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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

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

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

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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

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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

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

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

urn, 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. the five dealt with the work, the lesser two but wrought with detail. the stone had gathered fire, lambent with flame it shone. the outer sheath met not the need till the sixth wheel and the seventh had passed it through their fires. the sons of god emerged from out their source, gazed on the sevenfold work, and stated it was good. the stone was set alone. in dual revolution moved the greater wheel. the fourth lord of the greater twelve handled the work of sevenfold fire "it is not fit" he said "merge thou this stone within the wheel which started revolution" the lords of the greater seven plunged the stone within the moving wheel

, such as the above mentioned "sin" and also the early "failures" in building suitable vehicles for spirits seeking incarnation. here also may be found the beginnings of that mysterious divergence which we call the "left and right hand paths" which conditions (existing within the body logoic and consequently being part of the divine consciousness) originated in the remote "space of time" when the sons of god were seeking form. it has to do with a special condition in the astral body of our planetary logos, and with his history as it lies hidden in the astral light. it concerns that which he has to surmount and many of the problems which face the occultist, including the "sin of the mindless" the failure in atlantean days, and even that mysterious "failure" of the buddha (which has a planet

. let us bear carefully in mind, that the rays are the positive aspect in manifestation and pass down into negative matter, deva or hierarchical substance, thus causing certain evidences of activity. the hierarchies are the negative aspect as far as the rays are concerned and are responsive to ray impulse. but within each ray and each hierarchy in this system a dual force again will be found. the sons of god are bisexual. the deva substance is also dual, for the evolutionary devas are the positive energy of the atom, cell or subhuman form, for instance, while the electrons or lesser lives within the form are negative. the mystery of the manasaputras is hidden in this, and in the function of the fifth hierarchy, and it is not possible to reveal more of it. the secret of buddhi, the sixth or

ance is also dual, for the evolutionary devas are the positive energy of the atom, cell or subhuman form, for instance, while the electrons or lesser lives within the form are negative. the mystery of the manasaputras is hidden in this, and in the function of the fifth hierarchy, and it is not possible to reveal more of it. the secret of buddhi, the sixth or christ principle, which concerns these sons of god, and the secret of the fifth hierarchy which is the vehicle or recipient of buddhi, cannot be mentioned outside initiated circles. it holds hid the possibility of egoic unfoldment, and keeps secret the karma of the heavenly men, the five kumaras. the fifth principle of manas is embodied in the five kumaras, and if the student studies the significance of the first five petals which are

d. purificatory fire is the only cure for this magnetic corruption, and this is being utilised freely by the planetary logoi in their schemes, and by the solar logos in the system. purificatory fire "the fire burned low. a dull red glow slumbered within the heart of mother. its warmth was scarcely felt. the first and second of the inner lines throbbed with the burning, but the rest were cold. the sons of god looked down from the innermost centre. they looked, then turned away their gaze and thoughts to other spheres. their hour had not yet come. the elemental fires had not prepared the altar for the lords. the sacrificial fire waited in its high place and the steady glow beneath increased. the fire burned clearer, and the first and second slowly lighted up. their glow became a line of bril

e. they looked, then turned away their gaze and thoughts to other spheres. their hour had not yet come. the elemental fires had not prepared the altar for the lords. the sacrificial fire waited in its high place and the steady glow beneath increased. the fire burned clearer, and the first and second slowly lighted up. their glow became a line of brilliant fire yet the five remained untouched. the sons of god again looked down. for one brief second they thought upon the mother, and as they thought the third caught fire. swiftly they looked away for the form as yet relayed to them no call. the heat was latent and no outer warmth ascended to their place. the aeons passed. the glow increased. the spheres took form, but dissipated rapidly, lacking coherent force. they passed. they came again. a

riads in the three. the heart of mother contracts, and expands with these sixty fiery breaths. the lines become allied, and cubes are formed, shielding the inner fire. the altar is prepared, and four square stands. the altar glows, red at the centre and warm without. the altar flames. its heat mounts up, yet it burns not, nor is consumed. its heat, which has no flame, reaches a higher sphere; the sons of god for a brief period warm themselves, yet approach not nearer to it until the passing of another cycle. they await the hour, the hour of sacrifice. the solar lords, taking the word as sounded by the sons of god, arise in the fierceness of their solar life and approach the altar. the four lines glow and burn. the sun applies a ray; the solar lords pass it through their substance and again

dull red line, measuring the distance 'twixt the altar and the one who watches. the fivefold fire dynamic begins to flicker and to burn. it lights not yet without; it simply glows. the aeons pass away, the cycles come and go. steadily the solar lords sacrifice themselves; they are the fire upon the altar. the fourth- 495- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust provides the fuel. the sons of god still watch. the work nears its final consummation. the eternal lhas in their high place call each to each, and four take up the cry "the fire is burning. does the heat suffice" two answer to each other"'the fire is burning; the altar is well-nigh destroyed. what happens next "add to the fire with fuel from heaven. breathe on the blazing fire and fan its flame to utter fierceness" thus

e laws of group unity for all the three groups, superhuman, human, and subhuman. above him stand those who are too pure or, as it is called "too cold" to be immersed in the matter of the three worlds, below him are found those lives which are too impure (occultly understood) or "too full of burning matter and veiled in smoke" to be able to mount of themselves into regions where stand the unveiled sons of god. man, therefore, acts as the mediator, and in him and through him can be worked out group methods and laws which in a later solar system can form a basic law for unified work. it is this fact which brings about so much of the peculiar trouble and nature of the human kingdom, and it might here be said that on our planet, which is, it must be remembered, one of the "profane" planets, cer

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

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 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 trus

this is the pranava, the sound of conscious life itself as it is breathed forth into all forms. it is the word of the second aspect, and just as the word of nature when rightly emanated provides the forms which are intended to reveal the soul or second aspect, so the pranava, when rightly expressed, demonstrates the father or spirit through the medium of the soul. it is the word of the incarnated sons of god. in such a short commentary as this, it is not possible to write a treatise on this secret of secrets, and this great mystery of the ages. all that can be done is to collate certain facts about the aum, and leave the student to extend the concept and grasp the significance of the brief statements made according to the state of his intuition. iii. the lost word. the idea of this lost wo

s. now the highest of the three bodies must be brought to its fullest development and this raja yoga is intended to do and this is the object of patanjali's work. the aryan race will contribute this fuller development to the general economy, and the entire human family (with the exception of a percentage which entered the race too late to permit of the full flowering of the soul) will manifest as sons of god with all the powers of the god unfolded and consciously used on the physical plane and in the physical body. patanjali says that three things will bring this about, coupled with the following of certain methods and rules, and these three are: 1. fiery aspiration, the domination of the physical man so that every atom of his body is afire with zeal and endeavor, 2. spiritual reading, whi

ific reference to the difficulties which assail the man who seeks to quiet the mind and so achieve soul vision. 3. these are the difficulty producing hindrances+ avidya (ignorance, and the sense of personality, desire, hate and the sense of attachment. these are the five wrong ideas or concepts which for aeons of time and throughout many lives, prevent the sons of men from realizing that they are sons of god. it is these concepts which lead men to identify themselves with that which is lower and material, and to forget the divine realities. it is these misconceptions which make a prodigal son of the divine monad, and which send him forth into the far country to eat of the husks of mortal existence. it is these which must be overcome and eliminated before a man can "lift up his eyes" and se

school of life, form and rebirth become evil and must be relegated to a position outside the life of the ego. that the liberated man may choose to limit himself by a form for specific purposes of service is true, but this he does through an act of the will and self-abnegation; he is not impelled thereto by desire but by love of humanity and a longing to stay with his brothers till the last of the sons of god has reached the portal of liberation. 41. through purification comes also a quiet spirit, concentration, conquest of the organs, and ability to see the self. it should be remembered that both the commandments and the rules (yama and nyama) have to do with the lower fourfold self, functioning in the three worlds, and frequently called the lower quaternary. we have seen in the preceding

d or intellect can grasp and transmit that which the soul knows, the mysteries remain unexplained to the physical brain and the knowledge- 139- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust possessed by the soul must remain nothing more than a beautiful and unattainable vision. but once the intellect is illumined, it can transmit to and impress upon the brain those hidden things which only the sons of god on their own plane know. hence the need for raja yoga or the science of union through mind control and development. 6. this illumination is gradual; it is developed stage by stage. the evolutionary nature of all growth and unfoldment is dealt with here and the aspirant is reminded that nothing is accomplished at once but only as the result of long and steady effort. one thing that ever

tal itself stands revealed. more along this line is not permissible. this light in the head is the great revealer, the great purifier, and the medium whereby the disciple fulfills the command of the christ "let your light shine" it is the "path of the just which shineth ever more and more until the perfect day" it is that which produces the halo or circle of light seen around the heads of all the sons of god who have come or are coming into their heritage. through this light, as patanjali here points out, we become conscious of that which is subtle, or of those things which can only be known through a conscious use of our subtle bodies. these subtle bodies are the means whereby we function upon the inner planes, such as the emotional or astral plane and the mental. at present the majority

ishvattas (referred to at length in the secret doctrine and in a treatise on cosmic fire) and they are portrayed as: 1. fulfilling their desires, therefore driven by desire to incarnate, 2. endowed with atomisation and other powers, therefore able to create their vehicles of manifestation, 3. living for a mundane period, therefore in incarnation during a world period, 4. goodly to behold, for the sons of god are luminous, radiant and full of beauty, 5. delighting in love, for love is the characteristic of the soul, and all sons of god, or sons of mind reveal the love of the father, 6. possessing bodies of their own "not caused by parents" that body "not made by hands, eternal in the heavens" mentioned by st. paul. in connection with the fourth world, vyasa notes that it is the world of mas

was the dominant factor. as time elapsed, the soul became more individualized in each human being, and more and more separative, as the mind aspect (the great dividing factor) dominated. at the close of this race, the three main centres will be the head, the heart, and the base of the spine. in the sixth race we shall have, the head, the heart, and the throat. in the final race of the illuminated sons of god, the seventh, we shall have as the centres through which they work: a. the thousand petalled head center. life or spiritual aspect, b. the centre between the eyebrows. son or consciousness aspect, c. the throat. the holy ghost or creative aspect. through the first, spiritual life will pour in from the monad; through the second, the christ- 169- the light of the soul copyright 1998 luci

re the first four classes of spirits enumerated there with these four types of disciples. everything in the three worlds is a reflection of that which is found in the heavenly realms and much may be gained through a comprehension of the great hermetic aphorism "as above, so below" that reflection is what constitutes evil; that reverse aspect of reality forms the great illusion, and with these the sons of god have no concern. it is evil where they are concerned but in no other sense. the forms of life in these worlds, and the lives animating those forms are- 200- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust good and right in themselves and are pursuing their own evolutionary path, but their immediate objective and their state of consciousness is not synchronized with that of the evolvin

objects, reflects itself in the mind stuff, then comes awareness of the self. this spiritual intelligence, which is the real man, the son of god, eternal in the heavens, is known by many and varied names, according to the school of thought. the appended list of synonyms is of value to the student, for it gives him a broader vision and an inclusive understanding, revealing to him the fact that the sons of god, revealed or unrevealed, are everywhere to be found- 226- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust the spiritual intelligence. the inner ruler the word made flesh. the soul. the second aspect. the aum. the self-conscious entity the second person. the thinker. the christ. god in incarnation. the observer, perceiver. the self the son of mind. the form builder. the higher self. t

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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

d in the pioneering work of the world. they will do nothing to feed hatred and separativeness or to foster fear. there are numbers of people in the world only too ready to do that. they will fan the flame of love wherever they go; they will teach brotherhood in its true inclusiveness, and not a system which will teach brotherhood to a few and leave the rest outside. they will recognize all men as sons of god and will not set themselves upon a pedestal of righteousness and knowledge from whence they proclaim the truth as they see it and consign those to destruction who do not see as they do, or do not act as they feel they should, placing them outside the pale; they will not regard one race as better than another, though they may recognize the evolutionary plan and the work that each race h

enunciate principles. the world is full of those who tear down, and who feed the present hatreds, and who widen the divisions between races and groups, between rich and poor. let the true student of meditation remember that when he makes a contact with his soul, and becomes at-one with reality, he is entering into a state of group awareness, which breaks down all barriers, and leaves none of the sons of god outside its field of knowledge. it is possible to mention other forms of illusion, for the first world the aspirant contacts seems usually to be the psychic world, and that is the world of illusion. this world of illusion has its uses, and entering it is a most valuable experience, provided that the rule of love and of non-self-reference is carried there, and that all contacts made are

of right education; they will control our economic, social and national destinies. they will do all this from the centre of their being and from the standpoint of the soul; they will know the secret of illumination; they will know how to submit all problems to the omniscience of the soul; they will know the secret of the life that makes all men brothers. they will recognize all those they meet as sons of god, but they will know also the signs of the illumined man and with him they will seek to work for the good of the whole. telepathically they will find each other, and work, therefore, in the closest co-operation. this group is already in existence and the members of it are in the closest touch with one another. they are to be found in every country in the world, yet daily they meet in th

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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

d incarnate, broke forth into the light of revelation. races appeared and disappeared. the forms, veiling the radiant soul, emerged, achieved their purpose and vanished into night, but lo, the life moved on, blended this time with light. life merged with light, both blending to reveal a beauty and a power, an active liberating force, a wisdom and a love that we call a son of god "through the many sons of god, who in their inmost centre are but one, god in his fatherhood is known. yet still that lighted life moved on to a dread point of power, of force creative, concerning which we say: it is the all, the container of the universe, the persistent centre of the spheres, the one" we have touched upon two words of significance in the fourth rule, sound and light, and one paramount idea emerges

there is a good physical instrument and a well-equipped mentality. the greater the sensitivity of the astral body, the greater its reactions to the physical world and to the mental condition and hence the fact emerges that disciples and the more highly evolved people in the world have a more potent astral body and work under greater emotional strain than the less highly evolved and the liberated sons of god- 133- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust students are therefore begged to deal drastically and potently with their emotional natures, remembering that victory descends from above and cannot be worked up to from below. the soul must govern and its instrument in the warfare is the consecrated mind. it is interesting to note the occult sequence in the description given o

body of essential beliefs. they recognize each other; they accord equal devotion to the spiritual leaders of all races, and use each other's bibles with equal freedom. they form the subjective background of the new world; they constitute the spiritual nucleus of the coming world religion; they are the unifying principle which will eventually save the world. in the past we have had world saviours sons of god who have enunciated a world message and brought an increase of light to the peoples. now, in the fullness of time, and through the work of evolution there is emerging a group who perhaps will bring salvation to the world, and who embodying the group ideas and demonstrating the group nature, manifesting in a small way the true significance of the body of christ, and giving to the world

elligent of the race discover in themselves the divine flame, and awaken the power of the supreme controller, seated at the heart of their being, they are very apt to place themselves in a higher category than other people, and to classify those who do not have their mental grasp of the differentiations of the evolutionary development as differing so widely from them as not to deserve the name of sons of god. they regard all not working in mental energy as lacking souls and hence as lacking eternal persistence as individuals. this is only a glamour of the mind, is part of the great heresy of separateness, and indicates faintly the coming period wherein the mind will be as dominant and as misleading as is the sentient body at this time. let us therefore study the types of mental energy with

hip is in no way a sign of spiritual development. he will not- 244- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust therefore use the words anti this or pro that. such terms automatically breed hatred and attack, and effort to resist change. they put the user on the defensive. every class of human beings is a group of brothers. catholics, jews, gentiles, occidentals and orientals are all the sons of god. as regards the future of this world group of which we have been speaking much depends upon two things. first, it is necessary for all those isolated disciples working in every country in the world, to become aware of one another and then to enter into telepathic rapport. this may seem to you to be a wonderful but impractical vision. i assure you that this is not so. the work of establ

one hint here i give. the sun was in sagittarius when the first human tendencies struggled to the fore. the stage of animal man was completed and when sagittarius was dominant (from our planetary standpoint i am using words with care) the great event of individualisation took place. but the brain of the then human being failed to register what had happened. in the words of the old commentary "the sons of god shot forth like arrows from the bow. the forms received the impulse and lo! a god was born. the tiny babe knew not the great event" this took place twenty-one million years ago. cycles passed and when at a later date the sun was in leo (approximately eighteen million years ago) the first instances of coordination between brain and mind took place and the human being was definitely self

