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ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

ade; nor because of what seems an analogical necessity; nor on the mere authority of our teachers or masters. but we are to believe when the writing, doctrine, or saying is corroborated by our own reason and consciousness "for this" says he in concluding "i taught you not to believe merely because you have heard, but when you believed of your consciousness, then to act accordingly and abundantly (secret doctrine, vol. iii, page 401) foreword the subject of initiation is one that has a great fascination for thinkers of all schools of thought, and even those who remain sceptical and critical would like to believe that this ultimate attainment is possible. to those who do not believe that such a goal is possible this book is offered for what it may be worth as a formulation of an interesting

sh revelation. we must resign ourselves to the fact that the only way in which we can find the clue to the mystery of the rays, systems, and hierarchies, lies in the study of the law of correspondences or analogy. it is the one thread by which we can find our way through the labyrinth, and the one ray of light that shines through the darkness of the surrounding ignorance. h. p. blavatsky, in "the secret doctrine" has told us so, but as yet very little has been done by students to avail themselves of that clue. in the study of this law we need to remember that the correspondence lies in its essence, and not in the exoteric working out of detail as we think we see it from our present standpoint. the factor of time leads us astray for one thing; we err when we attempt to fix stated times or l

and the master k. h. of a good deal of their teaching work, taking over from them for certain stated times some of their pupils and disciples. he works largely, too, with certain groups of the devas of the ethers, who are the healing devas, and who thus collaborate with him in the work of healing some of the physical ills of humanity. he it was who dictated a large part of that momentous book the secret doctrine, and who showed to h. p. blavatsky many of the pictures, and gave her much of the data that is to be found in that book. the master who concerns himself especially with the future development of racial affairs in europe, and with the mental outgrowth in america and australia, is the master rakoczi. he is a hungarian, and has a home in the carpathian mountains, and was at one time a

and three esoteric. who are the focal points for the distribution of the force of the systemic kumaras. kundalini. the power of life: one of the forces of nature. it is a power known only to those who practise concentration in yoga, and is centred within the spine. lemuria. a modern term first used by some naturalists and now adopted by theosophists to indicate a continent that, according to the secret doctrine of the east, preceded atlantis. it was the home of the third root race. logos. the deity manifested through every nation and people. the outward expression, or the effect of the cause which is ever concealed. thus, speech is the logos of thought, hence it is aptly translated by the "verbum" and the "word" in its metaphysical sense (see john 1:1-3. lord of civilisation (see mahachoh

, or senzar. the name for the secret sacerdotal language, or the "mystery speech" of the initiated adepts all over the world. it is a universal language, and largely a hieroglyphic cypher. shamballa. the city of the gods, which is in the west to some nations, in the east to others, in the north or south to yet others. it is the sacred island in the gobi desert. it is the home of mysticism and the secret doctrine. triad. the spiritual man; the expression of the monad. it is the germinal spirit containing the- 131- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust potentialities of divinity. these potentialities will be unfolded during the course of evolution. this triad forms the individualised or separated self, or ego. viveka. the sanskrit "discrimination" the very first step in the

lly of much earlier origin. 2. the practice of meditation as a means of leading to spiritual liberation. note: this glossary does not undertake fully to explain all the above terms. it is simply an attempt to render into english certain words used in this book, so that the reader may understand their connotation. the majority of the definitions have been culled from the theosophical glossary, the secret doctrine, and the voice of the silence- 132- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust endnotes 1 key to diagram of solar and planetary hierarchles the solar hierarchy the solar logos the solor trinity or logatcopyright 1998 lucis trust a treatise on cosmic fire by alice a. bailey copyright 1951 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1979 by lucis trust dedicated with gratitude to he

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

titled discipleship in the new age, which gives the direct personal instructions by the tibetan to a selected group. in a treatise on cosmic fire the tibetan has given us what h. p. blavatsky prophesied he would give, namely the psychological key to the cosmic creation. h.p.b. stated that in the 20th century a disciple would come who would give the psychological key to her own monumental work the secret doctrine on which treatise the tibetan worked with her; and alice a. bailey worked in complete recognition of her own task in this sequence. foster bailey tunbridge wells december 1950 foreword this "treatise on cosmic fire' has a fivefold purpose in view- 3- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust first, to provide a compact and skeleton outline of a scheme of cosmology, philo

of the real. this treatise is put out in the hope that it may prove useful to all broad-minded seekers after truth and of value to all investigators into the subjective source of all that which is tangibly objective. it aims to provide a reasonably logical plan of systemic evolution and to indicate to man the part he must play as an atomic unit in a great and corporate whole. this fragment of the secret doctrine, in the turning of the evolutionary wheel, goes out to the world making no claims as to its source, its infallibility or the correctness in detail of its statements. no book gains anything from dogmatic claims or declarations as to the authoritative value of its source of inspiration. it should stand or fall solely on the basis of its own intrinsic worth, on the value of the sugges

ade; nor because of what seems an analogical necessity; nor on the mere authority of our teachers or masters. but we are to believe when the writing, doctrine, or saying is corroborated by our own reason and consciousness''for this" says he in concluding "i taught you not to believe merely because you have heard, but when you believed of your consciousness, then to act accordingly and abundantly" secret doctrine iii. 401. may this be the attitude of every reader of this''treatise on cosmic fire' alice a. bailey- 6- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust note: in the footnotes throughout this treatise''the secret doctrine" by h. p. blavatsky is designated by the initials s.d. the page references are to the''third revised edition' fire "what says the esoteric teaching with rega

ghout this treatise''the secret doctrine" by h. p. blavatsky is designated by the initials s.d. the page references are to the''third revised edition' fire "what says the esoteric teaching with regard to fire" fire is the most perfect and unadulterated reflection, in heaven as on earth, of the one flame. it is life and death, the origin and the end of every material thing. it is divine substance" secret doctrine i. 146. our earth and man (are) the products of the three fires. secret doctrine ii. 258. fire and flame destroy the body of an arhat; their essence makes him immortal. secret doctrine i. 35. the three fires i. the internal fire or fire by friction "there is heat internal and heat external in every atom, the breath of the father (spirit) and the breath (or heat) of the mother (matt

et doctrine i. 146. our earth and man (are) the products of the three fires. secret doctrine ii. 258. fire and flame destroy the body of an arhat; their essence makes him immortal. secret doctrine i. 35. the three fires i. the internal fire or fire by friction "there is heat internal and heat external in every atom, the breath of the father (spirit) and the breath (or heat) of the mother (matter" secret doctrine i. 112. ii. the fire of mind or solar fire. the fire of knowledge burns up all action on the plane of illusion, therefore those who have acquired it and are emancipated are called fires. secret doctrine i.114. iii. the fire of spirit or electric fire "lift up thy head, o lanoo; dost thou see one, or countless lights above thee, burning in the dark midnight sky "i sense one flame, o

the fire of knowledge burns up all action on the plane of illusion, therefore those who have acquired it and are emancipated are called fires. secret doctrine i.114. iii. the fire of spirit or electric fire "lift up thy head, o lanoo; dost thou see one, or countless lights above thee, burning in the dark midnight sky "i sense one flame, o gurudeva; i see countless undetached sparks shining in it" secret doctrine i. 145- 7- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust contents section one. the internal fires fire by friction introductory remarks division a. of the sheaths macrocosmic and micro cosmic division b. the personality ray and the first fire division c. prana and the etheric body division d. kundalini and the spine division e. motion on the physical and astral planes 1. in

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though not in its practices. when these are studied, it will become apparent why the day of opportunity has only just arrived. the east has preserved rules for us since time immemorial. here and there orientals (with a few western adepts) have availed themselves of those rules and have submitted to the discipline of this exacting science. thus has been preserved for the race the continuity of the secret doctrine, of the ageless wisdom, and thus has been gathered together the personnel of the hierarchy of our planet. in the time of the buddha and through the stimulation he produced there was a great gathering in of arhats. these were men who had achieved liberation through self-initiated effort. this period, in our aryan race, marked a climax for the east. since then the tide of spiritual l

this is a great mystery but will reveal itself to the man who overcomes the five modifications of the lower mind, who through non-attachment to the lower, identifies himself with the higher, and who thus solves the mystery of the "makara" and treads the way of the kumaras. herein lies a hint to the more advanced students of this science as to the esoteric problem of the makara, hinted at in the "secret doctrine" by h. p. blavatsky. 6. these modifications (activities) are correct knowledge, incorrect knowledge, fancy, passivity (sleep) and memory. there exists a vast field of knowledge which the seer must cognise at some time or another. it is generally conceded among occult psychologists, that there are three modes of apprehension: 1. direct cognition through the avenue of the senses, eac

not advisable to add here. enough has been given to indicate to the aspirant its purpose and potency. there will have to be communicated in other ways and at other times further information as the student through study and self initiated effort arrives at just conclusions. it might be added, that this great word, when meditated upon, gives the clue to the true esoteric meaning of the words in the secret doctrine by h. p. blavatsky "life we look upon as the one form of existence, manifesting in what we call matter; or what, incorrectly separating them, we name spirit, soul and matter in man. matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by li

to be' thus spake the exalted one. when the happy one had thus spoken, the master added this further: blind to the fourfold aryan truths of things, and blind to see things as they really are, long was our journeying thro' divers births. gone is the cord of life when these are seen. no more becoming when ill's root is cut" the four elements have been stated for us in the following extract from the secret doctrine (i. 95 "the golden egg was surrounded by seven natural elements, four ready (ether, fire, air, water, three secret" 11. their activities are to be done away with through the meditation process. the "opposing mental attitude" referred to in the previous sutra has distinct reference to the seeds or the latent tendencies as they subsist in the mental body and in the body of desire. th

seen to be related to karma, opportunity and form; there are certain words which when rightly understood give the key to all practical occultism and make the yogi a master of life. they are: sound. number. colour. form word. life. light. body and these are recognized as subject to the space-idea and the time-element. it should be borne in mind, in this connection, that "space is the first entity (secret doctrine i. 583) and that cyclic manifestation is the law of life. when this is recognized, the entity, expressing itself cyclically, will make its presence felt through differentiation, through the colour or quality of the veiling form and through the form itself. these factors make up the sum total of the expression of any identity, god or man, and the appearance of any man in exoteric ex

g matter is that it is that which "sub-stands" or is found back of the objective body; and provides the true form. it should be remembered here that the basis of all occult teaching and of all phenomena is to be found in the words "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence; and soul is the vehicle on a higher turn of the spiral for the manifestation of spirit (secret doctrine i. 80) when the soul (or force) withdraws itself out of the matter aspect (the tangible objective form, that form is no longer to be seen. it disappears, and temporarily is dissipated. at present this can be adequately accomplished by the seer through a concentration of his consciousness in the ego, the spiritual man or soul, and (through the use of the thinking principle and an ac

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

later, when a man has gained control of the mind and can offer it to the soul as a transmitting agent, then a vast region of spiritual awareness can unfold itself. the soul itself can then become a transmitting agent, and can pass on, via the mind and from thence to the physical brain, some of the realizations and concepts of the spirit aspect. students would do well to remember the words in the secret doctrine "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life, which pervades them all."15(81) this, in the academic language of occultism, is the realization of the mystic. cardinal richelieu calls contemplation that state "in which man se

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

ghest product of existence in the three worlds. by man, i mean the spiritual man, a son of god in incarnation. the forms of all the kingdoms of nature human, animal, vegetable and mineral contribute to that manifestation. the energy of the third aspect of divinity tends to the revelation of the soul or the second aspect which in turn reveals the highest aspect. it must ever be remembered that the secret doctrine of h. p. blavatsky expresses this with accuracy in the words "life we look upon as the one form of existence, manifesting in what is called matter; or what, incorrectly separating them, we name spirit, soul and matter in man. matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and

"life we look upon as the one form of existence, manifesting in what is called matter; or what, incorrectly separating them, we name spirit, soul and matter in man. matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life, which pervades them all (the secret doctrine. vol: i. p. 79. 80) through the use of matter the soul unfolds and finds its climax in the soul of man, and this treatise will concern itself with the unfoldment of that soul and its discovery by man. 5. knowledge might be divided into three categories: first, there is theoretical knowledge. this includes all knowledge of which man is aware but which is accepted by him on the state

the deva or angel evolution and the human. this is a mystery which will be solved as man arrives at the consciousness of his own solar angel, only to discover that that too is also but a form of life which, having served its purpose, must be left behind. the angel or deva evolution is one of the great lines of force, contained in the divine expression and the solar angels, the agnishvattas of the secret doctrine and of a treatise on cosmic fire belong in their form aspect to this line- 60- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust thus humanity serves, and in the development of a conscious aptitude for service, in the growth of a conscious understanding of the individual part to be played in the working out of the plan and in the rendering of the personality subject to the soul

n on the higher planes, are being very carefully, forcefully, yet strenuously trained. it is necessary that they should be enabled to act accurately and adequately as transmitters and interpreters. i would like to point out certain factors and methods which should be borne in mind in connection with inspirational writing and mediumship, and which have a bearing on the writing of such books as the secret doctrine, the scriptures of the world and those transmitted volumes which potently affect the thought of the race. the interpretation of the process arises from many causes; the status of the writers can be overestimated or not sufficiently appreciated; the terms used by the transmitter being dependent upon his educational status may also be incorrect or give rise to misinterpretation. it i

g to the abstruseness of the subject. so many factors govern this awakening, and each aspirant has to determine for himself the order and mode of his awakening. the centre between the eyebrows, commonly called the third eye has a unique and peculiar function. as i have pointed out elsewhere, students must not confound the pineal gland with the third eye. they are related, but not the same. in the secret doctrine they are apparently regarded as the same, and the casual reader can easily confound them but they are by no means identical. this h. p. b. knew, but the apparent confusion was permitted until more of the etheric nature of forms was known. the third eye manifests as a result of the vibratory interaction between the forces of the soul, working through the pineal gland, and the forces

the terms, the psychologists have sensed these cycles and call certain types, extraverts, and others, introverts. these mark an ebb and flow in individual experience and are the tiny life correspondences to the great soul cycles. this passing into, and passing out of, the web of incarnated existence are the major cycles of any individual soul, and a study of the types of pralaya dealt with in the secret doctrine and a treatise on cosmic fire would be found of real value by the student. there is also an ebb and flow in soul experience on any one plane and this, in the early stages of development, will cover many lives. they are usually quite extreme in their expression. a study of the racial ebb and flow will make this clearer. in lemurian days the "flow, or the outward going cycle, spent i

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

en rules for disciples and initiates i ii. the rays and the initiations- 2- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life, which pervades them all. the secret doctrine vol. i. page 80. third edition three souls, one man three souls which make up one soul: first, to wit, a soul of each and all the bodily parts, seated therein, which works, and is what does, and has the use of earth, and ends the man downward: but, tending upward for advice, grows into, and again is grown into by the next soul, which, seated in the brain, useth the first with its c

ear on all problems and on the- 6- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust phenomena of life itself. this book was given the name the light on the soul. here i am fulfilling my intention to write a book on the subject of the seven rays. this topic has always been of real interest for students, but about these rays little is known. we know, from the secret doctrine, that they are the building forces and the sum total of all that is in the manifested universe, but their effect in the human kingdom, and their essential quality and nature, remain as yet a mystery. it will be necessary for me to avoid the cosmic note, if i may so call it, for i seek to make the information of practical value to the student and to the intelligent reader. i shall t

udent and to the intelligent reader. i shall therefore approach the subject entirely from the standpoint of the human family and deal with the subject in terms of psychological values, laying the foundation for that new psychology which is much needed, and so dealing primarily with the human equation. what i have to say will be a commentary upon an expansion of the words found in the proem of the secret doctrine, that "all souls are one with the oversoul" we shall, from the outset, accept the fact of the soul. we shall not consider the arguments for or against the hypothesis of there being a soul-universal, cosmic, and divine, or individual and human. for our purposes of discussion, the soul exists, and its intrinsic reality is assumed, as a basic and proven principle. those who do not adm

ife of the one reality, coloured by one of the seven qualities of the love of deity and responsive to the other qualities. for our purposes in this treatise, we must grasp the fact that the world of appearances is energised by and vibrating to the world of qualities or values, which world, in its turn, is energised by or vibrating to the world of purpose or of will. therefore, as is stated in the secret doctrine and in a treatise on cosmic fire, the electric fire of will, and the solar fire of love, in cooperation with fire by friction, produce the world of created and creative forms. these proceed under the law of attractive magnetic love towards the evolutionary accomplishment of a purpose- 31- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust at pr

porary duality can be seen, for each of them, the interplay which we call cause and effect. ray i..will, dynamically applied, emerges in manifestation as power. ray ii..love, magnetically functioning, produces wisdom. ray iii..intelligence, potentially found in substance, causes activity. the result of the interplay of these three major rays can be seen in the activity of the four minor rays. the secret doctrine speaks of the lords of knowledge and of love, and also of the lords of ceaseless devotion. we might, in order more clearly to understand the mystical significance of these names, point out that the dynamic persistent will of the logos expresses itself through the lords of ceaseless devotion. here devotion is not the quality to which i referred earlier in this treatise, but is the p

lity-appearance. 2. the present ray plan and the workers. 3. three major propositions. 4. quality in the world of appearances. 5. an analysis of the rays and their expression. chapter i the seven creative builders, the seven rays we have now completed our first section, and have therefore laid the groundwork for our future studies. first, i seek to give a brief exegesis of the basic theory of the secret doctrine, called the hylozoistic theory. this posits a living substance, composed of a multiplicity of sentient lives which are continuously swept into expression by the "breath of the divine life" this theory recognises no so-called inorganic matter anywhere in the universe, and emphasizes the fact that all forms are built up of infinitesimal lives, which in their totality great or small c

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

time, to deal. they are in themselves proof of the fact of immortality and of man's divinity. he has intuited the ultimate possibility, and will not rest until he has achieved it. whether it is plurality of lives upon our planet, leading to an ultimate perfection, or the buddhistic theory leading to nirvana, the goal is one. this latter theory is beautifully summarised in a book dealing with the secret doctrines of the tibetan philosophy- 154- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust. when the lords of compassion shall have spiritually civilised the earth and made of it a heaven, there will be revealed to the pilgrims the endless path, which reaches to the heart of the universe. man, then no longer man, will transcend nature, and impersonally, yet consciously, in at-one-ment w

