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ks of long continuance, should be cast down, and valleys filled up, to make even the ground, that israel may go safely in the glory of god, 8 moreover even the woods and every sweetsmelling tree shall overshadow israel by the commandment of god. 9 for god shall lead israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that cometh from hhi (place rose, cup, paten of bread and salt, lamp, cross and triangle upon the altar (the candidate must be blindfolded and tied thrice around the waist (hierophant knocks once) kerux (goes to the east, and faces west "hekas! hekas! este be beloi (returns to the southeast and faces east) bell/ hierophant (holds up the sceptre, faces west, and knocks once "fraters and sorors of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, in the temple of isi

ss (hierophant, hiereus and hegemon all knock once in that order. the knocks are given before the words are said in the following) hierophant (knocks "khabs" hiereus (knocks "am" hegemon (knocks "pekht" hiereus (knocks "konx" hegemon (knocks "om" hierophant (knocks "pax" hegemon (knocks "light" hierophant (knocks "in" hiereus (knocks "extension (the kerux removes the rose, cup, paten of bread and salt and the lamp from the altar, leaving the cross and triangle only) hierophant "fraters and sorors of the golden dawn of the outer in the temple of isis mighty mother, i have recieved a dispensation from the chiefs of the second order to duly admit_ to the grade of neophyte. honored hegemon, instruct the candidate to hold himself/herself/themselves in readiness for the ceremony of his/her/their

r being, and the threefold wave of the sensual world" hierophant (faces east, forms himself in a cross "glory be to thee, father of the undying for thy glory flows out rejoicing to the ends of the earth" hierophant (turns back around "the red cross above the white triangle represents the unfolding of light. at its east, south, west, and north angles are a rose, 36 fire, cup of wine, and bread and salt. these allude to the elements of, air, fire, water, and earth. the mystical words- khabs am pekht-are ancient egyptian and are the origin of the greek words- konx om pax- which was uttered at the eleusinian mysteries. a literal translation would be 'light rushing out in one ray, and they signify the same form of light as that symbolized by the staff of the kerux. east of the double cubical al

to meditate on our pledge of devotion to secrecy (hierophant puts down sceptre and now goes to the west of altar facing east. he gives the saluting sign but not sign of silence. he picks up the rose) hierophant "i invite you to inhale with me the perfume of this rose as a symbol of air (smells the rose; to feel the warmth of the sacred fire (spreads hands over lamp; to eat with me this bread and salt as types of earth (breaks bread, dips it in the salt, and eat; and to drink with me this wine, the consecrated symbol of water (makes a cross with the wine and drinks it (after the hierophant, the new neophytes do the same. all other members may partake of the eucharist after the ceremony is complete) kerux (comes last and finishes the wine, inverts the cup "it is finished (hierophant goes ba

hich the rabbins of old have said rusheth through the universe; that name before which rolled back the darkness at the birth of the morning of time. the flame-red triangular capitals which crown the summits of the pillars represent the triune manifestation of the spirit of life, the 'three mothers' of the sepher yetzirah, the three alchemical principles of nature, the sulphur, the mercury and the salt, and each pillar is surmounted by its own light-bearer, though veiled from the material world. the hieroglyphical figures upon the pillars are taken from the vignettes of the 17th and the 125th chapters of the 'ritual of the dead' the egyptian 'per-m-hru. this celebrated and most ancient work is a collection of mystical hymns and addresses in the form of a species of ceremonial ritual for the

one's visualization and basic scrying abilities. meditating with the major arcana can bring forth many helpful energies into one's life. this meditation is also helpful in that it is a prerequisite for pathworking. step 1 91 begin by performing the four fold breath while relaxing all muscles in your body. you may also like to include a ritual cleansing bath, using a few drops of essential oil or salt. step 2 perform the l.b.r.p..step 3 shuffle the major arcana cards and pick one card at random, or work through them systematically one at a time. set aside the rest of the cards. step 4 revert again to the four fold breath, calming the mind and allowing it to become blank. step 5 now look at the card selected. do not project your consciousness into the card. simply take note of every detail

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tolistes: black robe, black& white nemis, red shoes, lamen, black collar, cup of water dadouchos: black robe, black& white nemis, red shoes, lamen, black collar, censer sentinel: black robe, black& white nemis, red shoes, lamen, black collar, sword candidate: black robe, red shoes, sash, red rope, hoodwink required materials for the altar red cross and white triangle red rose red lamp cup of wine salt patten of bread chemicals for water cup of water required materials for the temple temple arranged according to diagram banners of the east and west temple pillars opening of the neophyte grade 0= 0 when the members are assembled and clothed, hierophant gives one knock and the officers rise. members do not rise except for adoration s to the east or when asked for the signs. nor do they circum

e threefold wave of the sensual world. hiero: stands in the form of cross, saying: hiero: glory be to thee, father of the undying. for thy glory bows out rejoicing, to the ends of the earth! hiero: he reseats himself. hiero: the red cross above the white triangle, is an image of him who was unfolded in the light. at its east, south, west and north angles are a rose fire, cup of wine and bread and salt. these allude to the four elements, air, fire, water, earth. the mystical words- khabs am pekht- are ancient egyptian and are the origin of the greek konx om pax- which was uttered at the eleusinian mysteries. a literal translation would be light rushing out in one ray and they signify the same form of light as that symbolized by the staff of the kerux. east of the double cubical altar of cre

lace. he goes to the west of the altar as hierophant goes to west of altar all turn west hierophant west of altar facing east gives the saluting sign but not the sign of silence taking up rose says hiero: i invite you to inhale with me the perfume of this rose, as a symbol of air. smells rose. to feel with me the warmth of this sacred fire. spreads his hands over it. to eat with me this bread and salt as types of earth. dips bread in salt and eats. and finally to drink with me this wine, the consecrated emblem of elemental water. makes a cross with the cup and drinks. hierophant puts down the cup between the cross and triangle. he comes east of the altar from south and faces west. hiero: replies with the sign of silence hiero: returns to place on dais (if no chiefs on dais go to outer orde

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hite lamp, wand stolistes: black robe, black& white nemyss, red shoes, lamen, black collar, cup of water. dadouchos: black robe, black& white nemyss, red shoes, lamen, black collar, censer sentinel: black robe, black& white nemyss, red shoes, lamen, black collar, sword candidate: black robe, red shoes, sash, red rope, hoodwink required materials for the altar red cross and white triangle red lamp salt diagram of the flaming sword fylfot cross required materials for the temple part i banners of the east and west temple pillars hebrew letters: tau, shin, qoph enochian earth tablet lamp part i opening of the zelator grade (the members, having assembled and robed, each is seated in his proper place. hiereus (knock) all rise. hiero (sitting) fraters and sorors of the zelator grade of the golden

earth. hiereus (knocks) let us adore the lord and king of earth. all face east. hiero: adonai ha-aretz. adonai melekh. unto thee be the kingdom and the power (cross on self) and the glory (he makes cross and circle with sceptre before him as he says malkuth, etc) malkuth, geburah, gedulah. the rose of sharon and the lily of the valley, amen. all give zelator signs. kerux: moves to altar picks up salt and goes to north, and sprinkles salt before the tablet, saying: kerux: let the earth adore adonai! kerux: places salt before the tablet of the north. hiero: leaves his place and goes to north. he stands facing the center of the tablet of the north. kerux: falls in behind hierophant. hiereus: moves to the right of hiero. heg: moves to left of hiero. stol: falls in behind hiereus. dad: falls i

iefs of the second order? neo: i will. hiero: then you will kneel on both your knees, lay your right hand on the ground, and say- i swear by the earth whereon i kneel (done) let the symbol of blindness be removed. heg: unbinds neophyte's eyes. sentinel: turns up lights. heg: goes back to his proper place. neophyte: remains kneeling between the pillars with his hand on the ground. kerux: takes the salt from before the tablet of the north, and passing round the altar with sol stands in front of neophyte facing him and holds the salt in front of him. hiero: take salt with your left hand and cast it to the north; say let the powers of earth witness my pledge (done) kerux: replaces salt, and returns to his place. hiero: let the neophyte rise and let him be purified with water and consecrated wi

ck collar, white lamp, wand stolistes: black robe, black& white nemyss, red shoes, lamen, black collar, cup of water. dadouchos: black robe, black& white nemyss, red shoes, lamen, black collar, censer sentinel: black robe, black& white nemyss, red shoes, lamen, black collar, sword candidate: black robe, red shoes, sash of 1=10 required materials for the altar red cross and white triangle red lamp salt diagram of the flaming sword fylfot cross required materials for the temple part ii banners of the east and west temple pillars hebrew letters: tau, shin, qoph table of shewbread table of candlesticks enochian earth tablet lamp part ii hiero: frater kerux, when the neophyte gives the proper alarm, you will admit him. fraters stolistes and dadouchos, assist the kerux in the reception. stol: da

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

and after him they name themselves. a national name taken from the highest god would have been impious arrogance, and alien to human feeling. as lower saxony, especially westphalia, was a chief seat of the irmin-worship, we may put by the side of widukind's account of hirmin a few other traces of his name, which is not even yet he greek aspirate corresponds a teutonic s, not h: o, 17 sa, so; axs salt [there are exceptions: q, t, ol he, her, hig; oxoy whole, 1 to the fvra sibun hela; e'aco haul, holen- a patronymic suffix is not necessary: the gautos, gevissi, suapa take name from gauts, gevis, snap, divine heroes. irmin. 355 entirely extinct in that part of germany, strojtmann has noted down the tbllowing phrases in osnabriick' he ment, use herrc gott heet herm (he thinks our lord is call

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water diagram of eden before the fall diagram of eden after the fall lamen badge of water required materials for the temple: banners of the east and west temple pillars hebrew letters: shin, resh, mem, peh, ayin kamea of mercury 2 diagrams of daath enochian water tablet 7 planes of tree of life to 7 planets diagram of 4 worlds and letters of holy names alchemical symbols of mercury, sulphur, and salt mercurial figures censer 4 chairs cup of water part iii ceremony of the grade of practicus hiero: honoured hegemon, instruct the theoricus in the proper alarm, present him with the necessary admission badge and admit him (her (done) hiero: place the theoricus before the portal of the 31st path, by which he (she) has symbolically entered this grade, from the grade zelator. heg: leads theoricus

us to tablet in south. heg: this tablet shows you the meaning of the alchemical mercury on the tree of life of the first form of the alchemical sephiroth. here again it embraces all but kether. the radix metallorum, the triple foliation at the bottom of the cross refers to fire symbolized by the addition of the sign aries thereto; and it further alludes to the 3 principles of sulphur, mercury and salt. heg: leads theoricus to tablet in the north. heg: the tablet before you represents the symbol the planets resumed in a mercurial figure. in gradual descent we obtain luna, mars, sol, venus, and below saturn and jupiter, right and left. heg: places theoricus in a seat in west facing hierophant and returns to his own place. hiero: i now congratulate you on having passed through the ceremony of

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ero: heg: pract: move to the tablet in the east. heg: this represents the alchemical symbol of sulphur on the tree of life. it does not touch the 4 lower sephiroth. the cross terminates in tiphareth, whereby as it were the supernal triangle is to be grasped, and tiphareth is the purified man. the meaning of the alchemical symbol of mercury was explained to you in the previous grade. the symbol of salt embraces all the sephiroth but malkuth, and is as it were, the reconciler between the sulphur and the mercury. the horizontal dividing line implies the precept of hermes as above, so below. hiero: resumes his place. hiereus: heg: pract: move to the tablets in the west. hiereus: this tablet represents the trinity operating through the sephiroth, and reflected downwards in the four triangles of

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

in many different cultures around the world to this day. they are certainly as applicable today as they ever were. whatever the aim of your magick may be, if you look around your home, garden, workshop or even office, you have the necessary tools for the spells you require. what is more, rooted as they are in domesticity and the daily world, these implements could not be safer: fruit, vegetables, salt, sand, seeds, flowers, coins, pots and jars, together with your crystals, candles, incense and oils, and perhaps a few coloured scarves or ribbons to tie knots. whether your spell is small and personal, or vast and universal, whether you are working to attract love, harmony in the home, prosperity or fertility for yourself or loved ones, for people in the wider environment or the planet, thes

elements- earth, air, fire and water. they all contain symbolic qualities and powers that together form the energies used in rituals. each element controls a quadrant in the magical circle. earth, in the north, represents the stability, security and strength of old stone circles, mighty castle walls, tall craggy rocks and mountain peaks. it is also associated with the time of midnight and winter. salt is often used to represent earth in spells and rituals. air, in the east, is action, freshness and power for change, the winds blowing across plains, vast, cloudless skies stretching endlessly, storms and whirlwinds stirring stagnation but also bringing destruction of the old. air is also associated with the dawn and spring. incense is often used to represent air in spells and rituals. fire

ent elements of earth, fire, air and water that were considered in classical times to be the components of all life and matter. it is greater than the other four. in formal magic, artefacts and lighted candles are kept on an altar but this is not vital. it is quite possible, even if you are using a communal room in an apartment or house, to leave your altar partly prepared, although items such as salt and water are best added immediately before a ritual so they will be fresh. a garden altar can be set with an outdoor candle or torch and stone figurines, perhaps shaded by bushes. keep pot pound or living plants on your indoor altar when it is not in use to keep the energies fresh and moving. if it feels stagnant, sprinkle an infusion of lemon or peppermint widdershins, to remove negativity

light, extend then-hands upwards so that light from the cosmos can also enter. do this before joining hands if you are creating the circle as a group. in a conventional coven, the high priestess casts and uncasts the circle, but you may prefer to allow the person leading the ritual to cast the magical boundaries. casting a dual circle you can create a dual circle if you wish* first consecrate the salt symbolising the earth element in the north of the altar by stirring it three times with an athame, wand or crystal, and visualise radiance pouring into it* stir the water, also three times deosil with the athame, wand or pointed crystal, asking the light and the goddess to enter it* add a few grains of salt to the water and stir it, saying: may power thus be doubled, thus increased, as life j

he athame, wand or pointed crystal, asking the light and the goddess to enter it* add a few grains of salt to the water and stir it, saying: may power thus be doubled, thus increased, as life joins life to create a greater force even than these* stand either just within or beyond the first circle perimeter* walk deosil round the circle, sprinkling the circle line, physical or envisaged, with your salt water. in formal rituals, the high priestess consecrates the salt and the high priest the water and they mingle them. the high priestess then creates the first circle and the high priest the second. casting a triple circle three is a sacred number in magick and for special ceremonies you can create a triple circle of both power and protection. the number three represents the three aspects of

any religions: the holy trinity, the triple goddess, the three aspects of the moon -maiden, mother and wise woman or crone- the trefoil or triple god of the celts, and the even older egyptian trinity of isis, osiris and horus, the young sky god. this triplicity is still celebrated when we turn our money over and bow three times to the moon for good luck* create your first two circles of light and salt water* return to the place where you began* place the bowl on the altar and light your incense; you can either light a stick in a secure holder or sprinkle incense on a charcoal block burning within the censer* make your final circle with incense, just beyond the lines of salt and water. there are other variations of this, including creating your outer circle of light by walking with your can

an* place the bowl on the altar and light your incense; you can either light a stick in a secure holder or sprinkle incense on a charcoal block burning within the censer* make your final circle with incense, just beyond the lines of salt and water. there are other variations of this, including creating your outer circle of light by walking with your candle in a broad-based holder, followed by the salt water and the incense. uncasting the circle when you have completed your spells or rituals, you should close the circle. this is done by simply reversing the casting process* thank the guardians and send the light of the elemental candles to whoever needs it* extinguish the elemental candles in reverse order of lighting. visualise the light fading and say, together with any present: let the c

t. for most spells, however, you should have one or two altar candles in white, cream or natural beeswax. a single central candle can be good for times of quiet meditation, but for more focused rituals you may prefer to light one candle to represent the goddess on the right and another for the god polarity, on the left of the altar. any tools and elemental substances that you wish to use, such as salt- which represents earth in the north -can be set at the four main compass points around them and any symbols set between and in front of them. these will be the first candles lit in any ritual, either before or immediately after casting a circle. i prefer to light them first, to mark a beginning and an empowerment to the magick and to avoid casting an empty circle, but there are no hard and f

their unpleasant actions. don't be tempted into direct retaliation, however- remember the threefold law. the same tools and methods of protection can be used whether you are protecting a cat from an aggressive, stone-throwing neighbour or whales in a distant ocean from marauding fishermen. these include herbs, oils and incenses, made into sachets and poppets used in rituals (see chapters 6 and 7. salt, sacred water and wax amulets may also provide protection. one of the most potent methods of protection is through the use of crystals. crystals all crystals have innate protective qualities as well as healing and empowering properties and so can offer instant harmony and energy even in the most draining situations. collecting protective crystals certain crystals have, over the millennia, fro

ABRAMELIN2

les of zoroaster say" he made them six, and for the seventh, he cast into the midst thereof the fire of the sun. 2 operates in the stars and planets as representing their good or evil influence in the heavens, in other words their dual nature. 3 consists in the metals because, the ancient alchemists considered their bases to be found in the three principles which they called sulphur, mercury, and salt; but by which they did not mean the substance which we know under these names. 4 ie, probable as opposed to certain. 5 ie, professing magicians. 6 in the original ms "nous avons deja dit quelle est la science que je dois vous enseigner cest adire quelle nest point humaine" etc. 7 ibid. 8 in the original" comme je suis apresent vous devez donc penser avant que d entrer dans ce bal" etc. 9 ie

ABRAMELIN3

hebrew ar= a river, and rph= to abate or slacken. rakkia from hebrew rkk= to become faint, to become softened. aikkar from hebrew okr= to trouble or disturb. priara from prr= to shatter or break up. iparas from hebrew prs= to break in pieces, to divide, or part in sunder. this will give a formula of trouble. the sacred magick 127 no. h is a double acrostic of d g squares. malach from hebrew mlch= salt; also that which is easily dissolved; to dissolve. amanec from mnk= a chain, or from amn- stability. lanana from lnn= to lodge, or take up one s abode. ananal from an= labour, and nlh, to complete or finish. cenama perhaps from qnm= odoriferous. hcalam perhaps from hcl= spacious (as a palace. no. i is a double acrostic of c f squares. kosem, from hebrew qsm= to divine or prognosticate. obode

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

se. and, on the other hand, there are all sorts of good rules which have never occurred to a teacher of yoga; because those teachers never conceived the condition in which many people live today. it never occurred to the buddha or patanjali or mansur el-hallaj to advise his pupils not to practise in a flat with a wireless set next door. the result of all this is that all of you who are worth your salt will be absolutely delighted when i tell you to scrap all the rules and discover your own. sir richard burton said 'he noblest lives and noblest dies, who makes and keeps his self-made laws' 10. this is, of course, what every man of science has to do in every experiment. this is what constitutes an experiment. the other kind of man has only bad habits. when you explore a new country, you don'

my horse among the sugar canes in lonely tropical valleys, or couched with my rucksack for all pillow on bare volcanic heights. i had to replace my magical apparatus. i would take the table by my bed, or stones roughly piled, for my altar. my candle or my alpine lantern was my light. my ice-axe for the wand, my drinking flask for the chalice, my machete for the sword, and a chapati or a sachet of salt for the pantacle of art! habit soon familiarised these rough and ready succedanea. but i suspect that it may have been the isolation and the physical hardship itself that helped, that more and more my magical operation became implicit in my own body and mind, when a few months later i found myself performing *in full* operations involving the formula of the neophyte (for which see my treatise

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

de into the desert alone. now though i could ride like a man, they suffered me not; but the young priestess bore me in her arms. and though i ate meat like a warrior, they suffered me not, but the young priestess fed me at her breast. and they took from me the armour of gilded bronze that my father had made for me, scales like a crocodile s sewn upon crocodile skin that cunning men had cured with salt and spices; but they wrapped me in soft green silk. so strangely we came to a little house in the desert, and that which befell me there is not given me of the gods at this time to tell; but i will sleep; and in the morning by their favour the memory thereof shall arise in me, even in me across these thousands of years of the whirling of the earth in her course. chapter ii so for many years i

r asar un-nefer hath said: he that is found perfect before the gods hath said: these are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, glorified through trial. for the scent of the dying rose is the repressed sigh of my suffering; the flame-red fire is the energy of my undaunted will; the cup of wine is the outpouring of the blood of my heart, sacrificed to regeneration; and the bread and salt are the foundations of my body which i destroy in order that they may be renewed. for i am asar triumphant, even asar un-nefer the justified one! i am her who is clothed with the body of flesh, yet in whom is the spirit of the mighty gods. i am he lord of life, triumphant over death; he who partaketh with me shall page 18 gulf.txt arise with me. i am the manifestor in matter of those whose ab

now of my deeds at this period it is almost too horrible to tell. for i performed great penance, in the hope of vitalizing that dead principle in me which men call the soul. i starved myself shamefully, in this manner. first surrounding myself with all possible luxuries of food, brought in steaming and savoury from hour to hour, i yet condemned myself to subsist upon a little garlic and a little salt, with a little water in which oats had been bruised. then if any wish arose in me to eat of the dainties around me i gashed myself with a sharp stone. moreover i kindled a great fire in the cave so that the slaves tumbled and fainted as they approached. and the smoke choked me so that i constantly vomited a black and ill-smelling mucus from my lungs, stained here and there with frothing blood

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

all be high in the mountains, most preferably; or near the sea; or in some secluded area far from the thoughts of man; or in the desert; or atop an ancient temple. and it shall be clean, and free from the unwanted. thus, the place, once chosen, shall be purified by supplications to thine particular god and goddess, and by burning offerings of pine and cedar. and a round load shall be brought, and salt. and, having offered it to the personal deities, the priest shall pronounce, solemnly, the following exorcism that the place of calling be cleansed and all evil that the place of calling be cleansed and all evil banished thereby; and the priest shall not change one word or letter of this exorcism, but recite it faithfully as it is put down: enu shub am gig absu kish egigga gar shag da sisie a

sed and all evil that the place of calling be cleansed and all evil banished thereby; and the priest shall not change one word or letter of this exorcism, but recite it faithfully as it is put down: enu shub am gig absu kish egigga gar shag da sisie amarda ya dingir ud kalama siniku dingir ninab guyu nexrraniku ga ya shu shagmuku tu! and they bread burned in the bronze brazier of calling: and the salt scattered about the room, sixty times. and a circle shall be drawn on the ground, in the midst whereof you shall stand while reciting the conjurations set forth, taking especial care not to venture forth from the boundaries of the circle, the holy mandal of calling, lest thou be consumed by the invisible monsters from the egurra of ereshkigal, as was the priest abdul ben-martu in a public squ

or the latter is the breeding place of the lilitu, and her creatures are the offspring of them, and do worship at their shrines, the places of which are unknown to thee. but where thou seest a standing stone, there they will be, for such is their altar. remember to carve the signs exactly as i have told thee, changing not one mark lest the amulet prove a curse against thee that wear it. know that salt absorbs the evil effluvia of the larvae, and is useful to cleanse the tools with. do not speak first to the demon, but let him speak first to thee. and is he speak, charge him to speak clearly, in a soft and pleasing voice, and in thy tongue, for it will otherwise surely confuse thee and deafen thee with its roar. and charge it to keep its stench that it may not make thee faint. remember not

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

er] liber lxxxiv 25 the opening of the temple in the grade of 1 =108 give the sign of the god set fighting. purify with fire and water, and announce the temple is cleansed [knock] let us adore the lord and king of earth! adonai ha aretz, adonai melekh, unto thee be the kingdom, the sceptre, and the splendour: malkuth, geburah, gedulah, the rose of sharon and the lily of the valley, amen [sprinkle salt before earth tablet] let the earth adore adonai [make the invoking hexagram of saturn [make the invoking pentagram of spirit passive and pronounce these names: hyha. alga. nanta [make the invoking pentagram of earth and pronouce this name ]lm ynda] and elohim said: let us make man in our own image; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air; and over ever

butamoni pareme zodumebi canilu. dazodisa etahamezoda cahisa dao, od mireka ozodola cahisa pidiai colalala. ul ci ninu a sobame ucime. bajile? iad balatohe cahirelanu pare! niiso! od upe ofafafe; bajile a-cocasahe icoresaka a uniji beliore. a mighty guard of fire with two-edged swords flaming (which have eight vials of wrath for two times and a half, whose wings are of wormwood and the marrow of salt) have set their feet in the west, and are measured with their 9996 ministers. these gather up the moss of the earth as the rich man doth his treasure. cursed are they whose iniquities they are! in their eyes are mill-stones greater than the earth, and from their mouths run seas of blood. their heads are covered with diamonds, and upon their heads are marble stones.*9 happy is he on whom they

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

he three necessaries of human nutrition: also perfume of the three essential types of magical and curative virtue; the subtle principle of animal life itself is fixed in them by the introduction of fresh living blood> the eucharist of "four" elements consists of fire, air, water, and earth. these are represented by a flame for fire, by incense or roses for air, by wine for water, and by bread and salt for earth. the eucharist of "five" has for basis wine for taste, a rose for smell, a flame for sight, a bell for sound, and a dagger for touch. this sacrament is implied in the mass of the phoenix in a slightly different form. 180 the eucharist of "six" elements has father, son, and holy spirit above; breath, water, and blood beneath. it is a sacrament reserved for high initiates<
all orderly work) to attain the grade of adeptus exemptus, he must accomplish three tasks; the acquisition of absolute self-reliance, working in complete isolation, yet transmitting the word of his superior clearly, forcibly and subtly; and the comprehension and use of the revolution of the wheel of force, under its three successive forms of radiation, conduction and convection (mercury, sulphur, salt; or sattvas, rajas, tamas, with their corresponding natures on 237 other planes. thirdly, he must exert his whole power and authority to govern the members of lower grades with balanced vigour and initiative in such a way as to allow no dispute or complaint; he must employ to this end the formula called "the beast conjoined with the woman" which establishes a new incarnation of deity; as in t

e 4 power and sq.rt.of subscript -1 have proved useful to the progress of mathematical advance toward truth; it is no odds whether a fourth dimension "exists, or whether sq.rt.of subscript -1 has "meaning" in the sense that sq.rt.of subscript 4 has, the number of units in the side of a square of 4 units. the astral plane- real or imaginary- is a danger to anybody who takes it without the grain of salt contained in the wisdom of the above point of view; who violates its laws either wilfully, carelessly, ignorantly, or by presuming that their psychological character differentiates them from physical laws in the narrower sense; or who abdicates his autonomy, on the ground that the subtler nature of astral phenomena guarantees their authority and integrity (14) the variety of the general chara

ear me, and make, etc. with strong sense that this unity with that quarter of the universe confers upon him the fullest freedom and privilege appurtenant thereto. let the adept take note of the wording of the charge. the "firmament" is the ruach, the "mental plane; it is the realm of shu, or zeus, where revolves the wheel of the gunas, the three forms<correspond to the sulphur, mercury, and salt of alchemy; to sattvas, rajas, and tamas in the hindu system; and are rather modes of action than actual qualities even when conceived as latent. they are the apparatus of communication between the planes; as such, they are conventions. there is no absolute validity in any means of mental apprehension; but unless we make these spirits of the firmament subject unto us by establishing right rel

ne :the pain of the obligation: 25 :jacinth :the arrow (swift and straight: application of force: 26 :black diamond :the secret force, lamp: 27 :ruby, any red stone :the sword: 28 :artificial glass :the censer or aspergillus: 29 :pearl :the twilight of the place: magic mirror: 30 :crysoleth :the lamen or bow and arrow :31 :fire opal :the wand, lamp, pyramid of fire: 32 :onyx :the sickle :32 "bis :salt :the pantacle, the salt :31 "bis: 315& 316 table i: xlii: liii: xlix :key scale: perfumes :the greek: lineal figures of the :alphabet: planets and geomancy: 0 :the circle: 1 :ambergris :the point: 2 :musk (sigma :the line, also the cross: 3 :myrrh, civet :the plane, also the diamond: oval, circle and other yoni: symbols: 4 :cedar (iota :the solid figure: 5 :tobacco (phi :the tessaract: 6 :oli

:atziluth, archetypal:ayin-bet ob: world :32 "bis: heh: earth, touch :assiah, material :bet-nunfinal: world: ben :31 "bis: shin: spirit: hearing: lxviii: lxix: lxx: lxxv: lxxvi :the part: the :attribution:the five elements :the five: of :alchemical: of (tatwas :skandhas :the soul: elements: pentagram: 11 :hb:rvch: mercury :left upper :vayu- the blue :sankhara :ruach: point: circle: 23 :hb:nshmh: salt :right upper:aupas- the silver :vedana :neshamah: point: crescent: 31 :hb:chyh: sulphur :right lower:agni or tejas :san n a :chiah: point: the red triangle :32 "bis :hb:npsh: salt :left lower :prithivi- the :rupa :nephesh: point: yellow square :31 "bis :h:ychydh :topmost :akasa- the black :vin nanam :iechidah: point: egg: table iii: lxxvii: lxxxi: lxxxiii: the planets: the attribution of: and

e priestess. should be actually virgo intacta or specially dedicated to the service of the great order. she is clothed in white, blue and gold. she bears the sword from a red girdle, and the paten and hosts, or cakes of light. the deacon. he is clothed in white and yellow. he bears the book of the law "two children" they are clothed in white and black. one bears a pitcher of water and a cellar of salt, the other a censer of fire and a casket of perfume. iii. of the ceremony of the introit "the" deacon "opening the door of the temple, admits the congregation and takes his stand between the small altar and the font (there should be a doorkeeper to attend to the admission "the" deacon "advances and bows before the open shrine where the graal is exalted. he kisses the book of the law three tim

d in us daily into spiritual substance, i believe in the miracle of the mass. and i confess one baptism of wisdom whereby we accomplish the miracle of incarnation. and i confess my life one, individual, and eternal that was, and is, and is to come. gr:alpha-upsilon-mu-gamma-nu, gr:alpha-upsilon-mu-gamma-nu, gr:alpha- upsilon-mu-gamma-nu "music is now played. the child enters with the ewer and the salt. the "virgin" enters with the sword and the paten, the child enters with the censer and the perfume. they face the "deacon "deploying into line from the space between the two altars" the virgin. greeting of earth and heaven "all give the hailing sign of a magician, the "deacon "leading. the" priestess "the negative child on her left, the positive child on her right, ascends the steps of the h

s the first three regular steps. he then gives the lance to the "priestess "and gives the three penal signs. he then kneels and worships the lance with both hands. penitential music" the priest. i am a man among men "he takes again the lance and lowers it. he rises" the priest. how should i be worthy to administer the virtues to the brethren "the "priestess "takes from the child the water and the salt, and mixes them in the font" the priestess. let the salt of earth admonish the water to bear the virtue of the great sea"(genuflects" mother, be thou adored "she returns to the west+ on "priest "with open hand doth she make, over his forehead, breast and body" be the priest pure of body and soul "the "priestess "takes the censer from the child, and places it on the small altar. she puts incen

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the same numerical value, 831. these two words can therefore serve you as the secret object of your work. how than can you construct the number 831? the letter kaph3, jupiter (jehovah, the wheel of fortune in the tarot- magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 19 the atu x is a picture of the universe built up and revolving by virtue of those three principles: sulphur, mercury, salt; or gunas: sattvas, rajas, tamas- has the value 20. so also has the letter yod4 spelt in full. one gnostic secret way of spelling and pronouncing jehovah is iao5 and this has the value 811. so has "let there be" fiat, transliterating into greek. resuming all these ideas, it seems that you can express your aspiration very neatly, very fully, by choosing for your motto the words fiat yod. love

e for the altar, my candle for the lamp; and i made the weapons compact. i had a wand eight inches long, all precious stones and enamel, to represent the tree of life; within, an iron tube containing quicksilver- very correct, lordly, and damsilly. what a club! also, bought, a silver-gilt cup; for air and earth i made one sachet of rose-petals in yellow silk, and another in green silk packed with salt. in the wilds it was easy, agreeable and most efficacious to make a circle, and build an altar, of stones; my alpine lantern served admirably for the lamp. it did double duty when required: e.g. in partaking of the sacrament of the four elements, it served for fire. but your conditions are not so restricted as this. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 155 let us consid

perhaps even "of the essence of truth (browning discusses this in mr. sludge the medium) good: the field is clear for an enquiry into this word "god. we find ourselves in trouble from the start. we must define; and to define is to limit; and to limit is to reduce "god" to "a god" or at best "the god. he must be omniscient( symbol of alchemical mercury) omnipotent( al. sulfur) and omnipresent( al. salt; yet to such a being no purpose would be possible; so that all the apologies for the existence of "evil" crash. if there be opposites of any kind, there can be no consistency. he cannot be two; he must be one; 50 yet, as is obvious, he isn't. how do the hindu philosophers try to get out of this quag "evil" is "illusion" has no "real" existence. then what is the point of it? they say "not that

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are a scourge, chain, dagger and a wide, low perfume bottle shaped like a woman's breast with nipple, below this is a scale in inches and below that the caption "the scourge, the dagger, and the chain; enclosing the phial for the holy oil" 64 chapter iv the scourge, the dagger, and the chain the scourge, the dagger, and the chain, represent the three alchemical principles of sulphur, mercury, and salt. these are not the substances which we now call by these names; they represent "principles" whose operations chemists have found it more convenient to explain in other ways. but sulphur represents the energy of things, mercury their fluidity, salt their fixity. they are analogous to fire, air and water; but they mean rather more, for they represent something deeper and subtler, and yet more t

ergy of things, mercury their fluidity, salt their fixity. they are analogous to fire, air and water; but they mean rather more, for they represent something deeper and subtler, and yet more truly active. an almost exact analogy is given by the three gunas of the hindus; sattvas, rajas, and tamas. sattvas is mercury, equable, calm, clear; rajas is sulphur, active, excitable, even fierce; tamas is salt, thick, sluggish, heavy, dark<three gunas in the bhagavadgita> but hindu philosophy is so occupied with the main idea that only the absolute is worth anything, that it tends to consider these gunas (even sattvas) as evil. this is a correct view, but only from above; and we prefer, if we are truly wise, to avoid this everlasting wail which charac

correction, to castigate rebellious volitions. it is applied to the nephesh, the animal soul, the natural desires. 65 the dagger is mercury: it is used to calm too great heat, by the letting of blood; and it is this weapon which is plunged into the side or heart of the magician to fill the holy cup. those faculties which come between the appetites and the reason are thus dealt with. the chain is salt: it serves to bind the wandering thoughts; and for this reason is placed about the neck of the magician, where daath is situated. these instruments also remind us of pain, death, and bondage. students of the gospel will recollect that in the martyrdom of christ these three were used, the dagger being replaced by the nails<magical instruments. the hill of golgoth

solid state in nature; the essential constituent of all known forms of life. it has been treated with nitre, whose potassium has the violet flame of jupiter, the father of all, whose nitrogen is that inert element which by proper combination becomes a constituent of all the most explosive bodies known; and oxygen, the food of fire<salt peter. such charcoal impregnated with potash is now commonly sold for incense burning in the form of disks with an indentation in the top "three kings charcoal" is a popular brand, but some "self-starting" barbecue brickettes are also of this composition and much less expensive> this fire is blown upon by the magician; this blaze of destruction has been kindled by his word and by his will. in

