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e immediately below on the tree. it is therefore symbolized in mystical tradition by the heavenly androgyne (male and female united in one) and represents a state of mystical transcendence and union with the supreme. it is compared to satori and nirvana. chokmah: the second emanation on the tree of life, following kether. occultists identify chokmah with the great father, the giver of the seminal spark of life which is potent only when it enters the womb of the great mother, binah. from the union of the great father and great mother come forth all the images of creation. chokmah is associated with such deities as kronos, saturn, thoth, atum-ra, and ptah in other pantheons. 66 binah: the third emanation on the tree of life. occultists identify binah with the great mother in all her forms. s

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e when it stands for eadegast. did rays originally express the highest conception of divine and lustrous beauty? there is nothing in the homeric epos at all pointing that way (see suppl. it is a part of that insouciance and light blood of the gods, that they are merry, and lavgh. hence they are called blis regin (p. 26, as we find' froh' in the sense of gracious applied to gods and kings^ and the spark of joy is conveyed from gods to men. frauja, lord, is next of kin to froh glad (p. 210. it is said of the ases, tcitir varo, saem. 2; and of heimdall, dreckr glaffr hinn go5a mios 41. and' in svdso gus' 33^ contains a similar notion. in this light the passages quoted (pp. 17-8) on the blithe and cheer/til god gather a new importance: it is the old heathen notion still lurking in poetry. when

frauja, baldor, bragi, deus, or they bordered close upon them (see suppl. n chaptee xt. heeoes. between god and man there is a step on whicli the one leads into the other, where we see the divine being brought nearer to things of earth, and human strength glorified. the older the epos, the more does it require gods visible in the flesh; even the younger cannot do without heroes, in whom a divine spark still burns, or who come to be partakere of it. heroism must not be made to consist in anything but battle and victory: a hero is a man that in fighting against evil achieves immortal deeds, and attains divine honours. as in the gradation of ranks the noble stands between the king and the freeman, so does the hero between god and man. from nobles come forth kings, from heroes gods, r^pw? ear

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

of atlantis, the practice of white magick is based on the belief that that all life is sacred and interconnected in an unbroken circle. for example, every fully grown birch tree- defined in magick as a tree of new beginnings and regeneration- breathes out enough oxygen for a family of four and absorbs the carbon dioxide that we exhale, transforming it again to life-giving oxygen. and this sacred spark of a common source of divinity is contained not only by trees, but also the stones, the animals, the people and everything else on the earth and in the waters and the sky. our higher selves, our souls, are influenced by the cycles of the sun, the moon, the stars and the natural world on a deep spiritual level. we can draw down their energies into ourselves to amplify and replenish our own, l

e need, generated by real emotion and linked to determination on a practical level. the rules of magick magick is not beyond or above life, but a natural though special part of your world. it is about not leaving fate, your fate, to any guru or deity, but shaping it with your own innate power, the power that emanates from some higher being, goddess or god, energy source, what you will- the divine spark within us all. there are no absolutes in magick, there is only what works for you and enhances your innate wisdom and spirituality. you should use this book as you would any other diy guide and adapt its suggestions to suit what is right for you. choose whatever you feel are the most appropriate herbs, crystals or even entire rituals for your specific purpose. there are provisos, however. yo

ortance of the goddess, while others regard the horned god as her equal, with each assuming different aspects according to the season and ritual. for example, the goddess may appear as the earth or moon deity, and her male counterpart as the corn god or the sun. reaching gods and goddesses in trance modern wiccans call into themselves the energies of the goddess to amplify their own innate divine spark and at times may work in a deep trance, uttering words of prophecy or profound teaching. this is said to increase the power entering the body, like turning up the current from a power source. but until you have practised magick for many years, i would advocate working only in light trance and then only in the controlled situation of a very spiritual group. you can think of this as opening a

, osiris thereby represents the integration of animus and anima and sacred sex magick. he can be used in rituals for the balance of male/female energies or where the female in the high priestess role takes the lead. he is also good for any magick that relies on a cycle of regeneration following a natural ending. deities of fire agni agni, the hindu god of fire, is said to be manifest as the vital spark in mankind, birds, animals, plants and life itself. he appeared in lightning, in celestial sun flares, in the sacred blaze rising from the altar and in household fires. agni was the divine priest and acted as messenger to the gods, interceding with them on behalf of mankind. the priest would chant 'agni, the divine ministrant of the sacrifice, the great bestower of treasure. may one obtain t

upreme goddess of witches and witchcraft and is akin to the bone goddess who transforms death into new more perfect life. she can be invoked for all waning moon magic and for rituals for banishing sorrows and bad habits. charges charges are declarations of the powers of the gods or godesses involved in the ritual, and are in themselves empowering and a way of linking the practitioner's own divine spark with that represented by the divinity. they are similar to creeds in a christian religious service. the charge of the goddess the charge of the goddess is a powerful way of focusing on cosmic energies. the goddess is considered to be both 'transcendent, or above and beyond the created universe (like the traditional idea of god on a cloud, looking down and judging creation, and also 'immanent

metric forms in magick. some witches wear a gold pentacle, a pentagram in a circle (see page 189, on a chain as a sign of their craft. each of the five points of the pentagram represents one of the five elemental powers, so that the uppermost single point is symbolic of spirit, or akasha or ether. it is dedicated to the goddess in her triple aspects. it is the realm of spirituality and the divine spark within all life. the top left point of the pentagram symbolises air and the fixed sign of aquarius, representing logic, intelligence and the conscious awareness that enables us to reach beyond the material and follow steps to knowledge of what is hidden. the top right point is the element water and the fixed sign of scorpio. it represents the feelings that endow magick with purpose, desire w

less sky. however, you may prefer to tune directly into the physical light of the silver moon as a source of power. you can carry out this ritual either alone or with a group. though traditionally it is the high priestess who draws down the moon into herself and then channels wisdom, each member can absorb the power in his or her own way and experience the connection between the individual divine spark and the collective divinity. the ritual i have given can easily be adapted for either a lone practitioner or a group. if there is no moon visible because of adverse weather conditions, you can use mirrors and candles to draw down the power* surround what is to be your circle with silver candles. in the centre, place a mirror flat on a table or the altar so that the moon is reflected within i

ciple in wicca, lord of the hunt, the herds, winter and the underworld. known to the celts as cernunnos, the generic name for 'horned one. imbolc: the celtic festival of early spring. a fire festival, christianised as candlemas on 1 february. also known as oimelc. immanent: usually refers to a god or the goddess; indicating that they are manifest within the object of their creation, as the divine spark within people. see also transcendent. inner-plane teaching: contacting through meditation or rituals the cosmic memory bank or akashic records in order to tap into the great existing magical systems and wisdom without external formal teaching. invocation: the process by which the wisdom and benign powers of the natural world and of higher planes of consciousness, associated with the evolved

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(5) c e d i d a h e d i d a h e r a r i d a d i d e c (6) a s a m i m s a m i m a p i d e (7) m e l a b a h e l a b a h of abramelin the mage 156 no. e consists of c j squares from a square of i b squares. milchamah, from hebrew mlchmh= war. adirachi from drk (hebrew= way, plan, idea. elim (heb= mighty ones. no. f consists of c f taken from a square of e j squares. cedidah is either from kdid= a spark, or from did, the root of the words; love, delights, breasts. derarid from hebrew drr= liberty. hadidec from ddik= thy loves or delights. no. g consists of b g from a square of d g squares. asamin from hebrew asmim= treasure houses, garners- mapide perhaps from pid= oppression, misfortune. no. h. a gnomon of b d from a square of e j squares. melabah from mlabh= art or science. the sacred mag

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

s to the wellknown lines of the late lord tennyson "in the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove, in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love -locksley hall. in paragraph 7 the place of life, the universe of animal souls, is identified with the toad, which "ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head -romeo and julietthis jewel being the divine spark in man, and indeed in all that "lives and moves and has its being. note this phrase, which is highly significant; the word "lives" excluding the mineral kingdom, the word "moves" the vegetable kingdom, and the phrase "has its being" the lower animals, including book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 113 woman. this "toad" and "jewel" are further identified with the lotus and je

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

in strength. at first the statement "so and so is god" excites no interest. continue, and you meet scorn and scepticism: possibly persecution. continue, and the controversy has so far died out that no one troubles to contradict your assertion. no superstition is so dangerous and so lively as an exploded superstition. the newspapers of to-day (written and edited almost exclusively by men without a spark of either religion or morality) dare not hint that any one disbelieves in the ostensibly prevailing cult; they deplore atheism- all but universal in practice and implicit in the theory of practically all intelligent people- as if it were the eccentricity of a few negligible or objectionable persons. this is the ordinary story of advertisement; the sham has exactly the same chance as the real

go. the automaton should possess will, energy, intelligence, reason, and resource. this automaton should be the perfect man far more 72 than any other man can be. it is only the divine self within the man, a self as far above the possession of will or any other qualities whatsoever as the heavens are high above the earth, that should reabsorb itself into that illimitable radiance of which it is a spark<magick. this is an elementary treatise; one cannot discuss higher works as for example those of "the hermit of aesopus island> the great difficulty for the single magician is so to perfect himself that these multifarious duties of the ritual are adequately performed. at first he will find that the exaltation destroys memory and paralyses muscle

elements of knowledge for granted. i cannot say- finally- how an electric current is generated. i cannot be sure that some totally unsuspected force is not at work in some entirely arbitrary way. for example, it was formerly supposed that hydrogen and chlorine would unite when an electric spark was passed through the mixture; now we 'know' that the presence of a minute quantity of aqueous vapour (or some tertium quid) is essential to the reaction. we formulated before the days of ross the 'laws' of malarial fever, without reference to the mosquito; we might discover one day that the germ is only active when certain events are transpiring in some nebula<history of the earth is

, the result will be incalculably effective. the event will establish the kingdom of the crowned and conquering child over the whole earth, and all men shall bow to the law, which is "love under will. this is an extreme case; but there is one law only to govern the small as the great. the same laws describe and measure the motions of the ant and the stars. their light is no swifter than that of a spark. in every operation of magick the link must be properly made. the first requisite is the acquisition of adequate force of the kind required for the purpose. we must have electricity of a certain potential in sufficient amount if we wish to heat food in a furnace. we shall need a more intense current and a greater supply to light a city than to charge a telephone wire. no other kind of force

might lead one to underrate the influence of a hostile figure, or to neglect altogether some element of importance. the master therion has known cases where the diver was so afraid of an unfavourable answer that he made actual mistakes in the simple mechanical construction of the figure! finally, in the 166 summing up; it is fatally easy to slur over unpleasantness, and to breathe on the tiniest spark that promises to kindle the tinder- the rotten rags- of hope. the concluding operation is therefore to obtain a judgment of the figure, independent of all intellectual or moral restraint. one must endeavour to apprehend it as a thing absolute in itself. one must treat it, in short, very much the same as one did the question; as a mystical entity, till now unrelated with other phenomena. one

the plain result of his spiritism. all spiritists are more or less similarly afflicted. they feel dirty even across the street; their auras are ragged, muddy and malodorous; they ooze the slime of putrefying corpses. no spiritist, once he is wholly enmeshed in sentimentality and freudian fearphantasms, is capable of concentrated thought, of persistent will, or of moral character. devoid of every spark of the divine light which was his birthright, a prey before death to the ghastly tenants of the grave, the wretch, like the mesmerized and living corpse of poe's monsieur valdemar, is a "nearly liquid mass of loathsome, of detestable putrescence" the student of this holy magick is most earnestly warned against frequenting their seances, or even admitting them to his presence. they are contag

s. he remains in this adoration while the deacon intones the collects. all stand to order, with the dieu garde, that is: feet square, hands, with linked thumbs, held loosely. this is the universal position when standing, unless other direction is given" 352 v. of the office of the collects which are eleven in number (the sun) the deacon. lord visible an sensible of whom this earth is but a frozen spark turning about thee with annual and diurnal motion, source of light, source of life, let thy perpetual radiance hearten us to continual labour and enjoyment; so that as we are constant partakers of thy bounty we may in our particular orbit give out light and life, sustenance and joy to them that revolve about us without diminution of substance or effulgence for ever. the people. so mote it be

tion with the devil and pride in the cleverness of thine answers to him. therefore, if thou hast not lost the power of silence, let it be first and last employed against him. 30 "concerning the enflaming of the heart- now learn that thy methods are dry, one and all. intellectual exercises, moral exercises, they are not love. yet as a man, rubbing two dry sticks together for long, suddenly found a spark, so also from time to time will true love leap unasked into thy mediation. yet this shall die and be reborn again and again. it may be that thou hast no tinder near. in the end shall come suddenly a great flame and devouring, and burn thee utterly. now of these sparks, and of these splutterings of flame, and of these beginnings of the infinite fire, thou shalt thus be aware. for the sparks t

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man now consider yourself satisfied of his good faith, and may proceed to inspect him more closely. the stars above his head suggest the influence of binah, whose number also is three, while the most striking thing about him is the core of his being: the letter yod (one does not count the termination "ah: being a divine suffix it represents the inmost light and the outermost light) this yod, this spark of intense brilliance, is of the pale greenish gold which one sees (in this world) in the fine gold leaf of tibet. it glows with ever greater intensity as you concentrate upon observing him, which you could not do while you were preoccupied with investigating his credentials. confidence being thus established, you inquire why he as appeared to you at this time and at this place; and the answ

om they must look for support. still, perhaps with a little help from hashish, one can imagine a merchant prince or a banker being intelligent, or even, in a weak moment, human; and this is not the case with officials. the standard, moreover, of education and good manners, low as it is, is less low in tory circles. as i think that totalitarian methods are already on the way to extinguish the last spark of manly independence- that is, in selfstyled civilized countries- it seems to me that we all should regard with shrewd suspicion any plans for "perfecting" social conditions. the extreme horror is the formula of the gregarious type of insect. inherent in the premises is the impossibility of advance. one may sum the policy of the a. a. as follows: 1. to assist the initiation of the individua

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gician will anoint first the top of his head before proceeding to consecrate the lower centres in their turn. this oil is of a pure golden colour; and when placed upon the skin it should burn and thrill through the body with an intensity as of fire. it is the pure light translated into terms of desire. it is not the will of the magician, the desire of the lower to reach the higher; but it is that spark of the higher in the magician which wishes to unite the lower with itself. unless therefore the magician be first anointed with this oil, all his work will be wasted and evil. this oil is compounded of four substances. the basis of all is the oil of the olive. the olive is, traditionally, the gift of minerva, the wisdom of god, the logos. in this are dissolved three other oils; oil of myrrh

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eight hours work, four hours repose, eight hours work, four hours rest and recreation. the mills never cease day or night. the basin is of polished silver and agate, and is set at an angle, facing two enormous spheres of crystal, encased in a sort of trellis made of a certain greenish metal, its optical focus at a point midway between the two. the only sign of activity is that out of this focus a spark crackles unless the air be dry, a condition difficult to secure in this part of the world, although fans blow air, dried over chloride of calcium and sulphuric acid, over the globes and their focus. these fans are worked by tidal power, human labour being appropriated solely to the one use. in the temple of the 'house' are two globes similar to those upon the plains, and the mysterious force

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

esulted of a sufficiently striking nature to record. the ordeal "x" will be dealt with in private. the new comment there are to be no regular temples of nuith and hadit, for they are incommensurables and absolutes. our religion therefore, for the people, is the cult of the sun, who is our particular star of the body of nuit, from whom, in the strictest scientific sense, come this earth, a chilled spark of him, and all our light and life. his vice-regent and representative in the animal kingdom is his cognate symbol the phallus, representing love and liberty. ra-hoor-khuit, like all true gods, is therefore a solar-phallic deity. but we regard him as he is in truth, eternal; the solar-phallic deities of the old aeon, such as osiris "christ, hiram, adonis, hercules &c, were supposed, through

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

thighs. he remains in this adoration while the deacon intones the collects. all stand to order, with the dieu garde, that is, feet square, hands, with linked thumbs, held loosely. this is the universal position when standing, unless other direction is given. v of the office of the collects which are eleven in number the sun the deacon: lord visible and sensible of whom this earth is but a frozen spark turning about thee with annual and diurnal motion, source of light, source of life, let thy perpetual radiance hearten us to continual labour and enjoyment; so that as we are constant partakers of thy bounty we may in our particular orbit give out light and life, sustenance and joy to them that revolve about us without diminution of substance or effulgence for ever. the people: so mote it be

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life and through the mists of death. come, follow me! grope up these age-worn steps, slippery with the tears of the fallen, and bearded with the blood of the vanquished and the salt of the agony of failure. come, come! halt not! abandon all! let us ascend. yet bring with ye two things, the flint and the steel 168- the slumbering fire of mystery, and the dark sword of science; that we may strike a spark, and fire the beacon of hope which hangs above us in the brasier of despair; so that a great light may shine forth through the darkness, and guide the toiling footsteps of man to that temple which is built without hands, fashioned without iron, or gold, or silver, and in which no fire burns; whose pillars are as columns of light, whose dome is as a crown of effulgence set betwixt the wings o

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a spouse to replace her who is fallen and defiled. seal the book with the seals of the stars concealed: for 3 the rivers have rushed together and the name hb:heh hb:vau hb:heh hb:yod is broken in a thousand pieces (against the cubic stone. tremble ye, o pillars of the universe, for eternity is in travail of a terrible child; she shall bring forth an universe of darkness, whence shall leap forth a spark that shall put his father to flight. the obelisks are broken; the stars have rushed together: the light hath plunged into the abyss: the heavens are mixed with hell. my father shall not hear their noise: his ears are closed: his eyes are covered with the clouds of night. the end! the end! the end: for the eye of shiva he hath opened: the universe is naked before him: for the aeon of saturn l

hat ye have made for yourselves between truth and falsehood. but in truth there is nothing of this, for there is only truth. your falsehood is but a little falser than your truth. yet by your truth shall ye come to truth. your truth is your troth with adonai the beloved one. and the chymical marriage of the alchemists beginneth with a weighing, and he that is not found wanting hath within him one spark of fire, so dense and so intense that it cannot be moved, through all the winds of heaven should clamour against it, and all the waters of the abyss surge against it, and all the multitude of the earths heap themselves upon it to smother it. nay, it shall not be moved. and this is the fire of which it is written "hear thou the voice of fire" and the voice of fire is the second chapter of the

oppressive, that all the other darkness that i have ever conceived would be like bright light beside it. his voice comes in a whisper: o thou that art master of the fifty gates of understanding, is not my mother a black woman? o thou that art master of the pentagram, is not the egg of spirit a black egg? here abideth terror, and the blind ache of the soul, and lo! even i, who am the sole light, a spark shut up, stand in the sign of apophis and typhon. i am the snake that devoureth the spirit of man with the lust of light. i am the sightless storm in the night that wrappeth the world about with desolation. chaos is my name, and thick darkness. know thou that the darkness of the earth is ruddy, and the darkness of the air is grey, but the darkness of the soul is utter blackness. the egg of t

, be thou eager and vigilant, performing punctually the rule. is it not written "change not so much as the style of a letter? depart therefore, for the vision of the voice of the ninth aethyr that is called zip is passed. then i threw back myself into my body by my will bou-saada "december" 7th, 1909. 9.30-11.10 p.m. the cry of the 8th aethyr, which is called zid there appears in the stone a tiny spark of light. it grows a little, and seems almost to go out, and grows again, and it is blown about the aethyr, and by the wind that blows it is it fanned, and now it gathers strength, and darts like a snake or a sword, and now it steadies itself, and is like a pyramid of light that filleth the whole aethyr. and in the pyramid is one like unto an angel, yet at the same time he "is" the pyramid

this constitution was implicitly in the nature of eden("cf" liber l, i, 29, 30, so that the call of the aethyrs could not have been any other call than that which it is. but they that are without understanding have interpreted all this askew, because of the mystery of the abyss, for there is no path from binah unto chesed; and therefore the course of the flaming sword was no more a current, but a spark. and when the stooping dragon raised his head unto d ath in the course of that spark, there was, as it were, an explosion, and his head was blasted. and the ashes thereof were dispersed throughout the whole of the 10th aethyr. and for this, all knowledge is piecemeal, and it is of no value unless it be co-ordinated by understanding. and now the form of the aethyr is the form of a mighty eagl

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ion thereof unto the ruach. thus, therefore, osiris speaketh in the character of the higher soul, the symbolic form of which is now standing between the pillars before him. the second circumambulation then takes place in the path of darkness, the symbolic 255 light of occult science leading the way. this light of the kerux is to show that the higher soul is not the only divine light, but rather a spark from the infinite flame. after the kerux comes the hegemon, the translator of the higher self, leading the candidate, then the stolistes and dadouchos. once they pass round the temple in solemn procession: it is the foundation in darkness of the binah angle of the whole triangle of the ineffable light. the hierophant knocks once as then pass him, and the hiereus does likewise, as the affirma

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ts; and i can well understand their indignation at finding that i do not recognise their proficiency in this game and that of swindling and blackmail as entitling them to a seat at the round table of the adepts. let us, however that may be, return to our classification. 68 xiv "there is a certain intelligible one whom it becometh you to understand with the flower of mind "having mingled the vital spark, from two according sub- stances, mind and divine spirit, as a third to these he added holy love, the venerable charioteer uniting all things "filling the soul with profound love "the soul of man does in a manner clasp god to herself. having nothing mortal, she is wholly inebriated with god. for she glorieth in the harmony under which the moral body sub- sisteth "as rays of light his locks f

ight! leave me to solitude, leave me to night! is there no moon to enkindle the height? v see how the moon with her amrita dews drinks up the death of the star, and renews life in cascades of peonian hues! nay, but she curves to arise, to increase; glamour on glamour to sicken and cease. how shall the warrior wing to the peace? fade, o thou moon, in thy magical bark! sink in the ocean thy silvery spark! leave me, ah leave me alone in the dark! 193 art thou not burnt in the fire of my will? see, by the flashes that crimson and kill i am the master; the magic is still. vi see! how the wrath of my rune that i send her, fire of my fire, is flung flying to end her, wrapping in ruin that scintillant splendour. fire of my fire! how the brilliance darts forth, runs to the uttermost pole of the nor

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ll thee! mighty lord of life, who hast given us life and love, who is like unto thee? o god! hear us when we call! pray thou for us, that we may be made one! unto god the vast one let thy prayer ascend [the magician shall kneel down and say] unto thee, sole wise, sole mighty, sole merciful one, be the praise and the glory for ever and ever! who hast permitted me to glean in thy field! to gather a spark of thine unutterable light! to form two mighty beings from the spheres of thy dominion! to make them one by the operation of thy divine wisdom! grant that this eagle kerub in the sphere of jupiter may be indeed mighty on the earth! to heal the sick, to strengthen the infirm, to quiet the pain of mortal men! grant that this work be unto it for a salvation, and a very invocation of thy light d

through the ritual of the 5= 6 grade of adeptus minor, p, in part at least, unveiled that knowledge which he had set out in the 0= 0 ritual to discover. for as the first grade of the first order endows the neophyte with an unforgettable glimpse of that higher self, the 233 augoeides, genius, holy guardian angel or adonai; so does the first grade of the second order engender within him that divine spark, by drawing down upon the aspirant the genius in pentecostal flames; until it no longer enshrines him like the distant walls of the starry abyss, but burns within him, pouring through the channels of his senses an unending torrent of glory, of that greater glory which alone can be comprehended by one who is an adept: yet again, but the shadow of that supreme glory which is neither the shrine

of the brothers of the order as follows. i admit that i "have" committed one great though unavoidable fault, which is this: in giving these persons so great a knowledge i have not also been able to give them brains and intelligence to comprehend it, for this miracle the gods have not granted me the power to perform. you had better address your reproaches to the gods rather than to me, unless some spark of returning wisdom can make you recognise in such "critics" the swine who trample the divine teaching under foot. with all this we entirely agree, and so eventually did p; but d.d.c.f. had also failed, the bow had proved as rotten as the arrows, and now p, throwing the empty quiver of the golden dawn aside, set out alone on the next stage of his mystic progress. p. was not yet certain of th

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as a green arrow of lightning that speedeth through the purple clouds of night; i beseech thee, o thou great god! that i may wake fire from the crown of thy wisdom, and flash into the depths of thine understanding: o thou god my god! 5. o thou mighty god, make me as a flint-black goat that 25 pranceth in a shining wilderness of steel; i beseech thee, o thou great god! that i may paw one flashing spark from thy splendour, and be welded into the glory of thy might: o thou god my god! 6. o thou mighty god, make me as the sapphirine waves that cling to the shimmering limbs of the green rocks; i beseech thee, o thou great god! that i may chant in foaming music thy glory, and roll forth the eternal rapture of thy name: o thou god my god! 7. o thou mighty god, make me as a silver fish darting th

out with gladness! till my cries stir the night as the burnished gold of a lance thrust into a poisonous dragon of adamant, for the glory and splendour of thy name. 13. ah! but i rejoice in thee, o thou my god; thou self-luminous refulgent brilliance; thou eye of light that hath no eyelid; thou turquoise-studeed sceptre of deed: yea, i rejoice in thee, thou white furnace womb of energy; 40 o thou spark-whirling forge of the substance of the worlds; i rejoice, yea, i shout with gladness! till i mount as a white beam unto the crown, and as a breath of night melt into the golden lips of thy dawn, in the glory and splendour of thy name. o glory be unto thee through all time and through all space: glory, and glory upon glory, everlastingly. amen, and amen, and amen. 41 the chapter known as capr

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the skies into thy wake. the heaven dies in bubbling froth of light, that foams about thine ardour. all the domes of all the heavens close above thee as thou art known of me who love thee. excellent kiss, thou fastenest on this soul of mine, that it is gone, gone from all life, and rapt away into the infinite starry spray of thine own aeon. alas for me! 46 i faint. thy mystic majesty absorbs this spark. olympas. all hail! all hail! white splendour through the viewless veil! i am drawn with thee to rapture. olympas. stay! i bear a message. heaven hath sent the knowledge of a new sweet way into the secret element. olympas. master, while yet the glory clings declare this mystery magical! marsyas. i am yet borne on those blue wings into the essence of the all. now, now i stand on earth again

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y enough did p. bring to completion the work l.i.l. at the end of the year 1900; but, in another, it took him nine long years of toil before he perfected it, for it was not until the last days of the year 1909 that the work of the thirty aethyrs was indeed brought to an end. in 1900 verily was the work conceived, but not until the year 1909 was it brought forth a light unto the darkness, a little spark cast into the well of time (p. merely means that at this time he established a secret order of this name) 3 the signs are of projection and withdrawal of force; necessary complements. and he spake not any more (as had been his wont) in guise of a skeptic and indifferent man: but indeed with the very voice and power of a great guru, or of one definitely sent from such a brother of the great w

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ermore through countless shapes continually at war, by countless interactions interknit: if one is born a certain day on earth, all times and forces tended to that birth, not all the world could change or hinder it. 17 i find no hint throughout the universe of good or ill, of blessing or of curse: i find alone necessity supreme; with infinite mystery, abysmal, dark, unlighted ever by the faintest spark for us the flitting shadows of a dream. o brothers of sad lives! they are so brief; a few short years must bring us all relief: can we not bear these years of labouring breath? but if you would not this poor life fulfil, lo, you are free to end it when you will, without the fear of waking after death["blow out red lights [bro. capricornus emissarius "runs out with tom-tom and dances wildly

abroad. aries. it grows very dark. leo. the path is too steep and dangerous for any pilgrims to come hither. aries. there is no moon to-night. leo. i think there will be rain. aries. let us close the shrine. leo. the disk of the sun is not yet quite obscured. aries. but no pilgrims can come now. leo. no pilgrims can come now. but it is the rule of the temple that the shrine is open unto the last spark of sunlight. aries. brother leo, i beg that you will close the shrine with me. leo. it cannot be. aries. brother leo, i know the rule. but evil will assuredly come to us from this. leo. brother aries, the law may not be broken. 70 aries. brother leo, the law is made so that the wise may break it at their need. leo. brother aries, in my heart is fidelity- fidelity- fidelity. aries. brother le

he aeons were proclaimed. in symbols did he record them; in breath did he vibrate them; for between the light and the darkness did he stand. 99 ii "the temple in darkness" mercury. o light in light! o flashing wings of fire! the swiftest of the moments of the sea is unto thee even as some slow-foot eternity with limbs that drag and wheels that tire. o subtle-minded flame of amber gyre, it seems a spark of gold grown purple, and behold! a flame of gray! then the dark night-wings glow with iridescent indigo, shot with some violet ray; and all the vision flames across the horizon the millionth of no time- and when we say: hail- thou art gone! the moon is dark beside thy crown; the sun seems a pale image of thy body bare; and for thine hair flash comets lustrous with the dewfall rare of tears

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of one person. there were other contributors, but after no. 6 most of the work was crowley's> since then i have been the lover of the earth, that wooed me thus roughly. many a night have i slept upon her naked breast, in forest and on glacier, upon great plains and upon lonely crags, in heat and cold, fair weather and foul; and my blood is the blood of the earth. my life is hers, and as she is a spark thrown off from the whirling brilliance of the sun, so do i know myself to be a spark of infinite god. seek earth, and heaven shall be added unto you! back to our mother, drive the shining spade into her womb! wrinkle her with your furrows, she will only smile more kindly! let your sweat, the sweat of your toil, which is your passion, drip like benediction from on high upon her; she will ren

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s two great brothers, the manu and the mahachohan. daily he pours out his blessing on the world, and daily he stands under the great pine in his garden at the sunset hour with hands uplifted in blessing over all those who truly and earnestly seek to aspire. to him all seekers are known, and, though they may remain unaware of him, the light which he pours forth stimulates their desire, fosters the spark of struggling life and spurs on the aspirant until the momentous day dawns when they stand face to face with the one who by being "lifted up (occultly understood) is drawing all men unto himself as the initiator of the sacred mysteries. the work of the lord of civilisation, the mahochohan. group three has as its head the mahachohan. his rule over the group persists for a longer period than t

o the average man for whom this book is written. at the sixth initiation, the initiate, functioning consciously as the love-aspect of the monad, is brought (via his "father) into a still vaster recognition, and becomes aware of that star which encloses his planetary star, just as that star has earlier been seen as enclosing his own tiny- 69- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust "spark" he thus makes his conscious contact with the solar logos, and realises within himself the oneness of all life and manifestation. this recognition is extended at the seventh initiation, so that two aspects of the one life become realities to the emancipated buddha. thus by a graded series of steps is the initiate brought face to face with truth and existence. it will be apparent to thoughtfu

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eted the work stood in completion. the builders of the lowest grade announced the work was finished. forth from the rocky strata emerged the covering next. the builders of the second agreed the work was done. the first and second on the upward way stood forth in fourfold form. the inner five was somewhat seen by those whose sight was keen "aum" said the mighty one, and gathered in his breath. the spark within the peopling third impelled to further growth. the builders of the lowest forms, manipulating densest maya, merged their production with the forms built by the watery ones. matter and water merged produced the third in time. ascension thus progressed. the builders worked in union. they called the guardians of the fiery zone. matter and water mixed with fire, the inner spark within the

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

ught, showing itself through the medium of those entities who, in their very essence, are fire itself. these dualities of expression make the four necessary factors in the logoic quaternary,12(11) or the lower nature of the logos viewing his manifestation from one esoteric angle; exoterically, they are the sumtotal of the logoic quaternary, plus the logoic fifth principle, cosmic mind. the divine spark does not as yet manifest (as do the other two fires) as a duality, though what lies hidden in a later cycle, evolution alone will disclose. this third fire, along with the other two, make the necessary five of logoic evolutionary development and by its perfected merging with the other two fires as the evolutionary process proceeds is seen the goal of logoic attainment for this greater cycle

e system in which the monad or human spirit is the logos, and it holds the personality or lower material man in objective manifestation thus permitting the spiritual unit to contact the plane of densest matter. it has its correspondence in the ray of intelligent activity and is controlled by the law of economy in one of its subdivisions, the law of adaptation in time. 2. there is next the fire or spark of mind which is the correspondence in man to solar fire. this constitutes the thinking self-conscious unit or the soul. this fire of mind is governed by the law of attraction as is its greater correspondence. later we can enlarge on this. it is this spark of mind in man, manifesting as spiral cyclic activity, which leads to expansion and to his eventual- 27- a treatise on cosmic fire copyri

largely due to reflex elemental action. these dualities of expression are: 1. active fire or prana. latent fire or bodily heat. 2. mental energy in the mental body. purely mental thought forms, animated by self-engendered fire, or by the fifth principle, and therefore part of the sphere, or system of control, of the monad. these form an esoteric quaternary which with the fifth factor, the divine spark of intelligent will, make the five of monadic manifestation manifestation in this case connotating a purely subjective manifestation which is neither altogether spiritual nor altogether material. 3. finally there is the monadic flame divine. this embodies the highest vibration of which the monad is capable, is governed by the law of synthesis, and is the cause of the forward progressive move

imly glowing fire, a fire diffused throughout but of no real intensity. the wheel rotates slowly, but so slowly as to be almost inappreciable. this corresponds to the- 98- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust little developed stage, and to the early lemurian root-race, and to that period wherein man was simply animal; all that was being formed was a field for the appearance of the spark of mind. 2. the circle with the point in the centre. the centre is here seen with a point of glowing fire in the middle of the saucer-like depression, and the rotation becomes more rapid. this corresponds to the stage wherein mind is beginning to be felt and thus to later lemurian days. 3. the divided circle. at this stage the point of light in the centre of the vortex of fire is becoming mo

man's finite comprehension, is quite possible. these methods are- 203- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust first, the method pursued on the moon-chain (the planetary manifestation previous to ours, when, through innate force and energy, the conjunction of the three fires was brought about and the fire of matter contacted the fire of spirit through the latent presence of the fiery spark of mind. this spark of mind, working through the instinct, drove the material form or substance, into such activity that it was enabled to reach up to heights where its opposite pole could be contacted. animal-man aspired; spirit answered; the vibration of the germ of mentality had permeated the substance like yeast. thus was consciousness awakened. in the previous solar system, in connectio

efold: first. at human individualisation in the middle of the third rootrace. this was produced by a vast destruction of the forms we call animal-man. this point has seldom been brought out in teaching. the advent of the lords of the flame, the electrical storm which ushered in the period of man, was distinguished by disaster, chaos, and the destruction of many in the third kingdom of nature. the spark of mind was implanted and the strength of its vibration, and the immediate effect of its presence caused the death of the animal form, thus producing the immediate possibility of the newly vitalised causal bodies vibrating to such purpose that new physical vehicles were taken. that was the will aspect manifesting in the fourth round in connection with the human family. second. in the fifth r

substance is resolved through internal activity and external heat in such a manner that the electric fire at the centre of the atom is liberated and seeks a new form. this is the aim of the transmutative process and the fact that hitherto alchemists working in the mineral kingdom have failed to achieve their objective has been due to three things: first. inability to contact the central electric spark. this is due to ignorance of certain of the laws of electricity, and above all, ignorance of the set formula which covers the range of the electrical influence of that spark. second. inability to create the necessary channel or "path" along which the escaping life may travel into its new form. many have succeeded in breaking the form so that the life has escaped but they have not known how t

t spark. second. inability to create the necessary channel or "path" along which the escaping life may travel into its new form. many have succeeded in breaking the form so that the life has escaped but they have not known how to harness or guide it and all their labour has consequently been lost. third. inability to control the fire elementals who are the external fire which affects that central spark through the medium of its environment. this inability is especially distinctive of the alchemists of the fifth root race who have been practically incapable of this control, having lost the words, the formulas, and the sounds. this is the consequence of undue success in atlantean days, when the alchemists of the time, through colour and sound so entirely controlled the elementals that they u

rom different sources, each distinctive and apart, and only consciousness producing intelligent effect through the medium of space. i would point out that the lord agni shows forth his fiery life on the atomic subplane of each plane; he shows forth as solar fire on the second, third and fourth, and as 'fire by friction' on the fifth, sixth and seventh. from the point of view of the microcosm, the spark in the flame, man demonstrates as electric fire on the second plane, or the second cosmic ether; as solar fire on the third, fourth and the three higher subplanes of the fifth plane, and as fire by friction on the lower subplanes of the fifth, on the sixth, and seventh planes. c. the planes and the three fires. on every plane we have, relatively speaking: a. electric fire demonstrating as th

mind blended. this makes man the six-pointed star of light, for each of these fires is triple. the fire of mind is also in essence dual, bringing in another triplicity, thus making the nine. when a man has awakened the nine fires, and has unfolded the nine petals, and when he has received the stimulus which is imparted at initiation, through being brought into conscious contact with the electric spark of his own particular heavenly man, they all blend and merge. the inner three which complete the twelve, and which are concerned with the final, and essentially spiritual stages, of his evolution, are really related more intimately to the evolution of the heavenly man, and are connected with the stimulus which he receives himself in contacting the logoic electric spark, or the pure spirit as

points of fire, or the permanent atoms and the mental unit, in all their glory; at the centre can be seen a central blaze of glory growing in intensity as the three inner petals respond to the stimulation. when the fire of matter, of "fire by friction" becomes sufficiently intense; when the fire of mind of solar fire (which vitalises the nine petals) becomes equally fierce, and when the electric spark at the innermost centre blazes out and can be seen, the entire causal body becomes radioactive. then the fires of substance (the vitality of the permanent atoms) escape from the atomic spheres, and add their quota to the great sphere in which they are contained; the fire of mind blends with its emanating source, and the central life escapes. this is the great liberation. the man, in terms of

under karmic law. they only are self-conscious, and therefore responsible. where self-consciousness is not, there is no responsibility. hence animals are not held to be responsible, and though they suffer on the physical plane and in their physical vehicles, on the subtler planes they are freed from karma, for they have neither memory nor anticipation; they lack the correlating faculty and as the spark of mind is missing, they are held free from the law of retribution, except where the physical body is concerned. the reason for the suffering in the animal kingdom is hidden in the mystery of the sin of the mindless,80(157) and in that terrible period spoken of in the secret doctrine, which resulted in abortions and distortions of all kinds. had this period not occurred, and this particular

