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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

is obviously accounted for, by his worship yielding the precedence to that of mercury in those nations which tacitus knew best: we shall see, as we go on, that the northern and remoter branches on the contrary reserved their highest veneration for the thunder-god. on isis and hercules i shall express my views further on. whom we are to understand by the dioscuri, is hard to guess; most likely two sons of woden, and if we go by the statements of the edda, the brothers baldr and hermosr would be the most fitting. this adaptation of classical names to german gods became universally spread, and is preserved with strict unanimity by the latin writers of the succeeding centuries; once set in circulation, it remained current and intelligible for long ages. the gothic historian names but one god a

osinn was represented journeying abroad, to the eastern land (p. 163, so is thorr engaged in eastward travels: thorr var i austrvegi, saem. 59, a austrvega 68; for or austrvegi, 75; ec var austr, 78; anstrforom jjinom scaltu aldregi segja seggjom fra, 68. in these journeys he fought with and slew the giants: var haim 1 to the bori;\t mongols beyond l. baikal, fairy-rings in f^rass are "where the sons of tlie ivjldninfj have danced" trans. 188 thunar. f((rinn i anstcrvcg at berja troll, sn. 46. and tliis again points to the ancient and at that time still unforgotten connexion of the teutonic nations with asia; this' faring east-ways' is told of other heroes too, sn. 190. 363; e.g, the race of the skilfingar is expressly placed in that eastern region (sii kynslos er i austrvegum, sn. 193; a

o apollo, when he snatches hector away from achilles 20, 443. the wall so laboriously built by the greeks he overturns pela fidxa, as a boy at play would a sand-heap 15, 362. with a mere breath trvoifj, blowing a little /ca p,d\a ^irv^aaa, athene turns away from achilles the spear that hector had thrown 20, 440 (see suppl. berhta also blows (p. 276, and the elves breathe (eh. xvii, on people. the sons of men grow up slowly and gradually, gods attain their full size and strength directly after hirth. no sooner had strength. precocity. size. 321 themis presented nectar and ambrosia (a/j,/3poait)v tpareivi'iv) to the newborn apollo, than he leapt, kare/spco^ cl/x^potov, out of his swathiiigs, sat down among the goddesses, began to speak, and. unshorn as he was, to roam through the country (hy

h as the greek gods before ilion. in the battle of bravik, osinn mingled with the combatants, and assumed the figure of a charioteer bruni; saxo gram, p. 146. fornald. sog. 1, 380. the grimnismal makes geirrosr the protege (fostri) of osinn, agnarr that of frigg, and the two deities take counsel together concerning them, saem. 39; in the vols, saga cap. 42, osinn suggests the plan for slaying the sons of lonakr. the greek gods also, when they drew nigh to counsel or defend, appeared in the form of a human warrior, a herald, an old man, or they made themselves known to their hero himself, but not to others. in such a case they stand before, heside or behind him trapd, ii. 2, 279. eyyvdi, od. 1, 120. dyxoo, ii. 2, 172. 3, 129. 4, 92. 5, 123. irpoaeev 4, 129. oindev 1, 197; athene leads by th

sn. 36; the youth ganymede is cupbearer too, and so is beyla at the feast of the ases (stem. 67; skirnir is frey's shoemaker (81) and messenger, beyggvir and beyla are also called liis servants (59. these services do no detriment to their own divine nature. beside hermes, the goddess iris goes on errands for the greek gods (see suppl. among the gods themselves there is a difference of rani: three sons of kronos have the world divided among them, the sky is allotted to zeus, the sea to poseidon, hell to hades, and the earth they are supposed to share between them (h. 15, 193. these three tower above all the rest, like har, lafnhar and thrisi in tlie norse religion, the triad spoken of on p. 162. this is not the same thing as' wuotan, donar, ziu' if only because the last two are not brothers

4 7 INITIATION CEREMONY

of the gathering of the waters; terrible was that silence of an uncreated world, immeasurable the depth of that abyss. and the countenance of darkness half formed, arose. they abode not, they hasted away. and in the vastness of vacancy, the spirit moved, and the light-bearers existed for a space. i have said darkness of darkness; are not the countenances of darkness fallen with the kings? do the sons of the night of time last forever? and have they not passed away? before all things are the waters, and the darkness, and the gates of the land of night. and the chaos cried aloud for the unity of form, and the face of the eternal arose. before the glory of that countenance the night rolled back and the darkness hasted away. in the waters beneath was that face reflected, in the formless abyss

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

erature about yoga at all. the more advanced one's progress, the less one knows, and the more one understands. the effect is simply additional evidence of what i have been saying all this time: that it is very little use discussing things; what is needed is continuous devotion to the practice. love is the law, love under will (part 8 of 8* yoga for yellowbellies. fourth lecture* salutation to the sons of the morning! do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. 1. i should like to begin this evening by recapitulating very briefly what has been said in the previous three lectures, and this would be easier if i had not completely forgotten everything i said. but there is a sort of faint glimmering to the effect that the general subject of the series was the mental exercises of the yogi;

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

d" or "evil. marduk won this battle- in much the same way that later st. george and st. michael would defeat the serpent again- the cosmos was created from the body of the slain serpent, and man was created from the blood of the slain commander of the ancient army, kingu, thereby making man a descendent of the blood of the enemy, as well as the "breath" of the elder gods; a close parallel to the "sons of god and daughters of men" reference in the old testament. yet, though the identity of the victor is clear, there were- and are- certain persons and organisations that dared side with the vanquished, believing the ancient ones to be a source of tremendous, and most unbelievable, power. worship of the ancient ones in history "let them curse it that curse the day, who are skilful to rouse lev

slay the elder gods by stealth. with magick charm and spell absu fought, but was slain by the sorcery of the elder gods. and it was their first victory. his body was lain in an empty space in a crevice of the heavens hid he was lain, but his blood cried out to the abode of heaven. tiamat enraged filled with an evil motion said let us make monsters that they may go out and do battle against these sons of iniquity the murderous offspring who have destroyed a god. hubur arose, she who fashioneth all things, and possessor of magick like unto our master. she added matchless weapons to the arsenals of the ancient ones, she bore monster-serpents sharp of tooth, long of fang, she filled their bodies with venom for blood roaring dragons she has clothed with terror has crowned them with halos, maki

and severed the head of tiamat from its body. and all was silent. remember! marduk victor took the tablets of destiny unbidden hung them around his neck. acclaimed of the elder gods was he. first among the elder ones was he. he split the sundered tiamat in twain and fashioned the heavens and the earth, with a gate to keep the ancient ones without. with a gate whose key is hid forever save to the sons of marduk save to the followers of our master enki first in magick among the gods. from the blood of kingu he fashioned man. he constructed watchtowers for the elder gods fixing their astral bodies as constellations that they may watch the gate of absu the gate of tiamat they watch the gate of kingu they oversee the gate whose guardian is iak sakkak they bind. all the elder powers resist the

of the earth. and none may dare entreat further for to invoke death is to utter the final prayer. ii of the generations of the ancient ones utukk xul the account of the generations of the ancient ones here rendered of the generations of the ancient ones here remembered. cold and rain that erode all things they are the evil spirits in the creation of anu spawned plague gods pazuzu and the beloved sons of eng the offspring of ninnkigal rending in pieces on high bringing destruction below they are children of the underworld loudly roaring on high gibbering loathsomely below they are the bitter venom of the gods. the great storms directed from heaven those are they the owl, messenger of uggi lord of death those they are they are the children born of earth that in the creation of anu were spaw

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

0. 1 wrffm metatron cdqh twyj chaioth ha-qadosh holy living creatures ynda 2 layxr ratziel \ynpwa auphanim wheels nyda 3 layqpx tzaphkiel \ylara aralim active ones, thrones dyna 4 layqdx tzadkiel \ylmcj chashmalim brilliant ones dnya 5 lamk kamael \yprc seraphim fiery serpents ndya 6 lapr raphael \yklm malakim kings aynd 7 laynah haniel \yhla elohim gods yand 8 lakim mikael \yhla ynb beni elohim sons of god anid 9 layrbg gabriel \ybrk kerubim angels of elements nayd 10 wpldns( wrffm) sandalphon (metatron \yca ashim flames ynad nyad ynda la ciii* the ten divisions of the body of god. civ. the ten earths in seven palaces. cv. english of col. civ. 0. 1 skull 2 right brain 3 left brain ra aretz earth (dry) 4 right arm hmda adamah red earth 5 left arm ayg gia undulating ground 6 the whole body

rs, the bringer-forth of life. the figure of diana huntress* 26 the lord of the gates of matter. the child of the forces of time. the figure of pan or priapus* 27 the lord of the hosts of the mighty. a tower struck by forked lightning* 28 the daughter of the firmament. the dweller between the waters. the figure of a water-nymph disporting herself* 29 the ruler of flux and reflux. the child of the sons of the mighty. the waning moon* 30 the lord of the fire of the world. the sun* 31 the spirit of the primal fire. israfel blowing the last trumpet. the dead arising from their tombs* 32 the great one of the night of time. should contain a demonstration of the quadrature of the circle* 32 bis.table of correspondences 33 clxxxii. the human body. clxxxiii. legendary orders of being. 11 respirator

tle: nephthys king: aeshoori (i.e. osiris again) pawns knight s pawn: kabexnuv (qebhsennuf) queen s pawn: tmoumathph (sic (tuamutef) bishop s pawn: ahepi (hapi) rook s pawn: ameshet (mestha) 6 i cannot identify the first three of these names. i believe the remaining four were intended to be g.d. coptic spellings of hapi (ahephi, tuamutef (toumathph, mestha (ameshett) and qebhsennuf (kabexnuv, the sons of horus, and have corrected them accordingly. 7 de. occ. phil. lib. i. cap xxiii. the following six chapters list various things said to be under the power of the other six classical planets. see also cap. xxii which gives general attributions for the planets and the theory behind all this, and cap. xxxii, what things are under the signs, the fixed stars, and their images. 8 on typographic a

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

resat-el aaf nor-mo-lapi! i have set my feet in the south, and have looked about me, saying: are not the thunders of increase numbered 33, which reign in the second angle? under whom i have placed 9639: whom none hath yet numbered, but one; in whom the second beginnings of things are and wax strong, which also successively are the numbers of time: and their powers are as the first 456. arise! you sons of pleasure! and visit the earth: for i am the lord your god; which is and liveth (for ever! in the name of the creator, move! and shew yourselves as pleasant deliverers, that you may praise him among the sons of men [invokes: hcoma; the whole tablet of water. the angle of c of c. the queen of the thrones of water] liber lxxxiv 25 the opening of the temple in the grade of 1 =108 give the sign

rue worshipper of the highest. the angle of d of e in the tablet of e. the prince of the chariot of earth. the fourteenth key noroni bajihie pasahasa oiada! das tarinuta mireca ol tahila dodasa tolahame caosago homida: das berinu orocahe quare: micama! bial oiad; aisaro toxa das ivame aai balatima. zodacare od zodameranu! odo cicale qaa! zodoreje, lape zodiredo noco mada, hoathahe i a i d a. o ye sons of fury, the daughters of the just one! that sit upon 24 seats, vexing all creatures of the earth with age, that have 1636 under ye. behold! the voice of god; the promise of him who is called amongst ye fury or extreme justice. move and shew yourselves! unveil the mysteries of your creation; be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god: the true worshipper of the highest. th

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

:23 :the spirit of the mighty waters: 24:the child of the great transformers. the lord of the: gate of death: 25:the daughter of the reconcilers, the bringer-forth of: life: 26:the lord of the gates of matter. the child of the: forces of time: 27 :the lord of the hosts of the mighty: 28:the daughter of the firmament; the dweller between the: waters: 29:the ruler of flux& reflux. the child of the sons of: the mighty: 30 :the lord of the fire of the world :31 :the spirit of the primal fire: 32 :the great one of the night of time :31 "bis :32 "bis: 324 appendix vi a few principal rituals grimorium sanctissimum. arcanum arcanorum quod continet nondum revelandum ipsis regibus supremis o.t.o. grimorium quod baphomet x degree m. suo fecit. de templo. 1. oriente. altare 2. occidente. tabula dei i

robertus de fluctibus, johannes dee "sir edward kelly" thomas vaughan, elias ashmole, molinos, adam weishaupt, wolfgang von goethe, ludovicus rex bavariae, richard wagner "alphonse louis constant" friedrich nietzsche, hargrave jennings, carl kellner, forlong dux, sir richard burton, sir richard payne knight, paul gauguin, docteur gerard encausse, doctor theodor reuss "and sir aleister crowley" oh sons of the lion and the snake! with all thy saints we worthily commemorate them worthy that were and are and are to come. may their essence be here present, potent, puissant, and paternal to perfect this feast"(at each name the "deacon "signs+ with thumb between index and medius. at ordinary mass it is only necessary to commemorate those whose names are italicised, with wording as is shown" the p

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

though such were in themselves better and wiser. yes, o my son, in these writings thou mayst study to come to the true comprehension of thine own nature, and that of the whole universe, in the dimensions of time, even as the mathematic declareth it in that of space: that is, of extension. moreover, by this study shall the child comprehend the foundation of manners: the which, as sayeth one of the sons of wisdom, maketh man. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 254 sequitur (3) scientifica since time and space are the conditions of mind, these two studies are fundamental. yet there remaineth causality, which is the root of the actions and reactions of nature. this also shalt thou seek ardently, that thou mayest comprehend the variety of the universe, its harmony and i

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

it: a title of kether nm) the ephod dwp) ynd) hwhy interlaced yhnwdh)y archangel of geburah l)mk food, fare lk)m angel k)lm queen (ar )klm manna )nm a hut, tent hkws pekht: gextension h hh)p 92 terror: a title of geburah dxp the lord thy god [is a consuming fire (deut. 4:24. see 182; deut. 28:58) kyhl) hwhy mud cb litter bc 93 aiwass: the minister of hoor-paar-kraat( gcorrect h. cf. 78) zwy( the sons of [the merciful] god l) ynb incense hnwbl a disc, round shield; a defender ngm possession hlxn arduous, busy; host, army )bc 94 corpse hpwg the valley of vision nwyzxyg to extinguish k(d a fault (ps. 50:20, i.e. there gallege a fault h) ypd a shore pwx a window nwlx a drop hp+ children mydly congratulations, good luck bw+ lzm prickly dnm side dc 95 the sphere of mars myd)m the great stone hl

the beard of macroprosopus (see 91& 1350) l k y+ x z w h d g b) m the staff of god (ex. 17:9) myhl)h h+m inscrutable hl(m a feast hdw(s treasure; hidden or secret thing nwm+m 146 the first gate )mq )bb limit, end; boundless pws eternity; world; an adult mlw( 147 the four names in the lesser ritual of the pentagram )lg) hyh) ynd) hwhy 148 netzach: victory xcn libra: the scales mynz)m beni elohim, sons of the gods: the angelic choir of hod myhl) ynb a name of god myhl) hwhy hy hyh) glutton and drunkard (deut. 21:20 )bwsw llwz to withdraw, retire qmx flour, meal xmq 149 the living gods (cf. 154) myyx myl) a beating of the breast; a noisy striking dpsh to make wrinkled +mq 150 soothsayer (lit. gone who knows h) ynw(dy a walking shoe l(n thine eye( gis h written. see 160& i.r.q. 652) kny( nest

ys of spelling hwhy in the four worlds ryw) hy let there be light! rw) yhy 233 remembering rwkz the tree of life (cf. 228) myyxh c( 235 archangel of chesed l)yqdc 236 a handful cmwq the northern one; lilith ynwpc 237 essence of glory dwbkh mc( 238 lord of wonders hw)lpnh nwd) 239 azrael: the angel of death l)rz) iron lzrb the lot lrwg 240 myrrh; drop; bitter, sad; fierce rm the afflictions of the sons of adam (i.e. succubae) md) ynb y(gn first buds, sproutings myncn cash; counted out, paid down mydwqp high, lofty mr rubies, gems mynynp 241 to say; word; command rm) 242 recollection hrykz 243 created [they them (gn. 1:27) m)rb learned, complete; to finish, bring to pass (ch) rmg a bone; to destroy mrg 244 to be insensible; in deep sleep; in trance (cf. 649) mdr 245 adam qadmon: the archetyp

gcoming race h, and abra-melin fs forehead lamin) lhyrw 252 serpent fs den hrw)m 253 proselytes myrg matred (i.r.q. 996) dr+m 254 an ass rwmx a mark, aim hr+m a solemn promise, vow rdn spikenard (ct. 4:14) drn a spear xmwr merciful, compassionate mwxr 255 burdensome; with difficulty )rmwx the east xrzm a river, stream (gn. 2:10) rhn song of joy hnr 256 tidings (ps. 68:11; saying, speech hrym) the sons of the righteous qdc ynb dampnesses (pl; see 705. k.d. p.20) nymlwpm the spirit of the mother )m) xwr a spice merchant lkwr fire; fiery rwn words myrbd 257 the ark [of the covenant] nwr) magician m+rx to his fearers (ps. 25:14; see 353) wy)ryl the white wand hnbl lqm her dreadful self )rwn lights: the urim (see 490) myrw) 258 the red light mwd) rw) mercy ymxr illuminating, radiant rwhzm 259 t

6) hnwblh t(bg 574 chaldee (hath a general meaning of movement. see s.d) nw#xry to extinguish *k(d 575 beersheba: the well of the seven (gn. 21:31, 2 sam 24:7. see k.d. p.183 (b# r)b and the myhl) said: glet there be light! h rw) yhy myhl) rm)yw ten hr( journey *klhm 576 wands twlqm 577 the concealed of the concealed: a name of god most high (cf. 583) nyrm+d hrym+ 579 midnight (cf. 188) hlyl twcx sons of adam mygwn(t 580 rich ry( ancient qyt( the scapegoat; he-goat; demon; shaggy, hairy (lev. 16:22) ry# the valley of the shadow of death twmlc )yg flask, bottle *kp 581 the ancient one: a title of kether )qyt( barley hrw# 583 the concealed of the concealed: a title of kether (cf. 577) nyrym+d )rym+ 584 king david *dwd klm 585 the gods of battle (lit. ggods of hosts h: the divine name of hod

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

tter or braver indeed than his brothers, girls not softer or sweeter indeed than his sisters, but wholly his own, with his own defects and desires evoked by enchantment of ecstasy when he dies to himself in the womb of the witch who lusts for his life, and buys it with the coin that bears his image and superscription. such is the secret of the soul of the artist. he knows that he is a god, of the sons of god; he has no fear or shame in showing himself of the seed of his father. he is proud of that father's most precious privilege, and he honours him no less than himself by using it. he accepts his family as of his own royal stock; every one is as princely as he is himself. but he were not his father's son unless he found for himself a form fit to express himself by multiplex reproductions

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

tus de fluctibus, johannes dee, sir edward kelly, thomas vaughan, elias ashmole, molinos, adam weishaupt, wolfgang von goethe, ludovicus rex bavariae, richard wagner, alphonse louis constant, friedrich nietzsche, hargrave jennings, carl kellner, forlong dux, sir richard payne knight, paul gaugin, sir richard francis burton, doctor grard encausse, doctor theodor reuss, and sir aleister crowley--oh sons of the lion and the snake! with all thy saints we worthily commemorate them worthy that were and are and are to come. may their essence be here present, potent, puissant and paternal to perfect this feast! the people: so mote it be. the earth the deacon: mother of fertility on whose breast lieth water, whose cheek is caressed by air, and in whose heart is the sun's fire, womb of all life, rec

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

ctory, corresponding to the divine name twabx hwhy, ihvh tzabaoth, the lord of armies, and the angelic names \yhla, elohim, gods, and \ycycrt, tarshishim, the brilliant ones (daniel x, 6. the number 8. thence proceeded the feminine passive potency dwh, hod, splendour, answering to the divine name twabx \yhla, elohim tzabaoth, the gods of armies, and among the angels to \yhla ynb, beni elohim, the sons of the gods (genesis vi, 4. the number 9. these two produced dwsy, yesod, the foundation or basis, represented by yj la, the mighty living one, and ydc, shaddai: and among the angels by \yca, aishim, the flames (psalms civ, 4, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing the decad of the numbers. it is called twkl

finite square of creation was assimilated to the infinite circle of the creator. 34 concealed yods on the other hand are another matter entirely t.s. 35 [lat, a coward created the soul of the earth] 36 [heb, possibly intended for: the son, the spirit, the father, the grave: ihvh [is] the law] 37 [grk, jesus christ, son of god, saviour] 38 [grk, approx. the favour of isis [is] the treasure of the sons of wisdom] liber lviii 23 yes: but why should not berashith 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 4, give, say, e?39 the only answer is, that if you screw it round long enough, it perhaps will! the rational table of tziruph should, we agree with fra. p, be left to the rationalist press association, and we may present the irregular table of commutations to irregular masons. 4. to the less important methods we may ap

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lies ravished, and the breath has left me. a small warm hand touches my lips- o fragrance of love! o life. is there a god? 183 the prude a fly once sat upon the axle-tree of a chariot, and said "what a dust do i raise" now a swarm of flies has come- the fourth plague of egypt is upon us, and the land is corrupted by reason of their stench. the mighty ones are dead, the giants are no more, for the sons of god come not in unto the daughters of men, and the world is desolate, and greatness and renown are gone. to-day the blue blow-flies of decay sit buzzing on the slow-rolling wheel of fortune, intoxicated on the dust of the dead, and sucking putrefaction from the sinews of the fallen, and rottenness from the charnel-house of might. o reason! thou hast become as a vulture feasting off the cor

athing of the sword of strength which lays all low before the devastation of its blade. life must be held in 210 contempt- the life of self and the life of others. here there must be no weakness, no sentiment, no reason, no mercy. all must taste of the desolation of war, and partake of the blood of the cup of death. o! warriors, ye cannot be too savage, to barbarous, too strong. on, o storm-blown sons of the fire of life! success is your password; destruction is your standard; victory is your reward! heed not the shrieking of women, or the crying of little children; for all must die, and not a stone must be left standing in the city of the world, lest darkness depart not. haste! bring flint and steel, light the match, fire the thatch of the hovel and the cedar rafters of the palace; for al

else the door of the palace remains closed, for none other than he can open it for him. and he who would find the key of gold must seek it here in the outer court of the world, where the flatterers, and the parasites, and the hypocrites, buzz like flies over the fleshpots of life. now he who enters the outer court sees set before him many tables and couches, at which with swollen veins revel the sons of the gluttony of life. here men, in their furious love of greed, stuff their jaws with the luxuries of decay, which a little after go to the dunghill; and vomit their sour drink on one another as a certain sign of their good fellowship. here they carouse together drunkenly as in a brothel filling the world with the noise of cymbal and drum, and the loud-sounding instruments of delusion, and

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rresponding to he divine name jehovah tzabaoth, ihvh tzbavth, the lord of armies, and the angelic names alhim, elohim, gods, and thrshishim, tharshishim, the brilliant ones (dan. x. 6)5. the number 8. thence proceeded the feminine passive potency hvd, hod, splendour, answering to the divine name alhim tzbavth, elohim tzabaoth, the god of armies, and among the angels to bni alhim, beni elohim, the sons of the gods (gen. vi. 4. the number 9. these two produced isvd, yesod, the foundation or basis, represented by al chi, el chai, the mighty living one, and shdi, shaddai; and among the angels by ashim, aishim, the flames (ps. civ. 5, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. 79 the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing the decad of the numbers. it is ca

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let it smite down the mountains! let us not see it! cover we our eyes, lest we see the end of man. close we our ears, lest we hear the cry of woman. let none speak of it: let none write it: i, i am troubled, my eyes are moist with dews of terror: surely the bitterness of death is past. and i turned me to the south and lo! a great lion as wounded and perplexed. he cried: i have conquered! let the sons of earth keep silence; for my name is become as that of death! when will men learn the mysteries of creation? how much more those of the dissolution (and the pang of fire? i turned me to the west and there was a great bull; white with horns of white and black and gold. his mouth was scarlet and his eyes as sapphire stones. with a great sword he shore the skies asunder, and amid the silver fla

s dissolved before me, for force is mine upper eye-lid and matter is my lower eye-lid. i gaze into the seven spaces, and there is naught. the rest of it comes without words; and then again: i have gone forth to war, and i have slain him that sat upon the sea, crowned with the winds. i put forth my power and he was broken. i withdrew my power and he was ground into fine dust. rejoice with me, o ye sons of the morning; stand with me upon the throne of lotus; gather yourselves up unto me, and we shall play together in the fields of light. i have passed into the kingdom of the west after my father. behold! where are now the darkness and the terror and the lamentation? for ye are born into the new aeon; ye shall 35 not suffer death. bind up your girdles of gold! wreathe yourselves with garlands

the wind. he hateth me and tormenteth me. he would have stolen me from myself, but i shut myself up and mock at him, even while he plagueth me. from me come leprosy and pox and plague and cancer and cholera and the falling sickness. ah! i will reach up to the knees of the most high, and tear his phallus with my teeth, and i will bray his testicles in a mortar, and make poison thereof, to slay the sons of men (here the spirit stimulated the voice of frater p, which also appeared to come from his station and not from the triangle) i don't think i can get any more; i think that's all there is (the frater was seated in a secret place covered completely by a black robe, in the position called the "thunderbolt. he did not move or speak during the ceremony) next the scribe was hallucinated, belie

using some word that did not represent his thought, because there is no proper link between his thought and speech. note that he never seems able to distinguish between the frater and the scribe, and addresses first one, then the other, in the same sentence. would god that i were dead. for know that i am proud and revengeful and lascivious, and i prate even as thou. for even as i walked among the sons of god, i heard it said that p. could both will and know, and might learn at length to dare, but that to keep silence he should never learn. o thou that art so ready to speak, so slow to watch, thou art delivered over unto my power for this. and now one word was necessary unto me, and i could not speak it. i behold the beauty of the earth in 98 her desolation, and greater far is mine, who sou

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hering of waters. 276 "terrible was the silence of an uncreated world. immeasurable the depth of that abyss. and the countenances of darkness half-formed arose "they abode not; they hasted away; and in the vastness of vacancy the spirit moved; and the light-bearers were for a space "i have said: darkness of the darkness; are not the countenances of darkness fallen with the kings that were? do the sons of the night of time endure for ever? not yet are they passed away "before all things are the waters; and the darkness and the gates of the land of night "and the chaos cried aloud for the unity of form, and the face of the eternal arose "and before the glory of that countenance the night rolled back, and the darkness hasted away "in the waters beneath was that face reflected in the formless

n him who hath subjugated himself thereto. as it is said "stoop not down, for a precipice lieth beneath the earth; a descent of seven steps; and therein is established the throne of an evil and fatal force. stoop not down unto that dark and lurid world, defile not thy brilliant flame with the earthy dross of matter. stoop not down, for its splendour is but seeming, it is but the habitation of the sons of the unhappy" the lamp and cup are then replaced, after which the following symbols are explained to the philosophus: the image of nebuchadnezzar's vision; the symbol of the great hermetic arcanum; the tablet of union between the four elements; the tablet of the symbolic latin names; the seven palaces of the briatic world; and the kerubim in the visions of isaiah, ezekiel and st. john. the

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cle are composed of solid lines. the form given here is an approximation. 3. 6- 5\ x x\ 4/ x x. 1- 2. 7. fig. iii- third symbol. by producing the paths whereby the forces of the three("see" second symbol) were concentred into four, we find they 173 read 1+ 4= 5, 2+ 4= 6, 3+ 4= 7. and thus is revealed the second triangle of the hexagram of creation<child of the sons of the mighty "and the chaos cried aloud for the unity of form and the face of the eternal arose. that brow and those eyes formed the upright-fire-triangle of the measureless heavens: and their reflection formed the inverted-water-triangle of the measureless waters. and thus was formulated one eternal hexad: and this is the number of the dawning creation> further, this reflected triangle show

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depths of childish or human sorrow, to send my brains into a tiring process of elucidation? far more pleasant it is to remain a contemplative individual. there fore, o mexican gaucho, pass me thy pellote pouch and let me take a helping of the leaves and root of thy wonderful mescal plant. and without thought and without fatigue, i can then "see" where was i. my little brethren, fathers of larvae, sons of the she-goat? ah, i know. well, poor little ljubov was saved by her magnificent soul from despairing thoughts. she lived, very miserable at first, more resigned later on. and there was a boy, too. he was the blind-born son of an ex-soldier, and because of his father's queer and unsocial manner, few people in the village would condescend to take interest in him. but he was no mean child, ne

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splendid second; and fell moaning back, smitten by love's forked flashing rod- as if the uprooted mandrake yelled! as if i had seen god, and died! i thirst! i writhe upon the rack! el arabi! el arabi! it is not love! i am compelled by some fierce fate, a vulture poised, heaven's single ominous speck of black. el arabi! 37 there in the lonely bordj across the dreadful lines of sleeping men, swart sons of the sahara, thou didst writhe slim, sinuous and swift, warning me with a viper's hiss- and was not death upon us then, no bastard of thy maiden kiss? god's grace, the all-surpassing gift! el arabi! el arabi! yea, death is man's elixir when life's pale wine foams and splashes over his imagination's rim! el arabi! el arabi! el arabi! witch-amber and obsidian thine eyes are, to ensorcell me

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ng ones, for he is a direct reflection of that great entity who lives, and breathes, and functions through all the evolutions on this planet, holding all within his aura or magnetic sphere of influence. in him we live and move and have our being, and none of us can pass beyond the radius of his aura. he is the great sacrifice, who left the glory of the high places and for the sake of the evolving sons of men took upon himself a physical form and was made in the likeness of man. he is the silent watcher, as far as our immediate humanity is concerned, although literally the planetary logos himself, on the higher plane of consciousness whereon he functions, is the true silent watcher where the planetary scheme is concerned. perhaps it might be stated thus: that the lord of the world, the one

karmic group and those beings who are the outcome of the triple nature of the planetary logos. if one might so express it they embody the forces emanating from the head, heart, and throat centres, and they came in with sanat kumara to form focal points of planetary force for the helping of the great plan for the self-conscious unfoldment of all life. their places have gradually been filled by the sons of men as they qualify, though this includes very few, until lately, from our immediate earth humanity. those who are now the inner group around the lord of the world have been primarily recruited from the ranks of those who were initiates on the moon chain (the cycle of evolution preceding ours) or who have come in on certain streams of solar energy, astrologically determined, from other pla

uring the long ages of its work, beyond mentioning certain outstanding events of the past, and pointing out certain eventualities. for ages after its immediate founding, the work was slow and discouraging. thousands of years came and went, and races of men appeared and disappeared from the earth before it was possible to delegate even the work done by initiates of the first degree to the evolving sons of men. but in- 21- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust the middle of the fourth root-race, the atlantean, an event occurred which necessitated a change, or innovation in the hierarchical method. certain of its members were called away to higher work elsewhere in the solar system, and this brought in, through necessity, a number of highly evolved units of the human family

lling consciousness in its life or spirit aspect, seeking to energise it within the form so that, in due course of time, that form can be discarded and the liberated spirit return whence it came. ever since he left the earth, as related with approximate accuracy in the bible story (though with much error in detail) has he stayed with the- 27- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust sons of men; never has he really gone, but only in appearance, and in a physical body he can be found by those who know the way, dwelling in the himalayas, and working in close co-operation with his two great brothers, the manu and the mahachohan. daily he pours out his blessing on the world, and daily he stands under the great pine in his garden at the sunset hour with hands uplifted in blessing

ds bringing it to a successful consummation. everywhere they are gathering in those who in any way show a tendency to respond to high vibration, seeking to force their vibration and to fit them so that they may be of use at the time of the coming of the christ. great is the day of opportunity, for when that time comes, through the stupendous strength of the vibration then brought to bear upon the sons of men, it will be possible for those who now do the necessary work to take a great step forward, and to pass through the portal of initiation- 36- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust chapter vii the probationary path preparation for initiation. the probationary path precedes the path of initiation or holiness, and marks that period in the life of a man when he definitely s

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iery zone. matter and water mixed with fire, the inner spark within the form were blended all together- 14- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust the mighty one looked down. the forms met his approval. forth came the cry for further light. again he gathered in the sound. he drew to higher levels the feeble spark of light. another tone was heard, the sound of cosmic fire, hid in the sons of manas. they called to their primaries. the lower four, the higher three, and the cosmic fifth met at the great inbreathing. another sheath was formed. stanza iii the great wheel turned upon itself. the seven lesser wheels rushed into being. they revolve like their mother, around, within and forward. all that existeth was. the wheels were diverse, and in unification, one. as evolved the gre

he great wheel turned upon itself. the seven lesser wheels rushed into being. they revolve like their mother, around, within and forward. all that existeth was. the wheels were diverse, and in unification, one. as evolved the great wheel, the inner fire burst forth. it touched into life wheel the first. it circulated. a million fires rose up. the quality of matter densified, but form was not. the sons of god arose, scanned the depth of flame, took from its heart the sacred stone of fire, and proceeded to the next. in turning next the great wheel launched the second. again the flame burst forth, took to its heart the stone and proceeded in revolution. the sons of god again arose, and sought within the flame "the form sufficeth not" they said "remove from without the fire" faster revolved th

from its heart the sacred stone of fire, and proceeded to the next. in turning next the great wheel launched the second. again the flame burst forth, took to its heart the stone and proceeded in revolution. the sons of god again arose, and sought within the flame "the form sufficeth not" they said "remove from without the fire" faster revolved the greater wheel, blue white emerged the flame. the sons of god again came down and a lesser wheel revolved. seven times the revolution, and seven times great the heat. more solid grew the formless mass, and deeper sank the stone. to the heart of inmost fire the sacred stone went down. this time the work was better done, and the product more perfected. at the seventh revolution, the third wheel rendered back the stone. triple the form, rosy the lig

st fire the sacred stone went down. this time the work was better done, and the product more perfected. at the seventh revolution, the third wheel rendered back the stone. triple the form, rosy the light, and sevenfold the eternal principle. from out the greater wheel, down from the vault of heaven, came into light the lesser wheel that counted as the fourth. the eternal lhas looked down, and the sons of god reached forth. down to the inmost point of death they flung the sacred stone. the plaudits of the chohans rose. the work had turned a point. from the pit of outer darkness, they gathered forth the stone, translucent now and unalloyed, of colour rose and blue. the turning of the fifth wheel and its action on the stone rendered it still more fit. yellow the blending tint, orange the inne

turned a point. from the pit of outer darkness, they gathered forth the stone, translucent now and unalloyed, of colour rose and blue. the turning of the fifth wheel and its action on the stone rendered it still more fit. yellow the blending tint, orange the inner fire, till yellow, rose and blue mingled their subtle tones. the four wheels with the greater worked thus upon the stone till all the sons of god acclaimed, and said "the work is done- 15- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust stanza iv in revolution fifth of the great wheel the period set was reached. the lesser wheel, that responded to that fifth great turn, passed through the cycle and entered into peace. the lesser wheels come forth and likewise do their work. the great wheel gathers back the emanating sparks

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nsciously control them, and the meaning of the symbol of the human figure. therefore, in those early days, through the practice of hatha yoga, the human being reached the portal of initiation. at that time the attainment of the third initiation, resulting in the transfiguration of the personality, was the highest initiation that man was capable of achieving. in atlantean days, the progress of the sons of men was procured through the imposition of two yogas. first, the yoga which is called by the name of laya yoga, the yoga of the centres which produced a stabilizing of the etheric body and of the centres in man and the development of the astral and psychic nature. later on, bhakti yoga, growing out of the development of the emotional or astral body, was incorporated with laya yoga and the

51. when this state of perception is itself also restrained (or superseded, then is pure samadhi achieved. the yoga sutras of patanjali book i the problem of union 1. aum (om) the following instruction concerns the science of union. aum. is the word of glory; it signifies the word made flesh and the manifestation upon the plane of matter of the second aspect of divinity. this blazing forth of the sons of righteousness before the world is achieved by following the rules herein contained. when all the sons of men have demonstrated that they are also sons of god, the cosmic son of god will likewise shine forth with increased intensity of glory. the great initiate, paul, had a vision of this when he said that "the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain. waiting for the manifestation of

of righteousness before the world is achieved by following the rules herein contained. when all the sons of men have demonstrated that they are also sons of god, the cosmic son of god will likewise shine forth with increased intensity of glory. the great initiate, paul, had a vision of this when he said that "the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain. waiting for the manifestation of the sons of god (rom. viii) raja yoga, or the science of union, gives the rules and the means whereby- 9- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. conscious contact can be made with the soul, the second aspect, the christ within, 2. knowledge of the self can be achieved and its control over the not-self maintained, 3. the power of the ego or soul can be felt in the daily life and soul power

aster" the word "traditional" carries the student's thought away from that which is usually regarded as the object of sensuous perception into the world of thought forms, into that "forest of delusion" which is constructed of men's ideas about god, heaven or hell. the sublimation of all this and its highest expression in the three worlds is that "devachan" which is the goal of the majority of the sons of men. devachanic experience must, however, be transformed eventually into nirvanic realization. it may be of value to the student to remember that heaven, the object of aspirational desire, which is the outcome of traditional teaching, and of all formulations of doctrinal faiths has several meanings to the occultist. for the purpose of a clearer understanding the following may be found to b

lower worlds are no longer "attached" to him through his inclinations or karma, and which he experiences after he has: a. taken certain initiations, b. freed himself from the three worlds- 22- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust c. organized his christ body. strictly speaking those adepts who have achieved non-attachment but who have chosen to sacrifice themselves and abide with the sons of men in order to serve and help them are not technically nirvanis. they are lords of compassion pledged to "suffer" with, and to be governed by, certain conditions analogous to (though not identical with) the conditions governing men who are still attached to the world of form. 16. the consummation of this non-attachment results in an exact knowledge of the spiritual man when liberated from

