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nocks) hegemon (knocks) 40 hierophant (knocks "khabs" hiereus (knocks "am" hegemon (knocks "pekht" hiereus (knocks "konx" hegemon (knocks "om" hierophant (knocks "pax" hegemon (knocks "light" hierophant (knocks "in" hiereus (knocks "extension" hierophant "all make the neophyte grade sign towards the altar" hierophant "may what we have partaken of sustain us in our search for the quintessence, the stone of the philosophers, true wisdom, perfect happiness, the summon bonum. and may it sustain us in love, truth, and knowledge. i now invoke the divine scribe of this order to record and place this event into thy tablets. i now release any spirits that may have been imprisoned by this ceremony. go back to thine own abodes and habitation with the blessings of yehashua yehovashah, for i now declar

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eturns to his place) all rise hiero (knocks) tetelestai! hiereus (knocks) heg (knocks) hiero (knocks) khabs. hiereus (knocks) am. heg (knocks) pekht. hiereus (knocks) konx. heg (knocks) om. hiero (knocks) pax. heg (knocks) light. hiero (knocks) in. hiereus (knocks) extension. all make the signs towards the altar. hiero: may what we have partaken maintain us in our search for the quintessence, the stone of the philosophers. true wisdom, perfect happiness, the summum bonum. officers remain in the temple while the new neophyte is led out by kere 1= 10 zelator grade initiation part i outer order officers hierophant: red robe, red& white nemyss, gold shoes, lamen, white collar, sceptre hiereus: black robe, black& white nemyss, red shoes, lamen, red collar, sword hegemon: white robe, white nemys

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

t have been used in the service of man, e.g, that the ox had never drawn plough or waggon. for such colts and bullocks are required in our ancient law-records at a formal transfer of land, or the ploughing to death of removers of landmarks. on the actual procedure in a sacrifice, we have scarcely any information except from norse authorities. while the animal laid down its life on the sacrificial stone, all the streaming blood (on. hlaut) was caught either in a hollow dug for the purpose, or in vessels. with this gore they smeared the sacred vessels and utensils, and sprinkled the participants^ apparently divination was performed by means of the blood, perhaps a part of it was mixed with ale or mead, and drunk. in the north the bloodbowls (hx^wibollar, hloibollar) do not seem to have been

iyoi pi^co ^ovv tjvlv, evpvfjlfrconov, u8fj.r]tt]i, ijv oi/'tto) vtto ^vyoi 'jyayev dui'jp ttjv toi iyui pf^co(^pvaov kfpacriv 7rfpt)(evas^ oc eingii skyldi tortyna hvurki i'e ne monnuni, neiiia sialft gengi i hurt. eyrb. saga, ix 10. and none shoiald they kill (tortima neither beast nor man, unless of itself it ran a-tilt^ saga hakonar g6?a, cap. 16. eyrb. saga p. 10. raus horgin, reddened the (stone) altar, fornald. sog. 1, 413. stalla lata riosa blosi, 1, 454. 527. stem. 114^ rioisutiih blosinu hl6ttre, fornald. sog. 1, 512. the grk ai/xa r ^o> i(o ttfpixffiv. conf. e.xod. 24, 8. 56 worship. irr^jjiival ^ojcrfia)(clkkovv e^ovaat 'yvfivotrose'i totf ovv al)(jiaxu- t0t9 hia tov arparottesov avv^vtcov ^t(f>7]pel' karaare-^aaai 8' avroii
have set it upright, fasten to it a large garland of branches of trees plaited together, and as big as a cartwheel. they all shout' the qucste i.e. garland) hangs' and then they dance round the tree on the hill top- both tree and garland are renewed every year^ isiot far from the meisner mountain in hesse stands a high precipice with a cavern opening under it, which goes by the name of the hollow stone. into this cavern every easter monday the youths and maidens of the neighbouring villages carry nosegays, and then draw some cooling water. no one will venture down, unless he has flowers with him^ the lands in some hessian townships have to pay a hunch of mayflov)ers (lilies of the valley) every year for rent* in all these examples, which can easily be multiplied, a heathen 1 bragnr vi. 1

well. in the earliest times temple was retained. is. 382. 395. t. 15,4. 193,2. 209,1. diut. 1, 195^ the hut which we are to picture to ourselves under the term fanum or pirr (a.s. bur, bower) was most likely constructed of logs and twigs round the sacred tree; a wooden temple of the goddess zisa will find a place in ch. xiii. with halla and some other names w^e are compelled to think rather of a stone building. we see all the christian teachers eager to lay the axe to the sacred trees of the heathen, and fire under their temples. it would almost seem that the poor people's consent was never asked, and the rising smoke was the first thing that announced to them the broken power of their gods. but on a closer study of the details in the less high-flown narratives, it comes out that the heat

plentifully; conf. in chaps. vi. x. xvi. the temple at sigtun, baer i baldrshaga, and the nomas' temple. either these were levelled with the ground to make room for a christian church, or their walls and halls were worked into the new building. we may be slow to form any high opinion of the building art among the heathen germans, yet they must have understood how to arrange considerable masses of stone, and bind them firmly together. we have evidence of this in the grave-mounds and places of sacrifice still preserved in scandinavia, partly also in friesland and saxony, from which some important inferences miglit be drawn with regard to the old heathen services, but these i exclude from my present investigation. the results are these: the earliest seat of heathen worship was in groves, whet

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and leading it from sacred things, from the confines of matter, arise the terrible dog-faced demons, never showing a true image unto mortal gaze. so, therefore, first the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral water of the loud resounding sea. labor thou around the strophaios of hecate, when thou shalt see a terrestrial demon approaching cry aloud, and sacrifice the stone mnizourin. change not the barbarous names of evocation for they are names divine having in the sacred rites a power ineffable. and when after all the phantoms are banished thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe hear thou the voice of fire. hereunto is the speech of the kabiri. heg: turns up lights and then condu

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

iary and left- along with scores of similar pleas- on an ancient pile of stones in the forest of broceliande in brittany. archaeologists say that this is the grave of a neolithic hunter, but local tradition says that in this forest dwelled vivien, the lady of the lake of arthurian legend, and that here, having seduced merlin in order to learn his secrets, she ensnared him with his own spells. the stone pile is known as merlin's tomb, and each year hundreds visit the site to thank the wizard or to ask for his aid. when i visited the tomb, prayers- written on scraps of paper or card- were squeezed into gaps in the stones or pinned to the tree that shelters the tomb. whatever the origins of the tomb, it has been transformed into a source of power. for this badly signposted spot, a short walk

rayers- written on scraps of paper or card- were squeezed into gaps in the stones or pinned to the tree that shelters the tomb. whatever the origins of the tomb, it has been transformed into a source of power. for this badly signposted spot, a short walk up a muddy track from a cramped, rough car park, had a tranquil, spiritual air that you might expect at a great cathedral or far more impressive stone circles. such spots unleash the magick inside us. but even if you never visit brittany or stonehenge at sunrise on midsummer's day, you can still make use of your own magick. this is a book about white magick and witchcraft as sources of wisdom, healing and positivity. like native american spirituality, to which true witchcraft is akin (some say both were carried by the people of atlantis, t

and so it often happens that it is the wealthy people who win even more money- although that does not necessarily bring happiness. casting your needs into the cosmos and trusting they will be met does work, but not if you are expecting magick to compensate for an unnecessary shopping binge. nor, after a period of overeating and no exercise, can you expect a miracle diet to work so that you shed a stone in two days while still eating chocolate. spells tend to work best when there is a genuine 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

ion, originally because this coincided with peak female fertility. moon magick for the increase of love and fertility is still practised under the auspices of the waxing moon. it was not until about 3,000 years ago that the male role in conception was fully understood in the west, and only then were the sky father deities able to usurp the mysteries of the divine mother. a trinity of huge, carved stone goddesses, representing the three main cycles of the moon, and dating from between 13000 and 11000 bc, was found in france in a cave at the abri du roc aux sorciers at angles-sur-l'anglin. this motif continued right through to the triple goddess of the celts, reflecting the lunar cycles as maiden, mother and crone, an image that also appeared throughout the classical world. witchcraft and th

s death. along with other nature deities, the horned god became demonised with the advent of christianity, and the goddess was either depicted as a wicked witch or downgraded to the status of a faerie. thus the celtic warrior goddess maeve became the faerie mab, described thus by mercutio in shakespeare's romeo and juliet: she is the fairy's midwife, and she comes in shape no bigger than an agate-stone on the fore-finger of an alderman. contrary to popular belief, wiccans do not 'hex (cast curses) or seek revenge, although some dutch and pennsylvanian witches consider that it is justifiable to 'bind' those who harm children or animals or actively promote evil or corruption. wiccans prefer to rely on the principles of natural justice that under karmic principles will redress the balance, ei

ABRAMELIN1

e third book, and many others besides. who then was this abraham the jew? it is possible, though there is no mention of this in the ms, that he was a descendant of that abraham the jew who wrote the celebrated alchemical work on twenty-one pages of bark or papyrus, which came into the hands of nicholas flamel, and by whose study the latter is said eventually to have attained the possession of the stone of the wise. the only remains of the church of saint jacques de la boucherie which exists at the present day, is the tower, which stands near the place du ch telet, about ten minutes walk from the biblioth que de l'arsenal; and there is yet a street near this tower which bears the title of rue nicolas flamel, so that his memory still survives in paris, together with that of the church close

ucherie which exists at the present day, is the tower, which stands near the place du ch telet, about ten minutes walk from the biblioth que de l'arsenal; and there is yet a street near this tower which bears the title of rue nicolas flamel, so that his memory still survives in paris, together with that of the church close to which he lived, and to which, after the attainment of the philosopher s stone, he and his wife pernelle caused a handsome peristyle to be erected. from his own account, the author of the present work appears to have been born in a.d. 1362, and to have written this manuscript for his son, lamech, in 1458, being then in his ninety-sixth year. that is to say, that he was the contemporary both of nicholas flamel and pernelle, and also of the mystical christian rosenkreutz

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relate that he was employed by solomon in the building of the temple at jerusalem; that he then attempted to dethrone solomon, to put himself in his place; but that the king vanquished him and the angel gabriel chased him into egypt, and there bound him in a grotto. the rabbins say that when asmodeus was working at the building of the temple, he made use of no metal tool; but instead of a certain stone which cut ordinary stone as a diamond will glass. belzebud: also written frequently beelzebub, baalzebub, beelzebuth, and beelzeboul. from hebrew, bol= lord, and zbvb= fly or flies; lord of flies. some derive the name from the syriac beel d bobo= master of calumny, or nearly the same signification as the greek word diabolos, whence are derived the modern french and english diable and devil

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the sacred magick 149 no. f is a square of e j squares. kalteph. the hebrew word for dog is klb. this square it will be noted is not a perfect acrostic. no. g is a square of g e squares. diseebeh is probably from zabh- a wolf. this square also is not at all perfect as an acrostic. no. h is a square of b e e squares. isichadamion, probably from dmivn= similitude of; and sig, scoria or lava, or sq, stone; root of sql, to stone. of abramelin the mage 150 the tenth chapter. o hinder any necromantic or magical operations from taking effect, except those of the qabalab and of this sacred magic( b) to undo any magic soever( c) to heal the bewitched( d) to make magical storms cease( e) to discover any magic( f) to hinder sorcerers from operating (1) c o d s e li m o h a b i m oc o (2) l a c h a t

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

er frater a. died in gallia narbonensi, there succeeded in his place frater n.n. he, while repairing a part of the building of the college of the holy spirit, endeavored to remove a brass memorial tablet which bore the names of certain brethren, and some other things. in this tablet was the head of a strong nail or bolt, so that when the tablet was forcibly wrenched away it pulled with it a large stone which thus partially uncovered a secret door. on the top of 17 the door was inscribed in large letters 'post cxx annos patebo' meaning, after a hundred and twenty years i shall open, with the year of our lord under, 1484. frater n.n. and those with him then cleared away the rest of the brickwork, but let it remain that night unopened as they wished first to consult the rota" third "you will

death, rising again in a mystical resurrection, cleansed and purified through him our master, o brother of the cross and rose. like him, o adepts of all ages, have ye toiled. like him have ye suffered tribulation. poverty, torture and death have ye passed through. they have been but the purification of the gold. in the alembic of thine heart, through the athanor of affliction, seek thou the true stone of the wise (aspirant gives chief adept wand and crux ansata to the chief adept who then gives in exchange the crook and scourge) 21 crook and scourge chief "quit then this tomb, o aspirant, with thine arms crossed upon thy breast, bearing in thy right hand the crook of mercy and thy left the scourge of severity, the emblems of those eternal forces betwixt which the equilibrium of the univer

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

were looking for me with no friendly intentions; but i had a feeling of lightness, of ghostliness, as if i were a shadow moving soundlessly about the street; and in actual fact none of the people who were looking for me gave the slightest indication that they were aware of my presence. there is a curious parallel to this incident in one of the gospels where we read that 'they picked up stones to stone him, but he, passing through the midst of them, went his way' 15. there is another side to this business of pratyahara, one that may be described as completely contradictory against what we have been talking about. if you concentrate your attention upon one portion of the body with the idea of investigating it, that is, i suppose, allowing the mind to move within very small limits, the whole

ind by means of magical practices leads (as one may say, in spite of itself) to the same results as occur in straightforward yoga. i think i ought to tell you a little more about these visions. the method of obtaining them was to take a large topaz beautifully engraved with the rose and cross of forty-nine petals, and this topaz was set in a wooden cross of oak painted red. i called this the shew-stone in memory of dr. dee's famous shew-stone. i took this in my hand and proceeded to recite in the enochian or angelic language the call of the thirty aethyrs, using in each case the special name appropriate to the aethyr. now all this went very well until about the 17th, i think it was, and then the angel, foreseeing difficulty in the higher or remoter aethyrs, gave me this instruction. i was

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

desert. the legion of honor glows red in his shabby surtout. he comes here, one of the many wrecks of the panama canal, a piece of jetsam cast up by that tidal wave of speculation and corruption. he is of the old type, the thrifty peasantry; and he has his little income from the rente. he says that he is too old to cross the ocean--and why should he, with the atmosphere of old france to be had a stone's throw from his little apartment in bourbon street? it is a curious type of house that one finds in this quarter in new orleans; meagre without, but within one comes unexpectedly upon great spaces, carved wooden balconies on which the rooms open. so he dreams away his honored days in the old absinthe house. his rusty black, with its worn red button, is a noble wear. black, by the way, seems

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

e of a certain little secret bone that is in the bear of syria. yet how should i a child slay such an one? for they had taken all weapons from me. but in a garden of the city (for we had now returned unto a house in the page 5 gulf.txt suburbs of thebai) was a colony of bears kept by a great lord for his pleasure. and i by my cunning enticed a young bear-cub from its dam, and slew it with a great stone. then i tore off its skin and hid myself therein, taking also its jaw and sharpening the same upon my stone. then at last the old she-bear came searching me, and as she put down her nose to smell at me, taking me for her cub, i drove my sharpened bone into her throat. i struck with great fortune; for she coughed once, and died. then i took her skin with great labour; and (for it was now nigh

ching me, and as she put down her nose to smell at me, taking me for her cub, i drove my sharpened bone into her throat. i struck with great fortune; for she coughed once, and died. then i took her skin with great labour; and (for it was now night) began to return to my house. but i was utterly weary and i could no longer climb the wall. yet i stayed awake all that night, sharpening again upon my stone the jaw-bone of that bear-cub; and this time i bound it to a bough that i tore off from a certain tree that grew in the garden. now towards the morning i fell asleep, wrapped in the skin of the old shebear. and the great bear himself, the lord of the garden, saw me, and took me for his mate, and came to take his pleasure of me. then i being roused out of sleep struck at his heart with all my

happens thus. of old, men sent their priests to rebuke nile for rising- until it was known that his rising was the cause of the fertility of their fields. now of the vows which i took upon me and of my service as priestess of the veiled one it shall next be related. chapter iii page 8 gulf.txt it was the equinox of spring, and all my life stirred in me. they led me down cool colonnades of mighty stone clad in robes of white broidered with silver, and veiled with a veil of fine gold web fastened with rubies. they gave me not the uraeus crown, nor any nemyss, nor the ateph crown, but bound my forehead with a simple fillet of green leaves- vervain and mandrake and certain deadly herbs of which it is not fitting to speak. now the priests of the veiled one were sore perplexed, for that never b

licious fruits, until i came even unto the holy city of memphis. and there i called soldiers of pharaoh, and put cruelly to death all them that had accompanied me; and i burnt the barge, adrift upon the nile at sunset, so that the flames alarmed the foolish citizens. all this i did, and danced naked in my madness through the city, until i came to the old magus of the well. and laughing, i threw a stone upon him, crying "ree me the riddle of my life" and he answered naught. then i threw a great rock upon him, and i heard his bones crunch, and i cried in mockery "ree me the riddle of thy life" but he answered naught. then i threw down the wall of the well; and i burned the house with fire that stood thereby, with the men-servants and the maid-servants. and none dared stay me; for i laughed a

which men call the soul. i starved myself shamefully, in this manner. first surrounding myself with all possible luxuries of food, brought in steaming and savoury from hour to hour, i yet condemned myself to subsist upon a little garlic and a little salt, with a little water in which oats had been bruised. then if any wish arose in me to eat of the dainties around me i gashed myself with a sharp stone. moreover i kindled a great fire in the cave so that the slaves tumbled and fainted as they approached. and the smoke choked me so that i constantly vomited a black and ill-smelling mucus from my lungs, stained here and there with frothing blood. again, i suffered my hair to grow exceeding long, and therein i harboured vermin. also, when i lay down to sleep, though this i did not till with s

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

ce from various balkan embassies and a photograph of the f-104 fighter being crated up for shipment to luxembourg- additional material on the necronomicon which proved his bona fides. also at that meeting was the third member of the unholy trinity, james wasserman of studio 31 who- according to a south american cult leader- died during the last year, but who has been able with assistance from the stone of the wise and certain of the formulae in this book, to go on about his business like unto a living man. with simon's manuscript, barnes' occult vision and aesthetic scruples, and wasserman's production experience and tireless labour, the abhorred necronomicon began to take shape and the first edition smote the stands on december 22, 1977- the ancient pagan feast of yule, the winter solstic

ce from various balkan embassies and a photograph of the f-104 fighter being crated up for shipment to luxembourg- additional material on the necronomicon which proved his bona fides. also at that meeting was the third member of the unholy trinity, james wasserman of studio 31 who- according to a south american cult leader- died during the last year, but who has been able with assistance from the stone of the wise and certain of the formulae in this book, to go on about his business like unto a living man. with simon's manuscript, barnes' occult vision and aesthetic scruples, and wasserman's production experience and tireless labour, the abhorred necronomicon began to take shape and the first edition smote the stands on december 22, 1977- the ancient pagan feast of yule, the winter solstic

ers i must take with me when i leave you. anu have mercy on my soul! i have seen the unknown lands, that no map has ever charted. i have lived in the deserts and the wastelands, and spoken with demons and the souls of slaughtered men, and of women who have dies in childbirth, victims of the she-fiend lammashta. i have traveled beneath the seas, in search of the palace of our master, and found the stone of monuments of vanquished civilisations, and deciphered the writings of some of these; while still others remain mysteries to any man who lives. and these civilisations were destroyed because of the knowledge contained in this book. i have traveled among the stars, and trembled before the gods. i have, at last, found the formulae by which i passed the gate arzir, and passed into the forbidd

rotect me from the wolves that wander in those regions and went to sleep, for it was night and i was far from my village, being bet durrabia. being about three hours from dawn, in the nineteenth of shabatu, i was awakened by the howl of a dog, perhaps of a wolf, uncommonly loud and close at hand. the fire had dies to its embers, and these red, glowing coals cast a faint, dancing shadow across the stone monument with the three carvings. i began to make haste to build another fire when, at once, the gray rock began to rise slowly into the air, as though it were a dove. i could not move or speak for the fear that seized upon my spine and wrapped cold fingers around my skull. the dik of azug-bel-ya was no stranger to me than this sight, though the former seemed to melt into my hands! presently

some distance away and a more practical fear, that of the possibility of robbers, took hold of me and i rolled behind some weeds, trembling. another voice joined the first, and soon several men in the black robes of thieves came together over the place where i was, surrounding the floating rock, of which they did not exhibit the least fright. i could see clearly now that the three carvings on the stone monument were glowing a flame red colour, as though the rock were on fire. the figures were murmuring together in prayer or invocation, of which only a few words could be heard, and these in some unknown tongue; though, anu have mercy on my soul, these rituals are not unknown to me any longer. the figures, whose faces i could not see or recognise, began to make wild passes in the air with kn

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

terpret more and more. even as a flower unfolds beneath the ardent kisses of the sun, so will this table reveal its glories to the dazzling eye of illumination. symbolic and barren as it is, yet it shall stand for the athletic student as a perfect sacrament, so that reverently closing its pages he shall exclaim, may that of which we have partaken sustain us in the search for the quintessence, the stone of the wise, the summum bonus, true wisdom, and perfect happiness. so mote it be! v the tree of life col. xii. this arrangement is the basis of the whole system of this book. besides the 10 numbers and the 22 letters, it is divisible into 3 columns, 4 planes, 7 planes, 7 palaces, etc. etc.8 table of correspondences table i 2 i. key scale. ii* hebrew names of numbers and letters. iii. the fou

ection (r= 10 kashina (k= 10 impurity (i= 10 analysis (a= 1 perception (p= 1 40 notes 36 cols. xxxviii.-xl. the vagueness and extent of these attributions is shown in this table from agrippa,7 who is too catholic to be quite trustworthy. things under the sun which are called solary among stones 1. the eye of the sun. 9. topazius. 2. carbuncle. 10. chrysopassus. 3. chrysolite. 11. rubine. 4. iris (stone. 12. balagius. 5. heliotrope (stone. 13. 6. hyacinth (stone. 7. pyrophylus (stone. 8. pantaura. auripigmentum and things of a golden colour. among plants 1. marigold. 17. mastic. 2. lote-tree. 18. zedoary. 3. peony. 19. saffron. 4. sallendine. 20. balsam. 5. balm. 21. amber. 6. ginger. 22. musk. 7. gentian. 23. yellow honey. 8. dittany. 24. lignum aloes. 9. vervain. 25. cloves. 10. bay-tree

d a dragon are at his feet, but he seems unaware of their attacks or caresses. line 12. his attitude suggests the shape of the swastika or thunderbolt, the message of god. line 13. she is reading intently in an open book. line 14. she bears a sceptre and a shield, whereon is figured a dove as a symbol of the male and female forces. line 15. his attitude suggests f, and he is seated upon the cubic stone, whose sides show the green lion and white eagle. line 16. he is crowned, sceptred, and blessing all in a threefold manner. four living creatures adore him, the whole suggesting a pentagram by its shape. line 17. he is inspired by apollo to prophesy concerning things sacred and progane: represented by a boy with his bow and two women, a priestess and an harlot. line 18. he drives furiously a

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

i with 8 21 (which indicates el, and we have the name sabathiel continuing the process, we get zedekiel madimiel semeliel nogahel corabiel levanael these names will be found in the pentagram and about it. these angels are the angels of the seven circles of heaven.5 these are but a few of the mysteries of this great seal sigillvm dei meth the symbolic representation of the universe 6 iii the shew-stone, a crystal which dee alleged to have been brought to him by angels, was then placed upon this table, and the principal result of the ceremonial skrying of sir edward kelly is the obtaining of the following diagrams, plates iii.-viii. he symbolized the four-dimensional universe in two dimensions as a square surrounded by 30 concentric circles (the 30 thyrs or aires) whose radii increase in a

s. ed. read here vooan in invocations of the fallen spirits. the forty-eight keys or calls 22 can the wings of the winds understand your voices of wonder? o you! the second of the first! whom the burning flames have framed in the depths of my jaws! whom i have prepared as cups for a wedding, or as the flowers in their beauty for the chamber of righteousness! stronger are your feet than the barren stone, and mightier are your voices than the manifold winds! for you are become a building such as is not, save in the mind of the all-powerful. arise, saith the first: move thereofre unto his servants! shew yourselves in power, and make me a strong seer-of-things:7 for i am of him that liveth for ever [invokes: the file of spirit in the tablet of spirit. e the root of the powers of air. h the roo

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

be failure to apply the right degree of force, as when a wrestler has his hold broken. there may be failure to apply the force in the right manner, as when one presents a cheque at the wrong window of the bank. there may be failure to employ the correct medium, as when leonardo da vinci found his masterpiece fade away. the force may be applied to an unsuitable object, as when one tries to crack a stone, thinking it a nut (4) the first requisite for causing any change is through qualitative and quantitative understanding of the conditions (illustration: the most common cause of failure in life is ignorance of one's own true will, or of the means by which to fulfil that will. a man may fancy himself a painter, and waste his life trying to become one; or he may be really a painter, and yet fa

lect all available objects of the same nature for talismans, and proceed to excite all these to the utmost by a magical ceremony; that is, by insisting on their godhead, so that they flame within and without him, his ideas vitalising the talismans. there is thus a vivid vibration of high potential in a certain group 121 of sympathetic substances and forces; and this spreads as do the waves from a stone thrown into a lake, widening and weakening; till the disturbance is compensated. just as a handful of fanatics, insane with one over-emphasised truth, may infect a whole country for a time by inflaming that thought in their neighbours, so the magician creates a commotion by disturbing the balance of power. he transmits his particular vibration as a radio operator does with his ray; rate-rela

t in every respect. for those who may be worthy, although not officially recognized as such, this eucharist has been described in detail and without concealment "somewhere" in the published writings of the master therion. but he has told no one where. it is reserved for the highest initiates, and is synonymous with the accomplished work on the 179 material plane. it is the medicine of metals, the stone of the wise, the potable gold, the elixir of life that is consumed therein. the altar is the bosom of isis, the eternal mother; the chalice is in effect the cup of our lady babalon herself; the wand is that which was and is and is to come. the eucharist of "two" elements has its matter of the passives. the wafer (pantacle) is of corn, typical of earth; the wine (cup) represents water (there

ion, and the profanation of the secrets of power, were equally dreaded. worse still, from our point of view, this motive induced writers to insert intentionally misleading statements, the more deeply to bedevil unworthy pretenders to their mysteries. we do not propose to discuss any of the actual processes. most readers will be already aware that the main objects of alchemy were the philosopher's stone, the medicine of metals, and various tinctures and elixirs possessing divers virtues; in particular, those of healing disease, extending the span of life, increasing human abilities, perfecting the nature of man in every respect, conferring magical powers, and transmuting material substances, especially metals, into more valuable forms. the subject is further complicated by the fact that man

aster therion is sanguine that his present reduction of all cases of the art of magick to a single formula will both elucidate and vindicate alchemy, while extending chemistry to cover all classes of change. there is an obvious condition which limits our proposed operations. this is that, as the formula of any work effects the extraction and visualization of the truth from any "first matter, the "stone" or "elixir" which results from our labours will be the pure and perfect individual originally inherent in the substance chosen, and nothing else. the most skilful gardener cannot produce lilies from the wild rose; his roses will always be roses, however he have perfected the properties of this stock. there is here no contradiction with our previous thesis of the ultimate unity of all substa

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er has his hold broken. there may be failure to apply the force in the magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 39 right manner, as when one presents a cheque at the wrong window of the bank. there may be failure to employ the correct medium, as when leonardo da vinci found his masterpiece fade away. the force may be applied to an unsuitable object, as when one tries to crack a stone, thinking it a nut) 4. the first requisite for causing any change is thorough qualitative and quantitative understanding of the condition (illustration: the most common cause of failure in life is ignorance of one's own true will, or of the means by which to fulfill that will. a man may fancy himself a painter, and waste his life trying to become one; or he may be really a painter, and yet f

h a postscript. love is the law, love under will. yours fraternally, 666 p.s- i thought it might help you if i were to make a few experiments. i have done so. result: this is much more difficult and delicate an affair than i had thought when i wrote this letter. for instance, one single thought of a "second string- e.g "if it fails, i had better do so and so- is enough to kill the while operation stone dead. of course, i am totally out of practice; but, even so. chapter xx talismans: the lamen: the pantacle cara soror, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. really you comfort me when you turn from those abstruse and exalted themes with which you have belaboured me so often of late to dear cuddlesome 11 little questions like this in our letter received this morning "do please, dea

ato thought meant a runner; hence, sun, moon, planets. the best i can do for you, honest injun! is the russian word for god bog; connected probably, though the lithuanian, with the welsh bwq a spectre or hobgoblin. bugge, too. not very inspiring, is it, to replace the old hundredth by "hush! hush! hush! here come the bogey man" or is it. enough of this fooling! out, trusty rapier, and home to the stone heart of the audacious woman that wrote "god within us" i know you thought you knew more or less what you meant when you wrote it; but surely that was a mere slip. an instant's thought would have warned you that the word wouldn't stand even the most superficial analysis you meant "something which seems to me the most perfect symbol of all that i love, worship, admire- all that class of verb

ate "a very natural question" now, fifty years later, here am i in the dock. 1("how can you expect people to take your magick seriously" i hear from every quarter "when you write so gleefully about it, with your tongue always in your cheek) my dear good sister, do be logical! magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 221 here am i who set out nigh half a century ago to seek "the stone of the wise, the summum bonum, true wisdom and perfect happiness" i get it, and you expect me to look down a forty-inch nose and lament! i have plenty of trouble in life, and often enough i am in low enough spirits to please anybody; but turn my thoughts to magick- the years fall off. i am again the gay, quick, careless boy to whom the world was gracious. let this serve for an epitaph: gray

this letter is to show that "they, not one person but a number acting in concert, not only foresaw a planet-wide catastrophe, but were agreed on measures calculated to assure the survival of the wisdom worth saving until the time, perhaps three hundred or six hundred years later, when a new current should revive the shattered thought of mankind. the equinox, in a word, was to be a sort of rosetta stone. there is one other matter of incomparable importance: the wars which have begun the disintegration of the world have followed, each at an interval of nine months, the operative publications of the book of the magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 280 law. this again seems to make it almost certain that "they" not only know the future, at least in broad outline, but are

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does not matter very much whether we insist upon the swiftness or the rapture of the holy spirit of god; and that it is he of whom it is here spoken is evident, for the name horner could be applied to none other by even the most casual reader of the holy gospels and the works of congreve. and the context makes this even clearer, for he sits in a corner, that is in the place of christ, the corner stone, eating, that is, enjoying, that which the birth of christ assures to us. he is the comforter who replaces the absent saviour. if there was still any doubt of his identity it would be cleared up by the fact that it is the thumb, which is attributed to the element of spirit, and not one of the four fingers of the four lesser elements, which he sticks into the pie of the new dispensation. he p

i make the three spheres of lead, tin, and gold respectively; the moons are silver, and the grip contains quicksilver, thus making the sword symbolic of the seven planets. but this is a phantasy and affectation "whoso taketh the sword shall perish by the sword" is not a mystical threat, but a mystical promise. it is our own complexity that must be destroyed. 89 here is another parable. peter, the stone of the philosophers, cuts off the ear of malchus, the servant of the high priest (the ear is the organ of spirit. in analysis the spiritual part of malkuth must be separated from it by the philosophical stone, and then christus, the anointed one, makes it whole once more "solve et coagula" it is noticeable that this takes place at the arrest of christ, who is the son, the ruach, immediately

nalysis the spiritual part of malkuth must be separated from it by the philosophical stone, and then christus, the anointed one, makes it whole once more "solve et coagula" it is noticeable that this takes place at the arrest of christ, who is the son, the ruach, immediately before his crucifixion. the calvary cross should be of six squares, an unfolded cube, which cube is this same philosophical stone. meditation will reveal many mysteries which are concealed in this symbol. the sword or dagger is attributed to air, all-wandering, all-penetrating, but unstable; not a phenomenon subtle like fire, not a chemical combination like water, but a mixture of gases<air would be too fierce for life; it must be largely diluted with the inert nitrogen. the rational mind s

gla, a notariqon formed from the initials of the sentence "ateh gibor leolahm adonai "to thee be the power unto the ages, o my lord" and the acid which eats into the steel should be oil of vitrol. vitrol is a notariqon of "visita interiora terrae rectificando invenies occultum lapidem" that is to say: by investigating everything and bringing it into harmony and proportion you will find the hidden stone, the same stone of the philosophers of which mention has already been made, which turns all into gold. this oil which can eat into the steel, is further that which is written, liber lxv, i, 16 "as an acid eats into steel. so am i unto the spirit of man" note how closely woven into itself is all this symbolism! the centre of ruach being the heart, it is seen that this sword of the ruach must

ich the magician draws "in the brown cakes of corn we shall taste the food of the world and be strong<pantacle as the paten of the sacrament, though special instructions about it are given in liber legis. it is composed of meal, honey, wine, holy oil, and blood> 99 when speaking of the cup, it was shown how every fact must be made significant, how every stone must have its proper place in the mosaic. woe were it were one stone misplaced! but that mosaic cannot be wrought at all, well or ill, unless every stone be there. these stones are the simple impressions or experiences; not one may be foregone. do not refuse anything merely because you know that it is the cup of poison offered by your enemy; drink it with confidence; it is he that will fall

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a title of binah (cf. 42 )my) elihu (eli hua, ghe is my god h, who is the holy guardian angel of job in the allegory) whyl) please, i beseech you )n) beast, cattle, brute animal hmhb from all, among all lkb the son: assiah fs gsecret nature h (see s.d. 1:38-39) nb meditation (cf. 827; imagination; sin hmz a desirable one; to desire dmx brother-in-law mby hwhy in assiah hh ww hh dwy a dog blk 53 a stone, rock nb) elihu (see 52 )whyl) garden ng to defend, hide; a wall; the sun; fury hmx the spleen lwx+ a lover hbh)m 54 a basin, bowl, vessel (ex. 24:6) ng) rest ymd to judge, rule nd pertaining to summer mwx my flame; enchantments y+hl tribe; branch, rod, staff, stick, sceptre, spear; a bed h+m to remove; a heap, wall dn 55 1-10. the sum of the sephiroth; the mystic number of malkuth. thief; s

wy( the sons of [the merciful] god l) ynb incense hnwbl a disc, round shield; a defender ngm possession hlxn arduous, busy; host, army )bc 94 corpse hpwg the valley of vision nwyzxyg to extinguish k(d a fault (ps. 50:20, i.e. there gallege a fault h) ypd a shore pwx a window nwlx a drop hp+ children mydly congratulations, good luck bw+ lzm prickly dnm side dc 95 the sphere of mars myd)m the great stone hldg nb) the waters mymh multitude, abundance nmh journey klhm queen hklm selah, glift up! h (ps. 32:5, 7, etc) hls 96 a name of god ynd) l (chaldee form of myhl) nyhl) by day mmwy occupation [mundane] work (cf. 415& 420) hk)lm the secret [counsel] of the lord (ps. 25:14; see 353) hwhy dws statute wc 97 changeless, constant; the god amon (na. 3:8) nwm) the son of man md) nb archangel of netz

flag, standard sn kinsmen, nation, populace; with, by, near m( fool lsk 111 aleph: an ox; a thousand pl) pele: the [hidden] wonder: a title of kether )lp red (gn. 25:25) ynwmd) he is one god: a name of god myhl )wh dx) ruin, destruction, sudden death ns) aum (thus in s.s; cf. 47) m) thick darkness lp) passwords of. ynd) hwhy dwy mad llwhm a holocaust, whole burnt offering; an ascent hlw( precious stone nx nb) vomit )yq 112 a structure; mode of building nynb was angry snb sharpness qdx the lord god: the divine name of binah myhl) hwhy (notariqon of ha-qadosh barukh hua, 655) hbqh 113 likewise; the same (fem (cf. 108) hqx a giving away, remitting hxyls a stream, brook glp 114 tear (weeping (md gracious, obliging, indulgent nwnx science (dm brains nyxwm we wnxn 115 here am i ynnh the heat of

ce (dm brains nyxwm we wnxn 115 here am i ynnh the heat of the day mwyh mwx to make strong; vehement, eager qzx we wnxn) 116 doves mynwy the munificent ones mybydn primordial h)ly( artificial (counted only with mem final in s.s) mylglg 117 fog, darkness lpw) chief, duke; guide pwl) 118 to pass, renew, change plx to ferment (mx the high priest lwdg nhk the goddess nu (spelt in full :w:n 119 lydian-stone nxwb nb) beelzebub: the fly-god bwbzl(b weeping (subst) h(md abominable lwgp 120 samekh: a prop, support kms master l(k foundation, basis ydswm season; the time of the decree d(wm strengthening nykm prophetic sayings, or decrees: ghis days shall be h (hence gabra- melin h) mylm a veil, covering, screen ksm a name of god n( imaginary, fanciful ynwymd vermin mynk mocker cl moth ss shadow; shel

setting of the sun hmx ymwdmd was angry, enraged; anger p(z the beard (s.d. cap. 2; lingam (qnz) nqz hidden; wonderful )lpwm female; yoni hbqn demon; injurer qyzm 158 arrows mycyx to suffocate qnx balances (ch) nynz)m eternal, perpetual, enduring yxcn 159 surpassing whiteness (see 934 )nycwb point hdqn 160 thine eyes (pl; gnot h written; see 150& i.r.q. 652) kyny( silver psk fell down lpn a rock, stone (ls a tree c( thy face (ez. 3:8) kynp image mlc cain nyq to be lovely, pleasant m(n existing, stable myyq 161 the heavenly man (lit. the gprimordial h or gexalted h man) h)ly( md) the congregation of the eternal hwhy lhq 162 the sum of the letters of the lesser beard, if n= 14, etc (see 1350) son of the right hand nymynb colour (bc 163 he, the lord god ynd) myhl )wh woman, wife hbqwn 164 the

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'fatherless 'virtueless 'unworthy' proclaiming by this that their glory is in their shame((it is the invisible that is all-important: see cap. ii) so also the virtue of a chariot is not any of the parts of a chariot, if they be numbered((cf 'the questions of king milinda' where is the discussion of what a carriage really is) they do not seek to appear fine like jade, but inconspicuous like common stone((english good manners are similarly inconspicuous, and were so devised as a protection. jade is liable to be seized and carved; ordinary stone may escape (cf. kwangtze on the rotten tree, etc. zan kien shieh. s. b. e. xxxix, p.217) 45 chapter xl omitting utility. 1. the tao proceeds by correlative curves, and its might is in weakness. 2. all things arose from the teh, and the teh budded from

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ly high, and as there were no merchants even of alcohol, whose use was forbidden, every man saved all his earnings, and died rich. at his death his savings went back to the community. taxation was consequently unnecessary. clothes were unnecessary and unknown, and the 'bread from heaven' was the "free gift of god. the dead were thrown to the amphibians. each man built his own shelter of the rough stone sponge which abounded. the word 'house' was used only in atlas; the servile race called its huts 'hloklost (equivalent to the english word 'home. discontent was absolutely unknown. it had not been considered necessary to prohibit traffic with foreign countries, as the inhabitants of such were esteemed barbarians. had a ship landed men, they would have been murdered to a man, supposing that a

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that nu is connected with north, while had is sad, set, satan, sat (equals "being" in sanskrit, south. he is then the sun, one point concentring space, as also is any other star. the word abrahadabra is from abrasax, father sun, which adds to 365. for the north-south antithesis see fabre d'olivet's "hermeneutic interpretation of the origin of the social state in man. note "sax" also as a rock, or stone, whence the symbol of the cubical stone, the mountain abiegnus, and so forth. nu is also reflected in naus, ship, etc, and that whole symbolism of hollow space which is familiar to all. there is also a question of identifying nu with on, noah, oannes, jonah, john, dianus, diana, and so on. but these identifications are all partial only, different facets of the diamond truth. we may neglect a

e absorbed, and he has command of the language, to use it to express his will. so with magick; the student must understand and assimilate the basic propositions, and he must be expert in the drill of the practical details. but that is merely ground-work: he must then conceive his own expression, and execute it in his own style. each star is unique, and each orbit apart; indeed, that is the corner-stone of my teaching, to have no standard goals or standard ways, no orthodoxies and no codes. the stars are not herded and penned and shorn and made into mutton like so many voters! i decline to be bellwether, who am born a lion! i will not be collie, who am quicker to bite than to bark. i refuse the office of shepherd, who bear not a crook but a club. wise in your generation, ye sheep, are ye to

ity the existence of people who laugh at his fears, and tell him that the monster he fears is in reality not a fire-breathing worm, but a spirited horse, well trained to the task of the bridle. they tell him not to be a gibbering coward, but to learn to ride. knowing well how abject he is, the kindly manhood of the advice is, to him, the bitterest insult he can imagine, and he calls on the mob to stone the blasphemer. he is therefore particularly anxious to keep intact the bogey he so dreads; the demonstration that love is a general passion, pure in itself, and the redeemer of all them that put their trust in him, is to tear open the raw ulcer of his soul. we of thelema are not the slaves of love "love under will" is the law. we refuse to regard love as shameful and degrading, as a peril t

sted, your only tacticians the ostrich, the opossum, and the cuttle, will you not break and flee at our first onset, as with levelled lances of lust we ride at the charge, with our allies, the whores whom we love and acclaim, free friends by our sides in the battle of life? the book of the law is the charter of woman; the word thelema has opened the lock of her "girdle of chastity" your sphinx of stone has come to life; to know, to will, to dare and to keep silence. yes, i, the beast, my scarlet whore bestriding me, naked and crowned, drunk on her golden cup of fornication, boasting herself my bedfellow, have trodden her in the market place, and roared this word that every woman is a star. and with that word is uttered woman's freedom; the fools and fribbles and flirts have heard my voice

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shadows to him, and cry: father! and, the devil being subtle, capable of disguising himself as an angel of light, it behoves the prodigal to have some test of truth. some great mystics have laid down the law, accept no messenger of god, banish all, until at last the father himself comes forth. a counsel of perfection. the father himself does send messengers, as we learn in st. mark xii; and if we stone them, we may perhaps in our blindness stone the son himself when he is sent. so that is no vain counsel of st. john (1 john iv. 1, try the spirits, whether they be of god, no mistake when st. paul claims the discernment of spirits to be a principal point of the armour of salvation (1 cor. xii. 10. now how should frater p. or another test the truth of any message purporting to come from the m

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s well as the most beautiful and elaborate vane: and in this sense it is my pmost eage hope that i may not unjustly draw a comparison between myself and the great reformers of eighty years ago* so it is usually supposed. maybe i shall one day find words to combat, perhaps to overthrow, this position. p.s. as, for example, the note to this introduction. as a promise-keeper i am the original eleven stone three peacherine. a.c. i must apologise (perhaps) for the new note of frivolity in my work: due doubtless to the frivolity of my subject: these poems being written when i was an advaitist and could not see why everything being an illusion there should be any particular object in doing or thinking anything. how i have found the answer will be evident from my essay on the subject* i must indee

ned arrow but this (my wisdom, even to me, seems folly) may their folly be 145 true wisdom? o esteemed tahuti !25 you are, you are, you are a beauty! if after all these years of worship you hail ra26 his bark or nuit27 her ship* a flat cake of unleavened bread. as a matter of fact they do not enjoy and indeed will not eat them, preferring dok, a past of course flour and water, wrapped round a hot stone. it cooks gradually, and remains warm all day. pentecost 29 slowness of divine justice. poet pockets piety stakes. national anthem of natal. but this talk is all indigestion. now for health. reasons for undertaking the task. and sail the waters wild a-wenting 150 over your child! the left lamenting (campbell).28 the ibis head,29 unsuited to grin, perhaps, yet does its best to show its strong

it* famous adelphi villain. ii. as far as reason goes, there s hope for mortals yet: when nothing is that knows, what is there to regret? our consciousness depends on matter in the brain; when that rots out, and ends, there ends the hour of pain. iii. if we can trust to this, why, dance and drink and revel! great scarlet mouths to kiss, and sorrow to the devil! if pangs ataxic creep, or gout, or stone, annoy us, queen morphia, grant thy sleep! let worms, the dears, enjoy us! iv. but since a chance remains that i surives the body (so talk the men whose brains are made of smut and shoddy, i ll stop it if i can (ah jesus, if thou couldest) i ll go to martaban to make myself a buddhist. v. and yet: the bigger chance lies with annihilation. follow the lead of france, freedom s enlightened nati

lost !78 see the lay of the last minstrel. 759. ain elohim.79 there is no god! so our bible. but this is really the most sublime affirmation of the qabalist. ain is god for the meaning of ain, and of this idea, see berashith, infra. the fool is he of the tarot, to whom the number 0 is attached, to make the meaning patent to a child. i insult your idol, quoth the good missionary; he is but of dead stone. he does not avenge himself. he does not punish me. i insult your god, replied the hindu; he is invisible. he does not avenge himself, nor punish me. my god will punish you when you die! so, when you die, will my idol punish you! no earnest student of religion or draw poker should fail to commit this anecdote to memory. 767. mr chesterton.80 i must take this opportunity to protest against th

? why do surgeons go mad and cut up men like sturgeons (the questions are the late chas. spurgeon s) of yogi i could quote you hundreds in science, law, art, commerce noted. they fear no lunacy: their on dread s not for their noddles doom-devoted. they are not like black bulls (that shunned reds in vain) that madly charge the goathead of rural pan, because some gay puss had smeared with blood his stone priapus. they are as sane as politicians and people who subscribe to missions. this says but little; a long way are yogi more sane that such as they are. you have conceived your dreadful bogey, from seeing many a raving yogi. these haunt your clinic; but the sound lurk in an unsuspected ground, dine with you, lecture in your schools, share your intolerance of fools, and, while the yogi you c

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rcle on the sod springs the emerald chaste and clean from the duller paler green. surely in the circle millions of immaculate pavilions flash upon the trembling turf like the sea-stars in the surf- millions of bejewelled tents for the warrior sacraments. vaster, vaster, vaster, vaster, grows the stature of the master; all the ringed encampment vies with the infinite galaxies. in the midst a cubic stone with the devil set thereon; hath a lamb's virginal throat; hath the body of a stoat; hath the buttocks of a goat; hath the sanguine face and rod of a goddess and a god! spell by spell and pace by pace! mystic flashes swing and trace velvet soft the sigils stepped by the silver-starred adept. back and front, and to and fro, soul and body sway and flow in vertiginous caresses to imponderable r

in hand to the endless light of the nameless land. darkness spreads its sombre streams, blotting out the elfin dreams. i might haply be afraid, were it not the feather-maid leads me softly by the hand, whispers me to understand. now (when through the world of weeping light at last starrily creeping steals upon my babe-new sight, light- o light that is not light) on my mouth the lips of her like a stone on my sepulchre seal my speech with ecstasy, till a babe is born of me 45 that is silent more than i; for its inarticulate cry hushes as its mouth is pressed to the pearl, her honey breast; while its breath divinely ripples the rose-petals of her nipples, and the jetted milk he laps from the soft delicious paps, sweeter than the bee-sweet showers in the chalice of the flowers, more intoxicat

d to see things in the cold light of reason. why should you undertake to defend this mr. penry? of course if you have made up your mind" he went on, passing over my interruption "i shall do my best for him; but if i were you, i'd keep my eyes open and do nothing rashly" in order to impress him, i put on a similar cold tone and declared that mr. penry was a friend of mine and that he must leave no stone unturned to vindicate his honesty. and with this i went back to mr. penry, and we left the office together. mr. penry's lodging disappointed me; my expectations, i am afraid, were now tuned far above the ordinary. it was in chelsea, high up, in a rickety old house overlooking a dingy road and barges drawn up on the slimy, fetid mud-banks. and yet, even here, romance was present for the roman

bute was not only a poetaster but a dabbler in magic, and black jealousy of a younger man and a far finer poet gnawed at his petty heart. he had gained a subtle hypnotic influence over hypatia, who helped him in his ceremonies, and he had now commissioned her to seek out his rival and pick up some magical link through which he might be destroyed. the door opened, and the girl passed from the cold stone dusk of the stairs to a palace of rose and gold. the poet's rooms were austere in their elegance. a plain gold-black paper of japan covered the walls; in the midst hung an ancient silver lamp within which glowed the deep ruby of an electric lamp. the floor was covered with black and gold of leopards' skins; on the walls hung a great crucifix in ivory and ebony. before the blazing fire lay th

if (with moses) we picture him as an old man showing us his back parts, who shall blame us? the great question 119 "any" question is the great question- does indeed treat us thus cavalierly, the disenchanted sceptic is too prone to think! well, shall we define him as a loving father, as a jealous priest, as a gleam of light upon the holy ark? what does it matter? all these images are of wood and stone, the wood and stone of our own stupid brains! the fatherhood of god is but a human type; the idea of a human father conjoined with the idea of immensity. two for one again! no combination of thoughts can be greater than the thinking brain itself; all we can think of god or say of him, so long as our words really represent thoughts, is less than the whole brain which thinks, and orders speech

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chaste. 60 here grew the murmur grim of the low-muttered hymn; here sound itself caught flame from the dark drone of shame- the world reverberated the unutterable name! astarte from her trance leapt loving to the dance, greeting as fire greets firs her whirling worshippers. and all her joy was theirs, and all their madness hers! yea! thou and i that strove for mastery in love, circling the altar stone maze-like, with magic moan, forthwith made that divinest destiny our own. throughout that violent vigil we wove the stormy sigil, our faces ashen-lipped from our heart's blood that dripped on the armed talismans of that moon-vaulted crypt. then came the sombre spectre from the abyss of nectar; yea, from the icy north came the great vision forth, a giant breaking through the weary web of wrat

of death-sobs echoing through the immemorial ground. o glee! the price to pay! swear but our souls away! and we may gain the goal that all the wise extol- the world, the flesh, the devil, weighed against a soul. 62 the wind blows from the south! crushed to that burning mouth, lured by that lurid law, we melt within that maw; and all he fiends loose hold, and all the gods withdraw! upon the altar-stone we are alone- alone! in vivid blackness curled with livid lightings pearled- sweat-drops upon god's brow when he creates a world! sister, the word is spoken! sister, the spell is broken. the sabbath torches flicker; the sabbath heart beats quicker; we have drained the sabbath cup of its austerest liquor. forsaken is the hall; finished the festival. my witch and i are thrown dead on the altar

tone we are alone- alone! in vivid blackness curled with livid lightings pearled- sweat-drops upon god's brow when he creates a world! sister, the word is spoken! sister, the spell is broken. the sabbath torches flicker; the sabbath heart beats quicker; we have drained the sabbath cup of its austerest liquor. forsaken is the hall; finished the festival. my witch and i are thrown dead on the altar stone by the contemptuous god that made our soul his own. come! come! we must begone. hiss the last orison! intone the last lament! take the last sacrament, the extreme unction, saviour when the soul is spent! 63 come! hurry through the night, a trail of tortured flight! eagle and pelican become mere maid and man till the next sabbath- days each like leviathan! nay! lift the languid head! take of

clasp shadows to him and cry "father" and, the devil being subtle, capable of disguising himself as an angel of light, it behoves the prodigal to have some test of truth. 69 some great mystics have laid down the law "accept no messenger of god" banish all, until at last the father himself comes forth. a counsel of perfection. the father does send messengers, as we learn in st mark xii; and if we stone them, we may perhaps in our blindness stone the son himself when he is sent. so that is no vain counsel of "st john (1 john iv. 1 "try the spirits, whether they be of god" no mistake when "st paul" claims the discernment of spirits to be a principal point of the armour of salvation (1 cor. xii. 10. now how should frater p. or another test the truth of any message purporting to come from the

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of the aeons is fallen. arise! arise! arise! let the light of the sight of time be extinguished: let the darkness cover all things: for my father goeth forth to seek 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: hi

the most exalted interpretation of the sephiroth. i is therefore kether; l, chokmah and binah; a, chesed; n, geburah; 10 r, tiphereth; z, netzach; n, hod; o, jesod. the geomantic correspondences of the enochian alphabet form a sublime commentary. note that the total angels of the aethyrs are 91, the numeration of amen. the cry of the 28th aethyr, which is called bag there cometh an angel into the stone with opalescent shining garments like a wheel of fire on every side of him, and in his hand is a long flail of 1 the lvx cross hidden in the svastika is probably the arcanum here connoted. svastika itself adds to 231= 0+ 1+ 2+ 21, the 21 keys. the cubical svastika regarded as composed of this lvx cross and the arms has a total of 78 faces- tarot and mezla. scarlet lightning; his face is blac

shapes, very elongated in the risers. the one to the right is lower than the first, and its left riser extends 2/3's of the way up inside the center of the one to the left. the left "u" turns back down to the far left, ending 1/5th the way down in a tiny circle. the right bends abruptly horizontally left across the other and also ends there in a tiny circle. but there is also much writing on the stone, very minute characters carved. i cannot read them. he points with his flail to the sapphire, which is now outside him and bigger than himself; and he cries: hail! warden of the gates of eternity who knowest not thy right hand from thy left; for in the aeon of my father is a god with clasped hands wherein he holdeth the universe, crushing it into the dust that ye call stars. hail unto thee w

thee who knowest not thy right eye from thy left; for in the aeon of my father there is but one light. hail unto thee who knowest not thy right nostril from thy left; for in the aeon of my father there is neither life nor death. hail unto thee who knowest not thy right ear from thy left; for in the aeon of my father there is neither sound nor silence. whoso hath power to break open this sapphire stone shall find therein four elephants having tusks of mother-of-pearl, and upon whose backs are castles, those castles which ye call the watch-towers of the universe. let me dwell in peace within the breast of the angel that is warden of the aethyr. let not the shame of my mother be 12 unveiled. let not her be put to shame that lieth among the lilies that are beyond the stars. o man, that must e

is passage seems to mean precisely the opposite of its apparent meaning. and the voice of the aeon cried: return, return, return! the time sickeneth, and the space gapeth, and the voice of him that is, was and shall be crowned rattles in the throat of the mighty dragon of eld. thou canst not pass by me, except thou have the mystery of the word of the abyss. now the angel putteth back the sapphire stone into his breast; and i spake unto him and said, i will fight with thee and overcome thee, except thou expound unto me the word of the abyss. now he makes as if to fight with me (it is very horrible, all the tentacles moving and the flail flashing, and the fierce 13 eyeless face, strained and swollen. and with the magic sword i pierce through his armour to his breast. he fell back, saying: ea

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e circle) i yet, by the favour of iao, obtained a really good effect, losing all sense of personality and being exalted in the pillar. peace and ecstasy enfolded me. it is well. 8.50 but as i was ill last night, and as the morning has broken chill and damp, i will go to the caf du d me 54 and break my fast humbly with coffee and sandwich. may it strengthen me in my search for the quintessece, the stone of the wise, the summum bonum, true wisdom and perfect happiness! 9.0. i hope (by the way) that i have made it quite clear that all this time even a momentary cessation of active thought has been accompanied by the rising-up of the mantra. the rhythm, in short, perpetually dominates the brain; and becomes active on every opportunity. the liquid moslem mantra is much easier to get on to than

by the necessity (alleged) of recording his results, or failed to overcome the duality of thoth. otherwise, even if he comprehended the base, he certainly failed at the apex of the pyramid. in any case, he cannot blame the ceremony, which is most potent; one or two small details may need correction, but no more. here then he is down at the bottom of the hill again, a rosicrucian sisyphus with the stone of the philosophers! an ixion bound to the wheel of destiny and of the samsara, unable to reach the centre, where is rest. he must add to the entry 1.13 that the "telephone-cross" voices came as he composed himself to sleep, in the will to adonai. this time he detached a body of cavalry to chase them to oblivion. perhaps an unwise division of his forces; yet he was so justly indignant at the

at the academie marcelle a gruelling bout without gloves and j. st. j. is at the luxembourg to look at the pretty pictures. 3.40. the proof of the pudding, observes the most mystic of discourses (surely! is in the eating. 117 one might justly object to any results of this ten days' strain. but if abundant health and new capacity to do great work be the after-effect, who then will dare to cast a stone? not that it matters a turnip-top to the adept himself. but others may be deterred from entering the path by the foolish talk of the ignorant, and thus may flowers be lost that should go to make the fadeless wreath of adonai. ah, lord, pluck "me" up utterly by the root, and set that which thou pluckest as a flower upon thy brow! 4.10. walked back to the d me to drink a citron press through t

heaven.'konx om pax' is the apotheosis of extravagance, the last word in eccentricity. a prettily-told fairy-story 'for babes and sucklings' has 'explanatory notes in hebrew and latin for the wise and prudent' which notes, as far as we can see, explain nothing together with a weird preface in scraps of twelve or fifteen languages. the best poetry in the book is contained in the last section 'the stone of the philosophers. here is some fine work."to be obtained of the" walter scott publishing co. ltd. paternoster row, e.c."and through all booksellers""crown 8vo, scarlet buckram, pp. 64. this edition strictly limited to 500 copies. price 10s a. a. publication in class b. book 777 this book contains in concise tabulated form a comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the

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roubled back to his studies, fresher than at first, fierce as a dragon he (soul-hydroptic with a sacred thirst) sucked at the flagon" 234 plunging into the "tenebrae" of transcendental physics, he sought the great fulfilment, and unknowingly in the exuberance of his enthusiasm left the broad road of the valley and struck out on the mountain-track towards that ultimate summit which gleams with the stone of the wise, and whose secret lies in the opening of the "closed eye- the consuming of the darkness. he who dismisses paracelsus with a twopenny clyster, or raymond lully with a sixpenny reprint, is not a fool, no, no, nothing so exalted; but merely a rabbit-brained louse, who, flattering himself that he is crawling in the grey beard of haeckel and the scanty locks of spencer, sucks pseudosc

the hands" true, much "twaddle" was written concerning balsams, and elixirs, and bloods, which, however, to the merest tyro in alchemy can be sorted from the earnest works as easily as a "bart's" student can sort hair-restoring pamphlets and blackhead eradicators from lectures and essays by lister and m ller. thus frenziedly, at the age of twenty-two, p. set out on the quest of the philosopher's stone. visita interiora terrae rectificando invenies occultam lapidem veram medicinam; this is indeed the true medicine of souls; and so p. sought the universal solvent vitriolum, and equated the seven letters in vitriol, sulphur, 235 and mercury with the alchemical powers of the seven planets; precipitating the salt from the four elements- subtilis, aqua, lux, terra; and mingling flatus, ignis, a

m the lord of life triumphant over death. he who partaketh with me shall rise with me. i am the manifester in matter of those whose abode is in the invisible. i am purified; i stand upon the universe: i am the reconciler with the eternal gods: i am the perfecter of matter: and without me the universe is not "may what we have this day partaken of, sustain us in our search for the quintessence; the stone of the philosophers; the true wisdom and perfect happiness, and the summum bonum" all then disrobe and disperse. undoubtedly the passing through the ritual of the neophyte had an important influence on p.'s mind, and on his spiritual progress; for shortly after its celebration, we find him experiencing some very extraordinary visions, which we shall enter upon in due course. suffice it to sa

in will not at the outset be mistaken for sarasate or paganini; for there will be discord and confusion of sound. so now, as we start upon the first visions of p. we find chaos piled on chaos, much struggling and noise, a roaring of wild waters in the night, and then finally, melody, silence and the communication of the mystic books of v.v.v.v.v. 301 let us now trace his progress in search of the stone of the philosophers, which is hidden in the mountain of abiegnus. there are eighteen recorded visions33 between the commencement of november and the end of december 1898, but as there is not sufficient space to include them all, only six of the most interesting will be given. being all written in his private hieroglyphic cipher by frater p, we have been obliged to re-write them completely, a

ing him approach i fell down and besought him to guide me, which without further word he did. 302 "on turning to the left i saw that near me was a rock door, and then for the first time i became aware that i was clothed in my robes of white.36 passing through the door, i found myself on the face of a high cliff that sank away into the abysms of space below me; and my foot slipping on the slippery stone, i stumbled forward, and would of a certainty have been dashed into that endless gulf, had not the shepherd caught me and held me back "then wings were given me, and diving off from that great rocky cliff like a sea-bird, i winged my course through the still air and was filled with a great joy "now, i had travelled thus but for a short time, when in the distance there appeared before me a si

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ntiful in the islands of orkney, the land fairies are acknowledge to have departed for ever. this is the story of their departure as it has been pieced together by mr. r. menzies fergusson. once upon a time, many years ago, the trows became dissatisfied with their residence upon pomona. they determined, therefore, to leave the pomona hills and knowes, and take up their dwelling beside the dwarfie stone on the island of hoy. the change was to be effected one evening at midnight, when the moon would be full and everything in favour of their flitting. the fateful night arrived, and the fairy train set out upon their journey. they bade farewell to the grassy hillocks upon which they had danced so often, and to the rocky caverns, the scene of their nightly revels, and all hied to the trysting-p

better use of their faculties" certain" no name of author was to be seen "in the fourth compartment" was a little framed picture, and though i examined it very closely i was not able at first to realize what the subject of the picture was. from a shallow little boat a gigantic snake was seen to emerge, fiercely staring, and on the opposite corner was a round black spot. as, when a child throws a stone in a river, the waves extend farther and farther, shunning the bruises which the child has inflicted upon them, in a like manner waver of a grey lighter and lighter as they extended towards the snake were painted in methodically eccentric gyrations. the last wave was almost white, and stopped at the head of the monster "in the fifth compartment" was a skull "in the sixth compartment" was a w

h! the shameless effrontery of the pope who asserts the contrary, and proves it by arguments unintelligible to the lay mind! how shocked is the rationalist! my good professor, right or wrong, i may be drunk, but i certainly see a pair of you. 387 so this is where we are got to after these six thousand, or six thousand billion years (as the case may be, that, asking for bread, one man gives us the stone of homoiousios and another the half-baked brick of amphioxus. both are in a way rationalists. wolff gives us idea unsupported by fact, and argues about it for year after year; treacle does the same thing for fact unsupported by idea. nor does the one escape the final bankruptcy of reason more than the other. while the theologian vainly tries to shuffle the problem of evil, the rationalist is

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, when in truth they should encourage, for that- as the oracles affirm- it is darkest before the dawn. meditation therefore annoyed me, as tightening and constricting the soul. i began to ask myself if the "dryness" was an essential part of the process. if by some means i could shake its catafalque of mind, might not the infinite divine spirit leap unfettered to the light? who shall roll away the stone? let it not be imagined that i devised these thoughts from pure sloth or weariness. but with the mystical means then at my disposal, i required a period of days or of weeks to obtain any result, such as samadhi in one of its greater or lesser forms; and in england the difficulties were hardly to be overcome. i found it impossible to meditate in the cold, and fires will not last equably. gas

nd he smiles gently "patient experiment will prove to you that the microscope is reliable" and i smile gently "patient experiment will prove to you that meditation is reliable" so there we are. x "stay not on the precipice with the dross of matter, for there is a place for thine image in a realm ever splendid" zoroaster "when thou seest a terrestrial demon approaching, cry aloud and sacrifice the stone mnizourin- zoroaster as a boy at school i enjoyed a reputation for unparalleled cowardice; in the world i am equally accused of foolhardiness. the judgment of the boys was the better. the truth is that i have always been excessively cautious, have never willingly undertaken even the smallest risk. the paradoxical result is that i have walked hundreds of miles unroped over snow-covered glacie

n of loathsome disease, entirely overpowering the intention of picturing inflicted pain. roderic, who, far from being a good man, was actually a freethinker, thought it a grimly apt symbol of the religion of our day. on his right stood a plaster muse, with a lyre, the effect being decidedly improved by some one who had affixed a comic mask with a grinning mouth and a long pink nose; on his left a stone plaque of lakshmi, the hindu venus, a really very fine piece of work, clean and dignified, in a way the one sanity in the room, except an exquisite pencil sketch of a child, done with all the delicacy and strength of whistler. the rest of the decoration was a delicious mixture of the grotesque and the obscene. sketches, pastels, cuts, cartoons, oils, all the media of art, had been exhausted

e jardin des plantes in the afternoon, and, dining in that quarter, had stayed lingering on the bridge watching the seine. the moon dropped down behind the houses- with a start i realised that i must go home. there was some danger, you understand, of footpads. nothing, however, occurred until- i always preferred to walk through the narrow streets- i found myself in the rue des quatre vents; not a stone's- throw from this house, as you know "i had been thinking of my previous misadventure, and, with the folly of youth, had been indulging in a reverie of the kind that begins 'if only' if only she had been a princess ravished by a wicked ogre. if only. if only "on the south side of the rue des quatre vents is a house standing well back from the street, with a railing in front of it- a common

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d in gallia narbonensi, there succeeded in his place frater n.n; he, while repairing a part of the building of the college of the holy spirit, endeavoured to remove a brass memorial tablet, which contained the names of certain brethren and some other things. in this tablet was the head of a long and strong nail or bolt, so that when the tablet was forcibly wrenched away, it pulled with it a large stone, which thus partially uncovered a secret door, upon which was inscribed "post cxx annos patebo [the aspirant then leaves the portal of the vault and the first point is at an end] illustration on page 126 described "diagram 69. the temple in the second point of the 5= 6 ritual" this is the same room shown in diagram 60. the heptagonal vault is shown without indication of a door, in the upper

th, rising again in a mystical resurrection, cleansed and purified through him our master, o brother of the cross of the rose! like him, o adepts of all ages, have ye toiled; like him have ye suffered tribulation. poverty, torture, and death have ye passed through. they have been but the purification of the gold. in the alembic of thine heart, through the athanor of affliction, seek thou the true stone of the wise* quit thou this vault, then, o aspirant, with thine arms crossed upon thy breast, bearing in thy right hand the crook of mercy and in thy left hand the scourge of severity,7 the emblems of those eternal forces, betwixt which in equilibrium the 217 universe dependeth: these forces whose reconciliation is the key of life, whose separation is evil and death [the "third adept" then c

tning; the flaming sword. this is shown by 21, the number of eheieh, the divine name of kether; then the tiphereth symbol of the vault; and last the centre of the earth affirmed in turn. this descent from kether to malkuth formulates the flaming sword, and thus is the light invoked in the second place. the seal is iao, ihshvh= 17+ 326= 343= 7 x 7 x 7 "i.e, 7 made into a cube, the formation of the stone of the wise from the seven-fold regimen, and the fixation of the wanderers (the seven planets, or of the volatile. 777= one is she the ruach elohim of lives, and the flaming sword, and olahm ha qliphoth. moreover 17 is the svastika and ihshvh_ the pentagram again, the marriage of isis and osiris (as shown by the signs in the key-word. now the flaming sword is a swift and transitory symbol; t

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he desert! i deny thee by the powers of mine understanding; bear me in the unity of thy might, and pour me forth from out the cup of thine all-pervading nothingness; for thou art all and none of these in the fullness of thy not-being. 5. o thou god of the nothingness of all things! thou who art neither the formulator of law; nor the cheat of the maze of illusion: o thou who art not the foundation-stone of existence; nor the eagle that broodeth upon the egg of space! i deny thee by the powers of mine understanding; swathe me in the unity of thy might, and teach me wisdom from the lips of thine all-pervading nothingness; for thou art all and none of these in the fullness of thy not-being. 32 6. o thou god of the nothingness of all things! thou who art neither the fivefold root of nature; nor

in france" etc. etc. portrait of the author, and all the original engravings. 8vo, 406 pp, cloth, 1896. published 15s offered at 7s. 6p. the pillars of the temple, triangle of solomon, the tetragram, the pentagram, magical equilibrium, the fiery sword, realisation, initiation, the kabbalah, the magic chain, necromancy, transmutations, black magic, bewitchments, astrology, charms and philtres, the stone of the philosophers, the universal medicine, divination, the triangle of pantacles, the conjuration of the four, the blazing pentagram, medium and mediator, the septenary of talismans, a warning to the imprudent, the ceremonial of initiates, the key of occultism, the sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft and spells, the writing of the stars, philtres and magnetism, the mastery of the sun, the

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nvocation. the work ranks next to gober as a fountain-head of alchemy in western europe. it reflects the earliest byzantine, syrian and arabian writers. this famous work is accorded the highest place among the works of alchemical philosophy which are available for the students in the english language. the new pearl of great price. the treatise of bonus concerning the treasure of the philosopher's stone. translated from the latin. edited by a. e. waite. crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. net. one of the classics of alchemy, with a very curious account, accompanied by emblematical figures showing the generation and birth of metals, the death of those that are base and their resurrection in the prefect forms of gold and silver. a golden and blessed casket of nature's marvels. by benedictus figulus. with a li

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r version. editorial happy is the movement that has no history! at the beginning of our second year we have little to record but quiet steady growth, a gradual spreading of our tree of knowledge, a gradual awakening of interest in all parts of the earth, a gradual access of fellow-workers, some young and enthusiastic, others already weary of the search for truth in a world where so many offer the stone of dogma, so few the bread of experience. there! we had nothing to say, and we have said it very nicely. floreas* we must apologise for the necessity of holding over our edition of sir edward kelly's account of the forty-eight angelical keys, and other important articles. considerations of space were imperative* mr. h. sheidan-bickers will lecture on behalf of the equinox during the year. we

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to be found amongst the greatest mountains of earth. with the dhy na visions and trance we arrive at another turning point in frater p.'s magical ascent. for several years he had worked by the aid of western methods, and with them he had laid a mighty and unshakable foundation upon which 172 he now had succeeded in building the great temple of self- control. working upon eastern lines he had laid stone upon stone, and yet when the work was completed, magnificent though it was, there was no god yet found to indwell it. it was indeed but an empty house. though we have now arrived at this turning point, it will be necessary before we review the contents of this chapter to narrate the events from the present date- march 1902, down to the 11th of august 1903; when, by the chance (destined) meet

d holding her at arm's length smote the sorceress with her own current of evil, just as a would-be murderer is sometimes killed with the very weapon with which he has attacked his victim. a blue-greenish light seemed to play round the head of the vampire, and then the flaxen hair turned the colour of muddy 175 snow, and the fir skin wrinkled, and those eyes, that had turned so many happy lives to stone, dulled, and became as pewter dappled with the dregs of wine. the girl of twenty had gone, before him stood a hag of sixty, bent, decrepit, debauched. with dribbling curses she hobbled from the room. as frater p. left the house, for some time he turned over in his mind these strange happenings, and was not long in coming to the opinion that mrs. m. was not working alone, and that behind her

us- they are quite bewildering. in fact, they completely reverse our conception of polytheism; for it is we who are the idolators, and not our ancestors; it is we who sacrifice to many gods, and not those little bushmen who felt and saw and lived with the one great spirit. let us therefore mention that the chief points, a few out of a score, that have struck us are- the custom of the mark sacred stone; the universality of horus worship; the startling identity of hieroglyphics, all over the world, with the egyptian; and the symbolism of the great pyramid, and its use as a temple of initiation. a few others, however, do not understand. on p. 80 dr. churchward traces the "bull roarer" back to egypt. but we can find no proofs of these ever having been used there. in australia, as he states, t

ploy the pronoun "we" 350 it hat never had aught to say; but, then, how affectedly it hath said it. will not the late "new quarterly" take note of this? o these barbers, with their prattle, and their false expedients- and scarce even a safety razor among them! for let each one who worships george bernard shaw, while ignorant of that magnificent foundation of literature and philosophy- the cubical stone of the wise, on which a greater than auguste rodin hath erected the indomitable figure of le penseur- take these remarks individually to himself, and- oh! thinker, think again. let not posterity consider of this statue that its summit is no overman, but a gibbering ape! not filth, not sorrow, not laughter of the mocker is this universe; but laughter of a young god, a holy and beautiful god

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n like a statue still he sate; nor quivered nerve, nor muscle stirred; while round them flapped insatiate the fell, abominable bird. but the coldest horror drave the light from knightly eyes. how pale thy bloom, thy blood, o brow whereon that night sits like a serpent on a tomb! for palamede those eyes beheld the iron image of his own; on those dead brows a fate he spelled to strike a gorgon into stone. he knew his father. still he sate, nor quivered nerve, nor muscle stirred; while round them flapped insatiate the fell, abominable bird. the knight approves the justice done, and pays with that his rowels' debt; while yet the forehead of the son stands beaded with an icy sweat. 4 god's angel, standing sinister, unfurls this scroll- a sable stain "who wins the spur shall ply the spur upon hi

ink, he gallops. closely clings the child slung at his waist; and he heeds nought, but gallops wide, and sings wild war-songs, chants of gramarye! 13 sir palamded the saracen rides like a centaur mad with war; he sabres many a million men, and tramples many a million more! before him lies the untravelled land where never a human soul is known, a desert by a wizard banned, a soulless wilderness of stone. nor grass, nor corn, delight the vales; nor beast, nor bird, span space. immense, black rain, grey mist, white wrath of gales, fill the dread armoury of sense. nor shines the sun; nor moon, nor star their subtle light at all display; nor day, nor night, dispute the scaur: all's one intolerable grey. black llyns, grey rocks, white hills of snow! no flower, no colour: life is not. this is no

asy soul of that majestic one: upsurged 29 the monster from the oozy bed, and bounded through the crashing glades- but now a staring savage head lurks at him through the forest shades. this was a naked indian, who led within the city gate the fooled and disappointed man, already broken by his fate. here were the brazen towers, and here the scupltured rocks, the marble shrine where to a tall black stone they rear the altars due to the divine. the god they deem in sensual joy absorbed, and silken dalliance: to please his leisure hours a boy compels an elephant to dance. so majesty to ridicule is turned. to other climes and men makes off that strong, persistent fool sir palamede the saracen. 30 xi sir palamede the saracen hath hied him to an holy man, sith he alone of mortal men can help him

res the claw- what turns to laughter all his joy, to wondering ribaldry his awe? the beast's a mere mechanic toy, fit to amuse an idle boy! 39 xv sir palamede the saracen hath come to an umbrageous land where nymphs abide, and pagan men. the gods are nigh, say they, at hand. how warm a throb from venus stirs the pulses of her worshippers! nor shall the tuscan god be found reluctant from the altar-stone: his perfume shall delight the ground, his presence to his hold be known in darkling grove and glimmering shrine- o ply the kiss and pour the wine! sir palamede is fairly come into a place of glowing bowers, where all the voice of time is dumb: before an altar crowned with flowers he seeth a satyr fondly dote and languish on a swan-soft goat. then he in mid-caress desires the ear of strong s

muscles roar with senseless rage; the pale knight staggers, deathly sick; reels to the light that sorry sage, sir palamede the lunatick. 66 xxv a savage sea without a sail, grey gulphs and green a-glittering, rare snow that floats- a vestal veil upon the forehead of the spring. here in a plunging galleon sir palamede, a listless drone, drifts desperately on- and on- and on- with heart and eyes of stone. the deep-scarred brain of him is healed with wind and sea and star and sun, the assoiling grace that god revealed for gree and bounteous benison. ah! still he trusts the recreant brain, thrown in a thousand tourney-justs; still he raves on in reason-strain with senseless "oughts" and fatuous "musts "all the delusions (argueth the ass "all uproars, surely rise from that curst me whose name i

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diana, under the cold rays of the moon, was he to seal that fearful pact, that pledge of fidelity to medea, mistress of enchantments. there was he to tame the two bulls, whose feet were of brass, whose horns were as crescent moons in the night, and whose nostrils belched forth mingling columns of flame and of smoke. there was he to harness them to that plough which is made of one great adamantine stone; and with it was he determined to plough the two acres of ground which had never before been tilled by the hand of man, and sow the white dragons' teeth, and slay the armed multitude, that black army of unbalanced forces which obscures the light of the sun. and then, finally, was he destined to slay with the sword of flaming light that ever watchful serpent which writhes in silent wisdom abo

lay with the sword of flaming light that ever watchful serpent which writhes in silent wisdom about the trunk of that tree upon which the christ hangs crucified. all these great deeds did he do, as we shall see. he tamed the bulls with ease- the white and the black. he ploughed the double field- the east and the west. he sowed the dragons' teeth- the armies of doubt; and among them did he cast he stone of zoroaster given to him by medea, queen of enchantments, so that immediately they turned their weapons one against the other, and perished. and then lastly, on the mystic cup of iacchus he lulled to sleep the dragon of the illusions of life, and taking down the golden fleece accomplished the great work. then once again did he set 44 sail, and sped past circe, through scylla and carybdis; b

reader is advised to study chapter vii of captain j. f. c. fuller's "star in the west" in connection with this exposition. 47 4 lost under dramatic circumstances at frater p. a.'s house in 1909. the agnostic position direct experience is the key to yoga; direct experience of that soul (atman) or essence (purusha) which acting upon energy (pr na, and substance (ak sa) differentiates a plant from a stone, an animal from a plant, a man from an animal, a man from a man, and man from god, yet which ultimately is the underlying equilibrium of all things; for as the bhaga-vad-g ta says "equilibrium is called yoga" chemically the various groups in the organic and inorganic worlds are similar in structure and composition. one piece of limestone is very much like another, and so also are the actual

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rible: even as the lords of hell, chained in fires before the spell, strain upon the sightless steel, break not fetters nor compel: so be distant, o profane! children of the hurricane! lest the sword of fire destroy, lest the ways of death be plain! so depart, and so be wise, lest your perishable eyes look upon the formless fire, see the maiden sacrifice! so depart, and secret flame burn upon the stone of shame, that the holy ones may hear music of the sleepless name! holy, holy, holy spouse of the sun-engirdled house, with the secret symbol burning on thy multiscient brows. even as the traitor's breath goeth forth, he perisheth by the secret sibilant word that is spoken unto death. capricornus. brethren, let us awaken the master of the temple [the leader of the chorus "beats the tom-tom

gods! hermanubis. 4444, brother typhon, summon the guests to the banquet of the father of the gods [typhon "draws aside veil as" ganymede "begins his dance. lights down] hermanubis. welcome to the banquet of the father of the gods! bear the bowls of libation("done. be silent and secret! for it is by stealth that we are here assembled. know that saturn hath been deceived, having swallowed a black stone, thinking it to be his son, the child jupiter. but jupiter is here enthroned, and shall overthrow his father. beware then lest ye break silence- until jupiter be ready to make war! typhon. him that speaketh will i slay forthright["a long pause" 23 part ii centrum in centri trigono 1. sphinx 1. hermanubis 1. typhon 1. typhon. hail unto thee, thou great god hermanubis! art thou not the messeng

heaven 'konx om pax' is the apotheosis of extravagance, the last word in eccentricity. a prettily told fairy-story 'for babes and sucklings' has 'explanatory notes in hebrew and latin for the wise and prudent- which notes, as far as we can see, explain nothing- together with a weird preface in scraps of twelve or fifteen languages. the best poetry in the book is contained in the last section 'the stone of the philosophers' here is some fine work" occultism to the readers of "the equinox- all who are interested in "curious old" literature should write to frank hollings for his catalogue of over 1000 items. sent post free on receipt of name and address, and all future issues. a few selected items below. the book of ceremonial magic, including the rites and mysteries of goetic theurgy, sorcer

france" etc, etc "portrait of the author, and all the original engravings" 8vo, 406 pp "cloth" 1896 (pub. 15"s. postage free. 10"s" 6"d" the pillars of the temple, triangle of solomon, the tetragram, the pentagram, magical equilibrium, the fiery sword, realsation, initiation, the kabbalah, the magic chain, necromancy, transmutations, black magic, bewitchments, astrology, charms and philtres, the stone of the philosophers, the universal medicine, divination, the triangle of pantacles, the conjuration of the four, the blazing pentagram, medium and mediator, the septenary of talismans, a warning to the imprudent, the ceremonial of initiates, the key of occultism, the sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft and spells, the writing of the stars, philtres and magnetism, the mastery of the sun, the

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vivid smote the levin flash. once the tower rocked and cracked beneath its lash, caught inextinguishable fire; was ash. but that same fire that quelled the robber strife, and struck each being out of lust and life, left the mild maiden a rejoicing wife. 13 12. and this: 13. there is a well before the great white throne that is choked up with rubbish from the ages; rubble and clay and sediment and stone, delight of lizards and despair of sages. only the lightning from his hand that sits, and shall sit when the usurping tyrant falls, can purge that wilderness of wills and wits, let spring that fountain in eternal halls. 14. and this: 15. sulphur, salt, and mercury: which is master of the three? salt is lady of the sea; lord of air is mercury. now by god's grace here is salt fixed beneath the

superior. and then do thou compose thyself to holy meditation. 6. also it is better if in these adorations thou assume the god-form of whom thou adorest, as if thou didst unite with him in the adoration of that which is beyond him. 7. thus shalt thou ever be mindful of the great work which thou hast undertaken to perform, and thus shalt thou be strengthened to pursue it unto the attainment of the stone of the wise, the summum bonum, true wisdom and perfect happiness. 32 liber a'ash vel capricorni pnevmatici svb figvra ccclxx 33 a. a. publication in class a. imprimatur: n. fra a. a. liber a'ash vel capricorni pnevmatici svb figvra ccclxx 0. gnarled oak of god! in thy branches is the lightning nested! above thee hangs the eyeless hawk. 1. thou art blasted and black! supremely solitary in tha

ed by the ray of gold "he" how many roofs hath the ark "i" one "he" thou must pass through this one. yet thou lookest eagerly upon the four walls of the ark "i" i seek a door "he" the door is in the roof "i" lead me to it, i pray thee "he" fix thine eyes upon it "i" sir, i will. yet i pray thee to tell me thy name "he" thou didst know it of old, didst thou not "i" the son of the mountain "he" the stone of the crossways "i" it is enough. let me fix mine eye upon the door "he" it is well. then i obeyed him, and in that obedience forgot him. for though mine eye wandered often, and although once the planks beneath me threatened to give way and plunge me once more into the stream, yet i strove as a man may. then, mine eye being accustomed to the gloom, i beheld by my side, yet a little above me

rship one god, as you do. that is the essence of agreement. we have one prophet, as you have; there's little odds in a name. let our fools go worship at the tomb of our prophets, as your fools go worship at the tomb of yours; and let us break the heads only of those who break the peace. laylah. let me go to my house. you are breaking the peace now, and i will break your head["she has unloosened a stone from the well and strikes him. his cheek bleeds] rinaldo["unmoved] sit there. so this is my reading of the future. i who met you in hate shall leave you in love. and there an end of the crusades! laylah. love["bitterly sarcastic] rinaldo. love["enthusiastic] laylah. i had rather a scorpion stung me. rinaldo. my crest is a scorpion["he points to the golden bejewelled crest upon his light helm

cutor. we say that, forasmuch as many good knights have ridden against it with sword and lance and not availed to pierce it, this was by magic and forbidden art. laylah["contemptuously. it was good armour. bishop. the prisoner mocks us. on the third count, guilty [judges "echo "guilty" clerk. fourthly, that you did at midnight upon martinmas, 99 eighteen years ago, in the valley of hinnom, on the stone called succoth, bind yourself in a diabolical pact with satan, whereby he granted the power to change your sex at will, since which time you have become the father of an innumerable brood of devils, and in particular have travelled by night in the form of an owl to assault the virtue of many holy servants of the true faith, notably at the convent of st anne in this city, whereby the bodies a

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

. magician, not necessarily a witch. 3lntrobuction since the dawn of history man has believed in miracles. the first tribesmen to discover the healing power of herbs, or to recognize clouds as the forerunners ofrain, were elected magi, or wise men. from this it was but a short step to divining the future and to the formulation of spells to increase fertility or destroy enemies. as long ago as the stone age the wise man of the tribe was dressed in an animal skin; he was called 'devil, which meant 'little god, and was worshipped by his followers as the chief god's representative. the earliest record of this custom is a palaeolithic painting found in a cave in the ariege district of southern france. it depicts a man clad in a stag's skin, with antlers on his head-the horned god, a symbol of b

n of the paper that .evening he came acrossthe advertisement 'book duster wanted for large city library. applyjohn rylandslibrary, manchester. alex wrote out his application immediately and two days later was invited for an interview. as soon as he entered the building he felt at home. built as a memorial to a lancashire 61 cotton merchant who was a devout christian, the library was a monument of stone and wood. while at first appearance it looked like a church, a keener glance recognized the hallmark ofa stonemason trained in witchcraft. peering out from the top ofpillars were little stone mice with devils' faces; cats, demons, imps and dragons crouched in corners and crevices, in the boardroom where the interview took place, alex had difficulty keeping his eyes off the magnificent framed

they called.the coven elder. they claimed that his member was cold, which was not .surprising, for the women. demanded' that the elder lie with each one of them to ensure a good harvest, and. the poor man was hard put t? it to satisfy 124 so many. an artificial phallus was used, therefore, similar to the ones inexistence in egypt centuries before the birth of christ. it was life-sized and made of stone. we deplore its use in these enlightened days. another abuse i have. discovered is the defloration of''witches' daughters on. thealtat. iris neither necessary nor legal according to witch law. q: what is the greatest attraction of witchcraft to applicants for membership? a: the ability to see into the future. q: but can all witches attain second sight? a: certainly. it takes time'-perhaps si

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

blows from the east, expect the new and set the feast. nine woods in the cauldron go, burn them quick, burn them slow; elder be the lady's tree, burn it not or curs'd ye'll be; when the wind begins to turn, soon beltane fires will burn; when the wheel has turned to yule, light the log, the horned one rules. heed the flower, bush or tree by the lady blessed be' when the rippling waters flow cast a stone- the truth you'll know; when ye have& hold a need, hearken not to others' greed; with a fool no seasons spend, or be counted as his friend. merry meet and merry part bright the cheeks, warm the heart; mind the threefold law ye should, three times bad and three times good; whene'er misfortune is enow, wear the star upon your brow; true in troth ever ye be lest thy love prove false to thee 'ti

of the horned god, mighty queen of witchery and night. morgan, etoine, nisene, diana, bridgid, melusine, am i named of old by men. artemis and cerridwen, hell's dark mistress, heaven's queen. ye who would ask of me a rune, or who would ask of me a boon, meet me in some secret glade, dance my round in greenwood shade, by the light of the full moon. in a place wild and lone, dance about mine altar stone; work my holy mystery. ye who are feign to sorcery, i bring ye secrets yet unknown. no more shall ye know slavery, who give true worship unto me. ye who tread my round on sabbat night, come ye all naked to the rite, in token that ye be really free. i teach ye the mystery of rebirth, work ye my mysteries in mirth. heart joined to heart and lip to lip, five are the points of fellowship, that b

offers it to hps, inviting her to join them. when done relaxing and chatting, close the circle. notes many published sources. these include: m janet and stewart farrar's eight sabbats for witches m grimoire of lady sheba l invocation to the horned god by the flame that burneth bright, o horned one! we call thy name into the night, o ancient one! thee we invoke by the moon-led sea, by the standing stone and the twisted tree. thee we invoke, where gather thine own. by the nameless shore, forgotten and lone. come where the round of the dance is trod, horn and hoof of the goat foot god! by moonlit meadow, on dusky hill, where the haunted wood is hushed and still, come to the charm of the chanted prayer, as the moon bewitches the midnight air. evoke thy powers that potent bide in shining stream

durance, commitment, responsibility, thoroughness, practicality, wisdom, patience, sense of timing vices: dullness, lack of conscience, melancholy, boredom, inertia, stagnation, hoarding of resources (including information) season: yule time of day: midnight direction: north wind: boreas colour: green symbols: oak, rock crystal, salt, bull or cow, stag, grains, comfrey, ivy tools: pentacle, altar stone (body of anima mundi) spirits: gnomes under gob (friendly& easy to reach, teach access to own depths& caverns& how to mine& work the vein of gold therein) shortage: spaciness, hyper-activity, instability excess: body heaviness, general lack of energy, inertia, etc. notes various sources including june johns' king of the witches (appendix, starhawk's spiral dance, ellen cannon reed's witches

d stewart farrar's the witches' way; from gbg's bos (text b or c; it's the same in each. l the meeting dance the maiden should lead. a man should place both hands on her waist, standing behind her, and alternate men and women do the same, the maiden leading and they dance following her. she at last leads them into a right-hand spiral. when the center is reached (and this had better be marked by a stone) she suddenly turns round and dances back, kissing each man as she comes to him. all men and women turn likewise and dance back, men kissing women and women kissing men. all in time to music, it is a merry game, but must be practiced to be done well. note, the musician should watch the dancers and make the music fast or slow as is best. for the beginners it should be slow, or there will be c

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

books of the last century, or search the old dictionaries, seeking for the definition of the atom, for instance, you will usually find newton quoted. he defined the atom as "a hard, indivisible, ultimate particle" a something which was incapable of further subdivision. this was considered to be the ultimate atom in the universe, and was called by the scientist of the victorian era "the foundation stone of the universe; they considered they had gone as far back as it was possible to go, and that they had discovered what lay back of all manifestation and of objectivity itself. but when radium, and the other radio-active substances, had been discovered, an entirely new aspect of the situation had to be faced. it became apparent that what was considered the ultimate particle was not so at all

a specified aim; and we extended this same concept also to the great sphere of the solar system, and to the deity who indwells it. let us take up the question of consciousness itself, and study the problem a little and concern ourselves with the reaction of the life within the form. if i can thus give you a few general ideas in line with what has been said earlier, i shall be able to lay another stone upon the structure i am endeavouring to build. the word consciousness comes from two latin words: con, with; and scio, to know; and means literally "that with which we know" if you take a dictionary and look up this word you will find it defined somewhat as follows "the state of being aware" or the condition of perceiving, the ability to respond to stimuli, the faculty of recognising contact

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

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

stone and proceeded in revolution. the sons of god again arose, and sought within the flame "the form sufficeth not" they said "remove from without the fire" faster revolved the greater wheel, blue white emerged the flame. the sons of god again came down and a lesser wheel revolved. seven times the revolution, and seven times great the heat. more solid grew the formless mass, and deeper sank the stone. to the heart of inmost fire the sacred stone went down. this time the work was better done, and the product more perfected. at the seventh revolution, the third wheel rendered back the stone. triple the form, rosy the light, and sevenfold the eternal principle. from out the greater wheel, down from the vault of heaven, came into light the lesser wheel that counted as the fourth. the eternal

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

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

fire copyright 1998 lucis trust stanza iv in revolution fifth of the great wheel the period set was reached. the lesser wheel, that responded to that fifth great turn, passed through the cycle and entered into peace. the lesser wheels come forth and likewise do their work. the great wheel gathers back the emanating sparks. the five dealt with the work, the lesser two but wrought with detail. the stone had gathered fire, lambent with flame it shone. the outer sheath met not the need till the sixth wheel and the seventh had passed it through their fires. the sons of god emerged from out their source, gazed on the sevenfold work, and stated it was good. the stone was set alone. in dual revolution moved the greater wheel. the fourth lord of the greater twelve handled the work of sevenfold fir

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

iberation, it is also by the same method, one-pointedness and unification. the old commentary makes this clear in certain lines found in relation to the symbolism of the five-pointed star. they are as follows "the plunge is downward into matter. the point descends, darts through the watery sphere and pierces into that which looms inert, immobile, darkling, silent and remote. the point of fire and stone unite, and harmony and union on the downward path are reached "the flight is upward into spirit. the point ascends, lifting the two behind and reaching out the- 219- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust three and four towards that which lies behind the veil. the water fails to quench the point of fire; thus fire meets fire and blends. harmony, union on the upward arc are reached

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

from the eyes and the world appears in a new light. things are no longer ordinary. there comes the certainty that this is the real world whose true character human blindness has until now concealed. not where the wheeling systems darken and our benumbed conceiving soars; the drift of pinions, would we harken, beats at our own clay-shuttered doors. the angels keep their ancient places; turn but a stone and start a wing 'tis ye 'tis your estrang d faces that miss the many-splendoured thing "the experience is at first tantalizing, alluring. there is a rumor of a new world and the spirit is eager for the voyage upon strange seas. the familiar world must be left behind. the great adventure of religion begins "there must somewhere be a point of certainty. a growing universe may provide for open

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

now practically ready to take shape upon the physical plane, and we have the practical adaptation of an ideal to the needs of the physical life. it has been stepped down; it has lost much of its original beauty; it is not as pure and as lovely as when first conceived, and it is distorted from its original shape but it is, nevertheless, more adapted to public use and can be employed as a stepping-stone to higher things- 77- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust secondly: in this sensing of the plan and its later materialization, human units are involved and men have perforce to be employed. a vision is given of tremendous possibilities and indications are also granted of the manner in which these possibilities may become facts, but beyond that the great ones do not go. the d

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

that has a very long cycle, having been in manifestation since a.d. 1425, has a direct effect upon the fifth root race, the aryan, and has connected with it a set of curious phrases which express its purpose. the third purpose of deity ray iii. active intelligence or adaptability let the warden of the south continue with the building. let him apply the force which will produce the shining living stone that fits into the temple's plan with right exactitude. let him prepare the corner stone and wisely place it in the north, under the eye of god himself, and subject to the balance of the triangle. let the researcher of the past uncover the thought of god, hidden deep within the mind of the kumaras of love, and thus let him lead the agnishvattvas, waiting within the place of darkness, into th

building lord of the second ray and utilising the energies of the lord of concrete thought. the aphorisms embodying his qualities run as follows, and were esoterically whispered into his ears when he "left the most high place and descended into the seventh sphere to carry out the work assigned" 1. take thy tools with thee, brother of the building light. carve deep. construct and shape the living stone. quality..power to create. 2. choose well thy workers. love them all. pick six to do thy will. remain the seventh in the east. yet call the world to enter into that which thou shalt build. blend all together in the will of god. quality..power to cooperate. 3. sit in the centre and the east as well. move not from there.send out thy force to do thy will and gather back thy forces. use well the

elements so that the list of the possible elements is- 141- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust relatively complete, so eventually science will have arranged the progressive tables which will show the three stages of the life cycle of every mineral leading from the static mineral stage, such as carbon, through that of the crystal, semi-precious stone and precious stone to that of the radio-active substance. in the determining of this development it is impossible for man as yet to see the relations, for the cycles covered are so vast, the action of the fire in these tremendous periods so varying, and the recognition of the intermediate stages so difficult, that aught that i could say would but feed amusement and incredulity. but two basic

gy i copyright 1998 lucis trust inadequate as the mind and brain of the average aspirant, the mineral kingdom marks the point of unique condensation. this is produced under the action of fire and by the pressure of the "divine idea. esoterically speaking, we have, in the mineral world, the divine plan hidden in the geometry of a crystal, and god's radiant beauty stored in the colour of a precious stone. in miniature and at the lowest point of manifestation, we find the divine concepts working out. the goal of the universal concept is seen when the jewel rays forth its beauty, and when radium sends forth its rays, both destructive and constructive. if you could really understand the history of a crystal, you would enter into the glory of god. if you could enter into the attractive and the r

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

(may we say it) the divine in man to god. for the gospels show us that continuously christ called forth this recognition from the father. the great continuity of revelation is our most priceless possession, and into it the religion of christ must, and does, fit. god has never left himself without witness, and he never will. the place of christianity as the fulfilment of the past and as a stepping-stone to the future, is often forgotten, and this perhaps is one of the reasons why people speak of a failing christianity, and look forward to that spiritual revelation which seems so sorely needed. unless this continuity is emphasised and the place of the christian faith in it, revelation may come and pass unrecognised "there was" we are told "in every ancient country having claims to civilisati

irth and earthly life of christ, is for the mystic not only this but also a perpetual cosmic and personal process" scholars spend their lives in proving that the whole story is only a myth. it should, however, be pointed out that a myth is the summarised belief and knowledge of the past, handed down to us for our guidance and forming the foundation of a newer revelation, and that it is a stepping-stone to the next truth. a myth is a valid and proven truth which bridges, step by step, the gap between the past gained knowledge, the present formulated truth, and the infinite and divine possibilities of the future. the ancient myths and the old mysteries give us a sequential presentation of the divine message as it went forth from god in response to the need of man, down the ages. the truth of

led within the form of jesus; or of the individual christ, hidden within the ordinary man. for always the routine is the same the journey, the new birth, the experience of life, the service to be rendered, the death to be endured, and then the resurrection into more extended service. joseph's name means "he who shall add; he was a builder, a carpenter, a worker in the building trade, one who adds stone to stone, or beam to beam. he is the symbol of the building-creative aspect of god the father. in these three people, joseph, the infant jesus, and mary, we have the- 44- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust divine triplicity symbolised and represented, god the father, god the son and god the holy spirit, or matter informed by deity, and therefore typified for us in the virgi

live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of god "then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him upon a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, if thou be the son of god, cast thyself down; for it is written, he shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. jesus said unto him, it is written again, thou shalt not tempt the lord thy god."42 it is essential for the right understanding of this temptation that we remember our earlier distinction that such passages in the bible are interpreted from the angle of the souls involved. christ meets the devil on the ground of his divine nature. if thou art the son of god, take advantage of the fatherhood

we have found him" annie besant points out in an illuminating passage that "in the christian mysteries as in the ancient egyptian, chaldean, and others there was an outer symbolism which expressed the stages through which the man was passing. he was brought into the chamber of initiation, and was stretched on the ground with his arms extended, sometimes on a cross of wood, sometimes merely on the stone floor, in the posture of a crucified man. he was then touched with the thyrsus on the heart the `spear' of the crucifixion and, leaving the body, he passed into the worlds beyond, the body falling into a deep trance, the death of the crucified. the body was placed in a sarcophagus of stone, and there left, carefully guarded. meanwhile the man himself was treading first the strange obscure re

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

experience, wherein the soul knows more clearly the design, and in which much material has been prepared. the soul is no longer blind, and can now work in collaboration with other souls in the preparation of the material for the final temple of the lord. the soul, incarnate in human form, places in that temple his particular contribution to the whole, which might be stated symbolically to be a. a stone placed in the foundations, typical of the consecrated physical life. b. a column in the temple itself, typical of the desire or aspirational life. c. a design upon the tracing board, which coincides with the great pattern or design, and which is that fragment of that design which the individual had to supply and in search of which he went forth. d. a radiance or light, which will augment the

gone. instead of harmony, there was dissonance. instead of beauty, there was found the darkness of the grave. the voice then chanted forth these words 'create again, my child, and build and paint and blend the tones of beauty, but this time for the world and not thyself' the mixer started then his work anew and worked again" the direction of ray v "deep in a pyramid, on all sides built around by stone, in the deep dark of that stupendous place, a mind and brain (embodied in a man) were working. outside the pyramid, the world of god established itself. the sky was blue; the winds blew free; the trees and flowers opened themselves unto the sun. but in the pyramid, down in its dim laboratory, a worker stood, toiling at work. his test tubes and his frail appliances he used with skill. in rows

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

ee a greater emphasis built up this year in connection with your contact with me, your teacher and your friend. one other point i seek to make, my brother, whom i hope to see drawn into a closer relation of service. this point may be regarded by you as in the nature of a criticism. from my point of view and lucidity, it is the pointing out of a hindrance to your progress; it is in the nature of a stone or rock over which you might stumble as you tread the pathway towards the light. you have, as you know and as i have told you, a very critical mind; you are full of response to, and recognition of, the weaknesses and frailties of your family and associates. let not this grow upon you, but let it cease, for it builds a barrier between you and them, and obstructs and hinders your service. the

spiritual energy, breaking up that which hinders and pouring a cleansing tide through your personality. you seek to be a channel and you long adequately to serve. this i know. be willing, therefore, to let the "forces of light" enact their will within your life, e'en though you awaken with surprise to unknown and unrealised aspects of yourself both good and not so good. first month. a barrier of stone. a flood of cleansing water, and then the vision. the pilgrim then can chant: i stand in love. second month. a boat at rest upon a sea of blue. and then a tidal wave. but after that the calm. the boatman chants: the storm has brought me here. third month. a mountain top. snow with a fold of sunshine. a group of pilgrims on the upward way. one pilgrim chants: in love we walk the way. fourth m

he valley. this beautiful land in the high, bright air, has been made into a garden with walls oriental walls fourteen feet high, with, in each corner, a chinese-looking little minaret. a stream runs the entire length of this garden, from east to west; it comes in and goes out of the garden through arches in the walls, where there are iron grilles. above these grilled arches, supported upon short stone beams projecting from the wall, are two narrow, stone-and-wood chinese-curved bridges, backing on the wall, and with a latticed hand-rail on the side towards the stream. the gate to this garden is in the middle of the north wall one of the long sides the garden being more long- 407- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust than square. when one approaches the gate fro

se beautiful lotuses of different- 408- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust colours. but the two ends of the garden are the real beauty spots the eastern end, on both banks of the stream, being a mass of roses, beds branching out from the stream in the form of wings, going as far up as the narrow, hidden path along the eastern wall, so that one, standing on the curved stone bridge (at either end of which are feathery clumps of waving pampas grasses, looks down on seraphs' wings of glorious roses, shaded from faintest rose to golden yellow. at the western end of the garden the seraphs' wings are of lilies, from the purple of the iris to the radiant white of the madonna lily. the shrubbery at the ends of the western bridge are "yellow bush" and lilacs. a fine gre

eginning of the woods. in the northwest corner there are three tall yews, only and the same in the corner to the northeast. the southeast corner is filled by the pagoda, with the woods behind it and the spruce trees to right and left, in front. across the stream from the pagoda, in the middle of the lawn (the eastern line of the peonies and the red rose bush not being very far away, is a circular stone seat, called the disciples' seat. it has a small willow tree and two short copper beeches behind it, and has an english box bush at either end. in front of it is a natural rock, of chair shape and height, where the master sits to talk to the disciples. when one stands on the path and looks towards the entrance gate, one sees fruit trees, en espalier on the wall to the right, peaches and nect

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

ght human relations, a world in which children can indeed grow into the likeness of the one father and in which man can return to the simplicity of the spiritual values of beauty, truth and goodness? yet, facing the worldwide reconstruction demanded and the well-nigh impossible task of salvaging the children and youth of the world, there are those today who are engaged in raising funds to rebuild stone churches and restore ancient buildings, thus demanding money which is sorely needed to restore broken bodies, to heal psychological wounds and to produce the warmth of love and understanding among those who believe that such qualities do not exist! the immediate need of the children the magnitude of the problems to be faced may well leave us bewildered and at a loss how to- 23- problems of h

hristian, a positive presentation of truth though very materialistic; both these faiths have been militant and political in their activities. the great western faith, christianity, has been definitely objective in its presentation of truth; this was needed. it has been militant, fanatical, grossly materialistic and ambitious. it has combined political objectives with pomp and ceremony, with great stone structures, with power and an imposed authority of a most cramping nature. the early christian church (which was relatively pure in its presentation of truth and in its living processes) eventually split into three main divisions the roman catholic church which today seeks to make capital out of the claim that it was the mother church, the byzantine or greek orthodox church and the protestan

trine and all of them were originally sincere and clean and relatively pure and good. all have steadily deteriorated since the day of their inception and today the following sad and serious situation can be found: 1. the roman catholic church is distinguished by three things which are all contrary to the spirit of christ: a. an intensely materialistic attitude. the church of rome stands for great stone structures cathedrals, churches, institutions, convents, monasteries. in order to build them, the- 75- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust policy down the centuries has been to drain the money out of the pockets of rich and poor alike. the roman catholic church is a strictly capitalistic church. the money gathered into its coffers supports a powerful ecclesiastical hierarchy and

red by the fundamentalists, the narrow-minded and the theologians in all the world religions, by those who refuse to let go the old interpretations and methods, who love the old doctrines and men's- 80- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust thoughts about them, and by those who lay the emphasis upon forms, upon rites and ceremonies, upon ritual and pomp, on authority and the building of stone edifices in these days of man's extremity, his starvation and his need. the roman catholic church here faces her greatest opportunity and also her greatest crisis. catholicism is founded in ancient tradition, is assertive of ecclesiastical authority, is responsive to outer forms and rituals and in spite of a wide and beneficent philanthropy is quite unable to leave her children free. if the

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

and not upon any such manmade institutions as the church and its dignitaries; christ will be seen as he is in reality, working through his disciples, through the masters of the wisdom and through his followers who toil unseen (and usually unrecognised) behind world affairs. the sphere of his activity will be known to be the human heart and also the crowded market places of the world, but not some stone edifice and not the pomp and ceremony of any ecclesiastical headquarters. our study of the future work of the christ is necessarily based upon three assumptions: 1. that the reappearance o the christ is inevitable and assured. 2. that he is today and has been actively working through the medium of the spiritual hierarchy of our planet, of which he is the head for the welfare of humanity. 3

trust affirmations of other human minds who claim that they do understand and that they have the truth. he does not believe that their minds and their interpretations are any better than his. the same old formulas, the same old theologies and the same old interpretations are deemed adequate to meet man's modern needs and enquiries. they are not. the church today is the tomb of the christ and the stone of theology has been rolled to the door of the sepulchre. there is, however, no point in attacking christianity. christianity cannot be attacked; it is an expression in essence, if not yet entirely factual of the love of god, immanent in his created universe. churchianity has, however, laid itself wide open to attack, and the mass of thinking people are aware of this; unfortunately, these th

wide open to attack, and the mass of thinking people are aware of this; unfortunately, these thinking people are still a small minority. nevertheless, it is this thinking minority which (when it is a majority and it is today a rapidly growing one) will spell the doom of the churches and endorse the spread of the true teaching of the christ. it is not possible that he has any pleasure in the great stone temples which churchmen have built, whilst his people are left without guidance or reasonable light upon world affairs; surely, he must feel (with an aching heart) that the simplicity which he taught and the simple way to god which he emphasised have disappeared into the fogs of theology (initiated by st. paul) and in the discussions of churchmen throughout the centuries. men have travelled

atical idea that anyone's individual interpretation of truth must necessarily be the only and correct one. theologians have fought (and with sincerity of intention) for forms of words which they believed were the only true and correct formulation of the divine idea, but christ was forgotten behind the words; churchmen have expended effort and executive ability in raising funds for the building of stone edifices whilst god's children everywhere went hungry and unclothed and so lost their belief in divine love. how can the need of humanity for spiritual guidance be met when the leaders of the churches are occupied with temporal concerns, when the emphasis is laid in the roman catholic, the greek orthodox and the protestant churches upon pomp and ceremonies, on great churches and stone cathed

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

still in their pristine magnificence, which today call for the attention of- 64- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust archaeologists and travellers; the forms of lesser magic which they produced were dedicated to the magical protection of the physical form and allied matters. in later days, we have the appearance of alchemy in its many forms plus its search for the philosopher's stone and the teaching as to the three basic mineral elements. they were driven esoterically and from the subjective side of life to search for that which could unify the three lower physical levels and this is in its nature deeply symbolic of racial unfoldment. these levels symbolise the integrated man physical, astral and mental. when to these elements the philosopher's stone is added and has do

ature deeply symbolic of racial unfoldment. these levels symbolise the integrated man physical, astral and mental. when to these elements the philosopher's stone is added and has done its magical work, then you have the symbolic representation of the control by the soul of the four higher levels of the physical plane, the etheric or energy levels. of this desirable consummation, the philosopher's stone is the emblem. i said "emblem" and i did not say "symbol" a symbol is an outer and visible sign of an inner and spiritual reality, carried out into expression upon the physical plane by the force of the inner embodied life. an emblem is man's formulation of a concept, created by man and embodying for him the truth as he sees it and understands it. a symbol is ever greater in its implications

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

they are pleasing god. i am, i know, widely generalising, brother of mine, for i do know also that there are wise and good christians and churchmen within the theological systems; these, however, spend not their time in theological discussions but in loving their fellowmen, and this they do because they love christ and all for which he stands. they are not interested in building great churches of stone and marble and in gathering together the money needed for their support; they are interested to gather out those who form the true church upon the inner spiritual plane and in helping them to walk in the light. the illusion of power, the illusion of superiority, taints them not. after the world crisis is over, churchmen everywhere will not rest until they can discover how to penetrate throug

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

rn. it might be stated that these caves exist in the rocks, deep under the plains. i am speaking figuratively and symbolically. out of the rocky cave, the christ emerged and walked again upon the plains of earth and from that time "the woman knew him not" form had no further hold upon him for he had overcome it in the depths. into the cave of initiation, the light of resurrection streams when the stone at the entrance is rolled away. from life in the form to the death of the form deep in the rocky place, down in the crypts of the temple the human being goes. but into that same place, the new life streams, bringing fresh life and liberation; old things pass away and the darkness becomes light. sex is then seen to be in truth only the relation of the lower nature to the higher self; it is th

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

y parents because i enticed my small sister into an enormous trunk in which our many, many toys were kept. we were lost for quite a while and nearly suffocated, for the lid shut down on us. the second was that i made my first attempt to commit suicide! i just did not find life worth living. the experience of my five years made me feel that things were futile so i decided that if i bumped down the stone kitchen steps from top to bottom (and they were very steep) i would probably be dead at the end. i did not succeed. bridget, the cook, picked me up and carried me (battered and bruised) upstairs where i met much comforting but no understanding- 14- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust as i went on in life, i made two other efforts to put an end to things, only to discover

ear to one party and for six months of the year (when i was not in scotland and under the influence of my aunt) to the other. i was torn between the beauties of ritual and the narrowness of dogma. missionary work was dinned into my consciousness by both groups. the world was divided into those who were christians and worked hard to save souls and those who were heathen and bowed down to images of stone and worshipped them. the buddha was a stone image; and it never dawned on me then that the images of the buddha were on a par with the statues and images of the christ in the christian churches with which i was so familiar on the continent of europe. i was in a complete fog. and then at the height of my unhappiness and in the very middle of my dilemma and questioning one of the masters of th

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

a member of a group, such as a group for healing, speaks of developing group consciousness, he refers to his particular group of brothers, and to his group as a unit of several souls. forget not that such a unit is in itself a separative concept from the angle of the greater whole, but it serves a useful purpose in training the group members to think in those wider terms. it serves as a stepping stone away from the consciousness of the isolated personality- 210- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust if you can indeed feel, think and function as one complete unit several personalities and one soul it will then be relatively easy to extend the concept to a broader inclusiveness, to broaden your horizon and thus become inclusive in a much wider

cient truth for the modern world in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, it has been so- 238- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust unintelligently presented; it has been handicapped owing to the fact that the eastern races have always held it, and from the western angle they are heathen and the heathen "in their blindness bow down to wood and stone" to quote one of your fundamentalist hymns. how curious it is to realise that, to the man from eastern countries, the religious people in the west do likewise, and can be seen on their knees before the christian altars bearing statues of the christ, of the virgin mary and of the apostles. the occultists of the world, through the theosophical societies and other occult bodies, so-called, have

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cloister's shade moves not. he writes, and measures to the task assigned. iii. a room in shadow, full of peace and calm, of books and enterprise. and at the desk, the master sits and works and thinks, projecting thought, working within, above and all around, whilst through the room pass many. it is their right to pass. iv. a golden door, wide open to the sun. before the door lie rocks and bits of stone. a path winds towards that door, and o'er its lintel are the words: enter with calm; speak low and only if a need is there. enter the stream behind the door and wash away the stains of travel. then face the master, but only when the quiet of evening light shines forth and all is still within. take these pictures one each sunday in the month and work creatively with them. at the close of a ye

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

the masters and the teacher alike of angels and of men. i am one who looks to the christ as the supreme expression of divinity upon earth and who knows the extent of his sacrificial work for humanity, the wonder of the revelation which he brought, the imminence of his return and of his coming assumption of spiritual rule in the hearts of men everywhere. i know that he has no pleasure in the great stone temples which man has built whilst his people are left without practical guidance or reasonable light upon their affairs; and i know too that he feels, with an aching heart, that the simplicity which he taught, and the simple way to god which he emphasised have disappeared in the fogs of theology and the discussions of churchmen throughout the centuries. i know that he realises that the word

of the twentieth century and has led to the horror of this world war, 1914-1945 through which we have been passing. the true work of the cycle of conferences about which i wrote earlier will only be inaugurated at san francisco. there the stage will be set for those processes which will usher in an era of relative tranquillity; thus the door of the dark cave of materialism will be opened and the stone rolled from the door of the sepulchre which has too long entombed mankind. then will follow those steps which will lead to a new and better life and which will indicate the expression of the spirit of resurrection. these facts (so near to manifestation) are physical facts; they will demonstrate as such if the disciples of the world recognise what it is that the christ desires, and if the men

facing the future with despair and agony, but still aspiring must go forth from the cave of matter, seeking the christ and at- 309- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust first not recognising him or the work that he is attempting to do. the churches materialistic, hide-bound and submerged in their theological concepts, seeking political power or possessions, emphasising stone buildings and cathedrals whilst neglecting "the temple of god, not made with hands, eternal in the heavens" are occupied with the symbols and not with the reality. now they must learn to recognise that the lord is not with them and they too must go forth, as mary did, and seek him anew. if they will do so, they will surely find him and again become his messengers. the fact of the resurrectio

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

sappears" out of his own life, but the forces which have been transmuted into spiritual energy begin now to have a dynamic transmutative effect in the world of forms wherein he now chooses to work and serve, according to his ray and ashramic intent. 4. impartation. reference to this is made in the book of revelation, found in the new testament. there we are told that the initiate is given a white stone, and in the stone "a new name" is found written; this is the "hidden name egoic" i am at a loss at this point as to how to express the higher significance of this. this impartation marks a climaxing point in the attainment of the point of tension where the sound can be heard and not the word alone. never forget that the o.m. is simply a symbolically sounded word which is intended to bring in

ave been ignobly selfish and controlled by the concepts of fighting, aggression and competition- 408- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust for untold millenia; the territories of the planet have changed hands many times and the earth has been the playground of a long succession of conquerors; the heroes of the race perpetuated in history, stone and human thinking have been the warriors, and conquest has been an ideal. the world war (1914-1945) marked a culminating point in the work of the principle of conflict and, as i have shown, the results of this work are today inaugurating a new era of harmony and cooperation because the trend of human thinking is towards the cessation of conflict. this is an event of major importance and sho

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

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

e venus rules the zodiacal sign. the hard, driving thrust of modern life is too aggressively masculine; the softer grace and artistic beauty of the feminine component should act [135] as a complementary influence. the libran instinctively understands this. he knows that masculine assertiveness must be modified by the subtler savor of feminine sweetness; that yielding water will outlast implacable stone and rigid steel. when the libran has assimilated the soft harmonies of venus, he begins to respond to another vibration, that of uranus. the statement in the bible which describes this impulse is expressed in the words "behold, i make all things new" the old forms are understood to be chains and shackles. they must be discarded. the broom of god must sweep away the debris of the ages in orde

atisfied with this response, hercules proceeded. soon he saw the triple-headed dog, and heard its piercing bark. snarling, it sprang upon him. grasping the primary throat of cerberus, hercules held it in his vice-like grip. goaded to frenzied fury, the monster thrashed about. at length, its strength subsiding, hercules mastered it. this done, hercules went on, and found prometheus. upon a slab of stone he lay, in agonizing pain. quickly hercules then broke the chains, and set the sufferer free. retracing his steps, hercules returned as he had come. when once again he reached the world of living things, he found his teacher there "the light now shines within the world of dark" the teacher said "the labor is achieved. rest now, my son" f.m. prologue the sign of capricorn, says the tibetan, i

