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rning the cosmos and removes unwanted or unnecessary elements after their usefulness has passed. geburah is reflected in the charioteer in the tarot. tiphareth: the sixth emanation on the tree of life. it is the sphere of beauty, harmonizing the forces of mercy (chesed) and judgement (geburah) higher on the tree. occultists identify tiphareth as the sphere of spiritual rebirth, and is ascribed to solar deities such as ra, apollo, and mithra as well as osiris and jesus christ. the tarot card temperence identifies the direct mystical ascent to tiphareth from malkuth, the physical. netzach: the seventh emanation on the tree of life. netzach is regarded as the sphere of creativity, subjectivity, and emotions, a very clear contrast to the sphere of hod, which represents intellect and rational t

ble to effectively call upon these energies to be used by the occultist as he wills. a few suggested forms of vibration are as followed. keep in mind that no one procedure will help all. find one that best suits you and exercise it daily until it becomes second nature. procedure a step 1 perform the relaxation ritual. step 2 begin visualizing the kether sphere and from it draw down light into the solar plexus (tiphareth, the reflection of kether) and form a brilliant sphere. step 3 78 as you begin the vibration of adonai, for example, breathe in through the nose while visualizing the name to be vibrated within the tiphareth sphere. step 4 as you exhale, vibrate the name, seeing the flow of energy being exerted from the heart, down the arms and out the hands. hear the name being echoed thro

ieved by performing the four fold breath. on completing the relaxation exercise, begin visualizing yourself growing taller and bigger. your entire body should grow upward toward the sky and into the infinite space above. allow your mind to drift into that vast region of the infinite which presides above all things and time. literally see the earth shrinking beneath your feet. see the planets, the solar system and then the galaxy becoming smaller. your body should be so enormous that even the milky way has no significance to your size. above your head, as you continue to grow, you should begin to visualize a bright sphere of light coming closer and closer to you. this light is only a small portion of that infinite light which is beyond our comprehension. allow the sphere of light, which app

e above your head. move it down through your head to the region of the throat. at this point, visualize another sphere forming, just as bright but not as large as the first. feeling the sphere encompassing the whole region, begin vibrating the god name yhvh elohim. step 4 once again, visualize another beam of light emanating from the sphere in the throat region, moving down into the region of the solar plexus. form another ball of light a little larger than the sphere in the throat, and vibrate the god name yhvh eloah vedaath. step 5 bring another beam down from the sphere in the solar plexus to the region of the groin. form another sphere of light, then vibrate the god name shaddai el chai. step 6 moving down once again, visualize another beam of light emanating from the sphere in the gro

the region of the feet. seeing the feet completely engulfed in another sphere, begin vibrating the god name adonai ha-aretz. 95 when this last step is completed, you should have a total of five spheres, each brightly luminated and all connected by one beam of light. each of the spheres are attributed to the sephiroth on the pillar of mildness of the tree of life. the crown kether invisible daath solar plexus tiphareth groin yesod feet malkuth stay in this state for as long as you desire. you may use this time to meditate or contemplate on the energies invoked. at this time you may end the ritual by taking a deep breath, and as you exhale, visualize all the spheres and lines fading, keeping in mind that the energies are still present, but invisible. end with qabalistic cross. in all ritual

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athen themselves, nay, in individual minds a precocious elevation of sentiment and morals, came half-way to meet the introduction of christianity, as afterwards its purification (see suppl. it is remarkable that old norse legend occasionally mentions certain men who, turning away in utter disgust and doubt from the heathen faith, placed their reliance on their own strength and virtue. thus in the solar lios 17 we read of vebogi and eadey' a sik];au trusu' in themselves they trusted; of king hakon (fornm. sog. 1, 35' konungr gerir sem allir asrir]?eir sem trua a matt sinn ok megin' the king does like all others who trust in their own might and main; of barsr (ibid. 2, 151' ek trui ekki a skursgos ec5r fiandr, hefi ek];vi lengi truat a matt minn ok megin' i trust not in idols and fiends, i h

3 8 INITIATION CEREMONY

me and follow your guide axiokersa the kabir who leads you through the path of fire. heg: leads the theoricus between the pillars turns to right and circumambulates hall once. hiero: as they approach, takes red lamp in his hand and rises. hegemon and theoricus halt before him. hiero: axieros the first kabir spake to kasmillos the candidate and said i am the apex of the triangle of flame. i am the solar fire pouring forth its beams upon the lower world. life giving. light producing. by what symbol dost thou seek to pass by? heg: by the symbol of the pyramid of flame. hiero: hear thou the voice of axieros the first kabir. the mind of the father whirled forth in re-echoing roar, comprehending by invincible will ideas omniform, which flying forth from that one fountain issued; for the father a

the voice of fire. hereunto is the speech of the kabiri. heg: turns up lights and then conducts candidate to foot of hierophant's throne, and hands theoricus the solid triangular pyramid. hiero: the solid triangular pyramid is an appropriate hieroglyph of fire. it is formed of 4 triangles, 3 visible and one concealed, which yet use the synthesis of the rest. the 3 visible triangles represent fire solar, volcanic and astral, while the 4th represents the latent heat. the three words aud, aub, aur refer to the three conditions of heat, aud, active; aub, passive; aur, equilibrated; whilst asch is the name of fire. the 31st path of the sepher yetzirah which answereth unto the letter shin, is called the perpetual intelligence, and it is so called because it regulateth the motions of the sun and

mes the ideas. to the uninitiated eye it apparently represents the last judgement, with an angel blowing a trumpet and the dead rising from the tombs. but its meaning is far more occult and recondite than this, for it is a glyph of the powers of fire. the angel encircled by a rainbow whence leap coruscation s of fire, and crowned with the sun, represents michael, the great archangel, the ruler of solar fire. the serpents which leap in the rainbow are symbols of the fiery seraphim. the trumpet represents the influence of the spirit descending from binah, while the banner with the cross refers to the four rivers of paradise and the letters of the holy name. he also is axieros, the first of the samothracian kabiri, as well as zeus and osiris. the left hand figure below, rising from the earth

tabernacle in the sun. heg: leads theoricus to north east and places him before and facing the pillars. hiero (knocks) frater xyz (sorer) before you in the east are the portals of the 30th, 25th, and 26th paths, leading from the grade of theoricus to those grades which are beyond. of these the only one now open to you is the 30th which leads to the grade of practicus. take in your right hand the solar greek cross, and follow your guide through the path of the sun. unto the intellectual whirlings of intellectual fire all things are subservient, through the will of the father of all. heg: leads theoricus between pillars turns to right and halts at foot of hierophant's throne. hiero: rises and takes red lamp in his hand. hiero: axieros the first kabir spake to kasmillos the candidate and sai

own seat in the west and takes red lamp. heg: axiokersa the third kabir spake to kasmillos the candidate and said i am the sun at equinox initiating summer and heralding winter, mild and genial in operation, giving forth or withdrawing the vital heat of life. thus far is the voice of axiokersa. heg: places theoricus in a seat in west between himself and hiereus, facing hiereus and takes from him solar greek cross. hiero: the father of all congregated the 7 firmaments of the kosmos circumscribing the heaven with convex form. he constituted a septenary of wandering existences suspending their disorder in well disposed zones. he made them 6 in number and for the 7th he cast into the midst thereof the fire of the sun; into that center from which all lines are equal. that the swift sun may com

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

of power and therefore can concentrate specific energies. i have listed in chapter 4 a number of deities that seem to be especially potent in ritual or as a focus for meditation. but if you do not find them helpful, there is no need to use them. most rituals are related to the basic human needs for health, love, fertility and prosperity. in chapter 13, seasons and festivals, i describe the major solar, lunar and agricultural festivals that formed a focus for attracting abundance and increase to the land, animals, crops and people, tapping into the life force that connected them all. in past time, the well-being of the planet was considered to be the responsibility of peasant as well as king through paying tributes and enacting age-old ceremonies to invoke the necessary energies for the wh

associations mean she is the focus in all kinds of love rituals. as the evening star, venus takes on a warrior aspect and so can be invoked in fighting for one's lover or tough love in relationships. deities for power these deities may be invoked for strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase. apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other gods and was later called the dark sun, apollo's alter ego. the ancient

s shrine to apollo) apollo was god of prophecy as well as music, poetry, archery, healing and divination. he is very strongly animus and is good for all rituals of power, ambition and inspiration, as well as those areas under his patronage. men tend to work better with him than women. aine aine is daughter of manananann, celtic sea god and ruler of the isle of man and goddess of the cycles of the solar and lunar year. even during the twentieth century, she was remembered on the hill of aine in ireland, by torchlight processions and burning straw at midsummer and also at the old corn harvest, lughnassadh, at the beginning of august. she is also linked with love, fertility and healing. ama-terasu omikami ama-terasu omikami is the ancient japanese sun goddess. her name means 'great august spi

of isis and osiris, he is often depicted as an infant on his mother's lap and together the parents and child form a trinity. horus brings clarity of mind and purpose and the ability to seize upon an opportunity, and is effective for uncovering secrets, deception and illusion. lugh lugh, the celtic 'shining one, who gives his name to lughnassadh, celtic festival of the first harvest, was the young solar deity who replaced the dagda, father of the gods, as supreme king. he was associated with sacrifice, as the sun king who was reborn each year at either the mid-winter solstice or the spring equinox. legend has it that when lugh arrived to join the tuatha de danaan, he went to the palace of tara and asked for a position in the court (the tuatha de danaan were the ancient irish gods and goddes

'fall like hail beneath the horses. with one end of the club, it was said, he could kill nine men with a single blow and with the other could instantly restore them to life. his great cauldron was handed on to his daughter brighid (cerridwen in the welsh tradition. in some legends, dagda is associated with balor, the sun deity of the formoiri, enemies of the gods, who was slain by lugh, the young solar god, at the battle of moytura, thus representing the ascent of the new sun. the death of the old order, as a necessary requirement for the new, is a central motif in spirituality and so dagda can offer a focus for rites of passage where change is necessary, but not necessarily welcomed. odin odin is the viking father god, known as the all-father, god of inspiration, wisdom and poetry as well

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-elements of the lesser angles. y d are referred to the cardinal signs,(a,d, g, and j) h c are referred to the kerubic or fixed signs,(b, e, h and k) w a are referred to the mutable signs,(c, f, i, and l) h (final) b are referred to the elements,(d, c, a, b) as to the reasons of this latter attribution, s.r.m.d. says that the four cardinal signs are called the most fiery because they are most solar in nature. that is, the 19 equinoxes and solstices occur when the a is in these signs. the kerubic or fixed signs are considered watery because they are the most shining and glittering in nature. the remaining four mutable signs are called the most airy because they are the most subtle in nature. while the four elements are the most earthy because their operation is mainly terrestrial. incid

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

ion of the universe given by astrology and the tree of life is extremely valuable, especially when reinforced and amplified by the holy qabalah. this tree of life is susceptible to infinite ramifications, and there is no need in this connectin to explore its subtleties. we ought to be able to make a fairly satisfactory diagram for elementary purposes by taking as the basis of our illustration the solar system as conceived by the astrologers. i do not know whether the average student is aware that in practice the significations of the planets are based generally upon the philosophical conceptions of the greek and roman gods. let us hope for the best, and go on! 8. the planet saturn, which represents anatomy, is the skeleton: it is a rigid structure upon which the rest of the body is built

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

now, in this analogue also falls the coat of many colors which was made for joseph, a legend which was regarded as so important that it was subsequently borrowed for the romance of jesus. the veil of the temple, too, was of many colors. we find, further east, that the manipura cakkra--the lotus of the city of jewels--which is an important centre in hindu anatomy, and apparently identical with the solar plexus, is the central point of the nervous system of the human body, dividing the sacred from the profane, or the lower from the higher. in western mysticism, once more we learn that the middle grade initiation is called hodos camelioniis, the path of the chameleon. there is here evidently an illusion to this same mystery. we also learn that the middle stage in alchemy is when the liquor be

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

created world; it is also a power that can be summoned by the few and not the many. however, in china, there did not seem to be a backlash of fear or resentment against this force as was known in europe and palestine, and the symbol of might and kingship in china is still the dragon. in the west, the conjuration, cultivation, or worship of this power was strenuously opposes with the advent of the solar, monotheistic religions and those who clung to the old ways were effectively extinguished. the wholesale slaughter of those called "witches" during the inquisition is an example of this, as well as the solemn and twisted- that is to say, purposeless and unenlightened- celibacy that the church espoused. for the orgone of wilhelm reich is just as much leviathan as the kundalini of tantrick ade

scovered by dr. dee in elizabeth england. in greek, in the original ms, a common incantation would look something like this (using roman characters for the greek 'o kakos theos 'o kakos daimon 'o daimon pneuma tou ouranou thumethere! pneuma tes ges thumethate (o wicked god o wicked demon o demon spirit of the sky, remember! spirit of the earth, remember) yet, a word like shammash, the name of the solar deity, would read samas or sammas, and in the text of the necronomicon we would make the word read like its original. the "conjuration of the watcher" follows the fire god conjuration. the word "watcher" is sometimes used synonymously with "angel, and sometimes as a distinct race, apart from angelos: egragori. the race of watchers are said not to care what they watch, save that they follow o

bly not been effectively summoned in nearly six thousand years. ordinary exorcisms and banishing formulae have thus far proved extremely inadequate: this, by experienced magicians. hence, the following recommendations. the religion of the ancient sumerian peoples seems to have been lunar-oriented, a religion- or religion- magickal structure- of the night, of darkness in a sense. invocations using solar formulae have proved thus far effective in successfully banishing necronomicon demons and intelligences. for instance, the kaddish prayer of the jewish faith contains some solar elements that have proved resilient to inimical genii, and the vibration of the lord's prayer for christians is also a workable method. we suggest that individual operators utilise an equivalent solar (i.e, positive

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

in this prayer, and, as the prayer is attributed to horus, they are called four, as above explained; but it is only the name of horus which is fourfold; he himself is one. this may be compared with the qabalistic doctrine of the ten sephiroth as an expression of tetrabook of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 14 grammaton (1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4= 10. it is now seen that this hawk is not solar, but mercurial; hence the words, the cry of the hawk, the essential part of mercury being his voice; and the number of the chapter, b, which is beth the letter of mercury, the magus of the tarot, who has four weapons, and it must be remembered that this card is numbered 1, again connecting all these symbols with the phallus. the essential weapon of mercury is the caduceus. note (3) fourteen

any book for free on: www.abika.com 81 [84] commentary( lambda-zeta) dragons are in the east supposed to cause eclipses by devouring the luminaries. there may be some significance in the chapter number, which is that of jechidah the highest unity of the soul. in this chapter, the idea is given that all limitation and evil is an exceedingly rare accident; there can be no night in the whole of the solar system, except in rare spots, where the shadow of a planet is cast by itself. it is a serious misfortune that we happen to live in a tiny corner of the system, where the darkness reaches such a high figure as 50 per cent. the same is true of moral and spiritual conditions. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 82 [85] 38 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta lambda-eta lambskin c

( sun, the sublime hieroglyph of the sun in the macrocosm, and in the microcosm of the lingam in conjunction with the yoni. this word alpha-iota-theta-eta-rho (aethyr) is therefore a perfect hierogly ph of the cosmos in terms of gnostic theology. the reader should consult la messe et ses mysteres, par jean 'marie de v (paris et nancy, 1844, for a complete demonstration of the incorporation of the solar and phallic mysteries in christianity. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 180 [183] 87 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta pi-zeta mandarin-meals there is a dish of sharks' fins and of sea-slug, well set in birds' nests..oh! also there is a souffle most exquisite of chow-chow. these did i devise. but i have never tasted anything to match the) which she gave me before she wen

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

ian attribution of parts of the soul. cxvii. the soul (hindu. cxviii. the chakkras or centres of prana (hinduism. cxix. the ten fetters (buddhism. 0 hammemit. 1 kha, or yekh atma sahasrara (above head) aruparga 2 khai, or ka buddhi ajna (pineal gland) vikkikika 3 ba, or baie higher manas visuddhi (larynx) rupraga 4 silabata paramesa 5 patigha 6 lower manas anahata (heart) udakkha 7 kama manipura (solar plexus) mano 8 aib prana svadistthana (navel) sakkya-ditti 9 hati linga sharira muladhara (lingam and anus) kama 10 kheibt, khat, tet, sahu sthula sharira avigga cxx. magical images of the sephiroth. cxxi* the grades of the order. cxxii. the ten plagues of egypt. 0. 08=0. 1 ancient bearded king seen in profile 10 =18 ipsissimus death of first-born 2 almost any male image shows some aspect of

-century writers such as budge. line 1: asar is better known by the hellenized form osiris; asar-un-nefer( osiris the beautiful) was a particular epiphet or title of this god. hadith in this line (also hadit in line 0) is not a historical egyptian deity but refers to the entity described in cap. ii of the book of the law; the name is a garbled or corrupt form of heru- behutet (horus of behutet, a solar-martial form of horus symbolized by the winged disk. heru- ra-ha is not a historical egyptian deity but is mentioned in cap. iii of the book of the law and is said to combine hoor-par-kraat (horus the child) and ra-hoor-khuit (ra-horus of the two horizons. line 6: on was not an egyptian deity but a transliteration into hebrew( a or wa) of the name of the egyptian solar cult-centre called hel

of harmachis (hor-maku, said by budge (gods of the egyptians vol. i p. 470) to be the greek name for heru-khuti, horus of the two horizons, who represented the sun from sunrise to sunset. line 13: chomse also spelt khons or khensu. in one legend (cited by budge, op. cit. i, 448) he is said to be the son of the cat goddess bast who was also associated with the moon (to complicate matters bast has solar aspects in some accounts. lines 16, 32-bis: ahapshi is the apis bull (gd coptic spelling. ameshet is amset (or mestha, one of the children of horus. line 17: the rekti goddesses and merti goddesses both appear to have been specific titles or epiphets of isis and nephthys. line 19: pasht (according to budge, op. cit. i, 517) is pekh or pekhit, a minor lioness goddess. mau is onomatopoeic egyp

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

electrical and thermal conductivity; but neither in us nor in them- so far as we know- is there any direct conscious perception of these forces. imperceptible influences are therefore associated with all material phenomena; and there is no reason why we should not work upon matter through those subtle energies as we do through their material bases. in fact, we use magnetic force to move iron, and solar radiation to reproduce images (14) man is capable of being, and using, anything which he perceives, for everything that he perceives is in a certain sense a part of his being. he may thus subjugate the whole universe of which he is conscious to his individual will (illustration: man has used the idea of god to dictate his personal conduct, to obtain power over his fellow, to excuse his crime

to be evil, accuse nature herself of their own phantasmal crime. satan is saturn, set, abrasax, adad, adonis, attis, adam, adonai, etc. the most serious charge against him is that he is the sun in the south. the ancient initiates, 35 dwelling as they did in lands whose blood was the water of the nile or the euphrates, connected the south with life-withering heat, and cursed that quarter where the solar darts were deadliest. even in the legend of hiram, it is at high noon that he is stricken down and slain. capricornus is moreover the sign which the sun enterers when he reaches his extreme southern declination at the winter solstice, the season of the death of vegetation, for the folk of the northern hemisphere. this gave them a second cause for cursing the south. a third; the tyranny of ho

required. see also equinox i, v "the temple of solomon the king> iv. it should also be remarked that every grade has its peculiar magical formula. thus, the formula of abrahadabra concerns us, as men, principally because each of us represents the pentagram or microcosm; and our equilibration must therefore be with the hexagram or macrocosm. in other words, 5 degree= 6square is the formula of the solar operation; but then 6 degree= 5square is the formula of the martial operation, and this reversal of the figures implies a very different work. in the former instance the problem was to dissolve the microcosm in the macrocosm; but this other problem is to separate a particular force from the macrocosm, just as a savage might hew out a flint axe from the deposits in a chalk cliff. similarly, a

e devil does not exist. it is a false name invented by the black brothers to imply a unity in their ignorant muddle of dispersions. a devil who had unity would be a god<"the devil" is, historically, the god of any people that one personally dislikes. this has led to so much confusion of thought that the beast 666 has preferred to let names stand as they are, and to proclaim simply that aiwaz- the solar-phallic-hermetic "lucifer" is his own holy guardian angel, and "the devil" satan or hadit of our particular unit of the starry universe. this serpent, satan, is not the enemy of man, but he who made gods of our race, knowing good and evil; he bade "know thyself" and taught initiation. he is "the devil" of the book of thoth, and his emblem is baphomet, the androgyne who is the hieroglyph of a

ccurate, for angels, archangels, and gods are derived therefrom by analysis. one must have pure materials if one wishes to brew pure beer. if one have an incomplete and incorrect view of the universe, how can one find out its laws? thus, original omission or error tends to extend to the higher planes. suppose a magician, invoking sol, were persuaded by a plausible spirit of saturn that he was the solar intelligence required, and bade him eschew human love if he would attain to the knowledge and conversation of his holy guardian angel; and suppose that his will, and that angel's nature, were such that the crux of their formula was lyrical exaltation! apart from the regular tests- made at the time- of the integrity of any spirit, the magician must make a careful record of every vision, omitt

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

and conversation of the holy guardian angel" magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 27 you ought to demonstrate your performance of the pentagram ritual to me; you are probably making any number of mistakes. i will, of course, take you carefully through the o.t.o. rituals to iii as soon as you are fairly familiar with them. the plan of the grades is this- 0 attraction to the solar system i birth ii life iii death iv "exaltation" p.i "annihilation" v -ix progressive comment on ii with very special reference to the central secret of practical magick. there is thus no connection with the a'.a. system and the tree of life. of course, there are certain analogies. your suggested method of study: you have got my idea quite well. but nobody can "take you through" the grades o

electrical and thermal conductivity; but neither in us nor in them- so far as we know- is there any direct conscious perception of these forces. imperceptible influences are therefore associated with all material phenomena; and there is no reason why we should not work upon matter through those subtle energies as we do through their material bases. in fact, we use magnetic force to move iron, and solar radiation to reproduce images) magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 43 14. man is capable of being, and using, anything which he perceives; for everything that he perceives is in a certain sense a part of his being. he may thus subjugate the whole universe of which he is conscious to his individual will (illustration: man has used the idea of god to dictate his persona

ication. what i do observe to examine the situation of to-day is transits. these i have found very reliable; but even with these i usually ignore aspects of minor importance. truth to tell, conjunctions mean very much more than the rest put together. talking of aspects, i think it ridiculous to allow vast "orbs" like 15 for luna, and 12 for sol. astrologers go to extreme lengths to calculate the "solar revolution" figure not to a degree, not to a minute, but to a second: and that when they don't know the exact time of birth within half an hour or more! talk about straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel! then what does an hour or so matter anyhow, if you are going to allow an aspect, whether it is 2 or 10 off? this even with delicate aspects like the quintile or semi-sextile. what would

h we know nothing at all, by which the basic possibilities of a figure are set to work (just as a car with engine running will not start until the clutch is put in) i will conclude by announcing a rather remarkable position. 1. i see no objection at all to postulating that certain "rays' or other means of transmitting some peculiar form or forms of energy, may reach us from the other parts of the solar system; for we can in fact point to perfectly analogous phenomena in the discoveries of the last hundred years or so. but that is no more than a postulate. 4^ weh note: by now this term has appeared several times, and it will be going by more than a few times ahead. crowley disdained to apply "theosophical" magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 148 to the movement of an

clock back, and getting an act of parliament to confirm his lunacy. petruchio, too "it shall be what o'clock i say it is" the two last came close to the magical method; at least, to that branch of it which consists of "fooling all 52 the people all the time" but such an operation, if true magick were employed, would be beyond the power of any magician of my acquaintance; for it would mess up the solar system completely (you remember how this happened, and what came of it, in a rather clever short story by h.g. wells.14) for true magick means "to employ one set of natural forces at a mechanical advantage as against another set- i quote, as closely as memory serves, thomas henry huxley, when he explains that when he lifts his water-jug- or his elbow- he does not "defy the law of gravitation

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ng serpent. awake her: she darts up the spine, and the prana flows through the sushumna. see "raja-yoga" for more details> 84 there is the lotus of three petals in the sacrum, in which the kundalini lies asleep. this lotus is the receptacle of reproductive force. there is also the six-petalled lotus opposite the navel- which receives the forces which nourish the body. there is also a lotus in the solar plexus which receives the nervous forces. the six-petalled lotus in the heart corresponds to tiphereth, and receives those vital forces which are connected with the blood. the sixteen-petalled lotus opposite the larynx receives the nourishment needed by the breath. the two-petalled lotus of the pineal gland receives the nourishment needed by thought, while above the junction of the cranial s

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

of the weight of their word! thus they accomplished all things with success; and the people deemed their well-being to be the natural course of events. 21 chapter xviii the decay of manners. 1. when men abandoned the way of the tao, benevolence and justice became necessary. then also was need of wisdom and cunning, and all fell into illusion. when harmony ceased to prevail in the six spheres((the solar system) it was needful to govern them by manifesting sons((dhyana- buddhas) when the kingdoms and races((elements, signs, etc) became((selfconscious and therefore) confused, loyal ministers((archangels. it is hard at first for the student to grasp the disdain of laotze for what we call good qualities. but the need for this 'good' is created by the existence of 'evil, i.e, the restriction of

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s possessed of knowledge beyond any yet acquired by man. the first chapter al i,1 "had! the manifestation of nuit" the old comment 1. compare ii.1, the complement of this verse. in nu is had concealed; by had is nu manifested. nu being 56 and had 9, their conjunction results in 65, adonai, the holy guardian angel. also hoor, who combines the force of the sun with that of mars. adonai is primarily solar, but 65 is a number sacred to mars. see the "sepher sephiroth ,and "the wake world" in "know om pax" for further details on 65. note moreover, the sixty-five pages of the ms. of liber legis. or, counting nv 56, had 10, we get 66, which is (1-11. had is further the centre of the key-word abrahadabra. the new comment the theogony of our law is entirely scientific, nuit is matter, hadit is moti

nowledge, so far as it exists at all, even as a statement of relation, is no more than a momentary phenomenon of consciousness. it is annihilated in the instant of its creation. for no sooner do we assent to arb than arb is absorbed in our conception of a. after the nine-days' wonder of "the earth revolves round the sun" we modify our former idea of earth "earth" is intuitively classed with other solar satellites. the proposition vanishes automatically as it is assimilated. knowledge, while it exists as such is consequently "sub judice, at the best. what then may we understand by this verse, with its capital k for "knowledge" what is it, and how shall it "go aright" the key is in the word "go" it cannot "be" as we have seen above; it is the fundamental error of the "black brothers" in thei

perception implies three-dimensional space, and time. but note that the mover is himself not moved. the "cube in the circle" emphasizes this question of dimensions. the cube is rectilinear (therefore phallic no less than the axle; its unity suggests perfection projected as a "solid" for human perception; its square faces affirm balance, equity, and limitation; its six-sidedness sets it among the solar symbols. it is thus like the sun in the zodiac, which is no more than the field for his fulfilment in his going. he, by virtue of his successive relations with each degree of the circle, clothes himself with an appearance of "matter in motion" although absolute motion through space is a meaningless expression (eddington, op, cit. none the less, every point in the cube- there are 2 of them- h

the third, so that even in a finite universe the sum of the properties of all points is the same, though no two properties may be common to any two points. thus a circle, bcd, may be described by the revolution of a line ab in a plane about the point a; but also from the point c, or indeed any other point, by the application of the proper analysis and construction. we calculate the motion of the solar system in heliocentric terms for no reason but simplicity and convenience; we could convert our tables to a geocentric basis by mere mechanical manipulation without affecting their truth, which is only the truth of the relations between a number of bodies. all are alike in motion, but we have arbitrarily chosen to consider one of them as stationary, so that we may more easily describe the mo

the new comment so mote it be! the third chapter al iii,1 "abrahadabra! the reward of ra hoor khut" the old comment 1. abrahadabra- the reward of ra-hoor-khuit. we have already seen that abrahadabra is the glyph of the blending of the 5 and the 6, the rose and the cross. so also the great work, the equilibration of the 5 and the 6, is shown in this god; fivefold as a warrior horus, sixfold as the solar ra. khuit is a name of khem the ram-phallus-two-plume god amoun; so that the whole god represents in qabalistic symbolism the second triad("whom all nations of men call the first. it is the red descending triangle- the whole thing visible, for hadit and nuit are far beyond. note that ra-hoor resh-aleph-he-vau-vau-resh= 418. the new comment observe firstly the word "reward, which is to be com

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the number 358, messiach, q.v. note 32= 25, the divine will extended through motion. 64= 26, will be the perfect number of matter, for it is 8, the first cube, squared. so we find it a mercurial number, as if the solidity of matter was in truth eternal change. 35. alga, a name of god= ateh gibor le-olahm adonai. to thee be the power unto the ages, o my lord! 35= 5 7. 7= divinity, 5= power. 36. a solar number. hla. otherwise unimportant, but it is the mystic number of mercury. 37. hdyjy. the highest principle of the soul, attributed to kether. note 37= 111 3. 38. note 38 11= 418 q.v. in part ii. 39. dja hwhy, jehovah is one. 39= 13 3. this is then the affirmation of the aspiring soul. 40. a dead number of fixed law, 4 10, tetragrammaton, the lesser countenance immutable in the heaviness of

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he number 358, messiach, q.v. note 32= 25, the divine will extended through motion. 64= 26, will be the perfect number of matter, for it is 8, the first cube, squared. so we find it a mercurial number, as if the solidity of matter was in truth eternal change. 35. agla, a name of god= ateh gibor le olahm adonai "to thee by the power unto the ages, o my lord" 35= 5 x 7. 7= divinity, 5= power. 36. a solar number. alh. otherwise unimportant, but is the mystic number of mercury. 37. ichidh. the highest principle of the soul, attributed to kether. note 37= 111 3. 38. note 38 x 11= 418 q.v. in part ii. 39. ihvh achd, jehovah is one. 39= 13 x 3. this is then the affirmation of the aspiring soul. 40. a "dead" number of fixed law, 4 x 10, tetragrammaton, the lesser countenance immutable in the heavi

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without experience of samadhi it is impossible to understand what is meant by the theory. mr. shirley cannot realize that time and space are accidental forms of our consciousness, no more essential to it than a harem skirt to the venus of milo. suppose a cinematograph show observed by a man on earth and a man on the sun (with a devil of a telescope) at 10.40, and their observations compared. the solar will regard the terrestrial as a prophet, for the latter can see at 10.40 what the former sees at 10.48 or thereabouts. with space it is the same thing. assumer a fourth dimension, and calcutta may rub streets with buenos ayres. the battle of waterloo may be merely one name for a phenomenon whose other names are john brown, saucepan, geometry, etc, etc/ these conceptions are hard to realize

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ng the whole sankhara-dhatu (the tendency of the being john st. john) was operating aright. now by no effort of will can he flog his tired cattle along the trail. so poor a thing is he that he will even seek an oracle from the book of zoroaster. done. zoroaster respectfully wishes to point out that "the most mystic of discourses informs us his wholeness is in the supra-mundane order; for there a solar world and boundless light subsist, as the oracles of the chaldeans affirm. not very helpful, is it? as if divination could ever help on such exalted planes! as if the trumpery elementals that operate these things possessed the secrets of the destiny of an adept, or could help him in his agony! for this reason, divination should be discarded from the start: it is only a "mere toy, the basis o

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station of the stolistes, the symbol of the waters of creation attracting the divine spirit, and therefore alluding to the creation of the world. whilst the "reverse circumambulation" has its rise from the station of the dadouchos, symbolic of the ending and judging of the world by fire. but also the circumambulation commences with the paths hb:shin and hb:resh, as though bringing into action the solar fire; whilst the reverse commences by those of hb:qof and hb:tzaddi as though bringing the watery reflux into action. this is the order of the circumambulation; first cometh anubis, the watcher of the gods; next themis, the goddess of the hall of truth; then horus; then the remaining members in order of precedence; and lastly, the goddesses of the scales of the balance, as though a vast whee

is now open to you, is the thirty-first, which leads from the 1= 10 of zelator to the 3= 8 of practicus. take in your right hand the pyramid of flame, and follow your guide axiokersa11 the kabir, who leads you through the path of fire. in this ritual the three cabiri are made to represent the triangle of fire, thus: axieros, the first kabir, says "i am the apex of the triangle of flame: i am the solar 270 fire pouring forth its beams upon the lower world: life-giving, life-producing" then axiokersos, the second kabir, says "i am the left-hand basal angle of the triangle of flame: i am fire, volcanic and terrestrial, flashing and flaming through the deep abysses of earth: fire rending, fire penetrating, tearing asunder the curtains of matter; fire constrained; fire tormenting; raging and w

astral and fluid, winding through the firmament of air. i am the life of being, the vital heat of existence. the "hierophant" then takes the solid triangular pyramid and explains "the solid triangular pyramid is an appropriate hieroglyph of fire. it is formed of four triangles, three visible and one concealed: which latter is the synthesis of the rest. the three visible triangles represent fire, solar, volcanic and astral; while the fourth represents latent heat. the three words: hb:dalet hb:vau hb:aleph hb:bet hb:vau hb:aleph hb:resh hb:vau hb:aleph refer to three conditions of heat: aud, active; aub, passive;12 aur, the equilibrated; while hb:shin hb:aleph (ash) is the name of fire "the thirty-first path of the sepher yetzirah, which answereth to the letter hb:shin, is called the perpet

h_ practicus/ lamp/ lamp_ hiereus hegemon_ chalice (o/ lamp_ sephiroth water sephiroth_ in banner seven tablet hb:heh hb:vau hb:heh hb:yod of west palaces of water_ diagram 26. arrangement of the temple for the 31st path in the 3= 8 ritual. he then explains to the theoricus the twentieth key of the tarot. it is a glyph of the powers of fire. the angel crowned with the sun is michael, the ruler of solar fire. the serpents which leap in the rainbow are symbols of the fiery seraphim. the trumpet represents the influence of the spirit descending upon binah; and the banner with the cross refers to the four rivers of paradise. michael is also axieros; the left-hand 271 figure samael, the ruler of volcanic fire- he is also axiokersos; the right-hand figure is axiokersa "these three principal figu

e has hb:taw hb:vau hb:koph hb:lamed hb:mem. 5th- hb:dalet hb:vau hb:heh. 6th- hb:heh hb:resh hb:vau hb:bet hb:gemel illustration on page 272 approximated below "diagram 28. the attributions of the ten sephiroth to the four letters (nb: for, understand a circular ring in this diagram) dee hb:yod_ water hb:heh) air hb:vau_ spirit hb:heh_ illustration on page 272 approximated below "diagram 29. the solar greek cross_ pisces_ scorpio_ cancer_ gemini aquarius libra sun aries leo sagittarius_ capricorn_ taurus_ virgo_ the hiereus then explains the two tablets "the ten sephiroth in seven palaces" and "the attribution of the ten sephiroth to the four letters of the holy name" and the "hegemon "the seven heavens of assiah,"13 and "the ten evil sephiroth of the qliphoth."14 the "hierophant" then co

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1908-9. monthly, 2"d. of all the lame ducks that crow upon their middens under the impression that they are reincarnations of sir francis drake, i suppose that the origin-of-religion lunatics are the silliest. 386 listen to charles callow-hay on stonehenge! here's logic for you "stonehenge is built in the form of a circle "the sun appears to go round the earth in a circle" argal "stonehenge is a solar temple" or, for the minor premiss "eggs are round" argal "stonehenge was dedicated to eugenics" listen to johnny bobson on cleopatra's needle "the needle is square in section "the old egyptians thought the earth had four corners" argal "the needle was built to commemorate the theory" or, even worse "the needle is square in section "it must have been built so for a religious reason" argal "th

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he vibration of god-names. as a further means of identifying the human consciousness with that pure portion of it which man calls by the name of some god, let him act thus: 4("a) stand with arms outstretched("see" illustration("b) breathe in deeply through the nostrils, imagining the name of the god desired entering with the breath("c) let that name descend slowly from the lungs to the heart, the solar plexus, the navel, the generative organs, and so to the feet. 17("d) the moment that it appears to touch the feet, quickly advance the left foot about 12 inches, throw forward the body, and let the hands (drawn back to the side of the eyes) shoot out, so that you are standing in the typical position of the god horus<"see" illustration in vol. i. no. 1 "blind force> and at the same time imagi

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rus) and osiris. chesed, geburah, tiphereth. yet their functions are in a sense counterchanged, the chief adept representing 223 osiris in the main ceremony, and the third adept reflecting the benignant character of isis. the knocks which open the ceremony are seven, as it is written "he made them six; and for the seventh he cast into the midst of them the fire of the sun" for tiphereth 5= 6 is a solar degree. after this the signs are given and the portal is guarded in the usual manner; for the intention in all the grades is identical, namely, that of harmonising the temple with the ceremony""the first vibration" not only are the knocks symbolic of the hexagram as above; but they refer to the moving of the divine spirit of fire upon the waters. for this is the first breath of the light, a

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he ice, the sheer wall of the precipice! master the cornice, gain the breach, and learn what next the ridge can teach! yet_ not the ridge itself may speak the secret of the final peak. olympas. all ridges join at last. marsyas. admitted, o thou astute and subtle-witted! yet one_ loose, jagg d, clad in mist! another_ firm, smooth, loved and kissed by the soft sun! our order hath this secret of the solar path, even as our lord the beast hath won the mystic number of the sun. olympas. these secrets are too high for me. 51 marsyas. nay, little brother! come and see! neither by faith nor fear nor awe approach the doctrine of the law! truth, courage, love, shall win the bout, and those three others be cast out. olympas. lead me, master, by the hand gently to this gracious land! let me drink the

over the curcurbite, and this process may be repeated altogether three times if the flashing light cometh not. for without this latter the work would be useless. but if after three repetitions it still appear not, it is a sign that there hath been an error in one working; such being either in the disposition of the alchemist, or in the management of the curcurbite. wherefore let the lunar and the solar invocations and exposures be replaced, when without doubt_ if these be done with care (and more especially those of caput draconis and cauda draconis with those of the moon as taught, for these have great force materially_ then without doubt shall that flashing light manifest itself in the curcurbite. r. holding the lotus wand by the white end, the alchemist now draws over the curcurbite the

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hundred miles away, and the coast of south america is no less than 2,300 miles distant. and yet in this tiny island we find proofs of very high civilization, and it is curious that dr. churchward has not mentioned the numerous hieroglyphics found there concerning which a very full account is given in the smithsonian reports of 1889. after these came another exodus, carrying with it the lunar and solar mythos, and horus became under varying names the supreme world-god, and his four sons, or emanations, the four quarters. it is impossible here to enter into the numerous entrancing speculations that dr. churchward draws, or to give any adequate idea of the vast number of proofs that he marshals to convince us- they are quite bewildering. in fact, they completely reverse our conception of pol

aper of this book which we are reviewing, beautiful though it be, will, like a girl's beauty, vanish before forty years are past. our inventions are our curse, they are our destruction. what was coagulated in the minds of barbarians for thousands and tens of thousands of years we shall have destroyed utterly, utterly, in as many days and nights. civilization has driven her plough over stellar and solar mythology, wantonly, and at haphazard, and in their place she has cultivated the unknowable and andrew lang! if the utilitarian progress in the next few years as he has in the last, soon we shall have some socialistic fellah depriving the world of its last great monuments, and building labourers' cottages out of the stones and bricks of the pyramids, because they are so very much more useful

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ddesses. he fearlessly recites the various shastras 88 and sciences unknown to him before. and moves throughout the universe.86 this chakkra is the seat of the sam na, region about the navel and of the apo tatwa. 3 "the manip ra chakkra" this chakkra is situated near the navel, it is of a golden colour and has ten petals (sometimes twelve, its adept is rudrakhya and its goddess lakini. it is the "solar-plexus" or "city of gems" and is so called because it is very brilliant. this chakkra is the seat of the agni tatwa. also in the abdomen burns the "fire of digestion of food" 82 the following mystical physiology is but a symbolic method of expressing what is night inexpressible, and in phraseology is akin to western alchemy, the physiological terms taking the place of the chemical ones. 83 "

food" 82 the following mystical physiology is but a symbolic method of expressing what is night inexpressible, and in phraseology is akin to western alchemy, the physiological terms taking the place of the chemical ones. 83 "shiva sanhita" chap. v. 84 "ibid, chap. v,107, 108, 109. this is probably wrong, as the sun is usually placed in the manip ra chakkra. in the body of a man the pingala is the solar current, the ida the lunar. in a woman these are reversed. 85 "ibide, chap. v, 75. 86 "shiva sanhita" chap. v, 76, 77. compare this chakkra to the lunar and sexual yesod of the qabalah; also note that the power here attained to is that of skrying. situated in the middle of the sphere of the sun, having ten kalas (petals..87 he who enters this chakkra can made gold, etc, see the adepts (clair

the pr n by jalandhara bandha. resting his body upon his palms placed upon the ground, he should strike the ground softly with his posteriors. by this the pr n, leaving ida and pingala, goes through the sushumn. the body assumes a death-like aspect. then he should breathe out.104 99 we believe this to be the exoteric explanation of this symbolism, the esoteric one being that shiva represents the solar or spiritual force, and shakti the lunar or bodily, the union of these two cancels out the pairs of opposites and produces equilibrium. 100 "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, 1-11. also see "gheranda sanhita" p. 23. 101 the jalandhara banda is performed by contracting the throat and pressing the chin firmly against the breast. 102 "hatha yoga pradipika" pp. 45, 46. also see "shiva sanhita" chap. iv

long description of how the "fraenum linguae" is cut. see pp. 49-56. 106 "hatha yoga pradipika" p. 57 "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, 48- 52. 107 "hatha yoga pradipika" p. 58 "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, p. 41-44. 108 "hatha yoga pradipika" p. 60 "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, 38- 40. 109 "hatha yoga pradipika" p. 62 "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, 45- 47. again this is the union of shiva and shakti, and that of the solar and lunar pingala and ida by means of the sushumn- the path of the gods. 110 "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, 76-81. between the ganges and the jamuna there sits the young widow inspiring pity. he should despoil her forcibly, for it leads one to the supreme seat of vishnu. you should awake the sleeping serpent (kundalini) by taking hold of its tail..111 as a special form of kumbhaka is mentioned, m

power of expanding oneself into space (3) laghima (the power of reducing gravitation (4) garima (the power of increasing gravitation (5) prapti (the power of instantaneous travelling (6) prakamya (the power of 111 "hatha yoga pradipika" pp. 63, 69. 112 "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, 53-75. 113 on the doctrines of this mudra many popular american semi- occult works have been written, such as "karezza "solar biology" and "the goal of life" 114 it is to be noted here that the union is again that of the mystical shakti and shiva, but now within the man. all this symbolism is akin to that made use of by the sufis. 115 "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63. 116 "any person if he actively practises yoga becomes a siddha; be he young, old or even very old, sickly or weak. siddhis are not ob

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he babe and lion, come to measure force with them! ah! these locks flow down, a river, as the earth's before the sun, as the earth's before the sunset, and the god and i are one. i who entered in a fool, gain the god by clean endeavour; i am shaped as men and women, fair for ever and for ever["he turns and falls clasping" sol's "feet. all prostrate themselves in adoration" sor. scorpio "plays her solar chant<sol "in" aries "recites" the world's great age begins anew, the golden years return, the earth doth like a snake renew her winter weeds outworn; heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, like wrecks of a dissolving dream. a brighter hellas rears its mountains from waves serener far; a new peneus rolls his fountains against the morning star. where fairer tempes bloom

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ticism; and quite possibly he may just nod, and continue his labours, which is maddening when your business is of the highest importance to you, and to him, and to the brotherhood 143 itself, not to mention humanity- while he is occupied in playing spillikins, and further insults you by explaining that he is trying to prove that, if you only do it carefully enough, you can detach planets from the solar system without hurting it. on this occasion, however, rolles was fortunate enough to find the brother whom he knew at leisure- even for him. his feet were on the mantlepiece; a long pipe was in his mouth, and he was twiddling his thumbs "ave, frate" said he, as rolles entered "also vale. how you young brothers manage to find trouble "miss pendragon will be out of the hospital in four days" b

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umulation of physical atoms, a material something, and a tangible body, but that latent within him is a consciousness, a power, and a psychic nature which link him to all other members of the human family, and to a power outside himself which he must perforce explain. this it is which has led, for instance, to the evolution of the christian and jewish point of view, which posits a god outside the solar system, who created it, but was himself extraneous to it. these systems of thought teach that the world has been evolved by a power or being who has built the solar system, and who guides the worlds aright, keeping our little human life in the hollow of his hand, and "sweetly ordering" all things according to some hidden purpose which it is not possible for us, with our finite minds, to glim

ich is latent in the atom, in man, and in all that is. this interpretation of the evolutionary process does not look upon it as the result of an outside deity pouring his energy and wisdom upon a waiting world, but rather as something which is latent within that world itself, that lies hidden at the heart of the atom of chemistry, within the heart of man himself, within the planet, and within the solar system. it is that something which drives all on toward the goal, and is the force which is gradually bringing order out of chaos; ultimate perfection out of temporary imperfection; good out of seeming evil; and out of darkness and disaster that which we shall some day recognise as beautiful, right, and true. it is all that we have visioned and conceived of in our highest and best moments. e

eneral idea, such as "natural selection" or "attraction and repulsion" i would like, if possible, to avoid technical terms, because they are used by one school of thought to mean one thing, and by another for something different. if we can find a word similar in intent, yet not tied to any particular line of thought, we may find fresh light thrown upon our problem. attraction and repulsion in the solar system is but the discriminating faculty of the atom or of man demonstrating in the planets and the sun. it will be found in atoms of all kinds; we can call it adaptation, if we so choose, or the power to grow and to adapt the unit to its environment through the rejection of certain factors and the acceptance of others. it shows itself in man as free will, or the power to choose, and in the

it is that of unified existence. not only will there be the separate units of consciousness, not only the differentiated atoms within the form, not only will there be the group made up of a multiplicity of identities, but we shall have the aggregate of all forms, of all groups, and of all states of consciousness blended, unified, and synthesised into a perfected whole. this whole you may call the solar system, you may call it nature, or you may call it god. names matter not. it corresponds to the adult stage in the human being; it is analogous to the period of maturity, and to that stage wherein a man is supposed to have a definite purpose and life work, and a clear-cut plan in view, which he is working out by the aid of his intelligence. in these talks i should like if i can, to show that

you may call it god. names matter not. it corresponds to the adult stage in the human being; it is analogous to the period of maturity, and to that stage wherein a man is supposed to have a definite purpose and life work, and a clear-cut plan in view, which he is working out by the aid of his intelligence. in these talks i should like if i can, to show that something like this is going on in the solar system, in the planet, in the human family, and in the atom. i trust that we can prove that there is an intelligence underlying all; and that from separation will come union, produced through blending and merging into group formation, and that eventually from the many groups will be seen emerging the one perfect, fully conscious whole, composed of myriads of separate identities animated by o

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hy to be compared with the glory which shall he revealed in us..for we are saved by hope..for i am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of god- 57- the consciousness of the aarcopyright 1998 lucis trust initiation, human and solar by alice a. bailey copyright 1951 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1979 by lucis trust dedicated with reverence and gratitude to the master k. h. the lord buddha has said that we must not believe in a thing said merely because it is said; nor traditions because they have been handed down from antiquity; nor rumors, as such; nor writings by sages, because sages wrote them: nor fancies that we

onwards towards this goal, and in the unity of the one ideal, in their common aspiration and endeavour, they will meet before the one portal. they will then recognise themselves as brothers, severed by tongue and apparent diversity of belief, but fundamentally holding to the same one truth and serving the same god. alice a. bailey. new york 1922. the constitution of man- 2- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust chart the seven planes of our solar system, the constitution of man the constitution of man, as considered in the following pages, is basically threefold, as follows: i. the monad, or pure spirit, the father in heaven. this aspect reflects the three aspects of the godhead: 1. will or power..the father. 2. love-wisdom..the son. 3. active intelligence..the holy spiri

lower manas. 2. an emotional body..astral body. 3. a physical body..the dense physical and the etheric body. the aim of evolution is therefore to bring man to the realisation of the egoic aspect and to bring the lower nature under its control. chapter i introductory remarks before entering upon the subject matter of the following articles of initiation, on the paths that- 3- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust open before the perfected man, and on the occult hierarchy, certain statements may be made which seem essential for the judicious study and comprehension of the ideas submitted. dogmatism and the intuition it is to be recognised that throughout this volume facts are alleged and definite statements made which are not susceptible of immediate proof by the reader. les

opportunity to build upon these foundations a structure that will meet the needs of the inner evolving life. three basic facts to be recognised the ideas that are elaborated here find their corroboration in certain facts that are stated in the occult literature now extant. these facts are three in number, and are as follows (a) in the creation of the sun and the seven sacred planets composing our solar system, our logos employed matter that was already impregnated with particular qualities. mrs. besant in her book "avataras (which some of us think the most valuable of all her writings, because one of the most suggestive, makes the statement that "our solar system is builded out of matter already- 4- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust existing, out of matter already gift

e synthetic ray which blends them all is the great love-wisdom ray, for verily and indeed "god is love" this ray is the indigo ray, and is the blending ray. it is the one which will, at the end of the greater cycle, absorb the others in the achievement of synthetic perfection. it is the manifestation of the second aspect of logoic life. it is this aspect, that of the form-builder, that makes this solar system of ours the most concrete of the three major systems. the love or wisdom aspect demonstrates through the building of the form, for "god is love" and in that god of love we "live and move and have our being" and will to the end of aeonian manifestation (c) the seven planes of divine manifestation, or the seven major planes of our system, are but the seven subplanes of the lowest cosmic

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n giving out information concerning the various energies of atomic matter is too great, and the race as yet too selfish to be entrusted with these potencies. man is already, through the able work of the scientists, discovering the needed knowledge with adequate rapidity. the emphasis in this book will be found to be laid upon those forces which are responsible for the objective manifestation of a solar logos and of man, and only in the first section will indication be given as to the nature of those energies which are strictly confined to the physical plane. thirdly, to show the coherent development of all that is found within a solar system; to demonstrate that everything which exists evolves (from the lowest form of life at the densest point of concretion up to the highest and most tenuo

pects through the influence of a third, and produces the manifestation which we call a form, starting it upon its evolutionary cycle in time and space. thus is form brought to the point where it is an adequate medium for the demonstration of the nature of that which we call god. fourthly, to give practical information anent those focal points of energy which are found in the etheric bodies of the solar logos, the macrocosm, and of man, the microcosm. as the etheric substratum which is the true substance underlying every tangible form is understood, certain great revolutions will be brought about in the domains of science, of medicine and of chemistry. the study of medicine, for instance, will eventually be taken up from a new angle, and its practice will be built upon a comprehension of th

certain great revolutions will be brought about in the domains of science, of medicine and of chemistry. the study of medicine, for instance, will eventually be taken up from a new angle, and its practice will be built upon a comprehension of the laws of radiation, of magnetic currents, and of the force centres found in men's bodies and their relationship to the force centres and currents of the solar system. fifthly, to give some information, hitherto not exoterically imparted as to the place and work of those myriads of sentient lives who form the essence of objectivity; to indicate the nature of those hierarchies of existences who form out of their own substance all that is seen and known, and who are themselves fire and the cause of all the heat, warmth, life and motion in the univers

own, and who are themselves fire and the cause of all the heat, warmth, life and motion in the universe. in this way the action of fire on water, of heat in matter, whether macrocosmically or- 4- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust microcosmically considered, will be touched upon and some light thrown upon the law of cause and effect (the law of karma) and its significance in the solar system. to sum up the matter, the teaching in this book should tend to an expansion of conscionsness, and should bring about a recognition of the adequacy, as a working basis, for both science and religion, of that interpretation of the processes of nature which has been formulated for us by the master minds of all time. it should tend to bring about a reaction in favor of a system of philos

