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rs in the hall of the neophyte are described in the lesson 'highlights of knowledge lecture one" these are highlights of the knowledge lecture that can be found in the golden dawn by israel regardie, lewellyn publications. these pillars are often referred to in the book of the dead as the pillars of shu or the pillars of the gods of the dawning light. they are also referred to as the northern and southern gates of the hall of the neophyte or the hall of truth. like yin and yang, these pillars represent two great opposing and contending forces in the manifested universe. the pillars are traditionally black and white with various egyptian drawings on them. the black pillar is known as boaz and is feminine in nature. the white pillar is yachin and is masculine in nature. in ancient egyptian t

k now of the subject for meditation in a general way- then choose one thought or image and follow that to its conclusion. the pillars lecture highlights the two pillars in the neophyte ritual are called the pillars of hermes, seth and solomon. in the ninth chapter of the ritual of the dead, they are called the pillars of shu, the pillars of the gods of the dawning light, and also the northern and southern columns of the gate of the hall of truth. ruach elohim formulates the ineffable name of god at creation. this is symbolized by the black and white cubical bases of the pillars. prayers and hymns in the egyptian book of the dead, such as pert-em-hru, are designed to unite man with osiris the redeemer. extended afterlife information is given in this lecture. one should read it several times

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n her kingdom malkuth, crowned with a crown of twelve stars. these twelve circles further represent the 12 foundations of the holy city of the apocalypse while in christian symbolism the sun and the twelve signs are referred to christ and his twelve apostles. heg: leads neophyte to hiereus and then returns to his place and is seated. hiereus: leads neophyte to the south, and says: hiereus: on the southern side of the holy place stood the seven branched candlestick, wherein was burned pure olive oil. it is an image of the mystery of the elohim, the seven creative ideas. the symbolic drawing before you represents its occult meaning. the seven circles which surround the heptagram, represent the seven planets and the seven qabalistic palaces of assiah, the material world- which answer to the s

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

ffugit. ubi multa lamentatione animam expiravit. the strange expression thegathon is explained by t' a'yaoov (the good, a name for the highest divinity (summus et princeps omnium deorum, which the chronicler borrowed from macrobius's somn. scip. 1, 2, and may have chosen purposely, to avoid naming a well-known heathen god (see suppl. sytheri, the name of the wood, seems to be the same as sunderi (southern, a name given to forests in more than one district, e.g. a sundernhart in franconia (hofers urk. p. 308. did this heathen hope for healing on the sacred soil? or did he wish to die there? the forest called dat hillige holt is mentioned by a document in kindlinger's mtinst. beitr. 3, 638. in the county of hoya there stood a heiligcn-loh (pertz 2, 362. a long list of alsatian documsnts in s

e of the steepest mountains in the styrian alps (see suppl) is grwiming, i.e, si. germnik, osl. gr"mnik, thunder-hill (sloven, gr'mi, it thunders, serv. gi'mi, ptuss. grom gremit, quasi ^pojxo ^pe/jiet; and not far from it is a rivulet named donnershach the slavs then have two different words to express the phenomenon and the god: the latter is in osl. penln, pol. piorun, boh. pcraun f- among the southern slavs it seems to have died out at an earlier time, though it is still found in derivatives and names of places. dobrowsky (inst. 289) traces the word to the verb peru, ferio, quatio [general meaning rather pello, to push, and this tolerably apt signification may have contributed to twist the word out of its genuine form^ i think it has dropt a k: the lithuanian, lettish and oprussian thu

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and ruling, and in the name of tetragrammaton tzabaoth, spirits of fire, adore your creator. hiero: takes the incense from before the tablet, and making therewith the sign leo in the air before it. hiero: in the name of michael the great archangel of fire, and in the sign of the lion, spirits of fire, adore your creator (making with incense the sign of cross) in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle, revealed unto enoch by the angel ave, spirits of fire, adore your creator (holding incense on high) in the three great secret names of god, borne on the banners of the south, oip teea pedoce spirits of fire, adore your creator. in the name of edelperna, great king of the south, spirits of fire adore your creator. hiero: replaces incense and returns to place. all face east. hie

respectively left and right of its summit, and below the number 37, the numbers 27, 28 and 29 in bright green between narrow parallel lines of the same color. this grade is especially referred unto the element of fire and therefore the great watch tower or terrestrial tablet of the south forms one of its principal emblems. hiero: pract: move to the south. hiero: it is known as the fourth or great southern quadrangle, or tablet of fire and it is one of the four great tablets delivered unto enoch by the great angel ave. from it are drawn the 3 great holy secret names of god oip teea pdoce which are borne upon the banners of the south, and the numberless divine and angelic names which appertain unto the element of fire. the meaning of the other tablets have been already explained to you. hier

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

re used to represent fire. finally, in the west is water, that falls as refreshing rain, tides that ebb and flow, watercourses always finding a way, moving ever onwards, never backwards. water is associated with autumn and sunset. it represents the changing responsive, human emotions of life cycles, and personal ebbs and flows of energies. water is used to represent its own element. magick in the southern hemisphere in magick, time and direction have an important place and it is necessary to understand that there may be differences according to which hemisphere of the globe you are working in. in the northern hemisphere, magical circles are cast clockwise, or 'deosil, which means 'in the direction of the sun. in the southern hemisphere, however, practitioners casting their circles deosil s

the direction of the sun in that hemisphere. for this reason, i have used the term 'deosil (and its opposite 'widdershins) throughout this book when referring to the direction of circles. these terms are clearer than clockwise and anticlockwise, because as long as you think in terms of the direction of the sun, the terms can be applied wherever you are standing on the globe. practitioners in the southern hemisphere will also need to alter the dates i have given. for them, for example, the mid-winter solstice is celebrated on or around 21 june and the summer solstice, when the sun is at it most powerful, is around 21 december. in the same way, the two annual equinoxes, when there is equal day and equal night, move round so that the spring equinox falls around 21 september and the autumn eq

date but what is happening with the cycle of growth and fruition. so the autumn equinox is the time of harvest, whenever that may be in your part of the globe. things are a little more complicated, however, when it comes to the use of the quadrants of your magical circle and the directions, north, south, etc. i explained on page 41 that north is the direction of earth and winter. however, in the southern hemisphere since the equator, the area of maximum heat, is to the north, this direction will more naturally be regarded as fire. to face the colder direction of winter, you must turn away from the equator, towards the antarctic- the south. this means that when following the instructions in this book practitioners in the southern hemisphere should substitute the opposite for each direction

s that when following the instructions in this book practitioners in the southern hemisphere should substitute the opposite for each direction. so, for example, where i have said you should set up your altar in the north, and enter your circles from the east, you would set up your altar in the south, and enter from the west. if you find this too complicated, don't worry. some practitioners in the southern hemisphere follow the northern traditions, especially if they have ancestors from colder climes. it really is a matter of preference and all this diversity actually has a very positive effect, because it means that you can weave the natural forces into your personal creation of magick. the only important thing is that you are consistent in your attitude. a ritual using light and cosmic po

from the magick. also, in northern climes it is usually too cold! but the choice, of course, is yours. next sweep out and cleanse the area you will be working in and set up the altar, either in the north or the centre of your circle. practitioners who work from the east of the circle may want their altar there. the position of the altar really does not matter (see also page 42 for working in the southern hemisphere) if the altar is placed centrally or in the north, you follow the tradition, as i do, of working from the north; this means that you cast the circle from the north and enter the circle from the south so you are facing the north. if, however, you work with the altar in the east, you will cast from the east and enter from the west, facing the east. a central altar will work for e

new industry and investment are so badly needed* light the green candle of the north* go to the east, saying: lord [or lady] of the eastern watchtower, i call upon your swiftness and clarity of purpose, to bring technologies and opportunities into this town to attract new kinds of work, perhaps from overseas* light the yellow candle of the east* go next to the south and say: lord [or lady] of the southern watchtower, i call upon your cleansing fire and spirit of inspiration to purge what is redundant and corrupt and to bring hope and energy to this town where decay and despair have taken root* light the red candle of the south* go finally to the west and say: lord [or lady] of the western watchtower, i call upon your healing and restoration to heal bitterness and divisions between the peop

may be a worthy home to those who work in it* take the incense and circle the clay nine times, saying: bring retraining, new investment, government grants, new technology and new equipment so that the town may become a hive of activity and generate ever more opportunities into the next century and beyond* light the gold candle in the south (in this case it will be different from the candle of the southern watchtower) and pass it over the clay so that single drop of gold wax falls on it, saying: bring gold of prosperity, gold of abundance, fire of inspiration and creativity so that this town maybe rich in opportunity, in the arts and in culture, as well as in material wealth* finally, sprinkle the clay with a single drop of water from the jug or a second dish, saying: may the lifeblood of t

these too flow away as the released energies multiply. allow any excess energies to drain back into the earth, by pressing with your hands, feet and body* beginning in the west, blow out the candle, saying: lord [or lady] of the western watchtower, i thank you for your healing and your harmonising light. go now in peace* move next to the south. blow out this candle, saying: lord [or lady] of the southern watchtower, i thank you for your inspiration and your cleansing light. go now in peace* move next to the east. blow out this candle and say: lord [or lady] of the eastern watchtower, i thank you for your clarity and your life-restoring light. go now in peace* move finally to the north. blow out this candle and say: lord [or lady] of the northern watchtower, i thank you for your grounding

al moons. you may not wish to celebrate every full moon this way, just the significant ones in your year. the names are a synthesis of lunar names i have gathered and used over the years. you will see the echo of these themes throughout the seasons. moons of the coligny calender samnios, seed fall native american name: hunter's moon, trading moon full moon date: october/november (april/may in the southern hemisphere) ritual: making an end to what is not fruitful, drawing up realistic plans for the coming year dumannios, the coming of deep darkness native american name: first snows or frost on the grass moon full moon date: november/december (may/june in the southern hemisphere) ritual: bringing light into the darkness, seeking inner as well as outer illumination and inspiration riuros, the

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

schief i would constantly excite him to thoughts of war and of love; and his music would grow violent and loud, so that the old eunuch, rushing in, would belabour him with his staff. how well i recall that room! large was it and lofty; and there were sculptured pillars of malachite and lapis-lazuli and of porphyry and yellow marble. the floor was of black granite; the roof of white marble. on the southern side was my couch, a softness of exotic furs. to roll in them was to gasp for pleasure. in the centre was a tiny fountain of pure gold. the sunlight came through the space between the walls and the roof, while on the other sides i could look through and up into the infinite blue. there was a great python that inhabited the hall; but he was very old, and too wise to stir. but- so i then be

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

f mashu! thee i call forth this day to guard this most holy mandal against the seven ensnarers, the seven liers-in-wait, the evil maskim, the evil lords! thee i summon, queen of the eastern ways, that thou mayest protect me from the eye of death, and the evil rays of the endukugga and nindukugga! be watchful, queen of the eastern ways, and remember! spirit of the east, remember! invocation of the southern gate thee i invoke, angel, guardian against the urulu dread city of death, gate of no return! do thou stand at my side! in the names of the most mighty hosts of marduk and enki, lords of the elder race, the arra, do thou stand firm behind me! against pazuzu and humwava, fiends of the southwest winds, do thou stand form! against the lords of the abominations, do thou stand form! be thou th

u stand at my side! in the names of the most mighty hosts of marduk and enki, lords of the elder race, the arra, do thou stand firm behind me! against pazuzu and humwava, fiends of the southwest winds, do thou stand form! against the lords of the abominations, do thou stand form! be thou the eyes behind me, the sword behind me, the spear behind me, the armour behind me. be watchful, spirit of the southern ways, and remember! spirit of the south, remember! the invocation of the western gate thee i invoke, spirit of the land of mer martu! thee i invoke, angel of the sunset! from the unknown god, protect me! from the unknown demon, protect me! from the unknown enemy, protect me! from the unknown sorcery, protect me! from the waters of kutulu, protect me! from the wrath of ereshkigal, protect

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

64 book, laylah, who is the ultimate feminine symbol, to be interpreted on all planes. but in this chapter, little hint is given of anything beyond physical love. it is called the pole-star, because laylah is the one object of devotion to which the author ever turns. note the introduction of the name of the beloved in acrostic in line 15 [67] 29 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta kappa-theta the southern cross book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 65 love, i love you! night, night, cover us! thou art night, o my love; and there are no stars but thine eyes. dark night, sweet night, so warm and yet so fresh, so scented yet so holy, cover me, cover me! let me be no more! let me be thine; let me be thou; let me be neither thou nor i; let there be love in night and night in love

let me be thine; let me be thou; let me be neither thou nor i; let there be love in night and night in love. n.o.x. the night of pan; and laylah, the night before his threshold [68] commentary( kappa-theta) chapter 29 continues chapter 28. note that the word laylah is the arabic for "night. the author begins to identify the beloved with the n.o.x. previously spoken of. the chapter is called "the southern cross, because, book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 66 on the physical plane, laylah is an australian [69] 30 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta lambda john-a-dreams dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 67 even so i

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

e thou! the leader of armies is thy name! amen [make the invoking pentagram of spirit acitve and pronounce these names: hyha. alga. bitom [make the invoking pentagram of fire, and pronouce \yhla. twabx hwhy [make the sign of leo with censer (or other suitable weapon] in the name of lakim, archangel of fire, spirits of fire, adore your creator [make the cross] in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle, spirits of fire, adore your creator [elevate censer] in the three secret names of god, oip teaa pdoce, that are borne upon the banners of the south, spirits of fire, adore your creator [lower and lift censer] in the name of edelperna, great king of the south, spirits of fire, adore your creator! in the name of twabx hwhy, i declare that the spirits of fire have been duly invok

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

the south. the ancient initiates, 35 dwelling as they did in lands whose blood was the water of the nile or the euphrates, connected the south with life-withering heat, and cursed that quarter where the solar darts were deadliest. even in the legend of hiram, it is at high noon that he is stricken down and slain. capricornus is moreover the sign which the sun enterers when he reaches his extreme southern declination at the winter solstice, the season of the death of vegetation, for the folk of the northern hemisphere. this gave them a second cause for cursing the south. a third; the tyranny of hot, dry, poisonous winds; the menace of deserts or oceans dreadful because mysterious and impassable; these also were connected in their minds with the south. but to us, aware of astronomical facts

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

, or banti, or basuto or the jargon of master fran ois villon, or pictish, which severally and together convey less to my mind. no, no, not less: i mean more, so much more that it amounts to nothing at all. spencer montmorency bourbon hohenstaufen sounds very exclusive and aristocratic, and even posh or ritzy; but if you bestow these names upon every male child, the effect tends to diminish. the "southern gentleman" lee davis9 recently hanged for rape and murder, was not a near relation either of the general or the president: he was a nigger. gimme the old spade, i've got to go digging again. 1. higher. here we fall straight into the arms of freud. why "higher" because in a scrap it is easier to strangle him if you are on top. when very young children watch their parents in actu coitus, a

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

ness, charm (notariqon of chokmah nesethrah: the secret wisdom, 788) nx resting, at rest (grammatical: silent, mute) xn battering ram yxm 59 brethren (referred to lilith& samael) myx) a wall hmwx menstruation (lit. gimpurity h) hdn 60 tried by fire; a watch-tower nxb excellence, sublimity, glory, pride nw)g constitution, tradition; practice hklh behold; they (fem) hnh a basket )n+ vision hzxm the southern district hbgn utensil, instrument, tool ylk lament yn 61 adon: master, lord nwd) nothing; not ny) towards, to thee kyl) i, myself; a ship, fleet yn) the belly n+b wealth nwh dwelling, habitation (as body is of soul) hwn 62 healing )s) the sons ynb to commit; healing hnz between nyb 63 abaddon: destruction, ruin (hell, as development of lw, 337; cf. 451) nwdb) dregs, roll; faeces (globular

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

ith your love "till there is not one being in all that eastern quarter of the earth whom you have passed over, whom you have not suffused with thoughts of love with heart of love grown great, and mighty, and beyond all measure" and then you imagine a similar 46 ray of love issuing from your heart in the direction of your right hand; and you mentally repeat the same formula, substituting the word "southern" for "eastern" and you go through the same series of reflections in that direction. and so to the west, and so to the north, till all around you, in the four directions, you have penetrated all beings with these thoughts of love. and then you imagine your thought as striking downwards, and embracing and including all beings beneath you, repeating the same formula, and lastly as going upwa

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 2

and carries chesed, geburah, netzach, hod and yesod on its band. tipheret is free-floating within the center of the ring. an equilateral triangle made of black bands touches yesod and the ring with its apex and includes malkut in the center of its base. the whole is suggestive of a horned cup superimposed on the tree of life "the dadouchos- the station of the dadouchos is towards the midst of the southern part of the hall, and to the south-west of the white pillar. he has the charge of the lights, the fire, and the incense of the temple. his ensign is the svastika.14 "goddess of the scale of the balance at the white pillar" is the name of the dadouchos, and she is thoum-aesh-neith, or perfection through fire manifesting upon the earth. the grade of neophyte "the opening" the officers and m

hen takes place, after which followeth the mystical repast, or communion in the body of osiris. its mystic name is "the formula of the justified one."23 the "hierophant" saying "nothing now remains but to partake in silence the mystic repast composed of the 260 symbols of the four elements, and to remember our pledge of secrecy (the kerux proceeds to the altar and ignites the spirit placed at the southern angle of the cross. the "hierophant" quitting his throne, goes to the west of the altar, and facing east, salutes and continues "i invite you to inhale with me the perfume of this rose as a symbol of air (smelling rose: to feel with me the warmth of this sacred fire (spreading hands over it: to eat with me this bread and salt as types of earth (eats: and finally to drink with me this wine

welve circles and a lamp in the centre to represent the sun "the whole figure represents the rose of creation, and is a synthesis of the visible universe. furthermore the twelve circles represent the twelve foundations of the holy city of the apocalypse, while in the christian symbolism the sun and the twelve signs typify our saviour and the twelve apostles."2 after which the hiereus says "at the southern side of the holy place stood the seven-branched candlestick. the symbolic drawing before you represents its occult meaning. the seven circles which surround the heptagram represents its occult meaning. the seven circles which surround the heptagram represent the seven planets and the seven qabalistic palaces of assiah, the material world which answer to the seven apocalyptic churches of a

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 2

he result. the seven are about him_ the universe watches his choice. note the 7 x 40= 280 symbolism. for 280 is sandalphon, who in 1= 10 made him a path: it is also mntzpk, the five letters of severity and judgment, and hb:peh-final hb:resh, terror, also hb:resh hb:ayin hb:yod, the angel of the wood of the world of assiah, since the greater part of it is sterile trees. the "third adept" is on the southern side of the pastos_ themis as "legis jugum" and horus in the fire position. nobody is in the quarter of air, where wait the other fragments of postulant: his nephesch being thus ready to be glorified. the attention of the postulant is at once called to the roof; his lower will looketh upwards, and he sees at last the "invisible lignt" the altar shows (1) the great work as the compendium o

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3

ys "fall down and gaze; for i am fair" oh the dark, sweet hair of her, burnished cascade of heavy-tress d black: nothing's more rare of her than its thick massed glory over breast and back. it rolls and ripples, silver flecked, like moonlight on a misty sea, whose lifting surfaces reflect a sombre, ever-changing radiancy. i would compare the dusk, soft-stealing perfume of her hair to breezes on a southern summer eve, when the night-scented stock hangs drowsing on the air. its languid incense bids me half believe i pass the dreamy day in reveries, by some sleep-haunted shore of the hesperides. oh, the deep, dark eyes of her, half slumbrous depths of heavy lidded calm: there's naught i prize of her more than the shrouded silence they embalm. there's all the mystery of an enchanted pool, hid

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

ht to come to men with the chart of my wanderings in my hands, and unfold to them the foundations of the fabric of oriental story. the secret lies in the use of hasheesh. a very few words will suffice to tell what hasheesh is. in northern latitudes the hemp plant("cannabis sativa) grows almost entirely to fibre, becoming, in virtue of this quality, the great resource for mats and cordage. under a southern sun this same plant loses its fibrous texture, but secretes, in quantities equal to one-third of its bulk, and opaque and greenish resin. between the northern and the southern hemp there is no difference, except the effect of diversity of climate upon the same vegetable essence; yet naturalists, misled by the much greater extent of gummy secretion in the later, have distinguished it from

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6

tle plain- if those we love are hurt or slain, or if the lord hath smitten again the legions of the cross, and hewn a path of blood where glory flares. the sabre strikes, the trumpet blares, the war horse neighs- oh let us see the crescent borne to victory! laylah. is there no news? fatma. it is rumoured that the battle has begun. ledmiya. under the very walls of jerusalem! abdul khan. within the southern gate. fatma. many, many will fall. alas, alas! 84 laylah. sliman is strong and brave- my splendid boy. fatma. ay, there are hairs on his chin. but the strongest and the bravest fall first. laylah. thou ominous owl! be silent, or i will have thee whipped. fatma. oh! oh! indeed i only say what we all know. if he should die indeed, thou mayst have sidi omar left, thy dear lord. and othman, a

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

ining the future and to the formulation of spells to increase fertility or destroy enemies. as long ago as the stone age the wise man of the tribe was dressed in an animal skin; he was called 'devil, which meant 'little god, and was worshipped by his followers as the chief god's representative. the earliest record of this custom is a palaeolithic painting found in a cave in the ariege district of southern france. it depicts a man clad in a stag's skin, with antlers on his head-the horned god, a symbol of benevolent power in primitive times. another, a man disguised as a jackal, carved on slate, dates back to archaic egypt. in about 1100 b.c. women and officers of the harem of rameses iii were brought to trial for making wax images of the pharaoh to the accompaniment of magic incantations

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

r the immediate need. certain masters and their work. under the first great group of which the manu is the head, can be found two masters, the master jupiter, and the master morya. both of them have taken more than the fifth initiation, and the master jupiter, who is also the regent of india, is looked up to by all the lodge of masters as the oldest among them. he dwells in the nilgherry hills in southern india, and is not one of the masters who usually takes pupils, for he numbers amongst his disciples initiates of high degree and quite a number of masters. in his hands are the reins of government for india, including a large part of the northern frontier, and to him is committed the arduous task of eventually guiding india out of her present chaos and unrest, and of welding her diverse p

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

state of affairs is gradually being brought about, and this may permit of definite occult work being attempted with success. the master r. is working upon this problem, and likewise the master of the english race, not the master who occupies himself with the labour movement or the betterment of social conditions. they are aided by a disciple of rare capability in sweden, and by an initiate in the southern part of russia, who works much on the mental levels. their aim is so to tap the resources of force stored up by the nirmanakayas that its downflow may sweep out lower grade matter, and thus permit the free play of a higher vibration. another hindrance may be found in the strong development of the concrete mind. i would here- 48- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust impress

ditions producing depression, into the depths of a world reaction. this world glamour with its devitalising and depressing results has its roots in various factors which we have only the time to briefly indicate: a. astrological factors, either affecting the planetary chart and hence individuals, or primarily racial. these two factors are oft overlooked. b. the path of the sun in the heavens. the southern path tends to a lowered vibratory influence and aspirants should bear this in mind in autumn and the early winter months. c. the dark half of the moon, the period towards the end of the waning moon, and the early new moon. this, as you well know, affects the meditation work. d. psychological factors and mass inhibitions due undoubtedly to forces external to the planet and to plans, obscur

ity. 6. the first outpost for the shamballa fraternity was the original temple of ibez and it was located in the centre of south america, and one of its branches at a much later period was to be found in the ancient maya institutions, and the basic worship of the sun as the source of life in the hearts of all men. a second branch was later established in asia, and of this branch the himalayan and southern indian adepts are the representatives, though the work is materially changed. at a later date than the present, discoveries will be made, revealing the reality of the old form of hierarchical work; ancient records and monuments will be revealed, some above ground and many in subterranean fastnesses. as the mysteries of central asia in the land stretching from chaldea and babylon through t

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

m- 45- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust it is interesting also to bear in mind that asses are definitely associated with the story of mary and her child. two asses are found mentioned in the gospel story, one coming from the north and bearing mary to bethlehem, and the other taking her down into egypt. these are symbols of the two constellations called the northern ass and the southern ass, which are in the neighbourhood of the constellation virgo. we find the human kingdom represented in mary and joseph, with the human unity plus the duality which are so essential to existence itself. in the newborn babe divinity expresses itself. thus, in that little cave, the cosmos is represented. when christ was born in bethlehem, a threefold word sounded forth "glory to god in the

when understood, render clear the circumstances in which they played their part? a study of their names and the interpretation of them as given in the familiar cruden's concordance may supply a clue. take, for instance, the meaning of the names of job's friends. they were eliphaz the temanite, bildad the shuhite, and zophar the naamathite. eliphaz the temanite means "my god is gold" and also "the southern quarter" the opposite pole to the north. gold is the symbol of material welfare, and the opposite pole to spirit is matter, therefore in this name we have symbolised the tangible outer form of man, actuated by desire for material possessions and comfort. zophar the naamathite means the "one who talks" and his theme is pleasantness, which is the interpretation given to the word "naamathite

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

y ugly story, seriously implicates the white man and provides an outstanding disgrace. brought to the united states and to the west indies more than two centuries ago and forced into slavery, the negro has never had a fair deal or any true opportunity. under the constitution of the united states, all men are regarded as free and equal; the negro, however, is not free or equal, particularly in the southern states. the situation in the west indies more closely resembles that in the northern states, where conditions are somewhat better but where there is still no equality of opportunity and much racial discrimination. the treatment of the negro in the southern states is a blot upon the country; there the fight is to keep the negro consistently down, to refuse him equality of education and of

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

nition of the fact that all men are brothers and that if the negro is a problem it is our fault. if he is uneducated and not properly trained in the technique of citizenship it is again our fault. it is time that prominent white men and congressmen in both houses and parties left off yelling for democracy and free elections in the balkans and elsewhere and applied the same principles to their own southern states. forgive this tirade, but i feel strongly on the matter, as you see. this coloured woman, mrs. snyder, mothered me for months and looked after me until my eldest girl was born, sending for her own doctor, who was not coloured but not a particularly good doctor, so i did not get the skilled care i should have had. that was not her fault as she did her best to see me through. i have

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

e, wresting it away from those who have inhabited it for many centuries; and by their continued emphasis upon material possession they lose sight of the true solution, which is that, symbolically and factually again, they must be assimilated into all the nations, and fused with all the races, thus demonstrating recognition of the one humanity. it is interesting to note that the jews who inhabited southern palestine, and whose chief city was jerusalem, have succeeded in doing this and have fused with and been assimilated by the british, the dutch and the french in a way that the israelites, ruled from samaria, have never done. i commend this to you for your consideration- 157- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust if the jewish race would recal

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

he spiritual, will emerge out of the fifth root race. such is the esoteric control of the law of correspondence. i would remind you nevertheless that the only fourth root race people to be found upon our planet are the chinese, the japanese, the various mongoloid races in central asia (and they are somewhat intermixed with the caucasian race) and the hybrid groups found in the many islands in the southern waters in both oceans and hemispheres, as well as the descendants of the races which a million years ago made the south american continent famous for its civilisation. i am necessarily widely generalising. the new racial type is far more a state of consciousness than a physical form; it is a state of mind more than a peculiarly designed body. in time, however, any developed state of consc

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

to exactly this effort. the consequences to you will be a much- 348- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust harder life of service from now on; the results will be the carrying out of your plans for work with greatly intensified effort. you should now work in closer cooperation with a.a.b. and f.b. the task of carrying esoteric truth into latin and catholic america and southern europe is no easy undertaking. it will be slow. your foundation must be well and truly laid. the quality of those reached by you in the future is of more importance than the quantity. bear this ever in mind. relinquish not the various phases of the work you have so successfully launched, but proceed with them as heretofore no matter where may be the place of your physical plane enterprise

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ls of the present world religions in the east and in the west (see: the reappearance of the christ, chapter vi) much that you have learnt and gradually absorbed will then be seen fitting into the general spiritual plan. you will find that the spiritual year is divided into two periods (symbolic of spirit and matter; the period in which the sun moves northward and the period when it travels on the southern way. you will find that the month divides itself into two periods likewise, that of the waxing and the waning moon and you will find the future emphasis laid throughout the world upon the easter festival, the festival of the risen christ; upon the wesak festival, the festival- 264- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust of the buddha or of illumination; and the ju

china's ancient glory will again distinguish the masses of her people. the great continent of europe and the british peoples are still unaware of the real significance of the western hemisphere and of the united states with its exuberant youthfulness. they find it as irritating as their deeper maturity and wide experience proves irritating to americans. americans, both in the northern and in the southern hemispheres, are still basically ignorant of the history of the- 296- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust nations from which they spring, because they have laid the emphasis upon their relatively brief history and have been brought up on a biased and oft prejudiced picture of european culture and of british aims. this ignorance throughout the world plays right

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

ates, this fourth energy is peculiarly active, because of the conflict of races, nations, ideas, political theories, immature development, corrupt politics, and childish selfishness; this is more prevalent among the leaders in the municipalities and in politics than it is among the masses of little people in every state, who are basically sound though easily misled by their so-called leaders; the southern states are, however, almost unbelievably degenerated and deluded. remember always, as we look at these various nations dispassionately, that we are concerned with the same trends and ideas which are to be found in each individual aspirant the conflict of ingrained personality habits and thoughts and faults, with a steadily increasing soul pressure. the united states, though one of the you

the place of the present wickedness. on the other hand, the much vaunted democracies have much to learn. men are not truly free, even in democratic countries; the negroes, for instance, lack their constitutional rights in parts of the united states; and in south africa, their educational facilities and their opportunity to work and live as free men are not equal to those of the white race; in the southern states, the constitution of the united states is infringed every day by those who believe in white supremacy a supremacy which will be put to a crucial test when africa awakes. this attitude of the united states and their failure to live up to the constitution where negroes are concerned, have greatly weakened the faith of other countries in the wonder of america, and the situation in sou

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

ls, and these again link up the gospel story with the story of the manger. in connection with the birth of jesus two asses appear, the one on which the virgin rode down to bethlehem, prior to the birth, and the other on which she rode to egypt, after the birth. close to the sign cancer are two bright stars, one called asellus borealis, or the northern ass, and the other, asellus australis, or the southern ass (there is also the third time, when christ rode into jerusalem during his brief moment of triumph on palm sunday [90] seated on the back of an ass, a symbol of patience and humility the crown jewels of greatness. so do not decry this symbol) someone has used the following words to express the cadence of cancer when first entered "a sorrowful little voice underground, a low, half-captu

are the problems that the aries person will constantly meet, in one form or another. the individual who is consecrated and true to the spirit acts as the spirit in terms of human needs (ease and adaptability: libra at-one with its opposite sign, aries- 79- the labours of hercules the constellations and the stars there are three constellations in libra, all of special interest. first there is the southern cross that has never been seen in the occident since the time of the crucifixion, when it was seen at jerusalem. now the cross is receding. let us try to grasp the dramatic presentation in this great symbol. four bright stars make up this cross; four, the number of the matter [138] aspect of man, the quaternary. the southern cross, the quaternary, is receding. the same symbolism is seen i

u love one another" the eleventh commandment, eleventh sign. it is only now we are discovering what a marvellous astrologer christ was. he knew that the cycle he inaugurated would pass away, that a new method of work would have to emerge whereby the masters would employ a new mode of reaching humanity, but he prepared the way for his own later work. there are three constellations in aquarius. the southern fish, pisces australes, picturing in connection with aquarius the coming world saviors. note that here, in the culmination of pisces, we have one fish, the avatar, not the two fishes banded together. the second constellation is pegasus, the winged horse, ever the inspiring symbol of the higher mind, love, spurning the earth, at home in the air. on a lower level we are reminded of the wing

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

shield of david; to the points of the former were assigned the spirit and four elements, while to those of the latter were ascribed the planets. the treatise called "the clavicules of king solomon" is of course a mediaeval fraud. the hebrew letters are also associated with the twenty-two trumps of the tarot pack of cards; these cards have been much used for purposes of divination. the gipsies of southern europe use these cards for fortune-telling. the french author court de gebelin (1773-1782) declared that these trump cards as mystical emblems were derived from the magic of ancient egypt. occult science allots each card to a number, a letter and a natural object or force,-the planets, zodiacal signs, elements, etc "the sanctum regnum of the tarot trumps" edited by myself can be consulted

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

of potential involvement, being an expansive abode of many hidden realms and deities.14 geographically, the tibetans have adopted the indian view of a universe with the mythical mount meru at its center acting as the axis mundi. this central mountain is surrounded by four major continents and eight subcontinents. india, as well as tibet and surrounding countries like khotan and mongolia, form the southern continent of jambudv.pa( dzam bu gling).15 this structure, along with the multiple overlapping realms full of various entities, is mimicked in the powerful representative symbol of the ma..ala, which will be explored more fully in chapter 3. tibetans further attribute a great deal of sacred significance to the landscape and the necessity for its constant taming; this concept and its perso

the syllable of knowledge and means. 292 completely. 293 who are the seven emanating riders. 294 tib. reg chod. 295 read as gleng gzhi. 296 in fact, he is the continuum of the secret one. 297 she entreated. 298 manifested might demons. 299 manifested might demons. 155 previously, in the age of perfection,300 at the time when ka.yapa s teachings were about to decline, in the northern region of the southern continent jambudv.pa, in a place301 of jeweled joy and happiness [there was] the father, khotan lord sangwa,302 the mother, known as utpalgyen, and the son, khotan prince chorwa. faith having arisen in his mind,303 that son received pratimok.a vows as the monk chandrabhadra.304 having dwelled in a forest, in a city of that region, there was a daughter of king dharma.r..305 that princess w

life-energy and heart. samaya. rgya rgya rgya. 3. third stage [summon] by means of secret life stone and life wheel (316.4-317.3 "homage to glorious tamdrin! regarding the key points of the vow-holders lured like children by means of the secret life stone; toward the west of one s practice building, there is the red land which is cultivated from the land where the might demons reside. display the southern-facing fountain, and stir clay with red-colored water; offer the dust of the five precious things443 and the pleasant smell of incense. on the life-tree444 of a fortress which depends on a life-tree of cypress or yellow tree together with an arrow-length red banner on the peak, write the life stone mantra wheel in accordance with the secret tantra on red silk or red birch bark [using] a p

BLACK SERPENT1

. and as we have seen with our current president, george w. bush, declarations of "faith" have become a good way for seeking public office. on televangelist programs, such as the fodder one might view on the trinity broadcast network, it is not uncommon for us to hear sermons about how "america was originally a christian nation" and "we need to take america back for christ" many christians in the southern states believe, quite firmly, that the founding fathers of our great nation were evangelical christians like themselves, and that they intended for the constitution to be observed in a biblical context. the fact that many of the founding fathers- including our first president, george washington himself- were masons and deists seems to be glossed over nowadays, even in high school american

another thing is that dominionists openly claim that, should they attain power, they would oppress other religions and cultures through genocide and mass murder, rather than through proselytizing. even among some of the most conservative fundamentalist sects, it is generally believed by most that proselytizing against other religions is preferable to killing people. you will not typically hear of southern baptist preachers calling for the merciless execution of minority religions. they would much rather just proselytize. this again is a demonstration that dominionists do not represent the norm in fundamentalist christianity. 13 perhaps one of the most important theological differences between dominionists and other fundamentalists is that, as postmillenialists, they do not believe jesus wi