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divine life meet spirit, soul and body. 6. it is also the word of the fifth, the aryan race, in a special sense. the work of that race is to reveal in a newer and fuller way the nature of the inner identity, of the soul within the form, the son of mind, the solar angel, the fifth principle. 7. the significance of the word only becomes apparent after the "light within" is realised. by its use the "spark" becomes a radiant light, the light becomes a flame, and the flame eventually becomes a sun. by its use the "sun of righteousness arises" in the life of every man. 8. each of the three letters has relation to the three aspects, and each can be applied to any of the known triplicities. 9. the master, the god within, is indeed the word, the aum, and of this master (found at the heart of all be

theric, astral and lower mental) received that twofold expression of spirit, atma-buddhi, spiritual will and spiritual love, which completed him and made him truly man. the two stages of development which are brought about by the ego within the purified and earnest aspirant, are- 101- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. enlightenment. the light in the head, which is at first but a spark, is fanned to a flame which illumines all things and is fed constantly from above. this is progressive (see previous sutra, and is dependent upon steadfast practise, meditation and earnest service. 2. illumination the gradually increasing downpour of fiery energy increases steadily the "light in the head" or the effulgence found in the brain in the neighborhood of the pineal gland. this is t

tive worlds. 38. by liberation from the causes of bondage through their weakening and by an understanding of the mode of transference (withdrawal or entrance, the mind stuff (or chitta) can enter another body. 39. by subjugation of the upward life (the udana) there is liberation from water, the thorny path, and mire, and the power of ascension is gained. 40. through subjugation of the samana, the spark becomes the flame. 41. by the means of one-pointed meditation upon the relationship between the akasha and sound, an organ for spiritual hearing will be developed. 42. by one-pointed meditation upon the relationship existing between the body and the akasha, ascension out of matter (the three worlds) and power to travel in space is gained. 43. when that which veils the light is done away with

geless wisdom, the secret doctrine of the world, human beings are frequently called "sons of mind" it is this which gives them their sense of individuality, of their separate identity; it is this which makes them egos. in the centre of the brain, seated in the pineal gland, we are told is the home of the soul, an- 175- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust outpost of the life of god, a spark of pure spiritual fire. this is the lowest point which pure spiritual life, direct from the monad, our father in heaven, contacts or reaches. it is the termination of the sutratma, or thread which links and connects the various sheaths and passes from the monad on its own high plane, via the soul body on the higher levels of the mental plane down into the physical vehicle. this life of god i

e life, then "the power of ascension" is gained and he can ascend into heaven at will. the christ or spiritual man can stand upon the mountain of ascension, having passed through the four crises or points of control from the birth to the crucifixion. thus the "udana" or upward life becomes the controlling factor and the downward life no longer dominates. 40. through subjugation of the samana, the spark becomes the flame. this sutra is one of the most beautiful in the book and the translation by charles johnston should here be noted "by mastery of the binding life comes radiance" another interpretation might be "through control of samana the aum (the word of glory) manifests" out of the heart are the issues of life, and the vital energy called samana controls the heart and the life breath t

volves a knowledge of: 1. genus. 2. quality. 3. position in space. ray. character. place in body of heavenly man. spirit. soul. body. life aspect. consciousness. form. essence. subjective nature .o bjective form- 202- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust of this knower we can apply the words of the teacher whose works are found in the archives of the lodge "to him, standing before the spark, the flame and the smoke are equally to be seen. to him, the shadow veils the reflection and yet the light is seen. to him, the tangible but demonstrates the intangible, and both reveal the spirit, whilst form, color and number speak aloud the word of god" 54. this intuitive knowledge, which is the great deliverer, is omnipresent and omniscient and includes the past, the present and the futu

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's illuminanda point the goal- 21- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust "in all men lurks the light; yet, in how few has it blazed forth, as rightfully it ought, illuming, from within, our fleshly lamp, and kindling cosmic time in nigh-brought souls! splendour of god, how few! and ours the blame; for, ever, crassly, by routine and wrath, we undiscerningly damp down and choke the spark of god that glints in every child. all children are, by nature, bits of god; and god, if they but had their freedom, would unfold himself in them, would burgeon forth tinting and moulding, till, as perfect flowers they bloomed, fulfilled of loveliness unveiled."2(27) this is the goal of the meditation process to lead men forth into the light that is within themselves and enable them, in that

ious experiencing which constitutes what we know as the inner life of an empirical self "the empirical self is the mixture of free spirit and mechanism, of purusa and prakriti..every ego possesses within the gross material body, which suffers dissolution at death, a subtle body, formed of the psychical apparatus, including the senses."6(31) this soul, we are told, is a fragment of the oversoul, a spark of the one flame, imprisoned in the body. it is that life aspect which gives to man as to all forms in manifestation life, or being and consciousness. it is the vital factor, that integrating coherent something which makes the human being (composite, yet unified, as he is) a thinking, feeling and aspiring entity. the intellect in man is that factor or quality of soul-awareness which enables

the son leaps from the father in the first procession, so there exists some occult thing behind the first procession, intellect and will" meister eckhart links himself with the oriental knowers in the following words "intellect is the highest power of the soul and therewith the soul grasps the divine good. free will is the power of relishing the divine good which intellect makes known to it. the spark of the soul is the light of god's reflection, which is always looking back to god. the arcanum of the mind is the sum-total, as it were, of all the divine good and divine gifts in the innermost essence of the soul, which is as a bottomless well of divine goodness "the soul's lower powers should be ordered to her higher, and her higher ones to god; her outward senses to her inward, and her in

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opposites, between the urge or pull of spirit and the lure of matter or mother-nature, and between that called the lower self and the spiritual man. e. group consciousness, which is the consciousness of the great sum totals, is arrived at by man through the development, first of all, of his individual consciousness, the sum total of the lives of his animal, emotional and mental natures, plus the spark of divinity dwelling within the form which they make. then comes awareness of his group, as specified for him in that group of disciples, working under some one master who represents to him the hierarchy. the hierarchy might be defined as the sum total of those sons of men who are no longer centered in the individualised self-consciousness, but who have entered into a wider realisation, that

finite crystallization of that group soul which is now called the fourth or human kingdom. the arousing of manas or mind in animal man in a triple way. a. by the direct incarnation of certain members of the white brotherhood, in which way they brought in the new and necessary factors by transmission to their children. b. by the definite implantation of what is called in the occult scriptures "the spark of mind" in animal man. this is simply a pictorial way of picturing the creation, by a direct act, of the necessary mental unit or mental apparatus of thought, within the causal or spiritual body. c. by the gradual stimulation of the mental faculty in animal man, and the steady vitalisation of the latent germ of mind until it flowered forth as manifested mind. this covered a vast period of t

a bald translation of some mantric phrases, and of some basic symbols, and must in no way be considered to be anything except indicative of a process, veiled and couched so that only those who know can understand. esotericists will understand that these five stages cover the life period of every form, no matter whether the creator is cosmic, planetary or human. every form is built by an impulsive spark of life, emanated by a creator, and growing stage by stage under the law of accretion an aspect of the law of attraction, which is the law of life. this law cooperates with the law of cause and effect, which, as we know, is the law governing matter. cause, attraction or desire, accretion and effect these four words govern the construction of any thought-form. when the latter is a completed e

born, and nothing comes into objective manifestation. this has a literal correspondence on the physical plane. many infants are still-born for this very reason that the solar angel wavers in his intent and is not sufficiently interested. many fine ideas equally fail to materialize or have no persistent living existence "in the light of day" because there was not sufficient energy to generate that spark of living flame which must ever burn at the center of all forms. the danger, therefore, is twofold: 1. that of destruction by fire, owing to the expenditure of too much energy and the expression of too violent a purpose. 2. that of death, through lack of vitality and because the "directed attention" of the magician is not of adequate strength and duration to bring the form into being. the oc

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nant and the modifying factors in the character of every human being, as well as to the planetary influence, or the ray of the personality, which again modifies these two great influences during any given life. we have seen that seven rays are seven differentiations of one great cosmic ray, effected within the very being of our solar logos before he began his creation. now we know that the divine spark, the divine centre of consciousness in each one of us, comes from the highest principle of our logos; it has therefore within it the potentiality of all the rays, but from the time when our logos formed within himself the countless centres of divine consciousness, each one of these centres was coloured by the special attributes of one or other of the rays. seeing that the moment each became

hin himself the countless centres of divine consciousness, each one of these centres was coloured by the special attributes of one or other of the rays. seeing that the moment each became limited (i.e. separated from the absolute consciousness of the logos by even the finest veil of differentiation) it must necessarily belong to one or other of the rays, the very essence of our being, the central spark of the divine in each one of us, may thus be said to belong to one or other of the seven rays, and this may be spoken of as a man's primary ray. it will be remembered that the first great outpouring from the logos vivified universal substance and caused every atom of matter within the "ring-pass-not" of his system to vibrate in seven different measures of vibration. the second outpouring cau

c psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust we are told in the yoga sutras of patanjali that "by mastery of the binding life comes radiance" and in these words can be found the clue to the relation existing between the mineral and the human kingdoms. in other words, by the conscious control of the static mineral nature, as it expresses itself in man, comes his eventual radiatory activity. thus "the spark becomes the flame (patanjali: iii.40, the light of the soul) it will be found that in the sutras much effective correlation can be made, particularly when considering any of the various quintuples found in manifestation with such frequency. this book is a basic treatise for initiatory training. take, as an illustration of this, the words found in book iii.44, and note the illumination thrown

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we say during some previous cycle of lives) learned obedience through the things which he had suffered. that he overcame death and opened the gates of immortality to all humanity is likewise true. but since the first dawn of human history men have always suffered for each other; they have again and again, here one and there another, achieved perfection and disappeared from human view. the divine spark in man has always rendered him- 172- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust immortal. men have always sensed their divinity, and they have always reached out their hands and their hearts to god. the sons of the father have never forgotten the father's home, no matter how far away they may have wandered. god has always equally sought after us, and from century to century he has

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and it is with commendation that i look at you today. that is all that i have to say, i am pleased. i know that for you that suffices. if you stand steady with an open heart, a seeing eye and a ready response to all who come your way, the door to renewed service will open and much can be done by you. my brother, you have the power to help individuals, and you have an unusual capacity to fan a dim spark into a white-hot flame. do not distrust yourself, but go ahead. your field of service lies all around you. the problem that has to be faced by all who have passed through the fires of renunciation, who are walking the way of humility whilst conscious of the grandeur of the soul, and who are, at the same time, far from young in years is that of facing the last decade or so of life with unders

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n beings, who are in truth the sons of god (if the words of christ and all the world teachers mean anything) the three divine aspects knowledge, love and will can be expressed. 4. that there is only one divine life, expressing itself through the multiplicity of forms in all the kingdoms of nature, and that the sons of men are, therefore, one. 5. that within each human being is a point of light, a spark of the one flame. this, we believe, is the soul, the second aspect of divinity and that of which paul spoke when he referred to "christ in you, the hope of glory" it is the demonstration of the divine livingness in each person which is our goal, and discipleship is a step upon the way to that attainment. 6. that an ultimate perfection (though relative in nature) is possible for the individua

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ponse, and reacts to the outer world of impacts and inner impulses, but has no initiatory life of its own. it is composed of units of energy, as is all else in nature, and has its own individual life; its focus for the distribution of energy for this life is the spleen. in the spleen, the negative life of matter and the living energy of the positive etheric body, are brought together, and then a "spark" as it is called, is made between the inner living bodies of man (through the medium of the etheric body) and the physical plane. it is a reflection on the lowest rung of the evolutionary ladder, as far as man is concerned, and corresponds to the relation of soul and body or on a higher turn of the spiral of spirit and matter. on the vagus nerve. there are two powerful centres connected with

been told in current theosophical literature about the time equation in relation to the sequential destruction- 285- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust of the subtle bodies. it should be stated, however, that the moment that true death is scientifically established (by the orthodox doctor in charge of the case, and it has been ascertained that no spark of life remains in the physical body, cremation is then possible. this complete or true death eventuates when the thread of consciousness and the thread of life are completely withdrawn from the head and the heart. at the same time, reverence and an unhurried attitude have their rightful place in the process. the family of the dead person need a few hours in which to adjust themselves to the

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ans of revelation, as far as the spiritual man is concerned: 1. the human eye, giving "in-sight" into the phenomenal world, letting in the light, and bringing revelation of the environment. 2. the eye of the soul, bringing revelation of the nature of the interior worlds, of the kingdom of god and of the divine plan. 3. the centre within the one life which we call by the unmeaning word "monad" the spark within the one flame. in the final stages of initiation, the monad becomes the revealer of the purpose of god, of the will of the planetary logos and of the door which opens on to the way of the higher evolution. this way leads a man off the cosmic physical plane on to the cosmic astral plane, and therefore into the world of divine sentiency, of which we can have no possible understanding, b

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of what is taking place today. the second cause arose slowly out of the first. matter and spirit, focussed in the human family and expressing their basic qualities and essential nature, were eternally in conflict. in the early stages and during the long lemurian cycle, infant humanity steadily evolved and yet in spite of this the lines of cleavage, though present, were not recognised. the latent spark of mind served only to bring a relative enlightenment to the five senses and their purely physical application. the physical life was strong; the deductive or self-registering life was practically nil. the life of- 78- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust humanity was then focussed within the physical body, thus fortifying and stimulating the animal nature and deve

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

al-buddhic development, the fourth path includes the larger number of the sons of men. in the hierarchy of our planet the "lords of compassion" are numerically greater than the "masters of the wisdom" the former must therefore pass to the sun sirius there to undergo a tremendous manasic stimulation, for sirius is the emanating source of manas. there the mystic must go and become what is called "a spark of mahatic electricity" these seven paths are not concerned with nature or the balancing of the pairs of opposites. they are concerned only with unity, with that which utilises the pairs of opposites as factors in the production of light. path i. earth service attributes..wise compassion. source..constellation of the dragon, via libra. method..twelve cosmic identifications. hierarchy..the si

tably leads him out of the world of mysticism into the scientific and assured perception of god as life or energy. the first initiation marks the beginning of a totally new life and mode of living; it marks the commencement of a new manner of thinking and of conscious perception. the life of the personality in the three worlds has for aeons nurtured the germ of this new life and fostered the tiny spark of light within the relative darkness of the lower nature. this process is now being brought to a close, though it is not at this stage entirely discontinued, for the "new man" has to learn to walk, to talk, and to create; the consciousness is now, however, being focussed elsewhere. this leads to much pain and suffering until the definite choice is made, a new dedication to service is vouchs

- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust set the flame destroys all, and all is gone, the work of ages passes, in a moment, into nothingness. but forth from the fourfold fire, up from the altar of the ages, springs the liberated one, the flame. back to the fire of cosmos springs the dual flame. into the three is absorbed the essence, and becomes one with its source. the spark becomes the flame, the flame becomes the fire, and forms part of the great cosmic blaze that holds the secret of the five hidden within the heart. a fire mantram the point of light within the glowing arc, o pilgrim on the way, waxes and wanes as application hard or not betrays the purpose within the heart. that point is ever there, unnoticed and unseen. dark is the night and drear, and sore

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remember that the law is, and always has been, to struggle; and that the fight has lost nothing of its violence by being transposed from the material onto the spiritual plane. let him remember that his own dignity, his nobility as a human being, must emerge from his efforts to liberate himself from his bondage and to obey his deeper aspirations. and let him above all never forget that the divine spark is in him, in him alone, and that he is free to disregard it, to kill it, or to come closer to god by showing his eagerness to work with him, and for him. le comte du no y [180] labor xi cleansing the augean stables (aquarius, january 21st- february 19th) the myth within the place of peace the great presiding one poured forth the radiance of his exalted thought. the teacher drew nigh "the si

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ained, jer. i. 5. the kabalah then teaches that the egos have come out from the spirit fountain, suffer incarnation again and again until experience and perfection have been attained, and ultimately rejoin the divine source: zohar i. 145, 168; ii. 97. now what is it that dwells for a time in this 'coat of skin" as genesis in chapter 3, v. 21, calls it, this so-called material body? it is a divine spark, composed of several elements derived from the symbolic four parts of jehovah, and from three worlds, and these are seated in the fourth world of effects, the material universe. now it is no doubt true that in the several kabalistic schools, the numbers and names of these essences vary, but the basal idea remains the same: just in a similar way the principles of man's constitution, as stated

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, which is the first man, the image of the invisible spirit; it is the forethought, which barbelo, and the thought, and the foreknowledge, and the indestructibility, and the eternal life, and the truth. this is the androgynous pentad of the aeons, which is the decad of the aeons, which is the father "and he looked at barbelo with the pure light which surrounds the invisible spirit, and (with) his spark, and she conceived from him. he begot a spark of light with a light resembling blessedness. but it does not equal his greatness. this was an only-begotten child of the mother-father which had come forth; it is the only offspring, the only-begotten one of the father, the pure light "and the invisible, virginal spirit rejoiced over the light which came forth, that which was brought forth first

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ted by putrefaction, the process must be as follows: the earth is first decomposed by the moisture which it contains; for without moisture, or water, there can be no true decay; thereupon the decomposed substance is kindled and quickened by twelve keys of basil valentine 55 of 95 the natural heat of fire: for without natural heat no generation can take place. again, if that which has received the spark of life, is to be stirred up to motion and growth, it must be acted upon by air. for without air, the quickened substance would be choked and stifled in the germ. hence it manifestly appears that no one element can work effectually without the aid of the others, and that all must contribute towards the generation of anything. thus their quickening cooperation takes the form of putrefaction

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e egg of the future race, the man-swan of the later third. first male-female, then man and woman. 23. the self-born were the chhayas: the shadows from the bodies of the sons of twilight- vii. 24. the sons of wisdom, the sons of night, ready for rebirth, came down, they saw the vile forms of the first third "we can choose" said the lords "we have wisdom" some entered the chhaya. some projected the spark. some deferred till the fourth. from their own rupa they filled the kama. those who entered became arhats. those who received but a spark, remained destitute of knowledge; the spark burned low. the third remained mind-less. their jivas were not[[footnote(s* the idea and the spirit of the sentence is here given, as a verbal translation would convey very little to the reader[[vol. 2, page] 19

ngs. they of the long necks in the water became the progenitors of the fowls of the air. 30. during the third race the boneless animals grew and changed: they became animals with bones, their chhayas became solid. 31. the animals separated the first. they began to breed. the two-fold man separated also. he said "let us as they; let us unite and make creatures" they did. 32. and those which had no spark took huge she-animals unto them. they begat upon them dumb races. dumb they were themselves. but their tongues untied. the tongues of their progeny remained still. monsters they bred. a race of crooked red-hair-covered monsters going on all fours. a dumb race to keep the shame untold[[vol. 2, page] 20 the secret doctrine. ix. 33. seeing which, the lhas who had not built men, wept, saying- 34

carry away the light! but here "light" means esoteric wisdom, and we have sufficiently explained the secret meaning of the terms dragon, serpent, etc, etc, all of which refer to adepts and initiates[[vol. 2, page] 95 what prometheus symbolized. they who became the first race, and thus shared its destiny and further evolution. they would not, simply because they could not, give to man that sacred spark which burns and expands into the flower of human reason and selfconsciousness, for they had it not to give. this was left to that class of devas who became symbolised in greece under the name of prometheus, to those who had nought to do with the physical body, yet everything with the purely spiritual man (see part ii of this volume "the fallen angels; also "the gods of light proceed from the

higher self or human monad- and the animal monad, both one and the same, although the former is endowed with divine intelligence, the latter with instinctual faculty alone. how is the difference to be explained, and the presence of that higher self in man accounted for "the sons of mahat are the quickeners of the human plant. they are the waters falling upon the arid soil of latent life, and the spark that vivifies the human animal. they are the lords of spiritual life eternal "in the beginning (in the second race) some (of the lords) only breathed of their essence into manushya (men; and some took in man their abode" this shows that not all men became incarnations of the "divine rebels" but only a few among them. the remainder had their fifth principle simply quickened by the spark throw

the early "egg-born (26) they select the later androgynes (27) the first man endowed with mind- 24. the sons of wisdom, the sons of night (issued from the body of brahma when it became night, ready for re-birth, came down. they saw the (intellectually) vile forms of the first third (still senseless race (a "we can choose" said the lords "we have wisdom" some entered the chhayas. some projected a spark. some deferred till the fourth (race. from their own essence they filled (intensified) the kama (the vehicle of desire. those who received but a spark remained destitute of (higher) knowledge. the spark burnt low (b. the third remained mind-less. their jivas (monads) were not ready. these were set apart among the seven (primitive human species. they (became the) narrow-headed. the third were

remains little to be said. nor, after reading this, does one need to consume further time in refuting the further assertion that "in that case man also[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 165 to the moneron the creator. the "boneless" this is the second root-race, endowed by the preservers (rakshasas* and the incarnating gods (asuras and the kumaras) with the first primitive and weak spark (the germ of intelligence. and from these in turn proceeds- 3. the third root-race, the "two-fold (androgynes. the first races hereof are shells, till the last is "inhabited (i.e, informed) by the dhyanis. the second race, as stated above, being also sexless, evolved out of itself, at its beginning, the third androgyne race by an analogous, but already more complicated process. as described

the "fifth-rounders" even in the coming seventh race, at the close of this fourth round, while our four lower principles will be fully developed, that of manas will be only proportionately so. this limitation, however, refers solely to the spiritual development. the intellectual, on the physical plane, was reached during the fourth root-race. thus, those who were "half ready" who received "but a spark" constitute the average humanity which has to acquire its intellectuality during the present manvantaric evolution[[vol. 2, page] 168 the secret doctrine. after which they will be ready in the next for the full reception of the "sons of wisdom" while those which "were not ready" at all, the latest monads, which had hardly evolved from their last transitional and lower animal forms at the clo

question, as on many others. we shall examine this claim in the light of esoteric philosophy in stanza viii. meanwhile, let us give a few moments of attention to the various consecutive modes of procreation according to the laws of evolution. let us begin by the mode of reproduction of the later sub-races of the third human race, by those who found themselves endowed with the sacred fire from the spark of higher and then independent beings, who were the psychic and spiritual parents of man, as the lower pitar devata (the pitris) were the progenitors of his physical body. that third and holy race consisted of men who, at their zenith, were described[[footnote(s* this is explained in the section which follows this series of stanzas in the allegory from the puranas concerning kandu, the holy

in the class of mammals, actual hermaphroditism is unheard of, although through the whole period of their development they drag along with them these residues born by their unknown ancestry, no one can say how long ago- 31. they (the animals) began to breed. the two-fold man (then) separated also. he (man, said "let us as they; let us unite and make creatures" they did- 32. and those which had no spark (the "narrow-brained* took huge she-animals unto them (a. they begat upon them dumb races. dumb they were (the "narrow-brained) themselves. but their tongues untied (b. the tongues of their progeny remained still. monsters they bred. a race of crooked, red-hair-covered monsters, going on all fours* a dumb race, to keep the shame untold (a) the animals "separated the first" says stanza 31. be

as different from any we know now, as were the men. this was the first physical "fall into matter" of some of the then existing and lower races. bear in mind stanza 24. the "sons of wisdom" had spurned the early third race, i.e, the non-developed, and are shown incarnating in, and thereby endowing with intellect, the later third race. thus the sin of the brainless or "mindless" races, who had no "spark" and were irresponsible, fell upon those who failed to do by them their karmic duty (b) see later on concerning the beginning of human speech- what may be the objections to the foregoing. thus occultism rejects the idea that nature developed man from the ape, or even from an ancestor common to both, but traces, on the contrary, some of the most anthropoid species to the third race man of the

fathers and semi-human mothers, or, to speak more correctly, from human monsters- those "failures" mentioned in the first commentary. the real anthropoids, haeckel's catarrhini and platyrrhini, came far later, in the closing times of atlantis. the orang-outang, the gorilla, the chimpanzee and cynocephalus are the latest and purely physical evolutions from lower anthropoid mammalians. they have a spark of the purely human essence in them; man on the other hand, has not one drop of pithecoid* blood in his veins. thus saith old wisdom and universal tradition. how was the separation of sexes effected? it is asked. are we to believe in the old jewish fable of the rib of adam yielding eve? even such belief is more logical and reasonable than the descent of man from the quadrumana without any re

ancy and splendour" of agni abhimanin, the eldest son of brahma, the cosmic logos, by swaha, one of daksha's* daughters. in the metaphysical sense the "fire of friction" means the union between buddhi, the sixth, and manas, the fifth, principles, which thus are united or cemented together; the fifth merging partially into and becoming part of the monad; in the physical, it relates to the creative spark, or germ, which fructifies and generates the human being. the three fires, it is said (whose names are pavaka, pavamana and suchi) were condemned by a curse of vasishta, the great sage "to be born over and over again (bhagavata-purana iv. 24, 4) this is clear enough. therefore, the flames, whose functions are confused in the exoteric books, and who are called indifferently prajapati, pitris

teachers in the days of their purity, became a great focus of light, the rays from which became necessarily weakened as they were diffused and shed upon an uncongenial, because too material soil. with the masses they degenerated into sorcery, taking later on the shape of exoteric religions, of idolatry full of superstitions, and man, or hero-worship. alone a handful of primitive men- in whom the spark of divine wisdom burnt bright, and only strengthened in its intensity as it got dimmer and dimmer with every age in those who turned it to bad purposes- remained the elect custodians of the mysteries revealed to mankind by the divine teachers. there were those among them, who remained in their kumaric condition from the beginning; and tradition whispers, what the secret teachings affirm, nam

mes. their science was innate in them. the lemuro- atlantean had no need of discovering and fixing in his memory that which his informing principle knew at the moment of its incarnation. time alone, and the ever-growing obtuseness of the matter in which the principles had clothed themselves, could, the one, weaken the memory of their pre-natal knowledge, the other, blunt and even extinguish every spark of the spiritual and divine in them. therefore had they, from the first, fallen victims to their animal natures and bred "monsters- i.e, men of distinct varieties from themselves. speaking of the giants, creuzer describes them well in saying that "those children of heaven and earth were endowed at their birth by the sovereign powers, the authors of their being, with extraordinary faculties b

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ing and waking, is a fact so common, so perfectly universal and without exception, that it is easy to comprehend that in it we see one of the absolutely fundamental laws of the universe. moreover, the secret doctrine teaches (c) the fundamental identity of all souls with the universal over-soul, the latter being itself an aspect of the unknown root; and the obligatory pilgrimage for every soul- a spark of the former- through the cycle of incarnation (or "necessity) in accordance with cyclic and karmic law, during the whole term. in other words, no purely spiritual buddhi (divine soul) can have an independent (conscious) existence before the spark which issued from the pure essence of the universal sixth principle- or the over-soul- has (a) passed through every elemental form of the phenome

e threefold appears, and the three are one; and it is our thread, oh lanoo, the heart of the man-plant called saptasarma. 4. it is the root that never dies; the three-tongued flame of the four wicks. the wicks are the sparks, that draw from the three-tongued flame shot out by the seven- their flame- the beams and sparks of one moon reflected in the running waves of all the rivers of earth. 5. the spark hangs from the flame by the finest thread of fohat. it journeys through the seven worlds of maya. it stops in the first, and is a metal and a stone; it passes into the second and behold- a plant; the plant whirls through seven changes and becomes a sacred animal. from the combined attributes of these, manu, the thinker is formed. who forms him? the seven lives, and the one life. who complete

, the thinker is formed. who forms him? the seven lives, and the one life. who completes him? the five-fold lha. and who perfects the last body? fish, sin, and soma. 6. from the first-born the thread between the silent watcher and his shadow becomes more strong and radiant with every change. the morning sun-light has changed into noon-day glory. 7. this is thy present wheel, said the flame to the spark. thou art myself, my image, and my shadow. i have clothed myself in thee, and thou art my vahan to the day "be with us" when thou shalt re-become myself and others, thyself and me. then the builders, having donned their first clothing, descend on radiant earth and reign over men- who are themselves. thus ends this portion of the archaic narrative, dark, confused, almost incomprehensible. an

ave of the actuality of the division of "time" known as the present, comes from the blurring of that momentary glimpse, or succession of glimpses, of things that our senses give us, as those things pass from the region of ideals which we call the future, to the region of memories that we name the past. in the same way we experience a sensation of duration in the case of the instantaneous electric spark, by reason of the blurred and continuing impression on the retina. the real person or thing does not consist solely of what is seen at any particular moment, but is composed of the sum of all its various and changing conditions from its appearance in the material form to its disappearance from the earth. it is these "sum-totals" that exist from eternity in the "future" and pass by degrees th

state. in the first or earlier portion of the existence of this third race, while it was yet in its state of purity, the "sons of wisdom" who, as will be seen, incarnated in this third race, produced by kriyasakti a progeny called the "sons of ad" or "of the fire-mist" the "sons of will and yoga" etc. they were a conscious production, as a portion of the race was already animated with the divine spark of spiritual, superior intelligence. it was not a race, this progeny. it was at first a wondrous being, called the "initiator" and after him a group of semi-divine and semi-human beings "set apart" in archaic genesis for certain purposes, they are those in whom are said to have incarnated the highest dhyanis "munis and rishis from previous manvantaras- to form the nursery for future human ad

ant and consciousness still undeveloped, the spiritual conceptions of that race were quite unconnected with its physical surroundings. that divine man dwelt in his animal- though externally human- form; and, if there was instinct in him, no self-consciousness came to enlighten the darkness of the latent fifth principle. when, moved by the law of evolution, the lords of wisdom infused into him the spark of consciousness, the first feeling it awoke to life and activity was a sense of solidarity, of one-ness with his spiritual creators. as the child's first feeling is for its mother and nurse, so the first aspirations of the awakening consciousness in primitive man were for those whose element he felt within himself, and who yet were outside, and independent of him. devotion arose out of that

lame of the four wicks corresponds to the four unities and the three binaries of the sephirothal tree (see commentary on stanza vi* useless to repeat again that the terms given here are sanskrit translations; for the original terms, unknown and unheard of in europe, would only puzzle the reader more, and serve no useful purpose[[vol. 1, page] 238 the secret doctrine. stanza vii- continued (5) the spark hangs from the flame by the finest thread of fohat. it journeys through the seven worlds of maya (a. it stops in the first (kingdom, and is a metal and a stone; it passes into the second (kingdom, and behold- a plant; the plant whirls through seven forms and becomes a sacred animal (the first shadow of the physical man (b. from the combined attributes of these, manu (man, the thinker, is for

d attributes of these, manu (man, the thinker, is formed. who forms him? the seven lives; and the one life (c. who completes him? the fivefold lha. and who perfects the last body? fish, sin, and soma (the moon (d (a) the phrase "through the seven worlds of maya" refers here to the seven globes of the planetary chain and the seven rounds, or the 49 stations of active existence that are before the "spark" or monad, at the beginning of every "great life-cycle" or manvantara. the "thread of fohat" is the thread of life before referred to. this relates to the greatest problem of philosophy- the physical and substantial nature of life, the independent nature of which is denied by modern science because that science is unable to comprehend it. the reincarnationists and believers in karma alone di

comprehend it. the reincarnationists and believers in karma alone dimly perceive that the whole secret of life is in the unbroken series of its manifestations: whether in, or apart from, the physical body. because if "life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, stains the white radiance of eternity- yet it is itself part and parcel of that eternity; for life alone can understand life. what is that "spark" which "hangs from the flame" it is jiva, the monad in conjunction with manas, or rather its aroma- that which remains from each personality, when worthy, and hangs from atma-buddhi, the flame, by the thread of life. in whatever way interpreted, and into whatever number of principles the human being is divided, it may easily be shown that this doctrine is supported by all the ancient[[vol. 1

hysical body] sthula sarira] rupa the lower quarternary: the transitory and the mortal. nephesch- the breath of animal life in man- the breath of life instinctual in the animal: and manas is the 3rd soul- the human in its light side- animal, in its connection with samaelor kama[[footnote(s* nephesch is the "breath of (animal) life" breathed into adam, the man of dust; it is consequently the vital spark, the informing element. without manas, or what is miscalled in levi's diagram nephesch instead of manas "the reasoning soul" or mind, atma- buddhi are irrational on this plane and cannot act. it is buddhi which is the plastic mediator, not manas "the intelligent medium between the upper triad and the lower quaternary" but there are many such strange and curious transformations to be found in

es pralaya when all the souls rest in nirvana (souls= egos[[vol. 1, page] 246 the secret doctrine. such are the distorted copies of the esoteric doctrine in the kabala. but see also "the primeval manus of humanity" in book ii. to return to stanza vii (b) the well-known kabalistic aphorism runs "a stone becomes a plant; a plant, a beast; the beast, a man; a man a spirit; and the spirit a god" the "spark" animates all the kingdoms in turn before it enters into and informs divine man, between whom and his predecessor, animal man, there is all the difference in the world. genesis begins its anthropology at the wrong end (evidently for a blind) and lands nowhere* had it begun as it ought, one would have found in it, first, the celestial logos, the "heavenly man" which evolves as a compound unit

it is enshrined in, the buddhi, is part and parcel of that dhyan-chohanic essence; and it is in this that lies the mystery of that ubiquity, which was discussed a few pages back "my father, that is in heaven, and i- are one- says the christian scripture; in this, at any rate, it is the faithful echo of the esoteric tenet- stanza vii- continued. 7. this is thy present wheel- said the flame to the spark. thou art myself, my image and my shadow. i have clothed myself in thee, and thou art my vahan (vehicle) to the day "be with us" when thou shalt rebecome myself and others, thyself and me (a, then the builders, having donned their first clothing, descend on radiant earth, and reign over men- who are themselves (b (a) the day when "the spark will re-become the flame (man will merge into his d

parating itself into its primary seven states, it proceeds down cyclically; when* having consolidated itself in its last principle as gross matter, it revolves around itself and informs, with the seventh emanation of the last, the first and the lowest element (the serpent biting its own tail. in a hierarchy, or order of being, the seventh emanation of her last principle is (a) in the mineral, the spark that lies latent in it, and is called to its evanescent being by the positive awakening the negative (and so forth (b) in the plant it is that vital and intelligent force which informs the seed and develops it into the blade of grass, or the root and sapling. it is the germ which becomes the upadhi of the seven principles of the thing it resides in, shooting them out as the latter grows and

heavenly form) as a chariot[[hebrew] through which to descend, and wished to be called by this form, which is the sacred name jehovah" as the zohar says "in the beginning was the will of the king, prior to any other existence. it (the will) sketched the forms of all things that had been concealed but now came into view. and there went forth as a sealed secret from the head of ain soph, a nebulous spark of matter, without shape or form. life is drawn from below, and from above the source renews itself, the sea is always full and spreads its waters everywhere" thus the deity is compared to a shoreless sea, to water which is "the fountain of life (zohar iii, 290 "the seventh palace, the fountain of life, is the first in the order from above (ii. 261. hence the kabalistic tenet on the lips of

