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ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

, that transmitted the light of the gnosis to us their successors and their heirs" with merlin, arthur, kamuret, parzival, and many another, prophet, priest and king, that bore the lance and cup, the sword and disk, against the heathen "and these also" carolus magnus and his paladins, with william of schyren, frederick of hohenstaufen, roger bacon "jacobus burgundus molensis the martyr, christian rosencreutz" ulrich von hutten, paracelsus, michael maier "roderic borgia pope alexander the sixth" jacob boehme, francis bacon lord verulam, andrea, robertus de fluctibus, johannes dee "sir edward kelly" thomas vaughan, elias ashmole, molinos, adam weishaupt, wolfgang von goethe, ludovicus rex bavariae, richard wagner "alphonse louis constant" friedrich nietzsche, hargrave jennings, carl kellner

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

for the prosecution, plead guilty, and appeal for clemency. the gravamen is that the path of the wise is gay with flowers, gilded with kiosks, and beset with snares; that every step is the abode of terror and rapture- and all that! yet i habitually write in the manner of a drunken dominie! you "gaped for aeschylus, and got theognis" i tempted you, it seems with the chymical marriage of christian rosencreutz, its incomparable mystery and glamour, its fugitive beauty, its ineffable romance, its chivalry and its adventure, pellucid gleams as of sunlight under the sea, vast brooding wings of horror overshadowing the firmament, yet with strong starlight constant overbead. and then i let you down! you did expect at least something of the atmosphere of the arabian magic without tears get any boo

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

d west? then there burst out on a sudden a whiteness on the chart, as if the stain had been expunged (albeit not wholly by the sweep of steel) and this word writ in curving characters scimitar-sharp mohammed. next was a name sore blurred: sir edward kelly, with one writ in cipher. and in the centre of all, within the emblem of a ruby rose of five petals upon a golden cross was engraved: christian rosencreutz (for so were the brethren discreet to conceal his true name. after whom came three names great and terrible that i write not in this place. lastly appeared this newly-writ hieroglyph of the lion, and the name of that brother was hidden from me. then was i shewn the mystery of the words: how in the first period of recorded history men thought that life came from woman alone, and worked

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

he well perceive a young maiden6 having a necklace of two-and-seventy* it would require many pages to give even a sketch of this remarkable document. the qabalistic knowledge is as authentic as it is profound, but there are also allusions to contemporary occult students, and a certain very small amount of mere absence of meaning. the main satire is of course on the chymical marriage of christian rosencreutz. a few only of the serious problems are elucidated in footnotes. 1 i.e. when 118= change, a ferment, strength. also= before he was 120, the mystic age of a rosicrucian. 2 her-shell= herschell, or uranus, the planet which was ascending (in leo) at crowley s birth. 3 vau and gimel, the hierophant and high-priestess in the tarot. hence from his castle of ug means from his initiation. we c

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

lf (as it were) into that perception of their identity, which is his (partial and incorrect) idea of how things look from kether. 126 this man performs great magic; very strong medicine. he does really find gold on the midden and skeletons in pretty girls. in abiegnus the sacred mountain of the rosicrucians the postulant finds but a coffin in the central shrine; yet that coffin contains christian rosencreutz who is dead and is alive for evermore and hath the keys of hell and of death. ay! your tiphereth man, child of mercy and justice, looks deeper than the skin! but he seems a ridiculous object enough both to the malkuth man and to the kether man. still, he's the most interesting man there is; and we all must pass through that stage before we get our heads really clear, the kether-vision

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

pe of the pentagram, which it imitates. asn, ruin, destruction, sudden death "scil, of the personality in samadhi. apl, thick darkness "cf" st john of the cross, who describes these phenomena in great detail. amo, the hindu aum or om. mhvll, mad- the destruction of reason by illumination. ovlh, a holocaust "cf" asn. pla, the hidden wonder, a title of kether. 114. dmo, a tear. the age of christian rosencreutz. 120. smk, samech, a prop. also mvsdi, basis, foundation. 120= 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5, and is thus a synthesis of the power of the pentagram [also 1+ 2+ 15= 120] hence its importance in the 5= 6 ritual, q.v "supra" equinox, no. iii. i however disagree in part; it seems to me to symbolise a lesser redemption than that associated with tiphereth. compare at least the numbers 0.12 and 210 in li

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 2

in a semi-secret manner "after some time s.d.a. died: further requests for help were met with a prompt refusal from the colleagues of s.d.a. it was written by one of them that s.d.a.'s scheme had always been regarded with disapproval. but since the absolute rule of the adepts is never to interfere with the judgment of 1 "see "the real history of the rosicrucians" by a. e. waite. 2 viz, christian rosencreutz. 3 "vide" diagram of the paths and grades. any other person whomsoever- how much more, then, one of themselves, and that one most highly revered- they had refrained from active opposition. the adept who wrote this added that the order had already quite enough knowledge to enable it or its members to formulate a magical link with the adepts "shortly after this, one called s.r.m.d. annou

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

BLUE EQUINOX

, that transmitted the light of the gnosis to us their successors and their heirs; with merlin, arthur, kamuret, parzival, and many another, prophet, priest and king, that bore the lance and cup, the sword and disk, against the heathen; and these also, carolus magnus and his paladins, with william of schyren, frederick of hohenstaufen, roger bacon, jacobus burgundus molensis the martyr, christian rosencreutz, ulrich von hutten, paracelsus, michael maier, roderic borgia pope alexander the sixth, jacob boehme, francis bacon lord verulam, andrea, robertus de fluctibus, johannes dee, sir edward kelly, thomas vaughan, elias ashmole, molinos, adam weishaupt, wolfgang von goethe, ludovicus rex bavari, richard wagner, alphonse louis constant, friedrich nietzsche, hargrave jennings, carl kellner, f

ara, will bring thee through three states into the fourth and thence into the seven worlds, the worlds of rest eternal. if this had been a genuine document i should have taken the three states to be srotapatti, etc, and the fourth arhat, for which the reader should consult science and buddhism and similar treatises. but as it is better than .genuine. being, like the chymical marriage of christian rosencreutz, the forgery of a great adept, one cannot too confidently refer it thus. for the .seven worlds. are not buddhism. 23. if thou would.st learn their names, then hearken, and remember. the name of the first hall is ignorance. avidy. it is the hall in which thou saw.st the light, in which thou livest and shalt die. these three halls correspond to the gunas: ignorance, tamas; learning, raja

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

py in tubingen university of cabala mystica the book of sacred magic, attributed to abraham ben simeon of worms, describing a journey undertaken by him in 1397 through bavaria, tyrol and hungary to constantinople, and from there to kabbalists and magicians in palestine into arabia accompanied by a christian youth, christoph possible literary model for the development of the character of christian rosencreutz. h. khunrath, the amphitheatre of eternal wisdom (completed by erasmus wolfurt, which reproduced dee s monad and emphasised the symbolism of the microcosm and the macrocosm. containing a correspondence between jesus christ and the philosopher s stone, this work by khunrath was held in high esteem by lutherans, who referred to him in their writings. 1610-1685 joseph de voisin editor of

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

) here are even those fellows whom you know well, and yet never had any page 15 reason to esteem. they are now all here, and you with all your prayers and supplications have hardly got in at last. this and more the devil at that time injected, while i notwithstanding (as well as i could) directed myself to the issue. meanwhile one or other of my acquaintance here and there spoke to me: oh brother rosencreutz! are you here too? yes (my brethren, i replied, the grace of god has helped me in too. at which they raised mighty laughter, looking upon it as ridiculous that there should be need of god in so slight an occasion. now having demanded each of them concerning his way, and finding that most of them were forced to clamber over the rocks, certain trumpets (none of which we yet saw) began to

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

stical system. during his last days in tubingen he finished and anonymously published the fama fraternitatis, the first of his rosicrucian publications. the following year he published the confessio, soon to be followed by the chemical marriage. by this time he had moved to vaihingen as the church s deacon. andrae s three volumes announced the existence of a secret fraternity founded by christian rosencreutz, a high occult initiate. the order had supposedly been founded a century earlier and was only now being made public. the documents further invited inquiries from interested readers but failed to give an address or location for the fraternity. over the next decades, many would look in vain for the group. in 1619 andrae published a short work, the tower of babel, in which he confessed hi

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

evealed its ultra-protestant character by what an old scottish minister used to call a dig at the pope, whom it publicly execrated, expressing the hope that his asinine braying would finally be put a stop to by tearing him to pieces with nails! this impious comment did little to enhance the reputation of rosicrucians among roman catholics. a year later, in 1616, the chemical nuptials of christian rosencreutz was published, purporting to recount incidents in the life of the mysterious founder of the brotherhood of the rosy cross. but the chemical marriage makes christian rosencreutz an old man when he achieves initiation, and this hardly squared with the original account of his life as given in the fama. by that time a number of persons had applied for initiation but had received no answer

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

932, i, pp. 154-5- 3 allgemeine und general reformation der gantzen weiten welt. beneben der fama fatemitas, dess loblichen ordens des rosencreutzes, an alle gelehrte und haupter europas geschrieben, cassel, 1614. the german original of this and the other rosicrucian manifestoes will be found in de manifesten der rosekruisers, ed. a. santing, amersfoort, 1930; and in chymische hochzeit christiani rosencreutz, etc, ed. f. maack, berlin, 1913 (reprints the manifestoes as well as the "chemical wedding. english translation in a. e. waite, the real history of the rosicrucians, london, 1887, pp. 36 ff; critical discussion as to authorship, etc, in arnold, op. cit, pp. 23 ff. 4 see above, p. 338. 408 after hermes trismegistus was dated disguise, a bold thing to do in view of the political situati

ats, and pumpkins. in striking contrast to the sophisticated disillusion, the bitter irony, of the weary venetian liberal is the "fama fraternitas, or the rosicrucian manifesto which follows the german translation of the extract from boccalini. the latter is as naive and incoherent as the former is experienced and lucid. we gather that the fraternity of the rosy cross was founded by one christian rosencreutz, a german, who was educated in a monastery and afterwards travelled widely, particularly in the east.1 the magia and cabala of the wise men with whom he conferred at fez was not altogether pure "but notwithstanding, he knew how to make good use of the same, and found still better grounds for his faith, altogether agreeable with the harmony of the whole world, and wonderfully impressed

r hermes trismegistus was dated on pedantry and tyranny. in 1613, boccalini, like bruno before him, is dead. in 1614, the german rosicrucians come out with their "fama" associated with boccalini on general reformation. this sequence does not prove anything; it is merely suggestive. other rosicrucian publications were the confessio fraternitatis (cassel, 1615) and the chymische hochzeit christiani rosencreutz (strasbourg, 1616, the latter certainly by johann valentin andreae, a lutheran pastor, who may also be the author of the translation from boccalini and the other manifestoes, though this is not certain.1 it would seem that rosicrucianism, as it emerges in germany in the early seventeenth century, has lutheran connections; one explanation of the rosicrucian emblem of the cross and the r

pastor, who may also be the author of the translation from boccalini and the other manifestoes, though this is not certain.1 it would seem that rosicrucianism, as it emerges in germany in the early seventeenth century, has lutheran connections; one explanation of the rosicrucian emblem of the cross and the rose which has been put forward is that it is an imitation of luther's emblem.2 "christian rosencreutz, the founder, seems entirely mythical; perhaps this name, too, is an allusion to luther. but the rosicrucians were magical, hermetic, cabalistic lutherans and particularly addicted to alchemical symbolism of which "the chemical wedding of christian rosencreutz" 3 is an elaborate and incomprehensible example. the lutheran flavour of rosicrucianism is not against the hypothesis of a conn

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

; anthoughtto have been theworkof a prominent lutheran scholar, johann valentinandreae, and were possiblyissued with a political intent.whetherornotthis was so, they caught the popular imagination and stimulated theologians, occultists, and satirists to write innumerable attacks upon, and defences of, the putative rosicrucians. as for the myth itself, it concerned the life andworkof one christian rosencreutz, a mystic and adept of the fifteenth centurywhofounded, it wasclaimed;a secret fraternitywiththe aimofpropagating the esoteric wisdom he had acquired during his travels in theholyland, egypt, andnorthajrica. in addition to their esoteric studies, the members of his fraternity sought for spiritual development and 'practised acts ofbenevolencev-especially the healing of the sick. after t

c and adept of the fifteenth centurywhofounded, it wasclaimed;a secret fraternitywiththe aimofpropagating the esoteric wisdom he had acquired during his travels in theholyland, egypt, andnorthajrica. in addition to their esoteric studies, the members of his fraternity sought for spiritual development and 'practised acts ofbenevolencev-especially the healing of the sick. after the deathofchristian rosencreutz, in 1484, his body was embalmed and sealedwithinaseven-sided vault, the locationofwhich remained106 a. e.waite-magicianofmany parts _secret for 120 years until 1604,whenit was discovered by chance, opened, and found to contain not only the perfectly preservedbody,butalso secretmanuscripts, an ever-burning lamp, and other marvels. the vault was resealedand the fraternity, revitalizedby

the secondorderon 3 march 1899, the 116th memberofthe goldendawnto do so(heisnumber123 on the roll,butthe first four names are fictitious and westcott, mathers, and woodman are all entered twice);butonce he had passedthroughtheadeptusminorceremony--which required the candidate to beboundsymbolically on the 'crossofsuffering' and to witness the resurrectionofthechiefadept,whorepresented christian rosencreutz, from atombwithinan elaborately painted, seven-sidedvault-hetooklittle part in the secondorderactivities. presumably he worked his waythroughthe prescribed rituals for making and consecrating magical implements and for constructing enochian tablets, as well as studyingthedetailed symbolism of the tarot cards,togetherwith the. truemethodofusingthemfor divination. all this, and agreatdea

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they naturally identify these splendid inanities of occult nomenclature with the mysterious and awe-inspiring rosicrucians. the origin of the rose-cross degree is involved in the most profound mystery. its foundation has been attributed to johann valentin andreas, but this is an ignorant confusion, arising from the alleged connection of the theologican of wurtemberg with the society of christian rosencreutz'11[11. merely impolite references such as these could have been ignored, but not so his final chapter 'modern rosicrucian societies, which printed (pp. 416-22) the 'rules and ordinances of the rosicrucian society of england' quoted verbatim from the rosicrucian12[12. this was followed by an accurate account of the society's history and concluded by waite's own sarcastic and unkind crit

GNOSTIC CATECHISM

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

account of that which is chosen there to be designated rosicrucius s sepelchre: rosicrucius, say his disciples, made use of this method 10 the rosicrucians. to show the world that he had reinvented the ever-burning lamps of the ancients, though he was resolved no one should reap any advantage from the discovery. we have chosen the above story as the introduction to our curious history. christian rosencreutz died in 1484. to account for rosicrucianism not having been heard of until 1604, it has been asserted that this supposed first founder of rosicrucianism bound his disciples not to reveal any of his doctrines until a period of one hundred and twenty years after his death. the ancient romans are said to have preserved lights in their sepulchres many ages by the oiliness of gold (here ste

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

imself (as it were) into that perception of their identity, which is his (partial and incorrect) idea of how things look from kether. this man performs great magic; very strong medicine. he really does find gold on the midden and skeletons in pretty girls. in abiegnus the sacred mountain of the rosicrucians the postulant finds but a coffin in the central shrine; yet that coffin contains christian rosencreutz who is dead and is alive for evermore and hath the keys of hell and of death. ay! your tiphereth man, child of mercy and justice, looks deeper than the skin! but he seems a ridiculous object enough both to the malkuth man and to the kether man. still, he fs the most interesting man there is; and we all must pass through that stage before we get our heads really clear, the kether-vision

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

he well perceive a young maiden6 having a necklace of two-and-seventy* it would require many pages to give even a sketch of this remarkable document. the qabalistic knowledge is as authentic as it is profound, but there are also allusions to contemporary occult students, and a certain very small amount of mere absence of meaning. the main satire is of course on the .chymical marriage of christian rosencreutz. a few only of the serious problems are elucidated in footnotes. 1 i.e. when 118= change, a ferment, strength. also= before he was 120, the mystic age of a rosicrucian. 2 her-shell= herschell, or uranus, the planet which was ascending (in leo) at crowley.s birth. 3 vau and gimel, the hierophant and high-priestess in the tarot. hence .from his castle of ug. means .from his initiation. w

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ian temple--the adepts of the rose cross. 137 rosicrucian doctrines and tenets the confessio fraternitatis--the anatomy of melancholy--john heydon on rosicrucianism--the three mountains of the wise--the philosophical egg--the objects of the rosicrucian order. 141 fifteen rosicrucian and qabbalistic diagrams schamayim, the ocean of spirit--the seven days of creation--the symbolic tomb of christian rosencreutz--the regions of the elements--the new jerusalem--the grand secret of nature. 145 alchemy and its exponents the multiplication of metals--the medal of emperor leopold i--paracelsus of hohenheim--raymond lully--nicholas flarnmel--count bernard of treviso. 149 the theory and practice of alchemy the origin of alchemical philosophy--alexander the great and the talking trees--nature and art

lchemical philosophy--alexander the great and the talking trees--nature and art--alchemical symbolism--the song of solomon--the philosopher's gold. 153 the theory and practice of alchemy, part ii the alchemical prayer--the emerald tablet of hermes--a letter from the brothers of r. c--the magical mountain of the moon--an alchemical formula--the dew of the sages. 157 the chemical marriage christian rosencreutz is invited to the chemical wedding--the virgo lucifera--the philosophical inquisition--the tower of olympus--the homunculi--the knights of the golden stone. 161 bacon, shakspeare, and the rosicrucians the rosicrucian mask--life of william shakspere--sir francis bacon--the acrostic signatures--the significant number thirty-three--the philosophic death. 165 the cryptogram as a factor in

s found a lamp still alight which had been placed there before the beginning of the christian era. pausanias described a beautiful golden lamp in the temple of minerva which burned steadily for a year without refueling or having the wick trimmed. the ceremony of filling the lamp took place annually, and time was measured by the ceremony. according to the fama fraternitatis, the crypt of christian rosencreutz when opened 120 years after his death was found to be brilliantly illuminated by a perpetual lamp suspended from the ceiling. numa pompilius, king of rome and magician of considerable power, caused a perpetual light to burn in the dome of a temple he had created in honor of an elemental being. in england a curious tomb was found containing click to enlarge base of a delphian tripod. fr

ists united only by the similarity of their viewpoints and deductions? where was the "house of the holy spirit" in which, according to their manifestoes, they met once a year to plan the future activities of their order? who was the mysterious person referred to as "our illustrious father and brother c.r.c? did those three letters actually stand for the words "christian rosie cross? was christian rosencreutz, the supposed author of the chymical nuptials, the same person who with three others founded "the society of the rose cross? what relationship existed between rosicrucianism and medi val freemasonry? why were the destinies of these two organizations so closely interwoven? is the "brotherhood of the rose cross" the muchsought- after link connecting the freemasonry of the middle ages wit

rd upon his breast, sitting before a table upon which burns a candle. one hand is supporting his head and the other is resting the tip of its index finger on the temple of a human skull. the picture, however (see plate at head of chapter, proves nothing. father c.r.c. was never seen by other than members of his own order, and they did not preserve a description of him. that his name was christian rosencreutz is most improbable, as the two were not even associated until the writing of the chymical nuptials. the second postulate those masonic brethren who have investigated the subject accept the historical existence of the "brotherhood of the rose cross" but are divided concerning the origin of the order. one group holds the society originated in medi val europe as an outgrowth of alchemical

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

frater, n.o.m. among those characteristics which are truly necessary in the pursuit of magical knowledge and power, there is hardly any one more essential than thoroughness. and there is no failing more common in modern life than superficiality. there are many who, even in this grade which has been gained by serious study, after being charmed and instructed by first view of the vault of christian rosencreutz, have made no attempt to study it as a new theme. there are many who have attended many ceremonial admissions and yet know nothing of the attribution of the seven sides, and nothing of the emblematic arrangement of the forty squares upon each side. some of you do not even know that venus is in an astrological sense misplaced among the sides, and not two in five have been able to tell m

own and, in most cases, unnamed masters. at the close of the second point of the 5-6 ceremony, there are <292> named, without further reference, the names and ages of the "three highest chiefs of the order. these chiefs are hugo alverda, whose age is given as 576, franciscus, who died at the age of 495 years and elman zata, who died at the age of 463. in addition to these three there is christian rosencreutz the founder who died at the age of 106 years- these enormous ages, unbelievably long in the case of the three chiefs, imply- that is if we accept the history in its obvious and literal sense- that, as adepts, they had discovered and employed the secret of the elixir of life, in order to prolong the period of their usefulness on earth. and though they have died, that is discarded their

lect custodians of the mysteries revealed to mankind by the divine teachers. there were those among them, who remained in their kumaric (divine purity) condition from the beginning; and tradition whispers, what the secret teachings affirm, namely, that these elect were the germ of a hierarchy, which never died since that period" the magical tradition has it too that the three chiefs and christian rosencreutz were of those who retained their 2 74 the golden dawn: volume ii book three knowledge of their divine origins and spiritual nature, and they have been constantly with us. the student would be well-repaid to study what h. p. b. has to say in the first volume of the secret dodrine about the stem and <294> root of initiators, that mysterious being who, born in the so-called third race of

self. but they are also the light at the end of the way; they have become the divine attainment. how significant becomes the statement "i am the way, the truth and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me" there is one last correspondence before closing this paper. the symbolic drama of the adeptus minor ritual has as its goal the union of the aspirant with the divine nature of christian rosencreutz. theoretically, it is assumed that our father c. r c. is the type and symbol of spiritual attainment, a man who achieved union with his higher and divine genius, and was brought to the light of his kether. he is portrayed as a living man, who symbolically died, and like osiris of old, was glorified through trial, perfected through suffering, and rose again in a mystical resurrection. n

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death from which he emerged with power to enlighten others and to lead a large movement in his name. the theory of the death posture, first described in the book of pleasure, was developed independently of the experiences of the above mentioned masters about whom nothing was published in any european language at that time. the rosicrucian mystique of the pastos containing the corpse of christian rosencreutz- dramatized by macgregor mathers in the 5 =6 ceremony of the golden dawn- resumes the mystery of this essentially egyptian formula of the mummified osiris. spare was acquainted with this version of the mystery. he became a member of crowley's a^.a, for a brief period, in 1910, and the golden dawn rituals- published shortly afterwards in the equinox- may have been available to him. the

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ins the rosicrucians, whose manifestos helped give birth to many of the most liberating ideals of the european enlightenment. although one may see advertisements in magazines inviting the reader to fill out a coupon and become a member of the ancient order of the rosy cross, the modern organization exists as a homage to the original anonymous followers of the mysterious illumined father christian rosencreutz, for no known member of the original group that surfaced in the early 1600s was ever identified. m delving deeper daraul, arkon. a history of secret societies. new york: pocket books, 1969. heckethorn, charles william. secret societies of all ages and countries. kila, mont: kessinger publishing, 1997. howard, michael. the occult conspiracy: secret societies. their influence and power i

ncements were met with great excitement. it was a time of reformation and enlightenment, and all of europe was looking forward to the new world that the alchemists and magicians promised was about to emerge from the ashes of the old. and leading such a movement of a new appreciation of the arts and sciences and humankind fs true place in the universe was the illumined father and brother christian rosencreutz (1378.1484, a brilliant magus, who at the age of 16 had already gained secret wisdom teachings from the sages of arabia and the holy land. when rosencreutz returned to germany circa 1450, he became a recluse, for he could see that europe was not yet ready for the complete reformation which he so yearned to present to it. for one thing, he claimed to have acquired the fabled philosopher

eformation which he so yearned to present to it. for one thing, he claimed to have acquired the fabled philosopher fs stone, which enabled him to produce all the gold and precious gems necessary to allow him to build a house where he could live peacefully and well. to share the power of the legendary stone of transmutation with the unwise, the worldly, and the greedy would be disastrous. quietly, rosencreutz accepted only a handful of carefully evaluated students to whom he imparted the knowledge that he had acquired in ancient egypt and the connection that he had made with the mystery schools and the esoteric teachings of great masters. he was particularly enthusiastic about telling his students about pharaoh amenhotep and the monotheistic view of one god. at first there were only three d

dents to whom he imparted the knowledge that he had acquired in ancient egypt and the connection that he had made with the mystery schools and the esoteric teachings of great masters. he was particularly enthusiastic about telling his students about pharaoh amenhotep and the monotheistic view of one god. at first there were only three disciples in attendance; then later, eight brothers, including rosencreutz himself, swore to uphold the following precepts: 1. they would not profess any creed but the goal of healing the sick without reward; 2. they would affect no particular style of clothing; 3. they would meet once each year in the house of the sainted spirit; 4. each brother would carefully choose his own successor; 5. the letters gr.c. h would serve as their only seal and character; 6

pts: 1. they would not profess any creed but the goal of healing the sick without reward; 2. they would affect no particular style of clothing; 3. they would meet once each year in the house of the sainted spirit; 4. each brother would carefully choose his own successor; 5. the letters gr.c. h would serve as their only seal and character; 6. the brotherhood would remain secret for 100 years. when rosencreutz died in 1484 at the age of 106, the five brethren who had been chosen to travel throughout europe performing charitable deeds had established a reputation for being selfless benefactors. although rosencreutz had been buried in secret, one of the brothers happened by chance to discover his burial chamber and read the promise inscribed above the entrance that rosencreutz would return in

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unt carmel "the divine darkness is the inaccessible light in which god is said to dwell (1 timothy 6:10, invisible indeed, because of the superabundant light" in the temple the magician reminds himself of this unknowable ultimate by the lamp of dazzling darkness, which is the everburning and eternal lamp of edessa, of jupiter ammon, of pallas, and the perpetual lamp found in the tomb of christian rosencreutz. indeed, a translation of ain soph aur could be "never-ending fire, and crowley may be hinting at this when he speaks of the lamp "eternal, unconfined, unextended, without cause and without effect, the holy lamp mysteriously burns. without quantity or quality, unconditioned and sempiternal, is this light" indeed, he later states that the lamp "is before 'i am, thus confirming that he i

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mighty and terrible and glorious as it is, however, it is but the pennon upon the sacred lance of will, the damascened inscription upon the swords of the knight-monks of thelima (sic. it is the apotheosis of freedom; but it is also the strictest possible bond. it is that harmony of legis jugum and libertas evangelii1 which we once saw upon the little table above the pastos of our father christian rosencreutz. it must be frankly recognized that almost the whole of this manifesto was intended to deceive. the majority of its readers would have assumed for example, that the mysterious master thirion was either some discarnate entity, similar to those who supposedly manifested themselves to macgregor mathers and other members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, or a himalayan superman, li

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om a celebrated occultist, since dead; and more recently my attention was again called to it by my personal friend, the well-known french author, lecturer and poet, jules bois, whose attention has been for some time turned to occult subjects. my first-mentioned informant told me that it was known both to bulwer lytton and eliphas levi, that the former had based part of his description of the sage rosicrucian mejnour on that of abra-melin, while the account of the so-called observatory of sir philip derval in the strange story was to an extent copied from and suggested by that of the magical oratory and terrace, given in the eleventh chapter of the second book of this present work. certainly also the manner of instruction applied by mejnour in zanoni to the neophyte glyndon, together with t

caused a handsome peristyle to be erected. from his own account, the author of the present work appears to have been born in a.d. 1362, and to have written this manuscript for his son, lamech, in 1458, being then in his ninety-sixth year. that is to say, that he was the contemporary both of nicholas flamel and pernelle, and also of the mystical christian rosenkreutz, the founder of the celebrated rosicrucian order or fraternity in europe. like the latter, he appears to have been very early seized with the desire of obtaining magical knowledge; like him and flamel, he left his home and travelled in search of the initiated wisdom; like them both, he returned to become a worker of wonders. at this period, it was almost universally believed that introduction v the secret knowledge was only rea

dear to our childish days the host of mermaids, satyrs, fauns, sylphs, and fays; the forces intended to be attracted and propitiated by the fetishes of the negro-race; are for the most part no other thing than the ill-understood manifestations of this great class, the elementals. among these, some, as i have before observed, are good; such are the salamanders, undines, sylphs, and gnomes, of the rosicrucian philosophy; many are frightfully malignant, delighting in every kind of evil, and might easily be mistaken for devils by the uninitiated, save that their power is less; a great proportion are neither good nor evil, irrationally working either; just as a monkey or a parrot might act; in fact such closely resemble animals in their nature, and especially combinations of animals, in which

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d what we are repeating. 17 the passover is about the vernal equinox and nearly corresponds to our easter; it begins on the 15th or 16th of the jewish first month= nisan or abib. the feast of tabernacles begins about the middle of their seventh month= tisri. 18 ie, religious denomination. 19 it is immaterial whether the religious conception be theistic or pantheistic. 20 the initiates of the true rosicrucian wisdom, know that there is a certain force in the observance of the equinoxes. 21 abraham evidently means his guardian angel. 22 here abraham admits to an extent what i have urged in my previous notes. 23 i.e, the astrologers to whom abraham refers in the first sentence of the chapter. 24 i.e, the moon and monday; sun and sunday; mars and tuesday (tuisco is a name of mars; venus and fr

an extent what i have urged in my previous notes. 23 i.e, the astrologers to whom abraham refers in the first sentence of the chapter. 24 i.e, the moon and monday; sun and sunday; mars and tuesday (tuisco is a name of mars; venus and friday (freya's day, after freya, the scandinavian goddess, etc. 25 et jusqua ceguil tremonte son jour dure jusqua cequil se leve derechef. 26 this is the initiated rosicrucian teaching, which is very different to that of the outer and uninitiated world. 27 this is the great point to be studied in all magical operations soever, and unless the whole heart and soul and faith go with the ceremony, there can be no reliable result produced. 28 the title of the eleventh chapter of the second book is: concerning the selection of the place. 29 meaning in the case whe

atory. 39 l'avenue; the modern sense of this word is, of course, a road or path bordered by trees. 40 compare the following description with that of sir philip derval s so-called observatory, in the strange story, by bulwer lytton. 41 i.e, the terrace or balcony. 42 i.e, the spirits. 43 i.e, the altar. 44 he here evidently means the oratory, and not the bedchamber described in chapter vil. 45 the rosicrucian initiate will note the description of these vestments. 46 mirrhe en larmes 47? galanca, or galanga, an indian root, used for medicinal purposes. see description of holy anointing oil and perfume in exodus xxx. 48 olibanum. 49 or storax. 50 a brasse is a fathom; but here perhaps implies rather an arm s length: lune brasse enveron ou demi aulne. 51 i.e, in the hollow interior of the alta

