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third emanation on the tree of life. occultists identify binah with the great mother in all her forms. she is the womb of forthcoming, the source of all the great images and forms that manifest in the universe as archetypes. she is also the supreme female principal in the process of creation and, via the process of mythological correspondences, is associated with such deities as the virgin mary, rhea, isis, and demeter. chesed: the fourth emanation on the tree of life. occultists identify chesed as the ruler, but not creator, of the manifested universe. he is characterized as stable, wise, and merciful by contrast with his more dynamic opposite, geburah. chesed is associated with the gods zeus and jupiter. geburah: the fifth emanation on the tree of life. geburah is often associated with

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:ra and many others :surya (as sun :31 :thoum-aesh-neith, mau, ka :agni (tejas) yama (as god of: beshunt, horus, tarpesheth: last judgment: 32 :sebek, mako :brahama :32 "bis :satem, ahapshi, nephthys:(prithivi: ameshet :31 "bis :asar:(akasa: 310& 311 table i: xxxiv: xxxv :key scale: some greek gods: some roman gods: 0 :pan: 1 :zeus, iacchus :jupiter: 2 :athena, uranus :janus: 3 :cybele, demeter, rhea, here :juno, cybele, saturn, hecate: 4 :poseidon :jupiter: 5 :ares, hades :mars: 6 :iacchus, apollo, adonis :apollo: 7 :aphrodite, nike :venus: 8 :hermes :mercury: 9 :zeus (as air, diana of :diana (as moon: ephesus (as phallic stone: 10 :persephone (adonis, psyche :ceres :11 :zeus :jupiter: 12 :hermes :mercury: 13 :artemis, hecate :diana: 14 :aphrodite :venus: 15 :athena :mars, minerva: 16:(h

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with agruerus, the great phoenician god (whom faber sought to identify with noah; further, it is suspected that the name of "titan" is derived from tit-ain "the fountains of the chaotic abyss (tit-theus, or tityus is "the divine deluge; and thus the titans, who are seven, are shown to be connected with the flood and the seven rishis saved by vaivasvata manu* they are the sons of kronos (time) and rhea (the earth; and as agruerus, saturn and sydyk are one and the same personage, and as the seven kabiri are said to be the sons of sydyk or kronos-saturn, the kabiri and titans are identical. for once the pious faber was right in his conclusions when he wrote "i have no doubt of the seven titans and kabiri being the same as the seven rishis of the hindu mythology, who are said to have escaped i

or one of noah's sons? the kabiri, who are the titans, are also called manes and their mother mania, according to arnobius (adversum gentes, lib. iii, p. 124) the hindus can therefore claim with far more reason that the manes mean their manus, and that mania is the female manu (see ramayana) mania is ila or ida, the wife and daughter of vaivasvata manu, from whom "he begat the race of manus" like rhea, the mother of the titans, she is the earth (sayana making her the goddess of the earth, and she is but the second edition and repetition of vach. both ida and vach are turned into males and females; ida becoming sudyumna, and vach "the female viraj" turning into a woman in order to punish the gandharvas; one version referring to cosmic and divine theogony, the other to the later period. the

and worshipped with the earth; and this[[footnote(s* aretia is the female form of artes (egyptian mars. thence the chaldean (and now hebrew) word[[hebrew (aretz "earth" the author of "beitrage zur kenntniss (art. under "artes" mars) quotes "addit cedrenus (salem i, 3: stella martis ab[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 144 the secret doctrine. identifies "titea" noah's consort, with rhea, the mother of the titans, and with ida- both being goddesses who preside over the earth, and the mothers of the manus and manes (or tit-an-kabiri. and "titea-aretia" was worshipped as horchia, says the same berosus, and this is a title of vesta, goddess of the earth "sicanus deificavit aretiam, et nominavit eam lingua janigena horchiam (ibid. lib. v. fol. 64) scarce an ancient poet of histor

the creative powers of, and in, chaos (space, or the unmanifested deity) is thus made to pay the penalty; for it is those powers which cause the pitris to evolve primordial men from themselves- as, later on, these men evolve their progeny- without any sense or desire for procreation. the work of generation, suspended during a moment, passes into the hands of kronos* time, who unites himself with rhea (the earth in esotericism- matter in general, and thus produces, after celestial- terrestrial titans. the whole of this symbolism relates to the mysteries of evolution. this allegory is the exoteric version of the esoteric doctrine given in this part of our work. for in kronos we see the same story repeated again. as uranos destroyed his children from gaia (one, in the world of manifestation

evolution. this allegory is the exoteric version of the esoteric doctrine given in this part of our work. for in kronos we see the same story repeated again. as uranos destroyed his children from gaia (one, in the world of manifestation, with aditi or the great cosmic deep) by confining them in the bosom of the earth, tythea, so kronos at this second stage of creation destroyed his children from rhea- by devouring them. this is an allusion to the fruitless efforts of earth or nature alone to create real human men (see our stanzas iii- x, et seq, and also berosus' account of primeval creation) time swallows its own fruitless work. then comes zeus- jupiter, who dethrones his father in his turn* jupiter the titan, is prometheus, in one sense* and varies from zeus, the great[[footnote(s[[foot

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rations- i.e, with the seven notes of the scale, the seven spirits of the stars &c &c. valentinus expatiates upon the power of the great seven, who were called to bring forth this universe after ar(r)hetos, or the ineffable, whose name is composed of seven letters, had represented the first hebdomad. this name (ar(r)hetos) is one to indicate the sevenfold nature of the one (the logos "the goddess rhea" says proclus in timaeus (p. 121 "is a monad, duad, and heptad" comprehending in herself all the titanidae "who are seven" the seven creations are found in almost every purana. they are all preceded by what wilson translates "the indiscrete principle" absolute spirit independent of any relation with objects of sense. they are (1) mahattattwa, the universal soul, infinite intellect, or divine

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with female energy and releasing women from suppression. on that level, so do i. but it is vital for new agers and others to understand that this is not the "goddess" symbolism the illuminati and their placemen talk about. they just want you to think it is. the serpent goddess is known under countless names around the world, including diana, artemis, athene, semiramis, barati, britannia, hecate, rhea, persephone("first serpent) and so on. these same names have also been used to symbolise esoteric concepts like the phases of the moon and female energy, but at its foundation this goddess worship of the illuminati would seem to relate to the dna transmitted through the female and possibly originating in the constellation of orion. i have heard this dna source symbolised in various cultures a

been symbolically connected to the womb of the "death-goddess. using this theme, children of the bloodlines come "out of the cauldron- the womb of the women who carry "royal blood, the reptilian dna. the moon-sickle used by the scythians, the mythical weapon that castrated the gods, became known as the scythe and was associated with the "grim reaper. yet again the grim reaper refers to a goddess, rhea, who was clothed in a 156 children of the matrix garment of blood and devoured all of her offspring, the gods. she became the celtic goddess rhiannon. eire, the celtic name for ireland, comes from the name of the goddess erinn, a form of hera or rhea. the berber people of north africa have been associated with the amazons and still call themselves amazigh. the amazons included a tribe called

ace, the titans. given the illuminati's staggering obsession with symbolism, i feel there was far more to the sinking of the titanic (titania) than ever we have yet realised. these goddesses are fundamentally associated with the sea and the underworld- the victims of the titanic tragedy in 1912 went to both. i don't buy the "hit an iceberg" line myself. in southern russia, titania (known there as rhea) was "the red one" and the romans claimed her to be the mother of romulus and remus, the mythical founders of rome. titania's king in a midsummer night's dream is called oberon. he was based on a real-life character, an ancestor of the man who really put the "shakespeare" plays together- edward de vere of loxley, 17th earl of oxford. the american researcher brian desborough, among others, has

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

reptile-aryan secret societies the term, mother of god, is symbolic ofisis, the virgin mother of the egyptian son of god, horus, and the wife of the sun god,osiris, in egyptian legend. isis, in turn, is another name for queen semiramis, as innimrod-semiramis-tammuz. isis/semiramis is also known by a stream of other namesin the various regions, cultures and countries. these include barati, diana, rhea,minerva, aphrodite, v enus, hecate, juno, ceres, luna and many, many others. it is saidthat they are symbolic of the moon, the female energy in its various forms. theheadquarters of the grand mother lodge of english freemasonry (grand mother =semiramis/isis) is based in great queen street in london (great queen= semiramis/isis. in the end all the names were inspired by ninkharsag, the anunnak