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 gurudeva; i see countless undetached sparks shi

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

out of the development of the emotional or astral body, was incorporated with laya yoga and the foundation of that mysticism and devotion, which has been the underlying incentive during our particular aryan root race, was laid. the fourth initiation was at that time the objective. the subject of these great initiations has been discussed more at length in my previous volume "initiation, human and solar" now, in the aryan race, the subjugation of the mental body and the control of the mind is brought about through the practice of raja yoga, and the fifth initiation, that of adept, is the goal for evolving humanity. thus, all the yogas have had their place and served a useful purpose and it will become apparent that any return to hatha yoga practices or those practices which deal specificall

e power to contact the germ or the principle of buddhi (in the christian phraseology, the christ principle) to be found at the heart of every atom, whether it is the atom of matter as studied in the laboratory of the scientist, whether it is the human atom in the crucible of daily experience, whether it is the planetary atom, within whose ring-pass-not all our kingdoms of nature are found, or the solar atom, god in manifestation through the medium of a solar system. christ "knew what was in man" and therefore could be a saviour. 9. fancy rests upon images which have no real existence. this means that these images have no real existence in so far as they are conjured up by men themselves, constructed within their own mental auras, energized by their will or desire and are consequently dissi

ity of the astral plane, whose symbol is also water. the idea of man being the "fish" is curiously complete here. this symbol (as is the case with all symbols) has seven meanings; two are of use in this place: 1. the fish is the symbol of the vishnu aspect, the christ principle, the second aspect of divinity, the christ in incarnation, whether it is the cosmic christ (expressing himself through a solar system) or the individual christ the potential saviour within each human being. this is the "christ in you, the hope of glory (col. i:27) if the student will also study the fish avatar of vishnu he will learn still more. 2. the fish swimming in the waters of matter, an extension of the same idea only carried down to its more obvious present expression, man as the personality. where there is

ons, even that of the soul itself. the goal is formlessness or freedom from objective and tangible manifestation, and the true significance of this becomes apparent as the student remembers the oneness of spirit and matter when in manifestation; i. e. our seven planes are the seven subplanes of the lowest cosmic plane, the physical. consequently only "the time of the end" and the dissolution of a solar system will reveal the true meaning of formlessness. 3. the gunas are the three qualities of matter, the three effects produced when macrocosmic energy, the life of god which persists independently of form-taking, actuates or energizes substance. the three gunas are: 1. sattva .e nergy of spirit .m onad .f ather. rhythm or harmonious vibration 2. rajas. energy of soul. ego. son. mobility or

the reactions of the lower man and the physical brain. 1. belief. on his own plane the soul rehearses a condition analogous to the belief of the aspirant in the soul or christ aspect, only in this case the objective is the realisation of that which the christ or soul is seeking to reveal, the spirit or father in heaven. first the disciple arrives at a realisation of the angel of his presence, the solar angel, ego or soul. this is the achievement of the previous group. then the presence itself is later contacted and that presence is pure spirit, the absolute, the father of being. the self and the not-self have been known by this group of initiates. now the vision of the not-self dims and passes away and only spirit is known. belief must ever be the first stage. first the theory, then the ex

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

f daily concentration gradually overcomes the difficulty of control and brings about results which might be enumerated as follows: 1. the reorganization of the mind. 2. the polarizing of the man in his mental, instead of his emotional vehicle. 3. the withdrawal of the man's attention from the sense perceptions and his learning to centre himself in the brain. most people, like the animals, use the solar plexus. 4. the development of a faculty of instantaneous concentration as a preliminary to meditation. 5. the capacity to focus the attention unswervingly upon any chosen seed thought. ii. the stage of meditation. patanjali defines concentration as the holding of the perceiving consciousness in a certain region- 47- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust and meditation as the

is of a high order, then the pituitary body functions with increased efficiency, and the vibration of the centre of energy in its neighborhood becomes very powerful. it should be noted that according to this theory, when the personality is of a low order, when the reactions are mainly instinctual and the mind is practically non-functioning, then the centre of energy is in the neighborhood of the solar plexus, and the man is more animal in nature. four: the centre in the region of the pineal gland, and the higher brain, are brought into activity through learning to focus the attentive consciousness in the head. in the oriental books this is called by the interesting term "right withdrawal" or "right abstraction" this means the development of the capacity to subjugate the outward-going tend

e quality of desire begins to enter in, and there is an emotional reaction to the thoughts which the ideas have evoked, and the form is gradually built. thus the work goes on and the energy of the soul and of the mind and of the desire nature correlate with the energy of matter, and a definite form comes into being. every form, whether it be the form of a sewing machine, of a social order or of a solar system, can be posited as the materialization of the thought of some thinker, or of some group of thinkers. it is a form of creative work, and the same laws of emergence into being have governed the entire process, and all the work has been concentrated with energy of some type or another. the student of meditation must, therefore, remember that he is always working with energies, and that t

ucis trust the time, and with the practice of a little meditation every day, it should soon be possible to bring the work back again to normal. we have had students who have suffered this way, but who, by obedience to suggested rules, and the use of common-sense, are now doing their thirty minutes' or an hour's meditation daily. in emotional types, the trouble is first sensed in the region of the solar plexus. the student finds himself prone to irritation and to anxiety and worry; also, particularly in the case of women, there may be found a disposition to cry easily. sometimes there is a tendency to nausea, for there is a close relation between the emotional nature and the stomach, as is evidenced by frequency of vomiting in moments of shock, or fright, or intense emotion. the same rules

through the development of a spiritual normality which is greatly needed at this time, particularly among aspirants and esoteric students. it might be well also, before this chapter comes to a close, to refer to the dangers to which many are liable if they respond to the appeal of teachers for pupils to "sit for development" they are then taught to meditate upon some centre of energy, usually the solar plexus, sometimes the heart, curiously enough never the head. meditating upon a centre is based upon the law that energy follows thought, and leads to the direct stimulation of that centre and the resultant demonstration of the particular characteristics for which these focal points scattered throughout the human body are responsible. as the majority of people function primarily through the

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

o intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust endnotes 1 carpenter, edward, the art of creation, p. 7. 2 overstreet, h.a, the enduring quest, p.271 3 wilhelm, richard, and jung, t copyright 1998 lucis trust a treatise on white magic or the way of the disciple by alice a. bailey copyright 1951 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1979 by lucis trust- 1- copyright 1998 lucis trust rules for magic rule one the solar angel collects himself, scatters not his force, but, in meditation deep, communicates with his reflection. rule two when the shadow hath responded, in meditation deep the work proceedeth. the lower light is thrown upward; the greater light illuminates the three, and the work of the four proceedeth. rule three the energy circulates. the point of light, the product of the labours of the four

s glowing warmth until its light recedes. its fire grows dim. then shall the second sound go forth. rule four sound, light, vibration, and the form blend and merge, and thus the work is one. it proceedeth under the law, and naught can hinder now the work from going forward. the man breathes deeply. he concentrates his forces, and drives the thought-form from him. rule five three things engage the solar angel before the sheath of the one who thus creates, and steady contemplation. thus are the heart, the throat, and eye, allied for triple service. rule six the devas of the lower four feel the force when the eye opens; they are driven forth and lose their master. rule seven the dual forces of the plane whereon the vital power must be sought are seen; the two paths face the solar angel; the p

truct the shadow. when this is so, the shadow clothes itself, and the four become the seven. rule fourteen the sound swells out. the hour of danger to the soul courageous draweth near. the waters have not hurt the white creator and naught could drown nor drench him. danger from fire and flame menaces now, and dimly yet the rising smoke is seen. let him again, after the cycle of peace, call on the solar angel. rule fifteen the fires approach the shadow, yet burn it not. the fire sheath is completed. let the magician chant the words that blend the fire and water. from "a treatise on cosmic fire- 3- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust introductory remarks man's three aspects in the study of the ideas outlined in this book and their careful consideration certain basic concepts

us study how we can become practical magicians, and in what way we can best live the life of a spiritual man, and of an aspirant to accepted discipleship in our own peculiar times, state and environment. to do this we will take the fifteen rules for magic to be found in my earlier book, entitled a treatise on cosmic fire. i will comment on them, dealing not with their cosmic significance or with solar and other correspondences and analogies, but applying them to the work of the aspirant, and giving practical suggestions for the better development of soul contact and soul manifestation. i shall take for granted certain knowledges and assume the students can follow and comprehend certain technical terms that i may be led to use. i am not dealing with babes but with matured men and women who

d will realise the subjective working out of many of the laws. these laws of nature have effects in three distinct realms: a. physically, where they demonstrate as effects in the dense form. b. etherically, where they demonstrate as the energy lying back of those effects. c. mentally, where they concern the impulses which produce the other two. the treatise on cosmic fire dealt primarily with the solar system and only touched upon human aspects and correspondences insofar as they demonstrated the relation of the part to the whole, and of the unit to the totality. the present book will deal more specifically with human development and unfoldment, elucidating the causes which are responsible for the present effects, and pointing to the future and its possibilities, and to the nature of the u

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

ng profited by the information imparted? will you not, with determination and because the world cries out for help, cast away fear and go forward with joy and courage into the future? there has been, behind all the books which i have written, a definite purpose and a planned sequence of teaching. it may be of interest to you if i trace them for you: the first book issued was initiation, human and solar. this book was intended for the average aspirant, to lead him on from where he was to a vision of an organised band of teachers who were seeking to aid humanity (and incidentally himself, and to give some idea of their technique of work and modes of procedure. letters on occult meditation indicated how these teachers could be reached and the discipline of life that the treading of the path i

rocess, and in its entirety is beyond the grasp of the advanced student. at the same time, it is a most valuable compendium of information, and will serve to convey truth and to develop the intuition. the last book, a treatise on white magic, is a parallel volume to a treatise on cosmic fire. just as the first dealt with the psychology of deity, the work of the macrocosm, and the laws whereby the solar logos works, so this book constitutes a treatise on the psychology of the son of god and the work of the microcosm. it intimately concerns his place in the larger whole. i have also aided a.a.b. in getting out a translation of the yoga sutras of patanjali, which is a bridging book, intended to show the aspirant the rules whereby the light within him may be developed and the power of the intu

n the parable within the confines of the fourth kingdom in nature we have a slowly developing inclusiveness which finally leads him into the consciousness of the cosmic christ. 3. the higher realisation of unity follows upon this sense of duality, and in this final stage the sense of being soul and body is lost. the consciousness identifies itself with the indwelling life of the planet and of the solar system. when this happens, there is the registering of a state of being which lies beyond word, mind and form expression of any kind. the great jewish seer sought to convey these three stages in the words, i am that i am. he thus expressed them tritely and succinctly and adequately, had we but the development to know it. the third (however understood) defies expression, and hints at a fourth

lieved its grasp of reality and its sensitivity to the inner beauty to be greater and nearer the true than was ever previously possible. the highest realisation of what is termed the one life is the awareness (of the initiate of high degree) of the embodied logos, of deity, and his identification with the consciousness of that stupendous creator who is seeking expression through the medium of the solar system. no initiate on the- 16- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust planet can identify himself with the consciousness of that identified being (in the esoteric sense of the term) who, speaking in the bhagavad gita, says "having pervaded the entire universe with a fragment of myself, i remain" these thoughts i commend to your consideration

ntly reminding the people that he was not what he appeared to be, neither was he the father in heaven, and he is ever referred to by those who know and love him in terms of quality. he demonstrated to us the quality of the love of god, and in himself he embodied not only that which he had evolved of the seven ray qualities, but also as do few of the sons of god a basic principle of the ray of the solar logos himself, the quality of love. this we shall study more closely when we take up the consideration of the second ray of love-wisdom. the seven rays are therefore embodiments of seven types of force which demonstrate to us the seven qualities of deity. these seven qualities have consequently a sevenfold effect upon the matter and forms to be found in all parts of the universe, and have al

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

constantly isolate the present opportunity. the expectancy in the race is assuming vital proportions. in the words of an ancient mexican aphorism "always in the centre shall come a new word" every form has its positive centre of life. every organism is constructed around a central nucleus of power. there is a centre in our universe from which the word went forth, bringing into being our organised solar system as we now have it, and the planet on which we live, with its myriad forms of life "in the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god "the same was in the beginning with god "all things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made "in him was life; and the life was the light of men "he was in the world, and the world was made by him

) to st. thomas, who doubted the truth of the resurrection!"40 any student of comparative religion can investigate the truth of these statements, and at the end will stand amazed at the persistence of god's love and the willingness to sacrifice themselves which all these sons of god manifest. it is therefore wise and timely to remember that "these events are reproduced in the lives of the various solar gods, and antiquity teems with illustrations of them. isis of egypt, like mary of bethlehem, was our immaculate lady, star of the sea, queen of heaven, mother of god. we see her, in pictures, standing on the crescent moon, star-crowned, she nurses her child horus, and the cross appears on the back of the seat in which he sits on his mother's knee. the virgo of the zodiac is represented in an

n of hidden divinity, beauty and reality, ready to bring them to the birth. finally, matter as the servant of that which has been born, the christ. however, none of this is brought about unless the journey is made from nazareth, the place of consecration, and from galilee, the place of the daily round of life; and this is true, whether one is speaking of the cosmic christ, hidden by the form of a solar system; of the mythic christ, hidden in humanity down the ages; of the historical christ, concealed within the form of jesus; or of the individual christ, hidden within the ordinary man. for always the routine is the same the journey, the new birth, the experience of life, the service to be rendered, the death to be endured, and then the resurrection into more extended service. joseph's name

ime this outstanding characteristic of the divine name had to be revealed and in such a manner that man could grasp it. it is thus that christ embodied in himself the greatest of the cosmic principles. this law of love can be seen functioning in the universe as the law of attraction, with all that is involved in that term coherency, integration, position, direction and the rhythmic running of our solar system; it can be seen also in the disposition of god towards humanity, as revealed to us through christ. this unique function of christ as the custodian and the revealer of a cosmic principle or energy lies behind all he did; it was the basis and the result of his achieved- 57- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust perfection; it was the incentive and impulsion to his life of

divine men, he had a unique function. he summed up in himself and brought to a conclusion the symbolic presentation of god's eternal sacrifice upon the fixed cross of the heavens, to which the stars bear testimony and which the history of religion has so successfully veiled, and today refuses to recognise. the heavenly man is today pendant in the heavens, as he has been since the creation of the solar system, and as christ said "i, if i be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me,"11 and not all men only, but eventually all forms of life in all kingdoms will render up their life, not as an imposed sacrifice, but as a willing offering to the final glory of god "he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it,"12 is a fact which is often forgotten and one which has a definite b

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

n of deity, and the whole story of the creative process becomes the story of god's realised purpose. in the first place, as the third aspect is consciously developed, man arrives at a knowledge of matter, of substance and of outer creative activity. then he passes on to a realisation of the underlying qualities which the form is intended to reveal, and identifies himself with the ego, the soul or solar angel. this he comes to know as his true self, the real spiritual man. later, he arrives at the realisation of the purpose which is working out through the qualities, as they express themselves through the form. the above paragraphs are only a summation of what has been earlier said, but it is necessary that there should be real clarity of thought on these matters. it is apparent as we study

st as a soul in time and space and to tune in on the soul purpose and the plan of the creator, as it is known and expressed by the seven spirits before the throne, the seven planetary logoi. but at this point we can only hint at a great mystery, which is that all that the highest of the sons of god on our manifested planetary world can grasp is a partial realisation of the purpose and plan of the solar logos, as it is grasped, apprehended and expressed by one of the planetary logoi who is (in his place and term of office) conditioned and- 3- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust limited by his own peculiar point in evolution. a seventh part of the unfolding plan is being expressed by our particular planetary life, and because this great

stions we will not deal. with the consciousness of the life of god as it expresses itself in the three subhuman kingdoms, we need not concern ourselves. we shall deal entirely with the following three points: 1. with the strictly human consciousness as it begins with the process of individualisation and consummates in the dominant personality. 2. with the egoic consciousness, which is that of the solar angel as it begins with the preparation for initiation on the path of discipleship and consummates in the perfected master. 3. with the monadic realisation. this is a phrase that means absolutely nothing to us, for it concerns the consciousness of the planetary logos. this begins to be realised at the third initiation, dominating the soul and working out through the personality. man, the ave

, for it concerns the consciousness of the planetary logos. this begins to be realised at the third initiation, dominating the soul and working out through the personality. man, the average human being, is a sum total of separative tendencies, of uncontrolled forces and of disunited energies, which slowly and gradually become coordinated, fused, and blended in the separative personality. man, the solar angel, is the sum total of those energies and forces which are unified, blended and controlled by that "tendency to harmony" which is the effect of love and the outstanding quality of divinity- 4- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust man, the living monad, is the veiled reality, and that which the angel of the presence hides. he is the sy

nality types of energy are the etheric body, which is the vehicle of vital energy, the astral body which is the vehicle of the feeling energy or sentient force, and the mental body which is the vehicle of the intelligent energy of will that is destined to be the dominant creative aspect. it is upon this truth that christian science has laid the emphasis. these forces constitute the lower man. the solar angel is a dual combination of energies the energy of love, and the energy of will or purpose and these are the qualities of the life thread. these two, when dominating the third energy of mind, produce the perfect man. they explain the human problem; they indicate the objective before man; they account for and explain the energy of illusion; and they point out the way of psychological unfol

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

s of patanjali) will indicate the type of phenomena which should find its place in this diary. 5. any experiences of a psychic kind which do not come under any of the above headings. those mentioned above come under the heading of the higher psychism and concern the higher psychic faculties, spiritual perception, intuitive knowledge, mental telepathy (and not the telepathy which is based upon the solar plexus activity. the lower psychic experiences can also be noted whether pleasant or unpleasant. once noted, however, they should be forgotten for they are of no moment- 15- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust days may go by and weeks with no record. let this in no way disconcert you. the sensitivity of the mechanism of the soul to spiritual vibration has to be c

ho are as far beyond the hierarchy of masters as they, in their turn, are beyond the disciples of the world. those lives who carry out the ideas of the divine mind, exist in their graded orders, and with the detail of their groupings we are not concerned, except with the fact that the planetary brotherhood is in telepathic rapport with those who are responsible for the planetary conditions in the solar system, with the great council, therefore, at shamballa. they are also in immediate telepathic rapport with each other. the slowly manifesting powers of the radio and the sensitive workings of the perfecting radio mechanisms and of television are but the response in physical matter of the perfected telepathic powers and television of the minds of the masters of the wisdom. forget not, that s

and his objective eventually becomes: a. at-one-ment with his group brothers. b. alignment with his soul and with the inner group which is the subjective cause of the outer groups. c. the expression of the particular technique which his group should eventually embody. the groups will use the following centres in their work: group 1. the head, heart and throat centres. group 2. the head, heart and solar plexus centres. group 3. the head, heart and ajna centres. group 4. the head, ajna and throat centres. group 5. the head and heart centres and the centre at the base of the spine. group 6. the head, heart and solar plexus centres. this is necessarily the same as in group 2. group 7. the head, throat and sacral centres. group 8. the head, heart, solar plexus and throat centres. this group of

t to see developed is alertness to soul contact, impressionability to the "voice of the teacher" an aliveness to the impact of new ideas and to the delicacy of intuitional responsiveness. these are ever the hallmark of the true disciple. it is spiritual sensitivity which must be cultivated; this is only truly possible when you learn to work through the centres above the diaphragm and to transmute solar plexus activity (which is so dominant in the average person, turning it into heart activity and the service of your fellowmen. impersonality, particularly for high grade integrated people, is peculiarly difficult to achieve. there is a close relation between impersonality and detachment. study this. many cherished ideas, many hard won qualities, many carefully nurtured righteousnesses and ma

rvice. let us briefly enumerate them: 1. intuitional response to ideas. 2. sensitiveness to the impression which some member of the hierarchy may seek to make upon the mind of the disciple. it is for this reason that i am training you to utilise the full moon contact. 3. quick response to real need. you had not regarded this as one of the psychic powers, my brother, had you? i refer not here to a solar plexus reaction but to heart knowledge. ponder on this distinction. 4. right observation of reality upon the soul plane. this leads to right mental perception, to freedom from illusion and glamour and to the illumination of the brain. 5. correct manipulation of force, involving, therefore, an understanding of the types and qualities of force and their right creative weaving into service upon

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

k the fact that though christ recognised his function as teacher and spiritual leader of humanity during the age which is so rapidly drawing to a close, he also recognised the work which he would do when that age came to an end and the new astronomical cycle came into existence. the average christian is singularly unaware of the times and cycles through which our planet passes, under influence of solar progression. the at present dubious science of astrology has sidetracked the legitimate interest of humanity in the astronomical teaching and its spiritual interpretation of the passage of the sun through the signs of the zodiac. yet, in the new testament, that recognition is clearly revealed and colours the presentation of the entire gospel story. it is found also in the old testament. what

blend and fuse the consciousness of all men into that unity which is distinctive of the christ consciousness- 43- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust in june, 1945, at the time of the full moon (so significant a day in the spiritual experience of the christ, he definitely and consciously took over his duties and responsibilities as the teacher and leader during the aquarian solar cycle. he is the first of the great world teachers to cover two zodiacal cycles the piscean and the aquarian. this is a statement easily made and written down, but again it involves the three modes or techniques of appearance to which i have already referred. his outpouring love and spiritual vitality (augmented by the energies of the spirit of peace, the avatar of synthesis and the buddha)

s known" and the hierarchy where the love of god demonstrates has been opened and enlarged, and the contact between these two great centres and humanity has been more firmly established. thus thousands of intelligent men and women will be enabled to free themselves from all delusion and emotional control. the moment that the hearts of men are active, that moment sees the termination of emotional, solar plexus activity. that is a statement of fact; it is the hearts of men which respond to the call of christ and it is those hearts which are becoming invocative today. the agonising emotional cycle through which humanity has passed during the past one hundred years, and the emotional tension in which men today live are also playing their part in fitting humanity to emerge into the realm of cle

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

ave, therefore, in the present field of divine expression the following energies manifesting: 1. the energy of idealism, of devotion or of devoted attention, embodied in the sixth ray. 2. the energy whose major function it is to produce order, rhythm and established, sequential activity the seventh ray of ceremonial ritual. 3. the energy of the second ray, which is always basically present in our solar system, that of love-wisdom, to which many of the egos now in incarnation belong and will increasingly belong. the next one hundred and fifty years will see them coming into incarnation. the reason is that it is to this type of human being that the work of reconstruction, and of re-building is naturally committed. 4. the energy of intelligence, actively displayed in creative activity. the cr

hese three centres are closely interrelated and must be thought of in their entirety as expressions of divine livingness, as embodying three great stages in the unfoldment of god's plan and as constituting the three major centres in the body of the "one in whom we live and move and have our being" students who have studied as you have can relate if they so choose, these three centres to the three solar systems, referred to in a treatise on cosmic fire 1. in the first solar system, the centre which is humanity was prepared, and the principle of intelligence came into manifestation. 2. in the second solar system, the hierarchy of love made its appearance and must eventually come into full manifestation upon the physical plane, thereby enabling the love of god to be seen. 3. in the next solar

gence came into manifestation. 2. in the second solar system, the hierarchy of love made its appearance and must eventually come into full manifestation upon the physical plane, thereby enabling the love of god to be seen. 3. in the next solar system, the centre which we today call shamballa will manifest (intelligently and through love) the will aspect of deity. it is only however in this second solar system that all these three centres, expressing the three divine aspects, meet simultaneously at various stages of livingness. it is interesting to note that it is only through human beings that these centres can ever come into true functioning activity. little is known of shamballa except by members of the hierarchy to whom that centre is the goal in the same way that the hierarchy is, at t

forces and the world arjuna is faced with a stupendous battle one that is recurrent and cyclic but which will, in this particular era, prove a decisive and determining factor in the age old conflict between material domination and spiritual control. the forces playing upon the planet at this time are of supreme importance. if you will bear in mind that the sixth ray works through and controls the solar plexus (being closely related to the astral plane, the sixth level of awareness) and that the seventh ray controls the sacral centre, you will see why there is so much emotion, so much idealism and so much desire mixed up in connection with the world conflict and why also apart from the storms in the political arena and the religious field that sex and its various problems has reached a poin

e with the immediate intent and plan and for the benefit of the evolving life in any particular world cycle: 1. spirit and matter. 2. life and form. 3. the ego and the personality. 4. the soul and its outer expression. 5. the higher worlds of atma-buddhi-manas and the lower reflection of mind emotion and the physical nature. 6. the head and the heart, through the sublimation of the sacral and the solar plexus energies. 7. the etheric-astral planes and the dense physical plane. 8. the intangible subjective levels of existence and the outer tangible worlds. such is the task of the white magician and as evolution proceeds and becomes more complicated and complex it will nevertheless be more rapid and more accurately defined in the mind of the magician. all, therefore, that is conducive to hum

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust ancient formula of truth and interpret it entirely in terms of a formula for the dissipation of illusion. write an exegesis on it from this angle, taking it phrase by phrase and regarding it as giving us seven keys to the secret of the elimination of glamour. the formula (which is not essentially a prayer) can be divided as follows: a. invocation to the solar lord. b. seven sentences, embodying seven keys for the dissipation of illusion. c. a final affirmation of divinity. use your intuition and apply these all to the subject of glamour and see at what knowledge you will arrive. then write it down in the form of an interpretation or article and we may arrive at much value. 3. keep a copy of your full moon record and, at the close of six months, s

the mental levels of consciousness. when the glamour of authority transfers itself into the spiritual consciousness of man, we have such a state of affairs as the period of the inquisition in its worst forms, of church authority, with the emphasis upon organisation, government and penalties, or the unquestioned rule of some teacher. in its highest forms we have the recognition of the right of the solar angel, of the soul or ego, to rule. between these two extremes, which express the infancy of the race and the freedom which comes when mankind achieves its majority and the freedom of the soul, lie all the many types and kinds of intermediate reactions. in illustration of our point, and thus emphasising the glamour aspect as it affects the disciple and the problem which he faces, what do we

the hierarchy and around their work, and the work of the initiates and the disciplined disciples (mark that phrase) a rich glamour is created which prevents them ever reaching the disciple or his reaching them. it is not possible to penetrate the dense glamour of devotion, vibrating with dynamic ecstatic life, which emanates from the concentrated energy of the disciple, working still through the solar plexus centre. for this glamour there are some age-old rules: contact the greater self through the medium of the- 47- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust higher self and thus lose sight of the little self, its reactions, its desires, and intentions. or: the pure love of the soul which is not personalised in any way and which seeks no recognition can then pour into the world o

sites. these are of a different nature in some respects to those found upon the astral plane. on the physical plane (and by that i mean upon the etheric levels of the physical plane whereon the deceptive power of maya is experienced) there is the meeting of the forces of the subjective world of the personality and the ancient energies of matter itself, brought over as latent seeds from an earlier solar system. it might perhaps become clearer to your perception if i worded the truth about maya as follows: the latent impulses of the personality life, when divorced from and not under soul control, are blended with the pranic fluids within the periphery of the personality sphere of influence, and then become potent directed streams of force, seeking emergence into physical manifestation throug

yright 1998 lucis trust upon physical hygiene and physical exercises. through these, the control of the life of matter, the lowest expression of the third aspect of divinity can be offset, and the man set free for the true battle of the pairs of opposites. this second battle is the true kurukshetra and is fought out in the astral nature, between the pairs of opposites which are distinctive of our solar system, just as the physical pairs of opposites are distinctive of the past solar system. from one interesting angle the battle of the opposites upon the lower spiral, in which the physical body in its two aspects is concerned, can be seen taking place in the animal kingdom. in this process, human beings act as the agents of discipline, and the domesticated animals, which are forced to confo

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

part of the substantial form of god himself not the dense physical form, but what the esotericists regard as the form-making substance. we use the word god to signify the expression of the one life which animates every form on the outer objective plane. the etheric or energy body, therefore, of every human being is an integral part of the etheric body of the planet itself and consequently of the solar system. through this medium, every human being is basically related to every other expression of the divine life, minute or great. the function of the etheric body is to receive energy impulses and to be swept into activity by these impulses, or streams of force, emanating from some originating source or other. the etheric body is in reality naught but energy. it is composed of myriads of th

ask of learning to be responsive to the group and to find and contact those minds which are energised by similar thought currents. this has to be cultivated. how, my brother, shall this be done? let us consider the various types of telepathic work. the undeveloped human being and the unthinking, non-mental man or woman can be and often are telepathic, but the centre through which they work is the solar plexus. the line of communication is, therefore, from solar plexus to solar plexus. this is therefore instinctual telepathy and concerns feeling in every case. it involves, invariably, radiations from the solar plexus, which in the case of the animal world serves usually as the instinctual brain. this type of telepathic communication is definitely a characteristic of the animal body of man

and not the more subtle forms of psychism. where the more subtle forms of super- or extra-sensory perception have been involved, the subjects have been either adolescent or in their early twenties and have been primarily and rightly focussed in the emotional-feeling body. this is true even when they are highly intellectual. this form of telepathic communication is therefore of two kinds, with the solar plexus always involved: a. it will be from solar plexus to solar plexus between two people who are ordinary, emotional, governed by desire, and primarily centred in the astral and animal bodies. b. it will be between such a "solar plexus" person, if i may so call him, and a higher type whose solar plexus centre is functioning actively but whose throat centre is also alive. this type of perso

etween two people who are ordinary, emotional, governed by desire, and primarily centred in the astral and animal bodies. b. it will be between such a "solar plexus" person, if i may so call him, and a higher type whose solar plexus centre is functioning actively but whose throat centre is also alive. this type of person registers in two places provided that the thought sensed and sent out by the solar plexus person has in it something of mental substance or energy. pure feeling and entirely emotional emanations between people necessitate only solar plexus contact. later, when group work in telepathy is undertaken, the centres of transmission wherein high and consecrated feeling, devotion, aspiration and love are concerned and where the groups work with pure love, communication will be fro

athy is undertaken, the centres of transmission wherein high and consecrated feeling, devotion, aspiration and love are concerned and where the groups work with pure love, communication will be from heart to heart, and from a group heart to another group heart. the phrase "heart to heart talk" so often used, is usually a misnomer at this time, but will some day be true. at present it is usually a solar plexus conversation! the second form of telepathic work is that of mind to mind, and it is with this form of communication that the highest investigation is at this time concerned. only mental types are involved, and the more that emotion and feeling and strong desire can be eliminated, the more accurate will be the work accomplished. the strong desire to achieve success in telepathic work

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

he course of a few years. if you can do this, there may come to you an awakening of the intuition which will translate modern astrology into something of real moment and significance to the world. it is intuitional astrology which must eventually supersede what is today called astrology, thus bringing about a return to the knowledge of that ancient science which related the constellations and our solar system, drew attention to the nature of the zodiac and informed humanity as to the basic interrelations which govern and control the phenomenal and subjective worlds- 3- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. three basic statements. the statement is frequently made that astrology is an exact science but that is far from correct in spite of

naught but the imaginary path of the sun through the heavens, and this as it appears from the standpoint of our totally insignificant planet. the sun is not, as stated, in any sign of the zodiac. it simply appears to be so as it passes between our little sphere, the earth, and the constellations at any particular time or season. in ancient days it was believed that the earth was the centre of the solar system and that around it revolved the sun and all the other planets. this was the exoteric knowledge and position, though not the esoteric understanding. later, when further discoveries brought more light to the human mind, our planet was decentralised and the truth was more clearly seen, though much remains as yet to be discovered and may even be of as revolutionary a nature. from certain

s the exoteric knowledge and position, though not the esoteric understanding. later, when further discoveries brought more light to the human mind, our planet was decentralised and the truth was more clearly seen, though much remains as yet to be discovered and may even be of as revolutionary a nature. from certain astrological angles, a similar process of decentralisation must take place and the solar system must no longer be regarded as a point around which the zodiac revolves or through which the sun passes in its great cycle of approximately 25,000 years. astrologers with insight may deny that this is the commonly accepted attitude. yet for purposes of clarity and in connection with the general public the inference is permitted and accepted by the ignorant. upon this theory anent the z

modern interpretations fail to emphasise the importance of the rising sign (the ascendant) and this has been due to the fact that few have been as yet ready to function as souls; small allowance has been made for the energies which play upon our planet all the time from other constellations or from the many "hidden" planets. of these, the ageless wisdom claims that there are around seventy in our solar system. i desire to give you a truer and more accurate picture. this has now become possible because group awareness, group relations and group integrity are coming to the fore in the human consciousness. as this takes place, the personality which is individual, separative and self-centred will recede increasingly into the background, and the soul, non-separative, group conscious and inclusi

to exterior influences and impacts, and in your turn you emanate influences, send forth some form of character radiation and express some quality or qualities. you thereby, and in some measure, affect your environment and those whom you contact. yet all the while you remain part of a phenomenal entity to which we give the name of humanity. now extend this idea to a greater phenomenal entity, the solar system. this entity is itself an integral part of a still greater life which is expressing itself through seven solar systems, of which ours is one. if you can grasp this idea, a vague picture of a great underlying esoteric truth will emerge into your consciousness. it is the life and the influence, the radiations and emanations of this entity, and their united effect on our planetary life

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

sitting-room after the children had gone to bed. again i refused, but the speaker begged me to reconsider and for a couple of weeks, at least, see what i could do. by this time i was getting curious but not in the least convinced. i would try for a couple of weeks or a month and then decide what i felt about it. it was during these few weeks that i got the first chapters of "initiation, human and solar" i would like to make it quite clear that the work i do is in no way related to automatic writing. automatic writing, except in the rarest cases (and, unfortunately, most people think their case is the rare exception) is very dangerous. the aspirant or disciple is never supposed to be an automaton. he is never supposed to let any part of his equipment out of his conscious control. when he do

tly his amanuensis and secretary and am not a member of his group. he has never interfered with my personal work or training. in the spring of 1920 i entered into a very happy time of collaboration with him, while working as a senior disciple in the ashram of my own master. i've written many books since then for the tibetan. shortly after finishing the first few chapters of "initiation, human and solar" i showed the manuscript to b. p. wadia. he got very excited and told me that he would publish anything that "came from that source" and printed the first few chapters in "the theosophist" published in adyar, india. then the usual theosophical jealousy and reactionary attitude appeared and no more was printed. the tibetan's style has improved over the years. he dictated a cumbersome, poor en

ion group of five men and my husband and myself who used to meet every tuesday afternoon after business hours to talk about the things that mattered, to discuss the plan of the masters of the wisdom and to meditate for awhile on our part in it. this group met steadily from the summer of 1922 until the summer of 1923. in the meantime i was continuing to write for the tibetan and "initiation human& solar "letters on occult meditation" and "the consciousness of the atom" had been printed. people are apt to assume that if you write a book on such a technical subject as meditation that you know all about it. i began to get letters from all over the world from people asking me to teach them to meditate or to put them in touch with the masters of the wisdom. the latter request always amused me. i

human relations. another revolutionary thing that the tibetan did was when he dictated the contents of a treatise on cosmic fire. in this book he gave what h.p.b. prophesied he would give, the psychological key to cosmic creation. h.p.b. stated that in the 20th century a disciple would come who would give information concerning the three fires with which the secret doctrine deals: electric fire, solar fire and fire by friction. this prophecy was fulfilled when a treatise on cosmic fire was given out to the public. this book concerns the fire of pure spirit or life; the fire of the mind that vitalises every atom of the solar system and creates the medium through which the sons of god develop. it also concerns the fire of matter producing that attraction and repulsion which is the basic law

which might be of value in the new spiritual era which was impending. she, therefore, overcame her disgust of this type of work and of the many occult presentations of truth which were prevalent. she only stipulated that the writing should go out with no claims whatsoever and that the teachings should stand or fall on their own merits. the books the first book published was initiation, human and solar. this was the result of her first effort to do this kind of work. it laid the foundation of all the succeeding books. since then a.a.b. has written for me for nearly twenty-five years. the books have gone out in line with a deep underlying purpose which it may interest you to know about and they have received a worldwide recognition. initiation, human and solar was intended to bring the fact

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

physical body is the response apparatus of the indwelling spiritual man and serves to put that spiritual entity en rapport with the response apparatus of the planetary logos, the life in which we live and move and have our being. 2. the etheric body, which has one main objective. this is to vitalise and energise the physical body and thus integrate it into the energy body of the earth and of the solar system. it is a web of energy streams, of lines of force and of light. it constitutes part of the vast network of energies which underlies all forms whether great or small (microcosmic or macrocosmic. along these lines of energy the cosmic forces flow, as the blood flows through the veins and arteries. this constant, individual human, planetary and solar circulation of life-forces through th

what is largely designated "cosmic evil" this is a perfectly meaningless phrase, but one that is symbolically descriptive of a condition in consciousness which is that of certain of the "imperfect gods" given the initial premise that deity itself is working towards a perfection past our comprehension, it may be inferred that there may exist for the gods themselves and for god (as the life of the solar system, certain limitations and certain areas or states of consciousness which still await mastering. these limitations and relative imperfections may cause definite effects in their bodies of manifestation the various planets as expressions of lives, and the solar system as the expression of a life. given also the hypothesis that these outer bodies of divinity, the planets, are the forms th

ivinity, the planets, are the forms through which certain deities express themselves, it may be a true and logical deduction that all lives and forms within those bodies may be necessarily subject also to these limitations, and to the imperfections growing out of these unconquered areas of consciousness and these states of awareness, hitherto unrealised by the deities, incarnated in planetary and solar form. given the postulate that every form is a part of a still greater form, and that we do indeed "live and move and have our being" within the body of god (as st. paul expresses it) we, as integral parts of the fourth kingdom in nature, share in this general limitation and imperfection. more than this general premise is beyond our powers to grasp and to express, for the general mental equi

r instrument of manifestation. for this liberty of action, mankind as a whole is not yet ready. the disciples and aspirants of the world should now, however, begin to grasp these newer principles of existence. the instinct to self-preservation governs the relation of spirit and matter, of life and form as long as the deity himself wills to incarnate within his body of manifestation a planet, or a solar system. i have in the above statement given to you a hint as to one of the basic causes of disease, and to the endless fight between the imprisoned spirit and the imprisoning form. this fight uses for its method that innate quality which expresses itself as the urge to preserve and the urge to perpetuate both the present form and the species. 8. the law of cause and effect, called karma in t

l body must be potent factors in producing discomfort and disease. this is due to the fact that the vital or etheric bodies of the masses of humanity are governed primarily and swept into activity through the action of the astral body. agitation in that body, any violent activity under stress of temper, intense worry or prolonged irritation will pour a stream of astral energy into and through the solar plexus centre, and will galvanise that centre into a condition of intense disturbance. this next affects the stomach, the pancreas, the gall duct and bladder. few people (and i might well ask who is exempt at this particular time in the world's history) are free from indigestion, from undesirable gastric conditions, or from trouble connected with the gall bladder. the tendency to criticism

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

of that mental creature we call a man. these three aspects constitute the most important part of his nature: 1. his lower concrete mind, the reasoning principle. it is with this aspect of the man that our educational processes profess to deal. 2. that son of mind, which we call the ego or soul. this is the intelligence principle, and is called by many names in the esoteric literature, such as the solar angel, the agnishvattas, the christ principle, etc. with this, religion in the past has professed to deal- 9- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. the higher abstract mind, the custodian of ideas, and that which is the conveyor of illumination to the lower mind, once that lower mind is en rapport with the soul. with this world of ideas philosophy has professed to deal. we m

studying the science of the ageless wisdom, but it is of no value to those who do not recognise symbology, or the fact of the higher ego or soul. it might be of value here if i clarified my use of the words "higher ego" as you know, if you have read a treatise on the seven rays, vols. i and ii (esoteric psychology, the soul is an aspect of the divine energy in time and space. we are told that the solar logos circumscribed for his use and for the meeting of his desire, a certain measure of the substance of space and informed it with his life and consciousness. he did this for his good purposes and in conformity with his self-realised plan and intent. thus he submitted himself to limitation. the human monad followed the same procedure and in time and space limited itself in a similar manner

mation of the mayavirupa is found in the right comprehension of the process. a treatise on cosmic fire, pp. 959-960. it should be noted here that the bridging has to be done in the consciousness aspect, and concerns the continuity of man's awareness of life in all his various aspects. the energy which is used in connecting, in consciousness, the physical man and the astral body is focussed in the solar plexus. speaking in symbolical terms, many today are carrying that bridge forward and linking the mind with the two aspects already linked. this thread of energy emanates from, or is anchored in, the head. a few people are steadily linking the soul and the mind, which in its turn is linked with the other two aspects. the soul energy, when linked with the other threads, has its anchor in the

nce and sustenance. the spider symbol is often used in the ancient occult books and the scriptures of india in connection with this activity of the human being. the threads which man creates are triple and with the two basic threads which have been created by the soul, constitute the five types of energy which make man a conscious human being. the triple threads created by man are anchored in the solar plexus, the head and the heart. when the astral body and the mind- 26- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust nature are beginning to function as a unit, and the soul also is consciously connected (do not forget that it is always unconsciously linked, an extension of this fivefold thread the basic two and the human three is carried to the throat centre; when that occurs man can

orial and visual imagination. many aspirants have already established the following links of the bridging antahkarana: 1. from the physical to the vital or etheric body. this is really an extension of the life thread between the heart and the spleen. 2. from the physical and the vital, regarding them as a unity, to the astral or emotional vehicle. this thread emanates from, or is anchored in, the solar plexus, and is carried upward by means of the aspiration till it anchors itself in the love petals of the egoic lotus. 3. from the physical and astral vehicles to the mental body. one terminal is anchored in the head, and the other in the knowledge petals of the egoic lotus, being carried forward by an act of the will. many, too, are in process of linking the three lower aspects, which we ca

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

ich you are one and all responsible. i. definite and planned meditation. the theme, if i might so call it, of the work will be threefold: a. the interior interrelation of the seven centres in the body will be the objective of the meditation, basing the work upon the occult maxim that "energy follows thought" we have started upon one formula which relates the heart, the higher head centre, and the solar plexus. b. the subsequent relation of the centres in any one individual to the remainder of the group members, regarding the centres as radiating transmitters of energy to the centres of the other group members. this will result in the forming of seven great centres of energy which will constitute the group centres, fed and enlightened by the energy transmitted by each individual- 13- discip

ht 1998 lucis trust c. the fusion (consciously undertaken) of the individual soul with the group soul and consequently a conscious rapport with the hierarchy, which is inherently the kingdom of souls. the first meditation affects the three centres in the individual disciple and also, and consequently, his astral body. they can when related, awakened and functioning, and when the two points in the solar plexus are balanced and "enlightened" a word which i shall frequently use in connection with the centres evoke response from the love-petals of the egoic lotus. this must happen automatically and need not be regarded as a complicated technicality. do the required meditation faithfully and correctly and the results will follow spontaneously. ii. unfold to you and reveal the techniques of work

between the sun and moon, making certain events of a spiritual nature possible. the band of golden light, extending between the sun and the moon, completely "irradiated the lunar surface (to use the ancient formula) and made possible certain revelations. to students such as you, the symbolism should be apparent and can be seen as inviting a dual interpretation: 1. it concerns the relation of the solar angel to the lunar forces, of the sun and the moon and their work in synthesis. 2. it concerns the relation of the hierarchy to humanity and consequently, of the subjective world to the objective worlds, of the realm of causes to the realm of effects. ponder on this. individual approach must be merged into group approach, and the approach of groups will some day be superseded by the organise

ill stimulate the heart into action, linking the heart centre (between the shoulder blades) to the head centre through the medium of the heart centre which is found within the head centre (the thousand-petalled lotus. this heart centre, when adequately radiatory and magnetic will relate you afresh to each other and to all the world. this again when connected by an act of the spiritual will to the solar plexus centre will help to produce that telepathic interplay which is so much to be desired and which is so constructively useful to the spiritual hierarchy provided it is established within a group of pledged disciples, dedicated to the service of humanity. they can then be trusted (page 87) the activity of the heart centre never demonstrates in connection with individuals. this is a basic

t telepathic interplay which is so much to be desired and which is so constructively useful to the spiritual hierarchy provided it is established within a group of pledged disciples, dedicated to the service of humanity. they can then be trusted (page 87) the activity of the heart centre never demonstrates in connection with individuals. this is a basic fact. what devastates most disciples is the solar plexus ability (when purified and consecrated) to- 78- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust identify itself with individuals. the heart centre cannot react, except under group impetus, group happiness or unhappiness, and other group relations. the following diagrammatic form illustrates the procedure which i suggest that you follow: there are two points of vital

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ding to the quality of the bodies which react to it. different types of men respond distinctively to any inflow of energy, and a tremendous psychic stimulation is at this time going on, with results both divinely beneficent and sadly destructive. it might be added also that certain astrological relationships between the constellations are releasing new types of force which are playing through our solar system and on to our planet and thereby making possible developments hitherto frustrated in expression, and bringing about the demonstration of latent powers and the manifestation of new knowledges. all this must be most carefully borne in mind by the worker in the field of human affairs if the present crisis is to be rightly appreciated and its splendid opportunities rightly employed. i hav

eally corresponds to the holy ghost aspect in the human microcosmic trinity. all these powers have their higher spiritual correspondences, which manifest when the soul becomes consciously active and controls its mechanism through the mind and the brain. when astral clairvoyance and clairaudience are not below the threshold of consciousness, but are actively used and functioning, it means that the solar plexus centre is open and active. when the corresponding mental faculties are present in consciousness, then it means that the throat centre and the centre between the eyebrows are becoming "awake" and active. but the higher psychic powers, such as spiritual perception with its infallible knowledge, the intuition with its unerring judgment, and psychometry of the higher kind with its power t

of activity was the giving of his body by the disciple jesus for the use of the christ. it is in the word service that the whole story lies, and the safeguard. when this true mediumship is better understood, we shall have the medium passing out of his body in full waking consciousness through the orifice at the top of his head, and not, as is now the case in the majority of instances, through the solar plexus, with no preservation of awareness of the transaction, nor any recollection of what has transpired. we shall then have the temporary entrance of a new tenant along the line of a synchronous vibration through the entrance in the head, and the subsequent use of the instrument of the loaned body in service of some kind or another. but this procedure will never be followed in order to sat

t of the loaned body in service of some kind or another. but this procedure will never be followed in order to satisfy idle curiosity, or an equally idle grief, based on personal loneliness and self-pity. at present many of the lower kind of mediums are exploited by the curious or unhappy public, and those peculiar human beings whose consciousness is centred entirely below the diaphragm and whose solar plexus is indeed their brain (as it is the brain of the animal) are forced to act as mediums to satisfy the love of sensation or desire for comfort of their almost equally unintelligent fellowmen. at the same time, there are mediums of a very much higher order whose lives are offered in service to advanced souls on the other side of the veil and who give themselves so that their fellowmen ma

able methods so that he may progress with the least hindrance. training schools and classes which seek to develop the student must be graded according to his point in evolution, and his passing into a group, optimistically hoping that something will happen to him whilst in it, will have to cease. the goal for the low-grade negative psychic should be the training of the mind and the closing of the solar plexus until such time as he can function as a true mediator; if this involves the temporary cessation of his mediumistic powers (and consequently of his commercial exploitation, then so much the better for him, viewing him as an immortal soul, with a spiritual destiny and usefulness. the instruction given to the intelligent medium and psychic should lead him to a full understanding of himse

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

pment. it should be recognised as the shadow of the monad, and a connection should be traced between the astral sheath..6th plane the buddhic sheath..4th plane the monadic sheath..2nd plane and the place the love petals in the egoic lotus play should also be carefully considered. 3. a comprehension of the potency of the astral sheath owing to its undivided nature. 4. a study of the purpose of the solar plexus, and the part it plays as an organ of transference of energy from the three great centres below the diaphragm to the three higher centres. there is a very close analogy here to the solar lotus, the egoic body, occupying a midway point between the threefold monad and the threefold lower man. the more advanced should follow this. the development of the faculty of mind control, so that t

in man. one of the objects of evolution is that the subjective reality should eventually be brought forward into recognition. this can be expressed in several symbolic ways, all of them dealing with the same one fact in nature: the bringing to the birth of the christ within. the shining forth of the inner radiance or glory. the demonstration of the 2nd or the love aspect. the manifestation of the solar angel. the appearing of the son of god, the ego or the soul within. the full expression of buddhi, as it utilises manas. this emergence into manifestation is brought about through what is understood by the following terms: the refining of the bodies which form the casket or sheath hiding the reality. the process of 'unveiling' so that one by one those bodies which veil the self are brought t

ht to a point where they are simply transparencies, permitting the full shining forth of the divine nature. an expansion of consciousness, which is brought about through the ability of the self to identify with its real nature as the onlooker, and no longer regarding itself as the organ of perception. iii. a re-alignment of the lower sheaths so that the contact with the real man, the thinker, the solar angel, on the higher levels of the mental plane may become complete and continuous. this only becomes possible as the other two points are beginning to be grasped and the theory as to man's constitution and purpose is somewhat understood. as meditation is practiced, as the lower bodies are painstakingly dominated, and as the nature of the sutratma or thread is better comprehended it will bec

attract to itself similar lives and this will result in a dual danger. these dangers are: one: the gathering into the form, through the dominant note sounded by the form elemental, of matter with a synchronous vibration. this will tend to increase the magnitude of the task before the ego and sweep into increasing dominance the lower man. the "lunar lords" will become increasingly powerful and the solar lord correspondingly less august. two: the man will find himself surrounded in time with thoughtforms of a lower order (from the standpoint of the soul) and before he can penetrate into the arcana of wisdom and find his way into the master's world he will have to dispel the clouds of thoughtforms which he has attracted to himself. unless the disciple learns that aspiration and self-disciplin

alm of self-consciousness. this aspect of the matter is as yet but little comprehended by the sons of men. if they but realised that by a disposition to fall under lunar control they drive the tiny lives in their little system deeper into the darkness of ignorance, they might more rapidly assume their just responsibilities; if they realised that by the constant attempt to impose the rhythm of the solar lord upon the aggregate of the lunar lords, they were driving these lives onward to self-conscious unfoldment, they might proceed more earnestly and more intelligently. this is the message that must go forth, for all the varying aspects of the life of god are interdependent and not one proceeds onward into fuller realisation without benefitting the entire group. a few simple suggestions i wi