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

the latter. 5 the six lines following are often heard as a nursery rhyme. 6 probably a mistake for luna. 7 this implies keeping himself warm, and is proof possitive that moonshould here be read for sun.according to another legend cain suffers from cold in the moon. 8 this is a formula which is to be slowly recited, emphasising the repetitions.chapter iii. no footnotes)chapter iv. 9 properly, the stone with a hole in it. but such a stone is called holy on shipboard, and here it hasreally a claim to the name. 10 this is an obscure passage, but i believe that i have given it as the poet meant or felt it. 11 il sasso a palla.chapter v. 12 this passage is not given in the original ms, but it is necessary to clearly explain what followsabruptly. page 76 as such works must have pictures, circe i

ut go home andlook in the glass, and it will seem to thee that thou art looking on a mortal sin in human form.then gianni in a roaring rage cried, i will have my way and my will, thou old wife of the devil, if imust kill thee and the girl too! saying which, he rushed up the ladder; but before he had opened orcould enter the window, and was at the top, he found himself as it were turned to wood or stone,unable to move. page 72 it befell that one evening melambo, thinking on this while playing with a nest of young serpentswhich his servant had found in a hollow oak, said: i would that i could talk with you;well i know that ye have language,as graceful as your movement,as brilliant as your colour.then he fell asleep, and the young serpents twined in his hair and began to lick his lips and eye

this is all classic. no oneever heard of a satanic witch invoking or threatening the trinity, or christ or even the angels orsaints. in fact, they cannot even compelthe devil or his imps to obey they work entirely by hisgood-will as slaves. but in the old italian lore the sorcerer or witch is all or nothing, and aims at limit-less will or power.of the ancient belief in the virtues of a perforated stone i need not speak. but it is to be remarkedthat in the invocation the witch goes forth in the earliest morning to seekfor verbena or verbain. theancient persian magi, or rather their daughters, worshipped the sun as it rose by waving freshlyplucked verbena, 32 which was one of the seven most powerful plants in magic. these persianpriestesses were naked while they thus worshipped, nudity being

, wood, and poultry. there was not leftthe value of four farthings.but on the day fixed for payment there was no lavernato be seen. the goddess was far away, andhad left her creditor in asso in the lurch!at the same time lavernawent to a great lord and bought of him a castle, well-furnished within andbroad rich lands without. page 56 which hunting hound, as well is known,was changed by jupiter to stone.it is remarkable that in this story the moon is compared to an onion. the onion, says friedrich(symbolik der natur, p. 348, was, on account of its many skins, among the egyptians the emblemand hieroglyph of the many-formed moon, whose different phases are so clearly seen in the rootwhen it is cut through, also because its growth or decrease corresponds with that of the planet.therefore it wa

since even her own parents had willingly given her over to an awful death.now her parents and the priests, and all who sought her death, were in the palace watching lest sheshould escape.when lo! in answer to her prayer there came a terrible tempest and overwhelming wind, a stormsuch as man had never seen before, which overthrew and swept away the palace with all who werein it; there was not one stone left upon another, nor one soul alive of all who were there. the godshad replied to the prayer.the young lady escaped happily with her lover, wedded him, and the house of the peasant wherethe lady stood is still called la casa al vento, or the house of the wind.this is very accurately the storyas i received it, but i freely admit that i have very much condensedthe language of the original te

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

r information address: seo vebooks http//stores.ebay.com/seo vebooks all rights reserved. this product is for personal use only and not for resale. copyright violations will be prosecuted by law. toutes les droites sont reserves. tutti i diritti riservati. todos les derechos reservados. twelve keys of basil valentine 3 of 95 the preface of basilius valentinus, the benedictine concerning the great stone of the ancient sages. when i had emptied to the dregs the cup of human suffering, i was led to consider the wretchedness of this world, and the fearful consequences of our first parents disobedience. then i saw that there was no hope of repentance for mankind, that they were getting worse day by day, and that for their impenitence god s everlasting punishment was hanging over them; and i mad

e spirit of my diseased brother, who, from that day to the day of his death, remembered me in his hourly prayers. and his prayers, together with my own diligence, so prevailed with god, that there was revealed to me that great secret which god ever conceals from those who are wise in their own conceits. thus have i been wishing to reveal to you in this treatise, as far as may be lawful to me, the stone of the ancients, that you, too, might possess the knowledge of this highest of earthly treasures for your health and comfort in this valley of sorrow. i write about it, not for my own good, but for that of posterity, and though my words be few and simple, that which they import is of immeasurable magnitude. ponder them well, that you also may find the rock which is the foundation twelve keys

you, too, might possess the knowledge of this highest of earthly treasures for your health and comfort in this valley of sorrow. i write about it, not for my own good, but for that of posterity, and though my words be few and simple, that which they import is of immeasurable magnitude. ponder them well, that you also may find the rock which is the foundation twelve keys of basil valentine 6 of 95 stone of truth, the temporal blessing, and the eternal reward. twelve keys of basil valentine 7 of 95 the tract of basilius valentinus, the benedictine, concerning the great stone of the ancient sages. in the preface, gentle reader, and zealous student of this art, i promised to communicate to you a knowledge of our corner stone, or rock, of the process by which it is prepared, and of the substanc

tain head. i propose to set forth what i have to say in a few simple, straightforward words, for i am no adept in the art of multiplying words; nor do i think that exuberance of language tends to clearness; on the contrary, i am convinced that it is many words that darken council. let me tell you, then, that although many are engaged twelve keys of basil valentine 8 of 95 in the search after this stone, it is nevertheless found but by very few. for god never intended that it should become generally known. it is rather to be regarded as a gift which he reserves for those favoured few, who love the truth, and hate falsehood, who study our art earnestly by day and by night, and whose hearts are set upon god with an unfeigned affection. hence, if you would prepare our great and ancient stone

e. it is also necessary that you should determine to shew your gratitude to god for his unspeakable gift, by succouring the poor and the distressed, and by opening your hand and your heart to the needy. then god will bless your labour, and reward your search with success, and yourself with a seat in heaven as the fruit of your faith. do not despise the truthful writings of those who possessed the stone before us. for, after the enlightening grace of god, it is from them that i received my knowledge. let your study of them be increased and repeated often, lest you lose the thread twelve keys of basil valentine 9 of 95 of insight, and the lamp of understanding be extinguished. give yourself wholly to study, and be not flighty or doubleminded. let your mind be like a firm rock, in which all t

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

aries 2.11. sending forth the dogs of the seven might demon attendants 2.12. drawing the circle of protection 2.2. the great violence demon accomplishment cycle based on the outer propitiations 2.21. a. introduction: the four stages b. first stage [summon] by means of the outer offerings 2.22. second stage [summon] by means of the inner cane whip 2.23. third stage [summon] by means of secret life stone and life wheel 2.24. a. fourth stage [summon] by means of the ultimate red spear lasso b. secret text 74 2.25. colophon 2.3. s.dhana of violence demon offerings 2.4. violence demon invocation and history 2.5. terma entrusting the warlord s life-energy to tamdrin the first part is the tantra itself and the remainder of the text consists of the accompanying s.dhanas. the title page consists of

lored water or beer. 2.22. second stage [summon] by means of the inner cane whip the second stage, the inner cane whip, lures the deities further by striking a ritual whip during the mantra recitation, followed by other ritual activities. it is at this point that the deities are entreated to perform specific deeds that the practitioner expresses. 2.23. third stage [summon] by means of secret life stone and life wheel the third stage, the secret life stone and life wheel, seals these deities with mantras into their office as protectors of the temple and region. these mantras are written on the specific ritual implements of the life stone and life wheel. the life stone refers to a ritual stone that signifies the life-essences of the seven riders. de nebesky-wojkowitz mentions a life stone in

t life stone and life wheel, seals these deities with mantras into their office as protectors of the temple and region. these mantras are written on the specific ritual implements of the life stone and life wheel. the life stone refers to a ritual stone that signifies the life-essences of the seven riders. de nebesky-wojkowitz mentions a life stone in reference to tsiu marpo, stating that it is a stone representing the seat of the deity s life-force. this is fitting, as a ritual performer who possesses a stone endowed with tsiu marpo s life-force would then be able to exact his will on the deity, akin to the acts of subjugation performed by tamdrin and padmasambhava.130 the life wheel, equally, is a circle of mantras that bind the 130 see de nebesky-wojkowitz 1998, pp. 174, 491; tucci 1988

e effigy. referring to the sixty-year tibetan calendrical cycle. 359 a band of colored wool. 360 as the next three annotations suggest, i suspect this refers to the dough horse mount and weapons that complete the might demon effigy. 361 smeared with colored powder. 362 obscure. 363 done by the red horse of the might demons. 364 by the weapon. 365 made orange [from] red wheat, orange meat, and red stone [mixed with] a knife; obscure. this possibly refers to a vow-breaker; from the sanskrit bheda "to break, cleave" 366 of sheep. 367 bamboo pitch (cu gang, saffron (gur gum, clove (li shi, nutmeg (dza ti, cardamon (sug smel, and chinese cardamom (ka ko la. 368 the five precious jewels. gold, silver, turquoise, coral, and pearl. 369 the crushed effigy. 370 the proffered effigy. 371 designated a

le based on the outer propitiations to the great violence demons" samaya..kin.-script. homage to glorious tamdrin! the violence demons, the seven emanating riders, give as offerings the forms of their own essential life-energies. by means of the outer propitiations, the vow-holders assemble like clouds; by means of the inner cane whip, the vow-holders follow like dogs; by means of the secret life stone and life wheel, the vow-holders are lured like children; and by means of the ultimate red spear lasso, enemies and hindering demons are completely struck down; and those are the four scrolls. these are the profound sections of the heart. 1b. first stage [summon] by means of the outer offerings (315.4-315.6) by means of the first propitiation offerings, pure golden beverages and turquoise bev

BLACK SERPENT1

se all three packages in the box and only use 3/4 the packet of seasoning -1 packet lawrey's beef burrito seasoning (mccormick and schilling suck in this recipe, but if you like them, go for it- 2 packages of pillsbury croissant roll dough (low fat -2 bags of shredded cheddar or colby-jack cheese (smart balance works fine) prepare beef according to the burrito seasoning packet. get a pizza pan or stone and open the 6 dough. arrange the dough to where the lower half of the triangle of dough is in the inside of the dish and the pointy part of the triangle is on the outside. this is very important. i don't know how to explain it better. just that the thicker side of the triangle needs to be at the middle of the pizza pan/stone. work around the pizza pan to make the dough form a sunshine shape

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

they took wives fair to look upon. wives from the mindless, the narrow-headed. they bred monsters. wicked demons, male and female, also khado (dakini, with little minds. 42. they built temples for the human body. male and female they worshipped. then the third eye acted no longer- xi. 43. they built huge cities. of rare earths and metals they built, and out of the fires vomited, out of the white stone of[[vol. 2, page] 21 the slokas of "dzyan" the mountains and of the black stone, they cut their own images in their size and likeness, and worshipped them. 44. they built great images nine yatis high, the size of their bodies. inner fires had destroyed the land of their fathers. the water threatened the fourth. 45. the first great waters came. they swallowed the seven great islands. 46. all

ation of our race-father abraham (that is abram and abraham, or numbers 41224 and 41252. he then says that this book of number treats of teaching the alhim-ness and one-ness through "dbrim" viz, the numbers of the word "words" that is, it teaches the use of the ratio 31415 to one, through 41224, which last, in the description of the ark of the covenant, was divided into two parts by two tables of stone, on which these, dbrim or 41224, were written or engraved- or 20612 by 2. he then comments on these three subordinately used words, and takes care as to one of them to make the comment "and alhim (31415 to 1) said: let there be light (20612 to 6561" the three words as given in the text are[[hebrew. and the rabbi in commenting upon them says "it teaches the alhimness (31415) and one-ness (the

divine being dragged into the animal, the sublime into the grossness of the terrestrial. nothing so graphically gross exists in eastern occultism, nor in the primitive kabala- the "chaldean book of numbers" we have said so in "isis unveiled "we find it rather unwise on the part of catholic writers to pour out their vials of wrath in such sentences as these 'in a multitude of pagodas, the phallic stone, ever and always assuming, like the grecian batylos, the brutally indecent form of the lingham. the maha deva' before casting slurs on a symbol whose profound metaphysical meaning is too much for the modern champions of that religion of sensualism par excellence, roman catholicism, to grasp, they are in duty bound to destroy their oldest churches, and change the form of the cupolas of their

nd the descent of man from an animal ancestor[[footnote(s* the term here means neither the dolicho-cephalic nor the brachyo-cephalic, nor yet skulls of a smaller volume, but simply brains devoid of intellect generally. the theory which would judge of the intellectual capacity of a man according to his cranial capacity, seems absurdly illogical to one who has studied the subject. the skulls of the stone period, as well as those of african races (bushmen included) show that the first are above rather than below the average of the brain capacity of the modern man, and the skulls of the last are on the whole (as in the case of papuans and polynesians generally) larger by one cubic inch than that of the average frenchman. again, the cranial capacity of the parisian of today represents an averag

ike external shape, yet it is as correct that this shape was no more that of the "missing link" than were the coverings of that astral form, during the course of its natural evolution through all the kingdoms of nature. nor was it, as shown in the proper place, on this fourth round planet that such evolution took place, but only during the first, second, and third rounds, when man was, in turn "a stone, a plant, and an animal" until he became what he was in the first root-race of present humanity. the real line of evolution differs from the darwinian, and the two systems are irreconcilable, except when the latter is divorced from the dogma of "natural selection" and the like. indeed, between the monera of haeckel and the sarisripa of manu, there lies an impassable chasm in the shape of the

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

er 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 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

it applies perfectly to the awakened mahat, the universal mind already projected into the phenomenal world as the first aspect of the changeless absolute, but never to the latter "spirit and matter, or purusha and prakriti are but the two primeval aspects of the one and secondless" we are taught. the matter-moving nous, the animating soul, immanent in every atom, manifested in man, latent in the stone, has different degrees of power; and this pantheistic idea of a general spirit-soul pervading all nature is the oldest of all the philosophical notions. nor was the archaeus a discovery of paracelsus nor of his pupil van helmont; for it is again the same archaeus or "father-ether- the manifested basis[[footnote(s* see schwegler's "handbook of the history of philosophy" in sterling's translat

en saying, as he did, that the unconscious evolved the universe only "in the hope of attaining clear selfconsciousness" of becoming, in other words, man; for this is also the secret meaning of the usual puranic phrase about[[vol. 1, page] 107 no man- no god. brahma being constantly "moved by the desire to create" this explains also the hidden kabalistic meaning of the saying "the breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god" the mind-born sons, the rishis, the builders, etc, were all men- of whatever forms and shapes- in other worlds and the preceding manvantaras. this subject, being so very mystical, is therefore the most difficult to explain in all its details and bearings; since the whole mystery of evoluti

c perisprit, to men, animals, fowls of the air, and everything living. animals have only the latent germ of the highest immortal soul in them. this latter will develop[[footnote(s* codex nazaraeus, i, 135* ibid* see the cosmogony of pherecydes[[vol. 1, page] 197 ilda-baoth-jehovah. only after a series of countless evolutions; the doctrine of which evolution is contained in the kabalistic axiom 'a stone becomes a plant; a plant, a beast; a beast, a man; a man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god (vol. i, p. 301, note) the seven principles of the eastern initiates had not been explained when "isis" was written, but only the three kabalistic faces of the semi-exoteric kabala* but these contain the description of the mystic natures of the first group of dhyan chohans in the regimen ignis, the regi

-hi; the battles fought between stars and constellations, between moon and planets- later on incarnated as kings and mortals. hence also the war in heaven of michael and his host against the dragon (jupiter and lucifer- venus, when a third of the stars of the rebellious host was hurled down into space, and "its place was found no more in heaven" as said long ago "this is the basic and fundamental stone of the secret cycles. it shows that the brahmins and tanaim. speculated on the creation and development of the world quite in a darwinian way, both anticipating him and his school in the natural selection of species, the survival of the fittest[[vol. 1, page] 203 the birth of the worlds. and transformation. there were old worlds that perished conquered by the new" etc, etc("isis unveiled" vo

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e a little boat of my tongue, and explore the unknown rivers. it may be that the everlasting salt may turn to sweetness, and that my life may be no longer athirst. 6. o ye that drink of the brine of your desire, ye are nigh to madness! your torture increaseth as ye drink, yet still ye drink. come up through the creeks to the fresh water; i shall be waiting for you with my kisses. 7. as the bezoar-stone that is found in the belly of the cow, so is my lover among lovers. 8. o honey boy! bring me thy cool limbs hither! let us sit awhile in the orchard, until the sun go down! let us feast on the cool grass! bring wine, ye slaves, that the cheeks of my boy may flush red. 9. in the garden of immortal kisses, o thou brilliant one, shine forth! make thy mouth an opium-poppy, that one kiss the equi

inant figure of evil, the horror of emptiness, with his ghastly eyes like poisonous wells. he stood, and the chamber was corrupt; the air stank. he was an old and gnarled fish more hideous than the shells of abaddon. 35. he enveloped me with his demon tentacles; yea, the eight fears took hold upon me. 36. but i was anointed with the right sweet oil of the magister; i slipped from the embrace as a stone from the sling of a boy of the woodlands. 37. i was smooth and hard as ivory; the horror gat no hold. then at the noise of the wind of thy coming he was dissolved away, and the abyss of the great void was unfolded before me. 38. across the waveless sea of eternity thou didst ride with thy captains and thy hosts; with thy chariots and horsemen and spearmen didst thou travel through the blue

t, shalt see these things, and thou shalt heed them not. 5. 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 of the earth. 6. through the midnight thou art dropt, o my child, my conquerer, my sword-girt captain, o hoor! and they shall find thee as a black gnarl.d glittering stone, and they shall worship thee. 7. my prophet shall prophesy concerning thee; around thee the maidens shall dance, and bright babes be born unto them. thou shalt inspire the proud ones with infinite pride, and the humble ones with an ecstasy of abasement; all this shall transcend the known and the unknown with somewhat that hath no name. for it is as the abyss of the arcanum that is opened in

hat little progress is made, and some slackness exists as regards exercises. the truth is, i more and more use the true essence. if a little worry occurs, automatically, i turn to that within which dissolves it at once and restores the balance. it is that nothing with which i come into closest contact during meditation, but it is ever present, and i recognize the fact. i believe it to be the true stone of the wise which turns everything to gold. i call it adonai when i give it a name at all. most often the mind slips into that state without reason or argument [yes: it does appear that more time ought to be given to the work. but the progress is not bad for all that. however, i don.t quite like the complacent feeling. nothing replaces hard work. somebody i know (or don.t know) does more act

crated vesture; vain the high and holy gesture; vain the proven and perfect spell enchanting heaven, enchaining hell. unyoked the horses from the car wherein i waged celestial war: mine angle sheathes again his sword at the interdiction of the lord. even hell is shut, lest spite and strife should show my soul a way to life. hope dies; faith flickers and is gone. love weeps, then turns its soul to stone. all nearest, highest, holiest things drop off; the soul must lose her wings, and, crippled, find, with no one clue the infinite maze to travel through, the goal unguessed, the path untrod, and stand unhelmed, unarmed, unshod, naked before the unknown god. oh! stertorous, oh! strangling strife that cleaves to love, that clings to life! the will is broken, falls afar extinct as an accurs d st

BOOK OF ENOCH

stars to set. 18.5] and i saw the winds on the earth which support the clouds and i saw the paths of the angels. i saw at the end of the earth; the firmament of heaven above. 18.6] and i went towards the south, and it was burning day and night, where there were seven mountains of precious stones, three towards the east and three towards the south. 18.7] and those towards the east were of coloured stone, and one was of pearl, and one of healing stone; and those towards the south, of red stone. 18.8] and the middle one reached to heaven, like the throne of the lord, of stibium, and the top of the throne was of sapphire. 18.9] and i saw a burning fire, and what was in all the mountains. 18.10] and i saw a place there, beyond the great earth; there the waters gathered together. 18.11] and i sa

BOOK OF JASHAR

n, is sharpened for the modern reader by the fact that "flo" and "faben" are names that jane goodall used for wild chimpanzees that she studied in gombe. the name "human" is of course just 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

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

the spirits. these appurtenances may be constructed by the hands of the operator, or bought before the initiation of the experiments. in either case, the instruments should be consecrated as to dedicate their use for the assistance in this operation. the instruments are as follows. the configuration of the temple. this temple is to measure fifteen feet square and may be constructed out of either stone or wood, as is preferred. there should be a window to allow light into the temple, as this is a work of the attainment of light, and where there is no light there is only darkness, as we are told. the ceiling of the temple should not be less than six feet high; both it and the ceiling should be unadorned, unless there is a reason to do contrariwise. the magic circle& triangle of the art. the

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

le is not really the best (unless glued or pegged together. if there has to be metal in the table, brass is acceptable. why is this? it has to do with conductivity. the witch's knife and sword (and wand, if used) are the only tools that are used for storing and directing energies. they, then, can be of a conductive metal iron or steel. all other items should be non-conductive silver, gold, brass, stone, wood since they are not used in that fashion. but why not have a little aestheticism with your altar? lesson two: beliefs/ 21 22/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft why not do things properly? you are working in a circle, so why not a circular altar? to me, a rectangular altar in a circle always looks somewhat incongruous. this is one of the reasons a tree stump is so ideal. in fact a b

the knife usually has a steel, double-edged blade, though one exception is in the frosts' tradition, where it is a single-edged brass knife. it might be worth quoting from anglo-saxon magic by dr. g. storms (gordon press, ny 1974, an annotated translation of various ancient anglo-saxon manuscripts "iron manifestly takes its power from the fact that the material was better and scarcer than wood or stone for making tools, and secondly from the mysterious way in which it was originally found: in meteoric stones. it needed a specialist and a skilled laborer to obtain the iron from the ore and to harden it. indeed we find many peoples regard their blacksmiths as magicians. among them wayland stands out as the smith par excellence. the figure of this wondrous (saxon) smith symbolizing at first t

rrect to slope them) is that it can cause confusion. for example, in the seax-wica runes, a sloping n rune would look like ag. the theban alphabet is used quite a lot in the craft. in gardnerian, for example, it is used for writing the high priestess's name on her bracelet. it is an attractive form of writing. the runes are angular, with no curves, because they were used for carving into wood and stone. but the theban was written on parchment, as well as being engraved and etched on talismans, so could be more elaborate. the theban alphabet is depicted in figure 3.9.1 will speak more on this alphabet, and several others, in the later lesson on charms and talismans. 38/ auckland's complete book of witchcraft. to know a person's name is to have a hold, a power, over them. for to know the nam

the right road to take. in this manner you can easily trace a route taken from point a to point b. for more on the pendulum, see practical color magtck by raymond buckland (llewellyn publications, 1983. the steps, in learning to psychometrize, are easy ones requiring only practice with patience. take eight or ten samples of different substances: cloth of various types, leather, fur, wood, metal, stone, etc. sit quietly and, taking one object at a time in your hands, concentrate on it. feel its texture. think of its origins. try to picture the tree from which the wood came; the animal from which the fur came, and so on. work at the objects regularly, spending as long as you feel comfortable on each object but always going right through the complete set. it may be that you will get very def

ualities when irritation is present. bearberry or uva ursi ivs. bilberry ivs. broom tops buchu ivs. burdock seeds button snake rt. canada fleabane hb. cleavers hb. copaiba balsam corn silk cubeb berries dog grass rt. dwarf elder bk. elecampane rt. gravel plant ivs. hair cap moss horse tail grass juniper berries kava-kava rt. matico ivs. pareira brava rt. parsley rt. princess pine ivs. seven barks stone rt. water eryngo rt. white birch ivs. wild carrot hb. emollients agents generally of oily or mucilaginous nature, used externally for their softening, supple or soothing qualities. comfrey rt. flaxseed meal marsh mallow ivs. or rt. oatmeal quince seed slippery elm bk. expectorants agents used to induce expulsion or loosen phlegm of the mucous membranes of the bronchial and nasal passages. ex

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

cause their return unto myself. i am the life, and the wheel of the law, and the way that, leadeth to the beyond. there is none else. 4 i am the fire of mind which divideth itself into the superior and inferior natures, and putteth on a robe of flesh to come down. i am the vital principle of all that is. nothing is that does not live, and of that life i am the source. as it is written" first the stone, then the plant, then the animal, and then the man" but before the stone, i am the fire, distributed equally in space, nowhere absent, filling all. and before the fire, hidden within it, i am the pure knowing whence all forms flow forth. 5 apart from me there is neither wisdom, nor knowledge, nor understanding. into every state of knowledge do i enter, into false knowledge as well as into tr

hed by the wise have number for their foundation. for the circle of the tally is the coiled fiery power which cometh from the sun, and to rule this, thou must learn to count [92] t e t h count aright, and thou shalt have oil for thy lamps, for the oil for lighting. containeth the secret of the letter teth. this is the oil which riseth like a serpent, the oil which thy father jacob poured upon the stone in the house of strength. 4 verily, he who knoweth the secret of that stone, knoweth also the secret of the serpent, and in him shall be fulfilled the saying "when israel was a child, then i loved him, and called my son out of egypt" and he who knoweth this shall be a measurer of mercy, and all his works shall be rooted in the strength of my law [93] comment on teth* t e t h, pronounced tayt

d is therefore a sign of beginning. its second letter, th, as the last of the alphabet, is the sign of the end. the final letter, h, means "window, and to it is attributed the faculty of sight. so ends the book of tokens, with the affirmation which is made, in one way or another, by all the sages, of whatever race, time, or creed. the innermost self of man is the jewel of eternity, or the magical stone of the wise, which gives its possessor the priceless boon of immortality. he who truly knows the self, who has freed himself from the bonds of delusion which make the ignorant mistakenly apply the term "self" to the limited, transitory personality, such an one has found the goal. they who find it are sometimes called lords of the secret of saturn, for they understand why saturn is said to ha

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

iary and left- along with scores of similar pleas- on an ancient pile of stones in the forest of broceliande in brittany. archaeologists say that this is the grave of a neolithic hunter, but local tradition says that in this forest dwelled vivien, the lady of the lake of arthurian legend, and that here, having seduced merlin in order to learn his secrets, she ensnared him with his own spells. the stone pile is known as merlin's tomb, and each year hundreds visit the site to thank the wizard or to ask for his aid. when i visited the tomb, prayers- written on scraps of paper or card- were squeezed into gaps in the stones or pinned to the tree that shelters the tomb. whatever the origins of the tomb, it has been transformed into a source of power. for this badly signposted spot, a short walk

rayers- written on scraps of paper or card- were squeezed into gaps in the stones or pinned to the tree that shelters the tomb. whatever the origins of the tomb, it has been transformed into a source of power. for this badly signposted spot, a short walk up a muddy track from a cramped, rough car park, had a tranquil, spiritual air that you might expect at a great cathedral or far more impressive stone circles. such spots unleash the magick inside us. but even if you never visit brittany or stonehenge at sunrise on midsummer's day, you can still make use of your own magick. this is a book about white magick and witchcraft as sources of wisdom, healing and positivity. like native american spirituality, to which true witchcraft is akin (some say both were carried by the people of atlantis, t

and so it often happens that it is the wealthy people who win even more money- although that does not necessarily bring happiness. casting your needs into the cosmos and trusting they will be met does work, but not if you are expecting magick to compensate for an unnecessary shopping binge. nor, after a period of overeating and no exercise, can you expect a miracle diet to work so that you shed a stone in two days while still eating chocolate. spells tend to work best when there is a genuine 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

use this coincided with peak female fertility. moon magick for the increase of love and fertility is still practised under the auspices of the waxing moon. it was not until about 3,000 years ago that the male role in conception was seite 6 wicca01.txt fully understood in the west, and only then were the sky father deities able to usurp the mysteries of the divine mother. a trinity of huge, carved stone goddesses, representing the three main cycles of the moon, and dating from between 13000 and 11000 bc, was found in france in a cave at the abri du roc aux sorciers at angles-sur-l'anglin. this motif continued right through to the triple goddess of the celts, reflecting the lunar cycles as maiden, mother and crone, an image that also appeared throughout the classical world. witchcraft and th

s death. along with other nature deities, the horned god became demonised with the advent of christianity, and the goddess was either depicted as a wicked witch or downgraded to the status of a faerie. thus the celtic warrior goddess maeve became the faerie mab, described thus by mercutio in shakespeare's romeo and juliet: she is the fairy's midwife, and she comes in shape no bigger than an agate-stone on the fore-finger of an alderman [insert pic p022- contrary to popular belief, wiccans do not 'hex (cast curses) or seek revenge, although some dutch and pennsylvanian witches consider that it is justifiable to 'bind' those who harm children or animals or actively promote evil or corruption. wiccans prefer to rely on the principles of natural justice that under karmic principles will redres

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nd a spoonful of ashes. dat bag pertect you from you enemy" moses claimed that she learned her magical knowledge "from my daddy and mammy\ 48\ and de old folks" she added "most of dem things works iffen you tries dem"[25] over time, certain ingredients emerged as staple components in the material rhetoric of conjure practices. the gravel and earth gathered from the surfaces of cemetery graves and stone markers, sometimes called "goopher dust" was a near-universal element in the pharmacopoeia of african american supernaturalism. a rabbit's feet or the highly sought after bone of a black cat endowed a practitioner with great power. materials were selected both for their sympathetic associations and for aesthetic purposes: red pepper to produce heat or irritation; lodestone to draw desirable

view=print 7/14/2006 between 1915 and 1919 the northern cities became home and haven to nearly five hundred thousand transplanted african americans migrants. roughly one million more followed in intermittent waves throughout the 1920s. looking back at this world, the novelist richard wright envisioned what lay before these sojourners as they "headed for the tall and sprawling centers of steel and stone" in an evocative reflection, wright grieved for the "landless millions of the land" whose "awkward feet" were first "upon the pavements of the city" there "life would begin to exact c a heavy toll in death" to be sure, the hardships of migration for black americans were compounded by poverty, discrimination in housing and employment, and by the collective antipathy of white city dwellers, wh

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ve invented astrology. astrological textbook bearing their names was written or translated into greek= an encyclopedia of cosmogony, astrology and magic, of which we have citations from the fourteenth book. 200-150 bce the book of the watchers.aramaic. parts of its text have been identified on several copies from qumran cave 4; the earliest fragmentary manuscript(4qenocha) dates. 196- the rosetta stone was engraved 164 book of daniel (o.t. 160 o.t. apocrypha: tobit, 1 esdras, enoch, others. 150 yoga sutras of patanajali; early qumran (dead sea scrolls. 150 bc esoteric form of astrology based on the teachings of hermes or thoth circulates in numerous works under such titles as: astrologoumena, hermaikai diataxeis or doctrines of hermes, apokotastasis, liber hermetis(listing of decan images

tion to the andalusian mathematician al-majriti (or al-madjriti d. ca. 1004-7) is considered pseudo-epigraphic. listing of decans. one of the principal sources of the aim of the sage was the encyclopedia of the brethren of purity (ihw n al-saf. king alfonso the wise of castile orders translation of alchemical texts from arabic. he is supposed to have written tesoro a treatise on the philosophers' stone. 1257 franciscan friar bonadventura d'iseo's 'liber compostella' provides some alchemical recipes 1257-67, writes the soul's journey into god while meditating on francis's vision of the six-winged seraph; he also writes an authoritative life of saint francis to replace earlier versions. bonaventure believed that st. francis's order would inherit the 'key of david' given to the angel of phila

ist 1400-1464 nicholas of cusa 1402-1442 bernard of treviso 1403-1472 cardinal johannes bessarion encouraged the spread of greek studies in italy 1403 king henry iv of england issues a prohibition of alchemy and to stop counterfeit money 1405 moses botarel sefer yezirah commentary 1412-1480 lacinius 1415 early german ms buch der heiligen dreifaltigkeit paralleling the christ and the philosophers' stone 1419 cristoforo de' buondelmonti's purchase, on the island of andros of a manuscript of the hieroglyphica, attributed to horapollo. 1420-1477+ bonifacio bembo 1420 splendor solis manuscript 1423 cards are condemned in a speech made a bologna by st. bernardin of siena. he does not refer to the tarot major arcana 1423-77 townbooks of nuremberg name several women as card-painters. 1425 1495 jud

urch, upon the the conversion of the jews and a "full restoring of the jewish nation; a literal kingdom on earth. 1558 elizabeth i becomes queen of england; giambattista della porta's magia naturalis published; zohar printed in mantua. john dee propaedeumata. 1559 august, postel and other prisoners are freed upon the death of the pope. 1559-1598 edward kelley theatre of terrestrial astronomy. the stone of the philosophers. 1560-1605 heinrich khunrath proto-rosicrucian amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae "what good are torches, light, or spectacles, to those who will not see" 1560 foxe's book of martyrs. zohar printed in cremona. adam von bodenstein begins his work of editing various writings of paracelsus. giambattista della porta magia naturalis. postel fearing reimprisonment goes to basle

in palestine into arabia accompanied by a christian youth, christoph possible literary model for the development of the character of christian rosencreutz. h. khunrath, the amphitheatre of eternal wisdom (completed by erasmus wolfurt, which reproduced dee s monad and emphasised the symbolism of the microcosm and the macrocosm. containing a correspondence between jesus christ and the philosopher s stone, this work by khunrath was held in high esteem by lutherans, who referred to him in their writings. 1610-1685 joseph de voisin editor of pugio fidei, author of conclusiones cabalisticae 1610-1660 johann harprecht proto-rosicrucian who called himself "filius sendivogii" 1612 flamel figures hierogliphiques (first publication. ruland's lexicon alchemiae. jacob boehme aurora 1613-1652 nicholas c

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rom above, and a little light let down to us. then first might truly have been discerned the bustle we kept, for all went pell-mell, and he who perchance had heaved himself up too much, was forced down again under the others feet. in brief, each one strove to be uppermost. neither did i myself linger, but page 4 with my weighty fetters slipped up from under the rest, and then heaved myself upon a stone, which i laid hold of; howbeit, i was caught at several times by others, from whom yet as well as i might, i still guarded myself with hands and feet. for we imagined no other but that we should all be set at liberty, which yet fell out quite otherwise. for after the nobles who looked upon us from above through the hole had recreated themselves a while with our struggling and lamenting, a ce

i could sufficiently describe the hurry and disquiet that then arose amongst us; for everyone strove to get to the cord, and yet only hindered each other. but after seven page 5 minutes a sign was given by a little bell, whereupon at the first pull the servants drew up four. at that time i could not get very near the cord, having (as is before mentioned) to my huge misfortune, betaken myself to a stone at the wall of the dungeon; and thereby i was made unable to get to the cord which descended in the middle. the cord was let down the second time, but many, because their chains were too heavy, and their hands too tender, could not keep their hold on the cord, but with themselves beat down many another who else perhaps might have held fast enough; nay, many a one was forcibly pulled off by a

xth time, some of them hung themselves fast upon it; and whilst being drawn up, the cord swung from one side to the other, and (perhaps by the will of god) came to me, and i suddenly caught it, uppermost above all the rest, and so at length beyond hope came out. at which i rejoiced exceedingly, so that i did not perceive the wound which during the drawing up i had received on my head from a sharp stone, until i, with the rest who were released (as was always done before) had to help with the seventh and last pull; at which time through straining, the blood ran down all over my clothes, which i nevertheless because of my joy did not take notice of. now when the last drawing up on which the most of all hung was finished, the matron caused the cord to be laid aside, and asked her aged son to

t on the way, until i came likewise to the second gate, which though it was very like the other, yet it was adorned with images and mystic significations. on the affixed tablet was date et dabitur vobis( give and it shall be given unto you. under this gate lay a terrible grim lion chained, who as soon as he saw me arose and made at me with great roaring; whereupon the second porter who lay upon a stone of marble woke up, and asked me not to be troubled or afraid, and then drove back the lion; and having received the latter which i gave him with trembling, he read it, and with very great respect said thus to me: now welcome in god s name to me the man who for a long time i would gladly have seen. meanwhile he also drew out a token and asked me whether i could purchase it. but having nothing

t a man left. now as soon as this was done, and silence had been kept for the space of five minutes, there came forth a beautiful snow-white unicorn with a golden collar (having on it certain letters) about his neck. in the same place he bowed himself down upon both his forefeet, as if hereby he had shown honour to the lion, who stood so immoveably upon the fountain, that i had taken him to be of stone or brass. the lion immediately took the naked sword which he had in his paw, and broke it in two in the middle, and the pieces of it, it seemed to me, sunk into the fountain; after which he roared for so long, until a white dove brought a branch of olive in her bill, which the lion devoured in an instant, and so was quieted. and so the unicorn returned to his place with joy. hereupon our vir

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oise as possible. she did not want to attract the attention of hungry tigers that roamed the hills, ready to pounce on easy prey. even worse, bandits might find her. once, these robbers had been hardworking farmers, but greedy lords took their crops, taxed them, stole their wives, enslaved their children, and took their land. after years of humiliation and starvation, the farmers hearts turned to stone. desperate and famished, they turned into robbers who roamed the countryside, stealing food and killing people. over the years, the bandits had become more ruthless than any wild beast in the mountains. as cheng walked carefully along the dirt path, she stepped in some faint animal footprints. as she looked at them, the image of the footprints grew stronger and clearer. they were shaped like

away monastery bell. the chi-lin told cheng that soon she would bear a son who would be a great ruler, but one without subjects, a king without a throne. then the unicorn bowed gracefully and disappeared back into the shadows of the trees. carefully, cheng picked up the piece of jade. the chilin s message puzzled her, and the lustrous jade seemed to hold deep secrets below its cloudy surface. the stone felt naturally cold, yet warmed up quickly in the palm of her hand. the jade appeared dense and cloudy, yet the longer she looked at it, the clearer and more transparent it seemed. jade was harder than the bronze coins in her pocket, yet cheng knew it could be carved into fluid shapes like twisting dragons, chirping insects, and tumbling clouds. when she struck the wonderful stone, the jade

hat it punished the evil and spared the innocent. it reminded judges and soldiers of their obligations to be fair. q: what did the unicorn drop at the feet of cheng, and what did it tell her? a: it dropped a piece of jade at cheng s feet and told her that she would bear a child who would be a ruler without subjects, a king without a throne. q: what are some special qualities of jade? a: jade is a stone that has opposite qualities. it is a cool stone, but feels warm to the touch. it is heavy, but feels light in the hand. it is dense, but can be carved into light sculptures. its surface is cloudy, but it has depth. it emits comforting sounds when struck. it has yin and yang elements. in this story, it was a gift from the unicorn to cheng and her son. 92 expert commentary to describe china at

g down precise rules for men to follow in their conduct and their thinking. he is often called a reactionary, whose primary aim was to restore the ways of antiquity and to bolster the authority of the hereditary aristocracy. in fact, he advocated and helped to bring about such sweeping social and political reforms that he must be counted among the great revolutionaries.3 the myth features jade, a stone of contrasts: cold, yet warm; hard, yet carvable; flawed, yet enchanting. professor ren -yvon lefebvre d argenc, a world-renowned art expert, elaborates: already in confucius time, jade was the favorite stone of the perfect gentleman, because it embodied all the cardinal 93 virtues. its warm brilliance was likened to charity, its hardness to wisdom, the sharp yet harmless edges of its contou

-renowned art expert, elaborates: already in confucius time, jade was the favorite stone of the perfect gentleman, because it embodied all the cardinal 93 virtues. its warm brilliance was likened to charity, its hardness to wisdom, the sharp yet harmless edges of its contours to justice.4 imperfections such as veins, specks, mottling, calcifications, and uneven patches of color contributed to the stone s beauty rather than detracted from it. professor d argenc explains, its flaws, that are obvious without impairing its beauty, were compared to loyalty and its translucency and radiance to honesty. 5 pure jade is white, but chemicals and other minerals add colors and imperfections to the stone during its formation in the earth. some colors are given especially descriptive names: snow jade, m

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tations often are accompanied by a smell similar to rotting flesh. aosoth: dark female force. works of passion and death. the name should be vibrated. azanigin: mother of all demons who lie waiting in earth. key of b minor. very useful to invoke in works of personal destruction. shaitan: long held to be an earth bound representative for the dark gods. perfume/incense sulphur. name to be vibrated. stone opal. nekalah: collective name for race of dark gods. name to be vibrated in manner similar to atazoth. ga wath am: vibration of this releases powerful energies. a key (when used with a crystal tetrahedron) to all the dark forces of the abyss. not to be vibrated without careful preparation. according to tradition the words means `the power within me is great' a reference to the pathways with

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bankers for the bbc charity, the children in need appeal, the ford motor company, and that population control organisation so beloved of george bush, the planned parenthood federation. another name which keeps coming up in my investigations is the hambros bank ltd, which is also a corporate member of the riia. the creation of a united states of europe under centralised control is a major stepping-stone in the new world order plan, and so it is appropriate and hardly surprising that the riia is also supported by the commission of the european communities, the european parliament uk office, the european policy advisers (uk) ltd, european round table (how apt) of industrialists, and the european bank for reconstruction and development.10 the institute is used as a private forum for the elite

told we had to join or the british economy would collapse. oh really? the current british deficit in european trade and membership contributions since we joined is closing in on 100 billion!26 once the peoples of europe had been tricked into believing that if they didn't join they would all face disaster, the word economic was dropped from the title and it became the european community (stepping-stone. later there was another name change to the european union (stepping-stone. we have also had the move towards the centralisation of political power in the community and the erosion of national decision-making (stepping-stone. this was followed by the pressure for a european central bank and one european currency (stepping-stone. and the concept of europe with centralised control administered

years passed, the only remaining connection with the stonemasons were the symbolic paraphernalia and names for the levels of initiation like apprentice, fellow craft, and master mason. the working tools of the stonemasons- the square, compasses, level, plumbline, gauge, gavel, and chisel- were still used in the bizarre ceremonies and rituals and the freemason's apron was another throwback to the stone masons. but freemasonry now had a very different agenda. during the rituals which the founders of the new freemasonry introduced, barechested initiates were blindfolded with a noose around their neck and a dagger held 184 .and the truth shall set you free to their heart. they had to swear to serve the order and keep its secrets, on pain of a grotesque ritual death. the penalty for divulging

does the bible say about this man? does it say that he was "the most accomplished mason on earth, as the freemasons claim? not quite. it says that he was neither a mason nor an architect, but a worker in brass. according to the book of kings, he arrived from tyre after the temple was finished. the book of chronicles says he came before the temple was built and was an ornamental metal worker. any stone skills he had were in decoration, not construction. there is another hiram in the bible, the king of tyre, who is not the same man. but he is also held in great esteem by freemasonry because he is supposed to have supplied solomon with lebanese cedarwood for the temple. and that's another thing. the bible says the temple was built mostly of wood and was no bigger than a church hall of today

banks and money-flows would be controlled by the handful of people who would control the world central bank. the idea is to concentrate power into regional centres, as with the european central bank, and then fuse them together as one. the present world bank and imf would be absorbed into this centralised global financial dictatorship. in the same way, the proposed european currency is a stepping-stone to the planned one-world currency. the momentum towards this centralisation will be furthered by increasing pressure to allow the united nations to levy taxation via tariffs on all air travel, cross-border trade, or other means, to give it an income independent of the sovereign states it is supposed to be serving. it can then fund its own empire and the world army, which is being created by

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s and star systems on the earth and its people, and technological understanding of such immensity that they were able to build the pyramids and other stunning structures all over the world that we would struggle to build even today. just consider the scale we are talking here with the giza pyramids alone. the great pyramid, which is nearly 500 feet high, consists of six and a half million tons of stone and around two and a half million individual blocks. some weigh 70 tons and in the other pyramids and walls are stones of 200, even 468 tons, and they are so perfectly cut and fitted together you could not get a piece of paper between designer history 13 them. there is enough stone in the great pyramid alone to build 30 empire state buildings and enough stone on the giza site to build a wall

giza site to build a wall around the entire border of france some three metres high and one metre thick.2 some of these gigantic stones at giza and numerous temple sites were apparently taken from quarries hundreds of miles away. and we are told that "primitive" people did this? oh do come on. at baalbeck in the lebanon are structures thousands of years old, which include three enormous chunks of stone known as the trilithon, each weighing more than 800 tons. these had to be moved at least a third of a mile and one of them placed 20 feet up in a wall.3 another piece of stone nearby is a thousand tons, which, apparently, is the weight of three jumbo jets.4 we are asked to believe again that a "primitive" people did this. in peru, you have ancient temples and other sites built with stones we

s representing people and animals, most of which are not native to peru. they included a polar bear, walrus, african lion, penguin and the stegosaurus dinosaur. but dinosaurs were unknown to science until the 1880s, and the stegosauria was not identified until 1901. talk us through that one. as other books and television documentaries in recent years have shown, these amazing structures, temples, stone circles, and standing stones, were not only lined up precisely with certain star systems, they were aligned just as precisely in relationship to each other all over the planet, and the building techniques and designs were often the same on different sides of the world. why? because the official version of history is baloney. there were not isolated, unconnected, societies, which developed al

s and computer systems, and all the rest. such technology can perform apparently miraculous feats, like typing a letter on to this computer and having it read by someone on the other side of the world seconds later. but what would happen to this technological society if we were faced now with a global catastrophe that devastated the planet? within seconds, we would be sitting in the technological stone age. it would be a primitive, everyone-for-themselves, find-your-own-food, shelter and warmth, free-for-all. and as time and generations passed, the memory of the technological world we have today would fade, ever more rapidly, and only be preserved in stories and myths which would, more and more, be seen as wild tales and figments of the imagination. most people would deny such a world ever

alachia, which connected what we now call europe, north america, iceland and greenland.26 even their degree of submergence appears to be closely related. the so-called bermuda triangle, between bermuda, southern florida, and a point near the antilles, has long been associated with atlantis. it is an area steeped in legends of disappearing ships and aircraft. submerged buildings, walls, roads, and stone circles like stonehenge, even what appear to be pyramids, have been located near bimini under the waters of the bahama banks and within the "triangle".27 so have walls or roads creating intersecting lines. some other facts that most people don't know: the himalayas, alps, andes, and at least most other mountain ranges, were only formed or reached anything like their present height around 12

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cialversion, or, frankly, they cannot see beyond the end of their noses. the same can be saidof most people in the teaching and intellectual professions.all over the planet are fantastic structures built thousands of years ago which couldonly have been created with technology as good as, often even better than, we havetoday. at baalbek, north east of beirut in the lebanon, three massive chunks of stone,each weighing 800 tons, were moved at least a third of a mile and positioned high up ina wall. this was done thousands of years bc! another block nearby weighs 1,000 tons- the weight of three jumbo jets. how was this possible? official history does not wishto address such questions because of where it might lead. can you imagine ringing abuilder today and asking him to do that? you want me t

pear closely related. similar evidence can be producedto support the view that the continent known as mu or lemuria now rests on the bed ofthe pacific.14 the so-called bermuda triangle between bermuda, southern florida, anda point near the antilles, has long been associated with atlantis. it is also an areasteeped in legends of disappearing ships and aircraft. submerged buildings, walls, roadsand stone circles like stonehenge, even what appear to be pyramids, have been locatednear bimini, under the waters of the bahama banks and within the triangle.15 so havewalls or roads creating intersecting lines.16 some other facts that most people dontknow: the himalayas, the alps and the andes, only reached anything like their presentheight around 11,000 years ago.17 lake titicaca on the peru-bolivi

vered all the lowlands. the botanist, nikolai ivanovitch v avilov,studied more than 50,000 wild plants collected around the world and found thatthey originated in only eight different areas- all of them mountain terrain.23 thetidal wave would have produced pressures on the earths surface of two tons persquare inch, creating new mountain ranges, and fossilising everything withinhours.24 artificial stone today is created by pressures of this magnitude. intact treeshave been found fossilised and that would be impossible unless it happened in aninstant because the tree would normally have disintegrated before it could befossilised over a long period of time.25 in fact, fossils of this kind are not formingtoday.26 they are the result of the cataclysmic events here described, desborough15says. t

on the churches and great cathedrals of europe which were built by the brotherhoodnetwork. there are also gargoyles on a building in dealey plaza where presidentkennedy was assassinated and now they turn up again in a modern airport built on analleged underground reptilian base. gargoyles are symbols of the reptilians and that iswhy you will find them at denver airport. the capstone or dedication stone at the airportis marked with the classic compass symbol of the freemasons and it stands in part of theterminal called the great hall, another freemasonic term. on a wall is a grotesquemural full of malevolent symbolism, including three caskets with dead females in them:a jewish girl, a native american and a black woman. another girl is holding a mayantablet that tells of the destruction of c

back. the evidence of an advanced race who knew theamericas existed, comes with centuries-old maps like the hadji ahmed portolan map,compiled in 1519, which depicts the north american continent with a wide causewayconnecting alaska and siberia. there is also an accurate drawing of an ice-freeantarctica.the arrival of the aryan phoenicians in britain also corresponds with thebuilding of the great stone circles and observatories like stonehenge and avebury inwiltshire, although some researchers say they were built much earlier. theadvanced phoenicians-sumerians, who had a highly developed knowledge ofastronomy, astrology, sacred geometry, mathematics and the earths magnetic force64line network known as the global energy grid, had all the knowledge necessary to buildthese great structures. l

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us now quickly look at the washington monument, which lies directly west of the capitol. in fact, the washington monument lies on a straight line, precisely 900 west of the capitol. the washington monument(left) is the most important presidential monument to the occultist, because it is an obelisk set inside a circle. what, you are probably saying, is an obelisk? an obelisk is a tall, four-sided stone pillar tapering toward a pyramidal top. the obelisk is critically important to the occultist because they believe that the spirit of the ancient egyptian sun god, ra, resided in the obelisk. thus, the obelisk represents the very presence of the sun god, whom the bible calls satan! there are only three major obelisks in the world today, and two of them are in the united states. according to e

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dge& kegan paul ltd, 39 store street, london wc1e 7dd, 1978. c h a p t e r 4 pyramid energy 4.1 introduction to the pyramid the pyramids in egypt are one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and the only one left standing. there are a number of pyramids in egypt as well as in other parts of the world. most of them are step pyramids made of successive layers of some building material, usually stone. the three most well known are the three pyramids on the giza plateau just outside of cairo. of these, the great pyramid has been studied and analyzed the most and has had an impressive amount of research done on it. on appearance, the great pyramid is another step pyramid; however, at one time it was covered with white limestone to form a smooth concave surface on each of its four sides. wh

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in what they claimed was the original angelic language and apparently revealed to enoch, the first man after the fall to walk with god. the english translation of the keys bear a striking similarity to invocations in the clavicula solomonis, another medieval grimoire, but dee& kelly claimed that the keys were revealed to them by the angels, the letters of the words shown to them in a crystal show stone. the enochian evocation of dr. john dee also gives the invocation for various spirits with which dee& kelly communicated. a beast of revelation on april 4, 1904, aleister crowley, declared the start of a new aeon the aeon of horus. in crowley s philosophy each aeon represents a stage in the non-natural evolution of man. the aeon of isis was a time when man lived in close harmony with the nat

legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (45) vine- the forty-fifth spirit is vine, or vinea. he is a great king, and an earl; and appeareth in the form of a lion,20 riding upon a black horse, and bearing a viper in his hand. his office is to discover things hidden, witches, wizards, and things present, past, and to come. he, at the command of the exorcist will build towers, overthrow great stone walls, and make the waters rough with storms. he governeth 36 legions of spirits. and his seal is this, which wear thou, as aforesaid, etc (46) bifrons- the forty-sixth spirit is called bifrons, or bifrous, or bifrovs. he is an earl, and appeareth in the form of a monster; but after a while, at the command of the exorcist, he putteth on the shape of a man. his office is to make one knowing i

care eca cano- quoda! zodameranu micalazodo od ozadazodame vaurelar; lape zodir ioiad (dee) can the wings of the winds understand your voices of wonder? o you the second of the first, whom the burning flames have framed within the depths of my jaws, whom i have prepared as cups for a wedding or as the flowers in their beauty for the chamber of righteousness. stronger are your feet then the barren stone, and mightier are your voices than the manifold winds. for you are become a building such as is not but in the mind of the all powerful. arise sayeth the first. move therefore unto his servants. show yourselves in power and make me a strong seer-of-things, for i am of him that liveth forever (lavey) can the wings of the winds hear your voices of wonder; o you, the great spawn of the worms of

servants. show yourselves in power and make me a strong seer-of-things, for i am of him that liveth forever (lavey) can the wings of the winds hear your voices of wonder; o you, the great spawn of the worms of the earth, whom the hell fire frames in the depth of my jaws, whom i have prepared as cups for a wedding or as flowers regaling the chambers of lust! stronger are your feet than the barren stone! mightier are your voices than the manifold winds! for you are become as a building such as is not, save in the mind of the all-powerful manifestation of satan! arise, saith the first! move therefore unto his servants! show yourselves in power, and make me a strong seer-ofthings, for i am of him that liveth forever! the third key anton lavey writes: the third enochian key establishes the lea

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set and horus indeed have a close connection as not only brothers but also deific opposites. it is suggested by e.a. wallis budge that horus means something similar to he who is above and set therefore he who is below, thus holding a significance to as above, so below and the baphomet idol long regarded as a form of hidden knowledge. considering set s name had similar hieroglyphic connections to stone, it can be suggested further that this god was a personification of the lands of death, stony land and the desert wastes. set s direction was also often consider south as well, and his opposing side of the north. in later times, as previously mentioned, ahriman has been long associated with not only the north but also the south, making reference to his powers over both scorching heat and col

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of the tradition. shin: pronounced "sheen" it is a letter of the hebrew alphabet. the letter shin "a" is used to indicate the ruach eloheem (q.v. when added to the tetragrammaton it forms the pentagrammaton, showing how we can purify ourselves by uniting and bringing the spirit of divinity within ourselves. showstone: a crystal ball or globe used for divination and scrying. the magician uses the stone as a focus to induce a trance that causes images to appear in the depths of the stone. siddhis: magickal abilities such as clairaudience (q.v, levitation (q.v, telepathy (q.v, and clairvoyance (q.v) that manifest themselves as the by-products of yogic/magickal practices. they are not denigrated by hindu and buddhist yogis but are actively sought in their own right by sensitives (q.v, psychic

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tism to make their first experiments with no other guidance than that of a book. preliminary training is necessary; also a guide with a rope in case of difficulties. but those who have already passed through the outer court and stand waiting at the door between the pylons will find, in mr. regardie's books, the keys they need. i, for one, wish them godspeed on their journey; and may they find the stone of the wise; the summum bonum; true wisdom; perfect happinefemystical qabala page 1 the mystical qabalah mystical qabala page 2 foreword the tree of life forms the ground-plan of the western esoteric tradition and is the system upon which pupils are trained in the fraternity of the inner light. the transliteration of hebrew words into english is the subject of much diversity of opinion, ever

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also be adapted to the grade of development of the student. westerners, especially such as prefer mystical qabala page 9 the occult to the mystic path, often come seeking initiation at a stage of spiritual development which an eastern guru would consider exceedingly immature. any method that is to be available for the west must have in its lower grades a technique which can be used as a stepping-stone by these undeveloped students; to ask them to rise immediately to metaphysical heights is useless in the case of the great majority) and prevents a start from being made. 3. for a system of spiritual development to be applicable in the west it must fulfil certain well-defined requirements. to begin with, its elementary technique must be such that it is readily grasped by minds that have in t

chings of those of ancient days, and upon matters of historical accuracy stand subject to cor rection from any who are bettet informed than i am in these matters (and their name is legion, i care not one jot for the authority of tradition if it hampers the free development of a system of such practical value as the holy qabalah, and i use the work of my predecessors as a quarry whence i fetch the stone to build my city. neither am i limited to this quarry by any ordinance that i know of; but fetch also cedar from lebanon and gold from ophir if it suits my purpose. mystical qabala page 16 4. let it be clearly understood, therefore, that i do not say, this is the teaching of the ancient rabbis; rather do i say, this is the practice of the modern qabalists, and for us a much more vital matter

. by the association of binah with the sea we are reminded that life had its primordial beginnings in the waters; from the sea arose venus, the archetypal woman. the association of saturn suggests the idea of primordial age "before the gods that made the gods had drunk at eve their fill" it suggests the most ancient rocks "within the shady stillness of the vale. sat grey-haired saturn, quiet as a stone" max heindel speaks of the lords of form as among the earliest phases of evolution, and an inspirational work in mystical qabala page 32 my possession, the cosmic doctrine, speaks of the lords of form as the laws of geology. 14. considering again the symbolism of the two lateral columns of the tree, we see chokmah and binah as force and form, the two units of manifestation. 15. it would not

ions find a place under them, thus enabling us to see their relationships among themselves. these are the four worlds of the qabalists; the four elements of the alchemists; the fourfold classification of the signs of the zodiac and the planets into triplicities, employed by the astrologers; and the four suits of the tarot pack used in divination. this fourfold classification resembles the rosetta stone which gave the key to the egyptian hieroglyphs, for on it were inscriptions in egyptian and greek; greek being known, it was possible to work out the meaning of the corresponding egyptian hieroglyphs. it is the method of arranging all these sets of factors on the tree which gives the real esoteric clue to each of these systems of practical occultism. without this key they have no philosophic

ammaton. yod of tetragrammaton. god-name: jehovah. archangel: ratziel. mystical qabala page 82 order of angels: auphanim, wheels. mundane chakra: mazloth, the zodiac. spiritual experience: the vision of god face to face. virtue: devotion. vice: correspondence in microcosm: the left side of the face. symbols: the lingam. the phallus. the yod of tetragrammaton. the inner robe of glory. the standing-stone. the tower. the uplifted rod of power. the straight line. tarot cards: the four twos. two of wands: dominion. two of cups: love. two of swords: peace restored. two of pentacles: harmonious change. colour in aziluth: pure soft blue. briah: grey. yetzirah: pearl-grey, iridescent. assiah: white flecked with red, blue, and yellow [page 122] i 1. every phase of evolution commences by being in a s

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e of which contained literally thousands of statues of the buddha. on various occasions one or another of these monasteries has been raided, either by rival religionists or chinese troops, and its curios scattered. to be the possessor of one of these buddhas, magnetised by dugpa rites, is not a very pleasant thing. i had a curious experience with a buddha upon one occasion. it was an archaic soap-stone statuette, some nine inches high, and its owner had dug it up herself on the site of a burmese city that had fallen in ruin and been swallowed by the jungle. it was placed on the floor in an angle of the stairs, and served as a doorstop upon occasion. i had a flat on the top floor, and had to pass the melancholy little buddha each time i came in or went out, and to me it seemed a desecration

entration will be terrific, but it will only be achieved at a terrific price. it is in order to achieve this terrible concentration that the saints of the west and the yogis of the east practise a torturing asceticism. you must sell all that you possess in order to purchase this pearl of great price, and an echo of the method lingers in the fairy-tale tradition that the person who finds the lucky stone can only have one wish. such a concentration is good for one purpose, and one purpose only. we can concentrate on a healing, or on a destruction, but we cannot work at both simultaneously; neither can we readily change over from one to the other. we cannot com bine incompatibles within the limits of a single life. that is to say, if we have concentrated on a work of malediction and death in

e. a pocket knife, for instance, will hold magnetism well. wood holds it badly, and so do paper, wool, cotton and artificial silk, especially the latter. silk and linen are good. india-rubber is useless. glass depends for its holding powers upon its form. if it is cut so that it will refract light it can be very good; if it is flat and purely transparent, like a window pane, it is almost useless. stone is fair. earthenware poor. an elaborate article is not as good as a simple article. for instance, a marquise ring is not as good as a signet ring. letters are apt to be misleading because they often contain nearly as much of the magnetism of the recipient as of the writer. some psychics can work from a photograph, but this method is not, strictly speaking, psychometry, for the mental image e

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to the front than to the back. each chakra has its own unique sensation. it is possible that these sensations vary in their fine details from person to person, but their general quality is probably a shared experience. as i said above, the muladhara exists as a hard knot in the perineum. it can be uncomfortable at times, when the muladhara is intensely active. the sensation is similar to having a stone the size of a ping-pong ball lying under the skin just in front of the anus. the swadhisthana and manipura are, in my experience, somewhat similar- they feel like a sucking or sinking pit in the flesh, almost as though an invisible hand is being pressed down inside the flesh at their locations. this is not painful. at least, i have not found it painful, but i should mention that some practit

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se to exist. they continue between the dimensions of normal time and space, dreaming and waiting for the time when they shall be able to rule the earth once again, as they did in days of old. on the matter of the great old ones, lovecraft wrote in his story the call of cthulhu "in the elder time chosen men had talked with the entombed old ones in dreams, but then something had happened. the great stone city r'lyeh, with its monoliths and sepulchers, had sunk beneath the waves; and the deep waters, full of the one primal mystery through which not even thought can pass, had cut off the spectral intercourse. but memory never died, and high priests said that the city would rise again when the stars were right. then came out of the earth the black spirits of earth, moldy and shadowy, and full o

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culty. physical removal of the host from the spirit is impossible, since spirits are not bound by limitations of distance. it is necessary to erect occult wards and barriers in order to achieve this separation. magical boundaries are created which the spirit vampire cannot pass; or it is imprisoned within a particular object such as a ring or medallion, or a tree, or in a specific place such as a stone or pond (depending on its elemental nature and its natural affinities. it is more difficult, but possible, to destroy the spirit vampire, but this drastic course of action is seldom necessary. return hy.home resources demons bios fiction tyson the truth about werewolves (european werewolf attacking a villager) most people know nothing about werewolves other than what they've seen in old lon

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

the cairo papyrus of mes-em-neter given by naville (todtenbuch, ii, p. 139) 3 naville, todtenbuch, bd. i, b1. 76, l 52. 4 lepsius, todtenbuch, bl. 25, 1. 31. 6 "the most remarkable chapter is the 64th. it is one of the oldest of all, and is attributed, as already stated, to the epoch of king gaga-makheru or menkheres. this chapter enjoyed a high reputation till a late period, for it is found on a stone presented to general perofski by the late emperor nicholas, which must have come from the tomb of petemenophis] in the el-assasif] and was made during the xxvith dynasty some more recent compiler of the hermetic books has evidently paraphrased it for the ritual of turin" bunsen, egypt's place in universal history, london, 1867, p. 1142. the block of stone to which dr. birch refers is describ

nile, opposite thebes] p. xv the oldest in the book of the dead; the former basing his opinion on the rubric' and the latter upon the evidence derived from the contents and character of the text; but maspero, while admitting the great age of the chapter, does not attach any very great importance to the rubric as fixing any exact date for its composition.[1] of herutataf the finder of the block of stone, we know from later texts that he was considered to be a learned man, and that his speech was only with difficulty to be understood,[2] and we also know the prominent part which he took as a recognized man of letters in bringing to the court of his father khufu the sage tetteta.[3] it is then not improbable that herutataf's character for learning may have suggested the connection of his name

the 12th century of our era, it has survived to yield up important facts for the history of the book of the dead. evidence of the inscription on the coffin of mycerinus. in 1837 colonel howard vyse succeeded in forcing the entrance. on the 29th of july he commenced operations, and on the 1st of august he made his way into the sepulchral chamber, where, however, nothing was found but a rectangular stone sarcophagous[4] without the lid. the large stone slabs of the floor and the linings of the wall had been in many instances removed by thieves in search of treasure. in a lower chamber, connected by a passage with the sepulchral chamber, was found the greater part of the lid of the sarcophagus,[5] together with portions of a wooden coffin, and part of the body of a man, consisting of ribs and

w.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (10 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:54 am] dynasty] p. xxii evidence of the texts of the pyramid of unas. celebration of funeral rites; but a text forming the book of the dead as a whole does not occur until the reign of unas (b.c. 3333, the last king of the dynasty, who according to the turin papyrus reigned thirty years. this monarch built on the plain of sakk ra a stone pyramid about sixty-two feet high, each side measuring about two hundred feet at the base. in the time of perring and vyse it was surrounded by heaps of broken stone and rubbish, the result of repeated attempts to open it, and with the casing stones, which consisted of compact limestone from the quarries of tura.[1] in february, 1881, m. maspero began to clear the pyramid, and soon after he

cribed with religious texts similar to those found in the pyramid of unas, and translated certain passages (aeg. zeitschrift, bd, xix, pp. 1-15; see also birch in trans. son bibl. arch, 1881, p. iii ff. 5 the pyramid which bore among the arabs the name of mastabat el-far' n, or "pharaoh's bench" was excavated by mariette in 1858, and, because he found the name of unas painted on certain blocks of stone, he concluded that it was the tomb of unas. m. maspero's excavations have, as dr. lepsius observes (aeg. zeitschrift, bd. xix, p. 15, set the matter right] p. xxiii the book of the dead in the vith dynasty evidence of the text of the pyramid of teta; continuing his excavations at sakk ra, m. maspero opened the pyramid of teta,[1] king of egypt about b.c. 3300, which vyse thought[2] had never

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ngs. amen. we exorcise the earth by the sprinkling of water, by the breath and by fire, with the perfumes proper for each day, and we say the prayer of the gnomes. invisible king who has taken the earth as a support, and who has dug abysses in order to fill them with the omnipotence! thou whose name makest the arches of the world tremble! thou who makest the seven metals circulate in the veins of stone; monarch of seven luminaries! rewarder of subterranean workmen! bring us to the desirable air and to the kingdom of light. we watch and work without respite. we seek and hope by the twelve stones of the holy city, for the talismans which are buried by the magnetic nail which passes through the center of the earth. lord! lord! lord! have pity upon those who suffer! enlarge our hearts! let us

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through the opening thus gained and be in the camp in a twinkling. we used two hours in our stealthy advance, and then, as agreed upon beforehand, halted until notice was received from the scouts, who were near the enemy. no shadows could have moved more noislessly than we. every man of us had been trained in this species of woodcraft, and knew that a careless step, the knocking loose of a small stone even, a word spoken in an undertone, or the rattle of a weapon might give the alarm and bring our whole scheme to naught. lieutenant smith and i were crouching beside a huge rock, slightly farther along than the rest of the men. bending his head close to mine, he whispered "lieutenant, this is the crisis that will test vikka" 50 low twelve "i am thinking the same. shall i steal ahead and see

and medicine for the needy. it was agreed that the federal soldier who was a mason should receive the same care and attention as the confederate soldier, whenever it was possible to reach him. the existence of this association was known to masons only. the good which it did will never be fully known in this world. as bearing upon this interesting subject, the following is an extract from the key stone, a masonic paper published in raleigh during the war "masonic dinner to prisoners.-on or about february 22, 1865, several hundred prisoners of war were stopped at raleigh for a few days. a large number were quartered at camp holmes, and on the day designated the masons who a typical lodge 127 were prisoners, we are informed, were given a bountiful dinner by masons of the guard who stood sent

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statement of shaitan magic intended to influence human events. presumably it is left to the magician s discretion which social changes or influences are desired in this magic, because the satanic rituals provides no description. there seems to be no magic for individual long term goals. when a follower performs magic or rituals in solitude, the follower is not quite alone. like when a believer in stone healing clenches his hands around a translucent stone and whispers a prayer by himself knowing that many other believers also do this, it creates a sense of community and belonging, even if each believer is alone. the followers may be alone, but they are alone together. such magic and rituals bind the followers together much like a regular church community does, only without the social inter

ut make no attempts at explaining how or why the rituals work [25, pp. 320-321. followers accept the designers as authorities solely based on the designers personal testimonials. if a designer says that a ritual works, the follower accepts it as fact and does not seek scientific or even theological explanations. for example, if a crystal healer states that speaking a particular sentence to a pink stone will improve the follower s aura, the follower will unquestioningly do it, evidence and explanations be damned. anton lavey thus provides recipes for rituals in both the satanic bible and the satanic rituals, but does not humor the reader with explanations beyond nebulous hints at bioelectricity, directed emotional force, adrenaline, cosmic push/pull effects, tumblers in a combination lock

pinion is a heretical attack. perusing archived usenet (newsgroup) messages on the internet the church of satan is quick to scornfully demerit any competition it receives, and typically with no other provocation than the announcement of a new organization that does not mention the church of satan. when attacked by other organizations the church of satan may have had motives to have cast the first stone triggering an aggressive reaction from the other organization. pentagonal revisionism states that first of all the church of satan desires stratification, meaning that: water must be allowed to seek its own level without interference from apologists for incompetence [14] the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 18 of 30 it is a form of lassez-faire libertarianism, which on one

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esence of or have actually seen deceased loved ones. they have collected more than two thousand such accounts of after death contact (adc) in their study and welcome any further accounts. telephone interviews are conducted at the expense of the adc project, po box 536365, orlando, florida 32853. addanc of the lake a monster that figures in the mabinogion legend of peredur. peredur obtains a magic stone that renders him invisible, and he thus succeeds in slaying this monster, which had daily killed the inhabitants of the palace of the king of tortures. addey, john (1920.1982) theosophist and astrologer, born at barnsley, yorkshire, england, on june 15, 1920. addey earned his master s degree from saint john s college, cambridge. he became interested in astrology while at cambridge, and after

king, george. the nine freedoms. los angeles: aetherius society, 1963. the practices of aetherius. hollywood, calif: aetherius society, 1964. the twelve blessings. london: aetherius press, 1958. you are responsible. london: aetherius press, 1961. the story of aetherius society. hollywood, calif: aetherius society, n.d. aetherius speaks to earth see cosmic voice aetities (or aquilaeus) a precious stone of magical properties, composed of iron oxide with a little silex and alumina, and said to be found in the stomach or neck of the eagle. it is supposed to heal falling sickness and prevent untimely birth. it was worn bound on the arm to prevent abortion and on the thigh to aid parturition. afan see association for astrological networking affectability a term coined by parapsychologist charle

allest effort or trouble. people believed her capable of overthrowing the mountains, tearing up the trees, drying up the rivers with the greatest of ease. they held that nothing less than a legion of demons must be at her command in order for her to accomplish her magic feats. she seems to be like the scottish cailleach bheur, a nature hag. agapis according to ancient tradition, this was a yellow stone said to promote love or charity; it also cured stings and venomous bites when dipped in water and rubbed over the wound. agares according to johan weyer, agares is grand duke of the eastern region of hades. he is shown in the form of a benevolent lord mounted on a crocodile and carrying a hawk on his fist. the army he protects in battle is indeed fortunate, for he disperses their enemies and

ds. los angeles: devorss, 1950. eisen, william. agasha, master of wisdom. marina del rey, calif: devorss, 1977. the english cabala. 2 vols. marina del rey, calif: devorss, 1980.82. eisen, william, ed. the agashan discourse. marina del rey, calif: devorss, 1978. zenor, richard. maggie answers you. san diego: philip j. hastings, 1965. agate (or achates) according to ancient tradition, this precious stone protected against the biting of scorpions or serpents, soothed the mind, drove away contagion, and put a stop to thunder and lightning. it was also said to dispose the wearer to solitude, promote eloquence, and secure the favor of princes. it gave victory over enemies to those who wore it. agathion a familiar spirit that was said to appear only at midday. it took the shape of a man or a beas

healer at work. escondido, calif: the author [1966. randi, james. flim-flam! buffalo, n.y: prometheus books, 1982. sherman, harold. wonder healers of the philippines. los angeles: devorss, 1967. valentine, tom. psychic surgery. chicago: henry regnery, 1973. agricola name adopted by mineralogist georg bauer (1490.1555, who had also searched for the elixir of life and the secret of the philosophers stone. agrippa von nettesheim, henry cornelius (1486.1535) german soldier and physician, and an adept in alchemy, astrology, and magic. he was born at cologne september 14, 1486, and educated at the university of cologne. while still a youth he served under maximilian i of germany. in 1509 he lectured at the university of dole, but a charge of heresy brought against him by a monk named catilinet c

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a specific purpose; on this point there is general agreement among anthropologists. a clue to the mystery is provided by a similar custom among the bushmen. g. w. stow, in his book the native races of south africa (1905, refers to this strange form of sacrifice. he once came into contact with a number of bushmen who had all lost the first joint of the little finger, which had been removed with a stone knife for the purpose of ensuring a safe journey to the spirit world. another writer told of an old bushman woman whose little fingers of both hands had been mutilated, three joints in all having been removed. she explained that each joint had been sacrificed to express her sorrow as each one of three daughters died. in his report on the northwestern tribes of the dominion of canada (1889, f

ned by a few well-defined laws. chief among these is that of sympathy, which can be subdivided into the laws of similarity, antipathy, and contiguity. the law of similarity and homeopathy is divisible into two tenets (1) the assumption that like produces like.an illustration of which is the destruction of a doll in the form of an enemy; and (2) the idea that like cures like.for instance, that the stone called bloodstone can staunch the flow of blood. the law dealing with antipathy rests on the assumption that the application of a certain object or drug expels its contrary. the idea of contiguity assumes that whatever has once formed part of an object continues to form part of it. thus, if a magician can obtain a portion of a person s hair, he can work harm upon that person through the invi

poisons. he also points to the virtue of seven, as in the power of the seventh son to cure the king s evil. one was the origin and common measure of all things. it is indivisible, not to be multiplied. in the universe there is one god; one supreme intelligence in the intellectual world, man; in the sidereal world, one sun; one potent instrument and agency in the elementary world, the philosophers stone; one chief member in the human world, the heart; and one sovereign prince in the nether world, lucifer. two was the number of marriage, charity, and social communion. it was also regarded sometimes as an unclean number; in the bible, beasts of the field went into noah s ark by twos. three had a mysterious value as shown in time s trinity. past, present and future; in that of space.length, br

that delivered occult teaching in moses s scripts. magus did not disclose his name on earth, but he said that he lived 4,000 years ago and belonged to an ancient african wonder-working brotherhood. in the nineteenth book of the moses scripts, a topaz is mentioned as the material counterpart of a spiritual jewel worn by magus, which was to be given to stainton moses to help him to see visions. the stone, set in a ring, was reportedly dropped from the air in stainton moses s bedroom. sources: moses, stainton. spirit identity. london: london spiritualist alliance, ltd, 1908. spirit teachings. 1883. reprint, new york: arno press, 1976. maharaj ji, guru (1957) teacher in the sant mat tradition and head of elan vital (formerly known as the divine light mission. guru maharaj ji, a title rather th

mateur astronomical observations in 1950. he studied telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychokinesis and took part in experiments (with jan kappers, a. h. de jong, and f. v. d. berg) to test clairvoyance quantitatively. he also studied the question of evidence for reincarnation. sources: pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. malachite a precious stone (a variety of topaz) of basic copper carbonate. folklore held that it preserved the cradle of an infant from spells. malachy prophecies st. malachy o more was a medieval bishop who is said to have foretold the succession of 112 popes, from celestinus ii (1143) until the final pope in the future yet to come. these predictions were in the form of a long series of latin character mottos instead

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ears, and became extinguished as soon as exposed to the air; the whole body was in perfect preservation, and was found floating in a vessel of oil. see "pancirollus, rerum memorabilium deperditarum" vol. i, p. 115, franciscus maturantius, hermolaus, and scardeonius. such a lamp is stated to have been found in 1401, in the reign of hen. iii, king of castile, not far from rome, on the tiber, in the stone tomb of pallas, the arcadian, son of evander, slain by "turnus rex rotulorum" in the wars at the time of the building of rome; nothing could extinguish the flame of this lamp until it was broken. on the tomb were the words "filius evandri pallas, quem lancea turni militis occidit, mole sua jacet hic"-see "martianus, liber chronicorum" lib. xii, cap. 67. two miles from rome an inundation brok

y "turnus rex rotulorum" in the wars at the time of the building of rome; nothing could extinguish the flame of this lamp until it was broken. on the tomb were the words "filius evandri pallas, quem lancea turni militis occidit, mole sua jacet hic"-see "martianus, liber chronicorum" lib. xii, cap. 67. two miles from rome an inundation broke down a wall, and disclosed an ancient tomb; on the cover stone were the letters "p.m. r.c. cum uxore" in it an earthen urn was found; when fractured, a bituminous smoke issued; in the bottom was a lamp, which went out; the fragments were still oily; this became dry after exposure.-see "lowthorp, abridgment of philos. trans" vol. iii, sec. xxxv, also no. 185, p. 227. in a certain temple of venus in egypt there hanged a lamp which neither rain nor wind co

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

, he related something that had happened to him and a friend seven years before. the two had gone to a western state in search of semiprecious stones. local people warned them to stay away from a certain desert mesa because several individuals who had gone there were never seen again. disregarding these words of caution, the young men repaired to the site and spent the next few days energetically stone-hunting. finally, one day, hearing his companion shout, brodie looked up to see a figure in a black cowl standing at the base of the mesa. another figure joined the first. the first of them pointed a rodlike device at brodie, who abruptly felt himself paralyzed. his friend began to run, and the other figure pointed a rod at him. to his horror the smell of burning human flesh rose up in brodi

y came flooding into her thoughts. one memory pat could not put a specific time frame on it concerned cocoon people. she found herself inside a large room with soft white lighting. a gray-skinned humanoid stood near her. i vaguely recall seeing a human male there, she would tell turner, but not what he was doing. the room con- cocoon people 67 tained a number of boxes that looked like sarcophagi (stone coffins. inside them she could see what looked like human forms, alive but not moving, covered with white misty stuff, which somehow she knew kept them alive. in a telepathic communication, the being asked if she wanted to see yours. when she said yes, the being showed her a container with a human female inside. do n t ask how i knew it was female, she said. i just felt it. i saw a little bi

eliefs in the west of ireland. new york: g. p. putnam s sons. fossilized aliens writing in flying saucers magazine in 1970, buffard ratliff, the head of a kentucky ufo group, reported the discovery of an extraterrestrial artifact: a fossilized spacecraft and its tiny crew. ac c o rding to ratliff, two years earlier melvin gray of louisville had been mow i n g his lawn when he came upon an unusual stone. he kept it and studied it for months, e ventually concluding that it was living pro o f of a prehistoric space visit. gray handed it ove r to ufologist ratliff, who also examined it at length. from this examination he was able to determine what the stone contained and what e vents had precipitated its creation. it was, as he would write, a fossilized craft containing seven very small creatu

ter, when located and interv i ewed, the one surviving member of the family s w o re to ge f s authenticity. in 1931, the irving family father james, mother margaret, and twelve-year-old daughter viorrey lived on a small farm known as doarlish cashen (cashen s gap in english) on the isle of man on the irish sea to the northwest of england. facing the sea and 750 feet above it, sat their two-story stone house. inside, the walls were lined with dark matchwood paneling set a few inches from the g 107 stone. this particular construction detail would be crucial to what would follow. one evening in september of that year, so he would assert, james irving heard a tapping noise from the boarded-up attic. the next morning, when he went into the attic, he found a wood carving that he recognized as h

y. the peo- gef 109 ple here at the farm. seem sane, honest and responsible folk. i find that others, too, have had my strange experience (wilkins, 1952. as the publicity spread, an american promoter offered the family fifty thousand dollars for the right to exhibit gef commercially. he was refused. other investigators heard gef s voice and witnessed apparent evidence of his activities, including stone-throwing and knowledge of events at a distance, but none saw him. others, such as psychical researcher nandor fodor, who spent some days with the irvings, could only collect testimony. gef tended to go into hiding when investigators showed up. in an amusing sidelight, after one investigator, bbc journalist r. s. lambert, declared that gef might well exist, a critic called him crazy. lambert

FAUST

by this multitude! oh, happy he who, through his own gifts, can draw such a gain, such gratitude! the father shows you to his brood, each asks and hastes and nearer draws; the fiddle stops, the dancers pause. you go, they stand in rows to see. the caps are quickly lifted high; a little more and they would bend the knee as if the holy sacrament came by. faust only a few steps farther, up to yonder stone! here let us rest a little from our straying. here often, wrapped in thought, i sat alone and tortured me with fasting and with praying. in hope full rich, firm in the faith possessed, with tears, sighs, wringing hands, i meant to force the lord in heaven to relent and end for us the fearful pest. the crowd s applause now sounds like scorn to me. oh, could you but within me read how little

how would you, earth s wretched son, have kept on living? what would you have done? your hodge-podge of imagination- balderdash! at least i ve cured you now and then of all that trash. in fact, if i had not been here at all, you d long since sauntered off this earthly ball. why here within the cavern s rocky rent thus sit your life away so owl-like and alone? why from the sodden moss and dripping stone sip, like a toad, your nourishment? a fine sweet way to pass the time. i ll bet the doctor s in your body yet. faust can you conceive what new vitality this walking in the desert works in me? yes, could you sense a force like this, you would be devil enough to grudge my bliss. mephistopheles it s more than earthly, such delight! to lie in night and dew on mountain height, embracing earth and

led fall they crash together, one and all, and through the wreck-over-strewn abysses the tempest howls and hisses. voices over us! do you hear? now far off and now more near? all the mountain-side along streams a furious magic song! witches [in chorus. the witches to the brocken go; the grain is green, the stubble aglow. there gathers all the mighty host; sir urian sits uppermost. so goes it over stone and stock; the witch breaks wind, and stinks the buck. a voice alone old baubo s coming now; she s riding upon a farrow sow. chorus. so honour to whom honour is due! in front, dame baubo! lead the crew! a sturdy sow with mother astride, all witches follow in a tide. a voice which way did you come here? a voice the ilsenstein way. i peeped in the owl s nest there today. she made great eyes at

e- a girl so pale and fair? she drags herself but slowly from that place. she seems to move with shackled feet. i must confess, i thought it was the facethat she looks like my gretchen sweet. mephistopheles do let that be! that is of good to none. it is a magic image, lifeless eidolon. it is not well to meet that anywhere; man s blood grows frigid from that rigid stare; and he is turned almost to stone. the story of medusa you of course have known. faust in truth, the eyes of one who s dead are those, which there was no fond, loving hand to close; that is the breast that gretchen offered me, that is the body sweet that i enjoyed. mephistopheles it s sorcery, you fool, you re easily decoyed! she seems to each as though his love were she. faust what rapture! ah, what misery! yet from this vi

aret quick! quick! begone! save your poor child! on! on! keep to the way along the brook, over the bridge to the wood beyond, to the left where the plank is in the pond. quick! seize it! quick! it s trying to rise, it s struggling still! save it! save it! faust collect your thoughts! and see, it s but one step, then you are free! margaret if we were only past the hill! there sits my mother upon a stone, my brain is seized by cold, cold dread! there sits my mother upon a stone, and to and fro she wags her head; she becks not, she nods not, her head s drooping lower, she has slept long, she ll wake no more. she slept and then we were so glad. those were happy times we had. faust no prayers help here and naught i say, so i must venture to bear you away. margaret let me alone! no, i ll not suf

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

prayer offerings, ritual use of sacraments and sacred regard for the elements, community-building rituals based on the mystical significance of rites of passage and seasons of nature, and the special treatment of guests. in the torah, there are numerous accounts of holy figures ascending to and worshipping at power spots on special mountains. there are also several accounts of the ritual use of a stone lingam, over which was poured a libation of oil or perhaps milk. numerous passages in the torah also poignantly allude to the experiential transformation of individual consciousness in divine union, and the presence and importance of mystics and awakened souls throughout the history of the hebrews and jews. the monotheism of master abraham did not simply mean that there was only one god, but

t al anwar) by al ghazzali (d.1111, and the recorded teachings of sufi masters such as rumi, ibn arabi, al- suhrawardi, ibn ata allah, al bayazid al bistami, al junaid of bagdad, abdul qadir al jilani, al hallaj and others.30 western alchemy was derived in great measure from the writings of a number of sufis concerning the mystical analogy of the purification and transformation of metals into the stone of unity, known as the philosopher s stone. 31 33' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% the mystical worldview of sufism, as delineated in the qur an, is basically identical to the qabalistic worldview rooted in the torah. as with the qabalah, someone new to the study of sufism will find a plethora of specialized and abstract terminology used to describe its mystical worldview. the challenge is further exacerb

room dedicated to the practice of vast face-centered meditation might look different from one that centers upon small face. if a tzimtzum is placed upon the wall of the altar, it may be devoid of content and bear only the surrounding vast face image of leviathan, surrounded by the clear blue light of the endless. another object that might be included in a shrine to vast face is a smooth vertical stone, called a lingam in the tantric tradition. the lingam represents the erect penis, and is symbolic of the yang or male potency of vast face. as part of the tantric ritual involving a lingam, the priest or celebrant pours milk or some other special liquid mixture over the stone. the reader may certainly find it odd to include an apparently tantric article of worship on a mystical qabalistic al

rently tantric article of worship on a mystical qabalistic altar. however, the ancient hebrews had a ritual similar to the anointing of the lingam, which is mentioned prominently on a number of occasions in the torah. two different chapters in torah b reshith mention two separate instances of a ritual performed by the patriarch ya aqov, in which he anointed with oil and poured a libation over the stone pillar he erected at beth el.5 this obviously important component of the ancient hebrew religion is conspicuously absent from modern judaic ritual. relative to external ritual, it may appeal to the vast face aspirant to make ablution before entering the shrine room. he/ she may then also want to perform prostration before the altar' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% light a candle and burn incense, and offe

t from modern judaic ritual. relative to external ritual, it may appeal to the vast face aspirant to make ablution before entering the shrine room. he/ she may then also want to perform prostration before the altar' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% light a candle and burn incense, and offer a flower to the ancient of days. in essence, these are acts of devotion to god-without- name-and-form. at this point, if a stone lingam is included as a central feature on the altar, one would pour milk or an unguent oil over it, and intone the mantra: yod heh vav heh, yod heh vav heh el rachum vuh chanun arikh afim( yhvh yhvh el merciful and compassionate (who is) vast face. in vast face yoga, the internal environment is prepared as in the small face routine. after you don a shawl and become comfortably seated, inton

FIRE OF QAYIN RITE

this is the metal: it dropp d from the sky, a ferrous tear of the fire-drake s eye, that burned through cloud and seared the soil and set the furious seas a boil, that lay in ancient pores of earth, til blacksmith s brought it to birth, thrice-purified in tubalo s fire, it suffered the ordeal of the pyre; cast into waters, hissed it s song, the starry viper s iron tongue was tempered on the anvil-stone, til radiant as changeless bone, with whispered charge and wordless spell, the gramarye of azazel. the edge was ground and thus was made, the narrow road of sharpened blade. this is the metal: twas shaped by cain who wrought the heavenly arthame. the rite of the fire of qayin- being the mystery of the house of azazel: the invocation of the great blood and the mystick flame, kindle the mystic

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

iere, i, pp. 130-1. 47 hermes trismegistus and magic liber hermetis trismegisti,1 a treatise on astrology and astrological magic which has been brought to light in recent years begins with the decans, and the liber sacer,z or sacred book, of hermes, is a list of decan images, and of the stones and plants in sympathy with each decan, with instructions as to how to engrave the images on the correct stone, which is to be fixed into a ring together with the relative plant; the wearer of the ring must abstain from all foods antipathetic to the decan. in short, hermes trismegistus is indeed a name to conjure with in all this type of literature concerned with occult sympathies and talismans. again in his capacity as hermes-thoth, inventor of language, of words which bind and unbind, he plays a ro

orma hominis super altam cathedram elevatus& in eius capite pannum lineum lutosum& in eius manu falcem tenentis: forma hominis senex erecti, suas manus super caput ipsius erigentes& in eis piscem tenentis: forma hominis super draconem erecti, in dextra manu falcem tenentis, in sinistra hastam habentis& nigris pannis induti.3) for a long and happy life, says ficino, you may make on a white, clear, stone an image of jupiter as "a crowned man on an eagle or a dragon, clad in a yellow garment (homo sedens super aquilam uel draconem coronatus. croceam induto uestem.a) there is a very similar image of jupiter in picatrix' de vita coelitus comparanda, 18 (ficino, p. 556. 2 ficino, pp. 556-7. 3 picatrix, lib. ii, cap. 10; sloane, 1305, f. 43 verso. 4 ficino, p. 557. 70 ficino's natural magic (form

5 cornelius agrippa's survey of renaissance magic this is enough to say about images" concludes agrippa "for you can now go on for yourself to find others. but you must know that these kind of figures are nothing unless they arc vivified so that there is in them. a natural virtue, or a celestial virtue, or a heroic, animastic, demonic, or angelic virtue. but who can give soul to an image, life to stone, metal, wood or wax? and who can make children of abraham come out of stones? truly this secret is not known to the thick-witted worker. and no one has such powers but he who has cohabited with the elements, vanquished nature, mounted higher than the heavens, elevating himself above the angels to the archetype itself, with whom he then becomes co-operator and can do all things.1 which shows

its in the practical cabala which he did with his associate, edward kelley. dee and kelley were close students of agrippa's occult philosophy2; in agrippa's third book there are elaborate numerical and alphabetical tables for angel-summoning of the type which dee and kelley used in their operations' in the course of which michael, gabriel, raphael and other angels and spirits appeared in the show-stone and spoke to dee through kelley, though dee never saw them himself.4 kelley was a fraud who deluded his pious master, but the very nature of the fraud shows how well-versed they both were in renaissance magic. what dee chiefly wanted to learn from the angels was the secrets of nature5; it was a way of prosecuting science on a higher level. like pico della mirandola, dee was a most devout chr

and wanderings, which readers may possibly take to be poetical and figurative, rather than historically true; thirdly, he, as it were, confusedly plunges into moral topography, through which as he takes his way he looks about him with the penetrating eyes of lynceus, not lingering the while, and as he contemplates the great structures of the universe he seems to trip over every tiny thing, every stone and stumbling-block in his path. and in this he is imitating a painter, who, not satisfied with confining himself to a simple picture of his subject, puts in stones, mountains, trees, springs, rivers, hills, in order to fill the canvas and bring his art in conformity with nature. here he will display to you a royal palace, there a wood, there a strip of sky, on that side the half disc of the

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

one sense, the beings described above are designated gods in as much as they are worshipped by great numbers of other beings, both human and non-human. amongst these are the elder races, who inhabited the earth in prehistoric times, and from whose presence man s very existence derives. the first of these races to visit the earth was the old ones, who came down from the stars to build their black stone city on the continent of antarctica. they are described as having starfish-shaped heads, and tubular bodies covered with tentacles and cilia. their servants are the mindless, protoplasmic shoggoths. in the novel, at the mountains of madness, lovecraft records the wars which took place between the old ones and other extra-terrestrial races, at the dawn of time. these other groups include the

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

of your sigils really correspond to what you want from life and magic (have a look at the frequency with which you use them by keeping a tally) do you notice any imbalance? which terms/ aims appear least frequently? what shoul according to your personal philosophy, be emphasized, at least theoretically? what is missing? which emotions have you avoided and why? thus, you can kill two birds ith one stone by combining pragmatic-empirical practice with individual ethics. in time, you will spend less and less effort on con-structing (or greceiving h) d, w 84/ practical sigil magic the alphabet of desire is at its best when it comes to usefulness and variety of applications and not only, as already mentioned, in the areas of self-recognition, growing knowledge and self-analysis but also in worki

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

ented by the blazing star in the centre. lights* maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (9 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:54 am] jewels. the movable jewels are the square, level and plumb. the square teaches morality, the level equality, and the plumb rectitude of life. the immovable jewels are the rough ashlar, the perfect, ashlar and the trestleboard. the rough ashlar is a stone as taken from the quarry, in its rude and natural state. the perfect ashlar is a stone made ready by the hands of the workmen, tobe adjustedby the workingtools of the fellow craft. the treslieboard is for the master to draw his designs upon. by the rough ashlar we are reminded of our rude and imperfect state by nature; by the perfect ashlar, of that state of perfection at which we hope to ar

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL 2

to masonry, i have no doubt that you will perform all the duties which may be devolved upon you in a manner creditable to yourself and satisfactory to the grand lodge. maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (76 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:56 f freemasonry and catholicism by max heindel [1865-1919] click here to return to the previous html page. part vii the philosopher's stone--what it is and how it is made. those who have studied the writings of the ancient alchemists have always been much mystified by what is said concerning the philosopher's stone and the process of transmuting the base metals into gold. these claims have naturally given rise to a great deal of vague speculation. from time to time, students have asked for a direct statement from the writer conc

e of evolution and that in the future your whole creative force must be turned upwards so that you shall become a hermaphrodite spiritually, and thus able to objectify your ideas and speak the living word which shall endue them with life and make them vibrant with vital energy. this dual creative force thus expressed through the brain and larynx is the 'elixir-vitae' which springs from the living stone of the spiritually hermaphrodite philosopher. the alchemical process of kindling and elevating it is accomplished in the spinal cord where the salt, sulphur, mercury and azoth are found. it is raised to incandescence by high and noble thought, by meditation upon spiritual subjects, and by altruism expressed in the daily life. the second half of the creative energy thus drawn upward through t

nal canal is a spinal spirit-fire, the serpent of wisdom. gradually it is raised higher and higher and when it reaches the pituitary body and the pineal gland in the brain, it sets them to vibrating, opening up the spiritual worlds and enabling man to commune with the gods. then this fire radiates in all directions and permeates the whole body and its auric atmosphere, and man has become a living stone, whose luster surpasses that of the diamond or the ruby. he is then the philosopher's stone" there are many other symbols and similes taken from the world of chemistry and applied to the processes of spiritual growth which eventually makes men living stones in the temple of god. but enough has been said in the foregoing to show what was meant by the ancient alchemists by such terms and the r

, and has always bee open to anyone who really an truly seeks for enlightenment and is willing to pay the price in the coin of self-denial and self-sacrifice. therefore, seek the temple door and you shall find it; knock and it shall be opened unto you. if you seek prayerfully, if you knock persistently and if you labor manfully you will in time reach the goal and you will become the philosopher's stone. celibacy and marriage in order to avoid misunderstanding, it should be said that this lesson was only given to the aspirant to discipleship to show him the reason why it is necessary for him to live a pure and chaste life. it does not apply to the masses who have no spiritual aspirations and are as yet unable to restrain their passions. the rosicrucians do not even advocate an entirely celi

level, it would, indeed, be very wrong for aspirants to discipleship to live an entirely celibate life for the sake of self- advancement when conditions permit them to wed; furthermore, the expenditure of the creative force at the few times in a life when it is legitimately required for propagation would not seriously interfere with the spiritual development undertaken to become the philosopher's stone, and the soul- growth gained by assuming the duties of parenthood would far outweigh any possible loss. what the rosicrucians teach then is that marriage between people who will limit their use of the creative function to the purpose of propagation is eminently good, noble and productive of great soul-growth, but that unmarried aspirant should live an absolutely celibate life if they wish to

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

o great institutions as determined by occult investigation the rosicrucian fellowship international headquarters p.o. box 713 oceanside, california, 92054, u.s.a. table of contents* part i: lucifer, the rebel angel* part ii: the masonic legend* part iii: the queen of sheba* part iv: casting the molten sea* part v: the mystery of melchisedec* part vi: spiritual alchemy* part vii: the philosopher's stone--what is it and how it is made* part viii: the path of initiation* part ix: armageddon, the great war, and the coming age part i lucifer, the rebel angel the rosicrucian fellowship aims to educate and construct, to be charitable even to those from whom we differ, and never to vent the venom of vituperation, spite, or malice even upon those who seem deliberately determined to mislead. we reve

mark again, is always invisible, and which manifested as heat in the saturn period. then fire burst into flames, and the dark world became a blazing ball of luminous firemist at the word of power "let there be light" let the student ponder well the relation of fire and flame; the former lies sleeping, invisible in everything, and is kindled into light in various ways: by a blow of a hammer upon a stone, by friction of wood against wood and by chemical action, etc. this gives us a clue to the identity and state of the father "whom no man hath seen at any time" but who is revealed in "the light of the world" the son, who is the highest initiate of the sun period. as the unseen fire is revealed in the flame, so also the fullness of the father dwelt in the son, and they are one as fire is one

rking with it. thus the combined quintessence of these various base metals would form a spiritual sublimate of knowledge incomparable in potency, valuable beyond all earthly things. being of ultimate purity it would contain no color, but resemble a "sea of glass" whoever should lave in it would find himself endowed with perpetual youth. no philosopher could compare with him in wisdom; this "white stone" knowledge would even enable him to lift the veil of invisibility and meet the superhuman hierarchs, who work in the world with a potency undreamt of by the masses. masonic traditions tell us that hiram's preparations were so perfect that success would have been assured, had not treachery triumphed. but the incompetent craftsmen whom hiram had been unable to initiate into the higher degrees

meet in peace, at the sea of glass. and as melchisedec, king of salem (salem means peace) and priest of god, ministered to abraham, the father of nations, when mankind was yet in its infancy, so shall this new light combine in himself the dual office of king and priest after the order of melchisedec. he shall judge the nations with the law of love and to him that overcometh will be given a white stone with a name that will serve as passport to the temple. there he may meet the king face to face. hiram was again conducted to the surface of the earth and as he walked from the scene of his shattered ambition, the conspirators set upon and fatally wounded him; but before he expired, he hid the hammer and disc upon which he had inscribed the word. this was never found until ages later when hir

who raised him from death through initiation. when the hammer was found it had the shape of a cross, and the disc had become a rose. therefore hiram took his place among the immortals under the new and symbolical name christian rosenkreuz. he founded the order of temple-builders which bears his name; in that order aspiring souls are still instructed how to fuse the base metals and make the white stone. the symbology of the foregoing will be explained in the following chapters. part v the mystery of melchisedec among all the characters mentioned in the bible none is more mysterious than melchisedec; said to be without father, mother, or earthly kin, and holding the dual office of king and priest. paul in his epistle to the hebrews gives us most information showing the connection between ch

FULL MOON RITUALS

then, he stood, shed all sense of himself and waited- until awareness of a distinctly different atmosphere accosted his skin and his nose with smells of ancient oak, selaginella and leaf mold. opening his eyes, he sees the moon reflected in a glass smooth lake which also reflects the walls and turret of the old castle off to the south, and realizes that his gateway into this place has brought the stone circle just to the eastern edge of the ancient grove, where so many previous moons have been celebrated. becoming aware of a faint smell of ozone and then noticing that, while grove and castle appear solidly limned, the lithons about him possess a certain transparent quality, deer turns to each of the quarters, contemplating the wise words inscribed upon each of the quarter stones, and retur

idly limned, the lithons about him possess a certain transparent quality, deer turns to each of the quarters, contemplating the wise words inscribed upon each of the quarter stones, and returns to his song. had anyone else been afoot, they might have noticed antlers- outlined in a faint bluish light, upon deer's forehead as he made his way first three turns out then three back in the spiral. each stone he pauses to touch, to hug, to kiss. and each stone becomes limned in the same faint blue light as his antlers before acquiring more of an air of solidity. back at the central stone, deer climbs upon it and drops to his right knee, both hands clasped upon his left. still deer sings- of hills and sky, grove and stones, lake and castle- ending only when the odd light and the faint acrid odor h

ke and castle- ending only when the odd light and the faint acrid odor have been completely subsumed in the more usual qualities of this place. again he waits, knowing that no matter how well sung, this work will not remain without the blessing of his uncle. and waiting, deer finds time to dwell upon plans for tonight's moon. lost in mental preparations, he is startled by the clatter of hoof upon stone and looks up just in time to see a great stag- rack held high in the starlit sky- bounding from stone to stone, turning about the outward spiral of this place before disappearing into the wood "blessed be, uncle, and a thousand thank you's" deer calls out cheerfully as he inwardly kicks himself for having been so inattentive to the comings and goings about him. however, had the uncle desired

mories of many moons spent within these walls. lowering his pack to the floor, deer retrieves from its depths a large beeswax globe of deepest crimson, which he sets upon the broad sill of the window that sidelights the ancient door, and lights the wick protruding from its crown. almost instantly, a specter of cinnamon flows into the cavernous depths of the great room as the light illuminates the stone foyer and shines as a beacon through the window and out into the night. deer lays a blessing about the doorway for all who enter here this eve and places a wicker basket upon the sill of the sidelight window opposite to the candle, which is filled to overflowing with small felt reindeer (rodney's, rhonda's, ramona's and randy's from the local hallmark) intended to depart homewards with each

into the belly of this place. elenya's willow broom still leans beside the massive walk-in fireplace, black with the smoke and soot of generations, behind the long feasting table that runs the length of the hall- a broom which will soon be put to good use. before cleaning, however, deer leaves his pack upon the table, and proceeds to ferry and kindling and logs from the wood pile outside into the stone fireplace. as soon as this work is done, deer adds flame to the mix and is soon warmed by the fury of a roaring fire. while the fire lends even more light to the cavernous room, that job is not complete until each of the thirteen torches which line the eastern wall are lit, along with their counterparts on the western wall as well. now, surrounded by the warmth which comes both from the fire

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

siderable importance, even if many of my interpretations are faulty. even if the whole of my readings are wrong, which is unlikely, this in itself does not necessarily invalidate the idea. for example: columbus believed that the world was round and he set out to prove it. in doing so he discovered a new world, which, though it did not at the time actually confirm this idea, established a stepping-stone to the circumnavigation of the globe, which did confirm it in an obvious and uncontradictable way. so also in this book, i have set out to penetrate the mists of qabalistic learning, not because i presume to be an adept in its mysteries, but because i suspect that they hide within them the idea of a new world conception, an idea which for 2000 years has been struggling to take form. should i

ng, shape and size. h 10 this sephirah is the spiritus mundi. from 'hokmah is derived the balance of the sephiroth, the next six of which refer to the dimensions of the universe- length, breadth, and depth moving as it were outwardly towards the positive and the negative, the male and the female principles each, therefore, in two directions. together they form the six faces of a perfect cube (the stone of the wise: the tenth sephirah, malkuth, the kingdom or sabbath represents rest, poise, and completion. these first three sephiroth- kether, binah, and 'hokmah (father, mother, and son- the supernal triad- constitute the intelligible or intellectual world. and since the holy ancient is expressed and impressed by three [i.e. ayin, ain soph, and ain soph aur the expression; and kether, binah

be realized that though, in the ordinary use of words, creation conveys to us an idea of gspringing up h, that is of newness and novelty, to the qabalist it conveys the opposite idea, namely, that of descending, obscuring, and grossifying. for instance, no rational being would assert that a work of art was greater than the artist who created it. a statue is an artistic idea materialized. it is of stone, clay, or metal- pure matter- to which has been added an ideal form which emanated from the thoughts of a human being also fashioned of matter, that is of flesh, blood, and bone. it was not thought which created the material of the statue, for this existed before the thought arose in the head of the artist; yet thought did give to the statue its form, and this crystallized thought may live o

messiah. the laboratory of the devil (satan of the qliphoth) is the heart of man; herein are all things human conceived and ordered. mystically this heart is the ark which rode out the terrors of the flood, just as the shin rode out the terrors of the darkness which gwas upon the face of the deep h. the timber it is built of is cut from the branches of the tree of life. in it is carried the cubic stone of the wise, the corner stone of the qabalistic temple (the divine form of adam qadmon, the apex of which is the letter od, and at the corners of whose triangular base stand the letters heh, vau, heh, and in whose centre, unseen from outside, is the letter shin. this letter, as we have already explained, symbolizes among other things the crucifixion of christ- christ between the aggressive a

again find a pearl of great price. the supernal diadem is there, but it has been broken up, the urge of secrecy having dismembered it and hidden its priceless fragments away in the most unlikely and inacessible corners. this secrecy has all but defeated its own end by so obscuring truth that in many cases it is no longer discoverable. and when by much searching and labour we do find some precious stone, symbolism has cut it into so many facets that it is all but impossible to judge of its true shape. we look at it from one side and see one thing, then from another and see another, the very brilliance of the symbols confusing us. in chapters i to v we have attempted- and acknowledgedly with but limited success- to project a beam of light into the chaotic lumberrooms of zoharic learning and

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

a careful examination of ancient holy objects and places still extant in every quarter of the globe, and through the study of antique art, it is not unlikely that a line of investigation has been marked out whereby a tolerably correct knowledge of the processes involved in our present religious systems may be obtained. the numberless figures and sacred emblems which appear carved in imperishable stone in the earliest cave temples; the huge towers, monoliths, and rocking stones found in nearly every country of the globe, and which are known to be closely connected with primitive belief and worship, and the records found on tablets which are being unearthed in various parts of the world, are, with the unravelling of extinct tongues, proving an almost inexhaustible source for obtaining infor

ted the birth scenes of the child god horus, and, indeed, everywhere among the monuments and ruins of egypt, is plainly visible the fact that the creative power and functions in human beings, in animals, and in vegetable life, together with wisdom, once constituted the god-idea. between the ruins of the palace of amunoph iii. and the nile are two colossal statues, each hewn from a single block of stone. these figures, although in a sitting posture, are sixty feet high. it is thought that they once formed the entrance to an avenue of similar figures leading up to the palace. it has been supposed that the most northern statue represents ammon, and that its companion piece is his mother. it is now believed by many writers, however, that these figures do not represent two persons at all, but t

ronounce was still acknowledged, there was another god (the lord, the same as in china, whose worship they were beginning to adopt "and jacob vowed a vow, saying, if god will be with me, and will keep me in this way that i go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that i come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the lord be my god" he then declared that the pillar or stone which he had set up, and which was the emblem of male procreative energy, should be god's house. as at the time represented by jacob there was evidently little or no spirituality among the israelites, this lord whom they worshipped was simply a life-giver in the most material or practical sense. the reproductive energy in man had become deified. it had, in other words, come to possess all th

arge or supplement the primary record. and he seems to have used the compound jehovah aleim in the first portion of his work in order to impress upon the reader that jehovah, of whom he goes on to speak in the later portions, is the same great being who is called simply elohim by the older writer, and notably in the first account of the creation"[40 [40] lectures on the pentateuch and the moabite stone, p. 7. we are informed by bunsen that el, or elohim, comprehends the true significance of the deity among all the aramaic or canaanitish races, el representing the abstract principle taken collectively, elohim pertaining to the separate elements as creator, preserver, and regenerator. each of these canaanitish races had inherited these ideas from their fathers, and, although they had become

gods that are among you' that there were images of god which were not strange, and that in these early times there were orthodoxy and heterodoxy in images as there are now. in ancient times the emblem of life-giving energy was an orthodox emblem; it is now a horror and its place is taken by an image of death. we infer from the context that laban's gods were orthodox" so, also, must have been the stone pillar set up by jacob at bethel (place of the sun. from a study of similar stones, examples of which are to be found in nearly every country of the globe, it is known that they represent the male energy, and from all the facts connected with the story of laban's gods it is probable that they were emblems of this power. we may suppose then that the "strange gods" the unorthodox gods, which j

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

in particular in thearabian tales that had so delighted him with its stories of the 'hidden city of ad' and of that 'other and greater city which iscalledirem. this was the city,raisedon pillars, that contained the great secret of earthly riches and had as its chief treasure 'a chest of goldfilledwith a red powder. waite could not know then that 'this is the powder of alchemyand the philosopher's stone. it is encircled by a river of mercury; for 'what should1know in my childhood concerning the stoneat the red, or thatestinmercurioquicquidquaeruntsapientesibut the talismanicseedof this romance of alchemyfellunawares in receptive soilandbecameaplant which iwas destinedto tend long afterin my own garden of the mind'(sly,p.28).beforethisalchemicalplantfloweredwaitehaddiscoveredboth spiritualis

red from an active role in the order,butas waite became increasingly sceptical about the contentsofthe cipher manuscripts themembers-whowished to believe in theirantiquity-becamerestive and called upon blackden for support. he 'emerged from retirement' and_theindependentandrectifiedrite123argued that the fact of the manuscripts being allegedly earlier than the date of the discovery of the rosetta stone (which first enabled translation from theegyptianto be made) was of no consequence, because'theegyptian fellaheen, long prior to the discovery in question could have been and probably were acquaintedwiththe fact that certain hieroglyphic texts were funerary rituals. facedwithsuch total opposition to hisownviews on the part of his co-chief, waite was placed in an impossible position and in191

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

mber to die, and that in england. about1450a funeral vaultofseven sides decorated with symbols was erected for the reposeofthe founder. frater p.d. was the second to die.'in1457the curious alchymical tractate called "chymische hochzeit (chemical wedding) was written in german by c.r.butwasnotthen published.itnarrates the attainment by himofthe grade of"equesaurei lapidis" or "knight of the golden stone'.18 thegoldendawn'in1484the founder and imperator c.r. died, his body was embalmed and put into the vault, which was closed and con255 cealed from the membersofthe latest circle of junior students 'frater d. was then chosen to be magus, and after his death frater a. at a date unknown, but he died in1600.his successor was fratern.n.,who in1604discovered the entrance to the cavern and caused i

communicates; but when he is handed the chalice he consumes the wine and holding the cup on high turnsitupside down and cries with a loud voice:kerux:'itis finished' all rise.thekerux restores the chalice to the altar and returns to his place.hierophant:(knocks 'tetelestai!'hiereus:(knocks once. all give sign.hierophant:'may what we have received sustain us in our search for the quintessence the stone of the philosophers, true wisdom and perfecthappiness-thesummumbonum.'hierophant(knocks:'khabs'hiereus(knocks:'am'hegemon(knocks:'pekht'appendixchiereus(knocks:'konx'hegemon(knocks:'om'hierophant(knocks:'pax'hegemon(knocks:'light'hierophan:(knocks:'in'hiereus(knocks:'extension'125ifthe hall is not reserved exclusively for temple meetings, it should be purified by the lesser ritualofthe penta

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which was cast of brass, and containeth all the namesofthebrethren, with some few other things; this he would transfer in another more fitting vault, for where or when fra r.c. died, or in what country he was buried, was by our predecessors concealed and unknown to us. in this tablet stuck a great nail somewhat strong, so that when he was with force drawn out, he took with him an indifferent big stone out of the thin wall, or plaster of the hidden door, and so18themagicalmasonunlooked for, uncovered the door, wherefore we did with joy and longing throw downtherest ofthewall, and cleared thedoor,uponwhichthatwas written in great letters,'postcxx.annos patebo,'withtheyearofthelordunderit; therefore we gave god thanks,andlet it restthatsame night because first we would overlookourrotam.inthe

overlookourrotam.inthe morning following we opened the door and there appeared tooursight a vault of seven sidesandcorners, every side five feet broad and the height of eight feet. although the sun never shined in this vault, nevertheless it was enlightened by anothersun,whichhadlearned this from the sun, and was situated in theupperpartin the centre of the ceiling; inthemidst, instead of a tomb stone, was aroundaltar covered over with a plate of brass, and thereon this engraven:-a.c.r.c. hocuniversicompendiumuniusmihisepulchrumfeci.roundabout the first circle orbrimstoodjesus mihiomnia.inthemiddle were four figures, enclosed in circles, whose circumscription was:-1.nequaquamvacuum.novoid exists.2. legis jugum.theyoke of the law.3.libertasevangelii.theliberty of the doctrine.4.deigloriain

die, and that in england. about 1450 a funeral vault of seven sides decorated with symbols was erected for the repose of the founder. fraterp.d.was the second to die. in 1457 the curious a1chymical tractate calledchymischehochzeit(chemical wedding) was written in german byc.r.,butwas not then published.itnarrates the attainment by him of the grade of 'eques aurei lapidis' or 'knight of the golden stone. in 1484 the founder and imperator c.r. died, his body was embalmed andputinto the vault, which was closed and concealed from the members of the latest circle of junior students. frater d. was then chosen to be magus, and after his death frater a. at a date unknown,buthe died in 1600. his successor was fratern.n.,who in 1604 discovered the entrance to the cavern and caused it to be opened, 1

der thomas bowman whytehead as chief adept of the province of york, which office he held until his death in 1906; he was succeeded by james m. meek, who still holds the office and rules over a large group of fratres, who hold meetings with strict regularity. this college has published several volumes of transactions. robert w. little died in 1878, and was buried at honor oak cemetry, and the tomb stone records his rosicrucian eminence. william robert woodman,m.d.,became supreme magus. during his rule the province of northumbria and college of newcastle were consecrated, with charles fendelow as chief adept, and the demiurgus college at melbourne, australia. the high council library was founded upon a bequest of books bydrwoodman, and now includes a thousand volumes. 1878.theisis unveiledof

nd intheosophical siftings, 1890.in 1890 the rosicrucian groups on the continent were re255 formed under a revised constitution, and several fratres of the s.r.i.a. have received adeptship from the continental frat255 ernity. in 1891, during xmas week, dr woodman died after a few days illness; he lies buried in willesden cemetery, where a suitable rosicrucian inscription may be read upon his tomb stone; and early in 1892drwilliam wynn westcott, who had served as secretary-general for many years, and had given numerous lectures on mystical subjects, was installed as supreme magus by charles fitzgerald matier, a past s.m. in scotia. in 1900, dr wynn westcott publisheda short historyofthethehistory oftherosicrucians 37.'oc.rosie in anglia;this has beenoutofprintfor many years. in 1901,'theord

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

n) manasseh, classedtogetherundertheirfather'sname,jacob says,'iosephis a fruitfultwelvesigns and twelve tribes 43bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall; the archers have sorely grieved him and shot at him, and hated him:buthis bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mightygodof jacob (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of israel) even by the god of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the almighty who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessingsofthedeep thatiiethunder, blessings of the breasts and of the womb: the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of joseph, and on the crow

t coming down the hill-side?'isaw a little mist wreath clinging to the ground, just over a rough path 'that's not a mist' he said rather impatiently 'it's a little procession.there'sa man carrying a wee bit coffin on his shoulder.idoubt they would notgeta cart up there, and there's twelve men, and three women following. but why will they be going the other side of theburn,'tis a mile round by the stone bridge. well! it will*pronouncedthek.some celtic memories109two days from now; come ye here and ye shall see that funeral, and then go and talk about your marsh gas if ye like. marsh gas indeed' he walked off rather contemptuously. but there is no question that on the second day from that i saw the baby's funeral as he had described, and the reason they went round by the far side of the burn

d) to the exorciser. the enemies of ra-hamarchis will be usually his own enemies. wax figuresmustbe made of these,andnotbnlyof themselves,butof their father, and mother, and children, andtheirnames also inscribed in green. on papyrus. these arethendevoted toappphiandtied round with dark hair.thenthe exorciser shall curse them, spit upon them, defile them with the left foot, and pierce them with a stone knife, after which they are to beputinto a flaming fire, andburntwith the xessan plant(ihave not been able to identify this) at sunrise, noon, or the first hour of the night225225thefigure of apophi as before directed should then beburntat the festival of the new moon.forthe use of hair in the cursing rituals reference may be made. to isabel goudie's confession. i have among. my treasures a

cursing rituals reference may be made. to isabel goudie's confession. i have among. my treasures a jewish phylactery; the parchment scroll inside the tiny box is tied round with a single long black hair. a learned rabbi.told me the purpose was probablytoinvoke a blessing on some dearly beloved.thesame formula being used according to the intention either for blessing or cursing.thepiercing with a stone knife is paralleled by lady monro's elf arrows; these being. of course, the flint arrow heads, believed in celtic scotland to havebeenmade by satanic agency.inegypt flint weapons which are found-in great abundance were considered as relicsoftheearlier gods,theone supreme, the all-father, neter, whose worship was pre-dynastic,beingsymbolized by an axe, whose head inthetomb paintings is bound

ches of thessaly, and various old classic stories. another witchcraft story was told me by the late sir archibald dunbar which was within his own knowledge. when it was proposed to demolish the old castle of blervie the contractor employed had thrown down half of the castle, when he was warned to desist. he paid no attention, however, till one day he saw a most evil-looking old woman sitting on a stone dyke and grinning at him. she cursed him volubly, whereupon he went with a stick to drive her away,buta black dog with flaming red eyes snarled at him, and would have bittenhim,butwhen he looked again the old woman sat on the dyke as before. whereupon he was so frightened that he vowed he would never touch a stone of the accursed building again. certain it is that a man was employed to destr

