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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

e neolithic period, which began around 7500 bc and lasted until about 5500 bc, the huntergatherer culture had given way to the development of agriculture, and the god evolved into the sonconsort of the earth mother. he was the god of vegetation, corn, winter and death, who offered himself as a sacrifice each year with the cutting down of the corn, and was reborn at the mid-winter solstice, as the sun god. the neolithic period also saw the development of shrines to the triple goddess who became associated with the three phases of the moon: waxing, full and waning. the moon provided one of the earliest ways by which people calculated time. since its cycles coincided with the female menstrual cycle, which ceased for nine moons if a women was pregnant, the moon became linked with the mysteries

hrodite aphrodite is the cretan and greek goddess of love and beauty. her name means 'born from the foam. she can be invoked for the gentle attraction of new love as well as for sexuality and passion (hence the term 'aphrodisiac. aphrodite is especially potent in candle and mirror spells, romance and for love rituals involving the sea. artemis artemis is the twin sister of apollo, the young greek sun god, and is goddess of chastity, virginity, the hunt, the moon and nature. although a virgin goddess, she also presides over childbirth. because of her connection with the hunt, she is altogether a more active goddess than aphrodite if you are seeking love or, perhaps, trying to encourage a reluctant lover of either sex or win love under difficult circumstances. she is perfect for outdoor love

lso innocent love and especially love in the springtime. her planetary associations mean she is the focus in all kinds of love rituals. as the evening star, venus takes on a warrior aspect and so can be invoked in fighting for one's lover or tough love in relationships. deities for power these deities may be invoked for strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase. apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other g

isle of man and goddess of the cycles of the solar and lunar year. even during the twentieth century, she was remembered on the hill of aine in ireland, by torchlight processions and burning straw at midsummer and also at the old corn harvest, lughnassadh, at the beginning of august. she is also linked with love, fertility and healing. ama-terasu omikami ama-terasu omikami is the ancient japanese sun goddess. her name means 'great august spirit shining in heaven' but she is also called shinmet 'divine radiance' and o-hiru-me-no-muchi 'great female possessor of noon. she is good for female-focused sun rituals and for ceremonial magick. helios the greek god helios, known to the romans as sol, was regarded as the sun itself. he ascended the heavens in a chariot drawn by winged snow-white hors

azzling splendour. his body is draped in shining gauze, whipped by the wind' he is especially associated with the life force and renewing health and energy. horus horus was the ancient egyptian sky god, represented as a falcon or a falcon-headed man. his eyes were the sun and moon and his wings could extend across the entire heavens. he was frequently associated with the morning aspect of ra, the sun god, and worshipped as re-harakhte. the son of isis and osiris, he is often depicted as an infant on his mother's lap and together the parents and child form a trinity. horus brings clarity of mind and purpose and the ability to seize upon an opportunity, and is effective for uncovering secrets, deception and illusion. lugh lugh, the celtic 'shining one, who gives his name to lughnassadh, celt

young man until he reached maturity at the full moon. with the waning phase, myesyats passed through old age and died with the old moon, being reborn three days later. as he was the restorer of life and health, parents would pray to him to take away their children's illnesses and family sorrows. other sources have a female version, myesytsa, a lovely moon maiden who was the consort of dazhbog the sun god, and became mother of the stars. myesyats brings healing and family harmony. selene selene is the greek goddess specially associated with the full moon, sometimes forming a triplicity with diana and hecate, the twin sister of helios the sun god. selene rises from the sea in her chariot drawn by white horses at night and rides high in the sky in her full moon. at the time of the full moon

crifice for future gain, but above all transformation. isis the egyptian goddess isis is the most powerful and frequently invoked goddess in formal magick. she is mother, healer and the faithful wife who annually restored her consort osiris to life, thus magically causing the nile to flood and fertility to return to the land. she is the patroness of magick and spell-casting, having tricked ra the sun god into giving her his secrets. some accounts say she was taught by thoth, god of wisdom and learning. her cult spread throughout the roman empire and she remained in mediterranean lands in her guise as the black madonna, holding her infant son horus, until the middle ages. she is sometimes represented as a vulture, in which form she appears on amulets (protective charms) with an ankh, the sy

hor is the ancient egyptian goddess of truth, wisdom, joy, love, music, art and dance and protectress of women. she is said to bring husbands or wives to those who call on her and she is also a powerful fertility goddess. also worshipped as a sky goddess, hathor is frequently shown wearing a sun disc held between the horns of a cow as a crown. she was once entrusted with the sacred eye of ra, the sun god and her consort, through which she could see all things. she carried a shield that could reflect back all things in their true light. from her shield she fashioned the first magical mirror. one side was endowed with the power of ra's eye to see everything, no matter how distant in miles or how far into the future. the other side showed the gazer in his or her true light and only a brave pe

ativity, promote inner stability and bring to the fore your hidden potential. silver candles are excellent for scrying, especially by the full moon, and for all magick involving the female life and for female fertility. silver candles are best used on a monday. gold gold is the colour of the sun and is associated with the solar deities, for example, the egyptian ra. in ancient greece, helios, the sun god, was worshipped each dawn as he emerged in the east and drove his chariot of winged horses around the sky before plunging into the ocean in the west at sunset. gold is potent for worldly achievement, wealth and recognition, for long life, ambitious schemes and money-making rituals that require an instant or substantial return. the colour of male potency and fertility, it represents animus

engthening your identity and individuality, for innovation of all kinds and new beginnings. it is potent also for energy, joy, health prosperity, spiritual awareness, self-confidence, for bringing wealth and prosperity if there is poverty and failure, for breaking a run of bad luck, and for all matters concerning fathers. i have listed various solar deities in chapter 4. though there are powerful sun goddesses, the sun's focus is mainly male/animus/ yang in both men and women. sun hour spells bring a surge of energy and vitality and so are excellent for personal empowerment and renewal. element: fire colour: gold crystals: amber, carnelian, diamond, clear crystal quartz, tiger's eye, topaz incenses: cloves, cinnamon, frankincense trees: bay, birch, laurel herbs and oils: juniper, rosemary

es in rituals at this time in southern and eastern europe and especially among romany communities. the green man, or green george, as he is sometimes known, was the spirit of plants, trees and vegetables, fruit and vegetation, the male spring deity, consort of the earth mother and an early forerunner of both robin hood and st george. the mother goddess in her maiden aspect mated with the ascended sun god or, in popular folk tradition the green man, so that the conceived infant would be reborn as the new sun at the next winter solstice, thus ensuring the wheel of the year continued to turn. in the christian church, 25 march is the feast of the annunciation of the blessed virgin mary when gabriel told her she was with child. the energies of this festival are good for cleansing the seas and a

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

stated, such as hydrogen and chlorine, sodium and oxygen, and so on. any reaction whatever, any phenomenon, is a phenomenon of "love, as you will understand when i come to explain to you the meaning of the word "point-event. but love has to be "under will" if it is to be properly directed. you must find your true will, and make all your actions subservient to the one great purpose. rahoor is the sun god; tahuti is the egyptian mercury; kephra is the sun at midnight. about your problems; what i have to do is to try to teach you to think clearly. you will be immensely stimulated by having all the useless trimmings stripped from your thinking apparatus. for instance, i don't think you know the first principles of logic. you apparently take up a more or less christian attitude, but at the sam

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

d see it not; though it is omnipresent; and we name it the root-balance((hadit, the root of yod) we listen for it, and hear it not, though it is omniscient; and we name it the silence((nuit, the root of he) we feel for it, and touch it not, though it is omnipotent; and we name it the concealed((ra-hoor-khuit, kether, the root of vau. weh note: this appears questionable, as the root of vau and the sun god both pertain to tipheret) these three virtues hath it, yet we cannot describe it as consisting of them; but, mingling them aright, we apprehend the one. 2. above, it shineth not; below, it is not dark. it moveth all continuously, without expression, returning into naught. it is the form of that which is beyond form; it is the image of the invisible; it is change, and without limit((cf. ain

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

o the mode studied by the esoteric astrologer. this is the path of reality as the other is the path of illusion. this carries the disciple around the path from commencement in aries to consummation in pisces. the present method is based upon the temporary truth that ordinary man is subject to the illusory nature of manifestation and "as he thinks, so is he" when, however, he becomes hercules, the sun god (or solar angel, he begins to reverse the process (again only apparently) and a definite reorientation takes place. the teachers on the inner side, therefore, study the horoscope only in its relation to the following three entities: 1. the horoscope of the planet itself as the expression of the life of the planetary logos. this involves the studying of the horoscope of the spirit of the pl

man who is born in the sign capricorn will reveal a great deal anent the human family because the capricornian can express all the worst of which a man is capable and all the best. it is a sign of extremes, and this because at the time there were only ten signs, capricorn was the first on the ordinary wheel and the last on the reversed wheel. this is obvious. esoterically, all world saviours and sun gods are born in capricorn but also the very worst type of man hard, materialistic, cruel, proud, selfishly ambitious and egoistic. the head rules the heart in such cases, whereas in the perfect example of the influences of capricorn, head and heart are perfectly balanced. capricorn rules the knees and this is symbolically true, for only when the capricornian subject learns to kneel in all hum

made parallel to the seven worlds of every planetary chain, and to the seven rivers of heaven and earth (s.d. ii. 640) 13 "the seven rays of the sun will expand at the final pralaya into seven suns and absorb the material of the whole universe (s.d. ii. 647) 14 "the moon is the mind and the sun is the understanding (s.d. ii. 675) 15 "the trinity is symbolised by the sun: a. the central spiritual sun god the father. b. the heart of the sun god the son. c. the physical sun god the holy spirit" 16 "it is in the sun, more than in any other heavenly body (i.e. in our solar system) that the unknown power placed the seat of its habitation (s.d. iii. 213- 396- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 17 "the central spiritual sun is mirrored by the

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

nvolved. the diseases of mystics are also in a different category. these latter diseases involve the brain of course, indicate mental imbalance, produce various types of heart disease and the diverse neurotic tendencies with which the saints of the world were so often afflicted. one thing i will add, however, for your encouragement. as the race, as a whole, becomes governed by the solar lord, the sun god, the soul, then the cycles of the moon will steadily lose their baleful effect and there will be a dying out of the various neurotic complaints and mental diseases today so prevalent. the time is not yet. it is not easy for me to give more information concerning the moon and its phases, as it constitutes one of the major mysteries to be revealed at the third initiation. on distribution of

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

that deepest, recognised, spiritual fact. the expression of this divine characteristic can be summed up in the words from the voice of the silence "compassion is no attribute. it is the law of laws eternal harmony, alaya's self; a shoreless, universal essence, the light of everlasting right and fitness of things, the law of love eternal" to this everlasting compassion the cyclic appearance of the sun gods of the ancient myths, the world saviours and the avatars bear witness and are the guarantee. the wesak festival at the time of this wesak festival, i would call your attention to the fact that the annual return of the buddha to bless his people everywhere and to convey the message of wisdom, light and love to humanity coming as he does from the very heart of deity itself is the outer evid

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

of rare design, which he proffered, in a silver sheath, to hercules. he strapped it on the thigh of hercules, bidding him keep it sharp and bright "it must divide and cut" said mercury "and with precision and acquired skill must move" and hercules, with joyous words, tendered his thanks. he had yet to prove his boasted skill. with blaring trumpets and the rush of stamping feet the chariot of the sun god flashed. apollo came and with his light and charm cheered hercules, giving him a bow, a bow of light. through nine wide open gates must the disciple pass before he had acquired sufficient skill to draw that bow. it took him all that time to prove himself the archer. yet when the gift was proffered, hercules took it, confident of power, a power as yet unproven. and thus he stood equipped. t

ipped, therefore, with vocation, spiritual energy and sensitivity, the gift of a sword that came from mercury, the messenger of the gods, is of profound significance, for the sword is the symbol of the mind which divides asunder, separates and cuts off. through its use, mercury added to the other gifts bestowed upon hercules that of mental analysis and discrimination. we are told that apollo, the sun god himself, became interested in hercules and pondered what he could give him that would serve him. finally he gave him a bow and arrow, symbolizing the capacity to go straight to the goal; symbol, too, of that piercing illumination, that shaft of light which could irradiate the darkness of his path, when needed. thus equipped, hercules stands ready for the great endeavor. and when all the gi

direction and right orientation have their beginning, and hercules, the newly-thinking disciple, begins his work. the key to this labor and to the significance of the sign is to be found in the words of an ancient indian scripture "man does not rightly know the way to the heavenly world, but the horse does rightly know it" in the very ancient days in india, the horse sacrifice was linked with the sun god, and, yearly, we are told, the sun god, as the zodiacal horse, was supposed by the vedic aryans to die to save all flesh. the sun chariot of apollo is depicted as drawn by horses, and the "princely sign of the ram" is closely connected with the horse symbology, a fact to which this first labor bears witness. reference to books on symbology will show us that the horse [35] stands for intell

f the cosmic christ upon the cross of matter, is tied up with the relationship (presumed from most ancient times to exist) between the stars of the pleiades and those of the great bear. these two groups of stars represent god, the macrocosm, whilst in gemini, castor and pollux were regarded as symbols of man, the microcosm. they were also called apollo and hercules: apollo, meaning the ruler, the sun god; and hercules "the one who comes to labor. they represent, therefore, the two aspects of man's nature, the soul and the personality, the spiritual man and the human being through which that spiritual entity is functioning: christ incarnate in matter, god working through form. castor was regarded as mortal and pollux as immortal. it is an interesting astronomical fact that the star, castor

ous and potent. cancer represents the mass form, the collective animal soul; capricorn represents the group, the universal soul. cancer was originally called the birth month of jesus. capricorn is, as we know, the birth 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 so

n, and driven by the urge of the christ life, he again merges himself with the mass and becomes identified with the group. he then becomes the world server in aquarius and has no sense of separateness. the lesson of the labor we have seen that the hind or doe, for which hercules sought, was sacred to artemis, the moon, but was also claimed by diana, the huntress of the heavens, and by apollo. the sun god. one of the things that is often forgotten by students of psychology and those who probe the unfolding consciousness [93] of man, is the fact that there are no sharp distinctions between the various aspects of man's nature, but that all are phases of one reality. the words instinct, intellect and intuition, are but varying aspects of consciousness and of response to environment and to the

ther and more elusive form, and for this hercules, the aspirant, sought. for a life cycle, we are told, he hunted. it was not the doe, the instinct, for which he looked; it was not the doe, the intellect, that was the object of his search. it was something else, and for this he spent a life cycle hunting. finally, we read, he captured it and carried it into the temple, where it was claimed by the sun god [94] who in the doe recognized the spiritual intuition, that extension of consciousness, that highly developed sense of awareness, which gives to the disciple a vision of new fields of contact and opens up for him a new world of being. we are told that the battle is still going on between apollo, the sun god, who knew that the doe was the intuition, diana, huntress of the heavens, who knew

w the lion with his bare hands? many of these old stories have held the true significance of their meaning unfathomed for thousands of years, and it is only in this day and generation that the true esoteric meaning can possibly emerge. the interesting fact about the period in which we now live is that it marks a unique development in racial unfoldment. there have always been manifestations of the sun gods, and this labor of hercules has again and again been enacted by a few here and a few there. every nation has produced highly evolved aspirants who track the lion of the personality down into the cave and there master it. but, relatively, in relation to the myriads of human units, they have constituted a very small minority. now we have a world full of aspirants; the coming generation in a

pirants; the coming generation in all nations will produce its thousands of disciples and already tens of thousands are seeking the way. people are now very individual, the world is full of personalities, and the time has come when the lion of the tribe of judah must prevail over the lion of the personal self. we are not alone in our struggle, as hercules was, but we form part of a great group of sun gods, who are struggling with the tests preparatory to initiation, and with the problems that will draw out the full powers of the soul. in capricorn we shall climb the mountain-top, and entering now, as we are, the aquarian cycle, the aspirants of the race are in a position to begin to learn the lesson of service and universal consciousness. when, in two thousand years' time, we begin to ente

pment of this gland you may find both emotional and mental deficiency. many endocrinologists and psychologists have expressed themselves along similar lines [the soul and its mechanism by alice a. bailey. lucis publishing company, new york, n.y, and the lucis press limited, london] it is in this cave that the lion of the developed personality or individuality has its lair, and it is here that the sun god, hercules, must conquer [111] for centuries the egyptians, and especially the hindus, have known of the chakras or force-centers in the etheric body. the discovery of the endocrine system shows corresponding physical glands in the same locations. one of these, the pituitary body, with its two lobes, symbolizes the cave with two openings, one of which hercules had to close before he could c

all illusions that impede the progress of spiritual life; the materiality that holds us down; the lower psychic nature that causes such destruction; fear along every possible line; the fear of failure which holds so many back from activity and breeds only inertia, the great fault, we are told, of aspirants and disciples. hercules grasped cerberus by the central head and conquered him, because all sun gods are occupied with the problems of humanity and because desolate they go down into hell alone to save humanity; hence all sun gods are born in the sign of capricorn (lecture by a.a.b, condensed and edited) epilogue the great swing in capricorn is epitomized by the keywords. upon the ordinary wheel these are "and the word said: let ambition rule and let the door stand wide" this is the key

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ebo, the oldest god of wisdom of babylonia and mesopotamia, was identical with the hindu budha and hermes- mercury of the greeks. a slight change in the sexes of the parents is the only alteration. as budha was the son of soma (the moon) in india, and of the wife of brihaspati (jupiter, so nebo was the son of zarpa-nitu (the moon deity) and of merodach, who had become jupiter, after having been a sun god. as mercury the planet, nebo was the "overseer" among the seven gods of the planets; and as the personification of the secret wisdom he was nabin, a seer and a prophet. the fact that moses is made to die and disappear on the mount sacred to nebo, shows him an initiate and a priest of that god under another name; for this god of wisdom was the great creative deity, and was worshipped as suc

f the higher ego, to which clings the spiritual aroma of all the lives or births[[vol. 2, page] 633 the "principles" in the egyptian metaphysics. pound unit of matter and spirit, which together act on seven different planes of being and consciousness. elsewhere, mr. g. massey adds "the seven souls (our "principles) are often mentioned in the egyptian texts. the moon god, taht- esmun, or the later sun god, expressed the seven nature-powers that were prior to himself, and were summed up in him as his seven souls (we say "principles. the seven stars in the hand of christ in the revelation, have the same significance" etc. and a still greater one, as these stars represent also the seven keys of the seven churches or the sodalian mysteries, cabalistically. however, we will not stop to discuss

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

ained in it is ripe, was the mystery god whose name was unpronounceable. it is phtah, however "he who opens" the opener of life and death* who proceeds from the egg of the world to begin his dual work (book of numbers) according to the greeks, the phantom form of the chemis (chemi, ancient egypt) which floats on the ethereal waves of the empyrean sphere, was called into being by horus-apollo, the sun god, who caused it to evolve out of the mundane egg* in the scandinavian cosmogony- placed by professor max muller, in point of time, as "far anterior to the vedas" in the poem of voluspa (the song of the prophetess, the mundane egg is again discovered in the phantom-germ of the universe, which is represented as lying in the ginnungagap- the cup of illusion (maya) the boundless and void abyss

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

ban alphabet is depicted in figure 3.9.1 will speak more on this alphabet, and several others, in the later lesson on charms and talismans. 38/ auckland's complete book of witchcraft. to know a person's name is to have a hold, a power, over them. for to know the name is to be able to conjure with it. sir james frazer tells the story of isis obtaining the most secret name of ra, the great egyptian sun god, so that she might use it to make herself a goddess. she fashioned a serpent from the spittle ofra, and the earth on which it fell, and laid it in his path so that it bit him. he cried out for help from 'the children of the gods with healing words and understanding lips, whose power reacheth to heaven. and isis came with her craft, whose mouth is full of the breath of life, whose spells ch

s performed. the bell is rung three times. covener "cease all sorrows" covener "cease all strife" covener "this day is for living" covener "for living this life" priest places horned helmet on his head and stands in front of altar. he takes extra candle, lights it from regular altar candle and then raises it high in his right hand. coveners raise both hands high and cry: all "hail, lord! hail the sun god! hail the light" while priest remains in the center, priestess goes to stand beside the cauldron. coveners join hands and dance around the circle, deosil. as they move around, priestess sprinkles them with water from the cauldron as they pass. all (including priest and priestess) sing: all "comes the lord of the greenwood, green wood, the lord of the greenwood by tara buckland '1985 see ap

"blessed are the gods who turn the mighty wheel" covener "welcome, thrice welcome, to yule; the turning point of winter is upon us" covener "here is an end to the solar year" lesson seven: meditation, dreams and the minor sabbats 193 covener "but here, too, is a new beginning" priestess "brothers, sisters, friends. let us show our love by sending forth our power and our strength to he who is the sun god. at this turning of the year's tide, let us join our energies with his, that he may be reborn to ascend once more unto his rightful place" coveners and priestess join hands and circle, deosil, chanting: all "turn, turn, turn the wheel. round and round; around it goes. the flame that died, it now doth heal. round and round; around it goes. return, return, return to life. round and round; ar

h i knew. yet was i of star-seed. on the tail of a comet i rent the velvet darkness of everlasting light. ablaze with glory, i was reborn, to start again the perennial cycle of guardianship that evermore drives me through death and birth alike. with the companionship of our lady i face into the wind, knowing that we fly upon wings of time, through timeless worlds, together" covener "all hail, the sun god" all "all hail, the sun god* covener "all hail the death and birth of yule" all "all hail" bell is rung seven times. priest and priestess join hands and lead coveners in a dance about the circle. bell is rung three times. then shall follow the ceremony of cakes and ale. after that the clearing of the temple is performed so that there is plenty of room for fun, games and entertainment. the

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2003. j.b. hare, redactor. this text is in the public domain. these files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact. next: note sacred texts egypt ehh index vol. i vol. ii vol. iii the book of am-tuat by e. a. wallis budge [1905] this book is an ancient egyptian cosmological treatise which describes the tuat, the underworld that the boat of the sun god, ra, traverses during the night hours. each chapter deals with one of the twelve hours of the night. a hallucinogenic travelogue of the netherworld, this extensively illustrated book depicts hundreds of gods and goddesses that appear nowhere else in the literature. title page note contents the book am-tuat: the title of the work chapter i: the first division of the tuat, which is called ne

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

neolithic period, which began around 7500 bc and lasted until about 5500 bc, the hunter-gatherer culture had given way to the development of agriculture, and the god evolved into the son-consort of the earth mother. he was the god of vegetation, corn, winter and death, who offered himself as a sacrifice each year with the cutting down of the corn, and was reborn at the mid-winter solstice, as the sun god. the neolithic period also saw the development of shrines to the triple goddess who became associated with the three phases of the moon: waxing, full and waning. the moon provided one of the earliest ways by which people calculated time. since its cycles coincided with the female menstrual cycle, which ceased for nine moons if a women was pregnant, the moon became linked with the mysteries

hrodite aphrodite is the cretan and greek goddess of love and beauty. her name means 'born from the foam. she can be invoked for the gentle attraction of new love as well as for sexuality and passion (hence the term 'aphrodisiac. aphrodite is especially potent in candle and mirror spells, romance and for love rituals involving the sea. artemis artemis is the twin sister of apollo, the young greek sun god, and is goddess of chastity, virginity, the hunt, the moon and nature. although a virgin goddess, she also presides over childbirth. because of her connection with the hunt, she is altogether a more active goddess than aphrodite if you are seeking love or, perhaps, trying to encourage a reluctant lover of either sex or win love under difficult circumstances. she is perfect for outdoor love

in the springtime. her planetary associations mean she is the focus in all kinds of love rituals. as the evening star, venus takes on a warrior aspect and so can be invoked in fighting for one's lover or tough love in relationships. deities for power these deities may be invoked for strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase [insert pic p061- seite 33 wicca01.txt apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other g

isle of man and goddess of the cycles of the solar and lunar year. even during the twentieth century, she was remembered on the hill of aine in ireland, by torchlight processions and burning straw at midsummer and also at the old corn harvest, lughnassadh, at the beginning of august. she is also linked with love, fertility and healing. ama-terasu omikami ama-terasu omikami is the ancient japanese sun goddess. her name means 'great august spirit shining in heaven' but she is also called shinmet 'divine radiance' and o-hiru-me-no-muchi 'great female possessor of noon. she is good for female-focused sun rituals and for ceremonial magick. helios the greek god helios, known to the romans as sol, was regarded as the sun itself. he ascended the heavens in a chariot drawn by winged snow-white hors

azzling splendour. his body is draped in shining gauze, whipped by the wind' he is especially associated with the life force and renewing health and energy. horus horus was the ancient egyptian sky god, represented as a falcon or a falcon-headed man. his eyes were the sun and moon and his wings could extend across the entire heavens. he was frequently associated with the morning aspect of ra, the sun god, and worshipped as re-harakhte. the son of isis and osiris, he is often depicted as an infant on his mother's lap and together the parents and child form a trinity. horus brings clarity of mind and purpose and the ability to seize upon an opportunity, and is effective for uncovering secrets, deception and illusion. lugh lugh, the celtic 'shining one, who gives his name to lughnassadh, celt

young man until he reached maturity at the full moon. with the waning phase, myesyats passed through old age and died with the old moon, being reborn three days later. as he was the restorer of life and health, parents would pray to him to take away their children's illnesses and family sorrows. other sources have a female version, myesytsa, a lovely moon maiden who was the consort of dazhbog the sun god, and became mother of the stars. myesyats brings healing and family harmony. selene selene is the greek goddess specially associated with the full moon, sometimes forming a triplicity with diana and hecate, the twin sister of helios the sun god. selene rises from the sea in her chariot drawn by white horses at night and rides high in the sky in her full moon. at the time of the full moon

in, but above all transformation. isis the egyptian goddess isis is the most powerful and frequently invoked goddess in formal magick. she is mother, healer and the faithful wife who annually restored seite 36 wicca01.txt her consort osiris to life, thus magically causing the nile to flood and fertility to return to the land. she is the patroness of magick and spell-casting, having tricked ra the sun god into giving her his secrets. some accounts say she was taught by thoth, god of wisdom and learning. her cult spread throughout the roman empire and she remained in mediterranean lands in her guise as the black madonna, holding her infant son horus, until the middle ages. she is sometimes represented as a vulture, in which form she appears on amulets (protective charms) with an ankh, the sy

hor is the ancient egyptian goddess of truth, wisdom, joy, love, music, art and dance and protectress of women. she is said to bring husbands or wives to those who call on her and she is also a powerful fertility goddess. also worshipped as a sky goddess, hathor is frequently shown wearing a sun disc held between the horns of a cow as a crown. she was once entrusted with the sacred eye of ra, the sun god and her consort, through which she could see all things. she carried a shield that could reflect back all things in their true light. from her shield she fashioned the first magical mirror. one side was endowed with the power of ra's eye to see everything, no matter how distant in miles or how far into the future. the other side showed the gazer in his or her true light and only a brave pe

ativity, promote inner stability and bring to the fore your hidden potential. silver candles are excellent for scrying, especially by the full moon, and for all magick involving the female life and for female fertility. silver candles are best used on a monday. gold gold is the colour of the sun and is associated with the solar deities, for example, the egyptian ra. in ancient greece, helios, the sun god, was worshipped each dawn as he emerged in the east and drove his chariot of winged horses around the sky before plunging into the ocean in the west at sunset. gold is potent for worldly achievement, wealth and recognition, for long life, ambitious schemes and money-making rituals that require an instant or substantial return. the colour of male potency and fertility, it represents animus

engthening your identity and individuality, for innovation of all kinds and new beginnings. it is potent also for energy, joy, health prosperity, spiritual awareness, self-confidence, for bringing wealth and prosperity if there is poverty and failure, for breaking a run of bad luck, and for all matters concerning fathers. i have listed various solar deities in chapter 4. though there are powerful sun goddesses, the sun's focus is mainly male/animus/ yang in both men and women. sun hour spells bring a surge of energy and vitality and so are excellent for personal empowerment and renewal. element: fire colour: gold crystals: amber, carnelian, diamond, clear crystal quartz, tiger's eye, topaz incenses: cloves, cinnamon, frankincense trees: bay, birch, laurel herbs and oils: juniper, rosemary

es in rituals at this time in southern and eastern europe and especially among romany communities. the green man, or green george, as he is sometimes known, was the spirit of plants, trees and vegetables, fruit and vegetation, the male spring deity, consort of the earth mother and an early forerunner of both robin hood and st george. the mother goddess in her maiden aspect mated with the ascended sun god or, in popular folk tradition the green man, so that the conceived infant would be reborn as the new sun at the next winter solstice, thus ensuring the wheel of the year continued to turn. in the christian church, 25 march is the feast of the annunciation of the blessed virgin mary when gabriel told her she was with child. the energies of this festival are good for cleansing the seas and a

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s the fusang tree, whose wondrous branches stretched up toward the heavens and out across the island for hundreds of miles. scattered among its masses of dark green foliage, fragrant hibiscus flowers burst into flaming shades of magenta, crimson, and violet. among the glossy leaves of the fusang tree lived ten naughty suns. they were left alone to play in paradise, neglected by their parents, the sun god dijun and the sun goddess shiho. each day, shiho left heaven in a pearl-shell chariot drawn by six fiery young dragons and passed by the fusang tree. the suns took turns clambering to the treetop to leap into the chariot and make the rounds with their mother as she roared by. it was the job of each working sun, as the goddess shiho wheeled her chariot across the sky, to shed light and warm

r heat scorched the soil, and rivers dried up to a trickle. crops withered, and many people died of thirst across the land. there was nothing to eat except water spinach, which mercifully grew in the mud of their fields. monsters appeared in the seas and skies to snatch the people from their homes. the people prayed to the gods night and day for deliverance. when their prayers finally reached the sun god dijun, he became very angry at his sons selfishness and laziness. dijun called the best marksman, the grand archer yi, before him. the sun god gave yi ten magic arrows. then he ordered yi to discipline his naughty sons. when the grand archer yi saw all the dead creatures on the parched earth, he was filled with sadness, for he was a mortal man. yi called out to the suns and ordered them to

miles. it had fragrant magenta, crimson, and violet flowers and glossy leaves. it was the home of the ten suns. q: what powers did the suns possess? a: they warmed the earth and gave the people light. q: what harm could the suns do? a: when they failed to pay attention to their duties, they unleashed too much heat and light, scorching the earth and drying up the rivers. q: what job did dijun the sun god ask the grand archer yi to do? a: dijun asked the grand archer to discipline his unruly sons. q: why did the suns laugh at the grand archer yi? a: they considered him a lowly court servant, whereas they were children of the gods. q: why was the last sun spared? a: the peasants needed one sun remaining to give them light and warmth. 70 expert commentary the archer yi was an important charac

lieved in one sun, conquered the shang, the myth lost its earlier meaning. people continued to believe in ten suns which rose in sequence from the branches of the mulberry [fusang] tree in outlying regions. in the central states, this tradition was known but the ten suns were confined to the mythical past by the story that one day all of them came out at once and nine were shot by archer yi.3 the sun god dijun plays only a small role in chinese mythology. professor anne birrell surmises [t]he myth of the flood and its control was more nearly relevant to the lives of the people than the less real myth of the unnatural phenomenon of solar disaster.4 dijun s wife shiho plays a more prominent part in her position as mother of the suns. scholar anthony christie clarifies: both sun and moon are

dia; nali (india; batillia acuatica (latin america).10 chinese mythology 72 7 the moon goddess introduction the moon goddess is a popular folk tale that dates from the tang dynasty (a.d. 618 906).1 each province in china has its own version of her story. she is connected to the mid-autumn festival, a harvest celebration that occurs in mid-september. when the archer yi shot down the nine suns, the sun god dijun banished him. dijun had expected yi merely to discipline, not to kill, his sons. in addition to the archer yi, dijun also banished yi s goddess wife, chang-o, to the earth below. the banishment suited yi because he was regarded as a hero on earth, but yi s wife was lonely for her sister goddesses and missed the luxuries of heaven. chang-o was also angry at her husband for jeopardizin

uted. the dosage was so weak, she reasoned, that the archer would probably never recover his full strength by drinking his portion, and she would probably never regain her full beauty by drinking hers. furthermore, they might never even reach heaven. with these fears in mind, the goddess developed a plan. she would drink both of their portions so that she could return to heaven first, and beg the sun god to forgive her husband for his brashness in having shot down the nine suns. then she and her sister goddesses could borrow some sky dragons to visit the queen mother of the western paradise. there, they would persuade her to mix up another dose of the elixir solely for the archer so he could join his wife in heaven. as she swallowed the elixir, chang-o felt its bitterness burn her throat

and monsters when the gods could not be bothered. therefore, once a year, the gods grant the archer the right to ascend to the skies to be with his wife. on that one night, the harvest moon shines the brightest and fullest of the year, reflecting the archer yi s love for chang-o. the moon goddess 79 questions and answers q: why was the grand archer yi banished from heaven to live on earth? a: the sun god dijun was angry at him for shooting down and killing the nine suns. q: why did chang-o want to return to the stars? a: she missed her goddess sisters and the luxurious life of heaven. she did not like to feel her body dying on earth, and wanted to regain her youth and beauty. q: what warning did the queen mother of the western paradise give to yi? a: she warned the archer yi to drink the e

aven. she did not like to feel her body dying on earth, and wanted to regain her youth and beauty. q: what warning did the queen mother of the western paradise give to yi? a: she warned the archer yi to drink the elixir on a night that was clear, or the drinker would be trapped halfway between the earth and heaven. q: what was chang-o s plan upon her return to heaven? a: chang-o wanted to ask the sun god to forgive her husband. then she would travel with her sister goddesses to obtain another dose of the elixir for yi so that he could rejoin her in heaven. q: why didn t chang-o obey the warning? a: she was too impatient to wait for a clear night. she knew the elixir was too weak to allow both her and her husband to return to the heavens. she thought she had a better plan. q: what happened