egard it. in the words "the light of the soul, we have an expression which sums up the purpose, the plan, the will of those entities, who, incarnated in human form, and at times functioning out of the body, have the responsibility of materializing the divine concepts in the four kingdoms in nature. the human kingdom is, par excellence, the medium of expression for the universal mind, and when the sons of god in human form are perfected, the problems of the natural world will be solved in a large measure. the fully conscious sons of god, aware of themselves whilst in the human form (and they are few as yet, constitute literally the brain of the planetary life. there is a truly occult significance to the words "to throw the light" upon a problem, a condition, or a situation. in its essential

xpanse the many forms of the one moving life disport themselves; they weave the dance of life, the many patterned forms god takes. the soul enters "the playground of the lord" and plays thereon until he sees the star with five bright points, and says "my star" the star is but a point of light, not yet a radiant sun. stage iii the way of red desire fails. it loses its allure. the playground of the sons of god no longer holds appeal. the voice which has twice sounded from out the world of form sounds now within the heart. the challenge comes "prove thine own worth. take to thyself the orange ball of thy one-pointed purpose" responsive to the sounded word, the living soul, immersed in form, emerges from the many forms and hews its onward way. the way of the destroyer comes, the builder and ag

l blended be, but far off yet the date. their blending bathes the bud in light and causes future opening. let the light shine. stage iv into the dark the life proceeds. a different voice seems to sound forth "enter the cave and find your own; walk in the dark and on your head carry a lighted lamp. the cave is dark and lonely; cold is it and a place of many sounds and voices. the voice of the many sons of god, left playing on the playground of the lord, make their appeal for light. the cave is long and narrow. the air is full of fog. the sound of running water meets the rushing sound of wind, and frequent roll of thunder. far off, dim and most vaguely seen, appears an oval opening, its color blue. stretched athwart this space of blue, a rosy cross is seen, and at the centre of the cross, wh

medium of the animal kingdom is a self-conscious intelligent entity, working in full awareness of intent and objective, and limiting his sphere of activity in order to provide due opportunity and expression for the myriad lives that find their life and being and sustenance in him. see you how the law of sacrifice runs throughout creation. c. the sons of mind, human souls, solar angels, the divine sons of god who in full self-consciousness work out certain well seen ends through the medium of the human family. 2. those lives who are limited in form because they are not self-conscious but are unconscious constituent parts of a greater form. they have not yet evolved to the point where they are self-conscious entities. it might be said that this second category includes all existences, but th

lack memory and prevision, and possess not that mental apprehension which will enable them to relate past and present and anticipate the future. they are exempt from the agony of foreboding. their entire reaction to what are called evil conditions is so different to that of humanity that it is difficult for us to grasp it. the old commentary describes these two groups in the following terms "the sons of god, who know and see and hear (and knowing, know they know) suffer the pain of conscious limitation. deep in the inmost depths of conscious being, their lost estate of liberty eats like a canker. pain, sickness, poverty and loss are seen as such, and from them every son of god revolts. he knows that in himself, as once he was before he entered prisoner into form, he knew not pain. sicknes

en as such, and from them every son of god revolts. he knows that in himself, as once he was before he entered prisoner into form, he knew not pain. sickness and death, corruption and disease, they touched him not. the riches of the universe were his, and naught he knew of loss "the lives that enter into form alone with lives self-conscious, the deva lives which build the forms indwelt by all the sons of god, they know not pain or loss or poverty. the form decays, the other forms retire, and that which is required to nourish and keep strong the outer, lacks. but lacking also will and planned intent, they feel no aggravation and know no clear revolt" a word about pain might be in place here, though i have naught of an abstruse nature to communicate anent the evolution of the human hierarchy

volves working with one's fellow men. 2. prisoners within the animal kingdom, and already much is being done in this field. 3. prisoners within the forms of the vegetable world. a beginning has been made here. much work is being accomplished by man for men, and through the agency of scientific, religious and educational endeavour, the human consciousness is steadily expanding until one by one the sons of god are breaking through their limitations into the world of souls. in the retrospect of history, the picture of the emerging prisoner, man, can be seen in clear delineation. little by little he has mastered the planetary boundaries; little by little, he has grown from the stage of cave man to that of a shakespeare, a newton, a leonardo da vinci, an einstein, a st. francis of assisi, to a

ally the power to live and to function subjectively, to possess a constant inner contact with the soul and the world in which it is found, and this must work out subjectively through love, actively shown; through wisdom, steadily outpoured; and through that capacity to include and to identify oneself with all that breathes and feels which is the outstanding characteristic of all truly functioning sons of god. i mean, therefore, an interiorly held attitude of mind which can orient itself at will in any direction. it can govern and control the emotional sensitiveness, not only of the disciple himself, but of all whom he may contact. by the strength of his silent thought, he can bring light and peace to all. through that mental power, he can tune in on the world thought, and upon the realm of

h human history is a triple thread and in the interplay of these three threads the story of evolution is to be found. one thread guides the thoughts of man as he deals with the development of the form aspect, with the racial trends, and it shows how undeviatingly the forms of races, of countries, and of the fauna and flora of our planetary life have kept pace with the needs of the slowly emerging sons of god. the second thread leads us to an understanding of the growth of consciousness, and indicates emergence from the instinctual stage into that of intellectual awareness, and on to that intuitional illumination which is the present goal of consciousness. the third thread concerns the plan itself and here we enter the realm of the truly unknown. what the plan is, and what the goal, is as y

stage into that of intellectual awareness, and on to that intuitional illumination which is the present goal of consciousness. the third thread concerns the plan itself and here we enter the realm of the truly unknown. what the plan is, and what the goal, is as yet totally unrealised except by the highest adept and the most- 346- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust exalted of the sons of god. until the illumined mind and the power of intuitional response are developed in the human family, it is not possible for us to grasp the basic concepts which are to be found in the mind of god himself. until the highest point of the mount of initiation has been climbed, it is not possible to vision the promised land as it is. until the limitations the necessary limitations of the thre

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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

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

the changes will be still more rapid and deep-seated, for the growth of the intellectual powers of man is gathering momentum, and man, the creator, is coming into possession of his powers. the seventh purpose of deity ray vii. ceremonial order or magic "let the temple of the lord be built, the seventh great angel cried. then to their places in the north, the south, the west and east, seven great sons of god moved with measured pace and took their seats. the work of building thus began. the doors were closed. the light shone dim. the temple walls could not be seen. the seven were silent and their forms were veiled. the time had not arrived for the breaking forth of light. the word could not be uttered. only between the seven forms the work went on. a silent call went forth from each to eac

een master stands with welcoming hand and understanding heart, to lead the pilgrims to the east where the true light shines forth "why this opening of the temple" demand the greater seven. because the work is ready; the craftsmen are prepared. god has created in the light. his sons can now create. what can else be done "naught" came the answer from the greater seven "let the work proceed. let the sons of god create" these words will be noted by many as of deep significance and as indicating a wide intention (during the coming cycle) to open the door wide into the temple of the hidden mystery to man. one by one we shall undergo the esoteric and spiritual counterpart of the psychological factor which is called "a mental test" that test will demonstrate a man's usefulness in mental work and p

ce. the soul will be known as an entity, as the motivating impulse and the spiritual centre back of all manifested forms. the next few decades will see certain great beliefs substantiated. the work of christ, and his main mission two thousand years ago, was to demonstrate the divine possibilities and powers latent in every human being. the proclamation which he made to the effect that we were all sons of god and own one universal father will, in the future, no longer be regarded as a beautiful, mystical and symbolic statement, but will be regarded as a scientific pronouncement. our universal brotherhood and our essential immortality will be demonstrated and realised to be facts in nature. he came, he said, not to bring peace but a sword, and esoterically, he has been the "cosmic divider" w

e, and of the measure of success of the solar angel at any given point in time and space (which is all that the personality is, in the last analysis) as it builds and qualifies its phenomenal appearance? here we can see the scientific value of the study of ideals, of concentration upon the virtues and divine qualities, and upon an intellectual analysis of the divine attributes of any of the great sons of god. again, the second proposition states that the seven rays, being each the recipient and custodian of energies coming from the universe, bring in the basic concept of inter-relation, of inter-communication, of inter-dependence, of cooperative responsibility, and of service. these relationships, as we well know, underlie the principle of brotherhood, which the race is just beginning to g

of iron or lead, you would see revealed the complete story of evolution. if you could study the hidden processes which go on under the influence of fire, you would enter into the secret of initiation. when the day comes when the history of the mineral kingdom can be grasped by the illumined seer, he will then see the long road that the diamond has travelled, and by analogy the long road that all sons of god traverse, governed by the same laws and unfolding the same consciousness. the seventh ray, when manifesting on the seventh plane (as is now the case, is peculiarly potent, and its effect upon the mineral kingdom is consequently dynamically felt. if it is true that there is only one substance and one spirit, that "matter is spirit at the lowest point of its cyclic activity" and spirit i

would impair their health or lay on them the burden of straitened economic conditions. the moralities of the past may be pointed out to them, and they may be warned of the results which inevitably follow when the laws of nature are broken and the physical body is prostituted to ill-regulated desire. they may have the virtues of "straight living" eulogised to them, and even the fact that they are sons of god may be emphasized to them. all this is good and right and useful. but no true solution is offered, and no light is thrown upon their problem, and their confusion remains unrelieved. they may perhaps turn to the religiously minded people and seek out the orthodox churchman. they may be told to be good; the example of the saints may be cited to them; they may find themselves deluged in a

pecific becomes at-one with the general- 180- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust and universal. behind the erroneous interpretation, however, lies truth. where this true marriage and these ideal sexual relations on all three planes are found, the right conditions exist in which souls can be provided with the needed forms in which to incarnate. sons of god can find forms in which to manifest on earth. according to the scope of the marriage contact (if so unusual a form of words can be used in this connection, so will be the type of human being attracted into incarnation. where the parents are purely physical and emotional, so will be the nature of the child. thus is the general average determined. today we have a world of men which is ra

183- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust as we have seen the power of sex prostituted to personal satisfaction and selfishness and consequent disaster. some few, however, are raising their energies higher still and translating them into terms of the heavenly world. the christ is being born today in many a human being, and increasingly will the sons of god appear in their true nature to take over the guidance of humanity in the new age. 2. sex in the new age prophecy is ever a dangerous thing, but a forecast, a drawing out of present general tendencies, is often possible. during the next two hundred years the old influences under which we have been living will gradually die out, and the new potencies will make their presence felt. three

ther has hidden the secret of life; in man, god the son has secreted the treasures of wisdom and of love; in man, god the holy spirit has implanted the mystery of manifestation. humanity, and humanity alone, can reveal the nature of the godhead and of eternal life. to man is given the privilege of revealing the nature of the divine consciousness, and of portraying before the eyes of the assembled sons of god (at the final conclave before the dissolution) what has lain hidden in the mind of god. hence the injunction before us today (in the words of the great christian teacher) to possess in ourselves "the mind of christ" this mind must dwell in us and reveal itself in the human race in ever greater fullness. to man is given the task of raising matter up into heaven, and of glorifying rightl

tually grasped. the hierarchy of mystics, knowers and lovers of god, are manifesting this revealed truth in the world of the mental plane and of the emotional plane today. but the hour has now come when the manifestation of this reality can, for the first time and in truth, manifest itself on the physical plane in an organised group form, instead of through the instrumentality of the few inspired sons of god who have, in past ages, incarnated as the guarantee of the future possibilities. the hierarchy of angels and of saints, of masters, rishis and initiates, can now begin to organise itself in material form on earth, because today the group idea is rapidly gaining ground, and the nature of humanity is being better understood. the church of christ, hitherto invisible and militant, can now

and when the light of the fourth constituent to the relationship dominates the inherent light of the other three, that the objective of man's evolution is reached. this brings us to the point next to be considered. purpose: this purpose is the transfiguration. this is the esoteric goal set before humanity. this was the tremendous event which was enacted before humanity by the greatest of all the sons of god in his own body, whom i and all true disciples regard as the master of all the masters, the christ. what shall i say about this culminating event for which the entire personality of man waits? this third great initiation marks a crisis in the initiatory work, and produces a further synthesis experienced in the life of the spiritual man. up to the third initiation, man has been occupied

with each other through the rays which influence them. these are: ray i. vulcan. pluto. ray ii .j upiter. the sun. ray iii. saturn. the earth. ray iv .m ercury .t he moon. ray vi .n eptune .m ars. these relationships will provide a somewhat new field of investigation for astrologers. you will note therefore how peculiarly this earth on which we live is suited to the development of the incarnating sons of god. man comes forth, as do all lives within the radius of influence of a solar system, upon the inspiration of love, expressed in wisdom. love is not a sentiment. love is the great principle of attraction, of desire, of magnetic pull, and (within our solar system) that- 209- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust principle demonstrates as

t manifestation of the fourth creative hierarchy. this unification of the three major results of the activity of a great life might be enumerated thus: 1. the ray power or life which tends ever towards harmony and an eventual beauty, the fourth ray. 2. the creative hierarchy of human monads, who (little as they may realise it) have already attained wisdom and are veritably at this time the divine sons of god. 3. the fourth kingdom in nature which is the result of the evolutionary activity of the above, who are in their turn impelled to this activity by the fourth ray. this is essentially the true apostolic succession, for it provides a triple line of directed energy. this produces the human manifestation on the fourth globe of our earth chain, and in this fourth round is responsible for th

ergy. this produces the human manifestation on the fourth globe of our earth chain, and in this fourth round is responsible for the tremendous crisis with which our present humanity is confronted. the conflict aspect of the process is at its height, nay, has passed its height, from the angle of physical plane expression. this situation and this triple influence, producing the manifestation of the sons of god, is summed up for us in the terse words of the old commentary, when we remember that they express the long agony of humanity's test, and the opening to man of the door into the fifth kingdom of spiritual being. they include therefore, in their meaning, his goal and objective and the process whereby he attains "the holy four descend from out the heavenly places and venture forth towards

cleavages, a divine law and one of fruitful objective. this must not be forgotten. the activity of the three divine aspects, in relation to the human family in the first nebulous race (of which science knows nothing, produced what we call the law of immersion. it caused that growing diversification of matter, clothing the life, which ultimately produced the early manifestation of the incarnating sons of god. it is not a physical incarnation in the sense that we understand that term. in the next race, of which again man knows little, the fusion of the three divine energies produced a second law. it should be remembered that a law is but the effect of the continued intelligent activity of the life aspect as it works in conjunction with matter. this second law is called (by those of us who d

t race, of which again man knows little, the fusion of the three divine energies produced a second law. it should be remembered that a law is but the effect of the continued intelligent activity of the life aspect as it works in conjunction with matter. this second law is called (by those of us who deal with law and energy) the law of capitulation, because the momentum set up by the desire of the sons of god to incarnate proved too strong for the opposing forces of matter. nothing then could stop the coming into tangible existence of the incarnating spirits. matter capitulated to spirit, the divine desire and the divine will set their signature upon the rapidly assembling forms. it must be borne in mind that these laws are called by names which indicate their relation to humanity. when act

this which brought on earth the great atlantean floods which brought that ancient civilisation to an end. we come now to a consideration of the law of cleavages, for our race is controlled by the great heresy of separativeness. through these cleavages (symbolically speaking) the fires of destruction may emerge and end our civilisation, as the atlantean civilisation was ended, unless the conscious sons of god can build those bridges and develop that understanding which will offset this law, thus bringing into functioning activity the law which governs the coming race. the work that the disciples of the world must seek to do is analogous to that which they as individuals have to do in their own private development: build the antahkarana, which will bridge the gap between the human consciousn

a hint) our earth is not one of the seven sacred planets. there is, as we know, the ancient legend of the lost pleiade, and there are many such stories. again, in the council chamber of the most high, there has not always been peace and understanding, but at times, war and disruption; this is made abundantly clear by several of the stories in the old testament. symbolically speaking, some of the sons of god fell from their high estate, led, at one time, by "lucifer, son of the morning. this "fall of the angels" was a tremendous event in the history of our planet, but was nevertheless only a passing and interesting phenomenon in the history of the solar system, and a trifling incident in the affairs of the seven constellations, of which our solar system is but one. pause and consider this