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des without fear or favor in any way, so that our high standard of knowledge be not lowered by my instrumentality" 14 hrwbg "furthermore, that i will perform all practical work connected with this order in a place concealed and apart from the gaze of the outer and uninitiated world, and that i will not display our magical implements, nor reveal the use of the same, but will keep secret this inner rosicrucian knowledge even as the same hath been kept secret through the ages; that i will not perform any ritual of the rosea rubeae et aurea cruces before the eyes of any person save for the permission of the chiefs of the order" trapt "i further promise and swear that with the divine permission i will, from this day forward, apply myself to the great work, which is, to purify and exalt my spiri

d illfeeling may be engendered" dwsy "i also undertake to work unassisted, as well as in harmony with my fellow fraters and sorors under the direction of the g.h. chief adept at the subjects prescribed for study in the various practical grades from adeptus minor to as high as my aspirations will take me" twklm "finally, if in my travels i should meet a stranger who professes to be a member of the rosicrucian order, i will examine him with care before acknowledging him to be such "such are the words of this my obligation as an adeptus minor, whereunto i pledge myself in the presence of the divine one, and of the great avenging angel, awh, and if i fail herein, may my rose be disintegrated and my power in magic cease (third adept hands dagger to the second adept and holds cup conveniently fo

the other the paths. furthermore, in the serpent of wisdom is shown the ascending spiral, and in the sword the rush of the descending white brilliance from beyond rtk, differentiated into various shades and colors, darkening more and more as they near twklm" 29 mountain of abiegnus chief (indicates diagram of mountain "this is the symbolic mountain of god in the center of the universe, the sacred rosicrucian mountain of initiation, the mystic mountain of abiegnus. below and around it are darkness and silence, and it is crowned with the light ineffable. at its base is the wall of enclosure and secrecy, whose sole gateway, invisible to the profane, is formed of the two pillars of hermes. the ascent of the mountain is by the spiral path of the serpent of wisdom. stumbling on betwteen the pill

changed before the members of the outer order or non-initiates. it is performed thusly "the right hand is stretched outward and grasps the wrist of the second's right hand while making with the left hand the sign of silence "the sign and password has already been received. finally, you must understand that you are never permitted to say to anyone even as a member of the outer order that you are a rosicrucian. let the pastos be replaced within the vault (the adepti replaces pastos as before and all resumes places as in the beginning of the ceremony. the aspirant is allowed to robe and the sash of the grade is bestowed) closing (chief adept knocks. all rise) chief: knocks. second: knocks. third: knocks. chief: knocks. third: knocks. second: knocks. second "roseae rubeae" third "et aureae cru

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. the word 'adhi' in sanskrit was usually translated 'lord' in the syrian form we get it duplicated hadad. you remember ben hadad, king of syria. the hebrew word for 'lord' is adon or adonai. adonai *my* lord, is constantly used in the bible to replace the name jehovah where that was too sacred to be mentioned, or for other reasons improper to write down. adonai has also come to mean, through the rosicrucian tradition, the holy guardian angel, and thus the object of worship or concentration. it is the same thing; worship is worth-ship, means worthiness; and anything but the chosen object is necessarily an unworthy object. 14. as dhyana also represents the condition of annihilation of dividuality, it is a little difficult to distinguish between it and samadhi. i wrote in part i, book iv 'th

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but was forbidden to use them* all this secrecy is very silly. an indicible arcanum is an arcanum that cannot be revealed. it is simply bad faith to swear a man to the most horrible penalties if he betray, etc, and then take him mysteriously apart and confide the hebrew alphabet to his safe keeping.3 this is perhaps only ridiculous; but it is a wicked imposture to pretend to have received it from rosicrucian manuscripts which are to be found in the british museum. to obtain money on these grounds, as has been done by certain moderns, is clear (and, i trust, indictable) fraud. the secrets of adepts are not to be revealed to men. we only wish they were. when a man comes to me and asks for the truth, i go away and practice teaching the differential calculus to a bushman; and i answer the form

1. produce 19 to 10, join 7-10, 8-10. daath is at the junction of 25, 34. see figure. cols. xv.-xviii. daath lavender, grey-white, pure violet, grey flecked gold. herschel silver flecked white. col. xvi, line 10. for d, c, b, and e. col. xix. urim and thummim= auramoth and thoum mou, egyptian gods. they are methods of divination by b and e. col. xx, line 32. these gods preside over the pieces in rosicrucian chess. 5 d of b bishop ywoum mwou c of b queen i#haourey b of b knight hnwou vw/s e of b pawn kabexneuf e of b castle wauwqi# a of b king vaourw d of c bishop xoni# ya mwou c of c queen y/wour i# mwog b of c knight ceba qnwou haour i# ya mwou e of c pawn ]wmayv e of c castle s/weu ya i# a of c king pya qav/n-q/x d of d bishop zw wan c of d queen qnwou ya peq] b of d knight ou bal e of

hat hellenized. notes to crowley s notes 1 because jk= koch, power, and hm is the secret name of yetzirah (vide col. lxiv. 2 i.e, the hebrew word for ten. 3 unclear. possibly an error for wmiama, amaimon. the g.d. qliphoth lecture has wdba, abaddon. 4 possibly an error for hmun, naamah or nahemah. the g.d. qliphoth lecture as printed by zalewski (1994) has maamah which itself may be a misprint. 5 rosicrucian chess is also known as enochian chess although its connection with dee and kelly s magick is tenuous at best; it is a four-handed game also used as a system of divination, loosely based on an ancient indian game called chaturanga, but with pieces representing egyptian gods. it was probably created by w. wynn westcott. for a more detailed account see zalewski, enochian chess of the gold

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child- and yet another, in which i.a.o. are all fathers of different kinds balanced by h.h.h, 3 mothers, to complete the universe. in a third, the true formula of the beast 666, i and o are the opposites which form the field for the operation of a. but this is a higher matter unsuited for this elementary handbook. see, however, liber samekh, point ii, section j> the same idea is expressed by the rosicrucian formula of the trinity "ex deo nascimur. in jesu morimur per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus" this is also identical with the word lux, l.v.x, which is formed by the arms of a cross. it is this formula which is implied in those ancient and modern monuments in which the phallus is worshipped as the saviour of the world. the doctrine of resurrection as vulgarly understood is false and absu

o it satisfactorily, because it is a great effort for the mind to remain concentrated upon the purpose of the ceremony. the overcoming of this difficulty lends most powerful aid to the magician. it is unwise for him to attempt it until he has received regular initiation in the true<orders which have impudently assumed the name of rosicrucian. the masonic societas rosicruciana is honest and harmless; and makes no false pretences; if its members happen as a rule to be pompous busy-bodies, enlarging the borders of their phylacteries, and scrupulous about cleansing the outside of the cup and the platter; if the masks of the officers in their mysteries suggest the owl, the cat, the parrot, and the cuckoo, while the robe of thei

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ount of the impending crisis to civilization, of which mention will later be made. there is no good purpose, even were there license, to discuss the nature of the basis of scientific attainment which is the core of the doctrines of the society. it is only necessary to point out that its correspondence with alchemy is the one genuine fact on the subject which has been allowed to transpire; for the rosicrucian, as indicated by his central symbol, the barren cross on which he has made a rose to flower, occupies himself primarily with spiritual and physiological alchemy. taking for "the first matter of the work" a neutral or inert substance (it is constantly described as the commonest and least valued thing on earth, and may actually connote any substance whatever) he deliberately poisons it

blavatsky, with the distinct mission to destroy, on the one hand, the crude schools of christianity, and, on the other, to eradicate the materialism from physical science. she made the necessary connection with edward maitland and anna kingsford, who were trying rather helplessly to put the exoteric formulae of the white school into th hands of students, and with the secret representatives of the rosicrucian brotherhood. it is not for us in this place to estimate the degree of success with which she carried out her embassy; but at least we see today that physical science is at last penetrating to the spiritual basis of material phenomena. the work of henry poincar, einstein, whitehead, and bertrand russell is sufficient evidence of this fact. christianity, too, has fallen into a lower degr

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

invoke, i greet thy presence, o ra-hoor-khuit! unity uttermost showed! i adore the might of thy breath, supreme and terrible god, who makest the gods and death to tremble before thee- i, i adore thee! appear on the throne of ra! open the ways of the khu! lighten the ways of the ka! the ways of the khabs run through to stir me or still me! aum! let it fill me" the new comment stanza 3 suggests the rosicrucian benediction: may thy mind be open unto the higher! may thy heart be the centre of light! may thy body be the temple of the rosy cross! al iii,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

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h copious notes and magical squares of letters. by l. s. macgregor-mathers. 4to, black cloth, magical square on side in gold. 1900 (published at 21s) postage free 10s. 6p. the original work, of which this is a translation, is unique, no other copy being known, although both bylwer lytton and eliphas levi were well aware of its existence; the former having based part of his description on the sage rosicrucian, mejnour, on that of abra-melin, while the account of the so-called observatory of sir philip derval in the "strange story" was, to some extent, copied from that of the magical oratory and terrace given in the present work. there are also other interesting points too numerous to be given here in detail. it is felt therefore that by its publication a service is rendered to lovers of rar

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please! normally half a bottle of burgundy excites me notably; while doing this magic is like so much water. a "transvaluation of all values! 3.55. over a citron press i have revised the new ritual. also i have bought suitable materials for copying it fair; and this i did without solemnity or ceremonial, 42 but quite simply, just as anybody else might buy them. in short, i bought them in a truly rosicrucian manner, according to the custom of the country. i add a few considerations on the grade of adeptus major 6 5 (p.s. distinction is to be made between attainment of this grade in the natural and in the spiritual world. the former i long since possessed. 1. it may perhaps mean severe asceticism. in case i should be going out on that path i will try and get a real good dinner to fortify m

out exception, in the last three or four days, has these images. the ideal condition seems likely to be perfect oblivion or (in the adept) is the tamo-guna, the power of elemental darkness, broken once and for ever, so that his sleep is vivid and rational as another man's waking; his waking another man's samadhi; his samadhi to which he ever strives at least this later view is suggested by the rosicrucian formula of reception: may thy mind be open unto the higher! may thy heart be the centre of light! may thy body be the temple of the rosy cross! and by the hindu statement that in the attained yogin 102 the kundalini sleeps in the svadistthana, no more in the muladhara cakkr m. see also the rosicrucian lecture on the microcosmos, where this view is certainly upheld, the qliphoth of an a

n of thoth,"i.e. was obsessed by the necessity (alleged) of recording his results, or failed to overcome the duality of thoth. otherwise, even if he comprehended the base, he certainly failed at the apex of the pyramid. in any case, he cannot blame the ceremony, which is most potent; one or two small details may need correction, but no more. here then he is down at the bottom of the hill again, a rosicrucian sisyphus with the stone of the philosophers! an ixion bound to the wheel of destiny and of the samsara, unable to reach the centre, where is rest. he must add to the entry 1.13 that the "telephone-cross" voices came as he composed himself to sleep, in the will to adonai. this time he detached a body of cavalry to chase them to oblivion. perhaps an unwise division of his forces; yet he

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ss rose of creation, the immortal cross of light. the vault itself represents the tomb of osiris onnophris, the justified one. its seven sides the seven lower sephiroth, the seven days of creation, and the seven palaces. it is situated in the centre of the earth, in the mountain of the caverns, the mystic mountain of abiegnus; which is the mountain of god in the centre of the universe, the sacred rosicrucian mountain of initiation. the meaning of abiegnus is explained as follows by the "third adept] illustration on page 209 described "diagram 60. the temple in the opening and first point of the 5= 6 ritual" this is a rectangle of approximate 6x8 proportion, standing on a smaller face and representing a room. the upper half of the room is occupied by a heptagonal drawing. the outer heptagon

t all things connected with the order. that i will maintain the veil of strict secrecy between the first and second order. hb:dalet hb:tzaddi hb:chet. that i will uphold to the utmost the authority of the chiefs of the order. hb:heh hb:resh hb:vau hb:bet hb:gemel. furthermore that i will perform all practical work connected with this order, in a place concealed. that i will keep secret this inner rosicrucian knowledge. that i will only perform any practical magic before the uninitiated which is of a simple and already well-known nature, and that i will show them no secret mode of working whatsoever. hb:taw hb:resh hb:aleph hb:peh hb:taw. i further solemnly promise and swear that, with the divine permission, i will from this day forward apply myself unto the great work, which is so to purif

. hb:dalet hb:yod hb:heh. i further promise always to. display brotherly love and forbearance towards the members of the whole order. hb:dalet hb:vau hb:samekh hb:yod. i also undertake to work unassisted at the subjects prescribed for study in the various practical grades. hb:taw hb:vau hb:koph hb:lamed hb:mem. finally, if in my travels i should meet a stranger who professes to be a member of the rosicrucian order, i will examine him with care, before acknowledging him to be so [the obligation being finished, the chain of humility and the robe of mourning are removed from the aspirant, and the "third adept" completes the "first point" by communicating verbally the following history of the order of the rose and cross to the aspirant] know then, o aspirant, that the mysteries of the rose and

the top: koph, air, chet, taurus, chet, leo. the staff of the crook is divided as is the staff of the flail, top section aries, over intersection taw, below intersection capricorn, bottom hay [this explanation being finished, the "chief adept" leads the aspirant to the diagram of the mystic titles and grades, and says] this is the symbolic mountain of god in the centre of the universe, the sacred rosicrucian mountain of initiation, the mystic mountain of the caverns, even the mountain of abiegnus [this diagram shows a mountain crowned with light, and surrounded with darkness. at its base is the wall of secrecy, whose sole gate is formed by the two pillars of hermes. the ascent of the mountain is made by the serpent of wisdom. the explanation of this diagram being concluded, the "second" an

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ith copious notes and magical squares of letters. by l.s.macgregor-mathers. 4to, black cloth, magical square on side in gold. 1900 (published at 21s) postage free 10s. 6p. the original work, of which this is a translation, is unique, no other copy being known, although both bylwer lytton and eliphas levi were well aware of its existence; the former having based part of his description of the sage rosicrucian, mejnour, on that of abra-melin, while the account of the so-called observatory of sir philip derval in the "strange story" was, to some extent, copied from that of the magical oratory and terrace given in the present work. there are also other interesting points too numerous to be given here in detail. it is felt therefore that by its publication a service is rendered to lovers of rar

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e glad if our readers will arrange with him through us to speak in their towns. mr. bickers makes no charge for lecturing, and the equinox may assist if desired in meeting the necessary expenses. 1 notes of the semester mr. sheridan-bickers held a large and very successful meeting at cambridge in november. we beg to extend our warmest sympathies to brother aloysius crowley. the gang of soi-disant rosicrucian swindlers whose profits have suffered through our exposures, having failed to frighten mr. aleister crowley, decided to assassinate him. their hired ruffians seem to have been knaves as clumsy as themselves, and brother aloysius suffered in his stead, escaping death by a miracle. if we do not extend our sympathy to mr. aleister crowley also, it is from a conviction that he has probably

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r costs* a word as to the sanctity of obligations seems necessary here. some of my brother masons (for example) have heard imperfectly and judged hastily. but if we apply our tools to our morals with patience and skill, we shall cure any defects in the building. let me explain the situation carefully and clearly (1) mathers and dr. wynn westcott were the apparent heads of the order calling itself rosicrucian (2) this order seriously claimed direct descent, and transmitted authority, from the original fratres r.c (3) it was founded on secret documents in he custody of dr. wynn westcott, on whose honour and integrity we relied (4) mathers and westcott claimed to be working under one or more secret chiefs of the grade of 8= 3 (5) it was then to those chiefs that i and other members of the ord

ce the company of men, the company of women, all company. he should practise in secrecy in a retired palace "for the sake of appearances he should remain in society, but should not have his heart in it. he should not renounce the duties of his profession, caste or rank, but let him perform these merely as an instrument without any thought of the event. by thus doing there is no sin" this is sound rosicrucian doctrine, by the way. 52 "hatha-yoga pradipika" pp. 5, 6. note the similarity of these conditions to those laid down in "the book of the sacred magic" also see "gheranda sanhita" p. 33. 53 "hatha-yoga pradipika" p. 22. on the question of food vivek nanda in his "bhakti yoga" p. 90, says "the cow does not eat meat, nor does the sheep. are they great yogins. any fool may abstain from eat

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h copious notes and magical squares of letters. by l. s. macgregor-mathers. 4"to, black cloth, magical square on side in gold" 1900 (pub. at 21"s, postage free. 10"s" 6"p" the original work, of which this is a translation, is unique, no other copy being known, although both bulwer lytton and eliphas levi were well aware of its existence; the former having based part of his description of the sage rosicrucian une junier weh note "sic, s.b "mejnour" on that of abra-melin, while the account of the so-called observatory of sir philip derval in the "strange story" was, to some extent, copied from that of the magical oratory and terrace given in the present work. there are also other interesting points too numerous to be given here in detail. it is felt therefore that by its publication a servic

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he order of heredom (harodim) rosy cross, which has an unchanged ritual from 1740, at least, draws upon dionysius the areopagite, a disciple of st paul, and it has also a rhythmetical description of the new jerusalem. again, two entire degrees of the scottish rite of 33 degree are drawn from the apocalypse, and certainly entered the rite before 1758, and seem as if they were drawn bodily from the rosicrucian militia of the cross: i allude to the 17 degree knight of the east and west, and the 19 degree of grand pontiff, which treat upon the heavenly jerusalem, and the opening scene of the revelations. it was rather a pity that when the late albert pike was revising the rituals, he did not consolidate the rite by changing the places of the 17 degree with the 20 degree, which latter treats of

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at revelation, his love and his imagination and all that is best in him will be evoked in adoration and mystery. hence some of the inspired writings and illumined visions of the mystic. if he is a hindu, there may come to him a vision of the lord of love, shri krishna, or, if a buddhist, he may see the lord of light, the buddha, in all his radiance. if he is an occult student, or a theosophist or rosicrucian, he may see a vision of one of the masters or of the entire hierarchy of adepts; he may hear words spoken and thus feel assured, past all controversy, that the great ones have chosen him for special privilege and for unique service. and yet, his consciousness has never moved from off the astral plane and his contacts have only been a wonderful and inspiring expression of the phenomena

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ting esoteric school, which is present in every part of the world, having no name, represented by no exoteric organisation and having no recognised leaders. this one true school has eternally met the need of seekers who down the ages have demanded entrance to the mysteries and have found admittance, after fulfilling the requirements. i refer to the numbers of mystical, metaphysical, theosophical, rosicrucian and occult orders which are everywhere to be found. these organisations are composed of groups of people with devoted spiritual intention, animated by great aspiration and gathered around some teacher and some body of teaching. the teacher supplies them with his personal interpretation of standard, occult information, emphasises the need for character-building and purity, indicates to

ntermediate in nature and are intended to bridge the gap between the esoteric schools of the past and the true schools which will later appear. these facts might be- 151- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust summarised as follows: 1. esoteric schools in the past these are the schools with which we are most familiar, such as the inner schools of the many theosophical groups, the rosicrucian orders and the countless mystical and metaphysical organisations. they are definitely exoteric in nature but are useful in challenging public interest. they convey much useful information about the three worlds of human evolution the physical world, the world of the emotions and the mental world. they are definitely for neophytes upon the path of probation. they are concerned with the

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

ives of disciples and their efforts at accepting training; with the proposed changes and with the results of the outer ashramic work they must fall in line and they must accept the changing curriculum. forget not that disciples in this particular period have to make adjustments which are not easy. they have been taught in terms of the old tradition, perpetuated and summarised by the theosophical, rosicrucian and other occult groups; they have had, since 1900, to accept and work with the newer modes of training and the changing forms of teaching applied by the masters who take- 46- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust pupils. this has created temporary difficulties which will not be present when the newer modes and methods are more generally established. the pro

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

all world philosophies, the central theme of all creative art, the symbolism of architecture and the conclusions of science. this approach of the central fact of human evolution the steady growth of divinity and the revelation through man of divine powers will offset the fanciful, fantastic presentation of the hierarchy which has coloured all the occult movements and the various theosophical and rosicrucian presentations. the subject will be presented in a manner acceptable and reasonable. it will not be a slower process, but the reverse. the results of the old and foolish way of introducing the subject has greatly retarded the intended work. men, however, in the future, will accept with rapidity and thankfully what is reasonable and which has its roots in the past, can be proven by histo

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

s search he meets atlas, bearing the burden of the world, and so impressed is he with the weight of that responsibility and the load that atlas, the great master, is carrying, that he forgets all about the goal and his search for the golden apples and endeavors to lift the burden off the shoulders of atlas. when aspirants in the religious field and in the church, in the theosophical field, in the rosicrucian field, and in the many groups to which they gravitate, have learned to forget themselves in [73] service and to lose sight of their spiritual selfishness by helping humanity, there will be a much more rapid gathering in of initiates through the portal on to the path that leads from darkness to the light, and from the unreal to the real. one of the great ones has said that "there are pe

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

the good to be thus derived, i desire to call attention to the dogmas of the old hebrew kabalah. i had the good fortune to be attracted to this somewhat recondite study, at an early period of life, and i have been able to spare a little time in subsequent years to collect some knowledge of this hebrew religious philosophy; my information upon the subject has been enlarged by my membership of the rosicrucian society. yet the kabalistic books are so numerous and so lengthy, and so many of them only to be studied in rabbinic hebrew and chaldee that i feel to-day less confident of my knowledge of the kabalah than i did twenty years ago, when this essay was first published, after delivery in the form of lectures to a society of hermetic students in 1888. since that date a french translation of

etween the earliest and latest doctrines on a given point are sometimes very great, as is shown by a comparison of the books of the rabbis of different eras and schools. some of the kabalistic teaching has also never been printed nor published, and has been handed down even to this day from master to pupil only: there are some points not found in any hebrew book, which i myself have taught in the rosicrucian society and in hermetic lodges. an attentive study of some of these old mystical hebrew books discloses the existence of intentional "blinds" which appear to have been introduced to confine certain dogmas to certain students fitted to receive them, and to preserve them from promiscuous distribution and so from misuse by the ignorant or vicious. two or three centuries have now passed si

trinal kabalah. st. jerome, who died in a.d. 420, in his "letter to marcella" gives us all the kabalistic divine names allotted to the ten sephiroth. others were raymond lully, 1315; pope sixtus the fourth, 1484; pic de mirandola, 1494; johannes reuchlin, 1522; h. cornelius agrippa, 1535; jerome cardan, 1576; gulielmus postellus, 1581; john pistorius, 1608; jacob behmen, 1624; the notable english rosicrucian, robert fludd, 1637; henry more, 1687; the famous jesuit athanasius kircher, 1680; and knorr von rosenroth, 1689. to these must be added eliphaz l vi and edouard schur, two modern french writers on the occult sciences, and two english authors, anna kingsford and edward maitland. the notable german philosopher spinoza, 1677, regarded the doctrines of the kabalah with great esteem. the p

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

dent that the bible is not all mere allegory. eden, or the hebrew[[hebrew] gan-eden, meaning the park or the garden of eden, is an archaic name of the country watered by the euphrates and its many branches, from asia and armenia to the erythraean sea (a. wilder says that gan-duniyas is a name of babylonia) in the chaldean "book of numbers" the location is designated in numerals, and in the cypher rosicrucian manuscript, left by count st. germain, it is fully described. in the assyrian tablets it is rendered ganduniyas "behold" says the[[hebrew (elohim) of genesis "the man is become as one of us" the elohim may be accepted in one sense for gods or powers, and in another for aleim, or priests- the hierophants initiated into the good and evil of this world; for there was a college of priests

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

ences of things must exist. fire and water, or father* and mother, may be taken here to mean the divine ray and chaos "chaos, from this union with spirit obtaining sense, shone with pleasure, and thus was produced the protogonos (the first-born light" says a fragment of hermas. damascius calls it dis in "theogony "the disposer of all things (see cory's "ancient fragments" p. 314) according to the rosicrucian tenets, as handled and explained by the profane for once correctly, if only partially, so "light and darkness are identical in themselves, being only divisible in the human mind; and according to robert fludd "darkness adopted illumination in order to make itself visible (on rosenkranz. according to the tenets of eastern occultism, darkness is the one true actuality, the basis and the

sery out of which all creatures have grown, in the same sense as a tree grows out of a small seed; with the difference, however, that the great limbus takes its origin from the word, while the limbus minor (the terrestrial seed or sperm) takes it from the earth[[footnote(s* this word is explained by dr. hartmann from the original texts of paracelsus before him, as follows. according to this great rosicrucian "mysterium is everything out of which something may be developed, which is only germinally contained in it. a seed is the 'mysterium' of a plant, an egg that of a living bird, etc* it is only the mediaeval kabalists who, following the jewish and one or two neo-platonists, applied the term microcosm to man. ancient philosophy called the earth the microcosm of the macrocosm, and man the

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h she is not the centre. his business is only allowable because it provides for her. herein no compromise is possible. you must be master or slave; and the truest kindness is to be master once and for all, whatever the cost. o.m. in this defile we must leave our pilgrim for the present. he is about to confront the denizens of the astral world, menacing or seducing in turn; and, following the bold rosicrucian rule, he remains in the current of life, without the safeguard of an absolute external retirement and renunciation, such as is advocated by eastern teachers. but in the way of the a.a. externals are of less account than essentials, and v.i.o. was under the guidance and guardianship of an order whose omniscience is impeccable, and its ward sure (to be continued) liber ccc khabs am pekht

story of col..s appearance to his old regiment at great length twice over. and we have yet the equinox 302 another complaint. he has apparently gone over almost wholly to the spiritists, and he has allowed himself at times to take a very crude flag-waving attitude about national psychologies. i should like to point out that every case of supernormal phenomenon is explained fully if we accept the rosicrucian teaching with regard to elementals. there is no space for detailed exposition of these points, but those familiar with the theory will find no difficulty at all in applying it to any particular case. this book is decidedly superior to true ghost stories; it is intended for read ers of a somewhat higher type of intelligence. but mr. carrington s way is not the way of those who become gr

paths 43 malice, than to refrain from hitting him and be falsely accused of cowardice. 21. if thou art told that to gain liberation thou hast to hate thy mother and disregard thy son; to disavow thy father and call him .householder; for man and beast all pity to renounce.tell them their tongue is false. this verse explains that the adept has no business to break up his domestic circumstances. the rosicrucian doctrine that the adept should be a man of the world, is much nobler than that of the hermit. if the ascetic doctrine is carried to its logical conclusion, a stone is holier than buddha himself. read, however, liber clvi (see the equinox, also book 4, part iii, appendix vii) 22. thus teach the tirthikas, the unbelievers. it is a little difficult to justify the epithet .unbeliever..it s

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

this paragraph begins with the attribution of the physical sun to the letter resh. it goes on to warn us that the physical sun is not to be confounded with the spiritual sun. 3 this paragraph is reminiscent of the great egyptisn symbol of the winged disk. the key-word is kanaphim, k n p i m "wings, which adds up to 200, the numeral value of the letter resh. compare this with the conclusion of the rosicrucian fama fraternitatis, which ends, sub umbra alarum tuarum, jehova "under the shadow of thy wings, jehovah [177] the book of tokens in the last section the key-word is the noun sheer, sh i r "a song. this has the same numeral value, 510, as th. letter-name resh, r i sh, and is spelt with the same letters, in a different order. the word face, in the last line, is a direct play upon the mea

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

ng of the jewish nation; a literal kingdom on earth. 1558 elizabeth i becomes queen of england; giambattista della porta's magia naturalis published; zohar printed in mantua. john dee propaedeumata. 1559 august, postel and other prisoners are freed upon the death of the pope. 1559-1598 edward kelley theatre of terrestrial astronomy. the stone of the philosophers. 1560-1605 heinrich khunrath proto-rosicrucian amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae "what good are torches, light, or spectacles, to those who will not see" 1560 foxe's book of martyrs. zohar printed in cremona. adam von bodenstein begins his work of editing various writings of paracelsus. giambattista della porta magia naturalis. postel fearing reimprisonment goes to basle and baden, returning to venice in october; trent then augsbur

aeternae "what good are torches, light, or spectacles, to those who will not see" 1560 foxe's book of martyrs. zohar printed in cremona. adam von bodenstein begins his work of editing various writings of paracelsus. giambattista della porta magia naturalis. postel fearing reimprisonment goes to basle and baden, returning to venice in october; trent then augsburg. 1561-1623 johann theodore de bry rosicrucian publisher 1561 postel is in france anticipating 1566 as the date for a universal monarchy. 1562 sefer yetzirah recension "t2" mantua (hebrew version of "sefer yetzirah, pub .ms: univ lib, jerusalem. postel arrested in lyons for revolutionary preaching and causing a riot. he is accused of founding a postellani sect. he is held briefly, then released by the governor, whereupon postel goe

the governor, whereupon postel goes to paris. john dee is in paris lecturing on a kabbalistic table of hebrew chronology. 1563-1628 francis bacon 1564-1616 william shakespeare 1564 john dee monas hieroglyphica 1564 nazari's il metamorfosi metallico et humano. john dee's hieroglyphic monad 1565-1622 michael maier 1565-1648 michael sendivogius 1565-1628 robert fludd 1568-1631 johann hartmann proto-rosicrucian friend of michael maier, circle of sendivogius. 1568-1639 tommaso campanella 1568-1614 tobias hess proto-rosicrucian lawyer and a practicing paracelsian doctor who identified mystical numbers and particular times of chronology with the key of david. conduit for the promotion of simon studion's ideas. 1569 mercator's 1569 polar map. 1571-1640 sadr al-din shirazi(mulla sadra) iranian suf

ella. 1573 john dee de stella admiranda, in cassiopeae asterismo. 1574-1637 robert fludd "therefore this, too, is the work of an authentic alchemist to separate truth from illusion, that is good from evil and to deliver christ from matter" 1574 peter perna prints the collected works of paracelsus in latin 1575-1625 jacob boehme 1575 arbatel of magic first appears 1577-1638 christoph besold. proto-rosicrucian professor of law. had detailed knowledge of islamic culture and philosophy. read arabic and hebrew. also had knowledge of the humanists and neoplatonists of the renaissance period. author of signs of the times (1614. 1578 francois de foix comte de candallegabriel harvey formed *areopagus* with edmund spencer, sir edward dyer and

under the editorship of pistorius. differs from postel, 35 yrs later. some say paul riccius, others say john reuchlin either wrote it. a third latin translation was done about 60 years later. 1589 edward kelley embarkes on his public alchemical transmutations in prague 1589 dr john dee meets h. khunrath at bremen in germany fl.ca.1590-ca.1600 paullus (i.e. peter) van der doort antwerp engraver of rosicrucian emblems 1591 reprinting of john dee's hieroglyphic mona 1592 alexander dickson at the scottish court likely to have discussed the art of memory with william schaw. 1592- 1670 john amos comenius rosicrucian published janua linguarum reserata (the gates of tongues unlocked and opened)and the way of light..we may hope that 'an art of arts, a science of sciences, a wisdom of wisdom, a ligh