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dess, isis, is a symbol of sirius in egyptian myth. robert temple suggests in the sirius mystery that isis is sirius and the "sister-goddess" of isis, nephthys, represents sirius b. isis was said to be visible and nephthys invisible, just like sirius a and b. another sirius symbol was anubis (anpu to the egyptians, the one portrayed as the dog or jackal-headed god and associated with osiris, the "sun god" of egypt.25 there was also a goddess called anukis who sails in a celestial boat with sothis and satis, again the three stars of sirius perhaps because they are associated with goddesses, and sottis was the greek term for sirius. the symbol of the dog or wolf is often found in cults that worship the serpent or reptilians. credo mutwa, the zulu shaman, says that their legends call sirius t

haru, the egyptian son of god and a mirror of the much later "jesus, came from the sumerian word, hu or ha, meaning hawk. the hawk or sun-hawk was a sumerian symbol for the sun, as we see above in sargon's very title. the heru of the pygmy people, hul-kin of the indians, helios of the greeks, and hurki of the akkadian/chaldeans of mesopotamia probably come from the same source and all relate to a sun god of the horus mould. in the same way, the mayans of central america had a god called hurakan and the tibetans had the deity, heruka, which later evolved into the herakles and hercules of the greeks, a society that was founded on the sumerian (atlantean) knowledge and beliefs. hercules fought a shape-shifting "river god" called achelous. the word hurricane can be traced to the same "storm go

men of renown" in the genesis passage should read, from its sumerian origin "men of the sky vehicles. this puts rather a different complexion on the whole story and makes a great deal more sense of it. the reference to "heroes of old" is also relevant. the word hero comes from the egyptian term, heru, which, according to researcher wallis budge, was "applied to the king as a representative of the sun god on earth".11 the precise meaning was "a human being who was neither a god nor a daemon".12 the term has the inference of a crossbreed race. the writer homer (8th-9th century bc) wrote that "the heroes were exalted above the race of common men. the poet, pindar (518-438bc- a very relevant name for readers of the biggest secret- used the term, hero/heru, to describe a race "between gods and

. the poet, pindar (518-438bc- a very relevant name for readers of the biggest secret- used the term, hero/heru, to describe a race "between gods and men. at this moment 1 have the song playing in my head that goes "search for the hero inside yourself! it is extremely likely that horus or haru, the egyptian son of god and a mirror of the much later "jesus, came from the term heru, which means the sun god's representative on earth, the hybrid or aryan race. there is also the sumerian word, hu or ha, meaning hawk, and the hawk or sun-hawk was a sumerian symbol for the sun.13 the term nibiri or nebiru, the alleged home planet of the anunnaki according to the tablets, is derived from the word found in egypt, neb-heru, according to researcher and author, robert temple.14 he says that neb-heru i

his son canaan. could the big deal here be that ham saw something about noah's body that indicated he was a child of the gods? it appears that some of the hybrids this far back in history still had clear reptilian features, especially some sort of scaly skin on the chest. in the hindu classic, the mahabharata, a "demi-god" hybrid called kama was born from the union between an earth woman and the sun god, surya. the child is described as being "clad in a coat of armour, like a divine being. by the time of "noah, just before the final atlantis cataclysm, humans were rebelling against the control of the anunnaki-nefilim and those of the hybrid bloodline were seriously unpopular. they were said to wear the "badge of shame, which could have been a patch of reptilian skin, particularly on the c

h (the origin of the "noah" story, and sarpa, a sanskrit term for the indian reptilian "gods, the nagas. the jewish talmud forbids the depiction of the dragon, as it does the sun and the moon, both symbols of major anunnaki figures. a fragment of the hebrew dead sea scrolls, translated by the hebrew scholar, robert eisenman, includes a description of a "watcher" known as belial (an origin of the "sun gods" bel and baal. it calls him the "prince of darkness" and the "king of evil" and he is described as a being of terrible appearance."with a visage like a viper. the serving the dragon: the past 115 researcher and channelled w.t. samsel, writes in the atlantis connection that the force behind the spiritual demise of atlantis was known as the sons of belial. interestingly, one of the key coll

with modern experience and reports. they are known as the emerald tablets of thoth, who was a deity of the egyptians. it is claimed that they date back 36,000 years and were written by thoth, an "atlantean priest-king" who, it is said, founded a colony in egypt. his tablets, the story goes, were taken to south america by egyptian "pyramid priests" and eventually placed under a mayan temple to the sun god in the yucatan, mexico. the translator of these tablets, who calls himself "doreal (maurice doreal, claims to have recovered them and completed the translations in 1925. but only much later was he given "permission" for part of them to be published, he says. you can read the whole tale and the content of the tablets on this website: http//crystalinks.com/emerald.html. there is also a book

docia under the name "st george of the red cross" and thus we have the origin of st george of cappadocia, later of england.32 this was thor/indara yet again, says waddell, and so was st andrew, the patron saint of scotland, which came from andvara or andvari, another name for thor. the story of george defeating the dragon can be found all over the world in various forms. in egypt "george" was the sun god, ra (thor/indara, says waddell; in india it was indra (thor/indara; and in the hebrew old testament, it was adam, under his title, la or jah, who slayed the serpent" thor or "goer (george) killed el, the matriarch of the serpent cult, the edda tells us, and she was symbolised as the "serpent-dragon. thus "george (thor) defeated "the dragon (el. the story of george and the dragon symbolises

serpent worship? balder was symbolised as a bull or steer and became the "steer god" of israel or isra- el. he is referred to in the edda as the "steer of eden. balder is also called "the young hydra. in greek mythology, the hydra is a nine-headed serpent monster with poisonous breath and when one head was severed, two would grow in its place. it was killed in the second of the 12 labours of the sun god, hercules. the edda says that thor/ indara/adam called his cappadocian capital, himin or "heaven" and that balder("abel) of the serpent cult went to thor's banqueting hall in himin/heaven. there he began a riotous quarrel and insulted eve. with this, balder of the serpent cult was ejected by gunn or "cain" or miok (michael, the son of eve and adam. this is the origin, waddell says, of st m

figures 174 children of the matrix at the washington temple has a cobra entwined around her neck. on the neck of the other one is the image of a woman, symbolic, says shaw, of fertility and procreation.12 these are some of the gifts associated with goddesses like artemis/diana. behind the row of pillars at the front of the building is a massive depiction of the rising sun- horus or, perhaps, the sun goddess known as sol. around this sun are six large golden snakes and inside this freemasonic holy-ofholies the serpent theme continues. shaw reports..the thing that is most noticeable is the way the walls are decorated with serpents. there are all kinds, some very long and large. many of the scottish rite degrees include the representation of serpents and i recognised them among those decorat

t represents deity and still later that it means geometry 176 children of the matrix figures 29 and 30: the freemasonic square and compass represent the male impregnating the female to continue the bloodline and the same symbolism can be seen in the v and a crest of queen victoria and her high-masonic husband, prince albert but shaw explains that it really means the male generative principle, the sun god or phallus. again, that is one level of its meaning. but to the illuminati the g represents the generative principle of expanding and protecting their bloodlines. the point within the circle also represents the impregnation of the female (circle) and with the male (point. on one level this is another sun symbol and can be found on the grave of president kennedy as a flame and circle, but t

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as we journey through history to the present day. it does, however, make thedecoding of history a little more complex because the ancients would constantly usesun and astrological symbolism in their stories and some of the names for their godswould be used to symbolise the sun and the planets. working out what is literal andwhat is symbolic is a considerable challenge. i also think that the term sun god hasbeen used to symbolise the extraterrestrials and their crossbreeds, who were said in theancient texts to have faces which shone like the sun- the shining ones. imagine thepower you would have to advance an agenda and manipulate the human race if youknew the cycles of energy from the sun and other planets and how they were likely toaffect human consciousness. you would know when people w

reated them. the hero of the freemason secret society to this day is themythical hiram abif, the so-called builder of king solomons temple. abif is supposedto have been a phoenician. the grandfather of the famous egyptian pharaoh akhenaten,the father of tutankhamen, was a phoenician high priest. the phoenix, the mythicalbird of egypt, was in fact the sun bird of the phoenicians, the emblem of the sun god,bil or bel, and as it has been later symbolised, a peacock or an eagle.29 evidence hasemerged in recent years about pyramids on mars, when the nasa scientists, vincentdipietro and gregory molenaar, discovered six enormous pyramids like those in egyptin the cydonia region of mars.30 it would make sense that the same martian race withthe same knowledge would also build pyramids when they cam

n scotland and, figure 11, onthe robe of a phoenician high priestess. 68the sanskrit word, svasti, which means well-being, and it was considered a positivesymbol until the nazis turned it around and made it a symbol of destruction. l. a.waddell translated the markings on another stone in scotland, the newton stone in thedumfries and galloway region, to be phoenician-hittite and dedicated to their sun god,bel or bil. the classic british symbol of britannia comes from the phoenician goddess,barati. look at how the phoenicians depicted barati and how the british depictbritannia in figure 12! one of the major centres of the aryan-hittite-phoenicians wascilicia in asia minor and here barati was worshipped as perathea and later diana. sodiana and britannia originatefrom the same source. baratiwa

ecause of their height. in his1833 book, phoenician ireland, joachim de villeneuve, insisted that irish druidswere the snake priests of the phoenician seafarers. this would certainly explain theorigin of the balor of the evil eye, the irish version of the north african god baal,and the celebration in may of the baal ritual, beltane. the evil eye relates to thehypnotic stare of the reptilians. the sun god of the phoenicians was bel or bil andlater became known by the canaanites and babylonians as baal- nimrod. thedruids became the carriers of the mystery school tradition in britain, ireland andfrance or britannia, eire and gaul as they were then called, and some of thembecame deeply corrupted by the influence of the reptile-human bloodlines of thebabylonian brotherhood which established con

efore, 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 theybelieved this would appease the gods, most notably the sun god, and ensure abundantharvests. in other words they believed that the blood of the lamb would mean that theirsins would be 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

son of god who died so oursins could be forgiven. but you will find exactly the same claims for a stream of godsin the ancient world long before the name of jesus was even heard of. indeed, weknow his name wasnt jesus because thats a greek translation of a hebrew name. theterm son of god would seem to originate at least as far back as the aryan gothic kingsof cilicia who took the title son of the sun god, a tradition adopted by the pharaohsof egypt.1 to many in the new age, jesus is sananda, a high initiate of some spiritualhierarchy who incarnated to infuse the earth with the christ energy. or, depending onwho you talk to, he was an extraterrestrial on a similar mission. to others he wasclaiming to be the king of the jews by right of his king david bloodline. but didjesus actually exist?

at one point this doctrine could be found in almost every part of europe. the presentsite of the v atican in rome was a sacred place for the followers of mithra, and hisimage and symbols have been found cut into rocks and stone tablets throughout thewestern provinces of the former roman domain, including germany, france andbritain. christianity and the roman church were based on the persian-roman sun godcalled mithra (nimrod, who has an earlier equivalent in india called mitra. tammuz oradonis (lord, who was revered in babylonia and syria, was said to have been born atmidnight on december 24th. these were also sons of god.horus was the the son of god in egypt. he was derived from the babyloniantammuz and, in turn, provided another blueprint for the later jesus. theconnections are devastati

dha,quetzalcoatl and others, will also be there. the star at the birth ofjesus is another multideity story and goes back at least to thebabylonian tale of nimrod who, in a dream, saw a brilliant starrising above the horizon. the soothsayers told him that this foretoldthe birth of a child who would become a great prince.24 its allrecycling. jesus is a myth man.the invented character of jesus was a sun god, symbolic ofgods sun. the light of the world. this very phrase, light of theworld, was used by the aryan-phoenicians to symbolise the onetrue god thousands of years before the alleged birth of abraham, thequite wrongly named creator of the one-god concept.25 they alsosymbolised the one true god, the sun, with the one true cross 26 thechristians portray jesus with a halo around his head and

ld, was used by the aryan-phoenicians to symbolise the onetrue god thousands of years before the alleged birth of abraham, thequite wrongly named creator of the one-god concept.25 they alsosymbolised the one true god, the sun, with the one true cross 26 thechristians portray jesus with a halo around his head and thatsexactly how the phoenicians depicted the rays of the sun around thehead of their sun god, bel or bil. this can be seen on a phoenicianstone dating to about the 4th centurv bc (see figure 14. the sunwas at the heart of the egyptian religion and at noon when the sunwas at the peak of its daily journey, they prayed to the mosthigh. at this time, they said the sun was going about his fatherswork in the temple. the virgin mothers associated with all of thesesun gods were different

who ruled theuniverse. this was in line with the laws of the mystery schools. the essenes-therapeutae practised rituals very similar to the later christian baptism and theymarked the foreheads of initiates with a cross. this being the symbol indicated in theold testament book of ezekiel for enlightened (or illuminated) ones and also used forinitiations into the mysteries of mithra and other such sun god figures. the essenesviewed natural bodily functions, including sex, with disgust and in that sense they were figure 17: the jewish priest with themushroom cap to symbolise the importanceof magic hallucinogenic mushrooms in theirrituals.97an excellent forerunner of the roman church which was to absorb many of their beliefs,terms and practises. two of the dead sea scrolls, one in hebrew, the

that the vineyard of the lord of hosts is the house of israel and the menof judah his pleasant plant40 the bloodline symbolised as the vine is not, i wouldstrongly suggest, the bloodline of king david at all. he didnt exist for a start, whichconfirms the point rather conclusively. the symbolism of the vine can once again betraced back to babylon and egypt. in the mystery schools of greece, their sun godsdionysus and bacchus, were the patron gods of the vineyard.41 what do grapes dependupon to grow? the sun. the vine and the bloodline of jesus weaved in among thatsun symbolism is one of the royal and priestly bloodlines which lead back to thereptilians, the anunnaki. the new testament features the wedding at cana, but thiswas not a real wedding. it is again symbolic of the sun and the eart

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0 west of the capitol. the washington monument(left) is the most important presidential monument to the occultist, because it is an obelisk set inside a circle. what, you are probably saying, is an obelisk? an obelisk is a tall, four-sided stone pillar tapering toward a pyramidal top. the obelisk is critically important to the occultist because they believe that the spirit of the ancient egyptian sun god, ra, resided in the obelisk. thus, the obelisk represents the very presence of the sun god, whom the bible calls satan! there are only three major obelisks in the world today, and two of them are in the united states. according to epperson in his book "the new world order, the first major obelisk was constructed in st. peter's square in rome, and is so placed that every pope who addresses

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ecame a form of set and vise versa. the demonic beasts, serpents and such located and dwelling deep in the waters were considered of set and therefore part of his essence. similarly anything with red was often considered to be of set, as red was the color commonly associated with fire and aggression. apep and his/its brood have been referred to as children of rebellion 2 and were opponents to the sun god. while set has been considered for being a beneficial god, his darker side lays foundations of power and awe, from which lived on even beyond his name being denounced and demonized. the names of the form of set as apep are indeed many, some of which are saatet-ta (darkener of the earth, hau-hra (backward face, tutu (doubly evil one, hemhemti (devourer, all of which describe the storm demon

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trated, to egypt, hoping to find further evidence of the anunnaki. however, he concluded that the egyptian myths did not support sitchin s thesis; rather, they suggested what he came to call the exploded planet hypothesis. the gods were not extraterrestrial beings, they were meteors that rained down as meteorites. the egyptian deities were the personifications of celestial powers, such as ra, the sun god. the ancient mythological references to the gods descending referred to the coming of fragments of the exploded planet. he also concluded that the sumerian myths also referred to the exploded planet. this exploded planet hypothesis became the subject of alford s second book, the phoenix solution (1998. the phoenix solution alienated alford from sitchin s readers, though he has insisted tha

hes. but in most countries they were thought to descend from the sky and were therefore kept to preserve people and cattle from lightning. certain roots, which have the shape of snakes, were kept by malays to protect them against snakebite. this correspondence of root to animal likeness is known as the doctrine of signatures. the celts used many kinds of amulets, such as the symbolic wheel of the sun god found frequently in france and great britain, pebbles, amulets of the teeth of the wild boar, and pieces of amber. the well-known serpent s egg of the druids was also probably an amulet of the priests. indian amulets are numerous, and in buddhist countries their use was universal, especially where that religion had degenerated. in northern buddhist countries, it was common to wear an amule

the worm. the worm was vampire-like and absorbed the blood of victims, but specialized in gums. the legend relates that the worm came into existence as follows: anu created the heavens, the heavens created the earth, the earth created the rivers, and the rivers created the canals, then the canals created marshes, and the marshes created the worm. in due time the worm appeared before shamash, the sun god, and ea, god of the deep, weeping and hungry. what will you give me to eat and drink? it cried. the gods promised that it would get dried bones and scented wood. the worm realized that this was the food of death, and answered: what are dry bones to me? set me upon the gums that i may drink the blood of the teeth and take away the strength of the gums. when the worm heard this legend repeat

he formorians, usually called balor of the evil eye. it was believed that he was able to destroy by means of an angry glance. when his eyelid became heavy with years, it is said that he had it raised by means of ropes and pulleys so that he might continue to make encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. balor 149 use of his magic gift. he was eventually killed by his grandson, lugh, the sun god and son of his daughter birog, who crept near him one day when his eyelid had drooped momentarily and slew him with a great stone, sinking it through his eye and brain. baltazo one of the demons supposed to have possessed a young woman of laon, france, in the year 1566. he went to dine with her husband under the pretext of freeing her from demonic possession, which he did not accomplish. i

reland. there are many ancient superstitions about bees. in biblical times they were thought to originate in the bodies of dead cattle, hence the riddle by samson in judges 14:8, out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. in fact, the skeletonized rib cage skeleton of dead cattle provided a natural beehive. in egyptian mythology, bees arose from the tears of the sun god ra, while a breton superstition said they came from the tears of christ on the cross. in hindu mythology, bees formed the bowstring of kama, the indian cupid. popular folklore claimed that bee stings aided arthritis and rheumatism sufferers and recently bee venom has been revived as a possible treatment for multiple sclerosis. in rural districts all over the world, the old custom of tellin

ad the druid and mother of cuchulain. dectera and 50 other maidens disappeared from the court of conor mac nessa. three years later, while pursuing a flock of birds that were spoiling the crops, the king and courtiers came upon a magnificent palace inhabited by a youth of noble mien, a beautiful woman, and 50 maidens. these were recognized as dectera and her companions, and the youth as lugh, the sun god. conor summoned dectera to him, but she sent him instead her newborn son, cuchulain. dee, john (1527.1608) renowned sixteenth-century mathematician and astrologer most remembered for his numerous experiments with crystal gazing. he was also a scholar, a fellow of trinity college, cambridge, england, and the author of 49 books on scientific subjects. his delving into the occult made him a p

were forbidden to tell her that such beings as men existed. balor stole a magic cow from kian, who in revenge obtained access, disguised as a woman, to ethlinn. they had three children, whom balor ordered to be drowned. but one of them fell from the napkin in which they were being taken to their doom and was carried off by the druidess birog to its father, kian. this child became lugh, the great sun god, etain encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 520 who eventually fulfilled the prophecy and killed his grandfather balor. etteilla (ca. 1790) an eighteenth-century student of the tarot. by profession he was a hairdresser, his true name being alliette, but on entering upon his occult studies he changed his name to read backward: etteilla. he had little education and was ill-acqu

is story is true or not, hopkins retired to manningtree, essex, in 1646 and died of tuberculosis within a year. sources: kittredge, george lyman. witchcraft in old and new england. new york: atheneum, 1972. robbins, russell hope. the encyclopedia of witchcraft and demonology. new york: crown publishers, 1959. horbehutet the ancient egyptian winged disk, symbol of a solar deity who accompanied the sun god ra on his daily journey across egypt to protect him from evil. his symbol was placed over the gates and doors of temples to protect them from malign influences. horbiger, hans (1860.1931) german engineer who developed an eccentric cosmology of cosmic ice. according to horbiger, space is filled with cosmic ice, a basic material from which stellar systems are generated encyclopedia of occult

f persia and the pigskin of the king of greece, which, if laid on a patient, would heal him of his wound or cure him of his sickness. thus equipped, lugh entered the battle of moytura against the fo- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. lugh 941 morians, and by hurling a stone that pierced through the eye to the brain of balor, lugh fulfilled the druidic prophecy. lugh was the irish sun god; his final conquest of the fomorians and their leader symbolizes the victory of light and intellect over darkness. balor was god of darkness and brute force as embodied in the fomorians. by his title of ildanach, or all craftsman, lugh is comparable to the greek apollo. he was widely worshiped by continental celts. luk, charles (lu k uan yu (1898) chinese-born teacher and writer on chinese

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n the bible. after leaving school, he took various jobs in hotels, and this seasonal work left him with spare time that he spent in traveling and reading. he visited south america, russia and egypt, seeing firsthand many of the monuments of the ancient past. in his reading, he was particularly impressed by the biblical account of ezekiel s fiery wheel and by sumerian accounts of the coming of the sun god in the ancient epic of gilgamesh. von daniken began to evolve a theory of sky-borne gods in vehicles resembling accounts of flying saucers, built around the religious legends and myths of ancient civilizations. with the advent of american and soviet space travel, such theories became much more plausible to many people. in 1961, von daniken started publishing articles about his theories and

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liberal arts, with astrology the most prominent, seven saints, and seven scenes from the life of the virgin. it is, so far, a perfectly orthodox programme. but very strange are the egyptian scenes in the room of the saints. the emblem of the borgia family was the bull, and the borgia bull becomes identified in this series with apis, the bull worshipped by the egyptians as the image of osiris, the sun god it is by a series of allusive shifts in meaning as the frescoes tell their story that the egyptian apis bull, or the sun, becomes identified with the borgia bull, or the pope as the sun. the egyptian series begins with the story of io, turned into a cow by 1 but it could also refer to ficino's criticisms of "bad" astrology in his commentaries on plotinus; cf. walker, p. 54. in any case, th

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d an eagle, a familiar and little understood masonic emblem [p. 108; emphasis added] albert pike, in magnum opus, writes. the eagle was the living symbol of egyptian god mendes. and the representative of the sun [p. xviii] in one sentence, we see the admission that the phoenix bird of ancient satanic egypt was changed into the masonic eagle and then pike admits that the eagle is the symbol of the sun god and of the god of mendes, both symbols being common satanic symbols of satan/lucifer! remember also the satanic meaning of the phrase depicted below the eagle the two eagles "deus meumque jus" as explained in part 1 this is a typical satanic latin phrase, meaning. masons are saying that they are 'using occult methods' through lucifer, to achieve their rights and justice" but why would a tw

erson needs to go through eight separate steps to become fully enlightened spiritually. the final step which is the eighth step, is the sex act. notice that the very center of this symbol is a very small circle. this symbol is the ultimate female sexual representation. probably the most famous of all obelisks in the world, is the washington monument. it is believed that the spirit of the egyptian sun god, ra, resides within the obelisk, and they pray to it three t imes daily, if possible, and facing east. the obelisk is the most recognized of all phallic symbols. the sex act between male and female is represented by an obelisk within a circle. the washington monument sits within a circle. freemasonry planned, designed, and created the w ashington monument. the obelisk is greatly revered in

ure. remember, the hexagram is the most evil of all black magick symbols. witches have used it for years to cast curses on people; many people in the past few thousand years have died by having a hex placed on them. second, notice the sun over head in this picture. just as the egyptians did in the days when god cursed them and their religion, freemasons worship the sun in general and the egyptian sun god, ra, particularly. finally, note that the sharp end of the square is driving deeply into the holy bible beneath. as christian author, ralph epperson proves in his book, masonry: conspiracy against christianity, the #1 top secret of masonry is not that they worship satan/lucifer; rather, the #1 secret of freemasonry is that they plan to eradicate christianity in complete fulfillment of end

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ames of the angels or the mysteries connected with the tetragrammaton and the other names of god and the angels, comprised in the theosophy as well as with the cosmogony which also played so important a part among the jewish mystics and the kabbalists. 11 but long before the essenes existed lived the qabalah. aryan and chaldean esoteric doctrines percolated into it. in egypt, the mysteries of the sun god, the moon goddess, of osiris and isis, impinged upon it. assyria and babylon gave it much, and not a little may be traced to the vedas, the upanishads, the bhagavad-gita, and the vedantas, and much of the practical qabalah to the tantras more especially. historically, the main point of interest is that the qabalist is an inveterate plagiarist; he never hesitates to absorb knowledge from ou

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that he devoted his energies and some little wealth "to rearing phallic and solophallic shrines over all the high places around him, and especially in front of jerusalem, and on and around the mount of olives" on each side of the entrance to his celebrated temple, under the great phallic spire which formed the portico, were two handsome columns over fifty feet high, by the side of which were the sun god belus and his chariots. in a description of this temple it is represented as being one hundred and twenty feet long and forty feet broad, while the porch, a phallic emblem "was a huge tower, forty feet long, twenty feet broad, and two hundred and forty feet high" we are assured by forlong that solomon's temple was like hundreds observed in the east, except that its walls were a little high

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to me to be any basis for the suggestion that the originoffreemasonryhadany relation toit,for almost all that is known of mithraism is of quite recent discovery, due to archaological and architectural research among the ruins of many countries. antecedent to modern investigations there wasbutlittle available information upon the origin and doctrines of mith255 raism, the worship of mithra as the sun god; reliance was placed upon short notices to be found in thede i sideetosirideandlifeofpompeyby plutarch, who dieda.d.120.itis referred to by porphyry, who dieda.d.305, in hiscave of the nymphsand in hisde abstinentia;and by nonnus in hisdionysiacaabout 410.thechristian fathers st jerome, who dieda.d.420, tertullian, in hisdecoronaanddeprdjscriptionehereticorum,about 200, and justin martyr

of mithra originated246themagical masonfrom zend, iranian or persian mazdeism, a religion founded by zoroaster, also called zarathrustra, who was an inspired sage about whom nothing definite is known,butit is considered that he flourished about 700b.c.theavesta or zendavesta is the sacred volume associated with this religion. modern researches have led to the opinion that the cult of mithras as a sun god must have preceded the foundation of the zoroastrian religion by many hundred years, even before the aryan race separated into western and indian branches; at any rate, his name is found both in the zend avesta and the vedas of the hindoos. mithra worship may have sprung from the cult of the magi of media, a nationality which was dominant before that of persia.themedes and persians were fa

. the zoroastrian faith postulated the subsequent appearance by emanation of six ameshaspentas or amshaspands springing from ormuzd and making with him a septenary of powers; these great beings may be compared with the christian ideas of archangels. then followed a second series of angelic eman255 ations named the izeds or yazatas (adored ones, who were twenty-eight in number, of whom the earlier sun god mithra was called the first and chief; he was the invincible hero fighting the evil powers.athird series then followed, and were named the ferouers, who were unlimited in number. c. w. king, in his work upon the gnostics, looks upon these as the active thoughts of god. the evil being ahriman also prod255 uced a numerous progeny of wicked spirits, but he was cast down by ormuzd from his hig

the persian symbol of this world. ahriman destroyed the first world-being,butfrom its elements ormuzd formed the first human pair; these were tempted by ahriman (or arimanes) and fell, and so their descendants were ever after exposed to the malice of ahriman, the evil being, as the great tempter. this scheme of thought obviously led to the idea that a saving grace must be put into action, and the sun god mithra, who was at first by the zoroastrians considered only as one of the izeds, became worshipped as a god and as the saviour of mankind from the effects of its fall from grace. it has been suggested that the later mithraism was mazda worship, greatly influenced by chaldean astrological notions. the name mitra is the ancient sanskrit indian word for the sun, and it is said by c. w. king

rformed was deemed to represent the universe. other suggestions have been made in explanation of the sculptures, remembering that mithras was a solar diety. in the birth scene, the torch-bearers, with one torch up and the other down, may refer to the rise and setting of the sun. in the later period of mithra worship in italy, these was a blending with the more usual solar worship of apollo as the sun god, as we read of mithra assol invictus, deus invictus mithras, deus sol invictus mithras;before its abolition we also find mithras associated with the paganmagna mater,the great mother goddess. as mithra worship was fading out, the emperor julian made an attempt to restore its dominance, but his failed, and persecution by christian authorities caused its extinction: the christian priests wer

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his about the 21-meter high obelisk in new york: the most striking instance of the symbolic use of architecture is the monument called cleopatra's needle, given to the us as a gift in 1878 by the egyptian governer ismail. this monument is now in central park. its surface is covered with masonic emblems. this monument was originally erected in the 16th century bc at the entrance to a temple of the sun god, an initiation center in heliopolis. 76 the legend of isis the widow an important symbolic idea in masonry is that of the widow. masons call themselves the children of the widow, and pictures of widows often appear in their publications. what is the origin of this idea? who is this widow? when we examine masonic sources, we find that the symbol of the widow derives originally from an egypt

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nochian to consider here, albeit briefly. the celtic legacy in the lands of the ancient celts the mysteries were recorded in many different ways. for many years academics believed that the celts only transmitted their wisdom orally, however, recent research now suggests that they used specialised alphabets for ritual purposes. the most commonly used form was known as ogham, named after the celtic sun god ogha from whom it supposedly derived. ogham s use was primarily esoteric and is believed to have developed on the west gnostic theurgy page 111 coast of ireland, probably as a refinement of the finger languages of the druids. another esoteric celtic system is known as the tree alphabet. one poetic and not too scholarly form of this code was published in the white goddess by robert graves (