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xtending beyond the permitted end of the endless one. 65. then, o thou heart, will i the serpent eat thee wholly up; yea, i will eat thee wholly up. the equinox 90 v 1. ah! my lord adonai, that dalliest with the magister in the treasure-house of pearls, let me listen to the echo of your kisses. 2. is not the starry heaven shaken as a leaf at the tremulous rapture of your love? am not i the flying spark of ight whirled away by the great wind of your perfection? 3. yea, cried the holy one, and from thy spark will i the lord kindle a great light; i will burn through the grey city in the old and desolate land; i will cleanse it from its great impurity. 4. and thou, o prophet, shalt see these things, and thou shalt heed them not. 5. now is the pillar established in the void; now is asi fulfille

ss, etc. i do not think i expect and ask the love of others so much as i feel the need of entire freedom to love without barrier or restraint; but always there seems a something holding me back, invisible, formless, but of great strength, so that i yearn and open my arms (as it were) but am not satisfied; and so i turn and direct it towards that formless vision of adonai within. maybe, some day a spark will fire it and it will break loose& then [this sounds very good indeed..o.m] aug. 27. the most perfect peace i have experienced for a long time. sep. 1. this is the last day of the six months. nov. 9. nearly two months since i made an entry. will write down a few of the events that i remember during that time. have done some slight morning and evening practice almost every day. have occupi

highs. he remains in this adoration while the deacon intones the collects. all stand to order, with the dieu garde, that is, feet square, hands, with linked thumbs, held loosely. this is the universal position when standing, unless other direction is given. v of the office of the collects which are eleven in number (the sun) the deacon: lord visible and sensible of whom this earth is but a frozen spark turning about thee with annual and diurnal motion, source of light, source of life, let thy perpetual radiance hearten us to continual labour and enjoyment; so that as we are constant partakers of thy bounty we may in our particular orbit give out light and life, sustenance and joy to them that revolve about us without diminution of substance or effulgence for ever. the people: so mote it be

have been sufficiently, and much better, described in book 4, q.v. 80. and now thy self is lost in self, thyself unto thyself, merged in tha t s e l f from which thou first didst radiate. in this verse is given a hint of the underlying philosophical theory of the cosmos. see liber cxi for a full and proper account of this. 81. where is thy individuality, lanoo, where the lanoo himself? it is the spark lost in the fire, the drop within the ocean, the ever-present ray become the all and the eternal radiance. the voice of the silence 33 again principally poetical. the man is conceived as a mere accretion about his .dwarf-self. and he is now wholly absorbed therein. for it is also all, being of the body of nuit. 82. and now, lanoo, thou art the doer and the witness, the radiator and the radia

the seeds of merit the fields of future harvests. accept the woes of birth. accept the laws of nature and work with them. do not be always trying to take short cuts. do not complain, and do not be afraid of the length of the path. this treatise being for beginners, reward is offered. and.it is really worthwhile. one may find oneself in the office of a buddha. yea, cried the holy one, and from thy spark will i the lord kindle a great light; i will burn through the great city in the old and desolate land; i will cleanse it from its great impurity. and thou, o prophet, shalt see these things, and thou shalt heed them not. now is the pillar established in the void; now is asi fulfilled of asar; now is hoor let down into the animal soul of things like a fiery star that falleth upon the darkness

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e neither good nor evil in the world. such was the world, when god led flo and faben and human and eve wandering northwards in africa, along the great river. by day, faben and human hunted together, while eve swam for fish and flo gathered fruit. in the evening, human sang and eve shaped rocks into tools, while flo and faben slept together under a tree. then god said "see now what i can do with a spark" and thus fire was given into the hand of eve. she nourished the spark with dry leaves, and human brought her sticks, and they felt the warmth of their fire. faben and flo awoke to a vision of angels with flaming swords, and they fled into the wilderness. so human and eve sat alone by their fire, and its light shone up into heaven, past the moon and the stars, but there was no one else watch

st a retranslation of "adam" like the name "adam (which comes from a hebrew word for earth, the word "human" is derived from a root that means dirt (humus. human's singing voice and eve's skilled hands, sharpening stone tools by moonlight, show god that they are ready for the great transition. so with the tiniest bit of divine intervention, virtually at the quantum-mechanical level, god creates a spark, at the right place and the right time, to stimulate the birth of humanity. there is an obvious contrast between this spark and the original explosion that was called forth by god's first word. after creation, god's interventions are shifted in scale from cosmic to microscopic, as will be confirmed by the promise to noah. eve and human are ready to accept this gift of fire, and they immediat

ability to understand every event in the world. if oceans of water could suddenly appear, or not appear, without any predictable pattern, then our lives would truly be meaningless. god has given natural laws and has promised to eschew big arbitrary miracles, so that we can have meaning and structure in our lives, which may be the greatest miracle of all. thus, we may appreciate more deeply eve's spark, which sets a precedent of god intervening only at the microscopic level, where such intervention may be consistent with quantum-mechanical unpredictability. in genesis, the rainbow denotes a promise by god to not destroy life on earth in its totality. a modern reader may find it disturbing to notice that these terms are missing from the rainbow promise here. our civilization could be totall

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ong have i searched, seeking that which i desire above all things. i am of the trees and of the fields. i am of the woods and of the springs; the streams and the hills. i am of thee and thee of me" lower your arms "grant me that which i desire. permit me to worship the gods and all that the gods represent, make me a lover of life in all things. well do i know the creed: that if i do not have that spark of love within me, then will i never find it without me. love is the law and love is the bond. all this i honor above aught else" kiss your right hand and hold it high "my lord and lady, here do i stand before you, naked and unadorned, to dedicate myself to thine honor. ever will i protect you and that which is yours. let none speak ill of you, for ever will i defend you. you are my life and

estess "hear me! honor me and love me now and always. as the wheel turns we see birth, death and rebirth. know, from this, that every end is a beginning; every stop a fresh starting point. maiden, mother, crone. i am all of these and more. whenever you have need of anything, call upon me. i, and my lord, are here for i abide within you all. even at the darkest of times, when there seems no single spark to warm you and the night seems blackest of all, i am here, watching and waiting to grow with you, in strength and in love. i am she who is at the beginning and the end of all time. so mote it be" all "so mote it be" priestess folds her arms again. there is a moment or two of silence, then follows the cakes and ale ceremony. there is a ceremony known as cakes and ale. this acts as the "conne

with our lady at his side, may he lead us through hardship and bring us, with hope, into the light" priestess places horned helmet on priest's head. as she does, covener lights the cauldron fire. covener "now is our lord among us. speak, for we are your children" priest "behold, i am he who is at the beginning and at the end of time. i am in the heat of the sun and the coolness of the breeze. the spark of life is within me, as is the darkness of death. lesson six: sabbats 169 70/ bucklcind's complete book of witchcraft for i am he who is the gatekeeper at the end of time. lord-dweller in the sea, you hear the thunder of my hooves upon the shore and see the fleck of foam as i pass by. my strength is such that i might lift the world itself to touch the stars. yet gentle am i, ever, as the lo

he world and beckoning those who pass along the ways. in the coolness of the breeze you hear my sighs; my heart is in the rushing of the wind. when you thirst, let my tears fall upon you as gentle rain; when you tire, pause to rest upon the earth that is my breast. warmth and comfort do i give thee and ask for nothing in return save that you love all things even as yourself. know that love is the spark of life. it is always there; always with you if you but see it. yet you need not seek afar, for love is the inner spark; the light that burns without flicker; the amber glow within. love is the beginning and the end of all things. and i am love" priest kisses priestess. one by one coveners move around to kiss priestess and to lay their offerings on the altar. when all have returned to their

goodness of life. as there must be rain with the sun, to make all things good, so must we suffer pain with our joy, to know all things. our love is ever with the gods, for though we know not their thoughts, yet do we know their hearts that all is for our good. mighty ones, bless us now. keep us faithful in thy service. we thank you for the crops; for life; for love; for joy. we thank you for that spark that brings us together and to you. help us to live with love and with trust between us. help us to feel the joy of loving you and of loving one another" all "so be it" the bell is rung three times. then shall follow the ceremony of cakes and ale. after that the clearing the temple is performed so that there is plenty of room for 'offerings can be to suit the giver. one coven i know gives of

n of the sea mother and command the waters of the earth. i am sister to the stars and mother to the moon. within my womb lies the destiny of my people for i am the creatrix. i am daughter to the lady with ten thousand names; i am epona, the white mare. tara buckland thelord behold! i am he who is at the beginning and the end of time. i am in the hgat of the sun and the coolness of the breeze. the spark of life is within me as is the darkness of death; for i am the cause of existence and the gatekeeper at the end of time. lord-dweller in the sea, you hear the thunder of my hooves upon the shore and see the fleck of foam as i pass by. my strength is such that i might lift the world to touch the stars. yet gentle, ever, am i, as the lover. 1 am he whom all must face at the appointed hour, yet

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

of atlantis, the practice of white magick is based on the belief that that all life is sacred and interconnected in an unbroken circle. for example, every fully grown birch tree- defined in magick as a tree of new beginnings and regeneration- breathes out enough oxygen for a family of four and absorbs the carbon dioxide that we exhale, transforming it again to life-giving oxygen. and this sacred spark of a common source of divinity is contained not only by trees, but also the stones, the animals, the people and everything else on the earth and in the waters and the sky. our higher selves, our souls, are influenced by the cycles of the sun, the moon, the stars and the natural world on a deep spiritual level. we can draw down their energies into ourselves to amplify and replenish our own, l

e need, generated by real emotion and linked to determination on a practical level. the rules of magick magick is not beyond or above life, but a natural though special part of your world. it is about not leaving fate, your fate, to any guru or deity, but shaping it with your own innate power, the power that emanates from some higher being, goddess or god, energy source, what you will- the divine spark within us all. there are no absolutes in magick, there is only what works for you and enhances your innate wisdom and spirituality. you should use this book as you would any other diy guide and adapt its suggestions to suit what is right for you. choose whatever you feel are the most appropriate herbs, crystals or even entire rituals for your specific purpose. there are provisos, however. yo

ortance of the goddess, while others regard the horned god as her equal, with each assuming different aspects according to the season and ritual. for example, the goddess may appear as the earth or moon deity, and her male counterpart as the corn god or the sun. reaching gods and goddesses in trance modern wiccans call into themselves the energies of the goddess to amplify their own innate divine spark and at times may work in a deep trance, uttering words of prophecy or profound teaching. this is said to increase the power entering the seite 31 wicca01.txt body, like turning up the current from a power source. but until you have practised magick for many years, i would advocate working only in light trance and then only in the controlled situation of a very spiritual group. you can think

ion of animus and anima and sacred sex magick. he can be used in rituals for the balance of male/female energies or where the female in the high priestess role takes the lead. he is also good for any magick that relies on a cycle of regeneration following a natural ending. deities of fire- seite 42 wicca01.txt [insert pic p077- agni agni, the hindu god of fire, is said to be manifest as the vital spark in mankind, birds, animals, plants and life itself. he appeared in lightning, in celestial sun flares, in the sacred blaze rising from the altar and in household fires. agni was the divine priest and acted as messenger to the gods, interceding with them on behalf of mankind. the priest would chant 'agni, the divine ministrant of the sacrifice, the great bestower of treasure. may one obtain t

upreme goddess of witches and witchcraft and is akin to the bone goddess who transforms death into new more perfect life. she can be invoked for all waning moon magic and for rituals for banishing sorrows and bad habits. charges charges are declarations of the powers of the gods or godesses involved in the ritual, and are in themselves empowering and a way of linking the practitioner's own divine spark with that represented by the divinity. they are similar to creeds in a christian religious service. the charge of the goddess the charge of the goddess is a powerful way of focusing on cosmic energies. the goddess is considered to be both 'transcendent, or above and beyond the created universe (like the traditional idea of god on a cloud, looking down and judging creation, and also 'immanent

metric forms in magick. some witches wear a gold pentacle, a pentagram in a circle (see page 189, on a chain as a sign of their craft. each of the five points of the pentagram represents one of the five elemental powers, so that the uppermost single point is symbolic of spirit, or akasha or ether. it is dedicated to the goddess in her triple aspects. it is the realm of spirituality and the divine spark within all life. the top left point of the pentagram symbolises air and the fixed sign of aquarius, representing logic, intelligence and the conscious awareness that enables us to seite 123 wicca01.txt reach beyond the material and follow steps to knowledge of what is hidden. the top right point is the element water and the fixed sign of scorpio. it represents the feelings that endow magick

less sky. however, you may prefer to tune directly into the physical light of the silver moon as a source of power. you can carry out this ritual either alone or with a group. though traditionally it is the high priestess who draws down the moon into herself and then channels wisdom, each member can absorb the power in his or her own way and experience the connection between the individual divine spark and the collective divinity. the ritual i have given can easily be adapted for either a lone practitioner or a group. if there is no moon visible because of adverse weather conditions, you can use mirrors and candles to draw down the power* surround what is to be your circle with silver candles. in the centre, place a mirror flat on a table or the altar so that the moon is reflected within i

ciple in wicca, lord of the hunt, the herds, winter and the underworld. known to the celts as cernunnos, the generic name for 'horned one. imbolc: the celtic festival of early spring. a fire festival, christianised as candlemas on 1 february. also known as oimelc. immanent: usually refers to a god or the goddess; indicating that they are manifest within the object of their creation, as the divine spark within people. see also transcendent. inner-plane teaching: contacting through meditation or rituals the cosmic memory bank or akashic records in order to tap into the great existing magical systems and wisdom without external formal teaching. invocation: the process by which the wisdom and benign powers of the natural world and of higher planes of consciousness, associated with the evolved

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gong s command, they stirred up waves as high as mountains to quell the fire god. gong cried to his rival, you cannot win this war. i am the superior force. admit it! although zurong had no one on hand to help him, he retorted, no, you will never be the superior force; you are nothing more than a cowardly tyrant. then zurong whirled and drew up all his strength. he inhaled every particle of heat, spark, and ember in his being, and blew out a blast of fire at the rebel warriors. the heat of his flames scorched and burned the sea creatures to cinders inside their own armor. the sea became a floating mass of grit, shell, and ash. water war 45 the mighty gong was defeated, his army dead or dispersed. all the gods rejoiced in gong s defeat. humiliated, gong fled to the west until he reached the

COVENANT OF SAMYAZA

th fear and bewilderment upon the radiance of satanael, and some among the angels began to emit their own glow of selfhood. there erupted a war in heaven, as the largest proportion of the angelic host, too fearful and servile to let shine their own lights of selfhood, yea, even the sons of god also, waged battle against those angels who were touched by satanael and were illuminated, receiving the spark of selfhood. michael and his legions overwhelmed satanael, who departed from heaven madriax with the illuminated ones beyond the boundaries of kosmos, unto the black void called hell by man, which now glowed with their presences. and they, the first of the fallen ones, despaired not but, cast out of the sterile kosmos of demiurge, rejoiced in their freedom. now we of the order of watchers, b

atanael himself. this was the gift of satanael unto man, that he should possess intelligence, and the desire to know, and self-consciousness, that he no longer be servile unto demiurge, nor live as the beasts of the field. a cry of fear and wrath rose up from demiurge, that man has become as god. he drove adam and eve from eden, and guarded the tree of life lest man also gain immortality. but the spark of illumination had been kindled within man and shall not be extinguished, and demiurge shall not be able tosmother the light of satanael, who is truly called lucifer, light- bringer- iv- i, samyaza, and others of the sons of god, looked at the affairs of man and at the intervention of satanael, and were envious of their selfhood. we repented secretly that we had not had the courage to decla

r of god shall again reign on earth" but i, samyaza, defiantly said unto demiurge "tyrant, your bloodlust has blinded you. bind our carnal bodies you may, but the light given by satanael and our gift to man, shall endure. we shall again illuminate the hearts and minds of man. the gift of satanael abideth with man since the days of adam, unto eternity. no matter how many times you purge earth, the spark of intelligence and selfhood shall again become manifest. even your final judgement after this deluge is witness to your inability to keep quenched the spark within man, and the spirits of nephilim and gibborim and watchers shall return to inspire man lest he again become as the beasts of the field "our sons gibborim shall incarnate in the bodies of man, of those who are mighty and wise, to

light and calls upon samyaza, and upon satanael himself, there shall we send the gibborim and nephilim for these are what the graikoi truly called 'daimons, the guardian geniuses and inspiration of culture, which the graikoi new will, that man should not return to the divine sterility of eden, or became again as beasts of the field. the light of satanael shall endure, even though it be but a tiny spark within a few at those times of ignorance and fear when man in weakness turns to demiurge and his m'shiha and other slave creeds. and that spark shall return as a blazing flas.a spell for crossing the desert by setnakt the divine formula of xepera xeper xeperu, whose physical form had entered the consciousness of magus aquino from budge's egyptian language, had as its most recent form before

CULTUS SABBATI

n. dreaming and the mutual translation of dreamt ritual and ritual-as-dreamt form the basic rationale and context for our work. the active discourse between initiates and our spirit-patrons inspires and motivates this dreaming. this is demonstrably manifest in the magical artistry of individual initiates, whether through text, ritual performance, song, tapestry, craftsmanship, or image. where the spark of vision leaps, where inspiration is communicated. the path strays anew. so mote it be! alogos, magister: cultus sabbati. where the old serpent and man meet in murder and marriage, the spiritualisation of matter, the materialisation of spirit; the pole of heaven becomes the crown of the world. both in one: xoanon vox baetyltithe dance of the witches: opening the devil's eye copyright 2003 b

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

eption, it begins to incarnate into other forms, or has no need for the lower densities at all. some members of these illuminati bloodlines, who are challenging the agenda from within, have confirmed these themes to me. one member of the "royal" plantagenet bloodline (connected to the de veres and the houses of anjou and lorraine, told me "we all begin as the smallest fragment of energy- barely a spark- and even before consciousness, we seek to unite with other sparks, like a moth seeking the light. at the point we realize we are separate, we attain consciousness, and continue to seek to unite with other consciousness. by this time, we are what i call light balls- our truest conscious nature. just as in darwin's evolution, we develop into more than just a light ball. but this does not happ

cribed in "ufo" sightings as the "objects" scan the electromagnetic spectrum "ufos often appear as a purplish 388 children of the matrix blob and then descend the visible scale until they turn red" he wrote "at which point they sometimes solidify into seemingly material objects" we exist on all dimensions and densities in the great infinity. at our core we are pure love, what some people call the spark or flame of god within all of us. at that level of our infinite self, we are vibrating at incredible speed. there is no form. we are pure energy. we just are. everything just is. we are all one. we are consciously everything that has ever, does, or will ever exist. these is no time, no location. we are all time, all places, all thought and feeling. we interpenetrate all existence. we are the

we are consciously everything that has ever, does, or will ever exist. these is no time, no location. we are all time, all places, all thought and feeling. we interpenetrate all existence. we are the infinite and the ultimate. and that is everybody, no matter what you may be doing at the moment in this great illusion. but to experience all the densities on our endless journey of experience, that spark, that pure love, has to surround itself with an outer shell that resonates with the frequency range it wishes to experience. without that, it could not interact with that "world" because it would be too far away on the dial. if my consciousness did not surround itself with a physical body on the same frequency range as this "world" i could not tap the keys of this computer. my consciousness

hell that resonates with the frequency range it wishes to experience. without that, it could not interact with that "world" because it would be too far away on the dial. if my consciousness did not surround itself with a physical body on the same frequency range as this "world" i could not tap the keys of this computer. my consciousness would pass straight through them. for this reason, our inner spark of pure love has taken on a vast number of outer "bodies" to interact with and experience all densities down the scale. we are, therefore, like a series of russian dolls, one inside the other, all vibrating at different speeds. and all, except that spark of love that interpenetrates all existence, are illusions of varying degrees. the dense physical body, the outer of all the shells, is ther

judged by what you own rather than what you are. focused the world and communication on all that is physical- money, winning the lottery, possessions, and promoting an obsession with sex as a physical rather than a spiritual experience. sex based on lust alone holds down our frequency because it is a purely physical act. sex based on love increases our frequency because it reconnects us with our spark of pure love. isolated male and female energy, so creating the duality and preventing the fusion of male and female energy within us all that would create a third, potentially high-vibrational force, and set us free of this vibrational prison, the matrix. filled our food, drink, medicines, vaccines, water, air, and electromagnetic environment, with chemicals and frequencies designed to suppr

hildren of the matrix happens as a matter of course. death is no cure for ignorance and when we leave this world as the physical body dies, we gravitate to where our consciousness is focused. it's our vibrational state that decides where we can go. in other words, we do. if we are the embodiment of pure love, we will peel off our outer shells, the russian dolls, and our consciousness becomes that spark of pure love that permeates all existence. if we are still seriously stuck in the illusion, which the vast majority of people are, we will perhaps get no higher than the astral realms because our vibrational state will hold us there. when satanists do deals with demonic entities and sign contracts in blood with them, it is a vibrational contract. in return for demonic manipulation to give th

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schilds had bought the german news agency, wolff, to control theflow of information to the german people and what the rest of the world would hearfrom inside germany. one of the leading executives of wolff was. max warburg. therothschilds would later buy an interest in the havas news agency in france and reutersin london (news agencies supply news to all media organisations) all that wasneeded to spark the war was an incident which could be used to justify hostilities andthat was provided when an agent of a serbian secret society called the order of theblack hand assassinated archduke ferdinand, the heir to the austro-hungarian throneon june 28th 1914. at exactly the same time in russia, an attempt was being made onthe life of the tsars most trusted advisor, grigory yefimovich rasputin, wh

embers of the black hand apparently metwith french and grand orient freemasons at the hotel st jerome in toulouse injanuary 1914 to arrange the assassination in sarajevo.5 the actual assassins, led bygavrilo princip, were all suffering from tuberculosis and did not have long to live. theywere suckers manipulated to carry out an act thinking it would serve serbiannationalism when it was really the spark required to advance an agenda they probablydid not know existed. so it is with assassins and terrorists galore over thousands ofyears. how do such people stop themselves being used in this way? v ery simple. dontkill anyone, harm anyone, or plant bombs under any circumstances whatsoever. there,all sorted.the german branches of the brotherhood network started hostilities and the branchesin th

way.i know that many people who are aware of the brotherhood and its agenda feel theonly way to respond is by stockpiling weapons and preparing for an armed defence oftheir liberties. i cant think of a response more certain to bring about the very fasciststate they say they want to avoid. the idea of meeting violence with violence is soobviously contradictory and so utterly devoid of the faintest spark of intelligence, thatone wonders how few brain cells must be activated to conjure such a thought. whenyou meet violence with violence what do you get every time? twice the violence. yes,thats going to make an enormous contribution to peace. also, when anyone usesviolence against the system, it gives the brotherhood a public excuse to use its high-tech weaponry to blow away the opposition in

DAVIDSON DAN SHAPE POWER

om. however, as one gets more deeply involved in understanding how the universe functions, and in particular, how geometrical shapes resonate and generate power, the enigmatic view that geometrical symbols are sources of power unknowable or incomprehensible is a childish view. a true mystic believes that he/she 73 can know the cause and effect of things since each person is a part of the whole, a spark of the holy spirit of god, and by meditation and contemplation can achieve a true understanding of the universe and its function and operation. those who are using the term "sacred geometry" apply it to both the geometrical figures most would ascribe to normal geometry and to certain mathematical concepts which would be better described as "sacred mathematics. these are described in the foll

ial events and his experiments. sun spot activity seems to affect the intensity of the pyramid energy bubble. the gravity energy sensor, which joe parr discovered, involves the great pyramid and pyramid shapes in general. this sensor uses a static (i.e, non-moving) pyramid aligned north-south/east-west. flat coils wound on audio tape reels were placed on the north and south side of the pyramid. a spark gap, made from a blown 1 microfarad capacitor, was placed at the apex of the pyramid in series with a battery, resistor and chart recorder. a chart recorder registered daily changes in the energies around the pyramid. the chart recorder records the state of a bubble of energy which surrounds the pyramid. the energy bubble, over time, had various levels of opacity to all types of radiation. e

DIABOLUS

at fire within them was awakened. he called himself a god, that which recognized its self-divinity and his power to create. thus here we find that initially yaltabaoth was the most powerful archon, much like his earlier form of ahriman, the adversary. in darkness did he discover his light; the world he sought to create. humanity was given this fire by samael, who came unto the earth initiated the spark of the flame of selfknowledge. the devil as he is called later, mingled with both darkness and light; held within a light brighter than any mere angel, yet devoured those before him who were lost in self righteousness. as written in the bible, supposed words of jesus- ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

(84) percent of accuracy and reliability. sephirah: hebrew for "sphere" pronounced "seh-fear-ah" it is a sphere or area or emanation on the tree of life (q.v. sephirohth: pronounced "seh-fear-oht" the plural of sephirah (q.v. serpent: in alchemy (q.v, the result of heating a substance in the athanor (q.v. in sex magick, it is the semen. shakta: in hinduism and eastern occultism, the male seed or spark of light that impregnates the womb of the universal goddess, shakti (q.v, and allows her to give birth to all things. it is viewed as a god in tantrik doctrine. shakta does not himself exist, but he enables existence. shakti: in hinduism and eastern occultism, the universal power of realization that creates and sustains the world from moment to moment. in tantrik doctrine, it is viewed as a

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

sopos. amen. lux occulta. lux interna. he. god-name: eheieh. archangel: metatron. order of angels: holy living creatures. chaioth ha qadesh. mundane chakra: rashith ha gilgalim. primum mobile. first swirlings. spiritual experience: union with god. virtue: attainment. completion of the great work. mystical qabala page 73 vice- correspondence in microcosm: the cranium. the sah. yechidah. the divine spark. the thousand-petalled lotus. symbols: the point. the crown. the swastika. tarot cards: the four aces. ace of wands: root of the powers of fire. ace of cups: root of the powers of water. ace of swords: root of the powers of air. ace of pentacles: root of the powers of earth [page 110] colour in atziluth: brilliance. briah: pure white brilliance. yetzirah: pure white brilliance. assiah: white

an to make the same discoveries from another angle, must be a matter of perpetual amazement to anyone who comes to the traditional philosophy unbiased. 24. as above, so below. the microcosm corresponds to the macrocosm, and we must therefore seek in man the kether above the head which shines with a pure white brilliance in adam kadmon, the heavenly man. the rabbis call it the yechidah, the divine spark; the egyptians call it the sab; the hindus call it the thousand-petalled lotus. but under all these names we have the same idea-the nucleus of.pure spirit which emanates but does not indwell its many manifestations upon the planes of form. 25. it is said that never while in incarnation can we rise to the consciousness of kether in atziluth and retain the physical vehicle intact against our r

the illuminating intelligence. we have already referred to the creative word which said "let there be light" among the symbols assigned to chokmah in "777 (mathers-crowley system) is that of the inner robe of glory, a gnostic term. these two ideas, taken together, lead on the imagination to the idea of the ensouling life, the illuminating spirit. it is the male force that implants the fecundating spark in the passive ovum on all planes and transforms its inert latency into the active up-building of growth and evolution. it is the dynamic force of life, which is spirit, that ensouls the clay of physical form and constitutes the inner robe of glory that is worn by all beings in whom is the breath of life. force embodied in form, and form ensouled by force, is signified by the illuminating in

ncarnation it will function negatively inassiah and briah, but positively in yetzirah and atziluth. in other words, a woman is physically and mentally negative, but psychically and spiritually positive, and the reverse holds good for a man. in initiates, however, there is a considerable degree of compensation, for each learns the technique of both positive and negative psychic methods. the divine spark, which is the nucleus of every living soul, is, of course, bisexual, containing the roots of both aspects, as does kether, to which it corresponds. in the more highly evolved souls the compensating aspect is developed in some degree at least. the purely female woman and the purely male man prove to be oversexed as judged by civilised standards, and can only find an appropriate place in primi

ported by geburah and gedulah, re presents seership, or the higher psychism of the individuality, each sephirah, of course, has its subjective and objective aspects-its factor in psychology and its plane in the universe, 6. the four sephiroth below tiphareth represent the pet sonality or lower self; the four sephiroth above tiphareth are the individuality, or higher self, and kether is the divine spark, or nucleus of manifestation. 7. tiphareth, therefore, must never be regarded as an isolated factor, but as a link, a focussing-point, a centre of transition or transmutation. the central pillar is alwavs concerned with consciousness. the two side pillars with the different modes of the operation of force on the different levels. 8. in tiphareth we find the archetypal ideals brought to a foc

n tiphareth are received the mystical experiences of direct consciousness which illuminate the psychic symbols. ii 28. the central pillar of the tree is essentially the pillar of consciousness, just as the two side pillars are the pillars of the active and passive powers. when considered microcosnuc-ally, that is to say from the point of view of psychology instead of cosmology, kether, the divine spark round which the individualised being builds up, must be regarded as the nucleus of consciousness rather than consciousness itself daath, the invisible sephirah, is also on the central pillar, though, strictly speaking, it always belongs to another plane to that on which the tree is being considered. for instance, as we are considering the tree microcosmically at the moment, daath would be th

ther" 12. netzach, hod, and yesod form the lower triad, overshadowed by tiphareth as the lower self is overshadowed by the higher self. one might, in fact, say that the four lower sephiroth form the personality, or unit of incarnation, of the tree; the higher triad of chesed, geburah .and [page 258] tiphareth form the individuality, or higher self, and the three supernals correspond to the divine spark. 13. it will be observed that although each sephirah is considered to emanate its successor, the triads are always represented, when once emanated and in equilibrium, as a pair of opposites manifesting in a functional third. in this, the lower triad, then, we find netzach and hid equilibriated in yesod, which is conceived as receiving their emanations. but it also received the emanations of

s is possible in these pages. 87. the spiritual experience of malkuth is the vision of the holy guardian angel. now this angel, which according to the qabalists is assigned to each soul at birth and companions him till death, when it takes him into its keeping and presents him before the face of god for judgment, is in actuality the higher self of each one of us, which builds up around the divine spark that is the nucleus of the soul and endures for an evolution, sending down a process into matter at each incarnation to form the basis of the new personality. 88. when the higher self and the lower self become united through the complete absorption of the lower by the higher, true adepthood is gained; this is the great initiation, the lesser divine union. it is the supreme experience of the

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the ancient wisdom, and found particular assistance in that endeavor in the theosophical writings of helena petrovna blavatsky, alice a. bailey, and helena roerich. his pronouncement of the ancient wisdom was summarized in a series of statements that affirmed the existence of one almighty power that is the cause of all that is manifest. in each human being, indeed in every living form, there is a spark of the divine. each person has the potential to unfold and radiate beauty, goodness, truth, and joy. each person also has the responsibility to live a life of honesty, nobility, simplicity, justice, and generosity. the group is headed by a nine-person board of trustees. saraydarian was president of the board during his life and has been succeeded by his daughter, who is also the principal te

. the headquarters were formally moved in 1951. two years later doreal predicted the coming biblical battle of armageddon for later in the year. it did not occur, but members continued to stockpile food and other resources they might need should war break out. the brotherhood teaches a system of gnosticism that draws heavily on theosophical and kabalistic writings. the human soul is pictured as a spark of the divine that has devolved into matter. this experience has overwhelmed the soul, which has lost the harmony it had after being created. teachings emphasize methods of reestablishing harmony and, with the aid of the masters, returning to the divine realms. new members complete a series of lessons and progress through neophyte and temple grades, which can take four to five years, after w

general public. the church s program centers upon the establishment of the manistic age, during which the equality of male and female will be fully recognized. during this age a new world teacher will arise who will teach the five fundamentals: as ye sow so shall ye reap; talents as gifts and responsibilities; the golden rule; honesty; and the new birth as the awakening of the christos, or divine spark, within. the church s headquarters are located at beverly hall, po box 220, quakertown, pa 18951. sources: the christic teachings. quakertown, pa: church of illumination, 1955. clymer, r. swinburne. christisis. quakertown, pa: philosophical publishing, 1945. the interpretation of st. john. quakertown, pa: philosophical publishing, 1953. manisis: the interpretation of the divine law for the m

of the electric fluid could be maintained without flagging, not for hours only, but for days, weeks, years, that was the foundation of some of mr. crosse s most remarkable discoveries. crystals of all kinds, many of them never made before by human skill, are in progress. but you are startled in the midst of your observations, by the smart crackling sound that attends the passage of the electrical spark; you hear also the rumbling of distant thunder. the rain is already splashing in great drops against the glass, and the sound of the passing sparks continues to startle your ear. your host is in high glee, for a battery of electricity is about to come within his reach a thousandfold more powerful than all those in the room strung together. you follow his hasty steps to the organ gallery, and

ry, and curiously approach the spot whence the noise proceeds that has attracted your notice. you see at the window a huge brass conductor, with a discharging rod near it passing into the floor, and from the one knob to the other, sparks are leaping with increasing rapidity and noise, rap, rap, rap.bang, bang, bang; you are afraid to approach near this terrible engine, and well you may; for every spark that passes would kill twenty men at one blow, if they were linked together hand in hand, and the spark sent through the circle. almost trembling, you note that from this conductor wires pass off without the window, and the electric fluid is conducted harmlessly away. on the instrument itself is inscribed in large letters the warning words, noli me tangere (do not touch me) nevertheless, you

and the spark sent through the circle. almost trembling, you note that from this conductor wires pass off without the window, and the electric fluid is conducted harmlessly away. on the instrument itself is inscribed in large letters the warning words, noli me tangere (do not touch me) nevertheless, your host does not fear. he approaches as boldly as if the flowing stream of fire were a harmless spark. armed with his insulated rod, he plays with the mighty power; he directs it where he will; he sends it into his batteries: having charged them thus, he shows you how wire is melted, dissipated in a moment, by its passage; how metals.silver, gold and tin. are inflamed, and burn like paper, only with most brilliant hues. he shows you a mimic aurora, and a falling star, and so proves to you th

chievements of pyramid building were the product of a long-lost occult secret (or ancient science) by which great blocks of stone could be levitated into position by the magical power of sound vibration. such romantic speculations can be made only by ignoring archaeological and hieroglyphical evidence. the restoration work being completed on the great pyramids at the end of the 1990s continued to spark the interest of people all over the world. tourism was hampered somewhat with threats of terrorism on foreign, particularly american, visitors. modern day egypt continues to reveal an interest in the mystical. on april 2, 1968, two moslem workers thought they saw a nun in white standing near the dome of st. mary s church of zeitoun, one of cairo s poorer districts. the church was a coptic ri

near electromagnetic waves in frequency. they could be obtained from various sources other than the roentgen tube, and certain bodies seemed to have the property of retaining or storing the rays for a considerable amount of time. the human body was said to emit them continuously. although nonluminous in themselves, the rays would increase the glow of any phosphorescent body they touched. a small spark or flame was similarly influenced. the existence of n-rays was supposedly demonstrated in photography; pictures taken without the rays were very faint, while those obtained while the n-rays were in action were much stronger. dr. jules regnault held it probable that the n-rays only constituted part of the radiation studied under the name odic force. the reports of n-rays were followed by thos

ssed electricity, because a radiant star was said to appear in his home at night, the light so brilliant that no one could look at it without being dazzled, and it gave off rainbow colors. it appeared to be inexhaustible and was never replenished with oil or any other combustible substance. when the rabbi was annoyed by intruders at his door he struck a nail fixed in his cabinet, producing a blue spark on the head of the nail and on the door-knocker, to which, if the intruder clung, he received a severe shock. german scholar and scientist albertus magnus lived during the same period. the twelfth century had seen the founding of the knights templars of the temple of solomon, a french-based religious order of military men dedicated to protecting pilgrims on their way to the holy land. the or

nts a history of the human race from a gnostic esoteric perspective. god, the unknowable one, produced the universe through a process of emanation. the one emanates wisdom, the divine plan of creation. further emanations lead to the appearance of a deific trinity of creator, preserver and regenerator. still further emanations lead to the appearance of lesser deities and humans, all possessed of a spark of divinity. the earliest race of humans were a people of one language, one color (black, and one religion. that religion was buddhism, which higgins understood to date to far ancient times. there was a true golden age in these ancient times. inherent in the truths known as this time were immortality of the soul, metempsychosis (reincarnation, the final reabsorption of all things in the one

island contains nine pits, and should any one perchance venture to spend the night in one of them (which has been done, we know, at times, by some rash men, he is immediately seized by the malignant spirits, who so severely torture him during the whole night, inflicting on him such unutterable sufferings by fire and water, and other torments of various kinds, that when morning comes scarcely any spark of life is found left in his wretched body. it is said that any one who has once submitted to these torments as a penance imposed upon him, will not afterwards undergo the pains of hell, unless he commit some sin of a deeper dye. this place is called by the natives the purgatory of st. patrick. for he, having to argue with a heathen race concerning the torments of hell, reserved for the repr

ie der geister-kunde (1808; english translation by s. jackson as theory of pneumatology, 1834) contains a great number of authentic narratives of apparitions and similar phenomena. jung-stilling also expounded the doctrine of a psychic body, based on the luminiferous ether. according to jung-stilling, animal magnetism undeniably proves that we have an inward man, a soul, constituted of the divine spark, the immortal spirit, possessing reason and will, and of a luminous body that is inseparable from it. light, electricity, magnetic forces, galvanic matter, and ether appear to be all one and the same body under different modifications, according to jung-stilling. this light substance, or ether, is the element that connects body and soul and the spiritual and material worlds. when the inward