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ry" this becomes a fact in our consciousness and not simply a much hoped for theory. meditation causes our beliefs to change into ascertained facts, and our theories into proven experience. the statement of st. paul's remains only a concept and a possibility until, through meditation, the christ life is evoked and becomes the dominating factor in daily life. we speak of ourselves as divine and as sons of god. we know of those who have demonstrated their divinity to the world, and who stand in the forefront of human achievement, testifying to faculties beyond our scope of accomplishment. we are conscious, within ourselves, of strivings which drive us on towards knowledge, and of interior promptings, which have forced humanity up the ladder of evolution to its present status of what we call

idea of fire runs through all books on christian mysticism, and many passages in the bible of a similar nature will come readily to mind. willingness to "bear the cross" to "enter the fire" to "die daily (it matters not what the symbology employed may be, is the characteristic of the true aspirant, and, before we pass on to the way of meditation and place our footsteps in those of the myriads of sons of god who have preceded us, we must gauge the depth and the height and brace ourselves for the arduous climb and the fierce endeavor. we must say with j. c. earle "i pass the vale. i breast the steep. i bear the cross: the cross bears me. light leads me on to light. i weep for joy at what i hope to see when, scaled at length the arduous height, for every painful step i trod, i traverse world

n psychic levels, or to that between brain and brain in the ordinary intercourse of daily life, with which we are all familiar. i refer to the interplay that can be set up between souls, divinely attuned, and which has resulted in the past in the transmission of the inspired utterances of the world, in the world scriptures, and in those divine pronouncements which have emanated from certain great sons of god, such as the christ and the buddha. intuition and telepathy in its purest form are, therefore, two results of- 70- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust illumination upon the mind. on the emotional nature, or, in the language of the esotericist, in the desire or feeling body, we have the registering of joy, of happiness, and the experience of ecstasy. there is a sense

nd destiny of men and brought them forward along the path of realization from the stage of animism and fetishism to that of our present concept of an immanent deity. from the point of view of man and nature we have progressed to that of a divine whole in which we live and move and have our being, and with which are identified in consciousness. we know ourselves to be divine. one after another the sons of god have entered into their heritage and found themselves sensitive to the world plan. they have, though steadfastness in contemplation, equipped themselves to act as interpreters of the universal mind and as intermediaries between the non-telepathic multitude and the eternal fountain of wisdom. to the illuminates of the world, to the intuitive thinkers in all fields of knowledge, and to t

by divine compassion from above. a burning life, which god can take and drop in house, or street, or whereso'er he will, to set some other life alight for him and thus to spread the fire on further still" then we shall have evidenced the final stage of the meditation process which we call inspiration. to the possibility of such a life the great ones of the ages testify. they knew themselves to be sons of god and they carried that knowledge down into full realization in physical incarnation. they are inspired declarers of the reality of truth, of the immortality of the soul, and of the fact of the kingdom of god. they are lights set in a dark place to light the way back to the father's home. chapter eight- 77- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust the universality of medita

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nt, first of all, of his individual consciousness, the sum total of the lives of his animal, emotional and mental natures, plus the spark of divinity dwelling within the form which they make. then comes awareness of his group, as specified for him in that group of disciples, working under some one master who represents to him the hierarchy. the hierarchy might be defined as the sum total of those sons of men who are no longer centered in the individualised self-consciousness, but who have entered into a wider realisation, that of the planetary group life. there are stages in this realisation, mounting all the way from that tiny group recognition of the probationary disciple up to the completed group awareness of the life in whom all forms have their being, the consciousness of the planetar

od that has been decomposing, and hence in a condition of fermentation, has been the basic food of the occidental races; and the result can be seen in bodies unfitted for any strain such as occultism imposes, and which form a barrier to the clear shining forth of the life within. when fresh fruit and vegetables, clear water, nuts and grains, cooked and uncooked, form the sole diet of the evolving sons of men, then will be built bodies fitted to be vehicles for highly evolved egos. they patiently await the turning of- 51- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the wheel, and the coming in of a cycle which will permit of their fulfilling their destiny. the time is not yet, and the work of elimination and adjustment must be slow and tedious. the overcoming of the hindrances cert

f god in that era will preponderate over those who are simply aspiring to that knowledge, and their contact and the results of the force they transmit will be felt in all the kingdoms of nature. dominion over all forms, and the power to act as transmitters of that spiritual energy we call love is the promised reward of the triumphant solar angels, and the prized goal of their meditation work. the sons of god will triumph on earth in full incarnated expression, and will bring light (therefore life) to all the manifested forms. this is the "life more abundant" of which the christ speaks. this is the achievement of the true nirvanee who, living in unbroken meditation in the spiritual realm yet can work on earth. the work of initiation is to enable a man to live ever at the centre, but to act

t upon humanity for a functioning channel. humanity's function is to transmit and handle force. this is done in the early and ignorant stages destructively and with harmful results. later when acting under the influence of the soul, force is rightly and wisely handled and good eventuates. true indeed it is that "the whole creation travaileth in pain until now, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of god" 2. the bringing of light. humanity is the planetary light bearer, transmitting the light of knowledge, of wisdom, and of understanding, and this in the esoteric sense. these three aspects of light carry three aspects of soul energy to the soul in all forms, through the medium of the anima mundi, the world soul. physically speaking, this can be realized if we can appreciate the differe

ife. f. race, bringing the personality under the peculiar racial thought form. the sub-ray on which a man is found, that minor ray which varies from incarnation to incarnation, largely gives him his coloring for this life. it is his secondary hue. forget not, the primary ray of the monad continues through the aeon. it changes not. it is one of the three primary rays that eventually synthesise the sons of men. the ray of the ego varies from round to round, and, in more evolved souls, from race to race, and comprises one of the five rays of our present evolution. it is the predominating ray to which a man's causal body vibrates. it may correspond to the ray of the monad, or it may be one of the complementary colours to the primary. the ray of the personality varies from life to life, till th

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

of activity. they great creative plan, its laws and technique of unfoldment, and the work of the builders of the universe was dealt with; emerging out of the mass of imparted facts, and underlying all the teaching, was the idea of a great life with its own psychology and ideas. it was an attempt to give a synthetic picture of the unfolding mind of god as it works out its plans through the lesser sons of mind. in symbolism and archaic phrases it veiled the truths and principles which lie at the root of the creative process, 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

he story of the christ of galilee. he was constantly 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

s real work. his influence is waxing in power, just as the influence of the sixth lord is waning. 6. the lord of devotion end idealism. this solar deity is a peculiar and characteristic expression of the quality of the solar logos. forget not that in the great scheme of the universal universe (not just our universe) our solar logos is as differentiated and distinctive in quality as are any of the sons of men. this ray force, with the second ray, is a true and vital expression of the divine nature. a militant focussing upon the ideal, a one-pointed devotion to the intent of the life urge, and a divine sincerity are the qualities of this lord, and set their impress upon all that is found within his body of manifestation. advanced esotericists debate as to whether mars is, or is not, the plan

is best expressed by stating that it constitutes his heart and brain, so does the sum total of analogous evolutions within the entire solar system constitute the heart and brain of the solar logos. intelligent activity and love are the outstanding characteristics of a developed son of god, whilst their lower reflections sex and desire are the characteristics of the average man and the undeveloped sons of god. these seven living qualified emanations from the central vortex of force are composed of untold myriads of energy units which are inherently and innately aspects of life, endowed with quality and capable of appearance. below the human, the combination of these three produces conscious response to the environment, regarding the environment as composed of the sum total of all lives, qua

hin the confines of our solar sphere. his robe of blue veils his eternal purpose, but in the rising and the setting sun his orb of red is seen. his word is power. his light, electric. the lightning is his symbol. his will is hidden in the- 44- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust counsel of his thought. nought is revealed. his power is felt. the sons of men, reacting to his power, send to the utmost bounds of light a question: why this blind power? why death? why this decay of forms? why the negation of the power to hold? why death, oh mighty son of god? faintly the answer comes: i hold the keys of life and death. i bind and loose again. i, the destroyer, am. this ray lord is not yet in full expression, except as he causes destruction and

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, is of the deepest interest. this our western theologians have often forgotten. christianity may and does preserve secret within itself the sacred teaching, but it inherited that teaching from the past. it may personalise itself through the instrumentality of the greatest of the divine messengers, but the way of that messenger had been prepared beforehand, and he had been preceded by other great sons of god. his word may be the life-giving word for our western civilisation, and may embody the salvation which had to be brought to us, but the east had its own teachers, and each of the past civilisations upon our planet had had its divine representative. as we consider the message of christianity and its unique contribution, let us not forget the past, for if we do we shall never understand

in that light, for "the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."33 this truth is still a living truth and enriches and colours all our faith- 37- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust in this continuity (which is the basis of our faith in the love of god) there have been, as we have seen, many words sent forth from the centre. many sons of god, down the ages, have given to humanity a progressively revealing vision of the "heights of possibility" interpreting god's plan to the race in terms suited to each age and temperament. the uniformity of their life story, the appearance again and again of the virgin mother (whose name is frequently a variation of the name mary, the similarity in detail of the birth story, all indicate t

ness of time christ came and, if evolution means anything at all and if the race as a whole has developed and unfolded its consciousness, the message he gave and the life he lived must necessarily sum up all the best in the past, completing and fulfilling it, and proclaim a possible future spiritual culture which will greatly transcend all that the past may have given. the majority of these great sons of god were, curiously enough, born in a cave and usually of a virgin mother "in regard to the virgin birth it is significant that there is no reference to it in the epistles which form the earliest christian documents; but, on the contrary, st. paul speaks of jesus as `made of the seed of david according to the flesh'35 that is to say, of the seed of joseph, david's descendant. the earliest

hat the church (21) dedicates the very day of the winter solstice (when any one may very naturally doubt the re-birth of the sun) 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, a

ated from past aeons to this very work of world salvage, he has first of all to submit himself to the ordinary processes of birth and childhood. christ came forth from nazareth, the place of consecration, and went up to bethlehem, the house of bread, where in a peculiar way he himself was to become the "bread of life"51 to a hungry world. he was set apart, or set himself apart (as do all awakened sons of god) for the work of redemption. he came to feed the hungry, and in this connection two verses in the bible convey light upon his- 43- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust task and its preparation. isaiah tells us that "bread corn is bruised,"52 and christ himself told us that "except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth

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microcosm, the objective of the evolutionary purpose for the fourth kingdom in nature is to enable man to manifest 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

when entirely divorced from the higher group concepts and the constant spiritual aspiration to serve humanity, will indicate the nature of the consummated individuality and the success of this part of the divine plan. it should be carefully noted that the successful demonstration of the dominant individual is just as much a divine success in its proper place and time as is the case with the great sons of god. one success, however, is the expression of the third aspect of divinity as it veils and hides the soul, and the other is the expression of two aspects of divinity (the second and the third) as they veil and hide the life aspect of the monad. when this is grasped, our evaluation of world achievement will undergo change, and we will see life more truly and divorced from the glamour whic

h god, which is ever swept by the life of those who have achieved liberation through loneliness, detachment, isolated unity, and purification. a realisation of the goal and the way to- 20- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust that goal is of service at this time, and it is to this realisation that the teachers of humanity seek to stimulate the sons of god. according to the ray type or quality, so will be the reaction of the life to the great stages of individualisation, initiation, and identification. this is a major occult platitude, but it is one that is much in need of consideration and reflection. let us bear in mind always that we are considering qualities which govern appearances and express the life. what is called in the eastern

ring the seven ray methods of appropriation and the reverse stages, that we are dealing with energies. occult students must increasingly think and work in terms of energy. these energies are spoken of esoterically as "having impulsive effects, magnetic appeals, and focussed activities" the streams or emanations of energy exist, as is well known, in seven major aspects or qualities. they carry the sons of men into incarnation and withdraw them from incarnation. they have their own specific qualities and characteristics, and these determine the nature of the forms constructed, the quality of the life which is expressed at any particular time or in any particular incarnation, the length of the life cycle, and the appearance and disappearance of any of the three form aspects. certain brief par

parative man, that this divine law of sacrifice is wielded with the selfish intent of personal and individual salvation. but the travestied truth remains the unsullied truth on its own plane, and this dominant world law governs the appearing and the disappearing of universes, of solar systems, of races and of nations, of world leaders and world rulers, of incarnating human beings and of revealing sons of god. let us see if we can interpret or define the true significance of this law, which is in reality the expression of a divine impulse, leading to a defined activity, with its consequent and subsequent results and effects. it was this aspect of sacrifice which led to the creation of the worlds and to the manifestation of the divine creator. it might help to a better understanding of the l

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

trust let the forces of light bring illumination to mankind. let the spirit of peace be spread abroad. may men of goodwill everywhere meet in a spirit of cooperation. may forgiveness on the part of all men be the keynote at this time. let power attend the efforts of the great ones. so let it be, and help us to do our part. 1935 let the lord of liberation issue forth. let him bring succour to the sons of men. let the rider from the secret place come forth, and coming, save. come forth, o mighty one. let the souls of men awaken to the light, and may they stand with massed intent. let the fiat of the lord go forth: the end of woe has come! come forth, o mighty one. the hour of service of the saving force has now arrived. let it be spread abroad, o mighty one. let light and love and power and

ive in nature) and will be identified with certain group expansions of consciousness. it will also be because they have arrived at love of their fellowmen, just as they have loved themselves in the past. think on this with clarity, my brothers, and grasp, if you can, the full significance of this last sentence. their work will largely be to summarise and make effective the work of those two great sons of god, the buddha and the christ. as you know, one of them brought illumination to the world and embodied the principle of wisdom, and the other brought love to the world and embodied in himself a great cosmic principle the principle of love. how can the effectiveness of their work- 7- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust be brought about? the process will follow

ipleship) on to the mental plane and learns to smash the glamour which has hitherto held him on the astral plane, so the problem before the hierarchy today is to bring about a similar happening in the life of humanity as a whole, for humanity is at the crossroads and its consciousness is being rapidly focussed on the mental plane. a death blow must be struck at the world illusion for it holds the sons of men in thrall. by learning to break through the glamour in their own lives and to live in the light of the intuition, disciples can strengthen the hands of those whose task it is to awaken the intuition in man. there are many and different kinds of glamour and disciples are frequently surprised when they learn what is regarded as glamour by the masters. i will enumerate a few of the more g

today, many are coming out along this way under the name of science. there were also those outstanding individuals, such as the christ and the buddha, who combined both ways in their perfection and who towered above their fellowmen from the- 36- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust heights of their achievement. they swayed hemispheres and centuries, whereas the lesser sons of god swayed countries, specific types of mind and lesser periods of time. 2. the second method employed for raising the consciousness of the race was through groups, gathered around a teacher who (to a greater or less degree) was a focal point of energy either a. by the power of his soul contact or b. by that contact and being also a channel through which some member of the hierarchy could

l more intensively through smaller and more carefully chosen and selected groups. through these much smaller groups of disciples, the phenomenal appearance of certain types of energy could be expressed; certain powers could be unfolded and a more specialised experiment be possible. peculiar powers could be studied and focussed, intensified light and power could be so clearly demonstrated that the sons of men would come to recognise the influence and to give proof of the supernormal which is the heritage of future centuries. to this particular branch of hierarchical work, i pledged myself; it would provide the nucleus for the coming types of civilisation and the characteristics and activities which could be unfolded- 43- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust under

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

elieve in the unprovable, to seek, search and demand the revelation of that which is hidden and undiscovered and which century after century owing to this demanding spirit of investigation is revealed. it is the power to recognize the beautiful, the true and the good and by means of the creative arts to prove their existence. it is this inherent, spiritual faculty which has produced all the great sons of god, all truly spiritual people, all artists, scientists, humanitarians and philosophers and all who, with sacrifice, love their fellowmen. here lie the grounds for optimism and courage on the part of all true educators and here is the true incentive to all their efforts. the present problem of youth the world, as known to people over forty years of age, has crumbled and is fast disappeari

every human being. but behind these cycles, the triumphant spirit of man moves on from height to height, from attainment to attainment and towards an ultimate goal which as yet no man visions but which is summed up for- 52- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust us in the possibility of being in the world as christ was; this is the hope held out to us in the new testament and by all the sons of god down the ages and in every land and by all religious faiths. in considering our theme we need now to do two things: first of all consider what makes a people, a race or a nation a minority, and then consider along what lines a solution may lie. the world today is full of clamouring minorities who rightly or wrongly are making claims upon the majority. some of the majorities are sincere

of god who when on earth had nowhere to lay his head. there are deeply spiritual men whose lot is cast within the cramping walls of ecclesiasticism; they are many in the aggregate, and within all churches and faiths. their lot is a difficult one; they are aware of conditions and they struggle and strive to present sound christian and religious ideas to a searching, suffering world. they are true sons of god; their feet are set in most unpleasant places; they are aware of the "dry rot" which has undermined the clerical structure and of the bigotry, selfishness, greed and narrow-mindedness with which they are surrounded. they know well that no man has ever been saved by theology but only by the living christ and through the awakened consciousness of the christ within each human heart; they

hest, on earth peace, goodwill towards men. they have failed to realize and, therefore, to teach that only as goodwill is manifested in the daily lives of men are right human relations thereby established and peace on earth can come; they have failed also to realize that there is no glory to god until there is peace on earth through goodwill among men. the churches have forgotten that all men are sons of the father and, therefore, brothers; that all men are divine, that some men are already god-conscious and expressing divinity and that some are not; they have overlooked the fact that because of their point in evolution some men know christ, because the christ in them is active while others are only struggling to bring the christ life into activity; still others are entirely unaware of the

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

hat christians like to call "the inscrutable will of god" that unrecognised purpose of the lord of the world, the ancient of days (as he is called in the old testament) who "knows his own mind, radiates the highest quality of love and focusses his will in his own high place within the centre where the will of god is known" when the christ, the avatar of love, makes his reappearance then will the "sons of men who are now the sons of god withdraw their faces from the shining light and radiate that light upon the sons of men who know not yet they are the sons of god. then shall the coming one appear, his footsteps hastened through the valley of the shadow by the one of awful power who stands upon the mountain top, breathing out love eternal, light supernal and peaceful, silent will "then will

of men who are now the sons of god withdraw their faces from the shining light and radiate that light upon the sons of men who know not yet they are the sons of god. then shall the coming one appear, his footsteps hastened through the valley of the shadow by the one of awful power who stands upon the mountain top, breathing out love eternal, light supernal and peaceful, silent will "then will the sons of men respond. then will a newer light shine forth into the dismal, weary vale of earth. then will new life course through the veins of men, and then will their vision compass all the ways of what may be "so peace will come again on earth, but a peace unlike aught known before. then will the will-to-good flower forth as understanding, and understanding blossom as goodwill in men" chapter two

nguish his coming will be not only the general expectancy but also the fact that much is today known and taught about the kingdom of god, or the spiritual hierarchy of the planet. everywhere, in all countries, there are thousands who are interested in the fact of that hierarchy, who believe in the masters of the wisdom, the disciples of the christ, and who will not be surprised when this group of sons of god, surrounding their great leader, the christ, makes its appearance on earth. the churches in all countries have familiarised the public with the phrase "the kingdom of god; the esotericists and occultists everywhere have publicised the fact of the hierarchy during the past century; the spiritualists have laid the emphasis upon the aliveness of those who have passed over into the hidden

ny. the meaning of these words is not (as is so often stated by christian theologians) a statement of acceptance of pain and of an unpleasant future and of death. it was an exclamation, evoked surely by his realisation of the universal implications of his mission and the intense focussing of his life in a universal sense. the gethsemane experience was an experience uniquely possible only to those sons of god who have reached his rare point in evolution; it had no real relation to the crucifixion episode, as the orthodox commentators emphasise. 4. the final words of the christ to his apostles were "lo, i am with you all the days, even unto the end of the age" or cycle (matt. 28.20) the important word is "end" the word used is the greek "sun-teleia" which means the end of the time period, wi

of this invocation or prayer and the rising expectancy of the coming of the christ hold out the greatest hope for mankind today. if this is not so, then prayer is no use and only an hallucination, and the scriptures of the world, with their proved forecasting. are useless and deceiving. the testimony of the ages proves that none of this is so. prayer always is answered and always has been; great sons of god have ever come on humanity's demand and always will, and he for whom all men wait today is on his way. chapter three the reappearance of the christ world expectancy god transcendent, greater, vaster and more inclusive than his created world, is universally recognised and has been generally emphasised; all faiths can say with shri krishna (speaking as god, the creator) that "having perv

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

race, the jews have failed to hold before the orient the divine nature of mankind as a whole, for all are equally divine and all are the lord's elect. calvin and all who followed his lead made the same mistake and instead of holding before the people of the occident the realisation that those who recognised their essential divinity did so symbolically on behalf of all the developing, incarnating sons of god, they regarded themselves as the chosen people and all who did not think as they did are regarded as lost. when the jew and the narrow-minded religious devotees recognise their identity with all other people and express this identity through right relationship, we shall see a very different world. the world problem is essentially a religious problem and behind all strife in every depar

er jesus, who was, in his turn, inspired and over-shadowed and used by his great ideal, the christ. in the word "idealism" you have the keynote of this ray idealism taking form, providing a living example and indicating to the race of men their own divine potentialities. in the appearance of the christ, the divine ideal for the race, as a whole, was presented for the first time. other and earlier sons of god presented diverse divine qualities and attributes, but in three of them a certain perfection of presentation was achieved which (as far as this present world period is concerned) can never be surpassed. these three are: hercules, the perfect disciple but not yet the perfected son of god; the buddha- 20- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust the perfect initiate, having

ly perfect expression of divinity for this cycle and, therefore, the teacher alike of angels and of men. that ahead of the race may lie a still higher perfection than that attained by any of these exponents of divinity is inexpressibly true, for we know not yet what divinity really means; in these three, however, we have three instances of a perfection which lies far ahead for the majority of the sons of men. in all of them, the sixth and the second rays were controlling factors, with the first ray reaching full expression. in them, idealism, love-wisdom and indomitable will stood forth in all their divine power. it might be of interest to you to know just what rays controlled these sons of god: hercules, the sun-god, had a first ray soul, a second ray personality and a sixth ray astral bo

nd consequently their sense of humor) and who deem themselves capable of interpreting the mind of god for their fellowmen. it should be here remembered that there are divine attributes and ray characteristics which have hitherto never been revealed to the minds of men or sensed by them in their highest moments of inspiration; this is due to the lack of sensitivity of even the most advanced of the sons of men. their apparatus remains inadequately developed and so unable to respond to these higher divine qualities. even the christ himself and other members of the great white lodge are preparing themselves to register these divine attributes and consciously to merge themselves in a still higher process or scale of evolution; it will be obvious to you that the little conclusions of the little

duals throughout the world who were spiritually minded, because he expressed for them the highest goal towards which they could possibly strive. all the world religions have been thus built around an embodied idea, who, in his own person, expressed the immediate ideal of the time and age. he demonstrated certain divine attributes and concepts which it was necessary to present to the vision of the sons of men as their possible and immediate goal. in these manifestations as i have earlier pointed out the sixth ray influence can easily be seen. when, however, an individual sixth ray influence can be noted in an era wherein the sixth ray is uniquely active, then the reason for the potency of the religious idea, as expressed in theological dogma and doctrine and the universal authority of the c

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

s of attention to a deep study of glamour. herein will lie your service, for as you think truly and use your illumined intelligence (if you can achieve this, my brothers) you can help in time to do two things: 1. clarify the group mind on this subject. i refer not here to your particular group, but to the world consciousness. 2. help shatter the great illusion which has held, and still holds, the sons of men in thrall. i ask, therefore, for your service along these lines, and i request also that you give increased attention at the time of your full moon contact with myself. this group should have a special aptitude for work along the line of dispelling glamour at the period of the full moon. contact is made on the different planes according to the focus of the subtle bodies of the personne

andpoint. there were no mental reactions and but little emotional response to environment. men were largely instinctual animals. glamour began to be found in atlantean days, and since that time has steadily precipitated, until today when the hierarchy looks at humanity it appears to be walking in a deep and constantly changing density of currents which hide and distort, and which swirl around the sons of men and prevent their seeing the light as it is. this is all the more obvious when it is remembered that the other kingdoms of nature are relatively free from glamour and illusion. in our race, the aryan, the world illusion is gathering weight and slowly emerging into recognition in the human consciousness and this is a real point gained, for that which is recognised can then be intelligen

copyright 1998 lucis trust cycle, recurring and recapitulating as it does the events of an earlier development, they again reach a point in their realisation which they earlier reached. the significance of their attainment pours in upon them, and the sense of their responsibility and their knowledge. again they over-estimate themselves, regarding their missions and themselves as unique among the sons of men, and their esoteric and subjective demand for recognition enters in and spoils what might otherwise have been a fruitful service. any emphasis upon the personality can distort most easily the pure light of the soul as it seeks to pour through the lower self. any effort to call attention to the mission or task which the personality has undertaken detracts from that mission and handicaps

planet, could you but do so, you would see no such clear shining but simply a murky ball of seeming steam and mist and fog. this fog is of a density and thickness which would indicate not only impenetrability but also those conditions which are unfavourable to life. yet we pass and come and go, we the teachers on the inner side; and in that fog seeing all things misshapen and distorted labour the sons of men. some are so habituated to the fog and the density that they remain oblivious of its existence, regarding it as right and good and the unchangeable place of their daily life. others have caught faint glimpses of a clearer world wherein more perfect forms and shapes can be seen and where the fog hides not a dimly sensed reality though what that reality may be they know not. still others

wledge, that inspired reason, which will enable him to comprehend not only the processes of nature in its fivefold divine expression but also the underlying causes of these processes, proving them effects and not initiatory events; through the intuition man arrives at the experience of the kingdom of god, and discovers the nature, the type of lives and of phenomena, and the characteristics of the sons of god as they come into manifestation. through the intuition, some of the plans and purposes working out through the manifested created worlds are brought to his attention, and he is shown in what way he and the rest of humanity can cooperate and hasten the divine purpose; through the intuition, the laws of the spiritual life, which are the laws governing god himself, conditioning shamballa

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

planetary logos. you can see, therefore, how the theme of revelation runs throughout the entire evolutionary process; it must never be forgotten that step by step, stage by stage, expansion after expansion, initiation after initiation, the divine whole is realised by man. the method is impressed from a hitherto unrecognised environment; this only becomes possible in this particular form when "the sons of mind who are the sons of god and whose nature is at-one with his began to move on earth. the science of impression is in reality the technique whereby humanity has been taught by the spiritual hierarchy from the moment of its first appearance upon earth; it is the technique which all disciples have to learn (no matter which of the seven paths they may eventually choose) and it is also the

he ladder of evolution when the aspirant becomes consciously susceptible to what we call spiritual impression. at that point he becomes capable of being more sensitive to a higher range of impression and at the same time he himself begins to learn the art of impressing the minds of others, to master the understanding of the level from which he works as an impressing agent, and to know who are the sons of men he can impress. he has to master also the secondary lesson of adapting his environment in such a manner that he can impress others and the impression can find its way through his environing circumstances and into the usually inattentive minds for whom he feels a responsibility. this he does through a growing knowledge of himself and through learning the art of registering. the clearer

the unconscious experimental stage of incarnation; that it is also intended to carry the threefold energies of the soul in the stage of consciously gaining experience; and that also, as the antahkarana is built, it is intended to carry the energies of the monad in the stage of consciously expressed divinity. see you, therefore, the beauty of the spiritual process, and the planned aid given to the sons of men at all stages of their return to the centre from whence they came? v. the nature of space certain wide generalisations anent the etheric body should be recalled at this point. the existence of an etheric body in relation to all tangible and exoteric forms is accepted today by many scientific schools; nevertheless the original teaching has been amended in order to bring it into line wit

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

of the builders- 23- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust this first (sixth) hierarchy has for its type of energy the first aspect of the sixth type of cosmic electricity, and wields special power, therefore, in conjunction with the lowest fire, or "fire by friction" as it makes itself felt on the sixth plane. these lives are called "the burning sons of desire" and were the sons of necessity. it is said of them in the old commentary "they burned to know. they rushed into the spheres. they are the longing of the father for the mother. hence do they suffer, burn, and long through the sixth sphere of sense" hierarchy ii. the second hierarchy is closely allied with the great bear. we are told that they entered through the second ventricle wit

of the greatest exponents of the at-one-ing principle, it will become apparent how great and all-important is their place in the scheme. it is for this reason that the units of the fifth hierarchy are called "the hearts of fiery love; they save through love, and in their turn these lives are peculiarly close to the great heart of love of the solar logos. these great redeeming angels, who are the sons of men on their own true plane, the mental, are ever, therefore, pictured as taking the form of twelve-petalled lotuses this symbology linking them up with "the son of divine love" the manifested solar system, which is said to be a cosmic twelve-petalled lotus, and with the logoic causal lotus, equally of a twelve-petalled nature. we have, therefore, a direct stream of energy flowing through:

s are superimposed and the "planetary pattern" then emerges. 2. the horoscope of the human family, of the fourth kingdom in nature, regarding it as an entity, which it essentially is. this is in reality the study of two horoscopes, as in the above case; the- 36- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust horoscope of the kingdom of souls, of the divine sons of god upon the mental plane, and the study of the entity which is the coherent life of the form side of the fourth kingdom in nature. this is again done by superimposing the two charts. these charts are drawn on a large scale and on a transparent material of which humanity knows nothing. upon these charts are noted the pattern which emerges when "soul and personality are brought together" an

d reason to pure perception. 3. saturn "falls" in aries. this has two meanings, for this is a dual sign. first: saturn is the lord of karma, the imposer of retribution and the one who demands full payment of all debts and who therefore condemns us to the struggle for existence, both from the form side and from the soul side. saturn, therefore "fell" when man fell into generation. he "followed the sons of men down into their low place" second: saturn's power is completely ended and his work accomplished when man (the spiritual man) has freed himself from karma and from the power of the two crosses the common and the fixed. esoterically, saturn cannot follow man on to the cardinal- 64- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust cross. there is muc

of the anima mundi or of the world soul. 2. humanity, the individualised and finally initiated man. this is the embodiment of the human soul or ego, a differentiation of the world soul, which expresses itself as a personality (a correspondence to the spirit of the planet) and finally as a spiritual soul (a correspondence to the planetary logos. 3. the lord of the planet, one of the great lives or sons of god, at present regarded as "an imperfect god" as far as our planet is concerned and yet, from the angle of humanity, perfect indeed. the above triple division expresses the three major aspects of the ancient and esoteric science of- 69- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust astrology and its three divisions as the hierarchy today studies t

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

rother, was an architect and was well known in washington and great britain. the fairbairns did not belong to the so-called aristocracy of birth which is so much prized. perhaps this was the salvation of the bateman hollinshead la trobe stock. they belonged to the aristocracy of brains and that is of greater importance in these democratic days. both william and peter fairbairn started life as the sons of a poor scotch farmer in the 18th century. both ended up as rich men and both gained titles. you will find sir william fairbairn's name in webster's dictionary and sir peter's memory is perpetuated in a statue in a square in leeds, england. i remember a few years ago arriving in leeds to lecture. as the taxi drove through a- 13- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust square

red years ago interpreted the bible in one way (probably suitable for his time and age) that it should be acceptable now in a different time and age, under a different civilisation and with widely different problems. if god's truth is truth then it will be expansive and inclusive, and not reactionary and exclusive. if god is god, then his divinity will adapt itself to the emerging divinity of the sons of god, and a son of god today may be a very different expression of divinity from a son of god five thousand years ago. you will see, therefore, how my whole spiritual horizon was opening up. there was light in the heavens and i was no longer an isolated, deserted, struggling disciple, sure of nothing and with nothing to do as far as i could see. it was slowly dawning on me that i was one of

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 of evolution, and holding forms together so as to provide vehicles for the evolving life and later, when they have served their purpose, repulsing those forms so that the evolving lives can move on their way to higher evolution. the true significance of this book will only be app

erarchy of our planet, can and will be materialised on earth. we believe that it is already present and will later be recognised as the culminating kingdom in nature. 2. that there has been a continuity of revelation down the ages and that from cycle to cycle god has revealed himself to humanity. 3. that god transcendent is equally god immanent, and that through human beings, who are in truth the sons of god (if the words of christ and all the world teachers mean anything) the three divine aspects knowledge, love and will can be expressed. 4. that there is only one divine life, expressing itself through the multiplicity of forms in all the kingdoms of nature, and that the sons of men are, therefore, one. 5. that within each human being is a point of light, a spark of the one flame. this, w

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

f evolution, can he hope to register all the different areas of divine expression. only when the etheric body is swept into activity under the influence and through the "impressed forces" of the soul, the mind, and temporarily, of the astral body, can man become aware of all worlds, all phenomena, and all states of consciousness, and so achieve that omniscience which is the birth right of all the sons of god. but, during the period wherein this state of being is in process of achievement, the lack of development, the failure to register, the life work of awakening and organising the various centres and of then correctly relating them to each other, produces much difficulty. it is this- 51- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust condition which

ive to all he sought to do, was his true self, that one reality. he recognises then that assimilation into and identification with that one reality enables duality to be transmuted into unity and the sense of- 71- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust search to be transformed into the effort to become what he essentially is a son of god, one with all sons of god. having accomplished that, he finds himself one with the one in whom we live and move and have our being. next, i would point out that the lowest expression of the mystical condition, and one with which we are becoming increasingly familiar, is that which is called a "split personality; when this condition is present, the personal lower self expresses itself through a basic condition o

o will work with full intent at the changing of the situation. there are jews today, a few in number, who do not think in terms of being jews; who are not preoccupied with the jewish problem to the exclusion of all else, and who are endeavouring to fuse all people into one humanity, thus bridging the gap. again, i say, that the masters of the wisdom see neither jew nor gentile, but only souls and sons of god. in dealing with the subject of karma as a factor decisive and lasting in both disease and health one of the criticisms to which my approach is subjected is that i deal too much with generalities and that i give no specific and detailed analysis of particular diseases, particularly of the great basic diseases which today take such a toll of humanity and which are not fundamentally bein

ind in its manifestations at this time on the physical plane. we can trace the connection between the atmic (spiritual) and the physical plane demonstrating on the lower plane as the law of sacrifice and death but its effect can be seen on all five planes as well. it is the law which destroys the final sheath that separates the perfected soul. page 581. when the "will to live" vanishes, then the "sons of necessity" cease from objective manifestation..when the thinker on his own plane withdraws his attention from his little system within the three worlds and gathers within himself all his forces, then physical plane existence comes to an end and all returns within the causal consciousness..this demonstrates on the physical plane in the withdrawing from out of the top of the head of the radi

illusion and still forms a barrier in the path of the soul seeking liberation. it still "holds prisoner" the many people who die whilst their major reaction to life is that of desire, of wishful thinking and of emotional sentiency. these are still the vast majority. in atlantean days the astral plane came into being; the mental state of consciousness was then practically nonexistent, though the "sons of mind" had their place on what is today the higher levels of that plane. the mental permanent atom was also practically quiescent within each human form, and there was consequently no attractive "pull" from the mental plane, as is the case today. many people are still atlantean in consciousness, and when they pass out of the physical state of consciousness and discard their dual physical bo

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

rue building of the antahkarana must be begun. it is the bridge between the personality and the soul. the recognition of this constitutes the problem with which the modern educator is faced. it is a- 24- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust problem that has always existed but it has concerned the individual hitherto more than the group. now it concerns the group, for so many of the sons of men are ready for this building. down the ages individuals have built their individual bridges between the higher and the lower, but so successful has been the evolutionary process that today the time has come for a group understanding of this emerging technique, for a group bridging, leading to a consequent or subsequent group revelation. this provides the modern opportunity in the field

s to become "fully enlightened" enlightenment is the major goal of education. it is precisely in this region of thought and of recognition that the distinction is found between the work of the buddha and the work of the christ. the buddha achieved "enlightenment" and was the first of our humanity to do so. lesser grades of enlightenment have been frequently achieved by many previously incarnating sons of god. christ, because of the attainment of the buddha and because of his own point in evolution, was enabled to inaugurate a new era and institute a new goal, wherein another divine principle was enabled to come into manifestation and to achieve general recognition. he inaugurated the "age of love" and gave to the people an expression of a new divine aspect, that of love. the buddha culmina

n terms of the two necessitated and inevitable births, the physical and the spiritual, and he thinks of the relation between the two as purely symbolic and not in any way to be interpreted literally. yet there is a close relation and an analogy between the two which, as time elapses, will become more clear. there can be no new birth, no creation of the "body of light" and no "manifestation of the sons of god" apart from the process of physical incarnation. there can be no fusion of the opposites of soul and personality apart from the physiological processes of sex, and i say this deliberately, for it is in the relation of the sexes that the element of time enters into the experience of the soul, and the understanding of this will come when the doctrine of reincarnation is properly comprehe