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ogy with saturn will be referred to binah, as will any goddess who might be termed the primordial mother, the superior eve ,as distinguished from the inferior eve, the bride of microprosopos, malkuth. the supernal triangle of kether, chokmah) and binah always refers to the old gods, which every pantheon recognises as the predecessors of those forms of godhead worshipped by the current faith. thus rhea and kronos would be referred to binah and chokmah, and jupiter to chesed. all the corn goddesses refer to malkuth, and all the lunar goddesses to yesod. the war gods and destructive gods, or divine devils, refer to geburah, and the goddesses of love to netzach. the initiator gods of wisdom are referred to hod, and the sacrificed gods and redeemers to tiphareth. so great an authority as richar

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ris are accepted as facts universally admitted. greek writers have preserved in their works traditions concerning this god, and to plutarch in particular we owe an important version of the legend as current in his day. it is clear that in some points he errs, but this was excusable in dealing with a series of traditions already some four thousand years old.[1] according to this writer the goddess rhea [nut, the wife of helios [ra, was beloved by kronos [seb. when helios discovered the intrigue, he cursed his wife and declared that she should not be delivered of her child in any month or in any year. then the god hermes, who also loved rhea, played at the legend of osiris. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod04.htm (1 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:23:04 am] tables with selene and won from her the

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n. the new apocrypha: a guide to strange sciences& occult beliefs. new york: stein and day, 1974. starkey, marion l. the devil in massachusetts. garden city, ny: doubleday, 1952. reprint, new york: time, 1949. upham, charles w. salem witchcraft with an account of salem village and a history of opinion on witchcraft and kindred subjects. 2 vols. boston, 1867. reprint, new york: ungar, 1959. white, rhea a, and laura a. dale. parapsychology: sources of information. metheun, n.j: scarecrow press, 1973. american academy of astrologians an early attempt to bring together the more intellectually and research-oriented astrologers for regular sessions at which serious scientific and philosophical discussions would be held. it was fashioned after some of the early eighteenth-century academies in eur

ed as the cutting edge of psychic investigations. the parapsychology association was established (1957) as the major professional association for scholars engaged in psychic research. by the end of the twentieth century the aspr remained one of the most stable organizations in american psychic research and the organizational home of many leading people in the field, including gertrude schmeidler, rhea white, and karlis osis. publication of the society s journal and proceedings commenced in 1907 and have remained in publication without interruption. the nonprofit society located in new york city exists to advance the understanding of phenomena alleged to be paranormal: telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, and related occurrences that are not at present thought to be explica

rld. new york: oxford university press, 1989. ancitif a little-known demon, who, during the possession of the nuns of louviers in 1643, was said to have occupied the body of sister barbara of st. michael. anderson, margaret (1920.1986) parasychologist fellow and professor of education at the university of pittsburgh. she became interested in parapsychology in the 1950s when she began working with rhea white on testing esp in children. they predicted that good relations between teachers and pupils would produce esp, and bad relations would inhibit it, then conducted tests of clairvoyance and precognition to test their theory. anderson moved on and began to create situations that would yield esp results. her work led to a series of important papers, and in 1961 she was joint winner (with r

volved in psychic research because of the uncritical acceptance of psychic events he found in many writers. his own interests have centered in the history of spiritualism, possibilities of demonstrating survival of death, and experimental research. he has authored a number of articles, including philosophical and theological reflections on parapsychological studies, and co-authored two books with rhea a. white: on being psychic: a reading guide (2nd ed, 1989) and psychic experiences: a 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

logist who has conducted experiments on teachers and pupils in esp. she was born april 10, 1931, in carlisle, pennsylvania, and studied at pennsylvania state university (b.s, 1953) and st. john s university, jamaica, new york (m.s, education, 1961. angstadt, for a time, was a teacher, then became a guidance counselor to westbury high school on long island, in 1960. sources: angstadt, l. jean, and rhea white. student performance in two classroom gesp experiment with two students- agents acting simultaneously. journal of the aspr 57 (1963: 32. angurvadel the sword, possessing magical properties, which was inherited by frithjof, the hero of a thirteenth-century icelandic saga. it had a golden hilt and shone like the northern lights. in times of peace, certain characters on its blade were dull

n acting committee member of the parapsychological study group of israel. he later served as president of the israel parapsychology society in jerusalem. he conducted research on paranormal metal bending and eventually came to believe that it is possible. sources: berendt, heinz c. a new israeli metal-bender (with film. in research in parapsychology, 1982. edited by william roll, john beloff, and rhea w. white. metuchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1983. parapsychology: the world beyond our five senses. n.p, 1966. bereschit universal genesis, one of the two parts into which the kabala was divided by the rabbis; also the name of the first book of the hebrew bible, meaning in the beginning. berger, arthur seymour (1920) american attorney who in 1970 became active in the field of death education an

eman, 1981. the elusive open mind: ten years of negative research in parapsychology. the skeptical inquirer 9, no. 3 (spring 1987. the meme machine. new york: oxford university press, 2000. parapsychology and out-of-the-body experience. london: society for psychical research; hove, england: transpersonal books, 1978. a psychological theory of the obe. in research in parapsychology 1984. edited by rhea a. white and jerry solfvin. 1985. blackmore, susan j, and john harris. obes and perceptual distortions in schizophrenic patients and students. in research in parapsychology 1982. edited by william g. roll, john beloff, and rhea a. white. 1983. the black pullet a french grimoire of black magic supposedly first printed in 1740, but probably much later. la poule noire actually bears the imprint

ew york, concerned with its publication program devoted to psychical re- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. dale, laura a(bbott) 373 search. in 1963 she returned to the aspr as editor of the journal and proceedings. she was a charter member of the parapsychological association. she died february 2, 1983, on long island, new york (for a bibliography of her publications, compiled by rhea a. white, see the journal of the aspr october 1983) sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. dale, laura a, and gardner murphy. challenge of psychical research: a primer of parapsychology. new york: harper& row, 1966. dale, laura a, and rhea a. white. parapsychology: sources of information. metuchen

, india: theosophical publishing house, 1956. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. evolution of life 527 introductory study course in theosophy. wheaton, ill: theosophical society of america, 1967. pearson, e. norman. space, time and self. adyar, india: theosophical publishing house, 1957. evp see electronic voice phenomenon exceptional human experience (ehe) umbrella term coined by rhea a. white to cover the full range of anomalous human experiences. when a person has potentiated the sensed but hidden meaning of an experience, consciously realizing it, this realization usually transforms the identity, lifeview, lifestyle, and worldview of that person. it is at this point that it becomes an ehe because the anomalous experience or anomaly of experience has enabled the person t

ehes is a greater sense of connectedness, with previous unknown parts of self, with other people, with other species, and with the universe. white has identified 240 specific types of ehes and groups them into seven broad classifications: death-related, desolation/nadir, encounter, healing, mystical, peak, psychical. exceptional human experience (journal) semiannual journal founded and edited by rhea a. white. its central subject matter is exceptional human experience, which consists of experiences that begin as anomalous ones or anomalies of experience (first-time experiences) and when they become transformative they are called exceptional human experiences. the journal consists of research reports; methodological, historical, and theoretical articles about ehes; ehe autobiographies and

klore, religious studies, sociology, and women s studies. autobiographical and biographical articles and books are also covered. address: exceptional human experience network, inc, 414 rockledge rd, new bern, nc 28562. exceptional human experience network, inc. formerly known as the parapsychology sources of information center or psi center. it was established by noted librarian/ parapsychologist rhea a. white in 1984. it was organized as a clearinghouse for information, research findings, theories, organizations, publications, and persons involved in parapsychology and its interface with psychology, psychiatry, physics, religion, medicine, mysticism, philosophy, and education. the network publishes a semiannual journal exceptional human experience, that covers abstracts of the contents of

ental study. new york: parapsychological foundation, 1969. goldney, mrs. a. p, mrs. h. richard, and others. photographs of jumping model imitating levitation. proceedings of the society for psychic research 45, no. 158. hasted, john b, david robertson, and ernesto spinelli. recording of sudden paranormal changes of body weight. in research in parapsychology 1982. eds. w. g. roll, john beloff, and rhea a. white. metuchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1983. kuvalayananda, swami. pranayama. bombay, india: 1931. frequently reprinted. leroy, olivier. levitation. london: burns, oates, 1928. patanjali. the yoga-sutras of patanjali. translated by m. n. dvivedi. adyar, india: theosophical publishing house, 1890. plinth, august. principles of levitation. new york: white sun prees, 1970. prasad, rama. the s

color called tingaribinus. its answer seemed as if proceeding from a shrill pipe, and eusebius himself interpreted the sounds. damascius believed its animating spirit to be divine; isodorus, on the other hand, thought it demoniacal, that is, not belonging to evil or material demons, nor yet to those which are quite pure and immaterial. it was with one of these stones, according to hesychius, that rhea fed saturnus, when he fancied that he was devouring jupiter, its name being derived from the skin in which it was wrapped, and such the commentator supposed to have been the lapides divi, or vivi, which the insane monster heliogabalus wished to carry off from the temple of diana, built by orestes at laodicea (ael. lampid, heliogab, 7. in geographia sacroe (ii, z, 1646, samuel bochart traced t