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

had preserved a vivid tradition of this "land of the eternal sun" whither their apollo journeyed yearly "during the miocene age, greenland (in n. lat. 70 degrees) developed an abundance of trees, such as the yew, the redwood, the sequoia, allied to the californian species, beeches, planes, willows, oaks, poplars and walnuts, as well as a magnolia and a zamia" says science; in short greenland had southern plants unknown to northern regions. and now this natural question rises. if the greeks knew, in the days of homer, of a hyperborean land, i.e, a blessed land beyond the reach of boreas, the god of winter and of the hurricane, an ideal region which the later greeks and their classics have vainly tried to locate by searching for it beyond scythia, a country where nights were short and days

form of isis, is the goddess of life; and ank was taken by the hebrews from the egyptians and introduced by moses, one learned in the wisdom of the priests of egypt, with many other mystical words. the word ank in hebrew, with the personal suffix, means "my life" my being, which "is the personal pronoun anochi" from the name of the egyptian goddess anouki* in one of the most ancient catechisms of southern india, madras presidency, the hermaphrodite goddess adanari (see also "indian pantheon) has the ansated cross, the svastica, the "male and female sign" right in the central part, to denote the pre-sexual state of the third race. vishnu, who is now represented with a lotus growing out of his navel- or the universe of brahma evolving out of the central point nara- is shown in one of the old

luntary errors. let us hope that he knows better now. now whether asuramaya is to be considered a modern myth, a personage who flourished in the day of the macedonian greeks, or as that which he is claimed to be by the occultists, in any case his calculations agree entirely with those of the secret records. from fragments of immensely old works attributed to the atlantean astronomer, and found in southern india, the calendar elsewhere men[[footnote(s* see "lectures on the indian literature" p. 253, by prof. a. weber; in trubner's asiatic series* even the maya indians of guatemala had their zodiac from untold antiquity. and "primitive man acted in the same manner independently of time or locality in every age" observes a french writer[[vol. 2, page] 51 what the earth-whirl produced. tioned

n teach us. such computations as are given in manu and the puranas- save trifling and most evidently intentional exaggerations- are, as already stated, almost identical with those taught in esoteric philosophy. this may be seen by comparing the two in any hindu calendar of recognised orthodoxy. the best and most complete of all such calendars, at present, as vouched for by the learned brahmins of southern india, is the already mentioned tamil calendar called the "tirukkanda panchanga" compiled, as we are told, from, and in full accordance with, secret fragments of asuramaya's data. as asuramaya is said to have been the greatest astronomer, so he is whispered to have also been the most powerful "sorcerer" of the "white island, which had become black with sin" i.e, of the islands of atlantis

the "akkadians" called him the "lord of ghosts; and he was the god of nipoor (niffer) in northern babylonia. it is mulil who caused the waters of the flood to fall from heaven on earth, for which xisuthrus would not allow him to approach his altar. as the modern assyriologists have now ascertained, it is the northern nipoor which is the centre whence chaldean (black) magic spread; and eridu (the southern) which was the primitive seat of the worship of the culture god, the god of divine wisdom- the sun-god being the supreme deity everywhere. with the jews, the moon is connected with israel's jehovah and his seed, because ur was the chief seat of the worship of the moon-god, and because abraham is said to have come from ur, when from a-bra(h)m, he becomes abraham[[vol. 2, page] 140 the secr

d thus make them lose the fruit of their austerities, who ought to be regarded as "tempting demons" instead of applying the term to the rudras, kumaras, and asuras, whose great sanctity and chastity seem a standing reproach to the don juanic gods of the pantheon. but it is[[footnote(s* vide "vishnu-purana" book iii, chap. 2* in the oldest ms. of "vishnu-purana" in the possession of an initiate in southern india, the god is not indra, but kama, the god of love and desire. see text further on[[vol. 2, page] 175 a saint- hypnotised. the reverse that we find in all the puranic allegories, and not without good esoteric reason. the king of the gods (or indra) sends a beautiful apsarasas (nymph) named pramlocha to seduce kandu and disturb his penance. she succeeds in her unholy purpose and "907 y

may be of one race- but the former are "sons of gods; the latter the brood of mighty sorcerers. all these are re-incarnations, however, and apart from unavoidable exaggerations in popular fancy and tradition, they are historical characters* when did they live? how long ago lived the[[footnote(s* an approach to the statues at bamian- also a buddha 200 feet high- 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 sor

t and mysterious origin of all the subsequent and modern religions, especially of the worship of the later hebrews for their tribal god. at the same time this sexual religion was closely allied to, based upon and blended, so to say, with astronomical phenomena. the lemurians gravitated toward the 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 an

ame given to those[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 324 the secret doctrine. the whole area of space from the foot of the himalayas, which separated it from the inland sea rolling its waves over what is now tibet, mongolia, and the great desert of schamo (gobi; from chittagong, westward to hardwar, and eastward to assam. from thence, it stretched south across what is known to us as southern india, ceylon, and sumatra; then embracing on its way, as we go south, madagascar on its right hand and australia and tasmania on its left, it ran down to within a few degrees of the antarctic circle; when, from australia, an inland region on the mother continent in those ages, it extended far into the pacific ocean, not only beyond rapa-nui (teapy, or easter island) which now lies in lat

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e hymns" themselves require a key, which the orientalists have failed to secure. what do the scholars say of buddhist literature? have they got it in its completeness? assuredly not. notwithstanding the 325 volumes of the kanjur and the tanjur of the northern buddhists, each volume we are told "weighing from four to five pounds" nothing, in truth, is known of lamaism. yet, the sacred canon of the southern church is said to contain 29,368,000 letters in the saddharma alankara* or, exclusive of treatises and commentaries "five or six times the amount of the matter contained in the bible" the latter, in the words of professor max muller, rejoicing only in 3,567,180 letters. notwithstanding, then, these "325 volumes (in reality there are 333, kanjur comprising 108, and tanjur 225 volumes "the

horus is of both sexes. finally st. john's vision in revelation, that of the logos, who is now connected with jesus- is hermaphrodite, for he is described as having female breasts. so is the tetragrammaton= jehovah. but there are two avalokiteshwaras in esotericism; the first and the second logos* no religious symbol can escape profanation and even derision in our days of politics and science. in southern india the writer has seen a converted native making pujah with offerings before a statue of jesus clad in woman's clothes and with a ring in his nose. when asking the meaning of the masquerade we were answered that it was jesu-maria blended in one, and that it was done by the permission of the padri, as the zealous convert had no money to purchase two statues or "idols" as they, very prop

"i will state the times (conditions. at which devotees departing (from this life) do so never to return (be reborn, or to return (to incarnate again. the fire, the flame, the day, the bright (lucky) fortnight, the six months of the northern solstice, departing (dying) in these, those who know the brahman (yogis) go to the brahman. smoke, night, the dark (unlucky) fortnight, the six months of the southern solstice (dying) in these, the devotee goes to the lunar light (or mansion the astral light also) and returns (is reborn. these two paths, bright and dark, are said to be eternal in this world (or great kalpa 'age. by the one a man goes never to come back, by the other he returns" now these names "fire "flame "day" the "bright fortnight" etc, as "smoke "night" and so on, leading only to t

s, for they are too jealously preserved in his maths (monasteries, mathams. and there are still weightier reasons to believe that the priceless bhashyas (commentaries) on the esoteric doctrine of the brahmins, by their greatest expounder, will remain for ages yet a dead letter to most of the hindus, except the smartava brahmins. this sect, founded by sankaracharya (which is still very powerful in southern india) is now almost the only one to produce students who have preserved sufficient knowledge to comprehend the[[footnote(s* also called "the sons of wisdom" and of the "fire-mist" and the "brothers of the sun" in the chinese records. si-dzang (tibet) is mentioned in the mss. of the sacred library of the province of fo-kien, as the great seat of occult learning from time immemorial, ages

n the pyramids and lithoi of egypt and america; in the catacombs of ozimandyas, in the mounds of the caucasian snowcapped fastnesses, in the ruins of palenque, in easter island, everywhere whither the foot of ancient man has ever journeyed. the 3 and the 4, the triangle and the cube, or the male and female universal glyph, showing the first aspect of the evolving deity, is stamped for ever in the southern cross in the heavens, as in the egyptian crux-ansata. as well expressed "the cube unfolded is in display a cross of the tau, or egyptian form, or of the christian cross form. a circle attached to the first, gives the ansated cross. numbers 3 and 4 counted on the cross, showing a form of the (hebrew) golden candlestick (in the holy of holies, and of the 3+ 4= 7, and 6+ 1= 7, days in the ci

rom the abyss of divine mystery. various were the forms which it was made to assume, and numerous the natural symbols adapted to it, as it crossed aeons of time: as from infinite time itself- kala- it fell into the space and time evolved out of human speculation. these forms were cosmic and astronomical, theistic and pantheistic, abstract and concrete. they became in turn the polar dragon and the southern cross, the alpha draconis of the pyramid, and the hindu-buddhist dragon, which ever threatens, yet never swallows the sun during its eclipses. till then, the tree remained ever green, for it was sprinkled by the waters of life; the great dragon, ever divine, so long as it was kept within the precincts of the sidereal fields. but the tree grew and its lower boughs touched at last the infer

ty-eight days being the registered result. in the chinese arrangement the four sevens are given to four genii that preside over the four cardinal points (in chinese buddhism and esotericism the genii are represented by four dragons- the "maharajahs" of the stanzas "the seven northern constellations make up the black warrior; the seven eastern (chinese autumn) constitute the white tiger; the seven southern are the vermilion bird; and the seven western (called vernal) are the azure dragon. each of these four spirits presides over its heptanomis during one lunar week. the genetive of the first heptanomis (typhon of the seven stars) now took a lunar character. in this phase we find the goddess sefekh, whose name signifies number 7, is the feminine word, or logos in place of the mother of time

ily the most ancient divinity of the indian olympus. she is evidently the same of whom all the sibylline books spoke, those works that have been the source of the inspiration of virgil; the virgin whose return was prophesied as a sign of universal renovation. and why" he added "when we see to this day, the months named after the deity-names of this solar zodiac by the malayalim-speaking people of southern india- why should that people have abandoned their ancestral zodiac to burden themselves with that of the greeks? everything proves, on the contrary, that these zodiacal figures have been transmitted to the greeks by the chaldees, who got them from the brahmans (see recueil de l'academie des inscriptions, 1853) but all this is very poor testimony. let us remember, however, also that which

ossible to doubt the existence in antiquity of observations of this date. the persians say that four beautiful stars were placed as guardians at the four corners of the world. now it so happens that at the commencement of kali yug, 3000 or 3100 years before our era, the "eye of the bull" and the "heart of the scorpion" were exactly at the equinoctial points, while the "heart of the lion" and the "southern fish" were pretty near the solstitial points. an observation of the rising of the pleiades in the evening, seven days before the autumnal equinox, also belongs to the year 3000 before our era. this and similar observations collected in ptolemy's calendars, though he does not give their authors, these observations, which are older than those of the chaldeans, may well be the work of the hi

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

ent fire. finally, in the west is water, that falls as refreshing rain, tides that ebb and flow, watercourses always finding a way, moving ever onwards, never backwards. water is associated with autumn and sunset. it represents the changing responsive, human emotions of life cycles, and personal ebbs and flows of energies. water is used to represent its own element [insert pic p042- magick in the southern hemisphere in magick, time and direction have an important place and it is necessary to understand that there may be differences according to which hemisphere of the globe you are working in. in the northern hemisphere, magical circles are cast clockwise, or 'deosil, which means 'in the direction of the sun. in the southern hemisphere, however, practitioners casting their circles deosil s

the direction of the sun in that hemisphere. for this reason, i have used the term 'deosil (and its opposite 'widdershins) throughout this book when referring to the direction of circles. these terms are clearer than clockwise and anticlockwise, because as long as you think in terms of the direction of the sun, the terms can be applied wherever you are standing on the globe. practitioners in the southern hemisphere will also need to alter the dates i have given. for them, for example, the mid-winter solstice is celebrated on or around 21 seite 22 wicca01.txt june and the summer solstice, when the sun is at it most powerful, is around 21 december. in the same way, the two annual equinoxes, when there is equal day and equal night, move round so that the spring equinox falls around 21 septem

date but what is happening with the cycle of growth and fruition. so the autumn equinox is the time of harvest, whenever that may be in your part of the globe. things are a little more complicated, however, when it comes to the use of the quadrants of your magical circle and the directions, north, south, etc. i explained on page 41 that north is the direction of earth and winter. however, in the southern hemisphere since the equator, the area of maximum heat, is to the north, this direction will more naturally be regarded as fire. to face the colder direction of winter, you must turn away from the equator, towards the antarctic- the south. this means that when following the instructions in this book practitioners in the southern hemisphere should substitute the opposite for each direction

s that when following the instructions in this book practitioners in the southern hemisphere should substitute the opposite for each direction. so, for example, where i have said you should set up your altar in the north, and enter your circles from the east, you would set up your altar in the south, and enter from the west. if you find this too complicated, don't worry. some practitioners in the southern hemisphere follow the northern traditions, especially if they have ancestors from colder climes. it really is a matter of preference and all this diversity actually has a very positive effect, because it means that you can weave the natural forces into your personal creation of magick. the only important thing is that you are consistent in your attitude. a ritual using light and cosmic po

, in northern climes it is usually too cold! but the choice, of course, is yours. seite 124 wicca01.txt next sweep out and cleanse the area you will be working in and set up the altar, either in the north or the centre of your circle. practitioners who work from the east of the circle may want their altar there. the position of the altar really does not matter (see also page 42 for working in the southern hemisphere) if the altar is placed centrally or in the north, you follow the tradition, as i do, of working from the north; this means that you cast the circle from the north and enter the circle from the south so you are facing the north. if, however, you work with the altar in the east, you will cast from the east and enter from the west, facing the east. a central altar will work for e

new industry and investment are so badly needed* light the green candle of the north* go to the east, saying: lord [or lady] of the eastern watchtower, i call upon your swiftness and clarity of purpose, to bring technologies and opportunities into this town to attract new kinds of work, perhaps from overseas* light the yellow candle of the east* go next to the south and say: lord [or lady] of the southern watchtower, i call upon your cleansing fire and spirit of inspiration to purge what is redundant and corrupt and to bring hope and energy to this town where decay and despair have taken root* light the red candle of the south* go finally to the west and say: seite 126 wicca01.txt lord [or lady] of the western watchtower, i call upon your healing and restoration to heal bitterness and divi

may be a worthy home to those who work in it* take the incense and circle the clay nine times, saying: bring retraining, new investment, government grants, new technology and new equipment so that the town may become a hive of activity and generate ever more opportunities into the next century and beyond* light the gold candle in the south (in this case it will be different from the candle of the southern watchtower) and pass it over the clay so that single drop of gold wax falls on it, saying: bring gold of prosperity, gold of abundance, fire of inspiration and creativity so that this town maybe rich in opportunity, in the arts and in culture, as well as in material wealth* finally, sprinkle the clay with a single drop of water from the jug or a second dish, saying: may the lifeblood of t

these too flow away as the released energies multiply. allow any excess energies to drain back into the earth, by pressing with your hands, feet and body* beginning in the west, blow out the candle, saying: lord [or lady] of the western watchtower, i thank you for your healing and your harmonising light. go now in peace* move next to the south. blow out this candle, saying: lore [or lady] of the southern watchtower, i thank you for your inspiration and your cleansing light. go now in peace* move next to the east. blow out this candle and say: lord [or lady] of the eastern watchtower, i thank you for your clarity and your life-restoring light. go now in peace* move finally to the north. blow out this candle and say: lord [or lady] of the northern watchtower, i thank you for your grounding

al moons. you may not wish to celebrate every full moon this way, just the significant ones in your year. the names are a synthesis of lunar names i have gathered and used over the years. you will see the echo of these themes throughout the seasons. moons of the coligny calender samnios, seed fall native american name: hunter's moon, trading moon full moon date: october/november (april/may in the southern hemisphere) ritual: making an end to what is not fruitful, drawing up realistic plans for the coming year dumannios, the coming of deep darkness native american name: first snows or frost on the grass moon full moon date: november/december (may/june in the southern hemisphere) ritual: bringing light into the darkness, seeking inner as well as outer illumination and inspiration riuros, the

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the mountains. this ishmaelite lived during the late eleventh century and was feared from the regions of the middle east to europe. this luciferian individual, who studied with the astrologer omar khayyam at the university of nishapur, was trained with various languages and techniques of war and survival. later on in life hassan overtook the eagles nest that is also called alamut. located on the southern shore of the caspian sea around the elburz mountain range, sabbah established a fanatical power base that was soon feared throughout the region. hassan i sabbah s faith seemed to be a gnostic dualistic similar to islam in a manicheism ideal. the religious head or what is called imam is a personal representative to god itself. only through this imam will one be able to journey to god. in w

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

ophus smith formulated a theory of black spirituality in his conjuring culture: biblical formations of black america (1994, which viewed african american magic as expressing a cultural idiom, and conjuring rituals, performative signs, and symbols as articulating human intention. at the other end of the bibliographic spectrum stand older studies, such as newbell niles puckett's folk beliefs of the southern negro (1926, which offered the author's particular insights into the social and cultural milieu from which black black magic page 6 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 spiritual traditions in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century america were derived. first-person narratives of conjure traditions are best exemplified by the va

ad] rings in his ears" gender mutability may have been a dramatic means by which conjure practitioners exploited their reputations as eccentric individuals.[20] although males appear to be more prominent in nineteenthand early twentieth-century accounts of conjurers, african american female practitioners apparently made their mark in significant numbers as well. charles colcock jones, jr, a white southern historian and namesake of a prominent antebellum missionary, alleged that conjure women predominated in black communities in the coastal regions of georgia and the carolinas "the fabrication of black magic page 16 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 fetiches, and their sale to those who desired to utilize the powers of the deities w

or in 1878. moore, in the words of a hostile white legislator "prospered sufficiently on the ignorance of his patients to maintain a handsome horse and buggy and many other comforts" following his departure from state politics. the virginia historian philip alexander bruce, writing in 1888, noted that nomadic "trick" doctors were perceived to be economically threatening to white landowners in the southern virginia tobacco belt. according to bruce, the demand for their charms was especially high among the freed black population "it is doubtful, indeed" bruce surmised "whether a negro could follow a more lucrative pursuit" in the latter decades of the nineteenth century other practitioners such as doctor buzzard, one of the most famous of all southern root doctors, was said to have amassed a

s christ. c i tricks in the name o f the lord" at the turn of the twentieth century chesnutt interviewed an aged conjure woman whom he described as a "dreamer of dreams and seer of visions" who was well versed in conjuring lore and explained that she was guided by jesus and "de spirit er de lawd" in his research on conjure and folk beliefs in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the southern-born sociologist newbell niles puckett noted the virtue and conscientiousness that distinguished many of the supernatural practitioners that he came across. far from projecting irreverence, puckett noted that many conjurers believed that they should embody the qualities of piety, devotion, and holiness that were expected of a faithful christian. similar ideas of piety and moral behavior w

as said that he did so because he knew he had" esurance er salvation anyhow" another arkansas conjurer was "renowned in three counties" for his alleged role in the deaths of at least ten men and women by supernatural means "he is a pious man and a deacon in the church" scoffed the reporter "which used to surprise me until i knew more about the african brand of piety" puckett uncovered a strand in southern folk beliefs that explained this seeming duplicity "there are good and bad hoodoos" he found "the good hoodoo often being part hoodoo and part preacher"[37] the christian church and its membership were also sometimes the objects of spiritual malevolence, either from conjure practitioners or other supernatural specialists. sarah rice, a black woman coming of age in rural alabama in the ear

supernatural practice.[40] yet other, non-african, sources shaped the development of black american supernatural traditions. anglo-american influences, for example, may help account for the great range of titles for conjure practitioners over time and from place to place. in new england during the 1700s, black fortune-tellers and transient diviners were called "cunning persons" by whites. in the southern colonies, africans who used spiritual powers were known as "witches" or "sorcerers" other reports by whites include descriptions of black ritual specialists as "ober [obeah] negroes" or simply as "doctors" in the early nineteenth century, african magic practitioners were characterized in ways that recalled euro-american depictions of indian shamans "the slaves, being educated in ignorance

ents. in jamaica, the\ 68\ africanization of belief persists in the protestant churches of the zionists and the native baptists. and in other west indian revival movements such as convince, kumina, and pocomania, a synthesis of ancestral rituals and protestant worship styles can be seen. within the indigenous african churches themselves, evangelical christianity began to take root in the western, southern, and central regions of the continent during the nineteenth century. there, the rise of new independent african churches and revitalizing prophet movements was the product of the melding of traditional religion and the spiritual imperatives of biblical christianity. all of these bold, africanized forms of protestantism shared characteristics with african-based religions elsewhere and put

t was well known by whites, according to one nineteenth-century source, that slaves on antebellum plantations were well acquainted with a "genuine african poison" that was implemented for acts of harming "no person who has not lived in the south can form any adequate conception of the effects of african poison, or the frequency of its use" wrote daniel robinson hundley, an alabama-born scholar of southern history. similar concerns over the "diabolical practices" of poisoning among blacks were voiced by other white authorities "their skill in poisons is something fearful, and baffles the most expert practitioner" asserted the poet sarah handy in 1891. conversing with a physician in james river, virginia, handy recalled the man's frustration with the numerous claims of conjure poisoning amon

supernatural harming charges. conjure may have functioned as an internal process of social control in\ 82\ african american communities where personal aspirations vied with collective interests. white observers generally linked supernatural harming beliefs with what they considered to be the social deficiencies of black people "negroes are not necessarily loyal as a race" remarked myrta avary, a southern historian in the early 1900s "they fear each other, dread covert acts of vengeance, and being conjured" philip bruce asserted that african americans had "no compunction about inflicting injury" on each other and were "always suspicious that their enemies have turned the black art against them in the same spirit that they themselves have sought to turn that art against their enemies" bruce

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

ysteries (disciple of anaximander) 560 buddha was born c. 550? bon was introduced to tibet when there occurred a mass migration of iranians from sogdhiana in north-east iran to the northern parts of tibet. they brought with them an ancient form of polytheistic mithraism and the araimic alphabet. 550- the celts invade the island of britain. 535 bc pythagoras sets up esoteric colony near crotona in southern italy where scholars learn about numerology, astrology and the occult arts, which pythagoras learned during his 20 years of travels in babylon and egypt. 500 bce w.v. gensis, exodus, numbers (o.t) 475 bc empedocles of agrigentum introduces the 4 elements, fire, earth, air and water, into astrology, as the 4-fold root of all things. he discovered the idea that nothing can be destroyed (or

de spain and quickly dismantle most of the hispano-visigothic kingdom there. they head north, into the pyrenees, towards modern-day france. 717 muslim caliph umar ii founded the first muslim university at harran. umar brought many of the last remaining hermeticists from alexandria and installed them at harran. 721 al-jabir(jabir ibn hayyan) born in the town of tus. 732: at the battle of tours (in southern france, frankish leader charles martel manages to defeat the muslims. 754-775 kankah indian astrologer at baghdad, book on calculations for the nativity. 760 o.c of bardo th dol (tibetean book of the dead. 762: uigurs adopt the manichaean religion which became the state religion of this huge kingdom until its overthrow by the kirghiz. 810 d. georgius syncellus byzantine author of ekloge c

eleanor of aquitaine 1125. adelard of bath an englishman who went into the islamic world and learned much about its culture. he was one of the first to translate arabic astrological texts into latin, most notably abu ma'shar's the abbreviation of the introduction to astrology. 1127-1279 "white lotus society. chinese religious sect which developed out of pure land buddhist lay associations in the southern sung dynasty 1128-1203 alanus ab insulis aka alain de l'isle& alain de lille derived his pythagoreanism from the asclepius and hermetica; influenced by pseudo-dionysius and john scotus erigena. school of chartres. influence on romance of the rose. quotes hermes trismegistus liber de xxiv philosophorum: a gathering of twenty-four philosophers debated: what is god? each participant offered

1216-1269 abd al-haqq ibn sabin, sufi pole star of the faith philosophically similar to his contemporary ibn 'arabi "withdrew to the solitude of the moroccan mountains from where he corresponded with frederick ii. influence on roger bacon. 1216: the castilian canon dominic (1170-1221) manages to convince pope honorius iii that he and his followers, who have been preaching against cathar heresy in southern france for about a decade, will adopt the (pre-existing) rule of saint augustine and thus evades fourth lateran's ban on creating new orders; they are permitted to create the order of preachers. 1217 st. francis founded at vezelay the 1st house of his order. 1217 1270 abd al-haqq ibn sab'in influential sufi in the hermetic tradition. 1219-1295 roger bacon. thought to have composed a basic

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cessors moved the royal court back north to thebes, but the brotherhood stayed at el-amarna and broke away from the state. through the centuries, other vehicles for communicating the knowledge emerged. some, like the cathars in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were destroyed by the catholic church in the most horrific manner after spreading their influence over a wide area from their base in southern france. the knights of the temple (knights templar, who came to prominence about the same time as the cathars, were dealt with equally severely by papal 'justice. but the templars went underground and their influence has continued up to the present day, both in their own right, and within other secret societies which are, after all, part of the same overall organisation. this period of th

ttle, russia a few million; sidonia could furnish them all. the only country he avoided was spain; he was too well acquainted with its resources..he established a brother or near relative in whom he could confide, in most of the principal capitals. he was lord and master of the money markets of the world and of course virtually lord and master of everything else. he literally held the revenues of southern italy in pawn and monarchs and ministers in all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions" or as the historian, john reeves, put it in his work, the rothschilds "little could mayer amschel have anticipated that his sons would in after years come to exercise such an unbounded sway that the peace of nations would depend upon their nod; that the powerful control they ex

ancing lenin and trotsky. averell harriman would later make vast profits from russian ventures and be appointed as the ambassador to the soviet union. he was also a controlling voice in the democratic party and close to the president, franklin d. roosevelt. the dulles brothers the name dulles is another which spans the manipulation of both the first and second world wars. the dulles's were from a southern slave-owning family, and cousins of the rockefellers. they were connected with international banking in america and germany. statements made by john foster dulles as early as 1911 revealed support for the creation of a 'super race' by 'eliminating the lower members'.26 the dulles law firm, sullivan and cromwell, handled the us affairs of i.g. farben and hitler's major financial backer, fr

aiting to be revealed if he steps out of line "we'll give them a democrat president this time, just to let them think they still have a choice, you can almost hear the manipulators say. david rockefeller, the kingmaker of america, had met with clinton in the mid-1980s at winrock, the farm built by winthrop rockefeller, a former governor of arkansas.39 the state of arkansas is an elite centre. the southern wing of the scottish rite of us freemasonry is based there and it was from this organisation that the ku klux klan emerged. the klan's emblem is the maltese cross, the same as the knights templar, the knights of malta and the knights of the golden circle, which played a major role in the rothschild manipulation of the american civil war. the ku klux klan is the old knights of the golden c

tion that goes on. there are, i stress, exceptions, but i am speaking generally here. i don't say this out of condemnation, but as this mindset stands between the events in the world and the way the information about them is communicated to the public, it is important that we know the nature of the filters and the filtering that goes on. 358 .and the truth shall set you free i remember talking in southern england one night in the terms i have outlined in this book. there was one person in the audience who seemed to have a permanent question mark above her head. this turned out to be the local journalist. when i saw her report, it was headlined "icke's old theory about the new world order. i was intrigued "old theory" had this newspaper talked about the global conspiracy before, then? no, a

to jonestown to investigate the people's temple. ryan was seriously unpopular with the cia. he had co-authored the hughes-ryan amendment which obliged the cia to give congress prior notice of covert operations. what a coincidence that ryan, a man battling to make the cia accountable to the people, should be in jonestown, guyana, at just the moment the shooting started. the laytons are a prominent southern family who fought for the confederates during the civil war. they have many connections with the intelligence agencies. lawrence layton jr's sister, debora layton blakey, was married to george philip blakey, the man who placed the downpayment on the property at jonestown purchased by jim jones. blakey was a former contract agent for the cia in angola and a number of researchers claim that

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so suggests that the widespread volcanic activity that caused the sinking of the land in the region of the azores happened at the same time as the break up and sinking of the land mass known as appalachia, which connected what we now call europe, north america, iceland and greenland.26 even their degree of submergence appears to be closely related. the so-called bermuda triangle, between bermuda, southern florida, and a point near the antilles, has long been associated with atlantis. it is an area steeped in legends of disappearing ships and aircraft. submerged buildings, walls, roads, and stone circles like stonehenge, even what appear to be pyramids, have been located near bimini under the waters of the bahama banks and within the "triangle".27 so have walls or roads creating intersectin

6 representations of ireland as the "end of the sunset land" have been found at irish sites, including so called "cup-marked" inscriptions on stones at newgrange, which are virtual replicas of those found in early sumerian and hittite seals.47 waddell confirmed his theory when he found sumerian inscriptions on pre-historic stones at a gravesite at knock-many("hill of the many) near clogher on the southern border of county tyrone. he found them to be virtually identical to those on the "tomb" of menes at abydos.48 one of the stones even had the same monogram of the name "urani" and a pictograph of the cause of death. a hornet.49 knock-many would seem to be the true grave of menes, ruler of the sumerian empire, which included britain and ireland. unfortunately, these inscriptions were destro

the same period. the "missing link" that would connect them and explain the sudden and dramatic changes and appearance of blood brothers 75 their physical forms has never been found because the establishment of academia would rather stay ignorant than utter the "e" word- extraterrestrial. the themes of the sumerian tablets are supported by credo mutwa, one of only two surviving "sanusis" left in southern africa. a sanusi is the peak of the african shamanistic stream. credo is 79 and the other sanusi, his aunt, is in her 90s. he is the official historian and storyteller of the zulu nation and the very name "zulu" means "people from the stars" because they believe they were seeded by an extraterrestrial "royal" race. with no one for him to pass on his knowledge, and the urgent need for ever

g books written over recent years about the merovingian bloodline and the france-based priory of sion, a secret society through which this bloodline manipulates. these books have presented some interesting and important information, but they claim that the merovingians are the bloodline of jesus and the children they say he conceived with "mary magdalene. the story goes that she fled with them to southern france after the "crucifixion. but there was no jesus and there was no mary magdalene, a fact that will become obvious. how do two people who did not exist conceive children who became the merovingian line? beats me. this is a vitally important bloodline, yes, but not because of jesus. the merovingians are anunnaki hybrids. it is one of their key bloodlines. interestingly, mag is apparent

my research of the ruling families. it goes back to the ancient middle and near east during the sumer empire and almost certainly even further to atlantis and lemuria. the people later known as merovingians were involved in the trojan war (c. 1200bc) between the 80 children of the matrix trojans and the greeks in what we now call turkey. over time they moved out through the caucasus mountains in southern russia under the name scythians and into europe where they were known as the sicambrian franks, the source of the name "france. they were named after cambra, their tribal queen of the late 4th century, and francio, their founder, who claimed to have been descended from noah of the biblical great flood.25 noah is a mythical name, but possibly based on a real character from the atlantean pe

e same organisation, the all-encompassing network i call the illuminati. this is not to be confused with a group called the bavarian illuminati, officially formed on may 1st (a major ritual day) 1776. the bavarian illuminati is a strand in the web, not the web itself. one other point to emphasise as we close this chapter is the constantly recurring theme in this story of the caucasus mountains in southern russia. from the early days of my research this region has appeared again and again in relation to the bloodlines, particularly the aryan race. of course, the white race is known in north blood brothers 85 america as "caucasian. a swedish contact had a long relationship with russia's leading "ufo expert, whom she later discovered had secret service connections. she said that he had spoken

hese lands, we are told, and all the sumerian cities were affected in the same way at the same time. just as the nuclear devastation in the indus valley corresponds with the time period of this poisonous "evil wind" in sumer, so it also corresponds with the timescale that saw the violent demise of the biblical sodom and gomorrah. many sources point to these cities being located in what is now the southern end of the dead sea in israel where unnatural levels of radioactivity persist to this day. they call this "lot's sea" after the biblical character involved in the sodom and gomorrah story and for thousands of years it has been associated with the symbol of death. the story of lot's wife says that she was turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back over sodom and gomorrah at the time

, you may recall, was the story of an ancient egyptian people controlled by high-tech, extraterrestrial "gods. a theme of the atlantis legends is that groups with the advanced knowledge began to use it malevolently and it was then that they re-opened the portals and allowed these fourth-dimensional beings to flood back into this reality. one major portal appears to be in the caucasus mountains in southern russia/northern turkey, a region that constantly comes up in my research. these important centres for the bloodlines and the illuminati will also be connected to the underground settlements of their masters, also. the satanists in their rituals summon these lower fourth-dimensional entities into their presence by creating the vibrational "doorways" that allow them to manifest. words, colo

oddess" dna is most definitely the key here. rennes-le-chateau the cathars or albigensians, who were slaughtered by the roman church in the 13th century, were supporters of the "elven" or dragon bloodline, according to gardner. a female elf was called an elbe, he says, and this is the inspiration for albi, the main city of the cathars or aligensians, in their stronghold in the languedoc region of southern france "gens, as we saw earlier, relates to tribe and is used to this day as a code for the bloodlines. the cathars appeared to be close to the knights templar, who also had a major presence in that same area around the mysterious mountain-top village of rennes-le-chateau. could this mountain have been an inner-earth entrance to a reptilian base? it certainly seems to be an interdimension

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merian accountsdescribe how the sons of the annunaki gods were most involved in these wars. thesewere the offspring of enki and enlil, the half-brothers who became fierce rivals, andtheir sons played out that battle in a high-tech conflict, the tablets say. one battle theyappeared to have been involved in was the biblical destruction of sodom andgomorrah. these cities were probably located at the southern end of the dead seawhere, today, radiation readings are much higher than normal. this was when,according to the bible, lots wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt. afterreferring to the original sumerian, zecharia sitchin says that the true translation of thatpassage should read that lots wife was turned into a pillar of vapour which, onbalance, is rather more likely!all ov

ed atthe same time as the break up and sinking of the land mass known as appalachia whichconnected what we now call europe, north america, iceland and greenland.13 eventheir degree of submergence appear closely related. similar evidence can be producedto support the view that the continent known as mu or lemuria now rests on the bed ofthe pacific.14 the so-called bermuda triangle between bermuda, southern florida, anda point near the antilles, has long been associated with atlantis. it is also an areasteeped in legends of disappearing ships and aircraft. submerged buildings, walls, roadsand stone circles like stonehenge, even what appear to be pyramids, have been locatednear bimini, under the waters of the bahama banks and within the triangle.15 so havewalls or roads creating intersecting

er parts of russia, lithuania and estonia. from there they entered western europe andeventually the united states. the rothschild family is one of these bloodlines. these arethe same people who justified the takeover of arab palestine after the last war by sayingthat god had given them an ancient right to that land as his chosen people. in truth60their original homeland is the caucasus region and southern russia, not israel. see..and the truth shall set you free for a detailed and sourced account of this story andthe secret society manipulation that was behind the creation of israel, or rothschild-land as it really is.the white race expanded northwards into europe. the first people went by sea underthe name, the phoenicians, and over many centuries others migrated over land (seefigure 8. t

belgium, thenetherlands, germany and denmark. the roman historians, pliny and tacitus, said thatall the people along the coast from the netherlands to denmark were the same ethnicgroup and this is supported by archaeological evidence which indicates that this peoplearrived in that region about 300 to 250 bc. another group of cimmerians travelled upthe river danube through hungary and austria into southern germany and france. theromans called them gauls and the greeks knew them as the keltoi or celts. groups ofthese celtic tribes also settled in bohemia and bavaria and others invaded northernitaly. sallust, the roman historian, records how romans were defeated a number of figure 8: the aryans and the reptile-aryans expanded by sea and land into europe under many names, andespecially thanks

r of figure 8: the aryans and the reptile-aryans expanded by sea and land into europe under many names, andespecially thanks to the british empire, they would eventually take over the wodd. 61times by the cimbri, who he says were gauls. other roman historians say the cimbriwere celts. they were divided into three tribes, the belgae (north east france, thegauls (central france) and the acquitanae (southern france to the pyreneesmountains. by the second century bc, the gauls/celts (the white cimmerians from thecaucasus mountains and the middle east) occupied all of central europe and northernitaly and they went on to conquer the whole of that country. around 280 bc they sweptdown into asia minor and reoccupied the lands of their ancestors. as the historianprofessor henry rawlinson said: thes

ople who call themselves jewish today have nogenetic connection whatsoever to the land they call israel. yet it is this very connectionthat was used to justify the imposition of a jewish homeland on the arab peoples ofpalestine! again, as jewish writers such as arthur koestler have exposed, all except asmall minority of people who created and populated the state of israel, originategenetically in southern russia, not israel. the hooked nose which is considered sojewish is a genetic trait of southern russia and the caucasus, not israel. in 740 ad, apeople called the khazars had a mass conversion to judaism. koestler writes:the khazars came not from jordan, but from the volga, not from canaan, but from thecaucasus. genetically they are more related to the hun, uigar and the magyar than these

er true name:notre dame des cross.10the female energy and the reptilian bloodline are passed on through the female,and since the intervention of ninkharsag and enki this energy was symbolised bymary, isis and semiramis, and was also known as diana. princess diana was killed onan ancient merovingian sacrificial site to the goddess diana when her car struck the13th pillar. a cave at sainte-baume in southern france is an official catholic shrinebecause, it is said quite wrongly, mary magdalene lived there.11 in fact, during romantimes that cave was a centre for the worship of the goddess diana lucifera -diana thelight bringer or illuminatrix. this was the very name given to mary magdalene byjacobus de v oragine, the dominican archbishop of black nobility genoa.12 one otherinteresting point is

cial degrees areonly what they admit to. above these levels are what i call the illuminati degrees whichvery, very few people even know about, never mind reach. the vast majority offreemasons never progress beyond the bottom three levels, the blue degrees, and theyare used as a front of respectability to hide the real agenda which the rank and file arenot aware of. albert pike was the head of the southern jurisdiction of the scottish riteof freemasonry in the united states in the last century and is considered a freemasonicgod in america. his statue stands in washington dc. in his freemasonic book,morals and dogma, he writes on page 819:the blue degrees are, but the outer court or portico of the temple. part of the symbols are169displayed there to the initiate, but he is intentionally misl

had the publisher,lord alfred douglas, imprisoned on the basis of an alleged libel printed in his paperabout winston churchill. how it is possible to libel a satanist like churchill is rather hardto comprehend. that correspondence between cromwell and pratt was mirrored by actualevents. on november 12th 1647, charles i was allowed to escape and in fact was hiddenon the isle of wight, just off the southern coast of england, where i am writing thissection. charles was recaptured and when he and parliament appeared to be close to anagreement that would spare his life, cromwell, by now lord protector, dismissed all themembers supporting an agreement. history calls what remained the rump parliament.another trial was ordered by cromwell because his agreement with his backers inamsterdam was that