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lanet (cf. 483& 536; soul-root lzm goat; strength; violence; glory z( 78 1-12. the mystic number of kether as hua; the number of tarot cards; the sum of the key-numbers of the supernal beard aiwass: the angel of ra-hoor-khuit( gincorrect h. cf. 93) s)wy) the breaker; dream (n& v) mlx to pity lmx to initiate knx bread (ps. 78:20= mlx, by metathesis) mxl the influence through the paths (cf. 77 )lzm salt xlm the name of a giant )z( palace of love (referred to chesed) hbh) lkyh before (in front of, over against xkn 79 jachin, the pillar of mercy (chokmah-chesed-netzach; situate in netzach) nyx)y boaz, the pillar of severity (binah-geburah-hod; situate in hod) z(b die (wg conjunction, meeting, union hd( writing instrument( 80 yesod: the foundation dwsy water (alternative spelling of mem, 90) mm

e hlch the angel of redemption l)gh k)lm decrees, prophetic sayings nylm the pillars (cf. 164) ydwm( destitute yn( a staircase, ladder mls chaff cm lest np swift lq 131 he was angry pn) nose myp) turn, roll np) a title of kether hswkm humility hwn( pluto (referred to daath) w+wlp 132 to make waste qlb to receive lbq 133 (the hebrew palatal letters; see i.z.q. 694 et seq& cf. 84) qkyg vine npg the salt sea xlmh my plague pgn 134 burning qld 135 a destitute female hyn( the congregation (see 161) lhq roast, parch; burn; to be lightly esteemed, dishonoured hlq 136 the avenging angel l)wgh k)lm fines, penalties nwmm a voice lwq 137 a wheel; one of the auphanim npw) the belly, gullet )kmw+s) a pillar, monument (gn. 28:22) hbcm a receiving, tradition; the qabalah hlbq 138 the son of god myhl) nb

orld of atziluth: the archetypal world, or the world of nobility (referred to kether-chokmah) twlyc) mlw( a name of god implying kether, chokmah and binah (3, 4& 5 letters *myhl) hwhy hh) an attack upon others, a violation, injury *mgp 688 let us make man in our image (gn. 1:26) wnmlcb md) h#(n 690 the candlestick trnm palm trees myrmt a staircase, ladder *mls 691 nose *myp) 693 sulphur tyrpg the salt sea *xlmh my 695 the world of morgash: the moral world (referred to chesed- geburah-tiphareth #grwm mlw( 697 citadels; secured houses, fortified castles twnmr) 700 the mercy seat (ex. 25:17) trpk paroketh: the veil of the holy tkrp pillar; prince; buttocks; noise t# melakim, kings: the angelic choir of tiphareth *myklm softness *kr 701 woman, wife (deut. 22:30) t) and lo! three men (gn. 18:2

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e silent self, judge partial pleas and unbalanced opinions, while supporting the concentration of the will by its fortified frontiers, and, with unanimous enthusiasm, acclaiming the lordship of the thought which expresses the act. the will must seal itself upon the substance of the talisman. it must be, in alchemical language, the sulphur which fixes the mercury which determines the nature of the salt. the whole man, from his inmost godhead to the tip of his tiniest eye-lash, must be one engine, cumbered with nothing useless, nothing inharmonious; a thunderbolt from the hand of jove. it must give itself utterly in the one act of love. it must cease to know itself as anything but the will. it must not have the will; it must transform itself completely to be the will. last of all, the act mu

in' psychopathies. truth is so terrible to these detestable mockeries of humanity that the thought of self is a realization of hell. therefore they fly to drink and drugs as to an anaesthetic in the surgical operation of introspection. the craving for these things is caused by the internal misery which their use reveals to the slave-souls. if you are really free, you can take cocaine as simply as salt-water taffy. there is no better rough test of a soul than its attitude to drugs. if a man is simple, fearless, eager, he is all right; he will not become a slave. if he is afraid, he is already a slave. let the whole world take opium, hashish, and the rest; those who are liable to abuse them were better dead. for it is in the power of all so-called intoxicating drugs to reveal a man to himsel

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priestess. should be actually virgo intacta or specially dedicated to the service of the great order. she is clothed in white, blue, and gold. she bears the sword from a red girdle, and the paten and hosts, or cakes of light. the deacon. he is clothed in white and yellow. he bears the book of the law. two children. they are clothed in white and black. one bears a pitcher of water and a cellar of salt, the other a censer of fire and a casket of perfume. iii of the ceremony of the introit the deacon, opening the door of the temple, admits the congregation and takes his stand between the small altar and the font (there should be a doorkeeper to attend to the admission) the deacon advances and bows before the open shrine where the graal is exalted. he kisses the book of the law three times, o

he communion of saints. and, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, i believe in the miracle of the mass. and i confess one baptism of wisdom whereby we accomplish the miracle of incarnation. and i confess my life one, individual, and eternal that was, and is, and is to come. aumgn. aumgn. aumgn. music is now played. the child enters with the ewer and the salt. the virgin enters with the sword and the paten. the child enters with the censer and the perfume. they face the deacon, deploying into line, from the space between the two altars. the virgin: greeting of earth and heaven! all give the hailing sign of a magician, the deacon leading. the priestess, the negative child on her left, the positive child on her right, ascends the steps of the high a

kes the first three regular steps. he then gives the lance to the priestess, and gives the three penal signs. he then kneels and worships the lance with both hands. penitential music. the priest: i am a man among men. he takes again the lance, and lowers it. he rises. the priest: how should i be worthy to administer the virtues to the brethren? the priestess takes from the child the water and the salt, and mixes them in the font. the priestess: let the salt of earth admonish the water to bear the virtue of the great sea (genuflects) mother, be thou adored. she returns to the west. on priest with open hand doth she make, over his forehead, breast, and body. be the priest pure of body and soul! the priestess takes the censer from the child, and places it on the small altar. she puts incense

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, 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 would have to decide which from other data and refer it to the xviith key of the taro in respect of its starriness. the use of these attributions is lengthy and various: i cannot dwell upon it: but i will give one example. if i wish to visit the sphere of geburah, i use the colours and forces appropriate: i go t

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w a woman wondrous fair3 robed in flames of hair, moon-sandalled, sun-belted, with torch and vase of fire and water. and he trailed comet-clouds of glory upward. thus came our father (blessed be his name) to death,4 who stood, scythe in hand, opposed. and ever and anon he swept round, and men fell before him. look, said death, my sickle hath a cross-handle. see how they grow like flowers! give me salt! quoth our father. and with sulphur (that the goat had given him) and with salt did he bestrew the ground. i see we shall have ado together, says death. aye! and with that he lops off death s cross-handle. now death was wroth indeed, for he saw that our father had wit of his designs (and they were right foul, but he bade him pass forthwith through his dominion. and our father could not at tha

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ing? o my brothers! come with me! follow me! let us mount the dark stairs of this tower of silence, this watch-tower of night; upon whose black brow no flickering flame burns to guide the weary wanderer across the mires of life and through the mists of death. come, follow me! grope up these age-worn steps, slippery with the tears of the fallen, and bearded with the blood of the vanquished and the salt of the agony of failure. come, come! halt not! abandon all! let us ascend. yet bring with ye two things, the flint and the steel 168- the slumbering fire of mystery, and the dark sword of science; that we may strike a spark, and fire the beacon of hope which hangs above us in the brasier of despair; so that a great light may shine forth through the darkness, and guide the toiling footsteps of

lowed up in the excess of thy beauty "i have breathed in the odour of roses and the fragrance of myrtle, and the sweet scent of the wild jessamine. i have drunk in the breath of the hillside, and the perfume of the woods and the seas; yet thy breath is more fragrant than they, it is sweeter still, it intoxicateth me and filleth me with joy, as a rich jar of wine found in the depths of a desert of salt- i have drunk deep and am bewildered with love "i have listened to the lark in the sky, to the curlew, and to the nightingale in the thicket, and to all the warblers of the woods, to the murmur of the waters and to the singing of the winds; yet what are they to the rapture of thy voice? which echoes in the valley of my breast, and trills through the depths of my being "i have tasted the juice

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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 would have to decide which from other data- and refer it to the xviith key of the taro in respect of its starriness. the use of these attributions is lengthy and various: i cannot dwell upon it: but i will give one example. if i wish to visit the sphere of geburah, i use the colours and forces appropriate: i go

lost in a cloudy dawn; the silken veil of dew that clothed the green grass of the fields was the veil of olympus; now the shadowy night that sang to me, that sand, that sang to me, sprang from the underworld of eld: the moon that circled in the heavens sang to me, and i that heard the olden monstrous lays of eld, the dreaming wonders of the dawn, died, and still lie imprisoned in the rocks by the salt sea, knowing of the doom of man, but being dumb, as is the doom of man, for nightfall is delight of eld, and i wander bareheaded under the dark sky; 121 calling and calling from the windy deeps, the olden night still draws me; moonlight weeps fro sunlight faded in the dark; the sea is under the dark clouds; still one by one soft, silver stars creep silently upon me, leaving soft trails of lig

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t. he fell back, saying: each of these my scars was thus made, for i am the warden of the aethyr. and he would have said more; but i cut him short, saying: expound the word of the abyss. and he said: discipline is sorrowful and ploughing is laborious and age is weariness. thou shalt be vexed by dispersion. but now, if the sun arise, fold thou thine arms; then shall god smite thee into a pillar of salt. look not so deeply into words and letters; for this mystery hath been hidden by the alchemists. compose the sevenfold into a fourfold regimen; and when thou hast understood thou mayest make symbols; but by playing child's games with symbols thou shalt never understand. thou hast the signs; thou hast the words; but there are many things that are not in my power, who am but the warden of the 2

d, and i catch a glimpse of an avenue of pillars, and at the end a throne, supported by sphinxes. all this is black marble. now i seem to have gone through the wind, and to be standing before the throne; but he that sitteth thereon is invisible. yet it is from him that all this desolation proceeds. he is trying to make me understand by putting tastes in my mouth, very rapidly one after the other. salt, honey, sugar, assafoetida, bitumen, honey again, some taste that i don't know at all; garlic, something very bitter like nux vomica, another taste, still more bitter; lemon, cloves, rose-leaves, honey again; the juice of some plant, like a dandelion, i think; honey again, salt, a taste something like phosphorus, honey, laurel, a very unpleasant taste which i don't know, 37 coffee, then a bur

i have left nothing upon the earth alive. i have feasted myself on the blood of the saints, but i am not suspected of men to be their enemy, for my fleece is white and warm, and my teeth are not the teeth of one that teareth flesh; and mine eyes are mild, and they know me not the chief of the lying spirits that the father of all sent forth from before his face in the beginning (his attribution is salt; the wolf mercury, and the raven sulphur) now the lamb grows small again, there is again nothing but the wheel, and the hand that whirleth it. and i said "by the word of power, double in the voice of the master; by the word that is seven, and one in seven; and by the great and terrible word 210, i beseech thee, o my lord, to grant me the vision of thy glory" and all the rays of the wheel stre

is no more bliss. there is no more power. there is no more beauty. for this is the palace of understanding: for thou art one with the primeval things. drink in the myrrh of my speech, that is bruised with the gall of the roc, and dissolved in the ink of the cuttle-fish, and perfumed with the deadly nightshade. this is thy wine, who wast drunk upon the wine of iacchus. and for bread shalt thou eat salt, o thou on the corn of ceres that didst wax fat! for as pure being is pure nothing, so is pure wisdom pure-,11 and so is pure understanding silence, and stillness, and darkness. the eye is called 11 i suppose that only a magus could have heard this word. seventy, and the triple aleph whereby thou perceivest it, divideth into the number of the terrible word that is the key of the abyss. i am h

affections upon the earth, and they have stamped with their feet upon the earth, and cried: it moveth not. therefore hath earth opened with strong motion, like the sea, and swallowed them. yea, she hath opened her womb to them that lusted after her, and she hath closed herself upon them. there lie they in torment, until by her quaking the earth is shattered like brittle glass, and dissolved like salt in the waters of his mercy, so that they are cast upon the air to be blown about therein, like seeds that shall take root in the earth; yet turn they their affections upward to the sun. but thou, be thou eager and vigilant, performing punctually the rule. is it not written "change not so much as the style of a letter? depart therefore, for the vision of the voice of the ninth aethyr that is c

f aleph. and the letter cheth is also involved in the interpretation of this star, and the paths of h and vau are the separations which this star unites. and in the heart of the star is an exceeding splendour- a god standing upon the moon, brilliant beyond imagining. 123 it is like unto the vision of the universal mercury. but this is the fixed mercury, and h and vau are the perfected sulphur and salt. but now i come into the centre of the maze, and whirling dust of stars and great forgotten gods. it is the whirling svastika which throws off all these things, for the svastika is in aleph by its shape and number, and in beth by the position of the arms of the magician, and in gimel because of the sign of the mourning of isis, and thus is the crown defended by these three thunderbolts. is no

us triumphatus: or full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions; with letter of dr. more on the same subject, and an authentick, but wonderful story of certain swedish witches; done into english by ant. horneck. 8vo "curious frontispiece in six "compartments by faithorne. old calf, rebacked" 1681 "1 5"s" alchemy- suchten (alex. van. of the secrets of antimony; also basil valentine's salt of antimony, with its use, translated out of high dutch by daniel cable, a person of great skill in chemistry, 1671- treatise concerning the fiez water of the philosophers, written in he german tongue, and now published in english by j. f. houpreght, a student of the wonderful secrets of hermes "n.d- marrow of alchemy, an experimental treatise discovering the most hidden mystery of the philos

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inverted solid black pentagram. superimposed on the black pentagram is an upright white pentagram, so arranged as to obscure all but the points of the black pentagram which emerge behind the inner angles of the white. these two pentagrams form a perfectly symmetrical ten-pointed star or decagram with alternating white and black points. in the center of the white pentagram, a symbol of alchemical salt is located, more for it's shape of a black ring with single horizontal bar than for its alchemical significance. this barred ring is centered within but not touching the inner angles of the white pentagram. in the lower space defined by the barred ring is a solid black upright sans-serif letter "t. in the upper space of the barred ring is a white inverted sans-serif letter "t" defined by a th

us frenziedly, at the age of twenty-two, p. set out on the quest of the philosopher's stone. visita interiora terrae rectificando invenies occultam lapidem veram medicinam; this is indeed the true medicine of souls; and so p. sought the universal solvent vitriolum, and equated the seven letters in vitriol, sulphur, 235 and mercury with the alchemical powers of the seven planets; precipitating the salt from the four elements- subtilis, aqua, lux, terra; and mingling flatus, ignis, aqua, and terra, smote them with the cross of hidden mystery, and cried "fiat lux" youth strides on with hasty step, and by summer of this year- 1898- we find p. deep in consultation with the mystics, and drinking from the white chalice of mystery with st. john, boehme, tauler, eckart, molinos, levi, and blake "ri

he kerux proceeds to the altar and ignites the spirit placed at the southern angle of the cross. the "hierophant" quitting his throne, goes to the west of the altar, and facing east, salutes and continues "i invite you to inhale with me the perfume of this rose as a symbol of air (smelling rose: to feel with me the warmth of this sacred fire (spreading hands over it: to eat with me this bread and salt as types of earth (eats: and finally to drink with me this wine, the consecrated emblem of elemental water (drinks from cup. the hierophant then goes to the east of the altar and faces west. the hiereus comes to the west of the altar, and salutes the hierophant, receiving the elements from him. all then partake in order of rank: hegemon from hiereus, stolistes from hegemon, dadouchos from sto

s found perfect before the gods hath said: these are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, glorified through trial. for the secret of the dying rose is as the repressed sign of my suffering. and the flame-red fire as the energy of my undaunted will. and the cup of wine is the outpouring of the blood of my heart sacrificed unto regeneration and the newer life. and the bread and the salt are as the foundations of my body. which i destroy in order that they may be renewed. for i am osiris triumphant, even osiris onnophris the justified. i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh: yet in whom is the spirit of the mighty gods. i am the lord of life triumphant over death. he who partaketh with me shall rise with me. i am the manifester in matter of those whose abode is in the

approximated below: 1 the following five rituals are considerably abridged; chiefly to economise space and so allow the rituals of the neophyte and adeptus minor to be dealt with more fully. they are of little magical interest, value or importance. 31st. 32nd. 29th_ hb:shin hb:taw hb:qof_ hierophant/ red/ lamp_ banner of the west\ banner of the east_ hiereus x hegemon. spirit- lamp [salt. lights. salt. unshaded_ stolistes kerux dadouchos_ diagram 11. arrangement of the temple in the 1= 10 ritual (first part. the "hegemon" answering for him, says "by the guidance of adonai; by the possession of the requisite knowledge; by the dispensation you hold; by the secret signs and token of the 0= 0 grade, and by this symbol of the hermetic cross" the neophyte is then conducted to the west, and being

er of light, and the symbol of equated forces "hierophant (falling back and making with fan the sign of aquarius, aquarius, before zelator "in the sign of the man, child of air, art thou purified- pass thou on" illustration on page 267 approximated below. hb:taw_ hb:shin_ hb:qof tablet of air_ lamp/ dais pentacle_ h fan. lights shaded_ black white_ kerux hegemon_ tablet of earth_ fan_ hell_ eden/ salt salt/ red lamp) o_ cup_ hiereus_ diagram 20. arrangement of the temple for the 32nd path in the 2= 9 ritual. similarly the zelator passes the lion, the eagle, and the bull. the "hierophant" then explains to the zelator the symbolism of the cubical cross, as follows "the cubical cross is a fitting emblem of the equilibrated and balanced forces of the elements. it is composed of twenty-two squa

ore the portal of the thirty-second path through which he has just entered" the zelator then seeks entrance by the caduceus of hermes, the symbolism of which the "hegemon" explains to him. 268 6 "see 777" cols. cvi, cvii, p. 23. illustration on page 269 approximated below_ hb:resh hb:samekh hb:tzaddi/ tablet/ of air_ kamea la/ dais) pentacle moon of mp_ on tree moon_ hierophant of life_ tablet of salt salt nb: here lineal earth is placed figures/ lamp a drawing_ of the tree of life lights unshaded with serpent tree of life& paths, but no sephiroth_ cup/ lamp_ kerubim of flaming sword_ kerux hiereus hegemon_ hb:taw_ geomantic figures alchemical sephiroth_ diagram 23. arrangement of the temple for the ceremony of theoricus in the 2= 9 ritual. the "hierophant" then says "the symbols before yo

e (samothrace) were axieros "i.e, demeter; axiokersos "i.e, hades; and axiokersa "i.e, persephone- d llinger "the gentile and the jew" eng. edition, 1906, vol. i, pp. 172-186. 12 hence "odic" force; and "obi" or "obeah" witchcraft. illustration on page 271 approximated below_ hb:shin hb:taw hb:qof_ air_ tablet/ of air/ pan) tacle_ seals/ throne. lamps of east_ incense) black white banner of east_ salt salt_ spirit 7 heavens of assiah tablet_ of earth lamp_ 20# key_ of_ tarot_ 10 averse_ seats for altar sephiroth_ practicus/ lamp/ lamp_ hiereus hegemon_ chalice (o/ lamp_ sephiroth water sephiroth_ in banner seven tablet hb:heh hb:vau hb:heh hb:yod of west palaces of water_ diagram 26. arrangement of the temple for the 31st path in the 3= 8 ritual. he then explains to the theoricus the twent

according to the rules of their resolutions. it is therefore the reflection of the sphere of the sun; and the path connecting yesod with hod, the foundation with splendour" 13 "see 777" cols. xciii, xciv, xcv, pp. 21, 20. 14 "see 777" col. viii, p.2 illustration on page 273 approximated below_ hb:resh hb:samekh hb:tzaddi/ hierophant's) throne_ lamps pentacle_ banner of east. incense_ black white_ salt salt spirit tablet_ of earth lamp altar_ 19thkey of_ tarot_ geomant(ic_ names& figures/ sigels of and_ olympic talismans planetary spirits_ cup lamp_ hiereus hegemon_ water_ banner of west tablet of water_ planetary. tarot& symbols_ attributions compounded_ hb:taw_ diagram 30. arrangement of the temple for the 30th path in the 3= 8 ritual. and then enters upon the symbolism of the nineteenth

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aqua vitae, or red wine, is a good prescription for diarrhoetic disorders. seal oil was used for lighting purposes in the monasteries, as the skins were for clothing, and from the pages of adamnan we learn that the monks of iona, in the time of st. columba, had their own seal preserve. the animal was also very popular as an article of food. the natives of the western islands, says martin, used to salt the flesh of seals with burnt seaware. this flesh was eaten by the common people in the spring- time "with a pointed long stick instead of a fork, to prevent the strong smell which 344 their hands would otherwise have for several hours afterwards" persons of quality made hams of the seal flesh, and broth, made from the young seals, served the same purpose medicinally, but in a minor degree, a

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th extending through the rushing of the air, or even a fire formless whence cometh the image of a voice, or even a flashing light abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud [makes banishing air pentagram] creature of air, in the names exarp11 oro ibah aozpi,12 i consecrate thee to the works of the magic of light [making invoking pentagrams in air. all face west [assistant magus then casts salt to all four quarters, all over the circle, and passes 175 to west, faces east, and describes with his chain the banishing pentagram of earth, saying] i exorcise thee, creature of earth, by and in the divine names adonai ha aretz, adonai melekh namen, and in the name of aurial, great archangel of earth, that every evil and impure spirit now depart hence immediately [circumambulates, saying] st

ds: 2 see diagram 80. magister ihesvs christvs devs et homo a cross of malta, centered, is below this text, completing the upper arm. in the central intersection is found the following text: benedictvs dominvs devs noster qui dedit nobis signum in the center of the lower arm is found the following text (mystic name) fra r.r. et a.c. in the end of the right arm are the three alchemical symbols for salt, mercury and sulfur, left to right. these symbols are also in the end of the left arm, but they are reversed, right to left.3 illustration facing page 210 described "diagram 63. the complete symbol of the rose and cross" this is line art on glossy paper. the basic shape is identical to that of diagram 62, but this is the obverse of the rose-cross, created in the 19th century by the golden daw

he obverse of the rose-cross, created in the 19th century by the golden dawn. the original obverse was discarded by the g. d. description of decorations follows: the three lobes on each arm contain the following alchemical symbols displayed radially oriented with the bottom of each symbol pointing toward the center of the device just inward on the arm: upper lobes, left to right: sulfur, mercury, salt. lower lobes, left to right: salt, mercury, sulfur. right lobes, top to bottom: sulfur, salt, mercury. left lobes, top to bottom: mercury, sulfur, salt. next inward from the lobes and furnishing a center for orientation of the symbols of the lobes, each arm contains the same device, an upright pentagram interlaced for clock-wise trace. the five elemental symbols stand out beyond each point in

the four elements [all quit vault] illustration on page 222 described "diagram 75. the wall of the vault" this is a rectangular grid of squares, five across by eight high. a representation is below, save that the top row scorpio symbol scorpio used here is actually an eagle head, beak to left, on the diagram; and it may represent the eagle cherub instead of scorpio_ taurus aquarius< scorpio leo_ salt mercury hb:koph water air_ sulphur hb:bet saturn hb:chet dee_ mars hb:gemel sun hb:chet jupiter_ taurus aquarius hb:taw scorpio leo_ mercury hb:heh moon hb:nun venus_ capricorn libra hb:yod cancer aries_ virgo gemini hb:mem pisces sagittarius_ illustration on page 222 described "diagram 76. the black calvary cross" this is a large stylized rose in the form of a petaled and divided circle on t

the many dragons and guardians i was able to overpower by "authority" now the mount was of glistening whiteness, exceeding white as snow: yet dead and unluminous. and i beheld a vision, even like unto that of the universal mercury;48 and i learnt that i myself was sulphur and unmercurial. now having attained the mercurialising of my sulphur i was able (in my vision) to fecundate the mountain (of salt. and it was instantly transmuted into gold. what came ye out into the wilderness for to see? no: into living, glowing, molten light: the light that redeemeth the material world! so i returned: having difficulty to find the earth. but i called on s.r.m.d. and v.n.r. who were glad to see me; and returned into the body: to waste the night in gibing at a foolish medico (it is worth noting here ho

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y thee; for thou art everywhere; lo! though i devour thee, as a dragon devoureth a kid, there still shall i find thee, thou unity of unities, thou oneness, o thou perfect nothingness of bliss! 4. o thou unity of all things: as the dust that danceth over the breast of the desert, so art thou, o god my god. i cannot seize thee, for thou art everywhere; lo! though i lick up with my tongue the bitter salt of the plains, there still 52 shall i find thee, thou unity of unities, thou oneness, o thou perfect nothingness of bliss! 5. o thou unity of all things: as the air that bubbleth from the dark depths of the waters, so art thou, o god my god. i cannot catch thee, for thou art everywhere; lo! though i net thee as a goldfish in a kerchief of silk, there still shall i find thee, thou unity of uni

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w the comb "the fiery wind, the web unspun "the nine stars and the circling sun" not theirs to wander lost and lone, adream by mountain lake, and sea; not theirs to bear a face of stone away from human mystery: they pondered o'er the runes of time, they slew the serpent of the slime. the brutish brain, the nervous hands, the conscious power of thew and mind; the agony of burning sands, the blithe salt breezes blowing blind_ the birth-pangs of the emperor thought, of earth and pain the wonder-wrought. they hurled them blindly on the breast of foaming hate, of wild desire: 115 from time they held the old bequest, the passioned pangs, the flash of fire_ not through the gods they dreamed of ran the stream that fired the veins of man. they stanched the gaping wound with turf, with water slaked

aspirant strikes it, there he will find a path leading to the right and another leading to the left. to the right the goal is all things, to the left the goal is nothing. yet the paths are not two paths, but one path; and the goals are not two goals, but one goal. the aspirant upon entering the circle must travel by the one or the other, and must not look back; lest he be turned into a pillar of salt, and become the habitation of the spirits of earth "for thy vessel the beasts of the earth shall inhabit" as sayeth zoroaster. the magus travels by both simultaneously, if he travels at all; for he has learnt what is meant by the mystery "a straight line is the circumference of a circle whose radius in infinity; a line of infinite length in the mind of the neophyte, but which in truth is also

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nt devil, but is, at least partially, known an understood. similarly, when we have gained as much knowledge of the first cause as we have of small-pox, we shall no longer "believe" in a benevolent god or otherwise, but shall, at least partially, know and understand him as he is or is-not "i can't learn this" is the groan of a schoolboy and not the exclamation of a sage. no doctor who is worth his salt will say "i can't tackle this disease; he says "i "will" tackle 50 this disease" so also with the unknowable, god" priori" first cause, etc, etc, this metaphysical sickness can be cured. not certainly in the same manner as small-pox can be; for physicians have a scientific language wherein to express their ideas and thoughts, whilst a mystic too often has not; but by a series of exercises, or

u, but usually they should be four times a day, at sunrise, mid-day, sunset and mid-night. iv "food" according to the "hatha-yoga pradipika "moderate 75 diet is defined to mean taking pleasant and sweet food, leaving one fourth of the stomach free, and offering up the act to shiva."53 things that have been once cooked and have since grown cold should be avoided, also foods containing an excess of salt and sourness. wheat, rice, barley, butter, sugar, honey and beans may be eaten, and pure water and milk drunk. the yogi should partake of one meal a day, usually a little after noon "yoga should not be practised immediately after a meal, nor when one is 51 "ibid, chap. v, 184, 185. the aspirant should firstly, join the assembly of good men but talk little; secondly, should eat little; thirdly

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of labouring breath? but if you would not this poor life fulfil, lo, you are free to end it when you will, without the fear of waking after death["blow out red lights [bro. capricornus emissarius "runs out with tom-tom and dances wildly. at the conclusion" aquarius "and" capricornus "run up, tearing the veil asunder" bro. capricornus emissarius "flings himself at foot of altar" choragoge "lights salt again, or other glare" magister templi "is discovered lying dead, his head supported by" mater coeli "weeping [capricornus "extinguishes the light [aquarius "draws the veil [mater coeli "plays the final hopeless dirge<aquarius. brother capricornus, what is the hour? capricornus. noon. aquarius. let us depart; it is accomplished["full light [capricornus "stan

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13 12. and this: 13. there is a well before the great white throne that is choked up with rubbish from the ages; rubble and clay and sediment and stone, delight of lizards and despair of sages. only the lightning from his hand that sits, and shall sit when the usurping tyrant falls, can purge that wilderness of wills and wits, let spring that fountain in eternal halls. 14. and this: 15. sulphur, salt, and mercury: which is master of the three? salt is lady of the sea; lord of air is mercury. now by god's grace here is salt fixed beneath the violet vault. now by god's love purge it through with our right hermetic dew. now by god wherein we trust be our sophic salt combust. then at last the eye shall see three in one and one in three, sulphur, salt, and mercury, crowned by heavenly alchemy!

d swan sings ever; and my heart sings ever. now then i had laid aside the pen, and a voice cried: write! fear not! turn not aside! is it not written that sorrow may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning? sleep therefore in peace and in faith: shall he not watch whose eye hath no eyelid, who to this end is appointed? and my heart answered: amen! 65 song come, love awaken! o'er the wild salt sea, shadows strange-shapen whirl themselves and flee as eddying mist, by storm winds overtaken, and sunbeams kissed- the shafts all curled and shaken in shuddering ecstasy! come, love, nor list to tired dreams that twist thy lithe long limbs in fierce abandonment, awake, and learn of me the secret of the sea, whose meaning is the sum of all things blent in fiercest harmony. soft winds are ca

of the 153 magus, the card numbered 1, the first departure from 0, but referred to beth, 2, mercury, the god of wisdom, magic and truth. and this magus has the twofold aspect of the magician himself and also of the "great magician" described in liber 418 (equinox, no. v, special supplement, p. 144. now the formula of the mystic is much simpler. mathematically, it is 1- 1= 0. he is like a grain of salt cast into the sea; the process of dissolution is obviously easier than the shock of worlds which the magician contemplates "sit down, and feel yourself as dust in the presence of god; nay, as less than dust, as nothing" is the all-sufficient simplicity of his method. unfortunately, many people cannot do this. and when you urge your inability, the mystic is only too likely to shrug his shoulde

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

ed was stood 011 end, draped with freshly laundered sheets andpositicned between paul and alex, one of the instructions being that they must not be able to-see one anotherthroughout the rituals. invocationswere saidto the egyptian gods hapy, qebehsenuf duamutef and .imset: lord hapy, royal sonofhorus, earth god and lord ofthe north, keeper and guardian of the lungs, with the casting of the sacred salt, fertilize.and sanctify this sacred. ground with thy being, so that we may be strong in all things. lord qebehsenuf, royal son of horus, air god and lord of the west, keeper and guardian of the intestines, with the disturbance of the air with. this music descend from thy cardinal point, purify and sanctify the area of this holy sanctum. lord duamutef, royal son of horus, pire god and lord of

e deliberately taken the path 1 told her to avoid, and you are the one who hasled her on to it.'paul brushed aside the cards and .tried to bluff it out 'you can deny me,but you can't deny wicca' alex retorted 'don't deny your faith, if you have any decency left atal1 .alex called.a council of second. andthird..gr::l.de witches to 108 decide what should be done. apuri6:cationb!lth fg91d, water and salt was prepared and paul, was ,told;to i.iinme.rs,e_ lf while, the council cast the circkand he.a;tdwhat alex 'had,to say. they had consulted the:1?,00kson'witchlaw:hadf9un the specific ones that pap had broken,ap.d had copied tlri1 out. now the culprit was called in. he was)ed .to. the thronr beside the altar and, when he :wasseated,the .chargeswere,r,ead. out to him. he,was askecl t6search.his

month .to. 1l10n.th andhegin with the high priest and high priestess sweepi g round the circle with their. broomsticks. to exorcize the area of other influences. while everyone chants incantations, the. circle is formed and set up with symbols for. the guardians of the watchtowers and incense burners. within the circle the altar is set up and laid with the witch weapons, with howls of consecrated salt and water, and fresh flowers. the first invocations are made to bring the power, and the high priest says 'listen to the words of the great mother who was of old also called among men artemis, diana, aphrodite, ariapxod and by many other names 'at my.altar, whenever you have need of anything, once a. month, and better it be when the moon.is full, then shall ye assemble in some secret place an

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common knowledge in neopaganism, at least in ottawa. they don't seem to be part of the gardneroid stream originally, but some gardneroid traditions have adopted them. l traceable sources include sybil leek's the complete art of witchcraft (the only published source known to me) and the wiccan church of canada (or so i have been told) l casting the circle needs: altar, 2 altar candles, water bowl, salt dish, pentacle, censer, athame, bell; presence lamp; 4 quarter candles; sword (optional, candle snuffer (optional) let all be fit to enter into the presence of the gods. start in the dark. ritual leader waits until it feels like time to begin, then rises: lighting of the candle: r: i light this candle (lights presence lamp) in the name of that ancient presence, which is, was, and ever shall b

er candles from the presence lamp. exorcism of the water: r kneels before the altar and places the water bowl upon the pentacle. r purifies the water by plunging the tip of his/her athame into the water, saying: r: i exorcise thee, o creature of water, that thou cast out from thee all the impurity and uncleanliness of the world of phantasm. in the names of cernunnos and cerridwen. blessing of the salt: r sets the water bowl aside and in its place sets the salt dish upon the pentacle. r touches salt with tip of athame, saying: r: blessings be upon thee, o creature of salt; let all malignity and hindrance be cast forth from thee, and let all good enter within. wherefore do i bless and consecrate thee, that thou mayest aid me. in the names of cernunnos and cerridwen. using the tip of the atha

ide and in its place sets the salt dish upon the pentacle. r touches salt with tip of athame, saying: r: blessings be upon thee, o creature of salt; let all malignity and hindrance be cast forth from thee, and let all good enter within. wherefore do i bless and consecrate thee, that thou mayest aid me. in the names of cernunnos and cerridwen. using the tip of the athame, r takes three measures of salt and puts it into the water, then stirs deosil three times with the athame, saying: r: but ever mind that as water and salt purifies the body, so the scourge purifies the soul. so mote it be! casting the circle: r draws a circle, continuous from north deosil unto north with the sword (or athame, saying: r: i conjure thee, o circle of power, that thou beest a boundary between the world of men a

hou powerful god, thou gentle goddess, we invite you to our meeting (pause) o thou loving cerridwen. o thou mighty cernunnos, we gather (i stand) before you to (state intent) the circle is now perfect. notes adapted from farrars' eight sabbats for witches, but published all over the place in several versions. l l 'lighting of candle' added by khaled, sekhet& random 'exorcism of water 'blessing of salt' closely follow those of the key of solomon, book 2, chapt. v. l closing the circle when the circle's work is done, r goes to the east, athame in hand, salutes, and draws a banishing earth pentagram, saying: r: ye lords of the watchtowers of the east, ye lords of air, we thank you for attending our rites; and ere ye depart to your beauteous realms, we bid thee hail and farewell. all: hail and

the circle is open but unbroken. merry meet, merry part and merry meet again. r extinguishes the presence lamp, saying: r: this rite is ended! all: so mote it be! notes l lots of published versions l this version comes from quicksilver consecrating a sword or athame lay sword (or athame) on pentacle, preferably by, and touching, another, consecrated, weapon. the man asperges them with consecrated salt and water, whereupon the woman picks up the weapon to be consecrated and passes it through the imcense smoke and replaces it on the pentacle. both lay their right hands upon the weapon and press down, saying: both: i conjure thee, o sword (athame, by these names, abrahach, abrach, abracadabra, that thou servest me for a strength and defence in all magical operations against all mine enemies

ields, sanguine; sensation; calm, imperturbable virtues: strength, endurance, commitment, responsibility, thoroughness, practicality, wisdom, patience, sense of timing vices: dullness, lack of conscience, melancholy, boredom, inertia, stagnation, hoarding of resources (including information) season: yule time of day: midnight direction: north wind: boreas colour: green symbols: oak, rock crystal, salt, bull or cow, stag, grains, comfrey, ivy tools: pentacle, altar stone (body of anima mundi) spirits: gnomes under gob (friendly& easy to reach, teach access to own depths& caverns& how to mine& work the vein of gold therein) shortage: spaciness, hyper-activity, instability excess: body heaviness, general lack of energy, inertia, etc. notes various sources including june johns' king of the wit

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

t of its meaning, and magically from the standpoint of its proper recitation. the world song obeying certain laws of proportions or the pythagorean arithmetic and imparting its thrilling effect to the domain of cosmic substance, has induced the latter into a crystallisation process that the philosopher plato called the geometry of the cosmos. the various forms that are observed from a molecule of salt crystal to the wonderfully complex organism of the human body are all the structures of the great cosmic geometriser known as viswakarma, the deva carpenter in our puranic writings. the revealed veda whose function is to trace out the cosmos from one basic sound substance symbolised as om, necessarily split itself into a primal three, a subsequent seven vowels and then into seven notes and th