CONCERNING THE CEREMONY OF THE CONSECRATING THE VAULT

ams or hexagrams can be made directly inside the chamber of the vault. thus, the altar must be re-charged outside the confines of the vault. next, four knocks are given with the words vibrated tkrp. this spells the word paroketh. paroketh is the veil of the vault of tiphareth and the hidden tabernacle. here, we begin to see our ancient light with our more ancient fraters and sorors as well as our rosicrucian link. the third adept is asked "what does the mystic name of our founder signify" he replies "the rose and cross of christ" this connects us to a strong christian symbol. let us, however, remember that one does not need to be christian to realize the invoking power of the word christ. is not christ within all of us? pagans and christians find a common ground in that osiris and christ a

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

ntral bank with control over the nation's borrowing and the introduction of a federal income tax to give them control of the government's income. again there was serious opposition to this, but in classic 'black-is-white' fashion, they tricked the american congress and people. first, the elite supported the election of president woodrow wilson in 1909. he was a front man, a political puppet and a rosicrucian. the real power of the wilson administration was in the hands of a man called 'colonel'14 edward mandel house, who was there for no other reason than to serve the elite. wilson said that house was "my second personality "my alter ego, and that "his thoughts and mine are one. the elite instructed colonel house and he instructed woodrow wilson, who did as he was told. this was all happen

e known as the lunar society in birmingham, england, was significant in this. the group continued its influence under the name of the london-based royal society, which is still one of the most influential bodies in the world with regard to science. the royal society was founded by the order of the rosy cross in the reign of charles ii. another famous scientific' influence, sir isaac newton, was a rosicrucian and grand master of the priory of sion, the inner core of the knights templar. he was an inspiration behind the founding of the royal society. researchers into the background of the lunar society have shown that it mirrored (with remarkable accuracy) a group called the invisible college, described in the francis bacon work, the new atlantis. it was known as the lunar society because it

uo of religion and science can still have their minds controlled by the prison warders of the fourth dimension. another big influence on hitler was the novel, the coming race, by the englishman, lord edward bulwer-lytton (comm 300, a british colonial minister heavily involved in imposing opium addiction on the chinese. he was a close friend of disraeli and dickens, and grand patron of the english rosicrucian society which included francis bacon and john dee in its earlier membership. bulwer- lytton is best known for his work, the last days of pompeii, but his passion was the world of esoteric magic and, as a british colonial minister, for running opium to the chinese. in the coming race, he wrote of an enormous civilisation inside the earth, well ahead of our own. they had discovered a pow

sirhan's subconscious mind? himself or someone else? in the view of sirhan's psychiatrist, bernard l. diamond, he self-programmed himself to kill kennedy.58 pardon? yeah, sure he did. let us consider the remarkable 'coincidences' which allowed this 'selfprogrammed' man to complete his mission. on the night of the killing, june 4th, sirhan said he met a friend for dinner and intended to go on to a rosicrucian meeting. but his 'friend' had a newspaper in which sirhan saw an advertisement for a parade celebrating the anniversary of the israeli victory. the ad said the event was "this evening, but what sirhan didn't realise was that he had somehow been given a copy of the next day's paper. the parade was actually the following night, the 5th. ignorant of this, sirhan changed his plans for the

drank coffee with a "dark, attractive (never identified) woman. on the way to buy another coffee, he said he found himself in an alcove with "dazzling lights and mirrors. he felt dazed and bewildered. mirrored doors led to the hotel kitchen, but he didn't go through them. instead he went to the kitchen by a longer route. sirhan found himself in a hypnotic trance like those he experienced with the rosicrucian course. he told diamond of how he leaned on a table feeling sleepy and unsure of where he was. suddenly he looked up to see a group of people coming towards him. he noticed that one of them was bobby kennedy and in his conscious mind he decided to shake his hand. instead he pulled out the gun and started shooting. as psychiatrist diamond said "sirhan executed the crime in a twilight st

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

ymbol used by the llluminati and can be found today on the dollar bill, the reverse of the great seal of the united states, and on a stream of logos used by llluminati companies (figures 3, 4 and 5. you also find it on the logo of the british intelligence operation, 38 children of the matrix mi5 (figure 6. according to the story, the design for the great seal was handed to the founding father and rosicrucian, thomas jefferson, by a mysterious stranger dressed in a cape with a hood that covered his face. after the end of atlantis the survivors took this symbol to places like egypt and from there it continued to be used by the llluminati secret society network that reemerged after the cataclysm. the three-pronged trident was the symbol of the royal line of atlantis and this later became the

loxley, 17th earl of oxford. the american researcher brian desborough, among others, has established that the plays were the work of a syndicate of illuminati initiates in elizabethan society, headed by de vere and including sir francis bacon, john dee, and edmund spenser" elizabeth 1st (1558-1603) was serious bloodline and known as the "faerie queene. bacon was a knights templar, the head of the rosicrucian order, and the man who oversaw the translation of the king james version of the bible (see the biggest secret for more background. bacon also wrote a book called the new atlantis which described a society that later became the united states. he also wrote of an "invisible college" which covertly controlled events. one expression of this "invisible college" became the royal society in l

he man who decided what the bible does or does not say! i am sure that the mass slaughter of "witches" by king james and the christian church is connected with destroying certain bloodlines passed on through the female dna. sir francis bacon oversaw the translation of the king james bible. he was from the reptilian bloodline and a high initiate of the secret society network as grand master of the rosicrucian order. he was a knights templar, an inspiration behind the creation of freemasonry and the royal society, and a key member of the team of initiates under lord draconis, edward de vere, which compiled the "shakespeare" plays. out of babylon (2: christianity the old testament was joined by the "new" with the founding of christianity, a religion that was based on the same levite fables. i

s wives, changed his mind and supported the luther "revolution. he kept the title, though, and this is the origin of the term defender of the faith used by british monarchs to this day. the british crown is supposed to defend protestant christianity, but carries the title awarded by a pope! it's all such a farce. martin luther, who used a rose and a cross as his personal seal, was an agent of the rosicrucian order, that ancient strand in the illuminati web. luther's protestant creed was subdivided into countless sects. one was calvinism, which later became the sickness of the mind known as the puritan faith. this was used most effectively to instigate and justify the genocide of god save us from religion 221 the native americans. the real name of john calvin, the man who started all this

the blood, which, he claimed, awakens people to their true power and potential to become supermen. for blood read dna. bulwer-lytton was a british colonial minister heavily involved in imposing opium addiction on the chinese. he was a close friend of the british prime minister, benjamin disraeli (an associate of the rothschilds) and the writer, charles dickens. he was grand patron of the english rosicrucian society that included illuminati agents francis bacon and john dee among its earlier membership. he was also a grand master of the scottish rite of freemasonry and the head of british intelligence. one of his operatives was helena blavatsky, a contact told me, and bulwer-lytton is often referred to in her book, isis unveiled. he is best known for his work, the last days of pompeii, but

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d from the public scene until the last few years. anotherbloodline monarch from the reptilian stable became king of the franks. his name wascharles, better known as charlemagne, one of the most celebrated monarchs in thehistory of europe. he was an early patron of the stone masons who later built thegothic cathedrals of europe for the templars. in toulouse he is said to have founded alodge of the rosicrucian order, which has its origins at least as far back as ancientegypt,4 and relates, as stated, to the rosi-crusis, the symbol of the reptilian bloodlines.charlemagne vastly extended the frankish empire and in 800 he was installed asemperor of the west in the papal empire of pope leo iii. the church of rome/babyloncontrolled much of western and central europe. this domination was completed

d the law of gravity and was a major player in the creation ofthe this-world-is-all-there-is version of science; robert boyle, a close friend ofnewton and another founder of modern science; and jean cocteau, the french writerand artist. two others in office during the lifetime of sauniere, were the french writerand poet victor hugo, and his friend the composer claude debussy, a grand master ofthe rosicrucian order. one of debussys most famous operas was a merovingiandrama. a recent grand master appears to be pierre plantard de saint-clair who,according to documents revealed in holy blood, holy grail, is a descendant ofdagobert ii and the merovingian dynasty. dagobert was the merovingian heir who wassent into exile in ireland as a child. he returned to take his crown, but was latermurdered

nd master of the prioryof sion as well as the rosicrucians. sauniere and calve began a close relationship andshe visited him at rennes-le-chateau. calve was at the heart of the occult movementsin france and one of her intimates was the marquis stanislas de gualta, a founder of themodern version of the order of the rose-croix, the rosicrucians.20 most of the grandmasters of the priory of sion have rosicrucian connections. another of calves friendswas jules bois, a notorious satanist, and close associate of a fellow satanist,macgregor mathers.21 encouraged by bois, mathers established the british occultsociety, the order of the golden dawn, of which the satanist, aleister crowley, was amost prominent member. the order of the golden dawn and its offshoots andpersonnel, like crowley, were invo

other mary, when used as a symbol for the goddessenergy, was referred to as the rose, rose-bush, rose-garland or mystic rose.30 thename rose may also come from eros, the symbol for sexual love. the rosicrucians linkinto the brotherhood network, as do the jesuits. saunieres brother, alfred, was a jesuit.the guy at the museum in rennes-le-chateau told me that sauniere could have been amember of the rosicrucian order and i would have been surprised if he wasnt. thereis a cross and red rose on his grave in the churchyard. a red rose on a grave can indicatean exemplary life or that the persons life was ended prematurely. when pierre plantardde saint-clair, a grand master of the priory of sion, made a visit to rennes-le-chateau,he was seen performing a strange ceremony at saunieres grave. obviou

t greek, egyptian and gnosticworks, including those of plato and pythagoras. this transformed art and culture amongthe privileged classes of europe and the power of the church was under more challengethan ever before. it also enlisted many more influential people into the gathering secretsociety network. the pressure on the church establishment was increased still further bythe publication of the rosicrucian manifestos in 1614 to 1616 which claimed to beissued by a secret group of initiates in germany and france. they pledged to transformthe world with the esoteric knowledge and herald a new era of religious and politicalfreedom. the catholic church and the holy roman empire were fiercely condemned.the order of the rose cross or rosicrucians, however, was no new fad. it wasfounded, apparen

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ead to breath. the granite plug, a block 15 feet long, which was at the beginning of the ascending passage, was placed there when the construction reached that level. speculation abounds as to the great pyramid's true function. orthodox egyptologists cling to the belief that the great pyramid was used as a tomb for cheops, the egyptian king during whose reign the pyramid was supposedly built. the rosicrucian society believes that the pyramid was used as an initiation chamber to test advanced adepts. some believe that it is an interstellar beacon to guide alien spacecraft to planet earth. whatever the great pyramid is, it is not a tomb nor has it ever been. as a minimum, it is a testimony that advanced technology existed on the earth, rivaling our own, over 6000 year ago. a recent test case

DEMONIC BIBLE

oup was the rosicrucians, the brethren of the rosy cross. among them was the magician francis barrett, author of the magus, a classic on the subject of ceremonial magic, and eliphas levi, author of numerous books on the cabala. this was followed a century later by another occult order, known as the golden dawn, of which the magician aleister crowley was a member. the golden dawn, like the earlier rosicrucian brotherhood, explored the study of the jewish cabala, egyptian magic, and the enochian keys of dr. john dee. the cabala is a system of hebrew mysticism which identifies ten sephiroth, or emanations of god in graduated order from pure spirit to the course material world. even the shells or husks (evil spirits) are manifestations of god s power. in jewish belief, god is infinite and ther

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

onscious. a method of utilizing the psionic discipline of clairvoyance, via means of a crystal ball, black mirror, or bowl of water, etc. seance: from the old french "seoir" from the latin "sedere" meaning "to sit. in spiritism (q.v, or spiritualism, a session or meeting at which spiritualists attempt to contact with the spirits of the dead. secret chiefs: supernatural beings who preside over the rosicrucian (q.v) and other occult (q.v) and esoteric (q.v) currents and communicate occult teaching to men and woman who seek to follow that path. the head of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, s. l. macgregor mathers (q.v, was said to be in communication with them, though he could not describe who and what they were. aleister crowley (q.v) also claimed a psychic link to these entities. self

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s composition, hence the luminous globe we see in the sky; but the really important part of its composition is etheric, because it was during the phase of evolution when life was developing the etheric form that the moon had its heyday, and for this reason the phase is called by some occultists the luna phase of evolution. those who want to know more of this subject will find it dealt with in the rosicrucian cosmo-conception, by max heindel, and the secret doctrine, by mme blavatsky. as the qabalists use a different system of classification to the vedantists, we cannot open up the vast subject of the "rays and the rounds" in these pages. it must suffice to give dogmatically certain facts known to occultists and indicate where the reader can find further information if he desires it. 16. th

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a series of manuals, the a.m.o.s. path of light, for the order s members. the order may be contacted c/o universal institute for holistic studies, 4905 w. university ave, muncie, indiana 47304-3460. sources [bias, clifford. the a.m.o.s. path of light. 19 vols. muncie, ind: ancient and mystical order of seekers, n.d. ancient and mystical order of the rosae crucis (amorc) the largest of the several rosicrucian organizations operating in north america and europe, the ancient and mystical order of the rosae crucis (amorc) was founded in 1915 in new york city by h. spencer lewis (1883.1939. lewis dates efforts to found the order to 1909 when he met with french rosicrucians at toulouse for his original initiation. upon his return to america, he began holding meetings. amorc headquarters moved to

9. lewis dates efforts to found the order to 1909 when he met with french rosicrucians at toulouse for his original initiation. upon his return to america, he began holding meetings. amorc headquarters moved to florida and then in the early 1920s to san jose, california, where it is now located. here lewis and the order, which were becoming well known due to a publicity campaign, were sued by the rosicrucian fraternity under the leadership of r. swinburne clymer. the courts, as an outcome of the case, acknowledged the amorc as the legitimate rosicrucian order and since then the phrase has been trademarked by the group. the amorc teaches that god created the universe according to a set of immutable laws. human beings succeed in this life through attaining mastership, the ability to bring in

a relatively high profile due to its continuing mass publicity campaign, making it a large international organization with members in 85 countries around the world. in 1990 there were over 250,000 members, 163 chartered groups in the united states, and 44 in canada. its egyptian museum and headquarters complex located in san jose are popular tourist attractions. the order publishes two magazines, rosicrucian digest and rosicrucian forum, the latter for members only. website: http//www.amorc.org. sources: lewis, h. spencer. rosicrucian manual. san jose, calif: rosicrucian press, 1941. rosicrucian questions and answers. san jose, calif: supreme grand lodge of the amorc, 1969. lewis, ralph m. yesterday has much to tell. san jose, calif: supreme grand lodge of the amorc, 1973. special ralph m

rosicrucian forum, the latter for members only. website: http//www.amorc.org. sources: lewis, h. spencer. rosicrucian manual. san jose, calif: rosicrucian press, 1941. rosicrucian questions and answers. san jose, calif: supreme grand lodge of the amorc, 1969. lewis, ralph m. yesterday has much to tell. san jose, calif: supreme grand lodge of the amorc, 1973. special ralph m. lewis memorial issue. rosicrucian digest (1987. ancient astronauts (magazine) short-lived bimonthly magazine concerned with the ancient astronaut hypothesis, the possibility that earth was visited in prehistoric times by extraterrestrial beings, and that advanced civilizations existed on earth prior to recorded history. the magazine also covered other unexplained events and fortean phenomena. it was published by countr

al 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 german lutheran pastor who developed the legend of the rosicrucian occult orders, came from a line of ministers that included a grandfather who had been among martin luther s original supporters. andrae was born august 7, 1586, in herrenburg, wurttemberg. he attended tubingen university, and after graduation he became chaplain at stuttgart. in 1607, due to ill health, he returned to tubingen, where he was introduced to mysticism as a member of the inf

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dentistry. mackenzie was born on october 31, 1833, in london. the following year his family lived in vienna, where his father, dr. rowland h. mackenzie, was assistant surgeon in the midwifery department at imperial hospital. mackenzie and his wife returned to england about 1840, but it is probable that kenneth mackenzie was educated abroad. according to william wynn westcott, mackenzie received a rosicrucian initiation in austria while living with count apponyi as an english tutor. mackenzie returned to london by 1851 and contributed a series of learned notes to notes and queries. as a young man he had an impressive knowledge of german, french, latin, greek, and hebrew and had a precocious talent for antiquarian studies. he had ambitions to follow a literary career, and as early as 1852 he

ing the craft in the same year. he was author of the royal masonic cyclopaedia (1877) and also planned a work called the game of tarot: archaeologically and symbolically considered, which was announced but not published. in 1861 mackenzie visited the famous french occultist eliphas levi (alphonse louis constant) in paris and published vivid personal recollections of the man and his outlook in the rosicrucian, the journal of the societas rosicruciana in anglia. he also studied occultism with frederick hockley (1808.1885. mackenzie s other literary publications include burmah and the burmese (1853, zythogala; or, borne by the sea (a novel, 1872, and the fundamental constitutions of freemasonry (1877. in addition he translated and/or edited schamyl and circassia by f. wagner (1854, fairy tale

d circassia by f. wagner (1854, fairy tales by j. w. wolf (1855, the marvellous adventures. of tyll owlglass by t. eulenspiegel (1859, the life of bismarck by j. g. l. hesekiel (1870, and bismarck: his authentic biography by g. e. l. von bismarck-schoenhausen. he also edited early issues of a masonic periodical titled kneph in 1881. on april 21, 1873, mackenzie read a paper on eliphas levi to the rosicrucian society (societas rosicruciana in anglia, of which he became a member. he subsequently contributed papers to their journal, the rosicrucian. he resigned from the society in 1875 while preparing his royal masonic cyclopaedia. in subsequent years, he seems to have lived precariously on a modest income from journalism. he developed a system of astrological prediction of horse race winners

itions. albany: state university of new york press, 1993. jaini, padmanabh s. the jaina path of purification. berkeley: university of california press, 1979. tatia, nathmal. studies in jaina philosophy. benares, india: jaina cultural research society, 1951. maier, michael (ca. 1568.1622) german alchemist, born at rensburg in holstein. he was one of the principal figures in the seventeenth-century rosicrucian controversy in germany and the greatest adept of his time. he diligently pursued the study of medicine in his youth, then practiced at rostock with such success that emperor rudolph ii appointed him as his physician. some adepts eventually succeeded in luring him from the practical work he followed into the complex and tortuous paths of alchemy. in order to confer with those who he bel

of alchemy. in order to confer with those who he believed possessed the transcendent mysteries, he traveled all over germany. the biographie universelle states that in pursuit of these ruinous absurdities he sacrificed his health, fortune, and time. on a visit to england he became acquainted with robert fludd, the kentish mystic. in the controversy that convulsed germany on the appearance of his rosicrucian manifestos in the early 1600s, he took a vigorous and enthusiastic share and wrote several works in defense of the mysterious society. he is alleged to have traveled in order to seek members of the college of teutonic philosophers r.c, and, failing to find them, formed a brotherhood of his own, based on the form of the fama fraternibus. there is no adequate authority to support the opi

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racle. ordinary events, then, being the extreme of opposition to miracle, there are yet events of a third and intermediate type, marvels, which cannot be understanded of the people, but which are yet the product of a special gift to certain men, their spirits, minds, and bodies, who by due, careful, and sufficient training, wisdom and experience, have earned such a reward. such should the typical rosicrucian be, a terrestrial earthly body, the temple in which dwells a mind trained to understand the powers of nature, and enshrined within this, as a canopy, should sit a divine afflatus, a portion of the spirit of god, an ala of the celestial dove who brooded over the chaos, and this spirit may by patent submission to deity, and by active efforts at power, draw down to itself a commission to

ly burns out; if the humour be too strong for the fire, the fire departs; but if the radical strength of the humour and of the fire be co-equal, then, caeteris paribus, that fire would burn continually, until the surrounding states of radical moisture or natural heat should be altered by external circumstances, as if a flame be made to burn in a closed vault, it would depart when such was opened. rosicrucian and alchemical doctrines, especially their views on the connection between fire and water, are brought into close apposition to the dogmas of the religion of the hebrews in some portions, at least, of the sacred writings, notably in the volume of the "maccabees" book ii, cap. i, where we are told that when the jews were led captive into persia, the priest took the sacred fire from the

loor moved with his weight, and the figure became raised up, at the next step the arm was elevated, and as the man took the third step the arm descended, shattering the lamp and extinguishing it. the man was terrified, and made a hasty retreat as soon as he recovered possession of his senses sufficiently to find his way out of the vault. the place became famous for some time as the sepulchre of a rosicrucian, and was regarded as a triumph of mystic skill and knowledge, which at once proved the possession of undreamed of powers in the designer, and yet provided the means of as certainly keeping his secret. see also "spectator" no. 379, of 1712. this essay has already extended beyond the contemplated limits, so i refrain from a long resume. these pages provide much food for thought. that lam

n freely done by the ancient sages. several of our most modern discoveries have been shown to have been anticipated by men who are contemptuously regarded by modern scientists. so it has ever been. earth knows but little of its greatest men; its greatest men are but pigmies in the presence of time, antiquity, and futurity "knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers" said the poet laureate. the christian rosicrucian can only exclaim "lead, kindly light, lead thou me on; the night is dark, and i am far from homnl1-7 evil and unclean spirits by g.h. frater d.d.c.f. r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 these be they who be unclean and evil; even the distortion and perversion of the sephiroth, the fallen restrictions of the universe; the sloughing of the coils of the stooping dragon

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rned of his previous lives. once enlightened, he was rechristened phylos and became a guardian of the cosmos. a modern chronicler remarks that the tibetan part of his title seems to have been added for mystery s sake (kafton-minkel, 1989. oliver s novel owed much of its inspiration to madame blavatsky s theological writings and to works of mystical fantasy such as edward bulwer-lytton s zanoni: a rosicrucian tale and marie corelli s a romance of two worlds. it was original, however, in setting a secret civilization within mount shasta. the next writer to do so, harvey spencer lewis (writing as wishar c. cerve, identified the inhabitants as survivors of lemuria, the pacific ocean s version of atlantis. according to lewis s lemuria: lost continent of the pacific (1931, when lemuria split and

waters of the pacific ocean. mostly, however, the lemurians managed to keep themselves and their activities invisible, setting up energy walls that effectively concealed them from prying eyes. the american branch of the rosicrucians, headquartered in san jose, published lewis s book. during the 1930s, it also sponsored expeditions that sought to locate the secret entrances to shasta. articles in rosicrucian di- gest discussed the mountain s mysteries. then on may 22, 1932, the los angeles times sunday magazine ran a destined-to-be-influential piece by edward lanser. lanser claimed that while taking a train trip on the shasta limited on his way to portland, he observed mysterious lights on shasta in the early dawn. the conductor told him that the lemurians were holding ceremonies. on his w

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upation of secret societies and minority groups.4 the connection with the rosicrucians places fludd within such tendencies. his late revival of the outlook of the renaissance magus comes at a time when the renaissance magus driven by the dominant thought of the seventeenth century from the high position in which ficino and pico had placed him is going underground and turning into something like a rosicrucian. reactionary hermetists: the rosicrucians since the object of a secret society is to keep itself secret, it is not easy to uncover the secrets of the rosicrucians; even the manifestoes explicitiy concerned with them are couched in veiled and mysterious language, and nothing is known of their organisa- 1 see above, p. 322. 2 fludd, utriusque cosmi. historia, i i, section i i, pp. 54 ft

a sect.1 however, when marin mersenne, who disliked them intensely, emphasises in one of his works how much he is opposed "aux magiciens et aux charlatans qu'on appelle freres de la rose-croix, lesquels se vantent d'entendre trismegiste et tous les cabalistes de l'antiquite",2 this is enough to place them as belonging in some way within our hermetic- cabalist tradition. the first document in the rosicrucian mystery is the manifesto published at cassel in 1614.3 this peculiar publication falls into two strangely ill-matched parts; the "general reformation" is nothing but a translation into german of chapter 77 of traiano boccalini's ragguagli di parnaso; the "fama fraternitas" is the rosicrucian manifesto. i had occasion to mention boccalini's ragguagli di parnaso in chapter xix where i su

these days reign in men's hearts ,3 1 see a. belloni/ seicento, storia letteraria d'ltalia, milan, ed. of 1955. p- 47i. 2 traiano boccalini, ragguagli di parnaso, centuria i, ragguaglio 77 (in the edition of venice, 1669, pp. 214 ff; in the english translation by henry, earl of monmouth, advertisements from parnassus, london, 1669, pp. 119 ff; original of the german translation published with the rosicrucian fama, in chymische hochzeit, etc, ed. maack, separately paged at end; english translation, based on monmouth's translation, in waite, op. cit, pp. 36 ff. 3 monmouth's translation, ed. cit, p. 121; waite's translation, op. cit, p- 4i- 409 after hermes trismegistus was dated solon thinks that this can best be done by making a new division of the world's goods, so that all have equal shar

ding to our desire and the expectation of others; for it is fitting, that before the rising of the sun there should appear and break forth aurora, or some clearness, or divine light in the sky.1 it is also intimated near the beginning of the "fama" that man is about "to understand his own nobleness and worth, and why he is called microcosmus, and how far his knowledge extendeth into nature".2 the rosicrucian general reformation of the world would appear to be a mystical and magical development, perhaps something like that rising sun of magical reform which bruno hailed. linked as it is, through the extract from boccalini, to the liberal italian viewpoint which bruno, on his political level, also represented, the thought at which i hinted in a preceding chapter3 again arises in the mind. co

ract from boccalini, to the liberal italian viewpoint which bruno, on his political level, also represented, the thought at which i hinted in a preceding chapter3 again arises in the mind. could the rosicrucians be in any way connected with the sect of giordanisti which bruno is said to have founded in germany? this placing of the extract from boccalini before the "fama" is extremely curious. the rosicrucian who is said to have instructed fludd, michael meier, said that there was no connection between the two documents, the inclusion of the "general reformation" of boccalini with the "fama" being purely fortuitous.4 this is extremely unlikely, and in any case is disproved by what appears to be a sympathy with boccalini shown in other writings connected with the rosicrucian movement.5 bruno

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hat the alchemists who had studied more deeply that the majority, were forced to embody their teachings in highly allegorical and symbolical language. their teaching concerning the spiritual evolution of man, and their use of the terms salt, sulphur, mercury, and azoth, so mystifying to the masses, were nevertheless rooted in cosmic truths, highly illuminating to the initiate. the students of the rosicrucian teachings who have learned how the world came into being and the process of gradual creation should have no difficulty in properly understanding every part of the alchemist's language. we know in the first place, that there was a time when man-in-the-making was a hermaphrodite, male-female, and able to create from himself, and we remember also that at that time he was like the plant in

arth from the circumference to the center form the path of initiation, both for the sons of seth and the sons of cain, and that is the reason why little or nothing is said of the inner construction of the earth in the multitude of books dealing with subjects of occultism. those who are simply psychics do not know, and those who do know are not saying much. there is a chapter on the subject in the rosicrucian cosmo-conception which gives about all that one dares to tell, and to that the reader is referred for further information than here given. the path of initiation is guarded in various ways. while we walk the earth in our physical bodies, we are drawn toward the center of the earth by the force of gravitation; but our bodies being solid, that is to say, of the same density as the materi

carcely be any question when we assert that the more men and women who engage in mystic masonry to consciously build this temple of the soul, the sooner we shall see the second advent of christ, and the stronger will be the race which he shall rule by the law of love. end of freemasonry and catholicism* click here to go to the beginning of this book* table of contents* click here to return to the rosicrucian fellowship home page* rosicrucian fellowship philosophy study courses information* order the printed version of this book. please give us your feedback rosicrucian fellowship- international headquarters 2222 mission avenue, oceanside, ca 92054-2399, usa po box 713, oceanside, ca 92049-0713, usa (760) 757- 6600 (760) 721- 3806 (fax) e-mail: rosfshp@rosicrucianfellowship.l: freemasonry a

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dback rosicrucian fellowship- international headquarters 2222 mission avenue, oceanside, ca 92054-2399, usa po box 713, oceanside, ca 92049-0713, usa (760) 757- 6600 (760) 721- 3806 (fax) e-mail: rosfshp@rosicrucianfellowship.l: freemasonry and catholicism by max heindel [1865-1919] an exposition of the cosmic facts underlying these two great institutions as determined by occult investigation the rosicrucian fellowship international headquarters p.o. box 713 oceanside, california, 92054, u.s.a. table of contents* part i: lucifer, the rebel angel* part ii: the masonic legend* part iii: the queen of sheba* part iv: casting the molten sea* part v: the mystery of melchisedec* part vi: spiritual alchemy* part vii: the philosopher's stone--what is it and how it is made* part viii: the path of in

able of contents* part i: lucifer, the rebel angel* part ii: the masonic legend* part iii: the queen of sheba* part iv: casting the molten sea* part v: the mystery of melchisedec* part vi: spiritual alchemy* part vii: the philosopher's stone--what is it and how it is made* part viii: the path of initiation* part ix: armageddon, the great war, and the coming age part i lucifer, the rebel angel the rosicrucian fellowship aims to educate and construct, to be charitable even to those from whom we differ, and never to vent the venom of vituperation, spite, or malice even upon those who seem deliberately determined to mislead. we revere the catholic religion; it is as divine in its essence, as both were born to further the aspiration of the striving soul, and both have a message and a mission in

n the work, he rises step by step, and at each degree more light is given. there are 3x3 degrees in the lesser mysteries; when the candidate has passed the 9th arch, he is in the holy of holies, which forms the gate to greater fields beyond the scope of masonry. for further elucidation of that subject the student is referred to the chapters on initiation, volcanic eruption and the number 9 in the rosicrucian cosmo-conception. advancement and promotion in mystic masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it has been earned and the candidate has stored in himself the power to rise, any more than a pistol can be fired till it has been loaded. initiation is merely like pulling the trigger, and consists in showing the candidate how to use the power latent within himself. there w

n region where his vital body is still kept awaiting the day of final egress of the christ spirit at the second advent. in our next chapter we shall follow hiram abiff along this path of initiation to the embodiment he wore at the time of christ's appearance upon the earth, showing where and how he received the new initiation* click here to continue* table of contents* click here to return to the rosicrucian fellowship home page* rosicrucian fellowship philosophy study courses information* order the printed version of this book. please give us your feedback rosicrucian fellowship- international headquarters 2222 mission avenue, oceanside, ca 92054-2399, usa po box 713, oceanside, ca 92049-0713, usa (760) 757- 6600 (760) 721- 3806 (fax) e-mail: rosfshp@rosicrucianfellowship.e freemasonry th