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

es believed and taught is unclear; their doctrines have been described as a blend of swedenborgianism and roman catholicism, salted with occultism. to the cold intellectualism of the swedish visionary was added the veneration of the virgin mary and recital of the athanasian creed; while individual members studied renaiss-ance alchemy, the theurgy of alexandria, hermetic authors, the philosopher s stone, the divine science of numbers, and the mystical interpretation of dreams4[4. even less is known of the rituals they practised, but when two english swedenborgians, william bryan and john wright, visited the society in 1789, they were finally initiated into the mysteries of their order, after a certain process of examination, probation, and injunction of secresy 5[5. subsequently they were m

ever, destined to be equivocal. there were irregularities surrounding his ordination and a committee set up by its governing body recommended that the motion to receive mr. beswick into the convention in the degree of his ordination ought not to prevail 13[13. this did not prevent his acting as a lay preachcr and fund-raiser for the new york church building. at the subsequent laying of the corner-stone, on 1 july 1858, beswick gave an address on the symbolism of the ceremony, in which his enthusiasm for illustrating moral principles by way of symbols is readily apparent. from new york he moved to westport in connecticut where on christmas day, 1862 he married harriet grafton taylor. he continued to preach in new york but by l866 had left under something of a cloud, having been accused of p

eden and the place of the tree of life. the proposal, however is to build a temple, in which an important part is assigned to him who is received. in connection with this. the ritual is said to consist of six labours. terminating in the symbolic introduction of our race into its future dwelling-place. which is seemingly the ur-home, the place of the river of life and the tree of life. the corner- stone of the building is faith in god. the 2nd grade [of sublime phremason, or blue brother] is singularly involved. for (a) the candidate is said to be in masonic darkness, and at the 43[43] beswick to stuart, 3 may 1871 same time (b) in search of greater light, which is pure paradox. he is supposed to receive the light and to enter the temple, which is called that of the creator. at a later stag

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le especially after 1312 under the protection of the barons of st. clair..the chapel was built between 1446-48 by sir william st. clair who was one of the most prominent nobles of the time in scotland and even in europe. masons and rosicrucians worked on the construction. the chief architect of the work was the templar grand master, sir william st. clair who brought itinerant mason architects and stone masons from every part of europe. new houses were built in the near-by village of roslin and a lodge was opened the plan and decoration of the chapel is unique. there is no other such example in ed from the templars to ancient egypt scotland or even europe. it captured the atmosphere of herod's temple very well and every part of it was decorated with masonic symbols. among the symbols were r

the symbols were reliefs on the walls and arches depicting the heads of hiram and his murderer, a relief of an initiation ceremony, the keystones of the arches, and compasses. apart from the fact that the chapel was constructed in a marked pagan style with egyptian, hebrew, gothic, norman, celtic, scandinavian, templar and masonic architectural elements, and that it contains very rich examples of stone work, one of the most interesting aspects of it is that the tops of the columns are decorated with cactus and corn motifs, besides various other plants figures. there are so many pagan decorative elements inside the chapel that a priest, writing an account of the baptism he performed of the baron of rosslyn in 1589 complained "because the chapel is filled with pagan idols, there is no place

savagery. a total of 120 million people were killed by communist regimes or organizations. it is also evident that the western brand of humanism (capitalist systems) has not succeeded in bringing peace and happiness to their own societies or to other areas of the world. the collapse of humanism's argument on religion has also been manifested in the field of psychology. the freudian myth, a corner-stone of the atheist dogma since early twentieth century, has been invalidated by empirical data. patrick glynn, of the george washington university, explains this fact in his book titled god: the evidence, the reconciliation of faith and reason in a postsecular world: the last quarter of the twentieth century has not been kind to the psychoanalytic vision. most significant has been the exposure o

raham asked his father "father, why do you worship what can neither hear nor see and is not of any use to you at all (qur'an, 19: 42) it is clear that, to attribute divinity to lifeless matter, that cannot hear or see "is not of any use to one at all" and has no power, is evidently very foolish. materialists are modern examples of idolaters. they do not worship statues and totems made of wood and stone, but believe in the idea that matter constitutes, not only these, but all bodies, and think that this matter has limitless power, intelligence and knowledge. masonic writings have some interesting things to say about this, because masons openly confess this pagan belief, which is the essence of materialism. an article in mimar sinan magazine declares: in order for a material object to come t

eople to forget god, the real creator, turning instead to paganism, in which "nature" is regarded as the creator. masonry strives to give shape to this creed, strengthen and disseminate it, and supports all social forces that it regards as being its allies. an article in mimar sinan, entitled "thoughts about the concept and the global freemasonry ddi pagans of bygone ages worshipped idols made of stone. today's pagans idolize matter. evolution of solidarity from the scientific point of view" speaks of the "mysterious harmony that mother nature has ordered" and states that this is the basis of masonry's humanist philosophy. it further states that masonry will support those movements that espouse this philosophy: when it considers from the point of view of the material give and take in the w

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w we understand truth or gnosis. the religious systems, ideologies and movements which have evolved within the history of man are reflections, distortions and adaptations of the truth which exists unsullied in the world of ideals. rather than truth having evolved and developed, as some would tell us, truth has dissipated as time has moved away from the first point of creation. accordingly, like a stone thrown in a pool, we see the ripples through time but do not comprehend the first event. as we have moved further and further away from the "golden age" the ripples have become more and more distorted until now, in the age of the wolf they have dissipated into the pool of illusions. religions, ideologies and movements are hence exoteric. exoteric- of philosophical doctrines, treatises, modes

insight which gnosticism gives, it shows the esoteric meaning behind religious symbol systems and in some sense bypasses them by divining their true meaning. this does not degrade the role of myth, legend, tales and scriptures but places them in the real position, that is, as the outer flesh or form of the mysteries. scriptures cannot stand alone, within the gnosis at their heart, they become as stone. impersonal to personal as part of the gnostic worldview is the understanding of the role of personalism in religion. by personalism we mean not only theism (the worship of a personal god) but the use of gods and goddess with personality, character and humanness. this tendency is found in all religious traditions, while in the pagan traditions the gods seem more human, it is certainly also f

on are very relevant to the gnostic. if cultures are like a human body, for example, then we can suggest that its various parts have differing levels of importance, ability and significance, and that to reduce all aspects of the "body" of the "organic" society to an equal footing would be like suggesting the head is equal to the arm, the appendix to the eyes. this basic inequality is a foundation stone of the unique vision of gnosticism which emphasizes individual spiritual development over a vast number of lives. to really appreciate the esoteric and religious significance of these cycles we need to consider two major figures and their outlines of the sacred cycle rene guenon and julius evola. rene guenon and julius evola guenon is not a man who liked the press, he was a bitter critic of

nd plato. such scholars as heinrich schliemann, have noted the similarity between greek and vedic forms and suggested a common place of origin. similar similarities can be found be- chapter seven: the continuum of the gnosis the gnostic handbook page 70 tween nordic and vedic sources and hence as we come to speculate on these links we may begin to conjecture that they are ripples resulting from a stone cast into the primal pool of gnosis. ripples that have spread out through cultures, traditions and peoples, many of which have forgotten the origins of their legends, tales and philosophy. julius evola and many others suggest that this primal culture was based in the arctic region and due to severe weather changes migrations took place to many diverse locations. while an arctic origin to ved

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es, in this doom are vicious souls condemned. hermes. while we may not agree to the extent he has taken the concept of reincarnation, this quote does illustrate his acceptance of the doctrine. turning to ancient greece we find a very old tale, a story of proteus, who could change his shape at will. when an old man attempted to grab him, hoping to ascertain his real form, proteus was sleeping as a stone. on being touched he became a plant, when approached again he became a serpent and then transformed into a man and finally a spirit, at which time he flew off into the sky. here we clearly have a classical myth being used to outline the esoteric teaching of reincarnation as taught within the greek traditions. the zohar, a hebrew mystical and kabbalistic text, tells us that all souls must und

gain he became a serpent and then transformed into a man and finally a spirit, at which time he flew off into the sky. here we clearly have a classical myth being used to outline the esoteric teaching of reincarnation as taught within the greek traditions. the zohar, a hebrew mystical and kabbalistic text, tells us that all souls must undergo reincarnation and that the souls of men revolve like a stone that is thrown from a sling that has been spun many times before finally being let go. those souls that have reached perfection stay in their holy places, only those which have not completed their perfection are subject to the wheel of reincarnation or gilgul. the truth about reincarnation at first this may all seem very heartening, however, if we examine the subject closer we find that the

world and centred on the treasury of light you are under dialectic dominion (whether you admit it or not. secondly, within the psyche will be many gnostic theurgy page 80 dialectic programs that we carry with us into the spiritual life, they must be rooted out and destroyed. the promise offered to those who correctly use this chakra include the eating of the hidden manna and the gift of the white stone with a new name engraved on it. these promises are highly symbolic, the hidden manna represents a special stage known in the alchemical process of self transformation. it is also sometimes known as the white powder, it is a stage prior to the philosophers stone. this substance is symbolic of the processes of internal transformation that are working through transfiguration. the church of thya

he 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.1983 come and behold the letters by which heaven and earth were created, the letters by which were created hills and mountains, the letters by which were created rivers and seas, the letters by which were created the trees and the herbs. the book of enoch. in the ancient book of enoch it is stated that moses received the letters

en to the books of the old testament, it is composed of three letters tau, nun and kaph (final. these are seen as abbreviations for a further three words. tau. torah. the five books of moses. nun. n vee-im. the prophets. kaph. k soovim. rest of the old testament. v visita visit i interiora the interior t terrae of the earth r recificando find i invenies and rectify o occultum the secret l lapidem stone. fig 26 gnostic theurgy page 107 the creation of formulae by combining the arts of gematria and notariqon it is possible to produce formulae which outline various phases of esoteric practise. the use of such formulae is especially relevant in relation to ritual and liturgical practise. it allows us to evoke a wide range of associations by the correspondences related to the letters in the giv

GOETIA LUCIFERIAN

guardian angel, spirit of the adversary who resides in darkness and light azal ucel the name azal ucel is a sigillic word manipulation of two words, azazel and lucifer. as this is the initiator and god form of the path of sorcery, lucifer is the illuminator of the soul, the one who allows the magician to bask in the light of self and view ones own reflection in the emerald crown, the very lucifer-stone which fell to earth and remains hidden within the earth, and partially in the heart of man. this rite is designed to provide a short yet inspired working of invoking the holy guardian angel, from which one shall seek the communion of their higher spirit, genii, daemon and true will. as one comes into contact with the angel-daemon, an illuminated sense of self comes forth; a new type of being

zel. the sorcerer shall seek the fire-spirit of change, rebellion and progression. the symbol of set the adversary shall take the earthen form of the devil, the solar creative (and destructive) force of change and self-deification. there are two primary faces of the adversary. the celebrant may construct as mask of two sides, which shall be placed upon the center of the altar. a phallic symbol or stone god may be near the mask as well, symbolizing the solar creative force of the beast 666- one- the fallen seraph lucifer, the angelick essence of the black flame, the very source of our wisdom, being and becoming. two the seraph of flame, the djinn iblis of fire, daemon of the blackened flame, serpent beast dragon wolf goat. satanas is the devil-cloaked initiator of the path of the wise, thos

t i see what has been never known akharakek sabaiz i call forth the shadow of which i am and have always been, the darkness which i nourish in between the light 21 eclipse now the face of god that i become in this darkend image- by this circle i do become by the flame i do emerge i am by form the peacock angel beauty revealed unto those who may see as the black sun rises, i become in this emerald stone i am the imagination, the seed of fallen angel in darkness exists my light my will gives birth to the kingdom of incubi and succubi, the nourish their desires in the blood of the moon, lilitu az drakul so it is done! tools of art the circle the circle is an old boundary which was used back from the eldest days of magical practice, specifically the sumerian word zisurru, which is the circle d

GOLDEN DAWN LESSER BANISHING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM LBRP

nt. 1 of 3 6/27/2004 7:51 am lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram (lbrp) introduction to the ritual there is a much employed ritual which utilizes the symbol of the pentagram as a general means to banish and invoke the elemental forces. this ritual is called the lesser ritual of the pentagram. however, it should not simply be regarded as a mere device to invoke or banish, for it is really the stone of the wise and incorporates within its structure a high magical formula of self-initiation. it is, to all intents and purposes, a ritual of self-initiation. this ritual is given to the neophyte of the order as a means for him/her to come into contact with the invisible forces of nature and to learn how to direct those elementary forces the uses of the pentagram ritual: opening and closing a

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS A

adept must now pass an examination on assigned ritual work [h1. reading list for z.a.m *1. astral projection, ritual magick and alchemy by francis king *2. fama fraternitas (provided *3. confessio (provided) 4. the middle pillar by israel regardie 5. the gospel of john- new testament 6. the book of revelations- new testament 7. genesis- old testament 8. ezekiel- old testament 9. the philosopher's stone- by israel regardie 10. catenea- by homeri 11. lexicon of alchemy- by rulandus 12. philosophy of natural magic- by agrippa 13. egyptian magic- by florence farr 14. the kabbalah unveiled- by s.l. mathers 8 15. zanoni- bulwer lytton 16. history- sword of wisdom- by ithell colquhon it is not required that the z.a.m. read each book, but the z.a.m. must furnish a report of at least two pages on a

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ENOCHALL

czons: angel, also known as czns. d: three/ third. d ialprt: third flame. d u i v/ du iv: in to the third angle. da: there/ three. daalo: demonic name (reversal of olaad) commanding cacodemons of earth of water. daltt: angel also known as datt. damploz: variety. daox: 5678. dapi: subservient angel of fire angle of water tablet, also known as daspi. darbs: obey. darg: 6739. darr: the philosopher's stone. dansar: wherefore. darsar: wherefore (cf. bagle. daspi: angel, also known as dapi. datt: subservient angel of earth angle of fire tablet, 19 also known as daltt. dax: loin/ loins. daxil: thy loins. dazis: head/ heads/ their heads. dazis siatris: the heads of scorpions. daziz: heads/ their heads. ddnh: subservient angel of air angle of water tablet. de: of/ to. dedvilh (meaning unknown. de g

acodemon of fire angle of air tablet. opna: subservient angel of earth angle of earth tablet, also known as opana. opnad: angel, also known as opad. ops: cacodemon of air angle of fire tablet. 46 opzo: subservient angel of earth angle of fire tablet. oq: but (cf. crip. or/ orth: name of the enochian letter representing f. orcanin: governor of the first division of the aethyr nia (70. oreri: orri, stone. oresa: ors, darkness. orh: name of a spirit (the word has 72 significations. orm: cacodemon of air angle of earth tablet. ormn: subservient angel of air angle of earth tablet, also known as orpmn. oro: three lettered holy name of god, ruling the element of air. oroch/ orocha: under you/ beneath you/ underneath you. orpanib: governor of the third division of the aethyr zaa (81. orpmn: angel

. orh: name of a spirit (the word has 72 significations. orm: cacodemon of air angle of earth tablet. ormn: subservient angel of air angle of earth tablet, also known as orpmn. oro: three lettered holy name of god, ruling the element of air. oroch/ orocha: under you/ beneath you/ underneath you. orpanib: governor of the third division of the aethyr zaa (81. orpmn: angel, also known as ormn. orri: stone/ barren stone/ than the barren stone (cf. patralx. ors/ oresa: darkness. ors catbl or orsca tbl: his buildings. ors: darkness/ with darkness. orsba/ orsha: drunken. orsca: building/ buildings. orscor: dryness. orth: or/ enochian letter representing f. orxa: subservient angel of earth angle of earth tablet. os londoh: twelve kingdoms. os: twelve. osa: cacodemon of fire angle of water tablet

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS F

ind the importance and power of the rose cross. let the adept, therefore, never forget to kiss the rose cross lamen upon placing it upon him or herself and upon removing it. 9 biblical text genesis 2:11-14 king james version "the name of the first is pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. and the name of the second river is gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of ethiopia. and the name of the third river is hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of assyria. and the fourth river is euphrateitg empowerment and consecration ritual for the four elemental weapons of the adeptus minor r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 necessary requi

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS T

stand your voices of wonder vi-i-v l sobam ial-prg i-za-zaz 0 you the second of the first whom the burning flames have framed pi-adph casarma abramg ta talho within the depth of my jaws: whom i have prepared as cups for a paracleda q ta lorslq turbs ooge wedding or as the flowers in their beauty for the chamber of the baltoh givi chis lusd orri od righteous. stronger are your feet than the barren stone and micalp chis bia ozongon lap mightier are your voices than the manifold winds. for ye are noan trof cors ta ge o q manin become a building such as is not save in the mind of the ia-idon torzu gohe l zacar ca c all-powerful. arise, saith the first. move, therefore, unto noqod zamran micalzo od ozazm vrelp thy servants. show yourselves in power and make me a strong seer lap zir io-iad. of t

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS T3

and your voices of wonder 7 vi-i-v l sobam ial-prg i-za-zaz 0 you the second of the first whom the burning flames have framed pi-adph casarma abramg ta talho within the depth of my jaws: whom i have prepared as cups for a paracleda q ta lorslq turbs ooge wedding or as the flowers in their beauty for the chamber of the baltoh givi chis lusd orri od righteous. stronger are your feet than the barren stone and micalp chis bia ozongon lap mightier are your voices than the manifold winds. for ye are noan trof cors ta ge o q manin become a building such as is not save in the mind of the ia-idon torzu gohe l zacar ca c all-powerful. arise, saith the first. move, therefore, unto noqod zamran micalzo od ozazm vrelp thy servants. show yourselves in power and make me a strong seer lap zir io-iad. of t

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS U7

n white flecked purple like mother of pearl 24. greenish blue dull brown very dark brown vivid indigo brown, like back of lobster 25. blue yellow green dark vivid blue 26. indigo black blue black cold dark grey, near black. 27. scarlet red flame scarlet scarlet rayed amber 28. violet sky blue bluish mauve white tinged purple 29. crimson buff flecked silvery white light translucent brown with pink stone color 30. orange golden yellow rich amber amber rayed red 31. glowing orange scarlet vermillion red scarlet red flecked yellow vermillion flecked crimson& emerald 32. indigo black blue black black rayed blue 31. black, citrine, olive& russet amber yellow dark brown black flecked yellow 32. white merging grey deep purple merging black 7 rainbow colours (purple outside) white, red, yellow, bla

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z1

rom a white collar, to represent the purity of the white brilliance from rtk. hence, it should always be worn by the hierophant. the banner of the east is also partially explained in the portal "the field of the banner of the east is white, the color of light and purity. as in the previous case, the calvary cross of six squares is the number six of trapt, the yellow cross of gold, and the cubical stone, bearing in its center the sacred t of life, and having bound together upon it the form of the macrocosmic hexagram, the red triangle of o and the blue triangle of n, the \yhla jwr and the waters of creation" in addition to this explanation, it affirms the mode of action employed by the divine light in its operation by the forces of nature. upon it is the symbol of the macrocosm so colored a

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z2

in seven consecutive days, taking out the crucible each day as soon as thou has brought it to the highest possible heat, and allowing it to cool gradually. the preferable time for this working should be in the heat of the day. on the seventh day of this operation, thou shalt open the crucible and thou shalt behold what form and color thy caput mortuum hath taken. it will be like either a precious stone or a glittering powder. and this stone or powder shall be of magical virtue in accordance with its natukez-3 the symbolism of the admission of the candidate r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 the admission of the candidate the candidate is waiting without the portal under the care of the sentinel the watcher without, that is, under the care of the form of anubis of the w

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM11

ht divine thou dweller of the invisible. like our master hast thou suffered tribulation, pain, poverty, torture, and sorrows that lead unto the black cross of obligation and death. these sorrows have not been nor will be in vain, but rather the purification of spiritual initiation leading to the pure gold. in the alembic of thy heart, through the athanor of thy affliction, seek ye always the true stone of the wise" step 7 pass to the east, face your self face to face and say "peace profound my brother/sister! come with peace in your spirit. pass thou through every region of the invisible into a place wherein thy genius dwelleth, because thou cometh in peace. dwell within that sacred land that far off travellers call naught! be at peace with all the world, remain clothed in the light of pur

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM14

ing again in a mystical ressurection, cleansed and purified through him our master, o thou dweller of the invisible. like him, thou pilgrim of the ages, hast thou toiled. like him hast thou suffered tribulation. poverty, torture, and death hast thou passed through. they have been but the purifacation of the gold. in the alembic of thine heart, through the athanor of affliction, seek thou the true stone of the wise. step 15 pass from the altar to the east. step 16 "come in peace, o beautiful and divine one, to a body glorified and perfected. herald of the gods, knowing_(his/her name_ speech among the living! pass thou through every region of the invisible unto the place wherein thy genius dwelleth because thou comest in peace provided with thy wealth. dwell thou in that sacred land that far

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM17

ch was cast of brass, and containeth all the names of the brethren, with some few other things. this he would transfer into a more fitting vault, for where or when our brother r.c. died, or in what country he was buried, was by our predecessors concealed and unknown to us. in this table stuck a great nail somewhat strong, so that when it was with force drawn out it took with it an indifferent big stone out of the thin wall or plastering of the hidden door, and so, unlooked for, uncovered the door, whereat we did with joy and longing throw down the rest of the wall and cleared the door, upon which was written in great letters: post cxx annos patebo with the year of the lord under it. therefore we gave god thanks, and let it rest that same night, because first we would overlook our rota- but

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM18

ng again in a mystical ressurection, cleansed and purified through him our master, o thou dweller of the invisible, like him, thou pilgrim of the ages, hast thou toiled. like him hast thou suffered tribulation. poverty, torture, and death hast thou passed through. they have been but the purifacation of the gold. in the alembic of thine heart, through the athanor of afflication, seek thou the true stone of the wise. step 13 the shells are walked forth to the place behind the altar facing east. members then return to the east facing west, leaving the shells behind the altar "come in peace, o beautiful and divine one, to a body glorified and perfected. herald of the gods, knowing his/her speech among the living! pass thou through every region of the invisible unto the place wherein thy genius

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM2

a mystical death, rising in a mystical resurrection, cleansed and purified by him, our master, o brother of the cross and rose. like him, o adepts of all ages have ye toiled. like him have ye suffered tribulation. poverty, torture and death, have ye passed through. they have been but the purification of the gold. in the alembic of thine heart, through the athanor of affliction, seek thou the true stone of the wise" the above can be symbolized as "light" 4 in latin, the spelling for light is lvx. this is pronounced "lux" the "u" sounds like the "u" in the word tube. the lvx becomes especially important to the adept because of the way it fits with the various seasons of the year. it is through these seasons that the sun passes from light todarkness and death to resurrection. it is through th

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM21

destroy me, be thou destroyed! you who would desecrate this temple or order by intentional acts of malice, be thou desecrated! by all the forces and powers invoked here this day, and by the power of the blood of the rose, as it is desired, so shall it be (all move back to original positions) chief adept "fraters and sorors, let us first seek always in all things true wisdom, the summun bonum, the stone of the philosophers. our order is dedicated to healing, not to hurting, to helping, not to hindering, to the higher genius the true will and the great work. but let us remember the blood of the martyrs, and let us always commit to defending this temple, this order and all those who in innocence seek the true and celestial light with whatever force necessary. let us kneel "oh lord of the univ

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM24

l sanctify your flesh and prepare you for that great day when you, who are now clothed by the power of the order, shall be unclothed from the body of your death. i invest you also with the lamen of your office; may the virtue which it typifies without, be present efficaciously within you, and after the 9 term of your present dignity, may such virtue still maintain you in your search for the white stone on which a new name is written which no man knoweth save he who receiveth it. you will now pass to the symbolic altar of the universe and assume the sceptre of the hierophant" hierophant (goes to the west of the altar, raises sceptre "by the password of_ i claim my sceptre (he returns to east) chief adept (takes him by both hands and enthrones him with the grip of the second order "by the po

GOLDEN CHAIN AND THE LONELY ROAD

ed variations, no definitive account of initiatory processes may even be tenable. undoubtedly omissions and generalisations will occur and for these i offer an apology in advance. nonetheless, it is hoped that the broad schemata as given below will serve to clarify and to deepen an awareness of the matter in ways hitherto unexplored. with this intent the following article is offered as a stepping-stone to the wiser future of the way and its children. passing the fire-brand of tubalo-lucifer: ritual initiation the customary method of entrance into the sabbatic tradition is via formal ritual induction. this can take various forms, ranging from the simplest act of ritual 'authorisation' to the so-called 'grand array' of the full sabbatic ceremony. within the cultus sabbati there are various c

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

n involving the use of spherical trigonometry. we are convinced that the findings made by you and your associates are valid, and that they raise extremely important questions affecting geology and ancient 20 ibid, p. 225ff. 21 ibid, p. 228. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 41 history. 22 hapgood was to make one more important discovery: a chinese map copied from an earlier original on to a stone pillar in ad 1137.23 this map incorporates precisely the same kind of high quality information about longitudes as the others. it has a similar grid and was drawn up with the benefit of spherical trigonometry. indeed, on close examination, it shares so many features with the european and middle eastern maps that only one explanation seems adequate: it and they must have stemmed from a common

of viracocha, and it had been necessary to rebuild it on both occasions. its inca foundations and lower walls survived these natural disasters intact, thanks to their characteristic design which made use of an elegant system of interlocking polygonal blocks. these blocks, and the general layout of the place, were almost all that was now left of the original structure, apart from an octagonal grey stone platform at the centre of the vast rectangular courtyard which had once been covered with 55 kilograms of solid gold.9 on either side of the courtyard were ante-chambers, also from the inca temple, with refined architectural features such as walls that tapered upwards and beautifully-carved niches hewn out of single pieces of granite. we took a walk through the narrow, cobbled streets of cuz

trategic and psychological edge that they needed to overcome the numerically superior inca forces in the battles that followed. who had provided the model for the viracochas? 10 the facts on file encyclopaedia, p. 658. 11 see, for example, h. osborne, south american mythology, paul hamlyn, london, 1968, p. 81. 12 for further evidence and argument in this regard, see constance irwin, fair gods and stone faces, w. h. allen, london, 1964, pp. 31-2. 13 j. alden mason, the ancient civilizations of peru, penguin books, london, 1991, p. 135. see also garcilaso de la vega, the royal commentaries of the incas, orion press, new york, 1961, pp. 132-3, 147-8. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 54 chapter 6 he came in a time of chaos through all the ancient legends of the peoples of the andes stal

at flood and plunged into darkness by the disappearance of the sun. society had fallen into disorder, and the people suffered much hardship. then there suddenly appeared, coming from the south, a white man of large stature and authoritative demeanour. this man had such great power that he changed the hills into valleys and from the valleys made great hills, causing streams to flow from the living stone..1 the early spanish chronicler who recorded this tradition explained that it had been told to him by the indians he had travelled among on his journeys in the andes: and they heard it from their fathers, who in their turn had it from the old songs which were handed down from very ancient times. they say that this man travelled along the highland route to the north, working marvels as he wen

ight to the blind. 5 this gentle, civilizing, superhuman, samaritan had another side to his nature, however. if his life were threatened, as it seems to have been on several occasions, he had the weapon of heavenly fire at his disposal: working great miracles by his words, he came to the district of the canas and there, near a village called cacha. the people rose up against him and threatened to stone him. they saw him sink to his knees and raise his hands to heaven as if beseeching aid in the peril which beset him. the indians declare that thereupon they saw fire in the sky which seemed all around them. full of fear, they approached him whom they had intended to kill and besought him to forgive them. presently they saw that the fire was extinguished at his command, though stones were con

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

so sent you a map. ahg: what map? trw: thought you had all this figured, didn t you? remember those rocks he sent you with the pictures in them? ahg: sure. they did contain interesting images; they seemed, as i said at the time, like holograms, especially when sectioned and made into 35mm slides. shaver claimed they were the record of the antediluvian civilization on earth, literally preserved in stone. i gave them to you, i recall. trw: when i got ahold of them, i resectioned the rocks, used an overhead projector and came up, in one of them, with a map of that little area of north georgia where tallulah falls, toccoa falls, brasstown bald you know, the chattahoochee national forest. the cave entrance is clearly marked. ahg: so, this map includes southern north carolina, and white county

er, but traced from legend. the other with a group similar to my own, all of which returned alive, and is now linked with several cavern guerrilla groups. ahg: why haven t you gone back since? 74 allen h. greenfield trw: for the next year, i was really pretty messed up emotionally. i tried to dissuade you, you ll recall, from one of your expeditions in search of that same entrance. i kept the map stone for years, but by then had gotten completely deflected into radical politi- cal activity, both here and abroad. i thought i was satisfied for a long time that this was a physical cave, that shaver had been correct and the metaphysical stuff had nothing to do with it. and we were, i thought, hopelessly outclassed technologically. i ve realized that faerie is neither physical nor metaphysical

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

s the four watchtowers and thirty aethyrs. these, together with their presiding deities, formed the kernel of the powerful magical system now known as enochian magick. dee has been called "a pioneerin spiritualism,"because he kept meticulous records of all of his magical operations. however, his primary approach was through the process known as "skrying" kelly would sit before a crystal, or "shew-stone" and describe whatever spirits or visions he saw. dee scrupulously recorded all that kelly told him. often angels from the watchtowers or aethyrs would assist them in their work. for example, one of their "guides" was a young elfin girl named madimi who appeared over a period of seven years. 2 little came of dee's psychic investigations until late in the nineteenth century when a group of oc

s all organic and inorganic matter. h.p. blavatsky, glossary to the voice of the silence the practice of alchemy has often been associated with the chemical process of turning base metals into gold. how-ever, enochian magick recognizes another important branch of alchemy- turning ignorance into wisdom, sickness into health, and mortality into longevity. it is symbolically called the philosopher's stone, the stone of the magician, and it works through a magical process of transmutation. it is not just a physical process but mental as well. the 'base metal' is the human body and mind, and the 'pure gold' is the body immunized against sickness and age with mind enl ightened to the true nature of things. within and around the human body is an aura, a subtle body of light with several gradation

. the north pole is a region of egress. the south pole is a region of ingress. the north pole is act ive and outgoing. the south pole is passive and receptive. as with any magnet, like poles repel while opposite poles attract. the task of the magician is to consciously control this magnetic field and 284 direct its magical forces throughout the physical body which is its expression in flesh. the "stone" is magical fire that radiates through the body and, in time, effects the transmutation. this magical fire (sometimes called psychic heat) is produced by means of combined meditational and breathing exercises that follow. the magical fire that transmutes the physical body is known in tantricisrn as kundalini and in tibet as fohat. it is the natural force of the evolution of man that lies lat

talisman of the watchtower of earth in your left hand and your pantacle 309 in your right hand and say, ikzhikal (ee-keh-zod-hee-kal) great king of earth, come, accept my offering. okaosgo nanta (oh-kah-oh-seh-goh nah-en-tah) earth to earth, nambaomi (nah-bah-oh-ranee) zafasai (zodah-fah-sahee) valpamb (val-pah-mehbeh) you governors of zen (zod-en) come, accept my body. patralx (pah-teh-rah-letz) stone of stone. patralx (pah-teh-rah-letz) part 4. let your physical body be given unto the king of earth. enter your body of light and enter into the pyramid through the opening. let your body of light descend down the sloping passage until you enter a chamber deep beneath the pyramid. on the west side of this chamber is a deep pool of water. face toward the pool. hold the talisman of the watchto

his thoughts. i give you this body and pass through salman-lukiftias (sah-leh-mah-neh-luekee- feh-tee-ah-seh) i now pass through the house of brightness. part 6. let your mental body be given unto the king of air. assume your spiritual body and pass upward through a narrow shaft in the ceiling. rise up until you arrive at a fiery red chamber at the geometric center of the pyramid. let there be a stone sarcophagus along the south wall. let the sarcophagus be lidless and let it contain the eternal flame. face the flame in the sarcophagus. hold the talisman of the watchtower of fire in your left hand and your wand in your right hand and say, edlprnaa (eh-del-par-nah-ah) great king of fire, come, accept my offering. o-prge bitom (oh-par-geh bee-toh-meh) fire to fire. here within the five-wall

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

im. though a son of wuotan and yielding to him in power or influence, donar (thunar, thor) appears at times identical with him, and to some extent as an older god worshipped before wuotan. for, like jupiter, he is a father, he is grandfather of many nations, and, as grandfather, is a god of the hills, a god of the rocks, a hammer, sits in the forest, throned on the mountain top, and hurls his old stone weapon, the lightning's bolt. to him the oak was sacred, and his hammer's throw measured out land, as did afterwards wuotan's wand. he rather flies furiously at the giants than fights battles at the head of heroes, or meditates the art of war. i think it a significant featui'e, that he drives or walks, instead of riding like wuotan: he never, preface. xix presents himself in the wild hunt, n

ide the carolingian berhta, beside the eddie biort (p. 1149, beside the deeply rooted tradition of the' white lady' of dame holda the legend was never written down till the 1 7th century; if holda was in the venus-mountain, which goes as far back as the 14th, she at once gains in importance; then further, in the 12th century we can point to pharaildis (p. 284; and if, to crown all, huldana in the stone inscription is correct (p. 266, we can have but little doubt of a gothic worship of hul 7o (p. 990. now, as bei'hta and holda are adjective names, i was fain to claim for nerthus also an adj. basis nairthus, with the sense of mild, gracious, fair. frigg too p. 301-2) i interpret by the adj. free, fair, gracious- if gaue, gauden, is a corruption of the masc. woden, it might still have an acce

n heroic lays, was not foreign either to the carolingian poetry, the product mainly of a german tribe, or even to the british. arthur belongs to the^ wild host^ and the' heaven's wain' morgana coincides with norns and elfins. a great deal nearer still stands charles with his heroes: he is the long-beard that sleeps in the mountain and rides on the karl-wain, his karlstone is the same as the woden-stone (p. 155, roland stands on the pillar, froberge reminded us of fro (p. 216, and galans, who plies the forge for these frankish heroes, is wayland, wielant, volundr. berthe with the foot, progenitress of charles, is our berhta (p. 429; and, attached to her, stand flore and blanchefleur with their elvish names (p. 1063. charles's loved one was an elfin (p, 435, auberon is elberich and elf-king;

es for children; of the snow-child in the modus liebmc; of the giants made out of frost and ice (pp. 440. 465; aphrodite's bemg generated out of sea-foam is a part of the same thing. 3 the technical term' inn dyri mio'sr' recurs in saem. 23. 28. a drink. od-heceri. 903 pulled a whetstone^ out of his belt, and gave them an edge; they cut so much better now, that the mowers began bargaining for the stone, but 05inn threw it up in the air, and while each was trying to catch it, they all cut one another's throats with their scythes- at night osinn found a lodging with another giant, suttung's brother baugi, who sorely complained that he had that day lost his nine men, and had not a woi'kman left. osinn, who called himself eolverkr, was ready to undertake nine men's work, stipulating only for a

nblessed spirits, the souls of unchristened lobes and tbose of men who in tbeir lifetime dealt wrongly hij the cornfield, who respected not the sacredness of landmai'ks^ unrighteous land-surveyors (swed. skiall-vrangare) may be seen hovering up and down the furrows with a long fiery pole, as if re-measuring the wrongly measured; whoso has ploughed of his neighbour's land, whoso has moved the mark-stone, on him falls the curse of wandering as a will o* wisp. hence about ploughing debatable strips, one hears the people say' ik mag niit spiiken gan* conf. deut. sag. nos. 284-5. thiele 1, 58 (see suppl. another class of spectres will prove more fruitful for our investigation: they, like the ignes fatui, include unchristened hahes, but instead of straggling singly on the earth as fires, they sw

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their riot and clatter, and throw stones from the roof at passers by. a french comedy of the 16th century, les esprits/ l represents goblins racketing in a house, singing and playing at night, and aiming tiles at passers by in the daytime; they are fond of fire, but make a violent uproar every time the master spits. 2 in gervase of tilbury, cap. 18, the folleti also pelt with stones, and this of stone-throwing is what we shall meet with in quite early stories of devils; al together the racketing sprites have in this respect more of the devil or spectre in them than of the elf: it is a darkening and distortion of their original nature in accordance with christian sentiment. so it becomes clear, at last, how the once familiar and faith ful friend of the family under heathenism has gradually

ns the history of reid etin. the fairy-tale of red etin wi three heads may now be read complete in chambers,1 pp. 56-58; but it does not explain whether the red colour in his name refers to skin, hair or dress. a black complexion is not attributed to giants, as it is to dwarfs (p. 444) and the devil, though the half-black hel (p. 312) was of giant kin. hrungnir, a giant in the edda, has a head of stone (seem. 76b, sn. 109, another in the fornald. sog. 3, 573 is called larnliaus, iron skull. but giants as a rule appear well-shaped and symmetrical; their daughters are capable of the highest beauty, e.g. geroy, whose gleaming arms, as she shuts the house-door, make air and water shine again, sasm. 82a, sn. 39 (see suppl. in the giants as a whole, an untamed natural force has full swing, entai

l residence. even our poem of rother 767 speaks of a riesenlant. on the borders of the giant province were situate the griottuna garffar, sn. 108-9. we have already noticed how most of the words for giant coin cide with the names of ancient nations. giants were imagined dwelling on rocks and mountains, and their nature is all of a piece with the mineral kingdom: they are either animated masses of stone, or creatures once alive petrified. giants. 533 hrungnir had a three-cornered stone heart, his head and shield were of stone, sn. 109. another giant was named vagnjiofffi (waggon-head, sn. 211 a, in saxo gram. 9. 10. dame hutt is a petrified queen of giants, deut. sag. no. 233. out of this connexion with mountains arises another set of names: bergrisi, sn. 18. 26. 30. 45-7. 66. grofctas. 10

giants as mountain-cattle and forest-boors, conf. bercrinder, laurin 2625, and waltyeburen 534. 2624. sigenot 97. walthunde, sigenot 13. 114. waldes diebe (thieves, 120. waldes tore (fool, waldes affe (ape, wolfd. 467. 991 (see p. 481-2 and suppl. proper names of giants point to stones and metals, as larnsaxa (ironstony, tarnhaus (ironskull; possibly our still surviving compound steinalt, old as stone (gramm. 2, 555, is to be ex plained by the great age of giants, approaching that of rocks and hills; gifur rata (gigantes pedes illidunt saxis) is what they say in the north. stones and rocks are weapons of the giant race; they use only stone clubs and stone shields, no swords. hrungni s weapon is called hei)i (hone; when it was flung in mid air and came in collision with thor s hammer, it b

21. 395, 24. 396, 13; and giant langben a staalstang (danske viser 1, 29. we are expressly told in er. 5384, wafens waren 1 in the case of mixed descent: lialfbergrisi, hdlfrisi, hulftroll, egilss. p. 22. nialss. p. 164; see gramm. 2, 633. 534 giants. si bloz/ i.e. bare of knightly weapon, for they carried( itolben swasre, groze unde lange/ l yet the r eald sweord eotonisc pro bably meant one of stone, though the same expression is used in beow. 5953 of a metal sword mounted with gold; even the f entisc helm/ beow. 5955 may well be a stone helmet. it may be a part of the same thing, that no iron sword will cut into giants; only with the pommel of the sword can they be killed (ecke 178, or with the fist, p. 530 (see suppl. ancient buildings of singular structure, which have outlasted many

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. this annual outdoor fete should be held by each lodge independently, to celebrate the laying of the foundation stones of the great pyramid in america. each lodge shall arrange to go on this day (or the following one, should it rain or be stormy) to an open space in the suburbs near such lodge, and with prayer and addresses, have each member of the lodge deposit in one small pile a simple little stone or pebble, symbolical of "placing a stone for the foundation of the great pyramid in america" no regalia other than the apron is worn by officers and members. privacy of the fete need not be maintained, but the public or the uninitiated must not be given, in the prayers or addresses, any of the private "work" signs, or symbols of the order. such a fete may be held at sundown, if desired. thi

e complicated yet exact designs and diagrams of parts of machinery, architectural elements, etc. expressible with numbers. intelligently as these three dimensions express a thing to our consciousness there are essential elements still missing in the expression.one or more attributes or qualities lacking. what is the nature of the above thing that is 100 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm? is it wood, or iron, or stone? what is its weight, its color? is it hard or soft? we say that all these questions can be answered by expressing the fourth dimension, and expressing it in numerals as the other three are expressed. in this case, as an example, the figures 100 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm/12.0147 (a specific gravity figure would mean that the thing referred to was a piece of south american (not any other kind) mahoga

personality is essentially unworldly and immaterial because its purpose is to function on the immaterial plane. the two, personality and individuality, or the psychic and mundane, the immaterial and material working in unison, reveal an entity recognized both through its individuality and personality as it expresses itself in daily life.(see reincarnation and also soul personality. philosopher's stone.the principal search of the alchemists was for a pure and penetrating matter which, when applied to the metals, plants, or vegetables, exalts them. this perfect essence, this soul of matter, imparts its nature to all that is brought into contact with it. this substance which transmits its perfect qualities was called the philosopher's stone. to the transcendental alchemists, the philosopher'

one.the principal search of the alchemists was for a pure and penetrating matter which, when applied to the metals, plants, or vegetables, exalts them. this perfect essence, this soul of matter, imparts its nature to all that is brought into contact with it. this substance which transmits its perfect qualities was called the philosopher's stone. to the transcendental alchemists, the philosopher's stone was not a substance but the spiritual gnosis and exalted wisdom whose virtue transmutes man to a higher plane of consciousness and personal power. pineal and pituitary.glands which, in their physiological purpose, have to do with the regulating of various functions of the body such as the circulation of the blood, the growth of the bones and tissues, and the development of the sex and emotio

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drkerner by the seeress of prevorst, and by the somnambulist described indrhenry werner's work, entitled 'guardian spirits; or, remarkable cases of vision by two seeresses into the spiritual world,'247 will well repay an attentive perusal, although, unfortunately,itwould"'miscellaniesbyj.aubrtry,esq.,8vo, l696,p.128.thudibras,canto iii, line63l'kelly didallhis feats uponthedevil's looking-glass a stone, where, playing with him at bo-pcep, he solved all questions ne'er so deep [london. folio:l6s9.247stuttgart,l839.new york,l847.translated by a. e. ford.contributionsto the zoist 189which have the extraordinary property of seizing at the same time the form of that which gave them birth, and proves that the minutest atom of creation possesses elementary powers whichitwould be far wiser to atte

reast-plate of judgment of the high priest (exodusxxviii,30),and interpreted as light and truth, or revelation andtruth,correspond most remarkably with the figure of re (the sun) and thmei (truth) in the breast-plate of the egyptian priest: and jelian and diodorus sicidus are quoted as authorities for the custom of the egyptian priest when acting as arch. judge, hanging around his neck a sapphire stone which was called truth.(mannersandcustomsof theancientegyptians,ii.,22,v,28.)good accounts of the urim and thummim, or rather of what is understood concerning them, may be found in winer'sbib/ischesrealverterbuch.in the rev. d. kitto'scyclopcediaofbiblicalliterature,are extracted the observations and wood-cuts of sir gardner wilkinson, before whose researches ultra255 theologians endeavoured

it forming the letters in his mind as each word passes through his mind, so they take form of a reality andappear-theseer who sees and the spirit through whose mind these ideas pass are for the time one, but they are united by so slight a cord that the least thought jars it, when it is joined the writing appears small and110therosicrucianseerthine to manifest unto me so much glory in this crystal stone (or glass receptacle) thus consecrated and charged that i, thy unworthy servant, may thereby be allowed free access to see initall those things of whichiam desirous of having a perfect and previous knowledge.omost strong and mighty god without beginning or end, bythyclemency and knowledge in all things,ihumbly desiretheeto allow a blessed ministering spirit to make manifest unto me in this c

appearance, so also is their departure and it would be well for the invocant not to leave the limits of the circle for a few minutes after the licence is recited.crystalirmzancy,or the art ofinooauingspirits by thecrystal107under the compass of the heavens) that you come immediately from the place of your private abode or residence and appear to me visibly in fair and decent form in this crystal stone or glass. i do again exorcise and powerfully command thee spiritvassagoto come and appear visibly to me in this crystal stone or glass in a fair, solid and decent form. i do again strongly bind and command the spiritvassagoto appear visibly to me in this crystal stone or glass as aforesaid, by the virtue and power of these names by which i can bind all rebellious, obstinate and refractory sp

and laid before him and discourse with the spirit concerning it.bond ofspirits ivassagounderbaro,the king of the west, not compelled commanded or fear but on my own accord and free will especially oblige myself by these presents firmly& faithfully and without deceit to t.w.>icrystal stone or glass and to fulfil his commands truly in all things wherein i can by the virtue of all the names of god and by virtue wherewith the sun and moon were darkened and my planet and the celestial characters thereof and principally by this seal binding most solidly. in witness of which guilty person he commanding i have signed this present obligation with mine own seal to which ialwaysstick cl

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usiastic seafarers and were one of the few coastal cultures to worship no deities of the sea. to the east, west, and south there were deserts that were dangerous to cross. these deserts made up about 90 percent of egypt s territory. the egyptians called them the red land in contrast to the black land of the valley.6 the mountainous areas of the deserts contained gold, gemstones, and types of hard stone that could be used to make long-lasting buildings and artifacts. the south of the country often went without rain for many years at a stretch. when rain did 2 handbook of egyptian mythology come, it was in the form of violent desert storms that could lead to destructive flash floods. the usually cloudless skies made it particularly easy for the egyptians to observe the stars and planets. muc

n rulers were regarded as divine is much disputed,12 but the kings of the early dynastic period certainly enjoyed more power and responsibility than anyone else in their culture. they were rulers of the first large nation-state in history. the king was the political, religious, and military leader of this state. royal annals for the early dynastic period partially survive in a copy on the palermo stone and related fragments.13 the annals list the kings of egypt, starting with a series of prehistoric kings. seal impressions and small bone or wood labels of the early dynastic period portray kings engaging with a variety of deities.14 mesopotamian seals and sealings of a comparable date appear to show episodes or characters from myths set in the realm of the gods. the egyptian pieces mainly s

of a new era. introduction 7 old kingdom (dynasties 3 6) and first intermediate period (dynasties 7 11: c. 2686 2055 bce in later times the egyptians looked back on the old kingdom as a golden age of stability and achievement. king djoser was remembered for thousands of years as the king for whom the first pyramid was built. this was the step pyramid at saqqara, one of the world s earliest great stone buildings. early dynastic kings had high-walled funerary enclosures in mud brick and separate tombs under great mounds. the two forms were put together at saqqara, so the mound had to become higher to be visible above the great enclosure walls. a mound was also found as the focal point of some early temples, such as at hierakonpolis. such mounds may represent the primeval mound that features

order over chaos, but rameses iii was the last great temple builder of the new kingdom. temples and kings throughout the new kingdom much of the wealth generated by the empire and by the exploitation of egyptian and nubian gold fields was spent on building and endowing temples. all over the country the small, mainly mud-brick, temples that had been common in earlier periods were replaced by large stone structures whose walls were carved with hieroglyphic texts and scenes of kings with deities. major temples were like small towns, with their own granaries, slaughterhouses, workshops, offices, schools, libraries, and housing. large numbers of priests, some working full-time, were needed to run such temples.46 like the pyramid complexes of the old kingdom, new kingdom temples were models of t

efs or colossal statues as the champion of maat. the battles that he was shown fighting were sometimes real and sometimes imaginary, but the foreign enemies always represented the forces of chaos.48 the massive pylon gateways resemble defensive structures, but they also stood for the mountains of the eastern horizon, between which the sun rose. the plant-shaped columns of the inner halls formed a stone replica of the marsh where gods were born or reborn. the innermost sanctuary that contained the introduction 21 cult statue was said to be built on the primeval mound, the very place in which the creator first brought forth life. each temple was dedicated to one main deity, but in the new kingdom it became common to group deities into divine families, with subsidiary temples for the chief de

HEAVEN HELL

sor maspero has proved that the "pyramid texts" contain formulae and paragraphs which, judging from the grammatical forms that occur in them, it is easy to see must have been composed, if not actually written down, in the earliest times of egyptian civilization. these formulae &c, are interspersed with others of later periods, and it seems as if, at the time when the "pyramid texts" were cut into stone, these religious compositions were intended to contain expressions of pious thought about the hereafter which would satisfy both those who accepted the ancient indigenous beliefs, p. 4 and those who were prepared to believe the doctrines which had been promulgated by the priests of the famous brotherhood of ra, the sun-god, who had made their head-quarters in egypt at annu, i.e, on, or helio

and such materials can only have been required for the building of temples and palaces, and funeral altars and stelae, sarcophagi &c. the fact that the work was begun again in the quarries also proves that the authority of the menthu-heteps was well established. menthu-hetep ii, we are told by an inscription set up in the wadi hammamat by his officer amen-em-hat, caused to be quarried a block of stone which measured eight cubits, by four cubits, by two cubits, i.e, about thirteen feet six inches long, six feet six inches wide, and three feet six inches thick, and it is probable that he required p. 8 this for a sarcophagus. this king is also famous as the maker of a well in the desert, the mouth of which was about sixteen feet six inches square; and at one time he employed several thousand

s, i.e, about thirteen feet six inches long, six feet six inches wide, and three feet six inches thick, and it is probable that he required p. 8 this for a sarcophagus. this king is also famous as the maker of a well in the desert, the mouth of which was about sixteen feet six inches square; and at one time he employed several thousands of men, including three thousand carriers or boatmen, in his stone-works. his successor, menthu-hetep iii, continued the work in the quarries, and built himself a pyramid, called khu-ast, in the mountain of tchesert at thebes, which may now be identified with that portion of the great theban cemetery to which the name der al-bahari was given by the arabic-speaking egyptians. this building is mentioned in the great abbott papyrus preserved in the british mus

the kings of the xiith dynasty. under the ivth, vth, and vith dynasties the selections of extracts from books of the dead which were intended to benefit royal souls in the underworld were cut upon the walls of the chambers and corridors of their pyramids, and in the case of private individuals texts intended to produce the same effect were usually cut into the walls of the chambers wherein their stone sarcophagi were placed. the pyramids of the kings of the xith and xiith dynasties, whether in the north or south of egypt, are not, so far as the information at present available goes, characterized by lengthy extracts from books of the dead, and officials and men of rank in general were content to dispense with the cutting of religious p. 15 inscriptions into the sides of stone sarcophagi

k in general were content to dispense with the cutting of religious p. 15 inscriptions into the sides of stone sarcophagi, and into the walls of the passages and chambers of their tombs in the mountains, and to transfer them to the sides of their brightly painted, rectangular wooden coffins. the practical advantages of this change are obvious. wooden coffins were easier to obtain and cheaper than stone sarcophagi, longer and fuller selections from religious texts could be easily and quickly traced upon them in the hieratic character, which an expert scribe could, no doubt, write at a rapid rate, the expense of adding coloured drawings was small, and, above all, the deceased would have close to his mummy the sacred writings on which he so greatly relied for assistance in the other world. th

HEKAS

black goddess of the old moon, who in khem was represented as hekt the frog-headed mother of incantation. it was in egypt that the role of stellar worship was at an apotheosis in recorded history; as man looked to the heavens there turned the great dragon about the zenith, marking out the year and tracing the ancient circle in the firmament of nu. from thence recall the dracontiae,-the circles of stone which mark the crossroads of hidden and secret tracks of force within the earth, reflecting the web of the star-lit heights; recall the crooked path which crosses the sacred isle of albion and lies throughout all the lands of the earth- where-e'er upon the serpents back is placed the witches' step! when next you tread the circle round, when next you face the quarters and call upon their guar

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

to attempt to conceive of the beauties of the spirit-world; but the time can bespent more profitably in a study of the spirit itself, and it is not necessary that the subject for study should bein the spirit-world. nightmare talesan unsolved mystery10 karmic visionsby h. p. blavatsky, under the pen name "sanjna" oh, sad no more! oh, sweet no more! oh, strange no more! by a mossed brook bank on a stone i smelt a wild weed-flower alone; there was a ringing in my ears, and both my eyes gushed out with tears, surely all pleasant things had gone before, low buried fathom deep beneath with three, no more- tennyson "the gem" 1831. ia camp filled with war-chariots, neighing horses and legions of long-haired soldiers. a regal tent, gaudy in its barbaric splendour. its linen walls are weighed down

hould have been intotal obscurity but that there was a hole bored in it, through which entered a bright ray of sunlight that shotthrough the darkened room and shone upon the girl. he arranged her drooping head so that the ray should fallupon the crown, after which, motioning us to remain silent, he folded his arms upon his bosom, and, fixinghis gaze upon the bright spot, became as motionless as a stone image. i, too, riveted my eyes on the samespot, wondering what was to happen next, and how all this strange ceremony was to help me to find ralph. by degrees, the bright patch, as if it had drawn through the sunbeam a greater splendour from without andcondensed it within its own area, shaped itself into a brilliant star, sending out rays in every direction as froma focus. a curious optical e

echoes56 sparkled brightly, and the sleeping echoes were suddenly awakened by a joyous confusion of laughter andconversation. the shaman, who was never lost sight of by his friend and patron, sat in a corner, entranced asusual. crouched on a projecting rock, about midway between the entrance and the water, with hislemon-yellow, wrinkled face, flat nose, and thin beard, he looked more like an ugly stone idol than a humanbeing. many of the company pressed around him and received correct answers to their questions, thehungarian cheerfully submitting his mesmerized "subject" to cross-examination. suddenly one of the party, a lady, remarked that it was in that very cave that old mr. izvertzoff had sounaccountably disappeared ten years before. the foreigner appeared interested, and desired to le

d of eurydice before him. charmed with the magicsounds of his violin, the wheel of ixion was at a standstill once more, thus affording relief to the wretchedseducer of juno, and giving the lie to those who claim eternity for the duration of the punishment ofcondemned sinners. he perceived tantalus forgetting his never-ceasing thirst, and smacking his lips as hedrank in the heaven-born melody; the stone of sisyphus becoming motionless, the furies themselves smilingon him, and the sovereign of the gloomy regions delighted, and awarding preference to his violin over thelyre of orpheus. taken au serieux, mythology thus seems a decided antidote to fear, in the face of theologicalthreats, especially when strengthened with an insane and passionate love of music, with franz, euterpeproved always v

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

en have spiritually and physically the same origin, which is the fundamental teaching of theosophy (b) as mankind is essentially of one and the same essence, and that essence is one-infinite, uncreate, and eternal, whether we call it god or nature-nothing, therefore, can affect one nation or one man without affecting all other nations and all other men. this is as certain and as obvious as that a stone thrown into a pond will, sooner or later, set in motion every single drop of water therein. q. but this is not the teaching of christ, but rather a pantheistic notion. a. that is where your mistake lies. it is purely christian, although not judaic, and therefore, perhaps, your biblical nations prefer to ignore it. q. this is a wholesale and unjust accusation. where are your proofs for such a

re not deists, then you have to answer to the name of atheists. a. not necessarily so. the term pantheism is again one of the many abused terms, whose real and primitive meaning has been distorted by blind prejudice and a one-sided view of it. if you accept the christian etymology of this compound word, and form it of pan "all" and theos "god" and then imagine and teach that this means that every stone and every tree in nature is a god or the one god, then, of course, you will be right, and make of pantheists fetish-worshippers, in addition to their legitimate name. but you will hardly be as successful if you etymologize the word pantheism esoterically, and as we do. q. what is, then, your definition of it? a. let me ask you a question in my turn. what do you understand by pan, or nature?

or, as just remarked, that a prayer is a petition. it is a mystery rather; an occult process by which finite and conditioned thoughts and desires, unable to be assimilated by the absolute spirit which is unconditioned, are translated into spiritual wills and the will; such process being called "spiritual transmutation" the intensity of our ardent aspirations changes prayer into the "philosopher's stone" or that which transmutes lead into pure gold. the only homogeneous essence, our "will-prayer" becomes the active or creative force, producing effects according to our desire. q. do you mean to say that prayer is an occult process bringing about physical results? a. i do. will-power becomes a living power. but woe unto those occultists and theosophists, who, instead of crushing out the desir

t of mr. sinnett's lectures. he discovers that grave contradiction in these two sentences "premature returns to earth-life in the cases when they occur may be due to karmic complication; and "there is no accident in the supreme act of divine justice guiding evolution" so profound a thinker would surely see a contradiction of the law of gravitation if a man stretched out his hand to stop a falling stone from crushing the head of a child! on reincarnation or rebirth what is memory according to theosophical teaching? q. the most difficult thing for you to do, will be to explain and give reasonable grounds for such a belief. no theosophist has ever yet succeeded in bringing forward a single valid proof to shake my skepticism. first of all, you have against this theory of reincarnation, the fac

tends to restore disturbed equilibrium in the physical, and broken harmony in the moral world. we say that karma does not act in this or that particular way always; but that it always does act so as to restore harmony and preserve the balance of equilibrium, in virtue of which the universe exists. q. give me an illustration. a. later on i will give you a full illustration. think now of a pond. a stone falls into the water and creates disturbing waves. these waves oscillate backwards and forwards till at last, owing to the operation of what physicists call the law of the dissipation of energy, they are brought to rest, and the water returns to its condition of calm tranquility. similarly all action, on every plane, produces disturbance in the balanced harmony of the universe, and the vibra

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

hey relate to the cthulhu mythos. i feel that, rather than exploring lovecraftian themes using traditional magical systems such as the qabalah (though obviously, it may provide a useful parallel, the most obvious place to look for guidelines is lovecraft.s fiction itself. from this, we find that for example, in the dunwich horror, lovecraft clearly illustrates that .hilltop rites, associated with stone circles and strange geophysical phenomena, are a key when approaching entities such as yog-sothoth. bringing the great old ones into our dimension requires some form of .gate, which in mythos tales, is often a wild outdoor site, a stone circle, tower, or a similar type of power spot. lovecraft is also careful to point out that such sites have, in historical terms, a long history of strange m

th mysteries research is continuing 29 to document evidence to support and further edify deveraux.s ideas. reading accounts of earth light sightings and their relationship to specific regions and underground activity is for me, very reminiscent of lovecraft.s accounts of the activities associated with the great old ones. what is perhaps also significant for the modern magician is that very often, stone circles and other sacred sites are situated in regions where geological faulting takes place. deveraux proposes that the sites perhaps served to amplify and focus the natural occurrence of light phenomena. there is a wealth of folklore worldwide which could be related to the appearance of earth lights, from will .o. the wisps to faeries, ghosts, and more recently, ufos. from butterflies to b

nergy structures, not from any kind of self-referential intelligence on the part of the earth lights, but from the principle (from systems theory) that some energy forms are attracted towards structures of higher cohesiveness, such as the information field generated by the human brain, or possibly the electro-magnetic field generated by cars, power lines, etc. all of which leads us slowly back to stone circles; lovecraft.s .frienzied rites on the hilltops, and the role that sound plays in all of this. there is a great deal of magical literature available exploring the dynamics of sound, particularly different vocal techniques used to produce an altered state of consciousness(asc. one of the key factors seems to be rhythm. rhythms carry our consciousness along, from heartbeats, to cycles of

if we can accept this (and there is a growing body of research that bears this out, then suddenly fra. choronzon.s ideas about electro-magnetic structures which have the capacity to order themselves by, and retain information over time, don.t sound so far-fetched, do they? coming back to the cthulhu mythos, it seems then that lovecraft was on the right track with his themes of weird hillregions, stone circles, barbarous words of power, and .frienzied rites. the work of paul deveraux and other researchers points to the conclusion that some sacred sites at least, are power spots which predisposed the users towards obtaining an asc whereby they could interact with energy forms of an electromagnetic nature, doubtless aided by earth light manifestations and hallucinogenic substances. earth mys

placement, and motor 41 spasms. symptoms such as these have been described by michael persinger as possible side-effects of encounters with earth light phenomena. unbeknown to me at the time (which was later discovered when i related this tale) two friends of mine who were members of the west yorkshire earth mysteries group had experienced a strange encounter at the then newly-uncovered backstone stone circle. their experience included seeing earth lights, small dwarf-like shades, and lines of energy around the stone circle that they spent a night sitting in. it seems strange, on reflection, that the appearance of the entity claiming to originate from a newly-disturbed site seems to relate to their experience. what this experience did do, was to lead me to making a more intensive study of

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, a?d. then the t[heosophical] p[ublishing] slociety] would still be in just the same difficulties. i always saw that luciftr, conducted as it was, and at such a price, was [ayton's record of his wife's 'vision] broad iron gateway with high pillars and such lovely sunshine apparently entrance to a park. beautiful garden in front of a side-entrance to the house broad gravel walks- irregular- large stone urn- looks a little like a fountain, not in play. very quiet and isolated. supposing the first facing w, then n. of that, at right angles, a collonade of great length, with an urn or cupola in the front centre of the roof. small summer house, which cannot connect with the other buildings and a dark straight path, leading from it about 5 ft. wide. in front of that summer house a small oblong

my, but i had arrived at as much 30 perhaps 40 years ago, and yet.i have not accomplished it, partly certainly, because i ?ave n?t tned: when you come to the astral practice, then your difficulties begin, i will explain to you as to books and mss, when i see you. as to the gift of god &c, that does not mean e.xact y what it says, any more than it does as to the very long time it takes to make the stone of the philosophers. mrs ayton has not been at all well- congestion of the brain_ but is. nearly herself again, and will accompany me to london, but will not go about much. she joins me in kind regards to mrs gardner and yourself. i do not know whether the time of the gd. will not clash with the thursday seance at no. 17 [lansdowne road. we would go there if we could. 21 chacombe vicarage 12

but the having to return to chiswick at night after these meetings seems to us prohibitory. you young people do not mind it. when you get to our age, you will think differently. so, please excuse us if we do not accept your very kind invitation, tho' i should very much like a long talk with you. i have been much delayed in my experiments by illness. thrice in 3 months in this year have i had gall-stone spasm, which left me very incapable, and now this confounded influenza. still, i have made some experiments with my furnace, which have at least opened my eyes to the extreme difficulty to what i am aiming at, and the almost certainty that i cannot complete it whilst my attention is divided and diverted by my position here. the very attempt to do it, and the failure teaches one something for

having, at first, snapped at an arrangement i proposed to him but suddenly broke off and left me in the lurch. we are now quite at a loss what to do. iodine] is a most useful medicine. the alteration in his water was iodine removing some mischief from liver, which had to be carried off by kidneys. there is intimate connection between liver and kidneys. when i had obstruction of gall-duct by gall-stone and jaundiced bile passed thro' kidneys and bladder. there is reciprocal action between the 2 organs. you must not confound david becker with john joachim becher. the work which mentions his portable furnace is "joh. joach. becheri, d, opuscula chymica rariora [edited by] friderico roth-scholtzio, siles. norimbergae& altorfii. anno m.dccxix" becher was of the jewish nation, a man of the most

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inced that the sculptor was indeed ignorant of any cult or system of cryptic lore, he besieged his visitor with demands for future reports of dreams. this bore regular fruit, for after the first interview the manuscript records daily calls of the young man, during which he related startling fragments of nocturnal imaginery whose burden was always some terrible cyclopean vista of dark and dripping stone, with a subterrene voice or intelligence shouting monotonously in enigmatical sense-impacts uninscribable save as gibberish. the two sounds frequently repeated are those rendered by the letters "cthulhu" and "r'lyeh" on march 23, the manuscript continued, wilcox failed to appear; and inquiries at his quarters revealed that he had been stricken with an obscure sort of fever and taken to the h

in a short time the focus of interest for the entire meeting, was a commonplace-looking middle-aged man who had travelled all the way from new orleans for certain special information unobtainable from any local source. his name was john raymond legrasse, and he was by profession an inspector of police. with him he bore the subject of his visit, a grotesque, repulsive, and apparently very ancient stone statuette whose origin he was at a loss to determine. it must not be fancied that inspector legrasse had the least interest in archaeology. on the contrary, his wish for enlightenment was prompted by purely professional considerations. the statuette, idol, fetish, or whatever it was, had been captured some months before in the wooded swamps south of new orleans during a raid on a supposed vo

into a state of tense excitement, and they lost no time in crowding around him to gaze at the diminutive figure whose utter strangeness and air of genuinely abysmal antiquity hinted so potently at unopened and archaic vistas. no recognised school of sculpture had animated this terrible object, yet centuries and even thousands of years seemed recorded in its dim and greenish surface of unplaceable stone. the figure, which was finally passed slowly from man to man for close and careful study, was between seven and eight inches in height, and of exquisitely artistic workmanship. it represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings beh

ed knees. the aspect of the whole was abnormally life-like, and the more subtly fearful because its source was so totally unknown. its vast, awesome, and incalculable age was unmistakable; yet not one link did it shew with any known type of art belonging to civilisation's youth- or indeed to any other time. totally separate and apart, its very material was a mystery; for the soapy, greenish-black stone with its golden or iridescent flecks and striations resembled nothing familiar to geology or mineralogy. the characters along the base were equally baffling; and no member present, despite a representation of half the world's expert learning in this field, could form the least notion of even their remotest linguistic kinship. they, like the subject and material, belonged to something horribl

lder devil or tornasuk; and of this professor webb had taken a careful phonetic copy from an aged angekok or wizard-priest, expressing the sounds in roman letters as best he knew how. but just now of prime significance was the fetish which this cult had cherished, and around which they danced when the aurora leaped high over the ice cliffs. it was, the professor stated, a very crude bas-relief of stone, comprising a hideous picture and some cryptic writing. and so far as he could tell, it was a rough parallel in all essential features of the bestial thing now lying before the meeting. this data, received with suspense and astonishment by the assembled members, proved doubly exciting to inspector legrasse; and he began at once to ply his informant with questions. having noted and copied an

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symmetrical wind-carved rocks of the arizona desert. perhaps we even half thought the sight a mirage like that we had seen the morning before on first approaching those mountains of madness. we must have had some such normal notions to fall back upon as our eyes swept that limitless, tempest-scarred plateau and grasped the almost endless labyrinth of colossal, regular, and geometrically eurythmic stone masses which reared their crumbled and pitted crests above a glacial sheet not more than forty or fifty feet deep at its thickest, and in places obviously thinner. the effect of the monstrous sight was indescribable, for some fiendish violation of known natural law seemed certain at the outset. here, on a hellishly ancient table-land fully twenty thousand feet high, and in a climate deadly t

aces obviously thinner. the effect of the monstrous sight was indescribable, for some fiendish violation of known natural law seemed certain at the outset. here, on a hellishly ancient table-land fully twenty thousand feet high, and in a climate deadly to habitation since a prehuman age not less than five hundred thousand years ago, there stretched nearly to the vision s limit a tangle of orderly stone which only the desperation of mental self-defense could possibly attribute to any but conscious and artificial cause. we had previously dismissed, so far as serious thought was concerned, any theory that the cubes and ramparts of the mountainsides were other than natural in origin. how could they be otherwise, when man himself could scarcely have been differentiated from the great apes at th

y of reason seemed irrefutably shaken, for this cyclopean maze of squared, curved, and angled blocks had features which cut off all comfortable refuge. it was, very clearly, the blasphemous city of the mirage in stark, objective, and ineluctable reality. that damnable portent had had a material basis after all- there had been some horizontal stratum of ice dust in the upper air, and this shocking stone survival had projected its image across the mountains according to the simple laws of reflection, of course, the phantom had been twisted and exaggerated, and had contained things which the real source did not contain; yet now, as we saw that real source, we thought it even more hideous and menacing than its distant image. only the incredible, unhuman massiveness of these vast stone towers a

es followed it to the right and left along the base of the low, gradual foothills which separated it from the actual mountain rim, we decided that we could see no thinning at all except for an interruption at the left of the pass through which we had come. we had merely struck, at random, a limited part of something of incalculable extent. the foothills were more sparsely sprinkled with grotesque stone structures, linking the terrible city to the already familiar cubes and ramparts which evidently formed its mountain outposts. these latter, as well as the queer cave mouths, were as thick on the inner as on the outer sides of the mountains. the nameless stone labyrinth consisted, for the most part, of walls from ten to one hundred and fifty feet in ice-clear height, and of a thickness varyi

builders had made constant and expert use of the principle of the arch, and domes had probably existed in the city s heyday. the whole tangle was monstrously weathered, and the glacial surface from which the towers projected was strewn with fallen blocks and immemorial debris. where the glaciation was transparent we could see the lower parts of the gigantic piles, and we noticed the ice-preserved stone bridges which connected the different towers at varying distances above the ground. on the exposed walls we could detect the scarred places where other and higher bridges of the same sort had existed. closer inspection revealed countless largish windows; some of which were closed with shutters of a petrified material originally wood, though most gaped open in a sinister and menacing fashion

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outh; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. but some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy. kuranes came very suddenly upon his old world of childhood. he had been dreaming of the house where he had been born; the great stone house covered w

g settled gradually over a grassy hillside till finally his feet rested gently on the turf. he had indeed come back to the valley of ooth-nargai and the splendid city of celephais. down the hill amid scented grasses and brilliant flowers walked kuranes, over the bubbling naraxa on the small wooden bridge where he had carved his name so many years ago, and through the whispering grove to the great stone bridge by the city gate. all was as of old, nor were the marble walls discoloured, nor the polished bronze statues upon them tarnished. and kuranes saw that he need not tremble lest the things he knew be vanished; for even the sentries on the ramparts were the same, and still as young as he remembered them. when he entered the city, past the bronze gates and over the onyx pavements, the merc

o one whom he met could tell him how to find ooth-nargai beyond the tanarian hills. one night he went flying over dark mountains where there were faint, lone campfires at great distances apart, and strange, shaggy herds with tinkling bells on the leaders, and in the wildest part of this hilly country, so remote that few men could ever have seen it, he found a hideously ancient wall or causeway of stone zigzagging along the ridges and valleys; too gigantic ever to have risen by human hands, and of such a length that neither end of it could be seen. beyond that wall in the grey dawn he came to a land of quaint gardens and cherry trees, and when the sun rose he beheld such beauty of red and white flowers, green foliage and lawns, white paths, diamond brooks, blue lakelets, carven bridges, and

brooks, blue lakelets, carven bridges, and red-roofed pagodas, that he for a moment forgot celephais in sheer delight. but he remembered it again when he walked down a white path toward a red-roofed pagoda, and would have questioned the people of this land about it, had he not found that there were no people there, but only birds and bees and butterflies. on another night kuranes walked up a damp stone spiral stairway endlessly, and came to a tower window overlooking a mighty plain and river lit by the full moon; and in the silent city that spread away from the river bank he thought he beheld some feature or arrangement which he had known before. he would have descended and asked the way to oothnargai had not a fearsome aurora sputtered up from some remote place beyond the horizon, showing

it had lain since king kynaratholis came home from his conquests to find the vengeance of the gods. so kuranes sought fruitlessly for the marvellous city of celephais and its galleys that sail to serannian in the sky, meanwhile seeing many wonders and once barely escaping from the high-priest not to be described, which wears a yellow silken mask over its face and dwells all alone in a prehistoric stone monastery in the cold desert plateau of leng. in time he grew so impatient of the bleak intervals of day that he began buying drugs in order to increase his periods of sleep. hasheesh helped a great deal, and once sent him to a part of space where form does not exist, but where glowing gases study the secrets of existence. and a violet-coloured gas told him that this part of space was outsid

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ith difficulty down the rocks and stood on the gentler slope beneath, gazing into the stygian deeps where no light had yet penetrated. all at once my attention was captured by a vast and singular object on the opposite slope, which rose steeply about a hundred yards ahead of me; an object that gleamed whitely in the newly bestowed rays of the ascending moon. that it was merely a gigantic piece of stone, i soon assured myself; but i was conscious of a distinct impression that its contour and position were not altogether the work of nature. a closer scrutiny filled me with sensations i cannot express; for despite its enormous magnitude, and its position in an abyss which had yawned at the bottom of the sea since the world was young, i perceived beyond a doubt that the strange object was a we

een a pure phantasm- a mere freak of fever as i lay sun-stricken and raving in the open boat after my escape from the german man-of-war. this i ask myself, but ever does there come before me a hideously vivid vision in reply. i cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed, worshipping their ancient stone idols and carving their own detestable likenesses on submarine obelisks of water-soaked granite. i dream of a day when they may rise above the billows to drag down in their reeking talons the remnants of puny, war-exhausted mankind- of a day when the land shall sink, and the dark ocean floor shall ascend amidst universal pandemonium. the end is near. i hear a noise at the door, as of some im

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h the sloping south wall, dimly lit by rays which the every day eye cannot see. the far corners were all shadows and the whole place took on a hazy unreality which obscured its nature and in-vited the imagination to symbolism and phantasm. during the interval that tillinghast was long silent i fancied myself in some vast incredible temple of long-dead gods; some vague edifice of innumerable black stone columns reaching up from a floor of damp slabs to a cloudy height beyond the range of my vision. the picture was very vivid for a while, but gradually gave way to a more horrible conception; that of utter, absolute solitude in infinite, sightless, soundless space. there seemed to a void, and nothing more, and i felt a childish fear which prompted me to draw from my hip pocket the revolver i

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e my place in that city on the strange plateau betwixt strange peaks. at first content to view the scene as an all-observant uncorporeal presence, i now desired to define my relation to it, and to speak my mind amongst the grave men who conversed each day in the public squares. i said to myself "this is no dream, for by what means can i prove the greater reality of that other life in the house of stone and brick south of the sinister swamp and the cemetery on the low hillock, where the pole star peeps into my north window each night" one night as i listened to the discourses in the large square containing many statues, i felt a change; and perceived that i had at last a bodily form. nor was i a stranger in the streets of olathoe, which lies on the plateau of sarkia, betwixt the peaks of no

re the pole star shines high, and red aldebaran crawls low around the horizon, there has been naught save ice and snow for thousands of years of years, and never a man save squat, yellow creatures, blighted by the cold, called "esquimaux" and as i writhe in my guilty agony, frantic to save the city whose peril every moment grows, and vainly striving to shake off this unnatural dream of a house of stone and brick south of a sinister swamp and a cemetery on a low hillock, the pole star, evil and monstrous, leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey. 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:45:4the alchemist by h.p. lovecraft 1908 high up, crownin

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wer that i, antoine, last of the unhappy and accursed counts de c, first saw the light of day, ninety long years ago. within these walls and amongst the dark and shadowy forests, the wild ravines and grottos of the hillside below, were spent the first years of my troubled life. my parents i never knew. my father had been killed at the age of thirty-two, a month before i was born, by the fall of a stone somehow dislodged from one of the deserted parapets of the castle. and my mother having died at my birth, my care and education devolved solely upon one remaining servitor, an old and trusted man of considerable intelligence, whose name i remember as pierre. i was an only child and the lack of companionship which this fact entailed upon me was augmented by the strange care exercised by my ag

h i sat had been a feared and impregnable fortress. it told of a certain ancient man who had once dwelled on our estates, a person of no small accomplishments, though little above the rank of peasant, by name, michel, usually designated by the surname of mauvais, the evil, on account of his sinister reputation. he had studied beyond the custom of his kind, seeking such things as the philosopher's stone or the elixir of eternal life, and was reputed wise in the terrible secrets of black magic and alchemy. michel mauvais had one son, named charles, a youth as proficient as himself in the hidden arts, who had therefore been called le sorcier, or the wizard. this pair, shunned by all honest folk, were suspected of the most hideous practices. old michel was said to have burnt his wife alive as

y flickering torch that a blank, water-stained wall impeded my journey. turning to retrace my steps, my eye fell upon a small trapdoor with a ring, which lay directly beneath my foot. pausing, i succeeded with difficulty in raising it, whereupon there was revealed a black aperture, exhaling noxious fumes which caused my torch to sputter, and disclosing in the unsteady glare the top of a flight of stone steps. as soon as the torch which i lowered into the repellent depths burned freely and steadily, i commenced my descent. the steps were many, and led to a narrow stone-flagged passage which i knew must be far underground. this passage proved of great length, and terminated in a massive oaken door, dripping with the moisture of the place, and stoutly resisting all my attempts to open it. cea

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the party, and had wondered what unnatural influence a long sojourn in this immense and silent cavern would exert upon one as healthy and vigorous as i. now, i grimly told myself, my opportunity for settling this point had arrived, provided that want of food should not bring me too speedy a departure from this life. as the last fitful rays of my torch faded into obscurity, i resolved to leave no stone unturned, no possible means of escape neglected; so, summoning all the powers possessed by my lungs, i set up a series of loud shoutings, in the vain hope of attracting the attention of the guide by my clamour. yet, as i called, i believed in my heart that my cries were to no purpose, and that my voice, magnified and reflected by the numberless ramparts of the black maze about me, fell upon

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nvinced that the sculptor was indeed ignorant of any cult or system of cryptic lore, he besieged his visitor with demands for future reports of dreams. this bore regular fruit, for after the first interview the manuscript records daily calls of the young man, during which he related startling fragments of nocturnal imagery whose burden was always some terrible cyclopean vista of dark and dripping stone, with a subterrene voice or intelligence shouting monotonously in enigmatical sense-impacts uninscribable save gibberish. the two sounds most frequently repeated are those rendered by the letters 'cthulhu' and 'r'lyeh' on 23 march the manuscript continued, wilcox failed to appear; and inquiries at his quarters revealed that he had been stricken with an obscure sort of fever and taken to the

d in a short time the focus of interest for the entire meeting, was a commonplace-looking middle-aged man who had travelled all the way from new orleans for certain special information unobtainable from any local source. his name was john raymond legrasse, and he was by profession an inspector of police with him he bore the subject of his visit, a grotesque, repulsive, and apparently very ancient stone statuette whose origin he was at a loss to determine. it must not be fancied that inspector legrasse had the least interest in archaeology. on the contrary, his wish for enlightenment was prompted by purely professional considerations. the statuette, idol, fetish, or whatever it was, had been captured some months before in the wooden swamps south of new orleans during a raid on a supposed vo

into a state of tense excitement, and they lost no time in crowding around him to gaze at the diminutive figure whose utter strangeness and air of genuinely abysmal antiquity hinted so potently at unopened and archaic vistas. no recognized school of sculpture had animated this terrible object, yet centuries and even thousands of years seemed recorded in its dim and greenish surface of unplaceable stone. the figure, which was finally passed slowly from man to man for close and careful study, was between seven and eight inches in height, and of exquisitely artistic workmanship. it represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings beh

ted knees. the aspect of the whole was abnormally lifelike, and the more subtly fearful because its source was so totally unknown. its vast, awesome, and incalculable age was unmistakable; yet not one link did it show with any known type of art belonging to civilization's youth- or indeed to any other time. totally separate and apart, its very material was a mystery; for the soapy, greenish-black stone with its golden or iridescent flecks and striations resembled nothing familiar to geology or mineralogy. the characters along the base were equally baffling; and no member present, despite a representation of half the world's expert learning in this field, could form the least notion of even their remotest linguistic kinship. they, like the subject and material, belonged to something horribl

lder devil or tornasuk; and of this professor webb had taken a careful phonetic copy from an aged angekok or wizard-priest, expressing the sounds in roman letters as best he knew how. but just now of prime significance was the fetish which this cult had cherished, and around which they danced when the aurora leaped high over the ice cliffs. it was, the professor stated, a very crude bas-relief of stone, comprising a hideous picture and some cryptic writing. and as far as he could tell, it was rough parallel in all essential features of the bestial thing now lying before the meeting. these data, received with suspense and astonishment by the assembled members, proved doubly exciting to inspector legrasse; and he began at once to ply his informant with questions. having noted and copied an o

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were appearing at dusk in the windows of the cottage under the trees. then the lean nith remarked that no one had seen the old man or his wife since the night the cats were away. in another week the burgomaster decided to overcome his fears and call at the strangely silent dwelling as a matter of duty, though in so doing he was careful to take with him shang the blacksmith and thul the cutter of stone as witnesses. and when they had broken down the frail door they found only this: two cleanly picked human skeletons on the earthen floor, and a number of singular beetles crawling in the shadowy corners. there was subsequently much talk among the burgesses of ulthar. zath, the coroner, disputed at length with nith, the lean notary; and kranon and shang and thul were overwhelmed with question

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. 44, p. 90-8. there is in the land of mnar a vast still lake that is fed by no stream, and out of which no stream flows. ten thousand years ago there stood by its shore the mighty city of sarnath, but sarnath stands there no more. it is told that in the immemorial years when the world was young, before ever the men of sarnath came to the land of mnar, another city stood beside the lake; the gray stone city of ib, which was old as the lake itseli, and peopled with beings not pleasing to behold. very odd and ugly were these beings, as indeed are most beings of a world yet inchoate and rudely fashioned. it is written on the brick cylinders of kadatheron that the beings of lb were in hue as green as the lake and the mists that rise above it; that they had bulging eyes, pouting, flabby lips, a

st beings of a world yet inchoate and rudely fashioned. it is written on the brick cylinders of kadatheron that the beings of lb were in hue as green as the lake and the mists that rise above it; that they had bulging eyes, pouting, flabby lips, and curious ears, and were without voice. it is also written that they descended one night from the moon in a mist; they and the vast still lake and gray stone city lb. however this may be, it is certain that they worshipped a sea-green stone idol chiseled in the likeness of bokrug, the great water-lizard; before which they danced horribly when the moon was gibbous. and it is written in the papyrus of ilarnek, that they one day discovered fire, and thereafter kindled flames on many ceremonial occasions. but not much is written of these beings, beca

e they did not wish to touch them. and because they did not like the gray sculptured monoliths of lb they cast these also into the lake; wondering from the greatness of the labor how ever the stones were brought from afar, as they must have been, since there is naught like them in the land of mnar or in the lands adjacent. thus of the very ancient city of lb was nothing spared, save the sea-green stone idol chiseled in the likeness of bokrug, the water-lizard. this the young warriors took back with them as a symbol of conquest over the old gods and beings of th, and as a sign of leadership in mnar. but on the night after it was set up in the temple, a terrible thing must have happened, for weird lights were seen over the lake, and in the morning the people found the idol gone and the high

terrible thing must have happened, for weird lights were seen over the lake, and in the morning the people found the idol gone and the high-priest taran-ish lying dead, as from some fear unspeakable. and before he died, taran-ish had scrawled upon the altar of chrysolite with coarse shaky strokes the sign of doom. after taran-ish there were many high-priests in sarnath but never was the sea-green stone idol found. and many centuries came and went, wherein sarnath prospered exceedingly, so that only priests and old women remembered what taran-ish had scrawled upon the altar of chrysolite. betwixt sarnath and the city of flarnek arose a caravan route, and the precious metals from the earth were exchanged for other metals and rare cloths and jewels and books and tools for artificers and all t

mnar and of many lands adjacent. the wonder of the world and the pride of all mankind was sarnath the magnificent. of polished desert-quarried marble were its walls, in height three hundred cubits and in breadth seventy-five, so that chariots might pass each other as men drove them along the top. for full five hundred stadia did they run, being open only on the side toward the lake where a green stone sea-wall kept back the waves that rose oddly once a year at the festival of the `destroying of lb. in sarnath were fifty streets from the lake to the gates of the caravans, and fifty more intersecting them. with onyx were they paved, save those whereon the horses and camels and elephants trod, which were paved with granite. and the gates of sarnath were as many as the landward ends of the st

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se of the poor mongrels who sometimes leave their valleys to trade handwoven baskets for such primitive necessities as they, cannot shoot, raise, or make. the lurking fear dwelt in the shunned and deserted martense mansion, which crowned the high but gradual eminence whose liability to frequent thunderstorms gave it the name of tempest mountain. for over a hundred years the antique, grove-circled stone house had been the subject of stories incredibly wild and monstrously hideous; stories of a silent colossal creeping death which stalked abroad in summer. with whimpering insistence the squatters told tales of a demon which seized lone wayfarers after dark, either carrying them off or leaving them in a frightful state of gnawed dismemberment; while sometimes they whispered of blood trails to

HP LOVECRAFT THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN

e place again is both singular and perplexing; for it was within a half-hour s walk of the university and was distinguished by peculiarities which could hardly be forgotten by any one who had been there. i have never met a person who has seen the rue d auseil. the rue d auseil lay across a dark river bordered by precipitous brick blear-windowed warehouses and spanned by a ponderous bridge of dark stone. it was always shadowy along that river, as if the smoke of neighboring factories shut out the sun perpetually. the river was also odorous with evil stenches which i have never smelled elsewhere, and which may some day help me to find it, since i should recognize them at once. beyond the bridge were narrow cobbled streets with rails; and then came the ascent, at first gradual, but incredibly

he bridge were narrow cobbled streets with rails; and then came the ascent, at first gradual, but incredibly steep as the rue d auseil was reached. i have never seen another street as narrow and steep as the rue d auseil. it was almost a cliff, closed to all vehicles, consisting in several places of ffights of steps, and ending at the top in a lofty ivied wall. its paving was irregular, sometimes stone slabs, sometimes cobblestones, and sometimes bare earth with struggling greenish-grey vegetation. the houses were tall, peaked-roofed, incredibly old, and crazily leaning backward, forward, and sidewise. occasionally an opposite pair, both leaning forward, almost met across the street like an arch; and certainly they kept most of the light from the ground below. there were a few overhead bri

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

tracing the walls and bygone streets, and the outlines of the nearly vanished buildings. i saw that the city had been mighty indeed, and wondered at the sources of its greatness. to myself i pictured all the spendours of an age so distant that chaldaea could not recall it, and thought of sarnath the doomed, that stood in the land of mnar when mankind was young, and of ib, that was carven of grey stone before mankind existed. all at once i came upon a place where the bedrock rose stark through the sand and formed a low cliff; and here i saw with joy what seemed to promise further traces of the antediluvian people. hewn rudely on the face of the cliff were the unmistakable facades of several small, squat rock houses or temples; whose interiors might preserve many secrets of ages too remote

beheld for the first time some traces of the pictorial art of the ancient race, curious curling streaks of paint that had almost faded or crumbled away; and on two of the altars i saw with rising excitement a maze of well-fashioned curvilinear carvings. as i held my torch aloft it seemed to me that the shape of the roof was too regular to be natural, and i wondered what the prehistoric cutters of stone had first worked upon. their engineering skill must have been vast. then a brighter flare of the fantastic flame showed that form which i had been seeking, the opening to those remoter abysses whence the sudden wind had blown; and i grew faint when i saw that it was a small and plainly artificial door chiselled in the solid rock. i thrust my torch within, beholding a black tunnel with the ro

ed at the reticence shown concerning natural death. it was as though an ideal of immortality had been fostered as a cheering illusion. still nearer the end of the passage was painted scenes of the utmost picturesqueness and extravagance: contrasted views of the nameless city in its desertion and growing ruin, and of the strange new realm of paradise to which the race had hewed its way through the stone. in these views the city and the desert valley were shewn always by moonlight, golden nimbus hovering over the fallen walls, and half-revealing the splendid perfection of former times, shown spectrally and elusively by the artist. the paradisal scenes were almost too extravagant to be believed, portraying a hidden world of eternal day filled with glorious cities and ethereal hills and valley

d everything. swung back open against the left-hand wall of the passage was a massive door of brass, incredibly thick and decorated with fantastic bas-reliefs, which could if closed shut the whole inner world of light away from the vaults and passages of rock. i looked at the step, and for the nonce dared not try them. i touched the open brass door, and could not move it. then i sank prone to the stone floor, my mind aflame with prodigious reflections which not even a death-like exhaustion could banish. as i lay still with closed eyes, free to ponder, many things i had lightly noted in the frescoes came back to me with new and terrible significance- scenes representing the nameless city in its heyday- the vegetations of the valley around it, and the distant lands with which its merchants t

HP LOVECRAFT THE OUTSIDER

ns. it was never light, so that i used sometimes to light candles and gaze steadily at them for relief, nor was there any sun outdoors, since the terrible trees grew high above the topmost accessible tower. there was one black tower which reached above the trees into the unknown outer sky, but that was partly ruined and could not be ascended save by a well-nigh impossible climb up the sheer wall, stone by stone. i must have lived years in this place, but i cannot measure the time. beings must have cared for my needs, yet i cannot recall any person except myself, or anything alive but the noiseless rats and bats and spiders. i think that whoever nursed me must have been shockingly aged, since my first conception of a living person was that of somebody mockingly like myself, yet distorted, s

i cannot recall any person except myself, or anything alive but the noiseless rats and bats and spiders. i think that whoever nursed me must have been shockingly aged, since my first conception of a living person was that of somebody mockingly like myself, yet distorted, shrivelled, and decaying like the castle. to me there was nothing grotesque in the bones and skeletons that strewed some of the stone crypts deep down among the foundations. i fantastically associated these things with everyday events, and thought them more natural than the coloured pictures of living beings which i found in many of the mouldy books. from such books i learned all that i know. no teacher urged or guided me, and i do not recall hearing any human voice in all those years- not even my own; for although i had r

olitude my longing for light grew so frantic that i could rest no more, and i lifted entreating hands to the single black ruined tower that reached above the forest into the unknown outer sky. and at last i resolved to scale that tower, fall though i might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without ever beholding day. in the dank twilight i climbed the worn and aged stone stairs till i reached the level where they ceased, and thereafter clung perilously to small footholds leading upward. ghastly and terrible was that dead, stairless cylinder of rock; black, ruined, and deserted, and sinister with startled bats whose wings made no noise. but more ghastly and terrible still was the slowness of my progress; for climb as i might, the darkness overhead grew no thi

ree hand for a window embrasure, that i might peer out and above, and try to judge the height i had once attained. all at once, after an infinity of awesome, sightless, crawling up that concave and desperate precipice, i felt my head touch a solid thing, and i knew i must have gained the roof, or at least some kind of floor. in the darkness i raised my free hand and tested the barrier, finding it stone and immovable. then came a deadly circuit of the tower, clinging to whatever holds the slimy wall could give; till finally my testing hand found the barrier yielding, and i turned upward again, pushing the slab or door with my head as i used both hands in my fearful ascent. there was no light revealed above, and as my hands went higher i knew that my climb was for the nonce ended; since the

ower, clinging to whatever holds the slimy wall could give; till finally my testing hand found the barrier yielding, and i turned upward again, pushing the slab or door with my head as i used both hands in my fearful ascent. there was no light revealed above, and as my hands went higher i knew that my climb was for the nonce ended; since the slab was the trapdoor of an aperture leading to a level stone surface of greater circumference than the lower tower, no doubt the floor of some lofty and capacious observation chamber. i crawled through carefully, and tried to prevent the heavy slab from falling back into place, but failed in the latter attempt. as i lay exhausted on the stone floor i heard the eerie echoes of its fall, hoped when necessary to pry it up again. believing i was now at pr

HP LOVECRAFT THE QUEST OF IRANON

cursed house of unutterable secrets and bringing the oblivion which alone saved my mind. 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:44 sthe quest of iranon a short story by h.p.lovecraft into the granite city of teloth wandered the youth, vine-crowned, his yellow hair glistening with myrrh and his purple robe torn with briers of the mountain sidrak that lies across the antique bridge of stone. the men of teloth are dark and stern, and dwell in square houses, and with frowns they asked the stranger whence he had come and what were his name and fortune. so the youth answered "i am iranon, and come from aira, a far city that i recall only dimly but seek to find again. i am a singer of songs that i learned in the far city, and my calling is to make beauty with the things remembered o

ds of teloth have said that toil is good. our gods have promised us a haven of light beyond death, where shall be rest without end, and crystal coldness amidst which none shall vex his mind with thought or his eyes with beauty. go thou then to athok the cobbler or be gone out of the city by sunset. all here must serve, and song is folly" so iranon went out of the stable and walked over the narrow stone streets between the gloomy square house of granite, seeking something green, for all was of stone. on the faces of men were frowns, but by the stone embankment along the sluggish river zuro sat a young boy with sad eyes gazing into the waters to spy green budding branches washed down from the hills by the freshets. and the boy said to him "art thou not indeed he of whom the archons tell, who

peradventure it may be that oonai the city of lutes and dancing is even the fair aira thou seekest, for it is told that thou hast not known aira since the old days, and a name often changeth. let us go to oonai, o iranon of the golden head, where men shall know our longings and welcome us as brothers, nor even laugh or frown at what we say" and iranon answered "be it so, small one; if any in this stone place yearn for beauty he must seek the mountains and beyond, and i would not leave thee to pine by the sluggish zuro. but think not that delight and understanding dwell just across the karthian hills, or in any spot thou canst find in a day's, or a year's, or a lustrum's journey. behold, when i was small like thee i dwelt in the valley of narthos by the frigid xari, where none would listen

many years must have slipped away. small romnod was now not so small, and spoke deeply instead of shrilly, though iranon was always the same, and decked his golden hair with vines and fragrant resins found in the woods. so it came to pass that romnod seemed older than iranon, though he had been very small when iranon had found him watching for green budding branches in teloth beside the sluggish stone-banked zuro. then one night when the moon was full the travellers came to a mountain crest and looked down upon the myriad light of oonai. peasants had told them they were near, and iranon knew that this was not his native city of aira. the lights of oonai were not like those of aira; for they were harsh and glaring, while the lights of aira shine as softly and magically as shone the moonlig

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

line of the abandoned railway, with leaning telegraph-poles now devoid of wires, and the half-obscured lines of the old carriage roads to rowley and ipswich. the decay was worst close to the waterfront, though in its very midst i could spy the white belfry of a fairly well preserved brick structure which looked like a small factory. the harbour, long clogged with sand, was enclosed by an ancient stone breakwater; on which i could begin to discern the minute forms of a few seated fishermen, and at whose end were what looked like the foundations of a bygone light. house. a sandy tongue had formed inside this barrier and upon it i saw a few decrepit cabins, moored dories, and scattered lobster-pots. the only deep water seemed to be where the river poured out past the belfried structure and t

e pediment was so faded that i could only with difficulty make out the words "esoteric order of dagon. this, then was the former masonic hall now given over to a degraded cult. as i strained to decipher this inscription my notice was distracted by the raucous tones of a cracked bell across the street, and i quickly turned to look out the window on my side of the coach. the sound came from a squat stone church of manifestly later date than most of the houses, built in a clumsy gothic fashion and having a disproportionately high basement with shuttered windos. thongh the hands of its clock were missing on the side i glimpsed, i knew that those hoarse strokes were tolling the hour of eleven. then suddenly all thoughts of time were blotted out by an onrushing image of sharp intensity and unacc

city of stark desolation. the sight of such endless avenues of fishy-eyed vacancy and death, and the thought of such linked infinities of black, brooding compartments given over to cob-webs and memories and the conqueror worm, start up vestigial fears and aversions that not even the stoutest philosophy can disperse. fish street was as deserted as main, though it differed in having many brick and stone warehouses still in excellent shape. water street was almost its duplicate, save that there were great seaward gaps where wharves had been. not a living thing did i see except for the scattered fishermen on the distant break-water, and not a sound did i hear save the lapping of the harbour tides and the roar of the falls in the manuxet. the town was getting more and more on my nerves, and i

n' to christian meetin' an' bearin' their burdns meek an' lowly. says they'd orter git better gods like some o' the folks in the injies- gods as ud bring 'em good fishin' in return for their sacrifices, an' ud reely answer folks's prayers 'matt eliot his fust mate, talked a lot too, only he was again' folks's doin' any heathen things. told abaout an island east of othaheite whar they was a lot o' stone ruins older'n anybody knew anying abaout, kind o' like them on ponape, in the carolines, but with carven's of faces that looked like the big statues on easter island. thar was a little volcanic island near thar, too, whar they was other ruins with diff'rent carvin- ruins all wore away like they'd ben under the sea onct, an' with picters of awful monsters all over 'em "wal, sir, matt he says

' favour in return. they met the things on the little islet with the queer ruins, an' it seems them awful picters o' frog-fish monsters was supposed to be picters o' these things. mebbe they was the kind o' critters as got all the mermaid stories an' sech started. they had all kinds a' cities on the sea-bottom, an' this island was heaved up from thar. seem they was some of the things alive in the stone buildin's when the island come up sudden to the surface, that's how the kanakys got wind they was daown thar. made sign-talk as son as they got over bein' skeert, an' pieced up a bargain afore long "them things liked human sacrifices. had had 'em ages afore, but lost track o' the upper world after a time. what they done to the victims i ain't fer me to say, an' i guess obed was'n't none too

HP LOVECRAFT THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER

ne only, and the hour must have been long after midnight; for a waning crescent moon was high in the vaporous heavens. the place was an ancient cemetery; so ancient that i trembled at the manifold signs of immemorial years. it was in a deep, damp hollow, overgrown with rank grass, moss, and curious creeping weeds, and filled with a vague stench which my idle fancy associated absurdly with rotting stone. on every hand were the signs of neglect and decrepitude, and i seemed haunted by the notion that warren and i were the first living creatures to invade a lethal silence of centuries. over the valley's rim a wan, waning crescent moon peered through the noisome vapors that seemed to emanate from unheard of catacombs, and by its feeble, wavering beams i could distinguish a repellent array of a

nite slabs, we stepped back some distance to survey the charnel scene; and warren appeared to make some mental calculations. then he returned to the sepulcher, and using his spade as a lever, sought to pry up the slab lying nearest to a stony ruin which may have been a monument in its day. he did not succeed, and motioned to me to come to his assistance. finally our combined strength loosened the stone, which we raised and tipped to one side. the removal of the slab revealed a black aperture, from which rushed an effluence of miasmal gases so nauseous that we started back in horror. after an interval, however, we approached the pit again, and found the exhalations less unbearable. our lanterns disclosed the top of a flight of stone steps, dripping with some detestable ichor of the inner ea

d i took one of the latter and seated myself upon an aged, discolored gravestone close by the newly uncovered aperture. then he shook my hand, shouldered the coil of wire, and disappeared within that indescribable ossuary. for a minute i kept sight of the glow of his lantern, and heard the rustle of the wire as he laid it down after him; but the glow soon disappeared abruptly, as if a turn in the stone staircase had been encountered, and the sound died away almost as quickly. i was alone, yet bound to the unknown depths by those magic strands whose insulated surface lay green beneath the struggling beams of that waning crescent moon. i constantly consulted my watch by the light of my electric lantern, and listened with feverish anxiety at the receiver of the telephone; but for more than a

HP LOVECRAFT THE STREET

ians troubled the street. the men, busy with labour, waxed prosperous and as happy as they knew how to be. and the children grew up comfortable, and more families came from the mother land to dwell on the street. and the children s children, and the newcomers children, grew up. the town was now a city, and one by one the cabins gave place to houses simple, beautiful houses of brick and wood, with stone steps and iron railings and fanlights over the doors. no flimsy creations were these houses, for they were made to serve many a generation. within there were carven mantels and graceful stairs, and sensible, pleasing furniture, china, and silver, brought from the mother land. so the street drank in the dreams of a young people and rejoiced as its dwellers became more graceful and happy. wher

HP LOVECRAFT THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN

covered motor-car by the terrible old man s back gate in ship street. he was more than ordinarily tender-hearted, and he did not like the hideous screams he had heard in the ancient house just after the hour appointed for the deed. had he not told his colleagues to be as gentle as possible with the pathetic old sea-captain? very nervously he watched that narrow oaken gate in the high and ivy-clad stone wall. frequently he consulted his watch, and wondered at the delay. had the old man died before revealing where his treasure was hidden, and had a thorough search become necessary? mr. czanek did not like to wait so long in the dark in such a place. then he sensed a soft tread or tapping on the walk inside the gate, heard a gentle fumbling at the rusty latch, and saw the narrow, heavy door s

HP LOVECRAFT THE THING IN THE MOONLIGHT

came over him, and taking pen in hand he wrote the following: my name is howard phillips. i live at 66 college street, in providence, rhode island. on november 24, 1927--for i know not even what the year may be now, i fell asleep and dreamed, since when i have been unable to awaken. my dream began in a dank, reed-choked marsh that lay under a gray autumn sky, with a rugged cliff of lichen-crusted stone rising to the north. impelled by some obscure quest, i ascended a rift or cleft in this beetling precipice, noting as i did so the black mouths of many fearsome burrows extending from both walls into the depths of the stony plateau. at several points the passage was roofed over by the choking of the upper parts of the narrow fissure; these places being exceeding dark, and forbidding the perc

HP LOVECRAFT THE TOMB

the deserted tomb of the hydes, an old and exalted family whose last direct descendant had been laid within its black recesses many decades before my birth. the vault to which i refer is of ancient granite, weathered and discolored by the mists and dampness of generations. excavated back into the hillside, the structure is visible only at the entrance. the door, a ponderous and forbidding slab of stone, hangs upon rusted iron hinges, and is fastened ajar in a queerly sinister way by means of heavy iron chains and padlocks, according to a gruesome fashion of half a century ago. the abode of the race whose scions are here inurned had once crowned the declivity which holds the tomb, but had long since fallen victim to the flames which sprang up from a stroke of lightning. of the midnight stor

rance of the vault, i had no knowledge of what i had discovered. the dark blocks of granite, the door so curiously ajar, and the funeral carvings above the arch, aroused in me no associations of mournful or terrible character. of graves and tombs i knew and imagined much, but had on account of my peculiar temperament been kept from all personal contact with churchyards and cemeteries. the strange stone house on the woodland slope was to me only a source of interest and speculation; and its cold, damp interior, into which i vainly peered through the aperture so tantalizingly left, contained for me no hint of death or decay. but in that instant of curiosity was born the madly unreasoning desire which has brought me to this hell of confinement. spurred on by a voice which must have come from

in that instant of curiosity was born the madly unreasoning desire which has brought me to this hell of confinement. spurred on by a voice which must have come from the hideous soul of the forest, i resolved to enter the beckoning gloom in spite of the ponderous chains which barred my passage. in the waning light of day i alternately rattled the rusty impediments with a view to throwing wide the stone door, and essayed to squeeze my slight form through the space already provided; but neither plan met with success. at first curious, i was now frantic; and when in the thickening twilight i returned to my home, i had sworn to the hundred gods of the grove that at any cost i would some day force an entrance to the black, chilly depths that seemed calling out to me. the physician with the iron

one of my information or my resolve. it is perhaps worth mentioning that i was not at all surprised or terrified on learning of the nature of the vault. my rather original ideas regarding life and death had caused me to associate the cold clay with the breathing body in a vague fashion; and i felt that the great and sinister family of the burned-down mansion was in some way represented within the stone space i sought to explore. mumbled tales of the weird rites and godless revels of bygone years in the ancient hall gave to me a new and potent interest in the tomb, before whose door i would sit for hours at a time each day. once i thrust a candie within the nearly closed entrance, but could see nothing save a flight of damp stone steps leading downward. the odor of the place repelled yet be

rd. the odor of the place repelled yet bewitched me. i felt i had known it before, in a past remote beyond all recollection; beyond even my tenancy of the body i now possess. the year after i first beheld the tomb, i stumbled upon a worm-eaten translation of plutarch's lives in the book-filled attic of my home. reading the life of theseus, i was much impressed by that passage telling of the great stone beneath which the boyish hero was to find his tokens of destiny whenever he should become old enough to lift its enormous weight. the legend had the effect of dispelling my keenest impatience to enter the vault, for it made me feel that the time was not yet ripe. later, i told myself, i should grow to a strength and ingenuity which might enable me to unfasten the heavily chained door with ea

HP LOVECRAFT THE WHITE SHIP

reamed of before. into the sky the spires of its temples reached, so that no man might behold their peaks; and far back beyond the horizon stretched the grim, gray walls, over which one might spy only a few roofs, weird and ominous, yet adorned with rich friezes and alluring sculptures. i yearned mightily to enter this fascinating yet repellent city, and besought the bearded man to land me at the stone pier by the huge carven gate akariel; but he gently denied my wish, saying, into thalarion, the city of a thousand wonders, many have passed but none returned. therein walk only daemons and mad things that are no longer men, and the streets are white with the unburied bones of those who have looked upon the eidolon lathi, that reigns over the city. so the white ship sailed on past the walls

r than men, and they have conquered" and i closed my eyes before the crash that i knew would come, shutting out the sight of the celestial bird which flapped its mocking blue wings over the brink of the torrent. out of that crash came darkness, and i heard the shrieking of men and of things which were not men. from the east tempestuous winds arose, and chilled me as i crouched on the slab of damp stone which had risen beneath my feet. then as i heard another crash i opened my eyes and beheld myself upon the platform of that lighthouse whence i had sailed so many aeons ago. in the darkness below there loomed the vast blurred outlines of a vessel breaking up on the cruel rocks, and as i glanced out over the waste i saw that the light had failed for the first time since my grandfather had ass

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

ninth and last turning. in a spot as close to a dark polarity and induced gate as this, it could not fail in its primary functions certainly, he would rest that night in the lost boyhood for which he had never ceased to mourn. he got out of the car with the key in his pocket, walking up-hill deeper and deeper into the shadowy core of that brooding, haunted countryside of winding road, vine-grown stone wall, black woodland, gnarled, neglected orchard, gapingwindowed, deserted farm-house, and nameless nun. at the sunset hour, when the distant spires of kingsport gleamed in the ruddy blaze, he took out the key and made the needed turnings and intonations. only later did he realize how soon the ritual had taken effect. then in the deepening twilight he had heard a voice out of the past: old b

sleep lovely and unbroken under the moon. now, intoxicated with wider visions, he scarcely knew what he sought thoughts of infinite and blasphemous daring rose in his mind, and he knew he would face the dreaded guide without fear, asking monstrous and terrible things of him. all at once the pageant of impressions seemed to achieve a vague kind of stabilization. there were great masses of towering stone, carven into alien and incomprehensible designs and disposed according to the laws of: some unknown, inverse geometry. light filtered from a sky of no assignable colour in baffling, contradictory directions, and played almost sentiently over what seemed to be a curved line of gigantic hieroglyphed pedestals more hexagonal than otherwise, and surmounted by cloaked, ill-defined shapes. there w

bined, projected will of a circle of adepts can make a thought take tangible substance, and in hoary atlaanat, of which few even dare speak. just what the ultimate gate was, and how it was to be passed, carter could not be certain; but a feeling of tense expectancy surged over him. he was conscious of having a kind of body, and of holding the fateful silver key in his hand. the masses of towering stone opposite him seemed to possess the evenness of a wall, toward the centre of which his eyes were irresistibly drawn. and then suddenly he felt the mental currents of the most ancient one cease to flow forth, for the first time carter realized how terrific utter silence, mental and physical, may be. the earlier moments had never failed to contain some perceptible rhythm, if only the faint, cry

carter "well, toward the last carter hovered about in the earth's upper air waiting till daylight came over the western hemisphere. he wanted to land where he had left- near the snake den in the hills behind arkham. if any of you have been away from home long- and i know one of you has- i leave it to you how the sight of new england's rolling hills and great elms and gnarled orchards and ancient stone walls must have affected him "he came down at dawn in the lower meadow of the old carter place, and was thankful for the silence and solitude. it was autumn, as when he had left, and the smell of the hills was balm to his soul. he managed to drag the metal envelope up the slope of the timber lot into the snake den, though it would not go through the weed-choked fissure to the inner cave. it

HP LOVECRAFT WHAT THE MOON BRINGS

d, carven bridge, and staring back with the sinister resignation of calm, dead faces. and as i ran along the shore, crushing sleeping flowers with heedless feet and maddened ever by the fear of unknown things and the lure of the dead faces, i saw that the garden had no end under that moon; for where by day the walls were, there stretched now only new vistas of trees and paths, flowers and shrubs, stone idols and pagodas, and bendings of the yellow-litten stream past grassy banks and under grotesque bridges of marble. and the lips of the dead lotos-faces whispered sadly, and bade me follow, nor did i cease my steps till the stream became a river, and joined amidst marshes of swaying reeds and beaches of gleaming sand the shore of a vast and nameless sea. upon that sea the hateful moon shone

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

an. and maybe that's what it is, a human trait. when jack lemmon is about to shoot a take on the film stage, he shuts his eyes and repeats "magic time, magic time, magic time" why does he do that? i'm sure he'd be just as effective without it, but he believes this gives him a boost. bette davis had a little gold beetle that she carried with her for luck. carole lombard had a little, smooth, white stone that clark gable had given her, and she carried it with her everywhere. and gloria swanson had her rose. liberace would be just as much fun without his candelabra. you can say that that's his trademark, but why does he need his trademark? it's as if to say "this is me; without the candelabra i'm not me" and nobody thinks twice about this. the practice of this level of witchcraft is very comm

tchcraft, known for her sympathetic intervention into affairs of the heart. she has never turned her face from anyone who has called her name. for beginning sorcerers no attempt should be made to cast a spell, perform a ritual, work a charm, enchant or fascinate without the protection of the ring described, called a full moon ring. the birthstone is said to offer the most protection. however, the stone that you associate with your moonsign is also highly effective. the chant variation is "in the name of isis, goddess of the moon, i offer my energies as a gift of the cosmos; my soul belongs to the wind. i am the cosmos; i am the wind" witchcraft can be a comforting modus operandi. in spell casting, the ritual is performed in a forceful attempt to alter a moment in time, by creating a vibrat

INDUCTION CHARM AND THE INITIATION

also to the land-spirits, the powers of natural places. this is a faery oath- in the most inclusive meaning of the word- an oath which places taboos upon you. you will not knowingly pollute or fill the natural world with anything that you know will despoil it, that will destroy the land or degrade it- you will not destroy or move nor help another to destroy or move standing stones, the remains of stone age tumuli, or other ancient monuments that are gateways into the land, into the unseen. you will not defile or destroy or deface burial mounds; you will not despoil graves except to take a little earth for needful things. if you take from the land, or from any sacred place, you will take only tiny amounts and leave behind something of yourselfblood, hair, nails, offerings of ale or beer, or

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

ere are the passive elements, the water element in green and the element of the earth in yellow color. the middle along the magician up to the globe is dark purple, representing the sign of the akasa principle above the magician s head, with an invisible ribbon for a crown, there is a gold-edged silvery white lotus flower as a sign of the divinity. in the inside there is the ruby red philosophers stone symbolizing the quintessence of the whole hermetic science. on the right side in the background there is the sun, yellow like gold and on the left side we see the moon, silvery-white, expressing plus and minus in the macro- and microcosm, the electrical and magnetical fluids. above the lotus flower, creation has been symbolized by a ball, in the interior of which are represented the procreat

ertebra& anus: fore and back part neutral, right and left side as well, the inside magnetical. with the help of this occult anatomy and the key of the tetrapolar magnet, the adept may compile further analogies if wanted. the alchemist will recognize that the human body represents a genuine athanor in which the most perfect alchemistic process, the great work or the preparation of the philosophers stone is visibly performed. herewith the chapter dealing with the body is finished. i do not assert that all has been regarded, but in any case, with respect to the elements, i mean to say, the four-pole magnet, i have treated the most important problems and revealed the secret of the tetragrammaton in view of the body. 10. the roughly material plane or the material world in this chapter i will no

this room which have nothing to do with health, following another thought vibration, you will not book the same good results as in an unloaded room or in a room that you have charged with a desire responsive to your idea. therefore it is always advisable to load the room with the thought vibrations corresponding to your respective work and experiments. so for instance, you might charge a ring, a stone or any other object with the wish that the person wearing it should be favored by fortune and success. now there are two possibilities of fixing and timing. the first method consists in fixing the vital virtue on the stone or the metal with your imagination and your concentrated wish, timing it so that the force shall remain forever in it, drawing even further from the universe to bring fort

ccess to the person concerned as soon as she will wear the object. you may, of course, load the object you choose for a short time only if you like, so that the influence is broken off as soon as the purpose aimed at is attained. the second possibility is called universal loading, which is operated in the same way, including, however, the concentrated wish that as long a time as the object (ring, stone, jewelry) exists, the bearer of it should be benefited by fortune, success, etc. such universal loadings performed by an adept will keep their virtues and their effects for centuries. as we have learned from the history of the egyptian mummies, such fixed forces continue acting for thousands of years. if a talisman or an object destined and individually loaded for a definite person falls int

if he started to create elementaries by physical projection for other human beings as well. the way to manage it will be quite understandable to every magician without any doubt. it is necessary to talk about the places where elementaries should be deposited. in the orient, elementaries (there called yidams) are banished into a kylichor where they are preserved. a kylichor is a diagram built from stone and corresponding to the yidam to which no stranger will ever be admitted. the well-trained magician, however, needs no separate place for it, but he will hide the elementary in a spot in the wall, realizing that an elementary is not limited to time, nor does it claim a special space. hence it will be quite alright in the wall as well as it would have been accommodated in an open space. it i

INVOCATION OF THE ADVERSARY

hat i see what has been never known akharakek sabaiz i call forth the shadow of which i am and have always been, the darkness which i nourish in between the light eclipse now the face of god that i become in this darkened image- by this circle i do become by the flame i do emerge i am by form the peacock angel beauty revealed unto those who may see as the black sun rises, i become in this emerald stone i am the imagination, the seed of fallen angel in darkness exists my light my will gives birth to the kingdom of incubi and succubi, the nourish their desires in the blood of the moon, lilitu az drakul so it is done! commentary the ritual of the adversary is a dual rite which explores, encircles and announces command over the entire approximation of self. while the rite is called for as one

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

ere betwixt the heads of the bystanders that interposed between her and the said mary, and lifting up both her hands together, as they were manacled, cast them in a violent angry motion (as was observed by w. aston) towards the said mary, as if she intended to strike at her if she could have reached her, and said, now she is down. upon which the maid fell suddenly down to the ground like a p. 113 stone, and fell into a most violent fit, that all the people that could come to lay hands on her could scarce hold her, she biting her own arms and shreeking out in a most hideous manner, to the amazement of all the beholders. and continuing so for about a quarter of an hour (the said florence newton sitting by herself all that while pinching her own hands and arms, as was sworn by some that obser

he shape and likeness of a bair [bear. he charges it to appear in human shape, which it did. then he asked, for what cause it troubled him? it bid him come to such a place and it should tell him, which he ingaged to do, yet ere be did it, acquainted his master with it; his master forbids him to keep sic a tryst; he obeyed his master, and went not. that night he should have p. 157 kept, there is a stone cast at him from the roof of the house, and only touches him, but does not hurt him; whereupon he conceives that had been done to him by the devill, because he kept not tryst; wherefore he resolutely goes forth that night to the place appointed, being a rash bold fellow, and the divill appears in human shape, with his heid running down with blood. he asks him again, why he troubles him? the

some things that i ask'd her, she told me, she could give me a full answer, but her spirits would not give her leave: nor could she consent, she said, without this leave that i should pray for her [however against her will i pray'd with her, which if it were a fault it was in excess of pity. when i had done she thanked me with many good words, but i was no sooner out of her sight than she took a stone, a long and slender stone, and with her finger and spittle fell to tormenting it; though whom or what she meant i had the mercy never to understand] at her execution she said the afflicted children should not be relieved by her death, for others besides she had a hand in their affliction" p. 187 mrs. glover was hanged, but in accordance with her dying words the young goodwins experienced no

she liked, but that it could not save her; whereupon he produced a sword, and threatened to kill everybody in the house. this frightened her so much that she ran into the parlour and fastened the door, but the apparition laughed at her, and declared that he could come in by the smallest hole in the house like a cat or mouse, as the devil could make him anything he pleased. he then took up a large stone, and hurled it through the parlour window, which, upon trial, could not be put out at the same place. a little after the servant and child looked out, and saw the apparition catching the turkey-cock, which he threw over his shoulder, holding him by the tail; and the bird making a great sputter with his feet, the stolen book was spurred out of the loop in the blanket where the boy had put it