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

t find that they are your people and it will be your duty to make them feel that you believe they are. for heaven's sake, don't be a snob" with these words, she ushered me into a period of my life in which i left caste and social position behind and suddenly discovered humanity. i am not one of the people who believe that only the proletarian are good and right and that the middle classes are the salt of the earth, whilst the aristocracy are absolutely useless and should be gotten rid of. neither do i accept the position that only the intelligentsia can save the world, though that is a sounder position because the intelligentsia can come out of all classes. i have met frightful snobs from the so-called lower classes. i've met them, also, of an equally virulent kind among the aristocracy. t

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

is therefore highly desirable that there be as much propaganda as possible for the use of this method of disposing of the discarded physical vehicles of the souls who are passing out of incarnation. as the soil becomes less tainted, and as soul contact is established, we can hope to see a steady decrease in the number of those who succumb to the inherited taints. curiously enough, the free use of salt sea bathing has a definite effect on the healthiness of the physical body. the water, incidentally absorbed through the medium of the skin and by the mouth, has a vitally prophylactic effect. one of the major problems today to the psychologist and in a lesser degree to the medical man, is the growth of homosexuality, both female and male. specious arguments are brought forth in order to prove

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

an. thus is the principle of balance observed. the libran goes about weighing and balancing all things. this attitude frequently makes him appear hesitant and indecisive. knowing that there are innumerable gradations between black and white, he is seldom inclined to be an extremist. he knows that those who are regarded as pillars of society may be pharisees, and the unostentatious and humble, the salt of the earth; that those who protest their excellence most vehemently may be the least meritorious; that the worldly wise may act like fools, and fools may stumble upon treasures; that the judgments of the world may be reversed by a higher court; that truth may walk the earth in many an unlikely guise. the quest for truth, then, becomes changed into the development of discrimination. in a sen

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

ristianity, gnosticism, persian magism and dualism, with theremains of old greek and egyptian theologies in the third and fourth centuries at alexandria, and inthe house of light of cairo in the ninth, the equality of woman was a prominent doctrine. it wassophia or helena, the enfranchised, who was then the true christ who was to save mankind. page 64 the supper of the witches, the cakes of meal, salt, and honey, in the form of crescent moons, areknown to every classical scholar. the moon or horn-shaped cakes are still common. i have eaten ofthem this very day, and though they are known all over the world, i believe they owe their fashion totradition.in the conjuration of the meal there is a very curious tradition introduced to the effect that the spigeor glittering grains of wheat from wh

many details with the classical myth, is strangely intermingled withpractices of witchcraft, but even these, if investigated, would all prove to be as ancient as the rest ofthe text. thus the sheeps intestine used instead of the red woollen bag which is employed inbeneficent magic the red and black ribbon, which mingles threads of joy and woe the (pea-cocks) feather or la penna maligna pepper and salt, occur in many other incantations, but alwaysto bring evil and cause suffering. 20 i have never seen it observed, but it is true, that keats in his exquisite poem of endymioncomplete-ly departs from or ignores the whole spirit and meaning of the ancient myth, while in this rude witch-song it is minutely developed. the conception is that of a beautiful youth furtively kissed in his slum-ber by

to behold her, as he thought, andwelcomed her with passionate embraces. yet this gave him into her power, for it enabled her to per-form a certain magic spell by clipping a lock of his hair. 18 then she went home, and taking a piece of sheeps intestine, formed of it a purse, and in this sheput that which she had taken, with a red and a black ribbon bound together, with a feather, and pep-per and salt, and then sang a song. these were the words, a song of witchcraft of the very old time.scongiurazione.ho formato questo sachetto a endamone,e la mia vendetta per lamore,chio ti portavo, e non ero corrisposta,una altra tu lamavi:la bella dea t ana tu amavi,e tu non lavrai: di passioneti struggerai, volonta di fare,di fare al amore tu avrai,e non la potrai fare. sempre addormentato resterai,di

ne with cards.t o know the secrets of the hand (palmistry).t o cure diseases.t o make those who are ugly beautiful.t o tame wild beasts.whatever thing should be asked from the spirit of aradia, that should be granted unto those whomerited her favour.and thus must they invoke her:thus do i seek aradia! aradia! aradia! 8 at midnight, at midnight i go into a field, and with me i bearwater, wine, and salt, i bear water, wine, and salt, and my talisman my talisman, my talisman,and a red small bag which i ever hold in my hand con dentro, con dentro, sale, with salt in it, in it.with water and wine i bless myself, i bless myselfwith devotion to implore a favour from aradia,aradia.sconjurazione di aradia.aradia, aradia mia!tu che siei figlia del pi peggioreche si trova nell inferno,che dal paradis

aradia! aradia! t anto ti pregoper lamore che por ti ha tua madre,e a lamor tuo che tanto lami,ti prego di farmi la grazia,la grazia che io ti chiedose questa grazia mi farai,tre cose mi farai vedere,serpe strisciare,lucciola volare,e rana cantarese questa grazia non mi farai, page 15 n r r r r r then shall follow the conjuration of diana.scongiurazione a diana.you shall make cakes of meal, wine, salt, and honey in the shape of a (crescent or horned) moon,and then put them to bake, and say:non cuoco ne il pane ne il sale,non cuoco ne il vino ne il miele,cuoco il corpo il sangue e lanima,lanima di diana, che non possaavere ne la pace e ne bene,possa essere sempre in mezzo alle penefino che la grazia non mi far,che glielo chiesta egliela chiedo di cuore!se questa grazia, o diana, mi farai,la

alle penefino che la grazia non mi far,che glielo chiesta egliela chiedo di cuore!se questa grazia, o diana, mi farai,la cena in tua lode in molti la faremo,mangiaremo, beveremo,balleremo, salteremo,se questa grazia che ti ho chiesta,se questa grazia tu mi farai,nel tempo che balliamo,il lume spengnerai,cosi al lamoreliberamente la faremo!conjuration of diana.i do not bake the bread, nor with it salt,nor do i cook the honey with the wine;i bake the body and the blood and soul,the soul of (great) diana, that she shallknow neither rest nor peace, and ever bein cruel suffering till she will grantwhat i request, what i do most desire,i beg it of her from my very heart!and if the grace be granted, o diana!in honour of thee i will hold this feast,feast and drain the goblet deep,we will dance an

ove!and thus shall it be done: all shall sit down to the supper all naked, men and women, and, the feastover, they shall dance, sing, make music, and then love in the darkness, with all the lights extin-guished; for it is the spirit of dianawho extinguishes them, and so they will dance and make musicin her praise. page 14 my blessing at last i will give to thee!here follows the conjuration of the salt.conjuration of the salt.i do conjure thee, salt, lo! here at noon,exactly in the middle of a streami take my place and see the water round,likewise the sun, and think of nothing elsewhile here besides the water and the sun:for all my soul is turned in truth to them;i do indeed desire no other thought,i yearn to learn the very truth of truths,for i have suffered long with the desiret o know my

ll mysteries i shall attain,yea, even to that at last of the grain;and when this at last i shall truly know,firefly, freely ill let thee go!when earths dark secrets are known to me, page 12 chapter ii.the sabbat: treguenda or witch-meeting how to consecrate the supper.here follows the supper, of what it must consist, and what shall be said and done to consecrate it todiana.you shall take meal and salt, honey and water, and make this incantation:scongiurazione della farina.scongiuro te, o farina!che sei il corpo nostro senza di tenon si potrebbe vivere tu cheprima di divenire la farina,sei stata sotto terra, dove tuttisono nascosti tutti in segreti,maccinata che siei a metterte al vento,tu spolveri per laria e te ne fuggiportando con te i tuoi segreti!ma quando grano sarai in spighe,in spig

as giving beauty and restoring strength.note. page 6 contents.preface.chapter i.how diana gave birth to aradia (herodias).of the sufferings of mankind, and how dianasent aradiaon earth to relieve them by teaching resistance and sorcery poem addressed to mankind how to invoke dianaor aradia.chapter ii.the sabbat treguenda or witch-meeting.how to consecrate the supper conjuration of the mealand of salt invocation of cain conjuration of dianaand to aradia.chapter iii.how diana made the stars and the rain.chapter iv.the charm of the stones consecrated to diana the incantation of perforated stones the spellor conjuration of the round stone.chapter v.the conjuration of the lemon and pins incantation to diana.chapter vi.a spell to win love.chapter vii.t o find or buy anything, or to have goodfor

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ient stone is not derived from combustible things, you should cease to seek it in substances which cannot stand the test of fire. for this reason it is absurd to suppose that we can make any use of vegetable substances, though the stone, too, is endowed with a principle of growth. if our stone were a vegetable substance, it would, like other vegetables, be consumed by fire, leaving only a certain salt. ancient writers have, indeed, described our stone as the vegetable stone. but that name was suggested to them by the fact that it grows and increases in size, like a plant. know also that animals only multiply after their kind, and within their own species. hence our stone can only be prepared out of its own seed, from which it was taken in the beginning; and hence also you will perceive tha

underground in the form of fire, and there produce what hermes, and all who have preceded me, call the three first principles, viz, the internal soul, the impalpable spirit, and visible bodies, beyond which we can find no earlier beginning of our magistery. in the course of time these three unite, and are changed through the action of fire into a palpable substance, viz, quicksilver, sulphur, and salt. if these three substances be mixed, they are hardened and coagulated into a perfect body, which represents the seed chosen and appointed by the creator. this is a most important and certain truth. if the metallic soul, the metallic spirit, and the metallic form of body be present, there will also be metallic quicksilver, metallic sulphur, and metallic salt, which together make up the perfect

not unlike the red colour which is found in the most precious of metals. but though her spirit is of good quality, her body is leprous, and affords no permanent substratum to the fixed tincture. hence the soul has to share the fate of the imperfect body, and when the body dies the soul has to leave it. for its dwelling has been destroyed by fire, and it is without a house wherein to abide. fixed salt has imparted to warlike mars a hard, firm, and durable body, which is evidence of the generosity of his soul; nor can fire be said to have twelve keys of basil valentine 15 of 95 much power over it. and if its strength be united to the beauty of venus, i do not say but that a precious and harmonious result may be obtained. for the phlegmatic or humid quality of the moon may be heated with the

evidence of the generosity of his soul; nor can fire be said to have twelve keys of basil valentine 15 of 95 much power over it. and if its strength be united to the beauty of venus, i do not say but that a precious and harmonious result may be obtained. for the phlegmatic or humid quality of the moon may be heated with the ardent blood of venus, and the blackness of venus removed with the strong salt of mars. you need not look for our metallic seed among the elements. it need not be sought so far back. if you can only rectify the mercury, sulphur, and salt (understand, those of the sages) until the metallic spirit and body are inseparably joined together by means of the metallic soul, you thereby firmly rivet the chain of love, and prepare the palace for the coronation. these things repre

its component parts by those media which nature vouchsafes to those who are lovers of art, as an anatomist dissects the human body. thus change your gold back into what it was before it became gold; and thou shalt find the seed, the beginning, the middle, and the end vthat from which our gold and its female principle are derived, viz, the pure and subtle spirit, the spotless soul, and the astral salt and balsam. when these three are united, we may call them the mercurial liquid: a water which was examined by mercury, found by him to be pure and spotless, and therefore espoused by him as his wife. of the two was born an incombustible oil; for mercury became so proud that he hardly knew himself. he put twelve keys of basil valentine 17 of 95 forth eagle feathers, and devoured the slippery t

m. gaze steadily upon them, follow their lights, and you will find in them the secret of knowledge. the bird phoenix, from the south, plucks out the heart of the mighty beast from the east. give the animal from the east wings, that it may be on an equality with the bird from the south. for the animal from the east must be deprived of its lion s skin, and lose its wings. then it must plunge in the salt water of the vast ocean, and emerge thence in renovated beauty. plunge thy volatile spirits in a deep spring whose waters never fail, that they may become like their mother, who is hidden therein, and born of three. twelve keys of basil valentine 21 of 95 hungary is my native land, the sky and the stars are my habitation, the earth is my spouse. though i must die and be buried, yet vulcan cau

ierce heat, and make it fall into the red sea, and there be drowned. then dry up the water twelve keys of basil valentine 22 of 95 with fire and air till the earth reappears, and you will have all vin vall. if you cannot find it in this way, look around upon the things that are in the world. then you will find the all vin vall, which is the attracting force of all metals and minerals derived from salt and sulphur, and twice born of mercury. more i may not say about all vin v all, since all is comprehended in all. my friends, blessed are ye if, by listening to the words of the wise, ye can find this great stone, which has power to cure leprous and imperfect metallic bodies and to regenerate them; to preserve men in health, and procure for them a long life v v as it has hitherto kept the vit

e against combustion must itself be safe from danger. the latter must be stronger than the former, that is to say, it must itself be essentially twelve keys of basil valentine 34 of 95 incombustible. he, then, who would prepare the incombustible sulphur of the sages, must look for our sulphur in a substance in which it is incombustible v v which can only be after its body has been absorbed by the salt sea, and again rejected by it. then it must be so exalted as to shine more brightly than all the stars of heaven, and in its essence it must have an abundance of blood, like the pelican, which wounds its own breast, and, without any diminution of its strength, nourishes and rears up many young ones with its blood. this tincture is the rose of our masters, of purple hue, called also the red bl

and, without any diminution of its strength, nourishes and rears up many young ones with its blood. this tincture is the rose of our masters, of purple hue, called also the red blood of the dragon, or the purple cloak many times folded with which the queen of salvation is covered, and by which all metals are regenerated in colour. carefully preserve this splendid mantle, together with the astral salt which is joined to this sulphur, and screens it from harm. add to it a sufficient quantity of the volatility of the bird; then the cock will swallow the fox, and, having been drowned in the water, and quickened by the fire, will in its turn be swallowed by the fox. twelve keys of basil valentine 35 of 95 fourth key all flesh that is derived from the earth, must be decomposed and again reduced

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sion. april 30th the alter must face the west most point of the ritual chamber. a candle is set at each elemental point. the elemental demons are invoked by use of the enns with the dagger. belial first and working clockwise leaving leviathan for last. an incense of calamus and frankincense invokes atmosphere. light the candles from belial to leviathan. then- carrying a chalice of water (with sea salt) in one hand and a dagger in the other (doesn't matter which) approach each point and kneel reciting the enn for leviathan and dip the dagger into the water and sprinkle it above each candle. finally, invite the fifth element from the center of the ritual space. kneel at the altar in prayer "we pray thee leviathn, bestow upon us the strength of your design. let the serpent wise deal death to

ual space. kneel at the altar in prayer "we pray thee leviathn, bestow upon us the strength of your design. let the serpent wise deal death to the lies of our enemies. allow our empathy to be our protection. allow our anger to be swift with justice. be present that our enemies will not conquer us. we are as the swift flowing tide ebbing to and fro. we humbly pay homage to thee in our offer of sea salt and water that you may know our respect for your vast strength. we offer requests of healing and emotional balance that we may employ your creation to do so. hail leviathan. lord and master of water" then comes the typical ritual body in which requests of healing and emotional balance are burned within the alter or primary ritual space fire (i.e. a bowl, incense burner, or bonfire) use the re

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man, once that she rejects both the biblical teachings and spontaneous generation. pasteur's observations, however, are far from being perfect or proven. blanchard and dr. lutaud reject their importance and show that they have none. the question is so far left sub judice, as well as that other one "when, at what period, life appeared on the earth" as to the idea that haeckel's moneron- a pinch of salt- has solved the problem of the origin of life, it is simply absurd. those materialists, who feel inclined to pooh-pooh the theory of the "self-existent" the "self-born heavenly man" represented as an ethereal, astral man, must excuse even a tyro in occultism laughing, in his turn, at some speculations of modern thought. after proving most learnedly that the primitive speck of protoplasm (mone

s only a star, which by a rotatory motion around the same centre, produces night and day (vide de caelo, book ii, c. 13) the same with regard to man. the theory taught in the secret doctrine, and now expounded, is the only one, which can- without falling into the absurdity of a "miraculous" man created out of the dust of the earth, or the still greater fallacy of man evolving from a pinch of lime-salt (the ex-protoplasmic moneron- account for his appearance on earth. analogy is the guiding law in nature, the only true ariadne's thread that can lead us, through the inextricable paths of her domain, toward her primal and final mysteries. nature, as a creative potency, is infinite, and no generation of physical scientists can ever boast of having exhausted the list of her ways and methods, ho

the legend given in isis in relation to a portion of the globe which science now concedes to have been the cradle of humanity- though it is but one of the seven cradles, in truth- ran, condensed, and now explained, as follows "tradition says, and the records of the great book (the book of dzyan) explain, that long before the days of ad-am, and his inquisitive wife, he-va, where now are found but salt lakes and desolate barren deserts, there was a vast inland sea, which extended over middle asia, north of the proud himalayan range, and its western prolongation. an island, which for its unparalleled beauty had no rival in the world, was inhabited by the last remnant of the race which preceded ours "the last remnant" meant the "sons of will and yoga" who, with a few tribes, survived the grea

riyavrata's septenary progeny refer to several localities: first of all to our planetary chain. jambu-dwipa alone representing our globe, the six others are the (to us) invisible companion globes of this earth. this is shown by the very nature of the allegorical and symbolic descriptions. jambu (dwipa "is in the centre of all these (the so-called insular continents) and is surrounded" by a sea of salt water (lavana, whereas plaksha, salmalia[[vol. 2, page] 321 the hindu symbolization. kusa, krauncha, saka and pushkara, are "surrounded severally- by great seas of sugar-cane juice, of wine, of clarified butter, of curds, of milk" etc, etc, and such like metaphorical names (chap. ii, book ii) this is shown furthermore by (b) bhaskara acharya, who uses expressions from the secret doctrine and

e performance of religious rites. he therefore referred samba to gauramukha (white face, the purohita or family priest of hgrasena, king of mathura, who would tell him whom he could best employ. the priest directed samba to invite the magas, the worshippers of surya, to discharge the duty. ignorant of the place they lived in, it is surya, the sun himself, who directs samba to sakadwipa beyond the salt water. then samba performs the journey, using garuda (vishnu's and krishna's vehicle, the great bird) who lands him among the magas, etc. now krishna, who lived 5,000 years ago, and narada, who is found reborn in every cycle (or race, besides garuda- the symbol esoterically of the great cycle- show the allegory; yet the magas are the magi of chaldea, and their class and worship were born on t

que infusa per artus mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet inde hominum pecudumque genus, etc (aeneid vi "first came three, or the triangle" this expression has a profound meaning in occultism, and the fact is corroborated in mineralogy, botany, and even in geology, as was demonstrated in the section on "ancient chronology" by the compound number seven, the three and the four being in it. salt in solution proves it. for when its molecules, clustering together, begin to deposit themselves as a solid, the first shape they assume is that of triangles, of small pyramids and cones. it is the figure of fire, whence the word "pyramids; while the second geometrical figure in manifested nature is a square or a cube, 4 and 6; for "the particles of earth being cubical, those of fire are pyram

ut the reflex action (or minus consciousness) caused by the peri-genesis of the plastidules of our common ancestor and old friend, the moneron haeckelii. the fact that the said "bathybius" has been found out and exposed as a pretender simulating the organic substance it was not; and since, among the children of men, lot's wife alone (and even this, only after her disagreeable metamorphosis into a salt pillar) could claim the pinch of salt it is, as her forefather- will not dismay him at all. he will go on asserting, as coolly as he has always done, that it was no more than the peculiar mode and motion of the ghost of the long-vanished atoms of our "father bathybius" which, transmitted across aeons of time into the cell-tissue of the grey matter of the brains of every great man, caused soph

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own more than half the yttria present, therefore a process akin to selection has been going on for several hours. the precipitation has evidently not been effected at random, those molecules of the base being decomposed which happened to come in contact with a corresponding molecule of ammonia, for we have taken care that the liquids should be uniformly mixed, so that one molecule of the original salt would not be more exposed to decomposition[[vol. 1, page] 549 monads and atoms. than any other. if, further, we consider the time which elapses before the appearance of a precipitate, we cannot avoid coming to the conclusion that the action which has been going on for the first few hours is of a selective character. the problem is not why a precipitate is produced, but what determines or dire

ely mr. crookes brushes by the "unknowable" and what "potentialities" there are for the acceptance of occult truths in his discoveries. he continues, speaking of the evolution of atoms. let us pause at the end of the first complete vibration and examine the result. we have already found the elements of water, ammonia, carbonic acid, the atmosphere, plant and animal life, phosphorus for the brain, salt for the seas, clay for the solid earth. phosphates and silicates sufficient for a world and inhabitants not so very different from what we enjoy at the present day. true the human inhabitants would have to live in a state of more than arcadian simplicity, and the absence of calcic phosphate would be awkward as far as the bone is concerned. at the lower end of our curve. we see a great hiatus

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ide the lyre, and with her locks aflame as an aureole, plunges into the wet heart of the creation, so i, o lord my god! 3. there is a beauty unspeakable in the heart of corruption, where the flowers are aflame. 4. ah me! but the thirst of thy joy parches up this throat, so that i cannot sing. 5. i will make a little boat of my tongue, and explore the unknown rivers. it may be that the everlasting salt may turn to sweetness, and that my life may be no longer athirst. 6. o ye that drink of the brine of your desire, ye are nigh to madness! your torture increaseth as ye drink, yet still ye drink. come up through the creeks to the fresh water; i shall be waiting for you with my kisses. 7. as the bezoar-stone that is found in the belly of the cow, so is my lover among lovers. 8. o honey boy! bri

t really meditation at all. you let your mind rove about, instead of pinning it down to a single, simple object. samadhi never occurs in such conditions..o.m] 9 [this examination is a subtle compliment, amounting almost to flattery. it is a much harder paper than would be set in most cases..o.m] the equinox 170 (c) discover by visions the nature of the alchemical principles, sulphur, mercury, and salt. how do they differ from the 3 gunas, and the elements fire, water, air (d) give an account of the sign aquarius in the 4 worlds, assiah, yetzirah, briah, and atziluth (e) visit and describe fully the qliphoth of aries (f) visit lophiel and hismael, and report their appearance, mode of life, and conversation. observe. the a. a. work throughout is definite and directed. there is no room for a

priestess. should be actually virgo intacta or specially dedicated to the service of the great order. she is clothed in white, blue, and gold. she bears the sword from a red girdle, and the paten and hosts, or cakes of light. the deacon. he is clothed in white and yellow. he bears the book of the law. two children. they are clothed in white and black. one bears a pitcher of water and a cellar of salt, the other a censer of fire and a casket of perfume. iii of the ceremony of the introit the deacon, opening the door of the temple, admits the congregation and takes his stand between the small altar and the font (there should be a doorkeeper to attend to the admission) the deacon advances and bows before the liber xv 251 open shrine where the graal is exalted. he kisses the book of the law t

saints. and, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, i believe in the miracle of the mass. and i confess one baptism of wisdom whereby we accomplish the miracle of incarnation. the equinox 252 and i confess my life one, individual, and eternal that was, and is, and is to come. aumgn. aumgn. aumgn. music is now played. the child enters with the ewer and the salt. the virgin enters with the sword and the paten. the child enters with the censer and the perfume. they face the deacon, deploying into line, from the space between the two altars. the virgin: greeting of earth and heaven! all give the hailing sign of a magician, the deacon leading. the priestess, the negative child on her left, the positive child on her right, ascends the steps of the high a

three regular steps. liber xv 253 he then gives the lance to the priestess, and gives the three penal signs. he then kneels and worships the lance with both hands. penitential music. the priest: i am a man among men. he takes again the lance, and lowers it. he rises. the priest: how should i be worthy to administer the virtues to the brethren? the priestess takes from the child the water and the salt, and mixes them in the font. the priestess: let the salt of earth admonish the water to bear the virtue of the great sea (genuflects) mother, be thou adored. she returns to the west+ on priest with open hand doth she make, over his forehead, breast, and body. be the priest pure of body and soul! the priestess takes the censer from the child, and places it on the small altar. she puts incense

diversion as the schoolmaster is of the norfolk suit donned for a game of golf or a fishing expedition or a trip to paris; and in his treatment of humour as a thing by itself, a thing in a separate compartment of its own, he is intensely american, american a l.outrance. stark realism, another of the pavannes pieces, proclaims this same deliberate and detached american humour, a humour that is no salt for sprinkling, but is stocked in chunks to be made a whole meal of at a time. stark realism might have got into the smart set if the manuscript had been sent there and had happened upon a hospitable editorial mood. l.homme moyen sensuel is in its way a more striking affair, because the attempt to spring is so evident that one is positively startled by its not coming off. you wonder where the

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ring in a forest, with trees all around and stars on the ceiling above. others (usually those oriented exactly north-south, east-west) follow the magickal symbolic colors, with the north wall painted green, the east yellow, the south red and the west blue* obviously before any decoration or use of the room, it should be thoroughly cleaned. the floor, walls and ceiling should be scrubbed, with sea salt added to the water and cleaning agent. it is not necessary to do any elaborate cleansing ceremony at this point, since the circle will be consecrated before each and every ritual you perform in it. however, once any decoration of your room is finished (other than the actual marking of the circle itself) you should do an initial purification, as follows- this should be done on the night of the

s to send it down your arm, down the finger and into the water. it may help to dose your eyes. when you feel you have directed all the power you can manage into the water, keep your finger there and say "here do i direct my power, through the agencies of the god and the goddess, into this water, that it might be pure and clean as is my love for the lord and the lady" now take a teaspoonful of sea salt and pour it into the water. stir it nine times, clockwise, with your finger and three times say "salt is life. here is life, sacred and new; without strife" take the dish of salted water and sprinkle it (use your fingers to sprinkle) in each and every corner of the temple room. if the room is irregular in shape, with alcoves and closets, sprinkle every corner of every alcove and closet also

l. in fact a beautiful altar can be made by putting legs on a section of tree-trunk. the legs should be glued on. one such altar i have seen was made truly beautiful by the maker a craftsman in both senses carving figures of the god and the goddess into the legs. the "altar furniture" consists of a candle, or candles; incense burner (known variously as a "censer" or "thurible; two dishes, one for salt and one for water; libation dish; goblet(s; and figures to represent the deities. of course this is not a hard-and-fast list. feel free to add or subtract according to your needs (it is understood, also, that individual traditions dictate certain items, e.g. gardnerian has cords and a scourge. most witches "do their thing" in the evenings (not a necessity, of course) and so illuminate with ca

ly i find it doesn't make any difference which ones you use. i personally enjoy a good sandalwood or frankincense or one of the better "high altar" mixtures of the christian church. incidentally, if you have nothing else, you can burn incense in any saucer-like vessel. if you are using charcoal briquets and are afraid of the vessel cracking, simply fill it with sand and that will absorb the heat. salt and water dishes are found on most witch altars. salted water represents life (salt itself symbolizes semen, as is detailed in an interesting essay by ernest jones, titled the symbolic significance of salt. baptismal water, or "holy water, is nothing more than salt and water. the dishes you use can be of any type. some people even use sea-shells as containers. during rituals it is usual to dr

tuals it is usual to drink some wine (or fruit-juice, if alcohol is not possible. to toast the gods, a libation is always poured first. when meeting outdoors this can simply be poured on the ground. but when indoors the best, and usual, way is to pour the offering into a dish; the libation dish. later after the ceremony the dish can be taken outside and the wine poured out on the ground. like the salt and water dishes, the libation dish can be of any type' the wine goblets of the priest and priestess stand on the altar; those of the other celebrants are placed on the ground at their feet. again the goblet can be to suit yourself. it could be simply a glass or it could be a decorative drinking horn. the latter can be made from cow-horns (obtainable from handicraft stores, such as the tandy

ntensify your feeling and, thereby, increase your power. similarly, dancing can raise the power and so can a number of other treatments, including sex, all of which will be discussed in detail in lesson eleven. one other aspect might be mentioned here. when performing magick it is advisable to have a clean body. this means cleansed externally and internally. bathe the body (with a spoonful of sea salt added to the water. this can be bought at most supermarkets or, failing that, at health food stores. also prepare the inner body by the removal of toxins. this is done by fasting for twenty-four hours before working magick. no alcohol, no nicotine and no sexual activity (more specific details later. whenever doing magick, always consider the wiccan rede. will your action harm anyone? if the a

ly, opening the circle, casting the circle, or similar. in this ritual the circle and all within it is properly purified and consecrated. for now i will just deal with casting a circle sufficient for your self-dedication/initiation. presuming that you have not yet even made your athame, this casting is of the most basic. you will need your altar furniture: candle, censer, goblet or drinking-horn, salt and water, libation dish and (if you wish) figures representing the deities. there should be wine in the goblet. self-dedication this ritual should be performed during the waxing moon, as close to the full moon as possible. for the ritual i would suggest you be completely naked, wearing no jewelry of any kind. along with the rest of the altar furniture there should be a small dish of anointin

ere should be wine in the goblet. self-dedication this ritual should be performed during the waxing moon, as close to the full moon as possible. for the ritual i would suggest you be completely naked, wearing no jewelry of any kind. along with the rest of the altar furniture there should be a small dish of anointing oil (see lesson thirteen, page 198 for recipe) standing between the water and the salt. the altar is set up in the center so that, when you stand in front of it, you are facing east. the circle is indicated (by cord, chalk or paint) about you. sit, or kneel, before the altar with your eyes closed. concentrate your thoughts on seeing, in your mind's eye, yourself enclosed in a ball of white light. direct your energies to make that light expand to completely fill the circle. hold

west and north candles figure a. continue on back to the east then back to standing in front of the altar, and replace the altar candle (figure b. now, again concentrate your energies lesson four: getting started/ 43 44/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft 'you may insert the names of the deities you have chosen, if you wish. down your arm and finger and place the tip of your forefinger in the salt. say "salt is life. let this salt be pure and let it purify my life, as i use it in this rite, dedicated to the god and the goddess* in whom i believe" now take three pinches of the salt and drop them, one at a time, into the water. stir the water three times round, deosil, with your finger and say "let the sacred salt drive out any impurities in this water that together they may be used in t

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

in many different cultures around the world to this day. they are certainly as applicable today as they ever were. whatever the aim of your magick may be, if you look around your home, garden, workshop or even office, you have the necessary tools for the spells you require. what is more, rooted as they are in domesticity and the daily world, these implements could not be safer: fruit, vegetables, salt, sand, seeds, flowers, coins, pots and jars, together with your crystals, candles, incense and oils, and perhaps a few coloured scarves or ribbons to tie knots. whether your spell is small and personal, or vast and universal, whether you are working to attract love, harmony in the home, prosperity or fertility for yourself or loved ones, for people in the wider environment or the planet, thes

elements- earth, air, fire and water. they all contain symbolic qualities and powers that together form the energies used in rituals. each element controls a quadrant in the magical circle. earth, in the north, represents the stability, security and strength of old stone circles, mighty castle walls, tall craggy rocks and mountain peaks. it is also associated with the time of midnight and winter. salt is often used to represent earth in spells and rituals. air, in the east, is action, freshness and power for change, the winds blowing across plains, vast, cloudless skies stretching endlessly, storms and whirlwinds stirring stagnation but also bringing destruction of the old. air is also associated with the dawn and spring. incense is often used to represent air in spells and rituals. fire

ent elements of earth, fire, air and water that were considered in classical times to be the components of all life and matter. it is greater than the other four. in formal magic, artefacts and lighted candles are kept on an altar but this is not vital. it is quite possible, even if you are using a communal room in an apartment or house, to leave your altar partly prepared, although items such as salt and water are best added immediately before a ritual so they will be fresh. a garden altar can be set with an outdoor candle or torch and stone figurines, perhaps shaded by bushes. keep pot pound or living plants on your indoor altar when it is not in use to keep the energies fresh and moving. if it feels stagnant, sprinkle an infusion of lemon or peppermint widdershins, to remove negativity

light, extend then-hands upwards so that light from the cosmos can also enter. do this before joining hands if you are creating the circle as a group. in a conventional coven, the high priestess casts and uncasts the circle, but you may prefer to allow the person leading the ritual to cast the magical boundaries. casting a dual circle you can create a dual circle if you wish* first consecrate the salt symbolising the earth element in the north of the altar by stirring it three times with an athame, wand or crystal, and visualise radiance pouring into it* stir the water, also three times deosil with the athame, wand or pointed crystal, asking the light and the goddess to enter it* add a few grains of salt to the water and stir it, saying: may power thus be doubled, thus increased, as life j

nted crystal, asking the light and the goddess to enter it* add a few grains of salt to the water and stir it, saying: may power thus be doubled, thus increased, as life joins life to create a greater force even than these. seite 27 wicca01.txt* stand either just within or beyond the first circle perimeter* walk deosil round the circle, sprinkling the circle line, physical or envisaged, with your salt water. in formal rituals, the high priestess consecrates the salt and the high priest the water and they mingle them. the high priestess then creates the first circle and the high priest the second. casting a triple circle three is a sacred number in magick and for special ceremonies you can create a triple circle of both power and protection. the number three represents the three aspects of

any religions: the holy trinity, the triple goddess, the three aspects of the moon -maiden, mother and wise woman or crone- the trefoil or triple god of the celts, and the even older egyptian trinity of isis, osiris and horus, the young sky god. this triplicity is still celebrated when we turn our money over and bow three times to the moon for good luck* create your first two circles of light and salt water* return to the place where you began* place the bowl on the altar and light your incense; you can either light a stick in a secure holder or sprinkle incense on a charcoal block burning within the censer* make your final circle with incense, just beyond the lines of salt and water. there are other variations of this, including creating your outer circle of light by walking with your can

an* place the bowl on the altar and light your incense; you can either light a stick in a secure holder or sprinkle incense on a charcoal block burning within the censer* make your final circle with incense, just beyond the lines of salt and water. there are other variations of this, including creating your outer circle of light by walking with your candle in a broad-based holder, followed by the salt water and the incense [insert pic p051- uncasting the circle when you have completed your spells or rituals, you should close the circle. this is done by simply reversing the casting process* thank the guardians and send the light of the elemental candles to whoever needs it* extinguish the elemental candles in reverse order of lighting. visualise the light fading and say, together with any p

ou should have one or two altar candles in white, cream or natural beeswax. a single central candle can be good for times of quiet meditation, but for more focused rituals you may prefer to light one candle to represent the goddess on the right and another for the god polarity, on the left of the altar. any tools (see page 183) and elemental substances (see page 191) that you wish to use, such as salt- which represents earth in the north -can be set at the four main compass points around them and any symbols set between and in front of them. these will be the first candles lit in any ritual, either before or immediately after casting a circle. i prefer to light them first, to mark a beginning and an empowerment to the magick and to avoid casting an empty circle, but there are no hard and f

their unpleasant actions. don't be tempted into direct retaliation, however- remember the threefold law. the same tools and methods of protection can be used whether you are protecting a cat from an aggressive, stone-throwing neighbour or whales in a distant ocean from marauding fishermen. these include herbs, oils and incenses, made into sachets and poppets used in rituals (see chapters 6 and 7. salt, sacred water and wax amulets may also provide protection. one of the most potent methods of protection is through the use of crystals. crystals all crystals have innate protective qualities as well as healing and empowering properties and so can offer instant harmony and energy even in the most draining situations [insert pic p149- collecting protective crystals certain crystals have, over t

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

opean witchcraft traditions such as broomstick riding, for example, are negligible in african american folktales.[64] among african americans, beliefs in witches and witchcraft were accompanied by numerous practices designed to prevent the malice of the witch. anti-witchcraft precautions and remedies became standard in black supernatural traditions. prophylactic measures such as the scattering of salt, for example, in areas believed to be plagued by witches and ghosts were widely practiced and can be seen in the south even today. the witch, known to be a hopelessly compulsively creature, would pick up and examine any object set before her. accordingly, persons sprinkled grains of sand and seeds or displayed sieves or newspapers with tiny printed characters.any material with minute form or