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

ing finally to an ultimate unselfishness. the separative entity begins his preparation for group realisation. a god walks on earth, veiled by the fleshly form, the desire nature and the fluidic mind. he is a prey temporarily to the illusion of the senses, and dowered with a mentality which primarily hinders and imprisons but which finally releases and liberates. there has been much written in the secret doctrine and a treatise on cosmic fire on the subject of individualisation. it can be simply defined as the process whereby forms of life in the fourth kingdom in nature arrive at: 1. conscious individuality, through experiencing the life of the senses. 2. the assertion of individuality through the use of the discriminating mind. 3. the ultimate sacrifice of that individuality to the group

crifice of a son of god, a solar angel, for, from the angle of deity, descent into matter, manifestation through form, the taking of a body, extension of consciousness through the process of incarnation, are all occultly considered to be death. but the angels "chose to die, and in dying, lived" through their sacrifice, matter is lifted up into heaven. it is this theme which fills the pages of the secret doctrine, and which is discussed in greater elaboration in a treatise on cosmic fire. the sacrifice of the angels, the death of the sons of god, the immolation of the mystic christ, the crucifixion in time and space of all living entities, called souls this is the theme of those books. this is the mystery hinted at in the world of scriptures, and this is the secret of the ages, which is onl

o lord, the tomb. raise us into the light and make the sacrifice. break down for us the prison wall and enter into pain' the lord of life returned. he liked it not, and hence the pain" the same conditions which blend the law of sacrifice with pain and sorrow and difficulty are found also on the planet mars and on the planet saturn. they are not found on the other planets. those who have read the secret doctrine and a treatise on cosmic fire with understanding know that our earth is not a sacred planet. however, saturn, mars and our earth constitute, in a curious esoteric manner, the personality of a stupendous ray life, whose energy is that of the third ray. there are, as has been stated elsewhere, seven sacred planets but ten planetary schemes, and in three cases (those of the three majo

kingdom in nature, that of the kingdom of gods. this phrase should be noted. c. it is the result of the active work of the sons of god, the sons of mind, and is the part which they are contributing to the total planetary contribution, as part of the great systemic plan. the hierarchy itself is the outer and inner manifestation of the sacrifice of the divine manasaputras (as they are called in the secret doctrine, and its members respond to their sensed vision of the plan for the whole. the hierarchy is essentially the germ or nucleus of the fifth kingdom in nature. 6. the quality, innate in man, to idealise. this is founded upon the success of the plan itself. this plan sought originally to awaken in man the following responses: right desire, right vision and right creative activity, based

in man with which they have definitely to deal as they seek to prepare him for initiation. it is the "unknown quantity" in a man's nature. it does not, however, greatly complicate his problem in the three worlds of ordinary human endeavor, as it remains relatively quiescent until after the third initiation, though it basically conditions the etheric body itself. 2. the three rays (termed, in the secret doctrine "the three periodical vehicles) are therefore the rays of the monad, the ego and the personality, and are essentially three streams of energy, forming one great life stream. these relate a human being to the three aspects or expressions of divinity in manifestation: a. the monadic ray is the energy which, when consciously employed, relates the initiate to the father or spirit aspec

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emented by instinct or desire as by thought energy, dedicated to and expressing the nature of the man's plan. this plan indicates increasingly his intelligent desire selfish in the early stages, complex and dualistic in the intermediate stages but slowly responding to the world plan and to the divine intent for humanity. 4. finally, when the power of the triangles (the spiritual name given in the secret doctrine to the soul) is being imposed upon the personality, then their energy supersedes the other energies and the personality focussed now in the mind and responsive to soul impression expresses upon the physical plane, through the medium of the physical brain and the body, the intent, potency and nature of the all-inclusive soul. the individual etheric web galvanises the automatic physi

effects. an ashram is a place wherein this study enters the laboratory or experimental stage. the disciple is supposed to be in process of becoming aware of the forces and energies which condition him as an individual; these originate within himself and produce changes and specific effects in his life-expression upon the physical plane. when he knows himself to be the "life and the lives (as the secret doctrine puts it, a sum total of forces and a controlling energy, then he- 540- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust can be a world disciple and work significantly in an ashram. it will be apparent to you, therefore, that when a disciple enters into an ashram and works in closer relation with his master than heretofore, he begins to collaborate as far as is in hi

ch a way (which no one affiliated with the hierarchy ever does, i would have found no collaboration from her. letters on occult meditation followed next. these indicated a somewhat new approach to meditation, based not on devotion to the masters but on a recognition of the soul in each person. this was succeeded by a treatise on cosmic fire. this book was an expansion of the teaching given in the secret doctrine on the three fires electric fire, solar fire and fire by friction and it was an awaited sequence; it also presented the psychological key to the secret doctrine and is intended to offer study to disciples and initiates at the close of this century and the beginning of the next century, up until 2025 a.d. later a.a.b. felt that it would be of value to me and to the work if she demon

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

ry and secondary revelations. in the case of the first, the time cycle is long; in the second, the time cycle is short. a very good instance of this process is demonstrated by one of the secondary points of revelation in connection with the teaching which emanated from the hierarchy (the custodian of secondary revelations, as shamballa is of primary) fifty years ago and which took the form of the secret doctrine. h.p.b. was the "penetrating, sensing, appropriating intuitive" the revelation she conveyed followed the accustomed routine of all secondary revelation from the source to the outer plane. there the minds of men, veiled by illusion and clouded by glamour, formulated it into an inelastic doctrine, recognising no further revelation and holding steadily many of the theosophical groups

ctrine. h.p.b. was the "penetrating, sensing, appropriating intuitive" the revelation she conveyed followed the accustomed routine of all secondary revelation from the source to the outer plane. there the minds of men, veiled by illusion and clouded by glamour, formulated it into an inelastic doctrine, recognising no further revelation and holding steadily many of the theosophical groups that the secret doctrine was a final revelation and that naught must be recognised but that book and naught deemed correct but their interpretations of that book. if they are correct, then evolutionary revelation is ended and the plight of humanity is hard indeed. even the neophyte upon the way of the intuition can begin to develop in himself the power to recognise that which the lower mind cannot give him

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

ed contact and to interpret correctly. there are many paradoxes in what i am here giving you, and apparently some contradictions where orthodox occultism is concerned, but that is ever the case as the teaching expands in content and the earlier all- inclusive facts are seen to be minor aspects of still greater facts. you can see, therefore, the significance and the importance of the dictum in the secret doctrine that the hierarchy and all in the council chamber of sanat kumara (or shamballa) have invariably passed through the human stage of evolution, for only human beings can perfectly blend and express life-reason, and only human intellect can consciously create what is needed in order to bring the needed stages of manifested life into being. here again emerges another reason for the imp

umanity into phases of the divine character of which, at present, nothing is known and for which we have no terminology that could convey the exact facts and nature. all that i am attempting to do here is to give you a general outline of events which may lie centuries ahead but which will inevitably occur once the christ is again in physical presence and recognition on earth. h.p.b. speaks in the secret doctrine of the "three periodical vehicles" referring as he does so to the monad, the soul and the personality; he is dealing, therefore, with the nine aspects of divinity which connote the nine major initiations and those divine characteristics through which the three major aspects of divinity reflect themselves. in this connection, it is well known to students that the monad expresses its

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

rd statement, which is so basic and fundamental that i would ask you to pause and contemplate it, even though you grasp not its full implications as yet. the ancient wisdom teaches that "space is an entity" it is with the life of this entity and with the forces and energies, the impulses and the rhythms, the cycles and the times and seasons that esoteric astrology deals. h.p.b. stated this in the secret doctrine. i would remind you that there is an astrological key to the secret doctrine which cannot yet be given in completeness. i can, however, give you some hints and suggest some lines of approach, and these, if carried in the consciousness of the illumined astrologers, may enable one of them at a later date to discover that key and then turning it on behalf of humanity reveal the fourth

hich cannot yet be given in completeness. i can, however, give you some hints and suggest some lines of approach, and these, if carried in the consciousness of the illumined astrologers, may enable one of them at a later date to discover that key and then turning it on behalf of humanity reveal the fourth great fundamental of the ageless wisdom of which three are already given in the proem of the secret doctrine. space is an entity and the entire "vault of heaven (as it has been poetically called) is the phenomenal appearance of that entity. you will note that i did not say the material appearance, but the phenomenal appearance. speculation about the nature, the history and identity of that entity is useless and of no value. some dim idea, providing analogy even when eluding specifications

nnected with these hierarchies. a. the first 5 are regarded as pure abstractions. b. hierarchy one has the numbers 6.1.7. hierarchy two has the numbers 7.2.6. hierarchy three has the numbers 8.3.5. hierarchy four has the numbers 9.4.4. hierarchy five has the numbers 10.5.3. hierarchy six has the numbers 11.6.2. hierarchy seven has the numbers 12.7.1. it is necessary to take note of this as in the secret doctrine reference will be found to the hierarchies under different numbers. this serves to conceal, but it will also confuse the student. 6. the first four hierarchies achieved liberation in the first solar system. their influence reached our earth through the medium of the fifth creative hierarchy. 7. these are, therefore, related to the four rays which work as minor rays of attribute und

s of forms of some degree of density or another. hierarchy i. the first great hierarchy is emanated from the heart of the central spiritual sun. it is the son of god himself, the first born in a cosmic sense, even as the christ was the "eldest in a vast family of brothers" and the "first flower on the human plant" the symbol of this hierarchy is the golden lotus with its twelve petals folded. the secret doctrine i. 233-250. iii. 565. it should be remembered that this hierarchy is literally the sixth, for five hierarchies have passed on, being the product of the earlier system, that wherein intelligence or manas was the goal. the five liberated hierarchies are in their totality the sum total of manas. it is the hierarchy which is the fifth in order, and which we are told is in process of ac

said of them in the old commentary "they burned to know. they rushed into the spheres. they are the longing of the father for the mother. hence do they suffer, burn, and long through the sixth sphere of sense" hierarchy ii. the second hierarchy is closely allied with the great bear. we are told that they entered through the second ventricle within the sacred heart, and are (as we are told in the secret doctrine) the prototypes of the monads. they are the source of monadic life, but they are not the monads; they are far higher. this hierarchy, which is literally the seventh, is the influx into our system of those lives who in the first solar system remained on their own plane, being too sinless and holy to find opportunity in that very material and intellectual evolution. even in this, the

s is not so, and care must be taken to distinguish between these hierarchies. they are latent germs of force centres and manifest subjectively; they warm and vitalise groups of forms; they flower forth and express themselves through the medium of a form, or another hierarchy. these hierarchies are all interrelated and are negative or positive to each other, as the case may be. as is stated in the secret doctrine, i. 238, this hierarchy is the nursery for the incarnating jivas; and it carried in it the germs of the lives which achieved the human stage in another solar system, but were not able to proceed beyond that owing to the coming in of pralaya, which projected them into a state of latency. the condition of the hierarchy is similar, only on a cosmic scale, to the condition of the seeds

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

e time dean of cape colony. his mother was the guardian, appointed by the courts of chancery, to take care of my sister and myself. she was my father's youngest sister, and laurence was one of her six boys with whom we spent much time as children. her husband, my uncle clare, a somewhat hard and stern man, was the brother of lord rosse and son of the lord rosse of telescope fame, mentioned in the secret doctrine. as a child i was terrified of him, yet before he died, he showed me another side of his nature and one which is not well known. his exceeding kindness to me during the first world war when i was stranded in great poverty in america, i shall never forget. he wrote me helpful and understanding letters and made me feel that there were those in great britain who had not forgotten me

ke up as i struggled with the presented ideas and sought to fit my own beliefs and the new concepts together. then i met two very old ladies who lived side by side in two cottages indispensable to each other and quarreling all the time. they were both of them personal pupils of h. p. blavatsky. they had trained with her and studied with her. i had just made the acquaintance of her great book "the secret doctrine" i was intrigued by it but completely bewildered. i couldn't make head or tail of it. it is a difficult book for beginners for it is badly put together and lacks continuity. h. p. b. starts with one subject, wanders off to another, takes up a third at length and if you search you will find her returning to her original theme sixty or seventy pages further on. claude falls wright, w

rld event and the teaching it contains has revolutionised human thought, little as people may realise it. i regard the hours of study that i expended over it as some of the most valuable hours of my life- 78- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust and the background and knowledge it gave me has made all the best of my work along occult lines possible. i sat up in bed reading "the secret doctrine" at night and began to neglect reading my bible, which i had been in the habit of doing. i liked the book and, at the same time, i disliked it cordially. i thought it was very badly written, incorrect and incoherent but i could not get away from it. then these two old ladies took me in hand. day after day, for weeks, they taught me. i moved over into a little cottage so as to be ne

them. it was safe ground for the children, trees to climb, gardening to do and no care to make me anxious. so, whilst they played, i would sit on the porch in one or other of the cottages and talk and listen. many of h.p.b.'s personal pupils have helped me and have personally taken the trouble to see that i understood what it was that was happening to human thought through the publication of "the secret doctrine" i have often been amused by the orthodox theosophists who have disapproved of my presentation of theosophical truth. few of them, if any, who have thus disapproved ever had the privilege of being taught by personal pupils of h.p.b. for weeks and months on end, and i'm pretty sure that, thanks to these old students, i have a clearer perception of what "the secret doctrine" was inte

went back to india where he started one of the best magazines along occult lines extant today. it is called "the aryan path" and is exceedingly fine. the word aryan here has nothing to do with hitler's use of the word. it concerns the aryan method of spiritual evaluation and the way in which people belonging to the fifth root race make their approach to reality. i, in the meantime, had started a secret doctrine class and had rented a room on madison avenue where we could hold classes and see people by appointment. this secret doctrine class was started in 1921 and was exceedingly well-attended. people from the various theosophical societies and occult groups came regularly. mr. richard prater, an old associate of w. q. judge and a pupil of h. p. blavatsky came to my class one day and the

d rented a room on madison avenue where we could hold classes and see people by appointment. this secret doctrine class was started in 1921 and was exceedingly well-attended. people from the various theosophical societies and occult groups came regularly. mr. richard prater, an old associate of w. q. judge and a pupil of h. p. blavatsky came to my class one day and the next week turned his entire secret doctrine class over to me. i mention this for the benefit of united lodge of theosophists and for those who claim that the true theosophical lineage descends from h.p.b. via w. q. judge. all the theosophy that i knew had been taught me by personal friends and pupils of h.p.b. and this mr. prater recognised- 107- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust later he gave me the es

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

v: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust plane force. vital energy. animal life low grade animal type of men. 7. base..adrenals..kidneys..w. ill energy..t. he mother of spine. spinal u niversal life of the muladhara column. kundalini world. this tabulation is simply an outline and, like the tabulation of the principles and their correspondences, as given by h.p.b. in the third volume of the secret doctrine, its interpretation will be dependent upon the point of view of the student. we shall employ it later and add further columns to it and further correspondences. in all our considerations, what we have to say will have the following synthesis of structure behind it: 1. the soul. 2. the subtler bodies of the mind and the emotions, which are simply qualified energy centres. 3. the vit

ity as an integrated whole and in the quality of personality, which is the aroma, the influence, the effect and the radiation of a personality. i throw out these ideas to students, hoping that some research may follow which will relate this subject of the centres to the recognised facts of coordination, integration and their effects in producing greatness. for those of you who are students of the secret doctrine, there is much to be unfolded anent the relation of the "lunar lords" the barhishad pitris, to the solar lord or angel. the field of work of the former is the sacral centre, par excellence; that of the solar angel is the throat centre. e. the sacral centre registers the energy of the third aspect of divinity, just as the solar plexus centre registers that of the second aspect and t

ted) could be appropriated. just as the major sins of lemurian times (if they could be called sins in any true sense, because of the low intelligence of the race) were through the misuse of sex, so the major sin of the atlantean people was theft widespread and general. the seeds of aggression and of personal acquisitiveness began to show themselves, culminating in the great war (as related in the secret doctrine) between the lords of the shining countenance and the lords of the dark face. to procure what they coveted and felt they needed, the most highly evolved of that race began to practice magic. it is not possible for me to outline to you the nature and practices of atlantean magic with its control of elementals and of forms of life which have now been driven back into retreat and are

streams of force, emanating from the lords of the seven rays, are coloured, therefore, and "tainted" if i may use such a word by the limitations of these same great beings; they are gods, from our point of view, but in reality, gods in the making, even though much nearer solar divinity than the most advanced human being is near to planetary divinity. they are the "imperfect gods" spoken of in the secret doctrine and are the planetary logoi of the sacred and non-sacred planets. if the great informing lives of the planets within our solar system are imperfect, the effect of this imperfection must inevitably affect their planetary creations, their bodies of manifestation, and thus introduce a karmic condition over which the individual human being has absolutely no control, but within which he

use the books which you possess and should possess. in my book a treatise on cosmic fire and in a.a.b.'s book the light of the soul*(5) the whole subject is considered. suffice it to say that: 1. there is nothing in manifestation except energy, taking form, using and actuating forms and dissipating forms. 2. this energy is divided into three types of so-called electrical phenomena, called in the secret doctrine and in a treatise on cosmic fire, fire by friction, solar fire, and electrical fire. 3. prana is the name given to the energy which is drawn upon the physical plane from the etheric aspect of all phenomenal life. that etheric aspect of the divine energy is a synthesis of energies. if the energy in which an individual primarily lives and moves and has the focus of his being is, for

closely related and speaking in the language of occultism the right eye is the representative of the soul, and therefore the agent of- 199- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust buddhi, whilst the left eye is the representative of the personality, and the agent of the lower concrete mind. you will find it interesting to read what can be found in the secret doctrine and other books (including mine) on this subject; it will compel the conclusion that here is a field of investigation hitherto unopened and a teaching which will warrant careful study for the sake of the group, if for no other reason. on psychological causes of disease. do "psychological causes of disease" register in brain symptoms before reflexing to other parts of the body? a se