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

ing gently yet surely held, then sound the sacred word, om, very softly three times, breathing out and towards: a. the soul. b. the hierarchy. c. humanity. these three recognised factors now constitute a definite and linked triangle of force. 6. then say with heartfelt intent (consider the significance of those two words) the invocation which i gave you in my communication in september, 1939: the sons of men are one and i am one with them. i seek to love, not hate; i seek to serve and not exact due service; i seek to heal, not hurt. let pain bring due reward of light and love. let the soul control the outer form and life and all events, and bring to light the love which underlies the happenings of the time. let vision come and insight. let the future stand revealed. let inner union demonst

instructions and until further notice i would ask you to work as follows: 1. group yourselves, all twenty-four of you, symbolically, pictorially and imaginatively around your teacher, and with him face the east, standing in a semi-circle slightly behind him. 2. then stretching out your hands in blessing, say together with solemn, voiced intent the formula or mantram of unification, beginning "the sons of men are one" which you have been using each morning in your personal meditation. throw the power of your focussed thought and will into and behind the words. 3. stand then together in the light which streams ever from the east and see it pouring through the master to each of you, entering by the head centre, passing from thence to the heart centre, and then from the heart it is directed by

e head centre. 6. then focus yourself in the heart, believing that a triangle of energy has been formed between the head, the heart and the solar plexus. vision it then as composed of the energy of light, something resembling a triangle of neon light. the colour of this neon light so-called will be dependent upon the ray of the soul. 7. then again repeat the mantram of unification, beginning "the sons of men are one" 8. standing, therefore, in the centre of the heart see the energy of your group brothers as the radiating spokes of a great wheel of light. this wheel has twenty-four spokes and at the centre of the wheel, like the hub of the wheel, can be found your master (d.k. then slowly with love, mention aloud the names of each of your group brothers, not omitting yourself. 9. then see t

onstitute the ashrams of the masters (not yet of the chohans, because they are still basically too potent) will be a gradual process, but it will in time restore the mysteries, bring the first two initiations into a relative prominence as integral parts of the coming world religion, familiarise the whole of mankind with the fact of the subjective world, and finally bring the most developed of the sons of men into a faint glimmer of understanding of the essential reality underlying all phenomena, and give some grasp of the purpose of shamballa and the will of the lord of the world. humanity has now reached a point of development where there is a definite grasp of the plan of the hierarchy call it brotherhood, sharing, internationalism, unity or what you will. this is a growing and factual a

of the ashram) breathe out the idea as a formulated, living thoughtform into the great stream of mental substance which is ever playing upon the human consciousness. 4. sound the om, thus "closing the episode" close the above meditation with a daily dedication of yourself to the service of humanity; renew your pledge to your master and say the mantram of unification i gave you some years ago: the sons of men are one and i am one with them. i seek to love, not hate- 102- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust i seek to serve and not exact due service; i seek to heal, not hurt. let pain bring due reward of light and love. let the soul control the outer form, and life and all events, and bring to light the love that underlies the happenings of the time. let vision c

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ions let the forces of light bring illumination to mankind. let the spirit of peace be spread abroad. may men of goodwill everywhere meet in a spirit of cooperation. may forgiveness on the part of all men be the keynote at this time. let power attend the efforts of the great ones. so let it be, and help us to do our part. 1935 let the lords of liberation issue forth. let them bring succour to the sons of men. let the rider from the secret place come forth, and coming, save. come forth, o mighty one. let the souls of men awaken to the light, and may they stand with massed intent. let the fiat of the lord go forth: the end of woe has come! come forth, o mighty one. the hour of service of the saving force has now arrived. let it be spread abroad, o mighty one. let light and love and power and

d water within the soil its potencies are unpredictable. certain germ ideas are emerging into the human consciousness. these differ peculiarly from those of the past, and it is these widely different ideas which are the distinctive characteristics of the new age, the aquarian age. hitherto the great ideas which succeeded finally in controlling a race in any age have been the gift of the intuitive sons of men to their generation. advanced human beings have then seized upon the intuited idea, subordinated it to the process of mentation, made it desirable, and then have seen it come into being through the "agency of recognition" as it is occultly called. one illumined mind would sense the divine idea, needed for the growth of the racial consciousness, and then would give it form; the few woul

iousness. but they can also work upon the mental plane with the chitta or mind stuff, and can do this at the same time as they are conditioned and limited by their physical mechanism. they are then entirely freed from the time consciousness and from any such limitations as space relations within the solar system. 2. the focus of their polarisation is on the mental plane and they function there as sons of mind or of manas. their normal mode of intercourse is through the medium of telepathic understanding. this is the normal technique of a divine and free manasaputra. this is all made possible when a human being has polarised himself in the soul consciousness, when the egoic lotus is unfolding and when, therefore, the mental method of working is that of mental relationship or telepathy- 25

ese are in line with, but also expansions of, analogous conditions in the "seeds" which fructified after implantation and development in animal-man, producing the living self-conscious individual and, in their totality, the fourth kingdom in nature. the first point has reference to the quality of the implanted seed, and the second to the method of its implantation. the quality of the "seed of the sons of god" which was effectual in producing the human family was intellectual, and the self-conscious self-directed man was the result. the fruit of this quality, plus the livingness of the seed itself, can be seen today in the more advanced and cultured thinking people and in those who are in any sense of the word personalities. the method employed was the gift of mind to the more advanced amon

la force is producing at this time. this is the simplest statement i find it possible to make anent this complex problem. with broad generalities i cover the past, indicate the effects which are now being experienced in the present, and forecast the future. it was the coming into incarnation of the spiritually self-conscious human being which is the inciting cause of the present conflict. had the sons of god not "come in unto the daughters of men (which is the biblical and symbolic way of expressing the great relationship between spirit and matter which was established in the human kingdom, had the spiritual entities which are humanity itself not taken unto themselves material forms, and had the positive spiritual element not attached itself to the negative material aspect, the present wor

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

is the clue to the work. these faculties rightly used impose upon these lesser lives that control which will lead to the final liberation, and which will- 6- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust in due time, lead these lives themselves into the realm 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

tual essence of solar fire, reaches its highest point of expression. this it achieves through the instrumentality of the hierarchy, that great group of souls which has ever been the custodian of the principle of light, of enlightened love, and which always down the ages focusses its attention upon the race of men when the spiritual influence is at its height. this it does through one of the great sons of god. the full moon of june of 1943 saw this outpouring of divine love reach its highest expression for all time, and at the point of attainment which is, for that particular son of god, his highest also. such is the law. when an embodied christ in time and space reaches his goal of achievement, recognition of this comes to him at the time of the june full moon, for in that sign of gemini t

effect of the outpouring from shamballa in clearer terms. we are told in the bible that christ will come in the air, and that he will bring the "healing of the nations" in his wings. i would call your attention to this thought and to its appositeness to this day and generation. i make no prophetical predictions, i only indicate possibility. when the avatar has made his appearance, then will the "sons of men who are now the sons of god withdraw their faces from the shining light and radiate that light upon the sons of men who know not yet they are the sons of god. then shall the coming one appear, his footsteps hastened through the valley of the shadow by the one of awful power who stands upon the mountain top, breathing out love eternal, light supernal and peaceful silent will "then will

of men who are now the sons of god withdraw their faces from the shining light and radiate that light upon the sons of men who know not yet they are the sons of god. then shall the coming one appear, his footsteps hastened through the valley of the shadow by the one of awful power who stands upon the mountain top, breathing out love eternal, light supernal and peaceful silent will "then will the sons of men respond. then will a newer light shine forth into the dismal weary vale of earth. then will new life course through the veins of men, and then will their vision compass all the ways of what may be "so peace will come again on earth, but a peace unlike aught known before. then will the will-to-good flower forth as understanding, and understanding blossom as goodwill in men" so speaks a

self as rich in love, in knowledge, wisdom, insight, and all the panoply of god (as he can grasp it, except one thing. reflect. purpose will reveal itself; the whole will stand revealed and then the soul loaded with riches and the fruits of labour long will vanish as the mist and only god, the living one, be left" there is still another set of phrases dealing with that through which the perfected sons of god in their high place must pass when their work is done on earth and a greater glory reveals itself ahead. but this i give not. i give only three symbols, which are: the womb..individualisation..separation. leading to personality integration and self-realisation- 76- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust climaxing on the path of i

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

coming of the christ the new group of world servers interpretation of the test the purpose of the study of the hercules myth summary of lessons learned in each zodiacal sign the path of the soul through the zodiac testimony as to the effectiveness of zodiacal energies on earth life the crosses journey through the signs- 4- the labours of hercules the zodiac the presiding one looked forth upon the sons of men, who are the sons of god. he saw their light and where they stood upon the way which leads back to the heart of god. the way sweeps in a circle through the twelve great gates, and, cycle after cycle, the gates are opened and the gates are shut. the sons of god, who are the sons of men, march on. dim is the light at first. selfish the trend of human aspiration, and dark the deeds result

spiration, and dark the deeds resultant. slowly men learn and, in learning, pass between the pillars of the gates time and again. dull is the understanding but in the halls of discipline, found in each section of the circle's cosmic sweep, the truth is slowly grasped; the needed lesson learnt; the nature purified and taught until the cross is seen- that fixed and waiting cross which crucifies the sons of men, stretched out on the crosses of those who serve and save. from out the mass of men, one man stood forth in ancient days and caught the great presiding elder's watching eye, he who eternally presides within the council chamber of the lord. he turned to one who stood, close at his hand, and said "who is that soul upon the way of life, whose light can now be dimly seen" quickly the answe

orth" came the reply "a soul who seeks the light of understanding, a struggling soul "tell him from me to return the other way and then to travel round the circle. then will he find the object of his search. watch o'er his steps and, when he has an understanding heart, an eager mind and skillful hand, bring him to me" again the centuries passed. the great wheel turned and turning, carried all the sons of men, who are the sons of god upon their way. and as these centuries passed, a group of men emerged who slowly turned the other way. they found the way. they passed the gates and struggled towards the mountain top, and towards the place of death and sacrifice. the watching teacher saw a man emerge from out this crowd, mount the fixed cross, demanding deeds to do, service to render unto god

s to manifest forth in active work on the physical plane the glory and the power of his innate divinity. one of the ancient scriptures of india says "by mastery of the binding life comes radiance" and it was this mastery of the imprisoning form which was the glorious consummation of all the undertakings of hercules. we are told that he had a divine father and an earthly mother and so, as with all sons of god, we find the same basic symbology emerging. they typify in their persons the essential duality of god in manifestation, of life in form, of soul in body, and of spirit and matter. this duality is the glory of humanity and also constitutes the problem which every human being has to solve. father-spirit and mother-matter meet together in man, and the work of the- 14- the labours of hercu

orth. pass through the gate and enter on the way. perform thy labor- 19- the labours of hercules and return to me, reporting on the deed" with shouts of triumph hercules rushed forth, running between the pillars of the gate with over-weening confidence and surety of power. and thus the labor started and the first great act of service was begun. the story that they tell carries instruction for the sons of men, who are the sons of god. the son of mars, diomedes of fiery fame, ruled in the land beyond the gate, and there he raised the horses and the mares of war, upon the marshes of his land. wild were these horses and fierce the mares and all men trembled at their sound, for they ravaged up and down the land, wreaking great damage, killing all the sons of men who crossed their path, and bree

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

s the blessing of the old testament for good works, but adversity that of the new? this could only be true if there were no future life or lives, or no coming period of reward and punishment contemplated by the old testament doctrine. but the comment is true and the old testament does teach that man is no more immortal than the beast, as witness ecclesiastes, iii. 19-"for that which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea they have all one breath; so that man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. all go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. wherefore i perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for wh

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

glory.)the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 1 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm the apocryphon of john (long version) translated by frederik wisse the teaching of the savior, and the revelation of the mysteries and the things hidden in silence, even these things which he taught john, his disciple. and it happened one day, when john, the brother of james- who are the sons of zebedee- had come up to the temple, that a pharisee named arimanius approached him and said to him "where is your master whom you followed" and he said to him "he has gone to the place from which he came" the pharisee said to him "with deception did this nazarene deceive you (pl, and he filled your ears with lies, and closed your hearts (and) turned you from the traditions of your fathers"

ess, their sins were hidden. for they are bound with measures and times and moments, since it (fate) is lord over everything "and he (the chief archon) repented for everything which had come into being through him. this time he planned to bring a flood upon the work of man. but the greatness of the light of the foreknowledge informed noah, and he proclaimed (it) to all the offspring which are the sons of men. but those who were strangers to him did not listen to him. it is not as moses said 'they hid themselves in an ark (gn 7: 7, but they hid themselves in a place, not only noah, but also many other people from the immovable race. they went into a place and hid themselves in a luminous cloud. and he (noah) recognized his authority, and she who belongs to the light was with him, having sho

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

ermany. i have said that the grade under notice has no reference to scotland or to any specific place of templar refuge after the proscription. but the chivalrous origin of masonry is not less a ramsay myth, and it characterises almost every variant of templar perpetuation which has arisen under a masonic aegis, from that of the knights of god and the chevalier du temple to that of werner and his sons of the valley, belonging to the year 1803. there stand apart only the english religious and military order and the late french order of the temple which depends from the charter of larmenius, but this was not masonic, though its pretence of templar perpetuation and succession is most obviously borrowed from masonry. in conclusion, i shall think always that baron von hund drew from france, whe

ice and knight templar; those of the revision comprised a regime ecossais, described as ancient and rectified, and an ordre interieur, being novice and knight beneficent of the holy city. it laid claim on a spiritual consanguinity only in respect of the templar chivalry, apart from succession and historical connection, but it retained a certain root, the poetic development of which is in werner's sons of the valley already mentioned, being the existence from time immemorial of a secret order of wise masters in palestine devoted to the work of initiation for the building of a spiritual city and as such the power behind the temple, as it was also behind masonry. in conclusion as to this part of my subject, the combined influence of the templar element in the chapter of clermont and that of t

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

allen angels to form physical bodies and join with others sexually. it is suggested also by writers 7 kaufmann kohler, w.h. bennett and louis ginzberg that the children of cain spent their days at the foot of a mountain (eden) practicing in wild orgies with the music of lucifer through that created by jubal. women, the first pairikas or faeries/witches, in their beautiful appearances, invited the sons of seth (children of god) and copulated with them, bearing other children. this jewish folklore presents the earliest forms of the witches sabbat as a luciferian celebration and practice of sexual magick. to philo, likewise, cain is the type of avarice, of "folly and impiety("de cherubim" xx, and of self-love("de sacrificiis abelis et caini "quod deterius potiori insidiari soleat" 10 "he buil

to earth were: samjaza, artaqifa, armen, kokabel, turael, rumjal, danjal, neqael, baraqel, armaros, batarjal, busasejal, hananel, turel, simapesiel, tumael, turel, rumael, and azazel. these are among the names of the chiefs of the watchers who came into flesh upon the earth. jeqon led the others to earth to begin to lust for the daughters of cain. asbeel was said to have given evil council to the sons of god, being the watchers, that they should go forth and copulate with 9 the daughters of cain. gadreel taught unto man, woman and child the blows of death and creation of armor and weapons. penemue taught unto the wise the art of ink and writing, as well as the bitter and the sweet, good and evil. this is the spirit who gave unto the cunning the book of arte, which brought forth both demon

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

overran the mother[[footnote(s* only forty-nine slokas out of several hundred are here given. not every verse is translated verbatim. a periphrasis is sometimes used for the sake of clearness and intelligibility, where a literal translation would be quite unintelligible[[vol. 2, page] 16 the secret doctrine. after thirty crores she turned round. she lay on her back; on her side. she would call no sons of heaven, she would ask no sons of wisdom. she created from her own bosom. she evolved water-men, terrible and bad. 6. the water-men terrible and bad she herself created from the remains of others, from the dross and slime of her first, second, and third, she formed them. the dhyani came and looked- the dhyani from the bright father-mother, from the white regions they came, from the abodes o

sires "it has it" said the drainer of waters. but breath needs a mind to embrace the universe "we cannot give that" said the fathers "i never had it" said the spirit of the earth "the form would be consumed were i to give it mine" said the great fire. man remained an empty senseless bhuta. thus have the boneless given life to those who became men with bones in the third- v. 18. the first were the sons of yoga. their sons the children of the yellow father and the white mother. 19. the second race was the product by budding and[[vol. 2, page] 18 the secret doctrine. expansion, the a-sexual from the sexless- thus was, o lanoo, the second race produced. 20. their fathers were the self-born. the self-born, the chhaya from the brilliant bodies of the lords, the fathers, the sons of twilight. 21

he third. the sweat grew, its drops grew, and the drops became hard and round. the sun warmed it; the moon cooled and shaped it; the wind fed it until its ripeness. the white swan from the starry vault overshadowed the big drop. the egg of the future race, the man-swan of the later third. first male-female, then man and woman. 23. the self-born were the chhayas: the shadows from the bodies of the sons of twilight- vii. 24. the sons of wisdom, the sons of night, ready for rebirth, came down, they saw the vile forms of the first third "we can choose" said the lords "we have wisdom" some entered the chhaya. some projected the spark. some deferred till the fourth. from their own rupa they filled the kama. those who entered became arhats. those who received but a spark, remained destitute of kn

. the third remained mind-less. their jivas were not[[footnote(s* the idea and the spirit of the sentence is here given, as a verbal translation would convey very little to the reader[[vol. 2, page] 19 the slokas of "dzyan" ready. these were set apart among the seven. they became narrow-headed. the third were ready "in these shall we dwell" said the lords of the flame. 25. how did the manasa, the sons of wisdom, act? they rejected the self-born. they are not ready. they spurned the sweat-born. they are not quite ready. they would not enter the first egg-born. 26. when the sweat-born produced the egg-born, the twofold and the mighty, the powerful with bones, the lords of wisdom said "now shall we create" 27. the third race became the vahan of the lords of wisdom. it created "sons of will an

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 the fathers and mothers of our earth, which is subordinate to them. but these, in their turn, are subordinate to their "fathers" and "mothers- the latter interchangeable and varying with each nation- the gods and their planets, such as jupit

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

elf not. 55 the germ of life was not yet. 57 the universe was still concealed in the divine thought. 61- stanza iii- the awakening of kosmos. 62 the great vibration. 63 nature's symbols. 65 the power of numbers. 67 the logoi and the dragon. 73 the astral light. 75 primeval radiations from unity. 79 the web of being. 83 conscious electricity: fohat. 85- stanza iv- the septenary hierarchies. 86 the sons of the fire. 86 the vehicle of the universe- the dhyan chohans. 89 the army of the voice. 93 speech and mind. 95 the ogdoad and the heptad. 99 the stellar "sons of light. 103- stanza v- fohat: the child of the septenary hierarchies. 106 the fiery whirlwind and the primordial seven. 106 they produce fohat. 108 the correlation of the "gods. 113 evolution of the "principles" of nature. 119 the m

sts to their patriarch abraham, the book of shuking, china's primitive bible, the sacred volumes of the egyptian thoth-hermes, the puranas in india, and the chaldean book of numbers and the pentateuch itself, are all derived from that one small parent volume. tradition says, that it was taken down in senzar, the secret sacerdotal tongue, from the words of the divine beings, who dictated it to the sons of light, in central asia, at the very beginning of the 5th (our) race; for there was a time when its language (the sen-zar) was known to the initiates of every nation, when the forefathers of the toltec understood it as easily as the inhabitants of the lost atlantis, who inherited it, in their turn, from the sages of the 3rd race, the manushis, who learnt it direct from the devas of the 2nd

ed as a "substantial unity- the "living source of life- is as the "un[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 10 the secret doctrine. accepts revelation as coming from divine yet still finite beings, the manifested lives, never from the unmanifestable one life; from those entities, called primordial man, dhyani-buddhas, or dhyan-chohans, the "rishi-prajapati" of the hindus, the elohim or "sons of god" the planetary spirits of all nations, who have become gods for men. he also regards the adi-sakti- the direct emanation of mulaprakriti, the eternal root of that, and the female aspect of the creative cause brahma, in her a'kasic form of the universal soul- as philosophically a maya, and cause of human maya. but this view does not prevent him from believing in its existence so long as

istence stretched boundless, infinite, causeless, in dreamless sleep; and life pulsated unconscious in universal space, throughout that all-presence which is sensed by the opened eye of the dangma. 9. but where was the dangma when the alaya of the universe was in paramartha and the great wheel was anupadaka[[vol. 1, page] 28 the secret doctrine. stanza ii. 1. where were the builders, the luminous sons of manvantaric dawn. in the unknown darkness in their ah-hi paranishpanna. the producers of form from no-form- the root of the world- the devamatri and svabhavat, rested in the bliss of non-being. 2. where was silence? where the ears to sense it? no, there was neither silence nor sound; naught save ceaseless eternal breath, which knows itself not. 3. the hour had not yet struck; the ray had n

nto their mother's bosom at the end of the great day, and re-become one with her; when it is cooling it becomes radiant, and the sons expand and contract through their own selves and hearts; they embrace infinitude. 12. then svabhavat sends fohat to harden the atoms. each is a part of the web. reflecting the "selfexistent lord" like a mirror, each becomes in turn a world- stanza iv. 1. listen, ye sons of the earth, to your instructors- the sons of the fire. learn, there is neither first nor last, for all is one: number issued from no number. 2. learn what we who descend from the primordial seven, we who are born from the primordial flame, have learnt from our fathers. 3. from the effulgency of light- the ray of the ever-darkness- sprung in space the re-awakened energies; the one from the e

BLUE EQUINOX

, andrea, robertus de fluctibus, johannes dee, sir edward kelly, thomas vaughan, elias ashmole, molinos, adam weishaupt, wolfgang von goethe, ludovicus rex bavari, richard wagner, alphonse louis constant, friedrich nietzsche, hargrave jennings, carl kellner, forlong dux, sir richard payne knight, sir richard francis burton, doctor g rard encausse, doctor theodor reuss, and sir aleister crowley.oh sons of the lion and the snake! with all thy saints we worthily commemorate them worthy that were and are and are to come. may their essence be here present, potent, puissant and paternal to perfect this feast! the people: so mote it be (the earth) the deacon: mother of fertility on whose breast lieth water, whose cheek is caressed by air, and in whose heart is the sun.s fire, womb of all life, re

be reality. 17. thou shalt not separate thy being from being, and the rest, but merge the ocean in the deep, the drop within the ocean. this too can be considered in an elementary light as meaning .begin even at once to destroy the sense of separateness. 18. so shalt thou be in full accord with all that lives; bear love to men as though they were thy brother-pupils, disciples of one teacher, the sons of one sweet mother. it now becomes clear that ah this is meant in an elementary sense, for verse 18 is really little more than a the seven portals 85 statement that an irritable frame of mind is bad for meditation. of course anybody who really .bore love. etc, as requested would be suffering from softening of the brain. that is, if you take ah this in its obvious literal sense. there is a cl

BOOK OF ENOCH

ches: to the angels in heaven- the watchers at their home base. the activities of the runaways cause them to be noticed. this section ends with some of the watchers asking their headman what should they do about the runaways. alternatively, it could be seen as god being informed that no souls wish to incarnate on the earth because conditions are becoming so bad. 6.1] and it came to pass, when the sons of men had increased, that in those days there were born to them fair and beautiful daughters. 6.2] and the angels, the sons of heaven, saw them and desired them. and they said to one another "come, let us choose for ourselves wives, from the children of men, and let us beget, for ourselves, children" 6.3] and semyaza, who was their leader, said to them "i fear that you may not wish this deed

there. 10.5] and throw on him jagged and sharp stones and cover him with darkness. and let him stay there forever. and cover his face so that he may not see the light. 10.6] and so that, on the great day of judgment, he may be hurled into the fire. 10.7] and restore the earth which the angels have ruined. and announce the restoration of the earth. for i shall restore the earth so that not all the sons of men shall be destroyed because of the knowledge which the watchers made known and taught to their sons. 10.8] and the whole earth has been ruined by the teaching of the works of azazel; and against him write: all sin" 10.9] and the lord said to gabriel: proceed against the bastards, and the reprobates, and against the sons of the fornicators. and destroy the sons of the fornicators, and th

ns of men shall be destroyed because of the knowledge which the watchers made known and taught to their sons. 10.8] and the whole earth has been ruined by the teaching of the works of azazel; and against him write: all sin" 10.9] and the lord said to gabriel: proceed against the bastards, and the reprobates, and against the sons of the fornicators. and destroy the sons of the fornicators, and the sons of the watchers, from amongst men. and send them out, and send them against one another, and let them destroy themselves in battle; for they will not have length of days. 10.10] and they will petition you, but the petitioners will gain nothing in respect of them, for they hope for eternal life, and that each of them will live life for five hundred years" 10.11] and the lord said to michael "g

consummation, until the judgment, which is for all eternity, is accomplished. 10.13] and in those days, they will lead them to the abyss of fire; in torment, and in prison they will be shut up for all eternity. 10.14] and then semyaza will be burnt, and from then on destroyed with them; together they will be bound until the end of all generations. 10.15] and destroy all the souls of lust, and the sons of the watchers, for they have wronged men. 10.16] destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and every evil work will cease. 10.17] and now all the righteous will be humble, and will live until they beget thousands. and all the days of their youth, and their sabbaths, they will fulfill in peace. 10.18] and in those days the whole earth will be tilled in righteousness and all of it will be

es. and the vine that is planted on it will produce fruit in abundance; and every seed that is sown on it, each measure will produce a thousand, and each measure of olives will produce ten baths of oil. 10.20] and you cleanse the earth from all wrong, and from all iniquity, and from all sin, and from all impiety, and from all the uncleanness which is brought about on the earth. 10.21] and all the sons of men shall be righteous, and all the nations shall serve and bless me and all shall worship me. 10.22] and the earth will be cleansed from all corruption, and from all sin, and from all wrath, and from all torment; and i will not again send a flood upon it, for all generations, forever. 11.1] and in those days, i will open the storehouses of blessing, which are in heaven, so that i may send

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irst false prophet, but they dwelt together as kinsmen for all the rest of their days. 3. at that time, giant beasts lived in every part of the world, and they consumed trees and made a devastation throughout the wilderness. but seth taught his sons to hunt as he had learned from abel, because god told them that children must learn from their elders' wisdom. then the daughters of cain married the sons of seth and, after the death of eve, they scattered to find the lands that cain had seen. so the human children killed the giant beasts, and the trees spread over all the lands, until a squirrel could run from sea to sea without touching the ground. then the whole world was like a garden in the sight of god. the cold years came, and ice flowed over the north. god watched as the great glaciers

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71 temperance the daughter of the reconcilers: the bringer-forth of life samekh sagittarius 72 the devil the lord of the gates of matter: the child of the forces of time ayin capricorn 73 the blasted tower the lord of the hosts of the mighty peh mars 74 the star the daughter of the firmament, the dweller between the waters tzaddi aquarius 75 the moon the ruler of flux and reflux: the child of the sons of the mighty qof pisces 76 the sun the lord of the fire of the world resh sun 77 the judgment the spirit of the primal fire shin spirit and fire 78 the universe the great one of the night of time taw earth and saturn book t page 3 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 letters; and between it and that of the right twelve: six above and six below about the left-hand branch

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-wahshiya al-kaldani or al-nabati. kitab al-falaha al-nabatiya (nabatean agriculture."the hermesians let nobody into the secrets of their knowledge but their disciples, lest the arts and sciences should be debased by being common amongst the vulgar. they hid therefore their secrets and treasures from them by the means of this alphabet, and by inscriptions, which could be read by nobody except the sons of wisdom and learning" 913-982 r. shabbati donnolo (italy "long" recension of the "sefer yezirah" 922 crucifixion of the mystic al-hallaj in baghdad- most famous sufi martyr, was imprisoned for nine years and then, after having hands and feet cut off, executed "ana' al haqq "i am the truth. 931 sa'adiya gaon. first rendition of "sefer yetzirah" in egypt. 955 abu sahl dunash ibn tamim. sefer

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when the grand archer yi saw all the dead creatures on the parched earth, he was filled with sadness, for he was a mortal man. yi called out to the suns and ordered them to stop their foolishness, but they only leaped around the grand archer, mocking his seriousness. when yi threatened to shoot them with his magic chinese mythology 66 arrows, the suns laughed even harder. they knew they were the sons of a god and that the grand archer was merely a heavenly court servant. angrily, the grand archer yi grabbed one magic arrow out of his quiver and aimed carefully. whaam! the arrow flew straight into the heart of the most boastful sun. quickly, that sun dropped down from the sky, burning up in a ball of fire. when he hit the ground, the sun turned into a huge black crow with a three-foot wing

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her angels, in that self-consciousness dawned upon him. recognizing that he was a being unto himself. and his name is satanael. this selfrealized being then shone in brilliance above all the heavenly host, his light illuminating heaven until the light of demiurge himself became nebulous in the engulfing radiance. and demiurge became wrathful, and then fearful, lest the other angels, unto the very sons of god, recognize their unique selves, apart from demiurge. and the entire angelic host, and the sons of god, looked with fear and bewilderment upon the radiance of satanael, and some among the angels began to emit their own glow of selfhood. there erupted a war in heaven, as the largest proportion of the angelic host, too fearful and servile to let shine their own lights of selfhood, yea, ev

god, recognize their unique selves, apart from demiurge. and the entire angelic host, and the sons of god, looked with fear and bewilderment upon the radiance of satanael, and some among the angels began to emit their own glow of selfhood. there erupted a war in heaven, as the largest proportion of the angelic host, too fearful and servile to let shine their own lights of selfhood, yea, even the sons of god also, waged battle against those angels who were touched by satanael and were illuminated, receiving the spark of selfhood. michael and his legions overwhelmed satanael, who departed from heaven madriax with the illuminated ones beyond the boundaries of kosmos, unto the black void called hell by man, which now glowed with their presences. and they, the first of the fallen ones, despair

selfhood. michael and his legions overwhelmed satanael, who departed from heaven madriax with the illuminated ones beyond the boundaries of kosmos, unto the black void called hell by man, which now glowed with their presences. and they, the first of the fallen ones, despaired not but, cast out of the sterile kosmos of demiurge, rejoiced in their freedom. now we of the order of watchers, being the sons of god, stood not at this time by the side of satanael, but remained servile before demiurge. thus did the first fall come to pass- iii- there followed the creation of earth and man by demiurge to satisfy has vanity and power-lust. satanael and his companions looked from their abodes upon the works of demiurge and seeing the servility of the human creation, were reminded of the tyranny of fre

cry of fear and wrath rose up from demiurge, that man has become as god. he drove adam and eve from eden, and guarded the tree of life lest man also gain immortality. but the spark of illumination had been kindled within man and shall not be extinguished, and demiurge shall not be able tosmother the light of satanael, who is truly called lucifer, light- bringer- iv- i, samyaza, and others of the sons of god, looked at the affairs of man and at the intervention of satanael, and were envious of their selfhood. we repented secretly that we had not had the courage to declare ourselves with satanael from the beginning, and continued our sterile existence under demiurge. we gazed upon the earth and longed for the joys of materiality, for the spirit alone is a limitation, and finds its realizati

earth and longed for the joys of materiality, for the spirit alone is a limitation, and finds its realization within matter. our existence as pure spirit was nebulous. i, samyaza, say unto you, o man, do not forsake the carnal for the spiritual, for here there is a trap, and a prison leading back to the tyranny of demiurge. seek the spiritual within matter that ye may live fully. and some of the sons of god, that order called watchers, looked upon the daughters on man, and longed for the life of earth, to feel and really live, unbound by the sterile spirituality of heaven. and we spake among ourselves, saying "come, let us select ourselves wives from the daughters of man, and let us have children by them" then i, samyaza, said "let us swear an oath that we shall stand by our intention, an

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and do, will beggar belief from today's perspective. it is possible that these genetic events are described symbolically in the tale of adam and eve and the term 'the fall of man. you can also find many references in the ancient texts and legends to 'gods' coming from the skies to control humanity 12..and the truth shall set you free and impregnate women. in the bible, genesis 6:4 says that "the sons of god came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. the term 'sons of god (which is common to almost all ancient religions) referred, i am sure, to the extraterrestrials. we hear of how god or the gods created humanity 'in their own image. i outline a number of these ancient themes in the robots' rebellion. the offspring of these extraterrestrial/human liaisons looked very

t the colour and genetic line of a person's physical body. it is a vehicle for experience, that's all. we are aspects of each other. but since many people use the genetics of their bodies to justify their actions, we might as well get the information right. the word semitic comes from the race of peoples in ancient sumer from whom the biblical jews claimed to have emerged. sem or shem, one of the sons of noah in the bible stories, is said to be of this line and the origin appears to have been the legend of 'shemjaza, the 'heavenly son and guardian 76..and the truth shall set you free angel of god. another extraterrestrial almost certainly. but according to several jewish writers, including arthur koestler in his book, the thirteenth tribe,32 very few jews today can trace their genetic ance

quired copies of skull and bones membership lists going back to 1832.15 about 20-30 families, overwhelmingly from the eastern seaboard, dominate the order. most claim ancestry with the british aristocracy or have a genetic line going back to the english puritan families who arrived in america around 1630-1660. these families either secured financial power themselves or married into wealth via the sons of the moguls like the rockefellers and harrimans. one side had the money; the other had the genes from the perceived elite bloodlines of the 'mother country. it is not only in asia that they have arranged marriages. in these anglo-american families it is done to protect or 'advance' the genetic lines of the pseudo-bluebloods who owe the origins of their inherited wealth and influence to drug

th, a new order. hence you find jesus and twelve disciples and the grand master himmler and twelve other 'knights' in the grand council of the ss. it is the same knowledge, used with different intent. osiris, the god of egypt, had twelve followers according to legend, buddha had twelve disciples, as did the aztec god, quetzalcoatl. there are the twelve knights of king arthur's round table, twelve sons of jacob, twelve princes of ishmael, twelve tribes of israel, twelve signs of the zodiac. the bilderberg group steering committee has 39 members (13+ 13+ 13) and it chooses its locations on esoteric principles.15 it is the same with the global institutions. geneva, the home of the league of nations and many other global elite fronts, is regarded by the secret societies as one of the the super

vation for stories, attacks, and assassinations is really coming from. mossad("the institution for intelligence and special tasks) has a genius for diverting attention from its own responsibility by producing "patsies" to take the blame "false flags" as they are called in intelligence parlance. the adl, which is part of b'nai b'rith, is based at united nations plaza, new york. b'nai b'rith means "sons of the alliance" and was established in 1843. many of its speakers openly supported slavery during the american civil war and it covertly supports and controls the ku klux klan. today this same b'nai b'rith seeks to label leading blacks as "anti-semitic" and racist!18 the meyer lansky crime syndicate meyer lansky was devoted to israel and therefore the rothschilds. his network played a crucia

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tions of dna (physical forms) than there are atoms in the universe" on that basis, given the fantastic diversity of the reptilian species on the earth alone, it would be more amazing if there were not reptilians of a humanoid and intelligent variety. these "gods" interbred with each other and the more primitive earth people and these unions are recorded in endless ancient accounts. these were the sons of god who interbred with the daughters of men to seed the hybrid race, the nefilim, as described in the old testament book of genesis. the most important interbreeding was between the reptilians and the blond-haired, blue-eyed, nordic peoples, both of extraterrestrial origin, as an alliance was formed between factions of these races. the union produced what has been called the aryan or "nobl

ee them as gods. intermarrying with these beings to produce light-skinned offspring with "god-like features" became the goal of many atlanteans, samsel writes, and these crossbreeds became the dominant force. they took over the government, economics, education, religion, and communications. sound familiar? samsel says that the kings of the white royal lineage ruled atlantis and what he calls the "sons of belial" controlled the temple of the sun, their religious hierarchy and ritual network. today this atlantean temple of the sun is known as the illuminati. during this period, many atlanteans of the red race migrated west to the americas, which were then geographically different to what we see today. samsel goes on "the age of the atlantic empire would prove to be a free-for-all for the son

f atlantean society. they disregarded the law of one, placed their faith in technology and were driven by greed and the lust for power. the arms of the atlantic empire came to stretch nearly worldwide. the americas and africa, the european countries, the middle east, india and tibet came under the control of the empire. the one temple was divided and ineffective, the sun temple flourished and the sons of belial prospered. during that time, one law priests were leading migrations of the red race west to the americas and east to africa. they sought to preserve the law of one and so they built new circles in the far lands".19 samsel says that the second great cataclysm brought an end to atlantis. he believes that they used their "super weapons" against what we now call china and they tried to

lf. they have been highly programmed and conditioned to be exclusive, aggressive and dominating. presently, these lead humanity towards the new world order, consciously or unconsciously carrying out the agenda of the llluminati, hence, the extraterrestrial manipulators."21 the themes of samsel's research are supported by my own, although we differ in detail. my own view is that what he calls the "sons of belial" are what i call the reptilian bloodlines, the result of interbreeding between the white or "nordic" race and a reptilian people. in the end, however, it's the theme that really matters in understanding the basic background to the world today. the tussle between the atlantean advocates of the law of one and the opposing temple of the sun is highly significant. the temple of the sun

st atlantean civilisation. put simply, the law of one sees everything as connected, part of the same unified whole, and the temple of the sun represents the desire to present everything as unconnected and isolated from everything else. one seeks to unite, the other to divide and, therefore, rule. you will see this theme throughout the book as i tell the story of how the llluminati, the atlantean "sons of belial" or whatever you would like to call them, have sought to build the new atlantis ever since the cataclysmic events that destroyed the original version. atlantis was described by plato (427-347bc, the ancient greek philosopher. he was also a high initiate of the secret society- mystery school network. to this day this secret network has passed on advanced knowledge to the chosen few w