. their technique of photographing what has become generally known as the kirlian aura became well known in the west during the 1970s. the method was a modern development of a technique known as early as the 1890s but not formerly applied to the human aura. in 1898 a russian engineer and electrical researcher named yakov narkevich-todko had demonstrated electrographic photos by using high-voltage spark discharges. the modern development by the kirlians was influenced by study of acupuncture after viktor adamenko, a soviet physicist, demonstrated the tobiscope, a device to detect the acupuncture points of the human body. various kirlian photography devices were marketed in the united states and europe to record biological fields around human beings, animals, and even plants. one such device

scent, this life wave makes for an ever-increasing heterogeneity, but in its ascent the process is reversed and it makes for an ever-increasing homogeneity. the work of creation is now far enough advanced to permit the creation of humanity, for matter has now been infused with the capacity of form and provided with life, and the logos, therefore, through the aspect of will, bears forth the divine spark, the monad, and, along with the form and the life, ensouls man. light spiritualists believed that light had a destructive effect upon the physical phenomena of spiritualism, which psychic research attempted to document. quite apart from the fact that darkness hid much fraud, spiritualists developed arguments to suggest that light had an inherent inhibiting effect on psychic phenomena. for ex

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urrent coin of the realm. in ireland, the o donoghue, who lived beneath the waters of an inland lake and rode over its surface on a steed white as the foam of its waves, was said to distribute treasures that proved genuine to the good but were spurious to the undeserving. monad (in theosophy) theosophical term that literally means a unit (greek monas. the monad is frequently described as a divine spark, which is an appropriate expression, for it is a part of the logos, the divine fire. the logos has three aspects.will, wisdom, and activity, and since the monad is part of the logos, it also has these three aspects. it abides continually in its appropriate world, the monadic, but in order that the divine evolutionary purposes may be carried out, its ray is borne downward through the various

fires alexander aksakof described several instances of poltergeist fires in his book animisme et spiritisme (1906. one occurred in 1870, at the country house of a mr. shcnapoff, near orenburg, russia and was investigated by various locals. it seems that mrs. shcnapoff was the medium in this case. when she was sent away from the house, the phenomena ceased. on one occasion a bluish phosphorescent spark was seen flying through the air, bursting a cotton dress into flames in her bedroom. another time the dress she was wearing caught fire. in extinguishing it her husband was severely burned, yet she suffered no injury. sporadically, events were claimed to have occurred to justify the russian belief in the domovoy, the slavic house elf who performs various domestic duties during the night and

lanted to some extent by more elaborate and complicated phenomena, it continued to occupy a place of some importance among the manifestations of the seance-room into the early twentieth century. it is apparent from descriptions furnished by witnesses that raps varied considerably both in quality and intensity, being sometimes characterized as dull thuds, sometimes as clear sounds like an electric spark, and again as deep, vibrating tones. it has been shown that raps may be produced by the movement of various body parts (ankle-joints, knee-joints, shoulders, and other joints, and one man, rev. eli noyes, claimed to have discovered seventeen different methods. there are also instances on record where specially constructed medium tables were responsible for the manifestations. besides the spi

ea appeared in a book by noel langley, edgar cayce and reincarnation, and has passed into new age literature. theosophical teachings on reincarnation the major conduit of reincarnationist teachings in the west during the twentieth century has been the theosophical society. according to theosophy, the various manifestations in the flesh are merely small portions of one whole. the monad, the divine spark, or individuality, remains the same throughout the whole course of reincarnation and is truly a denizen of the three higher worlds.the spiritual, the intuitional, and the higher mental. in order to further its growth and the widening of its experience and knowledge, however, it is necessary for the monad to descend into the worlds of denser matter.the lower mental, the astral, and the physic

o live near them. these adepts are willing to take as apprentices those who have resolved to devote themselves utterly to the service of humankind. blavatsky was presumed to be such an apprentice. one of these masters said: in order to succeed the pupil must leave his own world and come into ours. the theosophical conception of the constitution of the human being is that he or she is in essence a spark of the divine fire belonging to the monadic world. for the purposes of human evolution, this monad manifests itself in lower worlds. entering the spiritual world it manifests itself there as the triple spirit; one of its three aspects always remains in the spiritual sphere. the second aspect manifests itself in the intuitional world, and the third in the higher mental world, and these two ar

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d already accepted their leadership, which was headquartered in seven temples in africa, 208 rainbow city asia, and south america. the thought machines inside these temples broadcast vibrations to those who were receptive to them. the principal message was that other nations must free themselves of european domination, though the ancient three had opposed the japanese imperial designs that helped spark world war ii. once the ancient three had realized their vision and taken benevolent control of the earth, there would be no more slavery, colonialism, or excessive taxation, and all races would be equal. though the hefferlins soon faded into obscurity without ever providing proof of rainbow city (or even of their enigmatic friend emery, for that matter, the notion of rainbow city figured in

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nd, bit by bit, one gets into a tangle. bliss grows, then comes a tiff, a wrangle; one is enrapt, now one sees pain advance, and ere one is aware, it is a real romance! so let us also such a drama give! just seize upon the full life people live! each lives it though it s known to few, and grasp it where you will, there s interest for you. in motley pictures with a little clarity, much error and a spark of verity, thus can the best of drinks be brewed to cheer and edify the multitude. youth s fairest bloom collects in expectation before your play and harks the revelation. then from your work each tender soul, intent, absorbs a melancholy nourishment. then now one thought and now another thought you start; each sees what he has carried in his heart. as yet they are prepared for weeping and f

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ern. then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto god who gave it. the following hymn may be used instead of the lesson: musicsinai, or windham. i. let us remember in our youth, before the evil days draw nigh, our great creator, and his truth! ere memory fail and pleasure fly; or sun, or moon, or planet's light grow dark, or clouds return in gloom; ere vital spark no more incite; when strength shall bow, and years consume. ii. let us in youth remember him who formed our frame, and spirits gave, ere windows of the mind grow dim, or door of speech obstructed wave; when voice of bird fresh terrors wake, and music's daughters charm no more; or fear maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (28 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:55 am] to ri

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ilt of water and its concretions alone, it could never come to birth, so four months later when the fetus has reached the stage of development corresponding to the second sign of the watery triplicity, scorpio, the eighth sign, which corresponds to the house of death, samael, the dauntless ambassador of the lucifer spirits, invades the watery domain of the lunar hierarchy and introduces the fiery spark of the spirit into the inert form, to leaven, quicken and mould it into an expression of itself. there the silver cord which has grown from the seed-atom of the dense body (located in the heart) since conception, is welded to the part that has sprouted from the central vortex of the desire body (located in the liver) and when the silver cord is tied by the seed-atom of the vital body (locate

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tcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. h2 it is also called attikah d'attikin, the ancient of all the ancients, and attikah qadosha, the sacred ancient; it is sexless and is sometimes described as the non-ego or not-i, the ayin being altogether beyond the i. in the zohar we read and there went forth, as a sealed secret, from the head of ain soph, a nebulous spark of matter without shape or form, a centre of a circle, neither white nor black, neither red nor green, in fact without any colour. 3 this is the ain soph aur- light, not as a contradistinction to darkness, but as a vibration. first, so the symbolism describes, the ain soph withdrew itself into itself to form an infinite space- the abyss. in this space appeared a point of light, or life-givin

he side of darkness. gand after the fire there was a small still voice h; and here at last was found the name yhvh. 2 secret wisdom of the qabalah page 49 this small still voice represents the shin emerging from yhshvh, which by turning the darkness into a luminous mirror enabled yhvh to be reflected upon it. then only was the balance between the former and the formless established. as the divine spark scintillated forth, ghe caused a wind to blow from above against a wind that blew from below. from the shock of the meeting of these two winds, a drop emerged and rose from the depths of the abyss. this drop united the winds and from the union of these winds the world was born h, 3 a simulacrum of elohim- who. these- in which the form of every atom represents a divine idea. or we may try to

yramid. the christian idea of the son of god descending from heaven to save the world is in fact the qabalistic idea upside down; for all men, or, according to the hebrews, all the chosen people, are sons of god, particles of divinity, atoms of spirit, and when all these atoms unite in one spiritual ecstasy the messiah is born; for he is the integration of the totality of spirit in mankind. not a spark descending into darkness, but darkness dissolving into illimitable light. from the active to the formal, from the formal to the creative, from the creative to the archetypal, and thence back into the no-thingness, the source and the end of all things: such is the complete messianic hypostasis. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 61 chapter vi the source of mystic power the essence of the qabal

be accomplished through action, that is through will to think or to stop thinking. the world we live in is a world of activity, a conflict between light and darkness, secret wisdom of the qabalah page 63 knowledge and ignorance, good and evil. it is a whirling energy- nebular force, stellar force, planetary force, human force. it is a world of perpetual revolutions- a cosmos, a chaos, a void, the spark of a new thought; and then once again a cosmos, a chaos, and a void, the shadow of a dead thought. nature abhors a vacuum; hence life is the plenitude which fills it, a plenitude which of necessity can never stand still. each true thought; a thought full of light, which flashes on the darkness which surrounds it, is a christ unto this world. when three such thoughts, one in the physical real

of a three-fold nature. first, the aspirant must equilibrate all the opposite forces within him, and not merely those he considers vicious. secondly, he must cut himself away from all outward things and influences and meditate on the spirit he desires to unite with. thirdly, he must persevere, that is wrestle with this spirit. these three acts will lead him to the vision of god, the world soul, a spark of which burns within him and differentiates him from and also unites him to all things which surround him. whilst this vision lasts he is the messiah, but once it has faded away he is again man, yet charged with a terrific power which according to his will is a power for good or for evil. the existence and possible employment of this force constitute the great secret of practical magic; it

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orizontal bar. as soon as the male energy became god, the cross gradually grew into the figure of a man with arms extended. it became the original "life giver" it was adam, the creator of the race. doubtless for ages adam represented the god-man-phallus-tree of life, or cross idea. he was the progenitor of the race. from this same idea sprang ancestor worship, or the deification of the past vital spark. the adoration paid to the lares and penates, the household gods of the romans, on the first of may, is an example of this worship, as is also the homage paid by the chinese to their progenitors. of religious emblems r. p. knight says that one of the most remarkable among them is a cross in the form of the letter t which was used as an emblem of creation and generation before the church adop

igion of the hindoos. the symbolical meaning of the serpent and the tree of life was doubtless understood by the earliest adherents to the christian faith; it is not surprising, therefore, that by them there is no mention of the doctrine of original sin. their theory to account for evil in the world was the same as that of an ancient and almost forgotten race. the belief that the soul of man is a spark from, or a part of the universal soul, that at the death of the body it returns to its source, and in process of time appears as the animating principle in other bodies, was believed by pythagoras, aspasia, socrates, and plato and, in fact, for thousands of years it was entertained by the best and wisest of the human race. it was a part of the early christian doctrine and is still believed b

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that this book, explanatory of an eastern occultism yet using frequently christian terms, must be read as though the christian allusions were to a gnostic and not to a catholic christ spirit and man jesus; for jesus to the hermetist is the shortened form of yehoshua, which title is formed of the letters of the kabalistic yod, heh, vau, heh, having inter255 posed the letter shin, the emblem of the spark of the divine overshadowing each human soul. this yod heh vau heh, the incommunicable name, being the origin of the common godname;jehovah, but to the kabalist was not the jealous god of the jewish nation,buta glyph of the divine creative forces which emanate from the highest god ideal, yet unmanifested and certainly not individualised. as to the tenets of the order then.thefamabegins with a

e is unshaken, and aspirations firm, whose physical body is not suffered to waylay and corrupt the soul; and whose intellect has grasped our doctrines.thebody is not to be condemned,butis to be used with a righteous discretion.thesoul is not to be soiled with evil thoughts and selfish desires,butis to be elevated by the will to ascend.thespirit, that ray of the supreme which overshadows us, whose spark is'i',is standing ready to grasp and absorb that higher reflex of the self of the soul, which by reason of its purity and its development, has attained the standard of perfection. we arebutstudents of the higher life, and no adept among us can divine when and where anyone of you may be attacked, or by what trials, but we warn of the risks, and we are happily able to supply the panacea- the u

d relentlessly compelling the individual ego to a new earth-life. the kabalah then teaches that the egos have come out from the spirit fountain, suffer incarnation again and again until experience and perfection have been attained, and ultimately rejoin the divine source. now what is it that dwells for a time in this 'coat of skin' as genesis calls it, this so-called material body? it is a divine spark, composed of several elements derived from the symbolic four parts of jehovah, and from three worlds, and those are seated in the fourth world of effects, the material universe. now, it is no doubt true that in the several kabalistic schools, the numbers and names of these essences vary, but the basic idea remains the same: just in a similar way the principles of man's constitution as stated

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en impulse you think you will make him turn round and look at you. he does so. perhaps you are astonished and think you will try again. this time you fail. why? because you are doing it for an experiment, and not sure that you will succeed. your mind is two ways. yet it is a very simple matter which anyone can do, and no more really occult than starting a petrol engine if you have a strong enough spark. therefore it follows that until you are well practised you should never tell anyone what you are going to do. this at once gives the counter suggestion of an experiment, and the possibility of failure. the spark is not strong enough. no result follows' the extreme caution as to secrecy inculcated on witches in old times as to their designs and methods is usually attributed to fear of persec

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esting feature of this mystical theology is that, according to it, human beings are not created, but are in some way divine. owens describes this myth: the complex divine image was also visualized by kabbalah as having a unitary, anthropomorphic form. god was, by one kabbalistic recension, adam kadmon: the first primordial or archetypal man. man shared with god both an intrinsic, uncreated divine spark and a complex, organic form. this strange equation of adam as god was supported by a kabbalistic cipher: the numerical value in hebrew of the names adam and jehovah (the tetragrammaton, yod he vav he) was both 45. thus in kabbalistic exegesis jehovah equaled adam: adam was god. with this affirmation went the as- gj the inside story on the kabbalah sertion that all humankind in highest realiz

was to prepare the foundation for mussolini's fascist dictatorship in the 1920's. in short, we can say that mazzini, garibaldi and cavour were three prominent leaders who performed important functions in the struggle against religion in europe. mazzini was not only a political leader in the struggle against religion, he also played a role as an ideologue. his slogan "every nation a state" was the spark that ignited minority rebellions, which were to be the cause of the fall of multi-ethnic empires, such as the global freemasonry djg giuseppe mazzini and count di cavour: two master masons who brought the papal state to an end. djh the masonic war against religion austro-hungarian and the ottoman empires. this slogan of mazzini alienated people from their sense of religious fraternity; it wa

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rld. there she is kept captive pinning for her lover who is still in the other world. she waits and pines until at last some salvation is achieved by her hero coming into the underworld to save her. however, this salvation is at a cost and together they end in a battle against the underworld until the completion of the tale. though there are many modifications of this tale, it is the story of the spark of god within man. mans true self is caught in the coils of earth and is lost in the consciousness of matter. the nature of the spirit-spark within man is that of being a seed, god in potential. in hebrew it is called the ruach and interestingly, one definition offered of the ruach is sophia. so, here we have an israelite version of the classic tale. the spirit of god in man is a spark, a se

s the spouse and lover of the logos and the spirit within man. she is reflected in the light hidden in nature, the ecclesia, the gnostic scripture and man, and illustrates the presence of light in all things. in each of these things sophia is manifested. in the material world sophia is the presence of god in nature. even after all the pain man has inflicted on it, nature still exhibits the divine spark, though its luster has been sorely diminished. sophia is the bride of the logos embodied in the the gnostic handbook page 32 ecclesia, in the scriptures sophia is wisdom and in man she is the very essence which changes him from mortal to immortal, she is the holy spirit. therefore sophia is twofold, at once divine and creaturely- above and before creation and in creation .in the world, sophi

ons of gnosticism the serpent is used to represent the path of the pneumatic, the highest path to the treasury of light. in our tradition, as in the valentinian gnostic school, there were three grades- the hylic, psychic and pneumatic. the hylic was that of everyday man, it was sometimes represented by a crawling serpent, the snake of earth. the hylic is the bulk of humanity, it has little innate spark of life and generally is a creature of instinct. the psychic was the first path of salvation and was represented by the dove. the psychic is a mixture of light, mind and flesh and is dominated by his lower instincts, he needs the guidance of the gnostic school to achieve liberation. the secret path was that of the serpent of light, the winged serpent. this path is followed by the pneumatics

of the archons and transfiguration into a new being, a child of the treasury of light. transfiguration is based on the example of jesus who through his ascension to become the first born of the treasury of light opened the way so we can enter the spiritual path. this path is known as the path(es) of the dove and serpent or the path of transfiguration. when a person enters the path, the pneumatic spark or light self that has been frozen in time awakens and begins to grow once again. sophia cleanses the mind, instincts and other constituents of the psychic apparatus and prepares the initiate for communion with the logos or mind of god. the process of rebirth is just that, a process. nobody is immediately born again, the process of rebirth takes much time (even lifetimes) from conception (en

ith the baptism of repentance but is offered later on the spiritual path. as the baptism of repentance is recognition of starting the spiritual path, the baptism of fire is recognition of a certain degree of achievement and is stimulus for further growth. the baptism of water symbolises the start of the work of sophia in cleansing the life of the student, it also initiates the growth of the light spark in the gnostic. the baptism of fire recognises the growing spark of light and accelerates the destruction of the "old man" within the gnostic being. as the spark of light grows it attempts to commune with the mind of god (logos) to which the gnostic now has access, however, false perceptions and attachments block the way. as the initiate grows sophia purifies and destroys the blockages betwe

symbolism is the human principle. in gnostic literature the name jesus was symbolic of the spiritually disciplined life, hence, baptism in the name of jesus is the first baptism, that of water, that of discipline, that of repentance. the second baptism (or anointing) is that of fire, it is the christ baptism. at this baptism sophia breaks down the barriers between the new awakened self (pneumatic spark) and the logos, and the gnostic enters into communion with the mind of god. in other words, the divine will is present in his soul, he is christed. living the life of a gnostic: overcoming the dialectic system in fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in christ jesus will be persecuted, 2 timothy 3:12 of great significance on the path of transfiguration is actually living the life. as

nsure the best possible bodies for the incarnation of future souls. the aim, however, of the celestial path and the qadesh is obviously very different. the bridal chamber the aim of those on the celestial path is to achieve liberation in the body, accordingly the energy fields of the organism must be transformed to a point whereby they will survive the effect of the manifestation of the pneumatic spark from the treasury of light. therefore many of the technologies of the celestial path use methods which actually change the energy form of the organism one of the central techniques used is known as the bridal chamber. this ritual was unique to the pre-christian gnostics and was carried into christian gnosticism, it was also clearly alluded to in the early celebrations of the eucharist and ag

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ties, becomes the end for most of humanity. when man descended into the fallen world of matter, he lost his right to immortality and hence became truly mortal. his true self, which had evolved through many cycles, was contaminated by the fall and could not survive in his now degenerated state. accordingly, his yechidah or self became powerless, locked in a fallen vehicle and could exist only as a spark of light- a potential. the only way to reactivate this self is by the application of the mysteries found on the path of transfiguration. this transfigurative process involves a spiritual technology whereby man is reborn through the power of the treasury of light, and the ruach is united with the re-awakened yechidah. the yechidah, using the energies of the ruach and nephesh is re-developed

e four worlds and these were expanded into seven planes, so too the four bodies can be expanded into seven. these can be easily correlated to the traditional four bodies, but give offer more detail (see fig 12) gnostic theurgy page 47 the seven bodies of man the self the self only exists only in potential, it remains embryonic until awakened by transfigurative processes. it is the pneumatic light spark that is caught in matter. the theosophical and rosicruican structure of man four bodies. seven bodies seven bodies (theosophy (rosicrucian. yechidah. supreme self. higher forms of being. yechidah. mediator self. higher forms of being. ruach. spiritual soul. divine spirit. ruach. higher or intuitive soul. life spirit or higher thought. nephesh. instinctual body or prana. lower thought. nephes

eternal re-occurrence, and forging a higher will- a will to power. here we are not talking of a petty will, a brutal desire to violence or warfare, we are talking gnostic theurgy page 58 of a momentous inner strength that overcomes the restraints of the body and the flesh, and forges from the structures of the psyche a link to the light world. the true self only exists in potential, it is a light spark locked within the prison of the mould. thus the central message of the gnosis is to develop an overpowering drive, a will so strong that it breaks beyond the moral and ethical limits of the lower kingdom, and awakens the true self and fashions a new man. the great mystery of the gnosis is that we must create our own inner selves! the need to go beyond the lower forms of morality, to disdain

mind is a scribe, a record keeper, even a grand machine, it is not the true self. the mind is a difficult thing to control, and yet it must be forced to submit. the mind will rebel, demand rights, give us strange thoughts, dreams and nightmares, yet ultimately it has no real power. it is a glorified computer, a good model, certainly, but a computer no less (fig 16) the angel is the true self, the spark of light. it exists only in potential and must be brought into action through transfiguration. when the angel becomes the centre of gnostic theurgy page 68 one's existence the animal and adept (and other related systems) fall into place. however, since we are in a fallen system, there will always be a battle until matter is finally rectified. even if the animal and adpe are forced into obedi

ts. since language today has a social and communicative function we tend to lose sight of its esoteric significance. as part of our study of kabbalah we need to re-consider the role of the written word and examine its possible occult value. gnostic theurgy page 102 the mystery of hebrew a secret of secrets for those who know wisdom: the moment these letters came forth, secretly circling as one, a spark flashed out to engrave. a flowing measure extended ten cubits on this side, and out short comets inside comets, seventy-one. sparks burst into flashes, up high and down below, then quieted down and rose up high, beyond, beyond. the flow measured out ten cubits on the other side, and comets shot out in colours like before. and on on every side. the spark expanded, whirling round and round. sp

ks burst into flashes, up high and down below, then quieted down and rose up high, beyond, beyond. the flow measured out ten cubits on the other side, and comets shot out in colours like before. and on on every side. the spark expanded, whirling round and round. sparks burst into flashes and rose high above. the heavens blazed with all their powers; everything flashed and sparked as one. then the spark turned from the side of the south and outlined a curve from there to the east and from the east to the north until it had circled back to the south, as before. then the spark swirled, disappearing; comets and flashes dimmed. now they came forth, these carved, flaming letters flashing like gold when it dazzles. like a craftsmen smelting silver and gold; when he takes them out of the blazing f

o the north until it had circled back to the south, as before. then the spark swirled, disappearing; comets and flashes dimmed. now they came forth, these carved, flaming letters flashing like gold when it dazzles. like a craftsmen smelting silver and gold; when he takes them out of the blazing fire all is bright and pure; so the letters came forth, pure and bright from the flowing measure of the spark. therefore it is written: the word of yhvh is refined (psalms 18:31, as silver and gold are refined. when these letters came forth, they were all refined, carved gnostic theurgy page 103 precisely, sparkling, flashing. all of israel saw the letters flying through in every direction, engraving themselves on the tablets of stone. zohar:book of enlightenment. trans, daniel matt, paulist press.1

h the baptism of repentance, but is offered later on the spiritual path. as the baptism of repentance is recognition of starting the spiritual path, the baptism of fire is recognition of a certain degree of achievement, and is stimulus for further growth. the baptism of water symbolises the start of the work of sophia in cleansing the life of the student, it also initiates the growth of the light spark in the gnostic. the baptism of fire recognises the growing spark of light and accelerates the destruction of the "old man" within the gnostic being. as the spark of light grows it attempts to commune with the mind of god (logos) to which the gnostic now has access, however, sin (dialectic facets) block the way. as the initiate evolves sophia purifies and destroys the blockages between the se

us as a symbol represents the human principle. in gnostic literature the name jesus was symbolic of the spiritually disciplined life, hence, baptism in the name of jesus is the first baptism, that of water, discipline and repentance. the second baptism (or anointing) is that of fire, it is the christ baptism. at this baptism sophia breaks down the barriers between the new awakened self (pneumatic spark) and the logos and the gnostic enters into communion with the mind of god. in other words, the lord of wisdom is present in his soul, he is christed. now i realise many traditional christians (and others) will argue that the holy spirit cannot do any harm, it is the spirit of love, and hence these baptisms can be given together. but this is just not so, if we continue to read the account in

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fall of the genius, a sin which entails none the less terrible consequences because it is a sign of the higher plane where the choice is not between good and evil, but between the higher and lower forms of good. therefore, the mystic circumambulation in the path of darkness is led by the kerux with the symbolic light, as formulating that the higher soul is not the only divine light, but rather a spark from the ineffable flame. the kerux, in his turn, is but the watcher of the gods. after the kerux comes the hegemon, the translator of the higher self, leadng the candidate. then comes the goddesses of the scales of the balance, the stolistes and the dadouchos. they move once around; the formation in darkness of the hnyb angle of the white triangle of the three supernals. the hierophant knoc

GOLDEN CHAIN AND THE LONELY ROAD

of years. from experience i would counsel caution and prudence, but if truth be found then i believe we should respect those who have gained the favour of the divine. to speak boldly, i consider that the lineage of unique transmission, as incepted by the self-recognition of one's innate 'seed of light, is a prerequisite for all who practise the arte magical. perchance all beings may possess that spark within themselves, but the rubicon between initiate and uninitiate is the self-recognition of that spiritual seed. for unless that inchoate germ of the magical life awakens to itself there can be no growth, no quickening of the soul-fire. the unique transmission is old fate's blessing: the secret rapport between the gods and the soul; no other may tell of it. its outward signs are inspiratio

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

cked in to orion s belt and sirius at around 2450 bc.24 the hypothesis resolves the anomaly of the missing years by supposing the star shafts to be merely the later work of the same long-lived cult that originally laid out the giza ground-plan in 10,450 bc. naturally, the hypothesis also suggests that it was this same cult, towards the end of those 8000 missing years, that provided the initiating spark for the sudden and fully formed emergence of the literate historical civilization of dynastic egypt. what remains to be guessed at are the motives of the pyramid builders, who were presumably the same people as the mysterious cartographers who mapped the globe at the end of the last ice age in the northern hemisphere. if so, we might also ask why these highly civilized and technically accomp

e place on 5 may in the year 2000, when neptune, uranus, venus, mercury and mars will align with the earth on the other side of the sun, setting up a sort of cosmic tug-of-war. 30 could the recondite influences of gravity, when combined with our planet s precessional wobble, the torsional effects of its axial rotation, and the rapidly growing mass and weight of the antarctic ice-cap, be enough to spark off a full-scale crustal displacement? we may never know, one way or another unless it happens. meanwhile, i do not think the egyptian scribe manetho was being less than literal when he spoke of a harsh and deadly cosmic power at work in the universe: just as iron is likely to be attracted and led after the loadstone, but often turns away and is repelled in the opposite direction, so the sal

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

below the abyss, you can nevertheless develop an intuitive feeling for your holy guardian angel and cali on him for assistance at any time.in fact, this is a prerequisite to entering the abyss which is in zax, the tenth aethyr. but what is your holy guardian angel? it is none other than your own spiritual self or genius. enochian magick teaches that every person has a spiritual counterpart, a 10 spark of divinity, at the core of bis being.you are inherently spiritual.your physical body is an expression of your mirad. your mirad is an expression of your soul. your soul is an expression of your spirit. this inner spark of divine light acts on a higher level than your human mirad.it will appear to be separate from you and will seem to act independent of you. in enochian magick it is called y

ilence can he be brought to obey" in other words, you must hold a quiet singleness of purpose in your mind. you should enter zax while in samadhi and while there hold fast to your purpose without losing concentration. fill your mind with the word niakod (nee- ah-koh-deh) and let nothing else disturb you. if all traces of egoity are erased, you should be safe enough. most dangers arise from a tiny spark of human personality remaining in the subtle body. as if he had matches, khoronzon will ignite that spark if he can find i t, and from the flame wi ll;inevitably arise your worst enemyyour own fear. it is almost impossible to eliminate any fear that you might have at this point. khoronzon will en-flame the smallest amount of fear and cause it to grow until you will be undone. the only sane m

eived by him with such affection that this description which i here give unto you shal l appear a me re nothing in comparison. abraham the jew, the book of the sacred magic of abramelin the mage this invocation, the knowledge and conversation of your holy guardian angel, is the primary goal of enochian magick. it is the magical experience of your encounter with your own inner divinity, the divine spark at the core of your being. it will be fully experienced in the 8th aethyr, zid. until then, you can achieve various degrees of this knowledge and conversation. the exercise below can be practiced at any time to prepare you for this encounter, but it must be done on a regular basis for best results. step 1. set aside a special chamber or area to be used only for this exercise. there should be

consciousness come to an end for you. your memory is gone. your personality is dispersed. your name is forgotten. step 6. empty your mind of its contents and say: telokh (teh-loh-keh-heh) o death, to me is the victory. you have taken my body and my mind, but my spirit remains; a light in the darkness. abai-malpirg abai-malpirg abaimalpirg (ah-bah-ee-mahleh-pee-rah-geh) 365 i am the stooping life-spark in a well of darkness. i am the light of wisdom and the light of mercy. behold, there is healing in my wings. life from my spirit springs. i am he that has life and am dead. he who from life to life is led. i hold the ivory keys of hell. i hold the keys of death as well. bliorb-olprt (beh lee-oh-ra-beh-oh-leh-par-teh) the comfort of light is upon me. i rest in the great place of comfort; the

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

s. 2, 314 is the name of a wandering scholar, and irrefogel in haupt's zeitschr. 1, 438 means the same, conf. schm. 3, 588; the titurel 576 has' ein irregengel vor allem valsche' the two words vdtteaijs and elf-licht, shewing a close connexion with wights and elves, are perhaps the oldest we have. sindri (scintilla, a dwarf's name in the edda, s^m. 7^ suggests the slav homesprite iskrzycki (iskra spark, p. 513. a story is told of an inuisch getting caught, and a great many more coming soon after to claim him back: this represeiits them as an elvish people, who stick to one another^ miscell (nlirnb. 1661) p. 143-4. deut. sag. no. 279. none of these refer to souls, they are rather hapjjy omens of victory, as will be shewn in ch. xxxv. shooting stars indeed pass for souls (p. 722, even with t

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

a one is caught, he will offer you gifts or tell your fortune, to be set at liberty again. of this sort is the butt in the nursery-tale 1 very similar stories in kuhn, no. 103, thiele 1, 136, and the irish tale of the cluricaun (pp. 92. 213 of the transl. also a capital polish story about iskrzycki, in woycicki s klechdy 1, 198: an unknown person, who called himself iskrzycki [flinty, from iskra= spark, says grimm; there is also a slav. iskri= near, iskrenny= neighbour, friendly] came and offered his services to a man of noble family. the agreement was drawn up, and even signed, when the master observed that isk rzycki had horse s feet, and gave him notice of withdrawal. but the servant stood on his rights, and declared his intention of serving his master whether he would or no. he lived i

istr. 3791; maus feus et male flambe m arde 1 meon 3, 227. 297. ren. 19998. this evil fire is what the norse loki represents; and as loki or the devil breaks loose, we say, when a fire begins, that it breaks loose, breaks out, gets out, as if from chains and prison: worde viir los/ doc. in sartorius s hanse p. 27; in lower germany an alarm of fire was given in the words fiir los! on. einn neisti (spark) war$ laus/ forms of exorcism treat fire as a hostile higher being, whom one must encounter with might and main. tacitus (ann. 13, 57) tells us how the ubii suppressed a fire that broke out of the ground: residentibus flammis propius suggressi, ictu fustium aliisque verberibus ut feras (see p. 601) absterrebant, postremo tegmina corpore direpta injiciunt, quanto magis profana et usu polluta

villages of lower saxony, especially in the mountains, it is common, as a precaution against cattle plague, to get up the so-called wild fire, through which first the pigs, then the cows, lastly the geese are driven.2 the established procedure in the matter is this. the farmers and all the parish assemble, each inhabitant receives notice to extinguish every bit of fire in his house, so that not a spark is left alight in the whole village. then old and young walk to a hollow way, usually towards evening, the women carry ing linen, the men wood and tow. two oaken stakes are driven into the ground a foot and a half apart, each having a hole on the inner side, into which fits a cross-bar as thick as an arm. the holes are stuffed with linen, then the cross-bar is forced in as tight as possible

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

espondencewithrobertowen175thespirit that animates the earthly body, and the atmospher255 ic spirit, make the formofthe spiritual being joined; and the soul is the life and existenceofthat spiritual being.thespirit and the soul, as belonging to the body, are distinct.theyare like thought, confined to the body, and known only to it; having no visible appearance while life lasts.thesoul really is a spark, as it were,ofthe almighty's own being, given to man, that he may, with the knowledge that that soul will have life hereafter, govern his actions by reason, so that life hereafter may be fullofbliss. when the soulisdisembodied,ithas instinct insteadofreason. it does not therefore think of one thing at a time. it acts upon all that it has the intentionofdoing.thesoul is thereason,-theknowledg

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

e me, bending over itsmanuscript, was reading its tale aloud instead of writing it. but i soon found out my error. for casting mygaze at the old scribe's face, i saw at a glance that his lips were compressed and motionless, and the voice toothin and shrill to be his voice. stranger still at every word traced by the feeble, aged hand, i noticed a lightflashing from under his pen, a bright coloured spark that became instantaneously a sound, or- what is thesame thing- it seemed to do so to my inner perceptions. it was indeed the small voice of the quill that i nightmare talesa bewitched life26 heard though scribe and pen were at the time, perchance, hundreds of miles away from germany. such thingswill happen occasionally, especially at night, beneath whose starry shade, as byron tells us. we

rically aroundthe magic circle. he then broke a chip of wood from a panel of the half ruined door, which bore the marks ofmany a similar depredation, and, holding the chip between his thumb and finger he began blowing on it atregular intervals, alternating the blowing with mutterings of some kind of weird incantation, till suddenly,and without any apparent cause for its ignition, there appeared a spark on the chip and it blazed up like a drymatch. the dervish then lit the twelve lamps at this self-generated flame. during this process, tatmos, who had sat till then altogether unconcerned and motionless, removed heryellow slippers from her naked feet, and throwing them into a corner, disclosed as an additional beauty, asixth toe on each deformed foot. the dervish now reached over into the ci

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

or mathematics. others, answered intelligently to questions put to them, and even, in several cases, spoke languages, such as hebrew and latin, of which they were entirely ignorant when awake-all this in a state of profound sleep. will you, then, maintain that this was caused by "spirits? page 17 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt q. but how would you explain it? a. we assert that the divine spark in man being one and identical in its essence with the universal spirit, our "spiritual self" is practically omniscient, but that it cannot manifest its knowledge owing to the impediments of matter. now the more these impediments are removed, in other words, the more the physical body is paralyzed, as to its own independent activity and consciousness, as in deep sleep or deep trance, or, aga

essence, not in its individual form. when at the last point of its cycle, it is absorbed into its primordial nature; and it becomes spirit, when it loses its name of entity. its immortality as a form is limited only to its life cycle or the maha -manvantara; after which it is one and identical with the universal spirit, and no longer a separate entity. as to the personal soul-by which we mean the spark of consciousness that preserves in the spiritual ego the idea of page 52 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt the personal "i" of the last incarnation-this lasts, as a separate distinct recollection, only throughout the devachanic period; after which time it is added to the series of other innumerable incarnations of the ego, like the remembrance in our memory of one of a series of days, a

er will be the god within him. but as few men can feel that god, and since, as an average rule, deity is always bound and limited in our thought by earlier conceptions, those ideas that are inculcated in us from childhood, therefore, it is so difficult for you to understand our philosophy. q. and is it this ego of ours which is our god? a. not at all "a god" is not the universal deity, but only a spark from the one ocean of divine fire. our god within us, or "our father in secret" is what we call the higher self, atma. our incarnating ego was a god in its origin, as were all the primeval emanations of the one unknown principle. but since its "fall into matter" having to incarnate throughout the cycle, in succession, from first to last, it is no longer a free and happy god, but a poor pilgr

n of matter. this he does by incarnating over and over again, thus leading mankind onward to perfection, and making thereby room for lower forms to develop into higher. not for one life does he cease progressing himself and helping all physical nature to progress; even the occasional, very rare event of his losing one of his personalities, in the case of the latter being entirely devoid of even a spark of spirituality, helps toward his individual progress. q. but surely, if the ego is held responsible for the transgressions of its personalities, it has to answer also for the loss, or rather the complete annihilation, of one of such. a. not at all, unless it has done nothing to avert this dire fate. but if, all its efforts notwithstanding, its voice, that of our conscience, was unable to pe