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

es have a dual capacity invocation and evocation. they also have a third function: they ground or focus energy, thus producing a point of tension, of crisis and an interlude, prior to a process of transmission. ponder on these words. the physical body can be evoked into manifestation and subsequent activity, but it has no power of invocation. hence it is not a principle (as h.p.b. tells us in the secret doctrine) but is basically an automaton. the etheric body invokes and evokes; but it also, in relation to the physical plane, precipitates energy through a process of appropriation. a study of these things- 15- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust will bring to our attention the entire subject of the centres and this we will approach from the angle of invocation

om, recognised all over the world and as expounded in my books, constitute the foundational teaching of the arcane school. this is so, not because they are my books but because they are part of the continuity of the ageless wisdom and constitute the latest emanation of the ageless wisdom issued by the hierarchy. they must not be permitted to become a bible of a sect, as has been the case with the secret doctrine and the theosophical society. this incidentally has been a profound disappointment to the hierarchy. a.a.b. must not be turned into an occult authority. those connected with the great white lodge favour no bibles or authorities only the freedom of the human soul. the teaching matters, not the source or the form. let me reiterate for the sake of clarity: none of you has any responsi

tle knew what that almost inchoate appeal would invoke. light appeared on earth and true progressive enlightenment became possible. i am not here referring to physical light, but to the light of the intellect. in atlantean days, as a result of the strife between the lords of light or of the shining countenance and the lords of the dark face (as they are called in the ancient scriptures and in the secret doctrine) another "era of invocation" occurred and the second divine aspect of love became a possible unfoldment, though still only an embryonic quality of mankind. the mass appeal was then more intelligently voiced, though the instinctual appeal still persisted. it was not intelligence, however, as we understand the term. in our aryan cycle, another great invocative cry is issuing forth. i

in the disciple and profound in the master, but it is all related to vision. 4. at the same time this formula tells us that there are four eyes: a "one made of fire. the eye of god. b "one fluid as the sea. the eye of vision. c "and two which look from here to there, the eye that knows" these are the eye of the disciple and the eye of the personality. there is a clue to this in a statement in the secret doctrine that the right eye is the eye of buddhi and the left eye the eye of manas these are the eyes of the high grade integrated personality, en rapport with the soul. d "fire, water and the earth all need the vital air. the air is life" the clue again to this is to be found in the secret doctrine, i.80, where we find the words "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ic pressure and circumstance, and there is a widespread interest in progressive education and in the new ideals which should and will eventually govern educators. there is a definite stirring among the masses and the life of the mind (note that phrase) is now more active and potent than ever before. for this there is an occult reason of a most interesting nature. those of you who have studied the secret doctrine will remember that in that momentous period wherein animal-man made the great transition into the human family and humanity came into being, developing the germ of individuality, the seed of self-consciousness and embryo intellect, we are told that this event was brought about in three ways: 1. the seed of mind was implanted in some of the aspiring animal-men by the hierarchy, and

takes place after the third initiation that of the transfiguration. 3. a study of the plan, as it appears at this time to be working out in the five kingdoms in nature. it will be apparent to you that the teaching connected with this group will be more definitely and academically occult in its significance than will be the case in the others, for it will be based upon information contained in the secret doctrine and in a treatise on cosmic fire. it will be founded upon certain premises contained in those volumes. therefore, the members of this group of disciples will be of the more orthodox persuasion; they will be theosophists by nature, and academic by disposition. the nature of the anima mundi, the fact of the subjective consciousness found in all forms without exception, and the existe

further the growth of the kingdom of god in such a manner that this fifth kingdom in nature may be a tangible, factual and objective occurrence upon the earth. in the founding of the fourth kingdom in nature, the human kingdom, the process is spoken of in the ancient books and archives in the library of the hierarchy in the following terms which are (some of them) paraphrased and expanded in the secret doctrine "seven men appeared, the prisoners of the prajapatis and the prisoners also of the earthly barhishads. seven men of seven colours. seven men, each on his own lot and related to the eighth. they spoke and knew each other. they saw and they desired that which then appeared. they sensed the first, the second and the third. they were themselves the fourth, but of the fifth they had as

w, as to the methods to be employed in creating these groups. the primary method is the presentation of the more advanced ideas (which are stimulating in their effects upon the minds which are receptive) and the presentation of the vision, which is evocative in its influence and produces amazing results. ponder on this. the basic method employed, which lay behind the three methods outlined in the secret doctrine and referred to above, was the presentation (very dimly and vaguely) of the concept of the self, of the lower integrated self and its correlated inner implications of self-centredness and self-direction. the presentation made today to self-conscious man and to this self-directed individual is the revelation of the larger whole of which the individual is a part. to this whole the se

s of life and thought were so clear, that a crisis was precipitated in the then civilised world of which the present conflict is a definite effect. let us also hope that it constitutes a climax which will never again occur. then took place the great war between the lords of form and the lords of being, or between the forces of matter and the great white lodge. a careful study of volume two of the secret doctrine will prove enlightening to students, if they will study with particular care pages 275-466. to our understanding, this account may seem vague and obscure, but the issues at the time were clear. the forces of light triumphed because the hierarchy was forced to intervene potently, and, with the aid of certain great lives extraneous to our planetary life, they brought the atlantean ci

ose who were saved in noah's ark, and in the ancient writings it is expressed in the following terms "like as a dragon snake uncoils slowly its body, so the sons of men, led on by the sons of wisdom, opened their folds and spreading out like a running stream of sweet waters. many of the faint- hearted among them perished on their way. but most were saved" a close study of the tale as given in the secret doctrine will reveal the state of immature development (from the angle of our modern standards) and of the basically emotional and physical focus of the humanity of the period; it will show also man's magical ability to subdue and control the subhuman kingdoms and the elemental forces of the planet. these are two angles which have been but little studied. emphasis has, however, been rightly

ALICE A BAILEY24 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME V THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS

. they are: seven physical states of matter, seven emotional states, enabling the astral body to function on the seven subplanes of the astral plane, and four states of matter for each of the four conditions of the concrete mind (7, 7, 4= 18. these are eighteen grades of substance, eighteen vibratory groups of atoms, and eighteen aggregates of life which form the bodies of the lunar lords (as the secret doctrine calls them) which in their totality, form the body of the lunar lord, the personality. the above is the very a b c of occultism and a familiar truth to all of you. what is referred to here has, however, no reference to processes of purification, of control or of discipline. these have been much earlier considered and are regarded as the necessary processes instituted upon the proba

creates the medium or channel of related communication between the great centres in our planet, through which the life of our logos flows and his purposes are worked out. i would remind you that the creative process was initiated by sound, and in that sound the logos both invoked and evoked. he issued the call and he engineered and implemented the response and thus the "army of the voice (as the secret doctrine calls it) came into being. the head (the idea, the heart (the ideal) and the throat (the creative agent of the resulting idol, the temporary and fleeting expression of the ideal, inspired by the idea) came into being; three great centres emerged in time and space and at this point in the evolutionary cycle we call them shamballa, the hierarchy and humanity. with these fundamental f

the planetary life, thus completing the interplay and the interrelation between all seven. these four include the three lower kingdoms of nature and a certain basic centre (corresponding to the centre at the base of the spine in man) about which nothing is as yet known nor will be known for ages to come. diagram the importance, therefore, of the centre which we call humanity will be apparent. the secret doctrine has ever taught that mankind has a special function in saving and regenerating nature. the "saving force" a circulatory combination of the three major energies is radiated by humanity as a group-creative impulse, and this gradually sweeps all forms of life into the field of its magnetic potency, thus relating them (or rather the soul of each kingdom) to the hierarchy and to shambal

us of the angel of the presence, though as yet he sees him not. veil ii. that which the initiate encounters at the fourth initiation and which forces him to cry out in his blindness "my god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me" the words uttered by the christ at that time, and as the participator, have been forgotten by the orthodox, though preserved by the esotericist. to them h.p.b. refers in the secret doctrine. veil iii. that mysterious blindness which overwhelms the initiate when as the embodiment of all the forces of the spiritual triad he faces the monad and is impelled forward by the- 129- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust "devastating will" of the first aspect. of this i may not write. it concerns the sixth and seventh in

orm of meditation, and not this powerful emphasis upon the personal relation of the disciple to the master and the achievement of the individual aspirant. this was degenerating into a form of spiritual selfishness and separateness. 3. the teaching on the seven rays. the fact of the seven rays was well known to the heads of the theosophical society, was mentioned very abstractly and vaguely in the secret doctrine, and formed in an elementary form some of the teaching given in the esoteric section; the names of the rays were given, and some information as to their qualities, and the masters on the rays, was imparted but not much else. i have given out much information upon the subject and have endeavoured to show the importance of this teaching from the psychological angle, because the new p

e more meaning for you) the gradual formation of the seven ashrams under direct ray activity. this process lies in the past history of humanity and i shall only briefly touch upon it. once formed, it became the task of these seven ashrams to produce the forty-two ashrams. these seven ashrams express ray qualities, and the whole forty-nine are expressive of the forty-nine fires, referred to in the secret doctrine; through these fires, the god of fire seeks to make himself known. as we study some of the esoteric details connected with the life, the quality and, later, the appearance of the ashrams of the masters, i would remind you of certain points i have already made; your minds then will be predisposed to right thinking and interpretation. i am anxious for your approach to the subject to

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

passed, so should pass the idea of [120] at-one-ment by the blood of christ. that was born of the medieval guilt complex and the torturing of the physical instrument as a means to produce the dominance of the spirit; when the truth is that the body should be attuned to the soul and bring its beauty into manifestation, redeem it. all this is implicit in the sign of the virgin and its labor. in the secret doctrine is a clear statement of the whole message of this sign "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this turn of the spiral; and soul is the vehicle on a higher turn of the spiral for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life which pervades them all. the constellations and stars the three constellations in close proximity to that of v

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

learned rabbis were not satisfied with them alone, and they supplemented them by two parallel series of works of literature; the one, talmudic, being commentaries based upon thirteen rules of argument delivered by moses to illustrate the old testament, and supply material for teaching the populace; and the other a long series of treatises of a more abstruse character, designed to illustrate their secret doctrines and esoteric views. the sepher yetzirah, and the zohar or book of splendour represent the kernel of that oral instruction which the rabbis of the olden times prided themselves upon possessing, and which they have even claimed as being "the secret knowledge" which god gave to moses for the use of the priests themselves, in contradistinction to the written law intended for the masse

boutell calls jah a contraction of jehovah. the jehovah of the old testament--as a tribal deity of personal characteristics, demonstrating his power and glory to a chosen people; oppressing other nations to do them service, and choosing as his special envoys and representatives men whom our civilisation would have condemned as not high enough for spiritual power, is not represented in the hebrew secret doctrine. the kabalah, indeed, is full of jehovah, ihvh, the divine four-lettered name, the tetragrammaton, but it is as the name of a group of divine conceptions, of emanations from a central spiritual light whose presence alone is postulated; from absolute god there is a series of emanations extending downward to reach jehovah, who is the divine one of binah, the supernal mother; other st

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

e old knighthood had learned in palestine more than the west could teach. out of such elements were begotten some at least of the templar rites and they grew from more to more, till this particular aspect culminated in the templar dramas of werner, in which an order concealed through the ages and perpetuated through saintly custodians reveals to a chosen few among knights templar some part of its secret doctrine-the identity of christ and horus, of mary the mother of god, and isis the queen of heaven. the root of these dreams on doctrine and myth transfigured through the ages- with a heart of reality behind it- will be found, as it seems to me, in occult derivations from templar ritual which belong to circa 1782 and are still in vigilant custody on the continent of europe. i mention this l

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

eatures an introduction by chaos magician peter j. carroll and numerous articles and essays. michael w. ford s grimoires may be found here: http//algol.chaosmagic.im[[vol. 2, page xv[[eh eme didache ouk estin eme, alla tou pemphantos me "my doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me- john vii. 16[[vol. 2, page xvi] modern science insists upon the doctrine of evolution; so do human reason and the "secret doctrine" and the idea is corroborated by the ancient legends and myths, and even by the bible itself when it is read between the lines. we see a flower slowly developing from a bud, and the bud from its seed. but whence the latter, with all its predetermined programme of physical transformation, and its invisible, therefore spiritual forces which gradually develop its form, colour, and odo

anslation is given; but some of the stanzas were too obscure to be understood without explanation. hence, as was done in book i, while they are first given in full as they stand, when taken verse by verse with their commentaries an attempt is made to make them clearer, by words added in brackets, in anticipation of the fuller explanation of the commentary. as regards the evolution of mankind, the secret doctrine postulates three new propositions, which stand in direct antagonism to modern science as well as to current religious dogmas: it teaches (a) the simultaneous evolution of seven human groups on seven different portions of our globe (b) the birth of the astral, before the physical body: the former being a model for the latter; and (c) that man, in this round, preceded every mammalian

eated before the animals; for the animals mentioned in chapter i. are the signs of the zodiac, while the man "male and female" is not man, but the host of the sephiroth; forces, or angels "made in his (god's) image and after his likeness" the adam, man, is not made in that likeness, nor is it so asserted in the bible. moreover, the second adam[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 2 the secret doctrine. the secret doctrine is not alone in speaking of primeval men born simultaneously on the seven divisions of our globe. in the divine "pymander" of hermes we find the same seven primeval men* evolving from nature and "heavenly man" in the collective sense of the word, namely, from the creative spirits; and in the fragments (collected by george smith) of chaldean tablets on which is

d them from[[footnote(s* as it is now asserted that the chaldean tablets, which give the allegorical description of creation, the fall, and the flood, even to the legend of the tower of babel, were written "before the time of moses (see g. smith's "chaldean account of genesis" p. 86, how can the pentateuch be called a revelation? it is simply another version of the same story[[vol. 2, page] 4 the secret doctrine. the egyptians, compiled their genesis and first cosmogonic traditions- when these were rewritten by ezra and others- from the chaldeo-akkadian account. it is, therefore, sufficient to examine the babylonian and assyrian cuneiform and other inscriptions to find also therein, scattered here and there, not only the original meaning of the name adam, admi, or adami* but also the creat

rder, however, is not preserved in these or in any other exoteric accounts. now these "creations" according to the occult teachings, refer respectively to the formation of the primordial seven men by the progenitors (the pitris, or elohim: and to that of the human groups after the fall[[footnote(s* see pliny, 4, c. 12; strabo, 10; herodotus, 7, c. 108; pausanias, 7, c. 4, etc[[vol. 2, page] 6 the secret doctrine. all this will be examined in the light of science and comparisons drawn from the scriptures of all the ancient nations, the bible included, as we proceed. meanwhile, before we turn to the anthropogenesis of the prehistoric races, it may be useful to agree upon the names to be given to the continents on which the four great races, which preceded our adamic race, were born, lived, a

lived, and died. their archaic and esoteric names were many, and varied with the language of the nationality which mentioned them in its annals and scriptures. that which in the vendidad, for instance, is referred to as airyanem vaego (see bund. 79, 12) wherein was born the original zoroaster* is called in the puranic literature "sveta- dwipa "mount meru" the abode of vishnu, etc, etc; and in the secret doctrine is simply named the land of the "gods" under their chiefs the "spirits of this planet" therefore, in view of the possible, and even very probable confusion, that may arise, it is considered more convenient to adopt, for each of the four continents constantly referred to, a name more familiar to the cultured reader. it is proposed, then, to call the first continent, or rather the fi

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

of life, as it is and as it ought to be. should the present volumes meet with a favourable reception, no effort will be spared to carry out the scheme of the work in its entirety. the third volume is entirely ready; the fourth almost so. this scheme, it must be added, was not in contemplation when the preparation of the work was first announced. as originally announced, it was intended that the "secret doctrine" should be an amended and enlarged version of "isis unveiled" it was, however, soon found that the explanations which could be added to those already put before the world in the last-named and other works dealing with esoteric science, were such as to require a different method of treatment: and consequently the present volumes do not contain, in all, twenty pages extracted from "i

ion. the publication of many of the facts herein stated has been rendered necessary by the wild and fanciful speculations in which many theosophists and students of mysticism have indulged, during the last few years, in their endeavour to, as they imagined, work out a complete system of thought from the few facts previously communicated to them. it is needless to explain that this book is not the secret doctrine in its entirety, but a select number of fragments of its fundamental tenets, special attention being paid to some facts which have been seized upon by various writers, and distorted out of all resemblance to the truth. but it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings, however fragmentary and incomplete, contained in these volumes, belong neither to the hindu, t

me facts which have been seized upon by various writers, and distorted out of all resemblance to the truth. but it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings, however fragmentary and incomplete, contained in these volumes, belong neither to the hindu, the zoroastrian, the chaldean, nor the egyptian religion, neither to buddhism, islam, judaism nor christianity exclusively. the secret doctrine is the essence of all these. sprung from it in their origins, the various religious schemes are now made to merge back into their original element, out of which every mystery and dogma has grown, developed, and become materialised. it is more than probable that the book will be regarded by a large section of the public as a romance of the wildest kind; for who has ever even heard o

t slander she smiles in silent contempt. de minimis non curat lex. h.p.b. london, october, 1888[[vol. 1, page ix] table of contents- page. introduction. xvii. the need of such a book. xix. the antiquity of documents and mss. xxiii. what the book is intended to do. xxviii- volume first. cosmogenesis. proem. 1 the oldest mss. in the world and its symbolism. 2 the one life, active and passive. 4 the secret doctrine- pantheism- atheism. 6 "space" in all religions and in occultism. 9 seven cosmic elements- seven races of mankind. 12 the three postulates of the secret doctrine. 14 description of the stanzas from the book of dzyan. 20- book i- part i. cosmic evolution. seven stanzas from the book of dzyan. 27- stanza i- the night of the universe. 35 the seven eternities. 36 "time. 37 the universa

erarchies. 214 correlations of beings. 223 what incarnates in animal man. 233 formation of man: the thinker. 238 occult and kabalistic pneumatics. 243 akasa and ether. 257 the invisible "lives. 259 occult vital chemistry and bacteriology. 261[[vol. 1, page] xii contents. page. the watcher and his shadow. 265 earth peopled by the shadows of the gods. 267- summing up. 269 the pith and marrow of the secret doctrine. 273 hermes in christian garb. 285 some occult aphorisms. 289 the seven powers of nature. 293- book i- part ii. the evolution of symbolism in its approximate order. i. symbolism and ideographs. 303 emblem and symbol differ. 305 magic potency of sound. 307 mystery language. 309- ii. the mystery language and its keys. 310 egypt's many religions. 311 the jews and their system. 313 mos

xiv contents. page. xiii. the seven creations. 445 the gnostic and the hindu versions. 449 the seven puranic "creations. 450- xiv. the four elements. 460 the "gods" and the "elements. 463 the language of the elements. 464 pagan and christian worship of the elements. 467- xv. on kwan-shi-yin and kwan-yin. 470 kwan-shi-yin and phallicism. 471 the real meaning. 472- book i- part iii. science and the secret doctrine contrasted. i. reasons for these addenda. 477 occultism versus materialism. 479 the sabbath of the mystic. 481- ii. modern physicists are playing at blind man's buff. 482- iii. an lumen sit corpus nec non. 483 the hypothetical ether. 485 scientific theories of its constitution. 489- iv. is gravitation a law. 490 intelligences or blind forces. 493 the cause of attraction. 498[[vol