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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

with conviction, and so changing all life for her "wist ye not that i must be about my father's business?"63 that business, as it developed in his consciousness in the passing of the years, became far broader and wider in its all-embracing love than the average orthodox church seems willing to admit. the extent of this mission slowly dawned upon his young mind and he began, as all truly initiate sons of god must perforce do, to function as god's messenger as soon as the vision was recognised, and in the place where he was. having thus indicated his grasp of the future work, we read that "he went down with them (his parents, and came to nazareth (the place of renewed consecration, and was subject unto them. and jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with god and man."64 frequ

ordination to the group will and need, with its lessons of sacrifice, of understanding and of service. this is ever the first lesson which every disciple must learn. until he has learnt it, he can make no further progress. until divinity has been expressed in the home, and among those who know us well and are our familiar friends, it cannot be expected to express itself elsewhere. we must live as sons of god in the setting uninteresting, drab and sometimes sordid in which destiny places us; there is nowhere else at this stage that is possible. the place where we are is the place from which our journey begins, and not the place from which we escape. if we cannot make good as disciples where we are, and in the place where we discover ourselves, no other opportunity will be offered us until w

, as i look back on it, is not a succession of experiences but one great experience illumined here and there by moments of revelation."17 this illumination grows more constant as time goes on. the ancient hindu teacher, patanjali, taught that illumination is sevenfold, progressing by successive stages.18 it is as though he were dealing in thought with the seven illuminations which come to all the sons of god who are in process of awakening to their divine opportunities: the illumination which comes when we decide to tread the path of probation, and to prepare ourselves for initiation. then the light is shed on the distant vision, and we catch a fleeting glimpse of our goal. next the light is shed upon ourselves, and we get a vision of what we are, and what we can be, and enter upon the pat

earthly parents. whole ages and countries are focussed in them. in desiring a highly developed perfection we are desiring to be something which can no longer be identified either with or by the incidents of the terrestrial life."37 if these words are studied in connection with christ's temptations, the wonder of what he did emerges, and is encouraging for all of us, his younger brothers, equally sons of god. therefore as a whole man and yet utterly divine, christ entered into final combat with the devil. as a human being, in whom the divine spirit was fully expressing itself, he faced the evil in his own humanity (when viewed apart from god) and emerged victorious. let us not attempt to divorce these two god and man when we think of christ. some thinkers emphasise his humanity and ignore

ist with the words "it is written" these two phrases link all three episodes and give the clue to the whole process. the ultimate temptation is doubt. the test we have all to face eventually, and which climaxed in christ's life until he vanquished it upon the gross, is the test of our divinity. are we divine? how must our divine powers express themselves? what can we do, or not do, because we are sons of god? that the details of each difficulty, test and trial may differ is relatively immaterial. that the tests may first be focussed in one aspect of our lower nature or another is equally unimportant. it is the general lifelong urge to divinity which is on trial. to the man who is but a little evolved the problem of divinity as a whole does not present itself. he can be preoccupied only wit

they need, and the responsibility of those who administer dogmas to the "little ones" of the race is great. truth must also be given in a wider form, and with a more general connotation to those who are beginning to live consciously as souls, and who can therefore be trusted to see the meaning behind the symbol and the significance behind the outer appearance of theology. truth, for the perfected sons of god, must be something beyond our dreams, of so deep a significance and of such comprehensiveness that it is futile for us to speculate upon it, for it is something to be experienced and not to be dreamed; something to enter into and not to vision. christ's reply each time should be viewed in this triple manner "it is written" he says, and the- 74- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998

r divine powers for personal physical ends. let us put the material physical nature first. let us assuage our hunger, whatever it may be, and do it because we are divine. let us use our divine powers so as to gain for ourselves perfect health, long desired financial prosperity, popularity for our personality, for which we crave, and those physical surroundings and conditions which we want. we are sons of god and are entitled to all these things. command that these stones be made bread for the satisfaction of our supposed need. such were the specious arguments used then, and being used today by many teachers and schools of thought. these are peculiarly the temptations of the aspirants of the world today. upon this theory many teachers and groups thrive, and curiously enough, they do so quit

synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of disease among the people."50 he had registered before god and man, and to himself, his perfection. he emerged from the wilderness experience tried, tested, and with his divinity completely vindicated. he knew himself to be god; he had demonstrated to himself his divine humanity. and yet as is the way with all the liberated sons of god, he could not rest until he had shown us the way. he had to transmit the great energy of the- 83- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust love of god. perfected, serving and with a full knowledge of his mission, christ now enters into the period of active work which must precede the next initiation, that of the transfiguration. chapter four the third initiation: the transf

he is brought face to face with the transcendent goodness and wonder which christ revealed. from this realisation he passes on to the discovery of the divine in himself, and starts on that long struggle which carries him through the stages of intellectual awareness of possibility, and of intuitive perception of truth, to that illumination which is the prerogative and the gift of all the perfected sons of god. the radiant inner body of light is present both in the individual and in the race, unseen and unrevealed, but slowly and surely emerging. at the present hour a large number of mankind are engaged in the activities of the six days which precede the transfiguration experience. it is important here to study briefly the place of the disciples in the story of this experience. down through

example that we should follow in his steps. christ himself laid no emphasis upon the death on the cross as being the apex of his life work. it was the result of his life work, but not that for which he came into the world. he came that we might have "life abundantly" and st. john tells us in his gospel that the new birth is dependent upon belief in christ, when power is given to us to "become the sons of god, even to them that believe on his name, which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of god."20 is it not reasonable for us to gather from these words that when a man reaches the point of recognising and believing in the cosmic christ "the lamb slain from the foundation of the world,"21 then the new birth becomes possible, for the life of tha

revision of the culmination of his life of service upon the cross. he saw clearly, perhaps for the first time, what lay ahead of him, and the direction in which his service to the world was leading him. the via dolorosa of a world saviour stretched out before him; the destiny of all pioneering souls climaxed in his experience, and he saw himself rejected, pilloried and killed, as have many lesser sons of god. world rejection always precedes world acceptance. disillusionment is a stage on the way to reality. the hatred of those who are not yet ready to recognise the world of spiritual values is ever the lot of those who are. this, christ faced, and yet "he steadfastly set his face to go to jerusalem."28 as we consider these happenings, the particular test which christ now encountered become

plications of christ's sacrifice. the selfishness of the spiritual aspirant is often very real. it is surely evident, if one approaches the subject intelligently, that christ did not die in order that you and i might go to heaven. he died as the result of the very nature of the service which he rendered, of the note which he struck, and because he inaugurated a new age and told men how to live as sons of god. in considering the story of jesus upon the cross, it is essential, therefore, that we see it in broader and more general terms than is usually the case. most of the treatises and writings upon the subject are controversial and argumentative, usually defending or attacking the evidence or the theology associated with the theme. or they may be of a purely mystical or sentimental nature

concerning themselves with the relation of the individual to the truth or with his personal salvation in christ. but in so doing, it is possible that the real elements of the story and their highest meaning have been lost. two things emerge, however, from the research and the questioning of the past century. one is that the gospel story is not unique, but has been paralleled in the lives of other sons of god; secondly, that christ was unique in his particular person and mission, and that, from a specific angle, his appearance was unprecedented. no student of comparative religion will question the christian parallels to earlier events. no man who has truly investigated with an open mind will deny that christ was an integral part of a great continuity of revelation. god has never "left himse

g. it signified far more than the basis of the belief of several million people in their heavenly future. christ's incarnation, apart from its historical value, and apart from the keynote which he sounded, marked the closing of a great cosmic cycle, but it marked also the opening of that door into the kingdom which had opened only occasionally theretofore, in order to permit the entrance of those sons of god who had triumphed over matter. after the advent of christ, the door stood wide open for all time, and the kingdom of god began to form on earth. in- 114- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust the long processes of time four great expressions of divine life, four forms of god immanent in nature, have appeared upon our planet. we call them the four kingdoms of nature. they

he cross of matter. there he hangs fixed until the last weary pilgrim shall find his way home.19 the planetary christ, the life of the four kingdoms of nature, has been crucified on the four arms of the planetary cross down the ages. but the end of this period of crucifixion is close upon us. mankind can descend from the cross as christ did, and enter into the kingdom of god, a living spirit. the sons of god are ready to be manifested. today as never before "the spirit himself bears witness with our own spirits that we are children of god; and if children, then heirs too heirs of god and co-heirs with christ; if indeed we share christ's sufferings, in order to share also his glory "all creation is yearning, longing to see the manifestation of the sons of god. for the creation was made subj

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

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

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

, extension of consciousness through the process of incarnation, are all occultly considered to be death. but the angels "chose to die, and in dying, lived" through their sacrifice, matter is lifted up into heaven. it is this theme which fills the pages of the secret doctrine, and which is discussed in greater elaboration in a treatise on cosmic fire. the sacrifice of the angels, the death of the sons of god, the immolation of the mystic christ, the crucifixion in time and space of all living entities, called souls this is the theme of those books. this is the mystery hinted at in the world of scriptures, and this is the secret of the ages, which is only discovered by the souls of men as each of them enters individually into conscious relation with his own soul and discovers that which he

arth, he consciously and symbolically re-enacts for the benefit of other souls, in order to hasten their progress towards their goal. then comes a life wherein, in some form or another, he portrays or works out within himself, but also before the watching world, that great symbolic drama which we call the sacrifice of a world saviour. this is the theme of the historical romance of all those great sons of god who down the ages, have arrived at an understanding of the significance of the divine purpose of god, of the word incarnated through a planet, of those solar angels who are themselves, the word incarnate through a human form. whether they enact this drama, as did the christ, so as to present to man the symbolism of death and sacrifice, or whether they enact this drama, as did the buddh

of the word incarnated through a planet, of those solar angels who are themselves, the word incarnate through a human form. whether they enact this drama, as did the christ, so as to present to man the symbolism of death and sacrifice, or whether they enact this drama, as did the buddha, so as to demonstrate to man the sacrifice and death of personal desire (to mention only two of the manifested sons of god, the christ and the buddha, the theme remains the same, the death of that which is lower in order to release that which is higher, or on a larger scale the death of that which is higher in the order and scale of being, in order to release that which is lower. but the lesson needs to be learned (and it is the lesson which man is now engaged in learning) that death as the human conscious

: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust made of the experience of life on earth, until he had exhausted all his resources and there was naught left but the eventual sacrifice of what he held so dear, but had discovered to be so unsatisfying. for these things of lesser values, he had sacrificed the higher values, and had to return again whence he came. such is the life story of all the sons of god who came into incarnation, as given to us under the symbolism of the bible. but the theme in all the world bibles is the same. this urge to sacrifice, to relinquish this for that, to choose one way or line of conduct and thus sacrifice another way, to lose in order eventually to gain, such is the underlying story of evolution. this needs psychological understanding. it is a governing p

ple freedom thus achieved has naught to do with earth, or water, or with fire. it is a freedom, triple in its kind, which greets the man who passes freely from the sphere of earth into the ocean of the watery sphere, and thence on to the burning ground of sacrifice. the sun augments the fire; it dissipates the mist and dries the earth. and thus the work is done" 7. the law of the lower four "four sons of god went forth. but only one returned. four saviours merged themselves in two, and then the two became the one" these two ancient writings one mystical and the other occult convey but little to most minds, and this we can easily see. therefore it does not profit us to consider them too carefully. the time is not yet. these are given us, how in stimulating comprehension. we stand today on t

ycle of evolution as human beings, of a low order as far as the lowest of our present humanity is concerned, but somewhat higher than the egos which individualised upon ancient lemuria. it might be of interest here to note that christ was the first of our earth humanity to achieve the goal, whereas the buddha was the last of the moon chain humanity to do so. as far as the development of these two sons of god was concerned, so rapid was the development of the christ that in atlantean days he found himself upon the path of probation as did also the buddha. he, coming into incarnation from the moon chain (having been held in what the occult teaching calls "pralaya" till that time, entered upon the probationary path a very short time ahead of his brother, the christ. from the angle of evolutio

is as yet possible for normal man to vision. if it were not so, the unfoldment of the soul in man would be a prime objective in the planet. but this is not the case. it may be so from the point of view of man himself, considering him as an essentially separable and identifiable unity in the great cosmic scheme. but it is not so for that greater whole of which humanity is only a part. those great sons of god, who have passed beyond the point of development of those masters who work entirely with the human kingdom, have plans of a still vaster and broader sweep, and their objectives involve humanity only as an item in the plan of the great life "in whom we live and move and have our being" one may ask (and rightly ask) wherein all this information can be of use to us in the midst of a troub

i: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust b. it is the basic cause and impulse which will lead to the eventual appearance of the kingdom in nature, higher than the human, which is strictly that of the soul, and will produce the manifestation upon earth of the fifth kingdom in nature, that of the kingdom of gods. this phrase should be noted. c. it is the result of the active work of the sons of god, the sons of mind, and is the part which they are contributing to the total planetary contribution, as part of the great systemic plan. the hierarchy itself is the outer and inner manifestation of the sacrifice of the divine manasaputras (as they are called in the secret doctrine, and its members respond to their sensed vision of the plan for the whole. the hierarchy is essentially the

e and of thought also bears silent witness. but what is it? how define it? men are no longer satisfied to call it god, and they are right, for it is, in the last analysis, that to which god bends every effort. yet the quality and the nature of the vision which is god's own vision, dream and thought, have held his purpose steady throughout the aeons and have motivated his creative processes. great sons of god have come and gone and challenged us to follow the light, to seek the vision of reality, to open our eyes and see truth as it is. down the ages, men have sought to do this and have called the method of their search by many names life experience, scientific research, philosophic questionings, history, adventure, religion, mysticism, occultism and many other terms applied to the adventur

ve sought to define the vision, and have endeavored to reduce god's hidden goal and intent to forms and rituals and to say, with emphasis "we know" yet they have never touched the reality, and the truth is as yet unknown to them. the possibility of the vision which lies beyond, or behind the vision of the mystic is forgotten in the forms built up in time; and the symbols of the teachings of those sons of god who have seen the reality is lost to sight in rituals and ceremonies, which (though they have their- 146- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust place and teaching value) must be used to reveal and not to obscure. the vision is ever on ahead; it eludes our grasp; it haunts our dreams and our high moments of aspiration. only when a man

y enlightened in the occult and spiritual sense) on the ray of descending approach, embodied also the peace of inclusiveness, which comes from the touch of divine acquiescence. he was the embodied force of submission, and he carried the divine approach to the astral plane, the plane of feeling. thus two great stations of energy and two major powerhouses of light have been established by these two sons of god, and the descent of the divine life into manifestation has been greatly facilitated. the way is now opened so that the ascent of the sons of men can become entirely possible. it is around these two ideas of divine descent and of human corresponding ascent that the coming new religion must be built- 168- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 luci

in, through, and with which the personality has to work was essential if the work of this third avatar from cosmic sources, was to be made possible. we have thus endeavored to outline something of the problems of the personality from the angle of the larger issues. we have, as the occult law dictates, begun with the relation of the form to the soul, with the descent of life and the ascent of the sons of god, and we have carried the thought forward to the fact of the hierarchy, working under the same law, and its relation to the new group of world servers. information on initiation has hitherto been primarily occupied with the relations of the individual man to the soul and to the hierarchy. there are here presented some of the group implications. the new group of world servers is related

nergy. this tendency outwards is expressed in many differing words or expressions in the literature of the world, such as: a. the desire to manifest. b. the creative impulse. c. the evolutionary urge. d. the wish to incarnate. e. the attraction of the pairs of opposites. this is positive energy having an attractive effect upon negative energy. f. the outgoing tendency. g. the fall of man. h. the "sons of god came in unto the daughters of men (the bible) i. the "corn of wheat falling into the ground. many such expressions can be found, having in them symbolic quality and which are not to be interpreted literally, or with a physical connotation. each idea, however, involves a duality, and the concept that there is "that which is manifesting through the form of the manifest. this is "the soul

erge into manifestation. this is a vital moment in consciousness; it is a period of vital preparation for a great spiritual event the coming into incarnation of a son of god. this involves the taking of a dense physical body which will act either as a complete prison for the soul or as a "form for revelation, as it has been called, in the cases of those advanced men whom we regard as the revealed sons of god. the crisis of approach is one of the most important and one of the least understood of the various stages. students should find it of interest to make a comparative study of the approaches which have previously been mentioned in connection with such episodes in human history as those occurring at the time of the wesak full moon. there is a close underlying relationship between the app

