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1 10 INITIATION CEREMONY

ant. stol: falls in behind hiereus. dad: falls in behind hegemon. hiero: let us rehearse the prayer of the earth spirits. o invisible king, who, taking the 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

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

followed the hebrew, merely clroiiping the final h, as he does in jehova, judn, ts:c. trans. 2 muller's sa-abibl. 1, 3g3 6. 272 goddesses. called liuldrefolh in iceland too they know of tins iluldufdijc, of the huldumemi; and here we find another point of agreement with the popular faith of germany, namely, that by the side of our dame holde there are also holden, i.e, friendly spirits, a silent subterranean people, of whom dame holde, so to speak, is the princess (see suppl. for this reason, if no other, it must be more correct to explain the norse name hidla, hiddra from the on. hollr (lidus, fidelis, pi-opitius) which is huld in dan. and swed, and not from the oist. hulda (obscuritas) as referring to the subterranean abode of the mountain-sprites. in swedish folk-songs i find' huldmode

market place of bavais in hainault, from which seven roads branched off, and which is said to have been reared in honour of a king bavo, had a similar meaning (see suppl. according to a widely accepted popular belief, examined more minutely in ch. xxxii on spiriting away, certain heroes have sunk from the rocks and fortresses they once inhabited, into clefts and caverns of the mountains, or into subterranean springs, and are there held \vi'apt in a seldom interrupted slumber, from which they issue in times of need, and bring deliverance to the land. that here again, not only wuotan, arminius, dieterich and siegfried, but such modern heroes as charles, frederick barbarossa and even tell are named, may assure us of the mystic light of myth which has settled on them. it was a norse custom, f

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hiero: let us adore the lord and king of water (knocks) all face east. hiero: let elohim tzabaoth be praised unto the countless ages of time. amen. hiero: quits his place and goes to tablet of water in west. all face west. hiero: let us rehearse the prayer of the undines or water spirits (knocks) terrible king of the sea, thou who holdest the keys of the cataracts of heaven and who enclosest the subterranean waters in the cavernous hollows of earth; king of the deluge and of the rains of spring; thou who openest the sources of the rivers and of the fountains, thou who commandest moisture which is as it were the blood of the earth, to become the sap of the plants, we adore thee and we invoke thee. speak thou unto us thy mobile and changeful creatures in the great tempests of the sea, and w

ABRAMELIN3

re should probably be numbered d. no. d is an acrostic of g e squares. leviatan from hebrew= the piercing or twisting serpent. this square should probably be numbered b. no. e is an acrostic of c f squares. satan from hebrew shtn= an adversary. adama from hebrew admh= reddish earth. the sacred magick 133 the fourth chapter. or divers visions (i) for mirrors of glass and crystal( c) in caverns and subterranean places( d) in the air( e) in rings and circlets( f) in wax( g) in fire( h) in the moon( i) in the water( j) in the hand (1) g i l i o n i n i l i o n i n (2) e t h a n i m t h a n i m (3) a p p a r e t p p a r e t (4) b e d s e r e l i e l e d i a p i s s e p p e d e l i e l e r e s d e b of abramelin the mage 134 notes to chapter iv (a) the symbols of this chapter are manifested only

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

nence trd) six h# lady, madame, mistress, queen trbg adam: man; red *md) to grow warm; they (masc *mh 606 let them bring forth wcr#y essentiality, quintessence twmc( nexus, ligature rw#q a turtle-dove rwt 607 adam primus: the first man (see 210) nw#)rh md) the mountains of spices (ct. 8:14) mym#b yrh a span, palm (lit. gthe little finger h) trz aum (cf. 111 *mw) 608 the last gate )rtb )bb to dig (subterranean activity; to row rtx the pillar of severity: the paths cheth and mem (cf. 26& 463 *m x to grow warm; heat, fire; black *mx 610 gold coin, gold money trwg) the citron tree and fruit (lust and desire) gwrt) closed, shut up *m) the sea *my the angel of redemption *l)gh k)lm 611 torah: instructions, glaw h hrwt the fear [of the lord (ps. 111:10; cf. 211) t)ry edom *mwd) tumultuously; to h

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

iversity, producing a unity, is everywhere to be seen; this fact must constantly be borne in mind by the occult student when studying the subhuman forms of existence. there is a distinct danger in all tabulations, for they tend to the forming of hard and fast divisions, whereas unity pervades all. among the manipulating devas of the lowest level of the dense physical plane are to be found certain subterranean forms of existence, of which hints are to be found in the ancient and occult books. there is to be found in the very bowels of the earth, an evolution of a peculiar nature, with a close resemblance to the human. they have bodies of a peculiarly gross kind, which might be regarded as distinctly physical as we understand the term. they dwell in settlements, or groups, under a form of go

l 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 earth, the cities and the subterranean spots of the earth's crust. the devas of the ethers carry on their foreheads a translucent symbol in the form of a crescent moon, and by this they may be distinguished from the astral devas by those able to see clairvoyantly- 541- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust as we consider the devas of the ethers, we find that they fall naturally as far as manifestation is con

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

life in the hearts of all men. a second branch was later established in asia, and of this branch the himalayan and southern indian adepts are the representatives, though the work is materially changed. at a later date than the present, discoveries will be made, revealing the reality of the old form of hierarchical work; ancient records and monuments will be revealed, some above ground and many in subterranean fastnesses. as the mysteries of central asia in the land stretching from chaldea and babylon through turkestan to manchuria, including the gobi desert- 219- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust are opened up, it is planned that much of the early history of the ibezhan workers will be revealed. we might here note the fact that the word ibez is literally in the nature of

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

r of idealism. the glamour of loyalties, of creeds. the glamour of emotional response. the glamour of sentimentality. the glamour of interference. the glamour of the lower pairs of opposites. the glamour of world saviours and teachers. the glamour of the narrow vision. the glamour of fanaticism. ray vii. the glamour of magical work. the glamour of the relation of the opposites. the glamour of the subterranean powers. the glamour of that which brings together. the glamour of the physical body. the glamour of the mysterious and the secret. the glamour of sex magic. the glamour of the emerging manifested forces. i have here enumerated many glamours. but their names are legion, and i have by no means covered the possibilities or the field of glamour. one of the groups with which i have worked

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

nking of many students. natural law is the inevitable working out upon the physical plane of forces and energies which have long been generated. people are apt to think that these must lie outside of human control and constitute part of the inscrutable will of god, and that with them man has naught to do. when it is realised that certain aspects of natural law are concerned purely with the forces subterranean, superficial and aerial of our planet, the premise will be seen as correct in the present condition of the mental attitudes of the race and will remain so for a very long time. there are, nevertheless, causes and effects which can come under the category of natural law which are yet not so far removed from human control. for ages man has generated energies which must inevitably produc

which should unitedly create a beautiful whole and not provide barriers of separativeness as is today the case. i finally brought to the attention of the public the idea that the externalisation of the hierarchy was a major hierarchical project, for which due preparation would have to be made. 3. the world war then reached a final stage; the first stage was from 1914-1918; it then proceeded in a subterranean fashion, only to erupt once more in 1939, continuing with extreme fierceness and cruelty till 1945, when the power to continue the fight ended and the atomic bomb wrote finis to the world chapter of disaster. that atomic bomb (though used only twice destructively) ended the resistance of the powers of evil because its potency is predominantly etheric. its uses are twofold at this time

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

all of which is submitted for the pondering of the reader, not with authority- 82- the labours of hercules psychological analysis of the myth hercules was told to find the nine-headed hydra that lived in a stench-drenched bog. this monster has its subjective counterpart. it dwells within the caverns of the mind. in the murk and mud of unlit mental recesses, it flourishes. deeply lodged within the subterranean regions of the subconscious, now quiescent and now bursting forth in tumultuous frenzy, the beast establishes permanent residence. its existence is not easily discovered. a long time passes before the individual realizes that he is nourishing and sustaining so fierce a creature. the burning arrows of flaming aspiration must be discharged before its presence is revealed. fighting so fo

mination, to discover a technique for dealing with his mortal foe. uncovering the cesspool of base desires and egotistical urges that fester in the subconscious nature has been the work of modern psychoanalysis. the latter technique brings the unsavory data of repressed impulses to the surface, it is true, but often stops at that point. the individual realizes that a monster lies concealed in the subterranean areas of consciousness, yet feels baffled and bewildered in trying to deal with this formidable enemy. hercules invokes a brighter light than that of the analyzing mind. he seeks to raise his problem to a higher dimension, not to stir endlessly in the slough of the subconscious. endeavoring to see his dilemma in the light of that wisdom which we name the soul, he confronts it from a n

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

nd geography is multilayered and consists of indigenous and imported buddhist elements alike. regarding the indigenous elements, there is an ancient belief that the world is divided into three major levels, the heavens (gnam, the intermediate spaces (bar, and the earth (sa. these realms in turn have multiple levels; the earth realm notably consists of the surface realm inhabited by humans and the subterranean realm of serpent deities (klu) and other malevolent spirits. it is in the intermediate spaces just above the surface of the earth where the various classes of worldly deities are found, making close interaction with humans possible.13 once buddhism came to tibet, the country adopted the universal buddhist cosmology of sa.s.ra, the realm of birth, death, and rebirth. sa.s.ra consists o

th where the various classes of worldly deities are found, making close interaction with humans possible.13 once buddhism came to tibet, the country adopted the universal buddhist cosmology of sa.s.ra, the realm of birth, death, and rebirth. sa.s.ra consists of six realms: the god, demi-god, human, animal, hungry ghost, and hell realms. the previous schema now intersects this buddhist system. the subterranean realm is associated with the hell realms; the hungry ghost realm overlaps the surface realm of humans, which also includes a host of diverse demonic beings; the human and animal realms are also found on the surface; and the heaven realm is where the gods and demi-gods reside. the intermediate realm is somewhat extraneous in this 13 see haarh 1969, pp. 134-136 for the development of th

i. 3. flesh-eating demons (tib. srin po; skt. r.k.asa: as with the obstacle demons, the most common attribute of flesh-eating demons is implied by their name. they are associated with the indian demons called r.k.asa, the most popular demons encountered in indian epics and lore. 4. serpent demons (tib. klu; skt. n.ga: these entities are serpentine deities who generally abide in lakes, rivers, and subterranean realms. they are known to pollute water and hinder the construction of dykes and irrigation works. if angered, they can cause diseases such as leprosy. their name implies the shape they commonly hold, though iconographic representations also depict serpent deities with human upper bodies and a snake tail instead of legs. 5. might demons (tib. btsan: these are indigenous tibetan deitie

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animals* in "hesiod" zeus creates his third race of men out of ash-trees. in the "popol vuh" the third race of men is created out of the tree tzita and the marrow of the reed called sibac. but sibac means "egg" in the mystery language of the artufas (or initiation caves. in a report sent in 1812 to the cortes by don baptista pino it is said "all the pueblos have their artufas- so the natives call subterranean rooms with only a single door where they (secretly) assemble. these are impenetrable temples. and the doors are always closed to the spaniards. they adore the sun and moon. fire and the great snake (the creative power, whose eggs are called sibac* there is a notable difference esoterically between the words sarpa and naga, though[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 182 the

. the hierophants of all the sacerdotal colleges were aware of the existence of this island; but the 'word' was known only to the java aleim (maha chohan in another tongue, or chief lord of every college, and was passed to his successor only at the moment of death. there were many such colleges, and the old classic authors speak of them "there was no communication with the fair island by sea, but subterranean passages, known only to the chiefs, communicated with it in all directions* tradition asserts, and archaeology accepts the truth of the legend that there is more than one city now flourishing in india, which is built on[[footnote(s* there are archaeologists, who, like mr. james fergusson, deny the great antiquity of even one single monument in india. in his work "illustrations of the

st of these rock-cut temples were executed during a period extending from the time of that pious buddhist king until the destruction of the andhra dynasty of maghada, in the beginning of the fifth century. we believe such a claim perfectly arbitrary. further discoveries will show that it is erroneous and unwarranted[[vol. 2, page] 221 the continent of the gods. several other cities, making thus a subterranean city of six or seven stories high. delhi is one of them; allahabad another- examples of this being found even in europe; e.g, in florence, which is built on several defunct etruscan and other cities. why, then, could not ellora, elephanta, karli, and ajunta have been built on subterranean labyrinths and passages, as claimed? of course we do not allude to the caves which are known to e

on subterranean labyrinths and passages, as claimed? of course we do not allude to the caves which are known to every european, whether de visu or through hearsay, notwithstanding their enormous antiquity, though that is so disputed by modern archaeology. but it is a fact, known to the initiated brahmins of india and especially to yogis, that there is not a cave-temple in the country but has its subterranean passages running in every direction, and that those underground caves and endless corridors have in their turn their caves and corridors "who can tell that the lost atlantis- which is also mentioned in the secret book, but, again, under another name, pronounced in the sacred language- did not exist yet in those days- we went on to ask. it did exist most assuredly, as it was fast appro

nd was, with all his sons and daughters (who perished in the deluge, as bad as the rest of mankind[[vol. 2, page] 266 the secret doctrine. he only known of the existence of what we have agreed to call lemuria, he would have again been right. for the atlanteans were post diluvian to the lemurians, and lemuria was not submerged as atlantis was, but was sunk under the waves, owing to earthquakes and subterranean fires, as great britain and europe will be one day. it is the ignorance of our men of science, who will accept neither the tradition that several continents have already sunk, nor the periodical law which acts throughout the manvantaric cycle- it is this ignorance that is the chief cause of all the confusion. nor is bailly wrong again in assuring us that the hindus, egyptians, and pho

legends and allegories of vaivasvata, xisuthrus, noah, deukalion and all the tutti quanti of the elect saved, have been built. tradition, taking into no account the difference between sidereal and geological phenomena, calls both indifferently "deluges" yet there is a great difference. the cataclysm which destroyed the huge continent of which australia is the largest relic, was due to a series of subterranean convulsions and the breaking asunder of the ocean floors. that which put an end to its successor- the fourth continent- was brought on by successive disturbances in the axial rotation. it began during the earliest tertiary periods, and, continuing for long ages, carried away successively the last vestige of atlantis, with the exception, perhaps, of ceylon and a small portion of what i

heir statues, witnesses to the size of the lemuro-atlanteans (45) lemuria destroyed by fire, atlantis by water. the flood (46) the destruction of the fourth race and of the last antediluvian monster-animals- 43. they (the lemurians) built huge cities. of rare earths and metals they built. out of the fires (lava) vomited. out of the white stone of the mountains (marble) and the black stone (of the subterranean fires) they cut their own images, in their size and likeness, and worshipped them (a (a) as the history of the first two human races- the last of the lemurians and the first of the future atlanteans- proceeds, we have at this point to blend the two, and speak of them for a time collectively. here reference is also made to the divine dynasties, such as were claimed by the egyptians, ch

to giants" at the end of this stanza) the writer is well aware that the modern archaeologists have decided now that "these statues are not very old" as declared by one of the high officials of the british museum, where some of them now are. but this is one of those arbitrary decisions of modern science which does not carry much weight. we are told that it is after the destruction of "lemuria" by subterranean fires that men went on steadily decreasing in stature- a process already commenced after their physical fall- and that finally, some millions of years after, they reached between six and seven feet, and are now dwindling down (as the older asiatic races) to nearer five than[[footnote(s* see at the end of this stanza "on the duration of ages and cycles[[vol. 2, page] 332 the secret doc

the commentary which says "the great dragon has respect but for the 'serpents' of wisdom, the serpents whose holes are now under the triangular stones" i.e "the pyramids, at the four corners of the world (b) this tells us clearly that which is mentioned more than once elsewhere in the commentaries; namely, that the adepts or "wise" men of the three races (the third, fourth and the fifth) dwelt in subterranean habitats, generally under some kind of pyramidal structure, if not[[vol. 2, page] 352 the secret doctrine. actually under a pyramid. for such "pyramids" existed in the four corners of the world and were never the monopoly of the land of the pharaohs, though until found scattered all over the two americas, under and over ground, beneath and amidst virgin forests, as in plain and vale

ity as the symbols of immortality and wisdom, of secret knowledge and of eternity; and (c) the hierophants of egypt, of babylon, and india, styling themselves generally the "sons of the dragon" and "serpents; thus the teachings of the secret doctrine are thereby corroborated. there were numerous catacombs in egypt and chaldea, some of them of a very vast extent. the most renowned of them were the subterranean crypts of thebes and memphis. the former, beginning on the western side of the nile, extended towards the lybian desert, and were known as the serpent's catacombs, or passages. it was there that were performed the sacred mysteries of the kuklos anagkes, the "unavoidable cycle" more generally known as "the circle of necessity; the inexorable doom imposed upon every soul after the bodil

serpent's catacombs, or passages. it was there that were performed the sacred mysteries of the kuklos anagkes, the "unavoidable cycle" more generally known as "the circle of necessity; the inexorable doom imposed upon every soul after the bodily death, and when it has been judged in the amenthian region. in de bourbourg's book, votan, the mexican demi-god, in narrating his expedition, describes a subterranean passage which ran underground, and terminated at the root of the heavens, adding that this passage was a snake's hole "un agujero de colubra; and that he was admitted to it because he was himself "a son of the snakes" or a serpent("die phoinizier" 70) this is, indeed, very suggestive; for his description of the snake's hole is that of the ancient egyptian crypt, as above mentioned. th

of the atlanteans was greater even than that of the egyptians. it is their degenerate descendants, the nation of plato's atlantis, which built the first pyramids in the country, and that certainly before the advent of the "eastern aethiopians" as herodotus calls the egyptians. this may be well inferred from the statement made by ammianus marcellinus, who says of the pyramids that "there are also subterranean passages and winding retreats, which, it is said, men skilful in the ancient mysteries, by means of which they divined the coming of a flood, constructed in different places lest the memory of all their sacred ceremonies should be lost" these men who "divined the coming of floods" were not egyptians, who never had any, except the periodical rising of the nile. who were they? the last

a minor, in syria, and even higher egypt. he was allowed to remain in this state for three days and three nights, during which time his spiritual ego was said to confabulate with the "gods" descend into hades, amenti, or patala (according to the country, and do works of charity to the invisible beings, whether souls of men or elemental spirits; his body remaining all the time in a temple crypt or subterranean cave. in egypt it was placed in the sarcophagus in the king's chamber of the pyramid of cheops, and carried during the night of the approaching third day to the entrance of a gallery, where at a certain hour the beams of the rising sun struck full on the face of the entranced candidate, who awoke to be initiated by osiris, and thoth the god of wisdom. let the reader who doubts the sta

dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. we nevertheless look for new heavens and new earth, etc, etc" if the interpreters chose to see in this a reference to creation, the deluge, and the promised coming of christ, when they will live in a new jerusalem in heaven, this is no fault of "peter" what the writer of the epistles meant was the destruction of this fifth race of ours by subterranean fires and inundations, and the appearance of new continents for the sixth root-race. for the writers of these epistles were all learned in symbology if not in the sciences. it was mentioned elsewhere that the belief in the septenary constitution of our "chain" was the oldest tenet of the early iranians, who got it from the first zarathustra. it is time to prove it to those parsis who

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st and cleverest palaeographer, was also destroyed to the last copy. during akbar's reign, some fanatical courtiers, displeased at the emperor's sinful prying into the religions of the infidels, themselves helped the brahmans to conceal their mss. such was badaoni, who had an undisguised horror for akbar's mania for idolatrous religions* moreover in all the large and wealthy lamasaries, there are subterranean crypts and cave-libraries, cut in the rock, whenever the gonpa and the lhakhang are situated in the mountains. beyond the western tsay-dam, in the solitary passes of kuen-lun* there are several such hiding places. along the ridge of altyn-toga, whose soil no european foot has ever trodden so far, there exists a certain hamlet, lost in a deep gorge. it is a small cluster of houses, a h

say-dam, in the solitary passes of kuen-lun* there are several such hiding places. along the ridge of altyn-toga, whose soil no european foot has ever trodden so far, there exists a certain hamlet, lost in a deep gorge. it is a small cluster of houses, a hamlet rather than a monastery, with a poor-looking temple in it, with one old lama, a hermit, living near by to watch it. pilgrims say that the subterranean galleries and halls under it contain a collection of books, the number of which, according to the accounts given, is too large to find room even in the british museum* all this is very likely to provoke a smile of doubt. but then, before[[footnote(s* badaoni wrote in his muntakhab at tawarikh "his majesty relished inquiries into the sects of these infidels (who cannot be counted, so n

rim- a true wilderness in the heart of turkestan- were in the days of old covered with flourishing and wealthy cities. at present, hardly a few verdant oases relieve its dead solitude. one such, sprung on the sepulchre of a vast city swallowed by and buried under the sandy soil of the desert, belongs to no one, but is often visited by mongolians and buddhists. the same tradition speaks of immense subterranean abodes, of large corridors filled with tiles and cylinders. it may be an idle rumour, and it may be an actual fact[[vol. 1, page] xxv introductory. the reader rejects the truthfulness of the reports, let him pause and reflect over the following well known facts. the collective researches of the orientalists, and especially the labours of late years of the students of comparative philo

h oases are found blooming there, wherein no european foot has ever yet ventured, or trodden the now treacherous soil. among these verdant oases there are some which are entirely inaccessible even to the native profane traveller. hurricanes may "tear up the sands and sweep whole plains away" they are powerless to destroy that which is beyond their reach. built deep in the bowels of the earth, the subterranean stores are secure; and as their entrances are concealed in such oases, there is little fear that any one should discover them, even should several armies invade the sandy wastes where[[vol. 1, page] xxxiii introductory "not a pool, not a bush, not a house is seen, and the mountain-range forms a rugged screen round the parch'd flats of the dry, dry desert" but there is no need to send

hence, whence this manifold creation sprang? the gods themselves came later into being- who knows from whence this great creation sprang? that, whence all this great creation came, whether its will created or was mute, the most high seer that is in highest heaven, he knows it- or perchance even he knows not "gazing into eternity. ere the foundations of the earth were laid. thou wert. and when the subterranean flame shall burst its prison and devour the frame. thou shalt be still as thou wert before and knew no change, when time shall be no more. oh! endless thought, divine eternity[[vol. 1, page] 27 the secret doctrine. cosmic evolution. in seven stanzas translated from the book of dzyan- stanza i. 1. the eternal parent wrapped in her ever invisible robes had slumbered once again for seven

es; the sum of which, however cleverly veiled, was only the smallest portion of the real primitive history of each people, often relating, moreover- as in the hebrew scriptures- merely to the terrestrial human, not divine life of that nation. that psychic and spiritual element belonged to mystery and initiation. there were things never recorded in scrolls, but, as in central asia, on rocks and in subterranean crypts. nevertheless, there was a time when the whole world was "of one lip and of one knowledge" and man knew more of his origin than he does now, and thus knew that the sun and moon, however large a part they do play in the constitution, growth and development of the human body, were not the direct causative agents of his appearance on earth[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from prev

ective applying simply to the earth. they were "spirits of the earth" under their respective names of yama, pluto, osiris, the "lord of the lower kingdom, etc, etc" and their tellurial character proves it sufficiently* the ancients knew of no worse abode after death than the kamaloka, the limbus on this earth. if it is argued that the dodonean jupiter was identified with aidoneus, the king of the subterranean world, and dis, or the roman pluto and the dionysius chthonios, the subterranean, wherein, according to creuzer (i, vi, ch. 1, oracles were rendered, then it will become the pleasure of the occultists to prove that both aidoneus and dionysius are the bases of adonai, or "jurbo adonai" as jehovah is called in codex nazaraeus "thou shalt not worship the sun, who is named adonai, whose n

