force within polytheistic hinduism reveals one divine truth. buddha s teachings are not revelations of a higher supernatural power; they are the result of buddha s own enlightenment, and they do not address the origin of earth, life, or humans. in addition, hinduism and buddhism contain strong ideas of change, transformation (for example, reincarnation, and impermanence that make evolution less of a new and unfamiliar view of life. in the united states, both intelligent design, a new creationism, and classical creationism may have another dimension aside from monotheism and revelation. a wonderful film called in the beginning (2000) covers the 28 evolution and religious creation myths evolution versus creationism debate in the unit

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

n only to initiated priests. to be admitted to the order, a candidate was required to be of good family and of high moral character. no important secrets were intrusted to him until he had been tempted in many ways and his strength of character severely tried. the druids taught the people of britain and gaul concerning the immortality of the soul. they believed in transmigration and apparently in reincarnation. they borrowed in one life, promising to pay back in the next. they believed in a purgatorial type of hell where they would be purged of their sins, afterward passing on to the happiness of unity with the gods. the druids taught that all men would be saved, but that some must return to earth many times to learn the lessons of human life and to overcome the inherent evil of their own

loses the opportunity afforded by physical life to unfold his immortal, invisible self. an ancient initiate once said that the living are ruled by the dead. only those conversant with the eleusinian concept of life could understand that statement. it means that the majority of people are not ruled by their living spirits but by their senseless (hence dead) animal personalities. transmigration and reincarnation were taught in these mysteries, but in a somewhat unusual manner. it was believed that at midnight the invisible worlds were closest to the terrestrial sphere and that souls coming into material existence slipped in during the midnight hour. for this reason many of the eleusinian click to enlarge the rape of persephone. from thomassin's recucil des figures, groupes, themes, fontaines

on methods employed by the egyptian morticians. in his work on egyptian magic, s.s.d.d. hazards the following speculation concerning the esoteric purposes behind the practice of mummification "there is every reason to suppose" he says "that only those who had received some grade of initiation were mummified; for it is certain that, in the eyes of the egyptians, mummification effectually prevented reincarnation. reincarnation was necessary to imperfect souls, to those who had failed to pass the tests of initiation; but for those who had the will and the capacity to enter the secret adytum, there was seldom necessity for that liberation of the soul which is said to be effected by the destruction of the body. the body of the initiate was therefore preserved after death as a species of talisma

s not fit into the general pythagorean scheme, and it is far more likely that it was given in an allegorical rather than a literal sense. it was intended to convey the idea that human beings become bestial when they allow themselves to be dominated by their own lower desires and destructive tendencies. it is probable that the term transmigration is to be understood as what is more commonly called reincarnation, a doctrine which pythagoras must have contacted directly or indirectly in india and egypt. the fact that pythagoras accepted the theory of successive reappearances of the spiritual nature in human form is found in a footnote to levi's history of magic "he was an important champion of what used to be called the doctrine of metempsychosis, understood as the soul's transmigration into

ss that all who looked upon it might be saved from the sting of the lesser snakes? was not the brazen serpent a prophecy of the crucified man to come? if the serpent be only a thing of evil, why did christ instruct his disciples to be as wise as serpents? the accepted theory that the serpent is evil cannot be substantiated. it has long been viewed as the emblem of immortality. it is the symbol of reincarnation, or metempsychosis, because it annually sheds its skin, reappearing, as it were, in a new body. there is an ancient superstition to the effect that snakes never die except by violence and that, if uninjured, they would live forever. it was also believed that snakes swallowed themselves, and this resulted in their being considered emblematic of the supreme creator, who periodically re

the sycamore, have been made sacred and used for worship (see monumental christianity) the early fathers of the church sometimes used the tree to symbolize christ. they believed that ultimately christianity would grow up like a mighty oak and overshadow all other faiths of mankind. because it annually discards its foliage, the tree was also looked upon as an appropriate emblem of resurrection and reincarnation, for though apparently dying each fall it blossomed forth again with renewed verdure each ensuing spring. under the appellations of the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is concealed the great arcanum of antiquity--the mystery of equilibrium. the tree of life represents the spiritual point of balance--the secret of immortality. the tree of the knowledge of g

MEANING OF MASONRY

refreshment that death brings when it withdraws the soul from pluto's realm to the heaven-world, to be follo wed again and again b y periodic descents into material limitations and reascents into discarnate conditions, until it becomes finally purged and perfected. by this great myth, therefore, instruction was imparted as to the history of the soul, its destiny and prospects, and the doctrine of reincarnation* was emphasized. how masonry follows this traditional method of instruction by myths. its canon of teaching in the craft degrees contains two myths. one is that of the building of king solomon's temple. the other is that of the death and burial of hiram abiff narrated in the traditional history. the royal arch contains a third myth in the story of the return from captivity after the

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

er, the luperci lupercian ancient order of priests.augustus caesarthe worship of augustus was not, as the ecclesiastical schools have insinuated, a mere lip-service, ameaningless mode of saluting the sovereign-pontiff, an elusive form of adulation or flattery to theemperor of rome; it was the worship of a personage who was believed to be a supernatural, omniscient,all-powerful and beneficent, the reincarnation of quirinus, the son of the god apollo and of the wife-virgin maia; the god whose coming was foretold by the cumaen sibyl; whose sway was to extend overthe whole earth; whose conception and birth were both miraculous; and whose advent was to usher inthe golden age of peace and plenty and to banish sin for ever. such was his character in rome (p. 38)the months of the year were not nam

t dullards who decided to try andrun the show. silly rabbit. kids need love, not psychotherapy and psycho-cybernetic control. i trust youwill find the following to be of use in your overall investigations (v aldamar v alerion)540 bubonic plague engulfs the roman empire until 592. 553 justinian convenes the second synod of constantinople, issuing a decree that bans the doctrine ofpast lifetimes or reincarnation, as well as removal of all veiled references to pre-existence from reli-gious documents.567 gregory of tours reports that just before the bubonic plague invaded the auvergne region offrance, three brilliant lights appeared around the sun and the heavens appeared to be on fire. 590 another historian reports that bright lights in the sky precede the plague in another province infrance

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

oronzon. they claimed that out of the 30 aethyrs (30 dimensions, the domain of choronzon was to be found in the tenth aethyr, and dimension dubbed zax. they also titled him he that is fallen, and even associated him with the leader of the serpent from the garden of eden, who equates to the fallen angel azazel/semyaza from the apocryphal book of enoch. aleister crowley, who thought of himself as a reincarnation of sir edward kelly, once attended an invocation of choronzon. crowley described the being as extremely deceitful and manipulative. he found choronzon to be extremely unstable, and incapable of concentrating his thoughts. choronzon, who was said to be tortured by silence, would sometimes begin to argue and test the will of crowley s partner. chorozon claimed to have a million voices

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

to religious doctrines but had rejected them earlier in life acquired religious feelings with new depth after the experience. others say that although they had read religious writings; such as the bible, they had never really understood certain things they had read there until their near-death experiences. what bearing, if any, do the experiences which 'iou have studied have on the possibility of reincarnation? not one of the cases i have looked into is in any way indicative to me that reincarnation occurs. however, it is important to bear in mind that not one of them rules out reincarnation, either. if reincarnation does occur, it seems likely that an interlude in some other realm would occur between the time of separation from the old body and the entry into the new one. accordingly, the

er, it is important to bear in mind that not one of them rules out reincarnation, either. if reincarnation does occur, it seems likely that an interlude in some other realm would occur between the time of separation from the old body and the entry into the new one. accordingly, the technique of interviewing people who come back from close calls with death would not be the proper mode for studying reincarnation, anyway. other methods can and have been tried in investigating reincarnation. for example, some have tried the technique of "far age regression" a subject is hypnotized and the suggestion is made to him that he go back mentally to successively earlier and earlier times in his life. when he reaches the time of the earliest experiences he can recall in his present life, he is then tol

e established that the subject could not have known in any normal way about the events, persons, and places he describes so accurately. the case of bridey murphy is the most famous, but there are many others, some even more impressive and well-documented, which are not as widely known. readers who wish to pursue this question further are referred to the excellent study, twenty cases suggestive of reincarnation, by ian stevenson, m.d. it is also worth noting that the tibetan book o f the dead, which so accurately recounts the stages of near- death encounters, says that reincarnation does occur at some later point, after the events which have been related by my subjects. have you ever interviewed anyone who has had a near- death experience in association with a suicide attempt? if so, was th

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ut to go forward to thelemic ideas of education is infinitely better. see liber aleph, 30-49) and the worst enemies of humanity are those who wish, under the pretext of compassion, to continue its ills through the generations. the christians to the lions (again lions is in capitals) let weak and wry productions go back into the melting-pot, as is done with flawed steel castings. death will purge, reincarnation make whole, these errors and abortions (the reader may here object that he does not believe in reincarnation; but whether he does or not, this does not change the validity of the law of evolution. it is immaterial whether a man's soul is immortal; it is material that he have good health and a good brain) nature herself may be trusted to do this, if only we will leave her alone. but w

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

e tower and nimrod transmigrated into [the person and career of] nebuchadnezzar. this is why he erected the statue in the dura valley. gking nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and erected it in the plain of dura in the country of babylonia. h3 a cubit is about a foot and a half, so this statue was around 90 feet high and 9 feet wide. nebuchadnezzar was thus a reincarnation of the nimrod, and the statue was a greincarnation h of the tower of babel. just as in the time of nimrod, everyone spoke the same language and he ruled the whole world, nebuchadnezzar also ruled the whole world. thus, it is written, gi will ascend above the clouds; i will be like the most high, h4 [the numerical value of the word for gclouds h] alluding to the seventy-two nations. t

material lusts, and they wanted to enjoy the pleasures of this world [unhindered] and have the idol channel goodness to them by force of the divine names, as we said. the one who masterminded all this was nimrod, for he was the leader of the generation of the dispersion. he was extremely adept at this technique of manipulating [divine names. the same was nebuchadnezzar fs intention, for he was a reincarnation of the wicked nimrod. therefore, the letters that make up their names are similar [as we will show. nebuchadnezzar: nun-beit-vav-chaf-dalet-nun-tzadik-reish. nimrod: nun-mem-reish-vav-dalet. the [five] letters that spell nimrod can be aligned with the [first five] letters that spell nebuchadnezzar, and the last three letters [of nebuchadnezzar] spell the word for gruler h [netzer. ne

is sin but that of someone else [dormant within him, he was spared, and a ram was offered in his stead. afterwards, this evil impurity issued from him as esau. isaac, too, wanted to bless [his son esau] and thereby cause him to repent [and be as righteous] as jacob. since adam had been cursed because of eve, the blessings were given to jacob through [the efforts of] his mother [rebecca, who was a reincarnation of eve. by being a conduit of blessing, rebecca rectified the sin of eve, who brought a curse upon the world. they [i.e, the blessings] were not transmitted to him by his father isaac, for isaac thought that jacob had not yet rectified reality. and it is known that gwhen this one falls, the other one rises. h therefore [isaac reasoned that esau, the personification of] the snake, was

. and it is known that gwhen this one falls, the other one rises. h therefore [isaac reasoned that esau, the personification of] the snake, was fit to receive the blessings. since, in isaac fs eyes, jacob had not done his job by rectifying reality, he was in a low state, and therefore esau, his nemesis, was in an exalted state, fit to receive and capitalize on the blessings. esau, after all, is a reincarnation of cain, and that is why [cain] killed his brother abel with his mouth, as is known. 4 genesis 21:9. 5 bereishit rabbah 53; zohar 1:118b. 6 genesis 17:18. 7 bava batra 16a. 8 2 samuel 17:25. 9 1 chronicles 2:16. 10 1 chronicles 2:17. the arizal on parashat toldot (2) 127 he bit him profusely, not knowing where his soul would leave him.11 esau is the image of a wild man gwhose game wa