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satanic symbol& the masonic layout of washington d.c. in the street layout of washington d.c, the fifth point is the white house, a symbol placement which represents the intention that the spirit and the mind of lucifer will be permanently residing in the white house. the map i found isn't all that accurate as far as the streets are concerned, but it will have to do. the white house makes up the southern most tip of the goathead. lansat satellite image of the white house (below center) and surrounding northern area. in the map above, beginning from top left to top middle: 1. dupont circle, logan circle, and scott circle in the middle, form the top three points of the devil's goathead of mendes, one of the most important types of the five-pointed devil's pentagram. 2. washington circle for

r, the architect had a problem with the triangle at the far right, because he chose the square as the anchor point; the solution is to place thomas circle at one of the points, thus giving that triangle an all-seeing eye. in fact, i believe this is the reason why thomas circle was placed in the odd position it was; it is the only circle which was not placed as an anchor of the pentagram. even the southern point of the goathead pentagram, the one which ends at the white house, has a circle at its top. notice the ellipse located just to the south of the white house lawn (below) north lansat image of the white house thus, the freemason architect who drew this pattern intended to show that governmental center was planned to be ruled by satan. further, the goathead pentagram was placed so the s

shaped. in fact, when you draw a bold black line carefully around these cul-de-sacs, and continue the black line around the capitol, you get the appearance of a horned owl, with the cul-de-sacs as its ears. this is not accidental, either. this is another way of representing satan. freemasonry designed the layout of washington d.c. they placed the owl there and on the american one dollar bill. the southern point of the goathead pentagram represented the spirit of satan reaching into the mind of the goathead, the owl represents the same meaning. in other words, both the executive and the legislative branches of government are to be controlled by satan (ii corinthians 4. in commemoration of the 190th anniversary of the birth of george washington, 48 american flags representing the then 48 sta

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rry grid, depicted in figure 3.3-1, is very regular, stable and covers the entire earth. its lines run in an approximate northeast-southwest/northwestsoutheast direction and is thus running at a diagonal to the latitude and longitude directions. it is believed that the curry net is of earth origin. it has alternate charging and discharging nodes. the lines are 10-12 feet apart in the northern and southern hemispheres and 12-15 feet apart as they get closer to the equator. figure 3.3-1 curry net earth grid i he other well-known grid is the hartmann net1, shown in figure 3.3-2, which runs north-south/east-west. it is believed to be of cosmic origin and is not as stable as the curry net. according to dowsers the hartmann net has a phase change four times a day: at sunrise, noon, sunset, and m

of the great pyramid and the orion constellation (see figure 7.4.2-1. figure 7.4.2-1. orion constellation research by one of the early great pyramid surveyors, sir flinders petrie, revealed that the king's chamber's northern air duct generally pointed to the star thuban (alpha draconis) in the constellation draco (the dragon, which was the pole star at the time of the pyramid's creation, and the southern air duct pointed to one of the stars in the constellation orion's belt around 2600 bc. more precise modern measurements7 have also shown that the king's chamber's north and south air ducts and the queen's chamber southern air duct date the pyramid at 2450 bc. the details of this discovery by bauval is depicted in figure 7.4.2-2. it is interesting to note that the earth is lined up with th

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ince i had not yet included any of these particular spirits in the rituals of the demonic bible (the designations are the same but i changed the order to south, east, north, and west) invoking the four kings shakes the four great watchtowers of the earth and signals to all the demonic powers that a satanic magician is about to cross the gates of hell. invocation of mahazael (king and ruler of the southern quarter) to the south i call, to the great king of the southern quarter. mahazael, i invoke thee. mahazael, i summon thee. mahazael, i conjure thee. come forth, mahazael, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared and set apart to the dark lord. come forth, mahazael, and manifest thyself. come forth, mahazael, and manifest thyself. invocation of samael (king

today. it seems to me now that there are actually twelve gates of hell corresponding with the 4 crown princes and 8 sub-princes of hell. the first 4 gates are elemental gates (fire, air, earth, and water) and the other 8 are angular gates (south, south-east, east, north-east, north, north-west, west, and south-west) the 9 locks of the abyss may be seen to represent angles above the earth from the southern horizon to the northern horizon at increments of 20 degrees (making 180 degrees from the southern horizon to the northern horizon. multiplying 8 by 9 (to get the number of angles created by the division of the eight cardinal points with the nine angular points) gives a total of 72, the traditional number of lords of the djinn, powerful spirits of air and fire described in the goetia of so

and full answers unto thy demands. he maketh one invincible. he showeth the place where treasures lie, and guardeth it. he, amongst the legions of amaymon governeth 72 legions of spirits inferior. his seal is this which thou must wear as a lamen upon thy breast, etc (33) gaap- the thirty-third spirit is gaap. he is a great president and a mighty prince. he appeareth when the sun is in some of the southern signs, in a human shape, going before four great and mighty kings, as if lie were a guide to conduct them along on their way. his office is to make men insensible or ignorant; as also in philosophy to make them knowing, and in all the liberal sciences. he can cause love or hatred, also he can teach thee to consecrate those things that belong to the dominion of amaymon his king. he can del

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dawn" the a.a" and my own "inner light" must appear to the uninformed observer to be more or less mixed up together, i feel it is advisable to disentangle them. the deeper issues of occultism are evidently going to come out into the open in the near future; therefore a clearing of the ground is imperative. it may be as well to explain my own position in relation to the "golden dawn. i joined the southern branch of the scottish section of it, since disbanded, in 1919, and transferred from there to the section of it of which mrs. mcgregor mathers was the head, and which claimed the only orthodoxy. she nearly turned me out for writing the esoteric philosophy of love and marriage, on the grounds that i was betraying the inner teaching of the order, but it was pointed out to her that i had not

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he gods, thou perfect khu among khu's, thou provider of the waters of nu, thou giver of the wind, thou producer of the wind of the evening from thy nostrils for the satisfaction of thy heart. thou makest (5) plants to grow at thy desire, thou givest birth to; to thee are obedient the stars in the heights, and thou openest the mighty gates. thou art the lord to whom hymns of praise are sung in the southern heaven, and unto thee are adorations paid in the northern heaven. the never setting stars (6) are before thy face, and they are thy thrones, even as also are those that never rest. an offering cometh to thee by the command of seb. the company of the gods adoreth thee, the stars of the tuat bow to the earth in adoration before thee [all] domains pay homage to thee, and the ends of the eart

are mentioned in 1. 558 of the inscription of this king; see maspero, recueil, t. iv, p. 66] p. xcv it is not until the so-called hyksos have been expelled from egypt by the theban kings of the xviith dynasty that amen, whom the latter had chosen as their great god, and whose worship they had declined to renounce at the bidding of the hyksos king apepi,[l] was acknowledged as the national god of southern egypt at least. having by virtue of being the god of the conquerors obtained the position of head of the company of egyptian gods, he received the attributes of the most ancient gods, and little by little he absorbed the epithets of them all. thus amen became amen-ra, and the glory of the old gods of annu, or heliopolis, was centred in him who was originally an obscure local god. the wors

s the messenger of osiris. another form of anubis was the god ap-uat, the# of the pyramid texts,[3] or "opener of the ways" who also was depicted in the form of a jackal; and the two gods are often confounded. on sepulchral stel and other monuments two jackals are frequently depicted; one of these represents anubis, and the other ap-uat, and they probably have some connexion with the northern and southern parts of the funereal world. according to m. maspero, the god anubis led the souls of the dead to the elysian fields in the great oasis.[4] among the primeval gods are two, hu and saa who are seen in the boat of the sun at the creation. they are the children of tmu or tmu-ra, but the exact part which they play as nature gods has not yet, it seems, been satisfactorily made out. the first m

the fifth one; beq[7] is the name of the sixth one; anubis is the name of the seventh one (75 "i have made the way. i am amsu-horus, the avenger of his father, the heir of his father un-nefer. i have come and i have overthrown all foes of my father osiris. i have come day by day with victory, doing myself the worship of the god (76) in the house of his father tmu, lord of annu, triumphant in the southern sky. i have done what is right and true to him that hath made right and truth; i have made the haker festival for the lord thereof; i have led the way in the festival (77) i have made offerings of cakes to the lords of the altars; and i have brought offerings and oblations, and cakes and ale, and oxen and ducks, to my father osiris un-nefer. i rise up in order that my soul may be made one

autiful it rudder of the northern heaven"(2) hail, thou who goest round about heaven, thou pilot of the world, thou beautiful rudder of the western heaven"(3) hail, thou shining one, who livest[2] in the temple wherein are the gods in visible forms, thou beautiful rudder of the eastern heaven"(4) hail, thou who dwellest in the temple of the bright-faced ones,[3] thou it beautiful rudder[4] of the southern heaven [address to the four triads[5"(5) hail, ye gods who are above the earth, ye pilots of the underworld"(6) hail, ye mother-gods who are above the earth, who are in the underworld, and who are in the house of osiris" plates xxxv. and xxxvi. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod40.htm (1 of 2 [8/10/2001 11:29:26 am"(7) hail, ye gods, ye pilots of tasert, ye who are above the earth

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worse. they kept bringing more prisoners and shoving them in upon us, until we hardly had room to move about. finally parson brownlow himself was fairly thrown into the big room with us. well, he was a character. he could pray harder, sing louder and use more sulphurous language toward the secessionists than any ten men north or south of mason and dixon's line. the style in which he denounced the southern confederacy and all the leaders in it, from the president down, made one's hair fairly rise on end. i can see him now, as the gaunt, spare preacher stood up among us, his eyes blazing, while he rolled out his denunciations and called down the vengeance of god upon the enemies of the union. then he would tell us of our duties to one another as well as to our country. i have seen the tears

these advancements. the membership of hiram lodge had doubled and its members were identified with the material and moral progress of their state. all was hopeful and promising when the dark clouds burst and the country was plunged into the greatest war of modern times. to quote brother nichols "states had taken up arms against sister states, citizens against citizens, masons against masons. the southern soldier was captured and carried to northern prisons. the northern soldier in like manner was brought to southern prisons. many were sick or wounded or both. the signs 126 a typical lodge of distress were seen in all these places of confinement, north and south. masons all over the country, whether in the cold, desolate prisons of the north or the poorly supplied ones of the south, or in

organized form. i esteem myself fortunate in having been one of the early settlers of montana-more fortunate in having, before i left the abodes of civilization, been raised to the sublime degree of master mason. when the company of which i was one entered what is now montana-then dakota-a single settlement, known by the name of grasshopper (now bannack, was the only abode of the white man in the southern part of the territory. our journey from minnesota of fourteen hundred miles by a route never before travelled, and with the slow conveyance of ox trains, was of long duration and tedious. it was a clear september twilight when we camped on the western side of the range of the rocky mountains, where they are crossed by the mullan road. the labors of the day over, three of our number, a bro

ecting money, clothing and food, which i divided at the risk of my life impartially among those in need of them" it was on another evening that mr. hollinshed related the following incident. while in pleasing contrast to his turbulent experience in the coal regions, it illustrates none the less touchingly the beautiful spirit of free masonry: at the time referred to a prosperous cloth merchant of southern england lost his wife, to whom he was devotedly attached. ruth, a daughter nine years old, in whom his love centred, could not dispel the gloom and depression of the true to his oath 187 father, whose decline in health became so marked that his physician told him that only a long sea voyage, with its change of scene and manner of living, would save his life. he reluctantly consented to sa

stian burial. he pinned a little golden emblem, the square and compass, to her shawl, and had just time to kiss her good-by when the billows swept her from his sight. a fearful crash followed, and the parent became unconscious. when his senses returned, he found himself in the cabin of a vessel bound for new orleans. he had been rescued at break of day when the fog lifted. upon his arrival at the southern city he read the accounts of a shipwreck in the newspapers, with the statement of the loss of all on board. he used every possible means to gain tidings of his lost daughter, but in vain, and when he finally sailed for england he was firmly persuaded that she had perished and would never be seen by him again in this world. five years later business called the parent once more to the unite

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ia. he studied occult metaphysics and in 1936 founded the royal order of tibet, through which he offered a course in self-mastery. although he had no scientific training, he was often referred to as professor by his royal order of tibet mystical philosophy students. in 1940 he moved to the valley center with his followers, where they established a farming project. four years later he moved to the southern slope of mount palomar in southern california. he had no formal connection with the observatory there and worked as a handyman at a hamburger stand. soon after the modern flying saucer era began, adamski emerged in 1947 as a popular lecturer. he claimed to have sighted a ufo in 1946 and in 1949 wrote a novel, pioneers in space, to promote discussion of the subject by the general public. h

titute.edu. may 16, 2000. africa (note: the north of africa, including the sahara and the sudan, has been islamic territory for many centuries. for a discussion of islamic magic and alchemy, see the entry arabs. instances of arabic sorcery are also discussed in the semites entry) beliefs and practices thought of as occult in western society were integral to the traditional tribal religions in the southern two-thirds of africa, especially those concerning sympathetic magic, the cult of the dead, and witchcraft. during the history of this region, the basically pantheistic and polytheistic religions have also been cross-fertilized with islamic and christian teachings, creating new beliefs and modifying old ones. today a large but undetermined number of africans follow traditional beliefs invo

g new beliefs and modifying old ones. today a large but undetermined number of africans follow traditional beliefs involving deities, ghosts, and spirits as well as an array of special powers in nature presided over by the supreme entity adopted from christianity and islam. the latter, somewhat remote from everyday problems, is believed to largely operate on humans through the many other deities. southern africa among the zulu and other bantu tribes of equatorial and southern africa, witchcraft or malevolent sorcery was traditionally practiced.in secret, for the results of detection were terrible. tribes instituted a caste of witchfinders assigned the task of tracking down witches. the nineteenth-century writer lady mary anne barker observed, it is not difficult to understand, bearing in m

lly seen by young girls in catholic countries. such appearances involve messages for mankind as a whole, usually admonitions against sin and exhortations to repentance. the apparitions are not sought by the children and youths concerned, and often the messages are well beyond their intellectual capacity. the visions occur in an ecstatic state. typical of such apparitions were those at lourdes, in southern france, fatima in portugal, and garabandal in spain. such apparitions have reinforced the faith of thousands of catholics, though many have pointed out that similar visitations have been recorded widely within non-catholic christianity and among most or all of the world s religions and peoples. it is natural that sincere devotees envision a divine figure in the form familiar through the i

she saw the virgin. that evening she received only some personal instructions. but in november she had a vision of the virgin surrounded by an oval frame and was told to have a medal truck in the likeness of what she saw. this medallion, known as the miraculous medal, first appeared two years later but the wearing of it has now become a popular form of devotion worldwide. fourteen years later, in southern france, on the side of a mountain called la salette, mary appeared to two children, maximim gigaud (age 11) and melanie matthieu (age 15. the pair were tending some cattle when they saw her. she relayed to them a message of warning concerning the neglect of attendance at mass and the use of christ s name in a profane manner. the continued impiety was destined to lead to crop failures and

he arbatel was said to be one of the best authorities on spiritual essences and their powers and degrees. arc see astrological registration and communication arcana magazine a quarterly journal devoted to cosmology, eschatology, hermetic science and the occult. current address not obtained for this edition. arcana workshops the arcana workshops, one of the full moon meditation groups operating in southern california, grew out of the program of the arcane school and the teachings of alice bailey, to which it has added insights from the theosophical agni yoga society. the group promotes full moon meditation as a time for transmitting the spiritual energies of the masters to the world. the group also works to unite the efforts of occult groups in southern california to celebrate the three spr

or activity, matter, mind, and feeling, respectively. the three qualities and four elements offer twelve possible combinations, one for each sign. the signs may also be seen as positive or masculine (active, in the case of the fire and air signs; or negative or feminine (reactive, in the case of the earth and water signs. the signs are also divided into northern and commanding (the first six, and southern and obeying (last six. there are four triplicities among the signs: the earth triplicity, including taurus, virgo, and capricorn; the air triplicity, which includes gemini, libra, and aquarius; the fire triplicity, encompassing aries, leo, and sagittarius; and the water triplicity, containing cancer, scorpio, and pisces. the signs are further divided into diurnal and nocturnal, the diurna

s its name from the greek word for bull. a sign known for its stubbornness, it is the source of our expressions bullheaded and stubborn as a bull. taurus is associated with the throat and neck. people with a taurus sun sign, although they often have beautiful voices, are also prone to sore throats, thyroid irregularities, and other neck problems. taurus is cold and dry, melancholy, nocturnal, and southern. when influential in a nativity, it usually produces a person with a broad forehead, thick lips, dark curling hair, and melancholy, slow to anger, but when once enraged, violent, furious, and difficult to appease. places ruled by taurus are stables, cowhouses, cellars and low rooms, and all places used for or by cattle. the key phrase for taurus is i have. gemini, the third sign of the zo

f the kris. the athame is one of the most distinctive contributions of gardner to modern magical practice. sources: bracelin, jack l. gerald gardner: witch. london: octagon press, 1960. valiente, doreen. the abc of witchcraft past and present. new york: st. martin s press, 1973. athanor according to philostratus in his life of apollonius, athanor is an occult hill surrounded by mist except on the southern side, which is clear. it has a well, which is four paces in breadth, from which an azure vapor ascends, which is drawn up by the warm sun. the bottom of the well is covered with red arsenic. near it is a basin filled with fire from which rises a livid flame, odorless and smokeless, and never higher or lower than the edge of the basin. also there are two black stone reservoirs, in one of w

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es ago, most people lived in what they considered a magical universe, and evidence of the practice of magic is found as far back as human prehistory. among the earliest traces of magic practice are paintings found in the european caves of the middle paleolithic period. these belong to the last interglacial period of the pleistocene epoch, named the aurignacian after the cave dwellers of aurignac (southern france, whose skeletons, artifacts, and drawings link them with the bushmen of south africa. in the cave of gargas, near bagneres de luchon, there are, in addition to spirited and realistic drawings of animals, numerous imprints of human hands in various stages of mutilation. some hands were apparently first smeared with a sticky substance and then pressed onto the rock; others were held

me. most of his works, many of which are adorned with curious plates, are obscure with the exception of his rosicrucian apologies. maimonides, rabbi moses (1135.1204) a great spanish-hebrew philosopher, theologian, and author of the guide for the perplexed. his theories were aristotelian and rational, but there remained in his viewpoint a touch of mysticism. he was born april 6, 1135, in cordova, southern spain, and was educated by arabic teachers. after the moorish conquest of cordova in 1148, jews left the province, and maimonides settled in fez, morroco. after five years he moved to cairo, egypt, where he became physician to saladin and married the sister of ibn mali, a royal secretary. in his famous treatise, the guide for the perplexed, he sought to harmonize rabbinical and philosophi

s at a later date. his telepathic contacts with sfath continued for some years but he was replaced after meier s 16th birthday by asket, a youthful female. these contacts existed side-by-side with outward signs of an unsettled life. as a youth meier ran away from home several times, eventually landing in the french foreign legion. in 1958 he began a period of wandering through the middle east and southern asia. following an accident in 1965, he lost his left arm just above his elbow. he finally returned to switzerland in 1970 and settled on a farm. in 1974, he advertised for people who would like to be part of a metaphysical study group, and soon had a small gathering joining him for discussions of occult matters. the next year he announced that he had not only seen a flying saucer, but th

lfred deaking, prime minister of australia, were, according to the letter, convinced that mellon was genuine. of course none of these men, however eminent, were trained observers. melton, j(ohn) gordon (1942) religious studies scholar and director of the institute for the study of american religion, santa barbara, california. born september 19, 1942, in birmingham, alabama, he attended birmingham southern college (a.b. in geology, 1964, garrett theological seminary (m.div. with distinction, 1968, and northwestern university (ph.d. in history and literature of religion, 1975. melton was ordained a united methodist minister in 1968. in 1969, while in graduate school, he founded the institute for the study of american religion to focus research on the many new and small religious groups that

couverte du magnetism animal to appear in english. london: macdonald, 1948. podmore, frank. mesmerism and christian science. london: methuen, 1909. sunderland, la roy. pathetism: man considered in relation to his form, life, sensation; an essay towards a correct theory of mind. boston, 1847. the messenger the messenger, subtitled a guide to life s adventures, is a post-new age tabloid that serves southern california, with a particular focus on those counties immediately east of los angeles, popularly referred to as the inland empire, and on sedona, arizona, a small community looked upon by many as the center of the new age community in north america. each issue of the monthly newspaper is distributed freely throughout its target area since the initial appearance of the messenger in july of

, a small community looked upon by many as the center of the new age community in north america. each issue of the monthly newspaper is distributed freely throughout its target area since the initial appearance of the messenger in july of 1997. the messenger is built around a set of short feature articles, the great majority of which are written by new age leaders and practitioners who operate in southern california. they cover the spectrum of new age spiritual and new thought metaphysical topics, from metaphysical approaches to business to neurolinguistic programming and various forms of spiritual healing. in addition, there are a large number of monthly columns covering such topics as astrology, numerology, and palmistry. the messenger also carries the monthly column by popular new thoug

ed de vesme s opinion. of miller s public seances no more was heard after this paris series. miller died on november 1, 1943 in new york. sources: reichel, willie. occult experiences. n.p, 1906. miller, ellora fogle (mrs. r. dewitt miller (1913.1982) writer in the fields of publicity and psychical research. she was born june 8, 1913, in philadelphia, pennsylvania, and studied at the university of southern california (m.a, 1945. she was a staff member of the publicity department of young& rubicam, hollywood, california, and national editor of the baton (the publication of phi beta fraternity (1953.56, and afterward director of honors for the phi beta fraternity. in 1937 she married r. dewitt miller (1910.1958, with whom she collaborated on two books and several articles concerned with psych

s concerned with psychical research. ellora miller died in october 1982. sources: miller, r. dewitt, and ellora f. miller. forgotten mysteries. chicago: cloud inc, 1947. you do take it with you. new york: citadel press, 1955. miller, r(ichard) dewitt (1910.1958) writer on psychical research and parapsychology. born january 22, 1910, in los angeles, california, he was educated at the university of southern california (b.a, 1933. in 1937 he married ellora fogle miller. a freelance writer, miller contributed many articles to coronet, esquire, pageant, popular mechanics, popular science, tomorrow, and life. many of his writings were concerned with paranormal topics, and he contributed the regular features your other life, forgotten mysteries, and not of our species to coronet magazine. he cont

scene by the beginning of the twentieth century, but the basic movements, christian science, independent christian science, and new thought, have continued. new thought entered into mainline christian thought through the efforts of norman vincent peale and more recently robert schuler, both ministers in the reformed church in america. sources: braden, charles s. spirits in rebellion. dallas, tex: southern methodist university press, 1963. judah, j. stillson. the history and philosophy of the metaphysical movements in america. philadelphia: westminster press, 1967. melton, j. gordon. new thought: a reader. santa barbara, calif: institute for the study of american religion, 1990. mind development and control association organization founded to develop and promote interest in various facets o

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r would soon erupt on earth. after this conversation, which occurred mostly by gestures, the martian reentered his craft and flew away, though not before allingham had photographed him (from the back) and his ship. the book asserted that a man named james duncan had witnessed the entire encounter. a year earlier george adamski had published his account of a meeting with the venusian orthon in the southern california desert. allingham s tale thrilled british saucerians, who now felt they had their own contact. waveney girvan, who had published the british edition of adamski and desmond leslie s book, wrote, if allingham is telling the truth, his account following so soon upon adamski s amounts to final proof of the existence of flying saucers (girvan, 1956. allingham proved strangely elusiv

ea rt h. the souls of li g h t a re you people of earth who have lived according to unive r s a l t ruths and have put the concerns of others bef o re your ow n. the short period of cleansing the planet is i m m i n e n t e v e n t h e m i d n i g h t h o u r (tuella, 1989. officially, ashtar came into the world on july 18, 1952, when george w. van tassel, an early and influential contactee from southern california, took a telepathic message from portla, 712th projection, 16th wave, realms of schare (pronounced share-ee. portla pronounced, approaching your solar system is a ventla [spaceship] with our chief aboard, commander of the station schare in charge of the first four sectors. we are waiting here at 72,000 miles above you to welcome our chief, who will be entering this solar system

m i n e d that sneide, a student of occultism, was serious. though nothing more is known about sneide, he may have been something of a contactee before the word and concept had come into curre n c y. the contact movement, however, did not emerge into cultural visibility until january 1952, when aircraft mechanic george w. van tassel began holding open weekly meetings in the high-desert country of southern california. at these gatherings van tassel would channel messages from starship( ventla) commanders, introducing, among others, the destined-to-be ubiquitous ashtar. that same year, van tassel published i rode a flying saucer, the first modern contactee book (albeit with a misleading title; it would not be until the next year that van tassel would claim his first physical contact and spac

isten to an hour and a h a l f s worth of the tapes. a spokesman pronounced the messages u n i m p re s s i ve and unc o n v i n c i n g( pentagon, 1957. aho later p l a yed the tape for a united press in t e r n ational re p o rt e r, who wrote a tongue-in-cheek piece on the experience. in other channelings, brady s venusians related that in 1955, martians had landed at edwards air force base in southern california and were taken into custody. engineers from the air force learned a great deal about extraterrestrial technology from studying the 76 cyclopeans saucer the martians had arrived in, and that technology was incorporated into later, flyingwing, experimental aircraft. br a d y s space informants also told her that landings would begin in november 1957, and that in 1962, earth would

s, met with its occupants, who were friendly and humble. in the 1950s, george hunt williamson, a contactee and popular author of saucerian books, wrote that a highly secret operation known as project nq-707, headquartered at edwards air force base in the california desert, had established radio contact with flying saucers and was trying to get them to land at a rendezvous point near salton sea in southern california (williamson, 1953. williamson s friend george adamski insisted that the u.s. government and space people regularly spoke with one another. he would even claim that in 1962 he boarded an alien spaceship at an air force base on his way to a conference on saturn. in 1956, england s flying saucer review published startling revelations by a contributor identified only as a special c

lazaris. new realities 7, 6 (july/august: 26 33. pursel, jach, 1987. lazaris, the sacred journey: you and your higher self. beverly hills, ca: concept synergy, 1988. lazaris interviews. two volumes. beverly hills, ca: concept synergy. lemuria lemuria was the invention of british zo o l ogist philip l. schattler, who conceived of it as an indian ocean land bridge connecting madagascar and extreme southern in d i a. s c h a t t l e r, who was re s e a rching animal populations, sought to explain why these two widely separated locations shared many of the same flora and fauna (in the twentieth cent u ry, continental drift theory re n d e red schatt l e r s hypothesis obsolete) he called the postulated land bridge lemuria, after the lemurs, animals that the two areas shared in common. be f o

s originated on lemuria, though that could not be proved because any remains had sunk to the bottom of the sea along with the land lemuria 155 a science fiction novella about lemuria by richard s. shaver and ray palmer in amazing stories, march 1945 (fortean picture library) bridge. others theorized that lemuria was just part of a vast continent, called gondwanaland, which had circled most of the southern hemisphere, leaving only a patch of the pacific ocean uncovered. none of the scientists argued that either lemuria or gondwanaland had survived into historical time. lemuria entered the occult tradition through helene petrovna blavatsky, founder of theosophy. in the secret doctrine (1889, blavatsky wrote that the present human race evolved through a series of root races. the third root ra

ror-news reported that some months before, while living in detroit, miller had been caught faking a radio message from a spaceman. all this notwithstanding, the monka message spurred two mass rallies in los angeles, and monka enthusiast and rally organizer gabriel green appeared on the widely viewed house party television show to spread the word that friendly extraterrestrials would be talking to southern california on november 7. as a publicity stunt, two area radio stations went off the air for two minutes on the night in question as hundreds of believers gathered on rooftops. no ufo appeared, of course, but monka would live on in channeled messages from hundreds of contactees up to the present. no longer a martian, he is now usually taken as a close associate of the most beloved and ubi

ery political leader on earth to deliver this message. see also: contactees; mersch further reading sprinkle, r. leo, ed, 1982. proceedings: rocky mountain conference on ufo investigation. laramie, wy: school of extended studies, university of wyoming. orthon orthon was the name george adamski or, more accurately, his ghostwriter charlotte blodget gave to the venusian adamski met in the desert of southern california on november 20, 1952. space people, adamski explained, never call themselves by name when interacting with human beings because they have an entirely different concept of names as we use them (adamski, 1955. in that first encounter, adamski communicated with the being he called orthon via gestures, sign language, and snatches of telepathy, during which the venusian expressed co

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

ation and dilution of their culture and traditions. the biggest impact on their routines of life would have come from dramatic changes in weather patterns, extraordinary natural disasters such as drought and earthquakes (the sinai peninsula is situated among massive tectonic faults, and violent dynastic changes in the city-states around which they wandered and dwelled. perhaps conditions in ur in southern iraq warranted that abraham leave and migrate along the ancient silk route into syria. the idea of jewish renewal i.e. the return to the roots of judaism has recently come into vogue. but a real return to the roots of judaism would be a return to the religion of the ancient desert hebrews* 0- 1 the mystical qabalah of the children of abraham reflects an ancient mystical transmission that

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

o built a temple to the sun, and he knew how to hide himself from all so that no one could see him, although he was within it. it was he, too, who in the east of egypt constructed a city twelve miles miliaria) long within which he constructed a castle which had four gates in each of its four parts. on the eastern gate he placed the form of an eagle; on the western gate, the form of a bull; on the southern gate the form of a lion, and on the northern gate he constructed the form of a dog. into these images he introduced spirits which spoke with voices, nor could anyone enter the gates of the city except by their permission. there he planted trees in the midst of which was a great tree which bore the fruit of all generation. on the summit of the castle he caused to be raised a tower thirty c

tween hermetism and cabala, but it is emphatically not magia and practical cabala of which he is speaking. the synthesis is entirely mystical and theological. he states most emphatically later on that cabala is not magic, that moses was not a magician, and that all magic is wrong and vain.5 mornay's work reflects the situation at antwerp in 1581 where william of orange was trying to establish the southern netherlands, now temporarily freed from philip ii of spain, as a state in which religious toleration should be practised. in the following year, the french prince, francois d'anjou, was installed by 1 mornay, de la verite de la religion chretienne, antwerp, 1581, p. 38. 2 ibid, pp. 80, 98-100. 3 ibid, pp. ior-2. 4 ibid, pp. 106 ff, 740 ff. dagens article cited, pp. 9, n) has pointed out t

xteenthcentury longing for escape from religious dissension where the entirely different tradition of erasmianism joins the hermetic- cabalist tradition. this matter has a bearing on the problems of giordano bruno in england, where, according to himself he was better received by sir philip sidney and his circle than by the oxford "pedants. for sidney was strongly in sympathy with the cause of the southern netherlands for which, in 1586, not long after bruno's departure from england, he was to give his life. and du plessis mornay was known to sidney as a friend and was undoubtedly his favourite theologian, as evidenced by the fact that sidney began to translate into english this very work from which we have been quoting. his death prevented him from completing the translation, which was car

ral religion with its neoplatonic basis, and the egyptian good moral laws "mercurio egizio sapientissimo" is for bruno the name of the divine wisdom itself,3 and the spaccio della bestia trionfante outlines a coming religious and moral reform. the peculiarity of the reform in the spaccio is that it begins in the heavens; it is the images of the constellations of the zodiac and of the northern and southern constellations which are reformed or cleansed through a council of the planetary gods which is summoned by jupiter for this purpose. amongst the speakers in this celestial council conducting the celestial reform are the divine sophia, isis, and momus. the idea of a reform beginning in the heavens with the rearranging or cleansing of the celestial images (whence the lower world is reformed

es recall shameful actions of the gods, like the lyre which reminds of the thefts of mercury, or hercules and perseus, who are his own bastards. the assembled gods in their conclave are therefore to consider each in turn the images of the constellations, beginning with the bear and the other northern constellations, passing along the twelve signs of the zodiac, and concluding with a survey of the southern constellations.2 jupiter had perhaps provided each member of the celestial board with a copy of one of those illustrated editions of hyginus, which have cuts of the constellation images beside the letterpress describing their shameful mythological associations (one of bruno's later mnemonic works is illustrated by cuts of the gods of the planets which are identical with those of an editio

at the spaccio should be read. the constellation images are not merely a literary device to which is attached an amusing satire on religious and social conditions in the late sixteenth century. in the reforming magician's mind, the reform begins in heaven, with the rearrangement or purification of the celestial images, of the shapes of the celestial gods who reform the zodiac and the northern and southern constellations. and what does this remind us of? surely of the magical city of adocentyn in picatrix, built by hermes trismegistus, and who placed around the circumference of the city "engraved images and ordered them in such a manner that by their virtue the inhabitants were made virtuous and withdrawn from all wickedness and harm."3 this, as we suggested in chapter iv, provides the conn

in the ius gentium, perhaps suggests an influence of his friend alberico gentile, the founder of international law,4 whom he had known in england and met again at wittenberg, where it was through gentile's introduction that he obtained his lectureship in the university. the rhetorical praises of the late julius take a particularly brunian turn when the speech starts to go through the northern and southern constellations into which the virtues of julius are mounting whilst vices descend.5 there is some definite antipapalism here, as when the snakey-haired head of gorgon represents the monster of perverse papal tyranny which has tongues more numerous than the hairs of the head, all blasphemous against god, nature, and man, infecting the world with the rankest poison of ignorance and vice.6 t

n, of which campanella was to be head priest and prophet. the advent of this new era in world affairs was, according to campanella, heralded by portents in the sky. this revolution, though preached with mad enthusiasm by campanella and his supporters, was almost entirely without serious practical preparation and naturally failed totally against the might of spain and the organised spanish rule in southern italy. then begins the second period of campanella's life which he spent in prison in naples, writing with amazing determination huge philosophical and theological works and conducting a propaganda in which he switched the magical reform from its revolutionary manifestation into what were, seemingly, more orthodox channels. the spanish monarchy, or the papacy, were now to provide the fram

h? the calabrian revolt may have been the final ebullition of those forces which impelled both bruno and campanella upon their dangerous careers. campanella seems to have relied mainly on the power of his inspired personality for the success of this extraordinary movement, and on belief in the portents and prophecies. almost the only practical steps seem to have been arrangements with disaffected southern italian noblemen and with the turks who were to send, and actually did send, but too late, a detachment of galleys to aid the insurgents. the whole thing was easily crushed and by the end of 1599 the prisons of naples were full of rebellious dominicans and their friends being examined, often with torture, to extract the evidence about the movement which amabile found and published in 1882

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

id something to the effect of "you were given the first of three. you must plan. you must do this again" i find this all highly unusual (yeah, as if yelling at the moon is normal. it also seemed as if before i heard the voice, when i closed my eyes, a picture, a formulation of some sort was 'mutating. i also noticed i placed a strong emphasis on the setian part of the rite, and the calling of the southern watchtower was very strong. ketamine was used as an intoxicant during the rite, and some pot later that night in celebration at a local rave. no personal sigils were fired and again a somber self-reflective feeling saturates me. this being(s) whose voice(s) i heard, if it is a being at all, frightens me and excites me. more to follow. it feel as if the next part of the rite should be unde

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

iscous substance which recombines after his apparent destruction at the conclusion of the tale. the narrative also gives evidence, drawn from various archaeological and mythological sources, of the continuing existence of a cult dedicated to the return of the old ones, its exponents ranging from inhabitants of the south seas islands to the angakoks of greenland, and practitioners of voodoo in the southern united states. lovecraft also gives a brief description of the world after its re-inheritance by the great old ones: the time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the great old ones; free and wild beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling injoy. then the liberated old ones would teach them new ways to sho

ed by the poet alhazred at damascus in 730 a.d. the title, al azif, refers to the nocturnal sounds made by insects, and supposed by arabs to be the howling of demons (by the numerology of the qabbalah, its number is 129, which represents amongst other things, a place of ravenous creatures, and corresponds with the egyptian word, atem, to annihilate) alhazred had spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of arabia, the roba-el-ehaliyeh or empty space of the ancients, which was rumoured to be inhabited by evil spirits. he had explored the ruins of babylon and the subterranean tombs of memphis, and visited the forbidden city of hem. beneath the remains of a nameless desert town, he discovered the annals of a race older than mankind, which he set down in the azif. in 950 a.d, the book

FULL MOON RITUALS

old castle ritual room wolf moon leader: red deer date: 30 december 2001 the days after yule had found red deer ever more intent on singing a place sometimes his alone but more often a part of the real world into the old castle environs. now, on the night of the full moon, he lay again on the central altar amid the circle and spiral of standing stones, only a few miles out in the country from the southern part of heaven. a glorious full moon shone overhead, with only wisps of clouds. she illuminated the lithons of rough hewn sandstone- the quarter-stones of which stood some twenty feet tall. when deer first found this circle, it was unlike any he'd experienced before- not actually a circle but a spiral winding in from the north and completing two turns before meeting the circle of quarter

ut, scarlet and their kith and kin, through towering stands of white ash and into long-leaf pine barrens lining the hill's broad shoulders- going thrice around before passing through the thorn thickets which line the truly ancient grove of mixed species circled about the castle before reaching the top after. but duty (joyous as this one is) calls, so he moves along the main trace which climbs the southern face of the hill directly towards the old castle. by the time deer crests the hill and pauses beneath the ancient turret, the pack he carries has become quite a weight- but all weariness departs as he lays hand upon the great bronze knocker which hangs before him. oncely, twicely, thricely he knocks- hearing the deep bass from the heavy bronze spread from the sound board of the huge oak d