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eans, hakluyt society, london, 1920. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 51 effect to speed up their ruthless advance into the inca heartland.3 the capital of the inca empire was the city of cuzco, a name meaning the earth s navel in the local quechua language.4 according to legend it was established by manco capac and mama occlo, two children of the sun. here, though the incas worshipped the sun god, whom they knew as inti, quite another deity was venerated as the most holy of all. this was viracocha, whose namesakes were said to have made the nazca lines and whose own name meant foam of the sea. 5 no doubt it is just a coincidence that the greek goddess aphrodite, who was born of the sea, received her name because of the foam [aphros] out of which she was formed .6 besides, viracocha

is that mountain-making is a slow process, observable in minute changes, and that because it is a continuous process there never could have been spontaneous upliftings on a large scale. in the case of tiahuanaco, however, the change in altitude apparently occurred after the city was built, and this could not have been the result of a slow process. 11 see, for example, ian cameron, kingdom of the sun god: a history of the andes and their people, guild publishing, london, 1990, pp. 48-9. 12 tiahuanacu ii, p. 91 and i, p. 39. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 73 chapter 9 once and future king during my travels in the andes i had several times re-read a curious variant of the mainstream tradition of viracocha. in this variant, which was from the area around lake titicaca known as the co

y, 1992, pp. 21-2. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 104 were converted into birds to survive the catastrophe. the fourth sun is represented by the head of the water-goddess chalchiuhtlicue: destruction came in the form of torrential rains and floods. the mountains disappeared and men were transformed into fish. 10 the symbol of the fifth sun, our current epoch, is the face of tonatiuh, the sun god himself. his tongue, fittingly depicted as an obsidian knife, juts out hungrily, signalling his need for the nourishment of human blood and hearts. his features are wrinkled to indicate his advanced age and he appears within the symbol ollin which signifies movement.11 why is the fifth sun known as the sun of movement? because, the elders say: in it there will be a movement of the earth an

ods 251 computing the great return the precessional numbers highlighted by sellers in the osiris myth are 360, 72, 30 and 12. most of them are found in a section of the myth which provides us with biographical details of the various characters. these have been conveniently summarized by e. a. wallis budge, formerly keeper of egyptian antiquities at the british museum: the goddess nut, wife of the sun god ra, was beloved by the god geb. when ra discovered the intrigue he cursed his wife and declared that she should not be delivered of a child in any month of any year. then the god thoth, who also loved nut, played at tables with the moon and won from her five whole days. these he joined to the 360 days of which the year then consisted [emphasis added. on the first of these five days osiris

s had commenced their rule on earth.4 heliopolitan theology rested on a creation-myth distinguished by a number of unique and curious features. it taught that in the beginning the universe had been filled with a dark, watery nothingness, called the nun. out of this inert cosmic ocean (described as shapeless, black with the blackness of the blackest night) rose a mound of dry land on which ra, the sun god, materialized in his self-created form as atum (sometimes depicted as an old bearded man leaning on a staff):5 1 saqqara, egypt: archaeologists have discovered a green limestone obelisk, the world s oldest-known complete obelisk, dedicated to inty, a wife of pharaoh pepi i, egypt s ruler almost 4300 years ago, who was regarded as a goddess after her death. times, london, 9 may 1992; see al

, could under ill-omened circumstances bring catastrophic influences to bear on terrestrial events. thus it was said that ra-atum, the god who created himself, was originally king over gods and men together but mankind schemed against his sovereignty, for he began to grow old, his bones became silver, his flesh gold and his hair [as] lapis lazuli.23 when he realized what was happening, the ageing sun god (so reminiscent of tonatiuh, the bloodthirsty fifth sun of the aztecs) determined that he would punish this insurrection by killing off most of the human race. the instrument of the havoc he unleashed was symbolized at times as a raging lioness wading in blood and at times as the fearsome lion-headed goddess sekhmet who poured fire out of herself and savaged mankind in an ecstasy of slaugh

y lapped up and then fell asleep. when she awoke, she was no longer interested in pursuing the destruction, and peace descended upon the devastated world.25 meanwhile ra had resolved to draw away from what was left of his creation: as i live my heart is weary of staying with mankind. i have gone on killing them [almost] to the very last one, so the [insignificant] remnant is not my affair. 26 the sun god then rose into the sky on the back of the sky-goddess nut who (for the purposes of the precessional metaphor about to be delivered) had transformed herself into a cow. before very long in a close analogy to the shaft-tree that shivered on amlodhi s wildly gyrating mill the cow grew dizzy and began to shake and to tremble because she was so high above the earth. 27 when she complained to ra

they guarded with the greatest care. each priesthood. possessed a gnosis, a superiority of knowledge, which they never put into writing. it is therefore absurd to expect to find in egyptian papyri descriptions of the secrets which formed the esoteric knowledge of the priests. see also page 27, and sacred science, pp. 273-4. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 360 in one, for example, ra, the sun god, was depicted as seated upon an iron throne encircled by lesser gods who moved around him constantly and who were said to be in his train .35 likewise, in another passage, the deceased pharaoh was urged to stand at the head of the two halves of the sky and weigh the words of the gods, the aged ones, who revolve around ra. 36 if the aged ones and the encircling gods revolving around ra shou

ousands of years of accurately recorded observations, and a facility with very large numbers that seemed more appropriate to the needs of a complex technological society than to those of a primitive central american kingdom.43 millions of years and the movements of the stars very large numbers also appeared in the pyramid texts, in the symbolic boat of millions of years, for example, in which the sun god was said to navigate the dark and airless wastes of interstellar space.44 thoth, the god of wisdom( he who reckons in heaven, the counter of the stars, the 40 the sirius mystery. 41 ibid, p. 3. 42 ibid, p. 1. 43 see part iii. 44 the egyptian book of the dead, p. cxi. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 362 measurer of the earth) was specifically empowered to grant a life of millions of

demise of the present epoch of the world an epoch, as the reader will recall, in which the elders say [that] there will be a movement of the earth and from this we shall all perish. 26 the reader will also not have forgotten the date calculated by the ancient maya calendar for the end of the world: the day will be 4 ahau 3 kankin [corresponding to 23 december ad 2012, and it will be ruled by the sun god, the ninth lord of the night. the moon will be eight days old, and it will be the third lunation in a series of six..27 in the mayan scheme of things we are already living in the last days of the earth. in the christian scheme of things too, the last days are understood to be upon us. according to the watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania: this world will perish just as surel

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ut there is no written evidence from this period to confirm this. the pyramid builders the man in charge of building the pyramid complex of djoser was an official named imhotep. at this period, literacy was mainly confined to such officials and their households. many of these officials served as part-time priests in the cult places of deities and deceased kings.16 imhotep, who was a priest of the sun god at heliopolis, was later credited with writing a book of wisdom. this earned him a place as the first of egypt s great sages and eventual deification (see deities, themes, and concepts. the tradition may reflect an actual advance in the uses of writing at this period. the development of long, connected texts only seems to have taken place in egypt centuries after the introduction of writin

ave developed in this period was the topographical list.17 this listed deities according to their cult places and summarized their functions and qualities with epithets. some epi- 8 handbook of egyptian mythology thets, such as horus, protector of his father, suggest the existence of a story behind them. in the fourth dynasty the king s role was redefined as being the son of ra, the deputy of the sun god on earth. sneferu, the first king of the fourth dynasty, was one of egypt s greatest builders. three pyramids were completed in his reign, each with two temples for the funerary cult of the king. later literary tradition was favorable to sneferu but not to his successor khufu (cheops, the builder of the great pyramid at giza (see under kings and princes and magicians in deities, themes, an

reliefs and statues in the badly damaged pyramid temples did once show the king interacting with many of the deities of egypt. pyramid complexes have been interpreted as resurrection machines for the king and as models of the egyptian cosmos, making them a kind of mythology in solid form.18 the kings of the fifth dynasty had smaller pyramids, but several of them built magnificent temples for the sun god. the favored elite who served old kingdom rulers were rewarded with beautifully decorated tombs in the royal cemeteries. many of these tomb owners had personal names that linked them with deities, such as ptah-hotep( the god ptah is satisfied. the inscriptions in their tombs tell us that many of them were part-time priests in the temples and shrines of deities, but at this period it was no

ich are difficult to interpret. some passages include what have been called mythical statements. these give the bare outlines of an event that has taken place in the divine realm, such as horus comes and thoth appears. they raise up osiris from upon his side and make him stand erect in front of the two enneads. 21 many of the most important themes of egyptian mythology, such as the journey of the sun god in his solar barque, the murder of the good god osiris, and the violent conflict between horus and seth, are already present in the pyramid texts. these texts are also the earliest source for the complex array of myths and symbols that the egyptians constructed on the theme of creation. the gods as depicted in the pyramid texts often seem violent, hostile, and terrifying beings, and this i

any cultures. 28 although they are not narratives, some spells in the coffin texts describe major events in the egyptian creation story and even provide evidence for egyptian views about the end of the world (see return to chaos under linear time in mythical time lines. the creator god atum-ra and his offspring shu and tefnut are particularly prominent. many texts deal with transformations of the sun god into various forms. a new element is a stress on the dangers faced by the sun god during his celestial voyages, such as attacks by the chaos monster apophis. the prominence of the solar cult leads some egyptologists to believe that the coffin texts were, like the pyramid texts, mainly generated by the priests of heliopolis. other egyptologists point to the huge range of deities that featur

ting the myths that may have been current about deities in this period. popular in the middle kingdom were texts in which a father instructs his son on the right way to behave in life. these are often known as instruction or wisdom texts. one of the topics instruction texts deal with is the proper relationship between humanity and the gods, so they sometimes allude to mythical events, such as the sun god s decision to destroy rebellious humanity. other literary works that deal with ethical issues are in the form of prophecies or dialogues between a man and a supernatural being.31 in a text comparable to the biblical book of job, a man named ipuur (ipuwer) questions the lord of all about why suffering and injustice are rife in egypt. the god s replies are not very well preserved in the only

ng story, five deities disguise themselves as people to help a mortal woman who is about to give birth to triplets destined to be kings. an incomplete story tells of an alarming encounter between a herdsman and a seductive goddess.35 another relates how an official sent on a mission was shipwrecked on a mysterious island.36 there he encounters a giant serpent who seems to be a form of the creator sun god. one middle kingdom narrative that only features divine characters is a fragmentary story about the attempted seduction of horus by seth, an event alluded to in the pyramid texts. some egyptologists refuse to class this as a genuine myth because it may have formed part of a spell used in healing magic.37 magic and popular religion heka, the egyptian term usually translated as magic, was on

eity skilled in the use of heka, such as isis or thoth; the patient with a deity who suffered in myth, such as horus the child (see deities, themes, and concepts; and the disease or problem with a hostile supernatural force. these identifications were sometimes extended into a narrative of the misfortune that befell the deity and its ultimate resolution. a complex story about the poisoning of the sun god, known as the true name of ra (see period of direct rule by the creator sun god under linear time in mythical time lines, is an example that may have been composed as early as the middle kingdom. by creating these links, the doctor-magician hoped to mobilize cosmic forces to act on behalf of the patient as they once had on behalf of the deity. j. f. borghouts, who has edited and translated

ed back to memphis, but thebes became the religious capital. most new kingdom rulers were buried there in underground tombs in the desert wadi now known as the valley of the kings (see figure 5. the offering cults for the dead kings were carried out in separate mortuary temples some way from their tombs. amun, who had been the most important god in thebes since the middle kingdom, united with the sun god and became the king of the gods. the temple of amun at karnak in eastern thebes developed into the biggest and richest temple complex in egypt. the eighteenth dynasty is often considered the high point of egyptian culture. much great art and architecture was produced during the reigns of queen hatshepsut (c. 1473 1458 bce; her nephew and stepson, king thutmose (tuthmosis) iii (c. 1479 1425

he reigns of queen hatshepsut (c. 1473 1458 bce; her nephew and stepson, king thutmose (tuthmosis) iii (c. 1479 1425 bce; and the latter s great-grandson, amenhotep (amenophis) iii (c. 1390 1352 bce. hatshepsut s famous mortuary temple at deir el-bahri in thebes had many innovative features, such as an open court for solar worship inscribed with a summary of the ruler s secret knowledge about the sun god. 42 both hatshepsut and thutmose iii built special shrines where ordinary people could come to pray to deities such as the goddess hathor in her cow form or amun of the hearing ear. 43 amenhotep iii enlarged or founded numerous temples, and many of the features introduced by his architects remained standard for c. 1,500 years. he commissioned huge numbers of divine statues to stress his id

while his chief wife, queen tiy, was identified with the goddesses who could play the role of the solar eye (see eye of ra in deities, themes, and concepts).44 introduction 19 amenhotep iii and tiy were the parents of amenhotep iv (c. 1352 1336 bce, who early in his reign changed his name to akhenaten. king akhenaten and his chief wife, nefertiti, were dedicated to the cult of aten, a form of the sun god represented by the solar disk. akhenaten built huge temples for aten that were open to the sky. he established a new capital and a new royal burial ground at akhetaten (modern tell el-amarna. akhenaten suppressed the cult of amun, but the idea that he closed down all of egypt s temples seems to be an exaggeration.45 in akhenaten s theology the worship of aten as the creator sun god and the

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and ages have added to it. e.g. sumerians honoured ca 1000 gods, about fifty of whom were considered the main gods, and especially important were seven gods. the great seven. the functions of different gods tended to vary by city states, but of the great seven an was universally the god of heaven, enlil. the god of air and earth, and enki. the god of water and wisdom; less important were utu. the sun god, nanna. the moon god, inanna. the goddess of love and war, and ninhursag, the mother of gods (kramer 1977: 122.130; 146.152. the name and status of the main god depended on who had the power. in sumerian times, the greatest god was an, whose son was enki. in the old babylonian period, of course, the city god of babylon, marduk became the main god and was also to be son of enki and grandson

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one s god(dess) has been and continues to be a popular amulet theme. catholics utilize figurines and pictures of certain saints in a similar manner. the ancient egyptians used eye amulets to protect good health. they also used the udjat eye on pottery, rings, and other amulets to ward off the forces of darkness. the udjat eye was the characteristic stylization of the eye of the youthful egyptian sun god horus. the udjat eye was placed on rings in ancient egypt. the scarab beetle symbolized resurrection after death and protection against evil magic. mummies wore a heart scarab as an amulet on their breasts. seals and jeweled charms in the form of scarabs protected wearers against evil. the hebrews, as early as 2200 b.c, wore crescent moons to ward off the evil eye and attached bells to the

ich satan comes out for a little while to try to entrap mankind once again) in the biblical references above, appolion is a good angel, servicing god, but in other writings he has fallen and succumbed to evil. for example, in john bunyan s pilgrim s progress, appolion is the devil himself, with fire and smoke coming out of his belly. in hebrew, appolion is known as abaddon and is the fallen greek sun god apollo, living in hell as a serpent angel. the term appolion has also been used to mean hell itself as a place. see also demons; satan for further reading: godwin,malcolm. angels: an endangered species. new york: simon and schuster, 1990. ronner, john. know your angels. murfreesboro, tn: mamre, 1993. apsaras apsaras, a word derived from the sanskrit ap, which means water, refers to a form

is dated from about 2100 b.c.e. to c. 1786 b.c.e, and the new kingdom lasted from about 1580 b.c.e. to c. 1080 b.c.e. then began a series of incursions by the assyrian and persian empires, though ancient egypt was not really brought to an end until after alexander the great conquered it in 332 b.c.e. from about 3000 b.c.e, egyptian official religion recognized the pharaoh as the offspring of the sun god, re, and thus as a god himself. there were many other gods and goddesses in the egyptian pantheon, whose domains covered everything from natural phenomena like air (the god shu) to cultural phenomena like writing (the goddess safekht. many gods were represented as e 77 78 egypt an animal or part-human/part-animal, perhaps the residue of earlier animal worship. generally, egyptians gave mos

ultural phenomena like writing (the goddess safekht. many gods were represented as e 77 78 egypt an animal or part-human/part-animal, perhaps the residue of earlier animal worship. generally, egyptians gave most prominence to those gods associated with the nile (hapy, sothis, sebek, the sun (re, re-atum, horus, and helping the dead (osiris, anubis, sokaris. during the time of the old kingdom, the sun god re was the dominant god. re served to give immortality to the collective state through the pharaoh, his son. the sun seemed to the egyptians and to many other ancients to be clearly immortal, as it died every evening, traveled through the underworld, and was reborn every morning. the sun was also important to the success of nile agriculture. thus, insofar as the pharaoh was identified with

od re was the dominant god. re served to give immortality to the collective state through the pharaoh, his son. the sun seemed to the egyptians and to many other ancients to be clearly immortal, as it died every evening, traveled through the underworld, and was reborn every morning. the sun was also important to the success of nile agriculture. thus, insofar as the pharaoh was identified with the sun god, the continuity and success of the state was assured. one of the primary sources for understanding egyptian mythologies is the book of the dead, now more accurately titled the book of going forth by day. this refers to a large number of funeral texts spanning the entire history of ancient egypt. from these texts and other sources scholars have pieced together the major stories of the gods

cient egypt. from these texts and other sources scholars have pieced together the major stories of the gods and patterns of belief. egyptian mythology was not a tidy, uniform package of stories, but contained a number of mutually exclusive, even contradictory ideas. toward the end of the old kingdom two brothers, set and osiris, and their two sisters, nephtys and isis, seriously competed with the sun god for primacy. these four gods were part of a grouping of nine gods that formed the ennead of heliopolis, an influential metropolitan center. egyptian texts refer only to certain episodes of the osiris myth, and the most complete account comes from plutarch in the second century c.e. according to the story, osiris was a good and popular god-king who was betrayed and killed by his evil brothe

e breath or soul, the principle animating the person, both physically and psychically, which was pictured as a human-headed bird. the ba was able to perform all bodily functions, but shared with the akh the ability to exist as well among the gods. how much of the following process the pharaoh had to undergo is unclear. the theology was that he entered the divine realm, that is, the circuit of the sun god, by right. they did not have to answer to anyone and did not have to visit osiris in the underworld. even so, the pharaohs sometimes gave evidence of anxiety about the journey. in general, the newly dead, in the form of their ba and ka, traveled in the boat of re, the sun god, as he made his way across the sky. in the west, as re reached the underworld with his load of new arrivals, the de

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s the most acceptable sacrifice to god, and his body as an altar sacred to the deity. sun worship played an important part in nearly all the early pagan mysteries. this indicates the probability of their atlantean origin, for the people of atlantis were sun worshipers. the solar deity was usually personified as a beautiful youth, with long golden hair to symbolize the rays of the sun. this golden sun god was slain by wicked ruffians, who personified the evil principle of the universe. by means of certain rituals and ceremonies, symbolic of purification and regeneration, this wonderful god of good was brought back to life and became the savior of his people. the secret processes whereby he was resurrected symbolized those cultures by means of which man is able to overcome his lower nature

ods, the laws of nature, the secrets of occult medicine, the mysteries of the celestial bodies, and the rudiments of magic and sorcery. the druids had a great number of feast days. the new and full moon and the sixth day of the moon were sacred periods. it is believed that initiations took place only at the two solstices and the two equinoxes. at dawn of the 25th day of december, the birth of the sun god was celebrated. the secret teachings of the druids are said by some to be tinctured with pythagorean philosophy. the druids had a madonna, or virgin mother, with a child in her arms, who was sacred to their mysteries; and their sun god was resurrected at the time of the year corresponding to that at which modern christians celebrate easter. both the cross and the serpent were sacred to the

t 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 rituals, was restored to life. there were three degrees of the druidic mysteries, but few successfully passed them all. the candidate was buried in a coffin, as symbolic of the death of the sun god. the supreme test, however, was being sent out to sea in an open boat. while undergoing this ordeal, many lost their lives. talies

the secret teachings of the persian mystics, and became a full-fledged member of the order. candidates who successfully passed the mithraic initiations were called lions and were marked upon their foreheads with the egyptian cross. mithras himself is often pictured with the head of a lion and two pairs of wings. throughout the entire ritual were repeated references to the birth of mithras as the sun god, his sacrifice for man, his death that men might have eternal life, and lastly, his resurrection and the saving of all humanity by his intercession before the throne of ormuzd (see heckethorn) while the cult of mithras did not reach the philosophic heights attained by zarathustra, its effect upon the civilization of the western world was far-reaching, for at one time nearly all europe was

numental christianity. the most famous sculpturings and reliefs of this prototokos show mithras kneeling upon the recumbent form of a great bull, into whose throat he is driving a sword. the slaying of the bull signifies that the rays of the sun, symbolized by the sword, release at the vernal equinox the vital essences of the earth--the blood of the bull- which, pouring from the wound made by the sun god, fertilize the seeds of living things. dogs were held sacred to the cult of mithras, being symbolic of sincerity and trustworthiness. the mithraics used the serpent a an emblem of ahriman, the spirit of evil, and water rats were held sacred to him. the bull is esoterically the constellation of taurus; the serpent, its opposite in the zodiac, scorpio; the sun, mithras, entering into the sid

ortality, bowing before the laws of nature and yet being, in certain senses at least, a supreme deity. the gnostic viewpoint concerning the christ is well worthy of consideration. this order claimed to be the only sect to have actual pictures of the divine syrian. while these were, in all probability, idealistic conceptions of the savior based upon existing sculpturings and paintings of the pagan sun gods, they were all christianity had. to the gnostics, the christ was the personification of nous, the divine mind, and emanated from the higher spiritual ons. he descended into the body of jesus at the baptism and left it again before the crucifixion. the gnostics declared that the christ was not crucified, as this divine nous could not suffer death, but that simon, the cyrenian, offered his

rmation of the infallibility of the numerous prophecies contained in the authorized version! the sphinx although the great pyramid, as ignatius donnelly has demonstrated, is patterned after an antediluvian type of architecture, examples of which are to be found in nearly every part of the world, the sphinx (hu) is typically egyptian. the stele between its paws states the sphinx is an image of the sun god, harmackis, which was evidently made in the similitude of the pharaoh during whose reign it was chiseled. the statue was restored and completely excavated by tahutmes iv as the result of a vision in which the god had appeared and declared himself oppressed by the weight of the sand about his body. the broken beard of the sphinx was discovered during excavations between the front paws. the

tual light, he continued his path through the heavens, visiting the peoples of other nations and converting all with whom he came in contact. plutarch further asserts that the greeks recognized in osiris the same person whom they revered under the names of dionysos and bacchus. while he was away from his country, his brother, typhon, the evil one, like the loki of scandinavia, plotted against the sun god to destroy him. gathering seventy-two persons as fellow conspirators, he attained his nefarious end in a most subtle manner. he had a wonderful ornamented box made just the size of the body of osiris. this he brought into a banquet hall where the gods and goddesses were feasting together. all admired the beautiful chest, and typhon promised to give it to the one whose body fitted it most p

ntessence generated all things. numerous stars are represented on this girdle, thereby indicating their influence in darkness as well as the influence of the sun in light. isis is the virgin immortalized in the constellation of virgo, where the world mother is placed with the serpent under her feet and a crown. of stars on her head. in her arms she carries a sheaf of grain and sometimes the young sun god. the statue of isis was placed on a pedestal of dark stone ornamented with rams' heads. her feet trod upon a number of venomous reptiles. this indicates that nature has power to free from acidity or saltness all corrosives and to overcome all impurities from terrestrial corruption adhering to bodies. the rams' heads indicate that the most auspicious time for the generation of life is durin

hose who chronicled the life and acts of jesus found it advisable to metamorphose him into a solar deity. the historical jesus was forgotten; nearly all the salient incidents recorded in the four gospels have their correlations in the movements, phases, or functions of the heavenly bodies. among other allegories borrowed by christianity from pagan antiquity is the story of the beautiful, blueeyed sun god, with his golden hair falling upon his shoulders, robed from head to foot in spotless white and carrying in his arms the lamb of god, symbolic of the vernal equinox. this handsome youth is a composite of apollo, osiris, orpheus, mithras, and bacchus, for he has certain characteristics in common with each of these pagan deities. the philosophers of greece and egypt divided the life of the s

ic of the vernal equinox. this handsome youth is a composite of apollo, osiris, orpheus, mithras, and bacchus, for he has certain characteristics in common with each of these pagan deities. the philosophers of greece and egypt divided the life of the sun during the year into four parts; therefore they symbolized the solar man by four different figures. when he was born in the winter solstice, the sun god was symbolized as a dependent infant who in some mysterious manner had managed to escape the powers of darkness seeking to destroy him while he was still in the cradle of winter. the sun, being weak at this season of the year, had no golden rays (or locks of hair, but the survival of the light through the darkness of winter was symbolized by one tiny hair which alone adorned the head of th

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orders to capture any messages from the dead. upon the closing of the great celebration, banish and retire to sleep and to dream. shed your skin as the serpent of the forest and fly upon broom or animal. take to the skies and feast of the funereal dead! they are your beginnings and the infinite possibility. yule december 22nd the winter solstice is the time that marks the death and rebirth of the sun god. it is a time of contemplation, of self-examination and natural rebirth. yule also is the birthday of mithras (13, the sun god of persia. the birth data of the christian savior was not accurately known from their historic texts per se, however around ad 273 that the church and its officials aligned the birth of christ to absorb the pagan gods of old (mithras, etc. the moon of december is k

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es until theywere finally overthrown. the celtic word fomhoraigh, means giants, and also derives from a term that meansfrom under the seas. the myths say that the fomorians lived under the ocean. interest-ingly, one of the ancient names for the mythical lost isles was tir fo thuinn, meaning landbeneath the wave.one of these mysterious weapons mentioned in the irish sagas was the lance of lugh,the sun god. lugh was called ildanach, or master of all the arts, but also the far-shooter. here is a description of his strange lance: he also had a magic spear, whichhe had no need to wield himself, for it was alive andthirsted for bloodwhen battle was near it was drawn out; then it roared and struggledagainst its thongs; fire flashed from itit tore through and through the ranks of the enemy,never t

h dynasty would have expired at their fathers death.(p. 188) amenhotep iv was also known as amenophis ivmonotheism enters/cult of atenbecause of his part-israelite upbringing amenhotep ivcould not accept the egyptian deities and theirmyriad idols, so he developed the notion of aten, an omnipotent god with no image, who was repre-sented by a solar disc with downward pointing rays. aten was not the sun god, however, for the egyp-tian sun god was ra (p. 189)the first religious intolerancethe israelite concept of a god without an image was already established in egypt before akhenatoncame on the throne. what he did that was so different was to install aten as the sole god of egypt, andthis is the worlds first example of religious intolerance at state level a strict monotheism foisted uponthe p

r, whose own mother was tey, the israelite wet-nurse of akhenaton and nefertiti. as a pharaoh,this man had succeeded for just a few weeks after the abdication of akhenaton; his name was smenkh-kare. he was the grandson of y usuf-y uya the vizier, and the son of aye (the brother of akhenatonsbirth-mother, tiye. correctly stated, this pharaohs name was smenkh-ka-raalternately, since rawas the state sun god of the heliopolis house of light, called on, pharaoh smenkh-ka-ra was alsosmenkh-ka-ra-on, from the phonetic ending of which derives aaron (p. 192)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation225 appendix b: book abstracts irelands scotasmenkhare was of particular significance to the histories of ireland and scotland, for he was thefather of the princess historically known as scota

ed, the sons of kadru hatched from their eggs, but from vinata's two eggs hertwo sons were not to be seen. that austere and godly woman, anxious to have children, was ashamed.thus vinata broke open one egg and saw therein her son. authorities say that the upper half of thechild's body was fully developed, but the lower half was not yet well formed. this son was aruna, the charioteer of surya, the sun god. his brother was the powerful garuda, divineeagle, who became the carrier of vishnu. garuda is an avowed enemy of serpents who are his food.krishna mentions him among the most prominent representatives of his power: among the daityademons i am the devoted prahlada, among subduers i am time, among beasts i am the lion, and amongbirds i am garuda (bhagavad-gita 10.30) appendix e: dragons and

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ion is borne from multiple names and titles associated with a single god. for example, the egyptian goddess hathor is associated with 2 other goddess, isis and bast. sometimes hathor is spoke of as the mother of horus, which would mean hathor and isis were the same entity; in other cases, the title hathor is associated with bast, who is known to not be isis. also, in egyptian mythology, ra is the sun god, but then again so is osiris and osiris son, horus; all three are known as sun gods, and all three are confirmed as different beings--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 12 i suspect that the hindus has the best grasp on what is actually taking place. in the hindu religion gods come upon man in the form of avatars. vishnu, for instance, has come upon man 9 times already, meaning there are

eve they have a monopoly on the stories regarding this being, but satanists know better. satanists, and occultists in general, have equated the fallen angel satan with the villain of almost every mythology. in egyptian mythology, satan is set, the egyptian god of chaos, storms, and evil. and similar to satan from the bible, who once stood beside the throne of god, set was once the guarding of the sun god ra. apparently, it was after set s battle with apep, the serpent of chaos, that he became the new villain in the egyptian tales; the first to play this villain role was apep himself. the evil god set kills his benevolent brother osiris, twice; then begins to make war with the seed of osiris, a god named horus. in jewish folklore, satan was called samael. samael, whose name meant venom of g

an army of demons, have a king over them who is an angel. this angel, along with his army of locusts, arrives from an extra-dimensional place called the bottomless pit. the verse also states that this angel has names in the mythologies of the neighboring peoples; the jews called this angel abaddon, and the greeks called this angel apollyon. but apollyon is what the ancient greeks called apollo, a sun god of greek mythology. what the bible has done is verified (at least in the eyes of christians and muslims) the actual existence of a god from the greek pantheon. is it likely that apollo is the only greek god that actually exists? probably not. what s more likely is that many( if not all) characters from the bible have corresponding names in greek mythology. but even though the characters co

nes intend on ruling the earth as they once did. in this new age the human race will of coarse be reduced to slaves and food (we already are slaves and food, but in the future we ll know we re slaves and food. in egyptian mythology apep, called the chaos serpent, lurked in the tuat (also called duat, which was the egyptian underworld. the tuat was considered a dark alter-universe. every night the sun god ra would descend into the underworld, and there he would find apep lying in ambush. reminiscent of coronzon and his tenth aethyr, apep s domain was called the tenth region of night. this serpent, also symbolized by a crocodile or dragon, is purported to have a hypnotic gaze. in greece, this monster of chaos was known as apophis. as the story goes set, who is also a god of darkness and chao

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form ourselves before we can change the world, and that it is during the process of self-transformation that we can catch a glimpse of what part we are to play in national and global transformation. the mandala of the new world order and illuminati control. annuit coeptis he has blessed our beginning, novus ordo seclorum new order of the ages. the all-seeing eye of horus, the resurrected egyptian sun god, biblically refered to as lucifer, the angel of light. in occult doctrine it is thought that from the union of spirit and matter (the pyramid is made of stone, rock, and earth and represents the unconscious. the capstone is made of an immaterial substance light or spirit and is conscious, a new being a transformed being is created. the seal s reverse depicts a separation state in the separ

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e neolithic period. the breasts and belly are deliberately exaggerated in this representation of the great mother goddess. nut, the egyptian all-mother the egyptian sky goddess nut arches over the earth in this ancient tomb painting. she is about to swallow the evening sun, which is shown again on her upper arm as it starts its night journey. nut became regarded as the mother of all, for even the sun god re entered her mouth each night to travel through her body and be reborn next morning. a figure of nut inside egyptian coffin lids promised the same nurture and rebirth for the souls of the dead. introduction 10 the road of life and death, he was unveiling a mystery as great and as secret as that of eleusis. never tell anyone about this rite, ran the ritual. keep it absolutely secret. if y

lly the libyans. raising his arms in blessing, he carries the ankh, symbol of the life-giving elements of air and water, from which hangs a sacred djed pillar, signifying stability. ankh djed pillar the egyptian gods a ll the gods of ancient egypt are, like the hindu gods, aspects of the great divine essence, named in one account of the creation as nebertcher, lord to the uttermost limit. re, the sun god, represents the creative consciousness of this all-powerful god, and the rest of the gods, brought into being by re, represent other aspects. egyptian gods were also interrelated or merged: amun, the hidden, the chief god worshipped at karnak, was a god of the air, but as amun-re he was a sun god and as amun-min, a fertility god. known by various names, most of the gods could also be depic