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th dimension and that this has replaced the physical occupation of the distant past. i have no doubt they have still come here, however, and in increasing numbers in more recent times. the lord of the rings by j.r. tolkien, has themes of war between the humanlike hobbits and the little grey orcs which many believe resemble the themes of what has actually happened, even down to the descriptions of subterranean laboratories which mirror the claims of what is happening today in the underground bases and genetic laboratories under america and other countries. the battle for the earth possibly reached its most destructive phase at the end of atlantis, over a period of tens of thousands of years, leading up to the vast island of atlantis sinking into the atlantic ocean around 10,500-9,500bc. the

out a dozen individuals, including rothschild, and with good reason. the fine print of the document allowed for the inclusion of equipment which would permit the israelis to produce weapons-grade nuclear fuel "in 1957, french engineers began building the two-storey reactor facility at dimona on the edge of the negev desert, which secretly went down six levels below ground. the hidden hand 265 the subterranean construction would be the place where nuclear weapons would be built."28 this was the nuclear programme, the very creation of rothschild, which president kennedy wanted to end. so here was lord victor rothschild (the man behind the use of regulation 18b to jail people without trial for exposing the second world war as a scam) with a stream of reasons to want kennedy out of the way. he

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g about the same "extraterrestrials" that abductees and researchers of today's underground bases are describing. the name in norse folklore for this underground world of caverns, tunnel networks, and even vast cities, is niflheim. the close similarity to nefilim is obvious and they were said to reside within the earth. the norse people said that niflheim was ruled by the death goddess, hel. these subterranean networks could be accessed through the mounds and hill forts built by the ancients and the mountains, hills, and lakes they held to be sacred. these "fairy folk" in all their names and guises were said to interbreed with humans to create hybrid bloodlines, abduct surface people, drink human blood, and take human reproductive materials. sound familiar? and the main form in which these

ere said to interbreed with humans to create hybrid bloodlines, abduct surface people, drink human blood, and take human reproductive materials. sound familiar? and the main form in which these "fairies" and "elves, etc. appeared was reptilian. elf or elven is still one of the illuminati code names for the reptilian bloodlines. the tales of non-human "gods" living within mountains or having their subterranean complexes entered through mountains is likely to be the origin of the endless myths about "holy" or "sacred" mountains. mount olympus, the home of the greek pantheon of gods, is one example. zeus, their king of the gods, was said to come down from the mountain to seed children with human women. meetings between the mythical moses and his god were often associated with mountains. i wil

odlines on the female side to this day. she was known as lil to the sumerians and lilitu in babylon. hebrew traditions say that lilith rebelled against adam and his god and fled to a cave after eating her own child. there she lived with the demons of the underground world and bred with them. she told adam and eve that she and her offspring would always abduct human children and take them to their subterranean world. the roman church savagely suppressed the gnostics, not least because they did not believe that people needed a middleman between themselves and god. went down very well with the christian priests, that one. hippolytus, an early christian "father" and historian, wrote that many of the first gnostics in north africa were known as the naaseni or "serpents" and they worshipped nahu

"serpent's catacombs. as a result of the travelling egyptians of the sumer empire (or the nordics who travelled to the sumer region) we also have carnac in brittany (barati, france. there were once 10,000 standing stones here, arranged to form the image of a seven-mile serpent. carnac means "serpent hill".55 the ancient egyptian accounts known as the pyramid texts speak of the serpent being both subterranean and celestial. stories of flying serpents can be found in egypt, as you would expect of an important colony of the sumer empire, and, once again, they symbolised immortality. flying serpents were pictured taking the kings to the land of immortality in a star constellation in the heavens. one serpent symbol was the divine asp on the headgear of egyptian kings and they used the fat of t

from all over europe to attend the ceremonies. chartres cathedral, like notre dame, was a centre for worship of the "black madonna- or el, the dragon queen. until the late 18th century, pilgrims to chartres participated in a "christian" ritual that paid homage to el or the black madonna. after praying and taking mass in the cathedral, they would descend through a northern passageway to an ancient subterranean crypt under the church. here they would pay their respects to "notre dame de sous-terre (our lady of the underworld- a black ebony statue of a seated woman holding a child on her knees. this again was el and balder of the mother-son serpent cult. the child was invariably placed on the left knee because satanism calls itself the "left-hand path. on the black madonna's head at chartres

vity on the site where 224 children of the matrix jesus is supposed to have been born. it is built over the cave where the babylonian and hebrew son of god, tammuz, was also said to have miraculously entered the world. popular place. the travel guide to jerusalem and the "holy land" is in no doubt, however. it states categorically "this church is situated above the grotto of the nativity, a small subterranean chamber, in which a silver star marks the place of jesus' birth" at the height of the tourist season, people stand in line for hours to see this grotto; such is the power of myth and mind control. but this, luckily, was the off-season and i walked right in. what a performance unfolded before me. a small group of tourists watched as three men dressed up in various regalia were wailing

n, or love" walden said that when the interdimensional reptilians first colonised the earth they found it difficult to reproduce here. he said that during abductions, the "aliens" made it possible for them to inhabit the abductee's body.7 this would explain why miguel de la madrid said they needed to create "bodies" through which they could operate on this planet. walden said the aliens lived in "subterranean shelters" from the time they arrived, and conditions in the earth's atmosphere threatened their survival because they could not maintain a constant body temperature. he said their eyes are extremely sensitive to light and this fits with credo mutwa's claims about the lightsensitive eyes of the greys and other reptilians, and with the symbolic story of the blood-drinking dracula who co

lce and is closely connected to the genome project, along with the national institute of health, the national science foundation, and the howard hughes medical institute. all are illuminati fronts. researcher alan walton, who writes extensively on the internet about the reptilian connection, says: 264 children of the matrix "underneath most major cities, especially in the usa in fact, there exist subterranean counterpart 'cities' controlled by the masonic/hybrid/alien 'elite. often surface/ subsurface terminals exist beneath masonic lodges, police stations, airports, and federal buildings of major cities. and even not so 'major' cities. the population ratio is probably close to 10% of the population (the hybrid military-industrial fraternity 'elite' living below ground as opposed to the 90

d underground and this was similar to the giant serpent apophis in egyptian myth. the scandinavians and germans had their huldre or "hidden folk" who were also known as the elves. one of the codes for the bloodline is "elven" and the beings of folklore like trolls, etins, fairies, elves, troglodytes, nefilim, brownies or braunies, and the "little people" of ireland are all different names for the subterranean entities described in the modern accounts of "et bases".21 all the same stories are associated with them- interbreeding with humans, unable to go out in the sunlight, and all the rest. they even mention the "missing time" experience of people abducted by the "fairies" and include many stories of these underground folk killing and mutilating cattle and taking the blood. michael mott ha

s of many, many cultures is that of the snakehusband or snake-wife, who can transform into a "human" or humanoid form and is invariably (of course) of royal blood among his or her own kind (talk about the 270 children of the matrix ultimate pick-up line. often the snake or serpent-man exacts a promise of marriage, or the hand of an unborn human child in betrothal, consistent with the theme of the subterranean's interest in maintaining their own genetic diversity "a variant of this should be familiar to most readers of fairy tales, in the form of 'the frog prince. the frog-prince is a handsome prince, but like the japanese seducing dragon, he has a reptilian or amphibian form. the underworld link is complete, for frequently the frog lives in a deep well, from which he is discovered or rescu

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ahopi indian legend says that a very ancient tunnel complex exists under los angelesand this, they say, was occupied by a lizard race some 5,000 years ago. in 1933 g .warren shufelt, an la mining engineer, claimed to have found it.20 today, it is said,some malevolent freemasonic rituals are held in this tunnel complex. there has been amassive cover up by the authorities of the existence of these subterranean races andwhere they live. in 1909 a subterranean city which was built with the precision of thegreat pyramid was found by g .e. kincaid near the grand canyon in arizona. it was bigenough to accommodate 50,000 people and mummified bodies found on the site were25of oriental or possibly egyptian origin, according to the expedition leader professor s.a. jordan.21 numerous artefacts were f

the two had been in conflict for thousands of years and thenazis believed they were backing the good guys of agharta against the freemasonsand zionists of shamballah. could this division be aryan martians v anunnakireptilians, as an age old conflict between the two continues? first they battled on mars,apparently, then the moon and now earth. hitler was obsessed with finding theentrances to this subterranean world so he could contact the aryan master race, but thetruth is that he was a reptilian puppet controlled by the angel of death, josefmengele. it is highly likely, as i mentioned early on, that the reptilians are in conflictwith other extraterrestrial or inner-terrestrial races for control of the planet and therewill certainly be many competing factions in the consciousness cesspit o

eregion of france. pindar means penis of the dragon. his name, arizona says, is themarquis de libeaux. i have not yet established if this is his real name or anotherpseudonym- can you help? libeaux relates to of the water and is consistent with the303ancient legends of reptilian gods coming from the water. she says that in the basementof his chateau in alsace-lorraine there is an opening into the subterranean world. notethe area- lorraine, home to key reptilian bloodlines going back many centuries as ioutlined earlier. this mind controlled high priestess/ mother goddess was impregnatedby pindar, she says, but her own mind began to reject the programming and she abortedthe foetus and broke with the brotherhood. as often happens, her programming beganto break down when her programmer, mengel

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exactly opposite to the district of bekha, where he rose in the east; manu is a synonym of west, just as bekha is a synonym of east.[2] nekhen, the name of the shrine of the goddess nekhebet, which is supposed to have been near to nekheb, the capital of the third nome of upper egypt and the eileithyiapolis of the greeks. neter-khertet, a common name for the abode of the dead; it means the "divine subterranean place [1. see am lineau, op. cit, p. 75. 2 see brugsch, diet. g og, pp. 199, 260; maspero, tudes de mythologie, t. i, p. 332; and aeg. zeitschrift, 1864, pp. the principal geographical and mythological places in the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod10.htm (2 of 4 [8/10/2001 11:24:04 am] 73-76] p. cxxxvi pe, a district of the town of per-uatchet, the buto of th

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iracula rei unius. sol ejus pater est, luna mater et ventus hanc gestavit in utero suo, ascendit a terra ad coelum et rursus a coelo in terram descendit. exorciso te, creatura aquae, ut sis mihi speculum dei vivi in operibus ejus, et fons vitae, et ablutio pecatorum. amen. 7 prayer of the undines terrible king of the sea! thou who boldest the keys of the cataracts of heaven, and who enclosest the subterranean waters in the hollow places of the earth! king of the deluge and of rains, of springtime! thou who openest the sources of streams and fountains! thou who commandest the moisture (which is like the blood of the earth) to become the sap of plants! we adore and invoke thee! speak to us, ye moving and changeable creatures! speak to us in the great commotions of the sea, and we will trembl

ng 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 be free and raise up our heads! exalt us! o stab

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k agharta (1951, robert ernst dickhoff claimed that martians colonized earth 80,000 years ago and built an elaborate system of underground tunnels, starting in antarctica, with exits in tibet, brazil, the united states, and elsewhere. a secret underground port for ufos called rainbow city was supposed to be still in operation. this colorful story appears to be related to the tibetan legend of the subterranean kingdom of agharti, presided over by the king of the world. millions of people are said to live in these underground realms in cities without crime and using a highly developed science. the king of the world understands the people on earth and influences them secretly. he is to appear before the people of earth in a final cosmic struggle of good against evil. this legend was recounted

science. the king of the world understands the people on earth and influences them secretly. he is to appear before the people of earth in a final cosmic struggle of good against evil. this legend was recounted in the book beasts, men, and gods by ferdinand ossendowski. ossendowski (1876.1945) was a polish writer who traveled extensively through central asia in the 1920s (see also shaver mystery; subterranean cities) sources: dickhoff, robert ernest. agharta. mokelumne hill, calif: health research, 1964. ossendowski, ferdinand. beasts, men, and gods. new york: e. p. dutton, 1922. agla a word from the kabala formerly used by rabbis for exorcisms of the evil spirit. it is made up of the initial letters of the hebrew words, athah gabor leolam, adonai, meaning, thou art powerful and eternal, l

ion ananisapta a kabalistic word made up from the initial letters of the prayer antidotum nazareni auferat necene intoxicationis; sanctificet alimenta, poculaque trinitas alma. when written on virgin parchment, it is said to be a powerful talisman to protect against disease (see also kabala) anarazel according to ancient superstition, anarazel is one of the demons charged with the guardianship of subterranean treasures, which he carries about from one place to another to hide them from men. it is he who, with his companions gaziel and fecor, shakes the foundations of houses, raises the tempests, rings the bells at midnight, causes specters to appear, and inspires a thousand terrors. anathema the name was given by the ancients to certain classes of votive offerings, to the nets that the fis

orm miracles. this she did with a large measure of success, but her methods were on several occasions detected as fraudulent. nevertheless, her commanding personality secured for her a large following. an enigmatic personality, she was brought up in an atmosphere saturated with superstition and fantasy. she loved to surround herself with mystery as a child and claimed to her playmates that in the subterranean corridors of their old house at saratow, where she used to wander about, she was never alone, but had companions and playmates whom she called her hunchbacks. she was often discovered in a dark tower underneath the roof, where she put pigeons into a mesmeric sleep by stroking them. she was unruly, and as she grew older she often shocked her relatives by her masculine behavior. once, r

ites, genius, and devil worship, and the demonology in preindustrial societies is examined in the entries on the various countries and peoples of its origin. according to michael psellus (1018.ca. 1079, author of de operatione daemonum dialogus, demons are divided into six main bodies: the demons of fire; of the air; of the earth; those of the waters and rivers, who cause tempests and floods; the subterranean who prepare earthquakes and excite volcanic encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. demonology 395 eruptions, and the shadowy ones who are somewhat like ghosts (st. augustine (354.430 c.e) considered all demons under the last category) psellus s classification is not unlike the system of the middle ages, which divided all spirits into those belonging to the four elements: f

for this edition. dickhoff, robert ernest tibetan buddhist and author of several books with buddhist reflections on ufos and the hollow earth theory. dickhoff was an early champion of the idea that ufos were hostile, a view that has gained ascendancy in ufo circles in the 1990s. he believed them to be winged garudas, a birdlike demon of buddhist mythology. his book agharta (1951) is a romance of subterranean races. dickhoff founded the american buddhist society and fellowship in 1947 and headed the small organization for many years. sources: dickhoff, robert ernest. behold. the venus garuda. new york: the author, 1968. the eternal fountain. boston: bruce humphries, 1947. dickinson, edmund (1624.1707) physician to king charles ii, a seeker of the hermetic knowledge, and professed rosicruci

float, cone-shaped and painted in stripes of bright colors) suspended from a thread in his right hand. over hidden springs in hyde park, the bobbin which lambert was purposely swinging laterally would make a spasmodic movement, change its course, and commence spinning furiously, describing a larger and larger circle the longer we stood over the source of activity. when we reached the bank of the subterranean river the bobbin would stop dead.just as if it had been hit by a stone. the cessation of the spinning was even more spectacular than the commencement. when we came to a nappe (a pool of still divining rod encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 432 water) the bobbin would make quite a different movement. the abbe could tell the depth of the hidden supplies, their approximat

, such as that of the amazons. the seas and rivers are inhabited as well as the air, and the beings dwelling there are designated undines, or nymphs, by the sages. the female population much exceeds the male, the women being so exceedingly beautiful that among the daughters of men there is none to equal them. the earth is filled almost to the center with gnomes, beings of small stature that guard subterranean treasure, minerals, and precious stones. they are ingenious, friendly toward men, and easy to command. they provide the children of the sages with all the money they require, asking no other reward for their services than the glory of performing them. the gnomides, their wives, are small of stature but very good-looking, and they dress very curiously. as for the salamanders, the inhab

; paralda, of the sylphs; djin, of the salamanders; and necksa, of the nymphs. the dwellers in each element are assigned a point of the compass, which is where their special kingdom lies. to the gnomes is given the north, to the salamanders, the south, to the sylphs, the east, and to the undines, the west. the gnomes influence those of a melancholic disposition, because they dwell in the gloom of subterranean caverns. the salamanders have an effect on those of sanguine temperament, because their home is in the fire. the undines influence the phlegmatic, and the sylphs those of a bilious temperament. although the elementals are invisible to human eyes, they may on occasion become visible to those who invoke them, to the sages and philosophers, and even to the multitude. it is said that in t

m the departed? writing on the psychic gifts of the medium stephan ossowiecki, charles richet stated: there is something profoundly unknown in a line of our writing, other than the lines traced on the paper. this unknown something may be called an emanation. i have called it pragmatic emanation, which would act on our cryptesthesis and stimulate cognition. it resembles somewhat the emanation from subterranean water that provokes the movements of the dowsing rod. the simile is suggestive. running water, metals, crystals, and magnets produce strange sensations in some sensitives. in hypnotic and in hysteric cases the sensitivity to metals is very pronounced. the magnetism of the earth is felt by some sleepers according to whether they lie in the north-south or in the east-west position. reic

mortal is suddenly returned to his world, in which scores of years have passed. in the seventeenth century, rev. robert kirk investigated the fairies of aberfoyle in scotland, much as a visiting anthropologist might study a native tribe. in his book the secret commonwealth of elves, fauns, and fairies (1691, kirk confidently describes the life, occupations, and activities of the fairies in their subterranean world. kirk s tomb is in aberfoyle, but legend has it that he swooned away while crossing a fairy hill and after apparent death and burial appeared in a dream to a rela- fahler, jarl ingmar encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 536 tive, stating that he was a prisoner in fairyland. he gave instructions for his release, but his cousin was too frightened to complete them, a

t surrounded them gave rise to their imaginations. the mountains and valleys, mysterious caves and fissures, vapors and springs of volcanic origin, and sacred groves were all, according to their character, dedicated to the gods. parnassus was the abode of the sun-god apollo; the lovely vale of aphaca that of adonis; the oak-groves of dodona favored of zeus; and the gloomy caves with their roar of subterranean waters the oracle of trophonius. innumerable instances of magical wonder-working are found in the stories of greek deities and heroes. the power of transformation is shown in a multitude of cases, among them that of bacchus who, by waving a spear, could change the oars of a ship into serpents and the masts into heavy-clustered vines. he could also cause tigers, lynxes, and panthers to

y of a mysterious underground world culminating in an antarctic kingdom called rainbow city, supposed to have been constructed two and a half million years ago of plastic. it is warmed by hot springs and has eluded discovery by polar explorers because it is surrounded by ice walls 10,000 feet high, according to the story. as distinct from the evil deros of the shaver mystery, rainbow city and its subterranean world are said to be ruled by the ancient three, originally from the planet mars, who take a benevolent interest in world politics and use their occult influence on behalf of humanity. sources: barton, michael x. rainbow city and the inner earth story. los angeles: futura press, 1960. reprint, clarksburg, w. va: saucerian press, 1969. the hefley report former psychic newspaper edited

oomfield, mi 48033. heliotrope a plant that follows the sun with its flowers and leaves and is popularly known as turnsole. heliotrope was believed to render its possessor invisible if the body was rubbed all over with the juice of this herb, which was also reputed to stop bleeding and avert danger from poison. hell this word is believed to be from the teutonic root helan (to cover, designating a subterranean or hidden place. it is sometimes used in the form of hel to mean simply a place of the dead, with no mention of punishment. hel or hela is also the name of the mythical teutonic goddess who was guardian of the dead. this concept has a somewhat clear train of evolution. the christian idea of a place of punishment was directly colored by the jewish concept of sheol, which in turn took s

t was invented by a priesthood. however, this was not always the case. in greece, rome, and scandinavia, hades was merely looked upon as a place of the dead, where shadowy ghosts flitted to and fro, gibbering and squeaking as phantoms were believed to do. according to the greeks, hades was only some twelve feet under the surface of the ground, so orpheus would not have had a long journey from the subterranean sphere to reach earth once more. hell was generally regarded as a sovereignty, a place ruled in an ordinary manner by a monarch set there for that purpose by the celestial powers. thus the greek hades ruled the sad sphere of the dead, osiris was lord and governor of the egyptian amenti, while in central america there were twin rulers in the kiche hades, xibalba, whose names were given

. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. hell 717 hela (death) in teutonic mythology was cast into the underground realm of niflheim and given power over nine regions into which she distributed all who died through sickness or old age. the ideas concerning the celtic otherworld probably played only a small part in forming the british concept of hell. the brythonic annwyl was certainly subterranean, but it was by no means a place of punishment; rather, it was merely a microcosm of the world above, where folk hunted, ate, and drank, as in early britain. the irish otherworld was much the same. in southern europe the idea of hell appears to have been strongly influenced by both classical and jewish concepts. the best picture of the medieval idea of the place of punishment is undoub

ment (see demonology, and the descriptions of later visionaries are practically mere repetitions of the conclusions arrived at then. the locality of hell has also been a question of endless speculation. some believed it to be in the sun, because the greek name for the luminary is helios, but such etymologies have been in disfavor with most writers on the subject, and the popular idea that hell is subterranean has had no real rival. sources: bernstein, alan e. the formation of hell: death and retribution in the ancient and early christian worlds. ithaca, n.y: cornell university press, 1993. fox, samuel j. hell in jewish literature. wheeling, ill: whitehall, 1969. kohler, kaufmann. heaven and hell in comparative literature. folcroft, pa, 1923. kvanvig, jonathan l. the problem of hell. new yo

plorations have since been quoted out of context to make it seem as if he actually endorsed the hollow earth myth. claims that flying saucers really come from inside the earth through the polar openings are made by, among others, raymond bernard in his book the hollow earth (1969. a persistent variant of the hollow earth cosmology is the idea that the earth is honeycombed with a network of secret subterranean cities and caverns, the home of underground kingdoms. such notions have been articulated by richard shaver. these are modern versions of older folklore about fairies and gnomes. sources: gardner, marshall b. a journey to the earth s interior; or, have the poles really been discovered? aurora, ill: the author, 1913. lang, johannes. die hohlwelttheorie. franfurt am main, germany: goethe

bit of the liver cake. these jigar khors are mostly women. it is said they can bring intelligence from a long distance in a short space of time, and if they are thrown into a river with a stone tied to them, they nevertheless will not sink. in order to deprive any one of this wicked power, they brand his temples and every joint of his body, cram his eyes with salt, suspend him for forty days in a subterranean chamber, and repeat over him certain incantations. the witch does not, however, devour the man s liver for two and a half days, and even if she has eaten it, and is put under the hands of an exorcizer, can be forced to substitute a liver of some animal in the body of the man whom she victimized. folk tales also exist about witches taking out the entrails of people, sucking them, and t

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lared 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 linked to legends of secret underground temples of occultists (see subterranean crypts and temples) minnesota zen meditation center this center stemmed from the 1960s, when a group of individuals in minneapolis met together to practice zazen (zen meditation. one of the students was sekijun karen sunna, the center s current head priest. they soon developed an association with the san francisco zen center, and its assistant priest dainin katagiri roshi visited them

to appear before him, and to guard himself from the danger of provoking such beings. the magician normally has an assistant, and every article and procedure must conform to rules well known in the black art. in the first place, the magician and his assistant must locate a suitable venue for their procedures, which may be either a encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. necromancy 1095 subterranean vault, hung with black and lighted by a magical torch, or else the center of some thick wood or desert, or some extensive unfrequented plain where several roads meet, or amid the ruins of ancient castles, abbeys, and monasteries, or among the rocks on the seashore, or some private detached churchyard, or any other solemn, melancholy place between the hours of twelve and one at night

and fasted for three days before consultation, then sat upon an axle or bar, with a charming-rod in her hand, and inhaled the steam from a hot spring. offerings and ceremonies were necessary, including baths, fasting, and solitude. the oracle at colophon of the oracle of apollo at colophon, iamblichus (ca. 330 c.e) left an account relating that it prophesied by drinking water: it is known that a subterranean spring exists there, from which the prophet drinks; after he has done so, and has performed many consecrations and sacred customs on certain nights, he predicts the future; but he is invisible to all who are present. that this water can induce prophecy is clear, but how it happens, no one knows, says the proverb. it is believed, god is in all things, and is reflected in this spring, t

as hallucination, automatism, and all the phenomena of hypnotism. but the two former, even if they could be demonstrated, would have to be explained on other grounds, while the others, whose existence is undisputed, are more generally regarded as resulting from cerebral dissociation (i.e, the temporary dislocation of the connecting links between the various neural systems (see also subconscious) subterranean cities a persistent myth of modern occultism concerns the existence of societies residing underground. the myth takes many forms, including stories of underground caverns inhabited by malevolent deros (dwarfs) and subterranean cities inhabited by the survivors of atlantis or lemuria, or flying saucer pilots. much of this new mythology stems from the publications of the enterprising ra

ries of survivors from atlantis and lemuria, originally giants but now degenerated into malevolent dwarfs, influencing mankind by secret rays. palmer, who helped focus the first excitement about flying saucers in his magazine fate in the spring 1948 issue, later went on to publish articles suggesting that saucers came from an underground world entered through the polar ice caps. other sources for subterranean mythology include the writings of robert ernest dickhoff and milinko s. stevic. in dickhoff s book agharta, he describes a vast network of underground tunnels radiating from antarctica with openings in the united states, brazil, tibet, and pacific islands. these underground strongholds are inhabited by descendants of martians, who colonized the earth in prehistory. subconscious encycl

gharta, he describes a vast network of underground tunnels radiating from antarctica with openings in the united states, brazil, tibet, and pacific islands. these underground strongholds are inhabited by descendants of martians, who colonized the earth in prehistory. subconscious encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1504 stevic, a yugoslav-born engineer, lectures about the extensive subterranean cities beneath new york, tokyo, leningrad, s.ao paulo, and large areas of the atlantic ocean. survivors of atlantis reside in this subterranean world, where they have built huge domes of fiberglass. there are millions of inhabitants, who also contribute illegal immigrants to the united states. there are, apparently, secret entrances to the underground world through a number of churche

nder of the i am movement. in 1934, writing as godfre ray king, ballard published unveiled mysteries, in which he detailed his encounters with a godlike figure named master saint-germain. although based somewhat on traditional fairy lore, notions of demonic realms beneath the earth, and asian folklore, accounts of underground worlds have emerged as an integral part of modern occult lore (see also subterranean crypts and temples) sources: chaney, earlyne. revelations of things to come. upland, calif: astara, 1982. dickhoff, robert ernest. agharta. boston: bruce humphries, 1951. hefferlin, w. c, and gladys hefferlin. a description of the rainbow city from the hefferlin manuscript. vista, calif: borderland sciences research foundation, n.d. ramana maharshi. talks with sri ramana maharshi. vol

rlyne. revelations of things to come. upland, calif: astara, 1982. dickhoff, robert ernest. agharta. boston: bruce humphries, 1951. hefferlin, w. c, and gladys hefferlin. a description of the rainbow city from the hefferlin manuscript. vista, calif: borderland sciences research foundation, n.d. ramana maharshi. talks with sri ramana maharshi. vol. 1. tiruvannamalai, india: sri ramanasramam, 1957. subterranean crypts and temples subterranean resorts, crypts, and places of worship have always fascinated the human mind. the mysteries of the egyptians and other peoples were held in underground crypts, possibly to render these ceremonies still more mysterious to ordinary people, perhaps because it was essential to the privacy they required, or possibly to symbolize the exploration of the hidden

orship have always fascinated the human mind. the mysteries of the egyptians and other peoples were held in underground crypts, possibly to render these ceremonies still more mysterious to ordinary people, perhaps because it was essential to the privacy they required, or possibly to symbolize the exploration of the hidden parts of the self. the caves of elephanta, the roman catacombs, and similar subterranean edifices are also wellknown examples. there are also several lesser but perhaps more interesting underground meeting places and temples in various parts of the world. an underworld city in central america the jesuit priests of the early eighteenth century left descriptions of the palace of mitla in central america that leave no doubt that in their time it contained many subterranean c

le them with their arms, nor could one of them reach the fingertips of the other. these pillars were all in one piece and, it was said, the whole shaft of the pillar measured 5 ells [about 18 feet or 6 meters] from top to bottom, and they were very much like those of the church of santa maria maggiore in rome, very skillfully made and polished. father burgoa was more explicit with regard to these subterranean chambers: there were four chambers above ground and four below. the latter were arranged according to their purpose in such a way that one front chamber served as chapel and sanctuary for the idols, which were placed on a great stone which served as an altar. and for the most important feasts] which they celebrated with sacrifices, or at the burial of a king or great lord, the high pr

he sent them word by the subordinate priests not to leave their houses till their gods were appeased, and he commanded them to do penance meanwhile, to fast and to speak with no woman, so that, until this father of sin had interceded for the absolution of the penitents and had declared the gods appeased they did not dare to cross their threshold. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. subterranean crypts and temples 1505 the second [underground] chamber was the burial place of these high priests, and third that of the kings of theozapotlan, whom they brought thither richly dressed in their best attire, feathers, jewels, golden necklaces, and precious stones, placing a shield in their left hand and a javelin in the right, just as they used them in war. and at their burial rites

rpowered by the stench or to step on poisonous reptiles, of which some had been seen, they resolved to go out again and to completely wall up this back door of hell. the four buildings above ground were the only ones which still remained open, and they had a court and chambers like those underground; and the ruins of these have lasted even to the present day. the temple hill at jerusalem the vast subterranean vaults under the temple hill at jerusalem were probably used as a secret meeting place by the templars during their occupation of the holy city, and it was perhaps there that the strange eastern rites of baphomet that they later affected were first celebrated. in his book recent discoveries on the temple hill (1884, rev. james king gives the following account: on the occasion of a vis

city, and it was perhaps there that the strange eastern rites of baphomet that they later affected were first celebrated. in his book recent discoveries on the temple hill (1884, rev. james king gives the following account: on the occasion of a visit to the noble sanctuary, the author had an opportunity of examining the ancient masonry inside the wall at the south-east corner, as well as the vast subterranean vaults popularly known as solomon s stables. a small doorway, under a little dome at the south-east corner, admits by a flight of steps to a small chamber known as the mosque of the cradle of our lord, from the existence of a hollowed stone which somewhat resembles a cradle, and a tradition that the virgin mary remained in this chamber for some time after her purification in the templ

ast corner, admits by a flight of steps to a small chamber known as the mosque of the cradle of our lord, from the existence of a hollowed stone which somewhat resembles a cradle, and a tradition that the virgin mary remained in this chamber for some time after her purification in the temple. passing through the chamber, the spacious vaults, which extend over an acre of ground, are reached. these subterranean substructures consist of one hundred square piers arranged in fifteen rows, each pier being five feet wide and composed of large marginal drafted stones, placed singly over each other. the rows are connected by semicircular arches, the intercolumniations of which range from ten to twenty-three feet. the floor of these vaults is about forty-feet below the haram area, and more than a hu

a full and detailed account of the edifice. the historian relates that the fourth part of the ground required for the building was wanting towards the south-east; the builders therefore laid their foundations on the sloping ground, and constructed a series of arched vaults, in order to raise the ground to the level of the other parts of the enclosure. this account is eminently descriptive of the subterranean vaults at the south-east portion of the haram, and, according to [an authority, the stone-work of these vaults certainly belongs to the age of justinian (see also subterranean cities) subud a spiritual movement that has grown up around the indonesian mystic muhammad subuh, known as bapak (spiritual father. beginning in java, it spread to europe and elsewhere, after winning support fro

2000. tao& tai chi. http//www.chebucto.ns.ca/philosophy/ taichi/tao-chi.html. april 4, 2000. the heaven and earth academy of t ai chi. http/ www.taichinews.com. april 6, 2000. taigheirm a magical sacrifice of cats to the infernal spirits, formerly practiced in the highlands and islands of scotland. it is believed to have been originally a ceremony of sacrifice from the more northern lands to the subterranean gods, which became in christian times an invocation of infernal spirits. the word taigheirm signifies either an armory, or the cry of a cat, according to the sense in which it is used. an early description of the ceremony, which must be performed with black cats, is given in george c. horst s deuteroscopie (1830: after the cats were dedicated to all the devils, and put into a magico-s

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

nd have a part i c ular interest in orphaned childre n. ex t r a t e r restrials get in touch with agents in a s s o rted ways. sometimes it is through a car or ham radio, sometimes via thought waves, on occasion by direct, physical encounter. see also: williamson, george hunt further reading williamson, george hunt, 1953. other tongue other flesh. amherst, wi: amherst press. agharti agharti is a subterranean kingdom, which allegedly exists in tibet or mongolia. it is, depending on whom one believes, a paradisiacal realm or a sinister lair of sorcerers and other evildoers mostly, however, the former. the legend of agharti seems loosely based on the buddhist realm of shambhala, a city of adepts and mystics said to be located in a hidden valley (called shangri-la in james hilton s popular no

ity of evil that was linked to tunnels all over the world. he incorporated agharti into the shaver mystery, the subject of a series of tales amazing stories was running about an alleged underground realm populated by deros, demonic entities in possession of a fantastic atlantean technology, which they used to torment surface humans. in a variant of the legend, robert ernst dickhoff s agharta: the subterranean world (1951) contended that two and a half million years ago martians landed at antarctica, then 14 agharti the hidden world of shangri-la as depicted in the film lost horizon, directed by frank capra, 1937 (photofest) a tropical region, and created the first humans. then reptoid (that is, biped reptilian) venusians attacked, forcing the martians and their human associates to create t

no real-life central asian tradition of agharti, though chinese and ti b e t a n e q u i valents to western fairy lore spoke of magical caves, on the other side of which the traveler would find a beautiful land and lovely but ultimately tre a c h e rous supernatural beings. see also: reptoids further reading dickhoff, robert ernst, 1965. agharta. new york: fieldcrest. kafton-minkel, walter, 1989. subterranean worlds: 100,000 years of dragons, dwarfs, the dead, lost races and ufos from inside the earth. port townsend, wa: loompanics unlimited. ossendowski, ferdinand, 1922. beasts, men and gods. new york: dutton. ahab on a camping trip through eastern oregon in the summer of 1975, a young married couple identified as darryl and toni m. stopped along the banks of the owyhee river to cool thei

nd new ze a l a n d t h rough 1959. in je rome clark. the em e r g e n c e of a phenomenon: ufos from the be g i n n i n g t h rough 1959 the ufo en c yclopedia, vo l u m e tw o, 333 356. de t roit, mi: om n i g r a p h i c s. blowing cave one of the odder stories related to hollow earth lore is set in blowing cave, near cushman, arkansas, where a man named george d. wight is said to have found a subterranean civilization and proven the shaver mystery. though wight disappeared, his story survives in a diary he allegedly wrote. in the 1950s, wight was a ufo buff from michigan. wight knew of richard shaver s claims, published in the 1940s in the ziff- davis science-fiction magazines amazing sto- ries and fantastic adventures, that the remnants of two advanced races, tero and dero (good and e

small teeth. bonnie, whom hamilton judged sincere and sane, told him she was born in 1951 in the lemurian city of telos, located inside an artificial domelike cavern a mile beneath mount shasta on california s northern border. bonnie told him that she, her parents, her two sisters, and her two cousins move freely back and forth between our society and their native city. they also travel to other subterranean lemurian and atlantean cities, via a tube transit train system that travels as fast as 2,500 miles per hour. the lemurians are also able to fly into outer space in saucerlike vehicles, and they interact with visiting extraterrestrials. telos has a population of one and a half million who live a communal existence without money. she warned hamilton that by the end of the century, earth

uperior, and men are a dangerous mutation. critic walter kafton-minkel observes that this story of our origins sounds much like a mythology devised by a community of modern radical feminists (kafton-minkel, 1989. see also: atlantis; lemuria further reading bernard, raymond [pseud. of walter siegmeister, 1974. escape to the inner earth. clarksburg, wv: saucerian press. kafton-minkel, walter, 1989. subterranean worlds: 100,000 years of dragons, dwarfs, the dead, lost races and ufos from inside the earth. port townsend, wa: loompanics unlimited. great white brotherhood the great white brotherhood figures in such schools of occultism as theosophy and rosi- 114 great white brotherhood crucianism. the brotherhood is thought to consist of ascended masters who oversee the spiritual and physical ev

but his organization, the i am still exists. in the 1940s the pages of the science-fiction pulps amazing stories and fantastic ad- 122 hollow earth an illustration of the hollow earth from phantoms of the poles by william reed, 1906 (fortean picture library) ventures carried the allegedly true, intensely controversial experiences of richard s. shaver. shaver asserted that he had been inside vast subterranean caverns, where remnants of an advanced race that had once populated the surface still lived. there were two groups, the deros sadistic idiots who used the ancients advanced technology to harm surfacedwellers and the teros the embattled minority of good guys who tried, mostly without success, to stop the deros schemes. when flying saucers and ufos entered popular consciousness in the y

shed. crabb, riley, 1960. the reality of the underground. vista, ca: borderland sciences research associates. fitch, theodore, 1960. our paradise inside the earth. council bluffs, ia: self-published. friedrich, christof [pseud. of ernest zundel, 1976. ufos nazi secret weapons? toronto, ontario: samisdat, 1978. secret nazi polar expeditions. toronto, ontario: samisdat. kafton-minkel, walter, 1989. subterranean worlds: 100,000 years of dragons, dwarfs, the dead, lost races and ufos from inside the earth. port townsend, wa: loompanics unlimited. michell, john, 1984. eccentric li ves and peculiar no- t i o n s. san diego, ca: ha rc o u rt brace jova n ov i c h. trench, brinsley le po e r, 1974. se c ret of the ages: ufos f rom inside the ea rt h. london: so u venir pre s s. walton, bruce a, 19

l byrd s 1939 antarctic expedition and the mysterious snow cruiser. the hollow earth insider research report 4, 2: 4 16. a flight to the land beyond the north pole, or is this the missing secret diary of admiral richard evelyn byrd? n.d. houston, mo: international society for a complete earth. giannini, amadeo f, 1959. worlds beyond the poles. new york: vantage press. kafton-minkel, walter, 1989. subterranean worlds: 100,000 years of dragons, dwarfs, the dead, lost races, and ufos from inside the earth. port townsend, wa: loompanics unlimited. palmer, ray, 1959. saucers from earth! a challenge to secrecy! flying saucers (december: 8 21, 1960. editorial. flying saucers (february: 4, 29 34, 1961. byrd did make north pole flight in feb, 1947! giannini. flying saucers (february: 4 11. lanello

sta; shaver mystery; williamson, george hunt further reading blavatsky, helene p, 1889. the secret doctrine. two volumes. london: theosophical publishing company. churchward, james, 1926. the lost continent of mu. new york: ives washburn. de camp, l. sprague, 1970. lost continents: the at- lantis theme in history, science, and literature. new york: dover publications. kafton-minkel, walter, 1989. subterranean worlds: 100,000 years of dragons, dwarfs, the dead, lost races and ufos from inside the earth. port townsend, wa: loompanics unlimited. scott-elliot, w, 1925. the story of atlantis and the lost lemuria. london: theosophical publishing house. shaver, richard s, 1945. i remember lemuria! amazing stories 19, 1 (march: 12 70. williamson, george hunt, 1953. other tongues other flesh. amher

hat down there somewhere there were and are things that might baffle the greatest minds of this earth. sometimes i am tempted to go back into that cave if i could again find it, which i doubt, but then i know the warning i heard in there might be too true (commander x, 1990. it may be worth noting that h. g. wells s famous science-fiction novel the time ma- chine (1895) features a race of violent subterranean humans known as morlocks. see also: brodie s deros; hollow earth; mount shasta; shaver mystery further reading commander x [pseud. of jim keith, 1990. under- ground alien bases. new brunswick, nj: abelard publications. mount shasta mount shasta in northern california, near the oregon border, is the scene of occult legends that go back to the nineteenth century. even before white settl

s; bonnie; fairies encountered; lemuria; shaver mystery further reading commander x [pseud. of jim keith, 1990. under- ground alien bases. new brunswick, nj: abelard productions. de camp, l. sprague, 1980. the ragged edge of sci- ence. philadelphia, pa: owlswick press. frank, emilie a, 1998. mt. shasta, california s mys- tic mountain. hilt, ca: photografix publishing. kafton-minkel, walter, 1989. subterranean worlds: 100,000 years of dragons, dwarfs, the dead, lost races, and ufos from inside the earth. port townsend, wa: loompanics unlimited. tierney, richard l, 1983. america s mystical mount shasta. fate 36, 8 (august: 70 76. mr. x on the afternoon of november 5, 1957, reinhold schmidt, a grain buyer with a prison re c o rd, allegedly encountered the c rew of a landed flying saucer along

cient three had realized their vision and taken benevolent control of the earth, there would be no more slavery, colonialism, or excessive taxation, and all races would be equal. though the hefferlins soon faded into obscurity without ever providing proof of rainbow city (or even of their enigmatic friend emery, for that matter, the notion of rainbow city figured in robert dickhoff s agharta: the subterranean world (1951) and michael x. barton s rainbow city and the inner earth people (1960. see also: shaver mystery further reading kafton-minkel, walter, 1989. subterranean worlds: 100,000 years of dragons, dwarfs, the dead, lost races and ufos from inside the earth. port townsend, wa: loompanics unlimited. x, michael [pseud. of michael x. barton, 1960. rainbow city and the inner earth peop

ldren whom they lure into their lairs. according to some, however, the reptilians are vegetarians. john rhodes writes that the reptilians travel from their home region alpha draconis in mother ships with most of the occupants in a state of suspended animation for the bulk of the voyage. as they pass planets, some of the functioning crew fly off in scout ships to study the new worlds and establish subterranean bases thereon. where earth is concerned, according to rhodes, the reptilians hatch their plots from these bases, establishing a network of human-reptilian crossbred infiltrates [sic] within various levels of the surface culture s military industrial complexes, government bodies, ufo/paranormal groups, religious, and fraternal (priest) orders, etc. these crossbreeds, some unaware of th