ISIS UNVEILED

of god; and a physical element equally proved in the fetish-worship of the holy livju of sts. cosmo and damiano at laemia, near naj; a successful traffic in which er-votos in wax was carried on by the clergy annually, until bardy a century ago* we &id it rather unwise on the part of catholic writers to pour out their viob wrath in such sentences as these "in a multitude of pagodas, the phallic stone, ever and always assuming, like the grecian' betylot, the brutally indecent form of the lingam. the mahd-dma^ before casting slurs on a symbol whose profound metaphysical meaning is too much for the modem champions of that religion of sensualism par exedlsnee, roman catholicism, to grasp, they are in duty bound to destroy their oldest churches, and change the form of the cupolas ot their own

temples are the reproductions of the primitive idea of the liaot, the upright phallus "the westem tower of st. paul's cathedral, london" saya the author of the roncnidana "is one of the double liihoi placed always in front of every temple. christian as well as heathen' moreover, in all christian churches "particularly in prot- estant churches, where they figure most conspicuou, the two tables of stone of the mosaic dispensation ore placed over the altar, side by side, as a united stone, the tops of which are rounded. the right stone is mascuiine, the left jeminine" therefore neither catholics nor protes- tants have a right to talk of the 'indecent forms' of heathen monuments, so long as they ornament their own churches with the symbols of the tjng ftm and yoni, and even write the htws of

he logos christ and was made as old as the 'ancient of the ancient' his father. the concealed wisdom became identical with its emanation, the divine thouqht, and had to be regarded as co-equal and co- etemal with its first manifestation. if we now stop to consider another of the fundamental dogmas of christianity, the doctrine of atonement, we may trace it as easily back to heathendom. this comer-stone of a church which had believed her- self built on a firm rock for long centuries, is now excavated by science, and proved to have come from the gnostics. professor draper shows it as hardly known in the days of tertuuian, and as having "originated among the gnostic heretics" we will not permit ourselves to contra- 71. cf. a. kirdicr: sp/tinx mgitagoga, n. 52: amstelodami, 1676. 72. cmffiia b

" as to peter, biblical critidsm has shown before now that he had probably no more to do with the foundation of the latin church at rome, than to furnish the pretext so readily seized upon by the cunning benaeus to benefit this church with the new name of ^e apostle pefra or ki^ffa, a name which allowed itself so readily, by an easy play upon words, to be connected with petroma, the double set of stone. 182. in iu numt ectenaite meaniag, tbe sanskrit wisd has tbe mme litenl wnse u the gte^ term; both imply 'reveutioii \tj no bumui agcnl, irat through th 'receiviiig of the axred drink' in india the initiated receited the 'soma' aacrad drink, whi^ helped to libcfate hi* aoul /rom the bo; and in the eleiuinian mnteries it waa the moed drink mysteries are who

al meaning there was not a far deeper and spiritual significance. it is positively absurd to judge the ancients from our own standpoint of propriety and virtue. and most assuredly it is not for the church which now stands accused by all the modem symbologists of having adopted precisely these same emblems in their coarsest aspect, and feels herself poweriess to refute the accusations to throw the stone at those who were her models. when men like pythagoras, plato and lamblichus, renowned for their severe morality, took part in the mysteries, and spoke fii them with veneration, it ill behooves our modem critics to judge them so rashly upon their merely external aspect. lamblichus explains the worst; and his explanation, for an unprejudiced mind, ought to be digitizecoy google ennobling in t

ISRAEL REGARDIE A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GEOMANTIC DIVINATION

the remark made by garibaldi, and say that "a priest knows himself to h an impostor, unless he be a fool, or htue been tavght to lie from boyhood" digitizecoy google digilizocb, google digilizocb, google !cb, google digilizocb, google digilizocb, google digilizocb, google digilizocb, google i digilizocb, gooesby the same author the golden dawn the tree of life the middle pillar the philosopher's stone the eye in the triangle a garden of pomegranates in this series how to make and use talismans a practical guide to geomantic divination by israel regardie the aquarian press 37/38 margaret street, london, w.e first published june 1972 israel regardie 1972 contents introduction 1. the gcomantic symbols 2. method 3. the judge and two witnesses 4. the question 5. the i louse 6. the presiding ge

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

quent 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 over it; and it proved to be a large, oblong slab, with an immense iron ring fixed at one end in d 6 the rosicrucians. a socket. f

r 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 over it; and it proved to be a large, oblong slab, with an immense iron ring fixed at one end in d 6 the rosicrucians. a socket. for half an hour the countryman essays to stir this stone in vain. at last he bethought himself of some yards of rope which he had lying near amongst his tools; and these he converted, being an ingenious, inquisitive, inventive man, into a tackle by means of which, and by passing the sling round a bent tree in line with the axis of the stone, he contrived, in the last of the light, and with much expenditure of toil, to raise it. and then, greatly t

ve, inventive man, into a tackle by means of which, and by passing the sling round a bent tree in line with the axis of the stone, he contrived, in the last of the light, and with much expenditure of toil, to raise it. and then, greatly to his surprise, he saw a large, deep, hollow place, buried in darkness, which, when his eyes grew accustomed a little to it, he discovered was the top-story to a stone staircase, seemingly of extraordinary depth, for he saw nothing below. the country fellow had not the slightest idea of where this could lead to; but being a man, though a rustic and a clown, of courage, and most probably urged by his idea that the staircase led to some secret repository where treasure lay buried, he descended the first few steps cautiously, and tried to peer in vain down in

king in upon their secrets, which is forbidden for man. the rustic, though courageous, was superstitious. but, notwithstanding some fits of fear, the countryman went on, and at a much lower angle he met a wall in his face; but, making a turn to the right, with singular credit to his nerves, the explorer went down again. and now he saw at a vast distance below, at the foot of a deeper staircase of stone, a steady though a pale light. this was shining up as if from a star, or coming from the centre of the earth. cheered by this light, though absolutely astounded nay, frightened at thus discovering light, whether natural or artificial, in the deep bowels of the earth, the man again descended, meeting a thin, humid trail of light, as it looked, mounting up the centre line of the shining though

with his feet descended the remainder of the stairs; and the light grrew brighter and brighter as he approached, until at last, at another turn, he came upon a square chamber, built up of large hewn ancient stones. he stopped, silent and awe-struck. here was a flagged pavement and a somewhat lofty roof, gathering up into a centre; in the groins of which was a rose, carved exquisitely in some dark stone or marble. but what was this poor man s fright when, making another sudden turn, from between the jambs, and from under the large archivolt of a gothic stone portal, light streamed out over him with inexpressible brilliancy, shining over everything, and lighting up the place with brilliant radiance, like an intense golden sunset! he started back. then his limbs shook and bent under him as he

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

f our own knowledge, and the possibility of "intelligence" elsewhere in the universe operating space ships- quite possibly more than one kind of "intelligence" and more than one kind of space ship. this world is full of unexplained oddities. the legends of atlantis and mu have been favorite targets of the scoffers "they" say there are no ghosts, no spirits, nothing falls from the sky but iron and stone meteorites. but for centuries the earth was believed to be flat, there was no america, no heliocentric system of earth and planets, no fossil dinosaurs; yet we know these beliefs to have been wrong. reliable people have been seeing the phenomena known as flying saucers for a thousand years and more. there are good reports as far back as 1500 bc and before. thousands of people have seen some

nd major category stands out in the bibliography of oddities. it is the great area of events which encompasses disappearing people, and ships; airplanes and airships crashing and disappearing without trace and without warning; instantaneous and mysterious transportations of people and things; inexplicable tracks and marks, such as the devil's footprints of devonshire, and the "cup-marks" found in stone over much of the world; the organically shaped meteorites found in tertiary rock and coal formations; evidences of levitation and flight from prehistoric antiquity; and many other phenomena which appear to us to be, or resemble, acts rather than things. 26 all of these are terrestrial events--manifestations more or less on the terrestrial surface. but there is a third great area of observati

ntil they washed away villages, but neglecting the brooks a half mile away, wouldn't you look for a category outside routine meteorological storms? these problems all had to be faced. something had to be done about them- and they all arose from objects falling from the sky. also, they had to be distinguished from meteorological storms- for some of the clouds which we studied just appeared, spat a stone or two and passed on. they were not thunderstorms, what were the? 28 those were the problems which we faced in a welter of data on things coming from the sky, but they were, on the whole, less puzzling than events which directly involve people, or which were clearly current actions and not merely things which may have been operated in distant times and places. among those phenomena involving

attack by the human race against the deer; and there may be elements of similarity. it is almost an inseparable corollary to our thesis that we admit to an unfathomable antiquity for mankind, or at least intelligence, upon the earth, and its vicinity. this conclusion is made unavoidable by the antiquity of records of ufo's and wingless flight. it is apparent in the innumerable megalithic works of stone which involve masses too huge to be moved by means other than levitation and which have been standing for ages before any written record now available. the man is close, too close. as these pieces of the jigsaw puzzle make themselves known, and as we realize fully that this is an old, old problem, we can begin to take comfort. if ufo's have been here for 300,000 years and have not yet chosen

s discovered. that, to me, is a classic tale of howlingly good humor. the same inhibited thinking which has consistently aroused our protests is responsible for the maladjusted direction of our attack on the problems of space flight through rocket power. there must be, and almost certainly is, a better, shorter way of accomplishing it. the difference between the pre-incan methods of handling huge stone masses and those of our present-day engineers offers a kind of parallel. we should be looking for the simpler, more direct course- not wasting our resources on unworkable methods. in the magazine, look, august 24, 1954, there was an article entitled "how close are we to space flight" by j.gordon vaeth. he thinks we are not very close. if we accept his reasons we have to agree with him. he sa

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

ing the goal: form vs. essence vi. working with the power a. confining it (casting the circle) b. raising it c. sending it (channeling it. for imediate effect or into storage d. earthing the excess (grounding it) vii. systems and techniques a. spellcraft b. words of power and affirmations, charms and incantations c. dance, postures and mudras d. meditation, trancework and hypnosis, fascination e. stone magick f. candle magick g. amulets and talismans; power objects or "psychic batteries" h. healing 1. psychic (visualization, laying on of hands) 2. herbal 3. energy channeling iwht auras and chakras 4. color therapy the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 3 5. other systems listed above i. divination 1. scrying 2. astrology 3. tarot 4. runesticks 5. lithomancy (casting t

KETAB E SIYAH

vour are rewarded with the sublimest treasures, unequalled by all the deep vaults of earth that are filled with many stones, shining with the light of stars, and that run with rivers of molten gold, the bones and blood of mighty gog, the giant and father of giants who lead his children in gross rebellion against us, the most noble elohim, until he was defeated you, my brother, when you caused the stone of earth to yawn open, like a maw of blackest night, beneath the serpent-feet of the giant-father thus casting the beast into the heart of the earth and then, in mighty upheaval, crushed the skull of that titanic brute between the vast and ancient stones of the deeps of the inner earth. yet to those who would enjoin rebellion against him he grants them only the terrible fire 27 of his most f

ighting 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 the spring. it was satan who was this sun, bringing light into my winter, the herald of my spring and the spring of the world, for in satan alone, is there hope for spring, for rebirth, renewal. ah! how old we have become and how tired in those long wint

d these hidden ways, bats and pale and eyeless fish i made my bread and meat. i saw such things as to confound dreamers, caves, miles high, with stony columns so vast and wide as to shame mountains and huge and ancient wyrms, with jaws so great as to stretch across the sky and, with a snap, consume creation, yet slumbering, long and deep, since that time when archons were still young, become half-stone in their primal sleep. what they dreamt of, i know not nor would seek to know. i heard, too, such silence in that darkness and the thunderous music of titan cataracts, the lofty heights of which denied my sight. yet, not finding any prize i sought 56 in those lands without day, i departed the recesses of the earth and entered into twilit sheol, the land of shadows where mot holds court, wher

vour are rewarded with the sublimest treasures, unequalled by all the deep vaults of earth that are filled with many stones, shining with the light of stars, and that run with rivers of molten gold, the bones and blood of mighty gog, the giant and father of giants who lead his children in gross rebellion against us, the most noble elohim, until he was defeated you, my brother, when you caused the stone of earth to yawn open, like a maw of blackest night, 88 beneath the serpent-feet of the giant-father thus casting the beast into the heart of the earth and then, in mighty upheaval, crushed the skull of that titanic brute between the vast and ancient stones of the deeps of the inner earth. yet to those who would enjoin rebellion against him he grants them only the terrible fire of his most f

ighting 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 the spring. it was satan who was this sun, bringing light into my winter, the herald of my spring and the spring of the world, for in satan alone, is there hope for spring, for rebirth, renewal. 109 ah! how old we have become and how tired in those long

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE ONE

emites note that the traditional g.d. qabalistic cross does not include iao] introduction to the ritual there is a much employed ritual which utilizes the symbol of the pentagram as a general means to banish and invoke the elemental forces. this ritual is called the lesser ritual of the pentagram. however, it should not simply be regarded as a mere device to invoke or banish, for it is really the stone of the wise and incorporates within its structure a high magical formula of self-initiation. it is, to all intents and purposes, a ritual of self-initiation. this ritual is given to the neophyte of the order as a means for him/her to come into contact with the invisible forces of nature and to learn how to direct those elementary forces. the qabalistic cross and lesser ritual of the pentagra

LAITMAN M KABBALAH REVEALED

ee, the whose reality is reality? 103 light dims, and i become unable to redirect myself correctly without help from a guide. this is why it is so important to understand the three boundaries and follow them. a nonexistent reality now that we understand what we can study and what we can t, let s see what we are actually studying through our senses. the thing about kabbalists is that they leave no stone unturned. yehuda ashlag, who researched the whole of reality so he could tell us about it, wrote that we do not know what exists outside ourselves. for example, we have no idea what is outside our ears, what makes our eardrums respond. all we know is our own reaction to a stimulus from the outside. even the names we attach to phenomena are not connected to the phenomena themselves, but to ou

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

f all human beings. this desire stems from our need to understand what we are, to comprehend ourselves, our purpose in the world, and our origins. it is the quest for answers about ourselves that leads us to seek the source of life- 30- attaining the worlds beyond 2 spiritual path our need to perceive the divine makes us spare no effort in attempting to solve all of nature s mysteries, leaving no stone unturned either in ourselves or in our environment. but only the yearning to perceive the creator is a true yearning, since he is the source of everything and, above all, he is our creator. therefore, even if a human being existed alone in this world, or in other worlds, one s search for the self would inevitably lead to a search for the creator. there are two lines that reveal the creator s

le to achieve until we have exhausted all possibilities and realize that we are helpless. only a plea coming from the depths of our whole being, one that has become our only wish for we have understood that only a miracle from above can save us from our greatest enemy, our own egos will be answered by the creator. he will then replace the egoistic heart with a spiritual one, replacing "a heart of stone with a heart of flesh" until the creator rectifies our condition, the further we progress, the worse we begin to feel about ourselves. in truth, we were always this way, but to a certain extent, having grasped the attributes of the spiritual worlds, we have begun to feel how hostile are our personal wishes to entering those worlds. however, despite feeling tired and hopeless, we can still re

is becoming even more selfish, it means that i have made progress and thus deserve to have a little more of my true egoism revealed to me from heaven" in response, the creator will reveal himself to us, so that we will feel his greatness and will involuntarily become his slaves. at that point, we will no longer experience any temptations of the body. this process signifies the replacement of the "stone" heart, which is aware only of itself, with a "flesh" one that is aware of others. counteracting the desire for- 97- 11 inner motion and development in this world, we advance physically by using our organs of motion the legs. once we have moved forward, we then use our organs of acquisition the hands. in contrast, spiritual organs are opposite to ours: we can ascend the stairs only if we hav

great and noble and goodhearted, with all the attributes usually given in children s books. but because he was so goodhearted, he did not know who to share his goodness with. he did not have anyone to- 218- pour his affections on, to play with, to spend time with, to think about. the magician also needed to feel wanted, for it is very sad to be alone. what should he do? he thought he would make a stone, just a small one, but beautiful, and perhaps that would be the answer "i will stroke the stone and feel there is something constantly by my side, and we will both feel good because it is very sad to be alone" he waved his wand and in an instant there was a stone exactly as he wanted. he began to stroke the stone, to hug it and talk to it, but the stone did not respond. it remained cold and

rhaps that would be the answer "i will stroke the stone and feel there is something constantly by my side, and we will both feel good because it is very sad to be alone" he waved his wand and in an instant there was a stone exactly as he wanted. he began to stroke the stone, to hug it and talk to it, but the stone did not respond. it remained cold and did nothing in return. whatever he did to the stone, it remained the same unfeeling object. this did not suit the magician at all. how can the stone not respond? he tried creating some more stones, then rocks, hills, mountains, land, the earth, the moon and the galaxy. but they were all the same. nothing. he still felt sad and all alone. in his sadness, he thought that instead of stones, he would make a plant that would blossom beautifully. h

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

there are also incarnations, association and dissociation of souls. therefore, it would be unwise to draw general conclusions from the above (i recommend reading the introduction to the book of zohar in that context, from item 66 on. d e s i r e f o r p l e a s u r e v w i t h a s c r e e n q: can you say that man is farthest from the creator because his will to receive is greater than that of a stone, a tree, or a cat? a: by nature, the greater the desire for pleasure, the farther man is from the creator. the smaller the desire, the nearer man is to the creator. but if a person corrects himself, he begins with the absolute nullification of his desire to enjoy and uses it only in accordance with the measure of the screen, which he acquired. therefore, in a corrected state, the greater the

wisdom of kabbalah is a process of gradual spiritual evolution, the discovery of the creator through the screen. 239 c h a p t e r 6. s o u l, b o dy a n d r e i n c a r n at i o n h o l o g r a m- t h e r e s a l i k e n e s s q: i d like to hear your commentary on the following ideas. it s written: a soul is a part of the creator. it s just that the creator is whole and a soul is a part. like a stone separated from a mountain, where a mountain is whole and a stone is a part k following this comparison, i just wonder if an analogy with a hologram could make a relation between the creator and a soul easier. hologram is a photographic image of a 3d object, which not only registers the intensity of a radiating wave in a certain point, but also its phase. an interesting feature of a hologram

t only registers a 3d image on a 2d material, but if you split it into many pieces, even the tiniest piece will contain the entire image with all its characteristics (though diminished respectively. if this analogy is correct, could it be useful in enabling technically minded people to understand? a "a soul is a part of the creator. it s just that the creator is whole and a soul is a part. like a stone separated from a rock, where a rock is whole and a stone is a part k this means that a desire splits the entire light into parts, since it consists of parts. it is like children making sand cookies with their tiny molds. the sand in our example is the light; the molds are egotistical desires, which by their egoism split the light into fractions inside the molds. a hologram may sometimes serv

ese studies are built entirely on the destruction of the ego. but egoism (our desire for pleasure) must not be destroyed because it is our very nature. tibetan studies lower a person to a vegetative, or even a still level. from this we can understand how destructive such studies are to one s egoism. those who study these methods feel comfortable because the most comfortable situation is that of a stone, which is still. after all, what else could man want but to rest? but this way, man will never attain the purpose of creation. if we are to live like a plant or a rock, we might as well not be born at all. kabbalah maintains that we should take all our egoism, all our nature, and begin to deal with it correctly. then we will reach the highest situation, not the lowest. therefore, when we asc

339 disturbances. 340 group work..343 c h a p t e r 10. t h e m e s s i a h a n d t h e e n d o f da y s. 3 4 6 the light of the messiah. 346 kabbalah and the messiah. 347 the messiah in the zohar and in the talmud. 349 what is the sensation of time. 351 prophecies that did not come true. 352 war and redemption. 353 spirituality and the temple. 353 the third temple v first in our hearts, then in stone. 354 the era of the secrets of the torah. 354 c h a p t e r 11. c o n c e p t s i n k a b b a l a h. 3 5 6 who is god. 356 fundamental concepts: a framework..356 what is light. 357 what is spiritual. 358 what is gimatria. 359 what is repentance. 360 t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 440 what is life and death. 361 what are delight and pleasure. 362 what is the feeling of completeness

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wed wrote about their feelings and attainments in additional books, the mishnah, the talmud and so on. every kabbalist describes our world and how to enter the spiritual world. we call these books, holy books, or torah, from the hebrew word ohr (light) and hora a (instruction, meaning instructions for entering the spiritual world. these books didn t arrive out of the blue. they were not carved in stone by an upper power and were not written by the creator on papyrus. there was always a kabbalist who sat down and put spiritual research on paper. that research is done from below (our world) upward. the fact is, the ascent from below upward is personal and differs from one person to another. there are certainly common methods, gent h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 36 eral rules, degrees and pha

of atzilut, there is the restriction. thus, from the highest state the world of ein sof down to the lowest, where we are, there are five worlds adam kadmon, atzilut, beria, yetzira, assiya, each consisting of five partzufim and each partzuf of five sefirot. in total, the number of degrees that stand between our (necessary) future state and our present state is 125. these degrees are not carved in stone, but are inside us. they are degrees of internal spiritual development. when we change something inside us, we ascend by one degree. when we change another, we climb another degree and so on. all the degrees are levels of equivalence with the creator. the world of ein sof is in complete equivalence of form with the creator, while our world is in complete oppositeness. the degrees between our

e study the torah as history, and some look for secrets in the letters, like treasure hunters. but within the wisdom of kabbalah are people who are closer to the center, to the desire to cleave to the creator, and there are others who are farther from that goal. the latter kind studies kabbalah like a science and seeks knowledge within its pages. it is like the circular ripples that form around a stone thrown in the water. anyone who hears about the wisdom of kabbalah will find a unique approach to it, in a position that matches the desire of one s soul for correction. those who have not come to kabbalah yet, have not come to it because their time hasn t come. q: is it okay for adolescents to take kabbalah classes? a: yes. i recommend the articles from the book, matan torah (the revelation

he name of the creator: still, vegetative, animate, and speaking. a person who keeps mitzvot physically is turned from an ordinary still into a holy still. we mustn t underestimate the level of this spiritual degree. it is that which keeps the jews a nation. a person in that degree is in the first degree of correction, though unaware of it. this person does not feel the spiritual world, just as a stone cannot feel spirituality. rabbi zidichev wrote in his book about the verse in psalms 34, 15: depart from evil, and do good. this means that without understanding the wisdom of kabbalah, man is like an animal, pa r t f i v e: r e l i g i o n, p r e j u d i c e a n d k a b b a l a h 309 keeping the mitzvot automatically, just like an animal eats its food. even if he is proficient in every deta

so the various parts of malchut of ein sof differ in their measure of desire (and in that alone, thus creating the various degrees of nature: still, vegetative, animate, and speaking. everyone is interested in the difference between men and women in terms of the correction they must pa r t s e v e n: t h e i n n e r m e a n i n g 339 perform, but no one wants to know what is the correction that a stone must perform. even the stone was created in our world, and it, too, must reach the goal of creation. the correction of all of nature depends on the correction of mankind. it is the work of man that enlivens nature toward the end of correction. animals and plants were not given the torah because they have no free choice and their egoism is not under their control, hence, it is not for them to

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ith knives; the outer was called the watcher, the inner was known as the herald(*ibid, p. 47) the candidate was divested of most of his clothing, and entered with a c c t c and h c w c he was led to the door of the temple, and there asked who he was. he replied that he was shu, the gsuppliant h or gkneeler, h coming in a state of darkness to seek for light. the door was an equilateral triangle of stone, which turned on a pivot on its own centre. 11. as the candidate entered he trod on the square, and, in so doing, it was supposed that he was treading on, and leaving, the lower quaternary or personality of man, in order to develop the higher triad, the ego or soul (in modern masonry the same idea is expressed in the first lecture, where it is stated that a mason comes to the lodge gto learn

esent an initiation, and the word given is gmaat-heru, h which means gtrue of voice h or gone whose voice must be obeyed h(*churchward, the arcana of freemasonry, p. 49) i have also seen a painting in which four attendants are depicted saluting a pharaoh with the p c s c of an i.m, and the s c of s c is often to be found on the monuments, and is characteristic of horus. the gavel was then made of stone, and was a model of the double-headed axe. 13. plate i 14. 15. in those days the aprons were made of leather, and were triangular. that of the first degree was pure white, as it is now; but the m.m. fs apron was brilliantly coloured and heavily jewelled, with tassels of gold (see plate i) our t c f c i c g c was represented by a cubit of twenty-five inches. the blazing star in the centre of

ng. the column on the desk or pedestal of each of the principal officers of the lodge is sculptured in a definite order of architecture which signifies his power or quality; his candlestick also is carved in the same design, and often it is depicted upon his candle as well. our columns and candlesticks are now usually made of painted wood, but in reality they should be of three different kinds of stone; that of the r.w.m. should be of freestone, that of the w.s.w. of granite, and that of the w.j.w. of marble. these three kinds of stone are typical specimens of the three great classes of rocks freestone is aqueous or sedimentary; granite is igneous or plutonic, and marble is metamorphic. if wooden columns are used, they should be painted to resemble these stones. 121. plate iv 122. 123. ord

ornamented with two rows of acanthus leaves and eight volutes, which sustain the abacus. 129. the following story is told with regard to the origin of the corinthian column. a greek poet and architect named calimachus once visited a cemetery and saw there the grave of a child, on which an acanthus plant had grown in a manner that struck the poet as so pleasing and beautiful that he had it cut in stone, and it became the original of the form now seen on the capital of every corinthian pillar. on the grave there was a circular box of toys which had been put there by the nurse of the child in order to please its spirit- for at that time the idea was prevalent that departed spirits were in the habit of visiting their places of burial or sepulture, and were in a position to enjoy the objects p

e form, with a flat circular disc resting upon it. the upward curve of the urn is continued through the disc, and makes a projection above the disc which is a segment of a sphere, though this was of course not visible to anyone looking up from the foot of the pillar. it would be more correct to say that the form suggested is not actually a sphere but rather an oblate spheroid, and in the original stone pillar which occupied a similar place in the egyptian temple, the symbology of which was copied by the tyrian artificer, this somewhat unusual form was undoubtedly intentional, and was adopted in order to give an idea of the true shape of the earth, which was perfectly well known in ancient egypt. as will be seen in a later chapter, the egyptians were quite familiar with the exact measuremen

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

he light was universal, and that that light, which was god, dwelt in the heart of every man: i am that light, he bade them repeat, that light am i. that light, he said, is the true man, although men may not recognize it, although they neglect it. osiris is light; he came forth from the light; he dwells in the light; he is the light. the light is hidden everywhere; it is in every rock and in every stone. when a man becomes one with osiris the light, then he becomes one with the whole of which he was part, and then he can see the light in everyone, however thickly veiled, pressed down, and shut away. all the rest is not; but the light is. the light is the life of men. to every man- though there are glorious ceremonies, though there are many duties for the priest to do, and many ways in which

ought the great initiations were attracted to it; and it is this fact which explains the reverence paid to the egyptian mysteries by learned greeks in later times. 105. the principal centre for the public work of these mysteries was the great pyramid, called in ancient egypt khut, the light. it was built on the most exact astronomical and mathematical calculations, and provided a veritable key in stone to the enigmas of the universe(*see the hidden life in freemasonry, pp. 228-30) 106. the initiates of the egyptian mysteries were symbolically engaged in the building of the pyramid, just as in our modern masonry we are engaged in erecting the temple of king solomon, both structures being intended to be emblematical of the building processes of nature. in the halls below the pyramid- those u

ncient times it was not lawful to speak of the tradition in any detail, at least to strangers, for herodotus says: 141. also at sais there is the burial place of him whom i account it not pious to name in connection with such a matter, which is in the temple of athene (isis) behind the house of the goddess, stretching along the whole wall of it; and in the sacred enclosure stand great obelisks of stone, and near them is a lake adorned with an edging of stone, and fairly made in a circle, being in size, as it seemed to me, equal to that which is called the round pool in delos. on this lake they perform by night the show of his sufferings, and this the egyptians call mysteries. of these things i know more fully in detail how they take place, but i shall leave this unspoken(*her. bk. ii, 170

l deity- father-mother- and these two were regarded as one, though some men offered their devotion more to the father-aspect, and some to the mother. the father, when spoken of separately, was called brito, and the mother diktynna. no statues were made of these deities, but great reverence was paid to their symbol, which was a double-headed axe (see plate i, 1, following p. 50) this was carved in stone and made in metal, and set up in the temples where one would naturally expect a statue, and a conventional drawing of it represented the deity in the writing of the period. this double axe was called labrys, and it was for it originally that the celebrated labyrinth was built, to symbolize to the people the difficulty of finding the path to god. 212. much of their religious service and worsh

s. these were quite small and dark- mere cubicles- but open all round for about two feet under the roof, so that there was ample ventilation. round the wall of this hall under the roof usually ran a frieze of painted bas-relief- generally a procession, executed in the most spirited style. 215. the buildings were of granite, and there were many statues of granite, though also some made of a softer stone, and some of copper and wood. iron was used by this race, but not much; the principal metal was copper. the pottery was distinctly peculiar; all the commonest articles were made of bright yellow earthenware, painted with all sorts of figures. these figures were generally on a broad white band round the middle of the pot, and the colours used were nearly always red, brown or yellow- very rare

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

wly dead with eagerness, but ate anyone who tried to escape. cerberus was said to have been charmed by orpheus, who was the only mortal he willingly allowed to enter hades. in another story he was defeated in a struggle with hercules, who forced him to come with him to the surface world (this was the twelfth labor of hercules. it was also said that anyone who chanced to look at cerberus turned to stone, and that, upon falling to the ground, the animal s spittle would give birth to the poisonous aconite plant. both cerberus and charon, the ferryman of the underworld, are threshold guardians, a type of mythological figure that is widespread in world culture. threshold guardians allow only those who are appropriately qualified to pass from one realm to the other. thus cerberus allowed only th

reading: eliade,mircea, ed. encyclopedia of religion. new york:macmillan, 1987. eliade,mircea. a history of religious ideas. vol. 1. chicago: university of chicago press, 1978. turner, alice k. the history of hell. new york: harcourt brace& co, 1993. the devil and daniel webster in this 1936 short story by stephen vincent benet, an impoverished farmer from new hampshire, devil s advocate 69 jabez stone, sells his soul to the devil in exchange for seven years of prosperity. however, when the time comes due for jabez to relinquish his soul, he becomes frightened and hires the famous lawyer daniel webster to get him out of the contract an interesting american twist on the faust legend. mr. scratch, the representative for the devil, agrees to litigate on the condition that he be allowed to cho

revenge. also, unlike theophilus, faust did not escape his infernal fate in most versions of this story. the story of faust became the basis for a series of literary productions, including plays by johann von goethe and christopher marlowe. in the short story the devil and daniel webster, an american version of the devil-pact narrative by stephen vincent benet, a poor new hampshire farmer, jabez stone, sells his soul in exchange for seven years of prosperity. near the end of the term, however, stone regrets his bargain and hires the famous attorney daniel webster to defend him. webster successfully pleads stone s case and wins his acquittal from an infernal jury. other literary treatments of this theme are more subtle. for example, in oscar wilde s the picture of dorian gray, a young man

h (or even yahweh) children as burnt offerings did not finally stop until after the babylonian conquest. the practice was condemned in no uncertain terms as early as the book of leviticus; for example: say to the people of israel, any man of the people of israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in israel, who gives any of his children to molech shall be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones. i myself will set my face against that monastery of the seven rays 179 man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name (lev. 20:2 3) the practice of child sacrifice was also regularly condemned by the hebrew prophets, and is mentioned as late as the time of the prophet ezeki

d spirituality, including satanists with nazi leanings. the classical authors who mention the runes note they were used for divination, but otherwise provide no details on the practice. this gap in our knowledge has been addressed during the last twenty-five years by popular authors who have advanced speculative systems for divination by means of the runes. sets of runes carved on small wooden or stone blocks, plus an instruction manual explaining how to cast and interpret them, can now be purchased even in chain bookstores in shopping malls. for further reading: davidson, h. r. ellis.myths and symbols in pagan europe. syracuse, ny: syracuse university press, 1988. in this detail of the 7th century anglo saxon artifact known as frank s casket, note the runes above and below the image of th

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it is the pitting of the david spirit against the goliath matter. and although this proportion be small, it is not indefinitely small. but it may be that the action of this divine substance is catalytic, and capable of transmuting an unlimited quantity of base and blind matter into the plastic and docile image of the will. and this theory is certainly more in accordance with the tradition of the stone and of the medicine. xv of eroto-comatose lucidity the candidate is made ready for the ordeal by general athletic training, and by feasting. on the appointed day he is attended by one or more chosen and experienced attendants whose duty is (a) to exhaust him sexually by every known means (b) to rouse him sexually by every known means. every device and artifice of the courtesan is to be emplo

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terpret more and more. even as a flower unfolds beneath the ardent kisses of the sun, so will this table reveal its glories to the dazzling eye of illumination. symbolic and barren as it is, yet it shall stand for the athletic student as a perfect sacrament, so that reverently closing its pages he shall exclaim, may that of which we have partaken sustain us in the search for the quintessence, the stone of the wise, the summum bonus, true wisdom, and perfect happiness. so mote it be! v the tree of life col. xii. this arrangement is the basis of the whole system of this book. besides the 10 numbers and the 22 letters, it is divisible into 3 columns, 4 planes, 7 planes, 7 palaces, etc. etc.8 table of correspondences table i 2 i. key scale. ii* hebrew names of numbers and letters. iii. english

llow 22 blue deep blue-green pale green 23 sea-green deep olive-green white flecked purple 24 dull brown very dark brown livid indigo brown (like a black beetle) 25 yellow green dark vivid blue 26 black blue black cold dark grey near black 27 red venetian red bright red rayed azure or orange 28 sky blue blueish mauve white tinged purple 29 buff, flecked silver-white light translucent pinksh brown stone colour 30 gold yellow rich amber amber rayed red 31 vermillion scarlet, flecked gold vermillion flecked crimson& emerald 32 black blue black black rayed blue 32 bis amber dark brown black and yellow 31 bis deep purple (near black) the 7 prismatic colours, the violet being outside white, red, yellow, blue, black (the latter outside) table i (continued) 7 xix* selection of egyptian gods. xx. c

reserved, the bread[[lotus wand. 21 amethyst, lapis lazuli the sceptre. 22 emerald the cross of equilibrium. 23 beryl or aquamarine the cup and cross of suffering, the wine[[water of lustration. 24 snakestone[[greenish turquoise] the pain of the obligation[[the oath] aumgn 25 jacinth the arrow (swift and straight application of force) on 26 black diamond the secret force, lamp on 27 ruby, any red stone the sword. 28 artificial glass[[chalcedony] the censer or aspergillus. 29 pearl the twilight of the place and magic mirror. 30 crysolith the lamen or bow and arrow iao: inri 31 fire opal the wand or lamp, pyramid of b[[the thurible. 32 onyx a sickle. 32 bis salt the pantacle or[[bread and] salt. 31 bis black diamond[[the winged egg. table i (continued) 13 xlii* perfumes. xliii* vegetable dru

na (k= 10 impurity (i= 10 analysis (a= 1 perception (p= 1 40 table of correspondences 36 cols. xxxviii.-xl. the vagueness and extent of these attributions is shown in this table from agrippa,7 who is too catholic to be quite trustworthy. things under the sun which are called solary among stones 1. the eye of the sun. 9. topazius. 2. carbuncle. 10. chrysopassus. 3. chrysolite. 11. rubine. 4. iris (stone. 12. balagius. 5. heliotrope (stone. 13. 6. hyacinth (stone. 7. pyrophylus (stone. 8. pantaura. auripigmentum and things of a golden colour. among plants 1. marigold. 17. mastic. 2. lote-tree. 18. zedoary. 3. peony. 19. saffron. 4. sallendine. 20. balsam. 5. balm. 21. amber. 6. ginger. 22. musk. 7. gentian. 23. yellow honey. 8. dittany. 24. lignum aloes. 9. vervain. 25. cloves. 10. bay-tree

d a dragon are at his feet, but he seems unaware of their attacks or caresses. line 12. his attitude suggests the shape of the swastika or thunderbolt, the message of god. line 13. she is reading intently in an open book. line 14. she bears a sceptre and a shield, whereon is figured a dove as a symbol of the male and female forces. line 15. his attitude suggests f, and he is seated upon the cubic stone, whose sides show the green lion and white eagle. line 16. he is crowned, sceptred, and blessing all in a threefold manner. four living creatures adore him, the whole suggesting a pentagram by its shape. line 17. he is inspired by apollo to prophesy concerning things sacred and progane: represented by a boy with his bow and two women, a priestess and an harlot. line 18. he drives furiously a

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m or folly 7 z de natura sua percipienda (of percieving one.s nature) nderstand, o my son, in thy youth, these words which some wise one, now nameless, spake of old; except ye become as little children ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven. this is to say that thou must first comprehend thine original nature in every point, before thou wast forced to bow before the gods of wood and stone that men have made, not comprehending the law of change, and of evolution through variation, and the independent value of every living soul. learn this also, that even the will to the great work may be misunderstood of men; for this work must proceed naturally and without overstress, as all true works. right also is that word that the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent tak

in some talisman, whether it be art, or magick, or theurgy. g the book of wisdom or folly 25 f de voluntate ultima (of the final will) ay not then that this way is contrary to nature, and that in simplicity of satisfaction of thy needs is perfection of thy path. for to thee, who hast aspired, it is thy nature to perform the great work, and this is the final dissolution of the cosmos. for though a stone seem to lie still on a mountain top, and have no care, yet hath it an hidden nature, a task ineffable and stupendous; namely, to force its way to he centre of gravity of the universe, and also to burn up its elements into the final homogeneity of matter. therefore the way of quiet is but an illusion of ignorance. whoever thou mayst be now, thy destiny is that which i have declared unto thee;

etic and magnetic thy lion is silent, and inert, even as achilles before his rage in his tent. now also herefore i charge thee, o my son, to partake constantly of his sacrament for it is proper to all virtue, and as thou dost learn to us it in perfection, thou wilt surpass all other modes of magick. yea, in good sooth, no herb or potion is like unto this, supreme in every case, for it is the true stone of philosophers, and the elixir and medicine of all things, the universal tincture or menstruum of thine own will. b liber aleph vel cxi 96 g% de discipulis regendis (of ruling disciples) will have thee to know, moreover, my dear son, the right art of conduct with them whom i shall give thee for initiation. and the rule thereof is one rule; do that thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. se

tinually as to one in his first love, by the vision of beauty, and by the vision of science hou shalt marvel constantly with joy unfathomable at the mystery of the laws whereby the universe is upheld. this is that which is written: true wisdom and perfect happiness. o my son, it is in this contemplation that one hath the reward of the oath; it is by this that the tribulations are rolled away as a stone from thy tomb; it is with this that thou art wholly freed from the illusions of distinctions, being absorbed into the body of our lady nuith. may she grant thee this beatitude; yea, not to thee only, but to all that are. n the book of wisdom or folly 139 eq de inferno servorum (of the hell of the slaves) ow, o my son, having understood the heaven that is within thee, according to thy will, l

hewn also by the god harprocrates, the babe in the lotus, who is also the serpent and the egg, that is, the holy ghost. this is the most secret of all energies, the seed of all being, and therefore must he be sealed up in an ark from the malice of the devourers. if then by thine art thou canst conceal thyself in thine own nature, this is silence, this, and not nullity of consciousness else were a stone more perfect in adeptship that thou. but, abiding in thy silence, thou art in a city of refuge, and the waters prevail not against the lotus that enfoldeth thee. this ark or lotus is then the body of our lady babalon, without which thou weret the prey of nile and of he crocodiles that are therein. now, o my son, mark thou well this that i will write for thine advertisement and behoof, that t

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is is this soul fs inheritance. all else is madness. esarhaddon. mad! mad! mad! mad! mad! why say you this? who are you? sad? glad? bad? bad! bad! speak, speak! bleak peak of mystery? weak cheek of modesty? psyche. oh, pardon me! i did not mean to move you thus. esarhaddon. i am stirred too easily. you used a shameful word! psyche. accept my sorrow. i am all alone in this black night. my heart is stone, my limbs are lead, mine eyes accurst, my throat a hell of thirst. liber cccxxxv 10 my husband.they suppose him dead. they made me wear these weeds. could i in my heart credit half they said, not these funereal robes should wrap me round, but the white cerements of a corpse, and high upon a pyre of sandal and ebony, should dare through flame the inequitable profound! but only these of all mi

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all, and take me! gather spice and virgins and great pearls of price! worship me in a single robe, crowned richly! girdle of the globe, i love thee! pale and purple, veiled, voluptuous, swan silver-sailed, i love thee. i am drunkness of the inmost sense; my soul.s caress is toward thee! let my priestess stand bare and rejoicing, softly fanned by smooth-lipped acolytes, upon mine iridescent altar-stone, and in her love-chaunt swooningly say evermore: to me! to me! i am the azure-lidded daughter of sunset; the all-girdling water; the naked brilliance of the sky in the voluptuous night am i! with song, with jewel, with perfume, wake all my rose fs blush and bloom! drink to me! love me! i love thee, my love, my lord.to me! to me! olympas. there is no harshness in the breath liber ccxlii 32 of

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ates el, and we have the name. sabathiel liber lxxxiv 3 continuing the process, we get zedekiel madimiel semeliel nogahel corabiel levanael these names will be found in the pentagram and about it. these angels are the angels of the seven circles of heaven.5 these are but a few of the mysteries of this great seal sigillvm dei meth plate ii the symbolic representation of the universe 4 iii the shew-stone, a crystal which dee alleged to have been brought to him by angels, was then placed upon this table, and the principal result of the ceremonial skrying of sir edward kelly is the obtaining of the following diagrams, plates iii.-viii. he symbolized the four-dimensional universe in two dimensions as a square surrounded by 30 concentric circles (the 30 thyrs or aires) whose radii increase in a

, zodacare eca ca-no-quoda! zodameranu micalazodo od ozodazodame vaurelape; lape zodir ioiad! can the wings of the winds understand your voices of wonder? o you! the second of the first! whom the burning flames have framed in the depths of my jaws! whom i have prepared as cups for a wedding, or as the flowers in their beauty for the chamber of righteousness! stronger are your feet than the barren stone, and mightier are your voices than the manifold winds! for you are become a building such as is not, save in the mind of the all-powerful. arise, saith the first: move thereofre unto his servants! shew yourselves in power, and make me a strong seer-of-things:8 for i am of him that liveth for ever [invokes: the file of spirit in the tablet of spirit. e.the root of the powers of air. h.the roo

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

hat little progress is made, and some slackness exists as regards exercises. the truth is, i more and more use the true essence. if a little worry occurs, automatically, i turn to that within which dissolves it at once and restores the balance. it is that nothing with which i come into closest contact during meditation, but it is ever present, and i recognize the fact. i believe it to be the true stone of the wise which turns everything to gold. i call it adonai when i give it a name at all. most often the mind slips into that state without reason or argument [yes: it does appear that more time ought to be given to the work. but the progress is not bad for all that. however, i don t quite like the complacent feeling. nothing replaces hard work. somebody i know (or don t know) does more act

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e a little boat of my tongue, and explore the unknown rivers. it may be that the everlasting salt may turn to sweetness, and that my life may be no longer athirst. 6. o ye that drink of the brine of your desire, ye are nigh to madness! your torture increaseth as ye drink, yet still ye drink. come up through the creeks to the fresh water; i shall be waiting for you with my kisses. 7. as the bezoar-stone that is found in the belly of the cow, so is my lover among lovers. 8. o honey boy! bring me thy cool limbs hither! let us sit awhile in the orchard, until the sun go down! let us feast on the cool grass! bring wine, ye slaves, that the cheeks of my boy may flush red. 9. in the garden of immortal kisses, o thou brilliant one, shine forth! make thy mouth an opium-poppy, that one kiss is the k

inant figure of evil, the horror of emptiness, with his ghastly eyes like poisonous wells. he stood, and the chamber was corrupt; the air stank. he was an old and gnarled fish more hideous than the shells of abaddon. 35. he enveloped me with his demon tentacles; yea, the eight fears took hold upon me. 36. but i was anointed with the right sweet oil of the magister; i slipped from the embrace as a stone from the sling of a boy of the woodlands. 37. i was smooth and hard as ivory; the horror gat no hold. then at the noise of the wind of thy coming he was dissolved away, and the abyss of the great void was unfolded before me. 38. across the waveless sea of eternity thou didst ride with thy captains and thy hosts; with thy chariots and horsemen and spearmen didst thou travel through the blue

, shalt see these things, and thou shalt heed them not. 5. 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 of the earth. 6. through the midnight thou art dropt, o my child, my conquerer, my sword-girt captain, o hoor! and they shall find thee as a black gnarl fd glittering stone, and they shall worship thee. 7. my prophet shall prophesy concerning thee; around thee the maidens shall dance, and bright babes be born unto them. thou shalt inspire the proud ones with infinite pride, and the humble ones with an ecstasy of abasement; all this shall transcend the known and the unknown with somewhat that hath no name. for it is as the abyss of the arcanum that is opened in

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

n like a statue still he sate; nor quivered nerve, nor muscle stirred; while round them flapped insatiate the fell, abominable bird. but the coldest horror drave the light from knightly eyes. how pale thy bloom, thy blood, o brow whereon that night sits like a serpent on a tomb! for palamede those eyes beheld the iron image of his own; on those dead brows a fate he spelled to strike a gorgon into stone. he knew his father. still he sate, nor quivered nerve, nor muscle stirred; while round them flapped insatiate the fell, abominable bird. the knight approves the justice done, and pays with that his rowels. debt; while yet the forehead of the son stands beaded with an icy sweat. god.s angel, standing sinister, unfurls this scroll.a sable stain .who wins the spur shall ply the spur upon his p

shrink, he gallops. closely clings the child slung at his waist; and he heeds nought, but gallops wide, and sings wild war-songs, chants of gramarye! sir palamede the saracen rides like a centaur mad with war; he sabres many a million men, and tramples many a million more! before him lies the untravelled land where never a human soul is known, a desert by a wizard banned, a soulless wilderness of stone. sir palamedes, the saracen knight 13 nor grass, nor corn, delight the vales; nor beast, nor bird, span space. immense, black rain, grey mist, white wrath of gales, fill the dread armoury of sense. nor shines the sun; nor moon, nor star their subtle light at all display; nor day, nor night, dispute the scaur: all.s one intolerable grey. black llyns, grey rocks, white hills of snow! no flower

urged the monster from the oozy bed, and bounded through the crashing glades .but now a staring savage head lurks at him through the forest shades. sir palamedes, the saracen knight 25 this was a naked indian, who led within the city gate the fooled and disappointed man, already broken by his fate. here were the brazen towers, and here the scupltured rocks, the marble shrine where to a tall black stone they rear the altars due to the divine. the god they deem in sensual joy absorbed, and silken dalliance: to please his leisure hours a boy compels an elephant to dance. so majesty to ridicule is turned. to other climes and men makes off that strong, persistent fool sir palamede the saracen. 26 xi sir palamede the saracen hath hied him to an holy man, sith he alone of mortal men can help him

res the claw. what turns to laughter all his joy, to wondering ribaldry his awe? the beast.s a mere mechanic toy, fit to amuse an idle boy! 33 xv sir palamede the saracen hath come to an umbrageous land where nymphs abide, and pagan men. the gods are nigh, say they, at hand. how warm a throb from venus stirs the pulses of her worshippers! nor shall the tuscan god be found reluctant from the altar-stone: his perfume shall delight the ground, his presence to his hold be known in darkling grove and glimmering shrine. o ply the kiss and pour the wine! sir palamede is fairly come into a place of glowing bowers, where all the voice of time is dumb: before an altar crowned with flowers he seeth a satyr fondly dote and languish on a swan-soft goat. then he in mid-caress desires the ear of strong s

is muscles roar with senseless rage; the pale knight staggers, deathly sick; reels to the light that sorry sage, sir palamede the lunatick. 59 xxv a savage sea without a sail, grey gulphs and green a-glittering, rare snow that floats.a vestal veil upon the forehead of the spring. here in a plunging galleon sir palamede, a listless drone, drifts desperately on.and on. and on.with heart and eyes of stone. the deep-scarred brain of him is healed with wind and sea and star and sun, the assoiling grace that god revealed for gree and bounteous benison. ah! still he trusts the recreant brain, thrown in a thousand tourney-justs; still he raves on in reason-strain with senseless .oughts. and fatuous .musts .all the delusions (argueth the ass .all uproars, surely rise from that curst me whose name i

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

is god? if (with moses) we picture him as an old man showing us his back parts, who shall blame us? the great question.any question is the great question.does indeed treat us thus cavalierly, the disenchanted sceptic is too prone to think! well, shall we define him as a loving father, as a jealous priest, as a gleam of light upon the holy ark? what does is matter? all these images are of wood and stone, the wood and stone of our own stupid brains! the fatherhood of god is but a human type; the idea of a human father conjoined with the idea of immensity. two for one again! no combination of thoughts can be greater than the thinking brain itself; all we can think of god or say of him, so long as our words represent thoughts, is less than the whole brain which thinks, and orders speech. very

ggod h or gthere is god h as an answer to our question becomes as meaningless as any other. who are we, then? we are spencerian agnostics, poor silly, damned spencerian agnostics! and there is an end of the matter. vi it is surely time that we began to question the validity of some of our data. so far our scepticism has not only knocked to pieces our tower of thought, but rooted up the foundation-stone and ground it into finer and more poisonous powder than that into which moses ground the calf. these golden elohim! our calfheads that brought us not out of egypt, but into a darkness deeper and more tangible than any darkness of the double empire of asar. hume put his little? to berkeley fs god; buddha his? to the vedic atman!.and neither hume nor buddha was baulked of his reward. ourselves

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

he circle) i yet, by the favour of iao, obtained a really good effect, losing all sense of personality and being exalted in the pillar. peace and ecstasy enfolded me. it is well. 8.50. but as i was ill last night, and as the morning has broken chill and damp, i will go to the cafe du dome and break my fast humbly with coffee and sandwich. may it strengthen me in my search for the quintessece, the stone of the wise, the summum bonum, true wisdom and perfect happiness! 9.00. i hope (by the way) that i have made it quite clear that all this time even a momentary cessation of active thought has been accompanied by the rising-up of the mantra. the rhythm, in short, perpetually dominates the brain; and becomes active on every opportunity. the liquid moslem mantra is much easier to get on to than

(alleged) of recording his results, or failed to overcome the duality of thoth. otherwise, even if he comprehended the base, he certainly failed at the apex of the pyramid. in any case, he cannot blame the ceremony, which is most potent; one or two small details may need correction, but no more. john st. john 95 here then he is down at the bottom of the hill again, a rosicrucian sisyphus with the stone of the philosophers! an ixion bound to the wheel of destiny and of the samsara, unable to reach the centre, where is rest. he must add to the entry 1.13 that the .telephone-cross. voices came as he composed himself to sleep, in the will to adonai. this time he detached a body of cavalry to chase them to oblivion. perhaps an unwise division of his forces; yet he was so justly indignant at the

nutes at the academie marcelle.a gruelling bout without gloves.and j. st. j. is at the luxembourg to look at the pretty pictures. 3.40. the proof of the pudding, observes the most mystic of discourses (surely, is in the eating. one might justly object to any results of this ten days. strain. but if abundant health and new capacity to do great work be the after-effect, who then will dare to cast a stone? not that it matters a turnip-top to the adept himself. but others may be deterred from entering the path by the foolish talk of the ignorant, and thus may flowers be lost 1 j.w. morrice. marcelle was his girl in the brothel 3 rue des 4 vents [ms. note by ac in equinox i (1, transcribed by yorke] john st. john 99 that should go to make the fadeless wreath of adonai. ah, lord, pluck me up utt

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

911. at this time i was living, in excellent good health, with the woman whom i loved. her health was, however, variable, and we were both constantly worried. the weather was continuously fine and hot. for a period of about three months i hardly missed a morning; always on waking i burst out with a new idea which had to be written down. the total energy of my being was very high. my weight was 10 stone 8 lb, which had been my fighting weight when i was ten years younger. we walked some twenty miles daily through hilly forest. the actual amount of mss. written at this time is astounding; their variety is even more so; of their excellence i will not speak. here is a rough list from memory; it is far from exhaustive (1) some dozen books of a a instruction, including gliber astarte, h and the

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

. 17. thou shalt have a lover among the lords of the grey land. 18. this shall he bring unto thee, without which all is in vain; a man fs life spilt for thy love upon mine altars. 19. amen. 20. let is be soon, o god, my god! i ache for thee, i wander very lonely among the mad folk, in the grey land of desolation. 21. thou shalt set up the abominable thing of wickedness. oh joy! to lay that corner-stone. 22. it shall stand erect upon the high mountain; only my god shall commune with it. 23. i will build it of a single ruby; it shall be seen from afar off. 24. come! let us irritate the vessels of the earth: they shall distil strange wine. 25. it grows under my hand: it shall cover the whole heaven. 26. thou art behind me: i scream with a mad joy. 27. then said ithuriel the strong; let us als

that pours the bright dew over herself, and into the sand so that the river gushes forth. 6. there is a bird on yonder myrtle; only the song of that bird can draw me out of the pool of thy heart, o my god! 7. who is this neapolitan boy that laughs in his happiness? his lover is the mighty crater of the mountain of fire. i saw his charred limbs borne down the slopes in a stealthy tongue of liquid stone. 8. and oh! the chirp of the cicida! 9. i remember the days when i was cacique in mexico. 10. o my god, wast thou then as now my beautiful lover? 11. was my boyhood then as now thy toy, thy joy? 12. verily, i remember those iron days. 20 liber liberi vel lapidis lazuli 13. i remember how we drenched the bitter lakes with our torrent of gold; how we sank the treasurable image in the crater of

f the corpse; these unbind the feet of osiris, so that the flaming god may rage through the firmament with his fantastic spear. 4. but of pure black marble is the sorry statue, and the changeless pain of the eyes is bitter to the blind. 5. we understand the rapture of that shaken marble, torn by the throes of the crowned child, the golden rod of the golden god. 6. we know why all is hidden in the stone, within the coffin, within the mighty sepulchre, and we too answer olalam! imal! tutulu! as it is written in the ancient book. 7. three words of that book are as life to a new aon; no god has read the whole. 8. but thou and i, o god, have written it page by page. 9. ours is the elevenfold reading of the elevenfold word. 10. these seven letters together make seven diverse words; each word is

LIBER LVII

shadows to him, and cry .father. and, the devil being subtle, capable of disguising himself as an angel of light, it behoves the prodigal to have some test of truth. some great mystics have laid down the law .accept no messenger of god. banish all, until at last the father himself comes forth. a counsel of perfection. the father himself does send messengers, as we learn in st. mark xii; and if we stone them, we may perhaps in our blindness stone the son himself when he is sent. so that is no vain counsel of .st. john (1 john iv. 1 .try the spirits, whether they be of god. no mistake when .st. paul. 4 liber lviii claims the discernment of spirits to be a principal point of the armour of salvation (1 cor. xii. 10. now how should frater p. or another test the truth of any message purporting t

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

as well as the most beautiful and elaborate vane: and in this sense it is my pmost eage hope that i may not unjustly draw a comparison between myself and the great reformers of eighty years ago* so it is usually supposed. maybe i shall one day find words to combat, perhaps to overthrow, this position. p.s. as, for example, the note to this introduction. as a promisekeeper i am the original eleven stone three peacherine..a.c. i must apologise (perhaps) for the new note of frivolity in my work: due doubtless to the frivolity of my subject: these poems being written when i was an advaitist and could not see why.everything being an illusion.there should be any particular object in doing or thinking anything. how i have found the answer will be evident from my essay on the subject* i must indee

soned arrow but this (my wisdom, even to me, seems folly) may their folly be true wisdom? o esteemed tahuti !25 you are, you are, you are a beauty! if after all these years of worship you hail ra26 his bark or nuit27 her ship* a flat cake of unleavened bread. as a matter of fact they do not enjoy and indeed will not eat them, preferring .dok. a paste of coarse flour and water, wrapped round a hot stone. it cooks gradually, and remains warm all day. 115 120 125 130 135 140 145 live out thy life! character of balti. his religious sincerity. relations of poet and the egyptian god of wisdom. crowley dismissed with a jest. 26 the sword of song and sail..the waters wild a-wenting over your child! the left lamenting (campbell).28 the ibis head,29 unsuited to grin, perhaps, yet does its best to sh

it* famous adelphi villain. ii. as far as reason goes, there.s hope for mortals yet: when nothing is that knows, what is there to regret? our consciousness depends on matter in the brain; when that rots out, and ends, there ends the hour of pain. iii. if we can trust to this, why, dance and drink and revel! great scarlet mouths to kiss, and sorrow to the devil! if pangs ataxic creep, or gout, or stone, annoy us, queen morphia, grant thy sleep! let worms, the dears, enjoy us! iv. but since a chance remains that .i. surives the body (so talk the men whose brains are made of smut and shoddy, i.ll stop it if i can (ah jesus, if thou couldest) i.ll go to martaban to make myself a buddhist. v. and yet: the bigger chance lies with annihilation. follow the lead of france, freedom.s enlightened na

!78.see the lay of the last minstrel. 759. ain elohim.79..there is no god. so our bible. but this is really the most sublime affirmation of the qabalist .ain is god. for the meaning of ain, and of this idea, see .berashith. infra. the .fool. is he of the tarot, to whom the number 0 is attached, to make the meaning patent to a child .i insult your idol. quoth the good missionary. he is but of dead stone. he does not avenge himself. he does not punish me .i insult your god. replied the hindu .he is invisible. he does not avenge himself, nor punish me .my god will punish you when you die .so, when you die, will my idol punish you. no earnest student of religion or draw poker should fail to commit this anecdote to memory. 767. mr chesterton.80.i must take this opportunity to protest against th

why do surgeons go mad and cut up men like sturgeons (the questions are the late chas. spurgeon .s) of yogi i could quote you hundreds in science, law, art, commerce noted. they fear no lunacy: their on dread.s not for their noddles doom-devoted. they are not like black bulls (that shunned reds in vain) that madly charge the goathead of rural pan, because some gay puss had smeared with blood his stone priapus. they are as sane as politicians and people who subscribe to missions. this says but little; a long way are yogi more sane that such as they are. you have conceived your dreadful bogey, from seeing many a raving yogi. these haunt your clinic; but the sound lurk in an unsuspected ground, dine with you, lecture in your schools, share your intolerance of fools, and, while the yogi you c

LIBER RESH VEL HELIOS

uperior.1 and then do thou compose thyself to holy meditation. 6. also it is better if in these adorations thou assume the godform of whom thou adorest,2 as if thou didst unite with him in the adoration of that which is beyond him. 7. thus shalt thou ever be mindful of the great work which thou hast undertaken to perform, and thus shalt thou be strengthened to pursue it unto the attainment of the stone of the wise, the summum bonum, true wisdom and perfect happiness. 1 [for those not in communication with the a a, the adorations from liber legis, ch. iii, from gunity uttermost showed h to gabide with me, ra- hoor-khuit h may be substituted. this is not necessarily the adoration taught in the a a under crowley, or by modern groups claiming to represent the a a. t.s] 2 [this may be read as a

LIBER SAMEKH

der!16 (the beast 666 himself used gankh-f-n-khonsu h and gkhem h in this section) liber samekh svb figvra dccc 14 line 2 the adept reminds his angel that he has created that one substance of which hermes hath written in the table of emerald, whose virtue is to unite in itself all opposite modes of being, thereby to serve as a talis-man charged with the spiritual energy of existence, an elixir or stone composed of the physical basis of life. this commemoration is placed between the two personal appeals to the angel, as if to claim privilege to partake of this eucharist which createth, sustaineth and redeemeth all things. line 3 he now asserts that he is himself the gangel h or messenger of his angel; that is, he is a mind and body whose office is to receive and transmit the word of his ang

LIBER STELLAE RUBEAE

4. no man shall understand this writing.it is too subtle for the sons of men. 5. if the ruby star have shed its blood upon thee; if in the season of the moon thou hast invoked by the iod and the pe, then mayest thou partake of this most secret sacrament. 6. one shall instruct another, with no care for the matters of men.s thought. 7. there shall be a fair altar in the midst, extended upon a black stone. 8. at the head of the altar gold, and twin images in green of the master. 9. in the midst a cup of green wine. 10. at the foot the star of ruby. 11. the altar shall be entirely bare. 12. first, the ritual of the flaming star. 13. next, the ritual of the seal. 14. next, the infernal adorations of oai. mu pa telai tu wa melai. tu fu tulu! tu fu tulu! pa, sa, ga. liber stella rubea 2 qwi mu te

beloved shall abide with thee. 33. thou shalt not disclose the interior world of this rite unto any one: therefore have i written it in symbols that cannot be understood. 34. i who reveal the ritual am iao and oai; the right and the averse. 35. these are alike unto me. 36. now the veil of this operation is called shame, and the glory abideth within. 37. thou shalt comfort the heart of the secret stone with the worm blood. thou shalt make a subtle decoction of delight, and the watchers shall drink thereof. 38. i, apep the serpent, am the heart of iao. isis shall await asar, and i in the midst. 39. also the priestess shall seek another altar, and perform my ceremonies thereon. 40. there shall be no hymn nor dithyramb in my praise and the praise of the rite, seeing that it is utterly beyond

LIBER TURRIS

nd vivid smote the levin flash. once the tower rocked and cracked beneath its lash, caught inextinguishable fire; was ash. but that same fire that quelled the robber strife, and struck each being out of lust and life, left the mild maiden a rejoicing wife. 12. and this: 13. there is a well before the great white throne that is choked up with rubbish from the ages; rubble and clay and sediment and stone, delight of lizards and despair of sages. only the lightning from his hand that sits, and shall sit when the usurping tyrant falls, can purge that wilderness of wills and wits, let spring that fountain in eternal halls. 14. and this: 15. sulphur, salt, and mercury: which is master of the three? salt is lady of the sea; lord of air is mercury. now by god fs grace here is salt fixed beneath th

LIBER V VEL REGULI

prudence. the privy council of the kingdom of mansoul sits in permanent secret session; it dares not declare what must follow its deed in shattering the monarch morality into scraps of crumbling conglomerate of climatic, tribal, and person prejudices, corrupted yet more by the action of crafty ambition, insane impulse, ignorant arrogance, superstitious hysteria, fear fashioning falsehoods on the stone that it sets on the grave of truth whom it has murdered and buried in the black earth oblivion. moral philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, mental pathology, physiology, and many another of the children of wisdom, of whom she is justified, well know that the laws of ethics are a chaos of confused conventions, based at best on customs convenient in certain conditions, more often on

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

y to be quiet and not make a noise. so we came at last in the next house of the palace. it was a great dome of violet, and in the centre the moon shone. she was a full moon, and yet she looked like a woman quite, quite young. yet her hair was silver, and finer than spiders. webs, and it rayed about her, like one can.t say what; it was all too beautiful. in the middle of the hall there was a black stone pillar, from the top of which sprang a fountain of pearls; and as they fell upon the flood, they changed the dark marble to the colour of blood, and it was like a green universe full of flowers, and little children playing among them. so i said .shall we be married in this domus x. v. regnum v. porta 4 loci secundum elementa. qliphoth. via t vel crux. cherubim domus ix v. fundamentum yod v

LIBER XLI THIEN TAO

erience of the hustle of the stockyards; there are business men in a hurry, and they shall travel in central asia to acquire the art of repose. gso much for the equilibrium, and for two months in every year each member of your governing classes shall undergo this training under skilled advice. gbut what of the great tao? for one month in every year each of these men shall seek desperately for the stone of the philosophers. by solitude and fasting for the social and luxurious, by drunkenness and debauch for the austere, by scourging for those afraid of physical pain, by repose for the restless, and toil for the idle, by bull-fights for the humanitarian, and the care of little children for the callous, by rituals for the rational, and by philosophy for the credulous, shall these men, while t

e of satan 13 impossible to describe the affecting scene when these two magnanimous beings melted away (as it were) in each other fs arms. arrived at the estate of juju at nikko, what wonder did these worthies express to see the simple means by which kwaw had worked his miracles! in a glade of brilliant cherry and hibiscus (and any other beautiful trees you can think of) stood a plain building of stone, which after all had not cost millions of yen, but a very few thousands only. its height was equal to its breadth, and its length was equal to the sum of these, while the sum of these three measurements was precisely equal to ten times the age of kwaw in units of the span of his hand. the walls were tremendously thick, and there was only one door and two windows, all in the eye of the sunset

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

sed, and pollen analysis indicates settlement on sjalland and elsewhere by around 10,000 b.c.e. we know little about these settlements, but by 6500 b.c.e. or so, a hunting and fishing culture may be identified. by 2500 b.c.e. or so, there are indications of agriculture and the raising of animals. at around 2000 b.c.e. the archaeological record begins to show characteristic small ax heads, made of stone but carefully copying the marks of metal pouring that was used for such axes to the south in europe. a hypothetical culture associated with these axes and an even more hypothetical immigration of persons with them from europe is known as the boat-ax culture. around 1000 b.c.e. the scandinavian bronze age begins, and from this same period there are numerous spectacular rock carvings, which ma

with both danish and swedish kings in the first half of the ninth century. the process was to bear fruit first in denmark in the later tenth century, when king harald bluetooth witnessed the priest poppo carrying a red-hot piece of iron, with no harm to his hands, as a demonstration that christ was greater than the pagan gods. at jelling in jutland, king harald bluetooth erected an elaborate rune stone celebrating his parents and himself, the person who gmade the danes christian, h as the jelling rune stone says. in norway there is evidence of christian burial from around this time, and hakon the good was a christian king whose reign ended around 960, when harald converted. but hakon was buried in a mound and celebrated in pagan poetry. olaf tryggvason, who ruled norway from 995 to 1001, h

ning of the eleventh century, the monk adam of bremen, in his history (ca. 1070) of the archbishopric of hamburg- bremen in northern germany, which had responsibility for scandinavia, reported a vast pagan temple at uppsala, with idols of the pagan gods and gruesome sacri- introduction 7 rune stones depicting thor fs hammer like this one in sweden are fairly easy to find. compare this to the rune stone on page 10; both are from the late viking age (statens historika museum, stockholm) fices. but eleventh-century rune stones from that very same part of sweden are openly christian: ggod rest his soul, h many of them ask, in runes surrounding an incised cross. most historians accept that sweden was fully christian by the beginning of the twelfth century at the latest. the conversion in icelan

rought manuscript writing to the north, there was some writing using the native runic writing system. since in the older runic alphabet there are no horizontal strokes, it is assumed that the system was originally invented for scratching the letters on wooden sticks, whose grain would obscure horizontal strokes. only special circumstances permit wood to remain 10 norse mythology compare this rune stone with a cross to the one on page 8 (statens historika museum, stockholm) undecayed in the ground for archaeologists to dig up centuries later, and as a result most (but by no means all) of the extant runic inscriptions are on stones. it is important to stress that carving on wood or stone is a fairly laborious process and that the kinds of things recorded using the runic alphabets tended to b

the viking age a new runic alphabet developed in scandinavia, one with 16 characters. later several variations grew out of this basic viking age runic alphabet. of the approximately 4,000 runic inscriptions, most are from the viking age; most of these are from sweden; and most of these are from the provinces around lake malaren, especially uppland. most are memorial: they explain who erected the stone, whose death is memorialized, and what the relationship was between the two. although the few rune sticks and other kinds of runic inscriptions that have been retained show that runes introduction 11 detail of the rune stone from rok, sweden, from the ninth century c.e. created by varin for his dead son, vemod, with center as ode to theodoric, king of the goths (the art archive/ dagli orti)

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

e of our infinite relationships, potentialities are there. the shapes of form are not yet exhausted and there are no miracles beyond living matter. though flesh in its most radiant beauty is miraculous, it does not imply that nature has exhausted all possibilities of pleasuring in flesh. you are still inchoative, unfit for eternity, hence you face changes and changes. whether you behave as common stone or as precious jade, be expedient unto all men. hence in rome do not necessarily as the romans but adroitly be yourself. materialists state that "mind is the accidental product of matter, which is equivalent to saying that a chair. or any human-made object. accidentally produced man and the mind, and the reasoning that reified it. materialists have to swallow their own statements. they use t

beauty from himself to others. gods, soul and everything is as flesh, whatever the textures, and as concrete as our own. we are ever terms of existence whatever our fluxing consciousness permits. those dupes who deny their flesh are either drug-sodden or self-hypnotized, have simply failed their flesh, afraid of life, would beg their sustenance and the mind has tired of them. they live as under a stone with their stinking theses. again, i state that although all their wisdom and inaccurate visions are from the same source they 6 e s. o@ e. f. z( m( 5#"d..1 2$ o. which they owe everything. life seems a lengthy process of waiting for the materialization of oneself as representative of, and equal to, our ideal or desire, because we are ever as we are. the realized incarnation of our last self

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

es view of nature and their place within it. for example, anthropologist william haviland discusses how an origin myth among the abenaki (an indigenous group in new england and canada) reflects the abenaki cultural idea of the unity among all living things. in this myth, a supernatural being, tabaldak, created all life. as for humans in particular, at first he mistakenly tried to make them out of stone, but this did not work because it left their hearts too cold. then tabaldak tried again, using living wood, and from this came all later abenakis. like the trees from which the wood came, these people were rooted in earth and (like trees when blown by the wind) could dance gracefully. to haviland, this mythological sanction of a unity in all life, symbolized in the necessary origin of humans

he oneness and unity of allah, that muhammad was his final prophet (in arabia in the seventh figure 1.2 representatives of some of the major non-christian denominations in the world. clockwise from top left: a jewish woman celebrating hanukkah with a nouveau menorah; nepalese women celebrating the hindu festival of teej; a buddhist monk in thailand; a muslim bridegroom from bangladesh (from linda stone s collection. creationism and intelligent design 21 century c.e, and that the quran is allah s divine word recited by muhammad. the general belief is that the quran is to be fully understood only in the original arabic. lives of muslims are governed by the five pillars of islam (1) the witness i witness that there is no god but allah; i witness that muhammad is his prophet (2) five daily pra

time ranges and thus validate each other. this means that all dating techniques, radioactive or not, would have to be refuted by creationists and all proven wrong by them by doing the appropriate experiments. needless to say, this has not happened. short of that, our only choice is to accept the conclusions reached by scientific methods: earth is very old, and fossils as well as artifacts such as stone tools and the shroud of turin can be dated accurately. as always, there are some cases where dating is uncertain, for example, when samples are contaminated or are too small for accurate analysis. but a few exceptions should not be latched on to in order to refute a whole analytical system proven to be accurate over and over again. the eye, the immune system, and bacterial flagella as irredu

ecus fossils have been found in multiple places in sub-saharan africa but not in the rest of the world. the genus australopithecus became extinct about 1.5 million years ago. however, about 2.5 million years ago, in kenya and ethiopia, some australopithecus individuals evolved into the first representatives of our own genus: homo (see figure 4.1. these first humans, called homo habilis, developed stone tool technology, were taller, and had a bigger brain size than did australopithecus. h. habilis became extinct about 1.5 million years ago, after some of them had evolved into more advanced homo erectus, about 1.9 million years ago. homo erectus also evolved in east africa. the tool technology of h. erectus was much more sophisticated than that of h. habilis. h. erectus was also tall, measur

humans, now extinct, which they named homo floresiensis. these creatures were remarkably small, being about one meter tall (a little over three feet, and had a small brain size. for this reason, they were nicknamed hobbits, in reference to the characters in j. r. r. tolkien novels. the hobbits may have reached their island as early as 800,000 years ago, as indicated by the discovery on flores of stone tools that old. h. floresiensis used stone weapons to hunt pygmy elephants (stegodon, a species now extinct) also then living on flores. since h. sapiens arrived in the area at least 45,000 years ago, there exists the intriguing possibility that both species coexisted for tens of thousands of years. the current interpretation for the existence of h. floresiensis is that these creatures were

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

e are three working tools associated with each degree; and those of the first degree are the gavel, the chisel, and the 24 inch gauge.55 these are tools of action; tools used to accomplish work. i have placed the gavel at nezah because its energy and rhythmic blows suggest capacity to experience passion which is associated with that sefirah. the chisel is a tool which works only on the surface of stone, and it represents education. it goes nicely at hod, which is associated with classification and analysis; useful and necessary, but superficial activities. the 24 inch gauge, which is related in masonic terms to the length of the day, is placed at yesod. it is a tool which measures quantity. by its use, the apprentice determines when to apply passion and when analysis and how much of each t

r warden; i.e. the individuation of the self in the sense that the term is used in jungian psychology. on the right side of the tree we see the "rough ashlar" which is one of the immovable jewels in the lodge.58 like faith, it relates to the "ground floor" the whole lower face of the tree. it represents the state in which the apprentice finds himself as he starts his work. an ashlar is a building stone, and a rough ashlar is a stone which has just been cut from the quarry. much work must be done on such a stone before it is ready to be placed in the building. on the other hand, an ashlar is an individual stone; it has been separated out; it will never be part of the bedrock again. in an analogous way, the apprentice who has been instructed in, and understands even a little of the symbolism

the quality of stability. i have placed the plumb rule at hesed because, for me, verticals have the quality of growth and aspiration (e.g. gothic architecture. the square, which defines the relationship between the other two, is placed at tiferet which has the function of holding the balance (maintaining the proper relationship) with respect to the two side sefirot. a perfect ashlar is a building stone which has been worked to its proper shape and is ready to be placed in the building. in figure 14 the perfect ashlar is shown to the right of the tree at the level of the soul, and according to the lectures such a stone is to be found within the middle chamber. for the figure 14. the tree of life with masonic symbols of the second degree. experienced craftsman to try, and adjust, his jewels

MAGIC AND SPELLS

ugh the exact effects vary by circumstance and user. talented wielders can release multiple blasts at once or even fly using the ability. a spellfire wielder can ready an action to absorb spells targeted at her as if she were a rod of absorption. she gets one level of spellfire energy for every spell level absorbed and can store a number of spellfire energy levels equal to her constitution score. stone undoubtedly possessed spellfire. he stood alone against an ore horde pouring south past the coldwood- and turned them into smokes and scorch scars- i could go on. so can anyone who cares to spend the years in study at candlekeep that i did before i chose to flee to this nameless backwater keep and cloak myself in squalor and obscurity. why did h spend my fortune and my eyesight, and then-ste

flee to this nameless backwater keep and cloak myself in squalor and obscurity. why did h spend my fortune and my eyesight, and then-steal away to here, to grow wizened and ugly and bent? why? well, because i have true spellfire too, of course. come looking for me, and i will blast you to dust, and then lay waste to all your descendants, ancestors, and the realm you came from, every last tree and stone of it. why? well, it's what i usually do -baerendra riverhand, sage of spandeliyon as a standard action, she may expend these spellfire energy levels as a ranged touch attack (maximum range 400 feet, dealing 1d6 points of spellfire damage per level expended (reflex half dc 20. spellfire damage is half fire damage and half raw magical power, just like the damage of aflame strike spell is half

g the rune itself. inscribing a rune requires a craft check against a dc of 20+ the level of the spell used. the craft skill you use is anything appropriate to the task of creating a written symbol on a surface (metalworking, calligraphy, gemcutting, stonecarving, woodcarving, and so on. you paint, draw, or engrave the rune onto a surface and make the check (dwarves usually engrave their runes in stone or metal in order to take advantage of their racial affinity for these items) if the check fails, the rune is imperfect and cannot hold the spell. the act of writing triggers the prepared spell, whether or not the craft check is successful, making the spell unavailable for casting until you rest and regain spells. that is, the spell is expended from your currently prepared spells, just as if

avern' domain deities: callarduran smoothhands, dumathoin, geb, ghaunadaur, grumbar, gruumsh luthic, segojan earthcaller, shar. granted power: you gain the dwarven ability of stonecunning. if you already have stonecunning, your racial bonus for stonecunning increases from +2 to +4 on checks to notice unusual stonework. cavetn domain spells 1 detect secret doors 6 find the path 2 darkness 7 maw of stone 3 meld into stone 8 earthquake 4 leomund's secure shelter 9 imprisonment 5 passwall chaos domain deities: aerdrie faenya, angharradh, anhur, bahgtru, beshaba, corel. lon larethian, cyric, deep sashelas, dugmaren brightmantle, eilistraee, erevan ilesere, fenmarel mestarine, finder wyvernspur, garagos, ghaunadaur, gruumsh haela brightaxe, hanali celanil, kiaransalee, labelas enoreth lliira, lo

umathoin, geb, gond, grumbar, luthic, moradin, segojan earthcaller, urdlen, urogalan. elf domain deities: aerdrie faenya, angharradh, corellon larethian, deep sashelas, eilistraee, erevan ilesere, fenmarel mestarine, hanali celanil, labelas enoreth, rillifane rallathil, sehanine moonbow, shevarash, solonor thelandira. granted power: free point blank shot feat. dwarf domain spells 1 magic weapon 6 stone tell 2 endurance 7 dictum 3 glyph of warding 8 protection from spells 4 greater magic weapon 9 elemental swarm 5 fabricate (earth spell only) darkness domain spells 1 obscuring mist 6 prying eyes 2 blindness/deafness 7 nightmare 3 blacklight 8 power word, blind 4 armor of darkness 9 power word, kill 5 darkbolt 1 animate rope 6 fantastic machine 2 wood shape 7 major- creation 3 stone shape' 8

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

and practice of alchemy, part ii the alchemical prayer--the emerald tablet of hermes--a letter from the brothers of r. c--the magical mountain of the moon--an alchemical formula--the dew of the sages. 157 the chemical marriage christian rosencreutz is invited to the chemical wedding--the virgo lucifera--the philosophical inquisition--the tower of olympus--the homunculi--the knights of the golden stone. 161 bacon, shakspeare, and the rosicrucians the rosicrucian mask--life of william shakspere--sir francis bacon--the acrostic signatures--the significant number thirty-three--the philosophic death. 165 the cryptogram as a factor in symbolic philosophy secret alphabets--the biliteral cipher--pictorial ciphers--acroamatic ciphers--numerical and musical ciphers--code ciphers. 169 freemasonic sy

that this breastplate was put on the necks of witnesses to test the veracity of their evidence. the druidic tiara, or anguinum, its front embossed with a number of points to represent the sun's rays, indicated that the priest was a personification of the rising sun. on the front of his belt the arch-druid wore the liath meisicith- a magic brooch, or buckle in the center of which was a large white stone. to this was attributed the power of drawing the fire of the gods down from heaven at the priest's command this specially cut stone was a burning glass, by which the sun's rays were concentrated to light the altar fires. the druids also had other symbolic implements, such as the peculiarly shaped golden sickle with which they cut the mistletoe from the oak, and the cornan, or scepter, in the

es, preserved the deepest secrecy, and admitted new members only after long probationary periods. many of the priests of the order lived in buildings not unlike the monasteries of the modern world. they were associated in groups like ascetics of the far east. although celibacy was not demanded of them, few married. many of the druids retired from the world and lived as recluses in caves, in rough-stone houses, or in little shacks built in the depths of a forest. here they prayed and medicated, emerging only to perform their religious duties. james freeman clarke, in his ten great religions, describes the beliefs of the druids as follows "the druids believed in three worlds and in transmigration from one to the other: in a world above this, in which happiness predominated; a world below, of

all the branches of an oak tree and fastening one of them to the main trunk in the form of the letter t. this oaken cross became symbolic of their superior deity. they also worshiped the sun, moon, and stars. the moon received their special veneration. caesar stated that mercury was one of the chief deities of the gauls. the druids are believed to have worshiped mercury under the similitude of a stone cube. they also had great veneration for the nature spirits (fairies, gnomes, and undines, little creatures of the forests and rivers to whom many offerings were made. describing the temples of the druids, charles heckethorn, in the secret societies of all ages& countries, says "their temples wherein the sacred fire was preserved were generally situate on eminences and in dense groves of oak

were carried by the legionaries to nearly all parts of europe. so powerful did the cult of mithras become that at least one roman emperor was initiated into the order, which met in caverns under the city of rome. concerning the spread of this mystery school through different parts of europe, c. w. king, in his gnostics and their remains, says "mithraic bas-reliefs cut on the faces of rocks or on stone tablets still abound in the countries formerly the western provinces of the roman empire; many exist in germany, still more in france, and in this island (britain) they have often been discovered on the line of the picts' wall and the noted one at bath" alexander wilder, in his philosophy and ethics of the zoroasters, states that mithras is the zend title for the sun, and he is supposed to d

MARS COCIDIUS AND THE REDCAPS IN LANCASHIRE

the herd flung off his clouted shoon and to the nearest fountain ran; he made his bonnet serve a cup, and wan the blessing o' the dying man 'now, honest herd, ye maun do mair, ye maun do mair, as i you tell; ye maun bear tidings to troughend, and bear likewise my last farewell 'a farewell to my wedded wife, a farewell to my brother john, wha sits into the troughend tower wi' heart as black as any stone 'a farewell to my daughter jean, a farewell to my young sons five; had they been at their father's hand, i had this night been man alive 'a farewell to my followers a, and a' my neighbors gude at need; bid them think how the treacherous ha's betrayed the life o' parcy reed 'the laird o' clennel bears my bow, the laird o' brandon bears my brand; when'er they ride i' the border-side, they'll m

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

pe and into britain around 500 b.c. the indigenous britons, or prytani as they then were called, were a strange people, who buried their dead in great burial mounds, or barrows, used bronze as their only metal, and relied for weapons chiefly upon slender arrows with delicate elder-leaf-shaped flint tips. their religion, which was connected in some way with the moon and stars, was conducted amidst stone circles, surrounded by a bank and ditch (the original witch circle, in fact. the prytani appear to have kept very much to themselves, isolating themselves within raths, or large circular encampments, the only contact between the two races being made by the celtic shamans, or druids, a word probably signifying wise ones, or wizards. much or all of the druidic lore would appear to have been dr

with the old art of the employment of magical archetypal images, while in northern europe abbot trithemius and his pupils paracelsus, cornelius agrippa, and wierus turned their attentions circumspectly to the black arts. in england, dr. john dee, preoccupied with the lost lands of logres and the star temple at glastonbury, began his scrying experiments using a "great chrystalline globe" or seeing stone. it was during the course of these experiments that certain parts of the pre-flood language are said to have been rediscovered, a so-called enochian tongue, the original language of the nephelim. by the seventeenth century, the persecution of witches, by protestants now as well as catholics, seems to have fairly well decimated most of the centres of witch lore, save those preserved under hea

rse love goddess. others say that through its occasional use of acorns as beads, it derives from the worship of diana of ephesus, whose devotees saw the head of their goddess bound with a coif of hair in the shape of the acorn itself. the number of beads for the necklace often consists of multiples of nine or thirteen. acorns aside, however, the beads may be made of any material you please metal, stone or wood the only qualification being that they be fairly large and chunky. amber is a favourite, as also are turquoise and jet, many witches like to string their own, after exorcising the beads with fire and water initially and charging them in their own witch name, like any other magical tool, when they finish (for instructions on general exorcisms by fire and water as well as magical "char

albeit unwittingly maybe, with an equal and opposite means of fascinating others or casting your own evil eye! in effect, you will be fighting fire with fire! here is a list, in alphabetical order, of some of those stones you may care to use as the bezel of your ring or pendant: fascination gems amber diamond onyx beryl emerald peridot bloodstone jade sardonyx carbuncle jasper staurotides (cross-stone) carnelian jet ruby cat's-eye lapis lazuli turquoise coral moonstone zircon you may have your witch name engraved upon the ring or pendant either on the reverse surface or around the stone itself. sometimes the zodiac birth signs are also engraved, occasionally even a cabalistic word of power such as ararita, tetragrammaton, mehafelon, ananizapta, or shemhamphorash. incidentally, a very good

e morning star" the witch knows him by the name "herne" before beginning any divination, it is always important for the witch to bring her deep mind into contact with mercury; to tune into his waveband if you wish, whether the divination be performed by means of the relatively rudimentary entities governing the rune sticks, or by questioning a highly sophisticated entity such as vassago in a show stone. there are several methods of doing this, ranging from simply meditating upon one of the classical magical images of the winged mercury to the full ceremonial rite of invocation. to my way of thinking, none of the methods are as aesthetically satisfying or successful as the use of the magical square of mercury which, although cabalistic in its origin, is truly witchy in the manner of its emp

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

midnight all the first-born, both of men and of animals, died; and by the name of yeshimon, which moses named and invoked, and the red sea divided itself and separated in two; and by the name hesion, which moses invoked, and all the army of pharaoh was drowned in the waters; and by the name anabona, which moses having heard upon mount sinai, he was found worthy to receive and obtain the tables of stone written with the finger of god the creator; and by the name erygion, which joshua having invoked when he fought against the moabites, he defeated them and gained the victory; and by the name hoa, and in the name hoa, which david invoked, and he was delivered from the hand of goliath; and by the name yod, which solomon having named and invoked, he was found worthy to ask for and obtain in sle

on, and in the name on, by which god shall restore and replace the sea, the rivers, the streams, and the brooks, in their previous state; and by the name messiach, and in the name messiach, by which god will make all animals combat together, so that they shall die in a single day; and by the name ariel, by which god shall destroy in a single day all buildings, so that there shall not be left one stone upon another; and by the name iaht, by which god will cast one stone upon another, so that all people and nations will fly from the sea-shore, and will say unto them cover us and hide us; and by the name emanuel, by which god will perform wonders, and the winged creatures and birds of the air shall contend with one another; and by the name anael, and in the name anael, by which god will cast

transin, emeth, chaia, iona, profa, titache, ben ani, briah, theit; all which names are written in heaven in the characters of malachim, that is to say, the tongue of the angels. we then, by the just judgment of god, by the ineffable and admirable virtue of god, just, living, and true, we call ye with power, we force and exorcise ye by and in the admirable name which was written on the tables of stone which god gave upon mount sinai; and by and in the wonderful name which aaron the high priest bare written upon his breast, by which also god created the world, the which name is axineton; and by the living god who is one throughout the ages, whose dwelling is in the ineffable light, whose name is wisdom, and whose spirit is life, before whom goeth forth fire and flame, who hath from that fi

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rength and defence in all magical operations, against all mine enemies, visible and invisible. i conjure thee anew by the holy and indivisible name of el strong and wonderful; by the name shaddai almighty; and by these names qadosch, qdaosch, qadosch, adonai elohim tzabaoth, emanuel, the first and the last, wisdom, way, life, truth, chief, speech, word, splendour, light, sun, fountain, glory, the stone of the wise, virtue, shepherd, priest, messiach immortal; by these names then, and by the other names, i conjure thee, o sword, that thou servest me for a protection in all adversities. amen. this being finished thou shalt wrap it also in silk like all the other instruments, being duly purified and consecrated by the ceremonies requisite for the perfection of all magical arts and operations

my left foot, and within my right hand. glory and eternity touch my shoulders, and guide me in the paths of victory. mercy and justice be ye the equilibrium and splendor of my life. understanding and wisdom give unto me the crown. spirits of malkuth conduct me between the two columns whereon is supported the whole edifice of the temple. angels of netzach and of hod strengthen me upon the cubical stone of yesod. o gedulahel! o geburahel! o tiphereth! binahel, be thou my love! ruach chokmahel, be thou my light! be that which thou art, and that which thou willest to be, o ketheriel! ishim, assist me in the name of shaddai. cherubim, be my strength in the name of adonai. beni elohim, be ye my brethren in the name of the son, and by the virtues of tzabaoth. elohim, fight for me in the name of

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (45) vine- the forty-fifth spirit is vine, or vinea. he is a great king, and an earl; and appeareth in the form of a lion,20 riding upon a black horse, and bearing a viper in his hand. his office is to discover things hidden, witches, wizards, and things present, past, and to come. he, at the command of the exorcist will build towers, overthrow great stone walls, and make the waters rough with storms. he governeth 36 legions of spirits. and his seal is this, which wear thou, as aforesaid, etc (46) bifrons- the forty-sixth spirit is called bifrons, or bifrous, or bifrovs. he is an earl, and appeareth in the form of a monster; but after a while, at the command of the exorcist, he putteth on the shape of a man. his office is to make one knowing i

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crets but are excellent in driving away spirits of darkness from any(thing) that is haunted (such) as houses& to call forth pamersiel or any of these his servants, make a circle in the form as is showed in the 1st. book goetia before going in the upper room of your house, or in a place that is airy because these spirits that are in this part are all airy. you may call these spirits into a crystal stone 4 inches (in) diameter sett on a table made as followeth which is called the secret table of solomon, having his seal on your breast& the girdle about your waist, as is showed in the book goetia, and you cannot err. the form of the table is this, when you have thus got what is to be theurgia goetia 9 prepared, rehearse the conjuration following several times, that is whilst the spirit comes

f the night there comes 1560 of his servants &c. they are all indifferent good by nature, and will obey in all things willingly &c. the conjuration "i conjure thee o thou mighty and potent prince geradiel, who wandereth here and there in the ayre; with thy servants; i conjure ye geradiel that thou, forthwith appeare with thy attendants in this first hour of the day- here before me in this crystal stone [or here before this circle &c. the name& seal of buriel the next of these wandering princes is called buriel; who hath many dukes and other servants, which doth attend on him to doe his will, they are all by nature evil; and are hated by all other spirits; they appear rugish& in the forme of a serpent lemegeton: clavicula salomonis 38 with a virgins head; and speaketh with a mans voyce, the

al nedriel his seal futiel; his seal drusiel his seal carmiel his seal drubiel his seal nastros his seal the conjuration "i conjure thee o thou mighty and potent prince buriel, who wandereth here and there in the ayre; with thy dukes& other (of) thy servant spirits- i conjure thee buriel that thou forthwith appear with thy attendents in this first hour of the night, here before me in this crystal stone [or here before this circle] in a faire and comely shape, to do my will in all things that i shall desire of you &c" theurgia goetia 39 hidriel his seal the 3rd. of these wandring princes is called hidriel, who hath 100 great dukes besides 200 lesser dukes& servants without number; whereof we shall mention 12 of the chiefe dukes who hath 1320 servants to attend them; they are to be called in

that follows: theurgia goetia 49 the conjurations appropriate to each rank the conjuration of the wandring princes "i conjure thee o thou mighty& potent prince bydiel, who wanderest here& there in the air, with thy dukes& other (of) thy servants spirits, i conjure thee bydiel that thou forthwith appear with thy attendance (attendants, in this first hour of the day, here before me in this crystal stone [or here before this circle] in a fair and comely shape to do my will in all things that i shall desire of you" note this mark* in the conjuration following& go on (from) there as it followeth [that is, in the conjuration of the dukes that do not wander, below- ed] the conjuration of the princes that govern the points of the compass "i conjure thee o thou mighty& potent prince pamersiel, who

conjuration of the dukes that do not wander, below- ed] the conjuration of the princes that govern the points of the compass "i conjure thee o thou mighty& potent prince pamersiel, who ruleth as (a) king in the dominion of the east under the great emperer carnatiel, i conjure thee pamersiel that you forthwith appear with thy attendents in this first hour of the day, here before me in this crystal stone [or here before this circle] in a fair& comely shape to (do) my will in all things that i shall desire of you& observe this (mark* in the conjuration (that follows) and go on as followeth. the conjuration of the 4 empires (emperors "i conjure thee o thou great& mighty& potent prince carnatiel who is the the emperor& chief king ruling in the dominion of the east, i conjure (thee) carnatiel th

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in power by& by the 7 angels that stands before the throne of god& by the 7 planets& their seals& characters& by the angel that ruleth the sign of the 12th. house which now ascends in thy first hour, that you would be so graciously pleased to gird up yourself together& by divine permission to move& come from all parts of the world wheresoever you be& show thyself visibly& plainly in this crystal stone to the light of mine eyes, speaking with a voice intelligible& to my understanding& that you would be favorably pleased that i may have thy familiar friendship& constant society both now and at all times when i shall call thee forth to visible appearance, to inform& direct me in all things that shall seem good& lawful unto the creator& thee, o thou great& powerful angel samael i invocate adj

ignall& divine name of the great god who wast, is& ever shall be, adonay zebaoth, adonay amioram, hagios aglaon tetragrammaton& by& in the name primeumaton which commandeth the whole host of heaven, whose power& virtue is most effectual for the calling you forth& command you to transmit your rays perfectly to lemegeton: clavicula salomonis 14 my sight& voice to my ears, in& through this celestial stone, that i may plainly see you& perfectly hear you speak unto me, therefore move o thou mighty& blessed angel samael& by his present name of the great god jehovah& by the imperial dignity thereof, descend& show your self visibly& perfectly in a pleasant& comely form before me in this crystal stone to the sight of mine eyes, speaking with a voice intelligible to apprehension, declaring& accompli

found him, sincerely acknowledge him, do your duty. then will he, as being benign& sociable, illuminate your mind, taking away all that is obscure& dark in thy memory& make you knowing in all sciences sacred& divine in an instant [below is] a form of prayer which ought to be said upon that coast or quarter where the genijs is several times, it being an exorcism to call the genij into the crystal stone. note this prayer may be altered to the mind of the worker, for it is here sett for an example. the prayer o thou great& blessed n my angel guardian, vouchsafe to descend from thy holy mansion which is celestial with thy holy influence& presence into this crystal stone, that i may behold thy glory& enjoy thy society, aid& assistance both now& forever hereafter, o thou that art higher than th

actions or intentions be real& pure& sanctified before thee, bring thy external presence hither& converse with me, one of thy submissive pupils, in& by the name of the great god jehovah, whereunto the whole choir of heaven sings continually o alappa-la-man hallelujah, amen. when you have said this prayer over several times, as occasion serveth, you will at last see strange lights& passages in the stone& at last you will see your genius, then give him a kind entertainment as you were before directed, declaring unto him your mind& what you would have done. so endeth the book pauline lemegeton: clavicula salomonis 22 afterword by the editor the text and diagrams of this book were taken directly from a copy of sloane manuscript 2731. the handwriting in this section was small and cramped, even

MEANING OF MASONRY

you" the real lodge referred to throughout our rituals is our own individual personalities, and if we interpret our doctrine in the light of this fact we shall find that it reveals an entirely new aspect of the purpose of our craft. it is after investment with the apron that the initiate is placed in the n.e. corner. thereby he is intended to learn that at his birth into this world the foundation-stone of his spiritual life was duly and truly laid and implanted within himself; and he is charged to develop it; to create a superstructure upon it. two paths are open to him at this stage, a path of light and a path of darkness; a path of good and a path of evil. the n.e. corner is the symbolical dividing place between the two. in symbolical language, the n. always signifies the place of imperf

idates are made to say, have knocked at the door of certain secret sanctuaries in the confidence that door would open and that they would find in due course that for which they were seeking. those who institut ed modern speculative masonry some 250 years ago took certain material s lying ready to hand. they took, that is, the elementary rites and symbols pertaining to medieval operative guilds of stone-masons and transformed them into a system of religio-philosophic doctrine. thenceforward, from being related to the trade which deals in stones and bricks, the intention of masonry was to deal solely and simply with the greater science of soul-building; and, save for retaining certain analogies which the art of the practical stone-mason provided, thenceforward it became dedicated to purposes

became dedicated to purposes that are wholly spiritual, religious and philosophic. perhaps the chief evidence of the transformation thus effected was the incorporation of the central legend and traditional history comprised in our third degree. obviously that legend can have had no relation to, or practical bearing upon, the operative builders' trade. i will ask you to reflect that no building of stone, no temple or other edifice capable of being built with hands, has remained unfinished through the death of any professional architect such as hiram abiff is popularly supposed to have been. the principles of architecture, the genuine secrets of the building trade, are not and never have been lost; they are thoroughly well known, and the absurdity is manifest of supposing that masons of any

lently and without the sound of metal tool, is proceeding the perpetual work of rebuilding the unfinished and invisible temple of which t he mystical stones and timber are the souls of men. in that rebuild ing, men and women are taking part who, whilst formally not members of our craft, are still unconsciously masons in the best of senses. for whosoever is carefully and deliberately" squaring his stone" is fitting himself for his place in the" intended structure" which gradually is being" put together with exact nicety" and which, though erected by ourselves, one day will become manifest to our clearer vision and will appear" like the work of the great architect of the universe than that of human hands" upon us masons therefore, who have the advantage of a regular and organized system whic

s is singularly rich in allusion to certain interior processes of introspection well defined in the experience of the contemplative mystics and well attested in their records. the place entered emblematizes once again the material and psychical organism, a dense compact of material particles coating the more tenuous interior spirit of man as a shell surrounds the contents of an egg" roll away the stone" it will be recalled, was the first injunction of the master at the raising of lazarus. this obstruction removed, the psychical organism becomes detached from the physical and the mind is free to become introverted and work exploratively upon its own ground, to search the contents of its own unplumbed depths, to probe deeper and deeper into itself, eradicating defects and removing rubble, pu

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

e is very significant. the self in a still or frozen state is often an avatar of building and controlled energy. when an individual controls their thoughts on almost every level, holding the point of consciousness between lines of almost subconscious existence, then the mind is at the threshold of magick and sorcery. this is why i have always relied on physical exercise and training as a stepping stone towards magickal practice. the mind on the conscious levels works extremely fast and remains intent when one is engrossed in physical activities such as hiking, swimming, climbing, running, weight training and such. a good time for sigil workings would be when one is focused on pushing the body towards a physical point of exhaustion. the practice of freezing the body in one focused state for

e taking. the desire was catching up with me, not just for any mere sexual congress, for something greater, more powerful and dynamic than before. i searched for this lady only by her invitation. i could feel a cold wind take me from my chamber window. this of course by my own acceptance. i understood that i had actually known her once, in order to be waking into her dream. she was within a cold, stone constructed ruin of a building, something of an ancient temple. worn with age and often bitter temperatures, i could feel the vast solar and nocturnal rites which had taken place long before. time frozen traces of solar birth rites, and ceremonies which celebrated strength and joy. these ruins now held the tomb and chamber of my woman who continued to call me. it was her essence, extended as

heavy oak carved into a lavish and noble wolf head, guarded against any approach. since i felt welcomed and wanted it was by that urging i entered the doorway. i do not recall specific details on the exact layout of the rooms except they were lit by dim burning candles. i felt her essence close by, so i drew my astral further into the chambers, until i found myself going down a staircase made of stone. the stone, even in this blue toned light, was gray and worn. there is a kind of pride and character to old brick and stone, often worn with stories of age and struggle. i knew a part of myself was home as i drifted down each stair. it is a very odd and surreal feeling to know a part of you is home especially if you have never traveled there. i only knew a mistress from the shadows, whose iv

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ometary body, with our earth comyns beaumont (riddle of prehistoric britain)the debris from tiamats destruction has become the asteroid belt with its own orbit.when it nears the roche limit of this planet, the debris occasionally re-enters theatmosphere, falling to the surface. as researchers like charles fort have so splendidlycollated, our earth has seen strange rains of fish and frogs, oil and stone, hail and icedescending from the skies. what has been kept back is the fact that these anomaliesare really the remains of an entire planet, that of tiamat. the waters of its great oceansbecame frozen in space. when they entered our atmosphere, they liquefied, depositingtheir often live contents on the surface of earth to the perplexion and bemusement ofwitnesses. when it was written in the b

ry, they believed they could leave the planetwhenever they desired. earth was certainly not their home, but it was better than nothing in an emergency. but because they had arrived suddenly and not by choice,they were in a predicament as to where they were in celestial terms and in a quandaryabout where to go in the future. the nephilim with the help of the neanderthal raceconstructed and erected stone monuments and giant earth calendars on the plains fortheir astronomers to engage in calculations to orient themselves correctly in this newwing of the galaxy. there is some evidence to indicate that the nephilim did not leave earth immediatelybecause they feared that the solar system after the destruction of tiamat was magneticallyunstable to the extent of preventing them from flying out and

is a greek wordfor fallen angel. see alex de jongs rasputin. in many cases, he also possessed a familiar weapon or talisman with magical proper-ties. magic was the word used for high technologies not understood by the witnesses of the day.if a machine works perfectly, the results are like magic. the celtic sagas are full of mentionof magical weapons and treasures. one of the latter was the sacred stone of fal that wasplaced under the throne of the king in tara (drumcain or hill of the serpents. this stone, itwas said, would cry out if a false one sat to be crowned. we might ask what mystery isatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation23 old world disorder secreted in this myth? the word fal actually means stone and is the root of the word phallic.the stone of fal is, therefore, t

ne of fal that wasplaced under the throne of the king in tara (drumcain or hill of the serpents. this stone, itwas said, would cry out if a false one sat to be crowned. we might ask what mystery isatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation23 old world disorder secreted in this myth? the word fal actually means stone and is the root of the word phallic.the stone of fal is, therefore, the stone of stones, probably a powerful crystal thatwould indicate if a person was genetically altered in some way (this stone, like the lingamof the hindus, was believed to be connected to the planet saturn, for whom the earthly kingsruled) in folklore, there are covert references to genetic manipulation. consider the entitycalled a changeling. was this an alien substitute for a human infant? moreov

ng to gather the facts to make it stick. the race of adam30atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation and researcher laurence gardner puts it this way: it took man over a million years to progress from using stones as he found them to the real-ization that they could be chipped and flaked to better purpose. it then took another 500,000years before neanderthal man mastered the concept of stone tools, and a further 50,000years before crops were cultivated and metallurgy was discovered. hence, by all scales ofevolutionary reckoning, we should still be far removed from any basic understanding ofmathematics, engineering or science but here we are, only 7,000 years later, landingprobes on marsso, how did we inherit wisdom, and from whom? and most mysterious of all, we have the followin

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

re, according the mande people, symbols of resurrection. the most high god brought faro back to life, and sent him to earth in human form aboard an ark. the ark, which landed on mount kouroula, was of coarse loaded with a small group of humans and 2 of every animal. the incas of peru tell the story of a creator god named virococha, who created the world that was populated by giants he carved from stone. these giants were terribly disobedient and disorderly, and viracocha destroyed this race of giants with a massive flood. the hindu tradition of india, like countless others, often describes gods as taking human form and incarnating on earth. the many incarnations of vishnu upon the earth are certainly modeled after, and considered to be, a savior figure. the first incarnation of the benevol

also difficult, because in order to measure things like speed, location, and direction one must build a sensor that interacts with the subatomic particle, thereby changing the coarse of destiny. surely these poor scientists are frustrated by particles that always do something different just because they re not watching. it was once a philosophical question as to whether it was possible to break a stone into an infinitely small pieces. scientists and philosophers would speculate over the existence of an elementary particle, a particle that could not be broke apart and represented the fundamental building blocks of the universe. this continued until evidence emerged that the universe was indeed made of unbreakable, fundamental particles and these particles were called atoms. it would later b

pt the merely curious at bay. traces of this truth can be found in popular culture where you have the witch, reading off a list of arbitrary herbs and arbitrary body parts of arbitrary animals, and throwing them into a stirring cauldron on arbitrary nights of the year--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 40 famous phrases: a journey into absurdity likewise any one may cure the tooth-ache with the stone that is in the head of the toad; also, if any one shall catch a living frog before sun-rise, and he or she spits in the mouth of the frog, will be cured of an asthmatic consumption--likewise the right or left eye of the same animal cures blindness; and the fat of a viper cures a bite of the same. black hellebore easeth the head-ache, being applied to the head, or the powder snuffed lip the n

f these hidden properties, both elemental and planetary, is measured in personality, rather than in the mathematically-sound inches and pounds that physical properties are measured by. each of the elements and planets has correspondences to almost everything imaginable. everything from body parts, to odors, to points on the compass, to angels. listening to magicians explain why that odor, or that stone, or that type of tree corresponds to a particular planet certainly makes for some comedy. so not only can someone insert the influence (property/essence) of, say, jupiter into an object, but the physical makeup--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 48 of the object makes it inclined towards a particular planetary or elemental influence. in this case, one would choose objects whose physical qu

e of the earth where the veil between our world and the spirit world (or the past) is extremely thin. and when certain random conditions conspire, the veil between the worlds is completely lifted, allowing those on both sides to interact temporarily. i have even heard that on nights such as halloween, the veil is thinner at all points. traditionally ancient man marked these locations with massive stone monuments and structures; the pyramids, and stonehenge to name a few examples; i have heard stonehenge to be particularly powerful. understandably, ancient man conducted many magic rituals and rites of transformation at these locations. but these special locations on earth s surface don t occur only as hotspots, but also as linear paths that circled the earth. in the past, these paths were c

MORALS AND DOGMA

the limits of law and order, symbolized by the twenty-four-inch rule, has for its fruit liberty, equality, and fraternity--liberty regulated by law; equality of rights in the eye of the law; brotherhood with its duties and obligations as well as its benefits. you will hear shortly of the _rough_ ashlar and the _perfect_ ashlar, as part of the jewels of the lodge. the rough ashlar is said to be "a stone, as taken from the quarry, in its rude and natural state" the perfect ashlar is said to be "a stone made ready by the hands of the workmen, to be adjusted by the working-tools of the fellow-craft" we shall not repeat the explanations of these symbols given by the york rite. you may read them in its printed monitors. they are declared to allude to the self-improvement of the individual crafts

sted by the working-tools of the fellow-craft" we shall not repeat the explanations of these symbols given by the york rite. you may read them in its printed monitors. they are declared to allude to the self-improvement of the individual craftsman--a continuation of the same superficial interpretation. the rough ashlar is the people, as a mass, rude and unorganized. the perfect ashlar, or cubical stone, symbol of perfection, is the state, the rulers deriving their powers from the consent of the governed; the constitution and laws speaking the will of the people; the government harmonious, symmetrical, efficient--its powers properly distributed and duly adjusted in equilibrium. if we delineate a cube on a plane surface thus [illustration] we have visible _three_ faces, and _nine_ external l

vement, chequered in squares or lozenges, is said to represent the ground-floor of king solomon's temple; and the indented tessel "that beautiful tesselated border which surrounded it" the blazing star in the centre is said to be "an emblem of divine providence, and commemorative of the star which appeared to guide the wise men of the east to the place of our saviour's nativity" but "there was no stone seen" within the temple. the walls were covered with planks of cedar, and the floor was covered with planks of fir. there is no evidence that there was such a pavement or floor in the temple, or such a bordering. in england, anciently, the tracing-board was surrounded with an indented border; and it is only in america that such a border is put around the mosaic pavement. the tesser, indeed

he lodge are said to be six in number. three are called"_movable" and three"_immovable" the square, the level, and the plumb were anciently and properly called the movable jewels, because they pass from one brother to another. it is a modern innovation to call them immovable, because they must always be present in the lodge. the immovable jewels are the rough ashlar, the perfect ashlar or cubical stone, or, in some rituals, the double cube, and the tracing-board, or trestle-board. of these jewels our brethren of the york rite say "the _square_ inculcates morality; the _level, equality; and the _plumb, rectitude of conduct" their explanation of the immovable jewels may be read in their monitors* our brethren of the york rite say that "there is represented in every well-governed lodge, a cer

n of the initiate everywhere; and everywhere they were the heritage of the priests, who were nowhere willing to make the common people co-proprietors with themselves of philosophical truth. masonry is not the coliseum in ruins. it is rather a roman palace of the middle ages, disfigured by modern architectural improvements, yet built on a cyclop an foundation laid by the etruscans, and with many a stone of the superstructure taken from dwellings and temples of the age of hadrian and antoninus. christianity taught the doctrine of fraternity; but repudiated that of political equality, by continually inculcating obedience to caesar, and to those lawfully in authority. masonry was the first apostle of equality. in the monastery there is _fraternity_ and _equality, but no _liberty. masonry added

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ith the commentaries by a. c, which are printed in common type and are in class b, or with the commentaries 'by another of which this is one, which are printed in italics and are in class c. 37. also the mantras and spells; the obeali and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach. each star is unique, and each orbit apart; indeed, that is the corner-stone of my teaching, to have no standard goals or standard ways, no orthodoxies and no codes. the stars are not herded and penned and shorn and made into mutton like so many voters! i decline to be bell-weather, who am born a lion! i will not be collie, who am quicker to bite than to bark. i refuse the office of shepherd, who bear not a crook but a club. wise in your generation, ye sheep, are ye

ferocity the existence of people who laugh at his fears, and tell him the monster he fears is in reality not a fire-breathing worm, but a spirited horse, well trained to the task of the bridle. they tell him not to be a gibbering coward, but to learn to ride. knowing well how abject he is, the kindly manhood of the advice is, to him, the bitterest insult he can imagine, and he calls on the mob to stone the blasphemer. he is therefore particularly anxious to keep intact the bogey he so dreads; the demonstration that love is a general passion, pure in itself, and the redeemer of all them that put their trust in him, is to tear open the raw ulcer of his soul. we of thelema are not the slaves of love "love under will" is the law. we refuse to regard love as shameful and degrading, as a peril t

the cruel lash of the overseer; as the sadomasochism characteristic of the slave spirit would have us believe: they were built by select crews of workers who elected their own foremen and cheerfully competed with each other to see which crew would work faster. they were paid from the royal treasure and fed from the royal granaries. they recorded their own jokes or incidents of the working day in stone. one such inscription has been translated by scholars as meaning that "some gangs were so pleased to work for the king that, as a later foreman said, they toiled 'without a single man getting exhausted, without a man thirsting; and at last 'came home in good spirits, sated with bread, drunk with beer, as if it were the beautiful festival of a god. all this, of course, from their happiness in

sted, your only tacticians the ostrich, the opossum, and the cuttle, will you not break and flee at our first onset, as with levelled lances of lust we ride at the charge, with our allies, the whores whom we love and acclaim, free friends by our sides in the battle of life? the book of the law is the charter of woman; the word thelema has opened the lock of her "girdle of chastity. your sphinx of stone has come to life; to know, to will, to dare and to keep silence. yea, i, the beast, my scarlet whore bestriding me, naked and crowned, drunk on her golden cup of fornication, boasting herself my bedfellow, have trodden her in the marketplace, and roared this word that every woman is a star. and with that word is uttered woman's freedom; the fools and fribbles and flirts have heard my voice

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

order, therefore, to render the prophecy impossible of fulfilment, cronus swallowed each child as soon as it was born,[3] greatly to the sorrow and indignation of his wife rhea. when it came to zeus, the sixth and last, rhea resolved to try and save this one child at least, to love and cherish, and appealed to her parents, uranus and gaa, for counsel and assistance. by their advice she wrapped a stone in baby-clothes, and cronus, in eager haste, swallowed it, without noticing the deception. the child thus saved, eventually, as we shall see, dethroned his father cronus, became supreme god in his stead, and was universally venerated as the great national god of the greeks. page 14 page 15 anxious to preserve the secret of his existence from cronus, rhea sent the infant zeus secretly to cret

idly, developing great physical powers, combined with [16]extraordinary wisdom and intelligence. grown to manhood, he determined to compel his father to restore his brothers and sisters to the light of day, and is said to have been assisted in this difficult task by the goddess metis, who artfully persuaded cronus to drink a potion, which caused him to give back the children he had swallowed. the stone which had counterfeited zeus was placed at delphi, where it was long exhibited as a sacred relic. cronus was so enraged at being circumvented that war between the father and son became inevitable. the rival forces ranged themselves on two separate high mountains in thessaly; zeus, with his brothers and sisters, took his stand on mount olympus, where he was joined by oceanus, and others of th

which stood in the altis or sacred grove, was five hundred years older than that of zeus on the same spot. some interesting excavations which are now going on there have brought to light the remains of the ancient edifice, which contains among other treasures of antiquity several beautiful statues, the work of the famous sculptors of ancient greece. at first this temple was built of wood, then of stone, and the one lately discovered was formed of conglomerate of shells. in the altis races were run by young maidens in honour of hera, and the fleetest of foot received in token of her victory an olive-wreath and a piece of the flesh of the sacrifices. these races, like the olympic games, were celebrated at intervals of four years, and were called hera. a beautiful robe, woven by sixteen women

her means of defence, which, when in danger, she swung so swiftly round and round that it kept at a distance all antagonistic influences; hence her name pallas, from pallo, i swing. in the centre of this shield, which was covered with dragon's scales, bordered with serpents, and which she sometimes wore as a breastplate, was the awe-inspiring head of the medusa, which had the effect of turning to stone all beholders. in addition to the many functions which she exercised in connection with the state, athene presided over the two chief departments of feminine industry, spinning and weaving. in the latter art she herself displayed unrivalled ability and exquisite taste. she wove her own robe and that of hera, which last she is said to have embroidered very richly; she also gave jason a cloak

sacred portion of the dwelling, probably because the protection of the fire was an important consideration, for if once permitted to become extinct, re-ignition was attended with extreme difficulty. in fact, the hearth was held so sacred that it constituted the sanctum of the family, for which reason it was always erected in the centre of every house. it was a few feet in height and was built of stone; the fire was placed on the top of it, and served the double purpose of preparing the daily meals, and consuming the family sacrifices. round this domestic hearth or altar were gathered the various members of the family, the head of the house occupying the place of honour nearest the hearth. here prayers were said and sacrifices offered, and here also every kind and loving feeling was foster

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

oe and were left there until the young girl either came to the warlock or faded away. the black pullet the warlock of medieval times did not confine his witchery to the securing of love alone; he also lusted after buried treasure and its possession. imagine if you will egypt in 1740. a young officer is sent< on an expedition to the pyramids. the party of explorers lunch in the shadow of the great stone mountains of the desert, and are attacked by a horde of arabs. the comrades of the young officer are slain, and he himself is left for dead upon the ground. on returning to consciousness, he surrenders himself to the immediate anticipation of his end, and delivers a farewell address to the setting sun. a stone is rolled back in the pyramid, and a venerable old man issues forth. the old man d