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

nd years to accomplish. this is the story of the cosmic christ, crucified upon the fixed cross of the heavens; this is the story of the historical christ, given us in the gospel story and enacted two thousand years ago in palestine; this is the story of the individual christ, crucified upon the cross of matter, and incarnated in each human being, god, incarnate in matter. this is the story of our solar system, the story of our planet, the story of the human being. thus as we look at the starry heavens above, we have eternally pictured for us this great drama, which the story of hercules elucidates in detail for the aspirant. key thoughts four key thoughts can be given here which express the underlying purpose of the creative process and the objective of both the cosmic christ and of the in

se of the creative process and the objective of both the cosmic christ and of the individual aspirant. they give us the clue to the working out of the plan. taken together they embody the entire story of the relationship of spirit and matter, of life and form, and of soul and body. first "nature expresses invisible energies through visible forms" back of the objective world of phenomena, human or solar, small or great, organic or inorganic, lies a subjective world of forces which is responsible for the outer form. behind the outer material shell is to be found a vast empire of being, and it is into this world of living energies that both religion and science are now penetrating. everything outer and tangible is a symbol of inner creative forces and it is this idea that underlies all symbol

as the urge to take form, to become involved in matter; or it may reverse the process and focus itself in the urge to achieve liberation from form, and the emergence of the soul from the prison of the form nature. then this urge is followed by the consequent urge to create, that activity of the deity which results in the formation of worlds of expression and satisfies his desire to incarnate in a solar system, and to begin the great [33] life cycle of the universe. it may be likewise the urge to individual creation, of the soul to take a body, or of a human being to create something which shall be specially his own. in ancient accadian days, this sign aries was called that "wherein the sacrifice of righteousness was made" or the sign of "the fallen angels. the sons of god, impelled by this

st subject yourself; and if you will but try and have endurance and patience, the goal will surely be yours" but hercules freed himself, as do all sincere seekers; and having escaped from the world of psychic and pseudo-spiritual glamor, he began to serve. first he freed himself under the symbol of prometheus, who signifies god incarnate, releasing him from the torture of the vultures of old. the solar plexus, the stomach and the liver are externalizations, if i might so express it, of the desire nature, and hercules freed himself from the vultures of desire that had for so long tortured him. he gave up being selfish, and gave up satisfying himself. he had had two bitter lessons in this sign and for this particular cycle was relatively free. prometheus, the god within- 46- the labours of h

labours of hercules crucifixion is achieved, to be succeeded finally by the mountain of ascension. i would like here to give the technical, perhaps more scientific, interpretation of this cave which hercules entered. the aryan race, to which we belong, is one of keen mental development, and the consciousness of people everywhere is shifting steadily out of the emotional nature, and so out of the solar plexus center, into the mental body and, therefore, into the head. there is in the head a little cave, a small bony structure which shields and guards one of the most important glands in the body, the pituitary. when this gland is in full and proper functioning activity, we shall have a personality rounded-out and active, self-controlled, with pronounced mental activity and endurance. this p

ANALYSIS OF THE 5 6 INITIATION

are three chief officers consisting of the chief of the second order (7=4, and the two co-chiefs (6=5) and (5=6. together they act as conductors for the candidate through the process of iao. dsj 7=4=isis, hrwbg 6 =5= apophis (replaced by horus, trapt 5=6=osiris. in one sense, the functions are counterchanged. the chief adept is osiris and the third adept takes on the character of isis. trapt is a solar degree. it is the light of the sun, dawning in the darkness. it is the thrice awakening of the spiritual self. it is a grade of great dedication and loyalty as the sun is loyal in its rising out of darkness. the knocks, which set the energy in motion, are seven. it is written "he made them six; and for the seventh he cast into the minds of them the fire of the sun" the knocks are symbolic of

BEHOLDERS OF NIGHT

in the initiatory context as both shaitan and lilith, the beholders of night. the dragon itself is considered the center point of the sabbatic arcanum, the initiatory path of the serpent, which coils and encircles the spirit or psyche of the individual. arimanius frowned, the author foul of evil, how with shades from his dire mansion, he deformed the works of oromazes, turned to noxious heat the solar beam, that foodful earth might parch (yasht xix.11,12) the black dragon is symbolized as ahriman, the averse force of darkness and shadow. ahriman in zoroastrian terms is the great force of evil and darkness, whom was created divine but chose the shadow path. in the ancient persian religion of zoroastrianism, ahriman (called also arimanius or angra mainya) is one of the earliest forms of the

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

nd. each inferior to his father. the fathers, the boneless, could give no life to beings with bones. their progeny were bhuta, with neither form nor mind. therefore they are called the chhaya. 16. how are the manushya born? the manus with minds, how are they made? the fathers called to their help their own fire; which is the fire that burns in earth. the spirit of the earth called to his help the solar fire. these three produced in their joint efforts a good rupa. it could stand, walk, run, recline, or fly. yet it was still but a chhaya, a shadow with no sense. 17. the breath needed a form; the fathers gave it. the breath needed a gross body; the earth moulded it. the breath needed the spirit of life; the solar lhas breathed it into its form. the breath needed a mirror of its body "we gave

f the planets "the seven higher make the seven lhas create the world" states a commentary; which means that our earth, leaving aside the rest, was created or fashioned by terrestrial spirits, the "regents" being simply the supervisors. this is the first germ, the seed of that which grew later into the tree of astrology and astrolatry. the higher ones were the kosmocratores, the fabricators of our solar system. this is borne out by all the ancient cosmogonies: that of hermes, of the chaldees, of the aryans, of the egyptians, and even of the jews. heaven's belt, the signs of the zodiac (the sacred animals, are as much the bne' alhim (sons of the gods or the elohim) as the spirits of the earth; but they are prior to them. soma and sin, isis and diana, are all lunar gods or goddesses, called t

4 the secret doctrine. evolution is said to be born under the direct influence of one of the planets: race the first receiving its breath of life from the sun, as will be seen later on; while the third humanity- those who fell into generation, or from androgynes became separate entities, one male and the other female- are said to be under the direct influence of venus "the little sun in which the solar orb stores his light" the summation of the stanzas in book i. showed the genesis* of gods and men taking rise in, and from, one and the same point, which is the one universal, immutable, eternal, and absolute unity. in its primary manifested aspect we have seen it become (1) in the sphere of objectivity and physics, primordial substance and force (centripetal and centrifugal, positive and ne

gods, which is not to be wondered at, since mercury is in such close proximity to the wisdom and the word of god (the sun) that he was confused with both (idolatry, vol. ii, p. 373) vossius utters here a greater occult truth than he suspected. the hermes-sarameyas of the greeks is closely related to the hindu saram and sarameya, the divine watchman "who watches over the golden flock of stars and solar rays" in the clearer words of the commentary "the globe, propelled onward by the spirit of the earth and his six assistants[[footnote(s* copernicus wrote his theories on the "revolution of the heavenly bodies" in the xvith century, and the zohar, even if compiled by moses de leon in the xiiith century, states that "in the book of hammannunah, the old, we learn. that the earth turns upon itse

ied them in his flight to yin (see "mythical monsters" by c. gould, p. 27[[vol. 2, page] 55 unaided physical nature fails. 6. the water-men terrible and bad she herself created. from the remains of others (from the mineral, vegetable and animal remains) from the first, second, and third (rounds) she formed them. the dhyani came and looked. the dhyani from the bright father-mother, from the white (solar-lunar) regions they came* from the abodes of the immortal-mortals (a (a) the explanations given in our stanzas are far more clear than that which the legend of creation from the cutha tablet would give, even were it complete. what is preserved on it, however, corroborates them. for, in the tablet "the lord of angels" destroys the men in the abyss, when "there were not left the carcases and w

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

vi. the masks of science. 506 what are the "forces. 508 the view of the occultists. 510 scientific and occult theories on heat. 515 the atoms of science. 519- vii. an attack on the scientific theory of force by a man of science. 523 ether and atoms. 527- viii. life, force, or gravity. 529 dr. richardson on nervous ether. 531 the senses and their action. 535 too much "life" may kill. 539- ix. the solar theory. 540 the primordial element. 542 elements and meta-elements. 546 the tree of life and being. 549 prof. crookes on the elements. 552- x. the coming force. 554 mr. keeley, an unconscious occultist. 557 inter-etheric waves. 561 the secrets of sound and odour. 565- xl. on the elements and atoms. 566 metaphysical chemistry. 569 what are the seven planets. 575 the cyclic fall of the gods. 5

xpression, therefore "it proceeds from without inwardly, etc" refers in the first portion of the sentence to the dawn of the mahamanvantaric period, or the great re-evolution after one of the complete periodical dissolutions of every compound form in nature (from planet to molecule) into its ultimate essence or element; and in its second portion, to the partial or local manvantara, which may be a solar or even a planetary one* by "centre" a centre of energy or a cosmic focus is meant; when the so-called "creation" or formation of a planet, is accomplished by that force which is designated by the occultists life and by science "energy" then the process takes place[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 12 the secret doctrine. contracts (exhalation and inhalation. when it expands th

"nature is a perpetual circulatory worker, generating fluids out of solids, fixed things out of volatile, and volatile out of fixed, subtile out of gross, and gross out of subtile. thus, perhaps, may all things be originated from ether (hypoth, 1675. the reader has to bear in mind that the stanzas given treat only of the cosmogony of our own planetary system and what is visible around it, after a solar pralaya. the secret teachings with regard to the evolution of the universal kosmos cannot be given, since they could not be understood by the highest minds in this age, and there seem to be very few initiates, even among the greatest, who are allowed to speculate upon this subject. moreover the teachers say openly that not even the highest dhyani-chohans have ever penetrated the mysteries be

e evolution of the universal kosmos cannot be given, since they could not be understood by the highest minds in this age, and there seem to be very few initiates, even among the greatest, who are allowed to speculate upon this subject. moreover the teachers say openly that not even the highest dhyani-chohans have ever penetrated the mysteries beyond those boundaries that separate the milliards of solar systems from the "central sun" as it is called. therefore, that which is given, relates only to our visible kosmos, after a "night of brahma" before the reader proceeds to the consideration of the stanzas from the book of dzyan which form the basis of the present work, it is absolutely necessary that he should be made acquainted with the few fundamental conceptions which underlie and pervade

the supreme spirit (by which title prithivi- the earth- greets vishnu in his first avatar- are the purely metaphysical abstract qualities of formation, preservation, and destruction, and are the three divine avasthas (lit. hypostases) of that which "does[[footnote(s* it is not the physical organisms that remain in statu quo, least of all their psychical principles, during the great cosmic or even solar pralayas, but only their akasic or astral "photographs" but during the minor pralayas, once over-taken by the "night" the planets remain intact, though dead, as a huge animal, caught and embedded in the polar ice, remains the same for ages[[vol. 1, page] 19 proem. not perish with created things (or achyuta, a name of vishnu; whereas the orthodox christian separates his personal creative deit

BLUE EQUINOX

ing in the evening, and shining at night. have you got this idea clearly in your minds? you have stepped out of the old on and into the new. now let us consider what has happened. in order to get this mental picture of the ever shining sun, what did you do? you identified yourself with the sun. you stepped out of the consciousness of this planet; and for a moment you had to consider yourself as a solar being. then why step back again? you may have done so involuntarily, because the light was so great that it seemed as darkness. but do it again, this time more fully, and let us consider what the changes in our concept of the universe will be. the moment we identify ourselves with the sun, we realized that we have become the source of light, that we too are now shining gloriously, but we als

ght we look back upon the little planet earth, of which we, a moment ago, were part, and think of ourselves as shedding our light upon all those individuals we have called our brothers and sisters, the slaves that serve. but we do not stop there. imagine the sun concentrating his rays for a moment on one tiny spot, the earth. what happens? it is burnt up, it is consumed, it disappears. but in our solar consciousness is truth, and though we glance for a moment at the little sphere we have left behind us, and it is no more, yet there is .that which remains. what remains? what has happened? we realize that .every man and every woman is a star. we gaze around at our wider heritage, we gaze at the body of our lady nuit. we are not in darkness; we are much nearer to her now. what (from the littl

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

s a single coven or even as a solitary witch (more on this later) the keyword is "celebration. as the goddess is honored with the phases of the moon, so is the god at certain of the phases of the sun. these are the "lesser sabbats" that occur at the summer and winter solstice and the spring and autumn equinox. the four "greater sabbats" are more in the nature of seasonal, rather than specifically solar, festivals and are therefore times for general celebration with both god and goddess duly honored. janet and stewart farrar, in their book eight sabbats for witches (robert hale, london, 1981, suggest a deeper leit motif for the horned god, with a duality which they term the oak king and the holly king* although i see much merit in this, i am going to "stick to basics, as it were, and leave

cauldron in the south, filled with kindling. the priest's horned helmet is beside the altar. short tapers (one for each covener) lie on the altar. the bell is rung three times. priest sits or kneels in the center of the circle. covener "blessed are the gods who turn the mighty wheel" covener "welcome, thrice welcome, to yule; the turning point of winter is upon us" covener "here is an end to the solar year" lesson seven: meditation, dreams and the minor sabbats 193 covener "but here, too, is a new beginning" priestess "brothers, sisters, friends. let us show our love by sending forth our power and our strength to he who is the sun god. at this turning of the year's tide, let us join our energies with his, that he may be reborn to ascend once more unto his rightful place" coveners and prie

tion as possible of old norse garb. our god-names are all old norse, not teutonic. we do cast a circle; we do not 'call quarters. our tradition is norse. the group, however, is not hereditary in that members need not be of any particular family or ethnic group" the northern way was founded in 1980 and incorporated in 1982, in chicago. its religion is sometimes called asatru. they observe the four solar fire festivals as well as those indigenous to the norse religion. further details may be obtained from northern way, inc, nova coven, 45 s. lavergne ave, northlake, ii 60164 (312) 562-0802. nova wicca an eclectic group founded by two gardnerians. they work robed at esbats and sabbats and skyclad at initiations. the gardnerian deity names are used, though "working pairs may use others if they

nterested persons, at the coven's discretion. nova classifies itself as "a mixed traditional, teaching/training coven" further information may be obtained from nimue and duncan, 6030 w. roosevelt road, oak park, il 60304. pecti-wita a scottish solitary tradition passed on by aidan breac, who personally teaches students in his home at castle carnonacae, in scotland. the tradition is attuned to the solar and lunar changes, with a balance between the god and the goddess. meditation and divination play a large part in the tradition and it also teaches several variations on solitary working of magick. information is not generally available and mr. breac (who, as of this writing, is about ninety years old) is not seeking further students* seax-wica this tradition was founded by myself in 1973. i

BUDGE E

and the utchat is not represented on its side; the boat moves over the waters by means of some power exerted either by itself or by some of the gods who stand in it. in front of the boat of af the way is led by a procession of four boats, which are moved, presumably, by the same power which moves the boat of ra. the first boat has ends which terminate in bearded human heads, and its celestial and solar character is attested by the sign for "heaven" and the utchat, with which its sides are ornamented. the object of this boat is to support the disk of the full moon, which rests within a crescent upon a support divided into thirteen sections, each typifying a day; thus the full moon as it appears on the fourteenth day of the month is here represented. by the disk kneels a god who is "supporti

ack a god in a sitting posture; the god is called afu-tem, and the remains of the text which refers to him say that he shoots forth his flame at those who rebel against osiris, and that he eats the souls of the enemies of the god. p. 154 in the lower register are- click to view heru-her-khent-f. 1. the god heru-her-khent-f, seated on a throne, as his name implies. he is hawk-headed, and wears the solar disk encircled by a serpent; in his right hand is the symbol of life, and in his left a sceptre. the other forms of his name are# and. of this god it is said "the work of this figure who is in this picture is in the tuat, and it is for him to send the stars on their way, and to make the hours to go on their way in the tuat" the stars are personified by gods, twelve in number, who stand each

before them in the form in which the god himself [had them. this our great god crieth out unto those who have their life in them, in [their] heads in their forms, and this god crieth out to them by their names. their work is [to seize] the enemies of ra everywhere throughout this city, and then to make their heads to pass under their swords after this god hath passed them by" 3. a ram, having the solar disk between his horns, click to view (left) servants of the god ra (right) first form of tathenen. and the symbol of linen bandages in front of him; he is an image of tathenen, of whom he is the "first form" 4. a ram, having the crown of the south between his horns, and the symbol of linen bandages in front of him; he is an image of tathenen, of whom he is the "second form" 5. a ram, having

en, of whom he is the "first form" 4. a ram, having the crown of the south between his horns, and the symbol of linen bandages in front of him; he is an image of tathenen, of whom he is the "second form" 5. a ram, having the crown of the north between p. 169 his horns, and the symbol of linen bandages in front of him; he is an image of tathenen, of whom he is the "third form" 6. a ram, having the solar disk and a pair of plumes above his horns, and the symbol of linen bandages in front of him; he is an image of tathenen, of whom he is the "fourth form" the text which refers to these reads: click to view (left) second form of tathenen (center) third form of tathenen (right) fourth form of tathenen. p. 170 [paragraph continues "those who are in this picture in the tuat, with their swathings

nenui. to the, right is a youthful goddess wearing a white crown, and to the left is a similar goddess wearing a red crown each holds the index finger of one hand to her mouth, after the manner of children, and each is depicted in the act of sitting, but lacks a seat or throne. p. 217 click to view the menenui serpents and the goddesses of the south and north. click to view the axe of god and the solar disk. p. 219 4. an axe, symbol of "god" standing on the handle end, with a disk resting on the side edge of the head. on the left is a goddess who is steadying the axe with her left hand, and on the right is a goddess who is steadying the disk with her right hand; the names of the goddesses are netheth, and kenat, respectively. each goddess is depicted in the act of sitting, but lacks a seat

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

he holy mountain. behold, i am with thee always, and i never sleep. 10 i am the height above all heights. my descent reacheth likewise below all depths. yet am i poised forever between height and depth in perfect balance. consider me under the aspect of aleph; there shalt thou find both height and depth and the path also which joineth them for descent and return. 11 aleph in truth am i, the ox of solar fire whose radiance lighteth all the world, whose life-breath ebbeth and floweth in creatures great and small, whose power taketh form in all the acts of men, of beasts, of plants, yea, and of things which seem inanimate, as well. aleph am i, the patient burden-bearer, strong to carry the heavy load of the manifest. aleph am i, the eternal worker, by whose might all fields are tilled, and fr

cially active in the reproductive centers of the body, and hence nun, through its correspondence to scorpio, is attributed to those centers. here be careful to observe that the reproductive organism includes certain ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system. these are the hindu chakras at the base of the spine [134] c o m m e n t on n u n at the navel (or rather just a little below it, and at the solar plexus. it is by imagination that the serpentforce in these centers is raised so that the poisonous scorpion becomes the eagle of aspiration. psychologists know that in primitive minds the chief outlet of imagination is erotic, and this erotic tendency is never eliminated, even in the highest aspirations. all that is changed is the mode of expression, although the higher forms bear little ou

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

re can concentrate specific energies. i have listed in chapter 4 a number of deities that seem to be seite 16 wicca01.txt especially potent in ritual or as a focus for meditation. but if you do not find them helpful, there is no need to use them. most rituals are related to the basic human needs for health, love, fertility and prosperity. in chapter 13, seasons and festivals, i describe the major solar, lunar and agricultural festivals that formed a focus for attracting abundance and increase to the land, animals, crops and people, tapping into the life force that connected them all. in past time, the well-being of the planet was considered to be the responsibility of peasant as well as king through paying tributes and enacting age-old ceremonies to invoke the necessary energies for the wh

all kinds of love rituals. as the evening star, venus takes on a warrior aspect and so can be invoked in fighting for one's lover or tough love in relationships. deities for power these deities may be invoked for strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase [insert pic p061- seite 33 wicca01.txt apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other gods and was later called the dark sun, apollo's alter ego. the ancient

s shrine to apollo) apollo was god of prophecy as well as music, poetry, archery, healing and divination. he is very strongly animus and is good for all rituals of power, ambition and inspiration, as well as those areas under his patronage. men tend to work better with him than women. aine aine is daughter of manananann, celtic sea god and ruler of the isle of man and goddess of the cycles of the solar and lunar year. even during the twentieth century, she was remembered on the hill of aine in ireland, by torchlight processions and burning straw at midsummer and also at the old corn harvest, lughnassadh, at the beginning of august. she is also linked with love, fertility and healing. ama-terasu omikami ama-terasu omikami is the ancient japanese sun goddess. her name means 'great august spi

of isis and osiris, he is often depicted as an infant on his mother's lap and together the parents and child form a trinity. horus brings clarity of mind and purpose and the ability to seize upon an opportunity, and is effective for uncovering secrets, deception and illusion. lugh lugh, the celtic 'shining one, who gives his name to lughnassadh, celtic festival of the first harvest, was the young solar deity who replaced the dagda, father of the gods, as supreme king. he was associated with sacrifice, as the sun king who was reborn each year at either the mid-winter solstice or the spring equinox. legend has it that when lugh arrived to join the tuatha de danaan, he went to the palace of tara and asked for a position in the court (the tuatha de danaan were the ancient irish gods and goddes

'fall like hail beneath the horses. with one end of the club, it was said, he could kill nine men with a single blow and with the other could instantly restore them to life. his great cauldron was handed on to his daughter brighid (cerridwen in the welsh tradition. in some legends, dagda is associated with balor, the sun deity of the formoiri, enemies of the gods, who was slain by lugh, the young solar god, at the battle of moytura, thus representing the ascent of the new sun. the death of the old order, as a necessary requirement for the new, is a central motif in spirituality and so dagda can offer a focus for rites of passage where change is necessary, but not necessarily welcomed. odin odin is the viking father god, known as the all-father, god of inspiration, wisdom and poetry as well

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

ition was known but the ten suns were confined to the mythical past by the story that one day all of them came out at once and nine were shot by archer yi.3 the sun god dijun plays only a small role in chinese mythology. professor anne birrell surmises [t]he myth of the flood and its control was more nearly relevant to the lives of the people than the less real myth of the unnatural phenomenon of solar disaster.4 dijun s wife shiho plays a more prominent part in her position as mother of the suns. scholar anthony christie clarifies: both sun and moon are in fact suns and moons, ten and twelve in number respectively. each of these heavenly bodies is in the care of a mother who is in some sense responsible for their proper functioning.5 professor birrell explains further: ti chun [dijun] is

anterns are in abundance. the autumn equinox marks the time of the year when nights become longer than the days, and as the moon symbolizes the yin, or feminine force, the rituals are performed by women, who offer incense and food at altars in the open air.3 mythology expert alexander eliot points out the universal fascination with lunar myths: lunar mythologies are often even more dramatic [than solar myths. for while the sun always remains the same, the moon waxes and wanes disappearing, only to come to life again after three moonless nights.4 hsi wang mu is a constant presence in chinese myths. professor anne birrell comments [s]he is polyfunctional and ambiguous. moreover, her attributes and functions evolve over the centuries in accordance 82 with the changing values of myth in societ

DARK GODS

here our causal universe and the universe of the acausal are joined they are physical gates, and passage from one universe to another is possible through them. according to legend, star gates exist near to stars dabih, naos and algol: that is, if you journeyed from earth in the direction of one of these stars you would pass through a star gate. there are also stories of a star gate within our own solar system the gate through which the dark gods came to earth. this star gate is believed to be near the planet saturn. sometimes, the abyss invades our dreams, but mostly the abyss is reached by following the seven-fold way. it lies between the spheres of the sun and mars, and divides the adept from the master/mistress. it is the gate to the gods within us and the gods withogo introduction to t

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e what has happened unless we can open our minds to the existence of what we call extraterrestrial life. that can include an infinite variety of forms. all i mean by extraterrestrial is 'not of this earth- other civilisations, consciousness and lifeforms on other wavelengths which our physical senses cannot normally see or hear. for instance, while we may look at some of the other planets in this solar system and see apparently barren, lifeless, lands, we are only looking at that planet on our own frequency or dimension of experience, our own space-time reality. on another dimension, that planet may be a teeming haven of life in the same way that all the radio and television stations broadcasting to your ajea now are sharing the same space that your body is occupying. you can't see them an

prison doesn't matter for what i am saying in this book. all we need to remember is that an extraterrestrial force from the fourth dimension created an information prison by blocking off the higher levels of human consciousness. the veil came down. a veil of tears. we were, in effect, put into spiritual and mental quarantine. if such a jamming vibration were thrown around our planet, or even the solar system and further afield, our potential would be confined to the levels of consciousness which are within the imprisoning frequency. any consciousness and knowledge held on higher frequencies outside this vibratory prison would be denied to us. we would become delinked from the higher levels of our own consciousness. we would be, in the words of the ancient books 'lost souls' delinked from

the wider understanding and guidance has gone. only the 'eyes and ears' information from the world immediately around you is left to guide your thinking and behaviour. very soon that behaviour and perception would be enormously different from what it would have been had you and mission control stayed in powerful contact. when that blocking, imprisoning frequency was thrown around this planet, the solar system, and possibly beyond, it had that same effect. we lost touch with our mission control and, crucially, with our eternal memory. we forgot who we were and where we came from. or, at least, the overwhelming majority did. those who could continue to hold their vibratory rate, their frequency, could still stay in touch with their higher levels, their higher self, because the vibratory conn

her and geological upheavals around this time, in which whole mountain ranges pushed up from the earth and an unbelievable tidal wave of some kind swept across the planet's surface. the geological researchers, j.b. delair and d.s. allan, document much of this evidence in their book, when the earth nearly died.15 they believe that a star exploded around 15,000bc and some of the debris reached this solar system about 9,500bc, leaving devastation in its wake. their work confirms the themes of channelled communications over thousands of years when they claim that the earth surface we see today was created largely by an enormous upheaval, almost in the twinkling of an eye in evolutionary terms, and not by the slow, gradual change so promoted by mainstream, official-line, science. the detail of

am, official-line, science. the detail of these various views is interesting, but i find the overall themes emerging from ancient and modern information and beliefs to be the most compelling aspect in all this. those themes are of a considerable extraterrestrial influence on human affairs, a battle between extraterrestrial civilisations for supremacy, and a catastrophe on earth and throughout the solar system caused by a foreign 'body' of some kind passing through. i feel that such themes are connected and that connection is the luciferic consciousness. it is a collective consciousness, the total of all minds- human and extraterrestrial- thinking within that extreme negative frequency range. while it is not possible for one person or group to destabilise a planetary system with their thoug

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ame to know as "gods. it is a minefield to decipher which of these gods were flesh and blood real, and which were symbolic of the sun, moon, planets, natural cycles, and so on. most were the latter, but there is substantial evidence to confirm that some of them, particularly the further back you go, were walking, talking, entities, who had, by human standards at the time, amazing knowledge of the solar system, the stars, the universal cycles, the effect of the sun, moon and other planets and star systems on the earth and its people, and technological understanding of such immensity that they were able to build the pyramids and other stunning structures all over the world that we would struggle to build even today. just consider the scale we are talking here with the giza pyramids alone. th

the world in the name of christianity was the illuminati, or the temple of the sun, destroying the true accounts, not only of history, but also the law of one. so what happened to mars? there is increasing acceptance that the earth has suffered some colossal geological upheavals. the debate (and often hostility) comes with the question of when and why. these upheavals have obviously involved the solar system as a whole because every planet shows evidence of some cataclysmic events, which have affected its surface, atmosphere, speed, and angle of orbit or rotation. the destruction of mars and its relationship with this devastation on earth is a subject occupying the minds of many researchers. there has been a much greater focus on mars since the various space probes have been directed ther

gathering evidence is that mars was destroyed in the same catastrophe, which, on earth, brought an end to that "golden age. in the 1950s, the russian-born writer and researcher, immanuel velikovsky, suggested in a series of books that the planet we now call venus (then a vast comet-like body) was the cause of both the demise of mars and the near-demise of the earth when it was hurled through the solar system! velikovsky was ridiculed and bitterly attacked by the "scientific" establishment and so he must have been saying something worth hearing. but his theme is now enjoying more and more sympathy. when the mariner 9 mission took pictures of venus, many of velikovsky's earlier descriptions were proved correct, including what appeared to be a comet-like tail. mariner's pictures of mars also

ression of spiritual (not religious) knowledge did for me. brian is no new age flyaway sitting in the clouds. he is a feet-on-the-ground, give-me-the-evidence, researcher and writer. in the 1960s, he worked at the aircraft giant, boeing, and he says that a group of boeing physicists got together to launch a private study aimed at explaining the many anomalies of the earth and other planets of the solar system that could not be explained by normal physics. what they concluded was to present staggering support for velikovsky, although they differed on time scale by about 3,000 years. they said that around 5000bc a huge body, now called jupiter, careered through the solar system. this threw the outer planets into disarray, so explaining their present anomalies of spin direction and speed. jup

se advanced civilisations. the sirius system is also depicted as a snake or serpent in a greek representation in the louvre museum in paris.13 temple's research began when he heard that the dogon people in mali, northwest africa, had told french researchers in 1931 some remarkable information about the sirius system. according to these researchers, the dogon also knew about all the planets of the solar system out to pluto, and of moons that have only recently been confirmed. they said that a star orbited sirius and it was so heavy all the people of the world could not lift it.14 at the time, the star they were talking about, now called sirius b, was not yet discovered by scientists. the dogon are claimed to have said that it took about 50 years to orbit sirius a and that it was "infinitely

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he believes there are at least onemillion planets in our galaxy that could support life as we know it. think of what thefigure might be for the entire universe, even before we start looking at other dimensionsof existence beyond the frequency range of our physical senses. if you travelled at the3speed of light, 186,000 miles per second, it would take you 4.3 years to reach thenearest star to this solar system. it says much for humanitys level of indoctrination thatto speak of extraterrestrial life is to appear cranky, yet to dismiss it and suggest that lifehas only emerged on this one tiny planet is considered credible! you only have toconsider the amazing structures that abounded in the ancient world to see that anadvanced race existed then. we are told that only people primitive in compa

eavenly boats.according to zecharia sitchin, the tablets describe how the anunnaki came from aplanet called nibiru (the planet of the crossing) which he believes has a 3,600 yearelliptical orbit that takes it between jupiter and mars and then out into far space beyondpluto. modern science has identified a body it calls planet x which has been locatedbeyond pluto and is believed to be part of this solar system. but an elliptical orbitwould be incredibly unstable and difficult to sustain. scientists i trust believe thatsitchin is mistaken in his nibiru theory, though his main themes about the anunnaki arecorrect. the sumerian tablets, from sitchins translations, describe how, during theearly formation of the solar system, nibiru caused the near destruction of a planet thatonce existed betwee

asteroid belt which isfound between mars and jupiter. what remained of tiamat was thrown into anotherorbit, the texts say, and eventually it became the earth (see figure 2. the sumerianname for the earth means the cleaved one because a vast hole was created, they say,by the collision. interestingly if you take away the water in the pacific ocean you willbe left with a gigantic hole.figure 2: the solar system showingthe location of the asteroid beltbetween mars and jupiter which,though the details vary, many ancientand modern accounts suggest is theremains of a planet or part of aplanet. 6the tablets are the written accounts of oral traditions that go back enormousamounts of time and you have to be careful that details have not been added or lost andthat we dont take symbolism or parable a

samounts of time and you have to be careful that details have not been added or lost andthat we dont take symbolism or parable as literal truth. i am sure that some confusiondid occur in this way. i have doubts myself about the nibiru-tiamat scenario and itsalleged timescale. but there is much truth in the texts which can be proven, not least intheir knowledge of astronomy. the tablets depict the solar system with the planets intheir correct positions, orbits and relative sizes, and their accuracy has only beenconfirmed in the last 150 years since some of these planets have been found. thetablets describe the nature and colour of neptune and uranus in ways that have onlybeen confirmed in the last few years! whats more, the modern experts did not expectthose planets to look as they did, yet

heanunnaki are said to have arrived, and the time, only a few thousand years ago, whenthese accounts were written down. there was certainly an enormous cataclysm on theearth around 11,000 bc which destroyed the advanced civilisations of the high-techgolden age and that date of 13,000 years ago is highly significant and very relevant tothe time we are living through now. just as the planets of the solar system revolvearound the sun, so the solar system revolves around the centre of the galaxy, or this partof it at least. this central sun or galactic sun, is sometimes referred to as the blacksun. it takes about 26,000 years for the solar system to complete a circuit of the galacticcentre and this is known in the indian culture as a yuga. for half of that 26,000 yearsthe earth is tilted towar

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rom physics and metaphysics prior to the late 20th century, orgone energy from the breakthrough research of dr. wilhelm reich, chi from ancient to modern chinese medicine and martial arts in general, all have very similar characteristics. one term which is used in many of the new science circles is "zero point energy (zpe. from classical physics, we learn that atoms can be thought of as miniature solar systems with electron planets orbiting a nuclear sun. the electrons, according to classical physics, should radiate away their energy and spiral into the nucleus. this obviously doesn't occur. so physicists invented quantum mechanics to explain away the actual observations. one of the findings of quantum theory was that a simple oscillator, such as a pendulum, would not really come to total

, how gravity was produced, and what the forces were that created electricity and magnetism. perhaps one of the most astounding demonstrations was keely's ability to control the force of gravity. he could make substances either lighter to the point of levitation or make them heavier than their normal weight. as part of his control of gravitational forces, keely demonstrated a working model of our solar system complete with a simulated sun and planets that was tuned to the actual forces which governed each planet and the sun. this model would even have the simulated sun and planets rotate about their axis and the planets orbit about the simulated sun. keely controlled this operational solar system with sonic force in conjunction with the aetheric "vapor" released from the breakdown of water

es across the dielectric are easily measured directly by a voltmeter. figure 7.1.1-1 depicts the output of the gravity detector circuit as a graph of local gravitational stress (i.e, aetheric stress. the graph readily shows the daily swing of aetheric flow on the dielectric material as the sun and moon affects the earth's gravity field and gravity flows into the earth. the data was taken during a solar eclipse and shows the effect of local aetheric field stress dropping during the period of the eclipse. the solar eclipse started about 11:35 a.m. and ended about 12:45 p.m. figure 7.1.1-1 piezoelectric gravity wave sensor during solar eclipse (time is in decimal fractions of an hour) the circuit for the gravity wave detector is shown in figure 7.1.1-2 with instructions to build the circuit s

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many ranks or orders of angels such as seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, powers, virtues, archangels, etc. each angelic choir is said to reside in a particular heavenly sphere. similarly, the fallen angels may reside in earth, air, fire, water, or in the tartaric depths. spirits which dwell in the planetary spheres are often called olympic spirits. these include lunar, mercurial, venereal, solar, martial, jovial, and sanguine spirits. traditionally, all spirits may be invoked or summoned to appearance by the magician using certain formulas of invocation or evocation. magicians of the middle ages would fast for many days and go without sleep or rest. they would also abstain from sexual intercourse and idle conversation in order to focus all of their attention on their magical art. th

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e values and beliefs of the dominant religions within society. we are at a point in history where the dominant religions of the past will be displaced by religions whose values are in greater accordance with society's values today. this is why many people have sought out new religions and have turned to wicca and new age philosophies or to alternative religious cults such as heaven's gate and the solar temple. while cults devoted to new age mysticism or white light magic and spirituality have had some success among those seeking for "something. anything spiritual, due principally to christianity's impoverishment of the ego and starvation of the intellect, they are ultimately no more relevant to today's society than the religions of the past. the world is searching for a religion which embr

est thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, ishtar, and manifest thyself. come forth, ishtar, and manifest thyself. open wide thy gate that i may cross. open wide thy gate that i may ascend the planetary spheres. come forth, ishtar, and manifest thyself. come forth, ishtar, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice, then say) i have crossed the venerial sphere. the solar sphere azael, i invoke thee. azael, i summon thee. azael, i conjure thee. come forth, azael, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, azael, and manifest thyself. come forth, azael, and manifest thyself. open wide thy gate that i may cross. open wide thy gate that i may ascend the planetary spheres. come forth, azael, and manifest thyself. come fo

e forth, azael, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, azael, and manifest thyself. come forth, azael, and manifest thyself. open wide thy gate that i may cross. open wide thy gate that i may ascend the planetary spheres. come forth, azael, and manifest thyself. come forth, azael, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice, then say) i have crossed the solar sphere. the martial sphere abaddon, i invoke thee. abaddon, i summon thee. abaddon, i conjure thee. come forth, abaddon, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, abaddon, and manifest thyself. come forth, abaddon, and manifest thyself. open wide thy gate that i may cross. open wide thy gate that i may ascend the planetary spheres. come forth, abad

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meaning the eternal set. when osiris came again, typhon plotted with seventy-two comrades, and with aso, the queen of ethiopia, to slay him -the egyptian book of the dead, e.a. wallis budge set is primarily regarded the same as the greek typhon, a serpent like daemon-god who is a patron spirit of sorcery and magick. plutarch explained that in egyptian astronomy seth or typhon was connected to the solar world, while osiris was associated with the moon. the sun was considered very hostile as it dried up and made lands inhabitable, while the moon nourished and brought moisture. plutarch writes the seth means compelling and overmastering, being a powerful force of chaos and order. typhon was collectively later known and associated to the earth s shadow, which they bring into the lunar cycle an

when samael mounted eve, he injected filth into her, and she conceived and bare cain. and his aspect was unlike that of the other humans and all those who came from his side were called sons of god- kabbala: zohar 1:37a here we see that the magical act of sexual union creates a god like individual, who in this instance is cain. cain is considered to be a son of satan, a manifestation of that very solar force within man and woman. in religious lore, samael who is the serpent or dragon, was said to have injected filth which spawned cain, his son in flesh- when the serpent mounted eve, he injected filth into her. israel who stood at mount sinai, their filth ceased; the other nations who did not stand at mount sinai, their filth has not ceased. talmud: b. shab. 146a aleister crowley made refer

an and woman to become, thus the symbol of baphomet as anton lavey called it, is the inverted pentagram with a goat head in the middle. the original, which lavey took out, contained the words samael and lilith, surrounded in the circle ring the hebrew lvthn, leviathan, the crooked serpent. in the circles of luciferian witchcraft, this is the sigil of baphomet the head of wisdom who has united the solar and the lunar, or the fire and water within the self to bring forth cain, the devil in flesh upon earth. he is the symbol and cipher of magick, the great work accomplished and onward moving. at the gathering of the sabbat is cain the black man, the circle and center of the sabbat and it s fire, he directs it outward as he is the pole of this force. woe unto them! for they have gone in the wa

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an amulet (q.v) or a talisman (q.v. chela: the eastern term for a student of spiritual and occult matters who learns mainly by imitating the guru, or teacher. chesed: in hebrew "mercy. pronounced "heh-sehd. the fourth (4th) sephirah (q.v) on the tree of life (q.v. chiah: our true will, in hebrew. corresponds to the second sephirah on the tree of life (q.v. chiron: the newest planet of the terran solar system to be discovered (1977 c.e, lying between the orbits of saturn (q.v) and uranus (q.v. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the most noble of the centaurs who served as a philosopher, healer, and astrologer to the greek gods. attributed as being the second in command of the zodiac (q.v) sign virgo (q.v) by many modern astrologers, though the last word has yet to be written on this

od of scholarly priests that underwent a modern revival in minnesota in the early 1960's. druids worship in groups called groves (q.v) and venerate the goddess through trees, especially the oak. like modern witches (q.v, they believe in reincarnation- e- earth: 1) one of the five magickal elements. it has the qualities of coolness and dryness. the element of the north. 2) one of the planetsof the solar system. the planet that all human beings are from. eastern occultism: the magickal systems of india, china, tibet, japan, and other nations of the far east. it's range is roughly coequal with that of buddhism (q.v. in the late 1800's, the writings of helena p. blavatski (q.v) and the theosophical society (q.v, were primarily responsible with bringing the teachings of eastern occultism to the

et. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the greek goddess who served as the patron deity of marriage. she was the wife of jupiter, though the marriage was not a happy one. keywords include: spouse, wife, partnerships, law giver, judge, women's issues, weather, money, seduction and rape, sex as a weapon, abused persons, alternative lifestyle marriages. jupiter: the fifth planet of the terran solar system. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the roman god who served as the king and ruler of the gods. attributed as being the ruler of the zodiac (q.v) sign sagittarius (q.v. on the tree of life (q.v) within the kabbalah (q.v) jupiter is attributed to the fourth sephirah (q.v, chesed (q.v. keywords include: abundance, expansion, abstract thought, excess, philosophy, religion, science

ce or energy of magick (q.v. mantra; mantram: a word, phrase, or sentence which is repeated over and over as a purpose of focus during devotion or meditation (q.v. although some say that any phrase or sound can be used as a mantra, some special mantras of mystical import can make profound changes in a person mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. mars: the fourth planet of the terran solar system. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the roman god who served as the chief warrior of the gods. attributed as being the ruler of the zodiac (q.v) sign aries (q.v. on the tree of life (q.v) within the kabbalah (q.v) mars is attributed to the fifth sephirah (q.v) geburah (q.v. keywords include: energy, action, accidents, injury, hyperactive, force, conquest, dynamic, initiative, a

spirit(s) with means of communicating with the carnate, material human beings. today, called a channeller. memory, magickal: the memory of past lives. menstruum (nee menstruum of the gluten: in alchemy (q.v, the result of the slow heating of a substance in the athanor (q.v. in sex magick (q.v) the female lubricating fluids and/or female ejaculatory fluids. mercury: the first planet of the terran solar system. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the roman god who served as the herald and messenger. attributed as being the ruler of the zodiac (q.v) signs gemini (q.v) and virgo (q.v. on the tree of life (q.v) within the kabbalah (q.v) mercury is attributed to the eighth sephirah (q.v, hode (q.v. keywords include: communication, intellect, perception, speaking, writing, computer, words

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tion which we must note is under the presidency of the three mother letters of the hebrew alphabet: aleph, a; mem, m; and shin, sh. these three, according to the yetziratic attribution of the hebrew alphabet, are assigned to the three elements of air, water, and fire. under the presidency of aleph is the airy triad of kether, in which is the root of air, reflecting downward through tiphareth, the solar fire, into yesod, the lunar radiance. in binali is the root of water (marah, the great sea, reflected through chesed into hod, under the presidency of mem, the mother of watei. in chokmah is the root of fire, reflected downwards through geburah into netzach, under the presidency of shin, the mother of fire. 25. these groupings must be borne in mind, for they aid greatly in understanding the

o agrees with this attribution. crowley, though assigning yesod to the phallus in column xxi of "777" assigns the svadisthana lotus to hod, mercury. it is difficult to understand this attribution, and as he does not give his authority, i consider it better to adhere to the principle of referring the levels of consciousness to the central pillar. 18. tiphareth, by universal consent, represents the solar plexus and breast; it therefore seems reasonable to attribute to it the manipura and anahata chakras, as crowley does. fuller attributes these chakras to geburah and chesed, but as these two sephiroth find their equilibrium in tiphareth, this attribution presents no difficulty and causes no discrepancy. 19. in the same way the visuddhu chakra, which in the hindu system correlates with the la

grey; in its higher aspects, pearl-grey, iridescent. in this we see the veiling of the pure white light of kether descending in its path of emanation towards binah, whose colour is black. 13. the mundane chakra, or direct physical manifestation of chokmah, is said to be the zodiac, called in hebrew mazloth. we thus see that the ancient rabbis rightly understood the process of the evolution of our solar system. 14. the yetziratic text assigned to chokmah is, as usual, exceedingly obscure in its wording; nevertheless we can gather from it certain illuminating hints. the second path, as it denominates chokmah, it calls the illuminating intelligence. we have already referred to the creative word which said "let there be light" among the symbols assigned to chokmah in "777 (mathers-crowley syst

to leak one into another, but bringing them all into focus in a centralised consciousness. iii 40. tiphareth is called by the qabalists shemesh, or the sphere of the sun; and it is interesting to note that all sun-gods are healing gods, and all healing gods are sun-gods, a fact which affords us food for thought. 41. the sun is the central point of our existence. without the sun there would be no solar system. sunlight plays a very important part in the metabolism, the life-process, of living creatures, and the whole of the nutrition of green plants depends upon it. its influence is mystical qabala page 136 closely allied to that of vitamins, as is proved by the fact that certain vitamins can be used to supplement its activities. we see, therefore, that sunlight is a very important factor

un behind the sun, tiphareth, in fact, being the immediate reflection of kether. it is through the mediation of the sun that life comes to the earth, and it is by means of the tipharic consciousness that we contact the sources of vitality and draw upon them, both consciously and unconsciously. 44. the sun is, above all things, the symbol of manifesting energy; it is sudden, unaccustomed gushes of solar-spiritual energy that cause the divine inebriation of ecstasy; it is gold, as the basis of money, which is the objective representative of externalised life-force; for verily, money is life and life is money, for without money we can have no fullness of life. life-force, manifesting on the physical plane as energy and on the mental plane as intelligence and knowledge, can be transmuted by th

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rely tempted to retaliate. lying on my bed resting one afternoon, i was brooding over my resentment, and while so brooding, drifted towards the borders of sleep. there came to my mind the thought of casting off all restraints and going berserk. the ancient nordic myths rose before me, and i thought of fenris, the wolf-horror of the north. immediately i felt a curious drawing-out sensation from my solar plexus, and there materialised beside me on the bed a large wolf. it was a well-materialised ectoplasmic form. like z, it was grey and colourless, and like him, it had weight. i could distinctly feel its back pressing against me as it lay beside me on the bed as a large dog might. i knew nothing about the art of making elementals at that time, but had accidentally stumbled upon the right met

n independent existence, and there would be the devil to pay, literally as well as metaphorically. i received the distinct impression, and impressions are important things in 24 of 103 psychic matters, for they often represent subconscious knowledge and experience, that once the wolf-impulse had found expression in action, the wolf-form would sever the psychic navel-cord that connected it with my solar plexus, and it would be no longer possible for me to absorb it. the prospect was not a pleasant one. i had to forgo my dearly-loved revenge and allow harm to be done to me without defending myself, and i also had to summon and absorb a wolf-form which, to my psychic consciousness at any rate, looked unpleasantly tangible. nor was it a situation in which i could either ask for assistance nor

north was considered among the ancients as the evil quarter, and presented itself upon the hearthrug in quite a mild and domesticated mood. i obtained an excellent materialisation in the half-light, and could have sworn that a big alsatian was standing there looking at me. it was tangible, even to the dog-like odour. from it to me stretched a shadowy line of ectoplasm, one end was attached to my solar plexus, and the other disappeared in the shaggy fur of its belly, but i could not see the actual point of attachment. i began by an effort of the will and imagination to draw the life out of it along this silver cord, as if sucking lemonade up a straw. the wolf- form began to fade, the cord thickened and grew more substantial. a violent emotional upheaval started in myself; i felt the most f

ra will then be perceived as a whitish cloud, like a patch of lighter-coloured sky, surrounding the top of the tree, and usually swaying gently from side to side. there is a curious antagonism between elms and humanity, and about orchids all sensitive persons agree there is some thing sinister. tropical vegetation, as a whole, is over-powerful for humanity. under the tremendous stimulation of the solar fire the elemental forces are concentrated to a poisonous strength. i am not personally acquainted with the west coast of africa, but from what i can gather i am of the opinion that the elemental forces and the atmosphere made by juju rites are between them more responsible than the climate for earning that part of the world its sinister reputation as the white man's grave. there are other s

e organ of the mind, but esoteric science says the brain is the organ of perception of sense impressions and co-ordination of efferent impulses. it is the telephone exchange of the nervous system. it is only one of the points where mind touches body, the others being the ductless glands of the endocrine system, the pineal, pituitary, thyroid, adrenals, thymus and gonads; to which may be added the solar plexus and sacral plexus. the student of tantric physiology will be very dull if he has not observed that the chakras coincide in their physical location with the endocrine organs. now the endocrines have for their task the maintenance of the chemical composition of the blood. they pour into it their secretions, called hormones, in certain balanced proportions. if the balance is in any way u

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

and those who pictured the sky as a goddess studded her body with stars. one scene makes the morning and evening boats of ra to sail along the back of nut;[3] another depicts shu holding up the boat of the sun wherein is the disk on the horizon.[4] a third from the sarcophagus of seti i. represents nu the god of the primeval water holding up the boat of the sun, wherein we see the beetle with the solar disk facing it accompanied by isis and nephthys, who stand one on each side; behind isis stand the gods seb, shu, hek, hu, and sa, and behind nephthys are three deities who represent the doors through which the god tmu has made his way to the world.[5] the tuat, or abode of the dead. within the two bowed female figures which represent the day and the night sky, and which have been referred t

tische g tterglaube, heidelberg, 1889. for illustrations of the various forms in which the gods are depicted, see the dizionario di mitologia egizia, turin, 1881 (not yet complete. 2. lanzone, op. cit, tavv. 168-71. 3. greek tou^to de` tou^ h!fai'stou to` i!drusas ai e`n au?th (ii, 99] p. cviii and gave birth to his body, and established unending and unvarying right and truth upon the earth" as a solar god he is called "ptah, the disk of heaven, who illumineth the world by the fire of his eyes; and in the book of the dead he is said to have "opened" the mouth of the deceased with the tool with which he opened the mouths of the gods.[1] he is depicted in the form of a mummy standing upon maat and in his hands he holds a sceptre on the top of which are the emblems of power, life, and stabili

ah formed at memphis the chief member of the triad ptah-sekhet and nefer-tmu. in many texts the god ptah is often joined to the god seker whose individual attributes it is not easy to describe; seker is the egyptian name of the incarnation of the apis bull at memphis. that seker was a the gods of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod09.htm (1 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:58 am] solar god is quite clear, but whether he "closed" the day or the night is not certain. originally his festival was celebrated in the evening, wherefrom it appears that he represented some form of the night sun; but in later times the ceremony of drawing the image of the god seker in the hennu boat round the sanctuary was performed in the morning at dawn, and thus, united with ptah, he became the c

horus on the watch [in the boat, and thoth and maat upon either side of him (48) all the gods rejoice when they behold ra coming in peace (49) to make the hearts of the shining ones to live. may osiris ani, triumphant, the scribe of the divine offerings of the lords of thebes, be with them" vignette: ra, hawk-headed, with the disk upon his head and the emblem of life upon his knees, seated in the solar bark;[1] before him stands ani with both hands raised in adoration. text [chapter cxxxiii (1) to be said on the day of the month.[2 (2) osiris ani, the scribe, triumphant in peace, triumphant, saith "ra riseth (2) in his horizon, and the company of his gods follow after the god when he appeareth from his secret place, when he showeth strength and bringeth plate xxi. http//www.sacred-texts.co

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l the first course of these rulers ended in anno mundi 2480. the noachian deluge is placed at 1656, in the reign of samael. the destruction of the tower of babel (see tarot trump, no. xvi, page 63) occured in the second reign of orifiel; the life of abraham in the second reign of zachariel; the life of moses in the second reign of raphael; pythagoras, xerxes, and alexander the great in the second solar reign of michael. the era of jesus christ comes in the third reign of orifiel. the third reign of anael began in 109 ad the third reign of zachariel began in 463 ad the third reign of raphael began in 817 ad the third reign of samael began in 1171 ad the third reign of gabriel began in 1525 ad the third reign of michael began in 1879 ad levi appears to have been deeply impressed with this sy