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body, the independent and rectified rite: waite's versionofthe hermeticorderof the golden dawn_ 12_'goldendemonsthatnonecanstay'-anhermeticorderofthegoldendawnearlyin 1867, at a timewhenthe young a. e. waite was preparing for his first communion, the prehistory of the goldendawnwas being acted out. two english freemasons,r.w. little and w.j.hughan, were advanced through a series of grades in the rosicrucian society in scotia (they had been admitted to the first, or zelator grade on 31 december 1866),so that they would be qualified to form a similar society in england.on1 june 1867, at aldermanbury in thecityof london, thesocietasrosicrueianain anglia held its first meeting, although it waslooked upon as a reconstitution rather than an inauguration, for the members maintained that they wer

1 june 1867, at aldermanbury in thecityof london, thesocietasrosicrueianain anglia held its first meeting, although it waslooked upon as a reconstitution rather than an inauguration, for the members maintained that they were reviving a dormant society that had been active during the 1850s. this society, in turn, wasthoughtto have preservedthe ethos, ifnotthe historical continuity, of the original rosicrucian brotherhoodofthe early seventeenth century; that such a brotherhood may never have existed 225 didnottroublethe members of the s.r.i.a: what mattered was that they should preserve its principles.thethree pamphlets (known as the rosicrucian manifestos) on which the rosicrucian myth was founded, were published in germany between 1614 and1616.they were thefamafraternitatis,confessiofrater

120 years until 1604,whenit was discovered by chance, opened, and found to contain not only the perfectly preservedbody,butalso secretmanuscripts, an ever-burning lamp, and other marvels. the vault was resealedand the fraternity, revitalizedby thediscovery,continued to flourish-albeit insecret-downthrough the centuries. at various times during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries' self-styled rosicrucian bodies arose, briefly flowered, and invariably faded away, leavingnothingbehind them save greater or lesser additions to the accumulated storeofesoteric wisdom.thes.r.i.a.,267however, was significantly different from its predecessors: firstly, it arose in a country where it would not be persecuted by either church or state; secondly, it displayed remarkable staying power (it is still a

onfined its membership to freemasonswhowere alsoprofessedchristians. by 1880it was well establishedas a thoroughly respectablebodywhose members engaged in nothing more nefarious than the intellectual pursuit of the occult sciences; and in that year the society gained a new member whose inventive genius in the field of occultism was second to none:drwilliamwynnwestcott.1westcott was, as befitted a rosicrucian, a medicalpractitioneras well as being an active freemason and an enthusiastic believer inthereality of the rosicrucian myth. he was also a kabbalist, a keen theosophist, and a supporter 'from its inception, in 1884, of anna kingsford and edward maitland's 'hermetic society, which laid great emphasis on the western as opposed to the eastern tradition of occultism. all these activities

ment of occult knowledge, and he developed the notion of creating a secret society of men and women 'for the purpose of the study of occult science, and the further investigation of the mysteries of life and death, andourenvironment. there was also, so westcott argued, every justification fornotincluding a masonic qualification and for including members ofbothsexes:'onthe continent many groups of rosicrucian initiates and adepts had admitted menwhowere not freemasons, and evenlearned women, to their grades and assemblies. this may have been a departure from the original rules of the society, as first designed byc.r.ourfounder; it is a point left undecided by the early rosicrucianpublishedliterature,butthere are extant documents to showthatwomen were admitted in the 17th and 18th centuries'

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re is much that still needs to be said, and from a less critical viewpoint than thatofelliehowe inthemagiciansofthegoldendawn(see the appendix by gerald suster to my bookthecompletegoldendawnsystemofmagick).robert gilbert's book is written more in sympathy and sorrow fortheorder'sfollies than with cynicism or contempt, and it is a welcome addition to the literature that has accumulated around the rosicrucian legend.italso presents significant new material.thestoryofthe golden dawn is oneofvanity, gullibility and*aquarianpress,1983foreword9deception; and yet there inheres initan impressive nobility, a breadthofconcept and a magnanimity of both stature and structure that will persist and which is still worthy of our attention.francis israel regardiesedona, arizona, october1982introductiondur

and 'the promulgationofwhatever may conduce to the general happiness and welfare of mankind'.itis unlikely in the extreme that he intended this as a means of promoting illuminized radical politics. but whether one sees it as revolutionary or respectable, the hermetic orderofthe golden dawn was primarily a magical order and its deepest roots lay in the magical tradition, which in england meant the rosicrucian tradition, and in particular a certaindrsigismund bacstrom.ofbacstrom little is known save that he was of dutch or scandinavian origin, had travelled widely, to spitzbergen in1780and to mauritius in1794,and maintained a passionate interest in alchemy, collecting rare alchemical texts and performing alche255 mical experiments in his own laboratory with a small coterie of friends. and he

cian tradition, and in particular a certaindrsigismund bacstrom.ofbacstrom little is known save that he was of dutch or scandinavian origin, had travelled widely, to spitzbergen in1780and to mauritius in1794,and maintained a passionate interest in alchemy, collecting rare alchemical texts and performing alche255 mical experiments in his own laboratory with a small coterie of friends. and he was a rosicrucian. while on the island of mauritius bacstrom was introduced to louis, comte de chazal, who taught him alchemical secrets and initiated him into the 'societyofrosa crucis'.theoriginal document, in bacstrom's hand and certified by de chazal, is lost, but a copy made by frederick hockley passed through the hands of several early membersofthe golden dawn and survives still. their belief in t

ied by de chazal, is lost, but a copy made by frederick hockley passed through the hands of several early membersofthe golden dawn and survives still. their belief in the antiquity of their own order was evidently fortified by bacstrom's document. in the certificateofadmission it is made clear that the rosicrucians are essentially christian and primarily concerned with alchemy. as in freemasonry, rosicrucian brethren are sworn to eschew politics utterly, but contrary to masonic practice'oursociety does not exclude a worthy woman from being initiated, this provision dating, perhaps, from1490when the rosicrucians 'did separate themselves from the free-masons. from this, and from the fact that it had no instituted rituals, it would seem that de chazal's order did not derive from the german ma

the fact that it had no instituted rituals, it would seem that de chazal's order did not derive from the german masonic order of the golden and rosy cross, of1m,butfrom the earlier alchemical rosicrucians described by sig255 mund richter in1710.bacstrom gives a further account of defoundation15chazal in a letterof1804to alexander tilloch, one of his fellow alchemists,butmakes no reference to the rosicrucian society.thereis in fact no evidence that bacstrom propagated theorderinengland-butlater occultists convinced themselves that he did simply because they wisheditto have been so.hadthere been an english rosicrucianorderin1800it is inconceivable that it would have been unknown to francis barr255 ett,buthe makes no reference to such anorder-eitherpast orpresent-inthemagus,even though he di

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ns' owntext ishistoricallyinaccurate and, in the case of the list of members and their mottoes,whollyunreli255able.)mathers, s.l.m. and 46.47, 48, 49, 54.rtcontentspageintroduction 7part one: rosicrucianchapter1. christian rosenkreuz and the rosicrucians 13 2. data of the history of the rosicrucians 28 3. the rosicrucians, past and present, at home and abroad 40 4. in memory of robert fludd 48 5. rosicrucian thoughts on the ever-burning lamps of the ancients 54 6. man, miracle, magic, from the ancient rosicrucian dogmata 66 7. courage versus obsession 71 8. chess shatranji and chaturanga 75 part two: kabalistic 9. the kabalah 3110.a further glance at the kabalah 95 11. the ten sephiroth 110 12. the religion of freemasonry illuminated by the kabbalah 114 13. angels: jewish, christian and pa

d altogether too respectable, he yet created its most exotic structure, the hermetic order of the golden dawn.thetask of controlling the order proved, however,tobe far beyond the abilities of this timorous scholar, and it slipped from his grasp to fall into the hands of s.l. macgregor mathers, the magical genius who raised it to its greatest glory. but theorderneeded westcott, for he was its true rosicrucian: the physician and mystic who sought all his life for hermetic wisdom, and, having found it, gave it freely to his fellow initiates, inspiring themtofollow, and sometimes to surpass him in their occult studies. in the unknown world of rosicrucians and magicians, westcott was a supreme magus, an adept who servedhiddenmasters,butof this secret life the outside world knew nothing. westcot

ns .1this'retirement' was neither purely magical nor unproduc255 tive, for early in 1880 he joined the societas rosicruciana in anglia, translated into english the 'ethical' grade of the spurious'orderof (le philosophe inconnues) louis claude st8themagical masonmartin'[sicj'and married, no doubt taking some time to do what he observed in 1902, in a letter to theodor reuss, of his daughter and new rosicrucian son-in-law 'they do nothingbutkiss at present'.3in 1881 he moved back into london and was appointed a deputy coroner, becoming intimecoroner for north-east london, a post that he held until 1918. perhaps his professional preoccupation with death encouraged him to create lifeexnihilo,and this he did with startling success. realizing from his rosicrucian studies that a magical order woul

professional preoccupation with death encouraged him to create lifeexnihilo,and this he did with startling success. realizing from his rosicrucian studies that a magical order would need a history, he set about creating a first-class pedigree for his own brainchild, the hermetic order of the golden dawn. his first creation, or contact on the inner planes if one prefers to suspend disbelief, was a rosicrucian adept named anna sprengel, whose address appeared on a collection of manuscript rituals allegedly discov255 ered in freemasons' hall- the famous cypher manuscript that was the foundation of the golden dawn system. westcott promptly wrote to his own creation and was authorized to found a temple in england, which he estab255 lished in march 1888 as the isis-urania temple, with mathers an

author. he played only a very minor role in the later alarms and diversions of the golden dawn and concerned himself increa255 singly with the affairs of the s.r.i.a, of which he had been supreme magus since 1892. his dealings with mathers had taught him caution, and when he corresponded with theodor reuss over the setting-up of a berlin college of the s.r.i.a. in 1902 he declined to work reuss' rosicrucian rite 'because it trespasses so much [on the 18th degree of the ancient and accepted rite- i should be sent to coventry in london'.7he further advised reuss not to permit 'any branch of either society [to] admit a mr macgregor mathers alias the count of glenstrae of paris" there was to be no more impropriety, whether of a literary or any other kind in westcott's life. in 1918 he retired

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umps83and""minerva a. d vulcan8andttjvenus and man;dandtapollo and.dianaljzlandmercury and vestaandjupiter aj:l.djuno1ij1and)(ceresandneptunethusitmay beremarkedeilpassantistotallydifferenttotheastrological attribution of the. planets bearing the names of certain of tbe deities tothesigns.[officialpublication ofthea-:0:.copiedfrommathers'ms byj.w,brodie-innes;c.1910 .9.note by s.r.m.d.upon the rosicrucian ritualofthe relation. between chess and tarotattri\>ution spirit water fire air earthtarotace queen king- knight prince- king princess- knavethemodern game of chess is derived from the scheme which follows: whence its name chess from chequers, and like the tarot originals the chess pieces wereancientlysmall figures of egyptian gods, representing the divine forces in nature. the chess p

been the case throughout all history; whenever a race or people get materialistic, philosophy is kept alive secretly in private schools. when the people grow fit to understand these parables and dark sayings, then again they are told openly. there were many of these occult schools, and many exist to this day.anenormous amount of learning exists in them, an amount those outside do not credit. the rosicrucian body is a solid fact, and not the sub-section of freemasonry which goes by that name; it is absolutely an esoteric school, possessing extraordinary wisdom.162 the sorcererand his apprenticea large amount of wisdom has also been preserved among the freemasons, although they have lost a great deaf of what they ought. to have; they have a large quantity. of exoteric symbology, but, sad to

arranged in a cross formed of two lines drawn vertically and two lines drawn horizontally, making nine compartments#are also used for the symbols contained within them. masons will recognise that a superficial and rather rough form of this is used as a cryptogram in arch-masonry. the full and complete explana255 tion and working out of this kabala of nine chambers belongs only to the hermetic and rosicrucian temples, and can only be fully explained to initiated hermetists. but, as a crypto255 gram, they claim to understand what it means, and perhaps i may say that the outline of each compartment symbolises the letters referring to the numbers which are so related together. thus the hebrew letter which signifies1 is aleph, the hebrew letter which signifies 10 is yod, and the letter which si

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

undamental constitutions of the rite, a small pamphlet of twenty pages, in august 1877 and oversaw the production of all the balustres (directories) of the rite until his death in 1886. he also acted as publicist, defending the rite in the columns of the freemason, and providing an article about it, the swedenborgian rite: otherwise known as the primitive and original rite of freemasonry, for the rosicrucian and masonic record (new series, no. 10, april 1878, pp. 414 419) and thus bringing it to the attention of such members of the s.r.i.a. who had not already joined. and when yarker s journal, the kneph, began its erratic career in 1881, mackenzie ensured that the swedenborgian rite was regularly brought to the notice of its readers. nor did he neglect his own royal masonic cyclopaedia (1

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y of his contemporaries, waite was meticulous about recording the minutiae of his life, and he took great care that all the records of his work and career should be preserved after his death. these records, now kept in private hands and to which the present writer has been granted full access, comprise his private diaries from 1909 to 1942, an extended diary for 1902-1903, the minute books of his rosicrucian order, working notes and proofs of many of his published books, and a long series of bound volumes of his periodical contributions, reviews and masonic ephemera. waite was also a prolific letter-writer, and i have been fortunate in being able to examine his correspondence with the late bro. harold van buren voorhis of new jersey, with the 1[1] the secret tradition in freemasonry (rider

n all its forms. waite was never happy with popular occultism and he rejected from the start its follies and pretensions, for he was an acute, if untrained, critic and recognized the need for historical textual accuracy if anything of value was to be drawn from his chosen field. his first essay in occultism was an anthology of the writings of eliphas levi8[8, which he followed with a study of the rosicrucian manifestos, written as a corrective to the lunacies of hargrave jennings9[9. the translations from levi contained a few incidental references to masonry, but for his real history of the rosicrucians waite was obliged to consider the subject more carefully. he rejected the thesis of buhle that freemasonry was derived from rosicrucianism and set out the differences between the two brothe

ully. he rejected the thesis of buhle that freemasonry was derived from rosicrucianism and set out the differences between the two brotherhoods 'originally an association for the diffusion of natural morality, it [freemasonry] is now simply a benefit society. the improvement of mankind and the encouragement of philanthropy were and are it s ostensible objects, and these also were the dream of the rosicrucian but, on the other, it has never aimed at a reformation in the arts and sciences, for it was never at any period a learned society, and a large proportion of its members have been chosen from illiterate classes. it is free alike from the enthusiasm and the errors of the elder order. it been singularly devoid of prejudices 6[6] eliphas levi was the pseudonym of the french occultist alpho

rom subsequent editions of the book. honour was thus satisfied but it is probable that waite wrote his apology solely to ensure that there should be no loss of sales to potential purchasers 10[10] the real history of the rosicrucians, founded on their own manifestos and on facts and documents collected from the writings of initiated brethren (redway, 1887) pp. 403-4 11[11] ibid, p. 405 12[12] the rosicrucian; a quarterly record, no. 1, july 1868, pp. 6-9. this journal was the official organ of the societas rosicruciana in anglia, a body for which the qualification for membership was that the applicant must be a master mason. 13[13] real history of the rosicrucians, p. 424 14[14] published in the minutes of the high council of the s.r.i.a. for 13 october 1887, pp. 5-6 within the s.r.i.a; he

his journal was the official organ of the societas rosicruciana in anglia, a body for which the qualification for membership was that the applicant must be a master mason. 13[13] real history of the rosicrucians, p. 424 14[14] published in the minutes of the high council of the s.r.i.a. for 13 october 1887, pp. 5-6 within the s.r.i.a; he would have known, as westcott certainly did,15[15] that the rosicrucian had never been copyrighted. waite returned to the subject of freemasonry in 1890 with an article in the british mail16[16, a journal that he edited for horatio bottomley. in this brief article, entitled simply 'freemasonry, waite's ambivalent attitude to the fraternity is evident 'the true object of the masonic fraternity differs from the aims which have been ascribed to it precisely i

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n understanding of science aligned to naturalism, a theory that does not accept the existence of god. this distorted approach to scientific study was developed secretly in esoteric societies that needed to use signs and symbols for this purpose, and so the roots of masonry were established. one of these so-called secret societies, responsible for planting the roots of masonry, was the rose-cross (rosicrucian) order, a sort of meeting point between the templars and masons. this order, first heard of in the fifteenth century, created a fury of interest in alchemy, especially in europe, of which its members were said to possess secret knowledge. but the most important legacy of the rose cross order today is the naturalist philosophy, and the idea of evolution, of which it is a part. the mason

n europe were members of the masonic society known as the rosicrucians. above: the symbol of the rosicrucians. the theory of evolution revisited def global freemasonry deg were members of certain organizations that studied pre-historic esoteric systems and the knowledge they contained. the most important of these organizations were the templars and the rosicrucians it is unknown where and how the rosicrucian order was established. the first traces of it come from fifteenth century europe, but it is clear that the order is much older. as distinct from the templars, the basic interest of the rosicrucians was scientific. its members were widely engaged in alchemy .the most important characteristic of its members was the fact that they believed that every stage of development was a stage in th

ves from islam, and were influenced by the ancient greeks' materialist and evolutionist myths. the fact that this school of thought, that the great islamic scholar ghazali so loathed and refuted in his works, has a masonic character to it surely casts some important light on the matter. in his work entitled al-munqidh min al-dalal (deliverthe symbol shown above is used in masonic lodges, and is a rosicrucian symbol (the rose and the cross) combined with a masonic symbol (the compass and square. global freemasonry dei ance from error, ghazali directly criticized the ikhwan as-safa' society, explaining that it espoused a corrupt philosophy influenced by the ideas of the ancient greeks. and, in his work entitled fedaih-ul-batinniyye, he demonstrated the perversity of the teachings of the isma

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ny new age and spiritual books. most of these have adapted and distorted the model and not really come to grips with the full depth of the vision held by mme. blavatsky and others such as steiner, alice bailey and max heindel. this map was developed by madam blavatsky and from the theosophical movement migrated into a range of cosmologies, it is found adapted in systems ranging from max heindel's rosicrucian cosmo conception to the work of rudolf steiner and alice bailey. in theosophy and related traditions, there is an original nothing or absence (1st c, a triune principle of will, the word and wisdom (2nd c) and a series of seven planes which bring together the other characteristics. the underworld is subsumed within the astral plane which is heindel s desire plane. the seven planes acco

osmo conception to the work of rudolf steiner and alice bailey. in theosophy and related traditions, there is an original nothing or absence (1st c, a triune principle of will, the word and wisdom (2nd c) and a series of seven planes which bring together the other characteristics. the underworld is subsumed within the astral plane which is heindel s desire plane. the seven planes according to the rosicrucian cosmo-conception (heindel) divine plane. plane of virgin spirits. plane of divine spirit. plane of life spirit. plane of thought. desire plane. physical world. the gnostic handbook page 20 while this model may be useful, especially in the creation of resonances or correspondences between phenomena (for example, relating seven planes to the seven bodies of man, seven colours and rays et

as the holy spirits (spenta amesha (these are akin to the seven spirits before the throne in the book of revelation. this links interestingly with some western traditions, which see the seven spirits before the throne (revelation 4:5) as seven phases of the holy ghost. these aeons or spirits have many different aspects and facets, they may also be related to the seven rays of the theosophical and rosicrucian mystery traditions. in the heavenly hierarchy these spirits are again emanations from the truine principle and under them are formed the immortals, beings that embody each ray or spirit. and out of the throne proceeded lightning and thundering and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of god. revelation 4:5 the seven spirits a

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this understanding with our refraction model we can come to see that there must be multiple levels of existence. in the ancient traditions this has been known for a long time, and depending on the esoteric tradition, the number of these planes is either four or seven. worlds and planes the gnostic tradition tends to use two systems of structuring the universe, a sevenfold system (derived from the rosicrucian tradition) and an older fourfold system (derived from the kabbalah. both interlock and work well in combination. together these systems illustrate the multi-dimensional nature of reality, the earth is only the base plane from which other realities are hidden. there can be many views of such a structure, ranging from alternative dimensions and discrete planes to multiple time tracks, ea

a more comprehensive picture we should discuss each plane in detail. the divine plane this is the point of origin, the matrix from which all universal systems evolve. it is the plane of kether in the kabbalah and on a more tangible level, the dimension from which the source of light originates. this is the goal for those on the celestial path. the seven planes. four worlds traditional lifeforms (rosicrucian (kabbalah. divine plane. atziluth. source of all light. plane of virgin spirits. atziluth. gods. plane of divine spirit. briah. arch angels. plane of life spirit. briah. arch angels. plane of thought. yetzirah. angels. desire plane. yetzirah. angels. physical world. assiah. human spirits. from briah through to assiah there are mixtures of light and darkness due to the alpha event. acco

ere is an immense barrier between man and the higher worlds (fig 8. the great chasm the powers of light, the static laws, the christed ones, the elohim. this world is known as the treasury of light or the pleroma. chasm the rulers of this world, the powers of darkness. this world is known as the world of the archons. fig 8 gnostic theurgy page 37 primary. the seven planes. four worlds. lifeforms. rosicrucian kabbalah traditional static. divine plane. atziluth. source. static. plane of virgin spirits. atziluth. gods. static. plane of divine spirit. briah. arch -angels. static. plane of life spirit. briah. arch -angels. dialectic. plane of infernal spirit. briah. arch-demons dialectic. plane of death spirit. briah. arch-demons static. plane of thought. yetzirah. aeons. dialectic. plane of th

lated to the traditional four bodies, but give offer more detail (see fig 12) gnostic theurgy page 47 the seven bodies of man the self the self only exists only in potential, it remains embryonic until awakened by transfigurative processes. it is the pneumatic light spark that is caught in matter. the theosophical and rosicruican structure of man four bodies. seven bodies seven bodies (theosophy (rosicrucian. yechidah. supreme self. higher forms of being. yechidah. mediator self. higher forms of being. ruach. spiritual soul. divine spirit. ruach. higher or intuitive soul. life spirit or higher thought. nephesh. instinctual body or prana. lower thought. nephesh. astral body desire body (three aspects. guph. physical body. dense& vital body. fig 12 gnostic theurgy page 48 the mediator self t

as time progressed and their influence spread, the knight templars absorbed esoteric teachings from arabic alchemy and sufi mysticism- they form an important link in the transmission of the gnosis. the rosicrucians are thought to also have originated about the same time as the the knight templars. while their teachings are similar, the rosicrucians had a much stronger mystical emphasis. the name rosicrucian is from the image of the rosy cross, a single red rose superimposed on a crucifix. this icon had a wide spectrum of interpretations, but the primary emphasis was on the pain and suffering required to find the true self and awaken it. in the fourteenth century the brothers of the rose cross made a somewhat public appearance by creating the myth of christian rosencrantz, a superhuman fig

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er adept on second order matters, he must stamp the envelope with a peculiar manner: viz. in the usual corner, but with the stamp turned around, so that the face looks upwards like c.r. in the pastos. you are particularly requested to think and speak at all times with tolerance and respect of all other schools of true occultism, and of the eastern philosophy as contrasted with hermeticism and the rosicrucian fraternity. the works of the lake harris school are better avoided: the hermetic brotherhood of luxor is condemned, as of course are luciferian or palladistic teachings: the so-called rose croix of sar peladan, is considered as an ignorant perversion of the name, containing no true knowledge and not even worthy of the title of an occult order: the black mass is naturally by its own con

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n reverse breaks up the vortex. step 9 place your lotus wand just outside the precincts of your magical circle and perform the l.b.r.p. and b.r.h. placing the wand outside of the circle ensures that the newly bestowed energies are not discharged. 9 10 a b c d e f g h i j ere the rose cross lamen r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 the rose cross lamen is a sacred symbol of our rosicrucian fraternity. it must be made and consecrated by each individual adept alone. it must never be touched by any other person, and it should be wrapped up in white silk or linen. the adept motto is to be painted on the reverse side. this lamen must be worn at all adept meetings, but never worn before the outer order or non-members. the lamen is a complete synthesis of the masculine or what

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f n should be placed between the triangle and the cross as the mystical repast of the four elements of the 0=0 initiation. the adept should be dressed in the regalia of the second order. in addition to the implements that are set on the altar, there should be some incense (preferably a rose amber blend) and a second chalice of nplaced in the south and north part of the temple or working area (our rosicrucian order highly recommends the use of a pure rose incense mixed with amber. it should be about a fifty/fifty blend) in addition to the tools mentioned, the adept will also need his or her consecrated lotus wand. step 1 the new unconsecrated rose cross lamen should be placed in the triangle on the altar. the adept, holding the black band of the lotus wand, goes to the northeast portion of

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t take up the chalice of water and purify the temple in all four quarters by the formula of tracing a cross and sprinkling thrice in the form of the n triangle. recite the following "so therefore first, the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral waters of the loud and resounding sea" step 4 replacing the chalice, let the adept take the incense (we recommend that our rosicrucian fraternity use the traditional rose and amber incense blend. consecrate the four quarters by o, tracing a cross in each quarter and waving the censer thrice in the form of the o triangle. recite the following "and when after all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou

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grades without fear or favor in any way, so that our high standard of knowledge be not lowered by my instrumentality. hrwbg: furthermore, that i will perform all practical work connected with this order in a place concealed and apart from the gaze of the outer and uninitiated world, and that i will not display our magical implements, nor reveal the use of the same, but will keep secret this inner rosicrucian knowledge even as the same hath been kept secret through the ages; that i will not perform any ritual of the rosea rubea et aurea crucis before the eyes of any person save for the permission of the chiefs of the order. trapt: i further promise and swear that with the divine permission, i will, from this day forward, apply myself to the great work, which is to purify and exalt my spirit

le order, neither slandering, nor evil-speaking, nor repeating, nor tale-bearing, whereby strife and ill-feeling may be engendered. 3 dwsy: i also undertake to work unassisted at the subjects prescribed to study in the various practical grades from adeptus minor to as high as my aspirations will take me. twklm: finally, if in my travels i should meet a stranger who professes to be a member of the rosicrucian order, i will examine him or her with due care before acknowledging him or her to be such. such are the words of this my obligation as an adeptus minor, whereunto i pledge myself in the presence of the divine one, and of the great avenging angel, hua, and if i fail herein, may my rose be disintegrated and my power in magic cease" sacred oath as it relates to the tree of life let the ad

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creation, seven in the height above, seven in the depth below" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, where is the vault symbolically situated" third "in the center of the earth, in the mountain of caverns, the mystic mountain of abi-agnus" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, what is this mystic mountain of abi-agnus" second adept "it is the mountain of god in the center of the universe, the sacred rosicrucian mountain of initiation" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what is the meaning of this title, abeignus" third adept "it is abi-agnus, lamb of the father. it is by metathesis abi-genos, born of the father, bia-genos, strength of our race, and the four words make the sentence, mountain of the lamb of the father, and the strength of our race. iao. hwchy. such are the words (all salute

ades without fear or favor in any way, so that our high standard of knowledge be not lowered by my instrumentality. geburah: furthermore, that i will perform all practical work connected with this order in a place concealed and apart from the gaze of the outer and uninitiated world, and that i will not display our magical implements, nor reveal the use of the same, but will keep secret this inner rosicrucian knowledge even as the same hath been kept secret through the ages; that i will not perform any ritual of the rosea rubea et aurea crucis before the eyes of any person save for the permission of the chiefs of the order. tiphareth: i further promise and swear that with the divine permission, i will, from this day forward, apply myself to the great work, which is to purify and exalt my sp

ole order, neither slandering nor evil-speaking, nor repeating nor tale-bearing, whereby strife and ill-feeling may be engendered. yesod: i also undertake to work unassisted at the subjects prescribed to study in the various practical grades from adeptus minor to as high as my aspirations will take me. malkuth: finally, if in my travels i should meet a stranger who professes to be a member of the rosicrucian order, i will examine him or her with care before acknowledging him or her to be such" second adept "let the chief adept descend from the cross of suffering (fourth and fifth adepts release him from the cross) 12 second adept "merciful exempt adept, i, on behalf of the second order, request you to re-invest yourself with the insignia of your high office, which alone has entitled you to

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thout fear or favor in any way, so that our high standard of knowledge be not lowered by my instrumentality. geburah: furthermore, that i will perform all practical work connected with this order in a place of concealment and apart from the gaze of the outer and uninitiated world, and that i will not display our magical implements, nor reveal the use of the same, but will 7 keep secret this inner rosicrucian knowledge even as the same hath been kept secret through the ages; that i will not perform any ritual of the rosea rubea et aurea crucis before the eyes of any person save for the permission of the chiefs of the order. tiphareth: i further promise and swear that with the divine permission, i will, from this day forward, apply myself to the great work, which is to purify and exalt my sp

le order, neither slandering, nor evil-speaking, nor repeating nor tale-bearing, whereby strife and ill-feeling may be engendered. yesod: i also undertake to work unassisted at the subjects prescribed to study in the various practical grades from adeptus minor to as high as my aspirations will take me. malkuth: finally, if in my travels i should meet a stranger who professes to be a member of the rosicrucian order, i will examine him or her with care before acknowledging him or her to be such. such are the words of this my obligation as an adept, whereunto i pledge myself in the presence of the divine one and of the great avenging angel hua, and if i fail herein, may my rose be disintegrated and my power in magic cease (one at a time, each adept stands against the cross holding the crucifi

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ur earthly name/ osiris. keep far from him/her all evil and the unbalanced, that they penetrate not into his/her spiritual abode. inspire and sanctify him/her so that he/she may enter into the center of his/her being and there receive the vision of the clear light, and thus, accomplish his/her true will. step 24 pause for some while for meditation, then close by usual formue the confession of the rosicrucian fraternity r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 here, gentle reader, you shall find incorporated in our confession thirty-seven reasons of our purpose and intention, the which according to thy pleasure thou mayest seek out and compare together, considering within thyself if they be sufficient to allure thee. verily, it requires no small pains to induce any one to bel