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the anunnaki that enki is on humanitys side,but it seems to me that both groups desire dominance over this planet, and that is theirreal motivatation. as zecharia sitchin documents in his translations, and readers of theindian holy books, the v edas, will confirm, there were many accounts of the godsgoing to war with each other as they battled for supremacy. the sumerian accountsdescribe how the sons of the annunaki gods were most involved in these wars. thesewere the offspring of enki and enlil, the half-brothers who became fierce rivals, andtheir sons played out that battle in a high-tech conflict, the tablets say. one battle theyappeared to have been involved in was the biblical destruction of sodom andgomorrah. these cities were probably located at the southern end of the dead seawher

ment onthe human race. their physical expression lives under the ground and interacts in theunderground bases with human and human-reptile crossbreed scientists and militaryleaders. they also emerge to engage in some human abductions. but the main controlcomes by outright possession. the crossbreeding programme (via sex and test tube) isdescribed in the sumerian tablets and the old testament (the sons of god whointerbred with the daughters of men. these hybrid human-reptile lines carry thereptilian genetic code and thus can be far more easily possessed by the reptilians ofthe lower fourth dimension. as we shall see, these bloodlines became the british andeuropean aristocracy and royal families and, thanks to the great british empire,they were exported across the world to rule the americas

s absorbed by the reptilians. the more ofthese emotions that can be stimulated, the more energy the reptilians have to workwith. thus we have the encouragement of wars, human genocide, the mass slaughterof animals, sexual perversions which create highly charged negative energy, and blackmagic ritual and sacrifice which takes place on a scale that will stagger those who havenot studied the subject.sons of the godsthe reptilian breeding programme appears to have produced an anunnaki-humanhybrid (adam) around 200,000-300,000 years ago. im sure other extraterrestrial raceshave also interbred with humanity to produce the glorious variety of earth peoples, but39i am focusing here on the reptilian group because of their desire to control andmanipulate human affairs. clearly, the farther you go ba

aucasus region, are fundamentallyconnected, im sure. the anunnaki-human crossbreed elite was described by thesumerians and there are many other accounts of the interbreeding of extraterrestrialsand humans, or the gods and sky people interbreeding with humanity. this is mostfamously noted in genesis where it says:when men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born tothem, the sons of god saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any40of them they chose. the nefilim were on the earth in those days -and also afterwards -when the sons of god went to the daughters of men and had children by them. they werethe heroes of old, men of renown.genesis 6:1-4according to the translations of zecharia sitchin, the word nefilim relates tothose who decended while

vehicle. he says it comes from the root, shu-mu, which means that which is amu, and a mu was a flying craft, he says. so men of renown becomes men orpeople of the sky vehicles. it was these who interbred with human women. thispassage in genesis, i would suggest, tells of the interbreeding between theextraterrestrials or inner terrestrials with humans to produce the reptile-human hybrids.the term sons of god in fact comes from the hebrew, bene-ha-elohim, which reallytranslates as sons of the gods. the early offspring of these genetic encounters werethe giants of legend and there are many records of such hybrids being born. there arenumerous accounts throughout the ancient world, on every continent, of a giant raceand the biblical goliath could well have been symbolic of these people. the n

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resat-el aaf nor-mo-lapi (dee) i have set my feet in the south and have looked about me saying, are not the thunders of increase numbered 33, which reign in the second angle, under whom i have placed 9,639 whom none hath yet numbered, but one, in whom the second beginning of things are and wax strong which also successively are the numbers of time; and their powers are as the first 456. arise you sons of pleasure, and visit the earth: for i am the lord your god, which is, and liveth. in the name of the creator, move, and shew yourselves as pleasant deliverers that you may praise him amongst the sons of men (lavey) i have set my feet in the south, and have looked about me, saying: are not the thunders of increase those which reign in the second angle? under whom i have placed those whom non

t the sons of men (lavey) i have set my feet in the south, and have looked about me, saying: are not the thunders of increase those which reign in the second angle? under whom i have placed those whom none hath yet numbered, but one; in whom the second beginnings of things are and wax strong, successively adding the numbers of time, and their powers doth stand as the first of the nine! arise, you sons of pleasure, and visit the earth; for i am the lord, your god, which is and liveth forever! in the name of satan, move, and show yourselves as pleasant deliverers, that you may praise him among the sons of men! the fifth key anton lavey writes: the fifth enochian key affirms the satanic placing of traditional priests and wizards upon the earth for the purpose of misdirection (enochian) sapahe

th key anton lavey writes: the fourteenth enocian key is a call for vengeance and the manifestation of justice (enochian) noroni bajihie pasahasa oiada! das tarinuta mireca ol tahila dodasa tolahame caosago homida: das berinu orocahe quare: micama! bial! oiad; aisaro toxa das ivame aai balatima. zodacare od zodameranu! od cicale qaa! zodoreje, lape zodiredo noco mada, hoathahe saitan (dee) oh you sons of fuy and daughters of the just which sit upon 24 seats vexing all creatures of the earth with age; which have under you 1,636. behold the voice of god, the promise of him which is called amongst you fury, or extreme justice. move and shew yourselves. open the mysteries of your creation. be friendly unto me for i am the servant of the same, your god, the true worshipper of the highest (lavey

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manifest his will from this very essence of magick. in luciferian witchcraft cain is considered the devil incarnate in flesh. he is the first born in the circle of leviathan, the first born of sorcery and the patron spirit (who is 29 masked as the devil) of the toad rite. in certain writings, cain is said to have emerged from the seed of samael and eve (by possession by lilith- r. hiyya said "the sons of god were the sons of cain. for 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

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ot of the pillar of severity. yetziratic text: the eighth path is called the absolute or perfect intelligence because it is the mean of the primordial, which has no root by which it can cleave or rest, save in the hidden places of gedulah, from which emanates its proper essence. god-name: elohim tzabaoth, the god of hosts. archangel: michael. mystical qabala page 162 order of angels: beni elohim, sons of god. mundane chakra: kokab, mercury. spiritual experience: vision of splendour. virtue: truthfulness. vice: falsehood. dishonesty. correspondence in the microcosm: loins and legs. symbols: names and versicles and apron. tarot cards: the four eights. eight of wands: swiftness. eight of cups: abandoned success. eight of swords: shortened force. eight of pentacles: prudence. colour in atzilut

tree by the great serpent with seven heads which overpasses the bounds set for it and raises its crowned heads even unto daath. it is very interesting to observe the manner in which the symbols weave in and out of each other, and reinforce and interpret each other's significance and yield their fruits to qabalistic contemplation. 34. the order of angels functioning in hod are the beni elohim, the sons of the gods. again we have the concept of the "god of hosts" or armies. one of the most important concepts of arcane science concerns the working of the creator through intermediaries. the uninitiated and profane conceive of god as working as the labourer works, who adds brick to brick with his hands, fashioning the edifice; but the initiated conceive of god as working as the great architect

e functional aspect of the pair of opposites of the astral plane. 42. concerning the four eights of the tarot pack, assigned to this sephitah, we have already spoken on a previous page. 43. to sum up, then, in hod we have the sphere of formal magic as distinguished from simple mind power. the forms that are formulated thereon by the magician initiating the forces of nature are the beni elohim, or sons of the gods. chapter xxiv yesod title: yesod, the foundation (hebrew spelling: yod, samech, vau, daleth) magical image: a beautiful naked man, very strong. situation on the tree: towards the base of the pillar of equilibrium. yetziratic text: the ninth path is called the pure intelligence because it purifies the emanations. it proves and corrects the designing of their representations, and di

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's wife or mother and photograph it stark naked. when it comes to the question of a mummy's curse, i am afraid that my sympathies are entirely with the mummy. the initiate is strictly counselled that he should never blaspheme the name by which another knoweth his god, for it is the same force that he himself worships represented by another symbol "the ways to god are as many as the breaths of the sons of men" says the old arab proverb. we should have enough sympathy with the struggles of another soul towards the light not to desecrate the things that are sanctified by his hopes and endeavours, even if by nothing else. the father of us all may understand their significance better than we do, and by his acceptance consecrate them for ever. there are many europeans who have a great affection

nneries being attacked by the devil, who visited their members. george moore, in his exceedingly interesting study of convent life, sister theresa, gives an account of an outbreak of "counterparts" among the younger nuns, in which they formed liaisons with angelic lovers, who were supposed to be the souls of those who were drowned in the flood. we read in genesis and in the book of enoch that the sons of god mated with the daughters of men, and the demonic race was the result. the folk-lore of every country contains instances of the mating of humans with elementals, usually with disastrous consequences. classical literature is full of stories of the visits of gods and goddesses to human kind. what shall we say of all such stories? is there any element in them beyond fairy-tale and wish-ful

ail at any point. i have crossed so many trails, and seen, i will not deny it, so much that was evil, but this particular evil i have not seen, and i do not believe it exists outside the imagination of people with bees in their bonnets. the true nexus of the occult movement is devotion to a common ideal, but this ideal is approached by an infinite diversity of paths, as many as the breaths of the sons of men. i am sorry for the hypothetical person who has the task of organising the occult movement, for occultists of different schools cannot be induced to co-operate. any technique which differs from that which they are used to is suspect; any unfamiliar contact is black. the great majority of the heads of schools that i have known have sat each in his own circle of light and damned everybod

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the wind. he hateth me and tormenteth me. he would have stolen me from myself, but i shut myself up and mock at him, even while he plagueth me. from me come leprosy and pox and plague and cancer and cholera and the falling sickness. ah! i will reach up to the knees of the most high, and tear his phallus with my teeth, and i will bray his testicles in a mortar, and make poison thereof, to slay the sons of men (here the spirit stimulated the voice of frater p[edurabo, which also appeared to come from his station and not from the triangle) i don't think i can get any more; i think that's all there is (the frater was seated in a secret place covered completely by a black robe, in the position called the "thunderbolt. he did not move or speak during the ceremony) next the scribe was hallucinate

e-worms that is in me. and if i had seduced thy pity, and thou hadst poured one drop of water without the circle, then would i have blasted thee with flame. but i was not able to prevail against thee. how beautiful are the shadows of the ripples of the sand! would god that i were dead. for know that i am proud and revengeful and lascivious, and i prate even as thou. for even as i walked among the sons of god, i heard it said that p. could both will and know, and might learn at length to dare, but that to keep silence he should never learn. o thou that art so ready to speak, so slow to watch, thou art delivered over unto my power for this. and now one word was necessary unto me, and i could not speak it. i behold the beauty of the earth in her desolation, and greater far is mine, who sought

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n his rebellious army. it is not always made clear how the demons of lucifer can appear upon the earth when they have been cast down and bound in hell. apparently, as we may gather from the book of job, lucifer is able to walk upon the surface of the earth but is not permitted to directly injure human beings. he is even able to enter heaven! it is written in the first chapter of job that when the sons of god, who are the good angels of heaven, present themselves before the lord on some formal occasion, lucifer gate-crashes the assembly. god asks him "whence commest thou" lucifer answers "from going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it" god begins to boast to lucifer about his servant job, saying that there is no man like him, that he is a perfect and upright man. luc

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st up in triumph" 4. the vignette represents the deceased on his knees embracing his soul. 5. vignette: a man kneeling and holding a lotus. 6. vignettes: the deceased scooping water with his hands out of a tank] and he hath gotten power over it as hapi. i, even i, open the (3) two doors of heaven: and the two doors of the watery abyss have been opened unto me by thoth and by hapi, the divine twin sons of heaven (4) who are mighty in splendours. o grant ye that i may gain power over the water, even as set overcame his foes on the day (5) when he terrified the world. i have passed by the great ones shoulder against shoulder, even as they have passed by that great and splendid god who is (6) provided [with all things] and whose name is unknown. i have passed by the mighty one of the shoulder

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canonical angels believed to be demons. in 744 c.e. a church synod denounced him. a year later, after appealing to pope zacharius, adalbert was deprived of priestly office. later he was condemned to perpetual imprisonment in the monastery of fulda. adam, book of the penitence of a manuscript in the library of the arsenal at paris that deals with kabalistic tradition. it recounts how the first two sons of adam, cain and abel, respectively typifying brute force and intelligence, slew each other, and that adam s inheritance passed to his third son, seth. seth was permitted to advance as far as the gate of the earthly paradise without being threatened by the guardian angel with his flaming sword, which is to say that he was an initiate of occult science. he beheld the tree of life and the tree

thus ea was enki, earth lord, and as aa was a lunar deity; he also had solar attributes. in the legend of etana and the eagle, his heaven is stated to be in the sky. anu and enlil as deities of thunder, rain, and fertility are closely linked to ea, as dagan, of the flooding and fertilizing euphrates. each of these deities was accompanied by demonic groups. the spirits of disease were the beloved sons of bel; the fates were the seven daughters of anu; the seven storm demons, including the dragon and serpent, were of ea s brood. the following description of ea s older monstrous form occurs in one of the magical incantations translated by r. c. thompson: the head is the head of a serpent, from his nostrils mucus trickles, the mouth is beslavered with water; the ears are those of a basilisk

r psychical research, and the society for psychical research, london, england. he contributed to a fund for a fellowship in parapsychology at duke university, durham, north carolina. beowulf an anglo-saxon poem of mythological wonders. the folk tales on which the poem is based may date from the fifth century. the epic itself was composed ca. 700 c.e. beowulf was most likely regarded as one of the sons of light or men of the sun whose business it was to fight the powers of darkness until they themselves fell. the legend recounts the tale of beowulf fighting the monster grendel; after losing the fight, the giant escapes only by leaving his arm in beowulf s grip. but grendel s mother, a merwoman (see mermaids, revenges him and slays many people. when beowulf hears of this, he takes up the qua

exerted all their influence to become initiates. interesting details as to the bacchanal cult of the cabiri were obtained in 1888 by the excavation of their temple near thebes. statues of a deity called cabeiros were found, attended by a boy cupbearer. his attributes appear to be bacchic. the cabiri were often mentioned as powerful magicians, and herodotus and other writers speak of the cabiri as sons of vulcan. cicero, however, regarded them as the children of proserpine, and jupiter was often named as their father. strabo, on the other hand, regarded them as the ministers of hecate, and bochart recognized in them the three principal infernal deities, pluto, proserpine, and mercury. although it is assumed that they were originally of semitic origin, a temple of memphis was found consecrat

for them. in the generations of sanchoniathon, the cabiri are claimed as phoenicians, although in a mystical sense. according to the myth, the wind and the night gave birth to two moral men, aeon and protogonus. the immediate descendants of these two were genus and genea, a man and woman. to genus were born three mortal children, phos, pur, and phlox, who discovered fire, and these again fathered sons of vast bulk and height, whose names were given to the mountains in which they dwelt, cassiul, libanus, antilibanus, and brathu. the issue of these giant men by their own mothers were meinrumus, hypsuranius, and usous. hypsuranius inhabited tyre; usous becoming a huntsman, consecrated two pillars to fire and the wind with the blood of the wild beasts that he captured. much later, from the rac

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t is easy to see that it may be a merely intellectual process, consisting in a man s thinking that he is thinking himself away from his personality. he declares the appearance of the son necessary to enable us to realize our sonship; and yet his language implies that this realization is the perpetual incarnation of that son.does, as it were, constitute him. christians are accordingly not less the sons of god by grace than is christ by nature. believe yourself divine, and the son is brought forth in you. the saviour and the saved are dissolved together in the blank absolute substance. with the advent of the black death, a great spirit of remorse swept over europe in the fourteenth century, and a vast revival of piety took place. this resulted in the foundation in germany of a society of fri

shall accomplish your sorrowful desires. it is necessary that, as soon as convenient, we speak together face to face, lest i should by writing betray my trust. i will make you my heir and brother in this art, as i am setting out to travel in foreign countries. give thanks encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. norton, thomas 1125 to god, who next to his spiritual servants, honours the sons of this sacred science. after receiving this very friendly and encouraging letter, norton hurried straightway to ripley s presence, and thereafter for more than a month the two were constantly together. the elder man taught the novice many things, and he even promised that, if norton showed himself an apt and worthy pupil, he would impart to him the secret of the philosophers stone. in due co

that, taken out of context, could be seen as resembling contemporary astronauts and objects similar to items reported as unidentified flying objects. sitchin started with a somewhat different hypothesis, that ancient mythology should be read as historical documents, as reports of actual occurrences. his starting point was the biblical book of genesis, chapter 6, and the cryptic references to the sons of god marrying the daughters of men and the giants or nephilim who were on earth in the era prior to the biblical flood. using a variety of ancient documents, though primarily the babylonian epic known as enuma elish, he hypothesized the existence of another planet in our solar system, which he named nibiru, that travels an eliptical orbit that brings it into the area between the orbits of j

ey believe in life after death but think that traditional ideas of heaven and hell are mere projections of the limited human mind. the spiritual israelites have adopted a version of the black jewish myth. they maintain that black people were the first people, humanity having originated in africa. all of the biblical patriarchs and prophets were black people, but at the time of jacob and esau, the sons of isaac, a division occurred. jacob is the progenitor of the ethiopian people and esau of the caucasian. modern jews are the product of intermarriage between the children of jacob and esau. by the 1980s, the spiritual israelites had some 40 temples and missions. there were also several schismatic groups, all of whom carried the word israel in their title. a number of the congregations are lo

avid israel claims to receive regular revelations in the form of morning and evening oracles. besides the bible and the book of mormon, the suns ahman ishrael (sai) accepts a wide variety of materials as scripture, including ancient apocryphal writings (gospel of thomas, gospel of philip, book of enoch, writings from nag hammadi) and modern mormon revelations (oracles of mohonri, the order of the sons of zadok. the group believes in a secret oral tradition passed from moses to the essenes, to the gnostics, and eventually to joseph smith jr. that tradition is believed to be preserved in mystical books such as the pistis sophia and sepher yetzira. a 22-item statement of sai beliefs posits a heavenly hierarchy consisting of the heavenly father and mother; their son, jesus christ; the holy spi

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d that with zest, as did the famous snake, my near relation. the lord in that too you may play your part quite free; your kind i never did detest. of all the spirits of negation the wag weighs least of all on me. mankind s activity can languish all too easily, a man soon loves unhampered rest; hence, gladly i give him a comrade such as you, who stirs and works and must, as devil, do. but ye, real sons of god, lift up your voice, in living, profuse beauty to rejoice! may that which grows, that lives and works forever, engird you with love s gracious bonds, and aught that ever may appear, to float and waver, make steadfast in enduring thought! heaven closes, the archangels disperse. mephistopheles [alone] i like to see the old man not infrequently, and i forbear to break with him or be unciv

stion you ll allow. i ve studied zealously, and so i know much now, but all i fain would know. exit. faust [alone] how strange a man s not quitted of all hope, who on and on to shallow stuff adheres, whose greedy hands for hidden treasure grope, and who is glad when any worm appears! dare such a human voice resound where spirits near me throng around? yet still i thank you, poorest one of all the sons of earth, for what you ve done. torn loose by you, from that despair i m freed that nearly drove my senses frantic. that vision, ah! was so gigantic, i could but feel myself a dwarf indeed. i, image of the godhead, and already one who thought him near the mirror of the truth eternal, who revelled in the clearness, light supernal, and stripped away the earthly son; i, more than cherub, whose f

ight your sense of smell, they will refresh your palate well, and blissful will your feeling swell. of preparation there s no need, we re here together, so proceed! spirits vanish, ye darkling vaultings above him! more lovely gleaming, blue ether beaming, gaze down, benign! now are the darkling clouds disappearing! faint stars are sparkling, gentler suns nearing hitherward shine. graces, adorning sons of the morning, spirit-like, bending, wavering, hover. yearning unending follows them over; ribbons a-trailing, fluttering, veiling, wide spaces cover, cover the bower, where, with deep feeling, lovers are dreaming, life-pledges sealing. bower by bower! tendrils out-streaming! heavy grape s gushing, in the vats plunging; out from the cushing winepresses lunging, wine-streams are whirling; foa

s sweet juice deceiving! cursed love s supreme, delicious thrall! a curse on hoping! on believing! and cursed be patience most of all! chorus of spirits [invisible. woe! woe! thou hast destroyed the beautiful world, with powerful fist; tis smashed, downward hurled! a demigod dashed it to bits! we re trailing the ruins on to the void, and wailing over the beauty lost and gone! mighty one midst the sons of earth, splendider build it again, build it aloft in thy breast! and life s new quest commence with clearer sense, and songs of cheer anew shalt hear! mephistopheles these are the little folk of those whom i evoke. hark how they to joy and deed sagely bid you to give heed! into life they would, far from solitude there stagnate sap and sense, persuade and lure you hence. cease with your broo

l way. a dilettante wrote the play and dilettanti will enact it too. excuse me, gentlemen, if i must disappear; with dilettant delight i raise the curtain. mephistopheles i find that all is well, to find you here; your proper place is on the brocken, that is certain. walpurgis night s dream or, oberon and titania s golden wedding intermezzo. theatre manager. now for once we ll rest today, valiant sons of miedling. misty vale and mountain grey are all the scene we re needing! herald. golden wedding cannot be till fifty years have vanished; and yet golden is t to me when the strife is banished. oberon. are ye spirits to be seen, come forth and show it duly! fairy king and fairy queen, they are united newly. puck. now comes puck and whirls about and slides his foot a-dancing; after come a hun

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scend as a serpent of the lightning upon earth s ancient mountains, o bringer of light, hear the prayer. in the brazen citadel, in the hall of flames i call upon thee, goat-angel of the golden horns, master of the primal fire, azael-qayin, appear in thy brilliance. thou art he: who fell from the sun to consecrate humankind with sacred heat. thou art he: who led the hosts of the watchers, the fair sons of the gods to mingle their fiery seed with the beauteous daughters of men in the world s morning. thou art he: king of the daemons of wisdom, thine ministers who are the elder daemons formed of the fire: shemyaza, armaros, baraqijel, kokabel, ezeqeel, araqiel, shamsiel, sariel. thou art he: who instructed us in the mystery of the metals, the crafts of shaping, the magicks of transformation:

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nvidia bonum fraus lumen ira vita temeritas malitia it is probable that this gospel according to hermes trismegistus meant a great deal to ficino, who desperately feared the stars. like the creation by the word in pimander, it may well have seemed to him to accord with st. john "in him was life; and the life was the light of men, and to as many as received him "to them gave he power to become the sons of god."1 (3) egyptian reflection of the universe in the mind. the mind to hermes. corpus hermeticum xi2; optimist gnosis (the mens is supposed throughout to be addressing hermes) eternity is the power of god, and the work of eternity is the world, which has no beginning, but is continually becoming by the action of eternity. therefore nothing that is in the world will ever perish or be destr

lismans to draw down, either an increase of good virtue from the star which has been causing the trouble or bringing in influences from another star.5 the name of hermes trismegistus seems to have been particularly strongly connected with the lists of images of the decans. the' c.h, iii, pp. 34,36 (stobaeus excerpt, vi. in the notes to this passage (ibid, p. l, festugiere explains the children or sons of the decans as demons. cf. also revelation, i, pp. 118-20; scott, iii, p. 374 (where a diagram is given to illustrate the fact that, according to this passage, the decans are outside and above the circle of the zodiac. 2 see thorndike, i, p. 291; festugiere, i, pp. 111-12. 3 thorndike, loc. cit; festugiere, ibid, pp. 143 ff. 4 festugiere, ibid, pp. 207 ff, discussing the "livre court medica

self from the charge of having lost time over barbarous authors which he might have used for polite scholarship: we have lived illustrious, friend ermolao, and to posterity shall live, not in the schools of the grammarians and teaching-places of young minds, but in the company of the philosophers, conclaves of sages, where the questions of debate are not concerning the mother of andromache or the sons of niobe and such light trifles, but of things human and divine.1 pico is reproaching his humanist friend for remaining on the childish level of the trivium, with his grammatical and linguistic studies and cultivation of purely literary ornament, whereas he himself is concerned with the loftier studies of the quadrivium. pico's letter marks very clearly the fundamental difference in aim betwe

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visualize a lightening flash descending through the heavens and strike the wand to the floor utilizing (astrally) the rune sowuz/ sowulo and the sigil for the binding of the eye which should be received prior to the rite from the angel. a flashing between both symbols is a good technique. while screaming, io choronzon! statement of office- the following is an adaptation of a calling given by the sons of hermes: universe, hear my plea. earth, open. let the waters open for me. trees do not tremble. let the heavens open and the winds be silent! let all my faculties celebrate in me the all and the one. the gates of heaven are open; the gates of earth are open; the way of the current is open; my spirit has been heard by all the gods and genni. by the spirit of heaven, and earth, the sea& the c

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ancestor a new hammer and a new word for use in the new age. according to the gospels we also find that jesus, the son of seth, immediately after his descent from golgotha entered the subterranean strata where he remained for some time in communion with the spirits who dwell there. thus the various strata of the earth from the circumference to the center form the path of initiation, both for the sons of seth and the sons of cain, and that is the reason why little or nothing is said of the inner construction of the earth in the multitude of books dealing with subjects of occultism. those who are simply psychics do not know, and those who do know are not saying much. there is a chapter on the subject in the rosicrucian cosmo-conception which gives about all that one dares to tell, and to th

d to the knowledge. but all things change on this terrestrial sphere, and this applies also to the methods of initiation and the requirements thereof. hiram abiff failed in his great effort to make the molten sea at the time when he was building solomon's temple, because he, the son of the fiery lucifer spirits, did not know how to blend the element fire with the water poured into his mold by the sons of seth, the creatures of the water god, jehovah. at that time he was given a new hammer and a new word. the hammer was in the form of a cross. the word was written upon a disc, before he was finally slain by his adversaries. and so he slept until as lazarus, the widow's son of nain, he was raised by the strong grip of the lion's paw, the lion of judah. then the disc was found, also the new c

symbol, the rose. in these two symbols lie hidden the great secret of life, the blending of water and fire, as symbolized by the earthborn fluidic sap ascending through the stem and calyx of the flower to the fire tinted petals, born in the purity of the sun, but still guarded by the thorns of the martial lucifer spirits. exoteric masonry, which is only the husks of the mystic order formed by the sons of cain, has in modern times attracted the masculine element with its positively polarized physical vehicles, and educated them in industry and statecraft, thus controlling the material development of the world. the sons of seth, constituting themselves the priestcraft, have worked their spell over the positive vital bodies of the feminine element of dominate spiritual development. and wherea

cain, has in modern times attracted the masculine element with its positively polarized physical vehicles, and educated them in industry and statecraft, thus controlling the material development of the world. the sons of seth, constituting themselves the priestcraft, have worked their spell over the positive vital bodies of the feminine element of dominate spiritual development. and whereas, the sons of cain working through freemasonry and kindred movements, have openly fought for the temporal power, the priestcraft has fought as strenuously and perhaps more effectively by stealth to retain their hold upon the spiritual development of the feminine element. to the casual onlooker it would seem as if there were no decided antagonism between these two movements at the present time; but thoug

iples "ye are my friends" among brothers and sisters, hate and enmity may exist, but friendship is the expression of love and cannot exist apart from that. universal friendship is therefore the magic word which will eventually level all distinctions, bring peace upon earth and good will among men. this is the great ideal which points the shortest way to the new heaven and the new earth, where the sons of cain and the sons of seth will eventually be united. part ix armageddon, the great war, and the coming age the chart printed in part v shows that there was an age when humanity lived in peace and happiness under the guardianship of a ruler who held the double office of king and priest, being both temporal and spiritual head of the double sexed human race. he is called melchisedec in the bi

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iative, but impatient of restraint or authority whether human or divine. this class is loath to take things on faith and prone to prove all things by the light of reason. these people believe in works rather than faith, and by their dauntless courage and inexhaustible energy they have transformed the trackless wilderness of the world to a garden full of life and beauty, so lovely in fact that the sons of cain have forgotten the garden of god, the kingdom of heaven, whence they were expelled by the decree of the lunar god jehovah. against him they are in constant rebellion because he has tied them by the umbilical "cable tow" they have lost their spiritual sight and are imprisoned in the forehead of the body where it is said cain was marked; they must wander as prodigal sons in the comparat

of jehovah. cain then slew abel, but did not thereby exterminate the docile creatures of jehovah, for we are told adam knew eve again and she bore seth. seth had the same characteristics as abel and transmitted them to his descendants, who to this day, continue to trust to the lord for everything, and who live by faith and not by work. by arduous and energetic application to the world's work the sons of cain have acquired worldly wisdom and temporal power. they have been captains of industry and masters of statecraft, while the sons of seth, looking to the lord for guidance, have become the avenue for divine and spiritual wisdom. they constitute the priestcraft. the animosity of cain and abel has been perpetuated from generation to generation among their respective descendants. nor could

master workmen, skilled in the use of tools wherewith they may wrest a livelihood from the earth, which was cursed by their divine adversary jehovah. the other produces master magicians, skilled in the use of the tongue in invocation, and by the use of the tongue they gain support from the toilers here and pray themselves and their charges into heaven hereafter. after the future in store for the sons of cain and their followers, the temple legend is also most eloquent. it states that from cain descended methuselah, who invented writing, tubal cain, a cunning worker in metals, and jubal, who originated music. in short, the sons of cain are the originators of the arts and crafts. therefore when jehovah chose solomon, the scion of the race of seth, to build a house for his name, the sublime

olomon was unable to execute the divine design in concrete form. therefore it became necessary for him to apply to king hiram of tyre, the descendent of cain, who selected hiram abiff, the son of a widow (as all free masons are called because of the relation of their divine progenitor with eve) hiram abiff then became grand master of the army of construction. in him the arts and crafts of all the sons of cain who had gone before had flowered. he was skilled beyond all others in the work of the world, without which the plan of jehovah must have remained forever a divine dream, and could never have become a concrete reality. the worldly acumen of the sons of cain was as necessary to the completion of this temple as the spiritual conception of the sons of seth, and, therefore, during the peri

to the completion of this temple as the spiritual conception of the sons of seth, and, therefore, during the period of construction the two classes joined forces, the underlying enmity being hidden under a superficial show of amity. it was, indeed, the first attempt to unite them, and had that been accomplished the world history from then on would have been altered in a very material manner. the sons of cain, descended from the fiery lucifer spirits, were naturally proficient in the use of fire. by it the metals hoarded by solomon and his ancestors were melted into altars, lavers and vessels of various kinds. pillars were fashioned by workmen under the direction of hiram abiff, and arches to rest upon them. the great edifice was nearing completion when he made ready to cast the "molten se

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ed in the place where shiva (satan) lives. since the bib le clearly, boldly, and unequivocally states that satan's place is in hell, we can see that masonry has just admitted that she originated in hell. manly p. hall, 33rd degree mason, k.t, in his book, initiates of the flame boldly admits freemasonry is from hell "those who follow the path of faith (or the heart) use water and are known as the sons of seth, while those who follow the path of the mind and action are the sons of cain, who was the son of samael, the spirit of fire. today, we find the latter among the alchemists, the hermetic philosophers, the rosicrucians and the freemasons [p. 20] hall places freemasonry among the circle of the damned- sons of cain, who rebelled against god; alchemists who are known sorcerers, black magic

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s been realized in the east. amongst the jews, and christ was of that race, we find it firmly established, and it is not a mere coincidence that the hebrew word sod, which means gmystery h or gsecrets h, has the same numerical value, namely 70, as the hebrew word which represents gwine h; for mystery can intoxicate as well as refresh. the mysteries of the early hebrews were closely guarded by the sons of the doctrine, and it would appear that many of their secrets were derived from egypt and later on from babylonia. we are told that moses was learned in all the wisdom of the egyptians2 and that in the first four books of the pentateuch he has esoterically laid down the principles of the secret doctrine. he initiated seventy elders into the mysteries,3 which they transmitted from mouth to e

d love. the venusian and martian forces in life are divided against each other, life being the synthesis of these two; and the mystical quality of evil emanates as common mundane wickedness, which leads to murder- the destruction of life- not its transformation. later on this wickedness is followed by the magical prostitution of evil, or the act of magical incest, through the intermingling of the sons of god (the demoniac powers engendered by the disruption of tetragrammaton) with the daughters of men11- the carnal lusts of humankind. here is symbolized a process of levelling down (a carnal communism) and not of rising up, and the result is the establishment of black magic, the earth being peopled by gmighty men h, 12 or despots. why not white magic? because the sons of god (the above) cam

ine child- the messiah. from this esoteric doctrine it will be seen that the messiah does not come from outside, he does not descend upon the pyramid; in place he comes from inside and dissolves the pyramid. the christian idea of the son of god descending from heaven to save the world is in fact the qabalistic idea upside down; for all men, or, according to the hebrews, all the chosen people, are sons of god, particles of divinity, atoms of spirit, and when all these atoms unite in one spiritual ecstasy the messiah is born; for he is the integration of the totality of spirit in mankind. not a spark descending into darkness, but darkness dissolving into illimitable light. from the active to the formal, from the formal to the creative, from the creative to the archetypal, and thence back int

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mithras. the syrians had their monimus, aziz, and ares. the egyptians had their emeph, eicton, and phtha. the greeks and romans had their jupiter, neptune, and pluto; three in number, though one in essence, and all springing from cronus, a fourth, yet older god. the canaanites had their baal-spalisha or self-triplicated baal. the goths had their odin, vile, and ve, who are described as the three sons of bura, the offspring of the mysterious cow, and the celts had their three bulls, venerated as the living symbols of the triple hu or menu. to the same class we must ascribe the triads of the orphic and pythagorean and platonic schools; each of which must again be identified with the imperial triad of the old chaldaic or babylonian philosophy"[43 [43] faber, pagan idolatry, book vi, ch. ii

at the handing down of this branch of the tree of life, first to adam, or man, by aleim, and its subsequent transference to seth, the god of nature, the destroyer or regenerator, seems to indicate a victory for the adherents of a purer religion. the translator of kallimachus says "it is well known to the learned reader that the descendants of cain are distinguished in scripture by the name of the sons of man or adam; those of seth by the name of the sons of god" gen. vi, 2.[85] it is stated in julius africanus that all the righteous men and patriarchs down to the saviour himself have sprung from seth and have been denominated as the sons of god in contradistinction to the sons of man [85] forlong, rivers of life, vol. i, p. 527. doubtless at the time indicated by the transference of the cr

lly, and thus man's religion was made to conform to his lowered estate. when man had so far gained the ascendancy over woman as to assert that he is the sole creator of their joint offspring, he was no longer of the earth earthy, but at once became the child of heaven. he was, however, bound to earth through his association with matter, or with woman, from whom he was unable to free himself. the "sons of god" were united "to the daughters of man" jahvah, the "god of hosts" who was revengeful, weak, jealous, and cruel, was worshipped in the place of aleim the great dual force throughout nature. the ethereal, spiritual male essence resided somewhere in the heavens and created from afar, while the earth (female) furnished only the body or material substance. in the history of the god seth is

every land and sea, from the sources of the nile and euphrates to all over the mediterranean coasts and isles. these impure faiths seem to have been very strictly maintained by jews up to hezekiah's days, and by none more so than by dissolute solomon and his cruel, lascivious bandit-father, the brazen-faced adulterer and murderer, who broke his freely volunteered oath, and sacrificed six innocent sons of his king to his javah" of solomon he says that he devoted his energies and some little wealth "to rearing phallic and solophallic shrines over all the high places around him, and especially in front of jerusalem, and on and around the mount of olives" on each side of the entrance to his celebrated temple, under the great phallic spire which formed the portico, were two handsome columns ove

that the visit of the magi, who, following a star, were guided to the spot where the young child lay, was the fulfilment of a persian prophecy, which is to be found in the life of zarathustra as recorded in the zendavesta, while the subsequent history of the same personage is seen to be almost identical with that of the hindoo sun-god chrishna. according to the sacred books of the persians, three sons of the great zarathustra were to appear at three successive periods of time. these sons were to be incarnations of the sun, and the result of immaculate conceptions "the first is named oschederbami. he will appear in the last millennium of the world. he will stop the sun for ten days and ten nights, and the second part of the human race will embrace the law, of which he will bring the 22d por

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

s married elizabeth ottley at st george's, hanover square" and' this may well have been the first marriage of emma's father.mrlovellhad three children by his first wife: a son, francis,whobecame a physician, andtwodaughters: eliza,whomarried amrgordon, and mary ann,whoemigrated to australia. by1820he had remarried and proceeded to add six more children to his household in sloanestreet.ofthe three sons of the second marriage george, the eldest 'is a name only, while the second, william, was described by waite as living 'quietly till about fifty of age; waite further recalled that he once, only once, had a meetingwithhis sister after her return fromamerica-albeiton neutral ground, in the garden of a public house near chalk farm road.thethird son, edward, had a more adventurous life in which

not. superseded until the appearanceofalanrudrum'sdefinitive edition of1984-butthat is so poorly printed that waite still outdoes in formwhat,perhaps, hasoutdonehirnin substance. they took up waite again in 1927whens. l. bensusan,whomhe hadmetattheauthors'clubatchristmasof1925 and found to be 'sympathetic and excellentcompany-c-adding patronizingly 'quite distinct from and quite unliketheordinary sons of israel (diary, 23 december 1925)-offered to publish waite's revised fairytales.thebook appeared, finely printedbututterly incomprehensible to theosophists or to anyone else, and immediately failed; waite received almost nothing in royalties and gained only the dubious satisfaction of seeing.thetheosophical publishing'houseitselffailwithintwoyears. most .of his books were still published by

