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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

a saga cap. 104 (fornm. sog. 4, 237. en jjat er sisr]?eirra (it is their custom) at hafa blot a haustum (autumn) ok fagna];a vetri, annat blot hafa]?eir at misjum vetri, en hit]?risja at sumri];a fagna];eir sumari; conf. ed. holm. cap. 115 (see suppl. the autumn sacrifice was offered to welcome the winter, and til ars (pro annonae ubertate; the midwinter sacrifice til grosrar (pro feracitate; the summer one to welcome the summer, and til sigrs (pro victoria. halfdan the old 1 ra. 245. 745. 821-5. sacrifice. 43 held a great midwinter sacrifice for the long duration of his life and kingdom, sn. 190. but the great general blot held at upsal every winter included sacrifices' til ars ok frisar ok sigrs' fornm. sog. 4, 154. the formula sometimes runs' til arbotar (year's increase, or' til frisar

divinity was not to remain rooted to one spot, but at various times to bestow its presence on the entire compass of the land (see ch. xiv. so nerthus rode in state (invehebatur populis),and berecynthia (ch. xiii, so fro travelled out in spring, so the sacred ship, the sacred plough was carried round (ch. xiii isis. the figure of the unknown gothic god rode in its waggon (ch. vi. fetcliing-in the summer or may, carrying-out winter and death, are founded on a similai view. holda, berhta and the like beings all make their circuit at stated seasons, to the heathen's joy and the christian's terror; even the march of wuotan's host may be so interpreted (conf. ch. xxxi. frau gaudeu. when fro had ceased to appear, dietrich with the ber (boar) and dietrich bern still showed themselves (ch. x. xxxi

endless abundance in the german forests. neither does scandinavia lack mountains and rocks bearing the name of thorr: thors jdint in east gothland (conf. wildegren's ostergotland 1, 17; tliorsborg in gothland, molbech tidskr. 4, 189. from norway, where this god was pre-eminently honoured, i have nevertheless heard of none. the peasant in vermland calls the south-west corner of the sky, whence the summer tempests mostly rise, thorshala(-hole, cave, geijer's svearikes hafder 1, 268. and the thunder-mountains of the slavs are not to be overlooked. near milleschau in bohemia stands a hromolan, from hrom, thunder, in other dialects grom. one of the steepest mountains in the styrian alps (see suppl) is grwiming, i.e, si. germnik, osl. gr"mnik, thunder-hill (sloven, gr'mi, it thunders, serv. gi'm

ard to understand; it is given, corrected, in peterson's finn, mythol. p. 17, and rosenpliinter's beitr, heft 5, p. 157^ ukko is, next to yumala (whom i connect with wuotan, the highest finnish god. pitkainen literally means the long, tall, higli one. 2 uhland in his essay on thorr, has penetrated to the heart of the on. myths, and ingeniously worked out the thought, that the very conflict of the summer-god with the winter-giants, itself signifies the business of bringing land under cultivation, that the crushing rock-splitting force of the thiuiderbolt prepares the hard stony soil. this is most happily expounded of the hrungnir and orvandill saj/as: in some of the others it seems not to answer so well. thunar. 177 showers, and his sacred tree supj^lies the nutritious acorn. thor's niinni

th maces and staves, and will hang up hermen (see suppl. it is not impossible that in these rude words, which have travelled down the long tradition of centuries, are preserved the fragments of a lay that was first heard when charles destroyed the irmensul. they cannot so well be interpreted of the elder arminius and the eomans^ the striking and the staves suggest the ceremony of carrying out the summer. in a part of hesse that lies on the werra, is a village named ermschwerd, which in early documents is called ermeswerder, armeswerd* ermencsioerde (dronke's trad. fuld. p. 123, ermcneswcrethe (vita meinwerci an. 1022. leibn. 1, 551= irmineswerid, insula irmini, as other gods have their isles or eas. this interpretation seems placed beyond a doubt by other such names of places. leibn. scr

g set in the sky. in some cases the heroic form is disfigured by animal peculiarities, as siegfried's by his horny skin, and others by a scaly; the mtirchen have heroes with hedgehog spikes. the legend of the merovings, imperfectly handed down to us, must be founded on something of the kind. avhen clodio the son of faramund with his queen went down to the shore, to cool themselves from the sultry summer heat, there came up a monster (sea-hog) out of the waves, which seized and overpowered the bathing queen. she then bore a son of singular appearance, who was therefore named merovig, and his descendants, who inherited the peculiarity, merovings^ theophanes expressly declares, that the merovings were called kpicndrai and tpi)(opa'xatat, because all the kings of that house had bristles down t

3 8 INITIATION CEREMONY

eg: leads theoricus between pillars turns to right and halts at foot of hierophant's throne. hiero: rises and takes red lamp in his hand. hiero: axieros the first kabir spake to kasmillos the candidate and said i am the sun in greatest elevation, bringing upon the earth the ripening heat, fructifying all things, urging forward the growth of vegetable nature. life giving, light producing, crowning summer with the golden harvest and filling the lap of plenteous autumn with the purple vintage of the vine. thus far is the voice of axieros. heg: leads theoricus round to seat of hiereus and halts before him in the n.w. hiereus: rises with red lamp in his hand. hiereus: axiokersos the second kabir spake to kasmillos the candidate and said, i am the sun in greatest depression beneath the equator

id, i am the sun in greatest depression beneath the equator, when cold is greatest and heat is least, withdrawing his light in darkening winter, the dweller of mist and the storm. thus far is the voice of axiokersos. heg: leads theoricus round to his own seat in the west and takes red lamp. heg: axiokersa the third kabir spake to kasmillos the candidate and said i am the sun at equinox initiating summer and heralding winter, mild and genial in operation, giving forth or withdrawing the vital heat of life. thus far is the voice of axiokersa. heg: places theoricus in a seat in west between himself and hiereus, facing hiereus and takes from him solar greek cross. hiero: the father of all congregated the 7 firmaments of the kosmos circumscribing the heaven with convex form. he constituted a se

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

d in the folk tradition of many lands and through families who kept alive the old beliefs and worship of the earth and the moon mother. not so many centuries ago, our ancestors burned yule logs at christmas as a symbolic gesture to bring light and warmth back to the world on the mid-winter solstice at the darkest time. they danced around the maypole on may morning, the beginning of the old celtic summer, to stir into life the earth energies in a sacred spiral pattern. these rituals go back into the mists of time and appear in similar forms in many different cultures and ages. today, however, too many modern societies have lost the sacred connection and scorn such gestures as superstition, treating the skies, the earth and the seas merely as a larder, fuel store and garbage can. once, thing

at act and react, not in opposition to each other, but as complementary and necessary parts of a whole. there are variations on this idea within the teachings of wicca. some traditions consider the goddess to be of greater significance than her male counterpart. others regard them as equal, assuming different aspects according to the season and ritual: she as the earth or moon deity, ruler of the summer months, he as the sun or corn god, ruler of winter and lord of the underworld after his death. along with other nature deities, the horned god became demonised with the advent of christianity, and the goddess was either depicted as a wicked witch or downgraded to the status of a faerie. thus the celtic warrior goddess maeve became the faerie mab, described thus by mercutio in shakespeare's

held at esbats and sabbats. an esbat is a monthly coven meeting, traditionally held 13 times a year during each full moon. the eight sabbats are described in the chapter seasons and festivals (see page 245, and celebrate the eight major divisions of the celtic year on the solstices, the equinoxes and the old fire festivals. these festivals mark the coming of early spring, the start of the celtic summer, the first corn harvest and the start of the celtic winter. there are also many lovely ceremonies to mark the transitions in the life cycle, such as handfastings, or weddings, and rites of passage to welcome recently deceased wiccans to the familiar circle whenever they wish to draw near. solitary witchcraft there are many reasons for performing witchcraft alone: your personal circumstances

f the old. air is also associated with the dawn and spring. incense is often used to represent air in spells and rituals. fire, in the south, is the quicksilver, inspirational energy and clear light of the sun, the lightning flash. it is the hearth fire that warms, the ritual fire that cleanses, the forest fire that sweeps all away. it represents the full power of the sun and light at noon and in summer. candles are used to represent fire. finally, in the west is water, that falls as refreshing rain, tides that ebb and flow, watercourses always finding a way, moving ever onwards, never backwards. water is associated with autumn and sunset. it represents the changing responsive, human emotions of life cycles, and personal ebbs and flows of energies. water is used to represent its own elemen

g to the direction of circles. these terms are clearer than clockwise and anticlockwise, because as long as you think in terms of the direction of the sun, the terms can be applied wherever you are standing on the globe. practitioners in the southern hemisphere will also need to alter the dates i have given. for them, for example, the mid-winter solstice is celebrated on or around 21 june and the summer solstice, when the sun is at it most powerful, is around 21 december. in the same way, the two annual equinoxes, when there is equal day and equal night, move round so that the spring equinox falls around 21 september and the autumn equinox around 21 march. it is perhaps better to think in terms of the wheel of the year, rather than our modern-day calendar, for what matters is not the date

make wishes and dreams come true, not just in faerieland but in the here and now. if you have sufficient space, you may set aside a room, perhaps a conservatory, attic or basement, or a sheltered spot in the garden for your special magical place. alternatively, you may need to use a corner of your bedroom or draw a velvet curtain across an area of a room where you can be quiet and private. in the summer, i like to work out of doors at my caravan and go down the winding track to the beach for my sea rituals (and puff and pant up again. in winter, i work either round the hearth that is the focus of the small, dark family room where i write, or high in the attic bedroom of my narrow house overlooking the hills. altars your special place will need to contain an altar. to many people, the word

as the triple goddess- maiden, mother and wise woman or crone- she is frequently central to coven work. generally in magick the goddess is recognised as the prime mover of existence, bringing forth from herself in the first virgin birth the animus, or male, principle. for this reason, it is often the high priestess who casts the circle, though in some covens the goddess rules over the spring and summer and the horned god over the autumn and winter. other gods and goddesses there is a vast selection of gods and goddesses from many different cultures that you may choose to form a focus for particular energies in rituals. i have given a list of these later in this chapter, but i have not given much detailed description, as it is important we create our own deity images. there are many excell

n she was seen again she would restore harmony to a troubled world. the people followed her teachings, the corn grew, the seasons continued to flow in succession and they were hungry no more, as buffalo became plentiful. by the end of the nineteenth century, however, there were in reality fewer than 200 buffalo left, where only years earlier it was estimated there had been several million. in the summer of 1994, a white buffalo calf was born in jamesville, wisconsin. as the prophecy had told, the white buffalo has changed its colours since birth, going from white to black to red to yellow and back to white. since each colour represents one of the four directions, the buffalo is seen by many native americans as a symbol of the rebirth of hope. one visionary interpreted the birth of the whit

ADDTLS

ds. a is not very strong in action when it is here 28 placed; and the queen of swords represents the moist force of a, h of w. therefore, if one could attribute a direct material action unto the squares of the tablet of union, the terrestrial effect would be that of a moist and gentle, scarcely moving, breeze; with a soft vibrating light playing through it, like the most gentle sheet-lightning in summer. it will aid the reader considerably, if, when meditating upon these examples, he draws the pyramid with the triangles so that he can refer to it at a moment s notice. the square h of mph in the great cross of the c tablet. triangle no. 1: seven of cups, h. triangle no. 2: m. triangle no. 3: c. triangle no. 4: c here the action of c is extremely passive, h, representing especially still c

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

to modify our machines in all sorts of ways which were not altogether foreseen. i wish to thunder forth once more that no questions of right or wrong enter into our problems. but in the stratosphere it is 'right' for a man to be shut up in a pressure-resisting suit electrically heated, with an oxygen supply, whereas it would be 'wrong' for him to wear it if he were running the three miles in the summer sports in the tanezrouft. this is the pit into which all the great religious teachers have hitherto fallen, and i am sure you are all looking hungrily at me in the hope of seeing me do likewise. but no! there is one principle which carries us through all conflicts concerning conduct, because it is perfectly rigid and perfectly elastic 'do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law' so: it

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

the planets according to pseudo- abano are! michael= gabriel% samael# raphael& sachiel$ anael' cassiel] note. the first hour of the day, of every country, and in every season whatsoever, is to be assigned to the sun-rising, when he first appeareth arising in the horizon. and the first hour of the night is to be the thirteenth hour, form the first hour of the day. the year16 the spring: taloi. the summer: casmaran. the autumn: adarael. the winter: farlas. table of correspondences 39 the angels of the spring: carcasa, core, amatiel, commissoros. the head of the sign of the spring: spugliguel. the name of the earth in the spring: amadai. the names of the sun and moon in the spring: the sun, abrayen; the moon, agusita. the angels of the summer: gargatel, tariel, gaviel. the head of the sign of

r: casmaran. the autumn: adarael. the winter: farlas. table of correspondences 39 the angels of the spring: carcasa, core, amatiel, commissoros. the head of the sign of the spring: spugliguel. the name of the earth in the spring: amadai. the names of the sun and moon in the spring: the sun, abrayen; the moon, agusita. the angels of the summer: gargatel, tariel, gaviel. the head of the sign of the summer: tubiel. the name of the earth in the summer: festatui. the names of the sun and moon in the summer: the sun, athemay; the moon, armatas. the angels of the autumn: tarquam, gualbarel. the head of the sign of the autumn: torquaret. the name of the earth in the autumn: rabianira. the names of the sun and moon in the autumn: the sun, abragini; the moon, matasignias. the angels of the winter: a

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

portance: the initiation of a new aeon. when it becomes necessary to utter a word, the whole planet must be bathed in blood. before man is ready to accept the law of thelema, the great war must be fought. this bloody sacrifice is the critical point of the world- 96 ceremony of the proclamation of horus, the crowned and conquering child, as lord of the aeon<summer of 1911 e.v, just three years before its fulfilment> this whole matter is prophesied in the book of the law itself; let the student take note, and enter the ranks of the host of the sun. ii there is another sacrifice with regard to which the adepts have always maintained the most profound secrecy. it is the supreme mystery of practical magick. its name is the formula of the rosy cross. in t

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

g some hours before i had started from honolulu! again, don't ask me why, or how, or anything! talking of kinks in time, i shall now maintain my aforesaid evil notoriety- the story is totally asynartete from fascinations of whatever variety- by recounting what is by far the most inexplicable set of facts that ever came my way. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 181 in the summer of 1910 e.v. i was living at 125 victoria street, in a studio converted into a temple by means of a circle, an altar and the rest. west of the altar was a big fireplace with a fender settee; the east wall was covered with bookshelves. enter the late theodor reuss, o.h.o. and frater superior of the o.t.o. he wanted me to join that order. i recommended him, in politer language to repeat the n

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

aling of god with his soul" 85 but even the beginner may attempt this practice with advantage. either a fact fits in or it does not; if it does not, harmony is broken; and as the universal harmony cannot be broken, the discord must be in the mind of the student, thus showing that he is not in tune with that universal choir. let him then puzzle out first the great facts, then the little; until one summer, when he is bald and lethargic after lunch, he understands and appreciates the existence of flies! this lack of understanding with which we all begin is so terrible, so pitiful. in this world there is so much cruelty, so much waste, so much stupidity. the contemplation of the universe must be at first almost pure anguish. it is this fact which is responsible for most of the speculations of

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

l lkb the son: assiah fs gsecret nature h (see s.d. 1:38-39) nb meditation (cf. 827; imagination; sin hmz a desirable one; to desire dmx brother-in-law mby hwhy in assiah hh ww hh dwy a dog blk 53 a stone, rock nb) elihu (see 52 )whyl) garden ng to defend, hide; a wall; the sun; fury hmx the spleen lwx+ a lover hbh)m 54 a basin, bowl, vessel (ex. 24:6) ng) rest ymd to judge, rule nd pertaining to summer mwx my flame; enchantments y+hl tribe; branch, rod, staff, stick, sceptre, spear; a bed h+m to remove; a heap, wall dn 55 1-10. the sum of the sephiroth; the mystic number of malkuth. thief; stole bng robbery, pillage hlyzg silence hmwd a footstool mwdh to swell, heave (see 51) myh to walk klh knuckle; member, limb )ylwx bride: a title of malkuth hlk noon; midday bgn ornament; splendour, em

ce; the sphere of jupiter qdc 195 a flock hnqm visitation hdwqp neptune (referred to kether) nw+pn 196 the sea of wisdom (s.d. 1:28, etc) pws my the crown, summit, point; thorn (cf. 140) cwq ages; worlds mymlw( narrowness; oppression qwc 197 most high god nwyl( l) 198 victories myxcn 199 a giving freely; charity hqdc 200 wings mypnk a branch pn( bone; substance, essence; body mc( archetypal nwmdq summer cyq a sling; a casting-net (lq divination; witchcraft msq 201 light (ch) r) 202 to make empty qqb corn, grain; a field; son; pure, empty; chosen; purity, innocence rb a lifting up hpyqz apertures mybqn many; much; great, mighty; multitude, abundance br 203 lead; initials of the trinity, xwr nb b; passed away, perished; feather, wing (moreover the genital member; cf. 248& 447) rb) to lie in

n 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 harass, perturb *mwh 612 covenant tyrb brother-in-law *mby 613 the etrog: the number of the divine precepts in the torah gyrt the quintessence of light rw)h t) 614 pertaining to summer *mwx 615 a footstool *mwdh to swell, heave (see 51 *myh 616 the ancient of days: a title of kether nymwy kyt( swords twbrx day *mwy the avenging angel *l)wgh k)lm 617 mighty acts (pl. of gstrength h; ps. 106:2) twrwbg the pillars of fire and cloud nn(hw#)h ydwm( pisces: fishes *mygd formidable, terrible *mwy) 618 contentions twbyr loves, amours (see 499 *mybh) 619 latest, last, after-part

rfect; wholeness; sincerity; perfection *mt 1001 you (masc. pl *mt) 1002 the bank of a stream rw)yh tp# an approach *nbrq 1004 the fruit of a tree yielding seed (rz (rz c( yrp grew fat; anointed *n#d 1006 instructions, glaws h (cf. 611) twrt the crown, summit, point; thorn (cf. 140 *cwq the ankles *mylwsrq 1008 winter *prx the breastplate of the high priest *n#x 1009 satan: the adversary *n# 1010 summer *cyq shin: a tooth *ny# craftiness, cunning *myl# witchcrafts, sorceries *myp#k 1011 foundations (ch *ny) the mountain zion *nwyc rh the essence of man *md)h t) the deep, the abyss (gn. 49:25 *mwht 1013 king of terrors *twhlb klm 1014 pertaining to autumn *prwx satan *n+#h demons *nyd# a seal *mtwx the gholy ones h (consecrated catamites kept by the priesthood *my#dq 1016 kether (spelt in f

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

descriptions of the book had aroused their keenest interest. i thus came to see that the fault lay with legge's translation, and i felt myself impelled to undertake the 12 task of presenting lao tze in language informed by the sympathetic understanding which initiation and spiritual experience had conferred on me. during my great magical retirement on aesopus island in the hudson river during the summer of 1918, i set myself to this work, but i discovered immediately that i was totally incompetent. i therefore appealed to an adept named amalantrah, with whom i was at that time in almost daily communion((weh note: amalantrah appears to be an astral being. crowley's amalantrah working with rodey minor and others does not settle the question of amalantrah being physical or incorporeal. this c

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE BANNED LECTURE

ally no means of finding out exactly how much, even if our documentary support is valid to establish any of these theories. it is, also, almost impossible to estimate the causes of any given event, if only because those causes are infinite, and each one of them is to a certian extent an efficient determining cause. take a quite simple matter like the time of year. if it had been winter instead of summer, the hens would not have been laying and hougomont and la haye sainte would not have been able to nourish the contending forces. but though it is profitable for the soul to contemplate the extent of what we don t know, it is in some ways more satisfying to our baser natures to consider what we do know in a reasonable sense of the word. it is not disputable that the battle of waterloo was fo

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

serpent, and the self-immolating scorpion. in alchemy it is the principle of putrefaction, the "black dragon, whose state of apparent corruption is but a prelude to the rainbow-coloured spring-tide of the man in motley. the nymph of spring, syrinx, the trembling hollow reed which needs but breath to fill the world with music, attracts pan, the goat-god of ecstatic lust, by whose work the glory of summer is established anew. it is obvious that "the length of thy longing" varies with the number of potentialities to be satisfied. in other words, the more complex the khu of the star, the greater the man, and the keener his sense of his need to achieve it. al ii,75 "aye! listen to the numbers& the words" the old comment 75. a final revelation. the revealer to come is perhaps the one mentioned i

es& eat unto me. this hath also another use; let it be laid before me, and kept thick with perfumes of your orison: it shall become full of beetles as it were and creeping things sacred unto me" the old comment 25. this incense was made; and the prediction most marvellously fulfilled. the new comment these beetles, which appeared with amazing suddeness in countless numbers at boleskine during the summer of 1904 e.v. were distinguished by a long single 'horn; the species was new to the naturalists in london to whom specimens were sent for classification. al iii,26 "these slay, naming your enemies& they shall fall before you" the new comment see liber 418, first aethyr, final paragraphs. al iii,27 "also these shall breed lust& power of lust in you at the eating thereof" the old comment 27. t

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

and 21, 1902. its original title was crowleymas day. it was issued privately in paris in january 1903. it and science and buddhism are added to complete the logical sequence from 1898 till now. all, however, has been repeatedly revised. wherever there seemed a lacuna in the argument an insertion was made, till all appeared a perfect chrysolite. most of this was done, while the weary hours of the summer (save the mark) of 1902 rolled over camp misery and camp despair on the chogo ri glacier, in those rare intervals when one s preoccuption with lice, tinned food, malaria, insoaking water, general soreness, mental misery, and the everlasting snowstorm gave place to a momentary glimmer of any higher form of intelligence than that ever necessarily concentrated on the actual business of camp li

lmighty about trifles, they would pray once and for all for a big range of mountains in central australia, which would of course supply rain automatically. no new act of creation would be necessary; faith, we are expressly told, can remove mountains, and there is ice and snow and especially moraine on and about the baltoro glacier to build a very fine range; we could well have spared it this last summer. 579. so much for this absurd affair.52 about lieutenant-colonel flare. gilbert, bab ballads. 636. auto-hypnosis.53 the scientific adversary has more sense than to talk of autohypnosis. he bases his objection upon the general danger of the practice, considered as a habit of long standing. in fact, lyre and lancet. recipe for curried eggs. the physiologist reproaches poor mr. crowley. this e

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

was men's wonder the day i came; i was ruddy and gold and pale: my eyes were light with a smouldering flame, on my lips was the untold tale, and men, as they passed, gazed hard and long, and women looked scorn and bale. yea! i was fair and strong. how should they know the thing i sought? i was rich and lovely and young, not young with the flame that the spring had wrought, but with fire from the summer sprung. no man dared speak, but they longed to speak: aye! many a glance they flung. but i stood with an unflushed cheek. and only the strangers heed me now; i am but a statue cold. ah! could they see the pain in my brow, my heart that is growing old. i may not summon them to my side, or move my lips' stern fold. i am the lonely bride. but never a man doth dare to speak, and with burning he

when we have learnt how to add unit to unit, a million and a millionth part of a unit will be ours. we will now conclude this part of our preface with two long quotations from prof. james's excellent book; the first of which, slightly abridged, is as follows "it is the terror and beauty of phenomena, the 'promise' of the dawn and of the rainbow, the 'voice' of the thunder, the 'gentleness' of the summer rain, the 'sublimity' of the stars, and not the physical laws which these things follow, by which the religious mind still continues to be most impressed; and just as of yore the devout man tells you that in the solitude of his room or of the fields he still feels the divine presence, and that sacrifices to this unseen reality fill him with security and peace "pure anachronism! says the sur

ove her, dribbling, filled with lewd thoughts and longings for the oleograph of the naked youth and the stinking secrecy of her "latrina" the child under the glittering horns of capricornus, when the mountains of the north glistened like the teeth of the black wolf in the cold light of the moon, and when the broad lands below the fiery girdle of many-breasted tellus blushed red in the arms of the summer sun, did miriam seek the cave below the cavern, in which no light had ever shone, to bring forth the light of the world. and on the third day she departed from the cave, and, entering the stable of the sun, she placed her child in the manger of the moon. likewise was mithras born under the tail of the sea-goat, and horus, and krishna- all mystic names of the mystic child of light. i am the

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

ears, a grecian face. over the shoulders is a black robe with a green collar; the robe is spangled with golden stars; the tunic is a pure soft blue. now the whole aethyr is swallowed up in a forest of unquenchable fire, and fearlessly through it all a show-white eagle flies. and the eagle cries: the house also of death. come away! the volume of the book is open, the angel waiteth without, for the summer is at hand. come away! for the aeon is measured, and thy span allotted. come away! for the mighty sounds have entered into every angle. and they have awakened the angels of the aethyrs that slept these three hundred years. for in the holy letter shin, that is the resurrection in the book of thoth, that is the holy spirit in the trinity, that is three hundred in the tale of the years, hath t

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ven here all my skill of speech and study may avail me little, so that the most important part of the record will be blank. now i cannot tell whether it is a part of my personal kamma, or whether the influence of the equinox of autumn should be the exciting cause; but it has usually been at this part of the year that my best results have occurred. it may be that the physical health induced by the summer in me, who dislike damp and chill, may being forth as it were a flower the particular kind of energy sammav yamo which gives alike the desire to perform more definitely and exclusively the great work, and the capacity to achieve success. it is in any case remarkable that i was born in october (18- suffered the terrible mystic trance which turned me toward the path in october (18- applied

s the matter with the time? the hours flit just like butterflies the moon, dead full, shines down the boulevard. my moon full moon of my desire!(ha, ha, thou beast! are "i and me and mine" not dead yet? yea, lord adonai! but the full moon means much to john st. john; he fears "fears, o lord of the western pylon! lest, of once that full moon pass, he may not win through."the harvest is over, the summer is ended, and we are not saved! yet hath not abramelin lashed the folly of limiting the spiritual paths by the motions of the planets? and zoroaster, in that same oracle just quoted? 7.35. hors d'oeuvres, bouillabaisse, contrefilet r ti, glace. 1/2 graves. 106 the truth is that the chittam is excited and racing, the control being impaired; and the ego is springing up again. 7.50. this racin

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rkness of his surroundings into boyhood, and as he grew and throve, so did the iniquity of that unnatural treatment which with lavish and cruel hand was squandered on him. then youth came, and with it god's name had grown to be a curse, and the form of jesus stood forth in the gloom of golgotha, a chill and hideous horror which vampire-like had sucked dry the joy of his boyhood; when suddenly one summer night he broke away from the ghouls that had tormented him, casting aside the sordid conventions of life, defying the laws of his 231 land, doubting the decaying religion of his childhood, he snapped, like rotten twigs, the worm-eaten conventionalities of the effete and hypocritical civilisation in which he had been nurtured, and sought refuge for a space in the wild and beautiful country w

souls; and so p. sought the universal solvent vitriolum, and equated the seven letters in vitriol, sulphur, 235 and mercury with the alchemical powers of the seven planets; precipitating the salt from the four elements- subtilis, aqua, lux, terra; and mingling flatus, ignis, aqua, and terra, smote them with the cross of hidden mystery, and cried "fiat lux" youth strides on with hasty step, and by summer of this year- 1898- we find p. deep in consultation with the mystics, and drinking from the white chalice of mystery with st. john, boehme, tauler, eckart, molinos, levi, and blake "rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden'd air, hungry clouds swag on the deep" insatiable, he still pressed on, hungering for the knowledge of things outside; and in his struggle for the million he miss

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monastery. there were assembled many holy men from every part of the civilized world, learned doctors, princes of the church, bishops, abbots, deans, all the wisdom of the world; for the question was important- how many teeth were there in a horse's mouth. for many days the debate swung this way and that, as father was quoted against father, gospel against epistle, psalm against proverb; and the summer being hot, and the shade of the monastery gardens pleasant, a young monk wearied of the discussion, and rising presumptuously among those reverend men, impudently proposed that they should examine the mouth of a horse and settle the question. now, there was no precedent for so bold a method, and we are not to be surprised that those holy men arose right wrathfully and fell upon the youth an

unched back and bandy legs; in the gnarled right hand a terrible whip, the carved jade handle blossoming into a rose of fine cords, shining with silver- sharp, three-cornered chips of silver! the whole dripped black with blood. upon the angel face stood a sneer, a snarl, a malediction. the effect upon one's sense of something beyond the ordinary was, too, heightened by her costume; for though the summer was at its height she was clad from head to foot in ermine, starred, more heavily than is usual, with the little black tails in the form of "fleurs-de-lis "in extreme contrast to this monster was a young girl crouching upon the floor. at first sight one would have hardly suspected a human form at all, for from her head flowed down on all sides a torrent of exquisite blonde gold, that comple

the northern ways to bring back my sheep to the fold. heyday! but the time was drear and long, for i lost my pipe and my mountain-song, and all the others of my sweet lays lost all their wonted gold. viii greece and rome and the pagan lands i knew ere the christ was born; i whistled songs between my hands, and blew through an old ram's horn. i was wise indeed! for i lost my way over the hills one summer's day, and near where venus' stature stands i lingered all forlorn. 133 ix laughing eyes and clear brown skin, and dark locks ripping wide, where the sunbeams play and the eddies spin i saw my face in the tide. but i knew the trick narcissus had done, so i shook back my hair to stare at the sun; my slim brown body i'd keep within the shade of the green hillside. x i found the groves of pan;

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efendant was really the plaintiff. he had compelled his wife_ for sufficient reason_ to divorce him by the threat that unless she did so he would break off friendly relations with her. next came a weary struggle to manufacture evidence, the plaintiff's lawyers keeping up the irritating wail "lord_ is so strict "we must have more adultery" so the "already overworked defendant was kept busy all the summer faking fresh "evidence to satisfy the morbid appetite of a scotch judge, while at the "same time he was obliged to hold constant and clandestine intercourse with "his own wife, lest she should lose her temper and withdraw proceedings!"12" this may have been an exceptional case_ we hope so. but that any "such mockery can take place anyhow and anywhere is a scandal and a reproach "to the nati

n of amen, and amen of amen of amen of amen. 9 the chapter known as aries the twelvefold affirmation of god and the unity thereof i adore thee by the twelve affirmations and by the unity thereof. 1. o thou show-clad volcan of scarlet fire, thou flame-crested pillar of fury! yea, as i approach thee, thou departest from me like unto a wisp of smoke blown forth from the window of my house. 2. o thou summer-land of eternal joy, thou rapturous garden of flowers! yea, as i gather thee, my harvest is but as a drop of due shimmering in the golden cup of the crocus. 3. o thou throbbing music of life and death, thou rhythmic harmony of the world! yea, as i listen to the echo of thy voice, my rapture is but as the whisper of the wings of a butterfly. 4. o thou burning tempest of blinding sand, thou w

roots! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou reveller of spirit, that carousest in the halls of matter! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou red-lipped vampire of life, that drainest blood from the black mount of death! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou little lark of beyond, that art heard in the dark groves of knowledge! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou summer softness of lips, that glow hot with the scarlet of passion! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou pearly foam of the grape, that art flecked with the roses of love! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou frenzied hand of the seas, that unfurlest the black banner of storm! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou shrouded book of the dead, that art sealed with the seven

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feelings on which i had trampled during the journey with all the little energy at my disposal now burst in, and i give myself up freely to my silent frenzy. the cold ever increased, and yet i saw people lightly clad, and even wiping their foreheads with an air of weariness. this delightful idea took hold of me, that i was a privileged man, to whom alone had been accorded the right to feel cold in summer in the auditorium of a theatre. this cold went on increasing until it became alarming; yet i was before all dominated by my curiosity to know to what degree it could possibly sink. at last it came to such a point, it was so complete, so general, that all my ideas froze, so to speak; i was a piece of thinking ice. i imagined myself as a statue carved in a block of ice, and this mad hallucina

and clinging splendours of opium! the lover of the shining berenice, egoeus, the metaphysician, speaks of an alteration of his faculties which compels him to give an abnormal and monstrous value to the simplest phenomenon "to muse for long unwearied hours, with my attention riveted to some frivolous device on the margin or in the typography of a book; to become absorbed, for the better part of a summer's day, in a quaint shadow falling aslant upon the tapestry or upon the floor; to lose myself, for an entire night, in watching the steady flame of a lamp, or the embers of a fire; to dream away whole days over the perfume of a flower; to repeat monotonously some common word, until the sound, by dint of frequent repetition, ceased to convey any idea whatever to the mind; to lose all sense of

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

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obs with life's bewitching agony, too long to measure and too fierce to tame! an hurtful joy, a fascinating shame is this great ache that grips the heart of me. even as a cancer, so this passion gnaws away my soul, and will not ease its jaws till i am dead. then let me die! who knows but that this corpse committed to the earth may be the occasion of some happier birth? spring's earliest snowdrop? summer's latest rose? ii thou knowest what asp hath fixed its lethal tooth in the white breast that trembled like a flower at thy name whispered. thou hast marked how hour by hour its poison hath dissolved my youth, 275 half skilled to agonise, half skilled to soothe this passion ineluctable, this power slave to its single end, to storm the tower that holdeth thee, who art authentic truth. o golde

mnity declared: gintlemen, hi taik hit 'is 'oliness his really 'oly, hin fact gintlemen hi taik hit 'e his gawd. hand so hi proposes the very least we can do for 'im his to subscribe yearly towards 'im folve shillins"'ear 'ear" from a comrade in the corner. however, the sheep wouldn't have it, and the 286 little man sat down to ruminate over lead piping, and solder at twopence a stick. during the summer of '07 i had little time to waste at number 60, and had almost forgotten about the mahatma, who, so i had been told, had let england for america, when i received a card announcing his return, and asking me to be present at a general meeting. this i did, and as usual was more than bored. after business was over the mahatma entered the room, all his sheep locking round him to seek the turnips

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n their beauty spill to tempt the quarry to the range of palamede his archer skill. all might he sits, with ardour strange and hope new-fledged. a gambler born aye things the luck one day must change, though sense and skill he laughs to scorn. so now there rush a thousand rats in sable silence on the corn. they sport their square or shovel hats, a squeaking, tooth-bare brotherhood, innumerable as summer gnats 43 buzzing some streamlet through a wood. sir palamede grows mighty wroth, and mutters maledictions rude, seeing his quarry far and loth and thieves despoiling all the bait. now, careless of the knightly oath, the sun pours down his eastern gate. the chase is over: see ye then, coursing afar, afoam at fate sir palamede the saracen! 44 xvii sir palamede hath told the tale of this misfo

s, and splits again, until the baffled warrior sees a myriad myriad swarms of these a-questing over all the plain. the good knight reins his charger in "now, by the faith of paladin! the subtle quest at last i hen" rides off the camelot to plight the faith of many a noble knight, sir palamede the saracen. 57 xxi now doth sir palamede advance the lord of many a sword and lance. in merrie england's summer sun their shields and arms a-glittering glance and laugh upon the mossy mead. now winds the horn of palamede, as far upon the horizon he spies the questing beast a-feed. with loyal craft and honest guile they spread their ranks for many a mile. for when the beast hat heard the horn he practiseth his ancient wile, and many a myriad beasts invade the stillness of that arm d glade. now every k

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secretly and apart, without asking the advice or approval of his adeptus minor. let the dominus liminis keep it when consecrated in the secret chamber of art. this then is that which is written "bring furnished with complete armour and armed, he is similar to the goddess" and again "i am armed, i am armed" 19 i.nsit n.aturae r.egina i.sis (obtained in invocation, june 9-10, 1910 o.s) all the hot summer i lay in the darkness, calling on the winds to pass by me and slay me, slay me with light in the heat of the summer; but the winds had no answer for one who was fallen asleep by the wayside, with no lyre to charm them, no voice of the lyre, and no song to charm them. late as i lay there asleep by the wayside, i heard a voice call to me, low in the silence, there in the darkness the summer c

gotten, mother of chronos, and the old gods before him, child of the womb of the silence, whose father is the unknown breath of the most secret goddess, whose name whoso hath heard is smitten to madness "now do i come before thee in thy temple, with offerings from the oak-woods and the breath of the water that girds the earth with a girdle of green starlight; and all the austerity of the brooding summer, and all the wonder of the starlit spaces that stare down awesomely upon the lonely marshes, and the bogs with sucking lips, and the pools that charm the wanderer till he forgets the world, and rushes to sleep upon them" 22 and still there was silence, and the voice of the world swept by me, making in mine ears the noise of tumbling waters; but two voices i heard, and they spake one to the

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fools that lack the sense of cows- enough of the future tense, jeanne! for the end of love and the end of art is just- my ear against your heart! aleister crowley. 51 circe her mouth a rosebud of delight, low-laughing 'mid the languid curls, whose kissing cadence seems to cite the rhythmic melody of night. her hair a saraband where whirls a wanton witch, whose perfumes smite the shuddering air; a summer night where summer lightning darts and curls. her soul a parian marble shrine, centred in lily-cups that fold their carven petals, smooth and cold, far o'er a lake of frozen wine- yet deep within whose inmost fold sleepeth a snake: the crystal brine of endless sorrow seals his shrine; wiser than sin is he, so old! ethel archer. 52 the electric silence 53 the electric silence [this parable i

all these things, and for the maiden in whom all these things are found, for the holy body and soul of man, and for the sun, and for the earth. amen. francis bendick. 111 sleep along the silver pathways of the moon (with lilies strewn to mark her passing hours) a mighty goddess strays. her rapt eyes gaze in calm undying swoon, like stars in june that guard earth's sleeping flowers, the guests of summer days. moving she plays some sweetly slumbrous tune, as mothers croon; through faint aeolian showers, her mist-hung garment sways. and in her shadow chaste as starlit snows, a vestal goes, scattering sweet roses: roses deep-thorned and red- whose leaves are shed in perfumed dreams, where glows a world that blows and fairy-like discloses the fields that flora fled. and some are sped where dre

slumber. all the world is dead. rose! rose! where art thou? o my rose, my rose! my secret rose, art lost among the gray? there is no voice in the silence; in the woods the brownness glistens under the weeping rain, 149 and i am in despair of thee and time. weeping the trees, and all the streams grown sullen under the lowering skies, and the bitter winds. there is no living thing in the temple of summer, and the ashes of spring lie cold on the hearth of day. gray dreams again! and all my hope is fled. gray dreams, gray dreams, and the day is tired and dead. the bitter aftermath of summer brings time's memory back to the world: there are no stings, in the world's pain, but only bitterness of the memory of time; no sore distress, save for the thought of summer waned and dead, and faded with

tired and dead. the bitter aftermath of summer brings time's memory back to the world: there are no stings, in the world's pain, but only bitterness of the memory of time; no sore distress, save for the thought of summer waned and dead, and faded with the gold skies overhead, and the young green beneath; ah! secret rose, here in the heart of the woods i pluck thee forth, fraught with the swell of summer, crimson-bright! and for the world under the stars to-night- it shall be thine, and thine the star that draws the world to worship thee: the days are fled under the heavens; there is no more sun, and no more love; the world is hushed and dead. slim-passing dryad through the lonely woods! i will follow thee in the paths of dank decay; decadent autumn, with thy lonely broods of active gnomes

er the stars to-night- it shall be thine, and thine the star that draws the world to worship thee: the days are fled under the heavens; there is no more sun, and no more love; the world is hushed and dead. slim-passing dryad through the lonely woods! i will follow thee in the paths of dank decay; decadent autumn, with thy lonely broods of active gnomes, and little red-capped fays, feasting in the summer dead under the trees dripping with autumn rains- ah! take me too, me too into the silence of the past, 150 the grave of desolation! i am weary of all things; let me sleep my life away! the breast of fate is pregnant with despair got on her by the piercing shaft of time. ah! unborn child of fate and time, i am weary of them that gave thee birth. shall i love thee? o darling, wilt thou come t

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which she wore piled up, slipped out of its ribbon and fell about her shoulders. her face. seemed to glow with well-being. one by one the dancing couples drew to one side and watched in amazement 'do you know what is happening?'alex asked her 'oh, yes' she said, but was unable to put it into words. afterwards she compared the feeling to when she was a child lying irra field of long grass one hot summer day. as she lay there, her horizon bounded by the green about her and the blue above, she felt part of the earth, the grass and the sky. it was exactly the feeling she had when she first felt the 80 power of witchcraft that winter .evening. it never left her again. as a child maxi11e had been educated at st joseph's convent in blackley, manchester. she was a devout catholic, her religion ha

begins at midnight on 20 december when the cauldron is wreathed with holly, ivy and mistletoe and the ritual symbolizes the rebirth of the sun. candlemas, on i february, is devoted to mass initiations. the spring equinox on 20 march is the major fertility sabbath. beltane,or may eve sabbath, on 30 april, another fertility sabbath but not so important as the equinox. midsummer night festival, the summer solstice, is on 21 june and is a social occasion when witches from some distance band together. august eve or lammas festival begins on 31 july and is primarily concerned with making spells to ensure a good harvest of crops, stock or money. the autumn equinox, on 20 september, is the equivalent of the christian harvest festival. home-grown or home-made produce is brought but none is eaten;

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one, as the next thing he does is light the cauldron. l beltane preparation: two white candles are on the altar with a wreath of spring flowers. quarter candles are green. hps leads the coven, riding poles if possible, about the covenstead with a quick, trotting step, singing: all: o do not tell the priests of our art, for they would call it sin; but we will be in the woods all night, a-conjuring summer in. and we bring you good news by word of mouth, for woman, cattle and corn, for the sun is coming up from the south with oak and ash and thorn. a ring dance follows after which the high priestess casts the circle. high priest draws down the moon upon the high priestess. all are purified in sacrifice before her. she then purifies the high priest at her own hands. all partake of cakes and wi

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on cosmic fire by alice a. bailey copyright 1951 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1979 by lucis trust dedicated with gratitude to helena petrovna blavatsky, that great disciple who lighted her torch in the east and brought the light to europe and america in 1875 "to the god who is in the fire and who is in the waters; to the god who has suffused himself through all the world; to the god who is in summer plants and in the lords of the forest; to that god be adoration, adoration" sh vet upanishad, ii.17. introduction the story of the many years of telepathic work by the tibetan with alice a. bailey is revealed in her unfinished autobiography, published in 1951. this includes the circumstances of her first contact with him, on the physical plane, which took place in california in november 191

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hts at the holy sepulchre at jerusalem. there is (11) the crucifixion and death of the lamb-god, on good friday, three days before easter; there are (12) the nailing to a tree (13) the empty grave (14) the glad resurrection (as in the cases of osiris, attis and others; there are (15) the twelve disciples (the zodiacal signs; and (16) the betrayal by one of the twelve. then later there is (17) mid-summer day, the 24th june, dedicated to the birth of the beloved disciple john, and corresponding to christmas day; there are the festivals of (18) the assumption of the virgin (15th august) and of (19) the nativity of the virgin (8th september, corresponding to the movement of the god through virgo; there is the conflict of christ and his disciples with the autumnal asterisms (20) the serpent and

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ght. he stores the nuggets of the knowledge of the world, as a squirrel stores its nuts. the storehouse now is adequately full..sudden a spade descends, for the thinker tends the garden of his thought, and thus destroys the passages of mind. ruin arrives, destroying fast the storehouse of the mind, the safe security, the darkness and the warmth of a satisfied enquiry. all is removed. the light of summer enters in and the darkened crannies of the mind see light..naught is left but light, and that cannot be- 103- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust used. the eyes are blinded and the one eye seeth not as yet. slowly the eye of wisdom must be opened. slowly the love of that which is the true, the beautiful and good must enter the dark pass