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

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

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

y of the preparation done until the full moon of may. it will also depend upon whether you and l.t.s-k. can free yourselves from glamour you from the glamour of the personal self and he from the glamour of his own thoughtforms. the words and phrases which i have chosen for the theme of your meditation are as follows: 1st month freedom. i stand upon the mountain top and breathe the air whereby the sons of god must live. 2nd month detachment. i seek to love and with my love to live. i seek not love for my own little self. 3rd month purification. let the fires of divinity burn out all dross. let the pure gold emerge. give me the gold of living love to shower upon the sons of men. 4th month light. into the light of the radiant presence of the self i pass and join all souls in service. 5th mont

l passes the gate. the field is green and on its broad expanse the many forms of the one moving life disport themselves; they weave the dance of life, the many patterned forms god takes. the soul enters "the playground of the lord" and plays thereon until he sees the star with five bright points, and says "my star" stage iii. the way of red desire fails. it loses its allure. the playground of the sons of god no longer holds appeal. the voice which has twice sounded from out the world of form sounds now within the heart. the challenge comes "prove thine own worth. take to thyself the orange ball of thy one-pointed purpose" responsive to the sounded word, the living soul, immersed in form, emerges from the many forms and hews its onward way. the way of the destroyer comes, the builder and ag

blended be, but far off yet the date. their blending bathes the bud in light and causes future opening. let the light shine. stage iv. into the dark the life proceeds. a different voice seems to sound forth "enter the cave and find your own; walk in the dark and on your head carry a lighted lamp" the cave is dark and lonely; cold is it and a place of many sounds and voices. the voices of the many sons of god, left playing on the playground of the lord, make their appeal for light. the cave is long and narrow. the air is full of fog. the sound of running water meets the rushing sound of wind, and frequent roll of thunder. far off, dim and most vaguely seen, appears an oval opening, its colour blue. stretched athwart this space of blue, a rosy cross is seen, and at the centre of the cross, w

arded and destroyed, and holding forth the hands of helpfulness. upon his shoulder sits the bird of peace; upon his feet the sandals of the messenger. not yet the utter glory of the radiant life! not yet the entering into everlasting peace! but still the work, and still the lifting of the little ones- 523- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust discipleship and pain "the sons of god, who know and see and hear (and knowing, know they know) suffer the pain of conscious limitation. deep in the inmost depths of conscious being, their lost estate of liberty eats like a canker. pain, sickness, poverty and loss are seen as such, and from them every son of god revolts. he knows that in himself, as once he was before he entered prisoner into form, he knew not pain. sicknes

en as such, and from them every son of god revolts. he knows that in himself, as once he was before he entered prisoner into form, he knew not pain. sickness and death, corruption and disease, they touched him not. the riches of the universe were his, and naught he knew of loss "the lives that enter into form along with lives self-conscious, the deva lives which build the forms indwelt by all the sons of god, they know not pain or loss or poverty. the form decays, the other forms retire, and that which is required to nourish and keep strong the outer, lacks. but lacking also will and planned intent, they feel no aggravation and know not clear revolt" a word about pain might be in place here, though i have naught of an abstruse nature to communicate anent the evolution of the human hierarch

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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

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

"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 the sons of men respond. th

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

can draw closer still if what is here written is understood and brought to the attention of men everywhere. for christ belongs to humanity, to the world of men, and not alone to the churches and religious faiths throughout the world. around him in that high place on earth where he has his abiding place are gathered today all his great disciples, the masters of the wisdom, and all those liberated sons of god who, down the ages, have passed from darkness to light, from the unreal to the real, and from death to immortality. they stand ready to carry out his bidding and to obey him, the master of all the masters and the teacher alike of angels and of men. the exponents and the representatives of all the world faiths are there waiting, under his guidance, to reveal to all those who today strug

e "end of the age" to which he referred when speaking to his small group of disciples "lo! i am with you all the days even unto the end of the age" has come. today he stands and waits, knowing that the hour has come when he will "see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied (is. liii.11- 19- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust right through the spiritual succession of the sons of god, there is naught to be seen and felt but expectancy and preparation "the hierarchy waits" it has done all that is possible from the angle of the present opportunity. the christ stands in patient silence, attentive to the effort that will make his work materialise on earth and enable him to consummate the effort he made 2000 years ago in palestine. the buddha hovers over the planet, rea

great renunciation, christ, for the first time, anchored on earth a tenuous thread of the divine- 27- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust will as it issued from the father's house (shamballa, passed into the understanding custody of the kingdom of god and, through the medium of the christ, was brought to the attention of mankind. through the instrumentality of certain great sons of god, the three divine aspects or characteristics of the divine trinity will, love and intelligence have become a part of human thinking and aspiration. christians are apt to forget that the crisis in the final hours of the christ was not that spent upon the cross, but those spent in the garden of gethsemane. then his will in agony and almost despair was submerged in that of the father "fat

ionary law, brings a man eventually into the kingdom of god and "unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of christ (eph. iv.13) of this potency and glory, christ has ever been the symbol. during the present period of hierarchical tension and as a result of his decision to reappear, christ became the embodiment of this energy and thus entered into a closer relation to humanity. other great sons of god are channels for this energy in relation to the subhuman kingdoms, but the christ holds a unique place in relation to humanity. to express the idea symbolically, this energy creates a living bridge from the human kingdom to the kingdom of god, from the fourth kingdom in nature to the fifth. the christ is the custodian of this energy, but only temporarily and for the period of this huma

line of divine expression, that these energies reach humanity, channelled by the new group of world servers- 49- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust the christ and the buddha combined the way of the mind and the way of the heart in their perfection, and towered above their fellowmen from the heights of their achievement. they swayed hemispheres and centuries, whereas lesser sons of god sway countries and shorter periods of time. they still have some consummating work to carry through, though the indicated work lies not so much with the forms which embody their enunciated divine principles light and love as with the souls who have evolved through the application of these principles. in june 1945, christ set in motion the forces of reconstruction which are related to t

e time of the wesak festival at the may full moon) he communicates with humanity, via the christ and the assembled, attentive hierarchy. he acts in this way as an agent bringing about relationship between the "centre where the will of god is known" and the "centre which we call the race of men" these two descriptive phrases are used advisedly because all the work now being done by these two great sons of god is concerned with the distribution of energy the energy of light and the energy of love. it is through the triangle- 51- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust earlier mentioned, that the energy of will eventually will be distributed and one of these divine distributors is the buddha. actually the work of the buddha for humanity is nearly over, and his long alliance

les and the new group of world servers are the pledged builders of the new civilisation, the new "house of humanity" the preparatory work he is now doing will fit him to demonstrate in wisdom (and not only through love) the nature of the hierarchical plans, wise constructive measures, wise choice of builders and correct methods of construction. it is apparent, therefore, that this greatest of the sons of god, the christ, representative of humanity and of the second divine aspect, will demonstrate within himself, during the aquarian age and after his reappearance, certain major fused and blended dualities. it would profit us to study them and know which they are: 1. the fusion of the second divine aspect of love and the first divine aspect of will the- 52- the reappearance of the christ cop

l of his soul and shall be satisfied (is. liii.11- 54- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust chapter five the teachings of the christ the establishing of right human relations the law of rebirth revelation of the mystery of initiation the dispelling of glamour it might be useful to make a few opening remarks upon the general subject of the teaching given (down the ages) by the sons of god who have come forth in the hour of humanity's need, in order to present to the consciousness of the men of their time certain required ideas and concepts of truth. when they come, their aim is to meet the immediate need in such a fashion that the ideas presented may become ideals to which eventually the life of mankind would later conform and bring about a better civilisation. there ha

particular world period is the teaching head of the spiritual hierarchy. in due time, christ came and gave out to the world (mainly through his disciples) two major truths: the fact of the existence of the human soul and, secondly, the system of service (this phrase is used advisedly) as a mode of establishing right human relations to god and to one's fellowmen. he told men that they were all the sons of god in the same sense that he was; he told them in many symbolic ways who and what he was and assured them that they could do even greater things than he had done, because they were divine as he was. these greater things, humanity has already accomplished upon the physical plane and in its control of nature, as christ knew men would, because he knew the workings of the law of evolution. he

be known to be an entity and the motivating impulse and the spiritual force behind all manifested forms. the work of the christ (two thousand years ago) was to proclaim certain great possibilities and the existence of great powers. his work when he reappears will be to prove the fact of these possibilities and to reveal the true nature and potency of man. the proclamation he made that we were all sons of god and own one universal father will, in the near future, no longer be regarded as a beautiful, mystical and symbolic statement, but will be regarded as a proved scientific pronouncement. our universal brotherhood and our essential immortality will be proven to be facts in nature. the ground is being prepared at this time for the great restoration which the christ will engineer. the world

ossible the dissipation of glamour. within the world of illusion, the world of the mental plane, appeared the christ, the lord of love himself. he undertook to dispel illusion by drawing to himself (by the attractive potency of love) the hearts of all men, and stated this determination in the words "i, if i be lifted up, will draw all men unto me (john xii.32) the combined work of these two great sons of god, concentrated through the world disciples and through their initiates must and will inevitably shatter illusion and dispel glamour the one by the intuitive recognition of reality by minds attuned to it, and the other by the pouring in of the light of the reason. the buddha made the first planetary effort to dissipate world glamour; the christ made the first planetary effort towards the

n and the symbol. secondly, the critical activity which is conditioning the spiritual hierarchy, from the christ himself down to the lowest aspirant to be found on the periphery of that "centre where the love of god" has full play. there, it is fully realised that (in the words of st. paul "the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of god (romans viii.22. it is for that manifestation they now prepare, these "sons of god who are the sons of men" it is for this coming forth to outer active service that they are already one by one entering into outer activity upon the physical plane. they are not recognised for what they are, but they go about the father's business, demonstrating goodwill, seeking to enlarge the horizon of

otion to the christ. what the buddha had instituted symbolically and in embryo became factual and existent under the demands of the piscean age. in the age into which we are now emerging, the aquarian age, this mode of group work will reach a very high point of development, and the world will be saved and reconstructed by groups far more than by individuals. in the past we have had world saviours sons of god who have given to men a message which brought an increase of light to the people. now, in the fullness of time, and through the processes of evolution, there is emerging a group who will bring salvation to the world and who (embodying group ideas and emphasising the true meaning of the church of christ) will so stimulate and energise the minds and souls of men that the new age will be

onal, religious and organisational differences in the carrying out of those forms of service which will reconstruct the world. they must educate the race of men in a few simple and basic essentials and familiarise humanity with the thought of the reappearance of the christ and the externalisation of the kingdom of god. their work will be largely to summarise and make effective the work of the two sons of god: the buddha and the christ. the success of the work of the new group of world servers is inevitable; they have made much headway during the past ten years; the inner integration of that part of the group which works in close touch with christ and the spiritual hierarchy is such that the outer success is guaranteed. they provide a channel through which the light, love and power of the k

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

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 body. these potencies and energies sufficed to carry him through all the trials and the labours of the disciple. the buddha had a second ray soul, a first ray personality and a sixth ray mind a very rare phenomenon. the christ had a second ray soul, a sixth ray personality (which accounted for

e divine principle of desire has shifted potently away from the desire for material form into the realm of higher desire. though materialism is still rampant, there are few people who are not animated by certain definite idealistic aspirations for which they are ready, when needed, to make sacrifices. this is a relatively new phenomenon and one that should be carefully noted. down the ages, great sons of god have ever been ready to die for an idea; today, whole masses of men are equally ready and have done so, whether it is the idea of a superhuman state, empire or nation, or some response to a major world need, or some potent adherence to some current ideology. this indicates phenomenal racial achievement and the pronounced success of the hierarchy to shift human attention into the world

om, through its incarnating souls, has undertaken. the radiation from the fourth kingdom will some day be so potent and far-reaching that its effects will permeate down into the very depths of the created phenomenal world, even into the mineral kingdom. then we shall see the results to which the great initiate, paul, refers when he speaks of the whole creation waiting for the manifestation of the sons of god. that manifestation is that of radiating glory and power and love. incidentally i might point out here that the seventh ray influence will have three definite effects upon the fourth and third kingdoms in nature. these are as follows: 1. all animal bodies will be steadily refined and in the case of humanity consciously refined, and so brought to a higher and more specialised state of d

forcefully drawn. the cleavage to which i refer has been drawn by the churchmen of the past and by no one else; the lines have been determined by the mystics, impractical and visionary, and by the fanatical devotees of some idea who were, nevertheless, unable to see the broad implications and the universal nature of these recognised ideas. i am generalising. there have been many devoted and holy sons of god who have never been guilty of the above stupidities and separative tendencies. at the same time as we recognise this, we must also recognise that orthodox religion has temporarily separated the two great concepts of spirit and matter in their thought and teaching, thereby pushing apart religion and science. the task of the new age workers is to bring these two apparent opposites togeth

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

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

illusion by drawing to himself (by the potency of love) the hearts of all men, and stated this determination in the words "i, if i be lifted up, will draw all men unto me (john 12:32) from the point they then will have reached, the world of spiritual perception, of truth and of divine ideas will stand revealed. the result will be the disappearing of illusion. the combined work of these two great sons of god, concentrated through the world disciples and through their initiates must and will inevitably shatter illusion and dispel glamour the one by the intuitive recognition of reality by minds attuned to it, and the other by the pouring in of the light of reason. the buddha made the first planetary effort to dissipate world glamour; the christ made the first planetary effort towards the dis

a steadily enriching symphony; as the centuries slip away, all these sounds slowly unite and are resolved into each other until some day the planetary symphony which sanat kumara is composing will be completed and our earth will then make a notable contribution to the great chords of the solar system and this is a part, intrinsic and real, of the music of the spheres. then, as the bible says, the sons of god, the planetary logoi, will sing together. this, my brother, will be the result of right breathing, of controlled and organised rhythm, of true pure thought and of the correct relation between all parts of the chorus. think out this theme as a meditation exercise and gain inspiration thereby. c. the technique of indifference i have, in my other books, given much information anent the et

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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 sublime art which every m