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ry perception.an anachronism and anathema. journal of the american society for psychical research 52, no. 789 (october 1984: 365.70. an investigation of the relationship between temporal lobe symptomatology and subjective paranormal experience. johannesburg, south africa: university of witwatersrand, med psych thesis, 1979. the relevance of the temporal lobe to anomalous subjective experience. in rhea a. white and r. s. broughton, eds. research in parapsychology 1983. methuchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1984. nessie popular affectionate name for the loch ness monster, who is said to reside in a lake in northern scotland. in an article in nature titled naming the loch ness monster, naturalist sir peter scott and robert rines bestowed the scientific name nessiteras rhombopteryx. they felt oblig

ory perception.an anachronism and anathema. journal of the american society for psychical research 52, no.789 (october 1984: 365.70. an investigation of the relationship between temporal lobe symptomatology and subjective paranormal experience. johannesburg, south africa: university of witwatersrand, med psych thesis, 1979. the relevance of the temporal lobe to anomalous subjective experience. in rhea a. white and r. s. broughton, eds. research in parapsychology 1983. methuchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1984. pack, john l(ee (1927) research physicist who has experimented in the field of parapsychology. he was born on june 7, 1927, in silver city, new mexico, and later attended the university of new mexico (b.s, 1950; m.s, 1952. after graduation he became a research engineer at the westinghous

thouless, robert h. experimental psychical research. london, 1963. reprint. santa fe, n.m: gannon, 1969. vasiliev, l. l. experiments in mental suggestion. church crookham, uk: institute for the study of mental images, 1963. reprinted as experiments in distance influence. new york: e. p. dutton/london: wildwood house, 1976. studies in mental telepathy. new york: ccm information corp, 1971. white, rhea a, and laura a. dale. parapsychology: sources of information. metuchen, n.j: scarecrow, 1973. surveys in parapsychology. metuchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1976. parapsychology encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1184 wolman, benjamin b, ed. handbook of parapsychology. new york: van nostrand reinhold, 1977. rev. ed, jefferson, n.c: mcfarland& co, 1986. parapsychology (newsletter)

l facts in the test situation which inhibit the occurrence of psi. it is the opposite of psi-conducive. psi-line database system computer service providing online reference materials on parapsychology, covering dissertations, chapters from books, and psi-related publications. it is a service provided by the exceptional human experience network, inc; the service was established by parapsychologist rhea a. white in 1983. psiline can be contacted at 414 rockledge rd, new bern, nc 28562. psi magazine former bimonthly periodical published by the bartonian metaphysical society of ottawa, ontario, canada. it was originally titled metaphysical society newsletter. psi-mediated instrumental response an experimental concept developed by parapsychologist rex g. stanford, who proposed a model for spont

6. rhine, j. b, ed. progress in parapsychology. durham, n.c: parapsychology press, 1971. rhine, j. b, and robert briwer, eds. parapsychology today. new york: citadel, 1968. thouless, robert h. from anecdote to experiment in psychical research. london: routledge& kegan paul, 1972. tyrrell, g. n. m. science and psychical phenomena. new york: harper, 1938. reprint, new york: arno press, 1975. white, rhea a, and laura a. dale. parapsychology: sources of information. metuchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1973. psychical research foundation a parapsychological research facility established in 1960 with funds from charles e. ozanne, a high school and college teacher interested in the question of survival of death. the foundation was created to investigate phenomena relating to the survival of human per

hildhood and sexuality: a radical christian approach. pittsburgh, pa: dorrance publishing company, inc, 1992. a new science of life: the hypothesis of formative causation. journal of the society for psychical research 51, 1981. parapsychology and the nature of life. new york: harper& row, 1975. psi phenomena and biological theory. journal of the society for psychical research 46, 1971. reprint in rhea a. white s surveys in parapsychology. n.p, 1976. psychokinesis: a study of paranormal forces through the ages. n.p, 1982. tests for extrasensory perception& psychokinesis. n.p, 1980. randi, james (1928) pseudonym of stage magician james randall zwinge who has developed what amounts to a second vocation as a cofounder and leading spokesperson of the committee for the scientific investigation o

kind, some of which he recorded in his book second sight in daily life (1949. he died on july 13, 1994. sources: pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. sabine, william henry waldo. is there a case for retrocognition? journal of the american society for psychical research 44 (april 1950: 43.64. reprint as surveys in parapsychology. edited by rhea a. white. 1976. a prophecy concerning the swedish monarchy. n.p, 1968. strommenburg, aaders gabriel. a prophecy concerning the swedish monarchy as it was related in 1809. new york: colburn& tegg, 1968. second sight in daily life. new york: coward- mccann, 1949. sac see society for the anthropology of consciousness sac see spiritual advisory council sacha runa sacha runa is the name of a secti

lations are intended, and that what is true of one applies with equal certainty to all the others. thus the greek geographer strabo recorded that the strange orgies in honor of the mystic birth of jupiter resembled secret tradition encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1380 those of bacchus, ceres, and cybele, and the orphic poems identified the orgies of bacchus with those of ceres, rhea, venus, and isis. euripides also mentioned that the rites of cybele were celebrated in asia minor in a manner identical with the grecian mysteries of dionysius and the cretan rites of the cabiri. the rev. geo. oliver, in his book the history of initiation (1829, asserted that the rites of freemasonry were exercised in the antediluvian world, were received by noah after the flood, and were pra

it was unlucky for sailors to whistle aboard ship, because it was thought that doing so might raise a wind. it was also considered unlucky for miners to whistle in a mine, since this might be followed by an explosion. a more recent superstition is that whistling in a theater or its dressing rooms may cause a play to fail. weyer, johan encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1664 white, rhea a(melia (1931) prominent american parapsychologist. born may 6, 1931, in utica, new york, she studied at pennsylvania state university (b.a, 1953. after graduation she spent four years as a research fellow at the parapsychology laboratory, duke university (1958, became a research assistant at the foundation for integral research (1959, and worked as a research and editorial associate at the a

ew sources of information and in 1994, with michael murphy, she wrote in the zone: transcendent experience in sports. white also has direct involvement in parapsychological research, and quite apart form her bibliographical work, she has published on a wide variety of topics. address: ehe network, 414 rockledge rd, new bern, nc 28562. website: http/ www.ehe.org. sources: anderson, margaret l, and rhea a. white. a survey of work on esp and teacher-pupil attitudes. journal of parapsychology 22, no. 4 (1958. berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. murphy, gardner, and rhea white. challenge of psychical research: a primer of parapsychology. new york: harper& row, 1961. murphy, michael, and rhea a. white. the

of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. murphy, gardner, and rhea white. challenge of psychical research: a primer of parapsychology. new york: harper& row, 1961. murphy, michael, and rhea a. white. the psychic side of sports. reading, mass: addison-wesley, 1978. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. white, rhea. comparison of old and new methods of response to targets in esp experiments. journal of the american society for psychical research 58 (1964: 21.56. depth perspectives and experimental parapsychology. international journal of parapsychology 2, no. 2 (1960. esp score level in relation to students attitudes toward teacher-agents acting simultaneously. journal of parapsychology 22, no. 1 (1958

sychical research 58 (1964: 21.56. depth perspectives and experimental parapsychology. international journal of parapsychology 2, no. 2 (1960. esp score level in relation to students attitudes toward teacher-agents acting simultaneously. journal of parapsychology 22, no. 1 (1958. the relationship between changes in student attitude and esp scoring. journal of parapsychology 22, no. 3 1958. white, rhea, and laura a. dale. parapsychology: sources of information. metuchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1973. white, stewart edward (1873.1946) author who published a number of books of channeled material. born march 12, 1873, in grand rapids, michigan, he studied at the university of michigan (ph.d, 1895; m.a, 1903. in 1904 he married elizabeth (betty) grant, and they settled in california where he beca