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aler or a band of healing associates. many people today, christian, metaphysical, or modern spiritualist, hold sessions at which they pray for the recovery of petitioners who write them for help (see also healing by faith; psychic healing) absolute (theosophy) theosophists profess to know nothing further about the absolute, the logos, the word of god, than that it exists. the universes with their solar systems are the lowest manifestations of this being, which humans are capable of perceiving. human beings themselves are an emanation from the absolute, with which they will be ultimately reunited. abteilung fur psychologie und grenzgebiete der psychologie des psychologischen instituts der universitat freiburg i. br. parapsychology laboratory at the university of freiburg in germany under th

nently in ancient mythological writings. both von daniken and sitchin had identified these gods as extraterrestrials. alford published the fruits of his initial research in 1996, when he self-published his first book, gods of the new millennium, that generally supported sitchin s hypothesis that earth had been visited in the past by a race of people from a planet (called nibiru or marduk) in this solar system as yet undetected by astronomers. these extraterrestrials, the anunnaki, came to earth some 445,000 years ago. they enslaved humans, whom they put to work mining gold. they then became the source of human civilization. the year after gods of the new millennium appeared, hodder and stoughton republished it and gave alford a three-book contract to write sequels, which they hoped would t

holics to abandon support of the shrine. the core of shrine supporters, however, reorganized and have continued as an independent group. a similar course has been followed by those around mary ann lueken, who has claimed continuous visits by the virgin in bayside, long island, new york. in europe, the most prominent of the questionable apparitions began in the 1960s in garabandal, spain, in which solar phenomena not unlike that in fatima was reported. however, the apparitions could not pass the scrutiny of church investigators and have now been abandoned. the more important apparitions began in 1981 at medjugorje, then in herzegovina. since the first day, they have continued daily for almost 20 years and even at the height of fighting in the 1990s from the breakup of the country, pilgrims

govern the world. there are, we are told, 196 olympic provinces in the universe: thus aratron has 49; bethor, 42; phaleg 35; och, 28; hagith, 21; ophiel, 14; and phul, 7. each of the olympic spirits rules alternately for 490 years. they have natural sway over certain departments of the material world, but outside these departments they perform the same operations magically. thus och, the ruler of solar affairs, presides over the preparation of gold naturally in the soil. at the same time, he presides magically over the preparation of that metal by means of alchemy. the arbatel states that the sources of occult wisdom are to be found in god, spiritual essences, and corporeal creatures, as well as in nature, but also in the apostate spirits and in the ministers of punishment in hell and the

e 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 the society. one of the early members of the society, a. p. sinnett, also received regular communications from the masters that became the basis of two important theosophical texts, esoteric buddhism and the

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ple simulacra, natural objects that looked like something recognizably human (e.g, a pane of glass which appears to have a face in it. most simulacra disappear when the object is viewed from a different angle or the lighting direction is changed. the existence of such structures on mars, should they prove to be artificial, would have far-reaching implications concerning the place of humans in the solar system and the order of things. there is no place for the construction of such objects in human history as it is currently constructed. those who accept the possibility that the face, the pyramid, and related structures are artificial, have been integrated into the alternative histories theories that advocate humanity s ancient contacts with extraterrestials. such alternative histories have

floor. layne writes, at a recent seance one of the forms, while conversing with the person at my side, advanced to within about 18 inches of my face. dr. moore then, after telling us what he was about to do, struck the head of the form lightly with his open hand to show the degree of materialization. the movement and the sound were plainly perceived. he then passed his arm through the form at the solar plexus (psychic research, july 1930. besides the materialization of spirit entities, many other objects came forth in the seance room. such phenomena, which blend into that of apports, often served to confuse researchers and distract them from the central issues of spirit contact. however, in the end, the other objects served to confirm the fraudulent nature of materializations. spirits were

a bone ring was seen to hang from the medium s nose, and an object similar to the top of an infant s nursing bottle appeared to dangle from his lips by a cord. the medium s features also seemed somewhat altered. at a second sitting, a two-pronged fishhook and a small ring materialized. the photo plates of this materialization showed that some round object proceeded from the region of the medium s solar plexus. it had often appeared in the photographs; from it a root or string seemed to extend to the object materializing. in this case the root was strangely twisted. similar observations of what seem in retrospect simple conjuring were reported by karl blacher of riga university, with the apport medium bx (zeitschrift fur parapsychologie, june 1933. in trance and under control, nails, screws

le. in the contemporary world, the moon has assumed a central role in the mythology developed by neo- paganism, especially its feminist element. the most comprehensive system for gathering the many observations about the moon, attempting to understand its significance and drawing implications for behavior from it, was astrology. the 28-day cycle of the moon became a convenient way of dividing the solar year into more manageable units we have come to know as months (actually the moon takes only 27.32 days to orbit the earth, but because of the movement around the sun it takes 29.53 days for it to complete a cycle from full moon to full moon. in astrology the moon represents the inner emotional side of the self, the subconscious mind and psyche. the moon s placement in the chart reveals the

ythology that symbolized absolute consciousness. it was associated with the crowley concept of the scarlet woman, whose formula was love under will. new-isis or nu-isis therefore symbolized the heavenly and earthly goddess. grant also began to work all eleven degrees of the order. accompanying the organization of the lodge, grant issued a manifesto announcing the discovery of a new planet in this solar system beyond pluto, a planet unknown to astronomy, which he named isis. quickly after receiving the manifesto and news of grant s actions, germer expelled grant from the oto. grant ignored the expulsion and continued to build his organization. he had no competition in the united kingdom until the 1970s. grant had access to crowley s library, which was eventually deposited at an academic lib

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account is given of the great temple of aderbain, in armenia, by said ebn batric. kenealy in his "book of god" calls attention to the name carystios applied to the asbestine wicks of the lamps in ancient greek temples, and draws attention to its relations to chr. of christos and to eucharist, anointed with oil, as to everburning lamps before the throne, as in the apocalypse. chrs=[hebrew: chrsh]=solar fire. chre=[hebrew: chrh]=sun=he burned. krs=[hebrew: krsh]=sun=(greek?-eo)kupios= cyrus. ceres=was called taedifera=torch bearing. chrs, from this also comes eros in greek, material light coming from ineffable light. there is a curious reference of asbestos to fire, and the heat of the sun, in "the ecstatic journey to heaven" of kircher, where casmiel, the genius of this world, gives theodi

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congregation. sociologi- cal review 22: 27 44. affa affa first appeared in 1952 among the extraterrestrials who communicated to a small prescott, arizona, occult group headed by george hunt williamson. affa, identified as being from the planet uranus, first spoke through automatic writing, then later allegedly by radio, warning of threats to earth by evil humans and menacing aliens from the orion solar systems. affa later surfaced in automatic-writing communications to frances swan of eliot, maine, beginning in 1954. mrs. swan s affa, like williamson s, did his communicating from a giant uranian spaceship. affa urged swan to alert the united states navy so that it could receive his radio messages. swan told her neighbor, retired navy adm. herbert b. knowles, about affa s request. knowles

ns. gansberg, judith m, and alan l. gansberg, 1980. direct encounters: the personal histories of ufo abductees. new york: walker and company. anunnaki ancient-astronaut theorist zecharia sitchin, author of a series of books under the rubric the earth chronicles, argues that a race of humanlike beings, the anunnaki, live on the planet nibiru (also known as maldek, the alleged twelfth planet of our solar system. though unknown to astronomers, nibiru, on an elliptical orbit, circles our sun every 3,600 years. according to sitchin, nibiru will be in our immediate planetary space in the near fu- 24 anthon ture and will be detected between mars and jupiter. when that happens, the anunnaki will make their presence known by appearing on earth. si t c h i n s ideas are based on his reading of ancie

he short period of cleansing the planet is i m m i n e n t e v e n t h e m i d n i g h t h o u r (tuella, 1989. officially, ashtar came into the world on july 18, 1952, when george w. van tassel, an early and influential contactee from southern california, took a telepathic message from portla, 712th projection, 16th wave, realms of schare (pronounced share-ee. portla pronounced, approaching your solar system is a ventla [spaceship] with our chief aboard, commander of the station schare in charge of the first four sectors. we are waiting here at 72,000 miles above you to welcome our chief, who will be entering this solar system for the first time. soon the chief spoke, introducing himself with ashtar, commandant quadra sector, patrol section schare, all projections, all waves. he addressed

icorns and other creatures. that same genetic engineering gave atlanteans huge size and great strength. it all came crashing down, in both a literal and fig u r a t i ve sense, when the population s u r re n d e red itself to the pursuit of hedonistic p l e a s u res; in the meantime, evil at l a n t e a n scientists cracked the secret of mind contro l and tried to dominate the world and even the solar system. in due course the abuse of both p s ychic and material technology led to the geophysical cataclysms that destroyed the c o n t i n e n t. but that was not all. according to the department of interplanetary affairs, atlantis s problems generated a world war that spread into space. atomic blasts decimated the moon colony. antimatter rays vaporized nearly all of atlantis s buildings and

ct aliens. many were placed here generations ago and have lived on this planet through many incarnations, patiently waiting to be activated when the time of transition which will include mass landings of spaceships comes. t h e re we re contactees before there we re flying saucers. perhaps the first of them was the swedish scientist and mystic em a n u e l swedenborg (1688 1772. in ea rths in the solar wo rl d (1758, swedenborg wrote of his astral travels to the moon and other planets. each of these worlds, swedenborg assert e d, is inhabited, and he described, at length, the people and civilizations there. in the nineteenth century, with the rise of the spiritualist movement, psychic communications with e x t r a t e r restrials, most often ma rtians, we re 68 contactees re c o rded on oc

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ou ll find there, their foreheads brazen, faces smiling, as when the satyrs they re beguiling. there all things may a goat s-foot dare. mephistopheles you ll stay here and i ll find you here again? sphinxes yes! go and mingle with the airy train. we long ago are wont, from egypt coming here, to sit enthroned to the thousandth year. respect to our position you must pay. thus rule we lunar, rule we solar day. at the pyramids our station, we look on the doom of races, war and peace and inundation, with eternal changeless faces. by the lower peneus peneus surrounded by waters and nymphs. peneus wake and stir, ye whispering bushes, softly breathe, ye reeds and rushes, rustle, willows by the river, lisp, ye poplar sprays a-quiver, to my interrupted dream. fearful, stirring breezes wake me and my

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me, maybe years, only to wake up and find out that it actually occurred in a manner of minutes. consider also the oft-told story of a person seeing their entire life pass before their eyes in a near-death episode. from the perspective of a multi-plane, time-space sequence of events, one could conceive of the great flood described in the parable of noah in torah b reshith as an allusion to a great solar cycle spanning approximately six billion years in matter. during that cycle, the sun consumes its mass and eventually expands into a red giant, enveloping the planets that it had created, including the earth. then, the sun (known as elohim in hebrew and brahma in sanskrit) contracts its mass, reconstitutes its core, and spins off a new planetary system in which life is created and evolves. w

to the tree of perfection. 8: 0# sefiroth, latifa, and chakras" 7! g8& m 7; 2< e, 6& c 6) 7 4& 74" b6, e g% 6 7) 74; 6% 9 6 %6) 73; 03' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% the chakras are equated to the mental planes mentioned in the vedas, as follows: mind in worldliness 1st plane- anus, waking state (muladhara chakra) 2nd plane- sex organ, dream state (svadisthana chakra, t an tien in the taoist tree) 3rd plane- solar plexus, conscious dream and psychic states (manipura chakra) mind in the heart 4th plane- base of sternum; blissful vision of divine beauty, what is all this (anahata chakra, middle tan in the taoist tree) 5th plane- throat; vision of the universe as a unity in the mind of god (visuddha chakra) face to face 6th plane- only thin glass-like partition; god is like a light in a lantern (ajna cha

and is the source of the bretzlaver tradition of chabad chasidism. 15 zalman, rabbi schneur. ma'amorim ketzarim inyonim, p.133, published in 1986. e "h 0 16 christianity assimilated december 25 as the birthday of master yeshuvah. before that, the indigenous peoples of western europe, whom the christians called pagans, had celebrated it as yule, and a number of other traditions as the birthday of solar saviors. the mithraists, for instance, regarded it as the birthday of mithra. the romans celebrated the date as dies natalis solis invictus, day of birth of the undefeated sun. the christian observance of the pentecost replaced the tradition of whitsunday, the holy day of the goddess frigg, the norse queen of heaven and consort of odin. easter absorbed the pesach of the jews, and was named a

ced the idol worship and re-attached herself to a life of virtue. 37 woodroffe, sir john. mahanirvana tantra (the great liberation, ganesh, madras, 1953. woodroffe, sir john. the serpent power (satchakracidrupini and padukapanchakra, ganesh, madras, 1958. the vedas are sacred hindu scriptures. it is said that brahma (the creative aspect of vast face as brahman) sang a veda and thereby created the solar system. the sanatana dharma is the sacred tradition of the aryan hindus. 38 woodroffe, sir john. introduction to tantra shastra, ganesh, madras, 1958. jivashakti is the energy of embodied consciousness. prana is the life force, synonymous with ruach in qabalah and qi in taoism. the hissing referred to in the quote is the sound of the nervous system. 39 woodroffe, sir john. chintamanistava (i

service as the means for spiritual awakening. malkhuth (hebrew: kingdom: name for the lowest sefirah on the qabalistic fallen tree. corresponds to the muladhara chakra on the tantric tree, and the latifa qalabiya in the sufi tree. the fallen form of the sefirah knowledge/first, and the waking state in most humans. this sefirah is associated with the shekhinah in exile. manipura chakra (sanskrit: solar plexus center on the chakric tree, portrayed as a lotus with ten petals. corresponds to the sefiroth victory/south and glory/west on the qabalistic tree, and the latifa qalbiya on the sufi tree. maya (sanskrit: illusion: the illusory power of the ayn (called brahman in the hindu system) to appear as a universe of name and form. mayim (hebrew: the element of water corresponding to the mother

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al gods. the ruler of heaven is jupiter; and through the intermediary of heaven he dispenses life to all beings (possibly an earlier statement that it is breath or spiritus which keeps life in all the beings of the world relates to this supremacy of jupiter, the god of air) jupiter occupies a place intermediary between heaven and earth. the sun, or light, for it is through the intermediary of the solar circle that light is spread to all. the sun illuminates the other stars not so much by the power of his light as by his divinity and sanctity. he must be held as the second god. the world is living and all things in it are alive and it is the sun which governs all living things. next in the order of gods are the thirty-six, which are called horoscopes,3 that is stars fixed in the same place

chief are sol, jupiter, and venus. ficino has many enthusiastic passages on the valuable "gifts" making for health and good spirits to be obtained from these planets, which he poetically describes more than once as "the three graces".2 the equation of beneficent astral influences with the three graces may be derived from a passage in the emperor julian's hymn to the sun.3 gold is a metal full of solar and jovial spirit and therefore beneficial in combating melancholy. green is a health-giving and life-giving colour, and the reader is urged to come to "alma venus"4 and to walk in the green fields with her, plucking her flowers, such as roses, or the crocus, the golden flower of jupiter. ficino also gives advice on how to choose a non-saturnian diet, and thinks that the use of pleasant odou

present the figure of the world, one type being the cosmic mechanism of which della volpaia's clock is an example. 2 ficino, loc. cit. 75 ficino's natural magic influences on the inhabitants in such a way as to keep them healthy and virtuous, so ficino's "figures of the world" would be calculated to regulate the influences in the direction indicated in the libri de vita, towards a predominance of solar, jovial, and venereal influences and towards an avoidance of saturn and mars. the point in the description of the "figures of the world" to which i want to draw particular attention in view of later developments in this book is that these figures are not only to be looked at but reflected or remembered within. the man who stares at the figure of the world on his bedroom ceiling, imprinting i

ecause, as d. p. walker has emphasised, it was in itself a kind of religion. walker has quoted a passage from ficino's close disciple and imitator, francesco da diacetto in which this comes out most clearly.1 diacceto describes how one who wishes to acquire "solarian gifts, should robe himself in a mantle of solarian colour, such as gold, and conduct a rite, involving burning of incense made from solar plants, before an altar on which is an image of the sun, for example "an image of the sun enthroned, crowned, and wearing a saffron cloak, likewise a raven and the figure of the sun" this is the solar talisman in the de vita coelitus comparanda which we thought might be derived from picatrix.2 then, anointed with unguents made from solar materials he is to sing an orphic hymn to the sun, inv

sun, invoking him as the divine henad, as the mind, and as the soul. this is the neoplatonic triad under which the emperor julian worshipped the sun. as walker says the triad is not actually mentioned in the de vita coelitus comparanda. but it is alluded to by plotinus in that passage in the enneads on which ficino's work is a commentary, as the example of the hierarchy of the ideas.3 diacceto's solar rites thus bring out something which is implicit in the de vita coelitus comparanda and they probably reflect ficino's own practices. if so, ficino's magic was a religious magic, a revival of the religion of the world. 1 francesco da diacceto, opera omnia, ed. bale, 1563, pp. 45-6; cf. walker, pp. 32-3. on diacceto, see kristeller, studies, pp. 287 ff. 2 see above, p. 71. in this passage, th

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or phoenix type of returner" kg:noe:p70-71"she is the whore babalon, the scarlet woman of the cult of the beast. in egyptian her name means the number seven (sefekh, she was the primordial goddess of the seven stars. 393 is the number of a highly secret ophidian formula concealed in the name of an extra-terrestrial entity known as aossic. the integers 393 (3+9+3=15=1+5=6, the number of the sun or solar phallic energy" so we see a unity between these concepts. a phoenix-type returner, a conflagration, bablon and a celestial relation, with some correlation with aossic) and empowered with solar phallic energy (set as midnight sun. an interesting note (with some biblio-mancy) is that in the last page of chapter 7 of nightside of eden page 76, grant brings reference to "the book of dyzan, and t

follow this upcoming tuesday, on my birthday, the moon is now waning. today is 11/8/98 [2] is connected with eris somehow (i think) as it seems to fluctuate between the "hand of eris" and [2, i do not see any relation with the first sigil yet. sekhet the fierce lion headed goddess of the south. her ferocious qualities typify sexual heat and the fire of fermented drink (counterpart bast, sekhet is solar. from sekhet derives the indian word shakti, meaning power. special reference to the fire snake (creative power. 76-15=61 (kali-first divider) 15 is the first digital sum of 393. today is 11/10/98. my birthday (tuesday sacred to kali) i'm 24 years old (i feel like i am 90. i got another tattoo today, on my left shoulder blade. an eye surrounded by a flaming sun (a 'symbol' of kia/ chaos& sel

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to search for light, he stands at the pathway of regeneration guarded by the lords of mercury who with their wisdom will guide him toward the desired goal. the method as outlined by the ancient alchemists we shall discuss when we have summed up in a few words the points made. these must be firmly fixed in mind to appreciate the full value of what follows. the creative force used by god to bring a solar system into manifestation, and the force used by the divine hierarchies to form the physical vehicle of the lower kingdoms over which they rule as group spirits, expresses itself in a dual manner as will and imagination, and is the same as the united creative force of the male and the female which results in the creation of a human body. at one time man was bi-sexual, male-female, and theref

er had passed on. but it is not to be supposed that naioth and naim are places, or that they were used interchangeably. they describe two widely different classes of spiritually gifted people, which the ancient egyptians had marked by placing the uraeus upon the brows of one and at the navels of the other. the latter were mediumistic persons, receiving impressions from spirit controls through the solar plexus. they were properly designated naioth by the hebrews who used the feminine suffix to indicate their negative qualities. but the voluntary clairvoyant and the initiate, represented by the egyptians as having the serpentine uraeus in the forehead, were called naim by the hebrews who used the male suffix to designate the positive spiritual faculty which they possess. and the latin cathol

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space which is an expression of the homogeneous absolute spirit. the fire spirits are actively striving to attain enlargement of consciousness. but the absolute rests ever clothed in the invisible garment of cosmic space. in 'it' all powers and possibilities are latent, and it seeks to discourage and check any attempt at expenditure of latent power as dynamic energy required in the evolution of a solar system. water is the agent it used to quench the fire of active spirits. the zone between the heated center of the separate spirit sphere, and the point where its individual atmosphere meets cosmic space, is a battleground of evolving spirits at various stages of evolution. the present angels were human in the moon period, and the highest initiate is the holy spirit (jehovah. as our humanity

the spirit into the inert form, to leaven, quicken and mould it into an expression of itself. there the silver cord which has grown from the seed-atom of the dense body (located in the heart) since conception, is welded to the part that has sprouted from the central vortex of the desire body (located in the liver) and when the silver cord is tied by the seed-atom of the vital body (located in the solar plexus) the spirit dies to life in the super- sensible world, and quickens the body it is to use in its coming earth life. this life on earth last until the course of events foreshadowed in the wheel of life, the horoscope, has been run; and when the spirit again reaches the realm of samael, the angel of death, the mystic eighth house, the silver cord is loosed, and the spirit returns to god

he sign" therefore no one appeared at the call of solomon, and the queen of sheba could not escape the conclusion that this marvelous miracle was wrought by another and one who was greater than solomon. and so she insisted on knowing and seeing this king of crafts and his wonderful workmen, much to the chagrin of solomon, who felt that he had fallen in her estimation. the temple of solomon is our solar universe which forms the great school of life for our evolving humanity; the broad lines of its history, past, present and future, are written in the stars, its main outlines being discernible to anyone of average intelligence. in the microcosmic scheme, the temple of solomon is also the body of man wherein the individualized spirit or ego is evolving, as god is in the great universe. work o

umanity, when its eyes are opened to the impotence of the churchmen, the sons of seth, who are themselves dependent upon divine favor, and when it sees the power and potency of the rulers of temporal fame is then ready to rush to them, and leave the spiritual for the material. this from the microcosmic angle of matter. from the cosmic angle or view point we note again that solomon's temple is the solar universe and hiram abiff, the grand master, is the sun which travels around the twelve signs of the zodiac, enacting there the mystic drama of the masonic legend. at the vernal equinox the sun leaves the watery sign of pisces, which is also feminine and docile, for the belligerent, martial, energetic, fiery sign aries, the ram or lamb, where it is exalted in power. it fills the universe with

n to the golden color which designates the saint. when that has been achieved, the greatest feat of alchemy has been performed; the base metal has been changed to gold, the wonderful alloy of the molten sea has been made from the dross of the earth. all that then remains is to "pull the plugs" and pour it. the natural golden color is the christ ray finding its chemical expression in the oxygen, a solar element, and as we advance upon the path of evolution towards universal brotherhood even those who are not professedly religious acquire a tinge of gold in their auras due to the higher altruistic impulses common to the west. paul speaks of this as "christ being formed in you" for when we have learned to mix the alloy by spiritual lives, when we vibrate to the same pitch as he, we are christ

FULL MOON RITUALS

re moon bright, dyad, flower, frog, merry meade moon honey, horse, dyad, lovers, rose, strawberry, strong sun fallow moon blessing, buck, hay, wort barley moon corn, fertile, grain wine moon harvest, singing blood moon falling leaf, harvest, hunting, vintage snow moon beaver, dark, fog, mad, shedding, storm oak moon big winter, cold, long night, wolf elder moon blue moon- the thirteenth moon in a solar year, despite the modern notion that even the ancients called it the second moon in a month for our matrifocal ancestors who lived by a lunar calendar, it was impossible to have two moons in a month, as a moon was a month! old castle ritual room wolf moon leader: red deer date: 30 december 2001 the days after yule had found red deer ever more intent on singing a place sometimes his alone but

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

according to the 32 paths of wisdom, this path gis called the perpetual intelligence. because it rules the movement of the sun and the moon according to their constitution, and causes each to gravitate in its respective orb h. 24 in other words, it is the equilibrating force in the world of action, kether 'hokmah, and binah, christ and the two thieves on their crosses, the caduceus of hermes, the solar disc and dual serpents of egypt, and, according to eliphas levi, the astral light between the horns of the baphomet of mendes- the panlike satan of the templars. when erect it is the rod of aaron and the brazen serpent of moses (see plate vii on page 44) its three teeth, or tongues, represent three vaudin and consequently may be translated into the number 666, the solar number and the number

ity, or truth (the macrocosm or macroprosopos) concerning which the human reason can only form symbolical pictures, reflections in a mirror. we will attempt to explain this in a simpler way: supposing we could not raise our heads and look at the sun, we could nevertheless examine it indirectly by gazing into a looking-glass placed at our feet. in it we should see a reflection of the sun, the only solar reality possible to us in the circumstances; but it would not be the reality of the sun itself, any more than our image in a mirror is ourself- in fact such an image is in a way upside down, as our right side becomes our left and vice versa. as long as we kept our eyes fixed on the looking-glass, though we should know something about the sun, we should in fact know very little. at times its

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

after them. in her left hand she holds two cornucopiae, to signify the result of her operation on the two hemispheres of the earth; and upon them are the busts of apollo and diana, the presiding deities of these hemispheres, with a golden disk, intersected by two transverse lines, such as is observed on other pieces of ancient art, and such as the barbarians of the north employed to represent the solar year, divided into four parts, at the back of each"[30 [30] symbolism of ancient art. it was doubtless at a time when woman constituted the head of the gens, and when the feminine element in the sun, in human beings, and in nature generally was regarded as the more important, that latona and her son apollo were worshipped together. latona, apollo, and diana constituted the triune god. the la

he woman; later he is identical with the sun, the woman, although still a necessary factor in the god-idea, being concealed or absorbed within the male. it is no longer woman who is to bruise the serpent's head, but the seed of the woman, or the son. he is bacchus in greece, adonis in syria, christna in india. he is indeed the new sun which is born on the 25th of december, or at the time when the solar orb has reached its lowest position and begins to ascend. it is not perhaps necessary to add that he is also the christ of bethlehem, the son of the virgin. nowhere, perhaps, is the growing importance of the male in the god-idea more clearly traced than in the history of the arabians. among this people are still to be found certain remnants of the matriarchal age--an age in which women were

vements exceeded those of any of the historic nations may not be doubted. that the length of the year was calculated with greater exactness by an ancient and forgotten people than it was by early historic nations is proved by the cycle of the neros. this cycle, which was formed of 7.421 lunar revolutions of 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and 3 seconds, or 219,146 days and a half, was equal to 600 solar years of 365 days, 5 hours, 51 minutes, and 36 seconds, which time varies less than three minutes from the present observations of the year's length. the length of the year as calculated by the egyptians and other early historic nations was 360 days, which fact would seem to indicate that a science of astronomy had been developed in an earlier age which by the most ancient peoples of whom we

xactly 600 years at the same moment of the day, and under all the same circumstances"[61 [61] godfrey higgins, celtic druids, ch. ii, sec. 14. the varaha calpa has the famous cycle of 4,320,000,000 years for its duration. this system makes the cali yug begin 3098 years b.c. a dodecan consisted of 5 days, and 72 dodecans formed a natural year of 360 days. according to the earlier calculations, 360 solar diurnal revolutions constituted a natural year. the doctrine of the ancients concerning these cycles is thus set forth by godfrey higgins "the sun, or rather that higher principle of which the sun was the emblem or the shekinah, was considered to be incarnated every six hundred years. whilst the sun was in taurus, the different incarnations, under whatever names they might go, were all consi

this is thought to be a remnant of the most ancient hindoo speculations, and not the result of observation among the greeks. some time after the arrival of the sun in aries "at the vernal equinox, the indians probably discovered their mistake, in giving about 60 years to a degree; that they ought to give 50" to a year, about 72 years to a degree, and about 2160 years to a sign; and that the luni-solar cycle, called the neros, did not require 608 years, but 600 years only, to complete its period. hence arose the more perfect neros" it is thought by various writers that the knowledge of the ancient hindoos regarding the movements of the sun and moon in their cycles of nineteen and six hundred years--the metonic cycle, and the neros--proves that long before the birth of hipparchus the length

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

oldendawnshort red cape over a white robe, and a red skull-cap on head. in his left hand was a half-closed book.underhis feet was a dark cave, which seemed to hide some mystery.thismaypossibly have represented the vault on a higher plane, as the hierophant naturally represents the perfected adept, the 'risen christ, triumphant over 'death. we seemed to have been led through the pathofmars on to a solar plane. all the planets are but rays, or differentiationsofthe sun, it is true, but some special teaching was evidently to be given us by this abrupt transition from mars, the planetofoutward expulsion and destruction, to the sun, who symbolizes the all-attracting, inward-drawing centre, and who is the planet of life and resurrection.thetarotsymbol of mars is very suggestive in this connectio

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

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 professes to demonstrate who was its author, or who were its earliest te

tioned in the parable of the labourers in the vineyard and also the account of the crucifixion, matthew xxvi, where the 6th and 9th hours are named, the first hour beginning at sunrise. the moon was created, says genesis, to rule the night, but there is no recognition of its varied appearances as globe and crescent, which are so easily and frequently perceived. yet the jews used a lunar and not a solar calendar and fixed their festivals by the moon. in the ancient times of jewish history, the light of the moon was of much greater importance than it is to us who have so much artificial light. the jews were largely a pastoral people, and moonlight nights were much valued in the care of sheep and goats and for making journeys. the revision of the old testament has introduced in two places the

hall be turned into darkness',ii,10; and amos wrote 'saith the lord god, i will cause the sun to go down at noon, and i will darken the earth at noon-day, viii, 9. i may suggest that there is a possibility that the terrible onset of darkness from the sixth to the ninth hour which is described by st luke in his gospel xxiv, v. 44, as occurring after the crucifixion of jesus, may have been due.to a solar eclipse. in job xxxvii, v. 22, the authorised version reads 'fair weather cometh out of thenorth',but the in revised version we read 'out of the north cometh golden splendour; and this is considered by maunder to refer to the aurora borealis, an illumination of the northern heavens occasionally seen even in england, but rarely, i believe, in palestine. in concluding this essay i may remark t

mithras as saving the world from a drought sent by ahriman, the evil one. 4. mithras and the sun (several scenes) he appears to crown the sun, who kneels before him, using the left hand, while in the right he holds a cornucopia; recognition of the value of the sun's light and heat (b) mithras and the sun stand together, clasping each250themagical masonother's right hands (c) mithras mounting the solar chariot with four white horses and ascending (d) mithras and the sun together at a banquet with men standing around.thechristian fathers especially condemned these scenes and destroyed all copies of them. s. mithras and the bull. this is no earthly bull,butis the goshurun or heavenly bull of the avesta (many scenes.)thebull in a boat upon the water, for ahriman has sent a deluge upon the wor

e point is certain, and that is that the bull has been at all times the symbol of generation, or virility, of fertility and rebirth; and that its death, even as providing food, leads again to life. porphyry tells us that the cave in which the slaying is performed was deemed to represent the universe. other suggestions have been made in explanation of the sculptures, remembering that mithras was a solar diety. in the birth scene, the torch-bearers, with one torch up and the other down, may refer to the rise and setting of the sun. in the later period of mithra worship in italy, these was a blending with the more usual solar worship of apollo as the sun god, as we read of mithra assol invictus, deus invictus mithras, deus sol invictus mithras;before its abolition we also find mithras associa

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ed to god in his innermost and most concealed forms; and the term 'ancient ofdays' is used in several passages in the bible. this term 'ancieiit of days' is said, kabalistically, to refer to godbeforethe creation, anditsmeaning is 'ancientbefore(or anterior to) the days of creation; which daysofcreation, mentioned in225.genesis. areofcourse not the. simple day and nightorthis insignificant little solar systemofours, whichisbut a mere spot intheshore1essocean of the universe. the term,-elders (or ancient ones) is also usedin.the fourth chapter of the apocalypseofst john, describing the twenty-four thrones before the throne of the majesty divine. the word 'antient',as usedinthe time of shakespeare, meant20 the sorcererand his apprenticea banner-bearer, or ensign, or he who is worthy to bear

softhepeople,he executedthejustice ofthelord,andhis judgements with israel.'thearmorial bearingsofgad are, white, atroopof cavalry. all this coincides wellwiththemartialanddominantnatureof aries,theonly one of the twelve signs in which the superiorplanetsalonebearsway, for it is thehouseofmars,exaltation of(0)andtriplicity of( 0 )and(2).thesymbolism of-thelionis alsoproperto('y')on account of its solar, fieryandmartialnature.ofephraim(ts )and( n) manasseh, classedtogetherundertheirfather'sname,jacob says,'iosephis a fruitfultwelvesigns and twelve tribes 43bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall; the archers have sorely grieved him and shot at him, and hated him:buthis bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the migh

(in some packs, a cup, the other pointing downwards. he wears a cap of maintenance like that of the kings, whose wide brim forms a sort of aureole round his head. his body and arms form the shape of the hebrew letter aleph, to which this card corresponds. he symboliseswill. 2. the high prestess, or female pope.a woman crowned with a high mitre or tiara (her head encircled by a veil, a stole (or a solar cross) upon her breast, and the book of science open in her hand. she representsscience, wisdom,orknowledge.3.the empress.a winged and crowned woman seated upon a throne, having in one hand a sceptre bearing a globe surmounted by a cross, while she rests the other upon a shield with an eagle blazoned therein on whose breast is the cross. she is the symbol ofaction,the result of the union of

diacal signs, thus:cy>minervatheowlt5venusthedoveiiapollothetripodalimercurytheturtle[i,jupitertheeagletjyceresthebasket'-vulcanthecap with serpent1tlmarsthewolftdianathedogv'svestathelamp=junothepeacock)(neptunethedolphin pairing the opposite signs together we obtain known affinities of the gods and goddesses, thus:"the. name of the forepart of that constellation under the title of 'horus of the solar mountain'.onthetarot trumps83and""minerva a. d vulcan8andttjvenus and man;dandtapollo and.dianaljzlandmercury and vestaandjupiter aj:l.djuno1ij1and)(ceresandneptunethusitmay beremarkedeilpassantistotallydifferenttotheastrological attribution of the. planets bearing the names of certain of tbe deities tothesigns.[officialpublication ofthea-:0:.copiedfrommathers'ms byj.w,brodie-innes;c.1910

tem and the nervous system; and from one to the other passes a line, a thread, a groove, a canal, the medullary canal. and here you have the first origin of the completed chick which is to emerge from that egg; and here too we have the germ of the two centres upon which the tatwas are to play hereafter. now,thesubsequent process is simply one of development, very similar to the development of the solar system,thedevelopment of a circulatory system. andthatdevelopment produces in each of these centres a four-fold division, answering to the four lower tatwas, leaving out of count akasa, which is the equilibrium- the four-petalled lotus, which it is called in the eas- or, as we might say, right and left lobe of cerebrum and cerebellum, right and left auricle and ventricle of the heart.fromthe

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support of this conclusion is that the golden calf the israelites worshipped, while moses was on mt. sinai, was actually a replica of the egyptian idols hathor and aphis. in his book, too long in the sun, the christian author richard rives writes: hathor and aphis, the cow and bull gods of egypt, were representatives of sun worship. their worship was just one stage in the long egyptian history of solar veneration. the golden calf at mount sinai is more than sufficient ev- fj the inside story on the kabbalah another ancient egyptian idol: hathor, the golden calf. idence to prove that the feast proclaimed was related to sun worship 23 the influence of the egyptian pagan religion on the israelites occurred in many different stages. as soon as they had encountered a pagan people, this leaning

pagan teachings of the kabbalah. the figure composed of circles on the kabbalistic engraving on the right is a sefiroth. kabbalists attempt to explain the process of creation by means of the sefiroth. the scenario they propose is really a pagan myth totally at odds with the facts revealed in holy books. the inside story on the kabbalah number of these things was 32. the first ten represented the solar system and the others represented the masses of stars in space. this particularity of the kabbalah shows that it is closely connected to ancient astrological systems of belief. so, the kabbalah is far removed from jewish religion and much more closely related to the ancient mystery religions of the east.24 the jews, by adopting these ancient egyptian materialist and esoteric doctrines that w

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

the sacred tree, characteristics of the traditional model, the neo-platonic cosmos, theosophical and modern maps, the kabbalistic tree of life, yggdrasil:the world tree. 3 first principles who or what is god? what s in a name? the pleroma, the divine will, logos and sophia, what about jesus? jesus, christ and logos, what is sophia, the polarity of the god and goddess, impersonal to personal, the solar logos:christ, gods and spirits, the seven spirits (logoii, the seven planes, the earth and the underworld, the immortals. 4 the secret of saturn the secret of saturn, perceptional dualism, the watchers of enoch, archons, dominions and thoughts that run wild, the battle within, summary:the nature of evil in gnosticism. 5 the gnostic concept of time the gnostic concept of time (yugas, historic

sible to know in a concrete sense or even accurately in a historical sense. jesus christ, sun of god. david fideler, quest books. 1993. the state of christhood is a state to which all of us must aim, it is the state by which we return to the pleroma. the logos and sophia are energy fields emanating into the lower worlds and if permitted will transform us into immortal beings. this teaching is the solar tradition and is central to our understanding of the gnosis. the gnostic handbook page 29 that which is not divine will sophia the logos awakened by the mind of god (logos) purified by the wisdom of god (sophia) empowered by divine will the christ-state the gnostic handbook page 30 what is sophia? the general understanding of the holy spirit as found in the christian tradition is a desexing

with different symbol systems, it is not the letter that is the most relevant, but the spirit. it is too easy to confuse the images of the divine as found in literature and myth with the reality and become locked in forms which only partially represent the unique characteristics of a spirit, god or form. in some sense we must transcend the gods to understand them. the gnostic handbook page 35 the solar logos christ the term christ means anointed and it is the force of the spiritual sun. it is represents the completed individual in which sophia and the logos have transformed consciousness and the mediator at the nexus of all systems. the solar logos, christ or the sacred sun transmits the transforming energies of the triune principle throughout the planes. it is the door through which the e

0:9 the sun can be also however harsh, it dries out the land and kills the livestock as well as bringing out the change of tides and the flourishing of life. this reminds us that creation and destruction are the normal cycles of the universe and we must grow through them not being too attached to the material experience. since the triune principles do not directly manifest in the lower worlds the solar sphere becomes the intermediary, the manifestation and the gateway. in some sense this is where the legend of the incarnation or avatar originated. the belief that god came into the lower worlds is an adaptation or analogy to the process whereby the pleroma manifests via the solar sphere into the lower planes. for the gnostic, jesus, for example, was michael, a created being who incarnated a

reated being who incarnated and became christed, he was not god made flesh. there are many other entities who being old souls achieve christhood and become son/suns. in this sense these entities become manifestations of the sun and hence we can appreciate how the incarnation motif became accepted. however, the anthropomorphic tradition of god actually entering matter as god is a corruption of the solar mythos and a misunderstanding of the essential gnosis. gods and spirits the great chain of being is brimming with life, there are spirits, gods, aeons, so many forms with so many names. it is simply best to say that as the emanations proceeded from the higher principles through the seven spirits (see below, myriad forms of life are created. in our gnostic tradition these are generally catego

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

man it is particularly expressive. the nature of earth in the refraction model we noticed two major variants in relation to the conditioning of the spectrum or end result. these were: 1. the quantity and/or quality of the light source. 2. the quality of the matrix. if we apply these to the earth to create a terrestrial refraction model we find: 1. physical and spiritual energies received from the solar logos. 2. variants in the quality of the earth logos (gaia. the sun provides spiritual and physical energy which sustains and destroys all life on earth. the heat of the sun can bring about the maturing of crops and stimulate life, while at the same time, it can also cause men to die of heat exhaustion and create gnostic theurgy page 42 deserts. the solar logos (to which we will devote a les

the maturing of crops and stimulate life, while at the same time, it can also cause men to die of heat exhaustion and create gnostic theurgy page 42 deserts. the solar logos (to which we will devote a lesson later) is the doorway through which both static and dialectic currents enter our system. accordingly, the earth receives varying amounts of positive and negative energies. in addition to the solar vortex, there are other sources of energy which emanate into our system, however as we wish to keep the model simple, and since their effect is not significant at this point, we will ignore them for the moment. to say the earth is a living system is not unusual. whether we contemplate the old occult concept that the earth has a soul or the modern new age theology of gaia, we can readily appr

cant at this point, we will ignore them for the moment. to say the earth is a living system is not unusual. whether we contemplate the old occult concept that the earth has a soul or the modern new age theology of gaia, we can readily appreciate that the earth is a complex living system. in esoteric terminology, the earth is a logos and forms the matrix which receives and relays energies from the solar sphere. since these energies are both of a positive and negative nature, so too is mother earth. the gnostic tradition maintains that the essential earth logos is a light force (even in some traditions sophia herself) which has been locked in an outer physical cage or prison. this is where the gnostic concept of earth is radically different from earth religions, to worship the earth is to wo

cage or prison. this is where the gnostic concept of earth is radically different from earth religions, to worship the earth is to worship a cage, to be subservient to the earth is to risk annihilation. the earth is a living field, but like everything else on the physical plane, it is in a state of flux and drifts between light and darkness. the earth logos receives mixed energy currents from the solar sphere and transmits them to the earth system (fig 10) the body or form of the earth is covered by a fig 10- gnostic theurgy page 43 grid-like pattern of energy lines. these lines (like acupuncture points on the human body) relay the energies received and condition the physical and psychic environments on the earth s surface. in addition to these lines there are seven earth chakras which, in

s (see our discussion on memes. man lives in interdependence with these fields and interacts with them, whether consciously or unconsciously. as man pollutes and destroys the environment both physically and mentally, he influences the nature of the earth grid, which in turn, influences the energies received. in turn, man is influenced by the earth grid and man s ability to receive and utilise the solar currents is conditioned. this symbiotic cycle continues as man and earth influence each other. as the kali yuga accelerates, the fallen systems tend towards destructiveness and both earth and man receive more and more negative energy. in turn, this negativity influences the system as a whole exponentially. the net result is a steady decline towards the omega day. the inter-dimensional nature

GOETIA LUCIFERIAN

to stand strong. in this context, lucifer was creating order from chaos. this is a seeming model of the initiate, that we work towards recognizing our own sense of being, and to expand the circle of control. the daimons/djinn of the goetia are initiatory forces as well. consider the definitions of angel and demon. the significance is beneficial in the context of this grimoire. angelic spirits are solar/air based spirits who posses a higher articulation of being, that is, they resonate with the more developed aspects of the self i.e. communion with the initiatic guide/holy guardian angel. demons are spirits/fallen angels which proceed to grow in shadows and the darkness of the earth, but are as significant and beneficial as angelic spirits. in unity these djinn are of fire and air, thus enf

first angel, fallen from the stasis of light. by this manner, lucifer is the liberator and developer of humanity with his gift of the black flame, or individualized self-perception. leviathan- west (from lvthn, the crooked serpent/dragon of the sea. leviathan is the daemon of immortality and initiation, that the beast and scarlet whore moves through to arise from the oceans as the beast 666, the solar spirit of manifestation and creativity) satan south (from the root shtn, meaning adversary. satan is the name associated with azazel the fire djinn, who is also lucifer and samael. the goat with one thousand names by form. satan= set-an, the ancient egyptian god of darkness, chaos and isolation) satan is the adversary, whose symbol can be viewed as a forked stave which rises in the noon-tide

and must work accordingly as the devil in flesh, the tester of the limits and the initiator upon earth. work always with a goal in mind and do not dabble with the spirits of the goetia. you have been warned. working with angelic spirits angelic(k) spirits are celestial or empyrean forces, based primarily in the element air. they are commonly associated with lucifer and are the higher articulated solar and lunar shadow forms of the initiatic guide, by one conjoined with the demonic spirit the self develops in balance, rather than repression and self-deception. such angels are fallen, and contain a demonic or infernal aspect to their character. approach this with respect and seek to become like the essence you so seek. the angelick spirits of the shemhamphorasch are the guardians who lead o

conducted when the sun is at its full light, or when the moon is full or dark, as the essence of iblis be finally revealed. the purpose of the ritual is invoking the spirit of the adversary, known as shaitan/iblis, satan, lucifer, set, azazel. the sorcerer shall seek the fire-spirit of change, rebellion and progression. the symbol of set the adversary shall take the earthen form of the devil, the solar creative (and destructive) force of change and self-deification. there are two primary faces of the adversary. the celebrant may construct as mask of two sides, which shall be placed upon the center of the altar. a phallic symbol or stone god may be near the mask as well, symbolizing the solar creative force of the beast 666- one- the fallen seraph lucifer, the angelick essence of the black

uld belong. the base of the triangle would be near the circle, the apex would point in the quarter of the spirit. it is suggested that one observes the moon also in the operation. the names surrounding the triangle are anapheaxeton, tetragrammaton and primeumation. the athame or blade of the white hilt the white hilt knife is the magickal tool of the work of illumination of the angelic guide, the solar and luciferian blade of the divine will. the white hilted knife is used in such works such as workings of the divine will, or angelick holy guardian angel. the athame is also used in circulating and visualizing light around the self encircling the being. you will want to decorate the handle in the runes of summoning and protection, as first described in the key of solomon the king (clavicula

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on when performing the qabalistic cross, and in addition, holding the kerubic bands that apply to each of the elements. 4 step 8 upon completion of the s.i.r.p, let the adept move to the west of the altar and face east, holding the lotus wand by the white band. trace in the air over the rose cross, as if one was standing in the center of the rose, the symbol of the circle and the cross (this is a solar cross with a circle around it. at the same time, invoke all of the divine and angelic names of trapt, saying the following (while reciting the prayer, raise your hands and eyes skyward, and lower them as you finish "o thou most sublime majesty on high, who art at certain seasons worthily represented by the glorious sun of trapt, i beseech thee to bestow upon this symbol of the rose and the c

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) chief adept "i am the reconciler with the ineffable. i am the dweller in the invisible. let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend (the chief adept lowers face and hands. other adepts withdraw their wands) chief adept (raising his hand "in the name and power of the divine spirit, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watchtowers of the universe. guard this vault during this revolution of the solar course. keep far from it the evil and the uninitiated that they penetrate not into the abode of our mysteries, and inspire and sanctify all who enter this place with the illimitable wisdom of the light divine (chief adept gives the sign of 5=6. all others copy. pastos is replaced inside the vault, and the circular altar is placed on top. all resume positions as in the opening of the vault) c

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y a letter governing the column. thou mayest acquire the astrological attributions of each square (zodiacal for servient. the columns are attributed to the triplicity of the kerubic square atop, and the rank by the quality. 21 y d cardinal signs: a d g j h c kerubic signs: b e h k w a mutable signs: c f i l h b elements: d c a l the four cardinal signs are the most fiery because they are the most solar in nature. the equinoxes and solstices occur when a is in these signs. the kerubic or fixed signs are attributed to h and are considered watery because they are the most shining and glittery in nature. the remaining four mutable signs are considered the most airy because they are the most subtle in nature. the four elements are most earthy, their operation being mainly terrestial in nature

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also called the order of powers. the sephira dsj is also called hlwdg or magnificence and glory, and the sephira hrwbg is also called pachad, terror and fear. in rtk is the radix of a golden glory and thence is there a pure, primitve and sparkling, gleaming golden yellow which is reflected unto trapt. thus is the first reflected triad completed. and the sphere of its operation is that of cmc, the solar light, and bestoweth life, light and brilliancy in metallic matter, and it ruleth the sphere of action of the a. and tudw hwla hwhy is a god of knowledge and wisdom, ruling over the light of the universe; and its archangel is lapr, the prince of \yklm that is kings or angelic kings, who are also called the order of virtues, angels and rulers. the angels aynp and aylp are also referred unto t

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s of creation attracting the divine spirit, and therefore alluding to the creation of the world by the spirit and the waters. the mystic reverse circumambulation forms its procession in the south, beginning from the station of dadouchos, as symbolic of the ending and judgment of the world by d. also, the mystic circumambulation commences by the paths of c and r, as though bringing into action the solar d; while the reverse circumambulation commences beside those of q and x as though bringing the watery reflux into action. the order of the mystic circumambulation: first comes anubis, the watcher within; next thmaa-est, the goddess of the hall of truth; then horus; then the goddesses of the scales of the balance, then members, if the hall is large enough, and at the end the watcher without

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ated over the curcurbite, and this process may be repeated altogether three times if the flashing light cometh not, for without this later, the work would be useless. if after three repetitions it still appear not, it is a sign that there hath been an error in the working, such being either in the disposition of the alchemist or in the management of the curcurbite. wherefore let the lunar and the solar invocations and exposures be repeated when without doubt. if these be done with care (and more especially those of p and q with those of the 4 as taught, for these have great force materially, then without doubt shall that flashing light manifest itself in the curcurbite. r. holding the lotus wand by the white end, the alchemist now draws over the curcurbite the symbol of the flaming sword a

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12 2. it is an affirmation of the different spiritual as well as the different physical constitutions of the candidates. it affirms that all natures cannot be the same without evil and injury resulting thereby- but that each nature sould be brought to its own rtk, the best of its kind. this too, may be done in all things. it is the basis of alchemy. 3. it should be pronounced as if attracting the solar force, the light of nature, during the six months following the equinox at which it is issued, as a link with the solar force, between that and the order. this password, therefore, may also be used in a magical ceremony as attracting the support of the light of nature acting upon natural forces. the ceremony of the equinox the whole formulae of the ceremony of the equinox is intended to crea

, being careful to follow the course of the sun, deposit in turn, their insignia upon the altar, taking therefrom instead the mystical symbols of the body of osiris corresponding to their cardinal points. the hegemon takes the lamp of kerux. the kerux then circumambulates, halting at the cardinal points and facing them, representing the course of the sun through the zodiac in order to attract the solar ray. under the control of its superior, the light of osiris, and the adorations are performed at the stations of the kerubim to mark the limits of the circle. this time, it is with the lamp of the watcher of the gods and with the sign of the calvary cross of trapt that the hegemon seals in the center the solar light. the 13 formal assertion of the entry of a new current of light is proclaime

only let him remember that the formulae of the ceremony of the equinox represents the sudden attraction and sealing of a force in nature then in operation, rather than a continuous and graduated ceremony to build up the same. consequently also, it is well to use the password then in being as an adjunct to the other names employed in magical ceremonies as bringing into operation the link with the solar light. notes on the opening exordium of z the great tho-oth is the highest aspect of the hermes of the most ancient egyptian mysteries, and corresponds almost to the great angel wrffm. it is the archangel of rtk in the briatic world. the mercury of the romans must not be confused with this great hermes* the doctrines of gnosticism and of valentinus approached those of the pure qabalah. in th