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

is the same in all countries, it is of little consequence which furnished a copy for the writer in genesis. in dr. inman's ancient faiths, is a drawing from the original, by colonel coombs, of the "temptation" or of the ancient tree-and-serpent myth in genesis. this drawing, in which it is observed that the jewish idea of woman as tempter is reversed, was copied from the inner walls of a cave in southern india. the picture is said to be a faithful representation of the version of the story as accepted in the east. of the myrtle, payne knight says that it "was a symbol both of venus and neptune, the male and female personifications of the productive powers of the waters, which appear to have been occasionally employed in the same sense as the fig and fig leaf" the same writer refers to the

highest note and antiquity "in order to put this design in execution, the founders well studied their ground; and to make their representation more natural, they artfully carried it over a variety of elevations and depressions, which, with the curvature of the avenues, produces sufficiently the desired effect. to make it still more elegant and picture-like, the head of the snake is carried up the southern promontory of hackpen hill, toward the village of west kennet; nay, the very name of the hill is derived from the circumstance. thus our antiquity divides itself into three great parts, which will be our rule in describing this work. the circle at abury, the forepart of the snake leading toward kennet, which i call kennet avenue; the hinder part of the snake leading toward beckhampton, wh

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

h maiya and entered the othera.267.otempleset up byminamathers who had returned tolondonafterherhusband'sdeath in1918.hereshe remained for some years, founding the fraternityoftheinnerlight in1922as a meansofdrawing new, younger members into theordervia the theosophical society. eventuallyminamathers expelled her:itmaybe aswell to explain myown positionin relationto the 'golden dawn. i joined the southern branch of the scottish section of it, since disbanded, in1919and transferred fromthere to the sectionofit of which mrs mcgregor mathers was the head, and which claimed the only orthodoxy. she nearly turned me out for writingtheesotericphilosophyofl(fveandmarriage,on the grounds that i was betraying the inner teachingof the order, butitwaspointed outto her that i had not then got the degre

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

lso claimed to possess the power of personal projection. they perform their wonders chiefly when in a state of hysterical delirium. as a rule the shaman priests are men only,butamong the yakuts of siberia there are female performers with the highest reputation for working wonders. negroes among the west african negroes who have a religion of fetichism, and among those negroes living in hayti, the southern parts of the united states and the west indian islands who are the descendants of west africans deported as slaves many generations ago, there is a system of magic and divination called obeah or voodooism: it is generally associated with the blood sacrifice of some victim, often of a cock, and with a performance with serpents. celtic races among the celts of ancient britain the druids wer

udy. the french author, court de gebelin, in hismond primitil,paris, 1781, was the first to call attention in modern literature to these cards, and to assert that they were a remnant of the wisdom of the ancient egyptians; he has been followed byj.f.divination and its history 213vaillant, and p. christian, as well as by the noted mystic eliphaz levi. apart from the use of tarots by the gypsies of southern europe, and the use of common playing cards by gypsies in england for purposes of fortune telling, there has been during the last twenty years a revival of card divination by ladies in their homes, and this especially in ireland: this system of divination is also practised for gain in little rooms in the neighbourhood of new bond street in london. omens and presages we moderns have inheri

erate siva who is also called mahadeva, he who destroys by changing.thevishnuite reveres the salagrama, a black pebble or a fossil ammonite (salagrama; they are nearly round and sometimes have perforations: the owner of one of these stones keeps it wrapped in a white cloth; he perfumes and bathes it occasionally and the water in which it has laid isdrunkfor its sin-removing properties.thetodas of southern india worship stones and erect pillars and cairns wherever they dwell.thegreeks and romans of old had a custom of keeping stones, dies, or coins- tessara- as a token of friendship; and they also broke a tessaron or stone, and each of two friends kept a portion.thehebrews, too, in early times, used a pledge calledoirabon,orbun,which was regarded as a sort of talisman to perpetuate friendsh

appeared among the hebrews, a race notable for the constant efforts of its prophets and poets to discountenance the worship, almost universal at that period, of ancestors, demigods, and nature spirits. christ laid the foundation of a new mode of life and of higher aims of spiritual type, setting aside the mere formalism of worship. this new revelation quickly spread over the races of eastern and southern europe where the hold on the faiths in the gods of egypt and in those of the greek pantheon of olympus were being shattered and their temples neglected as effete and outworn. another era arrived, and the men of northern europe came down nation after nation and destroyed the greco-roman civilisation, but they adopted the christian faith; dark ages, centuries of obscurity of intellectual li

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

751 it was declared godless by the pope in those countries that adopted the principles of religious freedom, freemasonry was a mysterious and secret society only in name; in these countries it was both ignored and encouraged, found members among the middle class and high officials who had time and means, and installed leading state officials in positions of leadership in its own organizations. in southern countries where everyone had to be a catholic, they maintained their character as a secret, forbidden, revolutionary organization subject to legal surveillance. in these countries free-thinking young people, and officers discontent with government administration, began to enter masonic lodges and so revolutionary plans were initiated and directed against those regimes of spain, portugal a

ion outside their borders, and regarded the relationship between one third of the population and the catholic pope as the largest obstacle to this. encouraged by the national liberals, bismarck embarked on an anti-catholic campaign known as the kulturkampf, or "culture war" it was also described as a struggle to control the minds of germans.129 during the kulturkampf, catholics, especially in the southern ger- otto von bismarck many, suffered oppression. in 1872, in compliance with a law that had been passed, all jesuit priests in the country were rounded up in a single night and their institutions confiscated. in compliance with the "may laws (maigesetze) passed in 1873, all priests working for the government were fired, the church was forbidden involvement in all matters related to marri

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

s. in the secret gospel of mark we have a record of a small segment of the initiated tradition which survived beneath the gloss of early christianity. as can readily be seen from the above quote, the inner training involved days of tuition and education as well as a nocturnal initiation, where the teachings of the kingdom were finally revealed. this certainly is not the born again experience of a southern baptist! the path of the gnosis or celestial salvation is very different from what most people expect. it builds on the foundations of the terrestrial path but goes far beyond them. it is a path for a chosen few in juxtaposition to that of the path of the called few. the path to salvation in general terms is only for a small number, therefore the celestial path is for an even more minute

and they held that the traditional christian church, with its corrupt clergy and its immense material wealth, was the agent of satan and was to be avoided. the roman catholic church initially attempted to reconvert the albigenses through subtle means. when every attempt failed, pope innocent iii launched the albigensian crusade (circa 1209-29) that annihilated the albigenses and desolated much of southern france. small groups of albigenses survived in isolated areas but were pursued by the inquisition. one of the central cathari rituals was that of the consolamentum, a special form of adult baptism which could be administered only once. it was reserved only for those special cathars who had attained the level of the" perfected ones. it is believed the rite was preceded by a fast, various r

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

g to the recent research, as the ten tribes travelled, they changed their names and identities and slowly took on new traditions, many completed their migration in ireland, england and other european countries. hence gnostic theurgy page 89 the ariosophic mysteries travelled all over the globe to the lands we now see as indo-european. there were earlier migrations too. the israelites travelled to southern spain and the phoenicians settled in the punjab region of india, but only the later migrations concern us here. the ariosophic kabbalah is embodied in much of the later hermetic and alchemical traditions and it represents the heritage of aryan israel. however, all is not at it seems, during this same period, a false tradition, a counterfeit kabbalah was being developed. in babylon the chi

the surrounding regions. here they became known as albigenses. at their height it was said that there were some 50,000 cathars and 3,000 parfait. the roman catholic church initially attempted to bring them back to the fold through subtle means. however, when every attempt failed, pope innocent iii launched the albigensian crusade (circa 1209-29) that annihilated the cathars and desolated much of southern france. small groups are believed to have survived in isolated areas, but were continually pursued by the inquisition. while beliefs varied from movement to movement (there were some 50 distinct cathar sects, they generally held certain gnostic doctrines in common. these included strict dualism and a belief that the material world was the creation of satan, this false creator they called

GOETIA LUCIFERIAN

iate becomes as the image and essence of shaitan through the invocation of the four powers under the infernal princes. in the coiling of this black light and cunning fire, may the sorcerer become isolated and strong against the natural order. the individual is separate, yet a fire made vessel of azazel-lucifer, known as azal ucel, the daemonic angel of adversarial awakening. begin the rite in the southern quarter, relative to azazel, the initiator of the path. the sorcerer should construct the circle of the dragon as one uses in this goetia, encircling the self in the announced conjurations of the four quarters. azazel i summon thee fire-djinn of the southern quarter, be the torch which would ignite me, immolate me in your presence, as your child on the path of shadow unto light. samael gr

legions of spirits, and shows one where treasure may be found. this translates to the treasure of self from which one may obtain an area of individual and mental achievement. after creating/summoning/invoking asmodeus, follow your instinct accordingly. 52 g gaap gaap is a mighty prince and angelic ruler who governs 66 legions of spirits. it is written that gaap appears when the sun is in certain southern signs, in a human form. he appears in front of four mighty kings, whom he leads. gaap is a divinatory spirit as well as one which acts as an accelerator of social behavior, i.e. how individuals act are perceived and read by specific body language and posture, etc. gaap is also a spirit of astral and dreaming projection. this spirit also teaches one how to consecrate items unto amaymon, hi

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS B

esented by the symbol. it is a symbol of alchemical distillation. l hath the laborious b. the following manner is the correct way to trace the kerubic emblems in the center of their respective pentagrams. 10 symbols: spirit wheel aquarius kerub leo kerub eagle kerub taurus kerub the attributions of the elements in their respective position are derived from the winds: east wind is attributed to m. southern wind bringeth into action the nature of heat and o. west wind bringeth rain and moisture, n. north winds are cold and dry like the l. the natural positions of the elements in the zodiac are different. o is in the east, l is in the south, m is in the west, n is in the north. let the adept be aware that when invoking, it is better to look toward the position of the winds. the earth is ever

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS C C1

he eastern quarter, the position of fire in the zodiac (notice f, and k do not change sides. to achieve this from the basic hexagram, lower the inverted triangle, then reverse it by throwing the lunar angle up to the top from being lowest. l k y f b c the second form is the classical hexagram with the attribution of the angles as usual. the hexagram has an affinity with earth and is traced in the southern quarter. this is the position of earth in the zodiac, and the sun at noon when it is at its culmination. 16 l b c y f k the third form has its affinity with air and is in the western quarter. this is in the position of air in the zodiac. l k y f b c this is water in the position of the zodiac. it has an affinity with the northern quarter. with each of these forms, the name atyrara is to b

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS K

chamber with sol, repeating "and when, after all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire" chief adept (on reaching the south, he faces south, and makes with the cross the invoking pentagram of fire, saying "oip teaa pedoce. in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watchtower of the south (chief adept replaces the cross on the lion. takes the cup, goes to the west, sprinkles water, and circumambulates with sol, saying) 3 "so therefore first the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral water of the loud, resounding sea (on reaching west, he faces west, and makes the invoking penta

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z1

wh so as to transmit its forces into twklm, restoring and purifying the vital forces therein by cold and moisture "goddess of the scale of the balance at the black pillar" is the name of stolistes, and she is "the light shining through the waters upon earth" aura-mo-ooth, and there is a connection between her and the aurim or urim of the hebrews. the dadouchos is stationed toward the midst of the southern part of the hall, to the southwest of the white pillar whose base is in jxn and is there as the affirmer of the powers of o reflected down the tree to jxn. the censer is the receptacle thereof, the transmitter of the fires of jxn to twklm, restoring and purifying the vital force therein by heat and dryness "goddess of the scale of the balance at the white pillar" is the name of dadouchos

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ign (chief adept moves back behind the cubicle altar) first adept (circumambulates to the fire tablet, holds arms in the form of a cross in front of the tablet "blessed be thou lord of the universe, for thy glory flows out to the ends of the universe, rejoicing (drops arms to the side then extends arms forward as in a greeting with palm upwards "we invite you all, you glorious beings of the great southern quadrangle, ye mighty archangels, angels, kings, rulers and elementals. come now and assemble in this temple to partake with us of this holy eucharist "all make the philosophus grade sign (first adept circumambulates back to his place) 4 second adept (circumambulates to the water tablet and extends arms in the form of a cross "blessed be thou lord of the universe, for thy glory flows out

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head, and slowly circumambulate in the path of a, saying "and when, after all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless o, that o which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of o" step 3 on reaching south, make the invoking fire pentagram and the sign of the lion's head. say "oip teaa pedoce. in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watchtower of the south" step 4 replace wand on altar, take cup and go west. sprinkle to the west and circumambulate temple in the path of a, saying "so therefore, first, the priest who governeth the works of o must sprinkle with the lustral waters of the loud resounding sea" step 5 on reaching the west, sprinkle with n, make invoking water pentag

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inion. in the name of \yhla, mighty and ruling, and in the name of twabx hwhy, spirits of o adore your creator! step 3 take the incense before the fire tablet and make the sign of e within the pentagram. say: in the name of lakym, the great archangel of o and in the sign of e the lion, spirits of o adore your creator! step 4 make a cross with the incense. say: in the name and letters of the great southern quadrangle revealed unto enoch by the great angel ave, spirits of o, adore your creator! hold incense on high. say: in the three great secret names of god borne upon the banner of the south, oip teaa pdoce, spirits of o, adore your creator! step 5 still facing south, vibrate the sixth key activating the line of bitom (while vibrating the key, formulate the banner of the east astrally arou

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ulture and from epoch to epoch. whatever the mechanism, the fact is that a number of other cartographers seem to have been privy to the same curious secrets. is it possible that all these map-makers could have partaken, perhaps unknowingly, in the bountiful scientific legacy of a vanished civilization? 21 ibid, pp. 76-7 and 231-2. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 23 chapter 2 rivers in the southern continent in the christmas recess of 1959-60 charles hapgood was looking for antarctica in the reference room of the library of congress, washington dc. for several consecutive weeks he worked there, lost in the search, surrounded by literally hundreds of medieval maps and charts. i found [he reported] many fascinating things i had not expected to find, and a number of charts showing the

in the reference room of the library of congress, washington dc. for several consecutive weeks he worked there, lost in the search, surrounded by literally hundreds of medieval maps and charts. i found [he reported] many fascinating things i had not expected to find, and a number of charts showing the southern continent. then, one day, i turned a page and sat transfixed. as my eyes fell upon the southern hemisphere of a world map drawn by oronteus finaeus in 1531, i had the instant conviction that i had found here a truly authentic map of the real antarctica. the general shape of the continent was startlingly like the outline of the continent on our modern maps. the position of the south pole, nearly in the center of the continent, seemed about right. the mountain ranges that skirted the

egypt in 156310) was reportedly indefatigable in searching out. the learning of long ago, and spent many years diligently accumulating a vast and eclectic reference library of ancient source maps.11 significantly, mercator included the oronteus finaeus map in his atlas of 1569 and also depicted the antarctic on several he himself drew in the same year. identifiable parts of the then undiscovered southern continent on these maps are cape dart and cape herlacher in marie byrd land, the amundsen sea, thurston island in ellsworth land, the fletcher islands in the bellinghausen sea, alexander i island, the antarctic (palmer) peninsula, the weddell sea, cape norvegia, the regula range in queen maud land (as islands, the muhlig-hoffman mountains (as islands, the prince harald coast, the shirase

is disposal source 10 he left his graffito there. see peter tompkins, secrets of the great pyramid, harper& row publishers, new york, p. 38, 285. 11 maps, p. 102. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 27 maps other than those used by oronteus finaeus. 12 and not only mercator. philippe buache, the eighteenth-century french geographer, was also able to publish a map of antarctica long before the southern continent was officially discovered. and the extraordinary feature of buache s map is that it seems to have been based on source maps made earlier, perhaps thousands of years earlier, than those used by oronteus finaeus and mercator. what buache gives us is an eerily precise representation of antarctica as it must have looked when there was no ice on it at all.13 his map reveals the subgl

opography of the entire continent, which even we did not have full knowledge of until 1958, international geophysical year, when a comprehensive seismic survey was carried out. that survey only confirmed what buache had already proclaimed when he published his map of antarctica in 1737. basing his cartography on ancient sources now lost, the french academician depicted a clear waterway across the southern continent dividing it into two principal landmasses lying east and west of the line now marked by the trans- antarctic mountains. such a waterway, connecting the ross, weddell and bellinghausen seas, would indeed exist if antarctica were free of ice. as the 1958 igy survey shows, the continent (which appears on modern maps as one continuous landmass) consists of an archipelago of large is

xisted millions of years ago low-browed knuckle-dragging hominids incapable of advanced intellectual tasks like map-making. are we therefore to assume the intervention of alien cartographers in orbiting spaceships to explain the existence of sophisticated maps of an ice-free antarctica? or shall we think again about the implications of hapgood s theory of earth-crust displacement which allows the southern continent to have been in the ice-free condition depicted by buache as little as 15,000 years ago?14 14 for a fuller discussion of the evidence behind this theory see part viii of this book and hapgood's earth's shifting crust. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 29 above left and right redrawings of the mercator and oronteus finaeus maps showing the progressive glaciation of antarcti

and, if so, how much later? the combined effect of the piri reis, oronteus finaeus, mercator and buache maps is the strong, though disturbing, impression that antarctica may have been continuously surveyed over a period of several thousands of years as the ice-cap gradually spread outwards from the interior, increasing its grip with every passing millennium but not engulfing all the coasts of the southern continent until around 4000 bc. the original sources for the piri reis and mercator maps must therefore have been prepared towards the end of this period, when only the coasts of graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 31 antarctica were free of ice; the source for the oronteus finaeus map, on the other hand, seems to have been considerably earlier, when the icecap was present only in the

eologists refer to it, did once exist (where the bering strait is now) but was submerged beneath the waves by rising sea levels at the end of the last ice age.24 the rising sea levels were caused by the tumultuous melting of the icecap which was rapidly retreating everywhere in the northern hemisphere by around 10,000 bc.25 it is therefore interesting that at least one ancient map appears to show southern sweden covered with remnant glaciers of the kind that must indeed have been prevalent then in these latitudes. the remnant glaciers are on claudius ptolemy s famous map of the north. originally compiled in the second century ad, this remarkable work from the last great geographer of classical antiquity was lost for hundreds of 20 ibid, p. 69. 21 ibid, p. 72. 22 ibid, p. 65. 23 ibid, p. 99

e from across the seas, in a time of darkness, to restore civilization after a great upheaval of the earth? i decided to go to peru to see what i could find. 22 ibid, pp. 244-5. 23 ibid, p. 135. 24 ibid, p. 139. 25 ibid, pp. 139, 145. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 42 part ii foam of the sea peru and bolivia graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 43 chapter 4 flight of the condor i m in southern peru, flying over the nazca lines. below me, after the whale and the monkey, the hummingbird comes into view, flutters and unfolds her wings, stretches forward her delicate beak towards some imaginary flower. then we turn hard right, pursued by our own tiny shadow as we cross the bleak scar of the pan-american highway, and follow a trajectory that brings us over the fabulous snakenecked a

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ilization on earth, literally preserved in stone. i gave them to you, i recall. trw: when i got ahold of them, i resectioned the rocks, used an overhead projector and came up, in one of them, with a map of that little area of north georgia where tallulah falls, toccoa falls, brasstown bald you know, the chattahoochee national forest. the cave entrance is clearly marked. ahg: so, this map includes southern north carolina, and white county, georgia? trw: yep. with the entrance marked with a red circle. ahg: that s where peter davidson, the frontal chief of the her- metic brotherhood of light, set up his utopian colony a hundred years ago. trw: you bet, and no coincidence. where was the previous headquarters? in scotsecret cipher of the ufonauts 73 land, right where the findhorn colony was la

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

d, all the phantoms have vanished, arad i see that sacred and formless fire; the fire that llames and consumes the hidden depths of the universe, and i hear the voice of fire. trace the fire pentagram before you, and then trace a flaming red enochian letter k (k) within it. maintain this flaming letter and say, oip-teaa-pdoke (oh-ee-peh teh-ah-ah peh-doh-keh) in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle, i invoke you, angels of the watchtower of the south. then vibrate the great holy narre of this watchtower. feel the angels of the watchtower of fire rising up from within you. step 3. take your cup in your hand. turn toward the watchtower of water in the west. sprinkle some water and say, now therefore 1, a priest of fire, sprinkle lustral waters of the sea, and hear the wrath

(ke e-keh-leh-ah-teh-heh-bah-bah-geh) oh mighty aduorpt (ah-du-oh-rah-peh-teh) whose word is silence; come forth and take away my ignorance. lama babalon (lah-mah bah-bah-loh-en) while vibrating the name aduorpt, know your restless and ever-chattering brain/mind to be given over to this governor of tex. medi tate for a few moments on the significance of your thoughts being expressed in the fiery southern regions of tex. 298 part 5. face the west and raise your sword before you. trace the sigil of doziaal: see this sigil blazing with a vivid blue color and then say, mika-omp-sa-soboln (mee-kah-oh-meh-peh-sah-soh-boh-leh-neh) oh mighty doziaal (doh-zodee-ah-ah-leh) whose word is an (ah-neh) come forth and take away my limitations. balt (bah-leh-teh) za-tol (zodah-toh-leh) lama babalon (lah

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responding in sense to the greek p^tto. 1 for, as %ao? means both abyss and darkness, so ginnunga- gap seems also to denote the world of mist, out of whose bosom all things rose. how the covering and concealing hel was likewise conceived of as nifl-hep with yawning gaping jaws, has been shewn above, pp. 312-314. yet this void of space had two extremities opposed to one another, muspell (fire) the southern, and nifl (fog) the northern; from muspellsheim proceed light and warmth, from niflheim darkness and deadly cold. in the middle was a fountain hvergelmir, out of which flowed twelve rivers named elivdgar. when they got so far from their source, that the drop of fire contained 1 xctos, from xaivt^ohg. ginan, on. gina= lat. hiare; conf. ohg. ginunga, hiatus. but we need not therefore read g

r, os. ger, as. gear, engl. year, on. dr, is plainly the pol. iar, iaro, boh. gar, garo, which signify spring. 1 in the same way the slavic veto, lieto, liato, strictly summer, and seem ingly akin to our lenz, ohg. lenzo, lengiz, mhg. lenze, lengez, as. lencten, lengten (lent, spring) has come by degrees to cover the whole year. thus both jar and leto mean the warmer season (spring or summer; and southern nations reckoned by them, as the northern did by winters. ulphilas renders ero? by jer, and evtavro? either by apn, gal. 4, 10, or atafrni, john 18, 13, a word that has died out of our language everywhere else, but still lingers in the gothic names athanagildus, athanaricus (ajmagilds, ajmareiks; it seems 1 the pol. iar looks like tap, but this is understood to be for f<?a/&gt

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

the information it contains [6] sir francis bacon imperator of the rosirucians in the seventeenth century, modern symbolical drawing [7] fra. michael maier grand master of rosicrucians in germany in the seventeenth century and sir francis bacon's deputy on the continent [8] lord raymond vi as count of toulouse, refused to prosecute the mystics who laid the foundation for rosicrucian philosophy in southern france in the thirteenth century. as a mystic martyr, his body was refused burial in "holy ground" but was preserved for 600 years in the knights templar building, built by his forefathers [9] h. spencer lewis, ph.d. f.r.c. former imperator, a.m.o.r.c. of north and south america and founder of its second cycle of activity in the western hemisphere.member of the supreme council r.c. of the

thus, the "presence of god" is carried in vibrations from the east to the "heart of the soul of the temple" the sanctum in each lodge there is a place, a condition, called the sanctum. it is located between the shekinah and the east. the holy place occupies all the space between the eastern edge of the shekinah and the steps leading to the east, but does not reach to both sides of the lodge. the southern and northern boundaries of this space are [35] determined by leaving on each side of the lodge sufficient walking space.about 75 to 90 cm (two and one-half to three feet).for reaching either the northern or southern sides of the east. the remainder of the space between the east and the shekinah forms the holy sanctum. the sanctum is kept holy, and reserved exclusively for certain points o

his family, mr. poole first considered the ministry as a vocation. he entered willamette university, a denominational school, located at salem, oregon. there, however, he found himself more drawn to psychology and music. he planned to become a theater organist, but the coming of talking pictures forced him to change his goal. this time, he turned to education as a major. after his graduation from southern oregon college of education at ashland, he began to teach in 1928 and soon became a school administrator. in this capacity, he helped to institute the first formal courses of study in character education. at this time, he laid a sound foundation for his future career at amorc by handling school finances, budget problems, and legal matters. mr. poole's long-time interest in philosophy cont

elicites questions. burnam's first generation german father answered this by saying that his father before him came from a 200-year-old banking family in germany. the spelling of the name appears to be neither germanic nor dutch in origin, and it has been speculated that perhaps, because of the pronunciation, it may have been a conversion of the scottish name shaw. burnam's mother is from two old southern english and french families.the brookes and dentons of mississippi. when burnam was two years of age his family moved to clovis, california, a small town on the outskirts of fresno, a major city in the san juaquin valley, a great agricultural valley of california. from earliest times burnam seemed to be marked by a quiet neutrality of character even though he actively championed society's

on, or light, in the sense of attaining cosmic consciousness, a realization of the omniscience. the term has been traditionally and historically applied to rosicrucians and martinists. the rosicrucians were often known as "brothers of the illuminati, and in fact, in different periods of their history, outwardly used the name of illuminati, or les illumines. the illuminati were well established in southern france in the region of toulouse, and of course, were one and the same as the rosicrucians. also, in germany they were prominent in the latter part of the eighteenth century. in 1776, one adam weishaupt established a sect which he called the illuminati. it had no connection with the older movement, concerned itself greatly with politics, and came into bad repute. some historians have conf

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

se sources varied greatly during the 3,500 years that the native pharaonic culture dominated egypt. the remainder of this chapter will give a historical overview of the sources for egyptian myth. protodynastic (dynasty 0) and early dynastic periods (dynasties 1 2: c. 3200 2686 bce according to a tradition found in ancient chronologies, egypt was originally divided into separate kingdoms of upper (southern) and lower (northern) egypt. a king menes was said to have united these kingdoms and founded a new capital at memphis to be the balance of the two lands. menes cannot easily be identified with any specific king known from contemporary records. early kings there is plenty of archaeological evidence for a series of powerful southern kings in the late fourth millennium bce. the hieroglyphic

nomarchs (provincial governors. these nomarchs had close ties with their local temples, and it was probably among the priesthood of these temples that an innovative new body of funerary texts began to develop. the independence of the nomarchs and the period of disunity were brought to an end in the late twenty-first century bce by a king called nebhepetra montuhotep (mentuhotep, who came from the southern city of thebes. middle kingdom and second intermediate period (dynasties 11 17: c. 2055 1550 bce once nebhepetra montuhotep was established as king of all egypt, he ruled from memphis, but he built shrines for important gods all over the country. he was eventually buried at western thebes in a mortuary complex whose chief feature seems to have been a representation of the primeval mound

an religion. during the fourth century ce, christianity became the dominant religion of the roman empire. the date usually given for the end of pharaonic culture is 395 ce. this was the year when the roman empire was divided into two. egypt became part of the eastern, or byzantine, empire, and most of its pagan temples were closed down by order of the emperor. the isis temple at philae on egypt s southern border stayed open until the sixth century ce because it was protected by nubian tribes who still revered the goddess. the latest known hieroglyphic texts are from philae. when there was no longer anyone left who could read the ancient texts, knowledge of the egyptian gods and their myths gradually died out. this change of religion was far more significant for egyptian culture than all th

in the middle of her rage may allude to this mythical role. thoth sometimes accompanies shu or undertakes the mission on his own.21 as the heart and tongue of the gods, thoth uses wise words to appease the dangerous goddess. several versions of an elaborate literary treatment of this myth were current in the late first millennium bce. in the longest of these, hathor-tefnut is roaming the distant southern desert in the form of a nubian cat. thoth disguises himself as a dog-faced baboon to approach the angry goddess. he alternately harangues and cajoles her. thoth lectures her about her duty and dignity as the daughter of ra. he tells her about the desolate and gloomy state that egypt has fallen into without her bright presence. he paints word pictures of the delicious food offerings and th

ed with music and dancing that help to transform her into the beautiful of face. this is the first of a series of benevolent forms of the eye goddess.23 an obscure passage deals with an attack on the goddess while she is sleeping. thoth wakes her in time, and the forces of chaos are defeated. eventually the goddess reaches memphis, the capital of egypt, where she is transformed into hathor of the southern sycamore and joyfully reunited with her father. she is mythical time lines 73 needed to defend the creator sun god from his enemies. chief among these, as in the fable of the lion and the mouse, is man. in many mythologies, the gods make several attempts at creating people before they are satisfied. such myths usually involve the destruction of the unsatisfactory part of humanity. as earl

anity as they had after the rebellion against the sun god (see sekhmet in deities, themes, and concepts. the new year began with the coming of the inundation. by the ptolemaic period, the first nile flood was said to have been caused by the return of the distant goddess from nubia. every year, the fearsome goddess had to be persuaded to return home and take on a benevolent form as she reached the southern border of egypt. kiosk-shrines built on the water s edge were decorated with comical figures of dwarfs or ani- 90 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 18. the sun child inside the ouroboros snake supported by the sky cow and the lions of yesterday and tomorrow. vignette from the funerary papyrus of herweben (british museum) mals dancing and playing musical instruments to pacify the godde

the oxford encyclopaedia of ancient egypt i, edited by d. b. redford. oxford and new york: 2001, 97 98. s. t. hollis. anubis s mortuary functions in the tale of the two brothers. in hermes aegypticus, edited by t. duquesne. oxford: 1995, 87 100. primary sources: pt 437; ct 825, 936; bd 175; pj; i&o; pdm xiv.1 92, 395 427; pdm supp.101 30 anuket (anukis) anuket was a goddess worshipped on egypt s southern border. see also satet and anuket apis apis was a bull kept at memphis who was the most important of all sacred animals. in life, the apis bull was honored as the physical manifestation of ptah; in death he was worshipped as a form of osiris. a festival called the running of the apis bull is recorded as early as the first dynasty. by the late period the apis bull had become a kind of nati

nature made hathor the patroness of lovers in egyptian poetry and justified the greeks in identifying her with aphrodite. in the contendings of horus and seth, the sun god pre (ra) becomes angry when he is insulted by the baboon god babi and lies down on his back. this implies that the creator sun god was sinking back into the inert state that would mean the end of the world. hathor, lady of the southern sycamore, visits her father pre and shows him her genitals. he immediately laughs, gets up, and goes back to administering maat (justice. hathor has aroused the sun god and driven away his evil mood. the underworld books present ra and his daughter in less human terms. as the goddess of the west, hathor welcomes the setting sun into her outstretched arms. for both gods and people, hathor

eity, khnum shaped people and animals on his potter s wheel and put life and health into their bodies. he was sometimes paired with the frog goddess, heqet, but in his deities, themes, and concepts 153 main temple on the island of elephantine at aswan, khnum formed a triad with the goddesses satet and anuket. khnum was one of the chief deities of the first cataract, an area of rocky rapids on the southern border of egypt. an inscribed stela found on one of the small islands in this region of the nile relates an interesting tradition about khnum. the inscription purports to be a decree of king djoser (c. 2667 2648 bce) but was actually composed about 2,500 years after his reign. it tells how egypt suffered seven terrible years of famine, because the nile did not rise high enough to flood th

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osiris each day. next: chapter xi. sixth division of the tuat. ii. kingdom of osiris according to the book of gates sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 158 chapter xi. sixth division of the tuat. ii. kingdom of osiris according to the book of gates. the boat of afu-ra, having passed through the first five divisions of the tuat, now, according to the book of gates, arrives near the southern part of the delta, and near the kingdom of osiris, lord of mendes and busiris. before, however, the god can enter it, he must pass through the gate of the sixth division, which is called nebt-aha, and which is guarded by the monster serpent set-em-maat-f. in the gate or close to it, is the judgment hall of osiris, and it is tolerably certain that no soul entered his kingdom without being

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

hemillions of stars that stud the former peep into and bathe in every lakelet and pool. to the grief-furrowedsoul those twinkling orbs are the eyes of angels. they look down with ineffable pity on the suffering ofmankind. it is not the night dew that falls on the sleeping flowers, but sympathetic tears that drop from thoseorbs, at the sight of the great human sorrow. yes; sweet and beautiful is a southern night. but "when silently we watch the bed, by the taper is flickering light, when all we love is fading fast- how terrible is night" viianother day is added to the series of buried days. the far green hills, and the fragrant boughs of thepomegranate blossom have melted in the mellow shadows of the night, and both sorrow and joy are plungedin the lethargy of soul-resting sleep. every nois

debrahmanised brahman, one who is degraded orwho has lost his caste? after this how can we avoid suspecting that we may find, among the modern jews,the chaldeans of the time of the rishi agastya- these makers of bricks whose persecution began from eighthundred to a thousand years ago, but who emigrated to chaldea four thousand years before the christian era- when so many of the popular legends of southern india resemble the bible stories. louis jacolliot speaksin several of his twenty-one volumes on brahmanical india of this matter, and for once he is right* the particle a in the sanskrit word shews this clearly. placed before a substantive thisparticle always means the negation or the opposite of the meaning of the expression thatfollows. thus sura (god) written a -sura, becomes non-god

are talesthe ensouled violin61 one, and its history must be briefly told- for the better understanding of the present story. born of very pious country people, in a quiet burg among the styrian alps; nursed "by the native gnomeswho watched over his cradle; growing up in the weird atmosphere of the ghouls and vampires who play sucha prominent part in the household of every styrian and slavonian in southern austria; educated later, as astudent in the shadow of the old rhenish castles of germany; franz from his childhood had passed throughevery emotional stage on the plane of the so-called "supernatural" he had also studied at one time the"occult arts" with an enthusiastic disciple of paracelsus and kunrath; alchemy had few theoretical secrets forhim; and he had dabbled in "ceremonial magic"

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

hold the first and most important place, in buddhism it is the ethics which have always been the most insisted upon. this accounts for the resemblance, amounting almost to identity, between the ethics of theosophy and those of the religion of buddha. q. are there any great points of difference? a. one great distinction between theosophy and exoteric buddhism is that the latter, represented by the southern church, entirely denies (a) the existence of any deity, and (b) any conscious postmortem life, or even any self-conscious surviving individuality in man. such at least is the teaching of the siamese sect, now considered as the purest form of exoteric buddhism. and it is so, if we refer only to buddha's public teachings; the reason for such reticence on his part i will give further on. but

h reticence on his part i will give further on. but the schools of the northern buddhist church, established in those countries to which his initiated arhats retired after the master's death, teach all that is now called theosophical doctrines, because they form part of the knowledge of the initiates-thus proving how the truth has been sacrificed to the dead-letter by the too-zealous orthodoxy of southern buddhism. but how much grander and more noble, more philosophical and scientific, even in its dead-letter, is this teaching than that of any other church or religion. yet theosophy is not buddhism. exoteric and esoteric theosophy what the modern theosophical society is not q. your doctrines, then, are not a revival of buddhism, nor are they entirely copied from the neo-platonic theosophy?

d, lest by giving that which is holy to the dogs, and casting pearls before swine, both the revealer and the things revealed should be trodden under foot. thus, the reticence of both buddha and jesus-whether the latter lived out the historic period allotted to him or not, and who equally abstained from revealing plainly the mysteries of life and death-led in the one case to the blank negations of southern buddhism, and in the other, to the three clashing forms of the christian church and the 300 sects in protestant england alone. theosophical teachings as to nature and man the unity of all in all q. having told me what god, the soul and man are not, in your views, can you inform me what they are, according to your teachings? a. in their origin and in eternity the three, like the universe a

and finite, and to live while yet on earth only in the immortal and everlasting. buddhi (sans) universal soul or mind. maha -buddhi is a name of mahat; also the spiritual soul in man (the sixth principle exoterically, the vehicle of atma, the seventh, according to the exoteric enumeration. buddhism the religious philosophy taught by gautama buddha. it is now split into two distinct churches: the southern and northern. the former is said to be the purer, as having preserved more religiously the original teachings of the lord buddha. the northern buddhism is confined to tibet, china, and nepal. but this distinction is incorrect. if the southern church is nearer, and has not, in fact, departed, except perhaps in trifling dogmas, due to the many councils held after the death of the master, fr

eld after the death of the master, from the public or exoteric teachings of sakyamuni, the northern church is the outcome of siddhartha buddha's esoteric teachings which he confined to his elect bhikshus and arhats. buddhism, in fact, cannot be justly judged in our age either by one or the other of its exoteric popular forms. real buddhism can be appreciated only by blending the philosophy of the southern church and the metaphysics of the northern schools. if one seems too iconoclastic and stern, and the other too metaphysical and transcendental, events being overcharged with the weeds of indian exotericism-many of the gods of its pantheon having been transplanted under new names into tibetan soil-it is due to the popular expression of buddhism in both churches. correspondentially, they st

ents being overcharged with the weeds of indian exotericism-many of the gods of its pantheon having been transplanted under new names into tibetan soil-it is due to the popular expression of buddhism in both churches. correspondentially, they stand in their relation to each other as protestantism to roman catholicism. both err by an excess of zeal and erroneous interpretations, though neither the southern nor the northern buddhist clergy have ever departed from truth consciously, still less have they acted under the dictates of priestocracy, ambition, or an eye to personal gain and power, as the later churches have. buddhi-taijas (sans) a very mystic term, capable of several interpretations. in occultism, however, and in relation to the human principles (exoterically, it is a term to expre