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hings that are worth having and those that are not worth having, and, of course, the perception will alter with advance in knowledge. by .head-learning. is meant the contents of the ruach (mind) or manas. chiah is sub-consciousness in its best sense, that subliminal which is sublime. the .eye. doctrine then means the exoteric, the .heart. doctrine the esoteric. of the equinox 38 course, in a more secret doctrine still, there is an eye doctrine which transcends the heart doctrine as that transcends this lesser eye doctrine. 9. yea, ignorance is like unto a closed and airless vessel; the soul a bird shut up within. it warbles not, nor can it stir a feather; but the songster mute and torpid sits, and of exhaustion dies. the soul, atma, despite its possession of the attributes omniscience, omn

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rhood of luxor, which she later denounced as "a den for disgusting immorality, greediness for selfish power, and money making. madame blavatsky arrived in new york in 1873 and, with the help of a colonel henry olcott she founded the theosophical society two years later. this is still around today. its doctrines are based on blavatsky books such as isis unveiled, which was written in 1877, and the secret doctrine, published in 1888. she claimed to be in psychic contact with hidden masters or supermen. these hidden masters, she said, lived in central asia and could be contacted telepathically by those who knew the secrets to the esoteric mysteries. today we call this process of communication 'channelling. there are many ufo sightings and much research which indicates that there are secret un

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mmortals' or the 'land of the wise serpents. the title amaraka is derived from the quechuan-lemurian word amaru, meaning snake or serpent (quechuan, the language of the incas, is derived from runa sima, the primal tongue spoken on lemuria, and ends in the syllable "ka, which denotes both serpent and wisdom. apparently echoing the recollections of the andean elders, h.p. blavatsky maintains in the secret doctrine that america is referred to in the hindu puranas (legends) as potala, the kingdom of the nagas [serpents."36 native americans call america "turtle island" after their reptilian ancestors. the name of the founder of both the inca empires in south america was manco or manko kapac (kapac means serpent wisdom or spiritually wealthy. some of the former lemurian and atlantean peoples who

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used in freemasonic symbolism today. peter is supposed to be the custodian of the keysto heaven, but this is just a rerun of the mystery school symbol of the two-faced janus,custodian of the key to the temple of wisdom and the keys to heaven held by mithra.and janus was eannus, a title for nimrod in babylon. the gold and silver keys of stpeters alleged successor, the pope, are more symbols of the secret doctrine. the popesand those who control them know what all this stuff really means. gold and silver are theprecious metals used to symbolise the sun and the moon. peter and paul are both said to109have been killed in rome during the purge of christians by the emperor nero, but thereis no evidence to confirm this because it didnt happen. two other people who weresaid to have been killed by

enryolcott, she founded the theosophical society two years later. this is still around today.the theosophical societys headquarters in america were in california at krotona. thepythagorean mystery school in ancient greece was at crotona. blavatskys society was yetanother mystery school derivative. its doctrines are based on blavatskys books such asisis unveiled, which was written in 1877, and the secret doctrine, published in 1888,which are themselves based on the hebrew cabala. she claimed to be in psychic contactwith hidden masters or supermen. these hidden masters, she said, lived in central asia andcould be contacted telepathically by those who knew the secret to the esoteric mysteries.240today we call this process of communication channelling. there are many ufosightings and much rese

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own blood" page civ 'the lost keys of freemasonry' by manly palmer hall 33 "when the mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his craft. the seething energies of lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply this energy" page 48 'the secret doctrine' by helena petrovna blavatsky "lucifer represents..life..thought..progress..civilization. liberty..independence..lucifer is the logos..the serpent, the savior" on pages 171, 225, 255 (volume ii "it is satan who is the god of our planet and the only god" pages 215, 216, 220, 245, 255, 533 (vi "the celestial virgin which thus becomes the mother of gods and devils at one and the same

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services. it had it's origins in decadent france but was so rare as to be virtually mythical. blavatsky, helena petrovna: a ukrainian woman who was the principle founder and guiding force behind the theosophical society. many members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) were also members of this society. her importance is also due to two large books she wrote, isis unveiled and the secret doctrine. many mystical and occult writings or so-called "channeling" are directly or indirectly based on these two books. blood of the red lion: in sex magick (q.v) the semen. body, etheric: an emanation of all created things. halfway between the astral and the physical. bon: the shamanic religion of tibet before the coming of buddhism, which officially supplanted it. in fact many bon beli

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mobile as it is called by the alchemists. chokmah, the second sephirab, is called by the rabbis mazloth, the sphere of the zodiac. here we have introduced the concept of the circle with its segments. creation has moved onwards. out of the primordial egg has developed the serpent that holdeth his tail in his mouth, as mme blavatsky chronicles in her invaluable storehouses of archaic symbolism, the secret doctrine and isis unveiled. 16. in a similar manner to that in which kether overflowed into chokmah does chokmah overflow into binab, the third sephirab. the paths pursued by the emanations in these successive overfiowings is represented upon the tree of life by a lightning flash, or in some diagrams by a flaming [page 42] sword. it will be observed by reference to diagram i that the lightn

ok for it. 14. we can also, once we are acquainted with the symbolism, assign to the various sephiroth their equivalent gods in other systems, and when we look up the symbols, functions, cosmic concepts, and methods of worship assigned to these deities we get a fresh flood of illumination. by the use of a good mythological dictionary or an encyclopaedia, frazer's golden bough, and mme blavatsky's secret doctrine and isis unveiled, we can, by the mere application of diligence, read a great many riddles that at first appeared insoluble, and the exercise is a fascinating one. when used thus the tree is peculiarly valuable, because its diagrammatic form causes things to be seen in relation to each other, thus causing them to throw light upon each other. 15. in order to manipulate the psychic a

good, the natural must necessarily be the lowest evil; we do not realise that matter is crystallised spirit, and spirit is volatilised matter, and that there is no difference of substance between them, any more than there is between water and ice, but both are different states of the one thing, as the alchemists call it; this is the great secret of alchemy which forms the philosophic basis of the secret doctrine of transmutation. mystical qabala page 157 26. but the transmutation of metals is of little save academic importance compared to the transmutation of energy within the soul. it is this that the initiates deal with by means of the technique of the tree of life; and as consciousness transmutes up and down the central pillar of mildness, or equilibrium, so does energy transmute up and

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

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lieve have evolved beyond the need to reincarnate on earth and now act from a higher plane of existence to assist humans in their movement toward enlightenment and guide the race in its destined evolution. the concept of ascended masters was popularly introduced by madame helena petrovna blavatsky, cofounder of the theosophical society, and described in some detail in her most important book, the secret doctrine. blavatsky taught that both individuals and the human race were engaged in an upward evolutionary process. at the same time, she pictured a hierarchy of masters headed by a being known as the solar logos. those masters at the lowest level of the hierarchy regularly interacted with humanity. the masters el morya and koot hoomi have had a special role in the formation and guidance of

awn into the circle of george bernard shaw s associates. besant became a socialist, which led to her break with bradlaugh, and in 1887 she resigned as coeditor of the national reformer. she joined shaw s fabian society. meanwhile, she championed the strike of the underpaid matchgirls in 1888 and became the first woman to be accepted at the university of london. in 1888 she was given a copy of the secret doctrine for review. the event proved life-changing. she found the answers that had eluded her in christianity and in freethought. she soon became a close associate of blavatsky, joined the editorial staff of the theosophical society s magazine, lucifer, and turned her oratorical skills to defend her new mentor and promote theosophy. in 1890 she made her first trip to the united states to r

by blavatsky s spirit. the text (which furnished strong, internal proofs of its apocryphal character) was obtained in independent typewriting on a yost machine under the supervision of the spirit of its inventor, mr. g. w. n. yost. blavatsky nevertheless succeeded in living down every attack during her lifetime, continued her work, gained many new adherents to theosophy, and published a work, the secret doctrine, which was claimed to have been written in a supernormal condition. whatever conclusions are reached about her complex character, it must be admitted that she was an extraordinarily gifted individual and it does seem probable that she indeed possessed psychic powers which, however, fell far short of the miraculous feats she constantly aimed at. even solovyoff admits some remarkable

he spiritualist medium. her early physical phenomena subsided at a later age, although the power to cause raps remained, and once, in new york, olcott claimed that he witnessed the materialization of a mahatma from a mist rising from her shoulders. as a rule the mahatmas were not supposed to depend upon blavatsky s organism for appearance, and controlled her body but seldom. isis unveiled and the secret doctrine were claimed to have been produced under such control. whereas there is a limit to the phenomena of every spiritualistic medium, blavatsky apparently knew none. from the materialization of grapes for the thirsty col. olcott in new york to the duplication of precious stones in india, or the creation of toys for children out of nothingness, she undertook almost any magical task and s

aster himself.materialised then and there after transmission by occult means from tibet. m. coulomb told hodgson that he had been so employed on this occasion, and his statement fits in with the minor circumstances of the incident. the hodgson report left a deep shadow over blavatsky s final years. besant s conversion to theosophy resulted after she had been requested by w. t. stead to review the secret doctrine in 1889. blavatsky suggested that she read the hodgson report before forming any firm conclusions, but besant was not adversely affected and requested to be blavatsky s pupil. thereafter besant provided a secure refuge for the aging theosophist at her own home in london. in her last years here, blavatsky became the center of a memorable group of talented individuals. she died peace

t. collected writings. 14 vols. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1950.87. besant, annie. h. p. blavatsky and the masters of wisdom. london, 1907. blavatsky, helena p. from the caves and jungles of hindustan. london: theosophical publishing society, 1892. isis unveiled. 2 vols. new york: j. w. bouton, 1877. the key to theosophy. pasadena, calif: theosophical university press, 1972. the secret doctrine. 2 vols. london: theosophical publishing house, 1889. reprint, london: thesophical publishing house, 1928. theosophical glossary. new york: theosophical publishing house, 1892. butt, g. baseden. life of madame blavatsky. london: rider, 1926. cleather, alice l. h. p. blavatsky: a great betrayal. calcutta: thacker, spink, 1922. endersby, victor. hall of magic mirrors. new york: carlt

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more recently (1980, charles marshall attempted to prove by computer analysis that there is a strong dissimilarity between blavatsky s language and that of the masters. however, the computer program, although extensive, was somewhat arbitrary, being confined to certain prepositions and conjunctions. moreover the comparison between the mahatma letters and blavatsky s writings in such works as the secret doctrine ignored the extensive editorial work by others on behalf of blavatsky s writings, and her own extensive and unacknowledged plagiarism from other writers, thus making her claimed style unrepresentative. other recent defenses of blavatsky have been made by vernon harrison and walter a. carrithers. some of the original mahatma letters may be viewed in the manuscripts department of the

vatsky s associates to have a realistic view of her complex character. he believed her to be a racy personality as well as a powerful medium, and not simply a charlatan, as alleged by her critics. in 1890 mead was appointed general secretary of the theosophical society, a position he held for eight years. among his first tasks, he helped to edit the second edition of blavatsky s massive text, the secret doctrine (1890. in 1908 he resigned from the society (with some 700 other members) in protest against the sexual scandals concerning c. w. leadbeater. in march of the next year, mead founded the quest society, which he saw as a group of sincere seekers after spiritual wisdom without taint of charlatanism. he edited the quest, a quarterly review, for over 20 years (1909.30. after the death o

embers were organized into chapters, though no information on the size of the order has survived. it published a number of books by grumbine, an indication of at least some degree of success. there is no record of the order surviving grumbine. sources: grumbine, j. c. f. clairaudience. boston: order of the white rose, 1911. clairvoyance. boston: order of the white rose, 1911. melchizedek; or, the secret doctrine of the bible. boston: order of the white rose, 1919. ordo rosae rubeae et aureae crucis (order of rose of ruby and cross of gold) the second order or level of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, usually known by the initials r. r. et a. c. it included the grades of zelator adeptus minor, theoricus adeptus minor, adeptus major, and adeptus exemtis. the group was formed in 1892 by

sons of the year, 52 weeks, and the symbolic rulers of the court cards. some writers have connected the pack with the ancient eastern origins of the game of chess, with its comparable king, queen, and knight. however, within the occult community, many have looked to an origin in ancient egypt. according to such popular lore, the priests of ancient egypt invented the tarot cards to represent their secret doctrines and teachings. they escaped the destruction of the christian era because the book burners did not know what they were. later, some egyptians brought them to rome, and they survived in the courts of the popes and passed to france during the period when the papacy was headquartered in avignon. this story of the egyptian lineage first appeared in the french occult community of the ei

had never seen it themselves. many of them declared their disbelief in its existence. a friar minor deposed in england that an english templar had assured him the order had four principal idols: one at london in the sacristy of the temple, another at bristelham, a third at brueria (bruern in lincolnshire, and a fourth beyond the humber. baron von hammer-purgstall indicated that gnosticism was the secret doctrine of the temple. his important essay mysterium baphometis revelatum (the mystery of baphomet revealed) was published in vol. 6 of fundgraben des orients (vienna, 1811. the suggestion of baphomet being related to the rituals of ophite and gnostic heresies has some plausibility. the confessions with regard to the mysterious cat were much rarer and more vague. some italian knights confe

ue star. the pair channeled the masters of the great white brotherhood, that group of advanced souls believed by theosophists to guide the destiny of humankind. they had a special relationship to hilarion, the master of the fifth, or red, ray. the channeled sessions were published in the massive book theogenesis, which came to be regarded as the third volume of madame blavatsky s magnum opus, the secret doctrine, volume 1: anthropogenesis, and volume 2: cosmogenesis. dower outlived ladue as the leader of the temple and was succeeded by pearl f. dower and harold forgostein. when forgostein died in 1990, he was succeeded by eleanor shumway, the present guardian-in-chief. the temple may be contacted at box 7100, halcyon, ca 93421. it has some 200 members worldwide. sources: kagan, paul. new w

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bridge. others theorized that lemuria was just part of a vast continent, called gondwanaland, which had circled most of the southern hemisphere, leaving only a patch of the pacific ocean uncovered. none of the scientists argued that either lemuria or gondwanaland had survived into historical time. lemuria entered the occult tradition through helene petrovna blavatsky, founder of theosophy. in the secret doctrine (1889, blavatsky wrote that the present human race evolved through a series of root races. the third root race lived on lemuria. these beings had three eyes, one in the back of the head, and were egg-laying hermaphrodites (possessing attributes of both sexes; some had four arms. aside from these features, they were generally apelike in appearance. other occult writers went on to cr

ny metaphysical, new age, hollow earth, or saucerian worldview, lemuria sooner or later enters just about any discussion predicated on the assumption that everything humans think they know about the ancient history of earth and the human race is wrong. see also: atlantis; contactees; hollow earth; mount shasta; shaver mystery; williamson, george hunt further reading blavatsky, helene p, 1889. the secret doctrine. two volumes. london: theosophical publishing company. churchward, james, 1926. the lost continent of mu. new york: ives washburn. de camp, l. sprague, 1970. lost continents: the at- lantis theme in history, science, and literature. new york: dover publications. kafton-minkel, walter, 1989. subterranean worlds: 100,000 years of dragons, dwarfs, the dead, lost races and ufos from in

ith a central point (blavatsky, 1889. these stanzas of dzyan recorded the hidden history of the cosmos and all of its inhabitants, including the human race. other scholars, however, contend that blavatsky drew on contemporary scientific and occult literature and embellished it considerably, though not quite beyond recognition. see also: atlantis; lemuria further reading blavatsky, h. p, 1889. the secret doctrine, london: theosophical publishing company. de camp, l. sprague, 1970. lost continents: the at- lantis theme in history, science, and literature. new york: dover publications. meade, marion, 1980. madame blavatsky: the woman behind the myth. new york: g. p. putnam s sons. 216 root races saint michael saint michael the archangel is perhaps best k n own from the traditional georgia sea

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ras degraded into orgiastic rituals bearing little resemblance to their original intent. virabhavas find their counterparts amongst chinese taoist sexual alchemists. an additional and prominent focus of the taoist alchemists is longevity of the physical body. 42 a symmetry break is a phase transition, like water freezing into ice if heat is removed from the water-ice system. 43 leet, leonora. the secret doctrine of the kabbalah, inner traditions, rochester, vermont, 1999. the reader is particularly referred to chapter nine: a synthesis of sacred science and quantum physics@ 1 the unquestionable authority of every letter, crownlet, and word of the torah comes from rabbi aqiba, a pivotal figure in the emergence of rabbinical judaism who was born 10-20 years after master yeshuvah. he supporte

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ngements, there was a certain parallelism between the writings of hermes trismegistus, the egyptian moses, and cabala which was a jewish mystical tradition supposed to have been handed down orally from moses himself. in common with all cabalists, pico 84 pico della mirandola and cabalist magic firmly believed in this extreme antiquity of the cabalistic teachings as going right back to moses, as a secret doctrine which moses had imparted to some initiates who had handed it on, and which unfolded mysteries not fully explained by the patriarch in genesis. the cabala is not, i believe, ever called a prisca theologia for this term applied to gentile sources of ancient wisdom, and this was a more sacred wisdom, being hebrew wisdom. and since, for pico, cabala confirmed the truth of christianity

basis of a christian religious synthesis, in which all gentile philosophy pointed towards christianity. this theological or syncrctistic use of prisca theologia is quite independent of magic and it is highly developed in many french theological writers of the sixteenth century. pontus de tyard, bishop of chalons, is an extreme example of it: from the holy egyptian school. has descended to us the secret doctrine and salutary knowledge of the ternary number, so greatly reverenced that the essence of the world is entirely attributed to its disposition of number, weight, and measure. a secret which the magi understood under the three gods whom you have named. for by oromasis they understood god, by mitra, the understanding, or that which the latins call mens, and by araminis, the soul.1 most

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ry wisdom, recalls that of crowley s argentum astrum, or order of the silver star, founded in 1907. the silver star represents sirius, from which emanates the magical cultent represented on earth by the entity, aiwaz. another contemporary of lovecraft s whose writings contain many similarities and correspondences is helena petrovna blavatsky, the famous occultist and theosophist and author of the secret doctrine, this vast work is in fact an expanded commentary on the book of dzyan, itself a fragmentary extract from the mani koumbourm, the sacred writings of the dzugarians, an ancient race which inhabited the mountain regions of northern tibet. these texts tell of how the earth was once possessed by chaotic beings said to have crossed the gulf from another universe, at a time pre-dating th