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d by the utterance of the word, come and protect and defend us and this order without any delay upon its utterance, for i now declare this temple and rite duly closed. bell/ iconsecration ceremony for a sun (a) talisman r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 it is without question that the most important planetary talisman the adept of our order can make and fully consecrate is a solar talisman. it is in this talisman that rtk shines through the visible sun to attract to the adept the solar rays of spiritual illumination. thus, the solar talisman may be used for the attraction of better health, greater vitality, increased creative abilities, and enhancement of the jwr. its greatest potential to the adept of our order is to act as a conduit of solar illumination into the tr

solar rays of spiritual illumination. thus, the solar talisman may be used for the attraction of better health, greater vitality, increased creative abilities, and enhancement of the jwr. its greatest potential to the adept of our order is to act as a conduit of solar illumination into the trained adepts sphere of sensation. let the adept never be without conscious thought that the great angel of solar o, lakym, is here attributed as well as the light of christ. it is ra, osiris onnophris and the red rose of self-sacrifice upon the golden cross of perfection. let, therefore, the adept be ever reminded that this talisman should not be made for the uninitiated (save in grave circumstances of life threatening health) in that the forces of solar light could react upon the non-adept in adverse

ould not be made for the uninitiated (save in grave circumstances of life threatening health) in that the forces of solar light could react upon the non-adept in adverse and damaging ways. remember always that the sun is the visible dispenser of light to our world, yet, too much exposure can burn beyond repair. therefore, the adept will do well not to over expose him/herself to the potency of the solar talisman for too great a period at a time. temple furniture is to be arranged in 0=0 with the addition of the tablet of union and the four watchtower tablets. talismans to be consecrated are to be wrapped in black and thrice bound. step 1 let the adept banish by means of pentagram and hexagram. step 2 perform the supreme invoking ritual of the pentagram with enochian call of the portal follo

f thy great and powerful archangel lapr who is the briatic righteousness of thy realm. lapr, command, i beseech thee, to my assistance thy messengers of light, the \yklm, that they may bind into this talisman the beauty, vitality, harmony and magnificence of cmc and all the powers of trapt \yklm, o ye messengers of the holy one, blessed be he, assist and aid me in my invocation of lakym the great solar angel of cmc. thou great angel of cmc, ruling therein by the virtue of god the vast one, in the name of tudw hwla hwhy whose name thou must obey, and in the name of lapr, thine most potent archangel, i command and compel you to send forth thine intelligence, laykn, that he may concentrate and bind into this talisman his life and power and the spirit of a, trws. taking it for his body and rul

lth, and vitality, and life giving force which rise rank upon rank unto the feet of the cdqh jwr. o ye divine powers of trapt, manifest yourself through the intelligence laykn, to show forth the beauty, wonder, and vitality of your realm, and most importantly, the love and magnificence of your godhead, that through this creature of talismans i may ever pursue the great work and remain a beacon of solar light upon my fellow fraters and sorors of the r.r. et a.c. in so doing, grant that laykn, who shall charge and rule the spirit of a in this talisman in accordance with my will, shall be given a great reward, on that day when the crown of glory of my genius shall be placed upon my head. grant that his nature shall become more illuminated, glorified and more capable of receiving the divine in

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c p t b g d k r w h z j f y l n s u x q tudw hwla hwhy lapr \yklm trapt trws lakym las ra god form r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 ra is the great god of the sun, and it is he who sails across the sky, causing it to rise in the east and set in the west. his beak is of emerald, and his skin is of a natural flesh tone. his eyes are as burning coals, and upon his head rests a solar disk of red with a yellow serpent surrounding it. this is mounted upon a red nemyss that is bordered with emerald. around his waist, ra wears an emerald wrap cloth, belt and purse. he wears upon his wrist and ankles emerald bands stripped with red, and the same coloring applies for his collar. in his left hand, he bears a green phoenix wand and a green ankh in his right. 3t.ceremony of the e

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d we aspire without cessation unto thy imperishable and immutable brilliance. amen" part 3 step 1 hold the lotus wand by the e band. continue to visualize the brilliant yellow sphere with the purple k symbol as well as the rtk sphere's divine white brilliance with the black fire of c. now bring the divine light down from above and formulate a brilliant scarlet red ball of light covering the heart/solar plexus area. superimpose the e symbol in the flashing color of brilliant emerald green on top of the ball of scarlet red. step 2 vibrate \yhla and the angelic names lakym and lara. when you feel the power of the names filling you with the force of, recite the following prayer of the salamanders "holy art thou lord of fire wherein thou hast shown forth the throne of thy glory. twabx hwhy, lea

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aput draconis of 5 and also with the alchemical principles counterchanged and interwoven. it is not akin much to the nature of 5 as it is to the sphere of dwsy. it is only when the enneagram is reflected from every fifth point that it becomes consonant with the nature of 5. the enneagram is the star of 5. it is a fitting representation of the 5's administration to the l through the virtues of the solar system under the presidency of the sephiroth. when the enneagram is reflected from every fourth point, it is composed of the three triangles united with a circle which alludes to the triple ternary of the three alchemical principles, q3p. when reflected from every fourth point, it is not so much in harmony with the nature of the 5 as when the enneagram is reflected from the fifth point. the

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not have been drawn up and laid out in any other way than this.10 my background research had made me especially curious about the gateway of the sun and, indeed, about the kalasasaya as a whole. this 7 ibid, i, p. 78. 8 the lost realms, p. 215. 9 tiahuanacu, ii, pp. 44-105. 10 the calendar of tiahuanaco, pp. 17-18. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 82 was so because certain astronomical and solar alignments which we review in the next chapter had made it possible to calculate the approximate period when the kalasasaya must originally have been laid out. these alignments suggested the controversial date of 15,000 bc about seventeen thousand years ago. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 83 chapter 11 intimations of antiquity in his voluminous work tiahuanacu: the cradle of america

sed as a curve on a graph (originally plotted out in paris in 1911 by the international conference of ephemerids) and from this graph it is possible to match angles and precise historical dates with confidence and accuracy. posnansky was able to date the kalasasaya because the obliquity cycle gradually alters the azimuth position of sunrise and sunset from century to century.4 by establishing the solar alignments of certain key structures that now looked out of true, he convincingly demonstrated that the obliquity of the ecliptic at the time of the building of the kalasasaya had been 23 8 48. when that angle was plotted on the graph drawn up by the international conference of ephemerids it was found to correspond to a date of 15,000 bc.5 of course, not a single orthodox historian or archae

aham hancock fingerprints of the gods 100 chapter 13 blood and time at the end of the world chicken itza, northern yucatan, mexico behind me, towering almost 100 feet into the air, was a perfect ziggurat, the temple of kukulkan. its four stairways had 91 steps each. taken together with the top platform, which counted as a further step, the total was 365. this gave the number of complete days in a solar year. in addition, the geometric design and orientation of the ancient structure had been calibrated with swiss-watch precision to achieve an objective as dramatic as it was esoteric: on the spring and autumn equinoxes, regular as clockwork, triangular patterns of light and shadow combined to create the illusion of a giant serpent undulating on the northern staircase. on each occasion the il

for any dispute on the point. we already know that the maya received their calendar as a legacy from the olmecs (a thousand years earlier, the olmecs were using exactly the same system. the real question, should be, where did the olmecs get it? what kind of level of technological and scientific development was required for a civilization to devise a calendar as good as this? take the case of the solar year. in modern western society we still make use of a solar calendar which was introduced in europe in 1582 and is based on the best scientific knowledge then available: the famous gregorian calendar. the julian calendar, which it replaced, computed the period of the earth s orbit around the sun at 365.25 days. pope gregory xiii s reform substituted a finer and more accurate calculation: 36

d in europe in 1582 and is based on the best scientific knowledge then available: the famous gregorian calendar. the julian calendar, which it replaced, computed the period of the earth s orbit around the sun at 365.25 days. pope gregory xiii s reform substituted a finer and more accurate calculation: 365.2425 days. thanks to scientific advances since 1582 we now know that the exact length of the solar year is 365.2422 days. the gregorian calendar therefore incorporates a very small plus error, just 0.0003 of a day pretty impressive accuracy for the sixteenth century. strangely enough, though its origins are wrapped in the mists of antiquity far deeper than the sixteenth century, the mayan calendar achieved even greater accuracy. it calculated the solar year at 365.2420 9 j. eric thompson

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ooking at the then-unpolluted skies, the babylonian, mayan, chinese and egyptian astronomers and magi developed both a vast and complex mythology of gods and heroes and a means of foretelling the future, or, as they would have it, the will of heaven. in time they would also learn that knowledge of the sky led to the ability to predict the seasons and impressive celestial events, such as lunar and solar eclipses. with this knowledge came power over humanity, and the magi were not mere philosophers and stargazers, but priest-kings favored by the gods with the foreknowledge of agricultural cycles, then fast becoming the basis of life and death for civilization. that other, irregular events were noted as well can be defined as the beginning of ufology. no doubt to some extent we can explain su

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and the object of the name. use the following 6-step procedure to vibrate the mames of power: step 1. stand with your arras outstretched.imagine your entice body as totally empty. step 2. breathe in deeply. invagine the name of the divinity entering into your body with the breath. step 3. let the name descend through your empty body. imagine it passing through your heart region, the area of your solar plexus, your nave, your abdomen, your pelvis area, and then clown your legs and into your feet. step 4. when the name touches your feet, advance your left foot about 12 inches. then draw back your hands to the sides of your eyes and then lean forward. as you lean forward, shoot your arms (with fingers together and pointed before you) outward in front of you and imagine the name rushing upwar

spiritual impulse, but instead he uses the feminine current to give shape to the emotional forces of any who enter here. if you have any subconscious fears or desires when you enter here, alr will project them outwardly before you. if you remain in control, you can command the powers of alrni to extingish these fiery astral forms. step 10. the astrological force working in this square is leo, the solar creative power. the tarot influence is strength/ lust which manifests here as a very strong desire to create. the presence of the feminine current of sothis and the masculine current of leo will produce a blissful feeling in anyone who sees these currents in union here. the sexual nature of this square is similar in content to that encountered in the 16th aethyr, lea. step 11. alter observin

ula as opposed to any other, you are free to work through them at your own pace applying or di scarding them as you wi l l. the formulas are summarized in table viii. 174 table viii, formulas of enochian magick name no. type of operat ions most benef icial kal 314 manifestations, precipitations.the masculine current. iao 96 improving karma, cancelling karmic debts. qaa 52 creative pprocesses, the solar current. kika 666 gradual progress, anything of a cyclic nature. toog 77, iinfinity, freedom, space. 71 the feminine current. mzkzb 413 change, renewal, abrupt progress. 401 ecstasy, bliss, joy. vovin 280 wisdom, insight, mobility, magical powers. vrelp 197 a true seer, psychic abilities. ivitdt 212, health, long life, purification. 200 ecstasy, bliss, joy. ntakod 450 entering and/or crossin

le of stones in the shape of the universe, even as thou didst wear openly and i concealed. aleister crowley, liber vii the enochian word qaa, pronounced qah-ah, is comprised of the first letters of the words quasahi-ath-ar which means "the delight in the works of the sun" the entire phrase adds up to 312 which is the number fori ananael-basgim meaning "the secret wisdom of the day" this shows the solar nature of this formula. aiq bkr reduces 312 to 6, the number for life. this phrase also adds up to 306, the number fori damploz olprt, meaning "a variety of light" aiq bkr reduces 306 to 9, the number for stability in change. the formula itself adds up to 52 and 52x6=312. thus the formula of qaa is directly associated with its paren phrase. aiq bkr reduces 52 to 7, the number for desire, the

is vrelp is not money, but spiritual wealth. the words omp-il mean "understanding the aethyrs" and add up to 197 as well as t -il-om "the aethyrs have knowledge" the exact nature of the formula is obtained from the letters and their arrangement. in the center of the word is the hermit of virgo. he is flanked on the ieft by the lunar reflective forces of the moon in pisces, and on the right by the solar creative forces of strength/lust in leo. in addition, 189 he has the love of life expressed by the devil in capric on his left and mobility expressed by the chariot in can on his right. vrelp is thus the individuality that he learned to balance the forces of duality in his life. with an understanding of this formula, you can enter the city of the pyramids without becoming trapped there (the

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(mars. humanly by the development of female chromosomes in the foetus. 6 harmony and beauty. here life is brought to balance originatively by the god- aspect yhvh eloah ve-da at (i will be god-goddess of knowledge. creatively by archangel michael (the god-like. formatively by the angel order of the malachim (kings or messengers. expressively by shemesh (the sun) as life-supporting nucleus of our solar system. it is said that the male-female chromosomes are combined into the best possible being here, and the ultimate physical sex of the individual decided. 7 victory and achievement. originatively governed by the god-aspect yhvh tzva ot (i will be hosts. creatively by archangel auriel (light of god, sometimes identified with haniel [grace ofgod. formatively by the angel order of the elohim

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places, but a still greater number must be lying ungathered: afzelius's sago-hiifder, welcome as they are, go too much on the plan of extracting the juice from whatever came to hand. norway can hardly be less stocked with legend than sweden, it has moreover its popular lays to shew, into which songs of pit e face. xv the edda have been transmuted, witness the lay of thorns hammer (p. 181) and the solar-lay. in our own day, j. w. wolf is labouring on the popular traditions of belgium, and rob. chambers on those of scotland, with zeal and visible success. the fairy-tale (miirchen) is with good reason distinguished from the legend, though by turns they play into one another. looser, less fettered than legend, the fairy-tale lacks that local habitation, which hampers legend, but makes it the m

there was little to change: the heathen practice of sprinkling a newborn babe with water (vatni ansa p. 592, dicare p. 108, line 5) closely resembled christian baptism, the sign of the hammer that of the cross, and the ei-ection of tree-crosses the irmensuls and world-trees of paganism. still more significant must appear that passage where voluspa and the bible coincide (p. 811; in the far later solar-lio-s traces of christian teaching are discernible. in a conflux of so many elements it could not but happen, even where the mental conceptions and views of a simple populace unable to do without myths had felt the full force of the revolution, that in its turn the old, not wholly extinct, should half unconsciously get interwoven with the irrepressible new. jewish and christian doctrine bega

is named, it is as a higher and noble instrument; yet the staff or stick that witches are said* as the whirlwind is ascribed to the devil (p. 1008) so it is to witches (sup. i, 554. 648. kilian 093 remarks, that it is also called varende w'tf, travelling woman, i.e. air-ridinp! sorceress; conf. tvitid's bride p. 632, and' rushing like a wind's-bride through the land' simplic. 2, 62- is she called solar hoi, sun's bale, because she darkens the sun with her storm-cloud? or may we go farther back to heathen times, and impute to the witch, as to the wolf, a swallowing of sun and moon? to me it looks the more likely from the name hvel-svelg himins, swallowcr of heaven's wheel. 3 conf. the convenient corn-dragon (p. 1019) and home-sprite. fowls are said to' bathe in sand: litb. kutenas' wisztos

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an the veneration of water; it is only in that passage of the as. prohibitions quoted p. 102, and in no other, that i find mention of fire. a part of the reverence accorded to it is no doubt included in that of the light-giving and warming sun, as julius caesar (p. 103 above) names sol and vulcanus together, and the edda fire and sun, praising them both as supreme: eldr er beztr med yta sonum, ok solar syn/ fire is best for men, seem. 18b (as pindar says water is. in superst. b, 17, i under stand observatio pagana infoco of the flame on the hearth or in the oven: where a hearth-fire burns, no lightning strikes (sup. i, 126; when it crackles, there will be strife (322. 534. compare with this the norwegian exposition (p. 242; so long as a child is unbaptized, you must not let the fire out (s

on s mus. ital, torn. i. pars 2, pp. 19. 20) has it not &lt; conr. tac. annal. 1, 28 and boeth. de consol. 4 metr. 5: lassant crebris pulsibus aera. 6 it is only among greeks and slavs that i have not come across them. eclipses. 707 to this day the hindus consider that a giant lays hold of the luminaries, and tries to swallow them (broughton s pop. poetry of hind. p. 131. the chinese call the solar eclipse zhishi (solis devoratio, the lunar yueshi (lunae devoratio, and ascribe them both to the machinations of a dragon. nearly all the populations of northern asia hold the same opinion: the tchuvashes use the phrase vubur siat/ daemon coinedit (guil. schott de lingua tschuw, p. 5; the finns of europe have a similar belief, the esthonians say the sun or moon( is being eaten/ and formerly

ad- stones,1 unless the word halfmoon here means something else. in bavaria there is a mondsee, ohgr. mdninseo (lunae lacus, in austria a mdnhart (lunae silva^ aovva v\tj in ptolemy; 2 we may safely credit both with mythic associations. as time is more easily reckoned by the changes of the moon, which visibly mark off the week (p. 126-7, than by the sun, our ancestors seem to have had, beside the solar year, a lunar one for common use, whose thirteen months answered to the twelve of the solar year. the recurring period of from 29 to 30 days was therefore called menops, mdnod, from mena, mano. hence also it was natural to count by nights, not days: nee dierum numerum sed noctium computant, sic constituunt, sic condicunt, nox ducere diem videtur/ tac. germ. c. 11. and much in the same way, t

why the phases of the moon had such a commanding influence on important undertakings. they are what jornandes cap. 11 calls lunae commoda incommodaque. it is true, the performance of any kind of work was governed by berc. 1 defence of wulften castle, vienna 1766. suppl. p. 71-2. 162. 2 can manhart lave come from maginhart? helbl. 13, 190 has meinharts& amp;gt; phases of the moon. 709 the day and solar time, whether of warriors (ba. 297, or of servants (353, or of tribunals especially (814-6. if, on the other hand, some new and weighty matter was to be taken in hand, they consulted the moon; which does not mean that the consultation was held or the action begun in the night, but on those days whose nights had an auspicious phase of the moon: coeunt, nisi quid fortuitum et subitum incident

is up (2, 250. as. hador heofonleoma com llican, andr. 838 (see suppl. the sun sinks, falls: goth, sagq sunno (pron. sank, lu. 4, 40. gasagq sauil, mk. 1, 32. dissigqdi (occidat, eph. 4, 26. ohg. sunna pifeal (ruit, pisluac (occidit, 1 gl. ker. 254. diut. 1, 274a. mhg. siget: diu sunne siget hin, trist. 2402. diu sunne was ze tal gesigen, wh. 447, 8. nu begund diu sunne sigen, aw. 1, 41. on. both solar/azz and solsetr, engl. sunset; so ohg. denne sunn& ttisazj cum sol occumberet, diut. 1, 492a, implying that he sits down, and that there is a seat or chair for him to drop into 1 intrans, as we still say niederschlagen, zu boden sclilagen. sunrise. sunset. 739 at the end of his journey. his setting is called ohg. sedalkanc, hym. 18, 1; sedal ira kat (goeth) 14, 2. as. setelgong, 1 setlrdd, c

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keep in mind the fact that he is dealing with new principles in our work and that he will find many revelations and startling laws not generally known [90 [91] legend of chart 4a the autonomic nervous system legend- sympathetic division- parasympathetic division b-brain structures: b1 cerebral lobes, b2 thalamus with b3 pineal and b4 pituitary, b5 cerebellum, b6 midbrain, b7 medulla. p .plexi: p1 solar plexus, p2 pelvic plexus. g- ganglia: g1 ciliary g, g2 pteryopalatine g, g3 submaxillary g, g4 otic g, g5 ganglion of ribes (cranial termination of the sympathetic trunk ganglion system, g6 superior cervical g, g7 middle cervical g, g8 inferior cervical g, g9 celiac g, g10 superior mesenteric g, g11 inferior mesenteric g. c- cervical spinal cord (cervical vertebrae 1-8) t- thoracic spinal co

psychic body should make itself continuously or periodically known to the objective mind. this will appear unreasonable when one stops to consider that not one thousandth of the functioning of the parts of the objective, physical body is realized by the objective mind. is one conscious of the functioning of the kidneys, the spleen, the pancreas, the brain, the air chambers of the lungs, or of the solar plexus, or the plexus around the aortic arch of the heart, or a thousand other places?[147] very often the most devoted student and the most regular applicant of the tests and experiments feels that he is making little progress because he senses no particular development from within. he is likely to become discouraged, knowing that he is familiar, from an intellectual standpoint, with each l

ation; and the third point toward the north, the station of the high priestess, or, for convocations, the chantress. a small footstool may be placed before the western point. the shekinah represents the presence of the concentrated power of the holy assembly of the cosmic in the center of the temple. the sanctum of each temple is that area between the shekinah and the east platform of the temple. solar plexus.one of the most important groups of a number of small plexuses, forming the largest plexus in the human body, located in the center of the abdomen. its objective or physical functioning is very important, but far more important is its psychic or sympathetic functioning. it was believed by the ancients that this plexus was the center of the soul in man, as the sun is the center of the

human body, located in the center of the abdomen. its objective or physical functioning is very important, but far more important is its psychic or sympathetic functioning. it was believed by the ancients that this plexus was the center of the soul in man, as the sun is the center of the solar world; hence its name. many systems of so-called mystical instruction pretend to tell us how to use the solar plexus for attaining certain results, but it requires many years of careful development of this plexus to make it of real value in true mystical work. soul.we wrongly speak of the soul in man, or man's soul, as though each human being.or each conscious organism, had within its body on this earth plane a separate and distinct something which we call soul; and, therefore, in one hundred beings

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

nd celestial ferrymen who inhabit a complex and intensely imagined realm of the gods. the most frequently mentioned deities are anubis, atum, geb, horus, isis, nephthys, nut, osiris, ra, seth, shu, and thoth (see deities, themes, and concepts. these include most of the deities who make up the ennead of heliopolis, and it is often argued that the pyramid texts largely represent the theology of the solar temple at heliopolis. a stellar element was also important in the pyramid texts. the king was destined to join the imperishable stars, and the god osiris was identified with the constellation of orion and the goddess isis with the dog star, sirius.20 the cult of osiris is hardly known before the fifth dynasty, but he gradually became the most important funerary god. one thing the pyramid tex

lt to interpret. some passages include what have been called mythical statements. these give the bare outlines of an event that has taken place in the divine realm, such as horus comes and thoth appears. they raise up osiris from upon his side and make him stand erect in front of the two enneads. 21 many of the most important themes of egyptian mythology, such as the journey of the sun god in his solar barque, the murder of the good god osiris, and the violent conflict between horus and seth, are already present in the pyramid texts. these texts are also the earliest source for the complex array of myths and symbols that the egyptians constructed on the theme of creation. the gods as depicted in the pyramid texts often seem violent, hostile, and terrifying beings, and this is a consistent

he end of the world (see return to chaos under linear time in mythical time lines. the creator god atum-ra and his offspring shu and tefnut are particularly prominent. many texts deal with transformations of the sun god into various forms. a new element is a stress on the dangers faced by the sun god during his celestial voyages, such as attacks by the chaos monster apophis. the prominence of the solar cult leads some egyptologists to believe that the coffin texts were, like the pyramid texts, mainly generated by the priests of heliopolis. other egyptologists point to the huge range of deities that feature in this collection and see the coffin texts as being more representative of regional traditions.29 coffin texts spells have been found in sites all over egypt, but the majority come from

point of egyptian culture. much great art and architecture was produced during the reigns of queen hatshepsut (c. 1473 1458 bce; her nephew and stepson, king thutmose (tuthmosis) iii (c. 1479 1425 bce; and the latter s great-grandson, amenhotep (amenophis) iii (c. 1390 1352 bce. hatshepsut s famous mortuary temple at deir el-bahri in thebes had many innovative features, such as an open court for solar worship inscribed with a summary of the ruler s secret knowledge about the sun god. 42 both hatshepsut and thutmose iii built special shrines where ordinary people could come to pray to deities such as the goddess hathor in her cow form or amun of the hearing ear. 43 amenhotep iii enlarged or founded numerous temples, and many of the features introduced by his architects remained standard fo

rged or founded numerous temples, and many of the features introduced by his architects remained standard for c. 1,500 years. he commissioned huge numbers of divine statues to stress his identification with all the deities of egypt. amenhotep iii sometimes gave himself the attributes of a lunar deity while his chief wife, queen tiy, was identified with the goddesses who could play the role of the solar eye (see eye of ra in deities, themes, and concepts).44 introduction 19 amenhotep iii and tiy were the parents of amenhotep iv (c. 1352 1336 bce, who early in his reign changed his name to akhenaten. king akhenaten and his chief wife, nefertiti, were dedicated to the cult of aten, a form of the sun god represented by the solar disk. akhenaten built huge temples for aten that were open to the

HEAVEN HELL

of the country were of a more material character than the doctrines which the priests of heliopolis taught, but it was found impossible to eradicate them from the minds of the people, and the priests therefore framed religious works in such a manner that they might be acceptable both to those who believed in the old animal-gods, tree-gods, plant-gods &c, of egypt, and those who preferred a purely solar cult, such as that of the worship of the sun-god ra. the oldest books of the dead, in fact, represent the compromise arrived at under the ivth, vth, and vith dynasties, between the priests of the old and the new religions. this being so, the religious texts of the period represent too much a patch-work belief for purposes of systematic illustration, and in the result, and perhaps also throug

he period represent too much a patch-work belief for purposes of systematic illustration, and in the result, and perhaps also through the funeral customs of the day, the growth in men's minds of the wish for illustrated guides to the underworld was retarded. when the glory of sovereignty departed from the kings who held court at memphis after the end of the rule of the vith dynasty, the system of solar theology, which had been promulgated in lower egypt by the priests of heliopolis, began to make its way into upper egypt, and wherever it came it assumed a p. 5 leading position among the religious systems of the day. the kings of the viith and viiith dynasties, like those of the iiird, ivth, and vith, came from memphis, but they had comparatively little power in the land, and, so far as we

gure is intended to represent a form of the sun-god. the ass is well known as a type of the sun-god, and "eater of the ass" is equally well known as a name for set or apep. in an illustration from the book of the dead (chapter xl; see above, p. 113, the "eater of the ass" is seen biting into the back of an ass, which is being delivered by the scribe nekht in his character of osiris. that aai is a solar being, and that he opposes apep on behalf of ra, is obvious. it seems, however, that he is in need of the help of the men with harpoons, and of p. 184 their companions behind them, each of whom holds the ends of a pole or rope (of a net, which is bent in the shape of a bow over his or her head. the men are called heru-metu-hekaiu, i.e "those who are over the words (which have) magical power;

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

lse, of whom he as yet knows nothing. something dark comes between him and a great dazzling light,and he sees the shadow of the face of a gigantic timepiece on the ethereal waves. on its ominous dial hereads "new era: 970,995 years since the instantaneous destruction bypneumo-dyno-vril of the last 2,000,000 of soldiers in the field, on the western nightmare talesxi19 portion of the globe. 971,000 solar years since the submersion of the europeancontinents and isles. such are the decree of orlog and the answer of skuld" he makes a strong effort and- is himself again. prompted by the soul-ego to remember and act inconformity, he lifts his arms to heaven and swears in the face of all nature to preserve peace to the end of hisdays- in his own country, at least* a distant beating of drums and lo

ugh he was already the father of a hundred sons, adopted sunahsephaas his eldest son and as a precautionary measure cursed in advance anyone who should refuse to recognise, inthe last born of the rishi, the eldest of his children and the legitimate heir of the throne of ambarisha. because of this decree, sunahsepha was born in his next incarnation in the royal family of ayodha andreigned over the solar race for 84,000 years. with regard to rohita- devarata or god-given as he was- he fulfilled the lot which lakshmi padma hadvowed. he reincarnated in the family of a foreigner without caste (mleccha-yavana) and became theancestor of the barbarous and red-haired races which dwell in the west* it is for the conversion of these races that the lotus bleu has been established. if any of our reader

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

te unity, the unknowable deific essence i spoke about some time back. we believe in no creation, but in the periodical and consecutive appearances of the universe from the subjective onto the objective plane of being, at regular intervals of time, covering periods of immense duration. q. can you elaborate the subject? a. take as a first comparison and a help towards a more correct conception, the solar year, and as a second, the two halves of that year, producing each a day and a night of six months' duration at the north pole. now imagine, if you can, instead of a solar year of 365 days, eternity. let the sun represent the universe, and the polar days and nights of six months each-days and nights lasting each 182 trillions and quadrillions of years, instead of 182 days each. as the sun ar

adiation or emanation-we need not quarrel over terms-the universe passes out of its homogeneous subjectivity onto the first plane of manifestation, of which planes there are seven, we are taught. with each plane it becomes more dense and material until it reaches this, our plane, on which the only world approximately known and understood in its physical composition by science, is the planetary or solar system-one sui generis, we are told. q. what do you mean by sui generis? a. i mean that, though the fundamental law and the universal working of laws of nature are uniform, still our solar system (like every other such system in the millions of others in cosmos) and even our earth, has its own program of manifestations differing from the respective programs of all others. we speak of the inh

anon, from the jellyfish to the elephant, from the bushman and negro to the apollo belvedere-alter the conditions cosmic and planetary, and there must be as a result quite a different flora, fauna, and mankind. the same laws will fashion quite a different set of things and beings even on this our plane, including in it all our planets. how much more different then must be external nature in other solar systems, and how foolish is it to judge of other stars and worlds and human beings by our own, as physical science does! q. but what are your data for this assertion? a. what science in general will never accept as proof-the cumulative testimony of an endless series of seers who have testified to this fact. their spiritual visions, real explorations by, and through, physical and spiritual se

a chain, i.e, it embraces a period of seven rounds. thus while a "day" and a "night" represent, as manvantara and pralaya, 8,640,000,000 years, an "age" lasts through a period of 311,040,000,000,000; after which the pralaya or dissolution of the universe becomes universal. with the egyptian and greeks the "great age" referred only to the tropical, or sidereal year, the duration of which is 25,868 solar years. of the complete age-that of the gods-they said nothing, as it was a matter to be discussed and divulged only at the mysteries, and during the initiation ceremonies. the "great age" of the chaldeans was the same in figures as that of the hindus. guhya-vidya (sans) the secret knowledge of mystic-mantras. page 153 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt gupta-vidya (sans) the same as guhy

o think, man really standing only for svayambhuva, the first of the manus, who started from svayambhu, the self-existent, who is hence the logos and the progenitor of mankind. manu is the first legislator-almost a divine being. manvantara (sans) a period of manifestation, as opposed to pralaya (dissolution or rest; the term is applied to various cycles, especially to a day of brahm -4,320,000,000 solar years-and to the reign of one manu-308,448,000. lit, manvantara-"between manus" page 160 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt master a translation from the sanskrit guru "spiritual teacher" and adopted by the theosophists to designate the adepts, from whom they hold their teachings. materializations in spiritualism the word signifies the objective appearance of the so-called "spirits of th

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ering of certain snakes. below the waist, though, it was the worst; for here all human resemblance left off and sheer phantasy began. the skin was thickly covered with coarse black fur, and from the abdomen a score of long greenish-grey tentacles with red sucking mouths protruded limply. their arrangement was odd, and seemed to follow the symmetries of some cosmic geometry unknown to earth or the solar system. on each of the hips, deep set in a kind of pinkish, ciliated orbit, was what seemed to be a rudimentary eye; whilst in lieu of a tail there depended a kind of trunk or feeler with purple annular markings, and with many evidences of being an undeveloped mouth or throat. the limbs, save for their black fur, roughly resembled the hind legs of prehistoric earth's giant saurians, and term

ing indeed, including frantic appeals that something in a boarded-up farmhouse be destroyed, and fantastic references to some plan for the extirpation of the entire human race and all animal and vegetable life from the earth by some terrible elder race of beings from another dimension. he would shout that the world was in danger, since the elder things wished to strip it and drag it away from the solar system and cosmos of matter into some other plane or phase of entity from which it had once fallen, vigintillions of aeons ago. at other times he would call for the dreaded necronomicon and the daemonolatreia of remigius, in which he seemed hopeful of finding some formula to check the peril he conjured up 'stop them, stop theml' he would shout 'those whateleys meant to let them in, and the w

with you will not be a boast of victory but a plea for help and advice in saving both myself and the world from a horror beyond all human conception or calculation. you recall what those fenner letters said of the old raiding party at pawtuxet. that must all be done again, and quickly. upon us depends more than can be put into words- all civilisation, all natural law, perhaps even the fate of the solar system and the universe. i have brought to light a monstrous abnormality, but i did it for the sake of knowledge. now for the sake of all life and nature you must help me thrust it back into the dark again. i have left that pawtuxet place forever, and we must extirpate everything existing there, alive or dead. i shall not go there again, and you must not believe it if you ever hear that i am

here lay the mortal relics of half the titan thinkers of all the ages; snatched by supreme ghouls from crypts where the world thought them safe, and subject to the beck and call of madmen who sought to drain their knowledge for some still wilder end whose ultimate effect would concern, as poor charles had hinted in his frantic note "all civilisation, all natural law, perhaps even the fate of the solar system and the universe? and marinus bicknell willett had sifted their dust through his hands! then he noticed a small door at the further end of the room, and calmed himself enough to approach it and examine the crude sign chiselled above. it was only a symbol, but it filled him with vague spiritual dread; for a morbid, dreaming friend of his had once drawn it on paper and told him a few of

unrelated to any human speech. i appeared, too, to struggle against something. then, just afternoon- the housekeeper and the maid having meanwhile returned- i began to mutter in english- of the orthodox economists of that period, jevons typifies the prevailing trend toward scientific correlation. his attempt to link the commercial cycle of prosperity and depression with the physical cycle of the solar spots forms perhaps the apex of" nathaniel wingate peaslee had come back- a spirit in whose time scale it was still thursday morning in 1908, with the economics class gazing up at the battered desk on the platform. ii my reabsorption into normal life was a painful and difficult process. the loss of over five years creates more complications than can be imagined, and in my case there were cou

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

newed interest. the ceaseless antarctic sun had begun to limber up their tissues a trifle, so that the head points and tubes of two or three showed signs of unfolding; but lake did not believe there was any danger of immediate decomposition in the almost subzero air. he did, however, move all the undissected specimens close together and throw a spare tent over them in order to keep off the direct solar rays. that would also help to keep their possible scent away from the dogs, whose hostile unrest was really becoming a problem, even at their substantial distance and behind the higher and higher snow walls which an increased quota of the men were hastening to raise around their quarters. he had to weight down the corners of the tent cloth with heavy blocks of snow to hold it in place amidst

HP LOVECRAFT BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP

, and the coarse brains are ceasing to vibrate as i wish. you have been my only friend on this planet- the only soul to sense and seek for me within the repellent form which lies on this couch. we shall meet again- perhaps in the shining mists of orion's sword, perhaps on a bleak plateau in prehistoric asia, perhaps in unremembered dreams tonight, perhaps in some other form an eon hence, when the solar system shall have been swept away" at this point the thought-waves abruptly ceased, the pale eyes of the dreamer- or can i say dead man- commenced to glaze fishily. in a half-stupor i crossed over to the couch and felt of his wrist, but found it cold, stiff, and pulseless. the sallow cheeks paled again, and the thick lips fell open, disclosing the repulsively rotten fangs of the degenerate j

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

ough the ultimate gate. chapter four randolph carter's advance through the cyclopean bulk of masonry was like a dizzy precipitation through the measureless gulfs between the stars. from a great distance he felt triumphant, godlike surges of deadly sweetness, and after that the rustling of great wings, and impressions of sound like the chirpings and murmurings of objects unknown on earth or in the solar system. glancing backward, he saw not one gate alone but a multiplicity of gates, at some of which clamoured forms he strove not to remember. and then, suddenly, he felt a greater terror than that which any of the forms could give- a terror from which he could not flee because it was connected with himself. even the first gateway had taken something of stability from him, leaving him uncerta

her and very different story. i will tell only what you absolutely have to know" carter, after that final vortex of alien and polychromatic rhythm, had found himself in what for a moment he thought was his old insistent dream. he was, as many a night before, walking amidst throngs of clawed, snouted beings through the streets of a labyrinth of inexplicably fashioned metal under a plate of diverse solar colour; and as he looked down he saw that his body was like those of the others- rugose, partly squamous, and curiously articulated in a fashion mainly insect-like yet not without a caricaturish resemblance to the human outline. the silver key was still in his grasp, though held by a noxious-looking claw. in another moment the dream-sense vanished, and he felt rather as one just awakened fro

lan of escape from yaddith- which began when be found a drug that would keep his zkrauba-facet always dormant, yet with out dissolution of the knowledge and memories of zkauba. he thought that his calculations would let him perform a voyage with a light-wave envelope such as no being of yaddidi had ever performed- a bodily voyage through nameless eons and across incredible galactic teaches to the solar system and the earth itself. once on earth, though in the body of a clawed, snouted thing, he might be able somehow to find and finish deciphering-the strangely hieroglyphed parchment he had left in the car at arkham; and with its aid- and the key's- resume his normal terrestrial semblance. he was not blind; to the perils of the attempt. he knew that when he had brought the planet-angle to t

g sleep he had lived consciously for thousands of terrestrial years amidst the alien and horrible wonders of yaddith. there was a hideous gnawing of cold, a cessation of menacing dreams, and a glance through the eye-plates of the envelope. stars, clusters, nebulae, on every hand- and at last their outline bore some kinship to the constellations of earth that he knew "some day his descent into the solar system may be told. he saw kynath and yuggoth on the rim, passed close to neptune and glimpsed the hellish white fungi that spot it, learned an untellable secret from the close glimpsed mists of jupiter, and saw the horror on one of the satellites, and gazed at the cyclopean ruins that sprawl over mars' ruddy disc. when the earth drew near he saw it as a thin crescent which swelled alarmingl

INFERNAL UNION

el and lilith. their sexual union produced the original spawn of demons and succubi. their continued union through us produces or brings to our awareness, the timeless treasures of knowledge and strength hidden only by our previously ignorant minds. samael is according to legend, the fallen angel taught by belial .he is also known as asmodeus or ashmodei, the yezidi archangel ashamdon, and is the solar aspect of ahriman it seems, whose other name is ashmedai. he is the male serpent who possessed adam in the garden of eden in order to copulate with eve. in the christian apocalypse, and in thelema, he is the beast and the mate of babalon. in the kabbala, samael is the prince of the qlippoth, the inverse side of the tree of life and mate of lilith the queen of the qlippoth (lilith and babalon

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

body b. in single parts of the body 2. production of element-harmony in regions of the body step iv magic physical training 1. rituals& their practical applicability a. gesticulations b. bearings (asanas) c. postures of the fingers (mudras) step v magic mental training 1. space magic step v magic psychic training 1. projection of elements outward a. through one s own body, accumulated through the solar plexus b. accumulated through the hands 2. outward projection without passing through the body step v magic physical training 1. preparation for passive communication with the invisible ones a. release of the own hand b. preparation of the fingers with help of the pendulum &c 2. passive communication: a. with the own guardian genius b. with deceased people& other beings step vi magic mental

stance. as soon as the scholar has reached this point, he can start on transferring consciousness into the fourth dimension in his own body, the microcosm, into the akasa principle of his own being. the practice is as follows: you are sitting quietly in your familiar position with your eyes closed. transfer your consciousness exactly into the middle of your body, into the pit of your stomach, the solar plexus. you must feel yourself as a mere dot, as an atom in the center between the spine and the pit f the stomach. this center is the center of gravity of your body. try to stay there with your consciousness for at least five minutes; you may use an alarm clock to check the time. regard your body from his point. the more diminutive you imagine yourself, the bigger you will perceive the circ

ition. inhale through the lungs and pores, and with the help of the imagination, press the element of fire into your body. you are inhaling the fire element with the specific property of heat and you are inhaling empty breaths. if the warmth in your body seems to be very strong, consequently if there is a sufficient accumulation of this element, let the element escape through imagination from the solar plexus and fill the entire room you are in with the fire element. while you empty the element from your body, you should have the feeling that your body is completely delivered from it and the accumulated element has diffused into the whole room, similar to the procedure you followed in the impregnation of a room with vital power. repeat the accumulation and evacuation several times, and by

and the fourth element the next morning. scholars who have plenty of time at their disposal and sufficient willpower can go through all four exercises by turns. these scholars will make enormous progress in mastering the elements. a scholar who controls all four elements in this direction may continue. the previous exercise has taught the magician how to accumulate the element inhaled through the solar plexus outwards in space. in the following exercise he will learn how to emit an accumulated element into space not only through the solar plexus, but through the whole body pore breathing, thus producing an accumulation of elements in space. this has to be practiced with all the elements. the dissolving and scattering into the universe has to be performed in exactly the same manner as descr

practice makes perfect here as well. the scholar should practice this exercise on all the elements and master it. then he may continue. sit in your customary position. inhale the fire element through the lungs and pores of your whole body and accumulate it there until you get the sensation of heat. now imagine the accumulated fire element forming a fiery ball with a diameter of 4-8 inches in the solar plexus. this compressed ball must be so fiery and shining as to be very similar to the sun. now imagine this all moving out of the solar plexus and floating free in the air. the sun ought to be imagined as white-hot and radiating heat. stick to this imagery as long as you can. if you come near it with your hands, you ought to feel the heat radiating. conclude this exercise by dissolving the

INVOCATION OF THE ADVERSARY

conducted when the sun is at its full light, or when the moon is full or dark, as the essence of iblis be finally revealed. the purpose of the ritual is invoking the spirit of the adversary, known as shaitan/iblis, satan, lucifer, set, azazel. the sorcerer shall seek the fire-spirit of change, rebellion and progression. the symbol of set the adversary shall take the earthen form of the devil, the solar creative (and destructive) force of change and self-deification. there are two primary faces of the adversary. the celebrant may construct as mask of two sides, which shall be placed upon the center of the altar. one- the fallen seraph lucifer, the angelick essence of the black flame, the very source of our wisdom, being and becoming. two the seraph of flame, the djinn iblis of fire, daemon

ISIS UNVEILED

sed brood of ham' so they adopted the episcopalian ctook from the augurs of etruria, and the artistic form with which they clothe their angels from the painters and um-makers of magna graecia and central italy" would we push our inquiries farther, and seek to ascertain as much in relatiot) to the nimbus and the tonsure of the catholic priest and monk^ we shall find undeniable proofs that they are solar emblems. chas. knight, in bis old england pictoriauy luuttraied, gives a drawing by st. augustine representing an ancient christian bishop in a dress probably identical with that worn by the great 'saint' himself. tbe pallium, or the ancient stole of the bishop, is the feminine sign when worn by a priest in worship. on st. augustine's picture it is bedecked with buddhistic crosses, and in it

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

upported, regardless of our capacity to deal with things that may challenge what we know. i would also like to thank those who allowed me to gather and share the research of the qigong and pranic healing networks, to also thank dr deepak chopra for his patient attempts to bridge the world of modern and ancient medicines, and dr sudhir shah (thank you for your willingness to share your research on solar feeding) and dr karl graninger for the twenty years he dedicated of his life to study inedia. the studies of these people and all the others credited in my book ambassadors of light, has also made my journey easier and for all of their work i remain eternally grateful. also thanks to dr masuro emoto and his research in messages from the water which added another layer of credibility to our w

a. feeding like the gods 36 divine nutrition program. level 3 nourishment: 6. nourishment sources& types& tools 40 conventional sources physical food; the food of love; the food of family 40 the food of success; the food of sex non-conventional sources 42 the love breath and holy breath tools 43 the inner smile taoist master tool 46 the body love tool 47 the lifestyle love tool 47 nourishment via solar energy& wind, earth and plant prana 50 the healing sounds, mantras and programming code tools 53 the nourishment of the microcosmic orbit 56 the dow power tool of the violet light& the divine amrita 61& pituitary& pineal gland activation 69 nourishment& our purity of heart 71 the nourishment of ecstasy tool. elemental equilibrium 72 other forms of nourishment 77 divine nutrition: the madonna

the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 10 tools& techniques level 2& 3 nourishment& sensitivity development tools chapter 6 technique no. 1: love breath 44 technique no. 2: holy vedic breath 44 technique no. 3: inner smile 46 technique no. 4: body love 47 technique no. 5: lifestyle recipe 47 technique no. 6: minimization tool 49 technique no. 7: conversion tool 49 technique no. 8: solar food access 52 technique no. 9: healings sounds 53 technique no. 10: programming codes 55 technique no. 11: sacred sex food 59 technique no. 12: violet light flooding 64 technique no. 13: divine amrita channel 68 technique no. 14: pineal& pituitary food 69 technique no. 15: downloading goddess energy 82 level 2& 3 nourishment& sensitivity development tools chapter 7 technique no. 16: cosmic

coping divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 43 with energy of the theta. delta field without burning out the electro-circuitry of the bio-system. this lifestyle can also be applied as a cleanse and detoxification program as we apply the 3> 2; 2> 1 and the meat> vegetarian> vegan> fruit> divine nutrition prana power preparation system. nourishment via accessing solar energy and wind and earth and plant prana. healing sounds, mantras and programming code tools: for the emotional and mental tuning to the theta. delta field and accessing appropriate nourishment for these aspects of our self. this includes the taoist 6 healing sounds plus the use of specific mantras and the perfect health, balance, weight, image programming code. the nourishment of the micro

e cleaner and lighter the physical form, the better you will feel on all levels. if however you are going to live on only fruit for periods of time, then you need to plug into the violet light spectrum to receive all the nutrients you need (see techniques 12, 13& 14. also there are many alchemical rewards for those who learn to master their baser natures. sun food 5. nourishment via the access of solar energy and wind, earth and plant prana. this is probably the most well researched area that we have to offer information on, as dr sudhir and his team in india have now spent a number of years looking at solar energy nutrition and how it operates in the body; and the master choa kok sui has been researching earth and plant prana in his path of studying pranic energy for healing. both of thei

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

very many generations, reappearing to recognition after. the lapse sometimes of centuries. now, how do we explain and re-render the above rude couplet? the lady-bird is the virgin maria, isis, the mother and producer of nature; the house is the ecliptic it is figuratively on fire, or of fire, in the path of the sun; and the children at home are the months produced in the house of the sun, or the solar year, or the signs of the zodiac which were originally ten, and not twelve* each sign answering* lady-cow, lady-cow, all but a little one fly away home! under a stone: thy house is on fire, fly thee home, lady-cow, thy children are flown. ere it be gone. the lady-bird, or cow, is the virgin mary, the little one 42 the rosicrucians. to one of the letters of the primeval alphabet, which were i

uary, whilst surveying the long series of mexican and toltecan monuments preserved in these various works, is the similarity which the ancient monuments of new spain bear to the monumental records of ancient egypt. whilst surveying them, the glance falls with familiar recognition on similar graduated pyramids, on similar marks of the same primeval ophite worship on vestiges of the same triune and solar deity, on planispheres and temples, on idols and sculptures, some of rude and some of finished workmanship, often presenting the most striking affinities with the egyptian. stephens and catherwood s incidents of travel in central america. the tables of stone. chapter the sixteenth. the round towers of ireland. t is astonishing how much of the egyptian and the indian symbolism of very early a

f seven different widths of the seven colours, from the least refrangible red up to the most refrangible violet. refer to diagram on next page) t the seven colours and vowels. 143 the egyptian priests chanted the seven vowels as a hymn addressed to serapis (eusebe-salverte, dionysius of halicarnassus. the vowels were retained to a comparatively late period in the mystic allegories relative to the solar system. the seven vowels are consecrated to the seven principal planets (belot, chiromancie, 16th cent) the cause of the splendour and variety of colours lies violet. 7. indigo. 6. blue. 5. green. 4. yellow. 3. orange. 2. red. 1. most refrangible ray. least refrangible ray. fig. 33. prsmatic spectrum. deep in the affinities of nature. there is a singular and mysterious alliance between colou

3. orange. 2. red. 1. most refrangible ray. least refrangible ray. fig. 33. prsmatic spectrum. deep in the affinities of nature. there is a singular and mysterious alliance between colour and sound. there are seven pure tones in the diatonic scale, because the harmonic octave is on the margin, or border, or rhythmic point, of the first and seventh, like the chemical dark rays on the margin of the solar spectrum (see explanatory chart of the prismatic colours above) red is the deep bass vibration of ether. to produce the sensation of red to the eye, the luminous line must vibrate 477 millions of millions of times in a second. blue, or rather purple, is the high treble vibration, like the upper c in music. there must be a vibration of 699 millions of millions in a second to produce it; while

e garter. 159 tion of the object, will be perceived upon close and delicately respectful consideration. there is great obscurity as to the character of abraxas, the divinity of the gnostics. the eons, or degrees of advance in the zodiacal circle, are thirty in number to each of the twelve signs, and consequently there are 360 to the entire astronomical circle, or 365, counting for each day of the solar year. the inscription upon the gnostic gems, ceou, is probably intended for qeou; for the arabs yet substitute the s for the th in their pronunciation (gnostics, p. 233; matter, histoire critique du gnostidsme. in this s and the th standing for it, lie all the mysteries of masonry, christos, was designed for the guide of all that proceeds from god. sophia-achamoth is the guide, according to

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

ics and astronomy. yet, there is a suspicious rhythm to the distribution today is when it could be if the most technical use tomorrow is too-late for these war-lovers. of planets, outward from the sun. this has been somewhat crudely expressed in bode's "law" and in spite of scientific protestations there is a similarity between atomic structure as we comprehend it and the obvious structure of the solar system& how about molecular structures& its "fields? refinements of bode's law indicate nodes in the gravitational field, at which planets, asteroids, and possibly comets and meteors tend to locate themselves. an extension of the theory to the satellite systems of the major planets indicates a similar system of nodes on smaller scales, where planets, rather than the sun, are gravitational ce

old files of daily and weekly papers, especially where there are professional observatories or active amateur clubs, might disgorge some valuable information. i welcome reports of such items. i suggest an alliance between amateur astronomers with telescopes and ufo enthusiasts, for the purpose of keeping eyes on the gravitational neutral of the earth-sun-moon systems. at times of new moon and of solar eclipse, this neutral point will be directly in line with the sun and moon, which will either be superimposed in the sky or be very close to each other. as the moon approached first quarter the neutral will swing to the east (left) of the sun and will move back into line between first quarter and full moon. after full moon and until third quarter the neutral will move to the west (right) of

sider. if such a condition exists, then even the development of atomic and hydrogen bombs could be diversionary. space flight: common denominator if i should be asked to state my thesis in one word, i believe that this word would be isolationism, or if i could squeeze in a hyphen, anti-isolationism. whatever else we may do or think, we have to extend our ideas of one world to include at least one solar system, and maybe more. but, whether or not, it is beyond the comprehension of our weary minds to go further at the moment, and we will just have to be content to consider our solar system as one living entity. this war-weary, heartsick and bedraggled planet is not alone--it is just one cell in a multicellular unit. galacticly speaking let us revive from the sedative idea fostered by both sc

lested seriously in two thousand centuries, why get excited now? if anything is at stake, it is our ego, not our physical welfare (red is a&b) yet, it is hard to discourage the innate feeling that there has recently been a great surge of activity on the part of ufo's as if in preparation for something big. one does not have to look far for a motive. these entities have probably been living in the solar system long enough to have seen the fifth planet explode, destroying itself and perhaps jeopardizing life throughout the system. they may have originated on that planet. should one be astonished if these space dwellers are preparing to prevent a few fearstricken human beings from blowing up another planet, perhaps the only remaining one which offers supplies and a haven to space navigators?

e of these fossils or elements of incipient life can be shown to arrive on this planet via meteors, we are confronted with a major problem of deciding whether the meteorites were thrown off this earth in the remote past, whether they originated in the explosion of another planet, whether they arrive from interstellar space, whether they grew spontaneously in the general melee of the origin of the solar system- or where, in fact, did they originate? a dr. hahn has claimed to have found miniature fossils in meteorites, including corals, sponges, shells and crinoids, all microscopic, which he photographed. some, who didn't see them, taking an attitude of professional scorn, claimed they were not valid. some trained and intelligent men, like francis blingham, who did see them, agree that they