. though to all but a few shaver s claims were outlandish and absurd, even grotesque, shaver did not strike those who knew him as a hoaxer. there seemed little doubt that shaver believed what he said, notwithstanding some noteworthy inconsistencies in his testimony over the years. for example, he told at least four mutually exclusive stories about how he learned of the earth s secret past and its subterranean races. in his most frequent telling, however, it occurred first through telepathic messages from a mysterious woman, then as mental voices emanating from depraved creatures known as deros (from detrimental ro- bots, though they were not robots as such; see explanation on next page. these experiences seem to have occurred in the early 1930s. always vague on dates, 224 shaver mystery co

e occasion, he defended the mystery in private circumstances in which he not only had nothing to gain but also risked looking foolish. though we will never know for sure, one reasonable reading of palmer s role in the affair is that this complex man was both believer and exploiter. see also: atlantis; brodie s deros; hollow earth; lemuria; mount lassen further reading kafton-minkel, walter, 1989. subterranean worlds: 100,000 years of dragons, dwarfs, the dead, lost races and ufos from inside the earth. port townsend, wa: loompanics unlimited. palmer, ray, 1961. invitation to adventure. the hidden world a-1 (spring: 4 14, 1980. the dero and the tero. gray barker s newsletter 12 (july: 7. shaver, richard s, 1945. i remember lemuria! amazing stories 19, 1 (march: 12 70. steinberg, gene, 1971

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us slaughter, standing about the tranquil water. but from that rain of murd rous engines has sprung a blessed, bloody vengeance; it stirs the rage of brotherhood and lust for pygmies impious blood. shield, helmet, spear- how profit these? what use to dwarfs the heron feather? how ant and dactyl hide together! the host now wavers, breaks, and flees. anaxagoras [after a pause, solemnly. if till now subterranean i praised, in this case be my prayer to heaven raised. o thou on high, the same eternally, in name and form threefold supernally, by all my people s woe i cry to thee, diana, luna, hecate! thou breast-expanding one, most deeply pensive one, thou peaceful seeming one, mighty intensive one, break from the glooms of thy dark chasm clear, and without magic let thine ancient might appear!

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

ams.3 the belief that egypt was the original home of all knowledge, that the great greek philosophers had visited it and conversed with egyptian priests, had long been current, and, in the mood of the second century, the ancient and mysterious religion of egypt, the supposed profound knowledge of its priests, their ascetic way of fife, the religious magic which they were thought to perform in the subterranean chambers of their temples, offered immense attractions. it is this pro-egyptian mood of the graeco-roman world which is reflected in the hermetic asclepius with its strange description of the magic by which the egyptian priests animated the statues of their gods, and its moving prophecy that the most ancient egyptian religion is destined to come to an end "in that hour, so the suppose

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erology of the qabbalah, its number is 129, which represents amongst other things, a place of ravenous creatures, and corresponds with the egyptian word, atem, to annihilate) alhazred had spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of arabia, the roba-el-ehaliyeh or empty space of the ancients, which was rumoured to be inhabited by evil spirits. he had explored the ruins of babylon and the subterranean tombs of memphis, and visited the forbidden city of hem. beneath the remains of a nameless desert town, he discovered the annals of a race older than mankind, which he set down in the azif. in 950 a.d, the book was secretly translated into greek by theodorus philetas of constantinople, under the title of the necronomicon, and in 1228, olaus wormius made a latin transcription. this tex

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sea of molten metal and his passage through the nine arch-like strata of the earth which form the path of initiation. we also remember that at the end of that journey hiram abiff, the son of cain, received from his ancestor a new hammer and a new word for use in the new age. according to the gospels we also find that jesus, the son of seth, immediately after his descent from golgotha entered the subterranean strata where he remained for some time in communion with the spirits who dwell there. thus the various strata of the earth from the circumference to the center form the path of initiation, both for the sons of seth and the sons of cain, and that is the reason why little or nothing is said of the inner construction of the earth in the multitude of books dealing with subjects of occulti

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e. this transition of the adept from the dominion of death to the realm of immortality was foreshadowed in the daring leap of hiram abiff, the grand master-workman of solomon's temple, into the seething sea of molten metal and his passage through the nine arch-like strata of the earth which form the path of initiation; also in the baptism of jesus and the subsequent descent from golgotha into the subterranean region where his vital body is still kept awaiting the day of final egress of the christ spirit at the second advent. in our next chapter we shall follow hiram abiff along this path of initiation to the embodiment he wore at the time of christ's appearance upon the earth, showing where and how he received the new initiation* click here to continue* table of contents* click here to ret

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

oal, at an unexplored part of the ballycastle cliff, unexpectedly broke through the rock into a narrow passage, so much contracted and choked up with various drippings and deposits on its sides and bottom, as rendered it impossible for any of the workmen to force through, that they might examine it farther. two lads were, therefore, made to creep in with candles, for the purpose of exploring this subterranean avenue. they accordingly pressed forward for a considerable time, with much labor and difficulty, and at length entered into an extensive labyrinth branching off into numerous apartments, in the mazes and windings of which they were completely bewildered and lost. after various vain attempts to return, their lights were extinguished, their voices became hoarse, and, becoming wearied a

uished, their voices became hoarse, and, becoming wearied and spiritless, they sat down together, in utter despair of an escape from this miserable dungeon. in the meanwhile, the workmen in the adit became alarmed for their safety, fresh hands were incessantly employed, and, in the course of twenty-four hours, the passage was so open as to admit the most active among the miners. on examining this subterranean wonder, it was found to be a complete gallery, which had been driven forward many hundred yards to the bed of coal: that it branched off into numerous chambers, where miners had carried on their different works: that these chambers were dressed in a workmanlike manner: that pillars were left at proper intervals to support the roof. in short it was found to be an extensive mine, wrough

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through apollo and other minor gods to the mouth of the oracles. the most famous oracle was that in the temple of apollo at delphi, at first called pytho. before the golden statue of apollo burned a perpetual fire of fir wood; there was also an altar of incense where laurel wood was burned. within the temple was a natural chasm, from which there was an occasional escape of some noxious gas from a subterranean cavern. beside or over this chasm was placed a tripod; a sibyl or maiden priestess called the pythia was placed on occasion upon the tripod seat, and it is supposed that she became intoxicated with fumes and suffered a delirium, in which state she gave the inspired messages. in the earliest time, the pythia was a young virgin, but a pythia having been seduced by a man of thessaly, it

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

. 16, we read that god (alhim, calledelohim),made the sun 'the greater light to rule the day'.thehebrew name for the sun was spelled shmsh, calledshemesh,for the earliest hebrew writing had no vowels, and alsokhammah.in eccles. i. v. 5, we read 'the sunthe star lore of the bible221riseth, the sun goethdown, and anew he hasteneth to the place where he must arise, so the ancient hebrew recognised a subterranean course for the sun every night, and we still speak of the sun rising and setting, although we now know that the appearance is due to the earth's motion, and not to the sun's movement. the first use of the word sun in the bible is in genesis xv, 17 'it came to pass when the sun went down. the old testament gives two notable instances of miracu255 lous events in relation to the sun. in

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process destroy the very foundation of the true religious vision- mysticism. to appreciate the esoteric and mystical view of truth we need to travel back to ancient greece and examine the allegory of the cave as used by plato. this allegory, beyond all others, offers us a real insight into the problem of what truth is. plato sees all of humanity as prisoners, each of us has been kept chained in a subterranean cavern from birth, facing a dark wall. only a very small amount of light enters the cavern and this comes from a small opening high overhead. because of our chains, we look in opposite direction and hence can only observe the dark shadows which pass along the wall we are facing. these shadows are cast by the men and occurrences of the upper world beyond the overhead opening. our perce

fertility, wealth and fecundity, fields of luscious crops, fruits, wildlife and pastoral beauty. jotunheim is the home of the giants. there are three types of giants, thursar, rises and etins, all children of ymir. ljosalfheim is the home of the light elves or lojosalfar. there are two classes of elves, the light inhabit the lighter realms above midgard, while the dark elves (dwarves) inhabit the subterranean realm. asgard, the home of the aesir of sky gods is above the elven world and is the crown of the world tree. the name asgard means "enclosure of the gods. within asgard is valhalla, the hall of the fallen where the warriors of odin are taken if they are killed in battle and from where they will return to the final battle or ragnarok. snorri sturlson describes an inner enclosure (gard

asgard and midgard is the rainbow bridge or bifrost, a secret path which is taken by the gods when they join council meetings of the council of the gods at the well of urd, it is guarded by heimdall. the above worlds (including asgard) are considered facets of the other world (3rd c, while the underworld (5th c) includes those below. svartalfheim is the realm of the dark elves which exist in the subterranean world under midgard, they are also known as dwarves. in the lower realms of the underworld lies hel, the realm of the dead. the worlds are traditionally listed as the gap plus nine worlds, these correlated well with the model we will discuss in the next chapter. where there is a triplicity above (void, fire and ice) and seven worlds below. each of these models offers us a glimpse of t

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ive understanding of what is happening behind the world of appearances. what is truth? the best way to understand the question of truth is to travel back to ancient greece and examine the allegory of the cave as used by plato. this allegory, beyond all others, offers us a real insight into the problem of what truth is. plato sees all of humanity as prisoners, each of us has been kept chained in a subterranean cavern from birth, facing a dark wall. only a very small amount of light enters the cavern and this comes from a small opening high overhead. because of our chains, we look in opposite direction and hence can only observe the dark shadows which pass along the wall we are facing. these shadows are cast by the men and occurrences of the upper world beyond the overhead opening. our perce

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF EARTH

n to the lord of the universe go to the north and give the zelator sign facing north recite the prayer of the gnomes: o invisible king who, taking the 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 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 na

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF WATER

, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left hand uriel (ur-ee-el (say "for about me flames the pentagram, and in the column shines the six-rayed star" give the adoration to the lord of the universe go to the west facing west give the practicus sign facing west recite the prayer of the undines: terrible king of the sea, thou who hast the keys of the cataracts of heaven, and who enclosest the subterranean waters in the cavernous hollows of earth. king of the deluge and of the rains of spring; thou who openest the sources of rivers and of fountains; thou who commandest moisture which is, as it were, the blood of the earth, to become the sap of plants. we adore thee and we invoke thee! speak thou unto us, thy mobile and changeful creatures, in the great tempests of the sea, and we shall

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m dogme et rituel de haute magie by eliphaz l vi translated by persons unknown the prayer of the gnomes or earth spirits. o invisible king, who, taking the 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 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 n

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fountain. god judgeth far otherwise, who exalteth the lowly, and casteth the proud into obscurity; to the silent he sendeth his angels to hold speech with them, but the babblers he driveth into the wilderness, which is the judgment due to the roman impostor who now poureth forth his blasphemies with open mouth against christ, nor yet in the full light, by which germany hath detected his caves and subterranean passages, will abstain from lying, that thereby he may fulfill the measure of his sin, and be found worthy of the axe. therefore, one day it will come to pass, that the mouth of this viper shall be stopped, and his triple crown shall be brought to naught, of which things more fully when we shall have met together. chapter xii for conclusion of our confession we must earnestly admonish

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

k fingerprints of the gods 90 top left: detail from tiahuanaco s gateway of the sun showing proboscid, tusked elephant-like figure. top right: biological reconstruction-drawing of cuverionius, a south american proboscid, once common in the tiahuanaco area but extinct since approximately 10,000 bc. above left: unidentified animal, possibly toxodon, carved on the side of the viracocha figure in the subterranean temple. above right: another possible representation of toxodon from tiahuanaco. the raised nostrils are indicative of a semi-aquatic animal, somewhat like a modern hippopotamus in its habits, which is what toxodon is known to have been. reconstruction-drawing of toxodon, a south american species that became extinct in the eleventh millennium bc. to my eye this looked like striking co

treet of the dead, the pyramid of the moon, mercifully undamaged by restorers, had kept its original form as a four-stage ziggurat. the pyramid of the sun, too, had consisted of four stages but bartres had whimsically sculpted in a fifth stage between the original third and fourth levels. there was, however, one original feature of the pyramid of the sun that bartres had been unable to despoil: a subterranean passageway leading from a natural cave under the west face. after its accidental discovery in 1971 this passageway was thoroughly explored. seven feet high, it was found to run eastwards for more than 300 feet until it reached a point close to the pyramid s geometrical centre.19 here it debouched into a second cave, of spacious dimensions, which had been artificially enlarged into a s

world was going to sink into the abyss of nothingness. meanwhile the wolf fenrir, whom the gods had long ago so carefully chained up, broke his bonds at last and escaped. he shook himself and the world trembled. the ash tree yggdrasil [envisaged as the axis of the earth] was shaken from its roots to its topmost branches. mountains crumbled or split from top to bottom, and the dwarfs who had their subterranean dwellings in them sought desperately and in vain for entrances so long familiar but now disappeared. abandoned by the gods, men were driven from their hearths and the human race was swept from the surface of the earth. the earth itself was beginning to lose its shape. already the stars were coming adrift from the sky and falling into the gaping void. they were like swallows, weary fro

0 secrets of the great pyramid, p. 11. 11 the traveller s key to ancient egypt, p. 120. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 290 bottlenecks in the well-shaft there was another way in. farther down the descending corridor, more than 200 feet beyond the point where the plugged end of the ascending corridor had been found, lies the concealed entrance to another secret passageway, deep within the subterranean bedrock of the giza plateau. if ma mun had discovered this passageway, he could have saved himself a great deal of trouble, since it provided a readymade route around the plugs blocking the ascending corridor. his attention, however, had been distracted by the challenge of tunnelling past those plugs, and he made no effort to investigate the lower reaches of the descending corridor (w

unnelling past those plugs, and he made no effort to investigate the lower reaches of the descending corridor (which he ended up using as a dump for the tons of stone his diggers removed from the core of the pyramid).12 the full extent of the descending corridor was, however, well-known and explored in classical times. the graeco-roman geographer strabo left quite a clear description of the large subterranean chamber it debouched into (at a depth of almost 600 feet below the apex of the pyramid).13 graffiti from the period of the roman occupation of egypt was also found inside this underground chamber, confirming that it had once been regularly visited. yet, because it had been so cunningly hidden in the beginning, the secret doorway leading off to one side about twothirds of the way down

s carved directly into the bedrock at ground level about 30 feet in front of the monument; the other was cut into the northern face at a height of just under 50 feet. from the latter a corridor sloped downwards at an angle of 25 55 .10 from the former, by which we now entered the pyramid, another descending corridor led deeply underground then levelled off for a short distance, giving access to a subterranean chamber, then ascended steeply and finally levelled off again into a long horizontal passageway, heading due south (into which also fed the upper corridor that sloped down from the entrance in the north face. high enough to stand up in, and lined at first with granite and then with smoothly polished limestone, the horizontal passageway was almost at ground level, that is, it lay direc

307 mind games of the pyramid builders the point where ma mun s hole intersected with the 26 descending corridor was closed off by a modern steel door. beyond it, to the north, that corridor sloped up until it reached the gables of the monument s original entrance. to the south, as we have seen, the corridor sloped down for almost another 350 feet into the bedrock, before opening out into a huge subterranean chamber 600 feet beneath the apex of the pyramid. the accuracy of this corridor was astonishing. from top to bottom the average deviation from straight amounted to less than 1/4- inch in the sides and 3/10-inch on the roof.4 passing the steel door, i continued through ma mun s tunnel, breathing in its ancient air and adjusting my eyes to the gloom of the low-wattage bulbs that lit it

had been associated with osiris (whom it was every pharaoh s objective to join in the afterlife),7 khafre s use of statues to forge a strong symbolic link would be even more understandable. temple of the giants after crossing the causeway, the route i had chosen to reach the valley temple took me through the rubble of a mastaba field, where lesser notables of the fourth dynasty had been buried in subterranean tombs under bench-shaped platforms of stone (mastaba is a modern arabic word meaning bench, hence the name given to these tombs. i walked along the southern wall of the temple itself, recalling that this ancient building was almost as perfectly oriented north to south as was the great pyramid (with an error of just 12 arc minutes).8 the temple was square in plan, 147 feet along each s

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t shaver had been there, that this was some old mining deal right up until i heard the hum. ahg: machines? mechs, as shaver called them? trw: exactly, and, i gather, we were expected. by then we were in a kind of cavern, only, i d say, artificially hollowed out and illuminated by a greenish glow, defuse; not from a single, identifiable source. anyhow, the whole area resembled shaver s less exotic subterranean story descriptions, and, in more recent terms, some of the modern alien base stories. we were confronted by these small, grayish beings humanoid only in the technical sense and one of our guys said dero! and started shooting. he had an m-1 rifle, if i recall. one shot, and [the little gray being] was illuminated in blue, and just gone. then there was a sound, and i felt my own gun, an

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as well as for wuotan; and this opinion prevails in switzerland. there the wild hunt is named dursten-gejeg (see durs ]mrs, p. 521: on summer nights you hear the diirst hunting on the jura, cheering on the hounds with his hoho; heedless persons, that do not get out of his way, are ridden over^ schm. 1, 458 quotes an old gloss which renders by duris durisis the lat. dis ditis, and plainly means a subterranean infernal deity. in lower saxony and westphalia this wild hunter is identified with a particular person, a certain semi-historic master of a hunt. the accounts of him vary. westphalian traditions call him 1 joach. camerarii horae subsec. eent. 2. cap. 100 p. 390: ceterum negari non potest, diabohivi varia ludibria chm alias turn praesertim in venatione leporum saepenumero exercere, cum

ere, as well as the meaning of the venusberg. eckhart goes before the furious host with holda, he is also doomed to abide till the judgment-day at the mount of venus: the identity of holda and venus is placed beyond question. that mountain (some say the hoselberg or horselherg near eisenach) is dame holle's court, and not till the 15-1 6th cent, does she seem to have been made into dame venus^ in subterranean caves she dwells in state and splendour like the kings of dwarfs; some few among men still find their way in, and there live with her in bliss. the tale of the noble tanhduser, who went down to view her wonders^ is one of the most fascinating fictions 1 conf. p. 456. ven7isherg in the nethl. chapbook margareta van limburg c. 56. 82-4, also in the moriu. keisersperg (omeiss 36) makes w

at one leap he turned into stone' 3 they wish you' 100,000 fathom under ground 'as far down as a hare can run in two years (p. 179 'so low, that no cock croivs after (or to) thee' and the uke. what does the last formula mean? that the cock's crow can no longer, even in the hush of night, reach the sunken man? or that those above ground cannot hear the cry of the fowl that has sunk with him to the subterranean dwelling? in kinderm. 2, 32 it is said of the princesses' se verslinken alle drei so deip unner de eere, dat kieu haan mer danach krehete' so kreet doch kein han nach mir' and' kein han fort da nach krehen thut' h. sachs iii. 2, 178. 213. heroes inside hills. 953 translation, sv. visor 1, 1. afz. 1, 28. 33. in asbiornsen and moe no. 38' incua'gen i bierget' and faye 35-6 quotes striki

c and niblunc asked him to divide the treasure, a thing they could not manage themselves; and neither could he (94, 5. the hoard is carried' uz eime holn berge' apparently it belonged to dwarfs, so that schilbunc and niblunc were of the elf kindred. thus in both lays the hoard originates with dwarfs, and in the bdda with dwarf andvari; as elvish beings they are by nature collectors and keepers of subterranean treasure, haunting the mountains as they do (pp. 448. 452, and they delude (pp. 464. 915) like spectres. then the wishiug-hat is brought to mind by the cover-capes and mist-mantles of dwarfs (p. 915; the dwarf race, like the dragons^ cherishes and guards treasures, 1 the seifriedsburg in the rhon mts (weisth. 3, 535) is another place about which the hero-legend is told among the commo