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

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

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

, but the experience of the many changing incarnations has done its work, and the band (uniting the two fishes) is in process of dissolution, for part of the work of pluto is to "cut the thread which binds the two opposing lives together" it is the task of venus to "reunite the severed lives but with no binding thread" therefore, venus is exalted in pisces and at the end of the greater cycle, the sons of god who are the sons of mind are raised up into glory through experience and crucifixion because they have learned to love and truly reason. the influence of pisces, gemini and virgo is eventually fused and blended (symbolically the cross must always become the line and then the point. sagittarius, which is governed esoterically by mother earth, produces those conditions whereby the path i

o lords of ceaseless and persevering devotion. all the above names which are related to the planets governing sagittarius will be remembered by students of the secret doctrine. they are the "quality names" of the divine manasaputras, the agnishvattas who are ourselves. a consideration of the above paragraph will indicate to you the importance of the sign sagittarius in the life of the incarnating sons of god. i would point out also that, through jupiter and its influences, sagittarius is related to three other great constellations- 113- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. pisces exoterically, indicating the final goal for man. 2. aquarius esoterically, indicating the purpose of all material evolution and the objective of all incarnatin

the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust life, quality and appearance. thus the three great tests in scorpio are in reality nine tests and hence the nine-headed hydra or serpent which is ever associated with scorpio and hence also the nature of the stupendous victory achieved by hercules, the sun-god, in this sign. it is interesting to note that each of the great sons of god whose names are pre-eminent in the minds of men hercules, the buddha and the christ are associated in the archives of the great white lodge with three special signs of the zodiac (which in a peculiar manner constitute the "zodiacal decanate) in each of which they passed from test to victory. in scorpio hercules became the triumphant disciple. in taurus the buddha achieved victory over

iangle of leo-scorpio-capricorn involving humanity and indicating the three important crisis points in man's career: 1. self-consciousness or human awareness. unity leo. 2. consciousness of warring dualities. discipleship scorpio. 3. group consciousness as an initiate. unity capricorn. this sign is a fire sign, and it is the pre-eminent fire sign at this time. the sons of mind, the self-conscious sons of god, are above everything else the sons of fire, for our "god is a consuming fire" there is in them that peculiar quality which can burn and destroy and so eradicate all that hinders their essentially divine expression. i would have you bear in mind the purificatory nature of fire. there are two elements in nature which are connected in the public consciousness with the thought of purifica

evelation of life in form. in capricorn, at the third initiation, this life aspect assumes primary importance- 187- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust you will see, therefore, why the cardinal cross is so mysterious; also why both cancer and capricorn are so little understood by modern astrology and why, in the last analysis, only the initiated sons of god can grasp the significance of the four signs which comprise the cardinal cross, or understand the relation which exists between the four major divine energies which pouring through the four arms of this cross produce the vortex of force (a synthetic force) which constitutes that "pool of pure, fiery light" through which all those who take the higher initiations must eventually pass. th

relationship and through the medium of the potencies pouring into our planet, a situation is set up which i might express in the words of the old commentary "when the dual forces of the cosmic brothers (gemini) become the energy of the one who rides towards the light (sagittarius) then the fourth becomes the fifth. humanity, the link, becomes the hierarchy, the bestower of all good. then all the sons of god rejoice" a slight study will show you that you have in these three rulers a most interesting sequence of forces, for rays 3, 4, and 5 produce a synthesis of activity and of eager potencies which are essential for the development of humanity. in this world cycle and for humanity as it is now constituted you have: 1. ray 3. active intelligence, under the influence of this third sign, gem

m and of our earth in particular. this solar system is a system which is expressing the second aspect of divinity and hence the emphasis upon the forces pouring through scorpio, taurus and pisces. ponder on this. a hint is there conveyed anent our zodiac which is of supreme importance to the astrologer of the future. in the cosmic decanates to which i here refer, it will be found that three great sons of god have expressed for us the quality, the keynote and the development which is expressive of each decanate: hercules scorpio. strength through testing. buddha taurus. illumination through struggle. christ pisces. resurrection through sacrifice. in a peculiar sense, these three constitute a triangle of initiation and are of paramount potency in the initiation process. they express strength

s into two stages: the one in which the monad expresses itself upon the six planes of manifestation in "wisdom, strength and beauty" through the medium of the integrated soul and personality. this is a relatively brief stage. second, the stage wherein withdrawn and abstracted from those forms of being "the one proceeds upon the higher way and passes on to realms unknown e'en to the highest of the sons of god upon our earth" it might be added that the mutable cross is the conditioning influence in that great planetary- 326- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust centre which we call the human; that the fixed cross is paramountly the major controlling set of energies governing, and being transmitted by, the centre which we call the planetary h

complete exhibition of divinity, as it is intended eventually to express itself through humanity on this planet. i have given you the expression of the mutable cross. we will take the other two, in connection with the christ and with the cosmic christ- 331- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust the fixed cross taurus. christ said (as have all the sons of god who know the true significance of the fixed cross "i am the light of the world" and he added "if thine eye be single thy whole body shall he full of light" taurus is, as you have heard, the mother of illumination, and the "eye of the bull" is the symbol of the eye to which christ made reference. leo. this is the sign of self-conscious identity. this is testified to by christ in the wor

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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

n this line of basic energy, he will not be able to heal. this is seldom realised. it is rare, however, to find an equipment lacking all second ray energy outlets. 6. those healers who are on the second ray, or who are equipped with a powerful second ray vehicle, are usually great healers. the christ, being the truest exponent of the second ray ever known on earth, was greatest of all the healing sons of god. 7. the ray of the soul conditions and determines the technique to be employed. the ray in the personality vehicles most closely related to the second ray (for which all the subrays act as channels) is the one through which the healing energy must flow. 8. the second subray of the soul ray determines the approach to the healing problem immediately confronting the healer; this energy is

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

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

and struggle; he realises then (and with joy) that this little planet is essentially unique in its purpose and its techniques, and that on it and within it (if you could but penetrate below the surface) a great redemptive experiment is going forward; its prime implementing factors and its scientific agents are the "sons of mind who choose to be the sons of men and yet for all eternity remain the sons of god" these "sons of mind" were chosen, in that far distant time when the fourth kingdom in nature came into being, to carry forward the science of redemption. there is a true historical and spiritually esoteric significance in the words in the new testament that the "whole creation groaneth and travaileth together in pain until now, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of god" st. pau

ourth kingdom in nature came into being, to carry forward the science of redemption. there is a true historical and spiritually esoteric significance in the words in the new testament that the "whole creation groaneth and travaileth together in pain until now, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of god" st. paul is there referring to planetary purpose and to the determined insistence of the sons of god that eventually as they brought about the redemption of substance, of matter and form, and thus proved the possibility of that redemption through their own transfigured personalities their reward should be their eventual manifestation as expressions of divinity. for this purpose and with this goal in view, they instituted the great evolutionary process of initiation, thus producing a c

on sensitivity in most cases) distinguish the first ray disciple, until he learns to preserve his divine sense of "unified identity" whilst merging, at the same time, with others. this again you are learning to do. you have had by no means an easy time, my brother. you have tuned in on world distress and are discovering yourself doing so with increasing and oft distressing frequency. thus are the sons of god trained and brought to the point of detached and spiritually oriented servers. i would like to take this opportunity to express to you my appreciation (if such an inadequate word is aught but meaningless) of the constant and untiring service to the plan which you have so ceaselessly rendered. you have for years ever since you first returned to spain, and later in the place of your pres

of solitude. 12. the silence of the spheres. in this solitude there is no morbidness, there is no harsh withdrawing, and there is no aspect of separateness. there is only the "place where the disciple stands, detached and unafraid, and in that place of utter quiet the master comes and solitude is not" the mysteries great is the mystery of godliness! the word went forth to all the sons of men, the sons of god: show forth the signature of god. leave this high place and, in the outer realm of darkness, toil and serve; bring forth the real; unveil the hidden depths of light. reveal divinity. great is the mystery of thought! the word went forth to all the sons of men, the sons of god: think on the past, the future, and on that which is today. learn that through thought the way into the innermos

and all the worlds emerged and ran their courses. man, in his distant radiant past, before his life on earth, the past that was before all time and space, evolved a thought. forth into the light of day he came and ran his course. he runs until today- 537- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust great is the mystery of pain! the word went forth to all the sons of men, the sons of god: learn through the struggle of earth life to choose the way that is the better then the best. evade not pain. seek not the easiest way, which is not to be found. tread then the way which leads through sorrow, pain and dire distress to that high place from which you came the place where god walks with the sons of men, who are the sons of god. before the august presence, all pain shall d

ace from which you came the place where god walks with the sons of men, who are the sons of god. before the august presence, all pain shall disappear; sorrow shall fade away, and death shall triumph not. beauty and goodness and the strength of god irradiate the face of men. great is the mystery of those who blaze the trail back to the father's home! the word goes forth to all the sons of men, the sons of god: those who have reached the portal of the final way must prove themselves and in their proving teach and lift those who would follow in their steps. thus down the ages have the sons of men, who are the sons of god, embodied in themselves the light which shines, the strength which lifts and serves, the love that evermore endures. they walked the way of purity, the way into the innermost

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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

escended from their sinless and free state of existence in order to develop full divine awareness upon earth, through the medium of material incarnation and the use of the principle of mind. this was the divine plan, emanating from the mind of god and swept into activity and progressive unfoldment by an act of his will. at its inception, there took place the original "war in the heavens" when the sons of god who responded to the divine urge to experience, to serve and to sacrifice, separated themselves from the sons of god who responded to no such inspiration but who chose to stay in their original and high state of being. to this truth, christ himself bore witness in the story of the prodigal son and his relationship to his elder brother, who had not left the father's home. it is obvious

ted at the following forms of divine intervention: 1. divine embodiments 2. natural cataclysms 3. evocation of slumbering entities 4. emergence of inspired leadership. there still remains one mode of intervention which is still more mysterious, illimitably more powerful, and definitely more difficult both to evoke and subsequently to contact. this is the emergence, response, or appearing of great sons of god who dwell in sources far removed from our planetary life altogether; this involves the appearance of lives of such stupendous and divine expression and potency that only the massed spiritual purpose of vast numbers of men can be potent enough and far-reaching enough to pierce beyond the veil which protects the earth, to those far distant realms where they have their natural and everlas

wing to himself (by the potency of love) the hearts of all men, and stated this determination in the words "and i, if i be lifted from the earth, will draw all men unto me (john 12:32. from the point they then will have reached, the world of spiritual perception, of truth and of divine ideas will stand revealed. the result will be the disappearing of illusion. the combined work of these two great sons of god, concentrated through the world disciples and through their initiates must and will inevitably shatter illusion and dispel glamour the one by the intuitive recognition of reality by minds attuned to it, and the other by the pouring in of the light of reason. the buddha made the first planetary effort to dissipate world glamour; the christ made the first planetary effort towards the dis

h worship, the recognition of deity, through affirmation of the fact of human identity of nature with the divine, to a belief in the- 263- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust divinity of man. orthodox religion emphasises the divinity of the christ, and he himself has told us (and the new testament in many places emphasises it) that we also are divine, all of us are the sons of god and that as he is so are we in this world and that we are able to do still greater things than christ did because he has shown us how. such is the religious background of the spiritual thinking in the world. therefore, taking our stand on these truths, acknowledging the fact of our divinity and recognising the glory of all past revelations and the still more glorious promise of the fut

the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust them, and that the simple teaching of the approach to god which he taught has been superseded by the pomp and ceremony of elaborate rituals. to sum up: because of the divergences of the many exoteric faiths, the multiplicity of the sects and cults in both the orient and occident, and the quarrels of theologians over words, phrases and interpretations, the sons of god in process of development are left without the needed help to contact the christ and his great group of disciples, the spiritual leaders of humanity; the way to christ, the living, loving expression of god, is not made clear to the seeker. together, the two great sons of god present to mankind the one in the east and the other in the west a complete and perfect representation of deity;

rother. a new definition of god was given us when the buddha taught that god was light and showed us the way of illumination, and when christ revealed to us that god was love through his life and service on earth. today the knowledge aspect of illumination is being comprehended, but the inner meaning of love is only now dimly sensed. yet light and love have been revealed to the world by two great sons of god in two approaches. a new approach is on the way, bringing us the next needed truth. we ask ourselves: what will it be? for it, the knowers and lovers of god and of their fellowmen are prepared; for it, the masses of men wait- 267- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust some of these approaches have been of a major nature, affecting humanity as a whole, and some

till greater divine principle or aspect, that of love, whilst at the same time embracing within himself all that the buddha had of light. christ was the expression of both light and love. through their work, therefore, there is now possible a deeper reaction to, and a broader comprehension of the work and influence of those great lives who are waiting today to help humanity. the work of these two sons of god produced among many results the following: 1. they embodied in themselves certain cosmic principles, and by their work and sacrifice certain divine potencies poured through and upon the race, stimulating intelligence into wisdom and emotion into love. the buddha, when he achieved illumination "let in" a flood of light upon- 270- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis

provides a situation to which the hierarchy has to make adjustment through alignment. you are, in your small way, making your adjustment to the hierarchy through a steady construction of the antahkarana, and in so doing are aiding in the construction of the antahkarana which unites humanity and the hierarchy the first few strands of which were established through the sacrifices of certain of the sons of god when the hierarchy was founded on earth. today, the hierarchy is working at the establishing of the linking strands between itself and shamballa, and good progress has already been made. it might be said here that for the past seven hundred years- 350- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust the chain of hierarchy has been complete; by this i mean that the plane

will prepare and work for conditions in the world in which christ can move freely among men, in bodily presence; he need not then remain in his present retreat in central asia. they can and will accept with ease the unity of all faiths when the relationship of the buddha and the christ is correctly presented; then the picture of a christ demanding a unique position, to the exclusion of all other sons of god, will fade out in the wonder of the true apostolic succession, in which many sons of god, on different rays, of differing nationalities and with varying missions, are to be seen historically leading humanity along the path of divine unfoldment and nearer to god, the source. temporarily, the fact of god immanent will engross the attention of all true spiritual teachers, and the fact of

and can draw closer still if what i here propose to write is understood and brought to the attention of men everywhere. for christ belongs to humanity, to the world of men, and not only to the churches and faiths throughout the world. around him in that high place on earth where he has his abiding place are gathered today all his great disciples, the masters of the wisdom, and all those liberated sons of god who, down the ages, have passed from darkness to light, from the unreal to the real, and from death- 388- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust to immortality; they stand ready to carry out his bidding and to obey the master of all the masters and the teacher alike of angels and of men. the exponents and the representatives of all the world faiths are there wa

or which he has so patiently waited has almost arrived; the "end of the age" to which he referred when speaking to his small group of disciples "lo! i am with you all the days even unto the end of the age" has come and today he stands and waits, knowing that the hour has come when he will "see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied" may i repeat: right through the spiritual succession of the sons of god there is naught to be seen and felt but expectancy and preparation. from the father's house (the shamballa of the esotericist) the fiat has gone forth "the hour has come" from the kingdom of god where reigns the christ, the answer has been flung back "father, thy will be done; down in our struggling, bewildered, unhappy world of men, the cry is ceaselessly rising "may christ return to

rucifixion or (as it is more accurately called in the east) the great renunciation, christ, for the first time, anchored on earth a tenuous thread of the divine will, as it issued from the father's house (shamballa, passed into the understanding custody of the kingdom of god, and through the medium of the christ was brought to the attention of mankind. through the instrumentality of certain great sons of god the three divine aspects or characteristics of the divine trinity will, love and intelligence have become a part of human thinking and aspiration. christians are apt to forget that the crisis in the final hours of the christ was not in those spent upon the cross, but during those spent in the garden of gethsemane, when his will in agony and almost despair was submerged in that of the f

ght 1998 lucis trust secondly, the critical activity which is conditioning the spiritual hierarchy, from the christ himself down to the lowest aspirant to be found on the periphery of that centre where the love of god has full play. there it is fully realised that (in the words of st. paul "the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of god. it is for that manifestation that they now prepare, these "sons of god who are the sons of men; it is for this coming forth to outer active service that they are already one by one entering into outer activity upon the physical plane. they are not recognised for what they are, but they go about the father's business, demonstrating goodwill, seeking to enlarge the horizon of humanity

tency and, at the same time, keep it in a condition in which he can move outward on the physical plane among men. the christian church has laid so much emphasis on christ's unique position as the one and only son of god that great error has crept in and has been fostered for centuries; christ himself foresaw the possibility of this error and tried to offset it by pointing out that we are all the "sons of god" and that "greater things than i do shall you do" a statement which no commentators have ever understood or adequately explained. the occult fact is that there is no being on earth, from the very lowest form of life to the very highest, who is not moving onward towards a greater and finer expression of divinity, and christ himself is no exception to this universal evolutionary law. he

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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

om 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 the sons of men respond. the