5. 9 1 chronicles 2:16. 10 1 chronicles 2:17. the arizal on parashat toldot (2) 127 he bit him profusely, not knowing where his soul would leave him.11 esau is the image of a wild man gwhose game was in his mouth. h12 this is the meaning of:13 ghe called esau, his older son c, h i.e, esau was like the older of the original brothers, cain. g cand he said to him, emy son c, f h meaning: you are the reincarnation of cain, the son of adam. g cand he answered him, ei am here, f h i.e, yes, i am. he then commanded him [to bring him game, for just as cain took the [untamed] land [while abel pastured the domesticated flocks, esau likewise was ga hunter, a man of the field. h14 he therefore spent his time in the fields killing, as did cain. and since cain came from the impurity of the snake [who ha

nd you will give your maidservant the seed of men. h22 but an aspect of the soul of their father aaron joined with them, that is, the aspect of tola ben pua, to rectify his sin, as we have explained. thus we see that in samuel aaron and his sons began to come together. this was not the case with yaavetz and tola, in which aaron was reincarnated by himself. but in samuel, although he was mainly [a reincarnation of] nadav and avihu, aaron joined with them. after this, aaron by himself was reincarnated as uriah the hittite, the armsbearer of joab ben tzeruiah. in his name [uriah, alef-vav-reish-yud-hei] included the first three letters of the name of aaron [alef-hei-reish] to indicate this. now, it is known that the army of david, and especially the 39 greatest of them, were called gthe camp

ion. this name is spelled alef-hei-yud-hei. when it is spelled out, and the hei fs are spelled out with the letter yud, we have: alef alef-lamed-pei 1+ 30+ 80 111 hei hei-yud 5+ 10 15 yud yud-vav-dalet 10+ 6+ 4 20 hei hei-yud 5+ 10 15 161 the letter yud is associated with chochmah, so this spelling out of this name represents the will within chochmah to be manifest in creation. now, moses is [the reincarnation of] abel, and jethro is [the reincarnation of] cain [jethro] came [to moses] in order to rectify his having killed abel. our sages teach us that cain killed abel in order to take the extra twin-sister that was born with him. this extra twin is alluded to by the fact that in the verse describing the birth of abel, gand she gave birth as well to his brother [et achiv, 1 exodus 18:2-5

e meaning of the initial insight. in contrast to this, binah needs only one self-actualization. now cain felt that the second twin, who was produced when the light of abba struck the light of ima, should be his, for the yesod of abba produced her by means of the yesod of ima, even if she was in essence derived from the light of abba. cain therefore rose up against abel and killed him. jethro, the reincarnation of cain, came to rectify this [error. binah, whose task it is to develop the flash of insight that is chochmah into a full-fledged intellectual development, must evince a measure of self-orientation, or what becomes.in later contexts.ego, in order to do its job. in contrast, the experience of chochmah is that of total self-abnegation in the face of the higher realization and insight

eration was entrusted with.and to which cain thought he was being loyal.got lost in his unchecked reasoning. 2 genesis 4:2. 3 ibid. 4:1. the arizal on parashat yitro 301 now [moses f wife] zipporah personified this [second] twin, who was positioned behind the yesod of ima. she was therefore born to jethro, for she issued from the light of abba that struck the yesod of ima, and jethro.who was [the reincarnation of] cain.issued from the yesod of ima. he therefore brought her to moses, who was [the reincarnation of] abel, in order to demonstrate that she was rightfully moses f, and thereby rectify that which he ruined the first time. this is the mystical meaning of the verse, gand jethro ctook zipporah, moses f wife, after he had sent her back [to him] h: after moses, who is abel, i.e, the ye

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

served in early literature and tradition) from zone to zone. this concept of a sacred land divided into directions and zones has been widely studied by scholars of indo-european tradition 14 and has its counterpart worldwide (c) on its deepest level it is a mirror or reflex image of the ancient concept of the wheel of life, around which all creatures travel until they are freed of incarnation. as reincarnation is specifically described by kirk as one of the beliefs held by the seers (page 26) we may touch upon this aspect of wisdom-tradition which is found in many world religions, though it was eventually erased from christianity, remaining as an underground tradition only. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_72.htm (9 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:35:48 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages

and that nothing moves but what has another animal moving on it, and so on, to the utmost minute corpuscle that [is] capable to be a receptacle of life. this remnant of ancient philosophy is far removed from the usual fairy lore, and forms part of the thread of a perennial wisdom-tradition that runs through kirk's text. the cycle that he describes is the wheel of life, with a direct statement of reincarnation or rebirth into various other states after death. the concept of movement as life is tantalizingly modern, even materialist at first superficial glance, but the tenet is really a holistic one, with life forms and energies interpenetrating one another ceaselessly. the microscope was known in kirk's day (he mentions it on page 34, but this refined concept of multiple life forms within

infinite universe (kirk's totum) is founded upon an utter commentary 94 void (kirk's first nothing. they do not play a great part in the orthodox christianity of the seventeenth century, and if we grant that kirk is indeed reporting oral tradition, this is further evidence of a specific wisdom-teaching of ancient origins, but with perennial and worldwide currency. finally we have the reference to reincarnation: for the souls sleep in an inactive state until they resume terrestrial bodies again. an unambiguous statement directly counter to christian dogma. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_92.htm (2 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:36:14 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 92-101) as kirk is reporting the beliefs of his barbarian parishio-ners, presumably he can avoid any suggestion of heresy

cesses are possibly united or analogous. folk tradition does not necessarily discriminate between magical location of beings, the spirits of the dead, and the birth of children. from an esoteric viewpoint, within the more subtle teachings of the tradition, the popular lore is not, in fact 'condensed. nor are we suggesting that the ballad lore is merely a folk restatement of the so-called 'laws of reincarnation, for the true implication of the tradition is one of synchronicity and correspondence through more than one world, with primary motivations devolving from a key archetype that may be expressed in more than one mode. 7. four-and-twenty ladies gay http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_126.htm (6 of 13 [10/9/2001 12:36:58 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds the chess-playing ladies or

RUBY TABLET OF SET

hor, he remained in egypt over ten years, learned hieroglyphics, and was exposed to astronomy, geometry, and the egyptian concepts of panpsychism. sent to babylon, he was there exposed to persian dualism. he saw the psyche as "good" and the matter into which it entered as "evil, but accepted their merger as something at least temporarily fulfilling to both. goal for the psyche was its escape from reincarnation into an eternal existence of pure spirit. the "music of the spheres. from his academy at crotona, magna graciacia, pythagoras advised students (both male and female) and political clients to strive to eliminate sources of friction and cultivate homonoia("good relations among the citizenry. he suggested that mankind was subject to hybris (diverse and chaotic animal emotions. acceptanc

hoth d. zeus 6. true reality is found a. in ancient writings b. in the tarot c. in the physical sciences d. within 7. the 'tree of life' of the qbl is a. a map of the universe b. a code to understanding the book of genesis c. the hebrew version of the egyptian 'ankh' d. none of the above 8. the lingam and the yoni are a. celtic words meaning air and fire b. male and female organs c. principles of reincarnation d. dogon priests and priestesses 9. the first stage of religious evolution occurs with a. atheism b. monotheism c. anthropomorphism d. demonolatry 10. the trance-state is one of the manifestations of which modes of the mind? a. autistic b. analytic c. hypnotic d. awakened 11. xepera is the sun at a. dusk b. midday c. midnight d. dawn 12. the use of drugs is) to the practice of magick

ka! the ways of the khabs run through to stir me or still me! aum! let it fill me! the sacred bull mentu was the god of the city of ani, capital of the iv uast (thebes) nome of upper egypt [see #ii-49. ankh-f-n-khonsu is the priest commemorated by the stele of revealing. his name means"[he whose] life [is] in khonsu (the moon-god of thebes and son of amon and mut" crowley believed himself to be a reincarnation of this priest. 38. so that thy light is in me& its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. there is a secret door that i shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (these are the adorations, as thou hast written, as it is said, the light is mine; its rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra and tum, of khephra and of ahathoor. i am thy t

memory, the reference to the new language is this "there shall be ancient and occult language used with new meanings and a new language used with ancient and occult meanings (key #1) why should it be like remembering, this thing of approaching and absorbing the new language? to answer that one, we have to seem to veer off topic to a subject near and dear to the heart of most of the occult world: reincarnation. as i once told you many centuries back, there's no such thing as reincarnation but there is such a thing as survival of the being's highest parts. and that is the key to the "why" of the question. the elect setian magician is going to build and fortify those parts of himself which are the finest, most precise, and highest aspects of being; these can be stopped only by opting to give

th about this or any other subject to others in order to prove any point; crowley-like, i believe in each man cutting his own path through the jungle. we can use the thoughts and conclusions of others to form our own approaches, but we have read in the book of coming forth by night of the texts of others and affronts to the self. occultists for many an age have found reassurance in the concept of reincarnation. those seeking information from the good mr. webster will find the word to mean "1. rebirth (of the soul) in another body; 2. a new incarnation; 3. the doctrine that the soul reappears after death in another and different bodily form" such a doctrine goes a long way toward dispelling the fear of not-being, in that it refutes oblivion as the final chapter of our individual books; its

s and am obsessed with the desire to know and understand. the thought of saying that i have the final answer strikes me as presumptuous and i refuse to pontificate. nonetheless, there are intuitive thoughts which are marked in their refusal to be done away with. if past magi have carefully chosen their words in the realm of immortality, i can do no less. the magus aleister crowley claimed to be a reincarnation of the xxvi dynasty priest, ankh-f-n-khonsu, an understanding he arrived at from magical workings dealing with the stele of revealing. he may have been guilty to a certain degree of becoming intoxicated, as huxley described it, with the idea, and yet he does not make an issue of the exact how except indirectly by expounding his word, thelema, and thereby leaving the door open for eac

marked by "peace) mulford q. sibley quotes hobbes as having said that we do not. by nature seek society for its own sake, but that we may receive some honor or profit from it; these we desire primarily, that secondarily. all this leads up to and reinforces the fact that magus lavey did not feel that it was necessary to round out one's life by partaking of the great abstinence. neither did he feel reincarnation to have been the answer "if people were able to divorce themselves from the stigma attached to personal ego-fulfillment" he wrote "they would not need to play self-deceitful games such as belief in reincarnation as a means of satisfying their natural need for ego-fulfillment" magus lavey, like ouspensky, understood that reincarnation, transmigration, karma, and all theories dealing w

nation as a means of satisfying their natural need for ego-fulfillment" magus lavey, like ouspensky, understood that reincarnation, transmigration, karma, and all theories dealing with the survival of the self were actually approaches to the relationships of the human soul to time. his method of passing this on was taught through an insistence on rejecting self-deceit. he knew perfectly well that reincarnation, karma, and the other theories needed to be viewed as symbols which hid deeper meanings behind their facades. he was himself also perfectly aware that in order to be seen as viable, both theories and symbols must conform to workable applications in the real world [the abolishment of self-deceit starts on a basic level and then works its way upward- as the expertise increases, so does

acades. he was himself also perfectly aware that in order to be seen as viable, both theories and symbols must conform to workable applications in the real world [the abolishment of self-deceit starts on a basic level and then works its way upward- as the expertise increases, so does the ability to create and utilize the tools at hand] the satanic bible does not devote a great deal of its time to reincarnation, having dismissed it as kheft, and neither does it discuss survival of the self in any great detail beyond advocating self-awareness over self-deception, and thereby more or less indirectly opening the door to survival techniques. i suspect the reason is that anton lavey's philosophy and word revolved around dealing with the here and now rather than a nebulous future. the satanists o