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now declare this rite in the hall of the neophyte duly closed" hierophant "khabs" hiereus "am" hegemon "pekht" hiereus "konx" hegemon "om" hierophant "pax" hegemon "light" hierophant "in" hiereus "extension" bell/ 13.f full moon healing vigil of the r.r. et a.c. r.r. et a.c. zelator adeptus minor 2 the full moon healing vigil is one of the sacred responsibilities of all fraters and sorors of our rosicrucian fraternity. it is a sacred vigil that links each of us who are sworn to the trust of human spiritual evolution and to the masters, our more ancient fraters and sorors who went before us. many of them have chosen not to move on to other worlds, stars, or the clear, scintillating light, but rather in self-sacrifice chose to remain in service to humankind. it is on this night at the hour

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ade up of 40 syllables with the result that the entire composition consists of 432,000 syllables. no more, and no less.17 and in rigveda 1:164 (a typical stanza) we read of the 12- spoked wheel in which 720 sons of agni are established .18 in the hebrew cabala there are 72 angels through whom the sephiroth (divine powers) may be approached, or invoked, by those who know their names and numbers.19 rosicrucian tradition speaks of cycles of 108 years (72 plus 36) according to which the secret brotherhood makes its influence felt.20 similarly the number 72 and its permutations and subdivisions are of great significance to the chinese secret societies known as triads. an ancient ritual requires that each candidate for initiation pay a fee including 360 cash for making clothes, 108 cash for the

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

ne was for many years the editor of bsrf s round robin and other journals, and he worked closely with trance channeler mark probert. layne was also a student of the work of frater achad. at one time, layne had been a member of the society of the inner light, a direct offspring of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. at the end of the 19th century, this society developed its rituals from certain rosicrucian cipher manuscripts based in the teachings of the third order, or secret chiefs, or ascended masters which are identical with the space people in contact lore. that so much cipher material shows up in and around layne, who was said to be in frequent communication with the great white brotherhood, is highly suggestive that he was one of those who introduced the cipher into ufo trance-cha

ou and show you how to decode the cipher, which has been in continuous use since the legendary visit by the gods of sirius. in the early 18th century craft masonic bodies formally merged in a grand lodge that included speculative masons; these individuals mostly aristocrats of wealth and power were not skilled at the building arts and had no direct connection, in most cases, with the rich lore of rosicrucian and masonic legend. they settled on a system of three initiatory degrees, the entered apprentice, fellow craft and master mason. this tri-fold system does indeed correspond to the communication of the formal guild secrets of operative, or practical masonry, but has little of the metaphysical meaning and a distinct feel of incompleteness. later a so-called royal arch degree, which attem

of real or imagined witches, heretics, jews, moslems and occultists was then at a peak, and the heirs of the illuminated tradition the templars, cathars, albigensians and other gnostics were forced to resort to a roundabout code or cipher to carry on their ideas in relative safety. new ciphers were developed. the cryptic language of alchemy that so intrigued carl jung and others overlaps with the rosicrucian tradition. a key work that dates to the 1600s, the alchymical wedding of christian rosenkreutz, contains a specifically rosicrucian cipher] beginning in the mid-19th century we suddenly see the occult tradition renew an ancient practice, speaking through oracular entranced prophets in voices other than their own. trance mediumship to communicate with the dead was the first version, but

sciences research associates (bsra) and later all over the occult map. officially, ufo lore begins in 1947 (the year of crowley s death, but bsra was developing contactee information a few years earlier. strictly speaking, the crossover from cosmic communication, as with john newbrough and his oahspe, or 1. louis bimstein may have selected max theon as a pseudonym in part for the initials m.t. in rosicrucian circles, m.t. is the abbreviation for magister templi or master of the temple the 2=8 degree. according to kenneth mackenzie, historian and initiate of that secret order, this circle held assemblies at camra in poland every nine years. bimstein was originally a polish jew. in his native warsaw, the adepts of the philosophus degree (6= 4) assembled every five years. these degrees are cl

occult and ufology. the golden dawn attracted a diverse membership: gothic writers including bram stoker, arthur machen and algernon blackwood were members, as were the famous occultists aleister crowley, s. l. mathers and a. e. waite, and poet w. b. yeats. founded upon certain cipher documents probably drafted by kenneth mackenzie and based on his earlier initiatory experiences with continental rosicrucian groups, the golden dawn in its wake spawned generations of occultists and, indeed, now has a number of (highly dubious) claimants to its mantle. meade layne was ahead of his time writing about the ufo phenomenon in the early 1940s, before the kenneth arnold case, as well as focusing on the more metaphysical aspect of the mystery with his patronage of trance channel mark probert. prober

GRIFFIN DAVID MAGICAL EVOCATION OF THE AVERSE FORCES

laynah yhiloa e hgno c thee riittuall magiicc manuall a complete course in practical magic ee--lleessssoonn eeddiittiioonn eexxcclluussiivveellyy ffoorr ssttuuddeennttss ooff tthhee golden dawn school of magic and alchemy magical evocation of the averse forces by david griffin archon basileus, a.+o, chief adept, r.r. et a.c, imperator, h.o.g.d. hermetic order of the golden dawn outer order of the rosicrucian order of alpha et omegar www.golden-dawn.com copyright c 1999 &2008. all rights reserved. david griffin 1 magical evocation of the averse forces copyright 1999, david griffin reprinted by permission of the author from the ritual magic manual introduction magical evocation magical evocation of the averse forces is the most feared, maligned, and misunderstood aspect of ceremonial magic

999, david griffin reprinted by permission of the author from the ritual magic manual introduction magical evocation magical evocation of the averse forces is the most feared, maligned, and misunderstood aspect of ceremonial magic. interestingly, it is one of the most potentially valuable as well. many readers will wonder what, if anything, demonic evocation has to do with the golden dawn or with rosicrucian magic. indeed, many rosicrucian adepts have no idea how or where this aspect of magic fits into the system, even though they have stood upon the names of the qlippoth on the floor of the vault of the adepti. the knowledge that follows in this chapter was once reserved exclusively for rosicrucian adepts who not merely had attained the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian ange

he averse forces. should this not be the case, the solitary practitioner should leave magical evocation strictly alone. evocation is not a game to toy with, but a dangerous undertaking even for a major adept. the result of ignoring this warning could be spiritual disaster, ruin, obsession, or even psychosis. psychology and evocation one may best understand the function of magical evocation within rosicrucian magic from a psychological perspective. modern psychology offers the magician important insight into processes known to theurgists for thousands of years. the notion of the unconscious, an aspect of the psyche lying beneath the threshold of conscious awareness, provides new insight into the nature of the entities previously understood as demons. israel regardie suggested that "the term

he magician with proper insulation may safely handle the averse forces. 8 ibid, p. 36. 6 in a ritual of magical evocation, the magician organizes his or her defenses to provide sufficient insulation for complete safety. the magician's first line of defense is the triangle of art. this is the space wherein to evoke the demon to visible appearance and to constrain it during the ritual. according to rosicrucian tradition, another alternative instead of a triangle is to employ polygons whose numbers of angles correspond to the nature of the force. for example, the evocation of the qlippoth of hod could employ an octagon, that of the spirit of jupiter, a square, and so forth. in practice, however, the traditional triangle of art, specially prepared for the ritual, is generally quite sufficient

the evocation of the qlippoth of hod could employ an octagon, that of the spirit of jupiter, a square, and so forth. in practice, however, the traditional triangle of art, specially prepared for the ritual, is generally quite sufficient. the adept may nonetheless wish to experiment with polygons other than a triangle for use as constrainment devices, since there exists historical precedent in the rosicrucian tradition for this variation. place the triangle of art in the east of the temple or in the direction usually associated with the force. for example, to evoke the demon of air, set up the triangle of art in the west, the quarter toward which the magician should face to skry to the plane of air. one line of tradition then suggests the use of vast amounts of thick, smoky incense for the

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

call me by my name, or by my office, and will come unto thee in what form thou shalt desire, whether it be visibly or invisibly; i will answer a! thy desires. and in testimony whereof, and before all the powers of heaven, i have hereunto set, subscribed, and confirmed my character unto thee. so help me god. fiat. amen. the character of turiel. fimethe imperator's greetings i am delighted that the rosicrucian press, printing and publishing department of the supreme grand lodge of the a.m.o.r.c, has again decided to publish a new edition of the official manual. i know that it is greatly needed and will be sincerely appreciated. years ago we issued a small, private manual for our lodges but that issue soon became exhausted and others followed. this new manual will take the place of the older

to them in connection with the monographs which they receive for private study. explanations of the diagrams are given in the weekly monographs at the proper time. therefore, a complete explanation cannot be given in this manual in advance of the particular monograph to which each refers. 3rd. diagrams and illustrations of many of the symbols used in our order and in the ancient teachings of the rosicrucian and other mystics. 4th. a glossary of the principal terms and words used in the teachings throughout all the degrees. it is not a complete dictionary of all the terms used, for this would require a very large volume and would be unnecessary. for example, such words as "alchemy" are not included, for the definition given in any standard dictionary is identical with the sense in which we

tion to those parts which are indicated to be of valuable aid in connection with their complete studies [2] part one the a.m.o.r.c. and its organization every member of the a.m.o.r.c. should be familiar with the facts of the establishment of the organization, its constitution, and its private system of operation. the widespread confusion in the united states because of the popular use of the word rosicrucian by so many movements, publishers, and small research societies.a condition not permitted in other countries.makes necessary the understanding of the following facts (and we trust that every member will refer to these pages in any discussion of the authority and rights of amorc. the history of the rosicrucian order in other lands has been well covered in many books in recent years, thou

ana; the world book; new standard encyclopedia; concise encyclopedia; progressive reference library; new century dictionary; funk and wagnalls dictionary; winston's cumulative loose-leaf encyclopedia and dictionary. we are more concerned with its introduction into the new world. we find here, too, many books and records which give reliable and precise details of the coming to america of the first rosicrucian colony from europe, under sir francis bacon's original plan, in the year 1694, and its establishment for many years, first at philadelphia, then at ephrata, pennsylvania, where some of the original buildings still stand (see p. 16) the first foundation in america in 1694 (which left europe in 1693) grew into a large and potent power of considerable importance. see: rosicrucian question

plan, in the year 1694, and its establishment for many years, first at philadelphia, then at ephrata, pennsylvania, where some of the original buildings still stand (see p. 16) the first foundation in america in 1694 (which left europe in 1693) grew into a large and potent power of considerable importance. see: rosicrucian questions and answers with complete history of the order, published by the rosicrucian publishing department (amorc, san jose, california, u.s.a [3] in the affairs of the birth of the american nation, as can be seen by records in philadelphia and washington. the ancient law that each 108 years was a cycle of rebirth, activity, rest, and waiting, made the great work in america come to a close, as far as public activities were concerned, in 1801 (108 years after the founde

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

benjamin cox to irwin on15december1885in which he laments..i was very sorry to hear of the death of bro. hockley.thereis now one member less of the order of' whatever we may think of rosicrucianism, spiritualism or the ocult, it is very clear from his letters, writings, and evidence to the london dialectical society that hockley firmly believed in what he was doing and that he was working in the rosicrucian tradition. unlike many of his contemporaries, however, he preserved his critical faculties and distinguished between true followers, charlatans, sensation seekers, and the merely gullible. a firm belief in the potential for good in his crystal experiments did not close his mind to the equal potential for misuse and evil. it was this belief that deterred him from experimenting with othe

f rosicrucianism is perhaps the true explanation of his standing apart from the sria, which has always been a forum for the discussionofideas and hasneverinvolved itself in practical experiments,whatever its members may have indulged in outside its meetings. those membersofthe sria who were drawn more towards practice rather than theory later joined the golden dawn. hockley's firm belief that the rosicrucian path lay through the crystal would probably have met with little support amongst the generality of the sria's membership. hockley is claimed as a memberofanother very shadowy rosicrucian group, which 'may have formed the model for the golden dawn: the fratres lucis, also known either as the brotherhood of the cross of light or the orderofthe swastika.thefratres lucis had its origins in

booksellerofcatherine street, lent barrett the wholeofthe materials,andmy friend complained that blarrett] never recompensed him even with a copy. at the saleoflackington's stock in18[18jmrdenley bought themsblocks, plates and copyright, which were for several years in my possession. barrett, notwithstanding his professorshipofmagic, lived and died in poverty' hockley knew bacstrom both from his rosicrucian certi255 ficates and diary, which he owned, and from his contact through the crystal.hemay have known higgins personally and certainly knew his works.whetherthis isproofofan actual and continuous rosicrucian presence in england i leave to others to decide.thathockley intimately knew their writings is true,butreading other's books does not prove a rosicrucian apostolic succession.thatho

and from his contact through the crystal.hemay have known higgins personally and certainly knew his works.whetherthis isproofofan actual and continuous rosicrucian presence in england i leave to others to decide.thathockley intimately knew their writings is true,butreading other's books does not prove a rosicrucian apostolic succession.thathockley believed himself to be at least working within a rosicrucian tradition is shown in the letters to the irwins. his search for the rosicrucian path to utopia was not, however, by the performingofcomplex magical ritualsbutby spiritualism, invoking the spiritsofboth angels and his rosicrucian predecessors whohadcrossed thegreatdivide.hebelieved, in particular, that contacting spirits by meansofthe crystal and20therosicrucianseerexisted, or whether t

chiefs' was a masterstroke permitting the most outrageous claims to be made which could be neither proved nor disproved. english rosicru255 cianism was said to encompass dr dee, robert fludd, john heydon, thomas vaughan, william backhouse and elias ashmole-s-indeed anyone who had any interest or skill in mathematics, natural science, astronomy, astrology, or alchemy. by the nineteenth century the rosicrucian idea was to. a great extent a spent force in england but its. nineteenth-century apologists 225<;laimedfor.itamajor revivalist in the person of ebenezersibley, whose works were to be called in as evidence of the continuing tradition. sibley was to be quickly followed by francis barrett, whose seminal workthemagus(1801, a plagiarism of plagiarisms, greatly revived interest in astrology

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

et, they floated through theclosed windows into my room and finally seemed to settle beside my bed "listen to what he thinks and is going to write- said in soothing tones the same familiar, far off, and yetnear voice" thus you will hear a narrative, the telling of which may help to shorten the long sleepless hours,and even make you forget for a while your pain. try- it added, using the well-known rosicrucian andkabalistic formula. i tried, doing as i was bid. i centred all my attention on the solitary laborious figure that i saw before me, butwhich did not see me. at first, the noise of the quill-pen with which the old man was writing, suggested tomy mind nothing more than a low whispered murmur of a nondescript nature. then, gradually, my ear caughtthe indistinct words of a faint and dist

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

works of robert flood (de fluctibus, one of the famous rosicrucians, fire contains-firstly, a visible flame (body; secondly, an invisible, astral fire (soul; and thirdly, spirit. the four aspects are (a) heat (life (b) light (mind (c) electricity (kamic or molecular powers, and (d) the synthetic essences, beyond spirit, or the radical cause of its existence and manifestation. for the hermetist or rosicrucian, when a flame is extinct on the objective plane, it has only passed from the seen world into the unseen; from the knowable into the unknowable. gautama (sans) a name in india. it is that of the prince of kapilavastu, son of sudhodana, the s kya king of a small territory on the borders of nepal, born in the seventh century bc, now called the "savior of the world" gautama or gotama was t

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

ssis tin g in this p rocess- we all h ave strengths to bring to the table- ple ase email occ u lt .d igit al.mob iliz ation@gmail.com complacency s-erves t h e o ld gods. by the same author: astrology and the third reich the magicians of the golden dawn masonic underworlds (in progress) also in thisseries: the magical mason: forgotten hermetic writings of w. w. westcott editedby r. a. gilbert the rosicrucian seer: the magical work of frederick hockley editedbyjohn hamill the sorcerer and his apprentice: unknown hermetic writings ofs. l. macgregor mathers and j. w. brodie-innes edited by r. a. gilbert ibe 1llebemist of tbe golden 'dawn (lhe tetters of the1ivd (1.11. l1jton to 1.t.gardner and tithers 1886-19 6 edited with an introduction by ellie howe the aquarian press wellingborough, north

having undertaken the important duties of librarian, has been raised to t e honorary 8 and will act as substitute secretary general' since the soc. ros. liked impressive titles gardner was also librarian general. he was its secretary general 1901-5 but i have no information about his later connection (if any) with the masonic 'rosicrucians. in 19 3 he published (privately) a catalogue raisonne of rosicrucian books in an edition of 500 copies. dr westcott contributed an introduction. a second edition appeared in the sa e year. this was followed in 1911 by astrological books, which contains information about certainly early nineteenth entury publications that is not available elsewhere, and finally in 1912 freemasonry: a catalogue of lodge histories, which was merely a pamphlet. dr westcott

way his last catalogue, and it may be that 314 is where he has removed to. there is also a folding chart of the same, but containing rather more in basil valentine's "two treatises &c. to which the name johannes worlidge is signed. this is generally bound up with his "last will& testament. it seems to me that as you do not know these first principles, you would do well to belong to the so-called "rosicrucian society of england. in it all the first principles are taught in successive degrees. it is all from the holy qabbalah. there is an examination for every degree, which is a very good discipline. they teach what the t[heosophical] s[ociety] never has done, and never will. you get all the alchemical first principles, and they have most important mss upon that great subject, the taro. this

t mss upon that great subject, the taro. this would enable mrs gardner to exercise her powers of clairvoyance in a legitimate way without danger, for the taro prevents the imagination from wandering. a short time ago, an ukase was issued from the headquarters of the t.s, that members of the esoteric section should not belong to any other occult order. i at once wrote to say that i belonged to the rosicrucian society, but i was ordered to give it up, and i felt bound to do so at once without hesitation, and wrote to some of my yorkshire chelas' who belonged to it and the t.s, to do the same. they were dismayed, and two of them went, as a deputation, to h[elena] p[etrovna] b[lavatsky] to remonstrate against this decision. h.p.b. then began to see chacombe vicarage 29 may 1889 the letters i c

adford. by the end of 1888 it had about a dozen members, mainly recruited from the s.r.i.a, although there were a few women. the deputation to h.p.b. would have included t. h. pattison, 8 honoris causa in the soc. ros. and frater 30 the alchemist of the golden dawn she had made a mistake and she wrote to me for advice, which i gave, and the consequence was, she withdrew this ukase as regards this rosicrucian society. the result was that dr wynn westcott, the head of this rosicrucian society, joined the esoteric section of the t.s. and with him some 20 others, and about 14 from yorkshire. all is well that ends well! there is now at bradford a flourishing lodge of this rosicrucian society and the lodge is worked very well indeed by men who really know something. dr wynn westcott is well know

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

of this time-honoured philsophy remains to be seen; but this he is assured of, that the admiration of all students and reflective minds will be excited by the unrivalled powers of thinking of the rosicrucians. the application, proper or otherwise, of these powers is a matter altogether beside the present inquiry. the author has chiefly chosen fro exposition the latin writings of the great english rosicrucian, robert flood, or fludd (robertus de fluctibus, who lived in the times of james the first and charles the first. our final remarks shall be those of a very famous brother of the r.c, writing under the date of 1653: i will now close up, saith he, with the doxology of a most excellent, renowned philocryphus: soli deo laus et potentia! amen in mercurio, qui pedibus licet carens decurrit a

f the tower or steeple. 206 chapter the twenty-sixth. presence of the rosicrucians in heathen and christian architecture. 228 chapter the twenty-seventh. the rosicrucians amidst ancient mysteries and in the orders of knighthood. 237 chapter the twenty-eighth. rosicrucianism in strange symbols. 253 chapter the twenty-ninth. connection between the templars and gnosticism. 266 chapter the thirtieth. rosicrucian origin of the order of the garter. 282 chapter the thirty-first. rosicrucian supposed means of magic through signs, sigils, and figures. 295 chapter the thirty-second. astro-theosophical system of the rosicrucians the alchemic magisterium. 303 chapter the thirty-third. rosicrucian celestial and terrestrial (means of intercommunication. 317 chapter the thirty-fourth. the pre-adamites. p

the order of the garter. 282 chapter the thirty-first. rosicrucian supposed means of magic through signs, sigils, and figures. 295 chapter the thirty-second. astro-theosophical system of the rosicrucians the alchemic magisterium. 303 chapter the thirty-third. rosicrucian celestial and terrestrial (means of intercommunication. 317 chapter the thirty-fourth. the pre-adamites. profound cabalistic or rosicrucian speculations. 322 xvi contents chapter the thirty-fifth. page. the adapted rosicrucian contemplation. intrusion of sin. ruins of the old worlds. 337 chapter the thirty-sixth. indian mysterious adoration of forms. the unity of the mythologies found in the buddhistic and mahommedan temples. 346 chapter the thirty-seventh. doctrine and rationale. the embodied children of the elements, bot

sion of sin. ruins of the old worlds. 337 chapter the thirty-sixth. indian mysterious adoration of forms. the unity of the mythologies found in the buddhistic and mahommedan temples. 346 chapter the thirty-seventh. doctrine and rationale. the embodied children of the elements, both of heathen and of christian periods. 354 chapter the thirty-eighth. robert flood (robertus de fluctibus, the english rosicrucian. 361 supplementary notes. the first. notice of an ancient work (1595. 367 the second. rosicrucian views on the ark of noah. 368 the third. cabalistic illustrations. the sang-r ale, gr al, or holy gr ale. 369 concluding note. remarks upon two curious works. 372 the rosicrucians badge of the grand master of the templars. chapter the first. critics of the rosicrucians criticised. hat mode

there concealed some of their scientific secrets. the place in staffordshire became aftwards famed as the sepulchre of one of the brotherhood, whom, for want of a more distinct recognition or name, the people chose to call rosicrucians, in general reference to his order; and from the circumstances of the lamp, and its sudden extinguishment by the figure that started up, it was supposed that some rosicrucian had determined to inform posterity that he had penetrated to the secret of the making of the ever-burning lamps of the ancients, though, at the moment that he displayed his knowledge, he took effectual means that no one should reap any advantage from it. the spectator, in no. 379, for thursday, may 16th, 1710, under the signature of x, which is understood to be that of budgell, has the

KARR DON NOTES ON EDITIONS OF SEFER YETZIRAH IN ENGLISH

ite and westcott* comment: israel regardie, on the thirty-two paths of wisdom: it seems to me, after prolonged meditation, that the common attributions of these intelligences is [sic] altogether arbitrary and lacking in serious meaning (a garden of pomegranates, introduction, p. iv) hall, manly palmer. the secret teachings of all ages. an encyclopedic outline of masonic, hermetic, qabbalistic and rosicrucian symbolical philosophy. san francisco: h. s. crocker co, 1928; golden anniversary edition, reduced facsimile, los angeles: the philosophical research society, 1978 (sy translation: pp. 114-16) hall states that he used kalisch s translation as the foundation of his interpretation of sy, but that material from other authorities has been incorporated and many passages have been rewritten t

reiss, dr. fred. ancient secrets of creation: sepher yetzira, the book that started kabbalah, revealed. new york lincoln shanghai: iuniverse, inc, 2007 reiss sets up his translation/commentary with chapters summarizing greek philosophies on creation and jewish theologies of creation. the new translation is supplemented by lengthy explanations, complete with diagrams and tables. with its somewhat rosicrucian tone, reiss reinterpretation, has been written more for the thinker or seeker than for the academic. alas, his historical and conceptual summaries are often misleading and frustratingly lacking in nuance, e.g, his statement, the knowledge that we call kabbalah is based on the doctrine and teachings of isaac luria, who was born in jerusalem during the 16th century( ancient secrets, page

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

primordial seven, and they are mentioned in the book of dzyan(*see the secret doctrine, by h. p. blavatsky) six of these were prehuman; the seventh was our humanity, and was brought forth from the virgin neith. the symbol attached to that bringing forth was that of the pelican, who was fabled to draw blood from her own breast in order to feed her young; this later became a prominent symbol in the rosicrucian philosophy, which seems to have been derived largely from egyptian teaching. we read in egyptian hieroglyphics of gthe one and the four, h referring to horus and his four brothers. of that we also read in the stanzas of dzyan; and another expression common to both is gthe one from the egg h. in egypt the egg was the symbol for the setting sun, which is often seen in that shape when abo

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

eries. one of the earliest references to the rosy cross in great britain occurs in scotland and in connection with masonry; for in henry adamson s the muses threnodie (dated perth, 1638) we find the words: 565. for what we do presage is riot in grosse, 566. for we are brethren of the rosie cross, 567. we have the mason word and second sight. 568. things for to come we can fortell aright. 569. the rosicrucian manifestos, which are the first literary memorials of the order (c. 1614, were not translated and published in english until 1652, when thomas vaughan, the celebrated alchemist and mystic, who wrote under the name of eugenius philalethes and has now become an adept of the white lodge, undertook the task(*the brotherhood of the rosy cross, a: e. waite, p. 375) so as early as 1638 masonr

re the first literary memorials of the order (c. 1614, were not translated and published in english until 1652, when thomas vaughan, the celebrated alchemist and mystic, who wrote under the name of eugenius philalethes and has now become an adept of the white lodge, undertook the task(*the brotherhood of the rosy cross, a: e. waite, p. 375) so as early as 1638 masonry was associated both with the rosicrucian brotherhood and with the occult power known as second sight. the connection of the rosy cross with masonry belongs to our next chapter. 570. the mason word is the only secret alluded to in early lodge minutes in scotland. what it was is still unknown, although there are curious indications emanating from two writers who did not belong to the craft. the rev. george hickes, afterwards de

real founder of speculative masonry, and also as a bro. of the rosy cross; the latter suggestion is possible, although no evidence exists upon the point, but the former cannot of course be accepted by those who hold that masonry has descended from the ancient mysteries. a speculation is put forward by bro. a. e. waite in a recent book, connecting the acception with robert fludd, the great english rosicrucian philosopher (1576-1637. he says: 576. however and whenever it arose, my thesis is that the acception may have included a group of hermetic students, of which there were many at the period; that fludd drew them together or took his place among them; and that- after his manner and the manner of the rosy cross- they began to speak of spiritual building in a hall of masons, of a hermetic a

of as developing into what afterwards became higher degrees, this royal order of scotland was the first to formulate itself definitely, though little is heard of it in the outer world; and it may be taken as the primary type of the scots degrees. 693. the brothers of the rosy cross 694. the mysterious order of the rosy cross still remains something of a problem to the student. the glamour of the rosicrucian philosophy has not yet passed away, and an enormous mass of controversial literature has gathered about the order, many students affirming that it never existed at all, and that its famous manifestos were but an elaborate hoax played upon europe by a few unscrupulous jesters; others say that the society did exist, but that it was no more than an obscure lutheran sect which thus cleverl

in 1614 of the fama fraternitatis of the meritorious order of the rosy cross, addressed to the learned in general and the govenors of europe. this was, according to mediaeval custom, bound up with another treatise: a universal reformation of the whole wide world, by order of the god apollo, is published by the seven sages of greece, and some other litterati. some have thought this latter to be a rosicrucian pamphlet, but in reality it is a translation from the ragguagli di parnasso of boccalini, and probably, as michael maier held, had no connection with the order at all(*a. e. waite. the real history of the rosicrucians, p. 35) 697. the fama fraternitatis contains a description of the traditional life of christian rosenkreutz (b. a.d. 1378, the founding of the order of the rosy cross, an

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

er reading: gordon, stuart. the encyclopedia of myths and legends. london: headline, 1991. guiley, rosemary ellen. the encyclopedia ofwitches and witchcraft. new york: facts on file, 1989. valiente, doreen. an abc ofwitchcraft. custer,wa: phoenix, 1973. fraternitas rosae crucis the fraternitas rosae crucis, founded in 1858 by physician p. b. randolph (1825 1875, is generally considered the oldest rosicrucian body.the grand lodge, that was first established in san francisco in 1861, was closed and reestablished first in boston (1871, then in san francisco (1874, and finally in philadelphia (1895. among the teachings of the order is a system of occult sexuality, that was termed eulistic, a term deriving from the greek eleusinian mysteries, believed to be mysteries of sex. a provisional grand

ks, who was recently succeeded by his son, emerson m. clymer. authority of the order is represented by the council of three, whereas the highest office is held by the hierarch of eulis. the order s literature is distributed by the beverly hall corporation in quakertown, pennsylvania. fraternity of the hidden light 93 see also magic and magical groups for further reading: clymer, r. swinburne. the rosicrucian fraternity in america. quakertown, pa: rosicrucian foundation, 1935. randolph, paschal beverly. eulis, affectional alchemy. quakertown, pa: confederation of initiates, 1930. fraternity of light the fraternity of light, formed in philadelphia by a group of cabalistic magicians, derives from the tradition of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, although it has no organizational connect

.members of these groups said they received messages from the world of the spirits. by 1855, the yorkshire spiritual telegraph, england s first spiritualist newspaper, was being published. this helped to stir popular interest in the supernatural. around this time, the societas rosicruciana in anglia (sria) was formed in england in 1865 by robert wentworth little. it was based on eighteenthcentury rosicrucian texts. among its members were kenneth r. h. mackenzie, dr. wynn westcott, and w. r. woodman. members of the societas were required to be masons prior to beginning their work. the magical writings of levi, the existence of the societas rosicruciana in anglia, and the continuing impact of speculative freemasonry provided fertile soil in which new magical orders could grow. in 1885, the r

ould grow. in 1885, the reverend a. f. a. woodford inherited the magical manuscripts owned by psychic fred hockley, upon which the order of the golden dawn (ogd) would be built. sria member dr.wynn westcott decoded the manuscripts and s. l. macgregor mathers (1854 1917, also an sria member, systematized them into a useful form. the material also contained the nuremberg address of anna sprengel, a rosicrucian of high degree. mathers wrote to her and received voluminous materials and the charter for the isis-urania temple. in 1888, the isis-urania temple of the golden dawn, the first temple representative of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, was opened. other temples were soon founded in edinburgh, weston-super-mare, bradford, and paris. in 1887, westcott left the order of the golden da

t gathered around a psychic named fred hockley, and began trying to get barrett s and levi s magic formulas to actually work. hockley owned a set of mysterious magical manuscripts, on which he based his magical authority. the late nineteenth century saw the rise of spiritual occultism, which, as represented by theosophy, rudolf steiner, gurdjieff, and ouspensky, and a ritual-magical wing (various rosicrucian organizations, the hermetic order of the golden dawn, and its offshoots, denies that it is a religion. it is the mindset of spiritual occultism that leads most modern occult organizations to deny that they are religions. however, they exhibit the same ambiguous relation between their foundational myths and their ordinary history that religions in general do. rosicrucianism has the myth