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

is to "let in the light; but this time not in the sense of revelation, of vision or of illumination. these latter are all aspects of soul light; the work of the initiate is to aid in the construction of the planetary body of light substance which will finally reveal the nature of deity and the glory of the lord. it is the planetary correspondence to the light-body through which christ and all the sons of god who have reached perfection finally manifest. it is a- 119- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust vehicle created by the energy of will, and it is implemented and "held in being" by the will. it expresses itself exoterically by the projection of this will energy, via the central point in each of the seven chakras or lotuses. in

aw, love, union or synthesis all these great energies have seeped into the human consciousness and now provide the platform upon which the new civilisation can be founded, the new approach to god be taken, and new human relations be implemented. three great rents, therefore, now exist, as well as numerous smaller and less important ones, to which no reference has been or need be made. three great sons of god at the moment of initiation made a major contribution to the human consciousness through their determined will-to-law, will-to-love and will-to-synthesis. mankind was thereby aided to move forward more easily along the "lighted way" to pass through the halls of maya, aided by the light pouring through the rents made in the separating veils by perfected divine men at the very moment of

hese, if evoked, can penetrate occultly and drive out or break down and through the separating veiling forces, thus producing coordination eventually between soul and brain. these veils are as curtains over the windows of vision. they prevent realisation of that which lies beyond the room or area of average or mediocre experience, and they prevent the light from penetrating. the work of the three sons of god referred to above is not concerned with the rending of the veils of their own interior life and forces, thus bringing about soul contact unimpeded and dear, or with the illumination of experience upon the physical plane. that had long ago been effected in these special and individual cases. their service was rendered to humanity and they made rents in the veils which separated mankind

ld of spiritual oneness. to all applicants the call has gone out to see the christ as he is, in order (as the new testament puts it) that "as he is, so should we be in the world" to disciples and initiates the call goes out to reveal to the world the grouped formation of all spiritual workers, the nature of the christ consciousness which knows no separation, which recognises all men everywhere as sons of god in process of expression. this is all desired because of the need to emphasise the all-inclusive approach of divinity to humanity. these working disciples and initiates regard all as essentially one and as brothers, which repudiates all man-made theologies (religious, scientific, political or economic) and says to all men everywhere "we are all the children of god; we are all equally d

even rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust he demonstrated in himself the visioned perfection and then presented to humanity an example in full manifestation of every possibility latent in man up to that time. the achieving of the perfection of the christ-consciousness became the emphasised goal of humanity" the activity of all previous teachers and demonstrating sons of god became only the presentation of the various aspects of a divine perfection which the christ summarised in himself. but he did far more than just this. had this been all that he accomplished, he would have presented to humanity a picture of a static achievement, a culmination of perfection such as the evolutionary status of man at that time demanded; he would have given us, in fact, a f

p down the teaching that the world saviour came to give, and translate into human equivalents as much of the divine inspiration as was possible. many of them have been forgotten even if their work was successful. others have been resolved into myths by the thoughtform-making faculty of man but their work is still thereby remembered, and to this, monuments and tradition constantly testify; greater sons of god possessed a potency and a love of humanity which, even at the close of many centuries, evokes the attention of mankind and conditions even yet the reactions of millions of people. vyasa the original vyasa, who was the great individuality evoked by the invocation of the early animal-men is still more than just a name, even though he has passed out of our planetary scheme millions of yea

a, who was the great individuality evoked by the invocation of the early animal-men is still more than just a name, even though he has passed out of our planetary scheme millions of years ago. he opened a door into the human kingdom through his response to the animal kingdom in its higher invocative ranks; his work brought about the process known as individualisation. down through the ages, these sons of god have come, evoked by human invocation; in their turn, they have invoked certain aspects of the divine nature, deeply hidden in mankind all related hitherto to consciousness and to responsiveness of the part to the whole. eventually hercules came forth and opened the door on to the path of discipleship, his work being preserved for us in the twelve labours of hercules. these epitomised

based upon a series of ascensions. these ascensions are the result of a process, a technique, a method (choose which word you will) of invocation by the lesser individual, group or kingdom, and the evocation of that which is greater, more inclusive and more enlightened. this is true, whether it concerns a lonely aspirant upon the way or an entire kingdom in nature. the greatest of the incarnating sons of god are necessarily those who can include whole kingdoms or states of divine being in their consciousness. here is the key as to why the invocation by a group "standing with massed intent" can bring forth, and has done so many times in our planetary history, one who could- 346- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust meet the need whi

tre of the planetary logos; this is the centre which we call humanity. thus "the word came forth" he had a dual mission to fulfill in order to prove his fitness (if one may use such a word in connection with an initiate of his exalted standing. he had, first of all, to give a great impetus to human evolution by proclaiming two things: 1. that "the blood is the life" 2. that all men everywhere are sons of god, and therefore divine- 359- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust secondly, he had to bring to an end the jewish dispensation which should have climaxed and passed away with the movement of the sun out of aries into pisces. he therefore presented himself to them as their messiah, which was his reason for manifesting through the

n age with its type of energy, and the coming into power of the aquarian age (with its potent purificatory energies and its quality of synthesis and universality) which will make the new world order possible. it is therefore apparent that the opportunity confronting humanity has never been so promising and that the corporate relation and fusion of all these energies makes the manifestation of the sons of god and the appearance of the kingdom of god an inevitable happening in our planetary life. as we study the other ray energies and their initiatory effect, we shall not be able to indicate a great deal in relation to humanity itself. only the first two initiations which are implemented by the christ and which are "under the supervisory probation of the spiritual hierarchy" are as yet possi

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

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 resultant. slowly men learn and

oul 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 and man, and willingness

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

te 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 breeding steadily most wild a

his desire to incarnate in a solar system, and to begin the great [33] life cycle of the universe. it may be likewise the urge to individual creation, of the soul to take a body, or of a human being to create something which shall be specially his own. in ancient accadian days, this sign aries was called that "wherein the sacrifice of righteousness was made" or the sign of "the fallen angels. the sons of god, impelled by this basic urge, fell from their high estate, took form, and started upon their individual round upon round of the zodiac. thirdly, we find the urge to resurrection. in aries, which has seen the beginning of form life and which has initiated the creative work, there begins to be felt the urge to achieve freedom from the form, to roll away the stone from the door of the sep

ir high estate, took form, and started upon their individual round upon round of the zodiac. thirdly, we find the urge to resurrection. in aries, which has seen the beginning of form life and which has initiated the creative work, there begins to be felt the urge to achieve freedom from the form, to roll away the stone from the door of the sepulchre of the soul, and to stand in the liberty of the sons of god. in aries is found the impulse which leads to the building of the form, which for ages will constitute the prison house of the soul. this reaches its mass form in cancer, and its human form in leo; the densest point of illusion in form is reached in scorpio, and in pisces the form dies, only to be rebuilt again in the wearying round of form experience. but in this sign the way of liber

, p. 108. received three years after a.a.b. gave the hercules lectures in new york) 1 "and the word said: let form again be sought (the man. 2 "i come forth and from the plane of mind, i rule (the initiate [38] labor ii the capture of the cretan bull (taurus, april 21st- may 20th) the myth the presiding one spoke to the teacher of the man whose light shone forth among the sons of men, who are the sons of god "where is the man who stood with power before the gods, received their gifts and entered through the first wide open gate to labor at his task "he rests, oh, great presiding one, and ponders on his failure, and mourns for abderis, and seeks for help within himself "it is well. the gifts of failure guarantee success, when rightly understood. let him proceed to labor once again, enter th

the labours of hercules moving as moved the bull, led him. from place to place. alone, he sought the bull; alone he chased it to its lair; alone he captured it and mounted on its back. around him stood the sisters seven, urging him on his way and, in the shining light, he rode the bull across the glimmering water to the isle of crete unto the land where dwelt the cyclops three. these three great sons of god awaited his return, watching his progress through the waves. he rode the bull as if it were a horse, and with the sisters singing as he went, drew near unto the land "he comes with strength, said brontes, and went to meet him on the shore "he rides in light" said steropes "his inner light will brighter be" then fanned the light to sudden flame "he comes with speed" said arges "he is ri

r to search without discouragement, deception or too great a speed. let perseverance now be called upon. he has done well so far" and thus the word went forth. far in a distant country grew the sacred tree, the tree of wisdom, and on it grew the golden apples of the hesperides. the fame of these sweet fruits had gone to distant lands, and all the sons of men who knew themselves to be likewise the sons of god desired them. hercules, too, knew of these fruits, and when the word went forth to seek for them he sought the teacher, asking him the way to go and find the sacred tree and pick the apples "tell me the way, o teacher of my soul. i seek the apples and i need them quickly for my use. show me the quickest way and i will go "not so, my son, replied the teacher "the way is long. two things

im to an altar and kept him bound throughout a year. suddenly one day, when struggling to be free, and slowly seeing busiris for what he was, words spoken long ago by nereus came to his mind "truth lies within yourself. there is a higher power and strength and wisdom in yourself. turn inwards and there evoke the strength which is, the power which is the heritage of all the sons of men who are the sons of god" silent lie lay a prisoner on the altar, bound to its corners four for one whole year. then, with the strength which is the strength of all the sons of god, he broke his bonds, seized the false teacher (who had seemed so wise) and bound him to the altar in his place. he spoke no word, but left him there to learn. the watching teacher, from afar, noted the moment of release, and turning

e doe, yet found it not. at each point reached, the maidens turned my steps, but still i did persist and now the doe is mine! the doe is mine "not so, o hercules" came to his ears the voice of one who stands close to the great presiding one within the council chamber of the lord "the doe belongs not to a son of man, e'en though a son of god. carry the doe to yonder distant shrine, where dwell the sons of god and leave it there with them "why so, o teacher wise? the doe is mine; mine by long search and travel, and mine likewise because i hold the doe close to my heart "and are you not a son of god, although a son of man? and is the shrine not also your abode? and share you not the life of all who dwell therein? bear to the shrine of god the sacred doe, and leave it there, o son of god" then

izon stood the temple of the lord, the shrine of the sun-god, with glistening battlements, whilst on a nearby hill there stood a slender fawn "did i perform the test, o teacher wise? the fawn is back upon the hill where i earlier saw it stand" and from the council chamber of the lord, where sits the great presiding one, there came a voice "again and yet again must all the sons of men, who are the sons of god, seek for the golden antlered fawn and bear it to the holy place; again and yet again" then said the teacher to the son of man who is a son of god "labor the fourth is over, and from the nature of the test and from the nature of the doe, frequent must be the search. forget this not, but ponder on the lesson learnt" the tibetan (djwhal khul) synthesis of the signs cancer is the last of

, and through it become en rapport with the world of human ideas and research. he must learn to carry that capacity of his into the temple of the lord and there to see it transmuted into intuition, and through the intuition become aware of the things of spirit and of those spiritual realities which neither instinct nor intellect can reveal to him (and again and again the sons of men, who are also sons of god, must recapture these spiritual realities, upon the endless way [95] labor v the slaying of the nemean lion (leo, july 22nd- august 21st) the myth the great presiding one sat within the council chamber of the lord and there discussed the plan of god for all the sons of men, who are the sons of god. the teacher stood at his right hand and listened to his words. and hercules rested from

t and matter. but it is the number wherein spirit does not dominate matter; it is the number of the aspirant whose objective it is to subordinate matter to the uses of spirit and, therefore, upset the balance of the number ten. the ancient scriptures of the east use some interesting phrases to express the nature of these celestial beings who are the men of our time, who are ourselves, who are the sons of god in incarnation. they are called lords of knowledge and of wisdom, lords of will and of sacrifice, lords of boundless devotion, and these terms, characterizing the spiritual entity dwelling [102] in every human form, merit the closest consideration of those who seek to tread the round of the zodiac as conscious individuals with a spiritual goal. through our own will and in full knowledg

of hesione; finding her deep within the belly of the monster. with his left arm he seized her, and held her close whilst with his trusty sword he hewed his way from out the belly of the serpent into the light of day. and so he rescued her- 66- the labours of hercules balancing thus his previous deed of death. for such is life: an act of death, a deed of life, and thus the sons of men, who are the sons of god, learn wisdom, balance and the way to walk with god. from out the council chamber of the lord, the great presiding one looked on. and from his post beside, the teacher too looked on. through the sixth gate again passed hercules, and seeing this and seeing both the girdle and the maid, the teacher spoke and said "labor the sixth is over. you slaughtered that which cherished you and all

presents matter harnessed. the third constellation in pisces is the king named cepheus, the husband of cassiopeia and the father of andromeda. this suggests that "the king" represents the spirit or father aspect. there is in nature the human kingdom and above it are other kingdoms, spiritual and cosmic, and below it there are the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms. the work of the intelligent sons of god is to act as transmitters, via the mind, of [201] spiritual energy, which will save and vitalize all lower kingdoms of nature. the second coming of the christ how can the world savior come? he might come as he came before, in a physical body with its incidental handicaps. there are emerging in the world today new faculties that were not demonstrating when he came before. we are much mo

line. this is the star in the east. at the same time, the constellation virgo, the virgin, became visible in the east, and it is interesting to note the coincidence that spica, the brightest star in that constellation, means "an ear of wheat" and bethlehem, the town in which christ was born, means "the house of bread. when this arrangement cyclically comes about in the heavens, the great historic sons of god make their appearance for the uplift of humanity and the saving of the world. it is also said that the conjunction of saturn and jupiter created a brilliant, arresting appearance [221] one other instance of the effect of the constellations upon our christian faith might be given. two festivals are kept in the roman catholic and the anglican churches, called the assumption of the virgin

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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

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2, page] 27 man's dual and triple nature. seven figures of clay- earth and water- made in the shape of those tien-hoang, a third allegory (compare the "symbols of the bonzes. the twelve aesers of the scandinavian eddas do the same. in the secret catechism of the druses of syria- a legend which is repeated word for word by the oldest tribes about and around the euphrates- men were created by the "sons of god" descending on earth, where, after culling seven mandragoras, they animated these roots, which became forthwith men* all these allegories point to one and the same origin- to the dual and the triple nature of man; dual, as male and female; triple- as being of spiritual and psychic essence within, and of a material fabric without- 2. said the earth "lord of the shining face (the sun) my

d name of the first divine emanations. this is easily proved. christian angelology is directly and solely derived from that of the pharisees, who brought their tenets from babylonia. the sadducees, the real guardians of the laws of moses, knew not of, and rejected, any angels, opposing even the immortality of the human soul (not impersonal spirit. in the bible the only "angels" spoken of are the "sons of god" mentioned in genesis vi (who are now regarded as the nephilim, the fallen angels, and several angels in human form, the "messengers" of the jewish god, whose own rank needs a closer analysis than heretofore given (vide supra, stanza i, sub-sections 2, 3, et seq, where it is shown that the early akkadians called ea, wisdom, that which was disfigured by the later chaldees and semites in

s "kabiri" vol. i, pp. 35, 43, and 45* see ibid, vol. ii, p. 240* sanchoniathon says that the titans were the sons of kronos, and seven in number; and he calls them fireworshippers, aletae (sons of agni, and diluvians. al-ait is the god of fire* of which seven, let us remark, the aryans, and not the semites, were the originators, while the jews got that number from the chaldeans* seven individual sons of god, or pitars and pitris; also in this case the sons of kronos or saturn (kala "time) and arkites, like the kabiri and titans, as their name "lunar ancestors- shows, the moon being the ark, or argha, on the watery abyss of space* see "kabiri" vol. i, p. 131[[vol. 2, page] 143 the arkite symbols. japhet is on the list of the titans contained in a verse of the orphic hymns. according to orp

the brutal masses. even the students of occultism, though some of them have more archaic mss. and direct teaching to rely upon, find it difficult to draw a line of demarcation between the sodales of the right path and those of the left. the great schism that arose between the sons of the fourth race, as soon as the first temples and halls of initiation had been erected under the guidance of "the sons of god" is allegorized in the sons of jacob. that there were two schools of magic, and that the orthodox levites did not belong to the holy one, is shown in the words pronounced by the dying jacob. and here it may be well to quote a few sentences from "isis unveiled" the dying jacob thus describes his sons "dan" he says "shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the hor

n their genetical accounts and gave only four. thus the mexican local genesis has "four good men" described as the four real ancestors of the human race "who were neither begotten by the gods nor born of woman; but whose creation was a wonder wrought by the creative powers, and who were made only after "three attempts at manufacturing men had failed" the egyptians had in their theology only "four sons of god" whereas in pymander seven are given- thus avoiding any mention of the evil nature of man; though when seth from a god sank into set-typhon, he began to be called "the seventh son" whence probably arose the belief that "the seventh son of the seventh son" is always a natural-born magician, though, at first, only a sorcerer was meant. apap, the serpent symbolizing evil, is slain by aker

inese philosopher chuang, who said that "the things that men do know can in no way be compared, numerically speaking, to the things that are unknown* and thus they laugh only at their own ignorance[[footnote(s "the human species" p. 52 "manual of geology" p. 301 "recherches sur les mammiferes" plate i* preface to "wonders by land and sea (shan hai king[[vol. 2, page] 220 the secret doctrine. the "sons of god" and the "sacred island" the legend given in isis in relation to a portion of the globe which science now concedes to have been the cradle of humanity- though it is but one of the seven cradles, in truth- ran, condensed, and now explained, as follows "tradition says, and the records of the great book (the book of dzyan) explain, that long before the days of ad-am, and his inquisitive w

nt the "sons of will and yoga" who, with a few tribes, survived the great cataclysm. for it is the third race which inhabited the great lemurian continent, that preceded the veritable and complete human races- the fourth and the fifth. therefore it was said in isis that "this race could live with equal ease in water, air, or fire, for it had an unlimited control over the elements. these were the 'sons of god; not those who saw the daughters of men, but the real elohim, though in the oriental kabala they have another name. it was they who imparted nature's most weird secrets to men, and revealed to them the ineffable, and now lost 'word" the "island" according to belief, exists to the present hour; now, as an oasis surrounded by the dreadful wildernesses of the great desert, the gobi- whose