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

r babies entering the birth canal, he commenced to feel a low irritation at the other's refusal to fall in plain fashion. saladin nosedived while farishta embraced air, hugging it with his arms and legs, a flailing, overwrought actor without techniques of restraint. below, cloud-covered, awaiting their entrance, the slow congealed currents of the english sleeve, the appointed zone of their watery reincarnation "o, my shoes are japanese" gibreel sang, translating the old song into english in semi-conscious deference to the uprushing host-nation "these trousers english, if you please. on my head, red russian hat; my heart's indian for all that" the clouds were bubbling up towards them, and perhaps it was on account of that great mystification of cumulus and cumulo-nimbus, the mighty rolling

m i? let's put it this way: who has the best tunes? these were the first words gibreel farishta said when he awoke on the snowbound english beach with the improbability of a starfish by his ear "born again, spoono, you and me. happy birthday, mister; happy birthday to you" whereupon saladin chamcha coughed, spluttered, opened his eyes, and, as befitted a new-born babe, burst into foolish tears. 2 reincarnation was always a big topic with gibreel, for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the indian movies, even before he "miraculously" defeated the phantom bug that everyone had begun to believe would terminate his contracts. so maybe someone should have been able to forecast, only nobody did, that when he was up and about again he would sotospeak succeed where the germs had fail

lt. he was a kindly man, which he disguised with insults and noise. to console the orphaned youth he would speak to him, in the blue office, about the philosophy of rebirth, convincing him that his parents were already being scheduled for re-entry somewhere, unless of course their lives had been so holy that they had attained the final grace. so it was mhatre who started farishta off on the whole reincarnation business, and not just reincarnation. the babasaheb was an amateur psychic, a tapper of table-legs and a bringer of spirits into glasses "but i gave that up" he told his prot g, with many suitably melodramatic inflections, gestures, frowns "after i got the fright of my bloody life" once (mhatre recounted) the glass had been visited by the most co-operative of spirits, such a too-frie

point" she came back to stand in front of him "you're alive" she told him "you got your life back _that's_ the point" he told rekha: the moment she turned around and started walking back i fell in love with her. alleluia cone, climber of mountains, vanquisher of everest, blonde yahudan, ice queen. her challenge _change your life, or did you get it back for nothing, i couldn't resist "you and your reincarnation junk" rekha cajoled him "such a nonsense head. you come out of hospital, back through death's door, and it goes to your head, crazy boy, at once you must have some escapade thing, and there she is, hey presto, the blonde mame. don't think i don't know what you're like, gibbo, so what now, you want me to forgive you or what" no need, he said. he left rekha's apartment (its mistress we

er he spent without going to sleep the more talkative he became, he began to regale the hostages, the hijackers, as well as the dilapidated crew of flight 420, those formerly scornful stewardesses and shining flight-deck personnel who were now looking mournfully moth-eaten in a corner of the plane and even losing their earlier enthusiasm for endless games of rummy- with his increasingly eccentric reincarnation theories, comparing their sojourn on that airstrip by the oasis of al-zamzam to a second period of gestation, telling everybody that they were all dead to the world and in the process of being regenerated, made anew. this idea seemed to cheer him up somewhat, even though it made many of the hostages want to string him up, and he leapt up on to a seat to explain that the day of their

seat to explain that the day of their release would be the day of their rebirth, a piece of optimism that calmed his audience down "strange but true" he cried "that will be day zero, and because we will all share the birthday we will all be exactly the same age from that day on, for the rest of our lives. how do you call it when fifty kids come out of the same mother? god knows. fiftuplets. damn" reincarnation, for frenzied gibreel, was a term beneath whose shield many notions gathered a-babeling: phoenix-from-ashes, the resurrection of christ, the transmigration, at the instant of death, of the soul of the dalai lama into the body of a new-born child. such matters got mixed up with the avatars of vishnu, the metamorphoses of jupiter, who had imitated vishnu by adopting the form of a bull;

SATANGEL

laces the child within the womb of mary. the ruler of the cherubim and the governor of eden, said to sit on the left side of god, some theologians have made a case for gabri-el being female. if such is so she is the only female angel of the higher echelons known by name. in occult lore she is often associated with childbirth, and with escorting the invariably complaining soul from paradise to its reincarnation in the womb of an earthly mother. she/he appears to zacharias to announce the coming of john the baptist, and again in daniel to tell him of the coming of a messiah, a message she repeats to mary in the annunciation. gabri-el lead the second war in heaven and was thus expelled like lucifer, but later forgiven and reinstated. during this time gabriel was replaced by the angel dobiel

about her waste and riding a large camel. tells fortunes, finds treasures, procures love. glasya-labolas (goetia, 25th spirit. president and earl commanding 36 legions. appears as a dog with griffin s wings. teaches arts and sciences instantly, authors bloodshed and murder, teaches past and future, causes the love of friends and foes, allows one to become invisible. glykon (gnostic/mithraic. the reincarnation of asklepios. demon with a human head and the body of a serpent. gremlin (u.k, u.s.a. these demons were first identified during the first world war, when they started messing around with air-planes and pilot s minds. in modern times, as technology has advanced, they have found even more arenas in which to play their pranks, such as computers, televisions, and telephones. gressil. fal

SATANIC BIBLE

op for the willingly impoverished, it is understandable that a philosophy which teaches the denial of the ego would serve a useful purpose- at least for those in power, to whom it would be detrimental if their people were discontented. but for anyone who has every opportunity for material gain, to choose this form of religious thought seems foolish, indeed! the eastern mystic believes strongly in reincarnation. to a person who has virtually nothing in this life, the possibility that he may have been a king in a past life or may be one in the next life is very attractive, and does much to appease his need for self-respect. if there is nothing in which they can take pride in this life, they can console themselves by thinking "there are always future lives" it never occurs to the believer in

hich they can take pride in this life, they can console themselves by thinking "there are always future lives" it never occurs to the believer in reincarnation that if his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, etc. had developed "good karmas, by their adherence to the same beliefs and ethics as his present ones- then why is he now living in privation, rather than like a maharajah? belief in reincarnation provides a beautiful fantasy world in which a person can find the proper avenue of ego-expression, but at the same time claim to have dissolved his ego. this is emphasized by the roles people choose for themselves in their past or future lives. believers in reincarnation do not always choose an honorable character. if the person is of a highly respectable and conservative nature, he

nd conservative nature, he will often choose a colorful rogue or gangster, thereby fulfilling his alter-ego. or, a woman who has much social status may pick a harlot or famous courtesan for the characterization of herself in a past life. if people were able to divorce themselves from the stigma attached to personal egofulfillment, they would not need to play self-deceitful games such as belief in reincarnation as a means of satisfying their natural need for ego-fulfillment. the satanist believes in complete gratification of his ego. satanism, in fact, is the only religion which advocates the intensification or encouragement of the ego. only if a person's own ego is sufficiently fulfilled, can he afford to be kind and complimentary to others, without robbing himself of his self-respect. we

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

ual dimensions. trinity: in christianity, the union of the father, son, and holy spirit as three divine persons in one god. tsukiyomi: the shinto moon-god and the ruler of night. ujiko: a named child whose name is entered at birth at the local shinto shrine. upanishads: the core of hindu philosophy; collections of texts, originally part of the vedas, that explain such core hindu beliefs as karma, reincarnation, nirvana, the soul, and brahman. urvan: the soul. vaishnavaism: a major sect of hinduism, which sees vishnu( the preserver) as the central god. vedas: the chief sacred scriptures of hinduism; knowledge, wisdom, or vision. xxx world religions: almanac words to know virgin birth: the christian belief that jesus christ was the son of god and born of a virgin mother. vishnu: also called

as strict about maintaining the belief that there was no supreme being or god. when the mahayana school formed, a number of deities, or gods, developed out of it. these deities, called bodhisattvas, assist mahayana buddhists 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 thirteen

religious traditions. it focuses the mind and prepares it to understand or receive higher forms of knowledge or insight. there are two mahayana deities mahayana buddhists believe in bodhisattvas, figures who have achieved enlightenment but have turned away from nirvana to help others. in mahayana practice, bodhisattvas have become like minor gods and saints. the most powerful of them are awaiting reincarnation in heaven, which is not the same thing as achieving nirvana. mahayana buddhists direct their prayers for assistance to the bodhisattvas. the most popular of the mahayana bodhisattvas is avalokitesvara, a god of compassion or sympathy. able to take any form to help humans, this deity grants requests to people who chant his name. avalokitesvara can be represented as either a man or a w

the destroyer god, embodying the erotic and sexual. shivaism: a major sect of hinduism, which sees shiva( the destroyer) as the central god. swastika: a pictorial character that symbolizes the eternal nature of brahma because it points in all directions. upanishads: the core of hindu philosophy; collections of texts, originally part of the vedas, that explain such central hindu beliefs as karma, reincarnation, nirvana, the soul, and brahman. vaishnavaism: a major sect of hinduism, which sees vishnu( the preserver) as the central god. vedas: the chief sacred scriptures of hinduism; meaning knowledge, wisdom, or vision. vishnu: also called krishna; the preserver-god. 240 world religions: almanac hinduism history and development scholars (those who study a particular subject) debate the orig

erent paths. the upanishads, one of hinduism s sacred texts, declares that all paths lead to the same goal, just as cows of different colors all yield the same white milk. in the bhagavad gita, another 242 world religions: almanac hinduism about hinduism belief. hindus believe that all reality is a unity, expressed by the concept of brahman. they also believe in the transmigration of the soul, or reincarnation (rebirth, and that the quality of a person s next life is determined by his or her character in the present life. followers. hinduism is the third-largest religion in the world, with about 850 million to 1 billion followers. most hindus live in india, but there are significant hindu populations in other countries of south asia. name of god. hindus worship many aspects of the supreme

hteousness, duty, and religion) comes under threat, vishnu takes on one of ten incarnations, or physical forms, and travels from heaven to earth to set matters right. finally, hinduism recognizes shiva (often spelled siva, the destroyer. shiva embodies the erotic, or sexual, and is alternately compassionate and destructive. brahma, vishnu, and shiva can be thought of as the trinity of hindu gods. reincarnation and karma a core belief of hinduism has to do with the transmigration of the soul, what in the west is often called reincarnation. hindus believe that after death, one s soul is transferred into another body. thus, life consists of an ongoing cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth, continuing through many lifetimes, a cycle called samsara. during one s lifetime, a person accumulate

r happy state, though the word has a more specific meaning to hindus similar to the christian idea of heaven. hindus believe that the world s inequalities of wealth, suffering, and prestige are the result of karma. they are the inevitable result of previous acts, both in one s current life and in previous lives. verses from the upanishad, a sacred text, ask whether there is an end to the cycle of reincarnation. they maintain that the human soul( atman) is supreme and is responsible for all that it experiences. the chief topic of the katha upanishad explains using the analogy of a chariot, where the soul rules the chariot, which is the body; the reins are the world religions: almanac 247 hinduism mind, the horses are the senses, and the paths the chariot takes are the objects of the senses

is supreme and is responsible for all that it experiences. the chief topic of the katha upanishad explains using the analogy of a chariot, where the soul rules the chariot, which is the body; the reins are the world religions: almanac 247 hinduism mind, the horses are the senses, and the paths the chariot takes are the objects of the senses. one who lacks discipline never reaches his or her goal: reincarnation at a higher level, ultimately leading to wisdom and enlightenment and becoming one with brahma. guidelines for living another key belief of hindus has to do with how one s life should be organized, referred to as purusharthas. these activities are often called the four aims of hinduism or sometimes the doctrine of the fourfold end of life. the first three aims are dharma, referring t

ntury, largely because of their complexity. hindus are more likely to turn to the upanishads for day-to-day wisdom, for they form the core of indian and hindu philosophy, and while they are part of the vedas, they are thought of, in a sense, as separate from the vedas. the upanishads are a collection of texts handed down through oral tradition. the upanishads include such basic concepts as karma, reincarnation, nirvana, the soul, and brahma. they also describe meditation and self-realization. many authors wrote the upanishads. some were priests, but others were poets whose goal was to guide their students to spiritual wisdom. in fact, the word upanishad means sitting down near or sitting close to. it suggests the notion of a student listening to the teachings of a guru or spiritual master