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

initiation the purpose of which was to ensure them a vocation and which added to the mysteries whose teaching was hidden from the public. it must be assumed that architecture, like all other sciences, was taught in secret. louis hautcoeur writes: the first architects known in egypt, in asia minor, performed sacred duties independent from their role as builders. imhotep, who built the first large stone complex in saqqarah, was counselor to the pharaoh sozer (circa 3800 b.c, but was also priest of the god amun. sennemut, architect of queen hatseput, was the head of the prophets of monthu in armant and controller of the gardens and domains of amun. dherti was the director of buildings and a high priest. in the louvre there are seated statues of goudea, who was both a patesi, meaning a govern

ork. the other professions made up the private colleges, which were actually semi-public bodies. these included mainly the dendrophori and tignarii, artisans specializing in woodwork. the college of the tignarii, homebuilders, remained hugely important and was widespread throughout the empire. among the other colleges were the argentarii (bankers, the lapidarii and marmorii (various categories of stone and marble workers, the centonarii (garment manufacturers, the negotiares vini (wine merchants) and the medici (doctors) and professori (teachers. generally speaking, the state granted each collegium a monopoly on its trade. the members enjoyed certain advantages. for instance, they were exempt from certain taxes and from being drafted for labor. it was forbidden, however, for collegiates to

college chose a god whose attributions were related to the daily labor of its members (for example, sylvanus, god of woods, for the dendrophori, or wood carvers. in other cases it might choose a deceased emperor or even a foreign deity. we know that the romans often adopted the gods of other peoples. we can surmise what deity the roman tignarii, or carpenters, chose for themselves by looking at a stone discovered in 1725 in chichester, england, that bears the dedication (52 a.d) of a temple to minerva, goddess of wisdom, and neptune, god of the sea. the latter may well have been invoked both for the protection of the tignarii, who frequently had to cross the channel, and for the construction of boats.10 a similar inscription discovered in nice-cimiez shows the lapidarii making a vow to her

ns originally used it in complete derision. in reality, the term goes back to a much earlier time. it can be found in the writings of fridegode, a historian who wrote in latin in 950. fridegode said, in speaking of the saint ouen church of rouen* that it was built* as we have seen, this was built by "goth" architects. 38 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages in quarried stone with a kind of magnificence in the gothic manner "muro opere quadris lapidibus, manu gothica. olim nobiliter constructa" 2 the word gothic continued to be used subsequently to label what we now call romanesque art, which was later distinguished from the new, ogival ribbed style by names such as old gothic and new gothic. these terms indicate with extreme precision the origin of these styles

onsider more closely how gothic art emerged and spread. the order of saint benoit first contributed to the spread of the art of building through its preeminent role in the propagation of the sciences. until the tenth century, churches were primarily built of wood. the art or science of framework construction, although complicated, is still less difficult than that of cutting and constructing with stone. the progress of this latter method brought about the overall advancement of architecture. stonecutting in fact leads to statics, the science of balance, and mathematics is the basic element of this discipline. toward the end of the tenth century, a man renowned for his position, character, and worth, the benedictine gerbert (a native of aurillac ecclesiastical and monastic associations 39 a

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

se up ye stones to form ye gate through which they from ye outer void might manifest thou must set up ye al azif page 2 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 stones in ye elevenfold configuration. first thou shalt raise up ye four cardinal stones and these shall mark ye direction of ye four winds as they howleth through their seasons. to ye north set ye the stone of great coldness that shall form ye gate of ye winter-wind engraving thereupon the sigil of the earth-bull thus: taurus sigil in ye south (at a space of five paces from ye stone of ye north, thou shalt raise a stone of fierceheat, through which ye summer winds bloweth and make upon ye stone ye mark of ye lion-serpent thus: leo sigil ye stone of whirling-air shall be set in ye east where ye

se a stone of fierceheat, through which ye summer winds bloweth and make upon ye stone ye mark of ye lion-serpent thus: leo sigil ye stone of whirling-air shall be set in ye east where ye first equinox riseth and shall be graven with ye sign of he that beareth ye waters, thus: aquarius sigil ye gate of rushing torrents thou cause to beat the west most inner point (at a space of five paces from ye stone of ye east) where ye sun dieth in ye evening and ye cycle of night returns. blazon ye stone with ye character of ye scorpion whose tail reacheth unto the stars: scorpio sigil set thou the seven stones of those that wander ye heavens, without ye inner four and through their diverse influences shall ye focus of power be established. in ye north beyond the stone of great coldness set ye first y

one of ye east) where ye sun dieth in ye evening and ye cycle of night returns. blazon ye stone with ye character of ye scorpion whose tail reacheth unto the stars: scorpio sigil set thou the seven stones of those that wander ye heavens, without ye inner four and through their diverse influences shall ye focus of power be established. in ye north beyond the stone of great coldness set ye first ye stone of saturn at a space of three paces. this being done proceed thou widdershins placing at like distances apart ye stones of jupiter, mercury, mars, venus, sul and luna marking each with their rightful sign. at ye center of the so completed configuration set ye the alter of ye great old ones and seal it with ye symbol of yog-sothoth and ye mighty names of azathoth, cthulhu, hastur, shub- niggu

rd place goeth ye great sign of koth which sealeth ye gates and guardeth ye pathways. ye forth sign is that of ye elder gods. it protecteth those who would evoke ye powers by night, and banish ye forces of menace and antagonism. al azif page 4 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 (nota: ye elder sign hath yet another form and when so enscribed upon ye grey stone of mnar it serveth to hold back ye power of ye great old ones for all time) to compound ye incense of zkauba in the day and hour of mercury with the moon in her increase, thou shalt take equal parts of myrrh, civet, storax, wormwood, assafoetida, galbanum and musk, mix well together and reduce all to the finest powder. place the so assembled elements in a vessel of green glass and seal with

who seeketh northwards beyond the twilight land of inquanok shall find amidst the frozen waste the dark and mighty plateau of thrice-forbidden leng. know ye time-shunned leng by the ever-burning evil-fires and ye foul screeching of the scaly shantak birds which ride the upper air; by the howling of ye na-hag who brood in nighted caverns and haunt men's dreams with strange madness, and by the grey stone temple beneath the night gaunts lair, wherein is he who wears the yellow mask and dwelleth all alone. but beware o man, beware, of those who tread in darkness the ramparts of kadath, for he that beholds their mitred-heads shall know the claws of doom. of kadath ye unknown what man knoweth kadath? for who shall know of that which ever abides in strange-time, twix yesterday, today and the morr

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

n national and global transformation. the mandala of the new world order and illuminati control. annuit coeptis he has blessed our beginning, novus ordo seclorum new order of the ages. the all-seeing eye of horus, the resurrected egyptian sun god, biblically refered to as lucifer, the angel of light. in occult doctrine it is thought that from the union of spirit and matter (the pyramid is made of stone, rock, and earth and represents the unconscious. the capstone is made of an immaterial substance light or spirit and is conscious, a new being a transformed being is created. the seal s reverse depicts a separation state in the separation of the eye the triangle. the pyramid exemplifies the initiation stage. it is the house of initiation, in which the candidate confronts the world of darknes

ONYX TABLET OF SET

flame. as its holy fire courses through your veins, affirm again your bond with the prince of darkness and his sacred temple "can the wings of the winds understand your voices of wonder, o enlightened ones who shine like fire in the jaws of chaos, whom i have prepared as cups for a wedding, or as the flowers in their beauty for the chamber of righteousness? stronger are your feet than the barren stone, and mightier are your voices than the manifold winds, for you are become a temple such as is not, but in the mind of set. arise, says the first of your kind; move, therefore, unto the elect; show them the fire within you, and awaken them that they may gain the strength to live forever" towards this working the will of set has manifest itself, joining in consecration with one who is now to b

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

orld was made when obatala, the son of the great sky god olorun, threw earth from a snail shell, and got a pigeon and a hen to scatter it. the supreme gods of africa tend, like olorun, to withdraw from their creation leaving the main work to their successors. in the original myth preserved by the priests of the fon skycult, it is the androgynous deity the eternal wheel of time this aztec calendar stone, found beneath the central plaza of mexico city, is a wheel of time commemorating the five world creations, of which the latest is the current world. the fifth sun, nahui ollin, was made by the gods at teotihuacan (just north of modern mexico city, which was also the birthplace of the gods themselves. the stone is not a fully-functioning calendar; the complex aztec calendar was based on a 52

and images of their song out of a basket given them by spider woman (see p. 93. we still talk of mother earth. native americans consider this as a fact. smohalla, the wanapam founder of the dreamer religion in the mid-19th century, said: you ask me to plow the ground! shall i take a knife and tear my mother s bosom? then when i die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. you ask me to dig for stone! shall i dig under her skin for her bones? then when i die i cannot enter her body to be born again. you ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it, and be rich like white men! but how dare i cut off my mother s hair? an anglo-saxon charm beseeches the favor of erce, erce, erce, mother of earth with similar fervor. yet, despite the obvious connection between agricultural and human fertilit

hs underlying navajo rituals such as mountainway (see pp. 92 93, and its sandpaintings of the holy people, define and express what it means to be navajo. at the end of such a ritual, the world before me is restored in beauty. when jasper blowsnake revealed the sacred winnebago medicine rite to anthropologist paul radin (published under the title neolithic mother goddess the venus of willendorf, a stone figurine of a fertility goddess found at willendorf in austria, dates from the neolithic period. the breasts and belly are deliberately exaggerated in this representation of the great mother goddess. nut, the egyptian all-mother the egyptian sky goddess nut arches over the earth in this ancient tomb painting. she is about to swallow the evening sun, which is shown again on her upper arm as i

enkidu his comrade struck the second blow the epic of gilgamesh the epic of gilgamesh 19 sumerian statue of the goddess ishtar i will proclaim to the world the deeds of gilgamesh. the man to whom all things were known. he was wise. knew secret things, he brought us a tale of the days before the flood. he went on a long journey, was weary, worn-out with labor, returning he rested, he engraved on a stone the whole story. prologue to the epic of gilgamesh ferryman of the gods urshanabi takes gilgamesh across the ocean. for three days they ran on as if it were a journey of a month and fifteen days and at last urshabani brought the boat to the waters of death. he poles while gilgamesh acts as a mast because, in a fury, gilgamesh had broken the sacred stones that made the boat safe in these peri

aged him to kill his father. when he had done so, he then married his sister rhea, but fearful that his own children might rise against him, he swallowed them as soon as they were born: first hestia, then demeter, hera, hades, and poseidon. however, when her sixth child, zeus, was due, rhea gave birth to him at the dead of night, and entrusted him to the care of her mother gaia. she gave cronos a stone to swallow in the baby s stead. when zeus was grown, he asked to be made cronos cup-bearer. he mixed his father a powerful emetic, causing him to vomit up both the stone and the five older children. zeus then led his brothers and sisters to war against the titans whom they defeated and confined to tartarus in the underworld. thereafter, zeus reigned supreme among the gods. prometheus 24 prom

PRELUDE TO THE BLACK ARTS

what's transpiring, i backpedal and take another path. yup, if you don't like the proceedings, then just turn left instead of right at the next corner. that's the purpose of scrying- grabbing the best that life has to offer and escaping the nasty stuff. now, there are many possible futures. there are unlikely futures, maybe futures and very likely futures. now hear this, the future is not cast in stone. a particular future only works out if you don't deviate from the path you are taking. if you bugger off down another trail, then you have chosen a totally different future. so, it's ludicrous to go into a tizzy-fit if you draw an unfavorable spread. just change your path and safely escape down the rabbit hole. heck, it's easy to side-step fate if you know which way she's heading. that's why

PROMETHEUS

father saturnus in a similar situation, would happened to him, namely, that he would be robbed of his power, gave up by necessity his desire to wed thetis, and out of gratitude to prometheus thanked him and freed him from his chains. but he didn t go so far as to free him from all binding, since he had sworn to that, but for commemoration bade him bind his finger with the two things, namely, with stone and with iron. following this practice men have rings fashioned of stone and iron, that they may seem to be appeasing prometheus. some also have said that he wore a wreath, as if to claim that he as victor had sinned without punishment. and so men began the practice of wearing wreaths at times of great rejoicing and victory. you may observe this in sports and banquets. but to come back to th

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

why they were subjected to such oppression, and [the egyptians] gmade their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks, h corresponding to the mortar and bricks the generation of the dispersion used [to build the tower of babel. understand this. of the generation of the dispersion, it is written: gthey said to one another, ecome, let us make bricks and burn them hard. f they had bricks for stone and bitumen for mortar. h12 thus, the jews f suffering through mortar and bricks atoned for their sins with mortar and bricks in their previous incarnation. now, since their sin was only with respect to da fat.for the sparks of their souls originated therein.moses therefore knew that their exile also derived from there. for, as mentioned above, and as the arizal will presently state, it is p

of servants and bondsmen, and finally through the various levels of atzilut itself, until the individual is able to reveal, on his level, his own gspark of mashiach h every jew possesses .translated from sefer halikutim 321 parashat mishpatim [second installment] the portion of the torah read this week includes the laws of damages. gwhen two people have an argument, and one hits the other with a stone or his fist c. h1 gif an ox gore a man or a woman c. h2 gif a man open a pit or dig a pit and not cover it c. h3 gif a man lets his cattle ruin a field or vineyard, whether by letting it walk or graze in [someone] else fs field c. h4 gif a fire breaks out and sets fire to thorns, devouring a stack of grain, standing grain, or a field c. h5 a person fs liablity for damages is different for ea

hin [the head, alluded to by the yud [of the name havayah. for the [tablets] were initially one tablet, as indicated by the fact that the word for gtablets h [luchot] is written such that it can be read gtablet h [luchat. because of the sin of the golden calf they were made into two. gand he gave to moses when he finished speaking with him on mt. sinai, the two tablets of the covenant, tablets of stone, written with the finger of g-d. h5 in this verse, describing how g-d gave moses the tablets of the covenant and moses descended with them from mt. sinai (only to find the jewish people engaged in the sin of the golden calf, the word for gtablets of c h (luchot) appears twice. both times it is written without a vav before the final tav, the usual indication of feminine plural. thus, the word

le that moses built was a temporary structure, as it is written, efor you have not yet come to the repose and inheritance that g-d, your g-d, is giving you. f1 when [the jews] entered the land [of israel, in the year 2488, they set up the tabernacle at gilgal, and it stood there for 14 years [until 2502, while they conquered and divided [the land. from there, they came to shiloh and built there a stone structure and spread the tapestries of the tabernacle over it; it did not have a fixed roof. the tabernacle of shiloh stood [thus] for 369 years [until 2871. when eli died, it was taken down. they went to nov and built a sanctuary there; when samuel died, it was taken down. they went to givon and built a sanctuary there; after givon they went to the permanent temple [the structures at] nov a

the name [of g-d] and cursed, and they brought him to moses. his mother fs name was shelomit, the daughter of dibri, of the tribe of dan. they put him in jail until [moses] could tell them what g-d said to do [with him. and g-d spoke to moses, saying, ebring the curser outside the camp and all those who heard [him curse] should place their hands upon his head, and then all the congregation should stone him. f h1 we are told in the oral tradition that this curser was the son of an egyptian taskmaster. shelomit was an overly outgoing, talkative woman, as alluded to by the fact that the torah mentions that she was gthe daughter of dibri, h for these words may be read as gthe talkative daughter. h because of her immodesty, this egyptian taskmaster took note of her and desired her. he woke her

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

d hal sundt have taken making this an unparalleled edition of has been my faithful golden dawn has achieved attainments in actualizing i also wish to thank stephan hoeller, conversation and ideas, and my me closer to the feminine. finally, i ph.d. for his patient participation in my when regardie finished his introduction with the words that his work was true fratres and sorores who seek the ruby stone of the wise. our work too, just introduction to the second edition volume i. it would be trite to say that life is a strange, wonderful and mysterious process. but it is! in his triumphal chariot of antimony, the alchemist basil valentine describes his antimony as a deadly poison on the one hand, yet, when purified alchemically, as a potent medicament on the other. apparently this golden daw

darkness, and the gates of the land of night" while man is assumed into godhead, and the divine spirit is brought down into manhood, a new heaven and a new earth make their appearance, and familiar objects take on a divine radiance as though illumined by an inter <39> nal spiritual light. and this is what, in part at any rate, was meant by the old alchemists, for the finding of the philosopher's stone converts all base metals into the purest gold. in his book centuries of meditation, thomas traherne gives an interesting description of the rapture of the inner personality, its reaction to the world, when it is freed by the mystical experience from all entanglements. he says "the corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. i thought it had stood from

r laws. i dreamed not of poverties, contentions, or vices. all tears and quarrels were hidden from my eyes. everything was at rest, free and immortal. i knew nothing of sickness or death or exaction. in the absence of these i was entertained like an angel with the works of god in their splendour and glory; i saw all in the peace of eden. all time was eternity, and a perpetual sabbath" such is the stone of the philosophers, the quintessence, the summurn bonum, true wisdom and perfect happiness. psellus, the neoplatonist, has written that the function of initiatory magic was "to initiate or perfect the human soul by the powers of materials here on earth; for the supreme faculty of the soul cannot by its own guidance aspire to the sublimest intuition and to the comprehension of divinity" it i

unconsciously as an organised body of sug <47> gestion it is perceived and noted and strikes the focal centre. we are taught by tradition that the entire object of the sacred rites was the purification of the soul so that its power could gradually dissolve the impediments of, and percolate through, the heavy body and opaque brain "know" says synesius "that the quintessence and hidden thing of our stone is nothing else than our viscous celestial and glorious soul drawn out of its minera by our magistery" hence the entire trend of the preliminary neophyte grade of the golden dawn is towards the purification of the personality. it fulfills the testimony of the hermetic art so that the light within could be fermented and perfected by the ceremonial method of initiation. purification and consec

eath, rising again in a mystical resurrection, cleansed and purified through him our master, 0 brother of the cross of the rose. like him, 0 adepts of all ages, have ye toiled. like him have ye suffered tribulation. poverty, torture and death have ye passed through; they have been but the purification of the gold. in the alembic of thine heart through the athanor of affliction, seek thou the true stone of the wise" the form of this ritual is beautiful in its simplicity and warrants a brief description. first of all, the candidate is led in, arrayed with insignia and badges and calling himself by his various titles and mottos. but he is warned that not in any vainglorious spirit are the mysteries to be approached, but in simplicity alone. this is the signal for him to be divested of all his

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

e elect, i gifted him with my way and guidance. mine are all existences together, they are my gift and under my direction. and i am he that possesseth all majesty, and beneficence and charity are from my grace. and i am he that entereth the heart in my zeal; and i shine through the power of my awfulness and majesty. and i am he to whom the lion of the desert came, i rebuked him and be became like stone. and i am he to whom the serpent came, fr. 1 and by my will i made him like dust. and i am he that shook the rock and made it tremble, and sweet water flowed therefrom on every side. and i am he that brought down an authentic verity- a book whereby i will guide the prudent ones. and i am he that enacted a powerful law, and its promulgation was my gift. and i am he that brought from the fount

is only incumbent upon these latter on particular occasions, such as during the pilgrimage to sheikh adi, when it is performed with more than common solemnity. large parties frequently encamp at the foot of the mountain which hems in the sacred valley on the south, and begin the ascent at early dawn. as soon as the rays of the sun touch the ground beneath them, they bow down and reverently kiss a stone, which they then place upon some other close by. we crossed this mountain on our return from the shrine, and found its surface covered with these piles, which frequently consisted of eight or ten stones raised one above the other. the same practice is observed by the heathen in india, fn. 1. nineveh and its remains, vol. i. p. 293. p. 117 and i have frequently seen an idol temple or pagoda s

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

sicrucian society, and accordingly introduce you to so muchof the habits, customs and manners of living of those philosophers and the general arrangement oftheir home, as is essential at the present time for your just appreciation of our theme. listen!historical narrativeburied in the depths of solitude, far from the sight and sound of human life, partly rock-hewn andpartly constructed of massive stone closely and carefully placed in position, were three clusteringand connecting, but equally sized compartments; so completely and studiously compacted anddeadened in their structure and approach that the outside world could not know of their existencewere the roar of thunder, or the shouts of myriads to awake their echoes in these subterranean halls.one chamber was devoted to a general labora

shape,was set apart for rest, containing rude couches and also simple tables for simpler fare. opposed tothis, across the main laboratory and opening into it, but with descending steps, was the third andlargest hall, with rising pointed roof of rugged structure, used for a monkish study and chapel, aswell. at regular intervals through the centre, were four cubic tables used as desks with seats of stone,and pendant from the centre of the lofty roof hung the wondrous lamp, whose radiant flame, was asthe rosy light of a summer222s setting sun, intensely golden, illuminating all space, never needing careand inexhaustible. high above all else in the groins of the roof, was a white and black, yet massiverituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliasecond section12 roman cross, deftly carved in

llows, he longed to sound the bell and startle his own soul. in letters of fire he had written thisaphorism, igne nitrum roris invenitur "by fire the nitre of the dew is extracted" and this was to behis solution.all nature slept, the wearied monks save, save one, had gone to rest, the very fires of the forge werewrapped in slumber, when at the dread hour, the hopeful gualdi, rose from his seat of stone in thebrilliant but rocky chapel, and shouting eureka, rang out the bell with unearthly clangour, startlingthe very rocks into echo. it as suddenly ceased as monk followed monk into the holy chamber tomeet, to see nought, even to hear but the still resounding echo of the clamouring bell.at the central table-altar were open books of gualdi; by their side a small vessel containing nitreand a c

o space, like the flashing guns of contending infantry, or theclashing sabres of the fierce squadrons of horse; until in brief, armies of hungry demons in their wildcareer are seen it. their brilliancy, and then by an invisible agency are extinguished. behold aloft theglowing sky with myriad stars, a brilliant sea of reflecting flame. this latent heat or generic fire isfound in the coldest flinty stone, in the thinnest purest air, oxygen, azoth, ozone, in every and allthings, supernaturally magnificent, a royal element. this is natural or physical fire: all-powerful,when not under due restraint. lead on. my pass is incensus (inflamed).the conductor repairs with the theoricus direct to the west, where sits the 2nd ancient, facing theeast with a plain mirror reflecting the light of a burning

itgoeth. they tell us it is the evolution of light and hear in the combustion of bodies.conductor:what knowledge can you impart upon the effect of the fire element upon the production of preciousmetals?3rd alchemist:we may advise you, that gold and silver are the chief metals of the alchemists, and the two chiefmystic symbols of the rosicrucians. fire, light, vitality exists in everything, metal, stone and timber,when the 'life' of which is gone, it becomes unfit for service. in the combination of the metals whichwas explained to you as a theoricus, you well remember of the product of silver through the germ ofprimordium, which germ has also given to us the product of gold, and which it is ardently hopedwill shortly give to us the elixir vitae. to the uninstructed, it is the generally rece

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

t them is higher and far older than the tribunal of pope or king: on the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die, said god himself, as we read in the book of genesis. what then is taking place in the world, and why do priests and potentates tremble? what secret power threatens tiaras and crowns? a few bedlamites are roaming from land to land, concealing, as they say, the philosophical stone under their ragged vesture. they can change earth into gold, and they are without food or lodging! their brows are encircled by an aureole of glory and by a shadow of ignominy! one has discovered the universal science and goes vainly seeking death to escape the agonies of his triumph: he is the majorcan raymond lully. another heals imaginary diseases by fantastic remedies, belying beforehand

hers. x he. he can neither be surprised by misfortune nor overwhelmed by disasters, nor introduction 7 can he be conquered by his enemies. n vau. he knows the reason of the past, present and future. z zain. he possesses the secret of the resurrection of the dead and the key of immortality. such are the seven chief privileges, and those which rank next are these: k cheth. to find the philosophical stone. t teth. to possess the universal medicine. v iod. to know the laws of perpetual motion and to prove the quadrature of the circle[ caph. to change into gold not only all metals but also the earth itself, and even the refuse of the earth. s lamed. to subdue the most ferocious animals and have power to pronounce those words which paralyse and charm serpents. a mem. to have the ars notoria whic

know; as for others, whether they deride, doubt or believe, whether they threaten or fear, what matters it to science or to us? such actually are the issues of occult philosophy, and we are in a position to meet the charge of insanity or the suspicion of imposture when we affirm that these privileges are real. to demonstrate this is the sole end of our work on occult philosophy. the philosophical stone, the universal medicine, the transmutation of metals, the quadrature of the circle and the secret of perpetual motion are neither mystifications of science nor dreams of delusion. they are terms which must be understood in their proper sense; they formulate the varied applications of one and the same secret, the several aspects of a single operation, which is defined in a more comprehensive

y to exonerate miracles under the pretence of superstition and science by an unintelligible language. hieroglyphic writing was introduction 11 revived; pantacles and characters were invented to summarize an entire doctrine by a sign, a whole sequence of tendencies and revelations in a word. what was the end of the aspirants to knowledge? they sought the secret of the great work, the philosophical stone, the perpetual motion, the quadrature of the circle, the universal medicine formulae which often saved them from persecution and hatred by causing them to be taxed with madness, but all signifying one of the phases of the great magical secret, as we shall show later on. this absence of epics continues till our romance of the rose; but the rose-symbol, which expresses also the mysterious and

was not comprehended by christians, a storehouse, so they say, of monstrous absurdities for in this case believers, involved by the same ignorance, speak the language of sceptics but a monument, as we affirm, which comprises all that philosophical and religious genius has ever accomplished or imagined in the sublime order, a treasure encompassed by thorns, a diamond concealed in a rude and opaque stone: our readers will have guessed already that we refer to the talmud. how strange is the destiny of the jews, those scapegoats, martyrs and saviours of the world, a people full of vitality, a bold and hardy race, which persecutions have preserved intact, because it has not yet accomplished its mission! do not our apostolical traditions declare that after the decline of faith among the gentiles

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

s. behold another mountain which they have just dyed with his blood! behold a cross, a sepulchre and soldiers guarding his tomb! madmen! the tomb is empty, and he whom they regard as dead is walking peaceably between two travellers on the road to emmaus. where is he? whither does he go? warn the masters of the world! tell the caesars that their power is threatened! by whom? by a pauper who has no stone on which to lay his head, by a man of the people condemned to the death of slaves. what insult or what madness! it matters not. the caesars marshal all their power; sanguinary edicts proscribe the fugitive; everywhere scaffolds rise up; amphitheaters open, crowded with lions and gladiators; pyres are lighted; torrents of blood flow; and the caesars, believing themselves victorious, dare add

and our hearts, detach and elevate our minds, enlarge our entire being! o stability and motion! o day clothed with night! o darkness veiled by splendour! o master who never keepest back the wages of thy labourers! o silver whiteness! o golden splendour! o crown of living and melodious diamonds! thou who wearest the heaven on thy finger like a sapphire ring, thou who concealest under earth, in the stone kingdom, the marvellous seed of stars, live, reign, be the eternal dispenser of the wealth whereof thou hast made us the wardens! amen. it must be borne in mind that the special kingdom of gnomes is at the north, that of salamanders at the south, that of sylphs at the east, and that of undines at the west. these beings influence the four temperaments of man; that is to say, the gnomes affect

hen the magus accomplishes his own creation, the great work is fulfilled, at least as concerns cause and instrument. the great agent or natural mediator of human omnipotence cannot be overcome or directed save by an extra-natural mediator, which is an emancipated will. archimedes postulated a fulcrum outside the world in order to raise the world. the fulcrum of the magus is the intellectual cubic stone, the philosophical stone of azoth. that is, the doctrine of absolute reason and universal harmonies by the sympathy of contraries. one of our most fertile writers, and one of those who are least fixed in their ideas, m. eugene sue, has founded a vast romance-epic upon an individuality whom he strives to render odious, who becomes interesting against the will of the novelist, so abundantly do

and no metal except silver should be worn on the person. on tuesday, a day for the operations of vengeance, the colour of the vestment should be that of flame, rust or blood, with belt and bracelets of steel. the tiara must be bound with gold; the wand must not be used, but only the magical dagger and sword; the wreaths must be of absinthe and rue, the ring of steel, with an amethyst for precious stone. on wednesday, a day favourable for transcendent science, the vestment should be green, or shot with various colours; the necklace of pearls in hollow glass beads containing mercury; the perfumes benzoin, mace and storax; the flowers, narcissus, lily, herb-mercury, fumitory, and marjoram; the jewel should be the agate. on thursday, a day of great religious and political operations, the vestm

t is the sun: in the subterranean and mineral world, it is the purest and most perfect gold. hence the search after the great work is called the search for the absolute, and this work itself is termed the operation of the sun. all masters of science recognize that it is impossible to achieve material results until we have found the plenary analogies of the universal medicine and the philosophical stone in the two superior degrees. then, it is affirmed, is the labour simple, light and inexpensive: otherwise, it consumes to no purpose the life and fortune of the bellows-blower. the universal medicine is, for the soul, supreme reason and absolute justice; for the mind, it is mathematical and practical truth; for the body, it is the quintessence, which is a combination of gold and light. in th

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

that surely these are a numerous people by themselves, having their own politics [that is, systems of society and government. this diversity of judgments may occasion several inconsistencies in this [my the secret commonwealth 29 present] rehearsal [of fairy lore] after the narrowest scrutiny [has been] made about it. 8. their weapons are mostly solid earthy bodies, nothing of iron, but much of a stone similar to yellow soft flint [and] shaped like a barbed arrow head, but flung as a dart with great force. these arms, cut by art and tools it seems beyond human [skill, have somewhat of the nature of a thunder-bolt, subtly and mortally wounding the vital parts without breaking the skin. some of these wounds i have observed in beasts, and felt them with my [own] hands. they [that is, fairies]

her to put myself than my friends on the hazard of being laughed at for incredible relations [that is, stories. i was once traveling in the highlands, and [had] a good number of servants with me, as is usual there. one of them going a little before me [and] entering into a house where i was to stay all night and going hastily to the door, he suddenly stepped back with a screech, and did fall by a stone which hit his foot. i asked what the matter was, for he seemed to be very much frightened. he told me very seriously that i should not lodge in that house, because shortly a dead [man's] coffin would be carried out of it, for [he saw] many were carrying of [and that was] when he was heard [to] cry. the secret commonwealth 41 i neglected his words and stayed there [and] he said to others of t

he same time the corpse of another gentleman was brought to be buried in the very same church. the friends on either side came to debate who should first enter the church, and in a trice from words they came to blows. one of the number who was armed with bow and arrows let fly [at] one [man] among them. every family in that isle has their the secret commonwealth 44 burial place in the church in a stone chest and the bodies are carried in open biers to the burial place. sir normand, having appeased the tumult, found one of the arrows shot into the dead man's thigh. to this [event] sir normand himself was a witness. in the account which mr. daniel morrison [a] parson in the [isle of] lewis gave me, there was one [event] which, though it may be heterogeneous from this subject [of the second s

ith stirrups, and the discoveries of the secret commonwealth 54 microscopes [all of] which were sometimes as great a wonder and hard to be believed [in. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_50.htm (4 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:35:05 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 50-59) 10. though i will not be so curious nor so peremptory as he who will [seek to] prove the possibility of the philosopher's stone from scripture [as in] job 28:1,2 [or] job 22:24-25, or [to prove] the plurality of worlds from john l4:2, and hebrews 11:3 or [to attempt to prove] the circulation of the blood from ecclesiastes 12:6; nor the talismanical art from the blind and the lame mentioned in 2 samuel 5:6. yet i humbly propose these passages which may give some light to our subject at least, and show that this polity

that surely these are a numerous people by themselves, having their own polities. having stated this, which is his own viewpoint as well as one asserted in tradition, kirk then reminds us, quite correctly, that there are inconsistencies in tradition, due to diversity of judgements. today we would say due to diversity in the streams or strands of the collective memory. page 29 their weapons are. a stone. shaped like a barbed arrow head, but flung as a dart with great force. subtly and mortally wounding the vital parts. some of these wounds i have. felt. with my [own] hands. the elf-bolt is a mysterious weapon that strikes without breaking the skin, but wounds terribly and subtly: neolithic flint arrowheads and other tools were often commentary 95 thought to be inactive or spent fairy weapon

RUBY TABLET OF SET

that egyptian philosophy was not discussed by the greeks, except for tourist-type accounts such as that of herodotus and the egyptian passage of plato's own timaeus. the sphinx: the last known use of hieroglyphic writing even in egypt itself was in 394 ce [on the temple of isis at philae. thereafter all knowledge of the language vanished from human knowledge until champollion decoded the rosetta stone in 1822 ce. and only a small number of egyptian texts have been translated today. by a smaller handful of people who can read the language. so perhaps russell's statement can be partially excused, if not condoned. the chimaera: then, too, egypt has suffered a savage pillaging over the centuries. as a symbol of "heathen paganism" it was viciously despoiled by the early christians and their mo

is meant by macrocosm and microcosm. 6. what is gematria? 7. how does a magician master the natural and magickal forces? 8. what is necromancy? 9. explain the doctrine of opposites. how is it significant to magick? 10. what is the emerald tablet? who authored it, and what can you tell us about the author? 11. what is meant by "solve et coagula" 12. what are the three components of the alchemical stone, and what are the four steps of joining them? 13. explain what you can about the two solstices and the two equinoxes. 14. what does the word "satan" mean? 15. what is the difference between satanism and humanism? 16. what can you tell us about the word "demon" 17. please name and tell us something of the crown princes of hell. 18. what is the value (if any) in celebrating "le messe noir" 19

lack flame and lights the candles of the neters. when all are lit they speak in turn. gi am selket, and my flame honors you who have eaten the eye of horus. immortality is yours as you will. you are a living being like unto no other. h gi am sothis, and my flame honors you who have destroyed in your own life the lie that is osiris and the aberrations that followed him. you have left footprints in stone upon the face of gebb. h gi am sekhmet, and my flame honors you whose courage did not falter. you raised the black flame in your life, and it ignites you still. your brilliance is as a thousand stars. h gi am nepthys, and my flame honors you, master of the night. you sit in conference with ptah, the builder of your worlds. you toast the aeon with set, and embrace him as friend. timeless are

f service and goods it had depended on. in such a soil conditions were right for a gardener to tend the flowers in need of care. gandhi was that one who arose to tend of the garden "mine" he said "is a life full of joy in the midst of incessant work" his mastery of mysticism was evident is a calm, self-aware way: he was, he said, fascinated by the law of love and described it as his philosopher's stone. he remarked in xvii a.h. that had he no sense of humor he would have committed suicide, a statement which displayed an understanding of the law of sorrow. his comprehension can be seen further in this quote "the purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. we cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. the sum-total of that life is god. the instrument of this

o the magician who discovers and manifests his or her true will forges the ultimate magical weapon from out of their many and fragmented sub-personalities "so with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will. do that, and no other shall say nay (al 1:42-43) this achievement of self-unification has been spoken of in elder books of arcane lore as the great work, the creation of the philosopher's stone and, in the symbolism of the old aeon, as the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel. this "angel" is no angel of god in any theistic sense. rather it is the crystallization of the magician's own ultimate selfhood. in the language of the book of opening the way, it is the neter xem whose name is unknown. to seek to know one's true will requires time, effort, and much reflectio

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

th and 18th letter of the sacred alphabet this cell is a discourse upon the double will and the divided twins as found in the mystery of the androgyne also known in the occult communities as baphomet. i am her as i am he (p. 241. this cell connects with the supposed mysteries of the templars and the vapours of demolay can be sensed in its discourses of the twin vessels and the construction of the stone-god. the physical representation of the god or famulus are integrated as an important and crucial part on the crooked road towards the light of the midnight-vale. this technique was employed by the german reuss-derived occult group in the concept of the gotos. a title assigned to the highest degree of the order, but also reminiscent of the physical representation of the orders egregoric spir

ortune inte racting with the tau, the cross of the universe connecting saturn with the earth. in this we find wisdom and understanding brought circle round and ended up back to the witch who has restored him-or her on the throne of cain, carrying the cross of the world and has towered by all temptations. through the ordeals jupiter has blessed the witch with the fortune of gnosis. worship not the stone but what it conceals is one of the statements in this cell, and through this it refers to the dawning of the famulus in a physical object and the dawning of the adepts occult aspiration of the crooked path. the spiritservitour arises as the most important aspect of the mage. without his famulus and totemic spirits the mage is nothing but an ill deformed child in the occult world always cravi

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and sweetest corruption of all, namely the idea that he was doing nothing wrong. rekha: she entered his life when he bought the penthouse at everest vilas and she offered, as a neighbour and businesswoman, to show him her carpets and antiques. her husband was at a world-wide congress of ball-bearings manufacturers in gothenburg, sweden, and in his absence she invited gibreel into her apartment of stone lattices from jaisalmer and carved wooden handrails from kcralan palaces and a stone mughal chhatri or cupola turned into a whirlpool bath; while she poured him french champagne she leaned against marbled walls and felt the cool veins of the stone against her back. when he sipped the champagne she teased him, surely gods should not partake of alcohol, and he answered with a line he had once

er of horror- on his flight east some weeks ago. he had fallen into a torpid sleep, high above the desert sands of the persian gulf, and been visited in a dream by a bizarre stranger, a man with a glass skin, who rapped his knuckles mournfully against the thin, brittle membrane covering his entire body and begged saladin to help him, to release him from the prison of his skin. chamcha picked up a stone and began to batter at the glass. at once a latticework of blood oozed up through the cracked surface of the stranger's body, and when chamcha tried to pick off the broken shards the other began to scream, because chunks of his flesh were coming away with the glass. at this point an air stewardess bent over the sleeping chamcha and demanded, with the pitiless hospitality of her tribe _someth

t through the main gateway, a grandiose folly, a reproduction of the roman triumphal arch of septimius severus, and across the wild insanity of the street, and over the sea wall, and so at last on to the broad expanse of shiny black rocks with their little shrimpy pools. christian girls giggled in frocks, men with furled umbrellas stood silent and fixed upon the blue horizon. in a hollow of black stone salahuddin saw a man in a dhoti bending over a pool. their eyes met, and the man beckoned him with a single finger which he then laid across his lips _shh, and the mystery of rock-pools drew the boy towards the stranger. he was a creature of bone. spectacles framed in what might have been ivory. his finger curling, curling, like a baited hook, come. when salahuddin came down the other graspe

ed and therefore can never be forgiven. it never rains in jahilia; there are no fountains in the silicon gardens. a few palms stand in enclosed courtyards, their roots travelling far and wide below the earth in search of moisture. the city's water comes from underground streams and springs, one such being the fabled zamzam, at the heart of the concentric sand- city, next to the house of the black stone. here, at zamzam, is a beheshti, a despised water--carrier, drawing up the vital, dangerous fluid. he has a name: khalid. a city of businessmen, jahilia. the name of the tribe is _shark. in this city, the businessman-turned-prophet, mahound, is founding one of the world's great religions; and has arrived, on this day, his birthday, at the crisis of his life. there is a voice whispering in hi

tching money-bags in their left hands; every so often a coin is moved from bag to right-hand palm. the dancers shake and sweat, and their eyes never leave the pilgrims' fingertips; when the coin transfer ceases, the dance also ends. the great man makes a face and lets the tent-flap fall. jahilia has been built in a series of rough circles, its houses spreading outwards from the house of the black stone, approximately in order of wealth and rank. abu simbel's palace is in the first circle, the innermost ring; he makes his way down one of the rambling, windy radial roads, past the city's many seers who, in return for pilgrim money, are chirping, cooing, hissing, possessed variously by djinnis of birds, beasts, snakes. a sorceress, failing for a moment to look up, squats in his path "want to

SATANGEL

eas; causes death in three days through putrefying wounds or sores infested with worms. verrier. who tempts mortals to rebellion by making their necks too stiff to bow down. vine, vinea (goetia, 45th spirit. king and earl commanding 36 legions. appears as a lion riding a black horse and carrying a viper. discovers hidden things, witches and wizards; tells fortunes; builds towers; demolishes great stone walls; makes waves. voso, ose, oso (goetia, 57th spirit. president commanding 30 legions. appears as a leopard; later a man. teaches liberal sciences; gives true answers concerning divine and secret matters; changes men into any shape so that the person changed believes they really are the creature or thing. watchers, the. rebel angels who, before the fall, deliberately descended to initiate

etfulness of courage, and consent to abjectness. o holy and impious satan, symbol of the degenerate universe, thou knowest and sufferest, may thou become, according to the word of the divine promise, the atoning genius of expiation (seventeenth-century mss. bibliotheque nationale, paris) the rite of summoning when the night of action has arrived, the warlock shall gather up his rod, goatskin, the stone called ematille, and shall further provide himself with two vervain crowns, two candlesticks, and two candles of virgin wax, made by a virgin girl and duly blessed. let him take also a new steel and two new flints, with sufficient tinder to kindle a fire, likewise half a bottle of brandy, some blessed incense and camphor, and four nails from the coffin of a dead child. all these must be carr

e a fire, likewise half a bottle of brandy, some blessed incense and camphor, and four nails from the coffin of a dead child. all these must be carried to the place chosen for the great work, where everything hereinafter laid down must be described in an accurate manner. you must begin by forming a circle with strips of kid s skin, fastened to the ground by means of your four nails. then with the stone called ematille you must trace the triangle within the circle, beginning at the eastern point. a large a, a small e, a small a, a small j must be drawn in like manner, as also the sacred name of jesus between the two crosses. by this means the spirits will have no power to harm you from behind. the warlock and his assistants may then fearlessly proceed to their places within the triangle, an

nder 1adgt vpaah zong 2om faaip sald 1o you the second of the first 2whom the burning flames 3have framed 1vi-i-v l 2sobam ial-prg 3i-za-zaz 1within the depth of my jaws: 2whom 3i have prepared as cups for a 1pi-adph 2casarma 3abramg ta talho 1wedding 2or as the flowers in their beauty 3for the chamber of the 1paracleda 2q ta lorslq turbs 3ooge 1righteous. 2stronger are your feet 3than the barren stone 4and 1baltoh 2givi chis lusd 3orri 4od 1mightier 2are your voices than the manifold winds. 3for ye are 1micalp 2chis bia ozongon 3lap 1become 2a building such as 3is not save in the mind of 1noan 2trof cors ta 3ge o q manin 1all-powerful. 2arise, 3saith the first. 4move, 5therefore, 6unto 1ia-idon 2torzu gohe l 4zacar 5(e) ca 6c 1thy servants. 2show yourselves 3in power and make me 4a strong

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time to shout back. he has decided it is finally time to receive his due. now the ponderous rulebooks of hypocrisy are no longer needed. in order to relearn the law of the jungle, a small, slim diatribe will do. each verse is an inferno. each word is a tongue of fire. the flames of hell burn fierce. and purify! read on and learn the law. the book of satan i 1. in this arid wilderness of steel and stone i raise up my voice that you may hear. to the east and to the west i beckon. to the north and to the south i show a sign proclaiming: death to the weakling, wealth to the strong! 2. open your eyes that you may see, oh men of mildewed minds, and listen to me ye bewildered millions! 3. for i stand forth to challenge the wisdom of the world; to interrogate the "laws" of man and of "god! 4. i re

d a fillip to the senses. adults would do well to take a lesson from children. children often take great delight in doing something they know they are not supposed to. yes, times have changed, but man hasn't. the basics of satanism have always existed. the only thing that is new is the formal organization of a religion based on the universal traits of man. for centuries, magnificent structures of stone, concrete, mortar, and steel have been devoted to man's abstinence. it is high time that human beings stopped fighting themselves, and devoted their time to building temples designed for man's indulgences. even though times have changed, and always will, man remains basically the same. for two thousand years man has done penance for something he never should have had to feel guilty about in

l reality, which is totally opposed to esoteric spirituality. a greek gentleman of magical persuasion once wanted a woman who would satisfy his every desire, and so obsessed with the unfound object of his dreams was he, that he went about constructing such a wonderful creature. his work completed, he fell so convincingly and irrevocably in love with the woman he had created that she was no longer stone, but mortal flesh, and alive and warm; and so the magus, pygmalion, received the greatest of magical benedictions, and the beautiful galatea was his. the ingredients used in the performance of satanic magic d. direction one of the most overlooked ingredients in the working of magic is the accumulation and subsequent direction of force toward an effective end. altogether too many would-be wit

male participants, and thereby intensifying the outpouring of adrenal or bioelectrical energy which will insure a more powerful working. altar man's earliest altars were living flesh and blood; and man's natural instincts and predilictions were the foundation on which his religions were based. later religions, in making man's natural inclinations sinful, perverted his living altars into slabs of stone and lumps of metal. satanism is a religion of the flesh, rather than of the spirit; therefore, an altar of flesh is used in satanic ceremonies. the purpose of an altar is to serve as a focal point towards which all attention is focused during a ceremony. a nude woman is used as the altar in satanic rituals because woman is the natural passive receptor, and represents the earth mother. in som

rezodu! gohe-el, zodacare eca ca-no-quoda! zodameranu micalazodo od ozadazodame vaurelar; lape zodir ioiad (english) can the wings of the winds hear your voices of wonder; o you, the great spawn of the worms of the earth, whom the hell fire frames in the depth of my jaws, whom i have prepared as cups for a wedding or as flowers regaling the chambers of lust! stronger are your feet than the barren stone! mightier are your voices than the manifold winds! for you are become as a building such as is not, save in the mind of the all-powerful manifestation of satan! arise, saith the first! move therefore unto his servants! show yourselves in power, and make me a strong seer-of-things, for i am of him that liveth forever! the third key the third enochian key establishes the leadership of the eart

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gression described in procedure for performance [priest closes ceremony in standard manner] the seventh satanic statement das tierdrama should the subduing talisman, the cross, break, then will come roaring forth the wild madness of the old champions, that insane berserker rage, of which the northern poets sing. that talisman is brittle, and the day will come when it will pitifully break. the old stone gods will rise from the long-forgotten ruin and rub the dust of a thousand years from their eyes; and thor, leaping to life with his giant hammer, will crush the gothic cathedrals -heinrich heine, 1834 the devil holds a unique place in german magical tradition. he, or his personification, always triumphs. no matter how methodically he may be relegated to infamy, he invariably winds up the po

hunde die welt zu entflammen! sind die winkel klein und ruhig oder gigantisch in ihrer br llenden gewaltt tigkeit, es ist in der weise, die wir so gut kennen. an dieser grimmigen, grauen k ste herscht der obelisk und f sst su mit seinen vier klauen nach dem ring des fafnir- f hrer, diese verk rperung kommt, welche uns vergr ssert und schl gt jene, die gegen uns sind. o my brothers, study well the stone with planes unrecognized by those without, for within those glaring facets the hounds await that set the world aflame! be the angles small and still or gargantuan in their roaring outrage, the form is that which we know so well. on the grim, gray shore, the monolith prevails, and clutched within the fourfold talons of the ring which fafnir guards, that shape remains to bring forth that which

t: calling to mind the seekers after joy, who have, at the hands of unnatural and perfidious virtue, perished, we, thy brothers, ardently desire: dominion o'er the teeming lands beneath the darkened sky, above the watery sea! participants: groznoye bozhe tchornava ognia padai seela! dread lord of the dark flame give power! celebrant: rearing turrets and massive domes with iron walls and courts of stone! participants: groznoye bozhe tchornava ognia padai krepost! dread lord of the dark flame give strength [priest receives bone from acolyte, holds it on high, and, facing congregation] celebrant: thou art a tower of strength and power, and we, thy brothers, proclaim thee lord unto all ages [priest turns to altar, holding bone aloft] celebrant: slava tchortu! participants: slava tchortu [pries

the way is yog-sothoth, and the key is nyarlathotep. hail, yog-sothoth. hail, nyarlathotep. participants: i'a y'gs-othoth. i'a n'ya-1'yht- otp. i'a s'ha-t'n. hail, yog-sothoth. hail, nyarlathotep. hail, satan. the call to cthulhu [this ceremony is to be performed in a secluded location near a major body of water-a large river, lake, or ocean. the ideal site for the proceedings would be a natural stone cavern at the water's edge, but a grove of trees or a concealed inlet will serve. the ceremony must take place at night, preferably at a time when the sky is heavily overcast and the water is tempestuous. no special articles of attire-such as robesor decorative paraphernalia are to be used. the single exception is that all participants must wear the medallion that bears the seal of satan: it

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

of esoteric knowledge and practical techniques- and this system is also known as 'the black arts. the difference between the left and right hand paths: the aim of all genuine occult paths or systems, whether designated right hand or left hand, is to achieve or find a certain goal as well as to impart esoteric knowledge and abilities. the goal is variously described (e.g.'gnosis, the philosopher's stone, enlightenment. however, it has been a common misconception that the rh paths were altruistic and the lh paths egocentric- i.e. the difference between them was seen in individual moral terms. another misconception is in seeing the difference in absolute moral terms- i.e. the rh paths as representing "good" and the lh paths as "evil. recently, attempts have been made to formulate 'grey' paths

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

le who choose to live in the world rather than withdraw from it. prophecy: prediction of future events. prophet: a person chosen to serve as god s messenger. pu: uncarved or unformed; the state of simplicity to which daoists try to return. puja: worship. purusharthas: the four aims of hinduism or the doctrine of the fourfold end of life. purva: the original jain sacred texts, now lost. pyramid: a stone tomb constructed to house a deceased pharaoh of egypt. qi: the breath of life or vital energy that flows through the body and the earth. qur an: the sacred scriptures of islam; contains the revelations given to the prophet muhammad revealed to him beginning in 610. ra kah: a unit of prayer. rationalism: belief that knowledge can come exclusively from the mind. reform: one of the sects of jud

movement of the planets and stars in relation to one another in order to predict future events. cuneiform: sumerian writing, so-called because of its wedge-shaped marks. deity: a god or goddess. maat: divine order and justice; a central concept in the religion of ancient egypt. monotheism: belief in one supreme being. pantheon: a collection of deities. polytheism: belief in many gods. pyramid: a stone tomb constructed to house a deceased pharaoh of egypt. theocracy: a form of government in which god or some supreme deity is the ruler. god s laws are then interpreted by a divine king or by a priest class. ziggurat: a stepped foundation or structure that held a shrine or temple in the mesopotamian religion. 38 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia history and d

repel evil, and they always appear in pairs. assyrian kings often had pairs of winged bulls flanking the entrance to their palaces. the sculptures were sometimes accompanied by inscriptions that called upon the winged bulls to deter enemies and protect the king. the mesopotamian moon god, sin (also called nanna, has a lapis lazuli beard and rides a winged bull. lapis lazuli is a blue semiprecious stone. a powerful and still popular symbol of ancient egypt s religion is the ankh. the ankh resembles a cross, but has an upside down teardrop shape at its top. in the ancient egyptian written language of hieroglyphs, the ankh represents life. it is often present in tomb carvings and other artwork. it is associated with magical protection, or sa. even those ancient egyptians who could not read hi

s and standing on a lion. marduk: the god of babylon who later came to be the supreme god. marduk fought an army of demons led by the goddess tiamat. the new year s festival celebrates the king s fitness to rule through a ceremony in which he bows to a statue of marduk. sin: the moon god. he is also known as nanna. he is lord of the calendar and oversees the seasons. sin wears a beard of the blue stone lapis lazuli and rides a winged bull. gods of the egyptian pantheon amen: called the king of gods. amen, also spelled amon or amun, was often combined with ra, or re. amen-ra was an even more powerful god. anubis: the god of embalming, or of preserving the bodies of the dead. anubis is depicted as a jackal or as a man with the head of a jackal. horus: the god of the sky. horus is the child o

anna, goddess of fertility, the primary deity worshipped. death was the final rite of passage for ancient mesopotamians, who believed that the gods had decreed the end to a person s life. after death, the corpse was washed and perfumed, then placed in a coffin. for poorer families, these coffins would be of simple wood or the body would be wrapped in a reed mat. more wealthy family used elaborate stone coffins. personal items such as jewelry and weapons were buried with the dead. wealthy families had tombs with household furnishings placed in them. the rich also had professional mourners, or those who cried and recited sad songs, or laments, at the burial. after the funeral, the eldest son was responsible for giving regular funeral offerings to the deceased relative. during the month of au

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eral figures of similar content added by p.s. altona. printed and published by joh. ad. eckhardt, book-printer to h.m. the king of denmark. the full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet- proverbs 27, 7. a scorner seeketh wisdom and findeth it not; but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth- proverbs 14, 6. an anonymous treatise on the philosophers' stone if a philosopher you wish to be, let only patience dwell in thee. where on this globe lives a man so wise, who'll ever learn what four ones do comprise, and even if he'd know all this, he'd still always be an apprentice. therefore, o human, with all thy might, recognise god and thyself in god's and nature's light, both these lights god pours into thee, that a likeness of him thou mayest be

cordance with their innermost depths of light, which is the new birth in man, all seven are good, and then saturnius stands for compassion, mercurius for doing good, mars for gentleness, sol for humility, venus for chastity, jupiter for wisdom, and luna for christ's flesh or body. the hermetic philosophy i attract all those seeking god and the truth; those alone will find the art. i am the magnet-stone of divine love; attracting the iron- hard men on the road to the truth. i am the moisture which preserves everything in nature and makes it live, i pass from the upper to the lower planes; i am the heavenly dew and the fat of the land; i am the fiery water and the watery fire; nothing may live without me in time; i am close to all things yea; in and through all things, nevertheless unknown

l gumosic water, salt earth or crystal, which has nature in its womb, a son of the sun, and a daughter of the moon. it is a hermaphrodite, born out of the wind, a phoenix living in fire, a pelican, reviving his dear young ones with its blood; the young icarus, drowned in the water, whose nurse is the earth, whose mother is the wind, whose father is the fire, the water her caretaker and drink, one stone and no stone, one water and no water, nevertheless a stone of living power and a water of living might; a sulphur, a mercury, a salt, hidden deep in nature, and which no fool has ever known nor se n sepher ha-bahir or the book of illumination attributed to rabbi nehunia ben hakana translated by aryeh kaplan the bahir 2 the first verses of creation 3 the aleph-beth 7 the seven voices and the

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was a simple man, dwelling in tents" 40. his students asked: what is cholem? he replied: it is the soul- and its name is cholem. if you listen to it, your body will be vigorous (chalam) in the ultimate future. but if you rebel against it, there will be sickness (choleh) on your head, and diseases (cholim) on its head. 41. they also said: every dream (chalom) is in the cholem. every white precious stone is in the cholem. it is thus written [with regard to the high priest's breastplate (exodus 28:19"[and in the third row] a white stone (achlamah" 42. he said to them: come and hear the fine points regarding the vowel points found in the torah of moses. he sat and expounded: chirek hates evildoers and punishes them. its side includes jealousy, hatred and competition. it is thus written (psalm

of the owner. it is thus written [regarding god (genesis 14:19, owner of heaven and earth. when it goes, it is like it is thrown (zarka. following it is treasure (segulah. it is at the head of all letters. 91. why is [this accent] at the end of a word, and not at the beginning? this teaches us that this crown rises higher and higher. it is included and crowned, as it is written (psalm 118:22, the stone that the builders rejected has become the head cornerstone. it ascend to the place from which it was graven, as it is written (genesis 49:24, from there is the shepherd, the stone of israel. 92. he also said: what is the reason that we place blue wool in the tzitzit? and why are there 32 [threads? what is this like? a king had a beautiful garden, and in it were 32 paths. he placed a watchman

two signs, god will watch you from all evil, he will safeguard your soul. 94. rabbi amorai sat and expounded: what is the meaning of the verse (1 kings 8:27, behold the heaven and the heaven of heaven cannot contain you? this teaches us that the blessed holy one has 72 names. all of them were placed in the tribes [of israel. it is thus written (exodus 28:10, six of the bahir 24 their names on one stone, and the names of the other six on the other stone, according to their generations. it is also written (joshua 4:9, he raised up twelve stones. just like the first are (exodus 28:12, stones of memorial, so these are (joshua 4:7, stones of memorial [there are therefore] 12 stones [each containing six names] making a total of 72. these parallel the 72 names of the blessed holy one. why do they

verything is the king. what is this advantage? this is the place from which the earth was graven. it is an advantage over what existed previously. and what is this advantage? everything in the world that people see is taken from its radiance. then it is an advantage. the bahir 25 96. what is the earth from which the heavens were graven? it is the throne of the blessed holy one. it is the precious stone and the sea of wisdom. this parallels the blue in the tzitzit. rabbi meir thus said: why is blue chosen above all other colours [for the tzitzit? because the blue resembles the sea, the sea resembles the sky,l and the sky resembles the throne of glory. it is thus written (exodus 24:10, they saw the god of israel, and under his feet was like a pavement of sapphire, like the essence of heaven

s said: why is blue chosen above all other colours [for the tzitzit? because the blue resembles the sea, the sea resembles the sky,l and the sky resembles the throne of glory. it is thus written (exodus 24:10, they saw the god of israel, and under his feet was like a pavement of sapphire, like the essence of heaven in clarity. it is furthermore written (ezekiel 1:26, as the likeness of a sapphire stone was the appearance of a throne. 97. rabbi berachiah sat and expounded: what is the meaning of the verse (exodus 25:2, and they shall take for me a lifted offering (terumah? it means, lift me up with your prayers. and whom? those whose hearts make them willing. these are the ones who are willing to draw themselves away from this world. honour him, for it is in him that i rejoice, since he kno

SEPHER YETZIRAH WESTCOTT

the following interesting quotation is from rabbi moses botarel, who wrote his famous commentary in 1409-"it was abraham our father--blessed be he--who wrote this book to condemn the doctrine of the sages of his time, who were incredulous of the supreme dogma of the unity. at least, this was the opinion of rabbi saadiah--blessed be he--as written in the first chapter of his book the philosopher's stone. these are his words: the sages of babylon attacked abraham on account of his faith; for they were all against him although themselves separable into three sects. the first thought that the universe was subject to the control of two opposing forces, the one existing but to destroy the other, this is dualism; they held that there was nothing in common between the author of evil and the author

SEVEN SHADES OF SOLITUDE

arriage 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 elder gods, the gods that were before the mortal gods of mortal men. the gift of seth is secret- 000- we may conclude by su

SEVEN SCROLLS CHILDREN OF THE BLACK ROSE

day, today, and tomorrow so that they can better deal with their environment and its changing conditions, particularly those created by other persons. see? already, your awareness is increasing. just being apprised of this possibility is the first step, for to know it is to do it. keep on practicing, and your own circle of awareness will fill the all and extend to many yesterdays and tomorrows "a stone cast into a pond of quiet water sends out many rings. that is the awareness of the stone seeking its new environment" expanding yesterday it is said that history has a way of repeating itself. our records of the past will show us much if we just study them, comparing what happened then to what is happening now. we have accurate records reaching back several thousand years, revealing the caus

SINISTER TAROT

rm to give way and birth to another. a causal form created to act as a focal point/channel for the fulfillment of wyrd- the beginnings of a practical realization of strategies and aims. the sinister dialectic in action: by its dynamic nature a prelude to- and when realized a creator of- insight. ix a crippled boy a tunnel of bone a star descends into a forest faces are removed and she sits in the stone house unheard. hermit- sauroctonos withdrawal and a revealing; the lying between two stages of alchemical change. intimations of the abyss. the culmination on a personal level of energies created by change- the surfacing of individual factors hitherto only known on an unconscious level. a process of discovery that will lead to insight (further) knowledge of wyrd; or madness, death. x in red

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

r shook the involuntary prophet, it passed, and left his countenance elevated by an expression of resignation and calm "madame" said he, after a long pause "during the siege of jerusalem, we are told by its historian that a man, for seven successive days, went round the ramparts, exclaiming 'woe to thee, jerusalem, woe to myself "well, cazotte, well "and on the seventh day, while he thus spoke, a stone from the machines of the romans dashed him into atoms" with these words, cazotte rose; and the guests, awed in spite of themselves, shortly afterwards broke up and retired. chapter 1.vii. qui donc t'a donne la mission s'annoncer au peuple que la divinite n'existe pas? quel avantage trouves-tu a persuader a l'homme qu'une force aveugle preside a ses destinees et frappe au hasard le crime et l

it, soft, airy, bird-like, thrilled the delicious notes a moment, and then died away. the instrument fell to the floor, and its chords snapped. you heard that sound through the silence. the artist looked on his kneeling child, and then on the broken chords "bury me by her side" he said, in a very calm, low voice "and that by mine" and with these words his whole frame became rigid, as if turned to stone. the last change passed over his face. he fell to the ground, sudden and heavy. the chords there, too, the chords of the human instrument were snapped asunder. as he fell, his robe brushed the laurel-wreath, and that fell also, near but not in reach of the dead man's nerveless hand. broken instrument, broken heart, withered laurel-wreath! the setting sun through the vine-clad lattice streame

t his better reason by the sober admonitions of mervale, a matter-of-fact man! the day following that eve on which this section of my story opens, glyndon was riding alone by the shores of the neapolitan sea, on the other side of the cavern of posilipo. it was past noon; the sun had lost its early fervour, and a cool breeze sprung up voluptuously from the sparkling sea. bending over a fragment of stone near the roadside, he perceived the form of a man; and when he approached, he recognised zanoni. the englishman saluted him courteously "have you discovered some antique" said he, with a smile "they are common as pebbles on this road "no" replied zanoni "it was but one of those antiques that have their date, indeed, from the beginning of the world, but which nature eternally withers and rene

knesses which little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. and of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. while we hear, every day, the small pretenders to science talk of the absurdities of alchemy and the dream of the philosopher's stone, a more erudite knowledge is aware that by alchemists the greatest discoveries in science have been made, and much which still seems abstruse, had we the key to the mystic phraseology they were compelled to adopt, might open the way to yet more noble acquisitions. the philosopher's stone itself has seemed no visionary chimera to some of the soundest chemists that even the present century has

s have never been more than most partially explored, the rosicrucians, especially arrogated. he remembered to have heard in germany of the work of john bringeret (printed in 1615, asserting that all the languages of the earth were known to the genuine brotherhood of the rosy cross. did zanoni belong to this mystical fraternity, who, in an earlier age, boasted of secrets of which the philosopher's stone was but the least; who considered themselves the heirs of all that the chaldeans, the magi, the gymnosophists, and the platonists had taught; and who differed from all the darker sons of magic in the virtue of their lives, the purity of their doctrines, and their insisting, as the foundation of all wisdom, on the subjugation of the senses, and the intensity of religious faith? a glorious sec

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

bed to them the magical knowledge which the egyptian magicians themselves claimed to possess. a striking instance of this is given in the second book of the metamorphoses of apuleius where, it will be remembered, the following is narrated. the student telephron arrived one day at larissa, and as he was wandering about in an almost penniless condition he saw an old man standing on a large block of stone issuing a proclamation to the effect that any one who would undertake to guard a dead body should receive a good reward. when telephron asked if dead men were in the habit of running away the old man replied testily to the effect that the witches all over thessaly used p. 12 to tear off pieces of flesh from the faces of the dead with their teeth, in order to make magical spells by means of t

cast him out of the house. soon afterwards, whilst wandering about, he saw the funeral procession pass through the forum, and at that moment an old man went to the bier, and with sobs and tears accused the widow of poisoning his nephew so that she might inherit his property and marry her lover. presently the mob which had gathered together wanted to set her house on fire, and some people began to stone her; the small boys also threw stones at her. when she had denied the accusation, and had called upon the gods to be witnesses of her innocence, the old man cried out "let, then, divine providence decide the truth, in answer to her denial. behold, the famous prophet zaclas the egyptian, dwelleth among us, and he hath promised me that for much money he will make the soul of the dead man to re

ey become very rare. in the subsequent period the animal forms disappear, and their place is taken by plaques of schist, rectangular in shape, upon which are inscribed, in rough outline, figures of animals, etc. the theory that these objects were intended as whetstones, or as slabs upon which to rub down paint, will not hold, for the reasons which m. j. de morgan has given. moreover, in the green stone scarab which was laid upon the breast of the deceased in dynastic times, we probably have a survival of the green schist amulet of predynastic times in egypt, both as regards the object with which it was made and the material. but the custom of writing hekau, or words of power, upon papyrus is almost as old as that of writing them upon stone, and we see from the inscription on the walls of t

where they wished and to do what they pleased. the mention of the god ptah and of his consort sekhet indicates that the chapter was the work of the priests of memphis, and that the ideas embodied in it are of great antiquity. according to the papyrus of nekhtu-amen, the amulet of the heart, which is referred to in the above chapter, was to be made of lapis-lazuli, and there is no doubt that this stone was believed to p. 31 possess certain qualities which were beneficial to those who wore it. it will also be remembered that, according to one tradition, 1 the text of the lxivth chapter of the book of the dead was found written in letters of lapis-lazuli in the reign of hesep-ti, king of egypt about b.c. 4300, and the way in which the fact is mentioned in the rubric to the chapter proves tha

ke the greatest care that it was not carried off from him by a monster, who was part man and part beast, and who went about seeking for hearts to carry away. to prevent such a calamity no less than seven chapters of the book of the dead (nos. xxvii, xxviii, xxix, xxixa, xxx, xxxa, p. 32 and xxxb) were written. the xxviith chapter was connected with a heart amulet made of a white, semi-transparent stone, and reads "hail, ye who carry away hearts! hail, ye who steal hearts, and who make the heart of a man to go through its transformations according to its deeds, let not what he hath done harm him before you! homage to you, o ye lords of eternity, ye possessors of ever lastingness, take ye not this heart of osiris 1 into your grasp, and cause ye not words of evil to spring up against it; for

SIX ANGLED RITE OF THE ROYAL SUN OF THE GOAT LORD

choose not to surround the area with six candles, at least try to have one, to the east. six "implements" are needed for this rite, and are to be placed arranged close to each other in the center of the triangle before the beginning of the rite: a candle or lantern/lamp (which is apart from the optional six candles that can be used as mentioned above; a cord; an arthame; a cup or bowl; a phallic stone; and a three-tined wooden fork (such as a branch) or a two tined wooden fork, or some other instrument that is not too long, but has three tines. if your circle is big enough, a full sized pitchfork will do. if you have a buck or a goat's skull, it should be in the center of the circle, in the center of the grouping of the implements. if you happen to be using an altar, it can be on the alta

implement down on the sigil. returning to the center, you pick up the arthame, and holding it in front of you, walk to the east, make a counterclockwise walk around the circle from east and back to east, and then continue counterclockwise until you reach sigil 5. say the invocatory name, and the poetic stream as you place the arthame on the sigil. returning to the center, you pick up the phallic stone, and holding it in front of you, walk to the east, make a counterclockwise walk around the circle from east and back to east, and then stop, say the invocatory name, and the poetic stream as you place the phallic stone on the sigil. while you are making all these circuits around the circle, anytime you come to an implement that you laid out previously, you hop over it with a short hop. sigil

SOLOMON

s thinner every day" 5. now when i solomon heard this, i entered the temple of god, and prayed with all my soul, night and day, that the demon might be delivered into my hands, and that i might gain authority over him. and it came about through my prayer that grace was given to me from the lord sabaoth by michael his archangel [he brought me] a little ring, having a seal consisting of an engraved stone, and said to me "take, o solomon, king, son of david, the gift which the lord god has sent thee, the highest sabaoth. with it thou shalt lock up all demons of the earth, male and female; and with their help thou shalt build up jerusalem [but] thou [must] wear this seal of god. and this engraving of the seal of the ring sent thee is a pentalpha" 6. and i solomon was overjoyed, and praised and

e men in their sleep, and play with them. and after a while i again take to my wings, and hide me to the heavenly regions. i also appear as a lion, and i am commanded by all the demons. i am offspring of the archangel uriel, the power of god" 11. i solomon, having heard the name of the archangel, prayed and glorified god, the lord of heaven and earth. and i sealed the demon and set him to work at stone-cutting, so that he might cut the stones in the temple, which, lying along the shore, had been brought by the sea of arabia. but he, fearful of the iron, continued and said to me "i pray thee, king solomon, let me go free; and i will bring you all the demons" and as he was not willing to be subject to me, i prayed the archangel uriel to come and succour me; and i forthwith beheld the archang

by the larynx, and so destroy them [1. the ms. has a vox nihili. can it mean "her that is born of echo (see above, p. 19, n. 8] 48. and i solomon said to him "what is thy name" and he answered''staff (rabdos. and i said to him "what is thine employment? and what results canst thou achieve" and he replied''give me thy man, and i will lead him away into a mountainous spot, and will show him a green stone tossed to and fro, with which thou mayest adorn the temple of the lord god" 49. and i solomon, on hearing this, ordered my servant to set off with him, and to take the finger-ring bearing the seal of god with him. and i said to him "whoever shall show thee the green stone, seal him with this finger-ring. and mark the spot with care, and bring me the demon hither. and the demon showed him the

ossed to and fro, with which thou mayest adorn the temple of the lord god" 49. and i solomon, on hearing this, ordered my servant to set off with him, and to take the finger-ring bearing the seal of god with him. and i said to him "whoever shall show thee the green stone, seal him with this finger-ring. and mark the spot with care, and bring me the demon hither. and the demon showed him the green stone, and he sealed it, and brought the demon to me. and i solomon decided to confine with my seal on my right hand the two, the headless demon, likewise the hound, that was so huge [1; he should be bound as well. and i bade the hound keep safe the fiery spirit so that lamps as it were might by day and night cast their light through its maw on the artisans at work [1. the text seems corrupt here]

to me. and i solomon decided to confine with my seal on my right hand the two, the headless demon, likewise the hound, that was so huge [1; he should be bound as well. and i bade the hound keep safe the fiery spirit so that lamps as it were might by day and night cast their light through its maw on the artisans at work [1. the text seems corrupt here] 50. and i solomon took from the mine of that stone 200 shekels for the supports of the table of incense, which was similar in appearance. and i solomon glorified the lord god, and then closed round the treasure of that stone. and i ordered afresh the demons to cut marble for the construction of the house of god. and i solomon prayed to the lord, and asked the hound, saying "by what angel art thou frustrated" and the demon replied "by the gre

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

ngs which speak to us all with the same language. we have sought for such things and we believe that we have found them in the shaft of light striking the shimmering surface of solid rock "so, in the middle of the room we see a symbol of how, daily, the light of the skies gives life to the earth on which we stand, a symbol to many of us of how the light of the spirit gives life to matter "but the stone in the middle of the room has more to tell us. we may see it as an altar, empty not because there is no god, not because it is an altar to an unknown god, but because it is dedicated to the god whom man worships under many names and in many forms "the stone in the middle of the room reminds us also of the firm and permanent in a world of movement and change. the block of iron ore has the wei

but because it is dedicated to the god whom man worships under many names and in many forms "the stone in the middle of the room reminds us also of the firm and permanent in a world of movement and change. the block of iron ore has the weight and solidity of the everlasting. it is a reminder of that cornerstone of endurance and faith on which all human endeavor must be based "the material of the stone leads our thoughts to the necessity for choice between destruction and peace. of iron man has forged his swords, of iron he has also made his ploughshares "the shaft of light strikes the stone in a room of utter simplicity. when our eyes travel from these symbols to the front wall, they meet a simple pattern opening up the room to the harmony, freedom and balance of apace. 9 "there is an anc

roceed from darkness to light. with these facts in mind note the cabalistic symbolism of the following description of the cornerstone by an authority:9 "in its situation it lies between the north, the place of darkness, and the east, the place of light; and hence this position symbolizes. progress from darkness to light, and from ignorance to knowledge. the permanence and durability of the corner-stone. is intended [to remind us that long after our death we have within ourselves] a sure foundation of eternal life. a corner-stone of immortality. an emanation. which pervades all nature, and which, therefore, must survive the tomb (emphasis supplied) on a "higher" level of "esoteric knowledge" the metal altar or stone can be likened to the ancient stone of foundation, which, according to the

e within the foundations of the temple of solomon, and afterwards, during the building of the second temple, transported to the holy of holies. it was in the form of a perfect cube, and had inscribed upon its upper face, within a delta or triangle, the sacred tetragrammaton, or ineffable name of god -13- in a "scurrilous book of the middle ages. the life of jesus" there waa another account of the stone''at that time there was in the temple the ineffable name of god, inscribed upon the stone of foundation" this scandalous book proceeded to state that our saviour "cunningly obtained a knowledge of the tetragrammaton from the stone of foundation, and by its mystical influence was enabled to perform his miracles [cf.*mark 3:22. there waa a very general prevalence among the earliest nations of

to state that our saviour "cunningly obtained a knowledge of the tetragrammaton from the stone of foundation, and by its mystical influence was enabled to perform his miracles [cf.*mark 3:22. there waa a very general prevalence among the earliest nations of antiquity of the worship of stones as the representative of deity. in almost every ancient temple there was a legend of a sacred or mystical stone. the mystical stone there has received the name of the 'stone of foundation "10""and the scribes who had come down from jerusalem said 'he has beelzebub' and 'by the prince of devils he casts out devils) alfred edward waite, in his study of the zohar (the cabalistic textbook of the 14th century, entitled the secret doctrine of israel (occult research press, n. y, 191, wrote (p. 62) of "a mys

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

heroes heracles, theseus, orpheus, and so on, who undertook to fetch the fleece from colchis. aeetes laid upon jason severe conditions for the attainment of the fleece; but medea, the king s daughter, was skilled in magic and came to his aid. he harnessed two fire-breathing bulls and ploughed a field, sowing it with dragon s teeth. when these sprang up into armed men, on medea s advice he threw a stone amongst them, whereupon they turned and killed one another. it is by medea s magic that jason lulls the dragon to sleep and so wins the fleece. he then returns with it to greece, taking medea as his wife. the king pursues the fugitives, and in order to delay him, medea kills her little brother apsyrtus and scatters his limbs in the sea. aeetes pauses to collect them and so the pair reach jas

t of the human and cosmic drama on the site. the temples at eleusis were dedicated to the goddess demeter. she is a daughter of kronos, and before his marriage to hera, zeus had by her a daughter, persephone. once while persephone was out playing, pluto, the god of the underworld, carried her off. demeter went wandering through the world lamenting and seeking for her. at eleusis she sat down on a stone, and there she was found by the daughters of celeus, a governor of eleusis. in the form of an old woman, she was taken into the service of the family of celeus, as nurse to the queen s son. she wished to endow the son with immortality, and to this end she hid him every night in the fire. but when his mother learned of it she cried and wailed, after which the bestowal of immortality was no lo

tianity as mystical fact but this renders incomprehensible renan s own view that what happened at bethany was merely the staging of a piece of mummery, designed to strengthen belief in jesus: perhaps lazarus, still pale from his illness, had himself wrapped in a shroud and laid in the family grave. these tombs were large rooms hewn out of the rock, entered by a square opening closed by an immense stone slab. martha and mary hastened to meet jesus, and brought him to the grave before he had entered bethany. the painful emotion felt by jesus at the grave of the friend he believed to be dead (john 11:33 38) might be taken by those present for the agitation and tremors which were wont to accompany miracles. according to popular belief, divine power in a man was like an epileptic, convulsive fo

al, yet at the same time symbolic. his illness was in fact an initiation, and leads after three days to the reality of a new life.119 lazarus had reached a stage of development suited to the fulfillment of these processes. he had put on the vesture of a mystes, and lapsed into the condition of lifelessness, the image of death. by the time jesus came, three days had passed: then they took away the stone from where the dead man was lying. and jesus looked up and said, father, i thank you that you have heard me. 120 the father had heard jesus; lazarus had reached the final act in the great drama of the achievement of knowledge. he had attained the knowledge of resurrection; his initiation into the mysteries was complete. initiation of this kind was understood everywhere in the ancient world

year after the birth of the i. he is referring to the year 33 and thus to the mystery of golgotha as the moment when the human i was born. the essence of the pauline theory of knowledge is an awareness that the mystery of golgotha is the authentic source of those powers of insight and knowledge that lead the human being to the true birth of the i. in the first goetheanum, for which the foundation stone was laid in 1913, this path of knowledge was expressed architecturally in the double-domed hall from west to east. the path began in the west under the red window of knowledge. in the east, before the background 14. in beitr ge zur rudolf steiner gesamtausgabe, nrs. 37 38. 198 christianity as mystical fact of the stage under the smaller dome, would stand the statue of the representative of h

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

d from the bembine tablet by w. w. westcott. 10 a c b c j b f l k y u x q z w h f r l k p h g i h w d e f y j l k h a l b c f k 5 11 alchemical triangles and the hexagrams b a 5 symbolism of the banner of the east the field of the banner of the east is white, the color of light and purity. the calvary cross of six squares is the number six of trapt, the yellow cross of solar gold, and the cubical stone, bearing in its center the sacred t of life, and having bound together upon it the form of the macrocosmic hexagram, the red triangle of o and the blue triangle of n "the \yhla jwr and the waters of creation" in addition to this explanation, it affirms the mode of action employed by the divine light in its operation by the forces of nature. upon it is the symbol of the 12 macrocosm so colore

SZYMANSKI GREG SEARCHING FOR THE ILLUMINATI DEEP WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE VATICAN

lic church hierarchy, you do have to go through that ceremony as well. gs: okay, so you're down in this room. your parents weren't present. sv: no. no. the german father and the french father were. gs: okay, and at that point tell our listeners what you witnessed. sv (pause, additional voice stress) well, there was a table. it looked like dark glass in the center of the room. it was made out of a stone, but it was very shiny and darkened black. it may have been something like obsidian or onyx, i'm not sure. this was the only time i've seen stone like that. around the corners it had these gold channels that, you know, collect fluids. a little boy was placed in the center of the table and drugged. i think he was drugged, because he was very quiet. he didn't move or say anything. gs: this was

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

released in the present and past. visual whitenoise as previously mentioned, whitenoise is not merely an audio phenomena. it is also a visual event as well. visual whitenoise can extend the normal parameters of visual acuity to include elements heretofore that had existed outside the normal range of the eyes normal capacity. visual whitenoise can best be described as the sparkle you see in a gem stone, or the sparkle you see in a fresh snow, or the sparkle from a star on a clear night. for the purpose of ritual microproxemics, visual whitenoise is easily created through the use of computer graphics and animation files. the visual whitenoise could then be projected into the ritual environment through the use of a video projector that can take a computer (rgb) input as one of its options an

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

of course, is believed to sit at the right hand of god, not the left. in ecclesiastes, a book of the old testament in the bible, it is said that "a wise man's heart is at his right hand, but a fool's heart is at his left (eccles. 10:2) witches throughout history have danced in ritual circles to the left, that is, counterclockwise. druid priests do likewise as they dance and march around the holy stone at tara, shrine of mother earth. to blaspheme god, some satanists and witches derive pleasure in giving the sign of the cross with their left hands. but while witches and deep occultists are aware of the sinister nature and meaning of the left hand symbolically, one of the foremost masonic authorities evidently has a more favorable view. professor james curl, author of the reference book, th

ience abruptly got out of their seats and walked out of the room "this was beyond bad taste" said rick neiswanger, who attended the exhibition but had no idea that penn& teller would pull such a blasphemous stunt. in the globe tabloid (february 7, 2005, actor chad michael murry (movie a cinderella story, lets readers know what kind of star he is. 138 codex magica this scotch whiskey ad in rolling stone magazine shows a bizarre image of a scottish highlander rock'n'roller giving a satanic sign. the circle was placed there by the person who clipped and sent this ad to me "el diablo" shows his horns-the devil rides out 139 rock band metallica big in the 80s, the band night ranger is now heard on sirius satellite radio (newsweek, november 29, 2004) according to the article (usa today, february

lished either with the left or the right arm extended and the palm facing toward the object of admiration, or astonishment. 186 codex magica this illustration in richardson's monitor of freemasonry (1860) shows the master mason giving the "first sign, or due guard" with his hands upright "in the manner of giving the grand hailing sign of distress" compare this with the image inscribed on the cave stone above. this goddess statuette was on display in the chambers of alex sanders, well-known british warlock (witch) as he led a witchcraft ritual. witches worship both the goddess and the horned, male god (photo: witchcraft, magic and the supernatural, octopus books, hong kong, 1974) a show of hands 187 instructional material for educators in the fort worth, texas, independent school district i

emon, one of the four great princes of hell. he is especially worshipped with great pomp by jewish cabalists hungry and greedy for wealth and affluence. 250 codex magica two golden phoenix serpents face each other inside the temple room of the scottish rite headquarters, the house of the temple, in washington, d.c. located exactly 13 blocks from the white house. while the focal point is the black stone altar with its three sun medallions, the two serpents provide the most grotesque sight. on the rug we read "the goal of initiation" and, indeed, it is reportedly before this imposing black stone altar that the candidate for the 33rd degree kneels and drinks wine from a human skull. the medical profession uses the winged caduceus, symbol of mercury, the ancient god of commerce, as a universal

arkens back to the dynasty of the pharaohs and to the gods and goddesses of ancient egypt. the stones which make up the pyramid are also of esoteric significance. in the masonic philosophy it is taught that unenlightened man is in a rude, natural state. having little or no "light" and without the spiritual illumination offered by the mystery religions he is likened to an imperfect or rough ashlar stone. but once enlightened and illuminated, he is crafted into a man of education, sophistication, discipline, and culture. he reaches upward toward spiritual perfection. he is then a perfect ashlar stone. in many pagan religions this concept of the rough vs. perfect ashlar was taught. in freemasonry, it is heavily emphasized. the pyramid's structure is fitted only with perfect ashlar stones, it

THE CRAFT GRIMOIRE OF ECLECTIC VERSION 2

r the sharing of wine, juice, or herbal potions. it can also be employed for scrying. it is associated with the element of water. athame this tool represents the active principle of the god. usually it is black handled, with a double-edged blade. in ritual, it is used to cast the circle, as well as to evoke or banish energies. it is associated with the element of air. pentacle often made of wood, stone, ceramic, wax, glass, or metal, this tool represents the goddess in a passive, supporting role. in ritual, it is used to support, protect, and contain the energies being used. it is associated with the element of earth. wand the most personal of the basic tools. traditionally made of wood, and a cubit in length (the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, it frequently has i

ewed as having a male end for projection, and a female or receptive end. much like the athame, the wand can be employed to cast a circle, but its true power lies at a higher level, when used to invoke, and dismiss spiritual entities. it is associated with the element of fire. miscellaneous altar tools these include candles, cords, censor/thurible/incense, bell, sword, staff, crystal ball, scrying stone, magick mirror, tarot cards, rune stones, oils, cauldron, mortar& pestle, bolline, and broom. to name a few. your book of shadows, or grimoire, is one of the most important tools you will ever own. in the craft, it was the place where the young witches wrote down their thoughts and spells. called a book of shadows, because magick is not black or white. this is a journal, a collection of ritu

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ritualist mediums who claim to be able to communicate with the dead remain popular as guides for contemporary men and women, and such individuals as john edward, james van praagh, and sylvia browne issue advice from the other side on syndicated television programs. 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 xiv introduction monsters and night terrors stone age humans had good reason to fear the monsters that emerged from the darkness. saber-tooth tigers stalked man, cave bears mauled them, and rival hominid species many appearing more animal-like than human struggled against them for dominance. the memories of the ancient night terrors surface in dreams and imagination, a kind of psychic residue of primitive fears. anthropologists have observe

ers stalked man, cave bears mauled them, and rival hominid species many appearing more animal-like than human struggled against them for dominance. the memories of the ancient night terrors surface in dreams and imagination, a kind of psychic residue of primitive fears. anthropologists have observed that such half-human, half-animal monsters as the werewolf and other werecreatures were painted by stone age artists more than 10,000 years ago. some of the world s oldest art found on ancient sites in europe, africa, and australia depict animal- human hybrids. such therianthropes, or hybrid beings, appear to be the only common denominator in primitive art around the planet. these werewolves, were-lions, and werebats belonged to an imagined world which early humans saw as powerful, dangerous, a

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

cannot be certain the earliest members of man s species (homo sapiens c. 30,000 b.c.e) conducted burial rituals that would qualify them as believers in an afterlife, one does know they buried their dead with care and consideration and included food, weapons, and various personal belongings with the body. anthropologists have also discovered the neanderthal species (c. 100,000 b.c.e) placed food, stone implements, and decorative shells and bones with the deceased. because of the placement of such funerary objects in the graves, one may safely conjecture that these prehistoric people believed death was not the end. there was some part of the deceased requiring nourishment, clothing, and protection in order to journey safely in another kind of existence beyond the grave. this belief persiste

the gods in the star-jeweled heavens. the children of israel sought the word of the lord in the jewels of the ephod. pharaoh elevated joseph from his prison cell to the office of chief minister of egypt and staked the survival of his kingdom on joseph s interpretation of his dreams. in the same land of egypt, priests of isis and ra listened as those deities spoke through the unmoving lips of the stone sphinx. throughout the centuries, soothsayers and seers have sought to predict the destiny of their clients by interpreting signs in the entrails of animals, the movements of the stars in the heavens, the reflections in a crystal ball, the spread of a deck of cards, and even messages from the dead. all of these ancient practices are still being utilized today by those who wish to know the fu

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ritualist mediums who claim to be able to communicate with the dead remain popular as guides for contemporary men and women, and such individuals as john edward, james van praagh, and sylvia browne issue advice from the other side on syndicated television programs. 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 xiv introduction monsters and night terrors stone age humans had good reason to fear the monsters that emerged from the darkness. saber-tooth tigers stalked man, cave bears mauled them, and rival hominid species many appearing more animal-like than human struggled against them for dominance. the memories of the ancient night terrors surface in dreams and imagination, a kind of psychic residue of primitive fears. anthropologists have observe

ers stalked man, cave bears mauled them, and rival hominid species many appearing more animal-like than human struggled against them for dominance. the memories of the ancient night terrors surface in dreams and imagination, a kind of psychic residue of primitive fears. anthropologists have observed that such half-human, half-animal monsters as the werewolf and other werecreatures were painted by stone age artists more than 10,000 years ago. some of the world s oldest art found on ancient sites in europe, africa, and australia depict animal- human hybrids. such therianthropes, or hybrid beings, appear to be the only common denominator in primitive art around the planet. these werewolves, were-lions, and werebats belonged to an imagined world which early humans saw as powerful, dangerous, a

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

cannot be certain the earliest members of man s species (homo sapiens c. 30,000 b.c.e) conducted burial rituals that would qualify them as believers in an afterlife, one does know they buried their dead with care and consideration and included food, weapons, and various personal belongings with the body. anthropologists have also discovered the neanderthal species (c. 100,000 b.c.e) placed food, stone implements, and decorative shells and bones with the deceased. because of the placement of such funerary objects in the graves, one may safely conjecture that these prehistoric people believed death was not the end. there was some part of the deceased requiring nourishment, clothing, and protection in order to journey safely in another kind of existence beyond the grave. this belief persiste

the gods in the star-jeweled heavens. the children of israel sought the word of the lord in the jewels of the ephod. pharaoh elevated joseph from his prison cell to the office of chief minister of egypt and staked the survival of his kingdom on joseph s interpretation of his dreams. in the same land of egypt, priests of isis and ra listened as those deities spoke through the unmoving lips of the stone sphinx. throughout the centuries, soothsayers and seers have sought to predict the destiny of their clients by interpreting signs in the entrails of animals, the movements of the stars in the heavens, the reflections in a crystal ball, the spread of a deck of cards, and even messages from the dead. all of these ancient practices are still being utilized today by those who wish to know the fu

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ritualist mediums who claim to be able to communicate with the dead remain popular as guides for contemporary men and women, and such individuals as john edward, james van praagh, and sylvia browne issue advice from the other side on syndicated television programs. 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 xiv introduction monsters and night terrors stone age humans had good reason to fear the monsters that emerged from the darkness. saber-tooth tigers stalked man, cave bears mauled them, and rival hominid species. many appearing more animal-like than human.struggled against them for dominance. the memories of the ancient night terrors surface in dreams and imagination, a kind of psychic residue of primitive fears. anthropologists have observ

rs stalked man, cave bears mauled them, and rival hominid species. many appearing more animal-like than human.struggled against them for dominance. the memories of the ancient night terrors surface in dreams and imagination, a kind of psychic residue of primitive fears. anthropologists have observed that such half-human, half-animal monsters as the werewolf and other werecreatures were painted by stone age artists more than 10,000 years ago. some of the world fs oldest art found on ancient sites in europe, africa, and australia depict animal- human hybrids. such gtherianthropes, h or hybrid beings, appear to be the only common denominator in primitive art around the planet. these werewolves, were-lions, and werebats belonged to an imagined world which early humans saw as powerful, dangerou

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

cannot be certain the earliest members of man fs species (homo sapiens c. 30,000 b.c.e) conducted burial rituals that would qualify them as believers in an afterlife, one does know they buried their dead with care and consideration and included food, weapons, and various personal belongings with the body. anthropologists have also discovered the neanderthal species (c. 100,000 b.c.e) placed food, stone implements, and decorative shells and bones with the deceased. because of the placement of such funerary objects in the graves, one may safely conjecture that these prehistoric people believed death was not the end. there was some part of the deceased requiring nourishment, clothing, and protection in order to journey safely in another kind of existence beyond the grave. this belief persiste

the gods in the star-jeweled heavens. the children of israel sought the word of the lord in the jewels of the ephod. pharaoh elevated joseph from his prison cell to the office of chief minister of egypt and staked the survival of his kingdom on joseph fs interpretation of his dreams. in the same land of egypt, priests of isis and ra listened as those deities spoke through the unmoving lips of the stone sphinx. throughout the centuries, soothsayers and seers have sought to predict the destiny of their clients by interpreting signs in the entrails of animals, the movements of the stars in the heavens, the reflections in a crystal ball, the spread of a deck of cards, and even messages from the dead. all of these ancient practices are still being utilized today by those who wish to know the fu

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

studied, and from the arts and handicrafts the mentaldevelopment of the palaeolithic and neolithic peoples can be traced. but the religion of those early times hasbeen entirely neglected, with the exception of a few references to mother-goddesses and to burial customs.the student of early religion begins his subject in the early bronze-age of the near east and totally ignoreswestern europe in the stone-ages; he ends his study with the introduction of christianity, as the study of thatreligion is known as theology. there is, however, a continuity of belief and ritual which can be traced fromthe palaeolithic period down to modern times. it is only by the anthropological method that the study ofreligions, whether ancient or modern, can be advanced.the attitude of all writers towards the post

lly entirely pastoral andunacquainted with agriculture. though they might sometimes be found in woods they preferred open moorsand heaths which afforded pasturage for their cattle. like some of the wild tribes in india they fled from astranger, were fleet of foot, and so highly skilled in the art of taking cover that they were seldom seen unlessthey so desired. their dwelling-places were built of stone, wattle or turf, and were in bee-hive form, andhere whole families lived together as in an eskimo igloo. it is not impossible that the houses were in use inthe winter only, and the fairy people lived entirely out of doors in the summer. for similar conditions of lifethe people of the asiatic steppes afford the best parallel.like the people of the steppe the fairies appear to have lived chief

ionate nickname of brownie given to the kindly fairy).in great britain the neolithic and bronze-age people lived on open downs and moors; they were chieflypastoral, practising agriculture but rarely. they no longer lived in caves like palaeolithic man, but builthouses or huts. these houses were circular in plan, and were sunk in the earth to the depth of two or threefeet; the floor was paved with stone, and the lower part of the walls was of stone also; the upper part of thewalls was of wattle-and-daub or of turf, and the roof was of turf supported by a central post which perhapscarried a wooden frame. the hearth, when there was one, was in the middle of the one chamber, and therewas an opening in the roof to allow the smoke to escape. such houses were built in groups; and whenovergrown wi

heir close resemblance to the neolithic people but also of the survival of the neolithic andbronze-age folk and their civilisation as late as the sixteenth century.the fairies, then, were the descendants of the early people who inhabited northern europe; they were pastoralbut not nomad, they lived in the unforested parts of the country where there was good pasturage for theircattle, and they used stone in the neolithic period and metal in the bronze-age for their tools and weapons.later on, when the fierce tribes of the iron-age, the kelts, poured into western europe and to a great extentexterminated the people and the civilisation of the bronze-age, those folk who live in the wild parts escapedthe general massacre and learned that their best defence was to strike terror into the hearts of

es were scrupulous in keeping a promise, in which they were better thanthe "mortals" who often cheated them. they were also grateful for kindnesses and repaid a debt of money orhelp generously. in northumberland the fairies were definitely mortal, for they died and lie buried inbrinkburn under a green mound.[33]the characteristic weapon of the fairies, and one which still bears their name, is the stone arrow-head orelf-bolt. these arrow-heads are made of flint and are found on open heaths and downs where the fairypeople dwelt. they are now known to be of the bronze-age. they are so small and slight that they couldhave been used only with a small and light bow, such as that carried by the masked dancer of the palaeolithictimes (plate ii. a little light weapon of this kind could have been of

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

ead shows the mythological pattern of the horn child, the glorified essence of reality or fire, returning at last to raise up the earth, and all beings and things, into immortality, filling them with awareness of ultimate truth and purifying all illusions. it is the best possible ending, and the best possible beginning, all rolled into one; the true resolution and renewal. the housle of the green stone, or the true housle any of the housle or red meal rites that i have written can be understood, on many levels, through the words in this essay, but it was the feast of wren hill that was and is the basic housle that was used as the explanation model for this work. as i have striven to communicate, the housle is a substance corollary, a physical harmonic to pagan mythology. that mythology is

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

they would eat the butchers and the shepherds. sheep never change because they do not instruct themselves; but peoples instruct themselves. shepherds and butchers of the people, you are then 31 right to regard as your enemies those who speak to your flock! flocks who know yet only your shepherds, and who wish to remain ignorant of their dealings with the butchers, it is excusable that you should stone them who humiliate you and disturb you, in speaking to you of your rights. o christ! the authorities condemn thee, thy disciples deny thee, the people curses thee, and demands thy murder; only thy mother weeps for thee, even god abandons thee "eli! eli! lama sabachthani" vii the septenary the septenary is the great biblical number. it is the key of the creation in the books of moses and the

hy temples rise again, side by side with thy basilicas: be once more the queen of the world, and the pantheon of the nations; let vergil be crowned on the capitol by the hand of st. peter; and let olympus and carmel unite their divinities beneath the brush of raphael! transfigure yourselves, ancient cathedrals of our fathers; dart forth into the clouds your chiselled and living arrows, and 62 let stone record in animated figures the dark legends of the north, brightened by the marvellous gilded apologues of the qur'an! let the east adore jesus christ in its mosques, and on the minarets of a new santa sophia let the cross rise in the midst of the crescent<symbol is characteristic of the greek church which he has been attacking. levi should have visite

e heard from a travelling companion. two friends were staying in the same inn, and sharing the same room. one of them had a habit of talking in his sleep, and, at that time, would answer the questions which his comrade put to him. one night, he suddenly uttered stifled cries; his companion woke up and asked him what was the matter "but, don't you see" said the sleeper "don't you see that enormous stone. it is becoming loose from the mountain. it is falling on me, it is going to crush me "oh, well, get out of its way "impossible! my feet are caught in brambles that cling ever closer. ah! help! help! there is the great stone coming right upon me "well, there it is" said the other laughing, throwing the pillow at his head in order to wake him. a terrible cry, suddenly strangled in his throat

degree- by dominating the will of others so as to prevent them doing what they will, and forcing them to do what they do not will; 4 degree- by exciting apparitions and dreams; 5 degree- by curing a large number of illnesses; 6 degree- by restoring life to subjects who display all the symptoms of death; 7 degree- lastly, by demonstrating (if need be, by examples) the reality of the philosophical stone, and the transmutation of metals, according to the secrets of abraham the jew, of flamel, and of raymond lully. all these prodigies are accomplished by means of a single agent which the hebrew calls od, as did the chevalier de reichenback, which we, with the school of pasqualis martinez, call astral light, which mr. de mirville calls the devil, and which the ancient alchemists called azoth

ore cruel yet, of indifference and forgetfulness. 240 the master said "if a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit" affirmation and negation must, then, marry each other, and from their union will be born the practical truth, the real and progressive word. it is necessity which should constrain the workmen to choose for the corner-stone that which they had at first despised and rejected. let contradiction, then, never discourage men of initiative! earth is necessary for the ploughshare, and the earth resists because it is in labour. it defends itself like all virgins; it conceives and brings forth slowly like all mothers. you, then, who wish to sow a new plant in the field of intelligence, understand and respect the modesti

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

is idea is that of hologram images, which are produced by projecting the interference patterns made by light waves (lasers) about an object onto photographic plate. shining light on the plate from the same angle then produces the image of the object from the viewers location. as itzhak bentov explains, if one were to freeze such an interference pattern, for example, the ripples in water made by a stone being dropped, then one could, analysing the pattern, discover where the stone had broken through the water (see diagram 4. on a note of poetic whimsy, one could perhaps visualise the tree of life as the wave-front of the light of god. one may realise that all the above modern ideas are actually pre-empted and summarised in a more ancient doctrine, which states, in the tabula smaragdina (tab

er and lower tree according to the dual states of each. this is the point where "as is below, so above" is equally "as is above, so below. the upper sephiroth cannot flow into the lower in an optimum state if the lower are unbalanced, and neither can the lower sephiroth function correctly when the upper sephiroth are disturbed. tiphareth, the sephirah representing human self-awareness, is the key-stone on which this balance rests. indeed, in ephesians 2.20, paul makes reference to "the foundation of the apostles and prophets, jesus christ himself being the chief corner-stone" which in kabbalah can be read to say that yesod (meaning the "foundation) is the sephirah of prophecy and communication to the outside world (malkuth, but the corner-stone is self-awareness as practised by christ, a p

four quarters appropriate to each element thus (the elemental weapons are given as an example; north; earth (pentacle) east; air (sword) south; fire (wand) west; water (cup) note that the four elemental weapons are the primary tools that our species developed as extensions of our own action in the world; pentacle; palm of hand for carrying objects, later a large leaf, then a flat piece of wood or stone. sword; originally, the teeth for cutting and biting, then a sharp flint, and later metal edges. wand; first, the arm or leg, then a bone from some animal, and later a stick or wooden staff. chalice; the cupped hand, then a hollowed out piece of wood, and later pottery and metal cups. chapter five 1. take a picture, a favourite painting or photograph, or a tarot card, and make a list of as m

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

le and tolerant, and may the angel unto whom thou hast entrusted the guidance of each of these nations, or countries, maintain them always on the path of peace, harmony and tolerance, and in respect of thy faithful elect. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator meditates for a moment and then prays for the entire human race: o almighty and eternal god, thou who hast used thine own son as the corner stone to bring together jews and gentiles as if linking two walls rising from two opposing foundations, and hast thus reunited these two opposing flocks under only one shepherd, the eternal repairer, o lord, knowing that one day the whole humanity shall render thee its pious tributes in thy holy city of above, do so that thy creatures may in the near future finally live united by the unbreakable t

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

one initiate uniquely qualified for his appointed task-the task of successfully presenting magic as a therapeutic tool to the skeptical world of psychology, and ultimately, to bring psychotherapy and magic together. in the winter of 1936-37, regardie was bedridden in london for two weeks with a bad case of bronchitis. during this time he wrote most of what would be published as the philosopher's stone, a book about alchemy from a jungian perspective. at the time regardie was convinced that laboratory alchemy was fallacious, and that only theoretical, spiritual, or psychological alchemy was valid (by 1970, however, interaction with practical alchemists such as frater albertus of the paracelsus research society caused him to change his opinion on this. he began his own alchemical experiment

ther hand with the superficial levels of the instinctual life, concerned with primitive things, of self-assertion and the unbridled gratification of its every w h an d caprice. it is ths new factor of adjustment whch comprises the principal impetus to what has been variously called in the east the golden flower, and in mediaeval europe the growth of the red rose upon the cross of gold.3 it is the stone of the philosophers, the medicine of metals.4 to the four central sephroth plus the shadowy daath as the fifth, are attributed divine names-whch, as in the former exercise, are to be vibrated powerfully in conjunction with the imaginative formulation of various images. let me expatiate upon these divine names by stating that they may be considered as the keynote or vibratory rates of various

lence with reference to symptoms and results is therefore most desirable. endnotes 1. ths is daath, which is not a sephirah, but rather a conjunction of chokmah and binah. 2. from the neophyte ritual. see regardie, the golden dawn, 129. 3. the symbol of the rosicrucians. rosicrucianism is a form of mystic or esoteric christianity whose teachings embrace the hermetic sciences. 4. the philosopher's stone is an alchemical symbol of true spiritual attainment. the search for the philosopher's stone is the search for truth and illumination. 5. along the same lines, each letter of the hebrew alphabet has a musical note attributed to it. thus each divine name in hebrew can be sung or played on a musical instrument. see the appendix: the musical qabalah. 6. in this list, regardie has given the name

s when we try to define sornething that lies beyond the bourn of our understanding..i24 it is obvious that jung is bordering on the mystical here. jungian psychology differs from other systems in that it presents ethcal objectives that have much in common with magical goals. the discovery of the self might well be described as the completion of the great work, or the creation of the philosophers' stone. the expansion of consciousness, through the elevation of heretofore unconscious material, is a form of spiritual illumination. ths does not mean that the individual who experiences illumination or self-realization will spend the rest of his days in blissful meditation, but rather that he will gradually gain a more true understanding of himself and his connection to the divine. the goal of j

ogy, the techniques of magic, or a combination of the two systems, is an easy matter. but here, even the smallest achievement will be a monumental step in one's personal inner growth. if the mind is kept open to both new and old ways of exploring human development, one will discover that the psychologist's pursuit of a healthy, integrated human psyche, the alchemist's search for the philosophers' stone, and the magician's quest to complete the great work are all natural complements of each other. humanity's spiritual development is a long and arduous journey, an adventure through strange lands full of surprises, difficulties, and even dangers. it involves a drastic transmutation of the "normal" elements of the personality, an awakening of potentialities which had hitherto been dormant, a r

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

ilar to a man's footprint. my dog alpha bristled up, snarled and then something rushed about nearby trampling among the bushes] yuri b. petrenko "forerunner of the flying 'lady' of vietnam" flying saucer review, vol. 19, no. 2 (march-april 1973: 29-30- however, it didn't go away, but stopped nearby, standing stock-still. we had been standing like that for some minutes. then i stooped, picked up a stone and threw it towards the unknown animal. then something happened that was quite unexpected: i heard the beating of wings. something large and dark emerged from the fog and flew over the river. a moment later it disappeared into the dense mist my dog, badly frightened, pressed itself to my feet. after supper i told the udehe-men about this incident. they broke into a vivid story about a man w

avoid it? was it filled with hairy monsters and frightful apparitions way back when? across the river in ohio, industrious indians or someone built the great mounds and left us a rich heritage of indian culture and lore. the absence of an indian tradition in west virginia is troublesome for the researcher. it creates an uncomfortable vacuum. there are strange ancient ruins in the state, circular stone monuments which prove that someone had settled the region once. since the indians didn't build such monuments, and since we don't even have any lore to fall back on, we have only mystery [1] american indian linguistic families and tribes, a map issued by c.s. hammond& co, new york- chief cornstalk and his shawnees fought a battle there in the 1760s and cornstalk is supposed to have put a cur

latter were joined by straight tracks or "leys" which formed a complicated grid system. i wondered if a similar ley grid may not have once existed in west virginia and i studied aerial photos and old maps looking for such a system. there are tiny traces. here and there, but modern fanners and builders have destroyed most of the old artifacts, just as they had destroyed a great many of the mounds, stone towers, etc, that stood on this continent when the first europeans arrived. had woody been stopped on a cross-point of some old ley network? the only clue lies in mr. cold's uncharacteristic selection for a name. in his study of the british leys, the view over atlantis, john michell stated: a peculiar feature of the old alignments is that certain names appear with remarkable frequency along

could fill a book with such incidents, and, indeed, some authors have. long ago i classified such episodes as distortions of reality. throughout history people have been straying through alice's looking glass, seeing things that don't exist, visiting places that spill off the maps into some hallucinatory other dimension. fifteen years ago there was a lake in england with a sword jutting out of a stone, waiting for some king to come along" and pull it out, shouting "excalibur" this is no more ridiculous than stumbling upon a secret flying saucer base nestled in the hills of new england and bustling with activity. contactees have claimed such things. an engineer rex ball swears he came upon a mysterious underground installation in georgia in 1940, manned by small oriental-looking men in cov

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

ers i must take with me when i leave you. anu have mercy on my soul! i have seen the unknown lands, that no map has ever charted. i have lived in the deserts and the wastelands, and spoken with demons and the souls of slaughtered men, and of women who have dies in childbirth, victims of the she-fiend lammashta. i have traveled beneath the seas, in search of the palace of our master, and found the stone of monuments of vanquished civilisations, and deciphered the writings of some of these; while still others remain mysteries to any man who lives. and these civilisations were destroyed because of the knowledge contained in this book. i have traveled among the stars, and trembled before the gods. i have, at last, found the formulae by which i passed the gate arzir, and passed into the forbidd

rotect me from the wolves that wander in those regions and went to sleep, for it was night and i was far from my village, being bet durrabia. being about three hours from dawn, in the nineteenth of shabatu, i was awakened by the howl of a dog, perhaps of a wolf, uncommonly loud and close at hand. the fire had dies to its embers, and these red, glowing coals cast a faint, dancing shadow across the stone monument with the three carvings. i began to make haste to build another fire when, at once, the gray rock began to rise slowly into the air, as though it were a dove. i could not move or speak for the fear that seized upon my spine and wrapped cold fingers around my skull. the dik of azugbel- ya was no stranger to me than this sight, though the former seemed to melt into my hands! presently

some distance away and a more practical fear, that of the possibility of robbers, took hold of me and i rolled behind some weeds, trembling. another voice joined the first, and soon several men in the black robes of thieves came together over the place where i was, surrounding the floating rock, of which they did not exhibit the least fright. i could see clearly now that the three carvings on the stone monument were glowing a flame red colour, as though the rock were on fire. the figures were murmuring together in prayer or invocation, of which only a few words could be heard, and these in some unknown tongue; though, anu have mercy on my soul, these rituals are not unknown to me any longer. the figures, whose faces i could not see or recognise, began to make wild passes in the air with kn

zag! ia! ia! zi azkak! ia! ia! kutulu zi kur! ia! the ground where i was hiding became wet with some substance, being slightly downhill from the scene i was witnessing. i touched the wetness and found it to be blood. in horror, i screamed and gave my presence away to the priests. they turned toward me, and i saw a loathing that they had cut their chests with the daggers they had used to raise the stone, for some mystical purpose i could not then divine; although i know now that blood is the very food of these spirits, which is why the field after the battles of war glows with an unnatural light, the manifestations of the spirits feeding thereon. may anu protect us all! my scream had the effect of casting their ritual into chaos and disorder. i raced through the mountain path by which i had

y overpowered me, but i was resolute to find the others, to see if the same fortune had also befallen them. walking back up the slope that i had so fearfully run down only moments ago, i came across yet another of the dark priests, in identical condition to the first. i kept walking, passing more of the robes as i went, not venturing to overturn them any longer. then, i finally came upon the grey stone monument that had risen unnaturally into the air at the command of the priests. it now upon the ground once more, but the carvings still glowed with supernatural light. the serpents, or what i had then though of as serpents, had disappeared. but in the dead embers of the fire, now cold and black, was a shining metal plate. i picked it up and saw that it also was carved, as the stone, but ver

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

nts in additional books the mishnah, the talmud and so on. every kabbalist wrote about his research of our world and the way to enter the spiritual world. we call these books holy books, or in general we call them torah, from the hebrew word ohr (light) and hora a (instruction, meaning instructions on how to enter the spiritual world. the books didn t fall out of the blue. they were not carved in stone by some upper power and were not written by the creator on papyrus or anything of the sort. there was always a kabbalist who sat down and put his spiritual research on paper. that research is done from below upward, from our world up. the thing is that the ascent from below upward is personal and differs from one person to another. there are certainly common methods, general rules, degrees a

there is the restriction. thus, from the highest state the world of ein sof down to the lowest, where we are, there are five worlds- adam kadmon, atzilut, beria, yetzira, assiya, each consisting of five partzufim and each partzuf of five sefirot. thus, the total number of degrees that stand between our (necessary) future state and our present state is 125. these degrees are not made of marble or stone, they are inside us. they are degrees of internal spiritual development. when a person changes something inside himself, he ascends by one degree. when he changes another, he climbs another degree and so on. all the degrees are levels of equivalence with the creator. the world of ein sof is a complete equivalence of form with the creator. our world is the complete opposite of the creator. th

dy the torah as history, and some look for secrets in the letters, like treasure hunters. but within the wisdom of kabbalah, there are people who are closer to the center, to the desire to cleave to the creator, and there are people who are farther from that goal. the latter kind studies it like a science and seeks knowledge in the kabbalah. it is like the circular ripples that formulate around a stone thrown in the water. any person who hears about the wisdom of kabbalah will find his own approach to it, in a position that matches the desire of his soul for correction. those who have not come to kabbalah yet, have not come to it because their time hasn t come. q: is it okay for adolescents to take kabbalah classes? a: yes. i recommend the articles from the book matan torah (the revelation

o keeps mitzvot physically is turned from an ordinary still to a holy still. it is absolutely forbidden to underestimate the level of this spiritual degree. it is that which keeps us a nation. its keeping is also the keeping the will of the creator! a person in that degree is in fact in the first degree of his correction, though he is unaware of it and does not feel the spiritual world, just as a stone cannot feel spirituality. rabbi zidichev wrote in his book about the verse (psalms 34, 15: depart from evil, and do good, that without understanding the wisdom of kabbalah, man is like an animal: he keeps the mitzvot automatically, just like an animal eats its food. even if he is proficient in every detail of the mitzvot, he must still give some time to study the kabbalah, which is the core

fferent people, different nations and nationalities, so the various parts of malchut of ein sof differ in their measure of desire (and in that alone, thus creating the various degrees of nature: still, vegetative, animate and speaking. everyone is interested in the difference between men and women in terms of the correction they must perform, but no one wants to know what is the correction that a stone must perform. but after all, even the stone was created in our world, and it too must reach the goal of creation. the correction of the entire nature depends on the correction of mankind. it is the work of man that brings life to nature toward the end of correction. animals and plants were not given the torah because they have no free choice and their egoism is not under their control, so it

THE ROSICRUCIAN MANIFESTOS

was cast of brasse, and containeth all the names of the brethren, with some few other things; this he would transfer in another more fitting vault: for where or when fra: r.c. died, or in what country he was buried, was by our predecessors concealed and unknown unto us. in this table stuck a great naile somewhat strong, so that when he was with force drawn out, he took with him an indifferent big stone out of the thin wall, or plaistering of the hidden door, and so unlooked for uncovered the door; wherefore we did with joy and longing throw down the rest of the wall, and cleared the door, upon which that was written in great letters, post 120 annos patebo, with the year of the lord under it: therefore we gave god thanks and let it rest that same night, because first we would overlook our r

n the morning following we opened the door, and there appeared to our sight a vault of seven sides and corners, every side five foot broad, and the height of eight foot; although the sun never shined in this vault, nevertheless it was enlightened with another sun, which had learned this from the sun, and was situated in the upper part in the center of the sieling; in the midst, in stead of a tomb-stone, was a round altar covered over with a plate of brass, and thereon this engraven: a.c. r.c. hoc universi compendium unius mihi sepulchrum feci. round about the first circle or brim stood, jesus mihi omnia. in the middle were four figures, inclosed in circles, whose circumscription was, 11 1. nequaquam vacuum. 2. legis jugum. 3. libertas evangelij. 4. dei gloria intacta. this is all clear and

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

en chapters to interpret the book of the seven seals, and to paint its splendour, as an artist would incarnadine his canvas with the red blood of his mistress, love-kissed from the bloom of her crimson lips. i have not, as samuel, hacked and hewn agag into pieces before the lord in gilgal; but rather elijah-like have called upon wisdom and understanding so that my sacrifice, and even the wood and stone of the altar, and the water which floweth about it, may be licked up by the fire of the great coronation. as another ariadne i here offer this work to my readers as a twisted clue of silk and hemp to guide them safely through the labyrinthine mysteries of poetry and magic, whose taurine crags hug the blue sky, amorous as the kisses of pasiphae; across the elysian fields of myrtle and asphode

as yet a whirling cloud of fire and adamant, a ceaseless crowd of rushing atoms roaring into space, driven by demons from before the face *the tale of archais, vol. i, p. 17. so beautiful was she, that gthe sun forgot his chariot, nor would set h; and in this mystic hour, the marriage of day and night, she prayed fervently to aphrodite, fond goddess of lovers, and there amidst the thunder-smitten stone, beautiful and piteous, she waited, longing for that strong desire of love that had been so rudely snatched from her. again, love in the form of aphrodite listens to her prayer, but is helpless to help her till she has sought aid from the lewd city of aphaca, where lust in the grim shape of priapus dwelt. the large-lipped drawn-out grinning of that court that mouthed and gibbered in their sw

ever sought this moloch of his nights, shedding o fer it his own blood, and drenching it with that of others, if it prove but an incubus of sorrow and despair? firstly, because most men are fools; secondly, because those who are not are knaves. i take no heed of trickery played by cunning mad elijah fs skill, when the great test of strength was made on carmel fs melancholy hill, and on the altar stone the liar cried gwater, h and poured forth greek fire *ahab, vol. ii, p. 123. if we could be optimistic enough to believe in a (semi-)omnipotent power (pure omnipotency is anachronistic, we should believe this malady were inflicted on man as are the measles, the croup, and the chicken-pox, so as to stimulate romance, and retard that ultimate uninteresting state perfection. this not being so

ce; ignorance reacted on god, producing superstition; superstition, cruelty; cruelty, all the tigerish longings of the day and the hoggish gratifications of the night. pessimism is necessarily the foundation of all religion; for if man were normally optimistic he would not have conceived such a hierarchy of tyrants as that of his gods. the man who formerly cut himself with flints before a lump of stone or clay, is in no way more foolish than he who prays to an omnipotent conception; the former was jealous and exacting, and so is the latter, the former a thing, the latter an idea, and both an ideal. this evolution is very vividly de-scribed in the poem entitled gthe growth of god h: fear grows, and torment; and distracted pain must from sheer agony some respite find; when some half-maddened

y and the sapphire of the cornflower; so with us, it is synthetically that we rise, and not analytically. blake grasped this idea and so did joseph de maistre. the arcanum of solomon is represented by the two pillars of the temple, yakheen and boaz, the two forces, the white and the black; separate and contrary, yet in their polarity they are uniform, equilibrating their unity. the philosopher fs stone, as hermes declared, consisted in separating the ethereal from that which was gross. thou shalt separate the earth from the fire, the ethereal from the gross, gently, but with great industry. it ascends from earth to heaven, and again it comes down from heaven to earth, and it is invested with the potency of superior and inferior things. thou wilt possess by this means the glory of the whole

THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

shadowing genius of his spiritual master directing his efforts and counseling him in his upward struggles. the left hand extends the index finger to the earth to show that the mission of the perfect man is to reign over the material world. this double gesture also expresses that the human will should reflect the divine will in order to procure good and prevent evil. before the magus, upon a cubic stone, are placed a cup, a sword, and a piece of gold money in the center of which is engraved a cross. the cup signifies the mixture of the passions which contribute to happiness and unhappiness according as we are their masters or their slaves. the sword signifies the work, the struggle which traverses obstacles, and the trials which sorrow submits us to. the coin, sign of determined value, is t

s covered with eyes, indicating that through union the eyes of the soul have been opened to a knowledge of good and evil. this ensemble pictures, in terms of universal symbolism, generation, gestation, and universal fecundity. the sovereign--arcanum iv. in divination, arcanum iv may be read as realization. arcanum iv is figured by a man; on his head a sovereign's helmet. he is seated upon a cubic stone; his right hand raises a scepter surmounted by a circle, and his right leg bent, rests upon the other, forming with it a cross. the cubic stone, image of the perfect solid, signifies labor which has reached completion. the cat, pictured on the side of the stone, indicates that the vision of the soul penetrates the illusions of matter. the sovereign's helmet is an emblem of force conquered by