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h you already know in theory and which you need now to work out in practice. that working out lies with you individually; when you have worked out that which you know, then more will be forthcoming. i can, however, teach you somewhat anent the newer aspects of group work and this i seek to do and you seek to know. one thing only would i say to you at this time of a personal nature: rest much this summer; be much out of doors and lay the foundations for work in the coming winter months by much quiet thinking in the open air. january 1937 brother of old- 207- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust again there is little that i feel the need of saying to you. you are responsive to much teaching upon the inner side and a form of definite reflective intercourse has been

roup must be kept away from your decision, so that you can make it freely and unhampered- 220- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust the group must then abide by your decision. february 1937 only my love and understanding go out to you at this time, my brother, but not my words or my instruction. seek the way of selfless service and all is well "as birds fly together to summer realms, so souls unite in flight. passing through the gate they thus alight before the throne of god" thus wrote an unknown saint of the church, who travelled not alone. note: this disciple decided for a while to travel alone upon the way as far as affiliation with the tibetan's group of disciples was concerned. on the inner side, the group remains intact with all its members affiliated, ac

self-ascertained, and based upon the linking of your soul with mine upon the mental plane. ponder on this. each expansion of consciousness is preceded by a period of testing in some one of the three bodies, and in some aspect of the lower nature. to this, you have been no exception. for two years now you have been tested, consciously or unconsciously, and this climaxed in the illness of the past summer. this i know you realise. such tests produce an inner unfoldment which may be more apparent to those who teach you than to yourself. this testing and its results constitute a responsibility, and open up avenues of approach to the central reality of the soul, hitherto not employed. you are entering now upon a few years of intensified training. for this you must be prepared. are you willing f

d and you can be trusted today with a closer contact with me and with the group on the inner subjective plane. the inner group remains and is closely linked with me. you have struggled for years to overcome the glamours and illusions which overwhelm you with such frequency. your major gain has been to recognise more consciously the danger and a more swift reaction to it when it appears. late last summer and early in the autumn, you very nearly succumbed to an old rhythm. suspicion of yourself, an uneasy conscience and much outer plane work tended to safeguard you. see to it most carefully that this contact with me and with your brothers in the inner group does not re-awaken into activity well-trained tendencies, old forms of wishful thinking, and old desires for power. for you, the remaind

astral levels. the task of this particular group is to work with power on physical levels; hence the definite personality tendencies and the desire for outer contact which several of the group members have so strongly demonstrated. i would have you bear this in mind and maintain watchfulness over yourself and helpfulness towards others. i would ask you, therefore, if you would do so, to take this summer for careful and serious study of all the instructions that the group have received so that by a self-applied forcing process you can start on an equal basis. i am giving you no set meditation work until my next communication. this instruction will- 500- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust provide you with more than adequate meditation material, and i would ask y

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ades, france has given to the world a picture of great disunity and of political corruption and graft; she has always evidenced a deep love and desire for material gratification, priding herself on her realism, but not on any spiritual idealism, and substituting the brilliance of the intellect and keen scientific perception for the subjective realities. has france learned from her collapse in the summer of 1940 that the values of the spirit must take the place of those which have hitherto motivated her? does she realize that she has to regain the respect of the world a respect which she lost when she surrendered and sought collaboration, thus proving herself innately weaker than those much smaller nations which fought until forced to accept defeat? can france emerge from this time of trial

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d over two years ago and it has meant a real loss to me and my husband, foster bailey. we were three close friends and his constant letters are greatly missed by us- 12- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust another aunt, margaret maxwell, has perhaps meant more to me than any other relative in the world, and i have many. she was never my guardian but my sister and i spent every summer with her in her scotch home for years and, until she died (well over 80 years old) she wrote to me regularly at least once a month. she was one of the great beauties of her period and the portrait of her which hangs today in cardoness castle, kirkcudbrightshire, is of one of the loveliest women one can imagine. she married the "younger of cardoness (as the heir is sometimes called in scotla

enders" the first i had ever had. i had been promoted from the sock stage. clothes always matter, apparently, no matter what the age or the circumstance! i used to own a very large miniature case in silver which my father was in the habit of carrying everywhere with him and in it was the only portrait i ever had of my mother. in 1928, after carting it all over the world with me, it was stolen one summer when i was away from our house at stamford, conn, where we then lived, and with it went my bible and a broken rocking-chair. it was the most curious choice of things to steal of which i have ever heard. the bible was the greatest personal loss. it was a unique bible and had been my cherished possession for twenty years. it had been given me by a close, girlhood friend, catherine rowan-hamil

98 lucis trust the two of us. the discipline, then applied, continued until i was grown up and looking back now i can realize how frightfully severe it was. every thirty minutes of our lives were arranged for and even today i can see the chart hung on the wall of our schoolroom, indicating the next duty. how well i remember going over to it and asking myself "what now" up at 6 a.m, rain or shine, summer or winter; practicing scales for an hour or preparing the day's lessons if it was my sister's turn for the piano; breakfast at 8 a.m. sharp, in the schoolroom, and then down to the dining room at 9 for family prayers. we had to start the day right with a recollection of god and, in spite of the austerity of the family faith, i think it is a good habit. there sat the head of the household wi

his land. we were taught that money and position entailed certain obligations and that these obligations must be met. the other thing i remember vividly was the beauty of the countryside and the flowery lanes and the many woods through which my sister and i drove our little pony carriage. it was what was called in those days "a governess cart" designed, i presume, specially for small children. on summer days my sister and i used to take it out, accompanied by a little page boy in uniform and buttons and a cockaded hat, standing on the step. i wonder sometimes if my sister ever thinks of those days. after my grandfather's death, moor park was sold, and we went for a short while to live with our grandmother in london. my major recollection of that time is driving round and round the park wit

ing school in london at the age of eighteen. she was the one person to whom i felt "anchored" she gave me a sense of "belonging" and was one of the few people in my life at that time who i felt truly loved me and believed in me. three people at that time gave me this feeling of confidence. one of these was my aunt, mrs. maxwell, of castramont, of whom i have earlier spoken. we used to spend every summer with her and she was as i look back one of the basic, conditioning forces in my life. she gave me a keynote for living so that i feel to this very day that any achievement which i may have had can be traced back to her deeply spiritual influence. until she died she kept in close touch with me, even though i had not seen her for twenty years prior to her death. the other person who always ga

work and one that would have left my family aghast had they known of it. i do not know that i would have blamed them. remember that girls did not have the freedom that they now have and, after all, i was only twenty-two. one of the batteries of the royal horse artillery was at that time stationed at newbridge barracks, and the men of the battery (whom i had met up at the practice camp during the summer) asked me to go down there every evening to their army temperance room. it meant getting there at 6 p.m. and returning very late at night, because they had permission for me to hold a gospel meeting in their a. t. a. room after the canteen closed. after due discussion, it was decided that i might accept and every evening i bicycled down after that abominable british meal, called "high tea"

cis trust from this time on my life became very hectic. i was (in the absence of miss schofield) supposed to be responsible for quite a number of soldiers homes quetta meerut lucknow chakrata, and two homes which i helped open umballa and rhanikhet in the himalayas, no great distance from almora. chakrata and rhanikhet were in the foothills, about five or six thousand feet up and were, of course, summer stations. from may till september we became "hill parrots" there was another home in rawal pindi, but i had nothing to do with that, except that i went there for a month once to release miss ashe, who was in charge. in each of these homes there were two ladies and two managers, who were responsible for the running of the coffee shop and the general maintenance of the place. they were usuall

these matters interest me and all people who love their fellowmen. i have very little recollection of anything particular which happened during these first weeks in meerut but my real experience started in quetta. my work in the quetta soldiers home stands out in my mind as one of the most interesting phases of the work. i like quetta. it stands about 5000 feet high and is very hot and dry in the summer and 45 degrees below zero in the winter. yet, in my day, even in the bitterest cold, we had to wear sun helmets. i find that sun helmets are not worn so much these days and two of my daughters, who have been in india for years with their husbands, seldom wore them and laugh at my ideas. but in my day they were de rigeur. quetta is the largest town in baluchistan, and baluchistan is a kind o

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grows stronger in their ears. i have given you much time and thought, and earnestly i have sought to aid you on the way. my love and strength are ever yours, but not always my time and attention. my earnest prayer is that the light may enfold you and the love of god transmute your lives. for many years i have been looking ahead with definite planning and intent to the work which began in the late summer of 1936. i have sought with the knowledge of some of you to prepare you all as a group for an active participation in this future work. as i enter upon the task of preparing you for future increased usefulness and for closer cooperation, i must myself perforce take certain risks, and there must be established between us a trust which will be based not on secrecy and reticences but on truth

soned approach to daily living is in a measure a great releasing a releasing of hidden beauties, unsuspected and seeking the light of day. have you not read that the bombing of london by high explosives produced great upheavals and that ancient layers of soil hidden for centuries from the light of day were brought to the surface? as a result, strange, rare, unknown and beautiful flowers have this summer appeared to excite interest and investigation and to hide the ruins with beauty and colour. ponder on this, for so it can be with a human life. beauty is beginning to flower in your life, bringing its own responsibilities, engendering its own magnetic field, bringing to you those who otherwise might not have ventured to come, and who will give you a love which may at first arouse questionin

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the centre where the will of god is known" directly to the new group of world servers, via those ashrams which are working along the lines of outer, practical goodwill. the reception of this energising will-to-good should produce a definite "stepping-up" or increase of goodwill and enable the goodwill movement to proceed with greater momentum this coming autumn and winter; it will take the entire summer for the needed assimilation by those engineering this movement all over the world. the absorption of the love which flows from the heart of god to the hierarchy will necessarily have widespread effects; however, one of the most immediate will affect the triangles and- 363- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust increase the potency of the network of light and of goo

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ules, the aspirant, the whole story of the human being is again most strikingly portrayed. in canis major we find sirius, the dog star, called in many old books "the leader of the entire heavenly host, for it is ten or twelve times brighter than any other star of the first magnitude. sirius has always been associated with great heat, hence we have the phrase of "the dog days" in the middle of the summer, when the heat is supposed to be greatest. from the standpoint of the occultist, sirius is of profound significance "our god is a consuming fire, and sirius is the symbol of the universal soul as well as of the individual soul. it is therefore, esoterically considered, the star of initiation. in the language of symbology we are told, there comes a moment when a star blazes forth before the

month of the christ, and on the twenty-fifth of december down the centuries the birth of the world savior has been celebrated; but in very ancient days, the birthday of the infant sun gods was in cancer. we are told "the birthday of the infant jesus, being arbitrarily set by the priests, produces a serious discrepancy, as we are told he was born in a manger. the manger is found in the sign of the summer solstice, the constellation cancer, which was called the gate of the sun through which souls were said to descend from their heavenly home to earth, just as at the winter solstice in december, they were said to return to their heavenly or celestial home, the constellation capricorn, the other gate of the sun. capricorn was the sign from which sungods were said to the born at the winter sols

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prout forth. but as soon as the spring comes, and the cold is vanquished by the power of the sun, everything is restored to life, the trees and herbs put forth buds, leaves, and blossoms, the hibernating animals creep forth from twelve keys of basil valentine 49 of 95 their hiding places, the plants give out a sweet fragrance, and are adorned with a great variety of many coloured flowers; and the summer carries on the work of the spring, by changing its flowers into fruit. thus, year by year, the operations of the universe are performed, until at length it shall be destroyed by its creator, and all the dwellers upon earth shall be restored by resurrection to a glorified life. then the operations of earthly nature shall cease, and the heavenly and eternal dispensation shall take its place

rations of the universe are performed, until at length it shall be destroyed by its creator, and all the dwellers upon earth shall be restored by resurrection to a glorified life. then the operations of earthly nature shall cease, and the heavenly and eternal dispensation shall take its place. when the sun in the winter pursues his course far away from us, he cannot melt the deep snow. but in the summer he approaches nearer to us, the quality of the air becomes more fiery, and the snow melts and is transmuted by warmth into water. for that which is weak is always compelled to yield to that which is strong. the same moderate course must be adopted in the fiery regimen of our magistery. for it is all important that the liquid should not be dried up too quickly, and that the earth of the sage

eing composed of white and red. it is a stone, and no stone; therein nature alone operates. a fountain flows from it. the fixed part submerges its father, absorbing it, body and life, until the soul is returned to it. and the volatile mother like to him, is produced in her own kingdom; and he by his virtue and power receives greater strength. the volatile mother when prepared surpasses the sun in summer. thus the father by means of vulcan was twelve keys of basil valentine 73 of 95 produced from the spirit. body, soul, and spirit exist in both, whence the whole matter proceeds. it proceeds from one, and is one matter. bind together the fixed and the volatile; they are two, and three, and yet one only. if you do not understand you will attain nothing. adam was in a bath v v wherein venus fo

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ld like to thank dr. douglas duckworth for his assistance in translating a good portion of the tibetan materials utilized in this work. he took the time outside of scheduled classes to work with me on this material, fortifying my understanding of these ritual texts and clarifying many troublesome points. i owe a debt of gratitude to david germano, robert barnett, and erin burke, who organized the summer language program to lhasa, tibet in 2005, which i attended. this experience afforded me the opportunity to enhance greatly my research on the subject of tsiu marpo and visit many key sites tied to the history of this deity. i wish to thank especially lozang of k ndeling monastery and lodr gyeltsen of tengy ling monastery. i befriended these two tibetan lamas during the summer program and th

ort. translations of these texts are provided as appendices. their content and fragments are quoted and analyzed within this study to support my arguments. other synchronic materials include ethnographic information culled from secondary sources as well as field observations that i have made personally. these observations were conducted from june to august 2005 in tibet, where i was involved in a summer language program organized by the university of virginia and columbia university in cooperation with tibet university, lhasa. the time spent during this summer afforded me the opportunity to advance my research on tsiu marpo exponentially. the second and third texts described above were given to me by tibetan lamas during this time and i was able to conduct a number of impromptu interviews

; de nebesky-wojkowitz 1998, pp. 409-454 for the earliest extensive examination of the tibetan oracle tradition and its main features; peter 1978a and 1978b, and rock 1935 for some preliminary observations; rinzin 1992 for a specific examination of the nechung (gnas chung) state oracle; bellezza 2005 for an exploration of b n oracles; and stuart 1995 for local oracles and their involvement in the summer festival of a tibetan village. see also mills 2003, pp. 168-170. 153 berglie (1976) is especially fond of this title. 154 see diemberger 2005, p. 128. also see stein 1959. 155 personal correspondence with lodr gyeltsen, lama of tengy ling monastery, lhasa. july 24th, 2005. also see tewari 1987, p. 140. 156 see de nebesky-wojkowitz 1998, p. 428; peter 1978b, p. 288; and tewari 1987. 114 poss

the great god and his retinue with the ocean of clouds of the outer, inner, and secret offerings" repeat this three times. 526 materials for the ritual of amending and restoring. 527 sanskrit transliteration "nectar of immortality" 197 within the general and specific teachings of the buddha (6b) the great geluk sect,528 never waning, will flourish well until the end of existence and perform, like summer water, favorable conditions, prosperity, and well-being. from the expanse of the red copper fields in many places, the king of the war deities, tsi mar together with his retinue, who eat the flesh, blood, and heart of the swift enemy, accomplishes the fulfillment of all desires. by means of altruism and amicability, protect me. by means of rage, crush the enemy and hindering demons. by mean

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rom a bud, and the bud from its seed. but whence the latter, with all its predetermined programme of physical transformation, and its invisible, therefore spiritual forces which gradually develop its form, colour, and odour? the word evolution speaks for itself. the germ of the present human race must have preexisted in the parent of this race, as the seed, in which lies hidden the flower of next summer, was developed in the capsule of its parent flower; the parent may be but slightly different, but it still differs from its future progeny. the antediluvian ancestors of the present elephant and lizard were, perhaps, the mammoth and the plesiosaurus; why should not the progenitors of our human race have been the "giants" of the vedas, the voluspa, and the book of genesis? while it is positi

hey knew of all this, who then told them of it? in[[vol. 2, page] 12 the secret doctrine. their day, and for ages previously, greenland must certainly have been already covered with perpetual snows, with neverthawing ice, just as it is now. everything tends to show that the land of the short nights and the long days was norway or scandinavia, beyond which was the blessed land of eternal light and summer; and to know of this, their tradition must have descended to the greeks from some people more ancient than themselves, who were acquainted with those climatic details of which the greeks themselves could know nothing. even in our day, science suspects beyond the polar seas, at the very circle of the arctic pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green

ragon which was killed in 1669 by a roman peasant, as the director of the museo barberini sent it to him, to take the beast's likeness, which father kircher did and had it published in one of his in-folios. after this he received a letter from christopher scherer, prefect of the canton of soleure, switzerland, in which that official certifies to his having seen himself with his own eyes, one fine summer night in 1619, a living dragon. having remained on his balcony "to contemplate the perfect purity of the firmament" he writes "i saw a fiery, shining dragon rise from one of the caves of mount pilatus and direct itself rapidly towards fluelen to the other end of the lake. enormous in size, his tail was still longer and his neck very extended. his head and jaws were those of a serpent. in fl

accounts, the island is still existing, then those accounts must be older than the 11,000 years elapsed since sancha dwipa, or the poseidonis of atlantis, disappeared. is it not barely possible that hindus should have known the island still earlier? let us turn again to astronomical demonstrations, which make this quite plain if one assumes, according to the said adept, that "at the time when the summer tropical 'colure' passed through the pleiades, when cor-leonis would be upon the equator; and when leo was vertical to ceylon at sunset, then would taurus be vertical to the island of atlantis at noon" this explains, perhaps, why the singhalese, the heirs of the[[footnote(s* america, the "new" world- is thus, though not much, older; still it is older than europe, the "old world* if div or d

of life eternal" says ragon, and adds that this is why the greek letter z, which is but a double 7 is the initial letter of zao "i live" and of zeus "the father of all living[[footnote(s* see liddell's greek-english lexicon[[vol. 2, page] 583 the mystery of the number six. moreover, figure 6 was the symbol of the earth during the autumn and winter "sleeping" months, and figure 7 during spring and summer- as the spirit of life animated her at that time- the seventh or central informing force. we find the same in the egyptian mythos and symbol of osiris and isis, personifying fire and water metaphysically, and the sun and the nile physically. the number of the solar year, 365 in days, is the numerical value of the word neilos (nile. this, together with the bull, with the crescent and the ans

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eat in the sun" by robert hunt, f.r.s (in "popular science review" vol. iv, p. 148, who, speaking of the luminous envelope of the sun and its "peculiar curdy appearance" says "arago proposed that this envelope should be called the photosphere, a name now generally adopted. by the elder herschell, the surface of this photosphere was compared to mother-of-pearl. it resembles the ocean on a tranquil summer-day, when its surface is slightly crisped by a gentle breeze. mr. nasmyth has discovered a more remarkable condition than any that had previously been suspected. objects which are peculiarly lens-shaped. like 'willow leaves. different in size. not arranged in any order crossing each other in all directions. with an irregular motion among themselves. they are seen approaching to and receding

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to find some of his own experiments more or less confirmed in liber hhh of which he writes: m.m.m. 2 .mentions the breath playing upon the skin, etc. i have experienced this, and asked fra p.a. for instructions thereon. sometimes, after hard breathing, i have been filled with the sensation. i think i understand the .lightning flash. but shall experiment. my present knowledge is more as a sheet of summer lightning. the minute point of light has often appeared to me, and i had come to the conclusion that it should be held in the zenith. the radiating cone, i have not experienced. ii. a.a.a. the idea of considering one.s own death is mentioned. this occurred to me and was carried out before my first illumination; this serves as a confirmation that i was on the right track. i should have no do

d goal. i know also that i have problems to face, now, or in the future, but have learnt to keep doing what comes to hand, without wavering or despairing. i do not seem to have made much definite progress, yet there are signs which give me to understand that all is as it should be; perhaps i am more in tune and so do not notice such vivid changes. i have found nature very fair and beautiful, this summer. i have got to love her so much more than formerly. then again, i have mastered her a little more; i have learnt more of swimming, climbing, walking and other exercises through daily practice. i have made new friends, have learnt from them and taught them in return. all this, in spite of the limited existence of living in a tiny tent and often being very hard up. the power to retreat into t

ake hard thy soul against the snares of self; deserve for it the name of .diamond-soul. here is another muddle, for the words .soul. and .self. have previously been used in exactly the opposite meaning. if any meaning at all is to be attached to this verse and to verse 59, it is that the progress downwards, the progress of the redeemer of the sun as he descends from the zenith, or passes from the summer solstice to his doom, must be a voluntary absorption of death in order to turn it into life. never again must the adept be deceived by his impressions, though there is that part of him which suffers. the equinox 104 59. for, as the diamond buried deep within the throbbing heart of earth can never mirror back the earthly lights, so are thy mind and soul; plunged in dhyana-marga, these must m

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against him. 2) god's laws 2.1] contemplate all the events in the sky; how the lights in the sky do not change their courses, how each rises and sets in order, each at its proper time, and they do not transgress their law. 2.2] consider the earth and understand from the work that is done upon it, from the beginning to the end, that no work of god changes as it becomes manifest. 2.3] consider the summer and the winter; how the whole earth is full of water and the clouds and dew and rain rest upon it. 3.1] contemplate and see how all the trees appear withered and all their leaves are stripped- with the exception of the fourteen trees, which are not stripped, which remain with the old leaves until the new come after two or three years. 4.1] and, again, contemplate the days of summer; how at

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e; cakes and ale. lesson six sabbats samhain; beltane; imbolc; lughnasadh. 79 lesson seven meditation, dreams and the minor sabbats meditation how meditation works; technique; posture; area; time of day: method. dreams the source; dream interpretation and symbology; remembering dreams; personal symbols; the repetitive dream; group dreams; dreams vs out-of-body experiences. rituals spring equinox; summer solstice; autumnal equinox; winter solstice. lesson eight 97 marriage, birth, death and channeling handfasting rite; handparting rite; birth rite; crossing the bridge. the intuitive process-categories of channeling; clearing the channel; external focal points; interpreting channeled information. the aura. sensory deprivation. the witches' cradle. lesson nine 111 divination, tarot; scrying;

ned with the fertility aspect. woman was the bearer and nurser of the young. the goddess was her representative as the great provider and comforter; mother nature or mother earth. with the development of agriculture there was a further elevating of the goddess. she now watched over the fertility of the crops as well as of tribe and of animal. the year, then, fell naturally into two halves. in the summer food could be grown, and so the goddess predominated; in the winter wo/man had to revert to hunting, and so the god predominated. the other deities (of wind, thunder, lightning, etc) gradually fell into the background, as of secondary importance. as wo/man developed, so did the religion for that is what it had become, slowly and naturally. wo/man spread across europe, taking the gods along

symbolism is frequently furthered in a descent to the underworld with a later return. we find it with ishtar's descent and search for tannaz; with sif's loss of her golden tresses; with idunn's loss of her golden apples; with jesus' death and resurrection; with siva's death and resurrection, and many more. basically all represent the coming of fall and winter followed by the return of spring and summer; the lead figure represnting the spirit of vegetation. from witchcraft here are "the myth of the goddess" as found in (a) gardnerian wicca and (b) saxon wicca "now g* had never loved, but she would solve all the mysteries, even the mystery of death; and so she journeyed to the nether lands. the guardians of the portals challenged her 'strip off thy there can be surprises in discovering name

s'ebattre, to revel or frolic. there are eight of these, spaced more or less equidistant throughout the year. they are, the four"greater sabbats: samhain (pronounced "soe-in, though the vast majority of witches mispronounce it "sam-ain, imbolc (pronounced "7m-bulk, beltane (pronounced "b'yal-t'n) and lughnasadh (pronounced "loo-n'sar")t and the four "lesser sab-bats: spring and autumn equinox and summer and winter solstice. margaret murray, in god of the witches 'depending on the time of year. tyou will find much disagreement on the subject of pronunciation. don't worry too much about it. lesson five: covens and rituals/ 61 points out that the two most important samhain and beltane coincide with the breeding seasons of both wild and domestic animals. the pagan festivals were later exploite

in michigan in 1981, where nearly eight hundred witches and pagans were in attendance. but whether you can join forces with others or you celebrate as a single coven or even as a solitary witch (more on this later) the keyword is "celebration. as the goddess is honored with the phases of the moon, so is the god at certain of the phases of the sun. these are the "lesser sabbats" that occur at the summer and winter solstice and the spring and autumn equinox. the four "greater sabbats" are more in the nature of seasonal, rather than specifically solar, festivals and are therefore times for general celebration with both god and goddess duly honored. janet and stewart farrar, in their book eight sabbats for witches (robert hale, london, 1981, suggest a deeper leit motif for the horned god, wit

hale, london, 1981, suggest a deeper leit motif for the horned god, with a duality which they term the oak king and the holly king* although i see much merit in this, i am going to "stick to basics, as it were, and leave you to elaborate as the spirit moves you. in simple terms, we can think of the god predominating in the winter (the "dark half" of the year) and the goddess predominating in the summer (the "light half" of the year. this, of course, goes back to what i outlined in the first lesson originating with the reliance on success in the hunt in the winter and nourishment of the crops in the summer. but there is more to it than that, even without getting into the complexities of oak and holly kings. in neither half of the year should you think of the one deity being supreme being t

here in this meeting place. reach out, each and every one of you, in your own way, and feel the presence of one you have known and thought lost. from this reuniting gather strength. know, all of you, that there is no end and no beginning. all is a continuous turning, a spiralling dance that goes and returns, yet moves ever on. in that turning, samhain is the sacred festival marking the end of the summer and the beginning of winter: a time to celebrate; a time to welcome the god as he starts his journey down the tunnel of darkness that bears the light of our lady at its end" priest/ess "the old year ends" all "the new year begins" priest/ess "the wheel turns" all "and turns again" priest/ess "farewell to our lady" all "welcome to our lord" priest/ess "goddess-summer draws to a close" all "g

all "god-winter sets his foot upon the path" priest/ess "hail and farewell" all "hail and farewell" priest and priestess lead coven in a dance around the circle. this may be followed, or accompanied, by a song or chant (see lesson twelve and appendix d for dances, songs and chants. priestess takes up homed helmet and stands before altar. priestess "gracious goddess, we thank thee for the joys of summer. we thank thee for all thy bounty; the fruits, the crops, the harvest. return again as the wheel turns and be with us once more. even as our lord accepts the mantle, walk with him through the darkness, to come again into the light" priest stands and faces priestess. she holds helmet high over his head. a covener stands by the cauldron, with fire ready. priestess "here do i display the symbo

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ion of many lands and through families who seite 2 wicca01.txt kept alive the old beliefs and worship of the earth and the moon mother. not so many centuries ago, our ancestors burned yule logs at christmas as a symbolic gesture to bring light and warmth back to the world on the mid-winter solstice at the darkest time. they danced around the maypole on may morning, the beginning of the old celtic summer, to stir into life the earth energies in a sacred spiral pattern. these rituals go back into the mists of time and appear in similar forms in many different cultures and ages. today, however, too many modern societies have lost the sacred connection and scorn such gestures as superstition, treating the skies, the earth and the seas merely as a larder, fuel store and garbage can. once, thing

at act and react, not in opposition to each other, but as complementary and necessary parts of a whole. there are variations on this idea within the teachings of wicca. some traditions consider the goddess to be of greater significance than her male counterpart. others regard them as equal, assuming different aspects according to the season and ritual: she as the earth or moon deity, ruler of the summer months, he as the sun or corn god, ruler of winter and lord of the underworld after his death. along with other nature deities, the horned god became demonised with the advent of christianity, and the goddess was either depicted as a wicked witch or downgraded to the status of a faerie. thus the celtic warrior goddess maeve became the faerie mab, described thus by mercutio in shakespeare's

held at esbats and sabbats. an esbat is a monthly coven meeting, traditionally held 13 times a year during each full moon. the eight sabbats are described in the chapter seasons and festivals (see page 245, and celebrate the eight major divisions of the celtic year on the solstices, the equinoxes and the old fire festivals. these festivals mark the coming of early spring, the start of the celtic summer, the first corn harvest and the start of the celtic winter. there are also many lovely ceremonies to mark the transitions in the life cycle, such as handfastings, or weddings, and rites of passage to welcome recently deceased wiccans to the familiar circle whenever they wish to draw near. solitary witchcraft there are many reasons for performing witchcraft alone: your personal circumstances

f the old. air is also associated with the dawn and spring. incense is often used to represent air in spells and rituals. fire, in the south, is the quicksilver, inspirational energy and clear light of the sun, the lightning flash. it is the hearth fire that warms, the ritual fire that cleanses, the forest fire that sweeps all away. it represents the full power of the sun and light at noon and in summer. candles are used to represent fire. finally, in the west is water, that falls as refreshing rain, tides that ebb and flow, watercourses always finding a way, moving ever onwards, never backwards. water is associated with autumn and sunset. it represents the changing responsive, human emotions of life cycles, and personal ebbs and flows of energies. water is used to represent its own elemen

circles. these terms are clearer than clockwise and anticlockwise, because as long as you think in terms of the direction of the sun, the terms can be applied wherever you are standing on the globe. practitioners in the southern hemisphere will also need to alter the dates i have given. for them, for example, the mid-winter solstice is celebrated on or around 21 seite 22 wicca01.txt june and the summer solstice, when the sun is at it most powerful, is around 21 december. in the same way, the two annual equinoxes, when there is equal day and equal night, move round so that the spring equinox falls around 21 september and the autumn equinox around 21 march. it is perhaps better to think in terms of the wheel of the year, rather than our modern-day calendar, for what matters is not the date

make wishes and dreams come true, not just in faerieland but in the here and now. if you have sufficient space, you may set aside a room, perhaps a conservatory, attic or basement, or a sheltered spot in the garden for your special magical place. alternatively, you may need to use a corner of your bedroom or draw a velvet curtain across an area of a room where you can be quiet and private. in the summer, i like to work out of doors at my caravan and go down the winding track to the beach for my sea rituals (and puff and pant up again. in winter, i work either round the hearth that is the focus of the small, dark family room where i write, or high in the attic bedroom of my narrow house overlooking the hills. altars your special place will need to contain an altar. to many people, the word

as the triple goddess- maiden, mother and wise woman or crone- she is frequently central to coven work. generally in magick the goddess is recognised as the prime mover of existence, bringing forth from herself in the first virgin birth the animus, or male, principle. for this reason, it is often the high priestess who casts the circle, though in some covens the goddess rules over the spring and summer and the horned god over the autumn and winter. other gods and goddesses there is a vast selection of gods and goddesses from many different cultures that you may choose to form a focus for particular energies in rituals. i have given a list of these later in this chapter, but i have not given much detailed description, as it is important we create our own deity images. there are many seite

n she was seen again she would restore harmony to a troubled world. the people followed her teachings, the corn grew, the seasons continued to flow in succession and they were hungry no more, as buffalo became plentiful. by the end of the nineteenth century, however, there were in reality fewer than 200 buffalo left, where only years earlier it was estimated there had been several million. in the summer of 1994, a white buffalo calf was born in jamesville, wisconsin. as the prophecy had told, the white buffalo has changed its colours since birth, going from white to black to red to yellow and back to white. since each colour represents one of the four directions, the buffalo is seen by many native americans as a symbol of the rebirth of hope. one visionary interpreted the birth of the whit

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ent african american church, vesey was positioned to tap the spiritual resources of the black community for the advancement of his cause.[15] accounts of the events leading up to the discovery of the plot reveal that vesey, a well-todo carpenter who had purchased his freedom from a slaveowner, began recruiting participants from the city and the outlying lowcountry regions as early as 1818. by the summer of 1822 the conspiracy had taken shape. it involved perhaps as many as nine thousand persons, who. according to the trial report.intended to carry out "an insurrection among the blacks against all the whites" organizationally, the conspiracy was significant for the manner in which it galvanized participants from a variety of class and ethnic backgrounds. vesey gathered about him several "li

april 8, 1756, p. 1 (original emphasis; leventhal, shadow of the enlightenment, pp. 137.67; sobel, world they made together, p. 98; butler, awash in a sea of faith, p. 86. african and african american healers with herbal and homeopathic skills were frequently recognized in colonial america for their medical contributions. see peter wood "people's medicine in the early south" southern exposure 6 (summer 1978: 52; and his black majority, p. 289; on medicine in colonial new england see also gordon jones, ed, the angel of bethesda (barre, mass: american antiquarian society, 1972. there is reference to another eighteenthcentury specialist of note in fayetteville, north carolina, a "guineaborn" fugitive by the name of sampson, a fortuneteller and conjurer" who was about "fifty years old" speaki

993, pp. 99.117; jean w. robinson "black healers during the colonial period and early nineteenth-century america (ph.d. diss, southern illinois university, carbondale, 1979; peter wood, black majority: negroes in colonial south carolina\ 189\ from 1670 through the stono rebellion (new york: w. w. norton, 1974, pp. 289.92; and his article "people's medicine in the early south" southern exposure 6 (summer 1978. schick "healing and race" p. 111; savitt, medicine and slavery, pp. 174, 179; walter fisher "physicians and slavery in the antebellum medical journal" in the making of black america: essays in negro life and history, ed. august meier and elliot rudwick (new york: athenaeum, 1969, vol. 1, p. 164; martia graham goodson "medical-botanical contributions of african slave women to american

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iter who drew upon paracelsist and alchemical ideas; influenced jacob boehme, and other german protestant mystics of the 17th century. 1553-1623 abraham yagel. gei hizzayon(valley of vision. 1553 postel publishes de originibus (p. 10 discusses ethiopian magical texts) postel leaves paris in may due to henry ii putting a halt to his public preaching. he journeys to dijon, besancon and basel in the summer returning to venice in august; in the autumn he is preaching in padua. by december he is in vienna where he is appointed to a university chair by emperor ferdinand. publishes: wonders of the world. and there the monster of the terrestrial paradise< 1553, paris; sibyllinorum versuum virgilio in quarta bucolicorum versuum ecloga transcriptorum ecfrasis commentarii instar
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from the other the solid earth .2 the story of panku also introduces one of the most important concepts in chinese thought: yin and yang. authors martin palmer and zhao xiaomin of the international consultancy on religion, education, and culture (icorec) explain: yin is female, moist, cold, the moon, the autumn and winter, the shadow and the waters. yang is male, dry, hot, the sun, the spring and summer, the bright and the dry land. they struggle with each other for supremacy. from their struggle comes the dynamic which drives the whole of life. for they are found locked together in every being, every situation. as one seems to be gaining the ascendancy, the other arises for they each carry the seed of the other within them as the yin yang symbol so clearly illustrates.3 22 2 nuwa creates

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pendulum in the direction that it swings until it stops going back and forth and starts to swing in a circle. the lost ring should be in the center of that circle. i remember many years ago when i first started using the pendulum and i found myself giving a surprise demonstration of what it could do. when i was very young, like in my late teens, and thus still in school, i worked for my father in summer. he ran a screw-machine shop and the machines were older models which, because of their advanced years (something i can readily identify with these days) had a tendency to fall apart, often dramatically with banging noises and everything. this happened one afternoon when something called a stock-bar feed came loose at the end of one machine and as the part was spring loaded, with a very hea

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erve. they included frank vanderlip (one of the jekyl island group which created the federal reserve) and george herbert walker, the grandfather of president george bush. the rothschilds were also directly involved in financing the revolution via jacob schiff, at kuhn, loeb, and co in new york. international bankers from britain, the united states, russia, germany, and france met in sweden in the summer of 1917. they agreed that kuhn, loeb would deposit $50 million in a swedish bank account for lenin and trotsky's use. in an article in the new york american journal on february 3rd 1949, jacob schiff's grandson said that his grandfather had paid the two 'revolutionaries' an additional $20 million. the payment of $20 million to the bolsheviks by elihu root (the kuhn loeb lawyer and former se

ats, mathers, and aleister crowley, which split the membership into quarrelling factions. other significant esoteric thinkers and groups which influenced the gathering nazi philosophy included the order of the oriental temple, which used sex as part of its rituals to create and harness the energy known as the vril, and two german esoteric 'magicians, guido von list and lanz von liebenfels. in his summer solstice celebrations, list used wine bottles on the ground to form the symbol of the hermetic cross, also known as the hammer of thor. it was the badge of power in the order of the golden dawn, and we know this symbol as the swastika. lanz von liebenfels (real name adolf lanz) featured the swastika on the flag which flew over his 'temple' overlooking the danube, and for these two black mag

heir rituals were taken from others such as the jesuits and the knights templar. the highest 212. and the truth shall set you free ranking initiates were the thirteen members of the grand council of knights (led by their grand master, heinrich himmler, and the black rituals were performed at the ancient castle of wewelsberg in westphalia. they celebrated the festivals of the nordic pagans and the summer solstice. here they worshiped satan, lucifer, set, whichever name you prefer, the consciousness which was the nazis and is the elite today. prince bernhard, one of the founders of the bilderberg group, was in the ss. esoteric knowledge and black magic pervaded all that hitler and the nazis did, even down to the use of pendulums on maps to identify the positions of enemy troops. the original

cting the monetary policy. how can independent states accomplish that? they need to turn over the determination of monetary policy to a supranational body."29 this has been the global elite's game plan for centuries. the manoeuvrings and the politic-speak can be observed every day. look at what president bill clinton and the other heads of the elite group of seven (industrial nations, said in the summer of 1994. under the headline "g7 reaches out for new order- un and finance reforms urged, the london guardian reported on july 11th "the west's leading industrial powers yesterday took the first tentative steps towards the creation of a post-cold war economic and political order, calling for a fresh look at the bretton woods financial institutions and a revitalised united nations..at the ini

llowing leads which could have linked the murders of jfk and martin luther king, particularly through the guy bannister 'detective' agency in new orleans which played a key role in the jfk assassination. lomas intended to implicate the intelligence agencies in dr king's death in a film he had been contracted to make. a few days into the filming, the brakes failed on his car and he was killed. the summer after the memphis assassination, dr king's brother was mysteriously drowned in his swimming pool. neighbours heard screaming, splashing, and then silence. two years after that, dr king's mother was murdered when a tone nutter' walked into her church and opened fire. it is a matter of public record that all these events took place at a time when the fbi of j. edgar hoover was plotting to sto

told him she was acting on the instructions of president bush. she said that the bush government had "no opinion on the arab-arab conflict, like your border disagreement with kuwait."221 wonder if the argentine government were told something similar before they invaded the falklands? glaspie added that she had instructions from the president to seek better relations with iraq. she then left for a summer holiday, another indication to saddam that the americans were disinterested in the whole thing. that date of july 25th is most significant because it was in the days before that, according to cia and naval intelligence operative, gunther russbacher, that george bush, brent scowcroft (kissinger associates, and other close advisors drew up an agreement to be submitted to president gorbachev

llistics test. larry nichols has a police memo proving that foster was found in his car, not the park. in march 1994, when the speculation would not go away, the white house issued a photograph of foster's body at the scene which was said to prove that it was suicide. the gun was in his right hand. foster was left-handed. the photo shows the body surrounded by brown leaves. but he had died in the summer and reporters at the scene soon after he died said there were no leaves on the ground. the white house also announced (five months after foster's death) that four members of bill clinton's staff had ransacked foster's office the night he died! they included patsy thomasson, hillary clinton's personal assistant. it was done, they said, for reasons of "national security. god help us. patsy th

san francisco housing authority. many of jones's followers were also employed by the city welfare department and they used this privilege to recruit the poor and homeless to the sect. the second name on the jones hit list was jenny mills, a former official of the people's temple, who wrote a book with her husband, my six years with god, which was extremely critical of jones and his group. in the summer of 1979, jenny mills, her husband, and her daughter were shot dead at their home in berkeley. their murder remains unsolved. a journalist, kathy hunter, who had reported the deaths of seven members who had been killed for trying to leave the original headquarters compound in california, also died in strange circumstances. it is the old, old, story we have seen repeated so many times in this

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times the mass of our own sun and is thirty-five and a half times brighter" when you consider that our sun contains 99% of the mass of this solar system, sirius is some baby. sirius b contains 1.053 times the mass of our sun.2" it is incredibly compressed, however, and thus is very small. a focus on sirius can be found at the heart of most ancient societies- and secret societies. the heat in the summer months was believed to be, in part, caused by sirius and so they became known as "dog days. the egyptian calendar was regulated by the movement of sirius (sothis to the greeks) and the sothic calendar was founded on the rising of sirius one minute before the sun, the so-called heliacal rising in the summer" the number 23 was important to the dogons, as it was to the egyptians and the babylo

aphrodite, and, in india, as kali. another location associated with the start of christianity is ephesus in south-west turkey. the mythical "st paul" was said to have written a letter to the ephesians, and greek myth says that the amazons founded the city. ephesus just happens to have been the headquarters of worship to the goddess artemis/diana- a goddess of the amazons. i visited ephesus in the summer of 2000 and on a hill high above the ancient ruins is a building that is claimed to have been the home of..mary, mother of "jesus. another goddess worshipped by the amazons was cybele, the mother goddess of all asia minor (turkey; she was taken to rome from phrygia, the "land of the lions" and the serpent cult. rituals to her included baptism in the blood of the sacred bull, who represented

as said to have symbolically died- three days later, on december 25th. the sun was said to be born or born again 204 children of the matrix northern hemisphere, is on december 21st/22nd. this was the time when the ancients said that the sun had "died" and gone down into the dark place. by december 25th, three days later, they said the sun had begun its journey back to the peak of its power in the summer and so they said that on this day the sun was born or born again. the ancient sun gods were given this "birthday, three days after the winter solstice, for this reason. these deities didn't exist, as everyone now accepts. they were symbolic of the sun and so was jesus, along with much other symbolism. the christian "christmas" is an ancient pagan festival under another name and so is easter

a bumper harvest. put another way, they believed the blood of the lamb would encourage the gods to forgive their sins. the story of samson (sam-sun) in the old testament is the same sun symbolism. the ancients symbolised the sun's annual cycle as the life of a man. they would portray the sun as a newborn baby on december 25th and he would grow up to become a big, strapping, very strong man at the summer solstice. this is the peak of the sun's power in the northern hemisphere when it dominates the darkness at the longest day. at this time, the sun-man would be given long golden hair to symbolise the powerful rays of the summer sun. as the sun entered the house of virgo the virgin (the house of delilah) at the start of autumn, this sun-man would have his hair cut shorter as the power of the

founded christianity in rome, they used the symbols and myths of the mithric rituals. mithra's sacred day was sunday because he was, like jesus, symbolic of the sun. mithra worshippers called this the "lord's day" and they celebrated the main mithra festival during what is now easter. mithra initiations were held in caves adorned with the signs of capricorn and cancer, symbolic of the winter and summer solstices. he was portrayed as a winged lion (the sun) standing within a spiralling serpent. the lion and the serpent are, of course, major symbols of the serpent cult/illuminati. the roman church encompassed the mithra eucharist into its "christian" rituals. mithra was claimed to have said "he who shall not eat of my body nor drink of my blood, so that he may be one with me and i with him

s a satanic cult involving the high and mighty of an american city who meet at a large gothic mansion. such places are located all over the world. in belgium, for example, there is the mothers of darkness castle where the british royal family and the illuminati elite of europe perform many of their major rituals, and there is balmoral castle in scotland, where the british royal family spend their summer holidays. the isle of light- and darkness i live on the isle of wight, a few miles off the south coast of england, and it is a perfect example of the connection between the major vortex points and satanism (figure 35. the illuminati satanic network performs its most important rituals at the key vortex points on the global grid because their sickening ceremonies suppress the frequency of the