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

in is a sign of one s own eternal self, and this one can no longer be limited to the role of informing one s own particular personality; the personality as such is simply one mode of appearance for the daimon, which cannot in principle be confined to a single personal manifestation. it has the power to inhabit many personalities and may shift from personality to personality. the important idea of reincarnation arises self-evidently from the premises of heraclitus thought. or rather, not just the idea but the experience of reincarnation. the idea merely goes before the experience; for when one becomes aware of the daimonic self within, one does not find something guiltless and simple. the daimon possesses particular characteristics. where do they originate? why do i possess such predisposit

ay, goethe and a hottentot? it is no more possible for a fish to develop from the ancestors of an ape than for goethe s spirit to issue from the same spiritual conditions as a savage; the spiritual ancestry is simply quite different. spirit as well as a body are in a process of evolving. goethe s spirit has more stages of development behind it than that of the savage. if we understand the idea of reincarnation in this 32 christianity as mystical fact evolutionary sense it need no longer be pronounced unscientific.34 it is a matter of knowing how to interpret the content of the soul and of not leaping to the idea of the miraculous. i am able to write because i learned how to do so; no one is able to sit down, having never held a pen, and write. what then of those with the spark of genius? i

rnach, switzerland, 1978. 192 christianity as mystical fact through knowing, because it is only created as reality through the act of our knowing.3 rudolf steiner s path to knowledge has absolutely no presuppositions. it is grounded in the experience of reality that is possible for every human being. any assumptions that arise from a particular world view, such as faith in a spiritual world or in reincarnation, would be just as problematic as the materialistic superstition of natural science. for this reason, when steiner developed a path of knowledge in his basic philosophical writings, the dogmatism of revealed religion was rejected just as sharply as the dogmatism of natural science. such truth can illuminate the path of knowledge only as a goal; it is dogma when placed at the beginning

ere are those who take a purely symbolic view of the written law. they inquire diligently after its spiritual meaning, but scorn the actual laws. but i can only blame such people, for they ought to observe both the hidden meaning and the obvious one (r.st) see philo, on the migration of abraham, 89. 33. daimon is used here in its greek sense of spiritual being (r.st. heraclitus, fragment 119. 34. reincarnation formed an important element in the thought of several pre-socratic thinkers, notably empedocles and of course pythagoras. rudolf steiner arrived at an understanding of reincarnation, not through ancient doctrines, but out of evolutionary and developmental ideas, and the factors that shape the life of modern individuals; see the re-embodiment of the spirit, ch. 2 in theosophy (anthrop

pre-socratic thinkers, notably empedocles and of course pythagoras. rudolf steiner arrived at an understanding of reincarnation, not through ancient doctrines, but out of evolutionary and developmental ideas, and the factors that shape the life of modern individuals; see the re-embodiment of the spirit, ch. 2 in theosophy (anthroposophic press, hudson, 216 christianity as mystical fact ny, 1994; reincarnation and karma: their significance for modern culture (anthroposophic press, hudson, ny, 1992. 35. empedocles, fragment 11. the main fragments of empedocles are included in kirk, raven, and schofield, the presocratic philosophers, pp. 280ff. 36. fragment 12. 37. fragment 15. all three fragments are from empedocles lost poem on nature. 38. cf. fragment 112. for further commentary by steine

TEXE MARRS CODEX MAGICA SECRET SIGNS MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS AND HIDDEN CODES OF THE ILLUMINATI

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

egend albert pike suggests that "this hieroglyphic picture, copied from an ancient egyptian monument, may enlighten you as to the lion's grip and the master's gavel" two standards of the ritual ceremony for the master degree. in the picture, the candidate, lying on the floor, is about to be "raised" by the powerful grip of the lion's paw. the lion is carrying in his right hand the ankh, symbol of reincarnation, or regeneration. the "x" on the man's chest tells us this is osiris, the sun god who was slain but arose from the dead, being pieced back together by his beautiful queen, isis "cross my heart and hope to die" 239 beginning on page 801 of albert pike's classic textbook, morals and dogma, we find an explanation of the 29th degree, grand scottish knight of st. andrew. 240 codex magica

ower. again, i remind you that it makes not one iota of difference what you believe. if they (the illuminati) believe, you will be affected.3 the spear as pentagram and lightning bolt the spear is a symbol of long-standing repute in the pagan and ancient mystery religions. in the egyptian religion, it was called the arrow of re, or ra, the sun god, who was also called horus, son of osiris and his reincarnation, who had the allseeing eye. anton lavey, in his book satan speaks, notes that the sign of the spear is actually the inverted pentagram.4 in turn, the pentagram (the satanic five-pointed star, according to lavey represents "excalibur, the spear of destiny, wotan's spear point, the lightning bolt that created the protoplasm of life."5 the rosicrucians and the sign of an arrow moreover

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

udaism ancient egypt and the afterlife egyptian book of the dead osiris: death and resurrection pyramid texts individual human experience with death and the afterlife deathbed visions near-death experiences the mystery schools dionysian mysteries eleusinian mysteries hermetic mysteries orphic mysteries pythagorus tribal religions burial mounds land of the grandparents how the major religions view reincarnation buddhism christianity hinduism islam judaism contemporary mystery schools and reincarnation akashic records anthroposophy association for research and enlightenment theosophy experiential quests into past lives hypnotic regression into past lives bridey murphy past-life therapy ian stevenson introduction children take the continuity of life for granted. it is the fact of death that h

those individuals who hold christian, islamic, or jewish religious beliefs, the soul is generally conceived as coming into existence with the birth of the body, and it would perish when the body perished if it were not for the supernatural intervention of god, who confers upon the soul an immortality that it could not otherwise attain. those whose view of the afterlife includes the possibility of reincarnation, past lives, and future incarnations have no doubt that the soul is immortal by its very nature. in their view, the existence of the soul did not begin when the body was born, so there is no reason to believe that it will cease to exist when the body dies. according to various doctrines of reincarnation, there are immutable spiritual laws which will determine whether the soul will be

ns did for their journey to the next life. death to the neanderthals may have even been regarded as a kind of sleep, perhaps like a rest before a rebirth, as corpses were carefully positioned in the fetal state. sources: burial, ritual, religion, and cannibalism. http//thunder.indstate. edu/ ramanank/ritual.html. 10 july 2001. oldest discovered burial site while many people consider the belief in reincarnation to be held primarily by the adherents of hinduism and some buddhist sects, the concept of past lives is by no means confined to these eastern religions. this chapter will examine many western philosophers, clerics, medical doctors, and scholars who have expressed an individual acceptance of a prior and continued existence in an earthly body, in addition to certain christian, islamic

nts of hinduism and some buddhist sects, the concept of past lives is by no means confined to these eastern religions. this chapter will examine many western philosophers, clerics, medical doctors, and scholars who have expressed an individual acceptance of a prior and continued existence in an earthly body, in addition to certain christian, islamic, and jewish sects that have also suggested that reincarnation may be one of the forms of survival after death. down through the centuries, the physical act of passage from one world to another at the moment of death has remained a mystery for the living. from time to time, one who had been resuscitated and brought back to life returned with an account of having stood at the edge of some vast unknown and uncharted world and having witnessed the

.e) theorized that in the beginning, god had created a certain number of spirit entities who received physical bodies or spiritual bodies as determined by their respective merits. some might be appointed human forms, while others, according to their conduct, would be elevated to angelic status, or relegated to the position of demons. such a concept of the preexistence of souls seemed too close to reincarnation for those learned christian scholars assembled for the first council of constantinople in 543. by then, church doctrine had decreed that it was given each soul to live once, to die, and then to await the day of judgement when christ returned to earth. despite his prestige as a learned and wise church father, origen s views were condemned as heretical. the prevailing view of the early

eeper ferm, vergilious, ed. ancient religions. new york: philosophical library, 1950. gaster, dr. theodor h, ed. the new golden bough. new york: criterion books, 1959. larousse dictionary of beliefs and religions. new york: larousse, 1994. hermetic mysteries the hermes trismegistus (the thrice greatest hermes, who set forth the esoteric doctrines of the ancient egyptian priesthood, recognized the reincarnation of impious souls and the achievement of pious souls when they know god and become all intelligence. hermes was the name the greeks gave to the egyptian god thoth, the god of wisdom, learning, and literature. to hermes was given the title scribe of the gods, and he is said to have authored 42 sacred books, the hermetic mysteries, which contained a wide assortment of secret wisdom. the

eries war rages, so it is the duty of each human to repress the titanic element and allow the dionysian an opportunity to assert itself. the final release of the divine essence within, the redemption of the soul, is the utmost goal of the orphic process. this process may best be obtained by the soul reincarnating in a number of physical bodies in different life experiences. 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. as the soul inhabits the body, it is really doing penance for previous incarnations, a process which gradually purifies the soul. between lifetimes

r food as an offering to the souls of the departed. m delving deeper emerson, ellen russell. indian myths. minneapolis: ross& haines, 1965. 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 40 afterlife mysteries gill, sam d, and irene f. sullivan. dictionary of native american mythology. new york: oxford university press, 1992. how the major religions view reincarnation reincarnation, the belief that the soul of a man or woman who has died will later be born again into another physical body, is an ancient doctrine, ancient even at the time of the greek and roman empires. plato (c. 428 348 b.c.e) alludes to reincarnation in many of his essays, and he seems to be speaking of the law of karma, the spiritual balance of cause and effect, in book x of law

better; and in every succession of life and death you will do and suffer what life may fitly suffer at the hands of life. cicero s (106 43 b.c.e) treatise on glory concedes that the counsels of the divine mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for some sins committed in a former life. plotinus (205 270 c.e, in the second ennead, writes that reincarnation is a dogma recognized throughout antiquity the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and afterwards passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials. reincarnation is not an approved doctrine in any of the orthodox christian, islamic, or judaic religions, which all hold fast to the belief that there is but one lifetime, one day of judgment, and a heavenly

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 3

sychic readings. a parapsychologist is generally a member of the parapsychological association, which was founded in 1957 and elected an affiliate of the american association for the advancement of science in 1969. a parapsychologist is a scientist who is seriously interested in the paranormal (or anomalous phenomena, which includes telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, hauntings, reincarnation, and out-of-body or near-death experi- 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 mysteries of the mind 157 yoga is used as a form of relaxation (the gale group) ences. here are brief definitions of the areas of esp that are studied by parapsychologists: clairvoyance is the awareness, without physical aids or normal sensory means, of wha

e of the person s immediate family and decides the most harmonious spot for the urn of bones to be placed. it is of utmost importance that the priest find a place where the spirit of the deceased will be happy among its surviving family members, or the spirit may return to punish those it deems disrespectful of its physical remains. for buddhists, funerals are happy occasions, for they believe in reincarnation. death in the present life frees the soul from dukkha (worldly existence) and returns it to the path that leads to nirvana, where all misery and karma cease. the coffin of one who has died in the buddhist belief system is taken to the funeral hall in a brightly decorated carriage. the coffin is carried three times around the buddhist temple or funeral hall and then brought in where i

ir last respects until the formal service begins. the minister or priest conducts a service during which selections from the bible that speak of the resurrection of the dead are read, 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 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends 223 forbuddhists, funerals are happy occasions, for they believe in reincarnation. prayers are offered, and hymns are sung. if it is a roman catholic funeral, the priest will celebrate the mass in remembrance of the last meal that jesus shared with his disciples before his crucifixion. after the service is concluded, pallbearers carry the closed coffin to a hearse, which carries it to the place of burial. family and friends follow on foot or in automobiles in a fu