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

ial and angelic sphera. translated from the french of l. lenaine by mr. geo. shephard. transcribed by frederick hockley. 1842-1909 alexandre saint-yves d'alveydre 1844-1912 julien-ernest houssay "abb julio" livre des secrets merveilleux(book of marvellous secrets) relays method of uniting with archetypes from holy scripture before saying certain prayers in order to consecrate such things as wine, salt water and oil to combat forces of darkness; psalms and their effect on the human being via reharmonisation in treatment of diseases, including mental diseases. apparently based on the teachings of origen (185-224 ad. 1844 bahai religion begins when the bab proclaims his mission in persia. 1846 anna kingsford (annie bonus) born 1847 annie besant (n e wood, author and noted theosophist born 184

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

daily fill my heart with wisdom and understanding, and at length graciously (without deserting me) conduct me to the desired end. hereupon i prepared myself for the way, put on my white linen coat, girded my loins, with a blood-red ribbon bound cross-ways over my shoulder. in my hat i stuck four red roses, so that i might sooner be noticed amongst the throng by this token. for food i took bread, salt and water, which by the counsel of an understanding person i had at certain times used, not without profit, in similar occurrences. but before i left my cottage, i first, in this my dress and wedding garment, fell down upon my knees, and besought god that in case such a thing were, he would vouchsafe me a good issue. and thereupon in the presence of god i made a vow that if anything through h

ke up, and asked me not to be troubled or afraid, and then drove back the lion; and having received the latter which i gave him with trembling, he read it, and with very great respect said thus to me: now welcome in god s name to me the man who for a long time i would gladly have seen. meanwhile he also drew out a token and asked me whether i could purchase it. but having nothing else left but my salt, i presented it to him, which he thankfully accepted. upon this token again stood only two letters, namely, s.m. i was just about to enter into discourse with him, when it began to ring in the castle, whereupon the porter counseled me to run, or else all the pains and labour i had hitherto undergone would serve to no purpose, for the lights above were already beginning to be extinguished. whe

of my age, for we both had long grey beards and hair. i had also fastened my tokens about my hat, which the young king soon noticed, and asked if i were he who could redeem these tokens at the gate? i answered in most humble manner, yes. but he laughed at me, saying, there was no need for ceremony; i was his father. page 83 then he asked me with what i had redeemed them? i replied, with water and salt. whereupon he wondered who had made me so wise; upon which i grew a bit more confident, and recounted to him how it had happened with my bread, the dove and the raven, and he was pleased with it and said expressly that it must be that god had herein vouchsafed me a singular happiness. with this we came to the first gate where the porter with the blue clothes waited, bearing in his hand a supp

COSIMANO CHARLES ELEMENTARY PSIONICS

ere) of course the atlantis stuff is probably only legend and i don't think i really sank it (though i wish i had) but it makes a fun story so i thought i'd share it with you. we do know that primitives in various parts of the world still use it, because they have to, and love to make exaggerated claims for it because they love to bug anthropologists. so we have to take them with lots and lots of salt, and maybe a little pepper and just a dash of garlic to keep the vampires away. even taking that into account, there is a mass of material that is difficult to account for without accepting the possibility of this energy, so accept it we will and get on with the business of relating it to living and working in the physical world. let us start with the energy fields of the human body. if you t

s and uncle chuckie has totally lost it but here we go. you now know how to contact the living and the dead. now you get to learn how to contact those who may not even be human! aren t you the lucky one? so, if you do any work along these lines, please please please consider it to be in the nature of a fun experiment and not go hog wild over any information you receive. take any contact with much salt and if you decide to form a new religion make sure it is a profitable one. there is a long standing tradition that humans are not the only life forms inhabiting the unseen realms; that among the various creatures to be found there are gods, devils, angels and assorted nature spirits that may disguise themselves as gods, devils and angels. there is also the long standing tradition that these b

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

the vedic scholar david frawley explains how the ancient hindu holy books, the vedas, reveal that the earliest royal bloodlines of india, the priest-kings, descend from the bhrigus who arrived from a place across the sea. the bhrigus were an order of adepts initiated into the ancient knowledge. frawley says in his book, gods, sages, and kings: vedic secrets of ancient civilization (passage press, salt lake city, utah, 1991) that the monarchs of these bloodlines included the "serpent king" nahusha. they expanded into the five tribes that populated a large part of the indian population" james churchward wrote a number of superb books on the civilisation of mu and he says the nagas also populated china, tibet, and parts of asia. the 94 children of the matrix naga maya, with their mother godde

arance. the "badge of the priesthood" was the same as the divine right to rule, it was code for the reptilian bloodlines. the priesthood of melchizedek became one of the most famous and powerful, and today the highest level of the hierarchy of the mormon church is called the melchizedek priesthood. the mormon church is a 100%-owned subsidiary of the illuminati reptilians, and the mormon temple in salt lake city, utah, sits atop an underground reptilian base, say military insiders. the mormon church is a front for widespread satanic activity and rituals among its ruling elite, although the vast majority of mormons have no idea that this is going on. they are just the sheep controlled by forces they do not understand. and who started the mormons? joseph smith, hiram smith, and brigham young

urces point to these cities being located in what is now the southern end of the dead sea in israel where unnatural levels of radioactivity persist to this day. they call this "lot's sea" after the biblical character involved in the sodom and gomorrah story and for thousands of years it has been associated with the symbol of death. the story of lot's wife says that she was turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back over sodom and gomorrah at the time of the destruction, but the words translated as "pillar of salt" can also be translated as a "pillar of vapour".30 this not only makes rather more sense than "salt, it fits with the emerging picture here. the accounts of the devastation of sodom and gomorrah describe how "god" decided to destroy these cities and warned his friends to ge

york, funded the expansion of the mormons. kuhn, 222 children of the matrix loeb also helped to fund the russian revolution and the first world war (see..and the truth shall set you free. the mormons were an illuminati creation. mormons recognise the bible, but believe that smith's writings are equally divine. they set up communities called stakes of zion (sion= the sun) and eventually settled in salt lake city, utah, the mormon city from where its sacrificial rituals and mind control programmes are orchestrated. another sacrifice and mind control sect to emerge from the judeo-christian scam is the jehovah's witness or watchtower society although as always, the vast majority of its advocates have no idea this is so. this worships the hebrew angry god jehovah. one of its leading founders wa

use he moved around a lot" religion is a whole bloody industry ripping off genuine people, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and financially. millions are on the payroll. bishops' palaces, tourist guides, tacky gift shops, entire economies and political systems in some countries. all depend for their survival on this perpetuation of make believe. from the vatican to bethlehem, from jerusalem to salt lake city, the cash registers go on dancing to the music of myth. the vatican and the other bastions of mind control know the information exists that would bring them crashing down. that's why they have worked so hard to suppress it. unless they do, the party's over. no wonder there is so much opposition to information that will expose this global con trick when the economic and personal powe

through the media with no success (i am surprised) and her friend had a nervous breakdown from which she has never fully recovered. one of a number of accounts to come from former members of the mormon "church" was sent by a woman who claims she suffered in a mormon mind control project from the time she was a young child. cathy o'brien says that the mormon church and especially the operation at salt lake city is a major mind control centre. former military sources claim that the mormon temple in salt lake city, which is covered in llluminati symbols like the all-seeing eye, stands over a large underground reptilian base that can be accessed from the temple site. this woman, i will call her jane, said that she saw her babies sacrificed in mormon rituals. in her pursuit of the truth, she s

often both, and those who are simply too manipulated to see what is going on around them. the religious con men have a simple philosophy: i'll say what i need to say and be what i need to be to get what i want. in my experience so far, the most obvious satanic church is that of the mormons, or the church of jesus christ of "spiritual" satanlsm and "christian conmen 321 latter day saints, based in salt lake city, utah. cathy o'brien in trance-formation of america says the mormon operation in salt lake city is a major centre for illuminati trauma-based mind control. the mormons were an illuminati creation, as i mentioned earlier, and its founders were all high-level freemasons and merovingian bloodline. the rothschilds supplied their funding. joseph smith founded the mormons after an "angel"

r acceptance is called a 'recommend' in the lodge, as is the case with mormons seeking admission to the secret rituals of the mormon temple. much of the mormon temple ritual is the same as the masonic ritual, having been borrowed from it by smith."14 the mormon buildings are adorned with illuminati symbols. the inverted pentagram, the most obvious of satanic symbols, can be found on the temple at salt lake city, on the mormon museum nearby, and on other mormon properties. the pentagram is used in rituals to summon demons in satanism and, in its inverted form, is said to be the sign of "satan, the goat of mendes, or baphoment. this is the deity some of the knights templar were accused of worshipping when they were purged in france in 1307. wherever you find an illuminati satanic operation

e sun and moon will be prominently displayed. the mormon nauvoo temple included 30 2.5-ton stones depicting the radiant sun and 30 moonstones before the building was destroyed. smith said the sunstone symbolised the mormon's "celestial kingdom- another steal from freemasonry. sunstones, moonstones, saturn stones, star stones, earth stones, and a depiction of ursa major, are all to be found on the salt lake temple. so, too, is the illuminati's all-seeing eye, one of their most obvious symbols. the mormons use the symbol of the beehive, a symbol of the merovingian bloodline. this is hardly surprising with the two smiths and brigham young from that genetic stream. the beehive is further symbolic of the ancient goddess artemis, also known as diana. the salt lake temple is built with granite, a

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their sons played out that battle in a high-tech conflict, the tablets say. one battle theyappeared to have been involved in was the biblical destruction of sodom andgomorrah. these cities were probably located at the southern end of the dead seawhere, today, radiation readings are much higher than normal. this was when,according to the bible, lots wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt. afterreferring to the original sumerian, zecharia sitchin says that the true translation of thatpassage should read that lots wife was turned into a pillar of vapour which, onbalance, is rather more likely!all over the world in every native culture you will find stories of a great flood and thesumerian tablets are no different. sitchin says they tell how the anunnaki left the planetin flying

e expansion ofthis church was funded by kuhn, loeb and company, the rothschild bank in theunited states30 which also helped to fund the russian revolution and both sides in thefirst world war. the mormons were a brotherhood creation. mormons recognise thebible, but claim that smiths writings are equally divine. they set up communitiescalled stakes of zion (sion, the sun) and eventually settled in salt lake city, utah, themormon city from where its mind control programmes are orchestrated, as i shall120document in a later chapter. funny how all these religions are justified by a vision orvisitation, followed by an extreme, dogmatic and autocratic religion which rules by fear,indoctrination and mind manipulation.another mind control sect which emerged from christianity/judaism is thejehovahs

flow out of the inner earth and this warm water, carryingfigure 24: the inner earth as some researchers believe it to be.hollow in the centre with an inner central sun and water flowingbetween the polar openings. gravity would be the same on bothsides of the crust because gravity attracts to mass. 253vegetation and pollen, freezes, so forming the fresh water icebergs in an area ofapparently only salt water. there are some books which reveal the detailed evidence ofthe inner earth in much greater detail than i have space to do here and i can recommendthe hollow earth by dr raymond bernard as an excellent summary of this evidence.15one man famously flew into the inner earth at the north pole in 1947 to a distance1,700 miles beyond magnetic north and the south pole in 1956 to a distance of 2

many government establishmentsaround the states, including the nasa space and rocket centre at huntsville, alabama,where she and later her daughter, kelly, were used for pornographic films. y es- man onthe moon, space shuttle- nasa does all this. religions are used constantly tomanipulate people and as a respectable cover for torture and mind manipulation. onecentre of cathys mind programming was salt lake city, utah, the headquarters of themormon church. another establishment for mind controlling slaves is known as thecharm school at youngstown, ohio. this is a sex-slave school where cathy says she,kelly and countless other women and children, were tortured and abused with electricshocks, sleep deprivation and sexual trauma. cathy says an unnamed member of themellon banking family (more c

DEMONIC BIBLE

all manner of sorceries whereby you may attain that which you desire. this book provides the key to crossing the gates of hell and becoming one with the forces of darkness. rather than give you spells, charms, and seals for material benefit, this book provides you with the means to acquire these things yourself. initial to performing these rituals, you must take a "bath of purification, a bath in salt water. the reason for this is that salt is a universal purgant. taking a bath in salt water will eliminate any psychic influence, either "positive" or "negative. this will remove any curse or blessing and temporarily banish any spirit or demon. fill your bath with hot water, throw a cup of rock salt or sea salt into the bath, and then enter into the water. you must submerge your entire body i

llishments when you enter the ritual chamber. the following is an example ritual working which a novice practitioner may wish to employ* set myself apart to the dark lord* become celibate, abstain from drugs and alcohol, eat less* study the occult every day, perform ritual every night [beginning a few nights before the full moon] 3 nights before full moon: shave head, take bath of purification in salt water, recite "renunciation& proclamation" nine times. 2 nights before full moon: recite "lord's prayer" backwards nine times. 1 night before full moon: burn pact giving body, mind, and soul to lucifer, chant i give my body to lucifer, i give my mind to lucifer, etc. night of full moon: consecrate body as a temple to the dark lord [beginning immediately following the full moon] all of 1st lun

ay find some of the rituals trivial for he will have already progressed somewhat along the path through other rituals he has performed. together the rituals of the demonic bible form a complete system of magic which should allow a novice to progress to an eventual understanding of deitus. the rituals bath of purification on the night you begin the rituals of the demonic bible, prepare a bath with salt water, light black candles, light incense, and recite an incantantion to the dark lord. i wrote the following invocation for my own use when i decided to rebegin the rituals of the demonic bible. you will, of course, have to write your own invocation, but this should serve as an example. thelema, xeper, deitus, i have willed to come into being as a god. this is the law of the aeon of lucifer

moni pareme zodumebi canilu. dazodisa etahamezoda cahisa dao, od mireka ozodola cahisa pidiai colalala. ul ci ninu a sobame ucime. bajile? iad balatohe cahirelanu pare! niiso! od upe ofafafe; bajile a-cocasahe icoresaka a uniji beliore (dee) a mighty guard of fire with two-edged swords flaming (which have 8 viols of wrath for two times and a half; whose wings are of wormwood, and of the marrow of salt) have settled their feet in the west, and are measured with their 9,996 ministers. these gather up the moss of the earth as the rich man doth his treasor: cursed are they whose iniquities they are. in their eyes are millstones greater than the earth and from their mouths run seas of blood. their heads are covered with diamond, and upon their heads are marble selves. happy is he on whom they f

eas of blood. their heads are covered with diamond, and upon their heads are marble selves. happy is he on whom they frown not. for why? the god of righteousness rejoiceth in them. come away and not your viols for the time is such as requireth comfort (lavey) a mighty guard of fire with two-edged swords flaming (which contain the vials of delusion, whose wings are of wormwood and of the marrow of salt, have set their feet in the west, and are measured with their ministers. these gather up the moss of the earth, as the rich man doth his treasure. cursed are they whose iniquities they are! in their eyes are millstones greater than the earth, and from their mouths run seas of blood. their brains are covered with diamonds, and upon their heads are marble stones. happy is he on whom they frown

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

gnetic force, concerning which nothing is known to orthodox psychology, but concerning which we shall have a good deal to say under the heading of the appropriate sephirah. hod and netzach are on the astral plane, and in hod we find that the sex-force is expressed in mystical qabala page 93 visual images, and in netzach in another and altogether subtler type of magnetism popularly referred to as"(salt) it" in tiphareth, the christ-centre, the force becomes spiritual inspiration, illumination, the influx from the higher consciousness. if it is positive in type, it becomes the dionysiac inspiration, a divine [page 138] inebriation; and if it is negative, it becomes the impersonal, all-harmonising christ-love. 45. when the transmutation is worked upon the pillars we are impressed by the truth

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

ent just as effectually as it will the alleged witch, we may feel that we cannot be accused of gross superstition if we give the old folk-tradition a trial and note the results. water, again, is the vehicle of purification. it is used in the rite of baptism by the church and in the preparation of the place by the occultist about to perform a ceremony. strictly speaking, there should be a trace of salt in the water thus employed, and both salt and water are blessed with powerful invocations when the priest is preparing holy water, whether for a baptism, or for placing in the holy water stoup for the use of the congregation. as far as the occultist is concerned, salt to him is the emblem of the element of earth. it is also a crystalline substance, and crystalline substances, in their differe

he emblem of the psychic sphere. these two realms, between them, contain by far the greatest part of occult evil. it is rare indeed that spiritual wickedness in high places will reach up as far as the airy realms of mind or the fiery realms of spirit. if we want to get into touch with, or operate upon a particular sphere, we use as base a substance appropriate thereto. consequently, a solution of salt and water makes a better base than either salt or water could do separately because it enables us to cover the whole of the sphere of probable operations in a single act. it may be interesting to note concerning the magical properties of crystalline substances, that crystals are used in wireless apparatus to pick up the subtle vibrations of the ether. once again we 81 of 103 are close upon th

lean clothing afterwards, and if it be by any means possible, moving into a different room. if this cannot be done, move the bed into a different position, taking care to turn it at a different angle; that is to say, if you have been in the habit of sleeping lying north and south, place your bed so that you will now be lying east and west. the following prayers may be used for the blessing of the salt and water"(pointing the first and second fingers at the salt) i exorcise thee, creature of earth, by the living god, by the holy god, by the omnipotent god, that thou mayest be purified of all evil influences in the name of adonai, who is lord of angels and of men"(extending hand over salt) creature of earth, adore thy creator. in the name of god the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth

influences in the name of elohim sabbaoth, who is lord of angels and of men"(extending hand over water) creature of water, adore thy creator. in the name of god the father almighty, who decreed a firmament in the midst of the waters, and of jesus christ his son our saviour, i consecrate thee) to the service of god, in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost. amen"(casting the salt into the water) we pray thee, o god, lord of heaven and earth, and of all that in them is, both visible and invisible, that thou mayest stretch forth the right hand of thy power upon these creatures of the elements and hallow them in thy holy name. grant that this salt may make for health of body and this water for health of soul, and that there may be banished from the place where they are u

lay upon them the spell of christ's holy church, that they may be bound fast as with chains and cast into outer darkness, that they trouble not the servants of god" in pointing or making the sign of the cross, the first and second fingers are extended and the third and fourth are bent towards the palm of the hand and the thumb laid upon their nails. when the hand is extended in blessing over the salt and water, it is held flat, fingers together and parallel, and thumb stretched at right angles to the fore finger. if there is sufficient occult force at work to produce physical phenomena, it is very advisable to take 82 of 103 precautions to prevent materialisations taking place. the physical phenomena are of several types. they may take the form of noises, usually creakings, thuds, or more

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

rus of hunefer (british museum papyrus no. 9901) they represent the north and the south (fig. 2] p. 278 kneeling and extends his left hand over a pool) in which is an eye (to illustrate line 46. 2. the god uatch-ura "great green water" with each hand extended over a pool; that under his right hand is called she en hesmen "pool of natron" and that under his left hand she en maaat "pool of nitre or salt (to illustrate lines 47-50. 3. a pylon with doors, called re-stau "gate of the funereal passages (to illustrate lines 56-58. plates vii.-x. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod18.htm (2 of 14 [8/10/2001 11:27:39 am] 4. the utchat facing to the left above a pylon (to illustrate line 73. 5. the cow (fig. 1) mehurt maat ra "mehurt, the eye of ra" with a flail and having on her head a disk an

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nto thy presence. o spirit of spirits! o eternal soul of souls! o imperishable breath of life! o creative inspiration. 2 o mouth which inspires and respires the existence of all beings in the flux and reflux of thy eternal word, which is the divine ocean of movement and of truth. amen! we exorcise water by the imposition of hands, by the breath, and by speech, while mingling in it the consecrated salt, with a little of the ashes which remain in the perfuming pan. the sprinkler is made with branches of vervain, of periwinkle, 3 of sage, of mint, of valerian, of ash and of basil, tied by a thread from the distaff of a virgin, with a handle from a walnut-tree which has not yet borne fruit, and upon which you will engrave with a magic dagger the characters of the seven spirits. you will bless

es which remain in the perfuming pan. the sprinkler is made with branches of vervain, of periwinkle, 3 of sage, of mint, of valerian, of ash and of basil, tied by a thread from the distaff of a virgin, with a handle from a walnut-tree which has not yet borne fruit, and upon which you will engrave with a magic dagger the characters of the seven spirits. you will bless and consecrate separately the salt, and the ashes of the perfume, in saying: upon the salt in isto sale sit sapientia, et ab omni corruptione servet mentes nostras et corpora nostra, per hochmael et in virfute rauch-hochmael, recedant ab isto fantasmata hylae ut sit sal coelestis, sal terrae et terra salis, ut nutrietur bos trituraus et addat vpei nostrae cornua tauri volantis. amen. 4 upon the ashes revertatur cinis adfontem

hylae ut sit sal coelestis, sal terrae et terra salis, ut nutrietur bos trituraus et addat vpei nostrae cornua tauri volantis. amen. 4 upon the ashes revertatur cinis adfontem aquarum viventium, etfiat terra fructificans, etgerminet arborem vitaeper tria nomina, quae sunt netsah, hodetjesod, in principle et in fine, per alpha et omega qui sunt in spiritu azoth. amen. 5 in mingling the water, the salt, and the ashes in sale sapientiae aeternae, et in aqua regenerationis, et in cinere germinante terram novam, omnia fiant per eloim gabriel, raphael et uriel, in saecula et aeonas. amen. 6 exorcism of the water fiat firmamentum im medio aquarum et separet aquas ab aquis, quae superius sitcut quaee superius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius. sol ejus pater est, luna mater et ventus hanc gestav

ever spring up anew in us! o ocean of infinite perfections! height which beholdeth thee in the depth! depth which breathes thee forth in the height! bring us to the true life through intelligence and love! lead us to immortality through sacrifice, in order that one day we may be found worthy to offer thee water, blood, and tears, for the remission of sins. amen. we exorcise fire by casting in it salt, incense, white resin, camphor, and sulphur, and by pronouncing three times the three names of the genii of fire: michael, king of the sun and of lightning; samael, king of volcanoes; and anael, prince of the astral light. next by reciting the prayer of the salamanders. immortal, eternal, ineffable and uncreated father of all things i who are borne upon the incessantly rolling chariot of worl

e it. so mote it be. 2. genesis, ii, 7 "and the lord god formed man (adam, spore of the ground (adoux, and breathed into his face the breath (nasama or inspiration) of lives; and he was a living soul" job, xxxii, 8 "there is a spirit (ruah) in man, and the inspiration (nasama) of the almighty maketh intelligent" 3. an evergreen plant of the genus vinca, having a blue or purple blossom. 4. in this salt be wisdom, and may it preserve our minds and bodies from every corruption, through hochmaiel (the wisdom of god) and in virtue of rauch-hochmael (the spirit of the wisdom of god, withdrawing from it the phantasms of matter that it may be the celestial salt, the salt of the earth, and the earth of salt, that the ox may be nourished that treadeth out corn, and give to our hope the strength of t

be nourished that treadeth out corn, and give to our hope the strength of the flying cherub. amen. 5. let the ashes return to the fountain of living waters, let the earth become fruitful and sprout forth the tree of life by the three names, which are netsa (victory, hod (eternity, and isiod (fountain, in the beginning and the end, by the alpha and omega, which are in spirit azoth. amen. 6. in the salt of eternal wisdom in the water of regeneration, and in the ashes which generate the new earth, let all things be established by the eloim (gods or angels, gabriel (power of god, raphael (wisdom of god, and uriel (light of god, for ages and ages. amen. 7. let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the watersthat which is above as that which is belo

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keen, albuquerque e. m. l. ehlers, new york city john c. drewry, raleigh j. thompson, fargo thomas mowbray, halifax j. h. bromwell, cincinnati j. s. hunt, stillwater as. f. robinson, eugene wm. a. sinn, philadelphia n. mackelvie, summerside will. h. whyte, montreal s. p. williams, providence jacob t. barron, columbia g. a. pettigrew, flandreau john b. garrett nashville ohn watson, w aco c. diehl, salt lake city gh. wh. ross, burlington horac.e c awr.r itnygletro,n ,s eratitclhemond h. r. howard, point pleasant wm. w. perry, milwaukee w. l. kuykendall, saratoga the forest, the prairies, the mountains i how our blood warms and tingles over these romances of the frontier 1 the brooding twilight of the woods, the flash of the mountain stream, the illimitable sweep of the prairies, the moaning

EMPERORS NEW RELIGION CHURCH OF SATAN

legions to accept you as a grotto master. write down the ritual you performed and the results, if any [13] again, this ritual, requesting an infernal mandate, has theistic overtones. part of the church of satan s ideology specifically appeals to people that feel a need to bolster their egos, feeling that they are more important than their social recognition reflects. the satanic bible provides a salt water injection to such people s egos with the assertion that satanists are intrinsically superior people. church of satan literature, such as the black flame, bulge with racist, fascist, and nazi-oriented essays and imagery, all of which are recurring themes among people whose self-esteem is out of proportion with their physical or intellectual abilities. organizations promising religious or

he right to supercede the church of satan. doesn t that sound familiar [50] thus noting that the revelation came at an opportune moment when michael aquino found himself torn between loyalty with the church of satan and his personal interpretation of its ideology, the church of satan has a point: michael aquino s revelation and his evaluation of the church of satan are to be taken with a grain of salt. secondly, michael aquino s conclusion as regards the church of satan s departure from its ideology by turning its back on the literal satan has a potential flaw. his statement that the church of satan included the belief in a literal devil is probably correct considering anton lavey s acceptance of a literal belief in satan. it the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 20 of 30

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increased skepticism that the old alchemists ever succeeded in their dreams. the alchemical work gave way to ceremonial magic, which today carries most of what is left of the alchemical hermetic tradition. however, there have been a few contemporary figures who followed the alchemical metaphor. among these was frater albertus, who emerged in the 1970s as head of the paracelsus research society in salt lake city, utah. he wrote a number of books about his work, however these only hinted at any alchemical success. sources: albertus, frater. the alchemist of the rocky mountains. salt lake city, utah: paracelsus research society, 1976. the alchemist s handbook: manual for practical laboratory alchemy. rev. ed. new york: samuel weiser, 1974. atwood, mary anne. a suggestive inquiry into the herm

remony be fated to die young, it is believed that a coffin, followed by mourners, will enter and pursue the too adventurous youth around the barn. eating the bean stack: go three times round a bean stack with outstretched arms, as if measuring it, and the third time you will clasp in your arms the shade of your future partner. eating the herring: just before retiring to rest, eat a raw or roasted salt herring, and in your dreams your future husband (or wife) will come and offer you a drink of water to quench your thirst. dipping the shirt sleeve: go alone, or in company with others, to a stream where three lairds lands meet, and dip in the left sleeve of a shirt; after this is done not one word must be spoken, otherwise the spell is broken. then put your sleeve to dry before your bedroom f

gravity. he is said to give family happiness to those whom he takes under his protection and to teach astronomy and liberal arts. thirty-six legions are controlled by him. sources: weyer, johannes. witches, devils, and doctors in the renaissance: johann weyer, de praestigiis. edited by george mora. binghamton, n.y: medieval and renaissance texts and studies, 1991. alomancy divination by means of salt, of which process little is known. from this ancient practice comes the saying that misfortune is about to fall on the household when the salt cellar is overturned. alopecy a species of charm by the aid of which one can bewitch an enemy whom one wishes to harm. alper, frank (1930) frank alper, spiritualist channel and founder of the arizona metaphysical society, was born on january 22, 1930

eople suffered no illeffects, but criminals were said to betray themselves by an attack of indigestion. this practice gave rise to the oath: if i am deceiving you, may this piece of bread choke me. by means of this method, a lover might know if his mistress were faithful to him, or a wife, her husband. the procedure was a follows: a quantity of pure barley flour was kneaded with milk and a little salt, without any leaven. it was then rolled up in a greased paper, and cooked among the cinders. it was afterward taken out and rubbed with verbena leaves and given to the person suspected of deceit, who, if the suspicion was justified, would be unable to digest it. in ancient times, there was said to be a sacred wood at lavinium, near rome, where alphitomancy was practiced in order to test the p

ting, held in new york in 1916. it was limited to 30 members. the membership was selfperpetuating and elected new members to replace any who died or withdrew. members had to be citizens of the united states. although most of the members came from the new york city metropolitan area, some came from around the country, such as inez perry (los angeles, llewellyn george (los angeles, and j. u. giesy (salt lake city. the academy flourished through the 1920s. hazelrigg, one of the more capable scholars to take up consideration of astrology, was inclined toward the occult and for several years issued a yearbook that included some of the more esoteric papers presented by the academy s members. sources: hartman, william c. who s who in occultism, new thought, psychism, and spiritualism. jamaica, n

s verbanion, 3ml eucalyptus globulus, 0.25ml mentha pepierita, for inhalation through a diffuser headache.two drops lavender, rubbed on temples or back of neck muscle strain.massage oil created with five drops eucalyptus, five drops peppermint, five drops ginger, diluted in one tablespoon vegetable oil stress reduction soak.two drops lavender lavera, two drops glang glang, in one tablespoon epson salt, place in warm tub (see also perfumes) sources: aromatic thymes. http//www.aromaticthymes.com. april 17, 2000. lavabre, marcel. aromatherapy workbook. rochester, vt: healing arts press, 1990. national association for holistic aromatherapy. http/ www.naha.org/about.html. april 17, 2000. schnaubelt, kurt ph.d. advanced aromatherapy: the science of essential oil therapy. rochester, vt: healing a

natural disasters, such as pole shifts, occurred. ashtar literature continues to circulate in new age circles and has found its place on the internet. sources: clark, jerome. ufo reporter: our friends from the ashtar command. fate 42, no.11 (november 1989: 37.41. montgomery, ruth. aliens among us. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1985. tuella [pseudonym of thelma b. turrell, ed. ashtar: a tribute. salt lake city, ut: guardian action publications, 1985. project world evacuation: by the ashtar command. salt lake city, ut: guardian action publications, 1982. van tassell, george. i rode a flying saucer! the mystery of the flying saucers revealed. los angeles: new age publishing, 1952. ash tree there are many old superstitions of the wonderful influence of the ash tree. the old christmas log was

n of courts, porticos, and crypts. they are called aletae and titans, and in their time began animal husbandry and hunting with dogs. from the titans descended amynus, a builder, and magus, who taught men to construct villages and tend flocks, and of these two were begotten misor (perhaps mizraim, whose name signifies well-freed, and sydic, whose name denotes the just; these discovered the use of salt. from misor descended taautus (thoth, athothis, or hermes trismegistus, who invented letters; and from sydic descended the dioscuri, or cabiri, or corybantes, or samothraces. according to sanchoniathon, first built a complete ship and others descended from them who discovered medicine and charms. all this dates prior to babylon and the gods cabiri encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5t

eary, with tangled manes and bathed in sweat, they were believed to have been attacked by chagrin during the night. when this was observed, they were tethered to a stake that had been rubbed with garlic the cereologist encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 266 juice, then a red thread was laid on the ground in the form of a cross, or else some of the hair of the animal was mixed with salt, meal, and the blood of a bat and cooked to bread, with which the hoof of the horse was smeared. the empty vessel containing the mixture was put in the trunk of a high tree while these words were uttered: tarry, pipkin, in this tree, till such time as full ye be. chain, forming a in spiritualism, a popular practice entails the joining of hands of sitters around a table, whereby it is believed

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titute the perfect number six. magicians wore it bound on their brows and breasts during ceremonies, and it was engraved on the silver reservoirs of magic lamps. the tetragram, symbolic of the four elements, was used in the conjuration of the elementary spirits.sylphs of the air, undines of the water, and the fire salamanders and gnomes of the earth. in alchemy it represented the magical elements salt, sulphur, mercury, and azoth; in mystic philosophy, the ideas spirit, matter, motion, and rest; in hieroglyphs, the man, eagle, lion, and bull. the pentagram, the sign of the microcosm, was held to be the most powerful means of conjuration in any rite. it might represent good as well as evil, for with one point in the ascendant it was the sign of christ, and with two points in the ascendant i

f medicine could boast. occult medicine is essentially sympathetic. reciprocal affection, or at least real good will, must exist between doctor and patient. syrups and juleps have very little inherent virtue; they are what they become through the mutual opinion of operator and subject; hence homeopathic medicine dispenses with them and no serious inconvenience follows. oil and wine, combined with salt or camphor, are sufficient for the healing of all wounds, and for all external frictions or soothing applications. oil and wine are the chief medicaments of the gospel tradition. they formed the balm of the good samaritan, and in the apocalypse, when describing the last plagues, the prophet prays the avenging powers to spare these substances, that is, to leave a hope and a remedy for so many

e of air, and by the will of my soul, i will restrain the steeds of the sun, and by the thought of my mind, and by the apple of my right eye. i exorcise thee o creature of air, by the petagrammaton, and in the name tetragrammaton, wherein are steadfast will and well-directed faith. amen. sela. so be it. water is exorcised by the laying on of hands, by breathing and by speech, and by mixing sacred salt with a little of the ash left in an incense pan. the aspergillus is made of branches of vervain, periwinkle, sage, mint, ash, and basil, tied by a thread taken from a virgin s distaff, with a handle of hazelwood which has never borne fruit, and on which the characters of the seven spirits must be carved with a magic awl. the salt and ashes of the incense must be separately consecrated. the pr

illus is made of branches of vervain, periwinkle, sage, mint, ash, and basil, tied by a thread taken from a virgin s distaff, with a handle of hazelwood which has never borne fruit, and on which the characters of the seven spirits must be carved with a magic awl. the salt and ashes of the incense must be separately consecrated. the prayer of the undines should follow. fire is exorcised by casting salt, incense, white resin, camphor, and sulphur therein, and by thrice pronouncing the three names of the genii of fire: michael, samael, and anael, and then by reciting the prayer of the salamanders. the earth is exorcised by the sprinkling of water, by breathing, by fire, and by the prayer of the gnomes. their signs are the hieroglyphs of the bull for the gnomes who are commanded with the magic

k s teachings given to john g. neihardt. lincoln: university of nebraska press, 1984. when the tree flowered: the fictional biography of eagle voice, a sioux indian. lincoln: university of nebraska press, 1970. richards, john thomas. sorrat: a history of the neihardt psychokinesis experiments, 1961.1981. metuchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1982. a sender of words: essays in honor of john g. neihardt. salt lake city, utah: howe brothers, 1984. neil-smith, christopher (1920) vicar of a church of england parish church in london, and a leading british exorcist. he was born november 11, 1920, ordained in 1944 and soon after became aware of a healing power, which he has since used for dealing with possessed individuals. he performed his first exorcism in 1949, and has since performed as many as 500

rea, and newbrough himself was struck down, dying that year. for a time, his associate andrew m. howland continued the community, but it soon disintegrated. however, newbrough s very dispersed and decentralized followers continued under such names as the essenes of kosmon or universal faithists and are still active today. oahspe is kept in print through the universal faithists of kosmon (box 664, salt lake city, ut 84110, and a journal, the faithist journal, is published at 2324 suffock ave, kingman, az 86401. sources: denton, jim. dr. newbrough and oahspe. kingman, ariz: faithist journal, 1975. the oahspe story. kingman, ariz: faithist journal, 1975. miller, timothy. american communes, 1860.1960: a bibliography. new york: garland publishing, 1990. stowes, k. d. the land of shalam: childre

ession, and these new writings serve to keep the tradition alive. the core nroogd ritual, written by aidan kelly and others, begins with a line dance in the form of an inward and then outward spiral, representing death and rebirth, with coveners singing a chant. tout, tout, tout, throughout and about! afterward, conjurations of elements, which go into a central charging bowl, begin with i conjure salt for savor. gods, demigods, or other spirits at each of the cardinal directions serve as guardians of the circle and of the elements. each coven has their own guardians that are unique from other covens. names of the gods are idiosyncratic to each group and the names are kept secret. the sharing of food and drink (called a love feast) concludes the ritual, as members prepare themselves to reen

e epicureans was revived in europe about the middle of the seventeenth century and the process was performed by the likes of sir kenelm digby, athanasius kircher, abbe de vallemont, and others. the complicated and exacting procedure began with a selected plant, a rose, for example. the operator then bruised it, burnt it, collected its ashes, and, in the process of calcination, extracted from it a salt. this salt was then put into a glass vial and mixed with some peculiar undisclosed substance. when the compound was formed, it was pulverulent (crumbly) and blue. the powder was next submitted to a gentle heat. with its particles instantly set into motion, it then gradually arose (it was claimed) from the midst of the ashes.a stem, leaves, and flowers. it appeared as an apparition of the plan

us lines there grows; here buds an a, and there a b, here sprouts a v, and there a t, and all the flourishing letters stand in rows. pagenstecher, gustav encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1168 the rationale of this famous experiment made on the rose ashes was attempted by kircher. he supposed the seminal virtue of every known substance and even its substantial form resided in its salt. this salt was concealed in the ashes of the rose, and adding heat put it in motion. the particles of the salt were quickly sublimed and by being moved about in the vial like a vortex, the particles arranged themselves in the same general form they had possessed from nature. other particles were subject to a similar law, and accordingly, by a disposing affinity, they resumed their proper posi