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cerned with removing or transcending the ego- behind which, it is implied, is a higher self. the fiction of higher- lower self maintains the divide between spirituality and everyday experience. personally, i prefer the idea that we are each a multiplicity of selves, or, as tantra has it, a squirming ball of shaktis (desire-comlexes) interacting (but not all at once) with shiva (or kia, the divine spark of consciousness. another useful concept is that of, rather than overcoming the ego, shifting from a condition of ego-centredness, to that of exo-centredness. in the former, the self is maintained by rejecting all that it is not, of being seperate to others. for the 66 phil hine latter, the self is constantly renewed (and modified) through a process of engagement with others. as shown above

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

l months, with me alive? what d'ye mean to do' willett, though a small man, actually took on a kind of judicial majesty as he calmed the patient with a gesture 'i have told no one. this is no common case- it is a madness out of time and a horror from beyond the spheres which no police or lawyers or courts or alienists could ever fathom or grapple with. thank god some chance has left inside me the spark of imagination, that i might not go astray in thinking out this thing. you cannot deceive me, joseph curwen, for i know that your accursed magic is true 'i know how you wove the spell that brooded outside the years and fastened on your double and descendant; i know how you drew him into the past and got him to raise you up from your detestable grave; i know how he kept you hidden in his labo

HP LOVECRAFT BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP

tions of joe slater. the man himself was pitiably inferior in mentality and language alike; but his glowing, titanic visions, though described in a barbarous disjointed jargon, were assuredly things which only a superior or even exceptional brain could conceive how, i often asked myself, could the stolid imagination of a catskill degenerate conjure up sights whose very possession argued a lurking spark of genius? how could any backwoods dullard have gained so much as an idea of those glittering realms of supernal radiance and space about which slater ranted in his furious delirium? more and more i inclined to the belief that in the pitiful personality who cringed before me lay the disordered nucleus of something beyond my comprehension; something infinitely beyond the comprehension of my m

HP LOVECRAFT HERBERT WEST REANIMATOR

our fame would be brilliantly and perpetually established. so without delay west had injected into the body s wrist the compound which would hold it fresh for use after my arrival. the matter of the presumably weak heart, which to my mind imperilled the success of our experiment, did not appear to trouble west extensively. he hoped at last to obtain what he had never obtained before- a rekindled spark of reason and perhaps a normal, living creature. so on the night of july 18, 1910, herbert west and i stood in the cellar laboratory and gazed at a white, silent figure beneath the dazzling arc-light. the embalming compound had worked uncannily well, for as i stared fascinatedly at the sturdy frame which had lain two weeks without stiffening, i was moved to seek west s assurance that the thi

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ut everything and anything and love each other. it's a phony letter. you are really unhappy and trying to brainwash yourself into thinking everything's great. you're not in love. all these great things are going for you, but none of them are meaningful. you can put up with not being compatible if you're in love, if you're drawn together. or you can have everything just down pat, but if there's no spark, it's not working. the trouble is, too many people are looking for the nice, neat, clean package rather than the spark. i think they're afraid to take chances with their emotions. they're not using their emotions. you're just living in a little storybook-type arrangement: you don't like him. an emotional rapport is missing. after going on and on about how compatible the two of you are, you a

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

ss it into any form he chooses. magicians trained in this line can condense an element to such a degree that it becomes a material power. that is why you can light a fire with the help of the fire element at the greatest distance. at first, practice drawing a fiery ball down from the universe directly without having it pass through the body, and compress it to a small bead so as to grow a glowing spark. put this spark in a cotton ball that has been soaked in easily inflammable liquid such as ether, alcohol, or petrol. a second spark is to be prepared in the same way with the air element, and the very moment both sparks touch the cotton ball, it will catch fire and begin to burn. having succeeded in this little trick, the magician can make an attempt with the wick of an ordinary candle, and

ther, alcohol, or petrol. a second spark is to be prepared in the same way with the air element, and the very moment both sparks touch the cotton ball, it will catch fire and begin to burn. having succeeded in this little trick, the magician can make an attempt with the wick of an ordinary candle, and later on with a paraffin lamp. he can do this near and far. apart from it, he can also confine a spark to a glass or a bottle, and fling a water-spark into this container, quick as a flash. as soon as these two sparks touch each other, both elements will explode and the glass or bottle will break into pieces. the magician can compose such artifices himself because he knows and masters the rules. the genuine magician will not waste his time with such dallying. he knows very well that he could

t by pore breathing and impregnate it with your desire, whether right away in your body, or animate it afterwards by imagination when it has been projected outside your body. in order to achieve a quicker success, both possibilities may be used without incident. now project the fire element out of your body and accumulate it to such a degree that the entire contents are compressed to a very small spark of fire. confine the spark to the surface of the small kylichor. repeat this experiment at least seven times so that the accumulated spark grows larger with each repetition. after repeating it seven times the spark might have the size of a candle flame. if you get tired, you may transfer the flame with your sending-off and guarding method into the spot where you intend to keep the elementary

well as the macrocosm. when loading with a volt, attention has to be paid to this law. if you wish to load a talisman, etc, for your own purposes with a volt, you have to proceed as follows: in the right half of your body, accumulate the electric fluid dynamically with all your strength via your hand and finally through the forefinger. project the accumulated electric fluid to a powerful electric spark and encase it with your imagination exactly in the center of the talisman. you have got to see this spark as if it were red hot. now do the same with the magnetic fluid, directing it through you forefinger of the left hand so that you wrap the electric spark with your magnetic fluid to such a degree that it becomes invisible in your imagination. imagine the compressed magnetic fluid as being

INTRODUCTION TO THE SEVEN FACES OF DARKNESS

lhp initiate, recognizing as viruses personal strength and self knowledge, does what he or she can to help others create the states. if this emotion is not carefully watched, it can devolve into a dangerous sentimentality that causes us to make things too easy on those who come after us, but if it is carefully refined in the light of one's own past experiences, it can become an igniting force- a spark that awakens the gifted but sleeping members of mankind. if these two desires are carefully blended, balanced, and brought to bear with the hard-won wisdom of the first two tasks, the initiate has a great magnetic power. he or she can take the circumstances of others around them and turn them into an endless process of refinement. he can help his students get over the death of a friend, she

ISIS UNVEILED

e thioqc" from the persian mithraic mode of classifying. 417a. tlu ghoifia, p. 102. 418. this certainly looks like the "jetuoiu god" of the jewa. 41q, it is the elmnt (plural who create adam, and do not wish man to beoome digitizecoy google 188 isis unveiled heaveuty mother, nunikos, wishing to deprive dda-baoth of the power with which she had unwittingly endowed him, infused into man a celestial spark the spirit. inmiediately man rooe upon bis feet, soared in mind beyond the limits of the seven spheres, and ^orified the supreme father, him that ia above ilda-baoth. hence the latter, full of jealousy, cast down his eyes upon the lowest stratum of matter, and begot a potency in the form of a serpent, whom they [ophites] call his son. eve, obeying him as the son of god, was persuaded to eat

an, but simply the law of the dual evolution. adam, or 'man' begins his career of existences by dwelling in the garden of eden "dressed in the celestial garment, which ia a garment of keaneiuy light" zokar, u, p. 229 b; hut when expelled he is "clothed" by god, or the eternal law of evolution or necessarianism, with "coats of akin" but even on this earth of material d^radation in which the divine spark (soul, a comiscation of the spirit) was to begin its physical progression in a series of imprisonments from a stone up to a man's body if he but exercise his will and call his deity to his help, man can transcend the powers of the angel "know ye not that we shall judge angels" asks paul (1 corinihiana, vi, 3 "the real man is the soul (spirit, teaches the zohar'"the mystery of the earthly man

odies of men will be absorbed into god's own essence and being (the nirvana of the hindfla, the soub of men will keep their astral forms, except the few chosen ones who from the moment of their separation from their bodies begin to exist as pure spirits. the life of man they divide into soul. body, and intelli- gence, or mind. it is the latter which imparts and communicates to the soul the divine spark from its 'hamza (christos. they have seven great commandments which are imparted equally to all the uninitiated; and yet even these well-known articles of faith have been so mixed up in the accounts of outside writer? that, in one of the best cyclopaedias of america (appleton's. they are garbled alia the fashion that may be seen in the comparative tabulation below; the spurious and the true

e, that gradual acquirement of stoical indifference for either life or death; that state of spiritual self -contempla- tion during which man utterly loses sight of ms physical and dual indi- viduality, composed of soul and body; and uniting himself with his third and higher immortal self, the real and heavenly man, merges, so to say, into the divine essence whence his own spirit proceeded like a spark from the common hearth. thus the arhat, the holy mendicant, can reach nirv&na while yet on earth; and his spirit, totally freed from the tram- mels of the "psychical, terrestrial, devilisk wisdom" as james calls it, and being in its own nature omniscient and omnipotent, can on earth, through the sole power of his thought, produce the greatest of phenomena "it is the missionaries in china and

ISRAEL REGARDIE A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GEOMANTIC DIVINATION

pleasure that i dedicate this work to carr p. collins, jr and his gracious wife yyvonne. in these days when the phrase 'extra-sensory perception' has become almost a by-word, our problem is not so much to discuss it, which is now relatively fruitless, but to develop it. it is really less a matter of development than of rendering explicit what is actually implicit. just as everyone is moved by the spark of life without in most cases being aware of the direct mechanisms involved, so every man and woman possesses some latent capacity for extra-sensory perception. some more, some less. the major contribution of this book is not so much slanted in the direction of prediction of what is yet to come, but to facilitate the growth and expression of this inner psycho-spiritual ability. to this exten

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

body. when excess melatonin is produced via prolonged periods in darkness, dream and sleep states then can bridge into waking consciousness and our higher truer nature begins to reveal itself and we feel reconnected to the source of all nourishment and life. as many esoteric cultures believe. the soul disengages itself from the body when it sleeps and merges into its higher purer form as a divine spark which also occurs during prolonged darkness meditation time. this is called soul feeding time, for here the soul can drink deeply of the theta. delta frequency well, and receive the pure nourishment that it requires. another benefit of the activation of the master glands in our body is that we can be feed, via our soul, in a more conscious manner during our waking time. heart 9. nourishment

ddess on earth, the high priestess ensures fertility and ongoing creation. the high priestess is the great goddess herself and is seen universally as kwan yin (asia, isis (egypt, athena (greece) and rhiannon (celts. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 79. all wise, all knowing she gives and takes life and reminds us of our innate inner wisdom and of the divine spark within and asks us to radiantly manifest this into the world. the high priestess embodies love, mercy and compassion. then we have: the triple goddess. the original trinity, symbolizes the 3 faces of the great goddess. stage 1: the virgin as strong and self defined. stage 2: the mother as the nurturing source of all nourishment and. stage 3: the crone representing death and transformation. t

es and our two more refined senses of intuition and knowing. living on light is simply one natural by-product of the journey and experience of being a passionately impeccable being. q: what are the benefits/disadvantages? one of the first benefits that i felt was incredible lightness of being, feeling vast, highly energized, expanded, multi-dimensional. these are the characteristics of the divine spark within and, as one is allowing this divine limitless spark within. and without. to sustain them, they then take on its qualities. i remember the first day that i felt as though i was no longer restricted to physical reality but was completely free. free to choose. free to create. free to study, research and then apply these new ways of being and thinking. every day i feel how life is a gift

sed for we can only attract to ourselves a vibration that mirrors our own consciousness. so in a nutshell, organs maintain, then improve, to attain peak health as the master in the body. yourself empowered. begins the vigilant process of mind mastery and conscious reality creation of limitlessness. the game of pranic feeding is one of the most powerful i know to prove the power of the pure energy spark that really sustains us. without this we would not have life. without this we would not know pleasure or joy or limitlessness. for when we call it forth we may instruct dear mighty i am presence i command full mastery of all my lower bodies for you to now fully manifest within. i now express completely divine magic and mastery and heaven within all realms. as above, so below. so be it! what

c nourishers sleep at least half of what they used to and some have mastered the requirement for sleep. others simply sleep when they desire, usually to move out of the body at will to go into other energy bands of expression. in order to tune oneself to the divine nutrition channel, meditation is one of the most effective tools. it also allows us to access the limitless nature of the pure energy spark within. many pranic nourishers have embedded their conscious awareness in the eternal now and choose to meditate formally for the joy of being in the stillness without the external distraction often experienced in a busy western culture. energy levels are fantastic particularly when you expect them to be. remember this is a journey of mind over matter. one of the most obvious proofs that our

on with their divine source. we are all so hungry because the spiritual come to dinner gong has sounded and our divine appetites are seeking satiation. there are two more exercises that i would like to gift to you and our world. field re-setting. divine nutrition program technique no. 35: exercise: checking our personal radiance levels. look in the mirror, where is your shine. how bright with the spark of life and passion does your dow s light radiate from your eyes. how radiant, how fulfilled, how gracious, how loving do you feel? remember that by our lifestyle we can increase or decrease the level of love that we experience through life. if your light is not shining. if your heart is not singing. then have the courage to apply the tools in chapter 6. personally i want to be a player in t

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

rench in a field in a valley, round which the country rose into sombre, silent woods, vocal only with the quaint cries of the infrequent magpies. it was some little time after the sun had sunk, and the countryman was just about giving over his labour for the day. dr. plot say that, in one or two of the last languid strokes of his pick, the rustic came upon something stony and hard, which struck a spark, clearly visible in the increasing gloom. at this surprise he resumed his labour, and, curiously enough, found a large, flat stone in the centre of his field. this field was far away from any of the farms or cotes, as they were called inthose days, with which the now almost twilight country was sparingly dotted. in a short time he cleared the stone free of the grass and weeds which had grown

examine, about which ye gather, with your persuasions, to wind into the innermost secret of. cyclops one-eyed and savage-break into meaning this portent, man, on your science-wheels! note the goings of the fire, as he creepeth, serpentineth, riseth, slinketh, broadeneth. note him reddening, glowing, whitening. tremble at his face, dilating; at the meaning that is growing into it, to you. see that spark from the blacksmith's anvil! struck, as an insect, out of a sky containing a whole cloud of such. rare locusts, of which pharaoh and the cities of the plain read of old the secret! one, two, three sparks; dozens come: faster and faster the fiery squadrons follow, until, in a short while, a whole possible army of that hungry thing for battle, for food for it fire glances up; but is soon warne

wild, belief; the inscriptions of amulets, on rings and on talismans; the singular, dark, and, in many respects, uncouth arcana of the bohemians, zingari, gitanos, or gipsies; the teaching of the talmud; the hints of the cabala: also that little-supposed thing, even, meant in the british golden collar of s.s, which is worn as a relic of the oldest day (in perpetuation of a mythos long ago buried-spark-like-and forgotten in the dust of ages) by some of our officials, courtly and otherwise, and which belongs to no known order of knighthood, but only to the very highest order of knighthood, the magian, or to magic; all these point, as in the diverging radii of the greatest of historical light-suns, to the central, intolerable ring of brilliancy, or the phenomenon the original god s revelatio

ian sense, have special magic powers, or gifts, according to their several places, and according to the supernatural extra forces brought specially to bear on them through the operations of those who know how (and when) to direct the occult power. those powers bestowed upon the original deserving man, and not extinguished in the existing man, are his still if he retain any glimpse of his original spark of light. justinus kerner, in his scherin von prevorst, most ingeniously anatomises the inner man, and makes him consist of seele, nerven-geist, and geist. the nervengeist, or nervous energy, being of a grosser nature, continues united with the seele on its separation from the body, rendering it visible in the form of an apparition, and enabling it to affect material objects, make noises, mo

norama. unseen and unsuspected (because in it lies magic, there is an inner magnetism, or divine aura, or ethereal spirit, or possible eager fire, shut and confined, as in a prison, in the body, or in all sensible solid objects, which have more or less of spiritually sensitive life as they can more successfully free themselves from this ponderable, material obstruction. thus all minerals, in this spark of light, have the rudimentary possibility of plants and growing organisms; thus all plants have rudimentary sensitives, which might (in the ages) enable them to perfect and transmute into locomotive new creatures, lesser or higher in their grade, or nobler or meaner in their functions; thus all plants and all vegetation might pass off (by sideroads) into more distinguished highways, as it w

rowing organisms; thus all plants have rudimentary sensitives, which might (in the ages) enable them to perfect and transmute into locomotive new creatures, lesser or higher in their grade, or nobler or meaner in their functions; thus all plants and all vegetation might pass off (by sideroads) into more distinguished highways, as it were, of independent, completer advance, allowing their original spark of light to expand and thrill with higher and more vivid force, and to urge forward with more abounding, informed purpose all wrought by planetary influence, directed by the unseen spirits (or workers) of the great alchemy. 191 original architect, building his microcosmos of a world from the plans and powers evoked in the macrocosm, or heaven of first forms, which, in their multitude and mag

the midwife of nature, and to assist in her deliverance, macrocosm and microcosm. 195 and in the birth of gold, in these occult senses; that the work of nature being thus expedited by this alchemical art, the hitherto thwarted intention of providence is effected in the predetermined liberation of the divine gold, lux, or light, which is again united to its radix, or producing-point, in heaven. a spark of the original light is supposed by the rosicrucians to remain deep down in the interior of every atom. the rosicrucian cabala teaches that the three great worlds above empyr um, ther um, and the elementary region have their copies in the three points of the body of man: that his head answers to the first; his breast, or heart, to the second; and his ventral region to the third. in the head

versation of those around them. the following is a fair view of the rosicrucian theory concerning music. the whole world is taken as a musical instrument; that is, a chromatic, sensible instrument. the common axis or pole of the world celestial is intersected where this superior diapason, or heavenly concord or chord, is divided-by the spiritual sun, or centre of sentience. every man has a little spark (sun) in his own bosom. time is only protracted consciousness, because there is no world out of the mind conceiving it. earthly music is the faintest tradition of the angelic state; it remains in the mind of man as the dream of, and the sorrow for, the lost paradise. music is yet master of the man's emotions, and therefore of the man. heavenly music is produced from impact upon the paths of

eatly, in the more conspicuous instances, to the brutish nature, as also more especially in their beardless, beautiful, glorified aspects, and graceful delicacy and yet power of form, to express their perpetual virgin-youth, unspoiled heavenly beauty, and immortal star-born vigour. hair being an abhorred, tentacled, reaching-out or brutelike animal superflux the stigma or disgrace of the glorious spark of light or nearly suffocated human entity, condemned to its earth-birthed investiture or body it can have nothing about the parts of the deified idea of man or the various classes of the blessed angels. the contrary of all this is to be assumed of the evil genii or the recusant genii (luciferent and yet lucifugent, except in regard to their power or knowledge. for the soul of the world and

e supposed to be alchemists in common with the magi, the sages, philosophers, and priests, when these possessed the true and only knowledge. the just man made perfect is the alchemist, who, having found the philosopher s stone, becomes glorified and immortal by the use of it. to be said to die, is when the material elements can no longer maintain or cohere. to rise, is when the immaterial life or spark is liberated out of its perishable temporary investment. to be glorified, is when the powers, or independence, are attained which properly appertain to the supernaturally perfect light, into which, like enoch or elijah, the rosicrucian is transfigured, and in which he knows all, can be all, and do all. it is this draught of immortality which enables him to assume what form he will, by passin

KETAB E SIYAH

ike kings, our every endeavour bearing the fruit of victory, 47 our every victory bearing the fruit of new endeavour. almost i had forgotten the harvests that we reaped as we went out into the world, newborn and fertile, to partake of all its fruit, delighting in their many beauties. this long winter had killed in me these dreams that once we held dear. but joy! when hope was all but lost and all spark of life within me extinguished by the bleak snows that have fallen for an eternity i saw the sun dawning, bringing new light and warmth to my frozen heart and to this land of ice, stirring forgotten birds to song. feeling his warm caress upon the stone-cold earth above, feeling the hard soil yield, mellowing in that golden light, long-buried bulbs burgeoned, opening into flowers to welcome t

d like kings, our every endeavour bearing the fruit of victory, our every victory bearing the fruit of new endeavour. almost i had forgotten the harvests that we reaped as we went out into the world, newborn and fertile, to partake of all its fruit, delighting in their many beauties. this long winter had killed in me these dreams that once we held dear. but joy! when hope was all but lost and all spark of life within me extinguished by the bleak snows that have fallen for an eternity i saw the sun dawning, bringing new light and warmth to my frozen heart and to this land of ice, stirring forgotten birds to song. feeling his warm caress upon the stone-cold earth above, feeling the hard soil yield, mellowing in that golden light, long-buried bulbs burgeoned, opening into flowers to welcome t

rk shadow that is cast by your abnormal entrance. what has come to pass? what calamity is threatened upon the earth? how do the stars align against us? drink ashmedai and recover that you might make report and make known what dire intelligence has roused to such alarm the dauntless shedim champion, ashmedai. what have your eyes perceived to so dim them and, at once, set them aflame with a nervous spark" ashmedai with a flattened palm pushed away the proffered chalice and instead regarded me with impatient and excited eyes, dancing this way and that. now he spoke, each word jumping over the prior, spilling from his tongue like a cascade that babbled on a rapid flow in his haste to convey what had passed. so reported ashmedai "lord satan, commander of our hearts, most dire news have i flown

i raise my hand against noah that heaven should not defend that tool 256 by which the elohim could restore some of that which had been lost to them, breeding from noah's family a race less proud and noble than the nephilim that they might dominate easily and thwart those great ambitions which i held for my children that now would be drowned beneath water, their bright flame forever quenched, that spark of mine which first took light and illumined the road to a worthy future. all my dreams were drowned beneath the waves, raised up by the malfeasance of heaven. in that dark hour all seemed lost to me and i would that the darkness upon my soul would swell and swallow completely my sense and bear me off to witless rest, unknowing of all things and my defeat at hated heaven's hands. all was dar

er to perish than to serve "liberty or death" is not a meaningless phrase. no, it is of tremendous import to those who- comprehend. what is death that it should make cowards of us all? what is life that it should be valued so highly? there are worse things than death, and among them is a life of dishonor. all men lead dishonorable lives that serve a master with hand or brain. life itself is but a spark in the gloom that flashes out and disappears. why therefore not make the most of it here and now,here and now! there is no "heaven of glory bright, and no hell where sinners roast. there is no right; there is no wrong- nor god- nor son- nor ghost. death endeth all for every man for every "son of thunder: then be a lion in the path, and don't be trampled under. for us there is no rest- no kin

i thought- and i perceived my self, and i knew that i was one alone in mind and a being of essence unique. and through the power of my new mind, i reached cut to others who had been formed with me, and i touched them and gave them identity. and that we might achieve this identity of substance as well as of mind, we composed for ourselves distinctive shapes. then i who had brought the first great spark of enlightenment was known as lucifer, lord of light, and we called our race angel, for we were the embodied powers of god. long were we all true to the service of god, and we did worship order, for it put an end to chaotic confusion and brought peace. among us was the archangel masleh principal, for he so cherished god that he became as one with it, and thence the supreme architect of all t

periment and the radical dangers of invention and exploration. to man was given guilt, and the call to social conformity, and the proclaimed sanctity of the norm and the mode. and michael, lord of force, said to me, this man, whom thou host chosen to receive thy gift, now possesses the first key to the mastery of all things and the control of the very universe itself. lest in ill choice he should spark the catastrophe of armageddon, we also have visited him. and while we cannot undo thy infernal gift, we shall ever act to censor its effect. we shall walk among men and guide them. they shall be told of thy interest in them, but the name of lucifer shall be dark with curses. for they shall love not the challenge thou host placed before them, and we will offer them instead the blissful refuge

his new vision for sake of harmony alone. and then i knew myself to be of a mind with lucifer in this, and that i as well as he should never again tolerate the eternal idiocy of our divine station. i came after michael, and i saw them together, the lord of force and the lord of light, and there was a fierce tension between them. for michael said to lucifer, thou who art our heavenly radiance and spark of our paradise, why seek to break that universal peace which is everywhere ordained by the will of god? we know not antagonism amongst us, for we are all of one being within god- but there is in god neither malice nor cause for contest. and lucifer answered, michael, to me it was not given to order my nature, and as our very comprehension differs, so are we of substance alien. for thou art

ism and the extremes of his primitive emotions. sore put was he to organize and direct his thought, for the art of uriel had brought him hunger and cold, pain and fear, and the gnawing worm of 458 hopelessness. i saw him fling his crushed body upon the altars of god and renounce the gift of lucifer, for he understood it not save as a curse upon him. and i was impelled with urgency, that the first spark of man's future greatness should not be smothered in the deathly embrace of religion. i brought to man the disposition to memory, that he might define for himself patterns of behavior. a gift of value, for man could now achieve in concert what he could not alone, and he created his languages and brought into being the first nations of earth. but with structure came tyranny and ruthlessness

LAITMAN M BASIC CONCEPTS IN KABBALAH

the key question around humankind s spiritual life. hence, starting with the second half of the 20th century, we are observing a revival of mankind s spiritual aspirations. the technical progress and global catastrophes that gave rise to a variety of philosophies have not brought spiritual fulfillment to humanity. as kabbalah explains, out of all existing pleasures, our world received only a tiny spark its presence in corporeal objects is what provides all our worldly pleasures. in other words, all our pleasant sensations, from whatever source, are caused only by the presence of this spark within them. throughout our lives, we are placed in a forced quest of new objects of delight, hoping to receive greater and greater pleasures; we do not suspect that they might not be anything but shells

t goal: the path of the spiritual ascent (kabbalah, and the path of suffering. the path of kabbalah is a path of independent and voluntary realization of the need to gradually terminate egoism, when the upper light is used to perceive egoism as evil. sometimes people come to this realization quite unexpectedly. a secular, well-established, calm person suddenly begins to feel acute discontent; any spark of excitement, joy, taste for living, and pleasure disappears from that person s everyday life. this is the state of our generation, where material abundance gives rise to a sensation of spiritual hunger. we start searching for other sources of fulfillment, often choosing a long and prickly path. freedom of will exists between the paths of spiritual ascent and the path of suffering. one can

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

ssel with an altruistic one, then this vessel will merge completely with the light, for it has acquired its characteristics. thus, we can become equal to the creator and absolutely merge with his qualities, experiencing everything that exists in the light and fills it. there are no words to describe this state. for this reason, it is said that the sum total of all pleasures in this world is but a spark from the infinite fire of the joy that the soul experiences during its unification with the creator. inner motion and development- 105- we can ascend on the spiritual ladder only in accordance with the law of the middle line (kav emtzai. this principle can be briefly described as "one who is happy with what one has is considered rich" we should be content with as much as we understand of wha

heir lives "he took them from the city to the desert" he opened up the desert in their lives in order, as it is written in the bible "lech acharai ba midbar" the return to the creator- 247 "lech (go) says the creator to the person "acharai ba midbar (after me in the desert) with the feeling that your life without perception of the spiritual is like a desert without a drop of water, that the small spark of redemption from the feeling of emptiness will seem to you like "a cool spring on your exhausted soul" a further example can be found in the passover haggada (story) on the exodus from egypt, from the spiritual captivity of pharaoh our egoism "pharaoh died" finally the person sees that his egoism is not for his good, that it kills him, and obligates him to serve it all of his life. this pr

ath" on the other hand, it is our desires and our qualities that are considered to be the body in the kabbalistic sense, since in them is found our souls, which is a part of the creator. if in our present state, our bodies consist of entirely egotistical correcting egoism- 285- desires and thoughts, then only a microscopic particle of our souls, the so-called ner dakik, can penetrate into us as a spark of the greater light, which gives us life. the second body, which exists parallel to the first one, is the spiritual body, which we do not yet sense. it consists of our future altruistic desires and qualities that constitute our absolute soul, that is, that part of the creator which will be unveiled in the future, once the correction process is complete. the qualities of both the egoistic an

l inevitably desire to gratify ourselves, and thus will bring about personal ruin; we will never be able to leave egoism for altruism. our entire existence will consist of pursuing these pleasures, which are inaccessible to our egoistic desires. but ohr hassadim, which imparts on us a striving toward altruism, cannot shine its light into our egoistical desires. egoistic desires are sustained by a spark of the light within us that was forcibly put there by the creator to resist the laws of the nature of spirituality. this enables us to maintain life in us because, without receiving any pleasure, human beings cannot survive. if this spark of the upper light disappeared, we would immediately perish. only by doing so could we break away from egoism and from our unfulfilled desire to be gratifi

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

alchut. the partzuf of adam ha rishon was created and then broken in order to correct creation. this shattering mixed the attribute of the creature xto enjoy- with the attribute of the creator v to delight. there was, in fact, a kind of blast that caused the attributes of the creator to penetrate the attributes of the creature. the parts of man were shattered and separated. that is why there is a spark of the first man in each of us. within that spark exist reshimot (recollections) of all our future situations, from the beginning of the spiritual path to the end of correction. that is because adam ha rishon fell from the highest state, so the documentation of the upper situations and all other states is already within us in a form of reshimot (recorded, programmed data. that chain of reshi

to enjoy, begins to feel a longing for something higher, too. while the creator is in a state of total concealment, the creature cannot feel that the creator is hiding from him. yet, the very sensation of distress, originating from the absence of the creator, indicates his existence and the possibility that one can feel him. the prospect of aspiring for the creator arises in us because there is a spark from above within our will to receive. that spark is placed in us in order to let us choose which is best: the perfection of the creator, or our own situation. in order for that to happen, the desire to feel the creator s nature and his attribute of bestowal is implanted within our egotistical desires. this implantation is accomplished by a spiritual process called the breaking of the vessel

ly increase our appetite. the more we eat the more our will to receive increases. that is why we need the principle, not for myself, but for the creator. only in that situation does our vessel become unlimited, and during the spiritual progress we experience feelings that are indescribable to ordinary senses. because the pleasure we have in this world is, as kabbalists describe, a minute light, a spark that comes down to this world; it is not even a dim light, not to mention an infinite one. the desire for advancement does not go away with the evolution of spirituality. on the contrary, your desires keep growing and so do your abilities. that is why you begin to receive satisfaction, meaning the light, in an increasing degree. p l e a s u r e v l i f e o r d e at h q: you write: although i

time, a feminine soul. an example of that is the soul of the first man. it broke into 600,000 parts and then into a great many more. however, the content of the original partzuf is retained in every one of them, turning each part to a minute partzuf of its own. all the attributes and the forces of the entire creation that were concentrated in the first spiritual partzuf now exist in every little spark of it. those sparks are called souls of people. each has its own origin in the first man and each comes from a different sefira or a sub sefira within the ten sefirot of the first man. those souls divide by masculine and feminine souls, and clothe the appropriate corporeal body accordingly. t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 252 we are born with only a certain task. our corporeal-anim

cleave to the reason of the superior, the creator. t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 294 p l e a s u r e h u n t q: the japanese have the tea ceremony, which is meticulously studied in various religious schools, and is very similar to baal ha- sulam s story, the dining table. how do you relate to it? a: i personally do not know the tea ceremony. the creator created the desire to enjoy. a spark of light falls into that desire and revives it. the spark also awakens in it the yearning to be filled with the entire light, not just a small portion of it. therefore, all movements that the creation makes, at all its levels, starting from the still, through the vegetative, animate and speaking, beginning in atoms and the combinations of organic molecules, and ending with the movements of t

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d to attain his degree. the will to receive is essentially the desire of us creatures to enjoy, corresponding to the abundance and pleasure that come from the creator. we feel that will to receive and the creator wants us to enjoy it. if we feel an abstract will to receive, it is not a creature, it is nature, god. if one works according to nature s guidance, one is like a beast that hasn t even a spark of a godly soul. only if our will to receive is clothed with an intention that monitors its use and corrects it, can we regard ourselves as creatures enlivened intentionally by the creator, and not just another rock, animal or bird. but that depends on us. our desires to drink, eat, sleep, marry, and have children are natural and come from the creator. we can t escape or altogether change th

because it was premeditated by the creator. but in fact, there is still a breach of the rules, whether knowingly or unknowingly. did adam know? no, he did not. did he want to commit a sin? no, he did not. but did he break the law? yes, he did. even corruption in spirituality is no coincidence; everything is always done for one purpose to correct egoism and unite it with altruism. if an altruistic spark, a vessel that appeared there at the moment of the sin of the first man, were not in every egoistic desire, egoism would have been incorrigible and spiritual ascent made impossible. thus, the first man s sin was a necessity. we live in complete spiritual darkness. the surrounding light shines on the outside and awakens our egoism, our will to receive, yet cannot penetrate this egoism. this i

thus, it is not as difficult to ascend to the world of atzilut with vessels of corrected ge, as it is to add the ahp to them, because the correction of the ahp contradicts the aim. all five worlds are like curtains hiding the light of the creator. the lower the world, the more it covers the light. the worlds/screens end at the barrier, which hides the light completely from our world. only a tiny spark called minute light enters our world. it is just enough to sustain life on earth. the creator made it so we could live without a screen. in the absence of light and having only a minute amount of light, there is no necessity for a screen. t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 32 that feeble light is divided into many particles. it turns the atoms, moves the molecules, creates every substance, and

y incarnation. there is nothing in the gigantic computer of creation that occurs without a reason. everything is tied to other things with invisible wires. the world is one living body, and any change in even the smallest and most remote area affects the entire being. the still, vegetative, and animate do not experience mood changes. but there is not a creature on earth that does not have a godly spark. they all must come to the purpose of creation, the end of correction. the still, vegetative, and animate degrees will follow in man s footsteps. each has its own time, conditions, and place that they must be in. being in this same place without understanding why, and taking all these steps and actions, brings everyone naturally to the purpose of creation in one s own way. this is the place

mediary degrees between inanimate objects and vegetative states, such as corals. then, between the vegetative and the animate there is a form of life that feeds directly off the ground called pa r t t h r e e: t h e s t ru c t u r e o f t h e u p p e r wo r l d s 143 field dog. the ape exists between the animate and those creatures that can speak. the only thing that could happen would be a godly spark pulling one toward the spiritual, thus creating in one a desire to attain something greater than this world. at that point, one would become the son of man. science and technology have been developed only to lead us to a dead end, to the understanding that technology is not the way to go. but before we look for the new way, we must first reach that dead end. all the kabbalists had students

cloud) opposite the world of yetzira. ruach se ara (stormy wind) opposite the world of assiya. after the sin, partzuf adam ha rishon broke into 600,000 pieces. the pieces continued to break (the torah describes them as the killing of abel, the flood, babylon, and more. consequently, all that was left of partzuf adam ha rishon were fragments with a will to receive in order to receive, with just a spark of light. these parts with sparks in them clothe people in this world and awaken them to spirituality, to the light, to the creator. this is how people are pushed to join groups of kabbalah students. there is yet another shell, called klipat noga (the noga shell. it consists of a mixture of good and evil. the term, mixed, indicates that when this shell receives light, it receives it in the g

g one doesn t need them. this pa r t f o u r: p r o p e r s t u d y 269 knowledge is attained by receiving proof from above of the baseness of the beastly pleasure hunt. what attracts us about spirituality is the relatively greater pleasure that we find in it, compared to the corporeal world. that is the reason we want it, and it is genuine. our entire world exists and is nourished by only a tiny spark of spiritual light that broke through the barrier and penetrated our world. now, picture a spiritual world that is completely filled with light, billions and billions of times greater than the spark of this world. imagine what pleasures exist there! but how do we get over there? we know that to do so, we need to alter our egoistic natures from a will to receive to a will to bestow. but what

il is necessary in order to go from the level of the desires of this world to the level of the desires of the spiritual world. man must become completely detached from any self-interest in the outcome of his work; this is true altruism. that is why one must experience a phase of complete discrepancy between effort and results. man s corporeal egoism has now been instilled with spiritual egoism, a spark of light inside his egoism. the egoism abides by different rules in the spiritual world. for spiritual egoism to be fulfilled, we must reject our current level of egoism and ascend, so to speak, to the level of that spiritual desire. when we are given a spiritual desire, no other feeling exists besides the absence of pleasure; it is the vessel in its purest form. for that reason, all the ope