"follow hitler! he will dance, but it is i who have called the tune. we have given him the means of communication with them. do not mourn for me; i shall have influenced history more than any other german."22 calling the demons 295 other significant thinkers and groups that influenced the gathering nazi philosophy were two german esoteric magicians, guido von list and lanz von liebenfels. at the summer solstice, list used wine bottles on the ground to form the symbol of the hermetic cross, also known as the hammer of thor. it was the badge of power in the order of the golden dawn and we know this symbol as the swastika, an ancient sun symbol of the atlanteans-phoenicians. the original swastika was right-handed which, in esoteric terms, means light and creation, the positive. the nazis rev

rned as a black magic secret society. their rituals were taken from others, such as the jesuits and the knights templar. the highest-ranking initiates were the 12 members of the grand council of knights led by the 13th, their grand master heinrich himmler. their black rituals were performed at the ancient castle of wewelsberg in westphalia. they celebrated the rituals of the nordic pagans and the summer solstice. here they worshipped satan/lucifer/set, whichever name you prefer. prince bernhard of the netherlands, a reptilian habsburg and merovingian bloodline, was a member of the ss. bernhard was one of the founders of the illuminati front, the bilderberg group, and is an extremely close friend of prince philip. the esoteric arts pervaded all that hitler and the nazis did, even down to th

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rs and an area of that planet known as cydonia, is the american richard c.hoagland. he has been a science journalist, a director of planetariums in westhartford and new y ork, and an advisor at the nasa goddard space flight center.hoagland produces evidence in his book, monuments on mars,32 that the allegedface and the pyramids are part of a vast area built to align with the sunrise on themartian summer solstice 500,000 years ago -50,000 years before the estimatedarrival on earth of the anunnaki. i have little doubt that the same race that built thestructures in cydonia, including pyramids, also built stonehenge and avebury.there is evidence, in fact, that avebury could be a mirror image of the complex atcydonia. when you take same scale topographical maps of both places andsuperimpose one

, the sun is at the lowest point of its power in the annual cycle. the sun, theancients said, had symbolically died. by december 25th, the sun had demonstrablyfigure 13: the ancient symbol forthe annual cycle of the sun fromwhich so many symbols andsymbolic stories haveoriginated. you can see thissymbol in the depictions ofbarati and britannia infigure 12. 80begun its symbolic journey back to the summer and the peak of its power. the ancients,therefore, said that the sun was born on december 25th. the christian christmas ismerely a renamed pagan festival, as indeed are all christian festivals. easter is another.about march 25th, the old fixed date for easter, the sun enters the astrological sign ofaries the ram or the lamb. at this time the ancients used to sacrifice lambs because theybeli

forgiven.in ancient babylon, tammuz, the son of queen semiramis, was said to have beencrucified with a lamb at his feet and placed in a cave. when a rock was rolled away fromthe caves entrance three days later, his body had disappeared. ive definitely heard thatsomewhere before. the ancients also symbolised the sun as a baby in december, a youthat easter, a strapping, immensely strong, man in the summer, an ageing man losing hispower in the autumn, and an old man by the winter solstice. the modern depiction ofold father time is a version of this. they also symbolised the sun as having long goldenhair (sun rays) which got shorter as he lost his power in the months of autumn. now lookagain at the old testament story of samson -sam-sun. he was incredibly strong and hadlong hair, but he lost h

istian roman-persian god, and in greece andasia minor they had dionysus and bacchus. these were sons of god who died so our sinscould be forgiven, born of a virgin mother, and their birthdays were on. december 25th!mithra was crucified, but raised from the dead on march 25th- easter! mithran initiationstook place in caves adorned with the signs of capricorn and cancer, symbolic of the winter90and summer solstices, the high and low points of the sun. mithra was often portrayed asa winged lion, a symbol for the sun still used by the secret societies today. referencesto the lion and the grip of the lions paw in the master mason degree of freemasonryoriginate with this same stream of mystery school symbolism. initiates into the rites ofmithra were called lions and were marked on their forehead

ve a greenface. this includes osiris, the husband-brother of isis. the story of robin hood in hislincoln green originated with this green man deity. robin hood began in the originallegend as a species of fairy and he was also known as green robin, robin ofgreenwood and robin goodfellow.31 his shakespearean version, puck, in amidsummer night s dream, presided over fertility and sexual rites at the summer solstice.on may 1st, may day, they had the may pole ceremonies. the may pole is a phallicsymbol dedicated to the goddess of sexuality and fertility and on that day every villagevirgin would be a queen of the may (queen semiramis. many would end up in the greenwood to undergo a sexual initiation with a youth playing the role of robin hood or robingoodfellow. the children that often followed

n purpose) was the commander of navaloperations, admiral lord richard howe, who had been brought together with franklinin 1774 by franklins sister, a member of his spy network who lived in england. howelater admitted publicly that he had not told his superiors of his meetings with franklin.in the three or four years leading up to the american declaration of independence in1776, franklin spent the summer at dashwoods estate in west wycombe, north oflondon, where they took part in rituals in the specially-created caves dug ondashwoods orders to provide the appropriate locations for their satanism. a statue ofharpocrates, the greek god of secrecy and silence, was to be found on the premises ofthe hellfire club depicted with a finger held to his mouth.6 statues of harpocrates were185often foun

interests of the rockefellers, kuhn,loeb and company (rothschilds, dupont, harriman, and the federal reserve. theyalso included george herbert walker bush, the grandfather of george bush. therothschilds were directly financing the revolution via jacob schiff at kuhn, loeb andcompany. international brotherhood bankers from britain, the united states, russia,germany, and france met in sweden in the summer of 1917. they agreed that kuhn,loeb and company would deposit $50 million in a swedish bank account for lenin andtroskys use. in an article in the new york american journal on february 3rd 1949,jacob schiffs grandson said that his grandfather had paid the two revolutionaries anadditional $20 million. the payment of $20 million to the bolsheviks by elishu root(the kuhn, loeb and companys law

tween yeats, mathers, and the arch satanist, aleistercrowley, which split the membership into quarrelling factions. other significant thinkersand groups which influenced the gathering nazi philosophy included the order of theoriental templars (oto, which used sex rituals to create and harness the energy knownas vril, and two german esoteric magicians, guido von list and lanz von liebenfels. inhis summer solstice celebrations, list used wine bottles on the ground to form thesymbol of the hermetic cross, also known as the hammer of thor. it was the badge ofpower in the order of the golden dawn and we know this symbol as the swastika, theancient sun symbol of the phoenician-aryans. lanz von liebenfels (real name adolflanz, used the swastika on a flag which flew over his temple overlooking the

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th the pattern. its other obvious function is to channel earth energy. most labyr inths create clockwise and counterclockwise energy vortexes with subtle difierences and effects. these single-path, magical mazes are found in many places, such as china, united states, peru, england. the gothic cathedral at chartres has a labyrinth inlaid in the floor of the nave. 3.5 earth energy experience in the summer of 1995, i decided that i needed to know more about how to personally manipulate aetheric energy. a few days later, in a very vivid spiritual experience, i found myself in an open area with three beings. it was a beautiful place, green grass, a few nice trees, and peaceful but with a feeling of great energies. the beings had very intense energy fields or auras, which i could both see and fe

er time of scale upsets. this shows the count of when the gravity wheel changed weight over 5 grams. if the 6.5 gram weight loss is added to the 5 gram upset, we are looking at nearly a 100% weight loss of the gravity wheel. both joe parr's gravity wheel experiment and mine got the same interstellar conduit on april 11,1996. figure 7.3.1-3. data from dan davidson's gravity wheel experiment in the summer of 1996, we did a calibration of my experiment by comparison with joe's experiment running in california. it turns out the magnets which i used were too strong my magnets were replaced with ones which are approximately 100 gauss each. apparently, if the magnets are too strong they override the energy conduit signal and the apparatus sensitivity drops drastically. this explains why on a give

ncient sites. this will test for possible distortion of the earth's magnetic field around these sites and may enable us to pinpoint possible burled metal artifacts. 9.1 evidence for advanced technology in ancient egypt the third aspect of the egypt expedition is to look for indications of advanced technologies that the ancients may have had. appendix a. sacred energy movements introduction in the summer of 1995, i decided that i needed to know more about how to personally manipulate aetheric energy. a few days later, in a very vivid spiritual experience, i found myself in an open area with three beings. it was a beautiful place, green grass, a few nice trees, and peaceful, but with a feeling of great energies. the beings had very intense energy fields or auras, which i could both see and f

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by the fact that the victim is often disinclined to allow the break to be made, being bound to the attacking entity, whether discarnate or incarnate, by bonds of fascination, or even genuine affection. a case with which i was acquainted throws so much light on various aspects of psychic interference by incarnate souls operating out of their bodies that it is of value to quote it at length. in the summer of 1926 i saw in the papers a short paragraph describing the death of a certain man and his wife, which took place within a few hours of each other. a couple of years previously i had been consulted by a friend of the wife, who was deeply perturbed about the state of affairs, and suspected psychic interference. the wife, mrs. c. we will call her, had begun to be troubled by nightmares, waki

ation had evidently not been altogether successful. i tried to do this, but i was in london at the time and met with no success, for the elemental contacts, with the exception of fire, cannot be worked successfully in a city. the smashing went on, and i was reduced to a tin mug and a tooth-glass, for i saw it was useless to get any more china until things had settled down. then i went away for my summer holiday and found myself on the summit of a high and isolated hill on a day of bright sun and high wind. i was very conscious of the nearness of the elemental kingdoms. the air seemed full of silver sparkles, which is always a sign that the veil is thin. there was no one present save some friends who were sympathetic. i faced into the wind and raised my arms in invocation. suddenly we saw b

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if the pseudo-ghost takes on physical substance and is able to touch the person being haunted. the touch of a ghost is chilly. it draws heat from the surface of the body, and if it persists, this cold gradually penetrates into the muscle and fat. i have had the experience of being embraced for prolonged periods of time by ghostly spirits. it takes a little getting used to. i enjoy it most on hot summer nights. in the wintertime, it makes me shiver and put another blanket on the bed. these astral ghosts are lonely beings, and they like to sleep in the beds of those who do not reject them, in the same way stray dogs or cats like to rub up against friendly persons. i should mention here that animals sometimes appear as ghosts. one night while lying in bed i had a litter of drowned kittens sn

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om/egy/ebod/ebod07.htm (1 of 10 [8/10/2001 11:23:38 am] regions of my lands according to my heart's desire, to see that which i had created, when lo! i was bitten by a serpent which i saw not. is it fire? is it water? i am colder than water, i am hotter than fire. all my flesh sweateth, i quake, my eye hath no strength, i cannot see the sky, and the sweat rusheth to my face even as in the time of summer" then said isis unto ra "o tell me thy name, holy father, for whosoever shall be delivered by thy name shall live [and ra said "i have made the heavens and the earth, i have ordered the mountains, i have created all that is above them, i have made the water, i have made to come into being the great and wide sea, i have made the 'bull of p. xci legend of ra and isis. his mother' from whom sp

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eace, and partly stumbling, partly walking, and in anything but a calm frame of mind, i plunged farther among the hills that were the scene of so many stirring events that evening. the bucks did not speak a word, for there was no occasion to do so. nor did i indulge in any observations, for neither was there call in my case. it was an extraordinary promenade through that wild region on that still summer night. the singular journey came to an end sooner than i expected. after clambering around a score of boulders, ascend= ing and descending several steep slopes, i noticed that we were going through a narrow canon-like passage in the mountains. this was followed for less than two hundred yards, when an abrupt change was made, and an instant later i was among a group of more than twenty apach

anticipated. the main body of hostiles were well through the mountain spur and in the rough region low twelve 77 beyond, pushing with all haste southward. it would take the hardest kind of riding to overtake them before nightfall. but we were determined to do it. horses and men were refreshed from their rest and food, and we ought to cover a good many miles before the intolerable splendor of the summer day burst upon us. at the moment of starting smith said "lieutenant, i don't feel easy about that friend of yours. he is going to have a hard time to square matters with geronimo. do you think you can make your way back to the place where you left the apaches "i think so, but it will be better if i take one of our scouts with me "choose your man "he is vikka. i will tell him everything, exc

derived from the order, and to its peculiar adaptability to our condition in this new country. a friendship was thus formed through the instrumentality of masonry which could not otherwise have found existence. xiv true to his oath-a legend of the new jersey coast rev. william hollinshed is a retired clergyman of the presbyterian church, and at this writing is proprietor of the burnbrae house, a summer resort about two miles from the little town of sparta, sussex county, n. j. i spent the month of june, 19o6, at the burnbrae, and formed a high regard for mr. hollinshed's ability and christian character. he is one of the admirable few whose daily life is in accord with his profession, and whose retirement from active service, because of broken health, does not mean that he has ceased his l

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bduction stories in the sequel to communion, transformation: the breakthrough (1988. in the latter volume, strieber told of a series of contacts with the visitors that began in childhood and his growing belief that their intrusion into human life was essentially benevolent. he was eventually joined in this appraisal by leo j. sprinkle, who had been conducting annual gatherings for contactees each summer at the university of wyoming. as abductees joined the gatherings, over time, he discovered the boundaries between their stories blurring. in like measure, psychiatrist john mack also found the stories of the abductees whom he counseled also yielded to explanation when set in a larger context of personal transformation and changes in consciousness. they came to feel that the experience was b

nst a too ready acceptance of spectral evidence. additionally, he spoke on the occasion of the hanging of former parish minister george burroughs. when burroughs flawlessly spoke the lord s prayer, which supposedly a witch could not do, mather rose to quiet the crowd and allowed the execution to continue. however, it was mather who personally called upon governor phelps, who had spent much of the summer away from boston fighting the indians, to stop the trials which had reached such large proportions. in the end, the court sentenced 31 (including 25 women) to death. nineteen who pleaded not guilty were hanged. one giles cory refused to plead, thus making use of a legal provision that would prevent his property from being confiscated. one escaped jail and left the colony; two died in jail

stated that there were no unusual phenomena whatsoever except extensive harassment from tourists. they sued the lutzes, the publisher prentice-hall, and jay anson for $1.1 million damages (see also poltergeist) sources: anson, jay. the amityville horror: a true story. englewood cliffs, n.j: prentice hall, 1977. morris, robert l. the amityville horror. the skeptical inquirer vol. 2, no. 2 (spring/summer 1978: 95.102. stein, gordon. encyclopedia of hoaxes. detroit: gale research, 1993. amniomancy divination by means of the caul, or membrane that sometimes envelopes the head of a child at birth. from an inspection of this caul, wise women predicted the sort of future the baby would have. if it were red, happy days were in store for the child, or if lead-colored, he would have misfortunes. am

st room of the vicarage an old man who was clairvoyantly seen by his wife violet tweedale (the photographs obtained by spirit photographers belong to quite a different class, as there is no perceptible apparition during the process) nevertheless, the photograph of the combermere ghost demands consideration. lacy c. had rented combermere abbey, in cheshire, lord combermere s country house, for the summer. the library in the house was a fine panelled room and the new tenant was anxious to secure a photograph of it. she placed her half-plate camera on its stand in a favorable position. fronting the unoccupied carved oak arm chair on which lord combermere always used to sit. on developing the plate by herself, she was amazed to find the figure of a legless old man seated in the carved oak arm

and emphasized individualism, courage, integrity, and independence. a wide variety of belief and practice was allowed within the general framework of acknowledgment of the deities. the asatru people also saw themselves as over against the odinists, who emphasize a single deity rather than the whole of the deities. celebrations were held to recognize the deities, such as yule (december 22) and the summer solstice. other holidays included march 28, ragnar s day, when the assembly remembered the sacking of paris in 845 by the viking ragnar lobrok. local groups called skeppslags, or ship s crews, consisted of 3 to 15 members. also, interest groups were formed as guilds to develop skills in activities from sewing to brewing. the assembly reached a crisis in 1987, when mcnallen felt unable to co

dy to which all the kindred send a delegate. the thing was the legislative and executive assembly of free men in germanic antiquity and the allthing was the successor to the thing in the free state of iceland. after the asatru free assembly dissolved, seven surviving kindreds worked together to continue the religion of asatru in vinland (the name given to north america by the vikings. in the late summer of 1987 they drafted a set of bylaws and then invited every known asatruar in the country to an allthing to approve them. this first modern allthing was held in the summer of 1988. the bylaws were adopted, a council appointed, and the tradition of annual gatherings of the kindred established. the asatru alliance may be contacted at p. o. box 961, payton, az 85547. its extensive website can

st-seller, did the are begin to grow appreciably. in the wake of the sleeping prophet s success, hugh lynn contracted with paperback library to do a series of books based on the readings. these became highly successful and made the are one of the largest and most stable associations in the psychic community. the are sponsors lectures, symposia, psychic research, prayer and meditation workshops, a summer camp, and search for god study groups. it maintains a therapy department and a 60,000-volume library on metaphysics, psychic phenomena, and related subjects. the edgar cayce foundation has custody of the readings and conducts a continuous program of indexing, extracting, microfilming, and otherwise organizing the material in the data files, which are open to the public in print form and on

ite. later the voice was accompanied by a vision, which she drew with lightninglike quickness. the visions, which represented symbolical character pictures, were sometimes felt subjectively but were often seen objectively in natural colors in space. they developed on some occasions from a cloud-like formation and assumed a great variety of shapes and contents. over 1,000 pictures were produced by summer 1930, when dr. eugen osty published the result of his study in the revue metapsychique burnat-provins felt anguished if she tried to resist the temptation to draw the visions as soon as they presented themselves, and an exhaustion followed or sometimes preceded the phenomenon. the works produced during these episodes differ entirely in style and character from the painter s ordinary work; m

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n religious rituals. maginot, adele (ca. 1848) noted early french medium. she was psychic from childhood and was treated by the magnetist louis-alphonse cahagnet because of the disturbances in her life caused by lively psychic occurrences. he soon found her an excellent clairvoyant, especially for medical purposes. from this she progressed to serve as a channel for spirit communications. from the summer of 1848, many sittings were held in which visitors were put in touch with their departed relatives. cahagnet made them sign a statement after the sitting indicating which of the particulars were true and which false, which he later published in the second volume of his book magnetisme arcanes de la vie future devoile (1848.60. when maginot was put into trance, she saw the spirits of the dep

, which is 12 miles long, up to 2 miles wide, and 1,017 feet deep. investigators elizabeth montgomery campbell and r. macdonald robertson collected and published stories of mhorag over the next several years. their work was stimulated by a 1969 sighting by two fishermen, duncan mcdonell and william simpson, which was one of the few sightings reported worldwide. the magazine fortean times (no. 22, summer 1977) reproduced a photograph taken by hazel jackson (of wakefield, england, who stayed at morar with her husband on a touring holiday. the jacksons, who are skeptical about monsters, took two photographs of their sheepdog by the side of the loch, and both pictures showed what appeared to be the head of a monster in the loch. two other photographs reproduced in the same issue of fortean tim

faculty of fisheries at tokyo university has examined yano s photographs and concluded that the creature was definitely not a species of fish, and toshio shikama, a yokohama university paleontologist, was convinced that the creature was not a fish or a mammoth seal. for reports of this incident see the london daily telegraph (july 21, 1977, london times (july 21, 1977, and fortean times (no. 22, summer 1977. yeti (or abominable snowman) the yeti is a giant humanoid creature that has long been part of the folklore of the high himalayan region in asia. the monsters encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1048 popular name abominable snowman derives from the tibetan term metoh-kangmi or wild man of the snows. other names in the himalayan regions of kashmir and nepal are jungli-adm

1986. moonsign book encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1052 morgawr a loch ness type monster observed and photographed in the area of falmouth, cornwall, england. on november 17, 1976, morgawr was sighted by tony doc shiels and david clarke (editor of cornish life magazine) in the helford estuary near falmouth. a photograph taken by clarke was reproduced in fortean times (no. 22, summer 1977. although the camera had unfortunately jammed, resulting in a superimposition of pictures, the general impression is of the head of a creature similar to that photographed by shiels (fortean times 19) and some photographs taken by shiels of the loch ness monster may 21, 1977 (best one reproduced in both cornish life and the london daily mirror for june 9, 1977. serious charges of fraud

rable following. while harris was absent in new york the command to form a community at mountain cove was given through the mediumship of scott, and about a hundred persons accompanied him to virginia. again at the command of the spirits, the members were obliged to deliver up all their possessions. dissensions soon arose as pecuniary difficulties were experienced, and only harris s return in the summer of 1852 saved the community from immediate dissolution. however, the dissensions and difficulties remained, and early in 1853 the community finally broke up (see also apostolic circle) sources: noyes, john humphrey. strange cults and utopias of 19thcentury america. new york: dover publications, 1966. the mountain path (journal) quarterly journal founded in january 1964 dealing with the life

itting the author actually heard the medium speak into the trumpet. murray (george) gilbert (aime (1866.1957) born on january 2, 1866, murray was a regius professor of greek at oxford university who was a leader in the psychical research community in early twentieth-century england. he believed he had the capacity for thought-transference and declared in an interview for the sunday express in the summer of 1929, that he discovered his thought-reading faculty by accident while playing guessing games with his children. at the insistence of his wife, murray commenced experimenting with grown-ups. ultimately he became a famous figure in psychical research for his experiments in thought-transference with investigator eleanor sidgwick, the results of which were published in the 1924 proceedings

her. britten writes. in d. d. home s mediumship, musical feats of telekinesis were particularly well attested. sir william crookes witnessed it under fraud-proof conditions. the quality of the music was mostly fine. william howitt had an experience to the contrary. he is quoted in a letter in d. d. home s incidents in my life (1863: a few evenings afterwards, a lady desiring that the last rose of summer might be played by a spirit on the accordion, the wish was complied with, but in so wretched a style that the company begged that it might be discontinued. this was done, but soon after, evidently by another spirit, the accordion was carried and suspended over the lady s head, and there, without any visible support or action on the instrument, the air was played through most admirably, in t

on june 16, necedah was frontpage news in chicago, and large crowds, in the tens of thousands, began to gather at the stand of ash trees near van hoof s home on the edge of town. during the apparitions, van hoof would generally kneel, receive the message, and then step to a microphone and repeat what she had seen and heard. the next apparitions were promised for august 15 and october 7. over the summer, catholic periodicals and some bishops began to warn their people to stay away following the announcement by the bishop of la crosse that there were some questionable aspects to the apparitions, but the crowds continued to arrive. on october 7, many in the crowd reported seeing a miracle of the sun, such as had occurred at fatima, though others saw nothing. in 1955, the bishop of la crosse

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se very close to him had any idea that at any given moment a good portion of keith s attention was focused on a world far, far away from the small suburban town where he spent much of his adult life. in 1985, i flew in a private plane with keith and two others (both, incidentally, convinced of the literal truth of keith s messages) to the rocky mountain conference on ufo investigation, held every summer on the campus of the university of wyoming in laramie. the title is something of a misnomer; only a relative few who attend can be called investigators. the emphasis is on experience not just with ufos but with the space people who fly them. the bulk of the attendees the xiv introduction number ranges from a few dozen to as many as two hundred from year to year are in regular contact with b

arold son, graham, saw a man who looked like karne at a warminster park. he was looking upward as military jets flew by, shaking his head in disapproval. his left hand was bandaged as if it had been recently injured. that was the last either saw of karne. see also: adamski, george; contactees further reading dewey, stephen, 1997. arthur shuttlewood and the warminster mystery. strange magazine 18 (summer: 16 21, 56 58. shuttlewood, arthur, 1967. the warminster mystery. london: neville spearman, 1978. ufo prophecy. new york: global communications. aetherius aetherius is one of the cosmic masters who preside at the interplanetary parliament on aetherius 11 saturn. in 1954 aetherius made his presence known psychically to george king, a london man with longstanding occult interests. soon king w

o swan s house. they also asked questions of affa, who promised a radio transmission at 2 p.m. on june 10. when none came, oni lost interest and turned the letters over to the navy s bureau of aeronautics. john hutson, a security officer, was curious enough to fly up to eliot for two days in late july. on his return he spoke with an fbi agent, but the agency chose not to pursue the matter. in the summer of 1959 navy commander julius larsen, an oni liaison officer to the cia s photographic intelligence center in washington, dc, stumbled upon a file on the incident. larsen, a navy pilot who harbored a private fascination with spiritualism, called on swan and knowles. at one point larsen tried automatic writing and believed he had communicated with affa, though swan insisted he had not contac

s. 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 their truck. they spotted an odd object parked on a nearby hillside. the next thing they knew, it was two hours later, and their truck started as if it had long since cooled off. later, under hypnosis, they recounted the experience of wandering into the ufo in a trance state

ries of 1979. frontiers of science 2, 4 (july/august: 25 31, 36. whiting, fred, 1980. the abduction of harry joe turner. mufon ufo journal 145 (march: 3 7. alyn alyn is the name constance weber, who wrote under the name marla baxter, gives howard menger in her book my saturnian lover (1958. weber/baxter relates that after being widowed, she devoted herself to an interest in flying saucers. in the summer of 1956, she joined a group headed by alyn r, who was said to have had contacts with people from other worlds. alyn eventually reveals his secret to her: i am not of this world! i am a volunteer to earth from the planet saturn. on saturn, he tells her, he was the spiritual teacher sol da naro. in the meantime, on earth, the two become lovers. she writes, my 20 alyn howard and connie menger

a; time travelers; ultraterrestrials further reading keel, john a, 1975. the mothman prophecies. new york: saturday review press/e. p. dutton and company. apol, mr. 25 arna and parz between 1976 and 1980 a family at oakenholt in northern wales underwent a complex series of extraordinary experiences. perhaps the first event involved six-year-old gaynor sunderland, who, while playing in a field one summer afternoon, spotted a cigar-shaped craft resting on the ground. she saw a man in a spacesuit walking in front of the object, using a gunlike device to burn holes into the ground. apparently caught by surprise, the being stared at her, and gaynor had the impression that he was probing her mind. an angry-looking woman appeared alongside him, and gaynor felt the same sensation of mind-intrusion

eet tall. such reports came from all over the world, including remote third world locations where ufos were little known and the occupants were sometimes taken to be american or russian pilots. a wave of humanoid and other encounters in france in the fall of 1954 received international attention and caused even the most cautious ufo researchers to reconsider their bias against ce3 reports. in the summer of 1955, the air force s project blue book investigated a bizarre episode in which members of a rural kentucky family claimed to have spent a night besieged by floating, big-eared humanoid entities from a ufo. ce3s were different from the contact claims of george adamski, howard menger, george van tassel, and other 1950s contactees in some important ways. for one, the beings seldom looked m

told investigators that his claims are without factual basis. in the united states, a major force in the movement has been the annual rocky mountain conference on ufo investigation, which has taken up where the giant rock conventions (the last held in 1977) left off. started in 1980 by r. leo sprinkle, a psychologist and counselor at the university of wyoming, it meets once a year, usually in the summer, and attracts contactees from all over, though most are from ranches, farms, and small towns of the great plains, underscoring the folk or ground-level nature of the movement. contactees are different from abductees whose experiences became known only in the 1960s and did not become a major part of the ufo controversy until the 1980s in several ways. a principal difference is that abductees

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h is the faculty you choose? student i d like right learned to become; what is on earth i d gladly comprehend, to heaven itself my range extend, know all of nature and the sciences. mephistopheles then you are on the proper way but must not let yourself be lured astray. student body and soul i m for it bent; yet there would please me, i must say, a little freedom and divertisement upon a pleasant summer holiday. mephistopheles make use of time, its course so soon is run, yet system teaches you how time is won. i counsel you, dear friend, in sum, that first you take collegium logicum. your spirit s then well broken in for you, in spanish boots laced tightly to, that you henceforth may more deliberately keep the path of thought and straight along it creep, and not perchance criss-cross may g

es, if she ll twine me in her tresses, or the fairest fate deciding, on her heart grant me abiding. rosebuds, a challenge. let fantastic gaudy flowers bloom as fashion oft empowers wondrous- strange and finely moulded, such as nature ne er unfolded. green stalks, gold bells, look entrancing from rich locks, their charm enhancing! but we hide from mortal eyes. happy he who us espies? when anew the summer beameth as the rosebud, kindling, gleameth, from such bliss who d be abstaining? sweet the promise and attaining which in flora s fair domain rule over vision, heart, and brain. under green, leafy arcades the flower girls adorn their wares daintily. gardeners [song accompanied by theorbos. see the flowers sprout unhasting, charms around your head they re weaving? fruits lead not astray, dec

hou hallowed staff, the ground till earth quiver and resound! fill thyself, o spacious air, with cool fragrance everywhere. hither come, around us steaming, mist and clouds with moisture teeming, come and veil the rampant flame; cloudlets, whirl ye, drizzling, purl ye, hither glide ye, softly drenching, quelling everywhere and quenching; ye, who re moist, allaying, bright ning, change to harmless summer lightning all this empty fiery game! and when spirits threat and lower, then let magic show its power! pleasure garden morning sun emperor. courtiers. faust and mephistopheles, dressed becomingly, not conspicuously, according to the mode; both kneel. faust pardon you, sire, the flames and wizardry? emperor [beckoning him to rise. many such pleasantries i would like to see. presto! i stood w

my comrade gone; he surely knows what s to be done. he works secludedly and still, and all his powers he perforce engages. who d raise that treasure, beauty, at his will, requires the highest art, magic of sages! steward the kind of arts you need, that is all one; it is the emperor s will that it be done. a blonde [to mephistopheles. one word, sir! see my face without a spot, but thus in tiresome summer it is not! then brownish-red there sprout a hundred freckles which vex my lily skin with ugly speckles. a cure! mephistopheles you radiant darling, what a pity, spotted in may-time like a panther-kitty. take frog-spawn, toads tongues, cohobate them, and carefully, at full moon, distillate them. when the moon s waning, spread the mixture on, and when the spring has come, the spots are gone

shoulders as of yore, head of the house as heretofore. yet boots it little so to name me; where are the people to acclaim me? he pulls the bell which gives out a shrill, penetrating sound, making the halls tremble and the doors fly open. famulus [tottering down the long, dark corridor. what a clanging! what a quaking! stairs are rocking, walls are shaking! through the windows motley quiver i see summer lightning shiver. over me cracks the ancient flooring, down come lime and rubbish pouring; and the door, securely bolted, magic power has open jolted. there! how terrible! a giant stands in faust s old fur, defiant! at his look, his beck, his winking, on my knees i m near to sinking. shall i stay? or shall i flee? oh, what will become of me? mephistopheles [beckoning. come here, my friend!

if you ll prove that you are masters truly, hasten ye to the glowing smithy where tireless dwarf-folk on their stithy strike sparks from metal and from stone. ask, while at length you prate and flatter, for fires that beam and flash and scatter, such as to their deep minds are known. it s true, sheet lightning in the distance dancing and fall of stars from height of heaven glancing may happen any summer night; sheet lightning, though, amid entangled bushes and stars that hiss among the quenching rushes: not often seen is such a sight. don t worry much, but be, with understanding, at first entreating, then commanding. exeunt the ravens. all takes place as prescribed. mephistopheles before the foe there falls a thick, dark curtain! their step and tread become uncertain! everywhere flitting s

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nd systematic design apparent in their architecture. they all have their sides accurately adapted to the four cardinal points "in six of them which have been opened, the principal passage preserves the same inclination of 26 degrees to the horizon, being directed toward the polar star. their obliquity being so adjusted as to make the north side coincide with the obliquity of the sun's rays at the summer's solstice, has, combined with the former particulars, led some to suppose they were solely intended for astronomical uses; and certainly, if not altogether true, it bespeaks, at all events, an intimate acquaintance with astronomical rules, as well as a due regard to the principles of geometry. others have fancied them intended for sepulchres; and as the egyptians, taught by their ancient c

e of the nativity of st. john. the early preachers, wishing to defer to the prejudices and usages of the people "yet not so as to interfere with the celebration of easter at the vernal equinox, retained the bealtine ceremonial, only transferring it to the saint's day" of these fire festivals and their adoption by the christian church tylor says "the solar christmas festival has its pendant at mid-summer. the summer solstice was the great season of fire festivals throughout europe on the heights, of dancing round and leaping through the fires, of sending blazing fire-wheels to roll down from the hills into the valleys, in sign of the sun's descending course. these ancient rites attached themselves in christendom to st. john's eve "it seems as though the same train of symbolism which had ada

heights, of dancing round and leaping through the fires, of sending blazing fire-wheels to roll down from the hills into the valleys, in sign of the sun's descending course. these ancient rites attached themselves in christendom to st. john's eve "it seems as though the same train of symbolism which had adapted the mid-winter festival to the nativity, may have suggested the dedication of the mid-summer festival to john the baptist, in clear allusion to his words 'he must increase but i must decrease"[137 [137] tylor, primitive culture, vol. ii, p. 271. in a description recently given of the "moral, religious, and social disease" which broke out a.d. 1374, in the lower rhine region, and which was denominated as the "greatest, perhaps, of all manifestations of possession" andrew d. white sa

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was[mrswaite's]lotto maketheresponsions as solecongregationatmorningprayer,"butthechurchofengland proved unable to providethespiritual consolationthatemma,facedwiththeopenhostilityofthelovell family, sourgentlyneeded. shesoughtit insteadfromthechurchofrome,towhichsheturnedinthesummerof1863.whetherfromchance-s-waitesaysthat'wewerewalkingout, once on an afternoon,whenit pleasedgodto send us rain in summer, andweweredrivenintotherefuge267ofachurch'(slt,p.19)-orafter careful considerationwillnever beknown;buton8october1863emmawaite andherchildren were receivedinto the romancatholicchurchbyadominicanfriar, father austin rooke.2thememoryofthissub-conditionebaptism remainedwithwaite:'icanjustrememberbeingtaken, on a day,intosomekindofbaptistry-asit seems tome-onthenorthsideofthesanctuary, possibl

ooks through the black lattice-bars,andher pale beams falldownat my267 feet. forgotten, forgetting, and therefore content, behold meatworkonaworkofmy own, neither asking. nor seeking for. helpto.be.lent:whatidoiam. doing alone! clods of earth are piled above thee,dustisnowthy fair young form; wewhomournthee, wewholove thee, have consigned thee to the worm.roundthy grave the shadow creepeth,andthe summer breezes blow; there the drooping snowdrop sleepeth, there the yew and myrtle grow. but thy pure soul, heavenward soaring, far beyond the furthest star,nowis at god's. throne adoring,wherethe radiant angels are.ifzastroniwasofsimilar quality' it is, perhaps, all tothegoodthatit 'perished,withotherludibriaand note-books. a rather more polished epitaph, entitled 'sleep, followed in1876and was

n museum. atoxford.healsotooktowritingnovels; oneofwhich-juliancloughton;or, lad-lift innorfolk(1880)-illustrateshis great andcontinuinginterest inyoungmen, inwhomhe seems invariably to have inspired a profound devotion that occasionally manifested itself in curious ways.writingto 267thesheffielddaily ulegraph after chester's death, on 23 may 1892, amrharry hems related the following anecdote:one summer evening, inoldpark woods, mr chester andi-thenalad-weretogether, and he was giving me a lesson in geology when another lad, all in tatters, came along. at sight of the rev. gentleman he suddenly became all aglowwithexcitement, and rushing at him, threw himself down, and began kissing his feet and legs.ilearned afterwards that our late friend had sheltered and nursed this youth after some se

miss peck, mr stuart menteath, miss menteath and myself,in addition to the medium rita, who arrived last of all, whereupon we immediately took our seats.it was a momentous daywhenwaitemet'mr stuart menteath' for'outof those meetings followed things which changed my life'(sly,p. 78. waite's memoryofthat first meeting wasvague-heremembered neither themonthnor the year, thinking that it was in the 'summer, possibly of 1885';buthe was clear as towhatfollowed:'inthe autumn we renewed acquaintance under the same auspices and stuart-menteth, for some obscure reason was drawn in my direction. undoubtedly stuart-menteath (there was no consistency of spelling, even in the family 'cultivated my acquaintance more especially in connectionwithhis ambition to form a circle for private seances, inthehope

was seen to on my part that whosoever might be present, atwhatfunction. soever by which the seals were set, 1 at least was far away,withthe sounds of the seaand the sounds of the light andthenight-time to drown intoning chants, if chants there happened to be'(sly,p. 113. in all probability he went to worthingtovisit a friendwhowas herself about to be married. he had met amyhoggduring the previous summer while staying at worthingwithhis mother. there, through her attendance at the roman catholic church,'mymother became acquaintedwithsome elderly anglo-indians, mr and mrs hogg,whohad a daughter named mysie, a tall pallid girl, well-shapenbutwithlittle attraction in her looks. i had occasional talks with her and found that she had no horizon beyond that which was proffered and provided by lat

ngand marvelled at waite's capacity for it. hewroteabout waite's industry in a letterofoctober1887,toharryspurr, the publisher:'thehighclassgypsyhas been in once or' twice; i believe, he spends most of his time in that resort of the learned vagabonds, thebritishmuseum,slogging away at his lives of the alchemists; to be published by us. i fancy it will be agoodthing.'9butthis was after an eventful summer.dorawas married injuneand waite sent her asawedding present a copy ofasoul'scomedyinscribed 'to miranda,withlove fromarthuredward waite; it would be a full year before he couldbringhimself to use her married name. in august machen and amyhoggwere married at worthing, probablywith'waite in attendance; he didnotstay, for he needed to return to london to set about the business of marriage on h

assignable limit to her capacity for sleeping (p.19)andwhenawake she wasofsuch 'unassailable taciturnity' that 'as she never spoke willingly, and seldom answered anyone except upon extreme pressure, this silencebecame itself a kind of eloquence (p.20).she also possessed a serene indifference,bothto waite's occult pursuits and to his poetry (when his anthology of fairy poetry was published in the summer of1888,he gave ada a copy of the pocket edition, reserving the larger and more sumptuous version for her more appreciative sister. she remains a curiously nebulous figure,butwaite was undoubtedly fond of ada, and if high passion and high romance were alike absent from the marriage her inert personality ought to have led to a lifeofplacid contentment.butthere remained dora. whatever ada's re

is name on the title-page. during1889he alsotook up what hecalled'my first excursion injournalism properly so called: a four-month stint at writingthecourseofevents,a regularsocialand political gossip-column of home newsforthecivilandmilitarygazetteoflahore.this was usually undertaken by a.p,sinnett as part of his duties as manager of the joint londonofficeof thegazetteand thepioneer,but for that summer he was absent from london and waite volunteered to write the column on hisbehalf.'ihave',he later remarked 'dark recollections of its burden' the burden, moreover, was about to be increased_'notversenow,onlyprose'79sinnett wasalwayswilling to put money into new publishing ventures, and in1884he had helped horatio bottomley5-thenat a very early stage of hiscareerasafinancialadventurer-toesta

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

manuscripts, and were, for the first time, issued to members in printed form 'by the authority of the concealed superiors of the second order'.itseems unlikely that he worked any second order rituals other than those for the 'consecrationofa vault and temple of the adepts' and'thepontifical ceremony of celebrating the festival of corpus christi, which he called alternatively'therecurrence of the summer solstice; even these seem to have been abandoned after19 10.how many members followed waite and co. is not known, but there were fourteen signatories to the manifesto and a further fifteen members at the second convocation in april1904.among them were arthur machen (frater avallaunius, who had're255turned by special invitation of the. chiefs, algernon blackwood (umbra fugat veritas) and pam

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heman,lion,bullandeagle, which four types became the well recognised christianemblemsof thefourevangelists,matthew,mark,lukeandjohn,andwere associatedwiththe164themagical masonolder four zodiacal signs of aquarius, leo, taurus and scorpio, which latter was in this instance viewed as the eagle: the reason for this change was a rosicrucian secret. in this order also are allotted the seasons winter, summer, spring and autumn;butif placed in the order of ihvh, the succession would be the natural one of summer, autumn, winter and spring, and fire, water, air and earth. then follow the four groups of so-called elemental spirits, the salamanders of fire, the undines of water, the sylphs of air, and the gnomes of earth, invisibletoordinary men and women, but dwelling in our environment; they were

bla khan,and on awaking wrote them down. tartini, a famous italian musician, composed his famous piece 'the devil's sonata, from the music he had dreamt that the devil played on a violin to him. thesomniumscipionisor 'dream of scipio africanus, written by the famous marcus tullius cicero, is one of the most curious pieces of ancient mystical philosophy which are extant.thedailytelegraphduring the summer of 1906 contained columns of narratives of dreams which had a serious meaning, divinatory or giving warnings of unknown or coming events of interest to the dreamer. it has been only as a result of our present day scientific culture that the study of dreams and their meanings has been stamped as an absurdity. it is only recent materialism which has explainedalldreams as due to physical cause

ng the heaven255 ly bodies is a very large subject which has been dealt with in a separate essay on astrology;butapart from a serious study of the motions of the heavenly bodies, many omens relating to the sky, sun, moon and stars were observed, and conclusions drawn from them by all ancient peoples. comets were always deemed to bring on misfortunes and so were eclipses, both of the sun and moon. summer lightning was of excellent omen; forked lightning first seen on the right was fortunate, but on the left unlucky, and the same rule applied to the hearing of thunder: if heard in a clear skyitwas a happy omen to the old greeks and romans.theplanets saturn and mars have always had a bad reputation as afflicting man, while jupiter and venus were regarded as bearers of good fortune.206themagic

and of virtuous conduct, and of education in the national faith, theology and polity, and novices were required to spend a period of preparation in the study and practice of mental and bodily purification.thechief seat of the egyptian mysteries was at memphis, the ancient capital of lower egypt. the lesser mysteries were those of isis, and were held at the vernal equinox; those of serapis at the summer solstice; and the great mysteries of osiris at the autumnal equinox. in this latter ceremonial the drama of the murder of osiris was performed, the reconstruc255 tion of his body by isis his queen, and the punishment of typhon or set the murderer, the wicked brother of osiris. from this ceremonial some students have derived the tradition of the masonic third degree, alleging that the refere