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ndividual-anarchistic direction so that we may describe his philosophy, without undue exaggeration, as a mixture of lao-tse, wicca and max stirner. english magic of the turn of the century was also influenced by an important young science which would actually achieve its major triumphs only after the second world war.the psychology of sigmund freud. before that. blatvatsky's isis unveiled and the secret doctrine, as well as frazer's the golden bough, had given important impulses to the occult in general. william james's comparative psychology of religion influenced deeply the intellectuality of this time, but freud, adler, and especially carl g, jung eventually effected major breakthroughs. from then on, people started to consider the unconscious in earnest. this apparent digression, which

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recious cross of jesus christ with pentagrams and hexagrams as to make you sick. hall's major revelation was that freemasonry is the son of samael. being careful not to confuse samael with the beloved prophet samuel. samael is one of the infernal names of satan. in fact, house of theosophy author, writing under the influence of her demon possessing her- master d.k- identifies samael as satan [the secret doctrine, p. 378] in fact, satanists have a symbol of samael. the pentagram on the left with the one point up represents the divine man specifically and lucifer the good god generally; the pentagram on the right with two stars up and the goats head is called the goats head of mendes by most satanists, but black magick satanists call him samael. thus, hall is admitting that freemasonry is th

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ish mystical thought by j. f. c. fuller author of gyoga: a study of the mystical philosophy of the brahmins and buddhists h gthe beings who live below, say that god is on high; while the angels in heaven, say that god is on earth. h-zohar. agnz secret wisdom of the qabalah page 2 preface this small book is in no sense a treatise on the qabalah. instead, it is a speculative study on one of several secret doctrines which it contains, and, i believe, the key-doctrine of all the others. should this be correct, then it follows that, unless this doctrine is understood, the whole symbolism of jewish mysticism must remain obscure, and it is this mysticism, so it seems to me, which constitutes the foundations of jewish culture and jewish aspirations. granted that this is so, then it follows that th

do not intend to touch upon this possibility in the present work; for all i will attempt is to show that the idea is valid. therefore my object is solely to examine and explain it, in order to establish it as a fact. j. f. c. f. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 3 contents preface 2 introduction 6 the mystical foundations of the world order. 6 the secrecy of transcendental knowledge 8 the jewish secret doctrines 9 chapter i 11 the wisdom of the qabalah 11 the qabalah 11 the origins of the qabala 12 the philosophy of the qabalah 13 equilibrium 15 philosophical comparisons 20 chapter ii 22 the cosmogony of the qabalah 22 the primal cause. 22 the sephirotic scheme 23 origin of the sephiroth 25 the ten sephiroth 27 chapter iii 36 the problem of good and evil 36 good and evil. 36 the evolution

stery can intoxicate as well as refresh. the mysteries of the early hebrews were closely guarded by the sons of the doctrine, and it would appear that many of their secrets were derived from egypt and later on from babylonia. we are told that moses was learned in all the wisdom of the egyptians2 and that in the first four books of the pentateuch he has esoterically laid down the principles of the secret doctrine. he initiated seventy elders into the mysteries,3 which they transmitted from mouth to ear. generally speaking, the initiates led an ascetic life in order to separate themselves from the ignorant and unwise, so that they might guard against divulging their doctrines. in these distant days the mysteries of nature, and what is now called physical science, formed part of the hidden cu

t system, and weishaupt, the supposed founder of the illuminati, may not have been altogether wrong when he said: no one. has so cleverly concealed the high meaning of his teaching, and no one finally has so surely and easily directed men on to the path of freedom, as our great master jesus of nazareth. this secret meaning and natural consequence of his teaching he hid completely, for jesus had a secret doctrine, as we see in more than one place of the scriptures.9 whether this is so or not, there can be no doubt whatever that the bible is a mystical work containing a secret doctrine which is only known to those who have been initiated into it. what part of this doctrine is will be discovered later on in this book. from this brief excursion into the past it will be seen that secrecy has pl

leibnitz published in the acta eruditorum of leipzig his scheme of differential calculus, he did so in such a way as to hide both the method and object from the uninitiated. newton did the same with his invention of infinite series; and algebra, as far as it was understood by the arabians, was, as a secret, known to and hidden by certain italian mathematicians for three hundred years. the jewish secret doctrines the world is a mystery, and mysteries are dangerous to the uninitiated: here are two facts which would seem to be uncontradictable; for divulgence has invariably led to active discontent, caused by a loss of balance between the spiritual and the mundane. like all other peoples, the jews realized this, and long before the qabalah was known as an occult science, the mysteries of cre

ving world, and almost simultaneously a new cult arose called christianity- a jewish heresy. the reaction on orthodox jewry was instantaneous; for a tension was established which later on led to the persecution of the jews, whereupon the secrecy of the doctrines took on an accentuated form, for self-preservation had now to be added to non-revelation. this led to the growth of oral traditions. the secret doctrines were passed from mouth to mouth and were locked away in the brains of the priesthood and the learned. later, as persecution began to slacken, the written word once again began to appear, and by degrees the qabalah emerged into daylight. this word is a curious one: its value is 70, which is, as we have seen, the numerical value of sod (dvs= 4+6+60) and gwine h (oyy= 50+ 10+ 10) and

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constantly increasing power gained by the ruder elements in human society a knowledge of the scientific principles underlying ancient religion had been partially lost or forgotten, it became necessary for philosophers to conceal the original conception of the deity and to clothe their sacred writings in allegory. hence it is observed that every ancient form of religion has a cabala containing its secret doctrines--doctrines the inner meaning of which was known only to the few. in order that these truths might be preserved, they were inscribed on the leaves of trees in characters or symbols understood only by the initiated. the allegories beneath which these higher truths were concealed were handed down as traditions to succeeding generations--traditions in which history, astrology, and myt

e traditions were in the main forgotten. fragments of them, however, were from time to time gathered together, and, intermingled with later doctrines, were used by the priests as a means of increased self-aggrandizement and power. it is now thought that the iliad (rhapsodies) of homer is only a number of "detached songs" which perhaps for centuries were delivered orally, and that they contain the secret doctrines of the priests. porphyry says that "we ought not to doubt that homer has secretly represented the images of divine things under the concealment of fable" it has been said of plato that he banished the poems of homer from his imaginary republic for the reason that the people might not be able to distinguish what is from what is not allegorical. hippolytus informs us that the simoni

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he symbolism may attainbothknowledge and experience thereby and therein.4.the symbolism of the fellowshipimplies a doctrine and practiceof mysticalreligion, understood in its universal sense.5.it has a message to thosewhoare prepared in christendom, though the lower grades of the fellowship arenotexplicitly christian grades. 6.thetradition and symbolism of the fellowship are a derivation from the secret doctrine of israel,knownas kabalah and embodied in thesepherha zohar.7.themode of interpretation in respect of kabalistic tradition is a christian mode.8.it is to be understood that the fellowship is similar to other instituted mysteriesworkingunder particular veils, the masonic brotherhood, for example, which uses building symbolism to produce upright and honourable members of the speculat

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ons: we doubt not that much of the primeval knowledge has failed to be assimilated by the successors of these sublime teachers; but on the other hand there may have been a coincident rearrangement of facts and notions, by means of which a clear stream of the truth concerning the origins of human religions and human know255 ledge has reached even down to our own time, and that some glimpses of the secret doctrine still existing in the fastnesses of central asia have been offered for our acceptance. to such as hold this belief, the existence of other systems of religious philosophy which are found to present points of similarity to the secret doctrine is explained by the suggestion that they come from the same ancient stock, at some period of the history of man which may be unknown to us; an

hey claimed for it as distant an origin as they allowed to man himself. they asserted its origin to be from adam himself, the first human being of their cosmogony, and they asserted that he was instructed by angels sent by the deity, whom they exoterically described as jehovah elohim, he who they saidputthe soul into man, and made him a living and thinking being..here then we have a parallel. the secret doctrine suggests that the earliest thinking men were taught by solar spirits of sublime order, the rabbis said d.at their kabalah, their esoteric doctrine- in contrast to their pentateuch, their exoteric religion- was given to their earliest man by angelic beings coming from their creator. it must be confesseci that the origin of the kabalah is lost in the mists of antiquity; no one even p

magic. for those who donotwish to read any kabalistic work as a whole but rather to glean a general view of the philosophy, there are two standard works, one in english, by dr ginsburg, a very complete and conciseresumeof the doctrines; and one in french by adolph franck, which is more discursive and less thorough. these works should be read by every beginner. many points of the teaching of the 'secret doctrine' are not at all touched on by the hebrew system, or are excluded by differences of a fundamental nature: such are the cosmogony of other worlds, or of our own in earlier rounds, than the present (unless the destroyed worlds of unbalanced force refer to these; the inviolability of law, as karma, is not a prominent feature; and the number of rebirths is limited generallyto three. som

ot choose to stamp with its seal of orthodoxy. many of its doctrines are of course insusceptible of proof, many run counter to the prejudices of public opinion, but these are not reliable evidences of error. much of the system may be erroneous, but if this be so, there is no standard by which it can be fairly judged-unlessindeed there be yet thewisdomreligionwithin our attainment, and unless the 'secret doctrine, of our honoured teacher in this institution be the demonstration of that wisdom; for i am not prepared to accept its condemnation at the hands of any other tribunal.[paper read before the blavatsky lodge, theosophical society. reprinted fromlucifer,vol. viii, no. 48 and vol. ix, no. 49 (august and september 1891, pp.465-9,27-32.110. afurtherglanceatthekabalahupon several previous

y of their more modern vagaries, yet she implied the belief that the pure and ancient kabalah was a western offshoot from the wisdom religion of prehistoric times. had she been of opinion that the system had originated -de novo -at any time since the era of ezra (who codified the old- hebrew- testament, she would not have made such constant references to the kabalah, to throw side lights upon the secret doctrine, the elements of which she has promulgated with such learning, and with so much gradually increasing success. several of my previous lectures having been printed, and still accessible, i have felt it necessary this evening to traverse new ground, to eliminate from my purpose the general view of the subject which has been at other times supplied, and to restrict myself within the li

e learned of them were never satisfied with it alone, and they, at all times, supple255 mented it by two parallel series of works of literature: the one, talmudic, being commentaries to illustrate the old testament, and supply material for teaching the populace and supple255 menting their material volume, and the other a long series of treatises of a more abstruse character, designed to teach the secret doctrines and esoteric views of the priesthood, the rabbis, the teachers of israel. foremost among these latter works were thesepheryetzirah,orbookofformation,ascribed to the patriarch abraham, and that curious collection of treatises, which, later on, became collected into a singlevolume and calledzohar,orbookofsplendour.these two books are the oldest works still extant of hebrew secret do

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22 november 1938 83[83] aqc 15 (1902, pp. 163-74. waite's comments are printed on pp. 170-2 84[84] diary, 3 october 1902 really- that it is an incoherent and slovenly paper i begin to see very clearly how much a real history of the templars is wanted in england to set matters right, so far as they can be set, once and for all. this is of course a scheme of my own doing for my seminal work on the secret doctrine of religious societies'85[85. waite's strictures on castle's paper were, of course, quite unjust but his diary entry is highly significant in that it reveals how his unpublished esoteric history of freemasonry was being transformed into the secret tradition in freemasonry. magnum opus i before this great work was published waite had written a series of articles on the origins of fr

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by discussing the order of templars which is thought to be the origin of masonry. we have seen that, although fe the "world-view" of ancient egypt did not remain buried with these statues, but was carried down to the present day. by those secret societies that see themselves as the heirs of ancient egypt global freemasonry the templars were founded as a christian order, they were affected by some secret doctrines that they discovered in jerusalem, totally abandoned christianity and became an anti-religious organization practicing heretical rites. 2. when we asked what this doctrine was that influenced the templars, we found that it was basically the kabbalah. 3. when we examined the kabbalah, we found proof that, however much it may resemble jewish mysticism, it is a pagan doctrine older t

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22 november 1938 83[83] aqc 15 (1902, pp. 163-74. waite's comments are printed on pp. 170-2 84[84] diary, 3 october 1902 really- that it is an incoherent and slovenly paper i begin to see very clearly how much a real history of the templars is wanted in england to set matters right, so far as they can be set, once and for all. this is of course a scheme of my own doing for my seminal work on the secret doctrine of religious societies'85[85. waite's strictures on castle's paper were, of course, quite unjust but his diary entry is highly significant in that it reveals how his unpublished esoteric history of freemasonry was being transformed into the secret tradition in freemasonry. magnum opus i before this great work was published waite had written a series of articles on the origins of fr

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upholds the original inner teachings of jesus as part of a continuum of wisdom which spans from pagan to so-called christian sources. but it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings here, however, fragmentary and incomplete belong neither to the hindu's, the zoroastrian, the chaldean, nor the egyptian religion, nor to buddhism, islam, judaism or christianity exclusively. the secret doctrine is the essence of all these. the secret doctrine, madame blavaskty. behind the veil of all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, under the deal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of nineveh or thebes, on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the blackened visage of the assyrian or egyptian sphin

ome debate over arctic versus antarctic due to the possibility of a polar shift connected to the ice age) is the work of rand and rose flem-aeth. in when the sky fell, they offer extensive research to show the likelihood of the gnostic handbook page 71 the location of the legendary land of atlantis being one and the same as the polar homeland, now covered in ice. it is suggested by blavatsky (the secret doctrines) that it is from this primal, polar land that various races spread throughout the globe. there is some debate about the exact number of migrations, there is general agreement certainly that major settlements were made in tibet, india, sumer/egypt and south america. it is from the sumer/egypt basin that the israelite mysteries developed. the israel connection developing from the th

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r origin. these teachings are those which lead back to the spiritual world, the treasury of light from which we have become alienated. but it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings here, however fragmentary and incomplete, belong neither to the hindus, the zoroastrian, the chaldean, nor the egyptian religion, nor to buddhism, islam, judaism or christianity exclusively. the secret doctrine is the essence of all these. madame blavaskty. behind the veil of the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, under the deal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of nineveh or thebes, on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the blackened visage of the assyrian or egyptian sphinx, in the monstrous or ma

eification. this is the nexus of the new specialised teaching, that some of the gnostic brethren would be called to become part of the hierarchy itself, in other words, gods themselves! this special path is known as the celestial path, the path of the serpent of wisdom or the path of the chosen ones. initiates on this path were known in the cathar tradition as parfait; or the perfected ones. this secret doctrine or teaching has been known in many of the orthodox churches since the earliest of days, but has generally been understood by the orthodox in a way that is very different from its original gnostic meaning. gods essence is inaccessible. his uncreated and eternal energies (glory, light, love) permeate the universe and make possible a personal union with man. in its worship the church

to her unique adaptation of the esoteric teachings which came to be known as theosophy. she believed that she was in intimate contact with the mahatmas or secret chiefs who were the spiritual masters behind mans development. they outlined to her an esoteric system of thought which was to be of great significance as the equinox of the gods unfolded. her earlier works such as isis unveiled and the secret doctrine offer encyclopaedic interpretations of the mysteries, while later works (and works by other theosophical authors) seem to focus more on eastern than gnostic traditions, they are nevertheless of value. as time progressed annie besant and charles leadbeater (members of the inner gnostic theurgy page 216 school of theosophy) became convinced that the change they were sensing was physi

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work. the golden dawn taught that dee had merely rediscovered an ancient system known to the ill-fated atlanteans thousands of years ago. the enochian alphabet was said to have been a direct derivative of that which was used in atlantis. according to h.p. blavatsky "enoch was a generic title, applied to, and borne by, scores of individuals, at all times and ages, and in every race and nation (the secret doctrine) she equated enoch with the egyptian god thoth, who gave language, law, medicine, and science to man. the term 'enoch' meant seer or adept of the secret wisdom. thus enochian magick was not created by a single individual but evolved gradually over time which is now lost in history. the enochian alphabet and language may in fact be nearly as old as man, at least in this hemisphere

reach this stage you will realize that both the feminine and masculine currents are of equal intensity within yourself. this stage is sometimes called "experienced unity" the mahamudra stage is fully realized in the 4th aethyr, paz, but can be practiced successfully after crossing the abyss in the 10th aethyr, zax. for details on mahamudra and an excellent yoga to practice, read tibetan yoga and secret doctrines by w.y. evans-wentz. note: in spite of what you may have read elsewhere, the karmamudra stage is the lowest and most dangerous to. practice. if you have any reservations, skip it and proceed to jnanamudra. the sole practical benefit of karmamudra, as far as enochian magick is concerned, is that successful practice will often allow you to advance to jnanamudra easier than directly

etermine the measure of your success because these are the elements that strengthen ldcipsp. 203 zaa, an adventure with yourself maya or illusion is an element which enters into all finite things, for everything that exists has only a relative, not an absolute, reality, since the appearance which the hidden noumenon assumes for any observer depends upon his power of cognition. h.p. blavatsky, the secret doctrine after you have successfully entered the three lowest aethyrs, tex, ru, and bag, you wi l l be ready for an adventure in loneliness; a meeting with yourself alone. this takes place in the 27th aethyr, zaa, the aethyr of solitude. the three governors of zaa are: saziami sah-zodee-ah-mee mathvla mah-teh-hev-lah korpanib koh-rah-pah-nee-beh zaa is located in the highest region of the a

ociated with the deep, dreamless sleep state that you enter periodically at night, and with the devachan of theosophy. 205 des, the ego lipikas, the recorders of the karmic ledger, make an impassible barrier between the personal ego and the impersonal self, the noumenon and parent-source of the former. they circumscribe the manifested world of matter within the ring "pass-not" h.p. blavatsky, the secret doctrine after the solitude in zaa, you will be prepared to face and understand the l imitations of the human mind. these are fully encountered in the 26th aethyr, des. the three governors of des are: pophand poh-peh-hah-en-deh nigrana nee-gar-ah-nah bazhiim bah-zod-hee-ee-meh these governors are all interested in division. they divide up ideas into component thoughts and thus perpetuate th

our holy guardian angel who awaits in the 8th aethyr, zid. 209 ma, movement through time& space in the occult teachings, the unknown and the unknowable mover, or the self-existing, is the absolute divine essence. and thus being 'absolute' consciousness, and 'absolute' motion-to the limited senses of those who describe this indescribable-it is unconsciousness and immoveableness. h.p.biavatsky, the secret doctrine this i persisteth not, posteth not through generations, changeth momently, finally is dead. therefore is man only himself when lost to himself in the charioting. aleister crowley, the book of lies the 24th aethyr, nia, is the aethyr of motion. in nia you will learn to travel through both time and space. the three governors of nia are: orakamir oh-rah-kah-mee-ar khiasalps keh-hee-ah

at the threshold of light, he looks into it from within the circle of darkness, which he will not cross; nor will he quit his post till the last day of this life-cycle. it is under the direct, silentguidance of this maha guru that all the other less divine teachers and instructors of mankind became, from the first awakening of human consciousness, the guidesof early humanity. h.p. blavatsky, the secret doctrine after a successful initiation in the city of the pyramids, you are now ready to see the garden of nemo which lies in the 13th aethyr, zim. the initiatory processes from pop to vta are specifically designed to elevate you to the magical grade of magister templi (master of the temple. you must be at least a magister templi, or equivalent, to lawfully enter zim or any of the aethyrs a