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

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

ought to contain a dynamic energy of its own. this energy is capable 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 magic and sorcery 73 witchcraft is also referred to as the gold religion. h being transmitted by means of mental activity and can be used to transmute other forms of energy into matter. witchcraft/wicca generally accepts the doctrines of reincarnation and karma but rejects the idea of original sin. witches believe that the human spirit is at birth like a blank page upon which one fs actions and experiences write the details of one fs character. this is somewhat qualified by the belief that the ways in which individuals will react to their experiences during a particular incarnation is to a large extent determined by the karmic pat

r arcana follow humankind fs spiritual pilgrimage toward the state of final perfection. the minor arcana trace humanity fs journey through time. essential to the 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 128 prophecy and divination stella horrocks in an automatic writing session (fortean picture library) understanding of the tarot is the doctrine of reincarnation, which teaches that each soul must experience birth into both sexes and all five races before it can attain final perfection. the tarot, which some authorities describe as one of the world fs oldest books disguised as a pack of playing cards, has remained a popular method of divining the future. combining esoteric wisdom with the hebrew system of numbers, many individuals maintain th

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

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

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

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

tutors of your kind, we can do nothing else but condemn your acts; know this: you are rigorously supervised by a superior race who will never permit you to come to the disaster of a 'nuclear war" mr. siragusa was reprogramed in the classic manner of all fanatics, and he has been used to disseminate propaganda couched in terms understandable and acceptable to us. the messages include references to reincarnation, politics, and religion, but not within the loftier intellectual framework of some alien "superior culture" instead of telling us things we do not know, they tell us the things we want to hear and believe. our own fear of nuclear annihilation was epidemic in the 1950s and early 1960s. so many of the ufo messages of the period were stern warnings about our misuse of atomic energy. as

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

kabbalist however, can only be a person who ascribes no significance to reward but strives to find the truth. it is true that there are very few such people, but the numbers increase significantly with each passing generation. there are cases where one comes to a certain point in his quest for truth and then gradually leaves. the reason for that will be explained in further detail in the study of reincarnation. all the worlds (this world included) are inner states inside us. we will find them nowhere outside us. in other words, it is not us who are inside the worlds, but the worlds are inside us. outside us there is only the creator, the simple upper light. people in our world are convinced that they are inside some kind of existence, a reality that was created before we came inside it. bu

ne is unable to correct himself when he gets it as a gift from above without prior efforts to create the screen. it has nothing to do with the evolution of an ordinary soul in the path of correction; it is just something that the creator needed to do according to his own program of development of unification and separation of souls. that is why he did it. if we could see the entire picture of the reincarnation of souls we would understand why the creator acts this or that way with a certain soul. but no person, meaning there is not a part of our collective soul that can attain the goal, the spiritual degree of the creator before it is corrected. the creator will allow no one, under any conditions, into the spiritual world without a spiritual effort. if he did, one would be unable to create

ould have been able to calculate and determine for ourselves what the right combination of the parts of the collective soul should be, what the ratio should be and which parts they should be combined with in order to correct them. we would see and understand the reason for everything that happens. kabbalists see the collective picture either fully or partially. for example, the ari explains about reincarnation in his book shaar hagilgulim (the gate of reincarnations. he not only saw the entire picture of the cycle of correction of the souls, but also was given permission to describe it. the only sign by which it is possible to determine if one is permitted to study kabbalah is his desire for spirituality, his genuine desire. the study of the kabbalah is not meant for any magic or witchcraf

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

casting. when the magus calls upon a spirit to perform a task, he or she is really opening a door into the unmanifest through the point of the true self, and it is his or her own higher potential that transforms desire into reality. yet even though the form of a spirit is an illusion, it still has the power to kill should the magus be foolish enough to grant it the right to do so. the question of reincarnation is a vexing one to eastern minds. since the con- cept has not been a part of the western psyche since the advent of the christian era, it seldom troubles practitioners of the hermetic art unless they have steeped themselves in buddhist or hindu philosophy. however, it is useful to place rein- carnation in the context of the unmanifest. there are two views of reincarnation. the first

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

son named anpu (anubis, though he is not mentioned in the legend. of these gods osiris is singled out for special mention in the legend, in which khepera, speaking as neb-er-tcher, says that his name is ausares, who is the essence of the primeval matter of which he himself is formed. thus osiris was of the same substance as the great god who created the world according to the egyptians, and was a reincarnation of his great-grandfather. this portion of the legend helps to explain the views held about osiris as the great ancestral spirit, who when on earth was a benefactor of mankind, and who when in heaven was the saviour of souls. the legend speaks of the sun as the eye of khepera, or neb-er-tcher, and refers to some calamity which befell it and extinguished its light. this calamity may ha

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

ot been taught by these great initiated hindustani yogis; if this has not been published in the books of yoga, it was precisely to avoid scandals. sex is the stumbling stone and the rock of scandal. you can be absolutely sure that those yogis who do not practice sexual magic will never achieve birth in the superior worlds. the one who affirms the contrary is a liar, an impostor. astrology in each reincarnation the human being is born under a different star. a wise man stated: i raise my eyes towards the stars that will come to my rescue; nonetheless, i always follow the star which leads my interior. indeed, that star is always the same; it does not change in any of our reincarnations. it is the star of the father. thus, what is most important for us is to incarnate that star of the father

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

ale [2] see note 1 (page 188- i must first explain why i claim to speak of things note generally known. i have been interested in magic and kindred subjects all my life, and have made a collection of? magical instruments and charms. these studies led me to spiritualist and other societies, and i met some people who claimed to have known me in a past life. here i must say that, though i believe in reincarnation, as most people do who have lived in the east, i do not remember any past lives, albeit i have had curious experiences. i only wish i did. anyhow, i soon found myself in the circle and took the usual oaths of secrecy which bound me not to reveal any secrets of the cult. but, as it is a dying cult, i thought it was a pity that all the knowledge should be lost, so in the end i was perm

ep in and out if they wish to, but this involves some loss of power, so they avoid doing so as much as possible. people try to make me say that in the rites skulls and other repulsive things are used. i have never seen such things; but they tell me that in the old days sometimes, when the high priest was not present, a skull and crossbones was used to represent the god, death and resurrection (or reincarnation. nowadays the high priestess stands in a position representing the skull and crossbones, or death, and moves to another position, a pentacle, representing resurrection, during the rites. i expect the old village herbalist type of witch may have used skulls and bones and other things to impress people because they were expected to. they were good psychologists, and if a patient was co

nto existence and woman was her priestess. probably at the same time the men had a hunter's god, who presided over the animals. later, perhaps, came the idea of a future life and thoughts of the next world as being an unhappy place unless you could attain to the abode of the gods, a sort of paradise. this was thought of as a place cf rest and refreshment where one would grow young again ready for reincarnation on earth. primitive man feared to be born again outside his own tribe, so his ritual prayers to his god were that he might be born again in the same place and at the same time as his loved ones, and that he might remember and love them again. the god who rules this paradise must, i think, have been death, but somehow he is identified with the hunting god and wears his horns. this god

there was an organised tribal religion, with a male tribal god, and an order of priestesses and their husbands who looked after the magic. the chief priest of the tribal cult was dominant when he attended their meetings, but in his absence the priestess ruled. my witches speak of him as god of 'death and what lies beyond: by this they not only mean the life in the next world but resurrection (or reincarnation. he rules a sort of happy hunting ground, where ordinary folk go and forgather with like-minded people; it may be pleasant or unpleasant according to your nature. according 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

folk go and forgather with like-minded people; it may be pleasant or unpleasant according to your nature. according 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

dicite' the perfects also adored each other, though this adoration was not directed towards themselves but towards the holy spirit who had descended upon them. the church charged the catharists with believing and teaching that they could freely indulge in all kinds of pleasures or debaucheries until they entered the circle of perfects; that their souls wandered about from one creature to another (reincarnation) until they became perfects, and then ascended to heaven at death. they were also charged with persuading people not to give money to the church. there were similar sects known as waldenses and albigenses. we know practically only what the church tells us about them and she makes identical charges against them all, with witchcraft thrown in for good measure. crusades were organised

aelic writers give us a fair idea of the high estimation the natives had for their druids, and both in gaul and in ireland it was believed that the cult originated in britain. so they sent their 'theological students' there to learn its doctrines from the purest source. pliny the elder tells us that britain 'might have taught magic to persia. we know little of their teachings but they believed in reincarnation. 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

hin knitting needles. a scratch caused paralysis in about thirty seconds; death followed in a few minutes. i never ran so fast before or after; but i couldn't catch up with the others of the party. 3- witch beliefs exactly what the present-day witch believes i find it hard to say, i know one who goes to church at times, though she is, at best, only an occasional conformist. she firmly believes in reincarnation, as many christians do. how she or they reconcile it with 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 a

esses who were identified with diana and aphrodite, so it would be only natural for romans who wished to worship their own old gods, who had no temples, to call on and worship these. this influx might have brought about some changes in the cult, but the main objects would i think be unaltered. what they wanted was prosperity and fertility for the tribe, a life after death in happy conditions, and reincarnation into their tribe or nation. slowly these people came to be on speaking and trading terms with the saxons, probably combining together against the various viking invasions. then christianity came back again. the kings and townspeople accepted it, but the country people, the pagans (pagani people dwelling in the country, the villagers, the heathens (the 'people of the heaths, were main

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

it will grow; the test is its willingness to 'strive ever to more; it justifies 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 undulatio

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

here without let or hindrance. it is built by the power of the lower mind, of the highest type of astral matter. microcosm. the little universe, or man manifesting through his body, the physical body. monad. the one. the threefold spirit on its own plane. in occultism it often means the unified triad atma, buddhi, manas; spiritual will, intuition and higher mind, or the immortal part of man which reincarnates in the lower kingdoms and gradually progresses through them to man and thence to the final goal- 129- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust nirmanakaya. those perfected beings who renounce nirvana (the highest state of spiritual bliss) and choose a life of self-sacrifice, becoming members of that invisible host which ever protects humanity within karmic limits. perman

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

erseded, being still potent) with the law of attraction, which is the fundamental law of the divine self. it is the failure to realise this which has resulted in the confusion existing in the minds of many metaphysicians as to which demonstrated first, desire or will, and as to the distinction between them, between impulse and purpose, and between instinct and intention. in the earlier stages man reincarnates under the law- 453- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust of economy, and though the will aspect lies back of the process, yet for a long time it is the pull of sensation and its reflex in consciousness, desire, which produces rebirth. sensation, being a quality in matter or substance, the self in the beginning identifies itself with sensation. later, when the self is b

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

hich will enable a man to become a member of the kingdom of god. 5. it accounts for the differences among men and in connection with the law of cause and effect (called the law of karma in the east) it accounts for differences in circumstances and attitudes to life. 6. it is the expression of the will aspect of the soul and is not the result of any form decision; it is the soul in all forms which reincarnates, choosing and building suitable physical, emotional and mental vehicles through which to learn the next needed lessons. 7. the law of rebirth (as far as humanity is concerned) comes into activity upon the soul plane. incarnation is motivated and directed from the soul level, upon the mental plane. 8. souls incarnate in groups, cyclically, under law and in order to achieve right relati

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

s the time factor in his relations and his dealings with those living upon the physical plane, but is detached within himself from all recognition of it elsewhere in the universe. therefore the use of the term "immortality" infers timelessness and teaches that this timelessness exists for that which is not perishable or conditioned by time. this is a statement requiring careful consideration. man reincarnates under no time urge. he incarnates under the demands of karmic liability, under the pull of that which he, as a soul, has initiated, and because of a sensed- 239- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust need to fulfill instituted obligations; he incarnates also from a sense of responsibility and to meet requirements which an earlier breaking

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

hrough the symbolism of the human being that we arrive at understanding of the great life which includes us all in its existence [163] the chrysalis symbol sagittarius, curiously enough, has been called the chrysalis stage; the man is neither one thing nor the other. in the chrysalis you have the strange triplicity of the caterpillar, the chrysalis and the butterfly. the caterpillar, we are told, reincarnates five times; it sloughs its skin five times, five is the number of man. then there comes that curious happening in the life of the caterpillar where there is a complete change, and from a thing crawling about prompted by desire, eating all the time, there comes the stage of the chrysalis. what goes on in that chrysalis stage is a most mysterious happening. we are told that inside the h