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

atan or nut case. a few such as a young japanese woman whom space friends had guided to the united states in pursuit of her mission for them had traveled some distance. except for the small detail of their associations with extraterrestrials, most were decent, ordinary local folk. the majority were from the small towns, ranches, and farms of the great plains, the sort of people to whom the phrase salt of the earth is often applied. among his own at last, keith could not have been happier. if he noticed that no one else spoke of landa and its impossible-tooverlook plans for the earth s future, or that every other contactee had his or her special space friends, all with their own individual hard-to-overlook plans for the earth s future, he never said a word about it to me. of course, nothing

they live in the sky. los angeles: new age publishing company. king, beti, 1976. diary from outer space. mojave, ca: self-published, 1976. a psychic s true story. mojave, ca: self-published. soltec, n.d. ashtar command and popular cu l t u re. h t t p/ w w w. e a g l e s w i n g s. c o m/ a u/ s o l t e c 1. h t m l tuella [pseud. of thelma b. turrell, ed, 1989. ashtar: a tribute. third edition. salt lake city, ut: guardian action publications. van tassel, george w, 1952. i rode a flying saucer! the mystery of flying saucers revealed. los angeles: new age publishing company. we t t l a u f e r, brianna, 2000. a brief ba c k g round bet ween ashtar and ashtar command. http//www. g e o r g e va n t a s s e l. c o m/ pa g e s/ 0 0 5. 1 a s h t a r. h t m l asmitor in revelation: the divine f

ghtly high cheek bones, firm full mouth. his hair was golden-blond. but his beard was lighter. there was a firmness with this individual, but there was also a great deal of warmth vibration also the warmth of love, of acceptance, of you re o.k (tuieta, 1986. see also: ashtar; channeling; contactees further reading tuella [pseudonym of thelma b. turrell, ed, 1989. ashtar: a tribute. third edition. salt lake city, ut: guardian action publications. tuieta, 1986. project alert. fort wayne, in: portals of light. kronin on july 26, 1967, near big tujunga canyon in california, a man and a woman in a car heard a disembodied voice speaking. it alerted them to the imminent appearance of something out of the ordinary. they spotted a flash, then a disc-shaped ufo that landed nearby. a tall, boneless

htar; contactees further reading beckley, timothy green, 1981. book of space con- tacts. new york: global communications. garrison, omar, 1956. time flew by, but that flying saucer didn t. los angeles mirror-news (november 8. mon-ka of mars gives saucer research a black eye, 1956. csi news letter 6 (december 15: 3 5. tuella [pseud. of thelma b. turrell, ed, 1989. ashtar: a tribute. third edition. salt lake city, ut: guardian action publications. mothman mothman, a monstrous cre a t u re re p o rted by d o zens of witnesses in towns along the oh i o r i ver va l l e y, got its name from a villain in the then-popular ba t m a n television series. t h o u g h their stories re c e i ved little public attention, at least one witness claimed to have had a kind of communication with it. mothman f

rldwide attention and became the subject of an influ e n t i a l case study in the sociology of re l i g i o n. see also: ashtar; channeling; hierarchal board; sister thedra further reading festinger, leon, henry w. riecken, and stanley schachter, 1956. when prophecy fails. minneapolis: university of minnesota press. tuella [pseud. of thelma b. turrell, ed, 1989. ashtar: a tribute. third edition. salt lake city, ut: guardian action publications. sasquatch sasquatch also known as bi gfoot is a large apelike cre a t u re unre c o g n i zed by zoology but often re p o rted seen in the forests of the pa c i fic no rt h west of the united states and canada s far west. to those few scientists who are willing to concede its possible existence, sasquatch is thought to be related to homo sapiens pr

o encounter them can detect their negative thoughts. they also respond ambiguously and evasively when asked to identify themselves. satonians always lose in conflicts with their benevolent counterparts. a person approaching a spacecraft should be certain it is not a satonian ship. see also: contactees further reading tuella [pseud. of thelma b. turrell, ed, 1989. ashtar: a tribute. third edition. salt lake city, ut: guardian action publications. secret chiefs secret chiefs are shadowy superhuman adepts who have used their magical power and knowledge to initiate and guide occult groups and hidden societies. according to british occultist s. l. mac- gregor mathers (1854 1918, who claimed to have met the secret chiefs on a number of occasions, these people or entities are able to live in both

was only passing. the failure of flying saucers to arrive to take believers to a new world also discouraged interest. in early 1976, the movement, now consisting of fewer than one hundred members, retreated with bo and beep to a mountain camp near laramie, wyoming. the couple s authoritarian control was intensified, and those judged unqualified were forced out. by fall, the band had relocated to salt lake city. around this time, two members inherited a great deal of money, which they turned over to bo and peep. they purchased houses( crafts in their terminology) in denver and the two 247 marshall herff applewhite and bonnie lu nettles, photographed after their 1975 arrest by local police in harlington, texas, for auto theft and credit card fraud (bettmann/corbis) dallas fort worth and ess

ate tragedy in the context of new age ideology. syzygy 6,1 (winter/ spring: 43 58. peters, ted, 1977. ufos god s chariots? flying saucers in politics, science, and religion. atlanta, ga: john knox press. steiger, brad, 1976. gods of aquarius: ufos and the transformation of man. new york: harcourt brace jovanovich. 248 the two ulkt ulkt, a martian, introduced himself through automatic writing to a salt lake city ufo buff, mary sewall, in early 1982. he told her that earth is overloaded with negative vibrations. humans cannot join the federation of intelligent worlds until they learn to cast positive vibrations. if they stop conflict and immoral behavior, their collective vibratory rate will rise. ulkt signed each communication with what looked like an h on its side. sewall took this to be a

; contactees further reading curran, douglas, 1985. in advance of the landing: folk concepts of outer space.new york: abbeville press. davis, isabel l, 1957. meet the extraterrestrial. fantastic universe 8, 5 (november: 31 59. reeve, bryant, and helen reeve, 1957. flying saucer pilgrimage. amherst, wi: amherst press. tuella [pseud. of thelma b. turrell, ed, 1989. ashtar: a tribute. third edition. salt lake city, ut: guardian action publications. van tassel, george w, 1952. i rode a flying saucer! the mystery of the flying saucers revealed. los angeles: new age publishing company, 1958. the council of seven lights. los angeles: devorss and company. vegetable man jennings frederick, a young west virginia man, claimed that while bow-and-arrow hunting one afternoon in july 1968, he heard a hig

FAUST

land, with this the lofty right to widen these possessions, as chance occurs, by barter, purchases, successions, to practise undisturbed- be this secured to youwhatever sovereign rights, as landlords, are your due. as judges it s for you to make the last decisions, and these shall suffer no appeals and no revisions. then imposts, interest, tributes, rents, safe-conduct, toll, dues from the mines, salt-works, and mints, yours is the whole, for that my gratitude be fully demonstrated, nearest to majesty you have i elevated. archbishop in deepest gratitude to you we all unite, you make us strong and firm and strengthen your own might. emperor yet honour to you five i ll give in fuller measure. i still live for my realm, to live is still my pleasure; ancestral chains, however, draw men s gaze

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

pened. it s like waking up from a dream. when you wake up from a dream, where does the dream you were having go? all the programming is completely shattered by this realization, always. you can only continue by leaving a copy of your program in small face before you access the% e2 2 e" 2' 8: h f e 2 negatively existent substratum. you continue as this program. the old self is totally gone, like a salt doll dissolved in the ocean. to even conceive of this is very difficult. hence, most people who have an interest in spiritual awakening are more comfortable at focusing their yogic effort on changing their consciousness, and thereby their universe, into a unitive small face totality archetype. indeed, only a small percentage of spiritual aspirants have the mental constitution and strength to

n solely vast face-centered practices. while small face meditation practices use a process of directed imagination to unite all experiences in the realms of name and form, the aspirant on the path of the tree of perfection after the ayin cultivates dispassion and discrimination to systematically renounce and negate every experience, until the individuated consciousness dissolves in the ayn like a salt doll walking into the ocean. hence, exercises which cultivate discrimination (sanskrit viveka) and one-pointed concentration (sanskrit samyana) are a central element in the vast face practices of most mystical traditions. such practices might involve the use of inscrutable imagery (e.g. the koans found in some schools of zen buddhism, open-ended questions (e.g. who am i, or strings of thought

his experience, always. you can only continue by leaving a copy of your programming in small face at the edge of the great void before you access the negatively existent substratum, with any changes that you wish to make to the file. you continue as this program if/when you reenter the small face creation as a differentiated being. the old self is totally gone upon movement into the roots, like a salt doll dissolved in the ocean. you can also place an executable code in the silver cord of the geviyah, which establishes a vibrational affinity between the salt doll copy you leave in small face and the stone doll in the ayn. the process of creating a copy of yourself is very deep, and difficult to describe- 0' meditation, complementary practices, and rituals such as pesach (passover) are labo

oul of the soul: negatively-existent shell corresponding to consciousness in the roots of the tree. neti, neti (sanskrit: not this, not this: words from the brihadaranyaka upanishad for the process of negating all experiences on every plane of existence in jnana yoga" 4 nirvikalpa samadhi (sanskrit: ecstatic absorption in godwithout- qualities, in which individuated consciousness dissolves like a salt doll walking into the ocean. nirvana (sanskrit: ultimate experience of enlightenment in buddhism. correlates with fana l fana in sufism, nirvakalpa samadhi in hindu yoga, and satori in zen. ofanim (hebrew: high class of angles on the merkabah tree of chariot shadai. olam (hebrew: world: one of four planes of existence in the qabalah. omehq (hebrew: depth: appellation for the atziluthic sefiro

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL 2

only a few hundred years ago when life and liberty were endangered by the expression of opinions in advance of the commonly accepted views. it was for this reason that 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

unable to create one for themselves, hence for selfish reasons they taught humanity how by cooperation of the sexes a new body may be created at any time; and in order to give an incentive they instilled into mankind the animalistic passionate nature which we now possess. thus to the ancient alchemists, the angels from the moon which rules the saline tides of the sea were designated by the term "salt" they had found that a certain amount of salt in the blood is necessary to the mental processes, also that excess salt in the blood produces insanity, as best proven by the experiences of shipwrecked sailors who become lunatics when they drink water containing the lunar element salt. thus also they established a connection between the moon and mind. the fiery lucifer spirits who have taken su

r to enable him sometime to create by his own mind, to form thoughts and speak the word of power that shall make his thoughts flesh. three great creative hierarchies were particularly concerned in bringing about this change: the angels from the moon, the mercurians, and the lucifer spirits from mars. the alchemists connected the angels from the moon, which rules the saline tides, with the element salt, the lucifer spirits from mars with the element sulphur, and the mercurians with the metal mercury. they used this symbolic presentation partly because of the religious intolerance which made it unsafe to promulgate any other teaching than that sanctioned by the orthodox church of that day, and partly because humanity as a whole was not yet ready to accept the truths which were embodied in th

are the vantage ground of the sensuous and passionate lucifer spirits. this tripartite spinal cord was to the alchemists the crucible of consciousness; they knew that in the sympathetic section of the cord which governs the functions that have to do particularly with the upkeep and welfare of the body, the lunar angels were specially active and this segment was therefore designated as the element salt. the segment governing the motor nerves which expend the dynamic energy stored in the body by our food they saw clearly to be under the dominance of the martial lucifer spirits, and they, therefore, named that segment sulphur. the remaining segment, which marks and registers the sensations carried by the nerves, was named mercury, because it was said to be under the dominance of spiritual bei

able to objectify your ideas and speak the living word which shall endue them with life and make them vibrant with vital energy. this dual creative force thus expressed through the brain and larynx is the 'elixir-vitae' which springs from the living stone of the spiritually hermaphrodite philosopher. the alchemical process of kindling and elevating it is accomplished in the spinal cord where the salt, sulphur, mercury and azoth are found. it is raised to incandescence by high and noble thought, by meditation upon spiritual subjects, and by altruism expressed in the daily life. the second half of the creative energy thus drawn upward through the spinal canal is a spinal spirit-fire, the serpent of wisdom. gradually it is raised higher and higher and when it reaches the pituitary body and t

FULL MOON RITUALS

and finally pauses at the altar for a brief moment, where he notices the first pale rays of tonight's moon lapping over the eastern edge of the widely opened skylight; rays of a tide which brings the promise of tonight's full moon shining down upon them in all her splendor. then a last check of the essentials upon the altar for this evening's ritual: a sun-bleached tortoise shell filled with sea-salt, a copper bowl of fresh rainwater, and a small reiku censer with charcoal beside a smaller silver plate covered with powdered dragon's blood and amber. there too is his athame of georgian silver covered in spirals, his bronze torq, and his linden wand. deer whispers "bowl of my mother's best friend, torq of my forebears' freedom, root of my great-grandmother's ancestral tree, and blade of my

the energies within may ebb and flow" completing his first circumambulation, deer returns to their altar and replaces the bowl after asperging himself. next, he retrieves the turtle shell he'd found in the forest during high school and kept ever since. again he takes the perimeter and moves deosil, now sprinkling- ever so lightly- the stones and those participants so desirous with glittering sea salt ground to the finest of powders "with salt of the earth is this circle cast" deer sings "as mother earth both elaborates and contains the energies of life, so may our circle" back to the altar and replacing the bone bowl, deer touches first the salt within it and then his forehead, lips and chest. finally, deer uses his athame to heap mounds of the amber and dragon's blood upon the now glowin

rth quarter, where he presents it- with a huge hug- to his sister boudica. then, with a wink, he takes his place beside owl among the circle of celebrants and watches as..boudica was aware that a hush fell over the room as deer started to work. she watched as deer had set up the circle. when he has done, she dances steps inward on a spiral to the altar, and takes up the tortoise shell filled with salt and dances steps outward in a spiral to the north. from her pouch she takes some earth from her travels, and sprinkles it upon the floor. standing upon the earth, she sprinkles some salt on the floor, mixing the salt with the earth. her mind fills with the fog of the early evening and smells of deers tongue and frankincense, the woods and the castle and the full moon. she sways back and forth

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

ere were offered to her such emblems as a golden vessel, boat, coffer, or fish, and she was then named belat ili (the mistress of the gods"[76 [76] vol. ii, p. 94. she was the goddess of water. of this forlong says "water, perhaps more than fire, has always been used as a purifier. christians have but imitated the ancients, in the use of lustral water--now-a-days called holy water, and into which salt should be freely put" according to francis vasques, the cibola tribes of new mexico pay no adoration to anything but water, believing it to be the chief support of all life. the hindoo faith and the greek christian church prescribe "adorations, sacrifices, and other water rites, and hence we find all orthodox clergy and devotees have much to do with rivers, seas, and wells, especially at cert

g to this deity indicate the source whence has sprung the great theological dogma underlying christianity, that woman is the cause of evil in the world. chapter x. ancient speculations concerning creation "daughters of jove, all hail! but o inspire the lovely song! the sacred race proclaim of ever-living gods; who sprang from earth, from the starred heaven, and from the gloomy night, and whom the salt deep nourished into life. declare how first the gods and earth became; the rivers and th' immeasurable sea high-raging in its foam; the glittering stars, the wide impending heaven; and who from these of deities arose, dispensing good; say how their treasures, how their honors each allotted shar'd: how first they held abode on many-caved olympus--this declare, ye muses! dwellers of the heavenl

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

artake in silenceofthe mystical repast composedofthe symbolsofthefourelements and remember our vowofsecrecy.'thehierophant, leaving his insignia, goes to the west of the altar and, facinge.raises the mystical rose, saying:hierophant:'i invite you to inhale with me the perfumeofthis rose, as a symbolofair (placing his hands over the fire 'to feel the warmthofthis sacred fire (partakes of bread and salt 'to eatofthis bread and of this salt as typesofearth (raises chalice 'and, finally to drink with me of this wine, the consecrated emblemofelemental waters.'hepasses to e.ofaltar with sol and administers the mystical repast to the senior chief, raising and handing him eachofthe elements in turn.thesaluting sign is not madebyanyone during this ceremony.thechiefs partake in their order and are f

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

ith attraction and repulsion, they ascend and they descend, even as we see in an analogous manner the sun of our universe holds by attraction all the planets in their courses, and yet maintains an adequate repulsion between it and them at the due distances from itself, and so saves them from annihilation in its central fire. in alchemic language again we find the terms of the four255 fold scheme; salt, sulphur, mercury, and azoth, and azot again is a summary of the types of opposition, the firsts and the lasts in greek, roman and hebrew letters. rosicrucianism again develops the tetragrammaton in its religio-physical conceptions, and inri which shines in burn255 ing letters on the cross of the jesus who was christ, or holy, becomes alike 'igne naturae renovatur integra 'nature by fire is r

strange black cat was deemed fortunate, and at the present time among actors it is deemed a lucky omen if a cat walk across the stage at the first performance of a new play. a more modern mode of deciding whether a thing wished for will be obtained is by the snapping of the merry thought bone of a fowl. other common present day superstitions are seen in the notion of an evil result from spilling salt, of seeing a single magpie, of walking under a ladder and of hearing a dog howl at night.thenwe hear of the misfortunes likely to occur from a work undertaken on a friday, and from being one of thirteen at any function.theevil omen of friday the day of venus, goddess of love, is difficult to explain: while the maliceofthirteen is associated for some mysterious reason with the twelve apostles

en.thesacrifices at the temple in athens, called aleusinion, were oflrigle,the mullet, and of barley grown in the adjacent field, namedrharium.these offerings were calledthua.thefourth day was marked by a solemn public procession thekalathoskathadosoicandidates, in which thekalathumor basket of ceres was carried in a consecrated cart. women, calledkistophori,followed with baskets containing wool, salt, serpents, pomegranates, and poppy capsules, accompanied by crowds of people crying aloud:'kairedemeter,hail to ceres!'thefifth, or torch day, waslampadonemera.during the evening there was a torch-light procession of the mystai from athens to the temple of demeter at eleusis, where they remained during the night.thiswas a symbolic representation of the wanderings of demeter in search of her d

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

e which the rabbins of old have said rllsheth through the universe;thatname before which rolled back the darkness at the birth of the morning of time. the flame-red triangular capitals which crown the summits of the pillars represent the triune manifestation of the spirit of life, the 'three mothers' of the sepher yetzirah, the three alchemical principles of nature, the sulphur, the mercuryandthe salt, and each pillar is surmounted by its own light-bearer, though veiled from the material world. the hieroglyphical figures upon the pillars are taken from the vignettes of the 17th and 125th chaptersofthe 'ritual of the dead' theegyptian'per-m-hru. this celebrated and48 the sorcerer and his apprenticemost ancient work is a collection of mystical hymns and addresses in the form of a species of

aningless symbol,butto those who know that it is really a corruption of the hebrew letteri'1which symbolisesthefemale or receptive principle,itat once becomes fullofmeaning; and we see that thegreat1tproblem,as it iscalled.orsquaringthecircle, will only be accomplished when. the finite is re-absorbed into the infinite.itis to be noticed also, that this symbol (fig. 3) is the alchemical symbol for salt, which signifiestheunion of two natures, a correspondence which will beofuse to us later on in this course.theenergising and vitalising principle is fitly symbolised by fire, whose nature ever aspiring is represented by the vertical straight line, and these twoform-thecrossinthe-circle (fig. 4, which therefore represents matter in manifestation or matter vitalised by spirit, and on this cross

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

rings and the eucharist within the gnostic liturgy. the dagger. air. the dagger or small blade is the projection of the intellect. in some rites it is exchanged for a sword. it is used to contain energies and create sigils and signs. the pentacle. earth. the pentacle is the symbol of the body or physical form. it is used to earth the powers that are invoked, at times it is exchanged for a bowl of salt and water. there are many other accessories which can be used in ritual practise, in some sense it is up to you to decide what tools you want to use, and how to use them. incense. incense purifies the air and sets the mood. it can also be used for the manifestation of spiritual forces and projection of images. candles. candles are traditionally used to give light, they may be a bit of a nuisa

GOETIA LUCIFERIAN

(clavicula salomonis, translated by s.l. macgregor mathers. the blade should be made in the hour of mercury when in the sign of the ram or scorpion. you may alternatively conduct such when the moon is waning in a more probable time frame. when you obtain a white handled knife, roughly six inches long wait until the moon is waning. fill a bucket or basin with distilled and purified water and pour salt, abramelin oil and a few drops of your own blood. you will then wish to have a small fire which you will hold the blade over. as it is heated in the flame, envision the fires of azazel and hecate, purifying and blessing the blade with your divine will. when the blade is heated, take the knife and place it in the water 24 by the blood i give i empower this blade, the very knife of my divine wi

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL AURIEL

order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004 8:01 am meditation with the archangel auriel meditation with the archangel auriel for the grade of zelator for this ritual the zelator will need a black robe, black and white striped nemyss,and the outer wand of double power. upon the altar should be a black candle, a paten of bread and salt, and a talismanic emblem with the archangel name of uriel painted white on a black background in hebrew. the temple is to be arranged in accordance with the zelator hall (as in the second part of the initiation ceremony) relax and perform the fourfould breath go to the northeast and say "hekas, hekas, este bebeloi" with the black end of the wand, perform the lbrp (say the following invocation

to be your only senses. listen with your feelings to any words, inspirations or emotions that he may be communicating to you. you may stay in this state for as long as you wish. you may end the meditation here, simply thanking him for coming into your presence. give the zelator sign go to the west of the altar. with the white end of the wand, trace the lesser invoking pentagram over the bread and salt. place the wand aside. consume the bread and salt. as you consume the repast of earth, meditate on the talismanic emblem for an extended period of time. take as much time as you need. perform the reverse circumambulation (go to the east and say "i now release any spirits that may have been imprisoned by this ceremony. depart in peace to your abodes and habitations. go with the blessings of ad

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS D

workings, or even in workings where you are rising up in the planes, the lotus is to be inclined toward the forehead. consecration of the lotus wand the tools necessary for the consecration of the lotus wand are! a private room! the white triangle! the red cross of six squares! incense (frankincense or myrrh! a rose, representing m! a cup of wine, representing n! a lamp, representing o! bread and salt, representing l! the altar draped in black. it is also important to get an astrological figure of the position of the heavens at the time of consecration. however, the zodiacal wheel is also appropriate for the consecration of the lotus wand. to be more specific, an actual time figure of the constellations will aid the adept should he or she wish to chose to utilize this method. you may want

his consecration with as much energy and internal force that you can muster, for this will enliven your lotus wand. make sure you are holding the wand by the appropriate band while performing each individual invocation. during each separate invocation, hold the appropriate elemental tool in the left hand. for example, for a, you would be holding the lamp, for b, you would be holding the bread and salt etc. here is the invocation that is used for all twelve. refer also to the chart on the next page to fill in the names of each zodiacal band. 7 sign divine name hebrew tribe angel color a hwhy h gad melchidael red b whhy w ephraim asmodel red-orange c hhwy z manasseh ambriel orange d yhwh j issachar muriel amber e hywh f judah verchiel lemon-yellow f ywhh y naphthali hamaliel yellow-green g h

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS E

. together, they bring about the fixedness and immobility of l. o arm here the color is scarlet, and unlike the m and l arms, the sulfurous nature is chief and ruler. in this arm, the p is from the side of l. b is from the side of m. n arm the n arm is colored blue. here, the saline side is chief. this can be easily understood if we think about the fact that almost 3/4 of our planet is covered in salt water. the mercurial part is from l, and thus, we have the force of flux and re-flux. the sulfurous part is from m, relating to waves and storms. each arm shows us the three alchemical principles of nature acting within the alchemical operations of the elements. the white rays shining forth from behind the angles (between arms) is as the divine light coming forth from rtk in its center. the l

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ENOCHALL

ent angel of water angle of earth tablet. baligon: king, associated with sol of venus (1. balit: just/ righteous (cf. balt. balt/ baltan: justice (cf. balit, baltim, baltoh, balzizras. balt: justice/ of justice. baltan: in his justice. baltim: fury/ justice/ extreme justice. baltoh: righteousness/ the righteous (cf. balt, baeovib. baltoha: righteousness/ for my own righteousness. balye/ balie: of salt/ salt. balye: salt. balzarg: steward. balzarg: steward/ stewards/ presidents. balzizras: judgement (cf. balt. bamasan: name of a guardian angel. bamnode: prince, associated with saturn of luna (49. bams: forget/ let them forget. bapnido: prince, associated with mars of venus (3. barfort: prince, associated with mercury of luna (48. bariges: prince, associated with sol of mercury (33. barma/ba

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS F

l, the more effective it will be for you in your magical workings. the adept should have an altar that is draped in black. upon the altar is the red cross and the white triangle as in the neophyte grade in the hall of the neophyte. in addition to the cross and triangle upon the altar a rose is placed as a symbol of m, a lamp or small censer as a symbol of o a chalice to symbolize n, and bread and salt to represent types of l. the chalice filled with wine representing the element of 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 seco

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS G

eitg empowerment and consecration ritual for the four elemental weapons of the adeptus minor 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 necessary requirements 1. all four newly made elemental weapons to be placed on the altar in their respective quarters. 2. the cross and triangle of the neophyte grade. 3. the tablet of union. 4. a rose, incense, candle, chalice of water and paten of salt and bread. 5. the four elemental tablets placed in their proper quarter in the working area. 6. the adept's regalia of the second order, wearing the rose cross lamen, holding and utilizing the consecrated lotus wand and magical sword of the art. it is possible to consecrate all four tools on the same day. however, we recommend, if possible, consecrating them on different days. at least there

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS T

o the terror of the earth od bliors od corsi ta abramig. and unto our comfort and of such as are prepared. lof m the ninth key micaolz bransg prgel napea ialpor a mighty guard of fire with two-edged swords flaming, ds brin efafafe p vonpho olani od obza which have vials eight of wrath for two times and a half, sobol vpaah chis tatan od tranan balie whose wings are of wormwood and of the marrow of salt, 14 alar lusda soboln od chis holq have settled their feet in the west and are measured c noqodi cial vnal aldon mom caosgo with their ministers 9996. these gather up the moss of the earth ta las ollor gnay limlal amma chis sobca as the rich man doth his treasure. cursed are they whose madrid z chis ooanoan chis aviny drilpi caosgin iniquities they are. in their eyes are millstones greater th

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS T3

o the terror of the earth od bliors od corsi ta abramig. and unto our comfort and of such as are prepared. lof m the ninth key micaolz bransg prgel napea ialpor a mighty guard of fire with two-edged swords flaming, ds brin efafafe p vonpho olani od obza which have vials eight of wrath for two times and a half, sobol vpaah chis tatan od tranan balie whose wings are of wormwood and of the marrow of salt, alar lusda soboln od chis holq have settled their feet in the west and are measured c noqodi cial vnal aldon mom caosgo with their ministers 9996. these gather up the moss of the earth 14 ta las ollor gnay limlal amma chis sobca as the rich man doth his treasure. cursed are they whose madrid z chis ooanoan chis aviny drilpi caosgin iniquities they are. in their eyes are millstones greater th

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z1

und the cross are the symbols of the four letters of the name jehovah with the c of hwchy being only implied and not expressed in the outer order. at the east is the mystical rose, allied by its scent to the element of m. at the south is the red lamp, allied by its flame with the element of o. at the west is the cup of wine, allied by its fluid form to the element of n. at the north are bread and salt, allied by their substance to the element of l. the elements are placed upon the altar according to the winds "for osiris onnophris who is found perfect before the gods, hath said 'these are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, glorified through trial. for the scent of the dying rose is as the repressed sigh of my suffering, and the flame-red fire as the energy of mine undaun

found perfect before the gods, hath said 'these are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, glorified through trial. for the scent of the dying rose is as the repressed sigh of my suffering, and the flame-red fire as the energy of mine undaunted will: and the cup of wine is the pouring out of the blood of my heart, sacrificed unto regeneration, unto the newer life, and the bread and salt are the foundations of my body, which i destroy in order that they may be renewed. for i am osiris triumphant, even osiris onnophris, the justified one: i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh, yet in whom is the spirit of the great gods. i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. he who partaketh with me shall arise with me. i am the manifestor in matter of those whose abode is the

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM12

ng (lifts up the rose on high (first adept rings the bell during iao) all "iao" chief adept "the light of the cross (forms a cross (pause 'and the cup of wine is the pouring out of the blood of my heart, sacrificed unto regeneration, unto the newer life (lifts the cup up on high (first adept rings the bell during iao) all "iao" chief adept "the light of the cross (forms a cross 'and the bread and salt are as the foundations of my body which i destroy in order that they may be renewed (lifts bread and salt on high (first adept rings the bell during iao) all "iao" chief adept "the light of the cross (forms a cross 'and the fiery red flame that darts and flashes through the universe is the energy of mine undaunted will (lifts the lamp on high) 3 (first adept rings the bell during iao) all "ia

t draws invoking pentagrams of spirit, both passive and active, using the lotus wand held by the white band) chief adept "i invite you brothers and sisters of the red rose upon the golden cross, to inhale with me the perfume of this rose as a symbol of air (smell the rose. to feel with me the warmth of this sacred lamp as a symbol of fire (waves hand over the lamp. 5 to eat with me this bread and salt as types of earth (dips the bread into the salt and eats it. and finally, to drink with me this wine, the consecrated emblem of the element of water (makes a cross with the cup then drinks it (the chief adept then looks to the first adept, makes the sign of the enterer toward first adept and the first adept returns with the sign of silence. this is repeated until all are done, in which the th

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ho is found perfect before the gods hath said 'these are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, glorified through trial. the scent of the dying rose is as the repressed sigh of my suffering. and the flame-red fire as the energy of mine undaunted will. and the cup of wine is the pouring out of the blood of my heart, sacrificed unto regeneration unto the newer life. and the bread and salt are as the foundations of my body, which i destroy in order that they may be renewed. 4 for i am osiris triumphant. even osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh yet in whom flames the spirit of the eternal gods. i am the lord of life. i am triumphant over death, and whosoever partaketh with me shall with me arise. i am the manifester in matter of tho

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the adept requires to be healthy, pure, strong in mind, free from anxiety and apart from disturbances. he requires also to have mastered the details of the ceremony and to be familiar with the proper pentagrams and other symbols. the consecration ritual of the sword prepare: the chamber, the central altar draped in black, red cross and white triangle, rose and incense, cup and n, lamp, plate and salt, white robe, sash, consecrated rose cross and lotus wand, new sword, red cloak, hierophant's lamen, an invocation to f and hrwbg. in addition, prepare an astrological figure to show the position of f at the time. in wording and in formulating the invocation to the forces of hrwbg, force and strength are to be specially requested. step 1 place the sword upon the central altar with the hilt tow

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is found perfect before the gods hath said 'these are the elements of my body perfected through suffering, glorified through trial. the scent of the dying rose is as the repressed sigh of my suffering, and the flame-red fire as the energy of mine undaunted will. and the cup of wine is the pouring out of the blood of my heart, sacrificed unto regeneration, unto the 4 newer life. and the bread and salt are as the foundations of my body, which i destroy in order that they may be renewed" step 11 take on the god form of osiris using middle pillar formula"'for i am osiris triumphant, even osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh yet in whom flames the spirit of the eternal gods. i am the lord of life. i am triumphant over death, and whosoever partaketh

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.m.'s who are current hierophants of the golden dawn in the outer should place themselves on a regular schedule of performing this ritual. this allows the divine genius to lead in the process of initiation rather than the mundane ego where little, if any initiating force can be projected and maintained. g.h. frater p.c.a. 7= 4 chief adept r.r. et. a.c. items needed! four elements: wine, bread and salt, rose, fire incenser! lotus wand! fire wand! cup! air dagger! earth pantacle! sigils for: layqpx, yatbc \ylara \yhla hwhy! banishing sword! incenser! large cauldron on the altar with fire burning in it! four watchtower tablets! tablet of union step 1 "hekas, hekas, este bebeloi" 3 face east, perform qabalistic cross, and perform the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram, then, with the bla

forces where alone is perfect justice. unbalanced mercy is but weakness, and unbalanced severity is cruelty and oppression. therefore, in the name of the motionless heart, i pass on unto that great altar whereon is sacrificed the body of my higher genius" step 24 pass to the cauldron on the altar. stand east of altar, facing west, and as you read, place the four elements of rose, wine, bread and salt, and incense from the censer, into the burning cauldron. say "o ynda, thou mighty and secret soul that is my link with the infinite spirit, i beseech thee in the name of hyha and in the tremendous name of strength through sacrifice hwchy, hcwhy, that thou manifest in me. manifest thou unto me, i beseech thee my angel, for thy assistance in the great work so that i, even i, may go forward from

dation. for osiris onnophris hath said 'these are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering and glorified by trial. for the scent of the dying rose is as the suppressed sigh of my suffering, and the flame red fire as the strength of mine undaunted will. the cup of wine is as the pouring forth of the blood of my heart, sacrificed unto regeneration, unto the newer life, and the bread and salt is as the foundation of my body which i destroy in order that it may be renewed' wherefore behold! into this brazen cauldron i cast this wine, this bread and salt, and finally this rose, that their essences may be volatilized by the o which is beneath. accept now these elements thus volatized by the o, and from them form a body by me and in me, that thou, my genius, the spirit of my soul, may

elements of the body of osiris. for osiris onnophris hath said 'these are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, and glorified by trial. the rose is as the suppressed sigh of my suffering, and the flame red fire as the strength of mine undaunted will. the cup of wine is as the pouring forth of the blood of my heart, sacrificed unto regeneration, unto the new life, and the bread and salt is as the foundation of my body which i destroy that it may be renewed" step 33 take elements astrally, then say "in the name of hwchy the redeemer, i now set free any spirits that may have been imprisoned by this ceremony" step 34 conclude with lvx sigerritual 5 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 chief adept second adept third adept fourth adept magus of fire with the la

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any spirits that may have been imprisoned by this ceremony" step 34 conclude with lvx sigerritual 5 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 chief adept second adept third adept fourth adept magus of fire with the lamen of the dadouchos magus of water with the lamen of the stolistes lotus wands red incense burner sword of the art razor blades five red lanterns elemental tools, plus salt third adept "hekas, hekas, este bebeloi" bell/ chief adept "fraters and sorors of the r.r. et a.c, we are assembled together for the purpose of evoking tangible and penetrating forces of an unlimited magnitude for the specific purpose of protecting and defending this temple, this order, and all loyal and dedicated members of the r.r. et a. c. and the hermetic order of the golden dawn in the o

rchangel of air, raphael, i exorcise thee through the power of air (circumambulates once around the temple starting in the east while saying "such a fire existeth, extending through the rushing of air, or even a fire formless, whence cometh the image of a voice or even a flashing light abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud" second adept (moves over to the north, picks up pantacle and salt, moves to the east facing east, and draws the invoking pentagram of earth "i exorcise all evil and impure spirits by the powers of earth and in the name of nanta and mor dial hctga (now faces west, swings/ and draws cross in the air "in the name of adonai ha aretz and adonai melekh and in the name of the great archangel of earth, auriel, i cleanse thee through the power of earth (tosses a pin

moves to the east facing east, and draws the invoking pentagram of earth "i exorcise all evil and impure spirits by the powers of earth and in the name of nanta and mor dial hctga (now faces west, swings/ and draws cross in the air "in the name of adonai ha aretz and adonai melekh and in the name of the great archangel of earth, auriel, i cleanse thee through the power of earth (tosses a pinch of salt (circumambulates around the temple, starting in the east, sprinkling the salt around the circle while saying "stoop not down into that darkly splendid world, where in gloom, delighting in unintelligible images, a black ever rolling abyss ever espousing a body unluminous, formless and void" 5 chief adept (moves to the west of the altar of the universe and draws both invoking spirit pentagrams