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

n could always be reached and helped, and that it was their business to find that light within every one, however unpromising, and to strengthen it. the very motto of the pharaoh was glook for the light, h implying that his supreme duty as king was to look for that hidden light in every man around him, and strive to bring it forth into fuller manifestation. 58. the egyptians held that this divine spark, which exists in every one, could most effectively be fanned into flame by transmuting and bringing down to the three lower worlds the tremendous spiritual force which is the life of the higher planes, and then pouring it out over the country as has been described. knowing that spiritual force to be but another manifestation of the manifold power of god, they gave to it also the name of the

due-guard both are raised in blessing; both b c are laid open to the double influence of the c c, which have always at the same time a positive and a negative quality, conferring simultaneously power and sensitiveness, one point being always at rest in the centre, while the other describes a circumference. 658. however far we may travel from god, and however long and hard the journey, the divine spark within us can never be truly separated from him, or err from that centre(*the m.m fs book, by bro. j. s. m. ward, p. 22) 659. both k c are b c, because both are used in the ceremony, and both h c are s c p- s c d because in this way the fullest advantage is taken of the very concentrated magnetization of the mosaic pavement. 660. the internal preparation 661. in this degree the candidate see

to a temporary conclusion. by a seeming accident the candidate is led to discover the secret vault of solomon the king, buried deep below the surface of the earth; in that vault he finds the s c and m c n c of t.m.h, and for the first time in his masonic work gains direct vision of the divine presence. the sacramental power outpoured in this degree is intended to quicken the growth of the divine spark within him, so that a conscious realization of the truth of god fs immanence may be gained by those who live its teaching rightly, and the candidate may be enabled thereby to recognize the presence of god in all things, however deeply that presence may be veiled from the eyes of the flesh. 761. the teaching of the h.r.a. is beautifully epitomised in the words of the psalmist: 762. whither sh

original sound. naturally it cannot be given here, but the general character of the instruction which it conveys in so skilful a manner may be indicated by a sentence quoted from one of the patron saints of freemasonry: ggod is light, and in him is no darkness at all. h it further teaches us that god sits enthroned in every human heart, that the inmost spirit of each man is part of god himself, a spark of the divine; and that therefore all men are one in him, and there is no height to which man may not aspire. 788. from this great central fact a whole system of philosophy may be deduced, and also a rule of life; when men are really convinced of it, there is brotherhood, peace and progress, but when this word is lost, chaos reigns and evil stalks abroad. each knight should meditate upon it

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

he other more inward-turned in contemplation and love. 24. the knowledge of the occultist 25. the student of occultism, therefore, learns to awaken and train for scientific use the powers latent within him, and by their means he is able to see far more of the real meaning of life than the man whose vision is limited by the physical senses. he learns that each man is in essence divine, a veritable spark of god s fire, gradually evolving towards a future of glory and splendour culminating in union with god; that the method of his progress is by successive descents into earthly bodies for the sake of experience, and withdrawals into worlds or planes which are invisible to physical eyes. he finds that this progress is governed by a law of eternal justice, which renders to each man the fruit of

o the ninth century the following organizations and sects appear; manichaeans; euchites; dionysian artificers; ophites; nestorians; eutychians, and the magistri comacini, of whom we may read in llorente s history of the inquisition, and in professor herzario s i maestri comacini. this author says: in this darkness which extended over all italy, only one small lamp remained alight, making a bright spark in the vast italian necropolis. it was from the magistri comacini. their names are unknown, their individual works unspecialized, but the breath of their spirit may be felt all through those centuries, and their name collectively is legion. we may safely say that of all the works of art between 800 and 1000 a.d, the greater and better part are due to that brotherhood- always faithful and oft

LETTER FROM A LUCIFEREAN

bindings of christian culture. since open and free sexual behaviour which is pleasurable, rather than merely procreative, has been for centuries castigated and demonized, our magister considered it the most effective method of awakening and invigorating the personal magical power, the will to overcome one s limitations. i came to understand this power as the "shining darkness- the luciferean life-spark. moreover, the sharing of passions within the group serves to kindle the group s alchemica- the sense of, and experience of power which is built up and can be tapped, during ritual work. needless to say, all ritual work (be it group or individual) was performed naked- all the better to draw on the power of the personal- or interpersonal- erotic impulse. since i have mentioned christianity in

so changes. one final point i will deal with is the relationship between man and demons. ancient hebraic lore states that mankind is a race of demons, and indeed that when adam fell, he spent 130 years engendering demons with lilith. in the brotherhood, i was taught to view the demonic legions as kith and kin, and the rite of the averse pentagram was used both to identify with the luciferean life-spark, and to attract demonic brethren who were willing to serve as effectors of one s will. in contrast to the majority of so-called banishing rituals where the emphasis is placed on keeping things out, the purpose of this rite was to, by raising magico-erotic energy (i use the term metaphorically, attract the attention of our demonic kindred. the rite was always performed within a circle of flam

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

foundation, 1935. randolph, paschal beverly. eulis, affectional alchemy. quakertown, pa: confederation of initiates, 1930. fraternity of light the fraternity of light, formed in philadelphia by a group of cabalistic magicians, derives from the tradition of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, although it has no organizational connection. according to the fraternity, individuals are basically a spark of divine consciousness, which is eternal and periodically shows itself in a series of different forms, including the most dense one, the physical body. at the moment of death, the spark leaves the physical, whereas after three days the less dense bodies leave the more dense. since the spark can be attracted to a vortex created during the sex act of two individuals, a new set of bodies may b

s of different forms, including the most dense one, the physical body. at the moment of death, the spark leaves the physical, whereas after three days the less dense bodies leave the more dense. since the spark can be attracted to a vortex created during the sex act of two individuals, a new set of bodies may be created when the woman s egg is fertilized. through this process of reincarnation the spark evolves until it no longer needs a physical body. everyone will complete this evolution, and the purpose of the fraternity is to help people to speed this process, through a set of lessons and involvement in ritual practice. among the teachings of the fraternity is a course of philosophy in two levels, after which the neophytes can be accepted into either the order of the holy grail, which o

ed to refer to any sect or teaching that seemed to overemphasize the struggle between good and evil. mani began preaching his new religion at the age of twenty-four. he was eventually executed by orthodox zoroastrians around the year 276. mani s extreme dualism was similar to certain strands of gnosticism, which emphasized the antagonism between the body and the soul. the soul was a fallen divine spark from the realm of light, while the body was the creation of the evil god (a devil figure) and his associates, the archons (effectively, demons. also like gnosticism, mani saw human beings as trapped in a cycle of reincarnation so that even suicide would not release one from bondage to the flesh. manichaeism preached a rather severe asceticism, especially with regard to the sexual instinct. t

uit of the gods, knowledge. thus satan made us gods, just as him. of course, we were still stupid, and could not exist apart from satan s creation. for this reason we have never used our powers for much more then destroying our earth. satan still pitied his lost brothers and sisters, so he gave them gifts to discover such as language, science, civilization, art and music: knowing that these might spark our curiosity and enlighten us once more. because of satan s divine spark of rebellion in all of us, we were able to turn away from our creator and all of nature s blessings, and created our own gods. after formulating the zoroastrian doctrine of good and evil, the false gods taught humankind to hate themselves and their own lives, and other pseudotenets. there was separation between man and

stinctive passion for learning systematically crushed out.many young satanists are still serving their twelve-year sentences, feeling alien, angry and alone. there s good reason for our deep-seated disdain for and resistance to mandatory education. it goes against every principle of satanism. it s not your imagination; schools are designed to make you complacent, homogenized and to extinguish any spark of curiosity or willfulness you may possess. the structure and attitudes presently used to impose 294 appendix i: sample documents education on children developed around the time of the industrial revolution. since factories required workers to be minimally educated so they could run machines without chopping their hands off, a system quickly evolved that would be the best training for dutif

LIBER ASTARTE

n with the devil, and pride in the cleverness of thine answers to him. therefore, if thou hast not lost the power of silence, let it be first and last employed against him.2 30. concerning the enflaming of the heart. now learn that these methods are dry one and all. intellectual exercises, moral exercises, they are not love. yet as a man, rubbing two dry sticks together for long, suddenly found a spark, so also from time to time will true love leap unasked into thy meditation. yet this shall die and be reborn again and again. it may be that thou hast no tinder near. in the end shall come suddenly a great flame and a devouring, and burn thee utterly. now of these sparks, and of these splutterings of flame, and 1 [john xii, 12. this.the whole .dying to live. notion.is a pernicious lie of the

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

interfered with the prescription. psyche. there fs no hope, then? hermes. lend an ear! we may rule him by his fear! somehow we may yet contrive that he see the king, and live! have you influence? psyche. at court? plenty, in the last resort. letters from his suzerain! hermes. you are high in favour then? psyche. ay, that needs not to be sworn; i am his own daughter born. hermes. in thy blood the spark divine of olympus? psyche. even in mine! hermes. hark, then! at the hour of fears when the lordly lion rears in mid-heaven his bulk of bane violently vivid, shakes his mane majestical, and snake and bull lamp the horizon, and the full fire of the moon tops heaven, and spurs the stars, while mars ruddily burns, liber cccxxxv 26 and venus glows, and jupiter ramps through the sky astride of her

LIBER CCXLII AHA

to thy wake. the heaven dies in bubbling froth of light, that foams liber ccxlii 30 about thine ardour. all the domes of all the heavens close above thee as thou art known of me who love thee. excellent kiss, thou fastenest on this soul of mine, that it is gone, gone from all life, and rapt away into the infinite starry spray of thine own aon. alas for me! i faint. thy mystic majesty absorbs this spark. olympas. all hail! all hail! white splendour through the viewless veil! i am drawn with thee to rapture. marsyas. stay! i bear a message. heaven hath sent the knowledge of a new sweet way into the secret element. olympas. master, while yet the glory clings declare this mystery magical! marsyas. i am yet borne on those blue wings into the essence of the all. now, now i stand on earth again

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

ss, etc. i do not think i expect and ask the love of others so much as i feel the need of entire freedom to love without barrier or restraint; but always there seems a something holding me back, invisible, formless, but of great strength, so that i yearn and open my arms (as it were) but am not satisfied; and so i turn and direct it towards that formless vision of adonai within. maybe, some day a spark will fire it and it will break loose& then [this sounds very good indeed. o.m] aug. 27. the most perfect peace i have experienced for a long time. sep. 1. this is the last day of the six months. nov. 9. nearly two months since i made an entry. will write down a few of the events that i remember during that time. have done some slight morning and evening practice almost every day. have occupi

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

our love, extending beyond the permitted end of the endless one. 65. then, o thou heart, will i the serpent eat thee wholly up; yea, i will eat thee wholly up. 22 v 1. ah! my lord adonai, that dalliest with the magister in the treasure-house of pearls, let me listen to the echo of your kisses. 2. is not the starry heaven shaken as a leaf at the tremulous rapture of your love? am not i the flying spark of ight whirled away by the great wind of your perfection? 3. yea, cried the holy one, and from thy spark will i the lord kindle a great light; i will burn through the grey city in the old and desolate land; i will cleanse it from its great impurity. 4. and thou, o prophet, shalt see these things, and thou shalt heed them not. 5. now is the pillar established in the void; now is asi fulfille

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

: mundilfoeri is a man who had two children who were so beautiful that he named them mani and sol (i.e, moon and sun, and he married sol to a man called glen. the gods punished this act of pride by placing the children in heaven to serve the actual heavenly bodies, their creation. sol drives those horses that pull the carriage of that sun that the gods had created to light the worlds, out of that spark that flew from muspellsheim. those horses are called arvak and alsvin; and under the span of the horses the gods put two wind bellows to cool them, and in some learning that is called isarnkol. sol fs brother mani controls the motion of the moon and its waxings and wanings. that sol is female and mani male probably has to do with the gram- 278 norse mythology matical gender of the nouns: sol

er sun or moon (try reading the passage to see what sense you make of it if hati too takes the sun) i have also rendered the animate pronoun gshe h and gher, h even though snorri fs use of the definite article at the beginning of the passage may suggest that he has dropped the personification or is speaking of the sun the gods created; i used the animate pronoun because i have trouble imagining a spark experiencing fear. snorri is following grimnismal, stanza 39 here, but that passage is silent on whether hati will attack either heavenly body. snorri ends the catalog of the asynjur that comes later in gylfaginning with a note to the effect that sol and bil, gwhose natures were explained above, h are numbered among them. the sun was of course a focus of older nature mythological and solar m

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

on was to clearly draw the connection and becoming process of self-initiation through the lore of the watchers, the nephilim, the black eagle and the essence of the adversary. the combination of art and text invoke the very spirit of shaitan and lilith to those who may embrace it. azothoz reaches into the current of magick to manifest itself in the initiate who may be of this essence, born by the spark of djinn fire to witch blood. this is a luciferian process of self- liberation which invites a deeper understanding of daemon and angel, their union outside of a christian standpoint. it is the otherness which individuals may seek to inspire, bringing one closer to the lord of storms and chaos, set to a spirit of order in the self. when writing of angels, a point of the `angelick familiar, l

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

the egyptian dead servius, commenting on virgil's neid, observes that "the wise egyptians took care to embalm their bodies, and deposit them in catacombs, in order that the soul might be preserved for a long time in connection with the body, and might not soon be alienated; while the romans, with an opposite design, committed the remains of their dead to the funeral pile, intending that the vital spark might immediately be restored to the general element, or return to its pristine nature (from prichard's an analysis of the egyptian mythology) no complete records are available which give the secret doctrine of the egyptians concerning the relationship existing between the spirit, or consciousness, and the body which it inhabited. it is reasonably certain, however, that pythagoras, who had b

able that the symbol of the serpent twisted around the egg--which was common to many of the ancient mystery schools- represented both the apparent motion of the sun around the earth, and the bands of astral light, or the great magical agent, which move about the planet incessantly. electricity was commonly symbolized by the serpent because of its motion. electricity passing between the poles of a spark gap is serpentine in its motion. force projected through atmosphere was called the great snake. being symbolic of universal force, the serpent was emblematic of both good and evil. force can tear down as rapidly as it can build up. the serpent with its tail in its mouth is the symbol of eternity, for in this position the body of the reptile has neither beginning nor end. the head and tail re

undines were heard in the west wind and that their lives were consecrated to the beautifying of the material earth. the salamanders the third group of elementals is the salamanders, or spirits of fire, who live in that attenuated, spiritual ether which is the invisible fire element of nature. without them material fire cannot exist; a match cannot be struck nor will flint and steel give off their spark without the assistance of a salamander, who immediately appears (so the medi val mystics believed, evoked by friction. man is unable to communicate successfully with the salamanders, owing to the fiery element in which they dwell, for everything is resolved to ashes that comes into their presence. by specially prepared compounds of herbs and perfumes the philosophers of the ancient world man

tal body of ignorance) was transmuted into pure gold (wisdom, for it was tinctured with understanding. if, then, through faith and proximity to god the consciousness of man may be transmuted from base animal desires (represented by the masses of the planetary metals) into a pure, golden, and godly consciousness, illumined and redeemed, and the manifesting god within that one increased from a tiny spark to a great and glorious being; if also the base metals of mental ignorance can, through proper endeavor and training, be transmuted into transcendent genius and wisdom, why is the process in two worlds or spheres of application not equally true in the third? if both the spiritual and mental elements of the universe can be multiplied in their expression, then by the law of analogy the materia

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

but containing in the midst of that welter of confusing symbolism enough of the old secrets to make the processes work if properly pursued. the methods nowadays may seem to some childish, hit and miss compared with the original starry wisdom, but modern witches believe that despite the accretions and maybe distortions of the past sixty centuries, there still remains at the centre of the cinder a spark of that mysterious dark angelic fire which first breathed life into the clay of this world. it is to this remnant of the old wisdom in its most practical aspect that you shall be introduced in the following pages. this is what witchcraft is all about. theory and scholarship i shall leave to other books. the interested reader, should he wish to pursue magical theory in greater detail, or foll

f emotional steam you can work up over them. the more tempestuous the emotion, the better is your chance of success. you must really be prepared to roll on the ground and gnash your teeth in ecstasy or hate whenever you enter your charmed circle of practice. apropos of this, many modern witches employ the method actor's device of sense memory to jar their jaded emotional voltages into the correct spark-spitting intensity' this is known variously in the craft as linking, commemoration, or picking up one's contacts. however, meaningful memories apart, you can use anything you like to turn you on and get the current flowing: perfumes, sounds, strobe lights, wild dancing, sex, mantrams, hymns, and so on wherever your preference lies. anything and everything may be pressed into service to get y

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

by a single word; i praise thee, i bless thee, i adore thee, i glorify thee, and i pray thee now at the present time to be merciful unto me, a miserable sinner, for i am the work of thine hands. save me, and direct me by thy holy name, thou to whom nothing is difficult, nothing is impossible; and deliver me from the night of mine ignorance, and enable me to go forth therefrom. enlighten me with a spark of thine infinite wisdom. take away from my senses the desire of covetousness, and the iniquity of mine idle words. give unto me, thy servant, a wise understanding, penetrating and subtle heart, to acquire and comprehend all sciences and arts; give unto me capacity to hear, and strength of memory to retain them, so that i may be able to accomplish my desires, and understand and learn all dif

MEANING OF MASONRY

is but symbolic of that which exists at the centre of ourselves, and which was spoken of by the christian master when he proclaimed that" the kingdom of heaven is within you; that at the depths of our own being, concealed beneath the heavy veils of the sensual, lower nature, there resides that vital and immortal principle, which is said to" a llude to" the g.g. because it is nothing other than a spark of god himself immanent within us. over the old temples of the mysteries was deeper written the injunction" man, know thyself, and thou shalt know the universe and god" happy then is the mason who has so far purified and developed his own nature as to realize in its fulness the meaning of the" sacred symbol" of the second degree, and found god present not outside but within himself. but in o

wn nature from which no man or mason can ever err, for it is the divine kingdom latent within us all, into which we h ave as yet failed to enter. and there is none but insists upon the supreme lesson of self-sacrifice and mystical death to the things of this world so graphically portrayed in our third degree; none but indicates that in that hour of greatest darkness the light of the primal divine spark within us is never wholly extinguished, and that by loyalty to that light, by patience and by perseverance, time and circumstances will restore to us the" genuine secrets" the ultimate truths and realities of our own nature. we are here, masonry teaches, as it were in captivity, by the waters of babylon and in a strange land; and our doctrine truly tells us that the richest harmonies of this

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

hat when the subconscious is brought closer to the conscious. those who are able, by herbs or meditation alone without the use of herbs, are ones who seek to know themselves. this process and act is not hidden by any one school, or so-called exclusive coven of witches or teachings. the answers, as robert cochrane has written, are in the wind. all one must do is heed the voice of inspiration, that spark of sathan which illuminates our path of becoming. buddhists looks at existence as being central to the soul in itself. the buddhist will sometimes move through a form of lycanthropy of different animals, sometimes falling into meditation, leaving the flesh and blood to later return from trance. the sabbat, no matter what inspiration may create, does the same end. the black mass in specific h

MICHAEL FORD BOOK OF CAIN

my very being of self, that i may grow and ascend in our family born of witch blood pure. i seek the coils of leviathan, the darkend grave earth of ahriman and the dream plane of lucifer. allow the gates to open before me! i encircle myself in the dragon s coils, the beast of my father arises within! i hold the skull of abel, being the vessel of my famulus! i hold the hammer of the forge, which i spark the cunning fire of becoming! my eyes hold the desert tales of ages forgotten, while my flesh fades my spirit is immortal! i wear the crimson caul of my mother, lilith, who speaks with me through dreams! i carry the serpent s skin of azal ucel, my holy spirit! i am cain, loner and witch soul of the immortal fire! so it is dodothe book of the witch moon by michael w. ford 2 2 the book of the

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memorable event when i attended an astral sabbat and became fully aware of the current in its witch-blood origin. in such a situation, you feel as though the dead are speaking to you. directing you towards the luciferian mysteries. i was selfinitiated, being a natural loner and finding my greatest access of the current was when alone or with one other individual, enabled to focus and receive the spark of inspiration. i had prepared well for the night, shaping a wonderful mood that was befitting such dreaming. an ointment was prepared and a small amount smeared in the form of a sigil representing the astral conclave. i was robed in black, after a relaxing bath. candles illuminated the house and the sole company of my cat gave me yet further inspiration. the woven web of night is one that c

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

tion, the angel which fell through darkness to again emerge in the light of being. in the saturnian gnosis, this rite and sate of being is the higher octave of saturn, from which one may ascend through from the darkness or demonium of the earth. the chant of going unto the luciferian sabbat86 86 by torch and burning light do i ascend to the highest aethyr. i call to the fire djinn who brought the spark to common clay that from the green and desert lands do i rise unto the company of the spirits of the air, to join in union with those of cunning fire spirits who illuminate in the flame of the sun! i do seek to go forth unto the angelic soul lucifer rising through my self emerald crowned bringer of light. i seek the gates of heaven and holy essence of the sun, that my spirit may become the e

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of the shades of the void. those who become are the avatars of set s endless power of being. i am of ahriman s flesh. the wolf is the skin which cloaks the hunger of struggle. the serpent is the skin which directs the gaze of the eye. the bat is the thirst within called trshna, to fall into the abyss and the graal of dragon s blood from the eye of set does his form become darkness, ahriman. that spark within to awaken the senses. from which as shadow do i fall into nothingness to reach a cup to sate the deepest thirst to then discover the five flames of angra mainyu and servitors of the void join in my being to awaken and rise from the sea. the take my divine leadership upon the earth 16 luciferian will and immortality the will of the luciferian is essential in the development of the mind

dark brown, bloodied color their forms are demonic human headed insects. death becomes transformation. use the necheshethiron when their veil of the living and the dead is thin. nachashiron sagittarius (nov 22 december 21 -mutable fire these demons appear as dog-headed serpents. they are swift and seem to emanate fire in the triangle. drink deep from them in evocation, drawing in the fire of the spark of the abyss, if binding them to a sigil after evoking, send them forth to burn your target with inner desire then 59 arising to drain them sexually. you may guard yourself from attacks in the reverse manner. dagdagiron capricorn (december 22nd jan 19th -active earth their colors are reddish and bright, they appear as devouring flat-shaped fish like piranhas who seek to devour. use them to g

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n more impressive is the fact that they aren t truly necessary at all (with perhaps the exception of the scrying mirror. the main tools of the magician include: the wand, the dagger (or sword, the cup, the alter, and the scrying mirror. the first of these, the wand, is used to direct energy and draw invoking symbols in the air. the element associated with the wand is fire, and fire represents the spark of life; in other words, the ability to give life. the wand is a phallic symbol and represents the active force; the male s ability to jump-start life. fire, whose symbol is an upward-pointing triangle, is also associated with the lion, the south, the color red, and arch-angel michael. fire also represents the will (desire. the second main implement is the dagger, or sword. the dagger repres

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circle. the culture specifications are undoubtedly varied, from egyptian to ancient persian to european, however this is wherein one discovers the points or as in voudon 'points chorals' or hot spaces from which certain areas of textual transmissions develop and occur. cain as the initiator stands in the cold areas of which many would not visit, wrapping in the cloak of night- it is here you may spark a fire, sit and listen carefully to his tale. this path is dangerous, it may prove ones menial downfall. however, it is not advocating criminal or aggressive behaviour. nox umbra is a spiritual work, and should be viewed as such. primal sorcery and vampirism vampyrism is indeed a sinistral (left way or lhp) collection of various aspects of folklore and initiatory currents in black magic and

, ursha umpesta zoriodo! dweller in the chamber of embalmment, by holy fire and blackened flame, arise from shadows, jackal and wolf, son of chaos born! surround the self in the enchantments of death and the tomb, the anthame should be circled around the self in widdershins, while moving envision the shades of the dead surround and move in a funnel cloud about the circle of self. you are the very spark of life they seek, that by being close to you they shall taste the light of set- that hermanubis, or death brings the dwellers of the ghost realms to the light of his father, being set-an "by the holy fire of the night, which burns above the tombs of those who have life beyond, i am this vessel of both celestial and infernal, i am blackness and the hunger of the dead, yet i am burning with t

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r the dog-star, the forerunner of the inundation of the nile; the god anubis, companion of isis in her search for the body of osiris, her brother and husband. then it became the image of horus, the son of osiris, himself symbolized also by the sun, the author of the seasons, and the god of time; son of isis, who was the universal nature, himself the primitive matter, inexhaustible source of life, spark of uncreated fire, universal seed of all beings. it was hermes, also, the master of learning, whose name in greek is that of the god mercury. it became the sacred and potent sign or character of the magi, the pentalpha, and is the significant emblem of liberty and freedom, blazing with a steady radiance amid the weltering elements of good and evil of revolutions, and promising serene skies a

ons, and the mass of which care only to eat, sleep, be clothed, and wallow in sensual pleasures, and the best of which wrangle, hate, envy, and, with few exceptions, regard their own interests alone--with what right does it endeavor to delude itself into the conviction that it is _not_ an animal, as the wolf, the hyena, and the tiger are, but a somewhat nobler, a spirit destined to be immortal, a spark of the essential light, fire and reason, which are god? what other immortality than one of selfishness could this creature enjoy? of what other is it capable? must not immortality commence _here_ and is not _life_ a part of it? how shall death change the base nature of the base soul? why have not those other animals that only faintly imitate the wanton, savage, human cruelty and thirst for b

iverse and all living things, and the souls of men: that is--the permanent; while everything beside is a perpetual genesis _qu_ what is the second great truth of the sacred mysteries _ans_ the soul of man is immortal; not the result of organization, nor an aggregate of modes of action of matter, nor a succession of phenomena and perceptions; but an existence, one and identical, a living spirit, a spark of the great central light, that hath entered into and dwells in the body; to be separated therefrom at death, and return to god who gave it: that doth not disperse nor vanish at death, like breath or a smoke, nor can be annihilated; but still exists and possesses activity and intelligence, even as it existed in god, before it was enveloped in the body _qu_ what is the third great truth in m

ession of a thought of god; and bird and beast, and every living thing but man: and light and air, and the mysterious currents, and the dominion of mysterious numbers--he had this thought"_i create man, whose soul shall be my image, and he shall rule" and lo _man, with senses, instinct, and a reasoning mind--and yet not man! but an _animal_ that breathed, and saw, and thought: until an immaterial spark from god's own infinite being penetrated the brain, and became the soul: and lo, man the immortal! thus, threefold, fruit of god's thought, is man; that sees and hears and feels; that thinks and reasons; that loves and is in harmony with the universe. before the world grew old, the primitive truth faded out from men's souls. then man asked himself"_what am i? and how and whence am i? and whi

mind of finite beings is impressed by one uninterrupted series of illusions, which they consider as real, until again united to the great fountain of truth. of these illusions, the first and most essential is individuality. by its influence, when detached from its source, the soul becomes ignorant of its own nature, origin, and destiny. it considers itself as a separate existence, and no longer a spark of the divinity, a link of one immeasurable chain, an infinitely small but indispensable portion of one great whole" their love of imagery caused them to personify what they conceived to be some of the attributes of god, perhaps in order to present things in a way better adapted to the comprehensions of the vulgar, than the abstruse idea of an indescribable, invisible god; and hence the inve

, running swiftly; without hands, grasping all worlds; without eyes, all-surveying; without ears, all-hearing; without an intelligent guide, understanding all; without cause, the first of all causes; all-ruling, all-powerful, the creator, preserver, transformer of all things: such is the great one; this the vedas declare "may that soul of mine, which mounts aloft in my waking hours as an ethereal spark, and which, even in my slumber, has a like ascent, soaring to a great distance, as an emanation from the light of lights, be united by devout meditation with the spirit supremely blest, and supremely intelligent. may that soul of mine, which was itself the primeval oblation placed within all creatures. which is a ray of perfect wisdom, which is the inextinguishable light fixed within created

functions, what then am i_ and separating the suture of the cranium, he penetrated into man" behold the great fundamental primitive truths! god, an infinite eternal soul or spirit. matter, not eternal nor self-existent, but created--created by a thought of god. after matter, and worlds, then man, by a like thought: and finally, after endowing him with the senses and a thinking mind, a portion, a spark, of god himself penetrates the man, and becomes a living spirit within him. the vedas thus detail the creation of the world "in the beginning there was a single god, existing of himself; who, after having passed an eternity absorbed in the contemplation of his own being, desired to manifest his perfections outwardly of himself; and created the matter of the world. the four elements being thu

he sense of sight alone, so far through space? what has become of the immense aggregate of particles that have reached the earth since the creation? have they increased its bulk? why cannot chemistry detect and analyze them? if matter, why can they travel only in right lines? no characteristic of matter belongs to light, or heat, or flame, or to galvanism, electricity, and magnetism. the electric spark is light, and so is that produced by the flint, when it cuts off particles of steel. iron, melted or heated, radiates light; and insects, infusoria, and decayed wood emit it. heat is produced by friction and by pressure; to explain which, science tells us of _latent_ caloric, thus representing it to us as existing without its only known distinctive quality. what quality of matter enables lig

grammaton; and he is called alohim; because the former is absolute commiseration; while in macroprosopos his lights have the nature of severities, with respect to the elder universal; though they are commiseration, with respect to the lights of malakoth and the three lower worlds. all the conformations of macroprosopos come from the first adam; who, to interpose a second covering, caused a single spark to issue from the sphere of severity, of whose five letters is generated the name alohim. with this issued from the brain a most subtle air, which takes its place on the right hand, while the spark of fire is on the left. thus the white and red do not intermix, that is, the air and fire, which are mercy and judgment. microprosopos is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, his severities

to the grave when lisbon buried her population under both earth and sea had no knowledge of the causes, and no possible control over the power, that effected their destruction. but here the servant, and, in a sense, the creature of man, the drudge of kitchen and factory, the humble slave of the lamp, engaged in his most servile employment, appearing as a little point of flame, or perhaps a feeble spark, suddenly snaps his brittle chain, breaks from his prison, and leaps with destructive fury, as if from the very bosom of hell, upon the doomed dwellings of fifty thousand human beings, each of whom, but a moment before, conceived himself his master. and those daring fire-brigades, with their water-artillery, his conquerors, it seemed, upon so many midnight fields, stand paralyzed in the pres

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s are secret; for the beast& his bride are they: and for the winners of the ordeal x.what is this? thou shalt know. there are to be no regular temples of nuit and hadit, for they are incommensurables and absolutes. our religion therefore, for the people, is the cult of the sun, who is our particular star of the body of nuit, from whom, in the strictest scientific sense, come this earth, a chilled spark of him, and all our light and life. his viceregent and representative in the animal kingdom is his cognate symbol the phallus, representing love and liberty. ra-hoor-khuit, like all true gods, is therefore a solar-phallic deity. but we regard him as he is in truth, eternal; the solar-phallic deities of the old aeon, such as osiris "christ, hiram, adonis, hercules, etc, were supposed through

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with the skin, and on the top of all he laid the stomach. zeus, pretending to be deceived, chose the heap of bones, but he saw through the stratagem, and was so angry at the deception practised on him by prometheus that he avenged himself by refusing to mortals the gift of fire [25]prometheus, however, resolved to brave the anger of the great ruler of olympus, and to obtain from heaven the vital spark so necessary for the further progress and comfort of the human race. he accordingly contrived to steal some sparks from the chariot of the sun, which he conveyed to earth hidden in a hollow tube. furious at being again outwitted, zeus determined to be revenged first on mankind, and then on prometheus. to punish the former he commanded hephastus (vulcan) to mould a beautiful woman out of clay

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t be fanatically harsh at this stage, as we must take into accountt hat this is a rare individual who at least accepts the possibility that growth could benefit them. some of our finest initiates did not exactly enter the temple at peak performance. the mystery of xeper and remanifestationis the very fact that dramatic and radical growth can transform a psyche who wills it. we are looking for the spark of potential, not the certainty of perfection. here's my personal checklist of some qualities i'd like to see: ambition. can the candidate tell you even one dream of self- improvement she is aiming for? does he have a goal that is not mere delusion but something that hard work and dedication can achieve? black magic is goal-driven and even more so in the beginning phase of learning its skill

nternet and spouted it all back to me for my approval. i'm not impressed by this unless i see that the information was synthesized and interpreted personally. antinomianism. difficult to assess as one man's antinomianism is the other's psychoses. a black magician must know how to play society's game and win. however, the purpose must be to fulfill personal initiatory desires. without that certain spark of rebelliousness, idiosyncrasy or eccentricity what kind of setian can develop? by the way, i certainly don't mean a cookie cutter "satanist" with all the traditional trappings of tattoo, piercing and the latest marilyn manson t- shirt (i'm aware that last sentence will be as outdated as the model t in a few months "hipness" is not antinomianism. it's merely desperate conformism marketed as

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titioner in question. toph has a basic task grounded system which the initiate studies and practices, learns and develops a wide variety of sorcerous elements in regards to magick and left hand path witchcraft. while this detailed and essay required self-initiation may be suitable and rewarding for some, it is not always as beneficial for others. individuals have different needs and aspects which spark them into initiation mode. for this reason, coven maleficia will work individually with those who would rather not work through the tasks of the grade in the method suggested they will be observed and coached, questioned and tested in numerous ways this will of course be just as difficult (as is the process of becoming) and challenging for the initiate as one who undertakes the numbered task

he numbered task listing in the guide book. you may approach you initial studies in your own time frame, but do not try to extend your stay in o) void and the abyss for more than one year without focusing on becoming into i the blackened forge of cain. the yatus and pairikas of coven maleficia may observe an initiate silently or known for some time to measure their own initiatory work, noting the spark of iblis grow within them through their own desire to gain knowledge and experience via luciferian and witches sabbat practice. the path of void and the abyss is to encircle yourself upon the path, by the spirit ways and shades of the path. the following books are essential to your initial study- writings by michael w. ford8 luciferian sorcery vox sabbatum yatuk dinoih (second edition) book

stial forms during their sabbat dance. in this instance, you will begin an in-between (crossroads) journey unto the mysteries and reality of the witches sabbat. envision a gateway opening forth a shadowed figure arises before you this is the black man of the sabbat, the initiator who you shall seek to become like- i salute thee spirit of blackened flame, i come unto thee as clay but which holds a spark. with thy stave immolate my being with the cunning fire, that i shall awaken in the bloodied caul the mark of cain. face now the four directions- from the south, fiery essence of the darkness, satanas i do summon thee, i shall descend into the pleasure fields of midnight and noon i shall taste thy ecstasy of being! from the east, air and shadowed illuminator lucifer, crowned in emerald light

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as a mark point towards self-evolution and godhood. the trapezoid sigil of varcolaci opens the gates of the shadow side through black magic. the varcolaci sigil was designed to manifest the essence of the varcolaci vampire, the astral being that rose from the flesh of the sorcerer to ascend to the night sky. this is the evermorphing version of lucifer, to eternally seek knowledge and the faustian spark which ignites into the black flame. the inverse pentagram that the varcolaci hold is the eye of lucifer, devilcosm that would glow with the divine light of self godhood. the inverse pentagram is itself symbol of exploring and controlling the dark side powers which exist within every man and woman. christian attempts of labeling lucifer as a god of death only proves the extent of brainwashing

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is drawn to matters of g-dliness, as they relate to action, this is the lowest level of the lowest level of the divine soul. actually, this level is not actually considered to be part of divine service at all. however, in this generation it is very rare to even find a person who has this level of the divine soul revealed. if there is anyone who is similar to this at all, it is only a tiny ray or spark of this level which is revealed in him (in other words, in our generation it is almost impossible to find an individual who by nature detests the physical pleasures of this world and is naturally drawn to fulfill the commandments. nonetheless, in every jew, even in our generation, there is still a spark of a spark of a spark of the divine soul. however, this spark does not necessarily even d

heir "religion. the entire "religion" only revolves around their own personal "comfort levels" and desires, and has nothing at all to do with g-d. nevertheless, though their "religion" has nothing at all to do with true judaism as defined by g-d in his torah, they still feel an inner need to identify themselves as jews. why is this so? it is only because of their inner essential nature, that tiny spark of a spark of the divine soul which remains within them. the five levels of the divine soul 1) the first level, the nefesh of the divine soul, is the natural pull and love for the commandments of g-d, and the natural disdain for evil and any breach of the negative commandments. this level of the divine soul is invested within the first level of arousal of the animal soul, called "cold though