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

. sources disagree on the colors. the first chakra, located at the base of the spine at the perineum is the *root chakra, muladhara. it primarily relates to the element of earth and to psychic smell. the second chakra, known as the *sacral center, svadhisthana, is located above and behind the genitals. its dominant element is water, and it is related to psychic taste. third of the chakras is the *solar plexus, manipura, located at the navel and corresponding with the emotions and with the element of fire; also with psychic sight (clairvoyance. the *heart chakra, anahata, is the fourth chakra, located over the heart and corresponding with the element of air, and also with psychic touch. the fifth chakra is the *throat chakra, vishuddha, the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abi

the person being well. it may be helpful to utilize the appropriate color from the aura chart (such as bright apple-green, rose pink, or white) sent as a beam to the person or as a cloud surrounding him. this technique can be extended to include a simple kind of yoga in which we feel energy sent as we exhale explosively; the energy sent either via the breath or from one of the chakras such as the solar plexus. sometimes in absent healing it is helpful to arrange a time for treatment in advance, asking your subject to be in a receptive state of mind and to sit back and close his eyes. the banishing ritual one of the most basic and useful ceremonial rituals of magick is called the *banishing ritual, or lesser ritual of the pentagram. a pentagram (or pentacle) is a five-pointed star with the

KETAB E SIYAH

brothers, for the rallying clarion shall not be sounded twice" his words did rage like fire across the host before me as he came to stand at my side, like a great king's likeness, a triumphal statue to honour victory, wrought of precious stones and gold yet black as starless night. then from my brothers' midst, came another, a bull of bronze, burning with an incandescence from an inner furnace of solar flame. his bellow was the roar of conflagration, of heat and destruction, consuming forest and city alike, and he spoke with a voice of power these words to my less audacious brethren "behold me! know me! i am moloch. i know, as in your hearts you know, that our most worthy brother, satanael who stands before you, telling undesired truths, is most righteous in his proud vision. 45 little is

brothers, for the rallying clarion shall not be sounded twice" his words did rage like fire across the host before me as he came to stand at my side, like a great king's likeness, a triumphal statue to honour victory, wrought of precious stones and gold yet black as starless night. then from my brothers' midst, came another, a bull of bronze, burning with an incandescence from an inner furnace of solar flame. his bellow was the roar of conflagration, of heat and destruction, consuming forest and city alike, and he spoke with a voice of power these words to my less audacious brethren: 106 "behold me! know me! i am moloch. i know, as in your hearts you know, that our most worthy brother, satanael who stands before you, telling undesired truths, is most righteous in his proud vision. little i

shall we overthrow those that sought to overthrow the elohim. go then michael to the earth and bring my decree to noah that we might accomplish a great victory 239 and conquer forever the people that dwell within the abysmal depths. go then michael and enact the will of god. descend to earth. descend" thus spoke adonai yahweh thus did michael, his son. once more upon blazing wings, bright with a solar light, did the arch-angel go down from heaven, seeking out the nephilim-prince that most fully embraced the enemy of that race that i created and did for them their awful deeds. even in that time that michael used going from earth to heaven and returning therefrom to earth once more the sun did set and rise upon noah's prayers. as the red light of dawn awakened noah and his people from their

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE FOUR

sion badge for the path of tau, and is composed of 22 squares which answer to the 22 letters of the hebrew alphabet. the solid triangle or tetrahedron this figure is also known as the pyramid of fire. it is the admission badge for the path of shin, representing the simple fire of nature and the latent or hidden fire. the three upper triangles (note figure is in 2 dimensional space) refer to fire- solar, volcanic and astral. the lowest or basal triangle represents the latent heat. the greek cross this admission badge for the path of resh has thirteen squares. it is referred to the sun in the twelve signs of the zodiac, arranged in triplicities. the cup of stolistes it is the admission badge to the grade of practicus. it is referred to the tree of life as shown in the diagram. it embraces ni

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

deterministic viewpoint stated that in any event, regardless of its nature, a certain natural law will manifest. the presence of the divine was of little importance because the trajectory of all motion is fixed, and there was no intervention by the divine. the deterministic approach was well described by the astronomer, pierre simon laplace (1749-1827) as he sought to explain to napoleon how our solar system had been formed. when napoleon asked him about god s place in the process, laplace replied: je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypoth se-l( i did not need this hypothesis there. thus, science left no room for the existence of other aspects beyond its own limits, including those realities that are hidden from our perception. everyone believed that humanity had discovered the necessary meas

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

is for some reason hidden from us. when i study kabbalah, i know that there are no creatures like us, creatures that the creator assigned with a certain goal. what does it matter if there is something else on earth, or on another planet, if the creator wants to contact you, and not them? a n e c l i p s e o f t h e s u n a n d a l u n a r e c l i p s e q: how should i relate to and prepare for a solar or lunar eclipse? a: i don t want to disappoint you, but the best advice that i can give you is to simply ignore it. such events only psychologically affect people, who long for a change for the better. b e l i e f s, m y s t i c i s m a n d t h e s u p e r n a t u r a l 301 there will be no change. nothing will happen because man has arbitrarily set up a calendar based on the movement of th

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

r. considered as the entire room, the lodge is a temple of humanity, and as such it may be taken to symbolize a man lying upon his back. in this position the three great supports correspond to important centres in the human body. the column of the r.w.m. is in the place of the head or brain; that of the w.s.w, corresponds to the generative organs, symbols of strength and virility, and also to the solar plexus, the great ganglionic centre of the sympathetic system; and that of the w.j.w. corresponds to the heart, anciently regarded as the seat of the affections. 98. orientation 99. three reasons are given in the ritual to explain why our lodges are set east and west. in the first place, the sun rises in the east, and the sun is regarded in masonry as a symbol of divinity. secondly, all the

at. but in their separate appearances, the holy ghost is the maker or builder of the outer world, and the son is the life in all beings, the glight that lighteth every man that cometh into the world h. every material object in the world is part of the being of god the holy ghost in this large sense, and every life or consciousness is part of the consciousness of god the son, who is the manifested solar logos. behind these, invisible and beyond all imagining, is the ineffable glory and happi-ness of the father. 139. both the holy ghost and the son are in turn triune; wisdom, strength and beauty are the three qualities of god the holy ghost, and they form the three supports of the objective world, as they also mark out its three divisions. these divisions are (1) the visible world of materia

e action of the second aspect, god the son, bending down into incarnation and raising humanity from within. 184. the crossed palm-leaves here indicate the lipika, the lords of karma, who work through the four kings of the elements symbolized by similar leaves on tat. they are unconnected with the rest of the design because they represent forces not confined to our planetary scheme, or even to our solar system; they administer a law which rules the whole universe, which angels and men alike obey. 185. the upper segment of the spheroid, beyond the disc, was left entirely bare of ornament, in order to indicate that beyond all that could be symbolized there was yet something more, out of manifestation, and therefore entirely inexpressible. 186. another reason for the placing of these two pilla

ickly and quite perfectly without having to look at a copy. 275. in the diagram of the t c b c we see the altar, and on it the v.s.l. from that a ladder goes up to the seven-pointed star, which represents the monad in man, in whom the seven types of life or consciousness are all to be perfect to the limits of human possibility. that star represents also the logos, the supreme consciousness of our solar system, god fs consciousness, which is already perfected in a degree altogether beyond human comprehension. 276. the ladder has many steps, which indicate the virtues by means of which we may ascend to the perfection symbolized by the star. in egypt those steps were taken to express the initiations leading upwards; but of course these are only two interchangeable methods of expressing the sa

309. all this dedicated thought forms the basis of the splendid edifice which the lodge is about to build, the true temple of which the earthly one is an outer symbol, a temple of finer matter through which perfectly real work can be done and enormous volumes of spiritual influence can be distributed. this temple is also an image of the vortex which t.g.a.o.t.u. made when he was about to form his solar system. he began by limiting himself, by marking out the limitations of his system, within which he set up a vast etheric vortex, the remains of which we find today in the system of revolving planets condensed from the original nebula, as it cooled and descended into denser physical matter. 310. in co-masonic lodges the procession has at its head a thurifer swinging a censer, giving off the

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

sitive aspect of the deity; she on the left has an aura of similar light, veined with silver, and represents isis, the moon and truth, the negative or feminine aspect of the divine glory. their power is stern and splendid; and they give strength to act with decision, accuracy, courage and perseverance on the physical plane. they belong to the cosmic orders of angels, those who are common to other solar systems besides our own, and their permanent centres of consciousness are on the intuitional plane, although their forms may always be seen hovering over the head of the initiate of this degree at the higher mental level. it is to be remembered that there is in reality no sex among these great angels, yet one of them is preponderatingly masculine in appearance, and the other preponderatingly

nded in that great religion to the birth of christ in bethlehem in the christian presentation. horus was born of isis, the virgin-mother; at his birth the star shone forth, and the angelic hosts sang their song of triumph; he was adored by shepherds and wise men, and saved from danger which threatened him from without. in the book of the dead it is said: i know the power of the east, horus of the solar mount, the star of dawn. the story of the initiate is the story of the sun-god, the universal christ who is born into the heart of man, and his mystic birth is the purpose of the first great initiation. 191. if the candidate had not already passed through them, as most students in the mysteries would have done, he had at this stage to undergo the trials by earth, water, air and fire, learnin

esis was also continued. in the greater mysteries instead of being instructed only as to the broad outlines of evolution by reincarnation (which does not appear to have been clearly taught in the outer religion, and the previous races of mankind, the initiates now received a description of the whole scheme as we have it to-day, including the seven great chains of worlds and their positions in the solar system as a whole. their terms were different from ours, but the instruction was in essence the same; where we speak of successive life-waves and outpourings, they spoke of aeons and emanations, but there is no doubt that they were fully in touch with the facts, and that they represented them to their pupils in wonderful visions of cosmic processes and their terrestrial analogies. 368. just

and to which the sacred chants were sung. there were also the toys of bacchus, with which he was playing when he was seized by the titans and torn to pieces- very remarkable toys, full of significance. the dice with which he plays are the five platonic solids, the only regular polygons possible in geometry. they are given in a fixed series, and this series agrees with the different planes of the solar system. each of them indicates, not the form of the atoms of the different planes, but the lines along which the power works which surrounds those atoms. those polygons are the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron and the icosahedron. if we put the point at one end and the sphere at the other we have a set of seven figures, corresponding to the number of planes in our sola

try. yet another was a ball which represented the earth, that particular part of the planetary chain to which the thought of the logos is specially directed at the moment. also he played with a mirror. the mirror has always been a symbol of the astral light, in which the archetypal ideas are reflected and then materialized. thus each of those toys indicates an essential part in the evolution of a solar system. 383. the hidden mysteries 384. the two divisions of the lesser and greater mysteries above-mentioned were generally known, but it was not known that there was always, behind and above those, the greater mystery of the path of holiness, the steps of which are the five great initiations already mentioned. the very existence of the possibility of that future advancement was not certainl

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

he demons, being wise and powerful beings, and able to harness the elements and powers of the universe, kept mostly to themselves, from what we are told. that is, until they heard something distant and disturbing. from the blackness in our corner in the universe something wondrous occurred. there was a storm in the blackness, of fire and debris, an implosion, a rumble, and from it was birthed our solar system. the demons heard the commotion, and by bending time and space, ascended to the new system. as they touched each mass the elements blended together and dissipated. but then the demonic elements (lucifer, leviathan, belial, flereous, and satan) touched the earth and, because of its existing condition, the combined elements created an atmosphere that would harbor life. it was satan who

obayashi, hiroshi, ed. death and afterlife: perspectives ofworld religions.westport, ct: greenwood press, 1992. zimmer, heinrich. philosophies of india. new york: bollingen, 1951. sammael a combination of sam (poison) and el (angel, sammael has been considered both as evil and good; as the chief ruler of the fifth heaven, as that great serpent with 12 wings that draws after him, in his fall, the solar system (rev. 12, as well as the angel of death, whom god sent to fetch the soul of moses at the time of his death. sammael is regarded in rabbinic literature as chief of the satans and as the angel of death. in the secrets of enoch he represents the prince of demons and a magician. sammael is mentioned in a number of sources, such as talmud yalkut, where he represents esau s guardian angel

ity to choose between him and his rival, and cast them down to the earth. also, according to the church father origen, there were some doubtful angels who were uncertain whether to take the side of god or that of lucifer. it was from these hesitant and irresolute creatures that humans are thought to have originated. other commentators have speculated that this battle took place on a planet in the solar system that exploded and gave rise to the asteroid belt between mars and jupiter. in literature, the most significant story about the war in heaven is john milton s multivolume paradise lost, in which an arrogant satan leads rebelling angels against faithful ones defending the mount of god in heaven. after being thrown out of heaven, satan eventually corrupts the first humans to revenge hims

LIBER O

further means of identifying the human consciousness with that pure portion of it which man calls by the name of some god, let him act thus: 4 (a) stand with arms outstretched note 1 (see illustration, in equinox no. 2, p. 13 (b) breathe in deeply through the nostrils, imagining the name of the god desired entering with the breath (c) let that name descend slowly from the lungs to the heart, the solar plexus, the navel, the generative organs, and so to the feet (d) the moment that it appears to touch the feet, quickly advance the left foot about 12 inches, throw forward the body, and let the hands (drawn back to the side of the eyes) shoot out, so that you are standing in the typical position of the god horus, and at the same time imagine the name as rushing up and through the nostrils wi

LIBER 777

ian attribution of parts of the soul. cxvii. the soul (hindu. cxviii. the chakkras or centres of prana (hinduism. cxix. the ten fetters (buddhism. 0 hammemit. 1 kha, or yekh atma sahasrara (above head) aruparga 2 khai, or ka buddhi ajna (pineal gland) vikkikika 3 ba, or baie higher manas visuddhi (larynx) rupraga 4 silabata paramesa 5 patigha 6 lower manas anahata (heart) udakkha 7 kama manipura (solar plexus) mano 8 aib prana svadistthana (navel) sakkya-ditti 9 hati linga sharira muladhara (lingam and anus) kama 1010 kheibt, khat, tet, sahu sthula sharira avigga cxx. magical images of the sephiroth. cxxi* the grades of the order. cxxii. the ten plagues of egypt. 0. 08=0. 1 ancient bearded king seen in profile 10 =18 ipsissimus death of first-born 2 almost any male image shows some aspect

-century writers such as budge. line 1: asar is better known by the hellenized form osiris; asar-un-nefer( osiris the beautiful) was a particular epiphet or title of this god. hadith in this line (also hadit in line 0) is not a historical egyptian deity but refers to the entity described in cap. ii of the book of the law; the name is a garbled or corrupt form of heru- behutet (horus of behutet, a solar-martial form of horus symbolized by the winged disk. heru- ra-ha is not a historical egyptian deity but is mentioned in cap. iii of the book of the law and is said to combine hoor-par-kraat (horus the child) and ra-hoor-khuit (ra-horus of the two horizons. line 6: on was not an egyptian deity but a transliteration into hebrew( a or wa) of the name of the egyptian solar cult-centre called hel

of harmachis (hor-maku, said by budge (gods of the egyptians vol. i p. 470) to be the greek name for heru-khuti, horus of the two horizons, who represented the sun from sunrise to sunset. line 13: chomse also spelt khons or khensu. in one legend (cited by budge, op. cit. i, 448) he is said to be the son of the cat goddess bast who was also associated with the moon (to complicate matters bast has solar aspects in some accounts. lines 16, 32-bis: ahapshi is the apis bull (gd coptic spelling. ameshet is amset (or mestha, one of the children of horus. line 17: the rekti goddesses and merti goddesses both appear to have been specific titles or epiphets of isis and nephthys. see above for heru-ra-ha. line 19: pasht (according to budge, op. cit. i, 517) is pekh or pekhit, a minor lioness goddess

LIBER ALEPH

d do. a liber aleph vel cxi 18% de somno lucido (of the sleep of light) ow know this also that at the end of that secret way lieth a garden wherein is a rest house prepared for thee. for to him whose physical needs of whatever kind are not truly satisfied cometh a lunar or physical sleep appointed to refresh and recreate by cleansing and repose; but on him that is bodily pure the lord bestoweth a solar or lucid sleep, wherein move images of pure light fashioned by the true will. and this is called by the qabalists the sleep of shiloam, and of this doeth also porphyry make mention mention, and cicero, with many other wise men of old time. compare, o my son, with this doctrine that which was taught thee in the sanctuary of the gnosis concerning the death of the righteous; and learn moreover

oly ghost, whose name is hriliu. these are then the sun, mercury, and venus, whose sacred letters are r (r, b (b, and d (d. but the last of the diverse letters is h (h, which in the tarot is the star whose eidolon is d (d; and herein is that arcanum concerning the tao of which i have already written. of this will i not write more plainly. but mark this, that our trinity is our path inwards in the solar system, and that h being of our lady nuith starry, is an anchor to this magick which else were apt to deny our wholeness of relation to the outer as to the inner. my son, ponder these words, and profit by them; for i have wrought cunningly to conceal or to reveal, according to thine intelligence, o my son! b liber aleph vel cxi 88 gi de quibusdam artibus magicis (of certain magick arts) ow o

LIBER BATRACHOPHNEROBOOCOSMOMACHIA

this picture be practised month after month until it is absolutely perfect. the tendency which may manifest itself to pass into dhyana and samadhi must be resolutely combated with the whole strength of the mind. let the practicus then re-commence the picture, starting from the sun, and adding the planets one by one, each with its proper motion, until he have an image perfect in all respect of the solar system as it actually exists. let him particularly note that unless the apparent size approximate to the real, his practice is wasted. let him then add a comet to the picture; he may find, perhaps that the path of this comet may assist him to expand the sphere of his mental vision until it include a star. and thus, gathering one star after another, let his contemplation become vast as the he

LIBER CCXLII AHA

, the ice, the sheer wall of the precipice! master the cornice, gain the breach, and learn what next the ridge can teach! yet.not the ridge itself may speak the secret of the final peak. olympas. all ridges join at last. marsyas. admitted, o thou astute and subtle-witted! yet one.loose, jagged, clad in mist! another.firm, smooth, loved and kissed by the soft sun! our order hath this secret of the solar path, even as our lord the beast hath won the mystic number of the sun. olympas. these secrets are too high for me. marsyas. nay, little brother! come and see! neither by faith nor fear nor awe approach the doctrine of the law! truth, courage, love, shall win the bout, and those three others be cast out. olympas. lead me, master, by the hand gently to this gracious land! aha! 35 let me drink

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

ng the whole sankhara-dhatu (the tendency of the being john st. john) was operating aright. now by no effort of will can he flog his tired cattle along the trail. so poor a thing is he that he will even seek an oracle from the book of zoroaster.1 done. zoroaster respectfully wishes to point out that .the most mystic of discourses informs us.his wholeness is in the supra-mundane order; for there a solar world and boundless light subsist, as the oracles of the chaldeans affirm. not very helpful, is it? as if divination could ever help on such exalted planes! as if the trumpery elementals that operate these things possessed the secrets of the destiny of an adept, or could help him in his agony! for this reason, divination should be discarded from the start: it is only a .mere toy, the basis o

LIBER DXXXVI

his picture be practised month after month until it is absolutely perfect. the tendency which may manifest itself to pass into dhy.na and s.madhi must be resolutely combated with the whole strength of the mind. let the practicus then re-commence the picture, starting from the sun, and adding the planets one by one, each with its proper motion, until he have an image perfect in all respects of the solar system as it actually exists. let him particularly note that unless the apparent size approximate to the real, his practice is wasted. let him then add a comet to the picture; he may find, perhaps, that the path of this comet may assist him to expand the sphere of his mental vision until it include a star. and thus, gathering one star after another, let his contemplation become vast as the h

LIBER LVII

e will 41 [in the apocalpyse of john. t.s] on the qabalah 33 extended through motion. 64= 26, will be the perfect number of matter, for it is 8, the first cube, squared. so we find it a mercurial number, as if the solidity of matter was in truth eternal change. 35. alga, a name of god= ateh gibor le-olahm adonai .to thee be the power unto the ages, o my lord. 35= 5 7. 7= divinity, 5= power. 36. a solar number. hla. otherwise unimportant, but it is the mystic number of mercury. 37. hdyjy. the highest principle of the soul, attributed to kether. note 37= 111 3. 38. note 38 11= 418 q.v. in part ii. 39. dja hwhy, jehovah is one. 39= 13 3. this is then the affirmation of the aspiring soul. 40. a .dead. number of fixed law, 4 10, tetragrammaton, the lesser countenance immutable in the heaviness

LIBER O

etched (see illustration (b) breathe in deeply through the nostrils, imagining the* this injunction does not apply to gods like ptah or harpocrates whose natures do not accord with this gesture [note added in the version of .liber o. in magick in theory and practice] svb figvra vi. 5 name of the god desired entering with the breath (c) let that name descend slowly from the lungs to the heart, the solar plexus, the navel, the generative organs, and so to the feet (d) the moment that it appears to touch the feet, quickly advance the left foot about twelve inches, throw forward the body, and let the hands (drawn back to the side of the eyes) shoot out, so that you are standing in the typical position of the god horus* and at the same time imagine the name as rushing up through the body, while

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h ebeu g thou wanderer, spirit of all! h phi-theta-soe g thou shining force of breath! thou lion-serpent-sun! thou saviour, save! h ib g thou ibis, secret solitary bird, inviolate wisdom, whose word is truth, creating the world by its magick! h thiaf g o sun iaf! o lion-serpent sun the beast that whirlest forth, a thunderbolt, begetter of life! h (the conception is of air, glowing, inhabited by a solar- phallic bird, gthe holy ghost, h of a mercurial nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me* the letter f is used to represent the hebrew vau and the greek digamma

he wheel, o my father, o satan, o sun! h sotou g thou, the saviour! h mudorio g silence! give me thy secret! h phalarthao g give me suck, thou phallus, thou sun! h ooo g satan, thou eye, thou lust! satan, thou eye, thou lust! satan, thou eye, thou lust! h aepe gthou self-caused, self-determined, exalted, most high! h the bornless one (vide supra (the conception is of fire, glowing, inhabited by a solar- phallic lion of an uranian nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. section d. water. hear me. ru-abra-iaf* gthou the wheel, thou the womb, that containeth the

even! h aphen-iaf g thou treasure of iaf! h i g thou virgin twin-sexed! thou secret seed! thou inviolate wisdom! h photheth g abode of the light c h abrasax g c of the father, the sun, of hadit, of the spell of the aon of horus! h aeoou g our lady of the western gate of heaven! h ischure g mighty art thou! h8 mighty and bornless one (vide supra (the conception is of water, glowing, inhabited by a solar- phallic dragon-serpent, of a neptunian nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. section e. earth i invoke thee. ma go mother! o truth! h barraio g thou mass! h

defining it will not deter the intrepid initiate (in view of the fact that the fundamental conception is beyond the normal categories of reason. point i 7 ioel g hail, thou that art! h kotha g thou hollow one! h athor-e-bal-o g thou goddess of beauty and love, whom satan, beholding, desireth! h abraft g the fathers, male-female, desire thee! h (the conception is of earth, glowing, inhabited by a solar- phallic hippopotamus* of a venereal nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. section f. spirit. hear me. aft gmale-female spirits! h abaft gmale-female sires!

-hoor-khuit! h iaf9 g hail, great wild beast! hail, i a o! h* sacred to ahathoor. the idea is that of the female conceived as invulnerable, reposeful, of enormous swallowing capacity, etc. the word that goeth from (a) free breath (u) through willed breath (m) and stopped breath (gn) to continuous breath, thus symbolizing the whole course of spiritual life. a is the formless zero; u is the sixfold solar sound of physical life, the triangle of soul being entwined with that of body; m is the silence of gdeath h; gn is the nasal sound of generation and knowledge. liber samekh svb figvra dccc 8 section ff. 1. this is the lord of the gods. 2. this is the lord of the universe. 3. this is he whom the winds fear. 4. this is he, who having made voice by his commandment is lord of all things, king, r

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uch the muladhara cakkra, crying, hadit! 3. let him, retracing the line, touch the centre of his breast an cry ra-hoor-khuit! the horizontal components of the enchantment. 1. let him touch the centre of his forehead, his mouth, and his larynx, crying aiwaz! 2. let him draw his thumb from right to left across his face at the level of the nostrils. 3. let him touch the centre of his breast, and his solar plexus, crying, therion! 4. let him draw his thumb from left to right across his breast, at the level of the sternum. 5. let him touch the svadistthana, and the muladhara chakkra, crying, babalon! 6. let him draw his thumb from right to left across his abdomen, at the level of the hips (thus shall he formulate the sigil of the grand hierophant, but dependent from the circle) the asseveration

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longitude 4.28 w. 4 liber v vel reguli 3. let him, retracing the line, touch the centre of his breast, and cry ra-hoor-khuit! the horizontal component of the enchantment. 1. let him touch the centre of his forehead, his mouth, and his larynx, crying aiwaz! 2. let him draw his thumb from right to left across his face at the level of the nostrils. 3. let him touch the centre of his breast, and his solar plexus, crying therion! st 4. let him draw his thumb from left to right across his breast at the level of the sternum. 5. let him touch the sv.dis.t.h.na. and the m.l.dh.ra cakra, crying babalon! 6. let him draw his thumb from right to left across his abdomen, at the level of the hips (thus shall he formulate the sigil of the grand hierophant, but dependent from the circle) the asseveration

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

and who was widely read and very influential for the entire second half of the nineteenth century. muller fs theory of myth was actually based on the notion of a gdisease of language, h the idea that language itself was inadequate to express everything it had to and therefore was a major contributor to the development of gods and myths, which grew out of linguistic confusion. muller was an ardent solar mythologist (one who thought that nearly all myths were symbolic stories about the rising and setting sun, light and darkness, and the seasons, and he had followers who were even more ardent than he, if less learned. the indiscriminate aligning of narrative elements to natural phenomena led to the eventual discrediting of comparative mythology, not least when andrew lang, a critic of max mul

ly all myths were symbolic stories about the rising and setting sun, light and darkness, and the seasons, and he had followers who were even more ardent than he, if less learned. the indiscriminate aligning of narrative elements to natural phenomena led to the eventual discrediting of comparative mythology, not least when andrew lang, a critic of max muller, demonstrated that muller himself was a solar myth. the discrediting of nature mythology coincided with the growth of anthropology based on field observation in a single culture, and the result was the introduction 31 demise of comparative mythology in the early part of the twentieth century. but georges dumezil, the great comparativist, began his academic career at the same time, trained by the indo-european linguist antoine meillet bu

are most used to a linear system, since it characterizes our judeo-christian tradition, which sees a clear progression from the creation of the world through a long present leading to a last time, a day of judgment, an end of history. similarly, our science gives us increasing detail concerning the origin of the entire universe. we live in the long aftermath of the big boom and the origin of our solar system, and we know that in due course our sun will die. in a cyclical system, however, such a linear progression repeats itself endlessly; each end is followed by a new beginning. determining the time system of scandinavian mythology presents special challenges because many of the sources were recorded by christians, whose notion of time was linear and whose notion of history called for an

an island of that name. the simplest explanation might be to regard the brisings as dwarfs, the ones who, according to sorla thattr, made freyja fs precious necklace. references and further reading: perhaps the most famous treatment of the brisinga men is an essay by karl mullenhoff, gfrija und der halsbandmythus, h zeitschrift fur deutsches altertumn 30 (1886: 217.260, which argues for a kind of solar myth that, as f. klaeber put it, gcompels admiration rather than acceptance h (beowulf and the fight at finnsburg: edited with introduction, bibliography, notes, glossary, and appendices, 3rd ed, with first and second supplements [boston: d. c. heath, 1950, 178. the archaeological background is explored by birgit arrhenius, gdet flammande smycket, h fornvannen 57 (1962: 79.101, and gzum symb

n from earth. as part of the creation of the asir, that is, the cosmos, mani must be destroyed at ragnarok, but this is not explicitly stated, except perhaps by snorri, who tells about managarm, who will swallow a heavenly body that may be the moon. see also bil and hjuki; managarm; mundilfoeri; sol. references and further reading: although mani obviously figured prominently in nineteenth-century solar mythological readings of the mythology, such readings have faded away. an exception was leonhard franz, gdie geschichte vom monde in der snorra-edda h mitteilungen der islandfreunde 10 (1922.1923: 45.48, which argued for a kind of lunar mythology. ernst alfred philippson, germanisches heidentum bei den angelsachsen, kolner anglistische arbeiten, 4 (leipzig: b. tauchnitz, 1929, nicely surveye

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mately revealed as the lord of light. upon the great meeting of lilith, the witch queen of the sabbat, shall the woman emerge as the model for the goddess to manifest in the earth. therefore shall the woman dress, think and align herself with this positive and balanced image of death and life, that through the witchcraft shall she set herself up as queen and mistress of the beast 666, whom is the solar force of creation and joy. the woman is highly respected in the witches sabbat path, as she is the beauty, life and joy of the feminine which is beheld in us all. it is through her womb that the night transfers knowledge and one must seek to continually manifest this through the individual, being male or female. the sabbat is the manifestation of the witch queen in all of her aspects, thus s

triangle blue for air lower west triangle green for water upper east triangle yellow for earth lower east triangle red for fire the circle surrounding the hexagram within the circle is significant in the words of power used. ahkh-ka-djed which is derived from charles pace. ahkh/akhu is ba and ka in union and the symbol of immortality, or life. ka is the holy guardian angel or higher familiar, the solar force or true will that guides our movement and direction towards our infinite possibility. djed is the holy union with the dead, the spine or backbone, the supporting base. these words in union represent the great work and 19 infinite possibility of the magickian. the individual is no longer bound by the dogmatic definitions of the forefathers, black or white magick, black brothers; all of

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ies. one is the sun, which delivers tremendous amounts of energy to earth in the form of heat and light. the other is heat that comes from earth itself, through the decay of radioactive elements present in the crust and in the magma, as well as some residual heat that resulted from earth s formation 4.5 billion years ago. indeed, earth was formed from colliding smaller bodies present in the young solar system. the kinetic energy of these colliding bodies was transformed into heat, which is still dissipating today. as a matter of fact, the energy necessary to maintain life on earth today is still ultimately provided by the sun in the form of visible light. indeed, the energy of sunlight is massively converted into organic molecules thanks to plant photosynthesis mediated by chlorophyll. alm

order) where it appears. to exist, ordered systems need a source of external energy in order to stay far from thermodynamic equilibrium. but also, since these systems decrease entropy locally by gaining order, for the second law to be obeyed, entropy must increase elsewhere. what, then, is the entropy sink? ultimately, this sink is the whole universe. thus, as life, or any kind of order, such as solar systems or new stars forming in galactic dust clouds, appears somewhere, the entropy of the whole universe increases. in effect, dissipative systems dump entropy into the universe and so maintain themselves. f igure 5.2 bifurcations in unstable systems far from equilibrium. the vertical axis represents the various states that can be assumed by a system. the horizontal axis represents a distu

colleagues, we think they are less developed than the sequence we explain below. hydrogen is by far the most abundant element in the universe. it is present in its molecular form (h2) in high concentrations in the atmospheres of the giant gas planets, notably jupiter and saturn. thus, hydrogen is thought to have been part of the primeval atmosphere of all planets right after the formation of the solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago. hydrogen is no longer found at significant concentrations in the atmospheres of rocky planets such as venus, earth, and mars. this is because the low gravity of these planets compared to that of the gas giants could not prevent the escape of hydrogen into space. however, recent calculations have shown that hydrogen may have represented at least 30% of ear

coordinated hypercycles, particularly inside liposomes. this is a difficult problem, and there is no denying it it will take some time to solve it. 128 evolution and religious creation myths the rna world is thought to have appeared about 3.8 billion years ago, soon after our planet stopped experiencing frequent bombardments by very large meteorites and comets left over from the formation of the solar system. but next, there is the question of the transition from an rna world to a dna world, which is the living world as we know it today. this transition, which is thought to have occurred at least as early as 3.5 billion years ago, may not have been as daunting a problem as one might think. again, modern cells have retained a memory of the rna world in that the building blocks of dna are m

erse. as we know, this view was endorsed by the catholic church for many centuries and was officially rescinded only recently in an official, and much belated, apology to galileo. in the meantime, modern astronomy has shown that nearby stars also have planetary companions; our sun s planetary system is no longer unique in the universe. in fact, it now seems that planetary systems analogous to our solar system are common in our stellar neighborhood. these systems seem to be a evolution of the dna world 171 direct consequence of star formation, with primeval circumstellar dust disks coalescing into planets, given enough time. moreover, recent observations suggest that some stars are orbited by rocky planets just like our own. although our telescopic techniques are not quite sophisticated eno

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liph at mamoun--the passageways and chambers of the great pyramid--the riddle of the sphinx--the pyramid mysteries--the secret of the pyramid coffer-the dwelling place of the hidden god. 41 isis, the virgin of the world the birthdays of the gods--the murder of osiris--the hermetic isis--the symbols peculiar to isis--the troubadours--the mummification of the dead. 45 the sun, a universal deity the solar trinity-christianity and the sun--the birthday of the sun--the three suns- the celestial inhabitants of the sun--the midnight sun. 49 the zodiac and its signs primitive astronomical instruments--the equinoxes and solstices--the astrological ages of the world--the circular zodiac of tentyra--an interpretation of the zodiacal signs- the horoscope of the world. 53 the bembine table of isis plat

or, like the romans, a two-faced janus. p. 20 always followed by the process of dissolution. according to spencer, however, disintegration took place only that reintegration might follow upon a higher level of being. the chief position in the italian school of philosophy should be awarded to giordano bruno, who, after enthusiastically accepting copernicus' theory that the sun is the center of the solar system, declared the sun to be a star and all the stars to be suns. in bruno's time the earth was regarded as the center of all creation. consequently when he thus relegated the world and man to an obscure corner in space the effect was cataclysmic. for the heresy of affirming a multiplicity of universes and conceiving cosmos to be so vast that no single creed could fill it, bruno paid the f

, to be courageous when confronted by danger, to be true in the midst of temptation, and, most of all, to view a worthy life as the most acceptable sacrifice to god, and his body as an altar sacred to the deity. sun worship played an important part in nearly all the early pagan mysteries. this indicates the probability of their atlantean origin, for the people of atlantis were sun worshipers. the solar deity was usually personified as a beautiful youth, with long golden hair to symbolize the rays of the sun. this golden sun god was slain by wicked ruffians, who personified the evil principle of the universe. by means of certain rituals and ceremonies, symbolic of purification and regeneration, this wonderful god of good was brought back to life and became the savior of his people. the secr

a male and a female aspect, though not himself androgynous. as mithras, he is the ford of the sun, powerful and radiant, and most magnificent of the yazatas (izads, or genii, of the sun. as mithra, this deity represents the feminine principle; the mundane universe is recognized as her symbol. she represents nature as receptive and terrestrial, and as fruitful only when bathed in the glory of the solar orb. the mithraic cult is a simplification of the more elaborate teachings of zarathustra (zoroaster, the persian fire magician. click to enlarge the ground plan of stonehenge. from maurice's indian antiquities. the druid temples of places of religious worship were not patterned after those of other nations. most of their ceremonies were performed at night, either in thick groves of oak tree

mithraics. this cult is another excellent example of those secret societies whose legends are largely symbolic representations of the sun and his journey through the houses of the heavens. mithras, rising from a stone, is merely the sun rising over the horizon, or, as the ancients supposed, out of the horizon, at the vernal equinox. john o'neill disputes the theory that mithras was intended as a solar deity. in the night of the gods he writes "the avestan mithra, the yazata of light, has '10,000 eyes, high, with full knowledge (perethuvaedayana, strong, sleepless and ever awake (jaghaurvaunghem.'the supreme god ahura mazda also has one eye, or else it is said that 'with his eyes, the sun, moon and stars, he sees everything' the theory that mithra was originally a title of the supreme heav

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ngs of the deep mind. as such, this heavenly body rather than the sun is the main concern of witches. in european mythology the sun has always been seen as a symbol of a male divinity, the moon a female one. however, worship of the moon as a supreme deity evolved much earlier than that of the sun. it is said among witches that in england at least the cult of the moon goddess predated the druidic, solar religion, and that it is from this early prytanic religion that four of the great annual witch festivals are derived. these are the nights of october 31 (halloween; february 2 (candlemas; april 30 (beltane, and august 1 (lammas. of these, beltane and halloween are the more important. the four solar fire festivals of the druids are also observed, though to a lesser extent. these are midwinter

lar fire festivals of the druids are also observed, though to a lesser extent. these are midwinter, spring, midsummer, and autumn as marked by the solstices and equinoxes, and these together with the preceding four make eight sabbats, or festivals, of the witches' year. the practical import of the sabbats is this: halloween, candlemas, beltane, and lammas mark the beginning of each quarter of the solar-tide cycle; first the tide of destruction and winter is initiated with halloween, the feast of the dead, the first day of the witches' year. the dark tide of destruction reaches its high point at midwinter, the winter solstice. candlemas marks the end of the reign of the king of winter, lord of misrule, and the first stirrings of the bright tide of summer. at the time of the vernal equinox

felt at lammas, the time of fruition and harvest when the crops are gathered in and fruits begin to ripen. at the autumnal equinox, the two tide again stand equally opposed, the bright tide waning, the dark ever increasing. at halloween the tide of darkness again enters its full spate, and so the cycle recommences. to farmers and those whose work is subject to the seasons the ebb and flow of the solar tide is, of course, second nature, for it influences the entire life cycle of all that grove upon the earth. but for witches, it is observed chiefly in coven activities directed at drawing down elemental group power, hence the timing of their sabbats. the coven is seen to consist of a group mind which needs to be periodically recharged with power. this belief they hold in common with many or

ne of the nephelim, and in eastern fable, he is accounted one of the seventy-two lords of the djinn. your experiment should be performed during clear weather, when the moon is two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, or fourteen days old, and thereby, of course, always on the increase. so great is the power of vassago, however (he is a "prince" in the hierarchy, that he is not bound by any sidereal or solar rules of time, and therefore may be summoned at any hour of the day or night. he is to be called only in matters of extreme perplexity, when all lesser methods of divination have availed you naught. although he is "good by nature" it is extremely important to remember that he is one of the seventytwo from of old, a being formed out of primordial fire eons before man evolved into his present

um, the nervous and physical depletion visited upon the participants can prove truly onerous, and in some extremely rare cases, fatal. for this reason the ritual is often reserved for full-coven performance at sabbat on those occasions when it is employed, in this way providing a good complement of participants to act as energy donors. the best time for practising necromancy, however, is when the solar power is waning to its lowest ebb between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice; this fact is made use of in the traditional witch festival, halloween, wherein necromancy is employed. this is, of course, the feast of the dead, one of the four great sabbats (see chapter 7 "the coven and how to form one" for more on this) however, complications aside, necromancy is one of the more spect

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

d guidance of those terrestrial things which are submitted to the power of man. there are different kinds of spirits, according to the things over which they preside, some of them govern the empyrean heaven, others the primum mobil, others the first and second crystalline, others the starry heaven; there are also spirits of the heaven of saturn, which i call saturnites. there are jovial, martial, solar, venerean, mercurial, and lunar spirits; there are also (spirits) in the elements as well as in the heavens, there are some in the fiery region, others in the air, others in the water, and others upon the earth, which can all render service to that man who learns their nature, and knows how to attract them. furthermore, i wish to make thee understand that god hath destined to each one of us

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of the air, which should not be troubled by winds. for when thou shalt have conjured any spirits in any art or experiment, they will not come when the air is troubled or agitated by winds, seeing that spirits have neither flesh nor bones, and are created of different substances. some are created from water. others from wind, unto which they are like. some from earth. some from clouds. others from solar vapors. others from the keenness and strength of fire; and when they are invoked or summoned, they come always with great noise, and with the terrible nature of fire. when the spirits which are created of water are invoked, they come with great rains, thunder, hail, lightning, thunder-bolts, and the like. when the spirits which are created of clouds are invoked, they come with great deformit

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d masculine cherub of the ark, as sandalphon is the left and feminine. on either side is the name "el shaddai" around is written in latin "behold his face and form by whom all things were made, and whom all creatures obey" figure 33. the second pentacle of the sun. this pentacle, and the preceding and following, belong to the nature of the sun. they serve to repress the pride and arrogance of the solar spirits, which are altogether proud and arrogant by their nature. editor s note. mystical characters of the sun and the names of the angels: shemeshiel, paimoniah, rekhodiah, and malkhiel. figure 34. the third pentacle of the sun. this serveth in addition (to the effects of the two preceding) to acquire kingdom and empire, to inflict loss, and to acquire renown and glory, especially through

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of paradise, for" nothing unclean can enter into the holy place" which elsewhere in our scriptures is called the kingdom of heaven. what then is this" centre" by reviving and using which we may hope to regain the secrets of our lost nature? we may reason from analogies. as the divine life and will is the centre of the whole universe and controls it; as the sun is the centre and life-giver of our solar system and controls and feeds with life the planets circling round it, so at the secret centre of individual human life exists a vital, immortal principle, the spirit and the spiritual will of man. this is the faculty, by using which (when we have found it) we can never err. it is a point within the circle of our own nature and, living as we do in this physical world, the circle of our exist

e" sun" which, like joshua, he prays may" stand still" and its light be retained by him until he has achieved the conquest of all these enemies. the problem of the much discredited biblical miracle of the sun standing still in the heavens disappears when its true meaning is perceived in the light of the interpretation given by the compilers of the masonic ritual, who well knew that it was not the solar orb that was miraculously stayed in its course in violation of natural law, but that the "sun" in question denotes an enlightened perceptive state experienced by every one who in this" valley of ajalon" undertakes the task of self-conquest and" fighting the battles of the lord" against his own lower propensities. we have now spoken of the senior and junior wardens in their respective psychol

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empyrean13 realms of which light is best experienced, the air and astral plane, from which all wind rushes about you like a tornado, where flame and sun envelopes your being and your astral body is purified by flame. the embodiment of wisdom in western occultism is view in the anthropomorphic form of baphomet, called also the sabbatic goat14. the baphometic angel-daemon who resides above a globe (solar) sphere inbetween twilight and night, two moons, the dark (hecate) and the light (lilith or yram-satrina. to the initiate however, lucifer or the baphometic spirit becomes a state which is brought forth or developed to by going forth by night. the path of spirit travel is a temporal process of self emerging from its skin to ascend in the form of shadow, thus willed to manifest in a dreaming

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of dreams. hecate is known as the goddess of witches, being that of sorcery and the cunning craft. the aspects of hecate within roman and greek culture show hecate mostly in a dark or hidden aspect, having three heads (two being animal) and three torches. the vehicle wherein she traveled was a chariot guided by several dragons. a key significance of the dragon is that such beings are connected to solar and lunar eclipses. by an eclipse the water in the lunar sign of cancer is altered in force and substance. dragons (which is a form the varcolaci spirits often take) can transverse the night sky, gathering the blood of the moon. the other aspect of 63 63 hecate, diana, is based on the more balanced side of the lunar goddess. she was the watcher of mountains, forests, childbirth and women. in

oddess. she was the watcher of mountains, forests, childbirth and women. in her dark aspect she was known as the huntress or destroyer. the magick light of hecate is the backwards or 'black' wisdom of lucifer, the morning star. hecate is the lunar mother, to which dream and desire give birth to the flesh of manifestation. the gnostic god lucifer or the morning star is the god of the sun, being of solar energy. lucifer's goddess counter part is the arabian al-uzza, a warrior of the morning star. a combination of both lunar and solar energy, strength and vision. the zos kia cultus presents the 'all- prevailing woman' as a combination of both hag and young woman. the combination equals experience and focus with beauty and grace. the twin aspects of the hidden 'i' as aos termed it was a combat

tiation within luciferian magick, from which shall not be revealed here. baphomet may also be considered the god of knowledge, bringing the balance between the aspects of satan (earth mastery, lord shaitan) and lucifer (air, astral projection/mastery) and the unity of the twin aspects of lilith (earth, night and witchcraft) and babalon (fire, high magick art. the invocation to baphomet is a lunar/solar opening to the mysteries of the night side and the fleshing day side. 71 71 invocation of baphomet "o fire of the black one, illuminate by thy dark presence, let my strength come forth. i am stripped and defaced, to reveal the true self, and its ever changing essence which truth may not be rendered without falsehood. from sabbath flame to witching mire, as we fly through the night let baphom

f the coming of light, therefore of great inspiration leading in reverse towards the moon. a sigil of astral rising should be consecrated by the sorcerer or witch, and then laid upon the altar for each coven member to focus upon. the sigil should be absorbed in the mind, becoming all things of which there is a creative spark or flame. imbolg is the fire festival of lilith babalon in her luciferic solar essence, it is the emergence from the dark of winter the very first signs of the coming of spring and her king, lucifer. around the time of imbolg one may summon forth the essence of lucifera lilith as the goddess which bears the fruit of the earth, cain. implements which provide useful visualizations are the athame (each witch within the rite should possess one, sword, incense burner, conse

nd sorcery. magick is the essence of the sun, being the conscious rise towards godhead. this suggests the key god form of magickal work is lucifer, the bringer of wisdom and the angel of light. magick is of elevation and the noble control of the will through focus and discipline. sorcery and witchcraft are most significant to magick itself due to the essence of such. sorcery is the reverse of the solar path, it is of the moon, hereditary of the exploration of atavisms and the hidden aspects of the self. sorcery is the child of asmodeus, demon/angel of flesh made pleasure and drawing towards the sleeping self. lilith and 102 102 hecate are both the mother of witchcraft and sorcery, lunar fountains emanating the witch blood which all flows backwards into form. zos represents and is considere

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

e plainof happiness, tir fa tonn (land beneath the sea, of tir nam beo (the land of theliving, and of tir nan og (the land of the y oung, or of everlasting youth. as h. g.wells succinctly put it: there is magic in names and the mightiest among these words of magic is atlantisit is as ifthis vision of a lost culture touched the most hidden thoughts of our soul.visitation of beings from outside our solar system is not as farfetched as it might seemand is a possibility greeted by many top scientists, including albert einstein. carlsagan personally estimated that this planet has been visited at least 5,000 times. in thebook, mankind, child of the stars, the authors quote dr. harrison h. brown of thecalifornia institute of technology who they say: estimates that virtually every star in our gala

(isaiah 9:8) lucifers fall by gustave dorefrom the end of heaven4atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation5 chapter 2earth s first delugego and cut off tiamat s life, and let the winds convey her blood to secret places.(the enuma elish)we read from various sources that approximately 50,000 years ago a certain planetarybody in our own solar system was mysteriously destroyed. this body has been calledtiamat, phaeton, lucifer, marduk, maldek, rahab, and even luna (not connected tothe name later given to the moon. it was believed to have existed between mars andjupiter and was referred to as the second sun and may have been mistaken as such,because its atmosphere was resplendent with reflections of the actual sun. this is notas im

ndjupiter and was referred to as the second sun and may have been mistaken as such,because its atmosphere was resplendent with reflections of the actual sun. this is notas improbable as it sounds since v enus, the morning star, the second planet from thesun and the third brightest object in the sky, is so bright that it casts a distinct shadowon a moonless night.around the time of this event, the solar system, and later the earth, was colonized byextra-terrestrial beings who were either attracted to this solar system by that conflagra-tion or upon coming here caused the calamity themselves. whether the disaster wasnatural or not, the result was that mankind on earth experienced total and long lastingchaos and confusion. the surface of the planet tiamat consisted mostly of greatoceans. upon

full advantage of thispredicament and moved in to bring about colonization. they met no resistance fromthe disoriented and weakened inhabitants of the earth who believed their visitors werepowerful gods.some theorists, like the energetic erich von daniken, have also determined that therewas a great intergalactic war between two (or possibly more) extraterrestrial forces ina neighboring galaxy or solar system. the result of this titanic war had enormous con-earths first deluge6atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation sequences for the earth because, it is postulated, the losers on being pursued into oursystem pretended to take refuge on tiamat. they even erected a makeshift radar-typestation there to decoy their pursuers. however, the defeated ones had really taken ref-uge on p

e and nebulous tradition, really conceals the mostappalling visitation and its ravages in the british isles and scandinavian lands may beretraced to more considerable extent by the effects of what geologists term the drift age.it was no mere ice drift. it was sudden and terribly swift and violent. it permanently affected the world s climate towards greater extremes of cold and damp,lengthened the solar year by enlarging the world s orbit. it shaped world history by compel-ling the flight of survivors to other less inhospitable climes and led in considerable degree tothe dispersion of the aryans. it inundated the british isles for a period to a great extentexcept the higher lands. it was the drowning of atlantis. the flood immortalizes the colli-sion of a fallen planet, later termed satan

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

lucifer am i god. i will devour as much energy as i can. i am both as lucifer and ahriman, lilith and the darkness of night. i will cast aside doubt and illusion and devour the hindering light of god until i am unchallenged! moving the astral body sit in a chair, legs directly in front of you and finger tips touching each other. your hand from the thumb to the forefinger should be raised to your solar plexus level and your two hands touching should form a type of triangle shape with you looking downward at them. 29 start a careful breathing technique, one, two, three and then add a few more seconds between breathes. you will notice you will soon be able to control your heart rate. if you are ever in a situation of being nervous you will be able to utilize this to make yourself think clear

ward off evil would be offensive. in many rituals in the book of the witch moon specifically liber nehebkau, the tuats or underworld hells of ancient egypt have serpent-devils who seduce with their eye and devour. draining energy is best done by the connection to sight. in a crowded room, a concert, a mall, a gathering point watch for those who exhibit a lot of charisma and energy lock into their solar plexus with your eyes, watch then their breathing cycle. with your breathing, draw in and imagine their life essence draining into your being. the significance of the luciferian path in relation to vampirism is devouring god. appling darwinist principles in this magical process will aid the initiatory path of becoming a being like lucifer in the capacity in which you seek to be. it is essent

astral is depending upon the discipline, power and experience of the vampyre. if you have practiced touch vampyrism for some time, your level and power will increase accordingly. sight vampyrism is done so by envisioning a tendril 35 extending from your own astral body to entering your chosen target. it is imperative to not harm anyone. 1. notice energy filled individual. 2. with eyes, lock into solar plexus. imagine serpents or tendrils from your body into their astral body. 3. watch and determine their breathing cycle, you will drain according to this. 4. as they exhale, begin drawing in energy by breathing deeply through both your mouth and nose. bring this breath constant until your lungs are filled. imagine the tendrils are released and drawn back. breath slowly and control your bodi

ting situations. build selfawareness and self-love. non-devouring (self work- the balance of opposites darkness and light, ego higher articulation (intelligence, luciferian angel, demonic aspects (carnal instincts, ahrimanic daemon. chakra three: the navel chakra -naonghaithya black flame of consciousness, ego identity, oriented to self-deification this chakra is known as the power located in the solar plexus. 44 devouring- drains from ego and builds the essence of self from a conscious level. non-devouring (self work- consciousness and empowerment of self. understanding the sense of i. chakra two: the sacral charka- aeshma water, emotional identity and instinct, oriented to selfgratification the second chakra, located in the abdomen, lower back, and sexual organs, is related to the elemen

was the lord of djinn and was said to be made of fire in islamic lore. azazel refused to bow before the clay of adam, 79 saying that it was profane. he was cast from heaven to earth and was indeed the first independent spirit, the initiator of individual and antinomian thought. azazel was later related to the watchers, the hebrew goat demon god and shaitan. azazel is a name of lucifer, who is the solar aspect of the dragon, the bringer of light. azhi [avestan/pahlavi] serpent, snake azhi dahaka [avestan/pahlavi] the son of angra mainyu/ahriman. azhi dahaka as the storm fiend has six eyes, three heads and three pairs of fangs. in human form, he was zohak, an ancient babylonian/scythian/assyrian king or shah, who according to zoroastrian mythology, was transformed into the immortal storm fie