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ever, degraded men- not the closest approximation to the "pithecoid man" as haeckel so sweepingly affirms. only a portion of these men are a lemurian relic (cf "esoteric buddhism" p.55* in calling the animal "soulless" it is not depriving the beast, from the humblest to the highest species, of a "soul" but only of a conscious surviving ego-soul, i.e, that principle which survives after a man, and reincarnates in a like man. the animal has an astral body, that survives the physical form for a short period; but its (animal) monad does not re-incarnate in the same, but in a higher species, and has no "devachan" of course. it has the seeds of all the human principles in itself, but they are latent "manual of geology" p. 302[[vol. 2, page] 197 the separation of sexes. thing of the oolitic type

farvarshi, who am ahura mazda, the greatest, the best, the fairest of all beings, the most solid, the most intelligent. and whose soul is the holy word (mathra spenta. the french orientalists translate farvarshi by "ferouer" now what is a ferouer, or farvarshi? in some mazdean works (e.g, ormazd ahriman, 112, 113, it is plainly implied that farvarshi is the inner, immortal man (or that ego which reincarnates; that it existed before its physical body and survives all such it happens to be clothed in "not only man was endowed with the farvarshi, but gods too, and the sky, fire, waters, and plants (introduction to the vendidad, by j. darmesteter. this shows as plainly as can be shown that the ferouer is the "spiritual counterpart" of whether god, animal, plant, or even element, i.e, the refi

the "spiritual soul" buddhi, and nephesh the 4th principle, the vital, animal soul. eliphas levi falls into the same error[[vol. 2, page] 634 the secret doctrine. this is a very fair representation of the number of the "principles" of occultism, but much confused; and this is what we call the 7 principles in man, and what mr. massey calls "souls" giving the same name to the ego or the monad which reincarnates and resurrects, so to speak, at each rebirth, as the egyptians did, namely "the renewed" but how can ruach (spirit) be lodged in kama-rupa? what does bohme, the prince of all the mediaeval seers, say "we find seven especial properties in nature whereby this only mother works all things (which he calls- fire, light, sound (the upper three) and desire, bitterness, anguish, and substanti

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

of light, complemented this worldview in its attempt to shine the divine light on the individual s life. as a teacher, astrological knowledge attempted to dispel the darkness of illusion and assist the person to understand the purpose of the soul s present incarnation. the birth chart pictures the consequences or karma that the person brings into this incarnation (indians believing that the soul reincarnates in a series of embodied existences either as humans or animals. while at times, as in western astrology, astrological interpretation has fallen into a fatalistic mode, contemporary vedic astrologers, drawing on the optimistic spirit of the vedic literature, specifically eschew such a view. they emphasize that the natal chart offers a picture of karmic influences but also shows indicat

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ether in kosmos or in man, and the logos, whether universe or astral body, the emanation of the former, the physical body being merely the animal. our external powers perceive phenomena; our nous alone is able to recognize their noumena. it is the logos alone, or the noumenon, that survives, because it is immortal in its very nature and essence, and the logos in man is the eternal ego, that which reincarnates and lasts forever. but how can the evanescent or external shadow, the temporary clothing of that divine emanation which returns to the source whence it proceeded, be that which is raised in incorruptibility? q. still you can hardly escape the charge of having invented a new division of man's spiritual and psychic constituents; for no philosopher speaks of them, though you believe that

ineal gland, which he describes as a horny gland with a little sand in it, which gland is in truth the very seat of the highest and divinest consciousness in man, his omniscient, spiritual and all-embracing mind. and this shows to you still more plainly that we have neither invented these seven principles, nor are they new in the world of philosophy, as we can easily prove. q. but what is it that reincarnates, in your belief? a. the spiritual thinking ego, the permanent principle in man, or that which is the seat of manas. it is not atma, or even atma-buddhi, regarded as the dual monad, which is the individual, or divine man, but manas; for atma is the universal all, and becomes the higher-self of man only in conjunction with buddhi, its vehicle, which links it to the individuality (or div

ce, abstractions "and working hypotheses" which they have neither seen, touched, smelt, heard, nor tasted-why should not other people believe, on the same principle, in one's permanent ego, a far more logical and important "working hypothesis" than any other? q. what is, finally, this mysterious eternal principle? can you explain its nature so as to make it comprehensible to all? a. the ego which reincarnates, the individual and immortal-not personal-"i; the vehicle, in short, of the atma-buddhic monad, that which is rewarded in devachan and punished on earth, and that, finally, to which the reflection only of the skandhas, or attributes, of every incarnation attaches itself. there are five skandhas or attributes in the buddhist teachings: rupa (form or body, material qualities; vedana, se

of mind" or mind-born sons; a name given to our higher egos before they incarnated in mankind. in the exoteric though allegorical and symbolical pur nas (the sacred and ancient writings of hindus, it is the title given to the mind-born sons of brahm, the kum ra. manas sutratman (sans) two words meaning mind (manas) and thread soul (sutratman. it is, as said, the synonym of our ego, or that which reincarnates. it is a technical term of vedantic philosophy. manas-taijas (sans) lit, the "radiant" manas; a state of the higher ego which only high metaphysicians are able to realize and comprehend. the same as "buddhi-taijas (see above. mantras (sans) verses from the vedic works, used as incantations and charms. by mantras are meant all those portions of the vedas which are distinct from the br

principles, three of which constitute the higher triad, and the remaining four the lower quaternary. it is in the latter that dwells the personality which embraces all the characteristics, including memory and consciousness, of each physical life in turn. the individuality is the higher ego (manas) of the triad considered as a unity. in other words the individuality is our imperishable ego which reincarnates and clothes itself in a new personality at every new birth. phallic worship or sex worship; reverence and adoration shown to those gods and goddesses which, like shiva and durga in india, symbolize respectively the two sexes. philadelphians lit "those who love their brother-man" a sect in the seventeenth century, founded by one jane leadly. they objected to all rites, forms, or ceremo

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

l the secular teachings within it, which are its seven little daughters--baal hasulam introduction to the book the tree of life, item 4 as one cannot sustain one s body without some knowledge of the corporeal arrangements of nature just so one s soul has no viability in the next world, except by acquiring some knowledge of the arrangements of the nature of the systems of the spiritual worlds. one reincarnates until one is granted the attainment of the wisdom of truth through and through--baal hasulam from my flesh shall i see god science is generally divided into two parts. one is called material knowledge; the other is called formative knowledge. that part of the science that engages in the quality of the materials of reality in both mere substances without their form and in substances an

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

rishna about these matters, arjuna firmly asserts, i will not fight. krishna smiles, and then responds to his friend with an extended discourse on the nature of life, death, and ultimate reality. with respect to the soul and death, krishna reminds arjuna of certain truths of classical hinduism: the real human being, as opposed to our false sense of self, is the soul, not the body. the soul, which reincarnates in different, successive bodies, is eternal and basically changeless. because we are all eternal souls, who can ever really die? and for that matter, who can ever really kill? krishna further asserts that, as the supreme deity of the universe, he is about to take the lives of arjuna s enemies anyway. thus if arjuna takes up the fight, he will merely be the instrument of god s will. it

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

is no retirement from solitude, and, when we fear it, conscience is actively malignant. only dominant desire shall compel us to do what we want to do successfully. nature is an integrating principle, never compelling uniformity. i do know, not only that i know but also what little i know of my own omniscience. i dreamed the psychic world was a concurrent inverse devolution; man, failing as human, reincarnates as a caricature of the beast. the price of identity is suffering. i< 3= x( 6 2..1. 5< z. x- e..q present behaviour is too bloody for words. space is the limit of probabilities; time, of the immediately possible. lies 6. 9= k 9( e..1. 2 o 3> z@ e..1 p- live. whatever lie you state could be true. at one time, at another time, but not at this time and place. we must first create a suitab

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

, it will grow; the test is its willingness to 'strive ever to more; it justifies 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 undulati

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

he in another, such that the reincarnated man needs to be matched up with a different reincarnated woman. who also lacks her [original] mate [in this incarnation].that is similar to him [in merits. matching up such a couple is indeed a very difficult thing inasmuch as they are different in nature [not having originated from the same soul-root. it is therefore difficult to get them together. these reincarnates are called gindividuals h.[literally, gsingles h].because each one is by itself, separated from its [real] soul-mate. such marriages are referred to as being done gagainst the parties f wills. h this does not apply to the wedding, for then everyone is happy gon the day of their wedding and on the day of their hearts f rejoicing. h20 the difficulty lies only in sustaining the marriage

commandment, it is similar to sticking a finger in an eye: he injures what he already possesses. a gblemish h on the soul is thus caused by transgressing a passive commandment, by doing something one should not do. this is the meaning of the phrase, ghis children [suffer] their blemish. h g-d, however, may he be blessed, gmakes plans so that no one pushed away will be pushed away [forever. h10 he reincarnates the person two and three times [in order to give him the opportunity to rectify his wrongdoings in subsequent incarnations. this is the meaning of the phrase, ga stubborn and twisted generation. h he brings the person into the world the first time, and he sins. he then has to be reincarnated a second time in order to rectify [his wrongdoings, but instead he makes things worse. thus, h

e times [in order to give him the opportunity to rectify his wrongdoings in subsequent incarnations. this is the meaning of the phrase, ga stubborn and twisted generation. h he brings the person into the world the first time, and he sins. he then has to be reincarnated a second time in order to rectify [his wrongdoings, but instead he makes things worse. thus, he is called gstubborn. h [g-d] then reincarnates him a third time, but the individual returns to his folly. this is the meaning of gtwisted. h therefore, he continues, gshall you do this to g-d? h he acts for your good, but you anger him. the arizal now returns to verse 3, gwhen i proclaim the name of g-d, give greatness to our g-d. h an alternative explanation [of this verse: moses said, gwhen i call upon the name of g-d. h he pray

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

izes in her classes that individuals don t have souls, they are souls. all of us are souls who chose to become human beings, but our human identity is limited to being in this body, she said. the soul is pure energy, and energy cannot be destroyed. the soul s existence is independent of the body it occupies. it is the soul that continues to exist after the human body dies, and it is the soul that reincarnates lifetime after lifetime. dr. russell c. davis was editor of the journal of regression therapy and practiced past-life therapy for 40 years before his death in 1998. according to davis, the concept of an eternal part of oneself that moves from lifetime to lifetime is fundamental to conducting past-life regressions. whether one chooses to call this eternal part the soul or the higher se

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

d that this kind of lunar consciousness means something to be conscious of; and someone to be conscious of it. the lunar conscience is subjected to all kinds of limitations, qualifications, restrictions, reactions; it is a product of matter, the outcome of the inheritance of our race, family, habits, customs, prejudices, desires, fears, appetites, etc. the sinful adam with his lunar consciousness reincarnates with the goal of supposedly gaining experience within the school of life. however, life s experiences complicate and strengthen the sinful adam. the once innocent humanity from eden is now the terrible and perverse humanity of the atomic and hydrogen bombs. the innocent child (with the experiences of life) is converted into a sly, distrustful, malicious, avaricious [and] fearful perso

ales que necesitamos desintegrar. estas formas mentales constituyen el espectro humano dentro del cual vive el yo. necesitamos engendrar los veh culos internos para encarnar al buddha y despu s al cristo. este es un problema absoluta-mente sexual. 121 renowned incarnations the living buddhas are renowned incarnations. those are the unique cases in which the universal spirit of life incarnates and reincarnates; within the rest of the ordinary people, only their values reincorporate, in other words, their i, their ego, satan. indeed, satan (the ego) only reincorporates in order to satisfy its desires, and that is all. the only reincarnations worthy of admiration are the living reincarnations. the ninth sphere in its positive aspect brings living buddhas into the world; yet, in its negative a