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but was forbidden to use them* all this secrecy is very silly. an indicible arcanum is an arcanum that cannot be revealed. it is simply bad faith to swear a man to the most horrible penalties if he betray, etc, and then take him mysteriously apart and confide the hebrew alphabet to his safe keeping.3 this is perhaps only ridiculous; but it is a wicked imposture to pretend to have received it from rosicrucian manuscripts which are to be found in the british museum. to obtain money on these grounds, as has been done by certain moderns, is clear (and, i trust, indictable) fraud. the secrets of adepts are not to be revealed to men. we only wish they were. when a man comes to me and asks for the truth, i go away and practice teaching the differential calculus to a bushman; and i answer the form

1. produce 19 to 10, join 7-10, 8-10. daath is at the junction of 25, 34. see figure. cols. xv.-xviii. daath lavender, grey-white, pure violet, grey flecked gold. herschel silver flecked white. col. xvi, line 10. for d, c, b, and e. col. xix. urim and thummim= auramoth and thoum mou, egyptian gods. they are methods of divination by b and e. col. xx, line 32. these gods preside over the pieces in rosicrucian chess. 5 d of b bishop ywoum mwou c of b queen i#haourey b of b knight hnwou vw/s e of b pawn kabexneuf e of b castle wauwqi# a of b king vaourw d of c bishop xoni# ya mwou c of c queen y/wour i# mwog b of c knight ceba qnwou haour i# ya mwou e of c pawn ]wmayv e of c castle s/weu ya i# a of c king pya qav/n-q/x d of d bishop zw wan c of d queen qnwou ya peq] b of d knight ou bal e of

as innominatus, nameless or unnamed; unnamable would be innomindandus (cf. the magnum innominandum mentioned by h. p. lovecraft in the whisperer in darkness) 4 possibly an error for hmun, naamah or nahemah. the g.d. qliphoth lecture as printed by zalewski (1994) has maamah which itself may be a misprint. von rosenroth (loc. cit) which is the source for this as for so much else in 777 has hmun. 5 rosicrucian chess is also known as enochian chess although its connection with dee and kelly s magick is tenuous at best; it is a four-handed game also used as a system of divination, loosely based on an ancient indian game called chaturanga, but with pieces representing egyptian gods, played on an 8 by 8 boards which supposedly represents one of the four watchtowers (with about half the squares o

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

please! normally half a bottle of burgundy excites me notably; while doing this magic it is like so much water. a .transvaluation of all values. 3.55. over a citron presse i have revised the new ritual. also i have bought suitable materials for copying it fair; and this i did without solemnity or ceremonial, but quite simply, just as anybody else might buy them. in short, i bought them in a truly rosicrucian manner, according to the custom of the country. i add a few considerations on the grade of adeptus major 6= 5 (p.s..distinction is to be made between attainment of this grade in the natural and in the spiritual world. the former i long since possessed) 1. it may perhaps mean severe asceticism. in case i should be going out on that path i will try and get a real good dinner to fortify m

erpent that .to await thee is the end, not the beginning.?2 it is as silly as rising at midnight, and saying .i will go out and sleep in the sun. but i am an irishman, and if you offer me a donkey-ride at a shilling the first hour and sixpence the second, you must not be surprised at the shrewd silliness of my replying that i will take the second hour first. 1 [see the fama fraternatis, the first rosicrucian manifesto. the inscription on the door of the vault of christian rosenkreutz was there said to be .post cxx annos patebo (after 120 years i shall manifest. 120 is equated with .lux crucis (the light of the cross) by various methods of qabalistic analogic] 2 [liber lxv, ii. 62] john st. john 63 but that is always the way; the love of besting our dearest friends in a bargain is native to

out exception, in the last three or four days, has these images. the ideal condition seems likely to be perfect oblivion. or (in the adept) is the tamo-guna, the power of elemental darkness, broken once and for ever, so that his sleep is vivid and rational as another man fs waking; his waking another man.s s.madhi; his s.madhi.to which he ever strives? at least this later view is suggested by the rosicrucian formula of reception: may thy mind be open unto the higher! may thy heart be the centre of light! may thy body be the temple of the rosy cross!1 and by the hindu statement that in the attained yog. the kundalin. sleeps in the sv.disth.na, no more in the m.l.dh.ra-cakra. see also the rosicrucian lecture on the microcosmos, 1 [from the adeptus minor ritual of the r.r. et a.c] liber dcccl

was obsessed by the necessity (alleged) of recording his results, or failed to overcome the duality of thoth. otherwise, even if he comprehended the base, he certainly failed at the apex of the pyramid. in any case, he cannot blame the ceremony, which is most potent; one or two small details may need correction, but no more. john st. john 95 here then he is down at the bottom of the hill again, a rosicrucian sisyphus with the stone of the philosophers! an ixion bound to the wheel of destiny and of the samsara, unable to reach the centre, where is rest. he must add to the entry 1.13 that the .telephone-cross. voices came as he composed himself to sleep, in the will to adonai. this time he detached a body of cavalry to chase them to oblivion. perhaps an unwise division of his forces; yet he

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

reduce hwchy to 29 (footnote p. 17) requires reducing the shin to 3 but still countin the yod as 10, i.e. 10+5+3+6+5= 29; if every letter is reduced to units we get 1+5+3+6+5= 20. alternatively if we just take the ordinary gematria value of the word, we get 10+5+300+6+5= 326 which we can then reduce as 3+2+6= 11 .the characters of heaven with thy finger &c. is from an english translation of the .rosicrucian prayer. which appeared in the second part of geheime figuren der rosenkreuzer (an eighteenth century german alchemical- rosicrucian work, as used in the adeptus minor ritual of the r.r. et. a.c. the latin motto on the final emblem translates as .may the lord our god, who gave unto us the signs, be blessed. it is a slight adaptation of a latin motto which appeared on the figure of the

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

ile to masonry or seeking to deceive; and taken with the other evidence, such as byrom's "cabala club" it is thought provoking to say the least. a similar anonymous publication appeared in newcastle upon tyne in 1736. it was called the book m, and no literate person of the period could have failed to make the connection with the document of the same name that was alleged to have been found in the rosicrucian vault.14 the book m is not an expose. it appears to be more of a memorial written by a brother who seems to have been very proud of his masonic connections and very moved by his association with the order. among other things, it contains a romantic history which suggests that masonry had its origins in antiquity, and among the various mystical disciplines that it cites as sources of ma

d its influence on the english mystical tradition held at the ashmolian museum at oxford in may 1999. the article deals specifically with engliah masonry, and it provides an opportunity to appreciate the local differences in masonic practice. it was presented with the cognizance of the united grand lodge of england. notes 1. emulation working, first lecture, first section. 2. francis a.yates, the rosicrucian enlightenment (london: ark, 1986, p. 209. 3. francis a.yates, the art of memidthe weave he world of toril is literally a magical place. all existence is infused with magical power, and potential energy lies untapped in every rock, every stream, every living creature, even the air itself. raw magic is the frozen stuff of creation, the mute and mindless will of being, suffusing every bit

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, fruits, and trees stones, metals and gems ceremonial magic and sorcery the elements and their inhabitants hermetic pharmacology, chemistry, and therapeutics the qabbalah, the secret doctrine of israel fundamentals of qabbalistic cosmogony the tree of the sephiroth qabbalistic keys to the creation of man an analysis of tarot cards the tabernacle in the wilderness the fraternity of the rose cross rosicrucian doctrines and tenets fifteen rosicrucian and qabbalistic diagrams alchemy and its exponents the theory and practice of alchemy: part one the theory and practice of alchemy: part two the hermetic and alchemical figures of claudius de dominico celentano vallis novi the chemical marriage bacon, shakspere, and the rosicrucians the cryptogram as a factor in symbolic philosophy freemasonic s

the chemical marriage bacon, shakspere, and the rosicrucians the cryptogram as a factor in symbolic philosophy freemasonic symbolism mystic christianity the cross and the crucifixion the mystery of the apocalypse the faith of islam american indian symbolism the mysteries and their emissaries conclusion the secret teachings of all ages an encyclopedic outline of masonic, hermetic, qabbalistic and rosicrucian symbolical philosophy being an interpretation of the secret teachings concealed within the rituals, allegories, and mysteries of all ages by manly p. hall san francisco printed for manly p. hall by h.s. crocker company, incorporated mcmxxviii [1928, no renewal] scanned at sacred-texts.com, november, 2001. j. b. hare, redactor. this text is in the public domain because it was not renewe

major trumps- the suit cards. 129 the tabernacle in the wilderness moses, the egyptian initiate--the building of the tabernacle--the furnishings of the tabernacle--the ark of the covenant--the robes of glory--the urim and thummim. 133 the fraternity of the rose cross the life of father c.r.c--johann valentin andre--the alchemical teachings of the rosicrucians--significance of the rose cross--the rosicrucian temple--the adepts of the rose cross. 137 rosicrucian doctrines and tenets the confessio fraternitatis--the anatomy of melancholy--john heydon on rosicrucianism--the three mountains of the wise--the philosophical egg--the objects of the rosicrucian order. 141 fifteen rosicrucian and qabbalistic diagrams schamayim, the ocean of spirit--the seven days of creation--the symbolic tomb of ch

ho are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. there is an eternal sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of his existence; but those who have not attained spiritual consciousness may yet feel his power by an inner faculty which is called intuition" certain rosicrucian scholars have given special appellations to these three phases of the sun: the spiritual sun they called vulcan; the soular and intellectual sun, christ and lucifer respectively; and the material sun, the jewish demiurgus jehovah. lucifer here represents the intellectual mind without the illumination of the spiritual mind; therefore it is "the false light" the false light is finally ov

e descended into the sea of material illusion in search of understanding, termed by the initiates "the pearl of great price" when the alchemists stated that every animate and inanimate thing in the universe contained the seeds of gold, they meant that even the grains of sand possessed a spiritual nature, for gold was the spirit of all things. concerning these seeds of spiritual gold the following rosicrucian axiom is significant "a seed is useless and impotent unless it is put in its appropriate matrix" franz hartmann comments on this axiom with these illuminating words "a soul cannot develop and progress without an appropriate body, because it is the physical body that furnishes the material for its development (see in the pronaos of the temple of wisdom) the purpose of alchemy was not to

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glish society for psychical research when it was formed in 1882. however, it was not until the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth that the occult world lost its somewhat strained "scientific" outlook of the previous hundred years, and turned its attention once more, after all the centuries, to the old gods. in 1851 helena petrovna blavatsky had met the aforementioned rosicrucian magus bulwer lytton, and impressed by the encounter, had organized the theosophical society in 1875, the object of which was to establish a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity. the purpose of this nucleus was to study the supreme source of all the world religions, the central "wisdom religion" as vouchsafed to various peoples of the earth in such a manner as best suited to

xistence from time immemorial; the old wisdom of the watchers, in fact. in madame blavatsky's society it was the oriental branch of this wisdom, comprising the teachings of vedanta and esoteric buddhism, which was the main inspiration. closely paralleling this movement, however, the hermetic order of the golden dawn was formed in england a few years later, similar in ideal but pursuing a western, rosicrucian path bound up with a system of ceremonial magic comprising invocation of ancient egyptian gods, cabalistic formulae, and dr. john dee's sixteenth-century enochian research. this erudite institution attracted many fertile minds including the poet w. b. yeats, arthur machen, and algernon blackwood, all on the fringe or involved with the "celtic twilight" and all greatly preoccupied with

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

nslated by s.l. macgregor mathers editing and additional material by aleister crowley 3uhidfh this translation of the first book of the lemegeton which is now for the first time made accessible to students of talismanic magic was done, after careful collation and edition, from numerous ancient manuscripts in hebrew, latin, and french, by g. h. fra. d.d.c.f, by the order of the secret chief of the rosicrucian order.1 the g. h. fra, having succumbed unhappily to the assaults of the four great princes (acting notably under martial influences, it seemed expedient that the work should be brought to its conclusion by another hand. the investigation of a competent skryer into the house of our unhappy fra, confirmed this divination; neither our fra. nor his hermetic mul. were there seen; but only

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

om the stone again. but do not wait for any king arthur toreturn from the physical grave. arthur is us, arthur is you! upon investigation, we find that there is much evidence to indicate that the alien visi-tors and their dark progeny have been and still are with us, that they are, in fact, at thevery helm of the echelons of society, making use of powerful secret societies, such asthe masonic and rosicrucian fraternities as their cover for centuries. it has beenuncovered that the members of such bodies permeate and influence all areas of gov-ernment, politics, education, religion, and business. this has been the case certainlysince the renaissance. it is for the individual reader to decide for themselves, whether such fraternities andenclaves, even whether the entire occult genre, were bef

ted a return to egyptian religion. was reputed to be a spy for sir francis walsingham. tommasso de campanella (1568-1639) author of utopian city of the sun. was admired by fran-cis bacon. performed magical protection rituals on pope urban viii. king charles ii of england (1660-1685) had a laboratory under his bedroom.thomas charnock (1524-1581) elizabethan alchemist.lady anne conway (1642-1684) a rosicrucian who presided over the most illustrious esoteric circle of her day, at ragley hall, in warwickshire.arthur dee (1579-1651) son of john dee, royal physician to james i, and personal doctor to tzar michael of russia.sir john dee (1527-1608) definitely involved in espionage with edward kelley. involved with innumerable secret societies created by agrippa. convened legendary sances when he

chneider, denounces wesihaupt to the duchess maria anna of bavaria,who in turn speaks to carl theodore, the bavarian king. 1783 u.s. president (of the order) john hanson dies. appendix f: general chronology of events326atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation 1784 bavarian illuminati (wesihaupt) membership is 3000, which effectively knocks out competitionfrom the strict observance and rosicrucian orders. knigge withdraws from wesihaupts order of theilluminati. 1784 u.s. president (order) lee in office. 1784 in bavaria, king carl theodore outlaws secret societies (june 1784. 1785 carl theodore issues another edict specifically outlawing wesihaupt's order of illuminati, as wellas providing rewards for information on them. weishaupt flees to a neighboring province, as doescount ma

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ds are truth. i invoke, i greet thy presence, 0 ra-hoor-khuit! unity uttermost showed! i adore the might of thy breath, supreme and terrible god, who makest the gods and death to tremble before thee: i, i adore thee! appear on the throne of ra! open the ways of the khu! lighten the ways of the ka! the ways of the khabs run through to stir me or still me! aum! let it fill me! stanza 3 suggests the rosicrucian benediction: may thy mind be open unto the higher! may thy heart be the centre of light! may thy body be the temple of the rosy cross! 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

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

er and the church of england. the climate was therefore propitious for maintaining tradition within the guild. according to the law of history, because it remained alive, this tradition was structurally enriched over the course of centuries. masonry, which had taken the the corporative masonry of great britain 181 name freemasonry, now received its principal contribution from hermeticists and the rosicrucian order after it had ceased being purely operative and accepted speculative members in large numbers. we will now take a look at the characteristics and evolution of the british version of operative freemasonry. the trade guilds and mysteries of great britain guilds (ghilds) were born and grew in great britain for the same reasons that prompted this development on the continent. they wer

he book enjoyed great success and its readers, particularly in england, believed the order of the rosy cross genuinely existed. andrea followed up his first work with others, notably the universal reformation of the entire world (1614) and the chemical wedding of christian rosenkreuz (1616. robert fludd (1547-1637, whose works enjoyed considerable success, established himself as a defender of the rosicrucian order. rosicrucian societies were formed in london under his influence and adopted his philosophical doctrines. these ideas were inspired by those of paracelsus, cornelius agrippa of nettesheim, and jacob boheme and consisted of a synthesis of alchemy, the kabbalah, and neoplatonic and hebraic traditions collected from the writings of hermes trismegistus mixed with the ambitions and my

and england various groups of learned men who formed secret societies in conformance with the principles proclaimed by the books we have already mentioned, but particularly andrea's brotherhood of the rosy cross. not surprisingly, these same men were drawn to freemasonry. in fact, sir robert moray, who, as we have learned, was admitted as an accepted mason in the lodge of edinburgh in 1641, was a rosicrucian.11 because of its symbolism, masonry provided an especially propitious environment for this influence. the first proof of a relationship between freemasonry and the rosicrucian society can be found in a poem published in edinburg in 1638: muses threnodie. its author was henry adamson, master of the arts and citizen of perth. in it we can read this verse: for we breathren of the rosies

tudies, whereas the heart, such as the one found on playing cards, indicated a branch in which mysticism, particularly that of the kabbalah, was studied and practiced. see amberlain, le martinisme (paris: niclas, 1946, 48 and 55. 244 from the art of building to the art of thinking founding of that great scholarly association known as the royal society.12 one of the most active members of london's rosicrucian society was elias ashmole (1617-1692, known by the nickname "the english mecuriophile" after performing well in his studies, he became a solicitor in 1638 and in 1641 returned to his native litchfield. there he became a staunch supporter of the stuarts' cause in 1644 and was named a commissioner of the king. some have maintained that ashmole was an israelite, but in actuality he was an

dies, he became a solicitor in 1638 and in 1641 returned to his native litchfield. there he became a staunch supporter of the stuarts' cause in 1644 and was named a commissioner of the king. some have maintained that ashmole was an israelite, but in actuality he was an active member of london's catholic circle and was buried in the catholic church of south lambeth.13 ashmole was introduced to the rosicrucian society by william backhouse and on october 16,1646, according to his own journal, was admitted as an accepted mason into the warrington lodge. here he found himself in the company of the warton brothers, thomas and george; the mathematician william oughteed; the doctors of theology john herwitt and john prarson; and the astrologer william lilly. with these men he founded a society who

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

the new world order has never been solely about world government, rather, from the beginning its proponents have been privy to secret doctrines and it is a spiritual plan more than anything. if one failed to take into account the occult nature of the new world order, they would be remiss. the un and the new age have been bed-fellows since the beginning. america s secret destiny is the product of rosicrucian and freemason forefathers. the new atlantis as proposed in francis bacon s work is almost at hand. the ancient mysteries are being studied for illumination and enlightenment by the new world order s elite. not to mention the new age gurus dutifully recruiting on behalf of the secret brotherhood. in 1980, marylin ferguson compiled and espoused a synthesis involving the theories of trans

policy making in the country [u.s.[including] at the cabinet level of the united states government (ibid. p.24) however, other new age proponents said that this is inaccurate, in that she had understated the influence of the new age worldwide, especially in the un and the eec. it is no coincidence that america has become the center of new age and new world order conspiracies. the theosophical and rosicrucian traditions hold that every nation has a spiritual destiny guided by a hierarchy of beings using all ethical (or un-ethical) means of manifesting the divine plan through the will of the nation s leaders. a proponent of the new age and the secret brotherhood s plan for a new world order is robert hieronimus. in his book america s secret destiny, he traced the spiritual vision of america

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

c. within the system may be found the basic technologies of spiritual development and their practical application. future books and tapes in this series will simplify and expand these techniques, including the initiatory rituals, for greater ease of study and use. lodges and study groups. the golden dawn system is not dependent on a filiation with any group proclaiming itself as "golden dawn" or "rosicrucian. nor, even though the initiatory rituals describe a lodge system, is group practice necessary for their enactment. all magic must ultimately take place in the psyche of the student. there are existing golden dawn lodges, and lodges and study groups of other organizations teaching ceremonial magic. often the most practical way to make contact with a group is by placing an advertisement

al purpose. additionally, edinger's and archetype as the "blood of christ" when understood with the respective hebrew letter "shin" or the significance neophyte hall. the current of the hermetic order blaze reignited by regardie's patient when many a storm threatened to extinguish and the student willfind that current external organizations, initiations for paul foster case wrote in the trzie and rosicrucian order. if you are duly and make contact. in due season. i do themselves" llewellyn publications and carl special presentation of the first paperback the original pagination has been maintained research is only one example that points llewellyn to high standards and impeccable an invaluable and special role in my life some of them now. the contributing george wilson, and hal sundt have

at were received years ago following the publication of the first of the four volumes in the original edition. anyone would have thought, judging from the tone of some of these letters, that i had become exalted to the throne of god almighty himself. even a few came from active order members scattered in various parts of the world, corroborating many of the critical allegations made earlier in my rosicrucian adventure. though the latter book was published independently of the golden dawn, it was originally written to serve as an introduction to the whole body of order teaching. on the other hand, there was a long letter from the late captain j. langford garstin, under his order sacramental name, chiding me severely for publishing the secret teachings of the order, and asking me in the futu

from the same criticism. his book on the kaballah is simple, clear and informative-but it bears no resemblance to the peculiar quality or character of the golden dawn documents which i suggest contain the hallmarks of genius. whoever was the originator of the golden dawn system left the mark both of genius and uniqueness on every phase of the work. he is still unknownhe, or a line of continental rosicrucian adepts, or. we do not know! volume 111 (of the first edition) contains the 2-2 document, which the student will recognize as being a finely structured analysis of the neophyte ritual, breaking it down into several movements and sections. this then serves as the basis for the construction of several elaborate types of ceremonies. these will be altogether without meaning until and unless

ation of a traditional latin sentence on the cross above the head of jesus, has now evolved by a qabalistic process of exegesis into a complex series of evocative ideas and symbolic gestures which extend tremendously the root idea. and by knowing these ideas, the gestures may be used practically to aspire to the illumination it suggests. this is the essential value of the sacramental actions. the rosicrucian equivalent of this formula is found in the fama fraternatitas, one of the original three classical rosicrucian documents. ex deo nascimur. in jesu morirnur. per spiritus sanctus reviviscimus "from god are we born. in christ we die. we are revived by the holy spirit" nor is this all. if we take 'lvx' as symbols of roman numerals, we have 65. this number, therefore, attains the symbolic

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

y for vows are not exacted from members of this grade.aspirant:i am.celebrant:place your hand upon your heart. do you pledge your honour never to reveal the secret ceremonialof our mystic circle unless by permission of the supreme magus, and even then only in strictconformity with our rule and ordinances?aspirant:i do.celebrant:do you pledge your honour never to be concerned or connected with any rosicrucian college,except the one into which you are now admitted, without first obtaining the consent of the suprememagus?aspirant: i do.celebrant:do you pledge your honour to yield a ready obedience to your superior officers, in matterspertaining to the order and to assist and defend your brethren of the rosae cross when just occasionrequires it?aspirant:i do.celebrant:brethren, do you consent

gthe 4 ancients in a serpentine course has a mystical allusion, for you were in search of wisdom. bethou as wise as a serpent. in learning wisdom seek to be obedient unto the law, for all its paths arepeace.the conductor of novice invests the aspirant with a crimson robe, as thecelebrant says: receive and be invested with, the crimson robe in token of your ardour, zeal andpromised devotion to the rosicrucian order. let the aspirant be placed in the mystic circle and joinwith us in repeating the initials of the mystic word. i.n.r.i.the mystic circle is formed, the aspirant uniting.celebrant:brethren and fraters, i declare this mystic circle perfect and the chain of union complete.the brethren clap their arms sharply across the breast. the aspirant is led to the centre of the circleand kneel

elebrant:you are worthily inspired my brother. i approve and commend your zeal, but your progress to thegoal of truth must be slow and gradual as the mysteries of nature are not to be unfolded to all whoseek her shrine, but only to the strong in faith, and the humble, though zealous in spirit.i will now invest you with the modes of recognition in this degree of zelator.sign: the ancient sign of a rosicrucian is given thus: right hand on heart, left hand above itcrossing at the wrists. this sign of a cross is equivalent to the word lvx (lux) as it exhibits at thesame time the 3 letters of which lvx is composed.token and password: right arm across breast, the opponent crosses it with his left arm. lvx (meaning"light) is not uttered, but expressed by the fingers.sacred word: i\ n\ r\ i\ repre

the world, and the glory ofthe father.battery*.you will now repair to the suffragan in the west, and give due heed to the historical narrative of ourorder. then return again to me for final instruction.the aspirant is conducted to the suffragan and seated.suffragan:while instructing you in our modem system of ethics and general metaphysics, we adhere to the oldfables and legends pertaining to the rosicrucian society, and accordingly introduce you to so muchof the habits, customs and manners of living of those philosophers and the general arrangement oftheir home, as is essential at the present time for your just appreciation of our theme. listen!historical narrativeburied in the depths of solitude, far from the sight and sound of human life, partly rock-hewn andpartly constructed of massiv

n a lightblue veil, and in his right hand is placed an ebony crux, signifying lux. the conductor of novicesis robed and cowled in black. they proceed to the porch and give a battery of 4 at the entrance tothe sacred hall.g. of the c.:frater suffragan, there is an alarm at the entrance of our sacred hall.suffragan: guardian of the caverns, ascertain who seeks admission to the sacred precincts of a rosicrucian.guardian opens the door, and observes the password offered by the conductor of novices andzelator, which is made by the fingers, lux. door is then closed.g. of the c.:frater suffragan, at the entrance to our sacred hall stands the conductor of novices with a brotherwho having partaken of the secrets of a zelator, and meditated upon its sublime mysteries now seeksfurther knowledge by th

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

terfly of psyche has alighted. this emblem of the soul is replaced in some copies of the sacred book by a bird, which is a more egyptian and probably a more ancient symbol. in the modern tarot the plate is entitled the glittering star; it is analogous to a number of hermetic symbols, and is also in correspondence with the blazing star of masonic initiates, which expresses most of the mysteries of rosicrucian secret doctrine. 86 the doctrine of transcendental magic 87 xviii, s charms and philtres justitia mysterium canes we have now to approach the most criminal abuse to which magical sciences can be put, namely, venomous magic, or rather sorcery. let it be understood here that we write not to instruct but to warn. if human justice, instead of punishing the adepts, had proscribed only the n

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is a battlefield. do not pause in the warfare on account of those who fall, but avoid trampling them. then comes the victory, and the wounded on both sides, now brothers in suffering and before humanity, will meet in the ambulances of the conquerors. such are the consequences of the philosophical dogma of hermes; such has been from all time the ethic of true adepts; such is the philosophy of the rosicrucian inheritors of all the ancient wisdoms; such is the secret doctrine of those associations that are treated as subversive of the public order, and have ever been accused of conspiring against thrones and altars. the true adept, far from disturbing the public order, is its firmest supporter. he has too great a respect for liberty to desire anarchy: child of the light, he loves harmony and

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r of which has, at first glance, any overt connection with collective or racial or folklore traditions, though the connections are present upon a deeper level than that of literary derivation. octave theories are undergoing a considerable revival at the present time in the new wave of holistic approaches to science. kirk himself mentions that certain of the fairy books are similar to the abstruse rosicrucian texts (page 27, from which we may conclude that he had some degree of familiarity with such publications. while there is no proof that kirk is formally writing within the hermetic tradition, and no detailed evidence that he had studied it, it nevertheless remains as an undertone in his approach to his subject material and the development and proofs of his argument. he is dealing with f

n great pain, save that they art usually silent and sullen. they are said to have many pleasant toyish books. but the operation of these pieces [of literature] only appears in some paroxysms of antic corybantic jollity- as if ravished and prompted by a new spirit entering into them at that instant, lighter and merrier than their own. other books they have of involved abstruse sense, much like the rosicrucian style. they have nothing of the bible, only collected parcels of charms and counter-charms; not to defend themselves withal but to operate on other animals' for they are a people invulnerable by [that is, to] our weapons. and albeit were-wolves and witches true bodies are, by the union of the spirit of nature that runs through all, echoing and doubling the blow towards another, wounded

er.com/kirk_wbw/pg_82.htm (8 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:36:03 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 82-91) page 27 they are said to have many pleasant toyish books. but the operation of these pieces on` appears in some paroxysms of antic corybantic jollity- as if ravished and prompted by a new spirit commentary 91 entering into them. other books they have of involved abstruse sense, much like the rosicrucian style. two classes of fairy books are described, and in the same paragraph kirk states that they do not have the bible as a book of protection against evil, but use collections of charms and counter-charms instead. this last description is resonant of the pre-christian origin of much fairy lore. the two classes of books, however, are more suggestive of classical lore. the first is a de

en the pythoness was taken over by the spirit of the god apollo. this comparison is found again on page 36, comparing an old woman of the second sight with the delphian priestess. kirk leavens the use of antic spirit inspiration (which was of course frowned upon and punishable, by making it a matter of jollity and merriment. the second class of fairy books are involved and abstruse, much like the rosicrucian style. here kirk is referring to a class of literature that created something of a sensation only a few years before he was writing, and to which additions were published by various authors as late as the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. there are a number of modern books on the origin of the rosicrucian movement, but the most thorough analysis was published by thomas de quincey (a

tic and alchemical, or magical, arts. various allegories and technical instructions were published in their name from the close of the sixteenth century onwards, the most famous being the fama fraternitas of the meritorious order of the rosy cross, an initiatory and visionary text modeled upon the ancient mysteries, but including many subtle and obscure esoteric christian elements. as many of the rosicrucian or would-be rosicrucian books contain descriptions and illustrations of the relationship be-tween worlds and orders of being, such as robert fludd's works published in england (which kirk might have had http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_82.htm (9 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:36:03 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 82-91) worldwide copyright 1990, 1998-2001 ,rjstewart, all rights a

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life, but here on earth. the destruction of the existing earth and heaven is foretold, followed by the institution of a "new heaven" the relevance of this book of enoch material to the deciphered "enochian keys" will become apparent. in the late nineteenth century the casaubon text of the enochian keys was adopted into the magical inventory of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, a london-based rosicrucian society. the golden dawn altered and augmented the keys in order to align them with its own emphasis on the hebrew cabala, and its publications assert a mastery of the enochian language by the leaders of the order.4 aleister crowley later incorporated the golden dawn edition of the keys into his aa, again claiming fluency in enochian and constructing rituals from enochian words and phr

e diaries were eventually deposited in the british museum. in 1659 ce a printed version of the dee diaries including the keys was published by meric. casaubon as a true and faithful relation of what passed for many years between dr. john dee and some spirits. in the late nineteenth century, the keys were adopted into the magical inventory of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the london-based rosicrucian society. the golden dawn altered and augmented the casaubon version in order to align the keys with its own emphasis on egyptology and the hebrew cabala. its publications asserted a mastery of the enochian language by the leaders of the order. aleister crowley later incorporated the golden dawn edition of the keys into his a:.a (argenteum astrum= silver star, again claiming fluency in

interactions (7) the name "astrum argenteum (silver star) will be retained as a tradition of the aeon of horus. however the seal originally designed by aleister crowley will be replaced with the concentric/geometric aa seal shown in this document, and the initials "aa" will be used without the masonic "pyramid of fire" dots) employed by crowley in imitation of the golden dawn and earlier masonic/rosicrucian bodies. in addition to incorporating two stylized "a"s, the new symbol represents the triangular glyph of the great horus and suggests the continuous vortex of the aeon of horus (8) the aa shall function as a non-profit order while it is within the temple of set, and its eventual release by the temple of set shall be conditional upon its formal, non-profit incorporation. it may designa