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ast of the altar) kerux (comes direct to the altar, hands his lamp to the hegemon, and lays down his wand "with the password_ i lay down my lamp and wand (kerux returns to place. hegemon returns to place also, taking the lamp of the kerux) stolistes (comes around by the east to the south to the west of the altar and puts down cup "with the password_ i lay down my cup (takes the paten of bread and salt and returns to place) dadouchos (dadouchos comes direct to the altar and lays down censer "with the password_ i lay down my censer (dadouchos takes the red lamp from the altar and returns with the sun to his place) 4 (kerux passes to the northeast to begin his circumambulation. kerux moves to the east and halts before the hierophant) all face east. hierophant (holding up the rose, faces east

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ious and angry, fenja and menja waited until everyone was asleep and then began to turn the mill in a mad whirl until its great props, though cased in iron, burst asunder.13 immediately afterwards, in a confusing episode, the mill was stolen by a sea king named mysinger and loaded aboard his ship together with the giantesses. mysinger ordered the pair to grind again, but this time they ground out salt. at midnight they asked him whether he was not weary of salt; he bade them grind longer. they had ground but a little longer when down sank the ship: the huge props flew off the bin, the iron rivets burst, the shaft tree shivered, the bin shot down.14 when it reached the bottom of the sea, the mill continued to turn, but it ground out rock and sand, creating a vast whirlpool, the maelstrom.15

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ht sky, a hard metal, a wet ocean. then originated and created consciousness was handed over to whole specialist orders of intelligences called angels, one type per sphere into the next condition of: 3. yetzirah or formation. here everything gets shaped and formed into the likeness of what it was supposed to become such as light sky over the earth, hard metal of iron under the earth, wet ocean of salt sea in the earth. lastly the processed consciousness was produced as some time-space-event in physical terms at the world of 4. assiah orexpression. here things become located with very definite placement, such as light sky at noon over this place on earth, wet ocean of salt sea in such a size, depth and locality, hard metal of iron at that particular place in this era and quantity. all this

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: the god of victory shines in the battle. to the indians suryas denotes the sun, light, day, and he resembles zio; when suryas is taking hold of a victim, it bites his hand off, and a golden one has to be put on: is not this t;^r, whose hand the wolf bit off (p. 207? and who knows but the like was told of the slavic svetovit? it was beautiful to derive the eye from the sun, blood from water, the salt flow of tears from the bitter sea, and the more profound seem therefore the myths of sif's hair, of freyja^s tears; earth and heaven reflect each other. but as even the ancient cosmogonies are inversions of each other (pp. 568. 570, man made of world, world made of man, we have no right to refer the heathen gods exclusively either to astrology and the calendar, or to elemental forces, or to m

he devil, as fate-announcing wise-women or priestesses, who prophesy by their cauldron, p. 56 (see suppl. it may seem over-bold to name shakspeare's witches in the same breath with ancient cimbrian prophetesses, with strigas of the salic law; but here we have other links between the oldest times and the recent. speaking of heiiawac (healing waters) in chap. xx, i on purpose omitted all mention of salt springs, that i might here bring their sacredness into immediate connexion with the witchcraft of a later time. tacitus, in a passage of importance in many ways. annals 13, 57, tells us ^eadem aestate inter hermundaros chattosque certatum magno praelio, dum flumen gignendo sale foecundum et conterminum vi trahunt; super libidinem cuncta armis agendi religione insita, eos maxime locos 2 ropinq

inister' also, that strioportiiis may be the welsh ystryws wise, and porthi helping, serving. all this is still very doubtful' sed bellum hermunduris prosperum, chattis exitio fuit, quia victores diver- bam aciem marti ac mercuric sacravere: quo voto equi, viri, cuncta victa occidioni dantur. et minae quidem hostiles in ipsos vertebaut' the sense of these remarksalt. 1047 alamanns also fought for salt-springs' bargundii salinarurn finiumque causa alamanuis saepe jurgabant/ amm. marc. 28, 5. that not only in germanyj but in gaul, salt was obtained by pouring water on burning wood, we know from pliny 31. 7, 39' galliae germaniaeque ardentibus lignis aquam salsam infundunt' hence the ritual that hallowed it may have been common to celts and teutons. now of streams charged with salt there was

ed it may have been common to celts and teutons. now of streams charged with salt there was doubtless a good number in germany, then as now, and it is hardly possible to say which in particular was meant by tacitus^ they rose on mountains, in sacred woods, their produce was deemed the direct gift of a near divinity, possession of the spot seamed worth a bloody war, the getting and distributing of salt was a holy office, would not there be very likely sacrifices and festivals connected with salt-boiling (see suppl. suppose now that the preparation of salt was managed by women, by priestesses, that the salt-kettle, saltpan, was under their care and supervision; there would be a connexion established between salt-boiling and the later vulgar opinion about witchcraft: the witches gather, say o

and festivals connected with salt-boiling (see suppl. suppose now that the preparation of salt was managed by women, by priestesses, that the salt-kettle, saltpan, was under their care and supervision; there would be a connexion established between salt-boiling and the later vulgar opinion about witchcraft: the witches gather, say on certain high days, in the holy wood, on the mountain, where the salt springs bubble, carrying able words (pp. 44. 120-1) is: the chatti in case of victory had devoted the hostile army (div. ac) to mars and mercury; such vow binds one to sacrifice horses, men, every live thing of the defeated. the chatti had used the vow as a threat, the victorious foe fulfilled it as his own. we need not suppose that both sides vowed, least of all that the hermuuduri vowed to

n. can it be, that the horses are named before the men, to shew which fell to zio, which to wuotan? ijeasts, we know, were sacrificed to mars, germ. 9. that it was the custom to devote those who fell in battle to the god, is witnessed by hervar. saga 454' hei&ekr fal (set apart) 05ni allanpann val er par hafsi fallt til arbotar' 1 surprising how commonly, in names of rivers and towns that produce salt, the roots hal and sal occur, both originally signifying the same wholesome holy material&\s, a.\6s, sal, saus; in the alternation of h and s, the former often seems more archaic, or more german, e.g. the particle ham, sam; haso, sasa; hveits, svetas' in pago salagewe, in illo fonte ubi nascitur sal' trad. fuld. 1, 88; halle on the sale in saxony, halle in bavensberg county, hall on the koche

more archaic, or more german, e.g. the particle ham, sam; haso, sasa; hveits, svetas' in pago salagewe, in illo fonte ubi nascitur sal' trad. fuld. 1, 88; halle on the sale in saxony, halle in bavensberg county, hall on the kocher (boiler) in swabia, hallein on the salza in bavaria /ja; and hallstadt in austria, hall in the vale of inn (tirol, allendotl (for hall) in hesse, and so forth, all have salt-springs, saltworks; halle as much as sala, salzaha refers to the salt, but why do the rivers have s, and the towns h? if halle meant merely the hut or shed (taberua) in which the salt works are carried on (frisch 1, 401, such a general meaning would suit almost any village that has work-sheds. 1048 magic. witli them cooking-vessels, ladles and forks; and at night their saltpan is a-glow' thes

lichen (travelled i truly) niwan durch diu masre (merely to ascertain) vaz ein unholde wtere (what a witch was? daz gehort ich nie gelesen (never heard it read, waz ein unholde miige wesen (might be. daz ein wip ein chalp rite (should ride a calf, daz wfere'n wunderliche site (fashion, ode rit uf einer dehsen (wand, ode uf einem hcispesem (besom, broom) ndcli salze ze halle fiiere (fare to h. for salt; ob des al diu welt swiiere (if all the world swore it, doch wolde ich sin nimmer gejehen (say yea to it, ich en-hete (unless i had) ez mit minen ougen gesehen wand (for) so wilrde u7is nimmer tiure (dear, scarce) daz salz von dem ungehiure. ob ein wip einen ovenstap iiber schrite (bestride) und den gegen halle rite liber berge und iiber tal, daz si ta3te deheinen val (make no fall, daz gelou

heart, wie zfeme daz (how were that possible) einem wibe, daz si suite uz einem hbe (body) ein herze, und stieze dar in stro (stuff straw therein, wie mobt' er (how could he) leben ode werden fro? ein mensche muoz ein herze haben, ez habe saf pd si beschaben. ich wil iu sagen msre (g've you information, waz sin rehte unholdare (who real sorcerers are> ohg. salzsuti (sahna, salzsot, as. sealtseas (salt spring. a passage in ihre sub v. seis would make this word (see p. 1036) directly applicable to salt-boiling; but, for' salis coctura' read' talis coctura' salt. noese-flesh. 1049 daz sint der herren ratgeben (counsellors of lorjs) di ir ere furdern solden und leben, di siflent in zuo den oren (whisper in their ears) und machent sie ze toren (make fools of them, si niezent (profit by) ir erbe

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h, dew for the* sweat, clouds for the mind. but then the mhg. and frisian texts travel much further together; both of them make bone spring out of stone, hair (locks) from grass, eyes from the sun, blood from the sea (water, none of which appear in the as. peculiar to the mhg. poem is the derivation of the veins from herbs (wiirzen, and to the as. writer that of the blood from fire, of tears from salt, of the various colours in the eye from flowers, 1 of cold breath from wind, and of sense from grace; which last, though placed beyond doubt by the annexed translation, seems an error not withstanding, for it was purely out of material objects that creation took place; or can the meaning be, that man s will is first conditioned by the grace of god? fitly enough, tears are likened to salt (sal

fr. orient. 2, 893; der necker vliuzet fur heilicbrunnen (flows past holy-well, ms. 2, 68b. 588 elements. aquae calidae near luxeuil (p. 83. when the wetterau people begin a new jug of chalybeate, they always spill the first drop or two on the ground, they say( to clear the dust away/ for the jugs stand open, but it may have been once a libation to the fountain- sprite. 1 not only medicinal, but salt springs were esteemed holy: ancient accounts of these will be presented in a later chapter. the mid. ages cherished the notion of a jungbrunnen: 2 whoever bathes in it is both cured of diseases and guarded from them; in it eauchels shed her shaggy skin, and became the beauteous sigeminne (p. 433-4; such a spring has sometimes the power even to change the bather s sex (see suppl. 3 in a spring

hout the article, bekker on ferabras p. 163. 2 his authority is dynkelspuhl tract. 1, praec. 1, p. 59. is this the nicolaus dinkelspuel in jocher? 3 conf. the wind addressed as lord, p. 631; and dobropan, p. 130 note. 4 some would trace the name of salzwedel, soltwedel in the altmark to heathen sun-worship (ledebur s allg. arch. 14, 370. temme s altmark p. 29, though the first syll. plainly means salt; wedel will be explained when we come to the moon. sun. moon. 705 couples together sol, vulcanus and luna, p. 103. conf. p. 602. as sol is reckoned among asms in the edda (sn. 39, and is sister to hani (sn. 12, this last has claims to an equal rank. yet seem. l b calls sol sinni mana/ companion of the moon, sinni being the goth. gasinj?ja, ohg. kasindeo, sindo; and it is remarkable that the m

e connected the wishing-purse, and the wishing-rod, which unlocks the hoard, but apparently feeds it as well (ch. xxxi; also the wunderblume and the spring wurzel [root which springs open the door of a treasure; a bird s nest makes invisible (deut. s. no. 85. haupt s zeitschr. 3, 361. hone s anz. 8, 539. fr63i s wishing-mill grotti would grind anything the grinder wished for aloud (sn. 146, gold, salt, etc; this we can match with the wheel of fortune, an image that may be an importation to us (p. 866, yet not have been strange- to our remote ancestry; of manoratha i have spoken before. british legend too had its own version of fortune s wheel (p. 869. such a mill, such a wheel ought above all to grind food for gods. the gods possess the drink of immortality, which inspires man with song, a

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6, at 1:06 a.m. eastern time. such new year celebrations shall be held in the temples of all lodges and attended by the council, officers, and members of the lodge and such especially invited guests or visiting members of the order whose presence the master desires for reasons good and sufficient unto himself. there shall be a symbolical feast consisting [25] principally of corn, or its products; salt, or that which tastes most strongly of it; and wine, in the form of unfermented grape juice; and any other delicacies or refreshments suitable to the occasion. all officers shall wear their full regalia and all others their aprons or other insignia. there shall be only sacred music, symbolical addresses, and sincere rejoicing for the new year. b at this new year feast it has been customary fo

d hermetic rose cross, and is a very old mystical symbol. it is composed of two rosy crosses united into one: the small rosy cross at the center. representative of man, the microcosm.is in turn the center point of a larger rose residing at the heart of the large cross.symbolic of the macrocosm. upon the four ends of the large cross are inscribed the three alchemical symbols: mercury, sulphur, and salt. at the top of the cross, mercury is placed in the center, sulphur on the left, and salt on the right. upon the other ends of the cross the symbols have been inscribed in such an order as to conform to the esoteric tradition. also upon each arm, adjacent to the alchemical symbols, is the symbol of the pentagram. this five-pointed figure is a symbolic rep [75] resentation of the rosy cross its

e solvent can retain in solution under the conditions obtaining. either condition results in the formation of crystals. a condition of formation more rarely met with is that in which crystals form directly from vapors, as in the case of iodine or chloride of ammonia. the best means of studying the formation of crystals is afforded by the evaporation of a solution of some soluble compound, such as salt or blue vitriol, until it is supersaturated, when crystals of the dissolved substance will be thrown down. if two substances, such as salt and borax, are dissolved in the same solution, the result of evaporation will be crystals of both substances, each set of molecules building themselves up into distinctive forms. solutions show considerable inertness, and it is often necessary to start the

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omenon of jacobbehmen-arude, unlettered shoemaker-who, falling, like hispredecessor255mahomet, and his successor-swedenborg, into a 'quasi255 mesmeric state' produced those admirable and voluminous works, theteutonicphilosophy,which thus engendered were merely the reflex of the christianity of his time mixed up with the then all-engrossing theories of the triune, body, soul, andspirit-thesulphur, salt, and mercury of the magi-alchemical philosophers, andexpressedin their peculiar language and phraseology. thus swedenborg anticipated, in his revelations,"zschokke in hisselbstschaustates 'it has happened to me occasionally, at the first meeting with a total stranger, when i have been listening in silence to his conversation, that his past life, up to the present moment, with many minute circ

to abuse him; acquainting a neighbour therewith, viz, that he had formerly lost a horse, went to hodges, recovered him again,butsaith it was by chance,"imight have had him without going unto him. 1 will leave some boy or other at the town's-end with my horse,contributionsto the zoist195any boy not above the age of puberty. a boy was taken incidentally from a band of several of them at work in mr salt's garden, the forms were gone through and the magic mirror properly formed; after seeing various images, the boy finally described from the mirror the guilty person, stature, dress, and countenance; said that he knew him, and ran down into the garden, where he apprehended one of the labourers, who, when brought before his master, immediately confessed that he was the thief.mrlane, the eminent

ination.mrsalt, the late british consul, a gentleman intimately acquainted with the language, people, and country, and less liable to be deceived than a passing traveller, found himself completely puzzled on many occasions by the results of the magic mirror experiment. having once, for example, private reasons for believing that some one of his servants had stolen various articles of property; mr salt sent for a celebrated mugh -reb -ee magician, with the viewofintimidating the suspected person, and causing him voluntarily to confess if he were really guilty: the magician came, and at once declared that he would cause the exact image of theguiltyperson to appear tocontributionsto the zoist193three reverences towards the window, waved his wand nine times, sangoutsomething beyond their inter

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k of egyptian mythology 31. see appendix: primary sources under ismailia naos. some egyptologists believe that this unusual text was influenced by the greek myth of zeus s overthrow of chronos. this may be so, but the fact that the story was inscribed on a shrine in the holiest part of a temple shows that the designers of the temple considered it important and meaningful. 32. according to papyrus salt 825, osiris was slain by geb and then brought back to life. 33. e. otto, for example, wrote that osiris is from the beginning a dead god to whom poetic thought later attributes a past life. see egyptian art and the cults of osiris and amon, trans. k. bosse-griffiths (london, 1968, 28. 34. he who was put in the chest is a traditional epithet of osiris, but it refers to being encoffined after m

le clarke. myth and symbol in ancient egypt. london: 1959, chaps. 3 to 5. j. g. griffiths. the origins of osiris and his cult. leiden: 1980. e. otto. egyptian art and the cults of osiris and amon. translated by k. bosse- griffiths. london: 1968. primary sources: pt 219, 532, 576; rdp; ikhernofret stela; amenmose stela; bd 17, 175, 181, 185 6; osiris hymns; h&s; ad; boc; boe; bog; khoiak texts; p. salt 825; lamentations; setna cycle; i&o pakhet pakhet was a lion goddess whose name means the one who tears apart. see also feline deities primeval mound the primeval mound was the first land to rise above the primeval ocean at the dawn of time. the primeval mound was the place where the spirit of the creator could take on a form and begin the work of creation. the mound remained the center of th

ti; apophis; astarte; cattle; eyes of horus; hippopotamus goddesses; horus; isis; moon; nephthys; osiris; thoth references and further reading: j. g. griffiths. the conflict of horus and seth from egyptian and classical sources. liverpool: 1960. h. te velde. seth, god of confusion. leiden: 1977. primary sources: pt 215, 222, 356, 359, 477; bd 39; h&s; astarte and the sea; p. leiden i 343+ 345; p. salt 825; pj; pdm xii; pgm xxxvi; i&o seven hathors the seven manifestations of hathor presided over births and deaths. they pronounced the ultimate fate of all humans. see also cattle; hathor; shai shai (shay) shai was the personification of destiny. every individual had his or her own shai, a personal destiny that helped to make that person unique. as a god, shai might be shown in either human o

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hot, and that "the birds betake themselves to flight when they see the waters thereof, and when they smell the stench which is in it" now this description tells us at once that the lake of boiling water is no other than a collection of water which resembles that of the famous "asphaltitis lacus" or, which is described by diodorus siculus (ii. 48; xix. 98. the water of this lake is said to be very salt, and of an extremely noxious smell, and the fire which burns beneath the ground, and the stench of the bitumen render the inhabitants of the neighbouring country sickly and short-lived. the country round about is nevertheless well fitted for the cultivation of palms, wherever it is traversed by fresh water. it is quite clear that the author of the egyptian text cannot have borrowed his p. 129

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

nd wearily along the gravel walk. and now its heavy gaze falls wistfully on the azure bosomof the tranquil sea. the gulf sparkles like a gem-studded carpet of blue-velvet in the farewell dancingsunbeams, and smiles like a thoughtless, drowsy child, weary of tossing about. further on, calm and serene inits perfidious beauty, the open sea stretches far and wide the smooth mirror of its cool waters- salt andbitter as human tears. it lies in its treacherous repose like a gorgeous, sleeping monster, watching over theunfathomed mystery of its dark abysses. truly the monumentless cemetry of the millions sunk in its depths "without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffined and unknown" while the sorry relic of the once noble form pacing yonder, once that its hour strikes and the deep-voiced nightmare talesv1

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

on alchemy, and other proofs that it was the favorite study of kings and priests, have been exhumed and preserved under the generic name of hermetic treatises. alchemy is studied under three distinct aspects, which admit of many different interpretations, viz: the cosmic, the human, and the terrestrial. these three methods were typified under the three alchemical properties-sulphur, mercury, and salt. different writers have stated that these are three, seven, ten, and twelve processes respectively; but they are all agreed there is but one object in alchemy, which is to transmute gross metals into pure gold. but what that gold really is, very few people understand correctly. no doubt there is such a thing in nature as transmutation of the baser metal into the nobler; but this is only one a

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ates of any notable visions for some time past. the reception of his request seems to have varied; but he must, at the very least, have received more responses than any ordinary man could have handled without a secretary. this original correspondence was not preserved, but his notes formed a thorough and really significant digest. average people in society and business- new england's traditional "salt of the earth- gave an almost completely negative result, though scattered cases of uneasy but formless nocturnal impressions appear here and there, always between march 23 and and april 2- the period of young wilcox's delirium. scientific men were little more affected, though four cases of vague description suggest fugitive glimpses of strange landscapes, and in one case there is mentioned a

f the odd conditions among his own seamen. what would have happened if the regiments had not been ordered on, no one can tell. meanwhile the merchant's worldly affairs were prospering. he had a virtual monopoly of the town's trade in saltpetre, black pepper, and cinnamon, and easily led any other one shipping establishment save the browns in his importation of brassware, indigo, cotton, woollens, salt, rigging, iron, paper, and english goods of every kind. such shopkeepers as james green, at the sign of the elephant in cheapside, the russells, at the sign of the golden eagle across the bridge, or clark and nightingale at the frying-pan and fish near new coffee-house, depended almost wholly upon him for their stock; and his arrangements with the local distillers, the narragansett dairymen a

ese freemen and their hundred sailors began the long march without delay, grim and a trifle apprehensive as they left the muddy dock behind and mounted the gentle rise of broad street toward the pawtuxet road. just beyond elder snow's church some of the men turned back to take a parting look at providence lying outspread under the early spring stars. steeples and gables rose dark and shapely, and salt breezes swept up gently from the cove north of the bridge. vega was climbing above the great hill across the water, whose crest of trees was broken by the roof-line of the unfinished college edifice. at the foot of that hill, and along the narrow mounting lanes of its side, the old town dreamed; old providence, for whose safety and sanity so monstrous and colossal a blasphemy was about to be

muttered a great deal among themselves, but said very little to the outer world. they had talked about dying and half-deserted innsmouth for nearly a century, and nothing new could be wilder or more hideous than what they had whispered and hinted at years before. many things had taught them secretiveness, and there was no need to exert pressure on them. besides, they really knew little; for wide salt marshes, desolate and unpeopled, kept neighbors off from innsmouth on the landward side. but at last i am going to defy the ban on speech about this thing. results, i am certain, are so thorough that no public harm save a shock of repulsion could ever accrue from a hinting of what was found by those horrified men at innsmouth. besides, what was found might possibly have more than one explanat

f fainting; the first i had ever had. v it was a gentle daylight rain that awaked me front my stupor in the brush-grown railway cut, and when i staggered out to the roadway ahead i saw no trace of any prints in the fresh mud. the fishy odour, too, was gone, innsmouth's ruined roofs and toppling steeples loomed up greyly toward the southeast, but not a living creature did i spy in all the desolate salt marshes around. my watch was still going, and told me that the hour was past noon. the reality of what i had been through was highly uncertain in my mind, but i felt that something hideous lay in the background. i must get away from evil-shadowed innsmouth- and accordingly i began to test my cramped, wearied powers of locomotion. despite weakness hunger, horror, and bewilderment i found mysel

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

found. i have said that the bodies were frightfully mangled. now i must add that some were incised and subtracted from in the most curious, cold-blooded, and inhuman fashion. it was the same with dogs and men. all the healthier, fatter bodies, quadrupedal or bipedal, had had their most solid masses of tissue cut out and removed, as by a careful butcher; and around them was a strange sprinkling of salt- taken from the ravaged provision chests on the planes- which conjured up the most horrible associations. the thing had occurred in one of the crude aeroplane shelters from which the plane had been dragged out, and subsequent winds had effaced all tracks which could have supplied any plausible theory. scattered bits of clothing, roughly slashed from the human incision subjects, hinted no clue

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

s of any notable visions for some time past. the reception of his request seems to have been varied; but he must at the very least, have received more responses than any ordinary man could have handled without a secretary. this original correspondence was not preserved but his notes formed a thorough and really significant digest. average people in society and business- new england's traditional 'salt of the earth- gave an almost completely negative result, though scattered cases of uneasy but formless nocturnal impressions appear here and there, always between 23 march and 2 april- the period of young wilcox's delirium. scientific men were little more affected, though four cases of vague description suggest fugitive glimpses of strange landscapes, and in one case there is mentioned a drea

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

muttered a great deal among themselves, but said very little to the outer world. they had talked about dying and half-deserted innsmouth for nearly a century, and nothing new could be wilder or more hideous than what they had whispered and hinted at years before. many things had taught them secretiveness, and there was no need to exert pressure on them. besides, they really knew little; for wide salt marshes, desolate and unpeopled, kept neighbors off from innsmouth on the landward side. but at last i am going to defy the ban on speech about this thing. results, i am certain, are so thorough that no public harm save a shock of repulsion could ever accrue from a hinting of what was found by those horrified men at innsmouth. besides, what was found might possible have more than one explanat

f fainting; the first i had ever had. v it was a gentle daylight rain that awaked me front my stupor in the brush-grown railway cut, and when i staggered out to the roadway ahead i saw no trace of any prints in the fresh mud. the fishy odour, too, was gone, innsmouth's ruined roofs and toppling steeples loomed up greyly toward the southeast, but not a living creature did i spy in all the desolate salt marshes around. my watch was still going, and told me that the hour was past noon. the reality of what i had been through was highly uncertain in my mind, but i felt that something hideous lay in the background. i must get away from evilshadowed innsmouth- and accordingly i began to test my cramped, wearied powers of locomotion. despite weakness hunger, horror, and bewilderment i found myself

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

area that large. you'll need a small room and a table top, preferably one used only for spellcasting. most of the equipment you use should be new, and it's suggested that you use new equipment for each and every one of your spells, lest the associations connected with old things intervene. the new witch should get new candles, new bowls, new everything. around the whole room sprinkle a circle of salt so that the magic act is protected inside. it's best to use coarse salt instead of the refined kind. remain within the protection of the ring of salt for the entire length of the spell. if someone comes to the door while you're casting any spell, you should ignore it. if the telephone rings, ignore it. try to set yourself up so you will have as little distraction as possible. take the phone o

e of the special festival dates. you could do it at the new moon, too, but when you do the new moon money spell, it may help quickly to pay an overdue bill, but it's not going to be a life pattern. the festival dates are the best ones for that. at one minute after midnight on the festival date, you should have all set up: one gold candle, six green candles, and nine white candles. and, of course, salt. place the gold candle in the centre of the table and circle it with the six green candles. then enclose these inside a circle of the nine white candles. use the salt to pour a protective circle around the candles. light the candles, and chant three times: orbiting jupiter, trine the sun: bring money on the run. your finances should begin to improve within nineteen days. this is your lifelong

ith circle number one and place the cards around, one to a circle, to see what's going to happen to you in the future. now, if you want to cast a spell, cut the cards in three stacks, spread the deck face up, and then go through the fifty-two cards and choose what you want to have happen. you place only the chosen cards in the various circles that apply and then surround the circle of twelve with salt. the cards will have to stay on the pattern all week. they cannot be moved. you also need candle protection all week. light a blue candle in the centre of the circle of cards. don't worry about burning all day while you are away; it doesn't have to burn all day long, particularly when you are not present. a candle has its catalytic effect on the atmosphere and you in one second a day. the min

we are not ruled by numbers, although sometimes it might seem so. the force of the moon, the astronomical arithmetic by which we count off our months, affects the tides. all our days are numbered by a calendar that is attuned to the motion of the planets and the forces of the universe. a woman in her menstrual cycle counts the days. the blood that flows in our veins resembles the structure of the salt water that flows in oceans, oceans governed by the moon, oceans from which, evolution says, we ourselves originated. each colour we see has its own vibratory number-value. the number of vibrations determines what colour registers in the brain. sound also reaches us in terms of so many vibrations, so that everything we hear is a reaction to so many pulsations per second. and i'm sure that each

ing. it's very irritating. i hope this is the kind of reaction you were looking for. i wish you would write to me and let me know if i really have any basis for my belief that it was your spell. i don't think it would be wise for me to try your "sexual seduction spell" because i have enough problems with that subject without adding a spell to it. however, it sounds beautiful and maybe i'll get my salt and candle out. i am a terribly ambitious person and am wondering if you know anything i could do to insure my success. how much of witchcraft can a normal, average american rely on? maria g. well, first i would like to say i am surprised and of course pleased to hear that you are a normal, average american with an overwhelming sex starvation. we didn't cast a spell for people to become sexua

ISIS UNVEILED

ditu, southern mdkodiili, methodiita torioui, narthcm prmbyfortoiu, southern prtaytmokt, vnoei frubglerwu, utated brtuum, brethren in ckriel, b^orwiad duuii, s^onhed otrauat, rearmed preibtltrmu, citmberlmid pretbjfleriant. digitizecoy google 2 isis unveiled head. there are many hundred thousand jews; some thousands of orientals of su idnda; and a very few who belong to the greek church. a man at salt i^e city, with mneteen wives and more than one hun- dred children and grandchildren, is the supreme spiritual ruler over ninety thousand people, who believe that he is in frequent intercourse with the gods for the mormons are polytheists as well as polygamists, and their chief god is represented as living in a planet they call colob. the god of the unitarians is a bachelor; the deity of the i

lly known as the roman ritttal the latter was promulgated in 1851 and 1852, under the sanction of cardinal engelbert, archbbhop of malines, and of the archbishop of paris. speaking of it, the de- monologist des mousseaux says "it is the ritual of paul v, revised by the most learned of modem popes, by the contemporary of voltaire, benedict xiv" kabauitic (jewish iid p gui) rohan catholic exordm qf salt e;ft>num qf soli* the frieat-magidan bleuea tbe stiu the priot blcsks the sod mid myi: uidmjn "fjna&in of saa" in thee may" creaturt of salt, i ezorciie thee in tlie remud the wisdom [of g dli and may it name of the living god. btamu tke preacrre from all comiption our mind* and luala of the totd and of at hodyl every- las 'hul and plato' 164. see la magu au xlxmt tiku, p. 139. 165. creatun o

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

symbolised. although so mean in itself, and although so far off, this implied the beginning of all sublunary things. the bees of charlemagne, the bees of the empire in france, are scarabs, or figures of the same affinity as the bourbon lilies. they deduce from a common ancestor. now, the colour heraldic on which they are always emblazoned is azure, or blue which is the colour of the sea, which is salt. in an anagram it may be expressed as c. following on this allusion, we may say that ventre-saintgris! is a very ancient french barbarous expletive, or oath. literally (which, in the occult sense, is always obscurely, it is the sacred blue (or gray) womb, which is absurd. strange myths. 41 now, the reference and the meaning of this we will confidently commit to the penetration of those among

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

y with the track already traced, they began again. a similar occurrence was noted when a wall intervened in the path of the track. as high walls, hayricks, and houses were no obstacle to the onward march of these tracks, so neither was a great stretch of water. the hoof marks were traced to the bank of the estuary of the river exe, and then picked up again on the opposite bank across two miles of salt water. the meanderings of the track ranged from bicton in the east to totnes in the west, a distance of about twenty miles as the crow flies. but the actual mileage covered by the track, as measured by the distance between hamlets, villages, towns and so forth, where the marks were seen was very much more. as one devonian who was greatly interested in the occurrence wrote "when we consider th

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

le. medieval magicians considered the circle essential, and placed great emphasis upon its exactness. elaborate designs were invented with many layers of complex symbols and words. it was very important that the circle be completely intact with no breaks in it. the magician and any other participants stand in the circle during ritual. today, circles are made on the floor with chalk or paint, rock salt, or a rope. whatever its form, the circle is still an important part of magical protection for the magician. this is especially important for aversive entities and purposes. the circle also helps in focusing the energy of the ritual toward its purpose, that is, it keeps it contained until the magician is ready to release it. of course, the magick circle is basicly only a symbol, but it may ev

KETAB E SIYAH

so went i to the earth and unto the hills of moriah where abraham raised his knife above his quiet infant's breast upon the sacrificial altar of piled up stones. there did i take upon the form of a he-goat 303 whilst is was that raphael went unto abraham and stayed his hand. these words he spoke to the man, bent over with the years and wit grief, whose face was stained with tears most bitter with salt and sorrow "abraham, son of terah, i am raphael of the elohim and i bring to you this command from adonai yahweh, king of heaven. your god is a merciful god and would ask not of you the one son that remains to you and is now assured of your faith and asks no more proof of you. most exalted amongst men are you, abraham, and high in god's estimation. take instead this he-goat and offer this one

as though delighting in every new suffering that it wrought, the cruel orb of flame seared his flesh bereft of cloth to ward off the rays. now his strength was lost to him like steam and his hope melted in him like wax. higher and yet higher rose the sun and ever more savagely did it burn him. jesu, nailed upon a tree, would have wept at this fate but had now tears to weep that were not dried to salt by the heat. to the elohim that betrayed he would have raised his voice 350 but his tongue would not move and stuck to his palate. but these words did he cry out, in his abandonment "eli, eli, lama sabachthani" i wept to hear that cry for him that could not weep. now the bright sun seemed dark to him even as it climbed to its zenith and it seemed that his sight fell back into a black well beh

enim de corde hominum cogitationes malae procedunt adulteria fornicationes homicidia for from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders. xxiv flamma the fire bonum est sal quod si sal insulsum fuerit in quo illud condietis habete in vobis sal et pacem habete inter vos for every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. xxv nemo bonus no man is good luciferius autem dixit ei quid me dicis bonum nemo bonus nisi unus lucifer said unto him, why callest thou me good? there is none good but one. xxvi fides luciferius faith in lucifer propterea dico vobis omnia quaecumque orantes petitis credite quia accipietis et veniet vobis therefore i say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye r

is he who "doeth good" unto others; he shall be despised. blessed is the man whose foot is swift to serve a friend; he is a friend indeed. cursed are the organizers of charities; they are propagators of plagues. blessed are the wise and brave, for in the struggle they shall win. cursed are the unfit, for they shall be righteously exterminated. blessed are the sires of noble maidens; they are the salt of the earth. cursed the mothers of strumous tenderlings, for they shall be shamed. blessed are the mighty-minded, for they shall ride the whirlwinds. cursed are they who teach lies for truth and truth for lies, for they are- abomination. blessed are the unmerciful; their posterity shall own the world. cursed are the famous wiselings; their seed shall perish off the earth thrice cursed are th

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE ONE

le name, that name which the ancient rabbis have said "rushes through the universe" that name before which the darkness rolls back the birth of time. the flaming red triangular capitals which crown the summit of the pillars represent the triune manifestation of the spirit of life, the three mothers of the sepher yetsirah, the three alchemical principles of nature, the sulphur, the mercury and the salt. each pillar is surmounted by its own light-bearer veiled from the material world. at the base of both pillars rise the lotus flowers, symbols of regeneration and metempsychosis. the archaic illustrations are taken from the vignettes of teh 17th and 125th chapter of the ritual of the dead the egyptian book of the per-em-hru or the book of coming forth into the day, the oldest book in the worl

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE TWO

phiroth are embraced by the twin serpents whose heads rest upon chesed and geburah the moon on the tree of life in the moon s increase the pillar of mercy is embraced. in its decrease the pillar of severity is embraced. at the full moon it reflects the sun of tiphare tii- second knowledge lecture (zelator) the names and alchemical symbols of the three principles of nature are: sulphur f mercury h salt g the metals attributed to the planets in alchemy are' lead! gold& tin$ copper or brass% iron# quicksilver (mercury" silver the following terms are used in books about alchemy. they have the meanings gievn below. sol philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of gold- the refined essence of heat and fire luna philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of silver--the refined essence

e. let him take a ruler or pencil and by moving it a distance equal to its length, outline a square. having done this, let him, after quieting his mind with the rhythmic breathing taught in the first meditation, mentally formulate a cube, and endeavour to discover the significance of this figure and its correspondences. let him meditate upon minerals and crystals, choosing especially a crystal of salt, and entering into it, actually feel himself of crystalline formation. looking out on the universe from this standpoint, let him identify himself with the earth spirits in love and sympathy, recalling as far as he can their prayer as said in the closing of the zelator grade. let him meditate upon the earth triplicity, visualizing the symbols of a bull--a virgin--a goat which stand for kerubic