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 sun was said to be the eye of re, which he sent to seek shu and tefnut. when it returned, another eye had taken its place. the first eye wept, and its tears became the first human beings. so re placed it on his brow as the uraeus, or cobra, to rule the world and spit fire at his enemies. wedjat eye the left eye of the sky god horus (see p. 16) was identified with the moon. it was destr

it opened its beak, and let out a harsh cry. the sound rang out across the endless waters, shattering the eternal silence. as the light of the first dawn broke over the darkness, the world was filled with the knowledge of what was, and what was not, to be. the benu bird was depicted as a gigantic heron; the greeks later called it the phoenix, recognizing that the bird was really an aspect of the sun god, re. at the great temple of amun at karnak, a duck was released across the waters of the sacred lake each morning in imitation of the benu bird. re, the sun god 14 re, the sun god r e, the sun god, took three main forms: khepri, the scarab beetle, who was the rising sun; re, the sun s disc, who was the midday sun; and atum, an old man leaning on a stick, who was the setting sun. each eveni

g in imitation of the benu bird. re, the sun god 14 re, the sun god r e, the sun god, took three main forms: khepri, the scarab beetle, who was the rising sun; re, the sun s disc, who was the midday sun; and atum, an old man leaning on a stick, who was the setting sun. each evening, as the sun reached the westernmost peak of mount manu, the sky goddess, nut (see p. 13, swallowed it, whereupon the sun god journeyed perilously through a netherworld in his night barque (boat. here, he was assailed by demons led by the monstrous snake apophis, his enemy who, according to one myth, came into being at the very same moment as re himself. in the darkest hour before dawn, apophis made his most desperate attack. each night, re, in the form of a cat, would cut off the snake s head before being born o

in the east at dawn from nut, the universal mother. he would then rise and travel across the sky until the following twilight, when apophis would be lying in wait once more. if apophis were ever to vanquish re, the sun would not rise. this daily cycle of death and rebirth came to symbolize the life cycle of humankind, who hoped after death to find a new birth. from the middle kingdom, the visible sun god re was complemented by an invisible divinity, amun, the hidden one, who as amun-re was worshiped as the king of gods. scarab beetle the scarabeus, or dungbeetle, is the symbol of re in his role as khepri, the rising sun. rolling along a ball of dung, the scarab beetle is a symbol of the sun itself. it was also a symbol of self-generation and rebirth, because of the way the young appear fro

th, because of the way the young appear from the ball of dung. into the underworld here, the sky goddess nut raises osiris, the son of geb and nut and ruler of the underworld, to receive the sun disc before it goes on its terrifying night journey. in the deepest night, osiris and re become one, and are described both as re who rests in osiris and osiris who rests in re. disc of the sun as re, the sun god was represented by the disc of the sun itself. the egyptian book of the dead (or book of coming forth by day) is a collection of spells, many deriving from the earlier pyramid and coffin texts, designed to ensure power for the deceased in the afterlife. copies were made for most wealthy individuals and buried with them. a typical, and essential, spell is for not dying again in the realm of

hers, giving her power even over himself. using re s name, she commanded the poison to flow away, leaving him fit and strong. the text of this story also had a practical purpose as a spell against poison. reciting the text over the images of four gods, including isis and horus, and making the patient eat a paper inscribed with the spell was guaranteed to be successful a million times. 15 re, the sun god the egyptian cat goddess bastet uraeus the enraged cobra is the symbol of the sun god (and of the pharaohs, who wore it on their foreheads; it is often depicted attached to the sun disc. according to one myth, the world was created by the archer goddess neith from the primeval waters of nun. she created the gods by saying their names, and then (in cow form) gave birth to the all-powerful r

nun, who represents the primeval waters or flood, holds up the barque of the sun. to some extent the mythology of ancient egypt simply reflects the land of egypt itself. egypt was described by the greek historian herodotus as the gift of the nile, and without the annual flooding of the nile, which made a strip either side of the river fertile, egypt could not have survived. the importance of the sun god s journey from east to west, and the primeval flood represented by the god nun, is clear. horus the falcon-headed horus, son of isis and osiris, was one of the greatest egyptian gods. he was essentially a sky god; his left eye was the moon and his right eye was the sun. in his role as the sun god he merged with re as re-harakhty. oh you who are great in your barque, bring me to your barque

to it with her wings; it was at this moment that she conceived a son, horus, who would avenge his father. the revived osiris went down to the dark and desolate underworld to be the lord and judge of the dead. falcon s head horus is usually depicted either as a hawk or as a man with a hawk s head. he was originally a god of the sky, and his eyes were said to be the sun and the moon; in his role as sun god he merged with re. hence, when he lay dying as a child, the sky went dark (see box above. wife and mother isis was the archetypal wife and mother; with her hand echoing the shape of osiris shoulder, mirrored on the other side by horus, she emphasizes the unity of this family. she is often depicted nursing the infant horus. cow s horns isis wears a solar disc between cow horns, revealing he

oth references to episodes in the story of his journey beyond the ocean to find out why humans must die. enkidu this bull-headed figure is enkidu, the only creature to equal gilgamesh in strength. he was created from mud and spit, had a rough and hairy body, and grew up in the forest with the animals, knowing nothing of mankind. the gods who created gilgamesh gave him a perfect body. shamash, the sun god, gave him beauty, and adad, the storm god, gave him courage. until the gods created enkidu to curb his arrogance and be his companion, no one could surpass his strength. after killing humbaba and the bull of heaven, the god anu said that either enkidu or gilgamesh must die as a punishment. the gods ea and enlil agreed so, despite the pleas of shamash the sun god (to whom the heroes had sac

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eters were treated as creator gods, and many gods were intentionally combined into units (such as amon-thoth-ra) in order to form a god which would be powerful enough to qualify as the creator god. neters as symbols we returned to discussing the neters as ways of viewing possibility and potentiality, and ways of viewing different aspects of the universe and of the individual. for example, ra, the sun god, was a most pervasive and powerful being, since every single day, there he is in the sky. ra was consistent, reliable, and therefore powerful. similarly each force in nature was given a personality, because each force in nature has a personality (or seems to, to those who humanize such things. this is the basic principle behind most spirits of most animistic religions. these personalities

e carnal aspect of man, which the satanist feels to have been not only neglected by conventional religions but also actively repressed, at the cost of inducing a great many neuroses and much unnecessary suffering. in a broader, more general sense, i apply the term to the setian philosophy (whose patron is the oldest semblance of the prince of darkness known to us, the egyptian set, brother of the sun god horus, and symbolic of the night and the lunar principle 4, the first principle of which is the egyptian hieroglyph xeper 5, which means "become" or "come into being" and is symbolized by the scarab beetle. the setian philosophy espoused by the temple of set is highly eclectic and highly existential. for this reason, the sacred and mythical animals associated with the neters 6 are interpre

the university of texas press, 1990) page 21 explains: at some point these [eight] entities who comprised the primordial substance interacted explosively and snapped whatever balanced tensions had contained their elemental powers [f]rom the burst of energy released within the primal matter, the primeval mound was thrust clear. its. original emergence was described as the isle of flame because the sun god was born on it and the cosmos witnessed the fiery glow of the first sunrise. events then develop in the newly created universe, but three pairs of the ogdoad take no further interest and stay immune and immutable in the vortex. amun and amaunet, however, throw in their lot with the new order. working: creating a balance between inspiration and precision [the chamber is set up with a main a

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hubal, sent by the amalekites from hit, stands above the treasury well, hubal the shepherd, the waxing crescent moon; also, glowering, dangerous kain. he is the waning crescent, blacksmith and musician; he, too, has his devotees. hubal and kain look down on grandee and poet as they stroll. and the nabataean proto-dionysus, he-of-shara; the morning star, astarte, and saturnine nakruh. here is the sun god, manaf! look, there flaps the giant nasr, the god in eagleform! see quzah, who holds the rainbow. is this not a glut of gods, a stone flood, to feed the glutton hunger of the pilgrims, to quench their unholy thirst. the deities, to entice the travellers, come- like the pilgrims- from far and wide. the idols, too, are delegates to a kind of international fair. there is a god here called all

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ods. these gods had certain similarities in both traditions. many gods and goddesses personified elements of nature. in the mesopotamian pantheon, or collection of gods, the most important were the trio of the sky god, an (or anu; the god of storm and the earth, enlil; and the water god, ea (or enki. these were followed in importance by a second triad comprised of the moon god, nanna (or sin; the sun god, utu (or shamash; and the goddess of fertility and war, inanna 37 (also called ishtar. in the later stages of mesopotamian civilization the local god marduk became head of the pantheon. in egyptian religion the primary god was amen (amon or amun, king of the gods. next in importance was ra (or re, the sun god. these two were eventually joined in the cult of amen-ra. a cult is a religion co

ance, was a center near present-day cairo where atum was worshipped. here, it was thought that atum created himself out of the void, and then either spit or sneezed out shu, the god of air, and tefnut, the goddess of moisture. these two in turn gave birth to geb, the earth god, and nut, the sky goddess. from them came two pairs of siblings: osiris and isis, and set and nephtys. eventually ra, the sun god, took the place of atum in the pantheon; later pharaohs, for instance, called themselves sons of ra. ancient egypt and mesopotamia. reproduced by permission of thomson gale. red sea mediterranean sea nile delta river river p e r s i a n g u l f tigris euphrates nile river sinai peninsula arabian peninsula a s i a a f r i c a upper egypt lower egypt memphis aswan thebes ur luxor karnak baby

giza while working as a fully organized theocracy, a government with one god as the supreme leader. this theocracy reflected the role of the pharaoh, a living god whose word was divine law. during the middle kingdom (c. 2181 1786 bce, however, the power of the pharaoh weakened and nobles (lesser royalty) began to take on more individual power. the priestly class also grew much larger. though the sun god ra was the official national god and was worshipped at heliopolis, the cult of osiris became stronger as the central government went into decline. osiris was an early fertility god who, when killed by his brother set and cut into pieces, was put back together again by his wife sister isis. he then became god of the underworld. osiris became identified with the dead pharaoh. his son, horus

d of a falcon, osiris, and isis. adam woolfitt/ corbis. 46 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia the three chief gods in the sumerian pantheon were an, the sky god, enlil, the god of weather and storms, and enki, god of wisdom and the abzu. other important deities included the mother goddess, ninhursag; nanna, god of the moon who helped travelers find their way; utu, sun god and the watchful eye of justice; and inanna, the goddess of love and war and the one who guaranteed the kingship. inanna in particular had a strong and lasting influence on mesopotamian culture. she was featured in many fertility rites, but was also called upon in time of war. over the course of time, with movements of new people into the area, the names of the gods changed. for instance

endants were osiris, set, and isis. these, however, were just a fraction of the gods worshipped by egyptians. some estimates put the total number as high as one or two thousand different deities. what began as animal worship led to an immense pantheon. amen or amen-ra became the most powerful of the gods, center of the national cult; the cult of osiris was second most powerful. the worship of the sun god ra led to the construction of immense pyramids for the pharaohs, sons of ra. the pharaoh was considered a living god, appointed by horus (son and avenger of osiris. for ancient egyptians the gods were subject to the same sense of order and justice, maat, that mortals were. the universe had been created through maat as a replacement for the chaos that once existed. interaction with the gods

sthood s job included praising the gods in hymns and prayers. the two excerpts here, the exaltation of inana and hymn to ra, show how differently mesopotamians and ancient egyptians viewed their gods. the mesopotamian goddess innana (spelled inana in this translation) is described by her priestess enheduanna as fierce and capable of much destruction. the royal scribe nekht associates the egyptian sun god ra (also spelled re) with love and joy. the exaltation of inana lady of all the divine powers, resplendent [dazzling] light, righteous woman clothed in radiance, beloved of an and urac! mistress of heaven, with the great pectoral jewels, who loves the good headdress befitting the office of en priestess, who has seized all seven of its divine powers! my lady, you are the guardian of the gre

mportant to egyptians as the mother of the living horus. maat: the goddess of truth and justice. she oversees harmony and justice. her symbol is the feather, which she is often shown wearing on her head. osiris: the god of the dead and of resurrection, he is also the ruler of the underworld. osiris is married to isis and is the father of horus. he is shown as a mummified man, all in white ra: the sun god. ra, or re, is one of the most important egyptian gods. he is shown as a man with a hawk s head, wearing a headdress with a sun disk. world religions: almanac 61 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia divorce was allowed, but usually only when requested by the man. in this case the woman s property had to be returned to the bride s family. little is known about the actual ceremony of t

religions: almanac 221 greco-roman religion and philosophy directly from zeus s forehead. because she was the protector and defender of athens, she is often depicted as armed. artemis, the goddess of hunting and wild places, was also a moon goddess. she was apollo s twin sister, and young men and girls held her sacred because she was a virgin. hermes was the messenger of the gods. apollo was the sun god and the god of music and prophesy, or predictions on the future. he also represented law and order, appearing in court in aeschylus s plays. hephaestus was the god of fire and crafts requiring fire, such as metalworking. he was also the god of volcanoes. poseidon was the god of the sea, but he was also god of horses and earthquakes. hestia was the goddess of the home and hearth. in that ro

icult to determine with any certainty just how many shinto followers exist. some polls show that about 3.3 percent of japanese people identify shinto as their primary religious affiliation. other polls give much higher percentages, up to 40 percent. the best estimates are that about four million people are shinto, making it the fifteenth-largest religion in the world. words to know amaterasu: the sun goddess. folk (minzoku) shinto: shinto that emphasizes folk beliefs, or common beliefs, of rural agricultural laborers. four affirmations: a code of conduct by which shintoists live, including emphases on tradition and family, nature, cleanliness, and worship of the kami. izanagi: the male figure in the shinto creation myth. izanami: the female figure in the shinto creation myth. jinja: shrine

clan overran another, the kami of the defeated clan became subject to that of the conquering clan. in this way the hierarchy, or order, of the kami constantly shifted. later, when the japanese began to form a more centralized government with a supreme emperor at its head, this belief in kami was used to give authority to the emperor. because the emperor claimed direct descent from amaterasu, the sun goddess, the emperor s clan was more powerful than any other clan and possessed the right to rule japan. two historical events had a major impact on the development of shinto. one was the introduction of writing in the fifth century of the common era. the other was the arrival of buddhism in the sixth century. by the seventh century japan had fallen under the influence of its much larger neigh

diplomatic ties with the united states and other western nations (the 396 world religions: almanac shinto countries of europe and the americas. japanese leaders believed that since japan was going to enter into the modern world, it had to have a strong national identity. one way to forge such an identity was to have a national state religion that was unique to japan. shinto was that religion. the sun goddess, amaterasu, peers from her cave at the other gods as they tempt her to bring light back to the world. the japanese emperor declared himself to be a direct descendent of amaterasu. asian art& archaeology, inc/ corbis. world religions: almanac 397 shinto throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shinto became a way of gaining the support of the people and creating a se

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as fallen. e. peterson, to whom we are indebted for a penetrating analysis of the two prayers, connected the strange name of one of the prayers =u!tika (i.196, with the fifth hour of the day: in pgm iv.9, the time of the =u!tika is the fifth hour. according to iv.174ff, this is the hour when the sun is in zenith and the magician turns to his god typhon.6 the puzzling portrayal of seth-typhon as a sun god in greco-roman times remains to be fully accounted for,7 but that religio-historical problem lies outside the scope of this paper. 5 secret books 104f. already r. wunsch, sethianische verfluchungstafeln aus rom (leipzig 1898) 108- 113, 116, et passim, argued for an amalgamation of seth-typhon and seth-christ. he was effectively refuted by k. preisendanz, akephalos. der kopflose gott, beihe

been proven wrong that the gospel of the egyptians shows an amalgamation of egyptian seth and jewish seth. bleeker only referred to doresse in substantiation of his statement that such an identification could be found. there is no evidence for doresse's theory that the gnostics took seth-typhon to be a beneficial deity and merged him with jewish seth. furthermore, when seth-typhon appears as the sun god in the magical papyri, there is no trace of a welding with the jewish figure of seth. ii in his article "egyptian seth and gnostic seth (above, n. 3, b.a. pearson says that, to his knowledge, the jewish figure of seth does not occur in the greek magical papyri (p. 28. he goes on "there is one possible occurrence in a coptic curse-manuscript now in berlin, where the only-begotten son of god

os (above, n. 5) 44. doresse apparently followed the reading proposed by a. delatte "etudes sur la magie grecque, v. akefalo% yeo, bulletin de correspondance hellenique 38 (1914) 196, line 12. 11 reg. vi p. 216 and 229 (nre ibet "eastern rhe [k. schmidt; reg. xii p. 244 and 247; cf. the preface to the 3rd volume in a. henrichs' edition of 1974, p. xvi; see also delatte (above, n. 10. for rhe, the sun god, and seth, see abrasax ii (above, n. 9) p. 25 (on line 514. seth in the magical texts 89 later, in a series of magic names 'iao iao seth seth (ii.1) may reflect the identification, iao= seth-typhon."12 whereas pearson is somewhat cautious, w. vycichl is not. in the article "magic, in the recently published coptic encyclopedia, the latter says" c there can be no doubt that the egyptian god

e net conclusion of the present article is that neither seth, the son of adam, nor christ is ever welded with the egyptian god seth-typhon. ann arbor jarl fossum brian glazer 412-418. for the palindrome beginning with this name, see now also p. mich. xvi.757 j 1 (suppl. mag. ii.48) and suppl. mag. ii.95.14-16. 31 see c. bonner, studies in magical amulets (ann arbor 1950) 203. the amulets show the sun god iao-harpocrates. doresse did not cite this evidence either. 32 the name is the first part of a palindrome; for the decipherment of which see tardieu "aberamentho" 416. in the glossary at the end of the greek magical papyri in translation, it is said that "no meaningful decipherment of the word has been put forward (331. for thoth's connection with the flood of the nile, see d. bonneau, la

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christ. as such, to many ancient cultures, it is not a symbol of sacrifice, but still remains as a solar symbol. this also includes the ankh, which many attribute to the planet c, but because the planet is so close to the a it contains many of its qualities. the oldest example of such usage can be found during the kassite period between 1746-1171 bc, of an equilateral cross on a cylinder where a sun god was seated. it was also found in many of the assyrian artifacts in america before the arrival of columbus. even though these crosses may not have meant crucifixtion, we still see that it contains a very similar element, for it also means, victory, heaven, a, life, etc. through the understanding of the mysteries, we find that only through sacrifice can all of these be obtained. it almost co

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were treated as creator gods, and many gods were intentionally combined into units (such as amon-thoth-ra) in order to form a god which would be powerful enough to qualify as the creator god. 1572 neters as symbols we returned to discussing the neters as ways of viewing possibility and potentiality, and ways of viewing different aspects of the universe and of the individual. for example, ra, the sun god, was a most pervasive and powerful being, since every single day, there he is in the sky. ra was consistent, reliable, and therefore powerful. similarly each force in nature was given a personality, because each force in nature has a personality (or seems to, to those who humanize such things. this is the basic principle behind most spirits of most animistic religions. these personalities

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ations. j. robert oppenheimer, the soviet spy who oversaw the manhattan project, the building of the first atomic bomb, and was present when the humongous mushroom cloud rose with its imploding plumes of fire, is said to have exclaimed "i am became the destroyer of worlds" few realized that this is a quote right out of the hindu scriptures, the "bhagavad gita, and it was supposedly from the hindu sun god, krishna. oppenheimer, a jew, appointed to his august scientific position by 33rd degree mason, president franklin d. roosevelt, was deep into the occult and was a cabalist magician. as michael hoffman ii and a few other keen-minded observers have pointed out, the a-bomb project, the transmutation of matter into intense forms of energy, was long an alchemical objective of the illuminati ma

reover, the three messengers from babylon inform the candidate that the true name of god, the name that had been lost for so long, is not jesus, but is jahbuhlun. they conveniently omit mention of the fact that this is, in fact, the name of a monstrous devil god, that the name is an unholy and blasphemous composite of jahweh, baal, and osiris, or on (on is a city in egypt where the worship of the sun god, osiris, is alleged to have begun. somehow, many in masonry today honor and revere osiris under the name of on, the name of his city, curiously spelled un in the name: jahbuhlun) no wonder masonic authority w.l. wilmshurst, in his highly thought of (by masons) the meaning of masonry, proclaims this degree so vital to the transformation of the candidate's life. he even suggests that in atta

rup his fides oath of allegiance to jahbuhlun, his sacred god. but, believe me, there is no relationship of the mason to moses, a prophet of god who loyally worshipped the true i am, the god who reigns for all eternity in heaven. hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 59 60 codex magica george washington in a masonic pose. around his neck is the emblem of the moon goddess, feminine complement to the sun god, osiris, secretly worshipped in occult freemasonry. this emblem, combined with the diamond-shaped device just above it, indicates that washington had taken the vow of vengence to all enemies of the order of the illuminati. hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun m 61 the marquis de lafayette of france presented george washington with this masonic apron which is now preserved in the library of

l. yet another meaning is that the hand with all five fingers showing, palm outward, indicates that one is giving honor and admiration to the underworld deity. its essential meaning "thank you o subterranean lord for your deceptive wisdom and for your cunning aid in our struggle to overcome our enemies and to effect the great work" pharaoh ramses paying homage to the god horus, son of osiris, the sun god deity symbolized as the allseeing eye in the capstone on the u.s.a.'s dollar bill. quite possibly, the masons' sign of admiration and astonishment came from practices of adherents to the old mystery religions of babylon and egypt (from book, other worlds, hilary evans, readers digest books, 1998) on all occasions when the egyptian high priest was called to officiate, he wore his robe of of

ent's desk in the oval offices directly in front of clinton is the eagle, in the presidential seal or logo, with its face turned to the left. but on the carpet just in front of the desk one finds the presidential seal facing toward the right: two eagles, each facing in the opposite direction. this is clearly the double-headed eagle of freemasonry, a symbol representing the serpent, honored as the sun god in the mystery religions with its eagle-like, allseeing eye. in other words: lucifer! solar god of bill clinton and the illuminati. meanwhile, in clinton's left hand (see page 183 of codex magica) is a rose sign of the illuminati's blood covenant and the rosicrucian order. you will also find here a photo of former yugoslav serb leader slobodan milosevic, likewise holding a rose in his hand

s an israeli mossad asset. eleven "cross my heart and hope to die" the mysterious "x" factor an x is an ancient symbol for change or transformation .long associated in medieval and renaissance art with the coming of the messiah who shall make all things new. jim tresner, 33 scottish rite journal the illuminist/masonic meaning of the x is simply this: it is the sign of osiris, the great (egyptian) sun god. texe marrs dark majesty t h e sign, or letter, x, has a long history of use in the ancient mystery religions, in apostate judaism, in freemasonry, and in the occult. the illuminati elite use it to this day to symbolize key phenomena and mark significant events. the mysterious letter x seems to take on a wide and varied life of its own, with or without the secret aid of the elite sponsorsh

ce. two well-known black muslim leaders have been named malcolm x and louis x, names they chose for themselves. the latter, who was born louis eugene wolcott in 1933 in new york city, changed his name to louis x after his conversion to islam by black muslim leader elijah muhammed. today, he is known as louis farrakhan. it is well-known that farrakhan is a 33 prince hall mason. x as symbol for the sun god according to dr. c.j. koster, head of the institute for scripture research in south africa, x was the emblem of the chaldean (babylonian) sky god. koster says that x was an ancient symbol of the sun deity and that the letter carried with it sexual connotations. in the old semitic languages, x represented the cross.1 freemasonry early-on latched onto this letter exactly because of its paran

ian connection from what source do the masons draw for this funeral symbolism of the x? in my book, dark majesty, i explain the egyptian connection: in ancient egypt, the mark of "x" and the symbol of cross-bones in the symbol of an x was very prominent in religious contexts. you can find the x on the walls of a number of ancient egyptians temples and pyramids..it is the sign of osiris, the great sun god. the ancient pharaohs, when they were buried, had the legs crossed in the form of "x" as a sign of devotion to osiris' today, as in ancient egypt, osiris the sun god is worshipped; now the homage and veneration comes from the masons and their fellow illuminists. these confused and perverted men mistakenly believe they are illumined (enlightened) by their solar deity, the great architect, j

ported by jesuits, masons, and jews (rothschild interests) all of whom were aware of its true, occultic origins. moreover, the degree of the scottish rite of freemasonry emphasizes the x- shaped cross of saint andrew. cross my heart and hope to die" 235 236 codex magica illuminism in space: nasa patches are loaded with pagan, occultic, and masonic meanings, including the x of osiris, the egyptian sun god. an x is formed as america's top four politicians met at the white house to decide the fate of the federal budget. obviously, this was a staged "photo op" event, but for vice president al gore and house speaker newt gingrich to reach over the clasped hands of president bill clinton and senate majority leader bob dole was a serious breach of etiquette (usa today, december 21, 1995 "cross my

ian monument, may enlighten you as to the lion's grip and the master's gavel" two standards of the ritual ceremony for the master degree. in the picture, the candidate, lying on the floor, is about to be "raised" by the powerful grip of the lion's paw. the lion is carrying in his right hand the ankh, symbol of reincarnation, or regeneration. the "x" on the man's chest tells us this is osiris, the sun god who was slain but arose from the dead, being pieced back together by his beautiful queen, isis "cross my heart and hope to die" 239 beginning on page 801 of albert pike's classic textbook, morals and dogma, we find an explanation of the 29th degree, grand scottish knight of st. andrew. 240 codex magica lisa marie presley demonstrates her cabalistic knowledge in this body pose in a news mag

un.8 detail from a moslem coat-ofarms shows heraldic eagle bearing sufi octagonal calligraphic motto on its breast (from the book, a history of secret societies, by arkon daraul, citadel press, secaucus, new jersey, 1961) the eagle is the sun the herder dictionary of symbols notes that the eagle has long been a symbol of power, endurance, and heavenward flight. it also symbolizes the sun (and the sun god) and spiritual majesty. coil's masonic encyclopedia says that "to the pagans, the eagle was an emblem of jupiter, and with the druids it was a symbol of their supreme god" the eagle appears in the insignia of many nations, including ancient rome, nazi and modern-day germany, czarist russia, and the united states of america. the rothschilds adopted the double-headed eagle as the logo of the

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gic to put him back together. osiris rose from the dead and became for all of his followers a god of resurrection. the cult of osiris was established at abydos, where he became known as the lord of the death or lord of the west, referring to his mastery over all those who had traveled west into the sunset of death. the theology of osiris, which promised resurrection, soon overshadowed that of the sun god ra and became the dominant feature of all egyptian religion. ra was a creator god, fundamentally solar, a king by nature, whose theology concerned itself with the world, its origin, creation, and the laws that governed it. osiris and his doctrines were concerned with the problems of life, death, resurrection, and an afterlife. the connection between the two deities was horus, who was a sky

call himself akhenaten. because of his revolutionary religious views, his contemporaries chose to call him heretic, and he remains a controversial historical figure to this day. during the so-called old kingdom period of egyptian history (c. 2700 2185 b.c.e, pharaohs were considered to be divine, representatives of the many gods of ancient egypt, and the earthly incarnation of the great god, the sun god, ra. during the middle kingdom (c. 2000 1785 b.c.e) when the egyptian power base shifted from heliopolis, near the junction of upper and lower egypt, to thebes in upper egypt, the theban god amun became combined with ra to become amun-ra. although he was generally depicted in human form, amun-ra was still considered the great god/creator being and still identified with the sun, and since e

tered into a period of great power and posterity, he was esteemed as a mighty and benevolent god. when amenhotep iv became pharoah about the year 1367 b.c.e, he inherited his father s name, as well as his throne. amenhotep means amun is content, but the young ruler neglected his responsibility to amun and paid special attention to the aten, the representation of the sun s disc and a symbol of the sun god ra. while there is evidence that the pharoah s mother, queen tiye, may have been associated with a cult of the aten and may have been influential in her son s growing belief in a single god; his spiritual path was established at an early age. choosing to call himself akhenaten (it is pleasing to the aten, the pharoah declared that there was only one god, his father aten. by his royal decre

a new capital for egypt, called akhetaton or amarna t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mystery religions and cults 259 pharoah akhenaten (corbis corporation (known today as tell el-amarna, 300 miles north of thebes. the mystically enlightened akhenaten stayed true to tradition only in that he, as pharoah, was the single most unique son of the sun god on earth and only through his physical being could other mortals approach the great god. akhenaten insisted upon naturalism in all of egyptian life, including its artistic representation of the pharoah and his family. such a command to portray only truth in art gave posterity a unique portrait of this religious reformer who so jarred history. while the portraits and the famous statue of hi

aimed the initiate s resurrection and who brought him refreshing food and drink. later, at an appropriate time in the temple of osiris, the newly initiated member of the cult would be asked to describe any visions that he experienced or any prophetic messages that he received while on the journey of light with osiris. the theology of osiris that promised resurrection soon overshadowed that of the sun god ra (re. ra was a creator god, fundamentally solar, a king by nature, whose theology concerned itself with the world its origin, creation, and the laws that governed it. osiris and his doctrines were concerned with the problems of life, death, resurrection, and an afterlife. the connection between the two deities was horus, who was a sky god of the heavens and also the dutiful son and heir

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ted in 356 b.c.e. in a marshy area where several earlier temples had stood, it was destroyed by the goths in 262. the mausoleum of halicarnassus. built around 353 b.c.e, it was a marble tomb for king mausolus of caria in asia minor. it was damaged by an earthquake, and during medieval times its marble was used to fortify a castle. the colossus of rhodes. a 100-foot-high bronze statue of the greek sun god helios, it was erected about 280 b.c.e. to guard the entrance to the harbor at rhodes, a mediterranean island, but it was destroyed about 55 years later. the pharos of alexandria. a lighthouse erected around 280 b.c.e, it fell into ruins by the mid- 1300s because of a series of earthquakes. located on an island in the harbor of alexandria, egypt, and rising 440 feet, it was the tallest bui

ative american groups east of the mississippi. sources: lane, ralph. gthe colony at roanoke. h [online] http//www. nationalcenter.org/colonyofroanoke.html. miller, lee. roanoke: solving the mystery of the lost colony. new york: arcade publishing, 2001. the desertion of roanoke limestonecannot be dated by modern techniques such as radiocarbon dating. the sphinx, in ricke fs opinion, represents the sun god that peers into the sanctuaries of the temple. the temple is situated on an east-west axis that points to the spring and autumn equinoxes. a second temple, constructed more than a thousand years later, is oriented toward the winter solstice. at the time the later temple was built, the sphinx was buried up to its neck in sand and was called hor-em-akhet. the sphinx itself forms an image of

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at here on malkuth, our immediate symbolic link with the lord of light and strength is through the life-giving rays of the sun. the name of e,heieh is vibrated after the western pentagram is drawn. eheieh, meaning "i am" is the divine name of kether. the west is the place of sunset, the completion of the sun's journey across the sky. it represents rest and peace. to the ancient egyptians, ra, the sun god died each night when he entered amentet (the west. the west is a symbol of the completion of the soul's journey and the goal of spiritual growth. therefore the west is an emblem of kether, the goal which we seek throughout our incarnation on earth and which we hope to reach at the end of life, when we (like ra) journey to amentet. the name eheieh vibrated in the west suggests that the goal

"woman who changes" a shape-shifter who signified transformation and immortality) 21. eskimo sea god who rules the waves and the tides. he also brings joy. 22. creator god of the iroquois and huron tribes who was known for defeating demons and giving magic. giver of the herb tobacco. 23. a healing spirit of the dakota (sioux) tribes (an alternative deity for tiphareth would be shakuru, the pawnee sun god) 24. eskimo goddess of game and hunting. 25. pawnee sky god who taught the skills of speech, fire-making, hunting, clothing, agriculture, and religious ceremonies (alternative deity for hod would be coyote, known to many tribes, yanauluha, the great medicine man of the zuni tribe, and waukheon, the "thunderbird" known to many tribes as a rain and messenger god) 26. an alternative deity for

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se, provided this notice of attribution is left intact. next: note sacred texts egypt ehh index vol. i vol. ii vol. iii the book of gates by e. a. wallis budge [1905 (original title) the short form of the book of am-tuat and the book of gates the book of gates is an ancient egyptian cosmological treatise describing the architecture and inhabitants of the tuat, the underworld which the boat of the sun god, ra, traverses during the night hours. this is the second volume of the three volume budge series which deals with the books of the underworld, the egyptian heaven and hell. it also includes a short summary of the book of am-tuat, the longer version of which comprises the first volume. title page note contents the short form of the book of am-tuat the first hour the second hour the third h