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lotus into the blue lotus, be calledharischandra or ambarisha? names have nothing to do with the naive poetry of the legend, nor with itsmoral- for there is a moral to be found if looked for well. we shall soon see that the chief episode in thestory is curiously reminiscent of another legend- that of the story of abraham and the sacrifice of isaac inthe bible. is not this one more proof that the secret doctrine of the east may have good reason to maintainthat the name of the patriarch was neither a chaldean or a hebrew name, but rather an epithet and a sanskritsurname, signifying abram, i.e, one is non-brahman* a debrahmanised brahman, one who is degraded orwho has lost his caste? after this how can we avoid suspecting that we may find, among the modern jews,the chaldeans of the time of t

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u were told, is divided into an outer and an inner body. those who belong to the latter have, of course, a philosophy, or-if you so prefer it-a religious page 31 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt system of their own. q. may we be told what it is? a. we make no secret of it. it was outlined a few years ago in the theosophist and esoteric buddhism, and may be found still more elaborated in the secret doctrine. it is based on the oldest philosophy of the world, called the wisdom-religion or the archaic doctrine. if you like, you may ask questions and have them explained. the fundamental teachings of theosophy on god and prayer q. do you believe in god? a. that depends what you mean by the term. q. i mean the god of the christians, the father of jesus, and the creator: the biblical god of

svapna, or the dreaming state, and their karanopadhi or "causal body" or that which passes from one incarnation to another, are all dual in their aspects, and thus make six. add to this atma, the impersonal divine principle or the immortal element in man, undistinguished from the universal spirit, and you have the same seven again. they are welcome to hold to their division; we hold to ours [see 'secret doctrine, part 1, p. 182 for a clearer exposition] q. then it seems almost the same as the division made by the mystic christians: body, soul, and spirit? a. just the same. we could easily make of the body the vehicle of the "vital double; of the latter the vehicle of life or prana; of kamarupa, or (animal) soul, the vehicle of the higher and the lower mind, and make of this six principles

he is a victim to his environment, the child of circumstances over which he has no control; and if each of his transgressions were impartially investigated, there would be found nine out of every ten cases when he was the one sinned against, rather than the sinner. it is on this transgression that the cruel and illogical dogma of the fallen angels has been built. it is explained in vol. ii of the secret doctrine. all our "egos" are thinking and rational entities (manasaputas) who had lived, whether under human or other forms, in the precedent life cycle (manvantara, and whose karma it was to incarnate in the man of this one. it was taught in the mysteries that, having delayed to comply with this law (or having "refused to create" as hinduism says of the kumaras and christian legend of the

buddhi represents in this simile the forest, and manas-taijasi *2) the trees. and if buddhi is immortal, how can that which is similar to it, i.e, manas-taijasi, entirely lose its consciousness till the day of its new incarnation? i cannot understand it *1) isvara is the collective consciousness of the manifested godhead, brahma, i.e. the collective consciousness of the host of dhyan chohans (see secret doctrine; praj a is their individual wisdom *2) taijasi means the 'radiant, as a consequence of its union with buddhi, i.e. manas, the human soul, enlightened by the rays of the divine soul. hence manas-taijasi can be described as radiant intellect, the human reason enlightened by the light of the spirit; and buddhi-manas is the revelation of the divine plus the human intellect and self-con

this karma forbids any long continuance in one condition, because it is always changing. so long as action is governed by material and selfish motives, just so long must the effect of that action be manifested in physical rebirths. only the perfectly selfless man can elude the gravitation of material life. few have attained this, but it is the goal of mankind. and then the writer quotes from the secret doctrine: those who believe in karma have to believe in destiny, which, from birth to death, every man is weaving, thread by thread, around himself, as a spider does his cobweb, and this destiny is guided either by the heavenly voice of the invisible prototype outside of us, or by our more intimate astral or inner man, who is but too often the evil genius of the embodied entity called man

a russian proverb. it makes one's blood boil to hear such vile accusations made without the slightest foundation, and on the strength of mere inferences. ask the hundreds of page 128 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt honorable english men and women who have been members of the theosophical society for years whether an immoral precept or a pernicious doctrine was ever taught to them. open the secret doctrine, and you will find page after page denouncing the jews and other nations precisely on account of this devotion to phallic rites, due to the dead letter interpretation of nature symbolism, and the grossly materialistic conceptions of her dualism in all the exoteric creeds. such ceaseless and malicious misrepresentation of our teachings and beliefs is really disgraceful. q. but you c

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e never uses col. o[lcott]'s name, i doubt very much whether he would have approved of this appeal' my idea of the position is, that some tremendous crisis is at hand, which is foreseen by the mahatmas, and which will probably necessitate their interference in a more open way, even as the count st german [i.e. saint-germain] interfered in the first french revolution. the t.s. by making known the "secret doctrine &c. generally, altho' the minds ofmen are now far too much taken up with worldly gain, and worldly pleasures, will, in this great crisis, and the terrible sufferings and distress the letters 45 attend.ant u on it, then turn to the mahatmas and their pure doct mes, instead of the spurious xtianity which the b.b [iesuits] have foisted upon us, and part of which still adheres (without

ge of consent to sixteen. the story that w. e. gladstone and his liberal henchman sir william harcourt frequented a brothel in st john's wood was nonsense and merely indicated that ayton voted conservative. it is unlikely that ayton knew that gladstone was privately interested in reforming prostitutes (see joyce marlow, mr and mrs gladstone: an intimate biography, 1977. when h. p. blavatsky's the secret doctrine was published in march 1889 stead gave it to annie besant to review. he knew about her recent interest in spiritualism and potentially occultism, although at this time she cannot have known much about the latter. stead had met madame blavatsky but did not know her well. fascinated by h.p.b.'s vast compendium of occult lore, mrs besant asked stead for an introduction to her. when sh

rom time immemorial, and included such adepts as hadrian mynsight, eugenius philalethes, sigismund backstrom, and a host of others. we must, however, never forget that the t.s. has a peculiar mission for this "fin de siecle" and englan? and india in particular. the ts. teaches generally and th oret cally for the most part, tho' there are some practical pomts in the s.d [i.e, h. p. blavatsky's the secret doctrine 1888] we should do well to bear in mind and add to the practice of our order. the t.s. is doing a great work, as we may see shortly. the b.b [i.e, the jesuits] are most active and have developed a most elaborate and perfect scheme for the destruction of british power and influence, and it is so far successful, and they may get the upper hand temporarily. i believe that it is this w

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uani 150 doctiiae of permatation 152 the meaning irf god-incarnate 153 dogmas ol tbe gnostics 155 idraa of marcion, the 'bereaiardi' 159 precepts of mann 163 jebovab, identical with baccbos 165 chafteb jv oriental cosmogonies and bible bbcords discrepancies in the pentateoch 167 indian, chaldaean and ophite systems conqwred 170 who were the firat christians? j78 christos and sc^rfiia-acbamoth 183 secret doctrine uuriit by jesus 191 jesut never daimed to be god 193 new tcatament narrative* and hmdal^aads 199 antiquity irf the 'logos' and 'christ' 205 comparative vi^n-wocship 209 chapter v mysteries of the kabala ain-soph and the sn>hiroth 212 the primitive wisdom-rdigion 216 the booii of omint a compilation of old-world trends 217 the trinity of the kabala 222 gnostic and-naaarene systems c

minator' of the graeco-demotic manuscript is identical with jesus or not, the fact remains that we find the latter selecting a' mystery'-appellation for one who is made to appear later by the catholic church as the janitor of the kingdom of heaven and the interpreter of christ's will. the word patar or peter locates both master and disciple in the circle of initiation, and connects them with the' secret doctrine' the great hierophant of the ancient mysteries never allowed the candidates to see or hear him personally. he was the deus ex ma- dtind, the presiding but invisible deity, uttering his will and instructions through a second party; and 2000 years later we discover that the dalai-lamas of tibet had been following for centuries the same tradition- al program during the most important

ia the propeil]r of a mjratic whom we met in syria. digitizecoy google 94 ws nnteile3> if jesus knew the secret meaoiiig of the title bestowed by him on simon, then he must have been initiated, otherwise he could not have learned it; and if he was an initiate of either the pythagorean essenes, the chal- daean magi, or the egyptian priests, then the doctrine taught by him was but a portion of the' secret doctrine' taught by the pagan hiero- pbants to the few select adepts admitted within the sacred adyta. but we will discuss this question farther on. for the present we will endeavor briefly to indicate the extraordinary cnmilarity or rather identity of rites and ceremonial dress of the christian clergy with those of the old babylonians, assyrians, phoenicians, egyptians, and other pagans of

clusion of the religious mysteries the priests baptized (washed) their monuments and anointed them with oil. ah this is but a very indirect proof "die jordan baptism need not be shown a substitution for the exoteric bacchic rites and the ubations in honor of adonis or adoni whom the nazarenes ab- horred in order to prove them [the nazarenes] to have been a sect sprung from the' mysteries' of the' secret doctrine; and their rites can by no means be coctfounded with those of the pagan populace, who had simply fallen into the idolatrous and unreasoning faith of all plebeian multitudes. john was the prophet of these nazarenes, and in galilee he was termed 'the savior' but he was not the founder of that sect which derived its tradition from the remotest chaldaeo-akkadian theurgy" the early pleb

t came from the mayans, who composed the persian sacred caste in the sassan period, but were originally assjnians "turan, of the poets" be says "i con- sider to be aturia, or assyria; and that zohak (az-dahoka, dei-okes, or astyages, the serpent-king, was aiisjrrian, median, and bai^lonian when those countries were united" this opinion does not, however, in the least affect our statement that the secret doctrines of the magi, of the pre-vedic buddhists, of the hierophants of the egyptian thoth or hermes, and of the adepts of what- ever age and nationahty, including the chaldaean kabalists and the jew- ish tuaars, were idxruical from the beginning. when we use the term buddhutt, we do not mean to imply by it either the exoteric buddhism in- stituted by the followers of gautama-buddha, or th

iv. 402. ibid, p. vu. 403. pmat, lib. i. torn. ii, hmt. xxx. ii. iil 404. boer.saim, ii. 2. digitizecoy google 18s isis unveiled vrites toward the end ot the fourth centuiy "in the eeangd wfaidi the nazareneb and ehioniiet use" adds jerome "which recently i trans- lated from hebrew into greek, and which is called by most persons tbe genmne govpel of matthew" etc* that the apostles had received a 'secret doctrine' from jesus, and that he himself taught one, is evident from the following words of jerome, who confessed it in lui unguarded moment. writing to the bishops chromatius and heliodorus, he complains that "a difficidt work is enjoined, since this translation has been commanded me by your peuci- ties, which matthew himself, the apostle and evangelist, did not wish to be openlt wbittbn

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o an excellent aid to relaxation and tension release. pranayama should not be done during heavy air pollution. other exercises you might consider are hatha yoga, calesthentics, walking or jogging. review questions 1) what is a chakra? list them. 2) name the three major nadies. which nadi is hot? 3) what is pranayama? book list arthur diekman, the observing self. w.y. evans-wentz, tibetan yoga and secret doctrines. sandra gibson, beyond the mind. king and skinner, techniques of high magic. swami sivananda, kundalini yoga. john woodroffe (pseud. for arthur avalon, the serpent power. the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 20* magick 6- thoughtforms and spirits* although there are hundreds of kinds of divination, the principle ones are astrology, geomancy, the tarot, the

KARR DON NOTES ON EDITIONS OF SEFER YETZIRAH IN ENGLISH

h: a study of the secret tradition in israel as unfolded by sons of the doctrine for the benefit and consolation of the elect dispersed through the lands and ages of the greater exile. london: williams and norgate ltd, 1929; reprinted new hyde park: university books, 1960. this title incorporates a. the doctrine and literature of the kabbalah. london: theosophical publishing company, 1902. b. the secret doctrine in israel. a study of the zohar and its connections. london: wm. rider and son, 1913. waite discusses sy at some length in the following sections of the holy kabbalah: 1. book ii, i: date of the book of formation 2. book iii, ii: the book of formation 3. book iii, iii: connections and dependencies of the book of formation. in the first section, waite gives a survey of the issues co

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

mysteries. do not let the eye of anyone look upon it- that were abomination. the book of the master of the secret house is its name. h(*w. marsham adams, the book of the master, p. 96) 22. in ancient egypt they recognized seven souls, or life-forces, coming forth from the most high. students of eastern philosophy call them the primordial seven, and they are mentioned in the book of dzyan(*see the secret doctrine, by h. p. blavatsky) six of these were prehuman; the seventh was our humanity, and was brought forth from the virgin neith. the symbol attached to that bringing forth was that of the pelican, who was fabled to draw blood from her own breast in order to feed her young; this later became a prominent symbol in the rosicrucian philosophy, which seems to have been derived largely from e

how can we draw a line of demarcation and say: ehere the physical process ends, and there the physiological begins f? no such barriers exist. h 210. psychic experience and trained clairvoyance add their testimony to this conclusion, and affirm that without a shadow of doubt the same kind of life can be seen pulsating in the body of a tiger or an oak tree or a fragment of mineral substance. as the secret doctrine expressed it: 211. with every day, the identity between the animal and physical man, between the plant and man, and even between the reptile and its nest, the rock, and man- is more and more clearly shown. the physical and chemical constituents of all being found to be identical, chemical 212. science may well say that there is no difference between the matter which composes the ox

ses the ox, and that which forms man. but the occult doctrine is far more explicit. it says: not only the chemical compounds are the same, but the same infinitesimal invisible lives compose the atoms of the bodies of the mountain and the daisy, of man and the ant, of the elephant and of the tree which shelters it from the sun. each particle-whether you call it organic or inorganic- is a life(*the secret doctrine, i, 281) 213. in looking, then, at our chequered pavement, those of us who understand the full significance of it are constantly reminded of the omnipresence of life. 214. in ancient egypt the sanctity of the mosaic pave-ment was guarded with the most jealous care, and it was never invaded except by the candidate and the officers at the proper times, by the i.p.m. in the pursuance

ms. thus this emblem refers to the two outpourings, and shows that the master presides over all three representations. 263. this figure, called the tau, has another very important meaning, for the upright line signifies the masculine element, and the horizontal line the feminine, in the deity- thus slowing that god manifests as mother as well as father, as we are told in the stanzas of dzyan(*the secret doctrine, vol. i, p. 59 et passim) i shall refer to this again later when writing of the h.r.a. in ancient egypt it took to a large extent the place of the cross and, conjoined with the circle or oval, it became the ankh, the symbol of everlasting life. 264. the jewel of the i. p. m. resembles that of the master in that it contains the square, but it has certain important additions. the jew

layan school c locates sushumna, the chief seat of these three nadis, in the central tube of the spinal cord, and ida and pingala on its left and right sides. ida and pingala are simply the sharps and flats of that fa of human nature, which, when struck in a proper way, awakens the sentries on either side, the spiritual manas and the physical kama, and subdues the lower through the higher. c(*the secret doctrine, vol. iii, p. 503) 679. it is the pure akasha that passes up sushumna; its two aspects flow in ida and pingala. these are the three vital airs, and are symbolized by the brahmanical thread. they are ruled by the will. pill and desire are the higher and lower aspects of one and the same thing. hence the importance of the purity of the canals. c from these three a circulation is set

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matics the human body in symbolism the hiramic legend the pythagorean theory of music and color fishes, insects, animals, reptiles and birds (part one) fishes, insects, animals, reptiles and birds (part two) flowers, plants, fruits, and trees stones, metals and gems ceremonial magic and sorcery the elements and their inhabitants hermetic pharmacology, chemistry, and therapeutics the qabbalah, the secret doctrine of israel fundamentals of qabbalistic cosmogony the tree of the sephiroth qabbalistic keys to the creation of man an analysis of tarot cards the tabernacle in the wilderness the fraternity of the rose cross rosicrucian doctrines and tenets fifteen rosicrucian and qabbalistic diagrams alchemy and its exponents the theory and practice of alchemy: part one the theory and practice of a

s--the orders of elemental beings--the gnomes, undines, salamanders, and sylphs--demonology--the incubus and succubus- vampirism. 105 hermetic pharmacology, chemistry, and therapeutics the healing methods of paracelsus--palingenesis--hermetic theories concerning the cause of disease--medicinal properties of herbs--the use of drugs in the mysteries--the sect of the assassins. 109 the qabbalah, the secret doctrine of israel the written and unwritten laws--the origin of the qabbalistic writings--rabbi simeon ben jochai--the great qabbalistic books--the divisions of the qabbalistic system--the sepher yetzirah. 113 fundamentals of qabbalistic cosmogony ain soph and the cosmic egg--the qabbalistic system of worlds--the qabbalistic interpretation of ezekiel's vision--the great image of nebuchadne

mic allegory--the crucifixion of quetzalcoatl--the nails of the passion. 181 the mystery of the apocalypse the sacred city of ephesus--the authorship of the apocalypse--the alpha and omega- the lamb of god-the four horsemen-the number of the beast. 185 the faith of islam the life of mohammed--the revelation of the koran--the valedictory pilgrimage--the tomb of the prophet--the caaba at mecca--the secret doctrine of islam. 189 american indian symbolism the ceremony of the peace pipe--the historical hiawatha--the popol vuh--american indian sorcery--the mysteries of xibalba--the midewiwin. 193 the mysteries and their emissaries the golden chain of homer--hypatia, the alexandrian neo-platonist--the "divine" cagliostro--the comte de st.-germain--the designing of the american flag--the declarati

d so potent as to be revealed with safety only to those in whom personal ambition was dead and who had consecrated their lives to the unselfish service of humanity. both the dignity of these sacred institutions and the validity of their claim to possession of universal wisdom are attested by the most illustrious philosophers of antiquity, who were themselves initiated into the profundities of the secret doctrine and who bore witness to its efficacy. the question may legitimately be propounded: if these ancient mystical institutions were of such "great pith and moment" why is so little information now available concerning them and the arcana they claimed to possess? the answer is simple enough: the mysteries were secret societies, binding their initiates to inviolable secrecy, and avenging

man-conceived dialects as inadequate and unworthy to perpetuate divine ideas, the mysteries thus chose symbolism as a far more ingenious and ideal method of preserving their transcendental knowledge. in a single figure a symbol may both reveal and conceal, for to the wise the subject of the symbol is obvious, while to the ignorant the figure remains inscrutable. hence, he who seeks to unveil the secret doctrine of antiquity must search for that doctrine not upon the open pages of books which might fall into the hands of the unworthy but in the place where it was originally concealed. far-sighted were the initiates of antiquity. they realized that nations come and go, that empires rise and fall, and that the golden ages of art, science, and idealism are succeeded by the dark ages of supers

t, or upon the strange terraced pyramids of palanque. mute testimonies these are of the lost arts and sciences of antiquity; and concealed this wisdom must remain until this race has learned to read the universal language--symbolism. the book to which this is the introduction is dedicated to the proposition that concealed within the emblematic figures, allegories, and rituals of the ancients is a secret doctrine concerning the inner mysteries of life, which doctrine has been preserved in toto among a small band of initiated minds since the beginning of the world. departing, these illumined philosophers left their formul that others, too, might attain to understanding. but, lest these secret processes fall into uncultured hands and be perverted, the great arcanum was always concealed in sym