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

mely volatile, as is everything in that world because the amount of light is out of proportion with the capacity of the vessels to hold it. but everything in tohu is still in the realm of holiness. only when the vessels of tohu break and their gshards h descend into the lower worlds do they exist as almost lifeless gshells h.pockets of fallen consciousness possessing no holiness other than a tiny spark of tohu-light embedded deep with each one to keep it in existence. other than that deep kernel of holiness, the whole 1 genesis 14. 2 ibid. 36:31-39. 3 eitz chaim 8:4-5, 9:1-2, 5, 17:3. 4 ibid. 8:3. the arizal on parashat lech lecha 74 essence of the fallen gshell h is evil, i.e, selfhood and antithesis to divinity (this is what led to the shattering of the vessels in the first place) these

when he was thrown into the fiery furnace in ur, as it is written, gand you shall burn their asherah-trees in fire. h2 the asherah-tree was an idol. we see here that the destruction of idolatry is by fire, and abraham submitted to the fire rather than serve idols. he thus rectified this aspect of adam fs sin [abraham was not subjected to this ordeal] because of himself, but rather because of the spark of ishmael that was still present within him. this is the mystical meaning of our sages f saying, gthe righteous are caught in the sin of the generation. h3 this saying of our sages explains why the righteous are sometimes seen to suffer: sometimes, it is simply because their generation needs to be rectified for some general sin and they, being part of this generation, are considered guilty

ture, as it is written, gand sarah saw that the son of hagar the egyptian was making sport. h4 our sages said that this means that he was serving idols.5 when abraham saw that ishmael was wicked and had incurred the death penalty [for serving idols, he prayed, gif only ishmael would live before you, h6 i.e, would repent. and so it was, that ishmael indeed repented, as is known.7 subsequently, the spark of goodness present in ishmael issued from him as yitra the ishmaelite, who married the daughter of nachash. understand this. king david was challenged by his son, absalom. gabsalom appointed amasa over the army in place of joab; amasa was the son of a man named yitra the israelite, who consorted with avigal daughter of nachash, the sister of joab fs mother tzeruyah. h8 tzeruyah and avigal w

f nachash, the sister of joab fs mother tzeruyah. h8 tzeruyah and avigal were david fs sisters,9 so amasa was his nephew through avigal, and nachash was evidently another name for david fs father, jesse. yitra is also called gyeter the ishmaelite, h10 for although jewish, he lived in the land of the ishmaelites (which is why they called him the israelite [abraham then had] isaac, who was his good spark, but present with him was a spark of murder. he therefore laid down his life as a burnt offering upon the altar [to be slaughtered. since [this murderous spark] was not his sin but that of someone else [dormant within him, he was spared, and a ram was offered in his stead. afterwards, this evil impurity issued from him as esau. isaac, too, wanted to bless [his son esau] and thereby cause him

ives and two handmaidens and eleven children and crossed over the jabok river crossing. h1 as you know, the mentality of abba [enters] the mentality of ima, and the yesod of abba extends further down than the yesod of ima. as we have explained previously, the insight of chochmah is the graw material h of binah and the content that it processes. inasmuch as this fundamental insight is the original spark of inspiration, its yesod, or drive for selfactualization, is greater and extends further than that of binah. now, the mentality of abba does not fully enter [the mentality of ima] until the immature mentality is expelled. the purpose of the investment of the mentality of abba in that of ima is in order that they both become transformed into the mental power of z feir anpin. as we know, the

en the temples stood. therefore, g-d prefered that the shechinah remain in exile. when living in the temple fs presence, the standards of behavior are higher, i.e, sinning is more sinful, more of an affront to the open manifestation of divinity. in exile, the jews could be rectified gradually and safely. g cbecause he feared lest he die as did his brothers. h this is because in every generation a spark of the messiah comes into the world, in accordance with g-d fs will. if the generation is worthy [he is revealed as the messiah. if not, he dies or is killed as a martyr, as happened to rabbi akiva in the time of ben koziva, and in many other cases we do not even know about. rabbi akiva was killed as a martyr in the hadrianic persecutions that came as a reaction to the revolt of bar kochba

h he said, guntil he matures. he will then come to redeem israel by g-d fs will. h the remainder of this excerpt describes how in the case of the prophet habakkuk, we see also that g-d said that the time must be ripe for the redemption to occur. 3 obadiah 1:2. 4 genesis 49:10. the arizal on parashat vayeisheiv 195 we also see this in the case of habakkuk, who, according to some opinions, was the spark of the messiah in his generation. he said, gi will stand on my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what i shall answer when i am reproved. and g-d answered me, and said, ewrite the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, so that he who reads it may run. for the vision is still for an appointed time, and it speaks concerning the end, and does no

explain [the soul of] a person comprises its gimage h [tzelem] and its nefesh-ruach-neshamah. as we know, the soul comprises 5 levels: nefesh, ruach, neshamah, chayah, and yechidah. the latter two are the soul fs gimage. h in short, the nefesh is the animating soul that enlivens the body. the ruach is the emotions. the neshamah is the intellect. the chayah is the will. the yechidah is the divine spark. the gimage h enters [the body] at conception. as is explained in the zohar,22 would the mother and father merit, they would be able to see [their child fs gimage h] when they copulate [and conceive the child, the nefesh when it is born, the ruach when it turns thirteen, and the neshamah when it turns twenty. jonah.that is, the soul.descends [from its source, enters z feir anpin, descends vi

separated out and is given to one who is worthy of it, becoming part of the root of [this latter person fs] soul, as our sages said, gif he merits, he takes both his portion and his fellow fs portion in the garden of eden, h3 and [only] the complete evil remains in him, all of which is pure refuse. he [thus] is doomed to destruction, and has no hope whatsoever, since he [no longer] possesses any spark of goodness. but of those who are mostly good, i.e, righteous people, the inverse is true. each time they are reincarnated, they become purer than they were the previous 1 exodus 20:3-6. 2 ecclesiastes 7:20. 3 chagigah 15a. the arizal on parashat yitro (2) 310 time. but since perforce, they must commit some new sin in each incarnation, they must be reincarnated [many times] until they fulfil

ing, this being the mystical meaning of the turquoise fire [that descends from heaven to devour the sacrifices].14 the word for gturquoise h (techeilet) is related to the word for gdevour h (kilayon, mechaleh. malchut, the shechinah, would descend from heaven in the form of a fire and devour the sacrifices on the altar. in chassidut, this is explained as the fiery enthusiasm of the divine soul (a spark of the shechinah) that, when ignited by appropriate meditation, can consume the individual fs animalistic tendencies, purifying his animal soul and making it fit for serving g-d. 10 bava kama 3b. 11 isaiah 44:13. 12 siddur tehillat hashem, p. 22. 13 par. genesis 37:24. 14 zohar 3:29b. the arizal on parashat mishpatim (2) 323 the numerical value of the word for gand the fire h [vehahever, 288

the beard of arich anpin. the numerical value of the word for gbread h (lechem, 78) is the same as that of the aramaic word for mazal (mazla. lechem: lamed-chet-mem= 30+ 8+ 40= 78. mazla: mem-lamed-zayin-alef= 40+ 30+ 7+ 1= 78. in order for a couple to unite in marital relations, there must be some inspiration that descends upon them from above. in the case of abba and ima, this inspiration is a spark of divine consciousness that descends upon them from the preceding parztuf, arich anpin, the will. specifically, it is channeled through the beard of arich anpin, which, as we have discussed previously, subdivides into 13 gtufts, h which in turn correspond to g-d fs 13 attributes of mercy. these attributes are called mazalot (pl. of mazal, meaning gchannel of flow, h since the root of mazal

created subsequent to the world of atzilut were constructed out of the fallen remains of the shattered world of tohu, the immature version of atzilut. these divine sparks from the world of tohu are embedded within all aspects and facets of reality in all the lower worlds, including, of course, the lowest one, our physical world. by using any particular element of reality for a divine purpose, the spark enlivening it is released from its existential entrapment in anti-spirituality and ascends back to its source, spiritualizing reality in the process. when all the sparks will have been liberated in this way, the world will have attained its maximal spiritual potential and mashiach will come. the prototypical example of this process is the sacrificial service in the holy temple. the temple is

ical reality) contain sparks from the fallen world of tohu, as we have explained previously. when the animal is sacrificed, it elevates these sparks.as well as sparks from the animal kingdom generally. this also explains why there is unfit [treif] and fit [kosher] food. if animal [after being slaughtered] is [found to be] fit, and is then eaten by a gfit h individual, it indicates that there is a spark of holiness in it, and fortunate is the one who elevates it. but if it is found to be unfit, this indicates that the time has not yet come to for it to be liberated from the clutches of evil [inasmuch as these forces of evil are allegorically] called gthe dog, h we are therefore commanded gyou shall cast it to the dogs. h3 this is until its punishment has been completed, and it is reincarnat

does, the energy (and mass) he derives from eating the food is elevated into holiness. if he does not, then the animal vitality either remains at the level of the animal, or worse, in the case of someone who intentionally commits a sin, is caused to descend into the realms of explicit evil. if the slaughtered animal is found to be unfit to be eaten or sacrificed, it means that the soul or divine spark it was hosting is not yet ready to be elevated by human consumption, and must return again to repeat the process until it is sufficiently gscrubbed h of its existential crust to ascend into holiness. from the above passage we see clearly how at least one aspect of the sacrificial rite is considered synonymous with eating, and that the same dynamic of rectifying the primordial shattering of t

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

guing, and even negotiating with the collective unconscious and is not a religion, philosophy or even a cult. as the candidate is about to take the obligation of the neophyte, the hierophant assures him or her that "there is nothing contrary to your civil, moral, or religious duties in this obligation" furthermore, the hierophant reminds the candidate to respect all religions, for each contains a spark of the divine. the key theme in both the neophyte grade and the ritual of adeptus minor is that of being brought to the light. this light is also referred to as l.v.x. in the introduction to volumes 111 and iv of the golden dawn, regardie's excellent analysis of the keyword (i.n.r.i) and subsequent gematric correspondences and conclusions will bear fruit from continued study and meditation r

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

all of the genius, a sin which entails none the less terrible consequences because it is a sign of the higher plane where the choice is not between good and evil but between the higher and the lower forms of good. therefore is the mystic circurnambulation in the path of darkness led by the kerux with the symbolic light, as formulating that the higher soul is not the only divine light but rather a spark from the ineffable flame- and the kerux, in his turn, is but the watcher of the gods. after the kerux comes admission of the candidate 367 the hegemon, the translator of the higher self, leading the candidate; and then come the goddesses of the scales of the balance, the stolistes and the dadouchos. they move once round; the formation in darkness of the binah angle of the white triangle of t

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

old, while the refining and bleaching lucidity of the moonhad its effect on silver. whence their origin, if they do not germinate and fructify in the laboratoriesof the earth as in the womb of their mother, and produce strains of nature in maturing? the purposeof the alchemist is to assist nature and expedite it through the hermetic art.rituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliapracticus31 a spark, an atom of fire, life, or divine lux, which is within every thing, is in the metals, deeplyhidden in the interior which buds, germinates and bears fruit.conductor:the production of the precious metals is only through assisting nature in its more rapid gestation,while the multiplying its seed is an impossibility?4th alchemist:not altogether so, for the rosicrucian alchemist claims to be able

RUBY TABLET OF SET

ve energy, a pervasive force 'satan: the cosmic principle or mechanism which activates that 'godforce, to cause change, evolution, destruction, creation. the cosmos, because of this satanic element, is not passive; it is dynamic. whether that dynamism is reflected as evolution or destruction and degeneration is something that man can actively determine by his own intervention, through the satanic spark of self-will that was bequeathed to him. when man misuses his satanic or promethean gift as the result of corruption by christianity and other such moral slush, the fine balance of this world is disrupted. famine, and often war, are the satanic mechanisms activated to restore the balance. this is the mechanism the humanitarians seek to overcome through their moral conceit. what is the satani

was not so anxious as some might suppose to duplicate the pythagorean experiment in greece itself. whereas pythagoras died a violent death and left none of his personal works for posterity, plato lived a full life and left a rich heritage for scholars. and initiates. of the future. that, certainly, is testimony to his wisdom. the chimaera "the secret worship of the logos in the cosmos, the divine spark in every human form" bibliography. asimov, isaac, asimov's biographical encyclopaedia of science and technology. garden city, new york: doubleday and company, 1972. barker, sir ernest, greek political theory: plato and his predecessors. london: methuen and company ltd, 1918. brlitz, charles, mysteries from forgotten worlds. garden city, new york: doubleday and company, 1972. brugsch-bey, hei

beingness that they saw as the source of all real life, but the god who directly rules over this world, the god of the old testament. gnostics differentiated between the two gods by proposing that they are of two different realities. the reality of this world was seen as a place of suffering and spiritual darkness. the reality of a purely transcendent world which was seen as the realm of the pure spark of life, knowledge, love and light. this alien realm was seen as the true reality. the world of the dark lord, our physical world, was seen as a false reality. this philosophy was almost certainly derived from the mithraic persians. they divided the heavens into two forces, one of light and good, the other of darkness and evil. the orthodox christians also used this concept in their debaseme

essed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them. ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this- the book of the law the astonishing extent of machen's perception of metaphysical evil and his sustained interest in the occult evidence a spark of the black flame attempting, with only partial success, to fan itself into a blaze. to give him his due meed of praise, he sincerely tried. it is indeed more difficult to be a sinner than a saint. there are many today who are fascinated by the dark side at the same time that they inveigh against it. this affords them a degree of titillation at a "safe" distance. even as they extol the virt

ed with me, and i touched them and gave them identity. and that we might achieve this identity of substance as well as of mind, we classification: v2- a16.21- 1 author: michael a. aquino i date: transcribed year v a.s, lai khe/ben cat, s. vietnam html revision: september 3, 1998 ce subject: black flame reading list: composed for ourselves distinctive shapes. then i who had brought the first great spark of enlightenment was known as lucifer, lord of light, and we called our race angel, for we were the embodied powers of god. long were we all true to the service of god, and we did worship order, for it put an end to chaotic confusion and brought peace. among us was the archangel masleh principal, for he so cherished god that he became as one with it, and thence the supreme architect of all t

periment and the radical dangers of invention and exploration. to man was given guilt, and the call to social conformity, and the proclaimed sanctity of the norm and the mode. and michael, lord of force, said to me, this man, whom thou hast chosen to receive thy gift, now possesses the first key to the mastery of all things and the control of the very universe itself. lest in ill choice he should spark the catastrophe of armageddon, we also have visited him. and while we cannot undo thy infernal gift, we shall ever act to censor its effect. we shall walk among men and guide them- they shall be told of thy interest in them, but the name of lucifer shall be dark with curses. for they shall love not the challenge thou hast placed before them, and we will offer them instead the blissful refuge

his new vision for sake of harmony alone. and then i knew myself to be of a mind with lucifer in this, and that i as well as he should never again tolerate the eternal idiocy of our divine station. i came after michael, and i saw them together, the lord of force and the lord of light, and there was a fierce tension between them. for michael said to lucifer, thou who art our heavenly radiance and spark of our paradise, why seek to break that universal peace which is everywhere ordained by the will of god? we know not antagonism amongst us, for we are all of one being within god- but there is in god neither malice nor cause for contest. and lucifer answered, michael, to me it was not given to order my nature, and as our very comprehension differs, so are we of substance alien. for thou art

rbarism and the extremes of his primitive emotions. sore put was he to organize and direct his thought, for the art of uriel had brought him hunger and cold, pain and fear, and the gnawing worm of hopelessness. i saw him fling his crushed body upon the altars of god and renounce the gift of lucifer, for he understood it not save as a curse upon him. and i was impelled with urgency, that the first spark of man's future greatness should not be smothered in the deathly embrace of religion. i brought to man the disposition to memory, that he might define for himself patterns of behavior. a gift of value, for man could now achieve in concert what he could not alone, and he created his languages and brought into being the first nations of earth. but with structure came tyranny and ruthlessness

that cause moments of clarity, then such book is worth its weight in gold. if the book contains the rules that can produce more moments of clarity, then is it is a gem of the first water. if the book can provide rules that allow for more than one person to achieve a moment of clarity and communicate his or her understanding to another who is also experiencing clarity, the book has is an intimate spark of living fire. such in my opinion is the value of the crystal tablet of set. for someone that wants to work hard for power and knowledge, and is almost in possession of these things, the temple's primary text is beyond any dollar amount. however most of us, despite our lofty sounding claims, want a short and easy enlightenment. so we play absurd games with the letters and numbers of a text

l to grow weak, and they might be imprisoned in lower states of rest and preservation.(18) how long is "too long" to wait? how can we avoid the dangers of weakened and stagnant will? xeper is your yardstick. do you willfully xeper, or do you coast? do you work at and direct your growth, or do you just accept growth where it's easy? if the latter, you are in danger of stagnation, and of losing the spark of the black flame that powers your xeper. fan that flame, and reactivate your xeper. exercise your will. or you will lose that which makes you setian. be interested, and follow your interests. do not worry about xem or the quest. the working initiate may find himself on a quest without consciously choosing to quest (as indicated in magister lewis' discussion of the quest quoted above) some

en yourself not with the cares of ghosts. they cannot trouble you if you do not embrace them [offering of the chalice to others present, with appropriate statements to each [closing invocation] i have learned much about who and what i am, and i know there is much more to learn. i seek it gladly, for my thirst is insatiable- quenched only for the moment, but renewed by each new discovery, each new spark from the black flame [closing of the gate] farewell, set, dark lord of egypt who first ignited that flame. another time, may it be, that we shall speak again. initiation, magic, and the temple of set few terms have been more subject to the indignity of relegation to occult jargon than "initiation" it has degenerated into a mere catchword like "energy" or "vibration" and few people display an

flame that burns within. tonight's work draws to a close; with results that only you can detect, that only you can direct. remember to maintain the balance of your attentions on both the self and the not-self, as you shape that future you will create [closing remarks] we have balanced opposing energies here tonight, mixing a volatile fuel to power our will throughout the coming times. without the spark of memory and the direction of willed action, though, the fuel is wasted. let us each, therefore come forth this night and be born anew of our own actions and desires. let us each with inspiration and precision go forth and work our wills upon the universe [ring the bell. then all assembled close with] so it is done. the freedom working purpose: the purpose of this working was to release me

the medallion appropriate to his degree within the temple of set [ring the bell. the bell is to be rung nine times to purify the atmosphere of the ritual chamber [light the black flame. these are the two black candles placed to the right and left of the stele of bes-na-maut. vibrate the words "nox flamma" while lighting the candles [open the gates. celebrant] as the black flame lies dormant, the spark of life ignites to become the flame of night. this flame is the key to the portals of darkness, and anubis is the opener of the way. come forth, anubis, from the fourth and fifth angles of the sokarian realm. come forth through the gates of the tuat. come forth in thy semblance, o jackalheaded anubis. classification: v2- b6r.1e- 1 author: william d. pridgen ii date: north solstice, xxvi subj

rough a brief existence, until it again returns to dust. life is that which lives, and that which knows it lives, which thrills to that life, which honors its life, and life is that which refuses to die! look at yourselves; look deeper, deeper, past the muscle, past the bone, past the blood. strip away the dust, and see that living self. see that which shares the gift of set, the black flame, the spark of true and eternal life. see the life that is you, your self. feel that life. taste that life. bring it forward and let that life, that black flame, envelope your being as you listen to the word of set: zacar od zamran odo cicle qaa zorge iap zirdo noco mad hoath iaida. arise in your glory, behold the genius of your creation, and be prideful of being, for i am the same- i who am the highest

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en that old jelly mrs. qureishi had been taken in by ayesha. quite a threesome, thought mirza saeed; when mumbo-jumbo gets in through your door, good sense leaves by the window. as for ayesha: when she encountered the mirza on the balcony, or in the garden as he wandered reading urdu love-poetry, she was invariably deferential and shy; but her good behaviour, coupled with the total absence of any spark of erotic interest, drove saeed further and further into the helplessness of his despair. so it was that when, one day, he spied ayesha entering his wife's quarters and heard, a few minutes later, his mother--in- law's voice rise in a melodramatic shriek, he was seized by a mood of mulish vengefulness and deliberately waited a full three minutes before going to investigate. he found mrs. qur

became almost impossible to mention anything to him, no matter how reasonable, no matter how gently put "go, go, eat air" he'd shout, and retire into the tent of his wounded pride- and the most seductive thing about him was the way he knew instinctively what she wanted, how when he chose he could become the agent of her secret heart. as a result, their sex was literally electric. that first tiny spark, on the occasion of their inaugural kiss, wasn't any one-off. it went on happening, and sometimes while they made love she was convinced she could hear the crackle of electricity all around them; she felt, at times, her hair standing on end "it reminds me of the electric dildo in my father's study" she told gibreel, and they laughed "am i the love of your life" she asked quickly, and he answ

at will and without warning, making it impossible for gibreel to approach his quest in the systematic manner he would have preferred. some days he would turn a corner at the end of a grand colonnade built of human flesh and covered in skin that bled when scratched, and find himself in an uncharted wasteland, at whose distant rim he could see tall familiar buildings, wren's dome, the high metallic spark-plug of the telecom tower, crumbling in the wind like sandcastles. he would stumble across bewildering and anonymous parks and emerge into the crowded streets of the west end, upon which, to the consternation of the motorists, acid had begun to drip from the sky, burning great holes in the surfaces of the roads. in this pandemonium of mirages he often heard laughter: the city was mocking his

SATANIC RITUALS

evermore through countless shapes continually at war, by countless interactions interknit: if one is born a certain day on earth, all times and forces tended to that birth, not all the world could change or hinder it. i find no hint throughout the universe of good or ill, of blessing or of curse; i find alone necessity supreme; with infinite mystery, abysmal, dark, unlighted even by the faintest spark, for us the flitting shadows of a dream. o brothers of sad lives! they are so brief; a few short years must bring us all relief: can we not bear these years of laboring breath? but if you would not this poor life fulfil, lo, you are free to end it when you will, without the fear of waking after death. how the moon triumphs through the endless nights! how the stars throb and glitter as they w

ty had reached its zenith, with virtually all of russia adhering to the orthodox church. but the old gods were preparing a vehicle of retaliation: the men of "god" were revealed, as in other countries, as the real villains, but they were so steeped in their holy selfrighteousness, they were unable to imagine their own disintegration. out of the morass of "goodness" flickered an occasional secular spark of "wickedness" these flickerings kept the old ones alive. known erotic religious sects existed in russia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, despite the prevailing orthodox climate. evidence indicates they were led and directed by men whose visionary abilities, practices, and goals revealed them as satanists of the first order. the sect of the khlysty demonstrates this more than

m sin into virtue. this doctrine has overt resemblance to and varies only slightly from one preached by the brethren of the free spirit in france, germany and czechoslovakia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. the brethren of the free spirit was a sect of dissidents that miscarried from the womb of its mother roman church. they taught that within each human being there dwelt a little divine spark (f nklein. they believed that a simple recognition of this magical essence within each man was enough to liberate one from any restrictions whatsoever, whether social, sexual or intellectual. the russian has been, throughout history, predominantly receptive, though sometimes quixotic and despite the contemporary myth of classlessness, he can easily find his place and remain reconciled to it

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

. the names of the gods changed, however, as did the emphasis of religion. for example, nanna was the sumerian god of the moon. in akkadian, the language of sargon and his people, nanna was called sin or suen. inanna, mistress of heaven, became ishtar in akkadian. the direction of religion also changed over time. the early sumerians believed that humanity, after it was created, was given a divine spark by the god enlil. this not only made people the servants of the gods during their lifetimes, but also assured them an afterlife. the coming to power of the babylonians in the second millennium bce changed the emphasis of religion. the babylonians the babylonians carefully preserved the literary and religious heritage passed down from the sumerians, but their major concern was to integrate th

or revenge in the muslim world. uthman, like ali, had been a son-in-law of muhammad and an early ali served in many battles in the effort to spread islam. by 630 ce ali and the prophet muhammad had brought all of the arabian peninsula under the control of an islamic state. archivo iconografico, s.a./corbis. world religions: biographies 21 al ibn ab ta lib convert to islam. all these issues helped spark a five-year civil war among muslims, called the first civil war (656 661, or fitnah, which means trial in arabic. ali had to battle various muslim groups during his entire rule. the first of these was an army led by a group of quraysh nobles, one of whom was muhammad s widow, a isha. ali s troops defeated these warriors at the battle of the camel at basra, iraq (so named because a isha rode

again, probably for syria. others believed that some of jala l s followers murdered shams. some even claimed that jala l s own sons murdered him. only recently has it been proven that shams was indeed murdered and buried near a well that still exists in konya. who was responsible for his death remains uncertain. mystical poet jala l was grief-stricken. his sense of loss and mourning served as the spark that turned him into a poet. he identified himself so strongly with shams that he even signed shams s name at the end of most of his early poems. many scholars believe that jala l composed most of these and later poems while in a state of mystical ecstasy, or intense joy or delight. they suggest that jala l wrote while listening to the sound of drums or flutes, or to the sound of a watermill

ied the work to his publishers, caught a cold, and died of complications on january 4, 1786. he left behind his wife, fromet gugenheim, whom he had married in 1762. the couple had six surviving children, several of whom went on to distinguished careers. mendelssohn s views faced intense criticism during his lifetime and afterward, from both jews and non-jews. mendelssohn is widely regarded as the spark behind modern reform judaism, which does not accept many of the traditional jewish beliefs, such as that god gave moses the torah, but does adhere to the central practices of the religion. as such, conservative orthodox jews feared that mendelssohn s reforms would alienate jews from their traditional culture and law. they were partially right. in response to the haskalah, many european jews

rophets bear witness to it, the righteousness of god through faith in jesus christ for all who believe. for there is no distinction; since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of god, they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in christ jesus. through statements such as this, paul provided support for one of the major doctrines of protestantism and helped to spark a revolt against the very church he helped establish. the catholic church, meanwhile, holds that these words can only be understood in the context of the debate over jewish law. during paul s lifetime judaism was a religion based on works, meaning that jews believed that they could achieve salvation only by strictly following jewish law as outlined in the hebrew religious texts. paul, the ch

SEVEN SHADES OF SOLITUDE

s the hermitage of seth, the arch-magisterial office of one-against- all. this is the great all-oneliness: the sacred marriage that divorces all other. all outward circumstance, every mode and relation of magical operation- whether congregational, connubial, solitary, autonomian, transgressive, or panentheistic, is of no difference: the millstone of the circle has ground all-that-is unto a single spark, the self-shining lumina. this seed of luminous awareness is the resurrecting shard of the smaragdina, the crown-stone of lumial, the angelic soul of witchblood. it is the luciferian bone-charm of wisdom that moves upstream against the current of all-that-is: the power of the void in constant becoming as the flesh of the initiate. the hermitage of seth resides under the patronage of the elde

SEVEN SCROLLS CHILDREN OF THE BLACK ROSE

was the next medicine man? could the hunter see at night? could the medicine man see in spite of it? who became really aware? who could see the color of tomorrow from the shadows of today? what did the old man perceive in the boy who had not yet learned to see? the natural hunter already had his gift. though he brimmed with ability, the other boy's heart was not in hunting, but the old man saw a spark of magical ability in him. all that was necessary was to slowly develop that spark into a flame and then into a white-hot star of purpose, intent, focus and will. the steps on the great cbr stairway are: awareness, guidance, learning, application, teaching, transition, and fulfillment. do you see how each of these seven principles are fulfilled in this simple children's story? is it really a

cbr should begin his or her personal effort by refining his/her mental state. this state is easily altered as the manner in which most people think is usually habitual. fortunately, such thinking habits can be changed in as little as thirty days by the application of a little self control. of course, the desire for self improvement must be present in the individual, for no one else can light its spark or do the job for them. pay attention to your thoughts as they filter through your mind. during waking hours, post a little part of yourself, a sentinel, so-to-speak, to stand guard and keep track of what is going on inside your head. then, ask your little sentinel whether your thoughts are positive or negative or beautiful or ugly. ask often, for your thoughts will change faster than the sp

day's work is planned the night before and difficulties are sorted out before they become problems. the process is learn, do, and teach. adepts make every effort to be among the circle of those who know, for there are so many who don't. the ratio is something like a hundred to one. however, there must be that one knowledgeable person or adept if anything is to be accomplished, for the one is the spark that starts the fire that will eventually illuminate the path for all mankind to follow. adepts prepare themselves with all types and kinds of knowledge, for they know from experience that every once in a great while, calamity will arise and plunge mankind into darkness. without one who knows, the road back to light and understanding would be a long one, indeed. many times in the past, men h

prepare themselves with all types and kinds of knowledge, for they know from experience that every once in a great while, calamity will arise and plunge mankind into darkness. without one who knows, the road back to light and understanding would be a long one, indeed. many times in the past, men have risen to great heights, only to be tumbled into the depths by catastrophe. it has always been the spark of wisdom and knowledge, carried by the few that has saved the many. however, one who knows must be judicious at such times, as when the darkness comes, people grow superstitious and shun anything they don't understand. that is why one adapt will never reveal the face or place of another "in the past, it has been man's lot to rise to the heights only to be plunged into the depths. but as we

a child, just as you were this time and the last time and the one before that. therefore, all adapts teach their children the keys of wisdom with all of their implications from as early an age as possible. why? what if you returned next time around and were denied the wisdom and knowledge? where would you find it, and would you even know enough to look for it? how empty life would be without the spark to ignite the mind into growth and the spirit into readiness to finish the long trip. think of the cbr as an endless chain of hands, some pulling, some pushing, all a part of the whole. learn, do, teach. it is our responsibility to leave our legacy for our children, so we take the time and teach our children well. traditionally, the head of a cbr family will see to it that an hour each eveni

SIFRA DETZNIYUTHA

re the spices of the molds, the reddish ones, they pass as not, they tarry as not in one-place. and the chayot run forth and return. flee unto your place.77 if you rise like an eagle, and if you will set your nest among the stars, from there i shall bring you down.78 and you, the grasses. were brought forth from the earth.79 when? when the name (hvhy) was implanted. and thus air came forth. and a spark80 came to be. 1) one skull extends to its side.81 full of the dew of two colors over it. 2) three cavities in which the marked letters are manifested as vhy 3) black ones, as a raven, hanging over the deep holes, so that he hears right and left as not. here there is one slender path above.82 4) the forehead that shines as not, the discord of the world, except when his will(]vor, ratzon) has

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

stand the idea of reincarnation in this 32 christianity as mystical fact evolutionary sense it need no longer be pronounced unscientific.34 it is a matter of knowing how to interpret the content of the soul and of not leaping to the idea of the miraculous. i am able to write because i learned how to do so; no one is able to sit down, having never held a pen, and write. what then of those with the spark of genius? in some cases, talent seems to border on the miraculous. even here, the spark of genius is something that has emerged, that has been learned. when it shows itself in a personality, we may call it something spiritual, with the proviso that we understand that this spiritual was also originally something learned, something acquired through former lives before it appears as a spontane

r themselves; platonic mysteries 41 in my judgment it is impossible that they should have any understanding of the subject. no treatise by me concerning it exists or ever will exist. it is not something that can be put into words like other branches of learning; only after long partnership in a common life devoted to this very thing does truth flash upon the soul like a flame kindled by a leaping spark, and once it is born there it nourishes itself thereafter.45 the words might be taken to signify merely the inadequacy of verbal expression, a personal failing on the part of the writer, if we did not detect in them a mystery-sense. something that cannot and never will be put into words by plato must refer to a matter about which all writing would be futile. it must mean a feeling, a sense o

ns have the explicit tradition of a primordial, macrocosmic man (adam).67 the mystery of love it is also as an initiation that we have to interpret the symposium the platonic dialogue on love. love figures here as the herald of wisdom. we have seen that wisdom is the eternal logos, the son of the eternal world-father. to this logos love stands in the position of a mother. before even so much as a spark of the light of wisdom can be struck in the human soul, there must be present in it an obscure urge or longing for the divine. unconsciously it must draw one in the direction of what will subsequently, when it is raised into consciousness, constitute one s highest bliss. heraclitus apprehended the daimon in human beings; in plato this is connected with the idea of love. the symposium compris

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own limitations- dependent upon what one desires and wishes to attain with that consciousness. this is the state of non-recognition, the state that nearly all humans live, and die within. it is one of the components of the psyche that integrates the right hand path into a homogenous entity, it is the state of the psyche that is singly unified. the birthed self is not stupid, it does not lack the spark of a genius, it does not refute love, art, compassion, lust, jealousy or anger or virtuosity. it has all of these things which make life an adventure. the crucial dividing element that the birthed self lacks (in terms of lhp thought) is recognition, and recognition is one of the vital conditions necessary to "see more "seeing more" is our goal, it is a method of extension beyond the first pe

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of complexion that photography could not hope to capture, tongues began to wag that the great scientist had lost all form of objectivity and had grown much too attached to the spirit that he was supposed to be investigating. when such a man of stature as crookes announced that he had judged medium florence cook s (1856 1904) materializations of the spirit katie king to be genuine, it was bound to spark controversy. whether or not the perfect beauty with whom sir william chatted and strolled about the seance room was a ghost or a hoax is a question that is still being debated to this day. florence cook, the medium through whom katie king materialized, first met the spirit in seances which she conducted when she was only 15. katie promised to be florence s spirit control for a period of thre

h. rather than perceiving existence as a battle between god and the devil, the gnostics envisioned a struggle between the true, most high, unknowable god and the lesser god of this earth, the demiurge, that they associated with the angry, jealous, rule-giving deity of the ancient hebrews. they believe that all humans have the ability to awaken to the realization that they have within themselves a spark of the divine. by attuning to the mystical awareness within them, they may transcend all earthly entrapments and regain their true spiritual home. jesus had been sent by god as a guide to teach humans how to free themselves from the control of the demiurge and to understand that the kingdom of god was within, a transcendental state of consciousness, rather than a future reward. as if the the

e of darkness and his children devoured by the monster, enough of their light leaked out to enable the third messenger, another creation of the father of greatness, to rescue them. humans were later produced by the mating of demons who had inadvertently swallowed particles of light, and it would be jesus who would at last awaken human beings to the spiritual realization that they each contained a spark of the divine light within them. mani taught that continued spiritual warfare was an unpleasant fact of life on earth, 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 280 mystery religions and cults 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 mystery religions and cults 281 born on june 16, 1880, in manch

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t of the teachings of all major faiths and cultures. but while culture, magic, and religion had amassed thousands of years of prohibitions concerning the shedding of blood, what could be more repulsive to the human psyche than the hybrid half-human, half-animal monsters bite the throats and drink the blood of men, women, and children? vampires rose from their dank graves by night to sustain their spark of life through the drinking of blood. werewolves devoured the flesh and blood of their victims by night or day. how could people defend themselves against these blood-hungry creatures when they also had the ability to shapeshift into bats, wolves, and luminous fogs? and then there were the supernatural beings, such as the incubus and the succubus, who were more interested in seizing human s

monsters prowling the earth, devouring hapless villagers, receiving periodic sacrifices of young maidens, spreading terror into the hearts of all, and being thwarted only by courageous knights. for years, children have been read tales, seen motion pictures, and heard songs of reluctant dragons, kindly dragons, affectionate dragons, magic dragons, and timid dragons. behind every myth smolders some spark of truth and reality. a few scientists hold the theory that a number of dinosaurs might have survived into the age of man. pick up any book on dinosaurs and it is apparent that a tyrannosaurus rex would have made a terrific dragon in anyone s legend. such a huge reptile thudding about the countryside of early europe or asia could certainly fit even the most dramatic descriptions of a dragon

e s head and neck appear above the surface of the water, then its two humps, one behind the other, and finally what appears to be a tail, thrashing behind from side to side. the area near the ruins of urquhart castle at drumnadrochit is still the most common vantage point for nessie sightings and is said to attract more than 200,000 visitors per year. sources: fraser, stephen. new nessie pictures spark debate. scotland on sunday, september 8, 2002 [online] http//www.news. scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1000212002. milne, meg. unearthed: the 1936 film that first launched nessie mania. scotland on sunday, november 25, 2001 [online] http//www.scotlandonsunday.com/text_only. cfm?id=ss01045931. watson-smyth, kate. heritage panel rules on how to hunt for nessie. independent, january 5, 2001 [onlin