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t which day or hour he or she may employ the magic of a particular planetary god-form, it is sometimes useful to use the divisions of astrological times as a kind of esoteric filing system. by allotting certain times to certain gods, the mind is aided in focus- ing upon the qualities and powers of those gods. for example, if each sunday is set apart for ritual observances dedicated to helios, the sun god, the magus will dis- cover that it is easier to communicate with helios on sunday than on the other days of the week. regular habit in ritual establishes and maintains a pattern in the astral world which particular spirits can recognize and come to anticipate. there is no essential affiliation between helios and sunday. if the sun were ritually invoked and medi- tated upon each thursday, t

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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 from the sky to impart to isis the words of power that were to raise her dead child horus to life [fn#73] i.e, the fluid of life of the sun, and the fluid of life of the moon. the sun and the moon were the visible, material symbols of the sun god [fn#74] the attributes of this god are not well defined. he was a god of the eastern delta, and was associated with the cities where temu was worshipped. the legend of horus of behutet and the winged disk. xii. in the three hundred and sixty-third year of ra-heru-khuti, who liveth for ever and forever, his majesty was in ta-kens,[fn#75] and his soldiers were with him [the enemy] did not co

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on myth reconstruction which i have proposed, this is the day on which the restored llew takes his vengeance on goronwy by piercing him with the sunlight spear. for llew was restored/reborn at the winter solstice and is now well/old enough to vanquish his rival/twin and mate with his lover/mother. and the great mother goddess, who has returned to her virgin aspect at candlemas, welcomes the young sun god's embraces and conceives a child. the child will be born nine months from now, at the next winter solstice. and so the cycle closes at last. we think that the customs surrounding the celebration of the spring equinox were imported from mediterranean lands, although there can be no doubt that the first inhabitants of the british isles observed it, as evidence from megalithic sites shows. bu

wl proved the strongest man at last* t h e d e a t h o f l l e w a seasonal interpretation= by mike nichols* not of father, nor of mother was my blood, was my body. i was spellbound by gwydion, prime enchanter of the britons, when he formed me from nine blossoms-'hanes blodeuwedd' r. graves, trans. eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 31* in most pagan cultures, the sun god is seen as split between two rival personalities: the god of light and his twin, his 'weird, his 'other self, the god of darkness. they are gawain and the green knight, gwyn and gwythyr, llew and goronwy, lugh and balor, balan and balin, the holly king and the oak king, etc. often they are depicted as fighting seasonal battles for the favor of their goddess/lover, such as creiddylad or blo

f light in the day are eclipsed by the hours of darkness. at the vernal equinox, the process is reversed. also, the autumnal equinox, called 'harvest home, is already associated with sacrifice, principally that of the spirit of grain or vegetation. in this case, the god of light would be identical. in welsh mythology in particular, there is a startling vindication of the seasonal placement of the sun god's death, the significance of which occurred to me in a recent dream, and which i haven't seen elsewhere. llew is the welsh god of light, and his name means 'lion (the lion is often the symbol of a sun god) he is betrayed by his 'virgin' wife blodeuwedd, into standing with one foot on the rim of a cauldron and the other on the back of a goat. it is only in this way that llew can be killed

ife pattern of llew and goronwy to its ultimate conclusion. although llew is struck with the sunlight spear at the autumnal equinox, and so 'dies' as a human, it takes a while before gwydion discovers him in his eagle form. how long? we may speculate 13 weeks, when the sun reaches the midpoint of the sign (or form) of the eagle, scorpio- on halloween. and if this is true, it may be that llew, the sun god, finally 'dies' to the upper world on halloween, and now passes through the gates of death, where he is immediately crowned king of the underworld, the lord of misrule (in medieval tradition, the person proclaimed as 'lord of misrule' reigned from halloween to old christmas- or, before the calender changes, until the winter solstice) meanwhile, goronwy (with blodeuwedd at his side) is crow

t get any book for free on: www.abika.com 34 at the vernal equinox, goronwy will then ascend the underworld throne at beltane, but will be reborn into our world at midsummer, as a babe, later to defeat llew all over again. and so the cycle closes at last, resembling nothing so much as an intricately woven, never-ending bit of celtic knotwork. so midsummer (to me, at least) is a celebration of the sun god at his zenith, a crowned king on his throne. he is at the height of his power and still 1/4 of a year away from his ritual death at the hands of his rival. however, at the very moment of his greatest strength, his dark twin, the seed of his destruction, is born- just as the days begin to shorten. the spear and the cauldron have often been used as symbols for this holiday and it should now

h, a crowned king on his throne. he is at the height of his power and still 1/4 of a year away from his ritual death at the hands of his rival. however, at the very moment of his greatest strength, his dark twin, the seed of his destruction, is born- just as the days begin to shorten. the spear and the cauldron have often been used as symbols for this holiday and it should now be easy to see why. sun gods are virtually always associated with spears (even jesus is pierced by one, and the midsummer cauldron of cancer is a symbol of the goddess in her fullness. if we have learned anything from this story from the fourth branch of the 'mabinogion, it is about the power of myth- how it may still instruct and guide us, many centuries after it has passed from oral to written tradition. and in stu

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ts even on dirty water; this realized, our mind clears up. 461 when the water in your mind clears up calm stars can be seen reflected on it. 462 someone else s question, somehow you can answer; but, your mind s question, how can you answer? 538 the jewel is in your bosom; why look for it somewhere else? 557 push aside those leaves heaped on the old path; you ll see the invisible footprints of the sun goddess. 568 pine trees in the wind don t break; they always scatter the snow before it s too heavy for their branches. 569 pine winds, moonlight on the field grasses are all that i have: besides, no visitors. 593 so the full moon is admired like a well-rounded mind but once it was a sharp-edged crescent. 603 be round, thoroughly round, human mind! square minds often scratch. 604 you may try t

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

1, 10, 100. and in greek a, i, r, a=1, 10, 100, 1000. according to the canon, of 1897, anonymous work, 32. a vesica piscis (the figure formed by the intersection of two equal circles) whose dimensions are 26 and 15, is a symbol of the hidden rule or canon by which natural laws were represented to initiates in the secret wisdom of the ancient mysteries. the greek gods zeus, jupiter and apollo, the sun god, have the same numerical relation. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott# 33. part four numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott chapter four the individual numerals the monad, one, 1 he number one or the monad has been defined by the mathematician theon of smyrna as the principal and element of numbers, which while mul

es living man alone among animals erect. on adding a head we make of it p, the sign of creative power (paternity, phallus, pan, the greek gods and priapus, all commencing with the vocable p. another dash added, and we have man walking, advancing, with foot set forward, in the letter r. which signifies iens, iturus, or advancing. compare unity, solus, alone, the unique principle of good; with sol, sun god, the emblem of supreme power; and they are identical. the hebrew word for one is achd, achad, and it is often put for god; god s one voice to man is the bath kol, the echo or daughter of the divine voice. the talmud in berachoth vi. i says that the shekinah shall rest even upon one who studies the law. one pang of remorse is of more avail for reformation than many stripes. one thing obtain

seven lambs, genesis, chapter xxi. vv. 28, 21-28. the hebrew word seven, also sh b o h, is derived from, or is similar to sh b, o, to swear. 75. clean beasts were admitted into the ark by sevens, whilst the unclean only in pairs. the goths had 7 deities from whom come our names of weekdays; sun, moon, tuisco, wotan, thor, friga, seatur, corresponding, of course, to the seven planets. apollo, the sun god, had a greek title ebdomaios, sevenfold. the persian mithras, a sun god, had the number 7 sacred to him. note the mysterious kadosh ladder of 7 steps ascent and 7 steps descent, the one side oheb eloah, love of god; the other oheb kerobo, love of the neighbor. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott plato, in his timaeus, teaches that from the number seve

. the seven wonders of the world are thus enumerated: 1. pyramids of egypt. 2. the hanging gardens of babylon, for semiramis. 3. tomb of mausolus, king of caria, at halicarnassus, built by artemisia, his queen. 4. temple of diana at ephesus, 552 b.c. ctesiphon was the chief architect. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 5. colossus of rhodes, an image of the sun god, apollo, of brass, 290 b.c. 76. 6. statue of zeus, at athens, by phidias. 7. pharos of egypt, built by ptolemy philadelphus, of white marble, 283 b.c; or the palace of cyrus which is sometimes substituted. sapta rishi, seven sages. sapta kula, 7 castes; sapta loka, seven worlds; sapta para, 7 cities; sapta dwipa, seven holy islands; sapta arania, 7 deserts; sapta parna, 7 human principles;

rld and are as follows: table of planets, aniiimals and metals planet animal metal moon bull silver mercury serpent quicksilver venus dove, copper sun lion gold mars wolf iron jupiter eagle pewter saturn ass lead numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott note also the number of 7 pipes in the musical instrument at the mouth of the old deity pan, the great whole, a sun god (not the later rural pan. 78. an ancient symbol of the universe was a ship with seven pilots, in the center of the ship, a lion; possibly from an idea that the sun first rose in leo. note aries supplanted taurus, as the constellation in which the sun rises at the vernal equinox; taurus was the sign at the early fabulous periods of the earth it was displaced about 300 b.c. the sign becomes

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ected to their- 39- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust methods. all of them "descended into hell and rose again on the third day" there are twenty or thirty of these stories scattered through the centuries of human history, and the stories and the missions are ever identical "the jesus-story, it will now be seen, has a greater number of correspondences with the stories of former sungods and with the actual career of the sun through the heavens so many indeed that they cannot well be attributed to mere coincidence or even to the blasphemous wiles of the devil! let us enumerate some of these. there are (1) birth from a virgin mother (2) the birth in a stable (cave or underground chamber; and (3) on the 25th december (just after the winter solstice. there is (4) the star in

of these. there are (1) birth from a virgin mother (2) the birth in a stable (cave or underground chamber; and (3) on the 25th december (just after the winter solstice. there is (4) the star in the east (sirius) and (5) the arrival of the magi (the `three kings; there is (6) the threatened massacre of the innocents, and the consequent flight into a distant country (told also of krishna and other sungods. there are the church festivals of (7) candlemas (2nd february, with processions of candles to symbolise the growing light; of (8) lent, or the arrival of spring; of (9) easter day (normally on 25th march) to celebrate the crossing of the equator by the sun; and (10) simultaneously the outburst of lights at the holy sepulchre at jerusalem. there is (11) the crucifixion and death of the lam

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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 solstice and made sacred to the sons of light (e. valentia straiton, the celestial ship of the north, vol. ii, p. 205- 53- the labours of hercules symbols the astrological symbol for the sign cancer has no relation at all to the crab. it is composed of two "asses" tails, and these again link up the gospel story with the story of the manger. in connection

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ames for queen semiramis andninkharsag, also known as isis, the egyptian symbol of the femalecreative force without which nothing, not even the sun, could exist.over time, names for what had once symbolised extraterrestrialgods became used to describe concepts and esoteric principles.different eras and cultures gave different names to these same figure 14: aphoenicianstanding stonedepicting their sungod, bel or bil, withthe halorepresenting therays of the sun.this is precisely theway jesus isportrayed becausehe, too, was asymbol of the sun.92concepts and so in the gospels, horus becamejesus and isis became mary, the virgin mother ofjesus, the sun. mary is constantly picturedholding the baby jesus, but this is merely a repeatof all the egyptian portrayals of isis holding thebaby horus (see

place v endome and all around that square at first floor level aresymbols of the sun and the cross, very much like the symbols used by the ancients tosymbolise the journey of the sun through the year which i featured earlier in the book.this was the symbol of king louis xiv, who was known as the sun king. at hispalace at v ersailles in the 17th century he decorated rooms in honour of apollo, the sungod, and diana, the goddess of the moon. there was also a statue of the goddess dianaat v ersailles. in the centre of the v endome square is an immense pillar with a statue ofnapoleon on the top and it mirrors the famous nelsons column in trafalgar square,london. at this stage diana still had the same level of security that shed had since theairport, but this could have been increased considera

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d hand in the tissues of herbivorous creatures 47. but the sun-god is more than the source of life. he is also the healer when life goes wrong. for it is life, plus, minus, or misdirected, which is the activity in disease processes; disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. it is therefore by adjustments in the life-force that healing must be brought about, and the sungods are the natural gods to invoke in this connection, for life and the sun are so intimately connected. 48. it is by means of their knowledge of the manipulation of the solar influence that the ancient initiate-priests performed their healings, and sun-worship lay at the root of the iesculapian cult of ancient greece. 49. we moderns have learnt the value of sunlight and vitamins in our physio

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ntertainments especially provided for them. and they are universally thought of as finding pleasure in the offerings made to them or the honors conferred upon them. every morning, while ancient prayers are repeated, one member of the family places flowers and food-emblems as offerings of pious affection before the shrine to be found in most japanese homes. on the shrine, beside the symbols of the sungoddess and the tutelary god of the family, one finds the memorial tablets containing names, ages, and dates of death of members of the household. stories circulate through the villages of the souls of ancestors taking material form and remaining visible through centuries. in the month of july three days are set apart for the celebration of the festival of the dead. at this time it is thought t

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6-9: four horses, white, red, black and the pale horse called death, vi, 2-8: four hornsofthegolden altar before the eyes of god, ix, 13, and four angels who were bound in the river euphrates, ix, 14.theancient egyptians in their burials of notable men preserved the internal organs in four canopic jars, dedicated tothenumber four165amset,hapi,taumautefandquebsenuph,theso-called children ofhorus,asungod.thesewereguardedbyfourgoddesses, isis,nephthys,neithandserquet.thenumberfourisprominentin several formsofchron255 ology, for example,thehindoos,who allotted vast ages to human history, toldofakritayuga of joyandspiritual innocence;ofatretayuga which possessed sonsofgod,giants as well as men:ofadwaparayuga, an ageofdoubtandof mixed purityandsin; and afourthage, the kali yuga,ourpresentage of

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

in the assyrian tree of life. table 2. main gods of mesopotamia, the planets connected to them, and their portfolios by akkadian tradition. saturn is hard to interpret, as it is connected to ninurta, but this leads us through nabu straight to mercury. at first sight, the composition of such a table does not seem to be very hard. sumerian nanna and akkadian sin are the moongod, utu or .ama. is the sungod without a hint of doubt. with the rest, however, there are problems. for an estonian, the concept of stars as a heavenly writing. akkadian .i ir .ame or .i ir bur me. sounds quite homely. esarhaddon, a megalomanic assyrian king, said all the stars to be letters in which his name is written (rainer 1995: 9. subsequently, sumer akkad planet main portfolio of the god in akkadian tradition an a

ds quite homely. esarhaddon, a megalomanic assyrian king, said all the stars to be letters in which his name is written (rainer 1995: 9. subsequently, sumer akkad planet main portfolio of the god in akkadian tradition an anu god of heaven enlil marduk (b l) jupiter main god, god of air and earth enki ea god of waters and wisdom nanna sin moon moongod, god of fertility and prosperity utu .ama. sun sungod, god of justice inanna i.tar venus goddess of love and war (ninurta) nabu mercury god of wisdom and writing (savior, redeemer) ninurta ninurta saturn god of war and hunting? nergal mars god of plague, famine, war, and the underworld 15 we bring an excerpt of a list of witnesses from a pact between the same assyrian king and median king ramataia (672 bc, signs denoting the planets are transl

planet fs name followed by its number in gossmann fs catalogue, its pronunciation in akkadian, translation and commentaries. in case of planets, the determinatives dingir (d) and mul (mul) can and have been used interchangeably. the moon the moon, akkadian sin (but (w)arhu as a celestial body only) is generally the first planet in texts, and moongod is the personification of wisdom and father of sungod. from the beginning of mesopotamian history till the end of cuneiform cultures he was considered the eldest of the planetary gods, thus his cult proliferated although he never played a great role in mythology. this archetypal place in the pantheon could be the reason why in the main parts of mesopotamia there never were alternative moongods (though there were some in the periphery, e.g. amo

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and again into three, while still remaining one; they are all different aspects or types of the same mystery. 5. the mysteries of mithras the chief point of contact among the many religions of the roman empire was in the common worship of the sun, and the inner core of this most popular cult was, from about bc 70 onwards, to be found in the mysteries of mithras "the worship of mithras, or of the sungod, was the most popular of heathen cults, and the principle antagonist of the truth during the first four centuries of our period" such is the statement of one who looks at it from the point of view of a christian ecclesiastic, and indeed the church fathers from the time of justin martyr onward have declared that the devil, in the mysteries of mithras, had plagiarized their most sacred rites

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the lotus he had mastery over the plants of the field, and in the form of ptah he became "more powerful than the lord of time, and shall gain the mastery over millions of years" the bennu bird, it will be remembered, was said to be the "soul of ra" and by assuming this form the deceased identified himself with khepera, the great god of creation, and thus acquired the attributes of the soul of the sungod. in the elysian fields he was able to assume any form and to swim and fly to any distance in any direction. it is noteworthy that no beast of the field or wild animal is mentioned as a type of his possible transformations into animals. p. 232 now the egyptians believed that as the souls of the departed could assume the form of any living thing or plant, so the "gods" who in many respects cl

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y connected "with the serpent of scripture and. the tree of life" hoa's wife was the mother of belus.53 the cabalists lifted their entire sephirotic tree of life representing jehovah from the triads of the chaldean-babylonian pantheon (see sephirolh, part 1. the egyptian pantheon was even more ancient, dating from the 27th to the 30th centuries b.c. or even earlier, according to some sources. the sungods of egypt were nine in number. the chief among them was osiris, whose worship was universal. he was "the great deity of amenti or hades [hell" rawlinson described osiris' role as the judge of the dead "it was the universal belief that, immediately after death, the soul descended into the lower world and was conducted to the hall of truth, where it was judged in the presence of osiris and th

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

ries the non-sensory, inner reality of human existence.76 in the light of this principle it is worth considering the egyptian mystery of osiris. in osiris we have a figure who gradually became one of the most important gods of the country. a significant 70 christianity as mystical fact cycle of myths grew up concerning osiris and his consort isis. according to the story, osiris was the son of the sungod; he had a brother, typhon (set, and a sister, isis. osiris married his sister and with her reigned over egypt. but his wicked brother typhon plotted to overthrow osiris and prepared a chest that was exactly the length of osiris body. the chest was presented as a gift at a banquet to whatever person it fitted exactly; this turned out to be none other than osiris, who lay down in the chest. i

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ns; they are not only brave, but cunning and wise, they sit on the shoidders of osinn, and whisper in his ear whatever they see and hear, sa^m. 42' 88^ sn. 42. 56. 322. to the greek apollo too the wolf and raven were sacred^ his messenger the raven informed him when koronis was unfaithful, and aristeas accompanied him as a raven, herod. 4, 15; a raven is perched aloft on the mantle of mithras the sun-god. the gospels represent the holy ghost as a^ in marc. cap. 1, 11, the words 'augiirales vero alitcs ante curriini delio coiistiterunt, are transl. by notker 37: to warcn garo ze apollinis reito sine wizegfogela, ralena unde albisze. to ot5inn hawks are sometimes given instead of ravens: otjins haukar saem. 167. 148 wodan. dove descending upon christ at his baptism, lu. 3, 22, and resting up

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of waterloo (1815) was won on its playing-fields. 128-30. i ve seen them.23 sir j. maundevill, voiage and travill, ch. xvi, recounts a similar incident, and, christian as he is, puts a similar poser. 135. a what?34 i beg your pardon. it was a slip. 146. tahuti.25 in coptic, thoth* title of a (forthcoming) collection of papers on mountain exploration, etc [unpublished t.s] notes 67 149. ra.26 the sun-god. 149. nuit.27 the star-goddess. 152. campbell.28 the waters wild went o er his child, and he was left lamenting. 152. the ibis head.29 characteristic of tahuti. 157. roland s crest.30 see two poets of croisic, xci. 159. a jest.31 see above: ascension day. 162. a mysterious way.32 god moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform; he plants his foodsteps in the sea, and rides upon the st

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fauns and the satyrs, the dryads and the oreads; the lord of the crowns; the decider of destiny; the god who prospers all above and beneath! and tarry not, lest as ye wander along the shore of the ionian sea ye hear a voice of lamentation crying "great pan is dead" 177 the bankrupt o where are the terraced gardens of babylon, with their mighty groves towering up amongst the clouds? o where is the sun-god of rhodes, whose golden brow was wont to blush with the first fire of dawn, whilst yet the waters at his feet were wrapped in the mists of night? o where is the temple of ephesus, and those who cried unto diana? o where is the gleaming eye of pharos that shone as a star of hope over the wild waters of the sea? children of monsters and of gods, how have ye fallen! for a whirlwind hath arise

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nd of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god, may be obedient unto me["a pause [mercury "goes to his throne" fr. gemini. 1. brother virgo, didst thou hear the voice? virgo. ay, brother. fr. gemini. tell me, brother, is not mercury a great god? virgo. indeed, son of maia, the greatest of all gods that tread upon the milky way. fr. gemini. it is so. sor. gemini. yet, brother, there is the sun-god! virgo. is not mercury the sun-god, when hidden during the night, among the souls of the dead? hail unto thee, trismegistus, hail unto thee! sor. gemini. hail, o sender of dreams! br. gemini. hail, o supporter of bacchus infant! mercury. hail, twins! first probationer. thou art indeed the greatest of all gods, o mercury! chorus. hail, mercury. mercury. yet, ye will betray me! bury me in a

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hen we now celebrate the birthday of our lord; and he tells us that the night of december 24th-25th `which is the very night now so holy to us was called in their tongue modranecht, that is to say "mother's night" by reason of the ceremonies which in that night-long vigil they performed' he does not mention what those ceremonies were, but it is clear that they were connected with the birth of the sun-god. at the time when the english were converted to christianity in the sixth and seventh centuries the festival of the nativity on december 25th had been already long established in rome as a solemn- 41- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust celebration; but in england its identification with the joyous old pagan yule a word apparently meaning a `jollification' gave it a merry

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ave three instances of a perfection which lies far ahead for the majority of the sons of men. in all of them, the sixth and the second rays were controlling factors, with the first ray reaching full expression. in them, idealism, love-wisdom and indomitable will stood forth in all their divine power. it might be of interest to you to know just what rays controlled these sons of god: hercules, the sun-god, had a first ray soul, a second ray personality and a sixth ray astral body. these potencies and energies sufficed to carry him through all the trials and the labours of the disciple. the buddha had a second ray soul, a first ray personality and a sixth ray mind a very rare phenomenon. the christ had a second ray soul, a sixth ray personality (which accounted for his close relationship wit

ing rays, working through the nations and conditioning the people, there is a final point which i would like to make; it lies in the realm of religion and concerns the significance of christmas. from the very night of time, as well you know, the period wherein the sun moves northward again has been regarded as a festival season; for thousands of years it has been associated with the coming of the sun-god to save the world, to bring light and fruitfulness to the earth and through the work of the son of god to bring hope to humanity. the christmas season is regarded by those who do not know any better as uniquely the festival of the christ, and this the christian churches have- 80- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust emphasised and to this all churchmen testify. this is bot

whose objective is to lead all men on to a "lighted way" is the keynote of our civilisation and is a major pre-occupation in all countries. the removal of illiteracy, the development of a true culture and the ascertaining of truth in all fields of thought and of research are of paramount importance in all lands. thus, when christ proclaimed (as he assuredly did, along with all world saviours and sun-gods, that he was the light of the worlds, he inaugurated a marvellous period in which humanity has been widely and universally enlightened. this period dates from christmas day, two thousand years ago, in palestine. that was the greatest of all christmas days and its emanating influence was more potent than was any previous arrival of a bearer of light, because humanity was more ready for the

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trate that the desire nature is subdued and conquered and that the lower nature is (by being lifted up in the air, i.e. into heaven) capable of reaching the goal for this world period, and that from the earthy foundations of scorpio the personality can be so tested that it shows fitness for the world service demanded in aquarius. this is beautifully expressed for us in the legend of hercules, the sun-god who overcomes the nine-headed hydra or serpent of desire by being forced to his knees and from that position of humility lifts up the serpent into the air, and then deliverance comes. 4. in aquarius in this sign, the long effort of the soul is consummated and concludes the- 86- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust experience of the discipl

ch in this treatise on the seven rays we have called- 122- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust life, quality and appearance. thus the three great tests in scorpio are in reality nine tests and hence the nine-headed hydra or serpent which is ever associated with scorpio and hence also the nature of the stupendous victory achieved by hercules, the sun-god, in this sign. it is interesting to note that each of the great sons of god whose names are pre-eminent in the minds of men hercules, the buddha and the christ are associated in the archives of the great white lodge with three special signs of the zodiac (which in a peculiar manner constitute the "zodiacal decanate) in each of which they passed from test to victory. in scorpio hercules bec

s. the constellation of the messiah (i. 717) 4. on the porticos of buildings sacred to votive offerings to the dead, in the buddhist religion, are ornaments of a "cross formed of two fishes (iii. 151) 5 "the sign of the messiah's coming is the conjunction of jupiter and saturn in the sign pisces (iii. 152) taurus, the bull the second sign of the zodiac references in the secret doctrine 1 "all the sun-gods. have been mystically connected with the constellation taurus and were called the first (i. 720) 2. taurus is regarded as the central group of the milky way. note: the pleiades as the central group of the bull and alcyone, one of the 7 pleiades, is supposed to be the star around which our universe revolves. virgo, the virgin the sixth sign of the zodiac references in the secret doctrine 1

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expression. when this stage is reached, the great labors start, and the warfare is consciously in progress. the man is torn in two directions. habit entices him to identify himself with form. the new understanding impels him to identify himself with the soul. a reorientation then takes place, and a new and self-directed effort is initiated, which is portrayed for us in the story of hercules, the sun-god. the moment that the intellectual altitude has been achieved, the "silent beholder" awakens into activity. hercules starts upon his labors. the human being, hitherto swept along on the urge of the evolutionary tide, and governed by desire for experience and for material possession, comes tinder the control of the divine indweller. he emerges as the aspirant, reverses himself, and begins to

inner side of life, the fulness of his wisdom and the rightness of his power to choose. let him proceed with the fourth test" before the fourth great gate stood hercules; a son of man and yet a son of god. at first was silence deep. he uttered not a word or made a sound. beyond the gate the landscape stretched in contours fair and on the far horizon stood the temple of the lord, the shrine of the sun-god, the gleaming battlements. upon a hill nearby there stood a slender fawn. and hercules, who is a son of man and yet a son of god, both watched and listened and, listening, heard a voice. the voice [78] came out from that bright circle of the moon which is the home of artemis. and artemis, the fair, spoke words of warning to the son of man "the doe is mine, so touch it not" she said "for ag

h. the doe was his by right of skill and the prowess of his arm "the doe is therefore doubly mine" he said. but artemis, standing within the outer court of that most holy place heard his loud cry of victory and said "not so. the doe is mine and always has been mine. i saw its form, reflected in the water; i heard its feet upon the ways of earth; i know the doe is mine, for every form is mine" the sun-god spoke, from out the holy place "the doe is mine, not yours, o artemis! its spirit rests with me from all eternity, here in the center of the holy shrine. you may not enter here, o artemis, but know i speak the truth. diana, that fair huntress- 48- the labours of hercules of the lord, may enter for a moment and tell you what she sees" into the shrine for one brief moment passed the huntress

not to those who made their claim, nor faltered on, the way. the doe is in the holy place, close to the heart of god [81] and likewise, in the hour of need, close to my heart also "go look again, o hercules, my son, between the pillars of the gate" and hercules obeyed. beyond the gate, the landscape stretched in contours fair and on the far horizon stood the temple of the lord, the shrine of the sun-god, with glistening battlements, whilst on a nearby hill there stood a slender fawn "did i perform the test, o teacher wise? the fawn is back upon the hill where i earlier saw it stand" and from the council chamber of the lord, where sits the great presiding one, there came a voice "again and yet again must all the sons of men, who are the sons of god, seek for the golden antlered fawn and be

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ulapius, and apollo. the connecting link is the horn. in a medal of alexander severus,diana of ephesus bears the horn of plenty. this is the horn or horn of the new moon, sacred todiana. according to callimachus, apollo himself built an altar consisting entirely of horns to diana.the connection of the horn with wine is obvious. it was usual among the old slavonians for thepriest of svantevit, the sun-god, to see if the horn which the idol held in his hand was full of wine, inorder to prophesy a good harvest for the coming year. if it was filled, all was right; if not, he filled thehorn, drank from it, and replaced the horn in the hand, and predicted that all would eventually gowell. 17 it cannot fail to strike the reader that this ceremony is strangely like that of the italian invo-cation

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creator of our planet and everything pertaining to it, and the former as the guiding force of that "creator- good and bad at the same time, the origin of good and the origin of evil. this "creator" is neither good nor bad per se, but its differentiated aspects in nature make it assume one or the other character. with the invisible and the unknown universes disseminated through space, none of the sun-gods had anything to do. the idea is expressed very clearly in the "books of hermes" and in every ancient folk lore. it is symbolised generally by the dragon and the serpent- the dragon of good and the serpent of evil, represented on earth by[[footnote(s* for a clearer explanation of the origins, as contained in the esotericism of the bhagavad gita, see the notes thereon published in the "theo

first divine one" and it is easy to see that ad-argat (or aster't, the syrian goddess, the consort of ad-on, the lord god of syria or the jewish adonai, and venus, isis, ishtar, mylitta, eve, etc, etc, are identical with the aditi and vach of the hindus. they are all the "mothers of all living" and "of the gods" on the other hand- cosmically and astronomically- all the male gods became at first "sun-gods" then, theologically, the "suns of righteousness" and the logoi, all symbolised by the sun* they are all protogonoi (the first-born) and[[footnote(s* adam-jehovah, brahma and mars are, in one sense, identical; they are all symbols for primitive or initial generative powers for the purposes of human procreation. adam is red, and so also are brahma-viraj and mars- god and planet. water is t

athamaz, tamaz, or the adonis of the greeks "the one with, and of his father- the "father" becoming during the later races helios, the sun, as apollo karneios* for instance, who was the "sun born; osiris, ormazd, and so on, were all followed by, and found themselves transformed later on into still more earthly types: such as prometheus, the crucified of mount kajbee, hercules, and so many others, sun-gods and heroes, until all of them came to have no better significance than phallic symbols. in the zohar is it said "man was created by the sephiroth (elohim-javeh, also) and they engendered by common power the earthly adam" therefore in genesis the elohim say "behold man is become as one of us" but in hindu cosmogony or "creation" brahma-prajapati creates viraj and the rishis, spiritually; t

epic tradition points as the earliest astronomer in aryavarta, one to whom "the[[footnote(s* sesha, who is also ananta, the infinite, and the "cycle of eternity" in esotericism, is credited with having given his astronomical knowledge to garga, the oldest astronomer of india, who propitiated him, and forthwith knew all about the planets and how to read omens[[vol. 2, page] 50 the secret doctrine. sun-god imparted the knowledge of the stars" in propria persona, as dr. weber himself states, is identified by him, in some very mysterious way, with the "ptolemaios" of the greeks. no more valid reason is given for this identification than that "this latter name (ptolemaios, as we see from the inscription of piyadasi, became the indian 'turamaya' out of which the name 'asuramaya' might very easil

ions" before the last formation of the globe; which, changing its geological and atmospheric conditions, changed also its flora, its fauna, and its men? this claim agrees not only with every ancient cosmogony, but also with modern science, and even, to a certain degree, with the theory of evolution, as may be demonstrated in a few words. there is no "dark creation" no "evil dragon" conquered by a sun-god, in the earliest world-cosmogonies. even with the akkads, the great deep (the watery abyss, or space) was the birthplace and abode of ea, wisdom, the incognizable infinite deity. but with the semites and the later chaldeans, the fathomless deep of wisdom becomes gross matter, sinful substance, and ea is changed into tiamat, the dragon slain by merodach, or satan, in the astral waves. in th

ed (see the tradition of jhana-bhaskara) in romaka-pura in the west: because the name is an allusion to the land and cradle of the "sweat-born" of the third race. that land or continent had disappeared ages before asuramaya lived, since he was an atlantean; but he was a direct descendant of the wise race, the race that never dies. many are the legends concerning this hero, the pupil of surya (the sun-god) himself, as the indian accounts allege. it matters little whether he lived on one or another island, but the question is to prove that he was no myth, as dr. weber and others would make him. the[[vol. 2, page] 68 the secret doctrine. fact of "romaka-pura in the west" being named as the birth-place of this hero of the archaic ages, is the more interesting because it is so very suggestive o