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now and stir and chitter; like vampire bats they peep and twitter. a phorkyad give me the eye, my sisters, to espy who to our temple dares to come so nigh. mephistopheles most honoured! i approach you, with your leave, that i your threefold blessing may receive. i come, though as a stranger, be it stated, yet, if i err not, distantly related. gods ancient and revered i ve seen ere now, to ops and rhea made my deepest bow. the fates, your sisters too, whom chaos bore, i saw them yesterday- or else the day before. but others like yourselves i ve never sighted, and i stand mute, amazed, delighted! the phorkyads intelligent this spirit seems to be. mephistopheles that no bard sings your praise amazes me. and say! how came it, how could it have been? your likeness, worthy ones, i ve never seen!

ut if thou know st of rescue, grateful be t received. for to the wise, far-seeing, oft in very truth impossible still seems possible. then speak, say on! chorus speak and tell us, tell us quickly: how we may escape the awful, odious nooses that so threaten as the very vilest necklace, drawing round our throats. now in advance we feel it, we poor victims, feel the choking, stifling, unless thou, o rhea, lofty mother of all gods, hast pity on us. phorkyas have ye the patience silently to hear my whole, long-drawn-out discourse? it involves tales manifold. chorus patience enough! the while we listen we still live. phorkyas if one remains at home and noble treasure guards and knows how to cement the lofty dwelling s walls and to secure the roof against the pressing rain, it will go well with h

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but came to stand for something "approaching the devil" forlong has observed the fact that, although in hebrew baal is masculine, in the greek translations he is feminine both in the old and new testaments.[88 [88] forlong, rivers of life, p. 223. jehovah was originally female, so, also, was netpe the holy spirit of the egyptian tree of life. we are given to understand that netpe was the same as rhea, the partner of sev or saturn, and that her hieroglyphic name was "abyss of heaven" osiris was the son of this goddess who was really a mai or mary, the celestial mother, he being the only god of the egyptians who was born upon this earth and lived among men. of this forlong remarks "his birthplace was mount sinai; called by the egyptians nysa, hence his greek name dionysos" as the palm was t

me as the egyptian isis. she represents universal female nature. the thesmophorian rites, which are believed by most writers to have been introduced into greece directly from thrace, were performed by "virgins distinguished for probity in life, who carried about in procession sacred books upon their heads" inman, in his ancient faiths, quotes an oracle of apollo, from spencer, to the effect that "rhea the mother of the blessed, and the queen of the gods, loved assemblages of women" as this festival is in honor of female nature, the various female attributes are adored as deities, demeter being the first named by the worshippers. after a long season of fasting, and "after solemn reflection on the mysteries of life, women splendidly attired in white garments assemble and scatter flowers in h

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dess. the mystes was obliged to await his admission into the greater mysteries and pass a whole year of unblemished conduct.itis probable that the theme of the lesser mysteries of eleusis was the story of the goddess demeter, and of her daughter persephone. demeter, whose name is a form of gemeter, or earth mother, was by the romans later called ceres. she was fabled as the daughter of kronos and rhea, having as sisters hestia (vesta) andjuno,and brothers zeus (jupiter, neptune, and pluto. demeter was goddess of earth and agriculture and the bestower of harvests. demeter by jupiter had a daughter persephone (proserpine) who became very notable, was kore, the maiden. she was carried off to hades by pluto and became the queen of the underworld. according to the fable, pluto, whose reign in h

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tation of the saviour s divinity took place at the marriage in cana, where he turned water into wine. now at christmas they celebrated both his birth (epiphany, theophany, p. 281) and his baptism, and combined with these the memory of that miracle, to which was fontis dura medusae! quern praepetis ungula rupit, ov. met. 5, 257 seq. so the vein of gold in a hill is laid open by a blow from a hoof. rhea opens a spring in arcadia with her staff: qea /j,tyav vtybdi. ak-titttpy to 5e 01 5 gx<*v v-h- x/"a. callimach. hy. jov. 28. 1 zehn ehen eines weibes (her ten marriages, leipz. 1735, p. 235. 586 elements. given a special name, bethphania. 1 as far back as 387, chrysostom preaching an epiphany sermon at antioch says that people at that festival drew running water at midnight, and k

on avalanches as ravening beasts, on whom (as on fire) you can put a check (see suppl. 4. eaeth. of the goddess, and her various names, we have spoken already: nerthus p. 251, erda p. 250, fairguni p. 172. 256, erce p. 253, 1 bird flies, wings drip. bird flies, feathers drop. stender s gramm. 260. 642 elements. hludana p. 256, and others; in which the ideas of the ancients about terra, gaia, ops, rhea, cybele, ceres repeat themselves. on p. 303 the indian prithivi was compared with freyja, and the closest kinship exists between freyr and niorsr (the male nerthus. but also the bare element itself, the molte (mould, pulvis) p. 251, was accounted holy: it is the ^6wv 7ro\v^6reipa out of its teeming lap rise fruits and trees, into it the dead are laid, and decay or fire restores them to dust a

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of the creator or because he was jealous, shu separated his children and held nut and geb permanently apart (see figure 42. nut could then give birth to the children she had already conceived. in the coffin texts, nut is described as the mother of the five epagomenal days. a late explanation of this statement is found in plutarch s book on egyptian religion. it tells how nut (whom plutarch calls rhea) was pregnant, but the sun god put a curse on her so that she could not give birth on any day of the year. the god hermes (thoth) played a board game with the moon and won enough light to make five extra days on which nut s children could be born. the five children were osiris, horus the elder, seth, isis, and nephthys. in other accounts of mythical history, there seems no permanent separatio

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in her case it was also muntained by popular tradition that she had immaculately conceived him, and that the god apollo was his father. even the annunciation by an angel to joseph "in a dream" the christians copied from the message of apollo to ariston, perictione's husband, that the child to be bom from her was the offspring of that god. so too, romulus was said to be the son of mars by the vii^ rhea sylvia. it is generally held by all the symbolical writers that the ophites were found guilty of practising the most licentious rites during their religious meetings. the same accusation was brought against the maniehaeans, the carpocratians, the paiuicians, the albigenses in short against every gnostic sect which had the temerity to claim the right to think for itself. in our modem days the

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of wild beasts and other fearful noises, while flashes of lightning revealed monstrous apparitions to his sight. after three days and nights of this kind of experience, he was laid on a couch in a solitary cell; there was a sudden crash of waters, typifying the deluge, and the murder of dionysus was enacted, his limbs being scattered on the waters. then, amid lamentations, commenced the search of rhea for the remains of dionysus, and the apartments were filled with shrieks and groans, accompanied by the frantic dances of the corybantes. suddenly the body was found, the scene changed to one of joy, and the aspirant was released from his confinement. after that he descended into the infernal regions, where he saw the sufferings of the wicked and the rewards of the good, and afterwards became

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ry of religions, 2nd ed. london: blackwell, 1997. rigaud,milo. secrets of voodoo. 1953. san francisco, ca: city lights books, 1985. hades in the contemporary period hades has become interchangeable with hell. however, the name originally referred to the greek god of the underworld and king of the dead. later hades became, by extension, the name of the land of the dead itself. hades was the son of rhea and chronos. after defeating the titans (the older gods, hades and his brothers, zeus and poseidon, divided the world among themselves. poseidon received the seas, zeus the sky, and hades the underworld. hades was considered so unfortunate that even the mention of his name was regarded as unlucky, and mythological tales about the god of the underworld are scant. the foundation for greek class