MEANING OF MASONRY

the activity and foresight of some of these advanced initiates that our present system of speculative masonry is due. you must not imply from this that modern masonry is by any means a full or adequate presentation of these older and larger systems. it is but their pale and elementary shadow. but such as they are, and so far as they do go, our rituals and doctrine are an authentic embodiment of a secret doctrine and a secret process that have always existed for the enlightenment of such aspirants as, putting their trust in god (as our present candidates are made to say, have knocked at the door of certain secret sanctuaries in the confidence that door would open and that they would find in due course that for which they were seeking. those who institut ed modern speculative masonry some 25

me and with eternity. they are the word of god, the divine logos, articulate and expressed in forms of language. each sign possesses a corresponding vocal expression, bodily gesture or mental intention. this fact is of great importance to the student of the wisdom, for in it rests the main reason of the secrecy and the intense watchfulness and carefulness of the stewards of the mysteries lest the secret doctrines find expression on the lips or through the action of unfit persons to possess the secrets. for the secret power of the mysteries is within the signs. any person attaining to natural and supernatural states by the process of development, if his heart be untuned and his mind withdrawn from the divine to the human within him, that power b ecomes a power of evil instead of a power of

ight and in the true line of succession of the primitive doctrine, and one still able to guide our feet into the way of peace and perfection. the earliest teaching of the mysteries traceable within historic time was in the orient and in the language known as sanscrit--a name itself significant and appropriate, for it means holy writ or" sanctum scriptum; and for very great lights upon the ancient secret doctrine one must still refer to the religious and philosophical scriptures of india, which was in its spiritual and temporal prime when modern europe was frozen beneath an ice-cap. but races, like men, have their infancy, manhood and old age; they are but units, upon a larger scale than the individual, for furthering the general life-purpose. when a given race has served or failed in that

w that pythagoras, like moses, after absorbing all his native teachers could impart, journeyed to egypt to take his final initiation prior to returning and founding the great school at crotona associated with his name. we know, too, from the timaus of plato how aspirants for mystical wisdom visited egypt for initiation and were told by the priests of sais that" you greeks are but children" in the secret doctrine, but were admitted to information enabling them to promote their own spiritual advancement. we know from the corresponden ce, recorded by iamblichus, between anebo and porphyry, the fraternal relations existing between the various schools or lodges of instruction in different lands; how their members visited, greeted and assisted one another in the secret science, the more advanced

hird was not a royalty, but apparently a person of no social dignity and a" widow's son" as has previously been said in these papers, these details of an enterprise undertaken more than two* as this doctrine is not popularly inculcated in the west as it is in the east, and will be novel and probably unacceptable to some readers, its acceptance is not pressed here. we are merely recording what the secret doctrine teaches. thousand years ago can have no possible value to anyone to-day and if they related merely to historic fact modern masonry might as well close its doors and cease to exist for any benefit that fact could impart to serious or reflective minds. but if the narrative were never intended as a record of temporal historic fact, but be a myth enshrining philosophic truths concernin

e father to be preserved for ever. these are the orgies of my mysteries. if thou wilt, come and be thou also initiated, and thou shalt join in the dance with the angels around the uncreated, imperishable and only true god, the word of god joining in the strain" the mysteries came to an end as public institutions in the sixth century, when from political considerations they and the teaching of the secret doctrine and philosophy became prohibited by the roman government, under justinian, who aimed at inaugurating an official uniform state-religion throughout its empire. subsequently, as the roman empire declined and broke up, the roman catholic church emerged from it, which, as we know, has resolutely discountenanced any authority in religion and philosophy as a rival to her own and at the s

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scholar must be aware that there are two distinct styles two schools, so to speakplainly traceable in the hebrew scriptures: the elohistic and the jehovistic. the portionsbelonging to these respectively are so blended together, so completely mixed up by laterhands, that often all external characteristics are lost. yet it is known that the two schoolswere antagonistic (madame helena blavatsky, the secret doctrine, v ol. 3)many cryptic terms are used to describe the adversaries and their conflict. many seem-ingly incomprehensible motifs and anecdotes from the worlds legends can be madelucid once the reader knows what is really being implied. and this was comprehendedby the american master of the pre-diluvian epochs, ignatius donnelly, who demon-strated his discernment, concerning the terrest

by that order itself (duke of brunswick,grand master of world freemasonry. while the real brothers died ignominious deaths, the spurious order which tried to stepinto their shoes became exclusively a branch of the jesuits (illuminati) under the immediatetutelage of the latter. true-hearted masons ought to reject with horror any connection, letalone descent from these (madame helena blavatsky, the secret doctrine) there exists. another class of adepts belonging to a brotherhood also and mightier thanany other they have to be ranked with the adepts of the black arts. these are our romancatholic fathers and clergy. a hundred times more learned in secret symbology and theold religion than our orientalists will ever bethere are more profoundly learned kabalistsin rome and throughout europe and

. these are our romancatholic fathers and clergy. a hundred times more learned in secret symbology and theold religion than our orientalists will ever bethere are more profoundly learned kabalistsin rome and throughout europe and america than is generally suspected..thus are thebrotherhoods of black adepts more powerful and dangerousthan any host of easternoccultists (madame helena blavatsky, the secret doctrine) speak i of ancient atlantis, speak of the days of the kingdom of shadows, speak of the com-ing of the children of shadows. out of the great deep were they called by the wisdom of theearth-manin the form of man they moved amongst us, but only to sight were they as men. serpent-headed when the glamour was liftedcrept they into councils, taking form that were likeunto men. slaying by

ength /perelandra (v oyage to venus)/out of the silent planet j. r. r. tolkien lord of the rings /the silmarillion/the hobbit. george macdonald phantastes/lilith ursula le guin the earthsea trilogy john christopher the tripods trilogy emmanuel velikovsky worlds in collision/ ages in chaos/ earth in upheaval rudolf steiner the archangel michael/ atlantis helena petrova blavatsky isis unveiled/ the secret doctrine ignatius donnelly atlantis- the ante-deluvian continent/ ragnarok charles berlitz atlantis the eighth continent barry fell america bc augustus le plongeon queen moo& the egyptian sphinx john milton paradise lost eliphas levi- enochian magic, transcendental magic david allen hulse the key of it all (2 volumes also called the western mysteries) cornelius agrippa- three books of occul

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had fallen, its immortality, and the states of reward and punishment after death. the uninitiated were deemed profane, unworthy of public employment or private confidence, sometimes proscribed as atheists, and certain of ever-lasting punishment beyond the grave. all persons were initiated into the lesser mysteries; but few attained the greater, in which the true spirit of them, and most of their secret doctrines were hidden. the veil of secrecy was impenetrable, sealed by oaths and penalties the most tremendous and appalling. it was by initiation only, that a knowledge of the hieroglyphics could be obtained, with which the walls, columns, and ceilings of the temples were decorated, and which, believed to have been communicated to the priests by revelation from the celestial deities, the y

the valentinians, the most celebrated of all the gnostic schools, imitated, or rather perverted, the mysteries of eleusis. iren us informs us, in several curious chapters, of the mysteries practised by the marcosians; and origen gives much information as to the mysteries of the ophites; and there is no doubt that all the gnostic sects had mysteries and an initiation. they all claimed to possess a secret doctrine, coming to them directly from jesus christ, different from that of the gospels and epistles, and superior to those communications, which in their eyes, were merely exoteric. this secret doctrine they did not communicate to every one; and among the extensive sect of the basilideans hardly one in a thousand knew it, as we learn from iren us. we know the name of only the highest class

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

vement and service to the plan the new world order as envisioned by the elite is hardly a recent undertaking. their s is a philosophy rooted in ancient occult traditions. success is near, and the infiltration of society by new age occultism is the reason for this success. the new world order has never been solely about world government, rather, from the beginning its proponents have been privy to secret doctrines and it is a spiritual plan more than anything. if one failed to take into account the occult nature of the new world order, they would be remiss. the un and the new age have been bed-fellows since the beginning. america s secret destiny is the product of rosicrucian and freemason forefathers. the new atlantis as proposed in francis bacon s work is almost at hand. the ancient myste

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

hesized. they should be carefully studied and receive long meditation, for in them are many clues to the spiritual and psychological problems which beset the traveller on the path, and they resume the entire philosophy of magic. many hints, moreover, which may be found useful as assisting meditation are contained in the 'curse'from a philosophical point of view in the second volume of blavatsky's secret doctrine in connection with the prometheus myth and the awakening of manas, mind. since both of these diagrams mav be found reproduced in the body of the text very little by way of explankon need h&e be said. the first depicts a personified representation of the three fundamental vrincivles in man. each of these is api;arently separate, functioning independently bn its own plane without co

of his own higher genius, to the splendour of the golden dawn arising within the heart of his soul. and its technique is always encompassed through the uplifting of the heart and mind by a theurgic invocation to isis-urania, the symbolic personification of the sephiroth of the supernal light. it is well known that venus is a planet peculiarly associated with occult and mystical aspiration. in the secret doctrine we find blavatsky stating that "venus, or lucifer, the planet, is the light-bearer of our earth, in both <291> a physical and mystical sense" and in quoting from the stanzas of dzyan, she presents the statement that "thus earth is the adopted child and younger brother of venus" hence a good deal of wisdom is concealed in the very choice of the name of the order. to this we will hav

iscarded their purely physical instruments, it is not to be supposed they are cut off from our sphere of activity. such is not the occult teaching. apart from the probability that they may have since incarnated voluntarily once more on this plane to continue their work on behalf of mankind in their own silent ways, they would have become what are known in the east as nirmanakayas. speaking in the secret doctrine of one group of adepts, blavatsky gives a definition of nirmanakayas which is distinctly worth quoting "maruts is, in occult parlance, one of the names given to those egos of great adepts who have passed away, and who are known also as nirmanakayas; of those egos for whom- since they are beyond illusion -there is no devachan (heaven) and who, having either voluntarily renounced it

s who have passed away, and who are known also as nirmanakayas; of those egos for whom- since they are beyond illusion -there is no devachan (heaven) and who, having either voluntarily renounced it for the good of mankind, or not yet reached nirvana, remain invisible onearth" such must therefore be the. nature of the divine guardians -of our order. a few lines following the above quotation in the secret doctrine <293> madame blavatsky further remarks "who they are 'on earth- every student of occult science knows" whether they do or not, at any rate, it is clear the order has a little to say on this matter. there is an enormous amount of significant material in the secret doctrine which should be very suggestive to the student of the magical wisdom. for the secret doctrine assists in the co

cal wisdom. for the secret doctrine assists in the comprehension of the order knowledge, and likewise the order knowledge makes brilliantly clear what are otherwise highly obscure passages in that colossal monument of blavatsky's erudition. the only one of these points that i wish to consider at the moment is this question of adepts in relation to the order. in the first half of volume two of the secret doctrine, there is a passage or two which i must quote "alone a handful of primitive men- in whom the spark of divine wisdom burnt bright, and only strengthened in its intensity as it got dimmer and dimmer with every age in those who turned it to bad purposes- remained the elect custodians of the mysteries revealed to mankind by the divine teachers. there were those among them, who remained

y this whole section very thoroughly; it is well worth it. in the early days of the order there was a 594 northern hemisphere 596 the golden dawn: volume n book eight special group which devoted its time and energies to the study and application of the principles involved herein. incidentally, may i point out how much light this particular instruction throws on innumerable passages in blavatsky's secret doctrine-especially in volume 11.-i.r <221> tabular view of the dominion of thesymbols of book tin fhe celestial heavens, and of the operation, and rule of the tree of life in the same as projected on a solid sphere (abridged treatise arranged for the use of the z.a.m 's in anglia by s.rm. d) the zelator adeptus minor shall know that the great "king star" or "heart of the lion" which is in

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red tradition of our fathers, was necessarily the fundamental dogma of christianity, the apparent dualism of which it explains by the intervention of a harmonious and all-powerful unity. christ did not put his teaching into writing, and only revealed it in secret to his favoured disciple, the one kabalist, and he a great kabalist, among the apostles. so is the apocalypse the book of the gnosis or secret doctrine of the first christians, and the key of this doctrine is indicated by an occult versicle of the lord's prayer, which the vulgate leaves untranslated, while in the greek rite, which preserves the traditions of st. john, the priests only are permitted to pronounce it. this versicle, completely kabalistic, is found in the greek text of the gospel according to st. matthew, and in sever

is trithemius establishes his prophetic 36 the doctrine of transcendental magic key of the seven spirits, to which we shall refer subsequently; by means thereof, observing the analogical proportions of successive events, it is possible to predict important future occurrences with certitude, and to fix beforehand, from age to age, the destinies of nations and the world. st. john, depositary of the secret doctrine of christ, has commemorated this sequence in the kabalistic book of the apocalypse, which he represents sealed with seven seals. we meet also the seven genii of ancient mythologies, and the cups and swords of the tarot. the doctrine concealed under these emblems is pure kabalah, already lost by the pharisees at the time of christ's advent. the scenes which succeed one another in th

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

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ose who fall, but avoid trampling them. then comes the victory, and the wounded on both sides, now brothers in suffering and before humanity, will meet in the ambulances of the conquerors. such are the consequences of the philosophical dogma of hermes; such has been from all time the ethic of true adepts; such is the philosophy of the rosicrucian inheritors of all the ancient wisdoms; such is the secret doctrine of those associations that are treated as subversive of the public order, and have ever been accused of conspiring against thrones and altars. the true adept, far from disturbing the public order, is its firmest supporter. he has too great a respect for liberty to desire anarchy: child of the light, he loves harmony and knows that darkness begets confusion. he accepts everything th

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

ollar bill. the cult is seeking to obliterate the christian ideal by attempting to destroy all honoured standards and traditions set up during the past nineteen centuries for the protection of the civilized world. the lure of famous names associated with the cult has drawn many naive supporters into its fold who would recoil in horror from its evil teachings were the truth only known to them. the secret doctrine of the cult has been carefully guarded from public scrutiny and investigation. nevertheless, this study cuts to the very heart of the meaning of that doctrine and the symbolism employed by the cult. it uncovers the trail of the serpent. it arms christians with the knowledge they must have if they are to detect and destroy this insidious menace which threatens the very foundation of

of deity. in almost every ancient temple there was a legend of a sacred or mystical stone. the mystical stone there has received the name of the 'stone of foundation "10""and the scribes who had come down from jerusalem said 'he has beelzebub' and 'by the prince of devils he casts out devils) alfred edward waite, in his study of the zohar (the cabalistic textbook of the 14th century, entitled the secret doctrine of israel (occult research press, n. y, 191, wrote (p. 62) of "a mysterious stone called schethiya" which was cast by jehovah "into the abyss, so to form the basis of the world and give birth thereto. one might say otherwise that it was like a cubical stone or altar, for its extremity was concealed in the depth, while its surface or summit rose above the chaos. it was the central p

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any one of them our spiritual life would be incalculably 3. the idea of finding the unity behind religious phenomena all over the world has inspired such researchers as mircea eliade, joseph campbell, and others into modern times. eliade in particular has stressed the universality of initiation practices and the presence of their influence in all the great religions. h. p. blavatsky s notion of a secret doctrine is a specific version of the idea that is actually less close to steiner, and despite his early connection with the theosophical movement, there is no evidence that steiner ever believed in it literally. introduction xiii the poorer. christianity, however, is specifically adapted to deal with the sense of history, of individual responsibility, of individual consciousness, which had

er humanity within the external human form, the essence, of whom the personal self is nothing more than a secondary image. within human beings themselves is born the transcendent, 58 christianity as mystical fact macrocosmic man. and this brings us once more into the terrain of the mystery-cults and their secret teachings, given a new form of expression in the platonic philosophy. we know of this secret doctrine from the report of hippolytus, one of the church fathers. this is the great and ineffable mystery of the samothracians, he says, referring to the guardians of a particular mysterycult: only the initiates are permitted to know it. for in their mysteries the samothracians have the explicit tradition of a primordial, macrocosmic man (adam).67 the mystery of love it is also as an initi

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of advice worthy of consideration: he that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him -proverbs 18:13 one caution! you are now entering the forbidden zone only puny secrets need protection. big discoveries are protected by public incredulity. marshall mcluhan take today what is one to do when, in order to rule men, it is necessary to deceive them? helena blavatsky the secret doctrine what you will read and see in this book is forbidden to you. discovering these things could be highly dangerous to your health. forbidden knowledge is sweet, but also deadly. many men have died for revealing far fewer secrets than are found herein. i am not being overdramatic nor attempting to be sensationalist. this is a warning: make very sure that you possess the daring and the