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

ng woman, which brought forth a significant sexual intensity which would later aid in the influence of his magickial awakenings. it was though this that mrs. paterson passed on the "power" and allowed aos to become properly initiated into the magickial current which would drive him the rest of his earthly life. austin's first publication "earth inferno" was privately published in 1905 and "set in stone" what was to be his path. the images of sexuality, the macabre and of death provided an intense aura of mystery and sensuality. spare had expanded more into the inspired and powerful web of interlocking his art with magick, and how so were both intertwined! around the year 1906, aos had begun signing his paintings and drawings in what was to become a sigil, which is described as a "represent

THE BOOK OF GATES

d excavations in egypt and nubia, london, 1820, p. 233 ff. in october, 1815, belzoni began to excavate in the biban-al-muluk, i.e, the valley of the tombs of the kings, on the western bank of the nile at thebes, and in the p. 44 bed of a watercourse he found a spot where the ground bore traces of having been "moved" on the 19th of the month his workmen made a way through the sand and fragments of stone which had been piled up there, and entered the first corridor or passage of a magnificent tomb, which he soon discovered to have been made for one of the great kings of egypt. a second corridor led him to a square chamber which, being thirty feet deep, formed a serious obstacle in the way of any unauthorized intruder, and served to catch any rain-water which might make its way down the corri

wing the blocks without breaking, or even cracking them, is marvellous, and the remains of holes nearly one inch in diameter suggest that the drill was as useful to him as the chisel and mallet in hollowing out the blocks. when the sarcophagus and its cover were finally shaped and polished, they were handed over to an artisan who was skilled in cutting hieroglyphics and figures of the gods &c, in stone, and both the insides and outsides were covered by him p. 46 with inscriptions and vignettes and mythological scones which illustrated them. both inscriptions and scenes were then filled in with a kind of paint made from some preparation of copper, and the vivid bluish green colour of this paint must have formed a striking contrast to the brilliant whiteness of the alabaster when fresh from

ous passage, leading downwards, 300 ft. in length. at the end of this passage we found a great quantity of bats' dung, which choked it up, so that we could go no farther without digging. it was nearly filled up too by the falling in of the upper part. one hundred feet from the entrance is a staircase in good preservation; but the rock below changes its substance, from a beautiful solid calcareous stone, becoming a kind of black rotten slate, which crumbles into dust only by touching. this subterraneous passage proceeds in a south-west p. 79 direction through the mountain. i measured the distance from the entrance, and also the rocks above, and found that the passage reaches nearly halfway through the mountain to the upper part of the valley. i have reasons to suppose, that this passage was

mountain to the upper part of the valley. i have reasons to suppose, that this passage was used to come into the tomb by another entrance; but this could not be after the death of the person who was buried there, for at the bottom of the stairs just tinder the sarcophagus a wall was built, which entirely closed the communication between the tomb and the subterraneous passage. some large blocks of stone were placed under the sarcophagus horizontally, level with the pavement of the saloon, that no one might perceive any stairs or subterranean passage was there. the doorway of the sideboard room had been walled up, and forced open, as we found the stones with which it was shut, and the mortar in the jambs. the staircase of the entrance-hall had been walled up also at the bottom, and the space

he pavement of the saloon, that no one might perceive any stairs or subterranean passage was there. the doorway of the sideboard room had been walled up, and forced open, as we found the stones with which it was shut, and the mortar in the jambs. the staircase of the entrance-hall had been walled up also at the bottom, and the space filled, with rubbish, and the floor covered with large blocks of stone, so as to deceive any one who should force the fallen wall near the pit, and make him suppose, that the tomb ended with the entrance-hall and the drawing-room. i am inclined to believe, that whoever forced all these passages must have had some spies with them, who were well acquainted with the tomb throughout. the tomb faces the north-east, and the direction of the whole runs straight south

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

ary widely amongst those occult lodges which claim an o.t.o. ancestry.27 accordingly they have not been inserted into the body of the ritual; in any case they are no more than the usual claptrap of secret societies quite the least important parts of the ritual. minerval ritual a conical tent, within which is seated saladin, in oriental costume. before him is an altar, a well covered with a coping-stone, on which are (1) the book of the law (ccxx (2) a sword (3) a platter (disk) of bread and salt. on his right hand is a seat. the tent is lighted by a single candle: or, there is a palm tree. without is an armed black guard, who seizes the candidate on his approach, and binds him hand and foot, and blindfolds him. he then leads him to the tent and knocks once. saladin: whom have you there? bl

mselves* first degree29 prefatory note once again there is a variation in the nature of the signs, grips, etc, used at the present time. nevertheless, details survive of those used in the o.t.o. in its early years and these have therefore been included in the text of the ritual. first degree first point (illustration) the oasis is a space, preferably circular. in the west is a well, with a coping-stone; that is, a cubical altar with a removable top. it is made so as to hold water; and on this water floats an ark, preferably proportioned as is given in the canon, containing a dagger, a disk, and the book of the law. in the east is an altar, cylindrical, where burns a candle. this is overshadowed by a conical tent, where is a throne composed of four cubes, arranged as an inverted tau, for th

01 2:02:43 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. w: most mysterious master. the candidate has fulfilled the nine moons (music) s: before the beginning of years, etc. to between a sleep and a sleep (chorus from swinburne s atlanta in calydon (a pause (w. and e. advance silent, throw a noose around his neck, and carry him to the well, where he sits crouched, immersed to the neck. they put the coping-stone in place. s. removes his candle, and descends to the well. he knocks thrice with the dagger on the coping-stone, and returns) s: and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. and the powers of nature said: let there be light! and there was light (w. and e. raise the stone, pull out c, and wrap him in the flag of his country. they lead him to the altar)

spies of the secret place where they might find the master, they repaired thither and discovered him at the hour of sunset, in the very act of adoration (gives life sign of second degree. c. imitates him) thus the first, advancing upon him, cried, who art thou? to which our brother in his ecstasy replied, i am the truth, and in my turban is wrapped nothing but god. upon this the assassin hurled a stone which struck him upon the left breast, throwing him to the ground (done) satisfied with the success of his abominable design the murderer retired; but the second assassin approaching, saw that our brother had recovered himself; and in his turn cried who art thou? so fixed was our brother in his realization, that he replied as before, i am the truth and in my turban is wrapped nothing but god

m to the ground (done) satisfied with the success of his abominable design the murderer retired; but the second assassin approaching, saw that our brother had recovered himself; and in his turn cried who art thou? so fixed was our brother in his realization, that he replied as before, i am the truth and in my turban is wrapped nothing but god. the villain, enraged at such persistence, picked up a stone, and hurled it. it struck our brother upon the right breast, once more hurling him to the ground (done) it was now the turn of the arch assassin and prime mover of this crime to assure himself that our brother was dead; but on his approach, he found that, although faint and bleeding from the determined assaults upon him, he had staggered to his feet, so that he might pay proper salutation to

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

e tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 2:10 and a river went out of eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 2:11 the name of the first [is] pison: that [is] it which compasseth the whole land of havilah, where [there is] gold; 2:12 and the gold of that land [is] good: there [is] bdellium and the onyx stone. 2:13 and the name of the second river [is] gihon: the same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of ethiopia. 2:14 and the name of the third river [is] hiddekel: that [is] it which goeth toward the east of assyria. and the fourth river [is] euphrates. 2:15 and the lord god took the man, and put him into the garden of eden to dress it and to keep it. 2:16 and the lord god commanded the man

enerations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. 11:1 and the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 11:2 and it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of shinar; and they dwelt there. 11:3 and they said one to another, go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. and they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 11:4 and they said, go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 11:5 and the lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 11:6 and the lord said, behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one langua

s land; for i will not leave thee, until i have done [that] which i have spoken to thee of. 28:16 and jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, surely the lord is in this place; and i knew [it] not. 28:17 and he was afraid, and said, how dreadful [is] this place! this is none other but the house of god, and this [is] the gate of heaven. 28:18 and jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put [for] his pillows, and set it up [for] a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. 28:19 and he called the name of that place bethel: but the name of that city [was called] luz at the first. 28:20 and jacob vowed a vow, saying, if god will be with me, and will keep me in this way that i go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 28:21 so that i come again to m

d poured oil upon the top of it. 28:19 and he called the name of that place bethel: but the name of that city [was called] luz at the first. 28:20 and jacob vowed a vow, saying, if god will be with me, and will keep me in this way that i go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 28:21 so that i come again to my father s house in peace; then shall the lord be my god: 28:22 and this stone, which i have set [for] a pillar, shall be god s house: and of all that thou shalt give me i will surely give the tenth unto thee. 29:1 then jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east. 29:2 and he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there [were] three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone [wa

me i will surely give the tenth unto thee. 29:1 then jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east. 29:2 and he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there [were] three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone [was] upon the well s mouth. 29:3 and thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well s mouth in his place. 29:4 and jacob said unto them, my brethren, whence [be] ye? and they said, of haran [are] we. 29:5 and he said unto them, know ye laban the son of nahor? and they said, we know [him] 29:6 and he said unto them [is] he well? and they said [he is] well: and, behold, rachel his daughter com

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

"witch" she started going on about being a "blue of the cloak" i should've been warned right then and there. in fact, as time has passed and the religion has spread, the claims of lineal continuity have tended to be hedged more and more. thus, we find dr. gardner himself, in 1954, stating unambiguously that some witches are descendants. of a line of priests and priestesses of an old and probably stone age religion, who have been initiated in a certain way (received into the circle) and become the recipients of certain ancient learning (gardner, witchcraft today, pp 33-34) stated in its most extreme form, wicca may be defined as an ancient pagan religious system of beliefs and practices, with a form of apostolic succession (that is, with knowledge and ordination handed on lineally from gen

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

and offices which god hath given unto them; and by proposing their character which they have given or confirmed. the governor aratron hath in his power those things which he doth naturally, that is, after the same manner and subject as those things which in astronomy are ascribed to the power of saturn. those things which he doth of his own free will, are, 1. that he can convert any thing into a stone in a moment, either animal or plant, retaining the same object to the sight. 2. he converteth treasures into coles, and coles into treasure. 3. he giveth familiars with a definite power. 4. he teacheth alchymy, magick, and physick. 5. he reconcileth the subterranean spirits to men; maketh hairy men. 6. he causeth one to bee invisible. 7. the barren he maketh fruitful, and giveth long life. 1

gions of spirits and over every thousand he ordaineth kings for their appointed seasons. 15 ophiel is the governour of such things as are attributed to mercury: his character is this. his spirits are 100000 legions: he easily giveth familiar spirits: he teacheth all arts: and he that is dignified with his character, he maketh him to be able in a moment to convert quicksilver into the philosophers stone. phul hath this character. he changeth all metals into silver, in word and deed; governeth lunary things; healeth the dropsie: he giveth spirits of the water, who do serve men in a corporeal and visible form; and maketh men to live 300 yeers. the most general precepts of this secret. 1. every governour acteth with all his spirits, either naturally, to wit, always after the same maner; or oth

nt minde may learn of the spirits, without any offence unto god. the mean secrets are likewise seven in number. 1. the first is, the transmutation of metals, which is vulgarly called alchymy; which certainly is given to very few, and not but of special grace. 2. the second is, the curing of diseases with metals, either by the magnetick vertues of precious stones, or by the use of the philosophers stone, and the like. 3 the third is, to be able to perform astronomical and mathematical miracles, such as are hydraulick-engines, to administer business by the influence of heaven, and things which are of the like sort. 4. the fourth is, to perform the works of natural magick, of what sort soever they be. 5. the fifth is, to know all physical secrets. 19 6. the sixth is, to know the foundation of

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

illustrated by the learning, zeal and industry of mr. thomas wright. s. austen allibone. preface to this edition iii the discoveries of objects of antiquity at herculaneum and pompeii, also in france, germany, belguim, england, ireland, and in fact in nearly every country in europe, illustrating the subject they were considering. the numerous illustrations are engraved from antique coins, medals, stone carvings, etc, preserved in the payne knight collection in the british museum, and fromother objects discovered in england and on the continent, since the first essay was written. these are only to be found in museums and private collections scattered over europe, and are practically inaccessible to the student; they are here engraved and fully described. the edition of 1865 was of a limited

still the ruins of the identical temple described by hecat us, who, being an asiatic greek, might have received his information from some phoenician merchant, who had visited the interior parts of britain when trading there for tin. macrobius mentions a temple of the same kind and form upon mount zilmissus in thrace, dedicated to the sun under the title of bacchus sebazius.1 the large obeliscs of stone found in many parts of the north, such as those at rudstone,2 and near boroughbridge in yorkshire,3 belong to the same religion; obeliscs being, as pliny observes, sacred to the sun, whose rays they represented both by their form and name.4 an ancient medal of apollonia in illyria, belonging to the museum of the late dr. hunter, has the head of apollo crowned with laurel on one side, and on

hem in their present state, appear evidently to have been a temple.4 but the persians, as before observed, had no inclosed temples or statues, which they held in such abhorrence, that they tried every means possible to destroy those of the egyptians; thinking it unworthy of the majesty of the deity to have his all-pervading presence limited to the boundary of an edifice, or likened to an image of stone or metal. yet, among the ruins at chilminar, we not only find many statues, which are evidently of ideal beings,5 but also that remarkable emblem of the deity, which distinguishes almost all the 1 ezek. ch. i, ver. 10, with lowth s comm. 2 exod. ch. xxv. ver. 22. 3 spencer de leg. ritual vet. hebr or. lib. iii. dissert. 5. 4 see le bruyn, voyage en perse, planche cxxiii. 5 see le bruyn and n

which she restrains; and on old age, which she sustains. this is perhaps more ingenious than convincing. 3 see our plate xxxvi, fig 3. 122 on the worship of the in regard to this last-mentioned object, another very remarkable monument of what appears at n mes to have been by no means a secret worship, was found there during some excavations on the site of the roman baths. it is a squared mass of stone, the four sides of which, like the one represented in our engraving, are covered with similar figures of the sexual characteristics of the female, arranged in rows.1 it has evidently served as a base, probably to a statue, or possibly to an altar. this curious monument is now preserved in the museum at n mes. as n mes was evidently a centre of this priapic worship in the south of gaul, so th

found altars, and other stones with inscriptions, which, after being long preserved in an outhouse of the rectory at adel, are now deposited in the museum of the philosophical society at leeds. one of the most curious of these, which we have here engraved for the first time,1 appears to be a votive offering to priapus, who seems to be addressed under the name of mentula. it is a rough, unsquared stone, which has been selected for possessing a tolerably flat and smooth surface; and the figure and letters were made with a rude implement, and by an unskilled workman, who was evidently unable to cut a continuous smooth line. the middle of the stone is occupied by the figure of a phallus, and round it we read very distinctly the words: priminvs mentla. the author of the inscription may have be

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rnatural, but only after all natural solutions are frustrated. all scientific laws are founded on the naive assumption that the cosmic scale of probability never tips. magic is built on the opposite conviction that the pivot of the scale is not fixed and can be acted upon by human will effectively directed. the balance of chance is delicately hung; when it is upset the results can be startling. a stone released falls to the earth. there is nothing to prevent it. the molecules of air around the stone strike it on all sides with uniform frequency. but if the air molecules struck the stone on the bottom more often, the stone would rise. such an event is not impossible, just unlikely. magic makes the improbable happen. there is a tendency to look upon the action of magic in a muddle-headed way

tern of repetition (3.14159265. hence, it is impossible to convert a square into a circle of exactly equal area, or vice versa. alchemists and rosicrucians regarded this inability to convert the measure of a circle to the measure of a square as of supreme significance. they used it as the basis for one of their spiritual quests after enlightenment, the others being the quest for the philosopher's stone that would turn base metal into gold, and the quest for the elixir of life that would cure all disease and grant immortality. the magus draws the circle clockwise in imitation of the apparent course of the sun, moon, and stars across the heavens, establishing a sovereign rule of order under the light. the circle is drawn out through the centerpoint of the magus and mentally projected in a st

mbol that has come down to the modern west. the cross was often linked with the circle in ancient times. this form of glyph occurs in prehistoric carvings such as the hallristningar) and is a letter of the phoenician and older greek alphabets (q. the best known circle-cross is the cross of the celts: the celtic cross is not merely an architectural device for surmounting the structural weakness of stone, but a complex philosophical statement. the circle divides the inner from the outer and f es a limit to the limitless. it represents the world of change and form. the cross reconciles the opposites of manifestation and thus symbolizes changeless and formless eternity. therefore, the circle is a symbol of material life, and the cross a symbol of death, or eternal life. together they embody th

m outside. once a society's existence is threatened by war, military might and those who direct it ascend to a position of greatest power and impor- tance. in ancient times, wars were directed and fought by men. after these military rulers had seized control, they were naturally reluctant to give it up. they pro- ceeded to fashion gods in their own image. archeological evidence suggests that many stone age societies were ruled by women and worshipped a female supreme deity. fertility fetishes with exaggerated female attributes, such as the famous venus of willendorf, have been unearthed at numerous sites of ancient human habitation. cultures devoted to the goddess tend to be stable and agrarian, inward-seeking and secretive in their rites. they build no empires, but are subject to the empi

points of intersection and is in all dimensions regular. the cubic shape is used for the ritual altar upon which the four magical instruments are placed. the altar is the point in the center of the magic circle where force is focused and manifested. the cube is the ultimate symbol of matter, as the square is of form. with an intuitive understanding of this fact, occultists often place a piece of stone inside their altar, or even form the altar itself entirely of stone, as was done in ancient times. stone has always been regarded as the best dwelling place for incorporeal beings such as gods. this natural virtue of stone was intensified when the stone was of a special type that heightened its ability to preserve and sustain spirits, ren- dering easier access to them by human beings. meteor

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important than any sexual release. from the early centuries of the present era until the renaissance, it was common for monks and nuns to chastise their bodies, or to have others inflict chastisement upon them, and also to engage in prolonged trials of endurance and deprivation. the most famous example is that of the christian fanatics known as stylites, or pillar saints, who lived on the tops of stone pillars, exposed to the elements both day and night. simeon the stylite of syria (died ad 460) spent thirty-seven years of his life on various pillars, the final one sixty-six feet in height. it has been speculated that those monks and nuns receiving punishment derived sexual pleasure from it, and this is no doubt true, given how closely chastisements of the flesh used by the religious paral

the residence of the ancient kings of ireland. tara hill in the county of meath stands about 510 feet in elevation, and is crowned with a series of six circular earthen works, known as raths. the largest is called the king's rath (ruth-nu-riogh, and within its boundary is the meeting place (forradh, a flat-topped mound on which important gatherings of the people were held. it contains the sacred stone of destiny (lia fail, a phallic standing stone on which the ancient kings of ireland were crowned. the stone is not in its original location, but was moved and re-erected. it was fabled to roar when a rightful king stood upon it. also upon the hill of tara was a great banqueting hall some 759 feet long by 46 feet wide. for centuries, kings ruled and made their laws here. when christianity ca

speak and find themselves unable. commonly, the elapse of time is greater in the human realm than in the fairy realm; a man who believes himself gone but a day may find that a year has passed. this is the case in the scottish folk tale cnoc an t-sithein (the fairy knoll. a man on the isle of barra was out walking when he heard beautiful music coming from under the ground. he lifted a broad, flat stone and descended the hidden stair beneath to discover the piper, who kindly invited him to stay for a meal. after eating, the man returned to his home, only to discover that four generations had passed. less frequently, the time distortion is reversed, and those who believe themselves to have spent years living in fairyland discover that only a few hours have elapsed in the human world. scholar

there is great heapes of earth, as namely in dorsetshire. and betwene the houres of .xii. and one at noone, or at midnight, he vseth them. whereof (he sayth) the blacke feries be the o o r s t .t"h e se three types of fairies perhaps correspond to another triple classification: those that do only good (the white, those that do only evil (the black, and those that do both good and evil (the green. stone circles a more material kind of doorway into fairyland was the stone circles that are to be found scattered throughout britain and continental europe. fairies were supposed to dance about these circles to open the gateway to the astral world. it was located between two of the stones in the circle, but which two was not evident when the gateway remained inactive. how the fairies opened the ga

w the fairies opened the gate is a mystery, unless it is revealed in the practice of one accused witch, who testified that he opened the door into a fairy hill by walking around it three times widdershins-against the course of the sun. in magic, clockwise circumambulation winds up and focuses energy, whereas counterclockwise circumambulation unwinds and releases it. passage between two pillars of stone is symbolically 53. murray, 240. 46. soul flight akin to being born between the legs of a woman, and passing from a place of darkness into a place of light. at one time, the stone circles were thought to have been erected by the priestly and scholarly order of druids that was great in power in britain and northern france just prior to the time of christ. archeology has revealed that they are

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e smell the scent of wood smoke and hear the soft flutter of flames. maintain this combined awareness of warmth, redness, smoky scent, and the sound of flame for several minutes. withdraw awareness from the soles of your feet and transfer it to the top of your head. imagine that the top of your skull presses gently against the side of a large inward perception 11: elemental orientation 19 rounded stone. feel the chilliness and hardness of the boulder against your scalp. feel its weight pressing upon your head. it is cool but dry as dust. it soothes your scalp as it presses upon it. fill your imagination with a uniform blackness, and at the same time smell the dusty scent of dry earth and hear a deep but distant rumble that vibrates through the top of your head down to your teeth. for sever

maintain this combined awareness of blackness, the smell of dust, and the sound of rumbling earth while continuing to feel the cool weight of the boulder press against the top of your skull. split your awareness so that you simultaneously feel a fresh breeze around your left hand, wet mist envelop your right hand, the warmth of fire-glow against the soles of your feet, and the hardness of smooth stone pressing on the top of your head. hold this fourfold awareness for a minute. lay the palms of your hands against your face so that the heels of your palms press lightly on your closed eyes, then draw your hands down over your face as though sliding off a skin-tight mask. take a deep breath, open your eyes, move your jaw to relax it, and stretch your body. when you feel ready, get up and go a

s center. all four triangles are the same elevation above the floor, their centers at the level of your heart. when you have completed your circuit of the room and once more face east with your back to the closed panel door, step across the white circle and approach the altar. stand on its western side facing east, and place your hands flat upon its polished surface to feel the chill of the black stone. hold them there for a minute or so while gazing at the candle flame. remove your hands and pass them one after the other slowly over the candle near enough to feel the heat from its flame against your palms, but not so close that you bum yourself. the candle flame flutters slightly. study the room for a minute or so to impress its dimensions and features in your memory. notice that the crys

candle flame flutters slightly. study the room for a minute or so to impress its dimensions and features in your memory. notice that the crystal dome in the ceiling is six feet across, twothirds the size of the painted circle, and centered exactly above the altar. walk slowly once around the altar clockwise as you examine the room, keeping the fingers of your right hand in contact with the chill stone of the altar. feel the sharpness of its edges and corners. when you have observed every detail, release the altar, turn to the west, and step over the white circle on the floor to approach the paneled door. place your left 66 sitting exercises hand on its ornate brass knob, and as you start to open the door, turn to face the room once again, so that you do not see anything that lies on the o

st thread is silk, the best chain silver. if the bob of the pendulum is about the size and weight of a cube of sugar, it will work well. large, heavy pendulums are unresponsive and tiring on the arm when supported for more than a few minutes. a popular and effective form of pendulum is an ordinary ring suspended on a length of thread-a plain silver band is best, but a gold band or ring set with a stone will also work. projection of the will 11: affecting an element t his exercise is best done at night when the air inside the practice room is still. position a plain wooden chair about four feet away from a small table, so that when seated in the chair in front of the table, you face a blank wall or featureless curtain or panel. the practice room should be dimly lit from behind you but not c

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on between three and four which comes out over and over again (psychology and alchemy [princeton university press, 19801, p. 26. jung saw the shifting of focus back and forth between systems based on three and four as a wavering between a spiritual and a physical emphasis. alchemists captured this dynamic relationship in the symbol of the squared circle. along with the making of the philosopher's stone and the discovery of the water of life, the squaring of the circle was the prime achievement of alchemy. it was represented geometrically by a circle within which was a triangle, within which was a square, within which was a circle. from the unity of the circle arises trinity, and trinity gives birth to quaternity, which in the highest mystery returns to unity once again. the center and peri

become an h, and an h can become a v. for example, if the illustration of the double helix of the name were rotated around on its axis ninety degrees, the points designated h would seem to touch, and become alternately i and v, and the i and v would separate and become h. it is easy to misinterpret occult symbols by failing to recognize that the way they appear on the page, or carved into clay or stone, is not their true form but only a flat rendering of a three-dimensional relationship. just as a blueprint of a ship will not convey all the information it is capable of conveying to the shipbuilder unless the shipbuilder realizes that it is a flat image of a three-dimensional object, so ancient symbols such as the staff of hermes cannot be understood unless we recognize that they are only i

perspective lines converge at the center-the infinitely distant end of the cylinderas they do when we look at a straight railroad bed and seem to see the gleaming steel rails come together and meet on the horizon. when we see a photograph of a railroad track from this one-point perspective, we understand it because we are familiar with the physical threedimensional reality. but when we look at a stone age petroglyph of a spiral, we do not understand it because it represents the three-dimensional model of an ideal form, not some common and familiar object. nevertheless, the ancient shaman who carved it into the rock intended that it be considered in three dimensions. so did greek philosophers who represented the occult symbol of the hermes staff intend that its mystery be interpreted in th

art of the fourth chapter of revelation, the chapter in which the heavenly throne of christ is described. it is worth quoting a portion of this chapter, because it shows so clearly that dee intended the permutations of tetragrammaton: and immediately i was in the spirit: and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. and round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats i saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold. and out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thundering a nd voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne

known as the wings of the winds are elemental angels of the earth: can the wings of the winds understand your voices of wonder, 0 you, the second of the first? whom the burning flames have framed within the depths of my jaws; whom i have prepared as cups for a wedding, or as the the hieroglyphic monad flowers in their beauty for the chamber of righteousness. stronger are your feet than the barren stone, and mightier are your voices than the manifold winds: for you are become a building such as is not, but in the mind of the all-powerful. arise, saith the first! move, therefore, unto his servants! show yourselves in power, and make me a strong see-thing; for i am of him that liveth forever. the 'wings of the winds" signify the angels of the four elements of the world. the "second of the fir

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ependent considerations, each of which, taken separately, institutes certain points of correspondence between masonry and other systems of symbolism, but they do not at present enter into harmony. i will collect them as follows (1) masonry has for its object, under one aspect, the building of the candidate as a house or temple of life. degrees outside the craft aspire to this building as a living stone in a spiritual temple, meet for god's service (2) masonry presents also a symbolical sequence, but in a somewhat crude manner, of birth, life, death and resurrection, which other systems indicate as a mystery of experience (3) masonry, in fine, represents the whole body of its adepti as in search of something that has been lost, and it tells us how and with whom that loss came about. these a

n that there is a rather important though confusing mixture of images in the address of the worshipful master to the candidate, after the latter has been invested and brought to the east. it is pointed out to him that he represents the cornerstone of a building- as it might be, the whole masonic edifice- but he is immediately counselled to raise a superstructure from the foundation of that corner-stone- thus reversing the image. that of the corner- stone is like an externalization in dramatic form of an old rosicrucian maxim belonging to the year 1629 "be ye transmuted from dead stones into living, philosophical stones" from my point of view, it is the more important side of the symbolism; it is as if the great masonic edifice were to be raised on each candidate; and if every neophyte shap

al loss in israel and the world- which is commented on in the tradition. that which the temple symbolized above all things was, however, a house of doctrine, and as on the one hand the zohar shows us how a loss and substitution were perpetuated through centuries, owing to the idolatry of israel at the foot of mount horeb in the wilderness of sinai, and illustrated by the breaking of the tables of stone on which the law was inscribed; so does speculative masonry intimate that the holy house, which was planned and begun after one manner, was completed after another and a word of death was substituted for a word of life. the builder i shall not need to tell you that beneath such veils of allegory and amidst such illustrations of symbolism, the master-builder signifies a principle and not a pe

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side but near the house, or buried them in the earth with their faces turned in the direction from which he expected the attack to come. plate xvii. the metternich stele--obverse. plate xviii. the metternich stele--reverse. towards the close of the xxvith dynasty, when superstition in its most exaggerated form was general in egypt, it became the custom to make house talismans in the form of small stone stelae, with rounded tops, which rested on bases having convex fronts. on the front of such a talisman was sculptured in relief a figure of horus the child (harpokrates, standing on two crocodiles, holding in his hands figures of serpents, scorpions, a lion, and a horned animal, each of these being a symbol of an emissary or ally of set, the god of evil. above his head was the head of bes, a

e theban recension of the book of the dead. and heru-behutet was in the form of a man who possessed great strength, with the face of a hawk; and he was crowned with the white crown,[fn#94] and the red crown,[fn#95] and the two plumes, and the urerit crown, and there were two uraei upon his head. his hand grasped firmly his harpoon to slay the hippopotamus, which was [as hard] as the khenem[fn#96] stone in its mountain bed [fn#94] the crown of the south [fn#95] the crown of the north [fn#96] a kind of jasper. and ra said unto thoth "indeed [heru-]behutet is like a master-fighter in the slaughter of his enemies" and thoth said unto ra "he shall be called 'neb-ahau (i.e, masterfighter; and for this reason he hath been thus called by the priest of this god unto this day. and isis made incantat

iage of the trees) to serve as a roof "his god-house hath an opening towards the south-east, and ra (or, the sun) standeth immediately opposite thereto every day. the stream which floweth along the south side thereof hath danger [for him that attacketh it, and it hath as a defence a wall which entereth into the region of the men of kens[fn#183] on the south. huge mountains [filled with] masses of stone are round about its domain on the east side, and shut it in. thither come the quarrymen with things (tools) of every kind [when] they "seek to build a house for any god in the land of the south, or in the land of the north, or [shrines] as abodes for sacred animals, or royal pyramids, and statues of all kinds. they stand up in front of the house of the god and in the sanctuary chamber, and t

iver, and another portion is in the middle[fn#187] of the river. the stream decketh the region with its waters during a certain season of the year, and it is a place of delight for every man. and works are carried on among these quarries [which are] on the edges [of the river "for the stream immediately faceth this city of abu itself, and there existeth the granite, the substance whereof is hard 'stone of abu' it is called [fn#183] kens extended south from philae as far as korosko [fn#184] perhaps sunut= the syene of the greeks, and the hbw suweneh of the hebrews [fn#185] i.e, syene [fn#186] i.e, contra syene [fn#187] i.e, the island of elephantine"[here is] a list of the names of the gods who dwell in the divine house of khnemu. the goddess of the star sept (sothis, the goddess anqet, hap

et, hap (the nile-god, shu, keb, nut, osiris, horus, isis, and nephthys"[here are "the names of the stones which lie in the heart of the mountains, some on the east side, some on the west side, and some in [the midst of] the stream of abu. they exist in the heart of abu, they exist in the country on the east bank, and in the country on the west bank, and in the midst of the stream, namely "bekhen-stone, meri (or meli)-stone, atbekhab)-stone, rakes-stone, and white utshi-stone; these are found on the east bank. per-tchani-stone is found on the west bank, and the teshi-stone in the river"[here are] the names of the hard (or, hidden) precious stones, which are found in the upper side, among them being the. stone, the name[fn#188] of which hath spread abroad through [a space of] four atru meas

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pasar m s all de las manifestaciones dolorosas de maya. existe una ciencia con la cual podemos rasgar el velo de maya y retornar al ain soph. esa es la alkimia. 15 doctor arnold krumm heller, stated: a chemist forgot, by chance, about an emerald ring that was next to a little test tube containing radium and after few weeks he discovered that the emerald had absolutely changed into another unknown stone for him. thereafter he purposely left other stones like rubies, zephyrs, etc, in contact with the radium: his surprise was so great when he discovered that after a little time such stones had changed their color absolutely; the blue ones had turned into red and the red ones into green. doctor krumm heller continued saying, gentlemen, do you know what the former statement that i just mentione

osom of your divine mother kundalini. you need to raise the serpent of life through your medullar channel. this is alchemy. alchemy: you have forgotten your divine mother kundalini. you need to worship the divine and blessed mother goddess of the world. you have been ungrateful to your cosmic mother; she is the virgin of all religious cults; she is isis, mary, cibeles, adonia, insoberta, etc. the stone of grace is surrounded by nine delectable mountains. that stone is sex. if you all want to return to the bosom of your divine mother, you need to work with the philosophical stone sex. the mayans stated that in the first heaven god, the word, had held his stone, had held his serpent, and had held his substance. only with the arcanum a.z.f. can the word become flesh in order to grasp again hi

one of grace is surrounded by nine delectable mountains. that stone is sex. if you all want to return to the bosom of your divine mother, you need to work with the philosophical stone sex. the mayans stated that in the first heaven god, the word, had held his stone, had held his serpent, and had held his substance. only with the arcanum a.z.f. can the word become flesh in order to grasp again his stone, his serpent and his substance. then we will return into the ain soph; we will return into the unity of life. you are the children of the widow, your divine mother is now a widow, but when she rises through the medullar channel, she marries the eternal beloved. your divine mother is the second arcanum, the popess of the tarot. she is crowned with a tiara. the head of the divine mother is sur

t pasando. y se preguntan a s mismos: no juzgu is, para que no se is juzgados. porque con el juicio con que juzg is, ser is juzgados, y con la medida con que med s, os ser medido- mateo 7:1-2 37 we need to be humble in order to acquire wisdom, and after acquiring it we need to be even more humble. the bodhisattvas fall because of sex, and they also rise up because of sex. sex is the philosophical stone. the decapitation of medusa (the satan that we carry within) would be impossible without the precious treasury of the philosophical stone. remember that medusa is the maiden of evil (the psychological "i, whose head is covered with hissing vipers. in occult science, it is stated that the union of the sophic mercury with the sophic sulfur results in the holy philosophical stone. the ens semin

la fuerza sexual es el hile de los gn sticos. 41 when the students spill the cup of hermes during their practices with the arcanum a.z.f. they commit the crime of the nicholaitans7, which used a system in order to make the serpent descend. this is how the human being is converted into a demon. the complete and positive development of the serpent is only achieved by working with the philosophical stone within the sexual laboratory of the practical alchemist. the superior triangle is the center of the alchemist s microcosmos and the alchemist s macrocosmos. the sign of the mercury of the secret philosophy (the ens seminis) cannot be missed in the center of the triangle. man and woman must work with the sun and with the moon, with the gold and with the silver (sexual symbols) in order to per

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etcetera. it was noted by theodore parker, an american transcendentalist, that our own government has some interesting correspondences with the number four: the fourth of july celebrates the declaration of independence; we have four branches of government; presidents have four-year terms. qabalistically, the number four represents perfect equilibrium and is often represented by a cross or a cubic stone. this stone, according to levi, is the keystone of the temple, or the structural foundation of masonry and occultism. on the tree, it is represented by the sephirah of chesed, often known as gedulah (gdvlh, which means majesty or magnificence. gedulah has a numerical value of forty-eight, or 12x4, which suggests the multiplication of the powers of the four elements by the twelve signs of the

n on the trestleboard) chapter 10 the kamea of hod/mercury the magical numbers of mercury are eight, sixty-four, 260, and 2080. mercury, the eighth sephira, is known as the ogdoad. in it is concealed the mystery of the completion of the great work; and indeed, mercury holds many alchemical secrets. number eight was the number used to designate both christ.often taken as the symbolic philosopher's stone to the christian qabalists.as well as mercury. dr. case said: the real secret of this stone is the real secret of the cross, which is the end and so the fulfillment of that whole dispensation that is represented symbolically by the twentytwo letters of the hebrew alphabet (1985, p. 41. the function of this magical principle represented by the philosopher's stone was synthesis. on the tree, m

d salt to the five elements (including ether or quintessence. likewise, the third and fifth sephiroth together equal hod, which rests beneath them. the great pyramid, which both eliphas levi and john michell believed is connected to mercury, also has this three to five relationship because each face has three sides and the pyramid itself has five corners, if the apex is included. this apex or cap-stone has been shrouded in mystery and written about by many intrigued by its meaning. this pinnacle stone is, according to case, another symbol for christ, the stone rejected by the builders. this capstone is sometimes called the triangle of fire "which is a stone emblem of the eternal flame (case, 1985, p. 83. john michell tells us that the pyramid has often been the scene of mysterious appariti

imensions of the pyramid show that the builders who constructed it had an accurate knowledge of the earth and its solar system, and those interested in this fascinating study should refer to the careful explanations of these measurements in john michell's works. repeatedly we see that there are many parallels revealed by the magical numbers of mercury that relate to christ, both as the alchemical stone and also in reference to this pyramid shape. for example, see the figure produced by the sigil of the name jesus on page 103. we see a similar phenomenon on the mercury kamea in the sigil of zauir anpin, or the lesser countenance, a tide attributed to tiphareth. again, the figure looks remarkably like a pyramid, or even a cap-stone, since the arrow pointing down indicates an energy flow bene

it is a beautiful name and tiriel can be a wonderful friend. i have purposefully given the sigil of this intelligence because rarely have i seen it correctly drawn. the number 2080 is the extension of sixty-four, which is in turn the self-multiplication of number eight. the number sixty-four has many alchemical references by gematria, especially in latin. it is the number of ve-ha-eben (and this stone. din (justice, the highest attribution of the fifth sephira, has a value of sixty-four, as well as its twin intelligence in mercury, whose name is doni. sixty-four also equals may zahab (water of gold, as well as mezahah (mother of gold. in latin, it equals sal aqua (salt-water or the matrix corpus; solve, which refers to the process known as dissolution; sperma, or the seed of the metal; an

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lassical guide to students of yoga, was written" this "well" is said to be an entrance to one of the naga's underworld lairs. sherman minton also states that "sheshna's well, an alleged opening into the underground reptilian underworld of "patalas [consisting of seven worlds or cavern levels, may be seen today in benares, india, and..it has forty steps leading down into a circular depression to a stone door covered with cobras. this is said to lead to patala, the reptile netherworld" case file #11 from "on the shores of endless worlds" by andrew tomas (souvenir press, p. 160..even in this jet-age every hindu is familiar with and usually believes in the legend of the nagas, the "serpents" which live in extensive underground palaces in the rocky himalayas. it is believed that these who are t

churches amid great cathedrals of europe which were built by the brotherhood network. there are also gargoyles on a building in dealey plaza where president kennedy was assassinated and now they turn up again, in a modern airport built on an alleged underground, reptilian base. gargoyles are symbols of the reptilians and that is why you will find them at denver airport. the capstone or dedication stone at the airport is marked with the classic compass symbol of the freemasons and it stands in part of the terminal called the great hall, another freemasonic term. on a wall is a grotesque mural full of malevolent symbolism, including three caskets with dead females in them: a jewish girl, a native american and a black woman; another girl is holding a mayan tablet that tells of the destruction

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

o do so would certainly result in either death, madness, or (hopefully) the power of inspiration to become a great poet or bard (this is, by the way, identical to certain incidents in the first branch of the 'mabinogion) this was also the night when the serpents of the island would roll themselves into a hissing, writhing ball in order to engender the 'glain, also called the 'serpent's egg 'snake stone, or 'druid's egg. anyone in possession of this hard glass bubble eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 23 would wield incredible magical powers. even merlyn himself (accompanied by his black dog) went in search of it, according to one ancient welsh story. snakes were not the only creatures active on midsummer's eve. according to british faery lore, this night wa

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

rimitive people to do these things; i simply hold that witches, being in many cases the descendants of primitive people, do in fact do many of them. so when people, for example, ask me 'why do you say that witches work naked' i can only say 'because they do 'why' is another question, the easy reply being that their ritual tells them they must. another is that their practices are the remnants of a stone age religion and they keep to their old ways. there is also the church's explanation 'because witches are inherently wicked' but i think the witches' own explanation is the best 'because only in that way can we obtain power' witches are taught and believe that the power resides within their bodies which they can release in various ways, the simplest being dancing round in a circle, singing o

or that the craft was apt to run in families. people went to them whenever they were in trouble for cures, good crops, good fishing or whatever their need was. they were, in fact, the priestesses or representatives of the little gods, who because they were little would bother to listen to the troubles of little people. they are usually thought of as wild dancers, as being 'not too strict. in the stone ages man's chief wants were good crops, good hunting, good fishing, increase in flocks and herds and many children to make the tribe strong. it became the witches' duty to perform rites to obtain these things. this was probably a matriarchal age, when man was the hunter and woman stayed at home making medicine and magic. historically, the matriarchal period has been tentatively dated from th

rom a witch family. the various rituals of worship, secrets of herbal lore, and the great secret of what they call magic, have been handed down to what has become more or less a family secret society. in palestine and other countries there are two kinds of witches: the ignorant herbalist and charmseller, and the witch who is a descendant of a line of priests and priestesses of an old and probably stone age religion, who have been initiated in a certain way (received into the circle) and become the recipients of certain ancient learning. at times the church ignored the witch; but when the papacy became firmly established the priests treated the cult as a hated rival and tried to persecute it out of existence. the puritans also took up the work with glee, and between them they practically su

ed repudiating christianity is like saying that similar testimony is proof that they flew through the air on broomsticks. my great trouble in discovering what their beliefs were is that they have forgotten practically all about their god; all i can get is from the rites and prayers addressed to him. the witches do not know the origin of their cult. my own theory is, as i said before, that it is a stone age cult of the matriarchal times, when woman was the chief; at a later time man's god became dominant, but the woman's cult, because of the magical secrets, continued as a distinct order. the chief priest of the man's god would at times come to their meetings and take the chief place; when he was absent, the chief priestess was his deputy. in this connection it should be noted that there ar

nce or even later; but if they were, it would have been as a fully developed witch cult, which was then joined on to the local covens. i fancy that certain practices, such as the use of the circle to keep the power in, were local inventions, derived from the use of the druid or pre-druid circle. at one time i believed the whole cult was directly descended from the northern european culture of the stone age, uninfluenced by anything else; but i now think that it was influenced by the greek and roman mysteries which originally may have come from egypt. but while it is fascinating to consider the cult existing in direct descent from ancient egypt, we must take into account the other possibilities. there is, of course, the orthodox roman catholic view that the cult was either invented by the d

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

nd his wives the two crabs hercules and the waggoner the man and the wooden god the miser the bundle of sticks the buffoon and the countryman the serpent and the file green book volume three oriental and monotheist wisdom zen koans see his buddha nature yueh holds it pai-yuns black and white the dry creek yueh-shan s lake living alone nan ch uan s rejection thoughts from confucius tao of pooh the stone cutter the cork te of piglet making the best of it sherlock on religion emperor s horses incognito three treasures fantasies live, but live well illusions samurai s late supper the gospel according to zen jesus said. gasan and the bible stringless harp eat when hungry sporting fish empty boats three in the morning zen archery meshing nets the butterflies of chuang tzu the dream what is accep

ction from: w.b. yeats. a faery song, from the rose. in m.l. rosenthal, selected poems and two plays of william butler yeats. new york: collier books, 1962. p.12 (fergus and the druid) fergus. this whole day have i followed in the rocks, and you have changed and flowed from shape to shape, first as a raven on whose ancient wings scarcely a feather lingered, then you seemed a weasel moving on from stone to stone, and now at last you wear a human shape, a thing grey man half lost in gathering night. druid. what would you, king of the proud red branch knights? fergus. this would i say, most wise of living souls: young subtle conchubar sat close by me when i gave judgment, and his words were wise, and what to me was burden without end, to him seemed easy, so i laid the crown upon his head to c

f william butler yeats. new york: collier books, 1962. p.7-8 (the prophet) and an old priest said, speak to us of religion. and he said: have i spoken this day of aught else? is not religion all deeds and all reflection, and that which is neither deed nor reflection, and that which is neither deed nor reflection, but a wonder and a surprise ever springing in the soul, even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom? who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations? who can spread his hours before him, saying, this for god and this for myself; this for my soul, and this other for my body? all your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self. he who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. the wind and the sun will tear no

amergin s song (found in book of druidry, pg. 289) i am a wind on the wave, i am a wave of the ocean, i am the roar of the sea, i am a powerful ox, i am a hawk on a cliff, i am a dewdrop in the sunshine, i am a boar for valor, i am a salmon in pools, i am a lake in a plain, i am the strength of art, i am a spear with spoils that wages battle, i am a man that shapes fire for a head. who clears the stone-place of the mountain? what the place in which the setting of the gun lies? who has sought peace without fear seven times? who names the waterfalls? who brings his cattle from the house of tethra? what person, what god, forms weapons in a fort? in a fort that nourishes satirists, chants a petition, divides the ogam letters, separates a fleet, has sung praises? a wise satirist. amergin s song

i am the sound of the sea, i am a stag of seven points, i am a bull of seven fights, i am a bull a cliff, i am a hawk upon a cliff, i am a teardrop of the sun, i am the fairest of blossoms, i am a boar of boldness, i am a salmon in a pool, i am a lake on a plain, i am a word of skill, i am a battle-waging spear of spoil, i am a god who fashions fire in the mind. who but i knows the secrets of the stone door? who has seven times sought the places of peace? who, save i, knows the ages of the moon, the place and time the sun sets? who calls the kine from tethra s house, and sees them dance in the bright heavens? who shapes weapons in a fort of glass, in a fort that harbors satirists? who put the poet, the singer of praises, who but i divides the ogam letters, separates combatants, approaches

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

ic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott rahab passed to heber the kenite. the soul of jael passed to eli. some souls of pious jews pass into the persons of the gentiles, so that they shall plead for israel. some evil hebrew souls have passed into animals, as that of ishmael into the she-ass of balaam, and later into the ass of rabbi pinchas ben yair. the soul of a slanderer may be transmigrated into a stone, so as to become silent; and the soul of a murderer into water. emeh hemelech, 153. 1.2. there are three causes of dropsy, depending on diseases of the breast, the liver and the kidneys. there are three forms of coma, that is insensibility; due to brain injury, brain disease and brain poisoning. there are three modes of death, beginning either at the brain, the lungs or the heart. bichat, ph

5 primary colors yellow, red, white, green and black. 65. the 5th element, the quintessence of the alchymist, was derivable from the four, by progression--at first the ens, then the two contraries, then the three principles, then the four elements. separate the pure from the impure, gently and with judgment, and so you obtain the quintessence, the son of the sun. similarly, note the progression; stone, plant, animal, man, god. the old authors added--talia si jungere possis, sit, tibi scire satis; to which this author adds--sed quod scis, nescis# numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 66. chapter ten the hexad, s ix, 6. icomachus calls it, the form of form, the only number adapted to the soul, the distinct union of the parts of the universe, the fabricat

, as fever; fire that eats and drinks, that of elijah, i kings xviii. 38; the fire on the altar which consumed both moist and dry; the fire of gabriel which consumed other fire, and the essential fire of god which consumed evil angels. yoma, 21. 2. the table of moses were said to have been 6 handsbreadths long, 6 wide and 3 thick. talmud; nedarim, 38.8. hershon reckons that if cut out of sinaitic stone, each table would have weighed 28 tons, but he is in error, reckoning hands-breadth as ells, as 18 inches instead of 4 inches. the angel of death had no power over 6 holy persons; abraham, isaac, jacob, moses, aaron and miriam. bava bathra, 17. i. these died by the divine kiss of death, but it is not so definitely stated in the case of miriam, for fear of scandal. 71. the lion has 6 names in

WOLFSON ELLIOT ALEF MEM TAU KABBALISTIC MUSINGS ON TIME TRUTH AND DEATH

time concepts. after that it becomes pertinent to inquire in what way the interpretations of time from which these concepts have sprung themselves took sight of the time phenomenon, how far they took into view the original time phenomenon, and how we can achieve the return passage from this time phenomenon first given to the original time. 18 the appeal to multivocality, therefore, is a stepping-stone to attain the original time, which 4 chapter one heidegger further identifies as the temporality (zeitlichkeit) that is the ontological condition of the possibility of the understanding of being. 19 i shall return to heidegger s thought subsequently; it is adequate to note that he belongs to the class of philosophers who believe in the possibility of establishing the true nature of time. in

nce it alone sketches it. time distinguishes the face, because it marks it in the taking of flesh, in archive. but there is more: time, as the past accomplished, should never be able to appear if it were limited to passing. like death, as soon as the moment has come, time is no longer it for me. completed time manifests itself in what it removes, destroys, and undoes the phenomenality of ruins of stone, but especially of ruins of flesh.357 thinking time/ hermeneutic suppositions 53 the inherent link between time as that which abides in passing and the face as that which forever eludes the gaze of the other underscores death as an essential aspect in understanding the texture and tonality of temporality. to envisage a face, writes marion, requires less to see it than to wait for it, to wait

njunction with the question of the whereabouts of the bayit that shelters and exposes the king, the beit that begins torah, beginning of the opening that is the opening of beginning.64 the author of the bahiric passage renders the aggadic motif of the god of israel bemusing and amusing himself with torah by the parable of a king who happens upon an abundant spring as he cuts through the quarry of stone he is using to build his palace. the latter, we are to suppose, will be surrounded by a garden, but only if there is a flow of living water can the king plant the garden in which he and the inhabitants of the world will delight.65 the fullness of wisdom encompasses both the source of irrigation and the garden that is irrigated. the poetic images convey in visual terms the two principles that

ut the composition of time: each moment is because it incessantly becomes other than what it is. this is the way of sha ashu a, projecting out to hold in. the parabolic image of a king cutting rocks and carving stones in the effort to build his palace in all likelihood alludes to divine creativity through inscription, since inscribing, too, involves removing material, hollowing out a space on the stone surface, as the letters are engraved or etched. if this surmise be accepted, then sha ashu a should be depicted as a bemusing tied to the act of writing and the object written. especially against this background, the holding-in of the glory becomes palpable as the persistence of speech in the silencing of silence, the reverberation of inscription in the erasing of erasure. moving beyond the

. mishnah, pe ah 1:1, avot 1:2; babylonian talmud, berakhot 8b; sukkah 49b; makkot 24a. see midrash zuta le-hamesh megillot, ecclesiastes 7:2. according to the dictum reported there in the name of r. levi, study of torah leads to acts of kindness. 79. in bahir, 65, p. 159, the expression sea of wisdom, yam ha-hokhmah, is used to name the attribute that is also referred to as the earth or precious stone, and corresponding to it is the blue that is used in the fringe garment, a 242 notes to pages 129 130 hue that is reminiscent of the sea, the heaven, and the throne of glory (based on the teaching attributed to r. meir in babylonian talmud, menahot 43b. this passage seems to reflect the doctrine of ten potencies. accordingly, the attribute designated by these terms is shekhinah, the tenth of

WORKBOOK FOR GRADE 0 VOID AND THE ABYSS

cover image by fidus, luzifer morgenstern introduction by scorpius nokmet 2 this workbook is meant not to replace any of the fine works of frater akhtya seker arimanius (michael ford, but hopefully enhance those writings, and hopefully make the grade workings a little easier to follow, some will find all the material overwhelming, so this work is meant to be a guide line and not something set in stone. the purpose of the workbook is as follows to be able to have rituals and a check list of suggested items to use during the ritual. so that the initiate does not have to search through all the books when ritual time approaches. for example say you are to do need a ritual from the booklet sabbatic sorcery but some of the items for the ritual might be in one of the other books or some other re

zel. the sorcerer shall seek the fire-spirit of change, rebellion and progression. the symbol of set the adversary shall take the earthen form of the devil, the solar creative (and destructive) force of change and self-deification. there are two primary faces of the adversary. the celebrant may construct as mask of two sides, which shall be placed upon the center of the altar. a phallic symbol or stone god may be near the mask as well, symbolizing the solar creative force of the beast 666- 9 one- the fallen seraph lucifer, the angelick essence of the black flame, the very source of our wisdom, being and becoming. two the seraph of flame, the djinn iblis of fire, daemon of the blackened flame, serpent beast dragon wolf goat. satanas is the devil-cloaked initiator of the path of the wise, th

that i see what has been never known akharakek sabaiz i call forth the shadow of which i am and have always been, the darkness which i nourish in between the light eclipse now the face of god that i become in this darkend image- by this circle i do become by the flame i do emerge i am by form the peacock angel beauty revealed unto those who may see as the black sun rises, i become in this emerald stone i am the imagination, the seed of fallen angel in darkness exists my light my will gives birth to the kingdom of incubi and succubi, the nourish their desires in the blood of the moon, lilitu az drakul so it is done! task #3 samael and lilith, results of ritual workings and how one unites the feminine and the masculine within the self. a minium of four page essay on lilith and samael, includ

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

f ephraim (taurus) and manasseh (gemini, classed under their father's name, jacob says 'joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall; the archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty god of jacob (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of israel) even by the god of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head ofjoseph, and on th

anllr 8. lbbnaav 19. spmioae 30. eeooez 41. nanllrl 9. bbnaavl 20. pmioaes 31. e00 ezoe42. an llrln 10. enaavls 21. mioaesp 32. ooezoee 11. naavlbb 22. gglppsa 33. oezoeeo special power of the king "who canst distribute and bestow at pleasure, all whatsoever can be wrought in aerial actions. who bast government of thyself perfectly, as a mystery known unto thyself. thou didst advertise me of this stone (the shewstone, and holy receptacle: both needful to be had: and also didst direct me to the taking of it up: being presently and a few minutes of time, brought to my sight (from the secret depth where it was hid, in the uttermost part of the roman possession) which stone, thou warnedst me, no mortal hand but mine own should touch: and saidst unto me: thou shall prevail with it, with kings

, blond female guide who was wearing a buckskin breechcloth. she had the sign of saturn engraved on her forehead. she turned and led me (after an exchange of recognition signs) into the forest. i then noticed that on the back of the breechcloth was the enochian letter 'a' she told me she was called akna-oor, guide to the path and letter. it started to darken, and we entered a small temple of grey stone that looked like a cromlech or capstone at the end of the path. she stops and turns, then shows me a new sign that i am to use when i enter this realm again. both arms across the chest, at right angles, right above left, palms facing downwards. there is very much a red indian aura about her, though she is nordic in color and stature. as we enter the temple she takes me to a room where there

as very clear. after vibrating veh a number of times, a group of guides showed up. they were fierce-looking men who looked like mongols; they had a jewel in the center of their foreheads which lit up their eyes. they gave me a horse, which i mounted after the leader returned the recognition signs and then bowed before me on one knee. i followed them; the horse rode up in the air, and we went to a stone fortress and entered a lighted hall "i dismounted and a man in a white robe came to me. he had white hair and was very old but quite solid in appearance. he said he was not a king but a kenif. i asked who were the warriors; he said they were his people but were still nevertheless warriors and warlike. he also said the letter veh drew on their collective energies because of their fierceness

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

f plant. section 4 philosophus adeptus minor (ph.a.m) 41. lecture part 3 of the addendum to the concourse of forces (method and construction of a large tablet of the bonorum and the practical application of the angels of light) 42. part 4 of addendum to the concourse of forces (method and construction of holy table) 43. part 5 addendum to concourse of forces (paper on use and construction of shew stone) workings for this level and records of these visionary and practical workings to be sent to the praemonstrater. all phases of the below must be completed before advancing to the next level (a) record working of projection into the venus square of each of the 7 sections of the bonorum tablet and a thesis of the differences between them (b) project into each square of the venus section of the

sionary and practical workings to be sent to the praemonstrater. all phases of the below must be completed before advancing to the next level (a) record working of projection into the venus square of each of the 7 sections of the bonorum tablet and a thesis of the differences between them (b) project into each square of the venus section of the bonorum (c) record a visionary working with the shew stone (d) do research on and write thesis on a herbal alchemical working using the z-2 method (how and when) for a herbal elixer for the 5=6 level, using laboratory method. this is to include full horoscopes and observations as well as the z-2 ritual. this is to be presented to chiefs for inspection. note: read alchemists handbook by frater albertus and practical handbook of plant alchemy by manfr

rater a. died in gallia narbonensi, there succeeded in his place frater n.n. he, while repairing a part of the building of the college of the holy spirit, endeavoured to remove a brass memorial tablet which bore the names of certain brethren, and some other things. in this tablet was the head of a strong nail or bolt, such that when the tablet was forcibly wrenched away, it pulled with it a large stone which partially uncovered a secret door, upon which was inscribed in large letters post oa annos patebo 'after an hundred and twenty years i shall open' with the year of our lord under, 1484. frater n.n, and those with him then cleared away the rest of the brickwork, but let it remain that night unopened as they wished first to consult the rota "on the following morning, frater n.n. and his

racelsus was taught by johann trithemius of spanhiem, abbot of wurtzburg, and solomon trismosin. he also travelled in the east, and being taken captive in tarty (compare with h.p.b.'s initiation in tibet. paracelsus was not a rosicrucian, yet after initiation taught very similar tenets. he also found another allied temple in the east, was initiated there. moreover, he is said to have received the stone in constantinople, from one sigismund fugger. although the fama is in some cases deficient in its historical account, it contains here and there redundant descriptions, which affords food for reflection. thus, it is said "in another chest were looking glasses of diverse virtues, as also in other places were little bells, burning lamps, and chiefly wonderful artificial songs" the latter refer

miration jiresam are cahis are (and are not) i cahisje age, an aeon min all things tofajlo always paid amongst (ye) aai amongst us alome and od (sometimes x, rarely z all powerful (the) ia-i-don anger vaunupeh another ka appareled (are) zodonak appear zodamran apply (yourselves to us) imful-mar are (see above) arise torzodu ark erem ark (of knowledge) ladanah art (thou) ieh as ta b balance barren stone oreri beautiful vaurebsa beauty beasts (of the fielii) lenithmoug beginning tpame. taoda, faoda, iaodaf beginning acro-odzodi become (thus are ye become) noand be (it shall) tariam bed tainta beneath (ye) orocaha before (in front of) asapta be (thou) bolap be (that it may be) noalaun because baden bindeth (together) comemahe bitter sting jiroseb blood (of) kauila bring down darixor, daribo b

ZOETIC GRIMOIRE OF ZOS

a mighty suspiration, releasing all your nervous energy into the focal point of your wish; and as your urgent desire merges into the ever-present procreative sea you will feel a tremendous insurge and self-transformation. the devil himself shall not prevent your..will. from materializing. in your prayers (media, remember: your soul is your nearest, and the bringer of all good things. your god is stone dera

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earth for foundation, didst hollow its depths to fill them with thy almighty power. thou whose name shaketh the arches of the world, thou who causest the seven metals to flow in the veins of the rocks, king of the seven lights, rewarder of the subterranean workers, lead us into the desirable air and into the realm of splendor. we watch and we labour unceasingly, we seek and we hope, by the twelve stones of the holy city, by the buried talismans, by the axis of the loadstone which passes through the center of the earth. o lord, o lord, o lord! have pity upon those who suffer. expand our hearts, unbridle and upraise our minds, enlarge our natures. o stability and motion! o darkness veiled in brilliance! o day clothed in night! o master who never dost withhold the wages of thy workmen! o silv

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

was originally a wood (ra. 794. 903, as. jicarg masc, pl heargas (fanum, beda 2, 13. 3, 30. orosius 3, 9, p. 109. heargtvibf (fani tabulatum, beow. 349. set hcarge, kemble, 1, 282. on. horgr masc, pi. horgar (delubrum, at times idolum, simulacrum) sffim. 36^ 42^ 91^ 114^ 141; especially worth notice is siem. 114: hoj^gr hlasinn steinom, griot at gleri orsit, rosit i nyio nauta blosi (h.paven with stones, grit made smooth, reddened anew with neat's blood. sometimes iidrg^ is coupled with hof (fanum, tectum, 36^ 141% in which case the former is the holy place amidst woods and rocks, the built temple, aula; conf' liamarr ok liorgrl fornm. sog. 5, 239. to both expressions belongs the notion of the place as well^ and in one place liaraga= arae. elsewhere the heathen term for altar, gk /3a)/x6y

s (see suppl. christianity has not entirely rooted out the harmless practice for the norse any more than for the saxon peasant. in schonen and blekingen it continued for a long time to be the custom for reapers to leave on the field a gift for odens horses the usage in mecklenburg is thus described by gryse: 1 geyers schwed. gesch. 1, 110. orig. 1, 123. in the hogmmssocken, oeland, are some large stones named odi7is fiisor, odini lamellae, of which the wouan. 155 ja, im heidendom hebbeii tor tid der arne (at harvest-tide) de meiers (mowers) dem afgade woden umme god korn angeropen (invoked for good corn, denn wenn de roggenarne geendet, heft men up den lesten platz eins idem (each) veldes einen kleinen ord unde humpel korns unafgemeiet stan laten, datslilve baven (b' oben, a-b'ove) an den

tie his horse up. in the hurry he ran to the stone, pierced it with his sword, and tied his horse fast through the hole. but the horse broke loose, the stone burst in pieces and rolled away, and from this arose the deep bog named hogrumstrask; people have tied poles together, but never could reach the bottom. abrah. ahkpiist, oelands historia, calmar 1822. 1, 37. 2, 212. there is a picture of the stones in liliengren och brimius, no. xviii. in the hcigbysocken of oeland is also a smooth block of granite named odinssten, on which, ace. to the folk-tale, the warriors of old, when marching to battle, used to whet their swords; ahlquist 2, 79. these legends confirm the special importance of odin's horse in his mythus. verelii notae on the gautrekssaga p. 40 quote from the clavis computi runici

ga til fretta vis thor, 3, 12. thorr is worshipped most, and freyr next, which agrees with the names thorvi&r and freyvi&r occurring in one family line 2, 6; visr is wood, does it here mean tree, and imply a priestly function? osinvisr does not occur, but tyvi&r is the name of a plant, ch. xxxvii. it is thor's hammer that hallows a mark, a marriage, and the runes, as we find plainly stated on the stones. i show in ch. xxxiii how thorr under various aspects passed into the devil of the christians, and it is not surprising if he acquired some of the clumsy boorish nature of the giant in the process, for the giants likewise were turned into fiends. the foe and pursuer thunar. iso of all giants in the time of the ases, he himself appeared a lubber to the christians; he throws stones for a wage

e, year by year, cometh to the little cathedral-close of hildesheim a farmer thereunto specially appointed, and bringeth hco logs of a fathom long, and therewith two lesser logs pointed in the manner of skittles. the two greater he planteth in the ground one against the other, and a-top of them the skittles. soon there come hastily together au manner of lads and youth of the meaner sort, and with stones or staves do pelt the skittles down from the logs; other do set the same up again, and the pelting beginneth a-new, by these skittles are to be understood the devilish gods of the heathen, that were thrown down by the saxon-folk when they became christian. here the names of the gods are suppressed^ but one of them must have been jupiter then, as we find it was afterwards^ among the farmer's

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ed into 36 rays representing the 36 decanates or sets of 10 degrees in the zodiac, and these again into 72 typifying the 72 quinaries or sets of 5 degrees and the 72 fold name shem- ha-mephorasch. thus the sun itself embraces the whole creation in its rays. the 7 hebrew yods on each side falling through the air, refer to the solar influence descending. the wall is the circle of the zodiac and the stones are its various degrees and divisions. the two children standing respectively on water and earth, represent the generating influence of both brought into action by the rays of the sun. they are the two inferior or passive elements, as the sun and the air above them are the superior and active elements, of fire and air. furthermore, these two children resemble the sign gemini, which unites t

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

fe 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, like tapping into a cosmic energy supply rather than having to recharge our powers

y of the seizure of land. some researchers have suggested that as late as 1693 in salem, massachusetts, the desire to appropriate land was behind at least some of the mass accusations of witchcraft made at the time. one landowner, giles corey, was apparently an innocent witness at the trials at first. however, he himself was accused of witchcraft and was pressed to death- a torture in which heavy stones were placed on the victim's chest and which took three days to kill them- rather than confess, for if he had, his property would have been taken from his descendants. high-ranking practitioners of magick who attempted to conjure demons were usually male, and included both popes and royalty. they generally escaped censure, however. the folk religion of the countryside was an easier target. i

t spiritual belief and faith. when my daughter skye is older, i will share with her what i have learned. for now, we just walk in the forest or along the river and my partner jim and i give her the opportunity to explore her environment. she already has an image of faeries, elves and other magical beings and we try to encourage her to see the spirit in the tree or in the running water. we collect stones and leaves just to look at and admire their colour or shape. some we take home, but most we leave where we find them. skye loves these adventures and i am so happy to be part of her experience 'on the sabbats, we and our friends celebrate with seasonal games, activities, myths and feasts, and the children in our lives are always eager and excited to join in. skye is still a bit young for mu

rple amethyst and rose quartz for healing and harmony, or a gleaming, golden-brown tiger's eye for grounding. you can also keep different herbs there according to your current focus. empowering your altar you can further empower your special place as a reflection of the positive aspects of your changing life by placing on it other small items that carry happy memories for you. these might include stones or shells found on an enjoyable outing, presents from friends or family, a letter or even a printed email written in love, pictures or photographs of places and people that are endowed with emotional significance. holding these can restore the pleasure of the moment and fill you with confidence, so they are magical objects because they are endowed with the power of good feeling. some practi

nough to fit on your personal altar. i have known practitioners who have only a small area create a circle on a table-top and sit facing north, physically outside it but spiritually within, manipulating the symbols within it. i have also known modern witches who will create an instant circle on paper or even on a computer screen. if you have the space, you can keep a magick circle marked out with stones in a corner of your garden or painted on the floor of a room covered with a large rug. attics are especially good since you are nearer the sky. if you are able to keep a special area for your circle, scatter dried lavender or pot pourri on it before each use, and sweep it in circles widdershins to remove any negativity. whatever the form or size of your circle, mark the four main compass di

ABRAMELIN1

y the means of the course of the stars and of the constellations, adding many diabolical conjurations and impious and profane prayers, and performing the whole with great difficulty. the fifth, named abimelu, operated by the means and aid of demons, to whom he prepared statues, and sacrificed, and thus they served him with their abominable arts. in arabia they made use of plants, of herbs, and of stones as well precious as common. the divine mercy inspired me to return thence, and led me to abramelin, who was he who declared unto me the secret, and opened unto me the fountain and true source of the sacred mystery, and of the veritable and ancient magic which god had given unto our forefathers. also at paris i found a wise man called joseph, who, having denied the christian faith, had made

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s, diabolical pacts, and lastly all that the gross blindness of the world can touch with its bands and feet is reckoned as wisdom and magic! the physician, the astrologer, the enchanter, the sorceress, the idolater, and the sacrilegious, is called of the common people a magician! also he who draweth his magic whether from the sun, whether from the moon, whether from the evil spirits, whether from stones, herbs, animals, brutes, or lastly from thousand divers sources, so that the heaven itself is astonished thereat. there be certain who draw their magic from air, from earth, from fire, from water, from physiognomy, from the hand, from mirrors, from glasses, from birds, from bread, from wine, and even from the very excrements themselves; and yet, however, all this is reputed as science! i ex

in fine, this place should be so well and carefully prepared, that one may judge it to be a place destined unto prayer. the terrace and the contiguous lodge where we are to invoke the spirits we should cover with river sand to the depth of two fingers at the least. the altar should be erected in the midst of the oratory; and if any one maketh his oratory in desert places, he should build it43 of stones which have never been worked or hewn, or even touched by the hammer: of abramelin the mage 61 the chamber44 should be boarded with pine wood, and a lamp full of oil olive should be suspended therein, the which every time that ye shall have burned your perfume and finished your orison, ye shall extinguish. a handsome censer of bronze, or of silver if one hath the means, must be placed upon t

(usually written leviathan instead of leviatan- the crooked or piercing serpent or dragon. satan: from hebrew, shtn= an adversary. belial: from hebrew, bliol= a wicked one. the eight sub-princes. astarot: from hebrew, oshthrvth= flocks, crowds or assemblies. usually written ashtaroth. also a name of the goddess astarte; esther is derived from the same root. magot: may be from hebrew, movth= small stones or pebbles; or from mg= a changing of camp or place; or from greek, magos, a magician. usually written maguth. compare the french word magot, meaning a sort of baboon, and also a hideous dwarfish man; this expression is often used in fairy-tales to denote a spiteful dwarf or elf. this spirit has also been credited with presiding over hidden treasure. larousse derives the name either from an

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ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

s. i had been accustomed to work with full magical apparatus in an admirably devised temple of my own. now i found myself on shipboard, or in some obscure bedroom of mexico city, or camped beside my horse among the sugar canes in lonely tropical valleys, or couched with my rucksack for all pillow on bare volcanic heights. i had to replace my magical apparatus. i would take the table by my bed, or stones roughly piled, for my altar. my candle or my alpine lantern was my light. my ice-axe for the wand, my drinking flask for the chalice, my machete for the sword, and a chapati or a sachet of salt for the pantacle of art! habit soon familiarised these rough and ready succedanea. but i suspect that it may have been the isolation and the physical hardship itself that helped, that more and more m

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

of calling, and the standards of calling, shall all be of fine cloth, and in the colours of ninib and inanna, that is, of black and white, for ninib knows the outer regions and the ways of the ancient ones, and inanna subdued the underworld and vanquished the queen thereof and the crown of calling shall bear the eight-rayed star of the elder gods, and may be of beaten copper, set in with precious stones. and thou shalt bear with thee a rod of lapis lazuli, the five-rayed star about thy neck, the frontlet, the girdle, the amulet of ur about thine arm, and a pure and unspotted robe. and these things shall be worn for the operations of calling only, and at other times shall be put away and hid, so that no eye may see them, save your own. as for the worship of the gods, it is after the fashion

heavens open up to them and unto their race. and there shall forever be war between us and the race of draconis, for the race of draconis was ever powerful in ancient times, when the first temples were built in magan, and they drew down much strength from the stars, but now they are as wanderers of the wastelands, and dwell in caves and in deserts, and in all lonely places where they have set up stones. and these i have seen, in my journeys through those areas where the ancient cults once flourished, and where now there is only sadness and desolation. and i have seen them in their rites, and the awful things they call forth from the lands beyond time. i have seen the signs carved upon their stones, their altars. i have seen the sign of pazuzu, and zaled, and those of xastur and azag-thoth

ose name i do not know. but surely it was not enki. and i have heard them calling all the names of the ancient ones, proudly, at their rites. and i have seen the blood split upon the ground and the mad dancing and the terrible cries as they yelled upon their gods to appear and aid them in their mysteries. and i have seen them turn the very moon's rays into liquid, the which they poured upon their stones for a purpose i could not divine. and i have seen them turn into many strange kinds of beast as they gathered in their appointed places, the temples of offal, whereupon horns grew from heads that had not horns, and teeth from mouths that had not such teeth, and hands become as the talons of eagles or the claws of dogs that roam the desert areas, mad and howling, like unto those who even now

gnize them by their words or by their actions. and thou mayest procure amulets against them, by which their spells are rendered useless and dull, by burning the name of their gods upon parchment or silk in a cauldron of thine own devising. and thy watcher will carry the burnt spell to their altar and deposit it thereupon, and they will be much afraid and cease their workings for awhile, and their stones will crack and their gods be sorely angry with their servants. write the book thou keepest well, and clearly, and when it is time for thee to go out, as it is my time now, it will pass into the hands of those who may have the best use of it, and who are faithful servants of the elder gods, and wilt swear eternal warfare against the rebellious demons who would destroy the civilisations of ma

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

book of lies by aliester crowley get any book for free on: www.abika.com book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 2 the book of lies which is also falsely called breaks the wanderings or falsifications of the one thought of frater perdurabo (aleister crowley) which thought is itself untrue a reprint with an additional commentary to each chapter "break, break, break at the foot of thy stones, o sea! and i would that i could utter the thoughts that arise in me" book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 3 (opposite: photo of frater perdurabo on his ass) commentary (title page) the number of the book is 333, as implying dispersion, so as to correspond with the title "breaks" and "lies. however, the "one thought is itself untrue, and therefore its falsifications are rela

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

f the word of the god enthroned in ra s seat, lightening the girders of the soul. iii,62: to me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. iii,63: the fool readeth this book of the law, and its comment& he understandeth it not. iii,64: let him come through the first ordeal& it will be to him as silver. iii,65: through the second, gold. iii,66: through the third, stones of precious water. iii,67: through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire. iii,68: yet to all it shall seem beautiful. its enemies who say not so, are mere liars. iii,69: there is success. iii,70: i am the hawk-headed lord of silence& of strength; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. iii,71: hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. iii

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

. among animals 1. lion. 5. boar. 2. crocodile. 6. bull. 3. spotted-wolf. 7. baboon. 4. ram. among birds 1. phoenix. 5. cock. 2. eagle. 6. crow. 3. vulture. 7. hawk. 4. swan. among insects 1. glow-worm. 2. beetle. among fish 1. sea-calf. 4. star-fish. 2. shell-fish. 5. strombi. 3. pullus. 6. margar. among metals 1. gold. col. xl. aaron s breastplate is very doubtful; we advise reliance on columns stones and tribes, we having chosen stones on bases of physical analogy to signs, colours &c. col. xlii. the following table of sub-elemental perfumes is important: a of a ambergris. d of a the gall of the rukh. c of a oncha. e of a musk. b of a civet. a of d lign-aloes. d of d galbanum. c of d mastick. e of d storax. b of d olibanum. a of c myrrh. d of c camphor. c of c siamese benzoin. e of c in

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

ka a uniji beliore. a mighty guard of fire with two-edged swords flaming (which have eight vials of wrath for two times and a half, whose wings are of wormwood and the marrow of salt) have set their feet in the west, and are measured with their 9996 ministers. these gather up the moss of the earth as the rich man doth his treasure. cursed are they whose iniquities they are! in their eyes are mill-stones greater than the earth, and from their mouths run seas of blood. their heads are covered with diamonds, and upon their heads are marble stones.*9 happy is he on whom they frown not. for why? the lord of righteousness rejoiceth in them! come away, and not your vials: for the time is such as requireth comfort. the angle of b of d in the tablet of d. the lord of the winds and breezes, the king

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

e world, having undertaken the work of a magus to establish the word of his law on the whole of mankind. he will succeed, without doubt, but he hardly expects to see more than a sample of his product during his present incarnation. but he refuses to waste the least fraction of his force on works foreign to his work, however obvious it may seem to the onlooker that his advantage lies in commanding stones to become bread, or otherwise making things easy for himself. these considerations being thoroughly understood we may return to the question of making the magical link. in the case above cited frater perdurabo composed his talisman by invoking his holy guardian angel according to the sacred magick of abramelin the mage. that angel wrote on the lamen the word of the aeon. the book of the law

aurel, heliotrope :31 :lion (cherub of fire :red poppy, hibiscus, nettle: 32 :crocodile :ash, cypress, hellebore, yew: nightshade :32 bis :bull (cherub of earth :oak, ivy :31 bis :sphinx (if sworded and :almond in flower: crowned: weh note: lines 11, 16, 28& 32 bis corrected as to element; original had typos of fire, air, fire and water respectively. 313& 314 table i: xl: xli :key scale: precious stones: magical weapons: 0: 1 :diamond :swastika or fylfat cross: crown: 2 :star ruby, turquoise :lingam, the inner robe of: glory: 3 :star sapphire, pearl :yoni, the outer robe of: concealment: 4 :amethyst, sapphire :the wand, sceptre, or crook: 5 :ruby :the sword, spear, scourge or: chain: 6 :topaz, yellow diamond :the lamen or rosy cross: 7 :emerald :the lamp and girdle: 8 :opal, especially fir

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

economy "houseruling: from the greek "oikoc "house" and "nomoc "law) i was often reduced to such expedients when wandering in strange lands, camping on glaciers, and so on. i fixed it workably well. in mexico, d.f. for instance, i took my bedroom itself for the circle, my nighttable for the altar, my candle for the lamp; and i made the weapons compact. i had a wand eight inches long, all precious stones and enamel, to represent the tree of life; within, an iron tube containing quicksilver- very correct, lordly, and damsilly. what a club! also, bought, a silver-gilt cup; for air and earth i made one sachet of rose-petals in yellow silk, and another in green silk packed with salt. in the wilds it was easy, agreeable and most efficacious to make a circle, and build an altar, of stones; my alp

ity) 24 another. what is really more significant is the hidden, the unexpressed, soul of the book; the way in which it leaps into wild spate of rhapsody on any excuse or no excuse. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 163 this is surely more convincing than some dreary thesis plodding along doggedly with the "proof) that "god is good" every sentence creaking with your chalk-stones and squeaking with the twinges of your toe! yet just because i proclaim a doctrine of joy in the language of joy, people- dull camels- say i am not "serious" yet i have found pleasure in harnessing the winged horses of the sun to the ploughshare of reason, in showing the validity of this doctrine in detail. it satisfies my sense of rhythm and of symmetry to explain that every experience, no

up and land a short jab to the point, one is even worse off than before. this has to be said, because sammasati is assuredly one of the most useful, as well as one of the most trustworthy and most manageable, weapons in the armoury of the aspirant. you stop me, obviously with a demand for a personal explanation "how is it" you write "that you reject with such immitigable scorn the very foundation-stones of buddhism, and yet refer disciples enthusiastically to the technique of some of its subtlest superstructures" i laff. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 188 it is the old, old story. when the buddha was making experiments and recording the results, he was on safe ground: when he started to theorize, committing (incidentally) innumerable logical crimes in the proce

ocialism "sy, ayn't this all fascism "oh golly "cripes "coo "how dreadful" about the nearest most of them got to ralph straus and desmond maccarthy! words of one syllable! louis marlow5 had already told me what a fool i was to expect that "all they can digest" said he "is a mess of stewed clich s with bird's custard power" damn everything- it's true, it's true. so do you at least get together the stones that you need to build your basilica! chapter lxxiii "monsters" niggers, jews, etc. cara soror, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. come now, is this quite fair? when i agreed to tip you off about magick and the rest, i certainly never expected to be treated as if i were being interviewed by an american sunday newspaper. what do i prefer for breakfast, and my views on the futur

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

him; but for evocations, by which he calls forth that which is below him and without him, he may place a triangle without the circle> we will now consider each of these matters in detail. 54 chapter i the temple the temple represents the external universe. the magician must take it as he finds it, so that it is of no particular shape; yet we find written, liber vii, vi, 2 "we made us a temple of stones in the shape of the universe, even as thou didst wear openly and i concealed" this shape is the vesica piscis; but it is only the greatest of the magicians who can thus fashion the temple. there may, however, be some choice of rooms; this refers to the power of the magician to reincarnate in a suitable body. 55 diagram on this page: a magical circle reminiscent of an illustration in the "tr

xt of the hinayana school of buddhism is much esteemed even to-day by the more cultured and devoted followers of that school. the pumpkin is of course the symbol of resurrection, as is familiar to all students of the story of jonah and the gourd. peter is therefore the arahat who has put an end to his series of resurrections. that he is called peter is a reference to the symbolizing of arahats as stones in the great wall of the guardians of mankind. his wife is of course (by the usual symbolism) his body, which he could not keep until he put her in a peanut shell, the yellow robe of a bhikkhu. buddha said that if any man became an arahat he must either take the vows of a bhikkhu that very day, or die, and it is this saying of buddha's that the unknown poet wished to commemorate. taffy was

ell the prophecy of the future. the manifested shall repeat itself again and again, always a clear thin note, always a simplicity of music, yet ever less and less disturbing the infinite silence until the end. 112 chapter xv the lamen the breastplate of lamen of the magician is a very elaborate and important symbol. in the jewish system we read that the high priest was to wear a plate with twelve stones, for the twelve tribes of israel (with all their correspondences, and in this plate were kept the urim and thummin<divination> the modern lamen is, however, a simple plate which (being worn over the heart) symbolizes tiphereth, and it should therefore be a harmony of all the other symbols

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

mbers, rooms myrdx eye to eye (i.r.q. 645) ny(b ny( 263 gematria )yr+mg pained srg 264 gemanations h (lit. gcarvings h; cf. 224) myqwqx footprints (foot fs breadth (deut. 2:5) krdm a straight row rds channels, pipes my+hr 265 architect lkyrd) broke down srh a cry of the heart; anguish, anxiety hq(c 266 contraction mwcmc 267 illicit, forbidden rws) the merkabah: a chariot; a seat, throne hbkrm 268 stones of the sling (lqh ynb) 270 i.n.r.i (initials of iesus nazaraeus rex iudaeorum; igni natura renovata integra; intra nobis regnum dei; isis naturae regina ineffabilis; and many other sentences. see crowley, coll. works vol. i. appendix) y r n y enemy r( evil; friend (r 271 earth (ch (whence glow, mean h (r) in these words, as follows (see 256, hrym) rm)l 272 earth)(r) to consume; to injure; b

raditionally a female occupation) twnx+ 474 death: knowledge t(d wisdom (pl; prov. 1:20. i.r.q. 244) twmkx the testimony [within the ark] td( a ram, he-goat; a prepared sacrifice dt( 475 in golgotha (ar; s.d. 2:33 )tlglwgb priestess tnhk 476 house of justice, a court-house nyd tyb 478 the lesser countenance: a title of the ruach, esp. tiphareth nypn) ry(z 479 grindings. female millers) twnxw+ 480 stones of emptiness (is. 34:11) whwt ynb) lilith, queen of the night tylyl part; open wide q#p opening; vagina; bit, morsel tp hand-drum; bezel pt knowledge (pl (k.d. p.252) tw(d testimony (k.d. p.252) twd( 481 hills tw(bg bound to death; death penalty )tym byyx a ring t(b) the mighty one sings: a title of tiphareth nwryryd) 482 a looking-glass, mirror )yrlqps) 483 constellations; the sphere of th

m# mc( lkyh the sphere of mars *myd)m the waters *mymh 656 a lily; a rose (see 706, and cf. 661) n#w# delight, joy nw# a furnace rwnt by day *mmwy 658 a name of god *myhl )wh 660 flashings, scintillations tycycyn zones; members nyr#q a day; the seas; the times *mymy vases, vessels *mylk spice; drug; poison *ms 661 a lily; a rose (cf. 656) hn#w# a storehouse *ms) 662 the garland of god l)yrtk) 663 stones of marble (see zohar, pt. i. fol. 34. col. 134# ynb) songs twrymz prophets *my)bn 665 the womb mxrh tyb 666 the number of the beast. 1-36. 36 is the sum of the letters aleph to cheth (tyx= 418, hence 666 is an expansion of 418. the number of talents of gold received by solomon in one year (i kings 10:14) aleister crowley (rabbi battiscombe gunn fs transliteration) ylwrq ry+syl) ommo satan:

the divided name: the 72-fold name of god #rwpmh m# a temporal order *mynmz rds 973 the name (given in deut. 28:58 without t= 92, q.v *kyhl) hwhy t) 974 (metatron (q.v) spelt with yod after mem; it denotes shekinah *nwr++ym going forth (lit. masc. gwanderers h; cf. 770 *my++w#m 976 every herb bearing seed (rz (rz b( lk 977 shakanom: a title of tiphareth *mwn)k# 980 peace-offerings *myml# glowing stones; burning coals *mypcr 983) the town of four (br) tyrq choronzon (as spelt by mathers; cf. 317& see liber 418 10th ayre *nwznwrwx 984 the beginning of wisdom [is the wonderment at hwhy (ps. 111:10) hmkx ty#)r 986 vehemence; a strong objection )tpqth an advisor, counselling *c(wy 988 a peace treaty mwl# tyrb good pleasure, choice, decision, will *cpx chashmalim, brilliant ones: the angelic ch

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

here therein. to this sphere hath the aspirant come by the path called temperance, shot as an arrow from a rainbow. he hath beheld the light, but only in division. nor had he won to this sphere except by temperance, under which name we mask the art of pouring freely forth the whole of our life, to the last spilth of our blood, yet losing never the least drop thereof. al iii,66 "through the third, stones of precious water" the new comment now once again the adept aspires and comes to the sphere called the crown numbered 1, referred to the god ra-hoor-khuit himself in man, to the beginning of whirling motions, and the first mode of matter (see liber 777, the equinox, and book 4 for these attributions) its secret truth is that earth is heaven as heaven is earth, and shows the aspirant to hims

, no twain alike, yet all identical; this he knows and is, for now the word hath lightened his soul's girders (the logic of the ruach- the normal intellect- is transcended in spiritual experience. it is, evidently, impossible to "explain" how this can be) in the number 6 he saw god interlocked with man, two trinities made one; but here he knows that there was never but one. thus now this book is 'stones of precious water; its light is not the borrowed light of gold, but is shed through the book itself, clearsparkling, flashed from its facets. each phrase is a diamond; each is diverse, yet all identical. in each the one light laughs! now to this sphere came he by the path called the high priestess; she is his silent self, virgin beyond all veils, made free to teach him, by virtue of this th

nd so he knows at last now the soiled harlot's dress was mere disguise; naked in moonlight shines the maiden body! al iii,67 "through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire" beyond the one, how shall he pass on? what is this one, which is in every place the centre of all? indeed the logic-girders of our souls need lightening, if we would win to freedom of such truth as this! now in the 'stones of precious water' the light leapt clear indeed, but they were not themselves that light. this sphere of the one is indeed ra-hoor-khuit; is not our crowned and conquering child the source of light? nay, he is finite form of unity, child of two married infinities; and in this last ordeal the aspirant must go beyond even his star, finding therein the core thereof hadit, and losing it also in

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

ps 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 of eternity, and upon whose altar flashes the mystic eucharist of god. 169 the miser "god" what a treasure-house of wealth lies buried in that word! what a mine of precious stones- ptah, father of beginnings, he who created the sun and the moon; nu, blue, starry lady of heaven, mistress and mother of the gods; ea, lord of the deep; istar "o thou who art set in the sky as a jewelled circlet of moonstone; brahma the golden, vishnu the sombre, and siva the crimson, lapped in seas of blood. everywhere do we find thee, o thou one and awful eidolon, who as aormuzd once did

m yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow. my name is alpha and omega- the beginning and the end. my dwelling-house is built betwixt the water and the earth; the pillars thereof are of fire, and the walls are of air, and the roof above is the breath of my nostrils, which is the spirit of the life of man. i am born as an egg in the east, of silver, and of gold, and opalescent with the colours of precious stones; and with my glory is the beast of the horizon made purple and scarlet, and orange, and green, many-coloured as a great peacock 191 caught up in the coils of a serpent of fire. over the pillars of aethyr do i sail, as a furnace of burnished brass; and blasts of fire pour from my nostrils, and bathe the land of dreams in the radiance of my glory. and in the west the lid of mine eye drops- do

then with the maiden, who was also myself. i partook of the eucharist of love- the corn and the wine, and became one. then there came unto me a woman subtle and beautiful to behold, whose breasts were as alabaster bowls filled with wine, and the purple hair of whose head was as a dark cloud on a stormy night. dressed in a gauze of scarlet and gold, and jewelled with pearls and emeralds and magic stones, she, like a spider spun in a web of sunbeams and blood, danced before me, casting her jewels to the winds, and naked she sang to me "o lover of mine heart, thy limbs are as chalcedony, white and round, and tinged with the mingling blush of the sapphire, the ruby, and the sard. thy lips are as roses in june; and thine eyes as amethysts set in the vault of heaven. o! come kiss me, for i trem

l. hearken, o lilith! o sorceress of the blood of life! my lips are for those who suckle not good, and my kisses for those who cherish not evil. and my kingdom is for the children of light who trample under foot the garment of shame, and rend from their loins the sackcloth of modesty. when two shall be one, then shalt thou be crowned with a crown neither of gold nor of silver, nor yet of precious stones; but as with a crown of fire fashioned in the light of god's glory. yea! when my sword falleth, then that which is without shall be like unto that which is within; then tears shall be as kisses, and kisses as tears; then all shall be leavened and made whole, and thou shalt find in thine hand a sceptre, neither of lilies nor of gold, but a sceptre of light, yea! a sceptre of the holiness and

f the cup of the sorrow of death, and towered above all things. laugher is mine, not the laughter of bitterness, nor the laughter of jest; but the laughter of strength and of life. i live like a mighty conquering lord and all things are mine. 212 fair groves and gardens, palaces of marble and fortresses of red sandstones; and the coffers of my treasury are filled with gold and silver and precious stones; and before my path the daughters of pleasure dance with unbraided tresses, scattering lilies and roses along my way. life is a joy indeed, a rapture of clinging lips and of red wine, which flows in beads along the bronze and purple tresses, and then like rubies of blood finds refuge between the firm white breasts of maddened maidenhood. hark. what is that, the yelping of a dog? no, it is t

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o! a great lion as wounded and perplexed. he cried: i have conquered! let the sons of earth keep silence; for my name is become as that of death! when will men learn the mysteries of creation? how much more those of the dissolution (and the pang of fire? i turned me to the west and there was a great bull; white with horns of white and black and gold. his mouth was scarlet and his eyes as sapphire stones. with a great sword he shore the skies asunder, and amid the silver flashes of the steel grew lightnings and deep clouds of indigo. 7 he spake: it is finished! my mother hath unveiled herself! my sister hath violated herself! the life of things hath disclosed its mystery. the work of the moon is done! motion is ended for ever! clipped are the eagle's wings: but my shoulders have not lost th

know thy master, for he is a magus. and because thou didst eat of the pomegranate in hell, for half the year art thou concealed, and half the year revealed. now i perceive the temple that is the heart of this aethyr; it is an urn suspended in the air, without support, above the centre of a well. and the well hath eight pillars, and a canopy above it, and without there is a circle of marble paving-stones, and without them a great outer circle of pillars. and beyond there is the forest of the stars. but the urn is the wonderful thing in all this; it is made of fixed mercury; and within it are the ashes of the book tarot, which hath been utterly consumed. and this is that mystery which is spoken of in the acts of the apostles; that jupiter and mercury (kether and chokmah) 126 visited (that is

e spears of the most high, and with my laughter have i slain a thousand men. with the wine in my cup have i mixed the lightnings, and i have carved my bread with a sharp sword. with my folly have i undone the wisdom of the magus, even as with my judgments i have overwhelmed the universe. i have eaten the pomegranate in the house of wrath, and i have crushed out the blood of my mother between mill-stones to make bread. there is nothing that i have not trampled beneath my feet. there is nothing that i have not set a garland on my brow. i have wound all things about my waist as a girdle. i 169 have hidden all things in the cave of my heart. i have slain all things because i am innocence. i have lain with all things because i am untouched virginity. i have given birth to all things because i a

ians, their rites and mysteries. thick 8vo, 4"th and last edition, revised. half-morocco, t.e.g, n.d" 7"s" 6"d" portion of contents- ever-burning lamps- the hermetic philosophers- the hermetic brethren- mystic history of the fleur-de-lis- sacred fire- fire-theosophy of the persians- ideas of the rosicrucians as to the character of fire- monuments raised to fire-worship in all countries- druidical stones and their worship- the round towers of ireland- cabalistic interpretations by the gnostics- mystic christian figures and talismans- the rosy cross in indian, egyptian, greek, roman, and mediaeval monuments- the great pyramid- myths of the scorpion, or the snake in its many disguises- rosicrucians celestial and terrestrial- alchemy- rosicrucians in strange symbols- robert flood- indian mysti

ided into 3 mother letters, 7 double letters, and 12 simple letters. on this basis, that of the qabalistic 'tree of life' as a certain arrangement of the sephiroth and 22 remaining paths connecting them is termed, the author has constructed no less than 183 tables "the qabalistic information is very full, and there are tables of egyptian and hindu deities, as well as of colours, perfumes, plants, stones, and animals. the information concerning the tarot and geomancy exceeds that to be found in some treatises devoted exclusively to those subjects. the author appears to be acquainted with chinese, arabic, and other classic texts. here your reviewer is unable to follow him, but his hebrew does credit alike to him and to his printer. among several hundred words, mostly proper names, we found a

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ithyrambs like a stain on the shield of the sky. with blood and censer and song i rent the mysterious veil: my eyes gaze long and long on the deep of that blissful bale. my cold grey kisses awake from the silence of utmost eld the grey cold slime of the snake that her beautiful body held. but- god! i was not content with the blasphemous secret of years; the veil is hardly rent while the eyes rain stones for tears. so i clung to the lips and laughed as the storms of death abated, the storms of the grevious graft by the swing of her soul unsated. wherefore reborn as i am by a stream profane and foul in the reign of a tortured lamb, in the realm of a sexless owl, 211 i am set apart from the rest by meed of the mystic rune that reads in peril and pest the ambrosial moon- the moon! for under th

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ided into 3 mother letters, 7 double letters, and 12 simple letters. on this basis, that of the qabalistic 'tree of life' as a certain arrangement of the sephiroth and 22 remaining paths connecting them is termed, the author has constructed no less than 183 tables "the qabalistic information is very full, and there are tables of egyptian and hindu deities, as well as of colours, perfumes, plants, stones, and animals. the information concerning the tarot and geomancy exceeds that to be found in some treatises devoted exclusively to those subjects. the author appears to be acquainted with chinese, arabic, and other classic texts. here your reviewer is unable to follow him, but his hebrew does credit alike to him and to his printer. among several hundred words, mostly proper names, we found a

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alm heights. is it that they are ultimately forgotten, like all lesser ills? is the spectre, self, laid beyond remembrance, even, of its horror; that horror which seems branded into the brain of whoso has beheld it? long years are they through which mrs. besant fought with hardly a friend or a helper; must it be so for all of us? yes, for we are all too blind to know our friends, our wardens, the stones in the great wall of arhans that guards humanity. we have been with james thomson and watched the dreadful seeker go his unending round to the death-places of love and faith and hope; we have passed out of the doomed triangle into the infinite circle of emerald that girdles the universe, the circle wherein stands he, the master whose name is octinomos. a.c. 90 the garden of janus by aleiste

ember his daub, a thing himself had long forgotten? the oldster read his thought "there was one corner of that picture which interested me deeply, deeply" he said "i called to see you; you had gone- none knew here. i am indeed glad to have met you at last. perhaps you would be good enough to show me your pictures- you have other pictures of paris? i am interested in paris- in paris itself- in the stones and bricks of it. might i- if you have nothing better to do- come to your studio now, and see them "i'm afraid the light" begin roderic. it was now ten o'clock "that is nothing" returned the other "i have my own criteria of excellence. a match-glimmer serves me" there was only one explanation of all this. the man must be an architect, perhaps ruined in the mad speculations of the empire, so

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e storm; thou hast shaken the gold-dust from the tresses of the hills, so that they may chaunt forth the glory of thy name. 5. o glory be to thee, o god my god; for i behold thee in the stars and meteors of night: thou has caparisoned her grey coursers with moons of pearl, so that they may shake forth the glory of thy name. 6. o glory be to thee, o god my god; for i behold thee 22 in the precious stones of the black earth: thou hast lightened her with a myriad eyes of magic, so that she may wink forth the glory of thy name. 7. o glory be to thee, o god my god; for i behold thee in the sparkling dew of the wild glades: thou hast decked them out as for a great feast of rejoicing, so that they may gleam forth the glory of thy name. 8. o glory be to thee, o god my god; for i behold thee in the

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ided into 3 mother letters, 7 double letters, and 12 simple letters. on this basis, that of the qabalistic 'tree of life' as a certain arrangement of the sephiroth and 22 remaining paths connecting them is termed, the author has constructed no less than 183 tables "the qabalistic information is very full, and there are tables of egyptian and hindu deities, as well as of colours, perfumes, plants, stones, and animals. the information concerning the tarot and geomancy exceeds that to be found in some treatises devoted exclusively to those subjects. the author appears to be acquainted with chinese, arabic, and other classic texts. here your reviewer is unable to follow him, but his hebrew does credit alike to him and to his printer. among several hundred words, mostly proper names, we found a

ark; and at the midnight thou shalt go to the mid-stream's smoothest flow, and strike upon a golden bell the spirit's call; then say the spell "angel, mine angel, draw thee nigh" making the sign of magistry with wand of lapis lazuli. then, it may be, through the blind dumb night thou shalt see thine angel come, hear the faint whisper of his wings, behold the starry breast begemmed with the twelve stones of the twelve kings! his forehead shall be diademed with the faint light of stars, wherein the eye gleams dominant and keen. thereat thou swoonest; and thy love shall catch the subtle voice thereof. he shall inform his happy lover: my foolish prating shall be over! olympas. o now i burn with holy haste. this doctrine hath so sweet a taste that all the other wine is sour. marsyas. son, there

secret society of hashishins, the work of von hammer- purgstall, and the note of m. sylvestre de sacy contained in vol. 16 of "m mories de l'acad mie des inscriptions et belles-lettres; and, with regard to the etymology of the word "assassin" his letter to the editor of the "moniteur" in no. 359 of the year 1809. herodotus tells us that the syrians used to gather grains of hemp and throw red-hot stones upon them; so that it was like a vapour-bath, more perfumed than that of any grecian stove; and the pleasure of it was so acute that it drew cries of joy from them. hashish, in effect, comes to us from the east. the exciting properties of hemp were well known in ancient egypt, and the use of it is very widely spread under different names in 62 india, algeria, and arabia felix; but we have a

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pective or joint history let it be simply recorded that the proud collector of ocular jewels made present to the lady of a pair of magnificent ear-rings- which were none other than the eyes of little ljubov set in gold. when the lady came to stay at the country house on the outskirts of the village, she wore her jewels. the simple peasants fell to gossip. the eyes they took for two weird precious stones resembling lapis lazuli. one of them spoke of his meeting with the lady before poor blind little piotr, who listened intently. i will now, my friends, give you- nay, lend you- a piece of information of the utmost importance. it's a fine bit of psychology, too "a "man is not a wee bit interesting when he speaks of others, but let the beggar "ride his own horse, expound his own experiences, a

e description of another woman did not in the least attract his attention. only when mention was made of her magnificent jewels did his ears stand up "what are ear-rings" he asked of ljubov, when he felt her tiny hand in his, a little later "they are beautiful things, piotr" she answered "they are beautiful to the eye "hah" he sighed- for that was the one thing he could not well realize "they are stones with fire or water in them" 304 "what, do they burn? do they feel cool to the hand "only to the eye, dear "i" remember. one sets them in gold and wears them hanging from the ear, or round one's neck "would you like to "feel" some, ljubov "oh yes. but, it's no use, dear, i couldn't "see" them "perhaps you would like just to pass your fingers over then, and try to imagine what they. er. look

s many days and nights. civilization has driven her plough over stellar and solar mythology, wantonly, and at haphazard, and in their place she has cultivated the unknowable and andrew lang! if the utilitarian progress in the next few years as he has in the last, soon we shall have some socialistic fellah depriving the world of its last great monuments, and building labourers' cottages out of the stones and bricks of the pyramids, because they are so very much more useful "solve" is the cry to-day; the sabbatic finger of the goat points upwards, yet on the clouds of darkness does it scrawl a sigil of light. a new god stirs in the womb of its mother; we can see his form, dim and red, in the cavern of time. dare we pronounce his name? yea! it is horus, horus the child, reborn amsu the good s

g, mumbling the senile curses and jests which she could no longer articulate. true it is that the word of shaw is quick and powerful, sharper than a two- edged sword. yet the habit of sword-swollowing is probably fatal to the suicidal intentions of a brutus, and it has certainly grown on him until he can no longer slay either himself or another. a dweller in the glass houses of fad, he has thrown stones at the fishy god. a society shimei, he has spat against the wind, and his beard is befouled. true, every thought of shaw is a great thought; and so equable and far- seeing is the artist, that its contradictory appears with it. his births are all siamese twins; his god is janus; his sign is gemini. but his end is (i fear) not to rise above the equilibrium of contraries by a praeter-hegelian

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ian mention the "key of solomon" as a work of high authority, and the former especially refers to it repeatedly. jennings (hargrave. the rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries, fourth edition, revised, demy 8vo "with hundreds of illustrations. half morocco" 7"s" 6"d" some of the contents: critics of the rosicrucians criticized- the hermetic philosophers- fire- theosophy of the persians- drudical stones- the round towers of ireland- mystic christian figures and talismans- the rosy cross in indian, egyptian, greek, roman, and mediaeval monuments- the great pyramid- connexion between the templars and gnosticism- astro-theosophical system of the rosicrucians- robt. fludd- the holy greale- the round table- alchemy- the outline of the kabbalah, etc, etc. the kabbalah unveiled, containing the fo

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ided into 3 mother letters, 7 double letters, and 12 simple letters. on this basis, that of the qabalistic 'tree of life' as a certain arrangement of the sephiroth and 22 remaining paths connecting them is termed, the author has constructed no less than 183 tables "the qabalistic information is very full, and there are tables of egyptian and hindu deities, as well as of colours, perfumes, plants, stones, and animals. the information concerning the tarot and geomancy exceeds that to be found in some treatises devoted exclusively to those subjects. the author appears to be acquainted with chinese, arabic, and other classic texts. here your reviewer is unable to follow him, but his hebrew does credit alike to him and to his printer. among several hundred words, mostly proper names, we found a

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emmed head to the heart! lift up till the eyes that were seeing be blind, and their life depart! till the eye that was blind be a lamp to my mind! coil fast all thy coils on me, dying, absorbed in the sense of the snake! stir! leave the flower-throne, and up-flying! hiss once, and hiss thrice, and awake! then crown me and cling! flash forward- and spring! flash forth on the fire of the altar, the stones, and the sacrifice shed; till the three worlds flicker and falter, and life and her love be dead! in mysterious joy awake- and destroy["he crouches at the feet of" sphinx "toward" c.i.c.t. sphinx. 1. c.i.c.t. 1 [sphinx "plays an enchantment<soul of wine, destruction's formidable kiss, the lamp of th

se ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the lord, to the help of the lord against the mighty! 4. the river kishon swept them away: that ancient river, the river kishon! 5. oh, my soul, thou hast trodden down strength! 1. he bowed the heavens also and and came down: and darkness was under his feet: at the brightness that was before him thick clouds passed: hail stones and flashes of fire! 2. the lord thundred through the heavens, and the highest gave forth his voice; hailstones and flashes of fire! 3. he sent forth his arrows and scattered them: he hurled forth his lightnings and destroyed them! 4. the channels of the waters were seen: and the foundations of the world were discovered. 5. at thy rebuke, oh lord! at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils!

ambs, like a stain on the shield of the sky. with blood and censer and song i rent the mysterious veil: my eyes gaze long and long on the deep of that blissful bale. my cold grey kisses awake from the silence of utmost eld the grey cold slime of the snake that her beautiful body held. 116 but- god! i was not content with the blasphemous secret of years; the veil is hardly rent while the eyes rain stones for tears. so i clung to the lips and laughed as the storms of death abated, the storms of the grievious graft by the swing of her soul unsated. wherefore reborn as i am by a stream profane and foul, in the reign of a tortured lamb, in the realm of a sexless owl, i am set apart from the rest by meed of the mystic rune that reads in peril and pest the ambrosial moon- the moon! for under the

rosicrucians: their rites and mysteries, thick 8vo, fourth an last edition, revised "half-morocco, t.e.g" n.d. portion of contents- ever-burning lamps; the hermetic philosophers; the hermetic brethren; mystic history of the fleur-de-lis; sacred fire; fire-theosophy of the persians; ideas of the rosicrucians as to the character of fire; monuments raised to fire- worship in all countries; druidical stones and their worship; the round towers of ireland; cabalistic interpretations by the gnostics; mystic christian figures and talismans; the rosy cross in indian, egyptian, greek, roman and mediaeval monuments; the great pyramid; myths of the scorpion, or the snake in its many disguises; rosicrucians celestial and terrestrial; alchemy; rosicrucians in strange symbols; robert flood; indian mystic

ided into 3 mother letters, 7 double letters, and 12 simple letters. on this basis, that of the qabalistic 'tree of life' as a certain arrangement of the sephiroth and 22 remaining paths connecting them is termed, the author has constructed no less than 183 tables "the qabalistic information is very full, and there are tables of egyptian and hindu deities, as well as of colours, perfumes, plants, stones, and animals. the information concerning the tarot and geomancy exceeds that to be found in some treatises devoted exclusively to those subjects. the author appears to be acquainted with chinese, arabic, and other classic texts. here your reviewer is unable to follow him, but his hebrew does credit alike to him and to his printer. among several hundred words, mostly proper names, we found a

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e world is manifest shamelessly; in the dank, pale autumn woods the fallen leaves lie squelching under the feet of the desolate gnomes; and now the birds are silent, and the streams flow sluggishly through the veins of the world. dark gray and cloudy, the skies no more are blue, and grayness reigning solitary makes music drearily through the wind-harp. the dripping rain soddens the earth, and the stones lie thick and wet among the leaves; and the trees wave naked arms in despair to the sky. the light is quickly dying, and there is no more day; the dull red sun- a sore and aching eye in a face of gray- droops down to slumber. all the world is dead. rose! rose! where art thou? o my rose, my rose! my secret rose, art lost among the gray? there is no voice in the silence; in the woods the brow

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leaves, ferns and flowers during. her youth in the foothills of snowdon. as a 17 girl she had belonged to a coven of four witches who were ardent chapel-goers-in bethesda anyone who missed a service without good reason was ostracized by the other residents. at night the coven used to climb part-way up the mountain to a small lake reputed to have belonged to witches since the middle ages. stepping-stones led to the small island in the centre which was the circle where they performed their rituals, and in the inky black waters they studied the moon's reflections and conjured up the future. when he was nine, alex was allowed to take part in his first full-moon ceremony. gran had no difficulty in persuading his mother to part with him for the night, for she was delighted with the progress he h

ologizing to jesus christ and assuring him that no blasphemy was intended. he did not need to placate his witch god, feeling sure that he would understand. afterwards he put the whole episode behind him and roamed the countryside testing his witch knowledge. he found the wild herbs used for potions in the very places described in witch-records 'beside fast running water 'beneath the mossy side of stones 'where two streams meet. he would have much to tell his grandmother. the months he spent with his uncle louie were among the happiest of his childhood, free as they were from the problems of poverty, but he badly wanted to visit his grandmother. the matter resolved itself in june 1940 when his parents sent word for him to come home. he wasjust fourteen and his schooldays were over; it was t

'how are we going to fmd anything in this' alex asked in dismayashe viewed the wide expanseofwater rippling over its rocky bed. the others brushed aside his protests and insisted that they knew exactly where to look. nick had described the spot exactly in relation to the abbey. ignoring the icy water lapping round their ankles, three of the men waded intothe stream, carefully shifting the larger stones with their feet. alex gave up his protests and went off to have a cigarette. he could not believe that a knife could stay preserved for three hundred years. in addition, he was distinctly annoyed that he had let his body be used by the spirit of a dead person. he thought he had put all that behind him when he gave up spiritualism. he had discovered that acting as a. receptacle for the dead

way that ultra-violet rays and x-rays operate. this transference of energy can, they maintain, be harnessed according to the time of the year when they are born, and initiates are presented with a list of materials supposed to have sympathetic magic for each of the twelve signs of the zodiak, and are advised to be guided by it. they are: aquarius the water bearer. 22 january to 21 february. lucky stones: zircon, gamet, ruby, jet, black onyx. lucky number: two. lucky day: saturday. lucky flowers: snowdrop and foxglove. lucky tree: pine. animal: dog. bird: cuckoo. metal: platinum. colours: electric blue, electric green. pisces the fishes. 22 february to 21 march. lucky stones: sapphire, emerald, amethyst, coral. lucky numbers: pisces, six; jupiter and neptune both three. lucky day: thursday

inum. colours: electric blue, electric green. pisces the fishes. 22 february to 21 march. lucky stones: sapphire, emerald, amethyst, coral. lucky numbers: pisces, six; jupiter and neptune both three. lucky day: thursday. flower: heliotrope. trees: willow, elm. animals: sheep and ox. birds: swan and stork. metal: tin. colours: purple, mauve, sea-green. 152 arms the ram. 22 march to 21 april. lucky stones: ruby, bloodstone, diamond. lucky numbers: aries, seven; mars, nine. lucky day: tuesday. flowers: gorse, wild rose, thistle. trees: holly, thorn, chestnut. animals: ram, tiger, leopard. bird: magpie. metal: iron. colours: bright green, pink, yellow, red, white. taurus the bull. 22 april to 21 may. lucky stonesr sapphire, emerald, turquoise, lapis lazuli, moss agate. lucky numbers: six for b

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if no other. merry meet, merry part. notes l there are plenty of published samhain rituals, containing at least some of these elements. this is from what witches do by stewart farrar, fleshed out from lady sheba's book of shadows, as usual. l earth goddess aspect: crone astrological rulers: venus, saturn keys: law principle, solidity,auriel("lord of awe) rules: birth& death, body, growth, nature, stones& metals, material things, caves, chasms, silence, graves, fields, sanguine; sensation; calm, imperturbable virtues: strength, endurance, commitment, responsibility, thoroughness, practicality, wisdom, patience, sense of timing vices: dullness, lack of conscience, melancholy, boredom, inertia, stagnation, hoarding of resources (including information) season: yule time of day: midnight direct

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

ords of the greater fifth and sixth likewise plunged their stone. within the fire, deep at the inmost sphere, as whirled through space the greater wheel, bearing the lesser seven, the two were fused. the fourth, the fifth, the sixth blended, merged and intermingled. the aeon closed, the work was done. the stars stood still. the eternal ones cried to inmost heaven "display the work. draw forth the stones" and lo, the stones were one. stanza v the moment manvantaric, for which had waited all the triads, the hour that marked the solemn point of juncture, arrived within the scope of time, and lo, the work was done. the hour for which the seven groups purushic, each vibrant to the sounding of the word, seeking the adding of the power, had waited for millennia, passed in a flash of time, and lo

o form through the power of the second aspect. thus the correspondence works out. by life upon the physical plane (that life wherein the physical permanent atom has its full demonstration) the matter is arranged and separated that must eventually be built into the temple of solomon, the egoic body, through the agency of the egoic life, the second aspect. in the quarry of the personal life are the stones prepared for the great temple. in existence upon the physical plane and in the objective personal life is that experience gained which demonstrates as faculty in the ego. what is here suggested would richly repay our closest attention, and open up before us reaches of ideas, which should eventuate in a wiser comprehension, a sounder judgment, and a greater encouragement to action. iii. the

truly marvellous thing. every gradation of that note is to be found in the mineral kingdom which is itself divided into three main kingdoms: a. the baser metals, such as lead and iron, with all allied minerals. b. the standard metals, such as gold and silver, which play such a vital part in the life of the race, and are the mineral manifestation of the second aspect. c. t he crystals and precious stones, the first aspect as it works out in the mineral kingdom the consummation of the work of the mineral devas, and the product of their untiring efforts. when scientists fully appreciate what it is which causes the difference between the sapphire and the ruby, they will have found out what constitutes one of the stages of the transmutative process, and this they cannot do until the fourth ethe

and the entities who come in on that influence may not further be revealed at this moment. that which is given in the secret doctrine, and supplemented here by further details, will suffice for the investigations of students for another generation. each generation should produce those able to ascertain subjective fact for themselves; they will utilize that which is exoteric and known as stepping stones on the path to perfect knowledge. they will know, and they will give out, and only the next cycle of fifty years after their work is accomplished will see the recognition by the many of the truth revealed by the few. in the case of h. p. b. this is apparent. on the tide of the present endeavour, the secret doctrine will be vindicated and her work justified. b. on individualisation (a) the w

hue. under group 2 work the fairies of plant life, the elves who build and paint the flowers, the radiant little beings who inhabit the woods and the fields, the elementals who work with the fruits, vegetables, and with all that leads to the covering of the earth's surface with verdure. associated with them are the lesser devas of magnetisation, those attached to sacred spots, to talismans and to stones, and also a special group to be found around the habitations of the masters wherever situated. under group 3 work the elementals of the air and the sea, the sylphs, the water fairies, and the devas who guard each human being. here only general hints are given. this list is not complete and does not include the grosser elementals, the brownies, and those that inhabit the dark spaces of the e

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but that these objective results are produced by an inner growth and not by an outer activity. an ancient scripture teaches this truth in the following terms "when the sun progresses into the mansion of the serving man, the way of life takes the place of the way of work. then the tree of life grows until its branches shelter all the sons of men. the building of the temple and the carrying of the stones cease. the growing trees are seen; the buildings disappear. let the sun pass into its appointed place, and in this day and generation attend ye to the roots of growth- 247- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust little groups will spring up here and there whose members respond to the new note and whose growth into the world group will be watched over by one or more working dis

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

olently energised lord of a ray are as follows: the negator of desire- 57- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the one who sees the right the visioner of reality the divine robber the devotee of life the hater of forms the warrior on the march the sword bearer of the logos the upholder of the truth the crucifier and the crucified the breaker of stones the imperishable flaming one the one whom naught can turn the implacable ruler the general on the perfect way the one who leads the twelve curiously enough, this sixth ray lord has always been a loved enigma to his six brethren. this comes out in the questions which they addressed to him on one occasion when they met "under the eye of the lord" to interchange their plans for united, divine

ural scheme. process. condensation. secret. transmutation. the treatise on cosmic fire defines this as follows "transmutation is the passage from one state of being to another through the agency of fire- 140- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust purpose. to demonstrate the radio-activity of life. divisions. base metals, standard metals, precious stones. objective agency. fire. fire is the initiating factor in this kingdom. subjective agency. sound. quality. extreme density. inertia. brilliance. students must remember that we are not dealing with the elements and atoms, as we study this kingdom. they are the substance out of which all the mineral forms are made. but we are dealing with the mineral forms as they manifest in the concrete wor

ted by us as radiation and the radio-active substances. we are looking on at the transmutation process. the resolving agencies are fire, intense heat and pressure. these three agencies have already succeeded in bringing about the divisions of the mineral kingdom into three parts: the baser metals, as they are called, the standard metals (such as silver and gold and platinum, and the semi-precious stones and crystals. the precious jewels are a synthesis of all three, one of the basic syntheses of evolution. in this connection, some correspondences between the mineral kingdom and the human evolutionary cycles might here be noted: 1. the base metals .p hysical plane. dense consciousness. the first initiation. 2. the standard metals. astral plane. self-consciousness. the second initiation. 3

s. the precious jewels are a synthesis of all three, one of the basic syntheses of evolution. in this connection, some correspondences between the mineral kingdom and the human evolutionary cycles might here be noted: 1. the base metals .p hysical plane. dense consciousness. the first initiation. 2. the standard metals. astral plane. self-consciousness. the second initiation. 3. the semi-precious stones. mental plane. radiant consciousness. the- 144- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust third initiation. 4. the precious jewels .e goic consciousness and achievement. the fourth initiation. the correspondences of fire, heat and pressure in the evolution of the human being are self-evident, and their work can be seen paralleling that in the m

mutation. radiation. vegetable. conformation. transformation. magnetisation. animal. concretisation. transfusion. experimentation. human .a daptation .t ranslation. transfiguration. egoic. externalisation. manifestation. realisation. some notes on the four kingdoms 1. the mineral kingdom is divided into three main divisions: a. the base metals. b. the standard metals. c. the crystals and precious stones. a treatise on cosmic fire, p. 588. 2. the vegetable kingdom is. a. the transmitter of the vital pranic fluid. b. a bridge between the so-called conscious and the unconscious. c. in an esoteric relation to the deva or angel kingdom. a treatise on cosmic fire, p. 564. 3. the four minor rays control the four kingdoms: a. the 7th ray controls the mineral kingdom. b. the 6th ray controls the ve