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

"inner, spiritual eye, nebo, the prophet and seer, etc. it is not the proper name of any one living man, but a generic title of many adepts. their connection in symbolic allegories with the serpent is due to their enlightenment by the solar and planetary gods during the earliest intellectual race, the third. they are all the representative patrons of the secret wisdom. asclepios is the son of the sun-god apollo- and he is mercury; nebo is the son of bel-merodach; vaivasvata manu, the great rishi, is the son of vivisvat- the sun or surya, etc, etc. and while, astronomically, the nagas along with the rishis, the gandharvas, apsarasas, gramanis (or yakshas, minor gods) yatudhanas and devas, are the sun's attendants throughout the twelve solar months; in theogony, and also in anthropological e

n and levi the patriarch remarks that they. are brethren; instru[[footnote(s "pantheon" text 15[[vol. 2, page] 212 the secret doctrine. ments of cruelty are in their habitations. o my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly* now in the original, the words "their secret" really are "their sod* and sod was the name for the great mysteries of baal, adonis and bacchus, who were all sun-gods and had serpents for symbols. the kabalists explain the allegory of the fiery serpents by saying that this was the name given to the tribe of levi, to all the levites, in short, and that moses was the chief of the sodales* it is to the mysteries that the original meaning of the "dragon-slayers" has to be traced, and the question is fully treated of hereafter. meanwhile it follows that, if

or asuras (not gods, but spirits, to have rebelled against brahma; for which siva hurled him down to patala. but, as philosophy goes hand in hand with allegorical fiction in hindu myths, the devil is made to repent, and is afforded the opportunity to progress: he is a sinful man esoterically, and can by yoga devotion, and adeptship, reach his status of one with the deity, once more. hercules, the sun-god, descends to hades (the cave of initiation) to deliver the victims from their tortures, etc, etc. the christian church alone creates eternal torment for the devil and the damned, that she has invented[[vol. 2, page] 238 the secret doctrine. believers in the pope's infallibility, but will hardly satisfy the philosophical mind. yet the truth, although known to most of the higher kabalists, h

in china and the buddhist countries "bel and the dragon being uniformly coupled together, and the priest of the ophite religion as uniformly assuming the name of his god("archaeology" vol. xxv, p. 220, london. in the religions of the past, it is in egypt we have to seek for its western origin. the ophites adopted their rites from hermes trismegistus, and heliolatrous worship crossed over with its sun-gods into the land of the pharaohs from india. in the gods of stonehenge we recognise the divinities of delphi and babylon, and in those of the latter the devas of the vedic nations. bel and the dragon, apollo and python, krishna and kaliya, osiris and typhon are all one under many names- the latest of which are michael and the red dragon, and st. george and his dragon. as michael is "one as g

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one can well understand, and covers the ground from the beginning. the old book, having described cosmic evolution and explained the origin of everything on earth, including physical man, after giving the true history of the races from the first down to the fifth (our) race, goes no further. it stops short at the beginning of the kali yuga just 4989 years ago at the death of krishna, the bright "sun-god" the once living hero and reformer. but there exists another book. none of its possessors regard it as very ancient, as it was born with, and is only as old as the black age[[footnote(s* rabbi jehoshua ben chananea, who died about a.d. 72, openly declared that he had performed "miracles" by means of the book of sepher jezireh, and challenged every sceptic. franck, quoting from the babyloni

undi" the universal soul of plato, the "divine spirit" of the egyptians, the "holy ghost" of the early christians and gnostics, and the akasa of the hindus, and even, in its lower aspect, the astral light. for phta was originally the "god of the dead" he in whose bosom they were received, hence the limbus of the greek christians, or the astral light. it is far later that phta was classed with the sun-gods, his name signifying "he who opens" as he is shown to be the first to unveil the face of the dead mummy, to call the soul to life in his bosom (see maspero's "bulaq museum) kneph, the eternal unrevealed, is represented by the snake-emblem of eternity encircling a water-urn, with its head hovering over the "waters" which it incubates with its breath- another form of one and the same idea o

very picture of the annunciation. this spray typifying fire and water, or the idea of creation and generation, symbolizes precisely the same idea as the lotus in the hand of the bodhisat who announces to maha-maya, gautama's mother, the birth of the world's saviour, buddha. thus also, osiris and horus were represented by the egyptians constantly in association with the lotus-flower, the two being sun-gods or fire (the holy ghost being still typified by "tongues of fire (acts* see sir william jones "dissertations relating to asia[[vol. 1, page] 380 the secret doctrine. female aspect of vishnu* and who is also called padma, the lotus, is likewise shown floating at "creation" on a lotus flower, and during the "churning of the ocean" of space, springing from the "sea of milk" like venus from t

with the asterisk (a) the figure of taurus, with no better or more valid proof of it being prophetic of the verbum or christ than that the aleph of taurus means "the one" and the first, and that christ was also the alpha or the one, then this "proof" may be shown strangely invalidated in more than one way. to begin with, the zodiac existed before the christian era, at all events; further, all the sun-gods had been mystically connected with that constellation (taurus- osiris, for instance- and were all called by their respective votaries "the first" then the compilers of the mystical epithets given to the christian saviour, were all more or less acquainted with[[footnote(s* the reader has to bear in mind that the phrase "climacteric year" has more than the usual significance, when used by o

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s which he maketh p. 2 to them, and the knowledge of the gods who praise him and of those who effect destruction" next: chapter i: the first division of the tuat, which is called net-ra sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 3 chapter i. the first division of the tuat, which is called net-ra. in the scene that illustrates the first division of the tuat, which is passed through by the sun-god during the first hour of the night, we see that the centre of the middle section is divided lengthwise into click to view (left) the boat of af, the dead sun-god (right) maati goddesses. neken-f. two parts by a river which flows along it. in the upper part is the boat of the dead sun-god af, who is in the form of a rain-headed man; he wears a disk upon his head, and stands within a shrine

he boat, but having his head turned behind him and his hands raised in adoration of the beetle, and on the other is a god who also has his hands raised in adoration of the same object. the legend reads "the coming into being of osiris; as the boat has p. 7 no reed mat or carpet hanging from the prow, we may assume that it is intended to represent the atet or matet boat, i.e, the boat in which the sun-god travelled over the sky from sunrise to noon. click to view the boat of the birth of osiris, with serpents and gods [paragraph continues] in front of the boat glide three serpents, which are called sek-re, sefa, and nepen, and in front of these march four man-headed click to view gods in the procession of the boat of the birth of osiris. gods and two hawk-headed gods, each with a serpent in

ddesses, with their arms hanging by their sides, who are described as "those who give praises to ra as he passeth over urnes" their names are--1. maa-neter-s, 2. art-neter-s, 3. hekent, 4. net, 5. apert-re, click to view (left) the nine praisers of ra (right) the twelve goddesses who sing to ra. 6. ab, 7. nebt-het, 8. hra-seni, 9. tefnut, 10. nutet, 11. ament, 12. ast. p. 16 the address which the sun-god makes to the gods in the first division of the tuat reads: 1- p. 17 p. 18 the majesty of this god standeth up after he hath taken up his position in this court, and he addresseth words to the gods who are therein, saying "open ye to me your doors, and let me come into your courts! give ye light unto me, and make ye yourselves guides to me, o ye who came into being, from my members, my word

a" footnotes 16:1 see l febure, op. cit, part iv, pl. 28, and description de l' gypte, tom. v, pl. 41, no. 5. next: chapter ii: the second division of the tuat, which is called urnes sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 21 chapter ii. the second division of the tuat, which is called urnes. in the scene that illustrates the second division of the tuat, which is passed through by the sun-god click to view the boat of af in the second hour. during the second hour of the night, the boat of the ram-headed god af is seen making its way along the p. 22 stream which flows, as before, through the division lengthwise; the crew consists of the same gods, and they occupy the same positions in the boat as they did in the first division. it is, however, important to notice that immediatel

rly, unfailingly, and eternally. the name of this hour is seshet-maket-neb-s. next: chapter iii: the third division of the tuat, which is called net-neb-ua-kheper-aut sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 44 chapter iii. the third division of the tuat, which is called net-neb-ua-kheper-aut. in the scene which illustrates the third division of the tuat, which is passed through by the sun-god click to view the boat of af, the dead sun-god, in the third hour. during the third hour of the night, we see the boat of the god making its way over the waters of the river p. 45 in the underworld. the dead sun-god af stands within a shrine in the form of a ram-headed man, as before, but there is a change in the composition of the crew, which now consists only of four mariners, two of who

ring up, and the enemies are as those who have their knives over (or, on) their heads. they wail and they lament when this great god hath passed them by. the name of the warder of this field is khetra. whosoever knoweth this shall be in the condition of a spirit who hath dominion over his legs" m. maspero, in his description of the third hour, 1 p. 61 includes an extract from the speech which the sun-god ra makes to the inhabitants of net-neb-ua-kheper-aut; as he points out, though three copies of the speech are extant, all are mutilated (see lef bure, le tombeau de seti i er, 1re partie, pll. xv.-xvii, pll. xviii.-xx, and pl. xxii, and it is impossible at present to reconstruct the text, although the general meaning of several sentences is clear enough. footnotes 60:1 the portions rendere

erri re moi, et ce que j'ai fait pour elles vous emp che de tomber au lieu d'an antissement" next: chapter iv: the fourth division of the tuat, which is called ankhet-kheperu sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 62 chapter iv. the fourth division of the tuat, which is called ankhet-kheperu in the scene that illustrates the fourth division of the tuat, which is passed through by the sun-god during the fourth hour of the night, a region which is entirely different from anything seen previously is entered. we see that the general arrangement which makes each division to contain three sections has been followed, but the actual path of the boat of the sun is different. instead of passing along the middle section as before, the god is obliged to pass over the region of the kingdom

s the goddess maat (see p. 83. p. 83 click to view the kingdom of seker. footnotes 77:1 the text is in the plural. next: chapter v: the fifth division of the tuat, which is called ament sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 85 chapter v. the fifth division of the tuat, which is called ament. in the scene that illustrates the fifth division of the tuat, which is passed through by the sun-god during the fifth hour of the night, we see the boat of the sun being drawn along by seven gods and seven goddesses (see pp. 91, 95, 99, 103, 107. the legend over the seven gods is partly broken away, but what remains of it proves that it must have been similar in meaning to that which is over the heads of the goddesses, which reads "these are the goddesses which tow ra along in the tuat ov

s of amentet" and who are described as the "great sovereign chiefs who provide food in this circle" p. 86 the first god is called her-khu, and holds a staff in his hand; the second is an-hetep, and holds the sceptre in his hand; the third is heru-hequi, is hawk-headed, and holds the crook in his hand; the fourth is ut-metu, and holds a tree in his left hand. the text containing the address of the sun-god to the seven gods is broken away, and all that remains of it reads "this great god maketh his journey by means of those who tow him over this circle in [his] boat" a portion of the answer of the seven gods to him is also broken away, but what remains of it reads "is opened to thee the earth to such an extent that thou hast passed over the beautiful land, and the roads concerning which ra h

is the "guardian of those who are submerged (see pp. 91, 95. 4. the god satiu (see p. 95. 5. the god ankh-ab hawk-headed (see p. 95. 6. the god bath-resth) crocodile-headed (see p. 95. 7. the god anp-heni, jackal-headed (see p. 99. of these five gods it is said "they act as guardians of tuat, and of those who are submerged in the tuat, and they [protect] and make to pass on the boat" to these the sun-god makes an address, which reads, p. 103 click to view the kingdom of seker. p. 105 [paragraph continues "this great god saith, o ye who stand by your waters, who keep ward over your lands, who go round about in the pool of those who are submerged in nu, pilot ye these to the lands of the sea of the tuat, unto your waters which never dry up, and rise ye up in your lands and let me travel over

described as the "living god which journeyeth, and journeyeth, and travelleth" next: chapter vi. the sixth division of the tuat, which is called metchet-mu-nebt-tuat. sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 116 chapter vi. the sixth division of the tuat, which is called metchet-mu-nebt-tuat. in the scene which illustrates the sixth division of the tuat, which is passed through by the sun-god during the sixth hour of the night, we see, in the middle register, the dead sun-god afu-ra. click to view the boat of af, the dead sun-god, in the sixth hour. once again standing in his boat, under the canopy, accompanied by his usual company of gods. he is no longer in the serpent boat wherein he passed through the domain of sekri, and he is no longer being towed along. in front of the b

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ack a very long way. the red cross of st george (england)and the crosses of st andrew (scotland) and st patrick (ireland, and the ensigns ofscandinavia, were all carried as sacred standards of victory by the phoenicians. the redcross was the fire cross, a phoenician-aryan symbol for the sun, as was the swastika, laterused by the nazis. a swastika can be seen on a stone dedicated to the phoenician sun-godbel, which was found at craig-narget in scotland and was used to decorate the robes oftheir high priestesses (see figures 10 and 11. i read that the name swastika comes fromfigure 10: the swastika, the phoenician sun symbol, on thephoenician craig-narget stone in scotland and, figure 11, onthe robe of a phoenician high priestess. 68the sanskrit word, svasti, which means well-being, and it w

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we have a warrior king, leading his people in battle, defend mg his kingdom from the assaults of the enemy, extending his boundaries by conquest, punishing crime, and destroying evil-doers, in tiphareth we have the saviour, sacrificed upon the cross for the salvation of his people, and thereby bringing geburah into equilibrium with gedulah, or chesed. here we find the sphere of all the beneficent sun-gods and healing gods. tnus we see that the mercies of gedulah and the seventies of geburah unite for the healing of the nations. 24. behind tiphareth, traversing the tree, is drawn paroketh, the veil of the temple, the analogue, on a lower plane, of the abyss which separates the three supernals from the rest of the tree. like the abyss, the veil marks a chasm in consciousness. the mode of men

the astral psychism of yesod, to the formless intuitions and quickened consciousness of tiphareth they rise and descend smoothly and skilfully; never confusing the planes or suffering them to leak one into another, but bringing them all into focus in a centralised consciousness. iii 40. tiphareth is called by the qabalists shemesh, or the sphere of the sun; and it is interesting to note that all sun-gods are healing gods, and all healing gods are sun-gods, a fact which affords us food for thought. 41. the sun is the central point of our existence. without the sun there would be no solar system. sunlight plays a very important part in the metabolism, the life-process, of living creatures, and the whole of the nutrition of green plants depends upon it. its influence is mystical qabala page

giver of life, the higher aspect of nature. this is caused by a spiritual vanitv which considers the more primitive aspects of nature as beneath its dignity. 52. it is because of our spurious ideals with their false values that we have so much neurotic ill-health in our midst. it is because priapus and cloacina are not given their due mystical qabala page 138 as deities that we are cursed by the sun-god and cut off from ilis benign influence, for an insult to his subsidiary aspects is an insult to him. 53. when a creature is not in a fit state for reproduction, sexual advances are repellent to it; this is the natural basis of modesty and protects the organism from waste and exhaustion. because an accumulation of decomposing excreta gives risc to disease, the odour of their excreta is repu

life-processes are 50 deeply rooted in nature that we cannot altogether suppress them; but a mental attitude can cause such a kinking of the tube, as it were, can so insulate and inhibit, that only a scanty flow can be sucked through against resistance by the desperate organism. 55. in tiphareth, the sun centre, we have the spiritual manifesting in the natural, and we should give reverence to the sun-god as representing the naturalisation of spiritual processes; the spiritualisation of natural processes has had a good deal to answer for in the history of human suffering. iv 56. the symbols assigned to the sixth sephirab become a very illunimating study when we examine them in the light of what we now know about the signifi( ance of tiphareth, for we have here a very clear example of the wa

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, pp. 260, 261; lepsius, chronologie, p. 45 ff; and brugsch, aegyptologie, p. 149. 8. 9. 10] p. xxvii influence of the priests of annu on its compilation. pyramid texts are versions of ancient religious compositions which the priests of the college or school of annu[1] succeeded in establishing as the authorized version of the book of the dead in the first six dynasties. ra, the local form of the sun-god, usurps the place occupied by the more ancient form tmu; and it would seem that when a dogma had been promulgated by the college of annu, it was accepted by the priesthood of all the great cities throughout egypt. the great influence of the annu school of priests even in the time of unas is proved by the following passage from the text in his pyramid "o god, thy annu is unas; o god, thy an

ed up until the literature of the subject has been further studied and until more texts have been published. that the egyptians believed in a future life of some kind is certain; and the doctrine of eternal existence is the leading feature of their religion, and is enunciated with the utmost clearness in all periods. whether this belief had its origin at annu, the chief city of the worship of the sun-god, is not certain, but is very probable; for already in the pyramid texts we find the idea of everlasting life associated with the sun's existence, and pepi i. is said to be "the giver of life, stability, power, health, and all joy of heart, like the sun, living for ever"[1] the sun rose each day in renewed strength and vigour, and the renewal of youth in a future life was the aim and object

ain that his character as a god of the dead was well defined long before the versions of the pyramid texts known to us were written, and the only important change which took place in the views of the egyptians concerning him in later days was the ascription to him of the attributes which in the early dynasties were regarded as belonging only to ra or to ra-tmu. originally osiris was a form of the sun-god, and, speaking generally, he may be said to have represented the sun after he had set, and as such was the emblem of the motionless dead; later texts identify him with the moon. the egyptians asserted that he was the father of the gods who had given him birth, and, as he was the god both of yesterday and of to-day, he became the type of eternal existence and the symbol of immortality; as s

of that goddess;[3] in another aspect she is united to the star sothis, and then a star is added to her crown. she is, however, most commonly represented as the mother suckling her child horus, and figures of her in this aspect, in bronze and fa ence, exist in thousands. as a nature goddess she is seen standing in the boat of the sun, and she was probably the deity of the dawn. heru or horus, the sun-god, was originally a totally distinct god from horus, the son of osiris and isis, but from the earliest times it seems that the two gods were confounded, and that the attributes of the one were ascribed to the other; the fight which horus the sun-god waged against night and darkness was also at a very early period identified with the combat between horus, the son of [1. 2. chabas, un hymne os

also at a very early period identified with the combat between horus, the son of [1. 2. chabas, un hymne osiris (in revue arch ologique, t. xiv, p. 65 ff; horrack, les lamentations d'isis et de nephthys, paris, 1866; the festival songs of isis and nephthys (in arch ologia, vol. lii, london, 1891, etc. 3 see lanzone, op. cit, tav. 306 ff] p. cxv isis, and his brother set. the visible emblem of the sun-god was at a very early date the hawk is, which was probably the first living thing worshipped by the early egyptians; already in the pyramid texts the hawk on a standard is used indiscriminately with# to represent the word "god" the principal forms of horus the sun-god, which probably represent the sun at various periods of the day and night, are--heru-ur( greek a?rwh`rei "horus the great; he

eru-khent-an-maa "horus dwelling in blindness; heru-khuti "horus of the two horizons"[2] the type of which on earth was the sphinx; heru-sam-taui "horus the uniter of the north and south; heru-hekenu" horus of heken; and heru-behutet "horus of behutet"[3] the cippi of horus, which became so common at a late period in egypt, seem to unite the idea of the physical and moral conceptions of horus the sun-god and of horus the son of osiris and isis. horus, the son of osiris and isis, appears in egyptian texts usually as heru-p-khart" horus the child" who afterwards became the "avenger of his father osiris" and occupied his throne, as we are told in many places in the book of the dead. in the pyramid texts the deceased is identified with heru-p-khart, and a reference is made to the fact that the

ra, is depicted in female form, with the feather emblematic of maat, on her head, or with the feather alone for a head, and the sceptre in one hand, and an ankh in the other.[5] in the judgment scene two maat goddesses appear; one probably is the personification of physical law, and the other of moral rectitude. het-heru, or hathor the "house of horus" was the goddess of the sky wherein horus the sun-god rose and set. subsequently a great number of goddesses of the same name were developed from her, and these were identified with isis, neith, iusaset, and many other goddesses whose attributes they absorbed. a group of seven hathors is also mentioned, and these appear to have partaken of the nature of good fairies. in one form hathor was the goddess of love, beauty [1. page 17, 1. 5. 2 page

bubastis, the modern tell basta, in the delta. nefer-tmu was the son either of sekhet or bast, and he personified some form of the sun's heat. he is usually depicted in the form of a man, with a cluster of lotus flowers upon his head, but sometimes he has the head of a lion; in the little fa ence figures of him which are so common, he stands upon the back of a lion.[1] he no doubt represents the sun-god in the legend which made him to burst forth from a lotus, for the gods of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod09.htm (10 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:59 am] in the pyramid of unas the king is said to xaa em, nefer-tmu em sessen er sert ra rise like nefer-tmu from the lotus (lily) to the nostrils of ra" and to "come forth on the horizon every day"[2] neheb-ka is the name

od09.htm (10 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:59 am] in the pyramid of unas the king is said to xaa em, nefer-tmu em sessen er sert ra rise like nefer-tmu from the lotus (lily) to the nostrils of ra" and to "come forth on the horizon every day"[2] neheb-ka is the name of a goddess who is usually represented with the head of a serpent, and with whom the deceased identifies himself. sebak a form of horus the sun-god, must be distinguished from sebak the companion of set, the opponent of osiris; of each of these gods the crocodile was the sacred animal, and for this reason probably the gods themselves were confounded. sebak-ra, the lord of ombos, is usually depicted in human form with the head of a crocodile, surmounted by, or, or.[3] amsu or amsi is one of the most ancient gods of egypt. he personifie

body which dwelt in heaven, and did not preserve the natural body which lay in the tomb. the principal enemy of the natural body was the worm, and from the earliest times it seems that a huge worm or serpent was chosen by the egyptians as the type of the powers which were hostile to the dead and also of [1, deut. vi, 4. compare, deut. iv, 35; and, isaiah xlv, 5] p. cxxix the foe against whom the sun-god fought. already in the pyramid of unas a long section of the text contains nothing but formul, the recital of which was intended to protect the deceased from various kinds of snakes and worms.[1] these are exceedingly ancient, indeed, they may safely be said to form one of the oldest parts of the funeral literature of the egyptians, and we find from the later editions of the book of the de

ost important is the xxxixth chapter, which preserved the deceased from the attack of the great serpent apef or apep, who is depicted with knives stuck in his folds.[7] in the period of the later dynasties a service was performed the gods of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod09.htm (16 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:59 am] daily in th temple of amen-ra at thebes to deliver the sun-god from the assault of this fiend and on each occasion it was accompanied by a ceremony in which a waxen figure of apep was burnt in the fire; as the wax melted, so the power of apep was destroyed. another name of apep was nak, who was pierced by the lance of th eye of horus and made to vomit what he had swallowed.[9] the devourer of the dead the judgment scene in the theban edition of the bo

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was believed to possess magical gifts and could gallop on land or sea. apantomancy divination by means of any objects that happen to present themselves. to this class belong omens drawn from chance meetings with a hare or an eagle. apepi, book of overthrowing of an egyptian work that forms a considerable portion of the funerary papyrus of nesi-amsu. it deals with the diurnal combat between ra the sun-god and apepi the great serpent and personification of spiritual evil. several chapters (notably 31, 33, and 35.39) are obviously borrowed from the book of the dead, or papyrus of ani. its 15 chapters contain a great deal of repetition and details concerning various methods for the destruction of apepi, including many magical directions. it stipulates that the name of apepi must be written in

ence abounds in their theogony, mythology (essentially magical in conception and meaning, literature, sculpture, and history. the nature that surrounded them gave rise to their imaginations. the mountains and valleys, mysterious caves and fissures, vapors and springs of volcanic origin, and sacred groves were all, according to their character, dedicated to the gods. parnassus was the abode of the sun-god apollo; the lovely vale of aphaca that of adonis; the oak-groves of dodona favored of zeus; and the gloomy caves with their roar of subterranean waters the oracle of trophonius. innumerable instances of magical wonder-working are found in the stories of greek deities and heroes. the power of transformation is shown in a multitude of cases, among them that of bacchus who, by waving a spear

power and therefore were used as a magical exorcism of evil influences, especially that of disease. in this connection a dwarfgod appears who is said to have first taught humankind the art of magic and medicine. in shinto there are no idols, their place being taken by shintia, god-bodies, concrete objects in which the divine spirit is supposed to dwell, such as the mirror, jewel, and sword of the sun-goddess, worshiped at the famous ise shrine. pilgrims from all parts of japan made their way to this shrine, acquiring merit and purification thereby. these pilgrims received from the priests objects of talismanic properties called harai that also served as evidence of having been at the holy place. in former days they were recognized as passports. the term harai signifies to drive out or swee

nce to ensure good luck and happiness for the coming year by means of many traditional observances. houses are thoroughly cleansed materially and spiritually, and evil spirits are expelled by throwing beans and peas out the open slides of the houses. the gateways are decorated with straw ropes made to represent the lucky chinese numbers of three, five, and seven. mirror cakes, associated with the sun-goddess, are eaten, as are lobsters, longevity being symbolized by their bent and ancient appearance. the pine-tree branches used for decoration at this time also signify long life. divination was performed by various methods: by diviningrods, by the reading of lines and cracks in the shoulder-blade of a deer, and by the classical form taken from the confucian i ching or book of changes, this

especially in the matter of happy marriage. it was also a token of longevity. tree spirits could sometimes be inimical to man and it is recorded that to stay the disturbing wanderings of one it was necessary to cut it down, at which time a stream of blood flowed from the stump. the element of fire figured large in the japanese world of marvels. it was worshiped in connection with the rites of the sun-goddess and even the kitchen furnace became the object of a sort of cult. there is the lamp of buddha. messages from hades came to this world in the shape of fire wheels, phantom fires flickered about, flames burnt in the cemeteries, and there were demon-lights, fox-flames, and dragon-torches. from the eyes and mouths of certain birds such as the blue heron, fire darted forth in white flames

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raic cult was of persian origin, having at its center mithra, a personification of light worshiped in that country some five hundred years before the christian era. carried into asia minor by small colonies of magi, it was largely influenced by the religions with which it was brought into contact. for instance, chaldean astrology inspired much of the occult traditions surrounding the creed of the sun-god; the art of greece influenced the representation of mithra tauroctonous that graced the temples of the cult; and the romans gave it a wide geographical area and immense influence. according to plutarch, the rites originally reached rome through the agency of cilician privates conquered and taken there by pompey. another source, doubtless, was the large number of asiatic slaves employed in

. kheops fell into talk with the magician, who told him that the wife of a priest in sakhebu was awaiting the birth of three sons, children of the god ra, who should one day sit on the throne of egypt. deda sought to allay the king s natural distress at this information by prophesying that only after the reigns of his son and grandson should the power fall into the hands of the descendants of the sun-god. but kheops was not to be consoled; he inquired into the details of the story and announced that he would himself travel to sakhebu, no doubt with the ultimate intention of finding an opportunity to put out of the way the pretenders to his throne. the scene of the sequel is laid in sakhebu. the birth and infancy of the three children are described in detail, and all sorts of marvelous inci

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mirror of the stream. a fourth part. roam ye others where it please you; we ll engirdle, we will ripple, round the thickly planted hillside where the trellised vines grow green; there the grower of the vine in anguish ponders hour- and day-long how uncertain is the promise of devoted industry. now with hoe and now with shovel, now with hilling, pruning, tying, unto all the gods he prayeth, to the sun-god best of all. pampered bacchus frets himself but little for his faithful servant, rests in bowers, lolls in caverns, prattling with the youngest faun. what he ever needed for his half-intoxicated dreaming, he has always near at hand in wineskins, pitchers, divers vessels right and left in cool recesses for eternal ages stored. but if all the gods together, helios the most important, fanning

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and honey. listen "the virgin of the zodiac is bitten in the heel by serpens, who, with scorpio, rises immediately behind her; and as honey, the emblem of purity and salvation, was thought to be an antidote to the serpent's bite, so the bees of aristaeus, the emblems of nature's abundance, are destroyed through the agency of the serpent, and regenerated within the entrails of the vernal bull. the sun-god is finally victorious [ibid] note that masonry also identifies itself with the pagans who divine the future by studying the entrails of a bull. you consistently see the symbol of the bees and their beehive throughout freemasonry. christianity does not use this symbol "purity" and "salvation" are depicted by the honey. purity is depicted within the bible as either jesus himself or as white

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agencies in reproduction, and powerful in directing all mundane affairs, the virgin of the sphere while she represented nature was also the constellation which appeared above the horizon at the winter solstice, or at the time when the sun had reached its lowest point and had begun to return. at this time, the 25th of december, and just as the days began to lengthen, this virgin gave birth to the sun-god. it is said that he issued forth from her side, hence the legend that gotama buddha was produced from the side of maya, and also the story believed by the gnostics and other christian sects that jesus was taken from the side of mary.[31 [31] the fact will doubtless be remembered that a similar belief was entertained concerning the birth of julius caesar. within the churches and in the stre

nected with the central figure of persian mythology. it has been found that the visit of the magi, who, following a star, were guided to the spot where the young child lay, was the fulfilment of a persian prophecy, which is to be found in the life of zarathustra as recorded in the zendavesta, while the subsequent history of the same personage is seen to be almost identical with that of the hindoo sun-god chrishna. according to the sacred books of the persians, three sons of the great zarathustra were to appear at three successive periods of time. these sons were to be incarnations of the sun, and the result of immaculate conceptions "the first is named oschederbami. he will appear in the last millennium of the world. he will stop the sun for ten days and ten nights, and the second part of