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 3

ee with the learned author of "the star in the west" that kant, after having for a hundred years lost his way in "the night of hume's ignorance" has at length fallen victim to his own verbosity, and has indeed sadly scorched "his fundamental basis? the literary guide and rationalist review, 1908-9. monthly, 2"d. of all the lame ducks that crow upon their middens under the impression that they are reincarnations of sir francis drake, i suppose that the origin-of-religion lunatics are the silliest. 386 listen to charles callow-hay on stonehenge! here's logic for you "stonehenge is built in the form of a circle "the sun appears to go round the earth in a circle" argal "stonehenge is a solar temple" or, for the minor premiss "eggs are round" argal "stonehenge was dedicated to eugenics" listen

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

e iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust perfection. these extraneous energies (i refer here to those of the major constellations) are relayed to the earth via the seven sacred planets and the five non-sacred planets, and when there is the complete fusion of the related energies and, therefore, full expression, a great world period comes to an end. for a long time during this cycle of reincarnations and periods of manifestation, the human being is conditioned almost entirely by the activity of the non-sacred planets. these, as you know, are five in number: the sun (veiling a planet) the moon (veiling a planet) the earth itself mars pluto man speaking symbolically is the "five-pointed star and, at the fiery points, the forces of the man pour out and upon each fiery point appears

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

and simply because of their significance and meaning) are still victims of authority, of control, and remain relatively unthinking and childlike. this means that the true conflict is between a small minority to whom the issues are illuminatingly clear and who have definitely ranged themselves on one side or other of the embattled forces. a mere handful of men, the direct descendants or rather the reincarnations of the leaders in the ancient atlantean conflict, are now on earth, directing the forces of light or of darkness and bringing into being a direct line-up of millions of men whose will is that of their leaders. the lines of cleavage have grown steadily until now they can be expressed in terms of a humanity which is oriented towards the higher spiritual and altruistic values and whose

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

pression in one of the commentaries, that the "pole-star has its watchful eye upon it, from the dawn to the close of the twilight of 'a day' of the great breath[[footnote(s* by "original" we mean the "amshaspend" called "zarathustra, the lord and ruler of the vara made by yima in that land" there were several zarathustra or zertusts, the dabistan alone enumerating thirteen; but these were all the reincarnations of the first one. the last zoroaster was the founder of the fire temple of azareksh and the writer of the works on the primeval sacred magian religion destroyed by alexander* in india called "the day of brahma[[vol. 2, page] 7 hyperboreas and lemuria. ii. the "hyperborean" will be the name chosen for the second continent, the land which stretched out its promontories southward and w

ed by daksha, the most prolific of the creators. in most of the texts these seven sons of vasishta-daksha are called the seven rishis of the third manvantara; the latter referring both to the third round and also to the third root-race and its branch-races in the fourth round. these are all the creators of the various beings on this earth, the prajapati, and at the same time they appear as divers reincarnations in the early manvantaras or races. it thus becomes clear why the agnishwatta, devoid of the grosser creative fire, hence unable to create physical man, having no double, or astral body, to project, since they were without any form, are shown in exoteric allegories as yogis, kumaras (chaste youths, who became "rebels" asuras, fighting and opposing gods* etc, etc. yet it is they[[foot

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

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

d efforts (checked by its karma, thus ascending through all the degrees of intelligence, from the lowest to the highest manas, from mineral and plant, up to the holiest archangel (dhyani-buddha. the pivotal doctrine of the esoteric philosophy admits no privileges or special gifts in man, save those won by his own ego through personal effort and merit throughout a long series of metempsychoses and reincarnations. this is why the hindus say that the universe is brahma and brahm, for brahma is in every atom of the universe, the six principles in nature being all the outcome- the variously differentiated aspects- of the seventh and one, the only reality in the universe whether cosmical or micro-cosmical; and also why the permutations (psychic, spiritual and physical, on the plane of manifestat

ore to tiaou: an assimilation to osiris, who, as the god of life and reproduction, inhabits the moon. plutarch (isis and osiris, ch. xliii) shows the egyptians celebrating a festival called "the ingress of osiris into the moon" in chapter xli. life is promised after death; and the renovation of life is placed under the patronage of osiris-lunus, because the moon was the symbol of life-renewals or reincarnations, owing to its growth, waning, dying, and reappearance every month. in the dankmoe (iv. 5) it is said "oh, osiris-lunus! that renews to thee thy renewal" and safekh says to seti i (mariette's abydos, plate 51 "thou renewest thyself as the god lunus when a babe" it is still better explained in a louvre papyrus (p. pierret "etudes egyptologiques "couplings and conceptions abound when h

ls of the eternally living verity, though they do seem abstract ideas to uninitiated mortals. and this explains the extraordinary numerical coincidences with geometrical relations, as shown by several authors. yes "our destiny is written in the stars" only, the closer the union between the mortal reflection man and his celestial prototype, the less dangerous the external conditions and subsequent reincarnations- which neither buddhas nor christs can escape. this is not superstition, least of all is it fatalism. the latter implies a blind course of some still blinder power, and man is a free agent during his stay on earth. he cannot escape his ruling destiny, but he has the choice of two paths that lead him in that direction, and he can reach the goal of misery- if such is decreed to him, e

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

t 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 is possibly the most spectacular of the ancient megalithic monuments in the british isles, far surpassing in size the more well-known stonehenge. like stonehenge, it

dia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 434 tions and attributed the prosperity of their empire to the possession of this famous cup. djual khul, master one of the masters originally contacted by helena petrovna blavatsky, cofounder of the theosophical society. according to theosophical teachings there exists a spiritual hierarchy composed of individuals who have finished their round of earthly reincarnations and have evolved to the spiritual planes, from which they guide the affairs of humanity. those members of the hierarchy closest to humanity are the lords of the seven rays (of the light spectrum. each ray represents a particular virtue, which the lord of that ray exemplifies. djual khul, generally known simply by his initials, dk, is a master of the second ray along with the master

to be recorded on the akashic records, or the universal ethers, and hence remains available for someone like solomon to draw on. the fellowship discourages contact with the spirits of the dead. according to solomon s teachings, humans are children of god trapped in material bodies, first manifest on ancient atlantis. by spiritual growth and bodily cleansing, the trapped soul can stop the cycle of reincarnations and become one with god. reincarnations allow time for the growth of the soul. current address unavailable. sources: a healing consciousness. virginia beach, va: master s press, 1978. spiritual unfoldment and psychic development through inner light consciousness. atlanta: fellowship of the inner light, n.d. fellowship of universal guidance the fellowship of universal guidance, a met

he spirit back into spiritualism. higginson died in january 1993 at age 74. his place as president of the snu was filled by eric hatton. hilarion, master one of the masters originally contacted by helena petrovna blavatsky, cofounder of the theosophical society. according to theosophical teachings, there exists a spiritual hierarchy composed of individuals who have finished their round of earthly reincarnations and have evolved to the spiritual planes, from which they guide the affairs of humanity. those members of the hierarchy closest to humanity are the lords of the seven rays (of the light spectrum. each ray represents a particular virtue, which the lord of that ray exemplifies. master hilarion is the lord of the fifth ray and an exemplar of science, or detailed knowledge. he influence

ty for progress and perfection (though different denominations have quite different ideas about the exact details of the afterlife. eastern religions also offer elaborate descriptions of the existence beyond this earthly life, although, again, details vary considerably on the relationship between the human soul and god. in advaita vedanta, for example, the individual soul is perfected by infinite reincarnations to reassert its true reality as a group soul, then as the infinite divine itself; in vishadvaita vedanta, however, there remains some distinction between divinity and the perfected human souls. in general vedanta does not view immortality in terms of an achievement of individual souls in a period of time, but rather as the reassertion of an infinite divine reality when the illusions

h mysticism, the angel through which elohim, the source of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, was imparted to the earth (see also kabala) jesus, master one of the masters originally contacted by helena petrovna blavatsky, cofounder of the theosophical society. according to theosophical teachings there exists a spiritual hierarchy composed of individuals who have finished their round of earthly reincarnations and have evolved to the spiritual planes, from which they guide the affairs of humanity. those members of the hierarchy closest to humanity are the lords of the seven rays (of the light spectrum. each ray represents a particular virtue, which the lord of that ray exemplifies. the identity of master jesus is somewhat complicated in theosophical history. according to the theosophical

ons. it became the recognized textbook of spiritistic philosophy in france. it has been translated into many different languages and has had an enormous influence in brazil, where kardec has been commemorated on postage stamps, and has an estimated 3,000 temples. spiritism differs from spiritualism in that it is built on the main tenet that spiritual progress is effected by a series of compulsory reincarnations. kardec became so dogmatic on this point that he always disparaged physical mediumship in which the objective phenomena did not bear out his doctrine. he encouraged automatic writing, where there was less danger of contradiction stemming from the psychological influence of preconceived ideas. as a consequence, experimental psychical research was retarded for many years in france. se

resemblance to some shaman performances, where the medicine man enters an enclosed area and manifests noisy spirit communications. koot hoomi, master (kuthumi) one of the masters originally contacted by helena petrovna blavatsky, cofounder of the theosophical society. according to theosophical teachings a spiritual hierarchy exists, composed of individuals who have finished their round of earthly reincarnations and have evolved to a position from which they guide the affairs of humanity from the spiritual planes. members of the hierarchy closest to humanity are the lords of the seven rays (of the light spectrum. each ray is representative of a particular virtue that the lord of that ray exemplifies. master koot hoomi, generally referred to simply as master k. h, is the lord of the second r

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

tici e le allucinazioni veridiche. n.p, 1897. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. morya, master one of the masters originally contacted by helena petrovna blavatsky, cofounder of the theosophical society. according to theosophical teachings there exists a spiritual hierarchy composed of individuals who have finished their round of earthly reincarnations and have evolved to the spiritual planes, from which they guide the affairs of humanity. those members of the hierarchy closest to humanity are the lords of the seven rays (of the light spectrum. each ray represents a particular virtue, which the lord of that ray exemplifies. master morya, frequently referred to as simply master m, is the lord of the first ray and exemplifies will o

s drama. deming, n.mex: raj-yoga math& retreat, 1975. thomas merton s dharma. deming, n.mex: raj-yoga math& retreat, 1986. rakoczi, the master the prince one of the masters originally contacted by helena petrovna blavatsky, cofounder of the theosophical society. according to theosophical teachings there exists a spiritual hierarchy composed of individuals who have finished their round of earthly reincarnations and have evolved to the spiritual planes, from which they guide the affairs of humanity. those members of the hierarchy closest to humanity are the lords of the seven rays (of the light spectrum. each ray represents a particular virtue, which the lord of that ray exemplifies. the prince rakoczi is the master of the seventh ray, concerned with ordered service or ceremonial magic. he

later entered into some kabalistic teaching. from greek philosophy, it came into the gnostic tradition, and from second- and thirdcentury gnosticism it passed to the manichaeans and cathari. the theory underlying the concept of reincarnation differs from the eschatology of rewards and punishments in christianity. each individual soul will eventually attain perfection, although some will take more reincarnations than others, learning by painful experience, in one life after another, the inexorable laws of karma.of cause and effect. all actions involve consequences, some immediate, others delayed, others in future lives. we punish ourselves by our actions, and the very defects and difficulties under which we suffer offer scope for expiation and perfection. the jewish and christian traditions

n epidemic, as in england. soon other phenomena followed. the famous direct scripts of guldenstubbe were obtained in 1856. in that same year allan kardec s book le livre des esprits was published, and developments took a radically different route from that in the united states and england. kardec founded a school of thought called spiritism that was dominated by the idea of a series of compulsory reincarnations. this was the opposing school to spiritualism, which followed the american and english ideas. spiritualism was represented in france by z. j. pierart and la revue spiritualiste, founded in 1858; spiritism was championed by kardec s la revue spirite, founded in the same year. kardec s school eventually prevailed. pierart, after years of bitter controversy, retired to the country. by