ative to solon and the egyptian priests, were but a prudent way of imparting the fact to the world, and, by cleverly combining truth and fiction, so disconnecting himself from a story which the obligations imposed at initiation forbade him to divulge "to continue the tradition, we have to add that the class of hierophants was divided into two distinct categories* those who were instructed by the 'sons of god' of the island, and who were initiated in the divine doctrine of pure revelation; and others who inhabited the lost atlantis- if such must be its name- and who, being of another race (born sexually but of divine parents, were born with a sight, which embraced all living things, and was independent of both distance and material obstacle. in short, they were the fourth race of men mentio

of rome, of greece, of egypt, and of india was developed, it is certain that this civilization did exist, and it is highly important to science to recover its traces, however feeble and fugitive they may be (pp. 13-15. this last tradition corroborates the one given from the "records of the secret doctrine" the war mentioned between the yellow and the black men, relates to a struggle between the "sons of god" and the "sons of giants" or the inhabitants and magicians of atlantis. the final conclusion of the author, who personally visited all the islands of polynesia, and devoted years to the study of the religion, language, and traditions of nearly all the peoples, is as follows "as to the polynesian continent which disappeared at the time of the final geological cataclysms, its existence r

is found near a jain settlement in southern india, and appears to be the only one that remains at present* even wilson admits that rama and ravana were personages founded on historical facts-"the traditions of southern india uniformly ascribing its civilization and the settlement of civilized hindus (the fifth race) to the conquest of lanka by rama (vishnu purana, iii, p. 318- the victory of the "sons of god" over the atlantean sorcerers, says the true tradition[[vol. 2, page] 225 cock and bull hypotheses. two races, the third and fourth, and how long after did the various tribes of the fifth begin their strife, the wars between good and evil? we are assured by the orientalists that chronology is both hopelessly mixed and absurdly exaggerated in the puranas and other hindu scriptures. we f

old doctrine about the true meaning of the "fallen angels" in its anthropological and evolutionary sense, is contained in the kabala[[vol. 2, page] 229 the mysteries among the mayas. and explains the bible. it is found pre-eminent in genesis when the latter is read in a spirit of research for truth, with no eye to dogma, and in no mood of preconception. this is easily proven. in genesis (vi) the "sons of god- b'ne aleim- become enamoured of the daughters of men, marry, and reveal to their wives the mysteries unlawfully learnt by them in heaven, according to enoch; and this is the "fall of angels* but what is, in reality, the "book of enoch" itself, from which the author of revelation and even the st. john of the fourth gospel have so profusely quoted (e.g, verse 8, in chapter 10, about all

ation of the hindu, the egyptian, and the phoenician empires" in this, had[[footnote(s* this is shown by faber, again a pious christian, who says that "the noetic family also. bore the appellations of atlanteans and titans, and the great patriarch himself was called by way of eminence atlas and titan (vol. ii. p. 285. and if so, then, according to the bible, noah must have been the progeny of the sons of god, the fallen angels, agreeably to the same authority, and of the "daughters of men who were fair (see genesis, chap. vi) and why not, since his father lamech slew a man, and was, with all his sons and daughters (who perished in the deluge, as bad as the rest of mankind[[vol. 2, page] 266 the secret doctrine. he only known of the existence of what we have agreed to call lemuria, he would

north pole, or the heaven of their progenitors (the hyperborean continent; the atlanteans, toward the southern pole, the pit, cosmically and terrestrially- whence breathe the hot passions blown into hurricanes by the cosmic elementals, whose abode it is. the two poles were denominated, by the ancients, dragons and serpents- hence good and bad dragons and serpents, and also the names given to the "sons of god (sons of spirit and matter: the good and bad magicians. this is the origin of this dual and triple nature in man. the legend of the "fallen angels" in its esoteric signification, contains the key to the manifold contradictions of human character; it points to the secret of man's self-consciousness; it is the angle-iron on which hinges his entire life-cycle- the history of his evolution

abala was first taught by god himself to a select company of angels who formed a theosophic school in paradise. after the fall the angels most graciously communicated this heavenly doctrine to the disobedient child of earth, to furnish the protoplasts with the means of returning to their pristine nobility and felicity (quoted by christian ginsburg from the kabala. this shows how the event- of the sons of god, marrying and imparting the divine secrets of heaven to the daughters of men- allegorically told by enoch and in the sixth chapter of genesis was interpreted by the christian kabalists. the whole of this period may be regarded as the pre-human period, that of divine man, or as plastic protestant theology now has it- the pre-adamite period. but even genesis begins its real history (chap

e secrets of heaven to the daughters of men- allegorically told by enoch and in the sixth chapter of genesis was interpreted by the christian kabalists. the whole of this period may be regarded as the pre-human period, that of divine man, or as plastic protestant theology now has it- the pre-adamite period. but even genesis begins its real history (chap. vi) by the giants of "those days" and the "sons of god" marrying and teaching their wives- the daughters of man. this period is the one described in the puranas; and relating as it does to days lost in archaic ages, hence pre-historic, how can any anthropologist feel certain whether the mankind of that period was or was not as he knows it now? the whole personnel of the brahmanas and puranas- the rishis, prajapatis, manus, their wives and

uranas; and relating as it does to days lost in archaic ages, hence pre-historic, how can any anthropologist feel certain whether the mankind of that period was or was not as he knows it now? the whole personnel of the brahmanas and puranas- the rishis, prajapatis, manus, their wives and progeny- belong to that pre-human period. all these are the seed of humanity, so to speak. it is around these "sons of god" the "mind born" astral children of brahma, that our physical frames have grown and developed to what they are now. for, the puranic histories of all those men are those of our monads, in their various and numberless incarnations on this and other spheres, events perceived by the "siva eye" of the ancient seers (the "third eye" of our stanzas) and described allegorically. later on, the

fore other buddhas. the book of the chinese y-king, attributes the discovery of agriculture to "the instruction given to men by celestial genii "woe, woe to the men who know nought, observe nought, nor will they see. they are all blind* since they remain ignorant how much the world is full of various and invisible creatures which crowd even in the most sacred places (zohar, part i, col. 177) the "sons of god" have existed and do exist. from the hindu brahmaputras and manasaputras (sons of brahma and mind-born sons) down to the b'ne-aleim of the jewish bible, the faith of the centuries and[[footnote(s* this is a direct reference to the esoteric division of man's principles symbolised by the divine wheat. the legend which inscribes the third registrar of the papyrus (chap. cx. of the "book o

over them* there are egyptologists who have tried to identify osiris with menes, which is quite erroneous. bunsen assigns to menes an antiquity of 5867 years b.c, and is denounced for it by christians. but "isis-osiris" reigned in egypt before the dendera zodiac was painted on the ceiling of that temple, and that is over 75,000 years ago* in the text "corked up" or "screwed up[[vol. 2, page] 375 "sons of god" perfect and imperfect. universal tradition force reason to yield to such evidence. of what value is independent criticism so called, or "internal evidence (based usually on the respective hobbies of the critics, in the face of the universal testimony, which never varied throughout the historical cycles? read esoterically the sixth chapter of genesis, which repeats the statements of th

ve hobbies of the critics, in the face of the universal testimony, which never varied throughout the historical cycles? read esoterically the sixth chapter of genesis, which repeats the statements of the secret doctrine, only changing slightly its form, and drawing a different conclusion which clashes even with the zohar "there were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that when 'the sons of god (b'ne-aleim "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 (or giants* what does this sentence "and also after that" signify unless it means when explained "there were giants in the earth before, i.e, before the sinless sons of the third race; and also after that when other sons of god, lower in nature, in

r roman catholic, we have only to refer them to their own literal texts. the above quoted verse was ever a dilemma, not alone for the men of science and biblical scholars, but also for priests. for, as the rev. father peronne puts it "either they (the b'ne-aleim) were good angels, and in such case how could they fall? or they were bad (angels) and in this case could not be called b'ne-aleim, the "sons of god (praelectiones theol. ch. ii) this biblical riddle "the real sense of which no author has ever understood" as candidly confessed by fourmont- can only be explained by the occult doctrine, through the zohar to the western, and the book of dzyan to the eastern. what the former says we have seen; what the zohar tells us is this: b'ne-aleim was a name common to the malachim (the good messe

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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

ajority (see part ii "primordial substance and divine thought) hence the statement that during the prologue, so to say, of the drama of creation, or the beginning of cosmic evolution, the universe or the "son" lies still concealed "in the divine thought" which had not yet penetrated "into the divine bosom" this idea, note well, is at the root, and forms the origin of all the allegories about the "sons of god" born of immaculate virgins[[vol. 1, page] 62 the secret doctrine. stanza iii. commentary. 1. the last vibration of the seventh eternity thrills through infinitude (a. the mother swells, expanding from within without like the bud of the lotus (b (a) the seemingly paradoxical use of the sentence "seventh eternity" thus dividing the indivisible, is sanctified in esoteric philosophy. the

e bonds of flesh and illusion. because, in short, he has sacrificed himself for the sake of mankind, though but a few elect may profit by the great sacrifice. it is under the direct, silent guidance of this maha (great- guru that all the other less divine teachers and instructors of mankind became, from the first awakening of human consciousness, the guides of early humanity. it is through these "sons of god" that infant humanity got its first notions of all the arts and sciences, as well as of spiritual knowledge; and it is they who have laid the first foundation-stone of those ancient civilizations that puzzle so sorely our modern generation of students and scholars[[footnote(s* let those who doubt this statement explain the mystery of the extraordinary knowledge possessed by the ancient

ns of gnostic priests "it is owing to the divine perfection[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 209 the sacred island. although these matters were barely hinted at in "isis unveiled" it will be well to remind the reader of what was said in vol. i, pp. 587 to 593, concerning a certain sacred island in central asia, and to refer him for further details to the chapter in book ii. on "the sons of god and the sacred island" a few more explanations, however, though thrown out in a fragmentary form, may help the student to obtain a glimpse into the present mystery. to state at least one detail concerning these mysterious "sons of god" in plain words. it is from them, these brahmaputras, that the high dwijas, the initiated brahmins of old justly claimed descent, while the modern brahmi

ooks of marcus vitruvius pollio on architecture, of one, in short, who was an initiate, can only be studied esoterically. the druidical circles, the dolmen, the temples of india, egypt and greece, the towers and the 127 towns in europe which were found "cyclopean in origin" by the french institute, are all the work of initiated priest- architects, the descendants of those primarily taught by the "sons of god" justly called "the builders" this is what appreciative posterity says of those descendants "they used neither mortar nor cement, nor steel nor iron to cut the stones with; and yet they were so artfully wrought that in many places the joints are not seen, though many of the stones, as in peru, are 18 ft. thick, and in the walls of the fortress of cuzco there are stones of a still great

omena- the day and the night, or the sun and moon. then the hosts of the solar and lunar deities were made to represent them, and the dragon of darkness was contrasted with the dragon of light (see stanzas v, vii. of book i) the host of satan is a son of god, no less than the host of the b'ni alhim, these children of god coming to "present themselves before the lord" their father (see job ii "the sons of god" become the "fallen angels" only after perceiving that the daughters of men were fair (genesis vi) in the indian philosophy, the suras are among the earliest and the brightest gods, and become asuras only when dethroned by brahminical fancy. satan never assumed an anthropomorphic, individualized shape, until the creation by man, of a "one living personal god" had been accomplished; and

in in sacrifice is exalted to heaven, why does not the worshipper slaughter his own father. infallible utterances do not, great asuras, fall from the skies; it is only assertions founded on reasoning that are accepted by me and by other intelligent persons like yourselves! thus by numerous methods the daityas were unsettled by the great deceiver (reason. when[[footnote(s "there was a day when the sons of god came before the lord, and satan came with his brothers, also before the lord (job ii, abyss, ethiopic text[[vol. 1, page] 423 the deception, an allegory. they had entered on the path of error, the gods mustered all their energies and approached to battle. then followed a combat between the gods and the asuras; and the latter, who had abandoned the right road, were smitten by the former

names betraying the secret. for if the said forces had nought to do with "creation" so-called, why call them elohim (alhim) in plural "divine workmen" and energies['energeia, incandescent celestial stones (lapides igniti coelorum, and especially "supporters of the world[[kosmokratores, governors or rulers of the world (rectores mundi, the "wheels" of the world (rotae, ophanim, flames and powers "sons of god (b'ne alhim "vigilant counsellors" etc, etc. it was often premised (and as unjustly as usual) that china, nearly as old a country as india, had no cosmogony "it was unknown to confucius, and the buddhists extended their cosmogony without introducing a personal god* it is complained. the yi-king "the very essence of ancient thought and the combined work of the most venerated sages, fail

the "voice of nature" hence, they are called the 6,333 "heavenly singers" and musicians of indra's loka who personify (even in number) the various and manifold sounds in nature, both above and below. in the latter allegories they are said to have mystic power over women, and to be fond of them. the esoteric meaning is plain. they are one of the forms, if not the prototypes, of enoch's angels, the sons of god, who saw that the daughters of men were fair (gen. vi) who married them, and taught the daughters of the earth the secrets of heaven[[vol. 1, page] 524 the secret doctrine. the occult gandharva of the vedas- will be recognised by every occultist, and even by some profane readers. if the latter open volume v. of the popular science review (pp. 329-334, they will find in it an article on

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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

urge command the gibborim our sons, be slaughtered. we wept at the deaths of our children, the mighty of earth, for nephilim, gibborim, watchers and man could prevail not against the wiles and numbers of demiurge and his host. and michael declared unto me that the greatest crime had been committed by laying with the daughters of man, to enjoy a carnal life and children, for such is not angels and sons of god. and when our sons, gibborim, shall be slain before our eyes, we shall be bound underneath earth, after which we would burn and perish. demiurge himself, excited at the blood of gibborim upon earth, as is his nature, shouted in frenzy at samyaza "then shall the children of man be servile, and all nations shall pay me divine honours, and bless me, and shall adore me "the civilisation of

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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

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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

s that came to this planet from elsewhere in the 68 t blood brothers 69 heavens bringing great knowledge and technology. as i have already indicated, the sumerians called these beings the anunna and their later semitic name was an.unnak.ki("those who from heaven to earth came) and din.gir("the righteous ones of the blazing rockets. anunna means "sons of an (later anu),1 another likely origin for "sons of god" as the reptilian anunnaki interbred with the nordics and earth peoples. the name for sumer in the tablets is ki.en.gir, which has been translated as "the land of the lord of the blazing rockets" and also "the land of the watchers. the term "watchers" is often used to describe ancient gods. the egyptian name for their gods, the neteru, translates literally as "watchers. the egyptians s

of how the anunnaki interbred with human women to create a hybrid race, a fusion of the genes of humans of the time and the "gods. included in the term "human" are the white or nordic race, which are also, originally, of extraterrestrial origin. yet again, this is a constantly repeated theme in every part of the world and can be seen in the old testament narrative, taken from the sumerian, of the sons of god (properly translated, the sons of the gods) who interbred with humanity and created a hybrid bloodline. genesis recounts "when men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of god [the gods] saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose..the nefilim were on the earth in those days- and also afterwards- whe

f god (properly translated, the sons of the gods) who interbred with humanity and created a hybrid bloodline. genesis recounts "when men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of god [the gods] saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose..the nefilim were on the earth in those days- and also afterwards- when the sons of god [the gods] went to the daughters of men and had children by them. they were the heroes of old, the men of renown."4 the term nefilim can be translated as "those who descended" or "those who fell from the heavens. the american researcher, david sielaff, emphasises that the nefilim or nephilim are not the sons of the gods (beni ha-elohim, but the offspring of the interbreeding between th

hat i am not as young as i used to be. so the old testament means "old balls" and the new testament means "new balls. when we testify in court is the judge symbolically holding our testicles? you're right, don't lets go there. good thinking. suns of god tammuz was a name for the sumerian god dumazi or damu (the "only begotten son" or "son of the blood) who provided the blueprint for all the later sons of god, including jesus. the hebrews inherited tammuz (also known as adonis) from the babylonians and the roman records refer to tammuz as the chief god of the jews. the jewish calendar still has a month named after tammuz, who was known as "the serpent who emanated from the heaven-god, anu."3 and anu was the head of 198 children of the matrix the anunnaki, the sumerian tablets say. the mesop

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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