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d by himself, that the moon is mary magdalene, and the spots her tears of repentance (see suppl. the sun has had a slighter influence than the moon on super stitious notions and observances. magical herbs must be gathered, if not by moonlight, at least before sunrise (p. 621, and healing waters be drawn before sunrise (p. 586. the mounting sun dispels all magic, and bids the spirits back to their subterranean abode. twice in the year the sun changes his course, in summer to sink, in winter to rise. these turning-points of the sun were celebrated with great pomp in ancient times, and our st. john s or midsummer fires are a relic of the summer festival (p. 617 seq. the higher north, the stronger must have been the im pression produced by either solstice, for at the time of the sum mer one th

e. the genius lowers his torch, re verses it, and the light of life is quenched. for the child as soon as born, the norn has kindled a light, to which his thread of life is fastened; possibly even our lighting of tapers in con nexion with birthday gifts has reference to this.1 we have a capitally contrived story of gossip death (gevatter tod, kinderra. no. 44, the conclusion of which represents a subterranean cavern, with thousands of lights burning in endless rows. these are the lives of men, some still blazing as long tapers, others burnt down to tiny candle-ends; but even a tall taper may topple or be tipt over. the preceding part relates, how death has stood gossip 3 to a poor man, and has endowed his godson with the gift of beholding him bodily when he approaches the sick, and of judg

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ii- psychic magic35 iv- a vision of horrorhow strange. where was i now? it was evident to me that i had once more returned to my senses. forthere i was, vividly realizing that i was rapidly moving forward, while experiencing a queer, strangesensation as though i were swimming, without impulse or effort on my part, and in total darkness. the ideathat first presented itself to me was that of a long subterranean passage of water, of earth, and stifling air,though bodily i had no perception, no sensation, of the presence or contact of any of these. i tried to utter afew words, to repeat my last sentence "i desire but one thing: to learn the reason or reasons why my sisterhas so suddenly ceased writing to me- but the only words i heard out of the twenty-one, were the two "tolearn" and these, in

re it had been subjected to torture "who can it be- i thought. at this moment i heard again proceeding from afar the same voice- my voice "the reason or reasonswhy. it said; as though these words were the unbroken continuation of the same sentence of which it hadjust repeated the two words "to learn" it sounded near, and yet as from some incalculable distance; giving methen the idea that the long subterranean journey, the subsequent mental reflexions and discoveries, hadoccupied no time; had been performed during the short, almost instantaneous interval between the first andthe middle words of the sentence, begun, at any rate, if not actually pronounced by myself in my room atkioto, and which it was now finishing, in interrupted, broken phrases, like a faithful echo of my own wordsand voic

ined to him the object of our visit, whichconcerned himself alone, as he was the sole custodian of the "divining rod" his objections vanished and heextended his hand for alms. upon being gratified, he intimated that only two of our party could be admitted atone time into the confidence of the future, and led the way, followed by miss h- and myself. plunging after him into what seemed to be a half subterranean passage, we were led to the foot of a tall ladderleading to a chamber under the roof. we scrambled up after our guide, and at the top we found ourselves in awretched garret of moderate size, with bare walls and destitute of furniture. the floor was carpeted with athick layer of dust, and cobwebs festooned the walls in neglected confusion. in the corner we saw somethingthat i at first

r imported into it by its female proprietors from theshores of the neva. christmas trees were being prepared and implements for divination were being madeready. for, in that old castle there were grim worm-eaten portraits of famous ancestors and knights andladies, old deserted turrets, with bastions and gothic windows; mysterious sombre alleys, and dark andendless cellers, easily transformed into subterranean passages and caves, ghostly prison cells, haunted by therestless phantoms of the heroes of local legends. in short, the old manor offered every commodity forromantic horrors. but alas! this once they serve for nought; in the present narrative these dear old horrors playno such part as they otherwise might. its chief hero is a very commonplace, prosaical man- let us call him erkler. ye

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his ghost i delved irrationally and clumsily down beneath where he had lain. god knows what i expected to find-i only felt that i was digging in the grave of a man whose ghost stalked by night. it is impossible to say what monstrous depth i had attained when my spade, and soon my feet, broke through the ground beneath. the event, under the circumstances, was tremendous; for in the existence of a subterranean space here, my mad theories had terrible confirmation. my slight fall had extinguished the lantern, but i produced an electric pocket lamp and viewed the small horizontal tunnel which led away indefinitely in both directions. it was amply large enough for a man to wriggle through; and though no sane person would have tried at that time, i forgot danger, reason, and cleanliness in my s

no doubt whatsoever of the significance of the thing; and indulged in the wildest theories concerning curwen and his monstrous labours. the following spring, like that of the year before, had heavy rains; and the watchers kept careful track of the river-bank behind the curwen farm. large sections were washed away, and a certain number of bones discovered; but no glimpse was afforded of any actual subterranean chambers or burrows. something was rumoured, however, at the village of pawtuxet about a mile below, where the river flows in falls over a rocky terrace to join the placed landlocked cove. there, where quaint old cottages climbed the hill from the rustic bridge, and fishing-smacks lay anchored at their sleepy docks, a vague report went round of things that were floating down the river

ent the strictly modern delving of young ward and his associates, where they had probed for the ancient vaults whose rumour could have reached them by no wholesome means. the doctor tried to put himself in charles's place to see how a delver would be likely to start, but could not gain much inspiration from this method. then he decided on elimination as a policy, and went carefully over the whole subterranean surface both vertical and horizontal, trying to account for every inch separately. he was soon substantially narrowed down, and at last had nothing left but the small platform before the washtubs, which he tried once before in vain. now experimenting in every possible way, and exerting a double strength, he finally found that the top did indeed turn and slide horizontally on a corner

. but there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end. meanwhile, in my dreams, i wrote endlessly in that history of my own age which i was preparing- half voluntarily and half through promises of increased library and travel opportunities- for the great race's central archives. the archives were in a colossal subterranean structure near the city's center, which i came to know well through frequent labors and consultations. meant to last as long as the race, and to withstand the fiercest of earth's convulsions, this titan repository surpassed all other buildings in the massive, mountain-like firmness of its construction. the records, written or printed on great sheets of a curiously tenacious cellulose

vaders, or against the winged, star-headed old ones who centered in the antarctic, was infrequent though infinitely devastating. an enormous army, using camera-like weapons which produced tremendous electrical effects, was kept on hand for purposes seldom mentioned, but obviously connected with the ceaseless fear of the dark, windowless elder ruins and of the great sealed trap-doors in the lowest subterranean levels. this fear of the basalt ruins and trap-doors was largely a matter of unspoken suggestion- or, at most, of furtive quasi-whispers. everything specific which bore on it was significantly absent from such books as were on the common shelves. it was the one subject lying altogether under a taboo among the great race, and seemed to be connected alike with horrible bygone struggles

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

across and three feet thick, there yawned before the avid searchers a section of shallow limestone hollowing worn more than fifty million years ago by the trickling ground waters of a bygone tropic world. the hollowed layer was not more than seven or eight feet deep but extended off indefinitely in all directions and had a fresh, slightly moving air which suggested its membership in an extensive subterranean system. its roof and floor were abundantly equipped with large stalactites and stalagmites, some of which met in columnar form: but important above all else was the vast deposit of shells and bones, which in places nearly choked the passage. washed down from unknown jungles of mesozoic tree ferns and fungi, and forests of tertiary cycads, fan palms, and primitive angiosperms, this oss

nework was worn down to the very level of the glaciation. one broad swath, extending from the plateau s interior, to a cleft in the foothills about a mile to the left of the pass we had traversed, was wholly free from buildings. it probably represented, we concluded, the course of some great river which in tertiary times- millions of years ago- had poured through the city and into some prodigious subterranean abyss of the great barrier range. certainly, this was above all a region of caves, gulfs, and underground secrets beyond human penetration. looking back to our sensations, and recalling our dazedness at viewing this monstrous survival from aeons we had thought prehuman, i can only wonder that we preserved the semblance of equilibrium, which we did. of course, we knew that something- c

ing the old ones had formerly been reluctant to do. the great river was now lifeless, and the upper sea had lost most of its denizens except the seals and whales. all the birds had flown away, save only the great, grotesque penguins. what had happened afterward we could only guess. how long had the new sea-cavern city survived? was it still down there, a stony corpse in eternal blackness? had the subterranean waters frozen at last? to what fate had the ocean-bottom cities of the outer world been delivered? had any of the old ones shifted north ahead of the creeping ice cap? existing geology shows no trace of their presence. had the frightful mi-go been still a menace in the outer land world of the north? could one be sure of what might or might not linger, even to this day, in the lightles

hed. slightly beyond this point we noticed a decided increase in the size and number of the side galleries, and concluded that the densely honeycombed region beneath the higher foothills must now have been reached. the nameless scent was now curiously mixed with another and scarcely less offensive odor- of what nature we could not guess, though we thought of decaying organisms and perhaps unknown subterranean fungi. then came a startling expansion of the tunnel for which the carvings had not prepared us- a broadening and rising into a lofty, natural-looking elliptical cavern with a level floor, some seventy-five feet long and fifty broad, and with many immense side passages leading away into cryptical darkness. though this cavern was natural in appearance, an inspection with both torches s

for the mists were indeed all too maliguly thinned- was something altogether different, and immeasurably more hideous and detestable. it was the utter, objective embodiment of the fantastic novelist s "thing that should not be; and its nearest comprehensible analogue is a vast, onrushing subway train as one sees it from a station platform- the great black front looming colossally out of infinite subterranean distance, constellated with strangely colored lights and filling the prodigious burrow as a piston fills a cylinder. but we were not on a station platform. we were on the track ahead as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy speed and driving before it a spiral, rethickening cloud of the pallid aby

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y 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 fragments away into that subterranean vault of fabulous abominations. west s head was carried off by the wax-headed leader, who wore a canadian officer s uniform. as it disappeared i saw that the blue eyes behind the spectacles were hideously blazing with their first touch of frantic, visible emotion. servants found me unconscious in the morning. west was gone. the incinerator contained only unidentifiable ashes. detectiv

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

endrick kerwin chua, 1993. see above for the date of this essay. original title al azif- azif being the word used by arabs to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos'd to be the howling of daemons. composed by abdul alhazred, a mad poet of sana, in yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the ommiade caliphs, circa 700 a.d. he visited the ruins of babylon and the subterranean secrets of memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of arabia- the roba el khaliyeh or "empty space" of the ancients- and "dahna" or "crimson" desert of the modern arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it. in his l

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ted by my ancestor against old michel mauvais, and gloated over the revenge of charles le sorcier. he told how young charles has escaped into the night, returning in after years to kill godfrey the heir with an arrow just as he approached the age which had been his father's at his assassination; how he had secretly returned to the estate and established himself, unknown, in the even then deserted subterranean chamber whose doorway now framed the hideous narrator, how he had seized robert, son of godfrey, in a field, forced poison down his throat, and left him to die at the age of thirty-two, thus maintaing the foul provisions of his vengeful curse. at this point i was left to imagine the solution of the greatest mystery of all, how the curse had been fulfilled since that time when charles

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renewing my cries, in order that my discovery might come the sooner, when in an instant my delight was turned to horror as i listened; for my ever acute ear, now sharpened in even greater degree by the complete silence of the cave, bore to my benumbed understanding the unexpected and dreadful knowledge that these footfalls were not like those of any mortal man. in the unearthly stillness of this subterranean region, the tread of the booted guide would have sounded like a series of sharp and incisive blows. these impacts were soft, and stealthy, as of the paws of some feline. besides, when i listened carefully, i seemed to trace the falls of four instead of two feet. i was now convinced that i had by my own cries aroused and attracted some wild beast, perhaps a mountain lion which had acci

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his ghost i delved irrationally and clumsily down beneath where he had lain. god knows what i expected to find-i only felt that i was digging in the grave of a man whose ghost stalked by night. it is impossible to say what monstrous depth i had attained when my spade, and soon my feet, broke through the ground beneath. the event, under the circumstances, was tremendous; for in the existence of a subterranean space here, my mad theories had terrible confirmation. my slight fall had extinguished the lantern, but i produced an electric pocket lamp and viewed the small horizontal tunnel which led away indefinitely in both directions. it was amply large enough for a man to wriggle through; and though no sane person would have tried at that time, i forgot danger, reason, and cleanliness in my s

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sually that i almost forgot the darkness and pictured the endless corridor of wood and glass in its low-studded monotony as though i saw it. and then in a moment of indescribable emotion i did see it. just when my fancy merged into real sight i cannot tell; but there came a gradual glow ahead, and all at once i knew that i saw the dim outlines of a corridor and the cases, revealed by some unknown subterranean phosphorescence. for a little while all was exactly as i had imagined it, since the glow was very faint; but as i mechanically kept stumbling ahead into the stronger light i realised that my fancy had been but feeble. this hall was no relic of crudity like the temples in the city above, but a monument of the most magnificent and exotic art. rich, vivid, and daringly fantastic designs

nating phosphorescence. creeping up to it, i cried aloud in transcendent amazement at what lay beyond; for instead of other and brighter chambers there was only an illimitable void of uniform radiance, such one might fancy when gazing down from the peak of mount everest upon a sea of sunlit mist. behind me was a passage so cramped that i could not stand upright in it; before me was an infinity of subterranean effulgence. reaching down from the passage into the abyss was the head of a steep flight of steps- small numerous steps like those of black passages i had traversed- but after a few feet the glowing vapours concealed 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

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prites, similar to the brownies described in fairy tales. generally they are portrayed as dwarfs with long beards and caps, with long hair, bright eyes and garbed in little cowls. such and similar will be the appearance of the gnome the magician will see in his magic mirror. he will also notice that every sprite is carrying a little lamp of different luminous force in order to find his way in the subterranean kingdom. if the magician has convinced himself of the gnomes shape, he only has to mentally take the shape of a gnome. moreover, he must identify himself with the earth element, i.e, load his whole shape with the earth element without any accumulation. now the magician has to imagine nothing else but to sink down into the subterranean realm of the earth. suddenly he will feel deep dar

intelligence, they will enjoy it and become his most obedient servants. the earth sprites are nearest to man and like to serve him, especially if they recognize his superiority. visits to the kingdom of the gnomes would be repeated 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

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ndition of the strictest virtue and purity is required from the vaiu, or candidate, in india before he can become an initiate, whether he aims to be a simple fakir, a ptavhiia (public priest) or a sannf/dsi, a saint of the second degree of initiation, the most holy as the most revered of them all. after having conquned, in the terrible trials pre- liminary to admittance to the inner temple in the subterranean crypts of his pagoda, the aanny&ti passes the rest of his life in the temple, prac- tising the eighty-four rules and ten virtues prescribed to the yogis "no one who has not practised, during his whole life, the ten virtues which the divine manu makes incumbent as a duty, can be initiated into the mysteries of the council" say the hindd books of initiation. these virtues are "kesignati

f several days to a certain place in the mountains. hi^ meet within the safe predncts rjl a monastery said to have been erected during the earliest times of the christian era. outwardly one sees but old ruins of a once grand edifice, used, says the legend, by some gnostic sects as a place of worship during the religious persecutions. the ruins above ground, however, are but a convenient mask, the subterranean chapel, halls, and cells covering an area of ground far greater than the upper building; while the rich- ness of ornamentation, the beauty of the ancient sculptures, and the gold and silver vessels in this sacred resort, appear like "a dream ta glory" according to the expression of an initiate. as the lamaseries of mongolia and tfbet are visited upon grand occasions by the h^ shadow o

k for admission to a "niursday' meeting he will sever he refused. only, if he be a christian, the okhal will open a bible and read from it; and if a mohammedan, he will hear a few chapters of the kor&n, and the cere- mony will end with this. hiey will wait until he is gone, and then, shut- ting well the doors of their convent, take to their own rites and books, passing for this purpose into their subterranean sanctuaries "the druzea remain, even more than the jews, a peculiar people" says colonel churchill, one of the few fair and strictly impartial writers "they marry within their own race; they are rarely if ever converted; they ad- here tenaciously to their traditions, and they baffle all efforts to discover their cherished secrets. the bad name of that caupb whom they claim as their fo

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eeling in the darkness by his hands upon the wall, and by his toes to make sure firs ton each step, he resolutely descended; and he deliberately counted the underground chamber. 7 two hundred and twenty steps. he felt no difficulty in his breathing, except a certain sort of aromatic smell of distant incense, that he thought egyptian, coming up now and then from below, as if from another, though a subterranean, world. possibly, thought he, for he had heard of them, the world of the mining gnomes: and i am breaking 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 ne

preserved lights in their sepulchres many ages by the oiliness of gold (here steps in the art of the rosicrucians, resolved by hermetic methods into a liquid substance; and it is reported that at the dissolution of monastaries, in the time of henry the eighth, there was a lamp found that had then burnt in a tomb from about three hundred years after christ nearly twelve hundred years. two of these subterranean lamps are to be seen in the museum of rarities at leyden, in holland. one of these lamps, in the papacy of paul the third, was found in the tomb of tullia, cicero s daughter, which had been shut up fifteen hundred and fifty years (second edition of n. bailey s fil logoj, 1731. notes. in the papacy of paul the third, in the appian way, where abundance of the chief heathens of old were

the temple of venus at cyprus was the temple of venus- urania. no woman entered this temple (sale s koran, chap. vii. p. 119; note, p. 149. accordingly, anna commena and glycas (in renald. de mah) say that the mahometans do worship venus. several of the arabian idols were no more than large, rude stones (sale s discourse, p. 20; koran, chap. v. p. 82. the stone at mecca is black. the crypts, the subterranean churches and chambers, the choirs, and the labyrinths, were all intended to enshrine (as it were) and to conceal the central object of worship, or this sacred stone. the pillar of suerio, near forres, in scotland, is an obelisk. these obelisks were all astrological gnomons, or pins, to the imitative stellar mazes, or to the fateful charts in the letter-written skies. the astro- fig. 3

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ould not penetrate, and so the great one accepts our help, and condescends to use in the work that part of himself which is manifesting through us. h they looked forward to this ceremony with the utmost eagerness and thought no pains too great to take to prepare themselves for it; and they threw themselves into its performance with an unsurpassable enthusiasm. 837. they met for this function in a subterranean hall of vast size, resembling in appearance a great cathedral. the lodge was a small area in the midst of this prodigious cave, like the cella in a greek temple. the mosaic floor, the tessellated pavement and the usual masonic arrangements were there, just as we have them now. for the performance of this particular rite the altar stood in the middle; but the usual form of the lodge in

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very bad b-grade movie than real crimes.as summarized in robert hicks s in pursuit of satan, an inventory of abusive acts and odd elements in day-care cases nationwide, beginning with and including the mcmartin case, reads like the special effects in a collective nightmare: the appearance of strange men and women with only one arm, some limping and some with tattooed bodies; devil worship; secret subterranean tunnels; burned or cooked and eaten babies; murdered and mutilated babies; ceremonies and other activities held in basements; physical abuse, including beatings, slapping, and assaults, particularly during naptime or in the restroom; mock marriages; nude photography; molesters of different races; christmas-tree lights; children handcuffed or tied with rope; various objects ranging fro

rain) were buried and went to tlaloc s southern paradise. this realm was said to be free of sorrow, and the souls there enjoyed a luxurious tropical garden. although there was apparently no notion of an afterlife retribution, the northern land of the dead and ultimate destiny of the majority of people, mictlan, was distinctly unpleasant. the deceased took four years to traverse nine intervening, subterranean realms containing mountains, ferocious beasts, and chilling winds. the dead were buried with amulets and cremated dogs to help them during their journey. milton, john 175 for further reading: edmonson,munro s. the mayan faith. in gary h. gossen, ed. south and meso-american native spirituality. new york: crossroad, 1993, 65 85. eliade,mircea, ed. encyclopedia of religion. new york:macm

hell, posing a threat to the astrals sinister plans. constable may have been the first saucer theorist to incorporate traditional demonology into ufological discourse. two years prior to 1947, however, richard shaver had regaled readers of the science-fiction magazines amazing stories and fantastic adventures, edited by the flamboyant ray palmer, with his allegedly true interactions with sadistic subterranean beings called deros, who used advanced devices to cause hallucinations and u 263 264 ufos and demons misfortunes on the surface. the so-called shaver mystery amounted to a kind of technologized demonology. constable s underground entities clearly owe much to the deros, and the deros clearly owe as much to traditional demons. in the 1960s occult journalist john a. keel picked up on con