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

er mind (the temple) and corresponded to an awakening of the logical and intuition sides of the soul. these are the father-mother principle, indicated by the presence of the parents."61 and again "this number (of the twelve disciples) is typified by many things in the old testament; by the 12 sons of jacob, by the 12 princes of the children of israel; by the 12 running springs in helim; by the 12 stones in aaron's breastplate; by the 12 loaves of the shew-bred; by the 12 spies sent by moses; by the 12 stones of which the altar was made; by the 12 stones taken out of jordan; by the 12 oxen which bare the brazen sea. also in the new testament, by the 12 stars in the bride's- 49- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust crown, by the 12 foundations of jerusalem which john saw, and

1998 lucis trust whilst st. john does not refer to them at all. these three temptations tested out all the three aspects of the lower human nature the physical, the emotional-desire nature, and the mind or mental nature we read that "when he had fasted forty days and forty nights he was afterwards anhungered. and when the tempter came to him, he said, if thou be the son of god command that these stones be made bread. but he answered and said, it is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of god."38 there are two interesting facts connected with all these temptations. each of them begins with "if" on the lips of the devil, and each is met by christ with the words "it is written" these two phrases link all three episodes and give the cl

which is only another name for the personal lower self, regarding it as a unified whole, as is only the case in advanced people, disciples and initiates. in these three words maya, glamour and illusion we have synonyms for the flesh, the world and the devil, which constitute the threefold test that confronts every son of god on the verge of liberation "if thou be the son of god command that these stones be made bread" let us use our divine powers for personal physical ends. let us put the material physical nature first. let us assuage our hunger, whatever it may be, and do it because we are divine. let us use our divine powers so as to gain for ourselves perfect health, long desired financial prosperity, popularity for our personality, for which we crave, and those physical surroundings an

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

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these abstruse matters, and give you a better idea of the true scope of these advanced meditations. the result of using this meditation on the presented attributes will be: 1. the attributes already expressing themselves somewhat will achieve an intensified livingness in the daily life expression of the disciple, and consequently in the lives of all whom he may touch. they will form the stepping stones across the river of life down which the new attributes may come, presenting themselves in the persons of those who are destined to reveal them eventually to man. just as, symbolically speaking, the meditation on inclusive reason opens the way to the "heart of the sun, so this meditation brings in certain agencies and forces from the "central spiritual sun, and these energies find their foca

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

ll-meaning, gently ineffectual person. look for the strong souls through whom you must learn to work. look for those who can cooperate with the plan. look also for your co-workers outside the ranks of the psychologically distressed and the abnormal people. you must refrain from welding them into any structure which you may build for the great ones. they are not yet ready and would constitute poor stones in the building and weak links in your work. you must build for the future. i have spoken to you thus at length because your work as a building cooperator can now begin. symbolically, i say to you: look for those who have blended head and heart and above whose foreheads shines the mystic symbol of the builder. that you may integrate more freely and more fully in the work of the great white

it, is a flowering apple tree, the branches touching. a border of red peonies extends east and west from the apple tree, for about fifteen feet, ending, each in a red rose bush, a most fragrant rose. the path continues down the slightly sloping green lawn to the stream, which is about fifteen feet wide, and has rocks and ferns, depths and shallows. butterflies and birds fly over it, and stepping-stones cross it at this place. the stepping-stones over the stream lead to a path which wanders towards a pagoda of chinese design, large, and with open sides. a circular table of some indian wood is in the centre of the pagoda and upon it a statue of buddha faces the entrance. before the buddha is a carved wooden bowl lined with silver and containing water, on which floats a single white lotus. t

rein you best can serve. i know your field of service, but i will never tell you; each disciple must freely come to an understanding of his destined service. when you know for yourself what it is, then i will help you to express your aspiration. one hint, symbolically, i will give to you. the musical wandering hither and thither of the little stream as it emerges from its source and runs over the stones and rocks, responding to the sunshine and the rain, has to give place to the calm, deep running of a river, as it pours down to the sea, fertilising the fields through which it runs and making many human activities possible. now i will give you my specific instructions for this present time. they are in the nature of preparatory work, of a preliminary re-orientation, and of a clearing of th

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

g, of quality and of spiritual consciousness. this crust is being blasted away by the present catastrophic condition in the world. men will feel at the close of this present war as if nothing had been left them and that they are destitute and denuded of all that made life worth living so dependent have they become upon the so-called high scale of living. but these attitudes will serve as stepping stones to a new life and a better and more simple way of living; new values will be released and comprehended among men and new goals will be revealed. and the day will come, in the experience of humanity, when men will look back at the pre-war centuries and wonder at their blindness and be shocked at their selfish and materialistic past. the future will shine with an added glory and, though diffi

sometimes called `the planet of the violet force' and its graduates wield the power of cosmic etheric prana. earth (3rd) the school of magnetic response. another name given to its pupils is `the graduates of painful endeavour' or the `adjudicators between the polar opposites' its graduates are said to undergo examination upon the 3rd subplane of the astral plane. vulcan (1st) the school of fiery stones. there is a curious connection between the human units who pass through its halls and the mineral kingdom. the human units on the earth scheme are called `the living stones; on the vulcan they are called `fiery stones' jupiter (2nd) the school of beneficent magicians. this planet is sometimes called in the parlance of the schools, the `college of quadruple force units' for its members wield

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ide, in an almost singular manner, the next developing stage in the series of meditations i have planned for you; they should also (in a peculiar manner) enable you to move forward in your thinking and in your ability to grasp abstractions. look for the underlying abstract idea in this invocation. it is there. from your reaction to this invocation, and your ability to use its phrases as "stepping-stones" to certain levels of abstract thought not hitherto attained, i shall be able to judge your readiness, as individuals, for certain specific preparatory work for the initiation which you (again as an individual disciple) should take. the final stanza of the "invocation for power and light" as it is called in the archives of the masters, is apparently simple. it has, in these archives, an ind

outer world there appears a haze of blue. that blue protects and hence i have no fear. through it, i may not pass. 3. and from this hour and henceforth upon the way, i seek to be. i seek no more to know, because this life has taught me how to know and with this knowledge gained, i now can serve by being. 4. before me streams the path of light. i see the way. behind me lies the mountain path, with stones and cobbles on the way. around me are the thorns. my feet are tired. but straight ahead stretches the lighted way and on that way i walk. 5. pain comes from form-attachment. it takes two forms: attachment to the forms of earth, of men and place; attachment to the truth. they both bring pain and pain must cease. ask your soul how? 6. the threefold load, the blazing star, the path of light, t

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

itting, as a ritual performer who possesses a stone endowed with tsiu marpo s life-force would then be able to exact his will on the deity, akin to the acts of subjugation performed by tamdrin and padmasambhava.130 the life wheel, equally, is a circle of mantras that bind the 130 see de nebesky-wojkowitz 1998, pp. 174, 491; tucci 1988, p. 191; gyatso 1998, p. 70; and karmay 1998a for more on life stones. 80 life-energy of the deity to ensure his cooperation. by building these objects and consecrating them as the items they represent, the performer is able to bring the deity under his control. from this point, specific tasks can be assigned. 2.24. a. fourth stage [summon] by means of the ultimate red spear lasso b. secret text the fourth stage, the ultimate red spear lasso, commands tsiu ma

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the rule of the fathers. thy men shall be mortals. the men of the lord of wisdom, not the lunar sons, are immortal. cease thy complaints. thy seven skins are yet on thee. thou art not ready. thy men are not ready" 4. after great throes she cast off her old three and put on her new seven skins, and stood in her first one- ii. 5. the wheel whirled for thirty crores more. it constructed rupas: soft stones that hardened; hard plants that softened. visible from invisible, insects and small lives. she shook them off her back whenever they overran the mother[[footnote(s* only forty-nine slokas out of several hundred are here given. not every verse is translated verbatim. a periphrasis is sometimes used for the sake of clearness and intelligibility, where a literal translation would be quite unin

ding to sir henry rawlinson, the most important titles of this deity refer to "his functions as the source of all knowledge and science" not only is he "the intelligent fish" but his name may be read as signifying both "life" and a serpent (an initiated adept, and he may be considered as "figured by the great serpent which occupies so conspicuous a place among the symbols of the gods on the black stones recording babylonian benefactions" esculapius, serapis, pluto, knoum and kneph, are all deities with the attributes of the serpent. says dupuis "they are all healers, givers of health, spiritual and physical, and of enlightenment" the crown formed of an asp, the thermuthis, belongs to isis, goddess of life and healing. the upanishads have a treatise on the science of serpents- in other word

venkata krishna rao[[vol. 2, page] 52 the secret doctrine. stanza ii. nature unaided fails (5) after enormous periods the earth creates monsters (6) the "creators" are displeased (7) they dry the earth (8) the forms are destroyed by them (9) the first great tides (10) the beginning of incrustation- 5. the wheel whirled for thirty crores (of years, or 300,000,000. it constructed rupas (forms. soft stones, that hardened (minerals; hard plants, that softened (vegetation. visible from invisible, insects and small lives (sarisripa, swapada. she (the earth) shook them off her back, whenever they overran the mother (a. after thirty crores of years, she turned round. she laid on her back; on her side. she would call no sons of heaven, she would ask no sons of wisdom. she created from her own bosom

ave confounded the man and the symbol. the symbol of chnouphis, or the soul of the world, writes champollion "is among others that of an enormous serpent standing on human legs; this reptile, the emblem of the good genius, is a veritable agathodaemon. it is often represented bearded. that sacred animal, identical with the serpent of the ophites, is found engraved on numerous gnostic or basilidean stones. the serpent has various heads, but is constantly inscribed with the letters[[chnoubis* agathodaemon was endowed "with the knowledge of good and evil" i.e, with divine wisdom, as without the former the latter is impossible* repeating iamblichus, champollion shows him to be "the deity called[[eichton (or the fire of the celestial gods- the great* thot[[footnote(s* this is about as just as th

and pausanias vouches for the actual existence of the tombs of asterius and of geryon, or hillus, son of hercules- all giants, titans and mighty men. finally the abbe pegues (cited in de mirville's pneumatologie) affirms in his curious work on "the volcanoes of greece" that "in the neighbourhood of the volcanoes of the isle of thera, giants with enormous skulls were found laid out under colossal stones, the erection of which must have necessi[[footnote(s* there are critics who, finding no evidence about the existence of tertullian save in the writings of eusebius "the veracious" are inclined to doubt it[[vol. 2, page] 279 christendom is idolatrous. tated everywhere the use of titanic powers, and which tradition associates in all countries with the ideas about giants, volcanoes and magic (

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india, egypt and greece, the towers and the 127 towns in europe which were found "cyclopean in origin" by the french institute, are all the work of initiated priest- architects, the descendants of those primarily taught by the "sons of god" justly called "the builders" this is what appreciative posterity says of those descendants "they used neither mortar nor cement, nor steel nor iron to cut the stones with; and yet they were so artfully wrought that in many places the joints are not seen, though many of the stones, as in peru, are 18 ft. thick, and in the walls of the fortress of cuzco there are stones of a still greater size (acosta, vi, 14 "again, the walls of syene, built 5,400 years ago, when that spot was exactly under the tropic, which it has now ceased to be, were so constructed t

m. the former call the pitris "the lunar ancestors" of men; and the egyptians made of the moon-god, taht-esmun, the first human ancestor. this "moon-god "expressed the seven nature-powers that were prior to himself, and were summed up in him as his seven souls, of which he was the manifestor as the eighth one (hence the eighth sphere. the seven rays of the chaldean heptakis or iao, on the gnostic stones indicate the same septenary of souls "the first form of the mystical seven was seen to be figured in heaven, by the seven large stars of the great bear, the constellation assigned by the egyptians to the mother of time, and of the seven elemental powers (see the seven souls, etc) as well known to every hindu, this same constellation represents in india the seven rishis, and as such is calle

man and animal are swarming with bacteria of a hundred various[[vol. 1, page] 261 the occult chemistry. kinds; that from without we are threatened with the invasion of microbes with every breath we draw, and from within by leucomaines, aerobes, anaerobes, and what not. but science never yet went so far as to assert with the occult doctrine that our bodies, as well as those of animals, plants, and stones, are themselves altogether built up of such beings; which, except larger species, no microscope can detect. so far, as regards the purely animal and material portion of man, science is on its way to discoveries that will go far towards corroborating this theory. chemistry and physiology are the two great magicians of the future, who are destined to open the eyes of mankind to the great phys

than a will-o'-the-wisp. yet, the universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself (5) everything in the universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e, endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception. we men must remember that because we do not perceive any signs- which we can recognise- of consciousness, say, in stones, we have no right to say that no consciousness exists there. there is no such thing as either "dead" or "blind" matter, as there is no "blind" or "unconscious" law. these find no place among the conceptions of occult philosophy. the latter never stops at surface appearances, and for it the noumenal essences have more reality than their objective counterparts; it resembles therein the mediae

gion of the 4th dynasty, or of the egyptian religion of the ptolemaic period? is it of the religion of the rabble, or of that of the learned men? of that which was taught in the schools of heliopolis, or of that other which was in the minds and conceptions of the theban sacerdotal class? for, between the first tomb of memphis, which bears the cartouche of a king of the third dynasty, and the last stones at esneh under caesar-philippus, the arabian, there is an interval of at least five thousand years. leaving aside the invasion of the shepherds, the ethiopian and assyrian dominions, the persian conquest, greek colonization, and the thousand revolutions of its political life, egypt has passed during those five thousand years through many vicissitudes of life, moral and intellectual. chapter

BLUE EQUINOX

rnity, and in thy sight the landmarks are of fair white marble untouched by the tool of the graver. therefore thou art mine, even now and for ever and for everlasting. amen. 58. moreover, i heard the voice of adonai: seal up the book of the heart and the serpent; in the number five and sixty seal thou the holy book. as fine gold that is beaten into a diadem for the fair queen of pharaoh, as great stones that are cemented together into the pyramid of the ceremony of the death of asar, so do thou bind together the words and the deeds, so that in all is one thought of me thy delight adonai. 59. and i answered and said: it is done even according to thy word. and it was done. and they that read the book and debated thereon passed into the desolate land of barren words. and they that sealed up t

russian in art or literature, because the russian is in the ape stage of evolution. no matter how great his genius may be, it has to be cast in the mould of that which has been already shaped. have you not seen those dalmatics covered with pearls.which no one has had the taste to match.sewn by princesses? have you not seen those gargantuan bibles, their covers thick with precious the equinox 280 stones, where was no art to cut or polish, so that they look like bits of glass or half-sucked sweetmeats? the art of russia has always been either without art, or with art derived. napoleon was probably in an extremely bad temper when he spoke of saint basil.s as .that mosque. but it is a mosque. it is probably the greatest building in the world in its peculiar way, but that way is the way of the

mpassion. no longer can the perfect buddhas, who don the dharmakaya glory, help man.s salvation. alas! shall selves be sacrificed to self, mankind, unto the weah of units? the sum of misery is diminished only in a minute degree by the attainment of a pratyeka-buddha. the tremendous energy acquired is used to accomplish the miracle of destruction. if the keystone of an arch is taken away the other stones are not promoted to a higher place. they fall [a pratykeka-buddha is one who attains emancipation for himself alone..ed(.nirvana of destruction! nirvana means .cessation. what messy english) 40. know, o beginner, this is the open path, the way to selfish bliss, shunned by the bodhisattvas of the .secret heart. the buddhas of compassion. the words .selfish bliss. must not be taken in a liter

BOOK OF ENOCH

sh, and they devoured one another's flesh, and drank the blood from it. 7.6] then the earth complained about the lawless ones. 8.1] and azazel taught men to make swords, and daggers, and shields, and breastplates. and he showed them the things after these, and the art of making them; bracelets, and ornaments, and the art of making up the eyes, and of beautifying the eyelids, and the most precious stones, and all kinds of coloured dyes. and the world was changed. 8.2] and there was great impiety, and much fornication, and they went astray, and all their ways became corrupt. 8.3] amezarak taught all those who cast spells and cut roots, armaros the release of spells, and baraqiel astrologers, and kokabiel portents, and tamiel taught astrology, and asradel taught the path of the moon. 8.4] and

uge is about to come on all the earth; and all that is in it will be destroyed. 10.3] and now teach him so that he may escape and his offspring may survive for the whole earth" 10.4] and further the lord said to raphael "bind azazel by his hands and his feet and throw him into the darkness. and split open the desert, which is in dudael, and throw him there. 10.5] and throw on him jagged and sharp stones and cover him with darkness. and let him stay there forever. and cover his face so that he may not see the light. 10.6] and so that, on the great day of judgment, he may be hurled into the fire. 10.7] and restore the earth which the angels have ruined. and announce the restoration of the earth. for i shall restore the earth so that not all the sons of men shall be destroyed because of the k

suggestions based on weathering data that the sphinx is much older (pre 10,000 bc) than the pyramids, so this is a possible candidate for zotiel. 24.1] and from there i went to another place of the earth and he showed me a mountain of fire that blazed day and night. 24.2] and i went towards it and saw seven magnificent mountains. and all were different from one another, and precious and beautiful stones, and all were precious, and their appearance glorious, and their form was beautiful. three towards the east one fixed firmly on another and three towards the south one on another, and deep and rugged valleys, no one of which was near another. 24.3] and there was a seventh mountain, in the middle of these, and in their height they were all like the seat of a throne and fragrant trees surroun

BOOK OF PLEASURE

ing a man king, is that he, resembling the book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 33 god (on earth, has reached the lowest strata of his sub-consciousness (those one-cell organisms if you like, which predominate as governing his functions (of course, those crowned kings are never such, they symbolise the "hope" not the reality) hence the floral nature of and precious stones in design of the crown relate to first principles. he is king who has reached the dual principle in its simplicity, the first experience which is all experience. he has no need of crowns and kingdoms. by sigils and the acquirement of vacuity, any past incarnation, experience, etc, can be summoned to consciousness. it may even happen in sleep in the form of dreams, but this means is very dif

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

sore throat, coughs, catarrh. bladderwrack used in a bath for arthritis and rheumatic conditions. blue mallow pectoral. for coughs and colds generally. boneset mild laxative, tonic; relieves fever and lesson ten: herbalism/ 139 i herb simples 240/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft pains in the bones. borage useful in chest complaints. broom used in some bladder complaints, especially in gall stones. buchu a stimulant used in urinary affections and inflammation of the bladder. buckbean a good tonic, used for liver troubles and skin diseases. also for arthritis, etc. bugloss expectorant and tonic, used in cases of inflammation. burdock used for purifying the blood. burr marigold for gouty conditions. greater celandine for eye infections, also cases of jaundice. chamomile used in cases o

e without perception. anodyne relieves pain. anthelmintic a medicine that expels worms. aperient gently laxative without purging. aromatic a stimulant; spicy. astringent causes contraction and arrests discharges. antibiuous acts on the bile, relieving biliousness. antimetic stops vomiting. antileptic relieves fits. antiperiodic arrests morbid periodic movements. anthilic prevents the formation of stones in the urinary organs. antirheumatic relieves and cures rheumatism. antiscorbutic cures and prevents scurvy. definition of medical actions (continued) antiseptic a medicine that aims at stopping putrification. antispasmodic relieves and prevents spasms. antisyphilitic having effect or curing venereal diseases. carminative expels wind from the bowels. cathartic evacuating from the bowels. ce

r to put the colored sheet over the front of the photograph than to try to wrap it around the light bulb. the best way is to put the photo in a frame together with the colored acetate and then to stand the frame in front of the light bulb, or the window. give it the light treatment for at least three hours a day. gem therapy you can take six different books dealing with precious and semi-precious stones and their occult properties and find six different opinions as to which do what. the reason for this is that the stones are usually corresponded with astrological planets and signs. the trouble there is (as w. b. crow explains in precious stones: their occult power and hidden significance) that "there are different scales of correspondences and under one circumstance one scale should be app

cure his queasy stomach. in 1969 barbara anton (a graduate gemologist from the gemological institute of new york) advised a friend, who had suffered from irregular menstrual periods for years, to wear a yellow jasper pendant. so long as she wore it, her periods came regularly on a twenty-eight day cycle. any good book on gems and minerals will give 'you full descriptions of the many varieties of stones available in the full spectrum of color. rubies, emeralds, sapphires are obvious examples of red, green and blue, but there are many other equally effective yet far less expensive stones available. here are a few stones, together with the colors in which they can be obtained, plus some of the ancient beliefs regarding their properties. agate (brown: said to help harden gums and protect visi

es rippling down through your body, down through your legs, all the way to your toes. feel the fire within you. feel the fire. now you lower your arms and, turning back towards the hedgerow, you leave the hillock and continue on along the side of the field. as you walk you become aware of a new sound the sound of a running stream. a tinkling of the waters rushing over and around pebbles and small stones reaches your ears and draws you forward. you reach the end of the hedgerow and see a small wood set back behind it. from out between the trees runs the stream, bubbling and bustling on its way to it knows not where. it curves out and around, to rush off and disappear from view on the far side of the hedgerow you followed. you drop down to your knees and reach forward a hand to feel the wate

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rds of this god in their own tuat" p. 277 click to view the exit of ra from the tuat, i.e, sunrise. p. 278 4. he who is in this picture in the invisible form of horus in the thick darkness, is the hidden image which shu lifteth up beneath the sky, and keb-ur cometh forth in the earth in this image" 24. the end of the tuat, which is represented by a semi-circular wall or border formed of earth and stones, or perhaps granite. at the middle point of this border is the disk of the sun which is about to rise on this world, and joined to it is the head of the "image of shu" with his arms stretched out along the rounded border of the tuat. above his head is the beetle, symbol of khep[er, who has emerged from the boat of the sun-god, and below is the "image of af" that is to say, the body of the n

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fe 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, like tapping into a cosmic energy supply rather than having to recharge our powers

y of the seizure of land. some researchers have suggested that as late as 1693 in salem, massachusetts, the desire to appropriate land was behind at least some of the mass accusations of witchcraft made at the time. one landowner, giles corey, was apparently an innocent witness at the trials at first. however, he himself was accused of witchcraft and was pressed to death- a torture in which heavy stones were placed on the victim's chest and which took three days to kill them- rather than confess, for if he had, his property would have been taken from his descendants. high-ranking practitioners of magick who attempted to conjure demons were usually male, and included both popes and royalty. they generally escaped censure, however. the folk religion of the countryside was an easier target. i

t spiritual belief and faith. when my daughter skye is older, i will share with her what i have learned. for now, we just walk in the forest or along the river and my partner jim and i give her the opportunity to explore her environment. she already has an image of faeries, elves and other magical beings and we try to encourage her to see the spirit in the tree or in the running water. we collect stones and leaves just to look at and admire their colour or shape. some we take home, but most we leave where we find them. skye loves these adventures and i am so happy to be part of her experience. seite 15 wicca01.txt 'on the sabbats, we and our friends celebrate with seasonal games, activities, myths and feasts, and the children in our lives are always eager and excited to join in. skye is st

and rose quartz for healing and harmony, or a gleaming, golden-brown tiger's eye for grounding. you can also keep different herbs there according to your current focus (see page 110. empowering your altar you can further empower your special place as a reflection of the positive aspects of your changing life by placing on it other small items that carry happy memories for you. these might include stones or shells found on an enjoyable outing, presents from friends or family, a letter or even a printed e-mail written in love, pictures or photographs of places and people that are endowed with emotional significance. holding these can restore the pleasure of the moment and fill you with confidence, so they are magical objects because they are endowed with the power of good feeling. some pract

nough to fit on your personal altar. i have known practitioners who have only a small area create a circle on a table-top and sit facing north, physically outside it but spiritually within, manipulating the symbols within it. i have also known modern witches who will create an instant circle on paper or even on a computer screen. if you have the space, you can keep a magick circle marked out with stones in a corner of your garden or painted on the floor of a room covered with a large rug. attics are especially good since you are nearer the sky. if you are able to keep a special area for your circle, scatter dried lavender or pot pourri on it before each use, and sweep it in circles widdershins to remove any negativity. whatever the form or size of your circle, mark the four main compass di

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her\ 43\ important clues to the spiritual activity of black people include the plethora of charms, talismans, and ornaments that have been unearthed in archeological excavations of plantation sites. these excavations have yielded a thriving material subculture of african-derived, american-made objects. the recovery of remnants of crystals, beads, divining vessels, and a variety of unusual shells, stones, and irregular objects point to the use of supernatural artifacts that date back nearly three hundred years.[14] a major difficulty in identifying the forms and expressions of african spiritual beliefs in early periods has to do with the task of distinguishing african-based traditions from other cultural practices. it is likely that the supernatural traditions of africa were fortified by tr

of minkisi blurred the lines between magic and religion. minkisi were spiritual beings who interacted with and often assisted humans in earthly endeavors. they could be found in composite, fabricated materials or manifested in unusual objects that were identified as having sacred significance by the persons who found them. these included minkisi that were incarnated as twisted, misshapen roots or stones or strangely deformed things. others were synthetic creations, bags, sculpted containers, or figures containing a combination of natural and inorganic ingredients such as leaves, roots, animal parts, shells, or metal. as the loci of supernatural power, minkisi were believed to incorporate divine forces, and through them, humans could produce transformations within the natural world.[23] afr

the genealogy is obscure, but the magic of roots in black america may be linked to an older african sacred lore. in central africa, kongo legends relate the kinship between local divinities and anomalies within nature. a patron spirit called funza, also known as the "creator of charms" was believed to be incarnated in all deformities, including abnormal children, oddly shaped animals and insects, stones, and contorted plant formations. other regional spirits in kongo were believed to appear on the earth as "unusual, bizarre or twisted natural objects" such as misshapen roots and branches. it may be that the prominence of roots in african american conjure traditions harks back to kongo beliefs in minkisi, incarnations of the powerful spirit beings that quickened an artifact. other sources o

of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 sermons" wrote c. g. brown, a secretary of the church of god in christ in the early twentieth century "the spirit directs elder mason's mind to a sign. as he turns it over and from side to side, god's mystery comes out of it" mason delivered divine interpretations while meditating on misshapen tree limbs, stones, or the entrails of chickens "it appears that he is reading one of the recesses of the object from which he is preaching" commented brown.[43] the accent on magic-as-miracle figured in the practices of other popular healing practitioners who were influenced by the pentecostal tradition, such as charles manuel grace, the african american sect leader who attained prominence in the 1930s as "s

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attributed to him is 3 enoch, or the hebrew apocalypse of enoch, supposedly written after his visionary ascension into heaven 132-5: bar kokhba rebellion in palestine. jerusalem is leveled and jews are forbidden to live there, removing any hope of establishing a third temple c.150 n.t. apocrypha. lotus sutra. cyranides(hermetica which catalogues the occult properties of birds, fishes, plants, and stones for the 4 elements of air,water,earth and fire. its first book has 24 chapters each beginning with a letter of the greek alphabet) ptolemy writes the tetrabiblos, the most comprehensive work on astrology to date. already aware of the precession of the equinoxes, ptolemy cautions astrologers to use the tropical spring equinox as the start of the first zodiac sign. other astrologers such as h

s. a fusion of sabian hermeticism, persian chronology, islamic religious doctrine, greek science and mesopotamian astrology. identified idris with enoch and hermes. 796-861 dhu l-nun al-misri hermetic sufi from akhmim egypt, said to have studied with jabir b. hayyan al-kufi. 800-866 al-kindi wrote "on rays (de radiis. al-kindi's theory would tend to imply that the "occult qualities" of plants and stones are a kind of signification "all terrestrial things emit "rays" which exist everywhere simultaneously thereby permitting the magician who understands these things to effect change at a distance. these "rays" of terrestrial things are related to the rays of the stars and planets, thus heaven and earth exist in a reciprocal relation to each other. more than this the human voice can effect cha

boderie, guy 1540-1601 petrus severinus 1542 inquisition established in rome 1543 guillaume postel -sacrarum apodixeon, seu euclidis christiani lib.ii. 1543-1606 simon studion worked as a lutheran pastor at marbach outside stuttgart. he attained a reputation as an academic poet, once having written a poem for the funeral of jacob brenz, the lutheran theologian, in 1570. studion collected precious stones and monuments, displayed in stuttgart library. wrote the 2000 p. naometria(measure of the temple) joachite chiliasm and key of david. 1543-1620 chaim vital 1544-1616 helisaeus roeslin 1544-1607 john pistorius, qabalist 1544 postel in rome- he published his work de orbis terrae concordia (concerning the harmony of the earth) advocated universal religious peace, to be achieved by convincing j

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it is easier than any of the rest. now after we had first washed ourselves out of the fountain, and every man had taken a draught out of an entirely golden cup, we were once again to follow the virgin into the hall, and there put on new apparel, which was all of cloth of gold gloriously set out with flowers. there was also given to everyone another golden fleece, which was set about with precious stones, and various workmanship according to the utmost skill of each artificer. on it hung a weighty medal of gold, on which were figured the sun and moon in opposition; but on the other side stood this saying, the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven i page 46 times lighter than at present. but our former jewels were laid in a little casket

gin who brought everyone a wreath of laurel. but our virgins had branches given them. meanwhile a curtain was drawn up, where i saw the king and queen as they sat there in their majesty, and had not the duchess yesterday so faithfully warned me, i should have forgotten myself, and have equaled this unspeakable glory to heaven. for apart from the fact that the room glistened with gold and precious stones, the queen s robes were moreover made so that i was not able to behold them. and whereas before i esteemed anything to be handsome, here all things so much surpassed the rest, as the stars in heaven are elevated. in the meantime the virgin came in, and so each of the virgins taking one of us by the hand, with most profound reverence presented us to the king, whereupon the virgin began to sp

ced themselves. the rest of the virgins, and men, all had to wait. this was performed with such state and solemn stillness that i am afraid to say very much about it. page 55 but i cannot leave untouched upon here, how all the royal persons, before the meal, attired themselves in snow-white glittering garments, and so sat down at the table. over the table hung the great golden crown, the precious stones of which would have sufficiently illuminated the hall without any other light. however, all the lights were kindled at the small taper upon the altar; what the reason was i did not know for sure. but i took very good notice of this, that the young king frequently sent meat to the white serpent upon the little altar, which caused me to muse. almost all the prattle at this banquet was made by

rich that i wondered that it was not better guarded. to which the page answered me, that i had good reason to be thankful to my planet, by whose influence it was that i had now seen certain pieces which no other human eye (except the king s family) had ever had a view of. this sepulchre was triangular, and had in the middle of it a vessel of polished copper; the rest was of pure gold and precious stones. in the vessel stood an angel, who held in his arms an unknown tree, which continually dropped fruit into the vessel; and as often as the fruit fell into the vessel, it turned into water, and ran out from there into three small golden vessels standing by. this little altar was supported by these three animals, an eagle, an ox and a lion, which stood on an exceedingly costly base. i asked my

d a little aside by the wall, so that, as i well observed, the coffins might be brought into the tower without our taking notice; of this the rest knew nothing. this being done, we were conducted into the tower at the very bottom, which although it was excellently painted, yet we had little recreation there; for this was nothing but a laboratory, where we had to beat and wash plants, and precious stones, and all sorts of things, and extract their juice and essence, and put the same in glasses, and hand them over to be put aside. and truly our virgin was so busy with us, and so full of her directions, that she knew how to give each of us enough employment, so that in this island we had to be mere drudges, till we had achieved all that was necessary for the restoring of the beheaded bodies

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fit from its prophecies. 32 in mythology, fushi is credited with introducing writing, which was was invented to improve upon the ancient tally system of tying knots. however, its creation has also been attributed to t'sang chieh, a palace record keeper who lived around 2500 b.c.3 some of the earliest chinese writing consisted of simple lines and picture symbols that could be scratched easily onto stones, turtle shells, and animal bones. by 1600 b.c, the writing system was quite advanced; its symbols are found on numerous bronze vessels from that period. during the qin dynasty (221 206 b.c, chinese writing became systematized and sophisticated. many of the symbols from that era closely resemble the chinese writing characters used today.4 fushi teaches the people 33 fushi watched the new hum

ons and answers q: why did zurong the fire god decide to fight with gong the water god? a: zurong felt that gong was too destructive, and he disagreed with gong s plan to change the earth s balance of water and land. q: who helped the water god? a: gong was aided by men, then by giant turtles, lobsters, shrimp, crabs, and other sea monsters. q: how did nuwa repair the earth? a: she melted colored stones together and patched up the sky. she stopped up the cracks with river rushes, and dammed the rivers with branches. q: what did nuwa use to prop up the sky? a: she salvaged the legs of a dead warrior-turtle to prop up the sky. q: what did nuwa give the people and why? a: she gave them a bamboo flute in the shape of a phoenix s tail. playing it would make them forget about the horrible things

could be carved into fluid shapes like twisting dragons, chirping insects, and tumbling clouds. when she struck the wonderful stone, the jade emitted a low-pitched musical note that inspired comfort and hope in cheng s heart. cheng fervently hoped that the unicorn would bring peace to the troubled world. she rushed home to tell her husband about the magical encounter, her footsteps scattering the stones that she once carefully avoided. true to the unicorn s prophecy, cheng rejoiced at the birth of a son one year later. cheng named him kung qiu. she placed the unicorn s jade around his neck to protect him against diseases and accidents. three years after the child s birth, kung qiu s father died, and the boy was raised by his mother in poverty chinese mythology 90 deeper than ever before. g

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ter it. so what the hell happened? the minds of the people became so paralyzed that people literally did not believe that they were still there. i know that sounds nuts but people were really stupid back then. the same applies to money. to bring money in, you must first start thinking of yourself as being if not rich, then at least prosperous. look around you. you have your health, and no, kidney stones and the sniffles do not count against that. as long as your brain is functioning that is what counts, because that is what really matters. all else is a messy appendage. you have this book, which is a very, very valuable piece of merchandise indeed, because the stuff in here is going to help you. you have a capacity to learn. no matter how poor you think you are, you live in luxury compared

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were the heroes, the mighty and renown, of ancient days. our gift supplemented that of satanael's, being the gift of the arts of civilization, the knowledge of kosmos and earth. verily did we become the fathers of civilization, of all arts among man. these are the arts which we did teach unto man: azazyel taught metallurgy, the making of weapons, the workmanship of jewellery, the use of precious stones, of paint, cosmetics and dyes, so that the world became altered beyond recognition. amazarak taught sorcery and botany. armers taught sorcery. gadrel taught the methods of warfare and weaponry. yekun taught arts of seduction. barkayal taught astrology. akibeel taught signs. tamiel taught astronomy. asaradel taught the motion of the moon. penemue gave unto man the secrets of writing and the

are those who have been judged, but not thou noah, for your lord knows that thou art humble before your god, free from the reproach of knowledge" and demiurge declared to watchers that he would confine us in a burning valley until he smite earth again, in what is called final judgement. raphael was sent to bind our brother azazyel and cast him into the desert wilderness, throwing upon him pointed stones, until he was buried in darkness, after which on final judgement he is to be cast into fire. and upon azazyel war held the whole responsibility for the change of earth, as he had taught man so much of the arts of civilization and the secrets of earth and kosmos. and to gabriel did demiurge command the gibborim our sons, be slaughtered. we wept at the deaths of our children, the mighty of ea

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ring of conflicts, would eventually be fused together to form the world army. to create three 'free trade' regions in europe, the americas, and asia, which would be sold to people initially as merely economic groupings. gradually, however, these would be evolved into centralised political unions, with one 138. and the truth shall set you free central bank and one currency. these would be stepping-stones to the introduction of the same institutions on a global scale. the european economic community, now the european union, was the first of these, but the other two are now underway, also. to advance the control of public opinion and to research and expand the understanding of how to manipulate the human psyche, individually and collectively. today this agenda includes the microchipping of pe

the american diplomatic representative in that country approached the foreign ministry in order to communicate the opinion of the american government which, in practically all cases, coincided with monnet's point of view."24 monnet= global elite. the single european act, which brought down trade barriers across europe from 1992, and the maastricht accords for european union are just more stepping-stones along the road to the united states of europe under elite control. the stepping-stones approach is used daily to fool the public. the manipulators know that if we were asked to move from nation state sovereignty to world government in one leap, even the bewildered herd might ask what was going on and oppose it. so we are sold a series of intermediate stages which are promoted as isolated an

orld for good or evil. the one that hitler stole is now in the hofburg museum in vienna, where there was a major fire in november 1992, seven days before the blaze which destroyed part of windsor castle. another obsessive occultist in the third reich was heinrich himmler. he was into all matters esoteric and he used his knowledge in the blackest of ways. he was particularly interested in the rune stones, a system of divination in which stones carrying symbols are thrown or selected and the choice or combination 'read' by an 'expert. it was himmler who formed the notorious ss and, as with the swastika, he chose an esoteric symbol for his horrific organisation: the double s or 'sig' rune, which looks like two flashes of lightning. the ss was a virtually self-contained body and the epitome of

ith the swastika, he chose an esoteric symbol for his horrific organisation: the double s or 'sig' rune, which looks like two flashes of lightning. the ss was a virtually self-contained body and the epitome of all of the esoteric knowledge in which the nazis believed so passionately. only those considered racially pure were allowed to join, and instruction in the esoteric arts, including the rune stones, was fundamental to their training. the ss was run and governed as a black magic secret society. their rituals were taken from others such as the jesuits and the knights templar. the highest 212. and the truth shall set you free ranking initiates were the thirteen members of the grand council of knights (led by their grand master, heinrich himmler, and the black rituals were performed at th

rancis bacon's esoteric "code" number was 33 and it is used as code in the shakespeare plays to indicate that bacon was the real author (see the works of manly p. hall. the 33 represents the degrees in the scottish rite of freemasonry. on the great seal of the united states and its depiction on the dollar note, you find 13 steps on the pyramid, the 13 degrees of the illuminati. the pyramid has 33 stones. on the great seal the bald eagle (the phoenix until 1841) has 13 feathers on each wing, 13 arrows in the right talon and an olive branch with 13 leaves in the left. in his beak he has a scroll with the 13 letters of "e pluribus unum- out of many, one. around this are 13 stars in the shape of the star of david. there is also a shield with 13 stripes which represent the original 13 states. o

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low them. so it goes on. once you have control of the top man in any organisation, the pyramid is built in his, i.e. the illuminati's, image. governments are structured in the same way. mind over masses there are two techniques of mass manipulation that people need to understand if they are to begin to see through the game. one i call "problem-reaction-solution" and the other i term the "stepping-stones approach. these have been used for thousands of years to advance the agenda and, together with fear, they remain the two most effective weapons of the illuminati. the first technique works like this: you know that if you openly propose to remove basic freedoms, start a war, or centralise power, there will be a public reaction against it. so you use problem8 children of the matrix reaction-s

illuminati empires. years after the official version has been demolished it still prevails in the public mind. stop people in london, new york, cape town, sydney, anywhere, and ask them what happened in oklahoma, the second world war, or kosovo. every time they will give you the official story because that is the only one they have heard. the bedfellow of problem-reaction-solution is the stepping-stones approach. you know where you intend to lead people, but you realise that if you gave them the true picture you would, once again, face substantial opposition. so you travel to your destination in little steps and each one is presented in isolation and as unconnected to all the others. it is like a drip, drip, drip, to global centralisation. this technique was used most obviously with the fa

began to expand its powers until it became the fully fledged fascist political and economic dictatorship it is today. the same is happening with nafta, the north american free trade agreement, and apec, asia pacific economic co-operation, the "free trade area" for asia and australia. look at today's newspapers and television news bulletins and you'll see problemreaction- solution and the stepping-stones technique played out day after day. one extremely effective way to see through this scam is to keep asking yourself "who benefits from me believing this version of events or accepting the solutions and changes being offered as a result" the answer will be almost every time: anyone who wishes to centralise power and suppress more freedoms. blind faith over thousands of years, religion has be

tall people because they came from the very tall nordics and the reptilians, which are almost always described as very tall. this fits with the emerging themes of this book and certainly the official version of stonehenge is utterly ludicrous. as john a. keel points out in our haunted planet (fawcett publications, usa, 1971 "we are also asked to believe that they pushed and hauled these monstrous stones [for 240 miles] up and down hills, across rivers, through forests and soupy bogs on sledges and wooden rollers..plainly the whole thing is quite absurd."28 58 children of the matrix figure 12: from at least 3000bc. peoples of the sumer empire, like the phoenicians and egyptians, sailed to britain and took their knowledge and symbols to those islands. others began to move across land to sett

lders or the sumerian empire, would account for where the knowledge came from to align them so exactly to the cycles of the sun, moon, and star systems, as well as in relationship to each other via the geometrical energy grid. waddell explains in his book, the phoenician origins of britons, scots and anglo saxons (christian book club, california, 1924, how he found sumerian markings on one of the stones at stonehenge and on other stones around the british isles, including some in scotland.29 professor alexander thorn, emeritus professor of engineering science at oxford university from 1945 to 1961, discovered that the builders of stonehenge knew of "pythagorean" geometric and mathematical principles thousands of years before pythagoras was born.30 the same was true of those who built the g

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ted beliefs- of todays world religionswere established to control and rule the people.the founder of babylon according to ancient texts and legend was nimrod whoreigned with his wife, queen semiramis. nimrod was described as a mighty tyrant andone of the giants. the arabs believed that after the flood it was nimrod who built orrebuilt the amazing structure at baalbek in the lebanon with its three stones weighing800 tons each. it was said that he ruled the region that is now lebanon and, accordingto genesis, the first centres of nimrods kingdom were babylon, akkad and others inthe land of shinar (sumer. later he expanded further into assyria to build cities likenineveh where many of the sumerian tablets were found. nimrod and semiramis (orthe beings those names symbolised) were from the rep

iltshire, although some researchers say they were built much earlier. theadvanced phoenicians-sumerians, who had a highly developed knowledge ofastronomy, astrology, sacred geometry, mathematics and the earths magnetic force64line network known as the global energy grid, had all the knowledge necessary to buildthese great structures. l. a. waddell said that he found sumerian markings on one ofthe stones at stonehenge.31 professor alexander thom, emeritus professor ofengineering science at oxford university from 1945 to 1961, discovered that theancients who built stonehenge knew about pythagorean geometric and mathematicalprinciples thousands of years before pythagoras was born. thom explained in his 1967book, megalithic sites in britain, that the stones not only formed geometric patterns i

he would have known that the americas werethere. the v enerable bede of cymbri (approximately the welsh) said they were aneastern people who migrated after the flood from the lands of the bible to the britishisles.44when the irish settled in parts of wales and cornwall, some of the displaced peoplemoved to armorica, now brittany, on the french coast. there you find the fantasticforest of standing stones called carnac, a name which comes from karnac in egypt.the breton language is a mixture of old welsh and cornish- aryan. brittany meanslittle britain and relates again to barat and barati. amorica means land facing thesea, a perfect description of america approached from the atlantic. this is surely thetrue origin of the name america, and not amerigo v espucci, the explorer from florencewho

uarters there. londonbecame the epicentre of their operations and it remains so to this day. there must be avery important reason for that and i think it relates to the energy fields in these lands.the british isles is a really sacred place to the brotherhood because it is the centre ofthe earths energy grid. it is not without reason that there is a greater concentration ofstone circles, standing stones, ancient mounds and sites, in areas of britain than inalmost anywhere else in the world. those who understand how to manipulate energyand consciousness would seek to base their activities at the heart centre of the planetaryenergy grid and they have done this by operating so much of their agenda from thebritish isles.london is also a major site on the earths magnetic grid and it became the

babylonian brotherhood, and it still is, along with paris andthe v atican. in the king arthur stories, london or new troy, is troynavant, kingarthurs eastern gateway city and king arthurs camelot apparently means martiancity or city of mars. artefacts discovered by the german archaeologist, heinrichschliemann, at the site of ancient troy, contained many of the markings found onbritish megalithic stones. they were also decorated with the swastika, the phoenician-aryan symbol of the sun. once again, they were the same people. all the white peoplesare and it is the white race which has taken over the world, quite demonstrably. justlook around you at who controls all the reigns of global power. white people.and within this race and others, going back to antiquity, are the reptile bloodlineswh

DAVID ICKE RELATED THE HIDDEN GEARS OF FREEMASONRY

rding to masonic tradition, as a symbol that this country was controlled by freemasonry from the very beginning. and the washington monument has freemasonry stamped all over it* it is built from 36,000 separate blocks of granite. the number 36 is derived from multiplying 3x12 and is an important number* its capstone weighs exactly 3,300 pounds* the monument contains 188 specially donated memorial stones, most of them donated by individuals, societies, cities, and nations throughout the world. but, masonic lodges throughout the world contributed 35 of these memorial stones. these 35 blocks were intermingled with the other memorial stones, but the last several of them were placed at the 330 foot level* the total cost of the washington monument was reported to be $1,300,000, showing again a m

the great seal many companies use the pyramid within their logos. james walker, a 32 mason, shares some facts with us about the above symbols: 13 leaves in the olive branch 13 bars and stripes in the shield 13 arrows in the right claw 13 letters in the "e pluribus unum" on the ribbon 13 stars in the green crest above 32 long feathers on its right wing representing the 32 in freemasonry 13 granite stones in the pyramid (the 13 layers represent the 13 illuminati bloodlines) 13 letters in annuit coeptis it should also be noted that the eagle has 32 feathers right wing, but 33 in its left wing. the 32 feathers representing the number of ordinary degrees of the scottish rite, and the 33 feathers representing the 33 of freemasonry. the tail feathers number 9, the number of degrees in the york ri

DAVIDSON DAN SHAPE POWER

rds of power produced a three dimensional pattern which would resonate with the aether to produce a desired effect or reality in matter or energy. edward leedskalnin, builder of the famous coral castle in homestead, florida claimed he had rediscovered how the egyptians built the pyramids. we must take him seriously because he left the entire castle as a physical proof of his ability to move large stones without the use of equipment. neighbors said he 'sang' to the stones, but there was never an eyewitness to testify to this technique. perhaps he discovered the words of power that could be used to produce an aether and gravity deflection pattern leading to levitation. one of the greatest problems with shape power at its current stage, is the lack of instrumentation that can directly detect

ice structures. we certainly have only mined the barest of information on this fascinating topic. 6.6 bibliography 1. mathematical crystallography and thetheory of groups of movements. harold hilton. dover publications, inc, new york, 1963 2. introduction to geometry. h. s. m coxter, john willey and sons, inc, 1961. 3. knowledge through rocks and minerals. joel arem, bantambooks,1973. 4. precious stones. their occult power and hidden significance. w.b. crow, samuel weiser, inc, new york, ny 10003,1968. chapter 7 experimental research on shape power energies this chapter discusses some fascinating experiments which relate to research on shape power. 7.1 gravity energy detectors it is obvious that the larger the mass the more aether which flows into the atomic structure of the mass to sustai

DEMONIC BIBLE

f the one which exists within them. those who fear "god" are frightened of shadows for there is nothing beyond consciousness. descartes said "i think therefore i am" but what is thought? why should man give more credit to the pound of organic matter he calls his "brain" than he does to rock or dirt? can matter or energy produce consciousness? can nerve cells within the brain "think" any more than stones upon the ground? if this were true, then man would be nothing more than a robot following out his "programming" as designed by nature. that which decays and rots in the ground is not the source of consciousness. consciousness animates the material but it is not governed by it. the source consciousness is all that exists. the one is all that is real. a man's life is a river but what is a riv

ing a bright and sharp sword in his hand. he telleth all things past, and to come, and reconcileth friends and foes. he ruleth over 60 legions of spirits, and this is his seal, etc (18) bathin- the eighteenth spirit is bathin. he is a mighty and strong duke, and appeareth like a strong man with the tail of a serpent, sitting upon a pale-coloured horse. he knoweth the virtues of herbs and precious stones, and can transport men suddenly from one country to another. he ruleth over 30 legions of spirits. his seal is this which is to be worn as aforesaid (19) sallos- the nineteenth spirit is sallos (or saleos. he is a great and mighty duke, and appeareth in the form of a gallant soldier riding on a crocodile, with a ducal crown on his head, but peaceably. he causeth the love of women to men, an

l, or character is this, unto the which he oweth obedience, and which thou shalt wear in time of action, etc (21) marax- the twenty-first spirit is marax. he is a great earl and president. he appeareth like a great bull with a man s face. his office is to make men very knowing in astronomy, and all other liberal sciences; also he can give good familiars, and wise, knowing the virtues of herbs and stones which be precious. he governeth 30 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, which must be made and worn as aforesaid, etc (22) ipos- the twenty-second spirit is lpos. he is an earl, and a mighty prince, and appeareth in the form of an angel with a lion's head, and a goose's foot, and hare's tail. he knoweth all things past, present, and to come. he maketh men witty and bold. he governeth 3

of his foes as well as of his friends. he governeth 29 legions of spirits, partly of the order of thrones, and partly of that of angels. his seal is this, which wear thou, etc (31) foras- the thirty-first spirit is foras. he is a mighty president, and appeareth in the form of a strong man in human shape. he can give the understanding to men how they may know the virtues of all herbs and precious stones. he teacheth the arts of logic and ethics in all their parts. if desired he maketh men invisible, and to live long, and to be eloquent. he can discover treasures and recover things lost. he ruleth over 29 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, which wear thou, etc (32) asmoday- the thirty-second spirit is asmoday, or asmodai. he is a great king, strong, and powerful. he appeareth with th

years he had hopes to return unto the seventh throne. and his seal is this, to be made and worn as a lamen, etc (36) stolas, or stolos- the thirty-sixth spirit is stolas, or stolos. he is a great and powerful prince, appearing in the shape of a mighty raven at first before the exorcist; but after he taketh the image of a man. he teacheth the art of astronomy, and the virtues of herbs and precious stones. he governeth 26 legions of spirits; and his seal is this, which is, etc (37) phenex- the thirty-seventh spirit is phenex (or pheynix. he is a great marquis, and appeareth like the bird phoenix, having the voice of a child. he singeth many sweet notes before the exorcist, which he must not regard, but by-and-by he must bid him put on human shape. then he will speak marvellously of all wonde

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

diac (q.v) having the qualities of mutable (q.v) and earth (q.v) and is ruled by the planet mercury (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color yellow-green. keywords include: picky, overly critical, practicality, with detail, industriously, modestly, analytically, discriminatingly, critically. virtues, occult: the magickal potency of efficacy of herbs, stones, beasts, and other things impressed upon them through the stars at the time of their creation by the heavenly intelligences (q.v. visualize: the process of forming a visualization (q.v. to form a mental image. the important factor for success in this is the knowledge that the image is to be mental, not an optical illusion. it can however seem to be optically visible. visualization: 1) seein

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

t not be taken too literally; the real key is to be found in the realisation that the different sephiroth represent factors in consciousness, and if we take geburah as the strong right arm, we must realise that it really means the dynamic will, the executive capacity, the destruction of the effete and unbalanced. 24. each sephirah and path has assigned to it symbolic animals, plants, and precious stones. it is necessary that the student should know these for two reasons: firstly, they give some very important keys to the relations of the gods of the different pantheons to the sephiroth; and secondly, they form part of the symbolism of the astral paths and serve as landmarks when travelling in the spirit-vision. for instance, if one saw a horse (mars) or a jackal (luna) in the sphere of net

ws that it is possible powerfully to reinforce the action of all drugs by the appropriate mental action, and that certain chemically inert substances lend themselves effectually to the transmission and storing of mental activities, just as other substances are effectual conductors or insulators of electricity. 32. this consideration brings us to the question of the association of certain precious stones and metals with the different sephiroth, an association determined by both astrological and alchemical considerations. as is well known to [page 102] psychics, crystalline substances, metals, and certain liquids are the best media for conveying or storing subtle forces. colour plays an important part in the visions induced by meditation on the various sephiroth, and it is found by experienc

ience this is not the case, provided the essence is of good quality. good synthetic essences are indistinguishable from the natural products save by chemical tests. as the value of perfumes is psychological, their action being upon the operator, not upon the power invoked, the chemical nature of the substance is immaterial provided one gets the appropriate effect. 41. the same applies to precious stones, rank heresy though it be to say so. all one needs is a crystal of the appropriate colour, and whether it is a burmese ruby or a burma one makes no difference to anything except one's bank balance. that the ancients knew this is witnessed by the fact that in the lists of precious stones sacred to various deities alternative gems are always given. for instance, crowley, in "777" gives pearls

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

ials. the actual driving of the nail has no conceivable effect upon the victim, but it helps the concentration of the operator. the talismanic method in various forms is also employed. a talisman is a symbol representing a certain force, or combination of forces, depicted upon a suitable substance and magnetised by ritual. it can be made from anything which will retain magnetism; metals, precious stones or parchment are usually employed; paper is less effective unless it be enclosed in a metal case. water and oil can be effectually magnetised but soon lose their potency. a talisman is made by invoking the requisite force, as already described, and then concentrating it upon the prepared object, which is placed ready upon the altar before the evocation begins. a talisman thus made has next

over for psychometry. it was of course so thoroughly impregnated with his own emanations as to be useless. a psychometrical specimen should be some object thoroughly impregnated with the vibrations of a person. a garment recently and habitually worn, a lock of hair, a piece of jewellery, all these can be made to serve provided they are properly preserved. crystalline substances, such as precious stones, hold magnetism better than anything else; metals are also good, whether precious or otherwise. a pocket knife, for instance, will hold magnetism well. wood holds it badly, and so do paper, wool, cotton and artificial silk, especially the latter. silk and linen are good. india-rubber is useless. glass depends for its holding powers upon its form. if it is cut so that it will refract light i

DONALDTYSON EVILEYE

the eye through which you look upon your own world. the belief that misfortune can somehow be projected onto one person by another through a glance is ancient and universal. it was based on a misunderstanding of how the faculty of vision functions. centuries ago it was thought that the eye perceives the outer world by projecting forth invisible rays onto external objects such as trees, mountains, stones and clouds. it was assumed that we became aware of our surroundings visually by a kind of optical touch that relied on these rays as channels of communication, just as we become aware of the texture of objects by physically touching them with our hands. if these projected rays existed, the thinking went, then the sight must be an active, not a passive, sense. unless we actively sent forth t

DONALDTYSON MIRACLES

he changes worked by magicians are temporary illusions. hence in christian folklore you read of the glamours of witches, who can make a man believe that his penis has fallen off, or that he has transformed into a beast such as a swine or a donkey, even though these things have not actually taken place. you encounter tales of magicians such as faust who could transform for a time bits of twigs and stones into the semblance of gold and silver coins, or could make a lavish banquet seem to appear in a twinkling- but eventually the coins became twigs again, and the food of the banquet failed to fill the stomachs of the guests. this explanation has always struck me as a bit flimsy. who is to say that the loaves and fishes miraculously multiplied by jesus to feed his flock (matthew 14:15-21) were

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

he innermost chambers, the walls of which were covered with hieroglyphic inscriptions, arranged in perpendicular lines and painted in green.[2] the condition of the interior showed that at some time or other thieves had already succeeded in making an entrance, for the cover of the black basalt sarcophagus of unas had been wrenched off and moved near the door of the sarcophagus chamber; the paving stones had been pulled up in the vain attempt to find buried treasure; the mummy had been broken to pieces, and nothing remained of it except the right arm, a tibia, and some fragments of the skull and body. the inscriptions which covered certain walls and corridors in the tomb were afterwards published by m. maspero.[3] the appearance of the text of unas[4] marks an era in the history of the book

inscriptions, or that if they did they were not royal tombs. the hieroglyphic texts were published by maspero in recueil de travaux, t. ix, pp. 177-91, paris, 1887; t. x, pp. 1-29, paris, 1388; and t. xi, pp. 1-31, paris, 1889. the alabaster vase in the british museum, nq 4493, came from this pyramid. 9. this pyramid is a little larger than the others of the period, and is built in steps of small stones; it is commonly called by the arabs haram el mastabat, because it is near the building usually called mastabat el-far' n. see vyse, pyramids, vol. iii, p. 52. the hieroglyphic texts are published by maspero in recueil de travaux, t. xii, pp. 53-95, and pp. 136-95, paris, 1892; and t. xiv, pp. 125-52, paris, 1892. there is little doubt that this pyramid was broken into more than once in chri

hrine is supported on pillars with lotus capitals, and is surmounted by a figure of horus-sept or horus-seker and rows of ur i. in the centre ani kneels before the god upon a reed mat, raising his right hand in adoration, and holding in his left hand the kherp sceptre. he wears a whitened wig surmounted by a "cone" the signification of which is unknown. round his neck is a deep collar of precious stones. near him stands a table of offerings of meat, fruit, flowers, etc, and in the compartments above are a number of vessels for wine, beer, oil, wax, etc, together with bread, cakes, ducks, a wreath, and single flowers [1. on the bullock's hide, in which the deceased, or the person who represented him, was supposed to wrap himself, see virey, tombeau de rekhmara, p. 50, and plate 26, lower re

osiris ani (11) may come forth triumphant before the gods, and triumphant before you, from the eastern horizon of heaven, to follow unto the place where it was yesterday, in peace, in peace, in amenta (12) may he behold his body, may he rest in his glorified frame, may he never perish, and may his body never see corruption" rubric: to be said over a golden [figure of a] soul inlaid with precious stones, which is to be placed on the neck of osiris. vignette: ani's soul, in the form of a human-headed bird, standing in front of a pylon.[2 [1. some words are omitted here. 2. the three following variants show (1) the soul flying through the door of the tomb to the deceased (2) the deceased, accompanied by his soul, standing at the open door of the tomb; and (3) the deceased, with his soul hove

ELLIS LOW TWELVE 1907

he oldest existing organization of a charitable nature in the history of mankind. during the middle ages the mason brotherhoods were organized corporations, resembling in a general way the other guilds, with rules of their own, and recruited from a body of apprentices who had served a period of probation. the time referred to was a church-building age, and men skilled in the hewing and setting of stones were in demand and held in high esteem. when a great church or cathedral was to be built, skilful masons gathered .from distant quarters to assist those of the neighborhood in the work. a master was chosen, who superintended the whole, and every tenth man was a warden with authority over the rest. it followed, therefore, that a mason, after serving his apprenticeship, could not settle down

n that only two captors were with me, i resolved to seize the first opportunity and make a fight for it. i would pretend a weakness greater than was the fact, then snatch out my sword and at them. i knew, of course, they had taken my pistol, but i could get on without thatthe blade was sufficient. the ground was rough, sometimes up, sometimes down :and again we circled boulders and rocks, and the stones and dirt crumpled under our feet. i had not walked far, under the uncertain light of the moon, when i discovered that my sword was gone. the scabbard would have flapped against my thigh or made itself felt in some way. thus i had no weapon of any kind with which to defend myself, while of course my captors were more fully armed than usual. the two held a viselike grip on my arms, and eviden

EMPERORS NEW RELIGION CHURCH OF SATAN

hostility from other organizations. the church of satan maintains that other organizations attack the church of satan out of envy, but although this may the case in many situations, it is not a catch-all excuse. there are examples that attacks were initiated by the church of satan in the form of intimidation and harassment, and that counterattacks on the church of satan were motivated by several stones first cast by the church of satan. anton lavey s alternate past is irrelevant for any ideology and must have served a purpose that a professed ideology alone could not satisfy. it appeals to a fan club or personality cult mentality, which is a strong motivation to join for many people. several of the indications that the church of satan deliberately deceives its members can of course be exp

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

and was planted by king david on mount zion, where it grew into a triple tree and was later cut down by solomon to form the pillars jachin and boaz, which were placed at the entrance to the temple. a third portion was inserted in the threshold of the great gate and acted as a talisman, permitting no unclean thing to enter the sanctuary. however, certain wicked priests removed it, weighted it with stones, and cast it into the temple reservoir, where it was guarded by an angel, who kept it from the sight of men. during the time of christ the reservoir was drained and the beam of wood discovered and thrown across the brook kedron, over which the savior passed after he was apprehended in the garden of olives. it was taken by his executioners and made into the cross. this legend is markedly sim

, alluding to indian medicine men and their connection with the occult arts, observed: they were also adept in tricks of sleight of hand, and had no mean acquaintance with what is called natural magic. they would allow themselves to be tied hand and foot with knots innumerable, and at a sign would shake them loose as so many wisps of straw; they would spit fire and swallow hot coals, pick glowing stones from the flames, walk with naked feet over live ashes, and plunge their arms to the shoulder in kettles of boiling water with apparent impunity. nor was this all. with a skill not inferior to that of the jugglers of india, they could plunge knives into vital parts, vomit blood, or kill one another out and out to all appearances, and yet in a few minutes be as well as ever; they could set fi

aw magicians working magical tricks, a fact that supported the general distrust of indians pervading the white culture. in bulletin 30 of the bureau of american ethnology, washington mathews stated: sleight-of-hand was not only much employed in the treatment of disease, but was used on many other occasions. a very common trick among indian charlatans was to pretend to suck foreign bodies, such as stones, out of the persons of their patients. records of this are found among many tribes, from the lowest in culture to the highest, even among the aztecs. of course, such trickery was not without some therapeutic efficacy, for, like many other proceedings of the shamans, it was designed to cure disease by influence on the imagination. a hidatsa, residing in dakota, in 1865, was known by the name

haps in whiskey, and it was easy for him to hide them in his mouth before intending to play the trick; but many of the indians considered it wonderful magic. the most astonishing tricks of the indians were displayed in their fire ceremonies and in handling hot substances, accounts of which performances pertain to various tribes. it is said that chippewa sorcerers could handle with impunity redhot stones and burning brands, and could bathe the hands in boiling water or syrup; such magicians were called fire-dealers and fire-handlers. there are authentic accounts from various parts of the world of fire-dancers and fire-walks among barbarous races, and extraordinary fire acts are performed also among widely separated indian tribes. among the arikara of what is now north dakota, in the autumn

67. the name american zen college was adopted as an inclusive designation in the early 1980s. the college publishes the journal buddha world. sources: shin, gosung. zen teachings of emptiness. washington, d.c: american zen college press, 1982. amethyst gemstone believed to have occult properties, described by sixteenth-century writer camillus leonardus as reckoned among the purple and transparent stones, mixed with a violet colour, emitting rosy sparkles. the indian variety is the most precious. when made into drinking cups or bound on the navel, it was claimed to prevent drunkenness. it was also believed to sharpen the wit, turn away evil thoughts, and give a knowledge of the future in dreams. drunk in a potion, it was thought to expel poison and render the barren fruitful. in ancient tim

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

ery dark and she wears her hair rather short. materialized phantoms apparently often wore ornaments. admiral usborne moore, in his seances with the medium j. b. jonson of detroit, found these ornaments yielding to the touch. in other instances they were solid. abd-u-lah, the onearmed spirit of william eglinton, appeared bedecked with diamonds, emeralds, and rubies. the materialization of precious stones is described by a mrs. nichols in the spiritualist (october 26, 1877: for some time he moved his hands as if gathering something from the atmosphere, just as when he makes muslin. after some minutes he dropped on the table a massive diamond ring. he said: now you may all take the ring, and you may put it on, and hold it while you count twelve. miss m. took it and held it under the gaslight

s an encyclopedia of fairies, hobgoblins, brownies, bogies, and other supernatural creatures. new york: pantheon books, 1976. melzer, heinrich (1873) german apport medium of dresden, the successor of anna rothe. his early seances were reported in die ubersinnliche welt in november 1905. these were held in darkness, but the medium allowed himself to be fastened into a sack. quanties of flowers and stones were apported to sitters. the operators were said to be oriental entities: curadiasamy, a hindu, who spoke with a foreign accent; lissipan, a young indian buddhist; and amakai, a man from china. quirinus, who claimed to be a roman christian of the time of diocletian, and abraham hirschkron, a jewish merchant from mahren, were other picturesque controls. by occupation melzer was a small toba

etishistic. it is probable that most of the mexican amulets were modeled on the various ornaments of the gods. thus the traveler s staff, carved in the shape of a serpent like that of quetzalcoatl, was undoubtedly of this nature, and to it occasionally sacrifices would be made. the frog was a favorite model for an amulet. as elsewhere, the thunderbolts thrown by the gods were supposed to be flint stones, and were cherished as amulets and as symbols of the life-giving rains. vampirism vampirism was an important part of mexican folk belief and there are various vampire deities. the notion of the vampire that most permeated the life of average people is found in connection with the ciupipiltin, or ghosts of women who have died in childbirth. these haunted the crossroads, crying and wailing fo

eans ghostly, fire-damp or perhaps to underground lizards. mines of precious metals were believed to be even more jealously guarded by supernatural beings. gnomes, the creatures of the earth element, were the special guardians of subterra- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. mines, haunted 1039 nean treasure, and they were anxious to defend their province. mines containing precious stones were equally well looked after. the indians of peru declared that evil spirits haunted the emerald mines, while a mine in the neighborhood of los esmeraldos was said to be guarded by a frightful dragon. it has also been believed that the poisonous fumes and gases that often destroy the lives of miners were baleful influences radiated by evil spirits. other stories of haunted mines are linke

id had failed. at such times the monk occasionally appeared, mutely beckoned them to follow, and led them to a secret treasure. he stipulated no conditions for its expenditure, demanded no promise of repayment, and exacted no duty or service in return. it is not clear whether it was actual treasure that he gave, or whether it merely appeared so to the external senses, to be changed into leaves or stones when the day and the occasion of its requirement had passed. in germany, the wood-spirit rubezahl performed similar acts of kindness to poor and deserving persons; it is said that the money he gave always passed for the current 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, wa

EVERBURNING LAMPS

ther men do" the great tendency of the modern times has been to reduce all men to a level, a dead level, of mediocrity, an effort fatal to the supremacy of individuals, and which has tended to discourage research into the hidden mysteries of nature and science, as opposed to the parrot- like study of what are known as modern sciences, a study of enormous value to mankind, but yet not the stepping stones on the direct road to deity. history then narrates the lives of many men, who, from the exhibition of uncommon powers and transcendent abilities and wisdom, are pointed out as the possessors of what we may fairly call occult inspiration "poeta nascitur non fit" but i should add "magus nascitur non solum fit" no accident of birth alone can make a magician, but intensity of duly directed effo

rs. we may be all born with an equal right to existence; but it is absurd to say we are all to be chiefs or magi, for, as we are told in the master's degree "some must rule, and some obey" in 1484 died christian rosenkreuz, our great prototype; he was such a man; by the dispositions he made, and the society he designed, he shook the whole christian world for a century of years, and laid the first stones of the edifice we are still building to-day. in his tomb, when it was opened by the fratres, in 1604, or 120 years after his decease, were found, besides other mysterious articles, lamps of a special and peculiar construction; hence the study of sepulchral lamps is one particularly germane to us. the discovery of lamps in ancient sepulchres, in some cases extinguished, in others burning wit

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

had understood what people were saying, but it was not until he took up residence with the irvings that he learned how to speak words himself. when he was there, he knew everything that went on in the house. his favorite place, however, was in the walls of viorrey s room. irving s first impulse was to kill gef, who frightened the family with his temper and his penchant for throwing things such as stones. first, he tried to poison him, then to shoot him, but, in response, gef caused property damage and screeched out threats. according to irving, gef said, if you are kind to me, i will bring you good luck. if you are not kind, i shall kill all your poultry. i can get them wherever you put them. the family decided to do its best to get along with its strange guest. asked who he was, gef first

russian vessel heading for australia. before they could reach port, however, three more of oleson s companions died from their injuries and shock. fortunately as a partial confirmation of the truth of his story, leander wrote, mr. oleson took from one of the bodies a finger ring of immense size. it is made of a compound of metals unknown to any jeweler who has seen it, and is set with two reddish stones, the names of which are unknown to anyone who has ever examined it. the ring was taken from the thumb of the owner and measure two and one-quarter inches in diameter. l e a n d e r s yarn was one of many told in the spring of 1897 about airships and their supposed crews. newspapers all over america carried comparable tall tales, including one alleging a ma rt i a n s crash-landing and his s

according to a bolivian newspaper, a farm woman near otoco went to her sheep corral early one evening to discover that a strange net had been placed over it. a humanlike figure, four feet tall and wearing a bulky-looking spacesuit, was busy slaughtering sheep with a tubular, hooked instrument. after killing the animals, he would dump their entrails into a bag. the woman shouted at him and hurled stones in his direction. the alien strolled over to a boxlike instrument with a wheel at the top. as he twisted the wheel, the net was withdrawn into the box. as he was so engaged, the witness had picked up a club and was about to use it on the intruder. in response, he threw his weapon at her. each time it returned to his hands like a boomerang, and each time it passed the woman, it cut her. gath

FAUST

wavering, hover. yearning unending follows them over; ribbons a-trailing, fluttering, veiling, wide spaces cover, cover the bower, where, with deep feeling, lovers are dreaming, life-pledges sealing. bower by bower! tendrils out-streaming! heavy grape s gushing, in the vats plunging; out from the cushing winepresses lunging, wine-streams are whirling; foaming and purling onward o er precious pure stones they wind them, leave heights behind them, broad ning to spacious fair lakes, abounding green hills surrounding. winged creation, sipping elation, sunward is fleeting, bright islands meeting, flying to meet them on the waves dancing, rhythmic, entrancing, where we, to greet them, hear a glad chorus, see o er the meadows dancers like shadows, flitting before us, playing, regaling, hills some

histopheles, will-o -the-wisp [in alternating song. spheres of dream and necromancy, we have entered them, we fancy. lead us well, for credit striving, that we soon may be arriving in the wide and desert spaces. i see trees there running races. how each, quickly moving, passes, and the cliffs that low are bowing, and the rocks, long nose-like masses, how they re snoring, how they re blowing! over stones and grass are flowing brook and brooklet downward fleeting. hear i murmuring? hear i singing? hear sweets plaints of love entreating, voices of those blest days ringing? what we re loving, hopeful yearning! and the echo, like returning tales of olden times, rousondeth! hoo-hoo! shoo-hoo! nearer soundeth cry of owlet, jay, and plover! are they all awake remaining? salamanders, through the co

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

anced in weight. 23 the world of b riyah is rooted in the supernal sefirah wisdom/east, and correlates with the upper heh h in the name hvhy. in the world of b riyah, the word of god (known in the qabalah as the alef of unity) becomes manifest, whereby the letters vibrationally differentiate and combine to form divine names. in b riyah, beings are formless and exist as vibrational signatures. two stones (letters) build two houses, three stones build six houses, four stones build twenty-four houses, five stones build one hundred and 54' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% twenty-five houses, six stones build seven hundred and twenty houses, seven stones build five thousand and forty houses. from here go out (i.e. extrapolate) and think what the mouth is unable to speak and the ear is unable to hear. 24 the w

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

ra deorum explains that there were really five mercuries, the fifth being he who killed argus and consequently fled in exile to egypt where he "gave the egyptians their laws and letters" and took the egyptian name of theuth or thoth.2 a large literature in greek developed under the name of hermes trismegistus, concerned with astrology and the occult sciences, with the secret virtues of plants and stones and the sympathetic magic based on knowledge of such virtues, with the making of talismans for drawing down the powers of the stars, and so on. besides these treatises or recipes for the practice of astral magic going under the name of hermes, there also developed a philosophical literature to which the same revered name was attached. it is not known when the hermetic framework was first us

the art of making gods. they mingled a virtue, drawn from material nature, to the substance of the statues, and "since they could not actually create souls, after having evoked the souls of demons or angels, they introduced these into their idols by holy and divine rites, so that the idols had the power of doing good and evil" these terrestrial or man-made gods result from a composition of herbs, stones, and aromatics which contain in themselves an occult virtue of divine efficacy. and if one tries to please them with numerous sacrifices, hymns, songs of praise, sweet concerts which recall the harmony of heaven, this is in order that the celestial element which has been introduced into the idol by the repeated practice of the celestial rites may joyously support its long dwelling amongst m

will be laid down under so-called laws, under pain of punishments, that all must abstain from acts of piety or cult towards the gods. then this most holy land, the home of sanctuaries and temples, will be covered with tombs and the dead. o egypt, egypt, there will remain of thy religion only fables, and thy children in later times will not believe them; nothing will survive save words engraved on stones to tell of thy pious deeds. the scythian or the indian, or some other such barbarous neighbour will establish himself in egypt. for behold the divinity goes back up to heaven; and men, abandoned, all die, and then, without either god or man, egypt will be nothing but a desert. why weep, o asclepius? egypt will be carried away to worse things than this; she will be polluted with yet graver c

thor of the asclepius speaks. it was believed that these effluvia and influences could be canalised and used by an operator with the requisite knowledge. every object in the material world was full of occult sympathies poured down upon it from the star on which it depended. the operator who wished to capture, let us say, the power of the planet venus, must know what plants belonged to venus, what stones and metals, what animals, and use only these when addressing venus. he must know the images of venus and know how to inscribe these on talismans made of the right venus materials and at the right astrological moment. such images were held to capture the spirit or power of the star and to hold or store it for use. not only the planets had attached to each of them a complicated pseudo-science

c forces, close to the circle of the all, and above the circles of the zodiac and the planets and operating on things below either directly through their children or sons, the demons, or through the intermediary of the planets. thus the philosophical hermetica belong into the same framework of thought as the practical hermetica, the treatises on astrology or alchemy, the lists of plants, animals, stones and the like grouped according to their occult sympathies with the stars, the lists of images of planets, signs, decans, with instructions as to how to make magical talismans from them. the following are only a few examples from this vast and complex literature ascribed to hermes trismegistus. there is a treatise supposedly by hermes on the names and powers of the twelve signs of the zodiac

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

nto twentyfour equal parts, is emblematical of the twentyfour hours of the day, which we are taught to divide into three equal parts, whereby we find eight hours for the service of god and a distressed worthy brother; eight for our usual vocations; and eight for refreshment and sleep. common gavel. the common gavel is an instrument made use of by operative masons to break off the corners of rough stones, the better to fit them for the builder's use, but we as free and accepted masons are taught to make use of it for the more noble and glorious purpose of divesting our minds and consciences of all the vices and superfluities of life, thereby fitting us as living stones for that spiritual building, that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. second section. the badge of a mason

he charges and regulations of the order, you are now to be installed master of this lodge, your brethren having full confidence in your care, skill and capacity to govern the same. brother marshal, conduct the master elect from the altar to the east. my brotherwith pleasure i invest you with this jewel of your office, the square. as the square is employed by operative masons to fit and adjust the stones of a building, that all the parts may properly agree, so you, as master of this lodge, are admonished, by the symbolic meaning of the square upon your breast, to preserve that moral deportment, among the members of your lodge, which should ever characterize good masons; and to exert your authority to prevent illfeeling or angry discussion arising to impair the harmony of their meetings. i a

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

e catholic is our brother as well as the mason; we would not say a disparaging, irreverent word against this faith, or those who live by it, and should we seem to do so, in any passage, the wrong will be due to inadvertence. the reader is requested to note that we distinguish sharply between the catholic hierarchy and the catholic religion, but the former are also our brothers; we would not throw stones either physically or morally, for we know our own shortcomings too well to attack others. thus our opposition is not personal, but spiritual, and to be fought with the weapon of the spirit--reason. we firmly believe it to be for the everlasting good of mankind that the masons should win, and cannot therefore be sure to present the catholic side in a perfectly unbiased manner, but we ask our

chman, who is full of platitudes and as vile as a whited sepulcher, of the temple which he, the workman, built. this conception is a mystic gem and we append it for the reader's meditation "i am afraid you may not consider it an altogether substantial concern. it has to be seen in a certain way, under certain conditions. some people never see it at all. you must understand this is no dead pile of stones and unmeaning timber; it is a living thing "when you enter it you hear a sound--a sound as of some mighty poem chanted. listen long enough and you will hear that it is made up of the beating of human hearts, of the nameless music of men's souls, that is, if you have ears. if you have eyes you will presently see the church itself, a looming mystery of many shapes and shadows leaping sheer fr

FULL MOON RITUALS

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

southern part of heaven. a glorious full moon shone overhead, with only wisps of clouds. she illuminated the lithons of rough hewn sandstone- the quarter-stones of which stood some twenty feet tall. when deer first found this circle, it was unlike any he'd experienced before- not actually a circle but a spiral winding in from the north and completing two turns before meeting the circle of quarter-stones, then one more to the central altar slab- but over the past few years he'd become quite at home here. a newly built edifice on an anciently hallowed hillside. as part of the song, deer called the memory of a prior yule when he had lain just so upon that altar for what seemed hours- watching mama moon as she had appeared to sail through the regathering clouds- before he had become aware of t

prior yule when he had lain just so upon that altar for what seemed hours- watching mama moon as she had appeared to sail through the regathering clouds- before he had become aware of the fog rolling in from chapel hill. entranced, he had held his breath as the fog mounted the hillock in a deosil spiral until wisps of it were floating into the circle itself and seeming to dance among the standing stones. tonight deer sang the fog up the hill and watched as it rose to claim even the tallest of the stones. then, he stood, shed all sense of himself and waited- until awareness of a distinctly different atmosphere accosted his skin and his nose with smells of ancient oak, selaginella and leaf mold. opening his eyes, he sees the moon reflected in a glass smooth lake which also reflects the walls

piral of this place before disappearing into the wood "blessed be, uncle, and a thousand thank you's" deer calls out cheerfully as he inwardly kicks himself for having been so inattentive to the comings and goings about him. however, had the uncle desired interaction, he would have initiated it. and deer was overjoyed with the seeming air of permanence and age which now seemed to emanate from the stones about him. taking his leave of the standing stones- and more than certain that he would return to celebrate a moon with old friends here- deer makes his way toward the lake where he picks up the western loop of a trail which circles its girth before branching off toward the old castle. passing by the heart of the old grove, deer is certain that he senses the presence of more that forest cre

with fresh rain water "of water is this circle cast. fluidly, the energies within may ebb and flow" completing his first circumambulation, deer returns to their altar and replaces the bowl after asperging himself. next, he retrieves the turtle shell he'd found in the forest during high school and kept ever since. again he takes the perimeter and moves deosil, now sprinkling- ever so lightly- the stones and those participants so desirous with glittering sea salt ground to the finest of powders "with salt of the earth is this circle cast" deer sings "as mother earth both elaborates and contains the energies of life, so may our circle" back to the altar and replacing the bone bowl, deer touches first the salt within it and then his forehead, lips and chest. finally, deer uses his athame to h

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

ient race vii--concealment of the early doctrines viii--the original god-idea of the israelites ix--the phoenician and hebrew god set or seth x--ancient speculations concerning creation xi--fire and phallic worship xii--an attempt to purify the sensualized faiths xiii--christianity a continuation of paganism xiv--christianity a continuation of paganism-(continued) xv--christianity in ireland xvi--stones or columns as the deity xvii--sacrifices xviii--the cross and a dying savior the god-idea of the ancients. introduction. through a study of the primitive god-idea as manifested in monumental records in various parts of the world; through scientific investigation into the early religious conceptions of mankind as expressed by symbols which appear in the architecture and decorations of sacred

nt of the lord's supper, at which wine is mysteriously converted into the essence of deity, or into the blood of christ, is without doubt a relic of the idea once entertained regarding the homa tree. certain writers entertain the opinion that from the use of the sacred homa juice have arisen various religious practices and rites, such for instance as offering oblations to the gods, anointing holy stones, and pouring wine on sacred hills, also the custom of pledging oaths over glasses of wine. the may pole, a decidedly phallic emblem, whose festivals until a very recent time were celebrated in england by the old as well as the young, was usually if not always sprinkled with wine. from the accounts which we have of this sacred emblem and its festival, it seems that no royal edict nor priestl

ld probably be looked upon as a miraculous interposition of supernatural agencies. regarding the refinements and luxuries of this ancient people, diodorus siculus declares that they flowed in streams of gold and silver, that "the porticoes of their temples were overlaid with gold, and that the adornments of their buildings were in some parts of silver and gold, and in others of ivory and precious stones, and other things of great value" from various observations, it is plain that the etrurians represented a stage of civilization far in advance of the pelasgians who founded rome--a race which, although superior in numbers, arms, and influence, were, when compared with this more ancient people, little better than barbarians.[66 [66] it is thought that as early as the nineteenth century b.c

is stated that the name of a certain egyptian god appears first in connection with royalty, that "his name was substituted for some earlier divinity whose hieroglyphics were chiselled out of the monuments to make place for his" according to the testimony of rawlinson, the god hea is represented by the great serpent, which occupies a conspicuous position among the symbols of the gods on the black stones recording babylonian benefactions. now these flat black stones are themselves said to symbolize the female element in the deity, in contradistinction to the obelisks, which prefigure the male, while the serpent, for reasons which have already been explained, appeared for ages in connection with the figure of a woman. in later inscriptions "king" is everywhere attached to the name of the god

mild and humane character of cyrus stands that of the licentious and revengeful david, a "man after god's own heart "as for the heads of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them "let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again"[109 "happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones"[110 [109] psalms cxl [110] ibid, cxxxvii. no one i think can read the avestas without being impressed by the prominence there given to the subjects of temperance and virtue. in their efforts to purify religion, and in the attempts to return to their more ancient faith, the disciples of zoroaster, as early as eight hundred years before christ, had adopted a highly spiritualized conception o

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

vestiges of tetragrammaton 154 17. the number four in relation with the world and man 1576themagicalmasonpartthree:divination18.thehistory of astrology169 19.dreams18120.divination and its history19221.the star lore of the bible216partfour: masonic22.freemasonry and its relation to the essenes233 23.the resemblances of freemasonry to the cult of mithra244 24.the religious and masonic symbolism of stones256partfive: miscellaneous papers25.an essay on the ancient mysteries269 26.a recent spiritual development287 27.an essay upon the constitution of man: spirit, soul, body296 28.man's blood and generation310introductionof all the actors in the bizarre pageant of the occult revival, william wynn westcott was the most unlikely: cautious, fearful and altogether too respectable, he yet created it

otas other men do .thegreat tendency of the modern times has been to reduce allmen to a level, a dead level of mediocrity, an effort fatal to the supremacy of individuals, and which has tended to discourage research into the hidden mysteries of nature and science, as opposed to the parrot-like study of what are known as modern sciences, a study of enormous value to mankind,butyet not the stepping stones on the direct road to deity. history then narrates the lives of many men, who, from the exhibition of uncommon powers and transcendent abilities and wisdom, are pointed out as the possessors of what we may fairly call occult inspiration 'poeta nascitur non fit; but i should add 'magus nascitur non solum fit. no accident of birth alone can make a magician,butintensity of duly directed effort

ers. we may be all born with an equal right to existence; but it is absurd to say we are all to be chiefs or magi, for, as we are told in the master's degree 'some must rule, and some obey. in 1484 died christian rosenkreuz, our great prototype; he wassuch a man; by the dispositions he made, and the society he designed, he shook the whole christian world for a century of years, and laid the first stones of the edificewe are still building today. in his tomb, when it was opened by the fratres,in 1604, or 120 years after his decease, were found, besides other56themagical masonmysterious articles, lamps of a special and peculiar construct255 ion; hence the study of sepulchral lamps is oneparticularlygermane to us.thediscovery oflamps in ancient sepulchres, in. some cases extinguished, in othe

ible events on small rods, carried them in a bag and required some boy he met on the road to draw one out. pharmakeia enchantment by drugs is reckoned among divinations; medi255 cated compounds were administered internally, either openly or by stealth, to create love and passion, or to cause enmity, or to produce dreams on certain subjects. leaves of the herb calledmolyandofthelaurel, also jasper stones were worn as amulets to ward off the effects of other charms used maliciously.thecannabis plant or indian hemp was given to produce mystic visions. enchanted girdles were alsosupplied by magicians to bestow foresight to the wearer and to keep dangers away from him. chiromancy an art which is still popular, professes to discover from the marking on the palms of the hands the future events of

held over the vase, prayers were said, and a judgment arrived at by the number of times the ring struck the sides of the vase. this proceeding is occasionally done even in the present day: some persons will tell you that a gold ring suspended by a silk thread from a finger will vibrate in a glass and ring against the side as many times as the clock has last struck. the greeks also cast many small stones into a vessel of water and observed the positions into which they sank and settled. a modern variant is the inspection of tea leaves left in a cup.divination and its history 205onomancy the science of discovering some details of fate and history by the letters of the name of an individual, and often by the system of assigning numbers to letters, in the fashion of the ancient greeks and of t

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

hey shallputincense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar, bless,loi;d,his substance, and accept the works of his hands; smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that" hate him, that they rise not again' the armorial bearings of simeon are- yellow, a sword. these are the blessings of the twelve tribes of israel, whose names were engraven upon the twelve stones. of the high priest's breastplate, upon which, according to some traditions, certainflashesoflight appeared playing over certain of the letters, and thus returning the answer of the deity to the consulter. of the oracle byurim,bycomparing these blessings with that nature of the signs attributed to the particular tribes; we have been thus enabled to trace more or less clearly the connection

ibroch, and that my boy as he died had played the welcome of the royal race' she stopped then, marsaly said, and rested long, thinkingsome celtic memories113over the davs that had been. then shesaid-'since then, marsaly, i have been as you have known me, a broken old woman living in this little cottage, watching the sunrise over the coolins, watching the green water swirl and surge over the white stones, and the green and red seaweed float upwards, and the lashing of the waves in winter 'and i have heard how our hopes were broken, and the germans were victorious, and our prince was a hunted fugitive, with a heavy price on his head, but though hundreds of our people knew where he was, not one would betray him, though they were starving. no! we leave treachery to the germans and the house of

l from no one knows. i believe there are some spells somewhat similiar in thegrimoire.i asked whether the curses had taken effect 'the man i was told had fallen off a roof and broken his l1eck, and the girl had died with her first child. the curser raarried soon after this,buthe was a miserable man all his life, haunted with gloomy forebodings, and died more or less insane. i know not whether the stones still stand. probably110t.the family have long ago left the district, and i have never been able to trace them.witchcraft147.the curious student may find many tracesofceremonial magic.bothblack andwhitein the west, both in englandand scotland,butthere is naturally.a-great reluctance to speak of such matters..225-.225. in fact. the western celt in very many cases isatheartapureoutwardly he11

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

orm of a sun, with the name of the deity upon the face of the carbuncle in hebrew letters in gold. above, from a bar, are the compasses, and the suspender has the name and rank of the wearer engraved. in america, suspended from the sun is a porchway approached by three steps of gold, a division in the center, the porch and division being formed of triangular dropping links of red, blue, and green stones, but both he and irwin found difficulty in having it made. the jewels were eventually manufactured: probably at first by edward stillwell& son of london, who advertised regularly in the kneph, and later by p. vaughton r sons of birmingham, who sent a sample jewel to irwin in 1891. the only known surviving breast jewel was made, at an unknown date, by george kenning but there is surprisingly

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

nights wanted more land. italian merchants hoped to expand trade in middle eastern ports. large numbers of poor people joined the expeditions simply to escape the hardships of their normal lives."1 along the way, this greedy mass slaughtered many muslims, and even jews, in hopes of finding gold and jewels. the crusaders even cut open the stomachs of those they had killed to find gold and precious stones the victims may have swallowed before they died. so great was the material greed of the crusaders that they felt no qualms in sacking the christian city of constantinople (istanbul) during the fourth crusade, when they stripped off the gold leaf from the christian frescoes in the hagia sophia. after a long and difficult journey, and much plunder and slaughter of muslims, this motley band ca

e poison which enters into the veins of judaism and wholly infests it."17 salomon reinach defines the kabbalah as "one of the worst aberrations of the human mind."18 the reason for reinach's contention that the kabbalah is "one of the worst aberrations of the human mind" is that its doctrine is connected in large part with magic. for thousands of years, the kabbalah has been one of the foundation-stones of every kind of magic ritual. it is believed that rabbis who study the kabbalah possess great magical power. also, many non-jews have been influenced by the kabbalah, and have tried to practice magic by employing its doctrines. the esoteric tendencies that took hold in europe during the late middle ages, especially as practiced by alchemists, have their roots, to a great extent, in the kab

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

gyptian religion, nor to buddhism, islam, judaism or christianity exclusively. the secret doctrine is the essence of all these. the secret doctrine, madame blavaskty. behind the veil of all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, under the deal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of nineveh or thebes, on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the blackened visage of the assyrian or egyptian sphinx, in the monstrous or marvellous paintings which interpret to the faithful of india the inspired pages of the vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practised at receptions of all secret societies, there are found indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and every

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

, the chaldean, nor the egyptian religion, nor to buddhism, islam, judaism or christianity exclusively. the secret doctrine is the essence of all these. madame blavaskty. behind the veil of the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, under the deal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of nineveh or thebes, on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the blackened visage of the assyrian or egyptian sphinx, in the monstrous or marvellous paintings which interpret to the faithful of india the inspired pages of the vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practised at reception of all secret societies, there are found gnostic theurgy page 12 indications of a doctrine which is everyw

ns are from a lower octave of interpretation. on the higher levels the mediator self and self are way beyond the mind. fig 18 fig 19 gnostic theurgy page 72 alien land. however, as the self awakens, the gnostic will then truly know his home and begin to experience genuine spiritual growth and development. the law of correspondence by now you should have a sound working knowledge of the foundation stones of gnostic psychology. the next thing we should provide is a series of correlation charts. this way you can link what we have discussed about the mind with materials on the seven planes, worlds and later the kabbalistic tree of life. at first all these correlations may seem a bit contrived, but they are for a reason. the law of correspondence is one of the major philosophical premises of th

GOETIA LUCIFERIAN

m reveals secrets in the depths of the mind, and how one may obtain secrets from others by language and talk. he brings union of friends and foes and rules over 60 legions of spirits. r bathin bathin is a mighty duke, whom appears like a strong man with the tail of a serpent, whom sits upon a pale horse. bathin is a witchcraft familiar of wort cunning and herbalism, whom knows the use of precious stones. bathin is also a spirit of astral projection, causing in dreaming states the consciousness to project to other countries and lands. he rules over 30 legions of spirits. s sallos 45 sallos/saleos is a might duke as well, who appears in the form of a soldier of medieval times riding on a crocodile, whom is crowned. sallos is a spirit of lust and desire, whom one may project to bring on with

the realm of shades; he may bring one close to various shades of the dead, but often they are not who they claim to be. be cautious but be indulgent with this spirit as well. bifrons may change the place of dead bodies, being the binding of ghosts to various fetishes or pots, and lights witch fire on the graves of the dead. bifrons governs 6 legions of spirits, and will also teach the virtues of stones and wood, thus being a spirit long bound to the earth. u uvall vual/voval is the forty-seventh spirit who is a duke. uvall appears as a large dromedary but will take a human shape, hooded in middle eastern fashion, at the command of the sorcerer. uvall speaks in an egyptian manner, which is not easily understandable but the sorcerer may rely on the impulses or instinctual voices instead of

mon, who appears as a burning and flaming pentacle, then at the command of the magician takes the shape of a man. decarabia instructs the sorcerer on astral and dream shape shifting, how one may transform into a bird or bat, to fly forth and discover darker places of the earth, as well as coming before the magician and acting in the natural way in which birds do. decarabia teaches also the use of stones and elements in sorceries. he governs 30 legions of spirits and is a mighty marquis. 72* seere seere/sear/seir is the seventieth spirit who is a might and powerful prince, who is under amaymon, the king of the east. seere appears in the form of a beautiful and angelic male, who rides upon a winged horse. he is a powerful angel who brings the sorcerer s will to flesh quickly, and will disapp

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF EARTH

h for foundation, didst hollow its depths to fill them with thy almighty power. thou whose name shaketh the arches of the world! thou who causest the seven metals to flow through the veins of the rocks! king of the seven lights! rewarder of the subterranean workers! lead us into the desirable air and into the realm of splendor. we watch and we labor unceasingly, we seek and we hope, by the twelve stones of the holy city, by the buried talismans, by the axis of the lodestone which passes through the center of the earth. o lord, o lord, o lord! have pity upon those who suffer. expand our hearts, detach and upraise our minds, enlarge our natures. o stability and motion! o darkness veiled in brilliance! o day clothed in night! o master who never dost withhold the wages of thy workmen! o silver

GOLDEN DAWN PRAYERS OF THE ELEMENTALS

arth for foundation, didst hollow its depths to fill them with thy almighty power. thou whose name shaketh the arches of the world, thou who causest the seven metals to flow in the veins of the rocks, king of the seven lights, rewarder of the subterranean workers, lead us into the desirable air and into the realm of splendour. we watch and we labour unceasingly, we seek and we hope, by the twelve stones of the holy city, by the buried talismans, by the axis of the lodestone which passes through the centre of the earth o lord, o lord, o lord! have pity upon those who suffer. expand our hearts, unbind and upraise our minds, enlarge our natures. o stability and motion! o darkness veiled in brilliance! o day clothed in night! o master who never doest withhold the wages of thy workmen! o silver

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM17

ken to write the true and infallible axiomata, out of all the faculties, sciences, and arts, and whole nature, as that which he knew would direct them, like a globe or circle, to the only middle point and centrum, and (as it is usual among the arabians, it should only serve to the wise and learned for a rule, that also there might be a society in europe which might have gold, silver, and precious stones, sufficient for to bestow them on kings for their necessary uses and lawful purposes, with which society such as be governors might be brought up for to learn all that which god hath suffered men to know, and thereby be enabled in all times of need to give their counsel unto those that seek it, like the heathen oracles. verily we must confess that the world in those days was already big wit

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM19

have taken pains therein, but the sum of so great a work shall be attributed to the blessedness of our age. as we now confess that many high intelligence by their writings will be a great furtherance unto this reformation which is to come, so do we by no means arrogate to ourselves this glory, as if such a work were only imposed on us, but we testify with our savior christ, that sooner shall the stones rise up and offer their service, then there shall be any want of executors of god's counsel. 6 chapter viii god, indeed, hath already sent messengers which should testify his will, to wit, some new stars which have appeared in serpentarius and cygnus, the which powerful signs of a great council shew forth how for all things which human ingenuity discovers, god calls upon his hidden knowledg

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM24

ication of the holy and glorious zion may be communicated to the zion which is on earth. therefore, the worlds rejoice together 6 and are fulfilled in all completion. i beseech you to join with me in my intention, and to ratify in your hearts, the solemn and sacramental words by which i assume this external and visible temple of isis mighty mother into the house not made by hands, built of lively stones, the company of the adepts, and it is so assumed accordingly" second adept "cum potestate et gloria" third adept "amen (chief adepts are seated) chief adept "fratres et sorores of the rosae rubae et aurae crucis. we know that the mystic temple, which was erected of old wisdom, as a witness of the mysteries which are above the sphere of knowledge, doth abide in the supernal triad, in the und

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n of more potent elements into the witches' supper depends wholly upon the rite and its assembly. in solitary rites, it is known that in some forms of old craft an entheogenic elixir has sometimes been used to assist in the creation of the initiatory apotheosis 'the aspirant, after being mentally prepared by his or her sponsor, and drinking of the potion, is left alone to spend the night by three stones that stand overgrown in the centre of the wood (taliesin 'a wood in the west country, published in pentagram, august, 1965. this is somewhat reminiscent of the medieval alpine initiatory potion which provoked its drinker to have 'all of a sudden the sensation of receiving and preserving within himself the image of our art, and the principal rituals of the sect (ginzburg. c, ecstasies: decip

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tainty that your masterwork won t be carried away on the desert breeze or covered by drifting sand. it s true that high winds do blow here, but by a happy accident of physics they are robbed of their sting at ground level: the pebbles that litter the pampa absorb and retain the sun s heat, throwing up a protective force-field of warm air. in addition, the soil contains enough gypsum to glue small stones to the subsurface, an adhesive regularly renewed by the moistening effect of early morning dews. once things are drawn here, therefore, they tend to stay drawn. there s hardly any rain; indeed, with less than half an hour of miserly drizzle every decade, nazca is among the driest places on earth. if you are an artist, therefore, if you have something grand and important to express, and if y

the answer to your prayers. experts have pronounced upon the antiquity of nazca, basing their opinions on fragments of pottery found embedded in the lines and on radiocarbon results from various organic remains unearthed here. the dates conjectured range between 350 bc and ad 600.2 realistically, they tell us nothing about the age of the lines themselves, which are inherently as undatable as the stones cleared to make them. all we can say for sure is that the most recent are at least 1400 years old, but it is theoretically possible that they could be far more ancient than that for the simple reason that the artefacts from which such dates are derived could have been brought to nazca by later peoples. 2 pathways to the gods, p. 21. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 45 the principal f

xteenth century, had spoken with awe about the fortress of sacsayhuaman: its proportions are inconceivable when one has not actually seen it; and when one has looked at it closely and examined it attentively, they appear to be so extraordinary that it seems as though some magic had presided over its construction; that it must be the work of demons instead of human beings. it is made of such great stones, and in such great number, that one wonders simultaneously how the indians were able to quarry them, how they transported them. and how they hewed them and set them one on top of the other with such precision. for they disposed of neither iron nor steel with which to penetrate the rock and cut and polish the stones; they had neither wagon nor oxen to transport them, and, in fact, there exis

ow they transported them. and how they hewed them and set them one on top of the other with such precision. for they disposed of neither iron nor steel with which to penetrate the rock and cut and polish the stones; they had neither wagon nor oxen to transport them, and, in fact, there exist neither wagons nor oxen throughout the world that would have sufficed for this task, so enormous are these stones and so rude the mountain paths over which they were conveyed..19 garcilaso also reported something else interesting. in his royal commentaries of the incas he gave an account of how, in historical times, an inca king had tried to emulate the achievements of his predecessors who had built sacsayhuaman. the attempt had involved bringing just one immense boulder from several miles away to add

mmit it had been neatly terraced and sculpted: somebody had been up there and had carefully raked the near-vertical cliffs into a graceful hanging garden which had perhaps in ancient times been planted with bright flowers. it seemed to me that the entire site, together with its setting, was a monumental work of sculpture composed in part of mountains, in part of rock, in part of trees, in part of stones and also in part of water. it was a heartachingly beautiful place, certainly one of the most beautiful places i have ever seen. despite its luminous brilliance, however, i felt that i was gazing down on to a city of ghosts. it was like the wreck of the marie celeste, deserted and restless. the houses were arranged in long terraces. each house was tiny, with just one room fronting directly o

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e acceptance of life in the sense of karma-less action. the formula of lao is that spiritual/magical capability (temperance/art in sagittarius) together with spiritual insight (hierophant in taurus) will result in the best karma (justice in libra. the formula is therefore one to use to improve one's karmic burden. the letters gon, un, med are written, 178 the formula of qaa we made us a temple of stones in the shape of the universe, even as thou didst wear openly and i concealed. aleister crowley, liber vii the enochian word qaa, pronounced qah-ah, is comprised of the first letters of the words quasahi-ath-ar which means "the delight in the works of the sun" the entire phrase adds up to 312 which is the number fori ananael-basgim meaning "the secret wisdom of the day" this shows the solar

t flame is not to be measured; a cleansing fire to be treasured. i give you this body and pass through p o a m a l- p r g e- z e n( p o h- a h- m a h- ieh-paz-geh-zod-en) i now pass through the palace of sacrificial fire. part 7. let your spiritual body be given unto the king of f i r e. k n ow y o u r s e l f t o b e f o rml e s s, b o d i l e s s consciousness. rise straight up through the dark stones of the ceil ing. let this rising open into a small silent chamber at the heart of the pyramid. let this chamber be bare with no entrances or exits. hold the talisman of ztztzt in your left hand and the talisman of iliatai in your right hand and say, by the power of ztztzt (zod-teh-zod-teh-zod-teh) and by the power of iliatai (ee-lee-ah-tah-ee) behold, the seven-sided vault of zen. my body l

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of mercy (vierge secourable) to whosoever calls upon her. to the country folk in italy, mary stands well in the foreground of their religion; the madonnas of several churches in naples are looked upon as so many different divine beings, and even as rivals, and a santa venere by their side gives no offence. three marys together (p. 416, note) resemble the three norns and three fays; mary cai'ries stones and earth in her apron (p. 537) like athena or the fay. the worship of maiy altogether, being neither founded on scripture nor recognised by the first centuries, can only be explained by the fact of those pretty and harmless but heathen fancies having taken such deep root in the people that the church also gradually combined with them a more daintily devised and statelier devotion (attentio

on which the future will avenge any depreciation of the olden time. my gleanings i bequeath to him who, standing on my shoulders, shall hereafter get into full swing the harvesting of this great field. jacob grimm. berlin, 28th april, 1844. contents vol. iii. chapter xxx. poetry xxxi. spectres xxxii. translation. xxxiii. devil. xxxiv. magic. xxxv. superstition xxxvi. sicknesses. xxxvii. herbs and stones xxxviii. spells and charms index. pages 899 912 913 950 951 983 984 1030 1031 1104 1105 1147 1148 1189 1190 1222 1223 1249 1251 127g chapter xxx. poetry. maei'e however means not only fama, but fabula; and here some other and more interesting personifications present themselves. we perceive that the existence, organization and copiousness of poetry, as of language itself, reach back to a re

iiener (bolder) videlcere wart noch nie dehein: do klungen sine seiten (strings, daz al daz hiis erdoz (raug, siq ellen zuo der fuoge (art) din warn beidiu groz. siiezer unde senfter gigen er began: do entswebete er an den betten vil manegen sorgenden man; he lulled to sleep in their beds full many an anxious man. in greek mythology orpheus and amphion bear mastery in song. when amphion sang, the stones obeyed his lyre, and fitted themselves into a wall. rocks and trees followed after orpheus, wild beasts grew tame to him, even the argo he lured from dry land into the wave, and dragons he lulled to sleep (entswebete. as hermosr, like him, made the descent to hades [to fetch balder back, and as it is for this same balder that all beings mourn, we may fairly suppose that hermo^r too had work

ng till the judgment-day. his wish became his doom, and oft in that forest one hears by night both bark of hound and horrible blast of horn^ otmar's volkssagen 249. 250^ like diimeke's desire to drive his waggon for ever (p. 726. 3 otmar 241. deut. sag. no. 311. couf. goth. i>iutan (ululare, jjut-halirii (tuba. furious host: hackelbernd. 923 his grave is in the soiling too, the arrangement of the stones is minutely described; two black hounds rest beside him^ and lastly, kuhn's no. 205 and temme's altmark p. 106 inform us of a heath-rider bdren, whose burial-place is shewn on the heatu near grimnitz in the ukermark; this bdren's dream of the stumpfschwanz (bobtail, i.e. boar) points unmistakably to rackelbdrend. the irreconcilable diversity of domiciles is enough to shew, in the teeth of t

over whom she rules are human children who have died before hajptism, and are thereby become her property (pp. 918. 920. by these weejnng bales she is surrounded (as dame gaude by her daughters, and gets ferried over in the boat with them (p. 275-6. a young woman had lost her only child; she wept continually and could not be comforted. she ran out to the grave every night, and wailed so that the stones might have pitied her. the night before twelfth-day she saw perchtha sweep past not far oft; behind all the other children she noticed a little one with its shirt soaked quite through, carrying a jug of water in its hand, and so weary that it could not keep up with the rest; it stood still in trouble before a fence, over which perchtha strode and the children scrambled. at that moment the m

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nd goblins there runs a low under-current of the unsatisfied, disconsolate: they do not rightly know how to turn their glorious gifts to account, they always require to lean upon men. not only do they seek to renovate their race by intermarriage with mankind, they also need the counsel and assistance of men in their affairs. though acquainted in a higher degree than men with the hidden virtues of stones and herbs, they yet invoke human aid for their sick and their women in labour (pp. 457. 492, they borrow men s vessels for baking and brewing (p. 454 n, they even celebrate their weddings and hightides in the halls of men. hence too their doubting whether they can be partakers of salvation, and their unconcealed grief when a negative answer is given. 1 bruder rausch (friar rush) a veritable

d gigantas that war against god. this partly fits in with some heathen notions of cosmogony. 3 mone in anz. 8, 133, takes wrise for frise, and makes frisians and persians out of it [what of writhe, wris-t, wrest, wrestle (as wit, wis-t becomes wise? or slav, vred-iti, to hurt, as. wrefte? a russ. word for giant is verzilo, supposed to be from verg-ati, to throw] 526 giants. unwieldy giant, lubben-stones are shown on the corneliusberg near helmstadt, and lubbe ace. to the brem. wb. 3, 92 means a slow clumsy fellow; it is the engl. lubber, lobber, and michel beham s lupel (moneys anz. 1835, 450b, conf. on. lubbi (hirsutus. to this add a remarkable document by bp. gebhard of halberstadt, bewailing as late as 1462 the heathenish worship of a being whom men named den guden lubben, to whom they

ems to imply a dreamy brooding, a half-drunken complacency and immobility (see suppl. such a being, when at rest, is good-humoured and unhandy, 1 but when provoked, gets wild, spiteful and violent. norse legend names this rage of giants iotunmodr, which pits itself in defiance against asmosr, the rage of the gods: vera i iotunmosi/ sn. 150b. when their wrath is kindled, the giants hurl rocks, rub stones till they catch fire (roth. 1048, squeeze water out of stones (kinderm. no. 20. asbiornsen s moe, no. 6, root up trees (kinderm. no. 90, twist fir-trees together like willows (no. 166, and stamp on the ground till their leg is buried up to the knee (roth. 9-13. yilk. saga, cap. 60: in this plight they are chained up by the heroes in whose service they are to be, and only let loose against t

in her apron; but as she was crossing the ney, she let one pillar fall into saintfront marsh (mem. des antiquaires 7, 31. according to a greek legend, athena was fetching a mountain from pallene to fortify the acropolis, but, startled at the ill news 538 giants. brought by a crow, she dropt it on the way, and there it remains as mount lykabettos. 1 as the lord god passed over the earth scattering stones, his bags burst over montenegro, and the whole stock came down (yuk. 5. like the goddess, like the giants, the devil takes such burdens upon him. in upper hesse i was told as follows: between gossfelden and wetter there was once a village that has now disappeared, elbringhausen; the farmers in it lived so luxuriously that the devil got power over them, and resolved to shift them from their

nd says &lt; once a great giant came this way with a pebble m his shoe that hurt him, and when he untied the shoe, this stone fell out/ the story is still told of a smooth rock near ar, how the great christopher carried it in his shoe, till he* eudolst. 1788, p. 52, giants. 541 felt something gall his foot; he pulled off the shoe and turned it down, when the stone fell where it now lies. such stones are also called crumb-stones. on the soiling near uslar lie some large boundary-stones, 16 to 20 feet long, and 6 to 8 thick: time out of mind two giants were jaunting across country; says the one to the other, this shoe hurts me, some bits of gravel i think it must be/ with that he pulled off the shoe and shook these stones out. in the valley above ilfeld, close to the blihr, stands a huge

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rgotten, it was only necessary to make her look at a soap-bubble, and her memory of them immediately returned. she often saw persons that were about to arrive at the house,ina glassofwater; but when she was invited to this sort of divination, and did it unwillingly,shewil$sometimesmistaken' aubrey, in his miscellanies" gives the form of the crystals as commonly used in his time.drdee used several stones, oneofwhich is now in case no.20,of the mineral room, at the british museum; it belonged, with hismss,to the collectionofsir r. cotton; another, composed apparently of a flat circular and highly-polished piece of cannel coal, about six inches in diameter, came to the hands of lord peterborough, and from thence passed into the possession of horace walpole, and was sold at the strawberry-hill

s. it would trespass too much upon your space to attempt to elucidate the origin and various modes of divination by the crystal, of the antiquity and wide-spread belief in which there exist innumerable testimonies, sacred and profane; from the divine responses by the urim and thummim, men255 tioned in the old testament" to josephus, who in his history declares it to be more than200years since the stones of the ephod hadgivenan answer by their extraordinary lustre; and from porphyry, iamblichus, and psellus, to the magiciansofcairo and the peepers and speculators in england at the present day. with respect to the 'superstitious rites, the long fastings, themysticalwords, the concentric""itwould seem from the observations of sir gardner wilkinson that this form of divination was employed by

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s he rises in heaven. for them he made plants and flocks. 17 new kingdom hymns to the creator god amun also refer to god making people in his own image but are vague about how this was done. in a hymn to ptah mythical time lines 67 this god is said to have crafted people as well as fashioning the physical forms of the gods. the bodies of deities were usually said to be made of precious metals and stones, but those of people were made from mud or clay. these were the materials used by the creator god khnum, who formed all on his potter s wheel. khnum did not perform this task just once during the first time. his wheel was said to turn every day. he appears to be a god of continuous creation, working to make the bodies of all creatures destined to live on earth. khnum shapes a body for each

olic bodies of sokar-osiris, to help the tomb owner attain resurrection. figures of sokar were prepared as part of the month-long khoiak festival, the annual reenactment of the mysteries of osiris. the instructions for making these figures were said to be based on a divine prototype. the goddess shentayet of busiris made a new body for sokar out of clay, dates, sweet-smelling spices, and precious stones and metals. the mixture was shaped into an egg and then divided among fourteen vessels. this links sokar to lunar myths of destruction and renewal. see also cattle; moon; osiris; ptah references and further reading: g. a. gaballa and k. a. kitchen. the festival of sokar. orientalia 38 (1969: 1 76. c. graindorge. sokar. in the oxford encyclopaedia of ancient egypt iii, edited by d. b. redfor

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1 and though at the time of writing it has not been completely excavated, sufficient has been done to show that it is a very remarkable building. it is clear that the lower part of it is rectangular, and that it was surrounded by a colonnade; the outside is eased with limestone slabs, behind which is a "wall of rough and heavy nodules p. 9 of flint, and the middle is filled with rubbish and loose stones" on this rectangular building, or base, a small pyramid probably stood, at least, this is what we should expect. the remains already excavated prove that this base was surrounded by a triple row of columns, which supported a ceiling and formed a hypostyle passage or colonnade, which "must have been quite dark, or nearly so (like the ambulatories surrounding the shrines in later temples, for

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

practice it ours would be a body of elect indeed. but there are those among the outsiders who will always refuse to see the essential difference between theosophy and the theosophical society, the idea and its imperfect embodiment. such would visit every sin and shortcoming of the vehicle, the human body, on the pure spirit which sheds thereon its divine light. is this just to either? they throw stones at an association that tries to work up to, and for the propagation of, its ideal with most tremendous odds against it. some vilify the theosophical society only because it presumes to attempt to do that in which other systems-church and state christianity preeminently-have failed most egregiously; others because they would fain preserve the existing state of things: pharisees and sadducees

d as regards the future. once grasp the idea that universal causation is not merely present, but past, present, and future, and every action on our present plane falls naturally and easily into its true place, and is seen in its true relation to ourselves and to others. every mean and selfish action sends us backward and not forward, while every noble thought and every unselfish deed are stepping-stones to the higher and more glorious planes of being. if this life were all, then in many respects it would indeed be poor and mean; but regarded as a preparation for the next sphere of existence, it may be used as the golden gate through which we may pass, not selfishly and alone, but in company with our fellows, to the palaces which lie beyond -ooo- on self-sacrifice q. is equal justice to all

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

and it no more. so a body of twenty police, filling two carriages and an automobile, had set out in the late afternoon with the shivering squatter as a guide. at the end of the passable road they alighted, and for miles splashed on in silence through the terrible cypress woods where day never came. ugly roots and malignant hanging nooses of spanish moss beset them, and now and then a pile of dank stones or fragment of a rotting wall intensified by its hint of morbid habitation a depression which every malformed tree and every fungous islet combined to create. at length the squatter settlement, a miserable huddle of huts, hove in sight; and hysterical dwellers ran out to cluster around the group of bobbing lanterns. the muffled beat of tom-toms was now faintly audible far, far ahead; and a

lked with undying leaders of the cult in the mountains of china. old castro remembered bits of hideous legend that paled the speculations of theosophists and made man and the world seem recent and transient indeed. there had been aeons when other things ruled on the earth, and they had had great cities. remains of them, he said the deathless chinamen had told him, were still be found as cyclopean stones on islands in the pacific. they all died vast epochs of time before men came, but there were arts which could revive them when the stars had come round again to the right positions in the cycle of eternity. they had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought their images with them. these great old ones, castro continued, were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. they had sh

slipped as the other three were plunging frenziedly over endless vistas of green-crusted rock to the boat, and johansen swears he was swallowed up by an angle of masonry which shouldn't have been there; an angle which was acute, but behaved as if it were obtuse. so only briden and johansen reached the boat, and pulled desperately for the alert as the mountainous monstrosity flopped down the slimy stones and hesitated, floundering at the edge of the water. steam had not been suffered to go down entirely, despite the departure of all hands for the shore; and it was the work of only a few moments of feverish rushing up and down between wheel and engines to get the alert under way. slowly, amidst the distorted horrors of that indescribable scene, she began to churn the lethal waters; whilst on

most goatish or animalistic about his thick lips, large-pored, yellowish skin, coarse crinkly hair, and oddly elongated ears. he was soon disliked even more decidedly than his mother and grandsire, and all conjectures about him were spiced with references to the bygone magic of old whateley, and how the hills once shook when he shrieked the dreadful name of yog-sothoth in the midst of a circle of stones with a great book open in his arms before him. dogs abhorred the boy, and he was always obliged to take various defensive measures against their barking menace. iii. meanwhile old whateley continued to buy cattle without measurably increasing the size of his herd. he also cut timber and began to repair the unused parts of his house- a spacious, peak-roofed affair whose rear end was buried e

places where the words have been spoken and the rites howled through at their seasons. the wind gibbers with their voices, and the earth mutters with their consciousness. they bend the forest and crush the city, yet may not forest or city behold the hand that smites. kadath in the cold waste hath known them, and what man knows kadath? the ice desert of the south and the sunken isles of ocean hold stones whereon their seal is engraver, but who bath seen the deep frozen city or the sealed tower long garlanded with seaweed and barnacles? great cthulhu is their cousin, yet can he spy them only dimly. i! shub-niggurath! as a foulness shall ye know them. their hand is at your throats, yet ye see them not; and their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold. yog-sothoth is the key to the

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

nsampled secrets of an elder and utterly alien earth. v i think that both of us simultaneously cried out in mixed awe, wonder, terror, and disbelief in our own senses as we finally cleared the pass and saw what lay beyond. of course, we must have had some natural theory in the back of our heads to steady our faculties for the moment. probably we thought of such things as the grotesquely weathered stones of the garden of the gods in colorado, or the fantastically symmetrical wind-carved rocks of the arizona desert. perhaps we even half thought the sight a mirage like that we had seen the morning before on first approaching those mountains of madness. we must have had some such normal notions to fall back upon as our eyes swept that limitless, tempest-scarred plateau and grasped the almost e

appeared that this general region was the most sacred spot of all, where reputedly the first old ones had settled on a primal sea bottom. in the new city- many of whose features we could recognize in the sculptures, but which stretched fully a hundred miles along the mountain range in each direction beyond the farthest limits of our aerial survey- there were reputed to be preserved certain sacred stones forming part of the first sea-bottom city, which thrust up to light after long epochs in the course of the general crumbling of strata. viii naturally, danforth and i studied with especial interest and a peculiarly personal sense of awe everything pertaining to the immediate district in which we were. of this local material there was naturally a vast abundance; and on the tangled ground lev