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

ahm, of the druids;thor, son of odin, of the gauls; cadmus of greece; hil and feta of mandaites; gentautand quetzalcoatl of mexico; universal monarch of the sibyls; ischy of formosa; divineteacher of plato; holy one of xaca; fohi and tien of china; adonis, son of virgin lo, ofgreece; ixion and quirinus of rome; prometheus of the caucasus; and mohammed ormahomet, of arabia.22all but a few of those sons of god or prophets, and the mind-prison religions foundedin their names, come from the very lands occupied or influenced by peoples emerging fromthe near east and the caucasus. the lands of the aryans and reptile-aryans. other sons ofgod included mithra or mithras, the pre-christian roman-persian god, and in greece andasia minor they had dionysus and bacchus. these were sons of god who died s

and stone tablets throughout thewestern provinces of the former roman domain, including germany, france andbritain. christianity and the roman church were based on the persian-roman sun godcalled mithra (nimrod, who has an earlier equivalent in india called mitra. tammuz oradonis (lord, who was revered in babylonia and syria, was said to have been born atmidnight on december 24th. these were also sons of god.horus was the the son of god in egypt. he was derived from the babyloniantammuz and, in turn, provided another blueprint for the later jesus. theconnections are devastating for the credibility of the christian church: jesus wasthe light of the world. horus was the light of the world. jesus said he was theway, the truth and the life. horus said he was the truth, the life. jesus was born

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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

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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

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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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e of his enemy s satan, by enumerating his crimes and failings, and exposing them in their worst light. in the 71st psalm, enemies (v. 10) are identified with satans or adversaries (v. 13. the only other places in the old testament where the word occurs, are in the book of job, and the prophecy of zechariah. in the book of job, satan appears with a distinct personality, and is associated with the sons of god, and in attendance with them before the throne of jehovah. he is the cynical critic of job s actions, and in that character he accuses him of insincerity and instability; and receives permission from jehovah to test the justice of this accusation, by afflicting job in everything he holds dear. we have here the spy, the informer, the public prosecutor, the executioner; all embodied in s

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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

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

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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

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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

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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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, 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 creative agency from aleim to adam, the worship of an ab

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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he identifies bimself wiui the being who shines in his own splendor" manu, xii, slokaa 90, 91. thus christos as a unity is but an abstraction: a general idea rqtresehting the collective aggregation of the numberless spirit-entities, whi^ are the direct emanations of the infinite, invisible, incomprehensi- ble fmst cause the individual spirits of men, erroneously called souls. they are the divine sons of god, of which some only overshadow mortal men but this in the majority of cases, some remain forever planetary spirits, and some the smaller and rare minority unite themselves during life with certain men. such god-like beings as gautama-buddha, jesus, lao-tse, krishna, and a few others had imited themselves with their spirits permanently hence, they became gods on earth. others, such as m

four ages of the hinda chronology contain a far more philo- sophical idea than appears on the surface. it defines them according to both the psychological, or mental, and the physical states of man during their period. krita-yuga, the golden age, the 'age of joy' or spiritual innocence of man; treta-yuga. the age of silver, or that of fire the peri- od of supremat^ of man and of giants and of the sons of god; dv¶- yuga, the age of bronze a mixture already of purity and impurity (spirit and matter, the age of doubt and at last our own, the kah-yugs, or age of iron, of darkbess, niisery and sorrow. in this age vishnu had to incarnate himself in krishna, in order to save humanity from the goddess kali, consort of siva, the all-annihilating the goddess of death, de- struction and human mis

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monarch, utanapishtim, a god amongst men, that he should seek to kneel before this invisible king of his. must he invent a lord for utanapishtim to restore once an equilibrium that only one as weak as noah would desire. what madness has come upon him that he should kneel to heaven for man kneels to none and not the elohim for we are greater than that ruined domain and are destined to conquer the sons of god. is it the way of the victor to go down before the vanquished? how deluded by deceit is noah that he should consider such a thing. o doubly mourned is lamech that his son is so weak that he is prostrate before heaven! noah, go from this city then 247 back to the wilderness where you found your god but he shall not be within the walls. not fit to rule is the slave. go then and serve you

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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

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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

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 indicate angels. and while scripture does not condemn these actions, the traditional interpretation of these passages is that these sons of god are fallen angels. this history of interpretation provided biblical legitimation for the notion of incubi and succubi. the idea seems to have been mediated to the middle ages by st. augustine, who wrote, it is a widespread opinion, confirmed by direct or indirect testimony of trustworthy persons, that the sylvans and fauns, commonly called incubi, have often tormented women, solicited

went; and the angel of the lord took his stand in the way as his adversary (numbers 22:22. the word being translated here as adversary is the hebrew word satan. this original concept subsequently goes through a gradual expansion of meaning. by the time of the book of job, a much later composition, satan has become the name of a specific angel in god s celestial court: now there was a day when the sons of god came to present themselves before the lord, and satan also came among them. the lord said to satan, whence have you come? satan answered the lord, from going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it (job 1:6 7. here satan is described as a son of god, apparently reporting in to his heavenly king. in job, satan s role appears to be that of a prosecuting judaism and he

form of the doctrines that will finally justify god and indict man, whereas paradise regained constitutes a presentation of milton s ideal of christian virtues, obedience, temperance, and the scorn of worldly glory. paradise lost has many points in common with the christian doctrine. for instance, in both the treatise and the epic milton says that angels 176 mind control, satanic are spirits and sons of god; that they see god dimly and are around his throne praising him; that seven particularly are before the throne; that the good angels are in a kind of order, which persists among the fallen; that the fallen can do nothing without god s permission, and that the elect are impassible, although they do not look into the secrets of god, so that in paradise lost god must instruct even michael

ndom; god created men to repopulate heaven after the fall of angels; satan tempted eve from the mouth of the possessed snake; angels, good or evil, know the world by intuition rather than by discourse, and can control the humors in men s bodies to produce dreams and visions. in paradise lost, milton rejects the ancient view that good angels were corrupted by the beauty of women.he argued that the sons of god were never involved with women, because the love they knew was not libidinous. also, in paradise lost, milton did not commit himself on the three principal angelological controversies between protestants and catholics, that is to say those on the worship of angels, the personal guardian, and the dionysian orders, although his personal views were probably protestant. milton s angels and

ter,wa: phoenix, 1996. lewis, james r.witchcraft today: an encyclopedia of wiccan and neopagan traditions. santa barbara, ca: abc-clio, 1999. vera, diana. satanism and the history of wicca [1992] revised edition, 1996. http//www.members.tripod.com/conjurefolk/w iccasat.html nephilim the biblical term nephilim, which in hebrew means the fallen ones or those who fell, refers to the offspring of the sons of god (traditionally interpreted as being angels) and human females mentioned in genesis 6:1 4. a fuller account is preserved in the apocryphal book of enoch, which recounts how a group of angels desired mortal females, left heaven to mate with them, and taught humanity such heinous skills as the art of war. this particular story, which at one time was widely known, eventually disappeared fr

richmond, ed. studies in folklore. bloomington: university of indiana, 1957. shemhazai and azazel judaism, christianity, and islam all have angel lore related to angelic lust for human beings. although the basic idea of spirit beings or demons having sex with human beings is 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 odd 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. one of the jewish tales flowing out of this theme is the story of shemhazai (a variant spelling of semyaza) and azazel, a tale that was taken over in islam as the story of

y. keel, john a. ufos: operation trojan horse. new york: g. p. putnam s sons. 1970. our haunted planet. greenwich, ct: fawcett publications. 1971. disneyland of the gods. new york: amok press. 1988. lloyd, dan. let s take off our blinkers. flying saucer review 15, no. 1 (january/february 1969: 9 11. more than a possibility. flying saucer review 11, no. 2 (march/april 1965: 1 2. segraves, kelly l. sons of god return. new york: pyramid books. 1975. ufos, aliens and antichrist: the angelic conspiracy and end times deception. http//www.mt.net/ watcher wilson, clifford. ufos and their mission impossible. new york: signet. 1974. underworld the underworld has been typically viewed in various mythical and religious traditions as a world located under the surface of the earth where the spirits of t

ves around the evil watchers who fell from grace after copulating with human women. the story of the grigori is detailed in several scriptural books that did not make it into the judeo-christian canon. chief among these are the book of enoch and the book of jubilees. a fragment of this tale was incorporated into a brief passage in wheatley, dennis 279 the book of genesis, where it states that 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. traditionally, the expression sons of god was taken to indicate angels, although later churchmen rejected the idea that angels could have intercourse with human beings. see also demons; book of jubilees for further reading: baskin,wade. dictionary of satanism. new york: philosophical library

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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

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, chashmalim, the brilliant ones. from c 4 came c 5, the third severity; the hierarchy is the powers, seraphim, the flaming serpents. from c 5 came c 6, the third beauty; the hierarchy is the virtues, melachim, the kings. from c 6 came c 7, the third victory; the hierarchy is the principalities, elohim, the gods. from c 7 came c 8, the third glory; the hierarchy is the archangels, ben elohim, the sons of god. from c 8 came c 9, the third foundation; the hierarchy is the angels, cherubim, the scat of the sons. from c 9 came c 10, the third kingdom; the hierarchy is humanity, the ishim, the souls of just men. from c 10 came d 1, the fourth crown, and the world of assiah was established. from the yetziratic world the light of the ten spheres is reflected into the world of assiah, the lowest o

v, figure 53 click to enlarge table v, figure 54 click to enlarge table vii, figures 1-5, 7 and 8 p. 147 [paragraph continues] a represents the father principle, f the divine outflow, g the point of influx into the twelve orders of spirits (probably sagittarius. the letters h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, s, and t denote the sequential points of irradiations to each other; w and x, the world of the sons of god; and b, c, d, and e, the world of lucifer. this plate shows the universe after the descent of lucifer into matter. according to von welling, when lucifer wanted to control power, the influx of the divine light instantly ceased. lucifer's world (which later became the solar system, with all its legions of spirits (who in their essence were schamayim) reflecting his ideas and inverting t

k, which is in turn surrounded by the circle of the high throne. the circle f is named understanding; e, wisdom; g, reason. in circle i is the word father; in circle h, son; in circle k, spirit. the seven outer circles are the seven spirits before the throne. the lower part of the figure is similar to figures 53 and 54. the outer circles are the angelic world ending in the cognizable world of the sons of god. then comes the circle of the visible constellations and fixed stars; within this is the solar system with the sun as the center (l. ungrund means the abyss. table ix, figure 9. figure 9 is a synthesis of the old and new testaments and represents the interblending planes of being. in the right margin the seven outer circles contain the names of the planetary angels. the words in the gr

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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

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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

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

bit by a civilization on the red planet long ago (p. 48)jonathon swiftknew about the martian satellites in 1726. he knew their sizes, distances from mars, and periods ofrotation, all of which were not officially discovered for 175 years after his time.interaction of gods and humansand 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 them wives of all that they chose (genesis chapter 6-8)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 bear children to them, the same became the mighty men which were of old, men of renown (genesis chapter 6-8)wickedness on earth/destruction o

he ashlar of the freemasons is probably an analogue of it.age of aquariusthe age of aquarius opened 1750 a.d; planet uranus was discovered in 1781. then there came theinventions of the steam engine, airplane, etc. technology became vogue, and so on. in both the bible history and platos story, the destruction of the people was largely caused by the inter-marriage of the superior or divine race the sons of god with the inferior stock, the children of men,whereby they were degraded and rendered wicked (from atlantis-the antediluvian world, p. 73)lappish legendsbut there are also legends that state that a demon brought about the destruction of the planet. i shallreverse the world. i shall bid the rivers flow upward; i shall cause the sea to gather together itself upinto a huge towering wall wh

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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

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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

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

then the gods introduced their own worship among mankind: then oannes, oe or aquarius rose from the red sea to impart science to the babylonians; then the bright bull legislated for india and crete; and the lights of heaven, personified as liber and ceres, hung the b otian hills with vineyards, and gave the golden sheaf to eleusis. the children of men were, in a sense, allied or married, to those sons of god who sang the jubilee of creation; and the encircling vault with its countless stars, which to the excited imagination of the solitary chaldean wanderer appeared as animated intelligences, might naturally be compared to a gigantic ladder, on which, in their rising and setting, the angel luminaries appeared to be ascending and descending between earth and heaven. the original revelation

but also the celestial luminaries; and the stars, imagined in the east to be animated intelligences, presiding over human weal and woe, are identified with the more distinctly impersonated messengers or angels, who execute the divine decrees, and whose predominance in heaven is in mysterious correspondence and relation with the powers and dominions of the earth. in job, the morning stars and the sons of god are identified; they join in the same chorus of praise to the almighty; they are both susceptible of joy; they walk in brightness, and are liable to impurity and imperfection in the sight of god. the elohim originally included not only foreign superstitious forms, but also all that host of heaven which was revealed in poetry to the shepherds of the desert, now as an encampment of warri

very human being the divine and the human are intermingled. in every one there are the reason and the moral sense, the passions that prompt to evil, and the sensual appetites "if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die" said paul, writing to the christians at rome "but if ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. for as many as are led by the spirit of god, they are the sons of god "the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh" he said, writing to the christians of galatia "and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would "that which i do, i do not willingly do" he wrote to the romans "for what i wish to do, that i do not do, but that which i hate i do. it is no more i that do it, but sin that dw

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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

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eighth century by the venerable bede in his work de templo salomonis, it can be found everywhere in strabo's ordinary gloss of the bible. the end of the ritual makes a long allusion to the two pillars of the 230 from the art of building to the art of thinking temple, jachin and boaz "where (was) the noble art or science found when it was lost" this is the meaning it gives them "for ye present ye sons of god have received strength inwardly, for ye time to come god will stablisch so with his spirit of grace yt they shall never wholly depart from him* the legend of hiram and the initiatory myth the legend of hiram is particularly significant with regard to the sacred scope of the masonic ritual. for the masons, who made him both their master and model, hiram was a mythical figure who was the

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

r their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. 1:5 and it was so, when the days of [their] feasting were gone about, that job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings [according] to the number of them all: for job said, it may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed god in their hearts. thus did job continually. 1:6 now there was a day when the sons of god came to present themselves before the lord, and satan came also among them. 1:7 and the lord said unto satan, whence comest thou? then satan answered the lord, and said, from going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. 1:8 and the lord said unto satan, hast thou considered my servant job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, o

m escaped alone to tell thee. 1:20 then job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, 1:21 and said, naked came i out of my mother s womb, and naked shall i return thither: the lord gave, and the lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the lord. 1:22 in all this job sinned not, nor charged god foolishly. 2:1 again there was a day when the sons of god came to present themselves before the lord, and satan came also among them to present himself before the lord. 2:2 and the lord said unto satan, from whence comest thou? and satan answered the lord, and said, from going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. 2:3 and the lord said unto satan, hast thou considered my servant job, that [there is] none like him in the

e a man; for i will demand of thee, and answer thou me. 38:4 where wast thou when i laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 38:5 who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 38:6 whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 38:7 when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of god shouted for joy? 38:8 or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth [as if] it had issued out of the womb? 38:9 when i made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, 38:10 and brake up for it my decreed [place] and set bars and doors, 38:11 and said, hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? 38:12 hast

en] through him might believe. 1:8 he was not that light, but [was sent] to bear witness of that light. 1:9 [that] was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. 1:10 he was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 1:11 he came unto his own, and his own received him not. 1:12 but as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of god [even] to them that believe on his name: 1:13 which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of god. 1:14 and the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the father) full of grace and truth. 1:15 john bare witness of him, and cried, saying, this was he of whom i spake, he that comet

l in you, he that raised up christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you. 8:12 therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 8:13 for if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 8:14 for as many as are led by the spirit of god, they are the sons of god. 8:15 for ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, abba, father. 8:16 the spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of god: 8:17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of god, and joint-heirs with christ; if so be that we suffer with [him] that we may be also glorified together. 8:18

e the children of god: 8:17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of god, and joint-heirs with christ; if so be that we suffer with [him] that we may be also glorified together. 8:18 for i reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 8:19 for the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of god. 8:20 for the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope, 8:21 because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of god. 8:22 for we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 8:23 and not only [they] but ou

[is] lord, to the glory of god the father. 2:12 wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 2:13 for it is god which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure. 2:14 do all things without murmurings and disputings: 2:15 that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of god, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 2:16 holding forth the word of life; that i may rejoice in the day of christ, that i have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. 2:17 yea, and if i be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, i joy, and rejoice with you all. 2:18 for the same cause also do ye joy

lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. 2:28 and now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. 2:29 if ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. 3:1 behold, what manner of love the father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of god: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 3:2 beloved, now are we the sons of god, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3:3 and every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. 3:4 whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for si

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