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he glamour that would lure a babe from its mother's breast. none other had a chance with malveen. one stalwart boatman in hot wrath met and fought angus, for so he called himself. he was found in the morning horribly mauled, with his throat and shoulders torn and bitten. many of her old lovers warned her, but she would not listen. they knew he was one of the sea-folk. as thesome celtic memories107summer waned angus said he was called away, and little malveen went white to the lips with the anguish of losing him "sweetheart" he said, as his lips rested long on hers, and the dark curly head lay on his arm-"ishall come back when the snow is on the mountains of jura" one long kiss and he was gone. and the royal robes of heather clad the grand old mountains, and their ermine tippets of snow wer

currents affecting the solar system do not directly affect the earth in the same way.ifthe pole of the earth were the same as the pole of the solar system, then the character of the earth would be the character of the whole system. but it is not. now certain things we know physically. we know that it is exactly this inclination of the earth's equator to the ecliptic that gives us the phenomena of summer and winter, gives us the phenomena of the seasons. that merely shows us what an effect the fact of the earth not being polarised accurately to its system produces on the mere operation of the terrestrial taijas, the heat and cold, and with every tatwic current which flows the result is precisely the same, that is to say, every tatwa that flows is a little bit out of the characteristic of th

et, even so, the day and night of the human organism are a part, even as the pulsationsareapartoftheterrestrial day and night; and even so we find the pulsation, the267 circulation,thephenomena of nerve force different by day andsleeping, and the intermediate stage of dreaming.butinspiration and expiration, and outflow and inflowofblood, the current of life, goes on without cessation day andlight,summer and winter,butis modified. now, that is not explained in rama prasad's book. 1 believe that the word day and night, and the word sun and moon, areusedlargely as blinds. yet there is no reason, and isaythis absolutely with knowledge, why this amount of knowledge should be blinded at all; because it is, i believe,ofvety great use in the medical profession ifitis carefully studied.thetatwas211

ifyou wish to watchthetatwas in daily life you. must realise that they are not subject to time. carry these points in your headsofthe meaning oftatwictime, the meaning of dayandnight, sunrise andsunset,andthe meaning of sun and moon in their different connotation; and also how perplexity arises fromsomanytarwiccurrents, which are continually radiating on to the earth; and also that day and night, summer and winter, are, as it were, mere terms of convenience for measurement accordingto our limited notationall are really contemporaneous.ifyou think over the work we have doneinthetatwas,you will find that a good many problems will appear much easierthanbefore [reprinted fromtransactionsof thescottishlodge of thetheosophicalsociety..vol.iii, no. 3(1895),pp.35-41](4)thetatwasonfour planesthesub

all their modifica255 tions which are known upon the earth's surface according to regular rules. and after sunset the same series runs over and over again on the negative side through the night. and further again, during the bright fortnightofthemoon, are the positive tatwas running more distinctly and vividly; on the dark fortnight are the negative running more strongly. and so you get again in summer the positive running more strongly, and in winter the negative accentuated. and thus you get three distinct series of positive and negative of the running of the five tatwas; every one crossing and recrossing, acting and reacting upon each other, and producing an infinite complex255 ity which is only paralleled by the infinite complexity of creation. in precisely the same way was the physic

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inal stage of its existence that was to be chiefly a period of technological and political expansion. his other works include the crucial years (1933) and man and technics (1931. the nexus of spengler s work is that history is not a mechanical series of events, but represents the outward manifestation of a much deeper process. history, according to spengler, is organic and moves through cycles of summer, spring, autumn and winter. these cycles are akin to life periods and there is much in common with jung s view regarding racial memory, archetypes and forms. races and nations have collective minds and hence operate on a deeper level than individuals, they cannot be reduced to economic or class processes alone. these organic cycles of decline are important as they bring the yugas into a mor

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ist these as: planet day night l k j k i l c g b 5 d d b c f f a h a e e now, when working with triplicities it is important that we understand the first zodiacal sign of the triplicity or kerubic emblem the kerubic is always the most powerful action of that particular element in the triplicity. for example, in l, we would have b, and in o, we would have e. e would bring violent heat, the heat of summer. a, however, would be good for beginnings, of warmth and spring. i would be good for the waning of heat and the entering of the cool period of autumn. so again, it is important that the adept study the zodiacal natures in the outer order grade material, so that if he would want to invoke a particular elemental based on the zodiac, or in other words, infused with zodiacal energies, he can be

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rds. a is not very strong in action when it is here placed; and the queen of swords represents the moist force of a, h of w. therefore, if one could attributed a direct material action unto the squares of the tablet of union, the terrestrial effect would be that of a moist and gentle, scarcely moving, breeze; with a soft vibrating light playing through it, like the most gentle sheet-lightening in summer" it will aid the reader considerably if, when meditating upon these examples, he draws the pyramid with the triangles so that he can refer to it at a moment's notice. the square "h" of "mph" in the great cross of the water tablet. triangle no. 1 seven of cups, h triangle no. 2 m triangle no. 3 c triangle no. 4 c here the action of c is extremely passive, h, representing especially still c

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

ted celestial observatory. rather than keeping enemies at bay, its purpose had been to fix the equinoxes and the solstices and to predict, with mathematical precision, the various seasons of the year. certain structures within its walls (and, indeed, the walls themselves, appeared to have been lined up to particular star groups and designed to facilitate measurement of the amplitude of the sun in summer, winter, autumn and spring.9 in addition, the famous gateway of the sun, which stood in the north-west corner of the enclosure, was not only a world-class work of art but was thought by those who had studied it to be a complex and accurate calendar carved in stone: the more one gets acquainted with the sculpture the greater becomes one s conviction that the peculiar lay-out and pictorialism

avestic scriptures take us back to a time of paradise on earth, when the remote ancestors of the ancient iranian people lived in the fabled airyana vaejo, the first good and happy creation of ahura mazda that flourished in the first age of the world: the mythical birthplace and original home of the aryan race. in those days airyana vaejo enjoyed a mild and productive climate with seven months of summer and five of winter. rich in wildlife and in crops, its meadows flowing with streams, this garden of delights was converted into an uninhabitable wasteland of ten months winter and only two months summer as a result of the onslaught of angra mainyu, the evil one: the first of the good lands and countries which i, ahura mazda, created was the airyana vaejo. then angra mainyu, who is full of d

s converted into an uninhabitable wasteland of ten months winter and only two months summer as a result of the onslaught of angra mainyu, the evil one: the first of the good lands and countries which i, ahura mazda, created was the airyana vaejo. then angra mainyu, who is full of death, created an opposition to the same, a mighty serpent and snow. ten months of winter are there now, two months of summer, and these are cold as to the water, cold as to the earth, cold as to the trees. there all around falls deep snow; that is the direst of plagues. 2 the reader will agree that a sudden and drastic change in the climate of airyana vaejo is indicated. the avestic scriptures leave us in no doubt about this. earlier they describe a meeting of the celestial gods called by ahura mazda, and tell us

of the quick-frozen giants, saturday evening post, 16 january 1960, p. 82. 23 path of the pole, p. 256. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 211 however, is that at some point between 12-13,000 years ago a destroying frost descended with horrifying speed upon siberia and has never relaxed its grip. in an eerie echo of the avestic traditions, a land which had previously enjoyed seven months of summer was converted almost overnight into a land of ice and snow with ten months of harsh and frozen winter.24 a thousand krakatoas, all at once many of the myths of cataclysm speak of times of terrible cold, of darkened skies, of black, burning, bituminous rain. for centuries it must have been like that all the way across the arc of death incorporating immense tracts of siberia, the yukon and al

u to read this paragraph, we have voyaged about 550 miles farther along earth s path around the sun.3 with a year required to complete a full circuit, the only evidence we have of the tremendous orbital race we are participating in is the slow march of the seasons. and in the operations of the seasons themselves it is possible to see a wondrous and impartial mechanism at work distributing spring, summer, autumn and winter fairly around the globe, across the northern and southern hemispheres, year in and year out, with absolute regularity. the earth s axis of rotation is tilted in relation to the plane of its orbit (at about 23.5 to the vertical. this tilt, which causes the seasons, points the north pole, and the entire northern hemisphere away from the sun for six months a year (while the

y around the globe, across the northern and southern hemispheres, year in and year out, with absolute regularity. the earth s axis of rotation is tilted in relation to the plane of its orbit (at about 23.5 to the vertical. this tilt, which causes the seasons, points the north pole, and the entire northern hemisphere away from the sun for six months a year (while the southern hemisphere enjoys its summer) and points the south pole and the southern hemisphere away from the sun for the remaining six months (while the northern hemisphere enjoys its summer. the seasons result from the annual variation in the angle at which the sun s rays reach any particular point on the earth s surface and from the annual variation in the number of hours of sunlight received there at different times of the yea

t important influence on its seasons is the angle at which the rays of the sun strike it at various points on its orbital path. equinoxes and solstices. let us also note that there are four crucial astronomical moments in the year, marking the official beginning of each of the four seasons. these moments (or cardinal points, which were of immense importance to the ancients, are the winter and the summer solstices and the spring and autumn equinoxes. in the northern hemisphere the winter solstice, the shortest day, falls on 21 december, and the summer solstice, the longest day, on 21 june. in the southern hemisphere, on the other hand, 19 precise figure from the death of gods in ancient egypt, p. 205. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 231 everything is literally upside down: there win

pring and autumn equinoxes. in the northern hemisphere the winter solstice, the shortest day, falls on 21 december, and the summer solstice, the longest day, on 21 june. in the southern hemisphere, on the other hand, 19 precise figure from the death of gods in ancient egypt, p. 205. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 231 everything is literally upside down: there winter begins on 21 june and summer on 21 december. the equinoxes, by contrast, are the two points in the year on which night and day are of equal length all over the planet. once again, however, as with the solstices, the date that marks the onset of spring in the northern hemisphere (20 march) marks that of autumn in the southern hemisphere, and the date for the onset of autumn in the northern hemisphere (22 september) mark

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

s. an interesting study of numerology, ufo contact, men in black, the golden dawn, the shaver mystery, l. ron hubbard, jpl founder jack parsons, and other material. greenfield delves deep into his thesis that certain aspects of the ufo enigma are connected to a cosmic battle between ancient black and white brotherhoods. the last chapter is on working with the cipher. adventures unlimited catalog, summer-fall, 1995, p. 8. i first encountered this interesting book in a catalog for adventures unlimited, ten years ago exactly, when i was receiving mail from conspiranoia mailing lists, under the monicker of harold k. taylor we used to get some rather interesting junk. i only wish i still had access to that old catalog, for i would have quoted the blurb written in it. that entire catalog was rea

thelemic magicians. proclaimed by aleister crowley to be his magical child, a ranking member of the a:.a. and a national grand master of the ordo templi orientis (oto, he is inherently a force to be dealt with seriously. crowley tells us in his autobiography, what i had really done was therefore to beget a magical son [in a magical operation. so, precisely nine months afterwards, that is, at the summer solstice of 1916, frater o.i.v (the name of c. stansfeld jones as a probationer) entirely without my knowledge became a babe of the abyss. crowley goes on to cite a number of proofs, relying upon the expected child in the book of the law. it is further predicted, crowley goes on, that his child shall discover the key of the interpretation of the book itself, and this i was unable to do. in

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turras forro into formless essence. nephthys is similar to the tantric goddess, kali. horus attainment, fruition, man, humanity, the present as a result of the past. his title is 'the avenger of his father' because he fought set and avenged his father, osiris, whom set slew. horus is shown as a warrior. he is dynamic and aggressive. he is the spring which wins against winter and avenges the past summer. ur-heru cause, maturity, responsibility. his name means 'the elder horus' and he is the counterpart of the child, harpocrates. harpocrates effect, faith, acceptance, innocence. he is horus, the child. he is like the fool of the tarot. he is often shown sitting on a lotus with the first finger of his right hand resting against his closed lips in his role ofthe god of silence. hathor materna

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sphere 5 red, and the central sixth sphere bright yellow, or sun coloured. sphere 7 is green (mixture of 4 and 6) while sphere 8 is orange (mixture of 6 and 5. the ninth sphere is a pale moon-coloured semi-yellow, with a very faint touch of orange and green mixed. at the tenth sphere comes a complete change to the tree-colours of the four seasons. light green for leaves at spring, dark green for summer, russet at autumn, and black for the bare branches of winter as a complementary balance in the brilliance of keter. this also brings in the time-element. the colours tell their own story with the middle pillar of light shining first from space into our sun, which reflects to the moon and thence to our earth for the enlightenment of man and our fellow creatures. so we see the direct line of

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orant, which fall at once within the province of mythology, it has treasured up for us the words tarnkappe, albleich, heilwac, turse, windesbrut, goltwine and the like, while in oft-recurring phrases about des sunnen haz, des arn winde, des tiuvels muoter, we catch the clear echo of ancient fables. most vividly, in never-tiring play of colours, the minne-songs paint the triumphal entry of may and summer: the pining heart missed in the stately march its former god. the personifications of saelde and aventiui*e spring from a deep-hidden root; how significant are the mere names of wunsch and valant, which are not found in all the poets even, let alone in o.h.german! yet we cannot imagine otherwise than that these words, although their reference to wuotan and phol was through long ages latent

he common people, and which they will not give up, whatever other pabulum you may place before them, we must take account of rites and customs, which, having sprung out of antiquity and continued ever since, may yield any amount of revelations concerning it. i have endeavoured to shew how ignition by friction, easter fires, healing fountains, rain-processions, sacred animals, the conflict between summer and winter, the carrying-out of death, and the whole heap of superstitions, especially about pathcrossing and the healing of diseases, are distinctly traceable to heathen origins. of many things, however, the explanation stands reserved for a minute inquiry devoting itself to the entire life of the people through the different seasons of the year and times of life; and no less will the whol

s of greek or roman art. the yule-play is still acted here and there in the north; its mode of performance in gothland (p. 43) bears reference to freyr. the little wights' play is mentioned on p. 441 n; on the bear's play (p. 785) i intend to enlarge more fully elsewhere. sword-dance and giant's dance (p. 30 i, berchta's running (p. 279, whitsun play (p. 785, easter play (p. 780, the induction of summer or may, the violethunt and the swallow's welcome are founded on pui'ely heathen views; even the custom of the kilt-gang, like that of watchmen's songs (p. 749, can be traced up to the most antique festivities. such are our sources, and so far do they still carry us: let us examine what results the study of them hitherto has yielded. divinities form the core of all mythology: ours were burie

and wuotan the spear, he is god of the sword, as exhibited in the names sahsnot and heru. but here much remains dark to us, because our legend has lost sight of zio altoo-ether. like wuotan, he also seems to rush down from the sky in the form of tempest. two others, though never appearing in the week, must yet be reckoned among the great gpds. froho, a god of hunting, of generation, fertility and summer, had long planted his name in the heart of our language, where he still maintains his ground in the derivatives fron and fronen; his sacred golden-bristled boar survived in helmet- crests, in pastry, and at the festive meal. year by year in kingly state froho journeyed through the lands (p. 213. 7g0. he is the gracious loving deity, in contrast with the two last-mentioned, and with wuotan i

, but svatovit for zio; between radegast the god of bliss (rad glad, radost joy, and our wish, the harmony is yet stronger. kroto reminds us of kirt, molnia of miolnir (pp. 1221. 813. how near the badniak of the servians comes to our christmas fire! their cuckoo -pole to the langobardic dove-pole (p. llssn, their dodola to the fetching-in of rain (p. 594, the carrying-out of death to the fight of summer and winter, the vila to our wise-women! if the elf and dwarf legends appear less polished than they are among celts and germans, our giant legend on the other hand has much more in common with the slavic and finnic. no doubt slav mythology altogether is several degrees wilder and grosser than german, yet many things in it will make a diserent figure when once the legends and fairy tales are

another giant, suttung's brother baugi, who sorely complained that he had that day lost his nine men, and had not a woi'kman left. osinn, who called himself eolverkr, was ready to undertake nine men's work, stipulating only for a drink of suttung's mead^ baugi said the mead belonged to his brother, but he would do his best to obtain the drink from him. bolverkr accomplished the nine men's work in summer, and when winter came demanded his wages. they both went off to suttung, but he would not part with a drop of mead. bolverkr was for trying stratagem, to which baugi agreed. then bolverkr produced a gimlet named rati* and desired baugi to bore the mountain through with it, which apparently he did; but when bolverkr blew into the hole and the dust flew back in his face, he concluded that his

geswarme und sin her' eol. 204, 6' der tiuvel und sin her' kenn. 2249. 2870. the people in bavaria say that on ash-wednesday the devil chases the little wood-wife, superst. i, 914. with the devil is associated the figure of an enormous giant, who can stand for him 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-hist

giant with our headless wild huuter^ a feature that strikes me still more forcibly is, that artemis (diana) causes a scorpion to come up out of the grouud, who stings orion in the ankle, so that he dies" when the sign scorpio rises in the sky, orion sinks. this is like hackelberend's foot being pierced by the wild boar's tusk, and causing his death (pp. 921. 947. orion's [cosmic] rising is at the summer, his setting at the winter solstice: he blazes through the winter nights, just when the furious host is afoot. stormy winds attend him (nimbosus orion, aen. 1, 535; the gift is given him of walking on the sea (apollod. i. 4, 3, as the steeds in the aaskereia skim over the wave. orion's relation to artemis is not like that of wuotan to holda, for these two are never seen together in the host

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res, and in nib. 399 siegfried becomes master of the hoard as soon as he has taken alberich s tarnkappe from him. in calderon s darna duende the little goblin wears a large hat: era unfrayle tamanito, y tenia un cucurucho tamano. the swedish tomte i garden looks like a year-old child, but has an old knowing face under his red cap. he shews himself at midday (see chap. xxxvi, daemon meridianus) in summer and autumn, slow and panting he drags a single straw or an ear (p. 459; when the farmer laughed and asked, what s the odds whether you bring me that or nothing? he quitted the farm in dudgeon, and went to the next. from that time pros perity forsook the man who had despised him, and went over to his neighbour. the farmer who respected the busy tomte and cared for the tiniest straw, became r

edda itself. a iotunn had come to the ases, professing to be a smrcsr, and had pledged himself to build them a strong castle within a year and a half, if they would let him have freyja with the sun and moon into the bargain. the gods took counsel, and decided to accept his offer, if he would undertake to finish the building by himself without the aid of man, in one winter; if on the first day of summer anything in the castle was left undone, he should forfeit all his claims. how the smith/ with no help but that of his strong horse sva&ilfari, had nearly accomplished the task, but was hindered by loki and slain by thorr, is related in sn. 46-7. well, this myth, obeying that wondrous law of fluctuation so often observed in genuine popular traditions, lives on, under new forms, in other time

er depicts a kind of deluge, ii. 16, 384: cbs 5 vwb xcuxcttti tracra kexalvrj fiefipide "xq&v ij/j,ar otrwpo y, ore xa^porarov x^ i $8w/&gt; zeus, ore 77 p dvdpecrcrt /careercrd/u.ei os xaxetttji y, o? f3iri elv dyopfj cr/coxtas kpivucrt $eytucrras, k 5e 5uc?7i&gt; exao-wm, de&v 8iriv ovk. fuvvdei se" re py even as crouches the darkening land, overcrowed by the tempest, all on a summer s day, when jove doth the down-rushing water suddenly pour, and wreak his wrath on the proud men, men of might, who sit dealing a crooked doom in the folkmote, forcing justice aside, unheeding of gods and their vengeance (rivers swell, etc) and the works of man are all wasted. 4 bopp s die siindflut, berl. 1829. deluge. 579 now shall manus make all creatures, gods, asuris and men, and all t

the bucket on the dodola, so is rain out of heaven to stream down on the earth; it is the mystic and genuinely symbolic association of means with end. just so the rebound off the millwheel was to send evil flying, and the lustration in the stream to wash away all 1 is this covering merely to protect the maiden s modesty, or has it some further reason? we shall see that personations of spring and summer were in like manner enveloped in foliage. 2 kind, pp. 86-7, gives some variant forms, but all the explanations appear to me farfetched. both the greek and the servian names have the reduplication so characteristic of folk-words [slav, dozhd is rain, and zhd represents either gd or dd; if this be the root, dodo-la may be a dimin] bain-making. ducking. 595 future illnesses. celtic tradition

ing of may as a great festival, and it is still regarded as the trysting-time of witches, i.e. once of wisewomen and fays; who can doubt that heathen sacrifices blazed that day? pholtag then answers to bealteine? and moreover baldag is the saxon form for paltar (p. 229. were the german may-fires, after the conversion, shifted to easter and midsummer, to adapt them to christian worship? or, as the summer solstice was itself deeply rooted in heathenism, is it eastertide alone that represents the ancient may-fires? for, as to the celtic november, the german yule or midwinter might easily stand for that, even in heathen times. 1 conf. the accounts in mone s geschichte des heidenth. 2, 485. 2 all over england on the 1st of may they set up a may pole, which may be from pole, palus, as. pol; yet

onere pro sanitate febrium, and ponere infantem juxta ignem, 1 superst. b, 10. 14, and p. 200a. othek fikes. 627 easter and midsummer, but nearer to easter when that falls late. a feature common to all three, and perhaps to all public fires of antiquity, is the wheel, as friction is to all the ancient easter fires. i must not omit to mention, that fires were also lighted at the season opposite to summer, at christmas, and in lent. to the yule-fire answers the gaelic samhtheine (p. 614) of the 1st november. in france they have still in vogue the souche de noel (from dies natalis, prov. natal) or the trefue (log that burns three days, superst.k, 1. 28, conf. the trefoir in brand s pop.antiq. 1, 468. at marseille they burnt the calendeau or caligneau, a large oaken log, sprinkling it with win

s in the animal legend oftener than we are now aware of; there are still beautiful stories of the zaunkonig (hedgeking, wren, as. wrenna. but i have yet to speak of two little birds, which appear to have been peculiarly sacred in olden times: redbreast and titmouse. robin redbreast is on no account to have his nest disturbed, or the house will be struck with lightning: it is the redstart s nest 1 summer-freckles in bavar. gugker-schegken, cuckoo-spots, schm. 2, 27; conf. hofer 1, 337. eedbeeast. titmouse. 683 that draws down the flash. the latter the swiss call husrotheli (house-redling; if you tease him or take him out, your cows will give red milk (tobler 281. were these birds sacred to donar the red-bearded? and has that to do with the colour of their throat and tail? they say the redbr

ered to the twelve of the solar year. the recurring period of from 29 to 30 days was therefore called menops, mdnod, from mena, mano. hence also it was natural to count by nights, not days: nee dierum numerum sed noctium computant, sic constituunt, sic condicunt, nox ducere diem videtur/ tac. germ. c. 11. and much in the same way, the year was named by its winter, which holds the same relation to summer as night to day. a section of time was measured by the number of se ennights, fortnights, months or winters it contained. and that is also the reason why the phases of the moon had such a commanding influence on important undertakings. they are what jornandes cap. 11 calls lunae commoda incommodaque. it is true, the performance of any kind of work was governed by berc. 1 defence of wulften

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europe, africa, and asia) are sanctum members; that is, they are individuals who have affiliated with the order as members of the grand lodge and receive their membership privileges directly from the grand lodge. historically, sanctum membership (formerly known as national membership) meant membership by correspondence only. at the national convention of the rosicrucian order, amorc, held in the summer of 1917 at pittsburgh, pennsylvania, it was voted to establish what was then termed a national lodge for the purpose of providing correspondence instruction to those who could not attend temple lodges. these correspondence lectures (monographs) originally composed three degrees and covered a period of about ten months. each degree had its own initiation ritual to be performed by the member

lizing, finally, in school administration. this training has proved singularly useful to mr. piepenbrink in his present duties as supreme secretary since the rosicrucian order is in a broad sense a school. although from time to time during his college years he inquired about available positions at rosicrucian park, there were no immediate openings until after his graduation, when he was offered a summer teaching position at the university by cecil a. poole, at that time supreme secretary and dean of rose-croix university. after teaching a course in psychology in 1950, mr. piepenbrink returned to the university of chicago graduate school and finished his thesis, receiving a master's degree in december, 1950. brief experience later in a company management training program was interrupted by

ither the teacher, physician, or the politician seemed able to accomplish this to any extent. the order's teachings had gradually brought about many major changes in his own life, and increasingly burnam hoped that others might also benefit as he had; therefore the urge grew ever more insistent within him that he should offer himself in service to the international order of the rose cross. in the summer of 1969 burnam schaa left fresno state university with a rather broad and lengthy education and came to rosicrucian park to serve the order wherever he was needed. he was first employed in amorc's shipping department before becoming a member of the first amorc in-house computer department. this computer system was rather unique on the west coast and frater schaa had to learn from on-the-job

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ged-ifound my book with me and myself surrounded by those who had so often been my companions on earth.'justasiwas about to be interrupted, the monk said 'i will continue it with your permission when you have more time.'2p.m.-actionended and the monk left.odie18]an, 18572.15p.m.unconsecratedmirrorcalled the monk, and the seeress instantly remarked,'heis here as before 'i was burnt in 1693, in the summer, and1have not now progressed beyond the state i then found myself in. i had mistaken the appearance of the spirits that came to me upon earth.1had given myself up to their guidance without inquiring to what order they belonged, and i found whenitwas too late that i had been encouraging and communing with the planetary spirits, and not with those who can direct and counsel to their home. i b

tersto theirwins79one was trithemius in french" 4to&the other lenaine on the cabala, we have nothing likeitin english&the hebrew in the german books are very incorrectly printed. i saw the monk of course in the r[osie] c[rucian] and was vexed5-ithad been put in without consulting me first. have you not selected a bad time to go toparis-ihave been told and often read that it is insufferably hot in summer months, however you must take care¬ expose yourself to the chance of sun stroke. i only wish that i could have a month with you thisyear-iam fire proof against hotweather-&i should like to poke our noses together over the old book stalls on the quays if they are there still. i am in a horrid lotoftrouble about mymoving-ihave heardofnothing to suit me but must do so beforemichaelmas-myboo

sistory or convocationoftheorderthat i may,iftime permits, prepare a few papers 'evenings with indwellersofthe worldofspirits' commencing with the spanish monk which a long time since i had promised the spiritualist magazine" with regard tokr.h.m.5i would write to you in a few days as i am sore pressed for time at present. i have many duplicatesbutwhere to find them is another matter. i hope this summer to get my books in good order. i will enquireofmrsburns" aboutmrsjackson's society?buti have been gradually dropping mostofmy spiritualist acquaintanceitentails upon me such a lossoftime and a constant borrowing and consequent spoilage and lossofbooks that i have got heartily tired, especially as my health is bad. with reference to the other matter i will write in a few days timebutam anxio

,toseek the philosopher's stone and invoke angels. wroteatreatiseof therosiecruciansecrets.19drjohn everard(c.i575-c.1650, divine and mystic, translator of50 therosicrucianseerpage 8 of his holy guide,30 fudged from agrippa's occult philos. book2page30.31i have many different forms of same twomssandit is a curious subject, i would go into it if i had time and were not so precious old. i hope this summer to do a fortnight quietly somewhere for i found travelling about from pillar to post did me more harm than good and with the double temptation of trying the baths and having some long gossips upon our favourite studies you may depend that bristol will be the place but i hope to see you before then. when you write let me know how you sleep, i trust it has improved, for the last few weeks i h

as some of my friends have received great benefit from the treatment at the baths in the square opposite your cathedral, where i hoped to have a quiet stay, as hurrying from pillar to post as i did last year, sent me home worse than when i started and a fortnight there would have enabled me to pass all the time you could possibly spare in your company. i must however defer that pleasure till next summer. my trip to alnwick did me a great deal of good, as i and my friends stayed in doors. every day after dinner and played bezique till bedtime. i am indeed grateful to hear 'nature's soft music' has once again come to youraid-forinability to sleep is a much to be dreadedmalady-moreespecially so with an active brain and i hope your 'october [illegible] will carry you well on through winter.ifi

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lar form of some divisions. now since the tuat was traversed by the sun-god during the hours of the night, the egyptians regarded each of these divisions as the equivalent of an hour, and hence it came that the sections of the books of the tuat were often called "hours" the first hour corresponding to the first division, and so on up to the twelfth hour. it will, however, be urged that during the summer in egypt the night is not twelve hours long, but the answer to this objection is that the first division is in reality only the ante-chamber of the tuat, and the twelfth the ante-chamber of the sky of this world, into which the sun-god enters to begin the new day. the divisions ii. to xi. of the tuat have an entirely different character from the ante-chamber of the tuat and that of the sky

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all looks fair as a verdant mead in spring. ivbut an evil day comes to all in the drama of being. it waits through the life of king and of beggar. it leavestraces on the history of every mortal born from woman, and it can neither be seared away, entreated, norpropitiated. health is a dewdrop that falls from the heavens to vivify the blossoms on earth, only during themorn. of life, its spring and summer. it has but a short duration and returns from whence it came- theinvisible realms. how oft'neath the bud that is brightest and fairest, the seeds of the canker in embryo lurk! how oft at the root of the flower that is rarest- secure in its ambush the worm is at work" the running sand which moves downward in the glass, wherein the hours of human life are numbered, runsswifter. the worm has g

ouse. entering the grotto, the explorerfinds at the rear a narrow cleft; having passed through which he emerges into a lofty cavern, feebly lightedthrough fissures in the vaulted roof, fifty feet from the ground. the cavern itself is immense, and would easilyhold between two and three thousand people. a part of it, in the days of mr. izvertzoff, was paved withflagstones, and was often used in the summer as a ball-room by picnic parties. of an irregular oval, itgradually narrows into a broad corridor, which runs for several miles underground, opening here and thereinto other chambers, as large and lofty as the ball-room, but, unlike this, impassable otherwise than in a boat,as they are always full of water. these natural basins have the reputation of being unfathomable. on the margin of the

certain extraordinary event in my life- aman i met, of whom i will tell you just now- and its. indeed, rather strange, i may add quiteinexplicable, results" there was a loud demand that he should explain himself; and the doctor, forced to yield, began his narrative "in 1878 we were compelled to winter on the northwestern coast of spitzbergen. we had been attempting tofind our way during the short summer to the pole; but, as usual, the attempt had proved a failure, owing to theicebergs, and, after several such fruitless endeavours, we had to give it up. no sooner had we settled than thepolar night descended upon us, our steamers got wedged in and frozen between the blocks of ice in the gulfof mussel, and we found ourselves cut off for eight long months from the rest of the living world. i c

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our, and so consequentkly: and when seven planets and hours have made their revolution, it returneth again to the first which ruleth the day. therefore we shall first speak of the names of the hours. of the names of the angels and their sigils, it shall be spoken in their proper places. now let us take a view of the names of the times. a year therefore is fourfold, and is divided into the spring, summer, harvest and winter; the names whereof are these. hours of the day. hours of the night. 1. yayn. 1. beron. 2. janor. 2. barol. 3. nasnia. 3. thanu. 4. salla. 4. athir. 5. sadedali. 5. mathon. 6. thamur. 6. rana. 7. ourer. 7. netos. 8. thamic. 8. tafrac. 9. neron. 9. sassur. 10. jayon. 10. aglo. 11. abai. 11. calerna. 12. natalon. 12. salam. the spring. talvi. the summer. casmaran. autumne

9. neron. 9. sassur. 10. jayon. 10. aglo. 11. abai. 11. calerna. 12. natalon. 12. salam. the spring. talvi. the summer. casmaran. autumne. ardarael. winter. farlas. heptameron 3 the angels of the spring. caratasa. core. amatiel. commissoros. the head of the signe of the spring. spugliguel. the name of the earth in the spring. amadai. the names of the sun and moon in the spring. the angels of the summer. gargatel. tariel. gaviel. the head of the signe of the summer. tubiel. the name of the earth in summer. festativi. the names of the sun and moon in summer. the angels of autumne. tarquam. guabarel. the head of the signe of autumne. tarquaret. the name of the earth in autumne. rabianara. the sun. the moon. abraym. agusita. the sun. the moon. athemay. armatus. heptameron 4 the names of the s

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high pillars and such lovely sunshine apparently entrance to a park. beautiful garden in front of a side-entrance to the house broad gravel walks- irregular- large stone urn- looks a little like a fountain, not in play. very quiet and isolated. supposing the first facing w, then n. of that, at right angles, a collonade of great length, with an urn or cupola in the front centre of the roof. small summer house, which cannot connect with the other buildings and a dark straight path, leading from it about 5 ft. wide. in front of that summer house a small oblong table, rather massive in structure, and 3 quiet people sitting at it, all facing this dark path. all sit facing the same way at the 2 ends and back of the table. the one at back of table has his back to the entrance of the summer-house

. norton. i think that is in latin. i enclose you a ticket of one of s. norton's which i do not want again. kind regards. in haste. 1 a suggestive inquiry into the hermetic i\1ystery with a dissertati n on the more celebrated of the alchemical philosophers, was published anonymously in 1850. it was not by thomas south but by his daughter mary anne (later atwood. in his hermetica catalogue no. 25 (summer 1981) mr r. a. gilbert described it as an attempt to 'explain alchemy as a science of the soul by which the adept sought divine union by way of illumination gained in an exalted form of weare so sorry we could not see more of you whilst in london. we returned from yorkshire last evening and mrs ayton is decidedly the better for the change, in fact as nearly as possible, herself again. i mea

t. stead, editor of the pallmall gazette. i daresay you recollect he was the hero in the eliza armstrong [i.e, jones] case. as i understand it, the p.m. g. was on its last legs, and stead in order to advertise it, and reinstate it in the good graces of the public and increase its 66 the alchemist of the golden dawn annie besant was soon deeply involved in theosophical society business and by the summer of 1889 was practically running the blavatsky lodge. she became co-editor (with h.p.b) of lucifer in september 1889. burrows was also active in t.s. affairs. by 1891 they considered themselves sufficiently expert in theosophical doctrines to appear as co-authors of a glossary oftheosophical terms. annie besant was clearly destined to be h.p.b.'s successor as theosophy's leading figure in gr

present, as to giving up this house in this delightful country, and not having income enough to get one at all equal to it elsewhere. that is how the matter stands, but i am cudgelling my brain all ways to find a means of retiring, for we are too old for the cares and anxieties of this position. when we do leave, we want a warmer climate, and hastings is our ambition. we were at st leonard's this summer on purpose to make inquiries, but found house-rent very high. as to chiswick, it is near the thames, and subject, i imagine, to fogs equally with london. a fog there is death to me. also you seemed to me a long way from the station. at your time of life that may be of no consequence, but when you arrive at our age, you will find your views altered. it would be very nice to be near you and a

. at the beginning of this year i sold my superfluous books for b 0, but there were no occult books of value among them. after you have sufficiently read books you should begin practice. no one can form an idea of the difficulties of it till they try, and when you are young is the time to learn. i find it too much for me at my age, tho' i mean to persevere to the end. we have had a most enjoyable summer here from the great dryness, but it is a very bad look-out for farmers this winter. there was no hay scarcely, and cattle are starving, and there is no sale for them. thanks for the cat[alogue. we only returned from london on saturday [presumably from the g.d. equinox meeting, and i found your letter then, but have been too busy to answer it. neither could i find time to see you in london

was born c. 1850. according to a letter to myself from mr gilbert 'he also wrote an article "the adeptship ofjesus christ" which appeared in themedium and daybreak, 2 september 1881, p.556. this, and other papers, brought a violent response from the theosophist in october and november 1881. kohn had attacked theosophy with gusto bringing paracelsus to his aid' in his 'hermetica' catalogue no. 25 (summer 1981) mr gilbert described kohn as an austrian emigre. in this catalogue mr gilbert listed seven of kohn's alchemical manuscripts. there was evidently a traffic in such manuscripts between ayton, kohn and percy bullock('levavi oculos' in the golden dawn. thus kohn's copy of 'oeuvre de jean saulnier ason fils' was described as 'gardner's ms. copied from ayton's copy. ayton made his copy in s

hed by william rider and son ltd. only the initials j.k. appear on the title page. kahn's edition of splendor solis, alchemical treatises of solomon trismosin, adept and teacher ojparacelsus bore the kegan paul imprint (1921, 104 pp. 2 'fratrum rosae crucis. pratique des oeuvres des freres de la rose-croix et leur clef pour extraire d'or vir (no.6 in mr r. a. gilbert's hermetica catalogue no. 25, summer 1981. a year after being initiated in the golden dawn's lowest 0= 0 degree and after passing a series of examinations gardner reached the gd.'s second order (ordo rosae rubeae et aureae crucis) and joined its select coterie of ritual magicians. gardner's subsequent unsatisfactory career in the g.d. is commemorated in my the magicians of the golden dawn. ayton was wrong in supposing that the

is going on. our isolated position cuts us off from a great deal. i gardner's motto in the golden dawn was frater de profundis ad lucem. the letters 89 ardner had moved a little further west from barrowgate road, chiswick, to marlborough road, a turning off chiswick high road and close to the recently-built gunnersbury station on the district underground railway line. ayton's wife died during the summer of 1898. he then moved to a hamlet in the vicinity of greenhithe on the thames estuary. thanks for your kind remembrance of xmas' card. pray excuse us not reciprocating the card, for we have none. qp.a [mrs ayton] has been ill the last six months which deranges our manege [sic; he meant menage, and nothing gets done. i am busy with my own particular work, and i have qp.a.'s to do as far as

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nscribe ancient documents. he died on i january 1909, a legendary and even revered figure among such occultists who had known him. a. e. waite, shadows oflife and thought (1938, p. 228. 2 the letters of ra dark lore an essential call of cthulhu primer stories to help you understand the background of call of cthulhu howard phillips lovecraft 1890 1937 the call of cthulhu by h. p. lovecraft written summer 1926 published february 1928 in weird tales, vol. 11, no. 2, p. 159-78, 287. of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival. a survival of a hugely remote period when. consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity. forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them god

he memories. that was the document i read, and now i have placed it in the tin box beside the bas-relief and the papers of professor angell. with it shall go this record of mine- this test of my own sanity, wherein is pieced together that which i hope may never be pieced together again. i have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. but i do not think my life will be long. as my uncle went, as poor johansen went, so i shall go. i know too much, and the cult still lives. cthulhu still lives, too, i suppose, again in that chasm of stone which has shielded him since the sun was young. his accursed city is sunken once more, for the vigilant sailed over the spot after the april storm; bu

ho knows the end? what has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men. a time will come- but i must not and cannot think! let me pray that, if i do not survive this manuscript, my executors may put caution before audacity and see that it meets no other eye. the dunwich horror by h. p. lovecraft written summer 1928 published april 1929 in weird tales, vol. 13, no. 4, 481-508. gorgons and hydras, and chimaeras- dire stories of celaeno and the harpies- may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition- but they were there before. they are transcripts, types- the archtypes are in us, and eternal. how else should the recital of that which we know in a waking sense to be false come to affect us al

ross the level country beyond till it rejoins the aylesbury pike. afterwards one sometimes learns that one has been through dunwich. outsiders visit dunwich as seldom as possible, and since a certain season of horror all the signboards pointing towards it have been taken down. the scenery, judged by an ordinary aesthetic canon, is more than commonly beautiful; yet there is no influx of artists or summer tourists. two centuries ago, when talk of witch-blood, satan-worship, and strange forest presences was not laughed at, it was the custom to give reasons for avoiding the locality. in our sensible age- since the dunwich horror of 1928 was hushed up by those who had the town's and the world's welfare at heart- people shun it without knowing exactly why. perhaps one reason- though it cannot ap

shrill notes burst into a kind of pandemoniac cachinnation which filled all the countryside, and not until dawn did they finally quiet down. then they vanished, hurrying southward where they were fully a month overdue. what this meant, no one could quite be certain till later. none of the countryfolk seemed to have died- but poor lavinia whateley, the twisted albino, was never seen again. in the summer of 1927 wilbur repaired two sheds in the farmyard and began moving his books and effects out to them. soon afterwards earl sawyer told the loungers at osborn's that more carpentry was going on in the whateley farmhouse. wilbur was closing all the doors and windows on the ground floor, and seemed to be taking out partitions as he and his grandfather had done upstairs four years before. he wa

seaweed and barnacles? great cthulhu is their cousin, yet can he spy them only dimly. i! shub-niggurath! as a foulness shall ye know them. their hand is at your throats, yet ye see them not; and their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold. yog-sothoth is the key to the gate, whereby the spheres meet. man rules now where they ruled once; they shall soon rule where man rules now. after summer is winter, after winter summer. they wait patient and potent, for here shall they reign again. dr. annitage, associating what he was reading with what he had heard of dunwich and its brooding presences, and of wilbur whateley and his dim, hideous aura that stretched from a dubious birth to a cloud of probable matricide, felt a wave of fright as tangible as a draught of the tomb's cold clamm

se parts which wilbur had sought so avidly, seemed to supply new and terrible clues to the nature, methods, and desires of the strange evil so vaguely threatening this planet. talks with several students of archaic lore in boston, and letters to many others elsewhere, gave him a growing amazement which passed slowly through varied degrees of alarm to a state of really acute spiritual fear. as the summer drew on he felt dimly that something ought to be done about the lurking terrors of the upper miskatonic valley, and about the monstrous being known to the human world as wilbur whateley. vi. the dunwich horror itself came between lammas and the equinox in 1928, and dr armitage was among those who witnessed its monstrous prologue. he had heard, meanwhile, of whateley's grotesque trip to camb

god azathoth, lord of all things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demoniac flute held in nameless paws. then a sharp report from the outer world broke through his stupor and roused him to the unutterable horror of his position. what it was, he never knew- perhaps it was some belated peal from the fireworks heard all summer on federal hill as the dwellers hail their various patron saints, or the saints of their native villages in italy. in any event he shrieked aloud, dropped frantically from the ladder, and stumbled blindly across the obstructed floor of the almost lightless chamber that encompassed him. he knew instantly where he was, and plunged recklessly down the narrow spiral staircase, tripping and brui

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ss outfits- besides those in the planes- capable of communicating with the arkham s large outfit from any part of the antarctic continent that we would be likely to visit. the ship s outfit, communicating with the outside world, was to convey press reports to the arkham advertiser's powerful wireless station on kingsport head, massachusetts. we hoped to complete our work during a single antarctic summer; but if this proved impossible, we would winter on the arkham, sending the miskatonic north before the freezing of the ice for another summer s supplies. i need not repeat what the newspapers have already published about our early work: of our ascent of mt. erebus; our successful mineral borings at several points on ross island and the singular speed with which pabodie s apparatus accomplis

would come to my base for pabodie, the five men, and myself, as well as for all the fuel it could carry. the rest of the fuel question, depending on our decision about an easterly trip, could wait for a few days, since lake had enough for immediate camp heat and borings. eventually the old southern base ought to be restocked, but if we postponed the easterly trip we would not use it till the next summer, and, meanwhile, lake must send a plane to explore a direct route between his new mountains and mcmurdo sound. pabodie and i prepared to close our base for a short or long period, as the case might be. if we wintered in the antarctic we would probably fly straight from lake s base to the arkham without returning to this spot. some of our conical tents had already been reinforced by blocks o

bterrene waters. in the end it seems to have been the neighboring abyss which received the greatest colonization. this was partly due, no doubt, to the traditional sacredness of this special region, but may have been more conclusively determined by the opportunities it gave for continuing the use of the great temples on the honeycombed mountains, and for retaining the vast land city as a place of summer residence and base of communication with various mines. the linkage of old and new abodes was made more effective by means of several gradings and improvements along the connecting routes, including the chiseling of numerous direct tunnels from the ancient metropolis to the black abyss- sharply down-pointing tunnels whose mouths we carefully drew, according to our most thoughtful estimates

any rate, the aeon-silent ruins around us had certainly undergone no wholesale sculptural denudation, though all the best separate statues, like other movables, had been taken away. the decadent cartouches and dadoes telling this story were, as i have said, the latest we could find in our limited search. they left us with a picture of the old ones shuttling back and forth betwixt the land city in summer and the sea-cavern city in winter, and sometimes trading with the sea-bottom cities off the antarctic coast. by this time the ultimate doom of the land city must have been recognized, for the sculptures showed many signs of the cold s malign encroachments. vegetation was declining, and the terrible snows of the winter no longer melted completely even in midsummer. the saunan livestock were