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

e well above their needs of life-force, and can even survive being leeched upon by vampires and other astral entities. vampires use visualization techniques in order to feed from the lifeforce of humans; from across the room they can extend astral tendrils that latch on to the aura of energy surrounding their target and begin drawing that energy into their chakra points. the chakra located at the solar plexus is a favorite target. they may also absorb free-floating lifeforce energy that humans have cast off. places where large numbers of people gather in high emotions tend to be places where energy is produced and floats directionless. this undirected energy tends to collect on objects or people that comprise a focal point of the group. when feeding, vampires feel an increase of strength

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

blood into the grave soil) disrobe, shrouded and lie within your coffin or grave area created in the temple, have the skull familiar close to you and meditate until sleep arrives. record your occurrences on the dreaming plane. when you wish to work with the nephilimic tomb of sah, perform a calling unto it at the noon day tide, which symbolizes the strength of self to withstand and nourish in the solar force of saturnis, or shaitan. call unto the familiar at twilight as well, embracing the night brn shadow form of of the vampyre, which is an extension of your isolate and beautiful mind. ritual of the entrance of the neplilimic tomb of sah the vampyric essence is a form of the shadow of the black magician. the vampyre itself is a being whom is conscious of its essence of being, as well as i

were born by an emanation beneath the throne of god. their shape was an androgynous being, double-faced and thus revealed as a part of the adversary (the opposer, shaitan. samael, in hebrew legend has twelve wings, which integrates azazel (the djinn of fire, shaitan) and samael as lucifer, the force related to the noon-tide sun. samael is thus the devil, one half of the adversary and the creative/solar force of the sun. lilith joined with samael through leviathan, the great dragon. ashmodai was said to be another mate of lilith, whom was said in some hebrew legends to be two aspects of the same goddess. the son of lilith and ashmodai was called sariel, the sword of ashmodai. his face flames with fire. sariel had kept a sealed book of secrets, a grimoire with words of power. the zohar itsel

MIDNIGHTS CIRCLE A COMMENTARY OF AZOTHOZ

the sorcerer in isolation. one should seek the black eagle in dream, in those areas not conceptually noted from which shadows may hide. it is the initiatic guide which grants the knowledge of the darkness in the self. the focus and essence of azothoz lies in dreaming, how this may relate to the individual and what omens are presented. hidden in the gnosis of azothoz is the embrace of the sun, the solar and life giving illumination, but also the scorching and fire influenced spirit of sorat/shaitan/set, which is the core essence of the isolated spirit of the adept. equally the moon and night (darkness) is the gnosis which must be explored through the dreaming essence of lilith az, the emotional, instinctual and sorcerous path. it is the direct transition and embodiment of the adept in the a

MORALS AND DOGMA

ndor, flame, the sun and his rays. the hieroglyphic of the younger horus was the point in a circle; of the elder, a pair of eyes; and the festival of the thirtieth day of the month _epiphi, when the sun and moon were supposed to be in the same right line with the earth, was called"_the birth-day of the eyes of horus" in a papyrus published by champollion, this god is styled"_har-oeri, lord of the solar spirits, the beneficent eye of the sun" plutarch calls him"_har-pocrates" but there is no trace of the latter part of the name in the hieroglyphic legends. he is the son of osiris and isis; and is represented sitting on a throne supported by _lions; the same word, in egyptian, meaning _lion_ and _sun. so solomon made a great throne of ivory, plated with gold, with six steps, at each arm of w

t assiduities, and not by any process of legerdemain, that we secure the strength and the staple of real excellence. it was thus that demosthenes, clause after clause, and sentence after sentence, elaborated to the uttermost his immortal orations. it was thus that newton pioneered his way, by the steps of an ascending geometry, to the mechanism of the heavens, and le verrier added a planet to our solar system. it is a most erroneous opinion that those who have left the most stupendous monuments of intellect behind them, were not differently exercised from the rest of the species, but only differently gifted; that they signalized themselves only by their talent, and hardly ever by their industry; for it is in truth to the most strenuous application of those commonplace faculties which are d

ee chief officers of our lodges, presiding in the three quarters of that universe which our lodges represent; in our three greater and three lesser lights, our three movable and three immovable jewels, and the three pillars that support our lodges. the indian mysteries were celebrated in subterranean caverns and grottos hewn in the solid rock; and the initiates adored the deity, symbolized by the solar fire. the candidate, long wandering in darkness, truly wanted light, and the worship taught him was the worship of god, the source of light. the vast temple of elephanta, perhaps the oldest in the world, hewn out of the rock, and 135 feet square, was used for initiations; as were the still vaster caverns of salsette, with their 300 apartments. the periods of initiation were regulated by the

able conjunction in taurus, by marking the commencement, at once of the sab an year and of the cycle of the chaldean saros, so pre-eminently distinguished that sign as to become its characteristic symbol. on a bronze bull from china, the crescent is attached to the _back_ of the bull, by means of a cloud, and a curved groove is provided for the occasional introduction of the disk of the sun, when solar and lunar time were coincident and conjunctive, at the commencement of the year, and of the lunar cycle. when that was made, the year did not open with the stars in the _head_ of the bull, but when the colure of the vernal equinox passed across the middle or later degrees of the asterism taurus, and the pleiades were, in china, as in canaan, the leading stars of the year. the crescent and di

s that correspond with the autumnal equinox we find those malevolent genii that ever war against the principle of good, and that take from the sun and the heavens the fruit-producing power that they communicate to the earth. with the vernal equinox, dear to the sailor as to the husbandman, came the stars that, with the sun, open navigation, and rule the stormy seas. then the twins plunge into the solar fires, or disappear at setting, going down with the sun into the bosom of the waters. and these tutelary divinities of mariners, the dioscuri or chief cabiri of samothrace, sailed with jason to possess themselves of the golden-fleeced ram, or aries, whose rising in the morning announced the sun's entry into taurus, when the serpent-bearer jason rose in the evening, and, in aspect with the di

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

2-144. there is a technical aspect to the above verse which may be of importance to a certain type of aspirant of either sex. in one sense, sin is but the babylonian moon-god, who is represented on seal- cylinders as an old man with flowing beard. the crescent moon was his symbol. this conception is totally hostile to ours. to us, the moon is a feminine symbol. further, our hermit of the tarot is solar, not lunar' sin' is essentially homosexual. his word is restriction because his nature is twisted. perhaps because of hebrew enslavement by the babylonians, jehovah acquired several of the markedly homosexual characteristics of sin. the god of the jews is a homosexual's concept of maleness: harsh, violent, revengeful, merciless. there are no equilibrating qualities. it is geburah at its wors

ledge, so far as it exists at all, even as a statement of relation, is no more than a momentary phenomenon of consciousness. it is annihilated in the instant of its creation. for no sooner do we assent to arb than arb is absorbed in our conception of a. after the nine- days' wonder of 'the earth revolves around the sun, we modify our former ideas of earth 'earth' is intuitively classed with other solar satellites. the proposition vanishes automatically as it is assimilated. knowledge, while it exists as such, is consequently sub judice, at the best. what then may we understand by this verse, with its capital k for 'knowledge? what is it, and how shall it "go aright? the key is in the word "go. it cannot 'be, as we have seen above; it is the fundamental error of the 'black brothers' in thei

s perception implies three-dimensional space, and time. but note that the mover is himself not moved. the 'cube in the circle' emphasizes this question of dimension. the cube is rectilinear (therefore phallic no less than the axle; its unity suggests perfection projected as a 'solid' for human perception; its square faces affirm balance, equity, and limitation; its six-sidedness sets it among the solar symbols. it is thus like the sun in the zodiac, which is no more than the field for his fulfilment in his going. he, by virtue of his successive relation with each degree of the circle, clothes himself with an appearance of 'matter in motion, although absolute motion through space is a meaningless expression (eddington, space, time and gravitation. none the less, every point in the cube ther

o the third, so that even in a finite universe the sum of the properties of all points is the same, though no two properties maybe common to any two points. thus a circle, bcd, may be described by the revolution of a line ab in a plane about the point a; but also from the point c, or indeed any other point, by the application of the proper analysis and construction. we calculate the motion of the solar system in heliocentric terms for no reason but simplicity and convenience; we could convert our tables to a geocentric basis by mere mechanical manipulation without affecting their truth, which is only the truth of the relations between a number of bodies. all are alike in motion, but we have arbitrarily chosen to consider one of them as stationary, so that we may more easily describe the mo

ar dealing between god and his soul. let it be understood that the immaculate virgin is a necessary concept; but it must be equilibrated by the opposite concept, since no idea that is not thus balanced by its opposite can exist above the abyss. see liber xxv, and liber v, and liber xxx vi. babalon in greek is mapie, maria. she is the immaculate virgin, the woman clothed with the sun maia with the solar "r" in her womb. but she is simultaneously the great whore, the shameless one who gets drunk on the blood of the saints. she is nature, whose mystery is eternally inviolate, the veiled isis; and she is the diana of the ephesians, frenetically copulating with, and giving suck to, all her creatures: isis unveiled, the heavenly and earthly venus. beyond them, uniting their aspects in a single f

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

was almost impossible to discern any demarcations between these christian sects and the derivatives of islam. both sides came closer to one shared ideal. the fatimids of cairo imagined the possibility of a peaceful universalism that was the rebirth of the thought of the pharaoh amenhotep iv. the templars echoed* we should recall that the essenes also dressed in white linen and practiced a form of solar worship. the uniform of the assassins consisted of a white robe, red cap, belt, and boots. the templars, at least the knights in the order, wore a white robe with a red cross on the chest. white is the symbol of light and red is the symbol of fire. the crusades and the templars 79 them on this point by trying to establish cooperative relations between easterners and westerners united in the

doubt that the rooster figured in seals or coats of arms of master masons. in 1438, jehan lambert, master mason of paris, had a rooster with three stars added to his shield.14 the rooster also had a profoundly esoteric significance. without examining too deeply its symbolism, which would necessitate moving well outside the concerns of this book, we can say that this animal was always considered a solar bird. the great initiate rabelais informs us, in pantagruel, book i, chapter 10, that "the presence of the powers of the sun, which is the organ and storehouse of all terrestrial and sidereal universal freemasonry 219 light, is symbolized and represented by a white cock" subsequently, the rooster came to symbolize daybreak and by extension the resurrection. today it still figures in the init

ent in the plastic arts, still speculative freemasonry 225 recalled the tradition, it no longer faithfully translated the civilization and life of that time. the cathedral no longer took the place of all the books. it was no longer the symbol of the faith, of love, of all. the peak of this evolution would be versailles. its strongly emphasized symbolic conception converges toward the unity of the solar majesty, image of the king and no other, who personally embodies grandeur and the perennial. this is a completely different world. based on this shift, it seems incontestable that a ritual continuing to express traditional values in a thirteenth-century christian form, especially occurring as it did among craftsmen, could be nothing less than a teaching that had been passed down from an earl

ONYX TABLET OF SET

it, set became the patron of the two most powerful dynasties in egypt's long history, the xix and xx. herein there is an interesting "theological succession: the early xviii dynasty (ca. 1580-1372) was that of the great amenhoteps, during whose reigns the priesthood of amon at thebes was preeminent. the dynasty disintegrated during the "amarna period (ca. 1372-1343) of akhenaton, during which the solar disk of aton was considered supreme if not indeed all-inclusive of the neteru. when the new xix dynasty arose under rameses i and seti i, the state role of amon was restored- but the pharaohs directed much of their personal efforts towards set. recounts sauneron "the new dynasty in power, careful to appear to be 'restoring everything to order, had many reasons for mistrusting the amonian pri

PATRON OF SORCERY

eir notorious reputation for xenophobia and secrecy. significantly, while these spells span the full range of magical operations, little of a theoretical character is disclosed. in pgm iv 154-285, there's an invocation of the feared one that specifically mentions the defeat of osiris, the dying god, and the setian power over the hypotic gaze of apep, serpent and neter of chaos that threatened the solar barque "oh dark's disturber, thunder's bringer, whirlwind, night- flasher, breather-forth of hot and cold. i'm he who searched with you the whole world and found great osiris, whom i brought you chained. i'm he who joined you in war with the gods! i'm he who closed heav'ns double gates and put to sleep the serpent who must not be seen" later in the same text the magician addresses the rising

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

h of re. tending the earth men plow the earth and sow seed. as re makes his daily journey across the sky (center, the warmth of the sun will make the crops grow another symbol of osiris resurrection from the dead. the egpytian year was made up of 12 lunar months of 30 days, plus another five days to make up the number to 365. however, the egyptians did not add the extra quarter day to make a true solar year. therefore, their calendar drifted slowly out of sync with the astronomical calendar, so that it might officially be summer in the wintertime, or vice versa. the two calendars came back into line every 1,460 years, a mystical cycle for the egyptian priesthood. waters of fruitfulness the goddess nephthys, sister of isis, pours the waters of fruitfulness over the earth, where men hoe the

ven (four not shown here) other gods with horus at the helm. the other gods cannot be identified beyond doubt. the company usually includes three of the earliestcreated gods, sia (perception, hu (utterance, and hike (magic) as well as such important gods as shu, geb, osiris, horus, and thoth. sometimes there are also goddesses in the barque, especially hathor. barque of the sun re is shown in his solar barque, in which he travels through the sky. horus bastet w hen human beings began to plot against the ageing re, he transformed the goddess hathor (the sacred cow of fertility) into a raging lioness, sekhmet. her bloodlust brought plague and death into existence. this goddess, who could only be appeased by being made drunk, gradually became revered under a more gentle guise as the cat godde

o be the sun and the moon; in his role as sun god he merged with re. hence, when he lay dying as a child, the sky went dark (see box above. wife and mother isis was the archetypal wife and mother; with her hand echoing the shape of osiris shoulder, mirrored on the other side by horus, she emphasizes the unity of this family. she is often depicted nursing the infant horus. cow s horns isis wears a solar disc between cow horns, revealing her close affinity with the cow mothergoddess hathor. both isis and hathor were at different times regarded as the mother of horus, and, therefore, of the egyptian king, who was a human manifestation of horus. worker of magic isis was a worker of magic, and could even practice her art on the gods (see pp. 14 15. it was her magic arts that enabled her to rest

eaded serpents. he wears a chieftain s torc around his neck and is sometimes shown with purses filled with coins. his name means the horned one, and he is evidently a god with nearly as complicated a role as the greek dionysus (see pp. 58 59. he is predominantly a god of fertility and prosperity, but is also a god of the underworld. a coin found in hampshire seems to show him as a sun god, with a solar wheel between his horns. in northern britain he was called belatucadros, the fair shining one, whom the romans associated with the war god, mars. although there are no surviving stories about cernunnos, he may survive in folk belief as herne the hunter, the antler-horned spectral rider who leads the ghostly wild hunt across the sky. cross-legged posture cernunnos posture may show a near-east

f with bells is made of bone and known as a chicahuaztli. glyphs the glyphs running down the sides of this image are a calendar for the 260-day ritual year, the tonalpohualli or book of the days, which was broken up into 20 x 13-day periods. this ritual calendar expressed the aztec understanding of the complex interrelation of the world of men and the world of the gods. it ran alongside a 365-day solar calendar (not adjusted for leap years, and the two calendars coincided once every 52 years, an occasion for much rejoicing. aztec goddesses t he aztecs worshiped a number of important goddesses. coyolxauhqui takes a particularly active role in aztec mythology as the evil older sister of huitzilopochtli, the supreme god who was associated with the sun and with fire. when coyolxauhqui discover

PHOSPHORUS

ned forge of cain title-praecantrix the darkness of the earth color black symbol the sigil of infernal union -study of cain as the offspring of lucifer and lilith. the dynamics of self-transformation and how symbols relate to the self -foundations of sex magick and the will in the focus of selftransformation and self-deification -sex magick and the union of babalon (lilith) and the beast 666 (the solar phallic masculine archetype, the beast which rises from leviathan) in sexual union the creation of baphomet (an aspect of cain) 10 1. a study of austin osman spare via the book of pleasure. you will wish to obtain other titles by spare and seek to understand through practice the essence of zos kia and its view as a practitioner of the left hand path. 2. lilith, hecate, babalon& az. what each

spirit which will be an intiatic guide, that which will assist in the communication of the holy guardian angel/higher self/luciferian famulus. 11 ii the witches sabbat becoming in the dark light color blue- symbol algol the eye of the adversary -initiation of the witches sabbat, the development of astral projection and dreaming sorcery -the self-transformative benefits of the celestial sabbat and solar/twilight rebirth -the self-deification process of the infernal sabbat shape shifting and sexual congress via dreaming and astral projection -shape shifting and vampyric sorcery purpose and practice -the black eagle as the initiator of the vampyric and ahrimanic path consistent and successful work with this spirit guide -the god form of anubis the mask of the shades of the dead and the gatewa

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

the name that he was called after g-d added the letter heh to his name) these 248 limbs and organs correspond to the 248 positive commandments in the torah. altogether, there are 613 commandments in the torah. the 248 positive commandments correspond to the 248 limbs and organs in the body, and the 365 negative commandments corresponds to the 365 sinews in the body, as well as the 365 days in the solar year) zeir anpin the emotions now that we have understood all of the above, we must return to the explanation of the emotions of atzilut (emanation) which are born out of the unification of nehi"y of abba and imma (the gut emotions of insight and comprehension),which are the lowest level of the emotions of the intellect of atzilut, as explained earlier. the emotions of atzilut, on the other

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

rse thus establishes the basis of the jewish calendar. as rashi puts it,3 g[g-d] showed [moses] the new moon and said, ewhen you see the moon renewed [like this, consider that day the first of the month. h furthermore, nisan is always supposed to be in the spring.4 however, since the jewish calendar is based lunar months, it is necessary to intercalate the year when the lunar year lags behind the solar year. know that all the months are [manifestations of] malchut [i.e, nukva of z feir anpin. there are two aspects to this [relationship: the first is the way [malchut relates to the months] intrinsically, and the second is the way [it does so] by virtue of its relationship with the male [partzuf, z feir anpin, as we will explain with g-d fs help. the jewish calendar is, as we said, a lunar c

divine name havayah, and so on. in each of these sets, however, there is a (sometimes hidden) thirteenth element that adds the flexibility and adaptivity that makes the set alive, pliable and viable. this is perhaps most graphically seen with regard to the twelve lunar months. in the jewish calendar, a thirteenth month is added in 7 out of every 19 years in order to align the lunar cycle with the solar cycle. here, the thirteenth lunar month makes the twelve original ones into an empathic system that can coexist with its solar gmate. h similarly, the thirteenth tribe, levi, officiates at the temple, reconciling the twelve tribes of the jewish people with their gmate, h g-d. this passage therefore means that in order for abba and ima to couple, they must receive a flow of mercy- or compassi

the daily sacrifice it shall be done, h implying that (1) there is a supernal coupling and (2) it occurs by itself. by the way, this also explains the difference between the sabbath and rosh chodesh in the following way. on the sabbath, the male principle predominates due to the influence of abba, but on rosh chodesh, the female principle predominates due to the influence of ima. the sabbath is a solar phenomenon, occurring every seventh day, while rosh chodesh is a lunar phenomenon, occurring when the moon begins its cycle anew. this alluded to in the verse, g[the gate of the inner courtyard (of the temple) will be closed during the six days of the workweek] but on the sabbath day it shall be opened and on the day of the [new] month it shall be opened. h14 we see first in this verse the n

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

of the meanings derived from the analysis. this breakdown, though not getting us very far, is nonetheless highly suggestive. elementary astrology will extend the meaning a little. virgo represents the virginal sign of nature itself. scorpio is the sign of death and transformation; sex is involved here as well. sol, the sun, is the source of light and life to all on earth; it is the centre of our solar system. all the so-called resurrection gods are known to be solar connected. the sun was thought to die every winter when vegetation perished and the earth became cold and barren. every spring, when the sun returned, green life was restored to the earth. in various of the grade rituals as well as the elementary knowledge lectures of the order, we find the following which we can add to the da

is is due to the intervention of the destroyer apophis, the red dragon, or lucifer, the lightbearer, who changed all things-by illuminating all things. thus the fall-as well as the fall of the year. this is succeeded by the advent of osiris the resurrection god who is quoted as stating "this is my body, which i destroy in order that it may be renewed."he is the symbolic prototype of the perfected solar man, who suffered through earthly experience, was glorified by trial, was betrayed and killed, and then rose again to renew all things. the final analysis of the keyword sums up the formula with the initials isis, apophis, osiris=iao, the supreme god of the gnostics (iao is pronounced eeah- oh) since the sun is the giver of life and light, the formula must refer to light as the redeemer. the

e which demolishes all forms and ideas when their term of usefulness and healthy life is done. it symbolises not so much a fixed state of things, as an act, a further passage and transition of potentiality into actuality. six is the harmonising and reconciling sephirah, tiphareth. the word itself 20. the golden dawn means beauty and harmony. it is attributed to the sun, the lord and centre of our solar system. just as kether referred to the most secret depths of the unconscious, the core of man's life, so tiphareth is its reflection, the ego, the ordiiry human consciousness. this sephirah completes the second triad, which is a triad of consciousness, as the firsttriad of the supernal light may be considered the triad of that which is supremely divine, the superconscious. nehnch, victory, t

n of this book dealing with sigils. the solid greek cubi <137> cal cross, the admission badge for the path of tau, is composed of 22 squares, answering to the 22 letters of the hebrew alphabet. the solid triangle or tetrahedron, or pyramid of fire, the admission badge for the path of shin, represents the simple fire of nature and the latent or hidden fire. the three upper triangles refer to fire- solar, volcanic and astral, while the lowest or basal triangle represents the latent heat. the greek cross of 13 squares, the admission badge for the path of resh, is referred to the sun in the twelve signs of the zodiac, and also in the midst of the four elements. the cup of stolistes, the <138> admissionbadge to the grade of= m, is thus referred to the tree of life. it embraces nine of the sephi

of metals is usually of the complementary colour to that to which they naturally approximate. thus copper, which is reddish, becomes green in its corrosion of verdigris, etc. mercury is the only planet which unites these three primary forms in one symbol. saturn is composed of the cross and the crescent showing that lead is corrosive internally and luna externally. jupiter is the reverse. mars is solar internally but corrosive externally. venus is opposite. copper is externally of the nature of gold, but intermlly corrosive. hence the name of the sphere of venus is nogah-denoting external splendour but internal corruption. the serpent nehushtan, which moses made when the children of israel were bitten by serpents of fire in the wilderness, is the serpent of the paths of the tree. and he se

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l: another more prosaic example of tracing sigils from the magical squares can be demonstrated by taking my first name israel, and converting it into hebrew, thus: yod shin resh aleph lamed 10 300 200 1 30 for the purpose of demonstration only, let us assume that we want to trace it on the magical square of the sun, shown among the other kameas in the appendix. sigil of israel superimposed on the solar kamea only shin and resh will have to be reduced by aiq beker, and they can be brought down to 30 and 20. so that, finally, the numbers we will use on the square for the sigil are: 10, 30, 20, 1 and 30. to demonstrate this process further, mainly to illustrate the simplicity of sigils and magical designs that may be educed from the several kameas, consider the name carr. in hebrew we would s

ame, traced on other of the kameas, will also prove very much alike, so there is little point proceeding further. the critical student may, at this point, exclaim that carr is a not frequently encountered name, so that the demonstration should proceed with more common names. for example, john, to be rendered in hebrew, is youchanon: yod vau cheth nun nun(final) 10 6 8 50 700 in the event that the solar kamea is employed, both nuns need to be reduced by aiq beker to 5 and 7. the sigil superimposed on the solar kamea will appear thus: this set of interesting but different designs demonstrates the enourmous change in the numerical value of the name in the shift from one planetary influence to another. it represents the name first operating as one set of waves or frequencies and then as anothe

he vowels are separated from the consonants, but for the purpose of sigil-making, we will not follow this custom) now suppose vincent wanted to stress success in his life by making a sigil of his name on the jupiter kamea, thereby linking himself with the expansive forces of jupiter the bestower, the sigil superimposed on the jupiter kamea would appear thus: or the sigil could be derived from the solar kamea in order to establish a link between vincent and the source of life and light and success: these several examples should suffice to demonstrate how both the qabalistic and the pythagorean systems of numbers may be used equally to good advantage in the formulation of sigils from the traditional magical squares. chapter two how to overcome unfavourable aspects let us deal with another re

the suggestion that such a divine feat may be repeated here and now, for me, by the same god who had previously done similar things. for example, if i were an electrical engineer, under contract to build a new power station to provide light and power for a new village to be erected adjacent to an atomic installation, and needed inspiration to deal adequately with this project, i might construct a solar talisman. since the structure would provide light, the talismanic ruler could well be the source of light and life to the earch, the sun. an appropriate biblical verse for inscription around the outer margin of one side of the talisman could be: and god said, let there be light. and there was light! the literary recording in the bible of this prehistoric event provides justification and hope

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

trumpet. it is the aeon of the gnostics ofphoenicia, which is the point of development as ion signified the generative faculty; it is the yoni ofthe indians, the yin off the chinese, and the ionia of the greeks, the sun is emblematically inharmony and consonance with its creator, in its essence is imaged the father, in its light the word,and in its heat the spirit.the sun, the great centre of the solar system, from which emanates the generative powers of theplanets, gradually reveals its own composition. this wonderful incandescent orb enveloped in manyof our familiar elements in the form of vapour, partially aqueous, and partially glowing gas, nitrogenand hydrogen forming their chief constituent elements. much, although not all, has been revealed ofthe constitution of the sun, its coloure

rising, midday and setting sun).secret word: i-ha-ho('god the eternal- see mysteries of serapis).battery (3 and 4, triangle and cube= 7).repair now under the care of your conductor beyond the porch, and be clothed. in a mantle ofgreen, the emerald colour of spring, the symbol of your hope in immortality, and of victory,signified by the crown of palm and of laurel, and resembles the colour of the solar spectrum, whichis situated between the yellows and the blue. the battery of a philosophus is 3 and 4, the reverse ofthat of a practicus, and has reference to the sacred number 7, symbolising the triangle resting on thecube, and as well the four circles embracing the sacred delta.all rise and form a circle, the chief adept, cond. of n. and practicus remaining in the centre.by the presence of

irect power over the physical action of man, as well as over hisintellectual energies; his reason, appetites, senses, and powers of generation. these are some of thetheories which tend to prove our atmospheric envelope a delicate sensorium, promptly responding toevery wave of physical energy that beats upon it from stellar space. future observations will provethat the agency of planets in causing solar disturbances is powerful to influence the great luminary incausing terrestrial cyclones and earthquakes, and that great magnetic and meteorologicaldisturbances over the entire globe are effected.cond. of n.:we were taught in the council that astronomy was an exact science, then why these uncertaintiesand trusting to a future?3rd philos.:mark well, the depths of space lead into infinity in th

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of which the sun is the third form see the initiates of the school of alexandria and the dogma of hermes trismegistus. in this way the eye of the world, as the ancients called it, is the mirage of the reflection of god, and the soul of the earth is a permanent glance of the sun which the earth conceives and guards by impregnation. the moon concurs in this impregnation of the earth by reflecting a solar image during the night, so that hermes was right when he said of the great agent: the sun is its father, the moon its mother. then he adds: the wind has borne it in the belly thereof, because the atmosphere is the recipient and, as it were, the crucible of the solar rays, by means of which there forms that living image of the sun which penetrates the whole earth, fructifies it and determines

s mother. then he adds: the wind has borne it in the belly thereof, because the atmosphere is the recipient and, as it were, the crucible of the solar rays, by means of which there forms that living image of the sun which penetrates the whole earth, fructifies it and determines all that is produced on its surface by its emanations and permanent currents, analogous to those of the sun itself. this solar agent subsists by two contrary forces one of attraction and one of projection, whence hermes says that it ascends and descends eternally. the force of attraction is always fixed at the centre of bodies, that of projection in their outlines or at their surface. by this dual force all is created and all preserved. its motion is a rolling up and an enrolling which are successive and unlimited

f the adept. i believe that i have spoken sufficiently. divination is therefore an intuition, and the key of this intuition is the universal and magical doctrine of analogies. by means of these analogies the magus interprets visions, as did the patriarch joseph in egypt, according to biblical history. the analogies in the reflections of the astral light are as exact as the shades of colour in the solar spectrum, and can be calculated and explained with great accuracy. it is, however, indispensable to know the dreamer's degree of intellectual life, which, indeed, he will himself reveal completely by his own dreams and in a manner that will astonish himself. somnambulism, presentiments and second sight are simply an accidental or induced disposition to dream in a voluntary or awakened sleep

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se which nothing can disturb, and moves solemnly forward without departing from the rank assigned her among the sentinels of light. but the wandering comet, dishevelled and of sanguinary aspect, plunges hurriedly from the depths of heaven and flings herself athwart the peaceful spheres, like a chariot of war between the ranks of a procession of vestals; she dares to face the burning spears of the solar guardians, and, like a bereft spouse who seeks the husband of her dreams during widowed nights, she penetrates even unto the inmost sanctuary of the god of day; again she escapes, exhaling the fires which consume her and trailing a long conflagration behind; the stars pale at her approach; constellate flocks, pasturing on flowers of light in the vast meadows of the sky, seem to flee before h

t with the head of an ox, goat or dog, in ancient theogonies. it is the dual serpent of the caduceus, the old serpent of genesis, but it is also the brazen serpent of moses, twined about the tau, that is, the generating lingam. it is, moreover, the goat of the sabbath and the baphomet of the templars; it is the hyle of the gnostics; it is the double tail of the serpent which forms the legs of the solar cock of abraxas. in fine, it is the devil of m. eudes de mirville and is really that blind force which souls must overcome if they would be freed from the chains of earth; for, unless their will can detach them from this fatal attraction, they will be absorbed in the current by the force which produced them, and will return to the central and eternal fire. the whole magical work consists the

tetrad; the wheels revolving in one another are the harmonious spheres of pythagoras; the new temple, the plan of which is given according to exact kabalistic measures, is the type of the labours of primitive masonry. st. john in his apocalypse reproduces the same images and the same numbers, and reconstructs the edenic world ideally in the new jerusalem; but at the source of the four rivers the solar lamb replaces the mysterious tree. initiation by toil and blood has been accomplished, and there is no more temple because the light of truth is diffused universally and the world has become the temple of justice. this splendid final vision of the holy scriptures, this divine utopia which the church has referred with good reason for its realization to a better life, has been the pitfall of a

or vestment, having pillars of fire for his legs, and setting one foot upon the earth and another on the sea, is truly a kabalistic panthea. his feet represent the equilibrium of briah, or the world of forms; his legs are the two pillars of the masonic temple, jakin and boaz; his body, veiled by clouds, from which issues a hand holding a book, is the sphere of yetzirah, or initiatory ordeals; his solar head, crowned with the radiant septenary, is the world of atziluth, or perfect revelation; and we can only express our astonishment that hebrew kabalists have not recognized and explained this symbolism, which so closely and inseparably connects the highest mysteries of christianity with the secret but invariable doctrine of all the masters in israel. the beast with seven heads, in the symbo

he theories of pythagoras; as science, its principles must be sought from paracelsus, nicholas flamel and raymund lully. the science is true only for those who accept and understand the philosophy and religion, while its processes the great work 65 are successful only for the adept who has attained sovereign volition, and has thus become monarch of the elementary world, for the great agent of the solar work is that force described in the hermetic symbol of the gemerald table h: it is universal magical power; it is the igneous spiritual motor; it is the od of the hebrews and the astral light, according to the expression which we have adopted in this work. there is the secret, living and philosophical fire, of which all hermetic philosophers speak only under the most mysterious reservations;

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between worlds(pages 72-81) figure 2. the wheel of life (the four seasons) commentary 79 http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_72.htm (7 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:35:48 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 72-81) figure 3. the sacred directions and zones commentary 80 solstice, though these events were also governed by other criteria. the celtic festivals, though often said to be defined by the solar phases of the year, were also marked by the rising and setting of the pleiades, celebrated in may and november. there are several implications in this tradition of the fairy people traveling to 'other lodgings' at each quarter or the turning point of each season. as this concept of revolution and cycles occurs again in kirk's text, and is fundamental to much of underworld and fairy tradition

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ally appropriate to describe his "religion" the master of the temple iv has acquired objective consciousness, and could be said to "worship" xem. the v is a concept not corresponding to an ouspensky level, hence must be considered an extension of the iv in this regard. the ipsissimus vi corresponds to ouspensky's man-7, having a permanent "i" and free will, being immortal within the limits of the solar system. this leads me to add a man-8 to ouspensky's scheme, being the man who has become god, who has reached a position where the entire universe lies open to his command (as opposed to merely being accessible. one who has achieved that pointed to by xem.(1) the above implies that "knowing oneself" can be taken as the sign of the priest iii. this is not, however, complete. remember that the

a universe in which sentient beings did not exist, there would be no question of "real vs. unreal" perhaps, however, the most crucial distinction to be drawn between these two concepts is that the former recognizes the existence of other subjective universes, whereas the latter does not. 40. i suppose that the balance between the centripetal and centrifugal forces which keeps the planets of this solar system in their orbit has a certain value in its utility; but, in the absence of sentient beings, such utility has no existential value. 41. for example, how could a sunset be beautiful in the absence of someone to perceive and appreciate it? 42. as ouspensky observed in his psychology of man's possible evolution 43. lavey, the satanic bible, page 31 44. lavey, the satanic bible, page 39 45

xtinguished and the bell rung nine times, closing the temple. liber al vel legis: the book of the law analysis and commentary introduction: on march 18, 1904 ce aleister crowley and his wife rose visited the old boulak museum in cairo. she drew his attention to the xxvi dynasty funerary stele of the theban priest ankhf- n-khonsu. represented on this stele are two egyptian god-figures and a winged solar disc, which crowley identified respectively as nuit, ra-hoor-khuit, and hadit. he thought ra- hoor-khuit to be a form of horus the younger (the egyptological term for the son of osiris and isis in the osirian mythos) and thus the symbol of an "aeon of the son" to follow those of the mother-goddess (isis) and the father-god (osiris. he also believed hadit to be "heru-pakraath (harpokrates, th

ele. called by crowley the "stele of revealing. indicates that it was not conceived or executed according to the osirian mythos [save that the dead priest is referred to as "an osiris" i.e: a dead soul "ra-hoor-khuit" is correctly translated to "ra-harakte, master of the gods" this is a form of harwer (horus the elder. the great horus of pre-osirian legend, literally "horus of the horizon" in his solar aspect of xepera. ra-harakte had been the judge of the dead in non-osirian egypt, and he was also cast as the champion of set in the osirian-mythos trial between set and horus the younger. the curious term "hadit" is simply the islamic word for a divinely inspired utterance of any sort; hence it is not found on the xxvi dynasty monument. the "hadit" disc is hieroglyphically identified on the

one to blame but himself. 12. come forth, o children, under the stars& take your fill of love! crowley interprets this straightforwardly as a statement that sexual or artistic love should be indulged openly and innocently, and that an empathy with nuit will be one of the consequences. it may also be that one's vision, magical abilities, and emotional sensitivity will be heightened at night, when solar light and radiation are at least partially shielded. 13. i am above you and in you. my ecstasy is in yours. my joy is to see your joy. a straightforward sexual statement concealing a more subtle truth: the essence of the black flame, emitted from the stars, is captured and sustained in the persons of the elect. the intelligence of the flame, both chaotic (harwer) and composed (set, takes ple

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tation of the god or famulus are integrated as an important and crucial part on the crooked road towards the light of the midnight-vale. this technique was employed by the german reuss-derived occult group in the concept of the gotos. a title assigned to the highest degree of the order, but also reminiscent of the physical representation of the orders egregoric spirit. the flavour in this cell is solar and phallic but it androgynity suggest otherwise- that this cell is a rehearsal ground for the phallic manifestation to come and through this it connects with the stellar influences hidden within this craft-tradition and presents a formation of mystery-teaching connected to the destruction of the mage in favour of the virgin-mage. the importance of sacrifice is in these manners stressed and

s further finding its reflection in the influence of gemini who in the tarot is symbolized by the lovers. importance must be stressed on the concept of love in this cell. the ultimate adoration a nd humbleness in fore the path of initiation and before the eyes of the gods are taken on as a necessity and a sheer want born from the virgin-will of the mage. the other construction in this cell is the solar fasette found in the letter tzaddi which means fish-hook, but is also connected to the star through its kabbalistic connotations. in lurias initatic system the rabbi of the mysteries was honoured with the title tzaddiquin. further this cell reflects the influence of aries, which in the tarot has been given the domain of the emperor. this explains the warrior like flavour of the cell and the

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

combined into the godhead amen-ra, the temple at karnak required the services of more than eighty thousand employees. a short-lived experiment in state-sponsored monotheism( belief in only one god) occurred during the new kingdom period. amenhotep iv, who called himself akhenaten (reigned 1379 62 bce, declared that the only god was the one he himself worshipped: aten, the god of the sun, and the solar disk, the aten. akhenaten s experiment in monotheism had the effect of reducing the power of the priestly class 44 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia and the nobility and reviving the power of the pharaoh. this experiment ended, however, with akhenaten s death in 1336 bce as the old gods were quickly brought back. all traces of akhenaten were destroyed, from

he environment. they sponsor after-school projects, the building of orphanages and health clinics in rural areas, the the baha calendar the baha calendar consists of nineteen months, and each month is nineteen days long. between the eighteenth and the nineteenth month, an additional four days (five days in leap years) are inserted to create a year of 365 days (or 366 days in leap years, the usual solar-calendar length. the baha new year begins on march 21, which is the first day of spring. the nineteen months have arabic names given for an attribute of god, such as knowledge, power, dominion, and grandeur. though the baha calendar maintains a sevenday week, each month consists of only about two-and-a-half weeks. saturday is the first day of the baha week. its translated arab name is glory

aur, meaning princess. world religions: almanac 427 sikhism as ek (or ik) onkar( true god, onkar, satguru( true guru, satnaam( true name, akal-purkh, hari, raam, and pritam. the god of the sikhs is infinite, or endless, and can be described only through an infinite number of names and qualities. everything in the universe is god s creation; as the granth sahib explains: he formed the planets, the solar system, and the nether regions, and brought what was hidden to manifestation [existence. when he so willed, he created the world. without any supporting power, he sustained the universe. to know god, sikhs are urged to remember him always and to meditate or focus on his qualities: those contented souls who meditate on the lord with single-minded love, meet the true lord. a second primary bel

e peloponessus, the major island of southern greece. anaxagoras went further, however, and said that the moon was made of similar matter as earth and shone because it reflected light from the sun. from this, he went on to describe how earth moves between the sun and moon, blocking the light and causing lunar eclipses. he also explained how the moon sometimes moves between earth and sun, causing a solar eclipse. 28 world religions: biographies anaxagoras anaxagoras accused anaxagoras s theories of the universe angered some citizens of athens because they challenged the accepted beliefs of the time. his friendship with pericles may also have caused anaxagoras trouble. pericles had enemies, and these enemies ultimately targeted his friends. some time around 450 bce anaxagoras was imprisoned a

ivities thought to be ruled by the god, while the domestication of animals was seen to be goddess-oriented. the god s domains include forests untouched by human hands, burning deserts and towering mountains. the stars, since they are but distant suns, are sometimes thought to be under his domain. the yearly cycle of greening, maturation and harvest has long been associated with the sun, hence the solar festivals of europe] which are still observed in wicca. the god is the fully ripened harvest, intoxicating wine pressed from grapes, golden grain waving in a lone field, shimmering apples hanging from verdant boughs on october afternoons. with the goddess he also celebrates and rules sex. the wicca don t avoid sex or speak of it in hushed words. it s a part of nature and is accepted as such

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ri in translation, ed. h.d. betz (chicago and london 1986) 36, n. 3, simply cites preisendanz without showing knowledge of peterson's article; cf. r. kotanski "incantations and prayers for salvation on inscribed amulets" in magika hiera, ed. c.a. faraone and d. obink (new york-oxford 1991) 137, n. 110. 7 although seth in ancient egypt could be reconciled with horus and seen as the defender of the solar bark, his cult seems to have disappeared after the assyrian period and the god himself began to be turned into a demon; see h. te velde, seth, god of confusion, probleme der agyptologie 6 (leiden 1967) 139-151. 88 jarl fossum and brian glazer two points only need to be made in this connection. firstly, typhon in the spell contained in pgm iv.154-285 is not equated with seth, adam's son; in f

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wan, attenuated mass of matter, one of the nebulae, which the suns of the myriad systems throw off as they roll round the creator's throne, to become themselves new worlds of symmetry and glory, planets and suns that forever and forever shall in their turn multiply their shining race, and be the fathers of suns and planets yet to come*"astronomy instructs us that, in the original condition of the solar system, the sun was the nucleus of a nebulosity or luminous mass which revolved on its axis, and extended far beyond the orbits of all the planets, the planets as yet having no existence. its temperature gradually diminished, and, becoming contracted by cooling, the rotation increased in rapidity, and zones of nebulosity were successively thrown off, in consequence of the centrifugal force o

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serpent coiled up (4) the goddess uatchet, in the form of a serpent, standing upon a papyrus sceptre. now horus typifies youth and strength and the rising sun, and the head above him. is probably intended to represent that of ra (or bes) as an old man; the allusion here is clearly to the god who "is old at eventide and who becomes young again" the utchats and the figures of the gods symbolize the solar powers and the deities p. 149 clippus of horus (see metternichstele, ed. golenischeff, plate 1) p. 151 who are masters of the words of power, both in the south and in the north, by which the young god horus vanquishes all hostile animals, reptiles, and creeping things which live in water and on land. above and about this scene are several rows of figures of gods and sketches of mythological

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ll is working in the world. it has a constancy of purpose. if you've ever had a job supervising others, you know this word. it is going from one person to the next being sure that they are all doing their tasks. it is also looking at a task and dividing it into sections so that it's do-able. it is action-oriented consciousness. the work of the order of horus is found within this word. this is the solar aspect of the work of the magus anton la vey, and at the simplest approach may be seen as "looking out for number 1" learning good scientific management techniques, the lessons of the satanic bible, or the lateral thinking techniques of edward de bono are good exercises for iri. sight (other-centric. the verb "to see" maa connected with the left eye, the moon, and luck, also means "to see th

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

ted by deity. rather, seemingly inherent in the decoration of the room, in the pinpoint of light playing on the ore, is the concept of a personal concentration of forces, creating a focus that illumines the field of attention "the pinpoint of light, the void of space, the illuminated crystalline ore. one feels projected into a setting of cosmological symbolism rather than one of planetary or even solar intent "it is interesting to speculate on what the long-term influence of this 'new departure' will be on current religious thinking. ensconced here in the highest hall of man, it cannot be inconsiderable. whatever interpretations one may attribute to the united nations meditation room, it can be said with certainty that the words and the repercussions have only just begun (emphasis supplied

o, novus ordo seclorum, on the obverse side of the medal for merit, awarded to civilians of the united states and her allies by act of congress 7/20/42.41 the all-seeing eye a symbol of osiris we now arrive at the point when we must consider that all-important key symbol, the all-seeing eye. mr. totten traced the history of the eye in the triangle back to ancient chaldea and its appearance as the solar eye, the eye of jove or jupiter, of phoebus or apollo, the eye of baal, and as the eye of providence. the eye of jove appeared on the front of jove's temple at peloponnessus. as the solar eye it was the symbol of the arabian god of. jethro, the black father-in-law of moses, and of the arabic motto "allah" or "i am that i am" all ancient temples of arabia were decorated with the eye, which ha

and pan. in other words, debauched revelries or saturnalias (from saturn, his father) were held in his honor "he visited the greater part of the kingdoms of asia and europe, where he enlightened the minds of man by introducing among them the worship of the gods, and a reverence for the wisdom of a supreme being."44 totten, tracing the symbolism of the eye, affirmed that "the word jehovah, of the solar circle of arabia, superseded the egyptian motto in the radiant triangle, and as the word soon became too sacred to be spoken or ever- 32- written, it was generally symbolized by the all-seeing eye of him whose name it was."45 he described the "cap of purest crystal" once atop the pyramid of gizeh (the floating triangle on the reverse seal) as the "priceless gem of egypt."the terrible crystal

f sun and serpent. the deity, kneph, was pictured as a serpent in a fiery circle''he was regarded as the first emanation of the supreme being, the good genius of the world, the demiurgus, the efficient reason of all things, and the architect of the universe. kneph is identified with the sun, hence the rays of glory around his head. both serpent and sun were emblems of the celestial father. as the solar deity, kneph became the cristos of the gnostics. was regarded as the spiritual sun of enlightenment, or wisdom."61 in the egyptian pantheon "osiris himself was said to have been the son of kneph. and he was essentially identical with kneph" the worship of isis, the moon-goddess, was equally entwined wilh ophiolatry. her emblem was the horned viper'"in the british museum there is a head of is

ions but will not make religion its aim "build a world outlook" and'"teach the physiological, psychological and spiritual aspects of sex" john howard zitko, d.d, is coordinator of this world university development program i p.o. box 68, huntington park, calif) he is also the author of a book on the lemurian theo-christian conference which warns that "advanced intelligences on other planets of our solar system are again becoming active in human affairs after a lapse of some ten thousand years" dr. zitko's idea has received a boost from key world leaders. on july 31, 1962 dwight d. eisenhower endorsed setting up a world university to provide "world thinkers" to funnel into the united nations. carl f. stover, director of science and technology at the fund for the republic's center for democra

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

at right angles, it is the calvary cross or also called, the crux simplex. unknown to many modern christians, the symbol of the cross in its various shapes is far older than that of the christian era. for it was in use amongst the pagans of western asia and europe many centuries before the death of christ. as such, to many ancient cultures, it is not a symbol of sacrifice, but still remains as a solar symbol. this also includes the ankh, which many attribute to the planet c, but because the planet is so close to the a it contains many of its qualities. the oldest example of such usage can be found during the kassite period between 1746-1171 bc, of an equilateral cross on a cylinder where a sun god was seated. it was also found in many of the assyrian artifacts in america before the arriva

of the arrangement extracted from the bembine tablet by w. w. westcott. 10 a c b c j b f l k y u x q z w h f r l k p h g i h w d e f y j l k h a l b c f k 5 11 alchemical triangles and the hexagrams b a 5 symbolism of the banner of the east the field of the banner of the east is white, the color of light and purity. the calvary cross of six squares is the number six of trapt, the yellow cross of solar gold, and the cubical stone, bearing in its center the sacred t of life, and having bound together upon it the form of the macrocosmic hexagram, the red triangle of o and the blue triangle of n "the \yhla jwr and the waters of creation" in addition to this explanation, it affirms the mode of action employed by the divine light in its operation by the forces of nature. upon it is the symbol o

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

rship quickly spread to border areas, where he was identified with local gods of initiation. two examples of such cult sites are kharga in the south, which has always been primarily a nilotic culture area, and the libyan settlement of ombos, wherein set was identified with the local god ash in the iind dynasty. set s original worship as a night time polar deity suffered a decline with the rise of solar worship in the ivth dynasty. the great pyramid of khufu is one of the last early monuments connected with the idea of a setian afterlife as well as a solar one. the great pyramid had a special air shaft for the king s akh to fly to the star alpha draconis, which is the star of set in the constellation of the thigh, principle of the seven faces of darkness. during the middle kingdom, set was

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gles up, triangles down, triangles, triangles all around 327 18 black magic, masonic witchcraft, and triangle powers 361 19 part devil, part angel 393 20 the merovingian dynasty, the priory of sion, and the spear of longinus 405 21 magical signs of the jewish cabala the six-pointed star, babylonian 419 witchcraft, and the hollywood perdition of jerry seinfeld and associates 22 scorched by the sun solar signs, circles, and serpents 459 23 "i fell in to a burning ring of fire" arnold schwarzenegger's 483 masonic ring, newt gingrich's t-rex dinosaur, and other mysterious messages on rings and neckties of the elite 24 ok-sign of the divine king 501 2 5 victory for the devil fabulous exploits of sir winston churchill 517 and other druid priests and llluminati servants 26 "every man and woman is

rite? or the swedenborgian rite?"5 moreover, masons affiliated with the grand lodge of the orient in paris, the united lodge in london, or the grand masonic lodge of israel, may well utilize signs and handshakes not used, seen, or understood in other orders. then, of course, there is the order of the rosicrucians, the order of the trapezoid, the priory of sion, the alta vendita, the p2 lodge, the solar order of the temple, the modern-day knights templar, the vatican's knights of malta and knights of columbus, the order of the odd fellows, the order of ahepa, the order introduction 13 of skull and bones, the bohemian club, the pilgrims society, and a thousand or more other secret societies and orders, not to mention the many jewish cabalistic groups, satanic churches, and witchcraft and dru

ip with red chinese counterpart in beijing, china in march, 1992 as a bemused official looks on. u.s. president clinton receives masonic grip from united nations secretary-general kofi annan at opening of the un general assembly. in this staged photo opportunity, aides for the two world leaders arranged the national flags so that nicaragua's illuminatidesigned flag, which has a (male) triangle, a solar image, and all-seeing eye as its focus would be most prominently displayed. kofi annan is married to a white woman, a rothschild heiress.(photo: usa today, september 22, 1998, p. 11a) secret handshakes of the illuminati 167 great britain's duke of kent, head of the united lodge, the largest masonic fraternity in england, holds the title, the most worshipful grand master. the duke is sharing

seal or logo, with its face turned to the left. but on the carpet just in front of the desk one finds the presidential seal facing toward the right: two eagles, each facing in the opposite direction. this is clearly the double-headed eagle of freemasonry, a symbol representing the serpent, honored as the sun god in the mystery religions with its eagle-like, allseeing eye. in other words: lucifer! solar god of bill clinton and the illuminati. meanwhile, in clinton's left hand (see page 183 of codex magica) is a rose sign of the illuminati's blood covenant and the rosicrucian order. you will also find here a photo of former yugoslav serb leader slobodan milosevic, likewise holding a rose in his hand, the right hand. in satanism the left-handed path is the most magical and powerful, but more

the institute for scripture research in south africa, x was the emblem of the chaldean (babylonian) sky god. koster says that x was an ancient symbol of the sun deity and that the letter carried with it sexual connotations. in the old semitic languages, x represented the cross.1 freemasonry early-on latched onto this letter exactly because of its paranormal significance as a sign of lucifer, the solar (sun) god. the masonic lodge also uses x because of its sexual meanings and its babylonian origins. writing in the scottish rite journal, the official journal of the mother supreme council, 33, jim tresner discussed the use of x in the ritual ceremony for the 17, knight of the east and west.2 tresner, a 33rd degree mason, emphasized that the 17th degree ritual is "one of the most powerful an