"lamb "anointed" etc, which were applied to christ, all appear attached to former in- carnations of the sun, the first named standing for the sun in aries. the effigies of a crucified savior found in ireland and scotland in connection with the figure of a lamb, a bull, or an elephant, the latter of which is not a native of those countries, shows that they do not represent christ, but a crucified sun-god worshipped by the inhabitants of the british islands ages before the birth of the great judean philosopher and teacher. it is plain that crishna of india and the persian mithra furnished the copy for the jesus of the romish church, all of whom mean one and the same thing--the second person in the solar trinity. by the jews, who attempted to ignore the female principle, this god is called t

es exactly half the earth. at this time the day has conquered the night. light has dethroned darkness, a complete victory has been gained over typhon and the new god comes forth "with healing in his wings" on lady's day, the 25th of march, the virgin conceives. in phoenicia numerous fetes were instituted to rejoice with astarte in her conception. during the months preceding the birth of the young sun-god the queen of heaven receives marked homage. in a former portion of this work we have observed that the festival which celebrated the return of spring was instituted by the inventors of the neros thousands of years prior to the beginning of the christian era, to celebrate the vernal equinox and to commemorate a return of nature's bounties; but, after male reproductive power began to be rega

stian era, to celebrate the vernal equinox and to commemorate a return of nature's bounties; but, after male reproductive power began to be regarded as the creator, when passion came to be considered as the moving force in the universe, and when the operations of nature began to be typified by a dead man on a cross who was to rise again, easter was celebrated in commemoration of a risen savior or sun-god. the following is an account given in ramsay's travels of cyrus, concerning the vernal equinox festivals in the east. when cyrus entered the temples he found the public clad in mourning. in a cavern lay the image of a young man (the dying savior) on a bed of flowers and odoriferous herbs nine days were spent in fasting, prayers, and lamentations, after which the public sorrow ceased and wa

e had been bred or brought up in the lyceum and had conversed all his life with the academy of athens. he had frequent intercourse with pythagoras whom he astonished by the variety and extent of his knowledge" from the descriptions given of the native country of abarras by the greeks, it is evident that it could have been none other than ireland. although at this time in their history, apollo the sun-god was the deity worshipped in greece and in ireland, still both nations honored latona his mother. the same as in the mother country (persia, or phoenicia, the oracles, or sybils of ireland, had prophesied a "savior" and three hundred years before greek emissaries visited that country, its people, through the preaching of eastern missionaries, had substituted for the worship of latona and ap

r lives were of little value; hence, later, it is observed that the sacrificial victim must be a prince or an individual whose life was of great importance to the tribe. as in all hot countries the heat of the sun is the most destructive agency against which mankind have to contend, it is not perhaps singular, at a time when superstition had usurped the functions of the reasoning powers, that the sun-god should have been invested with the attributes inspired by terror, and that so far as possible, mankind should have deemed it necessary to propitiate its wrath, and, by rendering to it suitable offerings and sacrifices, they should have hoped to avert the calamities incident to its displeasure. neither is it remarkable when we remember the peculiar circumstances surrounding the jews, and th

ter the days of justin martyr, that the instrument upon which jesus was executed was called a cross. but whatever may have been its form, as soon as the myths of former religious worship began to attach themselves to his history, he became the symbolical dead man on a cross, the original sacrifice to mahadeva. he portrayed the same idea as did crishna, ballaji, the dying osiris, and all the other sun-gods. he, like each of these, represented a new sun at the beginning of a new cycle. he was a risen savior, and to him were finally transferred all the festivals, seasons, symbols, and monograms of former solar deities. that the figure of a dead man on a cross was a familiar emblem throughout asia and various portions of europe, and that numberless crucified gods--incarnations of the sun--have

market-places and at the intersection of roads in brittany. eusebius says that at elephanta they adored a deity in the figure of a man in a sitting posture painted blue, having the head of a ram with the horns of a goat encircling a disk. the deity thus described is said to be of astronomical origin, denoting the power of the sun in aries. this figure, which was one of the representations of the sun-god crishna, was worshipped both in india and in egypt. in various of the manifestations of this deity he appears in the act of killing a serpent. he was the dead man on a cross and also the sun, which although continually dying is constantly being revived again. various incarnations of this god have appeared as crucified saviors. of the avatar of crishna known as ballaji or baal-jah little is

that of christ but of ballaji, or of some one of the avatars of crishna. the fact that the figure of crishna as a crucified god was found in the ruins of a temple at thebes in egypt, is sufficient to prove his antiquity; still, as we have seen, he represents the god-idea at a much later date than did buddha. regarding the evidence furnished by the rev. mr. maurice of the ten avatars of the indian sun-god, higgins observes "the only fact worthy of notice here is, that buddha was universally allowed to be the first of the incarnations; that crishna was of later date; that, at the era of the birth of christ, eight of them had appeared on the earth, and that the other two were expected to follow before the end of the caliyug, or of the present age" with reference to the fact that the hindoo go

ha, wisdom, or minerva. later, with the worship of the sun in aries, appeared a crucified savior. during the earlier ages of crishnaism, the ideas typified by a dying savior were still those pertaining to the processes of nature. matter was still believed to be indestructible and seeming death but a preparation for renewed life, or for birth into another state of existence subsequently this dying sun-god, which disappeared in winter only to return again to re-animate nature, became a veritable man--a man on a cross who must be sacrificed to mahadeva in order that humanity might be saved. here we have the origin of the doctrine of a vicarious atonement. later, under the system called christianity, woman, who had previously become identified with the evil principle, became the tempter. she w

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rth- having by the stratagem of juno, enticed dionysos to a variety of sports, at last captivated his attention by means of a mirror. they then tore him to pieces, boiled and roasted his limbs, and began to feed upon them. zeus, noticing the scent, and being incensed at the cruel deed, hurled his thunderbolts at the titans, who had killed his son, born of semele, and sent another son, apollo, the sun-god, to collect and inter the remains.theheart of dionysos had, however, been saved by pallas (minerva, and from it the god was re-born and restored to olympos. from the burnt remains of the titans all mankind was produced byzeusas the demiurgos, the fashioner of this earthworld.thedionysia, at their origin, were concerned with this fable, which refers both to the gods and to men- to human inc

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lunar nature of your series of bodies. consider the relationship between the sun and the moon and the relationship which exists between your consciousness and your bodies. hold that idea for as long as you can. 271 the sun-savior cosmologically, then, all the dragons and serpents conquered by their "slayers" are, in their origin, the turbulent confused principles in chaos, brought to order by the sun-gods or 'creative' powers. h.p. blavatsky, the secret doctrine a sun-savior in enochian magick is called an arsoe (ahrah-soheh. the sun-savior is equivalent to the hindu avatar, the buddhist bodhisattva and the hanged man of the tarot. it is a manifestation of solar forces and energies in human form. tradi t ion holds that the sun-savior embodies himself periodically on earth in order to allev

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ing and the dead could learn from them, not only the names, but also the forms, of every god, spirit, soul, shade, demon, and monster which they were likely to meet on their way, and the copious texts which were given side by side with the pictures enabled the traveller through the tuat--always, of course, provided that he had learned them--to participate in the benefits which were decreed by the sun-god for the beings of each section of it. in primitive times each great city of egypt possessed its own other world, and, no doubt, the priests of each city provided the worshippers of their gods with suitable "guides" to the abode of its dead. in the beginning of the dynastic period, however, we find that the cult of osiris was extremely popular, and therefore it was only natural that great n

daily. on the other hand, the p. xii wicked, i.e, those who did not believe in the great god or make offerings, are hacked to pieces by the divine messengers of wrath, and their bodies, souls, and spirits are consumed by fire once and for all. the egyptians had no belief in a purgatory. the fires of the other world were, it is true, occupied daily in burning up the damned and the opponents of the sun-god, but each day brought its own supply of bodies, souls, spirits, demons, etc, for annihilation. in all the books of the other world we find pits of fire, abysses of darkness, murderous knives, streams of boiling water, foul stenches, fiery serpents, hideous animal-headed monsters and creatures, and cruel, death-dealing beings of various shapes, etc, similar to those with which we are famili

iods, and it seems as if, at the time when the "pyramid texts" were cut into stone, these religious compositions were intended to contain expressions of pious thought about the hereafter which would satisfy both those who accepted the ancient indigenous beliefs, p. 4 and those who were prepared to believe the doctrines which had been promulgated by the priests of the famous brotherhood of ra, the sun-god, who had made their head-quarters in egypt at annu, i.e, on, or heliopolis. the old native beliefs of the country were of a more material character than the doctrines which the priests of heliopolis taught, but it was found impossible to eradicate them from the minds of the people, and the priests therefore framed religious works in such a manner that they might be acceptable both to those

r than the doctrines which the priests of heliopolis taught, but it was found impossible to eradicate them from the minds of the people, and the priests therefore framed religious works in such a manner that they might be acceptable both to those who believed in the old animal-gods, tree-gods, plant-gods &c, of egypt, and those who preferred a purely solar cult, such as that of the worship of the sun-god ra. the oldest books of the dead, in fact, represent the compromise arrived at under the ivth, vth, and vith dynasties, between the priests of the old and the new religions. this being so, the religious texts of the period represent too much a patch-work belief for purposes of systematic illustration, and in the result, and perhaps also through the funeral customs of the day, the growth in

gate the p. 20 particular ideas of their order as to the future state of the dead. the followers of osiris believed that the righteous dead would find their everlasting abode in the kingdom of that god, and would enjoy in a fertile land, with running streams, a life very like that which the well-to-do egyptian lived upon earth. the followers of amen-ra aimed at securing a place in the boat of the sun-god, i.e, the "boat of millions of years" so that they might sail over the sky with him each day, and enjoy the sight of the earth on which they had lived, and might, under his all-powerful protection, pass through the regions of darkness by night, and emerge in heaven, being reborn each day. in the kingdom of osiris the beatified dead ate bread-cakes made from one wonderful kind of grain, and

in the arrangement and number of their chambers, but it seems that each tomb was intended to represent the underworld, and that the ceremonies, p. 22 which were performed in it as. the mummy was taken from the entrance to the last chamber in which it was to rest, were highly symbolical, and that the progress of the body through the tomb was, so far as it was possible, made to resemble that of the sun-god through the hours of the night in the other world. the religious texts with which the walls of the royal tombs are decorated do not consist of extracts from the funeral works of the ancient and middle empires, but of sections from a work entitled am-tuat, i.e [the book of "what is in the tuat" or underworld, and many of these are illustrated more or less fully with coloured pictures of the

he dead, and a full list of the passages will be found in the vocabulary to my edition of that work, page 328. a perusal of the above chapter shows that it is the expression of beliefs and ideas concerning the future life which belong to a very early period of civilization, and to a time when the egyptians held most primitive views about their gods. the first paragraph calls upon two forms of the sun-god, and the god of the earth, and the god of the sky, to allow the deceased to pass through the sky, and the earth, and the waters, to meet his ancestors, mother, father, wives, women of pleasure, sons and daughters of all ages, brothers and sisters, foster-parents (or perhaps uncles and aunts, cousins, connexions, friends of both sexes "the doers of things" both men and women, etc. portions

portions of am-tuat into so small a compass. similar in many details, but widely different from the book am-tuat in point of fundamental doctrine, is the great funeral work to which the names "book of the lower hemisphere" 2 "book of hades "livre de l'enfer" have been given. a glance at the pictures which accompany the texts of this book is sufficient to show that it deals with the passage of the sun-god through the other world during the hours of the night, but, as m. maspero pointed out long ago, it is wrong to p. 85 call the region through which the god passes by the name of "lower hemisphere" for it suggests that it is below the surface of our earth, which is not the case. there is much to be said also against the titles "book of hades" and "book of hell" and as among the prominent cha

principles of the religion of osiris as regards the dead, which had been universally believed throughout egypt for thousands of years. the most complete copy of the book of gates known to us is found inscribed on the alabaster sarcophagus of seti i, 1 king of egypt about b.c. 1375, p. 86 and it consists of two parts--1. a series of texts and pictures which describe the progress of the boat of the sun-god to the kingdom of osiris, the judgment of the dead, the life of the beatified in sekhet-hetepet, the punishment of the wicked, and the foes of the sun-god. 2. a series of texts and pictures which represent the magical ceremonies that were performed in very ancient times with the view of reconstructing the body of the sun, and of making him rise each day. that the book of gates embodied man

certain that it never became as popular as the book am-tuat; it must always be a matter for wonder that seti i, having covered several walls in his tomb with the texts of this book, should fill several more with sections of the book of gates, and then have a complete copy of it cut and inlaid on the sides of his alabaster sarcophagus and its cover! we may now consider the region through which the sun-god passed during the hours of the night, and the descriptions of its divisions and their inhabitants which are furnished by the book am-tuat p. 87 and the book of gates. this region was called by the egyptians "tat" or "tuat" or "tuaut; the oldest form of the name, and that which is met with in the earliest of the pyramid texts is "tat" the chief god of the tuat was called "tuat" or "tuaut" a

nd the followers of ra required information about the divisions of the tuat, and knowledge of the names of the halls and gates, and of the beings who guarded them and who were all-powerful in the land of darkness. for the worshippers of amen, or amen-ra, the book am-tuat was prepared, whilst the followers of osiris pinned their faith to the book of gates. from each of these books we find that the sun-god was not able to pass through the tuat by virtue of the powers which he possessed as the great god of the world, but p. 93 only through his knowledge of the proper words of power, and of magical names and formulae, before the -utterance of which every denizen of the tuat was powerless. osiris had, of course, passed through the tuat, and seated himself on his throne in the "house of osiris"

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fiercest battles until its recognition, that of the trinity, what do we find? we meet it, as we have shown, northeast of the indus; and tracing it to asia minor and europe, recog- nise it among evety people who had anything like an established religion. 82. t sttm. vi, 20-22. digitizecoy google 46 isis unveiled it was tau^t in tbe oldest chaldaean, egyptian, and mithraltic schools. the chaldaeaa sun-god, mithra, was called 'triple' and the trinitarian idea of the chaldaeans was a doctrine of the akkadians, who themselves belonged to a race which was the first to conceive a metaphysical trinity. according to rawlinson, the chaldaeans are a tribe^ the akkadians, who lived in babylonia from the earliest times. they were turanians, according to others, and instructed the babylonians in the fi

a now allah&bad. with them the trinity of deus-lunus was manifested in the three lunar phases, completing the quaternary with the fourth, and typi- fying the death of the moon-god in its gradual waning and final disap- pearance. this death was allegorised by them, and attributed to the triumph of the genius of evil over the light-giving deity; as the later na- tions allegorized the death of their sun-gods, c^iris and apollo, at the hands of lyphon and the great dragon ^thon, when the sun entered the winter solstice. babel, arach, and akkad are names of the sun. the chaldaean orada are full and explicit upon the subject of the divine triad "a triad of deity shines forth throughout the whole worid, of which a monad is the head" admits the reverend dr. maurice "for from this triad, in the bos

y adhered to by his votaries, is incompatible with the lasciviouaneas and gross immorality of the popular rites. the fable of aristaeus pursuing eurydice into the woods where a serpent occa^ dons her death* is a very plain allegory which was in part explained in the earueat timea. aristaeus is bnial power, pursuing eurydice, the esoteric doctrine, into the woods where the serpent (emblem of every sun-god, and worshiped under ita grosser aspect even by the jews) kills het; i. e, forces truth to become still more esoteric, and seek shelter in digitizecoy google 130 isis dnveiled the underworld, which is not the hell of our theologians. moreover the fate of orpheus, torn to pieces by the bacchantes, is another allegory to show that the gross and popular rites are always more welcome than divi

guring the resurrection; ao when we are kneeling before the altar of the holy and immaculate mary, let us remember that there should come forth from us the bud of promise, the bower of hope, and the imperishable fruit of sanctity" this is precisely the substratum of the pagan thought, which, among other meanings, by the rites of the resurrection of osiris, adonis, bac- chus, and other slaughtered sun-gods, symbolized the resurrection of all nature in spring, the germination of seeds that bad been dead and sleep- ing during winter, and so were allegorically said to be kept in the under- world (hades. they are typified by the three days passed in hell before their resurrection by hercules, christos and others. this derivation, or rather h^ety, as it is called in christianity, is simply the b

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mitted without question) truth; but truth, however mysterious and awing, yet cogent, and not to be of philosophy (that is, illumination) denied. the death and descent of balder into the hell of the scandinavians may be supposed to be the purgatory of the human unit (or the god-illuminate, from the light (through the god-dark phases of being, back into its native light. balder was the scandinavian sun-god, and the same as the egyptian osiris, the greek hercules, bacchus, and phoebus, or apollo, the indian crishna, the persian mithras, the aten of the empires of insular asia; or, even of the sidonians, the athyr or ashtaroth. the presences of all these divinities indeed, of all gods were of the semblance of fire; and we recognise, as it were, the mark of the foot of them, or of the impersona

rn chairs, and roll cannon-balls about. the long-descended forms trace from the oldest tradition; the origin, indeed, of most things is only doubt or conjecture, hinted in symbols. the egyptian deities may always be recognised by the following distinctive marks: phthas, ptah, by the close-fitting robe, four steps, baboon, cynocephalus. ammon, amn, by a ram's head, double plume, vase, canopus. the sun-god (phre or ra) has a hawk's head, disc, serpent, ur us. thoth, or thoyt, is ibis-headed (means a scribe or priest. sochos, or suches, has a hawk. hermes trismegistus (tat) displays a winged disc. the egyptians, however, never committed their greater knowledge to marks or figures, or to writing of any kind. figure 313: the gnostics have a peculiar talisman of fate (homer s aisa. this is one o

od harpocrates, seated on the mythic lotus, in adoration of the yoni, or hwj, or havah. the druidical circles, and single stones standing in solitary places, are all connected with the mystic speculations of the rosicrucians. fig. 58. figures on the egyptian sarcophagus in the british museum. fig. 59. the eminences, st. michael's mount and mont st- michel, were dedicated by the phoenicians to the sun-god fig. 57. 212 the rosicrucians (hercules, as the hydra or dragon-slayer. these mounts in the channel are secondary hercules pillars, similar to calpe and abyla. figs. 60, 61. heads of ships: a. fiddle-head; b, c, d. gondola; e. ceres reaping-hook, also saturn; f. blade and fasces; g. beak of galley; h. glaive; i. prow of grecian galley. the architectural genealogy of the tower or steeple di

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ge lectures is that as the circle is bounded by two lines, which signify moses and solomon, and also by the v.s.l, anyone who keeps himself within that circle and follows the precepts of the v.s.l. as thoroughly as did moses and solomon will not err. 113. in ancient egypt, however, long before the time of the jews, it was already a symbol with many meanings. first of all, it was the symbol of the sun-god, ra; secondly, it bore to the egyptians the signification of the earth circling round the sun. that was with them a portion of the secret knowledge reserved for the mysteries. there was a still older tradition, which held the circle to be the equator and the dot in the centre to be the pole-star, whose position changes because of the precession of the equinoxes, in which the egyptians took

now be clearly seen. the quadrilateral is intended when we speak of the compasses as dominating the square, but this right angle is signified when we refer to the tool wherewith the master measures and decides. although the r.w.m. has this symbol of the square, he is in fact the son governing and judging on behalf of the father, who remains in the background, since our lodges are of the christ or sun-god type. 259. in egypt they had a symbol of very great significance, called the arrow of ra, which includes both the square of the r.w.m. and his gavel of office (plate viii) 260. in our plate the different parts are separate, but sometimes they are joined together, and then one gets the effect of an arrow, whence it is named the arrow of ra, the sun-god, who was also called horus of the doub

simply could not happen. 610. another interesting point is that we are told, in the explanation of the t c b c that the f.c.s were paid in specie, which symbolizes the reward of toil not directly remunerated by its results, but that the e.a.s received their wages in corn, wine and oil. 611. corn and wine at once call to mind the sacred elements in the christian eucharist, and also the myth of the sun-god, who rises into mid-heaven to ripen the corn and the grape, and thus gives of his life for the benefit of others. these are types of the things most valuable to man; and to say that anyone is paid in corn and wine thus means that the richest of earth fs treasures are the reward of his work, and that at the same time they carry with them the blessing of god. 612. the oil typifies the great

ng of tyre, was the first man who offered the sacrifice of fire to the khur, who afterwards became herakles. plutarch tells us that the persians of his day called the sun kuros, and he connects it with the greek word kurios, which means lord, which we find in the church service as gkyrie eleison h. khur is also connected with the egyptian name horus, who was also her-ra and haroeris, names of the sun-god. the hebrew word aoor also means light or fire or the sun, and from that we get khurom, which is equal to the greek hermes. bro. wilmshurst also regards the name hiram as identical with hermes, and thinks that a connection can he traced between the form huram and the sanskrit word guru, which means gspiritual teacher h. he therefore takes hiram abiff to signify the father-teacher, or the t

ncludes all shoots up, and down comes the light of the logos in reply. when the whole vast hall was flooded by this splendid light from the blazing star, the people closed their lamps, all the little doors in the sides of the altar were dropped down again, and those on the top of the table slid back into place. 873. the offerings 874. the next part of the ceremony was a hymn to ra, the logos, the sun-god, thanking him for his response, giving glory to him and saying: glet us bathe in his light, and pay him due reverence. h that was the general effect of it, but there were many verses. when that was finished, the r.w.m. said: gbring in the offerings h; and his acolytes went off to his pedestal and produced them. 875. the children brought him two golden vessels, which bore some resemblance t

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ered over to the monster amemit, the devourer, and was swallowed up again in the cycle of generation, to be reborn on earth in another body. although these symbols and legends were known in the outer world, their true inner meaning was explained only to initiates of the third degree. 151. the meaning of the story 152. it is often thought that the story of osiris, like that of mithra and the other sun-gods (among whom some writers include even christ himself, is simply an apotheosis of the processes of nature familiar to an agricultural people. thus plutarch says that osiris was also regarded as nilus, the river nile, and isis as the land of egypt, periodically fertilized by his overflow(*plutarch. moralia; de iside et osiride) astronomically, osiris was the sun, isis the moon, and typhon d

s that osiris was also regarded as nilus, the river nile, and isis as the land of egypt, periodically fertilized by his overflow(*plutarch. moralia; de iside et osiride) astronomically, osiris was the sun, isis the moon, and typhon darkness and winter, who in his triumph destroyed the fertilizing powers of the sun, preventing him from giving his life to the world. it is the universal story of the sun-god 153. who, after a struggle for existence and the development of his power in the early part of the year, at last rises in triumph into the midheaven of his glory, and bestows his life upon all creatures, ripening the corn and the grape, only to yield once more to the advance of winter. 154. the sun in the heavens, as the great life of the world, pursues this cycle of death and resurrection

ian presentation. horus was born of isis, the virgin-mother; at his birth the star shone forth, and the angelic hosts sang their song of triumph; he was adored by shepherds and wise men, and saved from danger which threatened him from without. in the book of the dead it is said: i know the power of the east, horus of the solar mount, the star of dawn. the story of the initiate is the story of the sun-god, the universal christ who is born into the heart of man, and his mystic birth is the purpose of the first great initiation. 191. if the candidate had not already passed through them, as most students in the mysteries would have done, he had at this stage to undergo the trials by earth, water, air and fire, learning with absolute certainty that none of these elements could in any way harm h

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(1815) was won on its playing-fields. 128-30. i ve seen them.23.sir j. maundevill .voiage and travill. ch. xvi, recounts a similar incident, and, christian as he is, puts a similar poser. 135. a what?34.i beg your pardon. it was a slip. 146. tahuti.25.in coptic, thoth* title of a (forthcoming) collection of papers on mountain exploration, etc [unpublished. t.s] 64 the sword of song 149. ra.26.the sun-god. 149. nuit.27.the star-goddess. 152. campbell.28..the waters wild went o.er his child, and he was left lamenting. 152. the ibis head.29.characteristic of tahuti. 157. roland s crest.30.see .two poets of croisic. xci. 159. a jest.31.see above: ascension day. 162. a mysterious way.32. god moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform; he plants his foodsteps in the sea, and rides upon the

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me as the persians gave to this same god, whom they worshipped by the name of mithra, and whom they caused to be born in a grotto (justin. dial. cum trips. p. 305, just as he is represented as being born in a stable, under the name of christ, by the christians" concerning the catholic feast of the assumption and its parallel in astronomy, the same author adds "at the end of eight months, when the sun-god, having increased, traverses the eighth sign, he absorbs the celestial virgin in his fiery course, and she disappears in the midst of the luminous rays and the glory of her son. this phenomenon, which takes place every year about the middle of august, gave rise to a festival which still exists, and in which it is supposed that the mother of christ, laying aside her earthly life, is associa

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the shape of his pet cat. the offspring from this union was a daughter, aradia or herodias, the archetypal "avatar" or patroness of all witches. in this legend of diana with its gnostic overtones, there are reflections of the cabalistic tradition of naamah, the seductress of the fallen angel azael. naamah, is synonymous with babylonian lilith, and azael is none other than babylonian shamash, the sun-god in his underworld aspect as lord of riches and artificer of metals. in fact he is the alter ego of tubal cain himself, naamah's own brother. azael or azazel, is in fact one of the modern witch's gods. which brings me to the crux of the matter. according to ancient magical legend, azael was originally one of those beings of primordial fire, first created dwellers in the high heaven, referre

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ians, taught them arts and agriculture and religion; they called him the teacher ofall things. he came from the east and disappeared into the western ocean. four civilizers followedhim who emerged from the cave pacarin tampu, the house of birth. these four brothers were alsocalled viracochas, white men (from brintons myths of the new w orld, p. 193 (compare this with thedescriptions of the celtic sun-god lugh.)the peruvians believed that the rainbow was a sign that there would be no more destruction of the worldby deluge. rayless ones the peruvians speak of the rayless ones, that possessed the earth, during the ages of fire and dark-ness.appendix b: book abstracts194atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation we must concede that these legends of a world-embracing conflagration re

esis tablets we have the same references to the man or people who, after the greatdisaster, divided the heavens into constellations, and regulated, that is, discovered and revealed, theirmovements (p. 223)tezcatlipocarepresented as a winged serpent.egyptwhen we turn to egypt, we find that their whole religion was constructed upon legends relating to theages of fire and ice, and the victory of the sun-god over the evil-one. we find everywhere a recollectionof the days of cloud (p. 233)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation195 appendix b: book abstracts the russiansin the russian legends, a golden ship sails across the heavenly sea; it breaks into fragments, which nei-ther princes nor people can put together again.serpent worshipalways associated with the finding of precious me

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urous acid may into melted metal, and be not even warmed by the immersion* the word _khairum_ or _khurum_ is a compound one. gesenius renders _khurum_ by the word _noble_ or _free-born: khur_ meaning _white, noble. it also means the opening of a window, the socket of the eye _khri_ also means _white, or an _opening; and _khris, the orb of the sun, in _job_ viii. 13 and x. 7 _krishna_ is the hindu sun-god _khur, the parsi word, is the literal name of the sun. from _kur_ or _khur, the sun, comes khora, a name of lower egypt. the sun, bryant says in his mythology, was called _kur; and plutarch says that the persians called the sun _kuros. kurios, lord, in greek, like _adona, lord, in ph nician and hebrew, was applied to the sun. many places were sacred to the sun, and called _kura, kuria, kur

name of the sun _ari-al, ar-es, ar, aryaman, areimonios, the ar meaning _fire_ or _flame, are of the same kindred _hermes_ or _har-mes(_aram, remus, haram, harameias, was kadmos, the divine light or wisdom _mar-kuri, says movers, is _mar, the sun. in the hebrew, aoor, is light, fire, or the sun. cyrus, said ctesias, was so named from _kuros, the sun _kuris, hesychius says, was adonis. apollo, the sun-god, was called _kurraios, from _kurra, a city in phocis. the people of _kurene, originally ethiopians or cuthites, worshipped the sun under the title of _achoor_ and _achor. we know, through a precise testimony in the ancient annals of tsur, that the principal festivity of _mal-karth, the incarnation of the sun at the winter solstice, held at tsur, was called his _rebirth_ or his _awakening

ormed this ceremony. these facts we learn from _josephus, servius_ on the neid, and the _dionysiacs_ of _nonnus; and through a coincidence that cannot be fortuitous, the same day was at rome the _dies natalis solis invicti, the festal day of the invincible sun. under this title, hercules, har-_acles, was worshipped at tsur. thus, while the temple was being erected, the death and resurrection of a sun-god was annually represented at tsur, by solomon's ally, at the winter solstice, by the pyre of mal-karth, the tsurian haracles. aroeris or har-_oeris, the elder horus, is from the same old root that in the hebrew has the form _aur, or, with the definite article prefixed _haur, light, or _the_ light, splendor, flame, the sun and his rays. the hieroglyphic of the younger horus was the point in

is the same as hermes, thoth, taut, and teutates. one of his names is heri-maya or her-maya, which are evidently the same name as hermes and khirm or khurm. heri, in sanscrit, means _lord. a learned brother places over the two symbolic pillars, from right to left, the two words [symbols] and [symbols [hebrew] and [hebrew, ihu and bal: followed by the hieroglyphic equivalent [hieroglyphic] of the sun-god, amun-ra. is it an accidental coincidence, that in the name of each murderer are the two names of the good and evil deities of the hebrews; for _yu-bel_ is but _yehu-bal_ or _yeho-bal_ and that the three final syllables of the names _a, o, um, make a.u.m. the sacred word of the hindoos, meaning the triune-god, life-giving, life-preserving, life-destroying: represented by the mystic charact

styled"_the celestial lord, who sheds light on hidden things" he was the source of that divine life, of which the _crux ansata_ is the symbol; and the source of all power. he united all the attributes that the ancient oriental theosophy assigned to the supreme being. he was the [greek: p? a (pleroma, or"_fullness of things" for he comprehended in himself everything; and the light; for he was the sun-god. he was unchangeable in the midst of everything phenomenal in his worlds. he _created_ nothing; but everything _emanated_ from him; and of him all the other gods were but manifestations. the ram was his living symbol; which you see reproduced in this degree, lying on the book with seven seals on the tracing-board. he caused the creation of the world by the primitive thought[[greek??a, enno

rmuzd_ and the _amshaspands, over the happiness, purity, and preservation of the world, which is under their government; and they are also models for mankind and interpreters of men's prayers. with _mithras_ and _ormuzd, they make a _pleroma [or complete number] of 30, corresponding to the thirty aions of the gnostics, and to the _ogdoade, dodecade, and _decade_ of the egyptians _mithras_ was the sun-god, invoked with, and soon confounded with him, becoming the object of a special worship, and eclipsing _ormuzd_ himself. the third order of pure spirits is more numerous. they are the _ferouers, the thoughts of ormuzd, or the ideas which he conceived before proceeding to the creation of things. they too are superior to men. they protect them during their life on earth; they will purify them

es were employed in the mysteries of bacchus, were symbols of the passage of the soul into different bodies. the relations of the human soul with the rest of nature were a chief object of the science of the mysteries. the man was there brought face to face with entire nature. the world, and the spherical envelope that surrounds it, were represented by a mystic egg, by the side of the image of the sun-god whose mysteries were celebrated. the famous orphic egg was consecrated to bacchus in his mysteries. it was, says plutarch, an image of the universe, which engenders everything, and contains everything in its bosom "consult" says macrobius "the initiates of the mysteries of bacchus, who honor with special veneration the sacred egg" the rounded and almost spherical form of its shell, he says

elling-place of ormuzd. in the mysteries of isis, the candidate first passed through the dark valley of the shadow of death; then into a place representing the elements or sublunary world, where the two principles clash and contend; and was finally admitted to a luminous region where the sun, with his most brilliant light, put to rout the shades of night. then he himself put on the costume of the sun-god or the visible source of ethereal light, in whose mysteries he was initiated; and passed from the empire of darkness to that of light. after having set his feet on the threshold of the palace of pluto he ascended to the empyrean, to the bosom of the eternal principle of light of the universe, from which all souls and intelligences emanate. plutarch admits that this theory of two principles

victor and vanquished by turns, in the combats waged with darkness during each annual period. here we reach the most mysterious part of the ancient initiations, and that most interesting to the mason who laments the death of his grand master khir-om. over it herodotus throws the august veil of mystery and silence. speaking of the temple of minerva, or of that isis who was styled the mother of the sun-god, and whose mysteries were termed _isiac, at sais, he speaks of a tomb in the temple, in the rear of the chapel and against the wall; and says "it is the tomb of a man, whose name respect requires me to conceal. within the temple were great obelisks of stone[_phalli, and a circular lake paved with stones and revetted with a parapet. it seemed to me as large as that at delos [where the myste

or adoni, also the sun, the spectacle of his death and resurrection was exhibited to the initiates. as we learn from meursius and plutarch, a figure was exhibited representing the corpse of a young man. flowers were strewed upon his body, the women mourned for him; a tomb was erected to him. and these feasts, as we learn from plutarch and ovid, passed into greece. in the mysteries of mithras, the sun-god, in asia minor, armenia and persia, the death of that god was lamented, and his resurrection was celebrated with the most enthusiastic expressions of joy. a corpse, we learn from julian firmicus, was shown the initiates, representing mithras dead; and afterward his resurrection was announced; and they were then invited to rejoice that the dead god was restored to life, and had by means of

r the name of bakchos, a representation was given of his death, slain by the titans; of his descent into hell, his subsequent resurrection, and his return toward his principle or the pure abode whence he had descended to unite himself with matter. in the islands of chios and tenedos, his death was represented by the sacrifice of a man, actually immolated. the mutilation and sufferings of the same sun-god, honored in phrygia under the name of atys, caused the tragic scenes that were, as we learn from diodorus siculus, represented annually in the mysteries of cybele, mother of the gods. an image was borne there, representing the corpse of a young man, over whose tomb tears were shed, and to whom funeral honors were paid. at samothrace, in the mysteries of the cabiri or great gods, a represen