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

12 a.m. according to power-house records, but blake's diary gives no indication of the time. the entry is merely "lights out- god help me" on federal hill there were watchers as anxious as he, and rain-soaked knots of men paraded the square and alleys around the evil church with umbrella-shaded candles, electric flashlights, oil lanterns, crucifixes, and obscure charms of the many sorts common to southern italy. they blessed each flash of lightning, and made cryptical signs of fear with their right hands when a turn in the storm caused the flashes to lessen and finally to cease altogether. a rising wind blew out most of the candles, so that the scene grew threatening dark. someone roused father merluzzo of spirito santo church, and he hastened to the dismal square to pronounce whatever hel

along the badly cleared space in front of the turk's head. there was a baying of dogs in the distance, but this subsided as soon as the clamour of the awakened town became audible. parties of men with lanterns and muskets hurried out to see what was happening, but nothing rewarded their search. the next morning, however, a giant, muscular body, stark naked, was found on the jams of ice around the southern piers of the great bridge, where the long dock stretched out beside abbott's distil-house, and the identity of this object became a theme for endless speculation and whispering. it was not so much the younger as the older folk who whispered, for only in the patriarchs did that rigid face with horror-bulging eyes strike any chord of memory. they, shaking as they did so, exchanged furtive m

rmally large- and of the moon, whose markings held a touch of difference from the normal that i could never quite fathom. when- very rarely- the night sky was clear to any extent, i beheld constellations which were nearly beyond recognition. known outlines were sometimes approximated, but seldom duplicated; and from the position of the few groups i could recognize, i felt i must be in the earth's southern hemisphere, near the tropic of capricorn. the far horizon was always steamy and indistinct, but i could see that great jungles of unknown tree-ferns, calamites, lepidodendra, and sigillaria lay outside the city, their fantastic frondage waving mockingly in the shifting vapours. now and then there would be suggestions of motion in the sky, but these my early visions never resolved. by the

d form of old zadok allen himself. in accordance with my plan, i attracted his attention by brandishing my newly-purchased bottle: and loon realised that he had begun to shuffle wistfully after me as i tinned into waite street on my way to the most deserted region i could think of. i was steering my course by the map the grocery boy had prepared, and was aiming for the wholly abandoned stretch of southern waterfront which i had previously visited. the only people in sight there had been the fishermen on the distant breakwater; and by going a few squares south i could get beyond the range of these, finding a pair of seats on some abandoned wharf and being free to question old zadok unobserved for an indefinite time. before i reached main street i could hear a faint and wheezy "hey, mister"

ed on across the moonlit space without varying their course- meanwhile croaking and jabbering in more hateful guttural patois i could not identify. once more in shadow, i resumed my former dog-trot past the leaning and decrepit houses that stared blankly into the night. having crossed to the western sidewalk i rounded the nearest corner into bates street where i kept close to the buildings on the southern side. i passed two houses shewing signs of habitation, one of which had faint lights in upper rooms, yet met with no obstacle. as i tuned into adams street i felt measurably safer, but received a shook when a man reeled out of a black doorway directly in front of me. he proved, however, too hopelessly drunk to be a menace; so that i reached the dismal ruins of the bank street warehouses i

eached greenfield seven minutes late, but the northbound connecting express had been held. transferring in haste, i felt a curious breathlessness as the cars rumbled on through the early afternoon sunlight into territories i had always read of but had never before visited. i knew i was entering an altogether older-fashioned and more primitive new england than the mechanised, urbanised coastal and southern areas where all my life had been spent; an unspoiled, ancestral new england without the foreigners and factory-smoke, bill-boards and concrete roads, of the sections which modernity has touched. there would be odd survivals of that continuous native life whose deep roots make it the one authentic outgrowth of the landscape- the continuous native life which keeps alive strange ancient memo

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

nd it would now be our task to round cape adare and sail down the east coast of victoria land to our contemplated base on the shore of mcmurdo sound, at the foot of the volcano erebus in south latitude 77 9. the last lap of the voyage was vivid and fancy-stirring. great barren peaks of mystery loomed up constantly against the west as the low northern sun of noon or the still lower horizon-grazing southern sun of midnight poured its hazy reddish rays over the white snow, bluish ice and water lanes, and black bits of exposed granite slope. through the desolate summits swept ranging, intermittent gusts of the terrible antarctic wind; whose cadences sometimes held vague suggestions of a wild and half-sentient musical piping, with notes extending over a wide range, and which for some subconscio

eardmore glacier, the largest valley glacier in the world, and that the frozen sea was now giving place to a frowning and mountainous coast line. at last we were truly entering the white, aeon-dead world of the ultimate south. even as we realized it we saw the peak of mt. nansen in the eastern distance, towering up to its height of almost fifteen thousand feet. the successful establishment of the southern base above the glacier in latitude 86 7, east longitude 174 23, and the phenomenally rapid and effective borings and blastings made at various points reached by our sledge trips and short aeroplane flights, are matters of history; as is the arduous and triumphant ascent of mt. nansen by pabodie and two of the graduate students- gedney and carroll- on december 13- 15. we were some eight th

o sound; but this could wait temporarily. i kept with me one sledge and nine dogs, since it is unwise to be at any time without possible transportation in an utterly tenantless world of aeon-long death. lake s subexpedition into the unknown, as everyone will recall, sent out its own reports from the shortwave transmitters on the planes; these being simultaneously picked up by our apparatus at the southern base and by the arkham at mcmurdo sound, whence they were relayed to the outside world on wave lengths up to fifty meters. the start was made january 22nd at 4 a.m, and the first wireless message we received came only two hours later, when lake spoke of descending and starting a small-scale ice-melting and bore at a point some three hundred miles away from us. six hours after that a secon

talk with lake and captain douglas at their widely separated bases. it was agreed that one of lake s planes would come to my base for pabodie, the five men, and myself, as well as for all the fuel it could carry. the rest of the fuel question, depending on our decision about an easterly trip, could wait for a few days, since lake had enough for immediate camp heat and borings. eventually the old southern base ought to be restocked, but if we postponed the easterly trip we would not use it till the next summer, and, meanwhile, lake must send a plane to explore a direct route between his new mountains and mcmurdo sound. pabodie and i prepared to close our base for a short or long period, as the case might be. if we wintered in the antarctic we would probably fly straight from lake s base to

h douglas and thorfinnssen i resolved to take steps toward investigation. the fifth aeroplane, which we had left at the mcmurdo sound supply cache with sherman and two sailors, was in good shape and ready for instant use, and it seemed that the very emergency for which it had been saved was now upon us. i got sherman by wireless and ordered him to join me with the plane and the two sailors at the southern base as quickly as possible, the air conditions being apparently highly favorable. we then talked over the personnel of the coming investigation party, and decided that we would include all hands, together with the sledge and dogs which i had kept with me. even so great a load would not be too much for one of the huge planes built to our special orders for heavy machinery transportation

to our minds as we recalled our flight, hence we concluded that its upper parts had been greatly damaged, or that it had been totally shattered in an ice rift we had noticed. in the latter case the tunnel would probably turn out to be choked, so that we would have to try the next nearest one- the one less than a mile to the north. the intervening river course prevented our trying any of the more southern tunnels on this trip; and indeed, if both of the neighboring ones were choked it was doubtful whether our batteries would warrant an attempt on the next northerly one- about a mile beyond our second choice. as we threaded our dim way through the labyrinth with the aid of map and compass- traversing rooms and corridors in every stage of ruin or preservation, clambering up ramps, crossing u

and undecayed technique- a farewell from the old ones, written fifty million years ago. finally scrambling out at the top, we found ourselves on a great mound of tumbled blocks, with the curved walls of higher stonework rising westward, and the brooding peaks of the great mountains showing beyond the more crumbled structures toward the east. the low antarctic sun of midnight peered redly from the southern horizon through rifts in the jagged ruins, and the terrible age and deadness of the nightmare city seemed all the starker by contrast with such relatively known and accustomed things as the features of the polar landscape. the sky above was a churning and opalescent mass of tenuous ice-vapors, and the cold clutched at our vitals. wearily resting the outfit-bags to which we had instinctive

HP LOVECRAFT HISTORY OF THE NECRONOMICON

al title al azif- azif being the word used by arabs to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos'd to be the howling of daemons. composed by abdul alhazred, a mad poet of sana, in yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the ommiade caliphs, circa 700 a.d. he visited the ruins of babylon and the subterranean secrets of memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of arabia- the roba el khaliyeh or "empty space" of the ancients- and "dahna" or "crimson" desert of the modern arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it. in his last years alhazred dwelt in damascus, where the necronomicon (al azif)

preparation for some monstrous tales later on. in particular i have drawn up some data on the celebrated& unmentionable necronomicon of the mad arab abdul alhazred! it seems that this shocking blasphemy was produced by a native of sana, in yemen, who flourished about 700 a.d& made many mysterious pilgrimages to babylon's ruins, memphis's catacombs& the devil-haunted& untrodden wastes of the great southern deserts of arabia- the roba el khaliyeh, where he claimed to have found records of things older than mankind& to have learnt the worship of yog-sothoth& cthulhu. the book was a product of abdul's old age, which was spent in damascus& the original title was al azif- azif (cf. henley's notes to vathek) being the name applied to those strange night noises (of insects) which the arabs attribu

al title al azif- azif being the word used by arabs to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos'd to be the howling of daemons. composed by abdul alhazred, a mad poet of sana, in yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the ommiade caliphs, circa 700 a.d. he visited the ruins of babylon and the subterranean secrets of memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of arabia- the roba el khaliyeh or "empty space" of the ancients- and "dahna" or "crimson" desert of the modern arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it. in his last years alhazred dwelt in damascus, where the necronomicon (al azif)

HP LOVECRAFT THE QUEST OF IRANON

uld not leave thee to pine by the sluggish zuro. but think not that delight and understanding dwell just across the karthian hills, or in any spot thou canst find in a day's, or a year's, or a lustrum's journey. behold, when i was small like thee i dwelt in the valley of narthos by the frigid xari, where none would listen to my dreams; and i told myself that when older i would go to sinara on the southern slope, and sing to smiling dromedary-men in the marketplace. but when i went to sinara i found the dromedary-men all drunken and ribald, and saw that their songs were not as mine, so i travelled in a barge down the xari to onyx-walled jaren. and the soldiers at jaren laughed at me and drave me out, so that i wandered to many cities. i have seen stethelos that is below the great cataract

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

d form of old zadok allen himself. in accordance with my plan, i attracted his attention by brandishing my newly-purchased bottle: and loon realised that he had begun to shuffle wistfully after me as i tinned into waite street on my way to the most deserted region i could think of. i was steering my course by the map the grocery boy had prepared, and was aiming for the wholly abandoned stretch of southern waterfront which i had previously visited. the only people in sight there had been the fishermen on the distant breakwater; and by going a few squares south i could get beyond the range of these, finding a pair of seats on some abandoned wharf and being free to question old zadok un-observed for an indefinite time. before i reached main street i could hear a faint and wheezy "hey, mister"

ed on across the moonlit space without varying their course- meanwhile croaking and jabbering in wore hateful guttural patois i could not identify. once more in shadow, i resumed my former dog-trot past the leaning and decrepit houses that stared blankly into the night. having crossed to the western sidewalk i rounded the nearest corner into bates street where i kept close to the buildings on the southern side. i passed two houses shewing signs of habitation, one of which had faint lights in upper rooms, yet met with no obstacle. as i tuned into adams street i felt measurably safer, but received a shook when a man reeled out of a black doorway directly in front of me. he proved, however, too hopelessly drunk to be a menace; so that i reached the dismal ruins of the bank street warehouses i

HP LOVECRAFT THE TOMB

go seeking through the ages for another corporeal tenement to represent it on that vacant slab in the alcove of the vault. jervas hyde should never share the sad fate of palinurus! as the phantom of the burning house faded, i found myself screaming and struggling madly in the arms of two men, one of whom was the spy who had followed me to the tomb. rain was pouring down in torrents, and upon the southern horizon were flashes of lightning that had so lately passed over our heads. my father, his face lined with sorrow, stood by as i shouted my demands to be laid within the tomb, frequently admonishing my captors to treat me as gently as they could. a blackened circle on the floor of the ruined cellar told of a violent stroke from the heavens; and from this spot a group of curious villagers

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

ious reaching out to another. if your conscious mind is aware of what's taking place, then it's certainly incidental. caribbean voodoo traffics in fright. it's famous for its use of animal intestines to make special little pouches, or to burn in the same way that we use parchment paper in spells. the whole philosophy is one of death, blood and guts. but witchdoctors do use candles and herbs, too. southern european witches used to use locks of hair, nail clippings and occasionally blood from the object of the spell. they believed it was the object itself that had a magical effect. i believe the mental power exerted against the individual cast a conscious spell into his subconscious. objects are generally used for the confidence they give the person using them. there have been cases in haiti

ISIS UNVEILED

pective doctrines, thirty-three million (33,500,000) other persons. many of these teach ac- cordbig to the canons of the cis-atlontic branch of an establishment which acknowledges a daughter of the late duke of kent as its spiritual 1. these fifures ue copied from the rttigima sb^ma of the untied statet for ima year 187l 2. them are: the bavhmt. cmffrefotianaluli, fpikopojtaiu, northem utikoditu, southern mdkodiili, methodiita torioui, narthcm prmbyfortoiu, southern prtaytmokt, vnoei frubglerwu, utated brtuum, brethren in ckriel, b^orwiad duuii, s^onhed otrauat, rearmed preibtltrmu, citmberlmid pretbjfleriant. digitizecoy google 2 isis unveiled head. there are many hundred thousand jews; some thousands of orientals of su idnda; and a very few who belong to the greek church. a man at salt i

since he has conferred on her the uniexpected honor of becoming suddenly immaculate, thne b nothing she cannot obtain from her son for "her church" some years ago certain travelers saw in bari, italy, a statue of the madonna, arrayed in a flounced pink skirt over a swelling crinolirtel pious pilgrims who may be anxious to examine the regulation wardrobe of their god's mother may do so by going to southern italy, spain, and catholic north and south america. the madonna of bari must still be there between two vin^ards and a locanda (gin-shop. when last seen, a half-successful attempt had bees made to clothe the infant jesus; they had covered his legs with a pair of dirty, scouop-edged pantaloons. an english traveler having presented the 'mediatrix' with a green silk parasol, the grateful pop

ce of sorcery. they strike with sterility the conjugal bed, destroy the germs of humanity in the bosom of the mother, and throw spells on them, and set a barrier to the mul- tiplication of animak .etc, etc; then follow cm^es and anathemas against the practice" this belief of the sovereign pontiffs of an enlightened christian country is a direct inheritance from the most ignorant multitudes of the southern hinda rabble the 'heathen' the diabolical arts of certain kang^ins (witches) and jadhgara (sorcerers) are firmly believed in by these people. the following are amoi^ their most dreaded powers: to inspire love and hatred at will; to send a devil to take possession of a person and torture him; to expel him; to cause sudden death god, of tlie ?ainta, of the bleaaed host, of every holy ncrwdi

one early christian sects may be criticized by partial commentators as well as the ancient eleu^nian and other rites. but why should they [the latter] incur the censure of the theologians, the christians, when their own' mysteries' of "the divine incarnation with joseph, mary, and the angel" in a sacred trilogy used to be enacted in more than one country, and were famous at one time in spain and southern france? later they fell, like many other once secret rites, into the hands of the populace. it ia but a few years since, that during every christmas week punch-and-judy-boks, con- taining the above-named personages, with an additional display of the 237. midmah 'bagiga. 14b. 238. part i, ch. i. digitizec by google lao tsis unveiled infant jesua in his manger, were carried about the countr

later they fell, like many other once secret rites, into the hands of the populace. it ia but a few years since, that during every christmas week punch-and-judy-boks, con- taining the above-named personages, with an additional display of the 237. midmah 'bagiga. 14b. 238. part i, ch. i. digitizec by google lao tsis unveiled infant jesua in his manger, were carried about the country in foland and southern russia. they were caued kaliadovki, a word the correct etynlology of which we are unable to give unless it is from the verb kaliadovdl, a word that we as willingly abandon to learned philolo^sts. we have seen this show in our days of childhood. we remember the three king-magi r^resented by three dolls in powdered wigs and colored ti^ts; and it is from recollecting the simple, profound ven

remotest idea where these are kept. there are missionaries in syria who boast of having in their possession a few copies. the volumes alleged to be correct expositions of these secret books (such as the translation by p^tis de la croix, in 1701, from the works presented by nasr-allah to the french king, are nothing more than a compilation of 'secrets' known more or less to every inhabitant of the southern ranges ot lebanon and anti-libanus. they were the work of an apos- tate dervish^ who was expelled from the sect hanafi for improper con- duct the embezzlement of the money of widows and orphans, llie expoai de la rdigian dea druxes, in two volumes, by silvestre de sacy (1838, is another network of hypotheses. a copy of this work was to be found, in 1870, on the window-sill of one of their

he proved that stick vxu the common, usage of the eoun- fxy* the waldenaes, those 'earliest protestants' were accused of the most unnatural horrors, burned, butchered, and exterminated for calum- nies heaped upon them by their accusers. meanwhile the latt, in open triumph, formed their heathen processions of 'corpus christi' with emblems modeled on those of baal-peor and 'oeoris* in every oay in southern france, carrying in yearly processions on easter days loaves ?nd cakes fashioned like the so-much-decried emblems of the hindfi sivites and vishnites. as ute as 1825* deprived of their old means for slandering other christian sects whose religious views differ from their own, it is now the turn d the 'heathen' hindas, chinese, and japanese, to share with the antaent religions the honor of

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

also denotes the west and the negative, or minus charge of the trinity in form and denotes the physical nature of man as a crucible into which the light of the god force is poured. the right arm of the cross denotes the east and the positive charge of the trinity and is qualified by the pink light of divine love which is released when we act appropriately with the challenges of the left arm. the southern section of the cross carries the energies of divine wisdom, or the golden flame of illumination which imbues both the left and right arm with direction and purpose. the violet light ray is the seventh ray of spiritual freedom which is refracted to form the 3 rays of blue, pink and golden light. the cross also symbolizes the perfect integration of god and man and the freedom we find when w

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ites and usages of all creeds, down even to our own day, and in everyday use about us, bear reference to it, that problems and puzzles in religion, which cannot be otherwise explained, stand clear and evident when regarded in this new light, that in all the christian varities of belief as truly in bhuddism, in mohammedanism, in heathenism of all kinds, whether eastern, or western, or northern, or southern this mystery of fire stands ever general, recurring, and conspicuous, and that in being so, beyond all measure, old, andso, beyond all modern or any idea of it, general, as universal, in fact, as man himself, and the houghts of man, and as being that beyond which, w 86 the rosicrucians. in science and in natural philosophy, we cannot further go, it must carry truth with it, however diffic

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

eople being struck by unseen forces, as with seventeen marching soldiers in eighteenth-century france who were simultaneously struck down by an invisible agency. one had a compass on him, fouled a "sweep" made l-ms angry after analyzing these things, one speculates as to new types of obstacles as well as new forces. take the mysterious maunder object, which moved deliberately across the sky above southern england in november 1882. rand capron, an authority on auras, said it was auroral, while other equally competent scientists said it was a physical or material object. then there are the many modern sightings of things which seem to manifest intelligent action, and to possess all normal physical characteristics except mass or weight. we recollect that radar sees things which are not visibl

ll give very special thought to the world-wide scope of some of these intense and violent storm periods. there are many cases where storms and floods which inundated a considerable part of our own country have been almost universal in their action. this tends to hint the entrance of the earth into a large cosmic cloud of water and debris sufficient to deluge most of the areas in both northern and southern hemispheres together. the volume of water falling and the concomitants of mud, black rain, stones, etc, indicate unity of external origin. there are some cases where the distribution of violence follows restricted belts of terrestrial latitude, so that one thinks of the rotation of the earth as carrying successive longitudes into the disturbance. 73 about the middle of september, 1886, wa

elled like that, they could not have been too distant, could they? l-m ships on under sea exploration, stayed too long, gathered a "coat" on shield edge. burned it off at surface. ice gathered on venusian voyage& burned off when coming out of "shield"2 same for other materials but these "caught" on other planets there was a staggering fall of dust and mud in europe in february 1903. it seems that southern england was quite a dumping ground, although some scientists thought the dust cam from lanes and byways of the local shires. they hadn't heard that it also covered the canary islands. the substance contained a sizable percentage of organic matter, and was, of course, identified by some as sand from the sahara desert. it covered ireland, england, and the canaries. it was reported on the 27

o ten thousand years. in it are some traces of the archaic, original, master culture, and, perhaps through india, tibet, egypt and middle america, there are some tenuous links between our immature revival and the parent past. these traces are mostly in the form of stone works, and some glyphs, of a singular nature, with a very few written records existing mostly in the orient, and particularly in southern asia. left unavoidably in "great war. above is true, jemi they are written about in many writings, so old, as to be nulified by antiquity. all of this is anathema to conventional science, archaeology and anthropology especially, for organized science has set up a pattern which covers human growth in broad general terms, and has accepted some rigidly restricting tenets which limit original

examining it with a small marine telescope i found it half and five and one-half magnitude and the head of a comet and telegraphed (the news) to mr. ellery at melbourne this announcement was signed: john tebbutt, observatory windsor, n.s. wales, 1881, june18th. this seems to be an entirely normal and innocuous communication, and would have been except for certain complications. astronomers of the southern hemisphere immediately started making measurements of the comet's position. it would be a few weeks before the fuzzy object moved far enough north to be seen from observatories in europe and north america. because of the shorter distance for mail, the following communication arrived in germany ahead of mr. tebbutt's letter and appeared in astronomische nachrichten: on june 9th, i sent you

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

the double character of i.tar as the goddess of love and war (leick 1998: 96. as a male god, i.tar was described as bearded (tablet 61 of en ma anu enlil: gziqna zaqnat h (reiner 1995: 6. we have to remind here that ordinarily the gender of venus fs appearances has been treated by the opposites, according to the specification of the planet genders by ptolemy (tetrabiblos, parts 1.6 and 7. e.g. in southern arabia, a.tar/at ar was worshipped as ina araa nisanni d.ul.pa.e3 ilmarduk- aiari dud.al.tar- simani diku bab ilanipl- du fuzi dda-pi-nu- abi dma-ag-ru-u2- ululi dsag.me.gar- ti.riti dni-bi-ru- ara .amni drab-bu- kislimmi ulgam3- ebeti ullugal .aba i ulgal- adari ulkua de2-a- 23 the personified male aspect of venus as the morning star. southern arabia he was also worshipped, there uniting

KETAB E SIYAH

ule of the most perfect king, speaking these words with love-filled heart 'in all of heaven and earth, regardless of the quest's strenuity, none could hope to find a greater king than our most worthy and majestic father, surely the most perfect of kings. whose dominion could rival the most magnificent empire of our father that extends from the west unto the east and from the northern sky unto the southern sky? our most esteemed father reigns in heaven and earth with sight to pierce the veil of all illusion and an ear that knows all falsehood. his judicious soul determines all that is good and ill and his mighty sceptre exalts and lays low in accordance with the dictates of his will. those who serve with faith and fervour are rewarded with the sublimest treasures, unequalled by all the deep

ule of the most perfect king, speaking these words with love-filled heart 'in all of heaven and earth, regardless of the quest's strenuity, none could hope to find a greater king than our most worthy and majestic father, surely the most perfect of kings. whose dominion could rival the most magnificent empire of our father that extends from the west unto the east and from the northern sky unto the southern sky? our most esteemed father reigns in heaven and earth with sight to pierce the veil of all illusion and an ear that knows all falsehood. his judicious soul determines all that is good and ill and his mighty sceptre exalts and lays low in accordance with the dictates of his will. those who serve with faith and fervour are rewarded with the sublimest treasures, unequalled by all the deep

upon my explanation of what has come to pass whilst you slept. as you did command us as you set out first to the garden where you set upon the earth the nephilim, children of our purpose, we awaited your return with anxious watch from the high peaks upon which we rallied to enact your will and command. all the long night was spent thus, ever scrying the darkness for your form, returning from the southern valley in triumph. there, in the south, storm-clouds gathered and hid all from shedim's watch and heaven's sight. when the east grew red with the flame of dawn and the burning orb of day did ascend above the earth's shadowed morning limb our keen eyes descried in the distance of the south, coming forth from the stormy veil with awful haste, agitating both air and earth, the speeding form

nowledge that weighed heavy on my heart. at the city's centre rose high the ziggurat upon the pinnacle of which was built the temple were libations were poured out to flow through soil and stone to the founts of chadel. with the borrowed light of the sun shone the gilded dome beneath which was the altar, carved of marble with deep grooves to bear away libations of wine and milk and blood. 260 the southern steps i ascended to the height, flanked on each side by a figures of stone, heroes of the city and beasts of natural and strange aspect. thus came i to the southern temple gate. the height of three men were the double doors that closed the portal and cut from cedar, made bright with designs of gold, wreaths and vines, heavy with a thousand fruits. above was the temple's seal, painted onto

acrifice to ishtar that the year's harvest might be most copious. for a moment i remained hidden from human sight lest i disturb the devotions of the king. yet when the prayer was then complete and the altar made wet with red liquor, 261 then did i cast off the cloak of midnight by which i was concealed from the king and walked with purpose to stand before him a little distance beyond the altar's southern side. dressed in green robes was utanapishtim and at his belt hung that great mace that had broken open lamech's skull upon the battle's field. tied into braids were his beard and long hair and his eyes flashed with fire. i bowed low before the king of men as he had bowed before the altar. with a regal voice he intoned and questioned me and my presence there "who are you that comes here

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ritual. ix. the pillars in the explanation of the symbols of the grade of neophyte, your attention has been directed to the general mystical meaning of the two pillars called in the ritual the "pillars of hermes" of "seth" and of "solomon" in the 9th chapter of the ritual f the dead they are referred to as the "pillars of shu" the "pillars of the gods of dawning light" and also as "the north and southern columns of the gate of the hall of truth" in the 125th chapter, they are represented by the sacred gateway, the door to which the aspirant is brought when he has completed the negative confession. the archaic pictures on the one pillar are painted in black upon a white ground, and those on the other in white upon a black ground, in order to express the interchange and reconciliation of op

d at the beginning. i am the spirit made manifest, and armed with two vast eagle's plumes. isis and nephthys are their names, made one with osiris "i claim my inheritance. my sisns have been uprooted and my passions overcome. i am pure white. i dwell in time. i live through eternity, when initiates make offering to the everlasting gods. i have passed along the pathway. i know the northern and the southern pillars, the two columns at the gateway of the hall of truth "stretch unto me your hands, o ye dwellers in the centre. for i am transformed into a god in your midst. made one with osiris, i have filled the eye socket in the day of the morning when good and evil fought together "i have lifted up the cloud-veil in the sky of the storm. till i saw ra born again from out of the great waters

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the two together being considered as the emblem of stability. tattu is the entrance to the region where the mortal soul is blended with the immortal spirit, and thereby established for ever, as i have already explained in chapter i. it seems strange that so many authors should speak of the north and south pole stars, when the fact is that there is no star of any consequence at the south pole. the southern pole of the heavens is situated in an unusually barren tract of the sky, and the nearest star of any consequence is that at the foot of the southern cross, which is no less than twenty-seven degrees from the pole. 149. on the tops of the two columns in the very ancient symbolism there were at first four lines or cross sticks, which were symbols of heaven and earth, as in fig. 3. 150. figu

h led up to his throne, was an attendant dressed in silver chain-mail, holding his sword upright at the carry. at the western end, facing him, sat the chohan of the third ray, magnificently robed in green and gold; but the clasp of his robe was a golden triangle studded with diamonds and emeralds, and his throne was of polished porphyry. he was evidently acting as w.s.w; and for the w.j.w. on the southern wall, midway between them, was set a third throne, of rose-coloured marble, upon which sat another well-known adept, dressed in a white garment not unlike a chasuble, heavily ornamented with blue and gold. on the front of it was embroidered a corinthian column, extending from neck to knees, and foliations sprayed out upwards from it over the shoulders, as do the orphreys of a gothic chasu

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eld of research, but even with our present knowledge it is clear that rites analogous to those we call masonic are among the most ancient on earth, and may be found in some form or other in almost all parts of the world. our signs exist in egypt and mexico, in china and india, in greece and rome, upon the temples of burma and the cathedrals of mediaeval europe; and there are said to be shrines in southern india where the same secrets are taught under binding pledges as are communicated to us in the craft and high grades in modern europe and america. 14. among pioneers in this field we should mention bro. albert churchward, the author of several interesting books on the egyptian origin of masonry, although it may be that he is not always quite sufficiently critical; bro. j. s. m. ward, the

years into a great nation, the nucleus of the aryan race that was later to rule the world. 268. about 40,000 b.c. the manu led out the second sub-race of the new root-race to colonize arabia once more, since the semites who had been left behind were the closest of the atlantean peoples to the new stock. arabia became a great aryan kingdom, excepting only a certain section of those inhabiting the southern part of the peninsula, who declined to recognize the manu or to intermarry with his people, quoting his own regulation against him in defence of their refusal. later this tract of country was conquered by the aryans, and a fanatical section of its inhabitants forsook their homes, and settled on the opposite coast of the red sea in what we now call somaliland. here they lived for several c

d credentials, and sent with him a large following of monks versed in the art of building, and of lay brethren who were also architects to assist him(*ibid, p. 133) leader scott contends that these builders were comacine masters, and bases her arguments upon the evidence of building methods and the similarity of the styles employed. in like manner she traces the comacini into france and normandy, southern italy and sicily, and even to ireland in fact wherever the romanesque style of building has penetrated. 513. the comacine lodges 514. the comacine guild not only inherited the building traditions of the collegia, but also their secret mysteries; and it was largely owing to the impulse given by them that a general revival of the existing lodges of europe took place. a very considerable int

a ceremony of admission was in use among them; but what it was is not known(*concise history, gould, p. 22) 533. at daberan in mecklenburg there is a carving of the last supper, wherein the apostles are depicted in well-known masonic attitudes(*an outline history of freemasonry, j. s. m. ward, p. 35) while according to the bulletin of the supreme council of the ancient and accepted scottish rite (southern jurisdiction, u.s.a) the legend of hiram abiff is carved in stone at strasburg(*op, cit, vii, 200) in the cathedral at wurzburg two pillars, inscribed jachin and boaz, originally stood at the porchway or entrance, but they have now been moved within the building. stieglitz in his early german architecture says that they were intended to bear a symbolic reference to the fraternity(*gould

es of this (or any scottish) lodge to the admission of master masons is on 31st march, 1735. 630. i apologize for the error in my previous book, and will see that it is corrected if a second edition should be needed. 631. the grand lodge of ireland appears to have come into being in 1725, and the irish rituals are clearly derived from a somewhat different line of tradition from those preserved in southern england, being indeed closely allied with the york workings. the grand lodge of scotland was formed in 1736; and here again we find marked differences of ritual and even of secrets, though there is no evidence on the physical plane to show whence this distinctive scottish masonry is derived. it is from these three premier grand lodges, and from the grand lodge of the ancients, now amalgam

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

ano cornuta, making horns, in which the index and little finger are extended with the other two fingers and the thumb are folded into the palm; and the mano in fica or the fig, in which the hand is in a fist with the thumb protruding between the first and second fingers. the latter is a synonym for the female genitals. rock-crystal amulets set in gold of a hand in the sign of the fig were made in southern germany circa 1680. amulets may be made of hands in these configurations and are still made and sold today. in many regions a red coral amulet depicting the sign of the fig is popular even today on watch-chains and necklaces. knots are another symbol traditionally believed to dispel the evil eye. knots have long been tied in garments to ward off evil and have carried over into carvings an

re. murfreesboro, tn:mamre, 1993. the beyond a 1981 film about the old theme of the portal to the underworld where the dead go. the belief in a passage from the earth to the underworld goes back at least as far as the ancient greeks, who believed there was a specific place, lake avernus, where the dead passed into hades. in this film, the portal to the underworld is located under an old, run-down southern mansion. when the spirits become disturbed, they terrorize the hotel guests. other movies about the entrance to the underworld are: amityville 3d, the amityville horror, highway to hell, the gate, the sentinel, the devil s daughter, and many animated cartoons. alice in wonderland also depicts a portal to an underworld through which alice falls. beyond the door a young woman living in san

f satan a diabolical coven takes over a small town in this 1971 film. the elderly satan worshipers plan to conduct a ritual for the purpose of transferring themselves into the bodies of kidnapped children and continuing their infernal lifestyle into a new generation. brotherhood of the ram the brotherhood of the ram, founded by don blythe in the 1960s, was a satanist organization that operated in southern california from the early 1960s into the 1970s. the name brotherhood of the ram appears to have been taken from a fictional satanist group in dennis wheatley s novel, the satanist. the group opened a bookstore in los angeles, california, which was closed in the 1980s, when the brotherhood disbanded. the group also ran a disco, satan s a go-go. members of this group considered satan a god

e, we can see that even the things that seem to bring us our greatest enjoyments also bring us the greatest pain. thus while buddhism includes the notion of hells, it is clear that for the devout buddhist the real hell is life itself. although buddha himself was profoundly antispeculative and antimetaphysical, many of his later followers were not. particularly after buddhism split into theravada (southern buddhism, found today in sri lanka and southeast asia) and mahayana (northern buddhism, found today in korea, japan, and taiwan, metaphysical speculation flowered in builders of the adytum 35 mahayana buddhism. various forms of devotional buddhism also developed within the mahayana fold. devotional buddhism focused on different bodhisattvas (enlightened souls who delayed the final stages

ed the four last grades of sinners. a hidden path connects the center of the earth to the purgatory, the place of purgation and of preparation for the life of eternal blessedness. it is imagined as a mountain formed by the earth that retreated before lucifer as he fell from heaven into the abyss of hell, and it is located at the exact antipodes of jerusalem and mount calvary, in the center of the southern hemisphere. after the antepurgatory, where are placed the excommunicated and the belatedly repentant, and the passage through peter s gate, come seven encircling terraces, which rise in succession with diminished circuit as they approach the summit. each of the cornices corresponds to the seven deadly sins, from which the soul is purged through the expiatory labor of climbing the mountain

indi word deva, which refers to a certain class of gods and goddess, comes from the same root as the english words deity and divine. in order to explain this phenomenon, scholars have postulated that these similarities are the result of a group of peoples, who spoke the original (now lost) indo- european language. these peoples, who called themselves aryans (nobles, originated from the steppes of southern russia, in the region stretching from the black sea to the ural mountains (contrary to the less-thanscholarly reinterpretation of this history by nazi theoreticians, the aryans were a distinctly central asian people not the nordic racial type of nazi mythology) several millennia before the common era (b.c.e, groups of aryans took off in every direction, subjugating indigenous peoples in e

he world to come: the ancient roots of apocalyptic faith. new haven, ct: yale university press, 1993. eliade,mircea. a history of religious ideas. vol. 1. chicago: university of chicago press, 1978. noss, john b.man s religions. 1956. 4th ed. new york:macmillan, 1969. the infernal chapel the infernal chapel was founded in june of the year 2000 for the spreading of left-hand path philosophy in the southern california area. the infernal chapel is located in orange county california and was founded by reverend haile, d.d, the current coven master. the chapel has no past connections with any other groups, but rev. haile himself has been in many orders and organizations from many occult traditions. the chapel is also a school of the black arts, teaching many forms of magic, such as thelema, tra

a week, and eventually started holding monthly rituals out of school as well. after high school, nalls went on to study religion in college, eventually studying with a nondenominational church in which he was ordained in 1997. he had also studied and practiced wicca, shamanism, and magic. the second stage of the group began in may of 1997 when nalls brought lucifers den online. by then, he was in southern california. starting small, it eventually expanded into a stable organization. the philosophy of lucifers den is based on anton lavey s satanism, as expressed in the satanic bible and other works. lavey s satanism is, however, regarded as a foundation to build upon rather than as an orthodoxy to be defended. lucifers den holds monthly meetings and hosts various activities within the large

ligions. 1981. new york: harper& row, 1989. eliade,mircea, ed. encyclopedia of religion. new york:macmillan, 1987. turner, alice k. the history of hell. new york: harcourt brace& co, 1993. manson, charles charles willie manson (b. november 11, 1934) was the leader of a small group of people the media later dubbed it the manson family convicted of a series of highly publicized murders committed in southern california in 1969. the court determined that, although he did not kill anyone himself, his followers committed the crimes at his behest. the group s initial victim was a musician and drug dealer, gary hinman. the manson family s most publicized murders, however, occurred at actress sharon tate s home on august 9, 1969. these killings, the so-called tate homicides or tate murders, took th

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thy name! amen [make the invoking pentagram of spirit acitve and pronounce these names: hyha alga bitom [make the invoking pentagram of fire, and pronouce \yhla twabx hwhy] the forty-eight keys or calls 28 [make the sign of leo with censer (or other suitable weapon] in the name of lakim, archangel of fire, spirits of fire, adore your creator [make the cross] in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle, spirits of fire, adore your creator [elevate censer] in the three secret names of god, oip teaa pdoce, that are borne upon the banners of the south, spirits of fire, adore your creator [lower and lift censer] in the name of edelperna, great king of the south, spirits of fire, adore your creator! in the name of twabx hwhy, i declare that the spirits of fire have been duly invok