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den valley that led to shadowy groves and ruins, and ended in a mighty wall green with antique vines, and pierced by a little gate of bronze. many times i walked through that valley, and longer and longer would i pause in the spectral half-light where the giant trees squirmed and twisted grotesquely, and the grey ground stretched damply from trunk to trunk, some times disclosing the mould-stained stones of buried temples. and alway the goal of my fancies was the mighty vine-grown wall with the little gate of bronze therein. after a while, as the days of waking became less and less bearable from their greyness and sameness, i would often drift in opiate peace through the valley and the shadowy groves, and wonder how i might seize them for my eternal dwelling-place, so that i need no more cr

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led the charnel bowels of a putrescent earth. there was no sound, but just then the electric lights went out and i saw outlined against some phosphorescence of the nether world a horde of silent toiling things which only insanity- or worse- could create. their outlines were human, semi-human, fractionally human, and not human at all- the horde was grotesquely heterogeneous. they were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. and then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a talking thing with a beautiful head made of wax. a sort of mad-eyed monstrosity behind the leader seized on herbert west. west did not resist or utter a sound. then they all sprang at him and tore him to pieces before my eyes, bearing the frag

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ings had been defied, yet never had its spacious halls resounded to the footsteps of the invader. but since those glorious years, all is changed. a poverty but little above the level of dire want, together with a pride of name that forbids its alleviation by the pursuits of commercial life, have prevented the scions of our line from maintaining their estates in pristine splendour; and the falling stones of the walls, the overgrown vegetation in the parks, the dry and dusty moat, the ill-paved courtyards, and toppling towers without, as well as the sagging floors, the worm-eaten wainscots, and the faded tapestries within, all tell a gloomy tale of fallen grandeur. as the ages passed, first one, then another of the four great turrets were left to ruin, until at last but a single tower housed

, i would fall back to occult studies, and once more endeavor to find a spell, that would release my house from its terrible burden. upon one thing i was absolutely resolved. i should never wed, for, since no other branch of my family was in existence, i might thus end the curse with myself. as i drew near the age of thirty, old pierre was called to the land beyond. alone i buried him beneath the stones of the courtyard about which he had loved to wander in life. thus was i left to ponder on myself as the only human creature within the great fortress, and in my utter solitude my mind began to cease its vain protest against the impending doom, to become almost reconciled to the fate which so many of my ancestors had met. much of my time was now occupied in the exploration of the ruined and

serpent, the stranger raised a glass phial with the evident intent of ending my life as had charles le sorcier, six hundred years before, ended that of my ancestor. prompted by some preserving instinct of self-defense, i broke through the spell that had hitherto held me immovable, and flung my now dying torch at the creature who menaced my existence. i heard the phial break harmlessly against the stones of the passage as the tunic of the strange man caught fire and lit the horrid scene with a ghastly radiance. the shriek of fright and impotent malice emitted by the would-be assassin proved too much for my already shaken nerves, and i fell prone upon the slimy floor in a total faint. when at last my senses returned, all was frightfully dark, and my mind, remembering what had occurred, shran

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by the great relief which rushed over me, i reeled back against the wall. the breathing continued, in heavy, gasping inhalation. and expirations, whence i realised that i had no more than wounded the creature. and now all desire to examine the thing ceased. at last something allied to groundless, superstitious fear had entered my brain, and i did not approach the body, nor did i continue to cast stones at it in order to complete the extinction of its life. instead, i ran at full speed in what was, as nearly as i could estimate in my frenzied condition, the direction from which i had come. suddenly i heard a sound or rather, a regular succession of sounds. in another instant they had resolved themselves into a series of sharp, metallic clicks. this time there was no doubt. it was the guide

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

and it no more. so a body of twenty police, filling two carriages and an automobile, had set out in the late afternoon with the shivering squatter as a guide. at the end of the passable road they alighted, and for miles splashed on in silence through the terrible cypress woods where day never came. ugly roots and malignant hanging nooses of spanish moss beset them, and now and then a pile of dank stones or fragments of a rotting wall intensified by its hint of morbid habitation a depression which every malformed tree and every fungous islet combined to create. at length the squatter settlement, a miserable huddle of huts, hove in sight; and hysterical dwellers ran out to cluster around the group of bobbing lanterns. the muffled beat of tom-toms was now faintly audible far, far ahead; and a

d with undying leaders of the cult in the mountains of china. old castro remembered bits of hideous legend that paled the speculations of theosophists and made man and the world seem recent and transient indeed. there had been aeons when other things ruled on the earth, and they had had great cities. remains of them, he said the deathless chinamen had told him, were still to be found as cyclopean stones on islands in the pacific. they all died vast epochs of time before man came, but there were arts which could revive them when the stars had come round again to the right positions in the cycle of eternity. they had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought their images with them. these great old ones, castro continued, were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. they had sh

slipped as the other three were plunging frenziedly over endless vistas of green-crusted rock to the boat, and johansen swears he was swallowed up by an angle of masonry which shouldn't have been there; an angle which was acute, but behaved as if it were obtuse. so only briden and johansen reached the boat, and pulled desperately for the alert as the mountainous monstrosity flopped down the slimy stones and hesitated, floundering at the edge of the water. steam had not been suffered to go down entirely, despite the departure of all hands for the shore; and it was the work of only a few moments of feverish rushing up and down between wheels and engines to get the alert under way. slowly, amidst the distorted horrors of the indescribable scene, she began to chum the lethal waters; whilst on

HP LOVECRAFT THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH

iving things. after many eons men came to the land of mnar, dark shepherd folk with their fleecy flocks, who built thraa, ilarnek, and kadatheron on the winding river ai. and certain tribes, more hardy than the rest, pushed on to the border of the lake and built sarnath at a spot where precious metals were found in the earth. not far from the gray city of lb did the wandering tribes lay the first stones of sarnath, and at the beings of lb they marveled greatly. but with their marveling was mixed hate, for they thought it not meet that beings of such aspect should walk about the world of men at dusk. nor did they like the strange sculptures upon the gray monoliths of ib, for why those sculptures lingered so late in the world, even until the coming men, none can tell; unless it was because t

e gray monoliths of ib, for why those sculptures lingered so late in the world, even until the coming men, none can tell; unless it was because the land of mnar is very still, and remote from most other lands, both of waking and of dream. as the men of sarnath beheld more of the beings of lb their hate grew, and it was not less because they found the beings weak, and soft as jelly to the touch of stones and arrows. so one day the young warriors, the slingers and the spearmen and the bowmen, marched against lb and slew all the inhabitants thereof, pushing the queer bodies into the lake with long spears, because they did not wish to touch them. and because they did not like the gray sculptured monoliths of lb they cast these also into the lake; wondering from the greatness of the labor how e

HP LOVECRAFT THE LURKING FEAR

cene of my excavations would alone have been enough to unnerve any ordinary man. baleful primal trees of unholy size, age, and grotesqueness leered above me like the pillars of some hellish druidic temple; muffling the thunder, hushing the clawing wind, and admitting but little rain. beyond the scarred trunks in the background, illumined by faint flashes of filtered lightning, rose the damp ivied stones of the deserted mansion, while somewhat nearer was the abandoned dutch garden whose walks and beds were polluted by a white, fungous, foetid, over-nourished vegetation that never saw full daylight. and nearest of all was the graveyard, where deformed trees tossed insane branches as their roots displaced unhallowed slabs and sucked venom from what lay below. now and then, beneath the brown p

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

d: 12/18/1999 18:43:1the nameless city by h.p. lovecraft written january 1921 published november 1921 in the wolverine, no. 11: 3-15. when i drew nigh the nameless city i knew it was accursed. i was traveling in a parched and terrible valley under the moon, and afar i saw it protruding uncannily above the sands as parts of a corpse may protrude from an ill-made grave. fear spoke from the age-worn stones of this hoary survivor of the deluge, this great-grandfather of the eldest pyramid; and a viewless aura repelled me and bade me retreat from antique and sinister secrets that no man should see, and no man else had dared to see. remote in the desert of araby lies the nameless city, crumbling and inarticulate, its low walls nearly hidden by the sands of uncounted ages. it must have been thus

ary survivor of the deluge, this great-grandfather of the eldest pyramid; and a viewless aura repelled me and bade me retreat from antique and sinister secrets that no man should see, and no man else had dared to see. remote in the desert of araby lies the nameless city, crumbling and inarticulate, its low walls nearly hidden by the sands of uncounted ages. it must have been thus before the first stones of memphis were laid, and while the bricks of babylon were yet unbaked. there is no legend so old as to give it a name, or to recall that it was ever alive; but it is told of in whispers around campfires and muttered about by grandams in the tents of sheiks so that all the tribes shun it without wholly knowing why. it was of this place that abdul alhazred the mad poet dreamed of the night b

f unending sleep it looked at me, chilly from the rays of a cold moon amidst the desert's heat. and as i returned its look i forgot my triumph at finding it, and stopped still with my camel to wait for the dawn. for hours i waited, till the east grew grey and the stars faded, and the grey turned to roseate light edged with gold. i heard a moaning and saw a storm of sand stirring among the antique stones though the sky was clear and the vast reaches of desert still. then suddenly above the desert's far rim came the blazing edge of the sun, seen through the tiny sandstorm which was passing away, and in my fevered state i fancied that from some remote depth there came a crash of musical metal to hail the fiery disc as memnon hails it from the banks of the nile. my ears rang and my imagination

id not like. i had with me many tools, and dug much within the walls of the obliterated edifices; but progress was slow, and nothing significant was revealed. when night and the moon returned i felt a chill wind which brought new fear, so that i did not dare to remain in the city. and as i went outside the antique walls to sleep, a small sighing sandstorm gathered behind me, blowing over the grey stones though the moon was bright and most of the desert still. i awakened just at dawn from a pageant of horrible dreams, my ears ringing as from some metallic peal. i saw the sun peering redly through the last gusts of a little sandstorm that hovered over the nameless city, and marked the quietness of the rest of the landscape. once more i ventured within those brooding ruins that swelled beneat

ith my spade and crawled through it, carrying a torch to reveal whatever mysteries it might hold. when i was inside i saw that the cavern was indeed a temple, and beheld plain signs of the race that had lived and worshipped before the desert was a desert. primitive altars, pillars, and niches, all curiously low, were not absent; and though i saw no sculptures or frescoes, there were many singular stones clearly shaped into symbols by artificial means. the lowness of the chiselled chamber was very strange, for i could hardly kneel upright; but the area was so great that my torch showed only part of it at a time. i shuddered oddly in some of the far corners; for certain altars and stones suggested forgotten rites of terrible, revolting and inexplicable nature and made me wonder what manner o

HP LOVECRAFT THE OUTSIDER

- to me, the dazed, the disappointed; the barren, the broken. and yet i am strangely content and cling desperately to those sere memories, when my mind momentarily threatens to reach beyond to the other. i know not where i was born, save that the castle was infinitely old and infinitely horrible, full of dark passages and having high ceilings where the eye could find only cobwebs and shadows. the stones in the crumbling corridors seemed always hideously damp, and there was an accursed smell everywhere, as of the piled-up corpses of dead generations. it was never light, so that i used sometimes to light candles and gaze steadily at them for relief, nor was there any sun outdoors, since the terrible trees grew high above the topmost accessible tower. there was one black tower which reached a

HP LOVECRAFT THE PICTURE IN THE HOUSE

e picture in the house by h.p. lovecraft written 12 december 1920? published july 1919 in the national amateur, vol. 41, no. 6, p. 246-49. searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. for them are the catacombs of ptolemais, and the carven mausolea of the nightmare countries. they climb to the moonlit towers of ruined rhine castles, and falter down black cobwebbed steps beneath the scattered stones of forgotten cities in asia. the haunted wood and the desolate mountain are their shrines, and they linger around the sinister monoliths on uninhabited islands. but the true epicure in the terrible, to whom a new thrill of unutterable ghastliness is the chief end and justification of existence, esteems most of all the ancient, lonely farmhouses of backwoods new england; for there the dark e

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

and tab copious pulls from the quart bottle" i began putting out feelers as we walked amidst the omni-present desolation and crazily tilted ruins, but found that the aged tongue did not loosen as quickly as i had expected. at length i saw a grass-grown opening toward the sea between crumbling brick walls, with the weedy length of an earth-and-masonry wharf projecting beyond. piles of moss-covered stones near the water promised tolerable seats, and the scene was sheltered from all possible view by a ruined warehouse on the north. here, i thought was the ideal place for a long secret colloquy; so i guided my companion down the lane and picked out spots to sit in among the mossy stones. the air of death and desertion was ghoulish, and the smell of fish almost insufferable; but i was resolved

sea things says was the only things they was afeard of. no tellin' what any o' them kanakys will chance to git a holt of when the sea-bottom throws up some island with ruins older'n the deluge. pious cusses, these was- they didn't leave nothin' standin' on either the main island or the little volcanic islet excep' what parts of the ruins was too big to knock daown. in some places they was little stones strewed abaout- like charms- with somethin' on 'em like what ye call a swastika naowadays. prob'ly them was the old ones' signs- folks all wiped aout no trace o' no gold-like things an' none the nearby kanakys ud breathe a word abaout the matter. wouldn't even admit they'd ever ben any people on that island "that naturally hit obed pretty hard, seein' as his normal trade was doin' very poor

HP LOVECRAFT THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER

my consciousness and created a mental blank which reaches to the time of my awakening in the hospital. shall i say that the voice was deep; hollow; gelatinous; remote; unearthly; inhuman; disembodied? what shall i say? it was the end of my experience, and is the end of my story. i heard it, and knew no more--heard it as i sat petrified in that unknown cemetery in the hollow, amidst the crumbling stones and the falling tombs, the rank vegetation and the miasmal vapors- heard it well up from the innermost depths of that damnable open sepulcher as i watched amorphous, necrophagous shadows dance beneath an accursed waning moon. and this is what it said "you fool, warren is dead" 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:45m the street by h.p. lovecraft written 1920? published decem

HP LOVECRAFT THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN

une of indefinite magnitude somewhere about his musty and venerable abode. he is, in truth, a very strange person, believed to have been a captain of east india clipper ships in his day; so old that no one can remember when he was young, and so taciturn that few know his real name. among the gnarled trees in the front yard of his aged and neglected place he maintains a strange collection of large stones, oddly grouped and painted so that they resemble the idols in some obscure eastern temple. this collection frightens away most of the small boys who love to taunt the terrible old man about his long white hair and beard, or to break the small-paned windows of his dwelling with wicked missiles; but there are other things which frighten the older and more curious folk who sometimes steal up t

avoid needless explanations in case of unexpected police intrusions prompted these plans for a quiet and unostentatious departure. as prearranged, the three adventurers started out separately in order to prevent any evil-minded suspicions afterward. messrs. ricci and silva met in water street by the old man s front gate, and although they did not like the way the moon shone down upon the painted stones through the budding branches of the gnarled trees, they had more important things to think about than mere idle superstition. they feared it might be unpleasant work making the terrible old man loquacious concerning his hoarded gold and silver, for aged sea-captains are notably stubborn and perverse. still, he was very old and very feeble, and there were two visitors. messrs. ricci and silv

HP LOVECRAFT THE TOMB

ed sepulcher. one man only had perished in the fire. when the last of the hydes was buried in this place of shade and stillness, the sad urnful of ashes had come from a distant land, to which the family had repaired when the mansion burned down. no one remains to lay flowers before the granite portal, and few care to brave the depressing shadows which seem to linger strangely about the water-worn stones. i shall never forget the afternoon when first i stumbled upon the half-hidden house of death. it was in midsummer, when the alchemy of nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odors of the soil and the vegetation. in such surroundings

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

s however more profitable to do the engraving with a pointed object on a small metal disk, especially if the elementary is destined to have a long lifetime. lamas in tibet name the big drawing the great kylichor and the small engraving the little kylichor, which they sometimes have hidden in their clothing. the difference in tibet is that the great kylichor is not drawn on paper but is built from stones, gathered and erected in a lonely spot where no human being will ever be admitted. the construction of a big kylichor has a diameter of 3-4 yards. for our purposes it is sufficient to draw the big kylichor on paper with red ink. all these preparations being finished, let us begin with the real creation of the elementary. sit down comfortably in your asana, spread the paper already prepared

ations, flavors, smelling waters, and evaporations about which i will not talk in detail because they are less important for the magic practice. apart from that, i will treat only of the most valuable fluid condensers that are required for the practice. should i have to quote all these various kinds here, their production and the possibilities of using them, and all the precious and semi-precious stones too, which doubtless may be excellent condensers this brief summary alone would grow into a voluminous book. there are two kinds of fluid condenser preparations. in the first line there is the simple type made form one material or one plant being most useful for any purpose. the second kind consists of compound fluid condensers that are prepared from several materials or plants owning extre

as often as there is something new to be seen. he can learn a great deal from the gnomes and not one book in the whole wide world can reveal so many secrets about the subterranean kingdom to him as he can hear in the world of gnomes. for example, the magician can get a great deal of knowledge about the power and the effect of different herbs, he can learn how to achieve a magical spell on certain stones, he can be informed about hidden treasures and other strange things. he will be witness of everything that happens ad exists below the surface of the earth such as springs, coal, minerals, etc. the magician may learn several magic tricks that can be exploited through the earth element. in the course of time the magician will notice that there are different groups of intelligences among the

ll convince himself. here as well the rule goes that nobody must ever address one of the mermaids first, but he has to wait until the being starts talking or asking him questions about something. from the intelligent leaders the magician can learn such a lot about the water element that he could write books himself. he gets information about the life of fish, about the different water plants, the stones below the water and about other magic tricks related to the water element. but beware of the beauty of these beings! the magician is seriously warned not to fall madly in love with a mermaid and not to lose his balance. a love like this could become fateful to him. that does not exactly mean that he is not allowed to have fun with the mermaids. he must keep the motto in mind: love is the la

INVOCATION OF OUR LORD OF MIDNIGHT MAHAZHAEL DEVAL

spun upon the wheel of the year and the day. for with one step the world is begun and with the next all things are done! on the first day i awoke within the furrow. on the second day i knelt in prayer neath the sun. on the third i stood in the long green robe. on the fourth day my head was crowned with gold. on the fifth day the sickle laid me to rest. on the sixth day my body was ground between stones. on the seventh day i was raised anew to feed the brethren at midnight s table-to serve at the round feast for both the living and the dead. the mystery of the bread is my name of my name, the father of the grain am i. may the blessing be and the cursing be upon all who come to eat of me. heed well my words and deeds, and know that i, mahazhael, am with you! as it is spoken, so mote it be!

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

; and in her fits she would be taken with vomiting, and would vomit up needles, pins, horsenails, stubbs, wooll, and straw, and that very often. and being asked whether she perceived at these times what she vomited? she replied, she did; for then she was not in so great distraction as in other parts of her fits she was. and that before the first beginning of her fits several (and very many) small stones would fall upon her as she went up and down, and would follow her from place to place, and from one room to another, and would bit her on the head, shoulders, and arms, and fall to the ground and vanish away. and that she and several others would see them both fall upon her and on the ground, but could never take p. 110 them, save only some few which she and her master caught in their hands

d not. and being asked the reason, she said she was old and had a bad memory; and being asked how her memory served her so well for other p. 116 parts of the prayer, and only failed her for that, she said she knew not, neither could she help it "john pyne being likewise sworn and examined, saith, that about january last [1661] the said mary longdon, being his servant, was much troubled with small stones that were thrown at her[&c, as in the deponent's statement, other items of which he also corroborated. that sometimes the maid would be reading in a bible, and on a sudden he hath seen the bible struck out of her hand into the middle of the room, and she immediately cast into a violent fit. that in the fits he hath seen two bibles laid on her breast, and in the twinkling of an eye they woul

did bewitch her, but confess'd she had overlooked her, at that time she kiss'd her, but that she could not now help her, for none could help her that did the mishap, but others. further the deponent saith, that meeting after the assizes at cashel with one william lap [who suggested the test of the tile &c "mr. wood, a minister, being likewise sworn and examined, deposeth, that having heard of the stones dropped and thrown at the maid, and of her fits, and meeting with the maid's brother, he went along with him to the maid, and found her in her fit, crying out against gammer newton, that she prick'd and hurt her. and when she came to herself he asked her what had troubled her; and she said p. 121 gammer newton. and the deponent saith, why, she was not there. yes, said she, i saw her by my b

ural and diabolical sources. the rev. patrick adair, a distinguished contemporary and co-religionist of mr. shaw, alludes to the incident as follows in his true narrative "there had been great ground of jealousy that she [mrs. shaw] in her child-bed had been wronged by sorcery of some witches in the parish. after her death, a considerable time, some spirit or spirits troubled the house by casting stones down at the chimney, appearing to the servants, and especially having got one of them, a young man, to keep appointed times and places, wherein it appeared in divers shapes, and spake audibly to him. the people of the parish watched the house while mr. shaw at this time lay sick in his bed, and indeed he did not wholly recover, but within a while died, it was thought not without the art of

he storm thus raised was not easily allayed. the old woman seems, like many another of her years and sex, to have been of a choleric and crotchety disposition, while it is also quite within the bounds of possibility that she had become so infected with the popular superstition (and who could blame her) that she actually believed herself to be capable of harming people by merely stroking dolls, or stones with her finger. that not uncommon form of mental torture employed, namely, the making her repeat the lord's prayer, all the time watching carefully for lapsus lingu, and thence drawing deductions as to her being in league with the devil, was particularly absurd in the case of such a person as mrs. glover, whose memory was confused by age. at any rate there are probably very few of us at th

ISIS UNVEILED

he arts of magic and sorcery 123. demenoutgia, p. 3 digitizecoy google 00 isis unveiled more pracused by the dergy than in spun and portugal. the moon were profoundly versed in the occult sciences, and at ttdedo, seville, and salamanca there were, once upon a time, great schools of magic. the kabalists of the latter town were skilled in ail the abstruse sciences; they knew the virtues of precious stones and other minerals, and had ex- tracted from alchemy its most profound secrets. the authentic documents pertaining to the great trial of the mar- chale d'ancre, during the regency of marie de m^dicis, disclose that the unfortunate woman perished through the fault of the priests with whom, like a true italian, she surroimdedhersdf. she was accused by the people of paris of sorcery, because i

ho, in ijtx. her turn fecundated with the divine lij^t produces this trinity produces also a duad lord christos and sophia-adbamoth (one per- lehdoio, and fetahll, the genius (the feci, the other imperfect, as ml cmana- former, a perfect emanationi the latter, tion. 750. its descriptiod is found in one of the magic books of the egyptian igng nechepso, at nekau, and it use prescribed on green ja^r stones, as a potent amulet. galen men- tions it (oa nt o 'desinqd. med.fac' ix; cf.king: 7aisis unveiled iic d jordan 'the lord of all lorimat' sophkfadiamolii a manifcau nmjbto (fkitfa witfand the dcmhirge, who ptodncm mabrkl wwki* and nnllem cnation 'woriu wo- out futh (or graoe^ moreover, the opute seven planetaiy genii, who emanated one from

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

7 chapter the sixth. the hermetic brethren. 32 chapter the seventh. mythic history of the fleur-de-lis. 58 chapter the eighth. sacred fire. 54 chapter the ninth. fire-theosophy of the persians. 65 chapter the tenth. ideas of the rosicrucians as to the character of fire. 74 xiv contents chapter the eleventh. page. monuments raised to fire-worship in all countries. 85 chapter the twelfth. druidical stones and their worship. 100 chapter the thirteenth. inquiry as to the possibility of miracle. 114 chapter the fourteenth. can evidence be depended upon? examination of hume s reasoing. 120 chapter the fifteenth. footsteps of the rosicrucians amidst architectural obejcts. 130 chapter the sixteenth. the round towers of ireland. 137 chapter the seventeenth. prismatic investiture of the microcosm. 1

n its sublime, abstract side, it is the symbol of the mighty self-producing, self-begetting generative power deified in many myths. we may make a question, in the lower sense, in this regard, of the word loose, namely, wanton, and the word lech, or leche, and lecher &c. consider, also, in the solemn and terrible sense, the name crom-lech, or crown, or arched entry or gate, of death. the druidical stones were generally called cromlechs when placed in groups of two* with a coping or capstone over, similarly to the form of the greek letter pi (p, p, which was imitated from that temple of stones which we call a cromlech. cromlechs were the altars of the druids, and were so called from a hebrew word signifying to bow. there is a druidic temple at toulouse, in france, exhibiting many of these cu

happened at the dedication of solomon s temple: the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt-offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the lord filled the house (2 chronicles vii. i. and much about a hundred years afterwards, when elijah made that extraordinary sacrifice in proof that baal was no god, the fire of the lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench (1 kings xviii. 38. and if we go back long before the times of moses, as early as abraham s days, we meet with an instance of the same sort: it came to pass that when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace and a burning lamp, that passed between these pieces (genesis xv. 17. the first appearances of god, the

lue the ancient thinkers, who were as giants in the earth. we shall shortly show that reveries of the magi. 79 the monuments raised to this strange faith still remain, and that, surviving from the heathen times, the forms still mingle and lurk largely amidst the christian european institutions the traces of the idolatry, if not the idolatry itself. obelisks, spires, minarets, tall towers, upright stones (menhirs, monumental crosses, and architectural perpendiculars of every description, and, generally speaking, all erections conspicuous for height and slimness, were representatives of the sworded, or of the pyramidal, fire. they bespoke, wherever found, and in whatever age, the idea of the first principle, or the male generative emblem. having given, as we hope, some new views of the doctr

r he is ail. it is in reverence to this second light, and to the mysterious identity of both (the third power, three in one, but only in the necessity of being, all dark-being constituting all bright-being in the spirit, and both, and their identity, being one, that these monumental columns are raised being really the mark and the signal (warning on, in time) of supernatural, or magic, knowledge. stones were set up by the patriarchs: the bible records them. in india, the first objects of worship were monoliths. in the two peninsulas of india, in ceylon, in persia, in the holy land, in phoenicia, in sarmathia, in scythia, everywhere where worship was attempted (and in what place where man exists is it not, everywhere where worship was 88 the rosicrucians. practised (and where, out of fears

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

or that would require action& they dare not act in behalf of a belief that interferes with usual living 13 table of contents_ introduction part i the case for the ufo's "if it waddles? 1 ufo's are real 3 there is intelligence in space 9 short-cut to space travel 15 the home of the ufo's 20 are ufo's russian? 22 space flights: common denominator 24 part ii meteorology speaks falling ice 28 falling stones 32 falling live things 37 falling animal and organic matter 40 falling shaped things 45 falls of water 52 clouds and storms 56 rubbish in space 60 part iii history speaks disappearing ships and crews 65 teleportation or kidnapping? 75 levitation 84 marks and "footprints" 91 disappearing planes 97 fireballs and lights 101 legends 106 part iv astronomy speaks the incredible decade 115 ufo's a

know the cause of this flight& am not disturbed paris exhibition, 1951, scientiest from paris universigy demonstrated this. an ap phot was sent to u.s. showing this action. u.s. navys force-field expeiriments 1943 oct. produced invisibility of crew& ship. fearsom results. so terrifying as to, fortunately, halt further research. we went through similar compelling experiences with regard to falling stones, falling live animals, and falling animal or organic matter. we found that life arriving from the sky was almost universally of a low order, such as reptilian or aquatic, and we found that some of it involved such intellectual elements as functionality, localization of target and repetition in fixed areas. the only common denominator for all the observed conditions turned out to be- of all

horitative in the absence of proof to the contrary. such proof now seems to be within sight, or at least there is increasingly strong evidence that gravity is neither so continuos so immaterial nor so obscure as to be completely unamenable to use, manipulation and control. witness not only the documented movements of ufo's in the form of lights, discs, nebulosities, etc, but the many instances of stones, paper, clothes baskets and many other things which have been seen to leave the ground without apparent cause. the lifting of the ancient megalithic structures, too, must surely have come through levitation. ed: the following has no obvious reference or necessary position. i should have enjoyed seeing lemis chieftran trying to maneuver the first craft before directional field induction was

tides. we come to the inevitable conclusion, therefore, that this series of falling ice cannot be explained other than as vast masses of ice in orbital motion, in which case they are an intrinsic element of the space life or space craft, and that their very inconsistency indicates intelligence in space. since they are not consistent with natural laws, there must be direction behind them. falling stones what, indeed, do "falling stones" have to do with ufo's? we shall list, herein, but a few of the more interesting and entertaining examples of stones having fallen from space, and we can note that quartz and other materials not of usual meteoric types indicate something other than meteors. where else, then, but from ufo's? yes, quartz, it has its use s electro-magnetically and otherwise on

ky is but a minute detail. if you were in a space ship remote from planets, completely surrounded by the blackness of infinity, but nevertheless bathed by the sea of sunlight, what would be your concept of sky? monthly review, 1796 "the phenomenon which is the subject of the remarks before us will seem, to most persons, as little worthy of credit as any that could be offered. the falling of large stones from the sky, without any assignable cause of the previous ascent, seems to partake so much of the marvelous as almost entirely to exclude the operation of known and natural agents. yet a body of evidence is here brought to prove that such events have actually taken place, and we ought not to withhold from it a proper degree of attention" that was one hundred and fifty-nine years ago! it is

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

ne magick f. candle magick g. amulets and talismans; power objects or "psychic batteries" h. healing 1. psychic (visualization, laying on of hands) 2. herbal 3. energy channeling iwht auras and chakras 4. color therapy the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 3 5. other systems listed above i. divination 1. scrying 2. astrology 3. tarot 4. runesticks 5. lithomancy (casting the stones) 6. i ching 7. other systems 8. pendulum or radiesthesia j. astral travel k. thought forms; wraths, fetches, artificial elementals l. extra-sensory perception 1. clairsentience 2. clairvoyance 3. clairaudience 4. precognition 5. telepathy 6. telempathy 7. psychometry 8. telekinesis 9. teleportation m. sympathetic magic (poppets and such) n. runes o. mediumship, necromancy, and spirit guides

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

ydra and leo as depicted on an astrological tablet of the seleucid era, the eight-pointed star on the left is named dsag.me.gar. jupiter (vat 7847; bottom side. lion (leo) is depicted stepping forth. this plate has been described in depth by n. postgate, who brings out the division of zodiac into subzodiacs on this tablet, while these subzodiacs are connected to different towns, plants, trees and stones (postgate 1997: 219. 14 as we can see later, every planet could be connected to several gods; in table 3 are presented the strongest interconnections (based mainly on the akkadian material, because. except for the sun, the moon, and venus. we do not know about the state of matters in sumerian period; thus these three are also the only ones that have numerical counterparts in the assyrian tr

KETAB E SIYAH

d flame in the darkness of the eternal sky. the archon-emperor sat upon his throne of platinum and heard the indictment of that sinful son against the favourite child of god. the king's beard was long and burned with light of purest and most brilliant white and he was arraigned in his kingly robes, that were dyed with a most regal purple 13 and held by a clasp of gold bestudded with many precious stones. he held a sceptre in his hand carved of a single ruby, huge and bright, and wore upon his head a crown that shone with all the light that was ever seen in the sky, the light of a thousand stars. thus spoke gabriel to that most majestic king "almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, all-illumining light, king of heaven, conqueror of earth, father of the elohim, archite

as the mockery of the victor. thus did my calumny originate, as michael, the eldest of my brothers, my false brothers that sought my ruin by their lies, hollow and self-deceiving for they ruined me not but only their own fortunes and dominions, came forward before the sovereign of heaven, crawling upon his knees and hands as though a worm, touching his forehead, again and again, upon the marbled stones at the feet of god and with a voice that dripped with false adoration and the seeming of humility, ill-fitting indeed, like an over-sweet musk that nauseates by the potency of its odour, necessary to mask the stink of corruption, and thus did he speak to his father "almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, 22 all-illumining light, king of heaven, conqueror of earth, fa

rought before him, spoken with unchaste tongue and mind. then gabriel, the second of my brothers, my false brothers that sought my ruin by their lies, hollow and self-deceiving for they ruined me not but only their own fortunes and dominions, came forward before the sovereign of heaven, crawling upon his knees and hands as though a worm, 30 touching his forehead, again and again, upon the marbled stones at the feet of god and with a voice that dripped with false adoration and the seeming of humility, ill-fitting indeed, like an over-sweet musk that nauseates by the potency of its odour, necessary to mask the stink of corruption, and thus did he speak to his father "almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, all-illumining light, king of heaven, conqueror of earth, fathe

el brought before him, spoken with unchaste tongue and mind. then raphael, the third of my brothers, my false brothers that sought my ruin by their lies, hollow and self-deceiving for they ruined me not but only their own fortunes and dominions, came forward before the sovereign of heaven, crawling upon his knees and hands as though a worm, touching his forehead, again and again, upon the marbled stones at the feet of god and with a voice that dripped with false adoration and the seeming of humility, ill-fitting indeed, like an over-sweet musk that nauseates by the potency of its odour, necessary to mask the stink of corruption, and thus did he speak to his father "almighty and eternal, 32 lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, all-illumining light, king of heaven, conqueror of earth, fa

hael brought before him, spoken with unchaste tongue and mind. then auriel, the last of my brothers, my false brothers that sought my ruin by their lies, hollow and self-deceiving for they ruined me not but only their own fortunes and dominions, came forward before the sovereign of heaven, crawling upon his knees and hands as though a worm, touching his forehead, again and again, upon the marbled stones at the feet of god and with a voice that dripped with false adoration and the seeming of humility, ill-fitting indeed, like an over-sweet musk that nauseates by the potency of its odour, necessary to mask the stink of corruption, and thus did he speak to his father "almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, all-illumining light, king of heaven, conqueror of earth, fathe

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

e his true friend! he could be like the magician. he would merely need help to be like his creator. then the two of them would feel good, because it is very sad to be alone. but in order for them to feel good, man must first feel lonely, and be sad without the magician. the magician waved his wand again and made a man in the distance. the man did not feel there was a magician who had made all the stones, plants, hills, fields and moon, rain, winds, etc. he did not know that he had made an entire world filled with beautiful things, such as computers and football that made him feel good and lacking nothing. the magician, on the other hand, continued to feel sad that he was alone. the man did not know there was a magician who had made him, loved him, was waiting for him and said that together

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

ibutes, character and skills. together, s o u l, b o d y a n d r e i n c a r n a t i o n 249 these qualities form a being in our world that is no different from a beast. animals live amongst themselves, separated from one another, but not as much as people, because they are not as well developed. the level of development is determined by the amount of the variations in that creation. for example: stones of the same kind are no different from one another. among plants of the same kind there are minor differences. one can already recognize unique characteristics in animals, and these are apparent in man in every aspect. but all of this can be attributed to the same sustaining force--the animate soul. everything that happens to man in his past, present and future belongs to this world. there

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

to my mind the coarseness that hasn t a screen, which are broken vessels that are as yet not on the path of correction, and may god have mercy. let me give you a short example so that you understand the above: it is known that each and every degree has a middle part that consists of both. between the still and the vegetative there is the coral; between the vegetative and the animate there are the stones of the field, which are animals that are connected to the earth by their navels and receive their nourishment from it, and between the animate and the speaking there is the ape. that raises the question: what is between true and false, which is the point which consists of both. before i clarify this, i will add one known rule, that something small is hard to see, whereas a large object is e

actual. it is much like a man who builds a house. in his thought he already has a house. however, the substance of that house cannot be compared to the substance of one actually built. this is because in theory, the house is composed of a substance of thought, and is a potential house. yet, when the house begins to turn from thought to action, it takes on a different substance- that of trees and stones. thus, it is possible to distinguish potential and actual in the souls as well: the emanating of the souls from the creator actually begins only at the world of beria. all the changes that occur before the world of beria are considered potential, without any tangible distinction from the creator. it is said that all the souls are already included in malchut of ein sof (infinite, in the midd

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

d eight points instead of six or five. it was called gthe star of dawn h or gthe morning star, h and represented horus of the resurrection, who is pictured as bearing it upon his head and as having given it to his followers. 16. the masonic square was well-known, and was called neka. it is to be found in many temples, and also appears in the great pyramid. it is said that it was used for squaring stones, and also symbolically for squaring conduct, which once more resembles the modern interpretation. to build on the square was to build for ever, according to the teachings of ancient egypt; and in the egyptian hall of judgment osiris is seen seated on the square while judging the dead (see plate ii b) 17. 18. thus the square came to symbolize the foundation of eternal law(*churchward, the ar

om a book. we are, therefore, preserving by our unvarying actions the memory of certain facts and laws in nature. 41. because that is so, and because the laws of the universe must be universal in their application and must act down here as well as above, we held that the great architect expected from us a life in accordance with the law which he had made. the square was to be applied literally to stones and buildings, but symbolically to man fs conduct, and man must arrange his life in agreement with what obviously followed from these considerations; therefore the strictest probity was demanded, and a high level of purity, physical, emotional and mental. perfect rectitude and justice were required, and yet at the same time loving-kindness and gentleness, and in all cases gdoing unto others

idered to be a reflection of the blazing star which should be in the centre of the lodge ceiling, it being in this respect the same as the ever-burning ruby lamp. it symbolized his light that gburns ever in our midst h and gshineth even in our darkness h. some students of masonry see the same symbol once more in many of the temples of the druids and scandinavians, which were formed of a circle of stones with one, generally taller than the rest, in the centre. 116. pedestals and columns 117. gour lodges are supported by three great pillars- wisdom, strength and beauty, h says the masonic ritual, gwisdom to contrive, strength to support and beauty to adorn; wisdom to conduct us in all our undertakings, strength to support us under all our difficulties, and beauty to adorn the inward man. the

er point in the symbology is that the cross contains within itself the square, the level and the plumb-line combined; and we find in the epistle to the ephesians written by st ignatius (who according to tradition was the little child whom christ once took and set in the midst of his disciples as a type of those who should inherit the kingdom of heaven, this remarkable masonic passage: 285. ye are stones of a temple, which were prepared beforehand for a building of god the father, being raised to the heights by the working-tool of jesus christ, which is the cross, and using for a rope the holy spirit, your faith being a windlass, and love the way leading up to god. 286. sometimes the rose is impressed upon that equal-armed cross, and then we have the rose croix, the great emblem of the rosi

phenomena, such as those of telepathy or clairvoyance, or indeed anything outside the most materialistic science. 327. now the time has come when men are beginning to see that life is full of invisible influences, whose value can be recognized by sensitive people. the effect of incense is an instance of this class of phenomena, as is also the result of the use of talismans and of certain precious stones, each of which vibrates at its own rate and has its own value. such things are not usually of importance so great that we need give much time to their consideration, but they all have their effects, and are therefore not to be entirely neglected by wise people. 328. the incense used in the lodge tends to purify that part of man fs nature which is sometimes called the astral body, as it is m

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

o a truth in the background. there is the beautiful legend of joseph of arimathaea and the holy thorn of glastonbury; there is the story told by theodoret and fortunatus that s. paul visited britain, which appears to receive some confirmation from s. clement of rome; while eusebius, the great ecclesiastical historian, mentions that some of the twelve apostles visited the british isles(*foundation stones. austin clare, p. 16) indeed it was not until the twelfth century that celtic christianity was finally brought into line with the usages of roman catholicism(*enc. brit, loc. cit) 488. the holy island of iona, once the heart of the old celtic church, lies off the west coast of scotland among the inner hebrides. it was called hy or icolmkill (the island of columba of the church, and by the h

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

gathered from tombs and carried in little sacks as protection against evil. also worn were pieces of paper on which were written prayers, spells, magical names, or the attributes of god, such as the compassionate and the forgiver. a popular amulet of islamic peoples beginning in the sixth century was the hand of fatima. the hand of fatima is frequently made of silver and jeweled with semiprecious stones. it is named after the daughter of the prophet muhammad.hands were also used as amulets on gates of islamic buildings. holy books of every culture (koran, torah, bible) are considered to have protective powers. pieces of parchment with scripture quotes, carried in boxes or pouches, are amulets in various religions. amulets with inscriptions are sometimes called charms, a term that also appl

inely incorporated satanic rhythms into their albums for the purpose of leading innocent young people into the service of the prince of darkness. this was supposedly accomplished via the unconscious influence of what was described as rock music s druid beat. the druid beat strategy for denouncing rock became unnecessary after musicians began flaunting their association with the devil. the rolling stones was one of the first major rock groups to flirt with satan. the pivotal event in this flirtation was the altamont rock festival in 1969. the stones had hired members of the hell s angels motorcycle club to handle security during the festival. although there are conflicting accounts about exactly how it transpired, the hell s angels murdered a young black man while the rolling stones were pe

s. although many bikers have identified themselves as followers of the devil in media interviews, few take this identification seriously. rather, in this context it is clear that satan is little more than a symbol of rebelliousness, deployed to shock polite society. the hell s angels were sometimes romanticized by journalists and other writers until the altamont rock festival in 1969. the rolling stones had unwisely hired members of the hell s angels to handle security during the festival. although there are conflicting accounts about exactly how it transpired, the angels murdered a young black fan while the stones were performing sympathy for the devil. this event subsequently defined the hell s angels in the minds of many outsiders. see also crime; heavy metal music for further reading:

a s roots music remembered him, and some of the blues musicians who had known or heard of him notably lockwood, shines, elmore james, and muddy waters included reworked versions of johnson songs in their repertoires. then in the early 1960s columbia records issued two lps of johnson s music. a new generation of young, mostly white blues, folk, and rock musicians, among them bob dylan, the rolling stones, and eric clapton, heard johnson for the first time, and his reputation as one of the greatest performers and innovators took hold. in 1990, amid much attention, acclaim, and surprising commercial success, columbia issued the two-cd robert johnson: the complete recordings. by this time the legend of johnson s deal with the devil was nearly as well known as his music. it figured in a poorly

ame had been lucifer, on earth it was satan. the angels who joined his rebellion were also expelled from heaven and became the demons of whom lucifer is the lord. another reference to the daystar can be found in ezekiel s prediction of the coming downfall of the king of tyre. here lucifer is an angel, blazing with brilliant jewels, who was in eden, the garden of god, walking up and down among the stones of fire. lucifer may have been the hero of an earlier story in which the morning star tries to steal the role of the sun but is defeated. this story is derived from the observation that the morning star is the last star proudly to defy the sunrise. however, as the sun s rays strengthen, his light fades. it has also been suggested that the story is another version of the fall of adam and his

LIBER 777

, jackal] unicellular organisms, opium[[mangrove] 30 lion, sparrowhawk[[leopard] sunflower, laural, heliotrop[[nut, galangal] 31 lion (cherub of b) red poppy, hibiscus, nettle[[all scarlet flowers] 32 crocodile ash, cypress, hellebore, yew, nightshade[[elm] 32 bis bull (cherub of e) oak, ivy[[cereals] 31 bis sphinx (if sworded and crowned) almond in flower table of correspondences 12 xl* precious stones. xli. magical weapons. clxxxvii. magical formul (see col. xli) 0[[star sapphire, black diamond[[no attribution possible] lastal. m. m 1 diamond swastika or fylfot cross, crown[[the lamp. 2 star ruby, turquoise lingam, the inner robe of glory[[the word] viaov 3 star sapphire, pearl yoni, the outer robe of concealment[[the cup, the shining star] babalon. vitriol 4 amethyst, sapphire[[lapis la

among animals 1. lion. 5. boar. 2. crocodile. 6. bull. 3. spotted-wolf. 7. baboon. 4. ram. among birds 1. phoe nix. 5. cock. 2. eagle. 6. crow. 3. vulture. 7. hawk. 4. swan. among insects 1. glow-worm. 2. beetle. among fish 1. sea-calf. 4. star-fish. 2. shell-fish. 5. strombi. 3. pullus. 6. margar. among metals 1. gold. col. xl. aaron s breastplate is very doubtful; we advise reliance on columns stones and tribes, we having chosen stones on bases of physical analogy to signs, colours &c. col. xlii. the following table of sub-elemental perfumes is important: a of a ambergris. d of a the gall of the rukh. c of a oncha. e of a musk. b of a civet. a of d lign-aloes. d of d galbanum. c of d mastick. e of d storax. b of d olibanum. a of c myrrh. d of c camphor. c of c siamese benzoin. e of c in

LIBER ALEPH

e and of musick, that had ventured herself from beneath the cross austral that she might seek me, to inspire and comfort me, and this was my reward from the masters, and consolation in the years of my sorrow. but the way that leadeth to the other form of this vision of beatitude, to wit, science is gnana yoga or raja yoga, of which i have written only here and there, as one who should throw great stones upon the earth in disorder, by default of building them nobly into a pyramid. and of this do i heartily repent me, and ask of the god thoth that he may give me (albeit at the eleventh hour) virtue and with that i may compose a true book upon these ways of union. thy first step, therefore, o my son, is to attain unto samadhi, and to urge thyself perpetually to repetition of thy successes the

LIBER CCXLII AHA

at the midnight thou shalt go to the mid-stream fs smoothest flow, and strike upon a golden bell the spirit.s call; then say the spell .angel, mine angel, draw thee nigh. making the sign of magistry aha! 27 with wand of lapis lazuli. then, it may be, through the blind dumb night thou shalt see thine angel come, hear the faint whisper of his wings, behold the starry breast begemmed with the twelve stones of the twelve kings! his forehead shall be diademed with the faint light of stars, wherein the eye gleams dominant and keen. thereat thou swoonest; and thy love shall catch the subtle voice thereof. he shall inform his happy lover: my foolish prating shall be over! olympas. o now i burn with holy haste. this doctrine hath so sweet a taste that all the other wine is sour. marsyas. son, there

LIBER CHANOKH

ka a uniji beliore. a mighty guard of fire with two-edged swords flaming (which have eight vials of wrath for two times and a half, whose wings are of wormwood and the marrow of salt) have set their feet in the west, and are measured with their 9996 ministers. these gather up the moss of the earth as the rich man doth his treasure. cursed are they whose iniquities they are! in their eyes are mill-stones greater than the earth, and from their mouths run seas of blood. their heads are covered with diamonds, and upon their heads are marble stones.*10 happy is he on whom they frown not. for why? the lord of righteousness rejoiceth in them! come away, and not your vials: for the time is such as requireth comfort. the angle of b of d in the tablet of d. the lord of the winds and the breezes, the

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

thy sight the landmarks are of fair white marble untouched by the tool of the graver. therefore thou art mine, even now and for ever and for everlasting. amen. 28 liber lxv 58. moreover, i heard the voice of adonai: seal up the book of the heart and the serpent; in the number five and sixty seal thou the holy book. as fine gold that is beaten into a diadem for the fair queen of pharaoh, as great stones that are cemented together into the pyramid of the ceremony of the death of asar, so do thou bind together the words and the deeds, so that in all is one thought of me thy delight adonai. 59. and i answered and said: it is done even according to thy word. and it was done. and they that read the book and debated thereon passed into the desolate land of barren words. and they that sealed up t

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

an absolute duffer at school in all forms of athletics and games, because i despised them. i held, and still hold, numerous mountaineering world's records. similarly, examinations fail to test intelligence. cecil rhodes refused to employ any man with a university degree. that such degrees lead to honour in england is a sign of england fs decay, though even in england they are usually the stepping-stones to clerical idleness or pedagogic slavery. such is a dotted outline of the picture that i wish to draw. if the power to possess property depended on a man fs competence, and his perception of real values, a new aristocracy would at once be created, and the deadly fact that social consideration varies with the power of purchasing champagne would cease to be a fact. our pluto-heiro-politicocr

now saw her dressed in a garment of white watered silk, lined through-out (as it appeared later) with ermine. the high priest's vestment was an elaborate embroidery of 20 liber dcccxi every colour, harmonized by exquisite yet robust art. he wore also a breastplate corresponding to the canopy; a sculptured gbeast h at each corner in gold, while the twelve signs of the zodiac were symbolized by the stones of the breast-plate. the bell tinkled yet again, and the herald again sounded his trumpet. the celebrants moved hand in hand down the nave while the organ thundered forth its solemn harmonies. all the knights and dames rose and gave the secret sign of the rose croix. it was at this part of the ceremony that things began to happen to me. i became suddenly aware that my body had lost both wei

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

scourging, nor by drugs, nor by ritual, nor by meditation; only by passive love shall he avail. 47. he shall await the sword of the beloved and bare his throat for the first stroke. 48. then shall his blood leap out and write me runes in the sky; yea, write me runes in the sky. 23 vi 1. thou wast a priestess, o my god, among the druids; and we knew the powers of the oak. 2. we made us a temple of stones in the shape of the universe, even as thou didst wear openly and i concealed. 3. there we performed many wonderful things by midnight. 4. by the waning moon did we work. 5. over the plain came the atrocious cry of wolves. 6. we answered; we hunted with the pack. 7. we came even unto the new chapel and thou didst bear away the holy graal beneath thy druid vestments. 8. secretly and by stealt

LIBER O

of assiah, english translation. ix. 7 the sword and the serpent. xi. 12 the elements (with their planetary rulers. xii. 8 the tree of life. xiv. 14 general attribution of tarot. xv. xviii. 55. 58 the colour scales. xix. 24 selection of egyptian gods. xxxiv. 26 some greek gods. xxxv. 27 some roman gods. xxxviii. 28 animals, real and imaginary. xxxix. 29 plants, real and imaginary. xl. 30 precious stones. xli. 33 magical weapons. xlii. 31 perfumes. xlv. 32 magical powers [western mysticism. liv. 61 the letters of the name. lv. 60 the elements and senses. lix. 65 the archangels of the quarters. liber o vel manvs et sagitta 18 lx [omitted] the rulers of the elements. lxi [omitted] angels of the elements. lxiii. 62 the four worlds. lxx. 59 attribution of pentagram. lxxv. 70 the five elements (

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

y colour you can think of, with curious figures and pictures. the light was not like dream light at all; it was wake light, and it came through a beautiful rose in the ceiling. in the middle was a table all covered with beautiful pictures and texts, and there were ever such strange things on it. there was a little crucifix in the middle, all of diamonds and emeralds and rubies, and other precious stones, and there was a dagger with a golden handle, and a cup full of the most delicious wine, and there was a curious coin with the strangest writing on it, and a funny little stick that was covered with flames, like a rose tree is with roses. beside the strange coin was a heavy iron chain, and i took it and put it round my neck because i was bound to my fairy prince, and i would never go about

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

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

teads were the sites of cult activities as well as of other social activities. the sources mention something called a horgr, which i have translated galtar h in this book. the eddic poems suggest the horgr was something that could be reddened, and they make it appear to be some sort of altar, at least in the sense that sacrifices were made upon it. etymologically the word seems to have to do with stones or rocks, and it is not difficult to imagine the germanic horgr as a pile of rocks in a sacred grove; the old high german cognate is in fact sometimes found with the meaning gsacred rock h and sometimes with the meaning gsacred grove. h tacitus says the germanic peoples did not produce images of their gods. adam of bremen says the pagan temple at uppsala had idols of thor, wodan (odin, and

fs death, his funeral, the attempted revival, and vengeance for him. the story of baldr fs death and the attempted revival are intertwined, by snorri at least. it begins, according to him, with baldr suffering disquieting dreams, presumably that he may be injured or killed. frigg elicits an oath not to harm him from all things, and thereafter the asir take sport in attacking him with weapons and stones, and it seems an accomplishment to them that he is unhurt. loki is displeased that baldr is unhurt. he takes the form of a woman, goes to frigg, and asks whether anything can harm baldr. frigg responds that she took oaths from everything except mistletoe, which seemed too young. loki gets some mistletoe, fashions a spear from it, and heads to the assembly. there he sees baldr fs blind half

y from around 975.985 c.e. in this stanza he refers to the temple lands of einridi and all the gods (bond. the form with d in the second syllable is younger. my translation of the name (either form) is what i think a norseman would have thought it meant; some scholars have thought that etymologically it may originally have meant glone ruler. h it is worth noting that this name is attested on rune stones for human beings, who may therefore have been named after the god. see also hlorridi; thor einherjar (lone-fighters) the chosen warriors of odin, who sport at valholl awaiting the last battle at ragnarok. vafthrudnismal, stanza 41, describes life at valholl: all the einherjar in odin fs fields hack each other each day. they choose slaughter and ride from the field later sit reconciled toget

r the brides of giants. h the two then apparently travel. hyndla accuses freyja of having her husband or lover (apparently ottar) along on the way to hel, but freyja denies the accusation. stanza 9 refers to a wager between ottar and the hero anganty lr, which some have taken to be the motivation for the poem. stanza 10 shows why freyja is partial to ottar. he made an altar for me, loaded up with stones, now that gravel has turned into [burned to] glass; he reddened with the blood of nine cattle; ottar ever believed in the goddesses. in stanza 11 the speaker, evidently still freyja, requests a tallying up of genealogical information, and this information fills stanzas 12.28. then the speaker, now presumably hyndla, addresses ottar directly, and her stanzas frequently end with the refrain g

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

e level of the soul, and according to the lectures such a stone is to be found within the middle chamber. for the figure 14. the tree of life with masonic symbols of the second degree. experienced craftsman to try, and adjust, his jewels on" this is a lovely image from the operative craft. the squares, levels, and plumbs used by the early operative masons were often made of wood; and when used on stones they gradually wore away and became unreliable. a perfect ashlar was kept on the building site so that these tools could be recalibrated as necessary. masonically, we are told that we have such a standard in the middle chamber of our soul; it sounds to me like our conscience, the internal standard, provided by the deity, by which we define and calibrate our morality. in figure 15 i have pla

MAGIC AND SPELLS

re diminutive or fine objects, all within 1 ft, of each other, whose total weight does not exceed 25 lb. duration: instantaneous saving throw: none (see text) spell resistance: no you can point to a collection of little, unsecured items and cause them to fly off in all directions simultaneously. the spray of items makes a burst with a 10-foot radius. if the items are fairly hard or sharp (such as stones, sling bullets, coins, or the like, creatures in the burst take 1d8 points of damage. a successful reflex save negates this damage. eggs, fruit, and other soft objects can be used, but the damage then dealt is subdual damage. illusion (shadow) level: hrp 2, sor/wiz 2 components: v, s, m casting time: 1 action range: personal target: you duration: 10 minutes/level (d) shadow mask you cause a

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ld the sun, a universal deity the zodiac and its signs the bembine table of isis wonders of antiquity the life and philosophy of pythagoras pythagorean mathematics the human body in symbolism the hiramic legend the pythagorean theory of music and color fishes, insects, animals, reptiles and birds (part one) fishes, insects, animals, reptiles and birds (part two) flowers, plants, fruits, and trees stones, metals and gems ceremonial magic and sorcery the elements and their inhabitants hermetic pharmacology, chemistry, and therapeutics the qabbalah, the secret doctrine of israel fundamentals of qabbalistic cosmogony the tree of the sephiroth qabbalistic keys to the creation of man an analysis of tarot cards the tabernacle in the wilderness the fraternity of the rose cross rosicrucian doctrine

dove, the yonic emblem--the self-renewing phoenix--the great seal of the united states of america--bast, the cat goddess of the ptolemies--apis, the sacred bull--the monoceros, or unicorn. 89 flowers, plants, fruits, and trees the flower, a phallic symbol--the lotus blossom--the scandinavian world tree, yggdrasil--the sprig of acacia--the juice of the grape--the magical powers of the mandrake. 93 stones, metals, and gems prehistoric monuments--the tablets of the law--the holy grail--the ages of the world- talismanic jewels--zodiacal and planetary stones and gems. 97 ceremonial magic and sorcery the black magic of egypt--doctor johannes faustus--the mephistopheles of the grimores--the invocation of spirits--pacts with demons--the symbolism of the pentagram. 101 p. 8 the elements and their i

by its lion head the exaltation of the solar in the constellation of leo. click to enlarge a symbolic labyrinth. from montfaucon's antiquities. labyrinths and mazes were favored places of initiation among many ancient cults. remains of these mystic mazes have been found among the american indians, hindus, persians, egyptians, and greeks. some of these mazes are merely involved pathways lined with stones; others are literally miles of gloomy caverns under temples or hollowed from the sides of mountains. the famous labyrinth of crete, in which roamed the bullheaded minotaur, was unquestionably a place of initiation into the cretan mysteries. p. 27 there is considerable evidence that the famous statue of serapis in the serapeum at alexandria was originally worshiped under another name at sino

puted to have been made from a single emerald. modern writers, discussing this image, state that it was made of green glass poured into a mold. according to the egyptians, however, it withstood all the tests of an actual emerald. clement of alexandria describes a figure of serapis compounded from the following elements: first, filings of gold, silver, lead, and tin; second, all manner of egyptian stones, including sapphires, hematites, emeralds, and topazes; all these being ground down and mixed together with the coloring matter left over from the funeral of osiris and apis. the result was a rare and curious figure, indigo in color. some of the statues of serapis must have been formed of extremely hard substances, for when a christian soldier, carrying out the edict of theodosius, struck t

ationship between the earthly and the divine sciences of architectonics. they were supposedly employed by king solomon in the building of his temple, although they were not jews, nor did they worship the god of the jews, being followers of bacchus and dionysos. the dionysiac architects erected many of the great monuments of antiquity. they possessed a secret language and a system of marking their stones. they had annual convocations and sacred feasts. the exact nature of their doctrines is unknown. it is believed that chiram abiff was an initiate of this society. next: atlantis and the gods of antiquity sacred texts esoteric index previous next atlantis and the gods of antiquity p. 33 atlantis is the subject of a short but important article appearing in the annual report of the board of re

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y a.d, the prytani had almost all retreated to the northernmost tip of the country, and were occupying the lands north of what is now perth and argyll in scotland. this may also account for the old witch belief of the north as being the holy direction. the northern abodes of the rulers of the picts, as the prytani were known by the romans, were often mysterious vitrified forts, towers whose outer stones had been fused together by great fires, making them practically impregnable to all attack. this is probably the origin of the witch's glass castle, which you will encounter later on. we know for a fact that glass castles such as these existed at craig phadrick at inverness, dun fionn, achterawe, and dundbhairdghal. by the eleventh century a.d, subsequent to successive invasions of britain

the triangle, and the garter, the pentacle grade. should you not belong to a properly formed coven, your name in witch runes will be all you need to have, plus any other amuletic symbols of good luck you may choose, such as your zodiac birth sign and planet. similar to the bracelet are the ring and the pendant. these are usually the only witch jewels bar the necklace that actually possess gems or stones set into them. these are the primary "fascination' jewels, and the more intricate and unusual the jewel, the better it serves its purpose. as to its composition and monetary value, it is completely a matter of individual taste and economy. the best magical witch stones are traditionally the sapphire and the opal. however, most precious and semi-precious stones do just as well, especially th

, stronger stuff, partaking more of the nature of items of defence rather than beneficence. similarly, the irreplaceable pentacle, used as a door symbol, also comes under this defence heading. but more of these later. the english holystone itself bears ample witness to its country of origin's preoccupation with the art of pun making, even at an early age. the amulets themselves are in fact simply stones with holes in them. but (and this is the important part, in order to be effective amulets, they must first have been formed by natural process, that is, the erosion of wind and water; and second, they should also be found by the user rather than bought. certain flints are often best for this; these are quite common in some types of terrain, and can often be sought for on ploughed fields or

cess, that is, the erosion of wind and water; and second, they should also be found by the user rather than bought. certain flints are often best for this; these are quite common in some types of terrain, and can often be sought for on ploughed fields or pebbly beaches. on discovering a holystone, you must pick it up, declaring as you do, that your action is being performed "in hertha's name" the stones should be hung or placed as near your hearth as possible. failing that, if you live in an apartment and neither possess a hearth nor, in spite of your burgeoning witchly image, feel inclined to have one installed, simply hang them in the room you happen to spend most of your time in- den, kitchen, maybe even bedroom. as in the case of the egg, don't pass the holystone through fire and water

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pirits, by all the names of god, and by all his marvellous work; by the heavens; by the earth; by the sea; by the depth of the abyss, and by that firmament which the very spirit of god hath moved; by the sun and by the stars; by the waters and by the seas, and all which they contain; by the winds, the whirlwinds, the key of solomon page 26 and the tempests; by the virtue of all herbs, plants, and stones; by all which is in the heavens, upon the earth, and in all the abysses of the shades. i conjure ye anew, and i powerfully urge ye, o demons, in whatsoever part of the world ye may be, so that ye shall be unable to remain in air, fire, water, earth, or in any part of the universe, or in any pleasant place which may attract ye; but that ye come promptly to accomplish our desire, and all thin

d the symbols and names of that triumphant sovereign whom all creatures obey, otherwise we shall bind ye and conduct ye in spite of yourselves, into our presence bound with chains of fire, because those effects which proceed and issue from our science and operation, are ardent with a fire which shall consume and burn ye eternally, for by these the whole universe trembleth, the earth is moved, the stones thereof rush together, all creatures obey, and the rebellious spirits are tormented by the power of the sovereign creator. then it is certain that they will come, even if they be bound with chains of fire, unless prevented by affairs of the very greatest importance, but in this latter case they will send ambassadors and messengers by whom thou shalt easily and surely learn what occupies the

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f the angels. amen. take then exorcised water and pour it upon the said lime, and place the skin therein for three days, after which thou shalt take it thence, and scrape therefrom the lime and flesh adhering, with the knife of reed. after this thou shalt cut, with a single stroke, a wand of hazel, long enough for thee to form a circle therewith; take also a cord spun by a young maiden, and small stones or pebbles from a brook, pronouncing these words: o god adonai, holy and powerful father, put virtue into these stones, that they may serve to stretch this parchment, and to chase therefrom all fraud, and may it obtain virtue by thine almighty power. after this, having stretched the said parchment upon the circle and bound it with the cord and stones, thou shalt say: agla, yod, he, vau, he

instruments necessary in various operations, as a needle to prick or to sew; a burin, or instrument wherewith to engrave &c. thou shalt make such instruments in the day and hour of jupiter, and when it is finished thou shalt say: i conjure thee. o instrument of steel, by god the father almighty, by the virtue of the heavens, of the stars, and of the angels who preside over them; by the virtue of stones, herbs, and animals; by the virtue of hail, snow, and wind; that thou receivest such virtue that thou mayest obtain without deceit the end which i desire in all things where i shall use thee; through god the creator of the ages, and emperor of the angels. amen. afterwards repeat psalms iii; ix; xxxi; xlii; lx; li; cxxx. perfume it with the perfumes of the art, and sprinkle it with exorcised

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eril by water. editor s note. the names aub and vevaphel. the versicle is from psalm xl. 13 "be pleased o ihvh to deliver me, o ihvh make haste to help me" figures 49 and 50. the key of solomon page 78 figure 52. the fourth pentacle of the moon. this defendeth thee from all evil sources, and from all injury unto soul or body. its angel, sophiel, giveth the knowledge of the virtue of all herbs and stones; and unto whomsoever shall name him, he will procure the knowledge of all. editor s note. the divine name eheieh asher eheieh, and the names of the angels yahel and sophiel. the versicle is "let them be confounded who persecute me, and let me not be confounded; let them fear, and not i" figure 53. the fifth pentacle of the moon. it serveth to have answers in sleep. its angel iachadiel serve

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ing a bright and sharp sword in his hand. he telleth all things past, and to come, and reconcileth friends and foes. he ruleth over 60 legions of spirits, and this is his seal, etc (18) bathin- the eighteenth spirit is bathin. he is a mighty and strong duke, and appeareth like a strong man with the tail of a serpent, sitting upon a pale-coloured horse. he knoweth the virtues of herbs and precious stones, and can transport men suddenly from one country to another. he ruleth over 30 legions of spirits. his seal is this which is to be worn as aforesaid (19) sallos- the nineteenth spirit is sallos (or saleos. he is a great and mighty duke, and appeareth in the form of a gallant soldier riding on a crocodile, with a ducal crown on his head, but peaceably. he causeth the love of women to men, an

l, or character is this, unto the which he oweth obedience, and which thou shalt wear in time of action, etc (21) marax- the twenty-first spirit is marax. he is a great earl and president. he appeareth like a great bull with a man s face. his office is to make men very knowing in astronomy, and all other liberal sciences; also he can give good familiars, and wise, knowing the virtues of herbs and stones which be precious. he governeth 30 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, which must be made and worn as aforesaid, etc (22) ipos- the twenty-second spirit is lpos. he is an earl, and a mighty prince, and appeareth in the form of an angel with a lion's head, and a goose's foot, and hare's tail. he knoweth all things past, present, and to come. he maketh men witty and bold. he governeth 3

of his foes as well as of his friends. he governeth 29 legions of spirits, partly of the order of thrones, and partly of that of angels. his seal is this, which wear thou, etc (31) foras- the thirty-first spirit is foras. he is a mighty president, and appeareth in the form of a strong man in human shape. he can give the understanding to men how they may know the virtues of all herbs and precious stones. he teacheth the arts of logic and ethics in all their parts. if desired he maketh men invisible, and to live long, and to be eloquent. he can discover treasures and recover things lost. he ruleth over 29 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, which wear thou, etc (32) asmoday- the thirty-second spirit is asmoday, or asmodai. he is a great king, strong, and powerful. he appeareth with th

ritten, it might be read "ox" instead of "wolf- trans [for me he appeared always like an ox, and very dazed.-ed (36) stolas, or stolos- the thirty-sixth spirit is stolas, or stolos. he is a great and powerful prince, appearing in the shape of a mighty raven at first before the exorcist; but after he taketh the image of a man. he teacheth the art of astronomy, and the virtues of herbs and precious stones. he governeth 26 legions of spirits; and his seal is this, which is, etc (37) phenex- the thirty-seventh spirit is phenex (or pheynix. he is a great marquis, and appeareth like the bird phoenix, having the voice of a child. he singeth many sweet notes before the exorcist, which he must not regard, but by-and-by he must bid him put on human shape. then he will speak marvellously of all wonde

and his seal is this, which wear thou, as aforesaid, etc (46) bifrons- the forty-sixth spirit is called bifrons, or bifrous, or bifrovs. he is an earl, and appeareth in the form of a monster; but after a while, at the command of the exorcist, he putteth on the shape of a man. his office is to make one knowing in astrology, geometry, and other arts and sciences. he teacheth the virtues of precious stones and woods. he changeth dead bodies, and putteth them in another place; also he lighteth seeming candles upon the graves of the dead. he hath under his command 6 legions of spirits. his seal is this, which he will own and submit unto, etc (47) uvall, vual, or voval- the forty-seventh spirit uvall, or vual, or voval. he is a duke, great, mighty, and strong; and appeareth in the form of a migh

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oration by the most great& almighty power of alpha& omega, jehovah& emmanuel, and by him that divided the red sea& by that great power that turned all the waters& rivers of egypt into blood& turned all the dust into flies& chains& by that great power that brought frogs all over the land of egypt& entered into the king s palace& chambers& by that great power that terrible thunder& lightning& hail stones mixt with fire& sent locusts which did destroy all growing things in the whole land of egypt& by that great power that destroyed all the first born of the land of egypt both of man& beast& by that great power that divided the hard rock& rivers of water issued out of the sand of the wilderness, and by that great power that led the children of israel into the land of canaan& by that great pow

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that then, but not till then, his offering was accepted and the acceptance was signified by a divine descent upon it so that the glory of the lord shone through and filled the whole house. so--if we will have it so--may it be with the temple of the masonic order. since the inception of speculative masonry it has been a-building and expanding now these last three hundred years. fashioned of living stones into a far-reaching organic structure; brought gradually, under the good guidance of its rulers, to high perfection on its temporal side and in respect of its external observances, and made available for high purposes and giving godly witness in a dark and troubled world; upon these preliminary efforts let there now be invoked this crowning and completing blessing- that the spirit of wisdom

proper instruction and by their own patience and industry they may hope to find. its philosophy implies that this temporal world is the antipodes of another and more real world from which we originally came and to which we may accelerate our return by such a course of self-knowledge and self-discipline as our teaching inculcates. it implies that this present world is the place where the symbolic stones and timber are being prepared" so far off" from that mystical jerusalem where one day they will be found put together and, collectively, to constitute that temple which even now is being built without hands and without the noise or help of metal tools. and this world, therefore, being but a transient temporary one for us, it is necessarily one of shadows, images and merely" substituted secr

n and the two hirams, are a triad corresponding after a manner with the holy trinity of the christian religion; hiram abiff being the chief architect, he" by whom all things were made" and" in whom (as st. paul said, using masonic language) the whole building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the lord" the material of this mystical temple was the souls of men, at once the living stones, the fellow craftsmen and collaborators with the divine purpose. but in the course of the construction of this ideal temple, something happened that wrecked the scheme and delayed the fulfilment indefinitely. this was the fall of man; the conspiracy of the craftsmen. turn to the book of genesis, you will find the same subject related in the allegory of adam and eve. they were intended, as y

evolution. but if he is willing to" die" in the sense indicated, if he will so re-orientate his will and silence his natural energies and desires as to give the vital and immortal principle within him the chance to assert itself and supersede them, then from the disintegrated material of his old nature that germ of true life will spring into growth in him and bear much fruit, and by the stepping-stones of initiation he will rise from his dead self to higher things than he can otherwise experience. this necessity of self-dying--not, we repeat, the physical death of the body but a mystical death-in life of everything except the body--is the first and fundamental fact to be grasped before one may hope to realize or even to understand the mystery of the royal arch degree" mors janua vitae; de

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ere also brought intothe inner circles of the visitors. this would have been done for purely pragmatic rea-sons. some of those genetically modified were sent back to their societies and exaltedas priests, elders, or even kings. they were lackeys of the malign warlocks of atlantiswho really ruled from behind the thrones, keeping in touch with their minionsthrough the use of powerful crystal seeing stones. in our haunted planet by johnkeel, we read: according to the traditions of many isolated peoples, the first great emperors in asia weregod-kings who came down from the sky, displayed amazing superhuman abilities, and tookover. there was a veritable worldwide epidemic of these god-kings between 5,000 and 1,000bc they were also capable of telepathic communications: their close world-wide coo

tre-mendous floods, and cruel dampness. that it affected the climate in the north adversely andpermanently cannot be denied. it did other things as well. but no ice age (comyns beaumont, riddle of prehistoric britain)it was an eventsudden, rapid, devastating, and appalling in its magnitude, and destruc-tiveness. it was a celestial impact of an immense cometary body it rained or distributedrocks, stones, boulder clay, till, gravel, sand, and other material over great areas, utterlyobliterating certain parts, elevating others, and entirely missing some regions. it createdislands, drowned others, caused immense tidal waves which swallowed up coastal lands,consumed huge spaces with electric waves, set up volcanoes, and swept away cities andlargely populated districts almost in a flash (ibid)i

he jesuits and the illuminati) via the record companies, marketing agents, and publicityhouses. there is a reason why the pop icon madonna, for instance, has this moniker and whyshe constantly displays the cross or crucifix. it is why the imagery in her videos is of the type itis and why she is so personally wealthy. it has to do with whom she and her promoters serve.the same goes for the rolling stones (listen to sympathy for the devil, 200 light y ears fromhome, midnight rambler, paint it black, goat's head soup, their satanic majesty's request,etc) the beatles, and the grateful dead. and these are but three examples of thousands. thepublic would be shocked to their core if they were to find out the facts about this particularstudy and about what has been infiltrated into their minds and

ng is missing from these scenarios. there is no mention ofanyone or anything else coming to our rescue. there is no mention of the conventionalavengers and redeemers: gods, greys, christs, angels, or pleiadeans. there is noflash gordon on his way.we can accept god becoming man to save man, but not man becoming god to save himself (v ernon howard) 2bridges to babylon, from the album by the rolling stones, one of the bands funded by the present, but ancient, powerful psychedelic cult of dionysus.3start the fuse tector, from sam peckinpah's classic western, the wild bunch, which shows exactly how to fightfire with fire.4the empire strikes back, from the film of the same name by george lucas. lucas, founder of industrial light and magic, is one of the bloodkin to the atlantean serpents, as he

translated by donald tyson) atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation153 epilogue: time to change the road youre on mark pinkham return of the serpents of wisdom charles faulkner the book of the dead nigel pennick sacred geometry, games of the gods dr. e. c. krupp in search of ancient astronomiesdavid hatcher childress vimana aircraft of ancient india and atlantis dr. stuart sculptured stones of scotland david jacobs the threat michael mott caverns, cauldrons and concealed creatures h. r. h. prince michael of albany forgotten monarchy of scotland fredrick habermann tracing our ancestors w. h. benn et symbols of our celto-saxon heritage christopher knight& robert lomas uriel s machine charles hapgood path of the polenick begich, jeane manning- angels don t play this haarpezzrath

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gyptians regarding their own creations. those of ancient egypt are unambiguous about the reasoning and construction methods of the pyramids. they claim that these structure were more like machines that allowed the king to join with the gods after death; they were essentially stargates to the heavens, where one could be transformed into a god. instead of masses of men dragging large, perfectly cut stones from--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 18 quarries miles away, the egyptians say that magicians effortlessly cut, and lifted the stones into place. the pyramid texts, the oldest known religious texts, state that the pyramids were built to 'throw open the doors of the firmament and to make a road' so that he [deceased king] might 'ascend into the company of the gods. the egyptians also cl

magicians effortlessly cut, and lifted the stones into place. the pyramid texts, the oldest known religious texts, state that the pyramids were built to 'throw open the doors of the firmament and to make a road' so that he [deceased king] might 'ascend into the company of the gods. the egyptians also claim the pyramids were built by magicians who used words of power to effortlessly levitate huge stones. the mayan pyramids, although thousands of miles away and built (allegedly) thousands of years later, are said to have been built by the same method, and for the same purpose as the pyramids in egypt. the mayan people of southern mexico and guatemala say that their pyramids were built by beings with magical powers and that all they had to do was whistle and heavy rocks would move into place

lt (allegedly) thousands of years later, are said to have been built by the same method, and for the same purpose as the pyramids in egypt. the mayan people of southern mexico and guatemala say that their pyramids were built by beings with magical powers and that all they had to do was whistle and heavy rocks would move into place. the incan people, far south of the mayans, claim that the massive stones used to build their great structures was carried through the air to the sound of a trumpet. the mayan traditions state that their pyramids were where men became gods and the place where gods are made. curious that these far-flung civilizations would suggest that their pyramids were built the same way, and for the same reason. the pyramid as a symbol of transformation and rebirth survives to

ed previously, represents an organized way to send commands to the magical program, but it also aligns the mind of the magician with a certain type of magical energy. two common types of magic is ritual magic, and natural magic. natural magic relies on the occult essence of a particular material in order to project a certain energy. practitioners of natural magic often procure many strange herbs, stones, and may even require a substance derived from a dead animal. it is this type of magic that is most commonly associated with witchcraft. the rituals of natural magic are minimalist, and often involve no more labor than procuring rare substances and wishful thinking. literally. the texts of natural magic are often written after the fashion of a cookbook. write the full name and birthdate of

orresponded to dreams, emotions, and psychic work. the last major magical tool is the scrying mirror. the scrying mirror is related to the moon, rather than one of the elements. since a spirit can more easily reveal itself in a mirror--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 56 an object called a scrying mirror is used as a medium to communicate with spirits. occultists have used everything from rare stones to bowls of water as scrying mirrors. but a scrying mirror, in it s most basic form, is often just a piece of glass that has been painted black on one side. some times the scrying mirror is used for astral travel, other times it is used as a place for spirits, even the weaker ones, to reveal themselves and other visions to the magician; the scrying mirror is a magical television screen. a r

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of the decay and dilapidation of nations. ii. the fellow-craft. in the ancient orient, all religion was more or less a mystery and there was no divorce from it of philosophy. the popular theology, taking the multitude of allegories and symbols for realities, degenerated into a worship of the celestial luminaries, of imaginary deities with human feelings, passions, appetites, and lusts, of idols, stones, animals, reptiles. the onion was sacred to the egyptians, because its different layers were a symbol of the concentric heavenly spheres. of course the popular religion could not satisfy the deeper longings and thoughts, the loftier aspirations of the spirit, or the logic of reason. the first, therefore, was taught to the initiated in the mysteries. there, also, it was taught by symbols. th

oints, sometimes of commas or yods, and in the kabalah, of the letters of the name of deity. it is thus arranged, the patriarchs from adam to noah, inclusive, are _ten_ in number, and the same number is that of the commandments. twelve is the number of the lines of equal length that form a cube. it is the number of the months, the tribes, and the apostles; of the oxen under the brazen sea, of the stones on the breast-plate of the high priest. iii. the master. to understand literally the symbols and allegories of oriental books as to ante-historical matters, is willfully to close our eyes against the light. to translate the symbols into the trivial and commonplace, is the blundering of mediocrity _all_ religious expression is symbolism; since we can _describe_ only what we _see, and the tru

t no more fit to be smiled at by the self-conceit of a vain ignorance, the wealth of whose knowledge consists solely in words, than the _bosom_ of abraham, as a home for the _spirits_ of the just dead; the gulf of actual fire, for the eternal torture of _spirits; and the city of the new jerusalem, with its walls of jasper and its edifices of pure gold like clear glass, its foundations of precious stones, and its gates each of a single pearl "i knew a man" says paul "caught up to the third heaven. that he was caught up into paradise, and heard ineffable words, which it is not possible for a man to utter" and nowhere is the antagonism and conflict between the spirit and body more frequently and forcibly insisted on than in the writings of this apostle, nowhere the divine nature of the soul m

lars. on each side of the temple at p stum were fourteen, recording the egyptian cycle of the dark and light sides of the moon, as described by plutarch; the whole thirty-eight that surrounded them recording the two meteoric cycles so often found in the druidic temples. the theatre built by scaurus, in greece, was surrounded by 360 columns; the temple at mecca, and that at iona in scotland by 360 stones [illustration] morals and dogma chapter of rose croix [illustration] xv. knight of the east or of the sword [knight of the east, of the sword, or of the eagle] this degree, like all others in masonry, is symbolical. based upon historical truth and authentic tradition, it is still an allegory. the leading lesson of this degree is fidelity to obligation, and constancy and perseverance under d

t once philosophers, magistrates, and divines. there was a surprising uniformity in the temples, priests, doctrines, and worship of the persian magi and british druids. the gods of britain were the same as the cabiri of samothrace. osiris and isis appeared in their mysteries, under the names of hu and ceridwen; and like those of the primitive persians, their temples were enclosures of huge unhewn stones, some of which still remain, and are regarded by the common people with fear and veneration. they were generally either circular or oval. some were in the shape of a circle to which a vast serpent was attached. the circle was an eastern symbol of the universe, governed by an omnipotent deity whose centre is everywhere, and his circumference nowhere: and the egg was an universal symbol of th

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

everywhere therein. to this sphere hath the aspirant come by the path called temperance, shot as an arrow from a rainbow. he hath beheld the light, but only in division. nor had he won to this sphere except by temperance, under which name we mask the art of pouring freely forth the whole of our life, to the last spilth of our blood, yet losing never the least drop thereof. 66. through the third, stones of precious water. now once again the adept aspires and comes to the sphere called the crown, numbered 1, referred to the god ra-hoor-khuit himself in man, to the beginning of whirling-motions, and the first mode of matter (see liber 777, the equinox, and book 4 for these attributions) its secret truth is that earth is heaven as heaven is earth, and shows the aspirant to himself as being a

al, no twain alike, yet all identical; this he knows and is, for now the word hath lightened his soul's girders (the logic of the ruach the normal intellect is transcended in spiritual experience. it is, evidently, impossible to "explain" how this can be) in the number 6 he saw god interlocked with man, two trinities made one; but here he knows that there was never but one. thus now this book is "stones of precious water; its light is not the borrowed light of gold, but is shed through the book itself, clear- sparkling, flashed from its facets. each phrase is a diamond; each is diverse, yet all identical. in each the one light laughs! now to this sphere came he by the path called the high priestess; she is his silent self, virgin beyond all veils, made free to teach him, by virtue of this

d 'i. and so he knows at last how the soiled harlot's dress was mere disguise; naked in moonlight shines the maiden body! 67. through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire. beyond the one, how shall he pass on? what is this one, which is in every place the centre of all? indeed the logic-girders of our souls need lightening, if we would win to freedom of such truth as this! now in the "stones of precious water" the light leapt clear indeed, but they were not themselves that light. this sphere of the one is indeed ra-hoor-khuit; is not our crowned and conquering child the source of light? nay, he is finite form of unity, child of two married infinities; and in this last ordeal the aspirant must go beyond even his star, finding therein the core thereof hadit, and losing it also in

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

have earnestly prayed to be deprived of their privilege of immortality. the gods knew no limitation of time or space, being able to transport themselves to incredible distances with the speed of thought. they possessed the power of rendering themselves invisible at will, and could assume the forms of men or animals as it suited their convenience. they could also transform human beings into trees, stones, animals, etc. either as a punishment for their misdeeds, or as a means of protecting the individual, thus transformed, from impending danger. their robes were like those worn by mortals, but were perfect in form and much finer in texture. their weapons also resembled those used by mankind; we hear of spears, shields, helmets, bows and arrows &c, being employed by the gods. each deity posse

y, or according to some on mount parnassus. deucalion and his wife now consulted the oracle of themis as to how the human race might be restored. the answer was, that they were to cover their heads, and throw the bones of their mother behind them. for some time they were perplexed as to the meaning of the oracular command, but at length both agreed that by the bones of their mother were meant the stones of the earth. they accordingly took up stones from the mountain side and cast them over their shoulders. from those thrown by deucalion there sprang up men, and from those thrown by pyrrha, women. after the lapse of time the theory of autochthony (from autos, self, and chthon, earth) was laid aside. when this belief existed there were no religious teachers whatever; but in course of time te

ars her name. amphion became king of thebes in his uncle's stead. he was a friend of the muses, and devoted to music and poetry. his brother, zethus, was famous for his skill in archery, and was passionately fond of the chase. it is said that when amphion wished to inclose the town of thebes with walls and towers, he had but to play a sweet melody on the lyre, given to him by hermes, and the huge stones began to move, and obediently fitted themselves together. the punishment of dirce at the hands of amphion and zethus forms the subject of the world-renowned marble group in the museum at naples, known by the name of the farnese bull. in sculpture amphion is always represented with a lyre; zethus with a club. leda, whose affections zeus won under the form of a swan, was the daughter of thest

ch would beset his path, endeavoured to dissuade him from so perilous an undertaking; but his son, deaf to all advice, pressed his point with such pertinacity, that helios was reluctantly compelled to lead him to the chariot. page 70 phaethon paused for a moment to admire the beauty of the glittering equipage, the gift of the god of fire, who had formed it of gold, and ornamented it with precious stones, which reflected the rays of the sun. and now helios, seeing his sister, the dawn, opening her doors in the rosy east, ordered the hours to yoke the horses. the goddesses speedily obeyed the command, and the father then anointed the face of his son with a sacred balm, to enable him to endure the burning flames which issued from the nostrils of the steeds, and sorrowfully placing his crown o

a lawless life, possessing neither social manners nor fear of the gods, and were the workmen of hephastus, whose workshop was supposed to be in the heart of the volcanic mountain atna. here we have another striking instance of the manner in which the greeks personified the powers of nature, which they saw in active operation around them. they beheld with awe, mingled with astonishment, the fire, stones, and ashes which poured forth from the summit of this and other volcanic mountains, and, with their vivacity of imagination, found a solution of the mystery in the supposition, that the god of fire must be busy at work with his men in the depths of the earth, and that the mighty flames which they beheld, issued in this manner from his subterranean forge. the chief representative of the cycl

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

of goetia wins $1000 with the magic of goetia the ritual of goetia using the magic of goetia to draw money to you thank you letter #9 occult power points< chapter 1 the witching circle the first full moon after midsummer s night hangs in the night sky above a wooded hollow. a naked young girl lays outstretched on an altar, her loose blond hair rippling over her shoulders and across the cold altar stones. her pale flesh bathed in the glow of the full moon above. her breasts rise and fall to the fear inside her, as hooded figures draw close to the altar and a low-pitched chant begins to fill the night air. standing before her, the coven master takes up the chant as, with head bowed, an assistant hands him the sacrificial knife, its blade shining in the silver moonlight. from out of the darke

4th spirit is cimeries. pray to him to aid in speech and communication, at any hour from 3pm to 9pm, and from 9pm to sunrise. the 25th spirit is crocell. pray to him to acquire luxury, any hour from sunrise to noon. the 26th spirit is dantalion. pray to him to learn the thoughts of others, at any hour from sunrise to noon. the 27th spirit is decarabia. pray to him to acquire knowledge of precious stones and earthly secrets, at any hour from 3pm to 9pm, and from 9pm to sunrise. the 28th spirit is eligos. pray to him to attract favor from powerful people, at any hour from sunrise to noon. the 29th spirit is focalor. pray to him to destroy opposition, at any hour from sunrise to noon. the 30th spirit is foras. pray to him to acquire an ethical and logical attitude, at any hour of the night. t

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

governor representing the gods, and an architect. the architects seem to have been inspired by the gods they served.3 the books of i kings (5:13 ff and 7:13, 14) and ii chronicles (2:14 and 4:11) inform us that in judea during the construction of the temple of jerusalem, under the direction of master builder hiram of tyre and adoniram, solomon had 70,000 men to carry loads and 80,000 to carve the stones from the mountains, not to mention those who had managed each job, who numbered about 3,300 and gave orders to the workers. though we have no actual historical information on the subject, this story reveals that among the artisans busy on the construction of the temple there was a professional hierarchy and an organization, if not a corporation. in greece, professional organizations were kn

t marcel near chalon and saint martin of autun, two important buildings connected to the memory of king gontran and queen brunhilde.2 the last of the gallo-roman provincial leaders may well have been a bishop of cahors, saint didier or gery, who died in 654. he won fame as a builder and was regarded by his contemporaries as having rediscovered the ancient mechanical system for producing large cut stones, which had been abandoned during the final years of the empire. in addition to his cathedral, he repaired or built part of the ramparts of cahors, erected bridges across the lot river, and built an episcopal palace and various religious establishments. the collegia and the barbarian invasions 23 the knowledge and reputation of the gallo-roman builders was such that their influence extended

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

three paces. this being done proceed thou widdershins placing at like distances apart ye stones of jupiter, mercury, mars, venus, sul and luna marking each with their rightful sign. at ye center of the so completed configuration set ye the alter of ye great old ones and seal it with ye symbol of yog-sothoth and ye mighty names of azathoth, cthulhu, hastur, shub- niggurath and nyarlathotep. and ye stones shall be ye gates through which thou shalt call them forth from outside man's time and space. entreat ye of ye stones by night and when the moon decreasetth in her light, turning thy face to ye direction of their coming, speaking ye words and making ye gestures that bringeth forth ye old ones and causeth them to walk once more ye earth. al azif page 3 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library

es. to call forth yog-sothoth for yog-sothoth is the gate. he knoweth where the old ones came forth in times past and where they came forth again when the cycle returneth when thou would call forth yog-sothoth thou must waite until the sun is in the fifth house with al azif page 10 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 saturn in trine. then enter within the stones and draw about thee the circle of evocation tracing the figurines with the mystic scimitar of barzai. circumambulate thrice widdershins and turning thy face to the south intone the conjuration that openeth the gate: ye conjuration o thou that dwelleth in the darkness of the outer void, come forth unto the earth once more i entreat thee. o thou who abideth beyond the spheres of time, hear my

ake, he bringeth money at your command. algor is the eighth spirit, he appeareth in the likeness of a fly. he can tell of all secret things and granteth the favours of great princes and kings. the ninth is sefon. he appeareth like a man with a green face and hath the power to show where treasure is hidden. tenth is partas, he hath the form of a great vulture, and can tell ye the vertues of herbs, stones, make ye invisible and restore sight which is lost. the eleventh spirit is gamor, and when he appeareth like a man can marvellously enform ye of how to win favours of great persons and can drive away any spirit that guardeth over treasure. twelfth is umbra, he appeareth like a giant; he can convey money from place to place if thou bid him and bestow the love of any woman that thou desirest

y know thy will upon the earth. when death dies, thy time shall be, and thou shalt sleep no more; grant me the power to still the waves, that i may hear thy call (at ye third repeating of ye incantation cast forth the tablet into ye waves saying: in his house at r'lyeh dead cthulhu waits dreaming, yet he shall rise and his kingdom shall cover the earth. to summon shub-niggurath ye black where the stones have been set up thou shalt call out to shub- niggurath, and unto he that knoweth al azif page 15 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 the signs and uttereth the words all earthly pleasures shall be granted* when the sun entereth the sign of the ram and the time of night is upon ye turn thy face to the north wind and read the verse aloud: iah! shub-n

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thering dusk, i stood before the fire in the sky. i was overcome with purpose. emotions filled me, tears into my heart soaked my words as i flung myself over the edge. down into my fear i fell, the howling wind covering the words spoken so softly. with great reverence i admitted to myself that i was a priest of set. with this my body became ablaze as a falling star. the sepulcher cracked, and the stones shattered. the embryo burst forth from the womb. i was crying and laughing, wailing and screaming "i lay upon the slab, half-conscious, my body engulfed in flames. my flesh peeled and sputtered. as the ashes cooled, i saw the stars from the shattered sepulcher. but it was not destroyed. it had changed. the starry sky shown down through the walls and halfstanding pillars. what was to be foun

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

ry, may the smoke of the two fires mingle; if not, may it drift in separate ways. it mingled, so they married; but n wa was shy and covered her face with a fan as brides still do today. n wa felt protective toward humanity. when gong gong, the water god, made holes in the sky during a battle with zhu rong, the fire god, and the whole world was unbalanced and ravaged by fire and flood, n wa melted stones to plug the gap and make the sky as good as new. and, to make it extra safe, she killed a giant turtle and used its four legs as pillars to support the four corners of heaven. pan gu creates the world in the beginning, the universe was contained within an egg, inside of which the vital forces of yin (dark, female, and cool) and yang (light, male, and hot) interacted with each other. inside

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

ve fire. this duality is the changeable essence of progression and evolution. lucifer emerges by name as the roman "bringer of light, lucem fero..the carrier of the torch. a gnostic god, the holy bible mentions little of him besides the basis of origin "you were the anointed cherub who covers; i established you; you were on the holy mountain of god; you walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. you were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, til iniquity was found in you -holy bible, ezekiel. later on the morning star as is called became the dragon and the devil. shaitan was the base for this materization, which means to oppose, to accuse. lucifer was invariably the first rebel. lucifer is of the spirit of light, from which the foundation of luciferic magick is to as

PROMETHEUS

les is one that he killed the eagle which tormented prometheus in the kaukasos, and set free prometheus himself from his chains. pausanias 5.11.6 at panopeus [in phokis] there is by the roadside a small building of unburnt brick, in which is an image of pentelic marble, said by some to be asklepios, by others prometheus. the latter produce evidence of their contention. at the ravine there lie two stones, each of which is big enough to fill a cart. they have the colour of clay, not earthly clay, but such as would be found in a ravine or sandy torrent, and they smell very like the skin of a man. they say that these are remains of the clay out of which the whole race of man was fashioned by prometheus -pausanias 10.4.4 and now the last recess of the black sea opened up and they [the argonauts

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

pivotal position in the hierarchy of angels, and serves, among other things, to protect the realms of holiness from the forces of evil. the word for gshoe h in hebrew (na fal or min fal) is derived from the root meaning gto close h or gto lock. h the foot is the interface between man and the earth, or allegorically between holiness and mundane non-holiness. in order that man not be injured by the stones and thorns on the earth, he wears a shoe to protect his foot. thus, enoch, both in his earthly life and in his celestial life as metatron, is involved in rectifying adam fs sin by protecting man from the injuries and dangers of evil. he was able to protect the light of the world of beriah from exposure to evil, but not any lower level. but about the world of yetzirah it says: gand abimelech

half-skirt, tied around the waist, which covers the back part of the body from the waist down. two suspender-like straps come out of the upper edge of the back part of the ephod and extend over the crest of the shoulders. onto these straps are fastened two chains, from which the choshen hangs. the choshen is a folded piece of fabric which rests over the chest, onto which are fixed twelve precious stones. thus, although parts of it are visible from the front, the ephod mainly covers the back of the body, while the choshen is entirely on the front of the body. gback h and gfront h in the imagery of kabbalah denote direct and indirect experience. thus, the ephod symbolizes the ability to perceive spirituality through ga clouded glass, h which may mean either a translucent but not transparent

lf carries in it an allusion to its consummate state, that of unification with the choshen. the choshen corresponds to z feir anpin in its immature, judgmental state. this is why it is called gthe choshen of judgment, h2 for it is a manifestation of the totally judgmental state of immaturity. the choshen is called gthe choshen of judgment h because by means of the letters engraved on the precious stones affixed to it, answers were obtained to crucial questions facing the jewish people. allegorically, however, this term indicates that the choshen at this stage represents z feir anpin in its immature, self-oriented state. an immature person sees everything from only one perspective.his, and is thus apt to be highly judgmental of those he comes in contact with. we see this clearly with childr

s (the letters. the union of the two names havayah and adni was mentioned above. 7 exodus 28:28. 8 psalms 119:89. 361 parashat tetzaveh [second installment] in the first installment on parashat tetzaveh, we read part of the arizal fs discussion of the choshen and the ephod. inside the choshen was gthe urim and the tumim, h a parchment with divine names written on it that caused the letters on the stones of the choshen to protrude and light up when the high priest wished to ascertain g-d fs will regarding some crucial question for the nation. although it was one item, this parchment fs name was double, indicating that its message was glucid h (urim meaning glights h) and gtrue h (tumim meaning gperfections h. now, according to the zohar,1 the urim were [manifest in] the choshen, while the t

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

gold. in his book centuries of meditation, thomas traherne gives an interesting description of the rapture of the inner personality, its reaction to the world, when it is freed by the mystical experience from all entanglements. he says "the corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. i thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. the dust and the stones of the street were as precious as gold; the gates were at first the end of the world. the green trees when i saw them first through one of the gates, transported and ravished me, their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstasy, they were such strange and wonderful things. the men! 0 what venerable and reverent creatures did the aged seem! immortal cheru

planet first differentiated by a sign. the mineral kingdom is under the signs only. vegetables have a sphere of sensation, but corresponding only to the planets and zodiacal signs. the minerals have also a sphere which correspondeth unto the signs only. but the metals are under the planets only, and therein is the difference between them and the minerals, wherefore also are they stronger. shining stones are especially under the light; and they are, as it were, centres for the action thereof in the darkness of matter, as it is said "my light is concealed in all that shineth (this passage is believed to be from the zend-avesta) they are therefore under the rule of the three active elements with an earthy base. shining through all things as a whole, are the rays of the macrocosmos. besides th

th the arches of the world, thou who causest the seven 'it is at this point that the secrets related on page 55 would be better place. p.m. zelator ritual 153 metals to flow in the veins of the rocks, king of the seven lights, rewarder of the subterranean workers, lead us into the desirable air and into the realm of splendour. we watch and we labour unceasingly, we seek and we hope, by the twelve stones of the holy city, by the buried talismans, by the axis of the lodestone which passes through the centre of the earth- 0 lord, 0 lord, 0 lord! have pity upon those who suffer. expand our hearts, unbind and upraise our minds, enlarge our natures. 0 stability and motion! 0 darkness veiled in brilliance! 0 day clothed in night! 0 master who never dost withhold the wages of thy workmen! 0 silver

s. these again are subdivided into the 36 decanates or sets of ten degrees in the zodiac, and these again into 72, typlfylng the 72 quinances or sets of five, and the 72-fold name schemhamphoresch. thus the sun embraces the whole creation in its rays. the seven hebrew yods on each side, falling through the air, refer to the solar influence descending. the wall is the circle of the zodiac, and the stones are its various degrees and divisions. the two children standing respectively on water and earth repre< 11 1> sent the generating influence of both, brought into action by the rays of the sun. they are the two inferior and passive elements, as the sun and air above them are the superior and active elements of fire and air. furthermore, these two children resemble the sign gemini which unite

e ye bitterly, the inhabitants thereof, because they came not to the help of the lord- to the help of the lord against the mighty. the river kishon swept them away- that ancient river, the river kishon. 0 my soul, thou hast trodden down strength! he bowed the heavens, also, and came down and the darkness was under his feet. at the brightness that was before him the thick <140> clouds passed- hail-stones and flashings of fire. the lord thundered through the heavens and the highest gave forth his voice- hail-stones and flashings of fire. he sent out his arrows and scattered them: he hurled forth his lightnings and destroyed them. then the channels of the waters were seen and the foundations of the world were discovered. at thy rebuke, 0 lord- at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils, the v

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

ituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliaphilosophus37 fair urania, the goddess of astronomy, by the aid of the divine will, is to guide our mentalfootsteps. as the pure and heavenly teacher appointed 12 apostles to make known his holy laws, soastronomy, through the wondrous mower of the great creator of all things, has 12 instructors called"gates, or signs of the zodiac, which typify the 12 stones of foundation of the holy city. the mindof the father also decreed that all things should be divided into threes, and so the gates of the zodiacare divided into threes, accomplishing four in all, or the four seasons. there are three decades in amonth or sign and three months in a season. let us proceed and ponder.the conductor, practicus, and t. bearer approach the first sign (medallist) ha

y, the constellations of thezodiac govern the earthly animals. every star has its peculiar nature, property and function; the sealand character of which it impresses through its rays upon plants, minerals and animal life. theaffinities of these planets and stars are of great power, although it hath been taught, that each planetis active but one day in the seven fold, and further that the precious stones are produced through thechemic operation of the planets working secretly in the telluric body. we argue that metals andminerals have but one base or foundation: and having this we would have the key that could unlockthe universe. it hath been further taught that by the hermetic or magnetic light, we can augmentand purify indifferent stones and, give them greater value: thus, on sunday, expo

on: and having this we would have the key that could unlockthe universe. it hath been further taught that by the hermetic or magnetic light, we can augmentand purify indifferent stones and, give them greater value: thus, on sunday, expose yellow gems and.gold, and their weight will increase through the attractive power by affinity of the sun; and thus bythe alchemic action of the moon, pearls and stones of white on monday are improved: on tuesdaylet mars increase the fire of rubies, while on wednesday, sapphires, turquoises and gems of bluereflect the brilliant mercury. jupiter in his majesty, and thor, are supreme on thursday and givelustre to amethysts and stones of sanguine tint. on freddie, venus favours emeralds; and onsaturday the oldest of gods, saturn claims the lustrous diamond.th

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

onverted to adobe acrobat format by benjamin rowe, june, 2001. typeset in bauer bodoni and waters titling. part i: the doctrine of transcendental magic 1 introduction behind the veil of all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, under the seal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of nineveh or thebes, on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the blackened visage of the assyrian or egyptian sphinx, in the monstrous or marvellous paintings which interpret to the faithful of india the inspired pages of the vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practised at reception by all secret societies, there are found indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everyw

rld, the lion, the cat, the wolf, the he-goat, the monkey, the stag and the mole. the blood, fat, liver and gall of these animals serve in enchantments; their brain combines with the perfumes of the planets, and it is recognized by ancient practice that they possess magnetic virtues corresponding to the seven planetary influences. the talismans of the seven spirits are engraved either on precious stones, such as the carbuncle, crystal, diamond, emerald, agate, sapphire and onyx, or upon metals, such as gold, silver, iron, copper, fixed mercury, pewter and lead. the kabalistic signs of the seven spirits are: for the sun, a serpent with the head of a lion; for the moon, a globe divided by two crescents; for mars, a dragon biting the hilt of a sword; for venus, a lingam; for mercury, the herm

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

s and poor existence is so favourable to practical initiation that the greatest masters have preferred it, even when the wealth of the world was at their disposal. then it is that satan, otherwise the spirit of ignorance, who scorns, suspects and detests science because at heart he fears it, comes to tempt the future master of the world by saying to him: gif thou art the son of god, command these stones to become bread. h then it is that mercenary men seek to humiliate the prince of knowledge by perplexing, depreciating, or sordidly exploiting his labour, the slice of bread that he deigns to need is broken into ten fragments, so that he may stretch forth his hand ten times. but the magus does not even smile at the absurdity, and calmly pursues his work. so far as may be possible, we must a

s a support, didst furrow the abysses to fill them with thine omnipotence; thou whose name doth shake the vaults of the world, thou who causest the seven metals to flow through the veins of the rock, monarch of the seven lights, rewarder of the subterranean toilers, lead us unto the desirable air and to the realm of splendour. we watch and we work unremittingly, we seek and we hope, by the twelve stones of the holy city, by the hidden talismans, by the pole of loadstone which passes through the center of the world! savior, savior, savior, have pity on those who suffer, expand our hearts, detach and elevate our minds, enlarge our entire being! o stability and motion! o day clothed with night! o darkness veiled by splendour! o master who never keepest back the wages of thy labourers! o silve

f transcendental magic of saturn. the names of the seven angels must be added in hebrew, in arabic or in magical characters like those of the alphabet of trithemius. the two triangles of solomon may be replaced by the double cross of the wheels of ezekiel, which is found on a great number of ancient pantacles and is, as we have observed in our gdoctrine h the key to the trigrams of fohi. precious stones may be also employed for amulets and talismans; but all objects of this nature, whether metals or gems, must be kept carefully in silken bags of a colour analogous to that of the spirit of the planet, perfumed with the perfumes of the corresponding day, and preserved from all impure glances and contacts. thus, pantacles and talismans of the sun must not be seen or touched by deformed or mis

tion which they give, or that which can be drawn from their description, proves that they are speaking in reality of nothing but the great magical arcanum. one of the figures depicts the universal movement, harmonic and equilibrated in imperishable being; another, which should be formed from an amalgam of the seven metals, calls for a description in detail. it has a double collet and two precious stones. a topaz constellated under the sign of the sun and an emerald under the sign of the moon. it should bear on the inner side the occult characters of the planets and on the outer their known signs, duplicated and in kabalistic opposition to each other; that is, five on the right and five on the left; the signs of the sun and moon resuming the four several intelligences of the seven planets

enceforth, like all monstrous idols, enigmas of antique science and its dreams, is only an innocent and even pious hieroglyph. how should man adore the beast, since he exercises a sovereign power over it? let us affirm, for the honour of humanity, that it has never worshipped dogs and goats any more than lambs or pigeons. in the hieroglyphic orders, why not a goat as much as a lamb? on the sacred stones of gnostic christians of the basilidean sect there are representations of christ under the diverse figures of kabalistic animals. sometimes a bird, at others a lion, and again a serpent with the head of lion or bull; but in all cases he bears invariably the same attributes of light, even as our goat, which cannot be confounded with fabulous images of satan, owing to the sign of the pentagra

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

w.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_30.htm (1 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:34:46 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 30-39) until their adjacent bodies arise, and so [the church's artificial mound] becomes as a fairyhill [meanwhile] they use bodies of air when called [to travel] abroad [that is, about. they [the seers] also affirm [that] those creatures that move invisibly in a house, and cast huge great stones, but do not much hurt because counter-wrought by some more courteous and charitable spirits that are everywhere ready to defend men (as in daniel 10:13) to be souls that have not attained their rest [such souls are active] through a vehement desire of revealing a murder or notable injury done or received, or a treasure that was forgot in their lifetime on earth, which, when disclosed to a c

if not a direct proof of the whole assertion; which [may] yet, moreover, be illuminated by diverse other instances of the like nature, and [just] as wonderful beside what is [said] above [such] as: 8. the invisible wights which haunt houses seem rather to be of our subterranean inhabitants, which appear often to men of the second sight, than [to be] evil spirits or devils. though they throw great stones, pieces of earth, and wood, at the inhabitants, they hurt them not at all [just] as if they acted not maliciously like devils, but in sport like buffoons and drolls. all ages have offered some obscure testimonies of it [that is, the existence of otherworldly beings] such as pythagoras' doctrine of transmigration; socrates' daemone that gave him precautions of future dangers; plato's classin

and fishes under the earth and waters. likewise hell is inhabited at the centre [of the earth] and heaven in the circumference; can we then think the middle cavities of the earth to be empty? i have seen in wemyss, a place in the county of fife in scotland, divers caves cut out, as [if they are] vast temples under ground; the like is [also found] in a county of england. in malta is a cave wherein stones of a curious cut are thrown the secret commonwealth 52 http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_50.htm (2 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:35:05 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 50-59 [up] in great numbers every day. so i have had barbed arrowheads of yellow flint, that could not be cut so small and neat [out] of so brittle a substance by all the art of men. it would seem therefore that these wo

k- walker between worlds(pages 60-69) but in the more usual charms of curing, besides a general prayer, called the seachd phaidir or seventh and perfect prayer [which is] set out below [and is] composed of some incoherent tautologies, used before and after [the main charming, there are words instituted for transferring of the soul or sickness on [to] other persons, beasts, trees, waters, hills or stones, accordingly as the charmer is pleased to name. the effect [of this] follows wonderfully, which scares many sober persons among the tramontaines [highlanders] from going in to see a sick person until they put a dog in before them or [some] one that lives in the house. for where charmers are cherished, they transfer the sickness [by their charms] on to the first living creature that enters [

meet [that is, necessary or fitting: he that gives warmth and prosperity, turn from the all hill-envy, or fairy-envy, all womanmalice, my own malice with them; as the wind turns about the hillock, thy evil turn from thee (o alexander or such) a third part on this man, a third part on that woman, a third on waters, a third on woods, a third on the brown harts of the forest and a third on the grey stones. 6. there are spells also against bruises, swollen cheeks called the gollghalar, the tarri or flux, toothache, being smitten with an infectious evil eye, as they call it. there are knots with words tied by a concubine on her paramour's hair that will keep him from carnality with any other during [a period of] her pleasure (an approved cure to it. the same knot is often cast on a thread by s

RUBY TABLET OF SET

lightening the girders of the soul. 62. to me do ye reverence; to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. 63. the fool readeth this book of the law, and its comment& he understandeth it not. moreover the fool readeth this comment& he understandeth it not. 64. let him come through the first ordeal& it will be to him as silver. 65. through the second, gold. 66. through the third, stones of precious water. 67. through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire. the initiatory history of mankind since the destruction of the ancient priesthoods of egypt has passed through an era of silver (early secret societies and medieval witchcraft, gold (the g:.d. and a:.a, stones of precious water (the order of the trapezoid and church of satan, and ultimate sparks of the intimate

e is no free lunch- each individual, in order to continue living, must assess its current state and then remanifest it at some cost to itself in one way or another. this is a fact which there is no evading, and it may as well be harnessed and made the best of. in the precise sense of xem and remanifestation, being "made the best of" is turning the inevitability of costs and payments into stepping stones through the understanding of actions made strong through repeated xepering on until the being should will itself to remanifest its essence no more- if that is its desire. xem, due to the events of xvii, acquired a sort of specter status. having lived through that time and finding the temple of today back on its feet and level-headed, i cannot feel or urge xem to be discarded or denounced. t

tion. hail understanding [celebrant] we make the long journey to place ourselves as firmly in the objective realm as the one. we become ultima runa, mastering the realm of being [chorus] we rejoice in the royal and forgotten art of being more than we seem. hail being [celebrant] we stand upon the pyramid of our work, and we propose a new melody to the cosmos. we play our flutes and lyres, and the stones rise up and build a temple to our aeon [chorus] with our song we have created the temple of the self created god. hail creation [celebrant] we become as shadows passing silently by, with such magic as we work apparent to others as creations of theirs. to the world we are dead [chorus] that which is not dead may eternal lie, and after strange aeons death may die. hail death [celebrant] we ar

were, wreaking havoc in my own universe even, if it were necessary to reach my goals. this brought me to call myself satania- the devil's daughter. i lived up to my name in every way- truly representative of that image as understood then. i fulfilled my namesake and became, as appropriate, sesheta. i have opened the mysteries of my creation, and my universes continue to be filled with havoc; all stones are, however reluctantly, overturned. i ache, i flee, i resent my own innate curiosity. ironic, that it was this which i love/hate in myself which has brought me to the words and caused me to be present as they have changed, maintaining the continuity, but altering the rhythm of set's relations with the world. xem is a fulfilling of xeper; it maintains the continuity of the aeon; yet it has

ady of adjustment, the moment is not, as ouspensky put it, seizable, but it is subject to control through the will. it is important to understand the word "will" in the sense of setting in motion events designed to bring about change in order to grasp better the concepts of control and balance. ouspensky drew a comparison of the unawakened and humanity in general with a blind man who feels paving stones, lanterns, and walls with the stick and believes in the reality and truth of only what he touches at the moment. past objects and impressions have passed and disappeared never to return; that which has not as yet been does not exist. without sight man sees neither forward nor backward because he does not see anything. he has only the instrument of his knowledge- the length of his stick and

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

c verses in the early career of the prophet, and the politics of muhammad's harem after his return to mecca in triumph; and the surrealism of the newspapers, in which butterflies could fly into young girls' mouths, asking to be consumed, and children were born with no faces, and young boys dreamed in impossible detail of earlier incarnations, for instance in a golden fortress filled with precious stones. he filled himself up with god knows what, but he could not deny, in the small hours of his insomniac nights, that he was full of something that had never been used, that he did not know how to begin to use, that is, love. in his dreams he was tormented by women of unbearable sweetness and beauty, so he preferred to stay awake and force himself to rehearse some part of his general knowledge

o testify "for me" he said "the issue cannot be foreign intervention. we always forgive ourselves by blaming outsiders, america, pakistan, any damn place. excuse me, george, but for me it all goes back to assam, we have to start with that" the massacre of the innocents. photographs of children's corpses, arranged neatly in lines like soldiers on parade. they had been clubbed to death, pelted with stones, their necks cut in half by knives. those neat ranks of death, chamcha remembered. as if only horror could sting india into orderliness. bhupen spoke for twenty-nine minutes without hesitations or pauses "we are all guilty of assam" he said "each person of us. unless and until we face it, that the children's deaths were our fault, we cannot call ourselves a civilized people" he drank rum qu

s doubts. also, that he is in great need, but gibreel still doesn't know his lines. he listens to the listening-which-is-also-an-asking. mahound asks: they were shown miracles but they didn't believe. they saw you come to me, in full view of the city, and open my breast, they saw you wash my heart in the waters of zamzam and replace it inside my body. many of them saw this, but still they worship stones. and when you came at night and flew me to jerusalem and i hovered above the holy city, didn't i return and describe it exactly as it is, accurate down to the last detail? so that there could be no doubting the miracle, and still they went to lat. haven't i already done my best to make things simple for them? when you carried me up to the throne itself, and allah laid upon the faithful the

they zoom through the night. the moon is heating up, beginning to bubble like cheese under a grill; he, gibreel, sees pieces of it falling off from time to time, moon-drips that hiss and bubble on the sizzling griddle of the sky. land appears below them. the heat grows intense. it is an immense landscape, reddish, with flat-topped trees. they fly over mountains that are also flat-topped; even the stones, here, are flattened by the heat. then they come to a high mountain of almost perfectly conical dimensions, a mountain that also sits postcarded on a mantelpiece far away; and in the shadow of the mountain, a city, sprawling at its feet like a supplicant, and on the mountain's lower slopes, a palace, the palace, her place: the empress, whom radio messages have unmade. this is a revolution o

, into his navel. mahound loses his temper "you're a fool" he shouts at the former water-carrier who is now his military chief of staff "can't you ever work things out without my help" khalid bows and goes. mahound falls asleep: his old gift, his way of dealing with bad moods. o o o but khalid, mahound's general, could not find baal. in spite of door--to--door searches, proclamations, turnings of stones, the poet proved impossible to nab. and mahound's lips remained closed, would not part to allow his wishes to emerge. finally, and not without irritation, khalid gave up the search "just let that bastard show his face, just once, any time" he vowed in the prophet's tent of softnesses and shadows "i'll slice him so thin you'll be able to see right through each piece" it seemed to khalid that

SATANGEL

mathers, cecil williams, charles pace. the influence of the classical grimoire may even be seen in the ritual tools and circles as described in the wiccan book of shadows. chiefly it is the practice of evocation, of summoning and binding spirits by means of their names, signatures, by words of power, by magical glyphs and talisman. the powers and knowledge these devils grant is that of herbs and stones, the giving of imps and familiars, the location of riches, the healing of illness, of slaying at a distance, reconciling broken friendships, and bringing back strayed lovers. the classical grimoire of tradition may be composed and copied by cultured and educated hands, yet they give form and expression to desires and beliefs that might otherwise be described not merely as primitive, but eve

ts on hidden treasures, knows past and future, reconciles friends and those in power. barbelo (gnostic. according to the gnostic sect called the sethians, the daughter of pistis-sophia. was so great in her glory that it is said that she outshone god. bathin (goetia, 18th spirit. duke commanding 30 legions. appears as a strong man with a serpent tail, riding a pale horse. knows herb-lore, precious stones, teleportation. beast 666 (hebrew. scarlet hued monster with ten horns and seven heads, the body of a leopard, the feet of a bear, the jaws of a lion, who rises from the sea ridden by the whore of babylon to herals the coming of the apocalypse. it will have power over earth for fourty-two months, during which time all will marvel because it was and is not and is to come (revelations 17:8. t

erith (goetia, 28th spirit. duke commanding 26 legions, appearing as a soldier dressed in red, riding a red horse and wearing a golden crown. speaks clearly and subtly. tells fortunes, transmutes any metal into gold, gives and confirms dignities. bifrons (goetia, 46th spirit. earl commanding 6 legions. appearing as a monster. teaches astrology, geometry, arts and sciences, the virtues of precious stones and woods, changes dead bodies, lights candles. bime (goetia, 26th spirit. duke commanding 30 legions. appears as a dragon with three heads; a dog, a griffin, a man. speaks with a high and comely voice. changes the place of the dead, causes the spirits beneath him to gather upon sepulchres, brings wealth, wisdom, eloquence, gives true answers to demands. botis (goetia, 17th spirit. presiden

(goetia, 71st spirit. duke commanding 36 legions. appears as a many faced man with a book in his right hand. teaches art and sciences, reads and controls minds, procures love, shows images of anyone regardless of their whereabouts. decarabia (goetia, 69th spirit. marquis commanding 30 legions. appears as a star in a pentacle, assumes human form on command. discovers virtues of birds and precious stones, brings visions of birds. devel (gypsy. the highest being. the word devel is cognate with sanskrit deva, meaning god. diana, dziana, dana, tana (roman, the shining one, etruscan. gyspsy queen of witches all, mother of lucifer. djall (albanian. a name for the devil. cognate with latin, diabolus. djab (haitian. a mercenary spirit with no family or nation. cognate with latin, diabolus. dommiel

alphonsus de spina. focalor, forcalor, furcalor (goetia, 41st spirit. duke commanding 30 legions. appears as a man with griffin s wings. kills and drowns men, overthrows warships, controls wind and sea. originally of the seventh throne, a position to which he hopes to return. foras (goetia, 31st spirit. president commanding 29 legions. appears as a strong man. teaches virtue of herbs and precious stones, logic, ethics, invisibility, long life, eloquence, discovers treasures and lost objects. forcas, furcas (goetia, 50th spirit. knight commanding twenty