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ire k 32 brahma quiescence r 32 bis [prithivi] earth k 31 bis [akasa] breathing r table i (continued) 9 xxiv. certain of the hindu and buddhist results. xxv- xxxii. xxxiii. some scandinavian gods. xxxiv. some greek gods. 0 nerodha-samapatti, nirvikalpa-samadhi, shiva darshana. pan. z1z1 unity with brahma, atma darshana wotan zeus, iacchus 2. odin athena, uranus[[hermes] 3. frigga cybele, demeter, rhea, her[[psych, kronos] 4. wotan poseidon[[zeus] 5. thor ares, hades 6 vishvarupa-darshana. iacchus, apollo, adonis[[dionysus, bacchus] 7. freya aphrodit, nik 8. odin, loki hermes 9. zeus (as d, diana of epheus (as phallic stone[[and[[eros] 1010 vision of the higher self, the various dhyanas or jhanas. persephone [adonis, psych 11 vaya-bhawana valkyries zeus 12. hermes 13 vision of chandra. arte

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tes of the eleusinian mysteries passed in their ritual of regeneration. next: the ancient mysteries and secret societies, part three sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 29 the ancient mysteries and secret societies part three the most famous of the ancient religious mysteries were the eleusinian, whose rites were celebrated every five years in the city of eleusis to honor ceres (demeter, rhea, or isis) and her daughter, persephone. the initiates of the eleusinian school were famous throughout greece for the beauty of their philosophic concepts and the high standards of morality which they demonstrated in their daily lives. because of their excellence, these mysteries spread to rome and britain, and later the initiations were given in both these countries. the eleusinian mysteries

being as yet without true knowledge--were presented to the mysteries unclothed, being first: given the skin of an animal and later a consecrated robe to symbolize the philosophical teachings received by the initiate. during the course of initiation the candidate click to enlarge ceres, the patron of the mysteries. from a mural painting in pompeii. ceres, or demeter, was the daughter of kronos and rhea, and by zeus the mother of persephone. some believe her to be the goddess of the earth, but more correctly she is the deity protecting agriculture in general and corn in particular. the poppy is sacred to ceres and she is often shown carrying or ornamented by a garland of these flowers. in the mysteries, ceres represented riding in a chariot drawn by winged serpents. p. 31 click to enlarge th

2 simple letters to the lower, the 7 double must correspond to the central region of the planets, and then the great triad a.m.s. the mother letters representing air, water, and fire remain to be pictured, around s the central iynx, or yod, by the ophionian triad the two serpents and the leonine sphynx. levi's word ops in the centre is the latin ops, terra, genius of the earth; and the greek ops, rhea, or kubele (cybele) often drawn as a goddess seated in a chariot drawn by lions; she is crowned with turrets, and holds a key (see the isiac tablet) the essay published in french by alexandre lenoir in 1809, while curious and original, contains little real information on the tablet, which the author seeks to prove was an egyptian calendar or astrological chart. as both montfaucon and lenoir

, or sacred quaternion, being composed of the first four odd numbers added to the first four even ones, as is commonly reported, is looked upon by them as the most solemn oath they can take, and called kosmos (isis and osiris) earlier in the same work, plutarch also notes "for as the power of the triangle is expressive of the nature of pluto, bacchus, and mars; and the properties of the square of rhea, venus, ceres, vesta, and juno; of the dodecahedron of jupiter; so, as we are informed by eudoxus, is the figure of fifty-six angles expressive of the nature of typhon" plutarch did not pretend to explain the inner significance of the symbols, but believed that the relationship which pythagoras established between the geometrical solids and the gods was the result of images the great sage had

imposition, marriage, soul, and science. in his book, numbers, w. wynn westcott says of the duad "it was called 'audacity' from its being the earliest number to separate itself from the divine one; from the 'adytum of god-nourished silence' as the chaldean oracles say" as the monad is the father, so the duad is the mother; therefore, the duad has certain points in common with the goddesses isis, rhea (jove's mother, phrygia, lydia, dindymene (cybele, and ceres; erato (one of the muses; diana, because the moon is forked; dictynna, venus, dione, cytherea; juno, because she is both wife and sister of jupiter; and maia, the mother of mercury. while the monad is the symbol of wisdom, the duad is the symbol of ignorance, for in it exists the sense of separateness--which sense is the beginning o

mber of the first cube, which form had eight corners, and was the only evenly-even number under 10 (1-2-4-8-4-2-1. thus, the 8 is divided into two 4's, each 4 is divided into two 2's, and each 2 is divided into two 1's, thereby reestablishing the monad. among the keywords of the ogdoad are love, counsel, prudence, law, and convenience. among the divinities partaking of its nature were panarmonia, rhea, cibele, cadm a, dindymene, orcia, neptune, themis, and euterpe (a muse. the ogdoad was a mysterious number associated with the eleusinian mysteries of greece and the cabiri. it was called the little holy number. it derived its form partly from the twisted snakes on the caduceus of hermes and partly from the serpentine motion of the celestial bodies; possibly also from the moon's nodes. the e

flame, by displacing its parent, became the most impressive and mysterious of all religio-philosophic symbols, widespread and enduring through the ages. click to enlarge saturn swallowing the stone substituted for jupiter. from catrari's imagini degli dei degli antichi. saturn, having been warned by his parents that one of his own children would dethrone him, devoured each child at birth. at last rhea, his wife, in order to save jupiter, her sixth child substituted for him a rock enveloped in swaddling clothes--which saturn, ignorant of the deception practiced upon him, immediately swallowed. jupiter was concealed on the island of crete until he attained manhood, when he forced his father to disgorge the five children he had eaten. the stone swallowed by saturn in lieu of his youngest son

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contact with that third witch power you are about to be introduced to: the earth itself. to the witch, the earth archetype represents the source of all sustenance, healing, and fertility. the magical symbolism of the earth is similar to that surrounding those classical deities concerned with domestic and agrarian affairs, especially the female ones, such as ceres, vesta, egeria, ops, cybele, and rhea; the great earth mothers, in fact. many witches refer to the earth power as hulda, erda, or hertha. our words "earth" and "hearth" are derived from the last two names. hertha is so closely related to habondia that these two goddesses are often related to one another in magical legend as mother and daughter, thus tying in superficially with the old greek myth of demeter and persephone. however

into nine compartments. now, slowly and deliberately fill in the squares with the appropriate numbers, beginning with number i and ending at 9. with each number, as in your square of mercury variety. the square of saturn 4 9 2 3 5 7 8 1 6 concentrate on hertha's image and chant a phrase which suggests the earth power to you. this can, again, be composed of a list of the goddesses' names such as "rhea, ceres, hulda, vesta" or simply "hertha, bless this house and all who live in it" or even a stanza from a poem which evokes the feeling of safety, protection, or prosperity, such as the hertha invocation already mentioned or any other verse you care to choose. it need not be directly connected with the home. if it is, so much the better. when you have completed square 9, turn the paper over a

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mysteries of osiris and isis. from egypt, the mysteries went to phoenicia, and were celebrated at tyre. osiris changed his name, and become adoni or dionusos, still the representative of the sun; and afterward these mysteries were introduced successively into assyria, babylon, persia, greece, sicily, and italy. in greece and sicily, osiris took the name of bacchus, and isis that of ceres, cybele, rhea and venus. bar hebraeus says "enoch was the first who invented books and different sorts of writing. the ancient greeks declare that enoch is the same as mercury trismegistus [hermes, and that he taught the sons of men the art of building cities, and enacted some admirable laws. he discovered the knowledge of the zodiac, and the course of the planets; and he pointed out to the sons of men, th

y representing this, in all the mysteries everywhere. the main facts in the fable were the same in all countries; and the prominent deities were everywhere a male and a female. in egypt they were osiris and isis: in india, mahadeva and bhavani: in ph nicia, thammuz (or adonis) and astarte: in phrygia, atys and cybele: in persia, mithras and asis: in samothrace and greece, dionusos or sabazeus and rhea: in britain, hu and ceridwen: and in scandinavia, woden and frea: and in every instance these divinities represented the sun and the moon. the mysteries of osiris, isis, and horus, seem to have been the model of all other ceremonies of initiation subsequently established among the different peoples of the world. those of atys and cybele, celebrated in phrygia; those of ceres and proserpine, a