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

whatsoever; we do! doing that, we create an objective outside ourselves and disconnected from ourselves. these are the only conditions that allow the building of a temple. q: what does the blessing for the food mean in terms of kabbalah? a: the talmud speaks of a big group of tana im, kabbalists who buried their deceased teacher. after the funeral they sat by the river and had a meal of bread and salt. all of a sudden they realized they could not bless the blessing for the food without their teacher. regrettably, they had not succeeded in learning this blessing from their teacher. so what is the blessing for the food? the blessing for the food is the reception of pleasure in order to please the creator. it is when there is mutual respect between the guest (man) and the host (the creator. o

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

onis sank beneath the atlantic ocean in the deluge mentioned in the timaeus of plato; at the same time the land rose and made the sahara desert where a shallow sea had been before, and a vast tidal wave swept over egypt, so that almost its entire population was destroyed. even when everything settled down, the country was a wilderness, bounded on the west no longer by a peaceful sea but by a vast salt swamp, which as the centuries rolled on dried into an inhospitable desert. of all the glories of egypt there remained only the pyramids towering in lonely desolation- a state of things which endured for fifteen hundred years before the clan returned from its mountain refuge, grown into a great nation. 64. but long before this half-savage tribes had ventured into the land, fighting their primi

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

es of the universe, the construc-tive powers of nature; and since in our lodges we are engaged in building a universe in miniature, it is these who are invoked to assist us in our work. this invocation is performed at the consecration of every lodge, however little the modern consecrating officer may know what he is really doing when he pours forth the traditional offerings of corn, wine, oil and salt, symbols which they themselves have chosen from time immemorial to represent their especial powers. this ancient piece of ritual, when performed by an i.m. duly commissioned to consecrate a lodge, produces stupendous results in the inner worlds; for it amounts to a call made to the planetary spirits at the head of the four lines to recognize the new lodge and to dedicate it to the service of

he power of his hierarchy whenever the lodge is opened in due and ancient form. the pouring of wine in the south invokes a great blue angel of water, also attended by other angels less great than he; similarly the offering of oil in the west calls upon a mighty crimson angel of fire, who pours down into the lodge the splendid rhythmic power of that most terrible and lovely of the elements. as the salt is strewn in the east, an angel of the air flashes down from on high, he and his attendants being of a wonderful silver hue shot through with mother-of-pearl. these four great ones, representing the four gods of the elements, the four children or brothers of horus, solemnly consecrate the lodge, binding the brn. into a close unity in the inner worlds and linking with them angels of their orde

ntury to century, until we find it among the essenes, who also appear to have inherited chaldaean rites. it was in this school that the disciple jesus lived in preparation for his ministry, after receiving a high initiation into the true mysteries of egypt. the essenes had among other chaldaean rites inherited what was afterwards known as the mithraic eucharist, the ceremony of bread and wine and salt, which, as we shall see later, was transmitted through the ages until it was incorporated in the modern degree of the rose-croix of heredom. the consecration of those elements was and is wonderful, though there is not so full a descent of the divine presence as in the corresponding ritual of amen used in ancient egypt. it seems probable, however, that the lord christ took the mithraic supper

es gave especially courage and purity, and the demands upon the candidates in both these respects were exceedingly high. there was an intensity of brotherly feeling between the initiates of mithra which is rarely realized in our lodges to-day; they were pledged to fight for the right, and they stood shoulder to shoulder against all foes. 423. the mithraic sacrament consisted of bread and wine and salt, and was consecrated at a solemn ceremony in the mysteries, being linked to that aspect of the deity which was represented by mithra, and intensely charged with force along the characteristic lines of purity, courage and brotherhood, helping to bind the brethren together into a body corporate as soldiers of light and truth. this same eucharist has been transmitted to us to-day through the cul

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

. the causes of the salem witchcraft trial, which have been examined by a number of studies, have variously been attributed to the political and social problems of salem village. see also mather, cotton for further reading: cahill, robert ellis. the horrors of salem s witch dungeon. peabody, ma: chandler-smith, 1986. demos, john putnam. entertaining satan. new york: oxford university press, 1982. salt salt has long been used as a symbol of purity and as a substance to ward away evil spirits. in christianity, salt is associated with eternity and divine protection. salt and holy water are used in baptisms and to bless church sites, as well as to protect unbaptized babies prior to baptism and the dead in their journey from earth to the next world. witches and demons were traditionally said to

a symbol of purity and as a substance to ward away evil spirits. in christianity, salt is associated with eternity and divine protection. salt and holy water are used in baptisms and to bless church sites, as well as to protect unbaptized babies prior to baptism and the dead in their journey from earth to the next world. witches and demons were traditionally said to be repelled by the presence of salt. it is thus used as protection against witchcraft, the evil eye, and it has the power to break evil spells. when trying to conjure demons or spirits, it is recommended that one avoid salt as it can interfere with the connection. salt has been utilized in regard to those accused or suspected of being witches. it was a form of torture to feed the accused heavy doses of salt. women have been sus

mons or spirits, it is recommended that one avoid salt as it can interfere with the connection. salt has been utilized in regard to those accused or suspected of being witches. it was a form of torture to feed the accused heavy doses of salt. women have been suspected of being witches on the mere fact that they complained of their food being overly salted. when one spills, borrows, or runs out of salt, it is considered unlucky and is said to make one susceptible to the powers of the devil. it is possible to negate this situation by pinching salt in the right hand and tossing it over the left shoulder. see also amulet; demons for further reading: chevalier, jean, and alain gheerbrant. the penguin dictionary of symbols. london: penguin, 1996. cooper, j. c. an illustrated encyclopedia of trad

and revives her or him with a potion referred to as zombi s cucumber. disoriented, afraid, and psychologically or physically abused, the revived victim is given a new name, and becomes the de facto slave of the sorcerer. zombies are traditionally put to work in the fields, although some are said to do other kinds of work. they need minimal nourishment. it is said, however, that they cannot be fed salt, which activates their speaking ability as well as an instinct that takes them back to their tombs. it should finally be mentioned that vodoun/voodoo indirectly received some negative media attention in the wake of the matamoros murders in the late 1980s, after the bodies of a university of texas student and the rivals of a drug-running gang were found buried on a mexican ranch. news media an

LIBER 777

th] aumgn 25 jacinth the arrow (swift and straight application of force) on 26 black diamond the secret force, lamp on 27 ruby, any red stone the sword. 28 artificial glass[[chalcedony] the censer or aspergillus. 29 pearl the twilight of the place and magic mirror. 30 crysolith the lamen or bow and arrow iao: inri 31 fire opal the wand or lamp, pyramid of b[[the thurible. 32 onyx a sickle. 32 bis salt the pantacle or[[bread and] salt. 31 bis black diamond[[the winged egg. table i (continued) 13 xlii* perfumes. xliii* vegetable drugs. xliv* mineral drugs. 0[[no attribution possible. carbon 1 ambergris elixir vit aur. pot. 2 musk hashish[[cocaine] phosphorus 3 myrrh, civet belladonna, soma silver 4 cedar opium. 5 tobacco nux vomica, nettle[[cocaine, atropine] iron, sulphur 6 olibanum stramon

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

e pretty plan. but ever since.well, i can.t say what.s wrong, but something.s wrong. hermes. yes; yes. now is it long? astarte. about a month. hermes. what physic have you tried? astarte. the usual things; young vipers skinned and dried and chopped with rose-leaves; cow.s hoof stewed in dung, one pilule four times daily, on the tongue; lark.s brains in urine after every meal, with just a touch of salt and orange-peel. hermes. and yet he is no better? astarte. not a whit. oh yes, though, not i come to think of it, snails pounded up and taken after food did seem to do some temporary good. of course we kept him on a doubled diet. hermes. have you tried change of air, and rest, and quiet? astarte. no; what a strange idea! hermes. as strange as new. yet there seems somehow something in it too!

LIBER CHANOKH

t keys or calls 26 the opening of the temple in the grade of 1 =108 give the sign of the god set fighting. purify with fire and water, and announce .the temple is cleansed [knock] let us adore the lord and king of earth! adonai ha aretz, adonai melekh, unto thee be the kingdom, the sceptre, and the splendour: malkuth, geburah, gedulah, the rose of sharon and the lily of the valley, amen [sprinkle salt before earth tablet] let the earth adore adonai [make the invoking hexagram of saturn [make the invoking pentagram of spirit passive and pronounce these names: hyha. alga. nanta [make the invoking pentagram of earth and pronouce this name ]lm ynda] and elohim said: let us make man in our own image; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air; and over ever

butamoni pareme zodumebi canilu. dazodisa etahamezoda cahisa dao, od mireka ozodola cahisa pidiai colalala. ul ci ninu a sobame ucime. bajile? iad balatohe cahirelanu pare! niiso! od upe ofafafe; bajile a-cocasahe icoresaka a uniji beliore. a mighty guard of fire with two-edged swords flaming (which have eight vials of wrath for two times and a half, whose wings are of wormwood and the marrow of salt) have set their feet in the west, and are measured with their 9996 ministers. these gather up the moss of the earth as the rich man doth his treasure. cursed are they whose iniquities they are! in their eyes are mill-stones greater than the earth, and from their mouths run seas of blood. their heads are covered with diamonds, and upon their heads are marble stones.*10 happy is he on whom they

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

t really meditation at all. you let your mind rove about, instead of pinning it down to a single, simple object. samadhi never occurs in such conditions. o.m] 9 [this examination is a subtle compliment, amounting almost to flattery. it is a much harder paper than would be set in most cases. o.m] the equinox 170 (c) discover by visions the nature of the alchemical principles, sulphur, mercury, and salt. how do they differ from the 3 gunas, and the elements fire, water, air (d) give an account of the sign aquarius in the 4 worlds, assiah, yetzirah, briah, and atziluth (e) visit and describe fully the qliphoth of aries (f) visit lophiel and hismael, and report their appearance, mode of life, and conversation. observe. the a\ a\ work throughout is definite and directed. there is no room for a

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

reat grey birds from the north, so do i stand and invoke thee! 30. let them obscure not the sun with their wings and their clamour! 31. take away form and its following! 32. i am still. 33. thou art like an osprey among the rice, i am the great red pelican in the sunset waters. 34. i am like a black eunuch; and thou art the scimatar. i smite off the head of the light one, the breaker of bread and salt. 35. yea! i smite.and the blood makes as it were a sunset on the lapis lazuli of the king fs bedchamber. 36. i smite. the whole world is broken up into a mighty wind, and a voice cries aloud in a tongue that men cannot speak. 37. i know that awful sound of primal joy; let us follow on the wings of the gale even unto the holy house of hathor; let us offer the five jewels of the cow upon her al

LIBER LVII

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 would have to decide which from other data.and refer it to the xviith key of the taro in respect of its starriness. the use of these attributions is lengthy and various: i cannot dwell upon it: but i will give one example. if i wish to visit the sphere of geburah, i use the colours and forces appropriate: i go t

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

w a woman wondrous fair3 robed in flames of hair, moon-sandalled, sun-belted, with torch and vase of fire and water. and he trailed comet-clouds of glory upward. thus came our father (blessed be his name) to death,4 who stood, scythe in hand, opposed. and ever and anon he swept round, and men fell before him .look. said death .my sickle hath a cross-handle. see how they grow like flowers .give me salt. quoth our father. and with sulphur (that the goat had given him) and with salt did he bestrew the ground .i see we shall have ado together. says death .aye. and with that he lops off death.s cross-handle. now death was wroth indeed, for he saw that our father had wit of his designs (and they were right foul, but he bade him pass forthwith through his dominion. and our father could not at tha

LIBER SAMEKH

hyr is the gakasa h, the gspirit, h the athyr of physics, which is the framework on which all forms are founded; it receives, records and transmits all impulses without itself suffering mutation thereby. the gearth h is the sphere wherein the operation of these gfundamental h and athyric forces appears to perception. gunder the earth h is the world of* they correspond to the sulphur, mercury, and salt of alchemy; to sattvas, rajas, and tamas in the hindu system; and are rather modes of action than actual qualities even when conceived as latent. they are the apparatus of communication between the planes; as such, they are conventions. there is no absolute validity in any means of mental apprehension; but unless we make these spirits of the firmament subject unto us by establishing right rel

LIBER TURRIS

fe. 12. and this: 13. there is a well before the great white throne that is choked up with rubbish from the ages; rubble and clay and sediment and stone, delight of lizards and despair of sages. only the lightning from his hand that sits, and shall sit when the usurping tyrant falls, can purge that wilderness of wills and wits, let spring that fountain in eternal halls. 14. and this: 15. sulphur, salt, and mercury: which is master of the three? salt is lady of the sea; lord of air is mercury. now by god fs grace here is salt fixed beneath the violet vault. now by god fs love purge it through with our right hermetic dew. 4 liber tvrris vel domvs dei now by god wherein we trust be our sophic salt combust. then at last the eye shall see three in one and one in three, sulphur, salt, and mercur

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

15 (1981: 495.511. audhumla the proto-cow, involved in the origin of the races of gods and giants. although the name is found among the thulur for gcow, h audhumla fs mythological role is found only in snorri fs gylfaginning. snorri says that audhumla emerged from the drips of rime just after ymir was formed, and that four streams of milk ran from her udders and nourished ymir. she in turn licked salt blocks, and from these there emerged in three days buri, the first of the asir. although cows are not uncommon in creation stories from around the world, what is most striking about audhumla is that she unites the two groups of warring groups in the mythology, by nourishing ymir, ancestor of all the giants, and bringing into the light buri, progenitor of the asir. the presumed etymology of he

poetry and in snorri fs edda, where the name is spelled bor. the word bur is a poetic noun meaning gson. h with the giantess bestla, bur had the three sons odin, vili, and ve. see also bestla; buri; odin buri first of the asir, father of bur and therefore grandfather of odin. buri is found in snorri fs gylfaginning but not in eddic poetry. he is part of the creation story, for he was licked from salt blocks by the primeval cow audhumla. snorri describes him as gfair in appearance, large, and powerful. he begat that son called bor. h although the text does not make it explicit, we may, i think, assume that he did so through an ordinary human sexual act, in contrast to the monstrous hermaphroditic procreation of ymir. see also audhumla; bur, bor; ymir byggvir mythological character. byggvir

been strong enough to operate. frodi set the slaves to turning it and bade them grind out gold, which they did, and also peace and prosperity for frodi. but he did not allow them rest, and finally they ground out an army against frodi, led by the sea king my lsing. my lsing killed frodi and took much booty, and so ended the peace of frodi. my lsing took the mill and the slaves and bade them grind salt. he too allowed them no rest. a little later the ship sank, presumably through the grinding of the slave girls, and that is why the sea is salty. although frodi is descended from odin, the story belongs to heroic legend. the poem itself, which snorri goes on to cite, is also a part of heroic legend, but it approaches the mythology more closely because of the explicit association of the slaves

49 (1950: 4.8, and ernst philipsson, die genealogie der gotter in germanischer religion, mythologie, und theologie, illinois studies in language and literature, vol. 37, part 3 (urbana: university of illinois press, 1953. odin (old norse o.inn) god of poetry, wisdom, hosts, and the dead; in the received mythology head of the pantheon. odin fs father was bur, son of buri, the form licked from the salt blocks by the proto-cow audhumla. odin fs mother was bestla, a giantess, the daughter of bolthorn. his very genealogy, therefore, replicates a basic operational pattern, namely, that the gods take as wives (or make children with) the females of the giant group. with his brothers vili and ve, odin created the cosmos out of the body of the proto-giant ymir, whom they killed. here too a basic op

ll uncommon in cosmogonies for hermaphroditic conception and birth to occur, in the context of this mythology it demonstrates once and for all the alien nature of the giants, ymir fs descendants. ymir fs relationship with the asir is snorri fs next topic. also formed out of drops in ginnunga gap was audhumla, the proto-cow. her milk fed ymir, and she licked buri, the first of the asir, out of the salt blocks. buri sired a son bor (presumably in the normal way, and bor married bestla, the daughter of the giant bolthorn and therefore a descendant of ymir. the number of generations is so small that it is tempting to imagine that bolthorn was one of those who emerged directly from ymir, but no source makes that explicit. the sons of bor, according to snorri, were odin, vili, and ve, and they c

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

and replicate, the t in the right-hand strand (top) mispairs with a g, instead of an a (middle, in the newly formed strand. when the dna molecule containing an abnormal t-g pair replicates, the strand containing the g will produce a g-c pair (bottom. thus, an a-t pair present in the top dna molecule has become a g-c, mutated pair in one of the daughter molecules. what is evolutionary biology? 43 salt, chlorine. as another example, some humans carry a mutated hemoglobin gene that gives their blood a higher affinity for oxygen and hence makes them more adapted to life at high altitude. many humans in societies where milk is an important source of nutrition are tolerant to the sugar present in milk, lactose. the latter two are examples of beneficial mutations. moreover, a gene responsible fo

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

e such figures doubtless will evoke the ridicule of modern egyptologists, they are based upon an exhaustive study of the principles of sidereal mechanics as incorporated into the structure of the pyramid by its initiated builders. if the casing stones were in position at the beginning of the ninth century, the socalled erosion marks upon the outside were not due to water. the theory also that the salt upon the interior stones of the pyramid is evidence that the building was once submerged is weakened by the scientific fact that this kind of stone is subject to exudations of salt. while the building may have been submerged, at least in part, during the many thousands of years since its erection, the evidence adduced to prove this point is not conclusive. the great pyramid was built of limes

cat or drink, i have not erred through myself, but through these (pointing to the chest which contained the viscera. the removal of the organs identified as the seat of the appetites was considered equivalent to the purification of the body from their evil influences. so literally did the early christians interpret their scriptures that they preserved the bodies of their dead by pickling them in salt water, so that on the day of resurrection the spirit of the dead might reenter a complete and perfectly preserved body. believing that the incisions necessary to the embalming process and the removal of the internal organs would prevent the return of the spirit to its body, the christians buried their dead without resorting to the more elaborate mummification methods employed by the egyptian

creature marked t the physical nature--the footstool of isis, the spirit of universal life. considered in the light of alchemy, the central panel contains the metals and the borders the alchemical processes. the figure seated on the throne is the universal mercury--the "stone of the wise; the flaming canopy of the throne above is the divine sulphur; and the cube of earth beneath is the elemental salt. the three triads--or the paternal foundation--in the central panel represent the silent watchers, the three invisible parts of the nature of man; the two panels on either side are the quaternary lower nature of man. in the central panel are 21 figures. this number is sacred to the sun--which consists of three great powers, each with seven attributes--and by qabbalistic reduction 21 becomes 3

e third division is that condition wherein the element partakes somewhat of the substance immediately superior to itself. for example the lowest division of the element of water is sedimentary, as it contains earth substance in solution; the second division represents water in its most common state--salty--as in the case of the ocean; and the third division is water in its purest state--free from salt. the harmonic interval assigned to the lowest division of each element is one tone, to the central division also a tone, but to the higher division a half-tone because it partakes of the division immediately above it. fludd emphasizes the fact that as the elements ascend in series of two and a half tones, the diatessaron is the dominating harmonic interval of the elements. next: fishes, insec

ontaining fire and the other water. the celestial globe (originally the bowl of fire, surmounting the right-hand column (jachin, symbolized the divine man; the terrestrial globe (the bowl of water, surmounting the left-hand column (boaz, signified the earthly man. these two pillars respectively connote also the active and the passive expressions of divine energy, the sun and the moon, sulphur and salt, good and bad, light and darkness. between them is the door leading into the house of god, and standing thus at the gates of sanctuary they are a reminder that jehovah is both an androgynous and an anthropomorphic deity. as two parallel columns they denote the zodiacal signs of cancer and capricorn, which were formerly placed in the chamber of initiation to represent birth and death--the extr

ng as to the end of physical sight and the beginning of ethereal vision may account for these differences of opinion. even this explanation, however, does not satisfactorily account for the satyr which, according to st. jerome, was captured alive during the reign of constantine and exhibited to the people. it was of human form with the horns and feet of a goat. after its death it was preserved in salt and taken to the emperor that he might testify to its reality (it is within the bounds of probability that this curiosity was what modern science knows as a monstrosity) the undines as the gnomes were limited in their function to the elements of the earth, so the undines (a name given to the family of water elementals) function in the invisible, spiritual essence called humid (or liquid) ethe

and called to himself three brethren, whom he bound by an oath to preserve inviolate the secrets he should impart and to write down for the sake of posterity the information click to enlarge the golden and rosy cross. from geheime figuren der rosenkreuzer. it is said of this cross that it is made of spiritual gold and that each brother wears it upon his breast. it bears the alchemical symbols of salt, sulphur, and mercury; also a star of the planets; and around it are the four words faith, hope, love, and patience. the double-headed eagle, or phoenix, subtly foreshadows the ultimate androgynous state of the human creature. rosicrucian alchemy was not concerned with metals alone. man's own body was the alchemical laboratory, and none could reach rosicrucian adeptship until he had performed

lucidation of their symbolism. a recent writer who reproduced one of these charts correlated it to the emblematic tomb of father c.r.c, thus exposing the true nature of christian rosencreutz. the five plates reproduced in hargrave jennings' book are part of a series of fifteen diagrams which appear in the magical, qabbalistical, and theosophical writings of georgius von welling, on the subject of salt, sulphur, and mercury. this extremely rare volume was published at frankfort and leipzig in 1735 and 1760. the numbers and figures on the charts refer to the chapters and sections of the writings. these fifteen charts constitute a remarkable and invaluable addition to the few other known admittedly authentic qabbalistic and rosicrucian diagrams. lucifer is the greatest mystery of symbolism. t

the sphere rests upon a point, the cube upon a surface; the sphere is therefore used to symbolize spirit, and the cube, matter. figure 14 demonstrates that atmosphere rushing in behind a falling object increases its velocity and apparently adds to its weight. the essential nature of each element is occultly signified by the peculiar symbol and character assigned to it. of figure 15, the symbol of salt, von welling writes, in substance: the cube has six sides, corresponding to the six days of creation, with the point of rest (the seventh day) in the center of the cube. on each surface of the cube appear the signs of the four elements [triangles. the alchemists declared that salt was the first created substance produced by the fire (schamayim) which flowed out of god. in salt all creation is

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

of reasonable secrecy, especially about the time and place of your magical operations. of course, if it is a rival witch or maybe a whole coven that is interested in busting up your operation, then should they know the nature of the magic you are going to work, they will probably be able to figure out the time when you are going to perform say around the full moon. if they are worth their magical salt, they may also even figure out the place, by means of a divination. then it will be a matter of may the best witch win; magic against countermagic. but this is more properly a subject for chapters 5 and 6, which deal with countermagic and attack. here i shall restrict myself to sensible advice concerning the relatively simple matter of preserving a modicum of secrecy about your personal magic

craft, you must have your set of basic traditional working tools. without them, all the most powerful born-witch or warlock is powerless when working at a distance from his victim. they are the tools of your trade, as much as an easel and brushes are of the artist. the magical act is a cumulative one. you start from scratch with newly purchased substances, ritually purify or demagnetize them with salt water, and incense, and then recharge them with your concentrated witch power. from these charged substances, you then fashion your implements, and with these implements, you cast your first spells. the basic witch tools themselves are five in number; the full complement eight. there are many lesser ones which merit the designation more of common household implements that you keep specially f

all the talismans, philters, incenses, images, and amulets that will be your general stock in trade. the ways and means to manufacture such things will be discussed under the specific headings throughout the book as we come to them. to make your working tools, the first thing you must do is to learn how to purify and consecrate all your raw materials (or exorcise them, as we call it) by means of salt, water, and incense. theoretically, the salt, water, and incense stand for the four elements of the wise earth, water, and fire, together with air symbolically constituting the basis for the material universe, in the language of alchemy and witchcraft. by exorcising anything you are in effect symbolically using these four basic constituents to "wash" the article of all extraneous vibrations

ese four basic constituents to "wash" the article of all extraneous vibrations, prior to recharging it with your own will and concentrated witch power. before, in fact, transforming it into a servant to accomplish a given magical task. throughout the following pages i will refer to this process of purification as either exorcism or "passing something through fire and water" formula of exorcism by salt, water, and incense basically, any form of words can be used to exorcise something, ranging from a long ecclesiasticalsounding latin invocation to a simple jingle. witches generally prefer the latter. here are two charms that can be used for exorcism, and which partake of the nature of jingles: taking a small handful of new salt and casting it into a bowl of fresh water, breathe these words o

g it into a bowl of fresh water, breathe these words onto the water's surface, mentally visualizing and this is the important thing with all the faith, will, and imagination you can muster, a dim bluish light beginning to hover over it as you do. water and earth where you are cast no spell nor adverse purpose last not in complete accord with me. as my word, so mote it be! this is now your charged salt and water of exorcism which you will use to make your working tools. similarly, casting a few grains of good-quality church incense onto a glowing charcoal block contained in an ashtray, chant as you hold your hand outstretched over it: creature of fire this charge i lay, no phantom in thy presence stay. here my will addressed to thee; and as my word, so mote it be! again, strongly visualize

into the arthurian romances. the cauldron, bowl, or cup symbolizes the receptive passivity of the great womb of nature, out of which all things are born and to which all return. it is seen as female in nature and is analogous with night, darkness, space, and, of course, the all-encompassing sea. water is the traditional element of the wise related to it. the cup or chalice is used to contain the salt water of exorcism or, alternatively, the wine of libation. this is the sacramental wine which is consumed in some ceremonies, and also used to consecrate things at times. the cup is also used to compose philters in. during persecution times the use of the chalice or cup was generally discontinued, owing to the fact that should a witch or warlock be found in possession of one, it usually led t

cide on a brass or copper one, be sure you glaze it well on the inside, since both of these metals can become very poisonous when a reactive liquid like wine is brought into contact with them. glass and ceramic are also acceptable, but, as i say, a metal or horn one is traditional. the process of consecration is simple. during the period of the month when the moon is waxing toward full, take some salt water in a bowl and steep in it the following powdered herbs: vervain (verbena, mint, basil, rosemary, hyssop, lavender, sage, valerian, fennel. sprinkle some incense on a charcoal block and charge both fire and water with the words i have already given you, mentally putting all your effort of will, faith, and imagination into seeing the elements as glowing with vibrant, purifying light. havi

igious supply stores. a lot of shops specializing in the sale of exotic foreign imports also stock them. be sure to get them unperfumed, though. 2. a supply of plain, undecorated white candles about six to nine inches long. beeswax is excellent, but ordinary tallow or stearin will do well. candles of other colours such as black or red will be mentioned in the spells, where they are called for. 3. salt. ground rock salt is best, but ordinary table salt will do for exorcisms. 4. water. tap water will do for exorcisms, but distilled water such as used for steam irons will be needed for your philters and elixirs. 5. white masking tape. most art suppliers stock this. it is very useful for the temporary marking out of circles or triangles, particularly where group work is concerned. 6. good-qual

that the numbers in each line, vertical or horizontal, add up to the same total. in this case, 260. now you may well ask what all this has to dp with mercury? well, you can think of magic squares as being signaling devices, types of psychic telephone numbers to the unseen. the way of using the square of mercury before any divination is this: take a blank sheet of white paper, and exorcise it with salt water and a mercurial incense such as you will find listed under the heading "herbs and incenses" having done this, draw a square with sixtyfour compartments as shown above with your pen and ink of art. now carefully and deliberately inscribe the numbers in the square as illustrated, in their correct numerical order, 1, 2, 3, 4, onwards, ending with 64. as you write each number, repeat a shor

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

llowing prayer: prayer el strong and wonderful, i bless thee, i adore thee, i glorify thee. i invoke thee, i render thee thanks from this bath, so that this water may be able to cast from me all impurity and concupiscence of heart, through thee, o holy adonai; and may i accomplish all things through thee who livest and reignest unto the ages of the ages. amen. book two page 93 after this take the salt and bless it in this manner: the benediction of the salt. the blessing of the father almighty be upon this creature of salt, and let all malignity and hindrance be cast forth hencefrom, and let all good enter herein, for without thee man cannot live, wherefore i bless thee and invoke thee, that thou mayest aid me. then thou shalt recite over the salt, psalm ciii. then taking the grains of the

ess it in this manner: the benediction of the salt. the blessing of the father almighty be upon this creature of salt, and let all malignity and hindrance be cast forth hencefrom, and let all good enter herein, for without thee man cannot live, wherefore i bless thee and invoke thee, that thou mayest aid me. then thou shalt recite over the salt, psalm ciii. then taking the grains of the exorcised salt thou shalt cast them into the aforesaid bath; and thou shalt again disrobe thyself, pronouncing the following words: imanel, arnamon, imato, memeon, rectacon, muboii, paltellon, decaion, yamenton, yaron, tatonon, vaphoron, gardon, existon, zagveron, momerton, zarmesiton, tileion, tixmion. after this thou shalt enter a second time into the bath and recite psalms civ. and lxxxi. then thou shalt

. of the water, and of the hyssop. if it be necessary to sprinkle with water anything required in the art it should be done with a sprinkler. prepare a censer in the day and hour of mercury, with the odoriferous spices of the art. after this thou shalt take a vessel of brass, of lead varnished within and without, or of earth, which thou shalt fill with most clear spring water, and thou shalt have salt, and say these words over the salt: tzabaoth, messiach, emanuel, elohim gibor, yod he vau he: o god who art the truth and the life, deign to bless and sanctify this creature of salt, to serve unto us for help, protection, and assistance in this art, experiment, and operation, and may it be a succor unto us. after this cast the salt into the vessel wherein is the water, and say the following p

alt commence with this knife to flay the animal, whether it be virgin or unborn, saying: the key of solomon page 114 zohar, zio, talma, adonai, shaddai, tetragrammaton, and ye holy angels of god; be present, and grant power and virtue unto this parchment, and may it be consecrated by you, so that all things which i shall write thereon shall obtain their effect. amen. the animal being flayed, take salt, and say thus over it: god of gods, and lord of lords, who hast created all things from negative existence, deign to bless and sanctify this salt, so that in placing it upon this parchment which i wish to make, it may have such virtue that whatsoever i may write on it hereafter may attain its desired end. amen. afterwards rub the said parchment with the exorcised salt, and leave it in the sun

s over it: god of gods, and lord of lords, who hast created all things from negative existence, deign to bless and sanctify this salt, so that in placing it upon this parchment which i wish to make, it may have such virtue that whatsoever i may write on it hereafter may attain its desired end. amen. afterwards rub the said parchment with the exorcised salt, and leave it in the sun, to imbibe this salt for the space of an entire day. then take a large earthen vessel glazed within and without, round the outside of which thou shalt write the characters in figure 88. after this thou shalt put powdered lime into the vessel, saying: oroh, zaron, zainon, zevaron, zaphiel, elion, be ye present and bless this work so that it may attain the desired effect, through the king of the heavens, and the go

MEANING OF MASONRY

" from which it is essential to keep divested. the result has been that what might have been, and was designed to be, the greatest spiritually educative force in the world's history, has become a materialized institution, exercising an intellectual tyranny which has estranged the minds of millions from religion altogether. as lot's wife is metaphorically said to have crystallized into a pillar of salt through turning back in desire to what she ought to have renounced altogether, so in trying to serve mammon and god at the same time the roman church has failed in both and, as the result of the false steps and abuses of centuries. the world is to-day a chaos of disunited sects and popular religious teaching is as materialistic as masonry. it is a pity, for in its original design and practice

MICHAEL FORD BOOK OF CAIN

ith sorcerous images which i understood came from the gates i opened forth. i woke in the feeling of sweat and filth from the previous day, i was refreshed yet unclean. i killed a small animal with ease and ate in the morning light. i then took to the desert sun yet again. i grew more tired and had very little water left in my flask, and the sun grew in its heat. my veil which covered my head was salt filled and gray with dirt and sand, what was once white was now soiled. by the noon tide hour i did indeed approach what was caves, i felt a sense of isolation here, yet i was being watched. the sea was violent and still comforting. the air was hot with noxious heat, pouring through my veil as i walked along, tired and aching from this desolate journey. it was here that i heard strange noises

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

e rite, bury the athame point down in a solitary and preferably wooded area. as you bury it, proclaim to yourself in your own way that the blade is being dedicated to the forces of nature and the magickal path which you walk. three days later, once you unearth the dagger you will want to consecrate the athame in a large bowl combined with herbs, your blood and/or sexual fluid as well as water and salt. while consecrating focus and intone "water, earth and life where you are cast let nought unwelcome dare trespass, so mote it be" cast the circle anti-clockwise "spirits of fire, water, earth and air, this charge is laid. let phantoms of my desire come hence, to which my will is law ecstasy will come and my many elementals to my aid. so mote it be" perform banishing ritual opening "i charge t

stored well in a jar and enough for pouring twice. do not harm one animal in this working, it is of utmost importance to give the lunar intelligence birth and connection through your own blood, to prevent the spirit from obtaining desires alien to your purpose. the circle should be inscribed with the names: lilith- hecate- kali- babalon a dagger and sword should be present as well as the chalice. salt should be formed in a circle around the invocation area, to ensure no escape for the spirit. red and purple candles should be placed around the circle as well. warlock (holding athame) elder gods of stellar forces, i invoke a great dragon burning with the fires of mars within my very body, prepare me for the purity of this work. witches sabbat goat, god of life and energy, brother of pan. i i

evoked demonic mass of energy, then each of their lives can become filled with turmoil and the area of working itself may become haunted. sickness, weakness and even death can occur. such elementals would be free to multiply in their existent natures since choronzon is of no being, but multiplies freely, and quite capable of mutating into any thing. a large circle should be made of flour and /or salt in which the three shall stand. two smaller circles should be drawn also in flour and/or salt as well, one in which the wizard shall stand and make the evocations and the grand invocation, by which he shall take the energy of the qlipoth, born of choronzon. within the other circle should be a triangle with the names of mi-ch-ael which is derived from ceremonial magick traditions such as the g

duced to a very slow and practically worthless state of mind. chances of recovery would be very slight indeed. the banishing the wizard who absorbed the energies of the qlipoth should now be the one performing the banishing within the actual triangle. the two additional sorcerers should move in full effect and focus of will towards the banishing as well. the wizard should take several handfuls of salt and toss them within the circle in which he stands, which action the two assisting sorcerers should imitate as well "i now close the gates of your entrance, the sacrifice of life force was made and your essence is now to depart.go now with swiftness and without causing harm to any living thing. i have overcome thee by force of will, to understand that which exists beyond the barrier. go forth