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

d-avesta as the illuminator and was also known in egypt as the kroomata (kai-ra- au-meta) from which comes our rosicrucian word used in our rituals and salutations: cromaat.(it is interesting to note that if we take the initials of the title of our order: the ancient and mystical order rosae crucis, and reverse them, we have cromaat. the master k-h-m (often called "k-h" passed through a number of reincarnations and was an important character on this earth many times, and has lived for over a hundred and forty years in many incarnations. during his most recent incarnation on the earth plane, he lived at a secret monastery and temple near kichingargha, called variously kichinjirgha, kichi-jirg-jargha, or parcha-jarg-hatba by the tibetans and sikkimese. cosmic initiation hence, the real prepa

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

selves with all the strength we possess until it is obvious that all efforts to attain the desired goal will be futile. then, it is time to turn to the creator with a prayer, asking for help in finding redemption from egoism and in uniting with him. this process can take months, and even years, if we undertake this effort under the guidance of a teacher- kabbalist; or it can take several lives or reincarnations (gilgulim, if such efforts are undertaken on our own, by way of suffering. only the right efforts in the correct direction will produce the vessel of the soul, within which the creator will reveal himself to us. in kabbalah, the reasons behind our actions are- 154- known as "the fathers" whereas the consequences of actions are known as "the sons (the correct spiritual acts. one is n

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

equests from above at the time we make them, or even near it. it can happen months later. a kabbalist can feel spiritual states of shabbat or a holiday on weekdays too. for example, if my soul connects with someone else s, then the question i had will present itself in that person s emotions, while for me the question might have already been replaced by another. these perpetual changes are called reincarnations of the souls. we cannot understand how these jumps occur or why, but there is a certain degree of spiritual attainment that once there, reveals how souls bond and separate. it can be compared to a welling forth, a continuous flow, transition t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 120 from place to place and from one soul to another. but there is no accurate definition for it. there is a c

time people are realizing the purpose of creation. the vast majority does it unconsciously, but a few do it consciously, after making a free choice between their egoistic and altruistic activities, having decided in favor of the latter. the task at hand is to reach an agreement with the design of creation and carry it out consciously and willingly. we shall all come to that over the course of our reincarnations. if we could be aware of our previous lives and the possible combinations of souls and their divisions, we could calculate for ourselves the right combination of the parts of the collective soul what the ratio should be and which parts they should be combined with in order to correct them. we would see and understand the reason for everything that happens. pa r t f i v e: r e l i g

lend and merge in a new order because they are all parts of the collective creature and all the covers are actually egoism. the egoism, adam ha rishon (the only creature, broke into many pieces, or separate souls, in order to make the correction of the collective soul possible. that is because it is easier to correct each part separately than to correct the entire body. that is the reason for the reincarnations in the world and their unique order of correction. at the end of correction, all the souls will regroup into a desire, a single collective soul that will receive the entire light of the creator, and thus perfection will appear. in order to help the process of correction, the creator brings down to our world special souls in addition to the ordinary ones, which do not leave our world

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

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 again until christ be formed in you(*gal

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

cheme of redemption. rather, only the destruction of the body and of all satan s visible creation which is hell was considered necessary for the salvation of the soul and its ascent to heaven. the only way to do so was through the reception of cathars unique sacrament, the consolamentum, which was administered by the laying on of hands. individuals could come to recognize evil through a series of reincarnations, and could eventually free their souls from satan and therefore become perfect. according to catharism, at the end of time all souls would be saved or damned, even though there were some differences between the doctrine of the absolute dualists and that of the mitigate dualists. for the former group, free will played no part in salvation, and in the end the material world would fall

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

a, who received half the divine essence, bharata, who received a quarter, and lakshmana and satrughna, who received an eighth each. therefore, all four brothers shared in vishnu s divine nature. the buddha the buddha, the ninth avatar shown here with the attributes of vishnu, was a historical figure. he taught humankind how to free itself of desire, and the illusion of this world, and its endless reincarnations. the buddha s previous incarnations are recounted in the jataka tales. kalkin, the white horse at the end of this era of the world, when humankind has become totally degenerate, vishnu will come in his tenth incarnation, riding a white horse and wielding a flaming sword to destroy the wicked and renew the world. krishna krishna, the eighth avatar, is preeminently vishnu in his role

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

[personally] created, h meaning that g-d was planning to wipe out the generation because it was an embodiment of the sin of adam himself. they were later reincarnated as the generation of the dispersion [this generation is also referred to as adam fs progeny, as it is written, gand g-d descended] to see the city and the tower that the sons of man had built, h8 meaning the direct progeny of adam, reincarnations of his own seminal emissions. here, too, gthe sons of man h can be read, gthe sons of adam. h [they were only figuratively his gsons, h] since they derived from seminal emissions of the male without the female. they also sinned. after [these two incarnations] they had to be purified. for as i have already told you, they were holy and powerful souls,9 but evil fs grasp of them spoile

insight of connectedness and ignores the divine essence of this connectedness. thus, these souls, who were derived from the admixture of impurity in moses f soul, possessed something of his insight into the unity of creation, but either ignored or could not gdivine h the divinity underlying this unity. they therefore possessed great magical powers. now, i have already informed you in the gate of reincarnations,7 as well as in [my discussion of] the commandment of grace after meals,8 how souls transmigrate progressively through the four kingdoms: mineral, vegetable, animal, and human. i told you there also that there is a fixed time for [their incarnation into] each of these levels, after which they ascend to the next level. now, the time fixed for being incarnated into the vegetable kingd

e cleansed of this cake-mentality. this is accomplished by being reincarnated into the vegetable kingdom, where he can experience the pain of his soul.which is used to the freedom of expression and movement of a human being. being trapped in vegetable-identity. in other words, he must experience the same descent he put his soul (and the world) through when he ate the cake. those who undergo these reincarnations remain there for a fixed amount of time, until the sin that caused them to be incarnated into the vegetable kingdom is expunged. when this time is over, they ascend into the animal kingdom; when this time is over they ascend into the human kingdom c. to return to the verse from torah with which we began the discussion: thus, the torah says: gif you will follow my laws and faithfully

izal on parashat haazinu (3) 843 second or third time they were reincarnated was a waste, for they did not rectify anything, but, on the contrary, made things worse. thus it says, gthis was another waste. h generally, it is not people fs fault that they do not remember what they did in their previous incarnations; this knowledge is usually denied us. nonetheless, the very fact that most of us are reincarnations of people who lived previously should give us enough pause to evaluate our lives and realize that we are probably being tested in this life specifically in those areas that gwe h failed in the previous lifetime(s .translated from likutei torah and sefer halikutim 845 parashat vezot haberachah moses f farewell blessing to the jewish people begins: gg-d came from sinai, and shone fort

RUBY TABLET OF SET

would be required for the aon of horus to exert its full influence. 17. but ye are not so chosen. crowley excuses this particular comment as being directed to "the other worshippers of nuit" besides the scarlet woman and himself. i read it as establishing to all readers of the book of the law that there would be but one "prince-priest the beast" the pathetic posturing of the many self-proclaimed "reincarnations" of aleister crowley speaks for itself. 18. burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! the uraeus cobra, worn on the forehead, was the symbol of egyptian kingship. more precisely, the pharaoh's role was that of a priest-king: a divinely inspired and sanctioned guardian of the initiatory elect of egypt. nuit announces crowley's ascent to his station as magus of the aon. once again

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

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

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

nce. people can create a loving relationship with god by listening to him and by striving to be pleasing to him. repeatedly, the prayer says, may i never forget him. the goal of always remembering god is central to the sikh faith. guru nanak was the first in a succession of ten gurus of sikhism. a guru is a spiritual and religious teacher and counselor. the nine that followed him were regarded as reincarnations of nanak. that is, they were considered to be new bodies into which nanak was reborn. these gurus were the leaders of the sikh faith until the early eighteenth century. the fifth guru, sri arjan dev ji (1563 1606, assembled the sikh holy text, the sri guru granth sahib, in 1603. the book consists of the hymns and writings of sikhism s early gurus as well as those of various hindu an

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

equests from above at the time we make them, or even near it. it can happen as late as several months later. a kabbalist can feel spiritual states of shabbat or a holiday on weak days too. if for example, my soul connects with someone else s, then the question i had will present itself in his emotions, while for me it might have already been replaced by another. these perpetual changes are called reincarnations of the souls. we cannot understand how these jumps occur and why, but there is a certain degree of spiritual attainment that once there, a person begins to see how souls bond and separate. it can be compared to a welling forth, a continuous flow, transition from place to place and from one soul to another. but there is no accurate definition for it. there is a collective and an indi

me they are realizing the purpose of creation. the vast majority does it unconsciously, but a few do it consciously, after making a free choice between their egoistic and altruistic operations and having decided in favour of the latter. the task at hand is to reach an agreement with the design of creation and carry it out consciously and willingly. we shall all come to that over the course of our reincarnations. if we had been aware of our previous lives, and the possible combinations of the souls and their divisions, we would have been able to calculate and determine for ourselves what the right combination of the parts of the collective soul should be, what the ratio should be and which parts they should be combined with in order to correct them. we would see and understand the reason fo

blend and merge in a new order because they are all parts of the collective creature and all the covers are in fact egoism. the egoism, adam harishon (the only creature, broke into many pieces, or separate souls, in order to make the correction of the collective soul possible. that is because it is easier to correct each part separately then to correct the entire body. that is the reason for the reincarnations in the world and their unique order of correction. at the end of correction, all the souls will regroup into a desire, a single collective soul that will receive the entire light of the creator, and thus perfection will appear. in order to help the process of correction, the creator brings down to our world special souls in addition to the ordinary ones, which do not leave our world

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

world. cosmic rhythms any alchemist fledgling (after having been crowned) is getting away little by little from the sexual act. the connubial secret is more distant each time according to certain cosmic rhythms marked by the oriental gong. this is how the sexual energies are sublimated and transmuted in a continuous ecstasy. the alchemist fledgling that worked in the magisterium of fire in former reincarnations performs this laboratory work in a relatively short time. however, those who for the first time work in the great work need at least (20) twenty years of intense work in order to enter into the second part for another (20) twenty years in order to slowly withdraw from the laboratory work; a total of (40) years in order to perform the entire work. however, when the alchemist spills t

r es callar y morir. muriendo el adam de pecado nace el adam cristo. 70 arcanum 10 in this lecture we are going to study the arcanum 10 of the tarot. it is necessary to analyze the cosmogonic wheel of ezekiel. in this wheel, we find the battle of antitheses. hermanubis rises through the right and typhon descends through the left of the fatal wheel. this is the wheel of the centuries, the wheel of reincarnations and of karma. upon the wheel appears the mystery of the sphinx grasping the flaming sword between its lion s paws. this is the wheel of antithesis. the serpent of brass that healed the israelites in the wilderness and the terrible tempting serpent of eden are mutually combating each other. the entire secret of the tree of knowledge is enclosed within this wheel; the four rivers of p

Return to Occult Library Index



Related Matches
abel adam age ancient arjuna astral avatars bible birth blavatsky brahma buddha buddhism buddhist cain child children christ christian christianity church circle conscious consciousness cosmic creation creator crowley cycle devas dead death degree deities divine doctrine doctrines dog earth earthly ego egypt egyptian energy esoteric eternal evil existence father female fire five force forces form forms generation gnostic god gods greek healing heart heaven hebrew hell hierarchy hindu hindus hinduism history holy human humans humanity immortal immortality incarnate incarnation incarnations india initiation jesus jewish kabbalah karma karmic kingdom knowledge krishna lion living lord lucis magic magick magical magician masters material matter mental mind modern moses mother mysteries mystery mystical natural nature nirvana occult occultism order osiris parapsychology people physical plane planetary planet planets power priest psychic re reality rebirth reborn reincarnate reincarnation reincarnates reincarnations religion religions religious resurrection revelation rose sacred school secret serpent set seven sin society sons soul souls spirit spirits spiritual star state states sun supreme symbol teaching teachings temple terrestrial theosophy theosophical three tradition transmigration tree truth ufo universal universe vedas vishnu white wisdom witchcraft world worlds worship


http://www.hollywoodinsiders.net
MWLibCreator Ver.2 By:Michael Wynn