in solitude and darkness, on the business he was engaged in: and his mind be prepared for the reception of the sublime and mysterious truths of primitive revelation and philosophy. this was a symbolic death; the deliverance from it, regeneration; after which he was called [greek: d] or twin-born. while confined in the cell, the pursuit of typhon after the mangled body of osiris, and the search of rhea or isis for the same, were enacted in his hearing; the initiated crying aloud the names of that deity derived from the sanscrit. then it was announced that the body was found; and the aspirant was liberated amid shouts of joy and exultation. then he passed through a representation of hell and elysium "then" said an ancient writer "they are entertained with hymns and dances, with the sublime d

ented musical instruments and dances, was enamored of atys, a youth; that either he in a fit of frenzy mutilated himself or was mutilated by her in a paroxysm of jealousy; that he died, and afterward, like adonis, was restored to life. it is the ph nician fiction as to the sun-god, expressed in other terms, under other forms, and with other names. cybele was worshipped in syria, under the name of rhea. lucian says that the lydian atys there established her worship and built her temple. the name of rhea is also found in the ancient cosmogony of the ph nicians by sanchoniathon. it was atys the lydian, says lucian, who, having been mutilated, first established the mysteries of rhea, and taught the phrygians, the lydians, and the people of samothrace to celebrate them. rhea, like cybele, was r

er of time, enjoy a short period of licensed impunity, which would be a season of the greatest suffering to the people of the earth; but he would finally be bound or destroyed in the great battle of messiah; or, as it seems intimated by the rabbinical figure of being eaten by the faithful, be, like ahriman or vasouki, ultimately absorbed by and united with the principle of good. near the image of rhea, in the temple of bel at babylon, were two large serpents of silver, says diodorus, each weighing thirty talents; and in the same temple was an image of juno, holding in her right hand the head of a serpent. the greeks called bel _beliar; and hesychius interprets that word to mean a dragon or great serpent. we learn from the book of bel and the dragon that in babylon was kept a great, live se

and enoch, whose early death was lamented at iconium, lived 365 years, the number of days of the solar year; a brief space when compared with the longevity of his patriarchal kindred. the story of osiris is reflected in those of orpheus and dionusos zagreus, and perhaps in the legends of absyrtus and pelias, of son, thyestes, melicertes, itys, and pelops. io is the disconsolate isis or niobe: and rhea mourns her dismembered lord hyperion, and the death of her son helios, drowned in the eridanus; and if apollo and dionusos are immortal, they had died under other names, as orpheus, linus, or hyacinthus. the sepulchre of zeus was shown in crete. hippolytus was associated in divine honors with apollo, and after he had been torn to pieces like osiris, was restored to life by the p onian herbs o

deemed heaven the active cause and father, relatively to the earth. the former says that the world or the whole is a single animal; what is done _in_ it, is done _by_ it; the same world _acts, and _acts upon itself. he divides it into "heaven" and "generation" in the former, he says, are placed and arranged the conservative causes of generation, superintended by the genii and gods. the earth, or rhea, associated ever with saturn in production, is mother of the effects of which heaven is father; the womb or bosom that receives the fertilizing energy of the god that engenders ages. the great work of generation is operated, he says, primarily by the action of the sun, and secondarily by that of the moon, so that the sun is the primitive source of this energy, as father and chief of the male

nides. the persians adored ahura masda or ormuzd and the six amshaspands, the first three of whom were lords of the empires of light, fire, and splendor; the babylonians, bal and the gods; the chinese, shangti, and the six chief spirits; and the greeks, kronos, and the six great male gods, his progeny, zeus, poseidon, apollo, ares, hephaistos, and hermes; while the female deities were also seven: rhea, wife of kronos, here, athene, artemis, aphrodite, hestia, and demetei. in the orphic theogony, gaia produced the fourteen titans, seven male and seven female, kronos being the most potent of the males; and as the number _seven_ appears in these, nine by threes, or the triple triangle, is found in the three m ra or fates, the three centimanes, and the three cyclopes, offspring of ouranos and

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ollectively by the page 12 name of the hecatoncheires, which signified hundred-handed. these mighty giants could shake the universe and produce earthquakes; it is therefore evident that they represented those active subterranean forces to which allusion has been made in the opening chapter. the titans were twelve in number; their names were: oceanus, ceos, crios, hyperion, iapetus, cronus, theia, rhea, themis, mnemosyne, phoebe, and tethys. now uranus, the chaste light of heaven, the essence of all that is bright and pleasing, held in abhorrence his [14]crude, rough, and turbulent offspring, the giants, and moreover feared that their great power might eventually prove hurtful to himself. he therefore hurled them into tartarus, that portion of the lower world which served as the subterranea

position, he no longer needed their assistance, he basely repaid their former services with treachery, made war upon his brothers and faithful allies, and, assisted by the giants, completely defeated them, sending such as resisted his all-conquering arm down into the lowest depths of tartarus. second dynasty. cronus (saturn. cronus was the god of time in its sense of eternal duration. he married rhea, daughter of uranus and gaa, a very important divinity, to whom a special chapter will be devoted hereafter. their page 13 children were, three sons: aides (pluto, poseidon (neptune, zeus (jupiter, and three daughters: hestia (vesta, demeter (ceres, and hera (juno. cronus, having an uneasy conscience, was afraid that his children might one day rise up against his authority, and thus verify th

aughters: hestia (vesta, demeter (ceres, and hera (juno. cronus, having an uneasy conscience, was afraid that his children might one day rise up against his authority, and thus verify the prediction of his father [15]uranus. in order, therefore, to render the prophecy impossible of fulfilment, cronus swallowed each child as soon as it was born,[3] greatly to the sorrow and indignation of his wife rhea. when it came to zeus, the sixth and last, rhea resolved to try and save this one child at least, to love and cherish, and appealed to her parents, uranus and gaa, for counsel and assistance. by their advice she wrapped a stone in baby-clothes, and cronus, in eager haste, swallowed it, without noticing the deception. the child thus saved, eventually, as we shall see, dethroned his father cron

assistance. by their advice she wrapped a stone in baby-clothes, and cronus, in eager haste, swallowed it, without noticing the deception. the child thus saved, eventually, as we shall see, dethroned his father cronus, became supreme god in his stead, and was universally venerated as the great national god of the greeks. page 14 page 15 anxious to preserve the secret of his existence from cronus, rhea sent the infant zeus secretly to crete, where he was nourished, protected, and educated. a sacred goat, called amalthea, supplied the place of his mother, by providing him with milk; nymphs, called melissae, fed him with honey, and eagles and doves brought him nectar and ambrosia.[4] he was kept concealed in a cave in the heart of mount ida, and the curetes, or priests of rhea, by beating the

s throne with him. their united reign became so thoroughly peaceful and happy, and was distinguished by such uninterrupted prosperity, that it was called the golden age. saturn is usually represented bearing a sickle in the one hand and a wheat-sheaf in the other. a temple was erected to him at the foot of the capitoline hill, in which were deposited the public treasury and the laws of the state. rhea (ops. rhea, the wife of cronus, and mother of zeus and the other great gods of olympus, personified the earth, and was regarded as the great mother and unceasing producer of all plant-life. she was also believed to exercise unbounded sway over the animal creation, more especially over the lion, the noble king of beasts. rhea is generally represented wearing a crown of turrets or towers and pa

ted a yearly mourning for his loss, when her priests, the corybantes, with their usual noisy accompaniments, marched into the mountains to seek the lost youth. having discovered him[6] they gave full vent to their ecstatic delight by indulging in the most violent gesticulations, dancing, shouting, and, at the same time, wounding and gashing themselves in a frightful manner. ops. in rome the greek rhea was identified with ops, the goddess of plenty, the wife of saturn, who had a variety of appellations. she was called magna-mater, mater-deorum, berecynthia-idea, and also dindymene. this latter title she acquired from three high mountains in phrygia, whence she was brought to rome as cybele during the second punic war, b.c. 205, in obedience to an page 20 injunction contained in the sybillin