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

harles berlitz, j. j. hurtak, and davidhatcher childress, relate hundreds of accounts such as this in their pivotal works.in the account of the destruction of sodom and gomorrah, the fleeing prophet, lot, istold by the angels of the lord not to turn back, because the wrath of the lord wascoming to that place. lots wife does look back and is straightaway turned into what isdescribed as a pillar of salt. but this is a mistranslation. the word is more like ourenglish vapor. add to these the accounts of the walls of jericho, or the story in exo-dus of the ten plagues, not to mention the entire books of job, isaiah, ezekiel, andrevelation, which are full of catastrophe and godly wrath. with all this and an endlessamount more, it becomes practically and rationally irrefutable that a war of the g

nt that effected the roche limit, andwhich caused a dramatic alteration in the magnetism of the earth. as a result, theearth deviated on its normal orbit and upset the movement of other neighboring plan-ets and bodies. the course variations allowed debris from the previously destroyedplanet, tiamat, to re-enter the roche field where it fell to earth, again causing havoc.much of this effluence was salt water from the once vast oceans of tiamat, thus caus-ing the second deluge of prehistory. these global cataclysms caused the polar axis toalter, resulting in the great pole shift that destroyed almost all the flora and fauna onthe planet. this event is universally recorded and is now scientifically confirmed (seewhen the earth nearly died) i shall reverse the world54atlantis, alien visitation

the earth with deceit and violence and there is not one righteousman among them (p. 63)sodom and gomorrahthen the lord rained upon sodom and upon gomorrah brimstone and fire from the lord out of heaven: and he overthrew those cities, and all the plains, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. but his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt (genesis 24-26)(the word salt, is really a mistranslation. the term is nearer to the englishvapor.)radioactive tektitesglass-like substances known as tektites found in the libyan desert and containing radioactive isotopesof aluminum and beryllium may have been the remains of some missile (p. 79)book of isaiahthey come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the lord, and the weapons

zini's superior. 1840 first opium war in china, as chinese protest british import of drugs. 1841 clinton roosevelt writes the science of government founded on natural law, outlining theilluminati plans for the regimentation of mankind under the control of the enlightened ones and thedestruction of the constitution. 1842 treaty of nanking brings britain vast wealth and control over hong kong. 1842 salt wells in pennsylvania found to have oil. william rockefeller exploits and begins buying upland in pennsylvania. 1843 port of shanghai opened to foreign trade. the first lot in the port is rented by britains jardinemathieson& co. other lots are rented by samuel russell, an american representing baring brothers.captain warren delano (fdrs grandfather) becomes a member of the canton regatta club

isted in germany since 1870. the governmentwould supervise all training of medical personnel, including officially approved health practitioners. 1939 psychiatrists in nazi germany begin murdering mental patients at brandenburg, one of the sixkilling institutions used for the euthanasia program. german policy expands to include euthanasia onasylum patients. 1939 henry moray builds a laboratory in salt lake. 1939 nazi administration gives permission to doctors to give mercy death to the deformed and men-tally ill. 1939 league of nations suspended. 1939 scientists in berlin prepare for the first sample of nerve gas sarin. 1939 otto hahn and fritz strassman achieve nuclear fission in germany. 1939 jersey oil renews its agreement with i.g. farben in holland. 1939 hitler sets up the reich commi

hers from the u.s. public health service examine the health of residents of bartlett, texasto see if the 8 ppm fluoride in the drinking water was affecting their health. it was checked again in1953. they find that the death rate in bartlett was three times higher than a neighboring town whichcontained 0.4 ppm fluoride. 1943 american vaccine researcher pearl kendrick reports that adding a metallic salt seemed to heightenthe capacity of the pertussis vaccine to produce anti-bodies (metal salt is an adjuvant in this way).some metallic salts used are those of aluminum (alum. pearl kendrick is the researcher that urged thatpertussis vaccine be combined with diphtheria vaccine. later the tetanus vaccine was added, produc-ing the nefarious dpt v accine. 1943 churchill successful in prolonging the

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

n though one would suspect that doctors, of all people, should have encountered them. in the course of their training, it is constantly pounded into m.d.'s-to-be that they must beware of what the patient says about the way he feels. a doctor is taught to pay close attention to the objective "signs" of disease processes, but to take the subjective reports("symptoms) of the patient- with a grain of salt. it is very reasonable to do it this way, because one can deal more readily with what is objective. however, this attitude also has the effect of hiding near-death experiences, since very few physicians make it a practice to ask about the feelings and perceptions of patients whom they resuscitate from clinical death :because of this attitude, i would guess that doctors-who in theory should be

MORALS AND DOGMA

mixture make _seven. the three are the _blue, the _yellow, and the _red. the trinity of the deity, in one mode or other, has been an article in all creeds. he creates, preserves, and destroys. he is the generative _power, the productive _capacity, and the _result. the immaterial man, according to the kabalah, is composed of _vitality, or _life, the breath of life; of _soul_ or _mind, and _spirit. salt, sulphur, and mercury are the great symbols of the alchemists. to them man was body, soul, and spirit. four is expressed by the square, or four-sided right-angled figure. out of the symbolic garden of eden flowed a river, dividing into _four_ streams--pison, which flows around the land of gold, or light; gihon, which flows around the land of ethiopia or darkness; hiddekel, running eastward to

eir hands in a vase of lustral water placed near the entrance. clean hands and a pure heart were required of the candidates. apuleius bathed seven times in the sea, symbolical of the seven spheres through which the soul must reascend: and the hindus must bathe in the sacred river ganges. clemens of alexandria cites a passage of menander, who speaks of a purification by sprinkling three times with salt and water. sulphur, resin, and the laurel also served for purification, as did air, earth, water, and fire. the initiates at heliopolis, in syria, says lucian, sacrificed the sacred lamb, symbol of aries, then the sign of the vernal equinox; ate his flesh, as the israelites did at the passover; and then touched his head and feet to theirs, and knelt upon the fleece. then they bathed in warm w

and offerings of grain and living animals made. on the fourth they carried in procession the mystic wreath of flowers, representing that which proserpine dropped when seized by pluto, and the crown of ariadne in the heavens. it was borne on a triumphal car drawn by oxen; and women followed bearing mystic chests or boxes, wrapped with purple cloths, containing grains of sesame, pyramidal biscuits, salt, pomegranates and the mysterious serpent, and perhaps the mystic phallus. on the fifth was the superb procession of torches, commemorative of the search for proserpine by ceres; the initiates marching by trios, and each bearing a torch; while at the head of the procession marched the dadoukos. the sixth was consecrated to iakchos, the young light-god, son of ceres, reared in the sanctuaries a

word. logos, no longer merely the thought or conception, but the creative utterance, manifestation of the divinity, but emanating from the thought or spirit; the first-begotten, author of the visible creation. this was the trinity, composed of the father, spirit, and word. the elxa tes adopted the seven spirits of the gnostics; but named them heaven, water, spirit, the holy angels of prayer, oil, salt, and the earth. the opinion of the doketes as to the human nature of jesus christ, was that most generally received among the gnostics. they deemed the intelligences of the superior world too pure and too much the antagonists of matter, to be willing to unite with it: and held that christ, an intelligence of the first rank, in appearing upon the earth, did not become confounded with matter, b

al medicine for the soul is the supreme reason and absolute justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical truth; for the body, the quintessence, a combination of light and gold. the prima materia of the great work, in the superior world, is enthusiasm and activity; in the intermediate world, intelligence and industry; in the lower world, labor: and, in science, it is the sulphur, mercury, and salt, which by turns volatilized and fixed, compose the azoth of the sages. the sulphur corresponds with the elementary form of the fire; mercury with the air and water; and salt with the earth. the great work is, above all things, the creation of man by himself; that is to say, the full and entire conquest which he effects of his faculties and his future. it is, above all, the perfect emancipatio

profane from a work that would be dangerous for them, as to be well understood by adepts, in revealing to them the whole world of analogies governed by the single and sovereign dogma of hermes. so, in their language, gold and silver are the king and queen, or the sun and moon; sulphur, the flying eagle; mercury, the man-woman, winged, bearded, mounted on a cube, and crowned with flames; matter or salt, the winged dragon; the metals in ebullition, lions of different colors; and, finally, the entire work has for its symbols the pelican and the ph nix. the hermetic art is, therefore, at the same time a religion, a philosophy, and a natural science. as a religion, it is that of the ancient magi and the initiates of all ages; as a philosophy, we may find its principles in the school of alexandr

the creation of gold in the great work is effected by transmutation and multiplication. raymond lulle says, that to make gold, one must have gold and mercury; and to make silver, silver and mercury. and he adds "i mean by mercury, that mineral spirit so fine and pure that it gilds even the seed of gold, and silvers that of silver" he meant by this, either electricity, or od, the astral light. the salt and sulphur serve in the work only to prepare the mercury, and it is to the mercury especially that we must assimilate, and, as it were, incorporate with it, the magnetic agent. paracelsus, lulle, and flamel alone seem to have perfectly known this mystery. the great work of hermes is, therefore, an operation essentially magical, and the highest of all, for it supposes the absolute in science

n, under the form of a black stone, called elagabalus, or heliogabalus. the faithful are promised, in the apocalypse, a white stone. this stone, says the masters in alchemy, is the true _salt_ of the philosophers, which enters as one-third into the composition of azoth. but azoth is, as we know, the name of the grand hermetic agent, and the true philosophical agent: wherefore they represent their salt under the form of a cubical stone. the philosophal stone is the foundation of the absolute philosophy, the supreme and unalterable reason. before thinking of the metallic work, we must be firmly fixed on the absolute principles of wisdom; we must be in possession of this reason, which is the touchstone of truth. a man who is the slave of prejudices will never become the king of nature and the

e philosophal stone as the first means of making the philosophical gold, that is to say, of transforming all the vital powers figured by the six metals into sun, that is, into truth and light; which is the first and indispensable operation of the great work, which leads to the secondary adaptation, and enables the creators of the spiritual and living gold, the possessors of the true philosophical salt, mercury, and sulphur, to discover, by the analogies of nature, the natural and palpable gold. to find the philosophal stone, is to have discovered the absolute, as all the masters say. but the absolute is that which admits of no errors, is the fixed from the volatile, is the law of the imagination, is the very necessity of being, is the immutable law of reason and truth. the absolute is that

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

e silent self, judge partial pleas and unbalanced opinions, while supporting the concentration of the will by its fortified frontiers, and, with unanimous enthusiasm, acclaiming the lordship of the thought which expresses the act. the will must seal itself upon the substance of the talisman. it must be, in alchemical language, the sulphur which fixes the mercury which determines the nature of the salt. the whole man, from his inmost godhead to the tip of his tiniest eyelash, must be one engine, cumbered with nothing useless, nothing inharmonious; a thunderbolt from the hand of jove. it must give its elf utterly in the one act of love. it must cease to know itself as anything but the will. it must not have the will; it must transform itself completely to be the will. last of all, the act mu

with original sin. truth is so terrible to these detestable mockeries of humanity that the thought of self is a realization of hell. therefore they fly to drink and drugs as to an anaesthetic in the surgical operation of introspection. the craving for these things is caused by the internal misery which their use reveals to the slave-souls. if you are really free, you can take cocaine as simply as salt-water taffy. there is no better rough test of a soul than its attitude to drugs. if a man is simple, fearless, eager, he is all right; he will not become a slave. if he is afraid, he is already a slave. let the whole world take opium, hashish, and the rest; those who are liable to abuse them are better dead. for it is in the power of all so-called intoxicating drugs to reveal a man to himself

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

ocks and herds, which were required to be without spot or blemish. page 223 propitiatory offerings were brought with the object of appeasing the anger of the gods. in addition to those above enumerated, sacrifices were made, either with a view of obtaining success in an enterprise about to be undertaken, or in fulfilment of a vow, or at the command of an oracle. every sacrifice was accompanied by salt and also by a libation, which usually consisted of wine, the cup being always filled to the brim, indicating that the offering was made without stint. when sacrificing to the infernal gods the cup containing the libation was filled with blood. the animals offered to the olympian divinities were white, whilst those to the gods of the lower world were black. when a man offered a special sacrifi

llo the crowns were of laurel; when to heracles, of poplar. this practice of wearing crowns was, at a later period, adopted by the general public at banquets and other festivities. on occasions of special solemnity the horns of the victim were overlaid with gold, and the altars decked with flowers and sacred herbs. the mode of conducting the sacrifices was as follows:.all things being prepared, a salt cake, the sacrificial knife, and the crowns, were placed in a small basket, and carried to the sanctuary by a young maiden, whereupon the victim was conducted into the temple, frequently to the accompaniment of music. if a small animal, it was driven loose to the altar; if a large one, it was led by a [194]long trailing rope, in order to indicate that it was not an unwilling sacrifice. when a

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

sing this magical power is simplicity itself. in detail, i ll be explaining how to do it later in this book. the circle of protection in reading these words you will learn many ancient secrets of the occult. this will cause you to glow in a metaphysical sense; spirits can see this glow and are drawn to it, and some will try to mislead you. you can protect yourself from this by taking a handful of salt and, walking in a clockwise direction, sprinkle the salt in a circle around the room all the while saying: let mischievous spirits touch me not< it's a good idea to work this protection ritual on a regular basis. the circle begins and ends at the doorway of the room. the sign of the elder gods the pentagram (five-pointed star) is another tool used by both witches and magicians to keep evil fo

ns that when you stand at the center of your cleared area, you can stretch your hands and arms out all around you. this is your personal witching circle. if you wish you can burn a stick of incense and have the room illuminated by candles placed at the four cardinal points. and, until you are confident in your power to keep mischievous spirits at bay, a circle of protection marked on the floor in salt. the ritual that will awaken your fiery serpent here now is a ritual to summon the magic power within you. this requires only a few minutes of your time each day and privacy. when witches work their rituals, they work naked. the absence of clothing leaves them completely free and unrestricted, not only in body, but also in mind and spirit. you should work the spells and rituals that follow in

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

ding to the art of thinking sometimes categorized with the inferior arts and sometimes with the higher ones.3 thus in florence there were twenty-one corporations divided into seven higher arts and fourteen lower arts. the first included judges and notaries, silk and wool merchants, bankers, doctors, apothecaries, and silk and wool manufacturers. the lower arts included butchers, cobblers, smiths, salt merchants or regrattiers, oil sellers, wine merchants, innkeepers, masons and stone carvers, locksmiths, breastplate merchants, leather merchants, wood sellers, bakers, and stocking makers. each of these arts had its own meetinghouse and elected syndics and consuls who held places of honor in official ceremonies. each art also had its own color and its own banner or standard, which was carrie

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

formula. these have been omitted as they are not illustrated in the original manuscript but were provided from other unrelated texts by the publishers. to make ye powder of ibn ghazi the mystic powder of materialization: take ye dust of ye tomb- wherein ye body has lain for two hundred years or more past, three parts. take of powdered amaranth, two parts; of ground ivy leaf, one part, and of fine salt, one part. compound all together in an open mortar in the day and hour of saturn. make over the thus assembled ingredients the voorish sign, and then seal up the powder within a leaden casket whereupon is graven the sigil of koth. ye using of ye powder: whenever thou wisheth to observe the airial manifestations of the spirits blow a pinch of ye powder in the irection of their coming, either f

ONYX TABLET OF SET

aspriests and priestesses of set. sounds simple, right? like most things that seem easy it is actually an art to be mastered. the advantages are manifold.this practice can push forth the boundaries of set's terrestrial territory.i would not have recommended this practice if i hadn't given it a whirlmyself. these are some useful techniques i've noticed, which i'm sure each priest worth his or her salt will add to through each separate and unique unfolding of becoming. onyx tablet: ot.o.3.1 temple of set author: nikolas schreck iii date: march 8, 1998 ce revision: html revision: june 6, 1998 ce before i get to the meat of the matter, it's important to be cognizant of the fact that this business of guarding the gate is actually pretty complicated.i've identified several discrete elements to

cage holding them. they try their hand at starting a band, or at writing, or at starting a business, or at organizing a political or cultural group. they have success despite the odds against them. they discover that things are possible if they are willed. they put "follow your bliss" bumper stickers on their van, and are truly quite puzzled why more people don't do as they do. these folk are the salt of the earth and many left hand path initiates will tear their hair wondering why these folk, who have taken a step or two on the path, don't fully awaken. but some of them do. usually some sorcerous skills are developed here such as obtainment through visualization and autohypnosis. the fourth stage is shock. here the initiate discovers that there are great possibilities outside of the life

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

l sampo, the mill of plenty, out of a swan s quill-tip, a barren cow s milk, one barley grain, and the wool of one ewe. unable to forge it himself, v in m inen asked ilmarinen, the smith who had forged the sky, to help him, promising him the maid in return. ilmarinen had to build a new forge to make the sampo, and only after great labor did he create this mill, which ground out grain on one side, salt on another, and money on the third. delighted, louhi hid the treasure behind nine locks, and rooted it in the earth. but, despite his success, illmarinen had to return home alone because the maid refused to marry him. later, after she had been wooed by other men, including v in m inen and lemmink inen, a wanton loverboy who was killed but restored to life by his mother, ilmarinen did marry he

ilmarinen did marry her. however, she died and, when attempts to forge another wife out of gold proved unsuccessful, he decided to win back the sampo. so he sailed north with v in m inen and lemmink inen and stole it. returning home, they were attacked by louhi and the sampo was lost in the sea. and, although the grain and money parts were broken, to this very day the sampo continues to grind out salt. the birth of v in m inen in the beginning there was only sea and air. weary of being alone, ilmatar, the daughter of the air, lay down on the sea and conceived a child. but for 700 years, she could not give birth. eventually, a seabird, sent by the sky god, old man, nested on her knee and laid six eggs of gold and one of iron. three hatched and the rest smashed into the sea. the bottom half

the sons camped. the horseshoe-shapes indicate the sons. when they slept at night, the fire died down; when they rose, so too did the fire. border here is the border with the country of the pitjatjantjara people. the part of the story that involves what happened during the time that the fire drove the jangala brothers across this border belongs to the pitjatjantjara. death site this is ngarra, a salt lake, where the two jangala stopped, too exhausted to go any further. it is a sacred site, where only men may go. the two vertical lines below it are the bodies of the two dead sons. tracks of the old man the hunting tracks of the old man lead to ngama, the snake cave. it is from the rainbow snake (see p. 105) that the old man derived his magical powers. power over fire is an attribute of abo

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

when the zeal of such unscrupulous promoters overcomes their discretion that they are halted. sooner or later some of them run afoul of local ordinances, state statutes and occasionally of federal postal regulations, and there is an exposure which becomes general knowledge. the darius wilson frauds in massachusetts in b j b b, and the mcblain thompson masonic fraud case, tried in federal court at salt lake city,utah, in b j c c1 are striking examples. these very cases furnish evidence on the spurious rites to be discussed in this article.although the memphis and misraim rites have been practically dormant for long period, there are several parties who claim more or less doubtful authority over them, and it is not at all improbable that attempts may again be made to propagate them in the un

eaded a clandestine massachusetts symbolic lodge, as shown by court records in the archives of the grand lodge of massachusetts. the testimony in the legal prosecution of the frauds is interesting reading. matthew mcblain thompson, of american masonic federation notoriety, also included the rites of memphis and misrain in his list of orders or degrees, as is shown by his testimony in the trial at salt lake city,utah, in b j c c,when he was convicted of fraudulent use of the mails of the united states, fined$ f, a a a, and sentenced to serve two years in the federal penitentiary. his pretension to scottish recognition was exposed by testimony showing that the grand lodge of scotland does not recognize these rites as belonging to freemasonry.32 the rite of memphis in england on october c e

asy to access.to pay money to anyone for the conferring of these degrees is a case of a fool and his money. whatever abstract interest they may have for the student of ritual, they are of no practical utility and properly belong in a library of masonic curios. b i e heredom albert pike& william l. cummings n o t e s b. isaac blair evans, the thompson masonic fraud: a study in clandestine masonry (salt lake city:arrow press, b j c c. c. albert g.mackey, encyclopedia of freemasonry, rev. robert i. clegg, c vols (new york: masonic history co, b j c j, under rites. d. francois timoleon begue clavel, histoire pittoresque de olprelude to the black arts by nate leved becoming an adept in the black arts is something that takes time and patience. you just can't wake up one morning and decide to bec

PRELUDE TO THE BLACK ARTS

purpose or reason for doing them. after that, you need to develop your focus, your intent, your will, perfect control and develop a workable technique to succeed. many "magick books" start off by telling the budding mage to perform a cleansing or a banishing ceremony. that is all well and good, assuming that the mage in question has first cleansed him/herself. now it's one thing to wave some sea salt around the room and go through the necessary moves to sweep out any unwelcome spirits before performing a serious ritual, but it is quite another to cleanse a human mind of a lifetime of misinformation, half-truths and outright lies, handed down from various and sundry authority figures. the fact is that most people simply don't know what to believe, and if they believe anything, it is probab

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

at is this [zeh] for me? h2 because of the pain of her pregnancy, and also because esau destroyed her womb, her son jacob was privileged to father the twelve tribes [instead of her. the numerical value of the word for gthis h (zeh, zayin-hei) is 12. so rebecca fs statement can mean, gwhat do i need the twelve for? h with the above in mind, we can understand the sages f injunction, geat bread with salt. h3 this statement alludes these two mazal fs. the [usual] word for gbread h is lechem, whose numerical value is the same as that of the three names havayah [that comprise the masculine mazal gstoring h and] whose numerical value is that of the aramaic word for mazal [used in the sages f statement regarding mazal. although the word for bread used in the sages f statement about eating bread wi

t. h3 this statement alludes these two mazal fs. the [usual] word for gbread h is lechem, whose numerical value is the same as that of the three names havayah [that comprise the masculine mazal gstoring h and] whose numerical value is that of the aramaic word for mazal [used in the sages f statement regarding mazal. although the word for bread used in the sages f statement about eating bread with salt is pat, the more common word for bread is lechem. lechem: lamed-chet-mem= 30+ 8+ 40= 78. the numerical value of the name havayah is 26. 3 x 26= 78. the aramaic for mazal, mazla, is spelled mem-zayin-lamed-alef= 40+ 7+ 30+ 1= 78. as we said previously, the divine energy in the beard hairs derives from the intellect, which comprises three sefirot whose divine energy is channeled via three names

ve been liberated in this way, the world will have attained its maximal spiritual potential and mashiach will come. the prototypical example of this process is the sacrificial service in the holy temple. the temple is the microcosm of creation, and the rites performed within it are both symbolic of and actualizations of the wider divine service that mankind performs in the world at large. to wit: salt is a mineral, and through it the mineral kingdom was rectified. the wine and the oil [offered with the sacrifices] rectified the vegetable kingdom. the animals rectified the animal kingdom. the confession the animal fs owner recited over the animal corresponds to the articulate kingdom [i.e, man. the intention of the priest [kohen] while he was offering the sacrifice corresponds to the soul w

soul atik yomin( gthe ancient of days h) keter arich anpin( gthe long face h) upper thorn of yud the intention of the priest (kohen) yechidah chochmah abba( gfather h) yud the confession chayah binah ima( gmother h) hei the animal neshamah chesed, gevurah, tiferet, netzach, hod, yesod z feir anpin( gthe small face h) vav the oil and wine ruach malchut nukva( gthe female h) of z feir anpin hei the salt nefesh the nefesh( glife force h) is the behavioral aspect of the soul, and thus corresponds to the sefirah of malchut, the expression of the higher sefirot. the ruach( gspirit h) is the emotional aspect of the soul, and thus corresponds to the emotional sefirot (the midot, from chesed to yesod. the neshamah( gbreath h of life) is the intellectual aspect of the soul. the chayah( gliving one h

intention of the priest (kohen) yechidah adam kadmon( gprimordial man h) chochmah abba( gfather h) yud the confession chayah atzilut( gemanation h) binah ima( gmother h) hei the animal neshamah beriah( gcreation h) chesed, gevurah, tiferet, netzach, hod, yesod z feir anpin( gthe small face h) vav the oil and wine ruach yetzirah( gformation h) malchut nukva( gthe female h) of z feir anpin hei the salt nefesh asiyah( gaction h) g cthat is pleasing h corresponds to the partzuf of ima, the neshamah of beriah. g cto g-d h corresponds to the inner soul of this neshamah, i.e, abba. with it, we have constructed the full four-letter name havayah. this is the secret of the phrase ga sacrifice to g-d [havayah. h6 [in offering a sacrifice] the person sublimates the four powers [alluded to] in the nam

mah abba( gfather h) atzilut( gemanation h) articulate (man) chayah the confession hei binah ima( gmother h) beriah( gcreation h) animal neshamah the animal vav chesed, gevurah, tiferet, netzach, hod, yesod z feir anpin( gthe small face h) yetzirah( gformation h) vegetable ruach the oil and wine hei malchut nukva( gthe female h) of z feir anpin asiyah( gaction h) inarticulate (mineral) nefesh the salt know, that all the animals, beasts, and fowl have a soul [nefesh, which [originates in] descends from, and is influenced by the holy beasts. if the creature is ritually pure [tahor [it descends, etc] from the holy chariot, and if it is ritually impure [tamei] it derives from the impure chariot. the gdivine chariot, h a vision of a person riding a chariot, is described most vividly in the firs

learly how at least one aspect of the sacrificial rite is considered synonymous with eating, and that the same dynamic of rectifying the primordial shattering of the vessels of tohu (which was later acted out in the primordial sin of the tree of knowledge) applies to both. from here come all the sayings of our sages that a man fs table is like an altar and effects atonement for him, the custom to salt the bread 3 exodus 22:30. the arizal on parashat vayikra (2) 418 (just as the sacrifices were salted, and so forth. the cosmic responsibility each of us bears when he lifts his fork to his mouth is evident from this passage, as well .translated and adapted from ta famei hamitzvot the arizal on parashat vayikra (2) 419 parashat vayikra [third installment] in this parashah, we are told that gdo

alef refers to the name elokim spelled out with the letter alef; the shin refers to the name elokim spelled out with the letter yud; and the hei= 5) refers to the five letters of the name elokim not spelled out at all, but merely iterated progressively. thus, honey also alludes (in a more indirect way) to these same names. further in the parashah, we are told, gsalt all your flour offerings with salt; offer salt with all your sacrifices. h when the clouded part of the animal soul in man ascends to the soul of asiyah in order to derive sustenance from it, it causes him to sin. sacrifices atone for unintentional sins. what causes a person to sin unintentionally? when a person sins intentionally, we can ascribe this to gtemporary insanity, h i.e, the fact that he becomes duped.either by hims

ctified. as you know, when adam sinned, evil became intermixed with good, and the forces of evil gained power. in other words, he caused a blemish in all worlds, which now need to be purified anew. therefore, g-d commanded [man] concerning the sacrifices, that he bring together with himself all four fundamental elements, so that they can all be rectified. the mineral kingdom [ascends by means of] salt and water; it derives from the [world of] asiyah. the vegetable kingdom [ascends by means of] flour, oil, and wine; it derives from the [world of] yetzirah. the animal kingdom [ascends by means of] the animals.the flock [i.e, sheep and goats] and the herd [i.e, cows. and the birds.turtledoves and pigeons; it is derived from the [world of] beriah. those who exert the effort [to offer all these

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dge lectures are accurate enough so far as generalizations go, they may be of small value when examining classical spagyric texts. the later work of the order is also surprisingly vague on alchemy, and contributes little to clarify understanding. some extraneous help is obviously required on this topic. i strongly recommend the alchemist's handbook by frater albertus (paracelsus research society, salt lake city, 1964. while lacking in literary style, it is nevertheless one of the most complete introductions to alchemy i have ever found, providing as it does, an abc of practical instruction. i know of no other that even attempts this task. the order instructions on geomancy are in the fourth volume of the original edition (volume i1 of this new one. i mention it here, albeit prematurely, be

name, that name which the ancient rabbis have said "rushes through the universe" that name before which the darkness rolls back at the birth of time. the flaming red triangular capitals which crown the summit of the pillars represent the triune manifestation of the spirit of life, the three mothers of the sepher yetsirah, the three alchemical principles of nature, the sulphur, the mercury and the salt. each pillar is surmounted by its own light-bearer veiled from the material world. at the base of both pillars rise the lotus flowers, symbols of regeneration and metempsychosis. the archaic illustrations are taken from< 11 1> vignettes of the 17th and 125th chapter of the ritual of the dead, the egyptian book of the per-em-hnt or the book of coming forth into the day, the oldest book in the

esent the advance and purification of the soul and its union with osiris, the redeemer, in the golden dawn of the infinite light, in which the soul is transfigured, knows all, and can do all, for it is made one with the eternal god. khabs am pekht konx om pax light in extension! cii9> second knowledge lecture the names andaichemica1 symbols of the three principles of nature are- sulphur 9 mercury salt@ the metals attributed to the planets in alchemy are- lead 5 gold 0 tin 2 copper or brass' 9 iron d quicksilver g silver) the following terms are used in books about alchemy. they have the meanings given below. sol philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of gold-the refined. essence of heat and dryness. luna philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of silver-the refined essence

. let him take a ruler or a pencil and by moving it a distance equal to its length, outline a square. having done this, let him, after quieting his mind with the rhythmic breathing taught in the first meditation, mentally formulate a cube, and endeavor to discover the significance of this figure and its correspondences. let him meditate upon minerals and crystals, choosing especially a crystal of salt, and entering into it, actually feel himself of crystalline formation. looking out on the universe from this standpoint, let him identify himself with the earth spirits in love and sympathy, recalling as far as he can their prayer as said in the closing of the zelator grade. let him meditate upon the earth triplicity, visualising the symbols of a bull-a virgin-a goat-which stand for kerubic e

se which were formerly eliminated from the so-called knowledge lectures and rituals. they have been assembled here and added as an appendix since this was assumed to be more satisfactory than inserting them once again into the knowledge lectures. i. r) 82 the golden dawn: volume i book one <163> two further alchemical attributions to the tree of life 1. kether mercury the metallic root 2. chokmah salt lead 3. binah sulphur tin 4. chesed silver silver 5. geburah gold gold 6. tiphareth iron iron 7. netzach copper herrnaphroditical brass 8. hod tin brass 9. yesod lead mercury 10. malkuth mercury philosophorum medicina metallorum the qlippoth on the tree of life 1. kether thaumiel-the two contending forces, 2. chokmah ghogiel-the hinderers 3. binah satariel-the concealers 4. chesed agshekeloh

he cross terminates in ti hareth, where y, as it were, the f g supernal triang e is to be grasped, and tiphareth is o o the purified man. o 0 the hexagram of tiphareth is formed from the pillars on each side. in chesed is the water triangle, in geburah the fire triangle. and tiphareth unites and reconciles them so as to form a reconciliation between them in the form of the hexagram. the symbol of salt on the tree of life embraces all the sephiroth but malkuth, and is as it were, the reconciler between the sulphur and mercury. the horizontal dividing line implies the precept of@ hermes "as above so below" the drawing rep <269> resents the trinity o- erating through tre a sephiroth and reflected downwards in the four trian les of the elements. air is re 8 ected from kether through tiphareth

-cancellarius-past hierophant-praemonstrator. hierophant (red cloak1, lamen, sceptre. in the hall: hiereus (black cloak, lamen, sword. hegemon (white cloak, lamen, sceptre. kern (lamen, lamp and wand. stolistes (lamen, cup of lustral water. dadouchos (lamen, thurible. sentinel (lamen, sword. required: for the altar: red cross and white triangle. red rose. red lamp. cup of wine. paten of bread and salt. for the candidate: black robe and red shoe^ hoodwink, rope. neophyte sash. for the temple: chemical change.3 opening of the= grade when the members are assembled and robed, hierophantgives one knock and each is seated in his proper place, and the officers rise. members resent, but not taking on office, do not rise exce t for adorations to t f e east or when askedfor the signs. they stand a e

s. 1 hegemon knocks. 1 (knocks and says) khabs (knocks) am (knocks) pekht. neophyte ritual hiereus (knocks) konx. heg (knocks) om. hiero (knocks) pax. heg (knocks) light. hiero (knocks) in. hiereus (knocks) extension. the knocks are given before the words are said. when the battery is completed, all make the signs towards the altar and then sit down. kerux removes the rose, cup, paten of breadand salt and the lampfrom the altar, leaving the cross and triangle only. he sees that a hassock is in readiness at the west for the candidate to kneel on. hiero fratres and sorores of the. temple of the order of the stella matutina, i have received a dispensation from the greatly honoured chiefs of the second order, to admit. to the= degree of neophyte. honoured hegemon, bid the candidate prepare for

g and in the three-fold wave of the sensual world <34> hierophant stands in the form of cross, saying: glory be to thee, father of the undying. for thy glory flows out rejoicing, to the ends of the earth! he reseats himself. the red cross above the white triangle, is an image of him who was unfolded in the light. at its east, south, west and north angles are arose, fire, cup of wine and bread and salt. these allude to the four elements, air, fire, water, earth. the mystical words- khabs am pekht- are ancient egyptian,and are the origin of the greek "konx om pax" which was uttered at the eleusinian mysteries. a literal translation would be "light rushing out in one rayuand they signify the same form of light as that symbolised by the staff of the kerux. east of the double cubical altar, of

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e and in his personality make-up. this idea is not necessarily new or revolutionary. it has been suggested before in a somewhat different area. students of alchemy, familiar with what is called the lesser circulation, are taught that certain herbs are attributed to the influence of certain planets. such herbs can be prepared alchemically (see the alchemist s handbook, paracelsus research society, salt lake city, 1961, and a different one be self-administered every day. in this way, the planetary influences of a high potency are organismally absorbed to produce subtle farreaching effects: physically, mentally, and spiritually. the planetary talismans the appropriate one worn on the person daily are calculated to induce the same results, with far less effort and bother in their preparation

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on the journey that leads to eternal life.battery of three, that all may rise.be thou ready to exclaim, like the martyrs of old, ab ben verouah hacodesh,"father, son, holy spirit, to thee be all the glory.music-gloriarituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliasecond section14 the torch bearer proceeds to the aspirant and placing a lighted taper in his hand causes him reverseit in a vessel of salt (which is near the east) so as to extinguish, as he says: like the light of this taperso should your light be extinguished should you fail in your voluntary pledge to us.at the same time placing the triangular mystic paper with the name of the aspirant and the sacredinitials in the flames of the central candle in the east, and then conducts the aspirant out.rituals of the societas rosicrucian

e to theancient philosopher hermes trismegistus, almost contemporaneous with the law-giver moses, andcalled 'thrice great, by reason of his virtues and great learning. it was he who gave us the divisionof a day into hours. he is the alleged inventor of alchemy: the father of that species of philosophy,which claims to solve and explain all the phenomena of nature from the three chemical principles,salt, sulphur and mercury: a system which reveals the causes of diseases, and the operations ofmedicines, on the principle of an alkali and acid. in this and congenial studies by being an activeparticipant you are entitled to rank as practicus.2nd alchemist:in continuation of your late instruction received from the four ancients, let me speak of our practicalexperience in this laboratory. your att

side of thesacred hall, that occupied by the theorici being the first, and which leads into this by a connectingpassage-way. here you beheld loss of confusion in the retorts, bulbs, receivers, worms and cylindersfor compounding and distilled. here were required scales and measures, heating and hanging lamps,and all the appliances necessary and requisite for the use of the philosophers of hermes. salt,sulphur and mercury abound in various shapes. alkali and acids continually met the gaze: and inlong rows, systematically arranged and occupying one side of the room, were many books of theegyptians, treating of universal principles, of the nature and orders of celestial beings. of medicinesand ever of divination. the philosophers were termed 'practicus, and here they pursued theirhermetic stu

ing triangle is typical of the threeprinciples, all surrounding the central point, or sun, or source of light ad life, the celestial andglorious soul.it is not without some force that the 'emerald tablet' of hermes trismegistus receives considerationand importance. the three principles of elementary matter being body, soul and spirit, arerepresented by alchemists as sulphur, mercury and essential salt. the central or primal generativepower they termed in their magic language mercury, green-lion, the serpent, or seed; the whichgiving a seminal impression to animal, vegetable or mineral kingdom caused production. thisphoenix power so long sought for by our chemists, is now presumed to be within the knowledge ofgualdi: in its impure state it has solved the enigma of the transmutation to silve

ns to his faithful bondsmen. meanwhile, fires are lighted of fern and alder, piled up with human bones and the fat of executed criminals. druidesses, crowned with wild parsley and vervain, immolate unbaptized children with golden knives and prepare horrible love-feasts. tables are spread, masked men seat themselves by half-nude females, and a bacchanalian orgy begins; there is nothing wanting but salt, the symbol of wisdom and immortality. wine flows in streams, leaving stains like blood; obscene advances and abandoned caresses begin. a little while, and the whole assembly is beside itself with drink and wantonness, with crimes and singing. they rise, a disordered throng, and form infernal dances. then come all legendary monsters, all phantoms of nightmare; enormous toads play inverted flu

cation of memories in or other works. we shall return also to the great in the fourth chapter of the , where we shall complete our indications of the characteristics of the great arcanum, and of the means of recovering this tremendous ' here let us add a few words on the four and elementary . the are: in , , sulphur, and ; in , the macroprosopus, the microprosopus and the two mothers; in hieroglyphics, the man, , and ; in old physics, according to vulgar names and notions, , , and . but in science we know that is not ordinary , is not simply , etc. these expressions conceal a more recondite meaning. science ha