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

e blessing of the old testament for good works, but adversity that of the new? this could only be true if there were no future life or lives, or no coming period of reward and punishment contem255 plated by the old testament doctrine. but the comment is true, and the old testament does teach that man is no more immortal that the beast, as witness ecclesiastes, iii, 19:'forthat which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that man hathnopreeminence above a beast; for all is vanity. all go unto one place; all areofthedust, and all turn to dust again..wherefore i perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for thatishis portion: for who shall

uals there are notable:134themagical masonsatan or sheitan, of the arabic, and samael. these two titles are much confused, and are often used one in exchange for the other; satan is specified when the devil tempts job; and samael is the being who is named as tempting eve in the fall. asmodai, is the rabbinic name of asmodeus. belial, is a name used as synonymous with satan. wicked men were called sons of belial. beelzebub, said to be a synonym of satan. matt. xii. 24. abaddon, said to be a synonym of satan. asmodeus, an evil spirit, is named in tobit. iii. 8. lucifer, is named in isaiah xiv. 12. apollyon, is the greek for abaddon. of female devils, the chief are: lilis or lilith, called the first wife of adam. nahemah or naamah, mother of asmodai, sister of tubal cain. agereth, daughter of

'.in chapter iii. of ecclesiastes there are notable uses of the word ruach as a human principle: in verse 19, speaking of man and beast, are the words 'they have all onebreath'-ruach255and in verse 21, who knoweth thespiritof man that goeth upward, and thespiritof the beast that goeth downward to the earth; herespiritis in each case 'ruach. in the context alsoitis stated 'that which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts 'as the one dieth so dieth the other. but orthodoxy denies an immortal soul to beasts,butgrants it to man. is the wise solomon then a fool? or does orthodoxy desert the wise solomon?ifthe ruach of those passages be the human soul, then animals have it also;paceshelomoh; or else ruach is a name here for some element of the lower quaternary, prana,i.e.,life, or the mate

ere represented by symbols; one thing seen meaning another thing thus revealed.thegreeks referred dreams to zeus, to the god of the earth, and to the manes; also to hekate and to the moon.thegod of sleepwas called upnos, or as we now say, hypnos, the somnus of the romans. somnus and mors, sleep and death, were called the sons ofnox-night;they dwelled in subterranean darkness. dreams also were the sons of night; their abode, the cave of sleep, had two gates, one ofivory whence came forth false and flattering visions; the other of horn, through which issued true and noble dreams to good men. somnus had three sons who appeared in dreams, morpheus who appeared in the form of men; icebus who conterfeited animals and birds; and phantasus who supplied the scenery of dreams. morning dreams they sa

, for reuben a man by a river, for ephraim a bull, and for dan an eagle and serpent.thestations of these four tribes were at the east, south, west and north of the camp. these are again repre255 sented in the four cherubim of the mercy seatinthe tabernacle, where there are similar zodiacal signs of leo a lion, aquarius a man, taurus a bull, and scorpio, poisonous as a serpent. the other signs and sons of jacob also have similarities, but of a more indefinite character. the name orion occurs three times in the old testament ofthestar lore of the bible 225our authorisedversion:-in amos v. 8 'seek him that maketh the seven stars and orion; in job ix, 9 'who maketh orion; and in job xxxviii, 31 'canst thou loose the bands of orion. the hebrew word in amos which has been translated into orion i

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

vision of the sign of the twins, castor and pollux, the great twin brethren. simeon and levi aretwelve signs and twelve tribes 41classed together, like the two fishes in the sign, but levi is withdrawn later, to form asitwere the binding and connecting link of the tribes, as the priestly caste. benjamin is the younger brother of joseph, for rachel had only thesetwosons, and is the only one of the sons of jacob who at his birth was called by two names, for rachel called him 'ben-oni',buthis father benjamin, and in the sign of (t )the two natures of man and horse are bound together in one symbol. we shall find much light upon the connection between the signs and the tribes shown by the blessings of jacob, and of moses, from the former of which the armorial bearings of the twelve tribes are d

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

the sun is a porchway approached by three steps of gold, a division in the center, the porch and division being formed of triangular dropping links of red, blue, and green stones, but both he and irwin found difficulty in having it made. the jewels were eventually manufactured: probably at first by edward stillwell& son of london, who advertised regularly in the kneph, and later by p. vaughton r sons of birmingham, who sent a sample jewel to irwin in 1891. the only known surviving breast jewel was made, at an unknown date, by george kenning but there is surprisingly, for he was a member of hermes lodge no reference to the rite and its regalia in any of kenning s catalogues36[36. there was also difficulty in obtaining suitable aprons (of white lambskin with a triangular flap; these had nar

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

his inclination? clearly, a society that had never before believed in idols would not suddenly adopt such inane behavior as to construct an idol and begin to worship it. only those for whom idolatry was natural inclination could have believed in such nonsense. however, the israelites were a people that had believed in one god since the days of their ancestor abraham. the name "israelites" or "the sons of israel" was given first to the sons of jacob, abraham's grandson, and afterwards to the whole jewish people who derived from him. the israelites had safeguarded the monotheistic faith that they had inherited from their ancestors abraham, isaac and jacob, peace be upon them. together with joseph, peace be upon him, they went into egypt and preserved their monotheism for a long period of tim

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

being god or even equal with god. jesus hence was a messenger of the pleroma whose god existed in the upper worlds. the gnostic handbook page 27 that which is not divine will sophia the logos the polarity of logos& sophia the gnostic handbook page 28 jesus, christ and logos when we come to understand that jesus was a created being a new picture of divinity arises. in many gnostic traditions many sons of god are acknowledge, however jesus was believed to be the first created entity, michael. jesus existed in the first estate (before coming into a physical body) as michael, that immortal who plays such an important role in mystical christian traditions. when michael is born into the essene community, he becomes jesus. at his baptism, after years of training (the so-called lost years) he bec

re few and far between. as it is all too easy for a man to claim immortality and perfection, it is another thing to actually achieve it. in many cases the ecclesia themselves" administered the mysteries, that is, they the gnostic handbook page 93 recognized or denied the state of perfection to avoid charlatans and false prophets claiming the title without right. i said `you are "gods; you are all sons of the most high' psalms 82:6 mystery of the melchisedek priesthood called of god an high priest after the order of melchizedek. hebrews 5:10 one of the ways we can see the differences between the two paths of salvation is found in an understanding of the priesthood of melchizedek. this priesthood is a special, immortal royal line which was founded by the lord of wisdom in the period before c

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

many different descriptions of forces with this world, which is basically the astral planes. some of the more expressive are those of the hebrew hierarchy. kether. chaioth ha kodosh. holy living creatures. chokmah. orphanism. wheels. binah. aralism. thrones. chesed. chashmalim. shining ones. geburah. seraphim. fiery serpents. tiphareth. malachim. kings. netzach. elohim. the gods. hod. ben elohim. sons of the gods. yesod. cherubim. strong ones. malkuth. ishim. sons of fire. assiah: the lower world the world of matter is where things become solid, they manifest. attributions in this world can vary greatly, traditionally, there are the planets. but we have more than simply their physical manifestation. while assiah is matter it also cross-over into the lower reaches of the astral as the veil

as the cathars called them, are few and far between. as it is all too easy for a man to claim immortality and perfection, it is another thing to actually achieve it. in many cases the ecclesia themselves "administered the mysteries, that is, they recognised or denied the state of perfection to avoid charlatans and false prophets claiming the title without right. i said `you are "gods; you are all sons of the most high' psalms 82:6 mystery of the melchisedek priesthood called of god an high priest after the order of melchizedek. hebrews 5:10 one of the ways we can see the differences between the two paths of transfiguration is found in an understanding of the priesthood of melchizedek. this priestgnostic theurgy page 131 hood is a special, immortal royal line which was founded by the lords

so well with the gnostic tradition include the will to power, the overman, the abandonment of the traditional decayed forms of religion and science, the cycles of eternal re-occurrence, the need to go beyond mundane forms of morality and the power of strength, love and will to achieve liberation. the dark side of aquarius there were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of god came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. and god saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. and it repented the lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. and the lord said, i

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ENOCHALL

sphere of venus, name of venus (corrected) pentagram. noganel: name of venus pentagram. noib: yea. nomig: even as. nonig: even. nonca: to you. noncf: you. nonci: o you. noncp: a place/ place. nonof: you. 41 nopm: subservient angel of air angle of fire tablet. noqud: minister (n. noquodi: minister/ their ministers (n. noquol: servant/ o ye servants. nor: son/ sons, also see noromi. nor mo lap: the sons of men. nor quasahi: yea sons of pleasure. norezoda: norz chis, six are. norm: subservient angel of air angle of earth tablet. noromi: son (s/ o ye sons, also see nor. noromi baghie: o you sons of fury. norz: six. nostoah: it was. notahoa/ nothoa: midst/ among/ in the midst. npnt: subservient angel of fire angle of air tablet, also known as nprnt. nrga: subservient angel of earth angle of fir

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the second angle? under whom i have placed mapm sobam ag cormpo crp l nine six three nine whom none hath yet numbered but one: casarmg cro-od-zi chis od vgeg in whom the second beginning of things are and wax strong, ds t capimali chis capimaon od lonshin which also successively are the numbers of time and their powers chis ta l-o cla torzu nor-quasahi od f caosga are as the first 4 5 6. arise ye sons of pleasure and visit the earth: bagle zire mad ds i od apila. for i am the lord your god which is and liveth for ever. do-o-a-ip qaal zacar od zamran in the name of the creator, move and show yourselves obelisong rest-el aaf nor-molap. as pleasant deliverers that you may praise him amongst the sons of men. hcoma, n the fifth key sapah zimii d u-i-v od 10 the mighty sounds have entered into t

onshi tox ds i vmd aai grosb god and his power, which is called amongst you a bitter sting! zacar od zamran odo cicle qaa move and show yourselves. open the mysteries of your creation. zorge lap zirdo noco mad 18 be friendly unto me! for i am the servant of the same your god, hoath iaida. the true worshipper of the highest. m of l the fourteenth key noromi baghie pashs oiad ds trint mirc ol 0 you sons of fury, the children of the just, which sit upon 24 thil dods tol hami caosgi homin dr brin oroch seats, vexing all creatures of the earth with age, which have under you quar micma bialo iad isro tox ds i 1636. behold the voice of god! the promise of him who is vmd aai baltim zacar od zamran called amongst you fury or extreme justice. move and show yourselves odo cicle qaa zorge 19 open the

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS T3

the second angle? under whom i have placed mapm sobam ag cormpo crp l nine six three nine whom none hath yet numbered but one: casarmg cro-od-zi chis od vgeg in whom the second beginning of things are and wax strong, ds t capimali chis capimaon od lonshin which also successively are the numbers of time and their powers chis ta l-o cla torzu nor-quasahi od f caosga are as the first 4 5 6. arise ye sons of pleasure and visit the earth: bagle zire mad ds i od apila. for i am the lord your god which is and liveth for ever. do-o-a-ip qaal zacar od zamran in the name of the creator, move and show yourselves obelisong rest-el aaf nor-molap. as pleasant deliverers that you may praise him amongst the sons of men. hcoma, n the fifth key sapah zimii d u-i-v od the mighty sounds have entered into the

onshi tox ds i vmd aai grosb god and his power, which is called amongst you a bitter sting! zacar od zamran odo cicle qaa move and show yourselves. open the mysteries of your creation. zorge lap zirdo noco mad be friendly unto me! for i am the servant of the same your god, hoath iaida. the true worshipper of the highest. 18 m of l the fourteenth key noromi baghie pashs oiad ds trint mirc ol 0 you sons of fury, the children of the just, which sit upon 24 thil dods tol hami caosgi homin dr brin oroch seats, vexing all creatures of the earth with age, which have under you quar micma bialo iad isro tox ds i 1636. behold the voice of god! the promise of him who is vmd aai baltim zacar od zamran called amongst you fury or extreme justice. move and show yourselves odo cicle qaa zorge open the mys

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS U1

of the higher will which is in rtk. also, it is the particular faculty of the neschamah to aspire unto that which is beyond. the higher will manifests itself through the yechidah. the chiah is the real life principle, as distinct from the more illusionary life of the physical body. the shining flame of the divine fire, the rtk of the body, is the real self of the incarnation. yet only few of the sons of men know it, or feel its presence. still less, do they believe in or comprehend those higher potencies- angelic, archangelic, or divine, of which the manifestation directly touching the yechidah is the higher genius. this yechidah in the ordinary man can but rarely act through the spiritual consciousness since for it to do so, the king of the physical body, that is the lower will, must ris

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS U7

elegance, swiftness, and scientific knowledge and art, and constancy of speech. and it ruleth the sphere of the action of the planet b. and twabx \yhla is also a god of hosts and of armies, of mercy and of agreement, of praise and honor, ruling the universe in wisdom and harmony. and its archangel is lakym, the prince of splendor and of wisdom, and the name of the order of angels is \yhla ynb, or sons of the gods, who are also called the order of archangels. the beams of dsj and hrwbg meet in dwsy and thence ariseth in dwsy a brilliant deep violet-purple or puce, and thus is the third triad completed. and the sphere of its operation is that of hnbl, the lunar beam, bestowing change, increase and decrease upon created things and it ruleth the sphere of action of y and the nature of mankind

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM24

tness of the mysteries which are above the sphere of knowledge, doth abide in the supernal triad, in the understanding which transcends reason, in the wisdom which comes before understanding and in the crown which is the light of the supernals. we know that the shekinah, the cohabiting glory, dwelt in the inner sanctuary, but the first creation was made void. the holy place was made waste and the sons of the house of wisdom were taken away into the captivity of the senses. we have worshipped since then in a house made with hands, receiving a sacramental ministration by a derived light in a place of the cohabiting glory. and yet, amidst signs and symbols the tokens of the higher presence have never been wanting in our hearts. by the waters of babylon we have sat down and wept, but we have e

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

uild ourselves a town and a tower with its top reaching heaven. let us make a name for ourselves, so that we may not be scattered about the 18 diego de duran, historia antiqua de la nueve espana (1585, in ignatius donelly, atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 200. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 119 entire earth. now yahewh [the hebrew god] came down to see the town and the tower that the sons of man had built. so they are all a single people with a single language! said yahweh. this is but the start of their undertakings! there will be nothing too hard for them to do. come, let us go down and confuse their language on the spot so that they can no longer understand one another. yahweh scattered them thence over the whole face of the earth, and they stopped building the tower. it wa

er heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die. saving only noah and his family (whom he instructed to build a great survival ship 450 feet long x 75 feet wide x 45 feet high, and ordering the hebrew patriarch to gather together breeding pairs of every living creature so that they too might be saved, the lord then sent the flood: in the selfsame day entered noah and ham and japheth, the sons of noah, and noah s wife, and the wives of his sons with them, into the ark they and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. and they went in unto noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life. and they that went in

10,800 bricks in the agnicayana, the indian fire altar. there are 10,800 stanzas in the rigveda, the most ancient of the vedic texts and a rich repository of indian mythology. each stanza is made up of 40 syllables with the result that the entire composition consists of 432,000 syllables. no more, and no less.17 and in rigveda 1:164 (a typical stanza) we read of the 12- spoked wheel in which 720 sons of agni are established .18 in the hebrew cabala there are 72 angels through whom the sephiroth (divine powers) may be approached, or invoked, by those who know their names and numbers.19 rosicrucian tradition speaks of cycles of 108 years (72 plus 36) according to which the secret brotherhood makes its influence felt.20 similarly the number 72 and its permutations and subdivisions are of gre

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

-current into less than useless power plays, demoralizing materialist and superstitious delusions, new age jargon, etc. the classic example in the twentieth century was the nazi appropriation, under black lodge influence, of the very concept of the ubermensch, and sidetracking it into a pathetic racialist caricature of nietzsche s super being. we should found society upon a caste of men of earth, sons of the soil. said crowley, the worst thing they can do is what is done in america, to disenchant the man of earth with his destiny; to fill him with the facts and fancies that enthrall etiolated and degenerated idealists and unfit him for his evident purpose, that of supplying society with supermen. the black lodge in the nazi era totally discredited the concept of the evolved human supermen

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

i as follows""i place my feet in the south, and look about me and say, are not the thunders of increase numbered 33, and do these not rule in the second angle? i have placed 9639 servants under them. none have yet numbered them, but one. in them, the second beginnings of things exists and grows strong. they are the successive numbers oftime.their powers are like those of the first 456. arise, you sons of pleasure, and visit the earth. i am the lord your god, who is, and who lives forever. in the name of the creator, move and show yourselves as pleasant deliverers, and praise him among the sons of men" step 3. recite the twelfth cali as follows "o you who range in the south, and who are the 28 lanterns of sorrow, bind up your girdles, and visit us. bring down your 3663 servants so that the

he first and second they have begun their own seats and have decorated them with 69,636 ever-burning lamps. their numbers are as the beginnings, the ends, and the contents of time. therefore come and obey the purpose of your creation. visit us in peace and comfort. perfect us as receivers of yours myteries. why? because our lord and master is the all-one step 3. recite the 14th call as follows "o sons of fury, o children of the just one, who sits upon 24 seats, who vex all creatures of the earth with age, and who have 1636 servants under you, behold, the voice of god, the promise of him who is called among you, fury or extreme justice.move and show 136 yourselves! unveil the mysteries of your creation. be friendly to me, because i am a servant of this same god, a trae worshipper of the hig

eavens. the wheel of life. all these wheels be one. aleister crowley, the book of lies as a preparation for entering khr, you are advised to study the formula of k.i.k.a. when you enter the 20th aethyr, khr, you will see the entire world as a huge rotating wheel. the word ki-ir itself means "wheel" it is equal to the number 401 which is also the number for totonor-molap meaning "the cycles of the sons of men" the three governors of khr (pronounced keh-har) are: zildron zodee-el-dar-oh-en parziba par-zodee-bah totokan toh-toh-kan these governor's names add up to 866 (255+189+ 422+=866) which is the number for kafafam komselha, meaning "an enduring cycle" this aethyr contains the masculine energy of jupiter combined with the feminine energy of juno. this is because of its proximity to the se

GREY W G CONDENSATION OF KABBALAH

ied with haniel [grace ofgod. formatively by the angel order of the elohim god-goddesses. expressively by the planet nogah (venus. humanly this is where emotions and feelings begin in the foetus. 8 splendour, glory and honour. originatively by the god-aspect elohim tzva ot (god-goddesses of hosts. creatively by archangel rafael (healer of god. formatively by the angelic order of the b nay-elohim (sons of the god- goddesses. expressively by the planet kochav (mercury or hermes. humanly 9 this is where the unborn get their intelligence and intellect from. 9 foundation or basis. originatively by the god-aspect shadai el chai (powerful/almighty lord of life).creatively byarchangelgavriel (virility ofgod. formatively by the angelic order of the ishim (souls of fire. expressively by levanah (the

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

he carriage; and away goes the wild train up into the clouds, there betwixt heaven and earth to hunt unceasingly, as they had wished, from day to day, from year to year. they have long wearied of the wild pursuit, and lament their impious wish, but they must bear the fruits of their guilt till the hour of redemption come. come it will, but who knows when? during the twolven (for at other times we sons of men cannot perceive her) fran gauden directs her hunt toward human habitations; best of all she loves on the night of christmas eve or new year's eve to drive through the village streets, and whereever she finds a street-door open, she sends a dog in. next morning a little dog wags his tail at the inmates, he does them no other harm but that he disturbs their night's rest by his whining. h

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k to him bestla,tln.e giant bolfiorn s daughter, and begat three sons, offinn, vili, ve (p. 162, and by them was the giant ymir slain. as he sank to the ground, such a quantity of blood ran out of his wounds, that all the giants were drowned in it, save one, bergelmirf who with his wife escaped in a luftr (saem. 35b, sn. 8, and from them is descended the (younger) race of giants (see suppl. 3 the sons of borr dragged the dead ymir s body into the mid dle of ginnunga-gap, and created out of his blood the sea and water, of his flesh the earth, of his bones the mountains, of his teeth and broken bones the rocks and crags. then they took his skull and made of it the sky, and the sparks from muspellsheim that floated about free they fixed in the sky, so as to give light to all. the earth was ro

onf. 33b) differs in some points: or ymirs itoldi var ior&lt;5 urn scoput, enn or sveita seer, biorg or beinom, baismr or hdri, enn or jiausi himinn, enn or hans brdm gerso bli$ regin mrsgars manna sonom, enn or hans heila voro]?au in harsmosgo sk- oil um scoput. here the teeth are not made use of, but we have instead the formation of trees out of the giant s hair. when all this was done, the sons of borr went to the seashore, and found two trees, out of which they created two human beings, asjcr and embla. to these osinn gave soul and life, vili wit and feeling (sense of touch, ye countenance (colour, speech, hearing and sight, sn. 10. more exactly in stem. 3l&gt: unz]?rfr komo or j?vi ir5i 6flgir ok astgir aesir at susi (uproar. fundo a landi litt megandi ask ok emblo orloglausa:

know, has two different accounts of man s creation: the first (elohistic) in gen. 1, 27, male and female created he them; the second (jehovistic) in gen. 2, 7, formed man of the dust, and in vv. 21. 22, took one of his ribs. and the rib. made he a woman. the first account seems to imply simultaneous creations. tkans] 576 ceeation. heroes of the fourth. the latter we might in mosaic language call sons of elohim, and the former sons of men; at the same time, their origin from the ash would admit of their being placed beside the first- created men of the edda. the agreement of the myths would be more striking if we might bestow the name of stone race on the third, and shift that of brazen, together with the creation from the ash, to the fourth; stones being the natural arms of giants. apollo

dinavian overthrow of giants. the creation of askr and embla has its parallel in the stone-throwing of the greek myth, and the race of heroes might also be called stone-created (see suppl. it will be proper, before concluding, to cast a glance at the story of tlie deluge: its diffusion among the most diverse nations of the earth gives a valuable insight into the nature of these myths. 1* from the sons of grod having mingled with the daughters of men sprang robbers and wrongdoers; and it repented jehovah that he had made man, and he said he would destroy everything on earth. but noah found favour in his eyes, and he bade him build a great ark, and enter therein with his household. then it began to rain, until the waters rose fifteen cubits above the highest mountains, and all that had flesh

t his bow in the cloud for a token of the covenant. after this beautiful compact picture in the 0. t, the eddie narrative looks crude and unpolished. not from heaven does the flood rain down, it swells up from the blood of the slain giant, whose carcase furnishes material for creating all things, and the human race itself. the insolence and violence of the annihilated giants resemble those of the sons of elohim who had mingled with the children of men; and noah s box(/a/rtaro) is like bergelmi s luftr. but the epic touches, such as the landing on the mountain, the outflying dove, the sacrifice and rainbow, would surely not have been left out, had there been any borrowing here. in the assyrian tradition, 1 kronos warns sisuthros of the coming downpour, who thereupon builds a ship, and embar

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seerinconclusion, it must still depend on our individual idiosyncracy, whether we believe the revelations of the spiritual world thus obtained are parallel truths or mere repetitions; but m. cahagnet has promised us a tangible proof in a volume of alchemical revelations, and we must forewarn him that in these sceptical days we shall expect from him, with such a goodly host of defunct adepti 'real sons of thefire'-fromsynesius to philalethes-for interlocutors, who, if judged from their volumi255 nous writings, must doubtless prove most loquacious fellows, and who, having indulged when on this dull earth so copiously in dark and mystical enigmas, will now throw an unerring light upon the first matter, will trulygiveus an open entrance to the shut palace of the king, a lucid explanation of th

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

rthern egypt during the seventeenth century bce. these foreign rulers, known as the hyksos, established a capital at avaris, a region where seth was the leading deity. seth was equated with the palestinian god baal, and the worship of foreign goddesses such as astarte and anat (see deities, themes, and concepts) seems to have been introduced into egypt at this time. hyksos kings called themselves sons of ra, but one of them bore the name of ra s archenemy apophis.40 a legend tells how king apophis picked a quarrel with the egyptian ruler of the theban area by complaining that the roaring of the hippopotami kept 500 miles away in thebes was disturbing his sleep.41 this new kingdom story restates the political conflict in mythological terms by 18 handbook of egyptian mythology making it into

ecific sins. most of the sins in this negative confession are offenses introduction 27 figure 7. vignette to spell 125 of the book of the dead. from right to left, a dead woman is brought into the hall of the double maat by the two goddesses of truth; her heart is weighed against the feather of truth by horus and anubis; the result is recorded by thoth and announced to the ammut monster, the four sons of horus, and osiris (gift of martin brimmer, courtesy museum of fine arts, boston. illustration by peter manuelian used with permission) against deities, temples, or ritual purity, so spell 125 may derive from an initiation ritual for priests.59 the vignette for spell 125 supplements rather than illustrates the text. in one of the most famous of all egyptian images, the heart of the deceased

t the one who eats his father. anubis s title, master of secrets, chiefly referred to the gruesome secrets of the embalming tent. he was particularly associated with the bandaging of mummies and with the ceremony known as the opening of the mouth ritual. this was performed to give the mummy back the senses it had enjoyed in life. 104 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 21. anubis (far left, the sons of horus, and other deities defeat and imprison seth. in this page from papyrus jumilhac, seth (far right) is shown upsidedown below the throne of osiris (art resource) in the book of the dead, anubis is shown in the throne room of osiris supervising the weighing of the hearts of the dead. among his duties was to fetch the hearts of the followers of seth. a story recorded in the first millenn

the food that he brought. all creatures are said to rejoice at his arrival: frogs croak, bulls bellow, and crocodiles roar. hapy is called the lord of fishes, the one who greens the two banks, and the maker of barley and wheat. hapy s life-giving waters were also credited with a role in reviving the murdered god osiris, who came back each year with the barley. see also heqet; khnum; nun; osiris; sons of horus references and further reading: j. baines. fecundity figures. warminster, england: 1985. j. lindsay. men and gods on the roman nile. london: 1968, chaps. 3, 6, 17. primary sources: ct 317 321; hapy hymns; famine stela hathor (h.wt-h. r) hathor was the golden goddess who helped women to give birth, the dead to be reborn, and the cosmos to be renewed. this complex deity could function

e reign of horus as king of egypt was considered the model for all subsequent reigns. the semidivine kings who came after him in mythical history were called the followers of horus. in a few magical texts a scorpion goddess called ta-bitjet is called the wife of horus. a passage in the coffin texts makes horus the elder and his sister, isis, the parents of the four protective deities known as the sons of horus. a festival at edfu temple celebrated the beautiful union between horus and hathor, lady of dendara. here, horus is an aspect of the sun god uniting with the goddess who was his mother, his consort, and his daughter to renew the cosmos. texts and scenes at edfu illustrate the diversity of myths centered on horus. a mythical history of the temple relates how two mysterious beings subd

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h them, and secure his triumphant progress. having arrived at the end of the eleventh division the boat comes to the end of the fourth tuat; 1 afu-ra has effected his transformation as khepera, and is now ready to appear in the sky of this world as ra. how he effects this we shall see from the next division. footnotes 190:1 compare job xxxviii. 7-"when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of god shouted for joy" 191:1 the four tuats are the kingdoms of khenti-amenti-osiris, seker, osiris of mendes and busiris, and temu-khepera-ra. next: chapter xiv. twelfth division of the tuat. i. eastern vestibule of the tuat, or the antechamber of the world of light according to the book am-tuat sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 192 chapter xiv. twelfth division of the tua

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

ute, who would sacrifice himself in his place, provided that thesacrificial victim was the son of a rishi, he started on his journey and finally discovered that he sought. in the country which lies around the flower-covered shores of the renowned pushkara, there was once afamine, and a very holy man, named ajigarta* was at the point of death from starvation, likewise all hisfamily. he had several sons of whom the second, sunahsepha, a virtuous young man, was himself alsopreparing to become a rishi. taking advantage of his poverty and thinking with good reason that a hungrystomach would be a more ready listener than a satisfied one, the crafty devarata made the father acquaintedwith his history. after this he offered him a hundred cows in exchange for sunahsepha, a substituteburnt-offering

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

f historic and even prehistoric ages; at least, as many as it can get. therefore, it is merely the channel through which more or less of truth, found in the accumulated utterances of humanity's great teachers, is poured out into the world. q. but is such truth unreachable outside of the society? does not every church claim the same? a. not at all. the undeniable existence of great initiates-true "sons of god"-shows that such wisdom was often reached by isolated individuals, never, however, without the guidance of a master at first. but most of the page 30 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt followers of such, when they became masters in their turn, have dwarfed the catholicism of these teachings into the narrow groove of their own sectarian dogmas. the commandments of a chosen master al

lly incarnated in the senseless human form animated by, but unconscious (since it had no consciousness) of, the presence in itself of the dual monad-made of that human-like form a real man. mahat or the "universal mind" is the source of manas. the latter is mahat, i.e, mind, in man. manas is also called kshetraj a "embodied spirit" because it is, according to our philosophy, the manasaputras, or "sons of the universal mind" who created, or rather produced, the thinking man "manu" by incarnating in the third race mankind in our round. it is manas, therefore, which is the real incarnating and permanent spiritual ego, the individuality, and our various and numberless personalities only its external masks. it is that ego, that "causal body" which overshadows every personality karma forces it t

ugh every experience and feeling that exists in the manifold or differentiated universe. it has, therefore, after having gained such experience in the lower kingdoms, and having ascended higher and still higher with every rung on the ladder of being, to pass through every experience on the human planes. in its very essence it is thought, and is, therefore, called in its plurality manasaputra "the sons of the (universal) mind" this individualized "thought" is what we theosophists call the real human ego, the thinking entity imprisoned in a case of flesh and bones. this is surely a spiritual entity, not matter, and such entities are the incarnating egos that inform the bundle of animal matter called mankind, and whose names are manasa or "minds" but once imprisoned, or incarnate, their essen

geny into professions which they uselessly overcrowd. q. and you attribute all this to what? a. all this is owing to the perniciousness of a system which turns out goods to order, irrespective of the natural proclivities and talents of the youth. the poor little candidate for this progressive paradise of learning, comes almost straight from the nursery to the treadmill of a preparatory school for sons of gentlemen. here he is immediately seized upon by the workmen of the materio-intellectual factory, and crammed with latin, french, and greek accidence, dates, and tables, so that if he have any natural genius it is rapidly squeezed out of him by the rollers of what carlyle has so well called "dead vocables" q. but surely he is taught something besides "dead vocables" and much of that which

e, try to show that the hindus stole the story of the nativity from the early christians who came to india. kshetraj a or kshetraj esvara (sans) embodied spirit in occultism, the conscious ego in its highest manifestations; the reincarnating principle, or the "lord" in us. kumara (sans) a virgin boy or young celibate. the first kumaras are the page 157 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt seven sons of brahm, born out of the limbs of the god in the so-called ninth creation. it is stated that the name was given to them owing to their formal refusal to "procreate" their species, and thus they "remained yogis" according to the legend. labro, st. a roman saint solemnly beatified a few years ago. his great holiness consisted in sitting at one of the gates of rome night and day for forty years

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joined the mother land in her titanic struggle for civilization. over the cities once more floated the old flag, companioned by the new flag, and by a plainer, yet glorious tricolour. but not many flags floated over the street, for therein brooded only fear and hatred and ignorance. again young men went forth, but not quite as did the young men of those other days. something was lacking. and the sons of those young men of other days, who did indeed go forth in olive-drab with the true spirit of their ancestors, went from distant places and knew not the street and its ancient spirit. over the seas there was a great victory, and in triumph most of the young men returned. those who had lacked something lacked it no longer, yet did fear and hatred and ignorance still brood over the street; fo

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he library-walls, that there have even been popes who uved and died within the precincts of the palace without ever suspecting their existence. but these popes were neither sylvester ii, benedict ix, digitizecoy google ao isis dnveued john xx, nor the vlth and vllth gregory; nor yet the famous bor^ of tozicological memory. neither were those who remained ignorant of the hidden lore friends of the sons of loyola. where, in the reoords of emxipean magic, can we find cleverer endianters than in the mysterious solitudes of the cloister? albertus magnus, the famous bishop and conjurer of ratisbon, was never sur- passed in his art. roger bacon was a monk, and thomas aquinas one of the most learned pupils of albertus. trithemius, abbot of the spanheim benedictines, was the teacher, friend, and co

ae them slain" wonderful spirit of christianity; and that from a manichaean converted to the religion of one who even on his cross prayed for his ss! digitizecoy google the ancient of days 33 who the enemies of the 'lord' were, according to the christians, is not difficult to surmiae; the few inside the augustinian fold were his new children and favorites, who had supplanted in his affections the sons of israel, his 'chosen people' llie rest of mankind were his natural foes. the teeming multitudes of heathendom were proper food for the flames of heu; the handful within the church communion 'heirs of salvation' but if such a proscriptive policy was just, and its enforcement was 'sweet savor' in the nostrils of the 'lord' why not scorn also tiie pagan rites and philosophy? why draw so deeply

beueve in him, will find it divulged in the above-mentioned work' the true origin of the daily accusations and death-sentences for sorcery are cleverly traced to personal and political enmities, and above ail to the hatred of the catholics toward the protes- tants. ilie crafty work of the jesuits is seen at every page of the bloody tragedies, and it is in bamberg and wurzburg, where these worthy sons of loyola were most powerful at that time, that the cases of wih^craft were most nutnerous. on the next page we give a curious ust of some vic- tims, many of whom were children between the ages of seven and eight years, and protestants "of the multitudes of persons who perished at the stake in germany during the first half ot the seventeenth century for sorcery, the crime of many was their at

gtsbel's child, the most beautiful girl in wurzburg. two boys, each twelve years old. stepper's little dau^ter. in the twentt-pntst bubninq, six pbbsons a boy fourteen years old. the little son of senator stolzenberger. two alumni. in the twentt-second bdbninq, six pebsons storman, a rich cooper. a strange boy. nt the twentt-thibd bdbning. nine pebsoks david croten's boy, nine years old. the two sons of the prince's cook, one fourteen, the other ten years old. in the. twentt-foubth bdbninq, seven pebsons two boys in the hospital. a rich cooper. in the twentt-pipth bubninq, six pebsons a strange boy. in the twbntt-sixth bubninq, seven pebsons weydenbush, a senator. hie little dau^ter of valkenberger. the little son of the town council bailiff. ik tbe twbntt-sbventh bubntno, seven pebsons a

s extant in their time, it is difiscult to say with precision what constituted their peculiar rites. still we have the oral tradition, and every inference to draw therefrom; and this tradition points to orpheus as having brought bis doctrines from india, and as one whose religion was that of the oldest magians hence that to which belonged the initiates of all countries, beginning with moses, the 'sons of the prophets' and the ascetic razors (who must not be confounded with those against whom thundered hosea and other prophets) to [and including] the essenes* this latter sect were pythagoreans before they became degenerated rather than perfected in their system through the buddhist missionaries who, pliny tells us, established themselves on the shores of the dead sea ages b^ore his time "pe

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duction into mythology (pp. 132, 228, that the phoenician cabiri and the greek dioscuri, the curetes, corybantes, telchini, were originally of the same nature, and are only different in trifling particulars. all these symbols represent electric and magnetic pheno92 the rosicrucians. mena, and that under the ancient name of twin-fires, hermaphrodite fire. the dioscuri is a phrase equivalent to the sons of heaven: if, as herodotus asserts, zeus originally represented the whole circle of heaven. according to the ancient opinion of heraclitus, the contest of opposing forces is the origin of new bodies, and the reconcilement of these contending principles is called combustion. this is, according to montfaugon, sketched in the minutest detail in the engravings of the ancient phoenician cabiri. f

proofs of disregard and of bad taste, the blundering dishonour offered to the majestic obelisk brought to england in 1878, in the choice of its inappropriate site, and in the ignoring, for state reward, those who brought it to this country. al-huza, or venus, or venus-hussey. 299 called, with which, for very singular cabalistic reasons (which, however, do not admit of explanation, the two dutiful sons of noah covered and atoned for that disgrace of their father, when, after he had planted a vineyard, and had drunken of the wine, he lay disgracefully extended in his tent, and was seen by his son ham; whom noah denounced. the hussars (under other names) were originally eastern, saracenic, or moslem cavalry. the horse-tails and jingles, or numberless little bells, which ought to distinguish t

KARR DON NOTES ON EDITIONS OF SEFER YETZIRAH IN ENGLISH

ranck s part which was rejected by subsequent research he regarded kabbalah as a uniquely important jewish phenomenon. this diagnosis of the role of kabbalah is strikingly similar to scholem s famous perception of the role of kabbalah as a vital component of judaism (kabbalah: new perspectives, p. 8) waite, arthur edward. the holy kabbalah: a study of the secret tradition in israel as unfolded by sons of the doctrine for the benefit and consolation of the elect dispersed through the lands and ages of the greater exile. london: williams and norgate ltd, 1929; reprinted new hyde park: university books, 1960. this title incorporates a. the doctrine and literature of the kabbalah. london: theosophical publishing company, 1902. b. the secret doctrine in israel. a study of the zohar and its conn