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through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy. kuranes came very suddenly upon his old world of childhood. he had been dreaming of the house where he had been born; the great stone house covered with ivy, where thirteen generations of his ancestors had lived, and where he had hoped to die. it was moonlight, and he had stolen out into the fragrant summer night, through the gardens, down the terraces, past the great oaks of the park, and along the long white road to the village. the village seemed very old, eaten away at the edge like the moon which had commenced to wane, and kuranes wondered whether the peaked roofs of the small houses hid sleep or death. in the streets were spears of long grass, and the window-panes on either side broken o

re him, and he saw the city of the valley, glistening radiantly far, far below, with a background of sea and sky, and a snowcapped mountain near the shore. kuranes had awakened the very moment he beheld the city, yet he knew from his brief glance that it was none other than celephais, in the valley of ooth-nargai beyond the tanarian hills where his spirit had dwelt all the eternity of an hour one summer afternoon very long ago, when he had slipt away from his nurse and let the warm sea-breeze lull him to sleep as he watched the clouds from the cliff near the village. he had protested then, when they had found him, waked him, and carried him home, for just as he was aroused he had been about to sail in a golden galley for those alluring regions where the sea meets the sky. and now he was eq

m that this part of space was outside what he had called infinity. the gas had not heard of planets and organisms before, but identified kuranes merely as one from the infinity where matter, energy, and gravitation exist. kuranes was now very anxious to return to minaret-studded celephais, and increased his doses of drugs; but eventually he had no more money left, and could buy no drugs. then one summer day he was turned out of his garret, and wandered aimlessly through the streets, drifting over a bridge to a place where the houses grew thinner and thinner. and it was there that fulfillment came, and he met the cortege of knights come from celephais to bear him thither forever. handsome knights they were, astride roan horses and clad in shining armour with tabards of cloth-of-gold curious

HP LOVECRAFT HERBERT WEST REANIMATOR

disease, and certainly with all organs present. accident victims were our best hope. not for many weeks did we hear of anything suitable; though we talked with morgue and hospital authorities, ostensibly in the college s interest, as often as we could without exciting suspicion. we found that the college had first choice in every case, so that it might be necessary to remain in arkham during the summer, when only the limited summer-school classes were held. in the end, though, luck favoured us; for one day we heard of an almost ideal case in the potter s field; a brawny young workman drowned only the morning before in summer s pond, and buried at the town s expense without delay or embalming. that afternoon we found the new grave, and determined to begin work soon after midnight. it was a

d, as if by futile and spadeless clawing at the earth. that we could not understand, for we had patted down the mould very carefully. and for seventeen years after that west would look frequently over his shoulder, and complain of fancied footsteps behind him. now he has disappeared. ii. the plague-daemon published march 1922 in home brew vol. 1, no. 2, p. 45-50. i shall never forget that hideous summer sixteen years ago, when like a noxious afrite from the halls of eblis typhoid stalked leeringly through arkham. it is by that satanic scourge that most recall the year, for truly terror brooded with bat-wings over the piles of coffins in the tombs of christchurch cemetery; yet for me there is a greater horror in that time- a horror known to me alone now that herbert west has disappeared. we

ous afrite from the halls of eblis typhoid stalked leeringly through arkham. it is by that satanic scourge that most recall the year, for truly terror brooded with bat-wings over the piles of coffins in the tombs of christchurch cemetery; yet for me there is a greater horror in that time- a horror known to me alone now that herbert west has disappeared. west and i were doing post-graduate work in summer classes at the medical school of miskatonic university, and my friend had attained a wide notoriety because of his experiments leading toward the revivification of the dead. after the scientific slaughter of uncounted small animals the freakish work had ostensibly stopped by order of our sceptical dean, dr. allan halsey; though west had continued to perform certain secret tests in his dingy

h a desire to prove his theories to these obtuse worthies in some striking and dramatic fashion. like most youths, he indulged in elaborate daydreams of revenge, triumph, and final magnanimous forgiveness. and then had come the scourge, grinning and lethal, from the nightmare caverns of tartarus. west and i had graduated about the time of its beginning, but had remained for additional work at the summer school, so that we were in arkham when it broke with full daemoniac fury upon the town. though not as yet licenced physicians, we now had our degrees, and were pressed frantically into public service as the numbers of the stricken grew. the situation was almost past management, and deaths ensued too frequently for the local undertakers fully to handle. burials without embalming were made in

alth regulations, he managed to get a recently deceased body smuggled into the university dissecting-room one night, and in my presence injected a new modification of his solution. the thing actually opened its eyes, but only stared at the ceiling with a look of soul-petrifying horror before collapsing into an inertness from which nothing could rouse it. west said it was not fresh enough- the hot summer air does not favour corpses. that time we were almost caught before we incinerated the thing, and west doubted the advisability of repeating his daring misuse of the college laboratory. the peak of the epidemic was reached in august. west and i were almost dead, and dr. halsey did die on the 14th. the students all attended the hasty funeral on the 15th, and bought an impressive wreath, thou

HP LOVECRAFT HYPNOS

ed a lesser evil than solitude. especially was he afraid to be out of doors alone when the stars were shining, and if forced to this condition he would often glance furtively at the sky as if hunted by some monstrous thing therein. he did not always glance at the same place in the sky-it seemed to be a different place at different times. on spring evenings it would be low in the northeast. in the summer it would be nearly overhead. in the autumn it would be in the northwest. in winter it would be in the east, but mostly if in the small hours of morning. midwinter evenings seemed least dreadful to him. only after two years did i connect this fear with anything in particular; but then i began to see that he must be looking at a special spot on the celestial vault whose position at different

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

he memories. that was the document i read, and now i have placed it in the tin box beside the bas-relief and the papers of professor angell. with it shall go this record of mine- this test of my own sanity, wherein is pieced together that which i hope may never be pieced together again. i have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. but i do not think my life will be long. as my uncle went, as poor johansen went, so shall i go. i know too much, and the cult still lives. cthulhu still lives, too, i suppose, again in that chasm of stone which has shielded him since the sun was young. his accursed city is sunken once more, for the vigilant sailed over the spot after the april storm; bu

HP LOVECRAFT THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH

wl of taran-ish. wonderful likewise were the gardens made by zokkar the olden king. in the center of sarnath they lay, covering a great space and encircled by a high wall. and they were surmounted by a mighty dome of glass, through which shone the sun and moon and planets when it was clear, and from which were hung fulgent images of the sun and moon and stars and planets when it was not clear. in summer the gardens were cooled with fresh odorous breezes skilfully wafted by fans, and in winter they were heated with concealed fires, so that in those gardens it was always spring. there ran little streams over bright pebbles, dividing meads of green and gardens of many hues, and spanned by a multitude of bridges. many were the waterfalls in their courses, and many were the hued lakelets into w

HP LOVECRAFT THE LURKING FEAR

. the lurking fear dwelt in the shunned and deserted martense mansion, which crowned the high but gradual eminence whose liability to frequent thunderstorms gave it the name of tempest mountain. for over a hundred years the antique, grove-circled stone house had been the subject of stories incredibly wild and monstrously hideous; stories of a silent colossal creeping death which stalked abroad in summer. with whimpering insistence the squatters told tales of a demon which seized lone wayfarers after dark, either carrying them off or leaving them in a frightful state of gnawed dismemberment; while sometimes they whispered of blood trails toward the distant mansion. some said the thunder called the lurking fear out of its habitation, while others said the thunder was its voice. no one outsid

ed the building after some especially vivid tale of the squatters. grandmothers told strange myths of the martense spectre; myths oonceming the martense family itself, its queer hereditary dissimilarity of eyes, its long, unnatural annals, and the murder which had cursed it. the terror which brought me to the scene was a sudden and portentous confirmation of the mountaineers' wildest legends. one summer night, after a thunderstorm of unprecedented violence, the countryside was aroused by a squatter stampede which no mere delusion could create. the pitiful throngs of natives shrieked and whined of the unnamable horror which had descended upon them, and they were not doubted. they had not seen it, but had heard such cries from one of their hamlets that they knew a creeping death had come. in

must be the cause, everyone quickly agreed; nor did any tongue now revive the charge that such cryptic deaths formed merely the sordid murders common in decadent communities. that charge was revived only when about twenty-five of the estimated population were found missing from the dead; and even then it was hard to explain the murder of fifty by half that number. but the fact remained that on a summer night a bolt had come out of the heavens and left a dead village whose corpses were horribly mangled, chewed, and clawed. the excited oountryside immediately connected the horror with the haunted martense mansion, though the localities were over three miles apart. the troopers were more skeptical; including the mansion only casually in their investigations, and dropping it altogether when t

irred me oddly, sq that on august 5th, 1921, i registered among the reporters who crowded the hotel at lefferts corners, nearest village to tempest mountain and acknowledged headquarters of the searchers. three weeks more, and the dispersal of the reporters left me free-to begin a terrible exploration based on the minute inquiries and surveying with which i had meanwhile busied myself. so on this summer night, while distant thunder rumbled, i left a silent motor-car and tramped with two armed companions up the last mound-covered reaches of tempest mountain, casting the beams of an electric torch on the spectral grey walls that began to appear through giant oaks ahead. in this morbid night solitude and feeble shifting illumination, the vast boxlike pile displayed obscure hints of terror whi

martense mansion was built in 1670 by gent martense, a wealthy new-amsterdam merchant who disliked the changing order under british rule, and had constructed this magnificent domicile on a remote woodland summit whose untrodden solitude and unusual scenery pleased him. the only substantial disappointment encountered in this site was that which concerned the prevalence of violent thunderstorms in summer. when selecting the hill and building his mansion, mynheer martense had laid these frequent natural outbursts to some peculiarity of the year; but in time he perceived that the locality was especially liable to such phenomena. at length, having found these storms injurious to his head, he fitted up a cellar into which he could retreat from their wildest pandemonium. of gerrit martense's des

HP LOVECRAFT THE QUEST OF IRANON

s, and the window where i was rocked to sleep. and through the window was the street where the golden lights came, and where the shadows danced on houses of marble. i remember the square of moonlight on the floor, that was not like any other light, and the visions that danced on the moonbeams when my mother sang to me. and too, i remember the sun of morning bright above the many-coloured hills in summer, and the sweetness of flowers borne on the south wind that made the trees sing "oh aira, city of marble and beryl, how many are thy beauties! how i loved the warm and fragrant groves across the hyline nithra, and the falls of the tiny kra that flowed though the verdant valley! in those groves and in the vale the children wove wreathes for one another, and at dusk i dreamed strange dreams un

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

ng my eyes on that hellish and ominous reef as long as the opening of south street gave me a seaward view. what the whole proceeding meant, i could not imagine; unless it involved some strange rite connected with devil reef, or unless some party had landed from a ship on that sinister rock. i now bent to the left around the ruinous green; still gazing toward the ocean as it blazed in the spectral summer moonlight, and watching the cryptical flashing of those nameless, unexplainable beacons. it was then that the most horrible impression of all was borne in upon me- the impression which destroyed my last vestige of self-control and sent me running frantically southward past the yawning black doorways and fishily staring windows of that deserted nightmare street. for at a closer glance i saw

HP LOVECRAFT THE STREET

the young men went to the university which rose above the plain to the north. in the place of conical hats and small-swords, of lace and snowy periwigs, there were cobblestones over which clattered many a blooded horse and rumbled many a gilded coach; and brick sidewalks with horse blocks and hitching-posts. there were in that street many trees: elms and oaks and maples of dignity; so that in the summer, the scene was all soft verdure and twittering bird-song. and behind the houses were walled rose-gardens with hedged paths and sundials, where at evening the moon and stars would shine bewitchingly while fragrant blossoms glistened with dew. so the street dreamed on, past wars, calamities, and change. once, most of the young men went away, and some never came back. that was when they furled

d yet the men in olive-drab will always remember that night, and will speak of the street as they tell of it to their grandchildren; for many of them were sent there toward morning on a mission unlike that which they had expected. it was known that this nest of anarchy was old, and that the houses were tottering from the ravages of the years and the storms and worms; yet was the happening of that summer night a surprise because of its very queer uniformity. it was, indeed, an exceedingly singular happening, though after all, a simple one. for without warning, in one of the small hours beyond midnight, all the ravages of the years and the storms and the worms came to a tremendous climax; and after the crash there was nothing left standing in the street save two ancient chimneys and part of

HP LOVECRAFT THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN

, he did not see what he had expected; for his colleagues were not there at all, but only the terrible old man leaning quietly on his knotted cane and smiling hideously. mr. czanek had never before noticed the colour of that man s eyes; now he saw that they were yellow. little things make considerable excitement in little towns, which is the reason that kingsport people talked all that spring and summer about the three unidentifiable bodies, horribly slashed as with many cutlasses, and horribly mangled as by the tread of many cruel boot-heels, which the tide washed in. and some people even spoke of things as trivial as the deserted motor-car found in ship street, or certain especially inhuman cries, probably of a stray animal or migratory bird, heard in the night by wakeful citizens. but i

HP LOVECRAFT WHAT THE MOON BRINGS

gny often sits listening with vague sensations to the abnormal rhythm of that hieroglyphed, coffin-shaped cloocwhat the moon brings by h.p. lovecraft written 5 june 1922 published may 1923 in the national amateur, vol. 45, no. 5, page 9 i hate the moon- i am afraid of it- for when it shines on certain scenes familiar and loved it sometimes makes them unfamiliar and hideous. it was in the spectral summer when the moon shone down on the old garden where i wandered; the spectral summer of narcotic flowers and humid seas of foliage that bring wild and many-coloured dreams. and as i walked by the shallow crystal stream i saw unwonted ripples tipped with yellow light, as if those placid waters were drawn on in resistless currents to strange oceans that are not in the world. silent and sparkling

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

other planets and the sun allows for a more effective use of magnetic forces. there are special festival dates: february 2, april 30, august 1 and, of course, october 31. the other dates are not the same every year, because the earth doesn't come back to the same position, in relation to the sun every year on the same day. very effective times are around march 21, the vernal equinox; june 21, the summer solstice; september 21, the autumnal equinox; and december 21, the winter solstice. get a current calendar and find out the first day of spring; certain spells are cast the night before. also important are the nights before the first day of summer, autumn and winter. there seems to be more force to spells cast at these times. another thing to watch is the moon. new and full-moon days are ve

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

o cold water for a little while, and concentrate on the magneto-astral attractive force drawing all weaknesses out of your body and your soul. be firmly convinced that all failures are passing into the water. you will be surprised at the success of this exercise after a short time. this water also is to be thrown away at once. this exercise is extraordinarily effective if you can manage it in the summer while bating in a river, when the whole body (except for the head, of course) is beneath the water. you can do this exercise the other way around also, by magnetizing the water you are going to use, or by impregnating it with your desire, remaining firmly convinced that through washing the power will pass into your body and the desire will be realized. he who has time to spare can combine b

g of beads will be a great help to you. with each new exercise, take one more breath. the more often you practice this exercise, the more distinctly you will feel the cold properties of the water element. you ought to feel, as it were, like a lump of ice. each of the exercises should not exceed twenty minutes. as time goes by, you ought to be able to keep your body cold as ice even in the hottest summer weather. oriental adepts master this element in such a degree that they can perform the most astonishing phenomena straight away. for example, they produce rain during the hot or dry season, and stop it again at will. they can ban thunderstorms, calm down the roaring ocean, control all animals in the water, and so on. such and similar phenomena are no miracles for a real magician who unders

bring it to your body. fill the whole exercise room with this cold vapor and imagine yourself in the center of this illusory water element. you must feel icy cold. the moment you are feeling this cold, dissolve the water element again to its original form and let t stream away into nothingness. in this manner, the magician is able to cool and refresh his room in a few moments, even in the hottest summer days. now try the same experiment with the earth element. draw a gray mass, similar to clay, out of the universe; it is becoming browner and browner the nearer you bring it to yourself. fill your room entirely with this heavy mass. by doing so you ought to experience the heaviness and cohesive power as well as its pressure on your body. having gotten the earth element under your control, di

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

ear, and the wife would be restored. thus the underlying motive was kindness, but oh, how terribly mistaken! lefanu in his seventy years of irish life relates a similar incident, but one which fortunately ended humorously rather than tragically: while crofton croker mentions instances of wives being taken by the fairies, and restored to their husbands after the lapse of years. even as late as the summer of 1911 the word "witch" was heard in an irish law- court, when an unhappy poor woman was tried for killing another, an old-age pensioner, in a fit of insanity. 1 one of the witnesses deposed that he met the accused on the road on the morning of the murder. she had a statue in her hand, and repeated three times "i have the old witch killed i got power from p. 238 the blessed virgin to kill

d the power of turning themselves into hares and in that shape sucking cows. the preservation of hares for coursing, which is being taken up in parts of this country, will probably deal the death-blow to this p. 242 particular superstition. with regard to the stealing of butter many tales are told, of which the following may be taken as an illustration. a priest was walking in his field early one summer's morning when he came upon an old woman gathering the dew from the long grass, and saying "come all to me" the priest absent- mindedly muttered "and half to me" next morning he discovered in his dairy three times as much butter as he ought to have, while his neighbours complained that they had none at all. on searching the old beldame's house three large tubs of freshly-churned butter were

ISIS UNVEILED

n of the celebrated thunder of the vatican' the magical achievements of the bishop of ratisbon, and those of the 'angelic doctor' thomas aquinas, are too well known to need repeti- tion; but we may explain further how the 'illusions' of the former were produced. if the catholic bbhop was so clever in making people believe on a bitter winter night that they were enjoying the delights of a splendid summer day, and in causing the icicles hanging from the boughs of the trees in the garden to seem like so many tropical fruits, the hindtl magicians also practise such psychological powers unto this very day, and claim the assistance of neitiier god nor devil. such 'miracles' are all produced by the same human power that is inherent in every man, if he only knew how to develop it. at about the tim

r con- venience may consist of but a strip of carpet. in the 'gray hall (the place is never named, and is underground, nal far from bayt-ed-deeu) there ani some rich decora- tions and valuable pieces of ancient furniture, the work of arab silversmiths five or sis centuries ago, inscribed and dated. the day of initiation must be a continual fast from daylight to sunset in winter, or six o'clock in summer, and the ceremony is from beginning to end a series of trials snd temptations, calculated to teat the endurance of the candidate nnder physical and mental pressure. it is seldom that any but the young man or woman succeeds in 'winning' all the 'prizes* since noliire mil tometimet txert iudfin spite of the moat stubborn will, and the nec^hyte fail ol passing some of the tests. in such a case

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ersistent figure in the egyptian hieroglpyhs) chapter the second. singular adventure in staffordshire. r. plot, who was a very well-known and reliable man, and a painstaking antiquary and writer of natural history, in his history of staffordshire, published by him in the time of charles the second, relates the following strange story: that a countryman was employed, at the close of a certain dull summer s day, in digging a trench in a field in a valley, round which the country rose into sombre, silent woods, vocal only with the quaint cries of the infrequent magpies. it was some little time after the sun had sunk, and the countryman was just about giving over his labour for the day. dr. plot say that, in one or two of the last languid strokes of his pick, the rustic came upon something sto

wing youth, and to the escape of some notion of it from out their writings. even supposing that this strange tale was true, nothing can be imagined more melancholy than the state of this lone traveller, moving with his the wandering jew. 17 awful secret through the world, and seeing the successive generations, like leaves, perishing from about him. he counts the years like the traveller of a long summer day, to whom the evening will never come, though he sees his temporary companions, at the different hours of the day, depart appropriately and disappearing to their several homes by the wayside. to him the childhood of his companions seems to turn to old age in an hour. he remembers the far-off ancestors of his contemporaries. fashions fleet, but your unsuspected youth is accommodated to al

e among persons who make a good appearance prevail there to an extent that, in this reserved and suspicious country, is difficult to realise. this doubt of respectability until conviction disarms has a certain constrained and unamiable effect on our english manners, though it occasionally secures us from imposition, at the expense perhaps of our accessibility. a stranger who arrived in venice one summer, towards the end of the seventeenth century, and who took up his residence in one of the best sections of the city, by the considerable figure which he made, and through his own manners, which were polished, composed, and elegant, was admitted into the best company, this though he came with no introductions, nor did anybody exactly know who or what he was. his figure was exceedingly elegant

irish crosses, as that animal can have no possible relation to christianity; whereas, by the tuath-de-danaans, it was accounted sacred, and its maintenance enjoined by the ordinances of the state, as it is still in the zend books, which remain after zoroaster. o brien's round towers of ireland, 1834, p. 359. i apprehend the word sin came to mean lion when the lion was the emblem of the sun at his summer solstice, 136 the rosicrucians. when he was in his glory, and the bull and the man were the signs of the sun at the equinoxes, and the eagle at the winter solstice. anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 292. figure 23 is an egyptian bas-relief, of which the ex- fig. 23. planation is the following: a is the egyptian eve trampling the dragon (the goddess neith, or minerva; b, a crocodile; c, gorgon's head

ay to the violet. the chemical rays typified by the egyptians under the name of their divinity, taut or thoth, are most powerful in the morning; the luminous rays are most active at noon (isis, or abstractedly, manifestation; the heating rays (osiris) are most operative in the afternoon. the chemical rays are the most powerful in spring (germination, producing, or making, the most luminous in the summer (ripening, or knowing, the most heating in the autumn (perpetuating. the chemical rays have more power in the temperate zone; the luminous and heating, in the tropical. there are more chemical rays given off from the centre of the sun than from the parts near its circumference. each prismatic atom, when a ray of light strikes uponit, opens out on a vertical axis, as a radius or ran of seven

e zodiac (volney, ruins of empires, 1st english edition, 1792, p. 360. all white things express the celestial and luminous gods; all circular ones, the world, the moon, the sun, the destinies; all semicircular ones, as arches and crescents, are descriptive of the moon, and of lunar deities and meanings. the egyptians, says porphyry, employ every year a talisman in remembrance of the world. at the summer solstice, they mark their houses, flocks, and trees with red* see figs. 190, 191, 192, 195, post. see, also, pp. 47, 48, 52, 53, ante. 172 the rosicrucians. supposing that on that day the whole world had been set on fire. it was also at the same period that they celebrated the pyrrhic or fire-dance (and this illustrates the origin of the purifications by fire and water) there are seven plan

ur intimacy with his writings. our ideas and conviction in regard of this truly great man being what they are, the extreme curiosity, and the vivid interest, may be divined with which we set-out on i the grave of a rosicrucian. 361 our first expedition to discover, and to make ourselves fully acquainted with, his place of birth, and his own and the seat of his family. it was in the afternoon of a summer day that we sought out the village of bersted, situate a few miles distant from maidstone in kent, on the ashford road. flood is buried in the ancient church (a small one) of bersted a village, or rather hamlet, boasting an assemblage of larger or smaller houses around a green, none of any considerable pretension; cottages neat specimens of english rural cottages they may be called, with sm

s true english scenery, homely and still. the large trees, and the abundance of turfy cover over the whole ground-view, pleases. the rustic impression and the deep country silence befit that spot where one of the most extraordinary thinkers in the english roll of original men lies at rest. when we were in this neighbourhood, and on the first occasion that we sought out bersted, it was a calm grey summer s afternoon. the still clouds, which seemed to prolong the grey general haze dwelling on the more distant landscape, were impressive of a happy quietly happy repose. and as we stood on our return towards maidstone having spent, we believe, upwards of three hours in meditative notice either in the church or musing and strolling round it the slopes of the hopgrounds presented a field of view

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

on of hands" as he was nearest but he too, took fire. they burned for 18 days. the faith in "hand laying" died when this happened& mens minds went by the scores. the expierement (sic) was a complete success. the men were complete failures. check philadelphia papers for a tine one paragraph (upper half of sheet, inside the paper near the rear 3rd of paper, 1944-46 in spring or fall or winter, not summer) of an item describing the sailors actions after their initial voyage. they raided a local to the navy yard "gin mill" or "beer joint& caused such shock& paralysis of the waitresses that little comprehensible could be gotten from them, save that paragraph& the writer of it, does not believe it& says "i only wrote what i heard& them dames is daffy. so, all i get is a "hide-it" bedtime story"

according to the chico record, a great number of small fish fell from the sky, covering the roof of a store and falling in the streets and upon an area of several acres. perhaps the most important part of the observation is that the fell from a cloudless sky. hah! even yet they honor their heros of the great battle. 1917: a baton rouge correspondent to the philadelphia times reported that in the summer of 1896, into the streets of baton rouge, louisiana, and from a "clear sky" hundreds of dead birds fell. there were wild ducks, catbirds, woodpeckers, and "many birds of strange plumage" some of them resembling canaries. usually one does not have to look very far from such an event to learn of a storm, but the best that can be done in this instance is to point out that there has been a stor

cesses, associated with life, or the abode of life. life implies intelligence, even of an incipient, primitive or rudimentary type. our contention is that some kind of intelligence has adapted itself to this environment, if it was not actually indigenous thereto. we shall close this section with a mystery. the following is from fate, of april 1951. 65 the mystery of the falling grain one day last summer construction men were working on the top of the empire state building tower, 1,467 feet above the street, preparing to put up a new television mast. suddenly, something stung the check of one of the men. then another reached into his shirt collar and picked out a grain of something or other. he looked at it in puzzlement, then flung it aside. then other men began to notice the kernels falli

h sunny evaporation there. in spain, near valencia, there was a hailstorm: trains were stalled by unusually large hailstones, piles three feet deep. south africa is practically antipodal to our midwest; there were watery fists from the skies of colesburg, murraysburg, and prieska, and one of these bulks was the equivalent of one-tenth of the total normal rainfall of south africa for a whole year! summer in the south american andes? maybe, but snow was covering them two months ahead of schedule and in the jungles of paraguay people were dispersing in panic from flooded rivers. the uruguay river was rising governments were rushing supplies and equipment to thousands of starving, homeless people. the fiji islands were drenched and tasmania was under water. on march 22, the day before the cata

nature, sucked into another dimension (fate, september, 1950) as a corollary to the disappearance of oliver lerch, a mr. h.m. cranmer of hammersley fork, pennsylvania, wrote a letter tot he editor of fate magazine which we reproduce in part. an event similar to the strange disappearance of oliver lerch happened here, about twenty-five years earlier (this would make it around 1865. it was late in summer when a group of men gathered here for the winter work of cutting pine. just after dark a dozen men finished their supper at the hotel kept by uriah hammersley, and seated themselves on the hotel porch to enjoy their after-dinner smoke. po-great, wana=fish (natick lingo) as they sat talking, they noticed a drunken man a stranger no one had ever seen before staggering along the road in front

and this fire showed itself in two seasons of the year (from geoffrey gaimar's lestorie des englis solum maistre geffrei) ad, 936 "in a clear sky, the sun was suddenly darkened red like blood" when the chain cities moved all off the ark. no, for two seasons old arks& boats being demolished. ad, 941 "the sun had a terrible appearance for some time and a stream like blood issued from it" ad 823 "in summer a piece of ice fell from the sky over burgundy, france. it was sixteen feet long, seven feet broad, and two feet thick" that was quite a hailstone! ice for "hangover! yak ad 796: roger of wendover records that small globes were seen circling around the sun. ad 457 "over brittany, france, a blazing thing like a globe was seen in the sky. its size was immense, and on its beams hung a ball of

ugust 20, 1863. two starlike objects were seen crossing the sun by carrington on september 1859. several examples are reported in webb's celestial objects, particularly on the dates july 31, 1826, to may 30, 1828. jaennicke saw an unknown object against the sun on may 30, 1853. the unknown planetary object seen by several people in london, and described in nature, has never been explained. in the summer of 1860, r. covington saw, without optical aid, an object crossing the sun. on june 6, 1761, scheuten was watching a transit of venus and saw an object as round, black, and distinct as venus, but about onehalf it size, moving for three hours across the sun. he thought it was a satellite of venus, but since the many other skilled observers who watched the transit did not see this thing, it i

y could ever lift a two ton stone off of a hill top and maintain it in the air until it was carried to that spot. how far was the nearest hill where such a stone could be found at all? the above questions will never be asked& so will never be answered& if asked, no one would want to tell the truth, lest he be led away to the "funny farm" or etc of the like. 155 the case is proved (b& jemi) in the summer of 1881, a routine announcement appeared in the form of a letter to the editor of the german astronomical publication, astronomishce nachrichten: while scanning the western sky on the evening of (may 22nd) with the unassisted eye, i detected a hazy-looking object just below the constellation columba, which, for my familiarity with that part of the heavens, i regarded as new. on examining it

KETAB E SIYAH

behold me! know me! i am ishtar. i know, as in your hearts you know, that our most worthy brother, satanael who stands before you, telling undesired truths, is most righteous in his proud vision. this do i perceive and this i shall tell: long have we brooded through long winter's nights. long has our passion been frozen like the hard earth beneath the snow, infertile and barren. we have forgotten summer when we walked like kings, our every endeavour bearing the fruit of victory, 47 our every victory bearing the fruit of new endeavour. almost i had forgotten the harvests that we reaped as we went out into the world, newborn and fertile, to partake of all its fruit, delighting in their many beauties. this long winter had killed in me these dreams that once we held dear. but joy! when hope wa

ld me! know me! i am ishtar. i know, as in your hearts you know, that our most worthy brother, satanael who stands before you, telling undesired truths, is most righteous in his proud vision. this do i perceive and this i shall tell: long have we brooded 108 through long winter's nights. long has our passion been frozen like the hard earth beneath the snow, infertile and barren. we have forgotten summer when we walked like kings, our every endeavour bearing the fruit of victory, our every victory bearing the fruit of new endeavour. almost i had forgotten the harvests that we reaped as we went out into the world, newborn and fertile, to partake of all its fruit, delighting in their many beauties. this long winter had killed in me these dreams that once we held dear. but joy! when hope was a

nd, now pour upon the dark waste of sheol. this dust, pale like bone, that slips, calcined, between my fingers, is not just gathered from the earth nor else the ash taken from any embers. this is the sole remnant of that portal by which you would bind us to this land. those gates that open outward only at your will are as much a hindrance to our departing from you as are the gentle breezes of the summer or else the new rain of spring. no instrument have you, lord mot, by which you might detain us here. more than this, without your land, waiting at the threshold of your gates, now less that ruins, tramped down, are the hosts of chadel gathered there. but a horn-blast shall decide your fate. tarry no longer in releasing from your court all those that satan would redeem 320 or else all your c

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

hing within them. t h e p ow e r o f t h o u g h t thought is a very powerful force. in the docudrama, what the bleep do we know, dr. john hagelin told of an experiment in mass meditation carried out in washington, d.c. according to hagelin, it turned out that mass meditation on reducing crime levels in washington d.c. yielded impressive results and crime level dropped by twenty-five percent that summer. yet, in this act there is still no free choice, since it is the reshimo that performs the whole process the decision to carry out the mass meditation, as well as the subsequent decrease in crime level. regardless, at present we wish to work with only the modus operandi of human desires, not the degree above it, which manages us. bringing a group of people together with a single goal create

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

given proof of exalted moral character in the previous degree. 634. the working tools 635. the working tools of this degree are the same as the movable jewels, and we have already dealt fully with them under that heading. 636. the new f.c. is now promoted from his seat in the n. e. to another in the s.e. of the lodge. he is following the path of the sun which (in the northern hemisphere, rises in summer north of east and proceeds through the east to the south, giving more and more service to the world as he advances, until he rises to his highest point in the south, and then goes towards his setting in the west, and his resurrection to a new day, of which we shall hear more in due course. 637. closing the lodge 638. in the closing of the lodge in the second degree there is only one matter

for consideration. the officers state that their journey is from the east to the west. this may be taken to refer to the path of the sun, which is typical of the path of the initiate. here we have the well-known solar myth again. the sun is new-born at the beginning of the year in the darkness of winter; he struggles through the clouds of the early spring, which seem to threaten his life; in the summer he rises to his highest point in the sky, giving freely of his life to ripen the corn and the grape. but now enemies close around him; autumn hems him in with its shadows, and at last he falls stricken before the onset of winter. yet, passing through a figurative death in the west, he discovers the secret of renewed life, and rises once more in the east and ascends again into the mid-heaven

en and earth draw nearer together, and communication between the seen and the unseen worlds is noticeably easier than is commonly the case. often there is an astronomical basis for the phenomenon, as in the case of the festivals of the two st. johns who are said to be the patron saints of freemasonry- one occurring on june 24th, and the other on december 27th- obviously aiming respectively at the summer and winter solstices, though wrong by a few days because of the maladjustment of the medieval calendar. michaelmas day is evidently an attempt to mark the autumnal equinox, though now it is a week behind time; still, it is one of the occasions which i have mentioned, and each year advantage is taken of that fact to make the wonderful interchange of forces which i am about to try to describe

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

s much evidence to prove that the love-song attributed to him in the bible is really a ritual hymn to astarte, for whom he built a temple quite near to that of jehovah. there is considerable uncertainty as to whether balkis, queen of sheba, was a real person, or only a personification of astarte. bro. ward explains that the festivals of the two patron saints of freemasonry, s. john the baptist in summer and s. john the evangelist in winter, are only a perpetuation of the feasts of the old fertility cult at the summer and winter solstices; that similar cultural rites are found in other lands, teutonic, celtic and greek, that they also survived among the essenes, and that the knights templars brought back from syria a story very similar to that of the 3. the tale of jonah, he remarks, has al

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

novan, roberta, and keith wolverton. mystery stalks the prairie. raynesford, mt: thar institute, 1976. ellis, bill. raising the devil: satanism, new religions, and the media. lexington: university press of kentucky, 2000. kagan, daniel, and ian summers.mute evidence. new york: bantam books, 1984. stewart, james r. cattle mutilations: an episode of collective delusion. the zetetic 1, no. 2 (spring/summer 1977. cerberus in greek mythology, cerberus was the guardian or watchdog of the underworld, hades. the offspring of typhon and echidna (who also parented the hydra and the chimaera, he was described as having three heads (though hesiod attributes him with fifty heads, a snake s tail, and a row of snake s heads sprouting from his neck. he greeted the newly dead with eagerness, but ate anyone

about demon possession for human service workers. http//www.gelservices.com/hs.html. does satan really exist? our baptist heritage, march/april 1993. text published at: http//www.worldmissions.org/clipper/doctrin e/doessatanexist.htm. eliade,mircea, ed. encyclopedia of religion. new york:macmillan, 1987. grimily, brent, and elliot miller. can a christian be demonized? christian research journal. summer 1993. http//www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/crijrnl/ crj0158a.txt. laurie, greg. foundations for living:who is the devil? http//www.harvest.org/tools/ffl/devil1.html and http//www.harvest.org/tools/ffl/devil2.html. lee, richard, and ed hindson. angels of deceit. eugene, or: harvest house, 1993. lewis, c. s. the screwtape letters. new york: macmillan, 1961. messand, george. the history

,may 10, 1997. http//www.anomalousimages. com/news/news042.html. pant, charles. sacred origins of profound things. new york: penguin, 1996. turner, alice k. the history of hell. new york: harcourt brace& co, 1993. under, m. f. demons in the world today.wheaton, il: tenderly house, 1971. villanova, eric. territorial spirits and spiritual warfare: a biblical perspective, christian research journal. summer 1992. http//www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/crijrnl/ crj0111a.txt. zimmer, heinrich. philosophies of india. new york: bollingen, 1951. 68 descent into the underworld descent into the underworld a theme of descent into the underworld is found in many different religious traditions, in the form of myths and rituals. the underworld is usually viewed as being physically located in a given

in our daycare centers c. increased taxes d. open drug and pornography market to everyone not yet accomplished; 6. to destroy government agencies by: a. overspending b. public opinion c. being on the offensive always, opposing, demonstrating, demoralizing not yet accomplished; 7. not to be revealed until all else has been accomplished. target date for revelation june 21, 1986 the beginning of the summer solstice and great feast on the satanic calendar. see also satanic ritual abuse for further reading: lyons, arthur. satan wants you: the cult of devil worship in america. new york:mysterious press, 1988. newton,michael. raising hell: an encyclopedia of devil worship and satanic crime. new york: avon, 1993. witchboard a group of friends use a ouija board and unwittingly conjure up a demon.wi

LIBER 777

the planets according to pseudo- abano are! michael= gabriel% samael# raphael& sachiel$ anael' cassiel] note. the first hour of the day, of every country, and in every season whatsoever, is to be assigned to the sun-rising, when he first appeareth arising in the horizon. and the first hour of the night is to be the thirteenth hour, form the first hour of the day. the year16 the spring: taloi. the summer: casmaran. the autumn: adarael. the winter: farlas. notes 39 the angels of the spring: carcasa, core, amatiel, commissoros. the head of the sign of the spring: spugliguel. the name of the earth in the spring: amadai. the names of the sun and moon in the spring: the sun, abrayen; the moon, agusita. the angels of the summer: gargatel, tariel, gaviel. the head of the sign of the summer: tubiel

darael. the winter: farlas. notes 39 the angels of the spring: carcasa, core, amatiel, commissoros. the head of the sign of the spring: spugliguel. the name of the earth in the spring: amadai. the names of the sun and moon in the spring: the sun, abrayen; the moon, agusita. the angels of the summer: gargatel, tariel, gaviel. the head of the sign of the summer: tubiel. the name of the earth in the summer: festatui. the names of the sun and moon in the summer: the sun, athemay; the moon, armatas. the angels of the autumn: tarquam, gualbarel. the head of the sign of the autumn: torquaret. the name of the earth in the autumn: rabianira. the names of the sun and moon in the autumn: the sun, abragini; the moon, matasignias. the angels of the winter: amabael, ctarari. the head of the sign of the

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

rnally life quivers and reels before him; death itself, the hound of god, slinks at his heel, and licks the dust that he hath trod [they follow their lord, singing. psyche. i am a dewdrop focussing the sun that fires the forest to the horizon. i am a cloud on whom the sun begets the iris arch, a fountain in whose jets throbs inner fire of the earth fs heart, a flower slain by the sweetness of the summer shower. adonis. i am myself, knowing i am thou. forgetfulness forgotten now! truth, truth primeval, truth eternal, unconditioned, sempiternal, sets the god within the shrine and my mouth on thine, on thine [the lady astarte wakes. in her arms is the corpse of the lord esarhaddon] astarte. o fearful dreams! awake and kiss me! awake! i thought i was crushed and strangled by a snake [she rises

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

to find some of his own experiments more or less confirmed in liber hhh of which he writes: m.m.m. 2, mentions the breath playing upon the skin, etc. i have experienced this, and asked fra p.a. for instructions thereon. sometimes, after hard breathing, i have been filled with the sensation. i think i understand the lightning flash, but shall experiment. my present knowledge is more as a sheet of summer lightning. the minute point of light has often appeared to me, and i had come to the conclusion that it should be held in the zenith. the radiating cone, i have not experienced. ii. a.a.a. the idea of considering one s own death is mentioned. this occurred to me and was carried out before my first illumination; this serves as a confirmation that i was on the right track. i should have no do

d goal. i know also that i have problems to face, now, or in the future, but have learnt to keep doing what comes to hand, without wavering or despairing. i do not seem to have made much definite progress, yet there are signs which give me to understand that all is as it should be; perhaps i am more in tune and so do not notice such vivid changes. i have found nature very fair and beautiful, this summer. i have got to love her so much more than formerly. then again, i have mastered her a little more; i have learnt more of swimming, climbing, walking and other exercises through daily practice. i have made new friends, have learnt from them and taught them in return. all this, in spite of the limited existence of living in a tiny tent and often being very hard up. the power to retreat into t

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

n their beauty spill to tempt the quarry to the range of palamede his archer skill. all night he sits, with ardour strange and hope new-fledged. a gambler born aye thinks the luck one day must change, though sense and skill he laughs to scorn. so now there rush a thousand rats in sable silence on the corn. they sport their square or shovel hats, a squeaking, tooth-bare brotherhood, innumerable as summer gnats buzzing some streamlet through a wood. sir palamede grows mighty wroth, and mutters maledictions rude, seeing his quarry far and loth and thieves despoiling all the bait. now, careless of the knightly oath, sir palamedes, the saracen knight 37 the sun pours down his eastern gate. the chase is over: see ye then, coursing afar, afoam at fate sir palamede the saracen! 38 xvii sir palamed

s, and splits again, until the baffled warrior sees a myriad myriad swarms of these a-questing over all the plain. the good knight reins his charger in .now, by the faith of paladin! the subtle quest at last i hen. rides off the camelot to plight the faith of many a noble knight, sir palamede the saracen. 50 xxi now doth sir palamede advance the lord of many a sword and lance. in merrie england.s summer sun their shields and arms a-glittering glance and laugh upon the mossy mead. now winds the horn of palamede, as far upon the horizon he spies the questing beast a-feed. with loyal craft and honest guile they spread their ranks for many a mile. for when the beast hath heard the horn he practiseth his ancient wile, and many a myriad beasts invade the stillness of that armed glade. now every

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

ven here all my skill of speech and study may avail me little, so that the most important part of the record will be blank. now i cannot tell whether it is a part of my personal kamma, or whether the influence of the equinox of autumn should be the exciting cause; but it has usually been at this part of the year that my best results have occurred. it may be that the physical health induced by the summer in me, who dislike damp and chill, may being forth as it were a flower the particular kind of energy. sammavayamo.which gives alike the desire to perform more definitely and exclusively the great work, and the capacity to achieve success. it is in any case remarkable that i was born in october (1875; suffered the terrible mystic trance which turned me toward the path in october (1896; appli

is the matter with the time? the hours flit just like butterflies.the moon, dead full, shines down the boulevard. my moon.full moon of my desire (ha, ha, thou beast! are .i and me and mine. not dead yet) yea, lord adonai! but the full moon means much to john st. john; he fears (fears, o lord of the western pylon) lest, of once that full moon pass, he may not win through .the harvest is over, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. yet hath not abramelin lashed the folly of limiting the spiritual paths by the motions of the planets? and zoroaster, in that same oracle just quoted? 7.35. hors d..uvres, bouillabaisse, contrefilet roti, glace. graves. the truth is that the chitta is excited and racing, the control being impaired; and the ego is springing up again. 7.50. this racing of the c

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

d 21, 1902. its original title was .crowleymas day. it was issued privately in paris in january 1903. it and .science and buddhism. are added to complete the logical sequence from 1898 till now. all, however, has been repeatedly revised. wherever there seemed a lacuna in the argument an insertion was made, till all appeared a perfect chrysolite. most of this was done, while the weary hours of the summer (save the mark) of 1902 rolled over camp misery and camp despair on the chogo ri glacier, in those rare intervals when one.s preoccuption with lice, tinned food, malaria, insoaking water, general soreness, mental misery, and the everlasting snowstorm gave place to a momentary glimmer of any higher form of intelligence than that ever necessarily concentrated on the actual business of camp li

lmighty about trifles, they would pray once and for all for a big range of mountains in central australia, which would of course supply rain automatically. no new act of creation would be necessary; faith, we are expressly told, can remove mountains, and there is ice and snow and especially moraine on and about the baltoro glacier to build a very fine range; we could well have spared it this last summer. 579. so much for this absurd affair.52 .about lieutenant-colonel flare..gilbert, bab ballads. 636. auto-hypnosis.53.the scientific adversary has more sense than to talk of autohypnosis. he bases his objection upon the general danger of the practice, considered as a habit of long standing. in fact, lyre and lancet. recipe for curried eggs. the physiologist reproaches poor mr. crowley .this

LIBER SAMEKH

rick h edition of magick, the number of gsamekh final h, an otherwise unknown hebrew letter-form, but this it would seem is a mystery reserved for initiates of a grade beyond that of the present transcriber. frater progradior (lat. gi advance h) was frank bennett, an a a member and sometime head of the australian section of the o.t.o. under crowley, who was resident at the abbey of thelema in the summer of 1921 e.v. the text of liber samekh has been transcribed from the corrected edition in the 1994 edition of magick: book 4 parts i-iv. in point i, three long parenthetical remarks which were originally embedded in glosses on words (to bas-aumgn in section f and gaia and aepe in section g) have been moved to footnotes for the sake of clarity. the gappendix h is an addition by the present ed