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si (isis) or aphrodite and `orus (permissible since h is not a letter in greek, the latter as a cognate of apollo. the reference to gspurious masons working under a forged charter h at the end of section xv probably denotes the ancient and accepted scottish rite, so called because it originated in france, claimed an authorisation from a prussian prince, and had its greatest initial success in the southern u.s.a. aasr, despite being founded on a questionable warrant, is the most numerous and wellestablished masonic ghigh grade h system, and since masonic gregularity h is largely a matter of mutual recognition it was rather workings like memphis, misraim, and cerneau, with which crowley was affiliated through his contact with the english masonic enthusiast john yarker, which were regarded as

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

a coast and a great deal of fertile land, especially in the central parts of sweden, around the lakes malaren, vannern, and vattern, and to the south. on the west lies norway, where tall mountains spring from the coast, which is protected from the atlantic by a series of small islands. to the south lies denmark, which until 1658 included not only jutland and the islands 2 norse mythology but also southern portions of the scandinavian peninsula. the names are indicative: norway, the northern way, the sea route up and down the coast; denmark, the forest of the danes, which separated them from the saxons; sweden, the kingdom of the svear, the people around malaren who at some point during the viking age subdued their southern neighbors in gotaland. the name gscandinavia h appears to be the la

taland. the name gscandinavia h appears to be the latinized form of an unattested german word *scandinauja p (the asterisk before the word means that it was never recorded but rather was reconstructed by linguists) this word is a compound, the second part of which, auja p, means gisland. h what the first part means has been endlessly debated. it appears to contain the same root as the name of the southern part of sweden, skane, and may therefore mean gskanian island. h as the ice from the last great ice age retreated, the low-lying lands of the south were first exposed, and pollen analysis indicates settlement on sjalland and elsewhere by around 10,000 b.c.e. we know little about these settlements, but by 6500 b.c.e. or so, a hunting and fishing culture may be identified. by 2500 b.c.e. or

ly came from angeln in what is now denmark. introduction 3 the period circa 600.800 c.e. is usually called the younger germanic iron age, although swedish archaeologists usually called it the vendel period because of the wealth of finds from vendel, an area northeast of lake malaren. during this period, too, there was extensive trade from across the baltic centered at helgo, then an island in the southern part of lake malaren. and in den- 4 norse mythology buckle clasp in silver, gold, and precious stones from admark, norway, seventh century c.e (the art archive/historiska museet norway/dagli orti) mark it appears that a danish state was already beginning to establish itself in jutland. between circa 600 and 800 c.e, a number of linguistic changes occurred in the northern area of the germa

like the slag that runs out of fires, as it was freezing, and when the ice stopped and froze solid, then it was covered over with frost, and that drizzling rain which arose from the poison, froze into frost, and the frost grew over all ginnunga gap. that part of ginnunga gap, which faced the north, was filled with a load and heaviness of ice, and in from there drizzle and a gust of wind; and the southern part of ginnunga gap turned toward those sparks and embers, which flew out of muspellsheim. just as cold and all bad things came from niflheim, all that which came from muspell was hot and bright, but ginnunga gap was as calm as a windless sky, and when the warm breeze met the frost, it melted and dripped. and from those drops of poison life emerged, with the power that the heat sent, and

ll invade the world at ragnarok to fight with the gods. snorri sturluson, in the gylfaginning section of his edda, made copious reference to the sons of muspell at ragnarok, but he also referred to muspell in connection with the origin of the cosmos. that part of ginnunga gap, which faced the north, was filled with a load and heaviness of ice, and in from there drizzle and a gust of wind; and the southern part of ginnunga gap turned toward those sparks and embers, which flew out of muspellsheim. just as cold and all bad things came from niflheim, all that which came from muspell was hot and bright, but ginnunga gap was as calm as a windless sky, and when the warm breeze met the frost, it melted and dripped. and from those drops of poison life emerged, with the power that the heat sent, and

amn och bygd 22 (1934, 26.51, kemp malone surveyed the evidence about the tribes who worshipped nerthus and located the cult somewhere near the limfjord, in jutland, denmark. eric elgquist, studier rorande njordkultens spriding bland de nordiska folken (lund: olin, 1952, used place-name evidence to discuss the dissemination of the njord cult among the nordic peoples, which he thinks originated in southern jutland. edgar polome, ga propos de la deesse nerthus, h latomus 13 (1954: 167.200, sees the nerthus cult as associated with the fertility of the soil, and he thinks agriculture was primarily a female activity at the time that tacitus was writing. nidafjoll mountains in the underworld. stanza 66, the last stanza of voluspa, says the dragon nidhogg, carrying corpses, will come flying down

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stern quarter guardian of the gateway- azatu-hermanubis, opener of the way. i call your presence forth towards this circle. anubis, god of the twilight from which the guardians shall watch; bring forth thy jackals howling at the barrier anubis, who initiates unto the path of the dead, come forth! by the mask of the jackal and wolf, i call thee forth to charge this circle! azatum ashramu likiahaka southern quarter guardian of the gateway- hawk headed lord of fire, guardian of the eastern quarter. horus ialanpa zarasu manifest unto this circle, blood covered hawk of sunrise! come forth and guard this rite! zariza nalaia sroha 20 eastern guardian of the gateway- thoth, lamp and wisdom of the moon, guardian of the arte magickal come forth and guard the southern quarter open thy scrolls of sorc

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

etterment of the human race. characteristically for his time, francis galton, the founder of the eugenics movement, considered that people in his society were intellectually superior to africans, which he singled out. by the early 1910s, the eugenics doctrine had reached the united states, notably through the efforts of charles davenport. he, too, considered africans inferior, as he did people of southern european origins. nordic people creationism and intelligent design 11 occupied the top of davenport s list. regrettably, this type of thinking was endorsed by many people, with the result that anti-miscegenation laws (limiting marriage between persons of certain races) were established and remained on the books in some states for several decades. davenport also recommended the sterilizati

ent. elsewhere, such as in north and south america, marsupials would either become extinct or remain a small minority. we can thus see that geography, including continental drift, which isolates landmasses from one another, also plays an important role in evolution. other excellent examples of evolution by geographic isolation can be found in madagascar, the large island located 300 miles east of southern 36 evolution and religious creation myths africa. much of the fauna and flora found there are unique to the island and are not found elsewhere in the world. geologists think that madagascar once was connected to africa but started to drift away from it about 150 million years ago. as is widely known, madagascar is home to several species of lemurs, primates that are ancestral to both monk

to date, the age of gene variants found in many human populations distributed all over the world has been elucidated, the origins and evolution of homo sapiens 95 which allows us to reconstruct human migration routes with great confidence. the story of our diasporas as established by genetic research goes as follows. about 100,000 years ago, our ancestors spread out of east africa to colonize the southern part of that continent. the direct descendants of these first migrants are still with us: they are the khoisan (or san, who presently live in the kalahari desert of namibia, south africa, and botswana. they could rightfully claim the title of first people. interestingly, the khoisan language is characterized by clicks that are not used in any other languages. this has led some linguists t

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

rn again" and were instructed in the secret and hidden truths which the druid priests had preserved from antiquity. from these initiates were chosen many of the dignitaries of the british religious and political world (for further details, see faber's pagan idolatry, albert pike's morals and dogma, and godfrey higgins' celtic druids) the rites of mithras when the persian mysteries immigrated into southern europe, they were quickly assimilated by the latin mind. the cult grew rapidly, especially among the roman soldiery, and during the roman wars of conquest the teachings were carried by the legionaries to nearly all parts of europe. so powerful did the cult of mithras become that at least one roman emperor was initiated into the order, which met in caverns under the city of rome. concernin

rty-six degrees each. the first six signs of the zodiac of twelve signs were regarded as benevolent, because the sun occupied them while traversing the northern hemisphere. the 6,000 years during which, according to the persians, ahura-mazda ruled his universe in harmony and peace, were symbolic of these six signs. the second six were considered malevolent, because while the sun was traveling the southern hemisphere it was winter with the greeks, egyptians, and persians. therefore these six months symbolic of the 6,000 years of misery and suffering caused by the evil genius of the persians, ahriman, who sought to overthrow the power of ahura-mazda. those who hold the opinion that before its revision by the greeks the zodiac consisted of only ten signs adduce evidence to show that libra (th

ower of ahura-mazda. those who hold the opinion that before its revision by the greeks the zodiac consisted of only ten signs adduce evidence to show that libra (the scales) was inserted into the zodiac by dividing the constellation of virgo scorpio (at that time one sign) into two parts, thus establishing "the balance" at the point of equilibrium between the ascending northern and the descending southern signs (see the rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries, by hargrave jennings) on this subject isaac myer states "we think that the zodiacal constellations were first ten and represented an immense androgenic man or deity; subsequently this was changed, resulting in scorpio and virgo and making eleven; after this from scorpio, libra, the balance, was taken, making the present twelve (the q

im for the word philosopher. before that time the wise men had called themselves sages, which was interpreted to mean those who know. pythagoras was more modest. he coined the word philosopher, which he defined as one who is attempting to find out. after returning from his wanderings, pythagoras established a school, or as it has been sometimes called, a university, at crotona, a dorian colony in southern italy. upon his arrival at crotona he was regarded askance, but after a short time those holding important positions in the surrounding colonies sought his counsel in matters of great moment. he gathered around him a small group of sincere disciples whom he instructed in the secret wisdom which had been revealed to him, and also in the fundamentals of occult mathematics, music, and astron

he diet of the bird was unknown. some writers declare that it subsisted upon the atmosphere; others that it ate at rare intervals but never in the presence of man. modern masons should realize the special masonic significance of the phoenix, for the bird is described as using sprigs of acacia in the manufacture of its nest. the phoenix (which is the mythological persian roc) is also the name of a southern constellation, and therefore it has both an astronomical and an astrological significance. in all probability, the phoenix was the swan of the greeks, the eagle of the romans, and the peacock of the far east. to the ancient mystics the phoenix was a most appropriate symbol of the immortality of the human soul, for just as the phoenix was reborn out of its own dead self seven times seven

e truth" next: an analysis of tarot cards sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 129 an analysis of tarot cards opinions of authorities differ widely concerning the origin of playing cards, the purpose for which they were intended, and the time of their introduction into europe. in his researches into the history of playing cards, samuel weller singer advances the opinion that cards reached southern europe from india by way of arabia. it is probable that the tarot cards were part of the magical and philosophical lore secured by the knights templars from the saracens or one of the mystical sects then flourishing in syria. returning to europe, the templars, to avoid persecution, concealed the arcane meaning of the symbols by introducing the leaves of their magical book ostensibly as a

tetragrammaton, or the four-letter name of jehovah, ihvh. the four suits of the minor trumps represent also the major divisions of society: cups are the priesthood, swords the military, coins the tradesmen, and rods the farming class. from the standpoint of what court de g belin calls "political geography" cups represent the northern countries, swords the orient, coins the occident, and rods the southern countries. the ten pip cards of each suit represent the nations composing each of these grand divisions. the kings are their governments, the queens their religions, the knights their histories and national characteristics, and the pages their arts and sciences. elaborate treatises have been written concerning the use of the tarot cards in divination, but as this practice is contrary to t

enter into the presence of divinity and live. beyond the laver of purification was the entrance to the tabernacle proper, facing the east, so that the first rays of the rising sun might enter and light the chamber. between the encrusted pillars could be seen the holy place, a mysterious chamber, its walls hung with magnificent drapes embroidered with the faces of cherubs. against the wall on the southern side of the holy place stood the great candlestick, or lampstand, of cast gold, which was believed to weigh about a hundred pounds. from its central shaft branched out six arms, each ending in a cup-shaped depression in which stood an oil lamp. there were seven lamps, three on the arms at each side and one on the central stem. the candlestick was ornamented with seventy-two almonds, knops

of the year the sun was symbolically crucified upon these imaginary celestial angles. the fact that so many nations have regarded their savior as a personification of the sun globe is convincing evidence that the cross must exist as an astronomical element in pagan allegory. augustus le plongeon believed that the veneration for the cross was partly due to the rising of a constellation called the southern cross, which immediately preceded the annual rains, and as the natives of those latitudes relied wholly upon these rains to raise their crops, they viewed the cross as an annual promise of the approaching storms, which to them meant life. there are four basic elements (according to both ancient philosophy and modern science, and the ancients represented them by the four arms of the cross

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

ity, hu gadarn. barabbas. hebrew bar abba meaning son of the father or divine son- reference to the incarnate god. mamilion. derivation unknown. dianus or janus. a twin-faced god of the romans, who guarded the threshold of the house and supervised all beginnings and endings. he is referred to by some witches as alpha and omega, the first and the last. another version of the horned one. janicot. a southern french diminutive of janus or dianus. the devil. literally "little god" derived from early aryan stem div or dev, meaning "holy" or "shining" lucifer "the light bearer" the god seen as the spirit of light and, hence, the sun. simon. possibly a reference to the gnostic magician, simon magus. herne. witch name derived from early english version of the anglo-saxon god, odin or woden. a god o

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

and full answers unto thy demands. he maketh one invincible. he showeth the place where treasures lie, and guardeth it. he, amongst the legions of amaymon governeth 72 legions of spirits inferior. his seal is this which thou must wear as a lamen upon thy breast, etc (33) gaap- the thirty-third spirit is gaap. he is a great president and a mighty prince. he appeareth when the sun is in some of the southern signs, in a human shape, going before four great and mighty kings, as if lie were a guide to conduct them along on their way. his office is to make men insensible or ignorant; as also in philosophy to make them knowing, and in all the liberal sciences. he can cause love or hatred, also he can teach thee to consecrate those things that belong to the dominion of amaymon his king. he can del

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

value. each one is engraved with the head of the malay type.the hieroglyphicson all the urns, or walls over doorways, and tablets of stone which were found by the image are themysterious hieroglyphics, the key to which the smithsonian institute hopes yet to discover. the engrav-ing on the tablets probably has something to do with the religion of the people. similar hieroglyphicshave been found in southern arizona. among the pictorial writings, only two animals are found. one isof prehistoric type.the cryptthe tomb or crypt in which the mummies were found is one of the largest of the chambers, the wallsslanting back at an angle of about 35 degrees. on these are tiers of mummies, each one occupying a sep-arate hewn shelf. at the bead of each is a small bench, on which is found copper cups an

ound in china, differingonly in minor ways, such as the size and shape of the orbits and nasal bones. maba is also somewhatreminiscent of the recently discovered narmada skull from india.alien skull discovered in bulgarialeyla degirmen, ufo roundup correspondent in the balkans, has come across a strange story in theturkish newspaper milliyet, which stated that an alien skull was found last may in southern bulgaria.on may 21, 2001, a villager found an unusual skull on rodolp mountain in bulgaria, somewherenear ardino and madan, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) south of sofia, the national capital. some scientists held a meeting in asenovgrad. prof. yordan y ordanov, one of the best-known anthro-pologists in europe, claimed that he had never seen a human or an animal skull like this in his l

t masters behind the manipulation of world political and financial systems. it is from thismeeting that hitler would develop the ideas brought forth in mein kampf. 1905 new y ork times notes in its obituary of baron alphonse de rothschild that he possessed $60 mil-lion in american securities, despite the fact that financial authorities deny rothschilds are active in u.s.finance. 1906 j.p. morgans southern railroad merger. 1906 william a. rockefeller dies in freeport, illinois 1906 first pure food and drug law in the united states passed. 1906 election in england. 1906 china and britain agree to reduction of opium production. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation341 appendix f: general chronology of events 1906 investigations into the content of coca-cola are halted by the u

are featured on oprah winfrey. nazi aspects of the temple of set are brought out onthe program. 1988 wall street journal article (7/15/88) details discoveries by scientists at the u.s. naval observatoryand the jet propulsion lab that the earth has developed a wobble in its spin. 1988 an article in medical hypothesis, v ol. 25, p151-62, by eleni eleopoulos notes that about 25% ofthe population of southern japan has antibodies against the hiv virus, compared with 1% of the pop-ulation of the united states; there were only 14 cases of aids reported in japan (a figure that has notsignificantly increased. 1988 lederle laboratories package insert for dpt vaccine reads pertussis vaccine has been associatedwith a greater proportion of adverse reactions than many other childhood vaccinations. loca

dentist pituitaries contain 40x average mercury level. 1988 washington post reports more than 50% of pacemakers are unneeded. 1988 study reveals that mathematical ability has virtually vanished in american adolescents. nearly50% cannot perform junior high school problems, and 33% do not normally understand what theteacher is saying; 27% could not perform elementary math. 1988 rex niles, a former southern california electronics salesman and a federal informant in a kick-back ring of pentagon contractors, is harassed by government microwave weapons and helicopters overhis home, depriving of so much sleep that he was unable to testify. los angeles times, a fearful fixgrips figure in kickbacks, march 28, 1988, p.b-1. 1989 soviets lose mars probe link. 1989 arms control and disarmament act of

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

ported a long, thick beard. he taught the locals, who lived as barbarians, how to live civilized and in peace with each other. bochica s wife, on the other hand, wasn t so great; she caused a global flood that nearly wiped out humanity. the furious bochica banished his wife chia and dissipated the waters. the canarian people of ecuador, the inuit people of alaska (eskimo, and the luiseno tribe of southern california tell tales of a small remnant of humanity surviving a great flood by taking refuge on mountaintops. the chickasaw people of america s dakota region say that a great flood destroyed all of humanity, with the exception of a small family and 2 of every creature. and as for the jews and muslim s, they pretty much echo the bible s version of events. and of coarse you have the aforem

led in 1513 by the turkish admiral piri reis. the map, according to piri reis, was compiled from a number of pre-existing maps which he described as quite ancient. for centuries, it appeared that the piri reis map was terribly incorrect in its depiction of the shape and size of antarctica. in 1949, however, a joint british and swedish expedition set out to survey antarctica and ascertain what the southern continent looks like below the ice. later, in early the 1960s, it was noticed by a man named charles hapgood, that the piri reis map depicted the atlantic chunk of antarctica not as it is in modern times, but instead showed its profile before it was enveloped in ice. the paradox is that, according to orthodox history, antarctica has been frozen over for 6000 years (at the very least. piri

overed in 1820 (allegedly, why did these early map-makers describe the continent of antarctica at all? another world map, compiled by the cartographer oronteus finaeus in 1531, not only depicts antarctica s form beneath the ice, but also illustrates where particular mountain ranges and rivers would be. stranger still is the map s incredible accuracy regarding antarctica s location relative to the southern tips of africa and south america--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 17 how was an accurate map of antarctica, including her location, hinterlands, and true form beneath the surface of the ice drawn up 300 years before antarctica was supposed to have been discovered? there are other maps that include antarctica, aside from the reis and finaeus maps, before the continent was first spotted

eased king] might 'ascend into the company of the gods. the egyptians also claim the pyramids were built by magicians who used words of power to effortlessly levitate huge stones. the mayan pyramids, although thousands of miles away and built (allegedly) thousands of years later, are said to have been built by the same method, and for the same purpose as the pyramids in egypt. the mayan people of southern mexico and guatemala say that their pyramids were built by beings with magical powers and that all they had to do was whistle and heavy rocks would move into place. the incan people, far south of the mayans, claim that the massive stones used to build their great structures was carried through the air to the sound of a trumpet. the mayan traditions state that their pyramids were where men

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

rn quarter guardian of the gateway- azatu-iiermanubis, opener of the way. i call your presence forth towards this circle. anubis, god of the twilight from which the guardians shall watch; bring forth thy jackals howling at the barrier anubis, who initiates unto the path of the dead, come forth! by the mask of the jackal and wolf, i call thee forth to charge this circle! azatum- ashramu- likiahaka southern quarter guardian of the gateway- hawk headed lord of fire, guardian of the eastern quarter. horus- lalanpa- zarasu manifest unto this circle, blood covered hawk of sunrise! come forth and guard this rite! zariza- nalaia- sroha eastern guardian of the gatewav- thoth, lamp and wisdom of the moon, guardian of the arte magickal come forth and guard the southern quarter open thy scrolls ofsorc

MORALS AND DOGMA

e very profound implications for what every one of us is doing with his life. for, then it would be true that we cannot fully understand this life until we catch a glimpse of what lies beyond it= ebe jenkins, inc. edition book manufacturers richmond. va. reprinted, february, 1944. preface. the following work has been prepared by authority of the supreme council of the thirty-third degree, for the southern jurisdiction of the united states, by the grand commander, and is now published by its direction. it contains the lectures of the ancient and accepted scottish rite in that jurisdiction, and is specially intended to be read and studied by the brethren of that obedience, in connection with the rituals of the degrees. it is hoped and expected that each will furnish himself with a copy, and

er and all lawful authority, at the same time that they propose to deprive the dying of the consolations of religion. it sits apart from all sects and creeds, in its own calm and simple dignity, the same under every government. it is still that which it was in the cradle of the human race, when no human foot had trodden the soil of assyria and egypt, and no colonies had crossed the himalayas into southern india, media, or etruria. it gives no countenance to anarchy and licentiousness; and no illusion of glory, or extravagant emulation of the ancients inflames it with an unnatural thirst for ideal and utopian liberty. it teaches that in rectitude of life and sobriety of habits is the only sure guarantee for the continuance of political freedom; and it is chiefly the soldier of the sanctity

in use, were not then known. even blue masonry cannot trace back its _authentic_ history _with its present degrees, further than the year 1700 _if so far. but, by whatever _name_ it was known in this or the other country, masonry existed as it now exists, the same in spirit and at heart, not only when solomon builded the temple, but centuries before--before even the first colonies emigrated into southern india, persia, and egypt, from the cradle of the human race. the supreme, self-existent, eternal, all-wise, all-powerful, infinitely good, pitying, beneficent, and merciful creator and preserver of the universe was the same, by whatever name he was called, to the intellectual and enlightened men of all nations. the name was nothing, if not a symbol and representative hieroglyph of his nat

ful that no candidate, in any degree, be required to submit to any degradation whatever; as has been too much the custom in some of the degrees: and take it as a certain and inflexible rule, to which there is _no_ exception, that real masonry requires of no man anything to which a knight and gentleman cannot honorably, and without feeling outraged or humiliated submit. the supreme council for the southern jurisdiction of the united states at length undertook the indispensable and long-delayed task of revising and reforming the work and rituals of the thirty degrees under its jurisdiction. retaining the essentials of the degrees and all the means by which the members recognize one another, it has sought out and developed the leading idea of each degree, rejected the puerilities and absurdit

ced this custom of consecrating caves. they were also consecrated, in crete, to jupiter; in arcadia, to the moon and pan; and in the island of naxos, to bacchus. the persians, in the cave where the mysteries of mithras were celebrated, fixed the seat of that god, father of generation, or demiourgos, near the equinoctial point of spring, with the northern portion of the world on his right, and the southern on his left. mithras, says porphyry, presided over the equinoxes, seated on a bull, the symbolical animal of the demiourgos, and bearing a sword. the equinoxes were the gates through which souls passed to and fro, between the hemisphere of light and that or darkness. the milky way was also represented, passing near each of these gates: and it was, in the old theology, termed the pathway o

l equinox came ripe harvests, and fruits of the tree and vine, and falling leaves, and cold evenings presaging wintry frosts; and the principle and powers of darkness, prevailing over those of light, drove the sun further to the south, so that the nights grew longer than the days. and at the winter solstice the earth was wrinkled with frost, the trees were leafless, and the sun, reaching the most southern point in his career, seemed to hesitate whether to continue descending, to leave the world to darkness and despair, or to turn upon his steps and retrace his course to the northward, bringing back seed-time and spring, and green leaves and flowers, and all the delights of love. thus, naturally and necessarily, time was divided, first into days, and then into moons or months, and years; an

thus the ethiopian of thebes or saba styled those stars under which the nile commenced to overflow, stars of inundation, or that _poured out water (aquarius. those stars among which the sun was, when he had reached the northern tropic and began to _retreat_ southward, were termed, from his retrograde motion, the crab (cancer. as he approached, in autumn, the middle point between the northern and southern extremes of his journeying, the days and nights became equal; and the stars among which he was then found were called stars of the balance (libra. those stars among which the sun was, when the lion, driven from the desert by thirst, came to slake it at the nile, were called stars of the lion (leo. those among which the sun was at harvest, were called those of the gleaning virgin, holding

cause_ it; and other stars were in like manner held to _cause_ extreme heat, bitter cold, and watery storm. a religious reverence for the zodiacal bull [taurus] appears, from a very early period, to have been pretty general--perhaps it was universal, throughout asia; from that chain or region of caucasus to which it gave name; and which is still known under the appellation of mount taurus, to the southern extremities of the indian peninsula; extending itself also into europe, and through the eastern parts of africa. this evidently originated during those remote ages of the world, when the colure of the vernal equinox passed across the stars in the head of the sign taurus [among which was aldebar n; a period when, as the most ancient monuments of all the oriental nations attest, the light o

over with the other pieces of the body. at dedan and saba it was thirty-six days, from the beginning of the _aphanism, i.e, the _disappearances_ of these stars, to the heliacal rising of aldebaran. during these days, or forty at medina, or a few more at babylon and byblos, the stars of the husbandman successively sank out of sight, during the _crepusculum_ or short-lived morning twilight of those southern climes. they disappear during the glancings of the dawn, the special season of ancient sidereal observation. thus the forty days of mourning for osiris were measured out by the period of the departure of his stars. when the last had sunken out of sight, the vernal season was ushered in; and the sun arose with the splendid aldebaran, the tauric leader of the hosts of heaven; and the whole

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

d-like form, he took his place among the immortals; but he had not long enjoyed the rapturous delights of olympus, before he felt within him an ardent desire to fulfil his great mission of interpreting to mankind the will of his mighty father. he accordingly descended to earth, and travelled through many countries, seeking a fitting site upon which to establish an oracle. at length he reached the southern side of the rocky heights of parnassus, beneath which lay the harbour of crissa. here, under the overhanging cliff, he found a secluded spot, where, from the most ancient times, there had existed an oracle, in which gaa herself had revealed the future to man, and which, in deucalion's time, she had resigned to themis. it was guarded by the huge serpent python, the scourge of the surroundi

eides with silent awe and wondering delight, as they rise from their grotto-palaces in the deep, and dance, in joyful groups, over the sleeping waves. some, with arms entwined, follow with their movements the melodies which seem to hover over the sea, whilst others scatter liquid gems around, these being emblematical of the phosphorescent light, so frequently observed at night by the traveller in southern waters. the best known of the nereides were thetis, the wife of peleus, amphitrite, the spouse of poseidon, and galatea, the beloved of acis. the naiades. the naiades were the nymphs of fresh-water springs, lakes, brooks, rivers &c. as the trees, plants, and flowers owed their nourishment to their genial, fostering care, these divinities were [168]regarded by the greeks as special benefac

ome of the feathers of her tail, so speedily did they reunite. seizing the moment when the rocks once more separated, the argonauts worked at their oars with all their might, and achieved the perilous passage in safety. after the miraculous passage of the argo, the symplegades became permanently united, and attached to the bottom of the sea. the stymphalides..the argo pursued her course along the southern coast of the pontus, and arrived at the island of aretias, which was inhabited by birds, who, as they flew through the air, discharged from their wings feathers sharp as arrows. as the ship was gliding along, oileus was wounded by one of these birds, whereupon the argonauts held a council, and by the advice of amphidamas, an experienced hero, all put on their helmets, and held up their gl

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

31st spirit is forneus. pray to him to gain respect, at any hour from 3pm to 9pm, and from 9pm to sunrise. the 32nd spirit is furcas. pray to him to see the future, at any hour from 4pm to sunset. the 33rd spirit is furfur. pray to him for protection from adverse weather, at any hour of the day. the 34th spirit is gaap. pray to him for swift travel, at any hour of the day, when the sun is in the southern constellations. the 35th spirit is glasya-labolas. pray to him to move about unnoticed, at any hour of the day or night. the 36th spirit is gremory. pray to him to attract both good fortune and young girls, at any hour from sunrise to noon. the 37th spirit is gusion. pray to him to gain honor and dignity, at any hour from sunrise to noon, when the sun is in the astrological sign of leo. t

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

nced regions south of the loire, in the rhone and saone valley, and in auvergne in particular, allows us to presume that the collegia survived in these areas. we can find proof of this in the buildings erected in these regions at that time and in the celebrity and influence of some of their architects* research has supplied evidence of the persistence of roman legal precepts in the social life of southern gaul (narbonnaise and aquitaine) until the end of the seventh century. see m. rouche, l'aquitaine des visigoths aux arabes (418-781 (lille: 1977; e. magnou-nortier, la societe idique et l'eglise dans la province ecdesiastique de narbonne (viiie-xie siecles (toulouse: 1974; and m. banniard, le haul moyen age occidental (paris: editions seuil, 1980. 22 the origins of freemasonry from ancien

the convivium became more specific and eventually led to the formation of legitimately constituted societies. various theories have been offered on the subject of the origin of guilds. for some, the guild owes its origin to the influence of christian ideas and fraternity. for others, the guild was once the roman collegia, specifically the kind imported by the apostles of the christian faith into southern lands, where it was subsequently transformed. it is quite possible that these two hypotheses can be reconciled by the acceptance of a third factor: pagan traditions. the coincidence of the first manifestations of the guild and the conquests of christianity are especially notable in england. christianity, which had been preached anew by saint augustine of canterbury starting in 596, triump

of the crossing of the transept, the triforium of the nave, and the choir of the church of la charite sur loire, a former cluny priory; the bell tower of the transept of saint philbert of tournus; the apse and transept of the cathedral of valence; the bell tower of saint peter's basilica in vienne; the nave of the church of champagne (ardeche; and the multifoil portals of numerous churches in the southern half of the former bourges diocese. the same influences have also been detected in the dormitory of the convent of saint gereon in cologne, in the church of saint quirin in neuss, in the church of the holy apostles in cologne and in many of the houses of this same city, and in the church of limburg.30 no less curious are the borders and frames that derive from arabic letters and that even

nt the rendezvous des masons on the rue de brosse at the very chevet of saint gervais served such a purpose. it sat partially on the former site of the old temple or small temple, or the garrison hotel. the facade of this building, whose enseigne remained until 1955, fortunately escaped the pickaxes of the demolition team, though not, incidentally, for the memories it evoked but to "shore up" the southern side of saint gervais church. expanded and embellished, it has since been incorporated into a pastiche composition. today the compagnons du tour de france have a building in close proximity at 84 rue de i'hotel de ville, which they have carefully restored. the compagnons du tour du devoir thus continue a tradition and help us to grasp how they are right to claim to be the successors to th

n all these areas, for, in the final analysis, they could all be boiled down to the formulation of fundamental metaphysical truths. it is easy to cite famous alchemists who were also master builders, such as gerbert, who was pope from 999 to 1003 under the name of sylvester ii, or nicholas flamel, to whom sauval attributes 216 from the art of building to the art of thinking the contruction of the southern side of the ancient parisian church saint jacques de la boucherie.8 this same nicholas flamel gave two paintings to this church in 1413, one of which is called an image of a misericorde of our lord, whereas the other depicts the passion and the resurrection.9 it so happens that the coat of arms of the parisian masons and stonecutters depicted the resurrection and ascension of jesus christ

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

, award him the kingdom, and banish seth to the desert. horus first performed the key mummification rite of opening the mouth on his father osiris. with other rites, it ensured that all the bodily functions could be restored after death through the spells contained in the book of the dead. horus as a wedjat eye hunefer the gods who sit in judgment of hunefer include utterance, perception, and the southern, northern, and western ways. souls in the balance after death, each person went before osiris in the hall of two truths. here, a man named hunefer is led by the jackalheaded god anubis. anubis checks the scales that weigh hunefer s heart against the feather of maat, which symbolizes truth. ammit a crocodile-headed monster with the forequarters of a lion and hindquarters of a hippopotamus

his children. the wolf dates from the fifth century bce but the children are later additions. she-wolf romulus and remus the norse gods 68 the norse gods o din the chief god, or all-father of the norse gods and his brothers, vili and ve, created the world from the body of the first living creature, the frost giant ymir, whom they killed. ymir had come into being when the fiery sparks of the hot, southern land of muspell had met with the melting ice of niflheim, the cold land in the north. when odin and his brothers killed him, ymir s blood drowned all the frost giants except bergelmir and his wife, who later bore a race of giants, forever opposed to the norse gods (see opposite. once he was dead, the brothers used ymir s bones to make mountains, his skull to make the dome of the sky, and

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

cords the filial descent of the rite of memphis, from its beginning in france to its final absorption. copies of these documents were provided by the grand college of rites of the united states of america and have been placed in the archives of the supreme council, d d x, s.j.,washington,d.c. n o t e s b. albert pike, jan. c a, b i i e,official bulletin of the supreme council, d dd degree for the southern jurisdiction of the united states, vol.vi (gr or of charleston [washington, d.c],apr, b i i e, pp. d f i v f j. c. transactions of the supreme council of the d dd degree, of the ancient and accepted scottish rite of free-masonry, for the southern jurisdiction of the united states of america. b i f h to b i g g. reprinted (washington: joseph l. pearson, printer, b i h i, pp. d e i v f a; d

tion which was introduced into the western hemisphere by stephen morin in b h g b. this rite, originally consisting of twenty- five degrees, was afterwards expanded to thirty-three degrees and now constitutes the well-known and entirely legitimate ancient and accepted scottish rite of freemasonry. this rite is controlled by regularly organized supreme councils, the oldest of which is that for the southern jurisdiction of the united states of america, organized at charleston, south carolina, in b i a b, to which all legitimate bodies of this rite can mediately or immediately trace their origin. while in english-speaking countries, with one or two minor exceptions, the first three degrees of this rite are never practiced, the remaining degrees being conferred only upon those who have receive

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

ered and mingled [into these nations] when they were exiled to them. all the more does this apply to the other nations that are only branches and derivatives [of the main four. whoever needs to is exiled there by himself. this explains everything. in fact, the assyrians deported the ten tribes of the northern kingdom, israel, before the babylonians ascended to power and conquered (and exiled) the southern kingdom, judah. so it would appear that the entire jewish people participated only in the egyptian exile, while only the judean remnant were subject to the subsequent exiles.including the babylonian exile. true, as rabbi chaim yosef david azulai points out,19 the prophet jeremiah brought some members of the ten exiled tribes back to judah. these refugees intermingled with the southern tri

l the tribes among us to this day. it may therefore be said that at least representatives of the whole jewish nation did undergo all the exiles. but then, this applies to all four exiles, not just the babylonian. he therefore proposes that the arizal only stated that the entire jewish people underwent the egyptian exile, and that the four subsequent, archetypal exiles were experienced by only the southern tribes (with representatives from the other 15 genesis 2:10. 16 zechariah 14:4. 17 2:258. 18 daniel 2:38. 19 midbar kedeimot 7. the arizal on parashat re feh (2) 742 ten. relative to each other, the babylonian exile was the ghead h of these four, but it was not a ghead h in the same overarching sense that the egyptian exile was a ghead. h we can now explain the egyptian exile, and why it