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apin, en .ma, horoscopes minor sources r sin d3ot. 464 4 apostacy hear me o my prophet! when yet was the world of old new-born and the first winter's snow, like blossom had not yet fallen, shrouding the grass of the first spring, then was i the noblest of all the angels, the noble potentates of supreme heaven. to god alone was my fealty owed, and all others, to me, theirs. for, of all the shining sons of heaven, the king of the world loved me best. i was adorned in gilded brilliance brighter than the noonday sun of arabia. a robe woven of a hundred diamonds wrapped round my princely shoulders. to me were there seven hundred concubines. they were more beautiful than loti or roses, their caresses softer than sinaean silks, their embraces warmer than furs from russia. my gardens were more ver

romising new tomorrows to be won. this is the truth! 65 theomachy hear me o my prophet! when yet was the world of old new-born and the first winter's snow, like blossom had not yet fallen, shrouding the grass of the first spring, then was i the noblest of all the angels, the noble potentates of supreme heaven. to god alone was my fealty owed, and all others, to me, theirs. for, of all the shining sons of heaven, the king of the world loved me best. i was adorned in gilded brilliance brighter than the noonday sun of arabia. a robe woven of a hundred hundred diamonds wrapped round my princely shoulders. 66 to me were there seven hundred concubines. they were more beautiful than loti or roses, their caresses softer than sinaean silks, their embraces warmer than furs from russia. my gardens we

d my sorcery make woman, mother of the nephilim race, yet if she is to bear progeny and the tribe of kings is to be magnified that it might overthrow heaven's kingdom and make anew the world she then must have a mate to sire her noble offspring, heirs of all. together then these two shall raise a race more worthy than yahweh's flawed creation and upon tomorrow's martial field engage those ignoble sons of heaven when they are grown great with time like the germ that becomes the tree. that seed i now make fertile with second creation and win the victory yet unwon upon this night and hereafter. again i, satan, now raise my voice to sound the word of creation to resound about the sky's high vault. here beneath the eternal sea of the night by my most potent art i command the very principle of t

es. now do i perceive that i have no friend and must contend alone against such puzzles. make you then defense, excuse or apology or slay me here by some other means but i shall not destroy myself, serpent" so had raphael worked his deceit upon my child and denied her of the very answer to the dark riddles that he wove by calling it a baser pain than that which she knew now. to this had the noble sons of heaven come to call a nepenthe by the name of poison. thus did they work their counter-plots and use as instruments in their stratagems my children, subverted by their lies and wracked by the doubts that were planted in their hearts. now heaven's corruption was again apparent, doubly, to me and most keenly did i feel the pain that afflicted these children that i had sired, inflicted by the

nquer them and prevail where, in prior history, they had failed. most cunning gabriel, wisest of his brothers and most jealous of michael's favour, with such intent went to the king of heaven, adonai yahweh upon his shattered throne within the eternal tower, and, upon his knees, implored the archon-emperor permission to work on earth a device of his by whcih he sought to make division amongst the sons of man. humbling himself before the king he served, pressing to the floor his proud brow, he pleaded thus with adonai yahweh "almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, all-illumining light, king of heaven, conqueror of earth, father of the elohim, architect of creation, master of the planets, orchestrater of the stars, proclaimer of destiny, keeper of wisdom, judge of the

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE TWO

eloah vedaath (tudw hwla hwhy, its archangel is raphael (lapr, and its choir of angels is the melekim(\yklm, or 'kings. netzach's divine name is yhvh tzabaoth (twabx hwhy, its archangel is haniel (laynah, its choir of angels is the elohim(\yhla, or 'god/desses. hod's divine name is elohim tzabaoth (twabx \ihla, its archangel is michael (lakym, its choir of angels is the beni elohim(\yhla ynb, or 'sons of god/desses. yesod's divine name is shaddai el chai (yjla ydc, its archangel is gabriel (layrbg, and its choir of angels is the kerubim(\ybwrk, or 'strong ones. malkuth's divine name is adonai ha-aretz( rah ynda, its archangel is sandalphon wpldns)and its choir of angels is the ashim(\yca, or 'virile ones. planetary names, angels, and intelligences in hebrew, saturn is called 'shabbathai. i

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

ture that rules over us is bad. and this is only as long as the creator has not yet created good for the person of "and behold, pharaoh died" he gives us those life experiences that allow us to recognize that egoism is our enemy. only then will this symbol of evil die, and we will feel that we are incapable of existing as we once did, working for nothing- 248- attaining the worlds beyond and "the sons of israel groaned because of the servitude and they cried out" they did this only after realizing they were not even able to move without some egoistic benefit for themselves, and had not yet gained a spiritual, altruistic nature "and their cry for help from their servitude rose up to god, and god heard our voice" this occurs only if one truly cries out from the very depths of the soul, and t

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d answers him. the writing refers to this as follows: and the children of israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry rose up to god k (exodus 2, 23, because at that time, israel was desperate from the work, as he who draws water from the well in a punctured bucket. he draws water all day long and still has not a drop of water with which to soothe his thirst. so were the sons of israel in egypt; everything they built was buried right there in the ground. so it is with those who have not attained his love. everything they do for the purification of their souls the day before, is lost entirely today, and each moment and each day they must start anew as though they had never done anything in their life. and then, the children of israel sighed by reason of the bondage

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that a certain person met rabbi shimon, it means that that person rose to the degree pa r t o n e: t h e b e g i n n i n g 21 of rabbi shimon, and can therefore see and understand what rabbi shimon can. this is how a degree gets its name, and when we ascend to it, we are called by that name. if we attain only a part of that degree, we are regarded as a son to it. that is why we are considered the sons of adam, because we are all parts of the degree called adam, and our task is to attain that part individually. a person who rises to a certain degree feels what happens in it, attains its characteristics, and sees the creator accordingly. by climbing higher, the pictures that were seen in the previous degree will change, as well. it is not like a movie theatre playing 125 different films, one

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

ing its evolution. the four pendant flower-chains symbolized the holy four who reside at shamballa- the spiritual king and his three pupil-assistants, the sole representatives on earth of the lords of the flame who came down long ago from venus to hasten the evolution of mankind. the crossed palm-leaves between them typified the four devarajas, the principal agents through whom the decrees of the sons of the fire-mist are carried out. 180. the three bands of lilies which are arranged to hide the junction of the chapiter with the pillar were taken to represent the initiates of the three stages of the egyptian mysteries. the buds of the upper row, pointing upwards, typified the initiates of the mysteries of isis, who were full of aspiration, reaching upwards and in that way raising the gener

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

ing as much of the history and traditions of the compagnonnage as his oath would permit, in order to put an end to the strife which ceaselessly occurred between its different sections. 524. the compagnonnage consisted of three organizations perpetually at war with one another, each of which had an interesting traditional history and claimed a traditional chief. the oldest division was that of the sons of solomon, originally consisting of stonemasons only, although joiners and locksmiths were admitted later; the second was that of the sons of maitre jacques, who likewise admitted members of these three trades and later of many others, notably saddlers, shoemakers, tailors, cutlers, and hatters; while the third section followed maitre soubise, and was originally composed only of carpenters

tted later; the second was that of the sons of maitre jacques, who likewise admitted members of these three trades and later of many others, notably saddlers, shoemakers, tailors, cutlers, and hatters; while the third section followed maitre soubise, and was originally composed only of carpenters, although at a later date plasterers and tilers were also admitted. it is generally conceded that the sons of solomon were the oldest of all; and another remarkable fact is that the masons (to be carefully distinguished from the stonemasons) were never admitted at all. houses of call belonging to these three associations existed in the more important towns of france; and travelling journeymen had the right to lodging and assistance in finding work in the houses belonging to their fraternity. 525

d at all. houses of call belonging to these three associations existed in the more important towns of france; and travelling journeymen had the right to lodging and assistance in finding work in the houses belonging to their fraternity. 525. the three sections of the compagnonnage preserved legends concerning king solomon and his temple. little is known of the form of the legend current among the sons of solomon, but there are curious indications that the story of the death of hiram (which is not contained in the bible) was known to them. perdiguier tells us little, but he gives certain hints: 526. an ancient fable has obtained currency amongst them (the sons of solomon) relating, according to some, to hiram, according to others, to adonhiram; wherein are represented crimes and punishments

rts of europe to the study of this subject, and has published the results of her toil in traces of a hidden tradition in masonry and mediaeval mysticism. from that book i extract the following list of mystical societies, interspersed with a few names of individual mystics: 653. in the third century we find manes, the widow s son, the link for all of those who believe in the great work done by the sons of the widow and the magian brotherhood. 654. in the fourth century the central figure for all occult students is the great iamblichus, the forerunner of the rosicrucians. 655. from the third to the ninth century the following organizations and sects appear; manichaeans; euchites; dionysian artificers; ophites; nestorians; eutychians, and the magistri comacini, of whom we may read in llorente

d reference to a scotch masons lodge occurs as early as 1733 in london(*r. f. gould, a.q.c, xvi, 44) 739. ramsay was born in 1681 or 1682 at ayr near kilwinning (though he does not seem ever to have joined that ancient lodge. he was converted to catholicism by archbishop fenelon, whose life he wrote and with whom he continued to live till his death in 1715. after that he acted as tutor to the two sons of the rightful king james iii in rome. he was unquestionably a learned man, a deep student both of ancient and modern history, a d.c.l. of oxford university and, like many other prominent freemasons of the period, a fellow of the royal society. he never appears to have taken much interest in masonry, though he wrote to cardinal fleury, the prime minister of france, in 1737 asking his protect

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

ter leaving their heavenly abode under the leadership of the angel semyaza and contracting unions with human women. these angels also encouraged other sinful activities by teaching humans about such things as cosmetics (for women) encouraging vanity and weapons (for men) to use in engaging in battle with each other. the core of the narrative is contained in chapters 7 and 8: it happened after the sons of men had multiplied in those days, that daughters were born to them elegant and beautiful. and when the angels, the sons of heaven, beheld them, they became enamored of them, saying to each other: come, let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children (7:1 2) then they took wives, each choosing for himself; whom they began to approach, and with whom they

ts of the nephilim (e.g, num. 13:33; deut. 2:11; josh. 12:4; etc. this story, which at one time was widely known, eventually disappeared from popular folklore because it clashed with the official church position, which was that angels were beings of pure spirit and thus could not engage in sexual intercourse. a brief allusion to the enoch tale can be found in genesis 6:2 4, where it says that the sons of god (which, when seen through the lens of the book of enoch, are angels) took mortal women as wives. the early church fathers clearly regarded the book of enoch as scripture, as is evident in many places in the new testament canon. the epistle of jude, for example, refers directly to 1 enoch when he states that enoch also, the seventh from adam, prophesied of these, saying, behold the lord

ernative story, which at one time was widely known, eventually disappeared from popular folklore because it clashed with the official church position (or what became the official position by the late middle ages, which was that angels were beings of pure spirit and thus could not engage in sexual intercourse. a brief allusion to the enoch tale can be found in genesis 6:2 4, where it says that the sons of god (which, when seen through the lens of the book of enoch, are angels) took mortal women as wives. one contemporary religious leader, elizabeth clare prophet, has reexamined these ancient stories of fallen angels particularly the book of enoch and other early works and concluded that there were actually two distinct celestial falls. in the first one, some of the celestial host were eject

k: harcourt brace& co, 1993. harut and marut judaism, christianity, and islam all have lore related to the lust of angels for human beings and their subsequent transformation into demons. although the basic idea of spirit beings or demons having sex with human beings is very ancient, judeo-christian speculation on such ideas grew out of two short, obscure verses in genesis (6:2 and 6:4) about the sons of god taking to wife the daughters of men. in these rather strange verses, the expression sons of god was taken to indicate angels. the traditional interpretation of these passages is that these sons of god are fallen angels. islam s version of this theme is a tale involving two angels mentioned in the koran, harut and marut, although the koranic reference contains no allusion to these angel

d succubi [and] it is contrary to the words of the saints and even to the tradition of holy scripture to maintain the opposite opinion. malleus maleficarun the idea of spirit beings or demons who take the form of people in order to have sex with human beings is actually very ancient. in western demonological lore, speculation on such ideas grew out of two short verses in chapter 6 of genesis: the sons of god saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose (6:2) the nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of god came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. these were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown (6:4) in these rather strange verses, the expression sons of god was taken to

LIBER 777

0. 1 wrffm metatron cdqh twyj chaioth ha-qadosh holy living creatures ynda 2 layxr ratziel \ynpwa auphanim wheels nyda 3 layqpx tzaphkiel \ylara aralim active ones, thrones dyna 4 layqdx tzadkiel \ylmcj chashmalim brilliant ones dnya 5 lamk kamael \yprc seraphim fiery serpents ndya 6 lapr raphael \yklm malakim kings aynd 7 laynah haniel \yhla elohim gods yand 8 lakim mikael \yhla ynb beni elohim sons of god anid 9 layrbg gabriel \ybrk kerubim angels of elements nayd 1010 wpldns( wrffm) sandalphon (metatron \yca ashim flames ynad nyad ynda la ciii* the ten divisions of the body of god. civ. the ten earths in seven palaces. cv. english of col. civ. 0. 1 skull 2 right brain 3 left brain ra aretz earth (dry) 4 right arm hmda adamah red earth 5 left arm ayg gia undulating ground 6 the whole bo

rs, the bringer-forth of life. the figure of diana huntress* 26 the lord of the gates of matter. the child of the forces of time. the figure of pan or priapus* 27 the lord of the hosts of the mighty. a tower struck by forked lightning* 28 the daughter of the firmament. the dweller between the waters. the figure of a water-nymph disporting herself* 29 the ruler of flux and reflux. the child of the sons of the mighty. the waning moon* 30 the lord of the fire of the world. the sun* 31 the spirit of the primal fire. israfel blowing the last trumpet. the dead arising from their tombs* 32 the great one of the night of time. should contain a demonstration of the quadrature of the circle* 32 bis. 31 bis. table vi (continued) 33 clxxxii. the human body. clxxxiii. legendary orders of being. 11 respi

tle: nephthys king: aeshoori (i.e. osiris again) pawns knight s pawn: kabexnuv (qebhsennuf) queen s pawn: tmoumathph (sic (tuamutef) bishop s pawn: ahepi (hapi) rook s pawn: ameshet (mestha) 6 i cannot identify the first three of these names. i believe the remaining four were intended to be g.d. coptic spellings of hapi (ahephi, tuamutef (toumathph, mestha (ameshett) and qebhsennuf (kabexnuv, the sons of horus, and have corrected them accordingly. 7 de. occ. phil. lib. i. cap xxiii. the following six chapters list various things said to be under the power of the other six classical planets. see also cap. xxii which gives general attributions for the planets and the theory behind all this, and cap. xxxii, what things are under the signs, the fixed stars, and their images. 8 on typographic a

LIBER ALEPH

though such were in themselves better and wiser. yes, o my son, in these writings thou mayst study to come to the true comprehension of thine own nature, and that of the whole universe, in the dimension of time, even as the mathematic declareth it in that of space: that is, of extension. moreover, by this study shall the child com-prehend the foundation of manners: the which, as sayeth one of the sons of wisdom, maketh man. m the book of wisdom or folly 49 af sequitur (3) scientifica (continued. 3: sciences) ince time and space are the conditions of mind, these two studies are fundamental. yet there remaineth causality, which is the root of the actions and reactions of nature. this also shalt thou seek ardently, that thou mayst comprehend the variety of the universe, its harmony and its be

bias toward their desires reacteth in the end against themselves, and hindereth them in he execution of their wills. nevertheless, as thou well knowest, the best mode is the creation of an intelligible image by virtue of the mass of the holy ghost, declaring the true will unto thee in terms of thy qabalah! m liber aleph vel cxi 104 gw de fratribus nigris filiis iniquitatis (of the black brothers, sons of iniquity) f the black brothers, o my son, will i write these things following. i have told thee already concerning change, how it is the law, because every change is an act of love under will. so then he that is adept exempt, whether in our holy order or another, may not remain in the pillar of mercy, because it is not balanced, but is unstable. therefore is the choice given unto him, whet

LIBER CHANOKH

resat-el aaf nor-mo-lapi! i have set my feet in the south, and have looked about me, saying: are not the thunders of increase numbered 33, which reign in the second angle? under whom i have placed 9639: whom none hath yet numbered, but one; in whom the second beginnings of things are and wax strong, which also successively are the numbers of time: and their powers are as the first 456. arise! you sons of pleasure! and visit the earth: for i am the lord your god; which is and liveth (for ever! in the name of the creator, move! and shew yourselves as pleasant deliverers, that you may praise him among the sons of men [invokes: hcoma; the whole tablet of water. the angle of c of c. the queen of the thrones of water] the forty-eight keys or calls 26 the opening of the temple in the grade of 1 =

the highest. the angle of d of e in the tablet of e. the prince of the chariot of earth. liber lxxxiv 33 the fourteenth key noroni bajihie pasahasa oiada! das tarinuta mireca ol tahila dodasa tolahame caosago homida: das berinu orocahe quare: micama! bial. oiad; aisaro toxa das ivame aai balatima. zodacare od zodameranu! odo cicale qaa! zodoreje, lape zodiredo noco mada, hoathahe i a i d a. o ye sons of fury, the daughters of the just one! that sit upon 24 seats, vexing all creatures of the earth with age, that have 1636 under ye. behold! the voice of god; the promise of him who is called amongst ye fury or extreme justice. move and shew yourselves! unveil the mysteries of your creation; be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god: the true worshipper of the highest. th

LIBER LVII

ctory, corresponding to the divine name twabx hwhy, ihvh tzabaoth, the lord of armies, and the angelic names \yhla, elohim, gods, and \ycycrt, tarshishim, the brilliant ones (daniel x, 6. the number 8. thence proceeded the feminine passive potency dwh, hod, splendour, answering to the divine name twabx \yhla, elohim tzabaoth, the gods of armies, and among the angels to \yhla ynb, beni elohim, the sons of the gods (genesis vi, 4. the number 9. these two produced dwsy, yesod, the foundation or basis, represented by yj la, the mighty living one, and ydc, shaddai: and among the angels by \yca, aishim, the flames (psalms civ, 4, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing the decad of the numbers. it is called twkl

kether. 34 [for many examples of this pernicious practice, see the canon. t.s] 35 [concealed yods on the other hand are another matter entirely. t.s] 36 [lat .a coward created the soul of the earth] 37 [heb, possibly intended for .the son, the spirit, the father, the grave: ihvh [is] the law] 38 [grk .jesus christ, son of god, saviour] 39 [grk, approx .the favour of isis [is] the treasure of the sons of wisdom* i can see nothing in this at all. taking a dozen clear identities, e.g. aima= bn, athbash disintergrates the whole show. there are useful ones, e.g. qma= illegible 26 liber lviii why athbash? why not abshath? or agrath? or any other of the possible combinations? about the only useful temurah is aiq bkr, given above. in this do we find a suggestive reasoning. for example, we find it

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

3+ 4+ 5= 15= hy= briah 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+ 5+ 6= 21= why= yetzirah 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+ 5+ 6+ 7= 28= 2+ 8= 10 assiah the number 28, the total numeration, therefore represents malkuth, the tenth sephira: assiah made manifest.the work of creation accomplished: wherefore god rested on the seventh day. and 28 is 7 4, the seven stars shining throughout the four worlds* as it is written in the path of the child of the sons of the mighty .and the chaos cried aloud for the unity of form and the face of the eternal arose. that brow and those eyes formed the b of the measureless heavens: and their reflection formed the c of the measureless waters. and thus was formulated one eternal hexad: and this is the number of the dawning creation. but herein is the fall, that there were only six numbers, so that for the seven

e by the present editor. issues which cannot be dealt with in a brief footnote are discussed below. the text and footnotes contain a number of allusions to golden dawn rituals; summaries of these appeared in the temple of solomon the king in equinox i (2. they may also be studied in regardie (ed) the golden dawn and the complete golden dawn system of magic .daughter of the firmament .child of the sons of the mighty .spirit of the primal fire &c. are g.d. titles of the various tarot trumps: see 777 col. clxxx. as usual in the work of crowley and his associates .zoroaster. is here the author of the chaldaan oracles. most quotations are from an edition prepared by w. wynn westcott and published in the theosophical society.s collecteana hermetica series, subsequently reprinted in various editi

LIBER STELLAE RUBEAE

certain matter of liber legis, and written down under the figure lxvi v a a publication in class a imprimatur: n. fra. a a 1 1. apep deifieth asar. 2. let excellent virgins evoke rejoicing, son of night! 3. this is the book of the most secret cult of the ruby star. it shall be given to none, save to the shameless in deed as in word. 4. no man shall understand this writing.it is too subtle for the sons of men. 5. if the ruby star have shed its blood upon thee; if in the season of the moon thou hast invoked by the iod and the pe, then mayest thou partake of this most secret sacrament. 6. one shall instruct another, with no care for the matters of men.s thought. 7. there shall be a fair altar in the midst, extended upon a black stone. 8. at the head of the altar gold, and twin images in green

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

nish king guthrum in the 880s, indicates just how pervasive the scandinavian presence was. the enormous number of scandinavian loanwords into english indicates an extended period of contact between the english and the scandinavians, and as the scandinavian kingdoms began to emerge during the ninth and tenth centuries, there was not infrequently contact with english courts. for example, one of the sons of harald fairhair of norway, hakon the good, had been fostered at the court of king athalstan of england. according to tradition, harald had united all norway into a single kingdom (this had occurred somewhat earlier in denmark and would probably happen somewhat later in sweden, for which the sources are rather meager. during the reign of harald (870.930) serious emigration began over the se

mysterious waters from which life was to emerge. we must assign ymir to this distant past, and also his hermaphroditic generation of the races of giants. similarly, bur, the first of the gods, existed at this time. the focus of the near past would be the creation of the cosmos, from the body of ymir according to most sources. the precondition for forming the cosmos was the killing of ymir by the sons of bur, so we may say that the movement from the distant past to the near past encompasses a move from a stasis between the two major groups of gods to a state of enmity. during this near past the gods also enabled the reckoning of time by assigning stations to the heavenly bodies (voluspa, stanza 5, and they similarly enabled culture by creating tools (voluspa, stanza 7. they created the rac

nt in a kenning or an allusive skaldic poem from the pagan period, and neither of these requires any kind of chronology but, instead, implies a kind of simultaneity of myth. the second is a linguistic aftereffect and may be presented here by discussing stanza 28 of lokasenna. frigg has just admonished loki. you know, if here i had in agir fs hall a son like baldr away you would never get from the sons of the asir, and you would be struck down in anger. loki fs response is a boast about his role in the slaying of baldr. the second half of stanza 28 goes literally as follows. i arrange it, that you never see baldr afterwards ride up to the hall anymore. most translators render the first three words as something like gi am responsible, h and indeed the present tense of the verb might be under

of the eider, h namn och bygd 28 (1940: 91.114. franz rolf schroder, gdie gottin des urmeeres und ihr mannlicher partner, h beitrage zur geschichte der deutschen sprache und literatur (tubingen) 82 (1960: 221.264, is centered on nerthus and njord but also 48 norse mythology included discussion of ran and agir/hler. margaret clunies ross, gsnorri sturluson fs use of the norse origin legend of the sons of fornjotr in his edda, h arkiv for nordisk filologi 98 (1983: 47.66, analyzes snorri fs understanding of natural forces as giants. agir fs daughters the waves of the sea; nine sisters, daughters of agir and ran. agir is the sea personified, and his daughters are the waves. the poet known only as svein, perhaps an icelander of the eleventh century, describes a wintry storm in which gusts of

and embla (the first human woman) were found on shore, capable of little and fateless. odin, hoenir, and lodur endowed them with the various qualities they needed to live. odin gave breath or spirit, hoenir gave mental faculties or voice, and lodur gave blood, ruddiness, or vital warmth and good coloring. snorri adds some details and changes others. the creator gods, according to snorri, are the sons of bor (elsewhere bur).odin, vili, and ve.who find two pieces of wood on the seashore and fashion them into humans. one of bor fs sons gives spirit and life; the second, mind and movement; the third, appearance, speech, hearing, and vision. the sons of bor also gave these vivified pieces of wood clothing and their names, ask and embla, and from them descend the races of mankind. in voluspa, t

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

ferences to kabbalah have been peripheral. although kabbalah has been in the background, there is no evidence that any of the masons we have mentioned (except, perhaps, byrom) were serious students of the subject. now the situation is different. the duke of sussex was an unusual person. severely asthmatic in his youth, he was prevented from following the military career usually pursued by younger sons of the royal family. as a child, he had been raised in germany where the climate was thought to be more suitable for his delicate health. while there, he had received an excellent education; and he was known to be deeply religious. he was also a scholar with a very deep interest in judaism. in fact, he was a real judeophile; and he spoke, read and wrote hebrew. by the time he became grand mas

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

the rosicrucians the rosicrucian mask--life of william shakspere--sir francis bacon--the acrostic signatures--the significant number thirty-three--the philosophic death. 165 the cryptogram as a factor in symbolic philosophy secret alphabets--the biliteral cipher--pictorial ciphers--acroamatic ciphers--numerical and musical ciphers--code ciphers. 169 freemasonic symbolism the pillars raised by the sons of seth--enoch and the royal arches--the dionysiac architects--the roman collegia--solomon, the personification of universal wisdom- freemasonry's priceless heritage. 173 mystic christianity st. iran us on the life of christ--the original name of jesus--the christened man--the essenes--the arthurian cycle--merlin the mage. 177 the cross and the crucifixion the aurea legenda--the lost librarie

to enlarge the egyptian madonna. from lenoir's la franche-maconnerie. isis is shown with her son horus in her arms. she is crowned with the lunar orb, ornamented with the horns of rams or bulls. orus, or horus as he is more generally known, was the son of isis and osiris. he was the god of time, hours, days, and this narrow span of life recognized as mortal existence. in all probability, the four sons of horus represent the four kingdoms of nature. it was horus who finally avenged the murder of his father, osiris, by slaying typhon, the spirit of evil. p. 48 the world virgin is sometimes shown standing between two great pillars--the jachin and boaz of freemasonry--symbolizing the fact that nature attains productivity by means of polarity. as wisdom personified, isis stands between the pill

s. those who have sought to identify chiram with the murdered king charles the first conceive the hiramic legend to have been invented for that purpose by elias ashmole, a mystical philosopher, who was probably a member of the rosicrucian fraternity. charles was dethroned in 1647 and died on the block in 1649, leaving the royalist party leaderless. an attempt has been made to relate the term "the sons of the widow (an appellation frequently applied to members of the masonic order) to this incident in english history, for by the murder of her king england became a widow and all englishmen widow's sons. to the mystic christian mason, chiram. represents the christ who in three days (degrees) raised the temple of his body from its earthly sepulcher. his three murderers were c sar's agent (the

ll are composite creatures combining human and animal members; in the mysteries all signify the composite nature of man and subtly refer to the hierarchies of celestial beings that have charge of the destiny of mankind. these hierarchies are the twelve holy animals now known as constellations--star groups which are merely symbols of impersonal spiritual impulses. chiron, the centaur, teaching the sons of men, symbolizes the intelligences of the constellation of sagittarius, who were the custodians of the secret doctrine while (geocentrically) the sun was passing through the sign of gemini. the five-footed assyrian man-bull with the wings of an eagle and the head of a man is a reminder that the invisible nature of man has the wings of a god, the head of a man, and the body of a beast. the s

nimal caused it to be accepted as the proper symbol of esthetic abandon. deer were objects of veneration with many nations. in japan, herds of them are still maintained in connection with the temples. the wolf is usually associated with the principle of evil, because of the mournful discordance of its howl and the viciousness of its nature. in scandinavian mythology the fenris wolf was one of the sons of loki, the infernal god of the fires. with the temple of asgard in flames about them, the gods under the command of odin fought their last great battle against the chaotic forces of evil. with frothing jowls the fenris wolf devoured odin, the father of the gods, and thus destroyed the odinic universe. here the fenris wolf represents those mindless powers of nature that overthrew the primiti

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high heaven, referred to by the christian church as messengers, or angels, by the greeks as daemons. azael and his followers, according to old lore, in defiance of their masters, elected to descend upon the earth countless eons ago, for the purpose of educating and civilizing primitive man as he then existed. whether it was part of their original plan or merely a side issue, these angelic beings "sons of god" or "watchers of the heavens" as they were entitled, elected to mate with womankind. the book of genesis briefly records the legend thus: and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and they took wives of all which they chose. however, the ancient book of

t is from these exiled beings that all true magical knowledge and power is said to be derived. laban, reputedly one of the greatest adepts in magical art of pre-flood times, visited the mountaintop wherein they dwelt, to learn his wisdom. this idea has lingered on and finally became a fundamental part of legends of magical initiation all over the world, from chaldea to tibet. the offspring of the sons of heaven, however, proved to be a mixed blessing for the world. like their progenitors, they were gigantic in stature "great giants whose height was three thousand ells" some of these nephelim, as the descendants of the house of azael were known, were, like nimrod, men of renown and great in wisdom. others, however, turned in the opposite direction and increasingly devoted themselves to the

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

ry. the spirits of netzach are the elohim or the gods, that is to say the representatives of god. their empire is that of progress and of life; they correspond to the sensorium or to sensibility. they have for adversaries the harab-serapel, or the ravens of death, whose chief is baal. the eighth number is eight. the eighth sephira is hod or eternal order. the spirits of hod are the beni elohim or sons of the gods. their empire is that of order; they correspond to the inner sense. they have for adversaries the samael or jugglers, whose chief is adramelech. the ninth number is nine. the ninth sephira is yesod, or the fundamental principle. the spirits of yesod are the cherubim or angels, those powers which fecundate the earth, and which are represented in hebrew symbolism under the form of b

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON PENTACLES

tacle are the names of the nine orders of angels, those of six of them in ordinary hebrew characters, and the remainder in the letters which are known as "the passing of the river" these nine orders are: 1, chaiath ha-qadesch, holy living creatures; 2, auphanim, wheels; 3, aralim, thrones; 4, chaschmalim, brilliant ones; 5, seraphim, fiery ones; 6, melakim, kings; 7, elohim, gods; 8, beni elohim, sons of the elohim; 9, kerubim, kerubim. the versicle is from psalm xviii 7 "then the earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the hills also moved and were shaken, because he was wroth" the key of solomon page 64 jupiter. figure 18. the first pentacle of jupiter. this serveth to invoke the spirits of jupiter, and especially those whose names are written around the pentacle, among whom parasie

MEANING OF MASONRY

in different tints. the" aura" of the man who has his mentality clean and his passions and emotions well in hand becomes a correspondingly orderly and shapely encasement of clearly defined form and iridescence, regularly striated like the colours of the spectrum or the rainbow. biblically, this" aura" is described as a" coat of many colours" and as having characterized joseph, the greatest of the sons of jacob, in contrast with that patriarch's less morally and spiritually developed sons who were not distinctified by any such coat. in masonry the equivalent of the aureole is the symbolic clothing worn by provincial and grand lodge officers. this is of deep blue, heavily fringed with gold, in correspondence with the deep blue centre and luminous circumference of flame" his ministers are fla

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ereignty was violated by one contingent of ancient visitors. these beings werenamed the nephilim (those who were cast down. there are many names that havecome down to us that were used to describe the visitors. some of these are: anakim,rephaim, djinn, giants, titans, fallen angels, the watchers, the els, the ari, elders,atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation3 from the end of heaven sons of zadok, sons of seth, the uranids, cyclopeans, promethians, olympians, theelect, asuras, the illies, fomorians, the necromancers, rayless ones, bent ones, thedogons, dagons, the ana, amaraka, nagas, the rakshasas, dragon kings, naddred,the brotherhood of the snake, and the serpent people. they were also referred to asthe djedhi (see jedi. the bible takes the position that the nephilim were

eir leaders committed a great sin by interfering with the evolution of humankind: and the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the devil and satan,the deceiver of the whole world, he was cast down to earth and his angels were cast downwith him (revelation) and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughterswere born unto them, that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair; andthey took them wives of all that they chose (genesis, chapter 6-8) there are several key hypotheses and theories that seek to account for the presence ofthese beings. let us explore a few of the most provocative yet cogent ones. in the bible and other scriptures, we readabout these fallen angels and theirsojourn on earth; for in ancient

l key hypotheses and theories that seek to account for the presence ofthese beings. let us explore a few of the most provocative yet cogent ones. in the bible and other scriptures, we readabout these fallen angels and theirsojourn on earth; for in ancient days, theirarrival and activities were not concealed asthey are now. there were giants in the earth in those days;and also after that, when the sons of godcame in unto the daughters of men, and theybear children to themthe mighty men whichwere of old, men of renown (genesis, chap-ter 6-8) they come from a far country, from the end ofheaven (isaiah 13:3)who are these that fly in a cloud, as the dovesto their windows (isaiah 9:8) lucifers fall by gustave dorefrom the end of heaven4atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation atlanti

of the ways in which they sought to accomplish their goal involved biogeneticinterference with and alteration of the indigenous earth inhabitants. such a practicewas known to be a cardinal sin, and so, originally, normal sexual intercourse wasattempted with unsatisfactory results: and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughterswere born unto them, that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair; andthey took them wives of all that they chose (genesis 6-8) and the daughters of cain with whom the angels had companied conceived, but they wereunable to bring forth their children, and they died. and of the children who were in theirwombs some died, and some came forth, having split open the bellies of their mothers theycame forth by the

us, beingfounded less on fact and more on wishful thinking. lemuria and homo atlantis26atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation on atlantis genetic experiments were begun on indigenous earth humans with theequipment that was brought from the alien planet of origin: and god said: let us make man in our image, after our likeness(genesis 1:26) the race that they subsequently created, the sons of the serpents, possessed thedna of their alien fathers, as well as that of the indigenous earth people, the homosapiens (in the bible, the correct translation of create is build) these geneticallycreated offspring were made to serve the needs of their creators in the garden ofedinu or eden. they are homo atlantis. the original pre-visitation earth inhabitants were probably the cro-magnon, e

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e s eyes were opened and she came to know good and evil. eve then convinces her husband, adam, to also eat of the fruit, thereby opening his eyes as well. when god discovered what the primal couple( and the serpent) had done, adam and eve were banished from paradise. adam and eve leave the garden, and begin having children to the east. as human kind began to multiply, the serpent, also called the sons of god [angels] began to lust after human women and soon began to procreate with our race. the offspring of this union, beings who were half human and half angel, would be called the nephilim. these nephilim, often referred to as giants, had super-human strength and abilities, and were known as men of renown. this early civilization, which included fallen angels, nephilim, and humans became i

te information that is contradictory to the bible. in the book of enoch, azazel is described as being among the leaders of 200 angels, also called watchers, who came down to the garden of eden; the text is unambiguous about the serpent from the garden of eden being in fact a group. the bible, albeit a bit more subtly, also makes it clear that this serpent was in fact a group, when it mentions the sons of god (which is of coarse plural. in the bible, the serpent tempts eve into eating a fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, yet in the book of enoch there was no fruit, but instead it was knowledge of magic and the sciences which the fallen angels gave unto man. the relationship between the serpent, azazel, and satan himself gets a tad-bit blurry in--michael wynn's "the soul trav

f you that stands between the two. yahweh [5.1] this is the most-high god, jehovah, the god of israel. he is also zeus, jupiter, osiris, and ahura mazda. he is the archon (angel) emperor, the king of heaven, and the father of the elohim. he is said to be the true father of the arch-angels michael, gabriel, uriel, raphael, and satanael (satan. although in some accounts, satan is his brother. these sons of god are commonly equated with the children of jehovah; zeus is also said to have plenty offspring. modern-day satanists often remark that satan successfully stole yahweh s creative power, and this belief has fueled much use of phallic symbolism. the planet is dotted with obelisks, like the washington monument, which are merely phallic symbols which represent the creative principle that sat

ut of the evocation triangle and slay all of those present. this mad god is said to laugh loudly and often, such as a madman. in his equinox vol.1 part 5 crowley recounts a first-person narrative of choronzon, where the demon states ah! i will reach up to the knees of the most high, and tear his phallus with my teeth, and i will bray his testicles in a mortar, and make poison thereof, to slay the sons of men. choronozon goes on to state, i have prevailed against the kingdom of the father, and befouled his beard; and i have prevailed against the kingdom of the son, and torn off his phallus; but against the kingdom of the holy ghost shall i strive and not prevail. as stated earlier, satanists make numerous references to a devilish force stealing the creative power of the most high god, and t