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persons would the cryer nominate, who should call robbers together" it was not the true faith of the early christian mystics that celsus attacked, but the false forms that were creeping in even during his day. the ideals of early christianity were based upon the high moral standards of the pagan mysteries, and the first christians who met under the city of rome used as their places of worship the subterranean temples of mithras, from whose cult has been borrowed much of the sacerdotalism of the modem church. the ancient philosophers believed that no man could live intelligently who did not have a fundamental knowledge of nature and her laws. before man can obey, he must understand, and the mysteries were devoted to instructing man concerning the operation of divine law in the terrestrial s

tes of souls descending into this life, or passing out of it in their ascent to the gods; cancer being the gate of descent, and capricorn of ascent. these are the two avenues of the immortals passing up and down from earth to heaven, and from heaven to earth" the so-called chair of st. peter, in rome, was believed to have been used in one of the pagan mysteries, possibly that of mithras, in whose subterranean grottoes the votaries of the christian mysteries met in the early days of their faith. in anacalypsis, godfrey higgins writes that in 1662, while cleaning this sacred chair of bar-jonas, the twelve labors of hercules were discovered upon it, and that later the french discovered upon the same chair the mohammedan confession of faith, written in arabic. initiation into the rites of mith

of mithras' hidden power. probably he was taught that the golden crown represented his own spiritual nature, which must be objectified and unfolded before he could truly glorify mithras; for mithras was his own soul, standing as mediator between ormuzd, his spirit, and ahriman, his animal nature. in the second degree he was given the armor of intelligence and purity and sent into the darkness of subterranean pits to fight the beasts of lust, passion, and degeneracy. in the third degree he was given a cape, upon which were drawn or woven the signs of the zodiac and other astronomical symbols. after his initiations were over, he was hailed as one who had risen from the dead, was instructed in the secret teachings of the persian mystics, and became a full-fledged member of the order. candida

soterically the constellation of taurus; the serpent, its opposite in the zodiac, scorpio; the sun, mithras, entering into the side of the bull, slays the celestial creature and nourishes the universe with its blood. click to enlarge the birth of mithras. from montfaucon's antiquities mithras was born out of a rock, which, breaking open, permitted him to emerge. this occurred in the darkness of a subterranean chamber. the church of the nativity at bethlehem confirms the theory that jesus was born in a grotto, or cave. according to dupuis, mithras was put to death by crucifixion and rose again on the third day. next: the ancient mysteries and secret societies, part two sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 25 the ancient mysteries and secret societies part two the entire history of c

into the greater mysteries: these preserved their secrets inviolate. much of the information concerning the rituals of the higher degrees of the egyptian mysteries has been gleaned from an examination of the chambers and passageways in which the initiations were given. under the temple of serapis destroyed by theodosius were found strange mechanical contrivances constructed by the priests in the subterranean crypts and caverns where the nocturnal initiatory rites were celebrated. these machines indicate the severe tests of moral and physical courage undergone by the candidates. after passing through these tortuous ways, the neophytes who survived the ordeals were ushered into the presence of serapis, a noble and awe-inspiring figure illumined by unseen lights. labyrinths were also a strik

he lesser rites is that of the abduction of the goddess persephone, the daughter of ceres, by pluto, the lord of the underworld, or hades. while persephone is picking flowers in a beautiful meadow, the earth suddenly opens and the gloomy lord of death, riding in a magnificent chariot, emerges from its somber depths and, grasping her in his arms, carries the screaming and struggling goddess to his subterranean palace, where he forces her to become his queen. it is doubtful whether many of the initiates themselves understood the mystic meaning of this allegory, for most of them apparently believed that it referred solely to the succession of the seasons. it is difficult to obtain satisfactory information concerning the mysteries, for the candidates were bound by inviolable oaths never to rev

ry concerning this crime of which they could not speak, but warning their disciples that a great sorrow comes to all who take their own lives. this, in substance, constitutes the esoteric doctrine given to the initiates of the lesser mysteries. as the degree dealt largely with the miseries of those who failed to make the best use of their philosophic opportunities, the chambers of initiation were subterranean and the horrors of hades were vividly depicted in a complicated ritualistic drama. after passing successfully through the tortuous passageways, with their trials and dangers, the candidate received the honorary title of mystes. this meant one who saw through a veil or had a clouded vision. it also signified that the candidate had been brought up to the veil, which would be torn away i

rk contained the secret processes by which the regeneration of humanity was to be accomplished and also served as the key to his other writings. nothing definite is known concerning the contents of the book of thoth other than that its pages were covered with strange hieroglyphic figures and symbols, which gave to those acquainted with their use unlimited power over the spirits of the air and the subterranean divinities. when certain areas of the brain are stimulated by the secret processes of the mysteries, the consciousness of man is extended and he is permitted to behold the immortals and enter into the presence of the superior gods. the book of thoth described the method whereby this stimulation was accomplished. in truth, therefore, it was the "key to immortality" according to legend

were on the point of rebellion, but the word of the caliph was law and the hope of a vast fortune buoyed them up. at last on the eve of total discouragement fate came to their rescue. a great stone was heard to fall somewhere in the wall near the toiling and disgruntled arabs. pushing on toward the sound with renewed enthusiasm, they finally broke into the descending passage which leads into the subterranean chamber. they then chiseled their way around the great stone portcullis which had fallen into a position barring their progress, and attacked and removed one after another the granite plugs which for a while continued to slide down the passage leading from the queen's chamber above. finally no more blocks descended and the way was clear for the followers of the prophet. but where were

aced, in the walls of mohammedan mosques and palaces in various parts of cairo and its environs. pyramid problems c. piazzi smyth asks "was the great pyramid, then, erected before the invention of hieroglyphics, and previous to the birth of the egyptian religion" time may yet prove that the upper chambers of the pyramid were a sealed mystery before the establishment of the egyptian empire. in the subterranean chamber, however, are markings which indicate that the romans gained admission there. in the light of the secret philosophy of the egyptian initiates, w. w. harmon, by a series of extremely complicated yet exact mathematical calculations; determines that the first ceremonial of the pyramid was performed 68,890 years ago on the occasion when the star vega for the first time sent its ra

be considered as the radius of an imaginary circle, the length of the circumference of such a circle will be found to equal the sum of the base lines of the four sides of the pyramid. if the passage leading to the king's chamber and the queen's chamber was sealed up thousands of years before the christian era, those later admitted into the pyramid mysteries must have received their initiations in subterranean galleries now unknown. without such galleries there could have been no possible means of ingress or egress, since the single surface entrance was completely dosed with casing stones. if not blocked by the mass of the sphinx or concealed in some part of that image, the secret entrance may be either in one of the adjacent temples or upon the sides of the limestone plateau. attention is

eans of getting into the upper chambers. the ramp stone having been set in a bed of plaster, the robbers were forced to break through it, leaving a jagged opening. mr. dupr, an architect who has spent years investigating the pyramids, differs from smyth, however, in that he believes the well itself to be a robbers' hole, being the first successful attempt made to enter the upper chambers from the subterranean chamber, then the only open section of the pyramid. mr. dupr bases his conclusion upon the fact that the well is merely a rough hole and the grotto an irregular chamber, without any evidence of the architectural precision with which the remainder of the structure was erected. the diameter of the well also precludes the possibility of its having been dug downward; it must have been gou

he thieves. it is inconceivable that the pyramid builders would break one of their own ramp stones and leave its broken surface and a gaping hole in the side wall of their otherwise perfect gallery. if the well is a robbers' hole, it may explain why the pyramid was empty when caliph al mamoun entered it and what happened to the missing coffer lid. a careful examination of the so-called unfinished subterranean chamber, which must have been the base of operations for the robbers, might disclose traces of their presence or show where they piled the rubble which must have accumulated as a result of their operations. while it is not entirely clear by what entrance the robbers reached the subterranean chamber, it is improbable that they used the descending passageway. there is a remarkable niche

ed of small sea creatures called mummulites. the popular supposition that the sphinx was the true portal of the great pyramid, while it survives with surprising tenacity, has never been substantiated. p. christian presents this theory as follows, basing it in part upon the authority of iamblichus "the sphinx of gizeh, says the author of the trait des myst res, served as the entrance to the sacred subterranean chambers in which the trials of the initiate were undergone. this entrance, obstructed in our day by sands and rubbish, may still be traced between the forelegs of the crouched colossus. it was formerly closed by a bronze gate whose secret spring could be operated only by the magi. it was guarded by public respect: and a sort of religious fear maintained its inviolability better than

in our day by sands and rubbish, may still be traced between the forelegs of the crouched colossus. it was formerly closed by a bronze gate whose secret spring could be operated only by the magi. it was guarded by public respect: and a sort of religious fear maintained its inviolability better than armed protection would have done. in the belly of the sphinx were cut out galleries leading to the subterranean part of the great pyramid. these galleries were so artfully crisscrossed along their course to the pyramid that in setting forth into the passage without a guide through this network, one ceaselessly and inevitably returned to the starting point (see histoire de la magie) unfortunately, the bronze door referred to cannot be found, nor is there any evidence that it ever existed. the pa

out a guide through this network, one ceaselessly and inevitably returned to the starting point (see histoire de la magie) unfortunately, the bronze door referred to cannot be found, nor is there any evidence that it ever existed. the passing centuries have wrought many changes in the colossus, however, and the original opening may have been closed. nearly all students of the subject believe that subterranean chambers exist beneath the great pyramid. robert ballard writes "the priests of the pyramids of lake moeris had their vast subterranean residences. it appears to me more than probable that those of gizeh were similarly provided. and i may go further--out of these very caverns may have been excavated the limestone of which the pyramids were built* in the bowels of the limestone ridge o

ase of each side is 764 feet long, and the entire structure covers a ground area of more than 13 acres. the great pyramid is the only one in the group at gizeh--in fact, as far as known, the only one in egypt--that has chambers within the actual body of the pyramid itself. far this reason it is said to refute the lepsius law, which asserts that each of these structures is a monument raised over a subterranean chamber in which a ruler is entombed. the pyramid contains four chambers, which in the diagram are lettered k, h, f, and o. the king's chamber (k) is an oblong apartment 39 feet long, 17 felt wide, and 19 feet high (disregarding fractional parts of a foot in each case, with a flat roof consisting of nine great stones, the largest in the pyramid. above the king's chamber are five low c

nverging stone, which in all likelihood, may prove to be a new lost entrance way. at the paint where the grand gallery ends and the horizontal passage towards the queen's chamber begins is the entrance to the well and also the opening leading down the first ascending passage (d) to the point where this passage meets the descending passage (a) leading from the outer wall of the pyramid down to the subterranean chamber. after descending 59 feet down the well (p, the grotto is reached. continuing through the floor of the grotto the well leads downward 133 feet to the descending entrance passage (a, which it meets a short distance before this passage becomes horizontal and leads into the subterranean chamber. the subterranean chamber (o) is about 46 feet long and 27 feet wide, but is extremely

133 feet to the descending entrance passage (a, which it meets a short distance before this passage becomes horizontal and leads into the subterranean chamber. the subterranean chamber (o) is about 46 feet long and 27 feet wide, but is extremely low, the ceiling varying in height from a little over 3 feet to about 13 feet from the rough and apparently unfinished floor. from the south side of the subterranean chamber a low tunnel runs about 50 feet and then meets a blank wall. these constitute the only known openings in the pyramid, with the exception of a few niches, exploration holes, blind passages, and the rambling cavernous tunnel (b) hewn out by the moslems under the leadership of the prophet's descendant, caliph al mamoun_ the pyramids are built will yet be found, i feel convinced

symbolical purposes at the instigation of the priestcraft. the theories that the ur us upon its forehead was originally the finger of an immense sundial and that both the pyramid and the sphinx were used to measure time, the seasons, and the precession of the equinoxes are ingenious but not wholly convincing. if this great creature was erected to obliterate the ancient passageway leading into the subterranean temple of the pyramid, its symbolism would be most appropriate. in comparison with the overwhelming size and dignity of the great pyramid, the sphinx is almost insignificant. its battered face, upon which may still be seen vestiges of the red paint with which the figure was originally covered, is disfigured beyond recognition. its nose was broken off by a fanatical mohammedan, lest th

n into ten" the initiates of p. 44 old accepted the pyramid form as the ideal symbol of both the secret doctrine and those institutions established for its dissemination. both pyramids and mounds are antitypes of the holy mountain, or high place of god, which was believed to stand in the "midst" of the earth. john p. lundy relates the great pyramid to the fabled olympus, further assuming that its subterranean passages correspond to the tortuous byways of hades. the square base of the pyramid is a constant reminder that the house of wisdom is firmly founded upon nature and her immutable laws "the gnostics" writes albert pike "claimed that the whole edifice of their science rested on a square whose angles were: sigh, silence; buqov, profundity; nouv, intelligence; and alhqeia truth (see mora

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been so long dissociated. it fails to realize the fact at first, for" the light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not" presently that darkness will disappear; when" the day (the new consciousness) dawns and the shadows (the old mentality) flee away" therefore it is that this work of the introverted mind and the discovery it makes, are exhibited as taking place darkly and amid subterranean gloom. there remains, therefore, one concluding psychological process--to extrovert that knowledge and bring it forward into formalized brain-consciousness, so that what the spirit and the soul already know interiorly the outer mind may also know exteriorly. subjective awareness does not become knowledge until it has been cerebrated and passed through the alembic of the brain and the

me knowledge until it has been cerebrated and passed through the alembic of the brain and the logical understanding. when it has so passed through and become formalized, a reciprocal and reflex action between the inner and outer natures is set up resulting in the illumination of the whole. this extroversion of subjective perceptions is symbolically achieved by the return of the candidate from the subterranean depths to the surface and there rejoining his former companion-sojourners and effecting a unification of all his component parts. it is then that the mystery is consummated. the great light breaks. the vital and immortal principle comes to self-consciousness in him. the glory of the lord is revealed to and in him, and all his flesh sees it. so far as it is possible for symbolic ceremo

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magick, wherein a great and beautiful flower awaits those of awakened and enlightened paths, the making of a god or goddess. the self is god and goddess, since you ultimately answer to yourself. make your self happy before attempting to do so with others. sabbat symbolism refers to the serpent that sheds his skin, enabling the rise to the stars of midnight and dawn, and entry to haunting mist and subterranean cavern. i stress the issue of sorcery being extremely personal to the individual who practices it. one who approaches magick as impersonal will obviously be a failure since successful sorcery demands a strong and focused conviction and frame of mind. one must understand that in order to create change, significant knowledge and superior presence must exist to reach the desired goal. in

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round into existing caverns that through scans of the planet they knew existed.they also descended into other caverns that they themselves cut out of the living rock. there were at least five entire continents on earth in primeval times called appala-chia, tyrhennia, beringia, fennoscandia, and oceania. our present continents areremnants of these. beneath them were literally thousands of miles of subterranean pas-sages, caverns, and refuges. some of these remain today and experts know that manyof them were not made naturally. many of our quaint myths and tales, like those ofdwarves, trolls, elves, the little people and the scandinavian king under themountain, for example, concern these subterranean worlds. almost all the nativeamerican indian tribes speak of their original residence beneat

seem to have communicated in strange voices(many-tongues. can this not also be explained in practical terms? can the referencesabout the fallen angels in the old testament, book of enoch, and the dead seascrolls, for example, not be based on actual fact? the nephilim had to begin calibrations of the earth in relation to the neighboring plan-ets and stars almost immediately after ascent from their subterranean havens.although they were in no immediate hurry, 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 wit

ion, and genetic manipulation311 appendix e: dragons and serpents the vishnu purana speaks about the gandharvas, descendants of sage kashyapa and his wife muni.therefore, they are also called mauneyas (according to hindu dictionary by manurishi foundation,the mauneyas are a class of gandharvas, who dwell beneath the earth, and are sixty millions in number.)they were fighting with the nagas in the subterranean regions, whose dominions they seized and whosetreasures they plundered. the naga chiefs appealed to vishnu for relief, and he promised to appear inthe person of purukutsa, son of king mandhata, to help them. thereupon the nagas sent their sisternarmada to this purukutsa, and she conducted him to the regions below, where he destroyed thegandharvas (according to the ramayana similar gan

e nagas is the citynamed bhogavati. having become a yogi that naga-chief (v asuki) dwells there as well as here. butwith his primary body, v asuki, protecting the nagas, shall live in bhogavati. o sinless one, you (also)dwell here constantly. bhogavati is also mentioned in the bhagavata purana 1.11.11. its another nameis putkari.bhagavata purana gives the following description of bila-svarga, the subterranean regions comparedfor their opulence to heaven (5.24.7-15):my dear king, beneath this earth are seven other planets, known as atala, vitala, sutala, talatala,mahatala, rasatala and patala. i have already explained the situation of the planetary systems of earth.the width and length of the seven lower planetary systems are calculated to be exactly the same asthose of earth. in these seve

o heaven (5.24.7-15):my dear king, beneath this earth are seven other planets, known as atala, vitala, sutala, talatala,mahatala, rasatala and patala. i have already explained the situation of the planetary systems of earth.the width and length of the seven lower planetary systems are calculated to be exactly the same asthose of earth. in these seven planetary systems, which are also known as the subterranean heavens [bila-svarga],there are very beautiful houses, gardens and places of sense enjoyment, which are even more opulentthan those in the higher planets because the demons have a very high standard of sensual pleasure,wealth and influence. most of the residents of these planets, who are known as daityas, danavas andnagas, live as householders. their wives, children, friends and socie

s and reservoirs withclear, transparent water, agitated by jumping fish and decorated with many flowers such as lilies, kuva-layas, kahlaras and blue and red lotuses. pairs of cakravakas and many other water birds nest in thelakes and always enjoy in a happy mood, making sweet, pleasing vibrations that are very satisfying andconducive to enjoyment of the senses.since there is no sunshine in those subterranean planets, time is not divided into days and nights, andconsequently fear produced by time does not exist. many great serpents reside there with gems on their hoods, and the effulgence of these gems dissipatesthe darkness in all directions. since the residents of these planets drink and bathe in juices and elixirs made from wonderful herbs,they are freed from all anxieties and physical

ocky mountain arsenal opens in colorado. it employed 3,000 people and produced 87,000 tonsof toxic chemicals by the end of the war in 1945. the chemicals were tested in utah at the dugwayproving ground. 1942 i.g. farben known to be operating using slave labor from nazi camps. 1942 truman committee probes the deal between standard oil and i.g.farben. 1942 the truman government makes contact with a subterranean race of grays, who apparently alsoestablished a relationship with the nazis in germany; both countries are manipulated while at the sametime pursuing their overlapping goals. alien activities parallel government mind control and other para-digms, allowing emulation of alien programs by the illuminati and future media renditions that will sup-port an external threat (see 1961 iron moun

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l spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. more or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal. the echoes of the greatest deeds may die away like the echoes of a cry among the cliffs, and what has been done seem to the human judgment to have been without result. the unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion. the power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual--a terrible and truthful power; for such a people feel with one heart, and therefore can lift up their myriad arms for a single blow. and, again, there is no graduated scale for the measurement of the influences of different intellects u

f the mysteries. in them, khurum the king, and khurum the master, obtained their knowledge of him and his attributes; and in them that knowledge was taught to moses and pythagoras. wherefore nothing forbids you to consider the whole legend of this degree, like that of the master's, an allegory, representing the perpetuation of the knowledge of the true god in the sanctuaries of initiation. by the subterranean vaults you may understand the places of initiation, which in the ancient ceremonies were generally under ground. the temple of solomon presented a symbolic image of the universe; and resembled, in its arrangements and furniture, all the temples of the ancient nations that practised the mysteries. the system of numbers was intimately connected with their religions and worship, and has

nt in twain and thrown contemptuously away. we lie down to sleep, like the peasant on the lava-slopes of vesuvius. the mountain has been so long inert, that we believe its fires extinguished. round us hang the clustering grapes, and the green leaves of the olive tremble in the soft night-air over us. above us shine the peaceful, patient stars. the crash of a new eruption wakes us, the roar of the subterranean thunders, the stabs of the volcanic lightning into the shrouded bosom of the sky; and we see, aghast, the tortured titan hurling up its fires among the pale stars, its great tree of smoke and cloud, the red torrents pouring down its sides. the roar and the shriekings of civil war are all around us: the land is a pandemonium: man is again a savage. the great armies roll along their hid

stony shoulders of great mountains. condensed still more by change of temperature, they drop upon the thirsty earth in gentle showers, or pour upon it in heavy rains, or storm against its bosom at the angry equinoctial. the shower, the rain, and the storm pass away, the clouds vanish, and the bright stars again shine clearly upon the glad earth. the rain-drops sink into the ground, and gather in subterranean reservoirs, and run in subterranean channels, and bubble up in springs and fountains; and from the mountain-sides and heads of valleys the silver threads of water begin their long journey to the ocean. uniting, they widen into brooks and rivulets, then into streams and rivers; and, at last, a nile, a ganges, a danube, an amazon, or a mississippi rolls between its banks, mighty, majest

omes our cable-tow. it was an emblem of their triune deity, the remembrance of whom we also preserve in the three chief officers of our lodges, presiding in the three quarters of that universe which our lodges represent; in our three greater and three lesser lights, our three movable and three immovable jewels, and the three pillars that support our lodges. the indian mysteries were celebrated in subterranean caverns and grottos hewn in the solid rock; and the initiates adored the deity, symbolized by the solar fire. the candidate, long wandering in darkness, truly wanted light, and the worship taught him was the worship of god, the source of light. the vast temple of elephanta, perhaps the oldest in the world, hewn out of the rock, and 135 feet square, was used for initiations; as were th

n, at each of the zodiacal signs" manetho extracted his history from certain pillars which he discovered in egypt, whereon inscriptions had been made by thoth, or the first mercury [or hermes, in the sacred letters and dialect: but which were after the flood translated from that dialect into the greek tongue, and laid up in the private recesses of the egyptian temples. these pillars were found in subterranean caverns, near thebes and beyond the nile, not far from the sounding statue of memnon, in a place called syringes; which are described to be certain winding apartments underground; made, it is said, by those who were skilled in ancient rites; who, foreseeing the coming of the deluge, and fearing lest the memory of their ceremonies should be obliterated, built and contrived vaults, dug

to proceed, at her festival, to re-obtain his human shape, she says "throughout the entire course of the remainder of thy life, until the very last breath has vanished from thy lips, thou art devoted to my service. under my protection will thy life be happy and glorious: and when, thy days being spent, thou shalt descend to the shades below, and inhabit the elysian fields, there also, even in the subterranean hemisphere, shalt thou pay frequent worship to me, thy propitious patron: and yet further: if through sedulous obedience, religious devotion to my ministry, and inviolable chastity, thou shalt prove thyself a worthy object of divine favor, then shalt thou feel the influence of the power that i alone possess. the number of thy days shall be prolonged beyond the ordinary decrees of fate