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

<110> the pillars in the explanation of the symbols of the grade of neophyte, your attention has been directed to the general mystical meaning of the two pillars called in the ritual the "pillars of hermes" of "seth" and of "solomon" in the 9th chapter of the ritual of the dead they are referred to as the "pillars of shu" the "l'illars of the gods of the dawning light" and also as "the north and southern columns of the gate of the hall of truth" in the 125th chap ter, they are represented by the sacred gateway, the door to which the aspirant is brought when he has completed the negative confession. the archaic pidures on the one p i ar e painted in black upon a white ground, and those on the other in white upon a black ground, in order to express the interchange and reconciliation of oppo

rit made manifest, and armed with two vast eagle's plumes. isis and nephthys are their names, made one with osiris "i claim my inheritance. my sins have been uprooted and my <113> passions overcome. i am pure white. i dwell in time. i live through eternity, when initiates make offering to the everlasting gods. i first knowledge lecture 57 have passed along the pathway. i know the northern and the southern pillars, the two columns at the gateway of the hall oi truth "stretch unto me your hands, 0 ye dwellers in the centre. for i am transformed to a god in your midst. made one with osiris, i have filled the eye socket in the day of the morning when good and evil fought together "i have lifted up the cloud-veil in the sky of the storm. till i saw ra born again from out the great waters. his s

kingdom malkuth, crowned with a crown of twelve stars. these twelve circles further represent the 12 foundations of the holy city of the apocalypse, while in christian symbolism the sun and the twelve signs are referred to christ and his twelve apostles <62> hegemon leads neophyte to hiereus and then returns to his place and is seated. hiereus leads neophyte to the south, and says: hiereus on the southern side of the holy place stood the seven-branched candlestick, wherein was burned pure olive oil. it is an image of the mystery of the elohim, the seven creative ideas. the symbolic drawing before you represents its occult meaning. the seven circles which surround the heptagram, represent the seven planets and the seven qabalistic palaces of assiah, the material world- which answer to the s

her by purification, perfected by suffering, glorified through trial. i have come where the great gods are, through the power of the mighty name. 158 the golden dawn: volume iz book two kerux and zelator have now reached hegemon who bars their way, lamp in <76> right hand- banner of west in left hand. heg the priest with the mask of the lion, spake and said "thou canst not pass by the gate of the southern heaven unless thou canst tell me my name" keyux mau the lion, very powerful, lord of fire, is thy name. thou art ra, the sun in his strength. heg in what signs and symbols do ye come? kerux in the letter shin; in the banner of the east, and the symbol of the cubical cross. heg (standing back and signing leo q before zelator with lamp) in the sign of the lion, child of fire, thou art purif

name of elohim, mighty and ruling, and in the name of <124> yod he vau he tzabaoth, spirits of fire, adore your creator! hierophant takes incense from before fire tablet, and makes the sign leo in the air before if. in the name of michael, the great archangel of fire, and in the sign of the q lion, spirits of fire, adore your creator! makes cross with incense. in the name and letters of the great southern quadrangle revealed unto enoch by the great angel ave, spirits of fire, adore your creator! holds incense on high. in the three great secret names of god bone upon the banners of the south- 01p teaa pedoce- spirits of fire adore your creator! in the name of edelperna, great king of the south, spirits of philosophus ritual 183 fire, adore your creator! replaces incense and returns to place

en cross above the violet cross and the numbers@ in a circle and in a square on either side of its summit, and below the number 31, the numbers 27/28, and 29 in bright green, between narrow bars of the same colour. this grade is especially referred to fire and therefore, the great watch-tower or terrestrial tablet of the south forms one of its principal emblems. it is known as the fourth or great southern quadrangle and is one of the four great tablets delivered unto enoch by the great angel ave. from it are drawn the three holy secret names of god oip teaa pedoce, which are borne upon the banners of the south, and numberless divine and angelic names which appertain unto the element of fire. the meanings of the other tablets have already been explained to you. the triangle surmounting the

wly circumambulates chamber with sol, repeating: and when, after all the phantoms are banished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire. on reaching south, he faces south, and makes with the cross the invoking pentagram of fire, saying: oip teaa pedoce. in the names of letters of the great southern quadrangle, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watch tower of the south. repiaces cross on lion. takes cup, goes to west, sprinkles water, and circumambulates with sol, saying: so therefore first the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral water of the loud resounding sea. on reaching west, he faces west, and makes the lnvoking pentagram of water with cup, saying:

s with the eastem quarter, the position of fire in the zodiac (note: to form these from the usual hexagram, lower the inverted triangle, then reverse it by throwing the lunar angle up to top from being lowest. mars and jupiter do not change sides) diagram 12 hexagram ritual 295 the second form is the ordinary hexagram with the attribution of the angles as usual: the affinity being rather with the southern quarter, the position of earth in the zodiac, and of the sun at his culmination at noon <30> the third form is: diagram 13 the angles are attributed as shown and its affinity is with the western quarter, the position of air in the zodiac. the fourth form is diagram 14 the angles are attributed as shown and its affinity is with the northern quarter, the position of water in the zodiac. wit

so as to transmit its forces into malkuth, restoring and purifying the vital forces therein by cold and moisture "goddess of the scale of the balance at the black pillar" is the name of stolistes and she is "the light shining through the waters upon earth" aura-mo-ooth, and there is a connection between her and the aurim or urirn of the hebrews. the dadouchos is stationed towards the midst of the southern part of the hall, to the south-west of the white pillar whose base is in netzach and is there as the affirmer of the powers of fire, reflected down the tree to netzach. the censer is the receptacle thereof- the transmitter of the fires of netzach to malkuth, restoring and purifying the vital force therein by heat and dryness "goddess of the scale of the balance at the white pillar" is the

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

he senjak, already described, had each seven burners. we are reminded here of the worship of the sabeans, of whom gibbon thus writes "they adored the seven gods, or angels, who directed the course of the seven planets, and shed their irresistible influence on the earth. the attributes of the seven planets, with the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the twenty-four constellations of the northern and southern hemispheres, were represented by images and talismans; the seven days of the week were dedicated to their respective deities" it in worthy of note, moreover, that the sceptre engraved on the front of the temple of sheikh adi has seven branches. p. 126 what places they are to be exhibited. the honour of entertaining the sacred symbol is accorded to the highest bidder, and i have heard that

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

ach monthor position of the sun in which is a group or constellation, hence there are 12 signs to complete thecircumference. the zodiac, or belt, has four principal points, two of which are solstitial and tworituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliaphilosophus41 equinoctial; and were anciently marked by fomalhaut end aldebaran, regulus and antares. thesolstitial points mark the northern and southern limits of the sun from the equator, called cancerand capricornus. the equinoctial points are where the sun crosses the celestial equator. the springcrossing is called vernal, when the sun commences his ascending or northern march; and the fallcrossing is called autumnal, when the sun commences to decline toward the south. these pointsare in the signs aries and libra, or the months of marc

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

presume that it was one of the gaelic prayers or spells that abounded in the highlands.28 yet no person was ever heard to repeat it before, nor was the maid capable to compose it of her self. we may consider several possibilities to this tradition of learning from otherworldly beings- a tradition that is still active today in many parts of the world. a typical modern example is well known in the southern united states, concerning the learning of guitar skills from the devil, who may be encountered at a crossroads, according to certain blues musicians. ancient poets certainly expected that spirits would contact them in sacred places and inspire poetry; in scotland the macrimmond pipers are widely said to http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_112.htm (3 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:36:43 am] robert ki

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amians considered the underworld (kur-nu-gi-a or sheol) as a dim, dismal place. hence their approach to life was fatalistic and pessimistic, with ethics considered in terms of earthly consequences only. pre-socratic greek philosophy "pre-socratic greece" includes the civilizations of crete (b. 2700 bce, greece (mycena b. 1600 bce, athens b. 600 bce, the agean islands, and magna gracia (sicily and southern italy. the hellenic greek cultures are most notable for exalting the intellect. for making the universe an intelligible tool and/or puzzle for mankind to explore, understand, and use. they did not conceive mankind as having a "mission" from the gods, though the gods could influence human fortunes for good or ill. to the extent that the greeks put humanity at the "center" of importance, th

the golden mean, at its best, can only keep you from extravagant blunders; it will never get you anywhere" the hellenistic era the hellenistic era of european civilization encompasses the time from the death of alexander the great in 323 bce to- 100 ce. it was a period characterized by aggressive and innovative trade encouraged by ptolemaic egypt and the seleucid empire of persia/fertile crescent/southern turkey. with a business climate not unlike that of the present day, upper- and merchant-class entrepreneurs prospered, but the lower classes experienced depressed wages and living standards. this resulted in widespread migration into urban areas and the consequent creation of large cities (such as alexandria, with a population of 500,000- 1,000,000. hellenistic art differed from hellenic

unts from such records as they could read [in greek if not in hieroglyphic] from that institution. at the time its prominence was unparalleled by any other literary repository in the mediterranean, and it is hard to imagine scholars. particularly ones dealing with such a subject as this. bypassing it. the chimaera: the highly selective "clubs" or schools which pythagoras established in sicily and southern italy seem to align more closely to the fashion of the egyptian priesthoods than to schools of the greek tradition. stanley, quoting iamblicus, makes this point and hints that pythagoras' exacting methods were not well received:20. his country summoned him to some publick employment, that he might benefit the generality, and communicate his knowledge: which he not refusing, endeavored to

re shall we wander through the world- seeking, gaining, growing, and becoming wise and mighty in the mind- through all ages which meet out our essence. 6. as i, woden, lord of light, drighten of darkness, have wandered forth in the world, hidden within my folk and bound to their fate, the black brother has wandered free from the day of his exile to wander the worlds unbounded but homeless. on the southern road we often met. 7. before i, woden, wandered forth and gave the gift, also given by lord set, to man, the wains were one and naught was known. 8. the gift is but one, and it is the essence and form of wisdom, will, and weal. from the gift are all things come. 9. self is sought as the goal of the gift, and in the goal the gift is finally known. only through the gift can the goal be reac

rth africa, spain, italy, france, england, and eastern europe- not once but in several historical waves. set, however, had been freed from the ties to one particular group and had made transformations within several cultures "shape-shifting" as it were, through satan, lucifer, etc. until x a.s, when his temple was re-founded in a land far from his original home. it seems that the meetings "on the southern road" refer to historical events or phenomena- perhaps the invasions of egypt by indo-europeans in archaic times, and/or encounters of wodenic initiates with those of ptolemaic egypt when the former came to egypt among the roman legions. 7-9. the last three passages touch on the gift bestowed on man by the primal god of consciousness, and on astro/cosmological processes which relate to th

s is expressed in a polar-equatorial pattern: woden with a polar rotation and set with a rotation around the equator of the globe. each has a unique purpose: set a universal one and woden a particular one (expressed through, or in tandem with his folk- which is not the "germanic peoples" as a whole, but rather a hidden elite of peoples touched by his psychophysical stream. set, when sent from the southern to the northern sky, became fully universal and free from necessary connection with the egyptians (who rejected him on a national scale. the ultimate function and will of this intelligence is the development of man- the primary act of which was to bestow its gift, a portion of its own essence or being, which is then inherited along genetic patterns (fleshly and/or initiatory, and which be

doom i pronounce. classification: v2- b55.ri- 2 author: william d. pridgen ii- the order of the scarab date: october, xxvii publication: mendes cronicles (ba-neb-tett pylon, south solstice, xxvii html revision: dec 17, 1998 ce subject: xeper reading list [drink from the grail] call to the elements o mighty sekhmet, goddess of vengeance, fire of life, come forth from the watchtower of fire, in the southern quadrant of the universe, guide and protect this sacred order. o mighty shu, god of the air, breath of life, come forth from the watchtower of air, in the eastern quadrant of the universe, guide and protect this sacred order. o mighty geb, god of the earth, foundation of life, come forth from the watchtower of the earth, in the northern quadrant of the universe, guide and protect this sac

s white [robert moffatt iv] from the north i call kubera, owner of the nine treasures, chief of the spirits of darkness, giver of wealth, chief of the genii and of secret ones. kubera rules the living veins of gems which pulse beneath the surface of the earth. i invoke kubera, whose aspect is multicolored [robert robinson iii] from the south i call yama. yama, ruler of lore, death and law. to his southern kingdom go the dead, with all they have been. yama, first to die, brings justice. he welcomes those who perish and directs the currents of the past. i invoke yama whose aspect is red [julian clark iii] from the east i call indra. indra, king of heaven and protector of heroes. fierce indra in his cloud chariot leads the warriors; indra smites our enemies with thunderbolts shot from his rai

ne simultaneously, with five setians each reading their invocation and charging their oil at the same time, one for each neter. the priest listed below, representing the invoked neter, is last to read the invocation and receive the charged oil [linda reynolds iv] wepwawet, whose face is black as night and golden as the day. jackal, prowler of the netherworld, you welcome those who perish. to your southern domain march the dead, carrying with them the memories of their existence wepwawet, divide those who bear the semblance of ma'at from those whom we shall devour. guardian of death and the law, wepwawet [ronald barrett iii] fenris-wolf, the terrible, fenris, son of the trickster, your sister is hel and your brother the serpent. fenris, force of change, howler at the end of the world. fenri

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lat, they call her here, or, more frequently, al--lat _the goddess. even her name makes her allah's opposite and equal. lat the omnipotent. his face showing sudden relief, baal flings himself to the ground and prostrates himself before her. abu simbel stays on his feet. the family of the grandee, abu simbel- or, to be more precise, of his wife hind- controls the famous temple of lat at the city's southern gate (they also draw the revenues from the manat temple at the east gate, and the temple of uzza in the north) these concessions are the foundations of the grandee's wealth, so he is of course, baal understands, the servant of lat. and the satirist's devotion to this goddess is well known throughout jahilia. so that was all he meant! trembling with relief, baal remains prostrate, giving t

seemed best to get out of range of human beings, and, well, he's been asking for you; you could really help him, i think, and to be frank i could do with the help myself" which left saladin little the wiser but consumed by curiosity- and now scotland was rushing past the citro n windows at alarming speed: an edge of hadrian's wall, the old elopers' haven gretna green, and then inland towards the southern uplands; ecclefechan, lockerbie, beattock, elvanfoot. chamcha tended to think of all non-metropolitan locales as the deeps of interstellar space, and journeys into them as fraught with peril: for to break down in such emptiness would surely be to die alone and undiscovered. he had noted warily that one of the citro n's headlamps was broken, that the fuel gauge was in the red (it turned ou

o it was that at ten--fifteen they were in pamela's beloved mg, heading east across the city, into the gathering storm. an old, blue mercedes panel van followed them, as it had followed walcott's pick-up truck; that is, without being noticed. fifteen minutes earlier, a patrol group of seven large young sikhs jammed into a vauxhall cavalier had been driving over the malaya crescent canal bridge in southern brickhall. hearing a cry from the towpath under the bridge, and hurrying to the scene, they found a bland, pale man of medium height and build, fair hair flopping forward over hazel eyes, leaping to his feet, scalpel in hand, and rushing away from the body of an old woman whose blue wig had fallen off and lay floating like a jellyfish in the canal. the young sikhs easily caught up with an

to pigs; he told, too, the story of a pipe-player who lured a town's children into a mountain-crack. when he had told this tale in their own language he recited verses in english, so that they could listen to the music of the poetry even though they didn't understand the words "hamelin town's in brunswick" he began "near famous hanover city. the river weser, deep and wide, washes its walls on the southern side" now he had the satisfaction of seeing the girl ayesha advance, looking furious, while the butterflies glowed like the campfire behind her, making it appear as though flames were streaming from her body "those who listen to the devil's verses, spoken in the devil's tongue" she cried "will go to the devil in the end "it's a choice, then" mirza saeed answered her "between the devil and

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ind of festivals. furfur (goetia, 34th spirit. earl commanding 26 legions. appears as a hart with a fiery tail, or as an angel with a hoarse voice. procures love, answers truly concerning divine and earthly matters. gaap (goetia, 33rd spirit. president and prince, formerly of the angelic order of potentates. who appears sporting bat s wings, rules sixty-six legions of hell, and is governor of the southern region of the abyss. makes men insensible and stupid, teaches philosophy) and liberal sciences, causes love or hatred, teaches how to consecrate objects belonging to the dominion of amaymon (his king, steals familiars from other magickians, tells fortunes, teleports. possibly from the old syrian god gapn, whose name means vine and was a messenger of baal. gamigin, samigina (goetia, 4th sp

SATANIC RITUALS

urface marker for an entrance, allegorical or otherwise, to the nether world. thus considered, the yezidi towers and the satanic influence they contained become a microcosm of a far more portentous network of control. the "clans" of the yezidis consisted of: sheikan, at mount lalesh; sinjar (eagle's lair, in kurdistan; halitiyeh, in turkey; malliyeh, on the mediterranean; sarahdar, in georgia and southern russia; lepcho, in india and tibet; and the kotchar, who, like the bedouins, moved about with no permanent sector. the yezidi interpretation of god was in the purest satanic tradition. the idea, so prominent in greek philosophy, that god is an existence absolute and complete in himself, unchangeable, outside of time and space, did not exist in yezidi theology. also rejected was the theocr

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

icle, but this is not considered to be a polite term for theravada. theravada has a strict interpretation of the buddha s teachings and places great emphasis on the final step in the eightfold path, right concentration. meditation and contemplation (deep thought) are considered to be the best ways to attain enlightenment. theravada is most popular in southeast asia and is sometimes referred to as southern buddhism. theravada is followed by 38 percent of buddhists, or 124 million people, in the early twenty-first century. it is the main religious tradition in sri lanka, burma (myanmar, thailand, cambodia, and laos. it is also found in parts of china, malaysia, and vietnam. the word mahayana means greater vehicle. mahayana buddhism is sometimes called northern buddhism because it is most pop

od sets aside some people to be saved and others not to be, is central to calvinism, the religion founded by calvin. the anabaptists, a group with its origins in germany and switzerland, believed only adults, those who could freely choose faith should be baptized. anabaptists also were pacifists( people who believe in nonviolence, who denied believers the right to use weapons even in selfdefense. southern baptist convention and the american baptist convention are two north american branches of anabaptists. another major division within protestantism came from england. there, king henry viii (1491 1547) broke from rome in 1534 over the pope s refusal to grant him a divorce. the anglican church, or the church of england, maintaining many of the rites of the catholic church, was formed as a r

be buried here. the medieval pilgrimage route of several hundred miles, the way of saint james, or camino de santiago, is still walked today by the faithful. pilgrims also visit the church in the city and pray to st. james, hoping for a miracle to solve their problems or cure their illnesses. there are many holy shrines around the world associated with curing powers or with miracles. lourdes, in southern france, is one such place, and fatima, in portugal, is another. both are believed to be places where mary, the mother of jesus, appeared to young people who had prayed to her. throughout europe there are shrines and cathedrals that have special importance for christians. many catholics take a trip to rome to visit vatican city, the headquarters of their church and residence of the pope. p

n many cases, destroyed in modern times. however, many sacred sites world religions: almanac 197 daoism still remain, including the five mountains so highly praised by early daoists. these mountains include: tai shan, the eastern mountain, in shandong province; heng shan bei, the mountain of the north, in shanxi province; hua shan, the western mountain, also in shanxi province; heng shan nan, the southern mountain, in hunan province; song shan, the mountain of the center, in henan province. the palace of zhang daoling, the celestial master mansion, in yintan, jiangxi province, china, is the classic seat of the daoist popes, or celestial masters. after mao zedong brought communism to china in 1949, the celestial masters abandoned their traditional home and moved their headquarters to taiwan

important philosophical advances. history and development: greco-roman religion the origins of ancient greek religion go back thousands of years. the greeks took some of their ideas from the ancient minoan civilization (c. 3000 c. 1000 bce, located primarily on the island of crete, and some from the mycenaean civilization (c. 2000 c. 1100 bce, centered primarily on the peloponnesian peninsula of southern greece. they also borrowed from egyptian religions and from west-asian civilizations. by about 900 bce these numerous gods and goddesses had begun to be organized into the pantheon, or collection of deities, honored in ancient greece. the religion s rise two writers are credited with this task of organizing the gods and the myths surrounding them: homer( born c. 900 bce, and hesiod, who l

litus, was but one part of the universal fire. world religions: almanac 213 greco-roman religion and philosophy a second major school of thought revolved around the mathematician pythagoras (c. 582 c. 507 bce, who believed that the universe could be explained in terms of numbers. pythagoras was a native of the greek island of samos. he and his followers formed a religious/philosophical society in southern italy that practiced secret rites and believed in metempsychosis, the doctrine, or set of beliefs, that states that after death the soul moves from one person to another, or even to an animal or an object. the unity of the world, as far as pythagoreans were concerned, could be found not in a physical substance but in the relations of numbers, as seen in the regular progress of musical cho

upreme god. the first major sect in hinduism is vaishnavaism, whose followers are called vaishnavas. this sect itself covers a number of branches. the oldest one is the sri sampradaya, which was founded by ramanuja (c. 1017 1137) some time in the middle of the twelfth century. the followers of ramanuja worship vishnu and his wife, the goddess lakshmi. some of the followers of ramanuja (called the southern school) believe that self-surrender is the only way to salvation. the image they use to describe this is a kitten that surrenders itself to its mother and is carried around without any effort on its part. others (called the northern school) believe that there are many other paths to salvation. the image they use is of a young monkey that has to cling to its mother as it is being carried a

s located. they also seized syria, persia (roughly modern-day iran, and much of egypt. in 638 the second caliph, or successor to muhammad, umar, accepted the surrender of the city of jerusalem from the byzantines. by the beginning of the eighth century muslims ruled a vast empire that stretched from north africa through the middle east and into central india. in the early 700s muslims invaded the southern part of the iberian peninsula (containing the countries of spain and portugal. from there they crossed the pyrenees mountains into france. in 732, however, they were driven back by a french army led by charles martel (c. 688 741) at the battle of tours. in the 800s muslims captured the 294 world religions: almanac islam mediterranean islands of sardinia and corsica. in 902 the island of s

ain and portugal. from there they crossed the pyrenees mountains into france. in 732, however, they were driven back by a french army led by charles martel (c. 688 741) at the battle of tours. in the 800s muslims captured the 294 world religions: almanac islam mediterranean islands of sardinia and corsica. in 902 the island of sicily was added to the empire. in the 800s muslims attacked cities in southern italy and even advanced on rome, though they were driven back in the 900s and 1000s by armies led by the popes (religious leaders) of the roman catholic church. the iberian peninsula was one of the first regions where muslims and western christians came into contact. by the end of the eighth century muslims occupied most of the southern regions of iberia, limiting christians to the northe

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

ve the vulturnian stream. hail to ye, cornfields and vineyards famous for the old falernian! hail to ye, golden orange-groves of mola di gaeta! hail to ye, sweet shrubs and wild flowers, omnis copia narium, that clothe the mountainskirts of the silent lautulae! shall we rest at the volscian anxur, the modern terracina, where the lofty rock stands like the giant that guards the last borders of the southern land of love? away, away! and hold your breath as we flit above the pontine marshes. dreary and desolate, their miasma is to the gardens we have passed what the rank commonplace of life is to the heart when it has left love behind. mournful campagna, thou openest on us in majestic sadness. rome, seven-hilled rome! receive us as memory receives the way-worn; receive us in silence, amidst r

there, in the midst of his blackened and sterile realms, rose the dismal mount of fire; while on the other hand, winding through variegated plains, to which distance lent all its magic, glittered many and many a stream by which etruscan and sybarite, roman and saracen and norman had, at intervals of ages, pitched the invading tent. all the visions of the past the stormy and dazzling histories of southern italy rushed over the artist's mind as he gazed below. and then, slowly turning to look behind, he saw the grey and mouldering walls of the castle in which he sought the secrets that were to give to hope in the future a mightier empire than memory owns in the past. it was one of those baronial fortresses with which italy was studded in the earlier middle ages, having but little of the got

oud, my mother is asleep within; and i knew you would come to see me. it is kind" glyndon, with a little embarrassment, accepted the compliment to his kindness, which he did not exactly deserve "you have thought, then, of me, fair fillide "yes" answered the girl, colouring, but with that frank, bold ingenuousness, which characterises the females of italy, especially of the lower class, and in the southern provinces "oh, yes! i have thought of little else. paolo said he knew you would visit me "and what relation is paolo to you "none; but a good friend to us all. my brother is one of his band "one of his band! a robber "we of the mountains do not call a mountaineer 'a robber' signor "i ask pardon. do you not tremble sometimes for your brother's life? the law "law never ventures into these d

h to the rescue! hideous in the tumbril, by the side of zanoni, raved and gesticulated that form which, in his prophetic dreams, he had seen his companion at the place of death "save us! save us" howled the atheist nicot "on, brave populace! we shall be saved" and through the crowd, her dark hair streaming wild, her eyes flashing fire, pressed a female form "my clarence" she shrieked, in the soft southern language native to the ears of viola "butcher! what hast thou done with clarence" her eyes roved over the eager faces of the prisoners; she saw not the one she sought "thank heaven! thank heaven! i am not thy murderess" nearer and nearer press the populace, another moment, and the deathsman is defrauded. o zanoni! why still upon thy brow the resignation that speaks no hope? tramp! tramp!

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een worn out by its application to mundane experiences. eternal play gives us a freedom from anxieties in life, which human beings could not have if they took transitory conditions seriously. pythagoras of samos on the ground of the mysteries there also came into being an understanding of the world that was nevertheless different from that of heraclitus. it sprang up in the communities founded in southern italy by pythagoras (sixth century b.c).40 the pythagoreans regarded numbers and geometrical forms, understood mathematically, as the foundation of reality. aristotle says of the pythagoreans: 36 christianity as mystical fact the so-called pythagoreans led the field in mathematics and their studies convinced them that the principles of that science were of universal application. numbers

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an. suenens, leo. cardinal. title: protector of the church of st. peter in chains, outside rome. promotes protestant pentecostalism (charismatics. destroyed much church dogma when he worked in 3 sacred congregations: 1) propagation of the faith; 2) rites and ceremonies in the liturgy; 3) seminaries. 6-15-67# 21-64 "lesu" trabalzini, dino. bishop of rieti (reate, peruga, italy. auxiliary bishop of southern rome. 2-6-65# 61-956 "tradi" travia, antonio. titular archbishop of termini imerese. head of catholic schools. 9-15- 67# 16-141 "atra" trocchi, vittorio. secretary for catholic laity in consistory of the vatican state consultations. 7-12-62# 3-896 "trovi" tucci, roberto. director general of vatican radio. 6-21-57# 42-58 "turo" turoldo, david. 6-9-67# 191-44 "datu" vale, georgio. priest. o

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r spiegel, a popular german news magazine, carried this telling depiction of "czar boris (president boris yeltsin) on its cover, with the revived official seal on his breast. 264 codex magica believe it or not, in front of the department of justice building in washington, d.c. is a statue of a confederate general, albert pike. pike served as sovereign grand commander of scottish rite freemasonry, southern jurisdiction. fascinating, isn't it, that black leaders like farrahkan and jesse jackson aren't complaining? usually, they go nuts complaining about confederate monuments and statues on government land. could their silence be attributed to the fact that jackson and farrakhan are themselves 3 3rd degree masons? in any case, at the foot of pike's justice department statue is a masonic femal

both presenting mirror-image descending (female, delta, or vulva) triangles. two triangles joined together constitute a jewish star of david. for added subliminal power, the room was arranged so that the bust of lincoln was directly behind sharon. the message: in bludgeoning hapless palestinians and denying them their own state, sharon is simply being lincolnesque. after all, lincoln put down the southern insurrection, right (photo and article: usa today, march 21, 2001, p. 13a) michael moore, liberal democratic party propagandist and maker of documentaries, no doubt takes pleasure in signaling the triangle. moore, a jew, is agented by the brother of the clinton insider many suspect was the mysterious mossad espionage agent codenamed "mega (photo: time, may 13, 2004,p.72) 3 4 2 codex magic

porate a "high level of kabbalistic symbolism" when one is surrounded by black curtains, skulls, and a coffin with a shrouded knight speaking forth from within, it doesn't take a spiritual giant to discern that this is not a godly organization!7 confirming decker's findings, medical doctor james l. holly, a christian who has done great works in exposing freemasonry, in his outstanding volume, the southern baptist convention and freemasonry, shows how the 30 masonic initiate is led unawares into a direct spiritual relationship with satan. in the ritual, satan is personified as a mysterious cabalistic mystic.8 interestingly, richardson's monitor of freemasonry says that "the knights of kadosh degree is intimately connected with the ancient order of knights templar, as it commemorates their o

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c a f eh t t g k r c i i m g o a ir m e c o i f t c e e cl copyright beltain 2000 by parker torrence, version 1.2 all rights reserved, all wrongs returned three fold. grimoire of eclectic magick in 1996, the craft was released in theaters and a new standard for movies about witchcraft was established. this was in part due to the technical advice of pat devin, an elder and the first officer of the southern california local council of c.o.g (covenant of the goddess) established in california in 1975, an incorporated, religious, non-profit organization[ in 1996, there were approximately 250,000 wiccans in the united states] while much of the technically correct information in the movie was a fresh relief for many of us, hollywood also had filled the movie with the normal amount of special eff

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minotaur (half-human, halfbull, the satyr (half-human, half-goat, the harpy (half-woman, half-bird) and a host of other hybrid entities the vast majority unfavorably disposed toward humankind. examples could be found in other cultures as well. customs and taboos in 2001, scientists were surprised when bits of stone etched with intricate patterns found in the blombos cave, east of cape town on the southern african shores of the indian ocean, were dated at 77,000 years old, thereby indicating that ancient humans were capable of complex behavior and abstract thought thousands of years earlier than previously believed. in europe, numerous sites have been excavated and artifacts unearthed that prove that structured behavior with customs and taboos existed about 40,000 years ago. customs are tho

l practices based upon the arcane systems of the spanish moors and jewish kabbalah were established in europe. the church created the inquisition in the high middle ages in response to unorthodox religious beliefs that it called heresies. since some of these involved magical practices and witchcraft, the occult also became an object of persecution. the harsh treatment of the manichaean cathars in southern france is an example of society s reaction to those who mixed arcane practice with heterodox theology. in spite of persecution, the concept of witchcraft persisted and even flourished in early modern times. at least the fear of it did, as the salem witch trials richly illustrate. in the early decades of the twentieth century, schools of pagan and magical teachings were reborn as wicca. wi

irth seen in nature. to the legends surrounding his life, he was taught by zoroaster (c. 628 c. 551 b.c.e, the persian prophet, and by the brahmans of india. although his teachings on past lives formed the essence of so many of the mystery religions, he was initiated into the orphic, egyptian, judaic, chaldean, and many other mystery schools. at last pythagoras formed his own school at crotona in southern italy. an unyielding taskmaster, he accepted only those students whom he assessed as already having established personal regimens of self-discipline. to further stress the seriousness of his study program, pythagoras lectured while standing behind a curtain, thereby denying all personal contact with his students until they had achieved progress on a ladder of initiatory degrees that allow

s and classes since 1980. the author of six books on past lives, her past life regression guidebook (1992) has become a popular textbook in the field. when asked to provide a case history demonstrating the benefits of past-life regression, she often makes reference to the case of darrell, whose story was featured on the television programs sightings and 20/20. a native of toronto who has lived in southern california for many years, darrell came to bettye binder with a terror of drowning in the middle of the ocean. he was not frightened of seashores, swimming pools, or other bodies of water, but he would not venture far into the ocean because of a morbid fear of drowning there. in three separate regressions with binder, darrell discovered that he drowned in the middle of the ocean in three

he felt as if his guide s face had pressed into his own at which instant there is a sense of shock, as if he were fainting or passing out. at this point, ford says, he loses consciousness and when he awakens at the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mediums and mystics 105 completion of a seance, it is as if he has had a good nap. born into a southern baptist family on january 8, 1896, in titusville, florida, young arthur had no real psychic experiences as a child, other than the occasional instances when he seemed to know what people were about to say. he was drawn to the religion, but he annoyed the local clergy with his persistence in asking questions about church doctrines, especially those concerning life after death. although he

he american society for psychical research (aspr) over a disagreement concerning the mediumship of mina margery stinson crandon (1888 1941, and he formed his american psychical institute in 1933. his wife served as the institute s secretary, and their principal research area focused upon the testing of such spirit mediums as eileen garrett. sometime in 1938, the carringtons moved the institute to southern california, where they continued to investigate claims of hauntings and spirit contact. among his many books are such titles as the physical phenomena of spiritualism (1907; your psychic powers and how to develop them (1920; and psychic science and survival (1947. hereward carrington died on december 26, 1958, in los angeles. m delving deeper carrington, hereward. the case for psychic sur

r, pilgrims have journeyed to lourdes to seek healing and salvation from the waters of the natural spring that appeared in the hillside after the apparition of the holy mother appeared to bernadette. consistently, for decades, an average of 200,000 people visited the shrine every year. during the centennial celebration of lourdes in 1958, more than two million people came to the tiny community in southern france seeking a healing. in recent years, annual attendance has risen to over five million. thousands of pilgrims have left their crutches and canes at the shrine. thousands more have been cured of such fatal diseases as advanced stages of cancer. hundreds of thousands of cures have been claimed by men and women who immersed themselves in the cold spring waters of the shrine, but the lou

y, the cathar sect had become so popular among the people that pope innocent iii (1160 or 1161 1216) considered it a greater menace to christianity than the islamic warriors who pummeled the crusaders and who threatened all of europe. to satisfy his outrage, he ordered the only crusade ever launched by christians against fellow christians, declaring as heretics the albigensians, as the cathars of southern france were known. the inquisition came into existence in 1231 with the excommunicamus of pope gregory ix (c. 1170 1241, who at first urged local bishops to become more vigorous in ridding europe of heretics, then lessened their responsibility for determining orthodoxy by establishing inquisitors under the special jurisdiction of the papacy. the office of inquisitor was entrusted primaril

sted, that the extensive copying of the face on the shroud by the knights templar could have led to the papal revocation of their charter, which was later followed by the execution of their leaders by the french ecclesiastical court. the templar involvement appeared to be validated by the discovery of a matching shroud face that was found behind the false ceiling of an outbuilding in templecombe, southern england, on grounds that had once served as a templar recruitment and training center. from its earliest years, in legends and in art, there have been claims of miracles and healings through the shroud. four credible witnesses reported that in 544 when edessa was threatened with siege by a persian army, the image was rushed to the top of the city wall and prominently displayed; the army t

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minotaur (half-human, halfbull, the satyr (half-human, half-goat, the harpy (half-woman, half-bird) and a host of other hybrid entities the vast majority unfavorably disposed toward humankind. examples could be found in other cultures as well. customs and taboos in 2001, scientists were surprised when bits of stone etched with intricate patterns found in the blombos cave, east of cape town on the southern african shores of the indian ocean, were dated at 77,000 years old, thereby indicating that ancient humans were capable of complex behavior and abstract thought thousands of years earlier than previously believed. in europe, numerous sites have been excavated and artifacts unearthed that prove that structured behavior with customs and taboos existed about 40,000 years ago. customs are tho

l practices based upon the arcane systems of the spanish moors and jewish kabbalah were established in europe. the church created the inquisition in the high middle ages in response to unorthodox religious beliefs that it called heresies. since some of these involved magical practices and witchcraft, the occult also became an object of persecution. the harsh treatment of the manichaean cathars in southern france is an example of society s reaction to those who mixed arcane practice with heterodox theology. in spite of persecution, the concept of witchcraft persisted and even flourished in early modern times. at least the fear of it did, as the salem witch trials richly illustrate. in the early decades of the twentieth century, schools of pagan and magical teachings were reborn as wicca. wi

s, william oliver. unbidden guests. new york: dodd, mead& co, 1957. the whaley house the thomas whaley mansion, completely furnished with antiques from the days of early california, is also considered to be a haunted house. immediately after its construction was completed in 1857, the mansion became the center of business, government, and social affairs in old san diego. the oldest brick house in southern california, the whaley house served as a courthouse, a courtroom, a theater, and a boarding house as well as the family home of thomas and anna whaley and their children. today, no one is allowed in the whaley house after 4 p.m, but police officers and responsible citizens say that someone or t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d ghosts

it is the beast s powerful hindlegs that merely catapult it over walls, small trees, and one-story barns or outbuildings. it is those same strong legs that enable the creature to run at extremely fast speeds to escape its pursuers. it wasn t long after the night terrors began in puerto rico before reports of chupacabra began appearing in florida, texas, mexico, and among the ranchers in brazil s southern states of sao paulo and parana. in brazil, the ranchers called the monster o bicho, the beast, but there was no mistaking the brutal signature of the chupacabra on the mutilated corpses of sheep and other livestock. and the description provided by frightened eyewitnesses was also the same a reptilian creature with thin arms, long claws, powerful hind legs, and dark gray in color. on may 1

ic: the psychology of superstition. oxford, uk: oxford university press, 1978. walker, barbara a. the woman s encyclopedia of myths and secrets. new york: harper& row, 1983. waring, philippa. a dictionary of omens and superstitions. london: souvenir press, 1978. strange customs and taboos in 2001, bits of stone etched with intricate patterns were found in the blombos cave east of cape town on the southern african shores of the indian ocean. scientists were surprised when the chunks of stone were dated at 77,000 years old, indicating that ancient humans were capable of complex behavior and abstract thought thousands of years earlier than previously expected. in europe, thousands of sites have been excavated and artifacts unearthed that prove that what would be considered modern behavior exi

always wore white on occasions of rejoicing, such as birth and feast days. the white rose t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 208 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends flowers have been the quintessential gift between lovers in many cultures. was an emblem of joy among the greeks. the aboriginal inhabitants of patagonia in southern argentina painted their bodies white on every joyous occasion. the whole bodies of the bride and groom were covered with white paint on the eve of their wedding ceremony. some social historians believe that the tradition of the bridal veil originated in the covering of the bride in ancient times to show her submission. others believe that the veil originated in sexual shyness in women and

in pennsylvania. jessup had brought an abundance of academic distinction to his study of the ufo. after having served as an instructor in astronomy and mathematics at the university of michigan and at drake university, he was awarded a ph.d. in astrophysics and was sent to south africa by the university of michigan. here he was assigned to erect and operate the largest refracting telescope in the southern hemisphere. the jessup- directed research produced the discovery of several double-stars, which were catalogued by the royal astronomical society. jessup sent allende a letter requesting more information. it was four months before he received a reply. in his second letter, carlos miguel allende had americanized his name to carl m. allen. he had also tempered the tone of his correspondence