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

g humans. but the most important sacrifices at the blot were surely animals that were slaughtered and eaten, presumably in some form of honor of a god. in chapter 8 of his ynglinga saga, snorri sturluson says that odin established the succession of blot ceremonies in the north. toward winter (i.e, in fall) there should be a blot for prosperity; at midwinter, one for the growth of the soil; and at summer, a third one, the victory-blot. there is an evident connection here, as one would expect, with the rhythm of the year: the fall ceremony would occur after the last harvest was in, and the animals slaughtered would be those that were not to survive the winter. some of their meat could be eaten fresh at the blot, but much would be preserved for winter. the midwinter blot would occur after the

e would expect, with the rhythm of the year: the fall ceremony would occur after the last harvest was in, and the animals slaughtered would be those that were not to survive the winter. some of their meat could be eaten fresh at the blot, but much would be preserved for winter. the midwinter blot would occur after the longest nights had passed and would celebrate the rebirth of the earth; and the summer ceremony, if it was for victory, would coincide with the departure of ships on raiding (and, more mundanely, trading) voyages. later in his heimskringla, in hakonar saga goda (the saga of hakon the good, snorri gives an elaborate description of a blot that shows just how perva- introduction 35 sive the influence of christian liturgy was on the view of late nordic paganism of snorri and othe

they are contending over who might purchase it, odin throws the hone in the air. as they scramble to get it, they cut each other fs throats. at this point we learn that these slaves worked for baugi, and odin, calling himself bolverk (evil-deed, offers to do the work of nine men, for a wage of one drink of the mead. baugi says that suttung alone controls the mead but that he will help. after the summer work season is over, bolverk/odin asks for his payment, and when suttung flatly refuses a single drop of the mead, bolverk/odin enlists baugi fs help. they drill into the mountain, and when baugi says the tunnel is finished, bolverk/odin blows into the hole. but chips fly back, indicating the other end is still blocked. bolverk/odin realizes that baugi wishes to deceive him. they drill agai

toria, vol. 1: den nordiska askguden och beslaktade indoeuropeiska gudar: den nordiska askguden i bild och myt, uppsala universitets arsskrift, 1947:9 (uppsala: lundequistska bokhandeln, 1947; summary in french, helge ljungberg worked with the assumption that thor was a thunder god and explained the apparently jocular view of thor expressed in thrymskvida as the result of the relative scarcity of summer thunder in iceland. others have sought the origin of thrymskvida in loans from various places. edith smith krappe, gthe casina of plautus and the rymskvi.a, h scandinavian studies 6 (1920: 198.201, argued for ireland; otto loorits, gdas marchen vom gestohlenen donnerinstrument bei den esten, h sitzungsberichte der gelehrten estnischen gesellschaft, 1930: 47.121, argued for russia; and uku m

putting the question. odin fs first nine questions concern cosmogony: 1. whence came the earth? from the body of ymir. 2. whence came the moon and sun? they are the children of mundilfoeri, who traverse the heavens for human time reckoning. 3. whence come day and night with its waning moons? their parents are delling and nor; the gods created them so that people could reckon time. 4. whence come summer and winter? their parents are vindsval and svasud. 5. who is the oldest of the asir or of the giants? bergelmir, whose father was thrudgelmir and grandfather aurgelmir. 6. whence came aurgelmir? from drops of poison out of the elivagar. 7. how did aurgelmir beget children? a boy and girl came from under his arm, and one leg begat a six-headed son on the other. 8. what is the first thing you

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

e surmounted by terrestrial and celestial spheres. the same pattern is repeated at the top of the drawing by the symbol of the circle, the parallel lines and the ladder (jacob's ladder) which has three principal rounds, faith, hope, and charity. in 1797, when this drawing was published, those parallel lines represented the saints john. we know them to be opposites because the baptist's day is mid-summer and the evangelist's mid-winter. today, after the de-christianization of the order, they are said to represent moses (the prophet) and solomon (the lawgiver);26 once again, opposites. we will see this arrangement again. the rivalry between the premier (modern) and the antient grand lodges continued throughout latter half of the 18th century, and at times it became quite intense. toward the

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

were reducible to two--a male and a female, the great father and mother--hu and ceridwen, distinguished by the same characteristics as belong to osiris and isis, bacchus and ceres, or any other supreme god and goddess representing the two principles of all being" godfrey higgins states that hu, the mighty, regarded as the first settler of britain, came from a place which the welsh triads call the summer country, the present site of constantinople. albert pike says that the lost word of masonry is concealed in the name of the druid god hu. the meager information extant concerning the secret initiations of the druids indicates a decided similarity between their mystery school and the schools of greece and egypt. hu, the sun god, was murdered and, after a number of strange ordeals and mystic

e performed in caves. porphyry, in his cave of the nymphs, states that zarathustra (zoroaster) was the first to consecrate a cave to the worship of god, because a cavern was symbolic of the earth, or the lower world of darkness. john p. lundy, in his monumental christianity, describes the cave of mithras as follows "but this cave was adorned with the signs of the zodiac, cancer and capricorn. the summer and winter solstices were chiefly conspicuous, as the gates 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

persephone had eaten of the pomegranate, the fruit of mortality. at last, however, he compromised and agreed to permit persephone to live in the upper world half of the year if she would stay with him in the darkness of hades for the remaining half. the greeks believed that persephone was a manifestation of the solar energy, which in the winter months lived under the earth with pluto, but in the summer returned again with the goddess of productiveness. there is a legend that the flowers loved persephone and that every year when she left for the dark realms of pluto, the plants and shrubs would die of grief. while the profane and uninitiated had their own opinions on these subjects, the truths of the greek allegories remained safely concealed by the priests, who alone recognized the sublim

came vessels from every maritime nation. the zones were so thickly populated that the sound of human voices was ever in the air. that part of atlantis facing the sea was described as lofty and precipitous, but about the central city was a plain sheltered by mountains renowned for their size, number, and beauty. the plain yielded two crops each year, in the winter being watered by rains and in the summer by immense irrigation canals, which were also used for transportation. the plain was divided into sections, and in time of war each section supplied its quota of fighting men and chariots. the ten governments differed from each other in details concerning military requirements. each of the kings of atlantis had complete control over his own kingdom, but their mutual relationships were gover

e planer venus was sacred--was the most widely venerated deity of the babylonian and assyrian pantheon. she was probably identical with ashterorh, astarte, and aphrodite. the story of her descent into the underworld in search presumably for the sacred elixir which alone could restore tammuz to life is the key to the ritual of her mysteries. tammuz, whose annual festival took place just before the summer solstice, died in midsummer in the ancient month which bore his name, and was mourned with elaborate ceremonies. the manner of his death is unknown, but some of the accusations made against ishtar by izdubar (nimrod) would indicate that she, indirectly at least, had contributed to his demise. the resurrection of tammuz was the occasion of great rejoicing, at which time he was hailed as a "r

he darkness of winter was symbolized by one tiny hair which alone adorned the head of the celestial child (as the birth of the sun took place in capricorn, it was often represented as being suckled by a goat) at the vernal equinox, the sun had grown to be a beautiful youth. his golden hair hung in ringlets on his shoulders and his light, as schiller said, extended to all parts of infinity. at the summer solstice, the sun became a strong man, heavily bearded, who, in the prime of maturity, symbolized the fact that nature at this period of the year is strongest and most fecund. at the autumnal equinox, the sun was pictured as an aged man, shuffling along with bended back and whitened locks into the oblivion of winter darkness. thus, twelve months were assigned to the sun as the length of its

s in the past man explored unknown continents, so in the future, armed with curious implements fashioned for the purpose, he will explore these little known fastnesses of light, color, sound, and consciousness. click to enlarge the solar face. from montfaucon's antiquities. the corona of the sun is here shown in the form of a lion's mane. this is a subtle reminder of the fact that at one time the summer solstice took place in the sign of leo, the celestial lion. next: the zodiac and its signs sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 53 the zodiac and its signs it is difficult for this age to estimate correctly the profound effect produced upon the religions, philosophies, and sciences of antiquity by the study of the planets, luminaries, and constellations. not without adequate reason

ld future events. as the zodiacal band marks the pathway of the sun through the constellations, it results in the phenomena of the seasons. the ancient systems of measuring the year were based upon the equinoxes and the solstices. the year always began with the vernal equinox, celebrated march 21 with rejoicing to mark the moment when the sun crossed the equator northward up the zodiacal arc. the summer solstice was celebrated when the sun reached its most northerly position, and the day appointed was june 21. after that time the sun began to descend toward the equator, which it recrossed southbound at the autumnal equinox, september 21. the sun reached its most southerly position at the winter solstice, december 21. four of the signs of the zodiac have been permanently dedicated to the eq

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mark the beginning of each quarter of the solar-tide cycle; first the tide of destruction and winter is initiated with halloween, the feast of the dead, the first day of the witches' year. the dark tide of destruction reaches its high point at midwinter, the winter solstice. candlemas marks the end of the reign of the king of winter, lord of misrule, and the first stirrings of the bright tide of summer. at the time of the vernal equinox, the bright and dark tides stand equally balanced, with the bright tide on the increase; beltane marks the beginning of its fullest spate, which reaches its high point at the mid-summer solstice. from here it begins to wane. the first stirrings of the dark tide are then felt at lammas, the time of fruition and harvest when the crops are gathered in and fru

reconsider the parapsychic phenomenon of precognition as we did in chapter 3, you will realize that for a witch who deals wholly with the world of the paranormal, the laws of time as well as space as we know them in our everyday lives do not necessarily apply. the time to employ this ritual of evocation of a future loved one is traditionally midsummer's eve, the night of june 20, just before the summer solstice. on that note, i shall end this first section of spells for lovers. the following pages will deal with spells designed for the more impetuous practitioners. part ii. sex magic in the contemporary world of instant sex without romantic preamble, the modern witch may not have the patience required for the more dated "loving-cup" approach. in other words, she will be seeking for some m

val of the blindfold and ligature, leading to his enlightenment and acceptance by the leaders by and for the entire coven. the sabbat rituals items 4, 5 and 6 have already been dealt with; all that remains to be discussed are your regular coven rituals, which will form the main bulk of your book of shadows. the witches' year, like the regular variety, is divided into four seasons- winter, spring, summer, and autumn. each season was characterized originally by a sabbat, nowadays two sabbats. they are more of an either/or nature, however, the first representing the beginning of the season, and the second, the height. in the past, their observance differed with location. for instance, in some parts of europe, beltane was celebrated as the summer festival, while in others, midsummer was accord

gh priestess is the mirror image of the magister's. it represents both the lunar crescent, the womb of space, and the horns of hathor, all of which are symbols pertaining to isis, the great egyptian mother goddess and consort of osiris. as such, the magister and high priestess are the human representatives of the two great archetypal poles of life, whether you conceive of them as isis and osiris, summer and winter, life and death, or yin and yang. having called down the two powers, such magical operations as required by the coven, if any, are now performed. the initiation of new members follows this, in order that the new initiates may be able to join in the ceremonial dances afterwards. the witch dances these dances are many and varied, differing from coven to coven and allowing for consi

clothes, hurry off into the chill morning air. the sabbat is over, the old gods have been reinvoked, and a new season begun. the basic sabbat rites should remain the same throughout the year, differing only in small details appropriate to the season. for instance, many covens will divide the year in two and give the magister presidency of the circle during the winter months, the lady in those of summer. the midwinter festival of yule, christmastide, celebrates the sun's rebirth with all the customary decorations and festivity later borrowed by the church fathers, the indoor balefire or yule log, evergreen decorations, holly and ivy tied with scarlet ribbon, and of course the christmas tree. father christmas and mother holly are but two christianized images of the lord and lady; the christ

f a box or broad hoop of wood, over which is stretched tightly laced animal hide or vellum. on this should be painted an eight-pointed star composed of two interlaced squares again representing the solar year and the four elements. it should be divided in the centre by a line linking the opposite corners of one square; on one side of it, half the star is stained red and the other blue, signifying summer and winter, death and rebirth, male and female. some witches perform a divination with the drum, throwing devil's-apple seeds upon its surface, and reading an augury from where and how they land in relation to the diagram. finally, there is the witch's bell, sometimes used in certain rites for striking knells, as well as in some exorcisms. this may be made out of magical electrum or simply

itches perform a divination with the drum, throwing devil's-apple seeds upon its surface, and reading an augury from where and how they land in relation to the diagram. finally, there is the witch's bell, sometimes used in certain rites for striking knells, as well as in some exorcisms. this may be made out of magical electrum or simply be an antique handbell, the older the better. sabbat incense summer variety (beltane, midsummer, lammas, michaelmas) fennel thyme rue chervil seed chamomile geranium pennyroyal high-grade church incense winter variety (hallows, yule, candlemas, lady day) bay laurel vervain wormwood ivy leaves fir branches solomon's-seal (polygonatum multiflorum) high-grade church incense sabbat cakes basically any recipe containing honey, salt, wine, and oatmeal may be used

ter sabbats many covens drink this mulled with addition of aromatic herbs and spices. a mixture of sweet and hard ciders and brandy, simmered with cinnamon sticks and clove-stuck oranges may also be used. however, some ambitious witches make use of the follow ing cordial as an additive or accompanying drink. it is very complicated to make and requires distilling, but it is highly appropriate as a summer sabbat beverage. take: 6 oz. hyacinth blooms 1/4 lb. violet petals 1/4 lb. wallflower petals 1/4 lb. jonquil petals 1 oz. orris powder 1/2 oz. powdered mace 2 oz. orange or lemon essence 1/4 lb. lily of the valley flowers the process is this: bruise the hyacinth petals, orris root, and mace together with one gallon of alcohol in a glass container toward the end of march, in fact when the hy

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 2

riel icosiel simiel piridiel emoniel dorochiel menadiel mecoriel gediel buriel hidriel beruchas buriel hidriel gabariel bidial piridiel maseriel soleriel menadiel asteliel geradiel buriel icosiel soloriel gerode buriel emoniel geradiel uriel bidial mecariel uriel icosiel soleriel hidriel icosiel geradiel soleriel pamersiel armadiel rasiel usiel malgaras asyriel barmiel camuel air water earth fire summer hot spring moist winter cold autumn dry caspiel carnesiel demoriel amenadiel east e &by n ene ne &by e ne ne &by n nne n &by e north n &by w nnw nw &by n nw nw &by w wnw w&by n west w&by s wsw sw &by w sw sw &by s ssw s &by w south s &by e sse se &by s se se &by e ese e &by s lemegeton: clavicula salomonis 4 carnesiel his seal the seals of his 12 dukes [note: the sequence of the seals follo

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s of the celestial bodies, otherwise we shall loose our labor, for if a genijs be of the igneal hierarchy its in vain to observe him in any other season but when the enters these signs which is of his nature, that is. so if it be a genij of the earth, he is to be observed when the enters& so the like in the rest. otherwise thus: those genijs that are of the order of fire are to be observed in the summer quarter& those of the earth in autumn, those of the air in spring& those of the water in winter quarter. their offices is to do all things that are just& lawful in the sight of the great god jehovah& what is for our good& what shall concern the protection of our lives or beings or wellbeings& the doing good to our neighbors. ars paulina 21 now he that hath a desire to see his genijs ought t

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

77 the sabbats the eight witches sabbats listed herein are presented in gaelic. the purpose of this is to recognize the great celtic heritage which is present in the craft and its blood. our whole exploration and the system within our work is based upon the celtic system of the four greater sabbaths. these are: imbolg, beltane, lughnasadh and samhain, while the equinoxes and solstices are spring, summer, autumn and yule tide. these are times of shifting forces, when the witch draws great power from the earth that can be distilled by the control of the will. such powers are fleeting, so each sorcerer must capture and employ what they can while they can. the sabbaths are a time of gathering with ones family, both on the earth and on the astral plane. the disciplines of the dream sabbat are n

wn dance towards the fires; of the spectral hands which caress the sleep autumn; we come of graves yet unknown of sight and filled in tunnels of crimson, as the torch which leads our very essence- one behind and one ahead both moving forwards and backwards; at the same time of names ye already know. never to remind as she dances upon a lovelorn tomb. just as may eve is the light bringing birth of summer, so comes the shadow side and reverse, being the coming of the dead in the night of pan. samhain is the most significant to our sorcery, being a portal in nature to the shadows cast by the great torch of hecate and lilith. it is when we shed our skin to the skies of twilight, and rise to flight among those of black eagle (12. this is the time of the shadow current of witchcraft in which we

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

for this they are willingly ignorant of..the world that then was, being overflowed withwater, perished (2 peter 3:5) celtic records also speak of the deluge: i have been in the bark of dylan, son of the wave, when the waters rose as lances, fallingdown from the skies, into the exposed abyss (book of taliesin) the indians of lake missoula, washington, have in their myths the following account: one summer morning the people were startled by a rumbling and a shaking of theearththen the sun was blotted outterrified people ran to the hills to get away from thepounding waterthen a rain of ashes began to fall. it fell for several weeks.the ute indians relate: the sun was shivered into a thousand fragments, which fell to earth causing a general con-flagration. then ta-wats, fled before the destruc

oard.they also speak specifically of ragnarok, the war between the gods: the head of mimir (fountain of all wisdom, counsels odin to meet on the field of vigrid, andto wage there such a war that the power of evil would be destroyed forever, even though hisown world would be destroyed with them. now death is the portion of doomed men, red with blood the buildings of gods, the sun turnsblack in the summer after, winds whine.in northern sweden, the laplanders preserve their accounts. their ancient books say:i shall reverse the world. i shall bid the rivers flow upward; i shall cause the sea to gathertogether itself up into a huge towering wall which i shall hurl upon your wicked earth-chil-dren, and thus destroy them and all life. the scandinavian skalds record in their sagas and poems: surtu

cks.among the discoveries, no bones of animals have been found, no skins, no clothing, no bedding. manyof the rooms are bare but for water vessels. one room, about 40 by 700 feet, was probably the main din-ing hall, for cooking utensils are found here.what these people lived on is a problem, though it is presumed that they came south in the winter andfarmed in the valleys, going back north in the summer. upwards of 50,000 people could have lived inthe caverns comfortably. one theory is that the present indian tribes found in arizona are descendants ofthe serfs or slaves of the people, which inhabited the cave. undoubtedly a good many thousand of yearsbefore the christian era a people lived here which reached a high stage of civilization. the chronologyof human history is full of gaps.profe

tion377 appendix f: general chronology of events 1949 rand corporation's dr. irving janis recommends to the u.s.a.f. that they initiate a study to notethe effects of electrical frequencies on the human brain. 1949 u.s. army begins 20 year period of simulated germ warfare attacks on american cities, conduct-ing 239 open air tests with biological agents. 1949 noticing that polio strikes most in the summer, when children increase their intake of sugar, dr.sandler warns residents to cut down on sugar and dairy products in north carolina. polio cases dramat-ically decrease to 249 (see 1948. 1949 interpol granted consultive status by the united nations. 1949 construction starts on aec property in nevada for groom lake facility. 1949 creation of chinese secret police. 1949 autopsies of soldiers k

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that a magical day begins at sunrise. the first hour of the day is assigned to planet which rules that day. instead of hours that last exactly 60 minutes, in magic the time between sunrise and sunset is divided into 12 pieces, and--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 53 likewise the time between sunset and sunrise is also divided into 12. these magical hours are therefore constantly changing. in summer each of the first 12 hours are longer than each of the last 12 hours because in summer the days are longer than the nights. with days consisting of 14 hours of daylight and 10 hours of night, the am hours which will last 70 minutes will be 40% longer than the pm hours, which will only last 50 minutes. on such a day, our money-chasing magician would be better off consecrating the talisman, n

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

as not anything bad all; i went through it with no regrets, no derogatory feelings about myself at all. the best thing i can think of to compare it to is a series of pictures; like slides. it was just like someone was clicking off slides in front of me, very quickly. finally, here is a case of an extreme emotional emergency, in which death was imminent, although no actual injuries took place. the summer after my first year in college, i took a job driving a large semi-tractor-trailer truck. i had a problem that summer with falling asleep behind the wheel. early one morning i was driving the truck on a long trip, and i was nodding. the last thing i remember was seeing a road sign. and then i dozed off, and the next thing i knew, i heard an awful scraping and the right outside tire blew out

doubles, though sometimes seen in color, are more often described as wispy, transparent, and colourless. the subject may in fact see his image walk through doors or other physical obstacles without any apparent trouble. i present here an account of an apparent autoscopic hallucination which was described to me. it is unique in that it involved two persons simultaneously. about eleven o'clock one summer night about two years before my wife and i were married, i was driving her home in my sports convertible. i parked the car on the dimly-lit street in front of her house, and we were both surprised as we both looked up at the same time and saw huge images of ourselves, from the waist up and sitting side by side, in the big trees which hung over the street about one hundred feet directly ahea

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they say "we necessarily touch upon these two lines as well as upon the holy scriptures; and while a mason keeps himself circumscribed within their precepts, it is impossible that he should materially err" it would be a waste of time to comment upon this. some writers have imagined that the parallel lines represent the tropics of cancer and capricorn, which the sun alternately touches upon at the summer and winter solstices. but the tropics are not perpendicular lines, and the idea is merely fanciful. if the parallel lines ever belonged to the ancient symbol, they had some more recondite and more _fruitful_ meaning. they probably had the same meaning as the twin columns jachin and boaz. that meaning is not for the apprentice. the adept may find it in the kabalah. the justice and mercy of g

existence, and his mercies visit us in every bright ray and glad thought, and call for gratitude and content; the silence of that early dawn, the hushed silence, as it were, of expectation; the holy eventide, its cooling breeze, its lengthening shadows, its falling shades, its still and sober hour; the sultry noontide and the stern and solemn midnight; and spring-time, and chastening autumn; and summer, that unbars our gates, and carries us forth amidst the ever-renewed wonders of the world; and winter, that gathers us around the evening hearth--all these, as they pass, touch by turns the springs of the spiritual life in us, and are conducting that life to good or evil. the idle watch-hand often points to something within us; and the shadow of the gnomon on the dial often falls upon the c

he firmament, and of time which revolves in the zodiac "for the heavens fly" says philo, speaking of the wings of the cherubim: which were winged representations of the lion, the bull, the eagle, and the man; of two of which, the human-headed, winged bulls and lions, so many have been found at nimroud; adopted as beneficent symbols, when the sun entered taurus at the vernal equinox and leo at the summer solstice: and when, also, he entered scorpio for which, on account of its malignant influences, aquila, the eagle was substituted, at the autumnal equinox; and aquarius (the water-bearer) at the winter solstice. so, clemens says, the candlestick with seven branches represented the seven planets, like which the seven branches were arranged and regulated, preserving that musical proportion an

oints of the compass, represented the bull of the vernal equinox, and at tyre were consecrated to astarte; to whom hiram, josephus says, had builded a temple, and who wore on her head a helmet bearing the image of a bull. and the throne of solomon, with bulls adorning its arms, and supported on lions, like those of horus in egypt and of the sun at tyre; likewise referred to the vernal equinox and summer solstice. those who in thrace adored the sun, under the name of saba-zeus, the grecian bakchos, builded to him, says macrobius, a temple on mount zelmisso, its round form representing the world and the sun. a circular aperture in the roof admitted the light, and introduced the image of the sun into the body of the sanctuary, where he seemed to blaze as in the heights of heaven, and to dissi

, the days being longest and the nights shortest when the line of his passage was furthest north, and the days shortest and nights longest when that line was furthest south: that his progress north and south was perfectly regular, marking four periods that were always the same--those when the days and nights were equal, or the vernal and autumnal equinoxes; that when the days were longest, or the summer solstice; and that when they were shortest, or the winter solstice. with the vernal equinox, or about the 25th of march of our calendar, they found that there unerringly came soft winds, the return of warmth, caused by the sun turning back to the northward from the middle ground of his course, the vegetation of the new year, and the impulse to amatory action on the part of the animal creati

e middle ground of his course, the vegetation of the new year, and the impulse to amatory action on the part of the animal creation. then the bull and the ram, animals most valuable to the agriculturist, and symbols themselves of vigorous generative power, recovered their vigor, the birds mated and builded their nests, the seeds germinated, the grass grew, and the trees put forth leaves. with the summer solstice, when the sun reached the extreme northern limit of his course, came great heat, and burning winds, and lassitude and exhaustion; then vegetation withered, man longed for the cool breezes of spring and autumn, and the cool water of the wintry nile or euphrates, and the lion sought for that element far from his home in the desert. with the autumnal equinox came ripe harvests, and fr

by darkness, storm, and cold. hence they rejoiced when he commenced to re-ascend after the winter solstice, struggling against the malign influences of aquarius and pisces, and amicably received by the lamb. and when at the vernal equinox he entered taurus, they still more rejoiced at the assurance that the days would again be longer than the nights, that the season of seed-time had come, and the summer and harvest would follow. and they lamented when, after the autumnal equinox, the malign influence of the venomous scorpion, and vindictive archer, and the filthy and ill-omened he-goat dragged him down toward the winter solstice. arriving there, they said he had been slain, and had gone to the realm of darkness. remaining there three days, he rose again, and again ascended northward in the

rcher, and the filthy and ill-omened he-goat dragged him down toward the winter solstice. arriving there, they said he had been slain, and had gone to the realm of darkness. remaining there three days, he rose again, and again ascended northward in the heavens, to redeem the earth from the gloom and darkness of winter, which soon became emblematical of sin, and evil, and suffering; as the spring, summer, and autumn became emblems of happiness and immortality. soon they personified the sun, and worshipped him under the name of osiris, and transmuted the legend of his descent among the winter signs, into a fable of his death, his descent into the infernal regions, and his resurrection. the moon became isis, the wife of osiris; and winter, as well as the desert or the ocean into which the sun

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serpent, and the self-immolating scorpion. in alchemy it is the principle of putrefaction, the 'black dragon, whose state of apparent corruption is but a prelude to the rainbow-coloured spring-tide of the man in motley. the nymph of spring, syrinx, the trembling hollow reed which needs but breath to fill the world with music, attracts pan, the goat-god of ecstatic lust, by whose work the glory of summer is established anew. it is obvious that 'the length of thy longing' varies with the number of potentialities to be satisfied. in other words, the more complex the khu of the star, the greater the man, and the keener his sense of his own imperfections, of the scope of his work, and of his need to achieve it. 75. aye! listen to the numbers& the words: this passage following appears to be a qa

e earth's crust which occur with twenty to thirty thousand year intervals) 25. this burn: of this make cakes& eat unto me. this hath also another use; let it be laid before me, and kept thick with perfumes of your orison: it shall become full of beetles as it were and creeping things sacred unto me. these beetles, which appeared with amazing suddenness in countless numbers at boleskine during the summer of 1904 e.v, were distinguished by a long single 'horn; the species was new to the naturalists in london to whom specimens were sent for classification. 26. these slay, naming your enemies& they shall fall before you. see liber 418, first aethyr, final paragraphs. serious students will understand that "they shall fall before you" does not necessarily mean that you shall slay them. also, uns

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ra (seasons. closely allied to the graces were the hora, or seasons, who were also represented as three beautiful maidens, daughters of zeus and themis. their names were eunomia, dice, and irene. it may appear strange that these divinities, presiding over the seasons, should be but three in number, but this is quite in accordance with the notions of the ancient greeks, who only recognized spring, summer, and autumn as seasons; nature being supposed to be wrapt in death or slumber, during that cheerless and unproductive portion of the year which we call winter. in some parts of greece there were but two hora, thallo, goddess of the bloom, and carpo, of the corn and fruit-bearing season. the hora are always regarded as friendly towards mankind, and totally devoid of guile or subtlety; they a

earing season. the hora are always regarded as friendly towards mankind, and totally devoid of guile or subtlety; they are represented as joyous, page 192 but gentle maidens, crowned with flowers, and holding each other by the hand in a round dance. when they are depicted separately as personifications of the different seasons, the hora [165]representing spring appears laden with flowers, that of summer bears a sheaf of corn, whilst the personification of autumn has her hands filled with clusters of grapes and other fruits. they also appear in company with the graces in the train of aphrodite, and are seen with apollo and the muses. they are inseparably connected with all that is good and beautiful in nature, and as the regular alternation of the seasons, like all her other operations, dem

-buds become developed into blossoms, and the blossoms into fruit. the change of seasons is symbolized in a myth which represents vertumnus as metamorphosing himself into a variety of different forms in order to gain the affection of pomona, who so loved her vocation that she abjured all thoughts of marriage. he first appears to her as a ploughman, typifying spring; then as a reaper, to represent summer; afterwards as a vine-gatherer, to indicate autumn; and finally as a gray-haired old woman, symbolical of the snows of winter; but it was not until he assumed his true form, that of a beautiful youth, that he succeeded in his suit. vertumnus is generally represented crowned with wheat-sheaves, and bearing in his hand a cornucopia. pales. pales, a very ancient italian divinity, is represente

n to attica, where for a time they settled. after the lapse of three years hyllus resolved on [282]making another effort to obtain his paternal inheritance. before setting out on the expedition, however, he consulted the oracle of delphi, and the response was, that he must wait for the third fruit before the enterprise would prove successful. interpreting this ambiguous reply to signify the third summer, hyllus controlled his impatience for three years, when, having collected a powerful army, he once more entered the peloponnesus. at the isthmus of corinth he was opposed by atreus, the son of pelops, who at the death of eurystheus had inherited the kingdom. in order to save bloodshed, hyllus offered to decide his claims by single combat, the conditions being, that if he were victorious, he

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

witchcraft is the coven. a coven is just a fancy name for a group of people who like to get together every so often, take all their clothes off, and dance about in a circle, in the open air. it is lead by a coven master. the purpose of the coven is to build magical energy amongst its members to achieve the coven's common objectives, such as ensuring that there is a full moon every month and that summer returns after winter. covens hold great feasts on certain nights each year, february 2 (candlemas, april 30 (walpurgis night, august 1 (lammas, and october 31 (halloween. these four dates are the main witch sabots of the year. special nights on which white witches gather to celebrate their devotion to the moon goddess diana, and the goat-footed god of fertility, pan, indulging in drink, lau

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

aise up ye four cardinal stones and these shall mark ye direction of ye four winds as they howleth through their seasons. to ye north set ye the stone of great coldness that shall form ye gate of ye winter-wind engraving thereupon the sigil of the earth-bull thus: taurus sigil in ye south (at a space of five paces from ye stone of ye north, thou shalt raise a stone of fierceheat, through which ye summer winds bloweth and make upon ye stone ye mark of ye lion-serpent thus: leo sigil ye stone of whirling-air shall be set in ye east where ye first equinox riseth and shall be graven with ye sign of he that beareth ye waters, thus: aquarius sigil ye gate of rushing torrents thou cause to beat the west most inner point (at a space of five paces from ye stone of ye east) where ye sun dieth in ye

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the sun will make the crops grow another symbol of osiris resurrection from the dead. the egpytian year was made up of 12 lunar months of 30 days, plus another five days to make up the number to 365. however, the egyptians did not add the extra quarter day to make a true solar year. therefore, their calendar drifted slowly out of sync with the astronomical calendar, so that it might officially be summer in the wintertime, or vice versa. the two calendars came back into line every 1,460 years, a mystical cycle for the egyptian priesthood. waters of fruitfulness the goddess nephthys, sister of isis, pours the waters of fruitfulness over the earth, where men hoe the land. the mummified body of osiris (see p. 16) is reborn where the water makes contact with the earth. eye of the sun god the su

mother had been turned into a myrrh tree, the baby adonis continued to develop inside the tree. when it was time for him to be born, ilithyia, the goddess of childbirth, released him. others say that foreshadowing his death a wild boar charged the tree and split it in two. aphrodite and adonis by hendrick goltzius (1558 1616/17) this painting shows the goddess aphrodite and the youth adonis in a summer embrace, just before he goes off on a hunting trip. aphrodite entreats him not to go because she is frightened for his safety. white roses the rose, a flower sacred to aphrodite, was originally white. according to one story, as she ran to help the dying adonis, aphrodite stepped on a thorn and the blood that fell onto the white rose petals stained them red. hunting dogs adonis loved hunting

re keen to take up the chase. fearless youth adonis was a fearless youth and his bravado in ignoring aphrodite s warnings led to his downfall. persephone, angered that aphrodite should have twice as much of adonis time as she did, complained to aphrodite s lover ares (see pp. 26 27. furiously jealous, ares changed into a wild boar and, evading adonis spear, mortally wounded him. the dying days of summer it is harvest time and the summer is coming toward an end, indicating that it will soon be time for adonis to visit persephone in the underworld. symbolically, it also prefigures adonis s death. chariot of a goddess aphrodite s golden chariot is drawn by two swans. aphrodite was often accompanied by birds, especially doves and sparrows. echo and narcissus by nicholas poussin (1594 1665) ech

rom her unrequited love for narcissus, gazes on him as he lies dead by a pool in a forest glade, while eros, the god of love, looks on. when adonis died, he should have remained in the underworld, never to see the upper world and aphrodite again. but she begged zeus not to allow persephone to take him from her completely and he agreed to let adonis join her above ground for the four months of the summer each year. red material the red material suggests the drops of blood that fell to the ground as adonis lay dying, charged by a wild boar. where these drops fell, there sprang up blood-red anemone flowers. aphrodite wept as she clasped him in her arms. i shall sing of aphrodite, born on cyprus who brings sweet gifts to mortals and whose lovely face ever shines with a radiant smile. homeric h

he sky too quickly and to slow it down, maui lassooed it with a rope made of coconut fiber, but the sun burned it to a cinder. so he made another rope from the sacred hair on his sister s head and waited by the eastern edge of the sea. at dawn he flung his rope and captured the sun by the throat. and although it begged and pleaded, maui would not let it go until it had agreed to give long days in summer and short days only in winter. top-knot many polynesians call maui by the name maui-tikitiki-a- taranga. this is a reference to the myth in which his mother, here named taranga, cradled his premature fetus in the topknot of her hair, and sent it out to sea. as only men wear the top-knot, and other sources name maui s father as ataraga, the mystery of maui s birth deepens. a more common crea

ung li ch uan chung li chu an lived in the period of the han dynasty. he discovered how to make silver from copper, but instead of keeping the money for himself he gave it to the poor. he is shown holding a peach of immortality. lan ts ai-ho lan ts ai-ho was a wandering minstrel, and is often depicted with a lute. he was an effeminate crossdresser a kind of holy fool, who wore warm clothes in the summer, and slept in the snow in winter. one day, after he had passed out drunk outside an inn, he rose to heaven in a cloud. he looks after the poor. han hsiang-tzu han hsiang-tzu was a student of lu tung-pin. a master fluteplayer, he can make flowers blossom at his command. he climbed the tree bearing the peaches of immortality, but fell off the top, attaining immortality just before he hit the

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oponents. he was at this time also a member of the ancient accepted scottish rite, northern masonic jurisdiction, in which he held the d c x. he was then advanced to the d d x in b i f j, and on june c e, b i g a, became grand master of ceremonies of the supreme council. he was expelled by the supreme council on december b e, b i g f, for gross un- masonic conduct.1. seymour went to france in the summer of b i g c. let us tell of his reception there in his own words: i arrived in paris in july b i g c, where i was cordially received by grand hierophant,marconis de negre, and was by him introduced to the leading masons of france, many of whom formed the executive body of the rite of memphis. i found the rite in a most flourishing condition, working then, as it does now, beneath the auspices

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etermined by the heat. during hot seasons the milk cows will produce less milk which will be of lower quality, etc. likewise, the influence of the sun powers our entire economies. the weather caused by the sun, determines the amount of money spent on heating or air conditioning. one will need to purchase clothes suited for the weather; warm clothes for the winter and cool ones for the heat of the summer. moreover, food prices will be determined by its availability, all of which is dependant on the weather. the weather, in turn is dependant on the rays of the sun, the tides of the moon and other planetary influences. the entire planet is dependant on these forces. were theses influences greater or smaller than necessary, world chaos would erupt. but, in actuality, the sun, moon and planets

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to do is respond to it and ride the wave of renewal. in contrast, the male half of the year begins in the fall, as night becomes longer and the forces of evil represented by darkness gain more and more control. during this half of the year, we have to summon more of our own inner strength to progress in our divine self-redefinition; hopefully we have stored up this strength during the spring and summer months, just as we eat during the winter from the food that has grown and been harvested in the spring and summer. the clearest expression of this dynamic is the high holidays of the month of tishrei, in which we work on ourselves intensely in order to establish a higher and more profound relationship with g-d for the coming year. this process involves awakening our deep, innate desire and

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nt through the will of the father of all. hegemon leads theoricus between pillars and halts before hierophant, who rises, red lamp in hand. hiero axieros, the first kabir, spake unto kasmillos the candidate and said "i am the sun in greatest elevation, bringing upon earth the ripening heat -frudifymg all things- urging forward the growth of vegetable nature, life-giving, light-producing- crowning summer with golden harvest, and filling the lap of plenteous autumn with the purple vintage of the vine" thus far the voice of axieros! hegemon leads theoricus to the seat of hiereus who rises with red lamp <108> hiereus axiokersos, the second kabir, spake unto kasmillos the candidate, and said 'l am the sun in greatest depression beneath the equator when cold is greatest and heat is least -withdr

andidate, and said 'l am the sun in greatest depression beneath the equator when cold is greatest and heat is least -withdrawing his light in darkening winter, the dweller in mist and storm" thus far the voice of axiokersos. hegemon leads theoricus to his own seat and taking red lamp says: heg amokersa, the third kabir spake to kasmillos the candidate and said '1 am the sun in equinox, initiating summer or heralding winter- mild and genial in operation, giving forth or withdrawing the vital heat of life" thus far the voice of axiokersa! hiereus places a seat west of the altar. hegemon indicates this to theoricus. a11 are seated, facing hierophant. hiero the father of all congregated the seven firmaments of the cosmos, circumscribing the heaven with convex form. he constituted, a septenary

rms were silver, his belly and his thighs were brass, his legs of iron and his feet part of iron and part of clay. thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon its feet, which were part of iron and part of clay, and brake them to pieces. then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold broken to pieces together and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away and no place was found for them; and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. thou, 0 king, art a king of kings, for the god in heaven hath given unto thee (makes qabalistic cross) the kingdom, the power and the glory! thou art this head of gold (to phil) thou art this head of gold! thy head represent

shining rank. 2. cardinal. fiery. solar rank. 3. common (mutable) airy. subtle rank. from above down, or in columns these are: earthy signs. airy signs. watery signs. fiery signs. rank 5. the kerubic line shows the signs in the order of tetragrammaton read in hebrew. rank 7. the cardinal line shows the signs from the right in the order of astronomical sequence of the solar course: vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumn equinox, winter solstice. rank 8. the common line shows the signs again in a different position. here the earliest in the year is gemini on the left of mem, and passing left to virgo, you then go round to extreme right to sagittarius, pass centrewards to pisces close to makuth. the colouring of each square is dual- a ground colour, and the colour of the emblem. the ground c

3 for example, if venus be the planet referred to, use in the day libra, and in the night taurus. should the action be with the elements, one of the signs of the triplicity of the elements should be held according to the nature of the element intended to be invoked. bear in mind that the kerubic emblem is the most powerful action of the element in the triplicity. for example, leo- violent heat of summer. aries- beginning of warmth in spring. sagittarius, waning of heat in autumn <41> hold the wand by the white porh'on for all divine and spiritual matters or for the sephirotic influences, and for the process of rising in the planes. hold the wand by the black part only for material and mundane matters. the 10 upper and inner petals refer to the purity of the ten sephiroth. the middle 8 refe

ir is not very strong in action when it is here placed; and the queen of swords represents the moist force of air, heh of vau. therefore, if one could attribute a direct material action unto the squares of the tablet of union, the terrestrial effect would be that of a moist and gentle, scarcely moving, breeze; with a soft vibrating light playing through it, like the most gentle sheet-lightning in summer" it will aid the reader considerably if, when meditating upon these examples, he draws the pyramid with the triangles so that he can refer to it at a moment's notice 'the square 'h' of 'mph' in the great cross of the water tablet. triangle no. 1. seven of cups. tl triangle no. 2. spirit. triangle no. 3. venus. triangle no. 4. water "here the action of water is extremely passive, scorpio, re

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ain laboratory and opening into it, but with descending steps, was the third andlargest hall, with rising pointed roof of rugged structure, used for a monkish study and chapel, aswell. at regular intervals through the centre, were four cubic tables used as desks with seats of stone,and pendant from the centre of the lofty roof hung the wondrous lamp, whose radiant flame, was asthe rosy light of a summer222s setting sun, intensely golden, illuminating all space, never needing careand inexhaustible. high above all else in the groins of the roof, was a white and black, yet massiverituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliasecond section12 roman cross, deftly carved in marble. into these sacred, silent precincts none were allowed to enterexcept the adepts, the magister templi and the magus

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obert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 10-18) traditions of the highlanders. in the following points kirk's text only is used, and no parallels or variants are drawn in from other sources, though these are abundant. 1. there is another world or dimension that mirrors our own: it is located underground. the cycle of energies and events in that place 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 mimi

ith them. therefore [they] have made it a custom. to keep church duly every first sunday of the quarter. and. will not be seen again in church till the next quarter [day] begins. the quarters or seasons (see figure 2) are the turning points of both the pagan and the christian wheel of the year. the four great nodes or turnings were celebrated at approximately the spring and autumn equinox and the summer and winter http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_72.htm (6 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:35:48 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 72-81) figure 2. the wheel of life (the four seasons) commentary 79 http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_72.htm (7 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:35:48 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 72-81) figure 3. the sacred directions and zones commentary 80 solstice, thoug