, and ordered him to open it with an axe. his command was obeyed, and out sprang, with a loud and martial shout, a beautiful being, clad in armour from head to foot. this was athene (minerva, goddess of armed resistance and wisdom. themis was the goddess of justice, law, and order. eurynome was one of the oceanides, and the mother of the charites or graces. demeter,[13] the daughter of cronus and rhea, was the goddess of agriculture. mnemosyne, the daughter of uranus and gaa, was the goddess of memory and the mother of the nine muses. leto (latona) was the daughter of coeus and phoebe. she was gifted with wonderful beauty, and was tenderly loved by zeus, but her lot was far from being a happy one, for hera, being extremely jealous of her, persecuted her with inveterate cruelty, and sent th

mple of jupiter was that on the capitoline hill in the city of rome, where he was worshipped under the names of jupiter-optimus-maximus, capitolinus, and tarpeius. page 38 the romans represented him seated on a throne of ivory, holding in his right hand a sheaf of thunderbolts, and in his left a sceptre, whilst an eagle stands beside his throne. hera (juno. hera, the eldest daughter of cronus and rhea, was born at samos, or, according to some accounts, at argos, and was reared by the sea-divinities oceanus and tethys, who were models of conjugal fidelity.[16] she was the [39]principal wife of zeus, and, as queen of heaven, participated in the honours paid to him, but her dominion only extended over the air (the lower aerial regions. hera appears to be the sublime embodiment of strict matro

ring her festivals (the greater quinquatria, when they always brought a gift to their master, called the minerval. it is worthy of notice that the only three divinities [48]worshipped in the capitol were jupiter, juno, and minerva, and in their joint honour the ludi maximi or great games were held. themis. themis, who has already been alluded to as the wife of zeus, was the daughter of cronus and rhea, and personified those divine laws of justice and order by means of which the well-being and morality of communities are regulated. she presided over the assemblies of the people and the laws of hospitality. to her was intrusted the office of convoking the assembly of the gods, and she was also mistress of ritual and ceremony. on account of her great wisdom zeus himself frequently sought her

yche, sometimes with ananke. themis, like so many other greek divinities, takes the place of a more ancient deity of the same name who was a daughter of page 50 uranus and gaa. this elder themis inherited from her mother the gift of prophecy, and when she became merged into her younger representative she transmitted to her this prophetic power. hestia (vesta. hestia was the daughter of cronus and rhea. she was the goddess of fire in its first application to the wants of mankind, hence she was essentially the presiding deity [49]of the domestic hearth and the guardian spirit of man, and it was her pure and benign influence which was supposed to protect the sanctity of domestic life. now in these early ages the hearth was regarded as the most important and most sacred portion of the dwelling

altar burned the never-ceasing fire, which was tended by her priestesses, the vestal virgins.[22] the temple of vesta was circular in form, and contained that sacred and highly prized treasure the palladium of troy.[23] the great festival in honour of vesta, called the vestalia, was celebrated on the 9th of june. demeter (ceres. demeter (from ge-meter, earth-mother) was the daughter of cronus and rhea.[24] she represented that portion of gaa (the whole solid earth) which we call the earth's crust, and which produces all vegetation. as goddess of agriculture, field-fruits, plenty, and productiveness, she was the sustainer of material life, and was therefore a divinity of great importance. when ancient gaa lost, with uranus, her position as a ruling divinity, she abdicated her sway in favour

resented that portion of gaa (the whole solid earth) which we call the earth's crust, and which produces all vegetation. as goddess of agriculture, field-fruits, plenty, and productiveness, she was the sustainer of material life, and was therefore a divinity of great importance. when ancient gaa lost, with uranus, her position as a ruling divinity, she abdicated her sway in favour of her daughter rhea, who henceforth inherited the powers which her mother had previously possessed, receiving in her place the honour and worship of mankind. in a page 53 very old poem gaa is accordingly described as retiring to a cavern in the bowels [51]of the earth, where she sits in the lap of her daughter, slumbering, moaning, and nodding for ever and ever. it is necessary to keep clearly in view the distin

previously possessed, receiving in her place the honour and worship of mankind. in a page 53 very old poem gaa is accordingly described as retiring to a cavern in the bowels [51]of the earth, where she sits in the lap of her daughter, slumbering, moaning, and nodding for ever and ever. it is necessary to keep clearly in view the distinctive difference between the three great earth-goddesses gaa, rhea, and demeter. gaa represents the earth as a whole, with its mighty subterranean forces; rhea is that productive power which causes vegetation to spring forth, thus sustaining men and animals; demeter, by presiding over agriculture, directs and utilizes rhea's productive powers. but in later times, when rhea, like other ancient divinities, loses her importance as a ruling deity, demeter assume

reek attributes as god of fire, and unrivalled master of the art of working in metals, and was ranked among the twelve great gods of olympus, whose gilded statues were arranged consecutively along the forum. his roman name, vulcan, would seem to indicate a connection with the first great metal-working artificer of biblical history, tubal-cain. poseidon (neptune. poseidon was the son of kronos and rhea, and the brother of zeus. he was god of the sea, more particularly of the mediterranean, and, like the element over which he presided, was of a variable disposition, now violently agitated, and now calm and placid, for which reason he is sometimes represented by the poets as quiet and composed, and at others as disturbed and angry. page 110 page 111 in the earliest ages of greek mythology, he

robably on account of their being destructive to vineyards. bacchus or liber. the romans had a divinity called liber who presided over vegetation, and was, on this account, identified with the greek dionysus, and worshipped under the name of bacchus. the festival of liber, called the liberalia, was celebrated on the 17th of march. aides (pluto. aides, aidoneus, or hades, was the son of cronus and rhea, and the youngest brother of zeus and poseidon. he was the ruler of that subterranean region called erebus, which was inhabited by the shades or spirits of the dead, and also by those dethroned and exiled deities who had been vanquished by zeus and his allies. aides, the grim and gloomy monarch of this lower world, was the [131]successor of erebus, that ancient primeval divinity after whom th

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will pass through the stream of molten metal and emerge purified. to the good, the stream will feel like a bath of warm milk; to the evil, it will be agony, as their sins are burned away. the new world will be immortal and everlasting, and free of taint. gods of olympus 22 hades hades (see pp. 28 29, zeus brother, was the god of the underworld. he was married to persephone (see above. cronos and rhea this couple may depict zeus parents, cronos and rhea, who were banished to tartarus in the underworld. cronos, whose name means time, castrated his father uranus with a sickle. t he gods of the ancient greeks lived at the top of mount olympus, the highest peak in greece. later their home was conceived of as a heaven in the skies. from olympus, the gods loved, quarrelled, watched the world, an

us son by maia, daughter of the titan atlas. he is wearing his winged hat and carrying his herald s staff, the caduceus. ganymede ganymede was a young prince of troy; zeus was so overwhelmed by his beauty that he descended in eagle form and snatched the beautiful youth to be his cup-bearer on olympus. hera, queen of the gods hera was zeus wife and sister. in one account it was she, not her mother rhea, who saved zeus from being swallowed by their father cronos (see above. she was the goddess of marriage, and many of the stories about her centre on her jealousy of zeus many affairs. saturn by francisco de goya (1746 1828) apollo apollo (see pp. 38 39) and his sister artemis were zeus children by the titaness leto. he was god of prophecy, divination, and the arts, especially music, and also

produce the first immortals, the forefathers of the olympian gods. cronos, the child-eater cronos (saturn) was the youngest of the titans, the children of gaia and uranus (the earth and the sky. uranus hated his children and hid them in mother earth, causing her great pain. in revenge, she made cronos a sickle and encouraged him to kill his father. when he had done so, he then married his sister rhea, but fearful that his own children might rise against him, he swallowed them as soon as they were born: first hestia, then demeter, hera, hades, and poseidon. however, when her sixth child, zeus, was due, rhea gave birth to him at the dead of night, and entrusted him to the care of her mother gaia. she gave cronos a stone to swallow in the baby s stead. when zeus was grown, he asked to be mad

e by christoph schwartz (or shwarz (1545 92) the painting shows the early part of the story of persephone, when her uncle, hades, whisks her into his infernal chariot and carries her off to be his queen in the underworld. he ignores the pleas of the water nymph cyane, who sees what is happening and tries to stop him. chariot snake ornament the story of demeter t he daughter of cronos (saturn) and rhea (ops, demeter was sometimes portrayed with a horse s head. one of the olympians, she left olympus in despair when persephone disappeared. one day, she came to eleusis, near athens, where she stayed with the king and queen in the guise of an old nurse. grateful for their kindness, she bathed their son in fire each night to make him immortal. but one night she was interrupted and the spell was

cut a lock of her hair to release her soul from her body. wrecked ships aeneas and his men were driven ashore at carthage because juno had heard that if they founded a new city it would destroy her own city of carthage. by wrecking them there and bringing dido and aeneas together, she hoped to prevent this. the founding of rome romulus and his twin brother remus were the sons of aeneas descendant rhea silvia, a vestal virgin, and mars (ares, the god of war. at their birth, their mother s evil uncle amulius (who had deposed her father) killed her and threw the boys into the river tiber. luckily, they were carried ashore and cared for by a female wolf until they were found by faustulus, one of the old king s shepherds. when the boys grew up, faustulus told them their history and they killed