. 20 caution- you are entering the forbidden zone 21 what impudence! what arrogance! pike is letting us in on the deceit. even if a man is a mason, he may not be adjudged worthy of being promoted as one of the "adepts and sages, or the elect" in that case, along with non- masons, he is purposely misled by "false explanations and misinterpretations" and according to pike, he deserves to be misled. secret doctrine withheld george steinmetz, yet another masonic author, notes "there is a secret doctrine in freemasonry! that secret doctrine is concealed, rather than revealed by the very lectures which, we (masons) are told, offer a rational explanation of the ceremonies of initiation."21 oh my! so the poor masons must sit and listen to a bunch of boring lectures, with superiors rattling on and

y! that secret doctrine is concealed, rather than revealed by the very lectures which, we (masons) are told, offer a rational explanation of the ceremonies of initiation."21 oh my! so the poor masons must sit and listen to a bunch of boring lectures, with superiors rattling on and on about what are described as the "mysteries" when, really, it's all just malarkey because the true explanations the secret doctrine is concealed to all except the few favored "adepts" this is why, when i interview lower-level masonic friends of mine who are more than happy to privately confide to me all the "secrets" they have learned, i often find that almost everything they think they know is pure junk. the hard facts the really useful info is reserved for the masonic muckety-mucks, though it may be discovere

e logo of theosophy is blatantly occultic, combining the crowned oroboros serpent with both the jewish star of david, or six-pointed star, and the encircled swastika. another photo of theosophist annie besant giving the sign. besant, like her mentors, colonel olcott and russian mystic helena blavatsky, believed in the "pure doctrine" of lucifer, which they called the perennial philosophy and the "secret doctrine" 90 m codex magica for he's a jolly good fellow 91 interesting political cartoon in new jersey's star-ledger newspaper following the 9/11 world trade center attack, sent to the author by a friend. ever wondered why "uncle sam" wears the satanic goatee beard? johannes kepler (1571-1630, a german astronomer and mathematician who taught the numerological philosophies of plato and pyth

for the teachings of mystic emmanuel swedenborg. was the architecture of the deaf signs based on keller's aberrant religious views? these u.s. postal stamps depicting the deaf's "i love you" sign are shocking, to say the least. the inventor of the deaf signing system was herself an occultist and devotee of theosophy, the hindu/occult group founded by russian mystic helena blavatsky, author of the secret doctrine "el diablo" shows his horns-the devil rides out 135 academy award-winning actor kevin spacey, who is acknowledged as a homosexual. the mysterious painting on the wall directly behind spacey is of lucifer, with horns, amidst the flames of hell. the revealing but quite subtle message below reads "you've got to send the elevator back down" 136 codex magica actress salma hayek giving e

doubleheaded eagle symbolic of his predecessor, janus? thirteen the riddle of the great seal of the united states, and the all-seeing eye of the illuminati's serpent of wisdom and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world -revelation 12:9 the great serpent of the garden of eden and the lord god are identical. helena blavatsky the secret doctrine w h a t is the true meaning of the curious, arcane symbols found in the great seal of the united states? who designed this fantastic twosided device, and why is it so prominently featured as art and decor on our most common item of currency the u.s. one dollar bill? answering the riddle the symbols on the great seal at first glance seem to be incompatible with the history, politica

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uddhists, and later by the pythagoreans. in 1878, blavatsky and olcott moved to bombay, india, to be nearer the mahatmas and masters, the members of the great white brotherhood who appeared to her in their astral bodies to relay metaphysical teachings. after a turbulent period in india, which she left under charges of fraud to settle in london in 1887, blavatsky began work on her magnum opus, the secret doctrine (1888, a massive statement of her theosophical philosophy, including her views on reincarnation. only a constant series of rebirths of one and the same individual, passing through the circle of necessity, can fully explain the age-old problems of good and evil and the apparent injustices of life, blavatsky argues. only a system wherein one is rewarded or punished for the deeds or c

r the deeds or crimes committed in a former life can explain the inequalities of birth and fortune, of intellect and capacities. when a person s life is beset by injustice and misfortune, only the blessed knowledge of karma can prevent one from cursing life and men, as well as their supposed creator. those individuals who believe in karma have to believe in destiny, which, blavatsky states in the secret doctrine, from birth to death, every man is weaving, thread by thread, around himself, as a spider does his cobweb. karma creates nothing, nor does it design. it is man who plants and creates causes, and karmic law adjusts the effects, which adjustment is not an act but universal harmony. karma has never sought to destroy intellectual and individual liberty. on the contrary, he who unveils

true believers assembled around the medium. the script in which these documents was written were shown to be an amateurish attempt on the part of blavatsky to disguise her handwriting. regardless of the expose published by the society for psychical research (spr, theosophy continued to grow to become a worldwide movement. in 1877, blavatsky published isis unveiled, and in 1887, her monumental the secret doctrine, which was alleged to have been written in an altered state of consciousness while attuned to higher powers. in spite of a barrage of attacks and exposures, blavatsky s commanding personality secured a large following, and when she died in 1891 she was at the head of a large body of believers, numbering about 100,000 persons. annie besant (1847 1933) became her successor and active

ten in an altered state of consciousness while attuned to higher powers. in spite of a barrage of attacks and exposures, blavatsky s commanding personality secured a large following, and when she died in 1891 she was at the head of a large body of believers, numbering about 100,000 persons. annie besant (1847 1933) became her successor and actively preached the wisdom and insights provided in the secret doctrine and shepherded the movement into steadily larger growth. m delving deeper blavatsky, h. p. collected writings. 16 vols. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1950 1985. harris, iverson l. mme. blavatsky defended. santa fe springs, calif: stockton trade press, 1971. meade, marion. madame blavatsky: the woman behind the myth. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1980. murphet, howar

d one ever gain access to the hidden forces in the universe. only through complete mastery of body, soul, and spirit could one see beyond death and perceive the pathways to be taken in the afterlife. only when one has conquered fate and acquired divine freedom could he or she, the initiate, become a seer, a magician, an initiator. the greek philosopher pythagoras (c. 580 c. 500 b.c.e) learned the secret doctrine of numbers, the heliocentric system of the universe, music, astrology, astronomy, mathematics, and geometry from the powerful egyptian magi. before he established his own school of philosophy in southern italy, pythagoras spent 22 years in the temples of egypt as an initiate in the ancient mysteries. a particularly interesting aspect of the egyptian mystery schools is that for cent

oked at her one last time, and walked out. thinking the stranger to be jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) and deeply affected by his message, she worked to become a nice person, so much so that her family was concerned that she was ill. in 1915, nearly five years later, when several english women introduced alice to helena petrovna blavatsky (1831 1891) and theosophy, her studies of blavatsky s secret doctrines revealed that the man was the master koot hoomi. in 1919, another teacher appeared to alice, identifying himself as tibetan master djwhal khul. alice bailey wrote a series of ageless wisdom books of teachings from djwhal khul that became lauded as classics in occult teaching. in an unfinished autobiography, bailey expressed her love and compassion for her teachers, declaring them

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pable of telepathy, astral travel, and teleportation. lemuria, according to churchward, was about 5,000 miles long and 3,000 miles wide and stretched to the pacific ocean, where islands of the present day are former mountain peaks of the lost continent. in the 1880s, helena petrovna blavatsky (1831.1891) formed the theosophical society with psychic investigator henry steel olcott. in her book the secret doctrine (1888, she claimed to have learned of lemuria in the book of dzyan, which she said was composed in atlantis and shown to her by survivors of that lost continent. her source may have been sanskrit legends that tell of the former continent of rutas that sank beneath the sea. lemurians, according to blavatsky, were the third of seven root races of humankind. they were hermaphrodites w

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see, prevents the loop from being complete, as it was intended to be; the mysteries are a matter of deep awareness and realization, not dogma or empty ritual performance. awareness, as it is focused through the housle, is in fact the key to the highest workingthe working of immortality, the immortalization of the individual. modern pagan authors normally do not discuss such topics, but they were secret doctrines of the ancient mysteries. the secret workings of the true life without beginning or end are summed up in the housle, perfectly. before we begin our conversation, i would like to state that the explanation for the inner meanings of the housle given here is relatively deep; if you perform the housle, and have read my other writings about it, this essay can and will transform how you

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

three the early years of the o.t.o. somewhere about the year 1896 karl kellner, a wealthy german iron-master who had journeyed through india and the middle east in search of occult wisdom, decided to found yet another templar group, its purpose to revive the sexual magic which kellner believed had been the real secret of the original order of the temple. kellner claimed to have rediscovered this secret doctrine by means of a thorough study of the sexo-yogic teachings he had orally received from three oriental adepts, two arab and one hindu. he therefore decided, reasonably enough, to call his fraternity ordo templi orientis the order of oriental templars thus properly acknowledging his intellectual debts to his teachers. whether these teachers ever actually existed, or if they did, whethe

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

he common touch- perhaps rather more so than gardner. i determined to trace the wiccan rumor to its source. as we shall see, in the very year i "fell" into being a gnostic bishop, i also fell into the original charters, rituals and paraphernalia of wicca. the charter and the book being a radical revisionist history of the origins of the modern witch cult and the book of shadows "it was one of the secret doctrines of paganism that the sun was the source, not only of light, but of life..the invasion of classical beliefs by the religions of syria and egypt which were principally solar, gradually affected the conception of apollo, and there is a certain later identification of him with the suffering god of christianity, free- masonry and similar cults" aleister crowley in astrology, 1974..if g

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rguments by which von hammer attempts to show that they belonged to the templars seem at least to be very plausible. several of the objects represented upon them, even the skull, are alluded to in some of the confessions of the templars, and these evidently only confessed a part of what they knew, or otherwise they were very imperfectly acquainted with the secrets of their order. perhaps the most secret doctrines and rites were only communicated fully to a small number. there is, however, another circumstance connected with these objects which appears to furnish an almost irresistible confirmation of von hammer's theory. most of them bear inscriptions, written in arabic, greek, and roman characters. the inscriptions on the images appear to be merely proper names, probably those of their po

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ent in new york that they referred to as the lamasery. their union appears to have been intellectual rather than sexual. an intense period of mediumship and writing culminated in the formation of the theosophical society. olcott was elected as chairman and became the organizational genius responsible for the rapid spread of the society. blavatsky's two greatest works, isis unveiled (1877) and the secret doctrine (1888, are bewildering in their scope and complexity. somehow, from their confusion, and from subsequent spirit messages received by blavatsky during seances, she and her closest followers were able to extract the essential ideas of theosophy. seven astral levels madame blavatsky claimed to receive her wisdom from a hierarchy of highly evolved human souls that were referred to coll

oreal vampires, the existence of which theosophy acknowledges. they can most easily be destroyed by burning their bodies. another astral inhabitant scarcely to be recognized as human is the werewolf. when a human being of a particularly brutal and cruel nature, who has some knowledge of the occult, manages to project his astral body, it may be seized upon by "other astral entities" 99. blavatsky, secret doctrine, vol. 2, p. 636. 100. leadbeater, astral plane, 59. 86 soul flight the nature of which leadbeater does not describe. these transform the astral body of the traveler into that of a beast such as a wolf, and materialize it to such a degree that it is able to roam the countryside, hunting and killing livestock and human beings for the purpose of satisfying not only its own craving for

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

being answerable to the pope alone. templars confessed their sins to each other and were given absolution, being scourged meanwhile; this meant that no mention of any unorthodox teaching would get outside. there is no reason to say that from the beginning the templars were unorthodox; it may have just happened that owing to peculiar circumstances this order was organised in a way that meant that secret doctrines could be taught safely at a time when free thought was strongly suppressed, i should imagine that most of the templar priests knew what the rites meant; why, for instance, the novices were stripped of all or nearly all clothing. the number three played a very important part in the lives of the knights. for example, the ritual kiss and the symbolic denial of the cross were said to

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

. the teaching was in a great measure secret, and certain studnumbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott ies and knowledge were allotted to each class and grade of instruction; merit and ability alone sufficed to enable anyone to pass to the higher classes and to a knowledge of the more recondite mysteries. no person was permitted to commit to writing any tenet, or secret doctrine, and, so far as is known, no pupil ever broke the rule until after his death and the dispersion of the school. 14. we are thus entirely dependent on the scraps of information, which have been handed down to us from his successors, and from his and their critics. a considerable amount of uncertainty, therefore, is inseparable from any consideration of the real doctrines of pythagora

e to some number or other, in a way, which to most moderns must seem curious and mystical in the highest degree. the numerals of pythagoras, says porphyry, who lived about 300 a.d, were hieroglyphic symbols, by means whereof he explained all ideas concerning the nature of things, and the same method of explaining the secrets of nature is once again being insisted upon in the new revelation of the secret doctrine, by h. p. blavatsky. numbers are a key to the ancient views of cosmogony in its broad sense, spiritually as well as physically considered and to the evolution of the present human race; all systems of religious mysticism are based upon numerals. the sacredness of numbers begins with the great first cause, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott th

ather of the pharisees was jehovah, and they were of the seed of abraham. the number of abrm is 1, 2, 200, 40 or 243, the number of the man figure, seir anpin, representing microprosopus. read pistorius, ars cabalistica, for the effect of adding h 5 to men s names, see page 969. also inman, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott ancient faiths, article abraham. secret doctrine, i. 578, ii. 77. also c. w. king, the gnostics. the name sarah also has a curious set of similars in hebrew- srh, princess; sar, flesh; sor, gate; schr, black; sor, hairy seir; srt, incision; sr and srr, navel; and note the sacti of brahma is sara-swati, watery. sara refers to sri, lakhsmi, aphrodite, and all are related to water and luna, vach, sophia of the gnostics, and the idea

ars in the highest developments of the chabrat zereh aur bokher, and as described in the oldest sanskrit occult science of the upanishads--smell, taste, sight, touch, hearing--and 6th, mental preception, with 7th, spiritual understanding. the two latter were not dwarfed and materialized into noticeable organs in this fifth race of beings, to which man now belongs. for a fuller explanation see the secret doctrine of h. p. blavatsky. the archaic scheme recognized seven states of matter; homogenous, aeriform, nebulous or curdlike, atomic, germinal fiery elemental, fourfold vapory, and lastly that which is cold and dependent on a vivifying sun for light and heat. our earth, symbolized by malkuth of the kabalah, is the 7th of a series, and is on the fourth plane; it is generated by yesod, the f

d, 17 tens and 17 units. h. p. b. lived at 17 lansdowne road, and 17 avenue road. lucifer was published at 7 duke street. 7 volumes were completed at her death. colonel olcott first met her at 7 beckman street and later at 71 broadway, new york. anna kingsford was elected president first of the london t. s. lodge on 7th january 1883. isis unveiled was published in 1877 and the third volume of the secret doctrine was published in 1897, after her death# numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 85. chapter twelve the ogdoad, eight, 8. n the first cube of energy, and is the only evenly even number within the decad. the greeks thought it an all-powerful number. they had a proverb all things are eight. camerarius, in his edition of the arithmetic of nicomachus

it kya-tse. the people of malabar call this period chi-tam. the talmud refers to 60 deadly drugs and 60 sorts of wines; the sow bears her litter in 60 days. 61. the number ain, negative existence of the deity. 64. aletheia, truth. 65. the number of adonai, translated lord (adni) and of hs, hes, keep silence. 67. the number of binah, supernal mother, the 3rd sephirah. 70. the number of sud, sod, a secret doctrine and private assembly. the earliest name for the kabalah. also iin, yayin, wine, also meant a secret. the rabbis considered that there were 70 nations, and mordecai is said to have known 70 languages. the jewish 70 years of the numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott captivity are reckoned from their conquest by nebuchadnezzar to the accession of c

WILLIAM WESCOTT THE CHALDEAN ORACLES OF ZOROASTER TRANSLATION

h that beyond these again "a solar world and endless light subsist" this divine light was the object of all veneration. do not think that what was intended thereby was the solar light we know "the inerratic sphere of the starless above" is an unmistakable expression and therein "the more true sun" has place: theosophists will appreciate the significance of "the more true sun" for according to the secret doctrine the sun we see is but the physical vehicle of a more transcendent splendour. some strong souls were able to reach up to the light by their own power "the mortal who approaches the fire shall have light from the divinity, and unto the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift" but what of those of a lesser stature? were they, by inability, precluded from such illumination "

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

pillars of the gate of samech at the extremity of the sephira yesod. the hegemon i will show forth tidings of good; i will publish salvation. the ends of the earth shall see it. i will go forth in the brightness thereof, as a lamp that burneth. he gives the closing sign and retires from the temple. while he is preparing the philosophus: celebrant fratres et sorores, may the vivifying rain of the secret doctrine refresh us in the wastes of time. may the shekinah, which is an indwelling glory, bring us with both hands the bread of life. may we pass over the holy hills of incense and sacred mountains of myrrh. may the yoke of the kingdom be upon us, even the heavenly kingdom the world to come, which is the world of the holy one. the hegemon gives the battery of the portal in the following fo

rm-11131. the sentinel opens the door. the hegemon enters, leading the philosophus, who wears the 'amen of admission, but is not hoodwinked, because the four parts of his personality have been consecrated and he is meet to behold the light. hegemon the mysteries are a singing voice; let us enter the place of song; let us hearken to the daughter of the voice. celebrant he shall enter in peace. the secret doctrine is the tree of life for those who cultivate it. he shall enter the kingdom of god. the law is the tree of life. he shall come forth with joy and be welcomed with gladness. the law is the waters of life. the hegemon leads the philosophus to the western side of the tablets. celebrant frater adveniat regnum (tvl alius, i salute you by the mystic title of pharos illuminans, conferred o

us reaches the celebrant on the eastern side: celebrant wells of doctrine deep wells; wells of divine doctrine; wells of love: enter into the wells of doctrine. the study of the doctrine is the work among all works, the worship above all worships, the prayer of prayers. as the philosophus reaches the hegemon in the south: hegemon the path of spiritual consciousness is the path of the study of the secret doctrine. but those who would study the law must keep it: the law is understood only in the intercourse of holy union. as the philosophus reaches the hierophant in the west: hierophant remember, 0 pharos illuminans, that gate which is the synthesis of all gates, the grade which is a summary of all grades; for by such grade and gate does man enter into the knowledge of the holy one. as the p

who has come to you from the grades beyond. i am sealed with the rosy cross, and you should know that the rose in its highest understanding is the divine principle operating in humanity and in you, so that sins which are scarlet may become whiter than snow and that the whiteness of your purified life may be incarnadined by divine fire. how is that fire communicated? it is by the operation of the secret doctrine, the students of which are compared in our tradition to roses, in which sense the rose is the israel of god. more generally, the rose is also the elect and the thorns are that world of humanity which is without the sanctuary of the chosen ones. the five petals correspond to the five virtues which lead to perfection; these virtues are mystic paths; and they are five manners of wound

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