prepared to appear before the supreme judge, with a heart pure and spotless; as socrates teaches in the gorgias. for the soul stained with crimes, he says, to descend to the shades, is the bitterest ill. to adhere to justice and wisdom, plato holds, is our duty, that we may some day take that lofty road that leads toward the heavens, and avoid most of the evils to which the soul is exposed in its subterranean journey of a thousand years. and so in the ph do, socrates teaches that we should seek here below to free our soul of its passions, in order to be ready to enter our appearance, whenever destiny summons us to the shades. thus the mysteries inculcated a great moral truth, veiled with a fable of huge proportions and the appliances of an impressive spectacle, to which, exhibited in the s

ical priests, the zodiac and constellations, arranged in a circle, presented their halves in diametrical opposition; and the hemisphere of winter was said to be adverse, opposed, contrary, to that of summer. over the angels of the latter ruled a king (osiris or ormuzd, enlightened, intelligent, creative, and beneficent. over the fallen angels or evil genii of the former, the demons or devs of the subterranean empire of darkness and sorrow, and its stars, ruled also a chief. in egypt the scorpion first ruled, the sign next the balance, and long the chief of the winter signs; and then the polar bear or ass, called typhon, that is _deluge, on account of the rains which inundated the earth while that constellation domineered. in persia, at a later day, it was the serpent, which, personified as

her impure animals, especially serpents. the moral and astronomical significance of the serpent were connected. it became a maxim of the zend-avesta, that ahriman, the principle of evil, made the great serpent of winter, who assaulted the creation of ormuzd. a serpent-ring was a well-known symbol of time: and to express dramatically how time preys upon itself, the egyptian priests fed vipers in a subterranean chamber, as it were in the sun's winter abode on the fat of bulls, or the year's plenteousness. the dragon of winter pursues ammon, the golden ram, to mount casius. the virgin of the zodiac is bitten in the heel by serpens, who, with scorpio, rises immediately behind her; and as honey, the emblem of purity and salvation, was thought to be an antidote to the serpent's bite, so the bees

emaining clearly show, and particularly the ancient druidical temple at classerniss in the island of lewis in scotland. the circle is of 12 stones. on each of the sides, east, west, and south, are three. in the centre was the image of the deity; and on the north an avenue of twice nineteen stones, and one at the entrance. the supernal pagoda at benares is in the form of a cross; and the druidical subterranean grotto at new grange in ireland. the statue of osiris at rome had the same emblem. isis and ceres also bore it; and the caverns of initiation were constructed in that shape with a pyramid over the _sacellum. crosses were cut in the stones of the temple of serapis in alexandria; and many tau crosses are to be seen in the sculptures of alabastion and esn, in egypt. on coins, the symbol

mposed of two cuneiform characters. the cross appears upon an ancient ph nician medal found in the ruins of citium; on the very ancient buddhist obelisk near ferns in ross-shire; on the buddhist round towers in ireland, and upon the splendid obelisk of the same era at forres in scotland. upon the facade of a temple at kalabche in nubia are three regal figures, each holding a crux ansata. like the subterranean mithriatic temple at new grange in scotland, the pagodas of benares and mathura were in the form of a cross. magnificent buddhist crosses were erected, and are still standing, at clonmacnoise, finglas, and kilcullen in ireland. wherever the monuments of buddhism are found, in india, ceylon, or ireland, we find the cross: for buddha or boudh was represented to have been crucified. all

evolving their varieties. in the egean islands he was butes, dardanus, himeros or imbros; in crete he appears as iasius or even zeus, whose orgiastic worship, remaining unveiled by the usual forms of mystery, betrayed to profane curiosity the symbols which, if irreverently contemplated, were sure to be misunderstood. he was the same with the dismembered zagreus, the son of persephone, an ancient subterranean dionusos, the horned progeny of zeus in the constellation of the serpent, entrusted by his father with the thunderbolt, and encircled with the protecting dance of curetes. through the envious artifices of her, the titans eluded the vigilance of his guardians and tore him to pieces; but pallas restored the still palpitating heart to his father, who commanded apollo to bury the dismembe

and "perambulator" of earth, as well as "hyperion" of the sky, was the patron and model of those famous navigators who spread his altars from coast to coast through the mediterranean, to the extremities of the west, where "arkaleus" built the city of gades, and where a perpetual fire burned in his service. he was the lineal descendant of perseus, the luminous child of darkness, conceived within a subterranean vault of brass; and he a representation of the persian mithras, rearing his emblematic lions above the gates of mycen, and bringing the sword of jemsheed to battle against the gorgons of the west. mithras is similarly described in the zend-avesta as the "mighty hero, the rapid runner, whose piercing eye embraces all, whose arm bears the club for the destruction of the darood" hercules

and elixir of life; such is the problem to be resolved, in order to accomplish this desire and realize this dream. like all the mysteries of magism, the secrets of "the great work" have a threefold signification; they are religious, philosophical, and natural. the philosophal gold, in religion, is the absolute and supreme reason: in philosophy, it is the truth; in visible nature, the sun; in the subterranean and mineral world, the most perfect and pure gold. it is for this that the pursuit of the great work is called the search for the absolute; and the work itself, the work of the sun. all the masters of the science admit that it is impossible to attain the material results, unless there are found in the two higher degrees all the analogies of the universal medicine and of the philosopha

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ysical power intellectual qualifications variously developed. there were three giants, briareus, cottus, and gyges, who each possessed a hundred hands and fifty heads, and were known collectively by the page 12 name of the hecatoncheires, which signified hundred-handed. these mighty giants could shake the universe and produce earthquakes; it is therefore evident that they represented those active subterranean forces to which allusion has been made in the opening chapter. the titans were twelve in number; their names were: oceanus, ceos, crios, hyperion, iapetus, cronus, theia, rhea, themis, mnemosyne, phoebe, and tethys. now uranus, the chaste light of heaven, the essence of all that is bright and pleasing, held in abhorrence his [14]crude, rough, and turbulent offspring, the giants, and m

us, theia, rhea, themis, mnemosyne, phoebe, and tethys. now uranus, the chaste light of heaven, the essence of all that is bright and pleasing, held in abhorrence his [14]crude, rough, and turbulent offspring, the giants, and moreover feared that their great power might eventually prove hurtful to himself. he therefore hurled them into tartarus, that portion of the lower world which served as the subterranean dungeon of the gods. in order to avenge the oppression of her children, the giants, gaa instigated a conspiracy on the part of the titans against uranus, which was carried to a successful issue by her son cronus. he wounded his father, and from the blood of the wound which fell upon the earth sprang a race of monstrous beings also called giants. assisted by his brother-titans, cronus

mankind. in a page 53 very old poem gaa is accordingly described as retiring to a cavern in the bowels [51]of the earth, where she sits in the lap of her daughter, slumbering, moaning, and nodding for ever and ever. it is necessary to keep clearly in view the distinctive difference between the three great earth-goddesses gaa, rhea, and demeter. gaa represents the earth as a whole, with its mighty subterranean forces; rhea is that productive power which causes vegetation to spring forth, thus sustaining men and animals; demeter, by presiding over agriculture, directs and utilizes rhea's productive powers. but in later times, when rhea, like other ancient divinities, loses her importance as a ruling deity, demeter assumes all her functions and attributes, and then becomes the goddess of the

y 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 cyclops was the man-eating monster polyphemus, described by homer as having been blinded page 115 and outwitted at last by odysseus. this monster fell in love with a beautiful nymph called galatea; but, as may be supposed, his addresses were not acceptable to the fair maiden, who rejected them in favour of a youth named acis, upon which polyphemu

the romans had a divinity called liber who presided over vegetation, and was, on this account, identified with the greek dionysus, and worshipped under the name of bacchus. the festival of liber, called the liberalia, was celebrated on the 17th of march. aides (pluto. aides, aidoneus, or hades, was the son of cronus and rhea, and the youngest brother of zeus and poseidon. he was the ruler of that subterranean region called erebus, which was inhabited by the shades or spirits of the dead, and also by those dethroned and exiled deities who had been vanquished by zeus and his allies. aides, the grim and gloomy monarch of this lower world, was the [131]successor of erebus, that ancient primeval divinity after whom these realms were called. the early greeks regarded aides in the light of their

to a spot whence a full view of the approaching spectacle could be obtained. soon jason appeared in the field of ares, looking as noble and majestic as the god of war himself. in a distant part of the field the brazen yokes and the massive plough met his view, but as yet the dread animals themselves were nowhere to be seen. he was about to go in quest of them, when they suddenly rushed out from a subterranean cave, breathing flames of fire, and enveloped in a thick smoke. the friends of jason trembled; but the undaunted hero, relying on the magic powers with which he was imbued by medea, seized the oxen, one after the other, by the horns, and forced them to the yoke. near the plough was a helmet full of dragon's teeth, which he sowed as he ploughed the field, whilst with sharp pricks from

ground, which was thus speedily tilled. while jason was engaged sowing the dragon's teeth in the deep furrows of the field, he kept a cautious look-out lest the germinating giant brood might grow too quickly for him, and as soon as the four acres of land had been tilled he unyoked the oxen, and succeeded in frightening them so effectually with his weapons, that they rushed back in terror to their subterranean stables. meanwhile armed men had sprung up out of the furrows, and the page 256 whole field now bristled with lances; but jason, remembering the instructions of medea, seized an immense rock and hurled it into the midst of these earth-born warriors, who immediately began to attack each other. jason then rushed furiously upon them, and after a terrible struggle not one of the giants re

faithful antigone, who had returned to thebes on the death of her father, could not endure that the body of her brother should remain unburied. she therefore bravely disregarded the orders of the king, and endeavoured to give sepulture to the remains of polynices. when creon discovered that his commands had been set at defiance, he inhumanly condemned the devoted maiden to be entombed alive in a subterranean vault [276]but retribution was at hand. his son, hamon, who was betrothed to antigone, having contrived to effect an entrance into the vault, was horrified to find that antigone had hanged herself by her veil. feeling that life without her would be intolerable, he threw himself in despair on his own sword, and after solemnly invoking the malediction of the gods on the head of his fath

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the old man does not fail to discover the corpses that are strewn about the desert, or to identify their country of origin. when the young officer in his turn is examined, the ancient man takes pity on him, and gives him a magical liqueur that puts the wounded man back on his feet. he follows the old man into the pyramid, and discovers a world of magic. there are vast halls and endless galleries, subterranean chambers piled high with treasures, apparitions of blazing lamps, legions of familiar spirits and there, also, is the black pullet. it is a supernatural version of aladdin with an inner meaning of astaroth. the sage himself proves to be the sole heir of the ancient magi and is himself, in quest of an heir for he feels he is about to pass away. in time the french officer, seeing that h

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thingness) of chochmah into the yesh (somethingness) of binah, that is, they take on tangibility within the "grasp" of binah, in a way of a "somethingness. in chochmah too, there is length, breadth and depth, just as there is in binah. this is to say that even though a spring may be concealed beneath the ground, it, nonetheless, has dimensions. the depth of the spring is the aquifer, which is its subterranean source in the depths of the earth. from this depth there spread forth a length and breadth, until drops of water trickle forth into revelation as the beginning of the river. this being the case, the terms ein (nothingnesss) and yesh (somethingness) are relative. binah is only called "something" relative to its depth, which is the "nothingness" of chochmah. however, chochmah is likewis

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thingness) of chochmah into the yesh (somethingness) of binah, that is, they take on tangibility within the "grasp" of binah, in a way of a "somethingness. in chochmah too, there is length, breadth and depth, just as there is in binah. this is to say that even though a spring may be concealed beneath the ground, it, nonetheless, has dimensions. the depth of the spring is the aquifer, which is its subterranean source in the depths of the earth. from this depth there spread forth a length and breadth, until drops of water trickle forth into revelation as the beginning of the river. this being the case, the terms ein (nothingnesss) and yesh (somethingness) are relative. binah is only called "something" relative to its depth, which is the "nothingness" of chochmah. however, chochmah is likewis

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

f-beit-reish. 3 see, for example, the mystery of marriage, p. 436. the arizal on parashat vayeitzei 143 beit-alef-reish, be fer, which is concave and hollow, and into which the male organ is inserted. therefore the yesod of the female [partzuf] is always called a gwell. h this is true also for the reason that [the female partzuf] causes gfemale waters h to ascend.just as a well is an upwelling of subterranean water.toward the male organ. in order to couple, the male and female partzufim must mutually arouse each other. the zoharic terms for these processes of arousal are gthe descent of male water h and gthe ascent of female water, h respectively. the images evoked are that of rain for the male and the upwelling of spring water. as to why [the female yesod] is called be fer sheva[ gthe wel

orth from eden to water the garden, h6 eden signifies chochmah, the river flowing out of it signifies binah, and the garden signifies malchut. chochmah is depicted as a wellspring, as in the verse, gthe source of wisdom is like a bubbling stream. h7 binah, as we know, is the expansion of the initial insight of chochmah, which surfaces from the supra-conscious mind like water bubbling forth from a subterranean well. as we have seen previously, binah is the source of gevurah. in expanding the insight of chochmah, binah must use discernment and discrimination in order to separate the pure, true insight from the admixture of impurities that accompanies its revelation. as long as gevurah is also used for the same purpose, it remains holy. but when judgment become judgmentality for its own sake

characterized by downward movement.the ghave h giving to the ghave-not h and the ghigher h having mercy on the glower h.gevurah is characterized by upward movement, the ghave-not h judging itself critically and aspiring to ascend to a higher level. this upward aspiration toward purification was expressed by isaac fs well-digging, where dirt (obstructions, evil) is removed so the hidden good (the subterranean well) can be revealed. isaac: yitzchak: yud-tzadik-chet-kuf= 10+ 90+ 8+ 100= 208. bor: beit-vav-reish= 2+ 6+ 200= 208. specifically [they cast him] into the nukva of z feir anpin, the attribute of isaac, to the location of its left arm, where simeon was spiritually located. as we know, the masculine principle in general is associated with the right side, that of chesed, whiel the femi

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ards, four more monks from the same convent in which he had been educated, and thus founded the first society of the rosicrucians. they then laid down the results of their science in books, which are said to be still in existence, and in the hands of some rosicrucians. it is then said that 120 years after his death, the introduction 7 5 entrance to his tomb was discovered. a stair-case led into a subterranean vault, at the door of which was written, post annos cxx patebo. there was a light burning in the vault, which, however, became extinct as soon as it was approached. the vault had seven sides and seven angles, each side being five feet wide and eight feet high. the upper part represented the firmament, the floor, the earth, and they were laid out in triangles, while each side was divid

shion. and the results obtained, to say little of the knowledge acquired or the intuitive processes that somehow are stimulated by that effort, are well worth even a great deal of bother. to adopt temporarily part. of the terminology now current among analytical psychologists, and identify the latent spiritual self of man with what is known as the unconscious, then be it remembered that this vast subterranean stream of vitality and memory and inspiration can only be reached by means of a symbol. for the latter, states jung "is the primitive expression of the unconscious, while on the other hand it is an idea corresponding to the highest intuition produced by consciousness" thus these weapons and magical instruments are symbolic representations of psychic events, of forces inhering within t

he earth spirits. 0 invisible king, who, taking the 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 '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

e north, and leads practicus to the east of altar, where he stands facing west. hierophant goes to the west before the tablet of water. all face west- members arranging themselves in balanced disposition, facing west <119> hiero (knocks) let us rehearse the prayer of the undines or water spirits! terrible king of the sea, thou who holdest the keys of the cataracts of heaven, and who enclosest the subterranean waters in the cavernous hollows of earth. king of the deluge and of the rains of spring. thou who openest the sources of the rivers and of the fountains; thou who commandest moisture which is, as it were, the blood of the earth, to become the sap of the plants. we adore thee and we invoke thee. speak thou unto us, thy mobile and changeful 180 the golden dawn: volume 11 book two creatu

west, place ieft hand on sigil, hold sword aloft, and over it trace appropriate sigils of the names as t h y are rehearsed. 0 invisible king, who taking the earth for foundation, didst hollow its depth 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 adonai adonai. adonai (vibrate by fomula of fhemiddle pillar and circumambulate it) have pity upon those who suffer, ex

this was a lengthy process, but asked that i might see the result of what appeared to be a gradual melting of this metal. i was then shown some bowls containing liquid gold, but not i imagine, very pure metal. i again followed my guide, the angelic king elemental ruler, who gave me his name as atapa, and followed by some gnomes bearing the bowl of liquid gold, we came, after passing through many subterranean passages cut in the mountains, to a huge cavern of immense breadth and height. it was like a palace cut out of the rock. we passed through rudely cut passages, until we reached a large central hall, at the end of which was a dais on which were seated the king and queen, the courtier gnomes standing around "this hall seemed lighted by torches, and at intervals were roughly cut pillars

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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 laboratory with a section set apart for domestic purposes,with ingenious sieve-like flues for the unrecognisable escape to the outer world of the smoke, gassesand fumes. this apartment was long and of ample size; while the second, also rectangular in shape,was set apart for rest, containing rude couches and also simple tables for simpler fare

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by aspersion of water, by breathing and by fire, with the perfumes proper for each day and the prayer of the gnomes king invisible, who, taking the earth as 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 b

niversal medicine and the elixir of life. such is the problem which must be solved to accomplish this desire and to realize this dream. like all magical mysteries, the secrets of the great work have a triple meaning: they are religious, philosophical and natural. philosophical gold in religion is the absolute and supreme reason; in philosophy, it is truth; in visible nature, it 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 supe

tchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there. as to the possible administration of narcotics or other drugs, it is a question for the doctor and the law; but we do not think such enormities very likely to be repeated at this day. lovelaces no longer entrance clarissas otherwise than by their gallantries, and potions, like abductions by masked men and imprisonments in subterranean dungeons, have passed even out of our romances. they must be relegated to the confessional of the black penitents or the ruins of the castle of udolpho. 114 chapter xix the mastery of the sun we come now to that number which is attributed in the tarot to the sign of the sun. the denary of pythagoras and the triad multiplied by itself represent wisdom in its application to the absolute

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8 [10/9/2001 12:33:52 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 1-9) it is easy to confuse robert kirk's aims in writing his book with a number of quite different attitudes to fairy lore taken by modern scholars. we may, of course, dispose entirely of the victorian and subsequent notions of pretty little fairies topping through the grass in gossamer costumes of a mildly suggestive nature: the subterranean people, as kirk frequently calls them, are not such, and never have been. interestingly, kirk does use the phrase 'tripping darlings (page 58, though such usage has already been carefully qualified at the opening of his text (page 21) where he describes the ancient practice of introduction 8 referring to that which is powerful and potentially dangerous by kindly names. not only did th

l presentation no longer used today. we shall return shortly to the ultimate aim and nature of his argument. second, he is not presenting 'evidence' of the second sight, not even in the manner undertaken in the letter that he quotes from lord tarbett (pages 39-45, or in other contemporary or later collections of such evidence. the sight itself is presented as a concomitant of the existence of the subterranean world and its inhabitants, and there is no doubt in kirk's mind or his manner of writing as to its reality. the main discussion of the sight is not in terms of proof or 'belief' but seeks to establish a scientific definition of its origins, the sight itself being undeniably a physical and widespread occurrence. this scientific attitude has sometimes been overlooked in discussion of ki

th, and most important of all, kirk is not writing of the past or of dying traditions, and not solely of his contemporary present in which he observes or participates in seership, fairy contact and healing. he is, by his own definition (pages 90 and 95) writing for the future. he presents his examples as living evidence, stating that in the future such communication between the superterranean and subterranean worlds will be a regular and normal occurrence. we may note in this context that he sent copies to london, especially to mrs. stillingfleet (who was expecting her seventh child) and her husband bishop stillingfleet. stillingfleet was one of those divines who sought a reconciliation between nonconformist and orthodox religion, even though he held relatively high office in the state chu

ce is a polarized image of our own, thus they have summer when we have winter, day when we have night, and so forth. 2. the inhabitants of this world are real beings in their own right, and have certain substantial supernatural powers. 3. certain people, mainly male seers, are gifted with the ability to see such beings from the mirror or underworld, and to receive communications from them. 4. the subterranean people are able through signs and mimicry or dramatic actions to show seers what will come to pass in the human world. it is up to the seer to develop means of interpretation. 5. humans can and do physically transfer to the fairy or underworld. 6. the subterranean people are linked to the land, each region having its counterpart in the underworld. thus they are, in one respect, the ge

on. 5. humans can and do physically transfer to the fairy or underworld. 6. the subterranean people are linked to the land, each region having its counterpart in the underworld. thus they are, in one respect, the genii loci of the ancient world. 7. the spirits of the dead and of ancestors are also found in this underworld, though they are often distinct from the fairy race themselves. 8. both the subterranean people and the seers who perceive them retain fragments of ancient religious and philosophical tradition, often at variance with the religious and scientific viewpoints of the day. introduction 13 9. there are spiritual or psychic healers in the human world who work through methods laid down by tradition, often using corrupted prayers and incantations to accompany their healing ceremo

philosophical tradition, often at variance with the religious and scientific viewpoints of the day. introduction 13 9. there are spiritual or psychic healers in the human world who work through methods laid down by tradition, often using corrupted prayers and incantations to accompany their healing ceremonies. these are of a different category to the seers, and do not seem to receive aid from the subterranean or underworld the aim of the commentary although the secret commonwealth is only a short book, making a detailed and properly cross-referred commentary upon kirk's thesis would be a monumental task, fit to occupy the work of a polymath scholar, or perhaps a number of scholars from varied disciplines such as folklore, mythology, celtic studies, and jacobean and carolingian literature

xts and systems can only be truly interpreted in the light of folklore and collective tradition, and that scholars specializing in these texts often totally miss their true ground of http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_10.htm (4 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:34:12 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 10-18) origin and their relationship to the lore of ordinary people. so the problem cuts both ways, subterranean and superterranean, as kirk might say. there are also a number of direct connections between the material described by kirk and primal magical arts still practiced in ethnic groups or isolated communities today. to deal with this important area of study adequately, we would need to add an anthropologist to our group of experts, so in introduction 15 the present book these connections