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oasis. ah! but my land, my kem which you have come to learn about, stretches for only 750 miles between the mighty first cataract at aswan and ther great green (what you call the mediterranean sea. and, my friends, kem is called "the gift of the river. each year the ethiopian rains flow in a deluge, pushing swiftly northward across the land, and only the towns remain above the water. thus, every summer, the land is irrigated; hopefully not too well, for flooding creates havoc- nor too low, for famine can easily invade us if the life-giving waters do not reach deeply into the farm lands. our three seasons are determined by the gods- and by the nile's temperament! june through september marks the time of "inundation "emergence (of the land from the waters) occurs from october to february, a

sis& commentary in xi/1976. upon the ninth solstice, therefore, i destroyed my pact with anton szandor lavey, and i raised him to the will of a daimon, unbounded by the material dimensions. and so i thought to honor him beyond other men. but it may have been this act of mine that ordained his fall. for the next four years after the creation of the diabolicon, i wrote nothing similar to it. in the summer of ix/1974, however, i once more experienced the restlessness that had characterized the working of the diabolicon; and over a two-month period i penned a similar document containing the message referred to in this passage- what was since called the "ninth solstice message" in august i again sent the calligraphic original to anton lavey. in an accompanying note i disclaimed the prerogative

ance [sentinel's note: the following article was written in march '92 by then-setian osborn. it is a reflection upon the pylon working of the previous august, which had been the initiatory group working for the pylon. his role in the working was to consecrate the fire to become the black flame] classification: v2- a17.17- 1 author: richard osborn i date: march 12, xxvii publication: vox draconis, summer, xxvii (draconis pylon) html revision: september 22, 1998 ce subject: out of body projection reading list: this flame is the driving force that gives us meaning that gives us access to the mysteries of existence the mysteries of life the mysteries of becoming. of spirituality. that drive to transcendence- to become higher, to transcend our present selves by touching infinity. of mortality

en distributed to the priesthood when i became priest. much of the priesthood was marching to the drum of the quest for xem, and after reading the keys and their commentaries, i joined the parade. the parade stumbled on may 31, xvii, when the high priest, magus ronald barrett v, resigned from the temple of set. the parade halted and almost melted away during the trauma of the set iv conclave that summer, and of the period immediately following that conclave. time has passed. the pain of year xvii has lessened, and the survivors have matured. a new magus has come into being, having uttered a new word. i recently chose to look again at xem, to clarify for myself its philosophies and its benefits to my xeper, to determine if and how the quest of xem enhances and furthers the challenge and pro

future, it seemed, was a banquet of intellectual evolution at which to feast. yet the temple too began to suffer shock after shock- as often as not caused by senior initiates. at first these were explained as freak events and blamed upon the inadequacies of the individuals in question. but as the phenomenon happened again and again, this seemed more an excuse than an explanation. finally, in the summer of xvii, a conspiracy by several senior initiates to pervert and degrade the temple was only barely exposed and stopped in time. but the damage was devastating, if not indeed fatal- not to the structure itself, but to the assumptions concerning initiation which had formed the basis of that structure. the temple of set's soaring hopes for the perfect initiatory medium, it seemed, had been da

lp the magician to "wake up" in the dream state, as the magician realizes he or she has been working on this before going to sleep. tools: the tools should be collected and prepared carefully, with the dark lord in mind while searching for the right ones. it is important to create the appropriate magical link with each tool. time: the best time for the ritual is midnight. by the full moon and the summer equinox for the fiery neter, new moon and winter equinox for the for the draconic. temple: the primary choice for the ritual is in nature, so the temple should be simple, portable, and quick to set up. if it is necessary to perform the rite indoors, the ritual space can be more elaborate, but the goal of the this ritual is to make a spontaneous and natural link with the dark lord, and as th

male voice that magister barrett heard calling to him from the ritual chamber; again i can't explain why or bow. it was the form of selkhet, appealing to him because of some danger or threat to priest murray of an unusual aspect- the words "twisted" and "torqued" come to mind. that is all. but i can visualize the incident as clearly as though i had been there myself. north solstice working on the summer solstice of the year xiii, anubis(1, sefekht(2, and i prepared at xemset to have an outdoor celebration rejoicing in the coming of the solstice of set's time. the outdoor altar was prepared, and as we all stood in silence a strange thing began to happen. it was as if a part of me wanted to enjoy this time silently, almost oblivious to these two mighty magicians at my side. i felt an overflo

is point the bridges have all burned behind me. my present attitude is coincidental with the uttering of the new word. certainly, i cannot identify the degree of effect the world has had in bringing about this change. i myself have brought it about, as the reaction to certain causal impulses. like the black flame, and a word uttered by an opened mouth. setian participation in xeper at midnight of summer solstice xvii, at the gold ledge campground on the kern river in california, i held a ritual whose purpose was the examination of the principle of xeper. the ritual opening was a variation of my personal opening to the ten directions1, with set invited to witness and participate as he willed. i then evoked shu, and invoked tefnut, geb, and nut (nuit. the analysis which follows is the result

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, and feared he could not avoid "tell your son" changez boomed at nasreen "that if he went abroad to learn contempt for his own kind, then his own kind can feel nothing but scorn for him. what is he? a fauntleroy, a grand panjandrum? is this my fate: to lose a son and find a freak "whatever i am, father dear" saladin told the older man "i owe it all to you" it was their last family chat. all that summer feelings continued to run high, for all nasreen's attempts at mediation _you must apologize to your father, darling, poor man is suffering like the devil but his pride won't let him hug you. even the ayah kasturba and the old bearer vallabh, her husband, attempted to mediate but neither father nor son would bend "same material is the problem" kasturba told nasreen "daddy and sonny, same mat

e incarnation of her soul's most deeply buried desire. she forgot the norman invaders as if they had never been, and struggled down a slope of treacherous pebbles, too quickly for the safety of her not-quitenonagenarian limbs, so that she could pretend to scold the impossible stranger for trespassing on her land. usually she was implacable in defence of her beloved fragment of the coast, and when summer weekenders strayed above the high tide line she descended upon them _like a wolf on the fold, her phrase for it, to explain and to demand- this is my garden, do you see- and if they grew brazen- getoutofitsillyoldmoo, itsthesoddingbeach- she would return home to bring out a long green garden hose and turn it remorselessly upon their tartan blankets and plastic cricket bats and bottles of su

ht he got stolen" he said eventually. pamela jerked her head for _yes, but "the thieves got in touch. i paid the ransom. he now answers to the name of glenn. that's okay; i could never pronounce sher khan properly, anyway" after a while, jumpy found that he wanted to talk "what you did, just now" he began "oh, god "no. it's like a thing i once did. maybe the most sensible thing i ever did" in the summer of 1967, he had bullied the "apolitical" twenty-year-old saladin along on an anti-war demonstration "once in your life, mister snoot; i'm going to drag you down to my level" harold wilson was coming to town, and because of the labour government's support of u s involvement in vietnam, a mass protest had been planned. chamcha went along "out of curiosity" he said "i want to see how allegedly

4 that afternoon in the old mg hardtop from which she got a degree of pleasure that was, as she had always cheerfully confessed "quite ideologically unsound- on that subject, i really ought to be more charitable. pamela chamcha, n e lovelace, was the possessor of a voice for which, in many ways, the rest of her life had been an effort to compensate. it was a voice composed of tweeds, headscarves, summer pudding, hockey-sticks, thatched houses, saddle-soap, house--parties, nuns, family pews, large dogs and philistinism, and in spite of all her attempts to reduce its volume it was loud as a dinner-jacketed drunk throwing bread rolls in a club. it had been the tragedy of her younger days that thanks to this voice she had been endlessly pursued by the gentlemen farmers and debs' delights and s

umm salamah the makhzumite, rehana the jew, and the beautiful mary the copt. silently, they remain on their knees. their wishes are made known to him without words _what is an archangel but a puppet? kathputli, marionette. the faithful bend us to their will. we are forces of nature and they, our masters. mistresses, too. the heaviness in his limbs, the heat, and in his ears a buzzing like bees on summer afternoons. it would be easy to faint. he does not faint. he stands among the kneeling children, waiting for the pimps. and when they come, he at last takes out, and presses to his lips, his unquiet horn: the exterminator, azraeel. o o o after the stream of fire has emerged from the mouth of his golden trumpet and consumed the approaching men, wrapping them in a cocoon of flame, unmaking th

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der people took great care to safeguard their homes from the evil spirits, witches, and demons who had exceptional power that night. the solstices and equinoxes are also celebrated as holidays, as they herald the first day of the seasons. the difference between a solstice and an equinox is a semantic one defining the relationship between the sun, moon, and the fixed stars. the solstice applies to summer and winter; the equinox refers to autumn and spring. the summer solstice is in june, and the winter solstice is in december. the autumn equinox is in september, and the spring equinox is in march. both the equinoxes and the solstices vary a day or two from year to year, depending on the lunar cycle at the time, but usually fall on the 21st or 22nd of the month. five to six weeks after these

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

pathize with others; the highest confucian ideal. resurrection: the rising of jesus christ from the dead three days after his crucifixion, or death on a cross. xxvi world religions: almanac words to know rig veda: the central scripture of hinduism, a collection of inspired hymns and songs. rosh hoshanah: the jewish new year. sabbat: holidays practiced by wiccans throughout the year, including the summer and winter solstices, the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, and four additional holidays between these four. sacrament: a sacred rite, or ceremony. sadhana: ascetic person. saint: a deceased person who has been recognized for living a virtuous and holy life. salat: daily prayer. salvation: the deliverance of human beings from sin through jesus christ s death on the cross. samhain (samhuinn: ne

mphasis on the local shrine. skepticism: doubt or disbelief toward a particular proposition or object. skepticism: a philosophical system that doubted the possibility of ever discovering real truth through the senses. socratic: having to do with the philosopher socrates and his method of asking questions of students to develop an idea. solstice: the points in the year when the day is longest (the summer solstice, generally on june 21) and the shortest (the winter solstice, generally on december 21. sophists: a group of traveling teachers in ancient greece who doubted the possibility of knowing all the truth through the physical senses. state shinto: shinto as it was practiced after it was declared the official state religion in the late nineteenth century until 1945. xxviii world religions

n often has as its sacred day the birth date or death date of its founder. december 25 is the day set aside for honoring the birth of jesus in many, but not all, christian traditions. the holiday is celebrated by many christians as well as some non-christians. but december 25 probably was not the actual birthdate of iesus. scriptural evidence suggests that jesus was probably born in the spring or summer; that was the time the shepherds that luke reports visiting the newborn jesus would have been in the fields, watching over the young lambs. december 25, however, was a powerful day to incorporate into the new christian religion. it had been, from earliest pagan times, a time of celebration, since it falls close to the winter solstice, the shortest day in the year. for the ancients, this was

ebration, since it falls close to the winter solstice, the shortest day in the year. for the ancients, this was a turning point in the year, signaling the lengthening of days and the return of the sun. prehistoric tribes and clans throughout europe constructed sophisticated and enormous rock timepieces in the landscape, such as stonehenge in england, to measure the fall of light at the winter and summer solstices. in many cultures this all-important seasonal change has been a major festival day. in ancient egypt the god osiris was supposedly buried on the solstice. in ancient greece it was called lenaea and sacrifices were made, while in ancient rome the saturnalia was a week-long celebration that managed to blend all manner of earlier pagan celebrations from across europe into one. judais

tales of death and rebirth that can be read as a metaphor (or symbol) of the death and rebirth of vegetation during the seasons of the year. in mesopotamian religion there is the story of ishtar s hunt for her husband, tammuz, the god of the seasons and fertility. she descends to the underworld in search of him and returns with him triumphantly to earth. tammuz, however, can only spend spring and summer on earth; the rest of the year he must remain in the underworld. in some traditions, tammuz is ishtar s son; in others, he is her lover rather than her husband. a similar regeneration myth lies at the heart of egyptian popular religion. ancient egyptians believed that osiris was god of the nile river and of resurrection and vegetation before he became god of the underworld. killed by his ev

ncarved block of stone. the five elements daoists believe that the human being is a microcosm, or a small model, of the universe. the five directions correspond to the five mountains (the holy mountains of china, to the sections of the sky, and the seasons( in daoist belief there is an extra season in addition to world religions: almanac 187 daoism the usual four; this fifth season is called late summer) these are reproduced in the human body, with its five major openings, and five major organs (liver, heart, spleen, lungs, and kidneys. for daoists, the five elements of water, fire, earth, metal, and wood are all interconnected, part of the great dao. the five elements theory is vital to chinese medicine and the development of acupuncture, a chinese healing tradition that treats bodily dis

rd vishnu s ascent to heaven. the diwali season closes on the twelfth day of the new year, just before the mid-autumn new moon appears. a second major festival is called navratri. once again, the purpose of the festival is to give thanks to the major goddesses of hinduism over a period of nine nights. navratri, which literally means nine nights, is celebrated twice each year, once at the start of summer, again at the start of winter. the purpose of navratri is to celebrate the universal mother, referred to as durga, who removes unhappiness from life. the festival is divided into three sets of three days each. during the first three days, the universal mother is called on as durga to help people rid themselves of their defects, impurities, and vices. during the next three days, lakshmi is c

inder to muslims that they are the servants of allah. the qur an is specific about the times of day when people are to pray. the five prayer times, all based on the position of the sun, are: 1. fajr, before sunrise. 2. zuhr, shortly after noon. 3. asr, late afternoon. 4. maghrib, after sunset. 5. isha, at night. these times are flexible depending on the season of the year. for example, during the summer, when the sun rises early, fajr may take place as early as 4:00 am, but in the winter it might take place as late as 6:30 am. muslims are called to prayer five times a day. they may pray in a mosque, at home, or wherever they are able, and must face in the direction of mecca, the most holy city in islam. while at prayer, both men and women cover their heads as a sign of modesty. david turnl

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ensive as to demand years of study, and i feel no hesitation in confessing that my researches into them have been but superficial. for convenience of study i have placed the notes in a separate form at the end of the work, and i have made a short definition of the subject-matter of each chapter. the substance of this little volume was read as lecture before "the hermetic society of london" in the summer of 1886, dr. anna kingsford, president, in the chair. some of the notes were the explanations given verbally, and subsequently in writing, to members of the society who asked for information upon abstruse points in the "sepher" and for collateral doctrines; others, of later date, are answers which have been given to students of theosophy and hermetic philosophy, and to my pupils of the stud

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f their balances and at last be free to choose and go and do for the first time in their remembrance. they would be as a child again, experiencing all things new and wonderful. the colors would appear brighter, the scents more fragrant, and the food tastier! veils of brownstained burial cloth would be stripped away from their bodies, and they would be free to enjoy the all to the fullest in their summer- land beyond time. why, this is not pie in the sky at all, as adepts do not have to experience death to reach their summer- land. you see, for cbr kids, there is no mystery at all, for a little part of the force lives within each of them, and when it is excited all things are possible. crossing over the wide river styx to the heavenly realms is the norm rather than the exception. what is it

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ork of the old cimmerians, and, seated by the haunted tomb of virgil, indulge those visions, the subtle vagueness of which no poetry can render palpable and defined; for the poet that surpasses all who ever sang, is the heart of dreaming youth! frequently there, too, beside the threshold over which the vine-leaves clung, and facing that dark-blue, waveless sea, she would sit in the autumn noon or summer twilight, and build her castles in the air. who doth not do the same, not in youth alone, but with the dimmed hopes of age! it is man's prerogative to dream, the common royalty of peasant and of king. but those day-dreams of hers were more habitual, distinct, and solemn than the greater part of us indulge. they seemed like the orama of the greeks, prophets while phantasma. chapter 1.ii. fu

peared to arrogate, he, the humble foreigner, would demand the captive of fraud and force, in the very halls and before the assembled guests of the prince di. chapter 3.xvi. ardua vallatur duris sapientia scrupis. hadr. jun "emblem" xxxvii (lofty wisdom is circled round with rugged rocks) we must go back some hours in the progress of this narrative. it was the first faint and gradual break of the summer dawn; and two men stood in a balcony overhanging a garden fragrant with the scents of the awakening flowers. the stars had not yet left the sky, the birds were yet silent on the boughs: all was still, hushed, and tranquil; but how different the tranquillity of reviving day from the solemn repose of night! in the music of silence there are a thousand variations. these men, who alone seemed a

hine in the profession. so, instead of spoiling parchment, i made love to the notary's daughter. my master discovered our innocent amusement, and turned me out of doors; that was disagreeable. but my ninetta loved me, and took care that i should not lie out in the streets with the lazzaroni. little jade! i think i see her now with her bare feet, and her finger to her lips, opening the door in the summer nights, and bidding me creep softly into the kitchen, where, praised be the saints! a flask and a manchet always awaited the hungry amoroso. at last, however, ninetta grew cold. it is the way of the sex, signor. her father found her an excellent marriage in the person of a withered old picture-dealer. she took the spouse, and very properly clapped the door in the face of the lover. i was no

ir rambles, mejnour often paused, where the foliage was rifest, to gather some herb or flower; and this reminded him that he had seen zanoni similarly occupied "can these humble children of nature" said he one day to mejnour "things that bloom and wither in a day, be serviceable to the science of the higher secrets? is there a pharmacy for the soul as well as the body, and do the nurslings of the summer minister not only to human health but spiritual immortality "if" answered mejnour "a stranger had visited a wandering tribe before one property of herbalism was known to them; if he had told the savages that the herbs which every day they trampled under foot were endowed with the most potent virtues; that one would restore to health a brother on the verge of death; that another would paraly

ronomy has corrected this delusion of human vanity; and man now reluctantly confesses that the stars are worlds larger and more glorious than his own, that the earth on which he crawls is a scarce visible speck on the vast chart of creation. but in the small as in the vast, god is equally profuse of life. the traveller looks upon the tree, and fancies its boughs were formed for his shelter in the summer sun, or his fuel in the winter frosts. but in each leaf of these boughs the creator has made a world; it swarms with innumerable races. each drop of the water in yon moat is an orb more populous than a kingdom is of men. everywhere, then, in this immense design, science brings new life to light. life is the one pervading principle, and even the thing that seems to die and putrify but engend

mprehended better all that mejnour had often preached to him of the mystery of sympathies and attractions. he was about to enter into the same law as those mute children of the forests. he was to know the renewal of life; the seasons that chilled to winter should yet bring again the bloom and the mirth of spring. man's common existence is as one year to the vegetable world: he has his spring, his summer, his autumn, and winter, but only once. but the giant oaks round him go through a revolving series of verdure and youth, and the green of the centenarian is as vivid in the beams of may as that of the sapling by its side "mine shall be your spring, but not your winter" exclaimed the aspirant. wrapped in these sanguine and joyous reveries, glyndon, quitting the woods, found himself amidst cu

vilisation, no music, no poetry, no beauty, no life beyond the brute's. but examine it in its heavenlier shape, in its utter abnegation of self; in its intimate connection with all that is most delicate and subtle in the spirit, its power above all that is sordid in existence; its mastery over the idols of the baser worship; its ability to create a palace of the cottage, an oasis in the desert, a summer in the iceland, where it breathes, and fertilises, and glows; and the wonder rather becomes how so few regard it in its holiest nature. what the sensual call its enjoyments, are the least of its joys. true love is less a passion than a symbol. mejnour, shall the time come when i can speak to thee of viola as a thing that was. extract from letter iii. knowest thou that of late i have sometim

n that of mr. and mrs. mervale. mrs. mervale, without being improperly fond of dress, paid due attention to it. she was never seen out of her chamber with papers in her hair, nor in that worst of dis-illusions, a morning wrapper. at half-past eight every morning mrs. mervale was dressed for the day, that is, till she re-dressed for dinner, her stays well laced, her cap prim, her gowns, winter and summer, of a thick, handsome silk. ladies at that time wore very short waists; so did mrs. mervale. her morning ornaments were a thick, gold chain, to which was suspended a gold watch, none of those fragile dwarfs of mechanism that look so pretty and go so ill, but a handsome repeater which chronicled father time to a moment; also a mosaic brooch; also a miniature of her uncle, the admiral, set in

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as an amulet they intended it to bring to them the blessings of strength, vigour, protection, safety, good health, and the like, and they had in their minds the eye of horus, probably the white one, or the sun. in religious texts the expression meh utchat, i.e, the "filling of the utchat" is often used, and from many considerations it is clear that we must understand it to refer to the sun at the summer solstice; thus the amulet seems to have been intended to bring to its wearer strength and health similar to that of the sun at the season of the year when it is most powerful. in the clxviith chapter of the book of the dead the deceased is made to say "the god thoth hath brought the utchat, and he hath made it to rest after it departed, o ra. it was grievously afflicted by the storm, but th

ted, o ra. it was grievously afflicted by the storm, but thoth made it to rest after it departed out of the storm. i am sound, and it is sound; i am sound, and it is sound; and nebseni, the lord of piety, is sound" to obtain the full benefit of the utchat amulet for the deceased it was obligatory to p. 57 make one in lapis-lazuli and to plate it with gold, and then to offer to it offerings at the summer solstice; another had then to be made of jasper and, if after the specified chapter (cxl) had been recited over it, it was laid on any part of the body of the deceased, he would become a god and take his place in the boat of ra. at this solstice twelve altars 1 had to be lighted, four for ra-temu, four for the utchat, and four for the other gods who had been mentioned in the chapter. an int

ng along my path, and i was going p. 140 through the two regions of my lands according to my hearts desire, to see that which i had created, when lo! i was bitten by a serpent which i saw not. is it fire? is it water? i am colder than water, i am hotter than fire. all my flesh sweateth, i quake, my eye hath no strength, i cannot see the sky, and the sweat rusheth to my face even as in the time of summer' then said isis unto ra 'o tell me thy name, holy father, for whosoever shall be delivered by thy name shall live' and ra said 'i have made the heavens and the earth, i have knit together the mountains, i have created all that is above them, i have made the water, i have made to come into being the goddess meht-urt, and i have made the bull of his mother, from whom spring the delights of lo

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lay of the spittle, and anointed the eyes with the clay" of this magic use of spittle pliny, in his natural history, gives numerous examples. it was common in antiquity] 33. but [the demon] answered me "i am the spirit of the ashes (tephras" and i said to him "what is thy pursuit" and he said "i bring darkness on men, and set fire to fields; and i bring homesteads to naught. but most busy am i in summer. however, when i get an opportunity, i creep into corners of the wall, by night and day. for i am offspring of the great one, and nothing less" accordingly i said to him "under what star dost thou lie" and he answered "in the very tip of the moon's horn, when it is found in the south. there is my star. for i have been bidden to restrain the convulsions of the hemitertian fever; and this is

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ues but includes yellow and white patterns and a black half-sphere. light pure colors intersect to form deeper shades. the new york times3 described the fresco as being eight feet eight inches in height and six feet eight inches in width; more brightly illuminated at the top than at the bottom. bo beskow, an old friend of dag hammarskjold, painted the mural "dag had me start sketches on this last summer" he said "he wanted me to do the actual work right here in the room, so i have been here since october 6 [1957" the mural was seen for the first lime on november 11, 1957. during the period of the remodeling the guards were on hand during the day to keep out the curious and at night the room was locked up with a chain and padlock. the artist said of his work'"it has no title, and you can ma

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iangle within the circle superimposed over the body of the person, lying in a fetal position on a surface of red, most likely symbolizes man's servitude and enslavement to the solar deity, whom masons call the great architect of the universe. christian medallion for youth from hawaii advertised in christian contemporary music magazine. 390 codex magica this issue of the royal arch mason magazine (summer 1990) featured the seal of the general grand council of cryptic masons international, which is designed in the form of a triangle within a circle. this cover of the royal arch mason magazine pays tribute to their "most worshipful brother harry s. truman (truman, a 33rd degree mason, once told his brothers in the craft that he would rather be a master mason than be president of the united st

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these times reflect agricultural aspects of the year, four are of a celtic nature, while the other four are drawn from the mediterranean area of europe. each full moon is also a holy day, and is called an esbat. samhain celtic fire festival october 31 yule winter solstice december 21 imbolg celtic fire festival february 2 ostara spring equinox march 22 beltain celtic fire festival april 30 litha summer solstice june 21 lughnassadh celtic fire festival august 1 mabon autumn equinox september 22 samhain, the time of the year when the veil is the thinnest. in celtic times, this was the end of the old year and the beginning of the new. this is the best time for the taking of omens. yule, this is the winter solstice, the longest night of the year. lighting of the yule log is symbolic of welcom

olg, also called lady s day, is a time of renewal. in days past a common fire was lit, and all members of a community would take a brand from the fire home, to rekindle their own hearth fires. today we call it groundhog day. ostara, the spring equinox, a time when daylight and night are in balance. a time of blessing the seed, planting, and fertility. beltain, a hinge day when winter gives way to summer. again the veil is thin between the worlds. dance around a may pole, celebrate the joy and ecstacy of life. litha, the summer solstice, the shortest night of the year. time to rejoice in the warmth of the sun, while the world is full of growing life. lughnassadh, the first of the harvest festivals. in celtic tradition it is the day the young son challenges his father the king, for rulership

non-pagans with the words t.g.i.f. as the f stands for friday, and once upon a time that was frigga tag, or frigga day. we all have strong emotions about friday. hecate the crone brings to mind for many, an ancient woman sitting over a cauldron. just to be fair to the male aspect of the divine, there is pan the goat footed god of male youth. the oak king brings to mind the strength and warmth of summer. while the holly king is symbolic of the joys of the winter season. deck the halls with boughs of holly, tra-la-la-la-la la-la la la. tis the season to be jolly etc. etc. what deities you choose to honor, unless you are following a tradition, are very much a personal matter. these pages have a number of gods and goddess listed. these are provided as reference for your own research (greek an

laying her power, are the three aspects of maiden, mother& crone (lunar archetypes. in some traditions these are three distinctively different goddesses. in other traditions, they are the same goddess at different stages of her development. then there are goddesses like the triple morrigan- macha, nemain and babd. then we have the two fold god. the lord is normally viewed as being symbolic of the summer season, and the winter season. common names for these are the green man and the horned man. the first of these is strongly connected to the growing season, while the latter is associated with the harvest and the hunt. the archetypes here go back to the days when all humans were hunters and gathers) elements and watch towers( archetype gods and goddesses( all cultures have within their belie

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are heard speaking through the instrument. theoretically, these voices manifest independently from the medium. trumpet t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mediums and mystics 87 a group of men and women levitating a table (archives of brad steiger) mediums are popular at spiritualist camps, and husband and wife teams often travel the circle of summer camps giving demonstrations. skeptics suggest that the reason for such male and female partnerships among trumpet mediums is the simple fact that many more voice tones may be imitated by the mediums during the course of a seance. the materialization of an old coin, a ring, a bracelet, or a semiprecious stone from the spirit world to a sitter attending a seance is called an apport (from the

stigating the claims that had been made by a number of celebrated scientists on behalf of the medium. the committee was especially chosen for their skepticism and was composed of everard feilding, mrs. w. w. baggally, and hereward carrington (1880 1958, each of whom had exposed many fraudulent mediums in the course of their investigations. previous test results with the medium at cambridge in the summer of 1895 had been contradictory, with t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 120 mediums and mystics some of the researchers convinced of her abilities, and others equally certain that they had caught her in acts of trickery. subsequent examinations of palladino by psychical researchers in paris in 1898 and various cities in italy during the

that their deceased loved ones were living on the other side. the december 1920 issue of strand magazine contained several allegedly authentic photographs of fairies that had been taken with an inexpensive camera by two young girls, elsie wright and her cousin frances griffiths, in a little valley through which ran a narrow stream near the village of cottingley. one snapshot taken by elsie in the summer of 1917, when she was 16, captured her 10-yearold cousin seated on the grass surrounded by four dancing fairies. another, taken a few months later, showed elsie with a tiny gnome. doyle managed to obtain the negatives and brought them to one of england s most eminent photographic analysts. at first the expert dismissed the very notion of fairy photographs, but he ended up staking his profes

here were times when even he found himself dealing with something that affected him in a very primal, frightening way. it was on the night of august 13, 1937, that carrington, his wife, marie sweet smith, and a party of five others obtained permission to spend a night in a haunted house located some 50 miles from new york city. as he referred to the incident in his essays in the occult (1958, the summer tenant had been forced to move back to the city in the middle of july because neither he nor his wife could sleep uninterrupted and their servants had all left their employ because of the haunting. carrington insisted that he be told nothing of the history of the house until he had first had an opportunity to explore the place from cellar to attic. the house was lighted from top to bottom

piper. james served as vice president of the american society for psychical research (aspr) from 1890 to 1910 and as president from 1894 to 1895. although he was a stalwart champion of the scientific research of paranormal phenomena, he never quite found the proof in survival after death which he had hoped to discover through the study of mediumship. william james died on august 26, 1910, at his summer home in chocurua, new hampshire. m delving deeper burkhardt, frederic, and fredson bowers, eds. the works of william james: essays in psychical research. cambridge, mass: harvard university press, 1986. myers, gerald e. william james: his life and thought. new haven, conn: yale university press, 1986. sir oliver lodge (1851 1940) sir oliver joseph lodge was a worldrenowned british physicist

of survival. i am as convinced of continued existence on the other side of death as i am of existence here i say this on distinct scientific grounds. i say it because certain friends of mine who have died still exist, because i have talked with them. five years later, in 1894, lodge s first encounters with physical mediumship took place when he and fredric w. h. myers (1843 1901) traveled to the summer home of the french psychical researcher charles richet (1850 1935) to investigate the extraordinary eusapia palladino (1854 1918. although palladino had to be observed carefully to prevent her from resorting to trickery, lodge was impressed with what he had witnessed. things hitherto held impossible do actually occur, the physicist concurred. certain phenomena usually considered abnormal do

laint, the pythia reminded him that their seership had been accurate. croesus was told that he should have thought first to ask whose kingdom would be destroyed before he set about waging war against the persians. the oracle at delphi was a major religious site for 2,000 years until it was closed by the christian emperor theodosius i (346? 395. later, arcadius ordered the temple destroyed. in the summer of 2001, jelle de boer of wesleyan university in connecticut and coworkers discovered a previously unknown geological fault passing through the sanctuary of the temple of apollo. according to de boer, the fault crosses the previously known delphi fault directly below the temple. this crossing makes the bitumen-rich limestone much more permeable to gases and groundwater. the researchers spec

he nazis claimed it as their symbol, satanists are said to invert it to show the elements of nature turned against themselves and out of harmony with god s divine plan of balance. ritual calendar: satanism adopted the traditional calendar of witchcraft and celebrates eight major festivals, known as sabbats: february 1 candelmas march 21 spring equinox april 30 walpurgisnacht may 1 beltane june 21 summer solstice august 1 lammas september 23 fall euinox october 31 samhain* december 21 winter solstice t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 290 mystery religions and cults antonszandor lavey started the rebirth of contemporary satanism on walpurgisnacht (may 1, 1966 with the church of satan. contemporary satanism is said to have experienced it

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them. a woman s voice began to moan from the center of an arch leading to the chapel. keys popped from their locks and were found several feet t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d ghosts and phantoms 29 from their doors. the smiths found themselves living in what dr. harry price would soon come to call the most haunted house in england. in the summer of 1929, price answered the plea of the haunted rector and his wife. leaving london, price and an assistant drove to the small village of borley, reviewing what they already knew about the eerie rectory. the building, though constructed in modern times, stood on the site of a medieval monastery whose gloomy old vaults still lay beneath it. close at hand had been a nunnery, whose ruins were

, alison, ed. larousse dictionary of world folklore. new york: larousse, 1995. keel, john a. strange creatures from time and space. greenwich, conn: fawcett publications, 1970. chupacabra named for its seeming penchant for attacking goats and sucking their blood, the chupacabra( goat sucker) both terrified and fascinated the public at large when it first burst upon the scene in puerto rico in the summer of 1995. from august of 1995 to the present, the monster has been credited with the vampirelike deaths of thousands of animals, ranging from goats, rabbits, and birds to horses, cattle, and deer. while some argue that the creature is a new monster, others point out that such entities have always existed and been reported by farmers and villagers in puerto rico and central and south america

ous creatures 75 the novel frankenstein: a modern prometheus (1818) with its story of the daring scientist dr. victor frankenstein and the monster made of human parts that he brought to life is one of the most famous works of fiction. mary wollstonecraft godwin (1797 1851) was 16 when she met the poet percy bysshe shelley (1792 1822. mary ran off to europe with shelley in 1816, and they spent the summer with lord george gordon byron (1788 1824) and his friend and personal physician dr. john polidori (1795 1821) in geneva. to pass the time during a dreary summer, lord byron suggested that each of them should write a ghost story. eighteenyear- old mary was the only one of the four who actually fulfilled the assignment, publishing her novel two years after she married shelley in december 1816

the vampire in f. w. murnau s nosferatu (1922) presented a much more accurate characterization of the traditional vampire. in this film actor max schreck s loathsome bloodsucker creeps about in the shadows with dark-ringed, hollowed eyes, pointed devil ears, and hideous fangs. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 80 mysterious creatures in the summer of 2002, romanian tourism minister dan agathon announced plans to build a dracula theme park on a hilltop near the medieval town of sighisoara, the birthplace of the fifteenth-century romanian count vlad tepes (1431? 1476, said to have been the inspiration for bram stoker s (1847 1912) famous vampire novel, dracula (1897. critics immediately opposed the idea of such an enterprise, stating t

inly large enough and deep enough. it is 24 miles long by about a mile across. it has a mean depth of 433 feet, twice that of the north sea into which it flows through the river ness at its eastern end. five rivers and 50 mountain streams feed loch ness. the loch never freezes, and snow rarely lies near its shores. its temperature remains fairly constant at about a chilling 42 degrees fahrenheit, summer or winter. one of the more verifiable of the sightings of a large creature in loch ness was made in the mid-1960s by tim dinsdale, a member of the defense ministry s joint air reconnaissance center (jaric, who said that the 12- to-16-foot-long thing that he photographed traveling at a speed of 10 knots was almost certainly animate. on january 24, 1966, the royal air force issued its analysi

to tip of tail was probably 30 feet or more. in many respects the piasa is a faithful copy of the ramphorhyneus. the form, shape, and description of the piasa, according to the indian tradition, were painted from actual sight of the living subject thus may the traditions of these indians be true numerous sightings of birds the size of small airplanes were reported in southwest pennsylvania in the summer and early fall of 2001. on june 13, a resident in greensville, who said that he was familiar with the wildlife in the area, at first mistook the huge bird for an ultralight aircraft. he estimated the wingspan to be about 15 feet and the body to be nearly five feet in length. in july, a witness in erie county claimed to have seen a large, blackcolored bird with a wingspan of about 17 feet. o

coming known as a center for pseudoscience and weird research projects. after decades of conducting controlled experiments in esp, the rhines offered their conclusion that such psychic abilities as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis did exist. many scientists were unimpressed by the rhines accumulated research and questioned the validity of their statistical analyses. in the summer of 1957, j. b. rhine suggested that parapsychologists form an interna- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysteries of the mind 163 dr. stanley krippner (dennis stacy/fortean picture library) drs. j. b. and louisa rhine expanded their investigations of esp and established the first scientific laboratory dedicated to research of psychic

is had been established beyond all question. in 1964, when loyola university professor james hurley was contemplating writing a book on esp, he contacted rhine, the dean of academic parapsychologists, and was told about the remarkable psychic-sensitive olof jonsson (1918 1998, who had the ability to produce psychokinetic effects, as well as demonstrate clairvoyance and telepathy. one night in the summer of 1964, hurley and jonsson were finishing dinner in a chicago restaurant when jonsson demonstrated pk by causing an individual globe to move in a chandelier located across the dining room. two swedish doctors, anders perntz and sven erik larsson, conducted numerous psychokinetic experiments that they conducted with jonsson under full control. in one test, jonsson turned a pewter candlestic

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really existed, the concepts expressed in their three manifestos pertaining to individual freedom, the separation of church and state, and the quest to determine humankind fs true place in the universe became ideals that inspired the period of enlightenment and have been carried over into modern times. m delving deeper mcfadden, ashley. gthe rosicrucians.a brief historical overview. h r.c. times, summer 1994 [online] http//www.arcgl.org/rosie.htm. spence, lewis. an encyclopedia of occultism. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1960. yates, frances a. the rosicrucian enlightenment. boulder, colo: shambhala, 1978. the thuggee no organized cult of killers has ever murdered as many people as the thuggee. in the 1830s this indian secret society strangled upward of 30,000 native people and tra

lion that conquered the entire north of china within less than a month. three of chang cheuh fs disciples have been credited with taking the first blood oath when each of them slit open a vein, filled a vessel with blood, and drank the mixture of their vital fluid while vowing eternal brotherhood. this basic blood oath ceremony, with many variations, became an integral part of tong ritual. in the summer of 1900, the notorious boxer tong drove more than 3,000 people. mainly european missionaries, their families, and chinese christian converts.into the legation district of peking. the siege had been provoked by the terror tactics of the tong, which had been given almost a free hand by the manchu government to free the nation from the foreign imperialists whom they accused of exploiting the c

y and is credited with some extraordinary accomplishments, including the invention of the pistol and the cannon. albertus is said to be one of those magi who actually achieved the transmutation of base metals into gold by means of the philosopher fs stone. in addition, some said that he was able to exert control over atmospheric conditions, once even transforming a cold winter day into a pleasant summer afternoon so he and his guests could dine comfortably outside. a prolific writer, albertus produced 21 volumes containing directions for the neophyte- practicing alchemist. certain witnesses to his laboratory credited him with the creation of an automaton that performed menial tasks and was capable of intelligent speech. the term gmagnus h (great) usually ascribed to him was not awarded to

trology (1972: gastrology is my science; witchcraft is my religion. h for sybil leek, astrology lessons began when she was eight years old. from her grandmother, she learned the basics of astrology, with personality traits and psychology stressed; from her father, she learned the painstaking technical aspect of casting a chart. in her younger days the world of astrology was a glamorous one. every summer the family would vacation in the riviera, and leek fs skills were in great demand among the celebrities and nobility that would gather on the beaches. among her notable clients were the elder aga khan, queen marie of rumania, and author somerset maugham. although leek had nostalgic feelings for that particular time, her later life was to show her an even more exciting use for her astrologic

as but the facade behind which something much more real and potent lay waiting for those who would seek gthe world of force beyond the world of form. h at the age of 15, she walked out the door of the convent school to which she had been sent and refused to return. at the age of 19, she married joanis vlachopoulos, a 32-year-old able seaman serving with the merchant navy. six months later, in the summer of 1941, her husband was reported missing. details are sketchy, but since world war ii was in progress, it is assumed that vlachopoulos was killed when his ship was destroyed by a nazi torpedo. in 1944, doreen married casimiro valiente. in the summer of 1952, the year after the witchcraft act of 1735 was repealed, doreen valiente met a witch of the new forest coven who introduced her to ger

sorcery 97 by the late sixteenth century, the power of the inquisition was beginning to wane. yule marks the winter solstice and is celebrated near december 21, the longest, darkest night of the year. candlemas, observed on february 2, is the festival of the goddess brigid. the spring equinox happens around march 21 and is a powerful time of magic. beltane, may 1, celebrates love and oneness. the summer solstice, occurring around june 21, is also a time of power and strength of the deities of nature. august 1 recognizes lammas, a time when fruit ripens and there are signs that harvest is near. the fall equinox, near or on september 21, celebrates a balance between light and dark, night and day. in the middle ages, the christian influence, so visible during the day, seemed to vanish at nigh

his observation of them while they were in prison in 1584. according to his testimony, the members of the gandillon family walked on all fours and howled like wolves. their eyes turned red and gleaming; their hair sprouted; their teeth became long and sharp; their fingernails turned horny and clawlike. in another case recounted in his book, boguet told of eightyear- old louise maillat, who in the summer of 1598 was possessed by five demons, who identified themselves as wolf, cat, dog, jolly, and griffon. in addition, the little girl was accused of shapeshifting into the form of a wolf. boguet devoted a chapter in his discours des sorciers to the carnal connection of demons with witches and sorcerers and expressed his conviction that the devil could become either a man or a woman to deceive

variety. in matters of health, nerves are liable to plague geminis, and they often prefer to live close to meadows and woods where they are able to gain vigor from the wind and the rains. cancer, the crab, june 22 to july 22, is a water sign. the ancient chaldeans named cancer after the crab, because of its backward or oblique movement, which brought to their mind the sun fs immobility during the summer solstice as it enters this sign. cancers have great imaginations, and they glory in fantasies of love and romance. cancers hate to be flustered, and they like to take their time over important decisions. cancer people usually strive to be cheerful and avoid depressions. because of their natural affinity for water, whenever possible they make their homes on the coast or close to a lake or a

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

stranger, were fleet of foot, and so highly skilled in the art of taking cover that they were seldom seen unlessthey so desired. their dwelling-places were built of stone, wattle or turf, and were in bee-hive form, andhere whole families lived together as in an eskimo igloo. it is not impossible that the houses were in use inthe winter only, and the fairy people lived entirely out of doors in the summer. for similar conditions of lifethe people of the asiatic steppes afford the best parallel.like the people of the steppe the fairies appear to have lived chiefly on the milk of their herds, with anoccasional orgy of a meat feast. in this they differed completely from the agriculturists who inhabited themore fertile parts of the country. the immense difference in physique caused by the introd

that "they went to the bridge ofcortaquhie with intention to pull it down, and that for this end she herself, jonet stout, and others of them didthrust their shoulders against the bridge, and that the devil was busy among them acting his part" isobelsmyth corroborated helen guthrie's account and added "we all rued that meeting for we hurt ourselveslifting. helen guthrie also stated that "the last summer except one, she did see john tailyour, sometimes inthe shape of a tod and sometimes in the shape of a swine, and the said john tailyour in these shapes went upand down among william milne, miller at heatherstakes, his corn for the destruction of the same; and thedevil came to her, and pointed out john tailyour in the foresaid shapes, and told her that that was johntailyour. in 1692 at hartf

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

otes a disciple of the rose-croix, wilhelm menens of antwerp, who. says in his aureum vellus about the great force which is hidden in the name i.h.s.v.h" which is, evidently, iod-he-shin-vau-he. it should be noted that ieshouah (jesus in hebrew, has the same phonetic pronunciation as ieshouah (joshua in hebrew, although the latter is spelled iod- 3 thi splate was reproduced with an anlysis in the summer 1960 issue of the martinist review, pages 4 5. 4 see also winter 1959/1960 issue of the martinist review, page 15. 5 quoted verbatim from the penny translation of the theosophic correspondence (theosophical university press, corvina, calif, usa, 1949, pages 197 198. 5 shin-vau-ayin. moreover, an identical word but spelled iod-shin-vau-ayinhe, signifies in hebrew welfare, help, assistance, d

h a tassel made of the same material ie: cotton or silk. such albs and cordeliers can be obtained from the choral and church supplies firms, but of course, they can be self-made as well. cotton sheeting may be substituted as material for the alb 8 if linen is not available. the length of the alb should extend to approximately four fingers from the floor. sandals made from raffia should be worn in summer while woollen socks with an interior insulating sole made of cork or rubber, in winter. the head must be left uncovered and all metallic objects like rings, watches, keys, etc, removed prior to the operation (no gloves should be worn. an operator who performs the ritual in his ordinary clothing should know that he deprives himself of an important portion of his efficacy on the immediate 'pl

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

cing the word "psychic) regardie continued to play this good-natured game until ow food arrived. i'm sure the group in question never had an inkling of who they were talking to. but the questioning look in their eyes as we walked away suggested that they were thinking to themselves "just who is that nice old guy" 10. regardie made this abundantly clear in a series of letters he wrote to us in the summer of 1984. 11. since his death, we have maintained a respectful tradition of placing a personalized and hand-painted invitation to attend certain gd functions next to regardie's headstone. we like to think that regardie would have been pleased (or perhaps, like edgar allen poe, he would have prefered a bottle half-filled with "spirits" to accompany him in the afterlife) 12. this was probably

and r h y t h c breathing. visualize yourself withn your present surroundings. as you continue the four-fold breath, see yourself going backwards in time. as you inhale to the count of four, thmk of last spring. hold the breath for four counts and think of last winter. exhale to the count of four and imagine last fall. on the empty hold to the count of psychology and magic 115 four, thrnk of last summer. continue the exercise in h s fashion going backwards into time, from spring to winter, fall, and summer, ever backwards, keeping pace with the four-fold breath. you may decide to go back in time in five-year intervals: five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, etc. at any one of these intervals, stop and visualize yourself at that particular point in time. observe how you looked

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

modern aircraft, he announced. he kept some of the pieces and turned the rest over to a reporter named bill case. analysis showed the pieces were 98 percent aluminum. kelley's alleged discovery created a stampede to aurora. ufo investigators descended from as far away as illinois and battled for permission to dig up graves in the cemetery. the story received wide play in the national press in the summer of 1973 "when efforts were made to find frank kelley in corpus christi it was found that he had given a phony address and phone number, and that no one in treasure-hunting circles have ever heard of him. mr. kelley was apparently another one of the impressive but elusive hoaxsters who haunt the ufo field. the joke was pointless, expensive, and, sadly, very successful. iv. the moment i met m

e's conjunctivitis lasted over two weeks, apparently caused by those glowing red eyes. at the tune of my first visit to point pleasant in 1966 i did not relate the winged weirdo to flying saucers. later events not only proved that a relationship existed, but that relationship also is a vital clue to the whole mystery. v. max's kansas city is a famous watering hole for new york's hip crowd. in the summer of 1967 an oddball character wandered into that restaurant noted for its oddball clientele. he was tall and awkward, dressed in an ill-fitting black suit that seemed out of style. his chin came to a sharp point and his eyes bulged slightly like "thyroid eyes" he sat down in a booth and gestured to the waitress with his long, tapering fingers "something to eat" he mumbled. the waitress hande