(probationer through philosophus) will be replaced by a single student degree: neophyte i (this name was selected from among the original "training grade" names as the most significant and historic, in both its g:.d. and a:.a. derivations) unlike the old a:.a. grade-curriculum set forth in "one star in sight, an aspirant to the aa shall not be expected to study a hodge-podge of hindu, hebrew, and rosicrucian/masonic mummery. instead the neophyte shall be exposed to, and encouraged to discuss and experiment with, the principles of the aeon of horus in their most refined and precise sense. via this exposure, the neophyte may then make an informed decision whether to pursue adeptship or to depart from the aa. the old "rosicrucian grades (adeptus minor through adeptus exemptus) will be replace

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r often made by those who naively think that politics and magic ritual do not mix. masonic orders have contained the most influential men in many governments, and virtually every occult order has many masonic roots. the rites of the illuminati became the basis of the curriculum of the later ordo templi orientis, founded in 1902 by karl kellner and adolf wilbrandt a similar curriculum, with strong rosicrucian overtones, was in the english order of the golden dawn in 1887. the teachings of the illuminati hold that all is material, that all religions are of human invention, that god is man, and man is god, and the world is his kingdom. the tierdrama reinforces this message. it was first performed by dieter hertel in munich, 31 july 1781; the present manuscript dates from 1887. many authors ha

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

n occult group, the fellowship of crotona, which was led by the daughter of an early member of the theosophical society. the theosophical society is a mystical religious and philosophical movement founded in new york city in 1875. the society combines buddhist and hindu beliefs and seeks to investigate the universe and humanity s place in it. the fellowship of crotona practiced both theosophy and rosicrucian rituals. the rosicrucians are an organization devoted to the study of ancient mystical, philosophical, and religious principles. the crotona group claimed to be a line of hereditary witches, with secret knowledge passed down to them for hundreds of years( modern-day research indicates the group was only two decades old at the time of gardner s involvement with them) they had built a th

SEPHER YETZIRAH WESTCOTT

dr. anna kingsford, president, in the chair. some of the notes were the explanations given verbally, and subsequently in writing, to members of the society who asked for information upon abstruse points in the "sepher" and for collateral doctrines; others, of later date, are answers which have been given to students of theosophy and hermetic philosophy, and to my pupils of the study groups of the rosicrucian society of england. sepher yetzirah the book of formation chapter i section 1. in thirty-two (1) mysterious paths of wisdom did jah (2) the jehovah of hosts (3) the god of israel (4) the living elohim (5) the king of ages, the merciful and gracious god (6) the exalted one, the dweller in eternity, most high and holy--engrave his name by the three sepharim (7- numbers, letters, and soun

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

ic, are of a wholly different type from his previous fictions, and, in place of the heroes and villains of every day life, we have beings that belong in part to another sphere, and that deal with mysterious and occult agencies. once more the old forgotten lore of the cabala is unfolded; the furnace of the alchemist, whose fires have been extinct for centuries, is lighted anew, and the lamp of the rosicrucian re-illumined. no other works of the author, contradictory as have been the opinions of them, have provoked such a diversity of criticism as these. to some persons they represent a temporary aberration of genius rather than any serious thought or definite purpose; while others regard them as surpassing in bold and original speculation, profound analysis of character, and thrilling inter

y obscure hint and mystical parable, their real doctrines to the world. and i do not blame them for their discretion" here he paused, and seemed about to retire, when i said, somewhat abruptly, to the collector "i see nothing, mr. d, in this catalogue which relates to the rosicrucians "the rosicrucians" repeated the old gentleman, and in his turn he surveyed me with deliberate surprise "who but a rosicrucian could explain the rosicrucian mysteries! and can you imagine that any members of that sect, the most jealous of all secret societies, would themselves lift the veil that hides the isis of their wisdom from the world "aha" thought i "this, then, is 'the august fraternity' of which you spoke. heaven be praised! i certainly have stumbled on one of the brotherhood "but" i said aloud "if no

erybody else. but then our critics have discovered that shakespeare is so real "real! the poet who has never once drawn a character to be met with in actual life, who has never once descended to a passion that is false, or a personage who is real" i was about to reply very severely to this paradox, when i perceived that my companion was growing a little out of temper. and he who wishes to catch a rosicrucian, must take care not to disturb the waters. i thought it better, therefore, to turn the conversation "revenons a nos moutons" said i "you promised to enlighten my ignorance as to the rosicrucians "well" quoth he, rather sternly "but for what purpose? perhaps you desire only to enter the temple in order to ridicule the rites "what do you take me for! surely, were i so inclined, the fate

l the doctrines he preaches when obscure. s. montague. antipathies also form a part of magic (falsely) so-called. man naturally has the same instinct as the animals, which warns them involuntarily against the creatures that are hostile or fatal to their existence. but he so often neglects it, that it becomes dormant. not so the true cultivator of the great science, etc. trismegistus the fourth (a rosicrucian. when he again saw the old man the next day, the stranger found him calm, and surprisingly recovered from the scene and sufferings of the night. he expressed his gratitude to his preserver with tearful fervour, and stated that he had already sent for a relation who would make arrangements for his future safety and mode of life "for i have money yet left" said the old man "and hencefort

magic (or science that violates nature) exists not: it is but the science by which nature can be controlled. now, in space there are millions of beings not literally spiritual, for they have all, like the animalculae unseen by the naked eye, certain forms of matter, though matter so delicate, air-drawn, and subtle, that it is, as it were, but a film, a gossamer that clothes the spirit. hence the rosicrucian's lovely phantoms of sylph and gnome. yet, in truth, these races and tribes differ more widely, each from each, than the calmuc from the greek, differ in attributes and powers. in the drop of water you see how the animalculae vary, how vast and terrible are some of those monster mites as compared with others. equally so with the inhabitants of the atmosphere: some of surpassing wisdom

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

seven steps. this path of esoteric training is based entirely on the substance of christianity, primarily on the gospel of john. it was not rudolf steiner s path to 38. see page 165ff. 210 christianity as mystical fact his experience of standing before the mystery of golgotha. his own path was the path of knowledge that did not begin with any presuppositions. steiner later called it the christian-rosicrucian path. although it is not based on any presuppositions it is called christian, because the knowledge acquired through it can become knowledge of christ. in his book how to know higher worlds, steiner made this path accessible to anyone who seeks it. it is the appropriate path for modern human consciousness. beginning with christianity as mystical fact, what rudolf steiner said after the

lled christian, because the knowledge acquired through it can become knowledge of christ. in his book how to know higher worlds, steiner made this path accessible to anyone who seeks it. it is the appropriate path for modern human consciousness. beginning with christianity as mystical fact, what rudolf steiner said after the turn of the century concerning the matter of christianity shows that the rosicrucian initiation can produce the substance of christianity, free of any tradition, and thereby confirm, and even supplement, existing christian texts. access to the substance of christianity, independent of any documents, is the decisive consequence of steiner s experience of christ at the turn of the century. with this event the path of following christ, the path based on the substance of c

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

squares. these crosses have varied meanings than those on the banners, but their meaning allows a deeper understanding. thus, here is a list: a f b j d h l i e a g k c a c b k d h e f g i j l 6 rtk hnyb hrwbg trapt dsj hmkj jxn dwh dwsy twklm 10 9 8 7 3 5 6 4 2 1 7 triangle and the hexagram taking a look at the symbology of the triangles on the banners, we notice that they also represent various rosicrucian concepts. these concepts represent the trinity of creation in various forms. also, they represent a microcosmic/macrocosmic relationship. the various diagrams below provide a simple example of those concepts. for i am the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end' saith the lord, god who liveth in light, since none can come to him, or near him" hwchy hwhy 8 this is the manifestation o

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

years, there arose esoteric groups which continued to practice the rites, traditions, and enculturation brought in from the original groups "over the centuries, these groups practiced openly in some countries, and covertly in countries where christianity or other religions opposed their practices. some of the groups which came out of these ancient roots included the order of the knights templar, rosicrucian's, baphetomism, and druidic cults. these groups were the forerunners, or roots, of modern day illuminism. the original illuministic leaders chose to take what they felt were the best practices of each root religion, combine them into principles, then organized these principles according to specific guidelines "modern day illuminism is a philosophy funded by the wealthy, but practiced i

e original illuministic leaders chose to take what they felt were the best practices of each root religion, combine them into principles, then organized these principles according to specific guidelines "modern day illuminism is a philosophy funded by the wealthy, but practiced in all social strata. it is a philosophy whose tenets have spread across the world. it started with the german branch of rosicrucian's, spread to england, then came to the united states with the first settlers" svali said during her 30 years with the illuminati she witnessed a lot of violence from programs stemming from the cia's mk ultra, as well as other mind control programs utilized by the cult. working a steady job in the day and then attending heavily guarded, secret meetings three times a week during the even

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

s' involvement in nefarious, masonic, occultic, or magical activity or not? you be the judge. to help you make a decision, often included in the captions that accompany the photos and illustrations is commentary that helps one to better analyze the situation or scene that is pictured. when possible, i present evidence and information outlining the individual's membership in the masonic lodge, the rosicrucian order, or other globalist or occultic groups, secret societies, and organizations. this is done as an aid to your independent decision-making. sometimes, i admit, it is difficult from the picture alone to ascertain whether a person, or persons, are displaying a masonic or other sign, or to tell for sure that an occultic pose or scene is being portrayed. again, the author does his best

ar means encourages lesser disciples. it reassures them that they are part of a cohesive and unified whole, members of a distinctive body of powerful and influential world movers and shakers. it is an 42 codex magica awesome feeling, no doubt, to find oneself in company with the aspiring and actual rulers of the planet. naturally, for the lesser initiate, seeing the top adepts displaying masonic, rosicrucian, o.t.o, and other signs and symbols in major propaganda and cultural organs (tv, newspapers, magazines, internet, books, public forums, etc) also instills fear and dread. fear and dread of what the organization powerful as evidenced by its public display of its chief symbols to a profane, ignorant mass audience might do to them if they ever should be so bold or so foolish as to damage

ecret society membership through a hand signal. the name of jesus is never mentioned in either the declaration of independence or the subsequent united states constitution. instead, our nation's founders used vague, illuminist coded terms like "nature's god" or "providence" benjamin franklin, a key leader of the delegates, was both a grand master mason (lodge of nine sisters, paris, france) and a rosicrucian. thomas jefferson, who helped draft the declaration of independence, wrote favorably of the order of the illuminati and its founder, european jesuit professor adam weishaupt. hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 63 this poster showing america's first president, george washington, as a mason, is distributed by the george washington masonic national memorial association. it was printed in

t a huge swath in occult circles. here we see the mystical minded hugo giving a clear hand sign of masonic luciferian design. it was victor hugo who wrote the story "the man who laughs" about a boy whose face had been horribly shaped into a permanent smile by fiendish cosmetic butchers. the grotesque tale was the basis for batman's "joker" character. it was alleged that victor hugo was not only a rosicrucian but was also grand master of the occultic order known as the priory of sion. hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 73 in this ad for hitachi electronics, napoleon is using the left-handed path (dark occultism) of magic. napoleon was also reputed to be an llluminatus and an initiate into the greater mysteries (areopagite degree. note also the sun sign (maltese) badge. now we find yet anot

coil's masonic encyclopedia is the work of other masonic and occult researchers who report that the fellow craft degree was awarded in the 2 of the order of the illuminati. in the book, witchcraft, magic, and the supernatural, published in great britain, we find information about sir francis dashwood, leader of britain's 18th century "hell fire club" it is said that dashwood, a notorious yet rich rosicrucian magician, greatly influenced america's visiting benjamin franklin, who frequently sought him out for occultic advice and information. indeed, some believe that dashwood was as important to the illuminist 82 codex magica sir francis dashwood, leader of england's 18th century "hell fire club" practiced the dark side of magic. the nobility and rich frequented his group and called on him f

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leased in germany by the secret brotherhood of the rosicrucians (from the latin, rosae crucis, grose cross h. the first two pamphlets called upon the educated and influential to unite to bring about a reformation of the educational, moral, and scientific establishments of europe. the german monk martin luther (1483.1546) had already set in motion a reformation in the spiritual sphere of life, the rosicrucian fraternity pointed out, but now it was time to educate the people of europe to understand the true relationship of humankind to the universe and to perceive truly the distinctions between the material and the divine. the manifestos condemned all those who contributed to the moral decay of europe, and the brotherhood promised to help alleviate all suffering and to eradicate all ignoranc

members of the secret fraternity and attempting to charge the gullible for admittance, but when the deceivers could not produce mounds of gold upon demand, the crooks were either imprisoned or pummeled. nor had too much time passed before word spread among the religious that the rosicrucians were satanists who sought only to delude europe into sin. in spite of entreaties, threats, and demands, no rosicrucian stepped forward to identify himself, and the society remained secret.the most secret of all secret societies. it is interesting to speculate that the symbol of martin luther, the protestant reformer and founder of the lutheran church, was a red rose and a cross, which remains the emblem of lutheranism. could luther also have sought to reform the whole societal structure of europe, as w

umankind fs true place in the universe became ideals that inspired the period of enlightenment and have been carried over into modern times. m delving deeper mcfadden, ashley. gthe rosicrucians.a brief historical overview. h r.c. times, summer 1994 [online] http//www.arcgl.org/rosie.htm. spence, lewis. an encyclopedia of occultism. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1960. yates, frances a. the rosicrucian enlightenment. boulder, colo: shambhala, 1978. the thuggee no organized cult of killers has ever murdered as many people as the thuggee. in the 1830s this indian secret society strangled upward of 30,000 native people and travelers as a sacrifice to their goddess kali, the gdark mother, h the hindu triple goddess of creation, preservation, and destruction. the name thuggee comes from t

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letter shin: hebrew kabbalists knew this letter shin as one of the three mother-letters (with aleph and mem) and that it signified the fire. st. jerome in his "mystic interpretation of the alphabet" defined this letter shin as the symbol of the vivifying word. much later, papus tells us1) that this letter shin, inverted, in the flamboyant star (the pentagram) with its point up, represents to the rosicrucian initiate the incarnation of the divine word in the human nature. dr. r. allandy, in his work on the symbolism of numbers, adds this to what papus had already said. the addition of shin to the sacred tetragram (i.h.v.h) marks the passage of the quaternary into the quinary for the formation of the living creature. jesus, the word made flesh, kabalistically represents all creatures, but p

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die concluded that the teachings of the order would not survive unless they were published, so shortly after attaining to the grade of theoricus adeptus minor in 1934,2 regardie left the order in december of that year. in 1937 he published much of the golden dawn's ceremonies and teachings in four volumes titled the golden dawn. he clearly stated his reasons for doing this in his previous book my rosicrucian adventure (1936) which documented his own experiences with the golden dawn.(i)t is essential that the whole system should be publicly exhibited so that it may not be lost to mankind. for it is the heritage of every man and woman-their spiritual birthright. my motives have been to prove without a doubt that no longer is the order the ideal medium for the transmission of magic, and that

y that the tradition has found them effectual for the purpose under consideration, and the experimental work of modem students has confirmed this psychological association. the student desirous of delving more deeply into the subject, wishing to discover the system by which symbolic names are attributed to certain quarters or to the ten sephroth, will find much material in the tree of life and my rosicrucian adventure, as well as in the golden dawn. the last pentagram having been traced in the north, the student returns, still holding arm with dagger outstretched, to the east where he started from.27 with h s arms extended to form a cross, and being aware about him of the four pentagrams vitalized by the vibration, he now commences a further phase of the ritual. here is demanded of him the

those centers numbered one, six, nine, and ten. it also includes the shadowy center drawn in dotted lines, placed between three and four.1 for various reasons i cannot go into detailed metaphysical explanations as to the underlying philosophy of this shadowy sephrah, though students who desire more information about it will discover the elaboration of ths theme in my garden of pomegranates and my rosicrucian adventure. suffice to say here that it arises from a consideration of the process of evolution on the one hand, and the two pillars previously referred to, on the other. the ancient phlosophers who developed ths system believed that as man evolved, that is to say as he developed sufficient control over h s emotions as to be able to remain poised in a detachment from the dual pull of th

cross. one important difference between the christian cross and the qabalistic cross is that in the hermetic version, geburah or "the power" is attributed to the right shoulder, while in the chstian cross, it is placed on the left shoulder. tlus points out a major difference in the way that a ceremonial magician approaches the divine self from the way that the average church-goer and the chstian rosicrucian approaches god. w i t h the judeo-chstian tradition, the image of god is seen as separate and outside of humanity. the image of god, as projected on the tree of life, is usually viewed as something "out there" or somethmg that is too sacred to be approached by sinful earthbound human beings. thus the tree of life as the image of god is sometimes pictured as the backside of god by the o

THE ROSICRUCIAN MANIFESTOS

or spiritual progress. the individual is in between them, in the middle part, tifferet. that is the only neutral place. above it there is holiness, and below it impurity. there is nothing to correct in holiness, but at the same time, it is impossible to correct the impure forces. only in the middle third of tifferet is it possible to connect the upper and the lower parts, and thus correct thmethe rosicrucian manifestos fama fraternitatis and confessio fraternitatis emperor norton books cincinnati, ohio 2000 the rosicrucian manifestos: fama fraternitatis and confessio fraternitatis originally published anonymously in 1615 and 1616. the contents of this document are not under copyright in any domain. acrobat edition prepared by benjamin rowe, completed october 13, 2000. typeset in bembo and

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

igram aumn by our gnostic brethren in the trigram iao by our hebrew brethren in the trigram ihv and amn by our chinese brethren in the trigram tao and its symbol by our brethren of the royal arch in the tripartite word of their degree file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c3.html (9 of 18 [12/28/2001 2:05:41 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. by our rosicrucian brethren in the trigram inr and its symbols by our masonic brethren in the tripartite word of their degree of master by our christian brethren in the trigram ihs by ourselves in many ways secretly; and openly in the trigram o.t.o. many other hieroglyphs of him are known to you; but all of these are one; and though he is all, and in all, and above all, yet there is one aspect of him on

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

period. in the bible, christians are cautioned not to suffer a witch to live "witch" was the english translation for any- one who practiced magic, male or female, as well as those who sold poison, pro- cured abortions, and committed other crimes. the magician was classed with the dregs of humanity alongside the prostitute and the cutpurse. occasionally voices were raised in defense of magic. the rosicrucian michael maier wrote in his themis aurea in 1618 "magic (as some define it) is the highest, most absolute, and divinest knowledge of natural philosophy" however, he was not so bold as to defy the social odium in which magic was held. yet this noble science doth oftentimes degenerate, and from natural becomes diabolical, from true philosophy turns to negromancy. hence it is that mag- ick

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

k place in great britain and france during the latter part of the 1880s "the explosion itself was hardly noticed by the establishment, 11 i. howe, magicians of the golden dawn, 69. but it was felt by many who were no longer satisfied with conventional religious beliefs. the influence of helena petrovna blavatsky's theosophical society was notable in this ontext" the order of the golden dawn was a rosicrucian society that admitted both men and women. its purpose was the revival of the occult wisdom of the past-not merely the teaching of the esoteric philosophies of greece, rome, persia, egypt, and judea, but also the revival of the practice of ritual magic both for the perfection of the individual and the advancement of the human species. even though it made use of numerous pagan gods and g

e was the revival of the occult wisdom of the past-not merely the teaching of the esoteric philosophies of greece, rome, persia, egypt, and judea, but also the revival of the practice of ritual magic both for the perfection of the individual and the advancement of the human species. even though it made use of numerous pagan gods and goddesses in its rituals, it was fundamentally christian, as all rosicrucian societies must be. the primary symbol of the golden dawn was the rosy-cross-a cross with a red rose at its intersection. many of the early members of the golden dawn were also theosophists. at first this troubled blavatsky, who prohibited theosophists from joining the golden dawn or other occult societies, out of apprehension that they practiced black magic. but when members of her own

chiefs, the golden dawn was originally founded as an extension of a german secret society of the same name, die 112. howe, xxiii. 113. ibid, 55. 114. colquhoun, sword of wisdom, 172. chapter seven: the golden dawn 97 goldene dammerung, run by an adept named fraulein anna sprengel. westcott claimed to have received a written charter from sprengel permitting him to establish a branch of the german rosicrucian society in england, and maintained that he was in constant correspondence with the chiefs of the german order from 1887 to 1890. this is what those joining the golden dawn were taught, and what they believed in the early years. it was not until friction arose between the leaders of the order that it was revealed that this history was a fiction concocted by westcott, perhaps with the co

the alchemical elixir of eternal life, or spiritual beings dwelling on higher planes who descended to the material world for the purpose of teaching him, although he tended to believe they were living men. in an extraordinary manifesto written in 1896, mathers referred to himself as "chief adept and ambassador of those secret and unknown magi who are the concealed rulers of the wisdom of the true rosicrucian magic of light" and he wrote about the nature of the secret chiefs: 98. soul flight concerning the secret chiefs of the order, to whom i make reference and from whom i have received the wisdom of the second order which i have communicated to you, i can tell you nothing. i do not even know their earthly names. i know them only by certain secret mottoes. i have but very rarely seen them

the fanciful notion that an entire race of humanity could dwell in its depths struck them as plausible. it was believed in some quarters that bulwer-lytton's novel was fact disguised as fiction. 122 soul flight in a magical sense, vril is a blind force. it can be used for good or for evil, in a way similar to electricity, which also has no moral affiliation. one of hitler's earlier advisors, the rosicrucian and freemason general karl haushofer, founded the luminous lodge of the vril society in 1925, the same year in which the thule society was dissolved. the author wulf schwarzwiiller asserted that the purpose of the vril society was to investigate the roots of the aryan race, and to perform ritual exercises designed to awaken the power of vril. he claimed that haushofer was a student of

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

reated this system based upon a few hints from dee and kelley. regardie writes: but this stands out very clearly, that in these diaries [of dee and kelleyl is a rudimentary scheme which bears only the most distant relation to the extraordinary developed system in use by the order. whoever was responsible for the order scheme of the angelic tablets-whether it was mathers and westcott or the german rosicrucian adepts from whom the former are supposed to have obtained their knowledge-was possessed of an ingenuity and an understanding of magic such as never was in the possession either of dee or kelly (golden dawn, p. 625) in fact, almost the entire golden dawn enochian system is derived from the diaries published by casaubon, with the exception of the correspondences of the elements, planets

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

e in the triangle: an interpretation of aleister crowley [st. paul, mn: llewellyn publications, 1970, 417. xlvon the charges of sex magic brought against the cathars and later the templars, see francis king, sexuality, magic and perversion (secacus: citadel, 1971, 170-71. xlvifranklin rosemont, foreward to john patrick deveney, paschal beverly randolph: a nineteenth century american spiritualist, rosicrucian and sex magician (albany: suny, 1997, xv. as deveney observes, largely through randolph's influence the genie had been released from the bottle. a multitude of sexual mysticism flourished (paschal beverly randolph, 252 -178- xlviiirandolph, the mysteries of eulis, 337. randolph lists over 100 uses for sexual magic, which include everything from acquiring money to the secret of domestic

exterior circle of the h.b. l of l. by t.h. burgyon "especially must all sexual relations be carefully guarded and only participated in after due thought..it is this fatal mistake of sex that has ruined thousands of..aspirants for occult initiation (godwin et al, the hermetic brotherhood of luxor, 273. liiigodwin et al, the hermetic brotherhood of luxor, 67. livquoted in r. swinburne clymer, the rosicrucian fraternity in america: authentic and spurious organizations (quakertown: the rosicrucian foundation, n.d, 541; this text is also reproduced in koenig, der kleine theodor reuss reader. lv see koenig "the o.t.o. phenomenon" and "theodor reuss as founder of esoteric orders" lvifrancis king, the magical world of aleister crowley (london: weidenfeld and nicolson, 1977, 79-80 -180- lviiicrow

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

the candidate, after the latter has been invested and brought to the east. it is pointed out to him that he represents the cornerstone of a building- as it might be, the whole masonic edifice- but he is immediately counselled to raise a superstructure from the foundation of that corner-stone- thus reversing the image. that of the corner- stone is like an externalization in dramatic form of an old rosicrucian maxim belonging to the year 1629 "be ye transmuted from dead stones into living, philosophical stones" from my point of view, it is the more important side of the symbolism; it is as if the great masonic edifice were to be raised on each candidate; and if every neophyte shaped his future course both in and out of masonry, as though this were the case actually, i feel that the royal art

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

kakof na khonsa o ao kakof na khonsa 19 these mantras have the power of transmuting our sexual energy into light and fire within the alchemical laboratory of the human body. this prayer with its mantras can be utilized in sexual magic. this prayer with its mantras is an omnipotent clue in order to meditate upon our divine mother. master huiracocha [doctor krumm heller] stated the following in his rosicrucian novel: when a man joins with a woman in the secret act, he becomes a god since he converts himself into a creator at that very moment. some seers state that in those precise moments of love, the two beings are seen enveloped by a brilliant burst of light; they are enveloped by the most subtle and potent forces that are in nature. if a man and a woman would know how to withdraw without

ces. these solar and lunar energies rise through the pair of sympathetic cords that are known as the two witnesses- id and pingal. the medullar channel has an internal orifice that normally is found closed in common people. however the seminal vapors open up this orifice so that the sacred serpent [of brass nachash] can enter there within that medullar channel. it is necessary to warn the gnostic-rosicrucian brethren that they must learn how to polarize the sacred fire of the kundalini. some devotees eat meat everyday and drink alcohol; with the pretext of working in the great work they pleasurably enjoy lust, they bestially enjoy carnal passion even when they do not waste their ens seminis. therefore, the outcome of this is that these devotees totally polarize the fire within the chakras

creation is possible only by working with the lion of fire. uranus controls the chakras of the sexual glands, yet the schools of regeneration are neptunian. eminent astrologers affirm that neptune influences the pineal gland; the potency of the pineal gland depends on the sexual potency. great schools of regeneration have existed through the course of history (it is enough for us to remember the rosicrucian alchemical school that became secret in the year 1620. likewise, it comes into our memory the schools of aryavarta ashrama of tibet, as well as the sect of the manicheans of persian origin, and the famous sufis with their sacred dances, the templars, etc. all of these were schools of regeneration; the coitus reservatus is practiced in all of them. the schools of regeneration constitute

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

and this is vital for a magician, but attempting to develop your will at the expense of another human being will certainly backfire, as all spiritual teachers and traditions have taught us. there is a difference between making a talisman to attract friendship and making one to entice your fantasy dream date over to dinner. eliphas levi (otherwise known as abbe louis constant, who was a master of rosicrucian and qabalistic magic of the last century, said: it is well to observe here that every action promotes a reaction, and that in magnetizing others, or influencing them magically, we establish between them and ourselves a current of contrary but analogous influence which may subject us to them 5 6. western mandalas of transformation. instead of subjecting them to us, as happens frequently

one should know that there is still an additional method for creating sigils, which can be used with any name if translated into hebrew. it is the famous rose cross (see figure 2-c on page 16) which we used for determining the sigil of our h. g. a. sigils can be drawn from the rose and then incorporated into the talisman. this powerful little glyph has tremendous symbolic import for anyone with a rosicrucian or golden dawn background and has been used successfully by many magicians in our century, but as regardie noted, it is not rooted in antiquity. i personally always use the kameas for drawing the sigils of the intelligences and spirits and other numerical associations, but, like many others who have followed the golden dawn (and offshoot) traditions, i most often trace the divine god n

n the jupiter kamea is two arrows descending down (see figure 6-b, demonstrating the beneficent influence of gedulah personified as god the father pouring forth his majestic graces. one of the most powerful affirmations of dr. case was the one corresponding to chesed on the tree of life, from his famous "pattern on the trestle board (a complete copy of which can be found in his true and invisible rosicrucian order, p. 158: from the exhaustless riches of its limitless substance, i draw all things needful, both spiritual and material. this is a very valuable affirmation and would greatly enrich any sincere aspirant's life if it was said with devotion and concentration every day. it would also be a useful adjunct to any jupiter figure 6-c: zvg talisman. figure 6-b: ab-el. the kamea of chesed/

tive inscription written around the edge of the talisman. figure 6-e: yhpial-yophial hsml-hismeal figure 6-f: traditional kamea in hebrew 84. western mandalas of transformation. another powerful motto with the value of 136, taken from latin rather than hebrew, is "the undefiled glory of god" dei gloria intacta, which was said to be engraved in a circle on the vault of the legendary founder of the rosicrucian order, brother c. r. c. it was written around the figure of a man's head, which case said represented aquarius. case's interpretation of the motto is that (it) refers to the occult conception that the real inner man is identical with and inseparable from the pure essence of the life power. that essence is correctly associated with the element of air, to which the sign aquarius (the man

gn aquarius (the man) is referred, because spirit and breath are correlated in all ancient philosophies. furthermore, the adjective intacta, which i have translated as undefiled, means even more than this. the inner glory that is the essence of the real man is not only untouched by the action of its outer vehicle of personality. it is truly untouchable. it can never be defiled (true and invisible rosicrucian order, p. 126. the full realization of this symbol, however, belongs to the age of aquarius, into which we are just entering. another important correspondence that belongs to this kamea is the magical word qol (qvl, which also has a value of 136. this is really the voice of intuition, or the higher self, or h. g. a. in case's interpretation, it is represented by the hierophant, which i

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

nglish poetry section is the same, but the irish and welsh poetry section was rearranged in order to reduce space. i removed the 7 translations by matthews and nichol s to avoid copyright problems here. similiarly i have removed the 10 scottish gaelic poetry translations out of respect for those authors. i ll put them into a separate file on the web-site for people to observe. i ve also removed a rosicrucian piece and some grateful dead song lyrics. less than a third of the original volume remains in this edition. this editing was also done because i felt that i had done too heavy a focus on celtic writings than is good for the destiny of the reform. i feel that people should be wide ranging in their studies, so i have replaced those removed sections with writings from other native wisdom