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n being, is ever active. however, initiates of our order will understand that what we call man, human being (or however we may choose to indicate individual units of the human species as a whole irregardless of their physical sex, is not what the profane generally consider as such. the tree of life is "man, considered as a spiritual entity. yhshvh, the adept, the son of man, is tiphereth. and the solar man, the son of the sun, is the solar intelligence manifesting below the abyss; unity- 111- multiplied by 6 (tiphereth) equals 666, the son of the sun, the great seven headed beast (cf liber cccxxxiii ch 49) or the seven sephiroth below the abyss. this seven headed beast who has ten horns (the manifestation of the "masculine" aspect of the creative power in the ten spheres of the tree of lif

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ult generally carries with it negative connotations and associations. in modern times, a number of apocalyptic cults, such as the branch davidians and the people s temple, have alarmed the general population by isolating themselves and preparing for armageddon, the last great battle between good and evil. the mass suicides carried out by members of heaven s gate, people s temple, and order of the solar temple have also presented alarming images of what many believe to be typical cultist practice. recent statistics indicate that there are 2,680 religions in the united states. therefore, one must be cautious in labeling any seemingly unorthodox religion as a cult, for what is regarded as anti-social or blasphemous expression by some may be hailed as sincere spiritual witness by others. secre

rrection. the cult of osiris was established at abydos, where he became known as the lord of the death or lord of the west, referring to his mastery over all those who had traveled west into the sunset of death. the theology of osiris, which promised resurrection, soon overshadowed that of the sun god ra and became the dominant feature of all egyptian religion. ra was a creator god, fundamentally solar, a king by nature, whose theology concerned itself with the world, its origin, creation, and the laws that governed it. osiris and his doctrines were concerned with the problems of life, death, resurrection, and an afterlife. the connection between the two deities was horus, who was a sky god of the heavens and also the dutiful son and heir of osiris. the general influence of ra and osiris c

laboration with marguerite harmon bro, the highly respected medium arthur ford, an ordained minister of the disciples of christ church, explained the working relationship that he enjoyed with his spirit guide, fletcher. when ford wished to enter trance, he would lie down on a couch or lean back in a comfortable chair and breathe slowly and rhythmically until he felt an in-drawing of energy at the solar plexus. then he focused his attention on fletcher s face, as he had come to know it, until gradually he felt as if his guide s face had pressed into his own at which instant there is a sense of shock, as if he were fainting or passing out. at this point, ford says, he loses consciousness and when he awakens at the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p

immediate environment. at times this is invisible; at other times it takes forms and becomes more or less solid, when we have instances of the formation of so-called ectoplasm. it is this semi-material substance which moves matter and even shapes it into different forms. according to carrington s observations, this ectoplasm issues from various parts of the medium s body from the fingertips, the solar plexus, and the genitals. it represents a psychic force, he claimed, as yet unknown to science, but now being studied by scientific men as part and parcel of supernormal biology. carrington t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mediums and mystics 159 hereward carrington (1880 1958 (fortean picture library) was certain that this energy had

the door, glanced up, and saw that the top floor was brightly illuminated and that a steep flight of stairs lay just ahead of the investigators. with carrington in the lead, the party ascended the stairs until they found themselves confronted by a series of small rooms. carrington made a sharp turn to the right, and the moment he did so, he felt as though a sudden blow that been delivered to his solar plexus. his forehead broke out into profuse perspiration, his head swam, and he had difficulty swallowing. it was an extraordinary sensation, he said, definitely physiological, and unlike anything i had ever experienced before. the veteran investigator was gripped by terror and panic and only through a firm exercise of will was he able to stop himself from fleeing in horror. his wife, who wa

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ult generally carries with it negative connotations and associations. in modern times, a number of apocalyptic cults, such as the branch davidians and the people s temple, have alarmed the general population by isolating themselves and preparing for armageddon, the last great battle between good and evil. the mass suicides carried out by members of heaven s gate, people s temple, and order of the solar temple have also presented alarming images of what many believe to be typical cultist practice. recent statistics indicate that there are 2,680 religions in the united states. therefore, one must be cautious in labeling any seemingly unorthodox religion as a cult, for what is regarded as anti-social or blasphemous expression by some may be hailed as sincere spiritual witness by others. secre

or the quests of lost lovers yearning to be reunited. some area residents have stories of being guided home to safety by the mysterious lights, while others tell of being terrified by close encounters with the glowing orbs. theorists have ascribed the marfa lights to natural phenomena, such as ball lightning, electrostatic charges, or gas emissions. certain scientists have blamed a combination of solar activity and seismic activity that creates a kind of underground lightning that on occasion rises above ground level to be seen as the eerie lights. there are many more ghost lights haunting the nooks and crannies, mountain peaks and valleys, of the planet earth. experts have tried to explain the mystery of spook lights by using the existing structure of physics and known natural phenomena

n the ether in the air being carried to the mind centers on the plexuses of the involuntary nervous system. in cannon s view, the astral body is the scriptural golden bowl and the etheric body is the linking silver cord. the astral body, he wrote, is mainly the emotional body and has to do with emotions, moods, and feelings. the astral body is not only linked up with the physical body through the solar plexus, but also linked up with the etheric body through vibrations passing from it through the physical body between the eyes to the top of the etheric body. cannon compared the etheric body to a streak of light running down the front of the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysteries of the mind 171 spinal cord of the physical body bu

ski. at least one of these visits may have occurred in historical times. sagan, both an exobiologist and an astronomer, theorized that earth may have been visited by various galactic civilizations many times during prehistoric times and that it is not out of the question that artifacts of such extraterrestrial visits might still exist, or even that some kind of alien base is maintained within our solar system to provide continuity for successive expeditions. such a hypothesis coming from a respected scientist encouraged many ufo researchers to theorize that homo sapiens may have been t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 246 invaders from outer space seeded on earth, for despite the many theories put forth by conventional scientists, it i

knowledge, the garden of eden, which tradition places in that same area. the origins of western culture were nursed in sumer, and it has come to be acknowledged as the cradle of civilization all because of a starburst. astronomers recognize that the nearest and brightest supernova that has ever been witnessed by humankind was vela x, now a faintly flashing pulsar about 1,300 light-years from our solar system. george michanowsky, a specialist in mesopotamian astronomy, saw how the first and most fundamental symbol of sumerian script was one which represented star. he went on to show how the very first word ever written by a human hand soon became linked with the symbol for deity, thus communicating star god. michanowsky saw the deathblaze of vela x to have been such a dramatic sky show tha

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generally carries with it negative connotations and associations. in modern times, a number of apocalyptic cults, such as the branch davidians and the people fs temple, have alarmed the general population by isolating themselves and preparing for armageddon, the last great battle between good and evil. the mass suicides carried out by members of heaven fs gate, people fs temple, and order of the solar temple have also presented alarming images of what many believe to be typical cultist practice. recent statistics indicate that there are 2,680 religions in the united states. therefore, one must be cautious in labeling any seemingly unorthodox religion as a cult, for what is regarded as anti-social or blasphemous expression by some may be hailed as sincere spiritual witness by others. secre

ill make major decisions based on the guidance received from astrology. throughout western history astrologers have claimed an association with the movements of the planets, comets, and eclipses with every important event that has taken place. among the more familiar are the appearance of comets at the birth and death of julius caesar (c. 100.44 b.c.e; the advent of world war i (1914) heralded by solar and lunar eclipses; and the birth and death of mark twain (1835.1910) coincident with the appearance of halley fs comet. in addition, astrologers have proclaimed the influence of the gstars h on the lives of everyone from alexander the great (356.323 b.c.e) to president george w. bush (1946. many of the great philosophers who shaped the ideals and concepts of the west employed astrology as a

the breaking up of a romance or a love affair. the stars (arcanum seventeen) represents good luck or hope. the seven small stars on the card symbolize the universe along with the charity and hope represented by the number seven. the water in the stream before which the woman kneels symbolizes patience, utilized in overcoming obstacles. above the kneeling woman fs head are seven stars, symbols of solar energy directing beneficent rays on the enlightened adept. directly above the woman fs head, the top star.the star of the magi.indicates the challenge presented by youth in its attempt to revitalize the earth. the number 17 represents wisdom and immortality. the moon (arcanum eighteen) is the representation of unknown facts, of knowledge obscured, and an interference with the search for hidd

epeated, orderly patterns give crystals their beautiful sparkle and special shapes. some crystals, when compressed, develop electrical charges (piezoelectricity) at their ends, and others develop similar charges when heated (pyroelectricity. both of those properties are evident in quartz and make the mineral useful in sonar and radio, for amplifying electric current, and to help make possible the solar battery that converts sunlight into electrical energy. lithium crystals are an energy source in the popular star trek television and movie series to fuel the starship enterprise. on earth, lithium is the lightest known metal and is often used in storage batteries. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d objects of mystery and power 173 a wood

any region of france, stand more than 4,000 stones dating back 6,000 years. some of them stand individually, some are aligned in rows, and some mark the sites of chambered graves beneath nearby mounds. intricate burial chambers in ireland, like many of the 12,000 ancient chambered burial sites beneath mounds in northern europe, have arrangements of stone or markings that correspond with lunar and solar cycles. all of those ancient structures and arrangements of large stones are examples of a megalith (from the greek gmegas h meaning large, and glitho h meaning stone, a term used most specifically in reference to stone structures erected for ceremonial, astronomical, and religious purposes, and as monuments. megalith building (placing large stones in a specific site) dates back to at least

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t empyrean5 realms of which light is best experienced, the air and astral plane, from which all wind rushes about you like a tornado, where flame and sun envelopes your being and your astral body is purified by flame. the embodiment of wisdom in western occultism is view in the anthropomorphic form of baphomet, called also the sabbatic goat6. the baphometic angel-daemon who resides above a globe (solar) sphere inbetween twilight and night, two moons, the dark (hecate) and the light (lilith or yram-satrina. to the initiate however, lucifer or the baphometic spirit becomes a state which is brought forth or developed to by going forth by night. the path of spirit travel is a temporal process of self emerging from its skin to ascend in the form of shadow, thus willed to manifest in a dreaming

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

thus "hierarchization is the process through which successive levels of increasing complexity, flexibility, and co-ordination in form, function and behaviour are established, ranging from the relatively simple to the relatively complex" the higher up the hierarchy an item or individual is, the more is their co-ordinating function on a scale of complexity (such as a queen in a beehive, a sun in a solar system, or a company director. this is important to consider in defining which world is to be considered or worked with for the practical kabbalist. it may be that some contemplations or workings are best effected in assiyah or with the elemental beings, and others more effective by working with the archangels or the correspondences of briah (c) the multiverse the concepts involved with the

gy adopted by the ritual participant: kether: a circlet of gold, or ritual crown. the parsley crown of the nemean games, sacred to zeus. chockmah: the twin feathers, or crown of thoth. binah: the crimson cap of concealment. chesed: the cardinals hat, or emperors crown. the pine crown of the isthmian games, sacred to poseidon. geburah: the war helm, or martial crown. the judges wig. tiphareth: the solar crown, cowl, or the wimple. the crown of thorns. the roman crown of roses. netzach: the laurel wreath of victory. hod: the caduceus crown or the mortar board. yesod: crowns of disguise; wigs and masques. the lunar crown. malkuth: the skull cap. the crown of wild olives of the olympian games, sacred to zeus. the wreath. crown of flowers, or ears of corn or wheat. shamanic headdress composed o

n reside, regulating these energies. netzach is spelt in hebrew, ntzch, nun-tzaddi-cheth. the tarot attributions of these cards is that of death, the star, and the chariot. the egyptian deities of this sequence are revealing of netzach, being typhon, nuit and hormakhu; typhon (or seth) is the serpent deity connected with storms, a natural phenomena appropriate to netzach, and was the pilot of the solar boat (tiphareth) who speared apophis, symbolic of the death atu connecting netzach to tiphareth. nuit resided in the "lower mansion of heliopolis, which is the house of the sun, and again refers to netzach's relationship to tiphareth, to which the sun is ascribed. she also was responsible for keeping the forces of chaos breaking through into the world, which denotes netzach function in maint

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those who follow thee shall be raised above the infidels, until the day of the judgement (iv.48. modern hinduism, in its order of ramakrishna, knows a meditation on the 'lord jesus' on the same level as those on krishna and shiva6. the buddhists can find in him one of the bodhisattvas, very likely that of avalokitecvara, ie- of mercy. the theosophists on the other hand see there the logos of our solar system, and finally, the kabbalists see there one of the names of the messiah. it is not without reason that the rationalistic, or rather atheistic magism ignores, no doubt deliberately, the all-powerful name of the repairer, as called by the martinist tradition of the eighteenth century. however, let us not forget that this current gathers in its folds, very often, what could be termed the

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

et the mind dwell on the fact that as the hand descends, so does a stream of light descend from above, a steady brilliant ray of light permeating him through and through. a shaft of light is thereby formed whch extends from the crown of his head to the soles of h s feet. strictly speaking, malkuth, the last sephirah, is referred to the feet. for convenience's sake, however, we touch the breast or solar plexus with the mental recognition that it is the region of the feet that actually we have reference to and to whch the shaft of light is directed. this forms the first half of the exercise. some seconds pause should take place here, in order to visualize and feel as strongly as is possible the presence of a brilliant ray of light. then, shfting the attention from the central pillar of light

olic link, selfinduced and self-devised, between the hgher genius on the one hand, and on the other, the ego, the conscious self referred to that group of characteristics clustered around tiphareth. on the middle pillar, daath connects the higher faculties to the ego, kether to tiphareth. this latter sephah is resident in the neighborhood of the heart, and its sphere extends from the diaphragm or solar plexus more or less to the spine. its center may be imagined to be the lowest point of the sternum or breast-bone to which the ribs are attached, its diameter being about six inches. below tiphareth is yesod, a center which is referred to the region occupied by the generative organs, and its size should be visualized as of the same dimensions as tiphareth. the final center is malkuth, referr

re, and quite possibly a prickling sensation will be noticed in the head and neck. a quite indescribable sense of poise and mental quiescence should also be experiencedno inconsiderable attainment, no small acquisition in these days of hurried business life and social fluttering. after several vibrations of the appropriate name, again the beam of light should descend to the heart or region of the solar plexus, and from there a warmth and a quite different sense of power will gently radiate as though from an interior sun. here too, a name should be slowly vibrated in such a way, whch can only come through practice, as to detonate precisely in the physical area being contemplated and not in another. it must be felt to vibrate in the region between the diaphragm and the point opposite to it o

over the body, as though every cell and molecule were acting in unison and moving, as it were, in a single direction. the result of ths vibration is to transform the lungs and the entire body into a single storage battery, generating and storing electricity and power, transmuting them into will and faculty. hard upon this, if the rhythm be persisted in, comes a quiet ripple over the diaphragm or solar plexus-a difficult symptom to describe, because it produces no perceptible physical or recognizable change, though the sense of the rhythm is none the less distinctly felt. when this occurs, and when one becomes aware of a single vibration through the body, and a gentle vibration or sense of luminosity and lightness in the brain, the student may be assured that he has acheved success in this

tter to refer to the sephiroth of the middle pillar exercise as galgalim,l whch is hebrew for "whlings" there are five sephiroth on the middle pillar in contrast to seven chakras in the eastern system. the sephrah of kether can be said to generally correspond to the crown and brow chakras, while the shadowy sphere of daath can be compared to the throat chakra. tiphareth approximates the heart and solar plexus chakras. yesod has certain similarities with the navel chakra. and while malkuth can be compared in some ways to the root chakra, the tenth sephirah is centered in the feet and ankles, while the root chakra is at the base of the spine. but differences between the qabalistic and yoga systems are great. as we have seen, some of the sephroth and the chakras are similar, but not exact. ta

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ous expenditures with reams of speculative papers. we do not even have enough facts, after fifteen years of study, to form a real basis for the coveted probabilities. if nick the greek were asked to make book on the existence of extraterrestrial life, he would find the scientific arguments so tenuous that the odds would have to be somewhere around a trillion to one. of the nine planets in our own solar system, only three mercury, earth, and mars are solid, and only one of these three is infested with life. the appearance of life requires a long list of environmental and chemical conditions. for all these conditions to exist simultaneously on a single planet also requires a whole series of improbable coincidences. men have always gazed at the night sky and dreamed of other worlds. four thou

with bodies that look just like them but are really programed in an entirely different way. a person who consorted with the devil supposedly had a mark somewhere on his flesh as a souvenir of the experience. a modern ufo contactee develops these "devil's marks" sometimes in the form of a wart or boil, some times a rash or blotch that looks like a birthmark. in occult lore, pains in the stomach or solar plexus occur during the experience, just as ufo contactee mrs. barney hill thought the spacemen were probing her stomach with a long needle. blood is drawn from the chin, neck, or the tips of the fingers and the affected areas remain sore for several days afterward. a number of contactees have had a reddish mark on the side of their neck, just below the ear, and recalled that an entity had t

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created world; it is also a power that can be summoned by the few and not the many. however, in china, there did not seem to be a backlash of fear or resentment against this force as was known in europe and palestine, and the symbol of might and kingship in china is still the dragon. in the west, the conjuration, cultivation, or worship of this power was strenuously opposes with the advent of the solar, monotheistic religions and those who clung to the old ways were effectively extinguished. the wholesale slaughter of those called "witches" during the inquisition is an example of this, as well as the solemn and twisted- that is to say, purposeless and unenlightened- celibacy that the church espoused. for the orgone of wilhelm reich is just as much leviathan as the kundalini of tantrick ade

scovered by dr. dee in elizabeth england. in greek, in the original ms, a common incantation would look something like this (using roman characters for the greek 'o kakos theos 'o kakos daimon 'o daimon pneuma tou ouranou thumethere! pneuma tes ges thumethate (o wicked god o wicked demon o demon spirit of the sky, remember! spirit of the earth, remember) yet, a word like shammash, the name of the solar deity, would read samas or sammas, and in the text of the necronomicon we would make the word read like its original. the "conjuration of the watcher" follows the fire god conjuration. the word "watcher" is sometimes used synonymously with "angel, and sometimes as a distinct race, apart from angelos: egragori. the race of watchers are said not to care what they watch, save that they follow o

bly not been effectively summoned in nearly six thousand years. ordinary exorcisms and banishing formulae have thus far proved extremely inadequate: this, by experienced magicians. hence, the following recommendations. the religion of the ancient sumerian peoples seems to have been lunar-oriented, a religion- or religion- magickal structure- of the night, of darkness in a sense. invocations using solar formulae have proved thus far effective in successfully banishing necronomicon demons and intelligences. for instance, the kaddish prayer of the jewish faith contains some solar elements that have proved resilient to inimical genii, and the vibration of the lord's prayer for christians is also a workable method. we suggest that individual operators utilise an equivalent solar (i.e, positive

THE STAR IN THE WEST BY CAPTAIN FULLER A CRITICAL ESSAY ON THE WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY

ich is at fault; the delicate time-piece of kant fs intellect has gone wrong, it has ceased to gtick, h and with the terrific blow of an a priori club, he proclaims it mended, and regulates each chiming clock in the house of many mansions by means of its handless face] thus has the great lion of crowleyanity set the little crab of konigsberg and his lunar hut in their appointed niche in the great solar mansion of eternity. at length we have arrived at the end of our first series of arguments, which may be generalized as the infoldment of all rational philosophies into one uncertain philosophic problem. berkeley, as we have seen, opened the gateway of scepticism, and was the first to vanish in the absolute ether of pyrrhonism, which he outwardly symbolized under the form of a bishop of the

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to further material and selfish ambitions. this malignant entity has the head of a crocodile, symbol of cruelty. the snake emerging from his body, instead of from his brow, indicates the use of the creative energy, not for enlightenment, but for physical gratification. it also represents medium-ship, rather than conscious control; for the chief center of power in disintegrative mediumship is the solar plexus. the two men with goat heads chained by the neck at the monster's feet represent the certain fate that awaits all who use magical powers to attain selfish or purely material ends. sooner or later they become slaves of the very forces they have used, and are finally completely destroyed in body and mind; and even after passing to the next life, are chained by their evil deeds in the un

rmony of body, intellect and emotions. the twelve flowers of the wreath above are the twelve zodiacal signs in which all experience is gained. the three blossoms of each flower indicate that both souls, as represented joined in the winged linga, have garnered the flowers of zodiacal experience on all planes, physical, astral and spiritual. the head of the lion signifies the creative forces of the solar sign, leo, and the courage which is necessary to all real attainment. the head of the bull represents the fructifying agent of nature and points out the necessity of labor in all progress. the eagle signifies that sex, as signified by the sign scorpio, has been turned into channels which lead to spirituality. and the head of the man indicates that both intuition and intelligence are necessar

THE BOOK OF GATES

al is closed after this god hath entered in through it, and there is lamentation on the part of those who are in their mountain when they hear this door shut" in the centre of the scene we see the boat of ra being towed along by four gods standing, each of whom grasps the tow-line with both hands. the god is now in the form of a ram-headed man, who holds the sceptre in his right hand, and has the solar disk above his horns. he stands within a shrine which is enveloped in the voluminous folds of the serpent mehen, a serpent also stands on his tall before him. in front of the shrine stands sa, and behind it hekau. the gods who tow the boat are called tuaiu. p. 88 the sun's boat is met in this section by a company of thirteen gods, who are under the direction of a god who holds a staff in his

ep. rod, or rope, over their heads like the four apes and the six male figures; they are described as "those who work magic by means of knots for ra" 4. three male figures, each holding a harpoon in p. 242 his right hand, and a cord in his left; they are called "spearmen" immediately in front of these is a bearded male figure, who has been lying prostrate on his face; he has upon his head a small solar disk and a pair of ass's ears, and his name is aai, i.e, the ass. in his hands he grasps a rope, which passes over his head and along his back, and is held by each of the three spearmen in his left hand; from the knees upwards his body is raised in a diagonal position, and this attitude suggests that he has either raised himself by means of the rope, or has been pulled into this position by

THE GOD SET

nce that set is set apart from other gods to die (bonnet's commentaries on the pyramid texts. the astronomical cult, which placed the afterlife in the region of the northern heavens- particularly in and around the constellation of the great bear was replaced in the fourth dynasty by a growing sun cult centering on re and horus. the great stellar monument that imhotep designed were replaced by the solar pyramids of the fourth and fifth dynasty's (notably cheops took no chances in the great pyramid's design- although outwardly a solar monument he had a hole bored through the stones aligned with the position of alpha draconis (a star in the great bear called thuban "the subtle one" a set cult title) just in case that was where his ka was heading. during the next few dynasties (4- 17, set is g

magic, osiris picks up the attributes of mysterious time djet as opposed to exoteric time neheh. set keeps his attributes a storm and stellar god, and gradually comes to be associated with all night fears- nightmares, desert fiends, and bad animals such as the hippo and the jaguar of the south. he is mentioned in a famous 12th dynasty writing called the discourse of a man with his ba in which his solar aspect iaa is referred to. bikka reed has a great translations of this text. in the 18th dynasty a remarkable pharoah hatshepsut reintroduced the worship of set by building a temple dedicated to him and horus the elder at ombos. this marked a strong interest in set's eternal nature, for example in hatshepsut is the prophecy (which she had placed in her tomb at der el-medina) that "she will n

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gnorant minds, though the philosophical comprehend the phenomenon as the natural, regular and recurrent change in the obliquity of the earth s axis. with this ceremony of the renewal of the life of the sun, is mingled that of what the wise men of old regarded as a similar tragedy, that of the death of man and his renewal in the son. let me ask you to consider, brother master magician, that as the solar tragedy is but the uninformed and partial views of acts, so may the human prove. of this your progress in our order may give you opportunity to judge. w (to s) most mysterious master of the time past, will you not bequeath to your successor a double portion of your spirit, and bestow upon him from the shades a mark of your divine favour? file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20

by shape symbolical of the phallus. some mountains are female, from shape or tradition. the ancestor; revered as an incarnation of the phallus. the yoni or kteis; revered as the house of the phallus, and his complement. the snake; revered as giver of death, and as a symbol of the spermatozoon. he has often the head of the lion; to indicate the mighty power of the spermatozoon. the egg; revered as solar, and in itself as the vehicle of phallic energy. the eagle; and many other winged creatures; also wings attached to the symbols. this represents the flight of life from one resting-place to another, and is therefore a proper attribute of the phallus. the tree; is but the flowering phallus. the stars; these being the concourse of the brethren of the sun are venerable for the wise even as he

h. but this is a mystery of the adepts of thelema and the vulgar may not attain to it. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c1.html (2 of 7 [12/28/2001 2:05:17 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. all other gods should be referred to this synthesis in the microcosmic sun. thus corn-goddesses conceal mysteries of germination, wine-gods are phallic and solar in the ecstasy of overflowing life of which the proper use of wine makes even the common people conscious. there are also gods invented to represent things useful to man; but these are by nature subservient to the prime god whose use and beauty are fundamental. iii in that sanctuary of the gnosis to which, very illustrious sir knights your valour and chastity may one day obtain your admissio

us, isis, astarte, venus and many scores of others possible. traces of this recension are still visible in the mass and in the calendar of the saints, all gods and goddesses of universal import receiving the same honour by the same rites as before, while the local gods were replaced by saints, virgins, martyrs, or angels, often of the same name, always of the same character. thus on the altar the solar-phallic crucifix is surrounded by six lights for the planets, to use one example only of a hundred at our disposal; and christmas is at the winter solstice, the birth of christ put for the birth of the sun. all these points may be studied in: la messe et ses mysteres rome, pagan and papal the two babylons rivers of life file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20th

orehouse of strength, and a focus or magnet, drawing to itself all subtle forces, and radiating benediction. let then the knight keep secret this devotion, and enjoy its fruits in quiet. vi here also is a deeper worship and an inner, that lieth nigher to the heart of god. let the good knight devout appoint a secret shrine in his own body, in the brain, or in the throat, or in the heart, or in the solar plexus, or in that place called groin, or in some other centre of force, and there let him establish firmly a mental image of the phallus or of the sun; and, closing all avenues of sense, as it were tyling the lodge, let him worship and cherish that image with unwearying care. let him rehearse before the lord thus exalted his own deed of knightly devoir unto that lord, so that memory and ima

THOUGHTS ON SETH

hristian sense of the word. this won't do (note: the idea that horus could ever completely defeat and destroy seth is nonsense anyway. seth is the foundation of the material realm. seth is form and structure. he unlies malkuth in such a way that were he removed, reality itself would collapse into the primal chaos. according to his legend, every night seth rides the barque of millions of years the solar boat and every morning before the dawn he slays apep, the demon of chaos and entropy who blocks its passage, so that the barque may rise aga in. without seth, the sun would never rise and the darkness would be eternal) so meditating on what i know of the godform, i come up with. material world as has been said, seth grounds the temple in the material realm, in malkuth, which is where his thr

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

lso 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 gbg and crowley only knew each other for a short year or a true history of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 13 two, do you think that would be long enough for them to

ch a pretence; but then occultists sometimes do devious things. crowley may have played out a similar scene with g.i. gurdjieff, the other enlightened merry prankster of the first half of the twentieth century. gnosticism and wicca, the subjects of jack parsons' essays, republished by the oto and falcon press in 1990, are the two most successful expressions to date of crowley's dream of a popular solar-phallic religion. maybe i'm wrong, but i think aleister and gerald may have cooked wicca up. if wicca is the oto's prodigal daughter in fact, authorized directly by crowley, how should wiccans now relate to this? how should crowley's successors and heirs in the oto deal with it? then too, what are we to make of and infer about all this business of a popular thelemic-gnostic religion? were cr

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h also familiars of the firmament, and prolongeth life to 700 yeares if god will. his character. he hath under him 42 kings, 35 princes, 28 dukes, 21 counsellors, 14 ministers, 7 messengers, 29000 legions of spirits. phaleg ruleth those things which are attributed to mars, the prince of peace. he that hath his character he raiseth to great honours in warlike affaires. his character. och governeth solar things; he giveth 600 yeares, with perfect health; he bestoweth great wisdom, giveth the most excellent spirits, teacheth perfect medicines: he converteth all things into most pure gold and precious stones: he giveth 14 gold, and a purse springing with gold. he that is dignified with his character, he maketh him to be worshipped as a deity, by the kings of the whole world. the character. he

general precepts of this secret. 1. every governour acteth with all his spirits, either naturally, to wit, always after the same maner; or otherwise of their own free-will, if god hinder them not. 2. every governour is able to do all things which are done naturally in a long time, out of matter before prepared; and also to do them suddenly, out of matter not before prepared. as och, the prince of solar things, prepareth gold in the mountains in a long time; in a less time, by the chymical art; and magically, in a moment. 3. the true and divine magician may use all the creatures of god, and offices of the governours of the world, at his own will, for that the governours of the world are obedient unto them, and come when they are called, and do execute their commands: but god is the author t

phorism 21. when you would call any of the olympick spirits, observe the rising of the sun that day, and of what nature the spirit is which you desire; and saying the prayer following, your desires shall he perfected. omnipotent and eternal god, who hast ordained the whole creation for thy praise and glory, and for the salvation of man, i beseech thee that thou wouldst send thy spirit n.n. of the solar order, who shall inform and teach me those things which i shall ask of him; or, that he may bring me medicine against the dropsie &c. nevertheless not my will be done, but thine, through jesus christ thy onely begotten son, our lord. amen. but thou shalt not detain the spirit above a full hour, unless he be familiarly addicted unto thee. forasmuch as thou camest in peace, and quietly, and ha

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into egypt (diodor. sic. lib. i, p. 80; but as the egyptians pretended that all foreigners received their sciences from them, at a time when all foreigners who entered the country were put to death or enslaved (diodor. sic. lib. i, pp. 78 et 107, this account may be rejected, with many others of the same kind. the egyptians certainly could not have taught orpheus the plurality of worlds, and true solar system, which appear to have been the fundamental principles of his philosophy and religion (plutarch. de placit. philos, lib. ii, c. 13. 20 on the worship greeks.1 he is called the father of night, because by attracting the light to himself, and becoming the fountain which distributed it to the world, he produced night, which is called eternally-begotten, because it had eternally existed, a

deity in the same ancient dialogue, that the light which proceedeth from the sun, and illuminateth the world, and the light which is in the moon and in the fire, are mine. i pervade all things in nature, and guard them with my beams.2 in the figure now under consideration a kind of preeminence seems to be given to the moon over the sun; proceeding probably from the hindoos not possessing the true solar system, which must however have been known to the people from whom they learnt to calculate eclipses, which they still continue to do, though upon principles not understood by themselves. they now place the earth in the centre of the universe, as the later greeks did, among whom we also find the same preference given to the lunar symbol; jupiter being represented, on a medal of antiochus vii

and, which was thus supposed to have acquired its proper temperature and fertility. for this reason the sacred fire, the essential image of the god, was surrounded by the element which was principally employed in giving effect to the beneficial exertions of his great attribute. these orphic temples were, without doubt, emblems of that fundamental principle of the mystic faith of the ancients, the solar system; fire, the essence of the deity, occupying the place of the sun, and the columns surrounding it as the subordinate parts of the universe. remains of the worship of fire continued among the greeks even to the last, as appears from the sacred fires kept in the interior apartment, or holy of holies, of almost all their temples, and places of worship: and, though the ammonian platonics, t

which it was buried, but refined and sublimated it with abstract metaphysics, which soared as far above human reason as the poetical 1 sat. lib. i. c. 18. 2 arch ologia, vol. v. 3 now called the devil s arrows. see stukely s itin. vol. i. table xc. 4 hist. nat. lib. xxxvi. sec. 14. 5 plate x, fig. 1, and nummi pop& urb. table x. fig. 7. 68 on the worship mythology sunk below it. from the ancient solar obeliscs came the spires and pinnacles with which our churches are still decorated, so many ages after their mystic meaning has been forgotten. happily for the beauty of these edifices, it was forgotten; otherwise the reformers of the last century would have destroyed them, as they did the crosses and images; for they might with equal propriety have been pronounced heathenish and prophane. a

cal attributes, instead of ministering spirits and guardian angels; and the canonizations or deifications were bestowed upon heroes, legislators, and monarchs, instead of priests, monks, and martyrs. there is also this further difference, that among the moderns philosophy has improved, as religion has been corrupted; whereas, among the ancients, religion and philosophy declined together. the true solar system was taught in the orphic school, and adopted by the pythagoreans, the next regularly-established sect. the stoics corrupted it a little, by placing the earth in the centre of the universe, though they still allowed the sun its superior magnitude.1 at length arose the epicureans, who confounded it entirely, maintaining that the sun was only a small globe of fire, a few inches in diamet

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indness. all the magi of old were astrologers. they observed the planets and ordered them by their apparent motions. the moon was quickest, saturn slowest, and the sun of median speed. therefore the sun was assigned the central planetary sphere. modern astronomy did nothing to upset this sun centrality. the sun is observed by telescopes and calculated by mathematics to reside at the center of the solar system, fixed in relation to the other bodies that revolve around it. again it is distinguished as singularly different, more important, and central. the difficulty with a sun-central arrangement is that it results in an imbalance among the other six planets that cannot be corrected by rearranging them in con- trasting pairs around the sun. in fact, balanced pairs are impossible. no other pl

r interrelationship. it proves the unique- ness of mercury with unmistakable clarity. the sun and the moon are paired and separated from the rest of the planets by each being given a single, pure sign denot- ing its quality: sun: el moon: the jupiter-saturn and mars-venus pairs are likewise inescapable, based on their symbolism. all four of these planets are double-compound, partaking of the pure solar or lunar qualities blended with the quality of the earth, which is repre- sented by the cross: jupiter: 3 mars: 6 saturn: fi venus: 9 unique and apart, mercury is made up of the symbols of the three primary forces-sun, moon, and earth. it is the only planet that combines the solar and lunar symbols. these are held in harmonious balance by the symbol of earth: mercury: this relationship betwe

forming a triad with the opposed sun and moon, and the remaining planets in pairs on either side of mercury. preface xvii in the thresor des thresors des alchimistes by paracelsus, a phoenix stands with wings spread on the black earth. the sun is under its right wing, the moon under its left, and above its head mercury is framed in a blazing stellar brilliance. above the sun is the mated pair of solar opposites, mars-venus, and above the moon the mated lunar opposites, saturn- jupiter. the second illustration is from the work azote des philosophes by basil valen- tine. it shows a hermaphrodite, symbolic of mercury and the magus, standing tri- umphant atop the chaotic dragon, which is supported by the earth. within the earth is the alchemical symbol for squaring the circle. above the head

uish it from the other planets. over the right shoulder of the figure is the sun, and over the left shoulder is the moon. below the sun is mars-venus. below the moon is jupiter-saturn. in the third illustration, also from azote, which shows the process of putrefac- tion, a dying man lies inside an alchemical vessel above which are, on the right side, the sun, and on the left, the moon. again, the solar pair mars-venus is under the sun and the lunar pair jupiter- saturn is under the moon. crowning the wood- cut is mercury. saturn is shown black because saturn rules putrefaction. examples might be further multiplied, but these are sufficient to show that a mercury-central system of planets is not a new idea but was common among alchemists. of course the sun-central system is also often shown

but this only proves that alchemy is as traditional as any other magical art. the great john dee was aware of the possibility of a mercury-central system of magic and makes mention of it in his hieroglyphic monad. in theorem xi11 he writes concerning mercury: in the progression we will notice this other mercury will appear who is truly the twin brother of the first: for by the complete lunar and solar magic of the ele- ments, the hieroglyph of this messenger speaks to us very distinctly, and we should examine it carefully and listen to what it says. and (by the will of god) it is the mercury of the philosophers, the greatly celebrated microcosm and adam. therefore, some of the most expert were inclined to place him in a posi- tion of, and give him a rank equal to, the sun himself (john de

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

ou project while on a bed. it is possible to project the astral body lying on your side or stomach, but success with these postures is rare. your legs or feet should not be crossed one over the other, as doing so tends to inhibit the free flow of energies throughout the body. your arms may be left at your sides, but you may find it better to fold your hands over the center of your abdomen at your solar plexus. energy and warmth are focused beneath the folded hands. if you are using a physical image or inscription as a key, as you should in most cases, you will want to place it beneath your folded hands, assuming it is something that cannot be damaged by perspiration or your movements on the bed, should it slip under you. gesture since the ritual of soul flight is done while lying down, the

r of the circle is your flight path into the astral world. the symbolic key you have chosen to define the astral place or environment you wish to visit should be beneath your hands on your abdomen when you are lying down. if you find this positioning of the hands uncomfortable, you may wish to lay the key on your abdomen and leave your arms at your sides. the best location for the key is over the solar plexus. the slight pressure of the weight of the hands bearing on the solar plexus can assist the separation of the astral body. you will carry an astral double of the key with you when you enter your astral chamber. it is not identical to the physical key, but is always in the form of a plasticized keycard. while holding the sign of departure in your mind, let the music or white noise you h

inclusions, 188. pliny, vol. x, p. 181. 189. ibid.,vol.viii, p. 287. chapter eleven: astral doorways 189 or cloudiness, does not inhibit the effectiveness of a crystal. most crystal balls used in past centuries were imperfect, as perfect crystals were quite difficult to get. uses of rock crystal a use of rock crystal that i find effective is to rest a natural crystal upon the hollow just above my solar plexus when i am lying on my back, with my hands clasped over the crystal. the crystal acts as a mental focus during soul flight. at the same time, i visualize a vortex opening in the air above the middle of my body and drawing me upward. this is a simple, unstructured method of projection that can either be used by itself, or incorporated into a ritual. you may wish to experiment with arran

ack cloth after it is charged will help retain this virtue. to incorporate the lunar virtue of a mirror into the standard projection ritual, in which the chamber, corridor, and elevator are visualized, a small mirror may be combined with the symbolic key that specifies the astral destination. these can be held together with tape or a rubber band. the mirror and the key can then be placed over the solar plexus beneath the folded hands while lying on the bed during the projection. it is best to leave the surface of the mirror unobstructed and to place the key against its backing. when a small mirror is incorporated into the key, the keycard in the astral world should be visualized as having a mirror backing. this small mirror can be used as an offensive weapon against astral beings. if you a

back down to the dimensions of the tarot card. banishing the doorway in this manner will make it easier to reintegrate with your physical body. 202 soul flight it is also a good practice on the grounds of security, although there is little danger to be encountered in the worlds of the trumps. tarot trumps as astral keys to employ a tarot trump for an astral key, hold it beneath your hands to your solar plexus as you lie on the bed in your practice chamber after you draw the circle of protection around your bed, and just prior to forming the sign of projection above your face. it is a good idea to place the card in a protective envelope or wallet to prevent its damage from the moisture of your hands. you should meditate on the trump before beginning the ritual of projection, so that you can

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

e of the immense mass of the earth beneath you. extend your perception downward and expand it on all sides until you can sense the roundness of the planet. feel its gentle curve. be conscious of the spine of the world, its axis running from the north 18 reclining exercises pole to the south pole, aligned with your own spine. expand your awareness outward and become conscious of the planets of the solar system and the more distant stars, like glowing jewels set in the turning dome of a great natural cathedral as they rise in the east and descend in the west. mentally speed up time so that you can watch the stars arc across the dark sky, and can feel the turning of the earth. shift your awareness into your left hand, and open your mind to catch a gentle spring breeze blowing from the east th

word or phrase can be used to set the duration and rhythm of each beat. it is best to choose a word or phrase that has meaning for you, so that it can act as a mantra. the word "omega" can be used for this purpose. when your lower torso has expanded as far as it wants without pushing or discomfort, raise your awareness to the middle of your chest, just behind the point of your sternum where your solar plexus is located. continue to inhale smoothly for three more beats and allow the bottom of your rib cage to expand with violet-colored air. watch with your inner vision as the level of violet air inside your hollow torso rises to fill the middle portion of your chest. when your middle chest has expanded to a comfortable size, shift your awareness upward to the zone of your chest between you

s of the 48 sitting exercises stages. any mantra may be employed. the mantra "omega" works well when silently voiced in the mind. imagine that your torso is hollow. for three slow repetitions of the mantra, inhale to fill your lungs. on the first mental voicing of the mantra, visualize air flowing into your lower abdomen; on the second, visualize it filling your middle torso in the region of your solar plexus; on the third, visualize air filling your upper torso from your nipples to your shoulders. raise your shoulders slightly during this third phase of inhalation, but take care not to hunch them. lock your throat shut by tightening the muscles inside the base of your throat and pressing the back portion of your tongue upward and backward, while at the same time inclining your head forwar

your forehead between your eyebrows. using a portion of the air in your lungs, vibrate the syllables of the hebrew word ateh briefly but with power and authority "ah-teh" feel the resonance in your chest energize your aura, and the vibrations of your aura propel your articulated breath outward to fill the universe. touch your right index finger to the end of your breastbone, in the region of your solar plexus. vibrate the syllables of the hebrew word malkuth briefly but with authority, using a little more of the air in your lungs. feel the vibrations in your chest energize your aura, and sense that your aura propels your breath outward to fill the universe. visualize a white ray extending from the glowing sphere of your heart-center vertically up and down, so that it passes through the top

s english rather than hebrew. instead of the words "thou art" at the top of the cross i use the words" the crown" to indicate that the head is the place on the body assigned to the highest sephirah, kether-kether means crown. i assign the bottom of the cross to the groin rather than the base of the sternum, because the functions of the groin are more in keeping with the nature of malkuth than the solar plexus. also, in my method i invert the arms of the cross from left to right, assigning gedulah to the right shoulder and geburah to the left shoulder. by this inversion the practitioner symbolically becomes the manifest body of god, rather than a reflection of that body. instead of the words "for ever" i prefer the words "and the law everlastingj' as the final part of the formula. the word

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

ts of the monad, connected by the cross of the elements. dee explains the glyph of taurus as the thin crescent which the moon reveals in the sign of taurus just after emerging from conjunction with the sun in the sign of aries. he explains the sign of aries as two semicircles representing the waxing and waning halves of the moon, which, when united, reveal the full circular glory of the reflected solar orb. in theorem xi, he writes concerning aries that the period of twenty-four hours divided by the equinox "denotes most secret proportions" it is significant that the hieroglyphic monad is divided into twenty-four theorems. this was not an accident, as dee states in the final theorem of his work, saying "so now at last we consummate and terminate the metamorphosis and the metathesis of all

sapphire are most likely; or there may have been four different jewels, one for each of the letters of the name; and any occult material that may have been set beneath the stone, such as a magic herb. these natural substances derive their power from the heavens also, through occult correspondences that connect them to the planets and the ring of solomon 95 stars. for example, gold draws down the solar virtue of the sun; diamond is the stone of aries and mars. the sun represents solomon as an enlightened and benevolent ruler; aries and mars reinforce his aspect as a powerful warrior king. many occult texts claim to possess the true description of the ring, but since each differs from all the others, it is difficult to know how much faith to place in their assertions. for example, the enoch

tional planets. these planets are divided into two sects ruled by the sun and the moon. the sect of the sun contains jupiter, saturn, and mercury. the sect of the moon contains mars, venus, and mercury. there is another ancient division of the planets in astrology that assigns them under the sun and moon to the signs of the zodiac. by this arrangement, the zodiac is divided down the middle into a solar half (right side) and a lunar half (left side. the sun, ruling in leo, is placed over the five lesser planets in the signs from virgo to capricorn, while the moon, ruling in cancer, is placed over the mirror-opposite ordering of the same five planets in the signs from gemini to aquarius. mercury is the only planet belonging both to the sect of the sun and the sect of the moon. it is the cruc

lf (right side) and a lunar half (left side. the sun, ruling in leo, is placed over the five lesser planets in the signs from virgo to capricorn, while the moon, ruling in cancer, is placed over the mirror-opposite ordering of the same five planets in the signs from gemini to aquarius. mercury is the only planet belonging both to the sect of the sun and the sect of the moon. it is the crucible of solar and lunar forces, where these powers mingle and amalgamate with each other. as such, it represents heavenly adam incarnated upon the earth (the messiah, or christ) and the middle pillar of mildness on the tree of the sephiroth. this is an occult correspondence that is seldom found in the texts of the kabbalah, but was well understood by john dee (see the hieroglyphic monad, theorem xiii, and

n committed by adam was the division of the tree of knowledge from the tree of life, originally a single tree. this division is known as the "cutting of the shoots" and is symbolically represented by the plucking of the apple, which divided fruit from root. the aim of the messiah is to reunite the tree of life (right pillar) with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (left pillar. the golden solar rings are worn in succession upon the index finger of the right hand. each time the sun enters the astrological sign corresponding to a particular overt banner of tetragrammaton, the ring bearing that banner is put upon the right index finger. it continues to be worn all the time the sun is passing through that sign of the zodiac. for example, around march 21, the sun enters the sign aries

VOX SABBATUM

an exterior spirit, but rather more correctly it is an interior force; one which appears so strange at first to your level of consciousness you will find it easier to label it an exterior force. the definition of angel is a higher facility of man, it is intelligence and matured control, the very careful planning and stillness of being which is both energetic and vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 4 solar, strong and the very fountainhead of self-development and progressive being. it is the seat of the psyche, the demon genius of man and woman. the definition of daemon or beast is the shadowed and animalistic instinctual, impulsive side. it is the djinn (spirit daemon) of pleasure, desire, lust and sexual passion. it is the animalistic and passionate essence which resides in the skull of man

bramelin oil and have similar incense burning. the celestial summoning of yaltabaoth vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 25 this rite is the invocation of the luciferian and adversarial fire-djinn, yaltabaoth who was the wisest among the angels. as called also azal ucel, sigillized as azothoz, yaltabaoth is the deific force with a mask of a beast and an angel. let this invocation be most holy and the solar logos shall manifest through the baphometic wisdom of darkness. this calling should be conducted in the high rite of the celestial or luciferian sabbat, called often empyrean or of the highest aethyr or heavens. this is the self-focused rite of the magician becoming as the adversary, the dragon-angel awakening of the isolate intellect. you are essentially becoming as the prince of darkness t

tructing them in ways of magick and bearing lilitu or other demons by their sexual union. these fallen angels and beasts spawn dragon- children, who were in spirit form upon and under the earth. as more and more demons were created, lilith-az began to devour many of them, her vampyric and lycanthropic nature surfaced. lilith is the initiatory blood goddess of the path of black witchcraft, and the solar focus of the great work, that of lucifer. she wears a mask of beauty, from beneath is a beast .as also she wears a mask of the beast, from which under is that of divinity and beauty. those who focus on the initiatory work of lilith-az so invoke the bride of chaos in their name, the daemonic feminine being significant towards positive self-development. the name az is a conceptual view of what

o become through the mirror of self the mirror in hebrew mythology is also symbolic of lilith, being a gateway to her caves near the red sea, or the darkness of hell of which she dwells. lilith az is illustrated in the book of cain, azothoz and nox umbra as part beast, part woman. she is the unrestrained sexual force, laylah being night and death. she is the bride of oz, azazel, the masculine and solar phallic force of fire and creation. she drains the blood of life, hungering for flesh, devouring and copulating, spreading her sexual knowledge to her children. yet she is also beautiful and all knowledgeable, the age of one thousand aged crones, infinite, youth maiden and hag. approach the bride of chaos in honesty, seeking her cold kiss and warmth in the sabbat fire, where you shall drink

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

tertia die resurrexit "the third day he rose again from the dead" so also the adept of the greater mysteries rose from the pastos in the imputed glory of an inward illumination. the mystical fact there was a period not so long ago when these analogies were recognized and applied to place a fabulous construction upon the central doctrines of christian religion, just as there was a period when the solar mythology was adapted in the same direction. we have no call to consider these aberrations of a partially digested learning; but they had their excuses in their period. the point on which i would insist is that in the symbolism of the old initiations, and in the pageant of the christian mythos, there is held to be the accurate delineation of a mystical experience, the heads and sections of w

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

ps, which rested on bases having convex fronts. on the front of such a talisman was sculptured in relief a figure of horus the child (harpokrates, standing on two crocodiles, holding in his hands figures of serpents, scorpions, a lion, and a horned animal, each of these being a symbol of an emissary or ally of set, the god of evil. above his head was the head of bes, and on each side of him were: solar symbols, i.e, the lily of nefer-tem, figures of ra and harmakhis, the eyes of ra (the sun and moon, etc. the reverse of the stele and the whole of the base were covered with magical texts and spells, and when a talisman of this kind was placed in a house, it was supposed to be directly under the protection of horus and his companion gods, who had vanquished all the hosts of darkness and all

of the great gods of heaven, earth, and the other world, figures of the gods of the planets and the dekans, figures of the gods of the days of the week, of the weeks, and months, and seasons of the year, and of the year. besides these there are a number of figures of local forms of the gods which it is difficult to identify. on the rounded portion of the obverse the place of honour is held by the solar disk, in which is seen a figure of khnemu with four ram's heads, which rests between a pair of arms, and is supported on a lake of celestial water; on each side of it are four of the spirits of the dawn, and on the right stands the symbol of the rising sun, nefer-temu, and on the left stands thoth. below this are five rows of small figures of gods. below these is harpokrates in relief, in th

goddesses,[fn#111] for he hath overthrown the enemy by means of their fear of him [fn#111] i.e, nekhebit and uatchit. and ra heru-khuti said "the great one of the two serpent goddesses of heru-behutet shall be called 'ur-uatchti'[fn#112] from this day onwards [fn#112 "great one of the two uraei-goddesses" these goddesses had their places above the brow of the god, or at the right and left of the solar disk. xix. and heru-khuti travelled on in his boat, and landed at the city of thes-heru (apollinopolis magna. and thoth said "the being of light who hath come forth from the horizon hath smitten the enemy in the form which he hath made, and he shall be called being of light who hath come forth from the horizon from this day onwards"[fn#113 [fn#113] in the sculpture (naville, mythe, pl. 19) w

president of the two aterti of the south and north because of this from this day onwards.[fn#118 [fn#118] in the sculpture which illustrates this portion of the text at edfu, two winged disks are represented. the first has# on each side of it. the disk has an uraeus on each side. the second winged symbol of the god consists of a beetle with outstretched wings, which holds between his forelegs the solar disk, and between his hind legs the symbol of the orbit of the sun. a hymn to osiris and a legend of the origin of horus. homage to thee, osiris, lord of eternity, king of the gods, whose names are manifold, whose transformations are sublime, whose form is hidden in the temples whose ka is holy, the governor of tetut,[fn#119] the mighty one of possessions?)in the shrine,[fn#120] the lord of

the wars against the gods. and this, they say, is the reason why drinking its juice in great quantities makes men mad and beside themselves, filling them, as it were, with the blood of their own ancestors. these things are thus related by eudoxus in the second book of his travels, as he had them from the priests themselves [fn#271] called anu in the egyptian texts; it was the centre of the great solar cult of egypt. it is the "on" of the bible [fn#272] the sun-god was called ra. vii. as to sea-fish, the egyptians in general do not abstain from all kinds of them, but some from one sort and some from another. thus, for example, the inhabitants of oxyrhynchus[fn#273] will not touch any that have been taken with an angle; for as they pay especial reverence to the oxyrhynchus fish,[fn#274] fro

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

en of man, do you want to enter into the ineffable bliss of nirvana? do you want to become gods? do you want to convert yourselves into christs? do you want to liberate yourselves from the wheel of birth and death? here we will give you the clue of sexual magic! what else do you want? let s see the existing relationship between the 10 sephiroth with the first tarot cards. the seven planets of the solar system are the seven sephiroth. and the thrice-spiritual sun is the sephirothic crown. these sephir