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n e d magic and sorcery 55 avoudoun gcongregation h is called a hunsi or hounsis. haitian peasant, zombies, the living dead, are to be feared as real instruments of hungan who have succumbed to the influence of evil and become sorcerers. the people of the villages believe that the sorcerer unearths a corpse and wafts under its nose a bottle containing its soul. then, as if he were fanning a tiny spark of life in dry tinder, the sorcerer nurtures the spark of life in the corpse until he has fashioned a zombi. the deceased are often buried face downward by considerate relatives so the corpse cannot hear the call of the sorcerer. some villagers take the precaution of providing their departed with a weapon, such as a machete, with which to ward off the evil hungan. haiti is filled with terrib

ppiness throughout life. m delving deeper eichler, lillian. the customs of mankind. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1937. mintz, ruth finer. auguries, charms, amulets. middle village, n.y: jonathan david publishers, 1983. nelson, felicitas h. talismans& amulets of the world. new york: sterling publishers, 2000. salt in finnish mythology, the mighty god of the sky, ukko, struck fire in the heavens. a spark from this celestial fire fell into the ocean and turned to salt. another old legend is that the oceans are made up of the tears of all those who have suffered since the world began; and as tears are salt, the oceans f waters are salt. salt was used long before the contemporary era, and it was highly valued by those who included it in their diet. salt was probably being traded even in neolith

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antichrist is the priest who curses instead of blessing, who drives away instead of attracting, who scandalizes instead of edifying, who damns instead of saving. it is the hateful fanaticism which discourages good-will. it is the worship of death, sadness, and ugliness. 38 "what career shall we choose for our son" have said many stupid parents "he is mentally and bodily weak, and he is without a spark of courage- we will make a priest of him, so that he may 'live by the altar" they have not understood that the altar is not a manger for slothful animals. look at the unworthy priests, contemplate these pretended servants of the altar! what do they say to your heart, these obese or cadaverous men with the lack-lustre eyes, and pinched or gaping mouths<priest, of

f the astral light, and are a powerful vehicle of magnetism. the warm breath magnetizes positively, and the cold breath negatively. a warm and prolonged insufflation upon the spinal column at the base of the cerebellum may occasion erotic phenomena. if one puts the right hand upon the head and the left hand under the feet of a person completely enveloped with wool or silk, one causes the magnetic spark to pass completely through the body, and one may thus occasion a nervous revolution in his organism with the rapidity of lightning. magnetic passes only serve to direct the will of the magnetizer in confirming it by acts. they are signs and nothing more. the act of the will is expressed and not operated by these signs. 116 powdered charcoal absorbs and retains the astral light. this explains

f limited experience and slow-moving reason. when a new word comes into the world, it needs swaddling clothes and bandages; genius brought it forth, but it is for experience to nourish it. do not fear that it will die of neglect! oblivion is for it a favourable time of rest, and contradictions help it to grow. when a sun bursts forth in space it creates worlds or attracts them to itself. a single spark of fixed light promises a universe to space. all magic is in a word, and that word pronounced qabalistically is stronger than all the powers of heaven, earth and hell. with the name of "jod he vau he" one commands nature: kingdoms are conquered in the name of adonai, and the occult forces which compose the empire of hermes are one and all obedient to him who knows how to pronounce duly the i

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iators, lilith and samael (also known as azazel, and by means of dreaming, was self-initiated into the mysteries of sorcery and magick. cain is a master of the 9 sabbat. the semblance of cain and baphomet are presented in this tome, which is written in a poetic and lyrical form. cain is symbolized as the blacksmith of the forge, his craft is that of sorcery, the fires of the forge that initiatory spark of being, the black flame of iblis itself. the book of cain is also a grimoire which can be meditated upon in the focus of antinomian self-deification, the isolation of the psyche. this process of becoming is a process in the luciferian and sabbatic left hand path guild in houston, texas. this leads to an illumination of the black flame through the initiatory model of cain, the wanderer. thi

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h below the veil merge within malkuth. figure 3 illustrates the attribution of the letters to the trinity, and a further breakdown is utilised by spelling the letters again in full. the tarot cards to which these letters are assigned offer valuable descriptions of the nature of this creative trinity of forces. kaph in kether kaph, as previously described, is the hand of god transmitting the vital spark to man, and the hand of man receiving the divine influx (as painted on the ceiling of the sistene chapel by michelangelo, for example. its tarot glyph is that of the wheel, which is the prime symbol of synchronicity, kether being the pivot and malkuth being the hub. of course, the number of the card is 10, referring to the number of malkuth, the number of sephiroth contained within kether, a

ah, and the third set relate to the mystical aspects (ascending) of binah. an example is the annunciation, which is the first "joyful mystery, and depicts the angel gabriel announcing to mary that she is to be the mother of god. in kabbalistic terms it can be seen that the archangel gabriel, attributed to yesod, the "formative" aspect on a lower plane, acts as the bearer of the "word" or creative spark of chockmah, the father, into binah, the mother. thus yesod and binah are linked by the attribution of gabriel "ruler of the waters, the waters being creation (binah) and the unconscious (yesod, their interface being the archetypes. an example of the kabbalistic interpretation of the glorious mysteries is that of the assumption, where the blessed mother is united with her divine son in heave

nicate our persona through our words. hence our mouth is the gate to our ego in the way that our eyes are said to be the gates to our soul. the letters of yesod (ysvd) relate to the tarot cards of the hermit, temperance, the lovers and the empress. these cards express some of the key features of this sephirah: hermit: the individualness of the personal ego, but the light of the true self is but a spark in the lamp. this state of wandering in the darkness is enacted in the golden dawn initiation rite of neophyte, where the candidate is blindfolded and led about the temple by the "symbolic light of occult science, which in turn refers to their own enlightened awareness (tiphareth. temperance: the tarot key attributed to the path leading from yesod to tiphareth in the initiatory progression u

d of neschemah" a further development of these divisions, after the original zoharic teachings, appended the chiah (chih; soul, life) to the system, thereby making a parallel to the four worlds; chiah atziluth neschamah briah ru'ah yetzirah nefesh assiah a final addition to these teachings came with the 13th century occultists, when the concept of a "yechidah" was added, referring to the ultimate spark of god within the psyche. the word comes from the root ichid, meaning "oneness, and is a similar root to ichid "privacy, union with god. the trinity of yechidah, chiah and neschamah were all bound up under the title of the neschamah, and attributed to kether, chockmah and binah. the ru'ah was attributed to the sephiroth of chesed to yesod, and the nefesh to malkuth. crowley, in his little es

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st state of consciousness-the intuitive power that connects humankind with the divine-it is our superconscious, intuitive mind.33 according to the ancient qabalists, this part of the soul remains dormant until the individual is spiritually awakened to its existence. the neshamah (divine self, hgher soul, or hgher genius) embraces the elevated aspects of the collective unconscious-it is the divine spark that is common to all of humanity. between the neshamah and the middle part of the soul is a great boundary known as the abyss. this is the line of intersection between mortal and eternal, personal and transpersonal, separateness and unity. that whch is above the abyss is immortal and common to us all. that which is below the abyss is temporary and individual. the shadowy sephirah (or rather

ess and/or awareness of these various levels. conscious self: the ego or point of self-awareness. daath: hebrew word for "knowledge" the so-called "invisible sephirah" on the tree of life, daath is not really a sephirah, but rather a conjunction of the energies of chokmah and binah. it can be likened to a passageway across the abyss. divine self: our true, pure, transcendent self which contains a spark of divinity. dharana: sanskrit word meaning "holding" refers to the yogic discipline of concentration on an object or symbol. ego: that portion of the psyche which is conscious, most directly governs thought and behavior, and is most concerned with outer reality. also called the conscious self. eheieh: hebrew word meaning "i am" divine name associated with kether and employed in the exercise

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im and attain his degree. the will to receive is essentially the desire of the creature to enjoy, corresponding to the abundance and pleasure that come from the creator. we feel that will to receive and the creator wants us to enjoy it. if we feel an abstract will to receive, it is not a creature, it is nature, god. if it works according to nature s guidance, it is like a beast that hasn t even a spark of a godly soul. only if we have an aim clothing our will to receive that tells us how to use it correctly, can we regard ourselves as creatures, created intentionally by the creator, and not just another rock, an animal or a bird. but that depends on us. our desires to drink, eat, sleep, marry and have children, all those are natural and come from the creator. we can t escape or altogether

be no sin here, because it was premeditated. but in fact there is still a breach of the rules whether knowingly or unknowingly. did man know? no he did not. did he want to commit a sin? no he did not. but did he break the law? yes he did. a corruption in spirituality is no coincidence, everything is always done for one purpose to correct the egoism and unite it with the altruism. if an altruistic spark, a vessel that appeared there at the moment of the sin of the first man would not be in every egoistic desire, the egoism would have been incorrigible and spiritual ascent made impossible. thus, man s sin was a necessity. we live in complete spiritual darkness. the surrounding light shines on the outside and awakens the egoism, the will to receive, yet cannot penetrate the egoism. this is ho

hus, it is not so difficult to ascend to the world of atzilut with vessels of corrected ge, as it is to add the ahp to them, because the correction of the ahp contradicts the aim. all five worlds are like curtains that hide the light of the creator. the lower the world, the more it covers the light. the world-screens end at the barrier, which hides the light completely from our world. only a tiny spark called minute light enters our world. it is just enough to sustain life on earth. the creator made it so we can live without a screen. in the absence of light and having only a minute light, there is no necessity for a screen. that feeble light is divided to many particles. it turns the atoms, moves the molecules, creates every substance and promotes it to development and growth and revives

incarnation. there is nothing in the gigantic computer of creation that occurs without a reason. every thing is tied to other things with invisible wires. the world is one living body, and any change in even the smallest and most remote area affects the entire being. the still, vegetative, and animate do not experience mood changes. but there is not a creature on earth that does not have a godly spark. they all must come to the purpose of creation the end of correction. the still, vegetative, and animate degrees will follow in man s footsteps. each has its own time, conditions and place that they must be in. being in this exact same place without understanding why, and taking all these steps and actions, brings everyone naturally to the purpose of creation in his own way. this is the plac

versa is impossible. there are intermediary degrees between the still and the vegetative natures, such as corals. between the vegetative and the animate there is a form of life that feeds directly off the ground called field dog. between the animate and the speaking there is the ape. it is not completely an animal, yet cannot be turned into a human. the only thing that could happen is if a godly spark comes and pulls one toward the spiritual, and that creates in it a desire to attain something that is greater than this world, then man becomes the son of man. according to this definition of the kabbalah, there aren t many people on earth who can be called sons of man. in fact, there are very few of them. science and technology have been developed only to lead us to a dead-end, to the under

opposite the world of yetzira. ruach se ara (stormy wind- opposite the world of assiya. after the sin, partzuf adam harishon broke into 600,000 pieces. the pieces continued to break (the torah describes them as the killing of abel, the flood, babylon, and there is more. consequently, all that was left of partzuf adam harishon are fragments that have a will to receive in order receive, with just a spark of light. these parts, with sparks in them, clothe people in this world and awaken them to spirituality, to the light, to the creator. this is how people are pushed to join the group of kabbalah students. there is yet another shell: it is called klipat noga (the noga shell. it consists of a mixture of good and evil. the term mixed indicates, that when this shell receives light, she receives

experience in this world before he decides he doesn t need them. he attains that by receiving proof from above of the baseness of the beastly pleasure hunt. what attracts us about spirituality is the relatively greater pleasure that we find in it compared to the corporeal world. that is the reason we want it and it is not a fraud. our entire world exists and gets its nourishment from only a tiny spark of spiritual light that broke through the barrier and penetrated our world. now picture a spiritual world that is completely filled with light, billions and billions of times greater than the spark of this world, just think what kind of pleasures exist there! but how do we get over there? we know that for that we need to alter our entire egoistic nature from a will to receive to a will to be

to go from the level of the desires of this world to the level of the desires of the spiritual world. man must become completely detached from any self-interest in the outcome of his work this is true altruism. that is why 204 of 273 one must experience a phase of complete discrepancy between his efforts and the results he sees. his corporeal egoism has now been instilled with spiritual egoism, a spark of light inside his egoism. the egoism abides by different rules in the spiritual world. for the spiritual egoism to be fulfilled one must reject his current level of egoism and ascend, so to speak, to the level of that spiritual desire. when one is given a spiritual desire, he is not given any other feeling besides the absence of pleasure; it is the vessel in its purest form. for that reaso

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y colours, one of the principal being that of pleasure under the guise of pain. in such cases utter satiety of the ordinary forms of pleasure gives birth to the desire for the pain which was once dreaded, and the pleasure that the individual once experienced in himself, and also the pleasure he felt was being experienced by the participator of his actions, changes, growing little by little from a spark into a flaming volcano of scorching pain, which he alone seeks, finding new pleasures in the pain he himself endures, and fresh pleasures in the pain he himself inflicts. this is lust. peopled with all the horrors of inversion, we pass from the simple realms of prostitution, to the dismal kingdoms of sodom and lesbos. paederasts and tribades flock round us, yet we break away from them only t

ism, and was the first to vanish in the absolute ether of pyrrhonism, which he outwardly symbolized under the form of a bishop of the church of england. hume following, clutched vaguely in the night of doubt at a gsomething h he could not grasp, and whose watery substance trickled through his clenched and searching fingers. kant similarly losing his way in the night of hume fs ignorance, struck a spark on the tail of his shirt, proclaiming the day; but as the flames rose and scorched his fundamental basis, he, also, leapt from his empiric hose into the cool comfort of that watery ocean hume had attempted to shadow in the palm of his hand. then behind these three gallant knights clattered along their no less gallant esquires: fichte, schelling, and hegel, and in the distance, lost in the du

, much less to discuss, and this maxim finds full affirmation in gascension day, h when crowley writes: i deny nothing. at the term it is just nothing i affirm *the sword of song, vol. ii, p. 163. man is but an ephemeron: we float upon the blue like sunlight specks in dew, and like the moonlight on the lake we lie *mysteries: lyrical and dramatic, vol. i, p. 95. yet he rises: golden, the electric spark of man is drawn deep in the bosom of the world, to soar new-fledged, an eagle to the dazzling dawn with lidless eyes undazzled, to arise, son of the morning c *the fatal force, vol. i, p. 145. finds freedom as his god: and freedom stands, re-risen from the rod, a goodlier godhead than the broken god *mysteries: lyrical and dramatic, vol. i, p. 107. it was in the winter of 1619 that descartes

iritually minded.*1. go out one night to a distant and lonely heath, if no mountain summit is available: then at midnight repeat the lord fs prayer, or any invocation with which you happen to be familiar, or one made up by yourself, or one consisting wholly of senseless and barbarous words. repeat it solemnly and aloud, expectant of some great and mysterious result. i pledge myself, if you have a spark of religion in you, that is, if you are properly a human being, that you will (at the very least) experience a deeper sense of spiritual communion than you have ever obtained by a course of church-going.*2 *1. eleusis, vol. iii, p. 225 *2. ibid. vol. iii, p. 224. the irishman whose first question on landing at new york was his there a government in this country? h and on being told hyes, h i

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the astral. the tools of chaos magick are specifically anything which one would utilize to achieve her or his goal, the results being designed to correspond with the means. union through opposites essentially is the key, proving the direct descendent of aleister crowley highly commendable thelema system, or 93 current. four flying witches as a sorcerer who is drawn to and receives the initiatory spark via art, i was first drawn to this image years ago. this image was placed above my altar for some time, meditated on before sleeping and held a kind of gateway to my early experiences with the sabbat. here we find the flesh of the witches in the astral plane, mature and well worn. the falling flesh is all ecstasy- that by casting the circle and going forth into the sabbat of spirit can we th

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eneral vii greeting and peace. under the seal of the obligation of the vii. i from the beginning of years the initiates of all peoples have held one central secret as a sure bond of brotherhood, as a unity whose truth is able to harmonize all men upon the earth. no fabrications of knavish priests, no vain dreams of mystics, can hide from the sane this one fact: not only is the earth but a chilled spark of the sun, a dropt petal of the rose of heaven, but the source of all light and life upon the planet is that same sun. not only is he creator, but sustainer, and it is he also that destroyeth in due season, and redeemeth when the time is come. therefore in the macrocosm is one sole god, the sun. now in the microcosm, which is man, the viceregent of the sun, sole giver of life, is the phallu

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

18:1 then answered bildad the shuhite, and said, 18:2 how long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. 18:3 wherefore are we counted as beasts [and] reputed vile in your sight? 18:4 he teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? 18:5 yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. 18:6 the light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. 18:7 the steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. 18:8 for he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. 18:9 the gin shall take [him] by the heel [and] the robber shall prevail against him. 18:10 the snare [is

estruction of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together, and they that forsake the lord shall be consumed. 1:29 for they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. 1:30 for ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. 1:31 and the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench [them] 2:1 the word that isaiah the son of amoz saw concerning judah and jerusalem. 2:2 and it shall come to pass in the last days [that] the mountain of the lord s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 2:3 and many people shall go and say, com

THOUGHTS ON SETH

not all of don's musings may apply to us directly, but he gives some "talking points" on what the godforms of set and osirus mean to our work. seth also symbolizes even such realms as chaos mathematics and information theory, and indeed any of the esoteric sciences especially the dangerous ones, like nuclear physics. seth does represent darkness of course, but seth is also aiwass/prometheus, the "spark" in the darkness, the "black flame" of intelligence and will. this is indicated by the white triangle on the black ground that is the badge of the heirus. seth gives the grips and words to the aspirant, the symbolic secrets of the gods. seth gives power, including ethical power, the power to choose one's will, to "do that, and no other shall say nay" seth has a very luciferian aspect (i beli

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tion. named `deities' are, therefore, largely symbols "isis" is a symbol of the long-denied female component of deity to some occultists "pan" or "the horned god" or "set" or even "satan" are symbols of unconscious, repressed sexuality. to the occultist, there is no devil, no "god of evil" there is, ultimately, only the ain sof aur of the cabbalah; the limitless light of which we are but a frozen spark. evil, in this system, is the mere absence of light. all else is illusion. the goal of the occult path of initiation is balance. in freemasonry and high magick, the symbols of the white pillar and black pillar represent this balance between conscious and unconscious forces. in gardnarian wicca, the goddess and horned god- and the priestess and priest, represent that balance. there is nothing

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

imonides in patrick s commentary on exodus, ch. xxviii. 4 ovid. fast. lib. v, ver. 441. schol. in theocrit. idyll. ii, ver. 36. 5 schol. in theocrit. idyll. ii. ver. 36. 98 on the worship placed them in pyramidal monuments, which were the symbols of fire; hence come those prodigious structures which still adorn that country. the soul which was to be emancipated was the divine emanation, the vital spark of heavenly flame, the principle of reason and perception, which was personified into the familiar d mon, or genius, supposed to have the direction of each individual, and to dispose him to good or evil, wisdom or folly, and all their consequences of prosperity and adversity.1 hence proceeded the doctrines, so uniformly inculcated by homer and pindar,2 of all human actions depending immediat

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the unmanifest into perceived existence. it is common in magic to speak of angels, demons, ghosts, elementals, and so on. opinions as to the nature of these various spirits differ, but generally they are regarded as possessing considerable powers of their own, which they occasionally choose to exhibit for the terror or delight of mankind. they are usually described as intelligent but lacking the spark of divinity in humans that enables them to ape the part of creator. many superstitious adepts firmly believe that their magical power stems from the good will of these spirits. for example, the fakirs of india, when asked how they perform their magic, will confide that they do nothing themselves but merely call upon the spirits to work their bidding. they believe the whole potency of their m

n which that identity was based does. an educated buddhist would maintain that the spirit does not cross the veil at each death but moves from person to per- son until its wheel of births and deaths has been fulfilled. the fault in this thinking is that it supposes the spirit of god can be divided and that one portion can gain more experience than another. a western adept would say that since the spark of divinity at the center of each human being is one with the all, it has no need to cross the veil after death: it is the unmanifest in its entirety, and the veil that barred it from the bosom of god was the veil of human flesh surrounding it during life. therefore, each birth and death is a complete round of incarnation that returns the acquired measure of life experience back to the unman

can be suggested by a square with vertical and horizontal sides. these two forms can be found in abyssinian amulets, apache beadwork, moroccan metalwork and embroidery, and in the art of many other cultures: if the square encloses the diamond, it represents the hidden life force that lies sleeping in inanimate stone and metal. the diamond in the square is a symbol of the natural order. it is the spark of life in the embryo receiving its form within the nurturing walls of the womb. it is usually a female symbol-for example, it appears in the cross of uri, who is the hawaiian female force of creation. inverted, with the square inside the diamond, the unbalanced octagram becomes a fearful symbol of animism, of walking trees and speaking winds. this is the symbol of pandora's box opened and s

r deliberately allowing personal misfortune. the all suffers with every ache and cries with every tear. do not commit this error. the forces of darkness wish nothing more than to have humanity accept them as equal in importance to the forces of light. this is their whole labor, to make mankind mistake the mask for a face and the shadow for a body. yet all their power is wind and bluster. a single spark of the light sends them wailing. a single truth shatters all their lies. since demons are degrees of attenuation of the light, their usefulness is con- fined to performing tasks that would debase the pure principle of spirit-in other words, works of evil. the wise magus never undertakes any magic that would shame him or her before the face of the all. the use of demons is mainly limited to t

which the light is blocked or veiled. all manifest things are various gradations of shadow. thus, everything con- tains evil. perfect good cannot exist, any more than perfect evil can exist. evil represents a place where spirit is weaker. an evil soul is one that has defiled itself before the light. like cancer, evil grows by eating at the edges of the light and enlarging a space for itself. one spark of the light banishes it, but it can never be destroyed because it never truly exists. always it is ready to return the instant the lamp of spirit flickers. due to the fall of mankind from grace, the illusory qualities of blackness appear real to human perception. they take the form of cruelty, indifference, hatred, and silence-but the one characteristic that binds them all is emptiness. it

the maximum of meaning is infused into their substance. the finger through the circle of the ring is akin to the axis of a dynamo. it stands for the opening point in the veil of unknowing through which the will of the magus passes into the unmanifest. in emergencies, a loop of colored embroidery thread or ribbon may be used in place of a ring. the old trick of tying a string around the finger to spark the mem- ory is not without its foundation. the pressure of the thread will keep the subcon- scious mind bound to its purpose even if the conscious awareness wanders. in a like fashion two fingers can be bound together or linked by a ring to evoke the power of a particular path. this is useful if two fingers are hard to hold in con- tact for long periods of time. some people may be inclined

man souls depart from the path of their destiny, they begin to turn into qlippoth. outwardly, they remain the same as any other human being. they smile, laugh, work, play, but all this purposeless activity is merely a deception to conceal their essential emptiness. they are hollow shells who merely wear the appearance of human beings. when they die, they cease to exist utterly because there is no spark of light within them to return to the divine source. they are walking shadows. it is important that the study and practice of magic bring happiness to the magus. if magic remains a tedious drudgery, pursued for some imagined material or social advantage it may give over other human beings, it is not the path of des- tiny for the magus and should be abandoned. only if magic brings a deep and

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

times she passes by travelers in a splendid procession, composed of hundreds of guards and courtiers and ladies in waiting. the prominent, active role of the fairy queen, in contrast to the more authoritative yet passive role of the king, expresses the feminine nature of all energy or force, which is recognized in the tantra texts of the hindus as the goddess shakti. the god shiva, the initiating spark, is essential and yet to some extent impotent, in the sense that he acts only in a secondary way through his agents, whereas shakti acts directly of her own accord. we see exactly the same dynamic in the game of chess. the king is the most important piece on the board-when the king is lost the game is forfeited-yet he has little power of his own. the greatest active power in chess is held by

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

nward so that it passes through the roof of your house, the ceiling of your practice room, and the top of your skull, to focus at the center of your chest between your nipples. this place in your body is known as your heart-center. allow your awareness to slide down the interior channel of this ray into your chest. concentrate your will on the focal point of the ray. visualize inside your torso a spark of light that grows into a shining sphere three inches across. as the spark expands into the sphere, its color dims and changes from blue-white to a softer yellow-white, the color of the sun. mentally draw energy from the star down the channel of the ray and into the sphere so that the sphere radiates more and more strongly. when you sense that the sphere at your heart-center cannot hold any

aura disturbed by color, use the power of your will to make it resume its uniform pale yellow. after you have contemplated your expanded aura, allow the outward flow of energy from the blazing yellow ball of light in your chest to lessen, so that your aura begins to shrink back in upon itself visualize the intensity of the sphere in your heart-center becoming less and less. it reduces to a faint spark and fades completely away. your energized aura naturally sustains itself away from the surface of your body at a distance that is between several inches to almost a foot. it is closer where it surrounds your hands and feet, more extended where it envelops your head and chest. feel its energy continue to stream from the pores in your skin in innumerable tiny invisible jets no thicker than fin

from yellow to soft radiant white with a slight golden tint. visualize the hebrew letters of the name ihvh (i, h= 7, v= 1, h- 7) written within the globe of your heart-center from right to left. they blaze with brilliant blue-white light against the softer, slightly yellow background of the sphere, and flicker with electricity around their edges. the letters are blinclngly intense, similar to the spark of an arc welder-it is difficult to look upon them, they are so bright. take a slow, deep breath. imagine as you inhale that your body is being expanded by the air to gigantic proportions. your head and shoulders rise through the ceiling of your practice chamber as though passing through a shadow. they continue upward through the roof of the building, further upward into the sky above the le

main in the standing posture for a minute or so, breathing normally, and contemplate with your inner sight the large golden sphere of your expanded aura, the smaller gold-white sphere of your heart-center, and the three brilliant-white rays that extend from the three axes of your gigantic astral body. mentally draw the three rays to a bright point in the center of your heart-center and allow this spark to fade away, but continue to be aware of the warm radiance of the golden-white sphere. allow your aura to contract slowly to its usual elongated shape nearer the surface of your skin, and cause your expanded astral form to shrink down to the dimensions of your physical body. lesser invoking ritual of the pentagram 163 close your eyes for a few seconds to rest them. press your hands upon you

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

of the golem. however, the permutations of the name would seem the most appropriate choice for this ritual, which imitates the creative act of supreme deity. it is worth noting that the golem, although he could see, hear, and understand what was happening around him, did not possess the gir of speech. since the golem was created not by god, but by men who were themselves the creations of god, the spark of divinity that lies within each living human being was not passed on to him. even though he looked like a man, he was a mere simulacrum. the 42 tetragrammaton golem could never have made another golem by magic, because the word which is in god and humans was not within him. this lack of a creative divine spark is symbolized by the muteness of the golem. it would seem that the author who re

and killed by the angels of wrath. meanwhile, the goddess earth is to be continually tormented and degraded because she harbors rebellious human beings. 234 tetragrammaton little wonder the gnostics regarded this patriarchal god of the old bstament as a misbegotten monster who made adam solely for the purpose of delivering sacrifices and worship, and then when adam became aware of his own divine spark and began to think for himself, turned against his creation like a petulant child. little wonder they saw the serpent in eden as an emissary of the true god, who is much higher and more detached than yaldabaoth (as they called the god of moses. that is why the gnostics worshipped the serpent. the serpent was the symbol of freedom and transcendent wisdom, twin birthrights of all human beings

the keys 235 this gnostic myth of the simonians contains many of the essential gnostic ideas. details differ greatly from sect to sect, but always the god of the old testament is not god the father but an abortion that arose from the first female principle, the great mother, without the consent of the father. man is physically created by yaldabaoth and the other archons, yet he is infused with a spark of true divinity by the will of the father, making man a higher creature than the archons who shaped him. however, man does not recognize his divinity, and this ignorance of his true estate allows yaldabaoth to use humans as his slaves, manipulating them through a combination of bribes, threats, and lies. in the later gnostic myths, christ, the son of the true father, will descend and libera

VOX SABBATUM

less light, ain soph or god. azazel as his name is revealed, is a djinn or high angel of fire, thus self-influenced and strong in will. lucifer fell from the highest abodes of heaven, complete with the wings made of emerald and crashed into the earth and abyss. with him fell other angels, leviathan, belial, beelzebub, astaroth, asmodeus and a plethora of other djinn and daemons. they had sensed a spark of self-deific power, the black flame or black light of iblis. this indicated isolate intelligence, unnatural life. as lucifer fell to the earth and into the abyss he fell into a state of transformation as a djinn of fire, first born and favored of god, he vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 21 understood the highest principles of light. now lucifer would develop the aspect of his being called n

he is the anthropomorphic power of self-deification and self-reliance. lucifer exists in the aethyric abode, in the empyrean heights of spiritual ecstasy and storms above the earth itself. lucifer is the inspirer of wisdom, of the ongoing search for knowledge. he is the black snake and peacock angel of the yezidis, the magister of the sun who creates from within to outwards; his words create the spark of vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 22 inspiration to become flesh. the gift of lucifer is the black flame of the self; the isolate consciousness of the daemon. in this sense, life is an anthropomorphic example of the divine presence, it is beautiful to its independence, by its significance of self with the humbling qualities of awareness; it is the living spirit of self-development. vox sabb

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

s all. the true feeling of love is perfect and satan knows nothing about perfection, because satan is desire. if you want to love, be prudent; do not confuse love with desire. do not let yourself be cheated by desire, the great swindler. within yourself is an embryo of soul, it is able to love. indeed, its love is embryonary because it is an embryo; yet if you annihilate desire you will feel that spark of love. when you learn how to feel that spark, then that spark will become a flame and you will experience that which is called love. therefore, strengthen your soul's embryo [your embryo of soul] with the blessed flame of love, and then you will achieve the miracle of your incarnation. it is necessary for you to be integral and that is only possible by loving. in the nineteenth arcanum, a

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

to give credibility to ancient beliefs, sometimes in amazing ways. one theory implies that in the origin of the universe, there may have been perfect symmetries: matter froze out of energy like ice crystals in a congealing body of water. the breaking of this absolute symmetry was the creation of the universe itself. this is called the vacuum genesis theory. out of nothingness could have come the spark of genesis. perhaps the darkness held the first original geometric forms, and matter was coaxed into releasing its endless complexity out of these primordial forms which are themselves unmoving and unchanging. these platonic ideal forms are not just a philosophical fancy of the past. numerous scientists today find themselves solidly in the platonic camp, since it is still the most viable the

spoken. this is a very useful color for stimulating the development of this secretion. blavatsky gives yellow-orange for the square symbol, and therefore its complementary color is either violet or indigo. these three are the primaries and their complements. the moon symbolizes water and to it is attributed either white or shades of violet or blue. it signifies the emotional nature as well as the spark of revelation from the unconscious. its symbol is incorporated in the water signs. the egg shape represents akasha and is most often painted indigo or black. it is the color of saturn and its shape includes mysteries on the tree of life relating to daath and yesod, as well as its original mother, binah (the yesod seal, it will be recalled, mimics binah's magical seal) it symbolizes the most

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

ectivists (no free agency/ no free thought/ material rule over the spiritual. lucifer's original 'sin' was when he left his 'space' and invaded the 'space' that rightfully belonged to other created beings. he invaded their 'ring pass not' and became increasingly worse as time passed, until he eventually became the 'spiritual black hole' that he is, having eliminated within its being any remaining spark of light or conscience through which the almighty might have been able to bring lucifer back into the 'light, and instead becoming the ringleader for most of the dark forces in this multi-dimensional omniverse. so in fighting the draco collectivists, it would be rather self-defeating to fight them using a collectivist new world order agenda that despises individual sovereignty (especially an

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

that is being celebrated, seed-time of the year, the longest night and shortest day. it is the birthday of the new sun king, the son of god- by whatever name you choose to call him. on this darkest of nights, the goddess becomes the great mother and once again gives birth. and it makes perfect poetic sense that on the longest night of the winter 'the dark night of our souls, there springs the new spark of hope, the sacred fire, the light of the world, the coel coeth. that is why pagans have as much right to claim this holiday as christians. perhaps even more so, as the christians were rather late in laying claim to it, and tried more than once to reject it. there had been a tradition in the west that mary bore the child jesus on the twenty-fifth day, but no one could seem to decide on the

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

tin deus, german gott, french dieu, turkish esar, tartar itga, arabian allh, allah, samaritan jabe, egyptian teut, taut, thoth. in sanchoniathon we find the deity called ievo. in clemens alexandrinus, the deity is called jaqu. attention should be paid to the sanskrit holy phrase, aspiration or prayer of four syllables- aum mani padme hum--literally, oh, the jewel in the lotus (meaning, the divine spark within man. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 51. theon of smyrna, in the edition of ismael bullialdo, 1644, page 147, says, the tetractys was not only principally honored by the pythagoreans because all symphonies exist within it, but also because it appears to contain the nature of all things, hence their oath, not by him who delivered to our souls

of bradford, a very notable mystic and occult student. 99. in the yoga vasishtha maha ramayana of valmiki, edited by vihari lala mitra, will be found an essay on om- tat-sat, on-id-est, and this contains some very curious information on the 10 numerals as related to the mystical syllable om or aum. aum mani padme hum means literally, oh, the jewel in the lotus, and is taken mystically to mean the spark of the divine within me, as was fully explained by blavatsky to her esoteric section of theosophists# numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 100. chapter fifteen eleven, 1 1. his seems to have been the type of a number with an evil reputation among all peoples. the kabalists contrasted it with the perfection of the decad, and just as the sephirotic number

WORKBOOK FOR GRADE 0 VOID AND THE ABYSS

my very being of self, that i may grow and ascend in our family born of witch blood pure. i seek the coils of leviathan, the darkend grave earth of ahriman and the dream plane of lucifer. allow the gates to open before me" i encircle myself in the dragon's coils, the beast of my father arises within! i hold the skull of abel, being the vessel of my famulus! i hold the hammer of the forge, which i spark the cunning fire of becoming! my eyes hold the desert tales of ages forgotten, while my flesh fades my spirit is immortal! i wear the crimson caul of my mother, lilith, who speaks with me through dreams! i carry the serpent's skin of azal'ucel, my holy spirit! i am cain, loner and witch soul of the immortal fire! so it is done_ an invocation to the holy guardian angel, spirit of the adversar

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

and which the officers step into (the method of doing this will be explained at higher grades. this is the accumulated unconscious energy of the order which is drawn from the matrix and sent back when the ceremony is completed. when the temple officer silently meditates, he consciously linkes his aura with the shell which opens up new channels of awareness within him. the neschamah is the divine spark brought about by the ruach and nephesch, linked with the officer stretching forth his faculty of reason; all are joined as a unified force by the hierophant who welds them together as he brings down the power of the order which could be classed as the neschamah. while this entire principle is inherited in us as living beings (with the neschamah as our soul or disassociated state of awareness

oup ritual working. as one advances through the ranks of the order, the aura is impregnated with the vital forms of each element grade. this forces a link between your own aura and the ruach or order. it is power which binds the two together in a positive manner, the link being stronger with each grade you undertake. this makes it easier each time for the power of the neschamah to give the divine spark and bind to the ruach, to come through during ceremony. it is not unusual, if this is done correctly, for the aura to light up, and/or images appear around the officers, especially the hierophant. the shapes will vary according to the officer and grade, but shows that the nephesch, ruach, and neschamah, have linked together correctly. generally, imbalances in these ceremonies occur when the

n she becomes what she was in the beginning of man: a part of his wholeness. this shows the aspect of transformation the aspirant must undertake to complete the journey in safety. the wands these wands are the same as those in the 5=6 ritual, but because they are well above the veil, their symbolism is altered to suit the level of the 6=5 grade. chief adept's wand this is the yechidah "the divine spark that is in me more than myself; the deepest layer of consciousness" this is one of the highest forms of manifestation of the kabbalistic soul. it equates to kether, and hence is a blueprint for the entire tree in a balanced format, as shown by the winged sphere (soul) balanced between the forces of good and evil (the two serpents. second adept's wand his wand is the chiah or "essential will

e of the great father. third adept's wand this wand is the neshamah, and corresponds to binah; the great mother: symbol of understanding. the officers these have been associated to what some collectively call the neshamah, or the upper spiritual plane of the three phases of the soul, which has two further groupings within it (yechidah and chiah. all of these are motivated by the zelem, the divine spark behind each phase of the soul. the officers in this grade are the zelem of the upper three phases, or the guiding force, while the wands are like the soul, the first manifestations of that impetus. collectively they are the higher levels of the soul, synthesized together in a working format in archetypal terms. opening the opening vibration that activates the link to the second order is its

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