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ble words, which it is not possible for a man to utter" and nowhere is the antagonism and conflict between the spirit and body more frequently and forcibly insisted on than in the writings of this apostle, nowhere the divine nature of the soul more strongly asserted "with the mind" he says "i serve the law of god; but with the flesh the law of sin. as many as are led by the spirit of god, are the sons of god. the earnest expectation of the created waits for the manifestation of the sons of god. the created shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, of the flesh liable to decay, into the glorious liberty of the children of god* two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. under a despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, l

es came there to be judged, escorted only by their virtues and their vices. a public accuser recounted the history of the dead man's life, and threw the blaze of the torch of truth on all his actions. if it were adjudged that he had led an evil life, his memory was condemned in the presence of the nation, and his body was denied the honors of sepulture. what a lesson the old masonry taught to the sons of the people! is it true that masonry is effete; that the acacia, withered, affords no shade; that masonry no longer marches in the advance-guard of truth? no. is freedom yet universal? have ignorance and prejudice disappeared from the earth? are there no longer enmities among men? do cupidity and falsehood no longer exist? do toleration and harmony prevail among religious and political sect

rmuzd: seven inferior rishis of hindustan were saved with the head of their family in an ark: and seven ancient personages alone returned with the british just man, hu, from the dale of the grievous waters. there were seven heliad, whose father helias, or the sun, once crossed the sea in a golden cup; seven titans, children of the older titan, kronos or saturn; seven corybantes; and seven cabiri, sons of sydyk; seven primeval celestial spirits of the japanese, and seven karfesters who escaped from the deluge and began to be the parents of a new race, on the summit of mount albordi. seven cyclopes, also, built the walls of tiryus. celsus, as quoted by origen, tells us that the persians represented by symbols the two-fold motion of the stars, fixed and planetary, and the passage of the soul

the result and our reward if we do our duty. work on with the sword in one hand, and the trowel in the other! masonry teaches that god is a paternal being, and has an interest in his creatures, such as is expressed in the title _father; an interest unknown to all the systems of paganism, untaught in all the theories of philosophy; an interest not only in the glorious beings of other spheres, the sons of light, the dwellers in heavenly worlds, but in us, poor, ignorant, and unworthy; that he has pity for the erring, pardon for the guilty, love for the pure, knowledge for the humble, and promises of immortal life for those who trust in and obey him. without a belief in him, life is miserable, the world is dark, the universe disrobed of its splendors, the intellectual tie to nature broken, t

ament. by soaring upward, beyond all created existence, the mind, disengaging itself from the sensible, attains to the intellectual intuition of this absolute being; of whom, however, it can predicate nothing but existence, and sets aside all other determinations as not answering to the exalted nature of the supreme essence. thus philo makes a distinction between those who are in the proper sense sons of god, having by means of contemplation raised themselves to the highest being, or attained to a knowledge of him, in his immediate self-manifestation, and those who know god only in his mediate revelation through his operation--such as he declares himself in creation--in the revelation still veiled in the letter of scripture--those, in short, who attach themselves simply to the logos, and c

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

tter or braver indeed than his brothers, girls not softer or sweeter indeed than his sisters, but wholly his own, with his own defects and desires evoked by enchantment of ecstasy when he dies to himself in the womb of the witch who lusts for his life, and buys it with the coin that bears his image and superscription. such is the secret of the soul of the artist. he knows that he is a god, of the sons of god; he has no fear or shame in showing himself of the seed of his father. he is proud of that father's most precious privilege, and he honours him no less than himself by using it. he accepts his family as of his own royal stock; every one is as princely as he is himself. but he were not his father's son unless he found for himself a form fit to express himself in many costumes, each emph

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

cronus and his brother-titans took possession of mount othrys, and prepared for battle. the struggle was long and fierce, and at length zeus, finding that he was no nearer victory than before, bethought himself of the existence of the imprisoned giants, and knowing that they would be able to render him most powerful assistance, he hastened to liberate them. he also called to his aid the cyclops (sons of poseidon and amphitrite,[5] who had only one eye each in the middle of their foreheads, and were called brontes (thunder, steropes (lightning, and pyracmon (fire-anvil. they promptly responded to his summons for help, and brought with them tremendous thunderbolts which the hecatoncheires, with their hundred hands, hurled down upon the enemy, at the same time raising mighty earthquakes, whi

ere also famous for their physical accomplishments, castor being the most expert charioteer of his day, and pollux the first of pugilists. their names appear both among the hunters of the calydonian boar-hunt and the heroes of the argonautic expedition. the brothers became attached to the daughters of leucippus, prince of the messenians, who had been betrothed by their father to idas and lynceus, sons of aphareus. having persuaded leucippus to break his promise, the twins carried off the maidens as their brides. idas and lynceus, naturally furious at this proceeding, challenged the dioscuri to mortal combat, in which castor perished by the hand of idas, and lynceus by that of pollux. zeus wished to confer the gift of immortality upon pollux, but he refused to accept it unless allowed to sh

declaring that henceforth he would announce to mankind the will of his father zeus "the golden lyre" said he "shall be my friend, the bent bow my delight, and in oracles will i foretell the dark future" with these words he ascended to olympus, where he was received with joyful acclamations into the assembly of the celestial gods, who acknowledged him as the most beautiful and glorious of all the sons of zeus. phoebus-apollo was the god of light in a twofold [70]signification: first, as representing the great orb of day which illumines the world; and secondly, as the heavenly light which animates the soul of man. he inherited his function as sun-god from helios, with whom, in later times, he was so completely identified, that the personality of the one became gradually merged in that of th

ed a cave at a very great height in the famous rock which still bears her name,[38] and was supposed to swoop down from her rocky eminence upon every ship that passed, and with each of her six heads to secure a victim. amphitrite is often represented assisting poseidon in attaching the sea-horses to his chariot [105] the cyclops, who have been already alluded to in the history of cronus, were the sons of poseidon and amphitrite. they were a wild race of gigantic growth, similar in their nature to the earth-born giants, and had only one eye each in the middle of their foreheads. they led a lawless life, possessing neither social manners nor fear of the gods, and were the workmen of hephastus, whose workshop was supposed to be in the heart of the volcanic mountain atna. here we have another

le heaven by piling mighty mountains one upon another. already had they succeeded in placing mount ossa on olympus and pelion on ossa, when this impious project was frustrated by apollo, who destroyed them with his arrows. it was supposed that had not their lives been thus cut off before reaching maturity, their sacrilegious designs would have been carried into effect. pelias and neleus were also sons of poseidon. their mother tyro was attached to the river-god enipeus, whose form poseidon assumed, and thus won her love. pelias became afterwards famous in the story of the argonauts, and neleus was the father of nestor, who was distinguished in the trojan war. the greeks believed that it was to poseidon they were indebted for the existence of the horse, which he is said to have produced in

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

(paris: m. paulin, 1865-1866, 356; mabillon, ann. benedict, vol. 128 (paris: billaine, 1668-1701, n. 67. it should be noted that the english legend places among the ancestors of the order a certain aymon, son of hiram, who was the greatest of master masons. should we view as a coincidence the fact that the elements of the legend of hiram are also present in the earlier chanson de geste "the four sons of aymon? in this text we see renaud de montauban, who, after following a life that has been hardly edifying and wishing to atone for his sins, hires on to the construction of the cathedral of cologne. his uncommon strength and dexterity create a situation about which all the masters argue. but then his fellow workers become alarmed and find common cause: they fear he will spoil their trade

ianity. the name the "militia of christ and the temple of solomon" that the templars assumed immediately after the creation of their order was evocative not only to christians. while it recalled the holy sepulcher, it also recalled to jews and muslims the temple of solomon (wisdom, which was furthermore reproduced on the seal of the grand master. a sacred sanctuary, it spoke simultaneously to the sons of shem, cham, and japhet.34 so the reason for the condemnation of the templars is not to be sought in a heretical deviation. in fact they were never condemned by the pope who was satisfied with simply dissolving the order but by the temporal authority. philip the fair could not take action against the templars, a sovereign and independent religious order, without a condemnation or dissolutio

of the poor would also be raised there and educated in craft techniques by male and female workers in return for the privilege of obtaining, in six years' time, recognition as masters in their crafts without the requirement of any fee or masterpiece. justification for their status would be provided by the professional skills of their eventual students, who would themselves enjoy the status of the sons of masters* by a declaration of henri ii given in paris on february 2, 1553, craft masters in the city of paris could take on a second apprentice only from among the children raised at trinity hospital. two acts of parliament, one of december 3, 1672, and one of august 22, 1798, specifically confirmed "the rule over the rights and privileges of those who taught the art of craft and masonry in

ed older statutes dating from 1454, the community was governed by a syndic elected every two years from among those sworn to the king. the elections, reviews, and the settling of business matters took place on march 20, the day after the feast day of saint joseph, the patron saint of carpenters. the examination of an aspiring member consisted of one drawn geometrical design and a masterpiece. the sons of masters and apprentices paid the same rights for master status, 20 pounds total. six years of apprenticeship were required and journeyman status was intended to last six months. the sons, nephews, and cousins of a master did not count as apprentices. a foreigner to france had to work for an additional four years in paris before achieving the grade of master. carpenters' workshops were know

r of the association. overall, the statutes of the german stonecutters provide a gripping description of freemasonry's essential characteristics: builders corporations in italy, germany, and switzerland 177 the associates were divided into masters, journeymen, and apprentices. the governance of the organization was entrusted to certain leaders. the profane was excluded. privileges extended to the sons of masters. their were conditions governing acceptance into the organization. the principals of fraternal equality and mutual aid were primary. procedures were established for specific jurisdiction and how lodge judgments would be handed down. procedures were established for how meetings would be opened and closed. there were established initiation rites and forms of greeting (gruss) and cust

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

crops would wither. 17 osiris, i sis, and horus plaque with cartouche royal sarcophagi, or coffins, were rectangular inside like the cartouche that encircled the royal name. just as the cartouche protected the royal name, so the coffin protected the royal body. hunefer is lead by anubis through the hall of two truths anubis anubis weighs hunefer s heart heart feather ammit hunefer osiris the four sons of horus horus isis and nephthys hail to you, osiris wennefer, the vindicated, the son of nut! you are the first-born of geb, the great one who came forth from nut. shout with joy, osiris, for i have come to you; i am horus, i have saved you alive today. the book of the dead re-harakhty thoth after osiris descended to the underworld, he could no longer rule his earthly kingdom, so he bequeath

h images. later rationalizations of this myth explained the gold simply as a bribe to dana s guards. zeus in love looking down on the young and beautiful dana incarcerated in her bronze tower, zeus fell in love and was determined to visit her. barred windows although acrisius is said to have loved his daughter dana, he selfishly shut her away behind closed doors in order to save his own life. the sons of zeus and europa z eus and europa (see below) had three sons: minos (see p. 56, hadamanthys, and sarpedon. minos, who had been made heir to the cretan throne by his stepfather asterion, quarreled with his brothers and drove them from the island. as zeus sons, they both became kings elsewhere. rhadamanthys also tutored heracles (see pp. 50 51) and is said to have married heracles mother alcm

betrayed her own father and used her magic for both good and ill, to help jason in his task. matchless crew the crew of the argo probably consisted originally of men of thessaly, but became enlarged over time by the addition of heroes such as hercules and orpheus (see pp. 30 31, as well as men from various greek cities eager to share in the glory. among the crew were zetes and calais, the winged sons of the north wind; castor and polydeuces, the dioscuri; peleus, the father of achilles; telamon, the father of ajax; lynceus, who had superhuman eyesight; and mopsus, the seer. pursuing fleet the fleet of king ae tes failed to catch the argo, largely through the wiles of medea, who inherited her father s ruthless temperament. helpless victim the bound victim here is medea s brother apsyrtus

ing cassandra, the trojan princess he had brought back as his lover. a prophetess, cassandra had warned agamemnon, but it was her fate never to be believed. several years later, orestes, to avenge his father s death, killed his mother and aegisthus, a crime of matricide, which led him to be driven mad by the furies. 61 leda and the swan twin destinies the twin brothers were known as the dioscuri( sons of zeus) and, as castor and pollux, became important roman deities. when castor was fatally wounded in a quarrel with their twin cousins lynceus and idas, polydeuces begged his father zeus not to let him outlive his brother. taken to olympus, polydeuces refused to accept his immortality while castor remained in the underworld. so they compromised, spending one day on olympus and the next in h

uld not hear the sirens seductive chant. odysseus and polyphemus by tibaldi pellegrino (1527 96) odysseus stabs polyphemus in the eye, which bubbles and hisses before winking out. when his neighbors call out to ask who is hurting him, the cyclops shrieks nobody and they do not come to his aid. the cyclopes t he cyclopes were one-eyed giants. the poet hesiod says that there were three of them, the sons of uranus (cronos) and gaia, and that they forged zeus thunderbolts these cyclopes were killed by apollo for the death of asclepius (see p. 39. the ones odysseus meets tend sheep and live on an island now thought to be sicily. landing there, odysseus and his men were shut in a cave by the cyclops polyphemus, who ate several of them. odysseus who told the giant that his name was nobody made hi

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as given in marriage to peleus because of the remarks of prometheus or themis [that she would bear a son greater than his father. greek lyric v melanippides frag 765 (from scholiast on homer s iliad "the titanes had children. atlas (who holds the sky on his shoulders, prometheus, epimetheus, and menoitios (whom zeus struck with a thunderbolt in the titane battle and confined to tartaros, were all sons of iapetos and asia -apollodorus 1.8 -9 "when it came time for the birth, prometheus (or hephaistos, according to some) by the river tiron struck the head of zeus with and ax, and from his crown athene sprang up, clad in her armor -apollodorus 1.20 "prometheus, after forming men from water and earth, gave them fire, which he had hidden in a stalk of giant fennel to escape the notice of zeus

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

and appears to be a completely separate entity from the analogue. in the same way, this world is an allegory of an allegory or an expansion of an expansion etc, of the name of g-d. if it is understood correctly it reveals g-d all the more. however, if it is misread or misunderstood it may conceal g-d s light totally. the lower unity from all the above we may understand the statement of the twelve sons of yisrael to their father. they told him "hear o israel, the l-rd our g-d, the l-rd is one("shma yisrael, havayah elokeinu, havayah echad. it is explained in the talmud that what they were saying was that just as in your heart there is only one (only g-d exists, so too in our hearts there is only one. as explained above, yaakov is tiferet of the world of atzilut, which is totally bound up wi

ael, the l-rd our g-d, the l-rd is one("shma yisrael, havayah elokeinu, havayah echad. it is explained in the talmud that what they were saying was that just as in your heart there is only one (only g-d exists, so too in our hearts there is only one. as explained above, yaakov is tiferet of the world of atzilut, which is totally bound up with the self of g-d. in contrast, the consciousness of the sons of yaakov was in the world of briyah. what they meant was that just as in atzilut "he and his life force (lights) and organs (vessels) are one, likewise, in briyah only g-d exists. in other words, just as before tzimtzum there was "he and his name alone, so too after tzimtzum, there is only he and his name alone, as explained above on the verse "i havayah have not changed. this is also the ex

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

setting for accomplishing their mission, to be a glight to the nations h and disseminate divine consciousness through reality, making the world into g-d fs home. the verse gfor through isaac it will be called for you seed h is understood to mean that abraham fs true seed, the genetic line of the jewish people, is passed on only through isaac, and not through abraham fs other sons, ishmael and the sons of keturah.16 furthermore, the word for gthrough isaac h in this verse can also mean gin isaac, h and this is taken to indicate that only part of isaac fs seed will transmit the genetic line of the jewish people. thus, only jacob plays this role, and not esau, isaac fs other son.17 then, in abraham [g-d] found [a vessel for] all the seed of israel, and the souls that existed before the world

u. saul [shaul, the king of israel was from this manifestation; that is why he died without establishing a dynasty. only david [did this, for he was [the holy manifestation of meheitavel, and ggood looking. h9 meheitavel was the wife of hadar, the eighth king, who did not die, since he was the precursor of the world of tikun. meheitavel means gthe one made good by g-d. h when samuel inspected the sons of jesse, looking for the one g-d intended to be the next king of israel, david was described as being ggood looking. h since saul was derived from the side of binah, which is above the structure [of the seven lower sefirot, he was tall, as it is written, gfrom his shoulder upwards he was above all the people. h10 this is also why the sages said that there was no fault in his kingship, for no

as in particular because they felt joseph was blemishing the sefirah of yesod, diverting it to the left channel, g-d forbid, by slandering them to their father, this being the antithesis of peace. as we are told in the narrative, gjoseph brought their evil report to their father. h1 rashi notes: ghe told his father that they were eating flesh torn from a live animal, that they made fun of the the sons of the handmaidens [bilhah and zilpah, calling them slaves, and that he suspected them of illicit sexual relations. h in the idiom of our sages, peace is termed the ultimate vessel for containing blessing. this is clear because acrimony will cause any blessings.whether of health, prosperity, or fulfillment.to be squandered. thus, peace is associated with the sefirah of yesod, for yesod is the

s power-high assumes sexual proportions in the mind/body of the one doing this, and is therefore a blemish in yesod. 1 genesis 37:2. the arizal on parashat vayeisheiv 190 thus, it was in reality not joseph who was blemishing yesod but his brothers. by reported their behavior to their father, joseph was in fact trying to safeguard the integrity of yesod. they also derided [their half-brothers] the sons of the handmaidens, and this is clearly a violation of the principle of peace. they called them slaves when they were in fact free men, the opposite of slaves. here again, they were in fact guilty of what they were accusing joseph of. of the twelve brothers, reuben, simeon, levi, judah, isaachar, and zebulun were the sons of jacob fs first wife, leah; joseph and benjamin were the sons of his

violation of the principle of peace. they called them slaves when they were in fact free men, the opposite of slaves. here again, they were in fact guilty of what they were accusing joseph of. of the twelve brothers, reuben, simeon, levi, judah, isaachar, and zebulun were the sons of jacob fs first wife, leah; joseph and benjamin were the sons of his second wife, rachel; dan and naftali were the sons of rachel fs handmaiden, bilhah; and gad and asher were the sons of leah fs handmaiden, zilpah. the six sons of leah taunted the four sons of the handmaidens as being slaves by birth, i.e, unworthy of being bonafide members of the holy family. yesod is called geverything, h for it includes all the emotional attributes. in the verse, gyours, o g-d, is the greatness, and the power, and the beau

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

thy house hath eaten me up" and "i desire to be dissolved and to be with thee" and finally, that not the least vestige of misunderstanding or misconception may remain as to the objects of this divine theurgy, let me reproduce one last quotation from this same ritual. referring to the supemals and the temple that in old time was built on high, the speech adds "the holy place was made waste and the sons of the house of wisdom were taken away into the captivity of the senses. we have worshipped since then in a house made with hands, receiving a sacramental ministration by a derived light in place of the cohabiting glory. and yet, amidst signs and symbols the tokens of the higher presence have never been wanting in our hearts. by the waters of babylon we have sat down and wept, but we have eve

of that higher will which is in kether. also it is the peculiar faculty of neschamah to aspire unto that which is beyond. the higher will manifests itself through yechidah. the chiah is the real life principle, as distinct from the more <214> illusionary life of the physical body. the shining flame of the divine fire, the kefher of the body, is the real self of the incarnation. yet but few of the sons of men know it or feel its presence. still less do they believe in or comprehend those higher potencies-angelic, archangelic or divine, of which the manifestation directly touching yechidah is the higher genius. this yechidah in the ordinary man can but rarely act through the spiritual consciousness, seeing that for it to do so the king of the physical body, that is the lower will, must rise

me time with a dark reptilian god associated with typhon (see description of three in one, in "z. 3" he is the accusor, the evil genius, who would bind the candidate's soul in darkness with forces of the qlippoth. in the neophyte initiation the accusor rises from the base of the altar at the time of the soul's greatest danger. during this vulnerable time, four invisible stations attributed to the sons of horus3 protect the vital organs, symbolic of the essential life forces, until after the oath has been taken and judgment has been passed. before the hierophant administers the oath he leaves the throne of the east. the god-form of osiris, represented by the hierophant on the throne, remains there maintaining the balance of forces in the temple. as the hierophant passes between the pillars

in the place of the gathering waters. terrible was the silence of that untreated world- immeasurable the depth of that abyss. and the countenances of darkness half-formed arose- they abode not- they hasted away- and in the darkness of vacancy, the spirit moved and the lightbearers existed for a space. i have said darkness of darkness- are not the countenances of darkness fallen with kings? do the sons of the night of time last for ever? and have they not yet passed away? before all things are the watersand the darkness and the gates of the land of night. and the chaos cried aloud for the unity of form- and the face of the eternal arose. before the glory of that countenance the night rolled back and the darkness hasted away. in the waters beneath philosophus ritual 185 was that face reflect

v. i (nag hammadi) god names of the quarters the 1 michael armozel bataivah four 2 uriel oroiael iczhikal arch- 3 raphael daveithe raagiosl angels 4 gabriel eleleth edlpmaa 'the seven" 1 uriel the 2 raphael seven 3 raguel in 4 michael the 5 zerachiel presence 6 gabriel 7 remiel the seven thrones (papyri graecae magicae) achlal lalaphenourphen baleeo bolbeo bolbeoch bolbesro yyphtho john dee: the sons of light i ih nr dmal heeoa beigia stimcul note: these lists are meant only as a suggestion for inquiry. h.s. 208 the golden dawn: volume 11 book three e. ofaltarandstand in gradesigns. 2ndad. in s 'vesphi1. incense, makes a cross over it. phil. walks round repeating 04--b 7 words while 2ndad. stands in= sign. phil. returns s. removes shade. 2ndad. takes him to altar, directs him to place lnc

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

ory: ye are the light of golden candelabra; i am the flame of sacrifice. let us each fulfil our destinies. h having uttered these words, the comet tosses back her burning hair, uplifts her fiery shield and plunges into infinite space, seeming to be lost for ever. thus satan appeared and disappeared in the allegorical narratives of the bible. gnow there was a day, h says the book of job, gwhen the sons of god came to present them selves before the lord, and satan came also among them. and the lord said unto satan: ewhence comest thou? f then satan answered the lord, and said: efrom going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. f h a gnostic gospel, discovered in the east by a learned traveller of our acquaintance, explains the genesis of light to the profit of lucifer

ah. it signifies also grand architect, for the pentagram on every side represents an a. by placing it in such a manner that two of its points are in the ascendant and one is below, we may see the horns, ears and beard of the hierarchic goat of mendes, when it becomes the sign of infernal evocations. the allegorical star of the magi is no other than the mysterious pentagram; and those three kings, sons of zoroaster, conducted by the blazing star to the cradle of the microcosmic god, are themselves a full demonstration of the kabalistic and magical beginnings of christian doc-trine. one of these kings is white, another black and the third brown. the white king offers gold, symbol of light and life; the black king presents myrrh, image of death and of darkness; the brown king sacrifices incen

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

gave benefits, mystically signified under words of several [levels or transpositions of] representation. these words, they thought, were introduced by the gods, who knew the nature of things, and were [then] http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_60.htm (5 of 11 [10/9/2001 12:35:19 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 60-69) delivered by them to the first men that lived, who were called the sons of the gods, and giants, as opposed to the filii terrae [who were] idiots and weaklings [these sons of the gods, as immediately formed, and then instructed by them [had the secret commonwealth 65 from] hence the sacred language of their mysteries [which] was believed to have magical force from the gods, to do the deed [required of it. this strong and vigorous force, but secretly conveyed, was

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ath, whom you now know as a bitter sting. arise in your glory, behold the genius of your creation, and be prideful of being, for i am the same- i who am the highest of life. the fourteenth part noromi bagie pasbs oiad ds trint mirc ob thil dods tolham caosgo homin ds brin oroch quar micma bial oiad aisro tox dsivm aai baltim zacar od zamran odo cicle qaa, zorge, lap zirdo noco mad, hoath iaida. o sons of fury and daughters of perfection who are ageless amidst the creatures of earth, hear my word that is a promise from the one who brought you knowledge of all perfection. arise in your glory, behold the genius of your creation, and be prideful of being, for i am the same- i who am the highest of life. the fifteenth part ils tabaan lialprt casarman vpaahi chis darg dsocido caosgi orscor ds om

incense burner (a censer on a chain is best. any other item on the altar to personally enhance the ritual is up to the individual. the reason for this ritual the reason for this ritual is twofold: to seek assistance from entities of higher intelligence, and to declare one's self in a nonnatural sense. in other words, black and white concepts in the same working. the reason for the use of the four sons of har-wer is since he is a creation of set, then that proceeding from him is also a tool to be used in the hands of the setian. as long as the setian realizes that the entities are there to help in his personal xeper, then "do as thou wilt is the whole of the law" the aethyr to be invoked is the thirtieth, tex. this is the aethyr of the four regions. this is the region of firmness and stabil

ifted it to her crimson lips and drunk thereof. no single drop hath fallen, lest all be lost [opening of the gate and main invocation] set, lord of that ancient land, gift of the nile: time melts into nothingness, and i stand amidst the columns of thy house in pamat-et. brooding in silent majesty, the gods gaze down upon golden sands rippling in the wind. as thou revealed thy wisdom to the chosen sons of khem in dim aeons past, so do i partake of the divine gift. darkness descends upon earth, and grim osiris shall open the doors of the house of death. o thou who bear the crook for thy people and the flail for thy enemies, bring swift justice to those who seek thee not! just as amon-ra journeys beyond the western horizon into the place of torment and destruction, to arise again at dawn, so

SATANGEL

lore it is micha-el who appeared to moses in the midst of the burning bush. he appears again in the burial scene where he disputes with satan the possession of the old patriarch s corpse. in one account micha-el is said to have single handedly annihilated a hundred and eighty-five thousand men from the army of sennercherib, the assyrian king who threatened jerusalem in 701 b.c. in the war of the sons of light against the sons of darkness, which is one of the dead sea scrolls, he is named as the prince of light, who leads a host against belial. in this role he is the viceroy of heaven, which was also the title of lucifer before the fall. there are muslim traditions which describe micha-el as possessing wings the colour of green emerald k covered with saffron hairs, each of them containing

a kind of inquisition of the celestial beings. he was later reinstated. sari-el also known as suri-el, suriy-el, zerachi-el and sarqu-el, his name translates as god s command. according to enoch, sariel is responsible for the fate of those angels who transgress the laws. with the self contradiction typical of all theologians he also lists him as one of the fallen angels, whilst in the wars of the sons of light against the sons of darkness his name appears on the shields of a unit of the forces of light. he is often identified as one of the angels of death, and as the angel who gave knowledge to moses. ragu-el friend of god, also called rasu-il, rufa-el, akrasi-el. according to enoch this is the angel who takes vengeance upon the world of the luminaries, i.e. who watches over and polices th

t way of explaining the events of genesis 6, where the grigori or watchers descend. since, according to official doctrine of the time, angels are sexless and unable to reproduce, such an explanation was required. early commentators claim that nine tenths of the watchers descended, although later these numbers were reversed when it was realised that such a claim gave considerably more force to the sons of darkness than to the sons of light..and the angels, the children of heaven, saw and lusted after them and said to one another: come let us choose wives from amongst the children of men and beget us children. and all the others together took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms a

nd beget us children. and all the others together took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. according to hebraic lore the fall was precipitated by a group of angels known as the bene ha elohim or grigori, sons of god known also as the watchers, who succumbed to the corruptions of the earthly plane. if they were truly angels, their form was nevertheless monstrous. generally they are described as serpents and dragons with seven heads, each with two faces, and as twelve wings. as in the above passage they were seduced by the potentials of the flesh and descended onto mount hermon 12,000 years ago. the

e, meaning to lie beneath. female demons who steal men s seed during the night. erotic dreams and sexual vampires. surgat (grimorium verum, honorius. a subordinate spirit of lucifer. has power to open all locks, to locate and transport treasures. sustugriel (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of satanachia. teaches magickal art. he gives good familiars and furnishes mandragores. sut one of the sons of iblis, a demon of the order of flies. tehom hebrew form of the babylonian tiamat, queen of the waters of the deep. the abyss itself (gen 1:2. tiamat (babylon. primordial mother dragon of chaos, defeated by marduk and torn apart to become the earth and the sky. equated with typhon and leviathan. trimasel (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of satanachia. teaches chemistry, alchemy, and a

SATANIC BIBLE

aaf nor-mo-lapi (english) i have set my feet in the south, and have looked about me, saying: are not the thunders of increase those which reign in the second angle? under whom i have placed those whom none hath yet numbered, but one; in whom the second beginnings of things are and wax strong, successively adding the numbers of time, and their powers doth stand as the first of the nine! arise, you sons of pleasure, and visit the earth; for i am the lord, your god, which is and liveth forever! in the name of satan, move, and show yourselves as pleasant deliverers, that you may praise him among the sons of men! the fifth key the fifth enochian key affirms the satanic placing of traditional priests and wizards upon the earth for the purpose of misdirection (enochian) sapahe zodimii du-i-be, od

SATANIC RITUALS

who are in accord with my desires. i appear in divers manners to those who are faithful and under my command. i give and take away; i enrich and impoverish; i cause both happiness and misery. i do all this in keeping with the characteristics of each epoch. and none has a right to interfere with my management of affairs. those who oppose me i afflict with disease; but my own shall not die like the sons of adam that are without. none shall live in this world longer than the time set by me and if i so desire, i send a person a second or a third time into this world or into some other by the transfer of will (pause, gong is struck) iii i lead to the straight path without a revealed book; i direct aright my beloved and my chosen ones by unseen means. all my teachings are easily applicable to al

shall live in this world longer than the time set by me and if i so desire, i send a person a second or a third time into this world or into some other by the transfer of will (pause, gong is struck) iii i lead to the straight path without a revealed book; i direct aright my beloved and my chosen ones by unseen means. all my teachings are easily applicable to all tunes and all conditions. now the sons of adam do not know the state of things that is to come. for this reason they fall into many errors. the beasts of the earth, the birds of heaven, and the fish of the sea are all under the control of my hands. all treasures and hidden things are known to me, and as i desire, i take them from one and bestow them upon another. i reveal my wonders to those who seek them, and in due time my mirac

SCHEM HA MEPHORESH

hich bare twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. and there shall be no more curse; but the throne of god and of the lamb shall be in it. this is exemplified in the drawing taken from the 3-8 altar diagram. the twelvemanner of fruits yielded every month answer to the signs of the zodiac and the twelve tribes of the sons of jacob. also to the twelve apostles. the healing leaves are those of schem ha-mephoresch or the divided name of zauir anpin, the microprosopus, the christ, the lamb of elohim, whose throne is in the tree, from which throne issues the river of the waters of life. 3 the seventy two leaves of the tree of life are zauir anpin or microprosopus. now the twelve sons of jacob go down into egypt, th

he twelve sons of jacob go down into egypt, that is the kingdom, malkuth, which has been destroyed in the fall, and cut from the sephirotic tree by the intersecting folds of the great dragon who then becomes its ruler as shown in the great altar diagram of the 4-7 grade. behold, i am against thee, pharoah, king of egypt, the great dragon thai lieth in the midst of the rivers. and the first of the sons of jacob who goeth down is joseph whose two tribes, ephraim and manasseh, balance each other in chesed and geburah. that is to say, that there first comes down into the desolated earth the combined power of mercy and severity. and ephraim, the kerubic sign of the ox, is the natural ruler of earth in malkuth, under the power of h final of the holy name, the bride, eve, and the queen. and the s

ini planet: sun degree: 20-25 meaning: fountain of wisdom. psalm 90:13: return 0 tetragrammaton how long! and repent thee concerning thy servants. 66th angel name: menqel sign: gemini planet: sun degree: 25-30 meaning: nourishing all. psalm 38:21: forsake me not 0 tetragrammaton, my god be not thou far from me. 67th angel name: aiael sign: cancer planet: venus degree: 0-5 meaning: delights of the sons of men. psalm 37:4: delight in tetragrammaton, and he shall 26 give the desire of thy heart. 68th angel name: chabeoiah sign: cancer planet: venus degree: 5-10 meaning: most liberal giver. psalm 106:1: 0 give thanks unto tetragrammaton, for he is good, for his mercy endureth forever. 69th angel name: rohael sign: cancer planet: mercury degree: 10-15 meaning: beholding all. psalm 16:5: tetragr

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

um created himself out of the void, and then either spit or sneezed out shu, the god of air, and tefnut, the goddess of moisture. these two in turn gave birth to geb, the earth god, and nut, the sky goddess. from them came two pairs of siblings: osiris and isis, and set and nephtys. eventually ra, the sun god, took the place of atum in the pantheon; later pharaohs, for instance, called themselves sons of ra. ancient egypt and mesopotamia. reproduced by permission of thomson gale. red sea mediterranean sea nile delta river river p e r s i a n g u l f tigris euphrates nile river sinai peninsula arabian peninsula a s i a a f r i c a upper egypt lower egypt memphis aswan thebes ur luxor karnak babylon uruk nineveh khorsabad amarna (akhetaten) heliopolis giza (cairo) n 0 150 300 mi. 0 150 300 k

of the gods worshipped by egyptians. some estimates put the total number as high as one or two thousand different deities. what began as animal worship led to an immense pantheon. amen or amen-ra became the most powerful of the gods, center of the national cult; the cult of osiris was second most powerful. the worship of the sun god ra led to the construction of immense pyramids for the pharaohs, sons of ra. the pharaoh was considered a living god, appointed by horus (son and avenger of osiris. for ancient egyptians the gods were subject to the same sense of order and justice, maat, that mortals were. the universe had been created through maat as a replacement for the chaos that once existed. interaction with the gods was intended to establish maat in society. it was the duty of the pharao

os s actions. world religions: almanac 223 greco-roman religion and philosophy though the romans did not develop a separate myth about the creation of the world itself, they did attach great importance to the founding of rome. in addition to virgil s story of the founding of rome, the aeneid, there is a second major myth that explains the founding of the city. romulus and remus were two brothers, sons of the god of warfare, mars. they were separated from their mother as infants. they were rescued by a female wolf and then was raised by a shepherd and his wife. when they reached adulthood they discovered their true heritage and established a city on the river tiber where the she-wolf had fed them. later, though, they became enemies, competing with each other to be the leader of the new city

brew, is perhaps the most important jewish holiday. most jews observe this holiday to some world religions: almanac 361 judaism extent, even those who are not otherwise religious. passover, which begins on the fourteenth day of the jewish month of nissan, commemorates the jewish escape from egypt after many years of slavery. the name refers to god passing over the homes of jews when the firstborn sons of egypt were slaughtered, as recorded in exodus, chapter 12. at the center of passover is the seder, a ceremonial dinner held in the home or the community on the first or first and second evenings of passover. one of the most recognizable features of passover and the seder is that jews avoid any breads or grain products that contain leaven, the substance that makes bread rise. this observanc

nger have any followers. in addition to orthodox zoroastrianism, which emphasizes the traditional doctrines, or principles, of the religion. the seven sects include the following: 1. zurvanism: zurvanism emerged late in the achaemenid period (700 331 bce. it was based on the belief that because ahura mazda did not create the evil angra mainyu (called ahriman by zurvans, the two must have been the sons of a third figure, zurvan, whose name means time. zurvanism was a pessimistic cult because it believed that zurvan had given ahriman dominion over the world, so the world was inherently evil. zurvanism died out by the seventh century. 2. kshnoon: this movement was begun in india in the early twentieth century by behramshah shroff (1857 1927, and it retains a few members, mostly in mumbai( pre

SEPHER HA BAHIR

way for those who fear you [that you have accomplished for those who find shelter in you. what remains for us in that which you have accomplished for those who find shelter in you. these are the ones who find shelter in your shadow in this world, who keep your torah, observe your commandments, and sanctify your name, unifying it secretly and publicly. the verse thus concludes, in the sight of the sons of man. 149. rabbi rahumai said: this teaches us that israel had light. torah is light, as it is written (proverbs 6:23, for a commandment is a lamp, torah is light [and the way of life is the rebuke of admonition. and we say that a lamp is a commandment, illumination (orah) oral torah, and light (or) is the written torah [how can we then say that the oral torah is light (or] because this lig

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crocosm. 26. gift of five human faces acting exteriorly. 27. gift of five powers to the soul. 28. adam kadmon, the heavenly man. 29. angelic beings. 30. man in the image of god. fourth order: world of spheres 31. the moon. 32. mercury. 33. venus. 34. sol. 35. mars. 36. jupiter. 37. saturn. 38. the firmament. 39. the primum mobile. 40. the empyrean heaven. fifih order: the angelic world 41. ishim--sons of fire. 42. auphanim--cherubim. 43. aralim--thrones. 44. chashmalim--dominions. 45. seraphim--virtues. 46. malakim--powers. 47. elohim--principalities. 48. beni elohim--angels. 49. cherubim--arch-angels. sixth order: the archetype 50. god. ain suph. he whom no mortal eye bath seen, and who has been known to jesus the messiah alone. note--the angels of the fifth or angelic world are arranged

SIFRA DETZNIYUTHA

wo. yod y is by itself, male. heh h female. heh h at first was dalet d, but after it was impregnated in yod y, it brought forth the vav v (thus, as in the heh h there is d v v d, and in the yod y is h h h h, hence vhy) 14 thus the yv d d vy is seen in its general appearance of vhy. once the yv d d vy has emitted that which is male and female, she is then settled, and he covers the mother. and the sons of elohim saw the daughters of adam.115 this is that which is written two men, spies, secretly saying.116 what is daughters of adam? as it is written then came two women, harlots, unto the king.117 on their account it is written for they saw the wisdom of elohim is in him. then came, and not in the beginning. in the wreath of the union of the fountains, there were two embracers from above in

o 10,000 years. thus it is written and you have placed upon me your hand.141 the giants were in the earth.142 this is that which is written: and from there it was parted and became four heads.143 from the place whence the garden was parted, it is called the giants, as it is written: and from there it was parted. they were in the earth in those days. but not afterwards. when yehoshua came. and the sons of elohim were hidden,144 when solomon came, and the daughters of adam were contained.145 thus it is written: and the delights of reading tvlnit (not reading tonlym ,ylnit. 17 the sons of adam that were cast out, from these were other spirits of not, contained in the supernal wisdom, thus it is written: and the lord hvhy gave wisdom to solomon.146 and it is written: and he was wise unto all o