" we even have a naked woman with wings in our collection. the case was investigated by don worley, an experienced student of the unknown, who interviewed the witness in depth "he is a reliable observer" worley notes "and he swears that this event is well beyond the capacity of his imagination" earl morrison, the witness, was serving as a private, first class in the marine corps in vietnam in the summer of 1969. he and two buddies were sitting on top of a bunker near da nang on a warm summer evening. all of a sudden i don't know why we all three looked out there in the sky and we saw this figure coming toward us. it had a kind of glow and we couldn't make out what it was at first. it started coming toward us, real slowly. all of a sudden we saw what looked like wings, like a bat's, only it

, he was standing outside the object in midair! he wore a silvery skin-tight costume and had very long silvery hair. he was looking down into the school yard intently. she watched him for a long moment until her children bounded up to the car. when she looked again, the man and object were gone. she decided not to tell anyone about this strange vision, attaching religious significance to it. that summer, mrs. mary hyre was driving along the ohio side of the river when a sudden glint in the sky attracted her attention "at first i thought it was a plane" she recalled "then i got a better look at it. it was perfectly round. i couldn't make out what it was but i didn't give it any thought at the time" another round object chose to hover above tiny's restaurant just outside point pleasant that

easant that summer, where it was seen by a number of customers including the wife of a local police officer. tiny's stands on the corner of the street where the mcdaniels live. the mcdaniel family would later serve as the focus for many of the strange manifestations. not one person bothered to report a ufo sighting to the law or press in point pleasant, although there were many such sightings all summer long. people in distant salt lake city, utah, weren't so squeamish, however. when a bird "about as big as a piper cub airplane" circled that mormon community on july 18, 1966, some people ran for cover while others ran for their telephones. shortly after 2 p.m. on september 1, mrs. james ikart of scott, mississippi, grabbed her phone to call the delta democrat times (greenville. she and her

ings are broken shells. the big generator plant near the entrance to the area still stands, its boilers rusting, its windows gone, water dripping shyly across its floor while the wind rattles the high steel catwalks and pigeons flutter in its rafters. local teen-agers use the decaying dirt roads for drag strips, and further back, where the woods thicken, lovers park in the deep shadows during the summer mating season. while the tnt area had witnessed many biological events over the years, it had no reputation as a haunted place. the local police cruised through it every evening, occasionally flashing their lights into a darkened car. everyone raised in the area knows every corner of the place. sportsmen clubs have built an archery range and picnic area there. at 11:30 p.m. on the night of

around wednesdays, particularly wednesday, october 17. so here was another curious contradiction. the entities professed to be ignorant of our time frame; yet the objects managed to fly to a rigid schedule that could be measured by our clocks and calendars. when i interviewed attorney robert wright in sistersville, west virginia, he told me the things have turned up every wednesday throughout the summer of 1966 "like clockwork" no one except the u.s. air force had attempted even a superficial statistical analysis of ufo sightings before, so my findings were greeted with howls of derision by the scientists who posed as experts on the phenomenon. then dr. david saunders of colorado university fed several thousand sightings into a computer and found the wednesday phenomenon remained stable. t

d stopped in front of their house and a man in a black suit had apparently taken photos with a large camera. two of their neighbors had also witnessed this and corroborated their story. the photographer did not pay any attention to any of the other houses on the street. on long island, less than thirty miles from new york city, ufos, men in black, and phantom photographers were all very busy that summer. eventually i gathered reports of the photographers from as far away as seattle. an aerospace engineer in the northwest reported "for some three days photographs were taken of our house. we thought they might^be realtors or someone doing a film on the area. then began the telephone interference, mail stoppage and misdirection, etc" the engineer, a well-educated man with a responsible positi

THE PAGAN BOOK OF WORDS PRAYERS CHANTS AND RHYMES

y http//www.sacredspiral.com ball of protection ball of protection, round and smooth, i need your help to make my move. let s get the ball rolling. the future s ahead. heal me with blue and make my energy red. i take my first step now. i am freed from the past. keep the ball rolling. i am myself at last! to bring about quiet, say: hush like a whisper the wind through the trees softer and softer a summer s breeze eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.izof 273 part one: the beginning 6 of 273 chapter 1.1- the great illusion thou shalt have no other gods before me. thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness (exodus 20, 3. judaism forbids idolatry and any kind of fetishism. this prohibition hides behind it the most fundamental principle in judaism, which states that

THE STAR IN THE WEST BY CAPTAIN FULLER A CRITICAL ESSAY ON THE WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY

fulfilled of the knowledge of good and evil, sweet to the ears of those who are born children by the daughters of men to the sons of god, sweet as that mystic fruit was to the lips of eve, daughter of god, child of the mystic man. but we must speed on, taking in this chapter swift glances at the magnificent scenery that these volumes offer up to us, plucking the lilies of spring and the roses of summer, and weave them into a laureate wreath with the fiery leaves of the dying year *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 166. poe, in that little masterpiece of his, gthe poetic principle, h lays down that the value of a poem lies in the ratio of its elevating excitement, the excitement being the power it has in elevating the soul. and here we think, were poe still living, he would have fou

inger of sweet songs, h is the great ideal crowley has enshrined before him; for varied as his powers are, entwined with satire, philosophy and mysticism, as a singer of lyrics and love-songs aleister crowley remains unsurpassed, unrivalled, among the host of present-day poets. his thoughts are as subtle, his imagination as gorgeous, his melodies as charming as those of shelley himself; soft as a summer breeze, fresh as the dawn in may, sunny as a june day, and then furious with burning passion and vitriolic lust. so closely interwoven in spirit are the true lyrics with the remainder of his amatory poetry, that it would be dangerous to attempt to separate them, and such an attempt would almost certainly lead to repetition or a breaking of the chain of psychosexual sensations, dimming that

uctant yet helpless, heaves with a soft passion, no wise understood, her pulse quickens, she speaks, he is enthralled: the piercing flame of love struck through him, till his tortured mind drove his young limbs, the wolf that hunts the hind, far through the forest c *the tale of archais, vol. i, p. 9. and then again bursts from his lips the enraptured song: ere the grape of joy is golden with the summer and the sun, ere the maidens unbeholden gather one by one, to the vineyard comes the shower, no sweet rain to fresh the flower, but the thunder rain that cleaves, rends and ruins tender leaves. ere the crimson lips have planted paler roses, warmer grapes, ere the maiden breasts have panted, and the sunny shapes flit around to bless the hour, comes men know not what false flower: ere the cup

kiss, one flower to fold, on its own calyx rolled at night, in june! one kiss, like dewfall, drawn a veil o fer leaf and lawn. mix night, and noon, and dawn, dew, flower, and moon *alice, an adultery, vol. ii, p. 69. that alice was charmed, that the above was a love-philtre, the thirteenth day discloses. the birthday of their first kiss: breasts met and arms enclosed, and all the spring grew into summer with the first long kiss *alice, an adultery, vol. ii, p. 70. they are henceforth lovers, passionate and ardent; and not till now do they discover that man-made honour is but as winter snow. all is hence alice, as is shown in that sweet and simple song which bears her name: the stars are hidden in dark and mist, the moon and sun are dead, because my love has caught and kissed my body in her

colored death, unfolding! lithe limbs and supple shoulders and lips curled, curled out to draw me to their monstrous world *tannhauser, vol. i, p. 228. tannhauser now enters the palace of the great queen venus, the false isis, life! life! this kiss! draw in thy breath! to me! to me *tannhauser, vol. i, p. 229. he is lost! act ii opens with two beautiful songs. venus sings the praise of spring and summer, and tannhauser that of autumn and winter. he finds the latter chill season the best: but best is grim december, the goatish god his power; the satyr blows the ember, and pain is passion fs flower; when blood drips over kisses, and madness sobs through wine. ah mine. the snake starts up and hisses and strikes and. i am thine *tannhauser, vol. i, p. 230. in the above we still find the now al

applauded it, and even now in christian churches is still sung the beautiful hymn: nearer, my god, to thee, nearer to thee, e fen though it be a cross that raiseth me! still all my song shall be nearer, my god, to thee, nearer to thee. to raise oneself through the vicious and the virtuous, to reside, as adonis did, six months with proserpine, and six with venus, to be as day and night, winter and summer, is no easy path to tread; and if it be necessary for the initiate to gaze on the back parts of jahveh, it is, however, most certainly not necessary for him to kiss the hind quarters of the goat of mendes, or to revel in the secret orgies of the agapae; for the tempting of man is but the tempering of the metal *yet the virtue of one man may be the vice of another. the flower which springs f

THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

chen. some of them (ix, xv, xx) were dramatically changed and looked now more like bol i. this design is, in our terms, bol iii. so for quite some time the church of light had been publishing a book with bol iii illustrations and a bol ii deck, which are quite different in many details. eventually a decision was made to produce a new bol deck (bol iv- first in black and white (release planned on summer 2003) and then full color (2004. all the 78 cards have now been redrawn using computer technologies. zain's book, sacred tarot, gives a plenty of occult and other correspondences for each of 22 major arcana (and brief meanings of all other cards. however below i show only their titles, divinatory meanings and descriptions. i strongly encourage everybody to obtain a copy of the book for the

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

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

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

ry clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 8:21 and the lord smelled a sweet savour; and the lord said in his heart, i will not again curse the ground any more for man s sake; for the imagination of man s heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will i again smite any more every thing living, as i have done. 8:22 while the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. 9:1 and god blessed noah and his sons, and said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 9:2 and the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. 9:3 ever

lon king of moab: and eglon [was] a very fat man. 3:18 and when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present. 3:19 but he himself turned again from the quarries that [were] by gilgal, and said, i have a secret errand unto thee, o king: who said, keep silence. and all that stood by him went out from him. 3:20 and ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. and ehud said, i have a message from god unto thee. and he arose out of [his] seat. 3:21 and ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly: 3:22 and the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came o

after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out. 3:23 then ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them. 3:24 when he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour [were] locked, they said, surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber. 3:25 and they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened [them] and, behold, their lord [was] fallen down dead on the earth. 3:26 and ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto seirath. 3:27 and it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mount

har s [son] and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear. 15:37 so hushai david s friend came into the city, and absalom came into jerusalem. 16:1 and when david was a little past the top [of the hill] behold, ziba the servant of mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred [loaves] of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine. 16:2 and the king said unto ziba, what meanest thou by these? and ziba said, the asses [be] for the king s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink. 16:3 and the king said, and where [is] thy master s son? and ziba said unto the king, behold, he abideth at jeru

lm 32 a [psalm] of david, maschil. 32:1 blessed [is he whose] transgression [is] forgiven [whose] sin [is] covered. 32:2 blessed [is] the man unto whom the lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit [there is] no guile. 32:3 when i kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. 32:4 for day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. selah. 32:5 i acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have i not hid. i said, i will confess my transgressions unto the lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. selah. 32:6 for this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. 32:7 thou [art] my hiding place; thou s

ads of the dragons in the waters. 74:14 thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces [and] gavest him [to be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. 74:15 thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. 74:16 the day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 74:17 thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. 74:18 remember this [that] the enemy hath reproached, o lord, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. 74:19 o deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude [of the wicked] forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. 74:20 have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. 74:21 o let not the

n thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend. 6:4 give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. 6:5 deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter] and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. 6:6 go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 6:7 which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 6:8 provideth her meat in the summer [and] gathereth her food in the harvest. 6:9 how long wilt thou sleep, o sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 6:10 [yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 6:11 so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. 6:12 a naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. 6:13 he winketh with his eyes, he

maketh a glad father: but a foolish son [is] the heaviness of his mother. 10:2 treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. 10:3 the lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. 10:4 he becometh poor that dealeth [with] a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. 10:5 he that gathereth in summer [is] a wise son [but] he that sleepeth in harvest [is] a son that causeth shame. 10:6 blessings [are] upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 10:7 the memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. 10:8 the wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. 10:9 he that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

s character and motivations. turner showed me a gardner scrapbook in ripley's store room which was mostly cheesecake magazine photographs and articles about actresses. probably none are so evocative as ye book of ye art magical, discovered,it has been intimated,hidden away in the back of an old sofa. i have the impression it was essentially unknown in and after gardner's lifetime, and that by the summer of 1986 few had seen inside it; i knew of only kelly and my own party. perhaps the cover had been seen by some along the line, accounting for the rumor of a "very old book of shadows" in gardner's museum. if someone had seen the charter signed by crowley("baphomet) but written by gerald gardner, and had gotten a look, as well, at ye book, they might well have concluded that crowley had writ

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

, fig. 5, engraved from one belonging to me. 4 calliamch, hymn. addian. v. 13. geniter nympharum oceanus. catullus in gell. v. 84 5 ionian antiquities, vol. i, c. 3, plate ix. of priapus 71 creative and destructive powers. this is a notion to which men would be naturally led by observing the common order and progression of things. the same heat of the sun, which scorched and withered the grass in summer, ripened the fruits in autumn, and cloathed the earth with verdure in the spring. in one season it dried up the waters from the earth, and in another returned them in rain. it caused fermentation and putrefaction, which destroy one generation of plants and animals, and produce another in constant and regular succession. this contention between the powers of creation and destruction is repre

r names commencing with the syllable fri or fry, are so many monuments of the existence of the phallic worship among our anglo-saxon forefathers. two customs cherished among our old english popular superstitions are believed to have been derived from this worship, the need-fires, and the procession of the boar s head at the christmas festivities. the former were fires kindled at the period of the summer solstice, and were certainly in their origin religious observances. the boar was intimately connected with the worship of frea.1 from our want of a more intimate knowledge of this part of teutonic paganism, we are unable to decide whether some of the superstitious practices of the middle ages were derived from the romans or from the peoples who established themselves in the provinces after

of degradation. besides the invocations addressed principally to priapus, or to the generative powers, the ancients had established great festivals in their honour, which were remarkable for their licentious gaiety, and in which the image of the phallus was carried openly and in triumph. these festivities were especially celebrated among the rural population, and they were held chiefly during the summer months. the preparatory labours of the agriculturist were over, and people had leisure to welcome with joyfulness the activity of nature s reproductive powers, which was in due time to bring their fruits. among the most celebrated of these festivals were the liberalia, which were held on the 17th of march. a monstrous phallus was carried in procession in a car, and its worshippers indulged

bus quat. nil ibi per ludum simulabitur: omnia fient ad verum, quibus incendi jam frigidus vo laomedontiades et nestoris hernia possit. tunc prurigo mor impatiens, tunc femina simplex, et toto pariter repetitus clamor ab antro: jam fas est: admitte viros! juvenalis sat. vi, l. 314. among the teutonic, as well as among most other peoples, similar festivals appear to have been celebrated during the summer months; and, as they arose out of the same feelings, they no doubt presented the same general forms. the principal popular festivals of the summer during the middle ages occurred in the months of april, may, and june, and comprised easter, may-day, and the feast of the summer solstice. all these appear to have been generative powers 157 originally accompanied with the same phallic worship w

hlands of scotland, especially in caithness, where it is adopted as a protection for the cattle when attacked by disease which the highlanders attribute to witchcraft.2 it was from the remotest ages the custom to cause cattle, and even children, to pass across the need-fire, as a protection to them for the rest of their lives. the need-fire was kindled at easter, on may-day, and especially at the summer solstice, on the eve of the feast of st. john the baptist, or of midsummer-day.3 the eve of st. john was in popular superstition one of the most important days of the medi val year. the need-fire or the st. john s fire, as it was called was kindled just at midnight, the moment when the solstice was supposed to take place, and the young people of both sexes danced round it, and, above all th

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f divine conception join, and the personal human essence comes into being. at death the human identity, or soul, disperses and the physical body returns to the earth, but the divine essence that was the foundation of the life escapes across the veil back into the bosom of the unmanifest. this passage across the veil is true of all created things, not only human beings-poems, beasts, rocks, even a summer sunrise. each comes into discrete being out of the unmanifest, and to the unmanifest each ultimately returns. the divine act of creation did not happen once at the beginning of the universe, nor does it occur only once at the beginning of a life. it is happening constantly everywhere. in a single second every human being is recreated an infinite number of times. this is why blake said "if t

om the living universe that was god. the clothing he put on was a suit of flesh and ego. in the garden, adam and eve had no circles around them, but were aspects of the unity of the all. table of square elements names of cod letters of ihvh archangels evangelists beasts quarters seasons motions worlds elementals winds rivers growth colors instruments fire ihvh tzabaoth yod michael mark lion south summer linear atziluth salamanders notus pison stalk red rod water elohim el chai he gabriel matthew eagle west fall rotary briah undines zephyrus gihon fruit blue cup air shaddai ha-aretz va u raphael john angel north winter vibratory yetzirah sylphs boreas hiddikel seed yellow dagger earth adonai tzabaoth he auriel luke bull east spring mixed assiah gnomes eurus phrath root black pentacle the fo

s transmitted. the second he is the returning reactionary pulse from the vau that completes the cycle. there could be no order without this returning pulse since if it were absent, every motion would proceed endlessly in single directions. what grew hotter would continue getting hotter indefinitely, and so on. the second he restores the balance. consider the seasons of the year. two are opposite (summer and winter, and the other two are essentially the same (temperate, except that the direction of motion is reversed fi-om one to the other. that is, in spring the temperature goes from cool to warm, and in autumn it goes from warm to cool. the changing of the seasons is often thought of as circular motion. if it were circular it would look like this: yod however, the actual motion of the sea

ion is reversed fi-om one to the other. that is, in spring the temperature goes from cool to warm, and in autumn it goes from warm to cool. the changing of the seasons is often thought of as circular motion. if it were circular it would look like this: yod however, the actual motion of the seasons and all other cycles is spiral since each element is separated by time from the one it replaces. the summer of one year appears the same as the summer of the previous year, but it is completely new, and built on the summer that preceded it. the four letters of the tetragrammaton can be represented by a standing wave, which is exactly balanced by a second wave. the trough of one wave and the oppo- site crest of the other wave form a cycle with the four letters in the name of god: the wave model is

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the scottish-irish to keep church duely evry first sunday of the quarter to sene or hallow themselves, their corns and cattell, from the shots and stealth of these wandring tribes;52 the quarters of the year are the transitions from season to season, when the length of the day is noticed to change. on the winter solstice (december 21, the shortest day occurs in the northern hemisphere and on the summer solstice (june 21, the longest day. on the spring equinox (march 21, the day goes from being shorter than the night to being longer; on the fall equinox (september 21, the opposite occurs, and the day goes from being longer than the night to being shorter. the dates given for these quarter days are nominal; they vary slightly from year to year. these changes or transitions open occult doorw

und so that you can see the moon reflected in its depths, you can establish a communication with this goddess and learn of her many dark secrets of deception and glamoury (false appearance. xix the sun hebrew letter: resh (head) correspondence: sun path: thirtieth beyond a low stone wall grows a garden filled with tall sunflowers. their heavy flower heads droop and nod in the warmth of a noontime summer sun. bees and other insects move lazily from flower to flower. you hear childish laughter, and turn to see a naked boy galloping wildly toward you on a gray pony, waving a red banner in his hand. he rides bareback but seems in no danger of tumbling off as he flashes past you and continues along the wall of the garden. you perceive an open gateway through which the child has disappeared. fai

ted a pagan temple consisting of a single standing stone surrounded by a ring of numerous smaller stones. twelve ridges of earth, like low walls, extend away from the standing stone in twelve spokes, so that the construction has the form of a great wheel. the sun never sets in this strange world, but moves around the horizon in a complete circle each day, just as it does in the high arctic during summer, so that the shadow of the standing stone is cast into all twelve partitions of the wheel in turn. the inhabitants of the land do not live near this solar temple, but come to present offerings of wheaten cakes and ale in the various sections. which section they choose appears to depend on their purpose, although it is not obvious why they should choose one over another. they come to pray an

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a rough, natural pillar of gray stone that rises up from the grassy ground in a clearing of the forest. the pillar is of human dimensions, but irregular. feel the sunlight warming one side of the pillar and the coolness of the other side in shadow. feel the grass that grows on the top of the stone and the moss in small crevices in its side. become aware of the changelessness of the pillar. allow summer to gradually give way to autumn as you accelerate the time. the days and night flash past, and the sun and moon trace alternating arcs across the sky. let autumn become winter, and feel grounding and centering 87 the snow cover the browning grass on top of the pillar and pile high around its foot. see the bare gray branches of the forest trees against the grayness of the sky. let winter giv

he sun and moon trace alternating arcs across the sky. let autumn become winter, and feel grounding and centering 87 the snow cover the browning grass on top of the pillar and pile high around its foot. see the bare gray branches of the forest trees against the grayness of the sky. let winter give way to spring as the snow melts and the new leaves bud and unfurl. allow spring to warm and dry into summer, bringing the year full circle before slowing time to its normal rate. project your awareness downward under the soil, tracing along the hidden sides at the base of the pillar. become aware that the pillar is only a finger of stone projecting up from a much larger mass of bedrock. follow this stone down and down, deep beneath the earth. feel the fissures in the rocks and the water that well

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sunset is divided into twelve parts. these are called the hours of the day. similarly, the period between sunset and sunrise is divided into twelve parts, called the hours of the night. usually the hours of the day are said to be equal to each other, and the hours of the night equal to each other, although this is merely a convention based upon the old equal house system of astrology. during the summer months in the northern hemisphere each nominally equal magical "hour" of the day will contain more than sixty minutes, because in the summer the days are longer than the nights. during the winter months each "hour" will have less than sixty minutes, because in the winter the days are shorter than the nights. the inverse is true of the magical hours of the night. only on the two days of the

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s the prince of bekhten, and at the head of all his tribute he sent his eldest daughter, bearing his message of homage and duty. now the maiden was beautiful, and the king of egypt thought her so lovely that be took her to wife, and bestowed upon her the name "raneferu" which means something like the "beauties of ra" he took her back with him to egypt, where she was installed as queen. during the summer of the fifteenth year of his reign, whilst rameses ii. was celebrating a festival of amen-ra in the temple of luxor, one came to him and reported that an envoy had arrived from the prince of bekhten, bearing with him many gifts for the royal wife ra-neferu. when the envoy had been brought into the presence, he addressed words of homage to the king, and, having presented the gifts from his l

bekhten, tehuti-em-heb found that the princess bent-enth-resh was possessed by an evil spirit which refused to be exorcised by him, and he was unable to cast out the devil. the prince of bekhten, seeing that the healing of his daughter was beyond the power of the egyptian, sent a second envoy to rameses ii, and besought him to send a god to drive out the devil. this envoy arrived in egypt in the summer of the twenty-sixth year of the reign of rameses ii, and found the king celebrating a festival in thebes. when he heard the petition of the envoy, he went to the temple of khensu nefer-hetep "a second time"[fn#38] and presented himself before the god and besought his help on behalf of his sister-in-law [fn#38] thus the king must have invoked the help of khensu on the occasion of the visit o

defined, and several instances of her magical powers are recorded. by the utterance of her words of power she succeeded in raising her dead husband osiris to life, and she enabled him by their means to beget horus of her. nothing could withstand them, because they were of divine origin, and she had learned them from thoth, the intelligence of the greatest of the gods [fn#70] or "the period of the summer" the season shemmu, began soon after the beginning of april and lasted until nearly the end of july [fn#71] khepera, rd, and temu were the three principal forms of the sun-god according to the theological system of the priests of heliopolis [fn#72] the name by which the boat of ra is generally known in egyptian texts. it was this boat which was stopped in its course when thoth descended fro

bes, the mighty [city, the mistress of cities, performing the praises of father amen, the lord of the thrones of the two lands, in his beautiful festival of the southern apt,[fn#161] which was the seat of his heart (i.e, the chosen spot) from primaeval time [when] one came to say to his majesty "an ambassador of the prince of bekhten hath arrived bearing many gifts for the royal wife [fn#160] the summer. the copts called the second month of this season paoni [fn#161] the modern temple of luxor. and having been brought into the presence of his majesty with his gifts, he spake words of adoration to his majesty, saying "praise be unto thee, o thou sun (ra) of the nine nations of the bow, permit us to live before thee" and when he had spoken, and had smelt the earth before his majesty, he cont

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tgear worn by skin divers' the thing was seen again in 1963 and described as 'luminous and green-eyed' i examined the site of these encounters and can testify to the charles mill lake's swampy affinities--certainly a good home for a black lagoon beast. who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (12 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:58 "in 1973, during the summer, residents of new jersey's newton-lafayette area described a giant, man-like alligator they had seen locally. newspaper reporters wrote about an old indian tale from the region that told of a giant, man-sized fish that could never be caught. in 1977, new york state conservation naturalist alfred hulstruck reported that the state's southern tier had 'a scaled, man-like creature (that) appear

r told investigators he saw a large, frog-like or lizard-like creature during the same month of the officers' sightings" case file #4: from 'world of the incredible but true' by charles berlitz (fawcett crest books, n.y "there have been numerous bigfoot sightings in the united states and around the world. the humanlike creatures are usually said to be large and hairy with glowing eyes. during the summer of 1988, however, residents of bishopville, south carolina, reported accounts of a rare breed of bigfoot: a seven-foot-tall lizard man with green scaly skin. according to witnesses, unlike other bigfoot creatures lizard man has only three toes on each foot, as well as long apelike arms that end in three fingers tipped with four-inch claws. only the second bigfoot to have only three fingers

estroy human lives. however, he then goes on to make the absolutely contradicting statement who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (22 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:58] that the nagas are gods and wish nothing but good to man. so. you make the call. case file #12: from "the 'chupas- ufo horror stories from brazil" article by antonio huneeus in the summer, 1994 issue of ufo universe (mr. huneeus describes the following incident that was investigated by apex [association of extraterrestrial investigations] in sao paulo, one of the best known ufo groups in brazil, founded by dr. max berezowsky..the affair began near vitoria, the capitol of state of espiritu santo north of rio state, where there are beaches rich in mineral contents. it happened

ally the witnesses saw only nostrils nearly flush against the smooth face. sometimes a percipient mentioned pointed ears but on many occasions commented on the absence of noticeable ears on the large, round head. and, repeatedly, witnesses described an insignia of a flying serpent on a shoulder patch, a badge, a medallion, or a helmet" case file #19: from: the "nevada aerial research journal" for summer, 1989. re-print a upi news item which appeared in a berkley, california newspaper "dale russell, curator of fossil vertebrates at the national museums of canada in ottawa, has developed a theory that intelligent life forms could have developed from the large reptiles that roamed the earth (in ancient times "russell calls his imaginary creature a 'dinosauroid' which would look like a hairles

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undown. and this seems only fitting for the great celtic new year's festival. not that the holiday was celtic only. in fact, it is startling how many ancient and unconnected cultures (the egyptians and pre-spanish mexicans, for example) celebrated this as a festival of the dead. but the majority of our modern traditions can be traced to the british isles. the celts called it samhain, which means 'summer's end, according to their ancient two-fold division of the year, when summer ran from beltane to samhain and winter ran from samhain to beltane (some modern covens echo this structure by letting the high priest 'rule' the coven beginning on samhain, with rulership returned to the high priestess at beltane) according to the later four-fold division of the year, samhain is seen as 'autumn's e

a celebration of m a y d a y= by mike nichols 'perhaps its just as well that you won't be here..to be offended by the sight of our may day celebrations--lord summerisle to sgt. howie from 'the wicker man* there are four great festivals of the pagan celtic year and the modern witch's calendar, as well. the two greatest of these are halloween (the beginning of winter) and may day (the beginning of summer. being opposite each other on the wheel of the year, they separate the year into halves. halloween (also called samhain) is the celtic new year and is generally considered the more important of the two, though may day runs a close second. indeed, in some areas- notably wales- it is considered the great holiday. may day ushers in the fifth month of the modern calendar year, the month of may

ed-fires' had healing properties, and sky-clad witches would jump through the flames to ensure protection* sgt. howie (shocked 'but they are naked' lord summerisle 'naturally. it's much too dangerous to jump through the fire with your clothes on* frequently, cattle would be driven between two such bon-fires (oak wood was the favorite fuel for them) and, on the morrow, they would be taken to their summer pastures. other may day customs include: walking the circuit of one's property('beating the bounds, repairing fences and boundary eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 18 markers, processions of chimney-sweeps and milk maids, archery tournaments, morris dances, sword dances, feasting, music, drinking, and maidens bathing their faces in the dew of may morning to

part in may day folklore, often used as titles for the dramatis personae of the celebrations. and modern surnames such as robinson, hodson, johnson, and godkin may attest to some distant may eve spent in the woods. these wildwood antics have inspired writers such as kipling: oh, do not tell the priest our plight, or he would call it a sin; but we have been out in the woods all night, a-conjuring summer in! and lerner and lowe: it's may! it's may! the lusty month of may. eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 19 those dreary vows that ev'ryone takes, ev'ryone breaks. ev'ryone makes divine mistakes! the lusty month of may! it is certainly no accident that queen guinevere's 'abduction' by meliagrance occurs on may 1st when she and the court have gone a-maying, or

ight, the wonderful herb, whose leaf will decide if the coming year shall make me a bride* in addition to the four great festivals of the pagan celtic year, there are four lesser holidays as well: the two solstices, and the two equinoxes. in folklore, these are referred to as the four 'quarter-days' of the year, and modern witches call them the four 'lesser sabbats, or the four 'low holidays. the summer solstice is one of them. technically, a solstice is an astronomical point and, due to the procession to the equinox, the date may vary by a few days depending on the year. the summer solstice occurs when the sun reaches the tropic of cancer, and we experience the longest day and the shortest night of the year. astrologers know this as the date on which the sun enters the sign of cancer. thi

ebrated on the traditional date of december 25th, yule, later adopted by the christians. again, it must be remembered that the celts reckoned their days from sundown to sundown, so the june 24th festivities actually begin on the previous sundown (our june 23rd. this was shakespeare's midsummer night's eve. which brings up another point: our modern calendars are quite misguided in suggesting that 'summer begins' on the solstice. according to the old folk calendar, summer begins on may day and ends on lammas (august 1st, with the summer solstice, midway between the two, marking mid-summer. this makes more logical sense than suggesting that summer begins on the day when the sun's power begins to wane and the days grow shorter. although our pagan ancestors probably preferred june 24th (and ind

he sensibility of modern witches seems to prefer the actual solstice point, beginning the celebration on its eve, or the sunset immediately preceding the solstice point. again, it gives modern pagans a range of dates to choose from with, hopefully, a weekend embedded in it. just as the pagan mid-winter celebration of yule was adopted by christians as christmas (december 25th, so too the pagan mid-summer celebration was adopted by them as the feast of john the baptist (june 24th. occurring 180 degrees apart on the wheel of the year, the mid-winter celebration commemorates the birth of jesus, while the mid-summer celebration commemorates the birth of john, the prophet who was born six months before jesus in order to announce his arrival. although modern witches often refer to the holiday by

he birth of john, the prophet who was born six months before jesus in order to announce his arrival. although modern witches often refer to the holiday by the rather generic name of midsummer's eve, it is more probable that our pagan ancestors of a few hundred years ago actually used the christian name for the holiday, st. john's eve. this is evident from the wealth of folklore that surrounds the summer solstice (i.e. that it is a night especially sacred to the faerie folk) but which is inevitably ascribed to 'st. john's eve, with no mention of the sun's position. it could also be argued that a coven's claim to antiquity might be judged by what name it gives the holidays (incidentally, the name 'litha' for the holiday is a modern usage, possibly based on a saxon word that means the opposit

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hollow hill. it is worth noting, too, that scandinavian mythology makes the north the dwelling-place of the gods, and that in gaelic myth the south, often camouflaged as 'spain, is evil or hell. presumably, therefore, its opposite, the north, is paradise. i have seen one very interesting ceremony: the cauldron of regeneration and the dance of the wheel, or yule, to cause the sun to be reborn, or summer to return. this in theory should be on december 22, but nowadays it is held on the nearest day to that date that is convenient for the members. the ceremony starts in the usual way. the circle is cast and purified, the celebrants also being purified in the usual manner, and the ordinary business of the cult is done. then the small ceremony is performed (sometimes called 'drawing down the mo

" practices derived through direct or distorting channels from the centralising egyptian source. witchcraft as it emerges into european history and literature represents the old palaeolithic fertility cult plus the magical idea and various parodies of contemporary religions' all this is intensely interesting to the witches themselves. they have vague stories that the cult comes from the east, the summer land, combined with a story that it had existed since the goddess went to the land of death. of course they know that they have been vaguely in touch with various sorcerers and wise men, and it is said that in the old days when witches were persecuted, the sorcerers were not, and that they secretly used witches as mediums to attain success in their arts. with the help of these clairvoyants

or samhuin (november 1, brigid (february 1, bealteine or beltene (may 1) and lugnasadh (august 1. the festivals corresponding to midwinter and midsummer were both said to have been founded in honour of female deities: brigid is a very ancient goddess of home-crafts and the hearth, lugnasadh was founded by lugaidh in honour of his 'nurse' taillte. of the witch festivals, on the other hand, the two summer festivals were in honour of the goddess, wherein she takes precedence, and the two winter ones were those wherein the god takes precedence. in practice it appears to me that in summer the goddess takes precedence, riding on a broom (or other) stick before the god if he is present; but in winter he is not superior but merely her equal; they both ride side by side. it is true, of course, that

er festivals were in honour of the goddess, wherein she takes precedence, and the two winter ones were those wherein the god takes precedence. in practice it appears to me that in summer the goddess takes precedence, riding on a broom (or other) stick before the god if he is present; but in winter he is not superior but merely her equal; they both ride side by side. it is true, of course, that in summer the main prayers are to the goddess, while in winter it is chiefly the god who is prayed to. now the god is represented by the high priest (if there is one) and it is he who was called the devil in the old days. i was very curious about him and asked at once when i was 'inside, by which they mean a member of the cult 'who and what is called the devil' though members of the cult never use an

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campaigning. cold lakes, their colour sunless. snow is falling, white hoar-frost. shield idle on an old shoulder. wind intense, shoots are frozen. snow is falling upon the ice. wind is sweeping thick tree-tops. shield bold on a brave shoulder. snow is falling, cloaks the valley. soldiers hasten to battle. i go not, a wound stays me. snow is falling on the slope. stallion confined; lean cattle. no summer day is today. snow is falling, white the mountain s edge. ship s mast bare at sea. a coward conceives many schemes. 248 gold rims round horns, horns round bards. roads frozen, air gleaming bright; brief twilight, tree-tops bowed down. bees in honeycombs, faint cry of birds. day bleak, white-mantled hill-ridge, red dawn. bees in refuge, cold lid on the ford, frozen when ice forms. none may e

g bending; the heart laughs for one loved; though a tale be told of me, i know shame wherever it be. mountain snow, shingle white grit; fish in ford, shelter in cave; who acts harshly is hated. mountain snow, stag in flight; common for a lord, gleaming blade, and mounting a saddle-bow, and dismounting, anger well-armed. mountain snow, stag hunched-up; many have muttered, truly, this is not like a summer day. mountain snow, stag hunted; whistle of wind over tower eaves; burdensome, man, is sin. mountain snow, stag bounding; whistle of wind over high white wall; common, a quiet beauty. mountain snow, stag on sea-strand; an old man knows his youth lost; a foul face keeps a man down. mountain snow, stag in grove; raven dark-black, roebuck swift; one free and well, strange he should groan. moun

le across the clear sea: while to me in my chariot from afar it is a flowery plain on which he rows about. that which is a clear sea for the prowed skiff in which bran is, that is a happy plain with profusion of flowers to me from the chariot of two wheels. bran sees the number of waves beating across the clear sea: i myself see in mag mon rosy-colored flowers without fault. sea-horses glisten in summer as far as bran has stretched his glance: rivers pour forth a stream of honey in the land of manannan son of lir. the sheen of the main, on which thou art, the white hue of the sea, on which thou rowest, yellow and azure are spread out, it is land, and is not rough. speckled salmon leap from the womb of the white sea, on which thou lookest: they are calves, they are colored lambs with friend

t vigils in my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the old indian orators acquired the habit of carefully arranging their thoughts. they listened to the warbling of birds and noted the grandeur and the beauties of the forest. the majestic clouds which appear like mountains of granite floating in the air the golden tints of a summer evening sky, and all the changes of nature, possessed a mysterious significance. all this combined to furnish ample matter for reflection to the contemplating youth. francis assikinack (blackbird) ottawa simple truth i believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. i will tell you in my way how the indian sees things. the white man has more words to tell you how

ir on a certain part of the dog s neck was very much worn away, so he asked him how that had come about. oh, it is nothing, said the dog. that is only the place where the collar is put on at night to keep me chained up; it chafes a bit, but one soon gets used to it. is that all? said the wolf. then good-bye to you, master dog. better starve free than be a fat slave. the fox and the grapes one hot summer s day a fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. just the thing to quench my thirst, quoth he. drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. turning round again with a one, two, three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. again and again he tried after the

on to give over his wrath. it is useless attacking the insensible. 269 a green book of meditations volume 3 oriental and monotheist wisdom i was not wholly satisfied with my second volume and i wished to further emulate frangquist and shelton in collecting a broad selection of instructional meditations from the world religions. perhaps i should have practiced their silence? in any case, i spent a summer putting together this volume from my favorite books. i don t think i did as good a job as my predecessors, but i think that there are some fascinating pieces nestled inside this volume for you. i don t have copyright permission on many of these articles. i am not making money off this deal, so i don t feel too bad about this. in fact, i consider it free advertising for the authors. it s pro

ore! having given it all up, i m quite ready to die. 143. no parents, no friends, no children, no wife, how lonely! i would rather die! 149. no parents, no wife, no children, no job, no money; but, no death, thank you. 150. the wind is you breath; the open sky, your mind; the sun, your eye; seas and mountains, your whole body. 166. what shall i leave as a keepsake after i die? in spring, flowers; summer, cuckoos; fall, red maple leaves; winter, snow. 169. woman and man: they look different but inside their skeletons are almost the same. 189. were our skins peeled off, yours and mine, which is you, which is i? 190. cold moon: sounds of the bridge as i walk alone. 191. duty and humanity are often incompatible: the road forks but my body is one. 219. in the dark i lost sight of my shadow; i v

nied by attendants, and escorted by soldiers beating gongs. everyone, no matter how wealthy, had to bow low before the procession. how powerful that official is he thought. i wish that i could be a high official! then he became the high official, carried every where in his embroidered sedan chair, feared and hated by the people all around, who had to bow down before him as he passed. it was a hot summer day, and the official felt very uncomfortable in the sticky sedan chair. he looked up at the sun. it shone proudly in the sky, unaffected by his presence. how powerful the sun is he thought. i wish that i could be the sun! then he became the sun, shining fiercely down on everyone, scorching the fields, cursed by the farmers and laborers. but a huge black cloud moved between him and the eart

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; in thickness tetrad solid. the 7th is of communities; as man, house, street and city. the 8th is the judicial power. intellect, science, opinion, sense. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the 9th is of the parts of the animal, the rational, irascible and epithymetic soul, and the body they live in. the 10th tetractys is of the seasons of the year, spring, summer, autumn and winter. the 11th tetractys is of the ages of man, the infant, the lad, the man and the senex. and all are proportional one to another, and hence they said, all things are assimilated to number. they also gave a fourfold distribution of goods to the soul and body, to the soul, prudence, temperance, fortitude, justice; and to the body, acuteness of senses, health, strength and bea

ew word for the sun. it occurs in revelations xiii. 18. 121. 666. in addition, 666 is also the diameter of a circle whose circumference is 2093, which is the diagonal of a square whose sides are 1480, the number of christos. it is also the sum of the numbers 1 to 36. it is also the number of syene in greek, a place in egypt at which, if a pit be dug, said, eratosthenes, the rays of the sun at the summer solstice shine perpendicular into it. 700. the talmud says there are 700 species of fishes, and in eiruvin, 18. i, it says that god plaited eve s hair into 700 braids. 753. 753 b.c, the founding of the city of rome. it is also the number alike of abram with sarai 243 and 510, and of abraham with sarah 248 and 505, the change which led to parenthood. 780. ophis--serpent, and sophia--wisdom

WOLFSON ELLIOT ALEF MEM TAU KABBALISTIC MUSINGS ON TIME TRUTH AND DEATH

istotle, it will be recalled, lucidly laid out some of the paradoxes that arise when one attempts to account for time paradoxes that, according to simplicius, the sixth-century neoplatonist, were not successfully resolved by either aristotle or his expositors.8 many centuries later, in die grundprobleme der ph nomenologie, the text of a lecture course delivered at the university of marburg in the summer of 1927, martin heidegger offered the following assessment: no attempt to get behind the riddle of time can permit itself to dispense with coming to grips with aristotle. for he expressed in clear conceptual form, for the first time and for a long time after, the common understanding of time, so that his view of time corresponds to the natural concept of time. 9 the first of aristotle s par

aphor, no doubt an inadvertent slip of the pen, points to the di culty for one engaged in heidegger s thought in overcoming the bias toward the interpretation of time as the ecstatic-horizon of our understanding of being. as heidegger put it in his notes for the lecture series geschichte des zeitbegriffs, delivered at the thinking time/ hermeneutic suppositions 31 university of marburg during the summer semester of 1925, human existence finds its ontological grounding in the phenomenon of the presence of what is of concern in the authentic sense, to the analysis of being-in-the-world in its particular sense as concern, which has the mode of being of pure letting-becomepresent a remarkable kind of being which is understood only when it is seen that this making present and appresenting is no

nomenon of presence to the disposition of concern or care (sorge, which he thematizes in sein und zeit as existentiality, facticity, and falling prey, the threefold structure fundamental to the way of being of dasein.206 in vom wesen der menschlichen freiheit: einleitung in die philosophie, a text first published in 1982 but based on a lecture course delivered at the university of freiburg in the summer of 1930, heidegger wrote again of the primordial connection between being and time. he identified time as the light that illumines being and allows it to be understood as constant presence, the self-contained ecstasis of each instant, the present-at-hand, an occasionalist challenge to the conception of time as a continuously flowing sequence of now-points.207 the fundamental question of phi

in heidegger s presentation of the destinal character of philosophy in the infamous rectoral address delivered at the university of freiburg in 1933, die selbst-behauptung der deutschen universit t. for a translation see heidegger, self-assertion, pp. 467 502, esp. 471 474. the distinction is elaborated further in heidegger s einf hrung in die metaphysik, delivered as a lecture course in the 1935 summer session at university of freiburg and first published in 1953. for the political ramifications of this distinction, see janicaud, shadow, pp. 57 58. for a detailed analysis of heidegger s 234 notes to pages 119 120 thought as a philosophizing towards another beginning (andersanf nglich) and the specific role of the poet, see marx, reason, pp. 77 113. 16. many texts could be cited in support

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which was nailed to the cross of suffering above the head of christ. its esoteric interpretation shows that the first "i" relates to the sign of virgo, isis the mighty mother. in this instance the mother is the producer of the seeds of fruit on earth which represents spring. the "n" is scorpio, apophis the destroyer the destructive force of nature that represents winter "r" is sol and relates to summer. the final "i" is osiris slain and risen, and relates to autumn and all of its characteristics. by uttering this initial keyword, the invoker of this force calls forth and links the power of the sun into his aura. yod nun resh yod! virgo, isis, mighty mother! sol, osiris, slain and risen! isis, apophis, osiris! i-a-o! the letters iao compose a synthetic name relating to the sun entering vir

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