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gland: luzac and co, 1902. lesko, leonard h. egyptian religion: an overview. in encyclopedia of religion. 2nd ed. edited by lindsay jones. detroit, mi: macmillan reference usa, 2005, pp. 2702 2717. mccall, henrietta. mesopotamian myths. austin, tx: university of texas press, 1991. morenz, siegfried, and ann e. keep. egyptian religion. ithaca, ny: cornell university press, 1992. nemet-nejat, karen rhea. daily life in ancient mesopotamia. westport, ct: greenwood press, 1998. redford, donald b, ed. the ancient gods speak: a guide to egyptian religion. new york, ny: oxford university press, 2002. romer, john. ancient lives: daily life in egypt of the pharaohs. new york, ny: holt, rinehart and winston, 1984. tiele, c. p. comparative history of the egyptian and mesopotamian religions. new york

hades. others believed that the soul resided in the grave; still others felt that it left the body at death and floated in the sky. creation both romans and greeks used myths to explain the creation of the universe and their place in it. for the greeks, the original gods emerged from chaos and brought order to the universe. the earth goddess, gaia, and the sky god, uranus, had children, including rhea and chronos. uranus, however, was afraid of his children s power, and he kept them locked in a cave until finally chronos challenged him and reestablished order in the universe. rhea and chronos then repeated the pattern: they had zeus, hestia, hera, demeter, poseidon, and hades. chronos, like his father before him, was afraid of his children and swallowed them as they were born. his mother h

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he sign of hand on heart can best be understood by the fact that the leaders of the masonic lodge themselves boast that the rituals of freemasonry hearken back to ancient egyptian religion. the egyptian book of the dead addressed prayers to "my heart of my mother..my heart of transformations" meaning the source of rebirths. the mother goddess of egypt was worshipped by various names isis, hathor, rhea, etc. she was the one to whom the people "gave their hearts" meaning their heart-felt devotion and allegiance. as the goddess of sacrifices, it was deemed necessary by her admirers that men should sacrifice their "energies" on her behalf. the goddess was said to take possession of men's hearts. cutting out hearts and eating them! in the pyramids of mexico, central and south america, the gods

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rippner (dennis stacy/fortean picture library) drs. j. b. and louisa rhine expanded their investigations of esp and established the first scientific laboratory dedicated to research of psychic phenomena. tional professional society in parapsychology, and on june 19, 1957, the parapsychological association was founded with r. a. mcconnell, president; dr. gertrude r. schmeidler, vice president; and rhea white, secretary-treasurer. for six years during the 1950s, dr. karlis osis (1917 1997) worked with j. b. rhine at the parapsychology laboratory at duke university. born in latvia, osis received his doctorate in psychology from the university of munich in 1950. his dissertation topic, a hypothesis of extrasensory perception, reflected an interest in the field of parapsychology prompted by an

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en have forgotten her, because her name was veiled in shadow and infamy by dark forces many years ago. but the world remembers her in the deepest places. she still holds court and greets those who have the desire and the cunning to seek her. in her role as earth mother, or source of the physical bodies of life and of generation, and the deep awareness of the earth and waters, she can be seen as a rhea/demeter-like figure. but beyond that earth is the darkness of her ultimate nature, old fate. this ultimate nature of hers has a mysterious relationship to the ultimate natures that are reflected into her children, whether they be the gods, spirits, plants, animals, or human beings. it is a poetic way of describing the truth of the deepest layer of the nature of anything- the mysterious motion

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een one culture's spiritual system and another is an inexact science at best. the associations given here are only one of several that are possible. a list of deity correspondences sephirah egypfian greek roman celtic norse hindu kether chokmah binah chesed geburah tiphareth netzach hod yesod malkuth nudjer ptah thoth isis- amoun horus- osiris ra hathor- anubis khnum shu khonsu geb aither- uranus rhea hera zeus ares- apollo- aphrodite- hermes- artemis- demeter aether- coelus juno- jupiter mars- sol- venus- mercury- diana- ceres dagda- lugh danu- llyr morrigan- angus mac og brigit- ogma- cerridwen- cemunnos ymir- odin frigga- frey thor t y balder- freya- loki bragi nanna- nerthus brahman- vishnu mahasakti- indra shiva- krishna surya lakshmi pamati hunuman- chandra soma ganesha daath nephthy

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xplicit as forms can make it.4 the figures appear indeed to be mystic and allegorical, the male having evidently a mixture of the goat in his beard and features, and therefore probably represents pan, the generative power of the universe incorporated in universal matter. the female has all that breadth and fulness which characterise the personification of the passive power, known by the titles of rhea, juno, ceres &e. when there were such seminaries for female education as those of eryx and corinth, we need not wonder that the ladies of antiquity should be extremely well instructed in all the practical duties of their religion. the stories told of julia and messalina show us that the roman ladies were no ways deficient; and yet they were as remarkable for their gravity and decency as the c

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the kabiric mysteries, there was in those an episode of symbolical death, because kasmillos, a technical name ascribed to the candidate, was represented as slain by the gods. some of the rites which prevailed within and around greece in ancient times are concerned with the idea of a regeneration or new birth. the mysteries of bacchus depicted the death of this god and his restoration to light as rhea. osiris died and rose, and so also did adonis. he was first lamented as dead and then his revivification was celebrated with great joy. there is no need, however, to multiply the recurrence of these events in the old mysteries nor to restrict ourselves within their limits, for all religions have testified to the necessity of regeneration and have administered it's imputed processes. that whic

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referred to must be the dog-headed ape, which we see in pictures of the judgment assisting thoth to weigh the heart of the dead. this dog-headed ape is a wonderfully intelligent creature, and its weird cleverness is astonishing [fn#291] the egyptian tehuti, or thoth [fn#292. xii. now, the story of isis and osiris, its most insignificant and superfluous parts being omitted, runs thus- the goddess rhea,[fn#293] they say, having accompanied with kronos[fn#294] by stealth, was discovered by helios[fn#295] who straightway cursed her, and declared that she should not be delivered in any month or year. hermes, however 'being also in love with the same goddess, in return for the favours which he had received from her, went and played at dice with selene,[fn#296] and won from her the seventieth pa

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lication; whilst the dyad, whether added to itself or multiplied by itself, produces the same. 4. fountain of symphony, and harmony. 5. erato, because it attracts the monad, like love, and another is formed. 37. 6. patience, because it is the first number that endures separation from the monad. 7. phanes, or intelligible intellect. 8. it is the fountain of all female divinities, and hence nature, rhea and isis. 9. cupid, just as erato, from desiring its opposite for a partner. in astronomy, we speak of 2 nodes, caput and cauda draconis; and in astrology of 2 aspects of the planets, benefic and malefic. the two pillars ikin and boz at the entrance of king solomon s temple are notable symbols of strength and stability. they are comparable to the two beings, kratos and bia, who appear in the

ruple. inerratic sphere (8th sphere) 36 to 24 is sesquialter. 36 to 18 is duple. 36 to 8 is quadruple. 24 to 18 is sesquitertian. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 86. hence the ogdoad was also called cadmeia, because harmony was looked upon as the wife of cadmus and cadmus meant the sub-lunary world, as olympiodorus says. eight was called also mother, and rhea, cybele and dindymene, from being the first cube, and a cube representing the earth. the eight persons saved from the flood of xisuthrus are synonyms of many octaves of gods, such as the 8 cabiri great gods of samothrace; see bryant and faber on this myth. there are 8 beatitudes of the christian religion, matthew, chap. v. eight is the number of the moons of saturn. there have been several ma

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