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me suddenly agitated, and the crested billows rose mountains high, dashing furiously against the rocks, and threatening destruction to all within their reach, the sea-god was supposed to be in a furious rage. when they beheld the sky glowing with the hues of coming day they thought that the goddess of the dawn, with rosy fingers, was drawing aside the dark veil of night, to allow her brother, the sun-god, to enter upon his brilliant career. thus personifying all the powers of nature, this very imaginative and highly poetical nation beheld a divinity in every tree that grew, in every stream that flowed, in the bright beams of the glorious sun, and the clear, cold rays of the silvery moon; for them the whole universe lived and breathed, peopled by a thousand forms of grace and beauty. the mo

ation possessed a corresponding conception. she was supposed, as already related, to have issued from the head of zeus himself, clad in armour from head to foot. the miraculous advent of this maiden goddess is beautifully described by homer in one of his hymns: snow-capped olympus shook to its foundation; the glad earth re-echoed her martial shout; the billowy sea became agitated; and helios, the sun-god, arrested his fiery steeds in their headlong course to welcome this wonderful emanation from the godhead. athene was at once admitted into the assembly of the gods, and henceforth took her place as the most faithful and sagacious of all her father's counsellors. this brave, dauntless maiden, so exactly the essence of all that is noble in the character of "the father of gods and men" remain

uspecting no evil, when a yawning abyss opened at her feet, and aides, the grim ruler of the lower world, appeared from its depths, seated in his dazzling chariot drawn by four black horses. regardless of her tears and the shrieks of her female attendants, aides seized the terrified maiden, and bore her away to the gloomy realms over which he reigned in melancholy grandeur. helios, the all-seeing sun-god, and hecate, a mysterious and very ancient divinity, alone heard her cries for aid, but were powerless to help her. when demeter became conscious of her loss her grief was intense, and she refused to be comforted. she knew not where to seek for her child, but feeling that repose and inaction were impossible, she set out on her weary search, taking with her two page 56 torches which she lig

ur, and the month of april, when flowers and plants spring forth afresh, was sacred to her. she was worshipped as venus cloacina (or the purifier, and as venus myrtea (or the myrtle goddess, an epithet derived from the myrtle, the emblem of love. helios (sol. the worship of helios was introduced into greece from asia. according to the earliest conceptions of the greeks he was not page 67 only the sun-god, but also the personification of life and all life-giving power, for light is well known to be an indispensable condition of all healthy terrestrial life. the worship of the sun was originally very widely spread [62]not only among the early greeks themselves, but also among other primitive nations. to us the sun is simply the orb of light, which, high above our heads, performs each day the

as this fact which enabled him to inform demeter of the fate of her daughter, as already related. he was supposed to possess flocks and herds in various localities, which may possibly be intended to represent the days and nights of the year, or the stars of heaven. helios is said to have loved clytie, a daughter of oceanus, who ardently returned his affection; but in the course of time the fickle sun-god transferred his devotion to leucothea, the daughter of orchamus, king of the eastern countries, which so angered the forsaken clytie that she informed orchamus of his daughter's attachment, and he punished her by inhumanly burying her alive. helios, overcome with grief, endeavoured, by every means in his power, to recall her to life. at last, finding all his efforts unavailing, he sprinkle

her by inhumanly burying her alive. helios, overcome with grief, endeavoured, by every means in his power, to recall her to life. at last, finding all his efforts unavailing, he sprinkled her grave with heavenly nectar, and immediately there sprang forth from the spot a shoot of frankincense, which spread around its aromatic perfume. the jealous clytie gained nothing by her cruel conduct, for the sun-god came to her no more. inconsolable at his loss, she threw herself upon the ground, and refused all sustenance. for nine long days she turned her face towards the glorious god of day, as he moved along the [64]heavens, till at length her limbs became rooted in the ground, and she was transformed into a flower, which ever turns towards the sun. helios married perse, daughter of oceanus, and t

named phaethon, whose mother was clymene, one of the oceanides. the youth was very beautiful, and a great favourite with aphrodite, who intrusted him with the care of one of her temples, which flattering proof of her regard caused him to become vain and presumptuous. his friend epaphus, son of zeus and io, endeavoured to check his youthful vanity by pretending to disbelieve his assertion that the sun-god was his father. phaethon, full of resentment, and eager to be able to refute the calumny, hastened to his mother clymene, and besought her to tell him whether helios was really his father. moved by his entreaties, and at the same time angry at the reproach of epaphus, clymene pointed to the glorious sun, then shining down upon them, and assured her son that in that bright orb he beheld the

ing down upon them, and assured her son that in that bright orb he beheld the author of his being, adding that if he had still any doubt, he might visit the radiant dwelling of the great god of light and inquire for himself. overjoyed at his mother's reassuring words, and following the directions she gave him, phaethon quickly wended his way to his father's palace. as he entered the palace of the sun-god the dazzling rays almost blinded him, and prevented him from approaching the throne on which his father was seated, surrounded by the hours, days, months, years, and seasons. helios, who with his all-seeing eye had watched him from afar, removed his crown of glittering rays, and bade him not to be afraid, but to draw near to his father. encouraged by this kind reception, phaethon entreated

ase leading to the top, from the summit of which, by means of a telescope, the coast of syria, and also the shores of egypt, are said to have been visible.[28] eos (aurora. eos, the dawn, like her brother helios, whose advent she always announced, was also deified by the early greeks. she too had her own chariot, which she drove across the vast horizon both morning and night, before and after the sun-god. hence she is not merely the personification of the rosy morn, but also of twilight, for which reason her palace is placed in the west, on the island aaa. the abode of eos is a magnificent structure, surrounded by flowery meads and velvety lawns, where nymphs and other immortal beings, wind in and out in the mazy figures of the dance, whilst the music of a sweetly-tuned melody accompanies

he was received with joyful acclamations into the assembly of the celestial gods, who acknowledged him as the most beautiful and glorious of all the sons of zeus. phoebus-apollo was the god of light in a twofold [70]signification: first, as representing the great orb of day which illumines the world; and secondly, as the heavenly light which animates the soul of man. he inherited his function as sun-god from helios, with whom, in later times, he was so completely identified, that the personality of the one became gradually merged in that of the other. we, accordingly, find helios frequently confounded with apollo, myths belonging to the former attributed to the latter; and with some tribes.the ionic, for instance.so complete is this identification, that apollo is called by them helios-apo

nother, and (as far as regards his influence over the greek nation) a much more important aspect; for, in historical times, all the other functions and attributes of apollo sink into comparative insignificance before the great power which he exercised as god of prophecy. it is true that all greek gods were endowed, to a certain extent, with the faculty of foretelling future events; but apollo, as sun-god, was the concentration of all prophetic power, as it was supposed that nothing escaped his all-seeing eye, which penetrated the most hidden recesses, and laid bare the secrets which lay concealed behind the dark veil of the future. we have seen that when apollo assumed his god-like form, he took his place among the immortals; but he had not long enjoyed the rapturous delights of olympus, b

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ea, who saved zeus from being swallowed by their father cronos (see above. she was the goddess of marriage, and many of the stories about her centre on her jealousy of zeus many affairs. saturn by francisco de goya (1746 1828) apollo apollo (see pp. 38 39) and his sister artemis were zeus children by the titaness leto. he was god of prophecy, divination, and the arts, especially music, and also a sun-god, although he was not the sun itself this was represented by the god helios. hephaestus hephaestus, the lame blacksmith god (see pp. 26 27, was the son of hera produced without a mate, although some sources say that zeus was his father. he was married to aphrodite. pan the goat-god pan (see pp. 42 43, the son of hermes, was the god of pastures and wild places. he was very lustful and is typ

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eturn of comets.rituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliaphilosophus43 the chief seat of astronomical learning among the hindus, was at benares, but the knowledge of theindians in this science was not equal to their neighbours. the egyptians, however, who erected theirpyramids with mathematical precision, and not unlikely for astronomical purposes, and who erectednumerous monoliths to their sun-god ra, justly receive credit in astronomical history. theremarkable coincidence exists, that through the inclined entrance of the great pyramid, the stardraco, in hesperides, at its upper transit was visible day and night, and marked the period 2170 bcor the period when the chronological mensuration takes 25,868 years to return to itself again. theerection of that pyramid marked the great yea

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was one of the most important forms of horus the elder, and the form of heru-khuti at midday during his (i.e: the sun's) greatest heat. see note 7 below, reference khepera flying during the heat of the day [ref. crowle (12, no. 7 "behdet(?hadit" 7. khepera (xepera) was a form of the rising sun, the matter that was at the point of passing from one state into another, and the third form of ra, the sun-god. the name is based on the xeper beetle- the dung beetle or scarab. the scarab beetle is in the family scarabaidae, being the genus scarabaeus, and the species sacer. the worship of it predates that of ra, just as does the worship of set and harwer (i.e: horus the elder. it was associated with the sun because it flies during the hottest part of the day, and because the dung ball which conta

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eature not to be worshipped, but denied" so he drew his sword and cut her down. and he returned to mahound in his tent and said what he had seen. and the prophet said "now may we come into jahilia" and they arose, and came into the city, and possessed it in the name of the most high, the destroyer of men. o o o how many idols in the house of the black stone? don't forget: three hundred and sixty. sun-god, eagle, rainbow. the colossus of hubal. three hundred and sixty wait for mahound, knowing they are not to be spared. and are not: but let's not waste time there. statues fall; stone breaks; what's to be done is done. mahound, after the cleansing of the house, sets up his tent or the old fairground. the people crowd around the tent, embracing the victorious faith. the submission of jahilia:

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ainism, which contains the teachings of mahavira. akhand paath: any occasion, such as a marriage or a death, when the granth sahib is read in its entirety. alchemy: an ancient science that aimed to transform substances of little value into those of greater value, such as lead into gold. allah: the name of god in islam, derived from the arabic word al-ilah, meaning the one true god. amaterasu: the sun-goddess. amesha spentas: the bounteous immortals, aspects, or sides, of ahura mazda. amrit: a solution of water and sugar, used in the ceremony when sikhs are initiated into the faith. xv amrit sanskar: the initiation ceremony for young sikhs. anand karaj: the sikh wedding ceremony. animism: the worship of trees, rocks, mountains, and such, which are believed to have supernatural power. anthro

same time, hinduism is a complex religion, with numerous sects and subsects. vaishnavas, saivas, and saktis overall, hinduism can be divided into three broad sects or classes: vaishnavas, who worship vishnu; saivas, who worship shiva; and saktis, who worship devi, or the mother aspect of god, a feminine principle that gives birth and nurtures. other major sects include the sauras, who worship the sun-god; the ganapatyas, who worship ganesh; and the kumaras, who worship skanda as the supreme god. the first major sect in hinduism is vaishnavaism, whose followers are called vaishnavas. this sect itself covers a number of branches. the oldest one is the sri sampradaya, which was founded by ramanuja (c. 1017 1137) some time in the middle of the twelfth century. the followers of ramanuja worship

he achaemenids in the 330s bce, the empire was ruled by the seleucid and parthian dynasties, but few records remain from this time. it is believed, however, that the three wise men, or magi, who in christian tradition brought gifts to the infant jesus, were zoroastrians from parthia. also during this period a sect, or group, derived from zoroastrianism, called mithraism, began to worship mitra, a sun-god. mithraism gained some popularity in the roman empire (c. 31 bce 476 ce, particularly among members of the roman army. zarathushtra, the founder of zoroastrianism, holds the sacred fire and the law of reform in his hands. each were brought to him by ahura mazda. zarathushtra gained a small following for the religion, but its size grew greater after his death. the art archive. world religio

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ave their souls and bodies, both living and dead, with something of the same confidence which they placed in the death and resurrection of osiris. a matter for surprise is that they seem to see nothing incongruous in such a mixture of magic and religion, and the general attitude of the mind of the egyptian on the point is well illustrated by the following facts. attached to the service of ra, the sun-god, at thebes were numerous companies of priests whose duties consisted as much in making copies of religious books and in keeping alive the "divine traditions" as in ministering to the god in their appointed seasons. the members of these companies who wrote the copies of the book of the dead which were buried with kings and queens and personages of royal or exalted rank declared the power an

pect them to believe what they proclaimed, i.e, that god was sufficiently powerful to protect his emblem in the sky. yet the priests of thebes made copies of works which contained texts to be recited at specified hours of the day and night, and gave directions for the performance of p. xv magical ceremonies, the avowed object of such being to prevent the mythical monster apep from vanquishing the sun-god. and it is stated in all seriousness that if a piece of papyrus upon which a figure of the monster has been drawn, and a wax figure of him be burnt in a fire made of a certain kind of grass, and the prescribed words be recited over them as they burn, the sun-god will be delivered from apep, and that neither rain, nor cloud, nor mist shall be able to prevent his light from falling upon the

e dipped in water in which ankham flowers had been steeped; and when the words of the chapter of the buckle given above had been recited over it, p. 44 the amulet brought to the deceased the protection of the blood of isis, and of her words of power. it will be remembered that she raised the dead body of osiris by means of her words of power, and there is a legend to the effect that she smote the sun-god ra with severe sickness by the magical power which she possessed. another object of the buckle was to give the deceased access to every place in the underworld, and to enable him to have "one hand towards heaven, and one hand towards earth" 4. the amulet of the tet. this amulet probably represents the tree trunk in which the goddess isis concealed the dead body of her husband, and the four

nts. the text of the chapter contains the names of the cows and of the bull, and of the rudders, and certain prayers for sepulchral. offerings. now the deceased would be provided with "abundance of food regularly and continually for ever" if the following things were done for him. figures of the cows and of their bull and of the rudders were to be painted in colours upon a board, and when ra, the sun-god, rose upon them the friends of the deceased were to place offerings before them; these offerings would be received mystically by the gods and goddesses whom the figures represented, and in return they would bestow upon the deceased all the offerings or gifts of meat and drink which he would require. moreover "if this be done" we are told "ra shall be a rudder for the deceased, and he shall

sax is represented in a form which has a human body, the bead of a hawk or cock, and legs terminating in serpents; in one hand he holds a knife or dagger, and in the other a shield upon which is inscribed the great name greek iaw, or jah. considerable difference of opinion exists as to the meaning and derivation of the name abrasax, but there is no doubt that the god who bore it was a form of the sun-god, and that he was intended to represent some aspect of the creator of the world. the name was believed to possess magical powers of the highest class, and basileides, 1 who gave it currency in the second century, seems to have regarded it as an invincible name. it is probable, however, that its exact meaning was lost at an early date, and that it p. 181 soon degenerated into a mere magical

neighbour by the lavishness of his gifts. among others there came the prince of bekhten, and at the head of all the offerings which he presented to his majesty he placed his eldest daughter, who was very beautiful. when the king saw her he thought her the most beautiful girl he had ever seen, and he bestowed upon her the title of "royal spouse, chief lady, ra-neferu (i.e "the beauties of ra" the sun-god, and took her to egypt; and when they arrived in that country the king married her. one day during the fifteenth year of the king's reign, when his majesty was in thebes celebrating the festival of amen-ra, a messenger came to the king and reported the arrival of an ambassador from the prince of bekhten who had brought rich gifts for the royal lady raneferu. when he had been led into the k

ristics of the gods to whom they made them sacred. the bull was a type of the strength and procreative power of the god of reproduction in nature, and the cow was the type of his female counterpart; every sacred animal and living thing possessed some quality or attribute which was ascribed to some god, and as each god was only a form of ra, the quality or attribute ascribed to him was that of the sun-god himself. the educated egyptian never worshipped an animal as an animal, but only as an incarnation of a god, and the reverence paid to animals in egypt was in no way different from that paid to the king, who was regarded as "divine" and as an incarnation of ra the sun-god, who was the visible symbol of the creator. the relation of the king to ra was identical with that of ra to god. the p

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(ibid, march-april 1960, pp. 6-7) m. oldfield howey tells us in the encircled serpent (david mackay co, philadelphia, pa, 192, p. 84, that in the symbolism of egypt the "serpent is constantly represented as surmounting a cross. the brazen serpent. was a palladium or talisman in [he form of a serpent coiled around the mystic tau, or t [also] the serpent set up by moses was originally the egyptian. sun-god, who was now known to his people as jehovah (lbid, p. 83) joseph von hammer, in the history of the assassins (eng. trans, 1835) explains the tau as the figure of the phallus (see also source 9, p. 791 "among the egyptians, the lotus was the symbol of osiris and isis. it was esteemed a sacred ornament by the priests (ibid, p. 477) the six-pointed star is the great oriental talisman known as

ositive (representing polarity) and twine around the spinal column. they are the kundalini or sex force. in the encircled serpent (howey, op. cit, the chapter on the caduceus contains references (page 72) to the ancient use of the symbol without wings, as seen in the mural. the caduceus is also the symbol of peace, the propaganda term associated with the u.n. the serpents are male and female; the sun-god and the moon-god; and are symbols of generation. buddha was symbolized by the serpent and in mythology is identical with mercury. the center sphere and the outer circles around it form the all-seeing eye. this bisected sphere overlays an isoceles triangle bounded on one side by the diagonal line. according to manly palmer hall, in his occult treatise -18- on the secret destiny of america,2

es o/ the ancient eastern world48 provides us with vital and pertinent data concerning the symbols with which we are dealing. the babylonians of the 7th century b.c. attached to each god in their pantheon "a special mystic number, which is used as his emblem and may even stand for his name in an inscription" further, each god had an emblematic sign "thus a circle, plain or crossed, designates the sun-god, san or shamas; a six-rayed or eight-rayed star the sun-goddess, gula or anunit" the altar was represented by an emblem surmounted by a triangle.49 the use of the simple circle and the quartered disk as a divine symbol of the sun traced back from the babylonians to the chaldeans of the 23rd century b.c. the gods were the same, san and gula; the symbols were the same.50 the two monarchies p

lt of osiris was extended over asia minor, greece and rome" cicero tells us that he was known as ob-el, from whence we derive the obelisk.62 the identity of hermes-mercury. anubis (brother to osiris) has already beeen mentioned. his emblem, the caduceus, was the talismanic serpent, originally entwined around a tau cross, which was also a phallus. the serpents represented the power of mercury as a sun-god. the caduceus was identified with moses' brazen serpent "in judah the image of jehovah took the form of a golden serpent, as in solomon's temple" its worship "was in fact the worship of the sun-god, osiris, under the name of jehovah" the targum, or chaldee paraphrast, referred to the brazen serpent as the 'word1."63 it must also be mentioned that the olive branch on the coat of arms. the e

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n passes to enter the tuat at eventide. in it are the twelve gods of the funeral mountain. p. 82 serpent having its tail in its mouth. in the bows stands the god of divine intelligence, whose name is sa, and in the stern, near the two paddles, stands heka, i.e, the personification of the word of power, or of magical utterance. the god who usually accompanies sa is hu. the text which refers to the sun-god reads "ra saith unto the mountain--send forth light, o mountain! let radiance arise from that which hath devoured me, and which hath slain men and is filled with the slaughter of the gods. breath to you, o ye who dwell in the light in your habitations, my p. 83 click to view part of the horizon over which the boat of the sun passes to enter the tuat at eventide. in it are the twelve gods o

a god who holds a staff in his hand. the names of the first seven gods are--nepemeh 1, nenha, 2, ba, heru, beha-ab, khnemu, and setchet; the third has the head of a ram, and the fourth that of a hawk. the last six gods click to view the boat of the sun towed by gods of the tuat. are described as "gods who are in the entrances" the god who bears the staff has no name. the text which refers to the sun-god reads- p. 89 click to view seven of the gods of the entrances who tow the boat of the sun through saa-se.t click to view six of the gods of the entrances who tow the boat of the sun through saa-set, and a god who bears a sta.ff p. 90 "this great god journeyeth along the roads of the p. 91 [paragraph continues] tuat. this god is drawn by the gods of the tuat (in order to make divisions (or

in the boat of the earth. i make to go back the bark of the tuat which beareth my forms (or, attributes, and verily i travel into the hidden habitation to perform the plans which are carried out therein' ennurkhata, ennurkhata [saith 'praised be the soul which the double bull hath swallowed, and let the god be at peace with that which he hath created" the effect of the above words is to allow the sun-god and his boat to pass through the double bull-headed p. 107 [paragraph continues] boat of the earth without any let or hindrance, and when he has done this "these gods (i.e, the four gods at the other end of the boat of the earth) say to ra-'praised be ra, whose soul hath been absorbed by the earth-god! praised be the gods of ra who hath rested [therein' this boat of its tuat rejoiceth, and

retched, and with each hand laid upon the upper part of the crowns of the south. the hawk head of this figure faces the back of the hawk head of the sphinx, and the animal's head, which is characteristic of set, faces the back of the human head of and. it is thus quite clear that click to view heru-am-uaa with set-horus on his back. p. 248 [paragraph continues] horus was regarded as a form of the sun-god of the south, and set as a form of the sun-god of the north. 4. the serpent shemti, which has four heads and necks at each end of its body, and each head and neck are supported on a pair of legs. a male figure called apu stands and grasps the middle of the body of the serpent with both hands. 5. the serpent bata, with a bearded head at each end of his body; each head wears a crown of the s

h proceed from the mouths of uraei, as before. in the space which is usually guarded by a number of gods stand two staves, each of which is surmounted by a bearded head; on one head is the disk of tem, and on the other a beetle, the symbol of khepera. the text which refers to these reads: p. 302 click to view (left) the gate tesert-baiu (right) the doors of sebi and reri. p. 303 click to view the sun-god under the form of khepera with his disk, in his boat, supported by nu and received by nut. p. 304 [paragraph continues "they stand up on their heads, and they come into being on their staves by the gate; the heads stand up by the gate" the monster serpent which stands on its tail and guards the one door is called sebi, and the two lines of text which refer to his admission of ra read, he w

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the object of preventing storms, and dispersing rain-clouds, and removing any obstacle, animate or inanimate, which could prevent the rising of the sun in the morning, or obscure his light during the day. the leader-in chief of the hosts of darkness was a fiend called apep who appeared in the sky in the form of a monster serpent, and, marshalling all the fiends of the tuat, attempted to keep the sun-god imprisoned in the kingdom of darkness. right in the midst of the spells which were directed against apep we find inserted the legend of the creation, which occurs in no other known egyptian document (col. xxvi, l. 21, to col. xxvii, l. 6. curiously enough a longer version of the legend is given a little farther on (col. xxviii, l. 20, to col. xxix, l. 6. whether the scribe had two copies t

on der alten aegypter, p. 436 [fn#11] die religion, p. 32 [fn#12] a. z, 1883, p. 32 [fn#13] tombeau de seti i, part iv, plates 15-18 [fn#14] trans. soc. bibl. arch, vol. viii, p. 412 ft. the legend takes us back to the time when the gods of egypt went about in the country, and mingled with men and were thoroughly acquainted with their desires and needs. the king who reigned over egypt was ra, the sun-god, who was not, however, the first of the dynasty of gods who ruled the land. his predecessor on the throne was hephaistos, who, according to manetho, reigned 9000 years, whilst ra reigned only 992 years; panodorus makes his reign to have lasted less than 100 years. be this as it may, it seems that the "self-created and self-begotten" god ra had been ruling over mankind for a very long time

ulted in the creation of the stars, which the legend compares to flowers. then the goddess nut trembled in all her body, and ra, fearing that she might fall, caused to come into being the four pillars on which the heavens are supported. turning to shu, ra entreated him to protect these supports, and to place himself under nut, and to hold her up in position with his hands. thus shu became the new sun-god in the place of ra, and the heavens in which ra lived were supported and placed beyond the risk of falling, and mankind would live and rejoice in the light of the new sun. at this place in the legend a text is inserted called the "chapter of the cow" it describes how the cow of heaven and the two boats of the sun shall be painted, and gives the positions of the gods who stand by the legs o

ubia ra-harmakhis sailed down the river to edfu, where heru-behutet entered his boat, and told him that his foes were conspiring against him. ra-harmakhis in answer addressed heru-behutet as his son, and commanded him to set out without delay and slay the wicked rebels. then heru-behutet took the form of a great winged disk, and at once flew up into the sky, where he took the place of ra, the old sun-god. looking down from the height of heaven he was able to discover the whereabouts of the rebels, and he pursued them in the form of a winged disk. then he attacked them with such violence that they became dazed, and could neither see where they were going, nor hear, the result of this being that they slew each other, and in a very short time they were all dead. thoth, seeing this, told ra th

nd his fiends should be given over to isis and her son horus, who were to do what they pleased with them. horus promptly cut off the heads of set and his fiends in the presence of ra and isis, and be dragged set by his feet through the country with his spear sticking in his head and neck. after this isis appointed horus of behutet to be the protecting deity of her son horus. the fight between the sun-god and set was a very favourite subject with egyptian writers, and there are many forms of it. thus there is the fight between heru-ur and set, the fight between ra and set, the fight between heru-behutet and set, the fight between osiris and set, and the fight between horus, son of isis, and set. in the oldest times the combat was merely the natural opposition of light to darkness, but later

od and set was a very favourite subject with egyptian writers, and there are many forms of it. thus there is the fight between heru-ur and set, the fight between ra and set, the fight between heru-behutet and set, the fight between osiris and set, and the fight between horus, son of isis, and set. in the oldest times the combat was merely the natural opposition of light to darkness, but later the sun-god became the symbol of right and truth as well as of light, and set the symbol of sin and wickedness as well as of darkness, and ultimately the nature myth was forgotten, and the fight between the two gods became the type of the everlasting war which good men wage against sin. in coptic literature we have the well-known legend of the slaughter of the dragon by st. george, and this is nothing

bled 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 from the sky to impart to isis the words of power that were to raise her dead child horus to life [fn#73] i.e, the fluid of life of the sun, and the fluid of life of the moon. th

and he who is under the knife is protected likewise. horus is protected by the weeping of his mother, and by the cries of grief of his brethren; and he who is under the knife is protected likewise. horus is protected by his own name and heart, and the gods go round about him to make his funeral bed; and he who is under the knife is protected likewise [fn#242] i.e "be of good courage [fn#243] the sun-god [fn#244] the sun and moon [fn#245] osiris [fn#246] bes [fn#247] probably the ram, lord of tattu, or the ram of mendes [fn#248] heru-behutet [fn#249] the beetle of khepera, a form of the sun-god when he is about to rise on this earth [fn#250] the hidden body is osiris, who lay in his sarcophagus, with isis and nephthys weeping over it [fn#251] the bennu was the soul of ra and the incarnatio

why drinking its juice in great quantities makes men mad and beside themselves, filling them, as it were, with the blood of their own ancestors. these things are thus related by eudoxus in the second book of his travels, as he had them from the priests themselves [fn#271] called anu in the egyptian texts; it was the centre of the great solar cult of egypt. it is the "on" of the bible [fn#272] the sun-god was called ra. vii. as to sea-fish, the egyptians in general do not abstain from all kinds of them, but some from one sort and some from another. thus, for example, the inhabitants of oxyrhynchus[fn#273] will not touch any that have been taken with an angle; for as they pay especial reverence to the oxyrhynchus fish,[fn#274] from whence they derive their name, they are afraid lest perhaps

ng as calling upon the supreme being, whom they believe to be "hidden" and "concealed" in the universal nature, to appear and manifest itself to them. so cautious and reserved was the egyptian wisdom in those things which appertained to religion [fn#282] the egyptian goddess net, in greek greek nhid, the great goddess of sais, in the western delta. she was self-existent, and produced her son, the sun-god, without union with a god. in an address to her, quoted by mallet (culte de neit, p. 140, are found the words "thy garment hath not been unloosed" thus plutarch's quotation is correct [fn#283] he compiled a history of egypt for ptolemy ii, and flourished about b.c. 270; only the king-list from this work is preserved [fn#284] he was a native of the town of sebennytus [fn#285] amen means "hi

tivals during paoni and paopi are stamped with the figure of a fettered ass. the pythagoreans regarded typhon as a daemon, and according to them he was produced in the even number fifty-six; and eudoxus says that a figure of fifty-six angles typifies the nature of typhon [fn#324] the ass is associated with set, or typhon, in the texts, but on account of his virility he also typifies a form of the sun-god. in a hymn the deceased prays "may i smite the ass, may i crush the serpent-fiend sebau" but the xlth chapter of the book of the dead is entitled "chapter of driving back the eater of the ass" the vignette shows us the deceased in the act of spearing a monster serpent which has fastened its jaws in the back of an ass. in chapter cxxv. there is a dialogue between the cat and the ass [sec. x

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few days before the 25th, we nonetheless follow many of the traditional customs of the season: decorated trees, carolling, presents, yule logs, and mistletoe. we might even go so far as putting up a 'nativity set, though for us the three central eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 7 characters are likely to be interpreted as mother nature, father time, and the baby sun-god. none of this will come as a surprise to anyone who knows the true history of the holiday, of course. in fact, if truth be known, the holiday of christmas has always been more pagan than christian, with it's associations of nordic divination, celtic fertility rites, and roman mithraism. that is why both martin luther and john calvin abhorred it, why the puritans refused to acknowledge it

ering that most christmas customs are ultimately based upon older pagan customs, it only remains for modern pagans to reclaim their lost traditions. in doing so, we can share many common customs with our christian friends, albeit with a slightly different interpretation. and thus we all share in the beauty of this most magical of seasons, when the mother goddess once again gives birth to the baby sun-god and sets the wheel in motion again. to conclude with a long-overdue paraphrase 'goddess bless us, every one' c a n d l e m a s: the light returns= eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 10 by mike nichols it seems quite impossible that the holiday of candlemas should be considered the beginning of spring. here in the heartland, february 2nd may see a blanket of

also many mythical associations with the summer solstice, not the least of which concerns the seasonal life of the god of the sun. inasmuch as i believe that i have recently discovered certain associations and correspondences not hitherto realized, i have elected to treat this subject in some depth in another essay. suffice it to say here, that i disagree with the generally accepted idea that the sun-god meets his death at the summer solstice. i believe there is good reason to see the sun-god at his zenith- his peak of power- on this day, and that his death at the hands of his rival would not occur for another quarter of a year. material drawn from the welsh mythos seems to support this thesis. in irish mythology, midsummer is the occasion of the first battle between the fir bolgs and the

fairly certain that the long ritual robes of winter have yielded place to short, tunic-style apparel. as with the longer gowns, tradition dictates that one should wear nothing underneath- the next best thing to skyclad, to be sure (incidentally, now you know the real answer to the old scottish joke 'what is worn underneath the kilt) the two chief icons of the holiday are the spear (symbol of the sun-god in his glory) and the summer cauldron (symbol of the goddess in her bounty. the precise meaning of these two symbols, which i believe i have recently discovered, will be explored in the essay on the death of llew. but it is interesting to note here that modern witches often use these same symbols in the midsummer rituals. and one occasionally hears the alternative consecration formula 'as

el-writers 'lammas' was the medieval christian name for the holiday and it means 'loaf-mass, for this was the day on which loaves of bread were baked from the first grain harvest and laid on the church altars as offerings. it was a day representative of 'first fruits' and early harvest. in irish gaelic, the feast was referred to as 'lugnasadh, a feast to commemorate the funeral games of the irish sun-god lugh. however, there is some confusion on this point. although at first glance, it may seem that we are celebrating the death of the lugh, the god of light does not really die (mythically) until the autumnal equinox. and indeed, if we read the irish myths closer, we discover that it is not lugh's death that is being celebrated, but the funeral games which lugh hosted to commemorate the dea

ecause she was mythical rather than historical, and because her worship gave rise to the heretical sect known as the cathari) at any rate, a large wagon wheel was taken to the top of a near-by hill, covered with tar, set aflame, and ceremoniously rolled down the hill. some mythologists see in this ritual the remnants of a pagan rite symbolizing the end of summer, the flaming disk representing the sun-god in his decline. and just as the sun king has now reached the autumn of his years, his rival or dark self has just reached puberty. many commentators have bewailed the fact that traditional gardnerian and alexandrian books of shadows say very little about the holiday of lammas, stating only that poles should be ridden and a circle dance performed. this seems strange, for lammas is a holiday

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