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minotaur (half-human, halfbull, the satyr (half-human, half-goat, the harpy (half-woman, half-bird) and a host of other hybrid entities.the vast majority unfavorably disposed toward humankind. examples could be found in other cultures as well. customs and taboos in 2001, scientists were surprised when bits of stone etched with intricate patterns found in the blombos cave, east of cape town on the southern african shores of the indian ocean, were dated at 77,000 years old, thereby indicating that ancient humans were capable of complex behavior and abstract thought thousands of years earlier than previously believed. in europe, numerous sites have been excavated and artifacts unearthed that prove that structured behavior with customs and taboos existed about 40,000 years ago. customs are tho

l practices based upon the arcane systems of the spanish moors and jewish kabbalah were established in europe. the church created the inquisition in the high middle ages in response to unorthodox religious beliefs that it called heresies. since some of these involved magical practices and witchcraft, the occult also became an object of persecution. the harsh treatment of the manichaean cathars in southern france is an example of society fs reaction to those who mixed arcane practice with heterodox theology. in spite of persecution, the concept of witchcraft persisted and even flourished in early modern times. at least the fear of it did, as the salem witch trials richly illustrate. in the early decades of the twentieth century, schools of pagan and magical teachings were reborn as wicca. w

delving deeper heckethorn, charles william. secret societies of all ages and countries. kila, mont: kessinger publishing, 1997. howard, michael. the occult conspiracy: secret societies. their influence and power in world history. rochester, vt: inner traditions, 1989. howarth, stephen. the knights templar. new york: barnes& noble, 1993. the decided ones of jupiter in the early nineteenth century, southern italy suffered greatly from the raids of small gangs of bandits who would descend from t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d secret societies 5 between1090 and 1256, there were eight grand masters who ruled the society of assassins their hideouts in the mountains of calabria and abruzzi to rob travelers and to loot the villages. the auth

society of assassins their hideouts in the mountains of calabria and abruzzi to rob travelers and to loot the villages. the authorities seemed unable to squelch the bands of thieves and protect the people, and only the vendettas and feuds between gangs themselves prevented the outlaws from uniting as one force to wreak greater havoc. then, in 1816, a man named ciro annunchiarico (d. 1818) became southern italy fs greatest nightmare when he claimed the power of jupiter, father of the gods of imperial rome, and successfully brought the bandit gangs into a single striking force, leading them to rob, pillage, and burn under the banner of the skull and crossbones and the motto, gsadness, death, terror, and mourning. h by 1817, annunchiarico commanded 20,000 members of the secret society of the

. h by 1817, annunchiarico commanded 20,000 members of the secret society of the decided ones of jupiter the thunderer. the men were divided into camps of 300 to 400 members, and squadrons of 40 to 60. the society was structured along military lines and strict discipline was enforced. if ciro annunchiarico had so desired, he could easily have led an open revolution against any state government in southern italy. but annunchiarico, who claimed that the might of the great god jupiter flowed through his body, was more interested in personal aggrandizement than in political opportunities. annunchiarico was the son of wealthy parents who had entered the priesthood and who had seemed destined for a fruitful career in the roman catholic church. the many tasks faced by a common parish priest had l

the decided ones. in order to facilitate the rapid dispersal of his legendary abilities, annunchiarico secretly used men who resembled him to serve as his doubles, dressed in priestly robes exactly like his, so it would appear that jupiter the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 6 secret societies in1816, a man named ciro annunchiarico became southern italy fs greatest nightmare. thunderer could lead raids in several different places at the same time. he also had his personal bodyguard outfitted in devilish costumes, complete with horns and tails, to perpetuate the belief that he had the power to command and control demons. neither any of his men nor any of the villagers dared to speak a word against annunchiarico for fear that an invi

enter their camp at night and to place a dagger at the throat of their general. annunchiarico decreed his mercy, but warned the general and the 1,000 men that if they ever dared again to violate his mountains, his thunderbolts would be certain to kill them all. general d foctavio and his troops were gone at first light the next morning. when the authorities realized that any army conscripted from southern italy would hold annunchiarico in the same kind of superstitious awe as the local populace, they hired a force of 1,200 german and swiss mercenaries under the command of an englishman, general church. strangely enough, the approach of these battle-hardened veterans of the napoleonic wars affected annunchiarico in ways that astonished his men. it became apparent that their god was visibly

from a higher source. the term may have originated in the gnostic dualism of the forces of light and darkness, and many individuals who claimed to be illuminati, those enlightened by a higher wisdom, joined the rosicrucians and took refuge in france to escape the fires of the spanish inquisition. the secret society known as the order of the illuminati was founded in the city of ingolstadt in the southern german monarchy of bavaria on may 1, 1776 by adam weishaupt, a 28-year-old professor of religious law. beginning with only five members, weishaupt fs order grew slowly, numbering about 60 in five cities by 1780. the professor deliberately blended mysticism into the workings of the brotherhood in order to make his agenda of republicanism appear to be more mysterious than a political reform

peshift into animals. church punishment of those who persisted in practicing magic or witchcraft remained virtually nonexistent until exaggerated claims of the powers of the cathar sect reached the ears of the papacy. according to startling reports, the cathars were practicing foul sorceries, blasphemous heresies, and black magick. what was worse, they appeared to be prospering in their cities in southern france. in 1208, pope innocent iii (1160 or 1161.1216) ordered a crusade launched against the cathars, who were able to resist the armies sent against them until their central city of montesegur fell in 1246. hundreds of cathars were burned at the stake as heretics, witches, and sorcerers, for by the time their besieged sect had fallen, the holy inquisition had been founded in 1233 to sta

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e everything referred to his wisdom and poweronly. this is quite consistent if rufus believed himself to be god incarnate.our knowledge of rufus is obtained chiefly from christian chroniclers, at whose hands the character of aheathen king would receive scant justice. how far such chronicles may be trusted can be seen by comparingthe portrait of randolf flambard as drawn by the priestly writers of southern england with that shown by themonks of durham. in the hands of the southerners he is a monster of wickedness, without a redeemingfeature, while the northerners represent him as a meek and holy saint. in england rufus has been recordedonly by those men who also vilified flambard, but in normandy his deeds were acclaimed by poets who werenot ecclesiastics and who might not even have been ch

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. atah is the more correct hebrew pronunciation of this word than the traditional pronunciation of atoh used by magicians in the past. 2. for the qabalistic cross the magician may choose to stand either in the eastern part of the room or in the center of the room, facing east. for the drawing of the first pentagram, however, the magician should walk to the eastern part of the room and move to the southern, western, and northern portion of the temple as required for the tracing of the pentagrams. for the invocation of the archangels and the final qabalistic cross, the magician can again move to the center of the room. if the temple space is very small, the magician can simply stand in the center of the room throughout the entire ritual and turn toward the quarters to trace the pentagrams. 3

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e had stood. black limousines halted in front of the hill homes and deeply tanned "census takers" inquired about the number of children living with the families. always the children. in several instances, the occupants of the big black cars merely asked for a glass of water. the old fairy trick, taken up from the middle ages and dusted off. a blond woman in her thirties, well-groomed, with a soft southern accent, visited people in ohio and west virginia whom i had interviewed. she introduced* herself as "john keel's secretary" thus winning instant admission. the clipboard she carried held a complicated form filled with personal questions about the witnesses' health, income, the type of cars they owned, their general family background, and some fairly sophisticated questions about their ufo

h similar sticks. cigarette loads! somehow an explosive cigarette load had gotten into that point pleasant telephone! who put it there, when, how, and why must remain mysteries. soon after my investigation, the woman's phone calls ceased. maybe i exorcised the phone by removing the stick. another family was having telephone problems, and many other troubles besides, on the camp conley road on the southern edge of the tnt area. the woman in point pleasant who suffered the calls from a bizarre metallic voice speaking in an incomprehensible language was their daughter-in-law "it didn't take us long to learn that when our tv started acting up it was a sure sign that one of those lights was passing over" james lilly, a no-nonsense riverboat captain, told us "i didn't think much of all the flyin

chedule. suddenly we saw an identical-type light behind the trees north of our position in the very spot where i had seen the glowing disc descend. i knew there were no houses or roads in that direction. we divided our attention between the two lights. both seemed to be moving through the trees very slowly. i got out of the car with my flashlight and flashed it three times in the direction of the southern ridge. an instant later there were three extremely bright flashes. mary nearly jumped out of her skin "they answered you" she declared. the red light rose upward until it was a hundred feet or so above the trees. then it went out, as if someone had turned off a switch. then the light in the north dipped down behind the trees and disappeared. affidavit to whom it may concern: i, mrs. mary

d state, mary hyre, known to me personally, and acknowledged the above statement to be true and that she personally signed her signature in my presence. given under my hand this 21 day of june 1967. my commission expires june 12 1977 howard schultz notary public mrs. mabel mcdaniel and two other women went to the hill with me the following night. about 10:15 the usual reddish glow appeared on the southern hill. then a second one popped up a short distance from the first. i flashed my light at them but nothing happened. so i climbed a fence and walked into a field to try to get a closer look. the two objects slowly came together. as i crossed the field i suddenly noticed something new. a pale bluish ball of light hovering high in the trees of an orchard behind the nearby farmhouse. the ligh

ok. the two objects slowly came together. as i crossed the field i suddenly noticed something new. a pale bluish ball of light hovering high in the trees of an orchard behind the nearby farmhouse. the light moved about from tree to tree as though it were following my movements. i flashed my light at it and it flared with dazzling brilliance, dimmed, and vanished. simultaneously, the lights on the southern ridge grew brighter for a moment and then also went out. i slowly made my way back across the field in the dark, climbed the fence, and returned to mrs. mcdaniel's car. i was surprised to find all three women in a very frightened state "i think we'd better leave" mrs. mcdaniel said nervously. they drove off quickly. five minutes later, as i sat alone in my car, the reddish glow flared up

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f mashu! thee i call forth this day to guard this most holy mandal against the seven ensnarers, the seven liers-in-wait, the evil maskim, the evil lords! thee i summon, queen of the eastern ways, that thou mayest protect me from the eye of death, and the evil rays of the endukugga and nindukugga! be watchful, queen of the eastern ways, and remember! spirit of the east, remember! invocation of the southern gate thee i invoke, angel, guardian against the urulu dread city of death, gate of no return! do thou stand at my side! in the names of the most mighty hosts of marduk and enki, lords of the elder race, the arra, do thou stand firm behind me! against pazuzu and humwava, fiends of the southwest winds, do thou stand form! against the lords of the abominations, do thou stand form! be thou th

u stand at my side! in the names of the most mighty hosts of marduk and enki, lords of the elder race, the arra, do thou stand firm behind me! against pazuzu and humwava, fiends of the southwest winds, do thou stand form! against the lords of the abominations, do thou stand form! be thou the eyes behind me, the sword behind me, the spear behind me, the armour behind me. be watchful, spirit of the southern ways, and remember! spirit of the south, remember! the invocation of the western gate thee i invoke, spirit of the land of mer martu! thee i invoke, angel of the sunset! from the unknown god, protect me! from the unknown demon, protect me! from the unknown enemy, protect me! from the unknown sorcery, protect me! from the waters of kutulu, protect me! from the wrath of ereshkigal, protect

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the mountains. this ishmaelite lived during the late eleventh century and was feared from the regions of the middle east to europe. this luciferian individual, who studied with the astrologer omar khayyam at the university of nishapur, was trained with various languages and techniques of war and survival. later on in life hassan overtook the eagles nest that is also called alamut. located on the southern shore of the caspian sea around the elburz mountain range, sabbah established a fanatical power base that was soon feared throughout the region. hassan i sabbah s faith seemed to be a gnostic dualistic similar to islam in a manicheism ideal. the religious head or what is called imam is a personal representative to god itself. only through this imam will one be able to journey to god. in w

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d, whose name is john, or some sound similar, as jonah, dionysus, janus, dianus, nu, anu, oannes, on, noah, and many others. this god of water is of the north, because the sun touches his northern limit as he enters the watery sign cancer, and turns towards the south, represented by the goat-gods, set, had, hades, adad, odin, adonis, adonii, atys, etc, who are of the earthly sign capricornus, the southern limit of the sun s journey. as the end of summer is in libra, the cardinal sign of air, the gods of water partake also of the airy nature, and similarly, the earthy gods have their natures intermixed with fire, since the end of winter announces the fiery sign of aries, whose mysteries are those of spring and called the greater mysteries, wherein the slain god is celebrated by his name iao

m.w.s: nevertheless, we rejoice that you have arrived at this hour of peril: your strength and courage may assist us to retrieve our loss, and recover the word. worthy sir (noble dame) i direct you to travel 33 years, 11 to the south, 11 to the west, 11 to the north, returning to me in the east to report the results of your travels (g.m. leads postulant 11 circles deosil and then takes him to the southern pillar, where he finds t; 11 circles, and to western pillar, where he finds s; 11 circles and to northern pillar, where he finds l. he is then brought to head of m.w.s) g.m: holy father, i beg to present to you b (s) who has completed the 33 years travel imposed on him (or her. m.w.s: what have you discovered? introducer: i have searched in and about the pillars in the south, west, and no

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

rtion of its inhabitants, in the terrible earthquake which so fearfully destroyed the kingdom of naples on the 26th of july, 1805, nineteen years after the appearance of the book alluded to. perhaps with it perished the last trace of the worship of priapus in this particular form; but payne knight was not acquainted with the fact that this superstition, in a variety of forms, prevailed throughout southern and western europe largely during the middle ages, and that in some parts it is hardly extinct at the present day; and, as its effects were felt to a more considerable extent than people in general suppose in the most intimate and important relations of society, whatever we can do to thrown light upon its medi val existence, though not an agreeable subject, cannot but form an important an

vances. the boar was intimately connected with the worship of frea.1 from our want of a more intimate knowledge of this part of teutonic paganism, we are unable to decide whether some of the superstitious practices of the middle ages were derived from the romans or from the peoples who established themselves in the provinces after the overthrow of the western empire; but in italy and in gaul (the southern parts especially, where the roman institutions and sentiments continued with more persistence to hold their influence, it was the phallic worship of the romans which, gradually modified in its forms, was thus preserved, and, though the records of such a worship are naturally accidental and imperfect, yet we can distinctly trace its existence to a very late period. thus, we have clear evid

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ockwise direction. generally speaking, the right side of the body is for projecting, the left side for absorbing. clockwise motion focuses and precipitates; counterclockwise motion disperses-at least in the northern hemisphere. this is because the right side and right-hand motion follow the apparent path of the sun and other lights, whereas the left side and left-hand motion seek the darkness. in southern latitudes, where the sun rises on the right hand and sinks on the left, it would be symbolically accurate to inscribe the circle in a counterclockwise direction, and to absorb it clockwise. at the equator, where the sun is six months in the northern sky and the other six months in the southern sky, it would be most correct to invert the direction in which the circle is projected on the eq

be battered beyond recognition, and in this sense, its identity as a car may pass from creation, but the physical glass and metal does not disappear. in practical magic it is very important to note that hurricanes and other great storms rotate counterclockwise, as observed from a point of view high above the earth, when they occur in the northern hemisphere, but clockwise when they develop in the southern hemisphere. this is caused by what is called the coriolis effect, and is a func- tion of the rotation of the earth acting upon moving masses of air at different latitudes. the effect is also seen in water swirling down a drain. the coriolis effect provides a physical basis for the different uses of dockwise and counterdockwise vortices in magic. the nature of the vortex explains why ancie

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addition to these remarkable qualities, tobacco is an analgesic that reduces pain in the body, an anti-psychotic, and an effective anxiolytic that reduces anxiety levels. the shamans of the northern and central regions of the americas relied on tobacco, rolling the dried leaves of the plant or putting them into pipes to smoke, chewing them, or drinking the extracted juice. but the shamans of the southern region of the americas preferred the leaves of the cocoa plant, from which the modern illegal narcotic cocaine is derived. as is true of fortified wine and the hard spirits of alcohol, the ancient shamans never experienced the effects of cocaine because they did not possess the technology to manufacture it. they chewed the fresh cocoa leaves, mingling the juice gradually with their saliva

airies are observed to dance and play. the other is sometimes called the underworld, and is described as brightly illuminated and lavishly appointed caverns beneath the surface of the earth, in which are set: fine houses and dining halls. the two come together in the descriptions of the portals to fairyland, which often open into the sides of low and grass-covered hills. such hills are co.mmon in southern england, rising from the flat plains. they are not natural, but were build for religious purposes by the ancient race that erected stonehenge and other great cosmic circles and spirals such as avebury. the center of fairy activity in ireland is a similarly shaped, grass-covered hill. it is named tara, and was the residence of the ancient kings of ireland. tara hill in the county of meath

place, but as dr. robert william felkin (1858-1922, one of the original members of the group later testified "meetings were not necessary for the work of the felkin meant that physical meetings were unnecessary because the twelve met on the astral planes. the name of the group derived from the symbol of the "star maps and tree of life projected on a sphere."134m aps of the celestial northern and southern hemispheres showing the spherical projection of the ten sephiroth of the tree of life are reproduced in israel regardie's the golden dawn,'35 and it was these or maps very like them that were used by farr and her group. the twelve members stationed themselves at intervals around a circle. at the center was a being known as "the egyptian astral" who was the master from whom farr received 1

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

awareness of the angel in the east towering above you like a vast statue. turn one quarter of a revolution clockwise on your body axis and assume the standing pose facing the south. continue to maintain the awareness of the glowing ball of your heart-center and the flaming circle around you. look straight invoking the guardians of the quarters 133 ahead and focus your physical eyes on the distant southern horizon beyond your chamber. visualize written within your heart-center from right to left the four hebrew letters of the name adonai (a= w, d= 7, n= 1, i. these letters blaze with blinding blue-white intensity against the softer yellow-white of the sphere. draw in a deep breath. as you inhale imagine your body enlarging to gigantic proportions so that your upper body leaves the atmospher

low pentagram so that the two are exactly superimposed. stand with your arms at your sides and contemplate the two yellow pentagrams as they begin to flicker and neutralize each other. watch them fade to nothingness with your astral vision. take a step backward to return to the middle of the room and rotate on your body axis a quarter-turn clockwise to face the south. extend your awareness to the southern wall. step forward and stand with feet together and arms at your sides in front of the wall, facing south. adopt the posture of projection with your left hand pressed over your heart-center and your right index finger extended in front of you. project a red pentagram on the air, beginning at the uppermost point and proceeding clockwise. sustain the ruby-colored pentagram upon the air in y

all, facing south. adopt the posture of projection with your left hand pressed over your heart-center and your right index finger extended in front of you. project a red pentagram on the air, beginning at the uppermost point and proceeding clockwise. sustain the ruby-colored pentagram upon the air in your awareness for a few moments, then with the power of your will send it away from you onto the southern wall of your practice room. resume the standing posture and contemplate the red pentagram burning on the wall. in the magical system of the golden dawn, this form is known as the invoking pentagram of fire. adopt the pose of projection and draw a second red pentagram upon the air in the south. begin at the lower-right point of the star and move your index finger in a counterclockwise dire

your heart-center spiral outward through your chest into your left palm, up your left arm, across your shoulders, and down your right arm to exit in a flaming stream from your right index finger. the expanding spiral it follows as it circulates through your body increases its force. continue to sustain in the back of your awareness the pentagram in the east. stand in the pose of projection in the southern quarter of the practice area facing south. project a pentagram of bright red fire on the air to the south so that the termination of the quarter circle you have previously drawn at heart level from east to south is in the exact center of the pentagram. the size and shape of the pentagram are identical to the one in the east. it begins from the upper point and proceeds counterclockwise. ta

the angel glows with the residual energy of your vibrated words. watch with your astral awareness as the angel opens wide its white wings to fill the western quarter. vibrate upon your breath the following words "at my right hand, mich-a-el" exhale the remainder of your breath while maintaining your enlarged stature and your expanded aura. while still facing east, visualize the bright red of the southern pentagram transfer into the pillar beyond it. as the pillar in the south turns red, the pentagram fades to a clear golden-white. the red pillar thickens and solidifies into the towering, scarlet-robed angel michael. the angel stands barefoot beyond the circle, gazing down at you with vigilant awareness in its golden eyes. the maned lion's head of the angel glows with the residual energy o

ades to a clear golden-white. the red pillar thickens and solidifies into the towering, scarlet-robed angel michael. the angel stands barefoot beyond the circle, gazing down at you with vigilant awareness in its golden eyes. the maned lion's head of the angel glows with the residual energy of your vibrated words. watch with your astral awareness as the angel opens wide its white wings to fill the southern quarter. lesser invoking ritual of the pentagram 159 draw a deep breath and hold it four slow beats as you focus your awareness in your heart-center. vibrate upon your breath the following words "at my left hand, aur-i-el" exhale the remainder of your breath while maintaining your enlarged stature and your expanded aura. while continuing to gaze eastward, visualize the dark green of the n

ing the projection pose. turn your body to the right to face west, but continue to point with the incense stick at the center of the circle-cross, so that your right forearm now crosses in front of your chest and points slightly behind you. walk west in a straight line to the southwest corner of the practice area while projecting a stream of white light from the tip of the incense stick along the southern side of the room at the level of your heart. stand in the southwest corner, facing southwest. inscribe a similar cross and circle on the air to the southwest by drawing energy from your heart-center into your left hand and sending it in an expanding spiral across your body that exits from the incense stick in your right hand. first trace the vertical beam, then the horizontal beam, then t

ntersection of the southeast cross. it is not necessary to vibrate the name a second time for this cross. turn to face the west but continue to point at the center of the southeast cross with the incense stick, so that your right forearm extends across your chest and points slightly behind you. walk to the southwest corner, retracing the line of light that already exists at heart level across the southern side of the room. it is not necessary to project this line a second time-merely follow it with the glowing point of the incense. facing southwest, point to the center of the southwest cross, raise the incense stick above your head, and project a line of white light upward from the southwest cross as you turn your body to face the northeast. walk toward the northeast with the incense stick

ex finger. the expanding spiral it follows as it circulates through your body increases its force. continue to sustain in your awareness the banishing pentagram of earth in the east. as you project the line of astral fire upon the air in your practice room, be aware that you are also projecting it above the painted circle on the floor of your astral chamber. stand in the pose of projection in the southern quarter of the practice area facing south. project a fiery red banishing pentagram of earth upon the air to the south so that the termination of the quarter circle you have previously drawn is in the exact center of the pentagram. the size and formation of the pentagram are 194 moving exercises identical to the one in the east. it begins from the lower-left point and proceeds clockwise. v

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yourself of all personal identity, so that an emotional vacuum is created in your soul. you are nothing. no part of you remains, not even a lump of clay in the ground. even the memory of your name has faded into nothingness. after a few minutes of silent contemplation, uncross your hands and open your eyes. still kneeling before the altar, remove the black cloth from your head and put it upon the southern quarter of the altar. take up the coiled white cloth in your right hand and let it fall straight down while holding its end between the thumb and forefinger of your right hand. tie it around your head, knotting it in the back so that it will not slip or fall off. gaze upon the flame of the candle on the altar and visualize the figure of the heavenly christ seated upon his great throne wit

association in modern magic, by linking the watchtower primarily with the element of fire, the three names of god on the watchtower (mor, dial, hctga) may be related to the three banners of fire (ihvh, ihw, ivhh) and the three fire signs of the zodiac (aries, sagittarius, leo. see the table of the banners in appendix e. alternatively, if we associate the watchtower of the south primarily with the southern quarter of space, as john dee seems to have done, the three names of god on the watchtower of the south will fall on the directions south-southeast, south, and south-southwest (based on a division of the compass into twelve directions, or points. the fixed zodiac sign leo (commonly linked with the south in modern magic) will fall on the south point, with cancer and virgo on either side. a

his evocation, will naturally wish to emulate the messiah in every way possible. therefore, the key will be spoken with the feet in the south. this might be interpreted as facing south (since, if the magician faces south and then lies back in the magic circle, his feet will naturally extend to the south; alternatively, it could be interpreted to mean that the key is vibrated while standing in the southern quarter of the circle. the latter seems more likely to me. if this interpretation is accurate, by extension all the keys that can be linked to the quarters should be vibrated while standing in the corresponding quarters of the magic circle. keys three, seven, eleven, and fifteen are vibrated from the east; keys four, eight, twelve, and sixteen are vibrated from the south; keys five, nine

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

at names of rameses ii, goes on to state that the king was in the "country of the two rivers" by which we are to understand some portion of mesopotamia, the rivers being the tigris and euphrates, and that the local chiefs were bringing to him tribute consisting of gold, lapis-lazuli, turquoise, and logs of wood from the land of the god. it is difficult to understand how gold and logs of wood from southern arabia and east africa came to be produced as tribute by chiefs who lived so far to the north. among those who sent gifts was the prince of bekhten, and at the head of all his tribute he sent his eldest daughter, bearing his message of homage and duty. now the maiden was beautiful, and the king of egypt thought her so lovely that be took her to wife, and bestowed upon her the name "ranefe

be on the right hand. this is heru-behutet on whom the goddess nekhebit is placed in the form of a serpent (or, uraeus. as concerning heru- behutet, the great god, the lord of heaven, the lord of mesent, the president of the ater of the north,[fn#117] he it is who is made to be on the left hand. this heru-behutet on whom the goddess uatchit is placed is in the form of a serpent [fn#116] i.e, the southern half of heaven [fn#117] i.e, the northern half of heaven. as concerning heru-behutet, the great god, the lord of heaven, the lord of mesent, the president of the two aterti of the south and north, ra heru-khuti set it (i.e, the winged disk) in his every place, to overthrow the enemies in every place wherein they are. and he shall be called president of the two aterti of the south and nort

tructible, immortal spirit-soul as opposed to the ba-soul or animal-soul [fn#137] here and in other places i have changed the pronoun of the third person into that of the second to avoid the abrupt changes of the original. the height of heaven and the stars [thereof] are obedient unto thee, and thou makest to be opened the great gates [of the sky. thou art the lord to whom praises are sung in the southern heaven, thou art he to whom thanks are given in the northern heaven. the stars which never diminish are under the place of thy face,[fn#138] and thy seats are the stars which never rest.[fn#139] offerings appear before thee by the command of keb. the companies of the gods ascribe praise unto thee, the star-gods of the tuat smell the earth before thee,[fn#140] the domains [make] bowings [b

and when his majesty arrived in egypt, he did for her whatsoever was done for the royal wife. on the twenty-second day of the second month of the season of shemu,[fn#160] in the fifteenth year [of his reign, behold, his majesty was in thebes, the mighty [city, the mistress of cities, performing the praises of father amen, the lord of the thrones of the two lands, in his beautiful festival of the southern apt,[fn#161] which was the seat of his heart (i.e, the chosen spot) from primaeval time [when] one came to say to his majesty "an ambassador of the prince of bekhten hath arrived bearing many gifts for the royal wife [fn#160] the summer. the copts called the second month of this season paoni [fn#161] the modern temple of luxor. and having been brought into the presence of his majesty with

the shennu[fn#171] nobles are destitute of counsel, and [when] the storehouses which should contain supplies are opened, there cometh forth therefrom nothing but wind. everything is in a state of ruin. my mind hath remembered, going back to former time, when i had an advocate, to the time of the gods, and of the ibis-god, and of the chief kher-heb priest i-em-hetep,[fn#172] the son of ptah of his southern wall [fn#166] tcheser was a king of the iiird dynasty, and is famous as the builder of the step pyramid at sakkarah. his tomb was discovered by mr. j. garstang at bet khallaf in upper egypt in 1901 [fn#167] i.e, the people who were in front of, that is, to the south of egypt, or the population of the country which lies between dakkah and aswan [fn#168] the ancient egyptian name for elepha

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or the "nordics" in this ancient gobi kingdom. as a last-ditch effort, the "nordics" developed a super-weapon, possibly akin to a cobalt warhead, and launched or dropped it at/on antarctica. the explosion was so great that it literally shook the planet, causing the earth to begin to wobble on its axis, and when the poles had shifted and stabilized the antarctic had nearly overnight become the new southern pole, a frozen wasteland, and in turn the gobi kingdom began turning into a barren desert. there were still many other reptilian colonies which had survived in other parts of the world, however these mostly escaped into vast underground cavern systems, the entrances to which were carefully concealed in order to keep their human nemesis from finding them, although we might imagine that tho

ians.htm (12 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:58 "in 1973, during the summer, residents of new jersey's newton-lafayette area described a giant, man-like alligator they had seen locally. newspaper reporters wrote about an old indian tale from the region that told of a giant, man-sized fish that could never be caught. in 1977, new york state conservation naturalist alfred hulstruck reported that the state's southern tier had 'a scaled, man-like creature (that) appears at dusk from the red, algae-ridden waters to forage among the fern and mosscovered uplands "the new york-new jersey record, however, cannot compare with the overwhelming series of narratives issuing from one place in the united states, the ohio river valley "over twenty years ago, by digging into the back issues of the louisville, kentu

other dimensions and to participate in these realms' he said (or is it rather to convince people to 'open' their minds up to 'invasion' by controlling forces from these other 'dimensions- branton) case file #6: from [confidential source: the following information was sent to us via a researcher who is investigating a continuous abduction of a young (at the time, early 1990's) nine-year-old boy in southern nevada, possibly to underground levels below that same area. names, addresses and other details have been deleted on request to protect the sources. we quote from a series of notes exactly as they were sent to us, with our emphasis added "1: the 'greys, he says they don't use words but communicate through him. they show their displeasure by wrinkling their noses and pursing their lips wit

ly and, through its branch in prussia, the supporters of adam weishaupt, the founder of the bavarian illuminati. the paedophile murder ring which came to light in belgium in 1996 is but one part of the satanic network operating from and in that country. it was organised by marc dutroux, who is connected to the satanic order, of abrasax, based in the village of forchies-la-marche near charleroi in southern belgium not far from the castle of darkness. abrasax is abraxas, a fat-bellied demon from whom, it is likely, the magicians term, abracadabra, originated. dutroux buried alive an accomplice, bernard weinstein, and a mong weinstein's effects was a letter from the abrasax group signed by someone describing himself as the egyptian god, anubis. it ordered him to provide 'presents' for the hig

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t learning. at times the church ignored the witch; but when the papacy became firmly established the priests treated the cult as a hated rival and tried to persecute it out of existence. the puritans also took up the work with glee, and between them they practically succeeded. from the eleventh century onwards the church had a number of dangerous rivals. the manichean doctrines were widespread in southern europe; these had many different sects but they lived peacefully side by side. they were largely synonymous with the catharists. they had their own bishops and deacons, and had great reverence for their 'perfects- initiated persons who were regarded as almost divine. they prostrated themselves before them, saying 'benedicite' the perfects also adored each other, though this adoration was

e days the courts seem to have believed that there was no harm in witchcraft. there were no particular laws against it. the sites partidas of castille, circa 1260, says it should be punished if it causes harm, but that it is thought valuable for curing diseases. the assizes of jerusalem and the establishments of st. louis and other tribunals held similar views. i have been told of a witch cult in southern ireland practising nowadays, but i have not been able to contact it. the members are said to hold their meetings in a disused quarry where they can work without being disturbed. they wear long black cloaks for protection until they reach the meeting place, where they remove them to reveal a type of kilt made of two pieces of leather thonged at the sides. they are said to sacrifice animals

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and she said: a branch of the apple-tree from emne i bring, like those one knows; twigs of white silver are on it, crystal brows with blossoms. there is a distant isle, around which sea-horses glisten: a fair course against the white-swelling surge, four pillars uphold it. a delight of the eyes, a glorious range, is the plain on which the hosts hold games: coracle contends against chariot in the southern plain of white silver. pillars of white bronze under it glittering through beautiful ages. lovely land throughout the world s age, on which the many blossoms drop. an ancient tree there is with blossoms, on which birds call the canonical hours. tis in harmony it is their wont to call together every hour. splendors of every color glisten throughout the gentle-voiced plains. joy is known, r

silver. pillars of white bronze under it glittering through beautiful ages. lovely land throughout the world s age, on which the many blossoms drop. an ancient tree there is with blossoms, on which birds call the canonical hours. tis in harmony it is their wont to call together every hour. splendors of every color glisten throughout the gentle-voiced plains. joy is known, ranked around music, in southern white-silver plain. unknown is wailing or treachery in the familiar cultivated land, there is nothing rough or harsh, but sweet music striking on the ear. without grief, without sorrow, without death, without any sickness, without debility, that is the sign of emne uncommon is an equal marvel. a beauty of a wondrous land, whose aspects are lovely, whose view is a fair country, incomparabl

life, he meant to lose one s self and enter nirvana. a person who attempts to become a sage must pass through many difficulties, and even at the last he must quench his thirst with bitterness. if you do not mind these obstacles, i say, go to it. 98. yueh-shan s lake yueh-shan asked a newly-arrived monk, where have you come from? fogai: are you enjoying the atmosphere? the monk answered, from the southern lake. fogai: you give a glimpse of the lake view. is the lake full or not? inquired yueh-shan. fogai: are you still interested in the lake? not yet, the monk replied. fogai: he glanced at the lake. there has been so much rain, why isn t the lake filled? yueh-shan asked. fogai: yueh-shan invited the monk to see the lake, actually. the monk remained silent fogai: he must have drowned. nyoge

rities, but always by small and obstinate minorities. henryk skolimowski nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor s noisy party than being there. franklin jones whether women are better than men i cannot say but i can say they are certainly no worse. golda meir love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. antoine de saint exupery an old southern methodist preacher was asked if there is a difference between union and unity. he replied, you can tie two cats tails together and throw them over a clothes line, in which case you have union, but not unity. w.t. purkeson always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much. oscar wilde custom, justice and law an agreement will break a custom. welsh men do more from custom than from r

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d the final heh will show two legs. it is stated in some ancient persian works that 4 bright stars were placed as guardians at the 4 cardinal points. at the beginning of the kali yuga, at krishna s death at 3102 b.c, the astronomers say that aldebaran, the eye of taurus, and antares, the heart of scorpio, were as the equinoctial points, and regulus, the heart of leo, and fomalhaut, the eye of the southern fish, were near the solstitial points. this was 5003 years ago. the pack of common playing cards has 4 suits; of diamonds, hearts, clubs and spades. the old tarot or tarocchi cards had 4 suits, wands, cups, swords and pentacles. occult science relates these to the yod, heh, vav, heh of the tetragrammaton. the tarot pack has also 4 court cards, cavalier, king, queen and violet or knave. al

mini male diurnal taurus female nocturnal aries male diurnal 104. and, again, there are other characters which astrologers deem of importance, thus- table of zodiiiac& diiirectiiions zodiac sign element direction pisces water northern common fruitful numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott zodiac sign element direction aquarius air western fixed- capricorn earth southern cardinal- sagittarius fire eastern common- scorpio water northern fixed fruitful libra air western cardinal- virgo earth southern common barren leo fire eastern fixed barren cancer water northern cardinal fruitful gemini air western common barren taurus earth southern fixed- aries fire eastern cardinal- lastly, the twelve signs are allotted to the planets as their houses- 105. table of zo

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o: a biography. berkeley: university of california press, 1967. brown, robert. the later philosophy of schelling: the influence of b hme on the works of 1809 15. lewisburg: university of pennsylvania press, 1990. brumbaugh, robert s. kinds of time: an excursion in first philosophy. in experience, existence, and the good: essays in honor of paul weiss, edited by irwin c. lieb, 119 125. carbondale: southern illinois university press, 1961. unreality and time. albany: state university of new york press, 1984. bruzina, ronald. the aporia of time-analysis reflection across the transcendental divide. in phenomenology: japanese and american perspectives, edited by burt c. hopkins, 105 132. dordrecht: kluwer academic publishers, 1999. edmund husserl and eugen fink: beginnings and ends in phenomeno

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sabbatic circle, robed in black or red and candles should be black and red. a statement of intent would read as the following: it is my will to invoke the egregores of samael and lilith, so that by union of both within myself, i shall become reborn as baphomet. widdershines, banishing ritual to clear mind and call the four quarters: zazas, zazas, nasatanada zazas south: shaitan-set, lords of the southern tower, djinn father of fire and desert sands, i do summon thee forth to witness my rites of awakening and union. i command the fires of the abyss to protect my circle, let the gates be opened! fire invoking pentagram east: lucifer-phosphorus, lords of the eastern tower, bearer of the black flame, lord of light and promethean flame, i do summon thee forth to witness my rites of awakening a

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

golden dawn scheme, as given above, shows a vast undenying system, and subsystem, that could be developed from it in the new zealand order, a great deal of study has been done or this, and the following drawings will give the reader an indication of the magnitude of the elemental quadrants of each tablet. they have been updated; the original drawings of the order included additional stars of the southern hemisphere. when applying the tablets to the earth, the old concept was to keep the passage of the sun over the earth at the central belt. this elongates the squares and causes a great deal of difficulty when matching them with polar caps and the equator, the coldest and hottest points of the globe. it was decided that the elemental aspects of the earth itsel1 "righted" the tablets so tha

linea spiritus sancti coincided with the equatorial belt. placing the tablets on the earth then becomes a problem. for example, one would have to go back to the time when one considered the precessions of the equinoxes to have first started. since this is a debatable point among astrologers, the new zealand order has produced a set of tables, worked out by computer, at the autumn equinox of 1984, southern hemisphere, to show where the tablets are placed over the globe-the tablets, as laid down in this manner, are not necessarily fixed, but actually move with the precessions of the equinoxes at 55 the rate of 50 seconds of arc per year. from this not only can be deduced the dominion of the governors of the aethyrs, but also the area of governance of each angel of the tablet over the earth

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and plays were given. the culmination of the dramatic work was a shakespearean pageant. after two years of strenuous activity, harold large returned to london with the work so well organized, that the group was able to carry on. the silent meeting grew in strength, and after his departure other friends were added, a simple form of ritual was used, and it was given the title of "the society of the southern cross" from the beginning, definite guidance was received in rotation from three different sources, both eastern and western, the one that carried the group to the final stages of the quest being western. in 1910 the mission of help came to new zealand, and miss mclean arranged with father fitzgerald to meet members of the group at bishop court in napier (a city dose to havetock north. th

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