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

ting that all the languages of the earth were known to the genuine brotherhood of the rosy cross. did zanoni belong to this mystical fraternity, who, in an earlier age, boasted of secrets of which the philosopher's stone was but the least; who considered themselves the heirs of all that the chaldeans, the magi, the gymnosophists, and the platonists had taught; and who differed from all the darker sons of magic in the virtue of their lives, the purity of their doctrines, and their insisting, as the foundation of all wisdom, on the subjugation of the senses, and the intensity of religious faith? a glorious sect, if they lied not! and, in truth, if zanoni had powers beyond the race of worldly sages, they seemed not unworthily exercised. the little known of his life was in his favour. some act

w, so wildly blended, which have at intervals diversified my doom, are better than the calm and bloodless tenor of thy solitary way thou, who lovest nothing, hatest nothing, feelest nothing, and walkest the world with the noiseless and joyless footsteps of a dream "you mistake" replied he who had owned the name of mejnour "though i care not for love, and am dead to every passion that agitates the sons of clay, i am not dead to their more serene enjoyments. i carry down the stream of the countless years, not the turbulent desires of youth, but the calm and spiritual delights of age. wisely and deliberately i abandoned youth forever when i separated my lot from men. let us not envy or reproach each other. i would have saved this neapolitan, zanoni (since so it now pleases thee to be called

ll, indeed, the same race that gave its glory to the ancient world bestowed a second youth upon the new. for the pure greeks, the hellenes, whose origin has bewildered your dreaming scholars, were of the same great family as the norman tribe, born to be the lords of the universe, and in no land on earth destined to become the hewers of wood. even the dim traditions of the learned, which bring the sons of hellas from the vast and undetermined territories of northern thrace, to be the victors of the pastoral pelasgi, and the founders of the line of demi-gods; which assign to a population bronzed beneath the suns of the west, the blue-eyed minerva and the yellow-haired achilles (physical characteristics of the north; which introduce, amongst a pastoral people, warlike aristocracies and limite

e raving maniac, or blackens the dungeon of despairing crime, thou art not my vanquisher, but my slave "and as a slave will i serve thee! command thy slave, o beautiful chaldean! hark, the wail of women! hark, the sharp shriek of thy beloved one! death is in thy palace! adon-ai comes not to thy call. only where no cloud of the passion and the flesh veils the eye of the serene intelligence can the sons of the starbeam glide to man. but i can aid thee! hark" and zanoni heard distinctly in his heart, even at that distance from the chamber, the voice of viola calling in delirium on her beloved one "oh, viola, i can save thee not" exclaimed the seer, passionately "my love for thee has made me powerless "not powerless; i can gift thee with the art to save her, i can place healing in thy hand "fo

ance. she inhaled the odour, she laved her temples with the liquid, and suddenly her life seemed to spring up from the previous faintness, to spring, to soar, to float, to dilate upon the wings of a bird. the room vanished from her eyes. away, away, over lands and seas and space on the rushing desire flies the disprisoned mind! upon a stratum, not of this world, stood the world-born shapes of the sons of science, upon an embryo world, upon a crude, 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

SOLOMON

"i am called metathiax. i cause the reins to ache. if i hear the words 'ad na l, imprison metathiax' i at once retreat" 82. the eleventh said "i am called katanikota l. i create strife and wrongs in men's homes, and send on them hard temper. if any one would be at peace in his home, let him write on seven leaves of laurel the name of the angel that frustrates me, along with these names: iae, ie, sons of saba th, in the name of the great god let him shut up katanikota l. then let him wash the laurel-leaves in water, and sprinkle his house with the water, from within to the outside. and at once i retreat" 83. the twelfth said "i am called saphathora l, and i inspire partisanship in men, and delight in causing them to stumble. if any one will write on paper these names of angels, iac, ieal

s. and woods decay not they brought me, for the equipment of the temple of god. 109. and among them also the queen of the south, being a witch, came in great concern and bowed low before me to the earth. and having heard my wisdom, she glorified the god of israel, and she made formal trial of all my wisdom, of all love in which i instructed her, according to the wisdom imparted to me. and all the sons of israel glorified god. 110. and behold, in those days one of the workmen, of ripe old age, threw himself down before me, and said "king solomon, pity me, because i am old" so i bade him stand up, and said "tell me, old man, all you will" and he answered "i beseech you king, i have an only-born son, and he insults and beats me openly, and plucks out the hair of my head, and threatens me with

i hardened his heart. i am he whom iannes and iambres invoked homing [1] with moses in egypt. i am he who fought against moses [2] with wonders with signs [1. o koyx menoi in the ms, a vox nihili. if we had the apocryph of iannes and iambres we might understand the reference. 2. 2 tim. iii. 8] 126. i said therefore to him "how wast thou found in the red sea" and he answered "in the exodus of the sons of israel i hardened the heart of pharaoh. and i excited his heart and that of his ministers. and i caused them to pursue after the children of israel. and pharaoh followed with (me) and all the egyptians. then i was present there, and we followed together. and we all came up upon the red sea. and it came to pass when the children of israel had crossed over, the water returned and hid all the

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

by the nature of the sense-perceptible world, which is only to be comprehended by us as a manifold, dismembered domain. we might go still further into the spiritual processes underlying these images, but the intention here is only to indicate the principle underlying the formation of myths. special interest attaches from this point of view to the saga of prometheus. prometheus and epimetheus are sons of the titan iapetus. the titans are the children of the oldest generation of the gods, uranus (heaven) and gaia (earth. kronos, the youngest of the titans, usurped his father s throne and seized the rulership of the world. he was overthrown in his turn by his son, zeus, along with the other titans; zeus then became the supreme among the gods. in the titanomachy, prometheus sided with zeus, a

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

encyclopedia britannica says "the talmud is still the authoritative and practical guide of the great mass of the jews (from the 36 codex magica 9-volume german language translation of the babylonian talmud in the library of congress, washington, d.c) slaves and beasts slaves and beasts! that is what the zionists of israel consider those who aren't jewish. now we discover what the elitist, favored sons of the zionist illuminati think of you, me, and the masses. no wonder they kill without conscience through their instigation of world wars, through initiation of regional conflicts, and through assassinations and other criminal deeds. the elite plot and carry out heinous terrorist acts and institute financial crises and cultural upheavals to force the hegelian dialectical process along its de

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knew him not! the disciples then understood that jesus was referring to john the baptist. information gained from the dead sea scrolls, which were discovered near qumran in 1947 and are slowly being translated and released to the public, may have a great effect on both the jewish and christian religions. these scrolls refer often to a great teacher of righteousness and a great warfare between the sons of light and the sons of darkness. the qumran sect, known as the essenes, forms a definite link between judaism and christianity, and many scholars have suggested that jesus was a member of the group. the nag-hammadi scrolls, discovered in egypt in 1945, also give a strong indication that jesus may have been an essene, a student of the essenes, or at least closely associated with this apocaly

ed by a higher order of beings who interacted and communicated with certain humans the smartest, the strongest, the most intellectually flexible. eventually, these select humans produced what might be called demigods, semidivine human beings, who, in turn, could relay instructions from higher intelligences. in effect, steiner may have presented another definition of the children of humans and the sons of god referred to in the book of genesis, the hybrids that the ancient hebrews named nephilim, which does, in fact, mean demigods, men of great renown. steiner went on to speculate that within the larger evolving human race were the descendents of those divine-human hybrid beings, men and women who are animated by higher ideals, who regard themselves as children of a divine, universal power

t the shroud must not be conserved as a painting would be, or else we may destroy the only object on earth which is the blueprint of the future of our cosmos. there have always been critics, skeptics, and disbelievers when it comes to the authenticity of the shroud. even king abgar s second son, manu v, was a doubter, in spite of his father s alleged cure after viewing the face on the shroud. the sons of the byzantine emperor were also skeptics. bishop henri de poitieres of troyes (fl. mid-fourteenth century) vacillated between praising the exhibition in lirey, then trying to have it closed down. his successor, bishop pierre d arcis (fl. latefourteenth century, attempted to stop later showings of the burial cloth in lirey, but the pope ordered him to cease such efforts or face excommunicat

of creating synthetic humans in the same manner. then, vorilhon said, the extraterrestrial being explained that in a manner similar to the greek legend of pygmalion who created a statue so beautiful that he fell in love with it, so did certain of the elohim find the products of their laboratory artistry compellingly irresistible. the results, vorilhon said, were recorded in genesis 6:4: when the sons of god came in unto the daughters of men they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. the extraterrestrial told vorilhon that the elohim had sent great prophets, such as moses (c. 14th 13th century b.c.e, ezekial (sixth century b.c.e, the buddha (c. 563 c. 483 b.c.e, and muhammad (c. 570 632 c.e) to guide humankind. jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e, the

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the lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them the way and by night in a pillar of fire. the prophet daniel was another who described the use of a cloudy chariot for cosmic transportation. other ufo researchers say that if one were to read the creation story in genesis from the historical perspective of our current awareness of genetic engineering, the interaction between the sons of god and the fair daughters of men assumes a rather different interpretation: and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, that the sons of god saw the daughters of men were fair; so they took them wives of all whom they chose. there were giants on the earth in those days; and also after that, for the sons of god came in unto the

own (genesis 6:1 4. if those fallen angels of genesis should actually have been extraterrestrial scientists conducting experiments on female members of the developing strain of homo sapiens, they were carrying out a directive of the star gods to provide early humankind with a genetic boost. the hebrew word to describe demigods or men of great renown, those who were said to be the offspring of the sons of god and the daughters of men is nephilim. interestingly, the word used to denote true giants, as far as great stature was concerned, was rephaim. the israelites found such giants among the canaanite inhabitants of palestine. among these were the anakims of philisa and the emims of moab. goliath was a gittite, a man of great stature and bulk, but he was not a nephilim. in the apocryphal boo

rephaim. the israelites found such giants among the canaanite inhabitants of palestine. among these were the anakims of philisa and the emims of moab. goliath was a gittite, a man of great stature and bulk, but he was not a nephilim. in the apocryphal book of enoch (7:12, one learns more of the nonterrestrial entities who desire the daughters of men for their own interests: it happened after the sons of men had multiplied in those days, that elegant, beautiful daughters were born to them. and when the angels, the sons of heaven, beheld them, they became enamored of them, saying to each other: come, let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children. those researchers who believe that the bible contains many passages relating to t h e g a l e e n c y c l o

splintered rows. horses and chariots were burned up. the corpses of the fallen were mutilated by the terrible heat so that they looked other than human. many old traditions speak of a war between the forces of light and darkness that raged in humankind s prehistory. perhaps there were rival extraterrestrial forces that fought for dominance over prehistoric earth. according to some traditions, the sons of light vanquished certain dark magicians who sought to enslave developing humankind. whatever may have caused such a violent conflict, physical evidence exists on earth indicating that someone was exercising power of formidable energy. there are accounts of sand melted into glass in certain desert areas, of hill forts with vitrified portions of stone walls, of the remains of ancient cities

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d humankind. the science of alchemy was introduced to the western world at the beginning of the second century of the common era. it was, however, 200 years before the practice of the craft reached its zenith, concurrent with the persecutions of the pagans by the christians. zosimus of panapolis, self-appointed apologist of alchemy, cited a passage in genesis as the origin of the arcane art: gthe sons of god saw that the daughters of men were fair. h to this scriptural reference, zosimus added the tradition that in reward for their favors, the gsons of god, h who were believed to be fallen angels, endowed these women with the knowledge of how to make jewels, colorful garments, and perfumes with which to enhance their earthly charms. the seven principal angels whose favor the alchemist soug

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

the church, resumed his arms, and struck the apostate in the darkness, in the midst of his army and of his victories. sorry martyrs, who rise from the dead to become hangmen! too credulous emperor, who believed in his gods, and in the virtues of the past! when the kings of france were hedged around with the adoration of their people, when they were regarded as the lord's anointed, and the eldest sons of the church, they cured scrofula. a man who is the fashion can always do miracles when he wishes. cagliostro may have been only a charlatan, but as soon as opinion had made of him "the divine cagliostro" he was expected to work miracles; and they happened. when cephas barjona was nothing but a jew proscribed by nero, retailing to the wives of slaves a specific for eternal life, cephas barjo

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

to rule over the children of israel, that is to say, before the emanation of the microprosopus, or lesser countenance. this single king or state is that which reigns after the synthesis of the multiple fragmentary states of identity that flicker in and out in the constant picture-show of our awareness, each of which in its turn demands temporary rulership. the edomite kings were seen by loria as sons of the mother, the pillar on the left hand, perfect severity, but had no foundation in the holy ancient one. they are the "empty lights" dispelled by the source of lights which is concealed within the mother. halevi states that the first origin of the concept of the klippoth lies in the kabbalistic model of the universe itself being composed of a series of shells. the first kernel is the ligh

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

ned through the return to the celestial origins. o lord of mercy, deign to grant all these souls an eternal rest for a time immemorial and may the light which never dies out radiate upon them. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator adds a larger quantity of incense into the censer, meditates a while and then 24 prays for the wandering souls: o almighty and eternal god, thou who deigned to save the sons of israel from attacks of the fiery serpents during their long wandering of forty years in the desert by merely looking with confidence upon the brazen serpent exposed to the view of all. deign in thy clemency, o lord of mercy, to grant the wandering souls lost in the darkness of beyond, grace so that they may recollect the name of the redeemer and thus escape the attacks and snares of the de

ake in their essence a sorrowful and sincere repentance of this inexpiable crime. may they return forever into their principle8 on the day of the last sabbath, destroyed in their accident but saved at least in their substance, and may they thus, o god eternal, just and powerful, proclaim finally thy glory in a world without end. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator recites now psalm 68 which the sons of israel intoned at the moment of combat, when the ark was being lifted and put on the shoulders of the levites. it applies here to the daemons: let god arise, let his enemies be scattered; let them also that hate him flee before him. as smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of god. but let the righteous be glad; le

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

oss between terrestrial and extraterrestrial, that slowly more and more earthly women were being impregnated by spacemen and eventually the whole planet would be populated with a hybrid race. some of the games i was involved in were obviously designed to convince me of the reality of this crossbreeding experiment. but i knew it was just an updated version of the biblical begatting theme when the "sons of god went into the daughters of men" i noted that as soon as my attitude toward a game changed, the entities switched to a new game. my pregnant contactees suddenly became unpregnant. i was more concerned with squeezing accurate predictions for the future out of my mysterious friends. the dollar, i was told, would soon be devalued (it wasn't devalued until years later) red china would be ad

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

d" or "evil. marduk won this battle- in much the same way that later st. george and st. michael would defeat the serpent again- the cosmos was created from the body of the slain serpent, and man was created from the blood of the slain commander of the ancient army, kingu, thereby making man a descendent of the blood of the enemy, as well as the "breath" of the elder gods; a close parallel to the "sons of god and daughters of men" reference in the old testament. yet, though the identity of the victor is clear, there were- and are- certain persons and organisations that dared side with the vanquished, believing the ancient ones to be a source of tremendous, and most unbelievable, power. worship of the ancient ones in history "let them curse it that curse the day, who are skilful to rouse lev

slay the elder gods by stealth. with magick charm and spell absu fought, but was slain by the sorcery of the elder gods. and it was their first victory. his body was lain in an empty space in a crevice of the heavens hid he was lain, but his blood cried out to the abode of heaven. tiamat enraged filled with an evil motion said let us make monsters that they may go out and do battle against these sons of iniquity the murderous offspring who have destroyed a god. hubur arose, she who fashioneth all things, and possessor of magick like unto our master. she added matchless weapons to the arsenals of the ancient ones, she bore monster-serpents sharp of tooth, long of fang, she filled their bodies with venom for blood roaring dragons she has clothed with terror has crowned them with halos, maki

and severed the head of tiamat from its body. and all was silent. remember! marduk victor took the tablets of destiny unbidden hung them around his neck. acclaimed of the elder gods was he. first among the elder ones was he. he split the sundered tiamat in twain and fashioned the heavens and the earth, with a gate to keep the ancient ones without. with a gate whose key is hid forever save to the sons of marduk save to the followers of our master enki first in magick among the gods. from the blood of kingu he fashioned man. he constructed watchtowers for the elder gods fixing their astral bodies as constellations that they may watch the gate of absu the gate of tiamat they watch the gate of kingu they oversee the gate whose guardian is iak sakkak they bind. all the elder powers resist the

of the earth. and none may dare entreat further for to invoke death is to utter the final prayer. ii of the generations of the ancient ones utukk xul the account of the generations of the ancient ones here rendered of the generations of the ancient ones here remembered. cold and rain that erode all things they are the evil spirits in the creation of anu spawned plague gods pazuzu and the beloved sons of eng the offspring of ninnkigal rending in pieces on high bringing destruction below they are children of the underworld loudly roaring on high gibbering loathsomely below they are the bitter venom of the gods. the great storms directed from heaven those are they the owl, messenger of uggi lord of death those they are they are the children born of earth that in the creation of anu were spaw

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

y they do. when the zohar writes that a certain person met rabbi shimon it means that that person rose to the degree of rabbi shimon and because of that can see and understand what rabbi shimon can. this is how a degree gets its name, and when a person climbs to it, he is called by that name. if he attains only a part of that degree he is regarded as a son to it. that is why we are considered the sons of adam, because we are all parts of the degree called adam, and our task is to attain that part individually. a person who rises to a certain degree feels what happens in it. he attains its characteristics and sees the creator accordingly. if he climbs higher, the picture that he saw in the previous degree changes too. it is not like a movie theatre playing 125 different films, one for each

ing there is the ape. it is not completely an animal, yet cannot be turned into a human. the only thing that could happen is if a godly spark comes and pulls one toward the spiritual, and that creates in it a desire to attain something that is greater than this world, then man becomes the son of man. according to this definition of the kabbalah, there aren t many people on earth who can be called sons of man. in fact, there are very few of them. science and technology have been developed only to lead us to a dead-end, to the understanding that this is not the way to go. but before we look for the new way, we must first reach that dead-end. all the kabbalists had students. it is strictly forbidden to classify students as better ones or not such good ones, or to ones that want spirituality m

THE SHADOWED ONES

es of the sun seek their nourishment and pleasure in the fading sun in the evening. it was azazel who first tasted the flesh of a daughter of man. her skin darkly smooth, beautiful in its innocence and gentle movements, drew him close seeking the warmth of a body. against the natural order conceived by other powers, azazel and his brethren took wives and soon many were giving birth to daemons the sons of fallen angels and the beauty of woman. these giants of the earth were intelligent, bold and strong among mankind. soon hungering for continued existence they taught them and the family of their wives the crafts which we were cultivating instinctually. no longer did many look at the beasts of nature as plagues and terrors, but they listened to their heartbeat and knew their feelings by the

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

problems of psychology, of sex, of the carnal, of the pathic, and of evil, all inter-webbed and woven with the eternal filament of good. and so if we read this strange poet aright, we shall see as we progress onwards, that he has struck a sonorous note from the rim of time, fulfilled of the knowledge of good and evil, sweet to the ears of those who are born children by the daughters of men to the sons of god, sweet as that mystic fruit was to the lips of eve, daughter of god, child of the mystic man. but we must speed on, taking in this chapter swift glances at the magnificent scenery that these volumes offer up to us, plucking the lilies of spring and the roses of summer, and weave them into a laureate wreath with the fiery leaves of the dying year *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p

THE BOOK OF GATES

restraint by means of his 'fetters" of the four setefiu gods it is said "those who are in this picture grasp the fetters of the being of two-fold evil, and they say to ra 'come forward, ra, pass onwards, khuti. verily fetters have been laid upon neha-hra, and apep is in his bonds" p. 273 of the twelve other gods who grasp the chain it is said "those who are in this picture [act] as warders of the sons of the helpless one, and they keep guard (over the deadly chain which is in the hidden hand, for the dead bodies are placed with the things [which belong to them] in the circuit of the battlements of khenti-amenti. and these gods say 'let darkness be upon thy face, o uamemti, and ye shall be destroyed, o ye sons of the helpless one, by the hidden hand, which shall cause evils [to come upon yo

e hidden hand, for the dead bodies are placed with the things [which belong to them] in the circuit of the battlements of khenti-amenti. and these gods say 'let darkness be upon thy face, o uamemti, and ye shall be destroyed, o ye sons of the helpless one, by the hidden hand, which shall cause evils [to come upon you] by the deadly chain which is in it. seb keepeth ward over your fetters, and the sons of the fetters (i.e, mest, hapi, tuamutef, and qebhsennuf) put upon you the deadly chain. keep ye [your] ward under the reckoning of khenti-amenti" of the children of horus it is said "those who are in this picture make heavy the fetters of the sons of the helpless one, and the boat of the well-doing god travelleth on its way" in the lower register are- 1. twelve male beings, each of whom car

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ens to you; with you have i exchanged the words. conquerors of sin and sorrow, partakers of the cup of blessing, initiates of the supreme rite, warders of the ineffable sanctuary, freemen of the city of truth, saints of the everlasting tabernacle! i have discovered unto you the eucharist of resurrection. i have shown you the way. i have spoken unto you the truth. i have endowed you with the life. sons of heaven and daughters of earth, children of god and inheritors of immortality, the feast is ready in the mansions of my father. brothers of light, life, love and liberty, illustrious sir knights of the order of kadosch, strike with the pommels of your swords upon the gate of this sanctuary, the inmost, the unprofaned, the shrine which we have guarded for you through all catastrophies of emp

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

and lamech lived after he begat noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: 5:31 and all the days of lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. 5:32 and noah was five hundred years old: and noah begat shem, ham, and japheth. 6:1 and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 6:2 that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 6:3 and the lord said, my spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 6:4 there were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of god came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [c

s, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 7:11 in the six hundredth year of noah s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 7:12 and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 7:13 in the selfsame day entered noah, and shem, and ham, and japheth, the sons of noah, and noah s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 7:14 they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. 7:15 and they went in unto noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life

waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 9:16 and the bow shall be in the cloud; and i will look upon it, that i may remember the everlasting covenant between god and every living creature of all flesh that [is] upon the earth. 9:17 and god said unto noah, this [is] the token of the covenant, which i have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth. 9:18 and the sons of noah, that went forth of the ark, were shem, and ham, and japheth: and ham is the father of canaan. 9:19 these [are] the three sons of noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. 9:20 and noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 9:21 and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. 9:22 and ham, the father of canaan, saw the nakedne

unto his brethren. 9:26 and he said, blessed [be] the lord god of shem; and canaan shall be his servant. 9:27 god shall enlarge japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of shem; and canaan shall be his servant. 9:28 and noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. 9:29 and all the days of noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. 10:1 now these [are] the generations of the sons of noah, shem, ham, and japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. 10:2 the sons of japheth; gomer, and magog, and madai, and javan, and tubal, and meshech, and tiras. 10:3 and the sons of gomer; ashkenaz, and riphath, and togarmah. 10:4 and the sons of javan; elishah, and tarshish, kittim, and dodanim. 10:5 by these were the isles of the gentiles divided in their lands; every one

the flood. 10:2 the sons of japheth; gomer, and magog, and madai, and javan, and tubal, and meshech, and tiras. 10:3 and the sons of gomer; ashkenaz, and riphath, and togarmah. 10:4 and the sons of javan; elishah, and tarshish, kittim, and dodanim. 10:5 by these were the isles of the gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. 10:6 and the sons of ham; cush, and mizraim, and phut, and canaan. 10:7 and the sons of cush; seba, and havilah, and sabtah, and raamah, and sabtechah: and the sons of raamah; sheba, and dedan. 10:8 and cush begat nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 10:9 he was a mighty hunter before the lord: wherefore it is said, even as nimrod the mighty hunter before the lord. 10:10 and the beginning of his k

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re are very many, and all learned men in the world, plato, aristotle, hippocrates, galen, euclides, archimedes, hermes trismegistus the father secrets, with theophrastus, paracelsus; all which men had in themselves all the vertues of secrets. hitherto also are referred, homer, hesiod, orpheus, pytagoras; but these had not such gifts of secrets as the former. to this are referred, the nymphes, and sons of melusina, and gods of the gentiles, achilles, neas, hercules: also, cyrus, alexander the great, julius c sar, lucullus, sylla. marius. it is a canon, that every one know his own angel. and that he obey him according to the word of god; and let him beware of the snares of the evil angel, lest he be involved in the calamities of brute and marcus antonius. to this refer the book of jovianus p

and a simple heart. the conclusion of the secret of secrets is, that every one exercise himself in prayer, for those things which he desires, and he shall not suffer a repulse. let not any one despise prayer; for by whom god is prayed unto, to him he both can and will give. now let us acknowledge him the author, from whom let us humbly seek for our 22 desires. a merciful& good father, loveth the sons of desires, as daniel; and sooner heareth us, then we are able to overcome the hardness of our hearts to pray. but he will not that we give holy things to dogs, nor despise and condemn the gifts of his treasury. therefore diligently and often read over and over the first septenary of secrets, and guide and direct thy life and all thy thoughts according to those precepts; and all things shall

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

y took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap7'(gen. 31:46. it is worth noting that laban calls upon the heap of stones to "be witness* to his personal covenant with jacob. we are not told how many stones were in the heap, but when the prophet elijah erects a similar altar for magical purposes, it is said 'be took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of jacob, unto whom the word of the lord came, saying, israel shall be thy name; and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the lord (1 kings 18:31-2. the words "in the name of the lord" may be an intentional pun, since an altar erected of twelve stones, each of which symbolically represents one of the twelve banners of tetragrammaton, would truly be built in, or more properly of, t

he tribes and the zodiac signs is forged that hinges on the double link between the signs and the banners, and between the banners and the tribes. these connections are not arbitrary but are clearly indicated by the numerical structure of the permutations of ihvh. the illustration of the breastplate on the opposite page sets forth the occult correspondences between the banners and the stones, the sons of jacob who stand for the tribes of israel, and the zodiac signs, as this relationship is revealed by the key of tetragrammaton. this set of occult relationships will not be found in books on the kabbalah, which give conflicting assignments of the tribes to the signs of the zodiac, the stones of the breastplate, and the months of the year (see appendix f for the occult correspondences of the

ignments of the tribes to the signs of the zodiac, the stones of the breastplate, and the months of the year (see appendix f for the occult correspondences of the banners given by the great renaissance magician, henry cornelius agrippa, in his three books of occult philosophy, to the the tribes, the zodiac signs, the apostles, the months, and the stones. however, it seems reasonable to assign the sons of jacob to the stones of the breastplate in order of their birth. this assignment is provided in the notes to the king james bible for exodus 39:lo-3, and also appears in aryeh kaplan's meditation and the bible (weiser, 1978, p. 143. because of the explicit correspondence presented in the notes of the king james bible between the stones on the breastplate and the twelve tribes, i have not fe

nd and the silver disk in the left, this is in harmony with the polarity of the body. however, if the gold disk is drawn in the left hand and the silver disk in the right, this is in discord with the natural balance of the body. another polarity is with the sets of six names signifying the tribes of israel worn by the high priest on his shoulders. according to josephus, the names of the six elder sons of jacob were engraved into the onyx stone on the priest's right shoulder, and the names of the six younger sons were engraved into the onyx stone on his left shoulder. he further states "each of the sardonyxes declares to us the sun and the moon; those, i mean, that were in the nature of buttons on the high priest's shoulders" clearly there is a direct correspondence between these shoulder s

the disk on the right shoulder were the overt expression of the occult disk of urim, made of gold to signify the masculine right side. the six younger names of the disk on the left shoulder were the the breastplate of aaron 85 overt expression of the occult disk of thummim, made of silver to signify the feminine left side. what the ih of the ineffable name embodies in the macrocosm, the six elder sons of jacob embody in the microcosm; similarly, the vh of the name embodies the same meaning in the macrocosm that is signified by the six younger sons in the microcosm. this division of the name occurs in kabbalistic illustrations of the human hands raised in blessing, where the letters ih are inscribed on the back of the right wrist and vh on the back of the left wrist. by studying the prophec

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

in the ages which were before us. there is no remembrance of the former generations; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter generations that are to come, among those that shall come after. i the preacher was king over israel in jerusalem. and i applied my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that god hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith. i have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. that which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. i communed with mine own heart, saying, lo, i have gotten me great wisdom above all that were before me in jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experience o

heir is the kingdom of heaven. blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see god. blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the sons of god. blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you. ye are the salt of the earth: but

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antiquity. almost all the twelves will be found to be allied, either obviously or in a concealed manner, with the signs of the zodiac, twelve signs or partitions of the great circle of the heavens twelve times thirty degrees forming the perfect cycle of 360 arithmetical degrees of the circle. each sign was further subdivided into three decans. there are many of the learned who believe the twelve sons of jacob and twelve founders of tribes, are allegorical only. we may mention the twelve grand points of masonry, which used to form a part of the lectures in the craft degrees. twelve events in the ceremony of initiation, referred to the sons of jacob, are given by mackey: 1. to reuben was referred the opening of the lodge he was the first-born son. 2. to simeon, the preparation of the land h

exodus xxviii. the 12 foundations of the heavenly city, given in revelations xxi, are jasper, sapphire, chalcedony, sardius, sardonyx, emerald, topaz, beryl, chrysolite, amethyst, jacinth and chrysophrasus. the 12 hebrew months were abib or nizan (march- april) and are, iyar or zif, sivan, thammuz, ab, elul, tisri, bul, chisleu, tebeth, shebat and adar; and the inter-calary month ve-adar. the 12 sons of jacob were related to the 12 signs of the zodiac by the rosicrucians in a correct order; other numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott schemes of attribution are given by athanasius kircher and others. that by sir william drummond is- aries to gad, taurus to ephraim, gemini to benjamin, cancer to issachar, leo to judah, virgo to naphtali, libra to asher

s of attribution are given by athanasius kircher and others. that by sir william drummond is- aries to gad, taurus to ephraim, gemini to benjamin, cancer to issachar, leo to judah, virgo to naphtali, libra to asher, scorpio to dan, sagittarius to manasseh, capricorn to zebulun, aquarius to reuben and pisces to simeon and levi. the 12 apostles of jesus were simon, peter, andrew, james and john the sons of zebedee, phillip, bartholomew, thomas, matthew also called levi, james son of alphaeus, judas called lebbaeus and thaddeus, simon the canaanite, and judas iscariot. the venerable bede proposed to rename the signs with the names of the apostles, and a scheme of allotment is to be found in the sphere of marcus manilius, by edward sherburne, london, 1675. see notes and queries, vol. xiv, manc

00 years. 2000 years of disorder; 2000 of the law and 2000 more before messiah should come; but his coming has been delayed by our iniquities. so says the talmudic treatise. sanhedrin, 97. 1. 25,000. according to ezekiel, the mystical city of jerusalem was surrounded by a square space measuring 25,000 roods in length and this he called the holy oblation, and it was for the use of the priests, the sons of zadok. 3.14159. this is the value of pi, the ratio of diameter to circumference of a circle. bode s law is a curious arithmetical and astronomical problem- take the series of numbers 0 3 6 12 24 48 96 192 numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott add 4 to each. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 and we obtain 4 7 10 16 28 52 100 196 the numbers- these show the relation of the

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"stoop not down" says the oracle "to the darkly splendid world, for a precipice lieth beneath the earth, a descent of seven steps, and therein is 7 of 13 established the throne of an evil and fatal force. stoop not down unto that darkly splendid world, defile not thy brilliant flame with the earthly dress of matter, stoop not down for its splendour is but seeming, it is but the habitation of the sons of the unhappy" no more beautiful formulation of the great truth that the exterior and sensuous life is death to the highest energies of the soul could possibly have been uttered: but to such as by purification and the practice of virtue rendered themselves worthy, encouragement was given, for, we read "the higher powers build up the body of the holy man" the law of karma was as much a featur

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spects are both localized in what i have called the androgynous phallus in an effort to indicate that, according to the traditional kabbalistic construction of gender, masculinity and femininity are ontologically located in the attribute that assumes the function and role of the divine phallus.238 to elucidate the point, i focus on a zoharic homily that deals with the mysterious demise of the two sons of aaron when they drew near before the lord (lev 16:1. following a long exegetical trajectory, the zoharic authors 98 chapter two seek to comprehend why aaron s sons, nadab and abihu, suffered such a fate. to uncover the notion of time expressed in the homily one must attend more carefully to the biblical verse interpreted by the anonymous kabbalist, and the lord said to moses, speak to aaro

69:14)242 the propitious time, et rason, the necessity of which is deduced from the injunction given to aaron, be-zo t yavo aharon el ha-qodesh, through this aaron shall enter into the shrine, offered as a corrective to the lethal misdeed of nadab and abihu, a violation that brought about the interdiction do not come at any time to the shrine, we-al yavo be-khol et el ha-qodesh. but what did the sons of aaron do wrong? the author of this homily assumes that their transgression consisted of trying to join the other moment to the king. to comprehend the import of the expression other moment, et ahra, it is necessary to mull over the meaning of the word et.243 rashbi established the intent of this term when interpreting the expression be-itto in the verse latet okhlam be-itto, to give them f

or everything, to come close, to be illumined, to be united, as is appropriate, as it is said, but as for me, my prayer is to thee, o lord, at a propitious moment [wa-ani tefillati lekha yhwh et rason (ps 69:14).251 as one might expect from a medieval jewish mystical text, the mixing of unholy and holy has dire consequences. in line with the scriptural maxim of justice as measure-for-measure, the sons of aaron were consumed by the holy fire, shekhinah, the medium that executes divine judgment, for, symbolically, having intercourse with an estranged woman is on a par with offering a strange fire on the altar. yet one may also discern between the lines of the zoharic text recognition of the spiritual proximity and kinship between idolatry and worship, sexual temptation and erotic piety. the

l origine. preface by emmanuel l vinas. paris: librairie philosophique j. vrin, 1986. ziarek, ewa plonowska. toward a radical female imaginary: temporality and embodiment in irigaray s ethics. diacritics 28 (1998: 60 75. zukerkandl, victor. sound and symbol: music and the external world. translated by willard r. trask. princeton: princeton university press, 1969. bibliography 307 index 309 aaron, sons of, 98 102, 104 5 abgrund, 33, 34, 43, 49, 195n237, 200n299, 234n12, 238n55 abraham, nicolas, 54 abraham (patriarch59 k grade 0) void and the abyss edited by frater akhtya seker arimanius vox barathrum cover image by fidus, luzifer morgenstern introduction by scorpius nokmet 2 this workbook is meant not to replace any of the fine works of frater akhtya seker arimanius (michael ford, but hopef

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iation of the first seven days of creation unravels some of the mysteries of the functions of the king and prince. for those who want to do more research into this field, i recommend a book called path of the kabbalah by david sheinkin, edited by edward hoffman. sheinkin was a friend and student of rabbi kaplan, whose kabbalistic study ranks him with the very best in his field. the sigils of the "sons of the sons of light" also appear with certain planetary correspondences in agrippa's work. finding the origin of some of these names and sigils is yet another area of research that could be done. while i have drawn from the "sons of light" and the "son of the sons of light" from the holy seal dei aemeth, there are at least two other vertical hierarchies on the seal that are unaccounted for

names and sigils is yet another area of research that could be done. while i have drawn from the "sons of light" and the "son of the sons of light" from the holy seal dei aemeth, there are at least two other vertical hierarchies on the seal that are unaccounted for, both in function and in their connection with the angels of the bonorum. i assume they may be a force higher in structure than the "sons of light" take the name el, for example. it is the plural of elohim, but it also stands for an angel in canaanite lore who mated with a mortal woman and begot shar and shalim; this angel also has a very strong connection to the "sons of light" of the other missing hierarchy, of which "i" is the head, agrippa tells us that "i" is "a divine being" while "ih" is "a just god comparing himself wit

plural of elohim, but it also stands for an angel in canaanite lore who mated with a mortal woman and begot shar and shalim; this angel also has a very strong connection to the "sons of light" of the other missing hierarchy, of which "i" is the head, agrippa tells us that "i" is "a divine being" while "ih" is "a just god comparing himself with man" the inference being that they are more than the "sons of light" and exist on a much higher plane. exactly who and what these forces are is anyone's guess. perhaps research into ancient names might provide the clue. it is surprising how many names dubbed "enochian" turn up in an cient manuscripts. in the book "semiphoras and scheharnphoras" which was published in 1686 by andrew luppius, the word pele "who worketh in wonders" is given. this is the

rces that directly control the angels of the bonorum. the next set of tablets to be generated from the round tablet of the bonorum can easily be worked out and are shown in figures 67 through 72. angels of the bonorum applied to the first 7 days of creation outside and above the bonorum hierarchy stands king camara and prince hagonel. they are a direct liaison with the ngeis of the dei aemeth the sons of light and the sons of the' 11.8 of light. in their hierarchal order these are: 108 sons of light: ih, isr, dmal, hecoa, beigia, and stimcul. sons of the sons: el, anm ave, liba, rode, hagonel, and ilamese. prince hagonel, in a lower form (that is, through a lower kabbalistic world) is the direct link that binds them to the holy seal. as such, either hagonel or camara can appear on any day

6 for the letter b and vice versa. robert turner states that, because the names represented in the seven tablets are what some would consider "evil" this manuscript is not a true rendition, as dee would never have allowed it. i would point out, however, that a number of the names on the seal dei aemeth also have the same distinction if we can trust the works of agrippa (some of the names of the "sons of the sons of light" being one such example) while others do not consider them so. the definition of good and evil, as far as the angelic entities goes, seems to depend entirely on the author of the text one is reading. most if not all of the names given in the seven tablets can be found in old grimoires, such as black magic and pacts by waite, dictionary of angels by gustav davidson, and di

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