10-18) worldwide copyright 1990, 1998-2001, rj stewart, all rights and permissions reserved http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_10.htm (8 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:34:12 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 21-29) flip to page# 21 the secret commonwealth robert kirk's text edited and annotated by r j stewart. this entire text is copyright(c) 1997, 1998 an essay of the nature and actions of the subterranean and for the most part invisible people, heretofore going under the names of elves fauns and fairies or the like among the low-country scots, and termed hubhsisgedh, caiben, lusbarten, and siotbsudh among the tramontaines [highlanders] or scottish-irish, as they are described by those who have the second sight and now, to occasion further inquiry, collected and compared. of the subterr

eat at those meetings, lest they have communion with, or be poisoned by them. also they are seen to carry the bier or coffin with the corpse, among the middle-earth men [that is, mortals] to the grave. some men of that exalted sight, whether by art or nature have told me that they have seen at those meetings a double-man, or the shape of the same man in two places; that is, a superterranean and a subterranean inhabitant perfectly resembling one another in all points, whom he [the seer] could easily distinguish one from the other by some secret tokens and operations, and so go [directly to] speak to the [real] man his neighbour, passing by the apparition or resemblance of him. they [the seers] avouch that every element and different state of being, has [in it] animals resembling those of an

angeable condition. and if they have any frolic fits of mirth, it is as the constrained grinning of a mort-head [death s head] or rather as [it might be] acted on a stage, moved by another [rather] than cordially coming [to laughter] of themselves. but other men of the second sight being illiterate and unwary in their observations, vary from these [interpretations and comments. one averring there subterranean people to be departed souls attending a while in their inferior state, and clothed with [temporary] bodies procured through their alms-deeds in this life called cuirp dhaondachbach, which means fluid active, ethereal vehicles to hold them[selves together, that they may not scatter, nor wander and be lost in the totum [plenum or fullness, or [in] their first nothing [the void] but if a

digging, found a vessel as large as a scottish-peck [this was] full of small pieces of good money, of ancient coin; which halving between them, they sold in dish-fulls for dish-fulls of [grain- or oat] meal to the country people. very many [witnesses] of undoubted credit [that is truthfulness] saw, and have [possession] of the coins to this day; but whether it was a good or bad angel, one of the subterranean people, or the restless soul of him who hid it that [so] discovered it [to the two women simultaneously, and to what end it was done, i leave to the examination of others. the secret commonwealth 32 11. these subterraneans have controversies, doubt, disputes, feuds, and siding of parties [against one another, there being some ignorance in all creatures, and the vastest created intelli

ens, apparitions, which though not the tenth part [being] true, yet could not spring [out] of nothing? even english authors relate of barry island in glamorganshire [saying] that [upon] laying your ear unto a cleft of the rock [the] blowing of bellows, striking of hammers, clashing of armour [and] filing of irons will be heard distinctly [this noise has occurred] ever since merlin enchanted those subterranean wights to [make] a solid manual forging of armor to [equip] aurelius ambrosius and his britains [so binding them to labour] until he returned [but] merlin being killed in battle, and not coming [back] to loose the knot these active vulcans are there [still] tied to a perpetual labour. but [i intend] to dip no deeper into this well [of historical examples [and] i will next give some ac

ne of the preexistence of souls, living into aerial vehicles [these examples] give a singular hint of the possibilities of the thing, 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

ts of the text page 21 these siths [people of the sidhe. are said to be of a middle nature [halfway] betwixt man and angel, as were daemons thought to be of old (see figure 1. with his opening words kirk draws a comparison which he develops throughout the remainder of the text: the fairy people are a specific race or order of life, halfway between humankind and angels. the similarity between this subterranean people and daemones is clearly defined, and reinforced by his description which follows (see pages 22-23. throughout the secret commonwealth kirk makes a distinction between fairies or subterraneans which have many similar attributes to daemones or advisory entities, and devils or demons, which are historically a later concept within developing christianity. at various stages in his e

entities of higher or more active subtle forms of matter, but physical nevertheless. this is a deep-rooted tradition, and just http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_72.htm (4 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:35:48 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 72-81) as the fairies are able to influence or appear in the human world, so may human beings step into, or be carried off into, the fairy realm, which is subterranean. throughout the secret commonwealth we need to bear in mind that kirk and his gaelic countrymen, some even to this day, always regard the fairies as physical entities. after describing the method of nourishment, which consists of draining various fluids arid vital energies from foodstuffs without actually consuming the main body of the food itself (once again presented as proof of phy

and the four elements as shown in figure 4, and though there are several variations upon the patterns, the basic conceptual model underpins ancient magical and metaphysical thought from the simplest models to the more refined, such as those of plato or of the jewish or hermetic neoplatonic kabbalah. page 23 some men of that exalted sight. have seen. a double- man. that is, a superterranean and a subterranean inhabitant perfectly resembling one another in all points, whom [the seer] could. distinguish one from the other. this is kirk's first mention of the double, reflex man or co-walker, a subject which he discusses in several places. although the subject seems to be similar to that of the popularized doppelganger or astral body (astral being a term which is often used indiscriminately to

ey neither can nor will easily converse with them. this sentence is derived from the long-enduring tradition of contact between the worlds, which http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_82.htm (2 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:36:03 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 82-91) seems always to be dependent upon the initiation or adjustment of perception in humanity. kirk asserts elsewhere that though the subterranean people can see us, we cannot easily see them (pages 47-48. conversation or direct contact with your co-walker is one of the chthonic magical techniques, found in underworld or shamanistic initiation worldwide. it has its mirror or reflex in the technique of conversation with the holy guardian angel, found in kabbalistic and christian mysticism, and featured in esoteric ritual and cont

erary sources that might have been available to kirk, but also has its place repeatedly in oral tradition. it seems to derive from fusion of pagan myths of the otherworld with collective memory of actual ritual practices, many of which are confirmed by archaeology. the mythic element is the most important, as the historical ritual element derives from it (a) the otherworld, in kirk's treatise, is subterranean, but he compares it with mythical or enchanted islands. such islands were part of the celtic legendary tradition, and both the subterranean and marine otherworlds were places of beauty, timelessness, light, and power. to the commentary 85 modern imagination, a realm beneath the earth suggests cold rock, damp, darkness, fear, and perhaps burning fire and punishment, deriving from the l

ne which kirk returns to in some detail later, citing a specific case contemporary to himself. the false human, a substitution also associated traditionally with that of children stolen away into fairyland, eventually expires: in kirk's later, more detailed, example a wife returns from the fairy realm and is reunited with her husband. one again the emphasis is upon a physical translation into the subterranean dimension: page 25. she neither perceives any passage out, nor sees what these people do in other rooms of the lodging. when the [fairy] child is weaned, the nurse either dies, or is conveyed back, or gets to choose to stay there. the three choices are resonant of triple patterns in a number of legends: in thomas rhymer's vision, the queen of elfland shows him three roads, that of rig

t of triple patterns in a number of legends: in thomas rhymer's vision, the queen of elfland shows him three roads, that of righteousness leading to heaven, the road of wickedness taken by mortals, and the road to elfland, upon which they travel onwards to her mysterious hall or palace. it is interesting that kirk states precisely that the mortal nurse. may be offered the choice of staying in the subterranean realm. commentary 87 if we consider this triplication in an initiatory context, the three choices- death, return to the human world, or remaining in the realm of fairy- are very close to those visionary roads shown to thomas. in bardic initiations the candidate spent a night in a sacred site, after which he was either dead, mad, or a poet. similar transits or thresholds at sacred site

hey are said to have aristocratic rulers and laws, but no discernible religion. they disappear whenever they hear. the name of jesus, at which all do bow willingly or by constraint that dwell above or beneath [or] within the earth. this is the first commentary 89 of a series of biblical quotations that kirk uses to prove his developing case for the physical existence of the fairy people and their subterranean world. the modern reader needs to be constantly aware that the biblical quotations were cited as firm (almost incontrovertible) evidence, not as comparative religious theories or mere dogmatic assertions. as a devout christian, kirk would have had no hesitation in proposing these supportive quotes, though the manner in which he uses them and the verses which he selects are sometimes s

RUBY TABLET OF SET

o the logos of indulgence! in the name of satan, archdaemon of hell, ruler of the world and price of the pit, have i brought my enemies to their knees, and made myself as a devouring demon strong in my doings. in nightly wanderings have my cloven feet pranced among the tombstones, and with twisted wraith-like creatures have i made merry to the syrinx from the void. low, my shadow moves within the subterranean caverns where the old ones cavort to make ready their imminent departure. in the name of lucifer, mighty minion who is exalted as satan, who has touched my mind in the depths of unknown thought, i pledge my soul and spirit to the execution of the great work and the continual search for the infernal grail! from the substance of the fourth angle, i push forth my will to touch the mind o

th of belial. seek and be glad, for infinity speaks only to those of self-realization, who know, and hear, and heed, the law [a participant anoints the initiate with water from the sea, and states] from the arid wastes and bleaching bones and nothingness you come into our midst. with parched and swollen lips, with ears thirsting for words of truth, your quest has led you to the shrouded and misty subterranean caves of leviathan. it is from this brine that all life springs forth. within you flows remnant saline seas, maintaining your kinship with the denizens of the deep, nameless creatures of dagon who, borne upon eternal tides, shall sustain you as they have sustained their land dwelling brethren in aeons past. take comfort in your briny heritage. arise now, and reveal yourself in the man

the council of nine replaced the satanic trident in its emblem with the tcham sceptre of set. at the set-iii conclave in xvi the order was once again reconstituted, this time as an honorary designation for all present and past members of the council of nine, and its emblem was condensed to a pentagram within a trapezoid. in the walhalla or "hall of the dead" at castle wewelsburg, westphalia- the subterranean sanctum sanctorum of the german castle which heinrich himmler had reconstructed for his own workings in the black art- michael aquino, high priest of set, conducted a working on october 19, xvii. one of the results of this working was the regeneration of the order of the trapezoid as a truly functioning order under the authority of the temple of set. this charter is consequent to the

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histrionically from the apex of its neo--classical pediment. and even though he did not have any idea of the true shape of that most protean and chameleon of cities he grew convinced that it kept changing shape as he ran around beneath it, so that the stations on the underground changed lines and followed one another in apparently random sequence. more than once he emerged, suffocating, from that subterranean world in which the laws of space and time had ceased to operate, and tried to hail a taxi; not one was willing to stop, however, so he was obliged to plunge back into that hellish maze, that labyrinth without a solution, and continue his epic flight. at last, exhausted beyond hope, he surrendered to the fatal logic of his insanity and got out arbitrarily at what he conceded must be th

drills, chirrup of burglar alarms, trumpeting of wheeled creatures clashing at corners, the deep whirr of a large olive--green garbage eater, screaming radio--voices from a wooden painter's cradle clinging to the upper storey of a free house, roar of the great wakening juggernauts rushing awesomely down this long but narrow pathway. from beneath the earth came tremors denoting the passage of huge subterranean worms that devoured and regurgitated human beings, and from the skies the thrum of choppers and the screech of higher, gleaming birds. the sun rose, unwrapping the misty city like a gift. saladin chamcha slept. which afforded him no respite: but returned him, rather, to that other night-street down which, in the company of the physiotherapist hyacinth phillips, he had fled towards his

SATANIC RITUALS

ortant yezidi ritual was to take place, a brazen figure of a peacock (called a sanjak) was removed from a secret hiding place by a priest and carried to the temple. it was placed on a pedestal around which a running spring of water played into a small pool this served as the shrine and icon towards which homage was directed. the water supposedly came from an underground stream which flows through subterranean caverns in a network opening under each tower of satan. the point of origin of these streams was thought to be the miraculous well of islam known as zamzam. the caverns supposedly terminated at the place of the masters-schamballah (carcosa. in order to establish proper perspective, in addition to the yezidis' own beliefs concerning the caverns and the effects of the towers of satan, t

of belial. seek and be glad, for infinity speaks only to those of self-realization, who know, and hear, and heed the law [priest anoints the initiate with water from the sea, and speaks] priest: from the arid wastes and bleaching bones and nothingness thou cometh into our midst. with parched and swollen lips, with ears thirsting for words of truth, thy quest has led thee to the shrouded and misty subterranean caves of leviathan. it is from this brine that all life springs forth. within thee flows remnant saline seas, maintaining thy kinship with the denizens of the deep, nameless creatures of dagon who, borne upon eternal tides, shall sustain thee as they have sustained their land dwelling brethren in aeons past. take comfort in thy briny heritage. arise now, and wrap thyself in the mantle

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

the ships and men of the enemy, and also of his own men and ships, he set them upon the water in the bowl, his men on one side, and those of the enemy on the other. he then came out, and having put on the cloak of an egyptian prophet and taken an ebony rod in his hand, he returned into the chamber, and uttering words of power he invoked the gods who help men to work magic, and the winds, and the subterranean demons, which straightway came to his aid. by their means the figures of the men in wax sprang into life and began to fight, and the ships of wax began to move about likewise; but the figures which represented his own men vanquished those which represented the enemy, and as the figures of the ships and men of the hostile fleet sank through the water to the bottom of the bowl, even so

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

ing of babalon be made open and i shall not cease or rest until these things are accomplished. 24 a few years after writing this, jack parsons was killed in an explosion in a laboratory at his home, which also served as a meeting place for other members of his satanic order. he evidently was not to become the prophesied antichrist, a fact parsons now knows only too well, residing as he is in some subterranean cell somewhere in a place called hell. three concealed messages the importance of hand signs to the illuminati and he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads. revelation 13:16 raise the right hand..extending the two fingers like a fork..then draw it back over the right shoulder and with a quick motio

nts a hand to heaven acknowledging the gifts or help received from extraterrestrial sources. it can also mean invocation, the calling down of powers or energy from the heavens or from ethereal sources (hell. yet another meaning is that the hand with all five fingers showing, palm outward, indicates that one is giving honor and admiration to the underworld deity. its essential meaning "thank you o subterranean lord for your deceptive wisdom and for your cunning aid in our struggle to overcome our enemies and to effect the great work" pharaoh ramses paying homage to the god horus, son of osiris, the sun god deity symbolized as the allseeing eye in the capstone on the u.s.a.'s dollar bill. quite possibly, the masons' sign of admiration and astonishment came from practices of adherents to the

magica illuminati and indicate the importance of the sun as symbol of satanic deity. englishman john yarker, a well-known nineteenth century masonic magician and occultist, in his notes on the scientific and religious mysteries of antiquity, makes mention of the fact that the high priests of the ancient jews also worshipped the sun god. he writes: the mysteries we know were practiced in a secret subterranean chamber under the temple of solomon, at jerusalem, where four and twenty elders adored the sun, with their sun worship in peru exemplifies the faces toward the east' universal worship of the sun god, or solar diety. what yarker says is true, but as the scriptures give evidence, this unholy worship by the jewish leaders in secret was an abomination to god. ezekiel 8 makes this crystal

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

try. while she was becoming wealthy from her performance of the satanic rites, la voisin was unaware that a police official named desgrez, a detective who had arrested madame de brinvilliers (1630 1676, an aristocratic satanist who specialized in poisons, was closing in on her black sabbats. when his men reported the number of the high-ranking and the high-born who were frequenting the satanist s subterranean chambers, desgrez found himself faced with quite a decision. it would not benefit him to anger so many important people by suggesting that the activities in which they were engaging were wrong. if he arrested la voisin, he would, at least indirectly, be criticizing the members of the aristocracy who regularly attended her sabbats and who relied upon her talents as a seeress and a prie

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7. maltwood, katherine e. a guide to glastonbury fs temple of the stars. london: clarke, 1929. hollow earth edmund halley (1656.1742) is best known for having calculated the orbit of a comet that passes by earth every 76 years. the comet known as halley fs made its first appearance under that name in 1682. during the next decade, halley turned his attention away from the celestial in favor of the subterranean. he claimed that the earth was hollow and populated by humans and beasts. halley fs hollow earth idea was developed further during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and sometimes backed by sound scientific reasoning. none of the claims of hollow earth proponents have been substantiated, however. those still holding to the belief in the twenty-first century are part of a long t

o would have been underwater. radiocarbon dating suggests instead that tiahuanaco was founded around 400, and after three centuries of gradual settlement, the city was abandoned around 1000. in the interim, the settlement had grown from a ceremonial center to a major city inhabited by 40,000 to 80,000 people. regular archaeological excavations have been underway in tiahuanaco since 1877. the semi-subterranean temple next to the akapana yielded a 24-foot tall monolith in 1932. that find and the generally arid climate helped sustain the idea that tiahuanaco served primarily as a ceremonial center. later finds, however, showed that it had been a thriving city, and dates for the time settlement and abandonment were established. why the place was abandoned, however, remains a mystery to convent

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

ses under the form of a burning bush and who made thy holy ghost descend upon the apostles and disciples under the form of fire of pentecost, o lord of mercy, we beseech thy immense goodness and thy inexhaustible mercy, to spare by the power of thy angels and the merits of thy saints the places where thy creatures live or take shelter as well as the creatures themselves, from the flames of the 23 subterranean fire, terrestrial conflagration and those caused by lightning. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator meditates for awhile and then prays that epidemics, pestilence, cholera, small pox and all germs attacking the vegetable, animal and human realms be controlled and eventually disappear from the surface of the earth: o god almighty and eternal, thou who deigned to heal the people of isr

THE BOOK OF GATES

nce; 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 filled, with rubbish, and the floor covered with large blocks of stone, so as to deceive any one who should force the fallen wall nea

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

stronomy 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. 13 his character. he hath under him 49 kings, 42 princes, 35 presidents, 28 dukes, 21 ministers, standing before him; 14 familiars, seven messengers: he commandeth 36000 legions of spirits; the number of a legion is 490. bethor governeth those things which are

herbs and roots, do cure the most happily of all. and in this manner, in constellations, words and characters, stones, and such like, do lie hid the greatest influences or vertues in deed, which are in stead of a miracle. so also are words, which being pronounced, do forthwith cause creatures both visible and invisible to yield obedience, aswel creatures of this our world, as of the watry, a ry, subterranean, and olympick supercelestial and infernal, and also the divine. therefore simplicity is chiefly to be studied, and the knowledge of such simples is to be sought for from god; otherwise by no other means or experience they can be found out. aphorism 37. and let all lots have their place decently: order, reason and means, are the three things which do easily render all learning aswell o

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

ss the astral plane. shamans descended to ihe underworld either to escort there the soul of a member of the tribe who had died, or sometimes to retrieve a soul in order to bring the newly dead back to life. such descents were considered dangerous by shamans, and few records of the rituals they used still exist. in one such rare description, an altaic shaman descended vertically down through seven subterranean levels called pudak, a word that means "obstacles" in this task, he was accompanied both by spirits of his ancestors and by familiars. at the seventh level, he reached the place where the nine subterranean rivers have their mouths and met the lord 3. eliade, 275. 4. deren, divine horsemen, 36. of the dead, erlik khan, to whom he uttered a prayer. if the prayer was accepted, he was per

ler, equal in height to human beings, and have generally fairer skin and hair. fairy society is similar to human society, but maintains the social structure that existed centuries ago in europe. chapter sixteen: astral guides 285 in a kabbalistic sense, fairies dwell below the surface of the lowest sephirah called malkuth, the sphere of the four elements. although much more benign that most other subterranean spirits, we know that they are infernal or chthonic because their dwelling places are under hills beneath the ground. on its surface, the astral world of malkuth is almost indistinguishable from the common physical world of everyday life. between malkuth and yesod is the realm of what are known as the earthbound spirits-the spiritual creatures of the natural world and the lower atmosp

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

still until you are surrounded by molten iron that glows with dazzling whiteness. contemplate the center of the planet earth for thirty seconds or so. ascend up the way you descended, passing through the liquid iron into the molten rock. watch with your inner vision as it becomes orange, then red, then dark, and changes from liquid magma to solid bedrock. press up past the fissures and pockets of subterranean water until you enter the base of the pillar. emerge from the ground and fill the pillar of gray stone with your awareness. observe that while you were beneath the earth, day has passed into night. in the moonless sky directly overhead is a large star that outshines all the other stars in the black vault of heaven. draw this star downward in the form of a blazing point of light and ca

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

a/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (18 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:58 "4: this is what the uniform they wear looks like to him. he says the box in the middle has different colored flashing buttons "5: this is the large 'boat, a sort of floating island he was brought to (note: some aspects of the abduction suggest that this was located in large underground lake or sea within a series of deep subterranean caverns- branton. there were many 'hybrids' on it also "6: these are the hybrids he sees. he says that they sit in a large circle holding hands. there is one small candle with a very large flame going. he says he is not afraid of the hybrids who blend with him and he says it feels very peaceful and good. when asked if the greys were the only aliens he sees, he drew the reptilian, thes

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