WILLIAM WESCOTT GOLDEN DAWN HISTORTY LECTURE

down to us this doctrine and system of theosophy and hermetic science of the higher alchemy from a series of practical investigations whose origin is traced to the fratres rosae crucis of germany, which association was founded by christian rosenkreuz about 1398. he and the theologian, valentine andrea, have left us, in the works published about 1614, an account of the exoteric arrangements of the rosicrucian society. it seems likely it was andrea who published in 1614 the fama fraternitatis, or theory of the society, which must have been derived from the old records of the pupils of christian rosenkrawz. but even this arrival of mysticism was a new development of the older wisdom of the qabalistic rabbis and of that very ancient secret knowledge of the magic of the egyptians into which mos

h) zoreh aour bakker) which means the society of the shining light of dawn. in latin: aurora. in german: die goldene demmerung. in french: l'aube d' or. reference may now be made to the society which was reconstructed by robert wentworth little, student of the mysteries. this society, which has branches in england, scotland and the united states, is allied with the g.d. it perpetuated one form of rosicrucian initiation which was conferred 100 years ago in england and which was mentioned by godfrey higgins in his work the anacalypsis, or an attempt to withdraw the veil of the saitic isis. fratre little was a student of the school of levi and also an eminent freemason, and the rosicrucian society as revised by him was made by intention and permission essentially masonic, thus severing all co

s, or an attempt to withdraw the veil of the saitic isis. fratre little was a student of the school of levi and also an eminent freemason, and the rosicrucian society as revised by him was made by intention and permission essentially masonic, thus severing all connection with those adepts who have not been craftsmen, as basil valentine, artephus, nicolas flamel, jacob behmen and robert fludd. the rosicrucian society in the same manner fails to recognize any worth for occult research in women. this is also an innovation or the scheme of the ancient mysteries in many of which, notably those of isis priestesses and virgin prophetesses, were prominent ministers. note specifically, that there are several instances in the ancient m.s. of our order, which are written in cypher, where reference is

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

basis for a general knowledge of numbers viewed from the standpoint of occult science--w. wynn westcott pprreeffaaccee ttoo tthhee tthhi ii rrdd eeddi ii tt i iioonn, 11 99 11 11 numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott a few corrections have been made and interesting notes have been added; many of these have been supplied by my pupils and fellow-students of the rosicrucian society--w. wynn westcott 10& 11. part one chapter one pythagoras, his tenets& his followers numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott ythagoras, one of the greatest philosophers of ancient europe, was the son of mnesarchus, an engraver. he was born about the year 580 b.c, either at samos, an island in the aegean sea, or, as some say, at sidon in phoeni

ver been the form called kabalah of the nine chambers, produced by the intersection of two horizontal and two vertical lines, forming nine spaces, a central square, and 4 three-sided figures, and 4 two-sided figures, to each of which are allotted certain letters; there are several modes even of this arrangement, and there is a mystical mode of allotting the sephiroth to this figure, but this is a rosicrucian secret. 28. this method is used in a superficial manner in mark master masonry. a further development of the numerical kabalah consists of arithmetical processes of extension and contraction; thus tetragrammaton is considered as y 10, h 5, v 6, h 5, or 26, but also may be spelled in full yvd 20, ha 6, vv 12, ha 6, or 44. again, the kabalists extended a number by series. zain z or 7 bec

four white--skin, white of eyes, teeth, and legs. 53. four red--tongue, lips, cheeks and gums. four round--head, neck, forearms, ankles. four long--back, fingers, arms, legs. four wide--forehead, eyes, seat, lips. four fine--eyebrows, nose, lips and fingers. four thick--buttocks, thighs, calves and knees. four small--breasts, ears, hands and feet. see lane s edition of the arabian nights. in the rosicrucian writings of behmen, fludd and maier, we find the occult dogma that the four elements are peopled by spirits, beings who may have influence on the destiny of man; thus the earth was inhabited by gnomes; the air was inhabited by sylphs; the fire was numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott inhabited by salamanders; and the water by undines; these are now

being, essence, virtue, action. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 4 masonic virtues. 4 evangelists and gospels; matthew, mark, luke, john, related to the four kerubic forms of the man, lion, bull and eagle (see wheel of fortune of tarot, key 10--hew65) and thus to the zodiacal signs--aquarius, leo, taurus and scorpio (the relation of aquila to scorpio is a rosicrucian secret. one of the abstruse dogmas of the kabalah concerns the four worlds of emanation; atziluth, briah, yetzirah and assiah. these are not worlds in any ordinary sense, but rather planes of development and existence, the former the most diaphanous and exalted, the others becoming more and more concrete and manifest. the ten sephiroth exist on each plane, those of the higher planes be

e pillars of severity and mercy, with the median of benignity or mildness. but this scheme is not for this treatise, nor can the sephirotic alliance with the planetary symbols, the angelic host, the divine names and the book of thoth, or tarot be here described. these subjects present a mine of wisdom concealed in the rituals of the kabalistic chabrath zereh aur bokher, from whose parent stem the rosicrucian fraternities also may have arisen. these rituals contain a more complex scheme of the mediaeval occult symbolism than exists in any other form known to me, and i believe that it would not be possible for anyone to reconstitute so complete a system out of all extant literature. there are 10 grades in the rosicrucian society. they are zelator, theoricus, practicus, philosophus; minor, ma

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

y benefits indeed. on a personal note, i prefer small, jet-black obsidian balls, which also have an extraordinary effect that not only alleviates tension, but generally gives the whole system a shot in the arm. like many other types of crystal balls, it also aligns the mental and emotional bodies and strengthens the various meridians throughout the body. for an example of crystal vision, the book rosicrucian seer by john hamill is a definite must because it 149 shows the extraordinary dexterity needed for crystal work. there are a number of times when i have simply meditated in front of the crystal, as set in the holy table, and received numerous benefits from it. the first thing one should do is read up on the effects of crystals, and then select those which you wish to use either for med

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

e games must be recorded and presented to the chiefs (d) the adept will study and perform a divination game of enochian chess (e) two sets of enochian tablets will then be constructed (1) the tablets in their english form and (2) the tablets in the pyramid form with full associations on them (f) consecrate a talisman and have it tested by chiefs (g) do a thesis on the hidden meanings of the three rosicrucian manifestoes (h) note: no skrying is to be done at this level; only study the procedure involved. section 2 theoricus adeptus minor (th.a.m) 29. lecture on astrological associations to the serviant squares 30. notes on ritual of invisibility 31. notes on ritual of transformation workings for this level and records of these visionary workings to be sent to the praemonstrater. all phases

note: read alchemists handbook by frater albertus and practical handbook of plant alchemy by manfred junius for technical laboratory explanations of equipment and its use (e) before advancement to the next level, one must have mastered the outlines of practical ritual work as contained in the z-5. an examination, both verbally and practical, will be held on ritual. chapter two the origins of the rosicrucian order the initial impetus of the golden dawn's inner order, the rosae rubea et aurea cruces (the red ruse and the cross of gold, stemmed from rosicrucian sources which made the cornerstone of their teachings the first two rosicrucian manifestoes published in the 17th century by an anonymous authorship. within the golden dawn's inner order, elaborate rituals were used, utilizing props a

in yesheshuah morimur; per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus 'in god are we born, in yeheshuah we die, through the holy spirit we rise again' so, then, our frater n.n. and his companions reclosed the pastos for a time, set the altar over it, shut the door of the tomb, and placed their seals upon it" though slightly slanted from the order's perspective, it does give an indication of the content of the rosicrucian documents and their teachings. the official history of the order, written by wyn wescott (under the initials of his order motto) further provides us with a bridge in which to interpret the rosicrucian history relating directly to the r.r. et a.c: history of the rosicrucian order by g.h. frater n.o.m. the opening words of that part of the 5=6 ritual which deals with the history of the o

e day, the establishment of the order was effected in europe. with the principal features of their subsequent activity you are already familiar, and it suffices to say that when our founder "entered unto his chamber" his work was accomplished, and every member among us hereby placed under a lasting debt of gratitude. it is to be observed that there are three important epochs in the history of the rosicrucian order: the first being the life period of christian rosycross, who died before the time of the protestant reformation; the second, the 120 years of silence and secrecy, being the period 1484 to 1604; and the third, this period subsequent to and since the reformation. it was during this last period that the opening of the vault formed the historical basis for the subsequent publication

ay be attributed by the sequence of comparison to the grades of 6=5 and 7=4 respectively: the former, a degree of death and solemnity referring to the precedent stage of obscuration, during which silent study and meditation may be considered as the typical condition. the latter, the grade of adeptus exemptus, being referred to the higher and more exalted rank and attainments of he who founded the rosicrucian order as a new formulation of the occult philosophy or wisdom religion which, we cannot doubt, has never been entirely absent since the manifestation of the human intellect with a capacity for the apprehension of things divine. on comparing the esoteric historical account given in the fama with that contained in our 5=6 ritual, several important divergencies and discrepancies become ap

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

prize essay, 1838.39; b.a, 1841. he was ordained as a deacon in the church of england in 1841 and became a clergyman two years later. after serving in vari- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. ayton, w(illiam) a(lexander) 135 ous country parishes, he was appointed vicar of chacombe, northamptonshire, in 1873. ayton was a freemason and theosophist as well as a member of the societas rosicruciana in anglia before becoming one of the early members of the golden dawn in july 1888 at the age of 72, together with his wife. he took the magical motto virtute orta occident rarius (those that rise by virtue rarely fall, his wife, anne, took soror quam potero adjutabo (i will help as much as i can. ayton was a good latin scholar, a firm believer in the mahatmas of helena petrovna blava

in 1890. he lost interest in the theosophical society after joining the golden dawn in 1894. he corresponded frequently with rev. w. a. ayton, another member of the golden dawn, who was a student of alchemy, and their letters (a collection of which, edited by ellie howe, was published in 1985) are valuable for their sidelights on the order. gardner was also a freemason, later joining the societas rosicruciana in anglia and becoming its librarian. he became financially involved in sponsoring publication of the english translation by mathers of the important occult treatise the book of the sacred magic of abra-melin in 1898. gardner retired from membership of the stock exchange in 1903 and thereafter was an antiquarian bookseller, with special interest in occult works. he edited and privatel

to spread the esoteric work in spain and latin america. documents to this effect were received from both papus and from theodor reuss, the head of the ordo templi orientis. at some point he was also consecrated as a bishop in the gnostic catholic church by h. c. peithmann. in 1910 krumm-heller settled in mexico and began to study medicine. prior to world war i (1914.18, he founded the fraternitas rosicruciana antiqua and opened a branch of the gnostic church using a set of rituals supplied by peithmann as well as the gnostic mass developed by aleister crowley. he developed the work for a decade and then in 1920 moved back to germany. he settled in marburg, where he established a printing business. marburg became the center of what had become an international spanish-speaking esoteric work

nic conspiracy. at one point the nazi government confiscated krumm-heller s library but did not arrest him. he left germany and spent a year in mexico, but returned to germany, where he lived through world war ii (1939.45. he remained in contact with the rosicrucians in latin america through friends in sweden. soon after the war ended he reactivated the international leadership of the fraternitas rosicruciana antiqua, but lived only four more years. krumm-heller died in marburg in 1949. he did not appoint an international successor, but rather named a series of successors, each with a responsibility for a single country. besides groups in latin america, the fraternity had work in spain and the philippines. he had, at one point, issued a charter to h. spencer lewis, founder of the ancient m

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york: w. w. norton, 1965. reynolds, aidan, and william charlton. arthur machen: a short account of his life and work. london, 1963. 951 sullivan, jack, ed. the penguin encyclopedia of horror and the supernatural. new york: viking, 1986. macionica slavonic name for a witch (see slavs) mackenzie, kenneth r(obert) h(enderson (1833.1886) prominent british occultist, an honorary magus of the societas rosicruciana in anglia, and a member of the hermetic society of the golden dawn. during 1858.59 he edited four issues of biological review, devoted to spiritualism, homeopathy, and electro-dentistry. mackenzie was born on october 31, 1833, in london. the following year his family lived in vienna, where his father, dr. rowland h. mackenzie, was assistant surgeon in the midwifery department at imper

2. mcintosh, christopher. the rosy cross unveiled: the history, mythology, and rituals of an occult order. wellingborough, england: aquarian press, 1980. pryse, f. n, ed. the fame and confession of the fraternity of r:c: commonly of the rosie cross. by eugenius philalethes. now reprinted in facsimile together with an introduction, notes and a translation of the letter of adam haselmeyer. societas rosicruciana in anglia, 1923. silberer, herbert. the hidden symbolism of alchemy and the occult arts. new york: dover, 1971. waite, a. e. the real history of the rosicrucians. london: george redway, 1887. reprint, blauvelt, n.y: steiner books, 1977. revised as the brotherhood of the rosy cross. london: william rider& son, 1924. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1961. yates, frances. t

ert wentworth little (who claimed to have found some old freemasonry rituals) and kenneth r. h. mackenzie (who claimed to have received rosicrucian initiation in austria. the metropolitan college was founded in london in 1865 with little as supreme magus, and a societas rosicruciana in scotia was started soon afterward, followed by provincial lodges. some famous names associated with the societas rosicruciana in anglia include sir francis burdett (vice president) and author-occultist-politician lord edward bulwer lytton (grand patron 1871.73. kenneth mackenzie became an honorary magus. william wynn westcott was supreme magus in 1916. the aims of the society were. to afford mutual aid and encouragement in working out the great problems of life, and in discovering the secrets of nature; to f

and symbolism of all that now remains of the wisdom, art and literature of the ancient world. in spite of these resounding aims, the society confined itself mainly to lectures and freemasonry rituals. in 1887, westcott, mackenzie, and w. r. woodman were concerned in the formation of the isis-urania temple of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, in which the esoteric freemasonry of the societas rosicruciana in anglia was expanded into a more complex occult system. the societas rosicruciana in america was modeled on the societas rosicruciana in anglia. sources: king, francia. the rites of modern occult magic. new york: macmillan, 1970. societas rosicruciana in civitatibus foederatis the societas rosicruciana in civitatibus foederatis was founded in boston in 1878 by charles e. meyer (1839

e societas rosicruciana in america was modeled on the societas rosicruciana in anglia. sources: king, francia. the rites of modern occult magic. new york: macmillan, 1970. societas rosicruciana in civitatibus foederatis the societas rosicruciana in civitatibus foederatis was founded in boston in 1878 by charles e. meyer (1839.1908) with a mason from pennsylvania. the mason had headed the societas rosicruciana in anglia, the british branch of the society founded in the 1860s by robert wentworth little. within a few years the american group had established lodges, called colleges, across the country. with several others, meyer traveled to england and was initiated at the college in sheffield. when sheffield blocked their request for a charter, they turned to the college in edinburgh, which i

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rm, and with the ceremonial glory of freemasonry through his initiation in the hengist lodge in 1877. at this time he began to reveal his aristocratic origins (or, from another point of view, to display his delusions of grandeur; on his master mason's certificate of 1878 he is styled comte de glenstrae, a title allegedly awarded to an ancestor by louis xv, and by 1882, when he joined the societas rosicruciana in anglia, he had added macgregor to his name. mathers was led into the s.r.i.a. by frederick holland, who had already encouraged him to take up occult studies but who derided his pretensions to a highland ancestry, and was, no doubt, highly amused by mathers' use of the motto of the clan macgregor 's rioghail mo dhream (royal is my tribe, on his election to the zelator grade" but for

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. but any pleasure that the authorities of the supreme council for england and wales may have derived from learning of their canadian colleague s high office in an unheard-of rite was more than tempered by their rage at discovering his involvement with john yarker who had been a thorn in their flesh for many 32[32] irwin to westcott, 13 november 1876. the letter is in the archives of the societas rosicruciana in anglia years. shadwell clerke, the grand secretary general, wrote at once to harington both to warn and to admonish him: mr. yarker is a person who has been expelled from the ant& accepted rite in england for gross unmasonic conduct (as notified to all chapters some 5 years since) and that mr. s. p. leather only avoided a similar fate by previous resignation33[33. then comes the st

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masonic ephemera. waite was also a prolific letter-writer, and i have been fortunate in being able to examine his correspondence with the late bro. harold van buren voorhis of new jersey, with the 1[1] the secret tradition in freemasonry (rider, 1937. the prospectus is a 4 pp. quarto sheet, written by waite although not so attributed. late bro. w. r. semken (supreme magus, 1956-69 of the societas rosicruciana in anglia, and his official correspondence with the independent great priory of helvetia. but, while these manuscript sources are crucial for an understanding of waite's life and masonic activities, his ideas and attitudes towards freemasonry are set out openly and clearly in his published work (see appendix b. the events of his early life are, however, obscure and difficult to establ

accurate account of the society's history and concluded by waite's own sarcastic and unkind critical comments 'the most notable circumstance connected with this society is the complete ignorance which seems to have prevailed amongst its members generally concerning everything connected with rosicrucianism. this is conspicuous in the magazine which they published'13[13. the fratres of the societas rosicruciana in anglia (s.r.i.a) were, not surprisingly, upset by this and the secretary-general, dr. william wynn westcott, wrote to waite threatening legal action if the 'rules and ordinances' were not immediately withdrawn. in his reply14[14] waite apologized and offered to omit the offending text from subsequent editions of the book. honour was thus satisfied but it is probable that waite wrot

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'ancesin 1855.mrs everitt's mediumship was called into question in 1867 but she was vindicated (seespiritualmago:zine,may and june1869).2williamjames hughan(1841-1911),the noted masonic historianandauthor. one of the founders of the quatuor coronati lodge no.1076,the research lodge which established the authentic or scientific .chool of masonic history, he was also an early member of the societas rosicruciana in anglia and contributed to early issues of therosicrucianmago:zine.3 grand stewards lodge, of which hockley was secretary. 4 past master of british lodgeno.8,the lodge in which he had been initiated.167 liverpool road, islington, n. february 1872 mydearsir, i take the earliest opportunityofreplyirig to your favors of the 4th and 8th inst. notwithstanding my being very unwell my time

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to the theosophical society; in fact a school of occultism based on the western hermetic-qabalistic tradition, and hence without any hindu or buddhist elements. the theosophical society was open to all who wished to join it, but the door that led to the g.d. was closely guarded. the majority of the early male members of the g.d (up to c.i892) were recruited from westcott's friends in the societas rosicruciana in anglia, known to the initiated as the soc. ros, which was exclusively masonic. the s.r.i.a, of which westcott was secretary general, although he became its supreme magus in 1892, was not a masonic lodge but, during the 1880s, an increasingly esoteric equivalent of a learned society. there were colleges (i.e, branches) in the provinces- e.g, at bristol, york and newcastle upon tyne

ued h.p.b. for libel in 1890, although the suit was dropped just before it was to be heard in court. see a. h. nethercott, the first five lives ofannie besant (1961, p. 330. mabel collins was the author of light on the path (1885, which was widely read in theosophical circles. there were many reprints, including a russian translation (geneva, 1925. 15 latter remained supreme magus of the societas rosicruciana in anglia until he went to live in durban, south africa, in 1920. indeed, he was still corresponding with gardner in 192 4 a year before his death on 30 june 192 5' gardner's early connection with the soc. ros. remains obs ure- for example, why he joined the bristol college on 12 april 1894 rather than the london metropolitan college. according to the latter's transactions for 1897-8

y and rituals. his mafonnerie occulte was published in 1853. 2 george redway was a small london publisher who specialized in occult books and also sold them second-hand. he published a. e. waite's digest of eliphas levi's works, based upon dogme et rituel de la hautemagic, in 1886 and his the realhistory of therosicrucians in 1887. the latter caused much annoyance among the adepts of the societas rosicruciana in anglia. in 1897 he published s. l. macgregor mathers' the kabbalah unveiled, having bought the copyright for 35 (the eleventh impression appeared under the routledge& kegan paul imprint in 1970. for redway's unsatisfactory dealings with mathers (and indirectly with f. l. gardner) in connection with the the letters 39 t()rm,e 's the sacred magic ofabra melin the mage( 189 8, see my

s and forbidding. for many years past she had had minimal respect for church of england clerics and was no doubt astonished to encounter one in theosophical circles. it has been supposed that burrows was a member of the golden dawn. this was not the case. however, he became a freemason in 1902 when he joined east anglia lodge no. 2920 and joined dr westcott's metropolitan college of the .societas rosicruciana in anglia in july 1906. he was an honorary 8 in the soc. ros. in 1921 and died in 1922. 33 chacombe vicarage. zz june 1891 the letters 67 circulation, got up this case which was really against w[illiam] e[wart] g[ladstone] and sir wm. harcourt, who were notorious as frequenting a house of very ill fame in stjohn's wood. stead was unconsciously going to expose 2 of the greatest friends

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mathers were prominent and active members of this body. in fact, the former became supreme magus upon woodman's death, the office of junior magus being conferred upon mathers. one legend has it that one day westcott discovered in his library a series of cipher manuscripts, and in order to decipher them he enlisted the aid of macgregor mathers. it is said that this library was that of the societas rosicruciana in anelia. and it is likewise asserted that those ci her manuscripts were among the rituals gd clocuments originally rescued by obe; little from freemason's hall. yet other accounts have it that westcott or a clerical friend found the manuscripts on a bookstall in farringdon street. further apocryphal legends claim that they were found in the library of books and manuscripts inherited

engel, culmi&ting in the transmission of aurhdrity to woodman, westcott and mathers, to formulate in enaland a semi-public occult organisation which was to employ an elaborate magical ceremonial, abalisticte akg and a comprehensive scheme of s irituatlr aining. its foundation was desiened to include both men and women on a'basis of perfezequality in contradistinction to the policy of the societas rosicruciana in anglia which was comprised wholly of freemasons. thus, in 1887, the hermetic order of the golden dawn was established. its first english temple, isis-urania, was opened in the following year. there is a somewhat different version as to its origin, having behind it the 18 the golden dawn authority of frater f. r, the late dr. felkin, who was the chief of the stella matutina as well

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m. the oracles of zoroaster. an invaluable collection of precepts mystical and magical. the dream of scipio, by cicero. excellent for its vision and its philosophy. the golden verses of pythagoras, by fabre d'olivet. an interesting study of the exoteric doctrines of this master. the divine pymander, by hermes trismegistus. invaluable as bearing on the gnostic philosophy. the secret symbols of the rosicrucians, reprint of franz hartmann. an invaluable compendium. scrutinium chymicum, by michael maier. one of the best treatises on alchemy. science and the infinite, by sidney klein. one of the best essays written in recent years. two essays of the worship of priapus, by richard payne knight. invaluable to all students. 210 the golden bough, by j. g. frazer. the text-book of folk lore. invalua

riental magick-lore. morte d'arthur, by sir thomas mallory. valuable as a storehouse of occidental magick-lore. the works of francois rabelais. invaluable for wisdom. the kasidah, by sir richard burton. valuable as a summary of philosophy. the song celestial, by sir edwin arnold "the bagavad-gita" in verse. the light of asia, by sir edwin arnold. an account of the attainment of gotama buddha. the rosicrucians, by hargrave jennings. valuable to those who can read between the lines. the real history of the rosicrucians, by a. e. waite. a good vulgar piece of journalism on the subject. the works of arthur machen. most of these stories are of great magical interest. the writings of william o'neill (blake. invaluable to all students. the shaving of shagpat, by george meredith. an excellent alle

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probably be able to answer any of your questions from the manuscript, but you cannot go on after that when it would become a discussion; as they say in the lawcourts "you must take the witness' answer" ii. the qabalah, both greek and hebrew, also very likely arabic, was used by the author of the book of the law. i have explained above the proper use of the qabalah. i cannot tell you how the early rosicrucians used it, but i think one may assume that their methods were not dissimilar to our own. incidentally, it is not very safe to talk about rosicrucians, because magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 23 their name has become a signal for letting loose the most devastating floods of nonsense. what is really known about the original rosicrucians is practically confined

ds were not dissimilar to our own. incidentally, it is not very safe to talk about rosicrucians, because magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 23 their name has become a signal for letting loose the most devastating floods of nonsense. what is really known about the original rosicrucians is practically confined to the three documents which they issued. the eighteenth century rosicrucians may, or may not, have been legitimate successors of the original brotherhood- i don't know. but from them the o.t.o. derived its authority; the late o.h.o. theodor reuss possessed a certain number of documents which demonstrated the validity of his claim according to him; but i only saw two or three of them, and they were not of very great importance. unfortunately he died shortly aft

sible) next, the lamp. this may be of silver, or silver-gilt (to represent the path of gimel) and is to be hung from the ceiling exactly above the centre of the altar. there are plenty of old church lamps which serve very well. the light is to be from a wick in a floating cork in a glass of olive oil (i hope you can get it) it is really desirable to make this as near the "ever-burning lamp of the rosicrucians" as possible; it is not a drawback that this implies frequent attention. now for the weapons! the wand. let this be simple, straight and slim! have you an almond or magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 157 witch hazel in your garden- or do i call it park? if so, cut (with the magick knife- i would lend you mine) a bough, as nearly straight as possible, about two

. you should begin with your parents and the family traditions; the circumstances of your birth and education; your social position; your financial situation; your physique, health, illnesses; your vita sexualis; your hobbies and amusements; what you are good at, what not; how you came to be interested in the great work; what (if you have been on false trails, toshophists, antroposophagists, sham rosicrucians, etc) has been "your previous condition of servitude" how you found me, and decided to enlist my aid. that, by itself, helps you to understand yourself, and me to understand you. from that point the keeping of the record is quite easy. all you have to do is to put down what practices you mean to begin, how you get on magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 319 with

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ant. it symbolises the universe immediately after chaos, the confusion or clash of the infinite opposites. a is the egg of matter; w is, the bull, or energy-motion; and r is the sun, or organised and moving system of orbs. the three letters of rwa thus repeat the three ideas. the nature of rwa is this analysed, under the figure of the ten numbers and the 22 letters which together compose what the rosicrucians have diagrammatised under the name of minutum mundum. it will be noticed that every number and letter has its correspondence in ideas of every sort; so that any given object can be analysed in terms of the 32. if i see a blue star, i should regard it as a manifestation of chesed, water, the moon, salt the alchemical principle, sagittarius or what not, in respect of its blueness one wo

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ar. prescott. history of the conquest of mexico. prescott. history of the conquest of peru. renan. vie de j sus. robertson, e.w. historical essays. rosebery, ld. napoleon. shakespeare. histories. society for the propagation of religious truth. transactions, vols. i- dclxvi. stevenson, r. l. a footnote to history. thornton, ethelred, rev. history of the jesuits waite, a. e. the real history of the rosicrucians. wolseley, ld. marlborough. the above works and many others of less importance were carefully consulted by the author before passing these lines for the press. their substanital accuracy is further guaranteed by the professors of history at cambridge, oxford, berlin, harvard, paris, moscow, and london. 366. shot his chandra.56 anglic, shot the moon. 388. the subtle devilish omission.8

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usion or clash of the infinite opposites. hb:aleph is the egg of matter; hb:yod is taurus, the bull, or energy-motion; and hb:resh is the sun, or organised and moving system of orbs. the three letters of hb:resh hb:vau hb:aleph thus repeat the three ideas. the nature of hb:resh hb:vau hb:aleph is thus analysed, under the figure of the ten numbers and the 22 letters which together compose what the rosicrucians have diagrammatised under the name of minutum mundom. it will be noticed that every number and letter has its "correspondence" in ideas of every sort; so that any given object can be analysed in terms of the 32. if i see a blue star, i should regard it as a manifestation of chesed, water, the moon, salt the alchemical principle, sagittarius or what not, in respect of its blueness- one

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oxvurghe binding. privately printed "1865 "3 3"s" paracelsus. the hermetical and alchemical writings of aureopus phillippus theophrastus bombast of hohenheim, called paracelsus the great, now for the first time translated into english. edited, with elucidatory notes, a copious hermantic vocabulary and index, by a. e. waite. 2 cols. 4to "cloth" 1894 (published "2 12"s" 6"d" jennings (hargrave. the rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries. thick 8vo, 4"th and last edition, revised. half-morocco, t.e.g, n.d" 7"s" 6"d" portion of contents- ever-burning lamps- the hermetic philosophers- the hermetic brethren- mystic history of the fleur-de-lis- sacred fire- fire-theosophy of the persians- ideas of the rosicrucians as to the character of fire- monuments raised to fire-worship in all countries- dr

the rosicrucians as to the character of fire- monuments raised to fire-worship in all countries- druidical stones and their worship- the round towers of ireland- cabalistic interpretations by the gnostics- mystic christian figures and talismans- the rosy cross in indian, egyptian, greek, roman, and mediaeval monuments- the great pyramid- myths of the scorpion, or the snake in its many disguises- rosicrucians celestial and terrestrial- alchemy- rosicrucians in strange symbols- robert flood- indian mystic adoration of forms, etc, etc. mysteries of magic: a digest of the writings of eliphas l vi, with biographical and critical essay by arthur e. waite "second edition, revised "and enlarged" 8vo "coth" 1897 (pub. 10"s" 6"d) 6"s" this work fulfils a purpose quite distinct from that of "transce

reater" key of solomon_ only a few copies remain for sale "crown 8vo, scarlet buckram, pp. 64" less than 100 copies remain. the price will shortly be raised to one guinea net. a. a. publication in class b- book 777 this book contains in concise tabulated form a comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the taro, so long kept secret by the rosicrucians, are now for the first time published; also the complete secret magical correspondences of the g. d. and r. r. et a. c. it forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. for the first time western and qabalistic symbols have been harmonized with those of hinduism, buddhism, mohammedanism, taoism &c. by a gl

walter scott publishing co. ltd. paternoster row, e.c."and through all booksellers""crown 8vo, scarlet buckram, pp. 64. this edition strictly limited to 500 copies. price 10s a. a. publication in class b. book 777 this book contains in concise tabulated form a comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the taro, so long kept secret by the rosicrucians, are now for the first time published; also the complete secret magical correspondences of the g. d. and r. r. et a. c. it forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. for the first time western and qabalistic symbols have been harmonized with those of hinduism, buddhism, mohammedanism, taoism,&c. by a gl

" written by a brother of the order of the a. a. throws considerable light on the origin of the above society; and what is of still more interest to us mentions p. and his final rupture with the order of the golden dawn. it runs as follows "some years ago a number of cipher mss. were discovered and deciphered by certain students. they attracted much attention, as they purported to derive from the rosicrucians. you will readily understand that the genuineness of the claim matters no whit, such literature being judged by itself, not by its reputed sources. 240 "among the mss. was one which gave the address of a certain person in germany, who is known to us as s.d.a. those who discovered the ciphers wrote to s.d.a, and in accordance with instructions received, an order was founded which worke

walter scott publishing co. ltd. paternoster row, e.c "and through all booksellers " 8vo, buckram, pp. 64" this edition strictly limited to 500 copies. price 10s a. a. publication in class b- book 777 this book contains in concise tabulated a comparative view of all the of the great of the ; the perfect attributions of the taro, so long kept by the , are now for the first time published; also the complete correspondences of the g. d. and r. r. et a. c. it , in short, a complete and philosophical dictionary; a to all and to all practical working. for the first time western and have been harmonized with those of , , mohammedanism, taoism &c. by a gl